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Maine Alumnus, Volume 32, Number 2-3, November-December 1950

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B illy was four and a half and as full of questions as “Ooooh! Yesss!” said Billy. a quiz program. So the telephone man got the Central Office and But the telephone man didn’t mind. He had a little asked Santa Claus to come to the telephone if he wasn’t boy of his own and he knew how it was. -Patiently he too busy making toys. Said there was a nice little boy kept explaining every step as he installed the new tele- named Billy who wanted to talk to him. By now Billy’s phone in Billy’s home. . eyes were big as saucers, but quick as a flash he had the Finally the job was done and he was about to make receiver to his ear. Next thing he knew, he heard a voice the usual call to the Central Office to be sure everything saying — was in perfect working order. - '“Hello, Billy. This is Santa Claus.” But it wasn’t the usual call this time. For it happened to “Where... are ... you?” asked a breathless little voice, be just a little while before Christmas and you know how " T h e n o r t h P o l e excited a little boy of four and a half can get about then. . - '"And the installer and his co-workers at the Central Office “Is it cold up there? ’ Etc. Etc. Etc. had something specially arranged for just such a situation. They talked for several minutes and there wasn’t a “Wbuld you like to talk to Santa Claus?” he asked. happier lad in all the land than Billy. You can just bet “Right now — over this telephone?” - those telephone people were pretty happy about it too.

THIS IS A TRUE STORY of how a telephone installer spread gladness among little boys and girls wherever he found them in the homes he visited during the pre-Christmas period. . . . Nobody asked him and his Santa Claus conspirators in the Central Office to do it. It was their own idea—and fust another example of the friendly spirit of telephone people. . . . Wherever they are, and whatever they do, they aim to serve you not only with efficiency but with courtesy and consideration as well. Bell Telephone System

Vol. 32 NOVEMBER-DECEMBER, 1950 No. 2-3 Published monthly from October to June, inclusive, by the University of Maine General Alumni Association, Business office, The Maine Alumnus, University of Maine, Orono, Maine. Subscription price, $2.00 per year, included in annual alumni dues of $3.00. Member: American Alumni Council. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at Orono, Maine, under act of March 3, 1870. SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM B y P h i l i p J. Brockway ’31 Director of Student Aid and Placement

F OR the school year of 1950-51 the sible to offer assistance to about half of earning over $4,000 by their work, and 7 University Scholarship Committee those who applied. women lived at The Elms, the women’s will have received, examined, and ap­ The amount of each award in the fresh­ cooperative dormitory. Studying these re­ proved applications for award of scholar­ man program varies according to the fi­ sults from the first trial year, the Com­ ships totalling over $46,000. Of this fig­ nancial need and the general worthiness mittee felt well satisfied with the per­ ure $15,350 was awarded to men and of the applicant. The range this year has formances of recipients. women of the freshman class in a new been from $50 to $265 for the school year, Objectives of the Program program of expanded freshman scholar­ the latter figure representing the cost of ships first adopted by the University a tuition and fees. The average award of The freshman scholarship program is. year ago for the Class of 1953. Because the scholarships was about $150. A total set up to accomplish two objectives. One of the wide alumni interest in freshman of 78 different secondary schools through­ is to attract to the University some of the scholarships, perhaps this phase of the out the state were represented. Awards best students— academically and person­ program should be discussed first. went to 58 men and 27 women. . * ally— to be found in the state secondary schools. The other is to make it possible Freshman Scholarships A Check on Results financially for worthy Maine students to attend the University. These objectives Previous to the present program the The value of any scholarship program may be, and in many cases are, identical. University carried on over a number of cannot be measured entirely in any con­ In making selections the Committee re­ years a Secondary School Scholarship crete terms, but certainly some research views with great care all evidence avail­ Contest offering full tuition awards to can and should be done to evaluate the able on financial need and also the stu­ seventeen freshmen from Maine secondary success or failure of selections and to guide dent’s record of participation in extra­ schools through competitive examinations. the activities of the Committee in future curricular activities, his or her reputa­ In 1949, wishing to offer scholarships to years. This is particularly true in award­ tion in the school and community, and the a larger number of worthy entering stu­ ing freshman scholarships where personal, probable- ability to make a satisfactory dents from the state and to place more first-hand knowledge of the applicant is adjustment to college life. emphasis on the factor of need, the Uni­ not available to the Committee and much It was on the basis of these objectives versity supplemented the Contest by a of the selection has to be based on the that the men and women of the Class of special appropriation of the University assumption that the individual will try to 1954 were selected for scholarship awards Trustees which made it possible to offer accomplish in college whatever academic this year. Here, too, the records are of an additional fifty-three scholarships to and social successes he or she appears interest. Trustee Scholarships were given members of the Class of 1953 totalling capable of. For these reasons study of the to 85 persons. Of these 15 were valedic­ over $4,000. These awards were made by performance of the recipients of freshman torians, 13 salutatorians, and 15 had other a sub-committee of the Scholarship Com­ awards in 1949, members of the Class of class honor parts. Sixteen were class mittee working during the spring and 1953, was carried out this past summer. presidents, 29 held other class offices. summer of 1949. Applications were re­ The results are interesting. Fifty-three Forty-one recipients earned one or more ceived from 164 prospective freshmen for awards were made; three recipients final­ letters in athletics. Thirty-three were a c­ the 53 awards. In many ways this 1949 ly did not enter the University and seven tive in school newspaper or yearbook program was a “try-out” for the present others subsequently withdrew for various work. These figures clearly reveal the freshman scholarship plan which this year reasons such as illness, family difficulties, weight given by the Committee to non- replaced the Scholarship Contest and of­ and transfer to other schools. Of the 43 academic records. fered members of the Class of 1954 a total freshmen remaining in college, 23 obtained Besides the award of Trustee Freshman of 85 Trustee Scholarships amounting to academic averages for the year between Scholarships several other awards were just under $12,000. In addition 14 other 2.5 and 4.0; 13 others averaged between made to entering students including six awards from other funds were made for 2.0 and 2.5. Only five were below 2.0. M Club awards. This new program, spoil- a total of 99 awards of $15,350. The average of all recipients for the year sored by the graduate M club, provides Application procedures have been es­ was 2.69 against a total freshman class assistance to out-of-state students as well tablished by which the Director of Admis­ average of 2.20 and an upperclass total as those from Maine and for this reason sions, himself a member of the sub-com­ average for the year of 2.47. Thus, it is offers a particularly valuable addition mittee on freshman awards, receives all clear that these recipients were signifi­ to. the program. A ll M Club applicants- applications as part of the admission pro­ cantly superior academically. This, how­ are screened by the same Scholarship cedure and then forwards these with his ever, is by no means the entire basis of Committee and awards made on the same, ratings to the Office of Student Aid and measurement. Awards are designed to basic policies. - Placement. Here the application form is bring more than good students to the supplemented by recommendations from University; good citizens and campus Upperclass Awards- secondary school officials and from refer­ leaders, too, are wanted. It was found that During each school year the Scholar­ ences provided by the applicant. The 34 of the 43 recipients participated in some ship Committee, under the chairmanship Committee then evaluates each application form of extracurricular activities; 9 of of Fred L. Lamoreau ’30, Associate Pro. in terms of scholastic ability, financial the men earned athletic numerals; 13 fessor of Mathematics, receives applica- need, and school and community activities. joined fraternities or sororities; 3 of the tions from and interviews all upperclass This past year from the Class of 1954 the women were elected to Sophomore Eagles. students applying for scholarship aid for Committee reviewed 186 applications to In addition to such activities, 21 carried the following year. * - make 99 awards. Therefore, it was pos- on part-time campus jobs during the year, * (Continued on page 20)

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ThE MAINE ALUMNUS 3 NOVEMBER-DECEMBER, 1950 CALENDAR Nov. 15 Senator Owen Brewster, guest Two-Year Aggies Enrolled speaker at open meeting of Politics and International Re­ Sixty-four students enrolled in two- which cut across the entire field of rural lations Club year agricultural courses at the Univer­ life. Dec. 4, 7, 8, 9 Masque Play—“Another sity of Maine on October 23. Of this A dinner for the two-year agricultural Part of the Forest” number, 36 are first-year students. students was held in Hannibal Hamlin Dec. 5 Concert by Lauritz Melchior— The main purpose of the two-year pro­ Hall Monday evening. Speakers included Memorial Gym—8 :00 p.m. gram in agriculture is to provide practi­ Dr. Arthur A. Hauck, president of the Dec. 6 Basketball— Bates at Orono cal vocational training for young farmers University, Dean Arthur L. Deering, of Dec. 8 Basketball—Bowdoin at Bruns­ during the time when work on the farm the College of Agriculture, and John wick is at a relatively low ebb, according to Sealey, Jr., alumni secretary. Dec. 9 Basketball—Connecticut at Dean Winthrop C. Libby, director of the Orono two-year program. Among the new students enrolled in Dec. 10 Christmas Vespers— Memorial Courses are offered in dairy farming, the two-year program are: Robert L. Gym— 4 :00 p.m. poultry farming, farm mechanics, potato Pike (Robert S. ’25), Cornish; and Law­ Dec. 13 Basketball—Colby at Waterville farming, and fruit and vegetable growing. rence C. Ware (Cecil ’23), Hampden Dec. 15-Jan. 2 Christmas Recess The students take a variety of subjects Highlands. Animal Pathology Lab Dedicated

With members of the Legislature pres­ ent, the new Animal Pathology Labora­ tory was dedicated on October 28. Made possible by a $135,000 appropriation by the 94th Legislature, the new laboratory was opened at the beginning of the col­ lege year. George S. Williams ’05, president of the Board of Trustees, presided at the cere­ monies. Governor Frederick G. Payne H ’49 extended the greeting of the state and expressed high tribute to the Univer­ sity and the work it is doing. Alumni Trustee Harold J. Shaw T4, speaking on behalf of the Board of Trus­ tees, thanked Governor Payne and the members of the Legislature in making the building possible and to Dr. Hauck and his staff for their willingness to pro­ vide and accept “this adventure during new laboratory and the University trained oratory, an autopsy room, and a class these trying times.” personnel would be “timely safeguards room. for these two phases of agriculture. This The second floor is designed for pullor- Shaw pointed out in his address the building is particularly timely,” he said, um disease testing of poultry. It has a tremendous growth of the poultry and “as we enter this period of uncertainty. pullorum office and a testing laboratory livestock industry in Maine and that the W ar developments could easily make the including an inoculation room. There is Dr. Hauck speaks on behalf of the production of food, and especially, ani­ also a room with modern equipment for University at the dedication of the mals products, a necessity.” washing and sterilizing. Animal Pathology Laboratory. Those In expressing appreciation for the new A laboratory for work with poultry seated (left to right) are Governor laboratory, Dr. Hauck said: “The Uni­ viruses and egg embryo techniques and Frederick G. Payne H ’49, George S. Williams ’05, president of the versity has a three-fold function: to pro­ a mastitis testing laboratory are located Board of Trustees, Harold J. Shaw vide for the education of students on the on the third floor. Adjacent to these ’14, H ’43, Alumni Trustee, and the campus, to carry on extension work and laboratories is a utility room with facili­ Reverend Charles O’Connor ’31. to participate in research. The building ties for washing and sterilizing glass­ we dedicate today will help us to do ware and other equipment. Included on better work in each of these three areas the third floor are four rooms for hous­ for the poultry and livestock industries. ing small animals during testing and It will help most in making available to inoculation procedures. these industries what has been learned The building has two “walk-in” re­ and will be learned in the field of animal frigerators and a dark room which is pathology.” kept at a constant temperature for bac­ The new laboratory, which is located teria cultures and other work. south of Rogers Hall, is a three-story The University was host at a luncheon 40 by 70 foot brick building. It is de­ to the Legislators and other guests at the signed to form a wing of a future build­ dedication and at the Bates-Maine foot­ ing. ball game. Following the game, Dr. and The first floor consists of an animal Mrs. Hauck entertained at a tea at the pathology office, a general diagnostic lab­ President’s home.

THE MAINE ALUMNUS NOVEMBER-DECEMBER, I95O Minimum Budget Requested

The heads of various departments and on many students of limited means who Federal Appropriations 15.07 15,86 bureaus of the state government have been had entered the University in good faith Sales, Services, and appearing before Governor Payne and under the rate as announced in the last Miscellaneous* 14.44 10.56 members of the budget committee of the catalog. In order that such students might From University Reserve Legislature this fall to present their not be obliged to cut short their education, for 1950-51 deficit — 5.33 budget requests for the next biennium. the Trustees appropriated, from reserve The University budget, one of the last funds, the sum of $25,000 for scholarship 100.00 100.00 to be presented, was given by Dr. Hauck. aid. * Includes $33,000 endowment income. “To Governor Payne and the Members “Although the Ninety-fourth Legisla­ of the Budget Committee : ture, at its Special Session, provided Educational and General “After careful consideration and keep­ $200,000 in addition to the Mill Tax for Expenditures— ing in mind the grave problems to be faced the current year, 1950-51, part of this addi­ Expressed in Percentages by the Ninety-fifth Legislature in provid­ tional appropriation was used in reducing 1949-50 1950-51 ing adequate support for essential State tuition by $35.00 per year for each State Instruction and Library 47.56 47.59 services, the Trustees of the University of Maine student. It was also found neces­ Administration and General of Maine request an appropriation of sary to continue the appropriation of Expense 7.00 8.10 $1,350,000 for each of the two fiscal years $25,000 for special scholarship aid, which Operation and Maintenance of the 1951-1953 biennium. Expressed in left for the general needs of the Univer­ of Plant 11.20 11.97 terms of the Mill Tax, this amount would sity, only $109,000 out of the special ap­ Other Expense 6.61 6.22 be the equivalent of about one and three- propriation. It should be emphasized at Agricultural Exp. Sta. 12.53 12.36 quarter mills. In terms of the value of this point that there is grave danger, if Other Research 3.34 1.69 the 1950 dollar, this is considerably less tuition costs are further increased, that a Agricultural Extension than the Mill Tax provided in 1930, and university education may be denied to Service 11.76 12.07 this for the education of a student body many worthy Maine boys and girls. In which, in 1950, is more than twice as large this connection, it is worthy of note that 100.00 100.00 as in 1930. In this connection, too, it must in 1930 the State of Maine provided ap­ “The Trustees realize that the Univer­ be remembered that in 1930, the Univer­ proximately $400 for the education of a sity is only one of a number of important sity of Maine provided Research and E x­ student in the University; for this year State agencies. But they feel that in view tension Services for the people of the the amount provided is about $200. If of the foregoing, the amount requested is State at a cost of $100,000 (this does not the present value of the dollar is taken the least which will enable the University include Federal funds for these purposes), into consideration, this difference becomes to maintain the quality of its instruction and which today require an annual outlay even more striking. and the scope of the services which it per­ of $245,000 (again apart from Federal “ The reserve funds on which the Uni­ forms for the people of our State. grants). In relation to the purchasing versity has been able to draw in emer­ The Board of Trustees of power of the dollar, the increase in the gencies for the past two years are now The University of Maine” student body, plus the cost of Research reduced to the danger point. The tuition They Represented You— and Extension Services, it would today income from the veterans who have been Dr. Henry A. Peterson T7, prominent require an annual appropriation of more enrolled in the University under the G.I. Texas surgeon, at the inauguration of Dr. than $1,500,000 to maintain the University Bill, and for whom a higher rate of tui­ Marion T. Harrington as President of in the same financial condition which tion has been received than for civilian Texas A. and M. prevailed in 1930. residents of Maine, is being reduced as a Dean Gertrude Peabody of Temple “ This request for $1,350,000 per annum result of the completion of their course University, at the Centennial Convocation does not include provision for any special of instruction. Furthermore, it must be of the Woman’s Medical College in projects or capital expenditures, nor for realized that a University cannot immedi­ Philadelphia. the increase of services and education, ately reduce its staff as soon as its enroll­ Research, or Extension. In fact, if no ment begins to decline. The decline is felt Mr. Lester R. Thurston ’20, Harris­ burg, Pa., president of the United Tele­ larger amount than this is granted, it will first in the number of incoming Freshmen; necessitate the postponement of essential but there still remain the upper classmen phone Co. of Pennsylvania, at the inaugu­ ration of Dr. Milton Eisenhower as presi­ improvements in facilities and equipment to be carried through their course and dent of Pennsylvania State College. as well as the practice of rigid economy so any considerable reduction in staff must in every department of the University. necessarily lag behind the beginning of a Mr. Joseph W. Crowe ’05, Boise, The appropriation of $962,000 available decreased enrollment. Idaho, retired manager of the Idaho for the operations of the current year is “The appropriation requested will rep­ Power Co., at the inauguration of Dr. $165,000 less than our budgeted expendi­ resent only about 35% of the University’s Paul M. Pitman as president of the Col­ tures. There are several reasons for this income for education and general pur­ lege of Idaho. operating deficit. poses. The sources from which the Uni­ Dr. Thomas F. Reed ’36, Pittsburgh, “ During the first year of the biennium versity derived its income and its expen­ Pa., U. S. Steel Corp., at the inaugura­ (1949-50) the University received from ditures for 1949-51, expressed in percent­ tion of Dr. John C. Warner as president the Legislature only the Mill Tax— ages, are shown on the tables below : of Carnegie Institute of Technology and $762,000. This necessitated increasing tui­ at the Fiftieth Anniversary of the found­ tion by $75.00 per year for each student, Educational and General Income— ing of that institution. making our charges probably the highest Expressed in Percentages Myron C. Peabody ’16, Springfield, for State residents of any strictly land 1949-50 1950-51 Mass., Executive vice president of the grant college or university. It was appar­ Student— Tuition 45.52 35.65 Federal Land Bank, at the inauguration ent that this increase in tuition, without Other Fees 2.01 1.65 of Dr. Spencer Miller, Jr., as president warning, would work a severe hardship State Appropriations 22.96 30.95 of American International College.

THE MAINE ALUMNUS 5 NOVEMBER-DECEMBER. 1950 New Posts Created Local Associations

The trustees have created the new posts assistant director of the Extension ser­ of Associate Dean of the College of vice, previously having served as a county Rochester, New York, alumni met at Agriculture and Associate Director of agent and then state county agent leader. Valley Echo, Rochester, on October 29. the Extension Service. Professor Win- He has been connected with the Exten­ More than 25 alumni and guests heard throp C. Libby ’32, M.S. ’33 has been sion Service since 1925. In 1948, during Phil Brockway ’31, University Placement named to the dean’s post while George sabbatical leave, he received the degree Director, discuss latest campus events. E. Lord ’24, M PA, Harvard ’48, has been of Master of Public Administration from Colored slides of the campus were shown advanced to the position of Associate Harvard University. by Ray Manson ’98 which were much Director of the Extension Service. Nationally, Mr. Lord has served on enjoyed. Malcolm Herrick ’45, secretary As Associate Dean, Professor Libby, several committees. He has also served of the Rochester Group, presided in the under the direction of the Dean of Agri­ on several important committees includ­ absence of George R. Leavitt ’44, presi­ culture, will be in charge of resident ing chairman, Extension Section, Land- dent. instruction in the College including the Grant College Association. He is at The City Club of Hartford was the two:year course in agriculture and other present chairman of the National Com­ scene of the first alumni meeting this short courses. mittee for the Codification of Federal year of the Northern Connecticut Alumni Associate Dean Libby was born in Extension Acts. He is also a member Association on the eve of the U-Conn.- Caribou. He is a graduate of the Uni­ of the National Committee of the Farm Maine game, October 21. About thirty versity of Maine and received his master Foundation on Educational Methods in alumni and guests attended the dinner of science degree from the University in Public Policy and Grand Director of which was presided over by Wilson Al­ 1933. His graduate work in the field of Epsilon Sigma Phi, the national honorary ford ’41, president of the group. agronomy was taken at Rutgers and Extension fraternity. Reports were submitted by Mrs. Vin­ Cornell Universities. Dean Libby has In commenting on this appointment, cent E. Poeppelmeier (Alice Ann Dono­ been on the faculty of the University of President Arthur A. Hauck of the Uni­ van) ’40, and Alumni Secretary John Maine since 1934 when he received an versity said: “I wish to express per­ Sealey, Jr., ’36 showed football movies. appointment as assistant professor. In sonally and in behalf of the Trustees our Alfred B. Lingley ’20, president of the 1943 he was made professor and head of appreciation for Mr. Lord’s devoted and General Alumni Association, attended the the department of agronomy. effective service to the University of meeting. Long active in alumni affairs, Dean Maine.” The Eastern Pennsylvania Alumni met Libby has served on various alumni com­ Currently a member of the Alumni in Wilmington on October 7. Thirty-one mittees. He has been treasurer of the Council and of its Executive Committee, attended the dinner which was followed Alumni Association, chairman of the Mr. Lord has served the Alumni As­ by a business meeting at which Dr. Dues Committee, Homecoming chairman, sociation, his class and his fraternity, W alter “ Duffy” Chadbourne ’20 presided. and is currently serving on the Union Lambda Chi Alpha, in several capacities. Colored movies of the group’s annual Building Committee. Mr. and Mrs. Lord (Louise Quincy picnic and of the campus were shown. Dean and Mrs. Libby (Elizabeth Try- ’25) have two children, Dorothy ’50 and They were taken by Dr. Chadbourne and on ’33) have three children, a son and Edgar ’52. E. D. Turner ’18. A social hour followed two daughters. Succeeding Dean Libby is Professor the meeting. Mr. Lord has for some years been Roland A. Struchtemeyer who has been A nominating committee of William E. named acting head of the department of Bowler T5, Wallace E. Belcher ’99, Agronomy for the academic year 1950-51. Eng.D. ’49 and Charles H. Pritham ’01 was appointed to present a slate of officers for the coming year at the December meeting. The most successful Alumni Teachers meeting was held October 26 during the State Teachers’ Convention in Lewiston. More than 125 alumni were present to hear Professor Emeritus Payson Smith, who captivated his audience. Officers elected for the coming year are: William C. Brown ’41, president, Orville Guptill ’34, vice president, Doris Gross ’31, treasurer, and Mrs. Bette B. Kilpatrick ’42, secretary. Kenneth Fobes ’48, Frank Kent ’39, and Mrs. Joanna (Thaanum) Manwell T8 were elected members of the executive committee. The newest alumnae group to be formed is that of the Lewiston-Auburn which held its first meeting on October 30. The group met at the home of Mrs. Albert Kavanaugh (Mary Leonard) 14, senator- elect from Androscoggin county. Miss Elinor Hansen ’50 was elected president with Mrs. Henry C. Anderson W inthrop C. L ibby ’32 George E. L ord ’24 (W inifred Coburn) ’36 vice president.

