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SPRING ALONG ENGINEERING ROW MICHIGAN STATE COLLEGE Commencement Speaker LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Feb. 8, 1952 4. There seems to be a disregard for the opinion Dear Editor: of experienced chemical engineers outside of the Your invitation to write and express opinions state of Michigan, when 40 per cent of the engi­ is surely typically American and I feel that it neering graduates earn their livelihood out of is this spirit which is raising M.S.C. to the top. the state. . . . The editor and staff need to be highly com­ Very truly yours, mended for an excellent publication which is Harlan G. Bogie, '25 most eagerly received by alumni. However, as 17630 Briar Avenue an alumnus of the college's short course, I'm Homewood, Illinois disappointed in not seeing any news regarding (Mr. Bogie's proposal for a Dean of Chemical short course activities in the last issue. Engineering would make M. S. C. as brass heavy What are the chances of getting in THE as the Pentagon. Chemical engineering has been RECORD? on a departmental level — equal with engineering Cordially yours, drawing, and civil, electrical, mechanical and Donald Willison, sc'42 metallurgical engineering — since 1931. Although PAUL HOFFMAN: Outstanding Howard City, Mich. without an official head since the resignation of American leader will address the (Good point. Short coursers have the same Dr. David F. Smith last year, the department is chance of getting into print as any other alumni expected to have a new director in the near June graduating class in Macklin of M.S.C. Just let us know what you are doing, future.—Editors.) Field Stadium June 8. and we'll print it.—Editors.) January 30, 1952 Dear Editor: I see from the Jan. 15 issue of THE RECORD Alumni-Commencement Events that Dr. Hannah heads a committee investigating intercollegiate sports. Yet, in the same issue you further glamorize football by putting M.S.C.'s To Culminate School Year June 7-8 all-time All-Americans on the cover. A steady budding of green along the Memorial Chapel will be held at 2 p.m. People don't simply de-emphasize without a Red Cedar River is an everyday reminder Saturday, immediately following class re­ substitute emphasis first. that East Lansing is nearing a significant union banquets. Harold Gasser, '23, Please allow me to start an all-time "All- American" cover for THE RECORD by emphasiz­ date. president of the Alumni Advisory Coun­ ing Spartans who have really made contributions. Alumni Day-Commencement week-end cil, as spokesman for the alumni, will For the number one spot, I nominate Liberty- is just around the corner. More than make the formal presentation of the Hyde Bailey. Who will nominate the second? 1,000 graduates are expected to return chapel to President Hannah and Michi­ Sincerely, gan State College. Roy L. Donahue, '32 to the campus Saturday, June 7 for tra­ Box 5763 ditional Alumni Day festivities. Regis­ Estimated 2,100 Will Graduate College Station, Texas tration will begin the Friday preceding, Many alumni will be staying on for with a meeting of the Alumni Advisory Commencement, June 8, some to watch March 5, 1952 Council scheduled in the afternoon. Dear Editor: sons and daughters graduate, others to ... I believe that all readers of this magazine Patriarchs Honor '02 Class hear an outstanding American deliver should know that while Michigan State has ad­ the Commencement address. vanced in many ways, one matter has been kicked Highlight banquets Saturday will around by the administration for nearly 27 years. honor the classes of 1927 and 1902, cele­ He is Paul Hoffman, director of the This concerns the accrediting of the M.S.C. chem­ brating their silver and golden anni­ Ford Foundation. Hoffman is best known ical engineering curriculum by the Engineering for his directorship of the Economic Co­ Council for Professional Development and/or versaries. The class of '02 will enter the the American Institute for Chemical Engineers. Patriarch's circle this year and will be operation Administration through a period of great importance in the re­ There is not time in this letter to review all honored at the Patriarch's banquet given of the correspondence which has taken place in the Union by President John A. habilitation of war-torn areas. He is a between myself and college officials with no re­ Hannah. past president of Studebaker Corp., sults, but the letters boil down to these facts: serving in that capacity from 1935 until Traditional class reunion banquets 1. As far as I have been able to determine, 1948 when he was appointed to head Saturday will be held in the M.S.C. there is presently no Dean of Chemical Engineer­ ECA by President Truman. ing. Union. Reunion classes this year are all An estimated 2,100 seniors will receive 2. No inspection by the E.C.P.D. and/or those ending in two and seven (1902, '07, their diplomas at Commencement cere­ A.I.Ch.E. has been requested for several years. '12, '17, etc.). 3. The provincial attitude of college administra­ monies, which will begin at 5 p.m. in tors denies the importance of this matter. Dedication ceremonies of the Alumni Macklin Field Stadium.

THE RECORD Vol. 57—No. 3 ALVIE L. SMITH, Editor April 15, 1952 JOHN C. LEONARD, '48, and RICHARD J. DANDENEAU, Associate Editors STARE H. KEESIER, '41, Director of Alumni Relations; GLADYS FRANKS, '27, Recorder; FRED W. STABLET, Sports Editor; EDWARD M. ERICKSON, '48, Assistant Sports Editor; JOHX MCGOFF, '50, Assistant Director of Alumni Relations; MADISON KTJHN and JOSEPH G. DUNCAN, Historians; JOHX W. FITZGERALD, '47, Agricultural Editor; MRS. BARBARA CAHOON, Artist; W. LOWELL TREASTER, Director of Information Services. Campus photos this issue by EVERETT HUBY, RAY HUBY, BOB BROWN, and JOHN RANDALL, '52. Member of the American Alumni Council, THE RECORD is published seven times a year by THE DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION SERVICES, Michigan State College. Entered as second class matter at East Lansing, Michigan, under the Act of Congress, August 24, 1912. MSC's Basic College Is Revised; New MSC Fund chairman First Changes Planned for Fall Term Spartan alumni have long been cake 12 credit hours in this area. familiar with Michigan State's pro­ Social Science: This course, again, in­ gram of self-evaluation and revision to volves the combining of two existing make a better university. Most signi­ basics, Effective Living and Social Sci­ ficant evidence of this process in recent ence. It is scheduled to begin fall term, years has been a major revision of the 1953. It will carry 12 hours credit. Basic College, part of which will go into Humanities: History of Civilization effect next fall. and Literature and Fine Arts, the present Modifies to Four Courses basics in the area, will be combined with Essentially, the modification amounts the best from each preserved. Scheduled to taking the best material from the for fall, 1953, it will be taken for 12 present seven basic courses and concen­ hours credit. trating it in four core courses to be Three Principles Govern Decision required of all students, according to Basic College students now are re­ Dr. Clifford E. Erickson, dean of the quired to take Written and Spoken Basic College. English and four of the other six basics. Modified basic courses will line up as The 45 hours of credit now required follows, although the names of the in basic work will remain unchanged courses are tentative: under the new set-up. Lewis A. Smith, '14 Communication Skills: This course Three principles governed the decision will be a revision of the present Written of the college to make the revision. Four Graduates Named and Spoken English course, and will be First, a need was met to decrease the taken for nine credit hours. It will go number of individual courses students To High Alumni Posts into effect next fall. must take in their first two years. Sec­ Four men have been named to high Natural Science: The best features of ond, the college wanted to make available offices in Michigan State College alumni the present Biological and Physical Sci­ to all students the strong points of the affairs. They are Harold Gasser, '23; ence courses will be combined into the Basic College, a system of general edu­ Lewis A. Smith, '14; Hazen Stevens new course, which also will begin in the cation tested for the past eight years w'42; and Earl Webb, '12. fall, 1952. Students will be required to through experimentation and research. Gasser, who is sales manager of Kelsey Finally, M.S.C. believes that a general Hays Wheel Corp., Detroit, has been education program must give students' elected president of the Alumni Advisory William H. Berkey Dies a common core of knowledge on which Council. Parallel­ to build their vocational spev ialties. ing his successful In Cassopolis March 22 Intensive Study Precedes Change rise in the busi­ ness profession is Newspaper publisher, business man, Though the present modification of the basics was the result of an intensive a long record of civic leader are titles that would describe active participa­ William H. Berkey, 78, who died in six-month study, a constant eva^ation program has been carried on in that tion in alumni af­ Cassopolis March 22. But he was much fairs. He was more. school since its founding in 1944, Dean Erickson said. president of the Born in Pennsylvania, Mr. Berkey lived Oakland County in Cass county since 1875. He founded Actually, modification of the Basic College is only a part of the larger pro­ Alumni Club in the Cassopolis Vigilant in 1892 and was 1947 and is also its publisher until 1948 when he retired gram of curricular reorganization and improvement for the whole university. Gasser on the Board of because of illness. Trustees of the He served as chairman of the State Michigan State College Fund. Board of Agriculture, governing body High School Students, Smith has been elected chairman of of the college, for six years, and as a the M.S.C. Fund Board of Trustees. He member for 18. His service to the col­ Parents to Visit Campus is vice-president of the Coventry Corp. lege came during the period of its great­ and Southfield Co., both of Detroit. est growth and development. William H. Many Spartan alumni will be among Webb and Stevens have both been Berkey Hall at Michigan State stands in an estimated 1,000 parents of Michigan elected to the Alumni Advisory Council. his memory. State College, expected to attend the Stevens, a partner in Stevens' Brothers Mr. Berkey was a past president of second annual Parent's Day on the Van Lines of Saginaw, will represent the Michigan Press Association, and as campus May 10. District Eight. A Distinguished Alumni chairman of the Association's legislative Parents' Day will be one of the three Award recipient in 1947, Webb replaces committee devoted much of his life to programs scheduled at M.S.C. during Ray Turner, '09, retired. the problems of his profession. the week-end of May 9-10-11. Other Briefly this describes William H. programs include High School Visitation Berkey's professional life. But he was Day and the Engineering Exposition. the order of the day in most M.S.C. much more, as Gene Alleman, executive Some 500 high school students from schools and departments. secretary of the Michigan Press Associ­ all parts of Michigan will attend High Speakers, exhibits, information and ation, wrote: . . . "The newspaper fra­ School Visitation Day this year. The counseling will be the feature attractions ternity will long remember his loyal program is designed to give high school of the annual Engineering Exposition. services. . . . He gave generously, most students a glimpse of college in pro­ All engineering laboratories and class­ of his useful life, to help others." gress. Open houses and exhibits will be rooms will be open to the public.

