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The Rock - Alumni Magazine 1959
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2 WHITTIER COLLEGE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION David E. Wicker '49 President Norfleet Callicott '45 Vice-President Ite L;241CS~K~ Thomas D. Wood '50 'Ihe 1ttmiij Mmgazjxie c,V W2aittier College Past President Wm. H. (Mo) Marumoto '57 Volume XXI September 1959 Director of Alumni Relations Number 3 Editor of The Rock Jane T. Randolph '43 Assistant Director of Alumni Relations Assistant Editor of The Rock in this issue ALUMNI BOARD Thomas D. Wood '50, Charles W. Rob- inson. Jr. '39, Barbara D. Maple '37, Where are they now? Jean B. Miller '29, Warren Newman '59, 5 Madolyn M. Christopher '35, Homan C. Here's a brief look into the present lives Moore, Jr. '57, Herbert Adden, Jr.'49. of five former Whittier College professors Jean C. Reese '48, Edna T. Nanney '10. Ex-officio: Dr. Paul S. Smith, William Kelley 'GO, Dr. Robert W. O'Brien, Dr. Geologically Unsafe Building Sites 8 Roy Newsom '34. Whittier College professor Beach Leighton discusses geological and the homeowner COMMISSION CHAIRMEN Beryl E. Notthoff 135, Alumni Fund; Topic: FOOTBALL 10 Darlene C. Kruse '50, Clubs and Chap- ters; Jack Mealer '52, Communica- Staffer Milt Stark records the conversation tions; Stuart Got hold '56, Student- of a past and a present football coach Alumni Relations; Jack Gauldin '47, Business and Professional Organiza- Special Insert tions. 13 Presenting a summary of the 1958-59 Annual Alumni Fund and a list of contributors SOCIETY REPRESENTATIVES Franklins, Everett Hunt '48; lonians, Ann Bamberger '56; Lancer, Jack Car- lisle '50; Metaphonian., Kathy B. Marsh '55; Orthogonian, James Daugherty '58; REGULAR ROCK FEATURES Palmer, Phyllis L. Newsom '54; Sach- sen, William Patterson '58; Thalian, Mo-To-Rama 4 Sports in Brief Ruth B. Chisler '36; William Penn, 17 Don Freeman '55. President's Corner 12 Old Acquaintances 18 CLUBS AND CHAPTERS Broadoaks Alumnae, Jeanette B. Mills Director of Advertisers 12 '45; 1195 Club, William Krueger '33; Cap and Gown Alumnae, Ann D. Chandler '56; Independents, Jack Gil- bert '50.
ABOUT THE COVER ROCK STAFF Karin Conly '55, Feature Editor; Milt Homecoming! Meeting old Stark '58. Sports Editor; Jack Mealer friends . . . eating too much at
152, Production Manager; and Robert the brunches. . . the parade. H. Dill. Photographer. Advisory Staff: winning the football game (?) Dr. Robert W. O'Brien, Faculty; James B. Moore, Administration; Robert Col- the dinner-dance . . . all the lier '60. Associated Students; and pleasures awaiting Whittier Col- David E. Wicker '49, Alumni Associa- lege • alumni are spelled out on tion. the front cover with photo- graphs -of previous Homecoming Days. This year, as you will also note on the cover, Homecoming The Rock is a publication of the TIJEBE will be spread over three days, Whittier College Alumni Associa- in order to incorporate some tion, published during the months new ideas and to give proper of September, December, March prominence to existing ideas. and July at Whittier, California, 1ei'rcI;EI(. I93o This is a printed invitation to
Box 651. Member of the American attend . . . hope to see you there! Alumni Council.
