Bogley, Richardson KALAMAZOO COLLEGE Win Tennis Honors N this month's cover, Hamil­ ALUMNUS ton Richardson of Baton 0 Rouge, La., is shown receiv­ Number 2 August, 1949 Volume VIII ing his medal as junior singles run­ ner-up in the National Junior and R. LLOYD POBST, EDITOR Boys' tennis tournament held at the FREDERICK W. WINKLER, jR. '51; EDWARD J. LAUTH '32 ASSOCIATE EDITORS college's Stowe Stadium August 1-7, from Wm. Matson Tobin, Detroit, Published Bi-Monthly by the Kalamazoo College Alumni Association and president of the Western Lawn Kalamazoo College. Tennis Association. MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN ALUMNI COUNCIL Gil Bogley of Chevy Chase, Md., junior champion for the second year KALAMAZOO COLLEGE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION in a row, is shown at left holding EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE the Saunders Bowl, the champion­ H. Colin Hackney '30, President, Kalamazoo, Michigan ship trophy. In the background are the two boys' singles finalists; left Dr. Paul G. Schrier '22, Vice-President, Kalamazoo, Michigan to right, Al Kuhn, Evanston, Ill., R. Lloyd Pobst, Secretary-Treasurer, Kalamazoo, Michigan runner-up, and champion Jack Charles J. Venema '33, Executive Committee, Kalamazoo, Michigan Frost, Monterey, Calif. Lee-Olia Smith Gemrich ex'30, Executive Committee, Kalamazoo, Michigan But what is the significance of Ernest Casler '25, Executive Committee Member, Kalamazoo, Michigan the picture? Why feature the run­ ner-up and not the champion? Alumni Council Grand Rapids, Michigan Mary Hallett Miller '17, President By reaching the National junior Marston S. Balch '23, Medford, Mass. Hazel Barclay Saxon '24, Vice- Presi- finals this year, Richardson accomp­ Russell ]. Becker '44, Chicago, Ill. ident lished something that has been done Raywood H. Blanchard 38, Kalamazoo, Kathleen C. Smith '29, Secretary only twice before in the 34-year Clara Heiney Buckley '30, Galesburg, Maxine Wirick Wilcox '33, Reporter history of the National Junior and Harry C. Harvey '16, Kalamazoo, Harold F. Carlyon '23, Treasurer Boys' tennis championships. H. Clair Jackson '96, Kalamazoo, Richardson, not yet 16 years old, Pauline Kurtz Jacobs '24, Kalamazoo, Jackson, Michigan Florence Winslow '06, Kalamazoo, Amos Bogart '30, President won the National boys' crown last Ervene B. Hannold '15, Vice-Presi­ year, and this summer, in his first dent year as a junior, he became a final­ Boston, Massachusetts Ruth A. Clay '23, Secretary-Trea­ ist in that event. Rev. Frederic Groetsema '3 1, surer President Not since Frank Parker, one of Milwaukee, Wisconsin J eriene Ward-Mch.~e '35, Secretary the top men's players in the coun­ Betty H. Brown '33, Chairman pro try today, won the boys' title in Chicago, Illinois tern Marcia ]. Bach '44, President 1931 and added the junior crown New York, New York Kenneth Hunt '37, Vice-President the next year has that feat been ac­ Donald Tourtelotte '28, President Gladys Weller Chatters '21, Secre- complished. Vinnie Richards is the Cl1arfes D. Bock '29, Vice-President tary-Treasurer third. He was boys' champion in Y eteve R. Falk '34, Secretary 1917 and 1918, and then com­ Detroit, Michigan Charles Krill ex'39, Treasurer pleted a grand slam by winning the Dr. Paul ]. Connolly ex'37, Presi­ Southwestern Michigan junior title in 1919, 1920 and dent (Benton Harbor) 1921. Richardson is the third play­ Elsen K. Burt '34, Vice-President Jessie Hayne Howard '06, Chairman er in history to bridge the gap Helen Glezon '28, Secretary-Trea­ pro tem surer from the national boys' champion­ St. Louis, Missouri ship to the junior finals the next Flint, Michigan Beryl M. Nyboer ex'27, Chairman year. Sophia Zmuda Bacon '37, President pro tem And the slight Louisianan did it Rachel Crick Blue ex'44, Vice-Presi­ Washington, D. C. while suffering from a mild case of dent Kathryn Swift '31, Chairman pro tem diabetes which he contracted early Barbara Ferris '45, Secretary-Trea­ Washtenaw County, Michigan lass spring. Fifteen pounds under­ surer William Culver '42, President weight, he took orange juice and crackers on the court with him for Entered as second class matter January 18, 1940 at the Post Office at Kalamazoo, every match, eating between games. Michigan, under the act of March 3, 1879. Published bimonthly, six times yearly in October, December, February, April, June, and August. Subscription rat'e: (Continued on page 19) One dollar per year. Page 2 ALUMNUS tion in these services, with students Frosh Counseling, New leading the liturgy of worship and a larger number of students being added to the Committee on Reli­ Chapel Schedule Announced gious Affairs. July 15, 1949 Wednesdays will be reserved for The President's Letter music recitals at the same time as the chapel hour. The chapel ser­ I have now spent a month on vices will continue to be compul­ campus since we arrived in our new sory. The Wednesday music recital home on June fifteenth. We are will be voluntary. enjoying the delightful spot on the We believe that by intensifying hill and it is good to be here full the program on Tuesdays and time. Early in the summer the Thursdays and adding variety to members of the faculty and admini­ other services held in the Chapel, strative staff who are in Kalamazoo it will be possible to enrich further this summer gave us a very friendly the program of religion on the welcome in a picnic supper on the campus, and to make real our claim lawn at our home and surprised us that we are a "church-related'' col­ with a quite unexpected but pleas­ lege with a Christian emphasis at ant shower of supplies for our cup­ the heart of the life of the insti­ board. Mr. Overley made the pre­ tution. sentation in his inimitable way. We John Scott Everton were deeply appreciative and it certainly made us feel more at home on the hill. Every evidence points to a most Ronald McCreary Takes interesting year when the term be­ JOHN SCOTT EVERTON gins in the fall. We have an un­ High School Post in East usually fine group of new students a month outstanding educational Mr. Ronald C. McCreary, college coming in at that time. Committees leaders in various fields may be in­ faculty member since 1946 as di­ of the faculty are engaged in plan­ vited to the campus to guide the rector of men's residences and in­ ning for the New Student Days, thinking of our students in interna­ structor in freshman composition September 14 to 19, for the Faculty tional affairs, in new developments and who served as Dean of Men ad Conference on September 12 and in the field of the physical and soc­ interim since July, 1948, has re­ 13, and for the formal opening of ial sciences, and in interpretation of signed to accept appointment as the new semester, with registration the humanities. principal of Pleasantville h i g h school, Pleasantville, N. Y. on September 20. The faculty coun­ Tuesdays and Thursdays there selors will have a special confer­ will be chapel services at the regu­ He began his new duties July 1. In announcing the resignation, ence with Dr. George Lovell, con­ lar hour. It is planned to have a President Everton expressed ap­ sultant in counseling at Grinnell greater degree of student participa- College, as a special resource lead­ preciation for the fine contributions er. This conference will come just that Mr. McCreary has made to prior to the arrival of the new stu­ Kalamazoo since 1946. dents on campus. We believe that Mrs. McCreary will return to dte intensified counseling will help to Kalamazoo campus in September enhance the values of personal to serve for another year as Dean guidance of new students by the of Women. She will then join Mr. faculty. Tennis Tournaments .... ______2 McCreary in Pleasantville. Dr. Everton ______3 You will also be interested to Prior to coming to Kalamazoo Sherwood History ______4 College, McCreary served as teacher know that this fall we will begin News Notes ______5 a new schedule in connection with and principal in New York state Alumnaries ______5 & 6 high schools for ten years, and the chapel services. All of you are for nine years with Pennsylvania familiar with the beauty of Stetson "Speaking of Books"- ______7 high schools. He is a graduate of Chapel. It is with the hope of using "Varsity Vacationist" ______9 Edinboro, Pa., State Teachers' Col­ it even more effectively that the Sports ______13 lege, the University of Pittsburgh, new schedule will go into effect at Financial Report ______l8 and has his Master's degree from the beginning of the term. Marriages, Births ______l9 the University of Buffalo. He also Mondays will be reserved for has done work at the University of Convocation, when once or twice Michigan.

