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Maine Alumnus, Volume 29, Number 7, April 1948

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REPRODUCTION FROM A COLOR PRINT FROM A SERIES “ EARLY LANDMARKS OF PORTLAND " COPYRIGHT 1945 THE CANAL NATIONAL BANK OF PORTLAND PORTLAND Ma in e

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The first place of worship in Casco Neck, now Portland, was a rude By 1740 Parson Smith’s congregation had outgrown this church. A new structure, believed to be of logs, located on the waterfront where Hancock building of wood, known as "Old Jerusalem," was erected on Congress Street now joins Fore Street George Burroughs, that unfortunate man who Street at the head of Meeting House Lane, now Temple Street A steeple later was convicted of witchcraft at Salem, was the minister of the church was built in 1759 The pews were first painted August 7, 1803, and that from 1674 to 1676, and again from 1683 until 1690 The building was Sunday there was no service because the paint was not yet dry. destroyed during the French and Indian War of 1690 After resettlement of the town it was voted in 1720 to build a meeting The former church on India Street was used for town meetings and for house "36 feet in length, 28 in breadth and 20 feet stud," on the north­ a Court House until 1774. It was destroyed by fire during the bombard­ western corner of Middle and Broad (now India) Streets The extreme ment of 1775 poverty of the town caused slow progress and not until 1722 was the frame covered In 1724 clapboards were purchased "at four pounds per thousand" In the present stone church there is a cannon ball which passed through and the roof and floor were finished. In 1728 "a pulpit and people’s seats the walls of the old wooden church during the same bombardment. below" were installed.

BUILDING WITH MAINE FOR 122 YEARS THE CANAL NATIONAL BANK OF PORTLAND

Main Office, 188 MIDDLE ST., PORTLAND, ME

Branch 14 CONGRESS SQ . PORTLAND ME Branch, 93 MAIN ST. YARMOUTH, ME.

COMPLETE FINANCING. TRUST & BANKING FACILITIES

Member Federal Reserve System . Member Federal deposit Insurance Corporation The MAINE ALUMNUS

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Officers

Hazen H. Ayer ’24, President MAINE EVENTS Harold J. Shaw ’14, Vice President Richard S. Bradford ’30, Treasurer April 15-31 Exhibit—Art Gallery George F. Dow ’27, Clerk Flower Studies—Winifred Green John Sealey, Jr. ’36, Executive Sec. April 23 Junior Prom Philip J. Brockway ’31, Assistant Sec. 1 April 27 Bangor Symphony Orchestra—Memorial Gym Alumni Council Members April 28 Maine College Librarians—Library Hazen H. Ayer ’24 April Clifton E. Chandler ’13 30 Music Night Samuel W. Collins ’19 Secondary School Prize Speaking Contest Charles E. Crossland ’17 May 1-2 Maine Area Training Conference—M.C.A. Raymond H. Fogler ’15 Miss Jessie Fraser ’31 May 3 Good Will Chest Assembly Miss M. June Kelley ’12 Memorial Gym Fred D. Knight ’09 Sigma Xi Installation Alfred B. Lingley ’20 May 3-22 Exhibit—Art Gallery Alton T. Littlefield ’21 Water Colors—Walter D. Swan George E. Lord ’24 John H. Mahoney ’27 May 3-28 Art Exhibits—Art Gallery Thomas G. Mangan ’16 Non-Objective Painting—Alice and Jack Gar Miss Marion E. Marlin ’34 Photo Salon Prints Mrs. Marjorie M. Murphy ’33 Eastern Maine Professional Miss Emily Pendleton ’26 Photographers Association Myron C. Peabody ’16 Harold M. Pierce ’19 May 5-6-7-8 Maine Masque—‘‘The Hasty Heart” Conan A. Priest ’22 Little Theatre James M. Sims ’32 Robert F. Thurrell ’15 May 7-8 Regional Meeting Thomas N. Weeks ’16 American Society of Mechanical Engineers May 8 Glee Club Banquet District Conference Regarding Exceptional FRONT COVER. Pictorial panels to be sent to Munich on “The University and Children—School of Education the Press’ arc inspected by Lloyd P. Maine Day Shapleigh, Jr., art student who helped to May 12 design the show; Fred W. McDonald, 14-15 North Dorm Houseparty Week End president of the U. of M. Press Club; May Dr. Wilmarth H. Starr, head of the De­ May 18 Scholarship Recognition Assembly partment of Modem Languages; and Dr. Dr. Howard Shapley Joseph M. Murray, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. See story on page 8. Memorial Gym

Vol. 29 APRIL, 1948 Published monthly from October to June inclusive, by the University of Maine General Alumni Association, °American Alumni Council’ University of Maine. Orono. Maine Subscription price. $2.00 per year, included in annual alumni dues of $3 00 Member. American Alumni Council. Entered as second class matter at the Post Office at Orono, Maine, under act of March 3, 1870.

APRIL, 1948 THE MAINE ALUMNUS 3 ...you enhance, yourown prestige

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In addressing the graduates of the February class, Jim Totman '16 said:

“It has always seemed to me a matter of only fair play for an Alumnus to maintain a continuing interest in his or her Alma Mater. This in- terest should not be passive. As a matter of simple reciprocity, if one may resolve it to such a basis, such interest should be in terms of continuing loyalty and tangible support. As an active Alumnus there will be many opportunities for you to render this type of service. Be ever ready to do your best. For many years to come your prestige will depend in part on that of the University of Maine. You will be known as a “Maine man” or a “Maine woman.” As you help increase the standing of the University, you enhance your own prestige.”

H ere's how you can help.

The new Union Building which is to be built on campus will add immeasur­ ably to the prestige of the University. That building can become a reality only through the generous subscription of every alumnus. MANAGEMENT TRAINING

HE graduation from the University An important part of the training pro­ in June of five men with degrees mer he served as intern in Old Town gram for these embryo managers is a where he assisted in a tax revaluation officiallyT listed as Bachelor of Arts in summer interneship in actual application project for the city. Public Management will mark a historic of the work. Through the cooperation Thomas M. Libby, a Navy veteran, was point not only for the University but for of towns and cities operating with the born in South Portland. During the war the country as a whole. The University manager form, students during the sum­ he was trained in naval aviation. Last major in Public Management—training mer of their junior year are placed as summer he helped in the preparation of ground for town and city managers—is internes in the manager’s office to observe tax maps for the city of Bangor as far as is known unique in the entire and participate in the actual running of Allen L. Torrey, a native of Weymouth, U. S. The work of the town manager is the municipality. This practical experi­ Mass., attended Fryeburg Academy. He an unusual combination of jobs; it re­ ence admirably supplements the theoreti­ was an Army Air Force pilot, flying a quires a background in engineering, a cal training of the course and gives the transport plane 20 months overseas. sound knowledge of finance, thorough student a much better idea of the details While serving his internship at Ells­ training in governmental processes, and of the job, its possibilities, and its prob­ worth last summer he also assisted in last, but by no means least, more than a lems. While serving as interns, the stu­ preparation of Bangor tax maps. little touch of applied psychology. For dents often perform very valuable ser­ Earl A. White, a native of Greenfield, this reason none of the standard Uni­ vices for the communities where they are Mass., has the distinction of being the versity curricula has proven to be entirely employed. first of the graduating group to obtain adequate to train men for the increasing­ Prof. Edward Dow, head of the depart­ a definite position for next year. He has ly important posts of running municipali­ ment of history and government, who has been employed by the city of Belfast. He ties. been particularly active in the develop­ is a veteran with four years of war The fact that the state of Maine has ment of city manager training, believes service as an Army officer. While at more towns and cities operating under that Maine’s course with its insistence on the University he has been active in the manager form of government may or strong engineering fundamentals supple­ various campus activities. Last summer may not have had anything to do with mented by broad courses in other neces­ he worked with a municipal tax mapping the establishment of the unique major sub­ sary lines, is unique in the country and organization. ject at the University; at any rate it may well set the pattern for other schools As these men are awarded their degrees makes such a course at Orono particularly to develop similar training. The Univer­ at Commencement in June another for­ appropriate. Recent reports indicate that sity is fortunate in having a good market ward step in the history of the Universi­ 89 communities in Maine have the mana­ for these trained men within the state of ty will be recorded and a new means ac­ ger form of government and at the time Maine where so many towns are already complished by the institution to be of the report was made seven other towns under the manager form of government service to the communities of Maine. The were considering the possibility. Michi­ and others each year turning to it. rapid growth of the town manager form gan, the next largest state in number of This year’s crop of potential managers, of government in popular acceptance has manager governments, has 65. the first to be graduated, is made up of shown the need for applicants for this men worthy to represent the University kind of work to be professional people The Curriculum and the profession. Merle F. Goff of adequately trained in the basic require­ The five men to be graduated from Westbrook, an Army veteran, was ments of their work and imbued with a Maine this June will bring to their future wounded in France. He has been a cam­ long-range professional outlook, divorced management positions an unusually broad pus leader since his return from war ser­ from politics. As Prof. Dow has stated “The position of municipal manager is combination of educational courses. The vice. Last summer he was intern in Port­ increasingly becoming professionalized. engineering phases of the course include land as special assistant to the city The trained man expects to make the surveying, highway engineering, sanitary manager and purchasing agent. profession a life career, as do doctors, engineering, drafting, and related courses; Albert Gray, Jr., is a native of Staten lawyers, and other professional men. He in the College of Arts and Sciences the Island, N. Y., who was graduated from does not take the job as a stop-gap or a program includes mathematics, account­ Ohio University in 1942 with a B.S. de­ filler, and he has the advantage of youth ing, municipal government, personnel gree, then served four years in the war and vigor.” management, public finance, English, and in the transportation corps. Last sum­ other general courses. Programs leading to degrees are available in Arts and Sci­ ences under the Department of History and Government or in Civil Engineering in Technology. The former are under the direction of Prof. Edward Dow, the latter directed by Prof. Weston Evans ’18. There is also a five-year curriculum under Civil Engineering leading to the M.S. degree in Public Management.

