SPRING ISSUE • APRIL, 1955

KALAMAZOO COLLEGE KALAMAZOO COLLEGE LOOKING AHEAD ALUMNUS Volume XVII April, 1955 Number 2 APRIL 7-18 - SPRING VACATION 8- TENNIS, MIAMI UNIVERSITY AT OXFORD, OHlO E ditor, M a rily n H inkle '44 11- TENNIS, TENNESSEE AT KNOXVILLE 13- TENNIS, DUKE AT DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA Published quarterly by the Kalamazoo Col­ lege Alumni Association and Kalamazoo Col­ 14- TENNIS, NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL lege, Kalamazoo, Mich. IS- TENNIS, PRESBYTERIAN AT DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA President of the Alumni Association: Albert Van Zoeren '23 16-TENNIS, TRIANGULAR, WASHINGTON & LEE, DAVIDSON, KALAMAZOO AT Member of the American Alumni Council. LEXINGTON, VIRGINIA Entered as second class matter January 18, 16-TRACK, WABASH RELAYS (TENTATIVE) 19~0 at the Post Office at Kalamazoo, ~iichi­ !fan, under the act of March 3, 1879. Pub. 18- TENNIS, CORNELL AT ITHACA, NEW YORK hshed quarterly, January, April, July, and October. Subscription rate: One dollar per 18- GOLF, ADRIAN, HERE year. 19- BASEBALL, ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, H ERE 20- TRACK, ADRIAN AND OLIVET (TRIANGULAR) HERE 21- TENNIS, CALVIN, HERE 21- TENNIS, CALVIN, HERE 22- FOUNDERS DAY 23-TENNIS, UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHAMPAIGN 23 - BASEBALL, ALMA, HER E TABLE OF CONTENTS 24- COLLEGE FACULTY TRIO. 8:00 P .M., STETSON 25- BASEBALL, UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT, HERE FROM PRESIDENT HICKS 25- TENNIS, INDIANA AT BLOOMINGTON 25- TRACK, HOPE AND GRAND RAPIDS JR. COLL EG 1::, THERE THE AIMS OF KNOWLEDGE AND 26- GOLF, HOPE, THERE CHRISTIAN EDUCATION 26- TENNIS, HILLSDALE, T H ERE 27- BASEBALL, CALVIN, THERE PHY -ED FOR THE CO-ED 28- TENNIS, ALBION, HERE 28- GOLF, ALMA, HERE SOMETHING IS HAPPENING IN THE LIBRARY 9 29- TRACK, OLIVET AND FERRIS I NSTITUTE, H E RE 30- BASEBALL, ALBION, H ERE EDITORIALS 11 30- TENNIS. ALUMNI, HERE

YOUR PERSONAL SATISFACTION 12 MAY 2- GOLF, OLIVET, THERE SPEAKING OF BOOKS 14 J- TRACK, HOPE, THERE 3- BASEBALL, HOPE, THERE 15 THOMAS SCHIPPERS 3- TENNIS, ADRIAN, THERE 5 - TENNIS, HOPE, HERE NEWS FROM THE CAMPUS 16 6- TENNIS, CINCINNATI, HER E IMPRESSIONS FROM A T,RIP 6 - BASEBALL, OLIVET, HERE BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN 17 6- TRACK, ALBION, HERE 6- GOLF, CALVIN, HERE SPORTS 18 7- GOLF, U.S. NAVAL AIR STATION, HERE 7- TENNIS, NOTRE DAME, THERE FOR SPECIAL ATTENTION 19 10- TENNIS, ALMA ,THERE 10-TRACK, CALVIN, HERE ALUMNI NEWS 20 10- GOLF, HILLSDALE, HERE 10- BASEBALL, ADRIAN, THERE 11- GOLF, ALBION, THERE 12- TENNIS, OLIVET, HER E 13- TRACK, ALMA AND HILLSDALE (TRIANGUL AR) Ht::Rt:: 13- MAY FETE 14- TENNIS, WAYNE, HERE Cover Picture 14- BASEBALL, H ILLSDALE, HERE 18- BASEBALL, TRI-STATE COLLEGE, THERE In line with the nationwide trend 19-20- TENNIS MI AA FIELD DAY, HERE of mixed classes in physical educa­ 19-20-GOLF MIAA FIELD DAY, HER E tion, this issue's cover carries a pic­ 20- TRACK MIAA FIELD DAY, HERE ture of the coeducational fencing 21- BASEBALL, ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, THERE 24- BASEBALL, TRI -STATE COL LEGE, HERE class at Kalamazoo College. For 25- BASEBALL, UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT, T HERE j11rther information concerning the 25- TENNIS, Ui\'JVERSITY OF DETROIT, HERE women's physical education program at the College, turn to page 6. JUNE 4-5-6 - COMMENCEMENT

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During the last quarter of a cen­ Institute of Government new plan will make possible an tury there has been one significant With this basic premise in mind, inter-change of facilities and person­ change in the role of the college or the Board of Trustees and the ad­ nel between the Institute and the university. Twenty-five years ago ministration have been cooperating College, thus enriching and expand­ the sole purpose of higher education in the development of several new ing the programs of each without was to train youth for the future. service areas as well as broadening added budgetary outlay. The Uni­ Kalamazoo College and other liberal other departments so that our con­ versity has given the plan its whole­ arts institutions focused their entire tribution to the community may be hearted endorsement, referring to attention upon the students who more significant. There is nothing the merger as a "sign of growth" in e:1tered their hallowed halls. Our new in this thinking. Since 1934 the art activity of the community. job was to develop the cultured, the College has cooperated with City Industrial Relations Program educated man. Existing in an ivory Government through the Bureau of The third service program, per­ tower of intellectualism, we taught Municipal Research. However, the haps the most expansive of all, is him to think, to understand, to eval­ administration of the College now designed to bring a closer relation uate. We exposed him to the great realizes that it must broaden the between the Department of Eco­ ·reservoirs of knowledge, the accu­ scope of its activities in order to nomics and the industry in the area. mulation of learning from all ages. serve its optimum purpose. Since World War II, the Industrial We required that he taste of a Beginning in September, the Col­ breadth of subjects which created Relations Center at the University of lege expects to add three new serv­ Chicago has spent ten years and mil­ an understanding of our culture. ice projects to its program. To sup­ From these experiences and from the lions of dollars developing a pro­ plement our work in municipal sci­ gram whereby education can serve inspiration of a faculty scholar, he ence, we shall establish an Institute evolved an appreciation of life and industry. The Chicago plan has been of Government intended to make evolved in the plants of General a philosophy for living in a demo­ our College one of the leading cen­ cracy. Motors, Sears Roebuck, and a score ters of the country for the training of other leading industries. Having The passing of the years has in and service to local governments been tried and perfected, the pro­ brought no change in these basic at the grass roots level. Previously gram can now be made available objectives. The liberal arts college our assistance has been available through the leadership of our Eco­ still educates the whole man. It con­ only to the city of Kalamazoo. The nomics Department. Official an­ tinues to believe that a broad, gen­ new program will give help to other nouncement of the establishment of eral education is more vital in pre­ communities. It will strengthen and the new Industrial Relations Center paring for a full life than the train­ expand our graduate offerings in of Kalamazoo College may have ing in a few specific tool subjects political science, and will give in­ been released even prior to the pub­ or areas. It still strives to create a service training for officials of local lication of this issue of the Alumnus. studious atmosphere in which ideas government. Dr. Carl H. Chatters, become alive and challenging. How­ considered the nation's top authority The introduction of these new areas of service is not without ixs ever, in the middle of the twentieth on municipal finance, will join the attendant dangers. In our concern century this is not enough. Today staff of the College to work jointly as never before we must recognize with the Department and the Insti­ about community service, we must never lose sight of the major pur­ that our responsibility to society goes tute. With the establishment of the pose as an educational institution. beyond the classroom or even the new Institute, our Department of Kalamazoo College has built its students matriculating at our institu­ Political Science will truly come of reputation because of its outstanding tions. Kalamazoo College can no age. liberal arts program. It has long longer live alone in the beauty of its Art Center Program been interested in the education of quadrangle and fulfill its optimum A few weeks ago the College an­ the gifted. It has constantly strived purpose. To meet the needs of a nounced a cooperative undertaking to develop within its students both changing and insecure world and to with the Kalamazoo Institute of Art. ideas and personalities. At Kalama­ survive in an age in which Statism This coming September the Art De­ zoo we call this experience "A Fel­ threatens to engulf the educational partment of the College will replace lowship in Learning." In our desire system and our democracy, we must the Extension Service of the Univer­ to serve, we must always keep faith serve society more fully than was sity of Michigan in the art instruc­ with the great heritage upon which expected a generation ago. tion program at the Institute. The the College is built.

ALUMNUS Page 3 THE AIMS OF KNOWLEDGE AND CHRISTIAN EDUCATION

Christian education faces two ad­ ethics. The ideal must face the test cation, the critical exploration of the versaries today, the creedal dogma­ of reality. The supremacy among fundamental values which sustain tism of certain Christian churches sciences is ascribed to the dialectic our culture. and the drift towards purely tech­ which unites Reality and the Good In an article entitled "Know ledge nicalized knowledge. Where a as the ultimate integration of the and Work" Max Scheler makes a church with its creedal formulation whole endeavor of learning. Educa­ threefold distinction between the controls education, free research be­ tion reaches its highest goal in a aims of know ledge. Know ledge comes impossible. The student grow­ critical orientation concerning the serves three main objectives. The ing up within this straightjacket be­ basic values of life. "An unexamined first is the development of personal­ comes a freak severed from the life is not worth living" as Socrates ity. The second is to bring man in scientifically oriented culture which puts it. To make Plato speak the relation with the world of reality in sweeps past him. This form of edu­ vernacular of our own day, "liberal which he finds himself. He can cation is the friendly enemy. The arts" would not mean for him the adapt himself to it by resigning to second opponent is more formidable, additive spread of course upon it, by gladly cooperating with it, by it is one we must work with and as­ course but the highly concentrated despairing of it, by indulging him­ sign a place to within our own midst. study of those basic ideas on which self, by passively resisting it, by re­ Of this nature is the pursuit of tech­ the interrelation of all areas of garding it as a passing phase and by nical knowledge which operates in know ledge and cultural enterprises putting forth creative effort. The the interest of the achievement of depends. The humanistic study of third aim of life is to gain practical specific goals untouched by circum­ society, man, and the goals of life control over nature and to use it for spection. Here we have the cultiva­ would be the core of the liberal arts restricted utilitarian purposes already tion of particular fields without an curriculum and training in the use­ established. Knowledge provides the understanding of the values at stake ful arts and the study of the sciences means for unexamined and unques­ in our culture as a whole. would become secondary. tioned goals. How are Christian edu­ It might not be amiss, in our at­ Plato and Christian education, is cation and liberal arts education re­ tempt to find the meaning of Chris­ there any relation between the two? lated to these goals? To regard all tian education, to start with a pre­ "Seek ye first the kingdom of God knowledge from the point of view Christian formulation. In the Re­ and its righteousness and all things of its effect on personality is no public Plato offers as inclusive a will be added unto you," this is the doubt a legitimate one. Knowing is plan of education as can be found trumpet blast of early Christianity. certainly one of the supreme activ­ anywhere. It is designed for the The religion of the Christ is a reli­ ities of the human mind and forms class of people he calls guardians gion of search, not of attainment. Its personality in its own image. It and statesmen, who have the re­ center lies in the renewed ethical re­ creates the values of genuineness, sponsibility for the life of the whole lationships between man and man community. Education for him finds and man and the "Most High." It its climax in the idea of the good. is not true that Humanism was a This idea is seen last and only with late addition to the church in the the greatest effort and is the highest Renaissance and the main cause of knowledge. "All other things be­ its deception. Humanism was an come useful and advantageous only early phase of the development of by their use of this." Without this the ancient and medieval church. Thirty Years know ledge of the good, the states­ The amalgamation of humanism and man becomes a self-seeking tyrant the church has its reason in the eth­ glorying in nothing but power and ical genius of the Christian church strength. Education for Plato is the which was aware of a synthetic ideal A professor of scholarly distinction is critical search after an ideal which for the whole of society and man­ Dr. L. ]. Hemmes, author of this article. brings beauty and harmony into the kind. Much of what it incorporated The head of the College philosophy de­ whole of human life. There is a in its ideal from the humanism of partment is now marking thirty years of field of knowledge which relates all the Greeks and the Romans, it did, teaching at Kalamazoo. the other areas of knowledge as at the expense of its own Christian well as the main interest regions of morality, as witness Roman law and life, commerce, trade, the crafts, the Roman conception of the state. law, government, art, religion. This We are therefore fully justified to central and supreme knowledge is regard as the heart of Christian edu-

