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Introducing CLAUDE C. SMITH JUNE, 1952 NEW CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF MANAGERS Volume XVI Number 6 The Garnet Letter BULLETIN BOARD Volume XVI No. 6 NEWS OF SWARTHMORE CLUBS JUNE 1952 Published by the Alumni Office at Swarth- Westchester Countyv - New York Suburban more College, Swarthmore, Pa. Picnic held at the Riverdale Country School at Riverdale-on- EDITORS Hudson, N. Y. Joseph B. Shane ’25, vice-president; Kath Joseph B. Shane ’25, vice president, attended. ryn Bassett ’35, alumni office; George A. Test ’49, publicity director. North Jersey ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OFFICERS Annual Meeting held at William Pitt, Chatham, N. J., May 9th, William F. Lee ’33, president; Herbert L. with 100 people attending the dinner. Brown T6, vice-president for men; Virginia John Michaels, of the Political Science Dept., spoke to the group. Brown Greer ’26, vice-president for women; Inez Coulter Russell ’25, secretary. Kathryn Bassett ’35, secretary in the Alumni Office, attended. New Officers: ADVISORY BOARD Pres., Elizabeth Ogden McLain ’29 Robert H. Wilson ’31, chairman; Robert J. Cadigan ’34, Morris M. Lee, Jr. ’29, Vice Pres., Carl Arenander ’28 Isabel Logan Lyon ’42, Frederick C. Selby Treas., Jane Totah ’50 ’44. Sec’y, John A. White TO ALUMNI MANAGERS Margaret Ball Dellmuth ’33, Caroline Midwestern Biddle Malin ’28, Richard H. McFeely, ’27, Spring meeting held in May at Tally-Ho, Evanston, 111. Joseph B. Amos J. Peaslee ’07, Ellen Fernon Reisner ’31, Gertrude Wood Thatcher T4, Jack B% Shane and Paul Ylvisaker (Political Science Dept.) were the Thompson ’27, William H. Ward ’15. speakers. 60 people attended. New officers elected were: ’57-’52 ALUMNI FUND Pres., Donald P. Burch ’50 V. P., Elizabeth Pollard Fetter ’25 ENDS JUNE 30fh V. P., George Wm. Orr ’34 Two records have already been set Sec’y, Yvonne Motley McCabe ’50 by the 1951-52 Alumni Fund, despite Treas., Van R. Gathany ’50 the fact that as we go to press, it is Pittsburgh still $9,362.82 short of the goal of $90,000. Meeting held in April at the home of Mr. and Mrs. William J. With 3,269 donors, or 38.23% of Clark, Mt. Lebanon, Pittsburgh. 43 people attended and Joseph B. the alumni body, the Fund has al Shane was the speaker. ready exceeded by a wide margin, the Virginia Alleman Hartswick ’36 and Marie Cooley Haabestad ’46 2,975 donors (30.44% ) that set a new are the co-chairmen of this group. record last year. The difference be ALUMNI COUNCIL ADDS NEW MEMBERS tween these two sets of figures is in dicative of the ever-widening interest Ten new members, five men and five women, were elected to serve on the Alumni Council, it was anounced on Alumni Day, June 7th. They will serve and concern that more and more until 1955. alumni are showing for Swarthmore. Zone I— J. Stokes Clement, Jr. ’34 Jean Weltmer Stetson ’38 It was hoped that completion of Charles E. Rickards ’27 Barbara Briggs Winde ’31 this year’s drive could be announced Zone II— Norris C. Barnard T9 Aldyth Longshore Claiborn ’33 on June 7th, Alumni Day. Since this Zone III— Philip A. Crowl ’36 Ruth Jackson Boone ’30 Zone IV— Charles C. Price, III ’34 Elizabeth Pollard Fetter ’25 is not the official end of the year, all gifts up to and including June 30th, GARNET LETTER TO CHANGE NAME the end of the College’s fiscal year, This is the last issue of the G a r n et L etter which will appear under that will be counted in the ’51-’52 Alumni name. In the future it will be mailed under a second class permit which will Fund. permit the college to mark up a considerable saving in mailing costs but which forbids the use of the word “letter” in the title. Isaac Darlington Retires The change in title will take place with the first issue in the fall and other as Chairman of Alumni Fund than that the magazine will remain unchanged. Any suggestions for a short and The man who has lead the last four snappy title will be happily received by the Alumni Office. Alumni Fund drives, Isaac G. Darling COLLEGE’S LONG-RANGE NEEDS EXPLAINED IN NEW BOOKLET ton ’07, will retire with the completion A new brochure, “The Price of Conviction,” which explains the long-range of the current campaign. Completely needs of the college— additional endowment and new buildings-^and ways in unselfish in giving his time and inter which they can be realized has been prepared by the Publicity Office.. est to Swarthmore, “Ike” has been the Any alumni interested in obtaining copies of this booklet may do so by ideal alumnus. He will be succeeded writing to the Publicity Office, Swarthmore College. by Richard O. Smith ’41. Chester, he came