Maine Alumnus, Volume 54, Number 1, September-October 1972
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The University of Maine DigitalCommons@UMaine University of Maine Alumni Magazines University of Maine Publications 9-1972 Maine Alumnus, Volume 54, Number 1, September-October 1972 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 54, Number 1, September- October 1972" (1972). University of Maine Alumni Magazines. 298. https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/alumni_magazines/298 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]. • • L 'i * Hl ; i Wbfe^r '■,. w. - . -—. < J? < <1 v “* • XFjJ 11 3 1 / Fall semester started Sept. 18 with over 8,000 students and over one thousand bicycles roaming the Orono campus The Maine Alumnus vol. 54 no. 1 September / October 1972 contents On alumni responsibility 3 A view from Stevens Hall 10 It was a very good year 4 Alumni & other voluntary giving 11 A little help from our friends 8 August commencement 12 Annual Fund Recognition Insert Campus capsules 14 Campaign outlook for ‘73 9 Sports 16 s sta# alumni representatives to alumni council the intercollegiate athletic Donald M. Stewart ’35, Publisher John W. Ballou ’49 Margaret A. Rode ’71, Editor advisory council William E. Bodwell ’50 Roger C. Castle ’21 Howard L. Bowen '24 Willard C. Farnham ’60 Leland F. Carter ’42 Vernon W. Tozer ’51 Raymond R. Couture ’51 J. Edward DeCourcy ’34 John R. Dyer ’41 Gordon I. Erikson ’43 photo credits annual alumni fund Peter T. Gammons, Jr. ’61 Dennis P. Hogan ’71 Bangor Daily News committee Lewiston Sun - Journal Waldo M. Libbey ’44 Gordon I. Erikson ’43 Mrs. Lewis B. Paine, II ’50 * ** Albert M. Pelletier John A. Walas National Chairman (Sarah Weeks) Russell S. Bodwell ’44 Mrs. Vincent E. Poeppelmeier ’40 Chairman, President’s Club (Alice Ann Donovan) Joseph A. Benedett ’55 Patrica A. Riley ’73 Russell S. Bodwell ’44 Mrs. Bernard P. Rines ’49 Chairman, Stein Club (Priscilla J. Thomas) Raymond R. Couture ’51 Peter A. Simon ’74 Chairman, Pine Tree Club alumni association officers Mrs. C. Donald Stebbins ’46 Dana P. Sidelinger ’36 (Louise E. Perkins) Albert M. Parker ’28, President Chairman, Century Club David E. Svendsen ’65 Ralph L. Hodgkins, Jr. ’59 Arthur Nicholson ’67 Carl R. Toothaker ’39 First Vice President Chairman, Maine Stay Club Mrs. John J. Turbyne ’34 Mrs. Edith (Talbot ’32) Ness Stephen T. Hughes ’69 Second Vice President Chairman, Honor Roll Club (Fem Allen) Mrs. Mildred (Simpson ’62) Jon F. Dawson ’67 Scott B. Weldon ’52 Stewart, Clerk Coordinator for Young Alumni Whitney L. Wheeler ’29 Herbert A. Leonard ’39, Kenneth F. Woodbury ’24 John F. Wilson ’33 Treasurer Coordinator for Matching Gifts Kenneth F. Woodbury ’24 Donald M. Stewart ’35, John F. Wilson ’33 Mrs. Philip R. Yerxa ’33 Executive Director Coordinator for Reunion Gifts (Eleanor West) Front Cover: The cover photograph of North Hall is a photo line conversion done by The Maine Alumnus, published five times a year in September-October, November-December, January- February Anril-May and June-Juiy by the General Alumni Association, Alumni Center, University of Maine, UMO photographer Jack Walas. The Orono/Orono Maine 04473. Editorial and Bussiness offices at Alumni Center, North Hall. Donald M. Stewart, publisher The General Alumni Association, Albert M. Parker .presidentt is an .^^^^^dn^Revenue classified as an educational and charitable organization as described in section 509(a)(l) of the Internal Revenue Alumni Center, dedicated on June 7, Code Total Uumbeiof co^es printed per year, 104,700. Average per issue, 20,940. Send changes of address 1969, is the entire first floor of the his to the business office six weeks prior to the next issue. Advertising rates on request. The Maine Alumnus is sent to members Vnd to those who contribute to the Annual Alumni Fund. Member American Alumni Council. toric North Hall, (see page 4) Second class postage paid at Orono, Maine 04473. Over and above these changes is one change in program that is especially dramatic. In the College of Education a system of program mod ules has been instituted this year in several of the basic, teacher-certification courses. The mod Director's ule approach allows a student to assemble his semester's work in a variety of ways, since at the completion of each module he will havSI several choices as to how to proceed. The system, Corner which is already finding some favor as a way of organizing curriculum in the public schools, has received a generally favorable response, ac "Even when a shortage of funds dictates that cording to the President's Report, from the stu the University shall not grow, still it must con dents in the College of Education and will be tinue to change." This is the opening sentence in continued and expanded. the