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MAIN E WATERVILLE AREA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION MERRIMACK VALLEY ALUMNAE CLUB President - George L. Beach, Jr., '41 President - Hilda Niehoff True, '43 COLBY TEACHERS CLUB 32 Morrill Avenue, Waterville 81 Elm Street, Georgetown President - Richard C. Michelsen, '49 Vice-President - Norman W. Beals, '37 Vice-President - Myra Stone Pruitt, '28 77 Gill Street, Auburn Sec.-Treas. - Ruth Moore Brown, '40 Sec.-Treas. - Vivian Maxwell Brown, '44 Rep. to A. C. - Albert L. Skidds, '33 Rep. to A. C. - Robert M. Tonge, '49 Rep. to A. C. - Lois B. Crowell, '34 BATH-BRUNSWICK ALUMNI ASSOCIATION SPRINGFIELD COLBY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION President - Virginia Kingsley Jones, '39 CONNECTICUT President - J. Joseph Freme, '41 East Boothbay FAIRFIELD COUNTY COLBY ALUMNI AS 25 Madison Avenue, Springfield 5 Vice-President - Earl L. Wade, '39 SOCIATION Vice-President - Wayne B. Sanders, '37 Sec.-Treas. - Ava Dodge Barton, '28 '52 Sec.-Treas. - Shirley Carrier Brown, '48 Rep. to A. C. - Dorothy Trainor Anderson, '38 President - Richard S. Creedon, 344 Booth Hill Road, Trumbull Rep. to A. C. - Norris E. Dibble, '41 NORTHERN AROOSTOOK ALUMNI ASSOCIA- Sec.-Treas. - Elizabeth Shaw Whiteley, '52 WORCESTER COUNTY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION TION Rep. to A. C. - Richard H. Bright, '41 President - Laurence E. Cudmore, '58 President - Thomas P. Lo Vigne, '58 136 Mountain View, Apartment F-1, Quinapozet Lane, Worcester COLBY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF GREATER Presque Isle V.P. - Marguerite Broderson Gustafson, '45 HARTFORD Vice-President - Nannabelle Gray Carter, '40 Sec. - Ann Ryan Pierce, '52 President - John Russell Gow, '23 Sec.-Treas. - Roland B. Andrews, '28 Treas. - Elizabeth Field Blanchard, '43 Westminster School, Simsbury Rep. to A. C. - Roland B. Andrews, '28 Rep. to A. C. - Gordon T. Miller, '48 Vice-President - Marion Drisko Tucker, '24 SOUTHERN AROOSTOOK ALUMNI ASSOCIA- Sec. - Alice Clark Anderson, '21 NEW YORK TION '52 Treas. - John E. Douglass, ALBANY AREA COLBY ALUMNI ASSOCIA· '51 '28 President - Robert Belyea, Rep. to A. C. - P. Kenton MacCubrey, TION 31 Green Street, Houlton NEW LONDON ALUMNI CLUB President - Kenneth VanPraag, '55 Vice-President - Robert B. Maxell, '49 President - David W. H. Harvey, '53 51-1917 Central Avenue, Sec-Treas. - Isa Putnam Johnson, '30 15 Glenwood Place, New London Albany 5 Rep. to A. C. - John Faulkner, '53 Vice-President - Richard M. Bowers, '50 Vice-President - Janet Jacobs Holden, '45 FRANKLIN COUNTY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Sec. - Jane A. Gibbons, '58 Sec.-Treas. - Herbert Simon, '52 President - Arnold H. Sturtevant, '51 Treas. - Shirley Holmes Moorcroft, '59 Rep. to A. C. - Kenneth VanPraag, '55 Livermore Falls Rep. to A. C. - Verne E. Reynolds, '25 '51 NEW YORK COLBY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Rep. to A. C. - Arnold H. Sturtevant, WATERBURY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION President - Gren E. Vale, '24 SOUTHERN KENNEBEC ALUMNI ASSOCIA President - E. Robert Bruce, '40 130 William Street, New York TION 58 Longview Avenue, Watertown Vice-President - Freda K. Abel, '39 '48 Rep. to A. C. - E. Robert Bruce, '40 President - Donald J. Bourassa, Sec. - Nancy Jacobsen, '46 72 Newland Avenue, Augusta Treas. - Nathaniel Weg, '17 '27 DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Sec. - Lura Norcross Turner, Rep. to A. C. - Marilyn P. Perkins, '57 Treas. - John A. Appleton, '49 WASHINGTON ALUMNI CLUB Rep. to A. C. - Donald J. Bourassa, '48 NEW HAMPSHIRE President - Barbara Miller Kean, '55 KNOX COUNTY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION 614 G Street, South East, SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE COLBY ALUMNI President - Pauline Brill Trafton, '30 Washington ASSOCIATION RFD Box #19, Rockland Vice-President - Abbott E. Smith, '26 President - C. Wallace Lawrence, '17 Vice-President - Albert L. Hunter, '39 Sec.-Treas. - John W. Hager, '55 179 Amhurst Street, Nashua Sec. - Doris Taylor Huber, '45 Rep. to A. C. - Ernest J. Roderick, '36 Rep. to A. C. - C. Wallace Lawrence, '17 Treas. - Mary K. Wasgatt, '30 '30 NEW JE RSEY Rep. to A. C. - Pauline Brill Trafton, FLORIDA COLBY ALUMNI CLUB OF NEW JERSEY LEWISTON-AUBURN ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ST. PETERSBURG COLBY ALUMNI CLUB President - Roy V. Shorey, Jr., '54 President - Paul A. Choate, '48 President - Donald E. Putnam, '16 159 North Maple Street, 44 Allen Avenue, Auburn 2727 Tenth Street, North, St. Woodbury Vice-President - Donald P. Cobb, '28 Vice-President - Charles R. DeBevoise, '48 Sec.-Treas. - Howard B. Sacks, '54 Petersburg '05 Sec. - Alice Beale Gleason, '55 Rep. to A. C. - Katherine Moses Rolfe, '16 Vice-President - Effie Lowe Patch, Sec. - Mrs. James J. Walworth Treas. - Robert W. Gleason, Jr., '55 MILLINOCKET ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Treas. - Emma A. Fountain, '95 Rep. to A. C. - Ray V. Shorey, Jr., '54 President - William A. Tippens, '50 Rep. to A. C. - Hugh A. Smith, '20 97 Lincoln Street, Millinocket PENNSYLVANIA '17 Sec.-Treas. - Gertrude Donnelly Gonya, ILLINOIS PHILADELPHIA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION '51 Rep. to A. C. - Wallace L. Adams, President - Richard B. Beal, '51 CHICAGO AREA ALUMNI CLUB PENOBSCOT VALLEY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION 936 Merion Square Road, President - Leslie H. Cook, '22 President - Perry G. Wortman, '33 Gladwyne 175 West Jackson Boulevard, P. 0. Box 16, Charleston Vice-President - Alton D. Blake, Jr., '36 Chicago 4 Vice-President - Guy J. Vigue, '57 Sec.-Treas. - Muriel Carrell Philson, '42 Rep. to A. C. - Leslie H. Cook, '22 Sec.-Treas. - Alice Whitehouse Freeman, '39 Rep. to A. C. - Chester D. Harrington. Jr., '51 Rep. to A. C. - Barbara Failings Kinsman, '56 MASSACHUSETTS RHODE ISLAND COLBY CLUB OF PORTLAND COLBY CLUB OF RHODE ISLAND President - John Deering, Jr., '55 BOSTON COLBY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION President - Robert Singer, '46, Ironclad Road, Cape Elizabeth President - Priscilla Tracey Tanguay, '50 15 Cold Spring Avenue, Vice-President - J. Warren Bishop, '35 Box 282, 14 Puritan Street, Barrington Sec. - Joseph Crozier, '44 Ocean Bluff Vice-President - Ronald D. Lupton, '43 Treas. - William Dexter, '33 Vice-President - Clifford A. Bean, '51 Sec. - Anne Burbank Palmer, '55 Rep. to A. C. - John W. Deering, Jr., '55 Sec.-Treas. - Ruth Graves Montgomery, '43 '44 Rep. to A. C. - Warren J. Finegan, '51 Treas. - N. Douglas Macleod, Jr., ALUMNAE OF WESTERN MAINE Rep. to A. C. - Ronald D. Lupton, '43 President - Lois L. Prentiss, '50 BOSTON COLBY CLUB Cape Elizabeth President - Barkev J. Boole, '56 COLBY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF HAWAII Vice-President - Ann Jones Gilmore, '42 80 Pilgrim Road, Needham President - Norris W. Potter, '29 Recording Sec. - Joan Peppard Boehm, '58 Vice-President - Edwin E. Fraktman, '53 Kaneohe, Oahu, Hawaii Corres. Sec. - Helen Koniares Cleave, '53 Sec. - Nicholas Sarris, '54 Vice-President - Joseph B. O'Toole, Jr., '36 Treas. - Ann Morrison McCullum, '51 Treas. - Alburton F. Rogan, '59 Sec.-Treas. - John Jubinsky, '56 Rep. to A. C. - Elizabeth Lavalle Gilbert, '35 Rep. to A. C. - Barkev J. Boole, '56 Rep. to A. C. - Marjorie G. Dunstan, '27 PRESIDENT STRIDER
Reports on ADMISSIONS POLICY
daughters of alumni and alumnae, but to be accepted they must be clearly qualified for admission by the regular QUE TION I am frequently standards. It would be manifestly unfair to admit a student, A asked by alumni and other whoe\·er he i , if his school record suggests that he is not friends of Colby is, " What likely to do acceptable work at the college le\'el. kind of student is the College o much for the criteria. 'ow how about the process of looking for?" You might be admission? The application papers are first eYaluated by interested in the substance of the Director of Admissions, �fr. Bryan, and his staff. ome my usual reply. Admissions candidates are clearly worthy of admission, some clearly not. policy is after all, fundamentally important m shaping the The papers of the great majority are then reYiewed in a character of a college. systematic fashion and a final decision is reached by the As far as the ultimate end of education goes, we want to Admissions Committee, which consists of members of the send into the world as graduates young men and women admis ions taff, seYeral of the administration, and three who ha,·e developed not only special aptitudes but also a members elected by the faculty. broad understanding of all that is 11nplied in being human. Are \\·e being successful through this intricate process in First and foremost, therefore, an applicant for admission to selecting the right kind of student for the Colby of today? Colby must demonstrate academic promise. \Ve must have I think we are. To be sure some whom we admit do not evidence (such as there is) that he is serious in his desire li\'e up to their promise and haYe to lea\'e us. As a Direc for a good education. Otherwise, the four-year process tor of Admissions at a large eastern university once told an would be a waste not only of an increasingly staggering anxious mother, " Madam, we guarantee satisfactory results sum of money and the self-sacrificing efforts of parents but or we return the boy." But by and large we succeed pretty also of the valuable time and effort of the faculty. Unless well. The majority of our students a re friendly and full of a student intends to take full advantage of the rich intellec fun but purposeful. An increasing number of them go on tual offering the College extends to him, he has no reason to graduate school and professional careers. Many of them to apply for admission to Colby. take a \'igorous and constructi\'e interest in college affairs. But how does one measure academic promise and intellec In short, I think the Colby students of today are worthy of tual motivation in a candidate' We wish we knew! All the heritage that their predecessors have established through we can do is try and hope we ha\'e chosen wisely. The the years. To that extent our admissions policy is pro\'ing applicant's College Board scores and his rank in class in itself, and I am sure it will continue to bring to Colby a high school are among the most important criteria, but student body notable not only for its intellectual potentiality alone they are not sufficient evidence. We also take into but also for its friendliness and the wide variety of talents account the recommendation of the school principal, refer that make up a healthy and rewarding college community. ences from friends and teachers, the degree of participation in extracurricular activities (such as athletics, drama, music, student government), evidence of special talents or unusual interests, citizenship and character in general, and the im pression the candidate makes on the interviewer. The Ad missions Committee giYes special consideration to sons and