ALUMNUS Page 3 were taken several miles from the Sherwood Society Has campus and were obliged to walk back. The Judge recalls that Lee Johnson of Oakley and Oldfield Ninety-Eight Year History Coal Company in Kalamazoo was . (The FoHowing story, prepared by campus and encountered competi­ extremely active in pranks during present Sherwood members, is the tion m the founding of two more those years. first in a series of six articles tracing men's societies and three societies The Society lost much of its mo­ the histories of the campus societies.) for the women. This began an era mentum during the war when the -Editors. of friendly rivalry that has existed male enrollment was exceedingly low. However, the old spirit has INETY-EIGHT years ago throughout the years. Much interest been revived, and many veterans twenty students of Kalama­ was stimulated in competitive de­ bating, oratory and extempore be­ are now a part of the organization. Nzoo College met in the Presi­ tween these organizations. Among men who were notable in dent's office and organized the first We were able to procure more the post-war reclamation of the society on the college campus, call­ records of a comparatively recent Sherwoods are the names of Nick ing themselves the Sherwood nature from the school library. Beresky, John Griffith and Jack Rhetorical Society in honor of a They are contained in a minute Trump. Beresky is now a tennis Mr. Sherwood who gave the society pro. Griffith is in Medical School its start in the early years of its book that was kept during the years from 1915 to 1930. It is in­ at the University of Michigan; and existence. teresting to note that many of the Trump is working on his Master's A temporary constitution was members on record during those degree a t Kalamazoo College. drawn up, and replaced two years years are now extremely successful These men assumed the role of later by a permanent one. In 1869, in Kalamazoo. President of the Society and gave the membership increased to a Among these records we find much impetus to its progression. great extent-so great, in fact, that such names as the following: Ed­ Thus the Sherwoods continue to the members deemed it necessary win Gemrich, Garret Troff and make history. We also had among to become incorporated. Thus in Raymond Fox, active in law in Kal­ our members, Grant Hudson, who 1870, a charter was granted by the amazoo. We also find the name of was a Congressman from Michigan; State of Michigan to Sigma Rho William Scott, who is a we 11 L. C. Barnes, a noted educator and Sigma, and its legal existence under known physician in town. Dr. minister; W. A. Carbin, a noted the laws of the state began. Scott was President of the Society attorney in Chicago; and E. A. The oldest records of the Society in 1926. Victor Kling, according Balch, at one time the Mayor of extant are some writings by a cer­ to information at our disposal, is a Kalamazoo. tain F. A. Johnson, who endeavored psychiatrist at Ionia State Peniten­ More than a thousand Kalama­ to start a permanent and continu­ tiary, and Martin Quick, who was zoo College students have joined ing history in the year 1869. Mr. President of the Society in 1928, is the Sherwoods and have gone into Johnson wrote that the idea of now engaged in accounting work the world to win honor for their forming the Society was suggested in Detroit. These are only a few Society. Some have distinguished by Dr. Stone, who was President of of the men of that particular era themselves in the defense of their the College at that time. The pur­ of Sherwood history whose names country. Others have won acclaim pose of its formation was "the cul­ are of major significance to public in their profession. All h a v e tivation of elocution and literature, life. strived to achieve the ultimate in and the acquisition of knowledge." It is evident that the Sherwoods citizenship. United in fraternal Some of its early members who had their lighter moments then as brotherhood, we shall endeavor not contributed much to the early they do now. Ed Gemrich tells of to bask in the glory of our prede­ growth and development of the so­ the time that Wink Hollander and cessors. Thus we hope to wotk ciety became outstanding in their another Sherwood neophyte were unitedly and enthusiastically in an fields of endeavor. Another group, performing their initiating duties effort to achieve all that is good, especially commended, consisted of by whitewashing the cannon on never forgetting that, "Once a those who took an active part in the Courthouse lawn. Someone Sherwood, Always a Sherwood." called the Police and Wink and the struggle for the preservation of Ham to Study for Ph. D. the Union. Among those were Col. his colleague endured a night in T. R. Palmer, Capt. L. E. Drake, jail, so the story goes. Wink's Elton W. Ham, instructor 1 n Capt. ]. S. McCloud, Capt. A. R. father was Probate Judge at the political science at Kalamazoo for Barret, Lt. Thompson and many time. the past two years, is going to the others. Swift, Stiles, Easton, Cord­ Raymond Fox, who is Circuit University of Chicago this fall to e~, and Woodward were members Judge in Kalamazoo, tells that begin work on his Ph. D. in poli­ of the society who were killed in initiating ceremonies included tical science and to do research the war between the states. tombstone hunting in the cemetery, work for the university. Throughout the remainder of the eating shredded wheat with Iim­ Mrs. Ham (Caroline Richard­ century, the Society continued to be burger cheese and the nocturnal son '48) was .an instructor in psy­ extremely active on the college episodes during which neophytes chology during the past year.

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L Barbara J. Hopkins Jan G. Barbour Marjorie Watson Michael J. Waskowsky Dorothy Parker NEW FACULTY MEMBERS

1907 Dorothy Parker is New Alexandrine LaTourette Hemp (Mrs. Bernard F.) '07, wntmg Trowbridge Director 1871 from Berkeley, California, makes Mrs. Dorothy Parker, Ferndale, Ella Osborn Adams '71, Santa comment on the educational scene. M:chigan, has been appointed di­ Monica, California, in her own firm "In general,'' she states, "I am con­ rector of Mary Trowbridge House, handwriting, informed the Alumnus vinced that the subjects studied are it is announced by President Ever­ that she was 99 years old on the of minor importance to the charac­ ton. Mrs. Parker, who has two fifteenth of February. ters and personalities of the teach­ daughters of college age, is now 1895 ers. At least those are what have serving as head resident at the The Reverend Erwin B. Taft '95 , remained with me from my entire George Williams Camp on Lake Canandaigua, New York, serves the educational experience." Geneva, Wisconsin. One of her United Church at Cottage City, N. 1908 daughters is a graduate of the Uni­ Y., on a part time basis. He retired James E. Napp '08, sent m an versity of Michigan; the other is a from the ministry in 1941, but re­ alumni office questionnaire from student at Denison University. turned to part time service in 1944. Kolhapur, India. He is actively en­ 1914 He expresses appreciation of a re­ gaged in the missionary field; and cent article in the Alumnws in is president of the Kolhapur Rotary Harvey P. Pettit '1 4, is direc­ which Dr. Hornbeck wrote on the Club. tor of the department of mathemat­ topic, "Science and Religion.'' ics at Marquette University, Mil­ Mrs. Edith (Walworth) Martin 1897 waukee, Wisconsin. He has been '08, Ames, Iowa, has been actively on the faculty there since 1926, William Lloyd Mercer '97, re­ engaged in teaching since 1942 and was named head of the de­ tired county superintendent o f after retiring in 1911. "I have al­ partment in 1928. schools for Rochester, Minnesota, is ways treasured my memories, as­ now living in Rochester. sociations, and experiences while a 1915 1899 student at Kazoo," she writes. "Bill" Buchanan, son of William Fannie Gerould Fisher Smith '99 C. Buchanan '15 , has been teach­ 1910 sent in word to the alumni office ing English at a French school in Dr. Floyd C. Wilcox '10, Red­ all the way from San Diego, Cali­ Valence, France, since last October. fornia. lands, California, was a recent cam­ 1900 pus VJSJtor. "Why shouldn't we Ervene Brooks Hannold '15 .is Agnes B. Powell '00, formerly have a fortieth year celebration for on the faculty of the West Inter­ Dean of Women at Des Moines the class of 1910?'' Dr. Wilcox mediate School, Jackson, Mich. University, Kalamazoo College. and asked. That question sounds like a good suggestion. 1917 then Oxford College, Oxford, Ohio, Dr. Walter Lucasse '17, associate Martha ]. Gifford '10 is the phy­ is now living in Marshall, Michi­ professor of Chemistry at the Har­ sician in charge of the E. M. M. gan. "Some of my most valued rison Laboratory, University of Hospital, Montmein, Burma. She friends," she writes, "I met in Kal­ Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, is a fre­ has been engaged in medical mis­ amazco College, and they have quent contributor to scientific jour­ been life-long friends.'' sionary work since receiving her nals. 19113 degrees from Kalamazoo, Rush Robert A. MacMullen '03 is Medical Colle.tje and the School of 1918 Tropical Medicine, Calcutta, India. serving as chaplain to two hospitals The Reverend John C. Walker for the Racine, Wisconsin, council 1911 '18 has accepted a call to the First of Churches. He served as a pastor Anita ]. Walker '11, Dowagiac, Congregational Church, Toledo, for 40 years and six months before Michigan, has retired from teach­ Ohio. He expects to begin his new retiring from the ministry. mg. duties September 1.

ALUMNUS Page 5 1918 Wilma Weeks Rouch '18, who ALUMNARIES has her M.D. degree and is engaged in general practice in Battle Creek, Mich., is active in church and civic organizations in that city. She is a member of the Congregational Church, A.A.U.W., Altrusa Club, is chairman of the Expectant Par­ ents organization, a member of th~ Pre-School group, and the Mental Hygiene group. 1920 Dr. Frank E. Green '20, Chicago physician and surgeon, has contri­ buted 30 or more articles to scien­ tific magazines on bacteriological subjects. He speaks highly of the train;ng received in the small col­ lege. 1922 Martha Emilie Colin '22 sends greetings from Met z , France. "Many thanks for the Alumni news you send,'' she writes, "I do appreci­ ate the magazine." Harold A. Dressel '22 is an ele­ mentary school principal at River Rouge, Michigan. 1923 Dorothy Anderson Husband ex­ '23, formerly a Michigan resident, now lives at Ames, Iowa. Her hus­ band has a new book our this year, Applied Psychology, Harpers. He is the author also of General Ps'Ychol­ ogy, Rhinehart, and Psychology Through Literature, MacMillan. 1924 Harold W. Brown '24, who is the holder of three earned doctorate degrees, is professor of parasitology CURTIS W. SABROSKY '31 at Columbia Universtiy medical PICTURE AND ARTICLE ARE REPRINTED THROUGH COURTESY OF AMERICAH MAGAZIHE, J UNE, 1949. school. The most maligned summer the useful flies to go forth and 1926 vacationers, according to Curtis W. multiply and to combat the others. Mrs. Dale M. Abbey ( Mar'l:el Sabrosky, are not the couples who You'll have to look fast to identify Lanphear ex '26) is active in 4-H just "drop in" for a week, but the the fly that selects you for target work in Nebraska, and is an instruc­ tor in Nance County, Nebraska, flies that just buzz in your ear. Yes, practice, since some of the signs by public schools. Her address ts Bel­ sir, the truth of the matter is that which Sabrosky tells one fly from grad~, Nebraska. most of the 15 ,000 species in the another are color, back bristles, country are beneficial or at least wing-spot arrangement- or other hand, are harmless m the harmless. Sabrosky, who is with the counts their leg hairs. Distinguish­ kitchen and useful in the lab for Department of Agriculture, is ing between them or recognizing genetic studies. Sabrosky, who has Uncle Sam's only expert fly identi­ similarities is a tricky business, since specialized in flies for 16 years, was fier and a world authority on Who's the differences are so minute. He graduated from Kalamazoo College, Who among flies. His job is to de­ advises you to swat away at the ::~nd received his M.A. at Kansas termine which flies destroy harmful common- housefly, which is. growing State College. He taught entomolo­ insect pests like the Japanese beetle less common as sanitation improves. gy at Michigan State until he joined and which are public enemies, in­ It may dine from your table after the Government 8 years ago. He juring humans, animals, or crops. having had an appetizer at the is 39, married, and lives in Wash­ He also looks for ways to encourage garbage pail. Vinegar flies, on the ington, D. C.

