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VOLUME 26 FEBRUARY 15, 1937 NUMBER 4

CONTENTS

ov r-The Front Campu in Winter

Scene of tu lent Life ...... From The Oracle 2

Colby Men on Maine' upreme Judicial Cou1t ...... James H. Hudson, '00 3

Colby's New Coach ...... Harland. . R. Ratcliffe, '23 10

The Pre iclent' Page ...... 14

Chatting With Our Colby People ...... 15

Plans Laid for Robert Memorial Union Fun

Colby Men Rally to' Robert Memorial Project ...... 18

Colby's Winter Carnival ··················································· 19

Foreign Exchange Fellow ...... ······································ 19

Prai e for Crowell, '10 ...... 20

Boston A ociation Stag maker ...... 20

...... 21 Necrology ...... • ......

...... · .... · 22 Class Notes About Colby Men and Women ......

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Colby Men On Maine's Supreme Judicial Court By JA MES H. HUDSON, '00

ECENTLY the € - Judge vVhitman 1 ater teemed editor of the became the third Chief Alumnus, Oliver L. Justice of the Supreme 1 ll, Colby '93, asked Judicial Court, succeed­ to prepare for ea1·ly ing Chief Justice Wes­ blication a n article ton. n Colby Judges, mean- The Court of Com­ Judges of higher mon Pleas was abol­ 1 u rt s." Although ished in 1839, and was uched only a a re­ supplanted by a Dis­ e t, it seemed that I trict Court, J u cl g e ould con icier it man- Whitman becoming the 1tory, would I evidence Chief Justice of the )preciation of the er­ new D i s t r i c t Court. ce he is rendering to Maine then had the ie College so gener- Supreme Judicial and 1sly and efficiently, al­ District Courts u n t i 1 iough busily engaged 1852 , when the latter ; edito1· of the Bangor Court w a s abolished •>mrnercial, one of ancl i t s jurisdiction aine' leading news- transferred to the Su­ ·tpers. Now on leave preme Judicial Court, f abiience f r o m the w h o s e membership ommercial at Augusta w a s t h e n increased 'l private secretary to from four to· seven. In rOV. Barrows. 1855 another member I regret that time and was added; in 1856 pace forbid mention of the Court was reduced 11e Colby Judges of to seven after a va­ ourt other than the cancy but again in­ :upreme Judicial, for creased to eight in 11any of them there 1857. Since then, ex­ 1 ave been-men of high cept for one year haracter and excellent (1879), when for po­ bi I it y w h o have litical reasons one Jus­ 'rought honor to Colby tice was legislated out rnd valuable ervice to of office, this Court had he State. eight member , until Before

with concurrent jurisdiction in equity Arno W. King, Colby (Ex.) 1883. cases with the Supreme Court, while Norman L. Bassett, Colby 1891. the latter Court has only Law Court Charles P. Barnes, Colby 1892 . or appellate work together with Court James H. Hudson, Colby 1900. Hearings and jurisdiction in Equity. Two became Chief Justices, Justices Since 182 0 this Court ha had ix­ Whitehouse and Cornish. teen Chief Justices. With some ef­ HONORABLE J 0 NATHA N G. fort I have obtained or had made DICKERSON, COLBY 1836: Justice photographs of all of them, now hang­ Dickerson is the only one of the Colby ing together on the south wall of my Judges, excepting Judge Fogler, be­ Chambers in Augusta. I value this fore whom I have not had the pleasure collection very highly and believe it of practicing. He died September 1, to be the only one privately owned. 1 78, when I was only six months old. The first three of these Chief Jus­ Both my father and grandfather, how­ tices I have mentioned, viz: Mellen, ever, practiced before him and so I Weston and Whitman. Their succes­ feel almo t as though I had known sors in order were Ether Shepley, him. Since my earliest recollection, Dartmouth 1811; John Searle Tenney, the favorite subjects of conversation Bowdoin 1816; John Appleton, Bow­ in my home have been law, the Court,

doin 1822; John A. Peters, Yale 1842 ; JONATHAN G. DICKER ON, '36 its Judges and outstanding attorneys. Andrew P. Wiswell, Bowdoin 1873; Judge Dickerson was born in New Lucillius A. Emery, Bowdoin 1861; translated "B achelor of Life's Hard Chester, New Hampshire, November William Penn Whitehouse, Colby 1863 Knocks." I would not depreciate the 5, 1811. After graduating in 1836, he (then Waterville CoHege); Albert R. value of college education; but after taught for a while, and in 1839 was Savage, Dartmouth 1871; Leslie C. all it is only a means to an end. The admitted to the Lincoln County Bar. Cornish, Colby 1875 (then Colby Uni­ de ideratum is knowledge, which may He commenced practice at Thomaston. versity); Scott Wilson, Bates 1892 ; come by other means and I have al­ He later moved to Belfast in Waldo Luere B. Deasy of Bar Harbor; Wil­ ways thought that when a man by County and while there received his liam R. Pattangall, University of force of ambition and hard work edu­ appointment to the Bench October 24, Maine 1884; and our present Chief cates himself so that he is qualified 1 62. He was the first member of the Justice, Charles J. Dunn of Orono. to hold a high position, he really is Court to die in office, having nearly Of them, it will be noted, Harvard deserving of much commendation. completed sixteen years of service. In has had one graduate, Dartmouth early life he was a Democrat but when In all, our Court to date has had Fort Sumter was fired upon he became three, Brown one, Bowdoin four, Yale fifty-nine members, of whom fourteen one, Bates one, University of Maine, a firm and loyal supporter of Abra­ have graduated from Bowdoin, eight ham Lincoln. In 1865 the College con­ one, and Colby two, while two-most from Dartmouth, seven from Harvard, ferred upon him the honorary Degree efficient and beloved Chief Justices­ seven from Colby, two from Bates, of LL. D. His associate, Judge Bar­ were not graduates of any college. and one each from Georgetown, Brown, rows, said of him: I am reminded of a very bright thing University of Maine and Yale. Seven­ "His temperament was ardent and said by the late Chief Justice Peters teen have been non-college graduates, at Bowdoin, when the Degree of LL. D. impulsive, and he had a ready com­ including Justices Fogler and King, mand of choice language and apt illus­ was conferred upon him. It will be who attended Colby part time. trations. * * * It is much to his recalled he was a graduate of Yale William Pitt Preble at the age of credit that he commanded the most respect and the warmest regard where College and of Harvard Law School. thirty-five was the youngest man ever Speaking of Bowdoin, he said: he was most familiarly known. In to be appointed to this Court (Samuel consultation his associates found him "There may be larger colleges. Wells was only six months older) and always frank, positive and independent Perhaps if a boy goes to Harvard or in the expression of his opinions, but Yale he goes through more college, Sewall C. Strout the oldest, appointed never discourteous. * * * He was not but, Gentlemen, if he goes to Bowdoin, when he was sixty-seven, but having merely, as the phrase goes, 'liberally more college goes through him." served two full terms when he retired educated,' but well educated, with a And so, I think, it is a fact that if at the age of eighty-one. thorough practical training and men­ two of our Chief Justices attended Judge Walton served the longest, tal discipline, such as I sometimes only the college of every day life and thirty-five years, and Judge Fox the think the more vaunted recent systems of education fail to furnish. * * * were taught by mankind generally, shortest, five months. The State loses a well-tried and faith­ much of common sense came to them, Including Justices Fogler and King, ful servant." and no other qualification can be of who did not graduate, Colby has had HONORABLE WILLIAM PEN N greater aid to a Chief Justice, or other nine members of the Supreme Judicial WH ITEHOUSE, COLBY 1863: Born Justice, than that, when coupled with Com·t, viz: in Vassalboro on April 9, 1842 , admit­ p:ractical experience and sufficient Jonathan G. Dickerson, Colby 1836. ted to the Kennebec County Bar in knowledge of common law principles. William Penn Whitehouse, Colby October, 1865, appointed Judge of the Such an one may not be entitled to 1863. Superior Court in Kennebec County in adorn his name with an "A. B." or William H. Fogle1·, Colby (Ex.) 1863. 1878, Judge Whitehouse was elevated "LL. B." but he justly deserves an­ Leslie C. Comish, Colby 1875. to the Supreme Court on April 15, other, equally honornble-H. K. L. B., Warren C. Philbrook, Colby 1882 . 1890, became Chief Justice on July THE COLBY ALUMNUS 5

, 1911, and served until his resigna­ those of humble birth. The humble m on April 8, 1913. For the most beginning of Judge Fogler's life may inspire the ambition of the poorest · his life he was a resident of Au- lad that awakens to the possibilities 1sta as at the time of his death, on which ever attend upon the indus­ ctober 10, 1922 , at the age of eighty trious, the self- reliant, and the brave �ars. His long experience not only of heart." ; a practicing attorney but as a mem­ Justice Fogler may be known as er of the Superior Court, well fitted Colby's Civil War Judge, for soon af­ !m for the most excellent service he ter leaving college (which he attended mdered as Associate Justice and in 1859-60) to teach school, no doubt hief Ju tice of the Supreme Judicial to earn money to make possible his 01ut. Chief Justice Cornish por­ return to college, the War broke out rayed him with most apt language, as and he enlisted. He became Colonel 1e, who practiced before him, knew of the 19th Maine Volunteers. Per­ im, when he said: haps his outstanding attribute was his "He always held the reins but he personal courage. He fought valiant­ eld them so deftly that there was ly "in many of the great battles of ittle puJling at the bit. His merits the Rebellion, at Fredericksburg, �ere obvious. He was keen of per­ Chancellorsville, in the Wilderness, at eption and swift of decision. His nind worked rapidly but accurately. Spottsylvania, Gettysburg, and on ' * * And yet with this swiftness was many other battle fields, until in 1864 :ombined rare patience. The alert when in command of his regiment he 11tellect is apt to be impatient of one was seve1·ely wounded." That same >f slower mold, and it is difficult for WILLIAM H. FOGLER, '63 ;ome who have reached the logical courage he manifested throughout life and particularly during his service on iestination to wait for those who are a nisi prius term was indeed a pleas­ ·truggling on the way. Judge White- the Bench, for, although he kept it to ure, for he evinced not only legal lore 1ouse was not of that type. He was himself, he was "continually suffering ;:>atient and tolerant at all times and but common sense and practical knowl­ from the inroads of an incurable and 1vith all people." edge that one obtains best from ex­ fatal malady; " but "by the exercise of The allusion of Chief Justice Cor­ perience gained in the actual trial of extraordinary will power, he endured nish to "pulling at the bit" recalls an jury cases. Chief Justice Wiswell said pain and suffering with a cheerful incident related by our present Chief of him: countenance and an assumed buoyancy Justice Dunn. An attorney argued "In fact, I doubt if there is a lawyer befo1·e Judge Whitehouse, reading his in the State who has tried as many which tended to lull the fears of his long brief from cover to cover. With cases to the jury as had Judge Fogler family and friends." Thus spoke the patience the Judge listened and upon at the time of his appointment to the President of the Knox County Bar, Bench and while this branch of a law­ Honorable David N. Mortland. its conclusion, with that never- to-be­ yer's practice in these days may not forgotten twinkle in his eyP,s, said: be as lucrative as some others, it must Before enlisting, the Judge was ad­ "That is a very good brief, Sir. I be admitted, I think, that there is none mitted to the Waldo County Bar. He feel to compliment you on it. I sug­ which makes such a constant and im­ practiced in Belfast until his removal gest that you preserve it carefully for perative demand upon a lawyer's re­ to Rockland in 1890. He was emi­ some day you may have a case to sources and abilities." nently successful as a practitioner. a which it will apply." Judge Fogler was born in Lincoln­ prodigious worker, always courteous And yet the attorney did not feel ville on August 10, 1837. He was ex­ and patient, an attentive listener, and the bit pull, because he knew, as we tremely modest; he spoke of himself one always ready to help his brother all knew, that the Judge had a tender but little. At his memorial services attorney, particularly "the youngest heart and would wound no one's feel­ in Portland on July 3, 1902 , it was and least experienced." Colby is glad ings. His sense of humor was un­ said of him: to claim him as her own son, although usual but no arrow in his quiver ever "We know him, and yet we did not he dwelt within her halls but a brief had aught of poison. We all loved know him. Those who knew him best time. Justly deserved was the tribute and respected him. Colby should and could hardly tell the name of his paid to his memory by Chief Justice does revere his memory. father or mother, none knew the spot where he was born. He was not sure Wiswell when he said: HONORABLE WILLIAM H. FOG­ he knew where it was himself." "J udge Fogler was a brave and gal­ Then continued the eloquent speak­ LER, COLBY (Ex.) 1863: It was in­ lant soldier, a faithful and able coun­ deed unfortunate that death took er, Honorable Job H. Montgomery of sellor, a wise and learned judge, and Judge Fogler in his prime, when he Rockland: above all and at all times a kind­ hearted and true gentleman." had served not quite four years. He "We have examples of greatness died February 18, 1902 , having been springing from an early life of pov­ HONORABLE ARNO W. KING , erty and lowliness. And those ex­ appointed on March 25, 1898. I re­ COLBY (Ex.) 1883: Judge King was amples are the theme of story and member_ a native of Lamoine in Hancock Coun­ him well, for, although his song, and the hope and reliance of death shortly ante-dated my admission this, our great republic. It makes us ty, born August 2, 1855. He fitted at to the Bar, yet while a law student I brave, encourages the humble, and re­ Coburn Classical Institute, entered attended the terms of court he held in strains the proud. It gives every boy Colby but left to study law and grad­ a chance. It gives our institutions as­ uated from Boston University Law my County. To meet him was an in­ surance of safety . May the possibili­ spfration. To witness his conduct of ties to be great never be taken from School. He was admitted to the Han- 6 THE COLBY ALUMNUS