MANAGERS: First Seniors gradu­ ating from the University’s course in Public Management are, left to right: Earl White, Old Town; Merle F. Goff, Westbrook; Albert Gray, Jr., Old Town; Thomas M. Libby, South Portland; and Allen L. Tor- rey, Orono. 5 APRIL, 1948 THE MAINE ALUMNUS The GOLDEN

partment, U. S. Engineers. From 1921 to N June 19—Alumni Day—the Uni­ worked for a time in Berlin, N. H., and 1942 on this work he was in charge of the versity of Maine and the General in Millinocket. He has been an active 0 Portland Sub-Office. Charles S. Webster, Alumni Association will be hosts to what member of the city of Bangor and a leader another of the Maine residents who have promises to be the largest Fifty-Year in University and alumni affairs, receiv­ sent in records, is residing in South Port­ Reunion Class in Maine history, the Class ing the award of the Alumni Service land. He has been a partner of Norton, of 1898. Whether or not the boys of ’98 Emblem in 1932 in recognition of his Hall & Webster of Portland and a promi­ manage to break previous records for efforts In 1938 on his retirement from nent leader in the Kiwanis Club, serving Fifty-Year attendance, it is certain at the Alumni Council the Association voted as Governor from 1918 to 1920. this writing that they will not be behind “deep appreciation of his unusually long any group in enthusiasm, interest, and and outstanding devotion to the work and welfare” of the Council on which he participation in the activities of their The Merrill Quartet Golden Reunion served 19 years. Heading the list of men of ’98 are, Why one class should have four mem­ appropriately, the officers Class Presi­ Other Members bers by the name of Merrill is an un­ dent A D T Libby has already notified Several members of the class have in­ solved mystery, but such is the case with the Alumni Office of his intention to be dicated their intentions of returning to 1898. Of course two of them are twin on hand during the celebration to keep Orono for the reunion; others have re­ brothers, and famous at that: Dana T. the rest of the boys in line. Mr Libby has turned information of their whereabouts Merrill, Brigadier General, U S. Army, for years been a prominent consulting and careers to the Alumni Office The at­ Retired, and Elmer Drew Merrill, emi­ engineer and patent attorney in Newark, tempt will be made in this article to nent botanist, Harvard Professor of Bota­ N J. During his undergraduate years, introduce these members of ’98 to their ny. Gen. Dana Merrill, member of the as a major in electrical engineering, he classmates and fellow-alumni in brief regular Army since Sept., 1898, served to found time to be prominent in many sketches. Oct. 31, 1940; his service included the phases of campus life Football, tennis, debating (he helped start the debating As might be expected the State of Spanish-American War and First World - society and was on the first debating team Maine claims several others of the class. War and has brought him American and of the University), and class offices Of those who have already responded to foreign medals for distinguished service. managed to keep him from having time the inquiry from the Alumni Office, three He now makes his home in Fort Thom­ hang heavy on his hands He has gone are residing in Maine. Walter Dolley of as, Ky His brother, Dr. Elmer D. right along doing things for Maine He Limerick, former captain of the varsity Merrill, chose the paths of science for his is a life member of the Alumni Associa­ baseball team, is proprietor of the Sokokis career and has also achieved international tion, past president of the New York Orchards He has been engaged in apple fame He worked for years in the Philip­ local group, and has served as treasurer, growing in Limerick since 1927 and was pines and is a recognized authority on vice president, and president of the class previously employed on an apple ranch in Pacific plant life His positions of promi­ His professional career began with West­ the northwest. Earlier in his career he nence have included Dean of the College ern Electric Company in Chicago, in travelled as representative of Dana Estes of Agriculture, University of California, 1912 he came to Newark as chief engineer, & C o, book publishers. Leroy E Dow, Director of New York Botanical Garden, factory superintendent, and patent attor­ retired from active business, is living in and Director of the Arnold Arboretum, ney for Electric Co Since 1922 Portland, his native city. He worked as Harvard University. Dr Merrill writes he has devoted full time to patent work an engineer for Northeastern Telephone that plans for a preliminary international The secretary and treasurer of the class Co, then from 1905 to 1943 he held vari­ botanical congress in Europe this summer resides a little closer to home C Parker ous engineering positions up to the rank will probably prevent his attendance at Crowell is a leading architect of Bangor of associate engineer with the War De- the class reunion. where he has made his home for many Adelbert S Merrill, M.D , is another of years As University architects his firm, LEADERS: Among the members the quartet. Studying mechanical engi­ Crowell and Lancaster, have had much of ’98 who have become leaders in various fields are the following, neering at Maine, he later switched to responsibility in the design of University left to right: Gen. Dana T. Merrill, medical work and received his M.D. de­ buildings during recent years While in U. S. Army, Retired; Dr. Elmer D. gree from Tufts in 1908. For several college he, too, was in engineering, in Merrill, Botanist; Dr. Ray H. Man- years he served as physician with the 1902 he opened his office in Bangor son, President of Stromberg-Carl- son Co.; Dr. Ray P. Stevens, utility Isthmian Canal Commission in the Canal to practice architecture Previously he executive and engineer. Zone, then became X-ray assistant at YEARS OF ’98 the General Hospital, Boston. In 1924 Mr. Stevens as president of the company inent as an undergraduate, in football, he was appointed roentgenologist at Elliott now called Commonwealth and Southern. track, and as president of the class, treas­ Hospital, Manchester, N. H., where he As an undergraduate, Stevens was ac­ urer and president of the athletic associa­ has remained ever since, making his home tive in athletics, serving as manager of tion. He worked several years for the in that city. baseball and later captain and also held Bath Iron Works, then as superintendent One of the most distant members of the the coveted post of scorer. He also was a of the White Mt. Freezer Co. of Nashua. class in the east is Harrison P. Merrill prominent member of the Cadets and Phi From 1918 to 1946 he was treasurer and of Pensacola, Florida. Class president Gamma Delta. manager of Nashua Co-op. Iron Foundry one year and member of athletic teams, Mr. Stevens resides in New York City Co. New England claims another class particularly track, he was an electrical with a summer home in Maine and spends member in Alfred A. Starbird, Pharmacy engineer and followed his profession after his winters in Hobe Sound, Florida graduate, of Underhill, Vermont. Mr. graduation mostly with the U. S. Engi­ Starbird served as a regular Army officer neers where he advanced to the rank of Massachusetts Men from 1898 to 1930. civil engineer before his retirement in Ray H Manson is the other member of 1933. He, too, is a veteran of the Spanish- Two of the class have written from the class to be honored by Maine with the American War, serving with the Signal Massachusetts. Edward H. Davis makes degree of Doctor of Engineering. With Corps in Cuba. Since retirement he has his home in Salem and William R. Files more than 110 inventions in the communi­ made his home in Pensacola where he has in Rehoboth Both were trained in engi­ cations field to his credit, he is considered served eight years on the city council and neering. Mr. Files has been president of one of the nation’s leading authorities in two years as temporary mayor. the Dexter Engineering Company and communications science and engineering. Two members of the Class of 1898 have owner of Files Engineering Co. Since In 1945 Dr. Manson was elevated to the been awarded honorary degrees by their 1938 he has been engaged in industrial presidency of the Stromberg-Carlson alma mater. In 1931 Ray P. Stevens was and professional engineering work Company, the first scientist-engineer to honored with the degree of Doctor of Nearby in Ansonia, Conn., John W. hold the office of this long established com­ Engineering Mr. Stevens has long been Dearborn makes his home. He, too, has pany. recognized as one of the outstanding been in engineering He served as vice Mr Manson, who as a student worked engineering and public utility executives president of the class and member of the on the installation of the first electric of the country. A partner of Stevens and athletic committee. He had in the class of plant at the University as well as numer­ Wood, engineers of New York, he is also 1941 a son, John B Dearborn In Nashua, ous other jobs, found time to be active chairman of the Boards of Sioux City N H , Walter L. Ellis, retired from busi­ in the Photography Club and to serve as Gas and Electric Company, Iowa Public ness, makes his home. He, too, was prom­ the Prism artist. He still pursues photog­ Service Company and the American Rail­ raphy as a hobby at his home in Roches­ ways Corporation. ter. Mr. Manson is a member of Phi It was Mr Stevens who brought the The Class of 1898 in the days of Kappa Sigma. its glory boasted these men and Wilfred R. Tolman of Madison Col- late Wendell Wilkie to New York to be women members. Identification his Office Counsel Mr. Wilkie succeeded will be appreciated. (Continued on Page 15)