Page 6 ALUMNUS 11 a world without water and food SPEAKING OF and weapons, and without the most elementary means of keep­ that there was an almost tropical ing himself alive, and expect him vegetation on this island. to survive. There would be no · point in depriving a man of food Calling such an island a "de­ and water and expecting him to stay sert" destroys the meaning of the alive; we all know he would die; novel, because an authentic desert would have loaded the dice against nothing of that sort would be even halfway reasonable. the survival of Crusoe; if he had survived for 20 years it would have But to show how a sensible man been a mere freak or accident and can learn to do for himself what would have proved nothing. But most of us expect others to do for Daniel Defoe was out to prove us, that was a theme worthy of the something with his novel. best powers of a great novelist. Calling the Crusoe abode a "de­ What he intended to prove was sert island" destroys the very mean­ ARNOLD MULDER that an average man of good sense ing of the novel. and endowed with Anglo-Saxon knowhow, even though uneducated ' ' L IKE Crusoe on his desert in scholastic lore, could survive in 1926 island." the battle against nature if pro­ Gilbert F. Otto '26, associate If I have read that vided with the basic raw materials professor of parasitology at Johns simile once I have read it a hund­ of living. Such a man, Robinson Hopkins University, has been a red times-in all sorts of books and Crusoe seems to teach, could make consultant for the U.S. Naval papers and speeches. The phrase his own machines, fashion his own Medical Research Institute and has trips off the tongue of nearly every gadgets, raise his own crops, pro­ done field wo~;k in Samoa. He has speaker at some time or other, or vide his own shelter, manufacture been on the faculty of Johns Hop­ flows off the typewriter of nearly his own clothes, and do for him­ kins since 1929. every writer. This very day I came self all the things the division of Gertrude Adriance Mcintire ex across it in a book on economics labor does for him under normal '26 is a member of the faculty of conditions. written by a man who is a top­ the Walter French Junior High notcher in his field; as usual in There were streams on the is­ School, Lansing, Mich. such cases he employed it as liter­ land abounding in fish. But Cru­ Robert H . Ludwig '26, St. ary embroidery. soe had to manufacture hooks and Joseph, Mich., is a general agent for But the real Robinson Crusoe as tackle out of the bare materials he the Continental Assurance and Cas­ portrayed by the real Daniel Defoe found on the island in order to ualty Co. catch them so he could eat them. was very definitely not cast away The Reverend ]. Melvin Prior The soil was productive enough to on a desert island. The land where '26, minister of the Second Baptist grow good crops, but Crusoe had he is represented as spending some Church, Suffield, Conn., writes, only a few kernels of wheat sal­ 20 years alone was far more like "Since graduation I have been in­ the biblical land flowing with milk vaged from the ship; he had to dis­ play foresight enough not to eat creasingly aware of the sound train­ and honey than a desert. And ing and experience which Kalama­ while pointing this out may seem them immediately but sow them, and then sow the whole yield sev­ zoo College gave to me. Dr. Prior like quibbling about a mere word, is active in acquainting young peo­ the fact is that the use of the eral times until he had a surplus that he could afford to eat. ple with the opportunities afford~d phrase "desert island" in connec­ by the college. tion with the Crusoe story makes The island provided goats and hash of the basic meaning of one other wild life that Crusoe could 1927 of the greatest English novels. shoot for meat and for skins. De­ Marjorie Morse ex'27, Kalama­ foe even went so far as to make a zoo is the director of a new music One of the newest dictionaries, school for pre-school boys and the American College Dictionary, present of gunpowder and guns to girls. Miss Morse, formerly a De­ defines the word "desert" as fol­ Crusoe, salvaging them from the troit resident, has had 17 years lows: "An area so deficient in ship; he didn't force Crusoe to experience m nursery school activi­ moisture as to support only a manufacture his own weapons. In­ sparse, widely spaced vegetation, or stead of stacking all the cards ties. none at all." But Crusoe's island against him by putting him on an 1928 was not deficient in moisture, and impossible desert island, Defoe gave John W. Allen ex '28, Pasadena, anyone who cares to take the at least a few advantages to the California, accountant, expresses trouble to reread Robinson Crusoe man in his battle against nature. interest in the possibility of form­ as written by Defoe (not in a Daniel Defoe was not out to ing a Kalamazoo College alumni children's edition) will soon learn prove that you can place a man in club in the Los Angeles area.

ALUMNUS Page 7 1928 Elizabeth Hoben Brown '33, Mil­ Earl B. Schermerhorn '28, Park waukee, Wisconsin, has an active Ridge, Illinois, is division traffic ALUMNA RIES interest in children's welfare work supervisor for the Illinois Bell in her state. Telephone Co. 1934 Kenneth N . Campbell ex '28, professor of chemistry at Notre Donald Hellenga '34 and fami­ Dame, is chairman of the Medici­ ly are new California residents. Don nal Chemistry Division of the recently was transferred to Santa American Chemical Society. He is Barbara, California, by the Shake­ the author of more than 40 papers speare Co. of Kalamazoo. A qu:ck in scientific journals. check of office records shows that Kalamazoo College has approxi­ 1929 mately 100 alumni now living in Bryce A. Becker '29, advertising California. manager for Dole's Super Markets, Inc., Battle Creek, is chairman of Harold E. Hammer '34 IS pastor the Battle Creek educational advis­ of the West Hoosick Baptist ory council. Church, Buskirk, N. Y. Urban H. Moss ex '34, is re­ 1930 search and media director for Van H . Colin Hackney '30, president Sant, Dugdale & Co., Inc., Court of the Alumni Association, has be­ Square Bldg., Baltimore, Md. come head of the office service group of departments at the Up­ Arthur Kinsman ex '34, is a de­ john Company in Kalamazoo. He sign engineer for Monsanto, Aus­ also w.as assigned control of office trialia, Pty. ltd. Melbourne, Aus­ equipment research and purchase. Donald T. Anderson '33, who tralia. Becoming a member of the com­ has been practicing law in Kalama­ 1935 zoo since 1936 (with time out for pany in November, 1947, Colin Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Becker '35 service with the Navy), was elected first worked in the accounting de­ (Helen Byarly '33) live at Neeab partment. In January of 1948 he Judge of Probate for Kalamazoo Wisconsin, where Gordon is sale~ became head of the office methods County in the spring elections. promotion manager for the Mara­ and special studies division. Formerly president of the college thon Corporation. Alumni Association, Anderson still Royal Gibson '30 is pastor of J. finds time in a busy schedule to ?on Campbell '35 has been ap­ t?e Fremont Avenue Congrega­ take active part in college activities. po~nted copy chief in the public re­ tional Church, Minneapolis, Min­ Mrs. Anderson (Ruth Schlobohm lations department of Standard Oil nesota. '36) and the Judge are ardent sup­ Company of Indiana, with offices in 1932 porters and willing workers in Chicago. A former news editor of Jeane Godfrey '3 2 is doing child many alumni undertakings and col­ the Detroit Free Press and the welfare work for the Michigan lege projects. ~iami, Flori~a, Herald, he was pre­ VIOusly publiC relations assistant to Children's Institute, Ann Arbor, His first public office was that the vice president of American Michigan. of circuit court commissioner from locomotive Company, Schenectady, 1933 1943 to 1946. He is presently a N.Y. Dr. Edwin M. Williamson '33 member of the Board of Directors and Mrs. Williamson will be hold­ of the Family Service Center, Secre­ Mrs. Forrest Tanner (Eunice ing "open house" at their home, tary of Pretty lake Vacation Camp, Bogue ex'35) has recently returned 1514 W . lovell St., Kalamazoo, and member of the Board of from Japan with her husband who "before, during, and after" the Governors of the University of was stationed there with the navy. Homecoming football game, Satur­ Michigan. He has served on the Lt. Commander Tanner and his day, Oct. 8, for alumni and friends Board of Directors of the Kiwanis wife are now visiting in Kalamazoo. Club and was Americanism Chair­ of the '30 to '35 group. Dr. Wil­ John Cooper '35 was voted the man of the W estnedge Post of the liamson, Kalamazoo psychiatrist, "professor of the year" at Ohio American legion during 1947-48. has recently returned from Ger­ State University this spring. many where he was on an inspec­ The Andersons have two chil­ 1936 tion tour of hospitals for the U. S. dren, Patricia May, age nine and army. one-half; and David, nearly eight. Carl B. Taylor '36 is a teacher and president of the local P.T.A. at Robert J. Pursel '33 has been Trout Run, Pa. with the same firm since his gradua­ hardware. Mrs. Pursel (luella Sidney Katz '36 has received his tion from college-the Hibbard, Oberg '33) was a correspondent for Ph. D. in chemistry from Michigan Spencer, Bartlett & Co., wholesale Time for a number of years. State College.

Page 8 ALUMNUS Here it is, your summer "Varsity Vacationist." are scarce, and especially for the ' 49 grads that' d idn't have anything lined up before they grad­ AMPUS still looks the same as it did when uated. you left last June. Grass is still green; none of The faculty is spending the summer at different Cthe buildings have burned down; sidewalks activities. Dr. Strong was in Boston most of the are still in the same places. summer working in the pilot plant of the Red Cross's blood program. Miss Diebold v :sited rela­ But there have been some changes. At last the tives in M innesota and is auditing a course at the Index and Boiling Pot are to have an office of their University of Wisconsin. Dr. Hornbeck attended own-where the book store was in Bowen. In turn, the annual spring meeting of college physicists in the book store has moved to the storeroom in Iowa City, Iowa, and taught physics at Western Welles, next to the little dining room. The old Michigan's summer school. Index-Boiling Pot room in the basement of Man­ delle will become a classroom this fall. The health Dr. Cornell also was on Western's summer fac­ center has vacated its premises in the basement of ulty. Miss Krueger taught a course in library Bowen, and will be located in the southwest corner methods at Penn State. Dr. Walton plans a trip north. Dr. Mulder is at his Lake Michigan cottage. of Hoben on the first floor. Mr. Noggle is finishing construction of his new F acuity offices will occupy the health center in home. Bowen basement. The halls in Bowen have been painted, or at least they are being painted. Only news on the new color scheme is that it will be "warmer" than last year's chilly white. A recom­ ISS Baum travelled, visiting Ohio, Louisi­ mendation for alternate stripes of orange and black ana and Florida. Miss Johnson was assist­ fell through-carrying school spirit too far. Mant director at Pretty Lake Camp. Mr. The new gate at Angell Field is under construc­ Ham put in the summer at the Kalamazoo City tion and will be very attractive when finished. Hall. Miss Ort and Miss Aman did a superb job of Brick ticket booths are on both sides of the en­ preparing m eals during the tennis tournaments. trance, with " ANGELL FIELD Kalamazoo College" Miss V a n Zee assisted in Western' s library. Mr. making an arch across the top. The " ANGELL Overley attended the Goethe Bicentennial at As­ FIELD" is made of stainless steel letters, with " Kal­ pen, Colorado, and " dabbled in composition" the amazoo College" beneath the cement letters. Its rest of the summer. Dr. Hemmes spent the vaca ­ christening will be the night of Friday, September tion in Kalamazoo. The Reverend Pickhardt oc­ 23, at 8 P .M. when DePauw University's Tigers in­ cupied the pulpit of the First Baptist Church of vade Kazoo in a futile attempt to repeat last year's Battle Creek and visited his parents in California. 6 -0 win over the Hornets. His mother passed away shortly after he arrived. A sidewalk has been put in next to Harmon on Bob Braithwaite spent the summer torn between the east side of the drive from Academy street to admissions and tennis, with tennis usually winning the top of the hill. Low spots in some of the other out late in the afternoon. His vacation was spent sidewalks-where the biggest puddles used to he­ playing in tournaments w ith his father. Mr. Lasch are being raised, making the old high spots low is waterfront director at Four-Way Lodge, Torch spots-where the biggest puddles will be. New Lake. Mr. F eman was among many Kazooans in stoves, ovens and steam boilers have been installed summer school at Western. Doh Grow began to in Welles kitchen. They turned out good food dur­ get ready for football last June-is all set for his ing the tennis tournaments. 50-odd huskies to report on Sept. 6. News for Trowbridge inhabitants: there will be Dr. Spencer was a researcher in the Library of no more smoke attacks from the oil hot water Congress, and spent two weeks on active duty with heater this year-it has been moved outside to the the Navy. Dr. Wendzel attended a June meeting brick shed. The infirmary in Harmon has been con­ of the American ,Management Association in New verted into living quarters. York. Dr. Hightower taught at Central Michigan On to other fields. Frosh are due in the 14th of College. Dr. Olmsted and Mr. Schieb spent the September; they register on the 19th. All returnees summer in Kalamazoo. Dr. Pobst and family took register on the 20th, and then nothing exciting ex­ a trip through the Southwest in June. Mr. Lauth cept classes on the 2 1st happens until the football has been taking his vacation in installments be­ game Friday the 2 3rd. tween tennis tournaments. Dr. and Mrs. Dunsmore There aren't very many "in betweeners'' among journeyed to Utah. K students this summer. You're either making a Mrs. Warner attended a reading conference at career of loafing or chalking up 50 working hours the University of Chicago. Dr. Kaump taught or more per week. Following a general trend, joq~ speec;h at her Alma Mater, the University of Wis-