APRIL 15, 19 5 2 . . . . 3 Home f c Alumnae Day Architect's Drawing of Animal Industries Building Set for Campus May 17 Home economics graduates will cele­ brate their fourth annual Alumnae Day on campus Saturday, May 17. The program will begin with a coffee hour in the morning followed by a pro­ gram on new developments in home equipment, textiles for clothing, and home furnishings. A group luncheon will be served at Kellogg Center with a tour of the new building first on the agenda for the afternoon program. Interesting and im­ portant research performed in the Department of Foods and Nutrition will round out the afternoon program. In response to suggestions made at last year's Home Economics Alumnae Day, the May program will offer alumnae information they may find useful in their homes and jobs. FOR IMPROVED TEACHING AND RESEARCH: College officials have requested funds from the Michigan Legislature to begin construction on this College's First Home proposed animal industries building to house the Departments of Animal Hus­ Economics Dean Dies bandry, Dairy and Poultry Husbandry. These three departments serve the state's livestock industries which produce about two-thirds of Michigan's agri­ Maude Gilchrist died at Friendship cultural income. Haven, Fort Dodge, la., Feb. 29. The three departments are now separated from each other. College officials Fifty years ago when Maude Gilchrist say that the animal industries building would aid in coordination of the closely came to M.A.C., Home Economics was related projects of the three departments. One building, they say, would econ­ "Domestic Economy," and Morrill Hall omize on construction costs and make use of an excellent building site now was the "Women's Building." Morrill available on South Campus. Fully equipped facilities for teaching and research Hall was home will mean better training for agricultural occupations and better livestock for the 60 women products for every Michigan consumer. students on cam­ pus, and housed the classrooms and offices for Scientists Perfect New Time-Saving women's course. Miss Gilchrist Methods of Once-Over Soil Tillage was appointed By JOHN W. FITZGERALD, '47 Savings up to three dollars an acre over Dean of Women's Courses in 1901. Once-over tillage, a method of seedbed conventional tillage are possible. Eleven years fitting that cuts time and labor, is now Soil scientists have worked out once­ Gilchrist later, when "Do­ being recommended to farmers, follow­ over tillage equipment that can be mestic Economy" ing tests at M.S.C.'s Agricultural Experi­ adapted by any farmer with average courses became the Division of Home ment Station. mechanical ability. The device includes Economics, she became first dean of the Another important advantage, soil a spike tooth drag, mechanical lift, new division. scientists say, is that soil structure is sweeps and seed delivery, and other Miss Gilchrist was at M.S.C. 12 years. maintained. For some time, researchers features. She was instrumental in the founding have known that too much tillage packs Plans for once-over tillage equipment of Omicron Nu, national home economics the soil and prevents water from pene­ are available from the Department of professional society, and was prominent trating to plant roots. Agricultural Engineering for 15 cents in Lansing and East Lansing affairs. She Principles Are Simple to cover cost of processing. viewed and played an active role in the Principles of once-over tillage are evolution of education for women. simple. Often, tillage operations are not Outstanding MSC Alumni Maude Gilchrist had friends and eliminated but merely combined. More esteem. When she celebrated her 90th equipment is added behind the tractor, Appear on Hort Series birthday last Dec. 29, more than 350 resulting in fewer trips over the field Michigan State students in horticul­ letters from Denmark, Hawaii, South to prepare a seedbed. ture are getting a chance to hear out­ America and many parts of the U.S. Yields from once-over tillage are as standing alumni in the profession who greeted her. A women's dormitory at high or higher as those from conventional speak on the Harry J. Eustace Lecture Michigan State is named in her honor. tillage methods. Series. Alumni who lectured this winter Born Dec. 29, 1861, in Cedar Rapids, In all cases, the once-over operations were Dr. Eustace, '01, Ernest Hart, '14, Iowa, she received her education from resulted in fewer trips and consequently C. C. Taylor, '09, J. Allen Petrie, '14, Iowa State Teachers College, and her maintained soil structure. Fred Granger, '14, Portor Taylor, '15, post graduate work from the University High costs of farming operations make Dr. M. J. Dorsey, '06, and Dr. Irving of Michigan. once-over tillage even more important. Woodin, 13.

4 .. . . THE RECORD England's Most Successful Farmer Alumnus Invents New Midget Salt Plant Succeeds in Bout With Socialism Not long ago W. Arthur Tobey, '21, George Odium graduated from Michi­ cracy. He had, indeed, beaten the British and William Farnsworth had an idea. gan Agricultural College in 1900. After Socialist state. . . . Why not make an economical, easy-to- farming in Michigan for a time, he went "Mr. Odium now lives on a five-acre build midget salt plant which can be to South Africa as agricultural advisor lot, which is too small an area to come easily transported to remote parts of for the British South Africa Company under the jurisdiction of Agricultural the world? and the Rhodesian government. Committees. He spends considerable The idea worked its way through the Later he managed an agricultural time writing on genetics, and frequently Manistee Iron Works where Tobey is operation in Honduras employing 8,000 speaks for the British Broadcasting Cor­ a vice-president. people, and another employing 4,000 peo­ poration on agricultural subjects. In the ple in Kenya, South Africa. By the time Conservative periodical, the New English he was ready to settle in England in Review, he is described, in the words 1926, Odium had been agricultural ad­ of Gray's 'Elegy' as visor for some 35 governments through­ Some village Hampden, that out the world. with dauntless breast His Farm Was a Showplaee The little tyrant of his fields In England he built a 900-acre farm withstood. at Manningford in the county of Wilt­ "If this modern British Hampden shire. His farm became a showplaee happens to have been born in America, ^^^^•k m^mSXt cen£ the space re- attracting visitors from all over the what matter ? More power to the country Tobey quired in conven­ world. He developed one of the great that bred him, and the Michigan Agri­ tional salt plant Holstein Friesian dairy herds of the cultural College which sent him out into operation. Simple design and high heat world; bred Faith Jan Graceful, who the world—a man whom petty tyrants recovery make the plant low on operating later established a world's lifetime record have reason to fear. It is hoped that with and maintenance costs. by producing 267,304 lbs. of milk. the return of a Conservative govern­ Two Units in Operation George Odium became England's most ment in Great Britain the freedom for Ideas travel. Already new "package successful farmer. He sold his bulls at which Mr. Odium fought will be returned salt plants" are being used in Venezuela a uniformly low price to improve dairy to the farmer in full measure." and Brazil. Four more units are pro­ production in England, and during the jected for South America, and interest war converted two thirds of his farm is keen in Greece, Israel, Portugal and to the production of much needed grains. half a dozen other countries. After the war, socialism came to Eng­ The new plant will produce a capacity land. The Wiltshire Agricultural Com­ of 24 tons of salt daily, and low cost mittee told Odium to convert all of his of operation allows as low as 10 tons farm to grain production and to dispense of salt refining per day. Most conven­ with his herd. This done, a committee tional plants require a daily capacity member wanted to know why the cows of 50 to 70 tons for efficient operation. had been sold. The dairy barns were ordered refilled. Domestic Interest High Sold Farm in Disgust Originally built for foreign use, the Odium had a question: why was his new plant has provoked widespread herd dispersed, and why the new order domestic interest. Executives from some to fill his barns with cows bought on the of the biggest salt producing plants in open market? A short time later the the nation have visited Manistee for a Minister of Agriculture for England look at the Tobey-Farnsworth "midget." approached Odium, offered to buy the Originally built for salt refining, the farm for his personal residence. Odium iron works engineer and retired chemist sold out in disgust. see far-reaching implications to their idea. It is believed their method can be These facts came to light when, after adapted to evaporate liquids other than the farm was sold, the Wiltshire Com­ salt brines, opening new possibilities in mittee published a report casting asper­ the chemical processing field. sions on Odium's capacity as a farmer. It read in part: "This farm was taken over last summer . . . and was in very Former Anatomy Head Dies poor condition, but now is showing excel­ Dr. Frank Wilbut Chamberlain, former lent crops." Odium sued the committee head of the anatomy department, died chairman for libel and won. March 16 at Edinburg, Texas. Dr. Cham­ Defeats British Socialism berlain, professor emeritus of anatomy In an article for The Freeman titled since his retirement in 1944, first joined "British Bureaucrats Kill Some Cows," the M.S.C. staff in 1911. George Winder concludes the story: He authored the book, "Atlas of Avian "The farmer from Michigan, U.S.A., Anatomy: Osteology, Arthrology and had beaten the Wiltshire Agricultural TOBEY'S MIDGET: It looks small Mycology." It is the only manual of its Committee. He had beaten the Minister and is, but it's still believed to be type in the fields of poultry science of Agriculture. He had beaten bureau- the smallest salt plant in existence. and veterinary medicine.

APRIL 15, 1952 . . . . 5 solved: Female Academies Are Bene­ ficial." The same question was debated at Yale University in 1769. The new twist in debating was the AFFAIRS OF STATE product of Dr. David Potter, associate professor of speech, dramatics and radio education, aided by Fred Alexander, de­ bate coach. cially and critically. Playing before Educationally, the purpose of the packed houses three nights consecutively, "ancient" debate was to give a historical it dealt with a portion of the life of portrayal of how debates looked, sounded King Henry VIII of England. and were conducted as early as 1750. With the Students The Carey name predominated the Four student debaters presented the production end of the play. Bill Carey, pros and cons of "Female Academies" Jim Mitchell, Grand Rapids senior, Charlevoix senior, played the part of to groups at Ovid and DeWitt. may be the ugliest man on campus, but Henry, and Richard Carey, British visit­ Taking part in the debates were to the charity organizations served by ing faculty member at M.S.C., produced Margaret Mower, Parma senior; Mrs. the Campus Chest his ugliness is worth the play. Howard Patterson, Flint senior; Irving $227.75. The first night performance was its Nelson, Kingston senior; and Thomas Jim, pictured below, recently won premiere in the United States. Hughes, Carleton, Texas, graduate stu­ the UMOC (Ugliest Man on Campus) Annual senior marriage lectures began dent. contest, spon­ this month under the sponsorship of Another adventure in debating landed sored annually by Mortar Board, women's honorary or­ varsity team members in Jackson State the Campus ganization. prison—only for a brief time, however. Chest. Ballots Purpose of the series is to give infor­ The team was invited by the Pro­ were in the form mation to seniors on some of the gressive Speakers' Forum of the prison of penny dona­ problems of marriage. Topics to be dis­ to give a demonstration debate. The tions to the chest. cussed by specialists in the fields are topic was "Resolved: That the United Jim's constitu­ psychological aspects, religious questions States Should Adopt a Permanent Pro­ ents kicked in and sexual adjustment. gram of Wage and Price Control." $227.75. Of the total While at the prison, the Michigan $1,693.51 in votes, Hoop Skirts and Wigs State team challenged the prison team other "uglies" to a future debate on some current topic, lined up as fol­ Debating team members dipped back according to Alexander who accompanied lows: into history last term to reconstruct an the team. 18th century debate. Duke Messenger, Detroit sophomore, Participants were Barry Buchoz, $208.76; Bill Kish, Flint senior, $194.23; The performance was complete with Grand Rapids senior; Leslie Russell, "Gas Constantini" (pseudonym), $147.41; all the trimmings — powdered wigs, Presque Isle senior; James Starr, Lan­ and Ted Bowman, Greensburg, Pa., buckled shoes and hoop skirts. Even the sing junior; and John Clingerman, senior, $142.99. topic was from the 18th century, "Re­ Lansing senior. "The Ugliest," who is a television major in the speech, dramatics and radio education department, should be able to use his physiognamy to good advantage in his chosen profession. Seven other students came into the news during the winter term, but they didn't fare quite so well. It all started when five Zeta Beta Tau pledges apparently got tired of the hazing they were taking from the ac­ tives. To even things up a bit, they took five active members to West Branch and left them stranded there. Not to be outdone, the actives notified state police that they had been kid­ napped, probably hoping to put the pledges in hot water. Later they told police that they had given false infor­ mation about being kidnapped. The police didn't think it was funny. They turned the seven over to college authorities for disciplinary action. Result: Zeta Beta Tau fraternity was placed on 10 weeks probation. TURN BACK THE CLOCK: Four members of the debate team turned back "Rose Without a Thorn," the winter the pages of history to present an 18th century debate. Powdered wigs and all term play was one of the most successful the trappings were present when the students argued the question, "Resolved: term plays in recent years, both finan­ Female Academies Are Beneficial," a topic debated at Yale University in 1769.

