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Maine Alumnus, Volume 30, Number 2, November 1948

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gown, not fo r a fine glossy surface, but such

" qualities as would wear well

-----THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD

for "such qualities as would wear w ell"

HE dressmaker who pleased the vicar’s wife, even as she herself pleased the vicar, did so, we submit, by a time-tested procedure: painstaking attention to the details that add up to excellence; assiduous care with the parts upon which is founded the quality of the whole. The exacting requirements of customers like the vicar and his wife are those which General Electric products are built to meet. We feel that we could turn our wares be­ neath the vicar’s appraising eye with equa­ nimity. Before the customer has a chance to ex­ amine a General Electric refrigerator, for example,specially developed electronic “ sniff­ ers” have made sure there is not the slight­ est leak in its refrigerating unit . . .

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Every General Electric product is designed for high standards of performance . . . is tested to see that it will meet those standards . . . is built to serve you faithfully. You can put your confidence in GENERAL ELECTRIC GENERAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Officers Hazen H. Ayer ’24, President Harold J. Shaw ’ 14, Vice President Richard S. Bradford ’30, Treasurer George F. Dow ’27, Clerk MAINE EVENTS John Sealey, Jr. ’36, Executive Sec. Mrs. Bette Kilpatrick ’42, Assistant Sec. November 1-24 ART EXHIBITS Alumni Council Members Hazen H. Ayer ’24 *Carnegie Art Gallery Clifton E. Chandler ’ 13 Gertrud Ebbeson—Water Colors Samuel W. Collins ’ 19 Doel Reed—Prints ~ Charles E. Crossland ’ 17 Raymond H. Fogler ’ 15 Louis Oakes Room Miss Jessie Fraser ’31 William A. Bovie—Handwoven Fabrics Miss M. June Kelley ’ 12 Fred D. Knight ’09 November 11-13 Hell Week Alfred B. Lingley ’20 Alton T. Littlefield ’21 Nov. 14 - Dec. 8 Sorority Rushing and Pledging George E. Lord ’24 John H. Mahoney ’27 November 19-21 Fraternity House Parties Thomas G. Mangan ’ 16 Miss Marion E. Martin ’34 November 24-29 Thanksgiving Recess Mrs. Marjorie M. Murphy ’33 Mrs. Elizabeth Parkman ’40 December 1-24 ART EXHIBITS Miss Emily Pendleton ’26 Myron C. Peabody ’ 16 * Carnegie Art Gallery Harold M. Pierce ’ 19 John Taylor Arms—Etchings Conan A. Priest ’22 Honore Daumier—Lithographs James M. Sims ’32 Robert F. Thurrell ’ 15 Louis Oakes Room Thomas N. Weeks ’16 Carroll T. Berry—Wood-cut Prints

TH E COVER December 4 Varsity Basketball—Bates (Home) The Maine Band was impressive this fall not only because of its fine music, but also because of the snappy new uniforms. December 8 Assembly—Memorial Gym The “new” band was unveiled for the Speaker—Mr. George Freedley, Consulting first-time at the Bates game and the im­ mediate response was enthusiastic from Curator of the New York Public Library both students and alumni. The royal blue coats,, piped in-white, Theatre Collection have four patch pockets with buttoned flap and white braided shoulder epaulets. Varsity Basketball—Colby (Away) Light blue-gray trousers with white stripes contrast pleasingly with the coat. December 10 Military Ball The military cap matches the coat. The drum majorettes’ uniforms are white with the flared skirts lined with Maine blue December 11 Varsity Basketball—Bowdoin (Away) silk. The uniforms were made possible December 12 Christmas Vespers—Memorial Gym through the generous gift of the Universi­ ty Bookstore. A marching band, its maneuvers brought Dec. 18 - Jan. 4 Christmas Recess forth the applause of the crowds at the games this fall. The Band worthily up­ holds the tradition of the Maine Band * The Carnegie Hall Art Gallery will be open on Sunday afternoons this year from which has been famous since the days when it went to “The Border.” 3 to 5 P.M.

Vol. 30 NOVEMBER, 1948 No. 2 Published monthly from October to June inclusive, by the University of Maine General Alumni Association, Business office, The Maine Alumnus, University of Maine, Orono, Maine Subscription price, $2.00 per year, included in annual alumni dues of $3.00. Member: American Alumni Council. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at Orono, Maine, under act of March 3, 1870.

THE MAINE ALUMNUS 3 NOVEMBER, 1948 ITH the “New” Library on the W campus, and the transference of library facilities to that building in the fall of 1947, there came a time of reckoning for the “Old Library.” What was to be its fate? Where for many years it had Alumni returning to the campus cur­ also the repository for files on art ma­ stood enshrouded with the hush that usu­ rently would never know from external terials and literature. ally surrounds libraries, what manner of appearances that the “ Old Library” was The “German and French” room is a noise would it now perhaps be subjected any different than it was five, ten or storage room. to? twenty years ago. One must pass again The “ Clinton Cole Marine Library” After due deliberation and the necessary through the familiar black doors to realize room contains a stock of still life objects correspondence with the Carnegie Founda­ that a decided transformation has taken to be used in creative art classes and the tion regarding the disposition of the build­ place. It is now called “ Carnegie Hall”— small corner room adjacent to the “ Clin­ ing, it was decided that the departments quite naturally and easily the name rolls ton Cole” room is now being used for of Art and Music should inherit the upper off one’s tongue. the storage of art supplies. floors, and that the three rooms in the It was during the early months of 1948 Mr. Vincent Hartgen, head of the Art basement should be converted to lounges that the big transformation began to take Department, occupies the room which was for students. The basement stack area place. formerly called the “University Collec­ tion” room for an office. has become a “snack bar.” Imagine that you have just entered the The large room on the south side of The Music Department occupies the first “old Library,” as every alumnus since the building, which has been labeled the floor of the main building and also the 1906 has done so many times during his “Technology Reading Room” in recent first and second floors of the wing which undergraduate years. The entrance hall years, has become a lecture hall for art formerly contained the stacks. looks much the same as ever, except that The second floor of the main building there are two signs in evidence that did classes. The windows have been blocked and the third floor stacks have been taken not hang there before. Straight ahead over off and the walls of this room are now over by the Art Department. the double doors which lead into the first used as the background for exhibits of After the seemingly impossible accom­ floor you read “ Music Department.” prints. plishment of moving the library facilities Turning to your right you read “Art De­ There are always two exhibits on dis­ to their new location, the lounges were partment” up over the small door there. play in the Art Gallery. A change of the first part of the Carnegie Building to The old staircase, which went up from subject matter occurs the first of each come into use in late 1947. The Agricul­ the circulation room has been eliminated month. In October some of the oil paint­ tural and Educational Reading Rooms, at and the stairway now may be entered ings of Waldo Peirce, nationally recog­ either end of the basement, easily became from the lobby. In this way the two de­ nized artist of Bangor, as well as some sitting rooms, with an especial flair, since partments are entirely separated as far as engravings and lithographs of Rockwell they are equipped with fireplaces. Along their entrances are concerned. Kent, were brought to the campus. Dur­ with the furniture which was moved, in ing November the watercolors of Gertrud Since we are on the stairway to the came a “coke” machine and a “juke” box— Ebbeson of Bangor and thirty aquatints second floor, let’s go on up and see what the erstwhile companions of the college by the renowned American etcher and changes have been made. You will cer­ generation. The conversion of these rooms painter, Doel Reed, will be hung. tainly be more than surprised to find that to lounges was a meagre effort to take there is no longer a balcony effect permit­ There is one more room in the Art care of the crying need for a Student ting you to look down upon the circula­ Department which should be described to Union Building. It has helped inasmuch tion desk. This opening has been floored you and that is the excellent studio for as it could with its limited amount of over, and covered with an attractive, light creative art work. It is found in what was space. The rooms have been a haven to colored linoleum. The whole effect is once the third floor stacks at the back of the many off-campus students especially. that of a spacious room with just enough the building. The stacks have been en­ But we are still faced with the very great austerity to make it a fitting atmosphere tirely removed and a room thirty feet by need for a really adequate Union Build­ for the Art Gallery which it has become. thirty-five feet is the result. The walls ing. (It is interesting to note that the have been painted chalk white to afford The various rooms around this Gallery originally intended use for the Education the maximum of reflection for the fluores­ have been converted as follows: Reading Rooom was for club meetings. cent lights and to give a neutral back­ At that time, 1906, there was a long felt The “ Maine Room” is now a research ground for the art classes. The room is need for such a meeting place.) and reading room for art students. It is decorated with sculptures, not only very

IN 1910 the circulation room of Carnegie Library was the TODAY, with the gallery floored over, it serves as a pride of the University. As enrollment increased it became spacious lobby for the Music Department. It is also used severely overcrowded but . . . for small concerts and recitals, while just above . . .

...... Mr. Carnegie’s secretary and Dr. Fellows, the following letter, very brief and to the CARNEGIE HALL point, was received by President Fellows: New York City, Feb. 7, 1905 G. E. Fellows, Esq. effective decoration, but also used as sub­ In an attempt to alleviate some of the Pres. University of Maine pressure on the Book Store soda fountain Orono, Maine jects for the classes in freehand draw­ Dear S ir:— Mr. Carnegie has considered ing. For the first time, the art students and to afford a social center for the stu­ your application on behalf of the Univer­ now have an adequate studio for their dents in the evening, it was decided to sity of Maine, and desires me to say that he considers $50,000 should erect an ade­ classes. install a luncheonette in the basement quate library building for the college. stack area of the “Old Library.” This Retracing our steps to the first floor, This amount Mr. Carnegie will be glad let’s take a look at the Music Depart­ work was done during the summer of 1948 to give for the purpose. ment. We find the original circulation and the Snack Bar, as it is called, was Respectfully yours, James Bertram room freed of the many bookcases and opened at the beginning of the Fall se­ Private Secretary desks which were necessary as long as the mester. Three walls of the room are lined building was functioning as a library. with blue leatherette booths, while the The contract for the building was This room is now used for small concerts fourth wall is fenced in by a soda foun­ awarded to the Horace Purinton Company and recitals as well as for practice ses­ tain. While too small for campus needs, of Waterville, whose estimates for the sions for band and orchestra. it does offer a clean and attractive cam- work were the lowest of several who bid The two original reading rooms have pus gathering point. The Snack Bar is on the work. Brainerd & Leeds of Boston been converted to classroom use. Scored operated by the Bookstore as a student were the architects. The foundation was blackboards have been installed and each service. built in the fall of 1905. The cornerstone of these rooms has been equipped with There are two entrances to the “ Snack was laid with appropriate ceremonies on a piano. Bar,” one from the outside via the former Tuesday, June 12, 1906; and the building The room which was formerly labeled library service entrance; the other from was dedicated November 2, 1906, with the “Catalog” room is now serving as an the lounges which are at the front of the elaborate ceremonies. The granite used office for the teachers of Applied Music building. The usual hours of serving was supplied by the Hallowell Granite who come from the Bangor Conservatory are from 8 :00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. Works at cost, and the stacks were fur­ to carry on their classes and instruction. The Carnegie Library was made pos­ nished at a price very much below the On the other side of the building in the sible by a gift of $50,000 from Andrew market value by A. D. Houghton ’87 and former “Librarian’s Office,” Mr. David Carnegie in February 1905. At that time L. G. Paine ’85. The saving to the Uni­ Niven, head of the Music Department, the University library was housed in Co­ versity on these two items alone was now has his office. burn Hall most inadequately since the ac­ $20,000. Mr. Carnegie gave an additional As mentioned above, the first and sec­ cessions were far outnumbering the $5,000 for furnishings. No changes were ond floor stacks have been made over into amount of space available for the shelving made in the architects’ plans after the practice rooms. There are eight on each of books and periodicals. The announce­ contract was awarded, and no extras of floor. Some are furnished with pianos ment of the gift came as a surprise to any sort appeared in the contractors’ bills. while others are used for the practice of everyone except the president of the Uni­ The plans and specifications for the re­ instrumental and vocal lessons. These versity, Dr. George E. Fellows, who had modelling were made under the direction studios have been soundproofed, yet the been in correspondence with Mr. Carnegie of Parker G. Cushman ’31. visitor can hear faint sounds of the prac­ and the librarian, Mr. Ralph Kneeland The construction work was done by ticing of students. Jones ’86. It is needless to say that Car­ Consolidated Constructors, Inc. o ' Port­ Eventually the Music Department will negie Libraries did not come merely for land and under the supervision of Mr. also encompass the basement rooms which the asking; for if they had, Mr. Carnegie’s John Kibler of that firm. are now being used as lounges; that day large fortune would soon have been ex­ And so after some forty years of faith­ will come when the campus can proudly hausted. On the contrary, he had a very ful service as a library for our ever-grow­ acclaim its new Student Union Building. careful and detailed system for investi­ ing institution, this Carnegie-endowed The classroom on the north side of the gating the real merits and conditions of building passes into another phase of its building is given over to a listening hour each application which sifted down the existence, but adding immeasurably to the each day during the week. All students long list of applications to a few of the advancement of the University by fulfilling are encouraged to come and listen and get most deserving. After several months of a vital need for facilities for the Art and acquainted with the masters of music. investigation and correspondence between Music Departments.

THE ART GALLERY, with its ever changing exhibits, has THE STUDIO which was formerly the third floor stacks, become popular with the campus family. Particularly do It is interesting to note that the same art works which were the art students appreciate . . . in the circulation room in 1910 are used in the studio today. A NEW COLLEGE By Arthur E. Wilson ’23

If I were to become a college professor tourist agency had misdirected them so it Most of the Jewish refugees were mur­ | in Europe I would want it to be at is hoped they had the extra trip free. dered but some return to Chambon each centuries-old Oxford or ten-year-old Col­ While France as a whole is not used year to serve at the work camp. A Span­ lege Cevenol in France. For two things to new things Le Chambon is. Two hun­ ish home is still caring for exiled youth. thrill me: helping to maintain venerable dred and fifty years ago, it became a refu­ A school for farmers and a home for de­ and honored tradition and starting a brand gee center for the fiercely persecuted linquent boys who were a part of the new one. In a country which is almost Huguenots after Louis X IV revoked the work camp program this summer have all moribund in doing the same things the Edict of Nantes. From that day to this it been inspired by the church. Recently a same way College Cevenol in the moun­ has been a strong Protestant center with a “cinema” has been built by the church tains of southern France is a radically long list of martyrs, which was made which is used for weekly movie shows new experiment in French education. longer during the recent war. The com­ and many community activities; now a Here I spent three months as “work boss” munity is made up of peasants and shop summer residence is being taken over for of the International Work Camp which in keepers with a large influx in the summer nine months of the year as a retreat cen­ three summers has constructed much of of Parisians and others who have hill­ ter for Protestant ministers and other the visible aspects of the college. side homes—many of them as commodious church groups to find refreshment of mind The college is on a beautiful hill-top as the less flashy ones of Mt. Desert. and spirit. above the village of Le Chambon-sur- Here fifty years ago a neighboring pas­ And the greatest experiment of all is the Lignon, in the department of Haute Loire. tor started a home for the rebuilding of ten-year-old college with its three-year-old The village itself is 3,000 feet in the the lives of sickly slum children. It still campus which has largely been created by mountains and is reached by a narrow functions the year around. This was the the work camps of the past three sum­ gauge railroad which winds dangerously beginning of a whole string of Christian mers. French education may be described through the mountains across massive institutions of every description which as being cruel, godless and one dimension­ stone bridges, their arches built as the make Le Chambon today one of the most al. There is no room in it for anything Romans taught the Gauls so many cen­ unique communities in the world. but the training of the mind; the elements turies ago. There are many “Chambons” And then came Pastors Andre Trocme of physical education, a spirit of cama­ so most strangers arrive a day or two late and Edouard Theis—Trocme the prophet, raderie between teacher and pupil, and after visiting one or two of the wrong Theis the Christian statesman. They had any consideration of the spiritual aspect ones. A pair of English girls coming to been friends from Union Seminary days are lacking. Nor does the French system the work camp had never seen a mountain in New York. Working from the village allow for co-education. Trocme and Theis before and landed 5,000 feet up in the church where they were co-pastors they were concerned that so many Protestant Pyrannees in a little village where a vis­ gave refuge to Spanish refugees, then youth lost interest in the church after iting priest was the only one who could Jewish refugees. With the coming of the they were exposed to what is almost an speak English and so was able to head Petain government these two Christian anti-religious attitude of the state schools. them in the right direction. An English pacifists found themselves suddenly in fa­ They believed it possible to maintain the vor with their people because they coun­ high intellectual requirements and add Arthur E. “Pete” Wilson ’23 is minis­ seled passive resistance and non-co-opera­ these other elements to a school which ter of the Beneficent Church, one of the tion. Again and again Theis crossed the they would found. largest and most historic churches of border into Switzerland smuggling some The success of the school was assured Providence, Rhode Island. He is the Jewish refugee to safety and returned in numbers and quality by the fact that author of Weybosset Bridge, a historical novel concerned with the establishment of with money sewed in his clothing to carry Theis possessed eight daughters. (Three this church. Mr. Wilson served in larger on liberation work. Finally both were of these are graduates of or in attendance parishes in Maine before going to Provi­ jailed, Trocme inviting his jailer to din­ at American colleges; Jean the eldest who dence. He and Mrs. Wilson (Mabel Pea­ body ’23) have a son in the Class of ’52, ner before they went off together to has been a moving spirit in the work camp who like his father, is a cross country star. prison. is in charge of the French house at Bryn Mawr this year; Louise is at Oberlin.) The war period brought many children to the mountains and the school held in the parish house of the church and summer cottage buildings grew to a hundred. With the liberation and war’s end many thought its peak had been reached; but the idea of this new kind of education in France had caught on and today the school bursts with an enrollment of over 300. After fifteen years as minister of Benefi­ cent Church in Providence I was due for a breathing spell (sabbatical in collegiate

A housing project under the aus­ pices of the German churches on a hilltop in Frankfurt. They are for displaced persons and are built of adobe bricks which DP’s and Ameri­ can and German work campers are making.