ALUMNUS Page 9 consm. Mrs. Mills attended the AAUW national Playground director in Monroe, Mich., is Vic convention in June at Seattle, Washington, as Braden's occupation. He went to New York to Kalamazoo College's representative. play in the Eastern Intercollegiate tennis tourna­ Miss Coolis and Mr. Copp were Kalamazooans ment and trekked to Texas for the National lnter­ all summer. Mr. Cazell was at the University of collegiates. Which reminds your scribe, K College's Minnesota. Dr. ,Maxwell moved to Ohio, where four-man team in the National meet did right well. he becomes head of the physics department at Ohio Playing in near- 1 1 5 degree heat at the Univer­ Wesleyan. Dr. Myers helped her husband finish sity of Texas, Jack Sunderland defeated Bill building their house. Mr. Shane spent the summer Schneebeck of Kenyon College, 6-1, 6-3; Vic at home studying German, preparing for Syracuse Braden lost to 6th seeded Gardner Larned of Rol­ and work on his Ph.D. this fall. Dr. Stowe took lins College, 6-1, 6-2; 5traight Clarke of Southern care of both tennis tournaments, then took a well­ California won over Art Leighton, 6-4, 6- 1 ; and deserved vacation. Dr. Smith and Mr. Shober John Baker of Texas Christian had to go three spent most of the summer on the job in Bowen, sets to defeat Joe Pizzat, who replaced Marv Man­ with time out for vacations. Pres:dent Everton tin on the team, 6-1, 1-6, 6-2. vacationed in British Columbia for a month. Dr. The next day Sunderland lost to Jack T uero of and Mrs. Simpson sailed for England and Europe Tulane, 6-4, 4-6, 6-3. Tuero went on to cop the on the 15th of july. title and didn't lose another set until he reached the finals. In doubles, Sunderland and Braden lost to Ted Peterson and Bill Landon of Northwestern, 2-6, 6-3, 6-2; and Vic Seixas and Clark Taylor, HAT'S the roundup of faculty members. Hope 4th seeded team from North Carolina, had to go none were left out. Some students will be, all out to defeat Leighton and Pizzat, who had never played doubles together before, 6-2, 12-1 0. T 'cause they didn't return "Vacationist" cards. Getting back to Vic, he played tennis on week­ Bowen really smells of paint right now. Don ends at the Toledo, Oh:o, tennis club where 1948 Spence is one of the "crew" slapping on the pri­ grad Nick Beresky is pro, and entered several week­ mer coat. The two weeks of tennis tournaments end tennis tournaments. His college plans are in­ this summer really filled the campus. For the West­ definite, he says. Sunderland spent the summer ern all the players and families were housed in playing tennis-he won the Wiscons:n Open title. Trowbridge while another group had the two men's Leighton has turned pro and is working at Chi­ dorms. Then for the National meet both Hoben cago's Southshore Country Club. Pizzat is manag­ and Harmon and part of Trowbridge were filled. ing the tennis courts in Erie, Pa. Glen Ryan sent in the briefest answer to his "Vacationist" questionnaire, but echoed sentiments of quite a few college students on vacation. In re­ ply to four queries on the card-jobs, trips, future ARILYN Glaser worked part-time at Rob­ plans, fellow Kazooans you've seen-he said, ertson's department store in South Bend, "None. Nowhere. No thin.' and Nobody." M took a trip to New York City the last of Charlie Wright worked in Chicago's stockyards; july, and took a 3-hour poetry course along with married Evie Utz on july 30th and began to think Phyll Casey at the Indiana U. extension every Mon­ about early football practice. They will live in a day and Wednesday night from 7 to 9. She will hutment this year. Being a field representative for be a bridesmaid at the Wunderlich-Glaser wedding. Montgomery Ward kept John Geer busy this sum­ Parke Brown and Ed Sulkowski worked on tlie mer. He spent the July 4th weekend in Chicago night shift at Crysler's in Detroit, found time for a with Bootie Watson. lot of swimming and took in the Gold Cup races. Don Wolff whiled away the summer putting in They ran into Jean Collinson, Jack Laansma, Hal a hard 70 hours a week working for the Publ:c Knight, ]umbo Corfield and Bill Mondry. Service company of Northern Illinois, along with John Bungert reports summer job at South Bend Brad Patton and Chuck Chase. Pure vacation was Post Office; weekends at Camp Eberhart; and dig­ a fishing trip up north. But most unusual, he heard ging up the rough on local golf courses. Charlie Big John Sentz on the rad:o one night. Didn't say Bungert, AI Grady, Jack Thorsberg and Al's kid what program-maybe he was "discovered" by brother, John, are all on the Eberhart staff. Arthur Godfrey's "Talent Scouts.'' AI Harbach is working on a construction crew Ed Glaser's only complaint is that too many again th~s summer and cogitating on how to im­ speed boats have wrecked his summer's fishing. Ed, prove WJMD. Wade Van Valkenburg, who heads who married Carolyn Wunderlich the 27th of this for graduate school at Wisconsin this fall, is work­ month, is working for his building-contractor father ing at the state hospital "Jabbing needles into and spending the weekends immersed in either everyone" and looking forward to his marriage on Diamond or Syracuse Lake. August 2 0 to Sue Michen, a Western Grad.

Page 10 ALUMNUS UOTE from Cleo Vlachos, "Some people rom Willson and Bob Taylor were in town for may think I'm crazy, but I wish I were com­ the Western and National tourneys. They had Qing back this fall." She worked for Kalama­ charge of ticket sales and the box office. Willson spent early summer counselling at a coed camp in zoo's recreation department at Park wood School the Ozark Mountains; played tennis with Squeaky playground, will begin teaching at Vicksburg this fall. King and Ax J emal in Grosse Point. Taylor, out­ side of his chore at the college, played golf and Speaking of Parkwood, one hot August morn­ went sailing with Bill Bos. ing George Lewis and Lorrie Gillette were seen sit­ Bill Gershon pushed a broom at the State Line ting in a booth at the Parkwood eating breakfast. Power Plant near Chicago, played tennis and Rosemary Young worked in a doctor's residence watched television and ball games for entertain­ at Wall Lake, near Delton, Mich., this summer. ment. D:ck Ralph, last year's "intramural athlete Bob Rodenhiser is loafing, fishing at Glouchester, of the year," is working in an automobile plant m ,Mass., swimming in the Atlantic, investigating the Detroit; said he ran into Don Speight ushering at malady of the Boston Red Sox and taking some the Avenue Theater in the Motor City. kind of a "refresher" course at home on house­ keeping. Here's a dilly. Card from someone in Detroit says, "Am working at Ford Plant, planning a trip AN Chiz, Nyle Clawson, Bill Borough and to New York and playing a little tennis." He or Bob Treat are in Mexico City, picking up she also mentions, "Plenty of unusual things have D some Spanish pointers at the city college. happened, but too many to explain." And there Anne Wakeman attended Wayne University's sum­ we're left, up in the air wondering what those "un­ mer school, and is taking golf and sewing lessons. usual" things were. Will ask whoever it is that Don ,McMurrary and Anne announced their en­ forgot to sign the card this fall about that. gagement June 19; they plan the wedding a year Sally Munger traveled, spending a week in Flori­ from this fall. da and from August 1 4th in Maine. Ellen T omp­ kins worked as a dentist's receptionist and assistant Carol Pletcher is touring Europe this summer, visiting England, France, Holland, Belgium and in Sturgis. Bob GEckenhaus reports that he's work­ Switzerland. Barbara Smith is working the even­ ing for a change, has seen Marv Mantin quite often ing shift at a nurse's aid in one of Pittsburgh's big and Doris Daub who went to Kin 1947-48, when hospitals. she visited New York. Steve Smith is digging ditches for the Kalamazoo Hope none of you overlooked the change in the Chapel schedule described in President Everton's water works along with Harley Pierce, Bill Glen­ non, Dick Dam, Harry Lieffers and Jim Waldo. letter on page 3. Briefly, regular Chapel ( compul­ sory) on Tuesdays and Thursdays, optional music Smith and Mark Zarbock, both of whom head for Harvard Graduate school this fall, were habituees of program Wednesday, and Monday is set aside for every carnival in Kazoo this summer. They dis­ monthly or bi-monthly convocations, for which covered how to make the 'Tilt A Whirl" whirl outstanding speakers will be obtained. faster than anyone else, and what happens when Tom Thompson is jerking sodas at the Oakland two little electric cars crash head-on. Smith gripes Pharm and looking ahead to Harvard grad school. about a pocketful! of change lost on the "Roll 0 Wesley Archer has been seen maneuvering a motor Plane." scooter around town. Connie Lach claims he's the backbone of the Dick Cain is running the grasstex tennis court~ automobile industry, working on the assembly line for the Kazoo city recreation department. The col­ at Dodge's along with Charlie Beaver and Dick lege loaned the use of them to the city for the sum­ Draper. He spent the 4th of July in Grand Haven mer. Cain gives free tennis lessons to kids, is and ran into Midge Ver Plank, Bob Taylor, Harry managing a novice tournament co-sponsored by the and Alice Lieffers, Arlyle Ruch and Bill Bos. college, city, tennis club and Gazette. Finally got the lowdown on Long john Sentz, Barbara Schreiber spent the summer as secretary our "radio" personality who was discovered on in the Public Relations office at the college; she "It Pays to be Ignorant." He works as an electric­ put in a lot of time on this issue of the Alumnus. ian's helper on the C. B. and Q. railroad. The Dallas Bachelder is working at the Twin Pine golf hours, he sez, cut out his night life, but he doesn't range, pitching for the First Presbyterian softball since his girlfriend is in Flint anyway. team and spending all spare time with his girlfriend. Art Dolenga says he's taken to street cars and Elaine Dryer became Mrs. Paul Carsok on Aug­ busses for transportation ever since his car broke ust 1 2 in Grand Rapids. She will teach mus:c at down. He saw Ed Hertz in Detroit; and ended Fairview school in the Furniture City this fall. Dean h!s card saying, ''I'm blowing glass, myself." Arend worked in his advertising agency in Kazoo

