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Where Do Great Ideas Come From?
From its beginnings this nation ha been American. The e in titution are doing their guided by great ideas. utmo t to rai e their teaching tandard , to meet the teadil ri ing pre ure for enroll The men who hammered out the Con titution ment, and provide the health educational and the Bill of Rights were thinker -men of climate in which great idea may flouri h. vision- the best educated men of their day. And every major advance in our civilization They need the help of all who love freedom, all since that time has come from minds equipped who hope for continued progres in cience, by education to create great ideas and put in tate man hip, in the better things of life. them into action. And they need it noi !
So, at the very core of our progress is the college classroom. It is there that the imagina
tion of young men and women gains the in If you want to know what the college crisis tellectual discipline that turns it to useful means to you, write for a free , , , thinking. It is there that the great ideas of booklet to: HIGHER EDUCA- : �"'o"•" "°""aTION the future will be born. TION, Box 36, Times Square
That is why the present tasks of our colleges Station, New York 36, N. Y. KE.1.P IT IOMT .. and universities are of vital concern to every ..OLBY ALUMNUS >L. 46 0. 3
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he Fulfillment Prouram ...... 2 ··esid nt's Paae ...... 4 alk of the College ...... 5 le Are ot Alone ...... 10 HE �alconies of Lori�11er Chapel ha e been supplied with handsome an Runnals cholar hip ... . 13 T pme pews matching those downstairs which were taken from verett Carl ton H rrick ...... 14 Memorial Hall on the old campus. J allace Emer Par on ...... 15 The work has been accomplished acuity Proce ion ...... 16 olby Folk in the Headlines 1 by capable craftsmen of the buildings uort ...... 19 and grounds department. The col ew of Your Cla mate ... . 21 lege's chief carpenter 0 ide Hubert, l. Memoriam ...... 26 at right directed it and did a good por The Colby Alumnus is published four mes yearly, Spring , Summer, Fall, t10n of the carpentry assisted by his rinter, by the Alumni Council of olby College. ubscription rate - son Clarence and by Thomas Bureau ?.50. Single copies - $.75. Entered ; second-class matter Jan. 25, 1912, at and John Connolly. The new pews 1e Post Office at Waterville, Me., under ct of March 2, 1879. will make it possible to expand the
ON THE COVER capacity of the chapel by approximately si t places to 750. When ) ou want something one right, ask Mike Loebs to HE striking advertisement opposite is a product of The Advertising o it. That comment has landed T Council Incorporated and pan of a public service campaign " to 11 the college's popular director create in the American public a greater awareness of its stake in our f health and physical education institutions of higher learning, and to stimulate �t to provide increased undreds of assignments since he financial support.' Involved are all major media - newspapers, rime to Colby in 1934. He has magazines radio, tele ision, and transit cards. erformed each of them with a The public is being invited to write for a booklet, Higher Educa· '1.oroughness and with a smile. tion, prepared by the Council for Financial Aid to Education. The Mike Loebs is chairman of the pamphlet is of particular interest to Colby men and women, for it was 7ommencement Committee; he prepared by Dr. John A. Pollard, director of research for the Council, 'irects the college's health serv pment at he college - e; coaches varsity and fresh who served ery effectively as director of develo t •wn tennis plus soccer; serves from 1952 to 1953. s executive secretary of the /faine Intercollegiate A th letic HE DKE house has been 1 ssociation; is meet director for T spruced up. A new hedge he annual Maine high school has been planted on the lawns ·rack championships; faculty in front, but more impressive are hairman of Winte1· Carnival; the tall white columns put in oncerns himself with a myriad place last summer along with a 'f decisions in the athletic de new patio. The columns have Mrtment; and enten into com always been in Architect Jens nunity activities tvith a flair. Fredrick Larson s plans for the Professor Loebs has nearly a house, but due to cost they were not included in the original construc fuarter century of achievement at tion. The design of fraternity row calls for columns for both "centter ' Jolby. He has produced for the ·allege Zeta Psi, located across the way will soon follow in a fashion and with a houses. It is expected rriendliness that few could suit, thereby completing the symmetry and beauty which now attracts natch, hut which many envy. all eyes toward the quarters of llheir ancient rival. ��To move Colby into the very front rank of institutions of its kind" @ALUMNI and other friend• have received the Colby. The reasonable vision projected in the recent full text of his statement and they have responded announcement is further proof that such pride is not with enthusiastic endorsement of the program which misplaced." was drawn up by a trustees' planning committee The Lewiston Daily Sun noted: "It is not surprising headed by Ellerton M. Jette, '55 (Hon.), president that Colby College, famous for its initiative and of the C. F.Hathaway Company, and Raymond P. pioneering, has approved a long range $5,000,000 Sloan, '46 (Hon.), vice president of the Alfred P. program.... We are confident the new plans will Sloan Foundation. be canied to fruition."
This endorsement has been echoed by newspapers And from the Portland Evening Express: "Colby
and by others. The Waterville Morning Sentinel com College deserves the thanks of all Maine for this mented on the program by stressing the economic [program], a further illustration of the kind of effect the college has on the local area and by noting broad-gauge educational leadership that is in the "the tremendous impact for good the college has on saddle on Mayflower Hill.. . . Maine rejoices in theCOLBY community." AND BIXLER SHOOT FOR THE what Colby has accomplished and looks forward to ToP was the the fulfillment of the latest dream." headline in the Portland Press Herald. An editorial Such endorsement reflects the conviction of all who said in part: "If you shoot for the top you may come are associate with the college's newest plans. Caleb to earth somewhere high on the slope but if you aim Lewis, '03, expressed it convincingly in his Sentinel for a lesser elevation to start with the top is hound column of May 9th: "It may he there will he some to remain unreached. who will doubt the goal can be reached, hut they ' "This, in truth, has been the spirit that moved should be reminded that in the 'bright lexicon of Colby away from central Waterville and has raised accomplishment of Colby College, there is no such it to the considerable eminence on which, in all word as fail'." respects, it already stands.... To help achieve its goals, Colby has augmented its "The State of Maine already is busting proud of own excellent team with one of the nation's top funds- R AYMO D P. SLOA
ELLERTO M. JETTE
E ARE PRESIDENT
nXLER'S WORDS IN
NNOUNCING A $5,000,000 LONG� RANGE DEVELOP MENT PROGRAM
aising consultants, the firm of Kersting, Brown, and Guy G. Gabrielson, '53 (Hon.), former chairman, :ompany. Republican National Committee; H. Bacon Colla Many alumni have already participated in the more, '39 (Hon.), chafrman, Pittsburgh Steel Com reliminary planning of the Fulfillment Program pany; Dr. Frederick T. Hill, '10, medical director, ough questionnaires sent to several hundred Thayer Hospital; Mrs. Curtis Hutchins; Neil Leonard,
umni selected at random. '21, chairman, Colby Board of Trustees; Frederick
The extensive regional campaign organization is A. Pottle, '17, professor of English, Yale; Joseph C. ow being assembled, as alumni are contacted to Smith, '24, vice president, Marts and Lundy, Inc.· ccept positions of responsibility. A meeting of 34 Winthrop H. Smith, '56 (Hon.), senior partner, egional representatives will he held on campus, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane; Reginald une 7. Formation of committees will get underway H. Sturtevant, '21, president, Livermore Falls Trust mediately thereafter. Company; Harry B. Thomas, '26, president, H. B. As outlined in Pre ident Bixler's report, the first Thomas Company; and Harry E. Umphrey, '14, presi base of the Fulfillment Program will seek $2,500,000 dent, Aroostook Potato Growers, Incorporated. o provide fo1· a general classroom building with President Bixler, in a recent address said: "The �aculty offices; an art and music classroom building; private college of liberal arts seems to he the one n administrative building; and for faculty salaries, institution to which we can appeal for long-range ·cholarships and current operations. The second criticism of society itself and to which we look for hase will make possible the added resources and the broader, more fertile, and more inventive ideas facilities which will enable the college to assume its by which alone society can be saved. future enrollment obligations. '�It is private liberal arts colleges, such as Colby, The program is ambitious, hut sound, and it is the that have the best chance of discovering the truth that product of hundreds of hours of planning and of the alone can make men free." rest mental e�ort o� a trustee planning committe� The newly announced Fulfillment Program will _ . ra,t mcluded, m add1t1on to Mr. Jette and Mr. Sloan . strengthen and assure fulfillment of these goals. The President's Page
OLBY CoLLEGE has been making history for nearly a England Colleges' , dmission Board, trustee of Coburn, C hundred and fifty years. Isn't it about time the record Higgins, Lee Academy and Portland Junior College, mem was written down? The Reverend E. C. Whittemore's ber of the Waterville School Board and is at present chair history of the college was published in 1927 and a great man of the State Board of Education. He has brought al o deal of water has gone over the dam since then. a mind well stocked with knowledge of educational theory Fortunately we have a man with unique credentials and an al most uncanny knack for sizing up a teaching situ for the post of historian. Dean Ernest C. Marriner gradu ation and knowing how to solve the many problems that ated from Colby in 1913 and received an honorary degree arise in the effort to administer a curriculum. When, from the college forty years later in 1953. He has been therefore, he made it clear that he could accept the post of successively librarian, Professor of Bibliography, Professor historian only if he gave up the office of Dean the college of English, chairman of the college's executive committee was faced with a serious decision. The need for a history (in 1928-29 when there was no President) and Dean of is, however, so great, especially since the sesquicentennial Men. For the last ten years he has been the successful and will come in 1963, and Dean Marriner's qualifications for distinguished Dean of the Faculty. writing it are so outstanding, that it seems best to ask him In addition to the remarkable versatility of his service to make the transfer. One happy feature of the change is to the college he has, as those acquainted with him are that he will return to teaching and will offer two ne\ aware, a real nose for history. Two of his special interests courses in the fall of 1957. are Lincoln and the development of the English language. Colby alumni may confidently expect a book that wil On the latter subject he gave for some years a very popular be much more than a record of events at one institution course. His book Kennebec Yesterdays and the radio talks but will assuredly make its contribution to the social an on which it was based have shown him an eager and sym intellectual history of New England. pathetic student of the facts about Maine's past. He has already written an historical account of Hebron Academy; the story of Colby is clearly the next step. Dean Marriner has brought to his office a wealth of educational experience. He has been president of the New The TALK of the COLLEGE
pROFE OR Robert E. L. Strider has Dr. Strider is author of Robert taught Shakespeare, creative wnung, been appointed dean of the faculty Greville, Lord Brooke, a biographical American Literature, the modern no el ucceeding Dean Ernest C. Marriner and critical study of a seventeenth cen drama and poetry. He has been a who has retired to become college his tury Puritan writer and public figure. regular interviewer on the weekly torian. The volume is now in the process of radio program " Connecticut College Currently a member of the Connecti being published by the Harvard Uni Conversations " broadcast over several cut College faculty (New London, versity Press. stations within the state. Connecticut), the 39 year old Dr. A native of Wheeling, West Vir He is president of the Connecticut Strider graduated from Harvard in ginia, Dr. Strider is the son of Robert College Chapter of the American Asso 1939, received his A.M. in 1940, and E. L. Strider, now· the retired Episcopal ciation of University Professors and a hi Ph.D. from that university in 1950. Bishop of West Virginia, and the late member of the New London Board of In announcing his appointment, Mary Holroyd Strider. Education. President Bixler commented, " Dr. From 1942 until 1946, he served as He is a member of the National Strider is just the kind of person Dean a lieutenant in naval communications. Commission on College Work of the Marriner and I had hoped could be Prior to military service, he was assist Episcopal Church and on the board of found to carry on the important work ant in undergraduate courses at Har directors of the Eastern Connecticut of the office of the dean of the faculty. vard, Radcliffe, and at the Harvard Symphony Orchestra. In the first place, he is young, igorous, Summer School. He joined the Con Professor Strider is married to the and likeable, and the same words apply necticut College faculty in 1946. former Helen Bell, whose parents are to hi attractive wife. Professor Strider's academic specialty Methodist missionaries. The Striders ·Secondly, young as he is, he has is the se enteenth century. He has also have two sons and two daughters already an outstanding reputation as a ranging in ages 4 to 13. teacher, both of undergraduate courses at Connecticut College and of courses in ad ult education conducted by the cities of New London and Hartford. HE highway situation is static. The "Third, the quality of his scholarly T compromise route, reported in the work as a student of seventeenth cen winter Alumnus, carrying the route tury literature has received high praise directly behind the college has been from the experts who are best able to rejected by the Federal Bureau of judge it. Roads. " And last but not least, he has had In a report issued by the Maine State enough experience with administration Highway Commission on March 8 to show that he handles its type of Chairman David Ste ens made the fo l problem with vision and decisiveness. lowing statement: "The State High way I am confident that he and Mrs. Strider Commission has ad ised the Fed will make a conspicuous contribution eral Bureau of Public Roads that it to our academic and community life believes that Line 2 (editor s note: in and I look forward with eagerness to front of the college buildings and be their coming." Dean Strider tween Colby and the city) is the most
of SPRING 1957 5 Iss�e made only for the preliminary line and if subsequent events indicate a desire for Line 2. then this should be used as the location for construction purpose ." The Federal Bureau of Roads re jected this recommendation stating as its reason, in a letter to Colby College April 17 that the Bureau could not approve Route 2-A modified because of "adver e tra\·el distance - with the resulting increa ed cost to vehicle operators.' ccording to figures supplied by the tate Highway ommission the actual difference in distance between Line 1 and Line 2-A i -H/100 of a mile. It i regrettable that it is impossible to clarify this picture. The college is continuing to \ ork with the commit tee of former mayors repre enting the community and with the Chamber of ommerce, Tha er Ho pital, and �ft. [erici on this situation. It is the hope of these group that the Federal Bureau of Roads " ill endorse the compromise route or a modification of it.