Page 4 ALUMNUS objectivity, self-forgetfulness, sym­ in the social sciences as in the phys­ include the critical exploration of pathy with all that surrounds us, of ical. Our law schools turn out law­ the values of our present culture and participation in what is distant and yer-technicians and judge-techni­ the possible advance tOward richer in the future, of wonder and rever­ cians who skillfully manipulate all spiritual contents. It might mean a ence. Know ledge prevents brutali­ the problems of law without know­ subordination of the know ledge of zation and the madness of domineer­ ing the significance of it as an eth­ technical efficiency, tO a knowledge,' ing. Where know ledge does not ical process within society. We pro­ which furthers a very different goal bring these fruits know ledge is not duce political technicians who with or ideal. tO be blamed but the bad soil with astOunding ingenuity play the gov­ This brings us face tO face with its self-centered desires in which it ernment game but never question Scheler's third conception of the aim was put. "A sower went out tO sow." the basic aim of government as it of knowledge, which is participation Knowledge thus serves the laudable affects human welfare, spiritual, in the tOtal creative process of which purpose of building human person­ cultural advance and man's place we are a part. Scheler calls it ality. within the cosmos. The technician knowledge for the sake of Deity. The second aim which knowledge prides himself on his realism which Although it is true, that man's im­ serves is the realization of useful ob­ is, however, nothing else but the un­ mediate objective has always been, jectives by means of man's control enlightened and dogmatic accept­ and will always be, to be well-fed, over the natural processes, be they in ance of the objectives of society as well-housed, and well-dressed, it is man or outside of him. We now they stand without any orientation also true that man has lived long enter a field of established aims directed tOwards potentialities and enough to realize that there is a which as such are not analyzed, ideals. No doubt the psychological restlessness within him, which trans­ evaluated or brought into a signif­ technician is beginning to play an cends, the satisfaction of these im­ icant relation tO life and culture in increasingly significant role in the mediate needs. The useless and com­ its wholeness. Technical knowledge family, the school, business, indus­ pletely superfluous brilliance of the is not know ledge of the significance try and in politics. It must not be rainbow is still one of nature's of human purposes but of the means overlooked however, that he usually greatest wonders. "And the bow of their realization. Although in­ looks at man as so much material shall be in the cloud." There is a ventive, progressive, highly alert manipulable like a process of nature knowledge which subordinates-not about means it is unenlightened, with fixed generic goals. disregards, for that is impossible­ uncreative, conservative, narrow and There is a clamor throughout the technical efficiency to the cosmical, circumscribed about significant and country for a revival of spiritual creative orientation of life which in­ valuable ends. It produces instru­ values. If we could get rid of the cludes the spiritual values of the mental intelligence by darkening "re -" in all these phrases they good, the true and the beautiful. counsel and spreading gross stupid­ might have meaning. It is rather The important difference between ity of the ultimate spiritual values doubtful whether the part, at least, the technical use of know ledge and in terms of which human beings and in so far as it is modern, has pro­ its creative, cultural use is that it is not machines must finally live. The duced a superabundance of spiritual as much interested in what we don't purposes here are fixed, taken for values. Such phrases usually mean know as what we do know, it is as granted, accepted without under­ merely a reinstatement of antiquat­ much concerned with ignorance as standing. The technical approach in ed, already collapsed values. For the with the possession of knowledge. the field of knowledge is as rampant phrase, tO have significance, it must (Continued on Page 10) at Kalamazoo

Pictured, at the right, in their home in the College Grove are Dr. and Mrs. Hem­ mes, both figures in fond memories of of generations of Kalamazoo College stu­ dents, and friend judy. The purpose of physical education this article concerns physical educa­ is to contribute to the total educa­ tion for women only those parts of tional process of the student through the program with which women are the medium of physical activities. If concerned will be discussed. it fails to do this, it can no longer The basic beliefs which guide the claim its rightful place in the cur­ program and the manner with which · riculum of any educational institu­ it is administered are that it should: tion. 1 . Provide an opportunity to ex­ How can physical education make plore a variety of "active" re­ such a contribution? First there is creational activities. a need to clarify the term "physical 2. Help the student develop motOr education." It is not, as Plato said, skills in these activities tO the PH Y EO exercises or sports aimed at the cul­ extent that she can feel satisfac­ tivation of the soul. "Basically, we tion and fun from the activity may speak of one's physical educa­ and thereby continue tO engage tion as the sum of those experiences in it throughout most of her life. which come to him through move­ 3. Provide proper guidance and a ment."1 permissive atmosphere in which We know that learning takes a student may develop personal place through many different kinds resources (i.e. self sufficiency, of experiences. We also know that self entertainment, emotional learning through movement is one control, respect for differences of the earliest educative experiences of others, reflective thinking, of an individual's life. The job of courage, leadership, etc.). physical educators is to select those 4. Stimulate organic vigor. fOR THE movements or activities which make 5. Help the student recognize her the best contribution to the educa­ own needs in relation to her tive process and through these everyday level of physical effi­ activities strive to help the individ­ ciency and help her acquire ual grow towards being a self re­ knowledges and skills to main­ sponsible, self directing, intelligent tain that level so that she may and socially conscious person. be physically able tO perform "We only become confused about her daily work to the optimum physical education when we debate degree. its purposes, political or otherwise, 6. Provide a broad enough pro­ or when we argue whether to grant gram of activities so that no academic credit for it in a modern one, regardless of her physical CO EO school. These are merely questions ability or disability, be excluded. for academicians! The physical edu­ 7. Develop a respect for the per­ cation of a child goes on whether in sonality of others. ~c h ool or out, with or without credit, The program is divided into four ~anctioned It or unsanctioned. is areas- the professional curriculum; fundamental tO life, tO growth, and the service program (required activ­ tO development. The truly import­ ity for all freshmen and sopho­ ant question is how are we to control mores); intramurals, directed by the or tO organize this contribution Women's Recreation Association which inevitably and inescapably ( WRA) ; and varsity teams in ten­ will be made tO human development nis, basketball and archery. in order tO bring about planned or desired results in human behav­ The first of these, the professional ior?"" curriculum, is a program of under­ At Kalamazoo College there is graduate study for students who de­ one Department of Physical Educa­ sire an academic minor in physical tion. We do not have a women's education. It offers theory courses By Miss Ado Loveless department and a men's department. in the areas of administration, Head, Women's Physical Education There are, however, definite activi­ health, recreation, physical educa­ ties for men only, women only, and tion for different age levels, camp­ men and women together. Since ing and adapted physical education. 1 Delbert Oberteuffer, Physical Educa- Thirteen different activities are tion, Harper & Brothers, 19 5 1, p.9. available tO women in the service ' Lac. cit. (Contiuued on Pa ge 8)

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With Miss Ada Loveless, seated extreme right, the officers of the Women's Re­ creation Association are shown examin­ ing the intramural scoreboard. Heading the Association this year are Shirley Ketchen, president, standing; Gretchen Bohr, vice-president; Mary Killeen, re­ cording secretary; and Ruth Chamberlain, corresponding secretary and treasurer.

CLASS

The camera snaps two members of a women's swimming class- Irene Olson and Fleurette Kram. Miss Kram is pres­ ident-elect of W R A. In late March, she was a delegate from W R A to the Na­ tional Convention of the Athletic Federa­ tion of College Women, held at Smith College.

VARSITY

In the lower picture, Kalamazoo College engages Olivet College in intercollegiate basketball competitron. K-College for­ ward, Mary Schlicher, on the left, tries for a rebound.

ALUMNUS Page 7 PHY-ED (Continued from Page 6) Joins K-College Staff program for fulfillment of their four Dr. Carl H. Chatters, rated as the ~emester requirement in physical nation's top authority on municipal education. Of these thirteen, four­ finance and one of the leading con­ basketball, volleyball, swimming and fundamentals - are for women sultants in public administration, only. The other nine- fencing, will join the staff of the newly estab­ archery, fly and bait casting, tennis, lished Institute of Government at badminton, square dancing, social Kalamazoo College. dancing, bow ling, and golf are co­ Dr. Chatters is well known in educational. The fundamentals course is required of all entering both the Kalamazoo city and college freshmen, but the remaining semes­ communities. He is a graduate of ters of activity may be elected from Kalamazoo College, later was hon­ the other course offerings. ored with an LL.D. degree in 1943, It is significant that Kalamazoo and has been a member of the Kal­ has such a high percentage of co­ amazoo College Board of Trustees educational physical e ducat ion Carl H. Chatters '19 classes. The trend throughout the since 1937. country is in the direction of mixed classes insofar as the nature of the activity allows. This policy is in keeping with the attempt made to re­ Named Ripon President late learned activities to their use as Dr. Fred 0. Pinkham, Jr., grad­ leisure time activities when the stu­ uate of Kalamazoo College in the dent has completed her formal edu­ class of 1942, has been named cation. The majority of women realize participation in such activi­ President of Ripon College in Wis­ ties as fishing, camping, dancing, consin. After his graduation from badminton, etc. with their husbands, Kalamazoo, he received his Master's families or other mixed groups. It and Doctorate degrees from Stan­ is also known that there is much to ford University. Dr. Pinkham was be gained in the way of respect and understanding for one another's Assistant to the President of George abilities in classes of this kind. Washington University, and prior to The Women's Recreation Associ­ his new appointment was executive ation is an organization whose ~ecretary of the National Commis­ function is to provide wholesome sion on Accrediting. recreational activities for all women Fred 0. Pinkham '42 students. Its governing body ( Coun­ cil) is a group of women students lege Women). These are state and among some of the women. They elected by active members of the national organizations made up of played five games, all on Saturday Association. The policies, proced­ WRA groups in colleges throughout afternoons, and of these five they ures, and offerings of the organiza­ the state and country. Their purpose won four and lost one. The varsity tion are determined by the Council. is to maintain high standards of con­ sports in no way minimize the im­ Competition in basketball, speed­ duct in women's sports within the portance of the intramural program ball, badminton, bow ling, tennis, intramural programs and exchange nor do they jeopardize the quality swimming, archery, table tennis, co­ ideas for improving programs. of it. recreational volleyball is available at the present time. Since the emphasis Varsity sports, for those with a Programs of physical education in is upon providing a broad selection higher degree of skill and interest, colleges are necessarily different ac­ of activities so that each woman are conducted in tennis, archery and cording to location and types of may participate in the activities in to some extent in basketball. The schools. Our program will change which she is interested, the program tennis and archery teams compete as the need arises and the facilities can ce expanded or changed at any in the WMIAA tournament every permit. The basic philosophy, how­ time within the limits of our facil­ spring and, in addition, the tennis ever, will change only as new sci­ ities. WRA is affiliated with the team will play about eight other entific facts are discovered which AFMCW (Athletic Federation of matches this year. change the biological, psychological, Michigan College Women) and the A basketball team was organized and social implications for the pro­ AFCW (Athletic Federation of Col- this year as a result of much interest fession.