The MAINE ALUMNUS NOVEMBER-DECEMBER, 1950 COURSES ACCREDITED

Dean Ashley S. Campbell of the Technology, was established, and Dr. Roy al Development is a conference organized College of Technology has an­ P. Whitney acted as Department Head in to enhance the professional status of the nounced that the curriculum in Chemical 1946-1947. Dr. Whitney is at present as­ engineer through the cooperative efforts Engineering has been fully accredited by sociated with the Institute of Paper of the following organizations: American the Engineers’ Council for Professional Chemistry at Appleton, Wisconsin. Pro­ Society of Civil Engineers, American In­ Development. The curricula in Civil En­ fessor Lyle C. Jenness has been Head of stitute of Mining and Metallurgical En­ gineering, Electrical Engineering, and the Department of Chemical Engineering gineers, American Society of Mechanical Mechanical Engineering, which were first since 1947. Engineers, American Institute of Electri­ accredited by ECPD in 1937, have been The first degrees of Bachelor of Sci­ cal Engineers, The Engineering Institute re-inspected and remain in the fully ac­ ence in Chemical Engineering were of Canada, American Society for Engi­ credited status. Engineering Physics was awarded to seven students of the class of neering Education, American Institute of first inspected and fully accredited by 1911. The total number of graduates Chemical Engineers, National Council of ECPD in 1949. The curriculum in Chem­ since the curriculum in Chemical Engi­ State Board of Engineering Examiners. istry has been accredited by the American neering was established numbers 554. The ECPD was organized in 1932. Chemical Society Committee on Profes­ last class to be graduated, in 1950, num­ One of its basic objectives has been the sional Training. bered 42, of whom five had elected the establishment of “criteria for colleges of This is the first time the Department of pulp and paper option. engineering which will insure to their Chemical Engineering has requested in­ The Department of Chemistry and graduates a sound educational foundation spection for the purpose of accreditation, Chemical Engineering was first housed in for the practice of engineering.” In and it is interesting to report briefly the Fernald Hall, which is now being used 1936-1937 the Council undertook to im­ historical development of this curriculum. as the Bookstore. These facilities were plement this objective through the estab­ Instruction in Chemical Engineering was moved to present Aubert Hall in 1915, lishment of a Committee on Engineering first established in the school year of at which time rather extensive pilot plant Schools. This Committee is responsible 1905-1906. The Head of the Department equipment in the pulp and paper process for the selection of the individuals who inspect the engineering curricula. In­ at that time was Professor Albert B. was established. Introduction of courses spection is made at the request of the Aubert whose period of service extended in the theory of unit operations was initi­ university or college. ECPD, it should from 1874 to 1909. Professor Aubert, for ated in 1935. A study of these operations, be pointed out, has no authority to impose whom the present Chemistry and Chemi­ such as heat transfer, flow of fluids, any restrictions or standardizations upon cal Engineering Building is named, is evaporation, distillation, and the like, engineering colleges, nor does it desire now deceased. Dr. Ralph H. McKee suc­ necessitated the development of labora­ to do so. On the contrary ECPD aims ceeded Professor Aubert as Head of the tory equipment for this purpose. to preserve the independence of action of Department of Chemistry and Chemical Such a laboratory was started in 1936 individual institutions and to promote Engineering and served in that capacity in the basement of Aubert Hall. This labo­ thereby the general advancement of en­ from 1909 to 1916. Dr. McKee was sub­ ratory equipment was moved to the “ new gineering education. sequently Head of the Chemical Engi­ wing” of Aubert Hall in 1942. Pilot plant Since 1936, when the first accrediting neering Department at Columbia Univer­ equipment for pulp and paper was also inspections were made by the Council, sity, and is now a practicing consultant. moved to this new location at that time. Subsequent extension of these laboratory approximately 1,000 engineering curricu­ Dr. McKee was succeeded by Dr. Charles facilities and the introduction of courses la have been inspected at 146 degree­ Wilson Easley, who served from 1916 to in thermodynamics, plastics, and colloids, granting institutions. Re-inspections of 1919. Dr. Charles A. Brautlecht served has resulted in emphasizing the engineer­ accredited curricula are made at approxi­ as Head of the Department of Chemistry ing aspects of the chemical technology. mately five year intervals. Each year and Chemical Engineering from 1919 to The pulp and paper process is now used ECPD publishes the list of accredited 1935. Dr. Brautlecht is now retired and as an illustration of a process to which curricula, and it is noteworthy that the maintains an active interest in scientific the theory of chemical engineering can Council’s list has received wide accep­ writing. Professor Lyle C. Jenness was be applied. tance by nearly all the state examining Acting Head of the Department in 1935- The Engineers’ Council for Profession­ boards. 1936 and was succeeded by Dr. Wilber E. Bradt who served from 1936 to 1941. Dr. Bradt is now deceased. Dr. Irwin B. Douglass was Acting Head of the De­ partment from 1941 to 1946 and is at present Head of the Department of Chem­ istry. Previous to 1935 instruction in the pulp and paper courses was under a di­ vision of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering. This instruc­ tion was administered as a separate de­ partment from 1935 to 1938 with Profes­ sor Paul D. Bray ’ 14 as Head of the Department of Pulp and Paper Technol­ ogy. In 1938 instruction in this option was reconsolidated with the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering. In 1946 a separate Department of Chemical Engineering, including Pulp and Paper New Engineering Building

THE MAINE ALUMNUS 7 NOVEMBER-DECEMBER, 1950 That venerable structure near Oak “Secondly, the traditional American activities are held. Sunday Nighters, a Hall, known to successive generations of principle of separation of Church and drama group, deputations, denominational Maine men and women as the Commons, State rendered the former M CA set-up fellowship meetings, and other related Estabrooke Hall, or the MCA Building, untenable. For years the University of activities are taxing the capacity of this has a new name— the SRA Building. Maine contributed a substantial financial new student center. Sunday Morning SRA, meaning Student Religious Associ­ amount to the MCA Advisory Board for Worship continues each week with large ation, represents a new alignment of the general operation of a total religious congregations at the Little Theatre. A voluntary religious-work activity at program on the Maine campus. Several student cabinet led by Frank A. Butler ’51 Maine. For the past year and a half, stu­ Protestant denominations also contributed of Verona, New Jersey, steers the M CA dent leaders of all faiths, with the aid of to the M CA program. Support either program, while an 18-member M CA A d­ MCA Advisory Board members, have from the University or the denominations visory Board, with three alumni represen­ labored to perfect a more adequate or­ had to be eliminated eventually if our tatives, guides policies and supervises ganization to coordinate the work of the Separation principle were to be respected. financial control. separate faith groups and provide com­ (The new SRA will be supported by the Episcopalian students share in the M CA mon ground for the social expression of University, Alumni, and Faculty; the program but are preserving their distinc- religion on and off the campus. new MCA, exclusively by the Protes­ tive worship and witness in the Canter­ SRA retains many of the traditional tant denominations.) bury Club. At the corner of College functions of the Maine Christian Associa­ “ A third reason for launching the SRA Avenue and College Side the new Can­ tion. Recreational facilities and the pro­ organization was that it is in keeping terbury House is nearing completion. gram activities in which Catholic, Protes­ with trends in leading American universi­ Here Father John Scott, vicar of St. tant. and Jewish students may unitedly ties. The Maine reorganization follows James’ Church in Old Town and Chap­ participate are continued in the SRA. in general the features of the interfaith lain to Episcopalian students, will soon New functions are interfaith policy coordination at Michigan, Syracuse, and be “ at home.” clearance and the sponsoring of such all­ Cornell Universities. The active program of the Newman faith projects as Brotherhood and Re­ “ Finally, a consensus of the students Club, John W . Royal ’51 of Bangor ligious Embassy Weeks. favored such a move. Increasingly, the serving as president, and the ministry of The Protestant Christian faith activi­ students had considered the former MCA Our Lady of Wisdom Chapel, under the ties of the former M CA are now being as the “ Protestant” work on campus in direction of Father Francis E. LeTour- carried on by the new MCA, the coopera­ view of the recent developments of the neau and Father Edward Sheehy, are tive Protestant program sponsored by Catholic Newman Club and the Jewish effectively meeting the needs of Roman several major denominations. Hillel Foundation. Inasmuch as the Catholic students. The impressive log- A frequent question asked is, “ Why all MCA Building facilities and a large num­ cabin s tyle Chapel and Newman Hall are this change in the old MCA?” SRA ber of activities were open to students of conveniently located on College Avenue Director Charles E. O’Connor ’31 has all faiths and no faith, many felt that at the site formerly known as “The cited four reasons: such a program should be controlled by Spruce’s.” “First, because the aims of American a representative interfaith agency. The The Hillel Foundation is thriving under higher education demand a truly inter­ new SRA fills such a role.” the leadership of Rabbi Milton H. Elefant faith fellowship for religious questing, Congregationalists, Baptists, Metho­ and student president Leonard J. Silver devotion, and social action. Only through dists. and Universalists. on state and ’52 of Portland. To provide better for experience in understanding and appreci­ national levels, are currently supporting the distinctive cultural and religious meet­ ating the religious heritages of others, as the new M CA. The graciously-appointed ings of Jewish students, it is hoped that well as their own, can students gain a home of Rev. and Mrs. Elwin L. Wilson a Hillel House may soon be established. balanced perspective for effective com­ at 1 Riverdale serves as the M CA House The MCA, Newman Club, and Hillel munity living. where the M CA Cabinet and small-group (Continued on page 21)

Jane Ingraham ’53, left, and Lois Hunter ’53, admire the new Win­ slow Homer etching “ Eight Bells” recently given to the University by Homer Etching For Union an anonymous donor.

An anonymous donor recently pre­ Working in a style completely his own, sented to the University of Maine a very Homer gained a reputation for being the rare and fine original, signed, etching by first American realist and impressionist; the famed American artist, Winslow his influence on other artists still exists, Homer. The etching, of extremely large forty years after his death. proportions, will be hung permanently in “Eight Bells” is a rare print from the Memorial Room of the Student Union Homer’s etching plate, since this one is Building. signed by the artist himself. Few other Winslow Homer is considered by critics signed originals are in existence today. to be one of Maine’s greatest artists, and His oil painting of the same subject is one of America’s most famous painters. located in the Addison Gallery of Ameri­ He lived and worked at Prout’s Neck, can Art, Andover, Mass., along with where he painted lively, free impressions other monuments of American painting. of the Maine coast, many of which have The etching will be on display in the found their way into the most important Art Department, Carnegie Flail, until art collections in the country. completion of the Union Building.

THE MAINE ALUMNUS NOVEMBER-DECEMBER, 1950 BURKE HEADS BIG PRO JECT

“ Washington, August 23— Walter Burke, various American engineering firms, was developed hydroelectric equipment indus­ American Power expert, will direct the entered into on July 7, and runs for 60 try. construction, installation and operation months from August 1, 1950. The cost of construction and installa­ of a nation-wide electric system in Greece, A note attached to a dues card re­ tion work in Greece, estimated at the the Economic Cooperation Administra­ turned by Burke states that he arrived equivalent of about $30,000,000, will be tion announced today." in Greece on September 16 preceding paid with drachmae from • the Greek our new Ambassador to Greece by a few counterpart fund—local currency deposited SUCH was the terse and undramatic days. by Greece to match ECA dollar grants. news item which was carried in the Under the Ebasco contract, there are press. It gives no indication of the eight construction projects. They provide difficult decision that Walter H. Burke for: one 68,000 kilowatt thermal plant at ’06 must have had to make to come out Aliveri on the island of Euboea, to be of his retirement on the coast of Maine. completed in two years; one 40,000 KW Friends report he and Mrs. Burke were hydroelectric plant at Agra on the Vodas thoroughly enjoying life in Maine and River to be completed in two years; one it is understood that it was only after 5,000 KW hydroelectric plant at Louros the strongest urging that he consented. near St. Georges Springs to be completed His great sympathy and admiration for in two years; one 50,000 KW hydro­ Greece and her people prompted his electric plant on the Ladhon River near decision. Pidima Bridge to be completed in three While the construction of the electric years; 650 miles of 150,000 volt trans­ system is his job he will also be con­ mission circuits; three to four thousand fronted with the problems of relations miles of 15,000 volt primary distribution with the Greek Government, the ECA, lines; 10,000 miles of secondary distribu­ and a lot of other people. tion lines; and about 25 substations of Under a contract between the Greek from five to twenty thousand KVA ca­ Government and Ebasco Services, Inc., pacity to distribute the power from the New York City Engineering firm, Burke transmission system. will act as general manager of the State Retiring in 1949 as president of Ebasco Electric Utility Company established by Services, Inc., one of the world’s best the Greek Government. The company known engineering services, Burke had is responsible for the construction of a W alter H. B urke served the company for twenty years nation-wide power system which it is filling the positions of assistant to the estimated will cost the equivalent of Among the more than 50 American en­ president and of vice president previous about $85,000,000. A little more than gineers taken over to fill various im­ to his election to the top position. $25,000,000 of this amount is being pro­ portant positions and to be one of Burke’e After his graduation from Maine he vided by ECA to cover the cost of U. S. chief assistants is Walter S. Merrill ’ 10 worked for General Electric until 1914 equipment and engineering services. who will serve as hydroelectric engineer and then joined Stone and Webster. The nation-wide electric utility system, on the project. During his thirteen years with this Bos­ which will be the only complete system One of Merrill’s first assignments after ton firm he held executive positions in in Europe based on Modern American arriving in Athens was to go to Italy to the utility field in the southwest and design, is an essential and fundamental investigate the availability and capability Mexico. In 1929 he joined Electric Bond requirement for Greece’s economic de­ of Italian engineers to design and con­ & Share Co. as president and general velopment. Long a basic need in Greece, struct the hydro-electric developments. manager of the Minnesota Power & Light the power system will speed up industrial The Italians are obligated by a repara­ Co. Among other positions he held were and agricultural development. It also will tions treaty to furnish services and those of vice president and general man­ help raise standards of living by provid­ materials for this work. ager of the Superior Water, Light and ing employment in both the construction It is expected that Greek specialists Power Co., and vice president and direc­ and operation of the system and by sup­ will be employed and trained to occupy tor of several affiliated companies. After plying the conveniences of electricity in engineering and supervisory positions so several years with these operating com­ homes, plants, and offices. . that at the end of five years they will be panies he joined Ebasco, a subsidiary of Previous Greek Government plans to able to assume full responsibility for the Electric Bond and Share. install a nation-wide power system were operation of the company. In addition, Alumnus Burke was a member of the disrupted by World War II, the Greek there will be jobs for Greek laborers, Alumni Council for several years repre­ civil war, and basic postwar reconstruc­ with the number expected to reach about senting the college of Technology pre­ tion. The program for the new power 15,000 at the peak of construction work. vious to being elected president of the system is based on an Ebasco report R E A financing of about $25,000,000 General Alumni Association in 1943. He after a year-long survey of Greece’s for the power system is being provided has served the Association in many other power resources, potentialities and re­ under the recovery agency’s industrial capacities. A member of Sigma Alpha quirements. The dollar costs of this projects program. The equivalent of up Epsilon fraternity, he was active in under­ survey, amounting to about $880,000, to $30,000,000 will be provided by Italy graduate affairs and athletics. were paid by ECA under its technical under the terms of the Greek-Italian As chief civil engineer of this huge assistance program. Economic Cooperation Agreement. The project, Walter S. Merrill TO has more The management contract between the Italian lire will pay for equipment and than thirty-three years service with Ebas­ Greek Government and Ebasco, which services for the Greek power system to co. For a time after graduation he worked was awarded on the basis of bids from be purchased in Italy, which has a highly- (Continued on Page 19)

T h e MAINE ALUMNUS 9 NOVEMBER-DECEMBER, 1950 HAPPY HOMECOMING

Despite a rain-soaked week end the A spontaneous ovation followed the Mules, had he waited to witness this vic­ 1950 Homecoming will go down in the words of President Alfred B. Lingley tory. Students watched understandingly records as an enjoyable one for the hun­ ’20, toastmaster, when he said: “ Since as he, in rain-soaked fur coat, tolled the dreds of alumni who attended. From the inception of this idea, there has been Old Wingate Bell, now in front of Oak Friday afternoon to late Saturday night unanimous agreement that there is only Hall, as the traditional signal of victory. a varied and complete program enter­ one person who is eminently suited to The oldest alumnus to watch the game tained the returning alumni. receive the first of these Black Bear was A. Hudson White ’89 of Bangor who As usual the highpoint of Homecoming awards of esteem.... President Arthur came prepared to brave the worst in was the football game— the 57th meeting A. Hauck.” weather. of Colby and Maine—preceded by the Mr. Lingley then introduced Raymond New features of the Homecoming were Alumni Luncheon. At the luncheon Col. H. Fogler ’15 supposedly to report on the alumni get-together in the Bass Room Joe McCusker ’ 17 had the four hundred the progress of the Union Building Fund of the Library Friday evening and the guests singing and cheering before the Campaign. On behalf of the award com­ Maine Masque production of “The Silver first course was finished. With the same mittee, however, Mr. Fogler greatly sur­ Whistle” on Friday and Saturday eve­ enthusiasm of his undergraduate days, prised Lingley by presenting him with a nings. This well staged play under the Joe sent the crowd out to the game ready second Black Bear award. direction of Prof. Hershel Bricker pleased to sing and cheer the team “on to victory.” Both recipients were visibly touched the large number of alumni attending. For the first time the new Black Bear by the honor accorded them while alumni The rally, bonfire, Senior Skull Stag Award was given at the Luncheon. Es­ and friends enthusiastically applauded the Dance, and the M Club meeting on Fri­ tablished by the General Alumni Associ­ awards. day evening provided an interesting eve­ ation at its meeting last June to recognize The 26-7 victory over Colby was ning. the “devotion and loyalty to high tradi­ witnessed by hundreds of alumni and stu­ On Saturday morning the traditional tions of the University of Maine” the dents who braved the driving rain until girls’ hockey games were followed by the award is in the form of a specially de­ the last whistle, while the less hardy sat frosh-Bridgton game which saw Sam signed black bear mounted on a Maine in cars in the parking lot and heard the Sezak’s frosh team remain undefeated. granite base bearing a silver inscription broadcast of the game being played on The frosh-sophomore rope pull across plate. The bear was the work of Aristo the muddy field a few rods away. The the skating pond, east of the Gym, was B. Cianforani, internationally known crowd then slogged their way to the staged Saturday morning by the Senior sculptor, with the casting made by the All-Maine Women’s tea-dance in the Gym Skulls to determine whether the rules Gorham Company, silversmiths. The or the several fraternity and dormitory would be canceled. They were and the an­ granite bases of native Maine granite “openhouses.” nouncement was made at half-time of the were given by Robert McGuire ’32 of Undoubtedly the alumnus most pleased Colby g ame by Jim Elliott ’51 (William the Deer Isle Granite Corporation. The with victory was A. D. T. Libby ’98 who M. ’ll) president of the Senior Skulls. symbolic black bear, remindful of the for the first time saw a Maine eleven Such are the highlights of the mid­ mascot, “ Bananas,” of an earlier day, defeat Colby. Ever since his under­ century homecoming which caused count­ and the Maine granite are distinctive of graduate days, when a cancelled game less alumni to assert that they would be the University and the state. prevented his playing against the White back next fall.

selected for this newest of the Women’s dormitories...... Twenty-eight men have left the cam­ pus since the opening of college for the Armed Forces. Twenty of these had had More than 600 films are listed in the as professional “callers” at off-campus previous service...... The Student Senate, fall catalogue of the Audio Visual Ser­ dances thus adding to their funds...... through a petition of 1900 signatures, has vice of the School of Education. These What was termed “a return to normalcy” requested the Committee of Administra­ in addition to filmstrips, sound slide films, by many an older campus citizen was the tion to change the dates of the Christmas transcriptions and recordings are rented uprising of freshman men against the recess from Friday, December 15, at to schools and civic clubs in the state...... frosh rules in mid-October. A frosh pro­ 11:45 until January 2 to Saturday, De­ The trustees have approved holding a test meeting heard the edict from the cember 16, at 11 :45 until January 3. This Commencement on February 2 for stu­ Senior Skulls that the rules remained in change, the petition states, would prevent dents who complete their work at the force. Despite some grumbling the Class many students from having to travel on close of the current semester...... The of ’54 has shown a greater unity and New Year’s Day...... A jack-o-lantern debating team broke even in the Annual spirit since then...... The Maine Band in Colvin Hall on Halloween ignited Vermont Invitational Debate Tourna­ received much praise from football fans window curtains. The sprinkler system ment, winning eight and losing eight this fall for their music and smartly and fire extinguishers had put out the fire debates. Forty-eight colleges and Uni­ executed maneuvers. The band members before the campus and village fire de­ versities were in the tournament...... are resplendent in their neat light blue partments arrived...... The Maine Bulletin, a title given to the coats with white trim and slate-blue The Federal Communications Commis­ various publications of the University, pants...... “What’s in a Name Depart­ sion approval has been given for the op­ including the catalogue issue, has been ment”—New Dorm No. Three has been eration of Station WORO which is to be officially named the U N IV E R S IT Y of temporarily named West Flail by the operated on campus. It will transmit MAINE BULLETIN ...... Trustees. This is not to be confused through a carrier current over the cam­ Square dances continue in popularity with the old West Hall, a post war bar­ pus-wide transmission lines. The station with a session every Tuesday evening in racks in front of Carnegie. It is under­ was made possible by a gift of $500.00 the Women’s Gym. A few students serve stood that yet another name is to be from the Class of 1950.

THE MAINE ALUMNUS 10 NOVEMBER-DECEMBER, 1950 J. E. TOTMAN ’16 ELECTED

ARYLAND in general and Balti­ However, Jim Totman modestly credits ism. Mr. Totman still believes that this more in particular is the nation’s his alma mater and associates, many of was a good course despite its lack of fertilizer producing center. It was in whom are also alumni, for the results of concentration on the subject. However, in Baltimore a century ago that the modern his consistent efforts. 1947, when the Summers Fertilizer Com­ mixed fertilizer industry was born. The major effort of the Summers and pany was celebrating its twenty-fifth An­ This year the National Fertilizer As­ associated companies has been to pro­ niversary an advertising agency was sociation is celebrating, on a country­ duce fertilizers for Maine agriculture. called in to prepare a booklet. So suc­ wide scale, “A century of Progress with Today the result of this concentration cessful was this venture that Mr. Totman Fertilizer,” seeking to emphasize the im­ is reflected in the various companies Mr. decided that Professor Daggett's course portance of the industry. It is appropriate Totman has organized, absorbed, and was not up to modern advertising stand­ that the Association should choose as developed in the state of Maine—about ards ! chairman of its Board a man who has Following graduation Jim became a long been identified with the industry salesman with W . R. Grace company in Baltimore, a native of Maine, and a where he remained until enlisting in the prominent fertilizer producer in Maine, Seventh Regiment of New York which James E. Totman 16, president of the later became the 107th, U. S. Infantry. Summers Fertilizer Co. and associated His eye examination for enlistment was companies. In selecting Mr. Totman as passed with some help from the Captain its chairman, The National Fertilizer As­ and later Colonel C. Perley Gray ’00 sociation, a vigorous organization of about of the same regiment. He served over­ 450 manufacturers scattered throughout seas two years receiving regimental and North America, chose a man who has divisional citations. Wounded in action, been identified with the industry since Sgt. Totman returned to this country he graduated from college thirty-four and became manager in 1919 of the Balti­ years ago. more branch of the Grace Company. He The Association through its extensive then formed the Summers company. research program has accomplished much A one might expect he has been promi­ in keeping the country’s breadbasket, nent in the business and civic life of through peace and war, overflowing, and Baltimore serving, among others, as a Jim Totman takes pride in being chair­ director of the Baltimore Commercial man of the organization which for years Bank, President of the Country Club, has made this possible. He also finds and the Merchants Club. Mr. Totman, much personal satisfaction in having been always a loyal Maine alumnus, remem- able to devote his business career to the bers that the organization of the Northern industry. Not only has he found the Chemical Industries in 1943 which took work intensely interesting but one in James E. T otman place in a Maine Bank director’s room, which he has been able to put to practical included familiar faces, for the four in­ advantage the subjects of the College of corporators were all undergraduates to­ a dozen. These interests include the Agriculture curriculum of thirty-odd gether in the same fraternity house, Phi production of not only commercial fertili­ years ago. While great progress has Eta Kappa. They were, besides Mr. Tot­ zer but also several of the raw materials been made in his industry, the basic man, Frank Preti T 7, Avery Fides ’17, that are necessary to the finished product. principles on which it was built remain and Ralph Fraser '17 and it was the first In addition, there has been the develop­ much the same. time that the four had been together at ment at Eastport of one of the largest In 1922 he was one of three incorpora­ one time since college. sardine meal and oil refining plants in tors of the Summers Fertilizer Company Through the years Mr. Totman has the country. Summers is also a source and has been president since that time. maintained an active interest in the Uni­ of supply of chemicals for the textile and He is also president of the associated versity and Alumni affairs. He was for paper mills and at present plans are companies which include Northern Chemi­ several years president of the Maryland under way to develop this field further cal Industries, Searsport, Maine Food Alumni Association and also served a within Maine. Processors, Winterport, Penobscot Ware­ term on the Alumni Council. He holds house Company, Winterport, and Sagada­ The Summers Fertilizer Co. is more­ the enviable record of gaining 100% of hoc Fertilizer Company, Bowdoinham. over international in scope because of its quota as chairman of the ‘Gymnasium In 1946 he became president of Griffith plant in Canada and also because of its Field House, Library, and Union Build­ and Boyd Fertilizer Company in Balti­ export business. In one year fertilizer ing Fund drives. He has spoken before more and was this year appointed by the chemicals were exported to thirty-five campus groups and has supported re­ Federal Court as Trustee of the Brooklyn countries from their Baltimore plant. search projects through grants to the Chemical Company in Baltimore. The Jim Totman’s duties have been varied Agricultural Experiment Station. main office of the companies is located and complex in developing the companies His interest in the University through in the Totman Building, formerly Stock with which he is connected. For many the Alumni Association and in the state Exchange Building, in Baltimore. years he prepared the advertising copy. of Maine through business have been His objective has always been to de­ His training for this chore, he recalls, outstanding. The career of Jim Totman velop a broad enough business foundation came from a required course in “Ad­ is another example of an alumnus whose to support a permanent and profitable vertising” from Professor “Windy” Dag­ success has come through the yankee structure. Reports to stockholders indi­ gett. The course was a combination of trait of hard work under America’s sys­ cate that in this he has been successful. public speaking, advertising, and journal­ tem of free enterprise.