THE MAINE ALUMNUS 6 NOVEMBER, 19 4 8 IN AN OLD COUNTRY

circles). It was my good fortune for three farm house was purchased by the Con­ housed in a one-room storehouse. At the months to be a part of this fascinating gregational and Presbyterian boards. It other end of the storehouse German and Christian educational experiment at Le has a barn on either side of the house all American work campers were making lit­ Chambon. Arriving in May I became well attached as per French style. The roof tle two-room apartments into which an old acquainted with the college faculty and is heavy stone (not slate) and with its couple would be moved from the big student body, having all my meals with blue shutters and doors it is rural France room as each apartment was finished. the latter. The first few weeks my thoughts itself. The stable has been converted into The camp at Le Chambon was probably often went to the room in Fernald where a dining room and kitchen, the hay barn one of the largest in Europe under private Professor Kueny and Dorothy- Buzzell into a gymnasium and the other barn into sponsorship—some of the government had held forth in French and I repented the library. Administration offices and camps run into thousands. Here during that I had not paid more attention. The class rooms are in the house. the three months we had nearly 300 young meals were decidedly on the starchy side Now enters the work camp sponsored by people staying from three to six weeks. and for once I lost my natural Maine de­ the Congregational Christian Service Our maximum number at one time was light in potatoes. Meat was such a rarity Committee. For three summers it has 130. About a third were Americans who that when it appeared we fished our jack- brought college students to this newest of paid their own way to France. Some­ knives out of our pockets to cut it as European campuses to help build the thing new to pay for the privilege of there was no need to set the tables with physical college. Six wooden pre-fabricat- swinging a pick for 5 1/2 hours a day! An­ knives ordinarily. One lift to the noon ed Swedish buildings were purchased and other third were French and the balance day meal was pineapple juice and thereby erected by the work camp in the first two were German, Dutch, English, Scotch, hangs a tale. summers. Four of these serve as boys’ Italian, Austrian, Czek, Hungarian, Chi­ A newspaper in Florida carried on a dormitories, another is a class room build­ nese, Belgian, Algerian. The German youth campaign to send a big shipment of it on ing and the sixth the president’s house. were some of the first to be allowed out of the Friendship Train but it was deemed This year the work camp with pick, Germany since the war; the currency re­ uneconomical because of its water weight. shovel and wheelbarrow leveled a field for form coming just as camp was opening But pressure was exerted and finally a “ le terrain de sport,” built a tennis court, almost prevented their arrival but through later shipment was made of many car­ installed shower baths in the boys’ dorm­ the World Council of Churches in Geneva loads. The Florida paper commented edi­ itory, assisted the red-mustached, bow- funds were sent to them and most of them torially that there were three good rea­ legged mason in rebuilding the library were able to come. sons for sending it— 1. Advertise Florida, walls (these stone roofs make the walls The work day is supposedly from 7 :30 2. Create friendship with France, 3. The bulge with their weight and every century to 1 :00 but many were the jobs which stuff was a drug on the market. At first or so they have to be taken down and put required volunteers in the afternoon and the French didn’t know what to make of up over again. All the new material which never were volunteers asked for but more it but at the college it became a great is required is a little cement; the roof offered their services than were needed. delight, and made potatoes, dark bread, itself is laid in mud), a telephone system Theoretically afternoons and evenings blood sausage, and lentils a little more en­ was installed, rocks broken and roads were given over to recreation and discus­ durable. (I lost 15 pounds which every­ built. sion groups. Some grand discussions on one said was most becoming.) The work camp idea is becoming quite international problems were held, each of The student body is a grand assortment mature—the Quakers developing the earli­ the dozen nations represented becoming of youngsters some of them from leading er ones in blighted areas of this country familiar with the points of view of the French families, others from peasant and Mexico. I visited several of the World other countries. The Marshall Plan was homes, many from other countries includ­ Council of Churches W ork Camps in regarded with some suspicion by both ing Indo China and Algeria and the Germany, where German and American French and English young people as an United States. The faculty with salaries college age youth are building orphanages, attempt to control these nations and as a of fifty dollars a month are superior intel­ constructing new houses for displaced per­ selfish means of creating buffers against lectually as well as devoted to their teach­ sons. One of the most dramatic projects communism. Of course the speeches of the ing and students, the latter aspect being was near Cologne where 60 D.P.’s are (Continued on Page 15) most unFrench. The professor of philos­ ophy has been offered positions at Strass- bourg, Paris and Bordeaux Universities but stays on with the new college at a salary of fifty dollars a month because he feels that something is happening in education at Le Chambon. For seven years the college existed in scattered summer residences and the church hall. In 1945 a tract of 25 acres was purchased on top of the hill overlook­ ing the village, and with a superb view of the mountains. Due to the efforts of an American parson and his wife, Rev. and Mrs. Carl Sangree, a lovely French

German camp workers looking at the insides of our Congregational Christian Service wagon, a ’48 Chev­ rolet, in Cologne.

THE MAINE ALUMNUS 7 NOVEMBER, 1948 A lum ni NAMES in the NEWS

Aroostook Honors— Review Officer to the ECA Mission to Two Aroostook County alumni were Ireland. Dr. and Mrs. Findlen will fly recognized during the summer for out­ to Dublin November 23 where they plan standing civic service. Everett A. Cun­ to live during the next year. ningham ’23, Washburn teacher, and The ECA Mission to Ireland will be Verne C. Beverly ’20, County Agent, Dr. Findlen’s second international assign­ were given separate testimonial dinners. ment since the end of the war. During The annual banquet of the Washburn the summer of 1947, he was a member of High School alumni was turned into a a 10-man Agricultural Mission to Poland, surprise party for Mr. Cunningham. which was sent by the Food and Agricul­ Several congratulatory messages were ture Organization of the United Nations read following a speaking program in at the request of the Polish Government which Cunningham’s services to the town to survey that country’s major agricul­ of Washburn and Aroostook County tural problems. were lauded. He was then presented the The Economic Cooperation Adminis­ keys to a large new automobile which tration has set up a Mission in each of Ted Prescott ’33 had been parked outside the hall. the 16 countries participating in the Cunningham, president of the Maine European Recovery Program which the Promotion— Association of Vocational Agricultural United States Government is aiding. Ted Prescott ’33 was recently promoted Teachers, has met with particular suc­ Chief of the Mission is Dean J. E. Carri- to assistant advertising manager in charge cess in teaching of vocational agriculture. gan of the College of Agriculture at the of retail advertising and promotion of the Ten of his pupils have been designated University of Vermont. William Taft, Scott Paper Company, Chester, Pa. State Farmers by the Future Farmers of son of Senator Taft of Ohio, and Dr. Ted went with Scott Paper Company America. In 1936 he was the first teacher Findlen complete the ECA Mission staff in 1935 as a retail salesman in Philadel­ ever elected an Honorary State Farmer. in Ireland. The Mission will have re­ phia. His advancement in distribution was Commencing his twenty-sixth year to sponsibility for granting loans to the Irish rapid and represents an outstanding rec­ the farmers of Aroostook County, Verne Government that will aid in developing ord. In 1936 he moved to Boston and dur­ C. Beverly was presented with a sub­ trade between countries of Europe and ing the same year became New Haven stantial purse at a dinner given in his improving the current levels of agricul­ district manager. H e then worked in the honor. tural and industrial production in Ireland. Providence district and in 1938 went to Business and agricultural leaders of Rochester as district manager. In Octo­ Aroostook attended the meeting during Appointed— ber, 1938, Prescott became Boston district which tribute was paid to Beverly for Ermo H. Scott ’30 has been named manager and in 1941 he took over the his many years of devoted duty to the Deputy Commissioner of Education for combined New Haven, Hartford, and problems of agriculture in the Potato the State of Maine. He will succeed Ed­ Springfield retail districts. In 1946 Ted Empire of Northern Maine. ward E. Roderick H ’48 retired, and as­ went to Chester as assistant to Retail sumed his duties with the State Depart­ Sales Manager D. A. Prouty. Mission— ment of Education on September 1. He played an important role in the de­ Dr. Paul J. Findlen ’31, of Washing­ Ermo comes to Maine with a wide back­ velopment and creation of the current ton, D. C., has been appointed Program ground of experience in the field of edu­ sales presentation, “ Salesmanship— A Ca­ cation. reer” and has appeared before numerous A native of Howland, he was gradu­ school and business groups in public ated from Belfast High School, and speaking capacities. Last year he taught Eastern State Normal School at Castine. Penn State Extension Evening School He received his bachelor’s and master’s classes in the subjects of Selling and Mer­ degrees at the University of Maine and is chandising. presently a candidate for a doctorate in A native of Island Falls, Ted lives with education at New York University. his wife and two children at 734 Four­ He served as a laboratory school in­ teenth Ave., Prospect Park, Pa. A mem­ structor and instructor in education and ber of Sigma Nu, he was active in cross­ psychology at Castine and was vice prin­ country, baseball, the Masque cipal from 1936 to 1940. For the next six years, Scott was principal of Castleton P. J. Brockway ’31 was invited to a (Vt.) State Teachers College, going to special conference at Schenectady, N. Y., New York University in 1946 as teaching by the General Electric Company to meet fellow and lecturer in education. He was with representatives of colleges and in­ appointed acting head of the Department dustry to study in detail the problems of of Higher Education at the New York recruiting college seniors into industry. institution for the coming year. M /Sgt. Joseph J. Rinkaus, instructor He will be in charge of teaching services in Military Science in R.O.T.C. since for the State Department of Education 1935, has been temporarily transferred to including supervision of the teaching Fort Dix, N. J. Mrs. Rinkaus (Ruth M. training institutions, teacher certification, Jackson ’38) and two sons, will make Paul J. Findlen ’31 and placement. their home in Bridgewater, Mass.

T h E MAINE ALUMNUS 8 NOVEMBER, 1948 Jonathan Fisher: Maine Parson by Mary A Ghost Town on the Yellowstone, by factor started the two girls on the venture Ellen Chase, ’09, The Macmillan Com­ Elliot Paul, ’12, Random House, $3.50. which is the backbone of the story, pany, N. Y. $4.00. Trembles, a Montana town no longer Tavern in the Town. When Becky dis­ Maine’s Mary Ellen Chase has added on the map, is the scene of this latest book covered that a garish garage was going another book to her notable list of literary by Elliot Paul. For fifteen years during to become a part of the town, she couldn’t achievements. The writing of Jonathan the early part of this century, Trembles stand the thoughts of its marring the Fisher was, of necessity, preceded by long- was important as a town because some landscape, so she talked her brother, months of absorbing and penetrating re­ eighteen miles upstream a government Fred, and her friend, Peg, into helping search; for the bases for fact's in this canal was being built; and the men who her buy the property in question and turn new book are a rare collection of church were accomplishing this depended on it into a summer restaurant. Their many documents by Parson Fisher, as well as Trembles as their link with the civiliza­ trying and amusing experiences getting his countless letters and his original tion which they had left behind. Trem­ the place into shape and their subsequent diary. This diary he kept in a code of bles took its name from the French of business experiences keep the reader con- his own devising and Miss Chase had to early explorers in that region who called stantly interested. decipher it. She has used her novelist’s the quaking aspens, which were the only Margaret Shea’s style is light, easy, skill to advantage in bringing to life the tree that could seem to grow in the bad provocative and yet definitely philosophi­ story of a rare man of the late 18th and lands of that area, trembles. cal at times. A rare wit and a facility early 19th centuries. Had it not been for the fact that Mr. with the English language are the two Parson Fisher’s biography is as en­ Paul lived in Trembles himself for a short gems of her ability. She can make the grossing as it is valuable and as humor­ time in 1907 and 1908, this town probably simplest occurrences and experiences de­ ous as it is astonishing. He came to the would not have found its way into the lightfully realistic and entertaining to the seacoast town of Blue Hill, Maine, shortly annals of literature. This new book along reader. And at the same time Rebecca after his graduation from Harvard to with three earlier ones ( Linden on the Files’ particular brand of art seems to go assume the pastorate of the Congrega­ Saugus, The Last Time I Saw Paris, and hand in hand with Margaret Shea’s litera­ tional church. Not only did he keep a The Life and Death of a Spanish Town) ry style. watchful eye over his flock as the coun­ are actually a series of autobiographical try parson; he found time to carry on books partially covering Mr. Paul’s span Colonial Village, by John Eldridge Frost, such a vast number of projects that he of years. He weaves his autobiography ’38, Cabinet Press, Milford, N. H. has been aptly called another Ben Frank­ and fiction so closely together that it is Colonial Village is in reality a thesis lin and even referred to as a sort of often hard to tell where one leaves off written by Mr. Frost in partial fulfill­ Leonardo da Vinci. His versatility was and the other picks up the thread. ment of the requirements for a Degree of quite unbounded, and perhaps stemmed Elliot Paul attended the University of Master of Arts in History at the Uni­ from a natural industry and curiosity Maine in 1908-09. He served with the versity of New Hampshire. The Gun- rather than from any great genius. He AEF during World War I. He has been dalow Club, Inc. of Kittery Point, Maine, was a farmer, a missionary, a portrait and connected with the magazine and book have recognized it for its historical value landscape painter, a wood-engraver, a world during the greater number of his and have had it published in order that writer of poetry and prose, a scientist, a adult years. H e wrote about books for its worth may be of more widespread mathematician, a surveyor— and a father the Chicago Tribune and the Paris significance. of a large family. He was possessed of a Herald, and was co-editor, with Eugene In Mr. Frost’s own words: “The rare vitality and a consuming desire to Jolas, of the Paris-published magazine purpose of this study is two-fold: (1) to make every minute of his life count for transition. Indelible and The Governor of illustrate the forces that make ancient something. He found delight in every­ Massachusetts are two of his earlier buildings of great interest, and (2) to thing. When he died his admiring towns­ novels. portray the life that centers about the people inscribed on his monument “Know buildings of an American colonial village Thyself.” They might better, as Miss Tavern in the Town, by Margaret Ham- throughout its history. Chase observes, have written upon it one mel Shea ’32, with illustrations by Re­ “To locate a village possessing a repre­ of his favorite aphorisms: Let Every becca Spencer Files ’32; Ives Washburn, sentative collection of colonial buildings Hour of Life Be Filled to the Brim. Inc., New York, $2.50. of more than average significance, it was Besides being the fascinating biography Tavern in the Town is a fictional auto­ necessary to select one on the seacoast of an amazing man, Jonathan Fisher is biography and one of the best-selling- where the lanes of commerce with Europe an admirable account of New England books to come out of Maine in recent and the European colonial empires led to life in the Half century following the Rev­ months. This last is a big commendation American doors. The greater number of olutionary War. The scene of the story for Maine authors are plentiful and keep colonial villages that have survived the is the dearly loved birthplace of Mary a steady flow of books coming off the ravages of fire, decay, and ‘impoverish­ Ellen Chase— Blue Hill, Maine. The care presses of the country. ment’ appear to us only in part. and painstaking work that went into the Vibrant with the keen sense of humor “ These old buildings are monuments writing of this book are without a doubt of Margaret Shea and spiced with the of history. The life that has been lived an outgrowth of her love for this place of cleverly conceived drawings of Rebecca within them typifies the life that has her birth. Files, this second collaboration of Shea passed in many American buildings that The. reader who loves history and the and Files is no less pleasing to the funny are colonial survivals. This life is worth biography reader will find in this newest bone than their first book (The Gals recording for it illustrates the forces book of Mary Ellen Chase a rare combi­ They Left Behind which was published which vitalize historic buildings.” nation of these two mediums of expres­ in 1946 by Ives Washburn, Inc.). To the student of history, and particu­ sion. One advance reader of the book has Salmon Falls, Maine, is the scene of larly to the one interested in the colonial said: “Those who miss this book will miss the story. It is a lovely little village un­ period, Mr. Frost’s painstaking research some delightful and absorbing hours.” molested by commercialism, and this very will prove of great interest.

THE MAINE ALUMNUS 9 NOVEMBER, 1948 What Do You Drive? Approximately every fourth student has an automobile according to a diligent Campus reporter who gathered the statis­ tics from the campus auto registration files. Each student is required to register his car and receive a U. of M. license Tau Ep Leads— Clamdigger— sticker. The vehicles range from a 1922 Lincoln Tau Epsilon Phi enjoyed for the third Many college students work in the to 1949 Fords, Mercurys, Hudsons, and successive semester the highest scholastic dining halls or rake leaves, but not W il­ Studebakers. There are also motorcyles, rank of all fraternities with a point aver­ fred Mills of North Haven, Maine. This motorbikes, and scooters, one bearing age of 2.89. Phi Eta Kappa, with 69 men U. of M. Junior flies home every week Puerto Rican license plates. compared with 42 for Tau Ep, was in end to dig clams. The Ford seems to be the favorite, second place with 2.58. Every Friday afternoon after his last comprising 252 of the cars registered, The average scholastic standing of all class, Mills gets into his J-3 Piper Cub with Chevrolets and Plymouths coming men showed an upward trend climbing at Old Town Municipal Airport and flies second and third with 165 and 108 re­ from 2.35 for the last fall semester and 72 miles to North Haven, a small island spectively. 2.44 for the spring semester. The frater­ 12 miles off Rockland. Of the Fords, the 1931 Model A is the nity averages are given below, the figures By working all day Saturday, Mills is most prevalent—there are 26. The ” 36 in parenthesis representing the number of able to dig more than a barrel of clams, and ’41 Fords tie for second place with men in each group. which brings him about $9. Since the round trip costs him only $3, Mills be­ 24 each. Spring Semester 1948 lieves this is good business. Of the total number of cars registered Tau Epsilon Phi (42) 2.89 A veteran of the U. S. Army Air more than 220 are, strangely enough, 1946 Phi Eta Kappa (69) 2.58 Force, Mills was discharged in July of models and later. Alpha Gamma Rho (35) 2.54 1946. He holds a reserve commission as Phi Kappa Sigma (48) 2.53 Besides the three most popular makes, second lieutenant, and a Maine private Alpha Tau Omega (65) 2.52 the registration list includes, in order of pilot’s license. He is majoring in me­ Beta Theta Pi (55) 2.51 popularity; the Oldsmobile, Pontiac, chanical engineering. Sigma Nu (51) 2.50 Buick, Dodge, Studebaker, Nash, Hud­ Mills traded a 1947 Ford for his plane Kappa Sigma (65) 2.50 son, Packard, Mercury, Chrysler, De last summer. During vacation season, he Sigma Alpha Epsilon (58) 2.49 Soto, Jeep Willys, Crosley, Cadillac, worked as a lobsterman, supplying hotels Theta Rho (23) 2.48 Kaiser, Lincoln, La Salle, GMC, Frazier, on the mainland. Delta Tau Delta (56) 2.47 Hupmobile, and Lafayette. Without his plane, he would not be Sigma Chi (58) 2.42 able to get home for a full week end, Phi Mu Delta (58) 2.399 Hunters— since the Rockland ferry does not operate Lambda Chi Alpha (46) 2.397 Venison and game suppers have been on Sunday. Phi Gamma Delta (57) 2.396 enjoyed by many campus groups as stu­ Chi Rho Sigma (33) 2.26 dent hunters brought back deer, ducks, Theta Chi SORORITY PRESIDENTS and upland game birds and even black bear (49) 2.15 PANHELLENIC PRESIDENT: At Average of All Men (2779) 2.44 the Panhellenic Ball each spring the was not spared, for bagging him brought newly elected presidents are pre­ a fifteen dollar bounty. While no students The Campus— sented to the public for the first have yet reported shooting a wildcat, time. The smiling group pictured New quarters for The Maine Campus some have been taken in Penobscot Coun­ below represents the team for the in East Annex after many years in the 1948-1949 school year. From left to ty. garret of the MCA seem to have made right: Mary Dirks, Alpha Omicron Campus nimrods left unmolested the it a more aggressive newspaper. There Pi; Charlotte Pressey, Chi Omega; large racoon which was treed by dogs in Nancy Carter, Delta Delta Delta; is wider coverage of campus news events front of Oak Hall and had evidently been Gloria Dow, Panhellenic President; than in recent years. A noticeable fea­ Roberta Johnson, Delta Zeta; Eu­ chased from the woods on the east side of ture of this year’s editions is items of genia Melzar, Phi Mu; Judy Coffin, the campus. news about alumni. Pi Phi. Cliff Whitten ’49, Sedgewick, is edi­ tor, and Will Nisbet, Jr. ’50, Gardiner, business manager. Associate editors in­ clude Doris V ollmer ’49, Farmington; Jerry Rogovin ’49, Newton Center, Mass.; Janet Pettee ’50, (Hugh R. ’24), Hallowed; and Carol Carr ’50, Buffalo, N. Y. Alumni are invited to subscribe to the Campus at seventy-five cents a semester. Subscriptions should be sent to Will Nis­ bet, Jr., The Campus, Orono.