Page 8 ALUMNUS A REPORT TO THE ALUMNI BY W. C. CHEN, LIBRARIAN the library will add about 5,000 books to its collection. Plainly, this Back during the 1953-54 academic they both grow in size and stature. means that it will be necessary to year, those of us who were imme­ As a matter of fact, at this moment diately concerned with the use and we are prepared to name about find the money with which to buy development of the library facilities 2,000 titles that would add greatly books and, perhaps more important, to buy the books that are most' on the campus undertook to map to the value of the library collection. out a plan for comprehensive library By the end of spring vacation we necessary, books that will add to the services. At that time it was calcu­ expect that we shall have approx­ values of the total collection. We lated that, if everything went ac­ imately 5,000 titles lined up to be all recognize the need for the cording to expectations, we could ordered as money becomes available. library to grow, and grow properly. And this is where you can be of most put the plan into operation by the Arrangements have been made beginning of the 1956-57 or 1957- help to the College in this partic­ through which we hope to get bet­ ular phase of its program. 58 academic year. To keep you in­ ter services at lower costs in book formed of what was going on, we purchases. As soon as the study on 1. Do you have a personal library presented a brief summary of the the use of reserved books (based on that you wish to dispose of in the report of the Faculty Library Com­ data for the last five years) is com­ near future? If you do, your Alma mittee on the subject in the spring, pleted, we hope to take steps toward Mater will be happy to add it to 1954, issue of the Alumnus. providing more adequate collatoral hers. Outside of old, obsolete text­ Since then, under the constant en­ reading materials. Alterations will books, most books can be of value to a college library. On occasion, the couragement from the administra- be made during the summer to facil- library may already have copies of certain of your titles; if that is the case, the duplicates could be sold and the proceeds used to buy books SOMETHING IS which would be labelled as gifts from you. Mrs. Ben Morris, profes­ sor of education emeritus, helped HAPPENING the library a great deal this way last year. 2. Do you have a neighbor who IN THE LIBRARY has a substantial library and wishes to dispose of it in one way or tion, the library staff, with the co­ itate the use of periodicals now sub­ another? If you do, perhaps you operation of the teaching members scribed to by the library. should have a talk with him. If he of the faculty, has been making In the meantime, the administra­ wishes to sell his library, we would several self-inventory types of studies tion has decided to start the library be interested in looking it over. If for the purposes of pin-pointing our development program ahead of he wishes to give it away, we will needs and weaknesses, establishing schedule in order to meet more ade­ be more than happy to take it as a system of priority to the claim of quately the needs of the anticipated long as he does not impose upon the available funds, and streamlining student body. The immediate goals library too stringent conditions. the operating machinery in prepara­ established for the year 1955-56 are Since we have no one on the road tion for the anticipated increases in ( 1 ) to raise the library holdings to search for such "bargains," you work load. If the finished studies from the present 53,000 volumes to may wish to serve as our stationary are any indication of what to expect, about 60,000, and ( 2) to bind about "road agent." we are sure that, when all the studies 2,000 volumes of periodicals that 3. Do you know of someone who are in, we shall have a good portrait need to be taken care of at once. wishes to establish a memorial •in of the state of the library, from This decision to "speed-up" the books? Our experience in this aspect which we shall be able to make library development program re­ has been most satisfying. Recently plans for the future with better ac­ flects the confidence we have in the several people have been donating curacy. future of the College and the deter­ sizable amounts for the purchase of As a result of completing some of mination on the part of the admin­ books in certain fields for memorials. the studies mentioned above, we are istration to make the library one of It is one of those generous gifts that now in a position to determine what the very best among the small enabled the library to acquire one kind of books should have priority liberal arts colleges. More properly, of the better collections in the areas in the fields of natural sciences, gen­ it is one of the tangible fruitions of of mathematics and physics among eral references, political science, the loyal support the alumni and the small liberal arts colleges. Just last philosophy, and several other disci­ many other friends have given to year a group of alumni established plines in order to balance our col­ the College in the years past and the Slocum Memorial Fund in lection and meet the increased needs present. honor of President Slocum ( 1892- of the faculty and student body as During the next fifteen months (Continued on Next Page)

ALUMNUS Page 9 AIMS OF KNOWLEDGE through the persuasion of truth it­ It is easy for any college to be­ (Continued from Page 5) self. Modern society rests on the come enamored with the flesh pots The technician limits himself to principle of autonomous department­ of Egypt, that is vocational (instead established and applicable knowl­ alization. Church and state, the of professional) and technical train­ edge, his appeal is to the robot or sacred and the secular, the public ing. This means a neglect of the mechanical brain which has all the and the private, are sharply distin­ greatest opportunity the college has responses. With all his science he guished. When church controlled today, to make us wise about the in­ inevitably becomes unscientific, a culture had to surrender to the terrelations of the various phases of dogmatist and a fanatic. Liberal arts sovereign state, Christian ethics also life rather than expert about tech­ know ledge with its insight into the had to give way to the department­ nical particularities. If men are not great spiritual accomplishments of alized ethics of the various phases of to be reduced to robots they need man in religion, in art, in ethics, in the social enterprise. Politics is pol­ adequate stimulation and oppor­ science and philosophy keeps life itics, business is business, a purely tunities for value enjoyment as open, our culture alive, and secures economic undertaking with autono­ Whitehead puts it. It is this, the tolerance for growing possibilities. mous standards of its own. Each Christian college furnishes. The Viewed in the light of man's place realm is severed from the other in great conflict of our age is still that within the universe, with its responsi­ terms of its own principle. The law between mechanization and human­ bility for the incarnation of lasting rests on nothing but authority, the ization. values in man's cultural venture, the state on power, business on profit, exclusive pursuit of technical knowl­ the university on pure reason and LIBRARY edge is suicidal. Here we see the truth for its own sake. The freest (Continued from Prn•ious Pagr) intellectual centers the world has close relation between Christian edu­ 1912) . This kind of memorial cation and "liberal arts" education. ever seen were probably the Euro­ Without a deep anchorage in a reli­ pean universities of the 18th and serves tO point up the warm affection giously oriented appreoauon of early 19th centuries. The ethical re­ and deep respect we all have for know ledge we are in danger of pro­ sults of the departmentalization of those who contributed so much to ducing a coward's world of technical social life are complete moral chaos make us what we are roday. efficiency which raises no questions and disunity. While the highest If space permitted, it would have about values, goals and ultimate ideals are directing the lives of peo­ orientation. We shall have a society ple in certain of their relations, the been easy to have given numerous of expert technicians in all the fields crudest self interests and brutalities other examples of this kind that are of human endeavor trapped and en­ are being justified in other relations. just as meaningful tO and highly ap­ It is no surprise, that, in this pre­ tangled in the superficial usefulness preciated by the college family, re­ dicament, serious minded people and partial interests of a divided and gardless of the size of the memorial. self-destructive civilization. The lib­ urge a greater control of the church eral arts 'college, especially in its over the state or of religion over the Kalamazoo College is engaged in Christian form is dedicated to the school. The forms which these en­ the business of educating the indivi­ pursuit of the kind of know ledge deavors take are largely undesirable dual and cultivating his character, and violate the principle of demo­ which provides orientation concern­ both of which are extremely difficult ing the truly human goals of man's cratic institutions. Neither can any and yet rewarding undertakings. To existence and gives direction to the help come from the present nee­ lawyer to discover justice, to the orthodox theology with its dualism do a good job of it requires patience, judge to envisage the right, to the of religion and culture, its despair persistence, and perseverance. The artist to find beauty, to the man in of man as a human being, its library is one of the most important eclipsed supernaturalistic authority. business to search after the tran­ rools with which the faculty tries tO What can really help is the free ex­ sitory welfare of society, to the min­ do its job. With your help, we are ister to illumine the possibilities of ploration, the careful study of the confident this tool could be built as creative cooperativeness in a world basic values that underlie human ex­ of perplexities and sorrows and to istence. To cultivate this kind of near to perfection as you wish to the physician to cultivate within him­ know ledge is the special challenge have it. that faces the Christian and the lib­ self genuine reverence for human Anyway, when you happen to life with its precariousness. eral arts colleges. The humanistic studies are their specialty. Our cul­ come to the campus next time, drop So far we have discussed Chris­ ture may still achieve synthetic in to visit the library. Maybe that tian education from the point of wholeness, if it will spend as much old favorite chair of yours is still in view of the aims of know ledge. time and effort on the exploration of the s:-1me corner; or perhaps you have There still remains the question of the meaning of human life, its basic some suggestions that could make its place within the organization of purposes and its relations with the society. A school of higher learning creativity of the world as a whole, the library more useful tO the fac­ cannot be dictatorial, it is explor­ as it does on the use of atomic ulty, the student body, you, and atory and offers guidance only energy. other friends.

Page 10 ALUMNUS EDITORIALS I KAL~;~~.~~2. N~!.~~TTE I ------Kalamazoo College Grows The Gazette congratulates Kal­ people who are entering college. amazoo College on the prospec­ A few days ago, the state's higher tive new science building, a need­ educational leaders told Gov. ed and valuable addition to the Williams that they expected by institution's facilities. 1970 no less than 200,000 stu­ In the light of a recent bequest, dents in Michigan's colleges and which will substantially increase universities, compared with the the endowment fund, there is present 97,000. It was estimated every reason for feeling confi­ that church-related and private dence in the future of this old colleges would increase their en­ From the Issue and respected college. It has long rollments from 24,000 to 40,000 enjoyed an exceptionally high during the next 15 years. In the of December 17, 1954 standing, particularly for the ex­ nation as a whole, college enroll­ cellence of its teaching in the field ments were up last fall 7.6 per of science. The institution, we cent. At Kalamazoo College, can rest assured, will keep itself however, the 1954 freshman class equipped to maintain its instruc­ is reported to be double last year's. tional effectiveness and its envi­ Financially, academically, and able national reputation. in other worthwhile respects, this Kalamazoo College appears to local church-related institution be getting more than its share of seems, truly, to have entered "an I the increasing number of young era of great promise." Local Study and Service It is gratifying to note another has an almost unlimited oppor­ forward step that Kalamazoo tunity to get information and College is taking. advice. Such help is offered by The proposed Institute of Gov­ the national and state associations, ernment is designed for research, as well as by organizations con­ service and training. But, unlike nected with universities. most of the other Institutes around Counties and townships are the country, this one will special­ not so well served; and it may be ize in the problems of local gov­ that the new Institute at Kalama­ ernment, especially those that ap­ zoo College can do some of its pear in Southwestern Michigan. most useful work in the rural As the Institute goes into these and semi-rural units, acting in From the Issue problems, it will bring to bear on cooperation with the appropriate of February 26, 1955 them the experience of cities, authorities, officials, and com­ counties, and townships in other munity leaders. parts of the state and nation. And the Institute, we feel sure, The University of Michigan, will not overlook the highly sig­ through its Institute of Public nificant fact that local govern­ Administration, has done some ment is tied in with the state gov­ excellent work in the field of ernment. So, while staff and stu­ local government. Kalamazoo dents work at the grass roots, College will, no doubt, find it de­ they will have to keep their sights sirable and mutually beneficial to high, sweeping a fairly wide cooperate with the University; horizon. but there are few, if any, insti­ What better way to study? tutions of higher learning, so far What better way to teach? What as we know, that have done or better way to make political sci­ are doing precisely what Kalama­ ence come alive? What better zoo College plans to do. way to make it a force for prog­ Every city official, nowadays, ress and the good life?