/ Maine Represented Civil Engineer In Munich Exhibit

The Civil Engineering faculty of the delphia. His first assignment with United By Bryce V. Lambert Maine State College consisted of George took him to Mexico for bridge designs for Mexican National Railways into The University of Maine is one of two H. Hamlin, Nathan C. Grover, Harold American universities represented at a S. Boardman, and Charles P Weston in Yucatan Mr. Belcher is a member of Beta Theta joint American-German press exhibition 1899 when Wallace E. Belcher received in Munich from April 24 until May 31. with some seven others the degree of Pi fraternity, Tau Beta Pi, and the American Society of Civil Engineers. He This exhibition, sponsored by the Office Bachelor of Civil Engineering. Since of Military Government for Bavaria and that June day, nearly fifty years ago, is ex-president of both Chicago and Phila­ delphia Maine alumni associations. the Bavarian Newspaper Publishers, is Mr. Belcher has followed his profession designed to give the German people a through city and country, desert, moun­ His profession during nearly fifty years has taken him to many places; his success better understanding of the workings of tain, and plain, into the pages of Who's the free press in the United States Who in America (since 1931), member­ has been earned by hard work and en­ The Maine exhibition consists of six ship in numerous professional societies, thusiasm He has proved that Civil panels, each 28 inches by 48 inches, illus­ and an outstanding reputation in indus­ Engineering can still be an interesting trating the theme of “The University and trial construction adventure. the Press ” Cooperating with journalism He began unspectacularly enough with students to plan and prepare the panels a job on the Washington County Rail­ were the department of art, which aided road survey from Franklin Junction to Acknowledgments in the layout work, and the department Cherryfield, Maine; the reward for his of modern languages, which provided Ger­ services was $40 per month. The Alumni office has recently Several years following graduation were received many fine items of histori­ man translations of explanatory texts. spent with American Bridge Company in cal interest to the alumni. With Photographic and printed materials are Pennsylvania and Connecticut, then Mr adequate space for exhibition in combined to produce striking effects show­ Belcher, rapidly becoming recognized in the new Library now available, ing the importance of publications to the his chosen profession, entered the con­ Alumni are urged to consider mak­ university. Attention is given to the uni­ sulting engineering field, first with the ing similar gifts to the University versity’s agricultural and technical publi­ Chicago firm of H M Byllesby and Co, There are many gaps in the his­ cations, the annual bulletin, the student then with Stone & Webster of Boston as torical collections and as the years newspaper, the yearbook, the program a structural designer roll on these collections become in­ of instruction in journalism, and to the During World War I Engineer Belcher creasingly important. part played by student reporters in cover­ designed the “knocked-down” type of A valuable addition to the records ing campus news for numerous Maine warehouse used by the Ordnance Depart­ of World War I has been con­ newspapers ment of our Army and went to France to tributed by Everett T Nealey ’18. Nameplates of Maine daily and weekly supervise construction work After the This gift includes SOIXANTE newspapers form the background of one war he joined the Dwight P. Robinson TROIS, Vol 1, Nos. 1-8, the first panel, with a map of the state of Maine company in New York and had the ex­ American newspaper printed at the superimposed. Blue dots on the map perience of serving as supervising engi­ Front and was published by Section indicate the location of Maine’s 10 daily neer in 1927 and 1928 on design and con­ 63 of the American Volunteer Red papers, and red dots show where the 58 struction of the modern North Station in Cross Motor Ambulance Corps, weekly and semiweekly papers are pub­ Boston developed as a modern railroad with the French Army, Second lished terminal on the ground floor with a sports Army Corps Only fifty copies of A part of the display is devoted to the arena for 18,000 persons above—the fa­ each edition were printed and it is work being carried on by the U. of M. miliar Boston Garden thought that this set is one of the Press Club to publicize the need for The depression found him in the few, if not the only set, in existence CARE packages for newspapermen in Mojave Desert, Trona, California, de­ The Library of Congress has ac­ Germany The Press Club has carried signing a chemical plant for extracting cepted photostats of the edition out an intensive publicity drive to en­ potash and borax from salt beds there from the University courage newspapermen and those inter­ This location gave him opportunity to be­ From Lewis O Barrows ’16 ested in journalism to help provide food come acquainted with such landmarks as came the original sketch of the cut and clothing for working newspapermen Mount Whitney, Death Valley, Hoover which appeared in connection with in Germany. Dam, Los Angeles, Hollywood, Sequoia the All Time All Maine Team in Park, and Yosemite Although most of the exhibits at the the March Alumnus. The company was later merged with Munich show were prepared by news­ Track medals, programs, M United Engineers and Constructors, the papers, press associations, professional sweaters and other prized posses­ present organization with which Mr organizations, and manufacturers of print­ sions have been sent by Philip H. Belcher is structural engineer in Phila­ ing and publishing equipment, the Uni- * Harris ’03 This collection will be versity of Maine Press Club and Columbia placed in the Pierce Trophy Room University’s Graduate School of Journal­ in Alumni Gym, as will the gift of ism were invited to make contributions. Mr. Barrows. Col. B. B. McMahon, deputy chief in Lawrence E Philbrook '16 has the Orientation Branch of the Civil given some group pictures as well Affairs Branch, Department of the Army, as issues of old student publications. reported that the panels arrived safely in Munich, where they were flown from New York Photographs and news releases ENGINEER: W. E. Belcher ’99 is from Germany relating to the display will structural engineer with United Engineers & Constructors, Phila­ be sent to the University, according to delphia. Col. McMahon. ALUMNAE HONORED

Alumnae of Penobscot County are the first in the State of Maine to put their name in the Honor Roll and the first alumnae group to achieve the distinction of exceeding their quota. With 307 sub­ scriptions totalling $16,363 they have ex­ ceeded the goal by $63. It is expected additional subscriptions will be received. Under the inspiring and persistent lead­ ership of chairman Rena C. Bowles ’21, the women have worked with rare deter­ mination to measure up to their allotment in the campaign. Although the quota looked hopelessly large, by careful plan­ ning, through follow-up and marked per­ sistence they signed up 47% of the 656 alumnae in the County. Particularly com­ mendable was the generous response in Bangor and immediate vicinity. The climax to the local campaign ac­ tivity came in the form of a big card party sponsored by the Eastern Maine Club of University of Maine Alumnae in Bangor High School, of which Miss Mary Quinn ’30 is president. This large party netted $175. Scores of alumnae and SUCCESS: Alumnae of Penobscot Union Building County recorded success in their friends made gifts which were responsible Fund Union Building efforts when they for such a handsome return. It was this Honor Roll surpassed their quota last month. card party which put Penobscot Alumnae Rena C. Bowles ’21, center, area Rhode Island— “over the ton.” chairman, and Mary Quinn ’30, Alfred B Lingley 103% association president, present Dr. Canada— Hauck with tangible evidence of Total Now $610,069 their successful leadership, a check Manley W. Davis 101% for over $16,000. Penobscot Alumnae— At mid-April 8,693 alumni, students, Mrs. Rena C. Bowl es 100% faculty, and friends had subscribed five subscribed $520, and the sixth indi­ $610,069 thus edging closer to the $900,000 cated a willingness to subscribe later. campaign goal. In the alumni campaign From far off Hawaii an has come one of He called upon them all personally. The 4,401 subscriptions amounting to $431,907 the most inspiring returns It is a con­ suggested quota of $500 was one of the highest per person of the entire campaign. have been received. This is an average spicuous example of what leadership and This achievement is further evidence of of $98 14 each Thirty-four per cent of pride can and will accomplish To W ar­ what can be done the alumni have subscribed to date With ren W Flagg ’35 of Hilo goes the credit the reactivation of the campaign it is cer­ for having single-handedly delivered the Although a few scattering returns are tain that hundreds more alumni will sub­ results attained Of six general campaign yet to be received on the 1948 Orono scribe. alumni residing on three of the islands, Campus Student Campaign, the latest summary show's 639 subscriptions total­ ing $16,278. Nearly 80 per cent of the freshmen subscribed in that campaign. Leading Ten Areas The grand total subscribed by students With Highest Per Cent of Quota Subscribed to date is $131,827 by 4,029 subscribers. The Student Senate on the Brunswick P er Cent of Campus has voted to sponsor a campaign Area C hairman A mount Quota Subscribed which will be conducted during the week of May 17. Burton DeFrees, president of Rhode Island Alfred B Lingley ’20 $14,560 103 the Senate, is to be campaign chairman. Manley W. Davis ’19 3,535 101 Canada At a recent meeting of the Union Build­ Rena C. Bowl es ’21 16,363 100 Penobscot Alumnae * ing Fund Executive Committee it was vot­ R Warren Graffam ’23 5,650 90 West Pennsylvania ed to establish an intermediate goal re­ 7,868 84 Maryland William H. Doane ’33 questing each area chairman and workers Lehigh Valley, Pa Arthur C. Wescott ’99 2,050 82 to attain the suggested goal by June 10. Piscataquis Co. (Me.) Lewis Roberts ’30 8,437 80 The attainment of these Commencement Northern N. H. Myles Standish ’26 1,955 72 goals will lift the campaign total to well Rochester, N. Y. George D. H ill ’35 3,275 67 over $700,000 The area quotas remain Southern N. H. Everett E. F Libby ’18 8,593 61 as originally established—and are the A. Russell Coggins ’29 ultimate goals which the areas will seek to achieve.