Hancock County on November 30, 1857 and died on May 31, 1933 at the agE of seventy-six. He fitted at Coburn and entered College in the illustriom class of 1882. Following graduation he taught in the Waterville High School, was appointed Judge of the City CCJourt, was Mayor for two terms and served later in the Legislature ru: a member of the Maine House of Rep­ resentatives. The Legislature elected him Attorney General and on April 9, 1913, he was appointed an Associate Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court. This latter office he held until his re­ tirement in November, 1928. He, too, received the honorary Degree of LL. D. For several years, he served the Col­ lege well as a faithful trustee. At his memorial exercises, Chief Justice Dunn, then Senior Ju tice, eloquently and truly stated:

"He was essentially a gentleman. He was kind and courteous; dignity and decorum marked his daily walk. A seriou !Dan, of punctilious integrity, he was mcapable of dissimulation·' he never basked in a reflected glory, nor d!d an act which he thought could pos­ sibly be deemed objectionable. His soul abhorred sin, and its sordidne s and squalor. He met the troubles and ARNOW. KING, '83 trials of life unflinchingly, and fought out its battles in a manly and credit­ able way. He did not allow the cock County Bar at the October Term, down forces so alluring to radical na­ memory of a dark thing to exclude 1883. He had the good fortune to tures, as a cure-all for the woes CJof mankind." that of good things. His sympathy enter into partner hip with HonCJorable went out to those who were starting Andrew P. Wiswell, later Chief Jus­ At these exercises Chief Justice Cor­ on the road of human affail· . * * * His fame is merited; the future tice of the Court to which Judge King nish, speaking from his heart, rendered wrn neither shadCJow nor lower its level." was appointed on June 28, 1907. He a justly deserved tribute to Justice served until his death on July 21, 1918. King. Judge King was appointed He presided several times at the ses­ only three months following the ap­ sions of the Court in my County of pointment of Judge Cornish, and they Piscataquis. I remember him as a were "naturally thrown closely to­ most kindly judge, eminently fair and gether, occupying the same Chambers impartial, splendidly equipped with at the Law Courts and discussing to­ knowledge of the law and with an gether the variCJous cases and problems unusual ability to present to the jury as they were presented." The Chief issues of fact and law in simple, un­ Justice said: derstandable language. Colby hon­ "It was a sweet companionship, such as the sincere love of man for man ored him with the Degree of Doctor always creates, and my life upon the of Laws. His service of eleven years Bench for the eleven years we served on the Bench left "a lasting impress together were rendered richer and upon the jurisprudence of our State." happier because they were served with him. * * * He was simply Arno W. A speaker at the memorial exercises King at all times and in all places, held in his honor said: sti:ong, dependable, steadfast, well­ "No man was stronger in his desire po1sed, even-tempered, honest-minded that the world should ever be a better justice-loving, cou1,ageous, and withai world; but he had little of the dreamer sympathetic, tender, kindly and lov­ or the visionary in his nature. He a?le. These qualities were inherently h!s, whether we view him as judge, was an idealist; but he was a con­ _ structive and a very practical idealist. citizen or man." He realized that the greatest progress HONORABLE WARREN COFFIN in the world comes from the slow, or­ PHILBROOK, COLBY 1882 : Judge derly, dignified processes of evolution, and not from the destructive, tearing- Philbrook was born in Sedgwick in W ARRl!:N C. PHILBROOK, '82 THE COLBY ALUMNUS 7

three of Maine's ablest judges, Chief personalities, each so magnificently Justice Cornish, and Justices Bassett equipped with super-mentality, en­ and Farrington. joyed such privileges of companion­ Judge Bassett's activities were many ship. With deep feeling, the Chief and varied. He actually worked him­ Justice, responding for the Court, elf to death. He never could say said: "no" to one seeking his help in a de­ "His was a nature that moved af­ fection as well as respect. He loved serving cause. While as an attorney mankind and because he did so, men his services in the handling of large loved him. His kindliness, his thought­ estates and in the conduct of important ful consideration for those about him, cases placed heavy responsibilities his desire to be of service to all with whom he came in contact, brought a upon him, yet then and later while on prompt response from his associates. the Bench he did much gratuitous work An aristocrat in intellect, a democrat of great value in behalf of his college, in his sympathies, he loved life itself his Church and vther institutions, as and all that life meant in its broadest and best conception. * * * He sought the Lithgow Library and the Y. M. C. to find the smaller particle of gold A. The largest contribution for the that gleamed against the dull back­ atter institution was obtained by him ground of the least attractive charac­ from a wealthy client. For eighteen ter. * * * We mourn his passing, but we glory in his achievements. years he served most efficiently as Successful, in the highest sense, he Secretary of the Maine Bar Associa­ left the world better than he found it, tion and its success was largely due and contributed as much to its ad­ to his efforts. He found time--1 vancement as was possible within the limits of the time and opportunity ac­ should say made time--to serve the NORl\'lAN L. BASSETT, '91 corded him. His memory will ever be Augusta Savings Bank as its Presi- with us an inspiration, his life a chal­ dent, in the interest of whose deposi­ lenge to live as he lived for the glory HONORABLE NORMAN LESLIE tors he officiated most faithfully and of God and the good of humankind." IASSETT, COLBY 1891: Judge Bas­ successfully. For many years he was HONORABLE CHARLES PHI­ ett was born in Winslow on the an efficient and enthusiastic Colby NEAS BARNES, COLBY 1892 : In wenty-third day of June, 1869, the Trustee. He was honored both by his writing of my present associate on the lclest child of Joseph Williams Bas­ College and the University of Maine Bench, Justice Barnes, I am fettered ett and Ella Susan (Cornish) Bas­ by the conferment upon him of the by his modesty. Respecting it, I can ett, a sister of Chief Ju tice Cornish. Degree of Doctor of Laws. The Presi­ not say much that my heart prompts. rhe Ba setts may be properly termed dent of the Maine State Bar Associa­ Cold statistics will largely have to Colby family, for not only the Judge tion, Honorable Leona1·d A. Pierce, in suffice. 1ut his two younger brothers, J. Colby speaking at Judge Bassett's memorial For t>hree years he was in college �nd George K. graduated later from exercises, said of him: with Judge Bassett and a member of 'olby. All three ranked high in schol­ the same fraternity, graduating one rship. Their sister, Alice, graduated "He was a real lawyer. For him, the practice of law was no mere trade year late1· than the Judge. At grad­ n my class at Coburn in 1896 and but a real profession, with every at­ uation he received his A. B., the fol- he had like mental equipment and the tribute a profession ought to have. ame charming personality as her Other lawyers were to him fellow >rother . It was my privilege to be members of a great fraternity, serv­ ing with him in the temple of justice ntertained in their home at different not for mere sordid motives but with imes and it was just such a home as the primary and ultimate purpose that ne would expect to come from it as between citizen and citizen, and as Norman, Colby, George and Alice. between citizen and State, justice might be done and right might pre­ Upon graduation from College, the vail. * * * I am sure that it was udge taught Greek and Latin at neither his scholarship, nor his bril­ C'olby for four years. He then entered liancy, unusual as they were, which the Harvard Law School, from which most impressed opponent or associate. Rather, it was his absolute sense of he graduated in 1898 with the Degree fairness, his firm desire that the re­ of LL. B. (Cum Laude). He had the sult arrived at should be that which clistinction of making the editorial fairly ought to be, which most im­ board of the Harvard Law Review. pressed all of us." His wa one of the brightest minds Mention must be made of the touch­ at the Law School. Upon leaving it, ing tribute paid Justice Bassett by he formed a partnership with his former Chief Justice William R. Pat­ uncle, Judge Cornish, which continued tangall, his associate on the Bench, most successfully until March 31, 1907, and who for some years occupied ad­ when the Judge was appointed an As­ joining Chambers. Day after day, sociate Justice of the Supreme Judi­ they had had the most intimate as­ cial Court. That law office has had sociations. I doubt if ever in the his­ the unusual distinction of producing tory of this State two such delightful CHARLES P. BARNES, '92 8 THE COLBY ALUMNUS

lowing year A. M., and in inches {please mark th 192 6 the honorary Degree %), average 5 feet 9t of LL. D. Following a inches, tallest 6 feet 1'Y period of teaching school inches, and shortest 5 fee and of superintendency of 6 %. inches. He gave th• schools, he was admitted combined weight of hi to the Aroostook County cla s, its average, heaviest Bar in 1900. He was and lightest-and, by th• elected County Attorney way, the lightest wa: and later appointed As­ Mary (Lowe) Carver, th1 sistant Attorney General. first woman ever to gradu He practiced law in Houl­ ate from Colby. He alsc ton under the firm name of had calculated that wen Hersey & Barnes. He all their craniums com· served two terms in the bined in one (just visualiz( House of Representatives it), its circum fere nee (1917 to 1923), the latter would be 30 feet, 611.i two years as its Speaker. inches, average 22% in· On April 8, 192 4, he was ches. Hall's was the larg­ appointed an Associate e t cranium and Mi , Justice of the Supreme Lowe's the smallest. This, Judicial Court. I trust I however, was no reflection give no offense to Judge upon Miss Lowe, for she Barnes (anyway, I speak stood very high in cla s the truth) by saying that scholarship. In 192 1 Col­ in every office which he by celebrated the semi­ has held, including his cen tenni al anniversary of present one, he has been the opening of its doors to eminently true to his women. Chief Justice Cor­ trust and has rendered nish presiding, in present­ exemplary s e r vic e , of ing Colby's first alumna, which his College, the said : Court, and the State are "Fifty years ago a boy proud. and a girl entered Colby HONORABLE LESLIE and contended for prizes, and now the boy, who got COLBY CORNISH, COL­ LESLIE COLBY CORNISH the second prize, has the BY 1875: Despite wide dif- privilege o f introducing ference in age, I knew the girl, who got the first Chief Justice Cornish the best of any Henry E. Robins) Earnest Words of prize - Mrs. Mary Caffrey Lowe Colby Judge. My acquaintanceship Counsel to the Graduating Class." Carver." The Chronicles also contained the with him commenced in my childhood Impressively he said: number having blue, gray, hazel, days, for he and my father, Henry "Be faithful unto death in the love brown, black, changeable eyes, and Hudson, were not only college mates of truth." Thus their President enjoined young "one with azure pink." Their hair but i·oommates for four years at Cornish and his classmates as they had the same consideration. Only four Colby. He was the first Colby Judge were about to commence life's activi­ out of the whole class, of course in­ I ever had the privilege of knowing. ties. I doubt if Judge Cornish ever cluding Miss Lowe, were beardless, Quite naturally, I regarded him as my forgot that injunction. Certainly his and "there were ten who said they had Uncle Leslie. My own brother was whole life was one of obedience to it. mustaches." Here is something of named for him. It is with deep affec­ I read with interest that he chose present day inte1·est-none habitually tion that I now write. as the subject of his English oration, used tobacco but "five occasionally Judge Comish was born in Winslow "The Genesis of the American Spirit." took a whiff." October 8, 1854, son of Colby Coombs Always would he, and he did, serve Later how faithfully and well he and Pauline (Simpson) Cornish. He most loyally his State and his Coun­ served his College: On its Boa1·d of fitted at Coburn under the noted Dr. try. His capacity for detail and the Trustees from 1888 to his death on Hanson and entered Colby in 1871, then brightness of his mind, fun-pro­ June 24, 1925, and from 1907 as Chair­ from which he graduated in 18 75, hav­ ducing-and how throughout his whole man. He was also Trustee of other ing attained the highest rank in his life he so quickly detected the humor­ institutions as of the Augusta Savings class, although next to its youngest ous side-are seen in his Chronicles Bank, of which he was made President member. which he delivered as a part of the in 1905, serving until his death; also I possess and highly prize an issue graduating exercises. In addition to of the Lithgow Library and he was its of the Waterville Mail under date of much other statistical matter, he gave President. Three colleges conferred July 30, 1875, containing an account the combined age of the class as 388 upon him the honorary Degree of Doc­ of that year's Commencement. In it years, average 24, oldest 31, youngest tor of Laws, his own in '04, Bowdoin is printed in full "The President's (Dr. 18; its combined height 93 feet 1 % in '18, and University of Maine in '20. THE COLBY ALUMNUS 9