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A pictorial report of the Second Annual Alumni Leaders Conference FIRST will be made in the December issue
of The Rock . . . At the same time the newly elected officers and com- mission chairmen will be announced. QUALITY Football teams of yesteryear will be staging reunions this season at
four home games . . . Cliff Neilson heads the '54 team shindig on Sep- DAIRY
tember 19 ... the '24 squad follows with Frank Shaffer as host Homecoming finds the '34 and '39 clubs gathering with John Arram- PRODUCTS bide and Myron Claxton as chair-
men . . . Don Rothrock calls togeth- er the '49 group for the last home game of the year on November 21. •WHOLESALE • RETAIL The 1958-59 14th Annual Alumni Fund report shows that $14,684 contributed is a new record but far below most schools our size ...the 12.2% of the alumni participating is c%TTI \ about 9% under the national aver- number-wise approximately )QUAKERM AID gend age . . . 1121 contributed . . . an average lk' gift of $13.09 . . . Fund chairman, Beryl Notthoff '35, has high hopes M I L.K of upping these figures. Alumni in the following classes go will hold their reunions on June 11 Serving the Area
• . . '05, '10, '15, '20, '25, '30, '35, '40, '45, '50, and '55. For Over .40 Years The successful Lancer Career To Seminar held last spring was under the direction of Dr. John Arcadi
'46 . . . alumni spend a half day on You'll get a bonus yield campus to advise undergrads about their future vocations in a pilot on your savings study inaugurated by the alumni office. Past student body prexy Mike Murphy '59, follows Carleen (Fin- WHITTIER ney) Bedwell '57, as the second Whittierite to he selected for the SANITARY DAIRY Coro Foundation program . . . He begins the nine-month public af- COMPANY fairs internship this month.
Beginning Wednesday, September 126 - 130 So. Comstock Ave. 16th at 7:15 a.m. at Welch's Whit- tier, and every Wednesday morning OX. 4-2622 A Ol during the football season, the 1195 Current Interest Rate II.10 per year Club will again host football break- fasts open to alumni and friends Open a savings account by mail today alike. Popular professor Mabel F. Rice of the Education Department has - been appointed to the Newberry- KENNETH L. BALL, Manager SAVINGS Caldecott Medal Book Committee of Class 1934 AND LOAN ASSOCIATION the American Library Association
9219 East Whittier Boulevard for 1959-60 . . . the committee selects Pico, California the two most distinguished children's books of the year for the Newbery (Continued on Page 17)
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Throughout the nation, college students and graduates will always find room in their memories for those pro- fessors whose classes they once attended. The inspiring lectures. The copious amount of notes taken. The surprise quizzes. The informal chats on campus between teacher Nearly a dozen requests for informa- and student. The final exams! tion were sent to former Whittier College instructors . . these five were the only All these things may now lead that one-time student ones who had responded by "deadline" time. If there are other former instruc- to ask the question of any number of teachers—"Where tors you would like to know about . . Are They Now?" please let us know. Address: 110, Avenue Mozart, Paris (XVI). cooper At this address one can find Dr. and Mrs. Charles W. Cooper—that is, Until mid-October, when they will be returning to their home in Santa Barbara. Dr. Cooper, formerly Professor of Fine Arts and on the staff at Whittier College since 1938, left the campus in 1954. Since that time, he and his wife have spent a two-year assignment as Co-Secretaries of the Quaker International Center in the famous city of Paris, France. The Center, itself, is an old thirty-room house com- plete with courtyard, which has survived among the myriad of modern apartment houses. The building houses the foreign staffs and provides the offices for several American Quaker programs. The programs under the supervision of Dr. and Mrs. Cooper have included a food and clothing distribution plan (now being terminated); counsel and clothing for refugees; monthly dinners for diplomats, at which the Coopers serve as hosts; evening student soirees for French and foreign young people; an English conversa- tion class; the entertainment of traveling Friends; and especially their aid in solving personal problems which come to them. A most interesting part of their stay in France, Dr. Cooper writes, is that they have been able to visit with so many tourists from the Poet campus. Many students have stopped to say hello, as well as several touring professors. Equally as enjoyable has been the oppor- tunity for travel throughout Western Europe. In conclusion, he states: "See you at Homecoming!"
Dr. Harold Lillywhite, who was a member of the Poet faculty from 1947-1953 in the campus Speech Depart- ment, now resides on a small ranch in Beaverton, just outside Portland, to enjoy his leisure hours. His working hours are spent at the University of Oregon Medical School as a member of the staff of the Department of Pediatrics, and as Director of the Speech and Hearing Clinic, Crippled Children's Division. He also holds a joint appointment as Associate Pro- fessor of Speech at the University. The work involves the teaching of medical and dental students, nurses, students planning to enter speech correction, as well as doing considerable coordinating and consulting with medical rehabilitation teams of various kinds. Previous to his present appointment at Oregon, and just after leaving Whittier College, Dr. Lillywhite was the Director of the Speech and Hearing Clinic at Iowa State Teachers College. Added to his many hours of work on the University campus, are the many professional articles which have been published. These articles have numbered approxi- mately two per year; the most recent published work is entitled, "A Doctor's Manual of Speech Disorders," which was featured in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Since publication, this particular article has been reprinted with distribution over 2,500 since June, 1958. Life on the ranch, for Dr. Lillywhite and his family, concerns itself largely with horses and other assorted livestock. He admits to missing their pleasant home and avocado grove in La Habra Heights, California, but feels that the Northwest is now their home!