APRIL, 1948 THE MAINE ALUMNUS 9 ant Hopkins ’17 of Waterville, director Banker. . . of the Kennebec River water storage, was “From farmer to banker” was the cap­ elected secretary-treasurer. Two direc­ tion on the news story recently announc­ tors, also Maine graduates, were elected, ing acceptance of a position in the Farm Willard J. Strout ’29, of Houlton, chief Loan Department of the First National engineer of the Bangor and Aroostook Bank of Lewiston by Howard Knight ’34. Railroad, and Paul E. Atwood ’26 of Following his study in agricultural eco­ Brewer, architect for Prentiss and Car­ nomics at the University Mr. Knight en­ lisle. tered the employ first of the Farm Securi­ ty Administration and later engaged in insurance work Then he returned to the Executive ... The San Francisco office of Young and home farm in Richmond which he pur­ Rubicam, national advertising agency, will chased from his father and for eight years be the newest scene of the professional operated a successful general farm His activities included a dairy herd, about a efforts of Ed Merrill ’29 who has since thousand poultry, 15 acres of sweet corn, 1947 been an executive of the company’s and general garden crops While operat­ Hollywood Radio Department. Mr. Mer­ ing the Richmond farm he was a member rill, a native of Old Town, has been of the Twin County Farm Bureau execu­ associated with Young and Rubicam since tive committee for six years and a com­ 1931 except for three years spent with the munity committeeman on soil conserva­ Armed Forces Radio Service during tion. Mr. Knight’s new responsibilities World War II. He was Account Ex­ will bring him in direct contact with farm­ ecutive on General Foods and Lever ers and farm problems where his ex­ Brothers Swan Soap in the New York perience and training will be of the ut­ Office before his assignment to Holly­ most value The activity of the Farm wood. While at the University where he Loan Department of the Lewiston bank majored in economics he was a member is to be expanded in the near future of Sigma Chi and Phi Beta Kappa. He taught school in Maine a short time be­ fore becoming associated with the ad­ Appointed ... vertising agency. Former Oxford County Agricultural agent Herbert A. Leonard ’39 of South Pans has been appointed District Agent Commander Roger D. Hutchins ’36 Conservationist. .. in Dairying with headquarters in Orono. The State Department of Sea and Shore During a five-month leave of absence of Commander . . . Fisheries has assigned Frederick Baird Dairy Specialist Ralph A Corbett ’30, Returning to naval service, Commander ’47 of Bangor, graduate of the Wildlife agent Leonard is working with the Maine Roger D Hutchins ’36 has been assigned Conservation Department, to conduct a Dairy Herd Improvement Association and to the Eighth Naval District as naval biological survey of the smelt fishing Maine Cooperative Breeding units Leon- aviator in line with a program to assign industry in Maine. The greatly increased aid was graduated from Maine in Dairy such an officer to each of the country’s interest in smelt fishing both commercially Technology and entered the Agricultural Naval Districts to work with the Avia­ and for sport has indicated the need of Extension Service shortly after his grad­ tion Volunteer Reserve The Eighth Dis­ determining more about the Atlantic uation as Cumberland County 4-H club trict to which Commander Hutchins is smelt of which little is known The de­ agent In 1942 he was named as assistant assigned includes the states of Texas, partment indicates that the number of county agent for Penobscot County and Oklahoma, Arkansas, Alabama, Tennes­ fishermen on the smelt rivers and inlets in 1943 took over the work in Oxford see, Mississippi, Louisiana, and part of of Maine has doubled since the war County where he has been for the last Florida Duties include establishing con­ Baird will study the various methods of five years except for a period of war ser­ tact with aviation reservists to foster taking the popular fish and whether vice their interest in the Navy He will also existing methods are harmful to the in­ advise the Commandant of the district in dustry The feeding and schooling habits Promoted . . . naval aviation matters and work on of the fish are under study and particular­ Carl A Whitman ’35, insurance execu­ reserve records Commander Hutchins ly the life history, range, and feeding- tive, has recently been promoted to the writes that the program involves con­ habits. It is hoped also that means may position of superintendent of the sales- siderable travel The basic purpose of be found to expand the fishing in streams group department of State Mutual Life the aviation assignment, according to an where obstructions keep the smelt from Insurance Co of Worcester, Mass article in Aviation N ews, is to plan not spawning Baird is a veteran of World Formerly group department home office only for today’s operations but for to­ War II, serving as a first lieutenant in representative for the New England area morrow’s requirements and to supply re­ the Marine Corps on overseas duties. He in Boston, Mr Whitman will now join serve strength in case of need was graduated from the University in the staff of the home office at Worcester February, 1947. He was formerly associated with Travel­ Officers . . . ers Insurance Co of Hartford, Conn, fol­ An all-University slate of officers was Egg Men . . . lowing his graduation from Maine, serv­ named to head the Maine Association of Delivery of Maine eggs to southern ing in the group department For several Engineers during the annual meeting of hatcheries in Delaware, Maryland, and years he served in Kansas City and that group recently New president of the Virginia in the middle of winter is the Chicago In 1942 he enlisted in the Navy group is William B Getchell, Jr ’26 of kind of a problem that Donald Corbett and was promoted to the rank of Lieu­ Kennebunk, executive director of the ’34 and his brother Robert ’37 of Win­ tenant Commander during the war He Maine Turnpike Authority. Vice presi­ slow have found means to solve. Over joined the staff of State Mutual in 1946. dent is Prof Harry D. Watson T8 of 600 cases of eggs a week are collected His newest promotion makes him a de­ Orono, head of the Department of Me­ from Maine farms, including the produc­ partment officer of the company chanical Engineering. State senator Bry­ tion of the 4,500 hens on the Corbett

THE MAINE ALUMNUS 10 APRIL, 1948 farm, are collected in special, tempera­ ture-controlled trucks. Then twice a week the eggs, 550 cases at a time, are trucked over the highways to their des­ A lumni tinations, arriving about 24 hours later. The Maine eggs, hatched there in incu­ bators, have proven about 80% fertile after their long trip and eventually be­ come broilers for the city market. Farm­ served as an intern in Framingham, Mass., Botanist... er Don Corbett, formerly with the Bu­ Reformatory and Norwich State Hospi­ Dr. John A. Small ’24, associate profes­ tal. For three years she was psychologist reau of Animal Husbandry of the Maine sor of botany at New Jersey College for for the public schools of Rockland Coun­ State Department of Agriculture, re­ Women, Rutgers University, has been ty, New York. signed his office in 1944 to devote full elected president of the Torrey Botanical Club, New York City, for 1948, it has time to the large farm he and his brother Man of the Year ... operate. Besides their large flock of been announced. The Hilo, Hawaii, Junior Chamber of hens, they have a Holstein herd of 100 The Torrey Botanical Club, oldest such Commerce awarded their Distinguished head and conduct a large-scale general group in the United States, was named Service Key recently to Warren W. farming operation. According to the in honor of John Torrey, former Colum­ Flagg ’35 who was named Outstanding newspaper story on their work. “The bia University scientist and professor. Young Man of the Year of Hawaii. War­ conduct of the Corbett farm ... indicates The organization’s membership includes ren Flagg is manager on the island of professional botanists and persons from a few things that can be done on a Maine Maui for the von Hamm Young Co., Ltd. farm and under men trained in Agricul­ other fields who are interested in botani­ The award was made for his services to cal study. ture who like to keen their work on a the community; he was selected from five standard business basis.” candidates by a community committee. Rebuilder . .. His activities to Hilo have included ser­ Gilbert E. Weeks ’31, Western Elec­ Purchaser . . . vice as public relations officer for the tric engineer, has been busily engaged in Assistant Purchasing Agent for the Hawaii National Guard; membership in trying to rebuild and at the same time State of Maine is the new title of John R. the Big Island Rent Control Commission; improve the war-wrecked telephone sys­ Dyer ’41 of Augusta who was named to warden of the Masonic lodge; chairman tem in Tokyo according to an article in the post last month from a position as a of the H awaii March of Dimes campaign; a company magazine. Leaving in Sep­ consultant in the Maine Bureau of Taxa­ past president and a director of the Junior tember on a leave of absence from the tion. Mr. Dyer, a World W ar II naval Chamber of Commerce, and vice presi­ Western Electric Company, Mr. Weeks veteran, is a member of Alpha Tau dent of the Territorial Junior Chamber of joined General MacArthur’s staff in a Omega fraternity and the Grange He Commerce. Since leaving Maine Mr civilian capacity for a year to help other was graduated in mechanical engineer­ Flagg served five years in the finance telephone experts to “survey manufac­ ing in 1941 and entered the employ of department of the U. S Army, then be­ turers of wire equipment, determine pro­ Ebasco Services in New York City, came a salesman for the von Hamm duction capacities of plants, review pro­ leaving to enter the Navy. He served as Young Company Later he sold for a posed production schedules, and help in­ Lieutenant (j g ), being stationed at Cali­ time for Coca Cola Bottling Co., Hilo, sure compliance with these schedules.” fornia Institute of Technology for twenty then in 1945 returned as assistant manager Mr Weeks, a graduate in electrical engi­ months on design and production of Navy of the von Hamm Young Co on Hilo. Be­ neering at Maine, holds the degree of rockets and later serving as housing sides his many community activities, Mr. M S. from Stevens Institute, received in officer at Inyokern, Cal. Flagg has found time to do a successful 1933. Selection of the new assistant purchas­ job as Hawaiian chairman for the Union ing agent was made from a list of three Building Fund Campaign, exceeding the Director . . . The president of Sierra Pacific Power applicants submitted by the State Per­ quota assigned to his area sonnel Board as the highest candidates in Co, Reno, Nev., Mr. Frank A Tracy ’19, a recent examination given for the post has been elected a director of the First National Bank of Nevada. Mr. Tracy is an active leader in the business and Psychologist . . . civic affairs of Reno where he has made Miss Barbara F Whittredge '39 has his home for the past seven years. He been transferred to Marcy State Hos­ is a director of the chamber of commerce, pital, Marcy, N. Y, as psychologist from of the Y.M.C.A., and of the Pacific Coast a previous position of the same nature Electrical Association. He is a past presi­ at Letchworth Village, Thiels, N. Y, dent of the Rotary Club and a commis­ according to a newspaper report just re­ sioner of the housing authority Following ceived at the Alumni Office Miss Whitt- his graduation from the University of redge is also teaching courses in psy­ Maine in 1919 with a degree in Electrical chology at Syracuse University in intern Engineering, he was employed by Stone training for psychologists and will receive and Webster Later he worked in Puerto her Ph.D. there soon. Besides these Rico in electrical distribution and then be­ duties she also serves as supervisor of came chief engineer and assistant to the intern training in central New York state president of Blackstone Valley Gas and institutions under the state psychological Electric Co., Pawtucket, R. I. From 1934 intern training program. Following her to 1936 he served as an analyst for the major in psychology at the University of government in Washington. Mr. Tracy Maine, Miss Whittredge attended Yale entered the employ of the Sierra Pacific graduate school for a year’s work in Co. in 1940 as assistant manager and since child psychology and Ohio State Uni­ July, 1942, has served as president and versity where she received her M.A. de­ director of the company. gree in clinical psychology. She then Warren W. Flagg ’35 APRIL, 1948 1 1 THE MAINE ALUMNUS Phi Beta Kappa Leads Alumni Prominent Scholarship List