Society Note— Time was when the Society Column of The Campus was simply concerned with informal house parties, pin hangings and who wore what at the formals. Now a new subhead has been added to the column entitled “additions and multiplica­ tions” and records the visits of the stork.

THE MAINE ALUMNUS 10 NOVEMBER, 19 4 8 Maine and The Press— New Title— New Laboratory— A committee representing the Maine Charles E. Crossland ’17, assistant to A check for $4,000, presented to Dr. A. Press Association and University of the president of the University of Maine, Hauck last month by the Maine Poultry Maine officials discussed, recently, a “co­ has been appointed director of student Improvement Association, will be used operative plan” which would further the and public relations at the University. to help defray the cost of establishing a journalism program at the University Mr. Crossland has also been appointed laboratory and testing service at the Uni­ and provide a “clearing house” for as­ secretary to the Board of Trustees of the versity of Maine for the identification of sociation projects. University and secretary of its several Newcastle disease in Maine poultry Among those representing the Press committees. The position of assistant to flocks. Association were Kingdon Harvey ’30, the president has been abolished. The Trustees have voted to provide a Fort Fairfield Review, president of the sum equal to that given by the poultry- Association and Asa Wasgatt ’30, Bar men to carry out the identification and Harbor Times. control program. Attending the meeting from the Uni­ The $8,000 provided jointly by the poul­ versity were Dr. Arthur A. Hauck, presi­ try men and the University will be used dent; Dr. Joseph M. Murray ’25, dean of to employ a poultry disease worker, the College of Arts and Sciences; Wayne modernize the present inadequate labora­ Jordan, professor of Journalism; and tory, and purchase needed equipment and Howard Keyo, publicity director. supplies. The new man will serve as an assistant to Dr. J. Franklin Witter, pro­ Rhodes Scholar Candidate— fessor of animal pathology James H. Firmin ’49, an English major Newcastle disease is regarded as a from Metropolis, Illinois, has been named “serious threat to Maine poultry flocks” a candidate from the University for a by experts. It is now regarded as a Rhodes Scholarship along with two Bates menace to Maine’s $20,000,000 annual seniors and a senior and a graduate stu­ poultry business. The only known con­ dent from Bowdoin. Well known to a host of alumni, Cross­ trol is vaccination against the infection. There have been two Rhodes Scholars land has been with the University since from the University, Ballard F. Keith ’03 his graduation, first as a 4-H Club state Co-Ed’s Lament— and Aruthur A. Brown ’33. agent and later as executive secretary Residents of East Hall, one of the Orono Zoning— and extension editor of the Agricultural freshman women temporary dormitories By an almost unanimous vote, the citi­ Extension Service. In 1928 he became in front of Carnegie Hall, received a big zens of Orono, at a recent special town executive secretary of the General Alumni hand at a football rally this fall with this meeting, amended the zoning ordinance Association and of the Endowment and serenade to their neighbors in New Dorm so that fraternity houses cannot be con­ Donations Committee. # 3 sung to the tune of “W e’re Looking structed in the residential sections of Oak, For the last two years he has been Over a Four Leaf Clover.” Summer and Main Streets. executive director of the Union Building W e’re looking over the fields of clover Fund campaign. In 1943 he was recipient At new dorm—that’s number three An adjusting board was set up which W e envy your dorm, it has the New can issue permits for conducting “board­ of the Alumni Service Emblem, awarded Look ing and rooming houses and a fraternity annually for outstanding service to the Also your breakfast at our Esta- house” if such structures are not “ deti- University through the Alumni Associa­ brooke, tion. No need explaining, we’re just com­ mental” to the character of the neighbor­ plaining hood. The responsibilities of the director of For we’re mad and jealous maids, The action was taken as a result of student and public relations in general W e’re looking over the fields of clover Tau Epsilon Phi’s effort to purchase a include supervision of the following de­ So, boys, please pull down your shades! large house on Main Street for living partments and activities: dean o f men, quarters. dean of women, placement bureau and The Masque— student aid, admissions, alumni relations, “Arms and the Man,” G. B. Shaw’s Hell Week— Maine Christian Association, endowment three act comedy, was the Masque’s first Hell Week, and it apparently was just and donations and publicity. production of the current season. The that for some, was observed from No­ play was stylized by Professor Herschel vember 11 to 13. The dates were set by The Larger Campus— Bricker, the director, so that exaggerated the Interfraternity Council, with the de­ The expression that the state is the gestures and movements prevailed. gree of hellishness to be employed during campus is substantiated by the announce­ Marjorie Malloy, Alfred Dumais, and the period left to the discretion of the ment by Dean Shibles of the School of Marnel Abrams, veteran members of the individual houses, but to be confined to Education that Extension Division will Masque, were named for leading roles the house premises. again this year present courses in Maine Alpha Gamma Rho abolished the tradi- towns and cities. Class Elections— tional informal initiation in favor of a More than thirteen Maine communities November 16 was set by the General Greek Week, which is being advocated will be the centers of the General Exten­ Senate for the primary balloting for the by many of the national fraternities. A sion Division courses designed primarily names to appear on the ballots for the constructive program of pledge training for teachers and school administrators. election of class officers on December 7. and fraternity education is substituted for Almost one thousand teachers are en­ The three week interim was designed the paddles and missions of H ell Week. rolled in these courses. to give students an opportunity to be­ Editorially, the Campus called for aboli­ Eighteen Saturday Extension courses come acquainted with the candidates and tion of Hell Week, terming it as “com­ on the campus are being offered during to allow the candidates to “ publicize their pletely unnecessary and more trouble than the fall semester for elementary and sec­ platforms and to explain their aims and it’s worth.” ondary school teachers within commuting policies if elected.” Tau Kappa Epsilon and Sigma Phi distance of the University. Academic The three top candidates for each office Epsilon also voted in favor of a Greek credits toward degrees are given for these in the primary will appear on the final Week program. courses for which 53 have registered. ballot.

THE MAINE ALUMNUS 11 NOVEMBER, 1948 STATE SERIES STATISTICS Maine Bates First downs 10 11 Yds. gained rushing 149 142 Net gain rushing 129 102 Passes attempted 11 19 Passes completed 3 6 Interceptions by 0 5 49 103 talk of the year. What Coach Allen said Yds. gained passing OR the first time the historic “state Number of punts 3 8 series” ended in a three-way tie with to the squad has not been recorded, but Punting average 40 41 Maine, Bates and Bowdoin sharing the it was followed by a spontaneous cheer Fumbles 3 0 honors, each having won two and lost one that echoed from the pines of the campus. Opp. fumbles recovered 0 3 Yards penalized 35 70 game with Colby having failed to score a It was evident that Maine held in con­ victory. tempt the sportswriters’ predictions and Maine Colby Pre-series dopesters held Bowdoin as that the Team and Coach held each other First downs 8 6 Net yds. gained rushing 148 18 the favorite to wrest the state title and in respect. It became a fact Saturday af­ Passes attempted 10 27 thereby possession of the Gov. Barrows ternoon on Whittier Field after Bow- Passes completed 3 9 Trophy given by Lewis O. Barrows ’16 doin’s first touchdown, for Maine began Net yds. gained passing 44 102 Passes intercepted by 2 0 and dedicated to his son, Edward ’42, who to show the fighting spirit so typical of Fumbles 2 5 was killed in action in Germany. (By this game. Opponents’ fumbles recovered 4 1 agreement the cup will be held by Maine From then to the final whistle, it was a No. punts 10 8 for four months and then Bowdoin and game that kept people sitting on the edge Punt average 37 34.5 Penalties—yds. 40 40 Bates for a similar period.) of their seats. It was one of the most courageous fights that a Maine eleven had Bowdoin Maine Bates 31—Maine 0 ever waged. First downs 22 10 Yds. gained, rushing 286 203 While Bowdoin won the battle of sta­ The Adam Walsh coached Polar Bears, Forwards 14 5 tistics, Maine won the game 7-6 on Domb- with plenty of depth in all positions plus Completed 7 1 kowski’s conversion. While several men Yds. gained 64 20 a number of backfield stars, was favored played an outstanding game, it was the in­ Forwards intercepted by 0 3 by many after having swamped Colby Punting average 16 45 spired play of every man who saw action 21-0 and edged past Bates 13-12, a team Fumbles 3 2 that downed a fighting Bowdoin team Recovered by 1 3 that rolled over a hapless Maine team 31-0. and kept intact the record that Adam Yds. lost, penalties 5 5 Maine opened the series with Bates, Laterals 1 Walsh has never defeated a team coached which had won but one pre-series game by Eck Allen. because Blanchard and Parent, destined to Varsity team scores in the New Eng­ make the All-Maine Team again, had not CROSS-COUNTRY lands were Rhode Island 51, Massachu­ been playing. Bates was “up” for the setts 121, Coast Guard 143, Tufts 145, game and Maine, playing its worst game Coach Chester Jenkins’ harriers an­ M.I.T. 158, Springfield 168, Williams 182, of the season, was no match for the Bob­ nexed their third successive state title Northeastern 184, Maine 205, and Bos­ cats from the mid-point of the second when Bates and Bowdoin were defeated. ton University 225. quarter. Colby did not participate. The team scores Maine did not enter a team in the IC4A were Maine 20, Bates 51, and Bowdoin meet in New York. Wallace and Harn- Maine 21—Colby 0 67. Maine placed six runners in positions don did compete but were not among the from second to seventh, with “Red” Horne Before a large Homecoming crowd, first twenty to finish. However, the fresh­ of Bates nosing Maine’s John Wallace by Maine overran a courageous, but weak, man team competed and finished in seventh two yards in a spirited finish. Colby team. Passing and running plays place among the top teams in the east. While Bates and Colby had been sched­ gave Maine command of the game uled earlier this year for dual meets, they The outlook for 1949 is promising. throughout the afternoon. Colby, desperate, withdrew because of weak squads. The Coach Jenkins looks for his best postwar particularly in the last quarter, attempted University of New Brunswick and Spring- season with veterans having gained the a passing game but found the Black Bears field College replaced them on the sched­ needed experience and strength coming pass defense which had been weak all ule. from this year’s freshman team. season, sufficient to keep them from threat­ A strong Springfield team won, as was ening. The superb kicking of Noyes, Kit- expected, 19-44, placing five scorers in the BASKETBALL tery sophomore, did much to keep the first seven men to cross the line. Miller Seeking to retain their state title, Maine White Mules deep in their own territory and Taddonio of the Gymnasts broke the opens the basketball season on December during much of the game. tape together and came within 7.6 seconds 4 with Bates. Fortified by such veterans Maine 7—Bowdoin 6 of breaking the course record set by as Charlie Goddard, Hank Peasley, A l Lloyd Blethen in 1946. This record was Hopkins, Jerry Begert and Al Wing, the The underdog by at least twenty points, shattered in the New Hamsphire meet, squad has strong contenders from the 1947 Eck Allen and the team approached the when Maine was edged 26-29 by Si Dunk- Annex squad in Dentremont and Mahaney Bowdoin game with a determination and lee of the visitors. and in Lynch and McCormack from last spirit that was to prove again that rec­ In the New Englands, Maine was in year’s jayvees. ords mean nothing in this traditional con­ ninth place. The Yankee Conference title During Coach Allen’s visit to the Lahey test. was also at stake with Maine finishing in Clinic in Boston for observation, the team When Bowdoin scored early in the first third place behind Rhode Island and will be coached by Sam Sezak ’31 and quarter, the spectators sat back to watch Massachusetts but ahead of New Hamp­ Rome Rankin. the expected happen. But those spectators shire, which had earlier in the season de­ There will be one round of the state had not been on Alumni Field in Orono feated Maine. series played before the Christmas holi­ the preceding afternoon when the Maine In the freshman race, Maine was in days, with the other two rounds sched­ squad held a light workout before gath­ third place trailing New Hampshire and uled for the new year. ering about Eck Allen for the last pep Boston University. Once again lack of seating capacity

THE MAINE ALUMNUS 12 NOVEMBER, 1948 prevents alumni and the public from wit­ Varsity Basketball Schedule With the FACULTY nessing the home games, except one to be Dec. 4 Bates (62-59)* played with Massachusetts on January 1, Dec. 8 at Colby (71-55) Dr. Hauck attended the inauguration prior to the opening of college. Dec. 11 at Bowdoin (55-47) of Dwight D. Eisenhower as president of Jan. 1 Massachusetts (59-48) Letter Awards Jan. 6 at Connecticut (29-63) Columbia University. He also witnessed Jan. 7 at Rhode Island (32-48) the inauguration of the University of New An unusual number of forty varsity Jan. 8 at Northeastern (56-52) Hampshire’s new president, A. S. Adams. football letters were awarded at the an­ Jan. 13 Colby (53-57) At the inauguration of Dr. Van Meter Jan. 15 at Bowdoin (61-41) nual awards banquet. Alton Sproul ’49, Jan. 18 at Bates (64-56) as president of the University of Massa­ quarterback, was elected honorary cap­ Feb. 5 Connecticut (39-46) chusetts, Dr. Hauck spoke as representa­ tain. Feb. 9 New Hampshire (50-47) tive of the Land Grant Colleges. Other honorary captains elected were: Feb. 12 Bowdoin (57-43) Feb. 16 Bates (78-67) Associate Professor of English, Cecil John Wallace ’50, varsity cross-country; Feb. 18 Northeastern (64-45) J. Reynolds, won a total of twenty-five Charles Burgess ’51, jayvee football; W il­ Feb. 22 Rhode Island (43-55) prizes, 16 first and 9 seconds, in the liam Bird ’52 (Maurice C. ’13), freshman Feb. 25 at New Hampshire (57-68) amateur class, at the Maine Gladiola Feb. 26 at Colby (57-58) football, and Stephen Hopkinson ’52, jay­ show in Waterville. vee cross-country. * Maine score listed first. Robert T. Hart, assistant professor of A total of 138 varsity letters, numerals Chemistry, who prepared a number of and minor M’s were awarded in varsity Varsity Indoor Track new alkyl derivatives of tetralin and and junior varsity football and cross­ Jan. 15 Intramural Meet napthalene during a summer research country and freshman football. Jan. 22 K. of C. Meet at Boston problem, had had a paper accepted for Feb. 19 New Hamsphire at Orono Intramural Sports publication in the Journal of the Ameri­ Feb. 26 Springfield at Orono can Chemical Society. Mar. 5 Northeastern at Orono In the penultimate round of intramural Mar. 12 Boston University at Orono Professor Lyle C. Jenness, head of the touch-football, Phi Kappa Sigma edged Department of Chemical Engineering, has Kappa Sigma 2-0 to win the fraternity Jayvee Basketball Schedule been named a member of the Chemical league. Hannibal Hamlin blanked North Engineering Committee of TA P PI. He Dec. 4 Ricker J.C. Dorm #18, 12-0, to win the dormitory Dec. 11 at Brunswick Annex recently attended a TAPPI conference final. Jan. 13 A.S.N.S. in Buffalo. He also attended a meeting Phi Kappa Sigma won the final round Jan. 15 at Bowdoin J.V. of the Engineering College Research Jan. 18 at Bates J.V. in a wet game when they whitewashed Feb. 5 Hebron Acad. Council in Washington, and with Dr. their dormitory opponents 18-0, scoring on Feb. 9 Coburn E. F. Thode, was present at the annual the opening kick-off. Feb. 12 Bowdoin J.V. meeting of American Institute of Chemi­ Forty-three teams in three leagues will Feb. 16 Bates J.V. cal Engineers in New York. Feb. 18 Brunswick Annex play more than 300 games before the in­ Feb. 22 Higgins Dean Paul Cloke won high recognition tramural title is decided. The dormitories recently when he was named general will be divided into the Blue and White Winter Sports Program chairman of the national committee on Leagues while the fraternities will com­ engineering curricula of the American Dec. 29-Jan. 3 Intercollegiate Week at prise the third league. Lake Placid, New York Society for Engineering Education. He The Blue and White Leagues seem to Jan. 8 Brunswick Annex at Orono represented the University at the 50th be somewhat muddled, but in the frater­ Jan. 15 Bates, Bowdoin, Colby at Orono. anniversary convocation of Northeastern (Not State Meet) University. Dean Cloke presented a nity league Phi Mu, Kappa Sig, Phi Eta, Jan. 22 New Brunswick (Pending) Phi Gam, and Beta appear to be strong and Colby at Orono paper before the American Institute of again this year. Kappa Sig is the present Feb. 5 Rumford Carnival Electrical Engineers in Washington in title holder. The intramural schedule will Feb. 11-12 Dartmouth Carnival October. Feb. 18-19 State Intercollegiate The leading article in the November be under the direction of Assistant Pro­ Championships fessor Harold Woodbury ’36. Feb. 25-26 Middlebury Carnival number of Better Homes and Gardens Mar. 5 Eastern Championships and was written by Professor Walter R. Intramural Hockey Golden Ski Races at Bald Mountain Whitney, of the English Department of the University of Maine. The article is Dean Elton “Tad” Wieman has an­ with Maine’s squad being picked as an all- entitled “What, No Basement?” and deals nounced a committee of four faculty star combination. with the difficulties encountered by owners members and three students to investigate of modern style dwelling houses. He is the ice hockey situation. The committee New Opponent the owner and occupant of a modern consists of Stan Wallace, Whoops Snively, house on the banks of the Stillwater. Ted Curtis and Kilpatrick of the depart­ Faculty Manager Ted Curtis has an­ Dr. G. William Small, professor of ment of buildings and grounds, Bob Dag- nounced that Springfield College will re­ English, has completed and published an digian, Jack Zollo, and Carleton Smith. place Northeastern on next year’s foot­ educational survey and plan for the guid­ The plans, which have been arranged ball schedule. Vermont will fill that date ance of Army officers. Begun during the primarily by Wallace, who heads the starting in 1950. Maine is taking the summer of 1947, it has recently been group, call for interested goalies to choose step to ensure acceptance into the Yankee officially adopted as a training bulletin to teams from those men who are interested. Conference, which calls for a minimum be used in all theatres of operation. Those who want to play hockey are asked number of conference opponents. to appear personally at the men’s athletic Dr. Small, who is a colonel in the Coast office to sign up. Wally emphasizes the Hockey Supper— Artillery Reserve, was called to active personal appearance, and says that names The Annual Hockey Supper takes place duty with the Army, General Staff during will not be considered unless the persons Tuesday, December 7, in the smoker at the summers of 1947 and 1948 to carry present themselves. Balentine. The supper is in recognition of out this project. Colonel Small is Vice If the interest is high enough, and if the All-Maine and All-Maine Reserve President of the Maine District of the the league is successful, a game with Hockey Teams which will be announced Reserve Officers’ Association of the either Colby or Bowdoin may be arranged at that time. (Continued on Page 14)