ALUMNUS Page 11 In Scholarship Aid YOUR PERSONA ~

The financial wherewithal is not dents interested in pursuing the bio­ always a part of the scene in which logical sciences, constitute the pres­ the prospective student finds himself. ent endowed support of the College And yet, so many of these same stu­ scholarship program. Scholarships dents who wish to anticipate a con­ for a given year necessarily extend tinuation of their education are in beyond the income of these funds the upper bracket in terms of high and offer a meaningful channel of school academic record and serious­ opportunity for those interested and ness of purpose. Many of these stu­ able to serve education and worthy dents, too, have provided sound lead­ members of the student generation DONORS TO 1954 AN ership in student responsibilities. through financial aid. ADDITION TO LIST II The following list of endowed Listed, further, are the current scholarship funds stands as evidence recipients of scholarships from these George Sigler '01 of the kind of support provided by specific scholarship fu nds. Much Royal Fisher '06 friends of Kalamazoo College whose personal satisfaction and pride should Earl Shock '09 interest it has been to make possible be the donors' in knowing that all Ethel Thomas-Vernon '13 financial aid for the worthy student. of the listed students rank high Percy L. Vernon '13 Four of the funds reach as far back academically. In addition, names ap­ Helen Crissman-Thompson '13 as the 1800's to the time of their pear of many of the student campus E. . Collins '19 establishment, including the Axtell leaders- the president of the Stu­ Fund, the Taft Fund, the Van Husan dent Senate, the present president of Harriet Towsley-Hunter '20 Fund, and the Willard Fund. These the Women's League and the pres­ Harry A. Bell '22 funds, together with the very recent­ ident-elect, the past editor of the C. Val Berry '23 ly established Kendall Brooks student "Index," the president of the Maclalene A. Johnson '23 Scholarship Fund, provided by Miss United Student Christian Associa­ Agnes Ryan-Clark '23 Heloise Tuttle-Bell '23 Edith E. Pettee in memory of her tion, and last year's selection for the R. K. Compton '26 brother Harry Pettee '86, for stu- Spirit of Christmas. Lillian Draewell-Dressel '26 ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIP FUNDS E. B. Schermerhorn '28 The Jesse Hoyt Ames Scholarship Charles Bock '29 The Axtell Scholarship Albertine Monroe-Brown '29 The Edward E. Chapple Scholarship Janet Robertson-Wise '29 The Sarah A. De\;\/aters Scholarship Lois Stutzman-Harvey '29 The Harmon Everett Scholarship Knox W. Wicks '29 The Horace J. and Lizzie P. Fuller Scholarship The John M. and Louisa C. Gregory Scholarship H. Valorus Kerry '30 The Joseph W. Hicks Scholarship The john Wesley Hornbeck Scholarship Grace Richardson-Wolff '31 The Charles Kurtz Jacobs Scholarship The H. H. LaTourette Fund Donald Hayne '32 The Thomas T. Leete, Jr., Scholarship Dorothy Ryall-Britigan '32 The Mr. and Mrs. Floyd R. Olmsted Scholarship D. F. Switzenberg '32 The Emma 0. Reed Scholarship The Emma Whylancl Sharp Scholarship Adelaide Kaiser '33 The Carl A. Soule Scholarship Catherine Pierce-White '33 The Ruth Swift Scholarship Richard V. Sn.1cler '34 The Lewis A. Taft Scholarship Egbert Van Haaften '34 The C. VanHusan Scholarship The Charles Willard Student Aiel Fund Leonard H. Elwell '35 1954-55 RECIPIENTS OF SCHOLARSHIPS FROM ABOVE FUNDS Paul E. Kreilick '36 \¥illiam Bamn, Three Rivers senior Karen Peterson, Detroit sophomore D. F. Otten '36 Freel Hudson, Skaneateles, N. Y., junior JoAnn Valentine, Waterford freshman Jean Moore-Chapman '36 Duane DeVries, Kalamazoo senior Gordon Noble, Vicksburg senior Gretchen Bahr, Waukesha junior Burtis Crooks, Oaklyn, N. J.. senior Dorothy Hackett, Kalamazoo junior David Crane, Cedar Springs junior Carl Fink, Milwaukee freshman Jack Bowen, Kalamazoo senior Gail Mallon, Waukesha freshman Richard Halsey, Birmingham freshman Martha Hoard, Plainwell senior Charles Seifert, Battle Creek senior Bruce VanDomelen, Shelby senior Jacob Slonimsky, New York junior Howard Hirschy, Kalamazoo senior Freel Tivin, Skokie freshman Connie Gillesby, Decatur freshman Sam Townsend, Montague sophomore Jean Hilton, Pontiac freshman Philip VanDe Voorcle, Rock Island freshman Marlene Crandell, Battle Creek freshman Robert Cramp, Kalamazoo senior Merrilyn Cigarcl, Lansing freshman Barbara McCabe, La Grange sophomore Ruth Knoll, Oconomowoc freshman Marcia Wood, Kalamazoo senior

Page 12 ALUMNUS - SATISFACTION In Fund Drive Support A large measure of personal satis- of 26V2 % of our alumni group ap- faction should be allowed to those pears on our donors' list. We are whose participation in the 1954 An- growing, and we want to see a still nual Fund Drive made possible a longer list another year! May we record report on all counts! A record count you in? FINAL RECORD REPORT ON ANNUAL FUN\D DRIVE OF 1954 Total to date ------$ 90,369 Challenge Gift __ ------_____ ------15,000 UAL FUND DRIVE IN Grand Total ______------.$105,369 JANUARY ALUMNUS Percentage of alumni contributing ------26V2 7o Class group with highest percentage contributing ( 43 o/o ) ------1901-1903 Walter Good '37 Class contributing largest amount------1914 Mary Rosebrook-Otten '37 Mary Stroud-Vinton '37 Class with largest number contributing ( 44) ______:______1954 Harriet Winslow '37 Charles Witschonke '37 ALUMNI COUNCIL VOTES "NO DUES" Richard Swiat '39 All-out Effort to be Made for Frances Estes '40 Kenneth Rahn '40 Continued Increase in Participation in Fund Drive Fred Garbrecht '41 Marian Schrier-Kingsley '41 The chief item of business of the response is not higher than 25 %. Jewell Starkweather-Robinson '41 Executive Committee of the Alumni As we look at Bates, Dartmouth, George W . Williams '41 Association at a meeting in January Princeton, etc., we find over 50 % Mary Hosford-Williams '43 was to support action to discontinue of their alumni contributing to their James Kerchner '43 national alumni dues, beginning with annual drives. If they can do it, so Dorothy Sack-Miller '46 the new fiscal year on July 1, 1955. can we! Robert H . Weimer '46 Reasons for this action all point to BEQUESTS COMMITTEE EN­ William Olvitt '47 an increased effort for more partic­ DORSEMENT. At its meeting, the Joan V. Akerman '48 ipation in but one appeal per year alumni executive .committee also en­ Thomas Clauter '48 -the Annual Fund Drive. dorsed the program proposed by Jean Pomeroy-Krudener '48 There are cases where alumni pay the Bequests Committee. As you Esther Bisbee-Clauter '49 dues but do not contribute to the will recall, four standing committees Ralph Deal '49 Wendell V. Discher '49 Drive. Conversely, many of the have been set up to work in four Chester Drag '49 alumni who respond to the Drive do different areas relative to the finan­ Norman Armstrong 'SO not pay alumni dues. It would take cial undergirding of Kalamazoo Col­ James E. Edwards 'SO a special appeal to raise the figure lege. They deal with the Annual Florence Waterman-Armstrong 'SO of dues revenue, and it is felt it Fund, the Institutional Budget, Roy E . Larsen, Hon. '51 would be far better to bend all ef­ Capital .Gifts, and Bequests. The Hugh L. Dill, Jr. '52 fort in one appeal only, by way of days of large bequests are no longer, Richard S. Longnecker '52 support of the Fund Drive. The and the building of our endowment Alice S. Maes '52 Nancy Stickler-Topp '52 elimination of dues would route the has to be dependent in large meas­ Alumni Association's budgetary ex­ ure on as many people as possible re­ .. Katherine Shanor-Baum '53 pense through the Drive. It is a membering K a 1am a zoo College Darol W . Topp '53 jump in participation we are seeking. through t)leir wills. A number of R. Jerold Baum '54 The percentage of our alumni re­ colleges are now launching into Edward Staren '54 Theodore Tiffany '54 sponse to the Drive is growing­ this type of thing. We are far be­ Keith Wright '54 from 17 '/c in . the '53 Drive to hind in the endowment picture. 26V2 % in the last Drive. We, as Until the Wallace estate, our endow­ alumni, must continue to raise this ment was a little over· one million figure to justify the generous sup­ dollars; the Wallace bequest doubl­ port Kalamazoo College receives ed this. In the country today, there· from outside benefactors. Actually, are 125 colleges with endowment of there are few colleges with whom $3,000,000 and over! We must we wi~h to classify ourselves (the keep pace and ~t the same time seek highly recognized, small private col­ relief from our dependency on an-· lege of liberal arts) whose alumni nual gifts. -

ALUMNUS Page 13 "SPEAKING OF BOOKS"- sy Arnold Mul der

Recently Sir Harold Nicolson, 1830 edition of the Waverley explains in the 1830 preface. In noted British biographer, provoked Novels. the story Scott had killed off a much discussion in tbe London Ob­ "It was plain," he writes, "that Saxon named Athelstane, using a se,-ve,- with the opinion that the frequent publication must finally bloody battle to bring about the novel as a literary form is dying. wear out the public favor, unless man's death. Friends and neighbors When I expressed disagreement (in some mode could be devised to give had carried the body home over a medium other than this column), an appearance of novelty to sub­ many rough miles. The corpse had a reader came to the defense of Sir sequent production." been prepared for the funeral, and Harold with a suggestion that is of So he wrote Ivanhoe, usually re­ a medieval funeral feast was in more than passing interest because garded today as his best novel and progress. Many days had passed. it probably voices the opinion of often listed among the "hundred Then Scott resuscitates the noble many others: best books." He worked out every Saxon, making him appear in his "What else could Sir Harold detail with great care, always adopt­ grave clothes at the funeral feast. expect? The great novelists of the ing the literary devices that would This was too much for some dis­ past wrote as defenders of art and be most likely to win the favor of criminating readers. When they truth. The fiction writers of today the public and hence their money. protested, Scott explained blandly merely want to make money." He makes no bones about it; Scott that he had originally intended to The romantic notion that money was an unusually honest man. kill off Ethelstane for good, as in­ did not enter into the calculations of He had great faith in the eco­ deed the plot demanded, but that the great novelists of the past is sur­ nomic intuitions of his friend and James Ballantyne had warned him prisingly widespread. It is likewise printer James Ballantyne. Ballan­ that the great reading public would surprisingly wrong. Ever since the tyne had an uncanny sense of what object! earliest days of the modern English would or would not attract the read­ Did the great novelists of the novel the very greatest writers have ing public. Many times Scott past write for "art and truth" alone? usually had a shrewd eye open for changed scenes when Ballantyne All the evidence is against it. Think sales. advised him that what he had writ­ of Dickens and Thackeray, of Field­ ten would reduce sales. Let me give a single example, in­ ing and Richardson. Or think of volving an author who was among One flagrant case Scott himself nearly all the greatest of the great. the greatest in his generation. His collected works are on the library shelves of most of those who believe SCIENCE FOUNDATION FELLOWSHIPS that the novelists of the past scorned the box office. TO TWO SONS OF K-COLLEGE ALUMNI In 1820 Walter Scott sat down Two Kalamazoo College students of Wyncote, Pa., who studied with to write a novel that he hoped would are winners of one of the most out­ Dr. Allen B. Stowe at Olivet Col­ maintain, or add to, the renown he standing awards available to under­ lege, both then coming on to Kal­ had won with the earlier Waverley graduates and graduate students of amazoo College where Dr. Glarum Novels. A native of Scotland, Sir science in American colleges and graduated in 1928. He has a Ph.D. Walter had up until that time used universities. Samuel Allerton and from Brown University where his Scottish history and scenery in such Sivert Glarum have been selected for son, also, plans to study. Young novels as W avedey, Rob Roy, and National Science Foundation Fel­ Glarum currently holds a Standard• others. He was a canny businessman, lowships from among applicants Oil Company Scholarship at Kal­ and after nearly a decade of success from all parts of the United States, amazoo College. Alaska, Puerto Rico, and Hawaii. with Scottish novels he feared that Allerton is the son of Virginia The award of the fellowships to the his readers were getting tired of Dickenson Allerton of the class of two College seniors is considered a them. 1926. He currently holds a Dow rare distinction. The fellowships So he deliberately made up his Chemical Company Scholarship at provide an annual stipend of $1,400, mind to maintain, or if necessary re­ Kalamazoo College, and he has not as well as tuition and traveling ex­ capture, reader interest by writing a selected as yet the college at which penses to continue graduate studies novel about the lowlands of England he will do his graduate work. instead of about the Highlands of in science at a college or university Scotland- purely for economic rea­ of their choice. Both students are all-A scholars. sons. We do not have to guess about Both Allerton and G !arum are Glarum will continue his work in this; Scott himself confesses it in sons of K-College alumni. Glarum physical chemistry; Allerton will fol­ great detail m his preface to the is the son of Dr. Sivert N. Glarum low studies in bio-chemistry.