6 . . . . THE RECORD Heads World Meeting Waring on The Cedar Techniques in program building, ar­ rangements and other subjects will be President John A. Hannah was in considered by some 300 high school and Washington, D. C, this month as chair­ college choral directors who will attend, man of the International Conference on the special workshop. International Economic and Social De­ Michigan State's new Kellogg Center velopments. for Continuing Education will be the More than 1,000 delegates from several home of the conference staff and educa­ hundred organizations discussed prob­ tors participating. lems of underdeveloped areas in the Another summer music program will world at the three-day session. be the Piano Workshop for Class Piano, President Truman headed a list of May 23-24, under the direction of Dr. widely-known international personages Raymond Burrows, Teachers College, who served as speakers. Columbia University. In recent years, President Hannah has Primarily for teachers of music, the been active in international affairs, serv­ workshop will feature new techniques in ing for the past several years as a class piano. member of President Truman's Point Michigan State staff consultants on Four program. the workshop are Mrs. Elizabeth Schatz At the present time Michigan State and Frances Bannan, class piano spe­ has resident teaching and research staffs ON SUMMER STAFF: He will cialists. at South American agricultural colleges direct the Fred Waring Choral For high school music students, the and at the University of the Ryukyus on Workshop at Michigan State this seventh annual High School Three-Week Okinawa. summer, one of five Waring sessions Vacation Music Study will again provide being held in the U.S. the best in instruction, June 30 to New Course OK'd July 19. All aspects of music will be offered— After more than eight years of work orchestra, choir, band, ensembles for and preparation, the graduate program "Let There Be Music" voice and instrumentalists, theory, com­ of the Department of Social Service has position and private lessons in voice and Things will be "humming" in the music been accredited by the American Associ­ instruments. ation of Schools of Social Work. department come next summer with the The college's social service gradu­ Fred Waring Choral Workshop high­ ate program became the 58th member lighting three special music programs. school in the association, which includes Fred Waring and members of his Roy Decker Succumbs schools in the U.S., Canada, Puerto Rico "Pennsylvanians" staff will conduct a Roy E. Decker, head of the Department and Hawaii. The department is under five-day workshop of intensive choral of Farm Crops, died Feb. 19 in Edward the direction of Dr. Ernest B. Harper, study, July 21-25. W. Sparrow hospital, Lansing, after a and is in the School of Business and This is the second year that Waring month's illness. Public Service. and his group have gone to schools Pi-of. Decker joined the college staff Seeking admission to the association throughout the nation for summer work­ in 1919 as Eaton county agricultural in March, 1951, the college was visited shops. Michigan State is one of five agent, a post he by an accreditation committee. Final colleges conducting Waring workshops held for two approval was announced in March, 1952. this coming summer. years. He then The graduate program has been in became agricul­ operation since 1940, with the exception tural agent for of the war years. Undergraduate train­ Jackson county ing in social work began at Michigan On The Cover . . . until 1928 when State in the early 1930's. Is the Electrical Engineering he was appointed Five full-time faculty members and Building, completed in 1949, and one farm crops spe­ six part-time lecturers staff the two- of the School of Engineering's new­ cialist for the year graduate program. Graduates re­ est additions. Department offices and Cooperative Ex­ ceive a master of social work degree. classrooms of the Department of tension Service. Electrical Engineering are located Decker Professors Abroad here, and M.S.C.'s new Department From 1939 to of Television Development has its 1941 Prof. Decker Foreign lands are of chief interest to studio and offices on the fifth floor. was assistant state leader for agricul­ two Spartan professors—one having re­ The building's perfect natural set­ tural agents. In 1941 he became assistant cently returned from South America, the ting beside the Red Cedar River director of the Cooperative Extension other preparing to leave for Europe. makes for a fine picture, one which Service. He was appointed head of the Dr. Paul A. Herbert, director of the after winter's long blast, is a fitting Michigan State College Department of Division of Conservation, returned re­ welcome to spring. Farm Crops in 1944. cently from Colombia where he set up Spartan alumni of Michigan, in­ Widely-known in the field of agricul­ a forestry school, a state forest nursery cidentally, have the advantage of ture throughout Michigan, Prof. Decker and a research program. seeing campus scenes such as this was born in 1891 in Ligonier, Ind.; Dr. W. W. Heist, assistant professor every day. County agricultural graduated from M.S.C. in 1915; served of English and literature and fine arts, agents are displaying them in their with the AEF in World War I; and was will spend 1952-53 in Belgium studying offices throughout the year. Photo active in the Michigan and International under a fellowship of the Belgian-Ameri­ by John Beech. Crop Improvement Associations and can Educational Foundation. other professional organizations.

APRIL 15, 1952 . . . . 7 place conference finish would indicate, and should be just as good or better in the coming year. Press Box Report on New Captains Sonny Means, of Saginaw, and Gordon SPARTAN SPORTS Stauffer, of Fort Wayne, Ind., were elected co-captains of the 1952 Michigan j7\\ By FRED STABLEY and State basketball team at season's end. & VL BUD ERICKSON, '48 They were the starting guards. ished fifth in the Big Ten meet. Bob Star quarterback Al Dorow was named Carey, the conference shotput champion, "football player of the year" by the returned to action after basketball. Sports Guild of Detroit. It marked the The Spring Prospectus Capt. Dick Henson, crack dashman, who third straight time this honor fell to a missed the winter season because of a Michigan State player. Lynn Chandnois Strong performances in all four spring bad leg, should return. A number of won in 1950, and Sonny Grandelius last sports at Michigan State — baseball, youngsters like hurdlers John Corbelli year. track, tennis and golf—are optimistically and Henry Gillis and high jumper Jim predicted. Vrooman, all of whom placed in the Big Ex-Spartan Star Dies John Kobs' baseball team, which fin­ Ten indoors meet, figure to be improved. ished seventh in Big Ten competition If Coach Schlademan can revitalize the One of the first Michigan State foot­ last season despite a fine over-all record disappointing corps of middle distance ball greats, Parnell G. McKenna, '10, of 17 victories against nine losses, and and distance runners headed by Jim died Feb. 5 as a result of injuries suf­ Ben Van Alstyne's golf team, which Kepford, Mickey Walter and Dick fered when his car was struck by a took sixth in the conference meet after Jarrett, the team will be very tough. locomotive. compiling a 10-3 dual meet record, both Golf—Coach Ben VanAlstyne has Mr. McKenna starred for Michigan are expected to make improved showings. three proven veterans in Reggie Myles, State football teams in 1908 and 1909, Tennis, in which Michigan State won Jr., Carl Mosack and Capt. Jack Zinn as captained the 1909 team, and was named its first Big Ten championship, and out­ a nucleus. Promising newcomers include outstanding athlete for that year. door track, in which the Spartans were Doug Hill, of Cincinnati, Ohio; Harold Mr. McKenna was born in Quinnesec, a surprising second in the championship Ware, of Mason; Ben Sydboten, of Pa- Mich., and after graduation from M.S.C. meet, are expected to be strong once ducah, Ky.; Chuck Davenport, of Mid­ moved to Lansing to take a position with again. land; and DeNeal Hartman, of Fort the State Highway Department. He re­ A preview of the spring sports picture: Wayne, Ind. The Spartans were much turned to Quinnesec after his retirement Baseball—If professional scouts and stronger last season than their sixth from state employment in 1946. ineligibilities of players stop plaguing him, Coach Kobs should have one of his better teams. In Gus Carlson, Waltham, Mass., junior; Bob Dangl, Grand Rapids, Spartan Swimmer Makes History in Big Ten Meet Mich., junior; Roger Howard, Johnstown. Pa., junior; Don Quayle, Oxford, Mich., junior; Tom Lawson, Detroit senior; and Bob Carlson, East Lansing senior, Kobs has the nucleus of the best pitching staff in several years. Capt. Bill Bower is a tower of strength at catching. Other stand-bys are expected to be shortstop Joe Rivich and first baseman Bob Ciolek. A number of promising sophomores like outfielder John Risch, of Milwaukee, Wis., and pitchers Ernest Erickson, of Grosse Pointe, Mich., and Duane Frans- koviak, of Milwaukee, Wis., are expected to help. Tennis—New coach John Friedrich has the big chore of keeping his team right on top. His main task will be to replace the graduated Len Brose, Big Ten singles champion last spring and co-champion in doubles with John Sahratian. Sopho­ more Stan Drobac, of Milwaukee, Wis., may prove to be the answer. The Wis­ consin state champion last year, Drobac HE BEAT CLEVELAND: Charles McCaffree, Jr., left, Michigan State swim­ has been top man in workouts and likely ming coach, congratulates Clark Scholes, his free-style ace, after the Spartan will take over the number one singles star had defeated Ohio State's fabulous Dick Cleveland, right, in the finals spot, and team with Sahratian in doubles. of the Big Ten 100-yard free-style. Up to this time no one had defeated Cleveland Track—Coach Karl Schlademan's out­ since he came to the mainland from his native Hawaii. Scholes churned the doors team should be quite a bit stronger distance in 49.8 seconds, making him the third swimmer ever to break 50 seconds than its indoors counterpart which fin­ for the distance.