Th E MAINE ALUMNUS 13 NOVEMBER, 1948 1912 AIDS B UILDING FUND

Class numerals that are already in those areas is anticipated in the next groups in Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago, well emblazoned in the records of few months. St. Louis, Minneapolis, Sioux City, Seat­ the University take on new significance Wayland D. “ Pep” Towner T4 of tle, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, with a gift of $1,600 by the class to the Comfort, Texas, known to a host of and Nashville, as well as several points Union Building Fund. alumni as the first Executive Secretary of alumni concentration. of the Alumni Association, has accepted This gift, the largest by far of any Uncle Sam Gives, Too class, will underwrite one of the memorial the chairmanship of the Fund in Texas. fireplaces in the Union Building. To be “ Pep” will bring new emphasis to the As the year draws to a close, the at­ known as the 1912 Fireplace, it will bear campaign in the Lone Star State. Long tention of alumni is called to the en­ a tablet in tribute to the class. connected with fund raising, he has volun­ couragement that the income tax laws One of the most active alumni classes teered his services to help bring to frui­ give to contributions to the Union Build­ both as an organization and as individuals, tion a student union which, as “ Pep” says, ing Fund. Uncle Sam will pay part of 1912 voted at its reunion last June to ap­ “was much needed when I was alumni most contributions made to the Fund. point a committee to allocate certain class secretary twenty years ago.” Just how much that help amounts to is funds to the benefit of the University. No stranger to Texans, Towner was shown on the table below. Arthur L. Deering, Dean of the College made an Honorary Native Texan by Alumni are asked to consider year end of Agriculture, was appointed chairman Governor Coke Stevenson a few years gifts to the Union Building Fund. The of the committee of which Maurice D. ago in recognition of his “generosity, need is NOW, but your gift will benefit Jones, Benjamin C. Kent, and William E. friendliness and leadership” displayed as generations of Maine students. Schrumpf are the other members. executive of the War Chest Campaign After a complete study of the needs of which raised over $12,000,000 in Texas. With the Faculty the University, the committee voted to Major Alan C. Hamilton '33, now com­ ( Continued from Page 13) give the funds to the Unon Building Fund manding officer of the Dallas Chemical United States. and thus assist in filling the urgent de­ Procurement District of the Army, has Dr. Charles A. Dickinson, professor of mand for a student union. Thus the class agreed to assist Chairman Towner in the Psychology, was reelected to the council gift helps memorialize the 180 Maine Dallas area. A chemical engineering of the National Committee for Mental men who gave their life in World War major at Maine, Major Hamilton was a Hygiene at its recent annual convention II and also to perpetuate handsomely the member of Delta Tau Delta. He entered in New York. name of 1912. the service in 1940 and saw service in the Professor Dickinson has been active E.T.O. H e attained the rank of lieutenant in mental hygiene work over a period of Campaign Goes West colonel, and in June of 1947 was commis­ years. He has served as secretary of the Heeding the advice given by John sioned a major in the Regular Army. Maine Teacher’s Mental Hygiene As­ sociation and until recently published its Soule in 1851 of “Go West” to young Another service man to join the Union bulletin. men seeking opportunity, William C. Building Fund campaign is Commander Dr. Herbert Edward of the English Darroch ’39, Associate Director of the Roger D. Hutchins '36, now attached to Department, an authority on American Fund, is currently visiting fund workers the Eighth Naval District in New Or­ fiction, is co-author of an article in the in the west and southwest. His reports leans. He flew to Shreveport, Louisiana, September issue of the Modern Language to fund headquarters reports much en­ to meet with other campaign workers Association monthly. thusiasm among alumni in those areas for under the chairmanship of Robert Scott “ School for City Managers” by Dr. the proposed student union. '28. Rog has been in the Navy since 1936 Edward F. Dow, head of the Department With the reopening of the campaign in except for a brief period following the of History and Government, was one of the west, the response has been so heart­ cessation of hostilities. the feature articles in the October Na­ ening that the achievement of the goals Mr. Darroch met with responsive tional Municipal Review. The public management course of Dr. Dow’s depart­ If Taxed ment was featured in the autumn issue of Income Less The Pine Cone, published quarterly by Exemptions the Maine Publicity Bureau. —And Your 1948 Contribution Is is Dean Elton E. “Tad” Wieman, direc­ Single Married Person Couple $50 $100 $150 $200 $250 $300 $350 $400 $450 $500 tor of Physical Education, is the author of an article in a new book called “ New $ 500 $ 1,000 $42 $ 83 $125 Football Plays.” Fifty-six leading foot­ 1,000 2,000 42 83 125 $167 $208 $250 ball coaches submitted material for the 2,000 4,000 42 83 125 167 208 250 $292 $334 $375 $417 publication. 3,000 6,000 YOU 40 81 121 161 202 242 282 323 363 403 John R. McKenna, Ottawa, Ont., has 4,000 8,000 40 81 121 161 202 242 282 323 363 403 been appointed to the position of docu­ 5,000 10,000 PAY 39 77 116 154 193 231 270 308 347 386 ments and serials assistant in the Library. 6,000 12,000 39 77 116 154 193 231 270 308 347 386 A graduate of Queen’s University with 7,000 14,000 37 74 110 147 184 221 258 294 331 368 a B.A. degree, McKenna also holds a 8,000 16,000 37 74 110 147 184 221 258 294 331 368 B.S.L.S. degree from McGill University. 9,000 18,000 35 70 105 140 175 210 245 280 315 350 Mr. McKenna served for two years as 10,000 20,000 35 70 105 140 175 210 245 280 315 350 a radio operator in the Royal Canadian 11,000 22,000 33 67 100 133 166 200 233 266 300 333 Air Force, has been an audit clerk in the 12,000 24,000 33 67 100 133 166 200 233 266 300 333 Canadian Civil Service, and has also held 13,000 26,000 31 62 93 124 155 186 218 249 280 311 various responsible positions with indus­ 14,000 28,000 31 62 93 124 155 186 218 249 280 311 trial concerns.

THE MAINE ALUMNUS 14 NOVEMBER, 1948 A New College in An Old Country ( Continued from Page 7)

loudest-mouthed isolationist congressman are the ones which make the foreign head­ lines. Americans tried to show the feel­ ing of the people of our country in their desire to share in the world’s tragic suf­ Cumberland County— The Berkshires— fering. The discussions were usually held Alumni gathered on the eve of the George W . Sullivan T8, president of in three languages: German, French, and Bowdoin game to hear Dean “ Tad” Wie- the Western Massachusetts Alumni As­ English. Naturally some of the most able man discuss athletics at Maine. On dis­ sociation, is bringing new life to alumni young people were also the translators, play at the meeting was the Brice-Cowell activities in the Berkshires. and sometimes the translators would be­ Trophy which has been given by the An early fall meeting in October in come so embroiled in the issue being dis­ Portland alumni of Maine and the Uni­ Springfield was followed by one in Pitts­ cussed that they would forget to translate versity of New Hampshire. This trophy field in November. This is the first time what was being said until their participa­ will be awarded to the winner of the that an alumni group have met in the tion in the argument would be drowned out annual Maine-New Hampshire game and Berkshires. The arrangements, under the with shouts of “translate,” “ translate.” will remain in its possession until de­ direction of Frank L. Harmon ’17, were But the most valuable discussions and feated. It is a colonial musket and a so successful that the group is planning international get-acquainted sessions were valuable collector’s item. for another Pittsfield - meeting in the held on the work projects. A technique The trophy is named after Fred “Foxy” spring. was developed of keeping both the work Brice and Bill Cowell, long-time coaches going and the conversation going at the at Maine and New Hampshire, respec­ Alumni Teachers— same time. Working with the college-age tively. To a game that is already a keen An overflow crowd of alumni attended campers were a dozen younger boys who rivalry, this trophy will bring added the Teachers’ alumni meeting during the were in a delinquent home—one of the meaning. Portland alumni are to be con­ state convention in Portland. Ermo Scott Chambon projects. They had committed gratulated on their interest in establish­ ’31, deputy commissioner of education, petty crimes and were subjects of a new ing the trophy. was the speaker. experiment in France in trying to re­ Frederic S. Sturgis ’38 was elected Newly elected officers of the group are deem such boys through special homes president of the Cumberland County Mrs. Jennie Harding ’45, president; Ar- manned by a high type of leader. alumni with Howard W . Stevens ’34, vard Webster ’30, vice president; Mrs. The friendships created between these vice president and Dana Sidelinger ’36, Jean Huff ’31, treasurer and John Sealey, boys and the work campers were a fea­ secretary-treasurer. Members of the ex­ Jr. ’36, secretary. ture of the summer. When two of the boys ecutive committee are Alfred W . Perkins ran away and were in danger of falling ’31, Claude H. Tozier ’25, Maynard Cumberland Loan Fund— into the hands of the police which would Hinks ’32, retiring president, Robert Cumberland County alumni have pre­ remove them from the home and place Fuller ’38, Roy F. Stevens ’10, Earl sented $1,546 to the University of Maine them in a reform school or jail, the emo­ Reed ’38, John Goff ’48, and Everett to establish the Cumberland County Stu­ tion of the work campers was a remark­ Ingalls, Jr. ’44. dent Loan Fund. able testimony to the love that had been In establishing this fund, the Associa­ created in the hearts of these very privi­ when 150 denominations from 40 countries tion suggested that senior students from leged young people for these others who formed the World Council of Churches in Cumberland County, who have demon­ had run afoul of society. Amsterdam. Here were gathered the out­ strated a need for assistance, be given The last part of my summer in Europe standing Christian leaders of the non- preference in loans from this fund; that was spent in Germany and at the First Roman and non-Russian world today. interest on loans from this fund be at Assembly of the World Council of Many of them as Martin Niemoeller, a nominal rate as determined by the Churches in Amsterdam. In Germany I Bishop Bergravv of Norway, and one of University; and that repayment should saw and felt for the first time just how the six presidents of the W orld Council, be made within the year following gradu­ ation. deep the tragedy of war goes. It does Dr. Tsu Chen Chao of China had been something to your emotions which you living martyrs for the faith; Niemoeller cannot put on paper. The remarkable in a concentration camp eight years, Ber­ Merry meeting— cleaning up in Rotterdam and London is gravv leading the outspoken opposition to Alumni of the Bath-Brunswick area, not duplicated in Germany because the Quisling; Dr. Chao, a prisoner of the meeting as the Merrymeeting Alumni As­ victorious nations haven’t been able to Japanese. The longing and determination sociation, held their annual dinner and decide whether they wanted Germany to at Amsterdam to make Christian unity a election of officers on the Brunswick cam­ recover and have offered them little help reality which would hold the world to­ pus on November 5. and incentive up to now. The currency gether is the most hopeful fact in the Retiring president Harold E. Pratt ’21 reform was bringing hardship but real world today. was succeeded by Arthur S. Bowker ’22. hope to the German populace. One was amazed at the work of the German churches in striving to shoulder the her­ INFLATION is graphically repre­ culean task of caring for their “second sented by this check sent to the population” the 12,000,000 displaced per­ Union Building Fund by an alumna sons, 10,000,000 of whom are not Hitler in Shanghai. In payment of a quar­ terly pledge of $5.00, this million D.P.’s, but those created by the victorious dollar check was worth but 12 cents powers. This work is being greatly aided when it reached the New York by Church World Service. Clearing House, with the further refusal of the bank to even credit It was a great thrill to be present as a the account with that amount. press representative at the most impor­ tant meeting of Christendom in 1,200 years,

THE MAINE ALUMNUS 15 NOVEMBER, 1948 top Equipment Company in Johnstown, Pa. His address is 105 Fayette St., Johns- town, Pa. 1905 Henry K. Dow is President- Treasurer of the Rocrod Press, Commercial Printing, 11 Portland St., Rochester, N. H. His home address is 15 Portland St., Rochester. Joseph T. Winslow retired in 1945 after 1879 gical consultant at the Bangor State Hos­ practicing law and serving as Associate CHARLES WINGATE GIBBS. pital. He was a member of the Bangor Editor of the Lawyer’s Co-operative Pub­ Word has been received in the Alumni Rotary Club and of the Penobscot Valley lishing Company in Rochester, N. Y., for Office of the death of Charles Wingate Country Club. His professional affilia­ 40 years. Mr. Winslow has a residence Gibbs on November 11, 1948 in Con­ tions included the American Medical As­ at Springwater, N. Y., and spends his cord, California. He was graduated from sociation, the Maine Medical Association winters in Florida. the University of Maine with a degree (of which he was a council member), the in Civil Engineering and has done work American College of Surgeons, and the 19 0 6 Edward K. Colby has retired in various parts of the country during a Penobscot County Medical Association, 1 9 0 6 from the General Electric Com­ long career. He maintained an office in of which he was a past president. Never pany in Lynn, Mass. He lives at 7 Cen­ Telluride, Colorado, for years, and was satisfied to stand still professionally, Dr. tennial Ave., Saugus, Mass. active in early railroad work in the Herlihy spent the summer of 1935 in On August 19, 1948 Walter H . Burke Rocky Mountains. He was employed for graduate study in Vienna, Austria; and and Anne R. Lamberton were married in 25 years by the Utah Construction Com­ he frequently went to medical centers to Scarsdale, N. Y. M r. Burke is Vice pany. He retired from active work in keep abreast of new techniques in the President of Ebasco Services, Inc., 2 Rec­ 1926 and has lived in Concord ever since. field of medicine and surgery. tor St., New York City. Mr. and M rs. He has done surveying work in that area He was a thoroughly charitable man Burke are at home at 19 Walbrooke Rd., during his years of retirement. Mr. Gibbs and no worthwhile cause went forward Scarsdale, N. Y. was a native of Glenburn, Maine. He without his support. Many a family need­ James G. Wallace has accepted a posi­ was a member of Telluride (Colo.) ing medical attention and lacking the tion as City Manager of Fair Lawn, N. J. Lodge No. 56, F. & A.M., Concord funds to pay received help from Dr. Fair Lawn adjoins Paterson, N. J., and is Chapter 384, O.E.S., and Woodmen of Herlihy. No one ever knew about these a community of about 6,000. Other cities the World. He held a 50 year member­ cases from his lips, but there were many. in which M r. Wallace has held admini­ ship button in the Masonic Lodge. Dr. Herlihy is survived by his wife, strative posts are Bangor, Maine; Fargo, Mrs. Madeline Robinson Herlihy; a N. Dakota; Kenosha, Wisconsin; Wilm­ 1900 daughter, Miss Alary Ellen Herlihy; a ington, N. Carolina; and Hopewell, Va. DANIEL LARA PHILOON. Daniel sister, Airs. Thomas Curran of Bangor; Lara Philoon died in Auburn, Maine, on and a brother, James Herlihy of Bangor. 1 9 0 7 Albert W . Stevens, Lieutenant March 4, 1948. For many years he was His son, Edward L. Herlihy, Jr., was Colonel, U.S.A., retired, who a druggist in Newton, Mass. He retired killed just a year ago on October 24th was obliged to retire from the army on in 1947 and came to Auburn to live. He in an automobile accident. account of his health, is reported to be held a Doctor of Pharmacy degree from very much better and is able to enjoy the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy 1921 some of his leisure time. He resides at as well as a B.S. degree in Chemistry ARTHUR GREENLEAF DOW. On 400 Hill Crest Rd., San Carlos, Calif. from the University of Maine. He was a August 1, 1947 Arthur Greenleaf Dow Joseph H. Brooks, 15 Spring St., member of Kappa Sigma fraternity. passed away at his home in Foxboro, Brunswick, retired last spring from the 1918 Mass. Interment was in South Paris, Maine Central Railroad Company after Maine. He was a graduate of the Uni­ 41 years of service. He has four grand­ EDWARD LEO HERLIHY. The versity with a degree in Electrical En­ sudden and untimely death of Dr. Edward children. gineering, and for many years had been Robie L. Mitchell, of the firm of L. Herlihy of Bangor came as a deep a Design Engineer for pressure, tempera­ shock to all of Maine when he succumbed Mitchell and Pershing, 120 Broadway, ture, and flow instruments for the Fox­ to a heart attack on October 31st in Port­ N. Y., recently became an affiliate mem­ boro Company in Foxboro, Mass. land, Maine, where he had gone to attend ber of the American Society of Civil En­ gineers. Last February he gave an ad­ the annual meeting of the Maine Medical 1949 Association. dress at the annual meeting in Portland RICHARD BAILEY FISHER. News of the Maine Water Utilities Associa­ He was constantly working for the of the untimely death of Richard Bailey tion. This address later appeared in betterment of the community. The proj­ Fisher has reached the Alumni Office. printed form in the Daily Bond Buyer and ect nearest to his heart was the establish­ He died in his sleep at his home in Rock­ the magazine Water and Sewage Works. ment of a medical school at the Universi­ land recently. He served in World War M r. Mitchell lives at 127 Oxford Blvd., ty of Maine. He had given a great deal II and was majoring in Mechanical Engi­ Garden City, N. Y. of his time and energies in the past two neering at the University. George H. Hayter does local private years to the espousing of this cause going surveying and house plans in Clinton, about the state speaking to various groups Mass. His address is 284 East Street. in an endeavor to impress upon many BY CLASSES Eva Libby Jordan closed her Real people the very great need for such a Estate office in St. Petersburg, Florida, school in order to keep the young men 1 8 8 9 George G. Freeman of Cherry- for the summer and spent July and of Maine who go into the medical profes­ field has retired from his Law August in Maine, which she had not sion within the state. He did much re­ practice. visited since 1941. Her Florida address search on this subject and had visited is 840 11th Ave., South, St. Petersburg. several medical centers in order to gain 1895 Charles A. Frost has retired Myles W. Illingsworth, Concord Hall, all possible information to bring to reality from his work as a civil engi­ 3 Concord Ave., Cambridge, Mass., is the establishment of a medical school at neer with the Commonwealth of Massa­ manager of the Massachusetts Motor the University of Maine. At the time of chusetts Water Department. He lives at Truck Association, Inc., 262 Washington his death he was chairman of a committee 67 Henry St., Framingham, Alass. St., Boston, Mass. The Association’s pub­ named by Governor Horace A. Hildreth lication “ Modern Transporation” is edited to study the need for such a school. 1 898 Walter E. Ellis has retired as 1898 Treasurer and Manager of the and published under his direction. Dr. Herlihy attended the University of Nashua Corporation Iron Foundry. From Maine from 1914 to 1916 after which he October 15 to May 15 he lives at 63 1 9 0 9 Earle W . Hall is superintendent transferred to Bowdoin Medical School Berkeley St., Nashua, N. H. And from o f trucks for the Hollingsworth receiving his M.D. degree from that insti­ May 15 to October 15 at Cameron Point, and Whitney Company in Waterville. tution in 1920. He interned at the Eastern Southport, Maine. His home address is 20 Morrill Avenue. Maine General Hospital in Bangor and 1910 Oscar H. Emery is retired as a was appointed to the surgical staff in 1922. 1 9 0 0 Christopher A. Erskine is a 1 9 0 0 salesman of automotive equip­ lawyer and judge. He lives in At the time of his death he was physician Bar Harbor. ment and replacement parts and supplies. for the Bangor Home for Aged Men, a George E. Gifford has retired from the His business address is 664 Common­ surgeon on the board of the Bangor Anti- teaching profession. He lives at 92 Maple wealth Ave., Boston 15, Mass., while he Tuberculosis Association, and a member St.. Middleton, Mass. lives at 220 Kelton St., Allston 34, Mass. of the committee of the Jackson Memori­ Herbert S. Hill, for 44 years a teacher al Laboratory. He was also a member of 1 9 0 1 Benjamin T. Faunce has retired and administrator in Maine schools, re­ the Advisory Committee for Bangor’s as President of Brown Fayre tired on September 1, 1948 as State Chronic Disease Hospital, and was a sur­ Co., and Henderson Brothers, and Black­ Director of Agricultural Education.