6 de conde From Ann Arbor, Michigan, comes word of Alexander De Conde, Professor of History at the University of Michigan. Dr. De Conde, who was assistant and associate professor of history at Whittier during the years 1948-1952, will be well-remembered by former students for his "rapid-fire" lecture methods, in which every class hour was filled to capacity with interesting historical subject-matter! After leaving the campus at Whittier, the next stop was Duke University where Professor De Conde spent five years. He is co-winner of the American History Award of the Pacific Coast Branch of the American His- torical Association (1949) and was chairman of an Inter-University Summer Seminar in History of American foreign policy for the Social Science Research Council (1956). He and his wife are the proud parents of four sons.
Dr. Paul L. Rice and his family left Whittier and Whit-
tier College, where Dr. Rice has been a member of the O(j OJ
Science Department faculty since 1950, in July of 1955 o
to begin an interesting sojourn. u The first stop on their agenda was for a short period Od After serving almost eighteen of orientation in Washington, after which brief stop-overs 6 years as professor of economics and were made in Geneva, Switzerland, and Cairo and Alex- sociology at Whittier College, Dr. andria, Egypt, to contact World Health Organization Charles B. Spaulding is adding still officials. Arrival at the post of assignment in Addis Ababa, to his many years in the field of Ethiopia early in September meant that Dr. Rice's job was about to begin. education, having begun his early His home for the next two years would be Ethiopia! teaching in 1933. He was to be in charge of a malaria team under the sponsorship of Dr. Spaulding left the Whittier the United States International Cooperation Administration (Point Campus in 1946. He then taught Four). several years of summer sessions at Dr. Rice, whose many freshman students remember well the lively UCLA and USC, during which time discussions about the anopheles mosquito, spent his time with two other he served with various organizations Americans on the malaria team recruiting and training a staff of a involving labor-management rela- dozen Ethiopians. Their main task was to help combat this same malaria- spreading mosquito! tions, family sociology, urban social Their principal accomplishments during the two years were: (1) a problems, and mental health. malaria survey of the entire country, (2) intensive surveys and pilot Recently, Dr. Spaulding has been project control schemes in two areas of Ethiopia, and (3) the training honored in being named dean of of Ethiopian personnel in malaria control and eradication. letters and science at the University Dr. Rice says, "We had the satisfaction of seeing malaria practically of California at Santa Barbara. He wiped out in our main pilot project zone, where 35,000 people had always lived with the threat of malaria hanging over them. joined the faculty there in 1952 as The present assignment is also under the U.S.I.C.A., and took Dr. an associate professor of sociology. Rice to Jamaica in April, 1958. The orientation programs this time took Since 1952, he has served as Pro- him first to Washington, then Savannah and Atlanta, Georgia. fessor of Sociology; Chairman of the Presently, Dr. Rice is the Associate Director of the Malaria Eradica- Department of Social Sciences; and tion Training Center; his main responsibility is in teaching the Ento- now his new role as dean. mology and Insecticides portion of the curriculum.