ALUMNUS Page 11 all summer and spent his spare time at Corey Lake mortgage loan department of the Mich:gan Na­ listening to AI Grady's booming voice echoing tional Bank in Grand Rapids. She's been to three across the quiet waters. weddings, expects to attend two more ; has seen Gordon Dolbee managed Stowe stadium th's Mary Lou Harvey, Carolyn Kauffman Aaron, Joan summer for the Kal. Tennis Club; directed three Schuhardt. Phil Mange, the Bob Mallorys and the or four tournaments; and cleaned up with his soft Louis Shifleas. drink concession at the Western and National meets. Jean Shive! showed up on busy days to help uncork bottles. Joan Robinson handled the ladies' ILL Bos is working at a day camp on Lake end of tennis club activities. Bob Hopkins worked Michigan, has seen Bob Taylor and Vic Brad­ on the court crew off and on. 8 en. AI Beebe is selling Penn Mutual Life In­ Jack Laansma works the day shift at Chrysler's surance in Battle Creek; he showed up at the ten­ and spends his weekends with Maggie Lamb at nis tourneys wearing that pink shirt-pink tie com­ the Lamb cottage in Kingsville, Ontario. He works bination. Mrs. Beebe-Sharon- is receptionist with George Lewis, has seen Lorrie Gillette and for Dr. Holloway, father of Rex. Mary Garbrecht Bob Anderson. will teach third and fourth grades at Dimondale school this fall. Nancy Giffels works at Vern or's Ginger Ale Gordie Ferris is playground director at Recrea­ company in Detroit-sampling, we heard. Jean tion Park School and spends h 's weekends at Maca­ Sm' th is a nurse's aid at Bronson Hospital in Kala­ tawa Park near Holland swimming, fishing and mazoo. Dick Hassan pitched a no-hit, no-run base­ boating. Warren David replied, "I am building a ball game for the Millwood Merchants this summer; house." And then to show his faith in your scribe, he works at Sherman's, Inc. added, ''I'm just waiting to see how you're going Spencer Burns took a math course in summer to distort that fact." Hmm. school at Hofstra College in Hempstead, New If you like the looks of the campus this fall, York. Sallyanne Wise spent most of the summer some thanks can go to John Dagg, who worked on at the family cottage on Gull Lake, trying to mas­ the maintenance crew all summer. Phil Buwalda ter the art of water skiing. She visited friends in said, "Am working-very unusual. Future-in­ Toronto, met Frank Sinatra, Martha Page there. definite. Pastime-eating.'' Helen Brink enjoyed her job as c ounsellor at YWCA Camp PigtaiEa and took a trip out West after the camp closed Au­ WO of our footballers, Charlie Stanski and gust I. Nobe Sievers showed up for finals of the ten­ Three hardest-working individuals, without a T n is tournament and were overheard talking of doubt, are Jack Thorsberg, AI Grady and Charlie tennis- Bungert-all counsellors at Camp Eberhart, Corey Said Stanski, "My girl promised me she would Lake. Thorsberg is riflry instructor; Grady, archery be true to the end." instructor; and Bungert, sailing instructor. Thors­ "Sounds good," repEed Sievers. berg takes up chemical engineering at the U. of M . "lsn' t though ; I'm a quarterback." in the fall; Grady will enter Andover Newton Charlie had to fork over $41 to join a union so Seminary. he could work as a laborer in a construction gang After four years' experience, Jack Powell has building a new veteran's hospital. No be went back his "Vacationist" answer cold. to his old job at the brewery in Fort Wayne. Jobs? "Driving a cab." Joanne Schroder and Nan Graf came to the Na­ Trips? "All over Grand Rapids." tionals with them. Future college plans? "U. of M. in Sept." Harry Lieffers plans a trip north when he retires Kazooans you've seen? "Don Hassberger, Joan from his position as ditch digger for the city. He Dixon, Ted Higgins, Kathryn Rice." enters Northwestern University's law school this Summer's recreation? ''Driving a cab.'' fall. Marcia Johnson works in the Hastings, M:ch., Gwen Schwartz describes her job as danc:ng summer playground, will enter Western this fall. counselor at Camp Geneva, Lake Como, Pa., as Helen Zeedyk is the only Kazooan on the counsel­ trying to make nymphs out of 1 50 girls, all with ling staff at Cedar Lake Girl Scout camp near Chel­ two left feet. She saw Lynn Gladstone in New York. sea, M:ch., says counsellors from other MIAA Phyllis Millspaugh bucks the crowd on New York schools outnumber her. subways every morning on her way to her job Dick Draper makes Dodges in Detroit, claims downtown. Bill Maroney is attending Indiana U . that by coincidence he's run into Joyce Stowell sev­ this summer. eral times. June Weaver "loafs" at swimming, Bob Chamberlain claims to be the world cham­ water skiing, boating and tennis, fills in her free pion butter puller after his summer spent pulling time as a part-time waitress. Eloise Quick Is be­ at the Constantine Co-op Creamery. Bob and hind bars again, as teller and steqo~raphef !n the (Continued on page 14 )

Page 12 ALUMNUS Stephen Smith, Kalamazoo, and Football Season Begins Richard Carrington, Fort Wayne, Ind., both of whom graduated. Returning will be Fred Winkler, Sept. 6; Grow Calls 50 last year's captain from Plainwell, IFTY men, including 32 vet­ Richard Ferguson, tackle, Water­ Mich.; Christ Nezamis, Kalamazoo; erans and 18 newcomers, will vliet, Mich.; Richard Hosler, cen­ Hector Grant, Muskegon Heights, F report for early football drills ter, Muskegon, Mich.; George Ma­ Mich.; William Zuhl, St. Joseph, September 6 as the 1949 Kalama­ son, end, La Grange, Ill., Robert Mich.; Robert Ketcham, Evanston, zoo College football season gets Simanton, back, Auburn, Ind., Ill.; and Robert Chamberlain, Con­ underway with Lloyd (Dob) Grow Noble Sievers, center, and Charlie stantine, Mich., was a letter winner at the hdm of the Hornet gridders. Stanski, back, both of Fort Wayne, in 1947. Facing Grow and his charges are Ind.; Vito Tutera, back, Saginaw, Greater depth is anticipated from five games with always-tough MI­ Mich.; Charles Wright, guard, the new crop of freshmen candi­ AA opponents and three rugged Chicago; and Spencer Burns, guard, dates. First race for the team will non-conference tilts. DePauw and Garden City, N. Y. be against Hillsdale at Kazoo's Valparaiso Universities, both victors The 1949 Football Schedul'e Homecoming. Sept. 23 DePauw at Kazoo over K College last fall by one­ Oct. 1 Wooster at Kazoo touchdown margins, will be met 8 Hillsdale at Kazoo Stowe Chairman of along with the College of Wooster. (Homecoming) Hillsdale, the Homecoming oppon­ 15 at Albion Athletic Committee ent, Albion, Adrian, Alma and 22 at Valparaiso Hope comprise the league adver- 29 at Adrian President John Scott Everton has sanes. Nov. 4 Alma at Kazoo announced that in the absence of Four lettermen will not be on 12 Hope at Holland an athletic director due to the resi­ gnation of Bob Nulf, a faculty com­ hand this year. Captain George A. mittee on athletics with Dr. Allen Grabarek, South Bend, Ind., has B. Stowe as chairman has been ap­ graduated; Edward Poth and John P9inted for the year 1949-5 0. Barkowski, both from Chicago, The committee includes Dr. have transferred to Bradley Univer­ Harold T. Smith, Lloyd Grow, sity to pursue engineering courses; Henry Lasch, Gabriel Cazell, Sam­ and Eugene Flowers, South Bend, uel Brown, and Dr. Stowe. Ind., has left college. This group will coordinate the Main hopes for a record better work of the physical education de­ than last year's second place MIAA partment. As chairman, Dr. Stowe standing, and 4-4-1 season won­ will meet with the members of the lost-tied record, lie with the season­ department for their regular staff ed lettermen as Grow begins his meetings. first year as head coach. Ernest Kirkman, formerly of Adrian Col­ 1937 lege, will coach the backs. Albert Deal '3 7, principal and lettermen are Douglas Beebe, coach at Hopkins, Mich., high Richard Cain, Jack Davis, William school for the last seven years, has Glennon and Kenneth Youngs, all been named superintendent of the; backs from Kalamazoo; Alvin ERNEST KIRKMAN, above, for­ mer backfield coach and s·uccessful Martin, Mich., school for the com­ Bourgeois, guard, Ferndale, Mich.; mg year. Garry Brown, end, Schoolcraft, track mentor at Adrian College, will take over the same positions on K Col­ 1938 Mich.; Italo Candoli, guard, Misha­ lege's staff this year. Mrs. Howard Earl Thompson waka, Ind., Stanley Chalmers, end, (Barbara G. Taylor '38) is a chil­ Flint, Mich.; Milton Christen, end, dren's medical case worker at the Conrad Hinz and Earl King, both Six Lettermen Bolster University Hospital, Ann Arbor, tackles, Val Jablonski, end, Edward Michigan. Rzepka, guard, Howard South­ Cross Country This Fall worth, center, and backs James Cross country will begin with the Raywood H. Blanchard '38 has Nawrot, Ernest Piechocki and Dale start of college September 21, with been elected president of the Kal­ Spencer, all of South Bend, Ind. six lettermen expected to greet amazoo chapter of the Reserve Of­ Robert Distin and Harley Pierce, Samuel Brown, new English pro­ ficers' Association. He is a former tackles, and James Waldo, end, all fessor, who will coach this year's Eighth Air Force bomber pilot. of Comstock, Mich.; James Ed­ harriers. 1939 wards, guard, Western Springs, Ill.; lost from last fall's team which William H. Weber '39, Roches­ Bill Evans, back, Morristown, N. J.; tied for third in the MIAA are ter, N. Y., is a research physicist.