THE MAINE ALUMNUS 16 NOVEMBER, 1948 1 9 1 1 Charles H. Grant retired in 1944 outside sales with offices at 97 E. Howard jubilee last June agreed that we should as Superintendent of schools in St., Quincy 69, Mass. His home address shine more brightly and often from the Hampden, Hermon, and Levant. His ad­ is 143 Elmwood Ave., Wollaston 70, pages of the Alumnus. So, be sure to dress is Box 294, R.F.D. # 2, Bangor. Mass. polish up on your activities and rush them Alfred C. Hall is Postmaster in Argyle, 1918 Colonel Otto Totman, who is to me. N. Y. manager of Maine Food Pro­ My special gratitude goes to “ Stick” Stickney for the excellent pictures which Raymond W. Tibbetts is president of cesses in Eastport, was named to head he took of reunion. They are already in Tibbetts Industries, Inc., manufacturers a Rotary Club Committee to raise $1,000 the scrapbook which I am making. Wait of Piezo-electric devices, electronic de­ for that town’s War Memorial Pledge until you peek at them!!! Incidentally, vices and precision instruments at 21 Elm in September. St., Camden. “ Stick” is chief engineer with Instrument Dr. "Chester S. Phinney, Professor of 1 9 1 9 Elliott E. Hall is telephone en- Specialties Co., Inc. at Little Falls, N. J., Modern Languages for 20 years at gineer with the Western Elec­ and lives at 54 McKinley Ave.,, West Col­ Roanoke College, has retired because of tric Company in Newark, N. J. He lives well, N. J. ill health. His residence address is 137 at 249 Short Hills Ave., Springfield, N. J. Top billing for the girls of 1923 this Taylor Ave., Salem, Va. He has two sons and two grandsons. month goes to Gladys Staples who gave William C. Ellsworth is an Engineer up her successful job of teaching at 1912 Arthur L. Adams is -technical for the American Telephone and Tele­ Thompsonville, Conn., to bow to cupid. engineer for the S. P. Rico graph Company with offices at 32 Avenue She married Raymond A. Colburn of Sugar Co. in Ensanada, Puerto Rico. of the Americas, New York. His home Seal Harbor recently. Best of everything, Harry F. Downing is a mechanical address is 118 Otsego Place, Englewood, Gladys, and if any other members of 1923 engineer in the Planning Department of N. J. have been matching her romantically, the Mechanical Section of the U. S. John G. Furey is Superintendent of please wire me collect! Naval Shipyard at Portsmouth, N. H. Warehouses, Supply, AAF, Dow Field, Henry Doten spent two weeks of active His home address is 135 Thaxter Rd., Bangor. His home address is 101 Second duty at Fort Banks, Winthrop, Mass., Portsmouth. St., Bangor. during late October with about 70 other Roy W. French is publisher of Enter­ Francis S. Frye owns and runs the officers who are taking some special prise and Journal in Orange, Mass. He Orchard Hill Tourist Court on the Bel­ courses. Henry retains the rank of Major is also County Commissioner and vice fast Road in Camden. He has four chil­ which he held during active service in president of the Orange Cooperative dren—two boys and two girls. World War II. He also has the impor­ Bank. His home address is 12 High St., Mary Edwards Morse (Mrs. Joseph tant position at the University as you all Orange, Mass. T.) is retired and living at present at know, that of Business Manager. 19 14 Oswald B. Higgins is General 112 S. Halifax Drive, Port Orange, In a letter from Mabel Peabody Wilson Depot Manager of Parts and Florida. last summer, she said the following about Accessories Division of Ford Motor Com­ Blanche L. Haley is employed in the her husband: “Arthur is directing the pany, 3000 Schaefer Rd., Dearborn, Mich. offices of the Marcalus Manufacturing- work for a work-camp at a school in Mail goes to Orchard Ridge Road, Company in Lincoln, N. H. Her home France, Le College Cevenol. This work is being done by college students who go Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. address is 7 Edgewood St., Lincoln. Harvey R. Pease announced his candi­ Charles E. Foss is employed as Ma­ there for the summer. In August he is dacy in September for a new term as terial Clerk at the Bath Iron Works. going to Amsterdam for the World Coun­ Clerk of the Maine House of Representa­ His mail goes to P. O. Box 24, Dresden cil of Churches meeting.” I am hoping to tives. He has been Clerk of the House Mills. get more information about this fascinat­ since 1935 and served as assistant clerk Harry E. Henderson is Deputy State ing summer’s work. Personally, I’m three terms before that. Treasurer of the State of Maine. His terribly proud of Arthur for his outstand­ Elmer True and his son-in-law, David home address is 92 Green St. Augusta. ing success as a minister, author, and E. Brown, comprise the L. P. True Com­ youth leader. 1 9 2 0 Grace Tripp Foster (Mrs. Ever- And speaking of authors, a highlight pany in Hope, Maine, where the cello- K.) is employed as a sec­ phaned packages of mixed vegetables for of my summer was a visit with Virginia retary at the Strong W ood Turning Cor­ Chase. She and her husband have bought salad and spinach, currently so familiar poration plant. Mail goes to Strong, to the housewife, are packaged. Mr. a summer home at Edgecomb, Maine, Maine. which is full of historical romance. Vir­ True’s father, LaForrest True, established Milton C. Hansen is a Design Analyst a food processing business in an original ginia continues to combine lecturing and for the Pratt and Whitney Aircraft Com­ writing with her homemaking for her building in 1870; parts of this structure pany, 400 Main St., East Hartford, Conn. are still in use even though the methods husband, Wallace W . Perkins '24, at 22 His home address is 45 Strong St., Man­ Devonshire Rd., Pleasant Ridge, Mich., and end products are a far cry from those chester, Conn. that were used when the business was near Detroit. Alonzo A. Harriman was cited in the Olin L. Berry of Presque Isle gets our founded. The market area for the True August issue of Progressive Architecture congratulations for being elected presi­ Company’s products is Maine and New for his design of a box factory in West Brunswick. dent of the Maine Automobile Association. Bath. Now remember, 1923ers, this is only 1 9 1 5 Allan P. Gillis of Highland Ave., Lloyd R. Douglass is a telegraph the beginning... so write often to your Milo, is a salesman for Cook, methods engineer for the American Tele­ class secretary, Toni Torrey, 9 Poplar Everett, and Pennell of Portland, dealers phone and Telegraph Company, 32 Ave­ St., Bangor. in wholesale drugs. nue of the Americas, New York, and his home address is 31 Chestnut Road, 1 9 2 4 Mrs. C. C. Little Madison L. Gilman is a salesman with b ox 558 Bar Harbor, Maine offices at 265 Huntington Ave., Boston. Verona, N. J. The news this month consists of the His home address is 156 Summer St., 1 9 2 1 Mrs. Emilie K. Josselyn Newton Center, Mass. following items: 1921 15 Caryl Ave., Yonkers 5, N. Y. George E. Lord was awarded a Master Mollie Burleigh Goodwin writes John S. Barron is General Manager, of Arts degree in Public Administration 1916 that she has seven sons and a Northwest Operations, of the Diamond from Harvard University in June, 1948. daughter, and that they, with her husband Match Company. His business address is William Deane Haskins runs his own and home, occupy her full time. She lives The Dimond Match Co., Spokane, Wash., business which deals with insurance, ac­ at R.F.D. #4, Box 423, Biddeford, Maine. while his home address is 628 W . 25th St., counting, and real estate at 9 Clinton Rd., Frank W . Gray, Jr. is President and Spokane. Cape Elizabeth. Treasurer of Machias Farmers Union. Jerry Burrows, City Attorney of Rock­ Maxwell M. Erskine is Principal of His residence address is Jacksonville, land, is also President of the Rotary Club Jackman High School. His address is Maine. in that city. His address is 127 Summer Jackman during the school year and Roger L. Gowell is in the fertilizer St. Canaan, Maine, during the summers. sales business. His residence address is Arthur Chapman, after twenty-two Perhaps some of you would be inter­ R.F.D. #3, Auburn, Maine. years of business in Philadelphia, has re­ ested in the rebuilding of the Jackson George F. Eaton is an attorney-at- cently started, with two partners, a paint Lab here in Bar Harbor. Since the fire law practicing in the firm of Eaton and and lacquer manufacturing business under a year ago, one building has been repaired Peabody, 6 State St., Bangor. His home the company name of R. V. Twombly and and another has been completely built. address is 85 Highland Ave., Bangor. Son, Inc., at 33 Railroad Ave., Haverhill, Both of these have been in operation Mass. Arthur is President of the com­ since early summer. The Ladies Auxilia­ 1917 William W. Gallagher is en pany. Good luck to you, Arthur! ry of the Veterans of Foregin Wars has gaged in the general practice contributed toward rebuilding four new of law in Norway, Maine. His home ad 1 9 2 3 Mrs. Norman Torrey summer units, which take care of hous­ dress is 32 Winter St., Norway. 9 Poplar St., Bangor ing, feeding, and recreation of summer Bicknell Hall, Jr. is an estimator fo Those of us who attended our silver students who are being trained in scientific

THE MAINE ALUMNUS 17 NOVEMBER, 1948 research. These buildings were used to Home Economics in Fort Fairfield High area! So, please send news of yourself capacity this summer, and are a real School this year. to Elizabeth Livingstone, 8 Sanborn St., blessing. At present writing it looks as Paul Lamoreau’s family were sched­ Winchester, Mass.; or send it directly to though the many friends of the labora­ uled to join him in Presque Isle last week Ethel Sezak, 4 Gilbert St., Orono. tory, including the U. S. Government, and “ Cuddy” Bockus and family, who Myrilla and I have kept close contacts have succeeded in raising the money for have purchased Paul’s house in Bangor, during the fall by seeing each other at the actual building of a big new unit will have 92 Grant St. as their address the football games. Myrilla and Bill and which will serve as working space for from now on. family, Rilla 14, Michael 10, and Susan 6, scientific investigators. The progress is Everett Blackwell made us a nice call were right in there rooting for Maine at gratifying and inspiring to the men and on a Sunday. He had attended Home­ the Colby homecoming game and at Bow- women who are willing to give their best coming Friday and Saturday. He has doin, too. Myrilla reports that Polly efforts toward ways of saving mankind spent the past three years in Hammond, Stearns Loring’s oldest boy, Bill, is start­ in a world where at times it seems that Indiana, where he was supervising con­ ing high school this fall. Beryl Bryant certain members of other nations are bent struction of a new plant for Keyes Fibre Derry has a lovely little girl and is now toward opposite goals. Co. Now he is back in Fairfield, Maine, living at Cape Elizabeth. Congratula­ Best wishes to you all. and I think was enjoying the thoughts tions, Beryl! of a vacation hunting trip next week. His Visitors at early football practice one 1 9 2 5 Mrs. George Lord address is 21 Newhall St., Fairfield. afternoon this fall on campus were Don 38 Forest Ave., Orono, Maine The Alumni Office has sent along Marshall and Helene (Jackson) and their There are very few personals this several items which I shall pass along to family of two daughters and one son. Don month! Don’t forget to send them along, you: was on a short vacation from his heavy please! William H. Gardner is with the U. S. duties as an M.D. in Portland. They have Mrs. Harland Feeney (Winona Look) Navy as U. S. Navy Development Con­ a home in Cape Elizabeth. and two children live in Jonesboro, Maine. tract Assistant Head of Research and De­ John Branch, who is now teaching Arline Besse Buley’s husband, Dr. Hil­ velopment Section at General Electric Social Sciences in Old Lyme, Connecti­ ton C. Buley, has recently been appointed Co. in Schenectady, N. Y. His home ad­ cut, spends his summers as a counselor in commissioner of Education in New dress is 309 Third St., Scotia 2, N. Y. boys’ camps. Two years ago he was boat­ Hampshire, with headquarters in Con­ Vernon McFadden of Jonesport, was ing instructor at Camp Zakelo in Harri­ cord. Dr. Buley was formerly supervis­ a guest speaker on the Booster Night son, and last summer he was at Camp ing principal in Bound Brook, N. J. program in Perry Grange Flail in Sep­ Arundel near Raymond. Robert N. Haskell, State Senator, has tember. His subject was “ The Value of Prominent in the news of this month been appointed Republican finance chair­ the Grange to the Community.” Vernon has been Charlotte Cleaves Smith. Issues man for the Third Maine Congressional is manager of the Wm. Underwood Co. of the Bangor Daily News of September District. He is also to be one of the Marion Marsh (Mrs. Howard W. 14th carried a fine picture of Charlotte chief speakers at the annual conference Garand) of 103 W. Bow St., Franklin, along with an item about the forthcoming of the Maine Social Scientists held at N. H., writes that she is a housewife “ Plan Your Wardrobe” area meeting of the University of Maine. The subject of and substitute teacher in local high and the Penobscot County Farm Bureau at his talk will be “Fiscal Problems of junior high schools. Bangor City Hall on September 29th. Maine.” Keep the items coming—especially Dr. Stephen Brown resigned recently Charlotte, as extension clothing specialist, about class members who live outside the was the principal speaker of this all day as director of the Maine General Hospital State of Maine! in Portland. In point of service he is the session. On September 30th, front page Dean of Maine hospital administrators 1929 Miss Barbara Johnson notice was given with a picture and write­ having served the Maine General Hos­ 3 2 Orland St., Portland, Maine up about the huge success of the meeting, pital since 1930. We were sorry to hear Ruel E. Brown is Manager of Maxim’s with over 500 women from this section of his resignation was given due to ill Feed Store in Old Town. He lives in Maine attending. A resume of Charlotte’s health. Hope his well earned rest will Bradley. address was given along with a large be to his benefit. Porter H. Buckminster is owner of a photo of a cross section of the audience, Radio Sales and Service Shop at 89 watching the fashion show which followed 1 9 2 6 Mrs. Albert D. Nutting the speech making. Another fine picture 9 College Heights, Orono State St., Ellsworth, and half-owner and manager of an IGA grocery store at 34 of Charlotte appeared later in conjunc­ Myles Standish was seen in the stands tion with an announcement of the Interior at a home football game this fall. Myles Water St. in the same city. Mail reaches him at 89 State St. Decorating Symposium being conducted is with the Forester-Browne Company at the YW CA School for Adult Educa­ in Berlin, N. H. His home address is Dean R. Bailey is Superintendent of the New Franklin Laundry in Bangor. His tion. Charlotte is serving on the advisory 311 Church St. How about more details, committee for this course and is giving Myles, and a call from you the next time home address is 109 Norfolk St., Bangor. William C. Chapman lives in Bethel, the lecture on “ Household Textiles” as you’re back? one of the series of eight lectures by spe­ Charles A. Sherer is employed as Chief where he is engaged in farming and lum­ bering. He also raises Registered Beef cialists in various fields of interior decora­ Draftsman with the Fitchburg Engineer­ tion. ing Corporation, Fitchburg, Mass. Shorthorn Cattle. He is married and has Oren “ Ginger” Fraser is Vocational two children. On opening the morning paper on Agriculture Instructor at Leavitt Insti­ George E. Charles is Branch Manager September 25th, we were attracted by a tute, Turner Center, Maine. He also of the Reserve Lumber Company in Me­ picture of the officers of the Penobscot owns a poultry farm and runs an egg chanic Falls, Maine. County Teachers’ Association. Jessie hatching business. Charles W. Hamlin is in the Engineer­ Fraser, Bangor, was the new vice presi­ Austin Wilkins is Deputy Forest Com­ ing Department of the Water Works De­ dent and Hester Carter ’34, Old Town, missioner for the State of Maine and partment in Southington, Conn. Mail was re-elected secretary. lives at 3 Blaine Ave., Augusta. Austin goes to 65 High St., Southington. h e Joining the number of ’31ers already and his son were on campus for the lives, however, at 81 Maple St., Plants- on campus is Francis (Micky) McGuire. Maine-Bates game October 23rd. ville, Conn. Coming from the U. of M. Annex at Brunswick, where he was Business Man­ Ralph Floyd Dudley is Railway Mail 1 9 3 1 Mrs. Sam Sezak Service Clerk in charge of Railway Post ager last year. Francis is Director of 4 Gilbert St., Orono, Maine Plant and Facilities here on the Orono Office Rockland and Portland R.P.O. The biggest news for this month can be Guilbert R. “ Brick” Little of Portland campus. He is still continuing his work that some of the members of the 1931 on the Brunswick campus by commuting (19 Johansen St.), formerly Assistant news committee have been heard from, Cashier, has been elected Assistant Vice there each week for a couple of days. The namely Galen Veayo, Lib Livingstone, McGuire family, including Patty 10. Jerry President of the Canal National Bank in and Myrilla Daley. Portland. 8, and Paul 3, live at 3 Fernald Road, Galen, who is superintendent of schools Drvden Terrace, Orono. Harold E. Crozier is Sales Representa­ in Auburn, would like to have any of tive for the D. C. Heath Co., publishers, I am indebted to Micky also for the you ’31ers around that area contact him following items: in Western Massachusetts and Connecti­ with your personals. This is particularly cut. Mail goes to 110 Russell St., Man­ Hank Horne is Chief Engineer of chester, Conn. true of those who have moved there re­ Maintenance and Way for the Maine cently. Turnpike Authority. As previously re­ 1 9 2 7 Mrs. Robert P. Thaxter Lib writes that after a very trying year, ported, Lawrence Baston is a member of 106 Fountain St., Bangor with illness in her home playing a major the Turnpike Authority, too. My items are very few this time, but role, she is back at school work again. Bill Hamblet, who was back for Home­ maybe you perfer to see just a little bit Since she is so busy at work and home, coming, is now connected with the Hamb- rather than nothing at all under “ 1927” she would appreciate the effort of supply­ Ft Machine Company in Lawrence. Mass. in the Alumnus. ing news to rest upon your shoulders, This is a family company. Bill lives at Lucy Farrington Sheive is teaching members of 1931 in the Massachusetts 62 Chestnut St., Andover, Mass.