7 general public that geologic condi- tions at dams, bridges, aqueducts, tunnels and other engineering works cannot be ignored. The "post-mortem" of the de- structive Long Beach earthquake of 1933 not only squelched the efforts of those groups who would deny or hush the existence of serious earth- quake risk in the Los Angeles area, but it taught that safety from earth- quakes is more easily attainable than safety from floods, tornadoes, hur- ricanes and the like. It is simply a matter of strengthening the building code so that the buildings themselves are strengthened. Fortunately this has been substantially accomplished and new buildings can now be made earthquake-resistant at little added cost. Investigations of the damaging floods of 1952 resulted in the adop- tion of much needed flood-control practices. Moreover, the 1952 floods enabled the city and county engi- neers of Los Angeles to put through Geologically Unsafe Building Sites effective ordinances designed to withhold building permits for sites By Dr. Beach F. Leighton until hazardous conditions have been geologically diagnosed. Recently a group of grim-faced should be able to resist a total thrust The control measures by which engineers carefully picked their way of 25 million tons, but clearly, Southern Californians have learned between gaping fissures in a scenic mighty landslide forces were at to live with floods and earthquakes coastal area of the Palos Verdes work. have outdistanced efforts to combat Hills. Their mission was an unprec- At almost the same time that this actual and potential dangers of land- edented one—an attempt to halt the was going on, geologists and founda- slides. This is the chief reason that inch-a-day sliding of the Portuguese tion engineers were making exten- landslides persist as the largest single Bend community that had suddenly sive surveys in the Pacific Palisades group of terra firma problems in become a modernistic ghost town. area near Santa Monica to deter- Southern California. And the pro- (see figures 1 and 2) mine the likelihood of new land- blems are increasing as swelling pop- As the engineers reached a series slides in that area. Already one life ulations and increased land values of holes that were drilled the week and many homes had been lost. force the building of residences and previously by rotary bucket rigs, a In both of these landslide dis- other structures on more and more huge crane lumbered up to the site. tricts the personal and economic unsafe ground, particularly in coast- Aboard the crane was a 20-ton pil- losses have been catastrophic. Yet al and hillside areas. Land that lar of reinforced concrete about 4 these are only two of the many lo- once was considered too steep or feet in diameter and 20 feet long. cations in Southern California where otherwise unfit for use is now being (see figure 3). A few brief ex- serious geologic hazards exist. developed. In this respect the land- changes between crew members and The usefulness of geologic know- slide calamities in the Palos Verdes then slowly, the pillar was lifted by ledge as applied to the location, de- Hills and the Pacific Palisades have the crane and poised over one of the sign, and construction of building one constructive consequence. They drill holes. Another command and projects, large and small, increasing- bring to the attention of the general the pillar was lowered to the bottom ly has gained recognition in South- public the fact that for the present of the 70-foot hole and quickly ce- ern California. The disaster accom- certain Southern California real es- mented in place. "Leave this hole panying great dam failures, earth- tate is best avoided because it simply open," shouted the head engineer. quakes, floods, subsidence, and the will not stay put. "We want to observe the movement more commonly recurring damage Landslides include not only down- of this pin." from landslides have all furnished ward displacements of earth mate- When the project was completed painful geologic lessons. rial on natural slopes, but also these less than a week later, 25 pillars had Investigations conducted following same displacements on man-made been installed in locations shown on the collapse of the large St. Francis slopes. They are of many diverse figure 1. Property owners and engi- Dam near Los Angeles in 1928 characters, involving a multitude of neers alike gritted their teeth and found that the dam itself was per- rock structures, different rates and anxiously awaited the outcome. fect in design and construction, but types of movements, and a variety Would the giant pins act as nails in rested on a bedrock base that had of causes. Thus, few generalizations a shingle roof, and halt the sliding "many elements of weakness and made about landslides apply to all that was destroying homes, utilities, none of strength." The report fur- of them. Most of them present a and roads? Theoretically the pins nished the first plain warning to the complex combination of factors so