Page 14 ALUMNUS September 23, 1945 ... Thomas Schippers appears in a farewell organ recital at Stetson Chapel, followed by a reception at Hoben Hall. Program notes: "Thomas Schippers- more familiarly known to his friends as Tommy-is one of Kalamazoo's best known young musicians. He is a native of the community and has frequently appeared in public as pianist and organist. "He leaves tomorrow for Philadelphia to begin work at Curtis In­ stitute under the scholarship he won last spring. "He began his organ study with Mr. Overley as a choirboy at St. Luke's Church when nine years of age, and continued his work at the College Institute of Musical Art this past year. He celebrated his fif­ teenth birthday last March." February 6, 1955 ... "Kalamazoo's Thomas Schippers has been named a conductor for the Metropolitan Opera Company's 1955-56 season. Now only 24 years old, Schippers is the youngest man to be appointed to this important post since Walter Damrosch was named conductor in 1885 at the age of 22. He also is only the third native-born American in the Met's 71-year history to be chosen for the job. "Schippers' appointment has been hailed by the musical world for several reasons, one, of course, being that Schippers has made a brilliant record as a conductor of the New York Opera Company, as guest con­ dttctor of symphony orchestras all over the world, and as the favorite conductor of Gian-Carlo Menotti, whose 'Saint of Bleecker Street' is the current sensation of the opera world. Schippers, in fact, conducts it, and it will take him to La Scala this spring. He made his debut as a conductor at the age of 19, when he directed Menotti's 'The Cottnsel.' "

Through Henry Overley, head of the music department, Kalamazoo College has a very real association with Thomas Schippers. Through THOMAS SCHIPPERS the influence of Mr. Overley, his teacher for six years, he was admitted to Curtis Institute to study. Win­ ning of a place in auditions for young conductors before the Phila­ delphia Symphony Orchestra launch­ ed him on a directing career. Thomas Schippers' introduction to the campus came in 1941 at the age of eleven when he served as as­ sistant accompanist for the College production of Smetana's "The Bar­ tered Bride," when he astound'ed everyone with his unusual ability. The picture shows Thomas Schippers at the console of the Stetson Chapel organ at the age of fifteen. Inset, he is pictured with the organ class of I 944-45 at which time he was studying organ with Mr. Overley at the College Institute of Musical Art. College alumni also appear­ ing in the picture are, front row: Betty James Schnebelt '45, Floanne Huddle­ stun Dozer '47, Marion Johnstone Sch­ meige '45; second row: Patricia Kennett Powers '46, Dorothy Sack Miller '46, Thomas Schippers, and Esther Marlin Floyd x'48.

ALUMNUS Page 15 One of the leading authorities on The theme for the 1955 Religi­ "George Washington was not just the Civil War was the guest of Kal­ ous Emphasis Week, February 27 the exotic, he was an idea of order, amazoo College on February· 11 and through March 2, was "There is no a center of values- absolute, im­ 12, in observance of lincoln's birth­ Neutrality." Three guest leaders mutable," according to Dr. Walter day. Dr. William Best Hesseltine, took part in this annual program Waring of the English department professor of American history at the which included a series of Chapel faculty in his address at the Wash­ University of Wisconsin and histor­ addresses, seminars, dormitory meet­ ington Banquet. February 19 was ian of the South, charmed the cam­ ings, and discussions. A new feature the '55 calendar date for this tradi­ pus family and guests with his visit rhis year was the program of Bible tional event. and his two chief lectures on "lin­ study meetings. coln, Architect of the Nation" and The three off-campus leaders were Fifty-four members of the Kal­ "The lincoln Industry." Dr. langdon Brown Gilkey, assoc­ amazoo College Singers joined in on iate professor of systematic theology, the annual spring tour which took Dr. Charles Pomerat, professor of Vanderbilt U niversiry Graduate them to the Chicago and Milwaukee cytology at the University of Texas, School; Dr. ]. Gordon Chamberlain, areas. The journey was highlighted gave an illustrated lecture, "Tissue a pastor of the Riverside Baptist and completed with the group's ap­ Culture in Experimental Biology," Church in New York City; and Dr. pearance in Orchestra Hall with on Kalamazoo's campus on Febru­ John W. Thomas of the American their performance for the Sunday ary 10. He is a past president of the Baptist Convention. Evening Club. Tissue Culture Association. Dr. John Finerty '37 is professor of As the Alumnus goes to press, anatomy at the same University. J. B. Priestly's mystery play, "An another sellout of tickers for the Inspector Calls," scored the second Ninth Annual Bach Festival is as­ Twenty Kalamazoo College stu­ hit of the drama season at "K" on sured again this year. dents and the Reverend lloyd March 11 and 12. Under the direc­ Friday evening, March 25, the Averill spent a week between semes­ tion of Mrs. Nelda Balch, the arena Festival Chorus, Orchestra, and local ters in Washington, D. C., and New style staging again proved its adapt­ soloists, under the direction of Henry York City to participate in the Chris­ ability to Bowen auditorium. Overley, will present Cantatas 79 tian Citizen Seminar sponsored by and 106, and the · Brandenburg the Board of Christian Education of The sophomore class was named Concerto No. 2. Organ solos by Dr. the American Baptist Convention. winner of the snow sculpturing con­ Heinrich Fleischer, of the Univer­ The seminar was organized to test held in connection with the third sities of Chicago and Valparaiso, acquaint students with procedures annual Winter Carnival, sponsored and the Sonata for the Viola da and personalities in the national by the Euros and the Sherwoods. Gamba by Julius Klein, noted viola government and to provide informa­ Reigning over the festivities which da gambist, will complete the pro­ tion on rhe operations of the United also included a "ski lodge dance" gram. Dr. Fleischer and Mr. Klein Nations. were Queen Beverly Goodsell, Ot­ participated in last year's Festival. sego, and King Tom Anderson, Six nationally known soloists, Dr. Robert E. Fassnacht of South Vicksburg. Fleischer, Mr. Klein, the Festival Bend entered Kalamazoo College in Chorus and Orchestra will combine January. He was one of the forty Alpha lambda Delta, women's their efforts in presenting "The Pas­ teen-agers selected as finalists in tb£> honorary fraternity for freshmen at sion According to St. Matthew,'• 14th Annual Science Talent Search. the College, has accepted into mem­ Saturday afternoon and evening. The awards were made by the West­ bership fifteen freshman women Soloists for this concert are Glenn inghouse Educational Foundation to who achieved an average of 3.5 or Schnittke, tenor; Mary Simmons, so­ the 40 winners out of over 16,000 better for this past semester's work. prano; Philip MacGregor, bass; aspirants from throughout the coun­ John Macdonald, baritone; Audrey try. Madame lucie de Vienne Blanc, Paul, contralto; and Carlton Eld­ specialist in voice culture, appeared ridge, tenor. The Century Forum Society pre­ on the campus as guest lecturer in The Trio Sonata will be presented sented. its seventh annual "Show­ March. She is president and founder by lynette Blanchard, flutist; Volde­ boat" on Friday and Saturday even­ of rhe "Proscenium," Montreal, cen'­ mars Rushevics, violinist; and Harry ings, March 19 and 20. John La­ ner for the development of vocal Ray, pianist. Mr. MacGregor and Monte, Pontiac, and Richard Crooks, communication, and is director of Miss Simmons will appear in this Saginaw, served as musical directors dramatic production at Middlebury program to present Cantatas 82 and for this year's production. College Summer School, · Vermont. 84, respectively.

Page 16 ALUMNUS FROM A TRIP BEHIND IMPRESSIONS THE IRON CURTAIN

During the past two years I was itself. It was a very primitive story, enrolled at Heidelberg University, devised for the purpose of spreading , By Jurgen Diekmann Germany, where I was a member of propaganda among t h e people the first string tennis team. Because against the Americans. Two Amer­ our season had been a very succesful ican spies were shown in their at­ one, we received an official invita­ tempt to sneak into the Soviet Union tion from the East German Govern­ to do harm to something which was ment Department of Sports, to play never clearly revealed, The alert some of their top teams. Since we "Superman-like" Russian soldiers were all very anxious to take a look successfully halted this attempt and behind the Iron Curtain, we gladly finally killed the American spies, accepted this invitation, and these While we tennis players from the are the impressions I received from West could hardly keep from laugh­ the trip. ing, it was very discouraging to see We left behind West Berlin, how well the rest of the audience re­ which looked like any other big city sponded to the whole story and with its shopping centers, street finally gave a tumultous applause to noises, many cars, and the other the Russian soldiers in the picture. features that determine the look of This clearly showed how effective a city. As we entered East Berlin, propaganda can be if constantly it was like passing into a different hammered into the people and aimed world; we gazed upon empty streets particularly at the younger and more with only a handful of old cars, bar­ impressionable age of which was the ren store windows, and streets majority of the audience. The other strangely quiet. The people were picture and the play were similar in poorly dressed and seemed to have their stories, leaving the impres­ unsatisfied and worried expressions sions for the people: that there are on their faces; many seemed gaunt two types of people, the good com­ and undernourished. As though the munists and the bad capitalists; also, Russians were trying to substitute for Jurgen Diekmann from Ludwigs­ the people of the West are starv­ the emptiness that prevailed, the bafen-Rbine, Germany, is spending ing, with a few amassing all the streets held many large bill boards his first year on tbe Kalamazoo Col­ wealth, at the expense of the com­ with the pictures of Stalin, Marx, lege camjJUs as a junior. Tbis is bis mon worker, while the people of Lenin, etc., and with slogans, meant second visit to tbe United States; bis the East all enjoy a good standard to inspire the people, which read, first trip was in 1951 as an excbange of living with no class separation, student under Rotary Club sponsor­ "Let us fight for peace," "Let us and an equal chance for all. sbip wben be attended Jackson Higb throw out the American capitalists Scbool. Returning to Germany, be It seems the opposite of this to achieve peace," "Fight with the studied for two years at tbe Univer­ idea is true. The top government Soviet Union for Peace." The out­ sity of Heidleberg, before joining tbe officials and top scientists draw the standing thing that I remember is K-College family. big salaries, have the highest ration­ that they always read, "Fight for In Dr. Allen B. Stowe, be finds a ings, are supplied with cars, and peace." combination of professor in bis major have the choice of the most bea\1- On our excursions in East Berlin, department, cbemistry, and coacb of tiful homes, while the daily laborer bis favorite sport, tennis. He is mak­ we constantly had an official with ing a name for bimself in tbe United who lived under poor conditions be­ us, to protect us from the wrong im­ States as a tennis star, and wbile at fore the change and had hoped for pression or from unfavorable com­ Jackson Higb Scbool, be won tbe a better standard of living, is as bad ments of the people who met us on state Class A regional prep singles off as before. This laborer cannot the streets. For entertainment we cbampionsbip and was rnnnerup in tbe eat in the same restaurant or go to were taken to two movies and one Micbigan finals. More recently, dur­ the same places as the "officials" play. The first movie we saw had ing Cbristmas vacation, be upset top­ simply became he does not have been produced in Russia and was re­ seeded Dick Raskind of Yale in tbe enough money. His rations are garded as one of the most outstand­ Orange Bowl Tournament at Miami much smaller, in fact too small for ing pictures. While the color was Beacb, Florida, and was not beaten good health, so he must resort to the until tbe semifinal round. Kalamazoo really excellent, and in my opinion College looks to bim for furtber ten­ blackmarket for additional food. The superior to American technique, I nis bonors tbis spring. blackmarket is handled through gov- was very disappointed in the picture (Continued on Next Page)