1ree years after graduation, he en­ study of law in Judge Cornish's office, d the law offices of Baker & Baker, was pleased to say : ugu ta, a father and son partner­ "Sharp practices and questionable ' the son, Honorable Orville D. methods were abhorred by him. Him­ er, being one of the ablest lawyers self the very soul of honor and in­ to practice in Maine. Remain­ tegrity, he could brook no compromise on the part of others. He hated sham, in this office one year, he then hypocrisy and deceit and a lie was an red Har ard Law School, from abomination to him. Strict himself in ch he did not graduate because of the observance of the best ethics of insistence of Baker & Baker that the profession, he expected the same observance from those with whom he rntum to their office. This he did came into contact. * * * Never did was admitted to the Kennebec he yield to expediency or self interest. nty Bar in October, 1880. Later He made his decision with those clear firm became Baker & Cornish. gray eyes unashamed and with his heart at the judgment seat of God." •sequently, in 1894, Judge Cornish ned hi own office, and seven years Chief Justice Scott Wilson, respond­ �rwards his nephew, Norman L. ing for the Law Court, effectively and .sett, became his partner. Their truly stated : tnership continued until Judge Cor- "His service on the Bench covered a period of more than sixteen years 1 was appointed Associate Justice and the fruition period of his life, dur­ March 31, 1907. His practice of ing which time he enriched the juris­ was preeminently successful. His prudence of his State by three hundred eeding ability, supported by his in­ and forty-four written opinions. * * * JAMES H. HUDSON try and his unas ailable character, While he could readily bring his mind to see the viewpoint of his associates, ld produce nothing short of com­ generous to a fault, and his kindliness and without reservation adopt their te success. pervaded all social strata. view, if satisfied of its soundness, yet e served as As ociate Justice from For thirty-seven years, Colby had he could, and did on occasion, vig­ orously dissent or refuse to concur 17 to 1917, when, upon the death of as its janitor black, slave-born "Sam" when their reasoning failed to con­ ief Justice Savage, Justice Cornish Osborne. We students all loved him vince. * * * The dignity of his court ith the unanimous approval of his and how he loved the College. No and its procedure was always main­ ;ociates on the Bench and of the one ever topped his loyalty to ou1· tained without stressing conformance * * * ole State" was elevated to the Chief Alma Mater. When he died, by his to arbitrary rules. When he sat at nisi prius, the members of the 3ticeship, which office he filled until Colby's President White and side were Bar sought trial, not continuances of r health forced his resignation on Dr. Whittemore, later its historian, as their cases. * * * Sham, trickery, l rch 1, 1925. well as other alumni. Judge Cornish shallow pretense, and deceit found no ::::raving pardon for this personal al­ not only was a mourner at Sam's fun­ favor in his court, and the pettifogger who sought to circumvent justice or ion, I may say that it was while he but a bearer. He honored Sam eral gain advantage by unfair methods '3 Chief Justice that he recommended with that service of love and rnspect. often found himself deposited in a r appointment to the Board of Bar Neither color nor rank could prevent. cavity of his own excavation. * * * aminers, and never shall I forget The lowly born Sam had made good, Possessing a command of English, 'pure and undefiled,' and a discriminat­ mention of the number who had was a man faithful and true; so it ing sense of proportion and fitness in en elevated from that Board to the was as easy and natural for Judge expression, his opinions were not preme Court Bench and the kindly Cornish thus to honor his memory, as only sound in their conclusions and pression of his hope that that too it would have been, had it been the applications of the law, but were models of judicial style and of literary •uld be my lot. I always felt that funeral of the President of the College. merit. * * * As he once said in writ­ then appointment was in part due Many and beautiful were the de­ ing his opinions, he always strove to the fact that I was the first born served tributes paid Chief Justice Cor­ keep in mind a plain citizen standing his classmates of '75, as well as a nish by Bar and Court at his memorial on the other side of his desk waiting to read the result of his labo-rs. * * * 1lby g1·aduate. exercises held at the Court House in His place among the distinguished men n my judgment, Chief Justice Cor­ Augusta on Decembe1· 8, 1925. Hon­ of our State rests on solid foundation, h was the most dearly beloved man orable Leroy T. Carleton, President of * * * a stainless character, unim­ P.r to g·raduate from Colby, and his the Kennebec Bar Association, related peachable integrity, great learning, sound judgment, and faithful service. ·ection for the College is beyond he once heard Chief Justice Taft of * * * He laid aside the judicial ermine rds. the United States Supreme Court say: as spotless as when he put it on." As an after dinner speaker, Chief "Chief Justice Cornish was one of the JAMES HENRY HUDSON, COLBY tice Cornish never had his equal great judges of the Country." Then 1900 : Born in Guilford, March 21, Colby. His listeners were entfrely he added his personal tribute, that 1878, son of Henry (Colby 1875) and his mercy, as at will he swayed Judge Cornish was "at all times every­ Ada (Lougee) Hudson. em between sublime pathos and where a true gentleman, kindly, con­ Of him it may only be said that he arkling wit. As he chose, he would siderate, faithful, sweet minded." loves his College and is deeply appre­ oduce a gale of laughter, cheers or The later-to-be-Associate Justice ars. Far1ington (my roommate at Harvard ciative of all that it has done for him. His heart was of the finest; he was Law Scho ol) , who commenced the God bless her now and forever. 10 THE COLBY ALUMNUS

Colby's New Coach-He's ((The Real McCoy"

By HARLAND R. RATCLIFFE

HEN President Franklin W. statements of those who are tre­ Coy-Northeastern record until they W John on on the evening of next mendously concerned over the Blue are blue in the face, but two facts will October 29th, before the first and Gray's football fortunes it stand out, and ewer these they may home state series football game, as occurred to me that the one thing lick their chops in anticipation of next the annual Colby Night exercises in that impressed me most in talking to October's and November's games : the old gymnasium near their up­ McCoy, the first time I had ever met Northeastern in its 1936 campaign roarious conclusion, introduces the him, was his eagerness and enthu i­ threw 126 passes, completing no college's head coach of football with asm over his new academic assign­ fewer than 66; du1ing 1934 and 1935 the expectation "that he will give us ment. If Colby is glad to get him­ Northeastern lo t one game out of some idea as to what is going to hap­ he is just twice as glad to get Colby ! eighteen, the defeat coming the day pen on Seaverns Field tomon:ow He's rarin' to go, he can hardly wait after the squad had attended the afternoon," Alfred Mudge McCoy will for Autumn to come, and if energy, funeral of Ray Pelletier, a North­ step to the center of the Homecoming determination and spirit, plus a very eastern star. In 1936 ortheastern stage and make his oratorical bow high degree of gridiron intelligence, won five and lost four, one of the before a Colby alumni group. can combine to produce pigskin vic­ quartet being Boston College whjch But October 29th is approximately tories, then Colby will enjoy its full defeated Holy Cross and another be­ nine months away, as these lines are share of state series victories in the ing that a.mazing St. Anselms eleven being written, and the alumni of the years immediately ahead-for Mc­ which astonished the nation by its college, particularly those who are of Coy possesses these personal char­ scoreless tie -..vith the Worcester the opinion that all you have to do acteristics to an unusual degree. Cru aders. to win a state series is to get a new A bundle of energy who is on the "Razzle Dazzle" Footba11 football coach (Look at Bowdoin !), go most of the time, McCoy, the other have no desire to wait that long be­ Boston alumni who have neither met day, presided over his class in English fore knowing something fairly definite McCoy nor watched his Northeastern at the university at nine o'clock in about the new director of Colby's elevens in action, but who are read­ the morning, spoke before the Fitch­ gridiron forces. And so the Editor ers of metropolitan sports pages, burg Rotary Club, forty miles away, of The ALUMNUS wrote to the Bos­ know "Al", in a casual, remote way, at noon, at the Fitchburg High School ton representative of the editorial as the coach who brought what sports assembly at two o'clock; was back at staff and ordered : "Interview Mc­ ·writers call "razzle dazzle" football the university at five for va1·sity Coy-and make it snappy !" to Boston. They know him as one basketball practice, hopped out into "Al"-as he will be known on the half of a picturesque feud in which the suburbs for a talk before the banks of the Kennebec before he has the other participant is Frnnk Keaney, Masons of Braintl·ee at seven and been there twenty-four hours-was veteran coach of Rhode Island State wound up at Dedham High School at inte1·viewed this very afternoon, in the College. 9:30. A class, a practice and four athletic supply room at Northeastern My sons know him as the man who talks in one day, not to mention University, just a block away from writes a monthly article in The Open travelling nearly a hundred and Boston's famous Symphony Hall. It Road on various phases of football, twenty-five miles to fulfill his numer­ was in the supply room because his of­ baseball and basketball, informative ous engagements. fice, owing to his popularity with the treatises which are read in more than I asked him if he is a good speaker, university's undergraduate body, fur­ 330 times as many homes as are and it seemed to stagger him for a nishes about as much privacy as Park entered by The COLBY ALUMNUS. second, as he seemed to ponde1· the Street Subway during the rush hour. His sons know him as that strange, thought that this came dangerously Athletic equipment, basketballs and elusive man their mother calls their near to talking about himself, but he footballs, strewn on the shelves fur­ Daddy but who is home, during the finally wriggled out of the corner in­ nished the proper background for an fall and winter, no more than an to which I had crowded him by reply­ hour and a half of questioning and average of one night a week-be­ ing, with a g1in: "Well, they ask me eighteen pages of note taking. cause of late football and basketball to come back again." At home, in the evening's mail, ar­ practice and a thousand and one We rambled from one thing to an­ riv4!d an issue of The Echo with oratorical engagements. And that is other, but his eyes sparkled brighte t campus comment on McCoy's appoint­ just another of the many reasons why when he told me about the play his ment as Colby's new football coach, McCoy is glad he is going to Ma.ine­ Northeastern 1936 eleven employed, including quotations from the lips of "so I can get acquainted with my with six men handling the ball, the the captain of football, the president family all over again." climax coming when a tackle (of all of the Student Council, the head of the A certain famous Democrat who people !) threw a long pass which was department of health and physical took a walk last Autumn used to like snatched by a crossing-over end. education and the president of the col­ to "look at the record." Colby foot­ "The people who have seen that play lege. And as I read the enthusiastic ball enthusiasts can look at the Mc- perfectly executed have never for- THE COLBY ALUMNUS 11