8 that each slide requires individual Courts have on occasion labeled revetment at the toe, but here again study. landslides "acts of God," resulting the costs would be astronomical. The Point Fermin landslide of entirely from the works of nature. Today experts are shifting em- San Pedro (see figure 6) illustrates There is, however, growing public phasis from corrective measures to the two basic geologic requirements and legal awareness that many land- preventive measures for obvious eco- for large-scale landsliding: (1) weak slides are caused or at least triggered nomic reasons. The chief require- rocks, especially clay-rich sedimen- by "acts of man." A good many ment for slide prevention is reliable tary rocks in Southern California, ancient landslides that had not information on the geology and soil combined with (2) structures favor- moved for tens of thousands of years mechanics of the slope under con- able to sliding for example rock lay- have been triggered and reactivated sideration. For example, San Fran- ers which are inclined towards a when road cuts were made across cisco recently needed a tunnel for a steep slope like the wave-cut sea their toes. This has happened in the new outfall sewer and officials nat- cliff at Point Fermin. With these Pacific Palisades and at numerous urally chose the shortest possible conditions present any mass of rock other points in Southern California. route. Geologists, however, showed and earth material is a potential Man may also actually create his that the proposed tunnel would in- landslide. Like a hibernating ser- own landslide when he disturbs the tersect a landslide area and would pent it is dormant, yet unpredict- slopes of nature. The notion that sooner or later, be sheared off. A able, a perpetual threat. It is par- all hillsides can be fashioned into safer site was recommended and an ticularly susceptible to trigger mech- safe level building sites by employ- estimated $1,000,000 was saved. anisms which determine the time at ing hugh earth-moving machinery to Similar geologic studies must be which the mass will descend. The carve terraced lot pads bring noth- made of the remaining undeveloped chief triggering culprit in Southern ing but grief to property owners in hillside and coastal areas in South- California is excessive water—rain some places. No wholesale butchery ern California, before geologic con- water, irrigation water and cesspool of terrain should be complacently ditions are disturbed and camou- water. When this water enters the regarded as routine business with- flaged by indiscriminate grading. subsurface it significantly contributes out regard for existing geologic con- With the Whittier Hills and Puente to instability by adding weight and ditions. Hills on the threshold of suburban development, this seems a most ap- pressure and by "lubricating" po- The activities of man are extreme- propriate time and place for land- tential slippage surfaces. A heavy ly suspect as triggering devices in slide investigations by Whittier Col- downpour, or at most a winter or the Portuguese Bend slide at Palos two of heavy rainfall, and a poised lege. Our geology department has Verdes. Present movements are re- applied for and received an under- block becomes a living landslide. ported to have begun during the graduate research grant from the It has often been said that certain summer of 1956 soon after intensive National Science Foundation for a landslides come as a surprise. It is development of the area. Irrespec- true that some occur without warn- study of at least a few selected land- tive of how much man is responsible slide areas in these hills. Three un- ing, for example the recent catas- for initiating the most recent episode dergraduates will assist in the work trophic slides near Yellowstone Na- of movements, the slide has been re- tional Park which were triggered by this first semester. Since hillside de- activated time and time again in velopment is inevitable, it is hoped earthquakes. However, if a land- the geologic past; and it has been slide comes as a surprise, it would that this study will contribute to on published geologic maps for 13 more intelligent planning through a perhaps be more accurate to say years! that the observers failed to detect clearer understanding of landsliding Although control of slides is usu- in this district. the geologic conditions which pre- ally too difficult and expensive for ceded the sliding. the small property owner, larger One of the best warnings that an property owners have been able to area is vulnerable to landslides is minimize or eliminate sliding. Some the discovery that earlier landslides years ago oil companies unhappily occured in that area. Old land- discovered that they had located slides are seldom obvious to an un- wells on an old but not extinct land- practiced observer, but to a geolo- slide near Ventura. Unless renewed gist the marks and scars of ancient slippage could be controlled the slides may be readily apparent from field would have to be abandoned. field inspection or from aerial photo- The problem was finally resolved by graphs. paving the hillside with asphalt and Because some slides are unobtru- installing a 40-mile system of drains sive, it has not been uncommon for to remove excess water. The total homes to be established on the sites cost was over $1,000,000. of former landslides. Some corrective measures have In the Pacific Palisades, accounts notably failed to do the job expected show that a number of residential of them. This has been true in Palos Popular Dr. Beach F. Leighton, associate lots on slide debris have been built Verdes where the 25 concrete re- professor of geology has been on the upon more than once. The houses straining pillars are this month no Whittier College faculty since 1950. He were so damaged by landsliding that served as president of the Faculty Club longer observable, having been in 1958-59. Dr. Leighton earned his B.S. they were condemned as unsafe, sheared, tilted, and flowed around in 1946 from the University of Virginia then evacuated and torn down or by slide materials. Proposals for and his M.S. and Ph.D. from the Cali- moved. Later the lots were regrad- halting the slide now include trans- fornia Institute of Technology in 1949 ed, and sold to the next party seek- and 1951 respectfully. He has authored ferring material from the head of and contributed to the field of geology in ing scenic views! the slide to the toe and erecting a the area of ore deposits and glaciology.