THE MAINE ALUMNUS 18 NOVEMBER, 1948 Ellen Wareham is Secretary to the under the sponsorship of the Columbia Homecoming. Perhaps we’ll hear all Business Manager of Phillips Exeter Street Community Center. Lillian has about activities via the grapevine! Academy in Exeter, N. H. been a teacher in the School for Physical­ A short time ago at the Poland Spring Maynard Blaisdell is Planning Engi­ ly Handicapped children at the Mary S. House, Carl Honer was present at a neer for the U. S. Navy at the Ports­ Snow School in Bangor for the past dinner celebrating the 100th anniversary mouth Navy Yard. twelve years. of the Union Mutual Life Insurance Com­ Loyal rooter for the Maine team for There was a very interesting article on pany. Carl was photographed and broke the Bates and Colby games was Ralph Carleton Davis in a recent Portland Press into print with the principal speaker, Davis. Ralph is representative for a paint Herald. By profession Carleton is a John “Ox” DaGrosa, former Holy Cross and varnish concern of Battleboro, Ver­ florist and greenhouseman, but he is a football coach and now field coach at mont. His family lives in Damariscotta. volunteer line coach for Biddeford High Temple University. Carl, as you know, John and Hazel (Sparrow) Russell and according to this newspaper report is with the Union Mutual Life Insurance have moved to Rockland where John has given excellent help to Coach W ar- Company in Portland. His home address is the new Superintendent of Schools. ner Keaney. is 242 Douglass St. Daughter, Carol, is starting high school Bob keeps me pretty well informed on Dick Barstow is Superintendent with this year. Ken Foster. His progress seems to be the W . H. Hinman Company, Inc., of I understand that Mary Sylvester was constant and always up. Ken has been North Anson, Maine. Dick is living at down for the football games, but I missed director of research for the Prudential 179 Mallett St., Cumberland Mills. A seeing her. Mary is located in Fort Kent Ordinary Agencies Department; he has Bill Halpine was visiting in New and is connected with the State of Maine recently been appointed Superintendent of York, last week. Bill, as you know, is Welfare Department. Am I right, Mary? Agencies for the newly formed Metropoli­ an antique dealer now. He is located in Kay Whitcomb Butler has been elected tan Area embracing New York, Newark, District Superintendent for Eastern Maine and Philadelphia. Bob expects to see Ken of the Association of Universalist Women this week in Chicago when they will be BANGOR BOX CO. of Maine. attending an Agency Convention. Ardon Mercier is representing a laun­ PAPER BOXES, FOLDING CARTONS dry and dry cleaning equipment company COMMERCIAL PRINTING 1932 75 So. Main St., Brewer, Me. Walter Sundstrom is a dairy farmer in in upper New York State, and he and H. F. Drummond, 1900 North Berwick. his family are living outside of Schenecta­ Pres, and Treas. Robert Morse is in the coal and lumber dy. business in Marlboro, Mass. 1 9 3 5 Mrs. Thomas McGuire J. Weldon Russell of Calais was ap­ 209 W . 107th St., Apt. 3-W, pointed superintendent of schools in Rock­ New York, N. Y. Member Federal Reserve Bank land and Rockport in September. The other evening at New York Uni­ Everett A. Gunning is Supervisor of versity I met Marion Rogers. Marion is Product Engineering in the Mill Hall completing work on her Ph.D. this year. plant of Sylvania Electric Products, Inc., How long since Miss Rogers whistled Mill Hall, Pa. His home address is 413 at us as we chased a hockey puck up E. Main St., Lock Haven, Pa. and down the Girls’ Athletic Field! It W. Osborn Davis is connected with the has been so long since I’ve seen the cam­ Fryeburg Electrical Supply Company, pus that I imagine this generation doesn’t Portland St., Fryeburg, Maine. His home remember the time that there was a field Young men and women will address is 47 North High St., Bridgton. for outdoor PT just beyond Colvin! Josephine Carbone Feeney (Mrs. Pat­ always find this banking in­ rick T.) is employed as a Psychiatric Hope some of the ’35ers got back for Social Worker with the Veterans Ad­ stitution interested and help­ ministration in Bangor. Her home ad­ SERVING ful in their business progress. dress is R. #7, Chase Road, Bangor. MAINE STUDENTS Responsibility is reflected by Franklyn Heald is manager of the S in c e 1 8 9 2 Power Plant for the Oxford Paper Com­ a checking account, which is pany in Rumford. P a r k ' s HARDWARE 1 9 3 3 Mrs. John R. Carnochan & V A RIETY also a factor in establishing 36 Goudy St., South Portland 31-37 MILL,ST.. ORONO. ME. credit and standing. Rosamond Cole Glazer is off again— this time to Saigon, Indo-China where her husband, Seymour Glazer of Wash­ ington, has been assigned as public infor­ T h e mation officer by the State Department. O LD SOUTH She has several magazine assignments but M e r r ill says everything she writes must clear Photo Engraving Corp. through the State Department because of Trust Company her husband’s position. 99 BEDFORD STREET With thirteen offices in Mary Scott Bratton and Bill arc living BOSTON, MASS • LIB 2042 at 3900 Souyten Duyvil Pkwy., New Eastern Maine York, N. Y. TAKES PRIDE IN SERVING Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Met Jack Farnsworth the other after­ noon. Jack remained in the army after The Maine Alumnus the war and is connected with the Officers Reserve Corps here in Portland. The O.R.C. Office is located in the U. S. Post Office building. Jack and his wife have ~As You Rem ember It-- four children—think of his food bill!!! Jack, Johnny Doyle, and Bill Thompson are planning to attend the Maine-Bow- doin game next Saturday. See you there! THE BOOKSTORE 1 9 3 4 Mrs. Robert C. Russ 39 Farm Hill Road, A Friendly Place! Cape Elizabeth, Maine I had hoped to see a good many mem­ bers of the class of ’34 at the Maine- S e rv in g Alumni, Faculty, and Students Bowdoin game—but I believe that Earl Brown was the one and only. W e at­ tended with Jack and Merle Leddy. UNIVERSITY STORE CO. Henry Conklin is Methods Engineer at Farrel Birmingham, Inc., in Ansonia, THE BOOKSTORE THE BARBER SHOP Conn. His home address is R.F.D. #1, Shelton, Conn. ON THE CAMPUS Lillian Wall is giving a six weeks course in Mental Hygiene in Bangor

THE MAINE ALUMNUS 19 NOVEMBER, 1948 Philadelphia, where he has just bought from Maine to be chosen. The women him at 4103 AAF BU, Jackson, Miss. a home. His address is Ingham Manor, were commissioned under the new Wom­ The course which Howard is taking lasts until the first of the year. New Hope, Pa. en’s Armed Services Integration Act of First Lieutenant Donald L. Kyer, Medi­ 1948. The initial group was picked by Portland’s U. of M. Alumnae Club cal Corps, was recently assigned to the a selection board appointed by Secretary sponsored a rummage sale October 25th Army and Navy General Hospital, Hot o f the Navy, John L. Sullivan, from re­ to earn money for the annual scholarship Springs National Park, Arkansas. Lt. serve women officers who requested trans­ and women’s watch award. Women of Kyer has his Ph.D. from Harvard and fers to the regulars and former W A V E the class of 1938 who live near here were an M.D. from the Boston University officers who applied for commissions. named to the committee to handle the sale. School of Medicine. Lt. Kyer and his Mary was the first girl in York County They were Betty Littlefield Hincks, Sarah mother plan to leave Bangor and live in to enlist in the W AVES. She entered Littlefield, Betty Clough West, Margaret Wood, and I. Besides having a nice get- Hot Springs. the service in September 1942, after hav­ Mr. and Mrs. John Black and daugh­ ing taught schools in Winterport, Casco, together, the sale fared well financially. and Alfred and in Robinson Seminary, ters, Barbara and Joan, of South Port­ 1 9 3 9 Mrs. Donald Huff land, have moved to 165 Main St., Orono. Exeter, N. H. Swan St., Calais, Maine Jack is employed by the Monroe Calculat­ Received a telephone call from Eloise Leon Sprague is a teacher of Social Hutchinson Myers (Frank Myers was in ing Machine Company. Studies at Orono High School. His resi­ Major and Mrs. R. Linwood Perkins the class of 1935) during the Teachers’ dence address is 81 Main St., Orono. of 54 Sommers Lane, Staten Island, Convention in Portland October 28-29. Frank had a book exhibit in Portland Carleton Duncan is employed by the N. Y., were visiting in Maine a short Pierson Motor Company, Inc., of Caribou. High School for the D. C. Heath Co. time ago. Major Perkins is administra­ His address is 5A Park St., Caribou. tive assistant at the U. S. Marine Hos­ publishers. Frank is State of Maine representative for the company. The Albert Dyson is a sales engineer for pital in Staten Island. He is also doing the Nichols Engineering and Research Myers’ address is 343 So. Main St., Old graduate work at Columbia University Corporation in New York City. His where he has been awarded a Rocke­ Town. Eloise said they went to the Bates game and at the time were planning to home address is 175 Maplewood Ave., feller Foundation Fellowship by the U. S. Bogota, N. J. Public Health Service. Upon completion return for Homecoming. of his studies he will receive a masters Jack and Tina (Pinkham) Byrne of 1 9 4 0 Mrs. Edward R. Ladd degree in hospital administration. Marlboro, Mass., both of the Class of 1 0 8 Talbot Ave., Rockland Have you all recovered from the elec­ 1941, stopped enroute to Homecoming Mary Phelps Dyson wrote a newsy tion excitement and surprises? I took a and left behind an aura of nostalgia. Jack letter which was gratefully received! She literacy test to become a voter in New and my husband, Roland, served in the and her husband (Albert Dyson ’39) and York City—and then used a voting ma­ same unit overseas. family have moved to 175 Maplewood chine for the first time. No matter what Lucy Cobb Browne sent an announce­ Ave., Bogota, N. J. A l has a new posi­ your politics, it’s good to be able to move ment of the birth of their fourth baby, tion as sales engineer for Nichols Engi­ the little green curtain on the booth by a boy—James Harris, who arrived on neering & Research Corporation in New hand! October 1st in Springfield, Mass. He York City. The Dysons have three chil­ Before the end of 1948, I wish a few weighed seven pounds, nine ounces. dren—Elinor, Albert, Jr., and Ann. Mary of you would drop a line and tell us who Lucy also wrote that Bud, who had won reported that Paul and Ruth (Worcester) is doing what and living where! a $2,000 Hood Scholarship, was unable Johnson are living in West Buxton, to get into college of his choice this year Maine, Margaret Sawyer is at home in 1 9 3 6 Mrs. Edwin P. Webster, Jr. because of overcrowded conditions. She Gray. Dunc and Ruth (McClelland) b ox 215, Hampden Highlands, says it is undecided whether he will use Jewell have a little daughter, Dria W yn- Maine it next year. Their address is still 16 vette, who arrived on March 23, 1948. Another Homecoming has gone by and Maple Hgts., W. Springfield, Mass. Thank you for all the news, Mary! where were all the 36ers? Maybe I just Dick Williams, who had been living in There are other class babies, too. missed people, but I saw surprisingly few. W. Springfield, has moved to 20 Cooper George and Elnora (Savage) Grant Win Coburn Anderson came to the St., Westmont, N. J., and has been pro­ greeted George, Jr. on September 28, house to call, and we had fun gabbing. moted in his work. 1948. Their little girl, Nancy, is now She and Henry have just bought a home Dick Pippin has accepted the principal- five. Elnora informed me that Nat and in Auburn. The address is 115 Linden ship of Solon High School and has moved St., Auburn. Ginny (Pease) Fellows have a small from Hartland, where he has been Social daughter, Judy, who arrived last Spring. Saw Hal Woodbury from a distance. Science Instructor and coach since 1945. He is Assistant Professor of Physical Mr. and Mrs. Norris Adams, 1219 “ D” Last year his baseball team won the St.. Antioch, Calif., have a new son, Education at the University now. league championship. Following his grad­ John Sealey and his wife, Libby, sat Robert Stamwood. uation at Maine, Dick was employed by Mr. and Mrs. Richard Morton are the across the aisle from us at the game, so the Colt Patent Firearms Co. in Hart­ we had a chance to talk a bit. I’m delighted parents of Richard Matthieu, ford, and later became head of the sub­ born August 17, 1948. ashamed to say that I can’t remember contract department. In 1944 Dick be­ whether or not I reported that the Sealeys Mr. and Mrs. Bernard LaBarge arc came sub-principal at Island Falls, Maine. living at 58 Chestnut St., Camden. Ber­ have a daughter, Deborah Edith, who was He is married and has a son, Rickey. born April 14th. If I did forget, my nard is teaching math in the high school Henry F. Lowe has been appointed there. The LaBarges have three children. apologies to John ’cause he’s proud as state field representative of the Farmers punch of that daughter. Chester M . Ladd and Miss Marie D. Home Administration and will be situated Scammon of Exeter, N. H., were married Harold Lord stopped a minute to say in Bangor. Henry formerly was with “Hi.” We missed Alice, but guess she in September. M rs. Ladd is a graduate the FH A for eight years, but was affili­ of Abbott Academy, Andover, Mass., and was busy at home with the little Lords. ated with the Maine Potato Growers at Gorham Levenseller and Reggie Naug- of Cornell University. She is employed Presque Isle for a year before this newest by Calmut and Hecla in Boston. Chester ler, and Eddie and I represented Bangor appointment. and vicinity at Homecoming, I guess. is a pilot for Eastern Airlines. The Ladds Jim Flynn is principal and coach of are residing at 799 Shirley St., Winthrop., Charles Harmon is a partner in Bob­ Hollis High School and has been there bins and Harmon, potato growers and Mass. since 1946. He coaches basketball and J. Wallace Pillsbury and M rs. Phyllis shippers, in Atlanta, N. Y. baseball. Jim is married and has a daugh­ James “ Candy” Lynch is traveling for Ford of Caribou, were married recently. ter. Mrs. Pillsbury graduated from Aroostook the Sherwin Williams Paint Company Bill Saltzman, who started a newspaper and his address is 5 Catell St., Bangor. Normal School and has taught in Lime- career with the Bangor Commercial soon stone, Palmyra, and Caribou. M r. Pills­ Ken Chute is at present in Winsted, after his graduation from Maine, is now bury has taught in schools in Massachu- Conn. He spent last winter in Jackson­ working for the South Bend (Indiana) setts and in Maine, has been principal of ville, Fla., and expects to be in Harrison, Tribune. Bill went to the Tribune October Solon and Richmond Schools, and taught Maine, for Xmas this year. He is with 18, 1948 after spending almost a year with at Caribou High School last year. He the U. S. Department of the Interior, the Associated Press Bureau in Portland. Geological Survey. is sub-master at Wilmington High Geneva Penley, whom I thought was in School, Wilmington, Mass., at present. 1938 Mrs. Roland R. Wirths Portland, is employed in Washington, Roy C. Raymond is a metallurgist for 47 Falmouth St., D. C., in the National Archives. Her Singer Manufacturing Co. in Bridgeport, Portland. Maine address is 109 Maple Ave., Tacoma Park, Conn. His home address is 201 Castle Lt. Mary E. Leighton of Alfred is one Md. Drive, Stratford, Conn. of 288 women in the United States to be Major Howard F. West of Portland is Robert T. Hamilton is an industrial selected for regular commissions in the attending the Air Command and Staff salesman for Socony Vacuum Oil Co., navy, according to a story in the Port­ School of the Air University at Max­ in East Providence, R. I. His residence land Press Herald. She is the only one well AF Base, Alabama. Mail reaches is at 25 Lenox Ave., Providence 7, R. I.

THE MAINE ALUMNUS 20 NOVEMBER, 1948 present will be treasured by yourself or that hard-to-please person on your Christmas list— a “ first-edition” Maine tea cup. A panorama view of the campus of about 1875 decorates the cup. The inside edge of the cup and saucer carry the pine cone border typical of all Maine Wedg­ wood, with a medallion of the same on the bot­ tom of the cup.

Postpaid from Boston in Green or Blue, the cups and saucers are $12.50 for eight, $1.75 each for four to eight and $1.85 each for less than four.

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The Wedgwood ashtrays in the “first edition” showing Fernald Hall will make fine stocking gifts or bridge prizes. They come in Green or Blue at ninety cents each. locations under the sponsorship of the from Gorham State Teachers College and 1941 Mrs. Vale G. Marvin has completed several summer sessions Kennebec Road, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston—thus getting the basic material for his thesis. at the University of Maine. She has been Hampden Highlands, Maine a member of the teaching staff of the Greetings everyone! Sorry I missed I should like to quote from part of his letter—“involving a classmate—Charles Milford Schools for several years. Vic, last month’s column. B.. Smith, Jr., decorated hero of World in addition to holding a B.S. degree from Richard R. Chase is Superintendent of the University of Maine, has received an By-Products Development for the Union War II, has been doing well in his teach­ ing position in the high school in Carmel. M.F. degree from Yale University. He Bag and Paper Corporation of Savannah, is now studying chemical engineering at Georgia. His home address is 611 E. 50th I learned in a recent letter from him that he is preparing to make room in his home the University of Maine. The Miniuttis St., Savannah, Ga. are living at 25 High St., Old Town. We Alfred Cummings is employed by the for some immigrants from England—peo­ ple who were kind to him during his know they will be very happy, too. National Technical Laboratories in South A new little daughter of ’42 is Susan Pasadena, California. His home address stay there during the war. It seems this family with three children has no other Darling Lobley who was born on August is 825 Brent Ave., South Pasadena. 19th to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lobley at Byron V. Whitney, M.D., announces contact here, so he is finding room for them. A temporary set-up, I understand, the Eastern Maine General Hospital in the opening of his office at 156 State St., but very indicative of Charlie’s generous Bangor. Bangor. nature.’’ We think so too. The Ellis Ben Graham, who holds a B.S. and an Major and Mrs. Duncan Jewell (Ruth M. S. in Botany and Entomology from McClelland ’40) announce the birth of family are living at 83 Webster St., Wes­ ton 93, Mass. the University of Maine, has accepted a Dria Wynvette on March 23, 1948. Our position as Instructor in Botany at the congratulations! Dunc is teaching at Cor­ 194 2 Mrs. Jose Cuetara Brunswick Campus. Ben was a Captain nell University in the HROTC program. 1127 Commonwealth Ave., in the Infantry during the war. Charles L. Baker is employed by the Allston 34, Mass. Seems like we are dating ourselves as International Paper Co., Niagara Falls, Major David Adams has been assigned old-timers before our time, in the dearth N. Y. Mail goes to 324 Buffalo Ave., to Dow Air Base in Bangor as Command­ of news that we have each month. Would Niagara Falls, N. Y. ing Officer of the Weather Detachment certainly welcome a short note from you, A note from Elizabeth Rowe White of the 14th Weather Station. Rita (Cas­ and YOU, and YOU during the coming (Mrs. Henry G.) announces the arrival sidy ’43) and David arrived in Bangor months of the year! So drop us a line of their first child, Janet Ann, on Sept. 27, last summer after David completed a now while you are thinking about it, and 1948 at Madigan Memorial Hospital. The special training course at the University it will be most appreciated. Bye until Whites live at 21 Court St., Houlton. of California in Los Angeles. While in next month. Another Maine daughter for us to be California, Rita tells me, she and David George Bucknam won the New Eng­ proud o f ! were able to see Jane and Pat Ford and land trap shooting title last June. Con­ A nice note from Horace G. Bracy the two little Fords. Nice to have news gratulations, George! tells us that he and Mrs. Bracy and their of the Fords, too. John Dillon is a Major in the U.S.A.F. daughter, Babs, now live at 3397 Walters Boyd Curtis has been acting principal on duty in Germany where he has been Court N. E., Atlanta, Ga. Horace is con­ as well as a teacher at H odgdon High for the past two years. He is married and nected with Carters Ink Co. and travels School this past year. has two sons, Michael and David. In the through Florida and Georgia. Frank Hanson, whose address is 104 States his address is 421 N. Spring St., Edgar F. Sewell has accepted an ap­ Park St., New Haven 11, Conn., is at­ Naugatuck, Conn. His overseas address is pointment to the research staff at M.I.T. tending Yale University preparing for his to work under research grants of the A044512, Box #34, OAD, A.P.O. 61, Doctorate. N. Y., N. Y. U. S. Government on High Polymer First Lieutenant Paul G. Galentine, Jr. Research. His home address is 219 Marl­ The June number carried the engage­ was graduated with distinction from a two ment of Helena Carroll and John An­ boro St., Wollaston 70, Mass. year course in Engineering Sciences at Marine Corps headquarters recently an­ thony. Well, their wedding has done the USAF Institute of Technology, took place!! They were married the last nounced the promotion of Howard L. Wright-Patterson AF Base, Dayton, Ehrlenbach to the rank of Major, of April in the rectory of St. John’s Ohio. This course was in preparation for Catholic Church in Bangor. A reception U.S.M.C. Reserves. He and Kay (In­ leadership in carrying out the responsibili­ galls) and their two sons live at 17 Pleas­ and wedding breakfast followed at the ties of research, development, and pro­ Penobscot Hotel. Mr. and Mrs. Harris ant St., Ellsworth. curement in the U. S. Air Force. We We have three weddings to report and McLean assisted the bridal party in re­ understand that at present Paul is at­ ceiving. (All the background informa­ best wishes to send to all. tending the University of Michigan at On September 4th Jean McDonough tion of this happy couple is carried in the Ann Arbor, for graduate study. June issue.) John is employed at the and Robert J. Harlow ( ’48—original ’43) Miss Doris Gallagher of Lincoln Park, were married in South Portland. Jean Jackson Memorial Laboratory. Yonkers, New York, and Eugene Mertens A funny incident keeps popping into has been teaching chemistry and biology and engaged to be married. Miss Galla­ at the Henry Woods H igh School, Barre, my mind so, guess I best get it on paper. gher was graduated from Good Counsel It all revolves around a ball game that Mass. Robert is employed as a chemical College, White Plains, and studied at engineer by the Robert Gair Co. They Connie King Barnes and myself went to Berkeley School, White Plains. see the other week and just shows “that will reside in New London, Conn.—Apt. We did not have the information before G, 36 Nathan Hale St. people are funny.” Here goes— It was to report the wedding of Miss Harriette one of those scorching, hot days with Laura Craft was married on August Daw and Howard Cousins, but we hasten 14th to Mr. Erwin F. Hutchins of Bruns­ nary a breath of air stirring. So, one of now. The Monson Congregational Church the Red Sox officials announced over the wick at the Beacon St. Methodist Church in Monson, Maine, was the scene of the in Bath. Laura has been Home Econom­ mike that the couple of thousand bleacher- lovely June wedding. From our class, ites would be permitted to go into the ics Teacher at Morse High School in Warren Randall was one of the ushers. Bath. The Hutchins are living at 18-1 shade of the grandstand as long as there An informal reception was held at the was room for them. The bleacherites South Apartments, Orono, while Erwin home of the bride’s mother, Mrs. Harry is attending the University. roared out their thanks—all but a hun­ Daw. The bride was graduated from the dred or so of confirmed sun worshippers On September 4th Mary Oberly was University of Maine, too. and has worked went into the grandstand—and immedi­ married to Mr. Charles Royce Woodman at the Dean Memorial Hospital in Green­ ately moved right down front and baked of Augusta at her mother’s home in Man­ ville and the Gardiner General Hospital in the hot sun the rest of the afternoon. chester. During the war Mary was em­ in Gardiner. We are familiar with I guess the fact that they were paying 60 ployed in the New York office of the Howie’s distinguished record of service cents for $1.80 seats made the sun easy Office of War Information and recently in the Marine Corps during the war. He to take. Oh well, Connie and I enjoyed has been on the news staff of the Kenne­ has since served one term in the Maine the game. The Red Sox won, too. bec Journal as special farm page feature House of Representatives. worked in the Preston Rand is still most active in the writer Mr. Woodman served in the U. S. medical division of the Togus Veterans’ American Legion at Presque Isle, hav­ Army from 1941 to 1946 in the Pacific Hospital, and recently was Executive Sec­ area. He is now attending Colby College. ing been appointed adjutant of the Ray retary of the Nelson-for-Congress club. Goding Post, No. 88. A newsy letter from George Ellis tells Howie is attending Georgetown Law us that he and Sylvia are parents of a School this year. and so the bridal couple 1 9 4 3 Mrs. James Grisham daughter born on Sept. 20th. See you on are living in Washington. D. C. We 171 Gerry Rd. campus, Rebecca, in a few more years! wish them great happiness! Chestnut Hill 67, Mass. George is working on his Doctor’s thesis Miss Eleanor Sherwood and Victor My, what wonderful weather this fall in Economics at Harvard and teaching Miniutti were married in Old Town on has brought us—wonderful since we know a section in economic principles. Last August 9th. Following the ceremony, from experience that rough winter days summer he traveled through New Eng­ a luncheon was served the bridal party draw steadily closer! land making a survey of new industrial at Lucerne Inn. Eleanor was graduated Among the late August weddings was