ALUMNUS Page 17 (Continued from Prel'ious Page) ernment-operated stores, as is every­ thing else. The government figured that if there were to be a black­ market due to the food shortage, The Kalamazoo Hornets brought following game, Adrian was knock­ they might as well have the profits their 195 4-5 5 basketball season ro ed out of the M.I.A.A. lead by a 92 from it, so instead of raising the a close on February 24, by losing ro tO 70 defeat, which was the top portions of rationed food, part of Calvin College, 59 to 48, in an ag­ Hornet performance of the season. the food is sold officially at black­ gressive, hard-fought game. This de­ The most outstanding player this market prices and no ration cards feat gave the college five a season season was captain Gary Morrison are required for these purchases. record of 8 wins against 12 defeats. of Battle Creek, who led the team However, it is not the average work­ They placed fifth in the M.I.A.A. in scoring with 405 points. He also er with his small salary who receives Conference with a 5-8 record. was second in conference scoring, a the benefits of this institution, be­ The Hornets began the season few points behind Harry Hughes of cause he cannot afford to buy. with a surprising defeat of Illinois Adrian. Gary was given the added Tech, a strong team from Chicago, recognition of being elected the Schooling facilities are not avail­ Illinois. The following night they most valuable player by his team. able to everyone. A child who de­ lost tO an excellent DePaul live, sires to attend high school must The starting five of Gary Morri­ rated one of the cop collegiate teams son, Wayne Shell, Doug Steward, join the youth movement, which is in the country. Returning ro Kal­ called the "Blue shirred FD J ," and John Frueh, and Dave Moran will amazoo, they collected their second all be back tO form the nucleus for if he does not subscribe, pressure win from North Central College. upon the teachers will be so great the 1955-56 basketball squad. The that the child is finally expelled. The The season then rook a turn tO the addition of some excellent freshmen education on a college level is free left, as the team lost six in a row, will also help improve the squad. for 99 % of the students, but they before beating Hillsdale, 90 to 81. The outstanding freshmen who will must be the child of a worker whose At the beginning of the second be lighting for varsity berths are apparent beliefs in communism semester, Coach Rolla Anderson be­ Charlie Gordon of Kalamazoo, Bob have been verified beyond doubt. If gan to smile as his six foot, seven Bale of Croron, New York, Ellis their parents have been former "cap­ inch center Doug Steward of Ver­ Cutler of Richland, Bob Ellis of St. italists" or have participated in some montville became eligible. He and Joe, and John Becker of Crete, Ill. political work contrary to party lines, Tom McConnell of Coldwater, On April 18 the golf team, led they do not stand a chance. another transfer student who also by Tom Anderson, will pry the lid became eligible, sparked the team off the spring sport season, against The pressure under which the tO a tremendous 98 to 68 victory Adrian. This is the most active part public is held is tremendous! Peo­ over the traditional rival Hope. This of the year for intercollegiate sports ple do not dare speak a frank word gave the team added life, and in the (Confil111 ed on Next Page) tO their neighbors for fear they might be turned in. I really admire the people for being able to take from a dance in the city of Leipzig, the morbid capitalistic West behind. this "non-thinking" existence which where we were staying for a week. It is this younger generation that is forced upon them. After I read A Russian soldier suddenly ap­ constitutes the police force, while the all the one-sided propaganda stOries proached me on the street and de­ members of the older generation in the papers, I felt an urge within manded my watch. He even drew his who can still remember Hitler's rise, myself to speak up, tO talk tO some­ pisco! tO support his demand. For­ stand by helplessly and watch again, body about it, and yet dared not tO tunately, at this point, an East Ger­ with horror, a form of education do so. Parents cannot express their man policeman came along and that twists the minds of their young. ideas or beliefs tO their own chil­ rook the Russian with him. When I The last experience taught me one dren, because they have been reported this incident tO my hosts, thing in particular- communism thoroughly indoctrinated in the com­ whom I knew I could trust, they told cannot be fought effectively just munist beliefs in school and would me that I probably could find in the with funds to raise the standards of report their own relatives, even their next day's paper that an American living in the oppressed countries. It parents. agent in a Russian uniform tried to must also be fought with challeng­ The condition of the general disturb the peace. ing ideas, ideas of capitalism and Eastern zone is even more intense The saddest experience of all was free enterprise that prove stronger than those which exist in East Ber­ tO see how much the communist than the ideas of communism. In lin, although East Berlin is used as propaganda had influenced the this way only can we reach the root a model of East German life to the younger generation. Almost all of of the evil, and reach the minds of visitOrs allowed tO cross behind the them are firm believers in com­ those who have been indoctrinated Iron Curtain. One of my personal munism and several of them actually with the idealistic beliefs of com­ experiences in the Eastern zone oc­ asked me why I would not want to munism, ro show them that there is cured when I escorted a girl home stay in the Eastern Zone and leave another way, a better way.

Page 18 ALUMNUS (Continued from PretJious Page) as the college will participate in four sports, baseball, tennis, golf, and track. The tennis squad has a General Motors has announced college administrative field, partic­ difficult ten-day southern trip plan­ an extended program of financial ularly as related to admissions? ned. The trip includes matches with support to higher education. Under One of our admissions counselors some of the top teams in the south. this plan, certain institutions will will be going into service; another In regular season play, Dr. Stowe have available scholarships awarded will be continuing in graduate has set up another tough schedule by General Motors. Kalamazoo Col­ school. Therefore, Kalamazoo Col­ as it includes three large univer­ lege is one of these institutions. lege is looking for someone to assist sities, Notre Dame, Indiana, and Il­ in the field of admissions and public linois. The number one man at the The colleges selected have been relations in general. If this type of present time is Jim Fowler of Kal­ given a free hand in choosing the work appeals to you, please contact amazoo who is the 1954 M.I.A.A. student to receive the scholarship Dr. Hicks at an early date. singles champion. award. The only qualifications are After a lapse of three years, base­ that the recipients be outstanding The Alumni Office has in its pos­ ball takes its place on the spring scholastically and in leadership qual­ session a Kalamazoo College ring sports schedule. Henry Lasch is ities and that they need assistance. which was sent by someone who had again coaching the Hornet nine and There is no restriction on course of found it in Erie, Pennsylvania. We has prepared a rugged thirteen­ study. The amount of the scholar­ have checked with our alumni from game schedule. Coach Lasch is not ship is determined by the institution Erie and have been unable to locate optimistic over the coming season as within range of $200 to $2000 per the owner of the ring. If you have he must start from scratch to build year. There is also a grant in aid lost this ring, check with us, and we a team. His major problem is to to private institutions which is shall forward it to you. find a pitching staff that can hold equivalent to the institution rate up under the pressure of the large charged with a minimum of $500 number of g:;-.mes that must be play­ per year for each scholarship. The Wills and Bequests Commit­ ed in May. Kalamazoo College is looking for tee of Kalamazoo College again a recipient for this scholarship- a wishes to call to your attention in It looks like a better than aver­ this issue the opportunity to remem­ age season in track, if Coach Joe student who will begin the freshman year at Kalamazoo College in Sep­ ber Kalamazoo College in this Bogart can find someone to partic­ significant way. ipate in the field events. Arleigh tember, 1955- this year. We are Dodson and Les Green, two out­ asking our alumni to consider ap­ "I give, devise, and bequeath unto standing field event men who grad­ plicants for this scholarship and to The Kalamazoo College, a corpora­ uated, will be difficult to replace. forward any such suggestions to the tion organized under and by virtue Arleigh was the M.I.A.A. champion admissions office at once. of the laws of the State of Michigan in the javelin and high jump. The and located in the City of Kalama- first five from last fall's cross coun­ This is to call to your attention zoo, in said State, the sum oL ...... try team will be running, which again the establishment of an In­ Dollars." should give the team added strength stitute of Government at Kalamazoo For further information regarding in the distance events. The two top College (details on page 3 ). Through this program you may contact any candidates are Dick Erhle of De­ your work in political science at one of the members of this com­ troit and Frank Grimm of Grand Kalamazoo College, you became ac­ mittee. They include Edwin G. Rapids. John Frueh, a transfer stu­ quainted with the work of the Bu­ Gemrich, 222 South W estnedge dent from Grand Rapids Junior Col­ reau of Municipal Research. Now, Ave., Kalamazoo; H. Clair Jackson, lege, will carry the load in the dashes on a graduate level, supplementary 219 West Lovell St., Kalamazoo; and broad jump. The track team has study will be offered through the In­ Floyd R. Olmsted, 204-10 Com­ eight meets scheduled, which end stitute. If you have been consider­ merce Building, Kalamazoo; Ralph with the M.I.A.A. Field Days, May ing furthe; graduate study in this M. Ralston, 201 North Park St., 19 and 20, in Kalamazoo. field, you will not want to miss the Kalamazoo; Harold B. Allen, The The golf team is coached by Bill opportunity to learn more about the Upjohn Company, 301 Henrietta Laughlin. The team has eight program which will begin next Sep­ St., Kalamazoo; Paul H. Todd, Box matches, ending with the Conference tember. Mr. Elton Ham, head of the 591, Kalamazoo; Maynard 0. Wil­ meet on Field Day. During the political science department, will be iams, 11006 Montrose Ave., Garrett winter months the golfers have been happy to furnish you with fttrther Park, Maryland; Osborn H. Ensing, correcting faults in the indoor driv­ details ttpon request. 758 Fisher Building, Detroit; Herb­ ing cage in Tredway Gym. Coach ert H. Gardner, Birmingham Na­ Laughlin has three golfers returning Are you an alumnus between the tional Bank, Birmingham, Michigan; from last year, Captain Tom Ander­ ages of twenty-five and thirty-five? and Miss Marilyn Hinkle, Kalama­ son, Bill Haring, and Skip Marks. Are you interested in learning the zoo College.