8 . . . . THE RECORD were Spieser and the great Chuck Davey, Spartan Athletes Set Their Sights four times an NCAA champion, in box­ ing; Howard Patterson and George On World Competition in Olympics Hoogerhyde in swimming; Maldegen and Lee Merrill in wrestling, and Weinacker By FRED STABLEY is an NCAA light heavyweight champion in walking. This is an Olympic year, and thousands who has improved quite a bit since his Alderman was on a winning relay of amateur athletes the country over 194^ Olympic days. Jed Black, a junior team, but one thing Michigan State can­ are working diligently in hopes of repre­ on the Spartan varsity team and an not yet boast is an individual Olympic senting Uncle Sam at Helsinki, Finland, NCAA champion, and Ernie Chaboneau, champion. Perhaps 1952 will be the year. this summer. Their efforts are quite '50, a past 112-pound NCAA champion, laudable. No greater honor can come are good prospects also. Erickson Takes New Post to an amateur Wrestling—Bob Maldegen, '49, a mem­ athlete than to ber of the U.S. Olympic team in 1948, Edward M. "Bud" Erickson, '48, assist­ compete for his is back in training again and ranks as ant sports editor in the Department country. one of the country's top heavyweights. of Information Services at M.S.C. since graduation, has accepted a position One Spartan He was National AAU champion in as assistant to coed already 1949. Dale Thomas, a 191-pounder work­ Van Patrick, bears the Olym­ ing on his doctorate at M.S.C. was famous Detroit pic stamp this National AAU champion at 175 pounds sportscaster, in year. She is in 1943, 1947, and 1948 while at Cornell airing Detroit freshman Ginny College, Iowa, and later at Purdue. Gene Tiger baseball Baxter, petite fig­ Gibbons, '51, NCAA 175-pound champion games this sea­ ure-ska ting ace last year; Orris Bender, team captain son. Baxter from Detroit, and Big Ten 165-pound titlist this year, who finished fifth and Bob Hoke, sophomore squad member Erickson will in her specialty in the Winter Olympics who last year won the National AAU serve as statisti­ at Oslo, Norway. 145-pound crown, are other good possi­ cian, spotter and bilities. general aide to A look at present and past Green and Patrick. The po­ White stars shows over a score to be Swimming—The big hope in swimming- Erickson sition is a year- top-flight candidates in five different is Clarke Scholes, senior on the team around proposition, with continuing sports—track, boxing, wrestling, swim­ and one of the world's great sprinters. duties out of baseball season. It com­ ming and gymnastics. Scholes, the Big Ten champion a year bines Erickson's sport—he was captain ago in the 50 and 100-yard free style By sports, leading hopefuls are: of the Spartan baseball team in 1948, events and also the NCAA champion in Track and Field — Walkers Adolph and his professional interest—he was a both, is the third man in swimming his­ Weinacker, '51, and Ernie Crosbie, '36, radio major in school. both veterans of the 1948 Olympic team, tory to break 50 seconds for the 100-yard sprint. In becoming the 1952 Big Ten Coming on as Erickson's successor is figure to make the grade again for the Theodore "Ted" Emery, sports publicity 5,000-meter event if they enter the com­ champion, he was timed in 49.8 seconds. director at Alma College for about six petition. Crosbie has been on three U.S. Bert McLachlan, Big Ten free style years. Olympic teams, in 1932, 1936, and 1948, champ last year and Bruce Aldrich, and regularly has been the first Ameri­ rapidly improving sophomore breast can competitor to finish. Bob Carey, a stroker, are also good prospects. Winter Record Tops senior in physical education and probably Gymnastics—It is possible that Michi­ M.S.C.'s greatest all-around athlete, gan State will land as many as four The 1952 winter spoi-ts team compiled could make the Olympic boat in the men on the Olympic team. Mel Stout, one of the best collective records in years. shotput. He is the current Big Ten cham­ '51, former Big Ten and NCAA champion Only one team—ice hockey—finished pion at 53 feet and was third in the in various events, and Bob Feldmeier, with a losing record, and most sports NCAA championships last spring. Bill current Big Ten champ in the horizontal showed strong winning habits. This Mack, '50, and Warren Druetzler, '51, bar, are the best bets. Others who could year's squads posted a collective winning are among the best distance men in the qualify are Carl Rintz, freshman all- average of .651, compared to .561 last country. Druetzler was NCAA mile around star, and Russ Paul, promising year. champion last spring and Mack won the sophomore performer. In Western Conference competition, NAAU indoor mile title last winter. Spartan teams finished in the upper These 22 Spartans appear to have division in all sports contested. Both have various chances to make the the best opportunities. They are follow­ U.S. team, including the 1.500 meters, ing in a tradition that extends back to WINTER SPORTS SUMMARY 5,000 meters and 3,000 meter steple- Harry Moon, an old Aggie star who Sport W L T Pet. Big Ten chase. John Corbelli, a sophomore, has ran for the United States in the 1902 one Olympic event well-suited to him, Basketball _ 13 9 0 .591 5 (Tie) Olympics at St. Louis, Mo., in the 100 *Boxing 6 1 1 .857 - the 400-meter hurdles, rarely run in this and 200 meters. In 1928, Fred Alderman country. Jesse Thomas, '51, is possibly ^Fencing 8 10 .889 - was a member of Uncle Sam's 1,600- Gymnastics 6 0 0 1.000 2 the nation's best in the hop, step and meter relay team which set a world's jump, another event rarely seen in this Hockey 7 13 0 .350 - record at Amsterdam. In 1932, Tom Swimming ... 8 2 0 .800 2 country. He also might figure in the Ottey won the U.S. tryouts in the 10,000 hurdles and dash events. Track 110 .500 5 meters and competed in this event in Wrestling _ 5 2 2 .714 3 Boxing—Chuck Spieser, a member of the Olympics. the Olympic team in 1948 and currently That brings us up to the moderns, Totals 54 29 3 .651 captain of the Spartan ring team, is the Crosbie in 1932, 1936, and 1948, and a best bet for another Olympic berth. He whole squad of others in 1948. There * Season not complete.

APRIL 15, 1952 . . . . 9 on Education Committee studying inter­ collegiate athletics.: "It was not our purpose to discourage or discredit college COVERING athletics," he said. "Our objective was merely to put college athletic depart­ ments on the same level with other col­ THE CLUBS lege departments, subject to the same By STARR H. KEESLER, '41 budget, policy rules and scholastic stand­ ards." Iron County Election the "Affairs of State." But the story Twenty-five members of the Iron doesn't end here. On the return trip County Alumni Club turned out Feb. 14 Toastmaster Frymire stepped from the to elect officers. New officers were: car, slipped, fell. Result: One dislocated George Devine, '39, president; Harry thumb. Full recovery is expected. Manson, '37, vice-president; and Art MICHIGAN CLUBS Otterbein, '26, secretary-treasurer. Lansing Alumnae Meet Washtenaw Winter Meeting Program for the evening included films Ann Arbor was the meeting place of of the 1951 NCAA boxing finals and A review of current Broadway plays 57 alumni and former students of Michi­ "Waves of Green," documentary film on was the program for Spartan Alumnae gan State at the Washtenaw County the growth of land grant colleges. of Greater Lansing, Feb. 13. Miss Mari­ Alumni Club's annual Winter meeting. lyn Mayer of the Department of Written Professor John Stone of the Extension Montcalm Alumni Meet and Spoken English, reviewed "Antony Service spoke on "M.S.C.'s Expansion Montcalm county alumni met Feb. 28 and Cleopatra," "Point of No Return," to Colombia and the Philippines." Music to organize a club scholarship program. "Top Banana," "The King and I," "Four and dancing entertainment for the eve­ Robert Stewart, M.S.C. director of schol­ Poster," "The Constant Wife," "Stalag ning was provided by the tap dancing arships, and Tom Dutch of the Placement 17," "Two on the Aisle," "Call Me sons of Wynn Wekenhut, '36, and a vocal Office, discussed "Opportunities through Madam," "Guys and Dolls," "Affairs of trio from the Dunbar Community Center. State" and "South Pacific." the Placement Office," and Jack Breslin, Charles Leverett, '43, club president, reviewed general college news. headed up the meeting. Hillsdale Dinner-Dance L. Dale Beardslee, '32, club president, "Television has made a terrific impact Saginaw Meetings directed the meeting. on the American home," James Tintera, President John A. Hannah met with Football at Barry and Tuscola of the Department of Speech, Dramatics 75 members of the Saginaw County and Radio Education, told club members Alumni Club in Saginaw on Feb. 13. Earl Edwards, Michigan State line of Hillsdale, Feb. 21. Tintera traced the President Hannah spoke on intercollegi­ coach; William L. Davidson, '13, M.S.C. rapid growth of the industry and the ate athletic difficulties and possible Fund director; and Jack Breslin were progress of television development at remedies. guests of 110 alumni and friends at the Michigan State for the 56 members in Jack Parker, w'42, program director Tuscola County Alumni Club meeting attendance. of radio station WSAM, Saginaw, intro­ Feb. 20. duced Dr. Hannah and Starr Keesler, Coach Edwards was introduced by Ken Mecosta-Osceola Election '41, alumni director. Priestley, '34, club president. Edwards The annual Winter meeting of the Officers elected were: Robert E. talked about current happenings in foot­ Mecosta-Osceola Alumni Club was held Adams, '41, president; Tom Bashers, '47, ball at Michigan State and narrated the in the Barryton Community Hall, Feb. 7. vice-president; and Mary Krause, secre­ Michigan State-Notre Dame game. Dav­ Fifty-two members attended the meet­ tary-treasurer. idson discussed the M.S.C. Fund, its aims ing to hear Coach "Duffy" Daugherty Two weeks previously, "Biggie" Munn, and purposes. review Michigan State's 1951 football Earl Edwards, and football players Don Elected to office were George Foster, season. Jack Breslin, '46, alumni field Coleman, Jim Ellis, Don Schiesswohl, '41, president; Robert Cartwright, "41, secretary, spoke to the group briefly on and Bill Boyd attended Saginaw County's vice-president; Hartie Barbour Mowdes- alumni club activities. Alumni Football Bust. Frank Walsh, ley, '41, secretary; and Mrs. Avis Officers elected were: Ceylon Caszatt, radio station WBCM's sports director, Eenkleman, '23, treasurer. MA '47, president; Fred Smith, '42, vice acted as toastmaster. Cne of the large turn-outs in history president; and C. L. Rose, '11, secretary- Special guests were the coaches and for the Barry County Alumni Club oc­ treasurer. players of Saginaw Arthur Hill, Bay City curred Jan. 28. Some 83 alumni and Central and St. Joseph High Schools. friends of Michigan State College wit­ Grayling Meeting Some of Michigan State's outstanding nessed film showings of the Notre Dame- Trouble seems to lead to more trouble, football players of by-gone days were Michigan State game and the Spartan- so the saying goes, and apparently that also in attendance: Verne Diekeson, Buckeye tussle. Jack Breslin discussed was the case for Alvie Smith, RECORD 1927-29, Al Vogel, 1923-25, and Oscar alumni club organization with the group. editor, Larry Frymire, '44, WKAR pro­ Miller, 1912-14. gram director, and John McGoff, '50, RECORD DEADLINES assistant alumni director, on their way Hannah Visits St. Clair to the Grayling meeting. About 120 alumni heard President All copy for THE RECORD Grayling is a long way from East Hannah praise the work of Port Huron should be in the Alumni Office five Lansing, but it's much farther by way Junior College and predict a new and weeks before each publication of Grand Rapids. These gentlemen didn't far more important day dawning for date. The magazine is published discover that fact until they were half­ the institution and others like it. Jan. 15, Mar. 1, April 15, June 1, way to GR! Hannah touched briefly on his report July 15, Sept. 15, and Nov. 15. Some 50 members heard Smith discuss as chairman of the American Council

