The University of Maine DigitalCommons@UMaine University of Maine Alumni Magazines University of Maine Publications 1-1948 Maine Alumnus, Volume 29, Number 4, January 1948 General Alumni Association, University of Maine Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/alumni_magazines Part of the Higher Education Commons, and the History Commons Recommended Citation General Alumni Association, University of Maine, "Maine Alumnus, Volume 29, Number 4, January 1948" (1948). University of Maine Alumni Magazines. 117. https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/alumni_magazines/117 This publication is brought to you for free and open access by DigitalCommons@UMaine. It has been accepted for inclusion in University of Maine Alumni Magazines by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@UMaine. For more information, please contact [email protected]. After seeing the picture of sons and daughters of alumni in The Maine Alumnus a graduate wrote an inspiring letter to the Editor. His letter follows: ------------■, Mass. Mr Editor. The picture of alumni sons and daughters in The Alumnus arouses me more than anything that has come out of Maine in years. After I graduated from the University, the succeeding college generations did not interest me much. They seemed to be strangers in the halls that had been mine. They didn’t know me when I returned to them, and I did not know them. Perhaps I even felt resentful in a way that they had taken over what I considered mine. My loyalty to Maine may not have slipped, but my interest certainly has lagged. But these youngsters are the flesh and blood of my old gang and I am mighty glad that they have come back home. I feel again that I am a part of their family. There must be many like myself who, when they saw this picture, must have wondered if there wasn't more that they could do to make our Maine a better and finer home for these who are actually our own and their friends and pals of today to live in. I am proud to be of the family, and I shall try to do all I can. The Memorial Union Building will provide that better and finer home. M A I IiN E c . A l u m n u s GENERAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Officers Hazen H. Ayer ’24, President Harold J. Shaw ’14, Vice President MAINE EVENTS Richard S. Bradford ’30, Treasurer George F. Dow ’27, Clerk January 10 Varsity Basketball John Sealey, Jr. ’36, Executive Sec. Northeastern at Boston * Philip J. Brockway ’31, Assistant Sec. January 12 Assembly—Memorial Gymnasium u V • h \ ; Samuel Dushkin,. Violinist Alumni Council Members January 13 Varsity Basketball New Hampshire at Orono Hazen H. Ayer ’24 January Clifton E. Chandler ’13 15 Varsity Basketball Colby at Waterville - Samuel W. Collins ’19 • Charles E. Crossland ’17 January 15-31 Exhibits—Art Gallery Raymond H. Fogler ’15 Exhibition Graphic Arts from the Miss Jessie Fraser ’31 University Collection Miss M. June Kelley ’12 Wood-block Prints—Yoshida Fred D. Knight ’09 Contemporary Japanese Blockprinters Alfred B. Lingley ’20 January 17 Varsity Basketball Alton T. Littlefield ’21 Bowdoin at Orono George E. Lord ’24 Intramural Track Meet John H. Mahoney ’27 January 20 Varsity Basketball Thomas G. Mangan ’16 Bates at Orono Miss Marion E. Martin ’34 January 24 Varsity Track Mrs. Marjorie M. Murphy ’33 K of C Meet—Boston Miss Emily Pendleton ’26 January 28 Varsity Track Myron C. Peabody ’16 Colby at Waterville Harold M. Pierce ’19 February 2-14 Exhibit—Art Gallery Conan A. Priest ’22 Birds of Asia by John Gould, Jam es M. Sims ’32 The English Audubon Robert F. Thurrell ’15 Final Examinations—Fall Semester Thomas N. Weeks ’16 February 4-13 February 7 Varsity Track B.A.A. at Boston FRONT COVER Tribute to the donors February 13 Commencement—Women’s Gymnasium, 8:15 p.m who helped to make possible Maine’s fine Dinner for Graduating Class and Guests new Library is engraved permanently on General Alumni Association—Host the impressive marble tablet pictured on our cover this month. Students ascending Estabrooke 6 :00 p.m. the busy main stairs from the lobby to February 14 Varsity Basketball the circulation room stop to read the in­ Northeastern at Orono scription with appreciation for this valu­ Varsity Track able addition to their educational oppor­ Bates at Orono tunities The Library is featured in this issue of The Alumnus. February 16 Classes Begin—Spring Semester Vol. 29 JANUARY, 1948 . a. Published monthly from October to June inclusive, by the University of Maine General Alumni Association Member: Amer ican Alumni Council. University of Maine, Orono, Maine Subscription price, $2 00 per year, included in annual alumni dues of $3.00. Member. American Alumni Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at Orono, Maine, under act of March 3, 1870 JANUARY, 1948 THE MAINE ALUMNUS 3 / - drawers These replace the former wood­ en card racks. Because the files were de­ layed in delivery, they and the actual circulation desk itself are among the . •? T > A - . ..MlrS f 4 . .