ALUMNUS Page 19 invited the members of the semor class. LANSING. The Lansing Alumni CAN YOU TOP THIS ? ? ? Club held a special meeting for prospective students from the Lans­ Dr. Charles ]. Kurtz '94 is the oldest living member of a family that ing area on March 2 in the Social may well claim the distinction of having more of its members attend Kal­ Room of SextOn High School. On amazoo College than any other alumni family. Dr. Kurtz received his M.D. hand to present the various phases from Northwestern Medical School in 1898 and his Master's degree from of the college program were Pres­ Northwestern University in 1900. He has served as a member of the faculty ident Hicks, John Anderson, Stuart of Northwestern Medical School and is a member emeritus of the staff of Simpson, Rolla Anderson, Raymond St. Luke's Hospital, Chicago. He is a familiar figure at both the alumni Hightower, and Marilyn Hinkle. meetings in Chicago and the alumni day activities in Kalamazoo. Helen Cary Everett '22 was chair­ Our records show thirty-five members of this family, related tO Dr. man of the affair, along with Clif­ Kurtz by birth or marriage, as alumni of Kalamazoo College. Listed with ford Hunt '39, Lansing Club pres­ their class years, here they are! ident, Dr. '19 and Mrs. Dwight H. Rich (Eleanor Currie '19), Robert Isabella Bennett Cadman, ex 1860, aunt Edith Kurtz King, ex 1923, niece Maunder '41, Donald Hayne '32, James P. Cadman, A.B. 1863, uncle Katheryn Bennett Bardeen, ex 1923, and Mable Woodward Fiske '15. Edward H. Brooks, A.B. 1874, brother- niece On January 14, the Clifford Hunts in-law Pauline Kurtz Jacobs, A.B. 1924, Minnie Bennett Brooks, ex 1880, sister­ daughter entertained the Lansing Alumni in-law Ardell 0. Jacobs, A.B. 1924, son-in-law Club in their home at which time Jennie Bennett Cheney, A.B. 1884, sis­ Margaret Kurtz Fortner, A.B. 1924, plans were laid for the March 2nd ter-in-law daughter meeting. There are tentative plans John E. Cheney, A.B. 1885, brother-in- Roscoe J. Fortner, A.B. 1925, son-in­ for a picnic on May 6. law law Edith Kurtz Swayze, ex 1887, sister Dorothy Ward Kurtz, ex 1925, niece TOLEDO. Under the leadership of Elizabeth Fletcher Kurtz, A.B. 1889, L. Thompson Bennett, Jr., ex 1934, Marion Graybiel Means '22 and sister-in-law nephew Marjorie Kiefer Warner '45, "K" Frank Kurtz, A.B. 1892, brother Garrett Bennett, ex 1945, nephew alumni in the Toledo area met for William T. Sevener, ex 1892, cousin James Franklin Kurtz, ex 1931, son dinner at the Toledo Women's Club Isabella Bennett Kurtz, A.B., A.M., David M. Kurtz, A.B. 1939, cousin on March 3. Guests from the Col­ 1896, wife Evelyn Glass Kurtz, A.B. 1940, cousin lege were President and Mrs. Hicks Robert S. Bennett, ex 1899, brother-in­ Ann Garrett Bennett, ex 1945, niece and Marilyn Hinkle. Elected to law Gordon F. Kurtz, A.B. 1948, cousin head the Club were Ruth Gilder­ Mildred Powell Kurtz, A.B. 1908, Melissa Truett Kurtz, ex 1949, cousin cousin Ronald J. Kurtz, ex 1947, cousin sleeve Neuhaus '38, president, and Reuben J. Kurtz, A.B. 1910, cousin Charles Jacobs, ex 1954, nephew Virginia Orr Barbour '42, secretary­ Alma E. Kurtz, A.B. 1911, cousin Mardell Jacobs Arent, A.B. 1951, niece treasurer. The club is joining the Herman F. Kurtz, A.B. 1918, nephew Noble P. Arent, A.B. 1951, nephew program of student recruitment. WASHINGTON. Tuesday, March 22, was set as the date for theW ash­ ON COMMENCEMENT WEEK END 0 0 0 ingron meeting of alumni, prospec­ DR. WILLIAM G. POLLARD, holds national offices in the Amer­ tive students, and Stuart Simpson. Oak Ridge, Tennessee-Commence­ ican Baptist Convention. On January 11, President Hicks met ment speaker. THE REVEREND FREDERIC with the W ashingron Alumni Ad; Dr. Pollard is a foremost scientist GROETSEMA '31, NewtOn High­ missions Committee tO talk over pro­ and a clergyman. lands, Massachusetts-Alumni Ban­ cedures. Held at the home of Dr. THE REVEREND CHARLES R. quet speaker. '42 and Mrs. Fred Pinkham (Helen BELL, Pasadena, California- Bac­ An active alumnus of Kalamazoo Kostia '43), alumni personnel in­ calaureate Speaker. College, he is minister of the Con­ cluded Harold Simpson '3 7, pres­ Dr. Bell is minister of the First gregational Church m NewtOn­ ident and chairman of the commit­ Baptist Church in Pasadena and Highlands. tee, Mr. '39 and Mrs. John Grabber (Esther Tyler '3 7), Mary Elizabeth CLUB ACTIVITY Smith '31, Dr. Walter Good '37, Owen Williams '48, and Quentin KALAMAZOO. On Wednesday ership of its president, Douglas Bra­ Verdier '43. evening, March 9, members of the ham '42, with Virginia Johnson Kalamazoo Alumni Club met with StOne '47 and Charles Starbuck '48, PITTSBURGH. The Pittsburgh Ad­ the College faculty for a "get they are scheduling a series of Sun­ missions Committee met at the home acquainted" potluck dinner in day buffet dinners in Kalamazoo of Mr. and Mrs. John Palmer Welles Hall. Now, under the lead- alumni homes tO which are being (Dorothy Simpson '36) with Pres-

Page 20 ALUMNUS idem Hicks on January 14. In at­ tendance were Mr. '36 and Mrs. John Osborn, Virginia Taylor Hilf '44, and Dr. '20 and Mrs. Nathaniel Beaber. Deaths The engagement of 1[iss Alice L. . BOSTON . The date of March 31 Koning '51 and John B. Owen was an­ Barbara Brennan Kerchner of the nounced on March 13. A summer wed­ will find Boston alumni gathering class of 1946 was killed in an automo­ ding is being planned. for a meeting at the home of the bile accident on January 14. She is sur­ An April wedding is being planned Reverend '31 and Mrs. Frederic vived by her husband, James '43, and by Miss Shirley J. Olson '44 and Rob­ Groetsema of Newton Highlands. four small children. ert J. Kibler, Jr. They have planned the meeting with Ainsworth W . Clark '99, retired at­ Miss Margery Hodgman and James Stuart Simpson, assistant to the pres­ torney and trustee of the College for Waldo '51 announced their engagement ident, who is east on a student re­ many years, died in Chicago on January on March 6. An August wedding is cruitment trip. Dr. Marston Balch 12. Survivors include his widow, Myra, planned. '23 is president of the Club. a daughter and a son. A June wedding is being planned by Gerhard 0 . Diem '40 of Oxford, N.Y., Miss Jane W. Townsend and F. Wil­ CHICAGO. The Chicago Alumni was victim of a heart attack on Feb­ liam Tindall x'54, who announced their Club sponsored a theatre party on ruary 24 at the General Laboratory As­ engagement on December 26. March 27 to raise money for its sociates in Norwich where he was in Miss Ellen Brooks x'56 and G. Rob­ scholarship fund. After the play, charge of production control. He ert Miyagawa '54 announced their en­ the group met for coffee and social­ leaves his wife. Carolyn Kinney Diem gagement on December 26. No date ability. In charge of the ticket sale '43, and three children. has been set for the wedding. were Marilyn Brattstrom '50, Club Erwin C. Arndts of the class of 1908 The engagement of Miss Mary Elinor whose home was in Cleveland, Ohio, president, Elaine Horn '53, and Tuck and James R. Cramp '55 was an­ died on March 6 while on a vacation nounced November 21. Richard Slezak '50. trip in the South. His wife was the Miss Julie Davis and Edgar C. ROCHESTER. On January 16, the former Jessie Benbow of the class of Staren '54 announced their engagement Admissions Committee of the Ro­ 1910. on February 13. chester Alumni Club met with John Louise W. Grosser '10 passed away on The engagement of Miss Barbara Anderson, director of admissions, September 13, 1954, in Chicago where Lutz and Robert E. Stelle '55 was an­ and high school guests in the home she had been a lifelong resident. She nounced January 30. No elate has been is survived by her two brothers, Dr. set for the wedding. of Dr. and Mrs. Milton Freud, Walter VI/. of California, and Major whose son, John, is a College soph­ Charles R. with the U.S. Army in Ger­ omore. Presiding at the meeting was many. Marriages Wendell Discher '49, Club pres­ Mrs. Ethel Stone Smith, wife of the Miss Gracetta L. Schippers and John ident. There were about thirty late Dr. Lemuel Fish Smith, died in P. Gideon '55 were married on Decem­ Kalamazoo on February 19. She had guests, prospective students and par­ ber 17 in Stetson Chapel. ents, in addition to the committee devoted a great deal of her time to church work, music, and the DAR. Miss Margaret E. \f\laid '40 was members. The committee had sent married to Robert Hoffman on Decem­ representatives to all of the high Mrs. Smith leaves a daughter, Marian McKee of Brooklyn; two step-daught­ ber 17. schools in the city and some area ers, Mrs. Kenneth Crawford '27, Kal­ Miss Nancy A. Wolff '56 became schools. On February 25, the amazoo, and Mrs. Edwin Meader '33 the bride of Robert N. Underhill, De­ Rochester Club met at the home of of Detroit. cember 18, in the Congregational Mr. and Mrs. Donald Mcintyre N. Bates Ackley, Detroit financier Church, Wilmette, Ill. (Margaret Paterson '27). The high­ who served for fi £teen years as treas­ Miss Jane Ireland was married on light of the evening was an informal urer and member of the Board of December 19 to Dr. John D. Mont­ talk by Dr. Winthrop Hudson '33 Trustees, died on January 16. A native gomery '41 in vVellesley Hills, Mas5. on his experiences in England. of Albion, he had been a resident of Miss Margaret F . McGregor x'44 Grosse Pointe for sixty-five years. COMING SPRING MEETINGS. and Joseph H. Urcavich were married Detroit has scheduled a dinner meet­ at St. Andrews Cathedral, Grand Rapids, on December 27. ing at the Detroit Yacht Club for Engagements The Children of Israel Synagogue, April 29. The Ann Arbor Club has The engagement has been announced selected the date of May 4 for its of Miss Catherine Hinkle x'47 to Rich­ Benton Harbor, was the site chosen for ard Koppe. Plans are being made for the wedding of Miss Joyce E. Litowich spring meeting. May 17 will find and Morton S. Fisher x'52 on Jan­ a summer wedding. the New York Club in session; uary 16. plans are tentative for May 18 in Miss Marcia Kipp Voorhees '54 and David R. Aldag announced their en­ Miss Mary Margaret Cell '49 and Dr. Philadelphia while President Hicks gagement on March 13. The wedding Gordon D. Brinclell were married on is east. Work is going forward on will be an event of August 6. December 10 in Ponca City, Okla. spring organization of clubs in A May wedding is being planned by Miss Nancy A. Barth x'53 and Ron­ Cleveland and Midland, and other Miss Martha L. Hoard '55 and Fred ald K. Hedl were married on March 5 of the clubs are considering dates for B. Smith, Jr., '52, whose engagement at the First Presbyterian Church in near future meetings. was announced on March 13. Kalamazoo.

