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Rollins College Rollins Scholarship Online Rollins Magazine Marketing and Communications Fall 1940 Rollins Alumni Record, September 1940 Rollins College Office ofa M rketing and Communications Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarship.rollins.edu/magazine Recommended Citation Rollins College Office of Marketing and Communications, "Rollins Alumni Record, September 1940" (1940). Rollins Magazine. Paper 102. http://scholarship.rollins.edu/magazine/102 This Magazine is brought to you for free and open access by the Marketing and Communications at Rollins Scholarship Online. It has been accepted for inclusion in Rollins Magazine by an authorized administrator of Rollins Scholarship Online. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The ROLLINS ALUMNI RECORD " "•" WK J»^ In This Issue ROLLINS DAY . AT THE FAIR 40Wi* wwy| WOODSTOCK gJVl REUNION Wp * y*Ss.Ca^FTK Tr" X \ ^r ^^1 ^K "7 ARGENTINA BOUND—FOR A YEAR ADDITIONS TO THE FACULTY |1 COLLEGE •V' vetfi CALENDAR v1, t ItJtiH FACULTY AND CLASS NOTES f 1 11 ■!■ SEPTEMBER 1940 Vol. XVIII No. 3 li % litf U The Horses/we ~m-* Additions to the The Woodstock Rollins Faculty Reunion Two NEW faculty appointments in the departments ALUMNI, faculty, undergraduates, trustees, prospec- of science and economics were announced this sum- tive students and parents gathered at Sunset Hill, mer as Dr. Isaac Croom Beatty, III, was named in- summer home of President Holt, on August 17 to structor in chemistry and Dr. Clifford E. Maser was ap- wish him a happy birthday and to enjoy the informal pointed instructor in business administration. fellowship of these summer reunions. Dean Arthur I). Enyart presided over the informal Dr. Beatty succeeds Dr. Gilbert E. Moos, who has re- meeting which followed a picnic luncheon held on the signed his post as instructor in chemistry. A graduate of shore of Roseland Lake. Dr. Clifford Maser, new Busi- the University of the South at Sewannee, Tenn., with a ness Administration professor, was introduced; Bruce Bachelor of Science degree in 1935, Dr. Beatty received McCreary of Louisville, Kentucky, received the "long his M.A. degree from Oberlin College in 1937 and his distance" prize. President Hamilton Holt was then intro- Ph.D. degree from Yale University in June. Assisting in duced and spoke of general conditions for the college and general chemistry at Oberlin for two years, and in organic also of the political and world situation. Prexy asked chemistry for a similar period at Yale, he was a student that all Democrats who were going to vote for Willkie of advanced qualitative analysis, thermodynamics, col- stand and he awared a prize (a glass elephant) to the loids, qualitative organic analysis and special topics in (Continued on fage 4) organic chemistry. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, and the American Chemical Society. A flying enthusiast, Dr. Beatty holds a private pilot's license with 130 hours of solo experience. Dr. Maser's appointment will strengthen the depart- ment of business administration and economics which has steadily increased in popularity among both men and wo- men students during the past few years. With the addi- tion of a new faculty member in this department, it is expected that several extra courses in business adminis- tration will be available to students this fall. Dr. Maser is a graduate of Swarthmore College, and completed his work for a Ph.D. degree at the Universities of Cologne and Bonn in Germany in 1936, receiving Magna Cum Laude honors at his graduation. In 1937 he studied the courses in business administration at the University of Vienna, and has since been employed as Executive Assistant with the Carobronze Roehrenwerke in Vienna, and the Carobronze, Ltd., in London, where his major duties consisted of the adjustment of wages and economic problems brought about by the devaluations of the currencies in European countries. Three changes in personnel of resident heads was made necessary this summer by the resignations of Mrs. Nell B. Lester, Mrs. Margaret Coe and Miss Effie Jane Buell. Miss Isabel Green, '28, has been added to the staff as Pi Beta Phi resident head, replacing Mrs. Marion H. Wilcox who has been assigned to Cloverleaf dormitory, Mrs. Frank Scott has been appointed resident head for the Phi Delta Theta fraternity and Mrs. John Russell Kennedy will be in Strong Hall. Mrs. Kennedy's late husband was the Associated Press correspondent in Japan and later official advisor of the Japanese Foreign Office. Mrs. Kennedy has been one Soon Rollins students will again be enjoying the quiet beauty of of the house mothers at Washington and Lee University. the Chapel Garden. PAGE TWO ROLLINS ALUMNI RECORD Argentina Bound—For