>tten it." Incidentally, Northeastern Knows Future Rivals teams, th1·ee varsity and three fresh­ rined 120 yards on passes against "Al" at least has the advantage of man, has spoken at hundreds of ban­ oston College du1ing the second half, knowing very well indeed the coaches quets and other affairs, and has con­ 1ore than the length of the field. who will be his friendly rivals in ducted a first year course in English. Maine's four-cornered league. Fred There hasn't been a great deal of time Early Bird Catches W orrn Brice at University of Maine, Dave or energy left for hobbies, but he The McCoy's will establish their Morey at Bates and Adam Walsh of does play golf and has already heard ew home in Waterville during the Bowdoin are all among his group of that the Waterville Country Club ummer, going down quite early be­ more than casual friends. Back in the course is an excellent one. He's only ause "Al" is convinced that in grid­ old days, when he was building a repu­ a "dub," by his own admission, but l'On affairs, as elsewhere, it is the tation as a baseball pitcher with more he enjoys the game, even if his tally 1arly bfrd that catches the worm. than the ordinary amount of stuff on sheet does i·un merrily between 90 Iis Spring duties at Northeastern, the ball, he played under Morey's and 120. vhich include the coaching of the managership in the Cape (Cod) Reading Largely Technical '.reshman and varsity baseball nines, League, sp1ingboard to the major "I haven't any real hobbies", he will preclude the possibility of Spring leagues for many an ambitious young said, "because I have lived my work ?ractice at Waterville, whatever his player. Walsh has attended "Al's" and most of my friends have been policy in this regard may be with the Northeastern University Footb a 11 made through athletic contacts." His wming of another Spring. He does, Coaches' School, as have several of reading has been largely technical and however, intend to spend the first the lesser known members of the he is pretty sure that he has read week in April at Colby, getting better Maine college coaching staffs, includ­ every book ever published about the acquainted with his colleagues in the ing Don Lancaster and Lyn Wells of sports in which he has specialized at department of health and physical Bowdoin and Bill Kenyon of the Uni­ Northeastern. His record proves that education, and securing a tentative versity of Maine. sizeup of the material with which he he is a builder of gridiron fortunes. He is looking forward to doing con­ will be expected to fashion a winning In every instance he has taken over siderable so-called contact work for eleven in the Autumn. the direction of teams which have Colby, talking a lot at schools, been unsuccessful and has left them But even before then he hopes to spreading the gospel of Colby the winners. He has interesting ideas as have a fairly clear idea of what he is length and breadth of the state. He's to the relation between the morale of going to find waiting for him on an extrovert, likes to rub elbows with the average institution of higher Seaverns Field. He has read the other human beings, enjoys getting learning and the success of its foot­ around. accounts of last Autumn's games, he ball team and was tremendously in­ is absorbing information thrown at The Open Road is read by, roughly, terested in the op1Illon of one him by Coaches Eddie Roundy and a half a million boys, and for a year alumnus concerning the general un­ "Bill" Millett, he is even being as­ now, McCoy has been g1inding out, dergraduate attitude at Colby toward sisted in his searchings for informa­ "usually on the deadline," a monthly sports in general and football in par­ tion about Colby's football warriors article of football, baseball or basket­ ticular. He is already a Mayflower ball tactics, written simply and un­ by the coaching staffs of the three Hill enthusiast and completely aware derstandingly, minus big words and other Maine colleges, with all of of the spiritual uplift a new site and involved technicalities, so that even new buildings will give to the col­ whom he expects to maintain the the younger boys might understand. lege. friendliest of relations--except for For some months the editors of this Married for fourteen years, the the brief hours when their teams are nationally read magazine have been McCoy's have been living in Newton at each other's throats. It is a cer­ pestering him to write a boys' book Centre. She was Ma1·garet Elizabeth tainty, then, that before he meets the on the general subject of sports. At Campbell, a classmate of his when 1937 squad for the first time on Waterville, freed from the man-kill­ they were students at Dean Academy, Seaverns Field next September he ing schedule which has been his bur­ Franklin, Mass., preparatory school. will have definitely catalogued in his den at Northeastern, he hopes to find There are three children: Alfred M., alert mind the abilities and inabilities the time and energy for this extra­ Jr., thirteen and a first year student of each and every member of the curricular chore. at Junior High, an outstanding group of twenty or twenty-five young­ His Open Road articles have brought scholar who, like his father, is vitally sters who will comprise the backbone him in a year 10,000 letters, from interested in athletics ; Donald Camp­ bell, eleven and a rugged, rough-and­ of his squad. He probably holds no boys all over the country. Several hundred of them were laid out on the ready type, in the sixth grade ; and determined views on preparedness so supply room table, bundled according Mary Carolyn, nine and in the foui1;h far as it concerns war between na­ to states, and indicating a nation wide grade. tions, but he is leaving no stone un­ distribution of his reading public. "I Then there is Buster, a Boston ter- turned in his efforts to do as much try to answer them all--0r at least 1· ier, who meets his master at the door advance work as possible in anticipa­ all of those which seem to indicate every night with a football in his tion of the 1937 campaign which will that the writer expects to receive an mouth, and whose neck muscles are mark a milestone in his career as a answer," he said. surprisingly developed owing to his gridiron strategist. At Northeastern he has coached six constant gripping of the spheroid. 12 THE COLBY ALUMNUS

"He has the co mpetitive spark to of service in th e Rose Bowl, the Pasa­ sists he is no t a disciple of th e razzlE such an extent that th e boys can dena m ecca of all American college _ dazzl e type of play made famous by hardly get th e ball aw ay from him." and um versity gridiro n hero es. He the So uthern teams. "We did throw never cro ssed the final white line as a 126 passes duri ng 1936, co mpleting To Speak Befo re Boston Colby Club col legian, his so litary entrance into mo1:e th an half , but in one gamE:, "Al", I had said, as he bared his th e "to uchdowns- sco red-by" co lumn agam st St. Lawrence with No rtheast­ so ul and I to ok notes, "th ere is a Bos­ co ming wh ile he was pl aying fo r Dean ern th e victo r, we heaved only two to n Colby Cl ub in th is tow n, and, Academ y-h e thinks it was against passes, while in ano th er game we so oner or later, yo u are go ing to be th e New London Naval Base, at th rew only thl· ee. Our average gai n invited to speak at one of its mo nthl y Braves Field, in Boston. per pass was sixteen yards-but th e meetings." Three days later, Burt His Greatest Moment significant fact is that we gained Sm all, secretary of th e club, tel e­ tw ic� as much gro und \vi th a stro ng His greatest moment? "T he day ph oned to info rm me th at I would be runnm g attack as we did thro ugh th e becam e an ath letic co ach . I had respo nsibl e for th e speaker at th e air." His team s put on !'evolutionary pl ayed under th e directio n of th e late February nineteenth meeting at th e play s, execute maneuvers which you Al lie Dick erso n at New to n High Hotel Victoria. Ten minutes later I wo n't ee on any other gridiro n but ch �ol . He had been my school boy called him back to tel l him that � . he insi ts they are al l so und in th ry msp1 rat1on; I had adm ired him mo re � Co lby's new head co ach wo uld make and he denies that he is a member o th an anyo ne el se I had ever knovm · f his first appearance befo re a Co lby ' the mo dern school of co aching tho ugh t as a bo y I wanted to fo llo w in hi al um ni bo dy within two or three days wh ich is ready to sacrifice th e funda­ foo tsteps and to have th e sam e so rt af ter th is issue of The Al um nus mental s in favo r of th e frills. "R e­ of a career." goes into th e mail s. Maybe, even as gardl ess of the tendency my team s His most exciting moment? No, these lines are being read, he is being may have fo r spectacul ar, open foot­ it wasn't in th e Ro e Bowl, as yo u welcomed into th e Co lby family and . ball,'' he co ntends, "I am as tho r­ mi ght expect, because "w e were no t is having his first oppo rtunity to size oughly convinced as anyo ne that foot­ in go od conditio n for that game." It up "the pestiferous al um ni" of th e in­ ball victo ries are won by crisp tack ­ was during a game betw een Waltham stitutio n to which he is transferring ling and sm art blo cking." and New to n High Schoo ls, in sub­ his all egiance. (Incidentall y all McCoy has no idea whether or no t urban Boston. "We beat Waltham alum ni of th e co llege will be welcome h� ,.,. ill find a go od passer waiting fo r fo r th e first tim e in seventeen yeal 's at th is meeting; it is no t in any sense hi m on Seavern s Field in the Autumn af ter having tied them th ree yeal'S restricted to members of the cl ub) . � probably no t, but he will do his best t a ro w, and the final sco re was 22-13. � The Bosto n alumni will discov er unco ver one. His Co lby squad \vill Wh at a team that was! It incl uded that the new co ach has an odd middl e be co nsiderabl y sm al ler th an th e one Hank Garrity, who later wo n fame name, "Mudge," and th at he is a six he has handled at No rth eastern , � t Pri nceto n; Geo rge Ow en, Harvard feet and a half inch , well buil t, 180 where nearly a hundred have reported immortal; Clark Macomber, who latel' po und, thirty-seven year older, with fo r th e earl y practice sessio ns, and starred in th e Cambridge Stadium · a to uch of gray aro und the edges of where between forty and fif ty have Al lan Davidson, who went on to cap� his parted- in-the-m iddle hair. Th e _ been retained as members of the var­ tam Amh erst; Mike Gul ian, who be­ to uch of gray he acquired since co m­ sity squad. c�me All-Am erican at B1·o wn; and ing to Northeastern, fo r "eight years He's enthusiastic abo ut th e cage at Bil l Doherty, later a Tuf ts mainstay." ago I looked like one of the students." _ Watervill e, and predicts th at info rm al Hi s greatest disappo intment in A native of Brookline, Mass., his foo tball instructio n will be going on spo 1·t? During th at same high school middle name is his mo ther's family there during most of the winter game when: "We pull ed th e old 'shoe­ nam e; th e Mudge family was one of months. "I 'll prom ise one th ing " he string pl ay,' yo u kno w where the end the oldest in Sw am psco tt, Mass., and said, "and that is that I will ge out sneaks aw ay from a pileup, wanders t the Mudge estate was one of th e larg­ al l th��e who have the ability to play, off to th e Temo test edge of the field est in the to wn. even if th ey have never to uch ed a unno ticed by th e oppo sitio n, and the Nowadays, with the advent of aerial � foo tbal l befo re. Why, I'll haunt 'em , catches a pass and races for an un­ or razzle-dazzle foo tbal l, ends score if they do n't co me out!" mo lested to uchdown. Well, I was th e so mewhere near as many to uchdowns And this is his co aching creed, as end. No t a single player on th e other as do backfiel d men- rem em ber Lany he expressed it him self , with the ut­ team knew I was out there, all set Kelly ?-and it is an interesting if most sincerity: "I have alw ays to grab th at pass. But th e pass was almost unbelievable fact, indicating been po pular with the kids, because I th row n too far in back of me, I nearly the great change that has co me in th e have al ways had their best interests bro ke my neck trying to make co n­ gam e, that "Al" McCoy pro gressed at heart. I have never had any dif ­ nectio ns with it, but it was no go . th ro ugh his entire ca1· eer on the grid­ ficulty in selling myself to the bo ys And I would have had a cl ear fiel d fo r iro n witho ut scoring more than one because I have alw ays been honest a to uchdown had it been heaved pro p­ to uchdow n. Th is despite the fact with them . I ' ve never been hypo ­ erly. I co uld hav e cried-and prob­ th at he never played at any position critical and I try to act and live so ably did." other th an end; this despite th e fact they will respect me." th at he played fo r a high school, a Not Disciple of Razzle Dazzle McCoy to Bi g Leagues preparato ry school, two Pennsylvania McCoy, the foo tball public's opinio n McCoy, af ter spending his early co lleges, and enjo yed fifty-fivemi nutes to the contrary notwithstanding, in- bo yh ood in Brookline, attended New- THE COLBY ALUMNUS 13