10 . . . . THE RECORD Shiawassee Winter Meeting Mary Mayo alumnae group were enter­ send their names and addresses to Carl tained at a canape party at the home of Moore, '39, 3212 Cornell, Dallas, Texas. On March 3, 18 members of the Shia­ Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Treat, '34, and '35. wassee County Alumni Club turned out Movies in Missouri at Owosso for their annual Winter meet­ Arenac-Ogemaw Dinner Starr Keesler attended a meeting of ing. Roy Spiess, Jr., '40, club president, the St. Louis, Mo., Alumni Club Feb. 26. introduced William L. Davidson, who "The growth of Michigan State Col­ lege in a great sense, is dependent upon Mrs. William Prince, Jr., '32, club presi­ spoke on the work of the Michigan State dent, was chairman for the evening. College Fund. Jack Breslin discussed our youth and their attitudes," John McGoff told the Arenac-Ogemaw County Entertainment featured the showing the College Presidents' Committee report of "Postmark East Lansing," and two on athletics. Alumni Club Feb. 28. He pointed out the fallacies of shallow football films. Keesler was presented thinking by some adults and young peo­ with an honorary membership card in Calhoun Holds Dance ple in reference to the athletic scandals the St. Louis club by Louis Durkee, '49. Approximately 40 couples attended the that have plagued our nation. "Oversight Elected to office were Fred W. Moore, Calhoun County Alumni Club Winter or back-turning on these issues can de­ '25, president; Miss Ruth Chadsey, '32, dance, held at the American Legion Club stroy our whole way of living," he added. vice-president; Mrs. Magdalene Olson, House in Battle Creek, March 8. Dancing Bob Marshall, '34, club president, '32, secretary; and Louis Durkee, '49, to the music of Micky Mandjack and his stressed the importance of a new vigor­ treasurer. orchestra, alumni and friends enjoyed ous alumni club in the area. He urged a successful social evening. the development of new projects as a Eastern Clubs Meet stimulating force. Washington, D. C. — Eighty-eight Jackson Winter Banquet Washington members held their annual winter meeting. Starr Keesler spoke on Snow and wintery sleet couldn't keep OUT-OF-STATE CLUBS "College and Alumni News." Jackson alumni home Feb. 8. Two- Officers elected were Gordon Fox, '31, hundred and fifty crowded the Masonic Dallas Alumni Meet president; Sam Ketchman, U.S.A.F., '37, Temple to hear M.S.C. President Hannah Dallas alumni met Feb. 28 for an vice-president; and Mrs. W. C. Atcheson, speak on "Current Affairs of State." informal luncheon with Professor Roy secretary-treasurer. Starr Keesler reviewed activities of other Underwood, who was attending the Na­ Cincinnati, Ohio—The Central Y.M. alumni clubs in the state, and Mrs. tional Music Teachers Association meet­ C.A. was the center of activity for the Harold Mahoney, '28, alumnae club ing there. Cincinnati Alumni Club Feb. 29. Starr president gave an account of the wom­ Those attending expressed keen inter­ Keesler discussed campus affairs. en's organization and extended greet­ est in the affairs of Michigan State, and Cleveland, Ohio—Cleveland's first meet­ ings to all those in attendance. Prof. Underwood was kept busy answer­ ing in two years was held March 1, when ing questions regarding football team, 80 alumni met at the Carter Hotel in Kent Alumnae enrollment, new buildings, faculty mem­ downtown Cleveland. James La Du, '40, Beaumont and Campbell groups of the bers and other campus items. presided in the absence of Roland E. M.S.C. Alumnae Association of Kent Enthusiasm was expressed in organiz­ Minogue, '14, club president. County sponsored the second annual ing a Michigan State alumni club in Newly elected to office were Jack "Spartan Ball" held Feb. 8, in the Pant- Dallas. An organizational meeting is Coolidge, '38, president; Ture Johnson, lind Hotel ballroom. planned for this spring. All alumni living '37, and Barbara Bryant, '49, vice-presi­ Preceding the dance, members of the in the vicinity of Dallas are urged to dents; Leigh Harden, '39, secretary; and Margaret Leavitt, '45, treasurer. COMING EVENTS Eastern Club Meetings Six alumni clubs in principal eastern cities will hold meetings in April. Prin­ cipal speaker will be Starr Keesler, col- elege alumni relations director. He will present campus and football movies and talks on the current affairs of State. Club meetings and dates are Pittsburgh, Pa., April 14; Buffalo, N. Y., April 15; Rochester, N. Y., April 16; Syracuse, N. Y., April 17; Hartford, Conn., April 18; and Boston, Mass., April 19. Chicago Meet May 2 The annual meeting of the Chicago Alumni Club will be held Friday, May 2, at 8 p.m. at the Lake Shore Club, 850 N. Lake Shore Drive. Principal speaker of the evening will be M.S.C. President FORT KNOX REUNION: Twelve alumni got together recently at Ft. Knox, John A. Hannah. Ky. where they are attending Armored School. From left to right, they are, There will also be a short business first row, James A. Fessler, '50; Paul W. Morris, '49; Glenn Jeanero, '51; Jack meeting and presentation of the annual Dianetti, '50; Robert Neller, '50; and Harry Wagner, '51. Second row: Ron achievement award to the outstanding Linton, '51; John W. Fleck, '51; Duane Freeman, '51; F. R. Walters, '51; Ray senior from the Chicago area graduating Miller, '50; and Donald E. Bohnett, '50. from M.S.C. this June.

APRIL 1 5, 19 52 . . . . 11 Above: Prof, Joseph Cox (standing in doorway) and a class in farm crops, about 1916. Days of Yore By MADISON KUHN and .—•iiti;. JOSEPH G. DUNCAN

For three-quarters of a century a double row of elms has bordered the campus on north and west. When this picture was made at the turn of the century, the elms were growing tall beside the dusty road which carried visitors past the college. The location is near what is now the Bailey Street- Grand River Avenue intersection. From time to time there has been talk of removing the elms to permit widening the highway or to provide parking space. Once they were saved by locating a second lane on the campus side of the border. Now Grand River is to be widened, begining at the east end of the boulevard, but the elms remain secure. Without them the campus would lose a measure of its distinction.

• i i s a 8. m- First Annual field £)aj/,

Michigan Irjte-colIegiatB luetic j^ociatioq The insistence of Dr. W. J. Beal upon minute observa­ tion and his eternal question—"What do you see?"— helped to make distinguished scientists of many of his • MICHIGAN'-" AGRICULTURAL'-COLLEGE, * former students. Here is a botany class of the 'nineties, under the direction of Dr. Beal's assistant, C. F. Wheeler, seeking out plant secrets.

Intercollegiate athletics began at Michigan State on a win the M.I.A.A. championship. The student paper, The formal basis in the spring of 1888, with the first annual Speculum, reported that the crowd favored a student of Field Day of the newly organized M.I.A.A. Fifty army tents Hillsdale over one from Albion "for however much students were scattered among the trees to provide, with dormitories, admire athletic skill in these contests, they do not favor the housing for the 160 visitors who came from Albion, Hillsdale intrusion of semi-professionals who may gain entrance by and Olivet. a merely nominal fulfilling of the requirements." M.A.C. won its share of the events including the standing The field day events were held on the military parade broad jump, the backward jump, "running bases," high hand spring jump, shot put, hammer throw, high kick with both grounds west of the Old Armory (now site of Music Build­ feet, three of the five wrestling matches, one of the three ing). For many years prior to 1900, students played baseball boxing events, and the horizontal bar event. "Base ball" on those grounds as well as on sites north of the present was the major attraction of the three days, with Albion de­ Library and where the Administration and Home Economics feating Hillsdale and M.A.C. defeating Albion 10 to 8, to Buildings now stand.

12 . . . . THE RECORD Silver Anniversary Reunion '27 Alumni Day, June 7 Following his graduation June 10, 1927, Loyde Billman and his wife of two days went NedAM. to Washington, D. C, where he was employed by USDA, coming up to assistant chief of the processed products standardization and inspection division, fruit and vegetable branch, production and marketing administration. He's the fellow who helped to put the Federal shield with the wards "U.S. Grade A, Fancy" and "packed under the continuous inspection of the U. S. Dept. of Agriculture" on canned food labels. He wrote the first United States Standard for Grades of canned fruits and vegetables, and fol­ ABOUT THESE ALUMNI lowed with forty-some other Standards. In 1941 he left the USDA to become chief, subsistence By GLADYS M. FRANKS, '27 branch, Oakland Quartermaster Purchasing Agency, U. S. Army, Inspection Division, Oak­ land, Calif. His primary mission is to get food Patriarch's Reunion Glen Lake Blvd., Pitman, N. J., writes: "Am to the armed forces when and where needed. Alumni Day, June 7 enjoying retirement and finding time now for He and Mrs. Billman make their home in Berkeley a little reading and relaxation. Would enjoy 'ftl Kurt C. Babo is living on R. 1, Box at 1512 Beverly Place. Their daughter Beverly hearing from some of the old classmates." UA 498, Royal Oak, Mich. . . . W. M. is married and has one child, while their son Treadwell, landscape architect and engineer of 35th Anniversary Reunion Roger is in college at Berkley. Great Falls, Mont., writes: "Am spending my '17 Alumni Day, June 7 'OQ L. Paul Dixon has been appointed second winter in Florida. Expect to return to '1Q Dr. Edgar Anderson, professor of botany **" assistant vice president of the State my home in Montana by July 1 and may attend *™ at Washington University and assistant Bank in Gaylord, Mich., where he and Mrs. the 51st reunion of my class enroute." director of the Missouri Botanical Garden, has Dixon and their three children live at 215 S. 'flO Golden Anniversary Reunion been named to the board of selection of the Center. **• Alumni Day, June 7 Guggenheim Foundation. This board selects win­ 'ftft George H. Smith has the Rock Smith A. H. Case gives his new address as 1314 ners of Guggenheim Fellowships for research in Company, wholesale distributors for Hot- Rugby Rd., Charlottesville, Va. various fields. Dr. Anderson has twice received point electric appliances, in Davenport, Iowa, the award, in 1943-44 for research in California 'rtQ It was no coincidence that H. Ray where he lives at 3611 Jersey Ridge Rd. . . . and Mexico, and in 1950 for a project in Hon­ **** Kingsley made the Kingsley Hotel in Col. George L. Walker is stationed at Fort Meade, duras. London his headquarters on his recent European Md., with G-2 Section, Hq. 2nd Army. tour. He has no connection whatsoever with the Erma Preston Bridge (Mrs. Albert E. I 'ftft Willis Atwell was recently named execu- operation of the hotel, but is distantly related to '19 gives her new address at 306 S. Clarkson "*• tive secretary of the Grand Rapids Author Charles Kingsley for whom the hostelry St., Denver, Colo., and adds: "Even though I < Mich.» Community Chest. He began his associ­ is named. Mr. Kingsley reports that James W. haven't been in Michigan for 30 years I watch ation with the Chest in 1942 as director of Waber, retired inventor and business man, lives the school's progress with much interest." publicity and was assistant secretary before the in Chicago at 1020 W. 76th St. recent promotion. . . . Dr. and Mrs. George E. *9fi Dr" G,enn W- Del1' dentist of Newark, 'rtC George and May Butterfield Nichols •*• Ohio, was recently elected vice-president Bowler, of 620 Fifth St., Ann Arbor, announce "** have moved from Pittsburgh, Pa., to of the Newark Board of Education. the birth of their fourth daughter, Edith Anne, Jan. 19. . . . Meredith Clark, publisher of the Orlando, Fla., where they live at 919 Yates 'ft 1 On campus for a meeting, Wayne Ave. . . . Bessie Phillips Auten lives at 395 Pine- Vicksburg Commercial, has been named president ™" Crampton stopped at the Alumni Office crest Rd. N.E., Atlanta, Ga., but spends the of the Michigan Press Association for 1952. . . . recently to report of the activities »f his four winter months at Howey-In-The-Hills, Fla. John F. Gottschalk owns the Gottschalk Music children. His daughter Joyce is in her third year Service at 1617 J St., Modesto, Calif. . . Gayle '07 45tn Anniversary Reunion of nursing at Lansing's St. Lawrence hospital : Hunt, C.P.A., is resident manager of the Astoria, "' Alumni Day, June 7 William, who was in the army four years, is in Ore., office of Yergen and Meyer, accounting his second year of engineering at M.S.C. ; Richard, LeRoy Dorland and Mrs. Jo Allie Langston firm of Portland. He and Mrs. Hunt (Helen Grove, w'52, is serving in the Navy, while Thomas is in were married Jan. 12 and are living at 514 N. '32) make their home at 826 Beach Dr., Seaside, Tokyo with the air force. Wayne continues as Mesa Ave., El Paso, Texas. "20 miles south of Astoria on Pacific Coast county agent in Manistee, Mich. 40th Anniversary Reunion highway 101, should anyone come this way." . . . '12 Alumni Day 30th Anniversary Reunion Ruby Johnson writes that she is "teaching in '22 Alumni Day, June 7 the American schools here in Nurnberg, Ger­ '1 Q Keats K. Vining reports that classmates many, this year. The students are children of *" P. W. Wilhelm lives in Alexandria Bay, Caroll E. DePuy, who has been chief of the army officers and civilians that work here. We N. Y. ; Bartow J. White, manager of the S. S. building construction and repair division of the are in a very beautiful new building, built mostly Kresge store in Grand Rapids, lives at 3030 Lake Denver regional office, General Services Admin­ with American dollars. We have over 700 stu­ Michigan Dr. N.W. ; and Homer Ward is engineer- istration, has been appointed deputy regional dents enrolled and approximately 30 teachers." manager of the Allegan (Mich.) County Road director of public buildings service for GSA's Commission. region 10. This includes Oregon, Idaho, Mon­ 'ftl Col. William J. Meyer is deputy chief 'IP E. J. Menerey retired last Aug. 1 as tana, and Alaska. The division to which DePuy vi of staff for personnel at Headquarters, " vice president of the South Jersey Gas has been appointed designs, remodels and main­ Technical Training Air Force, Gulfport, Miss. Company and head of the company's Glassboro tains all government buildings. His headquarters He and Mrs. Meyer and their five children live division, posts which he has held since 1947. Mr. are in Seattle and he lives at 9016 W. Shorewood in Biloxi at 144 Concord Road. Dr., Mercer Island, Wash. Commander Menerey started work as a cadet engineer with 'ftft 20th Anniversary Reunion the Lansing Gas Com­ Harold Koopman was recalled to active duty in 1 1 * " Alumni Day, June 7 pany and was associ­ the Navy, spent seven months in Japan in 1951, ated with gas firms and after four months in San Diego, returned Major Elmont E. Criswell may be reached in Freeport, 111., and to Japan in December. Mrs. Koopman, the for­ in care of the office of the Area Engineer, Wilmington, Del., be­ mer Eileen Seble, makes her home at 385 Palm APO 34, New York City. . . . Mariam Holsapple fore becoming man­ Ave., Palm City, Calif. . . . Reid L. Rayner, Hamilton (Mrs. C. E.) lives at 142 W. 137th ager of the Peoples transmission maintenance engineer for Michigan Place, Hawthorne, Calif., where she is a registered Gas Company in Bell in Detroit, has moved into his new home nurse. Glassboro in 1928. at 18239 Westhampton. g*\A H. J. Greer and his wife and three When this became a 'ftft After more than 23 years with the **~ children have moved from Michigan to part of the South ••• Navy Department, L. C. "Pat" Davies 4320 Darsey, Bellaire, Texas, where he is em­ Jersey Company in is now with the construction and supply division ployed by Barada and Page, Inc., of Houston. . . . 1947 he was named of the Atomic Energy Commission. While his Cloyce L. Hankinson manages the Kentucky Ice vice president of the work takes him to various field installations, he Cream Company in Richmond, Ky. . . . Ruby Hoy new company. He is based in Washington, D. C, where he lives Sylvester is secretary to the field maintenance Menerey will continue as a at 3831 Livingston St. N.W. . . . George Irvine officer of Nellis Air Base, Los Vegas, New, where member of the board is milk market administrator for Detroit market­ her husband, Dr. Wilber W., has his chiropdy of directors. Mr. Menerey, who lives at 1115 ing area, and lives in Detroit at 12547 Pinehurst. and shoe service at 321 S. 5th.