THE MAINE ALUMNUS 11 NOVEMBER-DECEMBER, 1950 Basketball 1950 Schedule Feb. 20 Colby 63 58 Feb. 22 Rhode Island 48 51 1949 Scores Coach Rome Rankin, in his first year Feb. 24 New Hampshire 66 45 Date Me. Opp. as basketball coach, brought the 1949 Feb. 26 Bowdoin 50 44 state series title to Orono. Last year he Dec. 6 Bates 51 38 had height, experience, and speed in the Dec. 8 Bowdoin 59 52 squad. But the 1950 season presents Dec. 9 Vermont 41 52 FRESHMAN SCHEDULE rather dim prospects of repeating last Dec. 13 Colby 40 34 year’s triumphs with a record of 13 wins Jan. 5 Connecticut 56 65 (All games at Orono and six losses. With a squad of nineteen, Jan. 6 Rhode Island 70 74 Dec. 6 Maine Maritime Academy but six are left overs from last year and Jan. 11 Bates 52 35 Dec. 9 Maine Central Institute only two of these are lettermen. Jan. 16 Colby 48 59 Jan. 11 Portland Junior College Jan. 20 Northeastern 56 59 Jan. 16 Coburn Classical Inst. What the squad lacks in experience Feb. 7 New Hampshire 51 42 Feb. 10 Hebron Coach Rankin hopes to make up in speed Feb. 10 Bowdoin 57 37 Feb. 13 Ricker and the determination to win that has Feb. 13 Bates 67 47 Feb. 16 Aroostook State Normal been evident in early practices. Feb. 16 Northeastern 61 43 Feb. 17 To be arranged Facing an eighteen game schedule of Feb. 17 Connecticut 58 67 Feb. 22 Higgins Classical Inst. state .series and Yankee Conference play, one round of state series games will be held before the Christmas recess, another VARSITY BASKETBALL ROSTER FOR 1950-51 before final exams, and the final round in the second semester. Colby with one Name Pos. Class Height Age Home Town of the outstanding teams in New England James Bradley F 52 6-2 21 Gloucester, Mass. is looked upon to take the state title Fred Brennan F 52 6-1 20 Bangor handily. Lin Carville F 52 6-1 19 York Coach Rankin and assistant Coach Hal J ohn Christie G 52 5-8 22 Ellsworth Falls Westerman will, alumni can be sure, have Bob Churchill F 53 6-4 20 Kezar Falls a team that is schooled in fundamentals. Dick Coleman F 53 5-11 21 Auburn The desire and willingness of the players Art Dentremont G 51 6 24 East Millinocket has impressed Rankin. He is confident Glenn Folsom C 53 6-4 19 Rockland that they will give a good account of Al Hackett C 53 5-10 19 Derby themselves in the approaching season. Harrison Homans G 52 5-9 22 Bangor Ralph Jewett G 51 5-11 24 Bucksport John Kelley C 53 6-1 22 Waterville Much was added to the enjoyment Gene Lovely F 52 6 20 Fort Fairfield of the football games this fall by the new electric scoreboard installed Larry Mahaney G 51 6-1 20 Fort Fairfield on Alumni Field— thanks to the Bernard Parady G 52 6 20 Old Town University Store Company. Joseph Saunders G 53 6 20 Ellsworth Erected at the north end of the Larry Sinclair F 53 5-10 20 Southwest Harbor field it is operated from the press Clement Thorne F 52 6-1 22 Island Falls box. Over two miles of wire was run between the scoreboard and the Blaine Trafton C 52 6 20 Bath control panel. Prof. Ben Kent ’ 12 The following men were was chief timer. The clock was the members of last year’s squad: official clock for all games, with James Bradley Art Dentremont *Ralph Jewett Dean “Tad” Wieman and Prof. John Christie Harrison Homans *Larry Mahaney Wallace Elliott ’26 doing the scor­ ing. * Letter winner. The equipment was manufactured 1949 squad. by International Business Machines while the construction work was done by local contraction. “ The di­ rectors of the University Store Com­ pany wanted to do something of lasting value for the students,” said Harold Bruce ’20, Bookstore man­ ager. “ A representative of the Store approached the Athletic Department for suggestions concerning its most pressing need. The Athletic Depart­ ment pointed out how helpful a scoreboard would be and the direc­ tors decided to install it for the con­ venience of students and other fans.” This latest gift of the Store Com­ pany has met with wide approval of those attending the games.

At the extreme right can be seen Prof. “ Wally” Wallace as he comes off the field after having attended to a minor injury. The last player on the left end of the bench is Harri­ son L. Richardson, Jr. ’52 (Harrison L. ’24) and on the right end No. 63 is Pete Pocius ’52, All-New England and All-Maine Guard. No. 15 is Tom Fogler ’52 (Raymond H. ’15).

THE MAINE ALUMNUS NOVEMBER-DECEMBER, 1950 ground gainers, provided the necessary backfield power while Dick Largay and With the Bob Whytock, both small men as far as college football goes, were remarkable as flankmen. It would be difficult to ATHLETIC TEAMS single out all individuals, but the entire team indeed deserves recognition for its winning season. Bob L ord ’51 sounded to end the clash, the score-board read: Maine 6 Bowdoin 6. Maine elected And so it is that Coach Nelson may When football coach Dave Nelson to play a ground game and the Bear de­ feel free to doff his beanie although he, spoke at his first grid rally this year, fensemen staved off the vaunted Bowdoin along with his capable staff, Hal Wester- he wore the traditional freshman beanie. offensive power to give the Blue forces man, Mike Lude, and John Cuddeback, With a smile, the amiable blond mentor a slice of the Series championship. soon will be preparing for another sea­ asserted, “ Although it’s my second sea­ son. And there were many bright spots dur­ son here, I still feel like a freshman.” Graduation had taken its toll, and pros­ ing the season. One of these was the His Pale Blue forces had won only two pects were none too bright as practice outstanding play of senior Larry “Doc” games last year. started for the 1950 cross country cam­ Hersom who was playing his first year But as the 1950 campaign wore on, it paign. Under the able guidance of veteran with the varsity after performing for the was apparent to all that the coach was coach Chester Jenkins, however, the Jayvees last year. Hersom played sev­ due for promotion. The Blue eleven was Maine Bears posted an enviable record eral fine games, but his top performance on the short end of a score only once dur­ which included one outright champion­ came against Colby when he literally ran ing a bruising 7-game schedule. And not ship and a tie for another title. through and around the harassed Mules only did the Bears finish a close second The Pale Blue forces opened the sea­ despite muddy field conditions. for Yankee Conference honors, but they son by toppling Bates 15-46 and then went all out in State Series play to earn Another memorable tussle occurred at drubbed the University of New Bruns­ a 6-6 tie with Bowdoin and thereby shared Storrs. Playing without the services of wick, 17-45. The Bears continued to first place with the Polar Bears. a host of regulars who had been hit by win handily when they defeated Colby It was a courageous crew which repre­ injuries, the Bears came from behind in 15-47 and they ran their winning streak sented the University this season. De­ the final period to score two touchdowns to four in a row by turning back a spite weaknesses and injuries, the Maine and a field goal to defeat Connecticut. powerful New Hampshire daler squad by team became a well-drilled unit as the This victory, a refreshing one in face of a 21-36 count. Maine went into its final year progressed. Nelson revamped his the odds, may well have given the Bears dual affair against Springfield College, line-ups, and he placed a great amount of a boost at the proper time to ready them but any hopes of an unbeaten season were emphasis on defense as well as offense. for the State Series. shattered when the Gymnasts upset the Evidence of this fact was shown when a The fighting line play of Pete Pocius Bears 23-32 in a hard-fought race. New Hampshire player remarked, “It’s and Seymour Card (Clyde S. ’27) was Apparently undismayed at their loss, the first time this year that we have faced so good that they earned honorable the Maine harriers easily grabbed state so many variations of defense.” mention on the AP Little All-American championship laurals at the meet which Maine opened the season at home with team. And “ Sullivan’s Troops,” so-called, was held in Augusta. Maine finished first a 13-0 decision over Rhode Island, and turned in fine performances in the Maine with 25 points while Colby was second on the following Saturday the Bears forward wall. Gordon Pendleton and with 55. Bates trailed with a score of 59. travelled to Burlington where they out- Phil Coulombe, a pair of consistent (Continued on Page 19) scored Vermont 15-7. Seven days later Maine lost its only contest of the season. A powerful New Hampshire eleven in­ Few pictures could better portray the spirit which has supported Coach Nelson and the football team vaded Orono and battered the game Blue this fall. Here Coach Nelson is being carried from forces for a 19-0 win. But the loss took the field by his team after the Colby game while no prestige from the Bears, for it was students attempt to do likewise for Larry “ Doc” Hersom (No. 1 0 ), scatback, who led the team in this same Wildcat team which went on to ground gained for the season. Other players identi­ become one of the few unbeaten squads fied are No. 63, Win Brown; No. 20, Geddy Morse in the country and which, at one time ’51; and No. 65, Gordon Thorburn, guard. in the season, was ranked above Notre Dame in the Associated Press weekly football poll. Maine wound up its Yankee Conference dealings by fashioning a 16-7 triumph at the expense of a favored Connecticut team, and then Nelson and his staff settled down to strategy for the tricky within-the-state tilts. In State Series play, Maine made a tremendous comeback. It was a case of jumping from the gloom of the cellar to the top of the heap in a single season. The Bears topped Bates 19-6 and fol­ lowed this victory by surprising the Maine sports world with a lopsided 26-7 conquest of Colby. In the final game, more than 10,000 jammed into Bowdoin’s pine-rimmed Whittier Field to witness the battle of the Bears. When the horn

THE MAINE ALUMNUS 13 NOVEMBER-DECEMBER, 1950 COVER CENTENARIAN

Our oldest living alumnus has joined of the Class of 1913 and his grandson, unusual number of students lounging the ranks of the centenarians. On N o­ George Harold, Jr., graduated in 1941. about the front of Oak Hall where the vember 18 Professor George H. Hamlin A great-grandson, George H. Ill, is a road passed, but he suspected nothing 73 observed his 100th birthday at his potential member of the Class of about and drove nonchalantly off until a roar Orono home with greetings received from 1965. of laughter from the boys caused him to many alumni. Following his career as a professor, realize the unusual angle of his vehicle. During the years he has watched the Mr. Hamlin became consulting engineer Not all the pranks of those days were University grow from the days when it for the International Paper Company. harmless, however. The student body re­ was known as the Maine State College He was also treasurer of the East Branch sented having faculty members living in of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, com­ Improvement Company which owns a the dormitory for disciplinary reasons, prised of two sets of farm buildings share of the power rights of the Penob­ and those members who made themselves much out of repair, a handful of students scot. His duties in this capacity included disliked in this way led a sorry life. Prof. and two faculty members, to its present an annual trip into the woods in the Pike, head of the Civil Engineering Dept., size and stature. northern part of the state to inspect was one of these unfortunate ones. After While he has watched the University storage dams at the eastern headwaters rising in the morning to find his wash grow it has been particularly gratifying of the river. water full of a chemical that stained his to him to note the progress of the During World War I, Prof. Hamlin skin black, and going to bed to find the Alumni Association, of which he was the was engaged in ship building in Brewer. sheets full of an itching powder, he began first president, and to see the celebration The two vessels for which he was respon­ to realize that he was not wanted in the of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the sible, the “ Charles Stanford” and the dormitory. Once, however, the jokers Association last June. He also served “Munroe,” slid down the ways at the were neatly caught. A large group of as president from 1882 to 1891 and again close of hostilities and served for some them rolled a hogshead full of water to from 1898 to 1901. In addition he was years as cargo ships. the top of the stairs on the second floor chairman of the Advisory Council from Prof. Hamlin recalls the days when all of White Hall, then let it crash down 1908 to 1912 and a member of the Alumni students were required to work, receiving full against the door of the Professor’s Council from then until 1925. He has also twenty-five cents for three hours work— room. Fortunately the wall withstood the served on innumerable Alumni Commit- if their scholastic marks were high impact; the men concerned naturally tees, one of these being the athletic enough. He remembers when the field dashed immediately out of the building, track committee which was instrumental in front of Oak Hall was planted to and shortly afterwards, Prof. Estabrooke, in building a track at Maine, one of the- potatoes and also that the bricks for hearing the crash, came in. Realizing the first projects undertaken by alumni. Fernald Hall were made on campus. situation, he calmly locked all the doors His memory is still vivid regarding For his years of outstanding services and windows of the hall with the jokers the less serious aspects of student life, through the Alumni Association to the left on the Outside; little difficulty was too. Lacking the opportunities for amuse­ University, he was awarded the Alumni encountered in rounding up the right ones. ment and recreation available now, stu­ Service Emblem in 1937. In 1921 the It is only in talking with him about dents manifested their natural energy in University conferred upon him the hon­ the past, an experience richly to be prized, countless pranks on one another and on orary degree of Doctor of Laws. that one realizes what a tremendous the long-sufifering faculty members. One Professor Hamlin joined the faculty amount of history and how many changes morning when President Allen came into upon his graduation as an assistant in and fortunes of life have passed in long- Chapel and opened his desk to take out the civil engineering department and progression before the Professor’s keen the great Bible, a white rooster flew later served as professor of drawing and eyes. out before the sedate gentleman’s startled field engineering (1876-79), professor of eyes, and perching on the blackboard be­ mathematics and drawing (1879-80), and hind him, opened the services with a long professor of civil engineering (1880-98). and lusty crow. Another Chapel service During this period he also was treasurer This issue of The Alumnus is a was considerably delayed during the ejec­ of the University (1889-96) and librarian combination of the November and tion of a placid and thoroughly contented (1874-84 and 1886-89). December issues. Rising costs have ram and his ample supply of provisions, His son, George Harold, was a member placed the Alumni Association thoughtfully provided for him the night budget in serious difficulty and the before. Professor Hamlin superintended Executive Committee has voted the the erection of a sixty foot flag pole at combined issue in an effort to keep War Records— one time and was startled the next the budget in balance. The number morning to find that some enterprising of pages in this issue has been in­ The Alumni Directory urgently student with decidedly simian tendences requests that the names and ser­ creased in an effort to bring you had scaled the height and placed a large all the alumni and campus news. vice address, if possible, of alumni water pitcher on the top. Fortunately a It is hoped that alumni will ac­ being called back to duty be for­ musket and an amateur sharpshooter cept this necessary move in a spirit warded to Orono. were quickly found and the pitcher of cooperation. The Alumni Coun­ The list of Maine alumni in brought down with considerably more cil has been reluctant to raise the service is growing and it is impor­ ease than it was put up. Other pranks annual dues, which have remained tant that the Alumni Office be in­ were common, such as stealing the clap­ constant for more than two decades, formed of each case so that the per from the old bell; but the classic one hoping to keep the dues low enough War Record may be accurate and to Prof. Hamlin’s mind was the day the to attract the greatest possible num­ news of the University sent to students reversed the front and back ber of active alumni. alumni in the Armed Services. wheels of his buggy. When he came out of class, he noticed that there seemed an

THE MAINE ALUMNUS 14 NOVEMBER-DECEMBER, 1950 Bishop— At a colorful ceremony in September at St. Matthews Cathedral in Dallas, Alum ni Texas, the Reverend Canon Gerald F. Burrill ’29 was consecrated Suffragan Bishop of the Diocese of Dallas of the Nam es in the NEWS Episcopal Church. Thus did he become the 500th Bishop of the Episcopal Church heart in Europe during World War II. Executive Committee of the Bankers’ in America. This was one of the first He enlisted in the army as a private Association he has been a frequent speak­ consecrations of a Bishop to be televised. in 1940 and rose through the ranks to be­ er before banking groups. A distinguished group of Bishops, the come a major. He reverted to regular Soon after graduation Bradford joined Rt. Rev. Henry St. G. Tucker, former army rank of captain after the war. He the Merrill Trust Company and served presiding bishop, the Rt. Rev. Harry T. is pilot of a reconnaissance plane with the for several years as manager of its Orono Moore, and the Rt. Rev. James P. De- field artillery. He left Fort Sill, Okla­ Branch before going to the home office Wolfe, served as consecrators. Following homa, in July for service in the far east. where he has successively been assistant the ceremony a reception for Bishop and trust officer and assistant vice president Mrs. Burrill was held at the Dallas Coun­ Vice Presidents— before being named vice president this try Club. The same evening, a dinner, The Union Mutual Life Insurance year. attended by more than 600 clergy, laymen, Company has elected two alumni, Alfred He is a graduate of the school of bank­ and civic leaders, was held in honor of the E. Perkins ’31 M.A. ’33 and Robert C. ing conducted under the direction of newly consecrated Bishop. Russ ’34, to the positions of vice president. the American Bankers’ Association at At the same time, John R. Carnochan, Rutgers University. husband of Dorothy M. Findlay ’33, was Mr. Bradford has long been identified elected a second vice president. with alumni affairs and is currently treas­ Perkins, who heads the company’s sick­ urer of the University of Maine Founda­ ness and accident and group departments, tion. joined the Union Mutual in 1947 as as­ sociate actuary. Perkins taught mathe­ Assistant Director— matics at the University for two years Donald V . Taverner ’43, who has been following his graduation. He was sub­ state Representative in Maine, New sequently associated with the Pan Ameri­ Hampshire, and Vermont for the Na­ can Life Insurance Company of New tional Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, Orleans until 1942 when he was appoint­ has recently been named assistant Di­ ed insurance commissioner for Maine. rector of Fund Raising (March of He served with the navy in the Pacific Dimes) by Basil O’Connor, president. Theater as a lieutenant when he resumed Prior to joining the National Founda­ his state duties, the position he held at tion in 1946, Taverner was with the the time of his Union Mutual appoint­ Y M C A . He is also a director of the Pine ment. Tree Society for Crippled Children. Russ came to the Union Mutual as a During the war he served overseas in member of its group department in 1946 the army as a battalion communications from the John Hancock Mutual Life In­ officer with the rank of lieutenant. He surance Company of Boston. In 1947 was awarded the Bronze Star Medal with Following his graduation from Maine, he became assistant director of agencies, V clasp for bravery during an attack on Bishop Burrill attended the General Theo­ and was named director of agencies in the German town of Blumenthal in logical Seminary and was ordained to the 1949. A native of Bangor, he has also March of 1945. He also holds the Purple Diaconate in 1931 and advanced to the attended Columbia University. He en­ Heart. priesthood in 1932. He has held pastor­ tered the insurance business with the It is expected that he and Mrs. Taver­ ates in Staten Island and Williamsport, Travelers Insurance Company of Hart­ ner (Olive Rowell ’43) will make their Pa., and has traveled widely lecturing be­ ford upon graduating from college, and home in New York soon. fore Episcopal clergy. was subsequently associated with the Succeeding Taverner in the three-state He married the former Elva J. Thomp­ Connecticut General Life Insurance Com­ area will be George B. Cunningham ’42 son of Staten Island and they have two pany of that city. As a communications of Old Town. Mr. Cunningham, who has children. His sister, Margaret E. Bur­ officer with the navy during W orld W ar served as assistant representative in the rill, is a graduate of the Class of 1932. II, Russ served in the Pacific Theater northern New England region, will act and was later attached to General Mac- as liaison officer between the 30 N F IP Decorated— Arthur’s Tokyo headquarters as mobile chapters in the three states and National One of the first alumni to be decorated communications officer. Headquarters. He will also assist in in the present war is Capt. Robert D. He married the former Madeline W . coordinating the 1951 March of Dimes. Dearth ’34 who has been awarded a Bunker ’34. Before his affiliation with the National seventh cluster to the Distinguished Fly­ Foundation, Mr. Cunningham was an en­ ing Cross for heroism in aerial action. Bankers’ President— gineering officer with the United States Dearth’s nine-plane section flew more At the Golden Anniversary of the Merchant Marine in the American Ex­ than 50,000 miles during 500 hours of Maine Bankers’ Association, Richard S. port Lines, Inc., New York. Later he was liaison and reconnaissance missions to the Bradford ’30 was elected president of a sales representative in the general Korean front and behind enemy lines. the group, one of the youngest men to products division of the United States The specific action for which the award be so honored in recent years. Rubber Company’s- Boston office. was made was not announced. W idely known throughout the state, Mrs. Cunni ngham is the former Betty He earned the D.F.C., with six clusters, he is vice president of the Merrill Trust Thomas ’42, daughter of Roy Thomas four bronze battle stars, and the purple Company. Recently a member of the T7 of Houlton.