■ '• .-■•n TKN x A n n latest additions to the equipment of the building T •¥ mmm 1 ■' : • Reading Rooms At present two large reading rooms are in use One is on the ground floor directly to the left of the entrance lobby. This Reserve Book Room seats about 200 at the present tim+ adjacent to it are stacks for Reserve Books with a worker in regular attendance to issue the reserve books so extensively used by many de­ partments to supplement regular texts The other reading room is on the first N November 8, 1941, the corner- part of the building; beautifully finished floor and is at present a combination of stone of the new Library was laid in South American travertine—a brown­ Reference Room and Periodical Room with appropriate ceremonies; and by the ish-grey stone of fine polish and irregular This seats 150 students On shelves summer of 1942 the outside walls and pattern—the lobby does attract immediate around the room are some of the 1200 roof of the building stood as a tangible admiration Spacious as well as attractive magazines received by the Library, and evidence of the loyalty of alumni and it is a worthy entrance to the fine building one side of the room is filled with alcoves others who contributed over $250,003 to One of the most attractive rooms of the holding the numerous reference books. the project Then, during the war years, building is the small lecture room at the Above on a convenient balcony is shelved nothing further could be done on the right of the main lobby This room, pan­ the State of Maine Collection which will building It was not until 1945 that con­ eled in lovely mahogany, and given by ultimately have a room of its own. struction could again be resumed; at that Mr Louis Oakes ’93 of Greenville, is Other reading rooms, planned at the time work was rushed on the interior provided with several recessed display time the building was designed, have and finally, this fall, the Library staff cases. A small stage with moving picture temporarily been diverted to other emer­ moved in and took possession of the new screen will make this room an ideal place gency uses The large, main reading home for small lectures, concerts and meetings room, directly over the front lobby, is at Today, the building stands as a magnifi­ and has a capacity of about two hundred present used as an engineering drawing cent symbol of educational opportunity on persons The Oakes Room has already room but will be available for the Library our campus Alumni visiting Orono are become a popular one, filling a great need when the engineering building is con­ impressed with the accomplishment of in the functions of the University. structed The same activity at present their hopes In order that more alumni Directly ahead of the visitor is a fills the northwest corner room on the may have intimate understanding of just broad central stairway at the first landing mam floor; when the emergency demand what has been accomplished in this build­ of which stands a brown marble tablet for this space has lessened, a reading ing, The Alumnus presents a detailed bearing the following inscription: room for general periodicals will be cre­ description of the Library in this issue THE LOYALTY, DEVOTION, AND ated The Periodicals Room was given GENEROSITY OF UNIVERSITY From Outside by Harold M. Pierce T9 and members of ALUMNI, FACULTY, STUDENTS, the Bass family in memory of Joseph P. The general appearance of the building, AND FRIENDS MADE POSSIBLE Bass, long associated with the Bangor dominating the center of the campus, is THE CONSTRUCTION OF THIS Commercial deeply impressive Standing on a slight LIBRARY Among the other memorial rooms given rise of ground just southwest of South From there the stair divides, ascending was a seminar room by Mrs. James W. Stevens, it faces the Alumni Memorial in two directions to the main circulation Elms in memory of her husband James Gymnasium across the full stretch of the room This main room of the Library W. Elms ’06, and the Samuel H. T. Hayes Mall The wide, stone steps leading up contains the circulation desk, under the Room given by Baltimore alumni memori­ to the broad stone terrace offer an attrac­ direction of Sally Palmer Bogan ’27, alizing Samuel IT. T. Hayes ’90, a dis­ tive entrance carried out by the three main reference files, and bookshelves for special tinguished bacteriologist outer doors, framed in stone The tall items to be displayed The room is pan­ The late Mrs.