ALUMNUS Page 13 Vacationist DesAutels put in an interesting but hectic summer (Continued from page 12) working full time at the Kazoo North Presbyterian Church, attending or helping at three different Ellen Tompkins dropped in one day while the camps, ushering at weddings. Claims he didn't "Vactionist" was being written. Cynthia Quick is have time to fish enuf, golf enuf, or take a trip t o · playground director at Garfield Park in Grand visit friends in Dearborn. Rapids and gets plenty of exercise keeping 800 Ken V enderbush dropped the "Vacationist" kids busy every day. dept. a line, giving plans for a European tour this Nancy Vagness has been vacationing, entertaining fall. Woody Schneider will go with Ken. They Joyce Pelto, Margie Sharp and traveling to Ishpem­ leave New York Sept. 8 abroad the Mauretainia, ing and Lakeside, Michigan. Don Johnson spent and Ken will return Dec. 2 0-in time for the sec­ a n uneventful summer, due, he says, to the lack of ond semester-after visiting England, Scandinavia, jobs (positions). Rosemarie Milne idled away the most of Europe proper, North Africa and ending summer and visited Joan McGeachy at Caseville, up in Paris. Woody will remain in F ranee the rest Mich. Bob Pitkethly enjoyed himself while going of the year to study. to summer school at the University of Colorado. Ken says that Bob Dye started the summer working for the Boy Scouts-until his own dog bit him-and he's now working at a park in STHER Bisbee and Tom Clauter were married Cleveland. Larry Vickery is working at the Elks in Grand Rapids on June 25th. They live in Golf Club in Kalamazoo. Emily Collins, who EKansas City, Mo. Loraine Hewitt went to V enderbush visited one weekend, is working in the summer school at Ann Arbor, had a nice schedule Community Chest office in Port Huron. Evie Lough with all afternoons, evenings and weekends free. is going to summer school-couldn' t find a job m Marilyn Brattstrom found no job, so just loafed. Chicago. Wayne Magee helped roof his house and build a Bill McCandliss wrote in, ''I'm having loads of new porch; had poor luck fishing; saw Nan Pierce fun mowing lawns. Damn this depression!" Re­ and the rest of the K College crew at Pretty Lake. ceived another " anonymous" reply. This person spent the 4th of july at Grand Haven getting a Received a nice, newsy letter from Barbara good sunburn, and is working with the Price Mer­ Wren, who is in summer school at Wayne Univer­ cantile company as a traveling salesman. Don't no sity. She ran into Don Hassberger, Ed Hertz, and who; someone in Lansing. "Ozzie" Osborn loafed Bob Telfer there. She sees a lot of roommate-to­ mostly, but did take a short trip through New Eng­ be Sally Munger, who is helping in the Munger land. Mary Lou Harvey took speech in summer Pharmacy in between trips. Barry Parsons stopped school at the University of Wisconsin; will teach at the Pharm one day. John Massman is working English, speech and dramatics at the W . K . Kel­ on an automobile freighter on the Great Lakes; logg school this fall. his dad is ship's captain. Norm Schroeder worked for an automobile Speaking of roommates, one said to the other dealer. Pat Dudewicz loafed the vacation away. not long ago, ' 'I've simply got to reduce. I can't Winifred Luther married Robert Heath on june wear your clothes any more." 25, is now working in the Kalamazoo Gazette's Marilyn Hirt took a trip to New York City early editorial department. Ron Harvey is painting in the summer, and has spent most of her time at playground equipment for the Kazoo public the family cottage. Dick Ferguson is working in schools; he took a trip into Northern Michigan. the salt mines of the Watervliet Paper Company. Shirley Hill is working in Smith-Bridgman's de­ With his brother, he sailed their star boat, Finesse, partment store in Flint, after spending a week apd in the Great Lake and World championship Star a half at the National Youth Conference at Green races. Marion Leighton ran into Nan Graf and Lake, Wise. She ran into Muriel Burnham and Marilyn Glaser at the National Clay Court tennis Norm Armstrong there. Charles Gore spent most championships in River Forest, Ill. Dick Cain and of his summer working at the Athena Book Shop in Jack Sunderland played in the tourney. Kal., and the rest of his time sitting in a dentist's Peggie Cell is counselor in a girls' camp and has chair. a laboratory job lined up for this fall. Louise Lacey is working at the International Harvester company in Canton, Ill., and has trips to the West OB Binhammer laughs at the idea that some coast and South planned. Dick Brown "slaved college students loaf in the summer. He said away" at the Corn Products Refining plant in 8 the pea crop was tremendous, corn looks good Pekin, Ill. Said Dick, "The work is hot and dirty and he's been putting in about 20 hours-more or but there is one redeeming factor-Miss Lacey is less-per day putting it into cans. John VanDuzer only 20 miles away." is working for the Victor Folding Aluminum Awn­ Mary Fran Giaciolli spent two weeks in New ing company in Benton Harbor, "doing everything York and picked up quite a tan at Jones Beach. Bill from office work to cleaning the-never mind that."

Page 14 ALUMNUS Gus Southworth and his wife, Joan, are in South their own this fall, anyway. Bill Olmsted spent the Bend. Reliable sources say that Gus expects to re­ summer in Mexico travelling and studying at Mex­ port in for early football drills at 205 after hoofing ico City College along with Dan Chiz, Nyle Claw­ it around the longest route in town delivering mail. son, Bill Borough, Bob Treat and Florence Water­ Earl King, V a! Jablonski and Ace Can doli are all man. working at Studebaker' s-so is Conrad Hinz. Ace .Roger Conklin worked on maintenance and con­ believes in his product, bought a new Stude. Milt struction for the Hickory Corners Telephone Com­ Christen is working on a construction crew-heard pany. Hector Grant went to summer school at he might be shifted back to end on the team this Western, took a trip through Wisconsin and Michi­ fall. gan before starting to crack the books. Joyce Barbara DeLong spent the summer at the Wood­ Pelto is a secretary for the W orgess Insurance ward playgroud in Kalamazoo, and weekends at Agency in Battle Creek; she spent a weekend in Big Star Lake thinking of where to find a ride to Chicago with Nancy Vagness and Shirley Konzen Du Bois, Pa. Bill Baldauf said, "Had 8 pound "doing the town.'' Paul Teske is an inspector for baby girl (wife did!). Worked as mechanic at gas the Retail Credit Company. station.'' Mary Joslin is attending the Baptist Youth Con­ Dick Meyerson was going to sell insurance in gress at Stockholm Sweden; has traveled through West Virginia but changed his mind and will start F ranee, Holland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Ger­ with the Northwestern Mutual company in Dayton, many, Switzerland and England. Ray T omaszew­ Ohio, in January. In the interim he's working as ski spent the summer in graduate school at the U. salesman in a radio store. His kid sister will be a of M., getting ready for his job at the Vine Street frosh this fall. Ba rbery Bird spent two weeks in school in Kazoo. Rod Hill is a counsellor at YM­ New York and saw "South Pacific," ran into Lynn CA Camp Ahara this summer. Evelyn Nelson and Gladstone there and now is working for her dad. Jack Stateler were married on June 2 5 ; they're living in Rochester, N. Y. now. Charlie Large worked in the Antibiotic research OUGHEST-job-of-the-summer award goes to department of the Up john Company; ran into Jim Rose, who worked in the boiler room of Wendy Discher "dog paddling" around the lake T a dry ice plant, along with Harvey Powers. several times. Glenn Werner claims he's starving to death trying Speaking of bathers, one beach cultist in Italy to earn a living as an insurance inspector while his was run over by an airplane recently whilst soak­ wife is keep!ng the wolf away from the door. His ing up old Sol's rays. Seems that a small tour:st recreation is swimming and trying to find an apart­ plane ran out of gas, landed on the beach and ran ment in Kalamazoo for the next two years. over our victim. Injuries weren't serious-bad case Vito T utera works for the Chevrolet T ransmis­ of shock, though. sion plant in Saginaw, plays ball two night a week Phyll Casey found a soft summer job working on their baseball team. Midge V erplank under­ as a secretary in the Mishawaka branch of the standably puts in long hours at his job in his ice lnd:ana and Michigan Electric company. The office plant at Spring Lake, ,Mich. Off hours are spent was air conditioned, she was chauffered back and at the lake swimming or sailing. Ed Hertz went to forth from South Bend in a station wagon, and the summer school at Wayne, along with Barbara job only lasted seven weeks, leaving plenty of time Wren, Don Hassberger and Bob Telfer. He saw for vacationing at Lake Michigan. John Urbank, who is on a diet, and says poor John doesn't look the same with the weight gone. Early in july Harry Rohm reported, "Since grad­ ASEY dug up news of Kazooans down South uating I have been pounding the pavement daily Bend way. Bob App and Sue Strong were Cmarried july 23rd in Saginaw. Art Leighton in hopes of finding a job." Hope one of his leads has developed. Harry saw Hal Knight and Dan spends every Wednesday-his day off from South Larkin, who is playing on one of the local ball Shore Tennis Club-in SB v:siting Marilyn Glaser. teams. Georgine Phillips, who works at the Rail­ ]oy Walker and Stan Hyett were married on road Fair in Chicago and spends weekends on Lake july 30. Michigan aboard a 40-foot sailboat, says that AI Which brings up a brief repartee overheard in Grady and Jack Thorsberg are looked upon as b'g balcony of State theater. heroes by the little campers at Camp Eberhardt. She: "Stop trying to k'ss me." Grady, she says, even put on a show for them. He He: "I won't." tipped over in a canoe and had to be rescued. "Then go ahead. hate arguments." John Leddy claims he's "working his way Suzanne Barrett counselled at Camp Pigtailia through college by selling magazine subscriptions this summer, along with Helen Brink. She spent to hapless, illiterate housewives." His spare time August at Lake Michigan. Pat Chrouch spent a is spent swimming, reading and planning ways to month at the family cottage on an island in Georg­ improve the Index. His staff will have an office of ian Bay fishing, swimming and soaking up the sun.