The Colby Alumnus is published four times yearly, Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter, by the Alumni Council of Colby College. Subscription rate - $2.50. Single copies - $.75. Entered as second-class matter Jan. 25, 1912, at the Post Office at Waterville, Me., under Act of March 2, 1 79. Editor: Richard Nye Dyer; Business Manager: Ellsworth Millett, 1925. Vol. 51, No. 1, FALL 1961. PHOTOGRAPH BY THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT J 1 E ROLE o( liberal arts colleges in miJ-twentieth century T America is e\'er changing. The principal purpose remains constant. ho\\'e\'er; namely, e 2 CoLBY Au.:J\1, cs hi life and, indeed, become the primary characteristic by which a Colby graduate may be identified. There is no such thing as the common, average, or model student, and we are not attempting to produce graduates who can be easily fitted into a classification. Di\'ersity with its ac companying challenges, stimulates and contributes to human deYelopment and well being. Quite simply, progress either in the realm of the spiritual or the material does not come from the a\'erage or the typical. The small college, such as Colby, which pro\'ides ample opportunity for frequent and intimate discussions between student and teacher, is well able to achie\'e these ends. Further, in a world troubled by dissension, peril, and cri i . a college can no longer confine its acti,·ities to its own small community. The concept of the ivory tower college, like the concept of the i\'ory tovver professor, if indeed either has eyer existed, is outdated. \Ve can fulfill our obligation to society only by providing services to the community as a whole and by assuming a position of leadership in the community. Society has accorded those a ociated with a college a privileged position. We have the opportunity for unfettered thought and reflection. But the recipient of a pri,·ilege has a duty. We shall fail in our duty if we do not transform thought into action, if we do not stand as leaders ourselves and if we do not A ONE �IAN HOW of the art of Henry Varnum Poor educate leaders for the future. opened the 1961-62 exhibition ghedule at the Colby museum. The Skowhegan artist wa.; represented by 42 paintings, ceramics, sculpture, furniture, books, and photo SIGXlF!CA T DEVELOPME TS graphs of houses he had designed. He is shown before a self-portrait with Mrs. Ellerton M. f ette, chairman of the The most important departure from traditional practice Friends of drt at Colby. has been the adoption by the faculty of the January Program of Independent Study. Our objecti\'e here is to stimulate the student to independent work at all stages in his undergraduate career. .. To administer the January Program only half the teaching faculty will be needed. Therefore, each of the In the Program, which goes into effect this academic faculty will ha\'e a six-week period e\'ery other year year, a student will de\'ote his time during January to between the usual semesters which will be entirely free independent study of a particular topic under the direction for his own reading, research and writing. of a faculty member. Freshmen have a choice of se\'enteen Students will ha\'e the opportunity each year to dernte subjects ranging from "Disco ering a Lost Language," a sustained effort to analyzing in considerable depth one to " Social Criticism 111 the American Theatre " and " The area. It is our hope that this kind of study will lead to a Human Species." sharpening of analytical powers, an improvement in research Sophomores will as a rule work on topics which fall skills, and a whetting of intellectual appetites. \Ve are also within the framework of the division in which they hopeful that this intensified experience will impro\'e the expect to major. Depending on his intended major a quality of their usual academic work and will carry O\'er student may choose from the natural sciences, "Mathematics into their everyday life as well. in the -on-Mathematical World " or "Charles P. Snow·" One of the adYantages of a small college is that it lends from the social sciences, "The uremberg Trial of the itself easily to experimentation and curriculum changes. Major War Criminals" or "Censorship," to cite only two In this past year attempts have been made to strengthen possibilities; or from the humanities, among others, our offerings by the addition of new courses and the "Topics in the Development of Musical Form" or "The revision of old ones. Don Juan Legend. " Juniors and seniors will work on It is impossible to recount here all of these changes. By topics in their particular major disciplines... way of illustration, however, the department of biology Tsme of FALL 1961 3 was able to introduce ecolo.gy, an ad,·anced course which l should like to take this opportunity to call attention integrates knowledge of e11\'ironmental biology; the de to the increased sLU 4 CoLBY AL M 'US INTERNATIO).IAL MU..JBERs among Colby students this year are: first row from left, Susanne A. ,\lfonzel, Germany; .Yoemi San chez, Nicaragua and Helga M. Broz, Austria. The men are from left: Baha Ed-din S. Nahawi, Jordan; ,,.Jhmed T. Salim, Sierra Leone; Stamati:i- Tsitsopoulos, Greece; John I. Luternauer, Brazil; Modesto .\1ario Diaz, Spain; P. Dirk Leiser, Brazil; Eric Levi, Kenya; Jean-Geza Beguin, Switzerland, and Professor .'1mar Nath Pandeya, India. As you are aware, the total number of students enrolled continued to drop. At the end of the first semester of the in the college has, with some minor Buctuations, increased last academic year only sixteen students were dropped over the last ten years. Gross enrollment in the academic for academic failure and at the end of the second semester. year 1960-1961 was 1,20-t students, consisting of 71-t men fifty-four. The total represents slightly under six per and 490 women. They represented twenty-nine states cent of the gross enrollment. As the calibre of our studenrs and fourteen foreign counuies. impro\·es, and as the effects of the January Program of The social sciences proved the most heavily elected Independem Study are felt, it is expected that this division in the choice of major by upperclassmen. "Within proportion will be substantially lowered ... that division business adminisuation, economics, history The decisions governing all scholarship and financial and psychology had the largest number. In the humanities aid awards at Colby College are made by the Financial modern foreign languages and English literature had the Aid Committee.. . most majors, and in the natural sciences, mathematics and The deliberations of the committee, and its decisions, biology. have been guided in major part by the thought that one Interesting and encouraging uends have been the increase of the principal problems in the composition of our student in the number taking courses in Greek and Latin and the body has been the lack of a sufficient number of gifted growing number in government in the social sciences, and students. Therefore, a substantial portion of the total mathematics and geology in the natural sciences. We are funds aYailable has been increasingly directed toward intensifying our efforts to atuact a .greater number of making a larger nwnber of significant awards and there potential natural science majors to the college. An excellent by making it possible for students with unusual aptitudes brochure on the sciences at Colby has been prepared by and performance to attend Colby College. In pursuance the science division for the admissions office. of this policy attention has been directed toward able I am pleased to report that the attrition rate, which was students from Maine, Colby sons and dau,ghters, and those a matter of considerable discussion a few years ago, has applicants who have given Colby as their first choice. FALL Issue of 1961 5 Our program has as its fundamental objective the pro One danger in recounting the year's acti\'ities is that, to \'i ion for financial assistance to students who, without such the uninitiated they appear to have sprung full-grown onto aid, would be unable to attend the college. l n selecting the scene. It is usually forgotten that what transpires ... among those applicants who demonstrate need for financial is built upon and i truly a reflection of the thought, efforts, assistance the college places primary emphasis upon aca trials, and tribulations of pa t years. Without the exemplary demic achievement. Character and future promise are service which has been dedicated to this college ... by additional important considerations .. . numerous individuals, the acti\'ities of this past year would The principal financial needs of the college have been have been impossible. Indeed, for the most part the lectures, additional resources for faculty salaries and scholarships. concerts, and tudent activities which took place represented Significant progress ha been made in increasing the annual a continuation ol similar programs from prc,·ious years. appropriation for scholarship assistance. * Scholarship and Financial Aid Expenditures* * * Academic Income on Curri::nt Income May I conclude merely by reiterating that in e\'ery way Year Endow. Funds and Gifts Total we had a fine year. But let me make it clear that such a 1956-57 $66,639 $ 9,493 $ 76,132 year was possible only because we had the momentum 1957-58 70,203 5,741 75,944 provided for us by many other fine years that went before. 1958-59 73,107 42,899 116,006 Presi THE FACULTY The Colby faculty continues to grow in all aspects. In the academic year 1960-61 the faculty numbering 110, consisted of twenty-one professors, thirty-one associate professors, thirty-four assistant professors, two v1s1ung lecturers, and twenty-two instructors. Of the total, thirteen devoted all or most of their time to administrative duties and may not properly be considered as teaching faculty. A few of the remainder had part-time administrative duties. [Editor's note: There follows in the report a detailed ac count of faculty research and publications, promotions, ap pointments, and related items. ] THE COLLEGE YEAR We have at Colby a community of some 1500 individuals whose interests are many and diverse. The sum of their activities constitutes the college year and the college itself. *Exclusive of work grants CoLBY Au:MNus 6 Contrasts • Ill Curricululll Professor Alfred King Chapman, 1925, chairman of the Departnient of English, re-fleets on nearly half a century of academic growth at the college. commenting on the differences of the certainly take a social science. How Black in history was soon to leaYe Colby College curriculum as I first ever, there ,,·ould be a great deal of Colby. Professor \Veber did not re knew it and the curriculum today difference in what the courses them turn until the next year to be Head inrnlYes remarks on the offerings of the selves were like. of the English Department. Professors college in 1921 and in 1961, for it was To say that the present offerings of ?\Iarriner, Strong, "Wilkinson, and just forty years ago this September the college show a tremendous develop Colgan were not yet a part of Colby that I registered as a freshman in Colby ment and improvement over the cur history, although they were all to College - I may say with much less riculum of 1921 is in no way to dis come to Colby during my student days. red tape and formality than the fresh parage the earlier course offerings. In Professor Libby's class in public speak men of 1961 ha\'e to endure. Wanting 1921 we took courses from such fine ing was one of the Yaluable "experi a B.A. degree, I had to take Latin. teachers as Julian Daniel Taylor (who ences through which most Colby English was also required. I elected taught Latin at Colby for sixty-three students passed; President Roberts panish for a foreign language, and I consecutive years), "Dut::hy" far taught us primarily in daily Chapel. chose courses m mathematics and quardt, Professor Che ter in biology, It is not irrelevant to speak of the old biology to fill out the program. A " Doc " Parmenter in chemistry, Pro curriculum in terms of these teachers, freshman today might choose much fessor Perkins in geology Professor for it is axiomatic that regardless of the same subjects except that probably White in Greek, Professor Morrow in what course titles a college catalog may in place of Latin he would almo t sociology, and many others. Professor Ii t its courses and the education which lm1e of FALL 1961 7 the college gives will be no better than afterwards. German literature m economics and sociology have expanded the teachers, and Colby in 1921 had translation has now been given for courses in these subjects to somewhat many good teachers. some time. the same extent that the physical and The approximately seventy-five se biological sciences have expanded, and mester courses offered in the year business administration was not in 1921-22 may seem like meager fare n my own field of En.glish the range cluded in the curriculum in 1921, compared to the more than three hun J of literature courses which we although it came in not long after dred and fifty the Catalog lists as now offer, covering each major area wards. Likewise in 1921 there was offered in 1961-62. The