Two University of Maine men have mended for the many fine reforms he in­ The University average of 2.39 shows played important roles in the dramatic troduced in the police court. a slight improvement over last spring’s coal strike called by U.M.W leaders. Dis­ In 1940 he was confirmed for a four average, and equals the average for the trict Judge Edward M Curran ’25 and year term as U S Attorney for the corresponding semester last year. Senator Styles Bridges ’18 are these key District of Columbia and subsequently for The complete list is as follows: men. a second term in 1944 Again the young­ Phi Beta Kappa, 3 91; Omicron Nu, It was before Judge Curran that John est man to be appointed, he was sworn in 3.80, Phi Kappa Phi, 3.58; Neai Mathetai, L. Lewis had to appear in answer to a November, 1946, as associate justice of 3 56, Alpha Zeta, 3.33, Kappa Delta Pi, summons commanding him to appear in the District Court, District of Columbia 322; Tau Beta Pi, 3 19; All Maine court and explain why he should not Characterized as a legal progressive, Women, 3.12, Prism Board, 3.12; Tau give a Presidential board the miners’ side he has continually striven for decent Epsilon Phi, 2.94; Alpha Omicron Pi, of the pension dispute prisons and scientific methods substituted 2 92, Xi Sigma Pi, 2.88; Phi Mu, 2 76; Senator Styles Bridges was selected as for coroners’ juries among the other im­ Senior Skull Society, 2.756; Average of the public trustee in the crippling dispute. provements he has espoused. Sorority Women, 2.75; Delta Delta Delta, It was but a matter of hours after Holder of the degree of Doctor of 2 73; Delta Zeta, 2.72; Chi Omega, 2.69; Bridges’ selection when miners began to Judicial Law from Georgetown Universi­ Delta Tau Delta, 2 65; Phi Beta Phi, pour back to the coal fields to bring a ty, he is professor of Criminal Law there. 2 644; The Maine Campus, 2.641. virtual end to the month old strike which He has also served as debating instructor Sophomore Eagles, 2 58; Ave. of All threatened to cripple the nation’s trans­ at Temple College. Women, 2.56; Maine Masque, 2.52; Aver­ portation and industry At the University he was a roommate age of Non-Sorority Women, 2.49; Phi Judge Curran has had a brilliant legal of Rudy Vallee. He is married, has three Kappa Sigma, 2 46; Phi Eta Kappa, 2.44; career At Maine he was president of the children and resides in Chevy Chase. Phi Gamma Delta, 2 43; Sigma Nu, 2 42; Debating Society and the Newman Club, Styles Bridges also has been the Average of Fraternity Men, 2.41; Aver­ vice president of Delta Sigma Mu, mana­ “youngest” in many instances, most no­ age of University, 2.39; Alpha Tau Ome­ ger and reader of the Musical Club, a table of which was his election in 1934 as ga, 2 388; Beta Theta Pi, 2 37; Phi Mu member of the track squad, active in New Hampshire’s youngest governor So Delta, 2.36; Sigma Alpha Epsilon, 2.353; ROTC and a member of Phi Kappa He successful was his administration of this Average of All Men, 2.351 (Orono Cam­ also won the 1924 New' York Alumni De­ important post that he was elected to the pus) ; Kappa Sigma, 2 35; Average of bating Prize After graduating he at­ United States Senate after only one term Non-Fraternity men, 2.33; Average of tended Catholic University and received as governor His election was more re­ his law degree from that institution in Freshman Women, 2.325; Scabbard and markable for he defeated a man who had Blade, 2 32; Alpha Gamma Rho, 2.318; 1927 been senator for eighteen years In 1936 Judge Curran was appointed a Lambda Chi Alpha, 2.31; Theta Chi, 2.25; A recent Chicago newspaper feature Sophomore Owls, 2 245 ; Sigma Chi, 2 23; judge in the police court of the District story called him a “Champion of Econo­ of Columbia He was the youngest per­ Average of Freshman Men, 2 20; Average my ” He has consistently fought for of Freshman Men at Brunswick, 1.98. son to ever receive such an appointment economy and against governmental ex­ Previous to this appointment he had travagance. And well he might, for he served as assistant to the Corporation learned the value of money during his A candidate for the Republican presi­ Counsel of the District of Columbia days at Maine where he earned his college dential candidate in 1940, he is again The U S Junior Chamber of Com­ expenses working in the dairy barns, prominently mentioned as a dark-horse merce selected Curran as “the young man arising at 4 a m. each day He received this year. Known as one of the most who contributed most to the civic life of fifteen cents an hour except his senior influential and widely respected members Washington” in 1937 He has been com- year he was raised to twenty cents of the Senate, he is chairman of the powerful Appropriations Committee as well as a member of the Armed Services Committee. In 1935 he received an M.A degree from Dartmouth and LL D. degrees from his alma mater and the University of New Hampshire and from Northeastern in 1938. He is vice president and trustee of the New Hampshire Savings Bank and an officer in several other organizations. He is married and has three children

1908 Reunion

The class of 1908 will celebrate its 40th anniversary this year on June 19 and 20 according to an announcement by Raymond Fellows, president, and James A. Gannett, secretary. Class letters with details of the reunion plans will be mailed shortly. * , Senator Styles Bridges ’18 Judge Edward Curran ’25

THE MAINE ALUMNUS 1 2 APRIL, I948 Students— The University Dean’s List of honor students from the fall semester carried a total of 843 students, 747 of them on the Orono campus, 96 at the Brunswick campus. A total of 523 of the Orono students and 50 from Brunswick were veterans of World War II, nearly 70% New— of the entire list. Nineteen students were Maine Day— listed as receiving all A grades The new look was in evidence not only “The Day” for University faculty and in dress but in furnishings and foods at students—Maine Day—is scheduled for Enrollment— a Merrill Hall Open House conducted by early May with a program of work proj­ The Spring semester enrollment at the the Home Economics Department re­ ects, sports, and entertainment following University totals 4,402 men and women cently. Modeling clothes they themselves traditional lines of recent years. Chair­ according to announcement from James A. had made, Home Ec students showed the man of the Maine Day Committee is Gannett ’08, Registrar. Of these 3,656 public what could be done by a girl, a senior Willard Moulton of Sebago Lake, are studying at Orono, 746 at the Bruns­ needle, and an idea Featured on the who will have over-all supervision of the wick Campus. About 67 per cent of the show were children’s clothes by six many sub-committees involved in work­ Orono students are veterans. Of the 2,466 youngsters. Modern home furnishings, ing out the details of the program. During ex-servicemen registered at Orono, 784 table settings, nutritious foods all came the morning work projects for both stu­ are married. The Spring enrollment by in for a share of the attention. The dents and faculty will give the campus classes is as follows: graduate students Merrill Hall Nursery School for pre­ grounds the “new look” and accomplish 90, seniors 511, juniors 908, sophomores school children was also on display con­ numerous needed improvements. The 1,499, freshmen 361, specials 29, two- ducting its regular scheduled program. afternoon will feature a baseball game year agricultural students 47, transfers and in the evening student and faculty and others 211, Brunswick campus (fresh­ Benefit— skits will be offered for the enjoyment of all The date of May 12 has been selected men) 746. For the benefit of a fund to purchase uniforms for the University Band, a for the program, weather permitting. Square— special band concert was presented on As a professional “caller" since boy­ campus last month Features of the con­ Art— hood Bob Brundage, a graduate student cert were a trumpet solo by Evan John­ An exhibition of 20 watercolors by from Danbury, Conn, is something of an son of Portland and a trombone solo by Prof Vincent Hartgen, head of the Uni­ authority on square dances. Currently Robert W. Smith of Lewiston. The band versity’s Art Department, has been on he conducts weekly square dancing classes rendered numerous marches, popular, and display in the Louis Oakes Room of the Library during recent weeks. Prof. Hart­ in Bangor and has been leading such semi-classical numbers during the pro­ gen is receiving wide acclaim for his im­ groups as a caller since his boyhood days gram A dance followed the musical part pressions of Maine scenery. The exhibi­ in Connecticut when his family under of the entertainment. Seventy students, tion was made available here after the 4-H Club sponsorship helped organize members of the band, took part. Intensive pictures had been on a six-month tour an orchestra for local dances. The family effort is being made by the varsity band through eastern colleges. The paintings is still carrying on the tradition and when to finance new uniforms for next fall. A displayed colorful impressions of the Brundage is home on vacation he fills in committee of alumni, faculty, and students changing landscape of Maine with em­ on banjo or drums. A firm believer in has been appointed by President Hauck to consider the question Creation of a phasis on coastal features. All are land­ the social and recreational benefits of varsity band separate from the R.O.T.C. scapes of varying seasonal conditions and square dancing, Bob believes it is a coming which for many years fulfilled the need, lighting and color effects. All are done thing especially in small communities. has brought the consideration of uniforms in bold, strong colors with emphasis on He has conducted square dancing classes the total mass impression in Bangor for two years, done occasional to the fore calling for church groups in the vicinity, and works at a few informal gatherings at the University.