ALUMNUS Page 15 Bill Fry put in a busy summer working 40 hours a V erdonne Peterson and Burton Swan were week for an electrician, going to summer school, married June 19. They' re in El Paso, Texas, and pitching for a local baseball team. where she's going to teach this fall. Burt is in •Dick Carrington sold shoes for a while, then summer school. Shirley Konzen and Lynn Glad­ bought a '36 Chevvie and started traveling, stop­ stone went to the University of Wisconsin summer ping to work now and then until he finds a spot school, ran into Dick Windisch and Dr. Kaump he likes. Jack Carpenter spent the summer on his there. father's dairy farm and took a trip to Canada. He Shirley Edison was picking and selling cherries ran into John Pichon. Paul Hiyama is at Camp in the early part of the summer, has switched to Ahara as canoeing instructor; he takes the campers peaches now. She had a card from Berna Jackson on canoe trips after showing them how to paddle. who took a trip out West; has visited Jeanne Moser George Lewis is working at Chrysler's in Detroit. and Mary Kersjes. Bob Cross claims the Wiscon­ sin air, sunshine and butter is great; he's helping RUCE Bowman and Bob Strumpfer started a his father with light farm work. Jim Vincent painting business in Kazoo, and at their peak works in a grocery store, plays first base on a local softball team, was best man at the Peterson-Swan 8 had Ted Engdahl, Harry Brown and Bud nuptials. Starbuck on their crew. Bruce and Flo Chisholm Nelva Beth Moore is a counselor at Camp Mata­ were married June 12 in Stetson; they leave soon mora; she' s transferring to Illinois Wesleyan this for Yale Divinity school. She's working at the fall since her family has moved from Kazoo. Pat Boy's department in the YMCA. Praeger took a trip to Canada by way of Toronto, Illene McCarl went to summer school at Central Montreal and home through Vermont. John Michigan college and attended several weddings. Lenox is working in Cregar's Pickwick House, a Earl V elek worked in a wood shop, took a short Detroit restaurant, and dreaming of a few days' fishing trip in Michigan, and said he might take a fishing in Minnesota. cruise with the Naval Reserve. June Studhalter Ed Poth, John and Charlie Barkowski hit the worked as a salesgirl at "Gregory's Sport Shop" in daily doubles at Arlington Park; all three are Chicago and is spending her off hours at the beach. transferring to Bradley University this fall. Jean The whole staff at Pretty Lake Camp was made Collinson went to Wayne's summer school, is trans­ up of Kazooans, including Inez Willson, Mardell ferring to Michigan State this September. Don Van Jacobs, Nan Pierce, Yvonne Lindsay, Martha Horn spends week-ends lazing around the Indiana Gaunt, Mary Osborne, Mary Kersjes, Flo Blymier, dunes, carries mail during the week. Don Arboe Bill Clark, Don Pollie, Miss Johnson and Janet puts in long hours at the Continental Can Com­ Knoblock. pany and spends what time remains 'socially." Clark sent in his version of the counsellor's 'Ducky Walters is in Northern Wisconsin teach­ theme song, to be sung to the tune of ' 'I've Been ing basketball and tennis, fi shing a lot and having Working on the Railroad." a good time. He sez, "Sure do miss Kalamazoo I've been working out at Pretty Lake. and miss a M :ss in Kazoo." Joyce Stowell is push­ For the past few weeks. ing a pencil at the Detroit and Cleveland Naviga­ I've been working from the time I wake tion company office in Detroit. She claims she's lost Just to raise some other' s " keeds." about 5 pounds and 2 fillings riding in Dick Can't you hear the "chillens" shoutin' Draper's Model A For d . Since so early in the morn; Can't you hear the "chillens" shoutin' YNN Minzey is "having wonderful time" Brother-they need no horn l loafing at Corey Lake. Her picture re-appear­ Ken Mills jerked sodas and fried hamburgs at L ed in the Chicago Tribune's Rotogravure sec­ the "Little Mich." Brad Allen worked the night tion August 7; she was selected by the "Youth on shift there. Little Mich has a drive-in now. Bud the Campus'' camera man as one of the most Starbuck took a two-week fishing trip into Min­ photogenic girls he had photographed last year. nesota before he began painting for the Bowman­ He liked "the modeling of her face, the beauty Strumpfer syndicate. Ken Rowland is lifeguarding and intelligence of her eyes, her freckles and the at Oakwood Lake, just outside the Kal. city limits, luster of her dark brown hair." and spending spare time with his fiancee, Jean Speaking of intelligence . . . a poem. Smith. Common sense is good to have Nan Hatch spent the summer loafing, getting But never make it master her fill of swimming. Jerry Lee has a nice job in 'Cause then it might deprive you of an air conditioned office; she will be at Andover The foolish things you're after. Newton near Boston this fall. Nancy V ercoe went Doris Schmid works in the water bacteriology to summer school at Western, had a short vaca­ lab of the South District Filtration plant in Ch:cago. tion at Lake Michigan. Bob Cross showed up in Bill Watson isn't working, but did purchase a Kazoo in July to help celebrate her birthday an­ "new" '36 Pontiac which he and Don Hassberger niversary. planned to use some weekend to visit Stan Chal-

Page 16 ALUMN U S mers in Flint. Tony V er Hey takes care of a three­ Don Brink is working in Chapin's Grocery in acre lawn and works in his dad's drug store. Galesburg; he's been in most of the "Village Ernie Piechocki went to summer school at West­ Players" plays this summer. Harry Travis, also a ern and spent a lot of time redecorating his hut­ thespian on occasion, is still announcing for ment, plus thinking of football Sept. 6. Betty Lou WKZO. The engagement of Jim Van Giesen and Colvin went to two weddings, spent a week as Marilyn Norman of Kalamazoo has been an­ counselor at Crystal Spring Camp. She says, "No nounced. job-no plans, but lots of free time." Bob Culp isn't working at WKZO any longer. AI Grabarek, after prospecting most of the sum­ This fall he will be football equipment room mana­ mer, will be a marketing research representative for ger. Gladi De Golia worked at the Tara restaurant the Tyler Manufacturing company of Niles. Nor­ in Saugatuck early in the summer, and now is in man Armstrong and Flo Waterman will be mar­ Grand Rapids working for a Dr. Smith. Janet ried this Sept. 24 in Stetson. He spent the sum­ Robinson is in summer school at Erie College in mer at Green Lake, Wisconsin with the Northern Pennsylvania. Dolores Matheny attended the Uni­ Baptist Assembly; saw Bill lves, Shirley Hill, and versity of Michigan's summer session. Muriel Burnham there. Ann Leander supervises the children's nursery L Vits spent the summer as chauffer and at the Gull Lake Country Club. Alex Szabo spent some time working in Mandelle. Ralph Deal was handy man for a wealthy, 70-year-old man switchboard operator in Bowen until leaving for a A who lives near the Vits cottage on Sturgeon short vacation before going to Bob Jones U. Sept. Bay. His life on the lake is fun, but AI complains I. Bob Distin is clerking at Allen's Appliance about the rash of weddings this summer, says he Shop in Comstock. His wife, Betty, is working for can't keep up with 'em. Consumer's Power company in Kalamazoo. Don K:el drove the K tennis team to the NCAA Wayne Green is laboring for a construction out­ meet at Texas U., and for the complete trip, that fit in Coldwater. 1Mary Scott is secretary to the Pontiac of his used up 16 gallons of oil, no less. Dean of Women at the Moody Bible Institute in Kiel turned down a salesman's job and is a technic­ Chicago. Berdena Rust spent the summer in the ian in a Battle Creek hospital. Bob Wagner is business office in Bowen. Bob White worked there, working away full-time at the Kalamazoo Gazette too, and with his wife, Esther, managed the dormi­ sports desk. He covered both tennis tournaments tories during the two weeks of tennis tournaments. here this summer. Bill Glen works at the Post Office in Kazoo. Paul Roberts is working for the Shakespeare Agnes Dearing studied Spanish at the U. of 1., and Company in Kalamazoo. Jack Hart will be foot­ later vacationed from Mississippi to Michigan. ball and basketball coach this fall at Martin, Mich., Jerry Brennan will enter the Ford Trade school high school. Sally Anne Elam is angling for a job this fall. as an airline hostess. Virginia Sikkenga gives peo­ Joe D'Agostino is in jail. He's working in a ple sailboat rides at a lake near her home in Mont­ ten-week program at Jackson Prison classifying ague, Mich. prisoners. John Lundblad is working in Detroit Bob Burchfield started from the "bottom up" for his father's construction company. Marvin in the Plainwell bank, has advanced from window Mertz spent the last half of the summer as an in­ washer and door polisher and is inside now in a structor in radar electronics on Naval Reserve cage. Ralph Beebe is loading box cars at Suther­ training ships. land Paper company, and spends his free time sail­ Doug Bourgeois tended bar part-time at the ing, water skiing and doing some synchronized Marine Bar in Kalamazoo. Mel Reed was assistant swimming at Gull Lake. waterfront director at Camp Potawatomie near And that brings the "Vacationist" to a halt for South Milford, Indiana. Chuck and Donna Barnes this summer. went to summer school at Western. Eleanor Born If you've read this far, see you 'round the quad has been made Y-Teen director of the Kalama­ September 20. zoo YWCA Fred Winkler

Crandall '26 Draws Sermons long did it take you to prepare the Kalamazoo College is still bearing From His College Days sermon, Chaplain?' " I usually witness on my lips to the faith that say, 'About 25 years,' and like as was in her a nd given to me." ] . Mace Crandall '26, station not my mind slips back to some Copp Authors Article chaplain at U. S. Naval Station, remark dropped in class, some Mr. G. Frederic Copp, Associate Balboa, wrote an interesting letter cntiCtsm on a paper, or some other Professor of economics at Kalama­ on the back of the questionnaire re­ incident of those class-room days. zoo College, has an article in the turned earlier in the year. . . . For there took root the idea that I current issue of Land Economics "Often some member of my con­ speak this week. I am not the entitled, "Metropolitan Districts: gregation .asks the question, 'How preacher at all. As often as not, Their Areal Relationships."