, High for three and a third year , rather than having her dependent on elevens onto the university's playing ying football, baseball and hockey. her relatives, so he gave up all field. He and his boys were unde­ � father' i1lne s forced him to drop thought of returning to Penn State feated in '35, lost once in '34, won of .chool and he later entered and picked up a job in a Boston de­ five and lost four in '36, when he had an Academy, where he studied one partment store. A year and a half the best of his fom· teams but a much tr. he acquired five letters at New- later, with the money he had earned more difficult schedule of games. 1 and four at Dean, playing football, and managed to save, he entered Springfield won by two points, Con­ �ketbal l, hockey and ba eball at the Lafayette-as a freshman because he necticut State by one, and "we could idemy. Three catchers who later had been half a credit shy of being very well have beaten Boston College. re to climb to big league promi­ a full-fledge l sophomore at Penn We played them even, 6-6, during the nce caught hi slant at Dean Aca­ State. There, for the second time, he second half, but in the first half the ny and at Lafayette. "Gabby" was captain of a freshman football kids, because it was their first big •rtnett, soon to become manager of team, did so well in his studies that game, were scared and suffered from Chicago Cub , at the academy; he jumped the sophomore year en­ an inferiority complex." tl Charlie Berry, of the Red Sox and tirely, played two years of varsity McCoy's Northeastel'n Coaching , Athletics, and Frank Grube, of football, in '25 and '26, the '26 season, School won him national acquaintance White Sox, at Lafayette. nder Herb McCracken, being an un­ among his colleagues. Some of his He was graduated from Lafayette d feated season. football instructors were : Fritz Cris­ 1927, at the age of twenty-seven, :McCoy played end throughout his ler, Princeton; Hany Kipke, Univer­ d he recalls \\Jock Sutherland, Pittsburgh ; Dick y hi diploma was conferred. After had been a 105 pound quarterback. Harlow, Harvard; Frank Thomas, an he worked and played baseball In basketball he was a guard, in base­ Alabama; and "Hunk" Anderson, r the First National Bank of Bo - ball he pitched and played the out­ North Carolina State. In basketball n (it might be more accurate to say field, in hockey he " as on the defense. his faculty included : Tony Hinkle, at he played ha eball and worked) He never took a fling at track, be­ Butler; Craig Ruby, Illinois; Clair td then went to Penn State as a cause ba eball interfered, but at Bee, Long Island University. This otege of Dick Harlow, pre ent Har­ Lafayette, after hurting his pitching year his football lineup will include •rd head coach, who was then line arm, he had his fill of lacrosse. He that foremost disciple of razzle dazzle, uch and scout under Hugo Bezdek. had thrown his arm out just before Matty Bell of Southern Methodist, and entering Lafayette, while on trial with Howard O'Dell, Harvard backfield "Al" became captain of his fresh­ the Syracuse Stars of the Interna­ coach. an football team and also played tfonal League. After a weak start at This school has been operating for eshman basketball and baseball. Penn State his scholastic record had tlu·ee years; its greatest enrollment is sophomore Autumn he made a been good at Lafayette. was 176, year before last ; he had trsity end, de pite his wringing wet At Lafayette he wa class marshal, applications from 46 states and regis­ right of a scant 152, and the season vice president of his class, chairman tration from 38 states in one year, as concluded on New Year's Day of the Junior Browse Committee and with many "repeaters." "Will Colby the glamorous Rose Bowl where manager of the year book, "The have such a school ?" I asked. "May­ niver ity of Southern California Melange." While a student he had be-who knows." >anked the Pennsylvanians 14-3. charge of the intramural spo1ts pro­ McCoy will do no teaching at Colby; cCoy was Penn State's Larry Kelly, · gram, which was instituted undel' his he will have a rating of assistant pro­ 1asmuch as he caught a forty yard direction, and ananged intramural fessor in the department of health tss which led up to a field goal by championships between the under­ and physical education. He talked ike Palm. graduate bodies of Lafayette and over the Colby schedule for 1937- Always a capable pass receiver, Penn State. Union, Tufts, Lowell Tech, New cCoy had sparkled particularly on GTaduating in '27, he was director Hampshire, Bowdoin, Maine, Middle­ le screen pass, now illegal, and it is of physical education, coached all bul'y and Bates, with New Hampshire, ot surprising that now, as a stra- sports and taught two subjects at Bowdoin and M_i dcllebury b e i n g gist, he should lean to the more Hackettstown, N. J., for two years. opposed on their gridirons - and pectacular types of play. En route His last captain of football there was listened with eagerness as I told him ome from the Rose Bowl he had de- captain of Notre Dame's varsity last of Colby Night and its background 1ured to visit his wife who was liv- Autumn, "Bill" Smith. A steady and enthusiasm. 1g at the farm of her folks outside of stream of boys followed him from the "I Can't Stand Losing" Tacuse, N. Y. There he was New Jersey High school to North­ An enthusiast and a booster by nowed in by a blizzard for two eastern, including two football cap­ natm·e, McCoy admits he loves to win. eeks, which prevented him from get­ tains and a basketball manager. "I can't stand losing." His football tng back to the college in time to Varsity Football is the same type as that used by tke his midyear examinations. Instituted When he first came to N 01theastern Pittsburgh, Army, Harvard and Dart­ From Rose Bowl to Work in 1929 he coached only basketball mouth, "with many wrinkles which they don't dare to use." It is what He didn't have the five dollars and baseball but in 1932 he instituted is commonly called Warner football, ecessary for each makeup examina- freshman football, in 1933 varsity (Contnued on page 18) 1on, he wanted to support his wife football and he has led four varsity HE program of fund-raising for the new campus on Mayflower Hill, tentatively re­ T newed last year, has gained such momentum that those most interested in the project are now discussing the d1ate on which actual building will begin. It is not possible, however, nor is it at this point desirable, th at such a date be fixed. It is important to keep in mind that, while moving day is sure ly coming, there is much for all of us to do .before we name the day. Difficult as the problems of the depress ion have been and disappointed as we were at the enforced postponement of our program, the depression may prove to have been a blessing in disguise. That the College has come through this period in much stronger financial position than at its beginning has g iven a basis of confidence in the soundness of its fiscal administration. There has been opportunity for a study of the curriculum and instructional methods and of the internal administration of our campus life. In all these respects it may be said that improvement has been made. The colossal undertaking of building an entire new plant would not be justified mere­ ly on the ground of increased facilities for ou r work and greater comfort for our college community. It must find its justification in better education and enlarged service to so­ ciety. We are giving much thought to the future educational program of the College. I would like, in the next few issues of the Alumnus, to discuss briefly some of the ques­ tions that arise, not in a dogmatic manner as if they were finally ettled, but in order that you may be thinking on them and offer, if you will, advice or criticism. I! Let us begin with a consideration of the students themselves, for as I have often said, I l l they are the only reason for a college to ex ist. Colby College is a small liberal arts col­ lege which has given sound eduootion for the most part to the youth of Maine for one hun­ dred and eighteen years. The quality of this training is evidenced by a long list of distinguished graduates. We believe that this type of education, with adaptation to the changes that are tak­ ing place in society, has values that well warrant· its perpetuation. At present, because of Ii the limited equipment, the registration is limited to six hundred students. The new plan j provides equipment for a maximum of one thousand,-six hundred men and four hun­ dred women. We seek to make a better, rather than a bigger, college, and feel that an enrollment above this number would hinder rather than help the attainment of our aims. It is thought wise to begin the work on the new campus with approximately the same student enrollment as at present, expecting to improve its quality by more careful se­ lection. Gradual enlargement might then follow as later development made this possible and desirable. A majority of our students have always come from Maine, although the percentage of out-of-state students has been increasing until it now approaches a half. With im­ proved facilities this tendency will doubtless increase. A wide geographical distribution is desirable in any college because of the diversity of experience and point of view which it brings to the college community. Because of the tradition of many years and the sturdy quality of the youth of New England, it is desirable that the number of students from the State of Maine and other sections of New England be maintained. More liberal schol­ arships must be provided so that the more promising students not only from Maine, but from other states, may be able to secure an education 'here. The College is 1being designed only for undergraduates and will leave to the univer­ sities and professional schools the field of research. As an incentive to high intellectual attainment there should be provided for outstanding scholars wlho have completed their work in the College liberal grants for continuation of their studies in universities and professional schools. We can ih1ardly attach too great importance to the stimulus which will come to the intellectual and moral life of the college community when it finds itself adequately housed amid beautiful surroundings, removed from the unlovely and distracting environment in which we now live. The men at present are completely denied what the women have in a somew.hat greater degree, a stimulating, wholesome community life. The Roberts Union will supply this. No single building could add so much to the morale of the College 01· be so fitting a memorial to Arthur Robert s. I am cornfident that the alumni ·program to secure the necessary funds for its erection will prove successful. THE COLBY ALUMNUS 15

Chatting With Our Colby People

By THE EDITORIAL BOARD

T is with a go od deal of pride th at late Mary Lee Ware, wh ich gives of th e scien ce buildi ngs, at least, I we presen t as our leadin g article $300 ,000 to Harv ard fo r th e care of sh ould co me to our Presiden t fo r th is mo nth a bio graphical essay on its famo us col lection of glass flowers, sign in g so me such affidav it as: "In Colby's co ntribution to th e Sup reme an d $300,000 by th e late Wil liam A. my opinion, wh en better cars are ben ch of Maine. As a matter of his­ Sargen t to Amherst Co llege. built, Backward wil l buil d th em.'' to rical reco rd th is is material of Th ese gifts are rath er stron g ev i­ Or: "After an exh austiv e faculty permanent val ue, wh ile in its literary den ce of th e desire of th e wealth y meetin g, I always get a lift by reach­ exp1· ession , in its marshaling of to en rich co lleges so as to adv an ce th e in g fo r a Ch ucky." We co uld coun t alien t facts an d quotations, an d in mo ral, mental an d ph ysical well- be­ on en ough to build a do rmito ry fro m its scrup ul ous scholarsh ip th e articl e in g of our yo uth. th is. sets a standard which wil l be difficult; Or, a man ufacturer surel y wo ul d fo r other co ntributo rs to main tain . N rummagin g th ro ugh th e medicine co ntribute th e wo men's un ion fo·r: Th ere is, ho wever, on e criticism I clo set of our an cestral ho me the "In my wo rk I have to to uch a go od wh ich can be made. Th e articl e deal s other day, our attention was caugh t many people fo r a go od man y th in gs. al l too meagerly with on e James H. by a cardboard bo x co ntaining a bo t­ Bo nd's Honey Pean ut Cream gives Hud on, '0 0, wh o is a no less dis­ tle of sticky bro wn liquid, wh ich had th em th at skin I love to to uch .­ tin guish ed member of th e Sup reme ev idently been th ere a gen eration or Presiden t Fran klin W. Johnson of Judicial Co urt th an th e other Colby two. It proved to be a preparation Co lby Co llege.'' alumni wh o have been so adequately called To il etin e, ev iden tl y a useful In fact, it migh t even be go od busi­ sketch ed. remedy to have aro un d, as it was ness for th e COLBY ALUMNUS to To amen d th is deficien cy, th e assist­ goo d "for an y in flammation, in tern al make a substan tial gift if th e fo llow­ ance of Ch ief Justice Ch arl es J. Dunn or extern al, wh eth er caused by acci­ ing sign ed sen timen t could be put into was so licited. He gracio usl y Te­ den t or disease." th e hands of all Co lby men an d wo ­ sp onded with a co ntribution th at, We were idl y perusin g th e testi­ men : "Th e COLBY ALUMNUS is wh ile onl y a paragraph in length , is a mo nial s-al ways a possible so urce of th e best al umn i magazine th at I read notable tribute an d serves to complete enjo ymen t-w hich co vered al l vacan t regul arly. You wi ll wan t to subscribe ihe reco rd. Says Ch ief Justice Dunn : sp ace on th e carton, when suddenly so oner or later. Even tual ly, wh y not "It is a pleasure fo r me to say of our eyes po pped out at th e fo ll owin g: now?" my as ociate, Mr. Justice Hudson , "Gen . Joshua L. Ch amberlain, himsel f a graduate of Co lby Co llege, So ldier an d Educato r, Presiden t of OLBY men an d wo men have never an d th e autho r of th e fo rego in g trib­ Bo wdo in Co llege fo r twelve years, C been dep ressed in spirit, but dur­ utes, th at, with cap acity fo r hard says: 'In such use of To il etin e as I in g th e last few years, like every­ wo rk, he embo dies high in tell igen ce, have made, it has proved to be all yo u bo dy else, have do ubtl ess had to get on tran sparen t hon e ty of min d an d pur­ cl aimed fo r it. Members of my fam­ with reduced in co mes. Th e response po se, go od wil l, an d co nvictional ily prize it high ly.' " to th e Presiden t's remin der of th e co urage. Patriotism, rectitude, an d No w th ere is a testimonial fo r you ! Ch ristmas Fun d sh ows th at th e fi­ devo tion to duty mark his ch aracter, Perh ap s a sh ade too non- co mmittal, nancial depression has lifted among an d in spi re th e resp ect in wh ich he but after al l, wh at co ul d yo u exp ect th e members of th e Co lby family. is held as a jurist." fro m th e presiden t of a dignified an d No t sin ce 1930 has th e amo unt re­ an cien t seat of learn in g? ceived been so large. Th e number of S Th e ALUMNUS goes to press Meclitatin g up on th is, numero us giv ers also sh ows a gratifyin g in ­ Awe learn of th e bequest by th e bright possibilities suggest th em­ crease. To th e date of th is writin g late H. · Wallace No yes, retired selves. If it was prop er fo r th e presi­ $1,766.00 have been received fro m 170 busin ess man of Po rtl an d an d not a den t of th e alma mater of Lo ngfellow persons, an d bel ated return s are still co llege man, of part of his fin e co llec­ an d Hawthorne to eke out his salary co ming in . tion of stones an d mineral s to Co lby with a few sidelin es like th is, su1· ely Co llege, an d al so a scholarship fund of no on e wo uld raise an eyebro w if F yo ur cl ass year en ds in seven or $1,000, th e in co me to help yo un g peo­ Bo wdo in's yo un ger sister in dulged in I two yo u sh ould en circl e th e dates pl e, sel ected by th e trustees of th e Im­ th e same en terprise. of June 18th th ro ugh to th e 21st. man uel Baptist Ch u1· ch of Po rtl an d, . In fact, properly pursued, th is plan Co lby's 116th Co mmen cemen t begin s who atten d Co lby College. migh t well so lve our problem of rais­ on June 18th with th e Presiden t's Re­ We recal l th ree outstandin g be­ in g th ree million do llars for our new cep tion th at even in g an d clo ses after quests at th e beginning of the new camp us. Always co nstructive an d th e Co mmen cemen t Dinn er on the year-the late Ch arles Hayden's gift, helpful to our Admin istration , Th e fo llowin g Monday. not onl y of a mil lion do llars to M. I. T., ALUMNUS hereby offers to Presi­ Th e number of graduates who re­ but also of $50,000,000 to be used fo r den t Johnson so me suggestions. turn each year is in creasin g. The education of bo ys; an d th e gift s of th e A substan tial ch eck, go od fo r on e spirit of th e occasion is in every sense 16 THE COLBY ALUMNUS