THE MAINE ALUMNUS 15 NOVEMBER-DECEMBER, 1950 PRESIDENT of UNH

The October issue of The Alumnus from Cornell. His leadership in the Col­ Bob is a former secretary of the north­ carried the brief announcement that Rob­ lege of Agriculture during that period east group of experiment station directors ert F. Chandler ’29 had been named the has been marked by an increase in en­ in the Association of Land Grant Col­ 12th president of the University of New rollment, growth of the physical plant, leges and Universities. He now serves Hampshire. Dr. Chandler is the first and service to the public. As Director of as the representative of this region on president of that institution to be chosen the Experiment Station, he has been re­ the national legislative committee of the from within the administrative family sponsible for the operation of many re­ Experiment Station section of the As­ and the second to have an agricultural search projects which are carried on for sociation. He holds membership in Phi background. the benefit of New Hampshire farmers. Sigma, Alpha Zeta, Phi Kappa Phi, and Southern New Hampshire alumni will Receiving his Ph.D. from Maryland Sigma Xi, all honorary scholastic socie­ honor Dr. Chandler at a testimonial in 1934, Bob also has done postgraduate ties. He is also a member of the Ameri­ dinner at the Rockingham Hotel, Ports­ work at the University of California as can Association for the Advancement of mouth, New Hampshire, on November 30. a National Research Council Fellow. He Science, American Society of Agronomy, Soil Science Society of America, and After a search of some four months served for two years as Maine’s State Society of American Foresters. His so­ through some 100 applications, the Board Horticulturist and was subsequently Pro­ cial fraternity is Beta Theta Pi. of Trustees of UNH went just a few fessor of Forest Soils at Cornell. He has Bob Chandler is married to the former steps across the campus from the Presi­ been a visiting Professor of Agronomy at Eunice Copeland ’31 and they have three dent’s office to pick brilliant, friendly Bob Texas A. & M. College and was Soil children—David, 17, Ralph, 14, and Sara, Chandler to fill the shoes of highly re­ Scientist in Mexico for the Rockefeller 4. Since their arrival in Durham, they spected and capable Arthur Stanton Foundation during a leave of absence have made their home in a lovely old Adams, who is stepping up to the leader­ from Cornell in 1946-47. He is the author colonial farmhouse on the Concord Road ship of the American Council on Educa­ of many scientific papers. He is co-author leading to Dover. Visitors here find a tion. with Dr. H. J. Lutz of Yale University home that is really a home and evidences Bob Chandler—personable, hardwork­ of a text book “Forest Soils.” For a time of a lot of real family living indoors and ing, active, and friendly—has been Dean Bob traveled in Alaska to study time as out. Both Bob and Eunice Chandler were of the College of Agriculture and Di­ a soil-forming factor in connection with raised on farms and their interests reflect rector of the Experiment Station since recent glacial deposits of Mendenhall this. Theirs is a large garden and Mrs. 1947 when he came to New Hampshire Glacier near Juneau. Chandler is busy throughout the fall can­ ning all sorts of foods for winter con­ A natural arrangement finds the Chandlers grouped around the living sumption. One of President Chandler’s room piano, sometimes for instrumental music, other times for singing. Ralph, left, and Dr. Chandler are the instrumentalists, although Mrs. Chand­ hobbies is breeding silver-lace Wyan- ler admits to playing the piano occasionally. That leaves Sara and David to dottes; he won first place in New England do the singing. Regional competition at the Eastern State Exposition this fall. The challenge in this hobby for him is trying to improve the Wyandotte strain. Mrs. Chandler’s favorite hobby is paint­ ing, a pastime which she picked up when she took a course at the University of California in 1934. Since that time she has taken further instruction, and her accomplishment is such that she has been asked to exhibit at the next Ogunquit Art Association Exhibition. All the Chandlers love music and many happy hours are spent around their piano, which Mrs. Chandler plays. Father Bob and Ralph are the instrumentalists in the family playing the flute and the trumpet respectively. Both Chandler sons share their father’s love of sports. A badminton court in the back yard is much used by all three Chandler men. Son David is a football player and a basketball player for the Dover High School. He hopes to study technology when he goes on to college next year. He is interested in aviation. Young Sara is a lover of books and en­ joys the active and strenuous sports that most young ladies of her age do. According to reports from Durham, Bob and Eunice Chandler have endeared themselves to the U.N.H. campus during the past three years.

THE MAINE ALUMNUS NOVEMBER-DECEMBER, 1950 THEY HEEDED GREELEY

Frank A. Banks ’06, Eng.D., builder, tive of the United States Committee gineer on the Milk River Project in designer and the only manager of the which is serving the International Joint Montana, a post he held for 12 years. Grand Coulee Dam—Columbia River Commission. From 1923 to 1931 he was superintendent Basin project, retired in September. The Co-workers honored Mr. Banks on his of the lower Yellowstone project, later successor to Francis T. Crowe ’05 as one retirement with a volume of congratula­ was shifted to the Shoshone project in of the most prominent engineers in the tory letters including one from Dr. Wyoming. Parker was away from the West, Mr. Banks will continue with the Hauck. Attending the testimonial dinner Bureau for one year, when he served as Bureau of Reclamation as a consultant were John W. Crowe ’05 and Mrs. Crowe project manager for the lower Yellow­ on relationships of the Bureau on the (Frances Hinckley ’03) and “Happy” stone Board of Control in 1932. Columbia River Basin projects with var­ Parker ’09. Mr. Banks looks forward to Thus is the tradition of the University ious states and Federal agencies. He will being relieved from active duty particu­ of Maine men as heads of the “ big” en­ continue as a member of the Columbia larly because it will allow him and Mrs. gineering projects in the west being Basin Advisory Committee, as representa- Banks to attend the 45th reunion of his carried on by Mr. Parker. class next June. More than forty years service with the Bureau of Reclamation is Mr. Banks’ record. Starting as a $65-a-month gang rodman, he has progressed to his present position of eminence where the world famous Grand Coulee Dam stands as a monument to his engineering genius. Last May at the formal dedication of the dam, President Truman presented Mr. Banks the Gold Medal for distin­ guished Service. He is a member of the Reclammation Hall of Fame. Mr. Banks’ retirement brings into prominence Horace A. “Happy” Parker ’09 who has been named to succeed him. Like his predecessor Parker joined the Bureau as a rodman following gradua­ tion. A freshman when Banks was a senior, much of his career has been spent working with Banks. F rank A. B anks In 1910 he became office and field en­ H orace A. P arker

appearing in a recent issue of The Jour­ With the FACULTY nal of Organic Chemistry. The article reports a portion of the work done by them in connection with a project for the The forestry department has initiated presided at the sessions of the National Office of Naval Research. a series of Technical Notes under the di­ Defense Committee of the Association’s Dr. Robert T. Hart of the chemistry rection of Dr. Harold E. Young. It is Senate and Dean Deering spoke on department and Dr. Robert I. Tebbe, being sent to forestry alumni and to tim- “The Extension Director’s Viewpoint.” former member of the same department, berland operators in the state. The notes Dr. Louise Stedman, head of the home are co-authors of an article entitled contain the results of research work done economics department, Dr. George Dow “Acylation-Albylation Studies” in the in the department and have received wide ’27, assistant director of the Experiment Journal of American Chemical Society. commendation. Station, and Dean Joseph M. Murray ’25 Reprints are available from the chemistry Dean Emeritus Paul Cloke has been served on important committees of the department. appointed a member of the Committee Association. on Constitution and by-laws of the Professor Herschel Bricker was named Professors Stanley Wallace and Marion American Society for Engineering Edu­ New England sub-chairman to represent Rogers were honored by the Maine A s­ cation. the University at a regional conference sociation for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation at its fall meeting. “Wal­ Professor Wofford G. Gardner, head on Theatre activities in Boston this ly” was accorded an honor award with of the Speech Department, is author of month. He will also preside at the sec­ highest praise for distinguished service an article entitled “Delivery in Debate” ond session of the American Theatre .. . for outstanding leadership in the field published in the 24th Annual Debate Association in New York during the of health, physical education, and recrea­ Handbook of the National University Christmas recess. tion ... a constant source of stimulation Extension Association. “Sulfenyl Chloride Studies: The to the members of the profession in the Dr. Hauck and Dean A. L. Deering T2 Anhydrous Chlorination of Certain S- State of Maine. Prof. Rogers was given were among the speakers at the 64th Trithianes” is the title of an article by annual convention of the Association of Dr. Irwin S. Douglas, head of the chemis­ an honor award for “distinguished leader­ Land Grant Colleges and Universities in try department, and Dr. Frederick T. ship” and as a “constant source of stimu­ Washington this month. President H auck Martin, assistant professor of chemistry, lation to the profession.”

THE MAINE ALUMNUS NOVEMBER-DECEMBER, 1950 Director— Alumni Bookshelf VARSITY INDOOR TRACK The new director of the School for Abby Aldrich Rockefeller by Mary Ellen Dec. 9 Freshmen vs. Sophomores Workers in the University of Wisconsin Chase ’09. The McMillan Co., New Jan. 13 Bates Extension division is Dr. H. Edwin York. $3.00. Jan. 20 Knights of Columbus at Boston Young ’40. He was named recently to Another rich volume has been added Jan. 20 Intramurals the post by the Board of Regents follow­ to the literary accomplishments of Mary Feb. 3 Yankee Conference relay Ellen Chase with the appearance of Abby at Boston Athletic Assoc. ing recommendation by the faculty and Aldrich Rockefeller in mid-September. Feb. 17 New Hampshire labor advisory committees of the School This biography of one of America’s out­ Feb. 24 Springfield for Workers. Known as one of the pio­ standing women of the twentieth century Mar. 3 Northeastern neers and outstanding programs in work­ is beautifully written in the smooth and Mar. 10 Boston University er education in the country, the School pleasant-to-read manner that is typical has gained national recognition. Coach Jenkins has some ninety varsity of Miss Chase’s artistry. Professor Young has taught the Uni­ and freshman track candidates now work­ Maintaining the dignity and respect versity course in “Labor Problems” and, ing out in the Field House. He is opti­ due the name of Rockefeller in the de­ on alternate semesters with Professor mistic regarding the coming season al­ velopment of the subject, Miss Chase Perlman, the course in “American Labor though several of the more promising manages to paint a portrait of a beauti­ History.” He has participated extensive­ men are on thin ice academically and may ful and vivacious woman revealing the ly in School for Workers’ summer in­ not be eligible. warmth and the human qualities of her stitutes. During the past summer he was While Coach Jenkins anticipates his personality clearly and irrevocably. The consultant on labor affairs in Germany sixth consecutive undefeated indoor sea­ character of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller for the State Department. He has also son, Boston University and Springfield could well be the ideal of any American served on the staff of the Harvard Semi­ are both likely to be much stronger than woman seeking to live a life of service nar in American Studies at Salzburg, a year ago. He will be missing such to family and community and nation. Austria. sure point winners as Totman in the To relate the story of a happy marriage discus, Orach in the hammer, Haynes in Assistant professor of Economics at is a difficult task even in fiction when an the broad jump and Harnden and Wal­ Wisconsin, he was recently termed by author can insert her own thoughts and lace in the distances. Maine should be Professor Selig Perlman, internationally- other generalities. In non-fiction the stronger in the high jump but even some noted labor authority, as one of the na­ challenge is even greater because of the improvement in this event leaves some­ tion’s most promising young men in the need to stick to facts alone. Nonetheless, thing to be desired. field of labor affairs. Miss Chase does a creditable job of it, Bill McLeod ’51 can be expected to Professor Young graduated from Maine leaving one with a feeling of warmth and better his twelve foot mark in the pole in 1940 and received his M.A. in-1942. goodness after reading of the intimate vault and George Weatherbee ’53 also He taught at Maine before going to W is­ appreciation, respect, and regard of the looks good. Floyd Milbank is improved consin where he was awarded his Ph.D. religious, moderate, retiring John D. in the shot put. Bowler in the quarter He is married to the former Phyllis L. Rockefeller, Jr., for his brilliant, charm­ mile, W athen in the 880-yd. and thousand Smart ’41. ing, and vivacious wife. The interde­ yard, Osborne in the mile and Dow in the pendency of these two people— the one two mile will probably be the outstanding complementing the other—is clearly and men in the running events. beautifully revealed. The first recipients of the Black At this early point in the season the Bear Award are Dr. Hauck (left) If there ever was a mother completely and Alfred B. Lingley ’20, president frosh show the best prospects of any beloved of her children (Mrs. Rockefeller of the General Alumni Association. team since the late thirties. All estimates had six), it was Abby Aldrich Rockefel- These awards were made at the of strength have to be tempered by the Homecoming luncheon. contingency of many being called by the Armed Services as well as the old bugaboo— eligibility.

“Agricultural Research in Maine,” the 66th annual report of progress of the Ex­ periment Station, is an excellent review of the Agricultural research carried on by the Station Staff. Covering 23 sepa­ rate phases of study, it is a most reveal­ ing story of the fine work being done in this field of research at the University. Copies are available from the Experiment Station.

ler. To quote Miss Chase’s foreword: “ (She was) the center and the security of a large family, brought up under cir­ cumstances requiring peculiar tact, hu- mor, sanity, and wisdom.” Mrs. Rocke­ feller is a shining example of what every woman should aspire to be, the bulwark, the security for her family. Abby Aldrich Rockefeller is the story of an inspiring personality written by an inspired author.

THE MAINE ALUMNUS 18 NOVEMBER-DECEMBER, 1950 "MISSION un-COMPLETED”

Only $8,627 more is needed to reach 1920, was the first chairman but when he subscriptions. He pointed out that the the $900,000 Memorial Union Building moved to Buffalo, N. Y., Myles Standish collections cost to date has been only Fund campagin goal, Chairman Raymond ’26 became the chairman and put the area $8,421.63 which is but 1% of the amount H. Fogler ’15 reported to the Alumni up to 100%. Thirteen areas have now collected. This is an exceptionally low Council at the Homecoming meeting. A reached or exceeded their quotas; Can­ figure. The Fund now has approximate­ grand total of 12,246 alumni, students, ada leads with 120% followed by Rhode ly $575,000 cash on hand and on deposit faculty, and friends have subscribed Island with 120%. in 74 Savings accounts. This together $891,373. Chairman Fogler stated that with University gifts and payments antici­ although active personal solicitation is Penobscot County Makes Enviable pated during the weeks immediately ahead being continued in only a few areas to Record will raise the grand total available for complete “clean-up” work, activity would The full significance of what alumni, construction to nearly $650,000. While be continued until at least the campaign faculty, and friends residing in Penobscot this is an impressive total it is consid­ goal had been achieved. County have subscribed to the Memorial erably short of what it is expected will Following is a summary of subscrip­ Union is shown only by the total figure be needed to construct the building. It is tions and gifts to the Fund as of Novem­ for all the groups. The latest report shows believed that alumni and others knowing ber 20: that 1,241 alumni and others have sub­ that the money is needed will meet this scribed $116,185, which is 14% of the situation by paying their subscriptions Alumni Campaign 5,901 $571,961 total amount of subscriptions received, ex­ promptly. Students 6,921 183,571 cluding the University gifts. Following Non-alumni faculty 153 9,877 Specifications Nearly Ready is the Penobscot County summary: Friends and business 171 54,190 According to the latest word from the Alumnae 330 $ 17,283 architects, the working drawings and Sub totals 12,246 819,599 Alumni 566 48,900 specifications are now rapidly nearing Non-alumni faculty 153 9,877 University Gifts 64,774 completion. Decisions are being made Bangor Business 110 24,160 Other income (net) 7,000 daily concerning an almost endless amount Old Town Business 38 4,365 of details which are involved in this Orono Business 29 5,150 Total $891,373 building. Because of its diversified and Other friends 15 6,450 manifold uses, recreational, food service, White Mountain Area 100% social and educational, there are more Total 1,241 $116,185 The latest name to be added to the questions than normally have to be made for the usual college hall. Honor Roll of areas which have achieved To Stress Prompt Payments or exceeded their quota is White Moun­ As soon as the plans are ready, it is tain. This area now has the unique rec­ Treasurer Joseph M. Murray ’25 re­ expected that the University Trustees will ord, along with Maryland, of having ported that since it is hoped construction advertise for bids with the hope that con­ reached its quota in every University fund will soon be started that greater stress struction can be started at the earliest raising campaign. Frederick R. West, would be laid upon prompt payments on possible date.

Burke ter, Anne, has recently gone to Hawaii Athletics to serve as county librarian on Hilo (Continued from page 9) (Continued from page 13) / while another daughter, Mrs. Frances M. with the Maine Central R. R. followed Clark, is in India. The family plans a The Bears then traveled to Boston and by three years work on irrigation in reunion in Leonia, N. J., in 1952 when made a fine showing in the New England Montana. Before joining Ebasco he was all will be home for the first time in race at Franklin Park. Maine finished in also with the Boston and Maine R. R. several years. and on the faculty of Rhode Island State third place while running against the It is interesting to note in passing that College. top competition in New England. Yankee Maine men have for many years held Conference scores were tabulated from Construction projects abroad are not a important positions in Ebasco. Thurman the results of the New England meet, and new experience for Mr. Merrill for he C. Wescott ’09 succeeded Walter Burke a final count showed that the Pale Blue has been closely connected with electric as president. Arthur E. Silver ’02, since team finished in a tie with Vermont for power developments in Mexico, Central his retirement in 1948, has served as a Conference honors. and South America, Cuba, China, India, consulting engineer, while Frank S. Saw­ and Russia. In 1935 he was awarded the The season was ended when Maine yer ’10 is a construction manager and James R. Croes medal by the American competed in the IC4A race at New York. William M. Black ’09 is valuation en­ Society of Engineers as author of the Jenkins’ squad finished 15th in this big gineer. Elwood K. Wilkins ’22 is also a year’s outstanding paper on a civil en­ race of the year which found most of the construction manager. Other alumni, too gineering project. best teams in the East running in the numerous to mention, are also connected Long a resident of Leonia, New Jersey, event. with this engineering firm whose name is where he has been very active in civic One of the most refreshing showings of known the world-over. affairs, he has done graduate work at the year was the sparkling performance The present project will not only be an Columbia, Cornell, and New York Uni­ of Richard Dow who shattered several versities. For more than ten years he example to the Greeks of American course records. Dow, who had shown was a lecturer in engineering economics know-how but also of the helping hand promise the season before, was the main­ at Brooklyn Polytechnic University. of this government to a gallant country stay of the Bear squad. But, as usual, it Mr. and Mrs. Merrill will make their in its attempt to bring economic inde­ was teamwork which paid off to result in home in Athens. Their youngest daugh­ pendence and freedom to its people. a fine record.

T h E MAINE ALUMNUS 19 NOVEMBER-DECEMBER, 1950 Scholarship Student Aid can advise and help students Newspaper Day in their needs far better than was possible (Continued from page 3) when each group operated entirely apart. A notable group of speakers featured Last year 257 applications were received From this program a pattern emerges the second annual Maine Newspaper Day and summarized, the references collected, which might be called the typical scholar­ October 27-28. The program, arranged and the applicants interviewed between ship recipient. He or she— two-thirds of under the direction of Wayne Jordan, January 10 and late March. This task last year’s awards went to men—is near­ professor of journalism, and assisted by required many hours of work on the part ly always from Maine and is usually a the Maine Daily Newspaper Publishers’ of the Committee members with over 40 life-long native of the state (many of the Association and the Maine Press Associa­ afternoons devoted entirely to the inter­ available funds are restricted to state tion, was attended by an even larger viewing of candidates. students). Generally a small town or audience than a year ago. Turner Catledge, assistant managing It is particularly heartening to the rural community provided the background editor of The New York Times, opened Committee to see scholarship funds stead­ and public high school the academic prep­ the two day program by addressing a ily increasing. While the need for finan­ aration. His or her parents, if living, general assembly in Memorial Gym. cial assistance still exceeds available funds, usually gain their income from farming, After a luncheon for the newsmen and the opportunity to help worthy students in lumbering, trapping, small retail busi­ journalism majors a series of seminars real financial need is much greater now nesses, or semi-skilled factory labor. was opened by Mr. Louis M. Lyons, cura­ than formerly. Last year’s awards, made Often the mother works to provide some tor of the Nieman Foundation for Journal­ from both general University funds and of the needed extra income for the cost ism at Harvard. Following Lyons as those held by the University of Maine of college. The estimated annual income speaker was Mr. Herbert Brucker, editor Foundation and awarded by the University of the family is seldom over $2,000 to of the Hartford Courant and one of the Scholarship Committee, totalled over $3,000; often one or more brothers are oldest papers in the country. Harold L. $17,000 to upperclass students. Next year helping out on the extra costs while Cross H ’50, Skowhegan, and former as­ several new funds become available and younger ones are dependent on the family. sociate dean of the school of Journalism will swell the total to about $20,000. The student works during the summer in a summer hotel, construction job, or mill at Columbia, spoke on “Significant Legal Names of alumni— individuals and earning about $300 toward the $1,000 Events affecting Newspapers.” groups—play a prominent part in the list needed for the college year. He or she Friday evening an informal banquet of scholarships available. Such funds as plans to work on campus doing dining was held at the Bangor House. On Satur­ the Hosea B. Buck Memorial Scholar­ room or kitchen work, janitor work, of­ day morning the seminars were con­ ships, the James Norris Hart Scholar­ tinued with Lt. Col. William M.- Sum­ fice clerical, or other part-time duties ships, the Philip R. Hathorne Scholarship, mers, former editor-in-chief of the Euro­ to name only a few, worthily commemo­ which by a careful budgeting of time allows the earning of another $200 or pean edition of the Stars and Stripes, rate the names of former graduates:' The and now a member of the ROTC staff $300 toward the needed amount. The class and local association scholarships at the University, and John McKernan, also stand as worthy monuments to alumni family, by careful counting of pennies, by self-sacrifice, and by an abiding faith in sportswriter and commentator, as speak­ interest in the undergraduates. Such gifts ers. of permanent funds are usefully supple­ the value of education, sometimes by lit­ erally mortgaging the family homestead, Several exhibits were arranged in both mented each year by gifts of annual funds the Library and the journalism rooms in will provide whatever they can. It is at from local associations and individual Fernald Hall during the conference. The this point that the Scholarship Committee alumni, often anonymous, and from the visiting newspaper men were guests of tries to enter the picture and make up the many donors represented in the M Club the University Saturday afternoon at the awards. amount lacking to enable the student to plan for the full year. Bates-Maine game. The members of the Scholarship Com­ It is against a background such as this, mittee have a keen sense of responsibility Placement Field Trip both to the University and to the student. multiplied by 250 applicants, that the Placement Director Philip J. Brock­ Certain basic standards of academic per­ Scholarship Committee makes its deci­ way, ’31, recently completed a field trip formance must be maintained and at the sions. Such decisions are not taken light­ to Rochester and Buffalo, New York, to same time the real, personal, human needs ly by the members; many times they read discuss the current employment situation of the individual must be understood. A between the lines of the application form with employers. Through the cooperation wealth of human interest stories come out the high hopes and shining visions of youth of various members of Alumni Placement of scholarship interviews. Failure of farm which their decision may do much to fur­ Committees in these cities, he was able crops, loss of family income through ther or to disappoint. And when the final to get a good cross section of employment death or illness, individual, courageous agreement of the Committee is taken, the thinking as it is at present. Highlights, efforts to find the means to stay in col­ Office of Student Aid and Placement he reported to the seniors at the Uni­ lege, all have real meaning to the Com­ sends out a simple printed notice: “ The versity, were : (1) many employers are mittee members. Without the grant of University Committee on Scholarships has planning to engage in normal senior re­ $75, $100, or $200 given by the Scholar­ considered your application and is pleased cruiting and hiring regardless of draft ship Committee, many very worth while to offer you financial assistance as fol­ and reserve status, and (2) the demand, men and women would not be able to com­ lows.” The words in themselves are pro­ especially for technical men, is high and plete their University work. saic enough, but they carry with them a promise of immense meaning to the stu­ appears to be increasing. The centralization of student aid in the dent. And back of the promise are the Among the firms visited or otherwise Office of Student Aid and Placement has generous impulses of hundreds of men investigated were the following: Bausch made it possible to provide a better cor­ and women, alumni and others, who have & Lomb Optical Co., The Taylor In­ relation for these students’ needs among made possible that award which means so strument Co., Eastman Kodak, Gleason the three-fold methods of aid—scholar­ much to the student. It is to these many Works, Stromberg-Carlson Telephone ships, loans, and part-time jobs. By serv­ donors, named and unnamed, that the sin­ Manufacturing Co., and Stecher-Traung ing as Secretary to the Scholarship and cere appreciation of all, students, commit­ Lithograph Co. in Rochester; the du Pont Loan Committees and having responsibil­ tee members, and the University as a Cellophane Division, Bell Aircraft, Elec­ ity for work allocation, the Director of whole, is truly directed. tro-Metallurgical Co.