APRIL 15, 1952 . . . . 13 'QC James H. Quelle director of public education, medical department. She has charge Armed Services Medical Procurement Agency in *'*' relations and advertising for radio sta­ of scientific exhibits and travels around the coun­ Brooklyn. . . . Gordon and Jean (Spicer, w'40) tion WJR, was recently named to the Detroit try attending all medical meetings. . . . George A. Lippert are living on Wake Island where he is Housing Commission. An Army major during Prescott II, of Tawas City, Mich., has been U. S. Weather Bureau meteorologist. World War II, Quello is active in Detroit vet­ appointed county clerk of Iosco County. Mary Asman Pagel, her husband Paul erans' affairs. . . . Iola Clark Mendham (Mrs. Alumni Day, June 7 '39 and their three children are living at 501 D. R. I writes they have purchased a 220 acre '37 u15t h Anniversary Reunion Princton Circle West, Fullerton, Calif. . . . farm five miles northeast of Romeo, Mich., where Major Donald P. Appling visited the Michigan George T. Koverly lives at 451 E. SanSalvador, they receive mail on Route 1. State Alumni Office in February and gave his San Jose, Calif., where he is property accountant for Food Machinery and Chemical Corp. . . . 'QC James L. Alvord is district personnel new address at 1705th ATG, McCord Air Force Robert L. Miller is chief engineer at American *J*J officer for the Chesapeake and Ohio Rail­ Base, Tacoma, Wash. . . . John R. Hamann is Ore Company's field office in Lovelock, Nev. . . . way Company, with offices in Union Station, assistant superintendent of the Detroit Edison Harold and Celine Borr Nitzburg and their two Grand Rapids, Mich. . . . Mr. and Mrs. Philip J. Company, and he and Mrs. Hamann (Lois children live at 9 Kirkstall Road, Newtonville, Baker, Jr. announce the birth of a daughter, Sherman) make their home in Grosse Pointe Mass., where he is sales promotion and mer­ Judith Eileen, Jan. 2. They live at 101 N. 36th Woods at 20021 Holiday Road. . . . William M. chandise manager of the Sears Boston group. . . . St., Terre Haute. Ind., where he is a research Henderson is a mortician with the Metropolitan Mr. and Mrs. Otto G. Smith announce the birth chemist with Commercial Solvents Corp. . . . Funeral home in Chicago where he lives at 5425 of their fifth child. Dale Eugene, Feb. 1. The W. A. Dexter, who manages the farm council Indiana Ave. . . . Dr. Robert S. Rey has a pet Smiths live in Union City, Mich., while Otto is division of United Cooperatives Laboratory, Ithaca, hospital in Del Mar, Calif. . . . Lt. Cmdr. Harry in the food processing division at Kellogg. N. Y., was on campus early in February for C. Willis is stationed at Port Hueneme, Calif., the 6th annual farm council meeting. . . . Col. at the Navy's CEC Officers School. 1 Af\ "I departed Indo-China 1 January Charles W. May, commanding officer of an artil­ 'QQ Major and Mrs. Ernest T. Kretzchmer, "* 1952," writes Lt. Col. R. F. Bayard who lery battalion reported missing in action in **0 of 16 W. 604 St., Orangeburg, N. Y., gives his new address as 76th Tank Bn., 11th Korea, is believed to be a prisoner of war. . . . announce the birth of Brian James, Dec. 10. Airborne Div., Fort Campbell, Ky. . . . Margaret Ruth Ryder is associated with the National Major Kretzchmer received his M.S. from Columbia Buechner Hill and her husband. Bob, have pur­ Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, 120 Broadway, University School of Business last year and is chased the Indian Hills golf course just east of New York City, in the division of professional now chief of the contractor assistance branch, East Lansing off U.S.-16 and "would like to