OLBY has a tradition of participation in community affairs. This is be Maine Governor Edmund S. Muskie was awarded an honorary doctor of laws C ing handsomely demonstrated by bull deg1·ee at Recognition Assembly, May I. The governor was cited by President dozing now going on along the banks Bixler as "a man of heart as well as head. " In conferring the degree Dr. Bixler of the Messalonskee. The target is an declared, "In a state traditionally acquiescent to singleness of rule, you have suc area of land, owned by the college, cessfully supported the philosophy of the two party system ... that is being developed into a baseball " Your reign in Maine is easy to explain. Colby College would do so by re fleld for the Little League of Water affirming its faith in the processes of a democracy where character, intelligence ville. The college is not on! y buiJding and vision such as yours can be counted on to overcome handicaps and to win the field· it has agreed to maintain it. public recognition and esteem." Waterville has an unusually active Little League program of eight teams plus a "farm system." They have, desirable for the location of the Inter mation available to the Commission as however, lacked suitable playing space. state Highway in the vicinity of Water of this time, it would appear that pub The Little League has many Colby ville and Fairfield from the standpoint ] ic acceptance has not been obtained friends, among them Vice President of engineering and economic factors for Line 2, the Maine State Highway A. Galen Eustis, 1923, who has been . and that if public acceptance could be Commission recommends that the pre actively concerned with many aspect obtained for this line it should be the liminary line for the location of the of this new de elopment; Admissions location of the Interstate Highway. Interstate Highway . . . be Line 2-A Director Bill Bryan, 1947, district rep "The Highway Commission has a'i modified (editor's note: the· com resentative in Maine for the League; further advised the Bureau of Public promise route). This recommendation aQ.d Professor Sherwood Brown, who Roads that since, on the basis of infor- by the Highway Commission is being handles the players' roster.
6 CoLBY Au; 1, us In Brief ...
A F LBRIGHT SCHOLARSHIP for a year of graduate study in mathematics has been awarded Shirley A. Transue, Avon, Connecticut senior. She will enroll next fall at the University of Hamburg in Germany, returning to the United States in 1958 for further studies before becoming a teacher.
Two PLAQUES have been placed in the Women's Union to memorialize Colby benefactors. The late Charles Henry Payson and Margaret Merrill Payson, both of Portland, are honored with the tribute, "In recognition of their exceptional generosity to the cause of health, welfare, and education bestowed widely in Maine, including Colby College. " The second plaque reads, "Colby College is grateful to its alumnae who built this Union and to Dr. and Mrs. George G. Averill who provided the gymnasium section. " The late Dr. Averill was a trustee of the col Winter Carnival queen last Febru lege from 1929-1954. Among other gifts to Colby, he established the Averill ry was Eleanor Shorey, 21 year old Lectures which Mrs. Averill continues to make possible. �idgewood, New Jersey senior who is he daughter of Roy V. Shorey, 1928, RoBERT BE Bow, associate professor of English, will be on a sabbatical leave nd the sister of Roy V. Shorey, Jr., during the first semester next year doing research in Shakesperian tragedy at the 953. Folger Library, Washington, D. C. Professor Benbow has been awarded a Fel lowship by directors of the library which contains the world's finest collection of George Beach, 1941, was in large Shakesperiana. ineasure responsible for launching Lit e League in the community, achieving TR STEES HAVE VOTED an increase of $50 beginning in September in board and 0 his while he was president of the room charges. Board rates for the year will be increased by $30 to $430. Room unior Chamber of Commerce. The charges will go from $220 to $240. The change is the first in board rates since resent sponsor is the Waterville Boys 1948 and the first in room rent since 1952. lub, of which J. Frank Goodrich, l926, is president. MRs. PATIE 'CE You c, widow of actor Roland Young, has been appointed Students have helped with try-outs to the staff of the college's development office. She has been director of personnel nd have coached teams. Among the for the C. F. Hathaway Company for the past two years. Following the death :urrent coaches are: Gerry D'Amico, of her husband in 1953, she was personal secretary to Metropolitan Opera star, l957, (son of A. A. D'Amico, 1928) Eleanor Steber. and Gordon St. John, 1960. The Waterville Department of Pub THE LIBRARY has received a copy of a new book published by the University ic Works and other individuals are of North Carolina Press, Thomas Hardy and the Cosmic Mind, by J. 0. Bailey, lending their services to hasten the professor of English at the university. The author states in his preface that he ompletion of the diamond and out submitted his manuscript "to Dr. Carl J. Weber of Colby College. This noted eld. Hardy scholar examined both the ideas and the writing with meticulous care and gave me unsparing advice that I have sought to heed in revisiorn. I take this occa sion of expressing a deep debt of gratitude." Weber's Hardy in America, pub lished by the Colby College Press in 1946, is quoted on page 169 of Bailey's book OLBY is the only college with air and there are various other references to Professor Weber. force ROTC that has never had a Harper and Brothers of New York have announced a new edition of Hardy's •raduate fail in post-graduate flying Jude the Obscure, with a fresh introduction by Dr. Weber. nd officer training. This impressive act is one of many which Lt. Col. THE WooDROW WrLSo Foundation and the Danforth Foundation have Henry Hodgen Kirby, Jr. has been awarded fellowships to David H. Mills, senior from Worcester Massachusetts, to presenting to alumni as he has spoken study English literature next year at the University of Illinois. He will receive this spring. $1400 from the Wilson Foundation plus an amount to cover tuition. The Dan AF ROTC has a remarkable record forth Fellowship entitles him to $1800 for three years, but he will not receive any in the area of the military in a liberal funds from the Foundation until the Wilson Fellowship lapses.
Issue of SPRING 1957 7 arts curriculum. For alumni who have ' Headquarters AF ROTC has Healy. There are more than 200 items not heard Colby's ROTC director, boosted the Colby Plan by presenting including books, autograph letters, and Colonel Kirby, discuss the subject, here it and its possibilities to many colleges. biographical material. are his highlights: Indications are that others are plan Although Synge died at the age of " AF ROTC, as it is implemented ning to incorporate the Colby Plan next thirty-eight, his writings have come to at Colby, is the very finest offered in year. It is the best offered in any col be universally regarded as having been any college or university in the coun lege and Colby students are the first among the most influential in the mod try. The curriculum for AF ROTC, recipients. ern Irish revival. He was one of Ire- formulated by presidents of seven col " Colby is a small college, but it is a 1.ind's most controversial authors. leges and universities, has been ex place where I think responsibility to In an unusually fresh and inform panded and deepened into what is society, knowledge, character and many ative article in the Colby Library commonly referred to as the Colby other fine things are taught in large Quarterly, David H. Green, professor PlarL ooses. I believe it only fitting that o( English at New York University, "In addition to the basic, required something like the Colby Plan should writes that " half of the Irish world Air Science course of study, the Colby come from this campus... Until now called Synge a genius and the other Plan has incorporated the study of few, if any colleges, have surpassed half rioted at performances of his plays philosophy and has expanded the study what Colby has done in this field of in Ireland, England and America." of social science a:-id geopolitics, at the military education - that education Author of Riders to the Sea, (prob same time presenting what are con which prepares people for great re ably reprinted in more anthologies than sidered basic requirements in physical sponsibility to and for their nation. " any other one-act play in the English science. All this was possible because language), The Playboy of the Western of the foresight and vitality of Presi World and many other volumes Synge dent Bixler, who realized both the edu served for more than ten years as di cational and military needs of the COLLECTION of the works of Irish rector of the National Theatre Society nati0n and knew how they could be A playwright John Millington Synge in Dublin. met by a really dynamic and practical has been given by the college's good approach in the colleges. friend and honorary alumnus James A. memorial fo a (;real -4lumnu� SCHOLARSHIP honoring the late A Charles F. T. Sea ems 1901, has been established by the Connecticut \alley Colby Alumni Association. The initial gift was a $1 000 personal con tribution from William H. Mortensen managing director of the Horace Bush nell Memorial Hall in Hartford. Mr. Seaverns sen'ed as president of the auditorium, which, since its dedi- ation in 1930, has developed into the city's cultural center. The building was financed by Mr. Seaverns's wife, the late Mrs. Mary Bushnell Hillyer Seaverns, and by her mother Mrs. Dotha Bushnell Hillyer. Speaking before the Connecticut More than 300 y<'ars of membership in Delta Kappa Epsilon are represented Alumni Association at a dinner April by this group who were honored November 19 at a party in the new expanded 4, Mr. Mortensen described Colby' quarters of Dunham's clothing store in Waterville. great benefactor as a man " who loved Each "old timer " was given a plaque and certificate. (l-r) Charles E. G. learning in many fields, who never Shannon, 1899, a member for 61 years; Richard C. Shannon, II, 1899, a mem paraded his lore and learning, but wh ber for 61 years; Albert F. Drummond, 1888, who was initiated into the Colby loved to share them with others.' chapter 72 years ago; Hersey R. Keene, 1905, a member for 55 years; and Arthur "Mr. Seaverns exemplified the ideal W. Stetson, 1907, a member· fo1· 53 years. inherent in the principle of a scholar
8 CoLBY ALuMNu ip - a cholarship which admits one Subjects are chosen by bal loting of our fellow beings through doors of undergraduates who are enrolled in the 10 ledge and wisdom which might department of religion and philosophy. erwise be closed to him, Mr. Mor Departmental faculty members select h en declared. the lecturer best qualified to discuss He quoted Mr. Sea erns as fre the topic. �entl y saying " The primary function The Ingraham Lectures the Gabriel the liberal arts college is not to teach son Lectures, and the Averill Lectures ie how to make a living but how to provide Colby with an enriching ex ' c. perience which few, if any col leges of Mr. Mortensen continued, "He had a similar size, can match. 1preme confidence that Colby and milar colleges are developing charac r and vision in the leaders of the new meration. At Colby College, Mr. dean of women, Miss Pauline ea ems gained a love of learning HE T Tompkins, has resigned, effective hich distinguished him through all September 1, to join the U. S. Informa 's days ... He was uncommonly tion Agency. The Colby community :
Issue of SPR ING 1957 9 A Condon Medal winner tells how she has found peace and happiness in a personal world of darkness
HE woman sharing my bus seat was raising of the voice is an attempt to I have developed a good stock of T reacting like many I meet when raise the entire person over the peculiar answers designed to inform and com traveling alone these days. She was, barrier many feel when first meeting a fort and I can deliver really admirable at first, acutely uncomfortable to find blind person. I do the same thing digests of my medical history problems herself sitting with a blind person and when speaking to foreigners, evidently of adjustment general philosophy, and wondered how she could change her assuming that the louder I talk the plans for the future when pressed seat without embarrassment to both of better they will understand, so I can't further. us. complain on this point! I have been totally blind for two After a few more miles of strained By the time my companion and I years, will remain so, am not at all silence, her interest, sympathy, desire had settled the weather outlook, she courageous and no, it isn't dreadful. to help, and curiosity won out, and was chatting easily and ready for the In fact, the only dreadful thing about speaking very loudly and very dis five questions that in ariably arise be my blindness is the difficulty I have in tinctly, she commented on the weather. fore we reach the first rest stop. With convincing others that it isn't. We discussed this topic for five only slight variations, these are: I am no authority on this handicap minutes while I tried to reduce her and hope I am not going to sound like How long have you been "This Way"? voice to normal conversational tone. "The Voice of the Blind. " Blindness How did it happen? It would be simpler to state that I'm Isn't there any hope? is dreadful to some and the courage, only blind, not deaf and mentally in How does one find courage like yours? faith skill, and determination exhibited competent as well, but I think this Isn't it dreadful? by many blind people is inspiring and
Louise Gillingham, 1948, with other trainees and fencing instructor at St. .Running an electric saw contrib Paul's Rehabilitation Center for the Blind in Newton, Massachusetts. utes to confidence.