plea"'ant and delightful. Old friends It is one of those plausible, but ini· will be here and new friends will be On Exam Refre hments tatingly fallacious distinctions. made. The class of 1912 is now mak­ There are a good many Colby mer Dear Editor: ing plans to celebrate its silver an­ in positions of ownership or manager­ There was small excuse niversary, and we hope to see a large sltip of business enterprises, but a delegation of the 50-year class about for that "0 tempora" com­ ment in the January Alumnus mental survey of them shows thE the campus. The oldest living gradu­ on a modern Professor of typical one to be rather a harassed in­ ate and the only surviving member of Chemistry serving tea at the dividual, just climbing out of the rnd the clas of 1867 is Charles R. Coffin close of an exam. We did after a bad four or five years, ·with of Avon Park, Florida. May the things much better in the old day . normal humanitarian impulses, but ALUMNUS expres the hope that he I well remember kindly, with neither the time or inclination can honor the old College with his yes, benevolent Santy Rogers, to meditate upon the abstract social presence next June and receive the the erudite Professor of implications of his position. Surely plaudits of other Colby men on his Phy ics serving ice cream and cake at an exam, not at there is a place for him, even in a seventieth reunion. We must not for­ the close of two hours' Utopian social order. get to extend a special invitation to labors, but in lieu of the Personally, if asked to evaluate the the men of the class of '77-the 60- examination - and need I Colby product on the basis of the year class-William E. Alexander of add that we pas ed that ex­ amination cold! question given at the beginning of this Hartford, Conn.; F. M. Hallowell of -Ninety Three. discourse, we should say: Colby Col­ Camino, Calif.; and Harrison W. lege does not turn out any exploiters; George of Santa Cruz, Calif. P. S.-The Alumnus Editor was one of the unfortunates it turns out a creditable proportion of The 116th Commencement will be who did not take Physics. men and women who devote their lives memorable in the history of the Col­ to humanitarian causes ; but the great J'ege and especially to those who i·e­ bulk of its graduates are simply de­ turn to the campus. Now is the time cent, hard-working, intelligent people, to start saving for your trip to engaged in the slave trade, narcotic constructive citizens and good home­ Waterville in June. traffic, or organized vice. makers, employed in every walk of Builders of a better social order ? life. HE Advertising Federation of Well, there are the seventy-one names T America has declared that the on the Missionary Tablet. One's mind production and distribution of turns to the Farnums in Japan, Miss OMMENT was made in this de­ General Motors products accounts for Peterson, Miss Sanderson and the Cpartment last month al.tout Colby's "something like one-twentieth of the others in China, Dyer and Gates in creditable showing in the John economic activity in the United India, Bousfield on the Maine sea­ Price Jones Corporation compilation State " and that "every community coa t, the Colby grnup at Hampton, of gifts and bequests to the thirty­ has a take in the General Mo.tors and so on. There are a host of Colby seven leading colleges and univer­ situation." Before going to press our doctors, ministers, educators and sities in the United States. (Inci­ national adverti ing agency cancelled others who might come under this dentally, the fact that Colby is one of the Chevrolet space, usually the in­ classification. Some would include the those on this list, is worthy of pride.) side front cover, until the July issue two or three alumni who are devoting Since then, their report covering 1936 their lives to so-called "radical" of The ALUMNUS. has come to our attention. causes. Our additions for the fiscal year But the exact outlines of "a better 1935-36 are given as $322,065. While recent item in a metropolitan social order," just as definitions of exceeded by a number of institutions, A newspaper tells of someone who paradise, vary greatly with the in­ notably by the much larger univer­ is making an investigation of col­ dividual. There was once a man lege graduates to find the answer to named Lovejoy who died for his con­ sities such as California, Chicago, the question : "Do the four years tend victions that abolition of slavery Columbia, Harvard, Pennsylvania and to turn out men and women better would insure a better social order. Yale, the total of gifts and bequests able to exploit their fellows, rather Yet a vast section of this nation dates coming to Colby is found to be · than in pired to build a better social the ruin of its social order from the greater than the amount received by order ?" day when Lovejoy's dream came true. Brown, Bucknell, Haverford, Lafay­ At first glance, this seems like a Just which of the Colby alumni ette, Lehigh, Oberlin, Princeton, Rut­ laudable sea1·ch, but when one comes body would the aforesaid investigator gers, Williams, and several other bet­ cases-one's own down to specific be willing to include as coming under ter-known institutions. circle of fellow alumni, for example his particular definition of "builders While a state of affluence is yet -it soon becomes evident that to di­ of a better social order ?" One somewhere in the future, it is a mat­ vide college graduates into these two suspects that� the distinction ,that he categories is pure tommyrot. actually had in mind was between ter of self-congratulation that the Does Colby tend to turn out ex­ those who are in business ("ex­ financial resources of Colby are gradu­ ploiters of humanity ? The w1iter is ploiters") and those who scorn fi­ ally creeping up to those of more not aware of any Colby man actively nancial success ("builder-uppers"). fortunate colleges. THE COLBY ALUMNUS 17

Plans Laid For Roberts Memorial Union Fund

HE great spirit and genial per­ could have failed to have been im­ Lewis L. Levine, '16, told a personal Tsonality of Arthur J. Roberts in­ pressed as one after another arose story which could be duplicated in fused the memories of the fo1ty and bore eloquent testimony as to his essence by many another Colby man, =:olby men who gathered to lay plans affection and debt to President Rob­ namely: how President Roberts had or the Roberts Memorial Union Fund erts and pledged himself to do his sought him out, encouraged him to go at the Hotel Elmwood Saturday, .hare in making possible this me­ to college when it seemed impossible, January 30. morial building. and by countless methods of assist­ Herbert E. vVadsworth, '92, who has ance helped him carry through his accepted the po t of Chairman of this college course. Mr. Levine brought campaign, presided over the dinner his remarks to a climax with a pledge meeting. The President recapitulated of a substantial sum for a memorial the whole Mayflower Hill project and room in the new Union which would made ome "off the record" predic­ jointly honor the two men to whom tions of forthcoming gifts of sub­ he owed the most : his father and stantial n?.ture. He told of the prob­ President Roberts. lem of living conditions among the Ju tice James H. Hudson, '00, re­ men students on the old campus and called an incident in one of the Eng­ told what the proposed Roberts Union li h cla ses under Arthur Roberts. would mean to the life of the College. One morning after an examination, He showed slides of the plans and the professor was reviewing the drawings of the new building. papers. Turning to one man he said: Arnaud C. Mart , now president of "Mr. D--- how do you spell 'touch' ?" Bucknell University, who has been The student answered : "T-u-t-c-h." retained by Colby College since 1930 "Well," observed Prof. Roberts, "you to advi e the Colby trustees in regard have one satisfaction ; that certainly to the financing of the new campus doesn't spell anything else." Justice project, outlined the general program Hudson concluded that every Colby to be followed in this campaign by man would be happy to be "tutched" the Colby Alumni Council among on behalf of the Roberts Memorial Colby men. The names of the Fund Union Fund. Committee we1·e announced, which are The meeting closed with a spirit of HERBERT E. 'NADSvVORTH, '92 listed elsewhere in this issue. determination and optimism that made Briefly, it was decided to make an the culmination of the Mayflower intensive effort in one area after an­ Several of the anecdotes concerning Hill venture seem closer to reality into other in the endeavor to reach every "Rob" were well worth putting than ever before. Colby man. In each center a dinner The Alumnus for the benefit of future will be held to present the plans fo1· historians. Mr. Wadswo1th started the Roberts Union, but the solicita­ off the Teminiscences by Tecalling how MR. CALAHAN HEADS BAR un­ tion will be made later by a picked Arthur Roberts as a student was HARBOR Y. M. C. A. group of Colby workers in personal able to afford a watch or clock and so calls upon the other alumni. whenever he wanted to know the time S. Arnold Calahan, one of the The tentative schedule of Roberts he would stand in his door and shout best known Colby men of recent Memorial Dinners was suggested as until somebody obliged with the in­ years, has commenced his new work follows : Boston, Feb. 19; Worceste1·, formation in order to restore quiet to as general secretary of the Mount Feb. 16; Springfield, March 5; Provi­ the dormito1·y. Desert Island Y. M. C. A., with head­ quarters at Bar Harbor. Prior to dence, March 12; Ha1tford, March 17; Dr. Herbert C. Libby brought down accepting the position at Bar Harbor, Philadelphia, April 5; Washington, the house by telling of an incident of Mr. Calahan served for four years April 6; New York City, April 8; New S. A. T. C. days. It seems that he as associated general ecretary of the Hampshire (place undecided) April was in the President's office one morn­ Bangor Y. M. C. A., following six 27; Lewiston, April 29; Farmington, ing when the door opened and a sec­ years of service at the Auburn Y., April 30; Bath, May 1; Portland, May ond lieutenant strode in unannounced, where he was secretary in charge of 11; Bangor, May 14; Rockland, May issued a few orders to the Colby Boys' Work. 21; Calais, May 25; Houlton, June 3; president, puffed cigarette smoke into Waterville, June 11. The successful his face and insolently departed. The Mr. Calahan is a native of Camden accomplishment of the campaign will President watched him go in silence, and following his graduation from the be celebrated at the Commencement strode over to the door, kicked it shut Camden High school and Rockland Alumni Luncheon on June 19. with a slam that shook the building Business college, attended Colby and the Eastern As ociation school at Sil­ Following discussion of these plans, and glaring at Dr. Libby, who had ver Bay, N. Y., and spent three years Chairman Wadsworth called on var­ been a mute observer, he bellowed: in theological study. ious alumni for remarks. No listener "Be calm, Be1tie, be calm!" 18 THE COLBY ALUMNUS

Colby Men Rally To Roberts Memorial Project

HE invitations issued by Herbert "I consider it an honor and a T E. Wadsworth to key men in BEST WISHES FROM privilege to serve in this cau e; we all Yarious sections of the country to BOWDOIN loved the man so much, and he did so serve on the committees which will "My dear Mr. Wadsworth : much for me per onally in years past, conduct the Roberts Memorial Union "I shall be very glad fodeed to I would be a shirker indeed if I didn't Fund program brought back a re­ ser

COLBY'S NEW COACH Eddie Roundy, Dick Drummond, Mr. member of Kappa Phi Kappa, teach­ (Continued from page 13) Wadsworth - and he knows Tom ers' fraternity. after the immortal "Pop". His strat­ O'Donnell, former Colby center; He will fight fraternity politic egy depends largely on the abilities Ernie Perry, Lawrence track coach ; tooth and nail and he will take a great presented by the material available and Bill Frazier, Rindge Tech coach. deal of interest in the appearance of but his teams do more passing than He has worked at N 01theastern with his teams. Don't be at all surprised the average and Colby "will tlu·ow Norris Potter, Everett Marston, Stan­ if Colby's eleven takes the field arrayed the ball more than any of the other ley Estes and John Pugsley, all mem­ in silver helmets and silver pants. At Maine elevens do at present." bers of the university's faculty. Northeastern he has painted the oles The entire McCoy family supports McCoy has been a member of the of the players' basketball shoes-not with enthusiasm the teams ·the "head" Boston Kiwanis Club and the Boston to make them lqok pretty but for pur­ of the family coaches and is happy in Gridiron Club, the American Football poses of identification, when a player anticipation of the return to a college Coaches Association, the American is bent oYer, picking a ball up offthe which has campus life and collegiate Basketball Coaches Association and floor. He was the first coach to use activities. McCoy already has quite was president of the New England As­ silk basketball pants, he invented the a Colby acquaintanceship - President sociation of C o 1 1 e g e Basketball "laceless" football, he has many idea Johnson, Mike Loebs, Bill Millett, Coaches during 1935-36. He is a for improvement of football equipment. THE COLBY ALUMNUS 19

