Colby Magazine Volume 77 Issue 3 Fall 1988 Article 1 October 1988 Colby Magazine Vol. 77, No. 3: Fall 1988 Colby College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/colbymagazine Part of the Higher Education Commons Recommended Citation Colby College (1988) "Colby Magazine Vol. 77, No. 3: Fall 1988," Colby Magazine: Vol. 77 : Iss. 3 , Article 1. Available at: https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/colbymagazine/vol77/iss3/1 This Download Full Issue is brought to you for free and open access by the Colby College Archives at Digital Commons @ Colby. It has been accepted for inclusion in Colby Magazine by an authorized editor of Digital Commons @ Colby. FALL 1988 FOR ALU FRIENDS (gMMENTARY Ours Is a Great Tradition The fall issue of Colby combines highlights of the 1 75-year history of Colby College and the annual report of the president. Our cover photographs were taken on Johnson Pond last February 27 as 175 balloons headed skyward to celebrate the 175th anniversary of the signing of the College charter. I'm grateful to the students in Professor Thomas Longstaff's Jan Plan, "The History of Colby College," who passed me the results of their researches. P.-A. Lenk and J. Fraser Cocks of Special Collections led us to countless photos and documents in Colby's archives. Chris Finlayson, a Maine free-lance writer, did much of the research and many of the stories on distinguished Colby alumni. I'm indebted as always to Colby assistant editor Nancy Fortuine Westervelt '54 for her special perspective as an alumna and faculty spouse, to Bonnie Bishop for her artful production of the magazine, and to Catherine Anderson for her able photography. (My own slip-up kept Cate's spring Colby cover photo from receiving the credit her work always deserves.) As we read through The Colby Alumnus beginning with its first issue in 1911, we saw a first-class pub­ lication featuring absorbing subjects. One after another informative or exciting article showed us a coura­ geous institution guided by people of special generosity of spirit and quality, many of them Colby's own alumni. Ours is a great tradition. If students, faculty, and staff over the next 175 years are of the same stuff as Colby people of the first 1 75 years, the College can look forward, among other things, to stories of notable accomplishment in Colby issues to come. The architecture of the College reflects the temper of its various administrations - reflects the decision to enroll women at the College, to create departments, to offer new courses. President Albion Woodbury Small's coordinate system of education, initiated in 1890, showed in the "divided campus" on Mayflower Hill as late as the 1960s. The decision to make a truly coeducational College led in 1986 to the creation of the Student Center in the geographical center of the Mayflower Hill campus, a placement that formally recognizes the equality of the sexes at Colby. Some of these stories have been told in the magazine re­ cently. Other stories, which also bear on past and present campus character - changing rules and regulations, student recruitment, the history of women at Colby, the professional life of Colby presidents apart from their service as presidents, the effect of wars on campus life, the saga of fraternities, the domestic missionaries- will be told in issues down the road. For instance, Professor Ye ager Hudson's article on President Booer's philosophy will appear in the winter number. Some of the more recent stories we'll leave for our successors, who will want to write the history of Colby's first 200 years and beyond. Among those stories, I think, will be profiles of Colby men and wom­ en who are shaping that spirited future right now. Robert Gillespie College Editor 1988 Volume 77, Numbers 3-4, Summer-Fall Colby is published quarterly for the alumni, friends, parents of students, seniors. faculty, and staff of Colby College. Address correspondence to the Editor, Colby, Colby College, Waterville. Maine 0490 1-4799. Editor: Robert Gillespie; Assistant to the Editor: Nancy Fortuine Westervelt '54; Contributing Editor: Chris Finlayson; Director of Publications: Bon­ nie Bishop; Production Editor: Martha Freese Shattuck; Editorial Interns: Jill C. Cote '90, Carolyn R. Lockwood '89, Graham A. Powis '90; Photogra­ phy: Gretchen Ebbesson (front and back covers, pp. 4, 112), Catherine Anderson IPP· 5, 6, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 34-5, 52, 83, 84, 85. 