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Colby College Digital Commons @ Colby Colby Alumnus Colby College Archives 1974 Colby Alumnus Vol. 63, No. 2: Winter 1974 Colby College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/alumnus Part of the Higher Education Commons Recommended Citation Colby College, "Colby Alumnus Vol. 63, No. 2: Winter 1974" (1974). Colby Alumnus. 82. https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/alumnus/82 This Other is brought to you for free and open access by the Colby College Archives at Digital Commons @ Colby. It has been accepted for inclusion in Colby Alumnus by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Colby. • 4 J ' • 4 4 The Colby Alumnus Winter 1974 1 The College Seen? Katharine Graham is Lovejoy Fellow / WMHB switches to FM / Sigma Kappa Centennial 5 Authors 6 Marston Road and the Ten Lots by Marston }.forse 8 A Silence Deep and White ... President Bixler concludes his frank 10 Sports and whimsical account of his May flower Hill years, beginning 011 11 Class News page 13. 13 A Sense of Common Humanity by Julius Seelye Bixler 29 Class News 38 Milestones THE COVERS Front: The lonely campus was bisected by a single pair of footprints while the The Colby Alumnus / Volume 63, Number 2 / Winter 1974 students were on an extended Christ Published quarterly / fall, winter, spring, summer/ by Colby College mas break, made expedient by threat Editorial Board / Le lie Anderson '71 and Richard N. Dyer ened heating oil shortages. Back: Silent pines and sifting snow Design and Production / Donald E. Sanborn, Jr. and Leslie Anderson '71 form a backdrop for the Roberts Photography/ Dick J\faxwell and Leslie .-\nderson '71 Memorial stone, moved to the new Letters and inquiries should be sent to the editor, campus in i963, and a portion of the change of address notification to the alumni office wood-rail and granite-post fence that Entered as second-class mail at Waterville, l\Iaine bordered the old campus a century Postmaster, send form 3579 to and a half ago. Photos by Leslie The Colby Alumnus, Colby College, Waterville, Maine 04901 Anderson '71. Mrs. Graham Selected volved; the first to describe 'laun intrinsic part of the Nixon cam Lovejoy Fellow dering' of campaign money in i\Jex paign; the first to trace the \\'ater ico; the first to involve former gate affair to the very doors of the Katharine Graham, the deceptively Attorney General John 1• Mitchell; President's Oval Office - to his demure and diffident-appearing the first to explain that political \Vhite House chief of staff, H. R. publisher of the Washington Post espionage and sabotage were an Haldeman." who has been described by her 1\Irs. Graham feels she deserves senior editor as having "the guts of no special credit. "I was surround a burglar," has been named the ed by about IO editors who would recipient of Colby's 1973 Elijah n't back off," she said in an inter Parish Lovejoy Award. She will be view with the Christian Science honored at the college's annual 1'1onitor. But it was Katharine Lovejoy Convocation on \Vednes Graham alone who gave her staff day evening, March 20. Mrs. the go-ahead to continue unravel Graham ascended to the presidency ling the \Vatergate web despite the of the Post empire (which, besides attack against the Post launched by the Washington newspaper, in the administration. cludes Newsweek magazine, three radio-TV stations, and a Nova Architecture Exhibition Scotia paper company) in 1963. The award selection committee The Museum of Art has received a made its judgment on the basis of $12,500 grant from the Maine Bi "integrity, craftsmanship, character, centennial Commission to assist in and courage." The Post's role in presenting an exhibition of Maine breaking the Watergate story was architecture in the summer and fall a lonely one. As] ames McCartney of 1976. The exhibit will be ac reported in the Columbia journal companied by a catalogue giving an ism Review (Summer, 1973), it was account of the development of ar "the first to make a connection chitecture in Maine over the past between the burglary and the two hundred years. White House; the first to show that Earle G. Shettleworth '70 will be Nixon campaign funds were in- the director of the exhibition and author of the catalogue. Currently The Switch to FM a permit. Jon and Barry Wilenski architectural historian of the '73 worked through the autumn The voice of Mayflower Hill is now Maine Historical Preservation months conducting engineering being heard as far north as Skow Commission in Augusta, Earle, a and program tests required by the hegan and as far east as Burnham Portland native, is well-known as FCC to assure that WMHB's fre since WMHB-FM, 91.5 on the dial, a writer and