IO CoLl!Y ALUMNUS to ee. I po sess only scanty of these attributes unfortu I think there is alue to this r 1 from a different iewpoint. reat many people ha e and are helping ie. I am a person blessed with only an verage supply of brains, beauty, and lent. As I was losing my sight it eemed to me that it would take vast cunts of at least one, if not all, of ese personal possessions to rearrange ne s life and cope with this enormous t ore interesting, enjoyable, and per- Colby sophomore Louis Leotta, Jr. (Malden, Mass.) has been without sight 1onally satisfying than it was for m since he was eigh t years old. Shown here with his fraternity brothers in Kappa ith sight. The realization of this fact Delta Rho, Louis is a history-government-economics major and is taking the s still a joyful and thrilling surprise regular college course. With the exception of laboratory work in geology, he is . nd I am deeply grateful to all the expected to meet all academic requirements. His German Shepherd was "edu people who have made this a reality cated" at the Seeing Eye School, Morristown, New Jei-sey. for flle. I foresaw life as a blind person as a grim struggle and one, e sentially, of s1ve twelve-week course at St. Paurs practice, drill, patience, and humor, nutterable loneliness. Obviously, I had Rehabilitation Center in Newton, Mas learn how to handle this situation. never fully appreciated my family and sachusetts. I never really have doubted the fact my friends. These people, rare, won St. Paul's, run by Boston's Catholic agam. Clerful beings, kept me so richly sup Guild for the Blind, is the only center We studied cane travel, braille, typ plied and fortified with understanding of this type in New England and ing, cooking, sewing washing, ironing love encouragement, and faith that I accepts a maximum of ten trainees per wood work, the operation of power never really had a chance to feel sorry course. The atmosphere is realistic, tools, and fencing. We practiced dial for myself or to doubt the fact that unsentimental, hard-working, and good ing telephones, pouring coffee, apply somehow, things would work out for humored and exactly what I needed ing makeup, lighting cigarettes, wait the best. If their confidence in me was as I took the first steps back toward ing on tables, bed-making buttering sometimes unnerving, it was also reas independence. Here they regard blind bread, cutting meat, and scrubbing suring and inspiring. They made this ness as a severe and multiple handicap floors. We took courses in the history entire experience more of a gay adven inflicting the individual with many and philosophy of blindness, legislation, ture, never the somber obligation for distinct losses in various areas of his self-appraisal and aids, appliances, which I had braced myself. total functioning. They help the blind and publications for the blind. We ' these losses, accept him For the practical methods and tech person to face had individual counseling sessions with these circumstances, and niques of adjustment to blindness, I self under a psychologist, and weekly group a beautifully coordinated needed skilled professional help and I then, through therapy meetings that proved to be of tegrated program, restore or sub presented myself and all my problems, and in great help, although we first viewed for these losses. known and as yet unknown, to Maine's stitute them somewhat warily. And through Services for the Blind, Department of We were met at St. Paul's with the it all, we were constantly reminded to Health and Welfare. With the help of heartening and challenging recognition " visualize "; never to let yourself sit the vocational rehabilitation counselor, that we were adults, capable of solving in darkness, but to constantly and con the home teacher and case worker, the our own problems and, as inept, fright sciously force yourself to visualize until public assistance worker, and the visit ened, bewildered, and insecure as we it became effortless and automatic. We ing nurse, I was able to take an inten- then felt, we would, with knowledge, worked with music poetry, and clay luue of SPRING 1957 11 modeling to help the remaining senses tually enable me to be self supporting blind and largely as a direct result of accomplish this. again. it. It is, therefore, only logical and Father Thomas Carroll, director of Once more the state agency workers not, l hope, too dramatic to say that the Catholic Guild, gave us a remark have guided, assisted and encouraged I think I hit the bargain rates here. able course in the Attitudes and Analy my present undertaking of teaching the Blindness is a cheap price for what I sis of Blindness and from this we adult blind. ha e and �m gaining from it. And thi.> gained a realistic understanding of the I also owe a great deal to the many surprises and amazes me, too! handicap both in its effects on ourselves old friends, classmates, tedchers, and co and just as important, upon others. It workers who have helped me with was at times, a grim and painful study, their interest, letters, and thoughts. but an invaluable and necessary one. 'We are not alone ' they tell us but Concerning the Author - The total sum of this program was it is only a platitude until people like far greater than the addition of its these give it meaning. It is further Louise Gillingham, 1948, is enrolled individual parts. For me, it was much emphasized and italized for me in a one-year graduate course at the more than a methodical and compre daily, too, by strangers I meet in the University of Pennsylvania in conjunc hensive course on "How to be Blind." form of bus drivers, store clerks wait tion with Overbrook School for the I came out of St.Pa ul s a wiser, better resses, train conductors, and people Blind. She is taking graduate courses thinking person, more ad}ustable, re walking beside me on the streets or at the School of Social Work, does prac laxed, and a happier one, with or with standing with me on corners. I often tice teaching in braille, typing, and out sight. do not need the physical help they offer era/ts at Overbrook, and works two The staff members of St. Paul s are but I have discovered that I need the days a week for an agency in Norris teachers and individuals of a remark kindness, consideration, and generosity town, a city about twenty miles north ably high order. They would be sur that prompts them. of Philadelphia. prised if they knew the extent to which I believe that one has to pay a def Her course at Pennsylvania is prepar they still serve me as sources of con inite price for the good things in life. ing Louise to go into homes to teach fidence, challenge, and humor. Whatever these things are for us, we blind people. She is certified, for After this pre-vocational training, I pay, either in money, effort, sacrifice or example, to instruct in braille, typing, returned to Maine for the next problem; time. I have found the most important knitting, crocheting, basketry, leather preparation for a job that would even- things in my life since I have been work, caning, sewing, and cooking. The plaque reads "Site of birthplace of Elijah Parish Lovejoy whose untir ing efforts and rare ability made possi ble the freedom of the press. ' It fails to note that Elijah's brother the famed abolitionist and statesman, Owen Love joy was also born there. Owen joined his brother in Alton in 1836 to prepare for the ministry. However, Elijah had just begun active abolition propaganda and Owen speed ily enlisted in the anti-slavery cause. In 1856 Owen was elected to Con gress from Illinois. The honor fell to him to propose the bill by which slav HE Town of Albion has deeded to able to give adequate attention to the ery in all the territories of the United T Colby the birthplace site of Elijah property and the college has agreed to States was abolished forever. Parish Lovejoy, 1826, and the cemetery assume that responsibility. With the In addition to the Lovejoy homestead of the Lovejoy family. This was voted help of students on Johnson Day, con �ite, the college will maintain the small at a recent town meeting following a siderable work has been accomplished. cemetery nearby where Lovejoy's par conference of selectmen and college The monument, at right above, was ent� and other members of his family authorities. The town has been un- erected by the Town of Albion in 1948. are buried. 12 COLBY ALUM us ______. __._.. __ ___..._.. ______.-. __ � Retiring from the active ministry fl.ve years ago after a long career in the Baptist Church, the Islesboro, Maine native missed having a church of his own and decided to construct one. The original was five-by-eight and only two persons could be seated. He has built, however, a three foot addition. Now it will hold four, although this does not represent the size of his parish. Frequently as many as fi..fty stand outside. "Always open for prayer, never locked " reads a notice on his tiny church and from his porch nearby he has been delighted to see numer Dean and Sorority President ous people slip in for meditation. Devotional services are held each • • Sunday. The church has attracted ELTA DELTA DELTA sorority has • • The Revernnd Loms W. W EsT, more than 5,000 persons. honored Ninetta M. Runnals, D 1916, is pastor of the "world's The limited size of the church l908, 1929 (Hon.), with a scholarship •I • smallest church.' Built with his does have disadvantages, but it also und in her name. Miss Runnals, • own hands in Hudson, Massachu has its merits. " After all," Mr. ean of women for 27 years prior to •I setts, the Union Church for All West has said, "how many other retiring in 1940, is a charter member • • Faiths measures 11 feet long and ministers can preach each Sunday to of the sorority's Colby chapter. The • • five wide. packed congregations? " gift was announced March 14 at an nitiation banquet. Hilda M. Fife, i 926, was the speaker. A $1,000 check was presented to •! establish the scholarship by Eleanor ray (West Chelmsford, Massachu setts), a senior and chapter president. Dean Tompkins accepted the gift on behalf of the college " with great pride I nd happiness." "Each of us who has had the privi lege of knowing Miss Runnals has in I evitably been enriched by her warm, • • helpful, and inspirational friendship. All of us at Colby are in her debt," I Dean Tompkins said. I "Miss Runnals was, in her own per • son and in a unique way, the Women's •I Division at Colby for nearly three • decades. Even today it is literally im possible to conceive of our Division I • without her, for its proud standing in • • this college is a living and shining tribute to the life which she has so •I • unstintingly devoted to it." • I of SPRING 1957 13 Issue H£s Friends Are Legion Everett Carleton Herrick 1876-1957 VERETT CARLETON HERRICK was born in Livermore, Home ( 1949), he described some of the steps that led to E Maine, June 13, 1876, son of the Reverend Joel Rich this consummation. During his administration the new ardson and Mary Chase Herrick. From Hebron Academy, apartment block for married students was named Herrick he entered Colby and graduated in 1898. Leaving ewton House, and after his retirement the old Institution A'·enue, Theological Institution in 1901, he went to his first pastorate the one road to the school, was renamed Herrick Road. A in Charlestown, in the shadow of Bunker Hill. Part-time few years after his retirement, 1946, Mrs. Herrick died. study in Harvard, but more importantly, his marriage to "Aunt Sadie " was mother to a host, and no reference to Sarah Munroe Hall of Rockland, Maine, marked the early Carl Herrick's life would be fair that did not speak of her years of the Charlestown pastorate. He