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WILLARD SMITH KEDZIE, '83, retired ac­ the Philippine Normal School in Manila, died BERNIE EDWARD MOONEY, '13, owner and countant and for many years a resident of Idaho Feb. 6 at the home of her daughter in Elmhurst, manager of a hotel in Riverbank, Calif., for Falls, Idaho, died in that city Dec. 29. 111. the past five years, died Jan. 2. A forest ranger in Northwest Montana until 1918. Mr. Mooney LEVANT A. STRONG, w'83, died Dec. 27 in CLARE WARREN HAVEN, '01, retired horti­ was city engineer in Whitefish, Mont., for a num­ Vicksburg, Mich., his native city which he for­ culturist and landscape designer, died in a Pontiac ber of years, later moving to Libby where he merly served as postmaster. hospital March 9. Residing near Birmingham, Mich., since 1912, Mr. Haven was active in the was employed as a lumber scaler. His brother, EDWARD L. SMITH, w'85, since 1864 a resident Masonic lodge and was a charter member of the Arthur V. Mooney, w'18, survives. of the Lansing area where he was known as First Presbyterian church in Royal Oak. "the builder", died at his home there March 8. AUSTIN LUCE COONS, '14, lifelong resident He acquired identification as "the builder'" through JAY W. MARR, w'08, a farmer near Howell, of Lowell, Mich., died Jan. 24. Active in com­ community endeavors and service as an employee Mich., for many years, died Oct. 21. munity affairs and the Methodist church, Mr. and head of the Briggs Co. for 41 years. Before AGNES L. BENNETT, w'09, former clerk in Coons was widely known for his fruit raising his retirement in 1948 as president of the com­ the State Auditor General's department in Lan­ and canning, and was in constant touch with pany, he had served as vice president of the sing, died Oct. 13. the college and agricultural interests. Chamber of Commerce and on various community EDITH SKINNER KING, w'10, wife of her LAWRENCE DRAKE FISHER, '16, veteran of boards. While a member of the police and fire classmate Earl H. King and resident of Lansing World War I and former assistant division engi­ board, Mr. Smith was chairman of the committee for many years, died Jan. 23. She is also sur­ neer for the Duluth, Missabe and Northern Rail­ which brought Lansing the distinction of having vived by a daughter, Mrs. Maureen Carter, '34, way Company, died at Veterans hospital in the first mechanized fire department in the nation. of Carrollton, Ky., and a son, Richard E., '36, Dearborn, Feb. 17. A Detroit resident for the Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. Lenora of Chester, W. Va. past 25 years, he engaged in real estate business VanHalteren, w'09, and Mrs. Philena Pratt, '12. ROY B. EMENS, w'12, former Muskegon County and was instrumental in formation of civic associ­ MARY HARRISON FLOWER, '88, widow of farmer and for a number of years salesman in ations in Northwest Detroit. Thomas Flower and a former resident of Detroit, Ottawa County for Fairbanks Morse Co., died in HARVEY LINCOLN MYERS, '20, former office died Feb. 6 at the Masonic Home in Alma, Mich. Grand Haven, Mich., Dec. 26. manager for Grennan Bakeries in Buffalo, died IDEA B. SWEENEY, w'88, retired farmer, ERIK AUGUST ERIKSEN, w'12, World War I Dec. 19. At the time of his death Mr. Myers ex-postmaster of Burrows, Mich., and veteran veteran and road designer for the State Highway was resident auditor at Shaw Air Force Base, of the 39th U.S. Volunteers, died Oct. 27 at the Department for the past 18 years, died in Flint, Sumter, S. C. Michigan Veterans Facility in Grand Rapids. Feb. 9. He was a brother of Rudolph Eriksen, ARTHUR EDWARD LUKOWSKI, '23, metal­ '16, of Holland, and is also survived by his wife HERBERT L. REED, w'89, who helped clear lurgist for Baker-Perkins for the past 13 years, and five children. the forest where East Lansing now stands, died died at the company's Saginaw plant Dec. 20. in a Lansing hospital Feb. 27. A resident of this HARRY WILLIAM ROWLEY, '12, hydrometric area since 1872. Mr. Reed was engaged in the engineer for the Canadian Department of the MARY GILDEA McFAUL, '30, wife of George forest-clearing operation north of the campus Interior, died at his home in Coaldale, Alberta, H. McFaul of 14102 Forrer St., Detroit, died in several years before the college city came into Dec. 28. Active in many community projects, that city July 8. Besides her husband she is sur­ vived by three children, Michael 6, Kathleen 4, existence. He later established a grain and feed Mr. Rowley was chairman of the school board, and Patrick 18 months. business in Lansing which he conducted for 27 president of the rural electrification association, years. He is survived by his wife, a daughter, and a member of the Engineering Institute. . GARRETT EDWARD BURGESS, '38, veteran Mrs. Rhoda Winston, '16, a granddaughter, Bar­ HARRY EARLE WILCOX, '12, former engi­ of World War II and salesmanager of Garrett bara Winston Eames, '39, and a brother, Hubert neer for the Canadian government and the Inter­ Burgess, Inc., designers of hydraulic and pro­ L. Reed, w*89. state Commerce Commission, died Oct. 17 of cessing equipment and installation, died in RUPERT A. BENTLEY, w*94, retired farmer injuries received in an automobile accident near Detroit Jan. 10. of Whittemore, Mich., died Nov. 2. Mr. Bentley Edinburg, Texas. Following his discharge from BETTY JEAN JOHNSON, Ml, dietitian and had been active in the Grange and farm develop­ the army in 1919, Mr. Wilcox settled in Edinburg laboratory technician at the University of Michi­ ment projects, and at one time managed the where he was city engineer until 1938 and served gan hospital, Ann Arbor, died in that city Dec. 30. farmers cooperative elevator. six terms as county surveyor. He amassed ex­ PERRY H. EDMONDS, w'99, son of Lansing's tensive real estate holdings in and around Edin­ WILLIAM JOHN McLEOD, '42, World War II pioneer leather merchant and for some years burg and at the time of his death was returning veteran, died May 13, 1951, in Saginaw, Mich. from an inspection trip to ranch property near active in the operation of the Edmonds store in He is survived by his wife, the former Ann Spruit. Mountain View, Ark. Lansing, died at his home in Framingham, Mass., '46, of 325 W. 11th St., Traverse City. March 2. ROY JAMES WADD, '12, for many years ROBERT CURTIS HAFLICH, M6, field repre­ MABEL DOWNEY KINGSLEY, w'05, wife of associated with Harneschfeger Sales Corporation sentative for Hallmark greeting cards, died in H. Ray Kingsley, w*03, and former teacher in in Wisconsin, died Aug. 3 in Three Lakes, Wis. Fort Wayne, Ind., Sept. 5. 14 . . . . THE RECORD and their son Douglas are living in Tokyo where at 125 Seventh St. . . . Robert M. Shedd has his Amell, Frimodig Boast Major Lee is attached to the Weather Central. own sales agency for boiler house and power Their mailing address is 20-23 AWS Detachment, plant equipment at 45 College Ave. N.E., Grand Gallant War Records APO 925, San Francisco. . . . Willard McCulIough Rapids, Mich. . . . Nell Stiles Huntington writes is assistant professor at Wayne University Col­ from 230 Front St., Owego, N. Y.: "Would like It takes five MiG's bagged to become lege of Medicine, in Detroit, and he and Mrs. to introduce our son, first child, William Stiles, a jet air ace, and Maj. Zane S. Amell, McCulIough (Barbara McMullen, '42) make their born April 14, 1951, in Owatonna, Minn. We expect to leave for Melbourne, Australia, in April w'49, is approaching "Acedom." His per­ home in St. Clair Shores at 23118 Arthur Court. . . . Leona Seyfred, former VanBuren County where my husband Cliff, a Penn Stater, is being sonal MiG scorecard is one destroyed, home demonstration agent, has been commissioned sent by The Borden Company. This will be our two damaged. Maj. Amell flies an F-86 a first lieutenant in the Air Force Reserve, and 34th move in nine years!" Sabre Jet with the Fifth Air Force in has reported to Lackland Air Force Base, Texas. 'A A "Finally got us a future M.S.C. co-ed," 1 Korea. At) 10th Anniversary Reunion ~™ write Don and Ann (Curtis, '46) Second Lt. Mark H. Frimodig, '50, has ** Alumni Day, June 7 Briggeman, of Johnstown, Colo., announcing the birth of Lee Anne March 1. . . . Joan Campbell been awarded the Silver Star for gal­ William and Sylvia (Palomaki, '43) Aho are now making their home at 623 Cherry Lane, East Rogalski writes that her husband, Capt. John W., lantry in action Lansing. He is assistant professor in poultry has been recalled to service in the Marine Corps, in Korea. Serving extension at the college. . . . Robert and Ruth and they are living at 1706 Spencer Ave., New with the 25th In­ Frost, '43) Amundsen announce the birth of their Bern, N. C, not far from Major Arvid and Marge Klein Jouppi, both '40. . . . Douglas Carl fantry Division, third child, Jim, Dec. 20. They are living at 2808 South Blvd., Port Huron, Mich., and Mr. was born Dec. 2 to Robert and Kathleen Wattles Lt. Frimodig won Amundsen teaches chemistry in the Marysville Edgell of 7 Peters Road, Riverside, Conn. . . . the award for High School. . . . Tom and Lois (Reichard, w'44) Pat Henry Nelson and her husband, Earl, are "aggressive lead­ Beard and their three children are living at boasting about their daughter, Janice Kay, born last Aug. 21. The Nelsons live at 11210 Roxbury, ership and inspir­ 1776 Manchester, Grosse Pointe Woods. He is a salesman for Seco Safety Products. . . . Mr. Detroit, where he is assistant to the director of ational courage" and Mrs. Carl Canan (Loretta Devitt) of 3454 sales at Snyder Tool and Engineering. . . . on the night of Ann St., Lansing, 111., announce the birth of Robert S. Leith received his A.B. from North I O c t. 2 6 , n e a r their second daughter, Mary Louise, Nov. 29. . . . East Missouri State, was graduated last May from Lincoln Chiropractic College in Indianapolis I I i Kumhwu. John Dow is quality control engineer for Olds- mobile Division in Lansing and also has his own and has opened his office in Graham, Texas. He Amell Lt. Frimodig, business, Dow Television and Appliances, P. O. is married and has three children, according to re­ Box 1121, Lansing. . . . Robert M. Johnson is MC Keith, '51, and Persis Kelley Cole, of ports, repeatedly exposing himself to design engineer for Rust Engineering Company ^^ 3075 B St., San Diego, Calif., announce fire, moved among his men to coordinate in Pittsburgh, Pa., where he lives at 3065 Dwight the birth of a daughter Roxane Gale, Feb. 21. . . . Ave. . . . The sympathy of the class is extended Mr. and Mrs. Robert V. Finley (Ethel Drummond) defense of his unit. When the left flank to Jean Hardy King, of 3740 Middlebrook Ave., of 299 Panoramic Way, Berkeley, Calif., an­ was brought under heavy assault he Cincinnati, whose husband, William B., died nounce the birth of their first daughter, Deborah quickly ran through the impact area and Dec. 14. The Kings owned and operated three Ann, Dec. 20. . . . William, MS '48, and Joan directed counterfire on the enemy. grocery stores and a bakery in Cincinnati and Dunfee Hart, of 128 Wade, Niles, Ohio, announce she is now president of the organization, King- the birth of their second child, Bonny Ruth, Sighting five enemy soldiers advanc­ Duffy, Inc. Feb. 2. . . . Capt. Dean A. Rhodes is stationed ing up a narrow trench, Lt. Frimodig Alice Hilarides and Robert F. Landstra were at Reese Air Force Base, Texas. . . . Lt. Harry J. exposed himself to enemy fire to gain married last July 1 and are living at 414 12th Schmidt writes from 8076 MASH, APO 301, San a vantage point and destroy the five Ave. S.E., Rochester, Minn., where Dr. Landstra Francisco: "Our work is slow these days, thank Communists with grenades and rifle fire. is a fellow at Mayo Clinic. . . . Thomas W. Ireland God, and we are able to live rather comfortably may be reached in care of HI Commissioner while awaiting a diplomatic decision. We cer­ of Germany, Office of Political Affairs, Special tainly hope that all our fellow citizens here and Research Div., APO 757-A, New York City. . . . at home remember to exert their influence in have anybody drop in to see us and our two Catherine Jackson is home service director for this war of ideologies, for its solution lies only future golf champs, Dick and Robbie." . . . West Bend Aluminum Co., in West Bend, Wis., in long term application of the Christian prin­ Albert C. Cochrane, Jr. is with D. P. Brother where she lives at 170 Mayer St. . . . Alice King ciples our country has evolved from. I hope we and Co., in Detroit where he lives at 610 Blaine. Parker and her husband, Howard H., and their will be able to present as strong and as certain . . . Lawrence E. Grupe writes: "We have son Stephen John are living at 4925 N. Diversey an ideological front as our enemies." . . . Mr. moved from the cold north and are operating a Blvd., Milwaukee, Wis. . . . Grace Limbocker and Mrs. Robert J. Clegg (Gail Smith) of 1461 drive-in cafe in Conroe, Texas, 40 miles north Greaves and her husband Rex celebrated their Burke Ave. N.E., Grand Rapids, announce the of Houston." . . . Ralph May, who has been first wedding anniversary March 31. They are birth of Bradley James, Jan. 5. director of agricultural relations for Wilson and living in Arlington, Va., at 3228 13th Road Company of Chicago since 1943, has been named Mr and MrS D n Cudworth of South. . . . William Smith is assistant super­ '46 ' " ° 1109 manager of the registered Aberdeen-Angus herd E. St. Andrews, Midland, announce the intendent of filtration for the city of Bay City, of Jennings Brothers of Highmore and Miller, birth of Thomas David, Feb. 5. . . . William W. Mich. . . . Hal Stimson is now associated with S. Dak. . . . Lt. Col. William J. Parsons is Downs received his law degree last June from Factory Caterers in Detroit where he and Mrs. stationed at Letterkenny Ordnance Depot, Cham- the University of Denver, is a member of the Stimson (Margaret Jane Blair) live at 18551 bersburg, Pa. . . . Lyle and Barbara (Booth, '41) Colorado Bar, and while waiting to pass the bar Appleton. . . . Eugene and Betty (Nilsson, '44) Rockenbach and their three children are living examination in Oregon is assistant reviser for Stisser, of 2160-D 41st St., Los Alamos, N. Mex., at 1138 Girard St., Pittsburgh, Pa., where he has the Oregon Statute Revision Council. He and announce the birth of Shelley Sue, Nov. 8. charge of the sales office of Reichhold Chemicals Mrs. Downs and their son Robert live in Wood- Inc. Norman Waggoner is in the educational divi­ burn at 875 W. Lincoln St. . . . Lois Hicks Largo '^1 William D. Berg is chief of police in sion of Dearborn Motors Corp., and with Mrs. and her husband Donald and three sons are "™ Mooresville, N. C, where he lives at Waggoner and Warren lives in Rochester, Mich., living at 601 Auburn, Plymouth, Mich., where 113 Kelly Ave. . . . Frank Bielecki is production at 320 Maywood Ave. . . . Betty Wolf and Blake Dr. Largo is a practicing physician and surgeon. supervisor for Diesel Equipment Division in Hughes were married last Aug. 26, and are living . . . Dennis Roy was born Jan. 28 to Mr. and Grand Rapids where he lives at 41 Somerset at 441 E. 20th St., Apt. 4-D, New York City. Mrs. Roy F. Reeves (Priscilla La Van way) of Dr., N.E. . . . Donald and Phyllis (Walker, w'42) She is employed in the personnel department of 340 12th Ave., Columbus, Ohio. . . . Lt. Fred Leven Boerema, of 7225 S.W. 53rd Court, Miami, Fla., United Nations. . . . John B. Wright has moved is platoon leader with 563rd Med. Ambulance announce the birth of their third daughter, his law offices from Washington, D. C, to 9 Co., APO 301, San Francisco. . . . Charles and Bethany, Jan. 23. . . . Barbara Boucher Olson, School St., Annapolis, Md. . . . Mr. and Mrs. Dorothy (Drake, w'45) Marshall are living at with her husband David and their three children, Elmer R. Holzapfel (Ethel Quinn) of 9010 Kenton 1020 Lincoln, Port Huron where he is assistant moved just before Christmas, to 608 81st St., Ave., Skokie, 111., announce the birth of their manager of the newly remodeled Kresge store. . . . Manhattan Beach, Calif. . . . Michael Charles son, Jon Quinn, Nov. 24. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur A. Roddy (Marion Vorce) announce the birth of their son, Charles Arthur, was born last Aug. 6 to Mr. and Mrs. Milton G. 'AQ Allison Blanshine is living at 2011 Feb. 8. They are living in Colorado City, Texas, Honsowetz, of 210 St. Johns St., Wyandotte, ~*» Coyne St., Honolulu, Hawaii, where he where Mr. Roddy is high school band director. Mich. . . . Bernard Kaywell has received his law is senior agricultural engineer for the Hawaiian degree from the University of Miami and as Sugar Planters Association. . . . Leo P. Bourdon tAr7 Fifth Anniversary Reunion soon as he has been sworn into the Florida State is working with the G. H. Fuller Co. on AEC's Alumni Day, June 7 Bar Association intends to practice law in West Fernald Project, Ross, Ohio. . . . Alfred and "We are taking just a moment to announce Palm Beach where he lives at 3 Tanglewood Geraldine (Daly, '44) Porter have moved from the birth of our second baby (Rebecca of Blue Court. . . . Harold and Jacqueline Welsh Lee Kansas to Wood River, 111., where they live Heaven Acres l", writes John E. Ballenger from