earlier fare in English and American literature only one course in psychology and one was often solid, if plain, and the m an advanced course, contrasts in education. Philosophy, Psychology, mastery demanded by more of the sharply with the moralistic emphasis and Education was one department, drillmaster approach (most notably in on the Victorians. Jn 1921-22 there all the courses being taught by Pro German) was as thorough as the was a survey course in English litera fessor Savicles except for Education, material was limited. ture, no course was offered in Ameri which the President taught. There suspect that Professor Allen's can literature, Vvordsworth was brack was also a course called Bibical Litera practice of having students sometimes eted with Milton, and Shakespeare ture taught by seven members of the read a Greek or Latin classic in trans was taught as a part of a course in faculty. The Department of Philosophy lation before it is translated in class in drama. These courses were the whole and Religion now has Yaried offerings order that more of the class discussion program for that year. A few other requiring six staff members, and the may be devoted to ideas and literary courses were listed in the Catalog, Psychology Department gives a full quality would have been shocking to but were not given in 192 1-22. It major program. The education courses Professor Taylor, who could not only was not until the next year brought more than meet the Maine require tell what "trot" you had used to help Professor Weber as the head of the ments for secondary school teaching. you in your Latin translation but also department that the literature pro could point out the errors in translation gram began its development to the which the author of the " trot " had present extensive offerings. The com he Departments of Art and Iusic himself made. position offerings were much as they T are, for all practical purposes, new In the modern foreign languages are now, and the speech offerings creations since the days of President the present emphasis on the spoken under Professor Libby were more ex Roberts, President Bixler being largely language and the language "labora tensive than at present. responsible for their development. tories" was unknown. The courses Relatively, I should judge that the Each year Professor White used to give in German were somewhat slanted Colby offerings in science in 1921-22 a course called the History of Art, toward science. Spanish was taught, were the strongest part of the curri and in 192 1 that was the only course vague reference being made to the culum, for there were a number of very presented in either subject. ow we commercial importance of Latin able scientists and mathematicians on give a major program in both sub America. There was a course called the faculty. The fantastic development jects and have an entire building Commercial French as well as one in of knowledge in these areas has not devoted to them. Commercial Spanish. Neither the only resulted in new courses but has One course recently restored to the French nor Spanish classes were very also drastically changed the content of curriculum which was offered as long demanding- until the arrival of Pro courses bearing familiar titles. It has as Professor Trefethen lived is Astron fessor Strong, who brought high completely crowded out such courses omy. Journalism was given by Pro standards to the study of Spanish. The as Household Chemistry and Industrial fessor Libby for many years. Right present curriculum of the modern Chemistry, and Surveying and Draw after the Second World War it was foreign languages not only offers much ing, once given by the Mathematics given for a year or two by an instructor, more study of literature and conversa Department. but has not been given since. We tion but also has much stricter stan However, the most dramatic changes continue to offer Bibliography for a dards than were common in 1921. are in the social sciences. Even the limited number of students. Russian, of course, is a new addition History Department once offered only In comparing the two curricula we to the foreign language offerings, as four semesters of European history, find that the most obvious difference are Portuguese and a course in Italian four of American history, and two of is the tremendous expansion of course literature in translation. However, political science. These offerings have offerings. It is interesting to note, 0 course in the Italian language was expanded as widely as have those m however, the number of so-called given in 1921 but was dropped soon English literature. Developments in " practical " courses which have quiet- 8 COLBY ALUMNUS THE LABORATORY in the Shannon Physics Building, dedicated in 1888, and built by Colonel Richard C. Shannon, 1862. lt had many distinguished features including double-thick sound proof walls to accommodate the research being carried out by Professor William A. Rogers. The laboratory was used until the early 1950s when the Keyes Building was opened. ly died as the "liberal " courses have in many places. HoweYer, at no pre experimenting with broad courses, the increased. ,·ious time has it been so possible to get most successful of which appears to be As we consider the quality of educa an education in depth in so many sub our present Social Science course. The tion possible under the two curricula jects as it is no\L wave of enthusiasm for the \'ery broad the most significant change is in the At the same time that the curriculum courses in colleges seems to ha\'e added depth of the 1961 education. has expanded, we haYe been remark abated somewhat because of the great In the sciences and in the ancient ably successful in avoiding frivolous danger of superficiality. languages it was possible in 1921 to get and unimportant courses. This is not vVhereas in 1921 the possible direc an education in depth, although few to say that our curriculum is perfect; tions in which a Colby student could did it in the ancient languages. Stu in fact we haYe a Curriculum Revision deeply pursue his learning in the class dents majoring in many subjects grad Committee constantly at work, and there room were really Yery limited, we now uated from Colby with a broad educa are clearly places where the curriculum haYe a sufficiently flexible program to tion but with one made up to a con needs to be still further strengthened. provide excellent academic training for siderable extent of what may be called 'Ne seem also to have fairly well many varied indiYidual talents. Al relatively elementary courses, not going avoided over-specialization although though, as the college has become much beyond the present sophomore, there is constant pressure for more somewhat larger, we sometimes hear or at best junior, level in their demands specialization as the body of material the mistaken criticism that Colby does on the student. t least, it was in every subject increases. Our dis not now pay so much attention to the possible to graduate with an accumula tribution requirements and our English individual, we can assuredly say that tion of such courses, and was often and language requirements force every now Colby can and does do much done. With the coming of President student to have at least an exposure more in fostering and developing Johnson, this situation gradually to science, social science, and the \'aried individual talent and abilities changed as he strengthened the faculty humanities. We have had some success educationally than eYer before. Issue of FALL 1961 9 HERBERT SHAW PHILBRICK He Dared to Have Vision ,is the year of the Sesquicentennial approaches, it is Herbert Shaw Philbrick was born in Waterville 011 pertinent to answer an oft repeated question. Who first April 13, 1875, son of Frank Philbrick, whose family had suggested that the college must move from its historic long been connected r11ith the industrial life of the college site on the right bank of the Kennebec? This subject town, especially with the Waterville Iron Works- . lfter will be discussed at length in the forthcoming History of graduate work at M.l.T., Dr. Philbrick was for five years Colby College, with careful attention to the various claims. a member of the engineering faculty at the University of Thorough examination of the evidence has convinced the Missouri, then for more than thirty years profeswr of College H1»·toria11 that Herbert S. Philbrick of the Class Mechanical Engineering and Dean of the School of Engi of 1897 not only first suggested the move, but persisted neering of Northwestern University. Taking a leading in def ending both its necessity and its practicality. Dr. part in the expansion and growing prestige of that uni Phi/brick's claim is firmly established by a letter written versity, he was given charge of its extensive building pro to him by Franklin Joh1Hon in 1951 . Phi/brick's illu minating gram involving the expenditure of several million dollars. account and Johnson'.; confirmation are now published for In 1·etirement he now makes his home near the university the first time. in Evanston, Illinois. November 27, 1951 to bring iL aGout. A few weeks later I spoke Dear Bert: at a Rotary luncheon in the Elmwood Hotel. I have read your memorandum to Dick Dyer " Our Boys and Girls and the Colleges " was with great interest and appreciation. I think the subject. After Lhe Rotarians bad adjourned, it is correct in every particular as to the facts Herbert Wadsworth. chairman of the board and is a document that will be valuable. of trustees, George Otis Smith and a few other Henry Hilton and \Valter Wyman, when I members o[ the board. I had been elected to asked them to become trustees of the college the board in June, talked with me about how said that they would do so only on condition to carry on during the illness of President that we undertook to move the college. This Roberts. I told them I felt that the faculty gave great impetus to the idea. committee which the board had appointed would manage the college well. I then said, (signed) Franklin W. Johnson " The real problem howe\'er facing the college President Emeritus is that of a new campus." To that Herbert Wadsworth replied that had he known that I November 16, 1951 would have any such notion as that he would not have favored my election to the board. Dear Mr. Dyer: Your letter of ov. 3, 1951 is before me. In 1928 Franklin W. Johnson was elected I am inclined to do as you asked me and President of the College. 1r. Johnson ended "reminisce about those days." In order that a letter to me dated Dec. 3, 1928 from his office the information may be "valuable to future in Columbia University as follows: historians " I shall quote letters I have on file. " I shall be in Chicago during the holidays Mrs. Philbrick and I with our children spent and want to sit down with time enough for you to tell me all you have in mind about the summer of 1927 in Maine. We lived in the situation. I know you have given it our cottage at Squirrel Island but were fre much thought and I respect your judgment quently in Waterville. On one of our Water very highly." ville visits we, Mrs. Philbrick and I, were We met in the lounge of the Union League sitting on the veranda of the Waterville Country Club in Chicago at 10 a.m. on one of the Club. The beauty and open space all around days of his visit and talked about the future of us led us to say in chorus " Colby must have Colby. At 11:30 when our meeting was end more room " and with it was a resolve to help ing Frank told me that he was now convinced 10 COLBY ALUMNUS HE T DEED to the Mayflower Hill campus was presented to the board of truJ·tees by citizen.• of U'ater ville on April 17, 1931. In the photograph are, front row from left, ProfesJ·or Julian D. Taylor, '68; President Franklin H. Johnson, '91; Herbert E. Wad. .