THE MAINE ALUMNUS 22 NOVEMBER, 1948 that of Alice Fonseca and Frank Haines Office of Political Affairs. Before enter­ ing in 1947 and now is a chemist for which took place in the Immanuel Baptist ing the service in 1946, Donald was em­ Robert Gair Co. in Nyack, N. Y. Church in Portland. Dr. Milton McGor- ployed by the Champion Container Corp. From sunny California comes the good rill of the Church of Universal Fellow­ in Le Roy, N. Y. He is now stationed news of a “son and heir” in the house­ ship in Orono officiated Lois Doescher in Berlin with the First Division, 3rd hold of Jed and Fran (Sheehy) Brown. served as maid of honor, and Janice Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment. Best Young Stephen Haywood Brown arrived Scales, June Swanton, and Helen Noyes wishes to both of you! at 424 Normandie Place, Los Angeles, were in the bridesmaid group. (All of The engagement of Priscilla Elliott to on October 8th. these girls are class of ’48.) Lt. (jg ) Carroll White has been announced by her Elmer Knowles, former teacher-coach John Haines, USN, of Key West, parents, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Elliott, of at Jay High School, was appointed to Florida, attended his brother as best man, South Brewer. Priscilla was graduated the faculty of Littleton, N. H. High and the ushers included Frank Stephens, from Brewer High School and is em­ School this fall. In addition to his teach­ Jr., John Hewes, and Royce Miller, Jr. ployed by the Emple Knitting Mills, while ing Elmer has been assigned as assistant Following a stay at the Grand Hotel, Carroll is now associated with his father football coach and head basketball men­ Mackinac Island, Michigan, the couple in the dairy business in Bangor. tor. Virginia Clark and Richard Ringlein, will be at home at 16132 Harlow St., In September two engagements of Detroit 27, Mich. Frank is doing gradu­ of Akron, Ohio, were married this past ’44ers were announced—that of Doris ate work in Public Administration at summer in Hartford, Conn. Ginny was Goodrich to Donald Stone of Detroit, Wayne University on a Volker Fellow­ graduated from the Maine General Hos­ Maine; and that of Saralyn Phillips to ship. Both Frank and Alice have had out­ pital School of Nursing, Portland. At Bill Bickford. “Sal” is working in the standing records at the University of the present time she is employed at the business office of New England Tel. and Maine. Alice is a Phi Beta Kappa and a Neuro-Psychiatric Institute of Living, Tel. Co. in Portland, and Bill is working member of Phi Kappa Phi, as well as 200 Retreat Ave., Hartford, Conn. fRich- All Maine Women and was president of ard attended Kent State University, Kent, Chi Omega this past year. Frank was a Ohio, and served with the navy for three Sophomore Owl, a Senior Skull, and years. He, too, is employed at the Insti­ Bangor Furniture Co. president of Beta Theta Pi this past year. tute of Living. The couple will make Frank saw five years of military service their home in Hartford, at the present Complete House Furnishers and was discharged with the rank of cap­ time. How about your home address, tain. Our good wishes go to both of you ! Ginny? 84-88 Hammond Street From Houlton comes the news that Betty (Bearce) and Bud Harrison with Bangor, Maine Maynard Austin is working as planning daughter, Margaret, were in Bucksport engineer assisting the town manager in again this summer having driven up from surveying streets for possible improve­ Texas. Bud had a short leave, however, ments. How about a little personal news, so whipped back via plane to Scott Field, Maynard? St. Louis, and from there to San Antonio. HAYNES & CHALMERS CO. A welcome letter from the abode of Betty wrote that her brother, George, was A. S. Chalmers ’05, Treas. one “ Ick” Crane just missed the first out in Wisconsin this summer attending Alumnus. From the pen of T. Crane we school. He expected to come East this HARDWARE . fall. Let us know of your whereabouts, learn that as of late summer or early fall, BANGOR MAINE the Cranes are in the fair city of Wilm­ George. Thanks for the letter, Betty. ington, Deleware, where the man of the Keep us posted on the Harrison doings, household has accepted a position with too. the Du Pont Co. Their apartment was Enjoyed seeing Esther Randall at the still in the not-quite-finished stage, as of Poland Spring House this fall. She has ALWAYS DEPENDABLE that writing, although the furniture was seen quite a few U. of M. folks popping in and out. That’s such a beautiful spot! in. “ Somehow the gas company seemed M y e r s STUDIO to have discussed the “market” before the Via Esther I learned that her brother, Warren (’42), is working for the Ban­ “product” because we don’t have any gas O ld T own service,” so writes “ Ick.” (Harvard gor Commercial in the Editorial Depart­ Business School students will appreciate ment. Glad you are back in these parts, that.) I presume that by now the Cranes Warren. three are all settled at 16 Elsmere Blvd., So, for this month, folks, guess this is Elsmere, Wilmington, Del. Now this is it. Glad we could get together! important—don’t leave off that extra Let’s see now, three more weddings GOOD “Elsmere” when writing to the Cranes. and we should be up-to-date on the mari­ Wilmington has numerous small suburbs tal status of the ’44ers. and all mail goes from the central Post On August 28 Marg McCurdy and and Office, so the Cranes have been informed Charlie Cook were married at Sacred that the suburb must be on the address Heart Church in Lubec. The Cooks will GOOD as well as the W ilmington! About “ Ick’s” live in Portland this winter, but their work—it sounds strickly blind to me, but complete address will have to wait. is “very interesting” to “Ick,” having to Early in August Libby White and Ben for you. do with establishing policies and proce­ Hodges were married in Reading, Mass. dures, figuring reproduction costs, etc., On the 29th Jean Blair became the etc. Well, all I can say is Du Pont should bride of Norm Putnam in Great Barring­ do all right with the Cranes there. ton. it’sHOOD’S I must catch up with fleeting time and 1 9 4 4 Esther Randall report the marriage of Mary Alice Love­ 19 Sabattus St., Lewiston, Me. ly to Donald Ross Caccamise of Le Roy. Hi gang— seems as though we should ICE CREAM N. Y., at the American Service Chapel have lotsa news for you, but mail is at in Berlin, Germany. The bride was given a minimum. How about a note on a in marriage by Roger Abraham of the Christmas card? Office of the Political Advisor in Berlin. Post-Homecoming up popped a busi­ A reception was held following the cere­ ness card belonging to Russ Bodwell mony. Guests present were members of reading as follows: “Engineering—geo­ the Office of the Political Advisor, State logical investigations—foundations—dams Department; members of the American —highways—airports—O. J. Porter and Military Government; and members of Co. consulting engineers, Sacramento and o f Bo s t o n , M assachusetts the 3rd Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment. San Francisco, California. Russ, how­ The couple left Berlin by plane for a two ever, works out of the Newark, N. J. Life Insurance, Annuities weeks wedding trip to Garmisch, Ger­ branch at 55 Meeker Ave. many. Mary, a graduate of both the Uni­ George Gunn, D.D.S., has reopened his Group Insurance, Pensions versity of Maine and of Katherine Gibbs office at 143 Essex St. in Bangor. Secretarial School in Boston, was em­ This fall John Johnstone began his D wight Sayward ployed as a Secretary at the General duties as science instructor at Newport Electric Co. in Schenectady, N. Y., prior High School. General Agent for State of Maine to her entrance into the Foreign Service In September Bert Bates and his wife 415 Congress Street, Portland Division of the State Department where were back on campus. Bert received his she was assigned to duty in Berlin in the Master’s Degree in Chemical Engineer­

THE MAINE ALUMNUS 23 NOVEMBER, 1948 for the Raytheon Mfgs. in Waltham, Dana is away all day. We go, to the 1 9 4 M i ss Therese Dumais Mass. By the way, Bill received his movies, and that is about all.” The Bun­ 104 Main St., Orono, Me. Master’s Degree from Columbia Uni­ kers would be very happy to know if Homecoming brought quite a few of versity last June. there are any other Maineites in their we “46ers” together for chats and a won­ In Newport on September 12th, Avis vicinity; and if there are, and if they derful time. Evie Shaw and Joan Potter Anderson became the bride of Robert care to inform them of such, they will were “at home” for the week-end at my Grover. Both Mr. and Mrs. Grover are be received with open arms. abode; Evie is still at Filene’s and Joan employed by the Extension Service in Peg did mention that Windy Work and is working in Boston and living at home, Somerset County, and home for the Gro­ his wife live not too far from them, and 125 Hillcrest Road, Needham, Mass. vers will be at 21 Chandler St., Skowhe- from other sources I have learned that Our class president, Gene Emerson, is gan. Windy is working at the Ingersoll Rand now selling stocks and bonds with Bond Also in September Margaret McCurdy Company with his home address at 204 and Goodwin at 30 Federal St., Boston. became the bride of Charles Cook, 2nd. Gardiner Ave., Levittown, L. I., N. Y. Best of luck, Gene! Marg is employed as a secretary at Residing at 22 Summer St., Apt. 10, Frank Talbot is now at Columbia WCSH in Portland, and Charlie is a Bangor, are Arlene (Beaumont) and Bob studying for a Librarian’s degree ... how sales engineer for General Ice Cream Anderson. Bob is now a Junior at about dropping us a line with your ad­ Corporation. The Cooks live at 49 Forest Maine while Beau is teaching Home dress enclosed, Frank? Park, Portland. Economics at one of Bangor’s Junior There are three Bangor weddings of During a recent visit to ‘‘The County,” High Schools. interest to our class. Way back in Sep­ I saw “ Sippie” (Medina) Houghton. Found at the Crosby Mechanical Labo­ tember Mary Frances Spangler and Bob Sippie and Jack and two daughters, ratory is Barkley Goodrich where he Eddy were married at St. John’s Episco­ Nancy and Judy, are back in Fort Fair- presides as an Instructor in Mechanical pal Church. At the reception Mrs. Rich­ field after their “potato season” at Eagle Engineering. Barkley was married last ard Dresser (Mary Libby) assisted in Lake. Although the actual date is una­ June to Elizabeth Tufts ( ’48), and mail serving and Peg Jameson and “ Rusty” vailable at the moment, this fall Franny may be sent to them at 57 Middle St. in Chute served the wedding cake. Inciden­ and Harris Whited received congrats on Orono. tally, Peg and Rusty, how about sending the birth of their second daughter, Pris­ Margaret and Cal Friar make their along your addresses to this column? cilla. home at 38 N. m ain St., Orono. This Shirley Hathaway recently became the That’s it! Short, but the best we can year Cal is Soils Laboratory Assistant bride of Francis Sibley of Brewer. Rev. do without turning the column into pure over at the Technological Experiment Charles O’Connor performed the double fiction. Station. ring ceremony at the Bangor Theological Word from the Alumni Office results in From the Alumni Office comes word Seminary Chapel. Shirley served as an the following items: (1) Edward Con­ that Raymond Harmon is an auto body English instructor at Old Town High ners, Jr., is now out in Denver Colorado, repair man with Ray Harmon & Sons School last year. Francis is working at where he has assumed the position of San­ Garage in Caribou, Maine. His residence the Eastern Corporation in South Brewer. itary Engineer with the Denver Health is at 26 Washburn St., Caribou. Mary Jane Hoyt was married to Oliver Service; (2) Elinor Beeler is teaching Homecoming has come and gone, but L. Tapley of Calais last August 16th at Grade I at the Hyannis Training School at this date of writing your class secre­ the First Congregational Church in Ells­ in Hyannis, Mass. Her address is 77 tary still feels its effects. And she knows worth, Maine. Mary Jane had been teach­ South Street, Hyannis; and (3) Bob Nel­ that three others, members of the class ing English at Ellsworth High. Oliver, son’s home address is 18 Lamb Street, of ’45, do, too. At the Alumnae-Under- her husband, is manager of the State Em­ Attleboro, Mass., Attleboro being the graduate Field Hockey Game, Phyl ployment Office and is also Commander place of his employment as a Chemical (White) Bartlett, Ruth (Stearns) Shep- of the Frank E. Whitmore Post of the Engineer in the Research Department of ardson, Peg (Stackpole) Wallingford, American Legion in Ellsworth. the American Reenforced Paper Co. and I romped through the first ten min­ The Rev. Charles O’Connor married utes of the game as if we were freshmen Elaine Wardwell of Bangor and Storer 1945 F red Haggett “ Tote” Parsons September 18th at the Bennoch Road, again—and then fell sadly by the wayside with the rest of the Alumnae team as First Universalist Church in Bangor in Stillwater, Maine a double ring service. “ Tote” and his Two weddings will start off the column can be shown by the results: 3-1 in the undergrads’ favor.. bride went honeymooning to Canada for this month. In September Evelyn Look two weeks. They are now at home at 35 was married to Vincent L. Dowling of Recently I received the kind of post­ Rodick St., Bar Harbor. I think I men­ Jacksonville, Maine, ( ’48) at the Con­ card (that’s all it takes, my friends!) I tioned to you last time that “Tote” is a gregational Church in Mach Us. Evelyn like to receive from ’45’ers. It came from research assistant at the Roscoe P. Jack- has a teaching position at Fairfield while Babs Haines Pancoast and contained all son Memorial Laboratory. her husband is finishing up his work at the pertinent information that one such as I understand that Betty Jenkins spent the University. I could wish for. Bob graduated from last summer as swimming supervisor at Ohio State University last June, after On October 30th Joan Shea was mar­ the community swimming pool at Mon- which a trip to Florida, Conn., Maine, and ried to John W. Agnew of Hartford, son’s Pond. And now this year Betty is finally to Wisconsin was accomplished. Conn. Up to the time of her marriage, teaching at the Baker School in Brook­ Joan was employed as an Assistant Buyer The Pancoasts are happily settled in a 4 line. Mass. at G. Fox and Company in Hartford. room house at 2126 E. Vollmer Avenue in Marguerite McNeil is serving as teach­ As Mr. Agnew will be associated with Milwaukee. Bob is with the Cutler-Ham­ er of English and Dean of Women at Shea and Pritchard plumbing company in mer Company in Appliance Sales. Aroostook State Normal School in Bangor, the Agnews will be making Sometime during the summer I ran their home in that city. Presque Isle this year. Marguerite taught across a newspaper item stating that Doris English at Rumford High School before Early in October I received a very Dexter Thompson had received her B.A. accepting this new position. welcome letter from Priscilla (Moore) Degree at the University’s summer grad­ Recently Doris (Stickney) Anderson Connon with the news that on August 7th, uation exercises. Also the other day, has been corresponding with members of Jean Alice was born, and from the Allen Torrey stared at me from the Ban­ the class of ’46 on official business; she sound of the letter, I gather that the new gor Daily News where he was pictured saved bits of news about some people who parents are the proudest to be found in with a group of city and town managers started school with us and yet didn’t wait North America. Priscilla also said that and interns from those positions. Allen to graduate with the class. So how about she hears occasionally from Eleanor is the manager of Lancaster, N. H. An catching up with some of these people: (Flint) Currier, and that the latter is intern from our class was Bernard Marsh Walter and Lib (Furbish) Michel are still Home Demonstration Agent for who worked this summer under the super­ at 5442 S. Harper Ave., Chicago 15. Ill. Franklin County. (How about a letter vision of Old Town’s City Manager. Lib’s husband is a sophomore at the Uni­ to me, Nell?) Priscilla’s address is North And now, just a friendly reminder. This versity of Illinois Dental School. Anson, Maine, if you have forgotten it, column is made by you, the Class of ’45. Fay (Winter) and Stanley Sproul are for it is in that town that her husband, So, what about a couple of lines from living at 7 Fairview Ave. in Augusta. as principal, rules North Anson Academy each of you? Just one penny postcard will They had a son in August... . Congratula­ with an iron hand. carry all the necessary information about tions ! I have also received a letter from Peg you. There’s no time like the present to Frances Robinson is now Mrs. Ray­ (Brown) Bunker. She and Dana (he is make and carry out a New Year’s Resolu­ mond W. Mitchell. The Mitchells are with the L. K. Comstock Electrical Con­ tion— So write, N O W ! living in Sherman Station, Maine. struction Company) are living at 268 And so on this doleful note I shall now Leo Ullrich writes that he is now a Oak St., Patchogue, N. Y., which is out end, with just the reminder to you to member of the class of ’49 at Rutgers. on Long Island about 60 miles from New keep the news coming in, but to a definite­ H is address is 425 Greenwood Ave., York City. Peg says she has no news to ly new address: Bennoch Road, Still­ Trenton, N. J. give about anyone: “ I’m a housewife and water, Maine. Berton Hill, who graduated from Brown