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Foundation have equal representation on the SRA student cabinet and the SR A Advisory Board and thus share alike in the policy-making and programming of SRA. NECROLOGY Savannah (Ga.) Electric and Power Co., An able SR A cabinet, with Harry E. died on October 21, 1950, while vacation­ 1894 ing in West Virginia. He is survived by Henderson ’52 of Augusta as president, MERRITT LYNDON FERNALD. his widow, the former Mrs. G. W. Henry has been building this fall a sound founda­ Professor Merritt L. Fernald, former of Savannah whom he married in 1947, president of the Botanical Society of tion for the development of SR A student and a brother, Frank Morton of So. America, died on September 22, 1950, in Windham, Maine. For several years fol­ activities. Already the three program­ Cambridge, Mass. A native of Orono and lowing his graduation from the Uni­ ming commissions—personal, campus, and the son of the late President Fernald versity of Maine he was associated with community—are meeting campus needs of the University of Maine, Professor Stone & Webster Co. of Boston. He Fernald had been associated with H ar­ in their respective fields. Freshman and subsequently served in World War I as vard University since 1891. For many a lieutenant in the Corps of Engineers. International Clubs are well underway, years, until his retirement in 1947, he had In 1920 he joined the Savannah Electric Brotherhood and Embassy Weeks are been curator and director of the Gray and Power Co. as secretary to the in the preliminary planning stage, various Herbarium at Harvard. He was author manager. For the past several years be­ of more than 1,000 scientific articles and campus and SRA Building services are fore his death he had been general recently completed rewriting and expand­ superintendent and was one of the most heavily utilized. With every member of ing Asa Gray’s manual of botany. Mr. capable and best known officials of the a faith group automatically becoming a Fernald did not graduate with the class company. Mr. Morton was a member of member of SRA, the total membership of 1894 from the University of Maine. the American Society of Mechanical En­ He went on to Harvard receiving a degree gineers ; the Savannah Automobile Club should reach nearly 1500 for 1950-51. An there subsequently. of which he was a director; the American Advisory Board of twenty-one members, 1898 Society of Military Engineers, the Ma­ including three alumni representatives, CHARLOTTE GERTRUDE FAR­ sonic Lodge of Lowell, Mass., and the has been set up to guide the SR A desti­ RAR BUFFUM. Word has been re­ Audubon Society. Interment was in South Windham, Maine. nies. ceived in the Alumni Office of the death of Mrs. Charlotte Buffum on September SRA at Maine can mean distinct ad­ 1909 24, 1950, in D over-Foxcroft where she HARRY LESTER FARNHAM. In vance in promoting cooperative religion had lived most of her life. About twenty Lynn, Massachusetts, on October 13, 1950, on the campus. SRA can mean broader years ago Mrs. Buffum was a House­ Harry L. Farnham died after an illness insights into the major faiths with new mother at the University. She was a of several months. Mr. Farnham was as­ member of Phi Gamma, the local sorority sociated with the Eastern Fire Inspection understandings and appreciations. SRA which became Alpha Omicron Pi in 1908. Bureau for 35 years. He is survived by can further religion’s role in the life- 1900 his widow, Ida, of Lynn, and a daughter, integration aim of American higher edu­ WILICIE COLLINS CLARK. An old Mrs. Florence Stewart of Auburn, Maine, cation. SRA can provide a functional time baseball luminary, Wilkie Clark, died and two grandchildren. Mr. Farnham was a member of Theta Upsilon which be­ setting for voluntary religious work in on October 25, 1950, at a Portland hos­ came Sigma Nu at the University of keeping with our American principle of pital. Mr. Clark will be remembered as baseball coach at the U. of M. during Maine, as well as of the Bay State Lodge Separation of Church and State. SRA the decade of the ’20s. During his life­ I.O.O.F. can bring to Maine the best religious- time he also coached that sport at Colby, 1917 work techniques of leading American uni­ at the Universities of California and Min­ WESTON BRADFORD HASKELL. nesota, and at Occidental College in Cali­ versities. SRA promises to do these Weston B. Haskell, retired executive of fornia. He held somewhat of a record H. P. Hood & Sons—a Boston dairy things and more as students, faculty, ad­ for participation in the sport, too, for he products firm—died on September 27, ministration, and alumni provide under­ played in every Class AA professional 1950, in a Buffalo, N. Y., hospital where standing, encouragement, and support dur­ league in the country in the fifteen years he had been taken after a fall in his following his graduation from college. home in Hamburg, N. Y. Mr. Haskell ing this critical transition year. He helped to organize the Association retired in 1949 after more than twenty of Baseball Players of America. A keen years with Hood’s having served as di­ Dec. 11 Bangor Alumnae insight, a thorough knowledge of sports, rector of advertising and public relations All Soul’s Church and an ability to instruct made of Mr. during the last of his association with Dec. 12 Maine Club Clark an unusually fine coach. Mr. Clark that company. A t one time prior to his was a charter member of Phi Gamma going into the Hood Co. he was general Auburn Legion Hall, 6 :30 p.m. Delta fraternity. manager of the Turner Centre Dairy Coach Nelson speaker System in Portland, Maine. During 1905 World War I, Mr. Haskell was a Captain Every Friday noon JOHN GILMAN LONGFELLOW. in the Army and served overseas. He Portland Alumni On July 28, 1950, John G. Longfellow had been an active member of the Cross- died in Midland, Pa., where he had lived Howard Johnson’s cup-Pishon Post of the American Legion for many years. He had been a divisional 630 Congress Street in Boston, Advertising Club of Boston, a foreman of the Pittsburgh Crucible Steel (Bob Parks ’29, Manager) Co. during the better part of his working past president of the New England A s­ sociation of Ice Cream Manufacturers, Boston Alumni years. and a member of the public relations com­ Thompson’s Spa 1907 mittee of the International Association of Washington Street E D W A R D T. H A R L O W . In the last Ice Cream Manufacturers. Surviving are First Thursday of each month issue of The Alumnus mention was made his second wife and widow— Mrs. Alma of the fact that word had been received Haecker Haskell of Hamburg (his first Portland Alumnae of the death of Edward T. Harlow but wife, Pauline Derby T8, died in 1945), a Howard Johnson’s further details were lacking. We wish to daughter, Mrs. Robert Marsh of Waban, 630 Congress Street, 8 p.m. add that Mr. Harlow died April 8, 1933. Mass., and two sons, Weston B., Jr. ’46 Mrs. Clifford Blake, President in Oakland. Calif. He was connected of Waltham, Mass, and Richard D. ’47 of with the California State Highway Com­ Boston. Mr. Haskell was a member of Last Thursday of each month mission for several years and then en­ Beta Theta Pi fraternity. Philadelphia Alumni gaged in highway construction work as a 1921 contractor. He executed many large jobs Leed’s Restaurant WALDO PETER LIBBY. Word has in that field. S. Broad Street near Sansom been received of the death of W aldo P. Feb. 5 Bangor Alumnae 1908 Libby of Presque Isle, on February 13, FRED CONSTINE MORTON. Fred 1950, after a short illness. He was as­ Pilot’s Grill, 6:30 p.m. C. Morton, general superintendent of the sociated with Green Bros., Clothiers in

THE MAINE ALUMNUS 2 1 NOVEMBER-DECEMBER, 1950 that city. Mr. Libby was at the Universi­ BY CLASSES the construction of many of the big dams ty for one year with the class of 1921. in the northwest section of the country— 1 8 9 8 Mrs. Ramon de Arias (Gracia Grand Coulee Dam being the most mas­ 1925 Fernandez) is now living at 84 sive. In May 1950 Pres. Truman pre­ Hillside Ave., Bangor. She moved there sented Mr. Banks with a gold medal WILLIAM T. CAVANAUGH. Mem­ from Old Town recently. awarded by the Department of the In­ bers of the class of 1925 will remember terior “for distinguished service.” William Cavanaugh, who was with the 1 9 0 0 a recent change of address for class of ’25 during the freshman year Herbert D. Eaton has been re­ 190 7 Mr. Karl MacDonald only. He died on October 11, 1950, of ceived. Formerly a resident of Belfast, 27 Nelson Ave., Wellsville, a heart attack while participating in the he is now in Freeport. N . Y . annual elections of the Elks in Spring- Herman E. McKenzie, 189 Washing­ 1901 Several members of the class of ton Ave., Muskegan, Mich., has pur­ field, Mass. Following his one year at 1 9 0 1 are “ lost” in our files in the Maine Mr. Cavanaugh went to George­ chased a home in Big Bay, Michigan, and Alumni Office. Anyone knowing of their this will be his future address. town University and received a law de­ present location, will you kindly com­ gree. He has been an attorney in Spring- Tedcastle B. Perry of Easton, Maine, municate with us in Orono? (Last known has formed a partnership with his son, field during the past ten years. He served place of residence appears in parentheses in W orld War II as a Lieutenant in the Vernon, to raise seed potatoes. The firm after the name.) Navy. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. will be known as the T. B. Perry & Son. Dorothy Koenig Cavanaugh. He was a 50th Reunion, June 15-17, 1951 Their farms are adjoining but in different member of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity. Frederick H. Call (Farmington, New towns. Hampshire) ; Rev. Burt C. Chandler Your secretary, Karl MacDonald, re­ 1931 (Essex, Conn.) ; William F. Hussey cently had presented to him a life mem­ (Quincy, Mass.) ; Irving W. Phillips bership in the American Society of Me­ HAROLD EUGENE K elleh er. (Saylesville, R. I.) ; Scott P. Shaw (Bal­ chanical Engineers by the Council of that On October 7, 1950, Harold E. Kelleher timore, Md.) ; Frank E. Watts (Detroit, society. of Bangor died following a brain opera­ Mich.) ; Benjamin F. Butterfield; Arthur Guy E. Hayward, who had a nervous tion for head injuries. Mr. Kelleher was L. Cobb; Maurice B. Merrill; Fred A. breakdown last spring, is much improved in the undertaking business in Bangor Willard. but is still in a convalescent home a few and was known as a colorful figure in George H. Davis is retired and living miles from his sister, Mrs. F. H. Moul­ Bangor city politics, having served on on Bailey Island in Maine. He was Rate ton, 80 Merritt Rd., Lexington, Mass. the City Council for nine years. During Engineer for the Middle West Service James P. V. Fagan has a new address this incumbency he was chairman of the Co. in Chicago for many years. in Laguna Beach, Calif.—397 Poplar St. Public Works Committee for eight years Most recent information concerning 1 9 0 8 Earle N. Vickery, who is a resi- and was largely responsible for the new Benjamin F. Faunce is that he has retired dent of Pittsfield and operates Bass Park grandstand and the Garland from the presidency of the Blacktop the Parks Brothers Insurance Agency Street athletic plant having spearheaded Equipment Corporation, and his address there, was nominated to the Maine State their development. He is survived by his is still 105 Fayette St., Johnstown, Pa. Board of Education recently. He has widow, two sons—both of whom are in Retired from school teaching in 1946, served on the school committee in Pitts­ service, two daughters, three brothers, Gertrude L. Fraser can be found at 139 field for more than 20 years. He also and two sisters. Mr. Kelleher was a East Ave., East Rochester, N. Y. served as a State Representative from member of Phi Kappa fraternity. Mrs. Joseph F. Merrill (Emily Ham­ 1943 to 1946. lin) lives at 318 N. 16th St., Manhattan, 1938 A recent communication from William Kansas. Her husband (class of ’07) is A. Hill shows that he is now living at ELLEN BAILEY HODGKINS. a chemistry professor at Kansas State 49 High Rd., Newbury, Mass. He is as­ W ord has been received of the death of College. Ellen B. Hodgkins of Bath, Maine, on sociated with the New York Life In­ June 25, 1950. Further details are lack­ 1904 Two changes of location have surance Co. ing, we regret to say. been received for class of 1904 people—Roy S. Averill has moved from 1 9 1 0 Henry N. Taylor, who is an at- torney at law, has his offices at Canonsburg, Pa., to 700 Bowerhill Rd., Honorary 1936 (LL.D.) 477 Congress St., Portland, and resides Pittsburgh 16, Pa., and Vaughan Jones at 157 High St. WILLIAM TRUFANT FOSTER. In from Silverton, Colorado, to 757 7th Ave., Walter S. Merrill, who is associated Jaffrey, N. H., on October 8, 1950, Dr. Durango, Colorado. William T. Foster died. At the time of with Ebasco Services. Inc., is now in his passing he was president of the Poliak 1905 Freeman M. Sampson has re- Athens, Greece. His street location there Foundation for Economic Research. He cently sold his Insurance busi­ is 2 Gladstonas St. Prior to going to was a former president of Reed College ness which he and Mrs. Sampson had Europe he had been in Leonia, N. J. in Portland, Oregon, and in fact was the been operating for 40 years in the Ban- Allen E. Oak has a new address in first president of that college when he was gor-Orono area. The Sampsons plan to Tulsa, Oklahoma—523 S. Marion St. continue the broker business and to act appointed in 1910. This appointment also 191 1 Major William S. Gould was made him the youngest college president as insurance counselors. Bertram E. Ames has a new address in retired from the U. S. Army in in the United States. During his life­ June 1949 and is now living in Veazie West Hartford, Conn.—2282 Albany Ave. time, Dr. Foster accomplished many (Mail—R.F.D. #7, Bangor). worthwhile and constructive things. He Adelbert W. Sprague, professor Emeri­ was truly an outstanding man. Much of tus of the University of Maine, continues 40th Reunion, June 15-17, 1951 his time in the past few years has been to teach at the Northern Conservatory of John J. Coker, attorney at law, resides spent in Winter Park, Fla., although he Music in Bangor. He teaches orchestra­ at 3380 Bayside Walk, San Diego 9, summered in Jaffrey. He is survived by tion, form and analysis, and counterpoint Calif., and has his law office in that city. his widow, three sons, one daughter, and of the 18th and 19th centuries. .James L. Dinsmore is a salesman for Remington Rand, Inc., in Boston. His ten grandchildren. 1906Maude B. Colcord’s present residence address is 24 Blagdon St. in Honorary 1936 (M.A.) mailing address is c/o Miss Lena that city. Tufts, Harvard, Mass. She was formerly SAN LORENZO MERRIMAN. A supervisor of the Fruitlands Museum and 1 9 1 3 Allan F. McAlary of Rockland Harpswell, Maine, man and son of sea­ is now retired. was recently elected vice presi­ faring parents, San Lorenzo Merriman, 45th Reunion, June 15-17, 1951 dent of the Maine Water Utilities As­ died on September 13, 1950, at Kingston, Frederick J. Simmons retired from sociation. R. I., where he had made his home for the faculty of Keene Teachers College, Everett Chapman has changed his ad­ the past few years, since his retirement Keene, N. H., last June. His permanent dress from Harrison, Maine, to Oxford, from educational circles in Maine in 1941. address is Morrill, Maine, but he is Maine. A graduate of Bowdoin College in 1897, temporarily located at 44 W . Cedar St., Mr. Merriman devoted his life to being a Boston, Mass. 1 9 1 4 Fred S. Youngs of Bangor was teacher and school administrator, having Robert F. Olds has a new address in 1 9 1 4 recently reelected to the office of been at Island Falls, Patten, and Presque Portland, Oregon. He is currently living President of The Maine Unitarian As­ Isle. In 1907 he assumed charge of the at the Sovereign Hotel in that city. sociation. then young Normal School and was In late September the Portland Sun­ George E. Sinkinson has moved to a awarded the honorary degree of Master day Telegram carried a full page article new location in Providence, R. I. The of Arts by the University of Maine as a on the life and works of Frank A. Banks, new address is 215 Blackstone Blvd. result of the work which he did in build- who retired this fall after 44 years’ ser­ 1915 Raymond H. Fogler has been ing up this institution. He is survived by vice with the U. S. Bureau of Reclama­ named a Director of the United his widow. tion. He has been the guiding light in State Chamber of Commerce.

THE MAINE ALUMNUS NOVEMBER-DECEMBER, 1950 Justin D. Graves is now living at 725 summer. The Dennetts live in Hopedale, 1923 Mrs. Norman Torrey Pitt St., Alexandria, Va. He was for­ Mass., where he is principal of the high (Toni Gould) merly in Williamsburg, Va. school. They have a son, who is in the 9 Poplar St., Bangor Maritime Service and a daughter who is 1 9 1 6 Sherman of 99 Mill St., It must have seemed like a real “ Home­ a senior at the University of Maine. coming” for Alfred Hempstead (now Orono, is a field operator for George C. Norton has moved from Pullorum Disease Control Service which Rev.) to return to Orono this fall as Hempstead, N. Y., to 147 Nassau Blvd., pastor of the Methodist Church. He was Dr. E. R. Hitchner of the University Garden City, N. Y. staff directs appointed to this parish by the Methodist In September E. L. Newdick was 35th Reunion, June 15-17, 1951 Bishop of the Boston Area after serving elected president of the Maine State Em­ as pastor of the Pratt Memorial Meth­ 1 9 1 7 March Fairchild, who is ployees Association during its annual odist Church in Rockland for eight years. director of vocational economics meeting. He and Mrs. Hempstead were given a in the Westbrook schools, is also in­ 1 9 1 9 James B. McGrath is a physi- reception of welcome. They have three structor in Red Cross canteen services. can with offices at 2615 Grand Maine Alumni among their children, Samuel Berger has recently moved Concourse in New York City. His resi­ Mary and David graduated in ’42 and from Haverhill, Mass., to 7 Devotion St., dence address is 525 W . 238th St. , Betty in ’49. The latter is now in India. Brookline 46, Mass. Elwyna Haskins Blair is now living It is nice to have you back in this locale A most unfortunate accident brought at 27 Faulkner St., Malden, Mass. She again and here’s hoping we shall soon death to M ax Sidelinger, the 24 year was formerly in Melrose, Mass. be privileged to read a companion to old son of Claude Sidelinger of Monson, your book, “West Branch of the Penob- last August. His jacked up car, under 1 9 2 0 A bit belated but interesting to scot.” which he was working, fell on him and note is the fact that Henry But­ Philip Bradbury, Physics Teacher at crushed him. Young Sidelinger was to ler’s two children who were attending Saugus High School, was unanimously have been a third year student at the the University of Maine last spring appointed Head of the Science Depart­ Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and (Frank and Dorothea) both made a rank ment, effective this fall. He is well quali­ had served two years in the Army in of 4.00 for the spring term. This is fied to hold this position for he has had World War II as a Sergeant. certainly a wonderful record. (Dorothea 23 years previous teaching experience. is now Mrs. Irving Marsden and is liv­ Captain Frank W. Fenno of the U. S. 1 9 1 8 Winburn A. and Mrs. Dennett ing in South Carolina while Frank is still Navy who has been Chief of Staff to marked their silver wedding an­ a student at the University.) Rear Admiral S. S. Murray, commander niversary while vacationing in Maine this Willard C. Avery, whose address has of the Atlantic fleet submarine force in been missing for some time, has been New London, Conn., for the past year, found to be living at 5837 Michigan Ave., has been ordered to the Naval War Col­ Chicago 31, Ill. lege at Washington. His home address Marie Peterson Dalton (Mrs. Stanley) is #10 Woodhaven Bldv., Bethesda, is now living at 45 Longview Dr., Spring- Maryland. field, Pa. She was formerly in Lans- Where are some of the rest of you ... downe, Pa. and what are you doing? We certainly Garage Lester P. Barbour has been reported would like to know. W hy not write? to be in St. Petersburg, Fla., at 4339 21st St. N. 1 9 2 4 Mrs. Clarence C. Little Providence, R. I. (Beatrice Johnson) Norman B. Murphy is an M.D. and does Box 558, Bar Harbor (opposite Narragansett Hotel) surgery at the Augusta General Hospital. Bernie Plummer and his wife, the for­ H e has three children. He is a past presi­ mer Alice Miles, celebrated their twenty- OPEN 24 HOURS dent of the Staff at the Augusta General, fifth wedding anniversary on July fifth, at a partner in the Dirigo Medical Clinic their home in Orono. They have four Every service for your car in Augusta, and a physician for the State children, two sons and two daughters. School for girls. During the war he Congratulations and best wishes for many served as a Lieutenant in the Marine more happy returns to you, Bernie and Corps. He had his 25th reunion at H ar­ Alice, from the class. vard Medical last June. George H. Cooper will be Chairman Paul I. Flavell, who was back for re­ of the Reception Committee when Sigma union last June, was returning to the Delta Chi, the professional journalism campus for the first time since gradua­ fraternity, meets in Miami in November. tion. The Flavells have three children— While George is a fruit grower, cattle Constance, who has graduated from the raiser, and owner of a farm supply busi­ Mass. School of Art; John, who is a ness, he hopes to own a weekly paper Hotel senior at Northeastern University; and some day. Jane, who is still in high school. Mr. Neal W. Phillips, formerly of Green­ Providence, Rhode Island Flavell is with E. B. Badger &. Sons, a wich, Connecticut, has purchased the structural steel company in Boston. Meredith News, a central New Hamp­ Where The Guest Is King Harry Brown has been teaching for shire, weekly which includes The M oul- thirty years and is currently connected tonboro News and The Sandwich News Headquarters for University with the Rumford schools. His oldest and a printing business conducted at 2 son, James, is a freshman at the Univer­ Water Street, Meredith. We wish him of Maine Athletic Teams sity. There are two other children, Ann success in this new venture. 18, and Timothy 7. Lt. Col. Stanton L. Swett, of Dedham, Mass., is Commanding Officer of the 464th Transportation Truck Battalion, and was at Camp Edwards in July with As You Remember It - - other Reservists, for an intensive training schedule. During World War II Stanton was in the Pacific Theatre for fifty-nine months and was awarded the Bronze Star. THE BOOKSTORE Ann Thurston Henderson, bless her heart, has sent me an item from the Rutland, Vt., paper, which states that A Friendly P lace! Harold L. Durgin of our class, has been elected Executive Vice President of the S e r v in g - Central Vermont Public Service Corpora­ Alumni, Faculty, and Students tion. Congratulations, Harold! 1 9 2 5 Mrs. Merrill Henderson UNIVERSITY STORE CO. (Anne Thurston) Quechee, Vt. Many thanks to those who responded THE BOOKSTORE THE BARBER SHOP to form cards sent by your secretary. ON THE CAMPUS More please! In September Charles P. Burbank cele­ brated his 25th anniversary with the S.S.