APRIL 15, 1952 . . . . 15 Box 403, Ancon Post Office, Canal Zone. . . . The profs told me I would never make a farmer born Jan. 3 to Harry and Jean (McCollough, '46) Virginia Chaplin has returned from two years in and it is starting to look as though they were Greenshields of 19692 Kenosha, Detroit. . . . Jack Japan with U. S. Army Service Clubs and is now right," writes Harvey Bidlack from 10 Tedder St., Hammond is district fisheries supervisor in Glad­ assistant club director at Camp San Luis Obispo, Toronto, Ontario. . . . William Breher is located win, Mich., for the Department of Conservation. Calif. . . . Mr. and Mrs. John B. Clausen announce at 1301 Missouri Ave. N.W., Washington, D. C, . . . Jean L. Hopkins and Arthur E. Slaughter the birth of Debra Dee Oct. 28. They are living as economist with the Dept. of Labor. . . . Laurel were married Jan. 26, and are living at 824 W. in Walnut Creek, Calif., where he has his law Lee was born Aug. 13 to Ken and Meribah Michigan, Lansing, where both are geologists with office. . . . Vera Cloos and Paul Wheeler were (Westcott, '47) Clark of 305 W. High St., Jackson. the Conservation Department. . . . Charles Robert married Sept. 1 and are living Palermo, Italy, "Daddy handed out Clark bars with pink ribbons was born Dec. 14 to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Jakems where they may be reached at USIS, via Liberta attached." . . . Capt. and Mrs. Gene P. Baynes of 140 Rosemary S.E., Grand Rapids, Mich. . . . 9. . . . Mr. and Mrs. Edward Witzke (Barbara (Sarah Cline) of 4126 Stanard, Fort Smith, Merlin and Mary Lou Henning Johnson, of 1903 Couture) of 1818 Roszel, Royal Oak, Mich., an­ Ark., announce the birth of Patricia Anne, Remington, Saginaw, announce the birth of their nounce the birth of David, Sept. 28. . . . Elizabeth Dec. 21. . . . Cecelia Dragisity is assistant to second son, Merlin Douglas, Feb. 26. . . . Kenneth Dean Lemm and her husband Rollin and daughter the research director at Miami Heart Institute and Joan (Wood, '48) Larzelere are living at Kathy are living at 5279 N. Thorn St., San Diego, and lives in Miami Beach at 4701 N. Meridian. 313 W. Clinton, Jackson, where he is psychologist where he is with the dynamics group at Convair. George Elonka has been transferred by Great at the Prison of Southern Michigan. . . . The Graham Armstrongs (she was Lois Kirbyl West Life to manage the newly opened branch James and Donna (Batson, '48) Lockhart an­ announce the second "branch on the family in Portland, Ore., where he and Mrs. Elonka nounce the birth of Thomas Alan, Jan. 31. They tree", Judith Lynn born Jan. 22. (Edith Westcot, '40) live at 5510 N.E. Clackamas. are living at 108191/j Strathmore Dr., Los Angeles, While her husband is serving with the navy . . . Jack Hepinstall was recalled to active duty where James has resumed his graduate "study in Japan, Virginia Rasdale Millard and son last August and is presently serving as engineer at U.C.L.A. . . . Wilford Marshall is working Ronald Dean, are living at 505 E. Walker, St. maintenance officer in Kaisers Lantern, Germany. in the export department of Briggs & Stratton Johns, Mich. . . . Mr. and Mrs. Richard Virgo Mrs. Hepinstall (Phyllis Lohr, w'51) and their Corp., Milwaukee, where he lives at 2218 W. (Rosemary Ray) of 706 S. 6th, Bozeman, Mont., daughter are living in Newaygo, Mich. . . . Linwal Lane. . . . John and Patricia (Rockwell, announce the birth of their daughter Gracia. . . . J. Kent Hoekzema and Dorothy Rockwell were w'43) Miller and their son Michael John are Karen Elise was born last Aug. 4 to Lt. A. J. married Feb. 9. . . . Maribelle Horr and George living in the Dunlap Hotel, Jacksonville, 111. . . . and Martha Taylor Roach, in Germany where R. Brown were married Dec. 15, and are living Pvt. Kenneth Olson is a physiologist in the he is stationed with the 18th Infantry Regt. . . . at 3265 E. 147, Cleveland, Ohio, where he is with medical laboratory at Army Chemical Center in "I hope to be back to see M.S.C. once again Spectographic Laboratories. . . . Lt. jg Leslie Edgewood, Md. . . . Adrian Onderdonk is em­ this summer, and this time I'll bring a future Laakso is assigned to the USS Los Angeles, San ployed by the Hoover Ball and Bearing Co., and co-ed, Elizabeth Ann, born No. 24," writes Francisco. . . . Lt. Glen and Jean (MacVittie, he and Mrs. Onderdonk and their three children Betty Ruhling Rooney (Mrs. M. J.) of Rt. 5, Box w'49) Norton, of 57 S. Cherrywood, Dayton, Ohio, live in Ann Arbor at 2974 Shady Lane. . . . 456, Schenectady, N. Y. . . . Wesson and Alice announce the birth, of Gail Yvonne Feb. 23. v - Charles Painter, soil scientist for the agricultural (Hamacher, '45) Ritchie of Diana Road, Morris Charles and Royce*\ (Rothney, '49) Rule are research administration, is located at the North­ Plains, N. J., announce the birth of Linda Gaile living at Woodland Terrace Apt. 37B, Columbia, eastern Substation, Tucumcari, N. M. . . . Carl last Aug. 14. . . . Lt. Edna Sargent is stationed S. C, where he is district manager for Qldsmo- Peets is instituting the guidance program in the with the 1301 ASU WAC Det., Fort Monmouth, bil^£. . . Richard Thurm is located at 719 19th public schools of Sikeston, Mo. He and Mrs. N. J. . . . Janet Smith Rosier and her husband, St. N^W., Washington, D. C, where he is research Peets are sailing on the Mauretania May 29 and Jean J. (MS'48) are living at 91 Ave. Kleber, assistant in the Department of State. . . . Beatrice plan to spend some time in and around London Paris, France. . . . Elizabeth Watson Bright Walline Cook is a chemist for Sherwin Williams and Paris, returning on the Liberte July 10. (Mrs. Charles) is employed in the office of Samp­ in Chicago where she lives at 12441 Eggleston. Mr. and Mrs. Clifford V. Fossitt (Mary Rahilly) son Die and Mfg. Co. in Flint where she lives at i A Q Mildred Anderson is office occupations of 306 W. Ave. D, Newberry, Mich., announce 3609 Comstock. "* coordinator at Arthur Hill High School g the birth of their second child, Margaret Jane, AQ Dorothy Anderson teaches English and in Saginaw, Mich. . . . Roderick Casavant is Jan. 4. . . . Jack K. II was born Oct. 1 to Lt. Jack ™" French at Bloomingdale High School and cafeteria manager at the University of Notre ;ind Kathleen (Wills, '50) Robinson, of Lockburn lives at 820 Washington Ave.. Kalamazoo. . . . Dame. . . . Vernon Cole writes from 216 N. Air Force Base, Columbus, Ohio. . . . Lt. Donald Illinois, Wellston, Ohio: "My wife, three children, Genevieve Bailey Langston and her husband, Ruedisueli is stationed at Bayreuth Subpost, 7751 and I moved into this Ohio community of 6,000 Barney, are living at 6129 Coleman, Dearborn. MPCU, APO 696-6, New York. . . . Stephen and the day before Christmas. The city is a coal . . . Dorothy Ballentine, former home economist Kay (Finch, w'47) Spencer and their three chil­ mining center in what is called the heart of with Consumers Power in Lansing, is a second dren are living at 5259 E. Highline Place, Denver, lieutenant in the air force reserve, stationed the coal, gas, and clay country. I have been where he is in the advertising department of at Lackland base in Texas. . . . Bill Beeney was assigned as project leader on a survey of Raccoon the makers of Samsonite luggage. Near neigh­ recalled to active duty and is stationed on Guam Creek to determine extent of acid mine waste bors are Ed and Elaine (Somers, '48) Lewen- where he has been coaching the Naval Barracks damage. The work, thus far, has been cold and dowski. . . . Charles Johann was born March 4 Dodgers basketball team in the inter-island league. hard, but very interesting. to Mr. and Mrs. Tom Stege of Manistee, Mich. . . . A second son, Charles Morris, was born Carlton and Lynelle (Bales, '50) Cook and . . . Barbara Walters and W. Spencer Bloor were Jan. 3 to Carroll and Mozelle Sawyer Bell of Patricia Lee are living at 1470 University Ter­ Excelsior, Minn. race, Ann Arbor, where he expects to finish mr.rried Jan. 19 and are living at 7333 N. Ridge Ave., Chicago. . . . Mary Woody and John "Although I majored in farm management I medical school in June. . . . Frank and Jean am now the plant manager of Winter-Seal of Halmich DeDecker announce the birth of Terese Harland I Mich. '501 were married Feb. 2 and Canada Ltd., producing aluminum storm windows. Louise, Feb. 25. . . . Thomas Alexander was are living at 10673 W. Ten Mile Rd., Royal Oak.

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