moved in 1914 to go abounding hospitality and her personal interest in everybody to his twelve years of service at the First Baptist Church within her ken. This childless couple poured their love into in Fall River. To his ministry were dedicated his rare and thousands of parishioners and students and friends. Many varied gifts, chief of which were perhaps what might be Colby men and women attribute their college education to called the popular touch, and great skill and resourcefulness the concern and help of the Herricks, one or both. in administration. Colby honored his achievements in 1919 Dr. Herrick enjoyed his ten years of retirement at the with the divinity degree. foot of the seminary Hill, close to the busy Newton Center 1926 brought him to his final post, as president of his Square, and next door to the church in which he exerted a own seminary, Newton. The old Baptist school urgently great and beneficent influence. He passed on, after two needed his administrative talent and quickly moved towards months of weakness, February 13. a new day under his leadership. During a period of five Yankee poets like Coffin and Frost might have been years, from 1927 to 1932, he accumulated honors from able to trap with words the essence of this son of Maine this Brown, Dartmouth, Maine and Boston University. genial, quiet, informal, nimble-witted, and active-minded In 1931, Dr. Herrick led in the marriage of Newton to little man. Outwardly he revealed none of the tra\ts of the the venerable Andover Theological Seminary, founded in hustler, the pusher, the go-getter. Yet, he moved moun 1807 at Andover by the Congregationalists, but which had tains with his benign silence and his few well-placed words, been settled for a generation at Cambridge. He will be most with his radiant friendliness and kindly humor. He loved conspicuously remembered as the leader in this achievement, books and birds and gospel hymns, the Maine coast and the creation of the present Andm er Newton Theological Maine people, his schools, but above all, his friends - and School. In his delightful autobiography, Turns Again they are legion. - The Reve,.end John W. B,.ush, 1920 14 COLBY ALUM l' A Vigorous Trustee Wallace Emerv.,/ Parsons 1888 -1957 11oLBY trustee and Waterville industrialist, Wallace Emery His survivors include his wife, the former Lydia Skol Parsons, died March 6 after a month of illness. The field who was a native of Portland; a son, John; two grand 8 year old president of Keyes Fibre Company had been a children; and a sister, Mrs. Dorothy Johnson of Fairfield. nember of the board of trustees since 1955 and had given President Bixler delivered the eulogy at the services ynamic leadership in many areas. for Mr. Parsons. For several months prior to his death, Mr. Parsons "Deac Parsons was a man whose igor, energy, and ook a vigorous part in presenting the opposition of the enthusiasm were clear for all to see, but whose gentler, ollege to the proposal of the Maine State Highway Com more reflective and more considerate side was apt to be nission to run a four lane highway through the new well-known only to those who had better than a passing ampus. He had served many years as chairman of the acquaintance with him," Dr. Bixler said. pressively successful Colby College Business Management " He was the kind of person on w horn society relies nstitutes. It was largely through his energy and willing to keep the fires going and the steam up not only in busi iless to give unsparingly of his time and abilities that the ness and industry, but in the special services a community Institutes became well established and are now thriving. like ours requires. There is not a resident of our city who Born in North Anson, he attended Anson Academy, has not benefited, directly or indirectly, by what he accom Hebron, and the University of Maine. Mr. Parsons had plished. We make a great mistake, however, if we fail to een with Keyes since 1926 when he was named assistant· to see the calm which accompanied the activity and the detach- he president. He became general manager in 1928, vice ment that gave it direction ...He was always willing to president and director in 1942, and president in 1951. Be stand up and be counted .. . ore joining Keyes, Mr. Parsons served as an engineer for "Deac Parsons will always be remembered as a man the U. S. Geological Survey. who worked for the physical and mental health of other He was president of the board of trustees of Thayer people. His efforts on behalf of the hospital, the Com ospital, a director of the Waterville Boys Club, vice pres munity Chest, the Boys Club, and the college are evidence ident and director of the New England Council, member of his basic and fundamental concern that people should of the Governor's Committee on Public Administration, feel well and think well. For getting others to share this director of the National Association of Manufacturers, pres concern he had rare gifts. His enthusiasm was conta �dent of the Associated Industries of Maine, and vice presi gious. His courageous readiness to face any difficulty dent of the University of Maine Pulp and Paper Foundation. rallied waverers to his cause and kept them working." Issue of SPRING 1957 This is o generally practiced that a college wishing to secure a fre hman class of 2000 will protect itself by accepting at least 3000. To cut down the incidence of these " shoppers " at olby, the admissions office has instituted two new requirements this year. Each applicant must pay a fee of $5.00 and must take the College Board chievement Tests. Two other motives for refusal may be dismissed as irrelevant: geography and curriculum. Having done its utmo tin respect to location by moving itself bodily from the lowland trap between river and railroad to the rarefied realm of Mayflower Hill, Colby can do no more to gratify boys who earn for zephyrs in February. And since Colby is by intent a liberal ans college it cannot be expected to offer OPERATIOi YES- 0 the latest in engineering or agricultural courses. E. Parker Johnson (Chairman, Psychology) is a ROFESSOR The outstanding reasonable causes of withdrawal fall into man of consistent professional usefulness. He is a past P three definable categories of which Finances is the most president of the Maine Psychological Association and a substantial. Overall costs were cited as prohibitive by current member of its Executive Council; he is a Fellow students who eventually settled for state universities or of the American Psychological Association; he has been schools of admittedly lesser stature than Colby. The sorest appointed to the newly constituted ir Force- -ational Re point, however, is exposed in the number (too few) and the search Council, Committee on Vision; and he has published size (too small) of scholarships presently available at Colby. a number of highly regarded papers on electro-retinography. A triad of typical rejoinders: "Was awarded four year Professor Johnson is also a man of consistent professional scholarship (not based 012 need) at Ren selaer Polytechnic cunos1ty. As a Flight Lieutenant in the Royal Canadian Institute." "I appreciated Colby's scholarship offer. But Air Force during World War II he became intrigued by Amherst offered $700 per year straight scholarship for four the complexities of night vision. Disturbed by the fact years· Princeton offered $1200 per year for four years." " I that more problems were raised than resolved in this pre received an $ 00 offer from M. I. T. but I finally accepted liminary investigation, he grimly beseiged the elusive solu an $1800 NROTC scholarship at Harvard." These students tions in a darkroom at Bowdoin, and currently in a window had expressed enthusiasm for Colby, but their decisions less retreat at Colby. become instantly understandable. It came as a shock to the consistently curious professor to learn that almost 50% of male applicants accepted for admis sion to Colby each year decide not to come. Now, the HE second category may be labelled Prestige. In a hand- existence of these academic specters - these potential T ful of cases where Colby was able to match scholarships, students who will not take yes for an answer - is an old it lost out to more prominent and publicized institutions, story around admissions offices. The most flagrant offender notably the glamorous Ivy League. Two advantages were in recent years is the boy who complained dourly to a dis cited in support of the latter: " higher scholastic standards " tinguished eastern university that it was the only one among and, more frequently, the value of a "name " college as a twenty-three which had not accepted him. On a national springboard to a career. The one heartening feature here scale, the number of boys who are accepted but refuse to is that Colby was so often the sole small liberal arts college accept the acceptance runs to approximately 35%. Professor on the preferential list with these nationally renowned Johnson read all this but shook his head, unsatisfied; the schools. psychologist in him wanted to know why. There was one For lack of a more precise term, the third major category way to find out: write and ask. So he did. To the 375 may be referred to as Fellowship. A variety of reasons for accepted males who did not join Colby's entering classes of defection show up here. There are boys who succumbed to 1955 and 1956 he sent questionnaires. The ultimate aim pressures of friendship or sentimental associations elsewhere· was duple: 1) To learn why Colby lost its hold on prospects there are boys who felt they would be happier at all-male in whom it had created initial interest; 2) To determine schools; there are boys who had misgivings about restrictive where "we need to pull up our socks " in order to improve fraternity relationships. More than one boy chose another freshman intake. The response - better than normal for college because his girl attended a nearby school; and (who this type of inquiry - was an eye opener. said perversity is a female prerogative!) at least one male Apparent almost immediately was the presence of the shied away from Colby because his girl was in attendance multiple applicant, the student who applies to as many here. Impressions made by friends and alumni of Colby schools as possible to insure himself a spot, come what may. seem to play an appreciable part in the depletion: misguided 16 COLBY ALUM u or wa blamed by one boy for his erdict against Colby. galed for an hour about the gorgeous social and athletic portunities on campus, he came away wondering about lby s educational objectives, about its academic pride. Relati e to the Fellowship phase of influence are two haps startling reactions. First, the talk of expanding the dent body to 1500. "I don t want to go to a college at is trying to become a university," writes a boy who 'zes the intimacy of experiences in a "genuinely small ool. ' Secondly, the sparsity of trees on campus. (" It as sitting on a hill with no trees." " The buildings were ply stuck in the ground and seemed independent of ch other." "Treeless, windswept wastes.") One is in- ined to smile this away as a triviality, but Professor John n's eyes turn a darker hue .and his voice warms as he dis urses on its importance. This feeling of bareness empha- �ed by isolation is destructive to the student's preconcep n of a friendly, homogeneous, elm-shaded, small commu 'ty college in the New England tradition. His sense of donging is affronted. He decides that Colby is glacial and !lects a school more in consonance with his private image. � EYON� these, the reasons for receding are scattered and claim fewer adherents. Some should