The MAINE ALUMNUS 23 NOVEMBER-DECEMBER, 1950 Kresge Co. He is now Superintendent of of Long Beach, Calif., recently became Portland Sunday Telegram: “ Appoint­ stores in the Boston area. His daughter, the bride of James Dorman Wallace. ment of Harry Davis of Binghamton, Ann, graduated from Maine in June and N. Y., as general superintendent of the was married the same month to Bob 1930 M rs. Pauline H. Leech Oxford Paper Company’s Maine Coated (Pauline Hall) Taylor ’50—they are living in Allston. Division was announced here today. The younger Burbank, Marie, is in her Homer Folks Hospital, (Rumford, Maine) third year of training at the New England Oneonta, N. Y. “A graduate of the University of Maine Dr. Harold M. Cutler has an office in Baptist Hospital in Boston. in 1931, Davis formerly was production the Beaumont Medical Building in St. Norris Clements was a member of the manager of the Oxalid Division of the Louis. His residence address is 4386 Banquet Committee for the Annual Poul­ General Analine and Film Corp. at Bing­ West Pine St., St. Louis, Mo. He is try School Banquet held at the University hamton, N. Y. He also has been associ­ married to the former Geneva Epstein in late August. W e should note too that ated with the former Waterfalls Paper Norris was elected to the Alumni Coun­ ’36 of Bangor. Co. at Mechanic Falls, and the Inter­ On September 1st William N. Flynt cil at its annual meeting in June. national Paper Co. at North Tonawanda, took up his new duties as manager of the Mrs. Peter D. Matheson (Mildred N. Y .” Suburban Gas and Electric Co. in Revere Foster) states that due to ill health she I have found out that Tillie Crozier’s gave up teaching eight years ago, but and Winthrop, Mass. Previously he had name is Mrs. Stephen Zuty and that she been a manager in Gloucester. He has when called she does substitute work. is living at 299 Main St., Manchester, She is soloist for Mt. Zircon chapter of been engaged in electric power work in Conn. Tillie is Department Manager at O.E.S. She has a nephew who is a New England ever since graduating from G. Fox & Co. in Hartford, Conn. junior at the University. Maine. With Mrs. Flynt he resides at 6 George V. Cuozzo received his Master In August W . Barr Hatfield was mar­ Summit Ave., Rockport, Mass. of Education degree from the U. of M. ried to Miss Eloise Macomber of Wilton, Milford Payson is a trustee of the in August. a member of the faculty at Wilton High Camden (Maine) Historical Society and Alton D. Wilcox is now employed by School. The bridgroom is Principal of lives at 3 Colcord Ave. in that city. Via Frank W. Hussey and his business ad­ the Central School in Norridgewock. the grapevine I have heard that Milford dress is RFD 3, Caribou, Maine. His Mrs. Hatfield attended summer sessions was in Europe this past summer. It home address is still R # 3 , Presque Isle, would be nice to hear from him directly at Maine. Me. Merton J. Gribbin of Augusta, Gover­ about that. Paul R. Goodwin is now living at nor of District 41-A of the Lions, took Vivian Veysey Seale is teaching fifth 9706 Lawson Place, Silver Spring, Md. with him to the International Convention grade in the public school in North held in Chicago in July, a portrait of the Springfield, Vermont. founder, painted by Joseph B. Kahili of John H. Sweatt is a salesman and lives 1932 at 200 Poplar Ave., Wayne, Pa. Everett K. Adams, who has been among Portland. Earl D. Taft, principal of Uxbridge the missing as far as address is con­ 19 2 8 Miss Mary McGuire Junior High School since 1937, except cerned, is manager of a storage ware­ University of Bridgeport, for the period of three years with the house (G. H. Delp Co.)—142 Penn St., Bridgeport, Conn. Army, 32nd Division, was awarded the Reading, Pa. William Balch may be addressed at P.O. degree of Master of Education at com­ Helen L. McKechnie is now Mrs. Box 95, Manchester, Conn. He is a mencement exercises of Worcester State Richard Davis and lives in Calais, Maine. mechanical engineer with Pratt and Teachers College last June. Recent word reveals that Walter E. Whitney, E. Hartford, Conn. Riley is an engineer for the St. John Elton Jones, Associate Professor of 1931 mrs. Sam Sezak Sulphite Co. and lives at 251 Dunn Ave., Physical Science at Kansas State Teach­ (Ethel Thomas) West St. John, New Brunswick, Canada. ers’ College, Pittsburg, Kansas, is the 4 Gilbert St., Orono Dr. Fred B. Colby has been named to author of Fundamentals of Applied Elec­ 20th Reunion, June 15-17, 1951 the Board of Health in Fitchburg, Mass. Some items that have reached me late tricity (Bruce Publishing Co.). Way back in June Harold E. Bryant for our June issue still contain news of Stewart E. Walsh was married last of Presque I sle led a discussion of interest. One of these tells me much more June to Miss Cecelia Louise Conway of “What’s Ahead for Farm Cooperatives” about Bill Hamblet than I was able to Bangor. Their address is 33 Sidney St., during a meeting of the New England learn from talking with him at Com­ Bangor. Institute of Cooperation at the Universi­ mencement. Written for the Andover A new address for Nicholai F. W es- ty of Connecticut. Harold is General Townsman, Andover, Mass., in March at sell is 447 Weston Road, Wellesley 81, Manager of Maine Potato Growers’, Inc. Mass. the time Bill was a candidate for the school committee during the town elec­ Joseph I. Senechal of East Stafford, 192 9 Barbara Johnson tions, it says: “Born in Lawrence. Mr. Conn., has been appointed director of 32 Orland St., Portland 4 Hamblet attended the Lawrence schools, audio-visual education in the schools of Two ’29ers have achieved fame and graduated from the Fluntington school, East Hartford, Conn. He has taught honor for us the past month. Robert and received his B.S. degree in engineer­ several extension courses in audio-visual Chandler was elected President of the ing at the University of Maine. In 1941 education for the University of Connecti­ University of New Hampshire and Gerald he obtained his master of education de­ cut (from which he received a Master’s Francis Burrill was named the 500th gree at Boston University. Mr. Hamblet degree some years ago), New Haven Bishop in the history of the Protestant taught in the Bristol and East Hartford, State Teachers’ College, and Williman- Episcopal Church in Dallas, Texas. Conn., high schools for ten years, his tic Teachers’ College and has worked Bob has been Dean of the College of subjects being science and mathematics. closely with the State Department of Agriculture at the U. of New Hampshire Also dean of boys, he was head of the Education. since 1947. He and Eunice (Copeland visual education in the school system, and 1933 Mrs. John Carnochan ’31) have been very active in U. of M. assistant football coach while in Connec­ (Dorothy Findlay) alumni circles in southern New Hamp­ ticut. 36 Goudy St., So. Portland shire. Bob received his Ph.D. from the “ A past president of the Lawrence Y Major Gregg C. McLeod of Stillwater University of Maryland in 1934. The Men’s Club, he is active in several or­ has become a faculty member at none Chandlers have 2 sons and a daughter. ganizations. He is a member of the other than Bowdoin this fall. Gregg is Frank will serve as chief assistant to Andover Service Club, the Boosters’ as­ Assistant Professor of Military Science the Rt. Rev. C. Avery Mason, Bishop of sociation, on the board of directors of the and Tactics in the recently established Dallas. He was ordained at the Cathe­ Lawrence YMCA, a member of Phoeni­ R.O.T.C. Transportation Corps unit at dral of St. John the Divine in New York cian lodge, and Mount Sinai royal arch that college. City and assumed his first pastorate in chapter. In 1942 he ran Camp Lawrence Staten Island. His next assignment was for the season. During the war years he Hazel Scully Henkle (Mrs. Robert T.) in the Bronx. Later he elected to travel served with the Coast Guard auxiliary of Pepperbox Hill, Waterford, Conn., throughout the country, lecturing mem­ flotilla at Newburyport. Mr. and Mrs. has been appointed a new member of the bers of the Episcopal Clergy. He married Hamblet have two children, Patricia C., Board of Trustees of New London Junior the former Eleanor Thompson of Brook­ a senior at Punchard, and W. Prentiss, a College for a five year term. Hazel finds lyn, N. Y., about 20 years ago and they pupil in the sixth grade at Stowe school.” time to be active in the League of Women have two children. The Burrills annually P.S. Did you get the job, Bill? Voters and the Women’s Committee of spend the month of August in Northport, Joseph and Madeliene Riley) Thomp­ the New London Civic orchestra. Maine. son are now living at 1311 River wood Major Alanson Leland (“Chesty” ) took Dr. Philip M. Marsh is a member of Drive, Nashville, Tenn. Joe is supervisor an active part in Annual Army Exercises the English Department at Miami Uni­ in Rayon manufacturing plant at the E. I. at Ft. Belvoir, Va. t his past spring. Al versity in Oxford, Ohio. He visited du Pont de Nemours at Old Hickory, is currently assigned as Chief of the friends in Orono this past summer. Tenn. Provost Marshal Department of the Mili­ Worth Noyes’ daughter, Janice Laura, The following item appeared in the tary Police School at Camp Gordon, Ga.

THE MAINE ALUMNUS 24 NOVEMBER-DECEMBER, 1950 He, with his wife, Yvonne, and three sons, Can it be that long ago ? ! His home ad­ The new supervising principal of the is living in Augusta, Ga. dress is 49 Lincoln St., Waltham. Nathan Hale-Ray School in Moodus, The Rev. Edwin W. Grilley, Jr., is pas­ I was particularly interested in the mar­ Conn., is Myron Collette. In 1949 he re­ tor of the St. Marks Church in Augusta, riage of Harold Davis and Alice Jackson ceived his M.A. degree in School Ad­ Maine, having moved there from Hart­ in July. Harold is also from my home ministration at Columbia. He has taught ford, Conn. town (Calais) and was always known at Mexico High, Skowhegan High, and The Jack Farnsworths have moved to us as “Happy.” He was the town Deerfield High at So. Deerfield, Mass. from 31 Beach St. to 67 Beach St., So. authority on anything historical. Harold And now after all these years we learn Portland. did graduate work at Columbia after that “ Porky” spent two years with the C. Everett Page has been appointed one graduating from Maine and is now an Army on combat duty in the Pacific, of a committee of five for Kiwanis Inter­ instructor at Bradford Junior College in where he received the Bronze Star for national for new club building in the Bradford, Mass, (near Haverhill). Mrs. action in the Philippines as well as five United States for 1951. Davis, formerly of Augusta and Portland, combat stars. He was placed on inactive Bea Titcomb has started her second is a graduate of Mt. Holyoke College and duty in 1945 with the rank of Lieutenant. year as public school techer in Morenci, has been employed by the Maine State This past summer he was at the Reserve Arizona, a Phelps-Dodge owned copper Department of Health and Welfare. Officers Training School at the Newport, mining town. During the summer she Don Corbett was one of three men on R. I., Naval Training Station in the spent a week with friends in Hollywood, a symposium held in conjuction with the capacity of an instructor. Calif., after which she returned to Arizo­ Annual Poultry School at the University Carl Worthley of Ft. Kent, assistant na where she wrote several short stories in late August. Aroostook County Agent for the Maine which she is now revising under the We have an address for Roger Hefler Extension Service, has been elected presi­ supervision of Hollywood’s Storycrafter so he isn’t “lost” anymore. I’d love to dent of the New England County Agricul­ Guild. Her address is Box 343, Morenci, know more about him and his activities. tural Agents Association for 1950-51. Arizona. His address is 9211 Crosby Rd., Silver Lionel Halle has moved from New Dr. and Mrs. Robert Lorimer have Spring, Md. , York to 19 North St., Lisbon Falls. He recently become parents for the fifth time. is with the Deering-Milliken Co. 1 9 3 5 Mrs. Thomas McGuire Robert and Muriel (McAllister ’47) The latest addition arrived September (Agnes Crowley) 17th and has been named Craig Jordan. Erskine have moved from Gardiner St. 209 W . 107th St., to 186 Main Ave., Farmingdale, Maine. The family now consists of three girls— New York, N. Y. aged 9, 7, and 4. And two boys— aged 2 Chester Bacheller was one of the speak­ Just a few items this time supplied by ers at the Annual Poultry School held at and the new baby. The “ Lorimer gang” the Alumni Office, so perhaps you’ll help moved into their newly purchased home the University in late August. He was make a banner holiday issue with a few also a member of the Program Committee. at 1 Ocean Rd., So. Portland, this sum­ contributions! mer. I rather think that Bob holds the Asher Sylvester left for Europe on class record thus far on number of off­ First, though, congratulations are in Armistice day. Further details will be spring. W ill anybody challenge that order to Charlotte (Lachance) and Dr. given next month. statement ? Gene McManamy. Charlotte and Gene have a son, born just a few weeks ago. 19 3 7 Miss Nancy C. Woods 1934 Mrs. Robert C. Russ I don’t know his name yet, but I’ll tell 342 W. Freemason St., (Maddy Bunker) you as soon as I do know. Charlotte and Norfolk, Va. 17 Westview Rd., Cape Elizabeth Gene are living at Cape Elizabeth, you NO N E W S. WHAT’S HAPPENED TO THE Gordon Richardson has become Super­ know, and they have two girls. But of intendent of Public W orks for the town course you know what the arrival of a CLASS OF 1937? S.O.S.—Please send news at once of of Nahant, Mass. He has been an en­ son means! Gene’s office is in Portland. yourself or of someone else in the class gineering employee for the city of Beverly Congratulations to Roland Gibbs, who that you may have news about. for many years and has been city en­ was married in August to Miss Sara gineer for that city for the past ten years. Louise Smith of Bangor. Roland is con­ 1 9 3 8 Mrs. Roland M. Wirths Gordon is married to the former Gertrude nected with the University of Maine E x ­ (Mary Deering) Black. They have two sons, Robert and tension Service and the new Mr. and Mrs. 1079 Ocean Ave., Portland David, and reside at 17 Odell Ave., are living in Bangor. Mrs. Gibbs was The engagement of Miss Eunice Grant, Beverly. graduated from Penn Hall in Chambers- R.N., of Boston (formerly of Old Town) burg, Pa., and Stephens College in Co­ Dr. Ira Flaschner is chief anesthetist at to Leland Page has been announced. Miss lumbia, Missouri. Our very best to you Waltham Hospital, Waltham, Mass. He Grant is a graduate of Old Town High both! recently spoke at a luncheon meeting of School and Melrose Hospital School of Fran Johnson has been appointed Chief the Waltham Rotary Club on the newer Nursing in ’39. She is at present head Psychiatric Worker in Raleigh, N. Caro­ trends in anesthesia. I last met Ira about nurse in the eye clinic, out-patient depart­ twelve years ago in Boston while I was lina, and has left Concord, N. H., where ment of the Massachusetts Eye and Ear she was chief psychiatric social worker in training and he was in medical school. Infirmary, Boston. Leland is with the at the New Hampshire Mental Hygiene U. S. Geological Survey, Water Re­ and Child Clinics. sources Division, of the Boston District Dick Stoddard is now secretary-treas­ as a hydraulic engineer. BANGOR BOX CO. urer of the St. Clair and Allan W hole­ Doug Wishart, his wife, and their sale Candy Co. in Rockland. Dick has two children—Barbara and Robert—were PAPER BOXES, FOLDING CARTONS two sons, Frederick—9, and William—not summer visitors on the campus. Doug COMMERCIAL PRINTING yet a year old. 75 So. Main St., Brewer, Me. is now personnel manager with the Balti­ H. F. Drummond, 1900 Clarence Gould was elected secretary more Housing Authority and a member Pres, and Treas. of the Old Town Rotary Club at its an­ of the faculty evening school at Johns nual meeting recently. Hopkins University. Their address is 1 9 3 6 Mrs. Edwin P. Webster 1622 Yokona Rd., Towson 4, Md. SERVING (Phyllis Hamilton) Dick Gerry was chairman of one of the MAINE STUDENTS 258 Norway Rd., Bangor seminars held during the Annual Poultry S in ce 1 8 0 2 15th Reunion, June 15-17, 1951 School at the U. of M. in late August. Bernice Yeomans is assistant in The In early September Dick traveled to P ark 's HARDWARE Ohio for a national meeting of Phi Mu & VARIETY Catalogue Department of the University Library and lives at 74 North Main Delta. He is on the national board of 31-37 MILL.ST., ORONO. ME. Street, Orono. officers. Ernest Brown of Wayne, Maine, was A l Owens is the father of a new boy, declared winner of the Republican nomi­ William Richard Owens. Al is an agri­ nation for representative to the Legisla­ cultural economist for Rhode Island State ture in recent elections. Experiment Station, Kingston, R. I. His O LD SOUTH Dr. and Mrs. Alton Prince and son, address is 30 Campus Ave., Kingston, David, were visiting in Brewer this R. I. Photo En graving Corp. summer. They are located near Dayton. Howie Goodwin is chairman of the Ohio, now—in Yellow Springs. Alton is W orld Service Committee of the Board 9 9 BEDFORD STR E E T at Wright Field in Dayton. of Directors of the Bangor Y.M .C.A. BOSTON, MASS - LIB 2042 Mary Perry, lucky stiff, took a trip Helen Wong has become Mrs. H. W. to Bermuda this past summer. Would Huang and lives at 59 Clement St., San TAKES PRIDE IN SERVING that I could have been along, Mary! Franciso, Calif. Georgia Taylor Thurlow Mary is a member of the faculty at Litch­ has a new home—her address is now The Maine Alumnus field High School in Connecticut. R.D. # 1 , South China, Maine.

THE MAINE ALUMNUS 25 NOVEMBER-DECEMBER, 1950 George E. Philbrook is a professor of arrived at the Merrill Bradfords, in Ban­ in History and Government at the U. of Chemistry at the University of Georgia. gor. M. in June. He and his wife and son, John Neal, are Congratulations!!! Cecil E. Howes was active in the work living at 250 Prince St., Athens, Ga. The engagement of Frances Creem to of putting on the Annual Poultry School Arnold Veague was elected a corpora­ Erwin Cooper has been announced. Miss in August. He was a member of the tor of the Bangor Savings Bank last Creem studied at Mt. Ida College and Banquet Committee and served as chair­ May. He had also been busy in other graduated from Rollins College in Win­ man of one of the Seminars. fields. In July he won handicap honors at ter Park, Fla. Margaret (Philbrook) Marston writes the Maine State Trap Shooting Cham­ Merrill Thomas ’40 and family are our that she lives at 110 Garden St., Garden pionships held at Winslow. He posted a new neighbors. They moved into a new City, N. Y. She has three daughters, score of 94 out of 100. Last year he also home on Fairview Ave. I haven’t learned Barbara Ann (5 yrs.), Mary Lee (2 won with a score of 98 out of 100. He their house number yet! yrs.), and Beverly Jean (11 mos.). was presented a silver plate for the In August Melvin Leighton was named Margaret’s husband has his own electri­ trophy. Arnold is an attorney attached principal of Brewer High School. He cal engineering business in Westbury, to the office of Peabody and Eaton in had formerly been a teacher in several L. I., N. Y. Bangor. His address is 83 Sanford St., Maine communities although for the past Robert B. Goodwin received his B.D. Bangor. 14 years he had been at Brewer High as degree from Drew University, Madison, Murdock Walker is with the Traffic a member of the faculty. N. J., in 1945. He won a graduate fellow­ Department of the Oxford Paper Co. ship at that school, the Stephen Green 19 40 Mrs. Edward R. Ladd The Walkers live on Read St. in Port­ Fellowship, in Greek New Testament in (Peggy Hauck) land and have two children, a boy and a 1946. He also taught a course in New 108 Talbot Ave., Rockland girl. Testament Greek at Drew in 1949-50. Richard and Dorrice (Dow) Fuller Frederick M. Boutilier will teach in 1 9 3 9 Mrs. Donald Huff greeted a husky daughter, Meredith Jane, the Vocational Agriculture department of (Ethelyn Parkman) on Sept. 3, 1950. The Fullers also have Houlton High School this year. He has 8 Penley St., Augusta two sons—Drew (4 yrs.) and Don (2 been teaching at Hartland Academy. Several months ago I received notes yrs.). They live on Spurwink Ave., Cape Samuel J. Wright, a herdsman at New from Phoebe Dunbar Thompson and Elizabeth. Jersey State Research Dairy Farm, lives Lucille Fogg Baldwin. It was a red letter Anthony J. Rogers was married this at R.F.D. # 3, Sussex, N. J. day as mail from ’39ers tends to be summer to Miss Agnes Manganelli of Ralph M. Higgins is a representative very scarce! Syracuse, N. Y. Mrs. Rogers attended for the college division of the American The Thompsons now have three sons— schools in Italy and was graduated from Book Co. His territory includes Pennsyl­ Teddy (8 yrs.), Peter (51/2 yrs.), and St. Vincent Convent. Mr. Rogers is as­ vania, Maryland, Delaware, and Wash­ Ricky (1 yr.). Their address is 87 sociated with an accounting firm. ington, D. C. He is married and lives at Whipple Rd., Kittery. Norm is em­ Norman and Barbara Fay visited us 33-28 81 St., Jackson Hgts., L. I., N. Y. ployed at the Navy Yard. one afternoon not long ago. Norm is a Calista (Buzzell) Coggeshall (Mrs. The Baldwins have three sons—Robert partner in Nichols and Co., commodity Reginald) lives at 58 Hawthorne Ave., (61/2 yrs.), Richard (3 1/2 yrs.), and brokerage business. The Fays have two Needham 92, Mass. Douglas (15 mos.). They live at 3 High daughters—Janet (31/2 yrs) and Robin Beatrice (Besse) and Frank Hanson St., Essex, Conn. Lucille’s husband is a (10 months). Their home is at 129 are both studying at Yale. 1960 Yale dentist and has his office in Essex. Manning St., Needham Hgts. 94, Mass. Station is their mailing address. Thanks to Lucille and Phoebe. Sorry Priscilla Young is now Mrs. Tallman W oodrow Mercier, principal of Thomas- to be so long in passing the word .along. and lives at 27 Faunce Rd., Mattapan 26, ton High School for the past two years, Bill Hilton and family (Mary Carlisle Mass. has resigned to accept a position with an ’42) have moved from New Jersey to Dr. Edwin M. Lord of Skowhegan was insurance company. He received a Mas­ 20130 Naumann Ave., Cleveland 23, Ohio. recently elected vice president of the ter of Education degree from Boston Uni­ Leon Konecki is now located in Taco­ Somerset County Medical Association. versity after leaving the U. of M. Before ma, Washington—6717 Alfaretta Ave. The very latest news about Edwin is that going to Thomaston, he taught in Med­ Richard Crocker, Jr., received his he and Margaret Page of Skowhegan way, East Millinocket, and Dexter. Master of Education degree from the were married on September 29th. Mrs. Richard S. Hopkins and Miss Charlotte U. of M. last June. Lord is a sister-in-law of John Sealey, Hickson were married in June at Verona, Merrill Bradford was recently elected Jr., Executive Secretary of the General Maine. Mrs. Hopkins graduated from a corporator of the Bangor Savings Bank. Alumni Association. John Bapst High School and attended Leon Sprague was named Boys Guid­ Richard Mayo is the instructor in the St. Joseph’s College and the Mercy ance Counselor at the Gloucester, Mass., new ' department of General Agriculture Hospital School of Nursing. She has High School this fall. After Maine, at Limington. Previously he taught for been employed by the New England Tel. Leon studied at U. of New Hampshire four years in Bangor High School. and Tel. Co. Dick is an instructor in and Harvard. He was in the Army with William F. West, Jr., is teaching in mechanical engineering at the University the Classification Service for six years, Sudbury, Mass., elementary school. Last of Maine. R.F.D. #1, Bucksport, is the and has been Guidance Counselor at year he was supervisor of cadet teaching Hopkins’ address. Orono High School for the past two in the Aroostook State Normal School. years. Prior to this position he was principal 1 9 4 2 Mrs. J°se Cuetara Emily Dean Daggett’s new address is of the elementary school in Friendship, (Barbara Savage) 410 S. 2nd Ave., Libertyville, Illinois. Maine. The Wests have three children. 76 Prospect St., Dearnley Croteau has been elected Mrs. Charles D. Ellsworth (Jane Wellesley Hills 5, Mass. auditor of the First National Bank in Dyer) has moved from 3520 N. Ashland Greetings, and here we go for this Medford, Mass. He resides at 2498 Ave., Chicago, Ill., to 1513 Northland month! In July, Miss Irene Cyr, of Ban­ Mystice Valley Parkway, Medford, Mass. Ave., Highland Park, Ill. gor, became the bride of Dr. John Burke Art Weatherbee was in Europe during Mrs. T. Edward Karlsson (Alvalene in a lovely ceremony at St. John’s Catho­ the summer on a business tour. Art is Pierson) has moved from 329 E. 75th St., lic Church in Bangor. The Burkes are with the Department of State in the N. Y., to 443 E. 78th St., New York 21, now living in Youngstown, Ohio, where Personnel Section. His trip was made N. Y. John is affiliated with St. Elizabeth's to survey conditions under which civilian Capt. and Mrs. Charles L. Weaver Hospital as a resident doctor. W e wish agencies are living and to evaluate foreign (Alice Pierce ’39) have a new busi­ the very best happiness to the newlyweds. living costs. Purpose of the findings will ness address—Western Chemical Center, Jane King Demant and James J. be to enable the government to administer Tooele, Utah. Their permanent address Pattee, M.D., have announced their mar­ employee benefits. Two years ago Art is 103 State St., Presque Isle, Maine. riage on Tuesday, the 8th of August, in made a similar trip through Central and Las Vegas, Nevada. Their home address South America. Polly and the three 1941 Mrs. Vale Marvin is 806-D Reeves Place, Pomona, Calif. Weatherbee children spent the summer in (Hilda Rowe) And to the Pattees go our congratulations Bangor. Kennebec Rd., and best wishes, to o ! Sybil Kent Green resides at 88 Morn- Hampden Highlands Beverly Spencer was elected second Tenth Reunion, June 15-17, 1951 ingside Dr., New York City. She is vice president of the Old Town Rotary Greetings, everyone. Once again we librarian for the New York Telephone Co. Club at its annual meeting this fall. are indebted to the Alumni Office for all Gloria Miniutti is back at Maine again Paul Browne has been appointed man­ our news. Please won’t you write me this year continuing her pre-medical ager of the Maine Breeding Cooperative. just a penny post card? studies. Good going, Glo’, and-we wish On June 3rd the Granville MacMillans Donald Devoe has moved from Roches­ you lots of good luck. of 6th St., Old Town, became the parents ter, N. Y., to 700 W. Oregon St., The annual tournament for the Na­ of a son—their second son. Urbana, Illinois. tional blind golf title was played in And on August 15th John Additon Everett L. Meader received his M.A. Maine at the Augusta Country Club this

