Maine Alumnus, Volume 63, Number 1, December 1981
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The University of Maine DigitalCommons@UMaine University of Maine Alumni Magazines University of Maine Publications 12-1981 Maine Alumnus, Volume 63, Number 1, December 1981 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 63, Number 1, December 1981" (1981). University of Maine Alumni Magazines. 332. https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/alumni_magazines/332 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]. s.C? fF ' I December 1981 ‘ alumnus I I I ••■•Sa \ Steve King '70: ; Imagery and the Third Eye 9 Page 8 i 1 1 A I k • C*. • ’ -• •; • _ ** • Support the Annual Alumni Fund of the University of Maine at Orono December, 1981, Vol. 63, No. 1 alumnus Publisher page 8 page 11 page 14 Lester J. Nadeau ’59 Editor Catherine M. Palmer ’72 Class Notes Editor Faith H. Webster ’60 Photography Jack Walas Al Pelletier Keith Dresser Alumni Association Officers Josephine M. Profita ’38, President Torrey A. Sylvester ’59, First Vice President William D. Johnson ’56, Second Vice President; Chairman, Annual Alumni Fund Richard W. Sprague ’51, Treasurer Barbara C. Barker ’39, Clerk Lester J. Nadeau ’59, Executive Director Alumni Council Barbara H. Bodwell ’45 Owen H. Bridgham ’68G 8 Imagery and the Third Eye Edward T. Bryand ’52 Margo F. Cobb ’52 by Stephen E. King '70 Mark H. Cohen ’54 Imagery does not occur on the writer’s page; F. Paul Desmond ’59 Dana C. Devoe ’56 it occurs in the reader’s mind. Nonnne H. Fitzgibbon ’59 James H. Goff ’63 James G. Good ’71 Laurie A. Gordon ’82 11 Bucking the Maine Inferiority Complex Preston W. Hall ’54 Charles A. Mercer ’82 by Dennis Bailey 75 Alan F. Merritt ’58 Psychology of second-rate-ism touches Maine residents Arthur Nicholson III ’67 Carroll R. Pickard ’52 Leonard N. Plavin ’48 Henry L. P. Schmelzer ’65 34 Alumni Writers Deborah A. Scott ’80 Minimum Government in the Golden Age, Patricia N Shaw ’70 by Edward DeCourcy ’34 □ Nebraska Sandhills Ranchers Dons E. Spencer ’45 Charles E. Stickney, Jr ’44 Battle Bitter Winter by Douglas E. Kneeland ’53 Janet U. Sweetser ’68 Fred P. Tarr ’53 Janet R. Willis ’74 _ - John F. Wilson ’33 Ex-officio Members Departments Paul H. Silverman, President, 2 Letters □ 3 University News □ 15 Deaths □ 18 Class Notes University of Maine at Orono David W. Fox ’52, President, University of Maine Foundation Charles F Bragg II, Chairman, UMO Development Council Cover Art — Gouache water color by George G. Orzel: Alumni Representatives to the Athletic Advisory Council “Each of us possesses a great potential resource — all our life Willard C Farnham ’60 experiences. We carry about a great treasure of collected images, Winston E. Pullen ’41 emotional and sensory experiences — a vast “heap” of material. Myron W. Zimmerman ’50 Stephen King has so precisely touched upon this in Imagery and the Third Eye, by saying, ‘But what that third eye — the inner eye — can see is infinite It’s a little like having a whole amusement park m your head, where all the rides are free.’ Maine Alumnus is published four times yearly by Artists sift through this heap for fragments. With the elements the General Alumni Association for alumni and and discipline of our media, we are able to give ideas friends of the University of Maine at Orono The transmittable form — give them wings.” magazine’s editorial office is located at the Crossland Alumni Center, UMO, Orono, ME 04469. A voluntary gift of $10 to the Annual Alumni Fund is a subscription Third class postage is paid at Orono, ME 04473 Circulation is 150,000 issues yearly Telephone (207) 581-7392. Letters < Important Lessons We Deserve the Right I graduated from UMO in - After All These Years 1980 with a B.S. degree in Although this letter represents Thank you very much for the I It used to be commonplace Surveying Engineering. After for faculty to say that UMO a small portion of the number one year in industry my salary early copy of the Fall Maine students were apathetic about in favor of a pay raise for the already exceeds that of the Alumnus. When we turned to the world around them. The UMO faculty, it represents highest paid full professor in page 10 and saw the full page extraordinary efforts of many. the Civil Engineering spread, we found it hard to Charlie Mercer, Donny With higher education in department where Surveying believe because we didn’t Oakes, and others in Student greater need for future jobs, Engineering is housed. Several remember anyone taking pic Government in organizing the we deserve the right for the of these full professors