be noted if only Dr their superficiality. Two are in bald contradiction, ob i usly based on hearsay alone : " Colby's social regulations are cessive " and " Colby is impregnated by high and easy iving." Objection was made to the " absence of spiritual Professor Johnson: "It takes earnestness, it takes respect - " mphasis," also to the two-year compulsory AFROTC. And ne boy could not find it in his heart to come to a school Chicago suburbs, to be sure, but there was a similar report ithout a soccer team. from Massachusetts. Tell them that students would rather This is a situation, then, which can have profound con hear of Colby's virtues than the faults of other scho ols. equences on the quality of Colby's student body? "As Above all, it is vital to create a climate of respect for Colby. uredly, ' murmured Professor Johnson, "oh yes." What can ' I did not think my int erviewer was enthusiastic about his e alumni do to help? He grinned precipitately. "So far college, his voice and manner did not give me a favorable s the financial side is concerned, there are no ills that a impression. Students want to be a part of something illion dollars in scholarship endowments would not cure." memorably good. So talk up high standards of serious greed, but what about ...The smile died. " The role of scholarship. Make them want to come to Colby and feel lumni as ambassadors cannot be overstressed. The impor that they will be satisfied when they get here.' ance of the personal touch is not to be discounted. Bill Weren't some of the obstacles seemingly insurmountable? ryan can't get to see everyone everywhere. That's where Professor Johnson fingered his chin gravely. "Of course we he alumni come in. Tell them that some students are can't expect to leap over the heads of all the great colleges taken right off our doorstep by loyal and able alumni who listed above Colby by these uncommitted applicants. What are plugging their colleges as reputable educational institu- we must try to do is raise Colby at least one place on the ions, not as havens of extra-curricular bliss. 'Colby was list, one rung up on the ladder." He dropped one hand on my first choice,' wrote one boy, ' but a graduate of E- his lap and stared abstractedly at two antic sunbeams in a College really did a splendid job of selling his school to me far corner. " It takes earnestness, it takes respect - for the and my parents.' Tell them that prospective students will best qualities of Colby and of the prospective student." not buy a pig in a poke. In one instance a boy felt 'as That was the gist of it, and it didn't appear overwhelm though Colby was a million miles away' because it was the ingly difficult when you considered the reputation of Colby's only college he had applied to which sent no representative sturdy and vigilant alumni. The walk from Professor John to his high school. Tell them to strengthen th eir regional son's office was taken one step down at a time but in the organizations - the case just mentioned occurred in the mind persisted the ivid vision of one rung up at a time. Issue of SPRING 1957 17 William Cowing, '04 Arthur Scott, '19 Go rdon Trim, '29 Harold Lemoine, '32 Mary Buss, '34 Citizens of West Springfield, Massa Bornin Cutler he did graduate work chusetts have named their high school at Boston University and has devoted in honor of WILLIAM A. CowING, 1904, his entire life, since leaving Colb , who served thirty years as its principal. almost wholly to education and in par Mr. Cowing has also been honored as ticular to educational guidance and co-recipient of the Chamber of Com coun elling. He has taught in the merce distinguished citizen award for schools of Newton and Quincy. In Child Welfare 1956. The Reverend HAROLD FRANK He was cited as "an educator, Lemoine was elected secretary of the LEMOINE, 1932, has been elected moulder of youth and public servant " the Diocesan Convention la t May and is ninth dean of the Cathedral as guest of honor at a banquet. Mr. of the a member of the Board of Managers Incarnation at Garden City, New York. Cowing is in his sixth and last term of the Church Foundation and director In making the announcement in the Massachusetts House of Repre the of the Department of Christian Social Right Reverend James P. DeWolfe, sentatives. Relations for the diocese. Bishop of Long Island, said: Dr. ARTHUR F. ScoTT, 1919, profes "The Dean-elect has been a faithful M RY L. B s, 1934, has been ap sor of chemistry at Reed College, Port and devoted priest of this diocese si nce pointed director of the Division of $1,000 land, Oregon, has received under the day he was called to the rectorship Child Welfare in the Maine Depart the 1957 College Chemistry Teacher of St. Joseph's Queens Village in 1942. ment of Health and Welfare. Miss Awards Program of the Manufacturing During his pastorate the parish ha Buss has been with the child welfare Chemists' Association. He was one of shown remarkable growth, new build services of the State of Rhode Island six recipients selected from among 158 ings have been erected and recently a during the pa t twenty years. candidates. parochial school established. Father Following her graduation from Professor Scott will be presented the Lemoine has also given himself gener Colby, she studied at the Boston Uni award at the 58th annual meeting of ously to our diocesan programs of versity School of Social Work and the Association at White Sulphur youth work, the Bishop's Men and recei ed her master's from the Uni Springs, West Virginia, June 6. He many other diocesan missionary en versity of Chicago School of Social has been a leader in conducting special deavors. The parish, with his vision, Service Administration. courses and workshops for high school has met its Missionary Objective and She was assistant field director and teachers. Episcopal charities obligations in full later acting base field director for the each year. American Red Cross in the South GoRDON MARI ER TRIM, 1929, has " His missionary vision and his wide Pacific during World War II. been elected president of Babson Insti Diocesan experience will bring to the In her new assignment, Miss Bus tute of Business Administration, Bab Cathedral, the Mother Church of the heads an agency which is responsible son Park, Massachusetts. President diocese, a pastoral leadership that will for the total care of approximately Trim is the fifth man to serve in that immeasurably strengthen this center of 2100 children committed to .custody by capacity since the school was founded our diocesan life and worship." the co urts; service casework to prevent in 1919. He went to Babson as director The new dean, who is 48 years old the necessity of such commitments; of admissions in 1947 and became vice and unmarried, received his doctor of placement of children in adoptive president in 1954 and acting president sacred theology degree from the Gen homes· and cooperation with courts and a member of the board of trustees eral Theological Seminary in 1935. He and local officials in all matters per· in 1956. was ordained a priest in 1936. Dean raining to the protection of children. 18 COLBY ALUM cs HE Coach John Winkin s baseball players clinched the state cham n hip May 16 with a 10-1 victory THE er Bowdoin they brought to a climax e of the most successful sports years " the history of the college. The ules won titles in basketball, baseball, ckey and golf and came within a ilgle game of taking the crown in In addition, Cote was selected as the (Tucson, Ariz.), the team's only lefty, nnis. Only in football and track was "Outstanding Sophomore Player of were the mainstays of the hurling staff. ere reason for disappointment. the Year " and the team was named Judd turned back Catholic University, Taking sport by sport - in basket- the "Most Improved over 1955-56." Dartmouth, Maine, and Bowdoin; los 111, Colby earned its seventh consecu- Kelley's coaching skills were recognized ing to Williams and Bowdoin. La ve MIAA con:ference championship when he was voted runner-up as the gonegro had his best year beating his ith a 7-2 mark, followed by Bowdoin " Outstanding Small College Coach in three Maine rivals plus American Uni -5 ; Maine ( 3-6 ; and Bates ( 3-6 . the East." The winner, Jack Riley of versity and New Hampshire. Spring apta) in Charlie )Twigg (Needham,) Army, had 32 votes; Kelley, 26. field handed him the only loss. fass.) and Captain-elect Larry Cud Colby's first line was impressive. This was not an exceptional team, ore (Brockton, Mass.), both of whom Church, a sophomore, had 45 points; but it sparkled with hussle and an in tense desire to win. Winkin built his ere All-Maine, led Lee Williams' Morrison, a sophorp.ore, 23; and Keltie, rew to a 13-12 overall record. The a junior, 42. Howie Cates (son of defense around an all-sophomore in field, fleet outfielders, and experienced riller came, surprisingly enough, in a Dr. Samuel C. Cates, 1912 will lead ) pitching. Graduation will take Brown B-65 defeat from Maine. Twigg en the '58 sextet which will open the sea and Lagonegro; Neil Stinneford (Dix the game 11 points behind son in Waterville facing Hamilton, field) and Will Laverdiere (Livermore aine's Keith Mahaney in the state's December 6; Dartmouth, December 7. Falls), outfielders; and George Pierce dividual scoring race. Charlie netted The freshman pucksters had a 7-5 (Portsmouth, N. H.), catcher. Com 1 points that evening to edge Ma record, disappointing from a won-loss ing up from an 8-1 freshman club will aney, 214 to 212. Twigg's three year standpoint, but not truly indicative of be substantial help. arsity total was 1037. He is the only the individual ability. Kelley is expect enior on the team which set a new ing help, for example, from goalies first state golf crown rn Colby's oring record February 13 against Don Williamson (Stoughton, Mass. ) HE T history went to Coach Bob Cliff Bates 103-87. and Pete McFarlane (St. John, Virgin ord's club. The Mules got offto a slow Coach Williams will have available Islands). start, dropping three before rolling to 11ext winter a veteran outfit that aver seven straight. Captain-elect Tom La ged 76.2 points an outing, plus sopho HE baseball team successfully de- Vigne (son of Robert G. LaVigne, mores from a 16-1 year. fended its state title by running 1929 won the state's individual title T ) Hockey was equally successful. up seven straight Maine victories be in a brilliantly played match during a With predominately a sophomore fore bowing to Bowdoin and Maine. driving rain. squad, Jack Kelley moulded a swift, The Mules finished on top followed by The old master, "Mike " Loebs, con hard-skating attack that netted 120 Bowdoin ( 5-4' , Bates ( 3-6 , and Maine tinues to turn out better-than-average ) ints in winning 11, losing 7, and ( 3-6 . The campaign) included a 6-2 tennis teams. The netmen were 7-2. ing 1. Defenseman Don Cote (Lew setback) of Dartmouth at Hanover and The critical contest was a 6-3 loss to ston) and forward Jay Church (Day an 11-5 ousting of Tufts. Bowdoin after ha ing stopped the ton, Ohio ) were both named to the Captain Pel Brown (Westfield, N. Polar Bears earlier, 5-4. A sweep of !All-East Small College team as an J.), who went through 17 games with the games would have given Colby the nounced at the annual convention of out defeat in his first three years, was title. As it was Bowdoin won ( 6-1 ), inactive most of the spring due to a followed by Colby ( 4-2 , Bates ( 3-3 , the American Hockey Coaches Associ ) ) sore arm. He did stop Bates twice, and Maine 0-6 . ation. Church's line-mates, Dick Mor ( ) rison (Newton, Mass.) and Bob Keltie however, and won over Massachusetts. An under-sized track squad num (Wellesley, Mass.) were on the second Captain-elect is Warren Judd (Devon, bering seven at the season's end, made team. Conn.) who, with Ed Lagonegro matters difficult for John Coons. The Issue of SPRING 1957 19 'iee4«tu SfveU«J TEt . I : \ ll'JTY BASEBALL: VARSITY (Continued) Score Score Date Opponent Colby Opp. Date Opponent Colby Op April 25 Tufo. College 7 2 lay 11 Tufts College 11 April 26 M. I. T. 4 May 13 Univ. of Maine 6 pril 27 Bo ton Univer it) 5 4 May H Bate College 11 May I niv. of Maine 5 4 May 16 Bowdoin College 10 Mai 4 Bates C liege 4 5 May I Bowdoin College 2 Ma)· 6 niv. of Maine 6 3 May 21 Univ. of Maine Mav Bowdoin College 5 4 Ma)· JO Bab on In titute G 3 GOLF: V R ITY 1 6 May 3 Univ. of 1 • H. 3 April 26 ni . of R. I. l 16 Mav Bowdoin ollcgc 3 6 April 27 Tuft C liege 2 4 Ma)· l Bate College 5 pril 30 Bowdoin College 3 May 3 Boston niver iry 4 Tl FRF.Slil\IA'I TE1 May 4 Univ. of Maine 4 2 May Deering H. l May 7 Bat College 7 6 Mai· 4 Brun wick H. 3 May 14 Bowdoin College 6 Ma�· 7 t. Dom's H. 9 0 May 16 ni1•. of Maine 5 6 May J I Hebron Academy 3 Mar 17 Bates College 6 17 Ma\' Holderness chool 3 May 20 tatc Tournament Ma; I Portland H. S. 0 Colby lst Maine 21 BASEBALL: FRESlil\J N GOLF: FRJ,,SHJll N April 27 Higgins lassical Inst. 13 Ma) 17 Eel ward Little Mai· I ardiner H. 7 Ma - 7 M. C. l. 22 } R ITY May 9 Hu on College 13 4 TR K: \ Mai• 10 Li bon H. II 6 Score Ma · II Hebron AcaJcmr JO 0 Date Oppo11c111 Colby ON ) 27 May Ii M. C. I. 10 0 pril orwich ni1'. 