Science— The chemistry department under the direction of Dr. Irwin B. Douglass held an open house program for science stu­ dents of Maine high schools recently The program offered opportunity for visiting students to go on a tour of the classrooms and laboratories of the department and to hear lectures and watch demonstrations in the chemical field.

OFFICIALS: Members of the offi­ cials group of the Women’s Ath­ letic Association who will take na­ tional exams for basketball offici­ ating are: seated, Norma Hatch, Belfast; Mary Littlefield, Calais; Morna Kimball, Hampden High­ lands; Betty Friedler, Lewiston; Joyce Chipman, Poland Spring; standing, Caroline Strong, Augus­ ta; Florence Greenleaf, Norway; Mary Zclenkewich, Winslow. APRIL, 1948 13 THE MAINE ALUMNUS Where, Oh, Where? OTHER COLLEGES Clinton D. Wallace, Cecil A. Ware, The alumni listed below are “lost” in Mrs Warren Wardie (Angela B. Fos- the alumni directory file. A new directory sett), Harold F. Waterman, Frederick is to be published soon and we would like D. Webb, Mrs Hugh P. Wise (Clara B. Bates College has reached a decision to to have addresses for these persons. Whalen) go ahead with construction of a large ad­ Won’t you please drop a line to the dition to its Library. A drive among Mrs John Adkins (Katherine O. Jack- alumni and friends of Bates for $450,000 Alumni office giving the last known ad­ son), Beatrice A. Brown, David M. dress of any of your acquaintances Clarke, Clement D. Dolan, Francis J. was successfully completed in January. Donovan, Charles L. Dunn, George W. A new Men’s Commons will also be con­ 1893 Fowler, Gerald O. Frost, John R. Geh- structed from these funds but will not be William C. Hammatt ring, Charles S. Haselton, Lawrence A. undertaken immediately. 1894 Hawkins, Sophia E. Marks It is expected that the addition to the George P. Cowan Clifton M. Percival, Willard J. Perry, 1895 Erwin W Pillsbury, Florence H. Silver- Library will be completed at the beginning man, Richard H Stone, Mrs. Woodrow of next year’s second semester with part Mrs. A. B. Aubert (Lena M Sheridan) Tiller (Clara P Richardson), Moses B. 1896 Wadleigh, Benjamin H. Weathern of it in use at the College opening in the Charles N. Buffum, John L. Lee, Daniel 1932 fall. J. McLeod, William C. Robinson Russell A. Baker, Dr. Kenneth A 1898 Barker, Merton E. Berry, Clarence E. Dartmouth College has raised $1,500,000 Edward Coney, Charles T. Eldridge, Biggar, William W Brown, Jr., Chester of the $4,000,000 goal for the proposed Frederick W. Hopkins, Bertrand R. W. Burris, Charles W Dockham, Frank Johnson, Albert F Warner, Mortimer A. E Evans, Henrietta E. Findlen, Morton Hopkins Center. Among other facilities Webber, Warner E. Welch H Flaherty, Herbert G. Follett in the Center will be an assembly hall 1912 Frederick W. Gradie, William Green- large enough to seat the entire student Charles A. Batty, Franklin L Darrell, man, Lawrence S. Hesse, Norman J. Charles W Dow, Harold C Faulkner, Holly, Nathaniel H. Howe, Harry E. body. George F. Greeley, Arthur A Hammond, James, Mrs. Eleanor Kittredge (Eleanor William E Hebard, Fred C Johnson Stratton), William B Knight, Newell B Yale has announced a plan whereby stu­ William Osborne, J r, Robert C. H Kurson, John M. Lane, Florence M. dents are going to take out twenty-five Reid, Hale F. Sawtelle, Dana P. Wash­ Lewis, Clayton R Lothrop burn, Walter S Whitney Alexander M. Martin, Joseph P. Mc­ year endowment policies on their lives 1913 Carthy, Donald M. McCormick, George naming their class as beneficiary. When Bernard A. Ahrens, Burleigh A An- A Partridge, Lawrence C. Randall, Mrs the class holds its 25th reunion, the total nable, Zaheeyeh N. Baraket, Bentley L. David G Randles (Margaret C. Chur­ amount of the matured policies will be Barbour, John W Barford, Albert R chill), Collie Recchiutti, Mrs. Willis C. Burpee, Yih Cuing Chien, Max V. Doten, Tozier (Margaret L Raynes), William turned over to the University. Fred G Goodwin, Frank A Hayes W Weiner, Philip A Weymouth, David Recent classes at Maine have followed Stephen B Hurd, Carroll M Knight, A. Yates a similar policy in that they take out a 1933 Mrs E A. Lindquest (Mae E. Cross­ policy on the youngest classmate and pay man), Henry O. Pierce, Oscar S Smith, John C Belknap, Pauline B. Briggs, Everett A. Snow, Mrs. John L Sullivan Paul L Brown, Mrs Frederick M Bur­ for the premiums at graduation. The (Marion W Borden), Leon S Tuck gess (Alice N Trundy), Douglas T. matured policies will be given to the Uni­ Mrs Harry Withee (Florence I Mur- Chapman, Mrs Merton D Cleverland versity on the 25th reunion of the respec­ lay), Philip F. Woodman (Gertrude N Dorr), Mrs. Mildred Cook tive classes 1914 son (Mildred Brown), Emily M. DeWitt, Bagsar M Bagdoyan, Philip H Bean, Hyman W. Emple, Russell W Gamage Zu Chi Dage, Harold C Gerrish, Ralph Hairy A Hall, Jr, John C Harvell, Colby, though far from the ocean, has R Glass, Clarence T Hamill, George B Irving J. Hurry, Horton F Ide, Clifford formed a Yacht Club, and has become a Newman, William G Hodgkins, Linwood J Jackson, Russell I. Kendall, James H member of the Intercollegiate Yacht S Jones Kidder, Kenneth A Laughlin, Philip H Lyle L Patterson, Mrs Lyle L Patter­ Linn, Eloise C Lull, Raeburn V Martin, Racing Association. Six dinghies are to son (Amanda B Severance), Gerald A Ulysses T Michaud, Carl F Moore, be purchased as a beginning for this new Rounds. Israel Snow, Jr Lauris C Miller, Ruth M Nelson, Keith sport. 1915 Peaslee, Elbridge W Pedder Joseph E Brewster, Robert P Clark, Dr Michael F. Powers, George B Juan R De la Cruz, Henry W Fowler, Reed Mildred Reichley, Sherwin L Stan­ Voters of the town of Brunswick re­ Justin D Graves. Leslie A Hamel, Fred­ ley, Philip D Starbird, Melville M Stein, cently approved the relocation of Harps- erick B Hatch, Herbert M Heath, Percy Roy E Thompson, Mrs Charles T War­ well Street which now runs through the D McLaughlin, Mrs Ethel Page (Ethel ner (Emily C Rackliffe), Charles M. K Rhind). David W Parks Whelden, Enoch H Williamson, Edward Bowdoin campus. This change will make Walter H Rogers, Roger D Sleeper, H Wilson, Keith D. Wilson room for a new Chemistry building and Frederick M Thompson, Lewis B Tol- 1934 covered hockey rink which are two of the man, Roger J Wilson, Newell B. Wood­ bury Adelbert Aldrich, Alene M Archam- many projects for which Bowdoin is bault, Florence G. Briggs, Clayton F. currently raising over six million dollars 1923 Butcher, Merton E Cleveland, George E. Robert M Bailey, Elizabeth Berry, Colman, Lois R Crane, H arry A Crow­ Vernon E Blanchard, Guy F Carpenter, ley, Irvin R A Cummings, Mrs W. K Hopf Report Mrs Josenh T. Clement (Vilma L W al­ Eberbach (Rita E. Lancto), Wallace H. lace), .Abe Cohen George E W Cook, Harris, Norris W Hunter V report, the result of a survey of the Stuart S. Davis, William R Dow, Louis Andrew R Iverson, Mrs. Eleanor Jack- administration set-up of the University, J. Epstein, Raymond G Fogg son (Eleanor Smith), Lewis 0. Johnson, that may have far reaching effect on the Charles H. Frederic Harry T Gerrish, Leland R Libby, William F Maden, Mrs William T. Goft, Grace F Hillman, Virginia McEwen (Virginia Tuell), Mrs University has been submitted to the George A. Holt, Maurice D Jordan, Wil­ Mary P McGurn, Carl E. Megquier, Board of Trustees by Dr. Harry A. Hopf, liam H Jordan. Louis O Levine, Albert Evelyn D More, George W Morrill, Jr, president of H. A. Hopf & Co., manage­ C. Logan, Harold R MacLellan, George Edwin S Page, Mildred G. Paul, Robert ment engineers of Ossining, New York. W Mellon. Tames W Merrill A Pennell, Gerald E Perkins Charles C. Neavling, Cecilia M Nev- Tames J Pisco, Mrs. Peter D Regis While the report has not been made ens Bernard A. Newcomb William H (Eleanor F. Burnham), Ann Rosenstein, public it is expected that the Board of Nolan, John L. Norton, Edwin B Per- Herbert M Roylance, Arthur P Sher­ Trustees will study the report in the bam. Milton T Ricker Levi G Sirois, burne, Mrs. Charles Smith (Alicia M Frederick J Sullivan, Fred E Tiecartin! Tracy), Isaac D Sulkowitch, Kenneth E months to come with a view of making Harold E. Tucker Taylor, John W Tompkins desirable recommended changes