have tures. September 15 rally in the face same education others more than 20 years of Betty and I met on the of opposition by UMO received in the past. This is practical and academic University of Washington administrators and the huge impossible as rates continue experience. campus during World War II to climb on a regular basis — we went dancing on our turnout from the student The UMO College of with faculty continuing to be first date and have enjoyed body have shown us how Engineering and Science has wrong we have been. paid the same as years go by. in the past enjoyed a good dancing ever since. The trip And as better qualified In fact students turned the reputation in the New back to Maine and then thru teachers leave for better jobs, the Eastern Canadian prov tables on faculty and by their England area and the country we become the scapegoats for inces was part of our 35th actions taught us some and has been known for its important lessons in dignity, it all. high quality academic wedding anniversary celebra My education is in danger tion. pride, cooperation, and the programs. It is a shame to of losing ground. making of one’s own history. watch this college deteriorate We had a marvelous time at We students need support if the reunion and many thanks Nothing is more deserving of because of inadequate we are to get the education to all of you hardworking faculty gratitude. resources. There are no other they once received. Engineering programs offered people on campus. When friends here in Howard Schonberger Lloyd Ray Bryant ’84 in Maine and without UMO Southern California ask how AFUM Departmental 139 York Hall many of Maine’s young we enjoyed a class reunion Representative people will be denied the (Dr. Schonberger has been an opportunity for a challenging after all these years, we just Good Reputation open the Alumnus to page 10 associate professor of history career in Engineering. On a recent visit to Orono I at UMO since 1971.) I hope something can be and say, “What do you read with interest the article, done. think?” Thanks again. “UMO engineering has Dean Deserves Best faculty trouble” (Bangor Michael Jackson *80 Ken Robertson ’41 Daily News, Aug. 7). Alexandria, VA Fullerton, CA t I am hoping to compile an accurate picture of the life of our friend, Mark Shibles (former dean), with the help of his family and friends. If you have any noteworthy incident you would offer, please send it to me as soon as possible. Proceeds from this work will accrue to the Mark Shibles Endowment Chair for visiting professors in education. Your help will be appreciated. Prof. G. Frank Sammis Box 65 Westfield State College Westfield, MA 01086 2 Maine Alumnus University News UMO Magazine Airs Statewide Television Viewers See Orono Campus on TV General television audiences in Maine can 1 Vi now see how the University of Maine looks on TV. UMO Magazine, a half- 1 hour news program broadcast monthly, is F '• •A - -~ 15m "* produced at the television headquarters of HraiSn Si Public Information and Central Services (PICS). The new show features timely public service news and information pro grams, according to Henry Nevison, television and radio coordinator for PICS. Nevison produces UMO Magazine, GO shown on Sundays at noon, with video O tape editing equipment and a portable cu camera purchased this year. The first show, which aired in July, included short £ -x and feature-length stories about teaching o and research. Two segments televised this Henry Nevison fall were the effects of spruce budworm spraying on moose and deer herds and the The latter required Nevison to edit five tween UMO’s College of Education and relationship between the University of hours of tape to 25 minutes. the schools of Norwich, England. Viewers Maine and the state’s potato industry. According to Nevison, UMO Magazine is also saw a promotional film he made on broadcast locally from WABI-TV in the 20th Century Music Ensemble, which • e Bangor and two-minute news segments are aired in Portland. A November segment available for statewide viewing. He said showed research about predatory animals. 9 OEO Grant Awarded the new programs show “how the Univer “The key is to give the television net sity of Maine returns tax dollars through works something already produced which The U.S. Department of Education its teaching, research and public service.” they will run,” Nevison said. Alumni may awarded a federal grant amounting to One news film which Nevison produced view UMO Magazine at the PICS studio, $222,360 to UMO’s Office of Equal Op reported on the exchange program be or check local listings, he said.