-worth, '92, chairman, board of trustees; and Mayor F. Harold Dubord, '14. Second row from left, Charles E. Owen, '79; Congresnnan Donald F. Snow, H illiam H. Hawes, '03; Fred J. '1.rnold and Burleigh Martin, president of the Alaine Senate. Back row from left, fudge Charles P. Barnes, '92, trustee; Charles Seaverns, '01 , trustee; Harry Jordan, '93, trustee; Treasurer Frank Hubbard, '84: Dr. George G. ,-Jverill , trustee; Judge Hugh McLellan, '95; Carroll Perkins, '04, and Charles W. Vigue, '98. that the college must hHe a new campus, that me your Yiew, and at the same time write the matter had not been presented to him be a letter to the ·waterville M orni11g Se11tinel fore and that he would undertake it. to be published as others of the alumni are now doing, showing the right spirit and do Frank Johnson was inaugurated president of everything in your po\\·er to have Colby Colby College in June 1929. A number of remain. It was my understanding that it was letters passed between us during the years your suggestion that Colby be removed to a 1928- 1930. The following sentence from. one larger place in the City of Waterville where of them written in the president's office under it would have plenty of land to expand. We have all kinds of land and sites here and it date of Nov. 29, 1930 refers I think to our would not be necessary to go to Augusta to conference in the Union League Club: accomplish the best results. If I am correct " You must not forget that you were the you are the originator of this mo\•ement as one ":ho first urged the necessity of this you talked the matter over with me several move. years ago." In 1930 an offer was made to the college of To this I repl;ed as follows on Oct. 16, 1930: a site in Augusta. A letter from a friend of mine in Waterville under date of Sept. 23, " As I am no longer a trustee of the col lege I hear nothing about what is going on 1930 contained the following and gives a notion in connection with selecting a new site for of the situation which th offer created : e the college. I imagine the president's feeling " I ha e looked in the Morning Sentinel is that the college must be put first and a for a letter from Dr. Herbert S. Philbrick site chosen that will in every respect best stating that you favor keeping Colby in serve the interests of the college, and that Waterville as you still have interests here should be his feeling. Under date of July 1, and being a graduate of this college, of 1930 soon after I got back from Waterville, course you are interested in its welfare and I wrote Frank Johnson. A part of the letter in that of the city. It seems to me it would follows: 'The college, that is you and the be a crime to take the college away and trustees, have to do two things, choose a site remove it to the City of Augusta as they for the college, and provide money with contemplate doing, and anything you can do which to put the college on the site. I believe in the way of a write-up might prove bene a better site can be found in Waterville than ficial and help keep Colby here. Kindly write the Gannett site. It should be possible to Issue of FALL 1961 11 raise sufficient funJs to put the college on a or as near to completion a� a growing thing Waterville site. Further, I believe the con can or shou!J ever get. tinued connection of the names Waterville Further, from what I haYc seen and heard and Colby to be a decided advantage. Senti about the college, l believe that it has rown ment is sol id for leaving the present site. You have by your first year as president notably in wisdom as well as in stature. The created a feeling of confldence in the college responsibility that rests on every college, to and in yoursel f, but there is a \'ery strong bring to it boys and girl desire for the highest sentiment against moving the college to some values is in the college as never before. In other town. The transition can best be made getting the tools for education Colby is using it the new site is in Waterville.' From this them for the end in Yiew - men and women letter and from other letters the president and the trustee committee know how I feel. of character worth much fine gold. I have not written to the Sentinel feeling (signed ) Herbert Philbrick that since I had made myself very plain to the pa rties who would do the deciding any general publicity such as a newspaper letter m.ight react unfavorably." Wimer and Spring Program In the letter from President Johnson of of Lectures and Concert Nov . 26, 1930 (previously quoted from ) occurs the following: The North Atlantic om munity: Its De- " The action of the boarJ on FriJay fenses anJ l ntegration will be the topic for cleared the atmosphere, and we are now Gabrielson lecturers during the coming months. ready to go ahead on the next and more The series openeJ January 16 with a talk by difficult stage of our program. The conclu �f. :'lfargaret Ball, Ralph Emerson Professor of sion finally reached was unanimous, and I think will pro\'e to ha\'e been wise. The Pol itical � cicnce at Welle ley College, :111J will City of Waterville has been aroused and in clo�e ,\pril 24 with an aJclrc�� by \Valter Hall the future will regard the college more stein, president o( the European Economic highly and will cooperate more fully in our omm unity. work." Other pcakers \\"ill be: February 20, Emile The college was to remain in Water\'ille but Benoit, a ociate professor o( international PRESIDENT JOllNSON, rie)1t, just where in Waterville it was to be had till busines�, Columbia ni, ersity; March I, Henry and the !-!on orable Bain to be settled as the following telegram to me A. Kissinger, Center for International Affair bridge Colby, former trw from President Johnson dated Dec. 12, 1930 Harrnrd ; farch 6, Stanley Hoffm< nn, Depart tee of the college, and indicated: ment of Government, HarYard; March 20, for mer U. S. Secretary " Which do you regard most suitable site Clarence Streit, president, International MoYe of State. They stand in for college stop Peninsular south of city, Mayflower Hill, West Mountain View Farm ment for Atlantic Union; anJ pril 10, Carl J. front of the speaker's plat north please wire collect." Friedrich, Department of Government, Harvard. form at ground break The college files for the years 1927 and on, ln addition the lecture anJ concert schedule ing ceremonies for Lori the Colby Alumnus and many other sources will offer, among others, the president of Fisk mer Chapel in 1937. should give the future historian plenty of ma Uni\'ersity, tephen J. Wright, (January 18); terial to work on. I have written only about Julian Hartt, chairman Department of Religion some things known to me personally. Yale, (January 25); Mary MacKenzie, Metro As I think over these happenings I have politan Opera Auditions winner, (February 15); three conv1ct1ons. 1st, Regardless of how, Robert Goldwater, director, fuseum of Primi when and with whom the notion of a new tive Art, New York City, (March i)· Ale 'ander campus started, it was inevitable that the col Boro\'sky, pianist, (March 22) · Herbert lege, were it to live must have room in which Gezork, president, Andover ewton Theo to grow. 2nd, The site selected was the best logical School, (March r); I. Bernard Cohen one available. I hardly see how it could be Harvard scientist (April 13). bettered. 3rd, The start and continuing of Albert Mollegen, professor of Tew Testament, the actual construction was an act of faith. Protestant Episcopal Theological Seminary Frank Johnson, Seelye Bixler and many other (April 15); Will Herberg, graduate professor people with vision, devotion, wisdom and drive of Judaic studies and social philosophy, Drew have done the almost impossible and have University, (April 26); and Dr. Bixler, pre brought the project well along to completion, senting the Phi Beta Kappa Lecture (May 3). 12 COLBY ALUM 'U Ihe College Scene T he many facets of J. Seelye Bixler - phil us back to the very beginning of the fight for osopher humanitarian, teacher and college this freedom. president - were revealed in the fall issue of " . . . The argument that freedom of the The Colby Library Quarterly which was dedi press protects a licensed medium from the cated to him. authority of the government that issues that In an article, The Philosophy of Julius Seelye license is doubletalk," he said. Bixler, Stephen Coburn Pepper 1950 Hon., Conceding that the broadcast media do retired professor of philosophy at the University transmit news and information about public of California described Dr. Bixler's central aim affairs. i\fr. Kilgore stated this doe not seem of philosophy as " that of attaining an overall to be their basic function - that the time and view of the world." Reginald H. Sturtevant, effort they spend on it is generally small in 1921, chairman of the board, commented on his proportion to that Lovejoy Fellow: A Journalistic Innovator Bernard Kilgore with editor Dwight Sergent The president of The Wall Street Journal, Bernard Kilgore, accepted the 10th annual Lovejoy Award on ovember 9. Addressing a convocation at which he received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree, Mr. Kilgore stirred up nation-wide comment with his declaration that the basic concept of freedom of the press cannot be applied to government-licensed broad ca t media. " We are going to get the idea of freedom of the press dangerously obscured if we try to stretch it to fit radio and television," he declared. 'I think that if we try to argue that freedom of the press can somehow exist in a medium licensed by the government we have no argu ment against a licensed press. That would put Issue of FALL 1961 Former foo'.ball �en on the sidelines for the Maine game included William Pendergast, '15; Ralph Hamilton, 12; Captain John Bagnell, '12; Thomas Crossman, 'l5; Wallace Lawrence, '17; Edward Cawley, '17 and Chester Soule, '13. Homecoming Spotlight on clays, ancl al the same time reasonably satisfy Professor Weeks and Paddy Davon the faculty, was quite a job. I can assure you that Le ter \Veeks came through that ordeal Homecoming Yl'eekenJ, JedicateJ to Pro of a number of years \\ ith the complete respect fes or-emeritus Lester F. \Veeks, '15, featured " o( both stuJents and the iacult y . a olby . Tight banquet at which 2-iO alumni, In acknowleJging the tribute, Professor alumnae, anJ other friends heard Dean Ernest \Veeks, going back 01 er his 50-vear affiliation C. Marriner, · 13, recount Professor \Veeks' long . with Colby, obsen ed, " I'm sure that the association with the college. increa e o( opportunities for intellectual endea,·or ·· :\ II 01 er this land, and in foreign lands as here ha1·e kept pace with the change in the well, there are Colby graduates tonight who physical equipment. It seems to me on remember Lester \Veeks not only as a scientist occasions uch as these it is well for u to remind but as an inspiring teacher who was interested ourselves of these changes; we hould acknowl in more than the science of chemistry, who was edge our many blessings; we should give thanks interested in the indiYiJual," the dean said. to tho�e who have made these possible, and " The world of scholarship is so specialized moreo\·er we should hope we are worthy to today, it isn't easy to find teachers in the col share in the fruits of their labors." leges like Lester Weeks, a man who is a com Mrs. Weeks, the former Ethel ferriam plete scientist yet at the same time belieYes in (1914) , receiYed gifts o( Colby Wedgewood the breadth of the liberal arts. from frs. Elizabeth Sweetser Baxter, '-i1, vice C-Club Man-of-the-year, John "Alumni remember him as chairman of the chairman of the Alumni Council. " Paddy " Daven, '33, athletic committee. ow if a man ever walked A Colby " C ., sweater was presented to John receives /1 C /1 sweater from the tightrope in his life in this college it was any Athletic Director Lee Williams. "PaJdy " Davan, '33 as the C Club "Ylan man who was chairman of the faculty committee of-the-Year." In making the award Lee on athletics. Williams spoke of the Westbrook High School "To satisfy the student body and the student athletic director's 28 years of coaching; his athletic committee we used to have in the old membership on the Colby Alumni Council and the athletic council, and his term as pre ident Professor-emeritus and Mrs. Lester F. Weeks and members of of the Southwestern Maine Colby lumni their family back for Homecoming: Mrs. Mary Weeks Association. Sawyer, '44; Frank E. Weeks, '47 and Paddy replied, " This ' C' stands