9 Discussion Topic: FOOTBALL Participants: NEW]
By Milt Stark of Coryell's "new" version of the 42 halfbacks." (Coryell was one of T formation. (In Coryell's offensive the 42.) Since coming to Whittiex College setup the quarterback, fullback, and The Chief explains the situation two seasons back, head football one of the halfbacks lineup directly very simply, "More boys are playing coach Don Coryell has given Poet and tightly behind the center.) He the game now than ever before." alums plenty to crow about. During replied, "Heck, I first saw that for- The Whittier College football his two-year reign at Hadley Field mation in operation around 1916!" squads of today usually maintain a the personable 34-year old mentor At this point Coryell interjected roster of close to 44 men. has engineered the Whittier College with, "Wait a minute, Chief, I just Another major problem peculiar grid machine to 15 wins, only three originated it four years ago." to the football coach was hashed losses, and one tie. Further discussion disclosed that over. That is the problem of re- These figures add up to two during Newman's early playing days cruiting. Newman always believed straight Southern California Inter- the T formation and many of its in bringing to Whittier College the collegiate Athletic Conference variations were in vogue, but he best high school players he could championships. gives Coryell full credit for originat- get so that they would be under his The triumphs of the present coach ing his "no name" "IT" offensive wing for the four full years of col- bring to the minds of many alumni formation and has been impressed lege eligibility. by the speed and power with which the success story written over a per- On the other hand Coryell has the backs can strike out of the Cory- iod of twenty years by Whittier's concentrated mainly on the recruit- "Mr. Football," Wallace (Chief) ell arrangement. ment of junior college footballers. As a high school gridder Newman Newman. This is not to say that he does not played the T, but he says at that Newman hit the Quaker campus welcome top notch freshmen be- time coaches were devising defenses in 1929 in the early dawn of his cause he does. However, the young- to stop it, and when he got to USC, coaching career. er mentor explains that gradewise the single wing was the new rage, The former University of South- it is easier for a boy to meet the and as a result he became a devoted ern California grid hero built a na- rigid Whittier College academic student of that particular forma- tionwide reputation at Poetville standards after attending junior col- while winning 102, losing 65, and tion. lege for a year or two than directly being involved in 14 tie games. Dur- Both coaches agree that football from high school. runs in cycles. The offenses are al- ing the 1957 season Newman was "Recruiting junior college boys ways a little ahead of the defenses. honored for this record by being makes coaching more difficult," but when someone comes along and named to the National Association Coryell hastily added. "That is the sets up defenses to squelch the of- of Intercollegiate Athletics football main drawback." Newman agreed. Hall of Fame. fenses, new and different offensive The Chief retired from the coach- formations are necessarily invented. The coaching task becomes more ing game after the 1950 season to Football in general was the topic difficult because there is such a enter the insurance business, but the of conversation, but in particular rapid turnover of personnel. If a bug bit him seven years later when Newman and Coryell discussed the boy attends junior college for two football and baseball coach George problems of coaching at Whittier years, he only has two years of foot- ball eligibility at Whittier. Allen's resignation in the middle of College. the baseball season left the Poet Material is always a big problem Newman still favors his method diamond crew hanging. to the coach, but Coryell will pro- but admits the junior college has The college administration called bably never have to go through some grown and stabilized rapidly since his retirement from the football on Newman to fill the gap, and he of the personnel tortures endured ranks and the result is that boys of jumped at the chance to take over by Newman. higher calibre can now be found in the Poet baseballers. The following The Chief looks with pride to the fall Coryell succeeded Allen as the the JC. 1939 season when only 24 gallant varsity football coach. Poets reported to the first practice, The Chief was asked to compare Newman, now 57, still maintains and he humorously recalls that three Coryell's 1958 team which racked his insurance office in downtown of the boys were injured while tak- up nine wins against one loss and Whittier but every spring takes time pictures that first day! captured the conference champion- out to tutor the Poet baseball squad. ship with some of his best elevens. By the way, he hasn't lost his touch, That '39 "bailing wire squad" for the Whittier College horsehiders miracuously went on to a fine 8-2-1 "Don had a fine team last year," Chief replied, "but no Whittier Col- belted their way to the SCIAC base- season and captured the SCIAC lege team could stand up to the 1934 ball championship last spring. crown. At a recent informal get-together Newman also recalls that when squad." the old and the new, Newman and he first reported at SC, there were That Poet team's 7-2-1 record was Coryell, naturally got around to dis- only about 40 men out for football. not as good as the 9-1 recorded last cussing football. "Gosh, Chief," replied Coryell, season, but the 1934 Poets had to Newman, an advocate of the sin- "when I first went out at the Uni- do battle with the likes of USC, the gle wing, was asked what he thought versity of Washington in 1946, there University of Arizona, and Loyola.
