Maine Alumnus, Volume 50, Number 1, September 1968
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The University of Maine DigitalCommons@UMaine University of Maine Alumni Magazines University of Maine Publications 9-1968 Maine Alumnus, Volume 50, Number 1, September 1968 General Alumni Association, University of Maine Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/alumni_magazines Part of the Higher Education Commons, and the History Commons Recommended Citation General Alumni Association, University of Maine, "Maine Alumnus, Volume 50, Number 1, September 1968" (1968). University of Maine Alumni Magazines. 515. https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/alumni_magazines/515 This publication is brought to you for free and open access by DigitalCommons@UMaine. It has been accepted for inclusion in University of Maine Alumni Magazines by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@UMaine. For more information, please contact [email protected]. w yc B J ** KJ * MS 3Wgi<ijv*j - F' J ** •*; •• t» \ j 1 Bb B g-fe Wi. CiyyvS^- hjl “(■l: A f< H ? •»-.• "fib ' 1 '<?!•. ** a*C*^ J %#- > ' *>• • ** 5pT * • J k"< . » Lafe! The Staff Editor: Dr. T. Russell Woolley ’41 WE MfiDKE Managing Editor: John S. Day ’63 Assistant Editor: Christine B. Hastedt ’68 September 1968 Class Notes Editor: Mildred (Brown ’25) Schrumpf X 1' Volume 50 No 1 Alumni Association The Cover Officers Maine’s New Forestry Building Carl A. Whitman ’35 President Architecture Kenneth F. Woodbury ’24 1st vice president A New Campus Skyline, page 5. Mary-Hale (Sutton ’38) Furman 2nd i ice president James F. White ’30 Clerk Dean Snow Edward H. Piper ’43 He Digs Into History, page 9. Treasurer T. Russell Woolley ’41 Executive Director J, Edgar Hoover Mildred (Brown ’25) Schrumpf Philip O. McCarthy ’62 An Analysis Of The New Left, page 16. Assistant Directors Alumni Tour Twenty-One Days In Scandinavia, page 20. Alumni Council Donald F. Collins ’49 South Campus Raymond R. Couture ’51 Dwight B. DeMerritt, Jr. ’51 Just A Bus Hop Away, page 22. John R. Dyer ’41 * " Robert L. Fuller ’38 Oscar R. Hahnel, Jr. ’44 I Howe W. Hall ’14 Football Harold P. Hamilton ’30 Ralph L. Hodgkins, Jr. ’59 It’s A Building Year, page 23. Howard K. Lambert ’47 Herbert A. Leonard ’39 Harry R. Mayers ’30 Margaret (Mollison ’50) McIntosh Dr, Edward Ives Margaret (Mahar ’59) Merritt Edith (Talbot ’32) Ness Biography Of A Folk Poet, page 25. Alice Ann (Donovan ’40) Poeppelmeier Priscilla (Thomas ’49) Rines Robert P. Schoppe ’38 Louise (Perkins ’46) Stebbins Millie (Simpson ’62) Stewart Carl R. Toothaker ’39 Photo Credits: Steven Williams, Jack Loftus, Danny Maher, Carroll Hall, Fern (Allen ’34) Turbyne John Day, Al Pelletier, Jack Walas, and Stan Eames. Martha (Wyman ’54) Weatherbee John B. Wlodowski ’64 3 Farewell A farewell message is a personal mat Publication of Centennial Alumni Di ter, one colored by feelings of reluctance, rectory yet eagerness, too. Your executive direc Second edition of: Songs of the Uni tor is taking leave, permanently, from the versity of Maine most emoyable position he has ever held, Publication of list of donors of two now having lasted more than eight and Capital Campaigns (Gymnasium and a half years. He resigned in August to be Library) free on Sept. 15 to accept a new position Solicitation of gifts for the Graduate more to do so, for the tasks are greater. in Pittsburgh, Pa., as director of develop “M” Club A larger percentage of young people now ment for Metropolitan Pittsburgh Educa Creation of the Alumni Activities “M” seek higher education, assuring crowded tional Television Stations WQED-WQEX. Award (career) ness in the future. The certainty of in It is difficult to say one wishes to leave; Creation of the Career Award flation increases the dollar requirements but it is true, in order that more may be Establishment of the Distinguished of financial help. But, it is further evi accomplished now for Maine, if this per Faculty Award dent that even with increased public as son steps to the side, and gives another Financing of the Sprague Professorship sistance—students and alumni must now the place he has had. It is time for new Joint Development of the Public In provide extra dollars—and the chances programs among alumni and a reaffirma formation Address Center are good that this must be so as far as tion of support by the University, and Addition to staff of a second assistant another century of time ahead. for a marshalling of younger alumni who director Let a departing worker make a pre can lift the level of support and place the Use of Bill Bodwell ’50 “gift” auto for association on a new plateau. alumni travel diction! Based on grand loyalty and very Administration of employee benefits evident kindliness he has witnessed—it is Can any of us