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University of the Pacific Scholarly Commons Pacific Review University of the Pacific ubP lications 12-1-1947 Pacific Review December 1947 (Bulletin of the College of the Pacific) Pacific Alumni Association Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/pacific-review Part of the Higher Education Commons Recommended Citation Pacific Alumni Association, "Pacific Review December 1947 (Bulletin of the College of the Pacific)" (1947). Pacific Review. 113. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/pacific-review/113 This Newsletter is brought to you for free and open access by the University of the Pacific ubP lications at Scholarly Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Pacific Review by an authorized administrator of Scholarly Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Bulletin of the COLLEGE the PACIFICof CALIFORNIA'S CENTENNIAL CELEBRATIONS By Rockwell D. Hunt \ PACIFIC SPORTS PICTURE By Carroll Doty \ ISSUE CAMPUS EVENTS CALENDAR ALUMNI ASSOCIATION NEWS December 194 7 bulletin of the COLLEGE OF THE PACIFIC Published by the College of the Pacific Issued February, March, May, June, September, October, November, December Entered as second class matter at the Post Office at Stockton, California. ccepted for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in Section 1103, Act of October 3, 1917, authorized April 5, 1924." Volume 39 Number 8 PACIFIC REVIEW ISSUE December, 1947 0 * • • Officers of the College of the Pacific Alumni Association Presides Roger Jacoby '35 V ce-President Naomi Fuqua '38 Executive Secretary - Russell Aitken Review Editor Arthur Farey >29 Alumni Council: Charles Warmer '36, 3401 North Sutter St., Stockton; Jean Tully ex-31, 1422 N. Baker St., Stockton; Melvin Bennett '29, 1061 W .Willow St., Stockton; Clarence Royse '28, Oakdale; Bradford Crittenden '34, 1630 W. Se c C t0 n Jr°i >^4 oo? l r T .' ^ Simonsen '37, 1330 Pacific St.,. Bakersfield; Leon Lakes 37, 821 N. Lincoln St., Stockton; Ralph Francis '31, Box 686, Sonora : Vernon Stoltz 29, 315 W. Poplar St., Stockton; Stanley Vaughn '41, 2121 Misi sion St Stockton; Jerry Keithley '38, 211 E. Vine St., Stockton; Nicolina Ficovich 41, 1137 S. Golden Gate.. St., Stockton; Howard Bailey, 4 East Mariposa Street, Stockton, California. of whom were associates of the Pacific Veterans fallen Pacific veterans, were nearly 100 parents and relatives Remembered who had received special invita­ The full measure of devotion tions to the service. In tribute, of seventy-two Pacific Student both to their boys and to the Association members who gave place that Pacific held in their their lives in military service lives, they came from points as during World War II was hon­ far distant as Tacoma and Ven­ ored and permanently memorial­ tura. ized by the present student body In accepting the memorial for at an impressive campus service the college, which will be placed December eleventh in Pacific permanently in Morris Chapel, Auditorium. President Burns traced the ser­ The observance centered in the vice of the College and its stu­ presentation of a large and beau­ dents through the four wars in tifully designed cast bronze which America has been involved plaque which bears the names of since Pacific's founding. Dr. the seventy-two men "who did Harold C. Case, minister of the not come back." Kirk Campbell first Methodist Church of Pasa­ of Stockton, president last year dena, rendered a fine and inspir­ of the campus Veteran's Club ing service to the parents and when the memorial was planned, students assembled through his presented the plaque to President address on Values for Survival." Robert E. Burns on behalf of Pleading for increased intercom­ the veterans' group and other liv- munication among the peoples of ing units and class organizations the earth, Dr. Case urged that that participated in financing the project. "only through Christian fellow­ ship and the mutuality of human Seated in the front rows of the beings can the world hope to auditorium and surrounded by overcome the forces which have college men and women, many recurrently dragged us into war." PACIFIC WILL PUBLISH VOLUME BY HUNT • CALIFORNIA GHOST TOWNS LIVE AGAIN, twelve fas cmatmg accounts of life in storied Mother Lode gold towns by Dr~ Rockwell Eh Hunt, will soon be published under the aegis of the California History Foundation. The attractively printed and illus arvl '11 K ?me JV11 be readP for distribution about March 10 and will be marketed for only $1.25. Orders, to be filled on receipt i p 3°,° q Horn the publisher, may be addressed now to the Col- artd postag-e °f ^ Add 10c t0 COver sales tax The California History Foundation Official organization at the in a covered wagon in 1854. Dr. College