President's "Report on the Biennium, 1970- Calling attention to the fact that teaching,“ 1972" published in August to sum up progress research, and public service are the triad of the made at the University of Maine at Orono. It institution's services, the report cites an Expanded is a document full of interest for alumni, and I Food and Nutrition Education Program as one will comment on it in this and future issues of of the most novel departures in the area out The Maine Alumnus. side of the academic programs. In this effort While the administration of the University has the Extension Service hires and trains full and worked to encourage the development of new part-time Nutrition Aides who work with Maine programs which will increase the efficiency of people who are receiving federal food allotments. operation of the academic departments, it has This program has showed over 32,000 Maine had at the same time to contend with many other families since 1969 how to build an adequate changes. First of these is the change in the fields and appetizing diet from the resources avail of knowledge which must be represented on the able to them. faculty as the university continues to grow in This program represents one of the new di response to the thrust of research. While this rections in the work of Cooperative Extension. renewal of faculty has slowed down, it has not While continuing to help farmers and their wives entirely stopped. and children through its traditional work, As with students they bring with them new Service has made new efforts to help its clients expectations as to what they feel will serve achieve a kind of independence of the Service. them best in their educational preparation for One manifestation of this is that the Aides, while life work. hired by the Extension Service, are only part- As with all universities, the needs for research time employees. As a consequence, they serve must change each year, by the very nature of their clients as representatives of the University, research, and with these changes come new but also bring them a neighborly, person-to- directions in the teaching procedures of the person kind of support. faculty. To meet all these changes the University In Kennebec County, Extension has developed must work with limited resources to employ the a Volunteer Coordinator Program in which the faculty in the most fruitful way possible. Service remains at one remove from the com Evidences of growth at the University are given munity while at the same time insuring that the in the five new programs which were approved community develops its own leadership. in the past two years. These new offerings at Orono are Master of Education in Special Edu While we were students at the University we cation, Master of Education in Student Personnel, became acquainted with many aspects of the Work in Higher Education, Master of Music, academic program. But alumni usually leave Master of Science in Oceanography, and Asso the University without a full recognition of its ciate of Science in Mental Health Technology. research and public service programs. One of In addition to these new opportunities offered the most important of these is described in the at Orono the University has changed by the con President's Report as being long recognized for tinuing process of redesigning courses by indi its usefulness and thoroughness in research vidual instructors. (continued on p. 15) 2 President Libby On alumni responsibility The University seal proudly proclaims 1865 as is self-evident as part of the mutuality of interest the year of our founding. The 107 years from the between the University and those who were once beginning of our time to the present confers students here. Such criticism, however, accom the dignity of age upon us. While age alone plishes little if it simply makes sweeping and has little significance, it does develop insti negative generalizations about what is or is not tutional / identity, character and purpose. Time being done at Orono. The alumnus who writes has done this for us. that he "no longer will support the University The character of an institution, educational or because the faculty are all communists" demon otherwise, is expressed through those who have strates such narrowness of understanding that it been or are associated with it. The University of is difficult to know where to start an educational Maine at Orono's character has been shaped by process with him. The alumnus who condemns the thousands of students, the faculty, the ad the hair style or dress habits of students as the ministrators and the alumni who during the reason for turning his back on the University century of existence have made the institution fails to recognize that our students' habits and what it is—a fine one.