89, 92, 95, 101, 102, 104), Scott Davis (pp. 7, 88, 93). Arleen King-Lovelace (pp. 15, 251. Colby archives !pp. 15, 18-24, 26, 27, 31, 32, 36, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 47, 48, 49, 51), Bachrach (pp. 30, 64), Norman Crooks (p. 37). William To bey '44 (p. 39), Ed Hershey (p. 107). Printed by Knowlton McLeary, Farmington, Maine & On the covers: The 175th anniversary celebration takes off from ice-covered Johnson Pond as balloons carrying notes about Colby history drift aloft. A four-year-old boy on Mount Desert Island, the farthest away of the 45 Mainers who returned the card to the College, won a t-shirt and a copy of Ernest Marriner's History of Colby College. COLBY CO N TE NTS FEATURES DE PAR TMENTS 4 The President's Report Commentary In his annual report, President Cotter looks at noteworthy events 3 Eustis Mailroom in Colby's 175th anniversary year. 56 Class Correspondence 14 The Baptists and the Founding of Colby College From its beginnings, the College taught both literary and theologi­ 78 Milestones cal knowledge in pursuit of the larger Baptist goal of civil rights and 83 Appendix A Mileposts educational opportunities. Facts About Colby 7 Colby One Hundred Years Ago Faculty I Students 18 A Tour of the Old Campus Financial Aid With pictures from the College's early years, Thomas Ginz '89 brings Tuition and Fees back the old Waterville campus. Alumni 25 "Beast" Butler Financial Highlights Colby reexamines the reputation of notorious Civil War general Ben­ 86 Appendix B The Corporation jamin Franklin Butler, Class of 1838. Corporate Name 28 My College Course Officers Fifty years ago an alumnus sketched his life at the College in the Board of Trustees 1880s with humor and affection. Trustees Emeriti Overseers 30 Robert Hall Bowen Overseers Visiting Committees 31 Harold Marston Morse Physics major Elizabeth Murphy '88 profiles two famous scientists 90 Appendix C Vo lunteer Leaders in the Class of 19 14. Alumni Council Alumni Fund Committee 32 Colby Seventy-Five Years Ago Alumni Fund Class Agents 33 Colby Students in the 1920s: Business-Bound Pepsters Planned Giving Council or "Moral Degenerates"? Planned Giving Class Agents Echoes of the 1920s play back a famous era. Jere Abbott Art Acquisitions Committee Alumni Club Leaders 34 Dear Colby College Class Officers Maurice B. Pope, Jr., posts a love letter from town to gown. Parents Association Executive Committee 36 The Old That's Worth Saving Leadership Recognition Moving mementoes from the downtown campus to Mayflower Hill. President's Advisory Council on Minority Affairs 42 Colby Fifty Years Ago 96 Appendix D A Selection of Faculty Publications and Other Achievements 43 George G. Averill A portrait of a generous benefactor and loyal believer in Colby. 101 Appendix E A Selection of Student Achievements and Publications 44 Athletics at Colby From croquet to cross-country, Colby has a long history of intercol- 104 Appendix F College Prizes legiate sports. 109 Appendix G A Selection of Events 50 The Joseph Years in the Spa A filial salute to a familial tradition of food and caring on Mayflow- er Hill. 53 Colby 1\venty-Five Years Ago 54 Colby's Special Collections Curator J. Fraser Cocks III reviews Miller Library's rare book col­ lection. 2 COLBY /\1 _...z --.... :_u_s_T_1_s_ .... A 1 L R o o M _ MemoriaJ Mama Duck and Papa Duck As an American voter. [I believe that] anyone who "hates" my country hates For some reason I missed the Com­ America has intervened militarily more me; regardless of whether I voted for the mencement remarks that led to the than 60 times in Central America, Mexi­ party in power. If I disagree with their Colby/Vietnam controversy and prompt­ co, and the Caribbean. Nicaragua policies, I will do what I must, within ed the articles in the last issue. suffered much of this intervention, espe­ the law, to change them. Failing this I I was emotionally stirred while read­ cially during the period 1909-33. Few will attempt to vote them out of office. ing the stories of my classmates and the honest students of history can maintain o one in a communist country has that sad ending to their lives in Vietnam. I that these interventions were on behalf option. can't tell you how proud I am that the of the Nicaraguan people or in the name Professor Bowen condemns Colby stories were written and the recognition of democratic principles. Many were graduates who take exception to his vie'"­ given .... shameful exercises of greedy, brute pow­ of the Colby mission and the use of Real­ From May 1968 to October 1968 my er. However, that does not excuse the politik. He calls them ··anti-intellectual." destroyer the U.S.S. Preston supported emotionally insecure name-calling and What an absurd allegation for a suppos­ the ground action in and around Qui ideological demagoguery displayed by edly liberal educator. Adlai Stevenson Norn, South Vietnam, and the "Sea Drag­ Professor Bowen's Spring 1988 Colby let­ made similar accusations about some of on" offensive off North Vietnam. All of ter. As the chair and professor of govern­ his fellow countrymen and women until November 1968 we operated in the Delta ment, Professor Bowen asks many ques­ U-2 pictures of the Russian missiles in area of South Vietnam, providing fire­ tions that demand close scrutiny.