ALUMNUS Page 21 Births Mr. '.J9 and Mrs. Robert l\Iallory News (Mary Esther Stover '46) are the par­ January 30 was the birth date of ents of a daughter, Debra Gail, born 1902 Craig vVhitcomb, son of Mr. and Mrs. on January 21 in Kalamazoo. A review of the Reverend Adoniram J. Thomas Sloan (Mildred Whitcomb The Reverend x'45 and Mrs. Bruce Judson Weeks' life was presented in '.J3) in Kalamazoo. H. Cooke announce the birth of Bruce a special surprise program honoring Mr. '47 and :Mrs. Henry Thole (Lula Dustin on January 6 in Riverton, Wy. the former Baptist missionary to Bur­ Coolis '46) anounce the birth of a February 7 was the birth date of ma at the First Baptist Church in Lyn­ daughter, Judith Ann, on December 18 Douglas Jon, son of Mr. '49 and Mrs. den, Washington. More than two in Kalamazoo. Donald G. Burnett (Karen Carlyon hundred persons watched a skit en­ A son, James Gower, was born on De­ '46) in Lansing, Mich. titled "This is Your Life" and joined cember 17 to Mr. '46 and Mrs. John A daughter, Brian Patricia, was born in congratulating the retired mission­ Thompson in Kalamazoo. on February 11 to Mr. x'44 and Mrs. ary after he received an award from 1ft-. x'42 and Mrs. Joseph Francisco Stephen F. Gibbens in Berkeley, Calif. the American Baptist Missionary Soci­ are the parents of a daughter, Pa­ Mr. '42 and Mrs. Horton James Hel­ ety for his thirty-four years of mis­ tricia Lou, born December 26 in Battle mer (Alice Cooley '44) announce the sionary work in Burma. Before their Creek. birth of their fourth son, John Jeffrey, retirement in 1939, the Reverend Mr. December 17 was the birth date of on February 12 in Stamford, Conn. Weeks and his late wife, Louise Ann Catherine, daughter of Mr. '42 and Mr. '51 and Mrs. Noble Arent (Mar­ Scrimger '01, served among the Karen Mrs. Neil Gleason (Barbara Ferris delle Jacobs '51) are the parents of a people at Mulmein and Tavoy in Bur­ '45) in Kalamazoo. daughter, Loreen Ann, born on Feb­ ma, with some work in Rangoon. Dr. x'SO and Mrs. James Tindall an­ ruary 5 in Decatur, Mich. 1903 nounce the birth of a son, James Scott, A son, Charles Ramsey, was born The Reverend Stewart B. Crandell, on December 14 in Kalamazoo. on December 29 to Mr. and Mrs. John who officiated at the marriage of the Mr. '43 and Mrs. Jack L. Richmond Clark (Barbara Goodsell '47) in Lafay­ (Marilyn Tedrow '46) are the parents ette, Ind. Reverend '03 and Mrs. Robert A . Mac­ Mullen, helped them celebrate their of a son, Paul LeRoy, born in Kal­ ] anuary 15 was the birth date of 50th wedding anniversary on Decem­ amazoo on December 18. Hector Colby, son of Mr. 'SO and Mrs. ber 28. The Reverend Mr. MacMull en November 15 was the birth date of Hector C. Grant in Vicksburg, Mich. is now serving as chaplain in Racine, Elicia Gaye, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mr. '41 and Mrs. Robert V. Wearne Wis., hospitals for the Racine Council Kent DuPont (Sandra Barth x'SS) in (Margaret Stoddard x'44) announce the of Churches, whil e the Reverend Birmingham, Mich. birth of a son, Thomas Alan, on Jan­ Crandell is chaplain at the Battle A daughter, Deborah Lee, wa born uary 8 in Clarendon Hills, Ill. Creek Sanitarium in Battle Creek, on September 8 to The Reverend and Mr. '51 and Mrs. John L. Urbank Mich. Mrs. Duane Day (Geraldine Lee '49) are the parents of a son, John Louis, in Mount Vernon, N.Y. born on February 9 in Detroit. 1912 Mr. and Mrs. Sherman MacCready A son, William Harold, was born on Dr. Samuel J. Lewis, Kalamazoo or­ (Marcia Clemons '48) are the parents December 17 to Mr. '51 and Mrs. thondontist, was elected president of of a son, Rodney George, born on Jan­ Wayne Magee (Nannette Pierce '51) the Edward H. Angle Society of Or­ uary 4 in Jackson, Mich. in Madison, Wis. thodontists at the 25th anniversary Mr. and Mrs. David Spangler (Cecelia 11r. 'SO and Mrs. Charles Stanski meeting of the organization in Chi­ Eby '44) announce the birth of a son, (Nancy Graf x'52) announce the birth cago. The society is made up of or­ Douglas Warren, on December 27 in of a daughter on February 19 in Kal­ thodontists from all over the world Jennerstown, Pa. amazoo. who have studied with or follow the December 21 was the birth date of technique of the late Dr. Angle, Jane Ann, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mr. '49 and Mrs. Robert D. Strump­ fer (Martha Shoemaker '47) announce founder of the first school for training Harold E. Bergquist (Mary Schlicht­ specialists in orthodontics. ing x'53) in Evanston, Ill. the birth of a son, Jonathan Robert, A son, Mark Anton, was born on De­ on February 24 in Kalamazoo. 1913 cember 27 to Mr. 'SO and Mrs. Richard Mr. and Mrs. John Romberger Pearl Reedy Tanis has left Kal­ Slezak (Loraine Glass x'SO) in Chicago. (Margery Davis 'SO) are the parents amazoo for her new home in Albu_. Mr. '50 and Mrs. Joseph D'Agostino of a baby girl born on February 27 in querque, N. M. Ann Arbor. announce the birth of a son, Matthew 1917 A daughter, Sara Ellen, was born on Ashley, in Allen Park, Mich., on No­ Howard Bigelow, Kalamazoo, has February 28 to Mr. '55 and Mrs. Ra­ vcm ber 25. been named a delegate to the 1955 Mr. and Mrs. G. H . Bartlett, Jr. fael Bendek (Mary Lester x'56) in triennial convention of the Episcopal (Phyllis Cary '48) are the parents of Kalamazoo. Church in America to be held Septem­ a son, Gregory Scott, born on Decem­ Mr. '55 and Mrs. Charles ]. Morello ber 10-16 in Honolulu, Hawaii. ber 7. announce the birth of a daughter, Can­ Frank W . Brown, who is command­ A daughter, Amy Joan, was born dace Sue, on March 9 in Kalamazoo. ant of the Wentworth Military Acad­ on August 25 to Mr. and Mrs. James Mr. 'SO and Mrs. Milton R. Christen emy, Lexington, l\Io., has been pro­ E. North (] ean L. Collinson x'S1) in are the parents of a daughter, Diane moted to Lieutenant Colonel. Col. Oak Park, Mich. Lee, born on March 9 in Kalamazoo. Brown has been associated with the Mr. x'S2 and Mrs. Baldassare J . February 24 was the birth date of Academy since 1921, beginning as a Ferrara announce the birth of a son, Alan Edward, son of Mr. and Mrs. history and languages instructor, then Daniel Rich, on January 19 in Kal­ David Cohn (Yvonne Levy x'49) in as assistant commandant of the school, amazoo. Chicago. and in 1934 was named commandant.

Page 22 A L U M NUS 1920 1932 1949 Howard G. Doyen's daughter, Mary Henry M. Miles and Lawrence E. Mary Margaret Cell Brindell has re­ Margaret, was presented the Mayers Bal'ch, both former sales engineers and ceived her M .A. degree in research Peace Medallion by Secretary of State technical consultants for Eberbach & chemistry from the University of Colo­ John Foster Dulles in ceremonies at Son Company, are now with the Chapel rado. She was elected to Iota Sigma Washington, D. C. Miss Doyen won Testing Laboratories of Dayton, Ohio. Pi and Sigma Xi, Research Honor the Medallion and a $500 savings bond Mr. Miles will be sales manager, and Society. as national winner of a high school Mr. Balch, technical director, of the Robert W. Newland has been admit­ peace essay contest from among a fie ld new laboratory which will do spectro­ ted to the practice of law in Michigan. of 325,000 contestants. graphic, chemical, and physical testing He has formed a law partnership 1922 on a commercial basis. known as F ield and Newland. Mr. Warren C. Johnson has been ap­ Sherman Comings is sanitarian for Newland taught economics at Kalama­ pointed to the General Advisory Com­ one of the United States government's zoo College as a graduate fe ll ow. mittee of the United States Atomic Point Four programs. He went to J. Wade Van Valkenburg is employ­ Energy Commission. Basra, Iraq, in March, 1954, for a stay ed in chemical engineering at the Dow 1926 of two years. Chemical Company in Midland, Mich. Richard K. Compton, director of per­ 1937 Jack Marlette is varsity basketball sonnel of the E. W. Bliss Company, Charles R. Witschonke is newly em­ coach and tennis coach at Northern has been named to the office of vice ployed at the Stamford, Conn., lab­ High School in Flint, Mich. president. In his new capacity, Comp­ oratories of the American Cyanamid ton will continue to direct personnel Company. 1950 programs in the company's domestic John R. Cummings received his manufacturing plants and regional of­ 1938 Ph.D. in pharmacology at the Vv'ayne fices and have charge of all contract Lt. Cmdr. George A. White has re­ University Medical School mid-winter negotiations and labor relations. turned to his home in Cali fornia, after commencement. He is on the research 1928 serving for almost nine months in the staff at Tufts Medical College and 1s Far East. Miss Frances Cl'ark, director of The acting as part-time instructor. Frances Clark Piano Workshop and 1939 Harry E. Travis has been named as member of the Kalamazoo College fac­ Stanley Lane is Naval Attache for general manager of WNEM-TV, Bay ulty, addressed the annual convention Air, Embassy of the United States of City television station. of National Music Teachers Association America, in Pusan, Korea. Commander Hector C. Grant has received his at its meeting in St. Louis on February Lane writes "I am still a Class I M .A. degree in secondary administra­ 14. Her topic was "The Value of aviator, with special instrument rating. tion and supervision from Western Group Learning in Connection with I have logged some 7,200 hours. I am Michigan College. the Private Piano Lesson." The fol­ now flying a R4D-6 for the Ambas­ lowing day, Miss Clark was guest of sador to Korea, as well as numerous 1951 honor at a luncheon meeting of the other duties. I expect to be out here Garry Brown, who has been admitted national Alpha Sigma Iota music fra­ until June, 1956." to the bar, has entered the law offices of Frost, Frost, and Ford in Kalama­ ternity. She has been selected for 1943 honorary membership in this organiza­ zoo. Garry was an FBI employee while H. Lewis Batts conducted a seminar tion, based on the contribution she has he was attending George Washington on "An Ecological Study of The Birds made in raising standards of the pro­ Law School in Washington, D. C. of a 64 Acre Tract in Southern Mich­ fession through the Workshops for igan" at the Department of Zoology, Howard J. Burke has received his piano teachers. University of Michigan. Also conduct­ Ph.D. in chemistry from the Univer­ 1929 ing a seminar in the same series for sity of Illinois. Mr. Burke attended Royce H. Glezen has been named graduate students was another Kal­ the University under terms of an Up­ vice president and general sales man­ amazoo College graduate, Burton L. john research scholarship he won ager for the Automotive Rubber Com­ Baker '33. His subject was "Hormonal while a senior at Kalamazoo College. pany, Inc., Detroit, it was announced Control of the Digestive Tract." Wayne E. Magee has joined the staff by Timothy G. Meulenberg '28, pres­ of the microbiology department of u;­ ident of the company. In the past, Mr. 1948 john's Research Division. He served Glezen has been an executive assistant Jacqueline Buck Mallinson and her as a research assistant and research in the development of new plants and husband attended the meeting of the fellow at the University of Wisconsin new markets for the company as well American Association for the Ad­ while studying for his Ph.D., which he as directing advertising and sales pro­ vancement of Science at the Univer­ received in January. motion. sity of California. Both appeared be­ 1931 fore a joint session of six science 1952 The Reverend Frederic E . Groetsema groups to present papers. Mrs. Mal­ David S. Cummings is now a Lt. has been awarded the Freedoms Found­ linson's paper was "Survey of Re­ (jg) and is stationed at Port Lyautey, ation at Valley Forge George Wash­ search in Secondary School Educa­ French Morocco. \Vith him is his wife, ington Honor Medal Award for a pre­ tion." She was also a consultant for a Gail Curry '52, and their daughter, election sermon "Debts We Cannot discussion group. Ruth Ann. Pay." This is the second time the Thomas F. Clauter is manager of Morton S . Fisher has joined the Reverend Mr. Groetsema has received the Industrial Engineering Department F isher-Graff Iron and Metal Company the award, having first received it for of Armour & Company's Oklahoma as assistant to the president and gen­ a pre-election sermon in 1952. City plant. eral manager.

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