THE MAINE ALUMNUS 14 APRIL, 1948 The Golden Years of ’98 Clubs Active Coach Joe Zabilski (Continued from Page 7) Pack and Pine, Rock and Hammer, Goes To Northeastern lege, Tenn., another veteran of the Span­ Hedgehoppers are but a few of the eu­ ish-American War, has been associated phonious names selected for campus or- The resignation of Joe Zabilski, popular with education about 42 years. Much of ganizations. Koinonia and Ocummo are assistant coach, has been announced. Joe that time has been spent with the Rural two of the more musical names. Over has accepted Northeastern’s bid to be Educational Association helping train men sixty clubs encourage professional and head coach of football and basketball. and women for country school work. extra-curricular interests as well as pro­ Hailed in many quarters as one of the Fred William Sawtelle, civil engineer­ moting sociability and fellowship nation’s most promising coaches, Zabilski ing graduate, lives in Algoma, Wisconsin, has served as head line coach and coach Pack and Pine is the governing and where he is city engineer. Following his of basketball and track at Brunswick for executive council of the Outing Club. years at Maine Mr. Sawtelle attended two years. Rock and Hammer is a club for students Case School of Applied Science. His A former Boston College star where he interested in geology, while the Hedge­ professional career has included work played under Frank Leahy and was a hoppers are a group of students con­ with the Maine Central Railroad, and the member of two bowl teams, Joe came to cerned with model airplanes. Koinonia the University in 1946 after three and C.M.St.P. & P Railroad, and two years is a discussion group of the M.C.A. Off with the army. Later he was an engineer one-half years of Naval service. Campus University of Maine Men’s Or­ with the Wisconsin Highway Commission ganization, for the sake of brevity, is and then served as airport engineer with Everyone at the University of Maine called OCUMMO, an active and influen­ deeply regrets the loss of Joe Zabilski. He the state of Wisconsin. Since 1946 he has tial group. is an exceptionally able coach and a fine been city engineer for Algoma. gentleman. In two short seasons he im­ A very different profession is repre­ The Bridge Club and the Chess Club have devotees as do the Riding, the Fly­ pressed his personality indelibly upon sented by Clarence E. Watts of Windber, ing, and the Stamp Clubs. The Modern players, students, faculty, alumni, and Pa. He is associated with the mechanical Dance Club and the Tumbling Club are friends of the University. and electrical department of the Berwind- two organizations which attract students Joe will go far in the coaching profes­ White Coal Mining Co. of Pennsylvania who wish more active hobbies. sion. We are very sorry to lose him, but and has become a specialist in the field of With the realization of the new Union we are glad to see his outstanding work coal mines and mining equipment. Building, these many organizations will receive just recognition. Our congratula­ Civil engineering graduate George S. find added zest, for at present there are tions to Northeastern and our very best Frost resides in Philadelphia, where since neither adequate nor pleasant meeting good wishes to Joe, always. 1945 he has designed subway and elevated places for the various groups. E. E. W ieman structures for railway lines in the city. His career began with construction of underground trolley lines in New York; in 1921 he went to Philadelphia with the water bureau in charge of laying mains. fa m iliar faces . . . Later he travelled to promote sales of clay pipe and products, then returned to work for the city transit department His For 26 years students and townspeople experience has included highways, build­ of Orono have seen George Ambrose ings, subways, and water lines During carrying the mail; to hundreds he has the war he was with the Signal Corps as been known familiarly by his nickname a packaging engineer before taking up “Dotty.” For several years he drove the his present duties. parcel post truck, visiting the campus on his regular rounds; for more than 20 The staff of the Maine Campus recent­ years he has been the well-known, often ly accepted a recommendation from the eagerly awaited bringer of the mail. His Student Publications committee which au­ route today includes the campus, College thorizes that organization to elect the Avenue up to Stillwater line, and the ad­ editor and business manager of the Cam­ jacent homes in University Place, Col­ pus, beginning this spring. lege Heights, and Riverdale. Under the new system, after the two Officially he is known as Carrier num­ top positions have been filled by action of ber 3, being third oldest in point of ser­ the committee, the editor and business vice on the Orono staff. George is a manager will appoint all other staff mem­ native of Orono, born on Oak Street; bers. many of his 55 years he has lived in his This will replace the old plan under present home on Mill Street. He is a which the top editorial positions were veteran of the First World War when he filled through elections held by the entire served in the Infantry. Campus staff. These are the facts of his life. But The committee went on record as be­ to most of the people on his route he is lieving that the editor of the Campus and a symbol of much else. As he walks his assistants should be free at all times to his twice-daily accustomed round, he is decide what the paper shall advocate greeted as an old friend by students, facul­ editorially and what it shall oppose, sub­ ty, and residents. He brings in his worn ject only to its obligation to be accurate leather pouch, slung over his shoulder, and fair, and to respect the law of libel good news, bad news, love letters, business The editor and business manager be­ letters, Christmas cards, presents, all the come ex-officio members of the Publica­ miscellaneous items that make up the mail tions committee under the new plan. day after day. Spring Practice WOMEN’S ATHLETICS VARSITY SCHEDULES Spring 1948 Coach Eck Allen apparently is not The All-Maine Women’s Basketball taking too seriously the published state­ Team was recently announced with honors Baseball ments of Bates’ Coach Ducky Pond that divided among the upperclass women. Coach Bill Kenyon (Sam Sezak, Maine will be “the team to beat” next fall. Those selected were Helen Buzzell ’48, A call for spring football practice has Germaine Bellefleur ’49, Morna Kimball assistant) Apr 17 Bates (exhibition) been issued for April 26. Assistant Coach ’48, forwards, Betty Arnold ’50, Caroline Joe Zabilski will call out the freshmen Strong ’50 and Mary Zelenkewich ’49, Apr. 19 Colby (exhibition) Apr. 22 Rhode Island at Kingston at Brunswick on April 13 for two weeks guards of drill. The All-Maine team was chosen from Apr. 23 Connecticut (two seven-inning Graduation will riddle Allen’s line with the Interclass Tournament which was games) at Storrs the loss of Marsanskis, Murdock, Benson, won by the Seniors The Elms won the Apr. 24 Northeastern at Boston Emerson, and Gordon. Alan Wing and annual dormitory schedule with sixteen May 5 Bowdoin Jack Zollo will be the only holdovers from teams playing in two leagues May 7 Rhode Island the 1947 forward wall which did so much The University rule that women’s May 8 Bates at Lewiston to give Maine the State Title. There is a athletics will not play an intercollegiate May 12 Bates strong possibility that Zollo will not play schedule precluded competition with other May 15 Bowdoin at Brunswick next fall because of recurring war in­ colleges May 19 Colby at Waterville May 21 New Hampshire juries Volleyball May 22 Northeastern Dombkowski and Coulombe, stellar May 25 Colby halfbacks, will be available but Hal Para- A volleyball tournament is now under­ May 29 New Hampshire at Durham dy’s quarter backing will be sorely missed. way with eight dormitory and off-campus Coach Allen is contemplating shifting teams in play. The Interclass Tournament Outdoor Track Coulombe to fullback and trying Sproul will be played later in the spring Caro­ at quarter. Coach Chester Jenkins lyn Foley is manager of volleyball. Coach Allen has indicated that some Apr 24 Boston College The University women’s badminton changes in the Maine system might take May 1 New Hampshire champ will be named during the High place during the six week’s practice but May 8 State Meet at Orono School Play Day. Two finalists from just what those changes would be were May 15 Yankee Conference Champion­ each dormitory will have by that time not disclosed. ships at Durham played in the elimination tournament While Allen was not overly pessimistic May 21-22 New England Championships about next fall’s eleven he did point out at Providence that Maine would not be “loaded" as Awards May 28-29 IC4A Championships at New many in the state seem to think the Black York City At the annual winter letter award Bears will be. banquet held March 25 awards of letters Golf and numerals were made to 102 men by the Athletic Board. Coach Charlie Emery Boxing and Wrestling Team captains were chosen by team­ Apr 22 Boston University at Boston More than fifty boxers and wrestlers mates Ted Boynton ’48 and Benny Ber­ Apr 23 Rhode Island at Kingston took part in a two day intramural boxing nard ’49 were chosen honorary captains Apr. 24 Connecticut at Storrs and wrestling tournament. Kappa Sigma of the State Championship basketball and May 5 Bates at Lewiston successfully defended their boxing cham­ winter sports teams respectively. Co- May 8 Bowdoin pionship and gained the wrestling title captian s of the championship indoor track- May 15-16 New England and Yankee from last year’s joint holders, SAE and team were high jumper Bob Emerson Conference Championships Phi Eta. ’48 and IC4A hammer-champ George at Oakley Country Club, In the middleweight class, Dombkowski Marsanskis ’48 Massachusetts and Zollo, both at 163 and members of Bob Kelley ’50 of the J-V ’s and John May 17-18 State Championships at Kappa Sigma and better know'll as foot­ McAloon, freshman, were honored by Augusta Country Club ball players, clowned their way to a their fellow players. May 22 Connecticut draw with neither fighter willing to try Eight major letters were awarded in May 26 Colby against his fraternity brother. basketball and twenty-two in track Ten members of the winter sports team were Tennis Ken Marden, 195, of Phi Kappa Sig­ awarded minor M’s. Coach G. William Small ma, retained his heavyweight crown while At the Brunswick campus numerals Apr. 6 Navy (Informal) at Phi Kappa Sigma’s Walt Pooler, 135. were presented at an award banquet in Annapolis, Md. won in the welterweight round. basketball, winter sports and recognition Apr. 7 Randolph-Macon at Ashland, Kappa Sigma in winning amassed 45 given to the hockey, bowling and rifle Va. points. Phi Kappa Sigma 30, SAE 25 teams. Apr. 8 Washington and Lee at Lexing­ and Lambda Chi, ATO and Delta Tau As in the varsity basketball team a ton, Va tied with 10 points each Millinocket man, Arthur E. Dentremont, Apr. 22 Boston University at Boston In wrestling, Phi Mu and Sigma Chi was elected honorary captain Sharing Apr. 23 Rhode Island at Kingston, R. I tied for second place with 40 points, and the honor was Ralph Jewett. William Apr. 24 Connecticut at Storrs with 25 points each Phi Eta and Theta Cummings, Jr., was chosen captain of the May 5 Bates at Lewiston Chi tied for third place winter sports team. William Derby was May 8 Bowdoin George Higgins, Jim Beaudry, and likewise honored by the rifle team May 14-15 Yankee Conference Cham­ Henry Dombkowski retained their titles Because hockey is not a recognized pionships at Storrs, Conn. in the 140, 160, and 165 pound classes, sport at Maine the team was not awarded May 17-18 State Championships at while Henry Fogler and Bob Fuller, both numerals but the team along with the Brunswick of Sigma Chi and Henry Davidson of championship bowling team were guests May 22 Connecticut at the banquet. Phi Mu, were winners in the 175. 185, and May 26 Colby heavyweight winners