ALUMNUS Page 17 1940 Robert S. Barrows '42 is a re­ served on the faculty of Akron David E. Squires '40 has been search chemist for the Eastman University, Akron, Ohio. appointed associate professor and Kodak Co. He has recently pub­ Jack Stateler '47 received the de­ chairman of the art department of lished several articles on photo­ gree of Master of Science in optics Milliken University, Decatur, Ill., graphic theory and techniques. from the University of Rochester it has been announced by the Uni­ at the June Commencement. versity. Squires has been head of 1943 the art department of Western Col­ S. Lee Larkin ex '43, Kalamazoo, Ralph Kerman '47 has a fellow­ lege, Oxford, Ohio, for the past is a field reporter for the Ameri­ ship in physics at the University of four years. He has done graduate can Auto Association. Illinois. work at H arvard, specializing in Quentin R. Verdier '43, a mem­ Leonard Russell '47 and Warren the history of art and painting. His ber of the fourteenth intern group Taylor '47 have both been ap­ specialty is plastic murals done with which just completed special admin­ pointed to their assistantships in special lighting effects and paints istrative training in the National physics at Ohio State University for which react to light. Institute of Public Affairs, has re­ a second year. ceived his intern assignment in the Mrs. Niles G. Foss (Jane Christy Kiyo Okami '40 has been with Classification and Wage Admini­ '4 7 ) is assistant to the director of the State Department, Washington, stration section of the Treasury the College Press at Michigan State D. C. , since his discharge from the Department's Personnel Division. College. She writes, "''ve tried to army. In a recent letter to Dr. 1944 keep track of my college friends, Raymond Hightower, he reports but it's practically impossible; still the purchase of a home for his Henry Van Dyke '44 is working towards a doctor's degree in parasi­ I'd like to write an occasional letter family and that his backyard to­ or at least be able to send Christ­ mato growing technique needs im­ tology at the University of Michi­ gan. mas cards to all the kids. . .'' Her provement. new address is 91 7 C Birch Road, Robert Wilhelm ex '44 is a Harrison H. Jones ex'40, Colum­ East Lansing, Mich. technician at Ward's Natural Sci­ bus, Ohio, is a member of the sales ence establishment, Rochester, N. 1948 corps for Kalamazoo Vegetable Y. He was pictured in a recent edi­ Jean Klein '48 received the de­ Parchment Co. of Kalamazoo. tion of the R ochester Democrat gree of Master of Arts in Library David L. Fry '40, research physi­ operating a microtome which cuts Science from d1e University o f cist in the General Motors Research biological specimens embedded in Michigan last June. Laboratories at Detroit, sends in paraffin into microsopically thin 1949 glowing praise of the physics de­ sections two thousanths of an inch Mark Zarbock '49 will enter the partment and the work done under thick. Law School of Harvard University the direction of Dr. Hornbeck. He 1947 this fall. For two years in college reports also that he enjoyed seeing Inez Goss '47 has accepted ap­ he was a member of the staff of the the Kazoo and U. of D . basketball pointment to the faculty of Syra­ Municipal Research Bureau, as well game on television last December. cuse University, Syracuse, N. Y., as as being active in forensics and col­ 1941 an instructor in the department of lege activities. His home is in Fond Mrs. N . W. Riser (Jean Folz speech. During the past year she du Lac, Wisconsin. '41), formerly laboratory technic­ ian at Bronson Hospital, Kalama­ zoo, and at Community Hospital, ALUMNI FUND REPORT Coldwater, Mich., is now another Balance, J anuary 1, 1949 ______------______$163.73 member of the California group of R eceipts as of June 1, 1949 ------______77S. 50 Kalamazoo College alumni. She resides in Pacific Grove, California. T otal R eceipts ------$942.23 D isbursements: George Williams '41 has re­ Fe b. 28 P ostage ------37.53 ceived the M.A. degree in English MB ar. 1 all ots for electi on ______------12. 50 literature from George Washington 9 Statio nery ______------___ 31.00 University. 31 P os tage ------.97 Apr. 7 i\J embers hip cards ------· ______------48.50 1942 5i tat on e r y ------__ 54.00 H. James Helmer '42, employed 14 D etroit Alumni Invitati ons ______------·------23.75 in the industrial relations division 15 Chi cago Alumni Chapter ______------_ _ 1.10 of the Ball Band Company, Mish­ 29 D etroit Alumni Expense ______------· ------54.00 awaka, Ind., is heading a program ·May 11 P aper ------4. 29 for training new employees which 12 Postage ------· _------__ ___ $357.82 was the subject of a two-page art­ icle in the April 15 issue of "Red $357.82 Ball," the company publication. Bal ance, June 1, 1949 ______-·- ______------$584.41

Page 18 ALUMNUS National Tennis Mr. ('50) and Mrs. Wayne Dressel (Continued from page 2) Marriages, Births announce the birth of a daughter on June 15, in Kalamazoo. Jumping from boys' champion to 1\Ir. and Mrs. George Copp an­ Announcement has been made of the one of the top two junior players nounce the birth of a daughter, Susan, marriage of Jane Ellen Christy '47 tO' in the nation is no easy task. Skill­ in Kalamazoo on July 25th. Niles Foss on June 21 in New York ful Gil Bagley, who became the Dolores Jean Kyes and Donald J. City. seventh junior in history to win the Harrington '49 were married July 16 Joyce Westerberg ex'49 and Harry title twice in succession, was boys' in the East Main Methodist church, Parker will be married September 3rd king in 1946. But in 1947, his Kalamazoo. in the First Methodist church, Kala­ first year as a junior, he was defeat­ 1\Ir. and Mrs. Jack Marlette '49 an­ mazoo. ed in the third round. nounce the birth of a daughter, Julia The marriage of Helen V. Dunn and Robert Falkenburg, last year's 1\Iarshan, July 4th. Rex A. Broyles '49 took place on June tennis champion at Wimbeldon, 11r. and Mrs. Charles Richards ex 17 in the Mattawan Congregational England, annexed the boys' title in 'SO announce the birth of a son, church. Charles vVesley, in Kalamazoo June 1940 and 1941, equalling Rich­ The engagement of Barbara ]. De­ 29th. ards' performance of two decades Long 'SO and Harold Johnson '49 has Rex A. Rimmell 'SO and Dolores M. been announced. earlier, but it was 1943 before he Gutscher were married on June 24th became national junior champion. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Kerman an­ in the First Congregational Church, nounce the birth of Edwin Owen Ker­ Incidentally, Falkenburg, who won Battle Creek, Michigan. man on May 21, 1949; weight 6 pounds again in 1944, was the first player Mr. and 1\Irs. \Villiam Baldauf '52 11 ounces. to win the national junior title at announce the birth of an 8 pound Evelyn Utz '49 and Charles vVright Kalamazoo. baby girl, Bonnie Jean, on June 30th 'SO were married on Saturday, June 30 Richardson, who also lost to Bog­ in Kalamazoo. at Oak Lawn, Illinois. ley in the quarterfinals of the West­ Jean Klein '48 and Jack Dentler Announcement has been made of the ern tennis tournament on Stowe '48 were married on July 31st in approaching marriage of E laine Dryer Stadium's courts the week before Goshen, Indiana. '49 and Paul G. Carsok in the North the National championships, has Wade Van Valkenburg '49 will Presbyterian church, Grand Rapids, two more years ahead of him as a marry Sue Michen on August 20th. Michigan. junior. Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Cullen '41 The engagement of Jean Smith 'SO In 1947 he teamed with Dick announce the birth of a boy, Paul and Kendrith Rowland '49 has been Holroyd of Delray Beach, Fla., to Giebert, on August 3, 1949. announced. win the national boys' doubles Edward Glaser '51 wi ll marry Car­ Constance Newcomer '47 and Don­ title; and last year he added the olyn Wunderlich on August 27th. ald R. Griffith '47 were married June 11. under-15 singles championship. Florence Waterman 'SO and Nor­ Next year, with his case of diabetes man Armstrong 'SO will be married on The marriage of Diana Holdenried September 2-Ith. Fell and James Gi lmore ex'Sl took gone or under control, 16-year-old place on May 21, 1949 in Battle Creek, Hamilton Richardson will be an Announcement has been made of the engagement of Lorraine Donoghue Michigan. outstanding favorite for national and Kenneth A. Youngs 'SO. Helen Walker ex'SO and David junior honors. Shirley C. Guy and Marshall Shau Roth were married April 2, 1949 in Bagley won both the Western '50 were married August 2nd in the Detroit. and National junior titles in the two Coldwater Methodist church parson­ The engagement of Anne Wakeman tournaments at K College this sum­ age, Coldwater, Michigan. '50 and Donald McMurray '49 has mer, defeating Jerry DeWitts, Oak­ Patricia Perkey and Douglas E. been announced. land, Calif., in the Western, and Beebe '51 were married on August 6th Kathryn Stuart '49 and vVay~e Richardson in the National. in Stetson Chapel. Thompson '47 were married last June. Jack Frost of Monterey, Calif., The marriage of Margaret Hoot­ Announcement has been made of won the Western and National man '41 and Harold Marsh, Jr., took the marriage of Martha Jean McBrat­ boys' titles. place on July 30th in Peoria, Illinois. ney ex'S! and Jack D. Oakley on The Western tournament return­ The engagement of Mary Frances June 18th in the Fenton Presbyterian ed to Kalamazoo for the fourth ::O.J iller '36 and John S. Patton was an­ Church, Fenton, Michigan. time and first since 1943. The Na­ nounced July 30th. Esther Bisbee '49 and Thomas Clau­ tionals were held on the college Announcement has been made of ter '48 were married on June 25th w rhe engagement of Lorraine Glass campus for the seventh year, dating the First Congregational church at ex'SO and Richard Slezak 'SO. Grand Rapids. from 1943. Next summer's will be Joan Frances Gall '-15 and Charles The engagement of Dorothy Coash the last for Kalamazoo College un­ \Villiam Hayden were married w ex'Sl and John T. Northrop has been der the present five-year contract, South Bend, Indiana, on June 12. announced. but renewal is anticipated. Both Winifred Luther ex'SO and Robert Henry ('44) and Ruth Van Dyke an­ tournaments were very ably direct­ TT. Heath were married on Saturday, nounce the birth of Rebecca Wynne ed by the college's "Mr. Tennis," June 25, Jn St. Luke's Episcopal on July 1-1, 19-19, at the University of Dr. Allen B. Stowe. church, Kalamazoo. Michigan maternity hospital.

AL U MNU S Page 19 !fnaWJural 3fomecominq

October 7, 8, 9, 1949

KALAMAZOO COLLEGE

announces the inauguration ol Dr. John Scott Everton as the Eleventh President ol Kalamazoo College on October 7, 1949

Homecoming game with Hillsdale and Homecoming Banquet October 8, 1949

Special Music Program, Stetson Chapel 4:00 P. M. with Community Reception, Hoben Hall 5:00-7:00 P. M. October 9, 1949