FOREIGN EXCHANGE FELLOW

ISS IOLA HOLMES CHASE of Sponsors of Colby Winter Carnival MMechanic Falls, Colby '36, has received the honor of being rec­ >mmended as a candidate for the for­ �ign exchange fellowship which is accorded Colby every year. Under this arrangement a student is given a

:MISS IOLA HOLMES CHASE

year's study in a foreign University without expense for tuition and board, and similarly a student from a Euro­ pean country comes to Colby for a year. Miss Chase is prominent on the campus. She is one of the high rank­ ing seniors, president of Y. W. C. A., member of the New England Student vote of the student body to preside Chl"istian movement committee and is IVE girls were elected by popular Carnival held under the auspices of the Outing Club on on the board of Colby Council on Re­ Fover the Winter February 5 and 6. Miss Janet HolHs, '39, of Newton, Mass., (at bottom ligion. Last year she served as wo­ of picture) was chosen Snow Queen and her attendants were (reading upward) men's editor of the Colby Echo. She Kathryn D. Cobb, '37, of Windsor, Conn., Eleanor B. Ross, '37, of Houlton, is also talented in dramatics. (daughter of Linwood L. Ross, '06); Elizabeth Wilkinson, '37, of Jamaica, N. Y. (niece of Prof. William J. Wilkinson); and Louise Merriam Weeks, '38, of Waterville (daughter of Prof. Lester F. Weeks, '14, and Ethel Merriam DON'T MISS THE COLBY GLEE Weeks, '15). CLUB CONCERTS ! The Carnival opened with a hockey game against Boston College on the At Boston - Thursday, Feb. 25, Foss Hall rink. That evening the student body attended a special showing of Steinart Hall, 162 Boylston St., 8 the famed Austrian winter sports movie, "Slalom." The snow sports occupied P. M. Saturday afternoon out on Mayflower Hill, and the Carnival Ball that even­ At Hartford-Friday, Feb. 26, The ing was honored by the attendance of Governor Lewis 0. Barrows who par­ Bushnell Memorial, 8 P. M. ticipated in the ceremony of presenting the Snow Queen with a silver trophy. 20 THE COLBY ALUMNUS

PRAISE FOR CROWELL, '10 BOSTON AS OCIATION STAG SMOKER MILESTONES HE December number of Fortune N the evening of January 15th a ENGAGED Tcontained a remarkably interest­ O group of forty-four Colby men Sybil Lee Wolman, Waterville, ing article on Rockefeller Center met at the Twentieth Century Maine, Colby, '34, to Sol Smith, Brook­ and in the course of the narrative Club rooms at 3 Joy Street, Boston, line, Mass., Harvard, '31. gave Merle Crowell, '10, a large share for the second annual stag smoker. of the credit in turning the tide of A splendid buffet supper was served MARRIED public opm10n in favor of this by the club, after which the group arolyn Potter, Stoneham, Ma s., spectacular enterprise. joined in songs led by Stephen Bean, North Adams State Teacher's College, The article describes the early un­ '05. In the absence of President '31, to Edward Roy Frude, Shelburne favorable attitude whicl� made the "Tom" Urie, '20, the meeting wa con­ Falls, Mass., Colby, '23, Berlin, New project a butt of wits and derided as ducted by Secretary "Huck" Beny, York on June 28, 1936. They wrn re­ a financial flop. Thanks to the in­ '22, who called upon "Ray" Spinney, ::;ide at Shelburne Falls, Mass., where defatigable effort of Mr. Crowell as '21, to tell about the activities of the Mr. Frude i head of the Science De­ head of the Public Relations Depart­ Bo ton Colby Club. "Ray" told of the partment and faculty manager of ment of the Center, however, the group of thilty-three active Colby athletics. group of buildings now is inhabited by men in this vicinity who have joined a city of 20,000 souls, is gaped at by the Boston Colby Club. This group Ro. e Loui e Carven, Belmont, l\Iass., is holding regular meetings on the an average of 80,000 visitors every Boston Univer ity, to Franci Coleman third Friday of each month at 6:00 Foley, Norwood, Mas ., Colby, '29, day, and is within shooting distance P. M., at the Hotel Victoria. The Bo ton Univ. Law School, Belmont, of climbing out of the red. purpose of the Club is to provide an Mass. They will be at home after In describing the part played by interesting series of programs which February 15 at 47 Hawthorne Street, Mr. Crowell, Fortune says, in part : will be attractive to college men and Belmont. "The job has been pretty we ll car­ which will bring together regularly the Thomas J. Foley, Colby, '33, was in ried through. Merle Crowell, ex­ Colby men in this vicinity. A schola1·­ the wedding party. editor of the American Magazine and ship to some deserving Colby student ex-interviewer of big shots, did most is planned. Any Colby man is invited Ruth Katheryn Michalek, Westfield, of the refutation ; his quiet campaign to attend these meetings. Mas ., Colby, '36, to Eugene Albert One of the coming events announced has been one of the real wonders of McAlary, Waterville, Maine, Colby, was the concert by the combined '35, Simsbury, Conn., on Dec. 14, 1936. Rockefeller Center. But before one Colby Musical Clubs at Steine1·t Hall, They will make their home at 6 Brook­ can properly understand the magni­ Boston, on February 25th. This is lin Ave., Westfield, Mass. tude of Mr. Crowell's operations on the spon ored by the Boston Colby Club Ame1ican pres and American pub­ to assist the musical club in their BORN licists, one mu t have a clear outline trip to Hartford, Connecticut, where To J. D1isko Allen, '29, and Alice of the spotted and contentious story they are to take part in the annual Paul Allen, '29, a son, James Paul, of Rockefeller Center's origins . . . competition of college musical clubs. October 13, 1936. Advice from the College assures us "Mr. Crowell had never had any ex­ To J. Douglas Johnstone, '27, and that the program presented by the perience in public relations but he Dorothy Daggett Johnstone, '28, a combined Colby Musical Clubs is of a knew exactly what to do. Up to Sep­ daughter, Martha Jane, August 1, very high order. Colby men and wo­ tember of 1934 his office had issued 1936. men in this vicinity should welcome 557 releases and filled sixty-seven the opportunity to see and hear these Chief Engineer of that organization. but soon after this it gave scrapbooks, musicians. Tickets may be secured A map was used to show the sources ds; the strain up trying to keep recor from Burton E. Small, '19, Secretary of water supply for Boston and vicinity was too great. One Crowell method of the Boston Colby Club, 97 Milk and the means of transporting this of uncove1ing pegs for news was to Street, Boston. water from a point west of W orceste1·, go after ambassadors and other big Following the above announcements, a distance of around seventy miles. names and to get them to use Rocke­ Cecil Goddard, '29, Colby Alumni Sec­ In one section of 24.6 miles this water feller Center as a platform from retary, spoke of some of the i·ecent flows in a tunnel constructed through which to speak in behalf of noble activities at the College and among solid rock .for 200 to 600 feet under­ causes. But the Crowell preventive the alumni groups. He also spoke ground. The motion pictures showed medicine was even more important encouragingly of the Mayflower Hill the work of constructing the tunnel development, which is progressing and the building of the dams for the than news items. The strategy was rapidly and seems about to take ma­ Quabbin Reservoir. Following the to seek out habitual critics of the Cen­ terial form soon. lecture there was a question period, ter and, without directly mentioning The remainder of the evening was and from the number and variety of their yelps, to talk to them earnestly devoted to a lectui·e and motion pic­ the questions it appeared that there about Rockefeller ideals. By the prag­ tures of the work of the Metropolitan was a genuine interest in the subject. matic test the method has been emi­ Water District Commission, presented The meeting adjourned about 10:00 nently, even superlatively, successful." by Karl R. Kehnison, '06, Assistant P. M. THE COLBY ALUMNUS 21

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HENRY M. HEYWOOD, '75 The new school opened in the old the little band of survivors at our re­ HE Rev. Henry M. Heywood, Lyceum Hall on Meeting House Hill union dinner at the Elmwood. I had Taged 91, one of the oldest clergy­ in Dorchester with about thirty pupils. not seen my classmate since gradua­ men in the country, died on No­ It gre"v rapidly and soon moved to tion, and I was amazed to observe so vember 28, 1936 in Philadelphia. larger quarters in Roxbury. In 1913 little change in "Park" in those 45 Mr. Heywood was born April 18, it moved into its large and fine new years. Just the same in appearance 1844 at Winslow, Me. He was gradu­ building on Greenville Street, Rox­ and manner as I remembered him in ated from Coburn Classical Institute bury, constructed according to the college days. Now he is gone ! His in 1871 and entered Waterville College ideas of Mr. Weaver. The school now brother writes that he had been in in the fall of the same year. After has about twelve hundred pupils and failing health for a year, but la t May attending Colby for four months, he many departments. One of the first he wi·ote the "agent" a cheery letter, became rector of the Patten (Me.) of its kind, it has been a great suc­ enclosing a generous contribution to Baptist Church, and during the fol­ cess and has influenced vocational the Alumni Fund, expressing hopes lowing thirty-six years held pa torates education in other parts of the coun­ to be at Commencement in June. in Maine, Massachusetts, and Idaho. try. In 1914 Mr. Weaver received "Park" Burleigh was a member of Because of a long and serious illness from Colby College the honorary de­ one of the smallest graduating classes he was forced to retire, and since 1909 gree of L. H. D. in recognition of his in Colby's histo1·y-only seventeen re­ has resided in the George Nugent distinctive contributions to education. ceived diplomas in '89, fifteen men and Home for Baptists in Germantown, Pa. He had a great capacity for friend­ two women. A group so small A daughter, Mrs. A. J. Humphrey ship. His teachers and pupils were was naturally drawn close together, of Rock Island, Ill., survives him. devoted to him and he had hosts of and there has prevailed an intimacy friends outside the school in Boston between the members through the HERBERT S. WEAVER, '82 and in F1iendship1 Maine, where he succeeding years. In college "Park" ERBERT SPURDEN WEAVER and his family spent their summers preserved a slight aloofness, as H passed away on Janua1·y 21, 1937, for more than forty years. coming from a notable family in at his home, 32 High Rock Way, In college he won friends on all Maine's largest county, bearing a Allston, Massachusetts. sides by his jovial good nature and name outstanding in Houlton ; but He was born in Waldoboro, Maine, sense of humor and upright character. he carried his reserve becomingly. October 17, 1861. He graduated from He always found something to laugh In entering into his heritage in after Colby College in the class of 1882 at and to make others laugh. He years, he maintained his family tra­ and immediately began teaching, a was a good college citizen, interested dition and enhanced it in positions of profession which he followed for half in his work, doing it well, and con­ trust and responsibility in his city a century. In 1885 he became prin­ tributing to the general welfare. and county as a Burleigh should. All cipal of the Williams Grnmmar School Mr. Weaver married on June 29, the veterans of '89 had trusted that in Chelsea, Mass., where he remained 1885, Emeline Gay Veazie of Chelsea. he would be present at the "last stand" until 1890, when he entered the Bos­ They had five children; Marion, who in 1939 ! ton school system as submaster of lives with her parents; Alice, now His three children, two married the Phillips Grammar School. When Mrs. Foote, of Larchmont, N. Y.; daughters in Bronxville, N. Y., and a the Mechanic Arts High School was Jessie, now Mrs. Law, of Allston, son bearing his name, practicing law started in 1894 Mr. Weaver became Mass. ; Marguerite, now Mrs. Pellett, in Presque Isle, carry on. junio1· master there and head of the living in Greenville, S. C.; and -E. F. S. '89. department of history. George, who is married and lives in His wo1·k in Mechanic Arts High Watertown, Mass. Mrs. Weaver and PRES. C. L. BARBOUR, HON. '29 School brought Mr. Weaver into such the children are all living and there R. CLARENCE A. BARBOUR, prominence in vocational education are eight grandchildren. D President of Brown University that when the High School of Prac­ since 1929 and a devoted worker tical Arts for Girls was established in PARKER P. BURLEIGH, '89 in many educational and religious 1907 he was selected as its first head EWS of "Park" Bul'leigh's death fields, died at his home on January master, a position which he held un­ Non January 4 was brought to me 16, 1937, after an illness of two days. til his retirement. by a considerate letter from his His ·age was 69. This was a new type of school and brother Everett, accompanied by a One of the first official acts of in the process of planning and organ­ copy of the Houlton paper with front President Johnson was to confer the izing it he visited many schools in page notice, copies of which were to honorary degree of Doctor of Laws this country, and he and his class­ be sent to other members of his class on Dr. Barbour, then President-elect mate, William C. Crawford, who at whose addresses the Class Agent could of Brown University. the same time was organizing the new provide. No one could be prepared Funeral services were held in the Boston Trade School fo1· Boys, were for the news-there had been no inti­ historic First Baptist Meeting House sent to Europe, where they investi­ mation of ill-health since his last visit in Providence. The ervice were gated schools in Germany, Switzer­ to college Commencement in 1934, conducted by Arthur W. Cleaves, ) and, France, and other countries. when he and Mrs. Burleigh rejoiced Colby '98, pastor of the church. 22 THE COLBY ALUMNUS