to Swarthmore in CLAUDE C. SMITH ELECTED 1906. As an undergraduate he was manager of the basketball and tennis teams, and an outfielder on the 1908 NEW CHAIRMAN OF BOARD baseball team. Mr. Sharpies is active in commer cial and philanthropic work. The founder and chairman of the board of The Sharpies Company, he is a direc tor of the Pennsylvania Salt Company, the Lehigh Valley Railroad and the Fidelity-Philadelphia Trust Company. Robert Lamb ’03, the new life mem ber, is president of the Lamb Con struction Company of Philadelphia and has been a member of the Board since 1921. The Lamb-Miller Field House was named in his honor. Philip T. Sharpies '10 Hilda Lang Denworth '17 Robert E. Lamb '03 Hilda Lang Denworth T7 who has been elected to term membership, is HE Board of Managers elected The new chairman is a director of no newcomer to the Board, having Claude C. Smith of the class of the Philadelphia Life Insurance Com served as alumni representative to that T ’14 and senior partner in the Duane, pany, the American Friends Service group in 1941-45. As an undergradu Morris and Heckscher law firm of Committee, the Flexitallic Gasket ate Mrs. Denworth was an associate Philadelphia as the new chairman of Company and the Swarthmore Na editor of the Halcyon, a member of the Board and president of the Cor tional Bank, of which he is also vice the Alligator staff, a member of Som poration at its pre-Commencement president. erville and president of the Y.W.C.A. meeting, June 6th. Philip T. Sharpies, the new vice She is active in civic affairs in the At the same meetirfg, Philip T. chairman, is the son of Philip M. Borough of Swarthmore. She served Sharpies ’10 was elected vice-chair Sharpies who was on the Board from the School Board as secretary, and is man to fill the position left vacant by 1909 to 1935. A native of West now president of the Woman’s Club. Claude Smith. Robert Lamb ’03 was elected to be a life member of the Board and Hilda Lang Denworth ’17 was elected to serve out Mr. Lamb’s Howard Cooper Johnson Dies unexpired term. Howard Cooper Johnson died at 5:15 p.m. on June 9th, Commencement Day, Claude Smith has been a member at the age of 76. Three days before, his successor as chairman of the Board of of the Board since 1935 and vice chair Managers had been selected and the members of that body had voted unanimously man since 1944. He is the second to present Mr. Johnson with a scroll in recognition of his service to Swarthmore College. Before this could be done, Mr. Johnson died. alumnus of the college to occupy the Following is the text contained on that scroll. It was read at the funeral position of chairman. The late How services by President Nason. ard Cooper Johnson ’96, who resigned last March as chairman, was the ^Jeitimoniai .5 or ^bistinauislied Service S o Swarthmore first alumnus to be so honored. Howard Cooper Johnson has chosen to retire after having continuously served Mr. Smith is a native of Shelburn, for fifty years as a member of the Board of Managers of Swarthmore Colleger. His Indiana and before coming to Swarth- resignation has been accepted with great regret and with profound appreciation of more was a teacher in the public his many valuable services to the College. schools there. As an undergraduate His record of achievement, including the distinction of being the first alumnus of Swarthmore to serve as Chairman of the Board, has done honor both to himself Claude Smith pointed towards his law and to the College. profession by majoring in political In special recognition thereof the members of the Board desire to convey to science. He was an active member of Howard Cooper Johnson their grateful appreciation of his long sustained and gen the debate team and president of the erous giving of time and talents to the problems of the College. His many admirable deeds and accomplishments are widely recognized Y.M.C.A. throughout his legal, business, civic, educational and other phases of an illustrious From Swarthmore he went to the career, including devotion to his family and to the tenets of the Society of Friends. University of Pennsylvania and was BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED by a rising vote of the members assembled admitted to the Bar of Pennsylvania at the regular meeting of the Board of Managers on June 6,-1952, that these sentiments be suitably engrossed, framed, and tendered to Howard Cooper Johnson in 1917. He joined the firm of which with our hope for a long continuation of his useful and happy life and for the he is now senior partner as an assist pleasure and benefit of his frequent presence at meetings of the Board as Manager ant in the same year.