for a great granddaughter, l.auren Weeks. deal to those who have been fortunate to have won it. I think to those of us out in the world it mc:i.ns courage. The men we are talking about here, the dedicated teachers, are the ones who give us that courage." CoLBY Lt:J\INU SONS AND DAUGHTERS, COLBY '65 Front row from left, Morion Hale (Williom Hale, '25); Joan Copithorne (Mary Small Copithorne, '35); Barbara Howard (Eleanor Ross Howard, '37); Virginia Cole (the late Lawrence Cole, '30, and Cornelia Adair Cole, '28); Helen Grand (Harold Grand, '29). Second row, from left, Mary Stinneford (William H. Stinneford, '30); Barbara McGillicuddy (Mary Vose McGillicuddy, '29); Merrill Barker (Hubert Barker, '16); Jean Ferguson (Ethel Henderson Ferguson, '29); Judith Guptill (Nathanael and Helen Carter Guptill. '39); Margo Beach (George Beach, '41, and Martha Rogers Beach, '42). Third row from left, Robert Byrne (Elizabeth Gurney Byrne, '34); James Salisbury (the late James Salisbury, '39); John Greene (Robert F. Greene, '33); Duane Record (Stuart Record, '34); John Workman (Linwood Workman, '40, and Joanna MacMurtry Workman, '41 ); David Haskell (John and Mary Fairbanks Haskell, '37); John Baxter (John Baxter, '40, and Mary Hitchcock Baxter, '41); Arthur Sills (Nathaniel Sills, '29); John Cornell (Robert Cornell, '43, and Thelma Bassett Cornell, '41); Kennon Bryan (Herbert K. Bryan, '33). Enrolled at Colby, but not present for photograph, ore: Cynthia Page (the late Luther Page, '35); Louise MacCubrey (P. Kenton MacCubrey, '28); Louise Melanson (Janel Chase Melanson, '28); Ida Levine (Lewis Lester Levine, '16); David Anderson (A. Wendell and Dorothy Trainor Anderson, '38); John Gillmor (Alexander and Hope Pullen Gillmor, '3 1 ). Costs Increase; Colby Art Financial Aid Keeps Pace Exhibited in Boston Effective September 1962, the annual fees of .-\ highly successful showing of selections the college will be increased by $225. Tuition from Colby's Art Collection was held No\'ember will be 1400; room $325; and board, $500, a 15-2 5 at the \-ose Galleries in Boston. The compared with the current charges of $1250 Friends of Art at Colby made possible this first $300, and $450. off-campus exhibition with the all-important In letters to parents and students, President assistance of Mr. and frs. Robert C. Vose, Jr. Strider stated he made the announcement with and a committee of thirty sponsors. " both pride and reluctance." The reception accorded Colby's art is reAected "I am proud, of course, that the board of in a commentary by Robert Taylor in The trustees has recognized the need to meet Boston Sunday Herald ( To\"ember 19). vigorously the competition we face in the ' The purpose of this show of The Colby areas of faculty salaries and scholarships," he College i\1useum is to acquaint Bostonians said. "It is with reluctance, however, that we with the riches of a rapidly growing small admit the necessity of adding to the expenses college museum of the north," he wrote. you are already carrying." " And what a show it is, the stress on superb The president noted that next year the American cam·ases, with fiye important college expects to make available to students Winslow Homers as the center-piece. It ranges through loans scholarships, and Yarious work from the colonial limners through Blackburn opportunities an amount totalling more than ... Benjamin West to Childe Hassam and the $300,000. moderns Jack Levine and Andrew Wyeth ... He pointed out that " the cost to the college "The drawings and prints are highlighted per student continues to be considerably in by Grosz s sa\'age 'The Repast,' Picasso's excess of the new amount. Through endow 'Bullfight ' and Durer's ' Madonna and Child.' ment income, and gifts from many friends, From pre-Columbian objects to Karl Zerbe, we are able partially to subsidize the education Colby College's Museum here emerges as one of every Colby undergraduate." of ! ew England's finest." lssue of FALL 1961 15 (J"' � ewe't The Dean's Notebook Students with butterfly nets Ernest Marriner's History of Colby College, to be published and collecting boxes were com in the autumn of 1962, will contain information that may sur mon sights on the campus this prise many an alumnus. For instance, did you know that: fall with the introduction of • Colby had no president until instruction had been conducted ecology into the first year biology for four years? course. Instructor Ronald B. • The Board of Trustees was never composed exclusively of Davis, right, Jed the field trips. Baptists, and that among the first trustees neither of the two With him are Ruth Grey, '63, most influential was a Baptist? Canaan, N. H., left, and Janice Turner, Canton, Conn. Pho • Even the theological course, conducted during the early '63, years, enrolle-d non-Ba ptist students? tograph by Norman Crook, '56. • The college failed to secure a substantial grant from the Massachusetts Leg islature because of bitter political animosity between two trustees? faine's first educational tele,·ision station, WCBB, went on the air, No • The total of the old campus comprised more than 800 acres, \ e ber 13. Financed and operated larger than the entire present site on Mayflower Hill? m entirely by Colby, Bate , and Bowdoin • 1930 Local agitation about moving the college in almost colleges, the station has received an 1819? duplicated similar agitation about the fi rst building in enthusiastic reception. WCBB will • The trustees once voted to establish the college at Skowhegan? eYentuall y serve as a relay for a state " iJe educational teleYision network. • The fi rst modern foreign language was taught at Colby more than 120 years ago, and that language was German? • Colby never closed its doors and never failed to hold gradua � The problem o( discrimination in tion exercises throughout the Civil War? college fratemitie has evoked consider • Three Colby alumni who held Civil War comm1ss1ons as able discussion on campuse through generals were active in the erection of Memorial Hall? out the nation. The Lrustees of Colby College met the issue at their lovem • The highest raise in salaries ever made at Colby, previous ber 4 meeting and passed a resolution to World War II, came at a time when the college had no which read as follows : president? "The Board of Trustees of Colby • The maior method of raising funds for the college was for College together with the students many years to send the faculty out on the road, during vaca and faculty, is strongly opposed to a tions, to ring Baptist doorbells? Colby chapter of a sorority or fraternity • As late as 1900, enrollment of women was opposed on the having an affiliation with a national ground that the charter was granted JI for the education of organization, unless the Colby chapter youth," and that courts had interpreted the word JI youth " as has complete freedom to select its applying only to males? members without reference to criteria • In the early years of this century more women than men of race, religion, or nationality. were enrolled in the college? "Further: That the Chairman of the Board of Colby Trustees and the • Between September, 1942, and June, 1945, fewer than fifty President of Colby College write a civilian men were reg i stered in the college at any one time? letter to the President of the Alumni • Colby today, though coeducational in fact, is still legally two Organization and to the national or coordinate divisions, and was intended to be two coordinate international organization of each colleges? Colby sorority or fraternity of which • Like the United States in the case of Grover Cleveland, Colby the local chapter does not have the had the same president for two non-consecutive terms? right to select its members without reference to criteria of race, religion, • Students once threatened to strike when board charges were or nationality, which letter shall con raised from $1.75 to $2.00 a week? tain a copy of this motion." 16 COLBY ALUMNUS Rated at the conclusion of the season Consecutive triumphs opened the as 'ew England's top small college fall's grid ,,·arfare. � orn·ich was O\ er team, the Uni,·er ity of �Jaine took powered 34-6. The next weekend Ken both the Yankee Conference and �Iaine Bee passed for two touchdowns 111 a crowns. In upending Colby H-0 on 13-6 w111 o\'er the l}ni\'er ity of first and third period scores, the Black Bridgeport. Bears handed Coach Clifford's team Two weeks later at Parents Day, its first shutout since \V illiams turned Colby romped to a 21-0 hrst h.ilf lead the trick 42-0 in 19-6. Since that o\·er Springfielc.I College and then helc.I disastrous afternoon Colby had scored on for a 27-2 1 success story. in 39 consecuti\'e games. Senior quarterback Bee establishec.I three new marks during tbe campaign. He surpassed the late Don Lake both in completions, 59, and in touchdo\\·ns. 11, and broke Bob Bruns· 1953 record of 110 passes by throwing 134 times. Bee wa second in �ew England in passing for points. Co-Captain Bruce The football season pro,·ided four wios and four losses and a batch of record-breaking performance . Vlith only 2 players on his squad, Coach Bob Clifford, in his sixth year, was continually faced by manpower problems. For the finale against Bates fi,e players were permanently sidelined and five others hampered by injuries. To meet the situation eight freshmen were permitted to dress for possible action. It was a major exception to a long standing Colby policy. Reluctant ly granting his permission, President Strider stated : "The present action seems to me preferable to cancelling the game or to playing it with insufficient numbers JOH:-1 1CHALE, Brunswick, shows the thereby risking further injuries to strain of playing in 85-degree tempera which overly fatigued players are ture at Norwich. The senior halfback prone." He emphasized the college scored two touchdowns despite 14 is still "strongly opposed to freshman stitches in his forehead. participation in varsity intercollegiate athletics." Fortunately no injuries occurred in In defeating Bates, Colby's football the 47-0 win and it was unnecessary to machine hit with precision in a 47-0 use the freshman reserves. victory that was the most one-sided Games were tight during the entire state series verdict for the i\fules since THE LI T of injured players grew longer fall. A touchdown in the final 59 1914 when Bates and Bowdoin were as the season progressed. Both sopho- econds gave Trinity a 23-16 win. blanked, 61-0 and 4 -0. The loss more Charles Thayer, £64, outh Paris, Tufts overcame a 14-0 lead to stop pushed the Bobcats into the cellar and senior fay Webster, =]6, Stough Colby 16-14. Bowdoin halted the and gave Colby third place behind ton, Mass., were hurt in the opening Mules at Brunswick, 22-15, on three Bowdoin and Maine in the M.I.A.A. minutes of the Bowdoin game and lost aerial touchdowns. standings. for the 1·emainder of the season. 