THE MAINE ALUMNUS 24 NOVEMBER, 1948 v in June, started his graduate work at the at the Governor Anderson School in Morna Kimball, Physical Education, University of Chicago this fall. His home Belfast. Cony High School, Augusta. address is 104 Potter St., Cranston 10, Julian Thompson has been named sup­ Ober Kimball, Head of the Commer­ R. I. erintendent of the schools for Rangeley cial Department, Waterville High School. It’s good to find out what so many of and Stratton. Bruce Kinney, Mathematics, and Driv­ you are doing! Stella Borkowski is now a mathemat­ er Training and Education, South Paris Don’t forget to drop us a line once in a ics teacher at Bangor High School. High School. while to let us know the “latest” about Mary Sawyer and Henry Jordan were Blanche Look, Commercial, Madison your doings. married in August. “Chickie” has been High School. Annette Edith Ginsburg of Pittsburgh, employed by the Merrill Trust Company. Elaine Luce, Machias. Pa., recently became engaged to Dr. Har­ Her husband is employed by the National Gloria MacKenzie, English, Stearns old L. Chason of Bangor. Dr. Chason Biscuit Company. They are living at 73 High School, Millinocket. attended the University of Maine before Parker St., Brewer. Pauline Marcous, Home Economics, he was graduated from the University of Mr. and Mrs. G. Shiang Eng, of 421 Bridgton Academy. Pittsburgh Dental School. W. 18th St., Jacksonville, Fla., are the Ada Marsh, Speech, Stearns High Gloria Lombard is returning to her job parents of a daughter born August 21st. School, Millinocket. as Physical Education Director at Ma- Congratulations to them. The mother is Reginald McLaughlin, teacher and chias State Normal School; in a letter I the former Fay Jones. Would love to coach, Hermon High School. received from Mary Smith she told me hear from you, Fay. Elisabeth Meyer, Bancroft School, Had- that Gloria attended the Summer Session Betty Lehman is teaching English, donfield, N. J. in Orono. John B. Crockett is now Office Dramatics, and Speech at W estbrook Florence Mixer, English, grades five Manager of the E. B. Crockett store in High. This past summer she was public and eight, Livermore Falls. Boothbay Harbor after having served in relations director at Camden Hills Thea­ Frederick Morey, Bingham High that capacity in the Rockland Branch of ter. School. that company. Jane Longfellow and Bill Cullen were Pauline Parent Jenness, Mathematics Shirley Titcomb was also at the Sum­ married in August. They are living on and Physics, Orono High School. mer Session at Maine. Shirley, I under­ Burleigh St. in Waterville where Bill is Claude Perkins, Principal in elemen­ stand, is working on her Master’s De­ an engineer with A. P. Wyman Construc­ tary school, Kent, Connecticut. gree. This fall Shirley will be teaching tion Company. Elaine Perkins, Home Economics, Home Economics at Houlton High Florence Sawyer Roberts is employed Unity High School. School. Phyllis Smith Ambrose (Mrs. as a social worker for the state. She Pauline Quint, Home Economics, George G.) is also teaching Home Eco­ and Bob are living at 104 Main St., Stearns High School, Millinocket. nomics; she is at Livermore Falls High Orono. Caroline Randlett, Medway. and her address is 13 Otis St., Livermore Alvah Ford is instructor of Social Joyce Scott, Home Economics, Caribou Falls. Studies and coach of dramatics at Hus- High School. Dr. Ralph A. Badger is practicing den­ son College, Bangor. He and Mrs. Ford John Seekins, Jr., Principal Hannibal tistry in Dexter, Maine. His home is at live at 3 Hogan Rd., Bangor. Hamlin School, Bangor. 79 Maple St. there. Winifred Paulin has recently completed Eulah Steen, Bennoch St. School, Geneva V. Butler is now a nurse and the training course for hospital dietitians

Orono. • is working at the Mt. Desert Island Hos­ at the Veterans Administration hospital pital in Bar Harbor. She is living at 11 in New York City. She is now staff George Stone, teacher and coach, Wayman Lane. dietitian at Halloran General Hospital, Worcester Academy, Worcester, Massa- And now to list a few additions to the Staten Island, N. Y. chusetts. many ’46er families: Mr. and Mrs. Milton Clement S. Dunning is Assistant Coun­ Goldsmith (Irma Miller) are the parents ty Agent for the territory of Northern of a daughter, Diana Lyn, born on July Penobscot and Southern Aroostook Coun­ E dward E. C h a se , President 16th. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Libby have an­ ties. other member in their family as of July Dick Bloom is employed with the mar­ MAINE SECURITIES COMPANY 1st, Mark Forrester. Mr. and Mrs. keting staff of Standard Vacuum Oil 465 Congress Street Vaughan Allen (Joan Stevens) became Company in Batavia, Java. parents in June of William Otis Allen. Elaine Dionne is a bookkeeper for the Portland, Me. And Mr. and Mrs. Robert Graves (Jo Depositors Trust Company in Skowhegan. Otto) are proudly telling tales of their Her address is 42 Maple St., Skowhegan. new daughter, Deborah Ann. Dick Harlow is a student assistant in 1 9 4 7 Mrs. Paul Dowe the Dept, of Botany at the University. DAKIN’S 35 Myrtle St., His mailing address is Coburn Hall, Rm. 9, Orono. Sporting Goods Westbrook, Maine Jackie Dole has accepted a position at Camera Supplies Well, news is rather scarce again this Johns Hopkins from which she graduated month, but I surely hope to hear from Shep Hurd 17 M. A. Hurd ’26 last June. some of you who went to Homecoming. That’s all for now, but I’m hoping to Bangor Waterville I wasn’t able to go, so I didn’t get any hear from more of the gang soon. news. Had a nice letter from Lala Jones Dins- 194 8 Mrs. Willard Moulton more. She and Bob are living at 2 High­ 33 Grove St., Orono Distributors of Building land Ave., Bangor. Bob is working for Information about one-half the Class Materials his Master’s degree in Chemical Engi­ of 1948 has come in; and, in looking over ACME SUPPLY CO. neering, and Lala is still working at the list, the school teaching profession Summer & South Sts. WGUY. She said that Barbara McNeil seems to have snagged several. In fact, B angor, M e. Marsanskis and George are living across about twenty per cent of the two hundred T. M. Hersey ’34, Manager the hall from Evvie (Foster) and Jack and fifty graduates that I know about Philip Johnson ’43, Sales Engr. Adams on Hammond St. in Bangor. have gone into that field. Here’s a list of Also heard from Phyl Eldridge again. some of them (they are located in Maine If you look on the cover of Pathfinder unless otherwise specified.) : magazine soon, you’ll see her picture. A Mary Anne Dineen, first grade, Graf­ cover girl in our midst! Phyl’s address ton, Massachusetts. is 118 W . 13th St., New York 18, N. Y. Grace Faulkingham Gilmore, science Peg Spaulding has accepted a position instructor, Garland St. Junior High in Boston as assistant director of Institu­ School, Bangor. tional Management at Simmons College Margaret Jane Gorham, speech and and assistant director in Vocational Train­ dramatics, Caribou High School. (She ing at the Wimaon’s Industrial Educa­ recently became engaged to Stan Murray, The BANGOR HOUSE tional and Industrial Union where she class of ’47.) BAN GO R, MAINE has been training. Ann Harmon, Home Economics, Booth- t Beverly Kemp and James Harmon bay Harbor High School. Famous for good food. Cocktail Lounge. were married early in September. They Janet Hobbs, Assistant Science Instruc­ Cheery Rooms from $2.00 are living near Dow Field according to tor, Maine General Hospital School of ALLEN HOTEL CO. Lala, while Jim finishes school. Bev is Nursing, Portland. Also operating a medical technician at the Air Base in Mary Hollingdale, English, World Ge­ Jones Inn, Newport, Maine Bangor. ography and Modern History, Lawrence Mary Buker is a fourth grade teacher High School, Fairfield. True Maine Hospitality

THE MAINE ALUMNUS 25 NOVEMBER, 1948 June Swanton, General Science, Helen John P. Bibber is studying for an M.S. Sorority Rushing Hunt Jr. High School, Old Town. in Public Management at Orono. Elizabeth Goodwin, Bancroft School, Martha Bond is a physicist at the Ends December 8 Haddonfield, N. J. Naval Research Lab in Washington, D. C. Mail reaches her at 139 Joliet St., S. W., Bryce Lambert, English, Mattanaw- It has been said that, "A sorority is cook, Lincoln. Washington 20. Lucian Savage, Commercial, Carmel ’ Russell V. Bradley lives at 1 High St., essentially a group of friends who join High School. Bangor, and is the manager of Burton’s together in an attempt to observe a code Eleanor-Mae Thompson, English, Candy and Variety Store. of living and to do a little better job of Eleanor S. Burrill is Clinical Super­ Rockland High School. living than they might otherwise do Elizabeth Turner, English, Bass River visor at Eastern Maine General Hospital High School, Yarmouth, Massachusetts. in Bangor. alone.” Alge Vaitones, Commercial, Easton Amos J. Carr, Jr., is a Junior Develop­ Since a sorority has to perpetuate itself ment Engineer for the Harvey Radio Labs High School. in some way, the activity known as "rush­ Mrs. Clare Walker, High School Eng­ in Cambridge, Mass. His residence ad­ lish and Junior High Music, Henry B. dress is 35 Lodge Rd., Belmont, Mass. ing” has come into being. During the fall Whitehorne High School, Verona, N. J. Marjorie Carter is a Social Worker in semester this takes up much of the time (Also registered at N.Y.U. School of Ed­ the Department of Health and Welfare allotted for sorority work. Since "rush­ with headquarters in Belfast. Her mailing ucation for M.S. in Education.) ing” methods do change with the passing George Whitin, Mathematics, Rockland address is 21 Cedar St., Belfast. High School. Dorothy Chandler is teaching 5th grad­ years and the growth of the women’s Freeman Whitney, Speech and Debate, ers at North Grammar School in Water- student body, it may be of interest to Cony High School, Augusta. ville. 31 Morrill Ave., Waterville is the some alumnae to learn what the current Helen Buzzell, Physical Education, right address for mail. procedures are. Winslow Schools. Llewellyn Churchill is an Elementary Christine McLean, Presque Isle Teacher and Principal of the Grammar "Open House” occurred this year on Schools. School in Rumford. November 14th. This means that each Charles Clark is Assistant Manager of Donald Robinson, Principal of Matta- sorority group is at home in its meeting wamkeag Consolidated Schools. Clark’s Mfg. Co. in North New Portland, Mrs. Vivian Archibald, Supervising Maine. room with material on display to demon­ Teacher, grades three and four, Washing­ Grover Condon, Jr., is a Paper Tech­ strate to the new women on campus what ton State Normal School, Machias. nologist at the Army Chemical Center in the work and accomplishments are both Maryland. His residence address is 128 Hazel Harrison, Art Supervisor, San­ on a national and local level. This occa­ ford Public School System (elementary Rigdon Rd., Aberdeen, Md. schools and high school). Elaine Craig is a Lab Technician at sion is also the first real opportunity for Martin Kinney, Principal, Lee. Monadnock Clinic in East Jaffrey, N. H., new women to get to know each sorority Janice Scales, Science, Farmington and her residence address there is 122 as a group, for during the early fall so­ High School. Stratton Rd. Frank Tapley, Agriculture, Easton Marie Craine is teaching math at rority contacts are taboo. "Open House” High School. Corinna Union Academy in Corinna, is usually on a Sunday afternoon and lasts Ted Boynton, Athletic Director and Maine. for three hours. All Freshmen and trans­ Dwight Crockett is a student in In­ Basketball Coach, Ricker Classical Insti­ fer non-sorority women are invited. tute and Junior College, Houlton. dustrial Management at Wharton Gradu­ Bonnie Andrews was just engaged—-to ate School of Finance and Commerce in For ten days or so following "Open Henry Slager. She is working for the Philadelphia. House” each sorority has “After Dinner Bangor Hydro in Bangor. Harrison Crowell is living at 226 Mc­ Dates” with the new women. These take Joanne Chellis is with Palmers in Cormick Place, Cincinnati, Ohio, and is place in the chapter meeting rooms with Portland as an assistant buyer. working for the Worthington Pump and Janice Scales is teaching at Farmington Machinery Corp as an Estimator in the each group extending invitations as it High School. Cincinnati District Sales Office. wishes. About an hour is allowed for June Swanton will be teaching at Old James Dana is in the training program these get-togethers. They are not or­ Town High. of the W. T. Grant Co. in Boston at Mary Anne Dineen is in Grafton, Mass., present, but expects to be transferred to ganized as parties, but are supposed to as a teacher. Sanford. Maine, sometime in October. be a spontaneous function. These more Get this one! Paulie Marcous will be Lee Davis is a physicist for NACA or less take the place of the "Coke dates” teaching home economics at Bridgton at Langley Field, Hampton, Va. Mail of ten years ago. Academy and, in her spare time, acting reaches Lee at 124 Armistead Ave., as housemother in one of the girls’ dorms. Hampton, Va. The final phase of "rushing” comes Lou Gammell is with Jersey Bell Co. Hazel Day is teacher of Commercial during the first week of December this in New Jersey. Subjects at Union High School in Union, year. Each sorority has what is called a Herbert Warmflash is manager of ad­ Maine. vertising and publicity with the Package Lawrence Day is a Sales Engineer for "Big Party.” A different night is as­ Research Laboratory of Rockaway, N. J. Stanley J. Leen Co. in Brewer, Maine, but signed to each group. These parties arc Royal Graves, "after a beautiful sum­ expects to be transferred to Portland after the most formalized and planned part of mer among the restful hills and lakes of October. "rushing.” The amount to be expended Waterford,” will be working for his Henry DeWildt is a poultryman on his Masters at Harvard (A.M. in teaching). father’s farm in Kittery. is limited by Panhellenic, but the imagina­ Bill Scales is a trainee at the Bethlehem Donald Dodge is continuing his studies tion and ingenuity of each group has un­ Steel Co. in Lackawanna, N. Y. at the University of Florencee in Flor­ limited horizons. A maximum of 35 Wayne Stacy is returning to the Uni­ ence, Italy. His address is Pensione Le guests is set for "Big Parties.” versity of Maine for graduate work. Casciene, Via Nazionale, Firenze. Italia. Elizabeth Baker is a secretary at the Laurence Dorr is Agricultural Instruc­ Following these parties final lists are Harvard Graduate School of Business tor at Corinna Union Academy. drawn up, and traditional "Bowpinning” Administration in Cambridge. Her home Joyce Emery is teaching third grade occurs on December 8th. address is 57 Marked Tree Rd., Need­ in Eastport. Her address: Elm Cottage, ham, Mass. Eastport. Sidney R. Bamford is attending school William Flora is a student at Cornell Boston Alumnae— at the Philadelphia Museum School of Law School, Class of ’51. Industrial Art. Mail reaches him at Cen­ Elmer Folsom is farming in Cambridge, Boston alumnae met at the Y.w .C.A. tral Y.M.C.A., 1421 Arch St., Philadel­ Maine. on November 16 for their second meeting phia 2. Kenneth Foss is living at 111 Alleghany of the year. Joan Potter and Virginia That graduation group picture taken Rd., Hampton, Va. He is a Junior Engi­ Harvey were named as co-chairmen of back in June can be obtained from Myers’ neer for the National Advisory Committee the benefit bridge which the alumnae arc Studio, Old Town. Send them $1.50 and for Aeronautics at Langley Field, Va. you will get one. Except for the lucky people who have sponsoring. Floyd R. Beecher is a Real Estate sent bona fide information about them­ All alumnae in the Metropolitan Boston Broker in Portland. selves, everyone is taking a chance on a area are invited to attend these meetings Roland E. Berry is studying for an wicked misinterpretation of facts, and which are on alternate months at the M.D. degree at Tufts. He is living at 29 you’re at my mercy until you let me in on Alpha Rd., Dorchester 34, Mass. your secret lives! Boston Y.W.C.A.

THE MAINE ALUMNUS 26 NOVEMBER, 1948 A t Western Electric s new Allentown Plant, over 2,500 people work amid conditions o f almost surgical cleanliness— for a speck o f dust or trace o f perspiration may seri­ ously impair the quality of electronic devices they make! To provide such conditions, the entire plant is air conditioned. The interior is HEN you make a long tem, Western Electric makes millions completely sealed off and is slightly pres­ distance telephone of these intricate little things. surized to prevent dust laden outside air W from seeping in the doors. Temperature call, your voice would soon To produce them to highest stand­ is maintained year ’round, at 70° to 80°, fade out were it not for ards of precision and at lowest cost, with relative humidity o f 40% to 50%. vacuum tube repeaters. Over 40 miles o f pipes deliver 13 need­ Western Electric has just completed ed services to working locations. These They give your voice a l i f t whenever its new Allentown, Pa., plant — latest are hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, city gas, needed — carry it clearly from coast addition to vast telephone making city water, deionized water, soft water to coast. (cold, hot, cooling) high pressure air, low facilities in 18 cities. N ow , and in pressure air, process steam and conden­ Vacuum tubes and other electronic the years ahead, this new Western sate return. devices are playing an ever-growing Electric plant will help to make The plant has its own steam generating, water softening and gas making plants part in your Bell telephone service. As your Bell telephone service better and uses as much electric power as a the manufacturing unit o f the Bell Sys- than ever. city o f 20,000. Reproduction from a color pr in t, from a ser ies Early L andmarks of Portland COPYRIGHT 1945. T h e CANAL NATIONAL B an k OF PORTLAND PORTLAND. MAIN!

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This house, built in 1785 for General Peleg Wadsworth, is the first all children were Commodore Alexander Scammel Wadsworth (named for brick structure in Portland. Originally two-storied with a gable roof and Peleg’s lifelong friend Alexander Scammel); George Henry Wadsworth; and a store attached at the east side, the house took two years to complete Zilpah Wadsworth, who married Stephen Longfellow and became mother, because of its departure from the usual wooden dwelling then in Portland, of the poet. It was George Henry Wadsworth who voluntarily sacrificed john Nichols, who built Portland Head Light, was the master mason. his life for his country on a loaded ammunition ship at Tripoli. A monu­ ment to this brave deed is in the Eastern Cemetery. Fire in 1816 destroyed the roof of the house and in rebuilding, the present third story and hip roof were added. The house has been immortal ized for all time in the poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, grandson Peleg Wadsworth moved his family to Portland in 1784, after a distin­ of Peleg Wadsworth. guished career in the war of the Revolution. He took immediate and active interest in town affairs and in 1785 was chosen chairman of the Peleg Wadsworth was born at Duxbury, Mass., in 1748; After graduation first convention in Maine on the subject of separation from Massachusetts. at Harvard in 1769 he taught school at Plymouth, where he married In 1792 he was elected Representative to Congress, the first from Cum­ Elizabeth Bartlett of that town. Among the better-known of their ten berland District.. He died in 1829 at the age of eighty-one.

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