52 3 4 May I Bowdoin Frosh 3 May Quadrangular Meet 4 16Yz Mar 21 M. C. I. 2 I Colby l:!ates 4 BASEB LL: VAR !TY Verm nt 41 23 Mar. 25 Catholic ni\'. 4 0 Middlebury Mar. 26 U. S. aval Academy 0 14 May JJ State Meet Mar. 27 merican Univ. 6 3 Colby Mar. 2 Towson State 11 5 Bates Mar. 29 Villanova Univ. 4 4 Bowdoin �� Mar. 30 Princeton Univ. 3 7 Maine 43 April I Upsala College 6 9 April 20 Bowdoin College 4 0 TRACK : FRESHMAN April 22 Uni . of . H. 6 4 pril 24 Hebron Academy 69 Twigg: New Records April 24 M. l. T. 9 I May 2 Bangor & Deering H. S. April 25 Univ. of Ma s. 4 Colby 58 1/3 April 26 Williams College 0 8 Deering 36 brightest spots were performances by April 27 Springfield College l 4 Bangor I 30 12 3 66 Gordon Cunningham (Millinocket), April Bate College May 9 M. C. l. 50 y. Mav Bate College 11 9 Ma J6 S. Portland & Cony H. S. captain and captain-elect, winner of the Ma)· Ro ton University 1 3 Colby 81 6 2 41 mile and two mile in the Norwich and May Dartmouth College S. Portland May Uni1·. of Maine 4 3 Cony High School 21 quadrangular meets, and sophomore Al Rogan (Newton, Mass.) who set a new record in the javelin of 196 feet 3� (Since previou i sue) inches. The old mark was established HOCKEY: VARSITY BASKETBALL: VAR JTY (Continued) by Don Vollmer, 1956, 187 feet 8X Score Score inches. The talented Rogan picked up Date Opponent Colby Opp. Date Opponent Colby 0 Feb. 12 Univ. of H. 4 2 Feb. 16 Boston University 43 26 points against Norwich including Feb. 15 Univ. of Massachusetts l Feb. 20 Bowdoin College 78 72 firsts in the broad jump, pole vault, Feb. 16 Williams 4 Feb. 22 Bates College Feb. 22 M. I. T. 2 Feb. 23 St. Michael's College 51 javelin, and high hurdles; a second in Feb. 23 orthea tern 5 Feb. 26 Univ. 0£ Mas achu etts 70 27 65 high jump; and third in low hurdles. Feb. 26 Bowdoin 12 2 Feb. Univ. of Maine Mar. 2 U. S. Military Academy 3 ll Colby's only title winner in the state meet was Al Fearing (Winthrop, HOCKEY: FRESliMAl\" Feb. 13 Hebron Academy 4 BASKETBALL: FRESHMA Mass.), a sophomore who went 6 feet Feb. 23 St. Dom· H. S. 3 Feb. 13 Brun wick Naval 2 X inches to complete the season un Feb. 26 Bowdoin Frosh 2 Air Station 7 Mar. 2 Hudson H. S. 7· Feb. 15 Brunswick Wicks 79 defeated. The freshmen, with good Feb. J6 Waterville H. S. 99 20 83 material, consistently turned in better BASKETBALL: VARSITY Feb. Bowdoin Frosh Feb. 13 Bates College 103 87 Feb. 23 So. Portland H. S. 77 times than the varsity. Feb. 15 Providence College 66 80 Feb. 27 M. C. I. 85 20 COLBY ALUM Thompson award for outstanding teach ing in science and mathematics in sec ondary schools. ' Edward Ariel has been elected 2 8 president of the Roxbury (Mass. ) Patriot's Day Association, an organiza John Tilton c l brat d his nine the tirn ' hen he tack d all the chairs tion which plans the celebration for 88 tieth birthday in February. Ir. from th G rman cla s on the roof. Patriot's Day in that community. ilton ancl his wif , Katherin 1 93 li n Bo ton. Hi on Dr. John P. Tilton, ' Anne Brownstone Prilut ky ' V'irginia Dudley Eveland is liv- 923 is ice pr id nt and pro o t of 24 t ache at ton ham (Mass. ) 29 ing in Bethesda, Md. Her hus uft Colleg . Junior High chool. ..The Rev. Percy band, a colonel, is at the Armed Forces G. Beatty, for the pa t four year pastor Institute of Pathology, Walter Reed 9 Arthur H. Page and his wif are of the Dudle t. Bapti t Church, Bos Hospital. 8 living at the Atherton Baptist ton, is pre ident of the Boston Ministers Homes, Alhambra, California. Conf rence and a director of the Bo ton '30 W. Paul Quarrington has been Bapti t B thel Mi ionar Society. appointed Judge of the Yorkshire r 1 Merrill Bigelow is principal of (Me. ) Municipal Court where he has 8 the Brooksid chool Bloomfi ld, ' Lou.i e Cates Clark heads the been Recorder for the past 13 years. ew Jer ey. 25 p ch departm nt at Cony High The Yorkshire Court has jurisdiction over chool Au u ta and dir cted the Berwick, Kittery, Eliot, North Berwick '19 In April, Burton E. mall ob chool' annual Chizzle-Wizzle play in and South Berwick. rved the thirtieth anniver ary March . Jf his a o iation with the ew England '31 Francis ]uggins has opened an \.lutual Life In urance Compau . ' Clifford Littlefield ha r igned office as an independent insurance 26 a clean of Wore ter A ademy adjuster at 100 Milk St., Bostol'l. Myron C. Hamer ha b n pro to a · pt • po ition in the inve tment '20 mot d to a istant prof or of fi l HOTEL ELMWOOD Since 1887 - quality woodenware for all Social Center for Colby Alumni Since 1850 the world. The Finest Facilities for Your REUNION DINNERS FG. CO., INC. Always Home for Colby Parents and Friends M �fVvYAtiii FARM INGTON, MA IN£ R1cHARD L. WEBBER, Mgr. 21 Issue of SPRING 1957 Dwight Sargent, 1939, editorial page director for the Guy P. Gannett newspapers in Portland, has just returned from an extensive trip with other American journalists visiting and reporting from many of the world's crisis centers. Interviews were held with Nehru, asser, Chiang kai-shek and several other leaders. At his stop-over in Hong Kong, Dwight met Asso (Fairfield Publishing Co.) ciated Press man, John Roderick, 1936. Of that meeting, he wrote, in part, as follows: PRINTING hi'/ HO G KONG - Maine can be proud of A sociated Press reporter Qu a John Roderick, the former Waterville Sentinel newsman who is now chief :lJependabihl'j of the AP bureau here. Service It would be no exaggeration to call him one of the key links, news wise, between outheast sia and the West. John not only heads a four 192 Main Street man bureau here in Hong Kong, but is responsible for correspondents and FAIRFIELD !Al E news coverage in Saigon the capital of Viet am, Taipei, the capital 0£ Telephone Globe 3 - 7476 Formosa and for reporting a best his facilities will allow the political Keep Maine Printing in Maine activities of Red China to the north. John was the AP man in Saigon during the Dien Bien Phu tragedy HAROLD 8. BERDEEN and has traveled to all parts of that poor and troubled nation. Death 0£ the Hong Kong bureau chief and the growing importance of Southeast Job Society Novelty Asia as a news source found P General Manager Frank Starzel in need of an unusually dependable correspondent, one who knew French and PRINTING enough Chinese and other Asiatic tongues to give the world a clear pic 40 Years Experience ture o( what was going on. The finger pointed logically at the forme11 Waterville reporter who had been preparing himself meticulously for many TEL. TR 3-3434 8 PLEASANT STREET years for just this kind of responsible assignment. Significantly, it wasn't until John Roderick arrived here in Hong Kong PRINTING that the bureau chief's duties were enlarged to include Formosa, Viet Nam LETTERPRESS OFFSET and Red China. Visiting John in his Windsor House office on the island BOOK BINDING of Hong Kong I heard his Chinese radio monitor listening to the propa KENNEBEC JOURNAL ganda Peking was sending to the outer world. John showed me his files and cross files which is probably the mos� Augusta, Maine complete newspaper index in the area to Red China's leaders and the " Maine's Largest Commercial Printing Plant " crucial events of her rise to dangerous power. John lives in an apartment with one of the most gorgeous views in the world. Doffing shoes, Japanese style, and donning slippers before din C:TRmERm: ner, I sat with my host on his balcony, looking down on green waters an high-peaked islands, a scene that those who have been to Naples say has no rival in the world. I can believe them. C) John's Chinese man-servant, who Bed from Shanghai without his wife FOR CHILDREN -SHO:fMade by and may never see her again, served us corn on the cob and boiled lobstei THE GREEN SHOE MFG. Co. so good its ancestors must have come from Maine. BOSTON, MASS. Impressed as I was by John Roderick's home and gracious hospitality and a view I will remember as long as I live, the important thing was th job he is doing to get the facts out of these strange countries the other side of the world from Maine, facts on which the people of America must base · important decisions of the future. This is not an eulogy of an old friend. It is an objective report o what a newspaperman who learned the fundamentals of good reportin in ¥.7aterville is doing to help the cause of freedom of information. I is a job that demands the best. 22 CoLBY ALUM Compliments of WHITE LOUNCF IN i.UIClll.Y 01 NORMAN l\.O!IHl.Tl WHI l COl.•Y 1•uc iOllllU•)'tUCUff Atln.tfl•PklfNr> ""''lllQU •MO UH nus llO<>.. ,,>.Vt ntt>A rauw MtN hJ MAINE FREIGHT Moves By MAINE FREIGHTWAYS WATERVI LLE - PORTLAND - BOSTON 170 Silver St., Waterville, Me. EMERY-BROWATER VILLE'WNS CO. The game room at Zeta Psi fraternity has been dedicated to the memory of orman R. White, 1950. Mrs. White and son. Robert, attended and are shown with Leading Guy Vigue, 1957, chapter president. The plaque reads: "Soldier, student, athlete, DEPARTMENT STORE riend. May those who use this room serve their fellowmen and Maker as fully as flid this brother." '38 Joseph Ciechon has resigned as '42 Stedman Howard is purchasing WATERVILLE FRUIT & principal of the Wilton School in agent for Ware Metals, Inc., and Vilton, Conn . . . John McNamara and a member of the town advisory board in PRODUCE CO., INC. is wife Julie (Haskell) are living in La West Brookfield, Mass ...Ray Burbank az, Bolivia where he is office manager lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico Sanger Avenue for the Point Four Mission to Bolivia ... where he is in the purchasing depart WATERVILLE, MAINE Last September the Harvard University ment of the Sandia Corp., a subsidiary ress published Walter Hideout's book : of Western Electric. 