10 A and COR YELL Recruiting junior college boys makes coaching more "The Whittier College schedule is difficult. not as tough today," said Newman, "but I think now that we over- scheduled in those days." Newman rattled off the names of his 1934 starting eleven without a pause. The ends were Dan Tebbs and Bill Stevenson, the tackles were Walt Dahlitz and Lyman Dietrich, and the guards were Prince Rusk and George LaForme. Tommy Hunt was the center. In the backfield Newman had Bill Soeberg at the blocking back spot, Elvin Hutchinson at wingback, Howard Nelson at fullback, and John Arambide at tailback. After Newman had heaped moun- The Whittier College tains of praise on this team, Coryell schedule is not as took over the spotlight to talk over tough today. the prospects for the coming season. Fifteen lettermen return to the fold and should provide the nucleus for another outstanding team. Three centers, all capable of start- ing, will fight it out for the top spot. The threesome is composed of lettermen Vince Asaro and Jim McAllister and Orange Coast JC transfer Ed Bain. Captain and two-time all-confer- ence Dick Cate heads the guard candidates. Also on hand are George Allen and Gary Jacobsen, both let- termen who performed yeoman serv- ice last fall. Wayne Payne, who was When I went out. plagued with injuries last year and Mike Quinn, a transfer from East there were 42 half- Los Angeles JC will back up the top backs. three. Charlie McMurtry and Dave Fen- ton, a pair of lettermen will probab- ly be the starting tackles. McMur- try was an all-conference choice last season, and Fenton is an outstand- ing placekicker. Bob Salmond, a 230-pound transfer from Boston University, could push these two. The job of filling the shoes of all- conference ends Bill Farrell and Lou Vedova, who have departed via graduation, will be inherited by letterman Ted Uyeda, squadmen Dick Pahiand and Jack Blair, soph- omore Dave Lashley, and Cerritos no Whittier JC transfer Ken Gregory. College team could In the backfield Coryell has one stand up to the 1934 of the nation's outstanding college passers in Gary Campbell. Camp- squad. bell will be switched from halfback (Continued on Page 17)
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Fellow Alumni, When you read this in all likelihood the tan has faded, the bank account HILL'S hasn't balanced, and summer's a jealously-guarded memory. But, be stal- wart! There's much to do and many enterprises await. CLOTHIERS The Second Annual Alumni Leaders Conference on September 19th 127 E. Philadelphia St. should again provide the Association with impetus to continue in its role —Whittier— of service to the College and the community. Paramount to the course we L. Bert Hill must follow, so ably drawn by Tom Wood, the past executive board and Dick Thomson '34 commissions, the conference shall aid the actions we pursue this next year. John "Rusty" Marshall '54 Leadership, thus gives reason and purpose to this association and the mani- fold problems that beset it. Homecoming this year will be an outstanding event. Involving myriad activities and scheduled to be a three day affair, alumni will have greater opportunity to join in all festivities and renew old acquaintances to the Directory of Advertisers fullest. Carands 2 Alumni, too, may again avail themselves of the fine cultural experience Evans Printing Co 2 to be had in the Association-sponsored Lecture Series. Proving its worth last year, the series will offer speakers and subjects of enlightenment and Kona Hawaii Teahouse 2 needs your active support! Myers 2 White-Emerson Co 2 These only touch on a: few of the areas which the association hopes to encompass this year and in future years! Obviously, the role we play as part Vaupel's 2 of such an ongoing organization needs to be clear and at all times played Pico-Rivera Savings 4 with conviction. How much time, effort, and support each of us can give is Whittier Sanitary Dairy 4 a personal thing, to be sure. But give it we must if those gains made are to Hill's Clothiers 12 be held and new avenues opened. Gene Marrs 20 If these words sound promotional—a sales pitch—that's what they are Sam Yocum 20 intended to be. A little "friendly persuasion" is going to be necessary to pull Quaker City Savings 21 some of us back into the fold . . . to make the association a strong working Gene Bishop 22 body. It's too easy to sit back and ignore a responsibility as nebulous as this type of organization. However, I am firmly convinced that there is a place Frank Dore & Sons 22 for us and we can exert a very active voice in the future of Whittier College. Bob Sorenson Chevrolet 23 Where and when is difficult to pinpoint, but the opportunity to do so is there R. J. Twycross 23 and must be utilized. Monte's Camera Shop 24 As President, I can, in my single way, only hope to follow the course Whittier Quad Shopping Center 24 and enlist from each of you support and allegiance in fulfilling the program Whittier College Bookstore 26 of the Alumni Association. B. G. Photo Supply 28 Now, back to the bank statement and sun lamp. Hinshaw's 28 Sincerely, Postal Litho Printing Service 28 Dave Wicker
12 THE ALUMNI FUND 1958-59
A summary of the annual fund raising campaign