THE MAINE ALUMNUS 26 n o v e m b e r -d e c e m b e r ; 1950 year, and was brought to Maine at the Ernest Chadbourne is a Federal Officer vanced degrees from the U. of Maine last invitation of Bill Gilman, who won the at the USA General Disp. Pun 2 D 201, June. Elizabeth Clough LaBranche (now runner-up place in the tournament. I’m Pentagon (I hope I have been accurate Mrs. J. Palmer Merrill and living in El sure all of us would like to have been in the abbreviation), and his home ad­ Paso, Texas) received her M .A. in Edu­ there cheering Bill on, but can only ex­ dress is Apt. 102, 428 Donmanton Blvd., cation. George E. Maxim an M.S. in tend belated congratulations which we Alexandria, Va. Physics. Elizabeth Berglund an M.A. in do post haste right now. Congratulations, Joe Mullen has been in the Navy for English. And in August Hamilton S. Bill! some time, and now we have the data Giberson received his Master of Educa­ Mrs. Bertha Carter has been recently about him. Joseph N. Mullen, Q3, USN, tion degree. Congratulations to you all! elected superintendent of Union No. 34, ON Division, USS Boxer (CU21) c/o George Bearce, who taught and did for the seventh successive term. She is FPO San Francisco, Calif. graduate work at the University of W is­ one of two women serving as superin­ Orson Fostor is a Mechanical engineer consin last year, is doing research work tendent in Maine. in power plant construction with General in England this year, particularly in G. Thomas Bowden is the new principal Electric Co., in Schenectady, N. Y. His London, after which he will return to the at the Salisbury, Conn., school. Mr. residence address is Ballston Lake, N. Y. U. of Wisconsin. He is studying for his Bowden was formerly with the Dr. Mary Royal Harbough (Mrs. Wm.) is Ph.D. in History and is particularly Helen Baldwin consolidated school in Superintendent of the Children’s Home interested in European and British His­ Canterbury, Conn. He is also currently in Baltimore, Md., and can be reached tory. a candidate for his M.A. at the Uni­ at that address. No column is complete without a wed­ versity of Maine. Sumner Morris is an engineer and gives ding. This month there are two. On At the May Commencement exercises as his address 49B Oakwood Manor, Sept. 3, 1950, Ruth E. Eastman of Boston of The George Washington University, Woodbury, N. J. was married to Richard S. Lee of Harold I. Kaplan received the degree of Harry Kinne, Jr., is Superintendent of Augusta. They are making their home at Master of Law. the Manistique Pulp and Paper Co., in Merrilee Farm, Rt. 5, Augusta. On August 27, 1950, Evelyn M. Grenci George Waterman is an engineer with Manistique, Michigan, and lives at 441 was married to Lawrence A. Wing General Electric Co. in Schenectady, Arbutus Ave., in Manistique. Arlene and Louie Boyle are now living (originally ’45 graduated ’48). They are N. Y., and lives at Slater Drive, R.D. # 7 , in Boston at 244 Beacon St. living at 2 3 1/2Spencer St., Orono. Larry Scotia, N. Y. The Watermans have a is an instructor in Geology at the Uni­ son one year old. Jordan Dobrow has moved to 5 Bats ford Rd., Newton, Mass. versity. Our very best wishes to the Lees John Gorman is with Dunn and M c­ And so, we wind up for this month and the Wings. Carthy, Inc., of Auburn, N. Y., as a shoe hoping with gravest hopes that by the Last July Winston B. Ireland was ap­ salesman, and is at present covering time we go to press again, this crisis of pointed and assumed his new duties as several of the midwestern states in his world danger may have passed and that appraiser for the Federal Land Bank of territory. The Gormans’ residence ad­ we may face peaceful days again. Springfield, Mass. His territory is Cen­ dress is 6208 Harriet Ave., So., Min­ tral and Southern Maine. Until then he neapolis, Minn. He is in a business that is 1 9 4 3 Mrs. Robert C. Lycette was employed as secretary-treasurer of close to the hearts of the Cuetaras, and (Freda Flanders) the Ft. Fairfield Production Credit As­ we personally, as well as the class, wish 20 Park Ave., Massena, N. Y. sociation and the Ft. Fairfield National him good luck. Hello again. There’s a lot of news this Farm Loan Association coordinated office. month. So here goes! Winston and his family are now making James Girdwood has recently joined their home in Winthrop, Maine. E dward E. C h a s e , President the advertising sales staff of Electronics, The latest news of John Holter is that serving the New York territory. Business he is a special agent with the Hartford MAINE SECURITIES COMPANY and mailing address is Electronics, 330 Accident and Indemnity Co., Cincinnati, W . 42nd St., New York 18, N. Y. Home 465 Congress Street Ohio. He lives at 7269 Brookcrest Dr., address is 511 Ardmore Rd., Ho-Ho-Kus, Cincinnati. Portland, Me. N. J. Tom and Janet (Bartlett) Easton are Parker Trefethen is doing research now living at 365 Admiral St., Provi­ work in the Fish and Wildlife Service, dence, R. I. Department of Interior, Boothbay Har­ Mr. and Mrs. Frank L. Emerson bor, Maine. (Emma L. Davis) are living in Las Maurice E. Avery is farming—location Cruces, New Mexico, where Frank is an GOOD is Langdon Rd., R.F.D. #1, Richmond, engineer. Mail goes to Box 752, Las Maine. Cruces. and Wesley D. Anderson is an Assistant William N. Ellis writes that he is Project Engineer with Wright Aero­ studying and teaching at the University nautical Corp., in Woodridge, N. J. He of British Columbia. He is married to GOOD lives on McClelland Ave., Wayne, N. J. the former Margaret McMahon and they Edward F. Etzel is a good man to have a daughter born Sept. 7, 1950. Their for you. know if you are building a house. He is a address is 5502 Crescent Circle, Univer­ retail lumber and buildings materials sity Hill, Vancouver, British Columbia. dealer with the “K” Lumber Co., 159 Edward M. Robinson, formerly with the Washington Ave., North Haven, Conn., United States Court of Appeals for the it’s HOOD’S and lives practically next door at 157 First Circuit, Boston, recently opened a Washington Ave. law office in Madison, Maine. Ed attended Lt. Clifford (“Bruz” ) West, USMRC, Northeastern University Law School in formerly of Chapel St., So. Portland, and Boston and was admitted to the Bar in ICE CREAM his wife Pat (Ramsdell) have managed April, 1949. to make a new home near the station to And our lawyer-to-be is Gerald L. which he has been assigned since recall Keenan, who is attending Georgetown to active duty in the Marines. He is sta­ University Law School in Washington, tioned at Cherry Point, N. C., and they D. C. were lucky enough to find a home at The Extension Service of the Universi­ 2800 Evans St., Morehead City, N. C., ty of Vermont has announced the appoint­ where they’d be pleased to receive mail ment of June Williams as clothing special­ from friends. ist. June received her master’s degree From Bion E. Reynolds comes word from Columbia Teachers’ College after that he is doing general contracting, an leaving the University of Maine. estimator to be exact, for the H. P. Madolin C. Rogers is now Mrs. Gar­ BANGOR HOUSE Cummings Construction Co., 14 Prospect field G. R o ss. The Ross’ address is 25 BANGOR, MAINE St., Ware, Mass. He lives at 27 High­ Sunnyside St. Ext., Houlton, Maine. Pleasant Rooms from $2.00. land St., in that town. Here’s a change of address to bring Excellent Meals, friendly service. your little black book up-to-date: Ernest Conveniently located. Louis Lorusso calls 15 Park St., East Walpole, Mass., home. His business ad­ J. Hine has recently moved from South Frank F. Allen, Mgr. dress is Hillshire Homes, Inc., Walpole Gate, Calif, to 144 Lincoln St., El Cajon, St., Norwood, Mass. Calif. Oscar M. Wilbur, Jr., is now living at Another member of our class is seeing 809 N. Washington St., Baltimore 5, Md. those faraway places with strange sound­ Our class broke out in a rash of ad- ing names that the rest of us only sing

THE MAINE ALUMNUS 27 NOVEMBER-DECEMBER, 1950 about. Frank Clifford is resident con­ with headquarters at Lord Hall on the is the fiancee of Robert L. Hermanson, struction engineer in Caracas, Venezula. campus. He and Dottie are living at 53 a graduate of Boston University and a His address is : International General Court St., Bangor. cost accountant in New York City. Jen­ Electric S.A., Inc., Aparlado 1666, Cara­ Another attractive wedding was that of nie is employed as a mathematician by the cas, Venezuela. Martha Van Dyk and John Savage. Mar­ Equitable Life Assurance Society and is Richard W. Karl and family are now tha is on the nursing staff at the Eastern living at 500 West 122 St., Apt. ID, New living in North Vassalboro (Box 96, Maine General Hospital in Bangor. John York 27, N. Y. R.F.D. #1). Dick is associated with the is employed by the Hathorne Mfg. Co. in Miss Jackalyn Spencer is happy about Pineland Oil Co. of Waterville. Brewer. They are at home to friends at the arrival of baby sister, Wendy Anne, Wish I could share with you a news­ 339 N. Main St., Brewer. on July 15. The young ladies and parents, paper picture showing Mr. and Mrs. Rich­ No column would be complete without Frank and Doris (Emery) Spencer, live ard Sinkinson (of East Providence, R .L ) one birth announcement—congrats to at 83 Circle Drive, Bantam, Conn. with their small son, Mike, and Mikes County Agent and Mrs. Robert Grover, Another ’45’er who received a degree friend, Michael Roy of Norway, which I the proud parents of Marilyn Ann, born in June is Milton Cameron. Milton now have before me. Seems the Sinkinsons June 23rd at the Stewart Private Hos­ has an M.S. in Civil Engineering from spent several weeks at the family cottage pital in Skowhegan. Maine. Aren’t we a well-educated class? at Clearwater Lake, Farmington, where Wedding bells are scheduled to ring The new address for the Dana Whitman, the photographer found them enjoying a for Gerald Tabenken and Miss Margit Jr.’s, is West Maple Road, Birmingham, lounge by the lake. The sight of the lake Weiss of Forest Hills, N. Y., on Nov­ Michigan. Dana is very busy in his new is guaranteed to make all Maine expatri­ ember 12th at the Piazza Hotel, New job as assistant city manager. ates homesick! York. Miss Weiss was graduated from Sherwin and Pauline (Spear ’46) Ick and Dottie (Ouellette) Crane and New York University. Jerry is as­ Bardsley have moved from Worcester to daughter, Nancy, of Wilmington, Dela­ sociated with the H. Tabenken Co., Inc., 7 May St., Spencer, Mass. The man of ware, also spent their vacation in Maine. in Bangor. the family is now in the insurance busi­ Two weeks with Ick’s parents in Orono. Edna Drinkwater received her Master ness. Any buyers? “Bucket” Taverner’s fine work with the of Education degree from the University Thelma Folsom’s mother sent along National Foundation for Infantile Paraly­ of Maine in August. word that Thelma graduated from Faith sis has been recognized in a very sub­ A number of changes of address have Theological Seminary in Wilmington, stantial way. From his post as director come to me this month: Delaware, and was doing summer work of NFIP for Maine, New Hampshire, and Mr. and Mrs. Jack Hopkins (Esther in Bar Harbor. Her home, and permanent Vermont since 1945, he has been promoted Holden) are now at 3824 Mitchell A ve., address, is Cambridge, Maine. to assistant Fund Campaign Director for Bakersfield, Calif. For those who have been wondering the National Organization with head­ Martha and Bill Irvine are living at whatever happened to them, here is news quarters in New York. During his as­ . 844 East Tower Rd., Ithaca, N. Y., of a few more old classmates. signment in New England he had two while Bill is, working toward his Ph.D. in Dorothy Pillsbury was married to polio epidemics to contend with, one in Administration in Rural Education. Frank Brewster (’42), and they now New Hampshire two years ago and one Ed. Phillips’ mail goes to 31 May­ have a son, born in January, 1950. Dot- in Maine last year. I guess this gives us flower Circle, Worcester, Mass. tie’s address is 20 Tower Drive, Pittsfield, all one more reason to support the March Arietta Thorpe’s new address is 1580 Mass. of Dimes next January with the “Mayor” Beacon St., Brookline, Mass. Geraldine (Keenan) Oakes and hus­ behind pushing. The William Bickfords’ (Saralyn band Roger are living in Mars Hill, Lt. and Mrs. Oliver Harrison (Betty Phillips) present address is 254 Beal Rd., Maine. Gerry spent most of the summer Bearce) are now living at TotontO’ Ave. Waltham, Mass. recuperating from a serious operation and and Hicksville Rd. (Box 254), Massa- Louisa Cox is located at 7216 S.E. 35 illness. I’m sure she’d appreciate hearing pequa, L. I., N. Y. Oliver is Lt. (jg) in Ave., Portland, Oregon. from some old friends. the Coast Guard. Clifford Keirstead is an agricultural Albert Barmby has recently moved to Elinor (Langdon) Kulichkoff (Mrs. economist in the Research Division, Fats 312 (Ocean Ave., Lakewood, N. J.; and Victor) temporarily forsook San Fran­ and Oils Branch, P.M.A., U. S. Depart­ George Shepard is at 279 Ocean Ave. in cisco for the East this past summer. ment of Agriculture, Washington 25, Marblehead, Mass. Not the same Ocean While in the East she helped out in the D. C. Cliff’s mail goes to Canary Cot­ Ave., we assume! summer camp of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Bear tage, Berwyn, Md. William Hill can now be reached at (Barbara Cole) in Middle Haddam, Says a newspaper clipping, “It isn’t 35 Joyce Kilmer Road, West Roxbury, Conn. (That is a children’s .camp.) often that we find a college graduate who Mass., though he gives no hint as to his Ellie’s San Francisco address is 1655 wants to operate a filling station,” but present activities. The men of this class Rivera St. Earl A. White abandoned a career as a seem to be the silent type, who hate to Everett M. Hoffman, who now writes city and town manager to work in a write letters. DM D after his name, sends along the in­ business of his own. White is the owner- Way out west, George and Priscilla formation that he is living at 270 Har­ operator of White’s Texaco Station, (Shaw) VanHorn are living at 110 South vard St., Suite 6, Cambridge, Mass. His Forest Ave. and Dartmouth Sts., in Hancock St., Madison 3, Wisconsin. The business address is 466 Broadway, Chelsea Portland. locale is highly recommended to any 50, Mass. Let’s hear from all of you soon. travelers. A nice letter from Margaret Moscone 1 9 4 5 Mrs. Robert Pancoast Two more of our men members are brought the information that she has (Babs Haines) forsaken Boston to accept a job with the Parkway, Apt. 25-B, Distributors of Building Veteran’s Administration as head dieti­ Haddonfield, N. J. Materials tian at Togus and is very happy to be a Mainiac again. Mail goes to Box 365, Grace Rogge rated the number one spot ACME SUPPLY CO. Togus, Maine. this month by becoming Mrs. Louis C. Summer & South St. Perez on August 12 in Upper Montclair, B angor, M e. That’s all for this time. See you next N. J. The couple were married by month. T M Hersey ’34. Manager Grace’s grandfather, a pastor emeritus, Philip Johnson ’43. Sales Engr 1 9 4 4 Mrs. Charles Cook and are now living in Ann Arbor, Mich. (Margaret McCurdy) Louis was graduated from Brooklyn Col­ 48 Penobscot St., Bangor lege and is now attending the Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies of “ No news is good news” sure doesn’t the University of Michigan. hold true here, so how about dropping a note to 48 Penobscot St., right away. Our new class president, Donald Cross­ Kenmore Hotel Since the Cooks are taking a couple of land, was married on September 9 to Miss weeks off—thanks goes to the Alumni Caroline B. Stafford of Rochester, N. Y. Boston, Mass. Office for the majority of the news this They are living in Denver, Colorado, month. where Don is associated with the Title Headquarters for A little late for last month’s issue was Guaranty Co., 1711 California, Denver, the Salo-Chapman wedding which took Colo. UNIVERSITY OF MAINE place at the Congregational Church in Back in June the engagement was an­ Augusta on September 2nd. Dottie has nounced of Miss Rita Babin of Fort ATHLETIC TEAMS been teaching speech and dramatics at Kent to Lawrence McGary. Miss Babin Rockland High School and Charles has is a graduate of Revier College in Nashua, AND been an instructor in Civil Engineering N. H .; and both she and Larry teach at at the University but is now connected Fort Kent High School. ALUMNI with the State Highway Department Also engaged is Jennie Manson. She