17 Issue of FALL 1961 Kingdon ended his college career with ALL-AMERICAN a total of 1,651 yards on total offense and 100 points. He averaged 5.4 yards per carry. He and Co-Captain Class Jim Bridgman will be succeeded by a pair of Bay Staters, Charles Carey (Fall River), guard, and Hennon "Binky " Smith (Marblehead), back. The freshman record was disappoint NOTE S ing, although a single bright spot came in a 24-22 upset of Bridgton Academy. MCI was on top o( the young Mules 48-6. Other losses were 37-6 to Maine 1900 and 30-8 to Bowdoin. At 83 years of age, Charles ToW1le has retired for the . ccond time. His first " retirement" followed 25 years of service Talented Soccennen with t11C Providence School Department, On the soccer field Coach Mike the last 12 of which he was deputy Loebs directed another successful J-JE distinction of being selected for superintendent. Not content to be idle, team. whose 6-1-1 record earned Colby T the Silver Anniversary All-America he becarn th director of the Aptitude Testing Service for 13 years. He and a second place tie in the hnal stand of Sports illustrated has come to his charming wife, Ge1trnde Pike, plan ings of the New England Soccer Whitney Wright, 1916, above at left, to live in Florida. League. The Mules shared the spot with Alumni Secretary Bill Millett. with Bridgeport. Williams was up Currently assigned to the Air Opera 1909 front with seven wins and one loss. tions Division of SHAPE, in Paris, Sarah Young, retired \Vheaton College Captain and goalie John Crowell was Captain Wright was one of 25 men regi trar, '� as honored in September at a key to Colby's defense. He held honored at the ational Football Hall a public reception in the Solon :t\lethodist Church on the occasion of her scoring to 1.2 goals per game and of Fame Dinner in New York on Slst birthday. Her 37 year career as a made 123 saves. Shutout only once, December 5. President Kennedy was \Vheaton official was distingui hed and the first time in Colby's soccer history, the speaker. a donnitory has been named in her honor and that to Bowdoin in a 1-0 double The December 11 issue of Sports at \Vheaton. overtime, the soccermen were led JLlustrated carried Captain Wright's in scoring by senior Mario Diaz of story as well as that of the other 1914 Harry Umphrey, secretar of tl1e New Barcelona, Spain, who had seven goals. recipients, all of whom were selected y England Council, director of the U.S. The freshmen will send up several by a panel of prominent judges which Chamber of Commerce and fonner presi players to Coach Loebs from a squad included U. S. Attorney General dent of Aroo took Potato Growers, Inc., that scored 23 goals in four games, Kennedy and former Vice President has been listed in Iarquis' World Who's allowed on! y two against them and Richard Nixon. The criteria were the 'Vho in Commerce and Industry. had a pair of shutouts. The victims quality of the candidates' records in were Kents Hill, 6-1; Hebron 5-1; their profession and their general ef 1917 Paul Whittemore and hi delightful Bowdoin, 7-0 ; and MCI, 5-0. fecti Yeness during the intervening 25 wife, Lulu, were honored during the The varsity scores were: Boston years since they played college football. Old Home Week festivities in Phillips University, 5-3; Lowell Tech, 3-1; Each member of the anniversary team this pa t summer. Paul bas been the 40 Norwich, 3-2; Babson, 10-0; Bowdoin, received a trophy in the shape of principal of Phillips High School for years, an unequaled r cord in the state. 0-1 (OT) ; Bates, 2-0; Bowdoin, 2-1; silver goal posts. and Bates, 2-2 (OT). Captain Wright has had an impres A sport was re-introduced into sive military career, serving as a naval 1919 Harold Johnson, assistan t commissioner the fall athletic program with an pilot in World War II. His medals of New Hampshire's Department of informal cross-country team that include: Distinguished Flying Cross, Public Work for the past 31 years, has surprised even its most loyal supporters four gold stars, Legion of Merit, Navy announced his retirement. Beginning in 1920, by upending Bowdoin 20-30. Coached Cross, Air Medal three stars and the his administrative career Harold's early and long experience with federal by John Simpson and track captain Purple Heart. He is married to Louise aid regulations, state legislation in all Weeks, '38, daughter of Professor and Matt Perry, the men aim for full matters relating to the Public Works and varsity recognition in 1963. Mrs. Lester Weeks. Highway Department, and his broad 18 COLBY ALUMNUS Esters received the President's Award of He ha cut r1uite a \\'ath in tJ1e healt11 and :\ferit on June 22 at Salt Lake City, welfare field incc he moved into that BULLETIN Utah from the :"\ational Editorial Associa area from his early \\'Ork as a high school w illiston tion. The award, in the fonn of a plaque, teacher and director of atJ1letic . He i cited Esters "Inrecognition of hi years 1010\vn a a 111<1Il \\·ho can leap the of faithful service to >!EA. and his cha m bet\,·cen . ocial workers and contribution to the entire newspaper medical men, land on his feet. and indu try, particularly a chairman of the remain friend of botJ1 ,,·bile accom :"\EA. lecri lative committee since 195-!." pli�hing ju t \\'hat he et out to . Issue of FALL 1961 19 1925 Accounts and Returns Branch of the firm of Abrams and Bogue, a N w York Internal Revenue ervice in Augu ta . . . advertising and public relations agency. Colby is very pleased to have Clara Alan C111-tis is asphalt sales coordinator Harthom Haines as a house mother in in the new headquarters mark ting de Foss Hall. .. Bob Fransen teaches French 1935 partment of Humble Oil in Houston, and algebra at Bordentown ( 1 . J. ) J\lili lfawley Russell has retired with the Texas. tary Institute. rank of captain from the navy and is now living in Paris where he i director 1932 1926 of export requirements for t11e radio Ruth Brown Peabody has been elected phone di\ ision of the ;\;orthrop Corp. Madeline Woodwoith teaches English trca urer of the Houlton branch of the at Crosby High School, Belfast. American Association of University .\lARHIACE George Barnes was awarded on honor Women . .. Bill Curtis has been appoint Martin M. O'Donnell to Elizabet11 A. ary doctor of la"'' degree by Ricker ed district sale manager of the Con �IcCann, July 5, Torwood, �la s. 9. College in Houlton on October The n cticut :'dills Di>trict for Anaconda Barnes family has had a distinguished American Brass Co. 1936 and lengthy as ociation with the coll ge Dick Cummings is director of the Ed Smith of Fairfield i pre ident of where he ha> served as chairman of the department of public relations of the t11e Somerset County .\ledical Society... boa.rel. Ricker saluted him as " a worthy American Foreign i\lission Society with Floyd llaskell is t11e new chaim1an of alumnus, a devoted friend, a loyal sup offices in New York City. His wife, t11c board of trustees of Ricker College in porter." Barbara Hamlin, '3 1, is doing graduate Houlton ...Olir;er Mellen, French de work at Union Theological School. parb11ent head at \\'et11ersfield High Jlarjorie Van Horn Bernier is a third 1927 School, conduc:ted a summer course in Perley Fullerton is head of the mathe grade teacher at St. �lary's School in French under the auspices of the New matics department at \Veathersfield Augu ta ... Ralph Anderson is the new Haven Board of Education. (Conn. ) Senior High School. . . Ruth a istant up rintendent of schoob of Rou;erw .\Josher Brann teache thb:d Dow is a Higgins Classical Institute School Union 113 \\'ith his office in East grade on the staff of Harpswell Island teacher of Latin, social studies and \lilli11oeket. S<'hool. history. ..Arline i\Jann Peakes is h ad of the higher education committee of 1933 the Bangor branch of the A. A. U. W. Amw Colonel Chester tratton is 1937 Thelma Ber;erage Parker i a filth Maurice Lord i teaching at Richmond ordina�ce officer at Fort Ord. . . Irv grade teacher in Che hire, �lass. High School. .. Bill :llacomber, Colby's Malsch has been appointed vice president director of adult education, has been for sales of the Bridgeport Brass Co., a elected a trustee of �LC.I. divi ion of National Distillers and 1938 Chemical Corp. . . Ruth Pullen, who Russ Bla11chard, dir ctor of advertising, 1928 retired as superintendent of the ;.. raine ale promotion and agency research State Refonnatory for Women in July for Paul Revere Life, was elected Aubrey Fla nders is a mathematics follo\\'ing thirty years of state service, pre ident of tlle Lif In urance Adver instructor at Camden High School. . . is studying for a law degree at Temple ti ers sociation at the organization's Peg Dar.:is Farnham teaches junior and Univer ity. Ruth received an honorary annual convention held in Dallas, Texas. senior English at Hampden Academy. degree from Colby in June. Cecil Dagaett traveled each week ...Gardner Cottle has completed hi from Cleveland to \Vorcester, �lass. to service as pastor of the Bellows Falls attend t11e Tuesday night rehearsals of (Vt. ) U nitecl Church, where he ha been 1934 t11e 102nd .\lusic Fe tival Chorus of since 1947. Pete ,\J ills ha completed di - \Vorcester. A b·adition with many Gus D'Arnico, president and treasmer tinguished term of over eight years as generations of \\'orcester familie , the of Penobscot Paint Products Co., of U. S. Attorney for the i\laine District Festival is presented dming the latter Bangor, has been listed in World Who's and has retmned to private law practice part of October and Cecil was its most iVho in Commerce and Industry pub in Farmington. P te received the follow devoted participant, coming the long lished by i\farquis Who's Who, Inc. ing from fom1er Attorney General \Vil liam P. Rogers, under whom he served distance while on temporary assignment during the Eisenhower administration, for his company in Cleveland. 1930 "I know tlrnt I speak for all of your Aaron Cook has been promoted to the Bmnr colleagues in the department and for t11e rank of lieutenant colonel in the i\laine A son, James Douglas, to i\Ir. and President as well, in expressing sincere National Guard. Aaron, who practices �Irs. Eric r-.Imrill, (lean Cobb ) eptem thanks for the fine record you have medicine i11 \Vaterville, is a medical ber 10. made. This record reflects great credit officer assigned to the Augusta head upon you and the Deparbnent of quarters of the Guard. Justice." 1939 Ed Cragin, veteran photographer of Jane Mulkern is one of seven language 1931 t11e Waterville Morning Sentinel, won professors who are making a four month Alex and Hope Pullen Gillmor attended honorable mention in t11e sports class of tour of Europe. Jane recently received the American Bar Association annual t11e annual New England Associated her master's degree from the University meeting in St. Loui last summer. . . Press News Executives photo contest. .. of Hawaii and has been teaching French, Don Poulin is chief of the Delinquent Winthrop Clement is a member of the Spanish and Italian at the Officer ' COLBY ALUMNUS 20 School in Pearl Harbor. .. Lot1is Sacks is partner in the Collar and \\-illev BrnTH � i the new assistant principal at Garfield In urance Agency of Oakland. . . Ji 1 .-\. on, Kent Bruce, to .\Ir. and \fr . Junior High School in Revere, .\lass. Cochrane has been elected to the board Bruce Pelissier, ( C. Emily Holbrook ), Pauline Plaisted is teaching senior of trustees at 1:ents Hill. He is a direc .\lay 25. high school algebra at the Frontier tor of both Cen·end, Inc., and :'\orthrup Regional School, South Deerfield, .\lass. A ociates. 1947 . . . Wilson Piper was co-director of the Carl Piz:::ano, manager of the Poplin Ida Tyler .\IcGinnis' hu band. Bill, eighth annual summer Estate Planning Furniture Company in Framingham, who i the director of the \laine Chris and Tax Institute at Colby last ummer. .\las ., and lieutenant commander in the tian .-\s ociation at the l'ni,·er-itv of ...\Vaterville attorney Lester ]olovit;:; naval re erve, ha completed hi service .\laine, is h1dvincr toward hi doctorate visited Israel last spring and attended as commanding officer of the Harbor under a Daitlorth Campus Christian everal sessions of the Eichmann trial. Defen e Divi ion located at the U. S. \\"orker Grant at Boston UniYersity ... Naval Reserve Training Center, Lynn. BIRTHS Ray Greene ha been elected a director of the Bo ton Chapter of Chartered Life A daughter, .\Iartha Ann, to .\Ir. and .\LIBRIAGE Underwriters. Ray is super\"isor of the .\Ir . Fletcher Eaton, .\Iay 2. Harry L. Hicks, Jr., to .\lary Yoder, Summers Agency of :'\ew England Life A on, Anthony James, to i\lr. and eptember 15, >Jew York Cit�·· in Boston. i\lrs. Roy S . .\IacDonald, (Harriet E. Rogers ), June 25. BmTH BmTHS :\ daughter, Jane .\Iorri on, to .\Ir. A daucrhter, Elizabeth .\lacldock . to and .\Irs. Roderick Engert, (Jane oule ) .\Ir. and .\Irs. Raymond Greene, ep- 1940 Augu t 17. Arthur Thompson, associate director tember 4. of the Ordnance Re earch Laboratory A daughter, Linda, to .\Ir. and .\!rs. at the Penn ylvania 1943 Robert Hammond, (Gloria Kennedy ), :-.' un;:;io Giampetru;:.;:: i and family are tate Univer ity, Auau t. re iding in Hamilton, :\f. Y. Xunzio is has been named :\ son, \lark Foster, to .\Ir. and .\lr . chief pilot for the American .\lanagement as ociate dean of Clifford .