resist a summary? This parallel to those of University classi predicted we shall all see growth of the guy cannot resist saying some things alumni association commensurate with fied employees. about the matters that have made him Initiation of summer council meetings the increase of the University in size and love his work, and the people (yes) who Start of “alumni college” during Spring quality There will be needed new people, employed him; nor can he resist men Open House at least to replace Phil McCarthy and tioning that which he is most proud about Completion of Hauck Fund and Cen Russ Woolley, but there should still be having accomplished with you. tennial Capital Campaigns others now to care for the much ex panded alumni faculty growing by 2,000 Not only to justify the past eight years, Change of Homecoming to earlier each year. Prediction: We will all dis but surely to prove that even in the dates cover ourselves giving as readily and in alumni office changes are made, and European air tours for alumni as helpful a spirit as before to the new that changes (with your help) will come Creation of reader interest in letters director, all the support he requires. Let about; here is a list of some accomplish to editor of the Alumnus ments, 1960-1968: Establishment of new clubs in Wil us so resolve! mington, Cleveland, and in Maine— Thank you every one. Initiation of Annual Alumni Giving York County Change of size (smaller cover) of the Maine Alumnus The University of Maine is changing in size and complexity now, but it is First alumni charter flight to football more than ever enduring and improving. bowl game We who would help her must try even By Russ Woolley The Maine Alumnus, published five times a year in September, November, January, April and June by the General Alumni Association, 44 Fogler Library, University of Maine, Orono, Maine 04473. Editorial and business offices at 44 Fogler Library. T. Russell Woolley, editor; John S. Day, managing editor. The General Alumni Asso ciation, Carl A. Whitman, president, is an unincorporated association, classified as an educational and charitable organization as described in section 501C3 of the 1954 Internal Revenue Code. Total number of copies printed per year, 105,000. Average per issue, 21,000. Send changes of address to the business office six weeks prior to the next issue. Advertising rates on request. The Maine Alumnus is sent tp members and to other subscribers, subscription rate, $5.00 per annum. Member: American Alumni Council. Second class postage paid at Orono, Maine. 4 I A three-story tall, “square donut”; the new forestry building which, logically enough, looks like it doesn’t have a piece of steel or concrete in it; and three new dormitories, all of them “brick castles,” according to the students. Twentieth century architecture has caught up with the University of Maine. The zoology building, bottom photo, dedicated last June, was called a “square donut” by Maine Archi tecture and Construction Magazine. Its teaching labs, top photo, feature the most modern fa cilities available. The building was named for Dean Joseph Mm ray, formerly of the College of Arts and Sciences, pictured with his wife, middle photo. 6 The dramatic use of wood, both in the interior and exterior, humanizes Maine's new forestry building. It was dedicated August 22. Twenty-sexen species of timbei were used in the constitution of the building, making it a show case of wood. It's the most beautiful of Maine’s campus class buildings. 7 The university’s new dormitory complex, opened last fall, stands high on the campus horizon. Built on a small lull overlooking the athletic fields, Knox Hall, top photo, is a massive brick structure. Students who live there call it a “castle.” Each dormitory, there are three of them—Knox, Oxford and Somer set—is divided into four wings. A central lounge, like this one at Somerset Hall, bottom left, serves all four wings. Unusual light fixtures, bottom right, are utilized in the lounges. 8 He Digs Into The Past Maine archeologist Dean Snow says "the ordinary guy tends to look at an artifact as something of intrinsic value . like an antique. To us, it's just a piece of evidence." Archeologist Dean Snow and Student Madeline Martin By John Day heir culture was an ancient one. They hunted and fished myths. They conjured up visions of a lost race of Indians ... Talong the coast and rivers of Maine 2,500 years before who disappeared from the face of the earth long before Columbus sailed into the Western Hemisphere. Early archNorsemen visited North American shores. The “Red Paint” eologists discovered their intricate stone and bone tools; people have been connected with the lost continent of one of them, Warren K. Moorehead, labeled them the “Red Atlantis and with Israel’s wandeiing tribes.