'The Radical Novel in the United States, iJ.900-19.54." '44 John and Virginia (Hall) Calahan are living in Denver, Colo., where Donald Read has been elected John is with the Housewares and Radio BOOTHBY AND BARTLETT 39 Insurance since 1859 trPasurer, and a member of the Receiver Division of General Electric. executive committee, of the South Florida His work keeps him travelling through 185 Main Street out seven of the surrounding states. . . Claim Men's Association. WATERVILLE MAINE Dr. William T. Belger is living in Bed I 40 Thomas Elder, flight dispatcher ford, N. H. He is a specialist in anes for Pan American-Grace Airways, thesiology and practices in two hospitals lives in Santa Cruz, Bolivia . ..Gordon in Nashua. He interned at Yale and SAVE WITH Grace-New Haven hospitals and did his ]ones has been elected a vice president WATERVILLE of the John Hancock Mutual Life Insur residency at Columbia Presbyterian Hos ance Co. He has been assistant treas pital, New York City. SAVIN GS BANK urer since 19.5 2. Gordon is a member Waterville of the Boston Society of Security Ana I Douglas Smith has been made 45 Maine lysts. . . ] ohn and Ann ( Jones, '42 ) Gil president of the L. S. Thomsen more teach at South Portland High. Corp., Ellsworth metal fabricators. Issue of SPRING 1957 23 ��--= "V l� 1ou mean ·�� �.v a gift to my college can result in a larger income fo r my fa mily?" The Nav11 dominates this displm1 but AF ROTC {!,raduate, 2nd Lt. Louis Zam Many a businessman is dis bello, '55, has also received recognition with the award of silver wings as an air force pilot. His nav11 friends, recently commissioned, are, left to right, top: William Pen covering these days-to his nock, Jr., '56; David Dunn, '56; George Barry, '54; bottom, left to right: Donald pleasant surprise-that a gift Gerry, '56; Barry Karetnick, '56; Douglass Murray, Jr., '56; and Starling Hanford, '56. to his Alma Mater can bring 1 Virginia Brackley Piccirillo has 1 PaLtl Willey, a pilot for Pan definite futuretax advantages 43 moved to West Concord, Mass., 50 American - Grace Airway , has to his wife and family. where her husband, who is an engineer, been living with his family in Miami for has designed and built their home. The the past year and a half. . . Bernard Our experienced Trust Piccirillos have five children, two boys Cratty has been elected vice president and three girl . . . Gene Hunter, basket of the Maine Bar Association . ..Robert Department will be glad to ball coach at Mor e High (Bath ), has Barteaux is a statistician with the De work with you and your attor been awarded the Bangor Daily News fense Department, Washington, D. C . . . High School Coach-of-the-Year award. Henry Mathieu ha been appointed ney on the financial and trust training manager for Bird & Son, Nor aspects of the educational gift David Evans has been named wood, Massachusett . 149 librarian of the Hartford Gradu- William Niehoff i president of the you have in mind ...regard ate Center of Rensselaer Polytechnic In \Vaterville Bar Association. . . Irwin Swirsky is vice president of the Secu less of its size. stitute. The center i located in East Hill, Conn. The purpose of the library rity Banking Co., Springfield, .Massa is "to provide extensive coverage of the chusetts. We 'll be glad to send you a copy of literature in aeronautical, electrical and "Facts Everyone Should Know About mechanical engineering and in mathe I Tom Simpson lives in Binning- matics and physics." 51 ham, Ala. He is a geologist witli Charitable Giving,'' which you may Mary Ellen Bonsall is the star and pro the U. S. Geological Survey and engaged find valuable at this time. Simply ducer of a children's art series, "Ad in mining hydrology studies in the Bir ventures in Art," which is telecast Tues drop us a card today. mingham Iron Ore district. ..Dan Hal day afternoons on WGBH-TV (Cam received his master's degree in education bridge, !\Ia s. ). The series is made at from Harvard, March 11. the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and at Bradford Mosher has been appointe the television station. Miss Bonsall district group representative in charge t+...DEPOSITORS worked on the staff of the museum for of sales and service in the Miami (Fla. ) two years after graduation. Following office of the !\fa sachusetts lutua �Trust Company thi , she was assistant to the manager Life Insurance Co ...Jean MacDonald 18 Offices Serving the Heart of Maine of a downtown ew York art gallery. is . in public relation Main Office: Augusta, Maine She rejoined the museum staff last Sep Zellerbach Corporation, San Francisco tember. California. 24 2 Herbert Jabar has resigned as Eugenie Frances Hahlbohm, '55, to S hi tory teacher at Waterville Sen Richard Hampton, Plandome, New York, r High chool to become an assistant February 16. MORIN te upervi or with the Civic Reading Shirley Lincoln, '57, to Peter Rigby, BRICK COMPANY lub in Portland ...Nelson Howlett is Darien, Connecticut, February 2. iteming in the New England Furnishers of BRICKS Center Richard Riefe, '50, to Barbara Dube, lospital and plans to stay in its resi Waterbury, Connecticut, February 9. at Colby College ency for training in surgery for four Elizabeth Ayash, '55, to Robert Buck DA VILLE MAINE ear . His wife Patricia (Erskine) is ley, Cheverly, Maryland, February 28. eaching English in Brookline and work Margaret Pierce, '52, to James Weller, R. J. PEACOCK ng on her master s degree in guidance Melford, Delaware, October 19. CANNING CO. t Bo ton University. Joan Wyckoff, '56, to Lt. Leon Olsen, Canners and Dealers m Katonah, New York, March 3. Joyce Peters Fessenden has SARDINES 53 Gary Dwyer, '50, to Joan Einsteder, moved from Arlington, Mass., to FACTORIES AT Hartford, Connecticut, February 9. lexandria, Va. . . Iess Smith has passed Lubec, Portland and Eastport, Maine Judith Weeks, '54, to Francis Dolan, 1is Connecticut Bar examinations and III, Westwood, Massachusetts, larch 2. pened an office in Torrington. GEORGE H. STERNS, '3 1 Phillips B. Hunt, Jr., '52, to Darthea FRED J. STERNS, '29 Wells, Waban, 1assachusetts, 'larch 9. Lt. Bob T urston is stationed HERBERT D. STERNS, '41 54 � . with the au force rn North William M. Wilson,� '50, to Ruth Wot �frica ...Pvt. Peter Fishbin has been ton, Boston, Massachusetts, March 23. STERNS DEPT. STORES issigned to an anti-aircraft artillery bat Waterville Skowhegan .alion at Grand Island, New York. BIRTHS "The Stores of Famous Brands " A son, Alan Edward, to Mr. an Issue of SPRING 1957 25 He is urvived by his widow, the former Lora Chapmai hi on and daughter-in-law, and two grand daughters, Mr1 Barbara . Reed, \ e twood, Ma achu ett and lrs. Emil 'vV. Taylor, Somerville, Massachu etts. IN Mary Bragg Weston, 1901 1ary Bragg We ton, 77, di d in a Keene (New Hamp shire ) ho pita! Decemb r 12, following an illne of ·even MEM ORIAM months. Born in orth Sidn y, Mrs. We ton wa , for many year: a train cl nurse. he prepared for college at Oak Grov S minary and at Coburn. Her nurse's training was receive1 at �lalden (Mass. ) Ho pital. Her bu band, Arthur Frand \V ton, ' ho died in 1945, wa a phy"ician in Keene. Thei 1933, Lila Harden Hersey, 1895 daughter, Ir . Ruth Ballou, of Keene, survives as d four grandchildren, a niec , and two nephews. Lila Harden Hersey, 83, died March 25 in Eastport. Sh mem b r of Chi Om ga, 'lrs. 'v es ton was a devote1 was born in Angora, Pennsylvania, attended Hebron Acad alumnu who r turned fr quently and faitl1fully to th emy, and taught at Higgins Classical Institute and at school campu . in vV averly and Everett, Massachu etts. Mrs. Hersey had been living in Pembroke since 1935, the year her husband, \Vill 0. Hersey, retired as superintendent Ossian Farewell Taylor, 1902 of schools for the Deering District in Portland. He died in Ossian Farewell Taylor, 16, died Augu t IO in Toledo 1948. Ohio. Ir. Taylor was a professional engineer and wa Her father, Cushman E. Harden, was a member of the selected by Colby to represent the college in 1951 at tl11 Class of 1864. He left college, however, in 1862 to enlist in inauguration of the new president of Toledo Univer ity. the Civil War. Much of his life was pent in Montana, where he operatei She is survived by a son, Professor Carl Hersey of the a general store and a cattle ranch. University of Rochester; a sister, Mrs. Winogene Brown of Mr. Taylor had been a draftsman with the Toledo Seal South Portland; and three grandchildren. Mrs. Hersey wa Company since 1942. He was a beloved member of th a member of Sigma Kappa. organization and was induced to continue his work eve1 though he had passed retirement age. His skill and inHuen Eva Ames Webster, 1898 and his character made him an extremely valued member tl1e firm. Eva Ames Webster, 82, died March 30 in Skowhegan where Surviving are his wife, Elizabeth; two daughters, Mr she had resided for the past 34 years. Mrs. Webster taught \tVayne Snow, Toledo and Mrs. Jaines Keams, Townsend in several Maine communities prior to retiring in 1935. She Montana; a ister, Mr . Evangeline Taylor MacKenzie, 1893 was a former superintendent of the Norridgewock Schools. State College, Pennsylvania, and four grandchildren. Mrs. Webster attended Colby from 1894-96. She married Fred E. Webster in 1904. He died in 1932. She is survived by her daughter, Mrs. John Carter of Skowhegan. Mary Moor lord, 1905 Mary Moor Lord, 71, died January 5 at Skowhegan. Bon Ambrose Benton Wa rren, 1899 in Waterville, she was a member of the Baptist Churdl Ambrose Benton Warren, 80, former Boston school official Skowhegan Woman's Club, and the Fairview Hospita and secretary of the Colby Old Timers Club, died January 10 (Skowhegan ) Auxiliary. 1912 in Montpelier, Vermont. She is urvived by husband, Dr. Maurice E. Lord, A native of Cornish, he graduated three children, Dr. Edwin M. of Skowhegan, Mrs. Paulin Phi Beta Kappa from Colby and Devereaux, New York City, and Robert, Prospect Par� received his A.M. from Boston Uni Pennsylvania; four grandcltildren; and two brothers, Earl versity in 1929. He also did grad Skowhegan and Dr. Henry B., Providence, Rhode Island. uate work in science at Harvard. His teaching career extended from 1899 to 1947 when he was on the Eva Johnson Patten, 1903 faculties of high schools in West Eva Johnson Patten, 75, died January 15 at her home it erly, Rhode Island; Boston; Dor Fall River, Massachusetts. chester, Attleboro, and Roslindale, Born in La\\-Tencetown, Nova Scotia, Mrs. Patten wa Massachusetts. Headmaster of the educated in Westboro (Massachusetts ) High School wher latter from 1936-47, he was author she was valedictorian. She graduated from Colby Phi Bet 1908-10, of miscellaneous articles in edu Kappa. During the summers of she did graduat cational magazines. work in mathematics at Columbia University. His son, Elmer C. Warren, now Mrs. Patten taught matl1 at high schools in North Stra of Montpelier, was on the Colby faculty from 1928-47 serv ford, New Hampshire, New York City, Staten I�land, am ing as associate professor of mathematics, registrar and from 1916-26 in the Bronx. 