\Iartin, (Irene Ferris ), _-\ugu t A sociation Aviation Division. . . Bob the College of 20. Dennison, a lieutenant colonel, is attend Engineering and incr the ten months Army \\"ar College, Architecture. Carli le, Pa. 1948 Tom Savage has Bob Burt is tlrn pastor of the First Lou;ell Haynes, minister of music of written a new Congregational Church of Oldtown, R. I. the Fir t Church of Christ, Concrrega novel, Trttst in . . . Paia;:;i Querim teache foreign tional, of \\'etl1ers6eld, Conn., directed Chariots, published languacres at Tmrnbull (Conn. ) High a choir workshop for the Norwich area by Random Hou e. cbool. in July. Lowell is also on the faculty Tom and bis wife, Betty Fitzgerald, ]i,·e at Hartt Collecre of .\Iu ic of the Univer- in Georgetown. ity of Hartford ...Dick Rogers was a 1944 peaker at the October Industrial Film Barbara Blaisdell Libby is teaching and International Film Festival held in 1941 English and foreicrn languacres at Bristol :'\ew York. Dick is with the .\1odern Sid Brick has been appointed to the High School. Talking Pictures Service. 1feriden-Wallingford (Conn. ) draft Dick and Norma Taraldsen Billings, board. He i the attending dental '46, and their children spend each surgeon at Meriden Hospital. 1945 Ed McCormack, attorney general for summer on Association Island on Lake the tate of i\Ia achusetts, i the Br t Ontario, where Dick directs a summer state attorney general to e tabli h a Y . .\1.C.A. conference center and vaca division on civil rights and civil liberties. tion land for fan1ilies. been named dis . . . Don Hinckley, minister of tl1e First trict sale manager Universalist Church of \\ orcester .\las . .\fARRL4.GE of the Honolulu, ince 1959, has a new parish. It is the .\Iarvin Burns to .\farcia Friedman, Hawaii office of First Universalist Church in Pitt field. August, at Brookline, .\lass. Dow Chemical Co. He joined Dow in BmTH BmTH 1947 and has had A on, Stewart Leon, to .\Ir. and .\!rs. A son, Charles Rapelje, Jr., to \Ir. and experience in the 19. A. J. Zulieve, (Virginia Brigg ) eptem .\Ir . Charles R. Debevois, October Seattle office in ber 8. chemicals, plastics and magnesium. 1949 He also served two 1946 Elaine �ayes Cella has won third prize for Marshall Hammond bas been appointed for her poem, No Longer Alone in a to the newly created po t of busines conte t ponsored by Beta igma Phi, we t. manager of the Bath Daily Times. . . international sorority... Bob Slai;itt ha Paul Willey, who bas been living in Jean Rhodenizer is teachincr junior joined the law firm of lavitt and Con Fort Lauderdale for the past ix year , English at Farmington High chool. nery with offices in Norwalk, Conn. Issue of FALL 1961 21 ,, farion LaCasce i on the teaching BIRTH A daughter, :\Iclissa Scott, to .\Ir and staff at South Berwick High School. A son, David Paul, to i\Ir. and :\!rs. :\!rs. Jess llenry Smith , December 2.5, Guy Smith is cost analyst for Sanders David E. Loce, October 19, 1960. 1960. Associates, Inc., of Nashua, N. H., A son, Leven A.lc\andcr, lo :\Ir. and manufacturers of electronic: systems and 1952 :\!rs. Cay lord E. Taylor, (Patricia componenb. . . Leonard \Varsliacer's Ladner ), J unc 18. Ed Pernkonis coaches skiing and fomil\' firm, Slumberlancl Products Com A daughter, Leslie Elizabeth, to .\Jr. teaches science course at the Black pany of which he is vice pre idcnt, has and :\lrs. Pl'ter \'an Alstyn >, (Carol � River High School in Ludlow, Vt. . . moved into a new ultra-modern plant on Carlson ), ;\larch 3. \\'alt I-Jayes, a captain in the Army Route 128 in Woburn, i\lass. Corps of Engineers, is serving as assist ant professor in military science at the 1954 1950 University of Rhode Island... John and Roy Shorey ha' been promoted to Dick Boral1 has b en promoted to , Betty Robertson Deuble '.53, and family district manager of superintendent of agencies by i\Iutual arc living in Houston, Texas where John the New Jer ey Bell of Ne\\' York. He bas been director of is employed by the Liberty i\iutual Telephone Co.'s pecial markets since 1959. An lnsmancc Co. Vineland District. article de cribing highliahts in the career .\lARHlACE Previou ly Roy was of Jay I-li11so11, editor and publisher manager for New Stanley George Pike to Suzanne Ri - of the Calais Advertiser, appeared in Jer�cy Bell in rew ney, October 14, at Utica, N. Y. the Portland Sunday Telegram this last Brun wick ... Lin Barbara Wentworth to John :\I. C. summer ..Kev in Hill, i\I.D. has been don Christie ha Wilson, Jr., July 15, Belfa t. appointed to the medical staff of Thayer been appointed the Hospital in \ Vatervillc. Gerry BIHT!lS principal at East Frank has been elected president A son, Andrew David, to l\fr. and Corintl1 Academy. of the Park \Ve t Cornmunitv Association ' i\lrs. Ronald P. Scott, (Carol Thacker ), ... Bob Fraser is ale manager for Con of Chicago's Lincoln Park conservation on Fcbrnary 1.5. trol for Radiation, lnc. in .\la sachusetts. Association. A son, Douglas mold, to :\Ir. and ... Bob Longbottom has been appointed Jolin Harriman has been named :-- Jrs. Edwin L. Thornton, (Jean P. �Whit as i tant to the vice pr siclent of the manager of Pacific .\lutual Life's San comb), l\lay 22. Canal , ational Bank of Portland. Diego group insmance operation. . . Abbott Rice i> teaching at orthamp Dick Urie is pre ident of the i\lagic 1953 ton (�la s. ) Commercial College ... Lantern Playhouse theater group of Jack King is ma11ager of the new Boston Joe Bryant is attending the Univer ity i\larblchead, i\fass. office of tJ1e l\:atz Agency, Inc ...Free of Texas Graduate chool of Education, man and Sue Jolrnso11 Sleeper and their BrnT11s having been granted a Tatiana! Defen e two ons are now living in Connecticut A son, Carl Ernst, to i\lr. and i\Irs. Education Act Counseling and Guidance where Freeman ha been appointed Richard F. Armknecht, on July 5. Training Scholarship. . . Ted Johnson instmctor of religion at Trinity College A daughter, i\lary Anne, to Dr. and has been appointed head librarian at in Hartford. i\lrs. Kevin I-fill, October 19. Reading ( i\lass. ) Public Library. For the pa t two years Teel has been librarian at .\J A RRIAGE tl1e \Vatervill Public Library . . . Ross 1951 Patricia B. Ingraham to Richard Holt is tl1e principal of Thoma ton High Arnold Sturtevant and Ed i\lartin are .l\lmray, July Augusta. School. 8, co-owners of a complete collection of \Farren Johnson is in the practice of paintings by a French priest-artist, Abbe Bm-rH pediatrics in \Vilmington, Del. ..Joe Jean Louis Gervat. They acquired the A daughter, Su an Beth, to Dr. and Cartier ha received his master's degree paintings from the Abbe's elderly sister �!rs. George Dorfman, (Barbara Fisher ), in education from Rutgers Univer ity. in France who turned down all other August 24. offer for the collection in following her i\lARRIAGES A 22 COLBY ALUJ\INUS Co., members of the ew York Stock Conn ... Jim Higgins ha been appointed :\IAHRJACES Exchange. .. Rod JfcFarlin is teaching sale representative for the Hudson Valley E::.ra .--\. Goldberg to Loi ..\nn teiner, grade even and eight at the Willi ton area, Tew York, for Ortho Division of Jnne 18. Albany. �. Y. ( \'t. ) Central School. .. Ted Brown is a the California Chemical Co. . . Ann Peter Augustine Hussey to Kathryn patent attorney with Tibbetts Industries Holden teache Engli h at Cromwell A.. Lorentz, eptem ber 16, Kennebunk of Camden. (Conn. ) High chool. port. Eli:::.abeth Potcers to Robert H. GiLnan, :\IARRIACES :\JARHlAGES July l, Ea t :\lillinocket. Lewis C. Montpelier to Edith Bologna, Charle Edmund George to Eleanor BIBTHS October 14, Riverside, Conn. Anth ony Rieg, September 2. A on, Brent \\'illiam, to :\Ir. and James Wood Tyson, Jr. to Evelyn Gerald Goldsmith to Barbara Sack, :\Ir . Clifton Burrows, Jr., (Jfarietta Behren myth, Atiaust 20, Charlotte, October 28, at Worcester, :\lass. Robe1ts ), August 11. ::\. c. Adelheid C. Pauly to Gerald C. Lans A daughter, Ruth, to :\Ir. and :\lrs. Victor Ladetto to Ann �Iarie :\Iurphy, incr, May 27, Albany , . Y. George J. Chambers, (Barbara D11er, August, New Bedford, i\Iass. '56 ), eptem ber. John. A. Dutton. to Jane Gilchrist, June BIRTH A daughter, uzanne Lee, to :\Ir. and 24, :\lather Air Force Base, Calif. A on, Jeffrey Andrew to Dr. and :\Ir. Leon A. Duff, (Ann Barnes ), ..\pril Richard W. Tripp to Joan rnith, July :\Ir . Justin A. Cross, (Kay Ann Litch 14. 15, Augu ta. '58 ), field, September 1. A son, John Ho·ward, to :\fr. and A on, James Augustine, to :\fr. :\!rs. John Durant, :\larch 27. BIRTH and i\Irs. James R. Laccabue, Jr., (Mary A son, George Dudley, 5th, to i\Ir. A daucrhter, ally Clark, to 1'lr. and Ann Papalia ), July 1. and :\frs. Arth ur D. Hall, II, October 10. :\Ir . Sidney W. Farr, August 18. A son, Richard Jame , Jr., to :\fr. and A daughter. Jennifer, to :\Ir. and :\fr . on, Peter Church, to :\Ir. and :\lrs. :\Ir . Richard J. Nader, (Lydia B. Smit/1, Joel H. Harri , (Eleanor J. Shorey ), on John H. Ingraham, (Ann S. Dillingham ), '57 ), July 25. July 31. October 2. A daughter, Julie Frances, to :\Ir. and A daughter, Katherine Layer, to i\lr. :\lrs. Robert Raymond, (Frances \Fren, 1958 and i\lrs. Lee Larson, (Chris Layer, '56 ), '58 ), September 9. Phyllis 1-Iardy i an a sociate teacher ugust 22. A daughter, Anne Bradford, to ;.. fr. of biology at We ton (;\las . ) High on, John David, to :\fr. and :\Irs. and ;.. Irs. Andrew C. "'heeler, (Julie School. . . Aaron Scliless i now a sociated John Reisman, (Jane Daib, '58 ), Septem Brush ), Aucru t 9. with the law fim1 of Cohen and \Volf ber 15. in Bridgeport, Conn. He received an A daughter, Deirdre Susan, to i\Ir. and 1957 LLB la t June from Columbia Law :\Ir . Glen 0. toddard, (Elizabeth R. George and Barbara Duer Chambers, chool. ..Al Grappone i the head of the K1iox ), August 6. '56, are in i\Iadison, \\ i . where he is new Capital Acceptance Corp., of Con doing graduate work at the University of cord, _ . H., an auto installment loan 1956 \Vi cousin. company ...Al Dean, co-holder of the orma Lowery is teaching fifth and Buddy Bates teache math, geology and \ olkswacren franchise for the Fitchburg ix th grade in Amherst, 1 . H. . . Cliff science at Belmont Hill (:\lass. ) chool Leominster, :\las . area, i building a \Varner is school denti t for \Vaterbury, in Belmont, :\lass. ales and ervice headquarters. �A� MFG. CO., INC. rr WILTON, MA INE (FAIRFIELD PuBusHING Co. ) PRINTING QUALITY QUALITY WOODENWARE DEPENDABILITY For Over Seventy Years SERVICE Plants Located in Maine 192 Main Street Fairfield, Maine EAST WILTON MATTAWAMKEAG Telephone Globe 3-7476 STRONG WILTON Main Offices in WILTON Keep Maine PRINTING in Maine Issue of F LL 1961 23 Norman Porter Fitch to Sandrn Shel in Ayer, !\lass. and Dave is teac:hing ton, July 22, Needham, i\lass. gl'ncral science lo the seventh and eighth BOOKS FOR SALE Alan Do11ald Fraser to Judith Jenb, grades at Groton High School. . . ENCYCLOPEDIA BHLTAKNICA, AlllERI- September 14, \Vym1ewood, Conn. Dornthy Reynolds received her ma ter of B11n Hs Clare L. Bums to Robert E. Drink water, lune 2-1, .\ larblehead, .\la s. TRmER1u A daughter, Cheryl Lynn, to ,\Jr. and : Pete1 �·.• \JocFarlane to Helen L. '.\lrs. Brnce Blanchard, September 1.3. ]olrn.1·m 1, '61, July 1.3, Douglaston, J • Y. A son, Ronald Scott, to ,\fr. and /.!rs. R Broch:, , Eugene D. ,\Ja:::.o to J ean S. eisler, SHO:f .\ lorton A. - (Judith S. Lei:ine ) unc o n April 1. J 25, Ha1iford, C n . FoR CHILDRE:\' Bmce Williams .\/cFarland to Joan - Macie by A daugh ter. Alexa, l orn to '.\Ir. and J.-:eller, August 11, at Essex a b, :\. \Irs. Howard J. Charle�, Jr., (Cynth ia F l J. THE GREEN SHOE MFG. CO. Anth ony E. Moore to Christine '.\lac Towtel/ot ), June 29. A ;..Jeil, J unc 24, Rockport, ,\las" Boston, :\Iassachusetts son, Glenn K irby, to \Ir. and '.\IL. Ru to Dou alo.s· Dauidson, (Barbara Borchers, Brf'tton Donnan sell Leslie Baldu:in Nichol:,, August, at Suocook, '60 ), Oc:tober 18. :'\. H. A son, Gary \Vamboldt, to '.\Ir. and Sa11111el ]. Singer !\!rs. Alfred I-I. Deon, Jr., (Ka!; German, to Saundra Lee Back Prager, August Conn. Hurry '59 ), September 6. 13, Woodbridge, A daughter, .\!aria Louise, lo '.\Ir. and i\ l r . William R. Jobin, (Sarah P. BmTm Frit:::. ), August 9. A son, Scott Garland, to /.Ir. and .