of the Pacific of the Cal­ Hunt graduated from Napa Col­ ifornia History Foundation, with lege (soon after merged with Pa­ an imposing group of sponsors cific), in 1890. throughout the state, has been an­ Scores of magazine articles nounced by President Robert E. and many books have come from Burns who has laid foundations the pen and the keen mind of for the enterprise during the past four years. this lover of California. At Paci­ fic he is continuing his invalu­ Director of the foundation is able research and guiding the ac­ Di. Rockwell D. Hunt, who has tivities of the History Founda­ returned to his Alma Mater after tion, a project highly appropriate a long and noted academic career for Pacific sponsorship. Founded at the University of Southern m the roaring days of gold, and California. There he developed now located on the threshold of the department of economics and the storied gold country, the Col­ sociology and for twenty-five lege of the Pacific is an integral years served as Dean of the part of the American period of Graduate School. The title of California history, given impetus Dean Emeritus was conferred by the rush for gold. upon him when he retired in The first institute of the His­ 1945. Now he has come out of re­ tory Foundation will be held on tirement and with the enthusiasm the Pacific campus March 12 and of a man of half his years, has 13. Friends of the College embarked on a new adventure. throughout the West are invited The man who "probably knows to send their requests for com­ more about the State of Califor­ plete brochures of the organiza­ nia than any other man in the tion and purposes of the founda­ country" according to the Alum­ tion, for the advance program of ni Review of USC, is a native the first institute, and for an­ son of pioneer parents. His fath­ nouncements of tours and special er arrived in California in 1850 events sponsored by the founda­ via the Isthmus; his mother came tion. (3) California s Centennial Celebrations By ROCKW ILL D. HUNT Rob Wagner once made the ob­ James Marshall picked up flakes servation that California roosters of gold in the tail-race of Sut­ crow all night; but California ter s Mill he lighted a torch boosters don't crow all night be­ which started a conflagration cause they can't keep awake that that swiftly spread in ever-wid­ long! ening circles and has never gone A\ hat does all this stir about out! 1hat gold discovery signal­ Centennial Celebrations mean? ized the opening of a new era in Is it just another artifice to get human history. more people to come to Califor­ The secret could not be kept nia when there are already more —especially after that day when here than we know how to ab­ Sam Brannan went speeding up sorb ? the leading street of San Fran­ The Centennial Years are 1948 cisco waving his bottle of nug­ 1949 and 1950. Take a square look gets and shouting, "Gold! Gold! at them and see for yourself Gold, from the American River!" whether there s really anything I hat was like a pontificial mes­ to celebrate. sage over all major networks! The discovery of gold by |im In less than six months 4000 min­ Marshall at Coloma on the 24th ers were prospecting or digging. day of January, 1848, was an Within a quarter century the Cal­ event of surpassing significance. ifornia gold yield was placed at Certainly, gold had been discov­ a billion dollars! ered in California long before But 1848 brought forth 1849— Marshall ever saw the American and what days those were, the River. So, indeed, had America days of '49! No one has ever giv­ been discovered long before Co­ en us a better thumb-nail sketch lumbus ever braved the Atlantic. than Hubert Howe Bancroft: Nevertheless it was the 1492 dis­ The California year of 1849: covery that proved to be epoch- what was it ? An exclamation making, one of the most conse­ point in the history of civiliza­ quential events in all history. tion, a dash in the annals of time. Likewise it was the 1848 discov- This twelve-month was not so ery of gold, with its global reper­ much a year as an age, not so cussions, that is recognized as much an episode as an era the most important single fact in Other years have been repeated, the remarkable annals of Califor­ and will be many times; this one. nia. Any previous discovery was never. Throughout the records of simply the striking of a match the race, from first to last, there in the dark: the match went out will never be reproduced on this —all was darkness again. When planet the California flush times (4) drama. It stands out in the exper­ brought together in any land, it iences of men unique and indi­ was a pleasure to look upon, as vidual, each swift day equal to it was my own privilege weekly." many another year.

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