30 director of student personnel. She had lived for tl1e past years in Fall River. He: 1906, Mr. Warren was a devoted alumnus who gave generously first husband, Charles A. Grant, died in the yea: 1926, of his time as a class agent and as secretary of the Old following their marriage. In she married Alonzo R 1947. Timers. At Commencement, 1955, he was awarded a Colby Patten who died in Brick " in recognition of years of loyalty to the best of the Surviving are two sisters, Mrs. Minnie G. Franklin, an< a Colby tradition and of constant service in the interest of the Miss Sarah F. Johnson, both of Fall River. She was mem new as well as the old Colby." her of Beta Phi. 26 CoLBY Au.:M v: Harry Slemmons Phinney, 1908 Mr. Baird is survived by his wife, the former Beatrice Carey; two daughters, Mrs. Andrea Warren, Topsham, and Harry le111mons Phinney, 71, a retired electrical engineer, Mrs. James Johnson, Manchester; and two sons, Ralph, ed January 8, at his home in vV orcester, Massachusetts. Mechanic Falls, and Arthur, Augusta. A native of Westbrook, where he graduated from West ook Seminary, Mr. Phinney established the American I ectrical Company in Worcester in 1922. He had retired Vinal Harland Tibbets, 1914 x years ago. He attended Colby from 1904-06 and received Vinal Harland Tibbets, 64, died February 1 at his home in i M.E. degree from the Bliss Electrical School (Washing New York City. He had been ill for nearly two months. m, D.C. ) in 1910. A leading proponent of progressive education, Mr. Tibbets Hi wife, the former Elizabeth Burke, died last November. had been teaching at Queens College since his retirement He i survived by a son, Richard of Worcester, and sev last June as director of tlle Walden School in New York City. al nieces and nephews. Mr. Phinney was a member of He served as superintendent and principal of schools in elta Kappa Epsilon. Waterboro, Bowdoinham, Mattawamkeag, and in East Wind sor, Conn., before going to Manhasset, Long Island in 1921 Walter Delaney Spear, 1908 as superintendent. During his 23 years there, his introduction of progressive practices focussed attention on Manhasset, as Following a lengthy illness, Walter Delaney Spear, 69, . a model testing center of schools throughout the nation. ied on September 12 in Lisbon Falls. Born in Topsham, Opposition to him, however, developed in certain quarters e attended Colby from 1904-05 and for many years operated and his appointment was not renewed in 1943. garage in Lisbon Falls. More recently he had a poultry Born in Bristol, Mr. Tibbets studied at Lincoln Academy rm. Mr. Spear was a member of Alpha Tau Omega. and did graduate work in educational administration at Har Surviving are his widow, the fom1er Josephine Lamb; a � vard Yale and Teachers College of Columbia University. aughter, Mrs. Cynthia Arndt; and a son, Wesley, all of H was named, in 1943, executive director of the American uisli>on Falls; and a sister, Mrs. Lula Bickford, Topsham. Education� Fellowship (formerly the Progressive Education Association ) . He served in that post for three years, and Eugene Frank Allen, 1909 was editor of its journal Progressive Education. Before going to Walden in 1949 he was director of the Hessian Hills Eugene Frank Allen, 70, a retired teacher, died November School, Croton-on-Hudson, New York. 24 in the Rockland hospital. Mr. Allen prepared for college A leader in methods of educational psychology and the t Morse High School in his native city of Bath and at social sciences, Mr. Tibbets was a member of the Academic Ch�lsea (Massachusetts ) High School. Freedom Liberties Union. He was on the Committee of the Following graduation from college, he taught at Colby American Civil Editorial Committee of the 1952 Yearbook of cademy, New London, New Hampshire and was principal the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, of Whitefield (New Hampshire ) High School. He was on an affiliate of the National Education Association. He also �e faculty of Hillhouse High (New Haven, Connecticut ) served on the New York State Committee for Revision of the from 1913-1919 when he went to Atlantic City High School Social Studies Curriculum. M'here he was science instructor until his retirement in 1951. In 1954, he issued a detailed report on his work at Walden, Mr. Allen was an enthusiastic tennis player, coaching at pointing out, among other things, that some colle�es �ere 1e high school and at numerous boys schools in New Jersey accepting students upon certificate rather than exammation. and New York. He was twice married. Mr. Tibbets was author of numerous magazine articles on Mr. Allen was a member of N.E.A. and of tl1e New educational topics. His first wife, Gladys E. Tibbets, died in �ersey Teachers Association. After his retirement he made 1947. his home at Martinsville with his sister, Mrs. Gertrude Allen He is survived by his widow, the former Lora Teel; his Small who survives him. He was in Phi Delta Theta. son, M. Colby, 1945, and four grandchildren. He was a member of Phi Delta Theta. Roger King Hodsdon, 1912 Commander Roger King Hodsdon, 67, U.S.N. (retired ) Philip Goulding Curtis, 1916 died January 8 in Los Gatos, California . He pre a ed for Philip Goulding Curtis, . . � � 63, died January 25 at the Cape Colby in his hometown of Yarmouth. Pnor to 1ommg the . Cod Hospital in Hyannis, Massachusetts. navy in 1918 he worked for the General Electric Company Mr. Curtis, a retired business man, was born in J arnaica and for the Bureau of Steam Engineering of the navy. Plain, Massachusetts. He attended Colby from 19 12-1914. Commander Hodsdon devoted his life to military duty, During World War I, he served in the navy. retiring in 1950. He held the Order of e Briti�� Emp e For the past eighteen years he has lived in South Yar (honorary officer ) for his work in repamng� Bntish sh11�� s Curtis was formerly associated during World War II while commanding a U.S. Navy reparr mouth, Massachusetts. Mr. base in New Zealand. with the Cape and Vineyard Electric Company. For a period, Survivors include his widow, the former Sarah Donnelly, he was in the wool business and operated his own radio a son, Roger Jr., Los Gatos; two daughters, Dorothy and Mrs. business. Elizabeth Brown, both teaching in Surrey, England under He leaves his wife, the former Marian Hollis; and two an exchange program; two brothers, Richard, South Thor_nas sons, Joseph of West Yarmouth; and Philip Jr., of Boston. ton, and Herbert, Portland; and a sister, Mrs. Helen Fiske, He was a member of Zeta Psi. Whitehall, Montana. Ernestine Harriet Porter, 1916 Arthur Alphonso Baird, 1914 Ernestine Harriet Porter, 64, died January 10 at a nur ing Arthur Alphonso Baird, 66, died December 15 at his home home in Brookline, Massachusetts. Former psychologist at in Manchester where he had lived for the past 17 years. A the Pownal State School in Hallowell, Mi s Porter was born retired poultry farmer, he was a graduate of Hartland degree in educa- Academy and attended Colby from 1910-11. in New Sharon. She received her master's 27 Issue of SPRING 1957 tion at Harvard in 1934 and taught psychology in several schools prior to her fourteen years at Pownal. Surviving are a niece, Mrs. Arthur Fancy of Winthrop, and a nephew, Gordon Porter of Philadelphia. A Matter of Will Power Colby is the stronger today for the support it has James Peter MacDonald, 1925 1·eceived from alumni and friends. Many who have James Peter MacDonald, 54, died June 19 at his home in wanted to commit thei1· resources to the establish Miami, Florida. Born in Whycogoma, Nova Scotia, he ment of infiuences 111hich are everlasting have named attended Colby from 1921-22. Before moving to Florida in 1954, he was employed by Colby College their beneficiary. Lever Brothers in Cambridge. He is survived by his wife, the former Ethel Legro; h� . . late Merton L. Miller 1890, had a keen mother; a sister, Mrs. Reginald Seeley, St. Loms, Missouri; HE a son, Stewart of Miami; a daughter, Mrs. Jean Tilley, T interest in the library on MayAower Hill which Schenectady, and two grandsons. ,_ is named for his parents. Not only did he make substantial monetary contributions during his life Elizabeth Beckett Bousfield, 1930 time to the Miller library building, he also made Elizabeth Beckett Bousfield, 47, died in a Bangor ho pital 25. significant donations of books. January She was the wife of the Reverend eal D. 25, 1953. Bousfield, 1929, superintendent of the faine Seacoa t Mr. 1iller died January From his Mission. estate Colby has received some 1650 volumes, his Born in Calais, Mrs. Bousfield prepared for Colby at Calai final gift to the library upon which he bestowed Academy and did graduate study from 1931-32 at Andover Newton Theological School. She taught for a year, followmg_ years of intense loyalty and friendship. graduation from college, in the Calais public schools. The books cover irtually all fields, with the Mrs. Bousfield was extremely active in the affairs of Sigma emphasis on the humanities and social sciences. Kappa and served as the sorority's national chairman of His choice of literature runs the gamut so to speak, philanthropy. During the past several years she ha been : _ _ an able and devoted associate of her husband m Ins important from Hammond s looseleaf Atlas of the World to work with the Maine Seacoast Mission. Wallace Nutting's Furniture Treasury. As one friend has written, " Her activities included all The collection is being catalogued. When this is the fields covered by the mission. Her home was �lway open to people connected with it. She m �de n� g of completed titles already duplicated in the college serving soup to an unexpected twenty or thirty vmtors� on library will be offered for the reading rooms of the a cold day, or iced tea and lemonade on a hot one, and Colby chapter of Zeta Psi, Mr. Miller s fraternity. she did it with unhurried graciousness. She was a Christian lady in the finest sense." _ Mrs. Bousfield is survived by her husband of Bar Harbor, a daughter, Martha, and a son, James. Ralph Barton Perry, 1942 (Hon. LL.D.) 80, Donald Perry Lake, 1955 Ralph Barton Perry, profes or emeritus at Harvard University, 1935 Pulitzer Prize biography winner, and author Perry Lake, 23, wa killed Second Lieutenant Donald of numerou work on philosophy, died January 22. Profes or 1 a solo landing in a jet trainer February while attempting Perry won the Pulitzer Prize for his Thought and Character Air Force Ba e, San at Lackland of William James. He was an active writer from 1905 Don was perform Antonio, Texas. until 1954. His last major work was Realms of Value, a a night ing his last requirement, series of lectures given in Scotland which Professor Perry had his wings. flight, before receiving worked on for tllirty years. He leaves two sons, Ralph, Jr., a Mr. and Mrs. He was the son of ew York artist, and Bernard, director of the University of Edward P. Lake of Milton, Massa Indiana Press, Bloomington, Indiana. chusetts. Lieutenant Lake graduated from Milton High School in 1951 where James Brendan Connolly, 1950 (Hon. L.H.D.) he played football, baseball, and James Brendan Connolly, 88, the internationally known basketball. His forward passing rec author of sea stories, died at the Jamaica Plain Veterans ord at the school still stands. He Hospital, Jamaica Plains, Massachusetts, January 20. Mr. was a member of the Milton High Connolly was known not only as a writer but as an athlete, School Student Council and the having brought to America its first Olympic title. Connolly Milton Youth Club. 45 won the hop, step and jump event with a leap of fe�t At Colby, where, as a quarterback he was co-captain of when tlle Olympic games were revived at Athens, Greece m football in 1954, he established himself as one of the nation's . 1896 after a lapse of 15 centuries. A freshman at Harvard finest small college passers. He was twice named to the at the time, Connolly joined a small group of athletes who All-Maine team and received Colby's "Most Valuable Player " paid their own way to the games. award. He played one year of varsity basketball and for three years was a standout baseball player. He was a mem Among his better known books were Out of Gloucester, ber of Alpha Tau Omega. The U-Boat Hunters, Navy Men and The Coaster Captain. 1912, Lt. Lake married Elinor Cox in July of 1955. Mrs. Lake He ran for Congress on the " Bull Moose " ticket in and a nine months old daughter, Kathleen, survive him, as but was defeated by James M. Curley. do his parents and a brother, Robert, a senior at Rutgers. He leaves his daughter, Brenda, of Boston. 28 COLBY ALUM us ROLLINS - DUNHAM Co. �#////� . ng �rnttnrl - - � rrutllr :tlnrm . 11l\lat overage of Colby � Complete News C e DEALERS IN a nd Central Main � . 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