Class Notes About Colby Men and Women

people at his home in Arlington, Mass. Contributions; Rev. Samuel Miller, 1877 Be. ides Fos. and his daughter, Bar­ pastor of the Old Cambridge Baptist "Yes, at 85 years, I still say, 'Hur­ bara, ni net y-six was represented by Church, told of Gerry's work at his Mr. and Mr . Harry Dunn, Florence church ; Anthony Shallna, who praised rah for Colby and the Alumnus.' "­ Dunn, Dr. Ben Fuller and daughter, Gerry's work among the various ra­ F. M. Hallowell. Rosamond. cial groups of the city ; and Edward Ada Edgecomb Andrews, who was M. Rowe, telling of the work of her elf eriou_ly ill at the time of her Gerry in the Public Speaking class 1884 husband's death in June, is now bet­ anti the organization of the Round Ta­ John E. Cummings writes that he ter in health. She remains in her ble Club. Hallowell (Me.) home, where she ha "A talk by Carroll L. Cha e, gen­ ha a daughter, Lora R. Cummings, had an apartment prepared for the eral secretary of the 'Y', preceded in the Senior Class and a grand­ high school principal and his family. the main address of the evening, daughter, Elizabeth Jean Walden, in Myrtice Cheney's new addre s i 59 which was given by Profes or Joseph the Fre hman Class. State Street, Portland, Maine. H. Beale of the Harvard Law School. "The reception was a huge success Florence E. Dunn. anti the committee in charge deserves credit for a fine accomplishment to a 1886 fine man, H. M. Gerry." Byron Boyd is general chairman of 1897 the executive group in charge of ar­ rangements for the citizens' reception The women of 1897 present their 1900 to Governor Lewi 0. Barrows, mem­ children and grandchildren : Mrs. Merton W. Be sey (Harriet William B. Jack, Superintendent of bers of his Executive Council, and the Schools in Portland, addre ed a meet­ Legislature. Vigue ); John Alden Bessey, emp. Holling. worth & Whitney, r. Water­ ing of the Maine School Music Super­ ville, Maine; four sons, John Alden, visor A sociation at Portland on Jr., Robert, Merton and Richard. January 30, 1937. 1889 Mrs. Emerson D. Fite (Alice Nye) : H. E. Farnl1am writes that he i� Katherine Boardman Fite, A. B., Vas- author of the essay, "Life Begin at ar College, '26, LLB. Yale Law 1902 Seventy". He has a nephew and School, Research lawyer in the State Angier L. Goodwin, senator in the niece-Frank and Lydia Farnham in Dept., Washington, D. C.; Marcia Ma sachu etts legislative body, has the freshman clas . Fite, A. B., Vassa1· College, '33, Yale recently been appointed chairman of The cla agent has ju. t received a Medical School, '37. the committee on the judiciary. very sprightly letter from Fred V. Mrs. H. L. Gale (Edith Han on). Matthews, ex-'89, who came to Colby Charles Han on Gale, A. B. Colby from Woodfords, Maine, and in recent College, '22, Editor of The Sports­ 1904 years has been re iding at Evanston, man Pilot, r. New York City. Mabel Freese Dennett is the author lllinois, as a retired gentleman. He Mrs. Walter Reid Guthrie (Laura of the first article in the December 9 now tells of his recent move to Lara­ Gale). Two years Boston University, issue of Zion's Herald, the organ of mie, Wyoming, with his fa mily a so­ r. Allentown, Penna.; two sons, John the Methodist denomination, pub­ ciatet! with the State University. Gale, and David Reid. lished by the Boston Wesleyan Asso­ Laramie is situated 7,200 feet above Mr . John Woolman Brush (Hilda ciation. This article is entitled, "Be­ sea leYel, where the atmosphere is so Gale). Two years, Mount Holyoke hind the Veil," and is a study of the rnrefied that one finds himself "pant­ College, r. Waterville, Maine; two life of Christina Rossetti, whose ing for breath", and where "the birds daughters, Deborah and Julie Hart. even are compelled to foot it." His death occurred forty-two years ago new adclre s is 501 South 10th Street, the 29th of December. "This delight­ Laramie, Wyoming. ful contribution gives us some of the fruits of her research in the Library Edward F. Stevens. 1898 N. W. Foss sends the following of Congress and in the British Mu­ clipping taken from the Cambridge seum of London. Some years ago, 1894 (Mass. ) Tribune of December 11, Mrs. Dennett travelled with her son, 1936: "H. M. GERRY HONORED who was a Pulitzer prize winner. Mrs. Annie Barnes was chosen to AT GALA RECEPTION ON LAST Mrs. Dennett is a contributor to nu­ represent the American Association EVENING" merous periodicals." Members of of University ·women on the commit­ "The Hotel Continental was the 1904 are very proud of Mrs. Dennett's tee to organize the recent Birthday scene last evening of a gala reception ability in literature. Ball for the President, celebrated in in honor of H. M. Gerry upon his re­ Ruby Emerson. Houlton. tirement as a secretary in the Y. M. C. A., to which he has been as ociated for thirty-nine years. 1905 1896 "Mr. Gerry's legion of friends gave Due to poor health Dr. Cecil W. Everett L. Getchell, professor in the the retiring Y. M. C. A. worker one Clark has given up hi medical prac­ English department of the Boston of the most impre sive testimonials tice in Newtonville, Mass., fo1· the University School of Education is di­ ever sponsored in this city. present. He has built up a large recting a course called "Present Day "The reception began at 6 :30 with practice in the Newton , and with Writers", for students of the college dinner at 7 o'clock. Short addresses cha1·acteristic energy he has given too but also open to the general public, were given by the following men : much of himself to the many relig­ during the second semester of the James L. Kelley, who spoke of Ger­ ious, social and philanthropic enter­ school year. ry's work with the Committee on prises in which he has been inter­ On Colby Night, H. Warren Foss Membership; Dwight P. Robinson, on ested. For years, he has been very entertained a local group of Colby Gerry's work with the Committee on active in the alumni groups of the THE COLBY ALUMNUS 23

college a we of the class so well and indirectly, Bob Baker. In this know. He has temporarily given up report I shall give some extracts from 1913 the work as class agent, but we hope Ernest Cole's letter. Says he: Ernest C. Marriner addressed the he i finding that the real vacation "It has been my firm intention to annual joint banquet meeting of the which he has so long needed i giv­ reply to every communication that I Augusta Parent-Teachers Association ing him renewed strength so that he 11ave received from you in the past, at Cony High School, Augusta, on can soon take up again the interests but you know how these good inten­ January 24. so near to his heart. He can be tion get put off from day to day and reached through his Newtonville ad­ :finally lapse." (I sure do, old chap, dress, although when this is published and also the adage in regard to the 1916 he may be clown in the sunny South. paving of the streets in a certain C. E. Dobbin served as Vice Presi­ Davw K. Arey. well-known torrid town but I am dent of the American Association of grateful for the good intmtions just Petroleum Geologists, 1936-1937. the same. ) "My silence during the 1911 past few years should not be inter­ Edward E. Roderick, who holds the preted as any lack of interest in position of deputy commi sioner of Colby or that I have dropped out of 1919 the Maine Department of Education, sight. It ha merely been that I Edward C. Dunbar, ex-'19, is pas­ was a recent speaker at the Univer­ wasn't in a position to do much and tor of the Flemington Baptist Church, sity of Maine during "Vocation consequently have waited until I Flemington, N. J. Week." could write the kind of message I Delber W. Clark is rector of the wanted to send. I wish I could be at Episcopal Church of Coxsackie, N. Y. Commencement this year, but that is His family consists of his wife and impossible. But already I am laying 1920 son, Robert Hugh, age 12, who is a plans to attend our 25th (what a long Alice A. Han on is teaching- in member of the choir of the Cathedral time ago ) next year. Give my re­ South Paris, Maine. of St. John the Divine, Ne_w York gard to all the boys and I shall look Eleanor Seymour Jutras i living at City. forward v.·ith much pleasure to our 213 Third St., Scotia, New York. Delber mentions as his hobbies reunion next year." Robert Harvey Vondle's new acl­ paleontology, genealogy of Hudson Ernest is still connected with the dres is Box 438, Bayville, N. Y. He River families, and oil painting. Child Welfare League of America of has a son and a daughter and is James Corey Richardson is General New York. He is a commuter and teaching music near Oyster Bay. Agent for an insurance company in his address is 61 Niagara St., Du­ Ula Orr Clark is teaching in Hill­ Atlanta, Ga. His home address is mont, N. J. He didn't give us much side, N. J. 1087 Virginia Avenue, N. E. of a per onal nature but I am surely Can any classmate supply the pres­ glad he took the time to write as will ent address of Frank D. Walker ? be all his classmates ·who read this. 1921 Mail sent to him at the last known News from the others will have to Irene Gushee Moran, and Mae address, Hampton Roa.els, Virginia, has wait. Wish some of you fellows who Greenlaw Cook, '22, spent a month on been returned. intended to write me last spring a cruise to various ports in the The address of your Class Agent would do so now so that I might have Caribbean and visited parts of Central will be 309 West Monte Vista Road, more grist for my "colyum." We are America recently. Phoenix, Arizona until further notice. all interested in each other I am ure Bernard E. E ters represented the Items intended for publication in the and though you may not feel you Houlton Chamber of Comm�erce on Alumnus should be mailed to reach have anything of importance to write the committee recently organized to him not later than the 5th of the we hall all be glad to hear from you. arrange for the celebration of the month. News about any member of I can hardly expect to emulate my Birthday Ball for the President. the class will be much appreciated. distinguished contem-porary, Walter Neil Leonard, representing the Ralph E. Nash. Winchell, but I will gladly pass on to State banking department (Mass.) re­ the cla s any news you send, "blessed cently won a $3,000,000 case in which events" and all. four Massachusetts trust companies 1912 Walter J. Rideout. were involved. Not much news from the men of Pearl Mitton is now in better health the class this year. Ruth Hamilton than when we met last summer. She Whittemore has been doing a good has need to be. "A roomer, a boarder, 1922 job for the girls. Ruth and I had a a nurse, a maid, an invalid and a Dr. Asa Adams of Orono was one conference in Lewiston in regard to seventy-two year old father for fam­ of the speaker at "Vocation Week" plans for the Twenty-fifth Reunion ily. Every one a care". Adel to that held recently at the University of of 1912 which comes as you all know her regular job as bookkeeper for a Maine. next June. Option has been secured Caribou firm and the necessary trips on what we think is the best place for to Boston for treatment become al­ a reunion near Waterville, through most pleasant vacation periods by 1923 Cecil Goddard. and the first step has contrast. Mr . Bernard E�ters represented been taken for a successful get­ Adelaide Klein Jackman has "a the Woman's Club on the committee together. The present plans call for campus minded family. Hope, a organized for the celebration of the attendance at the College Play in the freshman, Bill, a senior and Jack just Birthday Ball for the President held afternoon, trip to· the rendezvous, :first in Houlton. clas dinner and then a good long a Prof." Incidentally, Adelaide is social evening for renewing old president of the local Woman's Club friendships and bringing the class his­ and enjoys a group now reading the tory down to date. Wives and hus­ stories and plays of Schnitzler. 1924 band are welcome and class babies Lillian and Arthur Schubert a.i-e Word from Johnny Howard ays of any age. More about the plans added to the list of those who hope that he i now in Detroit, a manager of that branch of Paramount Pictures. later. to be present at our twenty-fifth re­ My SOS for news from the mem­ He was previou ly located in Indian­ union. bers of the class brought letters from apoli., and thi move we tward doubt­ Ernest Cole, Russ Lord, Doc Arey, Ruth Hamilton Whitterrwre. le,,s take Johnny one tep nearer to 24 THE COLBY ALUMNUS

Hollywood. He has seen "Nemo" 1931 Kent High chool. Hugh D. Be Foran, '23, several times and hopes teaching and coaching at the I to see something of George Nicker­ John Pollard rec ntly fractur d his wood chool, Lake Placid Club, son '24, who is at Cranbrook Schools, leg ·while playing hockey for the an­ He write. : "I seem to have not far from Detroit. ton town team against Wilton. H into the lap of luxury, on the c from which am now living. · is now principal of Canton High. I micl$t of the A