\Irs. Robert ]. Bruce, (Judith A. Garland, '58 ), Augu t 20. A da ugbter, he1Tic Elizabeth, to Lt. 1959 and '.\!rs . .\l ichael F. Farren, July 4. Al Gengras has been appoi.nted to the A son, Keith Alan, to �Ir. and '.\Ir . faculty of the \\'atkinson School, Hmi David La1cre11ce, (Dorothea K. Bald RUMMEL'S ford, Connecticut where he will teach ridge, '60 ), ,\lay 1.3. English, geomcb·y and reading ...Roly SNACK BAR Price has purchased a 1300 acre fann ICE CREAM between R angeley and Stratton, which he plans to develop into a year-round 1960 vacation and skiing resort. . . Helen Liz Boccasile is now an assistant de Moore has been appointed teacher of partment manager with Filene's . ..Karen American history, civics and problems Stiegler Patten received her bachelor of of democracy at the Nipmuc Regional education degree at Plymouth Teacher Cynthia Gardner Bevin and her hus Junior-Senior High School at l\Iendon, College in J une ...Blandine Lafl.amme band, Dougla , toured Europe last i\Ias achu etts. Helen has been working i\IcLaughlin is vvorking for her doctorate summer. ..S ylvester Burch is serving for her master's degree at Boston Univer- in Paris and is on her second year with the army in France . . . Carol Hatha ity. Fulbright grant . . . Jim Quinn ha way and Carol Conway, who received Mary M01tin teaches eigh th grade at received his M.A. degree from the Uni their M.A. degrees last June from Boston the Charles C. Shaw School in Gorham. versity of Pennsylvania. College, toured Europe together during ...Nancy Little works in a managerial Charles Murphy, who received his i\LA. the summer . . Margaret Fox teaches capacity in the dress department of degree from Suffolk University last June, math in the North Syracuse (N. Y. ) Filene's ...Stan Painter is taking grad is teaching in l\farlboro, Mas . . . Marion Central High School. uate work in chemistry and bacteriology Porter is teaching elementary school in at the University of Maine . . . Don Cote Darien, Conn. . . Doug Mathieu has i\[AHRJAGES has joined Harold Cabot & Co. of Boston completed the air force navigator train Joseph T. Consolino to Carolyn W. as an advertising agent. . Dave and ing course in Texas and is now a signed l '60, Evans, '61, June 24, Wakefield, Mass. Dotty Ba dridge Lawrence are living to Mather Air Force Base in California. 24 COLBY AL UMNUS SAVE WITH Waterville Savings Bank \ v A TEH\'ILLE, � L.\IXE :\[ember Fe Telephone TR 2-2 744 PURELAC DAIRY PRODUCTS, INC. Quality Dairy Products Waterville Maine TILESTON & HOLLINGSWORTH CO. The memory of Donald Lake, 1955, and Dr. Cecil Clark, 1905, u;il/ be per Papermakers Since 1801 petuated throuah a memorial scholarship established by the Boston Colby Club. 21 1 Congress St., Boston 10, Mass. Initial recipients tcere Robert Sigro, 1961 , at far 1·ight, and beside him, classmate Robert Burke. F. CLIVE HALL, '26 - Moine Representative The scholarship is presented on the basis of need, citi::;enslzip, contribution to the college, and scholarship (in that order of importance ). Shou;n aboi.:e, left to riaht, tcith the u;inners, are: Carl Bryant, 190-1, Louis Zambello, 1955, and Nelson HAROLD B. BERDEEN 1950, "Bud " Ecerts, past president of club. Jfembers at the ·' lay meetina, heard PRIXTER .' 1essrs. Bryant and Zambello speak of tl1eir friendships tcith Dr. Clark and Don Lake. Tel. TR 3-3-i3-i \l'arren Blesser pent the ummer as Peter B. Heyler to \'irginia Clark, 8 Pleasant Street an alpine !!llide in the Canadian Rockie eptember 2, Bela-Cynwyd, Penn. \ Vaten·ille, :\faine and was one of four men who attempted Jlargaret J. Ilibbard to Donald P. to climb :\It. :\lcKinley only to be forced :\liller, June 24, :\Iontpelier, \'t. back after the lo of 16 days food and Deborah B. \l'ilson to Jed \\'. Bullen, some equipment in an avalanche. . . Anne 2nd July, at �ewton, :\las . EMERY-BROWN CO Gerry teaches fifth grade in Brewer. . . Vv ATERVILLE1S George Aucliincloss was among eleven BIRTH elected insurance repre entatives attend Twin daughter , Jane Fanin and Lee LEADING ing two week of insurance planning :\lilburn, to :\Jr. and :\Ir-. George :\I. and elling courses conducted by the Auchincloss, (;'If. Jose11hi11e Deans ), Oc DEPARTMK\ T STORE 1 'ational Life In urance Co. of \'ennont. tober 29. A ...Roger Richardson ha been awarded son, Calvin Robin on to :\Ir. and :\lrs. Calvin R. Dyer, ()Iargcret Barnes ), a full cholarship at the Univer ity of WATERVILLE FRUIT & eptember 4. :\laine for a ma ter's degree in p y A daughter, Karen, to :\Ir. and :\Ir . cholocry. . . Carol Shoemaker teache PRODUCE CO., INC. David Fowler, (Alice H. Stebbins ), fourth grade at the outh Elem ntary October 7. chool of Boston Univer ity. SANGER AVENUE Joan Derby i a fifth grade teacher WATERVILLE MAINE at Greenlodge School in Dedham, :\Ia s. 1961 Frank D'Erocle visited Europe dur ... Carole Richardson is assistant in the ing the summer and i· now at Cornell member hip deparb:nent at Boston' Law School. . . ]t1dy Dt11111ington spent :\lu eum of Science. . . Barry Potter is last wm11er abroad visiting The Nether Boothby & Bartlett Co. with the General Radio Co. purcha ing lands, Belgium, France, Germany and INSURANCE department in �la sachusetts. England. he i now in tl1e research department of :\Ierrill Lynch, Pierce, Since 1859 :\lARRlACE Fenner and Smitl1, Inc., in New York 185 Jerome Franklin Goldberg to usan City . . . Marilyn Blom is teachincr fifth Main Street, Waterville, Maine Gail Turitz, August 27, at Portland. grade student in Acton, :\lass. Issue of FALL 1961 25 Brenda Ehl is with the J ohn Hancock Lif Insurance Co. . . janet llaskins �Yitt� landaville has return d to the United States from cotland where . he was � IN � awarded an :'.\I.A. degree from the Uni ---._ v rsi t of Edinburgh . Henry Sheldon I e y . . MEMORIAM is cmolled in the naval aviation cadet '� \�� program at Pen>aL"ola, Fla ... Judy Iloff- 111i111 i� teaching English at � l orse High School in Bath. . . Diana Shem1r111 b a � living and working with Plew Haven, my college the i\'atJ1anid Whit in the minhtry a pastor-emerih1s Mary L. Ardrey to George A. Olson. of the \\'indsor Avenue Congregational e 30, i to his Alma Mater can bring Jun l\ew York C ty. Church in East Harlford, Connecticut. Jeanette M. Benn to Robert E. Ander The Rev. � I r. Tuthill is urvivecl by definite futuretax advantages son, J uly 29, Houlton. three dau�hter.,, a son and a i ter. Nathan B. Brackett to Susan K. Boyle, to his wife and family. '62, August 5, France town, N. H. - '99 Our experienced Trust Ed1card Burke to Betsy Perry, August 11 ubert James .\lerrick, Sr., 86, father 26, Exeter, N. H. of five Colby alumni an COLBY ALUMNUS 26 talented musician, she played the Born in \\!are, i\Iassachusetts, :\Ir. comet and piano with the Tozier Simoneau attended Colby for two years, Orchestra of Albion and received accept 1910-1912. He received his bachelor's PRINTING ance to play with tl1e Jew England degree in 1915 and master's degree in Letterpress - Offset - Book Binding All-Girl ew Encrland Orchestra in tl1e 1917, both from Central Univer ity in 1930's. Iowa. KENNEBEC JOURNAL She is survived by two cousins. ;\Ir. Simoneau taught in the Fair£eld Tel. MAyfair 3-3811 Augusta Maine and Ea t Eddington chools and was principal of Howland schools. For 11 "Maine's Leading - ' 12 years he served as superintendent of Commercial Printing Plant " Samuel Alton Herrick, 75, died June chools of tl1e .\lonidgewock district and 20 in Chicago, Ill. The Zeta Psi in tl1e Fairfield and Benton disb·ict four fraternity member was uperintendent of years before retiring to Hinckley. the chemical plant of Darling & Co., He is survived by his wife, the former Chicago. Carrie Perry, and a sister. MORIN on of ilie late Dr. Frederick . Her rick, ;\l.D., (1880 ), he is survived by his Joseph Patrick Burke, 69, died at his BRICK COMPANY . tep-daughter; a brother, Fred S. Herrick, home in Highland Pai·k, New .Ter ey, ( 1917 ), and several grandchildren and July 23. FurnisherJ· of BRICKS great-grandchildren. Born and educated in Nashua, New at Colby College Hampshire, :\Ir. Burke, upon graduation from Colby, spent tl1ree year as a Danville Maine - '13 Knights of Columbu Fellow at Catl1olic Dacid Ba111n, 69, former owner of tl1e Univer ity of America, School of Science. Livermore Fall Glove Company, died From 1917 until his employment in 1937 in , ortl1 Livermore, September 22. in chemical sale work for Enjay, a sub- icliary of tandard Oil of New Jersey, A native of Gem1any, :\Ir. Baum H. P. CUMMINGS prepared for college at Livermore Falls :\Ir. Burke worked for E. l. Dupont de High cbool and after worldncr in Boston Nemours; U. . Rubber Company and and ew York, returned in 1929 to Thomas A .. Edison Laboratories. He was operate the glove factory until hi retire disb·ict rnanacrer for Enjay at tl1e time CONSTRUCTION ment in 1959. of hi. deatl1. A member of Delta Upsilon, :\Ir. Baum A a hemist, :\Ir. Burke had is urvived by hi wife, the fom1er several patent in his name having to COMPANY Virginia Chandler, and a ister. do witl1 tl1e art of distillation in chemical processes. /.feroe Farnsworth Morse, 70, a He was a former director of the New Genera l Contractors dedicated Colby alumna, died at home York Colbv Alw1mi A sociation and in s in her native \Vaterville, September 16. 1948-49 it president. :\Iiss :\!or e prepared for college at He is ltrvived by hi wife, tl1e fom1er WARE, MASS. Coburn Classical Institute and taught at Angela Shea, tlu·ee on , including Winslow one year and Parsonfields ;\1ajor Thomas \\I. Burke, '47, two WINTHROP, MAINE WOODSVILLE, N. H. daughters, and a nephew, Robert l\Ic Seminary for two year . From 1920- 1 945 1879 Bride, '64. Established she managed real estate holdings in Incorporated 1906 Waterville. he was a member of Sigma Kappa and graduated Phi Beta Kappa. - Builders of - :\Iuch of her life was centered around -' 19 LOVEJOY BUILDING the Fir t Baptist Church of Waterville. Ralph Hudson Dreru, 66, a fonner She was a member of ilie American chemistry instructor at Colby, died at BIXLER ART MUSIC CENTER Bapti t Home Mission and in 1946 his Ambler, Pennsylvania home, Augu t & went to Leopoldville, The Congo, a a 14. He was born in ew Limerick. EUSTIS ADMINISTRATION BUILDING mis ionary. Ill healtl1 forced her to Hu band of tl1e former Alice Bishop, return in 1948. '20, i\Ir. Drew prepared for college at She had been a tnistee of Coburn Houlton High School. He vva a member Classical Institute from 1938 and of Phi Delta Theta and Phi Beta Kappa. treasurer since 1948. In 1950 he }.Jr. Drew received his master's degree opened tl1e Antiquarian Bookstore in her in chemistry from tl1e Univer ity of GEORGE H. TER:- Issue of FALL 1961 27 :t-.fr. Drew served as pr sident of the ��� �'\� �� board of the Ambler Public Library, the � Zoning Board of Ambler, and was an � A W1 � alwnni representative in Philadelphia. � Matter of ·JJ Po wer Colby 1s stronger today for the support it lws rece11.;ed from alumni and His \.v ife is his only immediate survivor. � � friends. Many 1d10 ha ve u;a11tcd ta commit their resources to the establish- � ment uf 111fl11ence� which ore everlastmg har;c named Colby College their - � � ' 24 beneficw1y. Willard Albeit Seamans, 63, died Octo � Samuel B. Shepard, 1883, who pnor to his death in �lay, 1960, wa the � ber 3 at Tagus. For 31 years an English !:� college's ol 28 COLBY ALUMNUS The Kl'\0\YLTOi\& l\1cLE.-\RY Co. • F.irming:ron.i\L 1inc: • phone -1-155 PRINTERS OF THE COLBY ALUMNUS FoR OYER 20 YEAR Compliments of ROLLINS . DUNHAM CO. KEYES FIBRE COMPANY Dealers in Manufacturers of H.-IBDWARE - P.U-'-"T - BnLDERs' SePPLIE Molded Pulp and FAR\I SUPPLIE - Hou EWARES Fibrous Plastic Products \\'E TIXGHOC E APPLLL'\CE WATERVILLE, MAINE 29 Front Street Waterville, �1aine LEVINES Colby Colle ge The Store for Men and Boys BOOKSTORE WATERVILLE MAINE We In ite You To Come in and Look Over Our �f erchandise LUDY, '2 1 HOWIE, '41 PACY, '27 CASCADE WOOLEN MILL OAKLA D �IAINE Social Center for Colby Alumni Since 1850 The Finest Facilities for Your Manufacturers of Reunion Dinners Always Home for Colby Parents and Friends Woolens AM PLE FREE PARKING - HENRY D. McAVOY, Mgr. 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