lecturer on Maine quency would not interfere with took to the air in January with an architecture. local radio and T.V. reception. average receiving radius of ten A committee to advise and assist Beginning its morning long be miles. The new station, with in the organization of the exhibi fore sunrise, the station broadcasts studios, transmitter, and antenna tion has been formed, composed of until mid-morning and resumes in Roberts Union, has been granted artists, architects, historians, and programming in the early after a Class D noncommercial license by members of the Colby faculty. For noon. Student volunteers keep the the FCC. several years the art department has records spinning until two or three Groundwork for an FM station been gathering material for this A.M., with programs ranging in to replace the AM station trans- exhibition, which will consist main content from bluegrass to Bach, mitted through the campus elec and from popular music past and ly of enlarged photographs but will trical system (former students will present to Puccini. also include original plans, details, remember hearing rock music blar and drawings of non-existing build ing over telephone dial tones, and Some students living in Foss or ings. When the exhibition opens one girl in Mary Low claims to \Voodman or on the "back" side of in the new Colby galleries, the have picked up a hockey broadcast Dana were unable to pull in overall development of Maine on her electric toothbrush) began WMHB-AM at all. WMHB's new architecture will be made visible in 1971, when Jon Le Veen '73 be voice is being beamed not only at for the first time. gan negotiations with the FCC for the far end of campus, but also Treasurer's Report More than $400,000 was added to the Colby endowment funds during the 1972-73 fiscal year, according to figures released by Dane J. Cox, treasurer. In his printed annual report to the president and trustees, Cox noted the market value of endow ment funds investments on June 30, 1973, was $27,898,772, which was $5,932,376 above book value. The average rate of return on the book value of endowment funds was 4.83, the �ame as for 1971-72. Total student aid allocated dur ing the year was $1,038,813. A breakdown of the figure indicated the following amounts and cate gories; $92,410 in student loans, In January of 1964 Vice-President Gerald Ford, then U.S. Representative from $162,390 in student employment Michigan, was brought to Colby by Student Government. In his address the and $784,013 in scholarships, Republican congressman took issue with the "effort on the part of many people grants, and prizes. to downgrade the legislative branch and place a halo over the executive branch of the federal government." Tabbed by President Eisenhower as a "possible Copies of the full report are future candidate for high office," Vice-President Ford here talks with Student available from the treasurer's Government president Steve Schoeman '64, right, now a New Rochelle, N.Y., office. lawyer and president of the New York Alumni Association, and President Strider. 2 beyond to surrounding communi ties, reaching many off-campus stu dents and other area listeners. So far the only person unhappy with the new broadcasting setup is that girl in Mary Low who has had to trade in her electric toothbrush for an FM radio... President Strider As outgoing chairman of the Asso ciation of American Colleges, Pres ident Strider was interviewed by The Christian Science Monitor's education editor Kenneth G. Gehret in the issue of January 21. The article, "New Twist on Stu dent Aid," discussed the growing trend among states of providing grants to students in private col leges. "It is terribly important for the private institutions to survive. For them to fail would be not only a calamity intellectually, but finan cially as well," the president is quoted. "Think what it would cost the taxpayers to make up a big share of educating these young men and women." He added that the value of the private college goes far beyond tax savings. "The inde pendent colleges offer diversity and pluralism in higher education, and they carry out the educational ex periments that later find their way into public institutions." When the president relinquished the reins as chairman of the Associ ation of American Colleges at its annual meeting in St. Louis, the Central Maine Morning Sentinel, in an editorial entitled "Congratu lations, Dr. Strider," commented: "As far as higher education is con cerned, the AAC is as prestigious a group as exists in the United States. In 1874 Colby's first five women students banded together to form Sigma Kappa, That it should be headed by a col now celebrating its centennial with 98 college chapters and over 56,000 members.