a Year by MAROLYN MACKEMER, '39 IF YOU want to feel "at home", choose a freighter for at 3 :00 P. M., they do not close until about 8 :00 P. M. Tea your ocean voyage. Perhaps I was lucky, but the is a necessity and comes between four and six o'clock. The "Astri", a Swedish cargo ship, seemed more like a cocktail hour is from eight to nine, and dinner between private yacht, and what good times we nine passengers nine and ten. Once I even dined at midnight. Breakfast had during the 24-day trip to Buenos Aires! We even is "continental", consisting of a hard roll (usually without had a canvas tank erected on the back deck for swimming. butter or jam) and "cafe con leche". Lunch and dinner are incredibly huge, and five courses are a minimum. An example would be: (1) cold cuts (2) soup (3) fish (4) Then England declared war on Germany, and there kidneys or omelette (5) vegetables (6) chicken (7) was plenty of nervousness caused by the fear of running steak and green salad (8) fruit (9) demi-tasse coffee. into warcraft of either nation. You see, we had both English and German people aboard. Our Swedish cap- tain, whose neutral ship was sunk under him in the last The social season is during the winter months of July, war, restocked the lifeboats and warned us to be prepared August and September and centers around the opera, to for anything. At our first port we painted a huge Swed- which such stars as Tito Schipa come from the United ish flag on both sides of the ship, and this was kept well- States. Large parties are often given in lovely homes. lighted at night during the remainder of the voyage. Young Argentine girls are heavily-chaperoned, even after they become engaged. Even I, a North American, After seventeen days without sight of land, we reached had to find a married couple to accompany us if I dated Rio de Janeiro. The entrance into Rio's harbor is an Argentine boy, to comply with convention, although breath-taking! Rocky cliffs rise on both sides, and the it was perfectly all right for me to date English or United brilliantly-lighted city shows up against a background of States boys without a chaperone. Argentine women have towering mountains capped by the gigantic marble statue very few rights, nor do they seem to want them. They are of the Christ with arms outstretched. The following morn- perhaps more sheltered than the women of any other Latin ing we set out to see the city, and here are a tourists's hasty American country. impressions: the open flower market comprising a square block; the strong "cafe con lech" (half coffee and half I lived at the American Women's Club for two months milk) which takes the place of our "cokes"; the mosaic before I finally found a Porto Rican family with whom sidewalks with trees growing along the outer edges; the to live and practice my Spanish. Meanwhile, I had met ornate architecture of the old stone buildings contrasted many North Americans through a few letters of intro- with the ultra-modern apartment buildings being erected duction which I had fortunately secured before leaving alongside; the beautiful residences and gardens; the the United States, and they in turn presented me to small stature of the dark-skinned Brazilian people; the Argentines. However, each nationality usually stays to quantity of milreis (Brazilian dollars) you can buy for itself, and the Argentine does not make friends readily. an American dollar; the beautiful, broad beach which I felt very lucky in being invited to various Argentine lines the harbor and which is crowded with bathers most homes and soon narrowed down my contacts to chiefly of the year; the cable ride to the top of Sugar Loaf, a Argentine, to the extent that when I started home last small mountain standing in the center of the harbor. month, I had considerable difficulty in speaking English at first. Once you are his friend, there is nothing an Ar- Santos, leading coffee port of the world, is a large city, gentine will not do for you, and they surely were wonder- but with little of beauty or interest for the visitor. We ful to me. One of the most interesting weeks-ends I have loaded great quantities of bananas here for Buenos Aires, ever spent was with the Minister of Irrigation and his and we reached the latter, our destination, five days later family at a huge estancia in Cordoba. We had a nine- without further stops. hole golf course, a lake complete with canoes and launches, riding, and a club for dancing. Everyone does as he Buenos Aires, with 2,500,000 of Argentina's fourteen pleases, and the host is always prepared for any number million inhabitants, is quite a modern city, boasting fine of unexpected guests, who may stay not only for a meal hotels, excellent water and sanitation, and the best meat but for several days.