T H E MAINE ALUMNUS 28 NOVEMBER-DECEMBER, 1950 progressing in life. Myron Rust is now Smith, Doris (Stickney) Anderson, and Jacqueline Brown is now at the Mercy a full-fledged attorney-at-law in York Rusty Chute received their Master of Hospital in Portland. She was a dietitian Village, Maine; and William Bicknell Arts degrees ;however, such a worthy at the University of Maine last year. In was elected a director of the Rockland feat deserves repetition. These deserving Portland she is head therapeutic dietitian. Junior Chamber of Commerce recently. M .A.’s are also joined by Elda Gallison She is living at 87 Winter St., Portland. Nice going, fellows. who received her M.A. in History from Mr. and Mrs. Alpheus Sanford are now the U. of Maine in June and Lewis E. at 63 Court St., Houlton. Al is Director 1946 Mrs. Dave Gamber Webber received his M.A. in Education (Terry Dumais) of Guidance at Houlton High and Muriel at the U. of Maine in August. 108 Park St., Ridley Park, Pa. is a librarian. I have already written much about Hilda Haskell of Dexter has been Fifth Reunion, June 15-17, 1951 Rev. Malcolm H. Miner in this column named Aroostook County Home Demon­ I almost feel like the author of a and this past June Rev. Miner was again stration Agent. Prior to this appoint­ “ Serial” this month; last issue I was honored—by elevation to Priesthood of ment she taught two years at Edward telling you of the engagement of Elizabeth the Episcopal Church. In the first Ordi­ Little High School in Auburn and one Sewall, now I have details of the Sewall- nation Service to be held at Christ Church year at Boothbay Harbor. Gary nuptials. Rev. and Mrs. Gary were in South Barre, Mass., Rev. Miner was In August, Jeanette Nadeau’s engage­ married at the St. James Episcopal raised to the priesthood by the Rt. Rev. ment to Edward Miccinati of Ithaca, Church in Old Town by the Right Rev. W. Appleton Lawrence, Bishop of the N. Y., was announced. She received her Jonathan Goodhue Sherman, suffragan Episcopal Diocese of Western Massa­ master’s degree from Cornell and is now bishop of Long Island, N. Y. Mrs. Gary chusetts. directing a one-act play laboratory at has been active as secretary of college Rev. Miner attended American Inter­ Emmetsburg High, Emmetsburg, Iowa. work for the Episcopal diocese of Maine. national College and the University of Her address is 1605 7th St., Emmetsburg, Since Sept. 1st the Garys have been at Maine where he received his B.A. in Iowa. home at 29 Slate Lane, Levittown, Long Psychology; he studied theology at the I ran across a couple of our classmates Island, N. Y., where the Rev. Gary is Bangor Theological Seminary and the in Lewiston recently—Valerie Warren rector of St. Francis Episcopal Church. Berkeley Divinity School. After serving and Inez (McKinnon) Rogers. Val is Also have news of the wedding of as a physical instructor in the U. S. working at the T. J. Murphy Fur Co. and Helen I. Boulter to William L. Mac­ Navy he was ordained in the Methodist Inez is at the record department in the Donald. “BoBo” was attended by Mrs. Ministry serving Churches in Mattawam- B. Peck Co. store in Lewiston. Sherwin Bardsley (Polly Spear). At the keag, Penobscot, Orrington, and How­ Ruth Boerker’s address is 1030 Oak­ Reception Mrs. Everett Spear, II, (Hazel land, Maine. After his ordination to the land St., Ann Arbor, Michigan. She is Nutt) had charge of the gifts. Since priesthood Rev. Miner will continue to studying for an M.A. in Music Literature September 1st the MacDonalds have been serve the churches in South Barre and at the Rockham School of Graduate at home in Washington, D. C., where North Brookfield. His wife is the former Studies at the U. of Mich. William is a senior at Benjamin Franklin Joan Eddy of Bangor; they have two Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence O’Leary (Mar­ University. daughters, Linda and Donna. garet Asker) have a new addition to Now to bring you up-to-date on some Incidentally, this news comes straight their family— a boy, James, born last recent changes of address: Ruth B. from the files of the Alumni Office; it spring. They also have two daughters, Fickett is now Mrs. Warren Paine and would be much more meaningful to hear Peggy and Patty. is living at 20 Thomas Street, Portland, personally from you ’46ers. Joyce Marsh Alenskis wrote me a long Maine. Charlene Lowe is now Mrs. W il­ In late July Al and Marge Savignano letter a few days ago. Her address is 43 liam Burleigh and is living at 5350 Verona announced the birth of a daughter, Nancy. West 74th, Apt. 1B, New York 23, N. Y. Street, Apt. #3, Los Angeles, California. Al, who started with us in 1942, is now She is working at Polyclinic Hospital in Rosanna Niles Chute, Osterville, Mass. on the coaching staff of the Auburn, the Gastro-Enterology Clinic as labora­ Rusty is now a Research Technician at Maine, schools. tory technician. Joyce said that Ella New England Deaconess Hospital, Bos­ Mr. and Mrs. Herbert W. Thompson Sawyer Evans is also in New York, but ton; Rusty received her Master of Arts have announced the marriage of their she doesn’t have her address. I don’t have degree from Syracuse University this daughter, Jean Mary, to Mr. Jewett F. it either, so could someone send it along year. Neiley, Jr., on the 29th of July in Bidde- to her? Mr. and Mrs. Roland Porter (Carol ford. Hope to see and hear from more of you Griffee) are living at Norman Homes, 45 Not many weeks after we settled here soon. in Ridley Park we had a visit from Bar­ Alcott Drive, E. Hartford, Conn. Nor­ Mrs. Willard Moulton bara (Morse) and Wilfred Bridges. W il­ 19 4 8 man Albert Powell is now teaching Com­ (Pauline True) mercial subjects at Wiscasset High fred is also employed at Scott Paper Co. and was graduated from Maine. Barbara Standish School and he is living in Wiscasset. Several 1948’ers were awarded Master’s Ralph A. Stevens, III, is working as started school with us 1942. They have an adorable son—just as blonde as Bar­ Degrees this last June, the University Assistant Highway Engineer for the of Maine giving out a large share of bara but otherwise the picture of his Maine State Highway Commission. them. Among those receiving degrees in Ralph, who hails originally from 124 proud father! It was good to hear a genuine Maine accent! Orono were: Leslie Bolstridge, M.S. in Highland Ave., Fitchburg, Mass., is liv­ Dairy Industry; Calvin Friar, M.S. in ing at 35 Water Street, Ellsworth, Maine. 1 9 4 7 Mrs. Paul Dowe Civil Engineering; Frank Haseltine, M.S. Have already mentioned that Mary (peg Googins) in Wildlife Conservation; Willard Moul­ Turner, Maine ton, M.A. in Business Administration; Clayton M. Packard received his Mas­ Hugh Murphy, M.S. in Agronomy; D A K I N ’S ter of Education degree from Maine in Philip Stackpole, M.S. in Geology; Rob­ Sporting Goods June. ert H. Wells, M.S. in Chemistry; Stephen Also in June Harold R. Alley received Knight, M.S. in Civil Engineering. Camera :supplies his M.A. in History and Government and The State University of Iowa in Iowa Shep Hurd ’17 M. A. Hurd ’26 Walter R. Welch his M.S. in Wildlife City ran Maine a close second in award­ Bangor Conservation. ing degrees to ’48ers. Robert Phelps re­ Waterville In August John H. Johnstone and Les­ ceived his M.A. in Psychology, Don An­ lie H. Whittmore received M .A. degrees derson his M.A. in Romance Languages, in Education. and Frank W ood his M .A. in Romance Our congratulations to all these! Languages. Mrs. Robert MacDonald (Madeline James Colbath was awarded an M.A. Ellingwood) and her husband now live degree in Dramatic -Arts at Western at 33 Oak St., Boston 16, Mass. Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. A. Stephen Chase are Mary Ann Hillson received an M.S. de­ of Boston, Massachusetts living in Medford, Mass.—Apt. E-l, gree in Sociology from Simmons School Stearns Village Tufts College. We know of Social Work. Mary Ann is now lo­ Life Insurance, Annuities Mrs. Chase as Winona Edminster. Her cated in Portland at the Child Guidance husband is attending Tufts Dental School. Clinic of the Division of Mental Health Group Insurance, Pensions In August, Josephine Maori’s engage­ as a psychiatric social worker. ment to Howard Lambert was announced. There are more marriages to be added D w ig h t S ayw ard The wedding was to take place in August, to the list. John Bibber and Betty Lou so this item is no doubt behind the times. McFadden of Auburn were married Sep­ General Agent for State of Maine Would appreciate up-to-date information. tember 2 and are living in Isleboro, 415 Congress Street, Portland “Jo” has been employed as Chief Welfare Maine, where John is town manager. Worker at the State Department of Betty Lou was graduated from Edward Health and Welfare. Little High School and from Burdett

THE MAINE ALUMNUS 29 NOVEMBER-DECEMBER, 1950 College in Boston. Merle Grindle and the faculty of the Northern Conservatory Gerald Mayberry was married to Betty Merrill of Andover, Maine, were of Music in Bangor, teaching piano. Jeanne McKenney of Old Town. married in July. Betty attended West­ Laureat Bernard is at Memorial High Sydney Whittier and Joseph Klenk brook Junior College and Farmington School in Middleboro, Mass., teaching were married in August—Joe is working State Teachers’ College. They’re living in problems of democracy and American for the Salada Tea Company. Ellsworth where Merle is a representa­ history. He is studying for his doctorate Barbara Davidson married Richard tive for the Mutual Benefit Life Insur­ in Boston. A daughter, Phyllis, has been Spencer ’50 who received his degree and ance Company. added to the family. The Bernards’ ad­ his commission as Second Lieutenant in Helen Wallingford and Fred Mawhin- dress is Apt. 19, Archer Court, Middle­ August. Barb expects to accompany ney of Machias were married in August. boro, Mass. Robert Nye is principal at Dick on foreign service duty. Fred is a graduate of Bowdoin College one of the elementary schools in West- Theron Carter married Dorothy Adsit and is now associated with the Mawhinney wood, Mass., meanwhile working toward of Rochester, N. Y.—Dorothy is a gradu­ Motor Company in Machias where he his Master’s degree at Boston University. ate of the Geneseo State Teachers college. and Helen are living. Robert W . Smith Bob attended University of Maine sum­ John Folsom was best man at the wed­ and Beverly Currier ’50 were also mar­ mer school this last summer. ding. ried in August. He’s working for Ebasco Jo Anne Chellis and A. Holman Wilson Carroll McGary married Ruth Webber Company in New York City. Their ad­ were married August 19. They are living of Augusta. Both Carroll and his wife dress is 92 South Fullerton Avenue, at Casco Terrace, Falmouth Foreside, will teach at Boothbay Harbor this year. Montclair, N. J. Maine. He is employed by Cole, Ayer, Their address is 42 School Street. Connie Thomes and Alan Bray of and Trumbull of Ohio. Jo has been work­ Marie Perry and Wallace Woodcock Methuen, Mass., were married in Sep­ ing for Union Mutual Life Insurance were married in July. tember. Alan was graduated from Boston Company of Portland. Lorraine Littlefield and Lew Wyman University School of Business Adminis­ Wayne Stacy and Elizabeth Speed of were married in August. Lew is em­ tration in June and is now working for Waldoboro, Maine, were married August ployed as associate county agent in West Craftsman Insurance Company in Boston. 26th. Stace is going to teach at W aldo­ Springfield, Mass. He and Connie are living at 3 Russ boro High School again this fall. They And now to move from marriages to Street, Methuen, Mass. will be living in Waldoboro. engagements. Caroline Rancourt is en­ Engagements of the summer include: One September wedding was that of gaged to Franklin Groves ’50. Caroline Roger Thurrell and Dorothy Pascoe of Harriette Watson and Lawrence Litch­ taught last year in Ashland High School. West Ossipee, N. H. Dorothy was gradu­ field ’49 on September 9th in Houlton, Lois Nicholson is engaged to Albert ated from Colby Junior College in New Maine. Harriette is receptionist at The Healey of Belmont, Mass. Lois’s fiance London, N. H., and has completed twelve Commercial National Bank and Trust is a senior at the University of Maine. months’ internship for medical technology Company, New York City. Lawrence is Katy Bennett is engaged to Richard connected with the Dumont Television at New England Hospital for Women Lawson ’50. Katy taught in Jonesboro and Children in Boston. Roger is with Company of New Jersey. last year. the Aluminum Company of America in Engagements of the summer include Cincinnati, Ohio. that of Lee Davis and Priscilla Knott of Jim Gillchrest is engaged to Carolyn Gloria Castner and B. J. Evans of Barnstable, Mass. Priscilla was gradu­ Goodall of Cotuit. She is a graduate of Dallas, Texas. (They may be married by ated from the Leslie School in Cambridge, the Cape Cod Secretarial School at now, I think.) He attended the schools received her B.S. degree from Hyannis Hyannis. Jim is now training for an in Amarillo, Texas, and was graduated State Teachers College and is now em­ Underwriter with the Liberty Mutual from the Western Radio Institute, Los ployed by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Insurance Co. and his address is 162 Angeles. He is now associated with the Institute, where Lee is working as a re­ Broadway, Lynbrook, L. I., N. Y. CAA in New Orleans, La. Gloria is a search assistant. Gerry Rogovin is a research-writer for service representative for New England Martha Rodick Horner writes that she LOOK, QUICK, & FLAIR, (Cowles Telephone and Telegraph Company in and Bill have had their second child, a Mags., Inc.) and his address is Apart- Bangor. daughter, Pamela Ann, born August 8, ment 3B, 228 West 17 Street, N. Y. C. Babies have been arriving all summer 1950. Arthur Buswell is an instructor in and fall— and on into the future. Rita floriculture at the Univ. of Conn. He and Elmer Smallwood have a second 1 9 4 9 Mrs. Philip J. Murdock (Babs Hayden) received his Master’s in Horticulture daughter, Mary, born May 4. The Small­ from Maine this summer. His address is woods have changed their address since Hollis There are so many marriages this Clover Mill Road, RFD 2, Storrs, Conn. I last reported it, by the way, to Box 242, Mrs. Robert Shepard (Eugenia Mel- Winterport, Maine. Ruth (Fogler) and month that I may not be able to get Merle Goff have a son, Frederick Len- them all in— be patient and we’ll get up to date eventually. Speaking of mar­ dall, born May 14, 1950. The Goffs are Member Federal Reserve Rank in Boothbay Harbor, where Merle is riages; please note change of address and town manager. Helen (Beckler) and name to send information for the Alum­ Brian Mooers have a son, Harold Brian, nus. Jr., born June 9. Helen (N oyes) and Had a fine leter from Mrs. Frank Paul -Taylor’s son, Michael Frederick Potenzo (Muriel Applebee) who is now Taylor, was born June 1, 1950. living at 5724 North 27th Street, Arling­ At 4556 Appian Way, El Sobrante, ton, Va., while Frank ( ’50) attends Calif., the Paul Cliffords (Barbara Georgetown Law School. Muriel is Gammell ’49) have a June 1 son, Paul working for the Arm y in the Quarter­ Meade. Jonathan Barry was born July master Corps and says it can’t compare Young men and women will with teaching. 2 to Millie (Cohen ' 47) and Dick Gies- always find this banking in­ berg who are living at 6 0 7 1/2 South De­ Francesjane Foster and Roger Addor troit St., Los Angeles 36, Calif. Elaine were married this summer. They are stitution interested and help­ living at 16 University Place, Orono. (Perkins) and John Fogler ’50 have a ful in their business progress. son, Myron Lee, born July 26. .Margie Roger is a grad assistant in the Chemis­ (Watson) and Al Savignano ’49 have a try Department at Maine. Responsibility is reflected by Paul Hart married Margaret Louise daughter, Nancy Ruth, born July 28. Say a checking account, which is is teaching at Edward Little High School Holt of Richmond, Va., in September. in Auburn this year. Paul is a chemical engineer with the also a factor in establishing du Pont Co. in Richmond. His address Royal Graves has reported someone is 3925 Caulder Court, Richmond 24. credit and standing. to carry on his name— in the person of Royal S. Graves IV, born in March. We David Dube married Mary Trafton of reported a daughter, Jennifer Patten, Westbrook, a graduate of Gorham State born to Barbie (Patten) and Bill Wells Teachers’ College. Dave is an assistant T h e last November. She’s not only the daugh­ chemist at the Maine Agricultural Ex­ ter of two U. of M. graduates but the periment Station. M e rrill granddaughter of two more, Bryant M. Frank Gorham married Bernice Ted- and Arabell G. H. Patten, Class of 1923. ford of Bangor, a grad of EMG Hospital. Trust Company Some of the teachers for the school Frank is employed by the Birdseye year 1950-51 have been located. Jay Cal­ Snider Company in Houlton. With thirteen offices in kins is principal of Isleboro High School. Marita Crabtree married Chauncey Eastern Maine Helen Buzzell is teacher of physical edu­ Grinnell of- Camden, a grad of Knox Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. cation for girls in the Woodbury, Con­ Business College. Their address is N or­ necticut, schools'. Barbara Goodwin is on ton’s Pond, Camden.

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V zar) is now living at 584 Woburn Street, Ben and Donna (’48) Harrington now Agricultural Experiment Station at Pur­ Wilmington, Mass. have a son— James Davis. Ben is a con- due. Instructor of Chemistry at Ricker Lawrence Smith is Principal of Lincoln struction engineer and they live at 153 Classical Institute is John Ryder’s new Primary School in Lincoln, Maine. His Main Street, Montpelier, Vermont. * - job. Norman Foss is principal of Besse address—92. Main Street, Lincoln. Hartley Marsh is a poultry serviceman High School in Albion, while Nundi "Gene Cranch is a night nurse at the for Wirthmore Feed and he and his wife, Romano has been named director of Englewood Hospital in Chicago. Her Helen, have bought a house on Rose Hill physical education at Piscataquis Com­ residence address is 5710 S. Woodlawn Road, Branford, Connecticut. munity School in Guilford. Betty Friedler Avenue, Chicago 37, Ill. Ralph McCurdy is out in Arizona with is teaching physical education at Garland Pollie. Rawlins on, stewardess for the U. S. Forest Service. Mac, his wife, Junior High School in Bangor. Lowell American Airlines, is currently- located and two children live in Pinedale, Arizo- Osgood was elected head of physical edu­ in the Texas area. Her address is 3740 1/2 n a s cation. department and coach of basketball Holland Avenue,. Dallas. Howard “Bud” ‘ Mosley and “Mim” at Aroostook Central Institute, Mars John Ballou, who is attending Yale (’48) are both working for the Naas Hill. Over in North Barre, Vt., Leo- L aw School, worked in summer stock at Corporation of- Indiana. Address 320 E. Donahue is teaching 4th and 5th grades. Camden during the summer—by appear­ North Street, Portland, Indiana. Thomas Higgins, Jr., is teaching social ing as a nonexistent -laundryman in Vaughan Ricker works for a Forest studies and coaching baseball and basket-- Claudia, John claimed the honor of ap­ Nursery in Cheshire, Conn. His address ball at Washington Academy, East Ma- pearing in every show of the season. - is Cheshire Nursery, N.E., Forestry chias. Betty Hempstead is still in India—her Commission, Cheshire, Connecticut. Joyce Henderson is working as dieti­ parents, the Rev. and Mrs. Alfred Hemp­ Fred and Jean Sherman live at 1410 tian at Aroostook State Normal School stead of Rockland, recently entertained S.W., 19th Terrace, Miami, Florida. and Frances Lubovitz is at the Yale Uni- a teacher from Hyberdad who told of Fred is an engineer for the city of Miami. versity library. Betty’s great love for her work and the Shelton White is floor manager' for Thomas Sweetser is the county agent respect and love her students -have for her. W. T. Grant in Bath. He and his family for the Agricultural Extension Service in Bruce Putnam is engaged to Audrey can be found at '54 Winship Street, Bath, Washington County. Stanley Yonkauski Newton, a Wheaton graduate from New- Maine. is working as a purchasing agent in Ban­ tonville. Much of the preceding news came to gor. me from Lois Hanson (Lois Webber ’47) MARRIED: John Winchester to: Julie Shores and Oscar Hahnel ’47 and thanks a million times, Lois, for Marion B. Phenney of Groton, Conn.; he were married in Lewiston, May 20. Julie sending it along. Lois reports that her is attending the University of Pennsyl­ is doing social work in Auburn. All husband, Bob Hanson, has a position as vania Dental School. Richard Whalen to Julie’s attendants were ’49ers— Mike W eb­ Arlene W hile; their address is 514 Deer- ber, Liz Clark, Mary Fenlason, Bev electrical engineer with the Electro-Dy- namic W orks of the Electric Boat Com­ ing Avenue, Portland, Maine. Patricia Bean, and Connie Boynton. - pany in Bayonne. Bob, Lois, and their - Ward to Carl Kilpatrick of Presque Isle. The Elmer Bartleys live at 4610 So. two children are l iving in Paterson so Gloria Fisher to Bobby Slosser on 3 Sep­ 124th Street, Seattle 88, Washington. Bob commutes daily. Their address is tember; he is working for the Bangor They have a year old daughter, Margaret. Apt. 6A-Bldg.4, E. 43 Street & 11th Commercial Robert P. Nutter to Paul­ The Ken Cobbs (Ella Page ’46) and ine M. Curtis of Bangor. John K. Mur-. son Allan are living at- 19B Lattimore Avenue, Paterson 3, New Jersey. Shirley Crane recently became en­ phy to Florence Berube (ex ’51) ; he is Road, University Village, Rochester 20, gaged to Bill Deacon—you probably will a reporter on the staff of Kennebec Jour­ N ew York: Ken is attending the Uni­ remember Bill as the guy who used to nal in Augusta. Margaret Millington to versity of Rochester for his Master’s De­ gree. play bass with the Maine Bears. Link Fish. Margaret E. Laliberte (’51) to Remember, if you want to see your Frederick C. McCann, on 10 September. Merrill and Wilma Cobb and daughter name in the Alumnus, how about drop­ James A. McBrady to Mary Jane Ditch- are in Washburn, Maine, where Mel ping me a line? field of Portland. Jack I. Lord to Nancy- teaches math in the High School: lee Bean of Bangor; they are living in A l and Lois Harjula and Jackie are in 1 9 5 0 Lt. Ruth Holland Bangor. Geraldine E. Lamb to Raymond C o . O, WAC Training Center, Thomaston, Maine (23 Main Street). Kenneally; they are both employed in the A l is principal and -teaches the seventh Ft. Lee, Va. Wytopitlock school system. Dorothy L. and eighth grades in Friendship while Way back in November 1949, our class Briggs to Everett T. Keach; they are Lois teaches in the seventh and eighth was well in the throes of senior work— teaching in Greenville. Kenneth L. Hol­ grades at the South School in Rockland. each day a busy one. November 1950 den to Barbara M. Hanscom of Machias. finds us in the same pace in our non- Franklyn C. Hayford to Phyllis J. Peter­ academic life with new jobs and new son of Portsmouth, N. H. Norma Bangor Furniture Co homes. I find all of you doing so many Mooers (’52) to George R. Gray; their things that it is impossible to report on address is 565 Main Street, Westbrook, Complete House Furnishers each fellow graduate this month: Never­ Me. Martha Fogler to Donald E. Hobbs theless, I have gathered news of many (’49) ; they are living at 1075 Cook St., 84-88 Hammond Street recent activities and can report success Denver, Colorado. Don is studying at U. Bangor, Maine and promising futures. of Denver. Gerard A. Faucher to Fran­ Ralph Barnett is Houlton’s town en­ ces M. Broucher; their address is 11A gineer. Harry Bickford is a junior en­ Thorton Street, Newton, Mass. Ann W. gineer in the manager’s training program Dibblee to Howard A. Bamford (’51*) ; conducted by the Citizens’ Utilities Com­ she is recreational director at the Bangor HAYNES & CHALMERS CO. pany, Bangor. Woody Bigelow is work­ State Hospital. Robert E. Daigle to Zel- ing in the state news department on the ma E. Jameson. Harold W. Howard to A. S. Chalmers ’05, Treas. Lewiston Sun. Reporter on the Piscata­ Paulyn Cheney on 11 August 1950. Lu­ quis Observer, Dover-Foxcroft, is Don HARDWARE cille Connors to Frederick O. Heald. King and Bob Snowman is busy on the Lloyd Capen to Beverly Dunham of Deer BANGOR MAINE copy desk of the Bangor Commercial Isle. under its staff training program. ENGAGED: Jeanne M. Brousseau to Jerry Haynes is Mars Hill’s new town John A. Sweet. Elinor Hansen to Rich­ manager. Building inspector for Garden ard Brockway ’52. Marguerite Jones to City, New York, is Harold Moulton. Allen R. Brackett. Jane F. Ingraham JOHNSON’S HUMMOCKS Leonard Bishop is the first town manager (ex ’53) to Robert S. Rupp. Sarah in Carmel, while William Hatch is town Weeks (ex ’50) to Lewis B. Paine. manager in Bethel, Vermont. Laurence Gardner is a principal in a Sea Food Grill Donald Chick is at the University of Ft. Fairfield Grammar School. Southern California and John Hoskin is Gerald Gatcomb has the position of at Indiana University. Lawrence Pink- chemist for the Henry Souther Engineer­ Allens Avenue ham is at work at the Columbia Univer­ ing Co. in Hartford, Conn. sity School of Journalism. David Clark P rovidence, R hode I slan d continues his studies at New York Uni­ Everett Gerrish is a graduate student versity. at the U. of Minnesota. He is studying Arlene Doane was appointed teacher agronomy and is living at 2089 Carter HENRY JOHNSON of English and debate coach in Old Town Ave., St. Paul, Minn. Owner and Manager High School. Joyce Pray has accepted Robert Given is a Diesel Plant Opera­ a teaching position at the Traip Academy tor for the Bangor Hydro-Electric Com­ in Kittery. Elizabeth Shaw Was awarded pany in Bangor. He is living on Park a graduate research assistantship in the St., Orono.

THE MAINE ALUMNUS . 31 NOVEMBER-DECEMBER, 1950 Reproduction From a color print. From a Series, "L ife in Early Portland." copyright 1949. The canal National Bank of Portland. Maine

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Housing in early Portland was primitive even by the standard of the times. The "cabins" were simply berths ranged around the walls, enclosed for The difficulty of clearing the forest land and erecting, with only the crudest warmth — really, small (and airless) closets. This "chamber" was also living of tools, a shelter that would keep a family warm during the long white and cooking room; the other was used for storage. There was no glass for winters was great, and most of the early houses were one-room cabins with windows, which were kept ..tightly shuttered at night and all during the thatched roofs and wooden chimneys. winter. Interiors were rough-boarded — the first wall paper in Portland was used in only one room of Parson Smith's house, nailed to the wall for want of paste. From a letter of John Winter's in 1634 we have a description of what must The French and Indian Wars in 1675 brought about the need for garri­ Have been an unusually large structure by comparison with the average soned houses. The earlier type was merely the usual shelter with a surround­ shelter. Winter wrote: ing palisade composed of posts set closely together in a trench, with strong gates. Watch towers were added later, sometimes with small short cannon I have built a house here at Richmond's Island that is forty feet in, called swivels mounted therein. length and eighteen feet broad within the sides, besides the chimney, which is large with an oven in each end of him . . . I have two cham­ W ith the spread of civilization to the outposts, houses became more bers and all our men lies within one of them, and every man hath his elaborate, until by the late 1700’s cabinet work was an important part of .close-boarded cabin ... . in the other chamber I have room enough to house design. Some fine examples of this period are still standing in Portland put the ship's sails into ..." today.

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