THE MAINE ALUMNUS 16 APRIL, 1948 Track The new outdoor track and field events area on Alumni Field will be a busy place With the this spring as Coach Chet Jenkins again points toward one more in his long list of state titles. ATHLETIC TEAMS Eyes naturally will focus on big, blond George Marsanskis as he trains for a minutes. This is the second successive Play Ball! place on the Olympic team The IC4A year that Kappa Sigma has won the indoor title holder of the hammer, George fraternity championship. Bill Kenyon was unable to take his is expected to be a heavy point winner Kappa Sigma went on to win the cam­ team outdoors prior to spring vacation this spring Gerry Alden and A1 Sproul pus championship by defeating the Dunn and only nine days after the opening of will also pick up points in this event. In Hall Minute Men 38 to 31. college, Maine opens at Rhode Island. the discus, Collins and Totman will con­ Despite the lack of practice, Kenyon has tinue their indoor wins. Tennis cut the squad to a workable number. Hammond, Taylor, Simmons, and With the exception of the batteries, the The tennis team took advantage of the Haines look good in the short distances, Black Bears look strong with at least spring vacation to journey south in an judging from indoor performances, as do two men for each position. attempt to get practice before the courts LeClair and Beals in the hurdles. At first base it is a toss-up between on campus were ready. The long and middle distances will Woodbury, Flaherty and Dieffenbach. Travelling with the team was Dr. find experienced men capable of winning Mitchell or Wilcox will get the nod for George Small of the English Department most of their events. second, both vets of previous Kenyon and coach of the team. An informal nines At third, Gray, up from the Annex, Bob Emerson is expected to be top man match with the Naval Academy saw and Fournier are battling for the spot for Maine in the broad jump and pole Maine lose 7-0 The following day the left by Gerry Poulin. vault The high jump prospects are not Black Bear racqueteers conquered Ran­ Dick Preble (Warren H. ’21) and Will bright, but LeClair, Brown and King are dolph Macon win 7-2 at Richmond, Vir­ Braley, the only men to hurl shutouts capable men. ginia. Maine won all the doubles matches a year ago, will see plenty of service. Bowdoin promises to field a good team and dropped two singles contests. Parrott, Archibald and Martikainen are this year and the state meet at Orono With the opening of college after the showing improvement Ray Lord seems early in May will probably see Maine spring holidays the clay courts were to have the edge in early practice over and Bowdoin battling for first place. available for team practice Coach Small Mike Cherneski. heartened by the showing of his squad Joe Coombs, Bill Walker and Bob on the trip south of the Mason-Dixon Clark may get the nod in the outfield planned to drive his squad for a southern though Kenyon was quick to point out New England trip. that they would have competition for The complete schedule of the tennis these berths. J . • •• team will be found elsewhere. V . . Two exhibition games and the southern trip will do much to settle the regular Golf lineup. Kenyon looks to Colby as the Twenty-seven candidates answered toughest competition with Danny Mc- Fayden’s Bowdoin pastimers also very Coach Charlie Emery’s call for golfers capable of winning the state crown in late March. Several additional divot replacers were expected to report after vacation. Another successful season was antici­ pated by Coach Emery with the return of five letter men and eight numeral win­ ners Heading the list of varsity men is Gene McNabb, sophomore from Saco McNabb is one of the State’s better golfers. With the return from vacation the Penobscot Valley Country Club course was ready except for the back nine. The Penobscot course is one of the best courses in northern New England and provides excellent practice for the Maine Track Coach Chester Jenkins linksmen. Kappa Sig Wins Speakers— Kappa Sigma defeated Phi Gamma The Maine Debating Council, an under- Delta 35-33 for the intramural basketball graduate group, has announced a new ser­ title. Entering the finals with identical vice for the public. Through the facili­ scores of thirteen wins and one loss the ties of the Council speakers can he pro- two teams were nip and tuck throughout vided for clubs and groups. Of value the game with the lead changing several both to the public groups and to the stu­ times. With less than three minutes to dents participating as speakers, the ser­ play the score was tied at 31 all Kappa vice offers debates and discussions on Sigma dropped in two quick ones and timely subjects of general interest Baseball Coach William Kenyon then froze the ball for the last two

17 APRIL, 1948 THE MAINE ALUMNUS Officers Listed New Novel by Alumna For Reunion Classes

Listed below are the officers of reunion kins works out with her characters is The amazing Chase family has added classes. If your class is scheduled for a one of constructive development; when another to its many marks of distinction reunion, why not write to one of the offi­ Mr. and Mrs. Drummond finally emerge by the publishing of Discovery, a novel cers regarding your plans. by Virginia Chase ’23. The sister of from the shadows which have so nearly Mary Ellen Chase ’09 and Edward E. engulfed their lives, it is to a far better 1898—President—A. D. T. Libby Chase ’13 is in private life Mrs. Virginia understanding of one another and a far 274 S. Burnett St. saner realization of the potentialities of E. Orange, N. J. Chase Perkins of Detroit, Mich. The Sec.-Treas.—C. Parker Crowell author of two previous books, The Writ- life for the older woman. Discovery 36 Howard St. ing of Modern Prose and The American points an obvious moral—the futile waste Bangor, Me. House, she takes in this latest work a of many useful years by older women— 1912— President—Karl D. Woodward but not an obvious solution. Doubtless 259 Broadway new departure in both style and material. Lachine, Quebec, Can. Her first book was a school text, the there is no obvious solution; each must Sec.—William E. Schrumpf result of several years of experience as work out her own salvation. In Laurie Winslow Hall, a school teacher, her second a humorous, Drummond’s case, she finds the chance University of Maine through a critical shortage of local hos­ Orono, Me. nostalgic account of life in a Maine hotel 1913— Secretary—James E. Church in an earlier generation. Her new novel pital personnel to serve others in tasks 192 Northern Ave. is completely, almost overwhelmingly se­ which give her a new perspective of her Gardiner, Me. rious and concerns itself with the prob­ own problem; her final solution is to 1914— President—Howe W. Hall enroll for two years of college training Rogers Hall, lems of a middle-aged wife and mother University of Maine in a mid-western industrial city for a career in social work. Orono, Me. The theme of Discovery is the attempt Mrs. Perkins has developed a very Sec—Richard F. Crocker interesting piece of work Few if any Fort Kent, Me of an educated, intelligent woman to en­ 1915— President—Raymond H. Fogler rich the middle years of her life after her writers have been concerned with the W. T. Grant Co. two children have grown up and left the problems and drama of persons over 1441 Broadway home Laurel Drummond after twenty forty; most of our plays and novels New York, N Y. years devoted to her husband, children, glorify and dramatize youth to the ex­ Sec.-Treas—Robert F. Thurrell East Wolfeboro, N. H. and home finds that the full, useful life clusion of all else. Mrs. Perkins has 1923—President—Theodore S. Curtis she has lived for them gives her nothing had the courage to point out that other Memorial Gym, to grasp when they have gone, her hus­ times in life are important, also, and that University of Maine Orono, Me band to whom she is devoted, has his these later years have their dramas and Sec —Mrs Iva M. Knight business interests and complacently ex­ complications It seems to this writer R F D 1 pects that she will continue to find her that the theme of Discovery—even with Kennebunk, Me satisfaction vicariously in his success its unavoidable emphasis on the unhappy 1931 —President—Samuel Sezak The progress of the story concerns not Memorial Gym, aspects of Laurie Drummond’s problem— University of Maine only Laurie’s adjustment to her new life is very well worth putting into print Orono, Me. but equally his adjustment to a new con­ and that perhaps in its small way this Sec —Miss Doris Gross ception of her abilities and value beyond latest book by Mrs Perkins will make 101 Lincoln St. the housewife-role she has always played Millinocket, Me. a little richer the tapestry of American 1932—President—Winthrop C. Libby Few external happenings play a part life by focussing the light of her fine Agri. Eng. Bldg., in the drama of these lives, most of the mind and her able pen on the life of the University of Maine action is psychological. Yet the tenseness older woman Orono, Me. Sec.—Mrs. Albert F. Gerry of the volume is surprising It is gripping Discovery, by Virginia Chase, The 17 1/2 Spring St. and deeply moving and remains with the MacMillan Co, N. Y , 1948, 304 pp $3 50 Brewer, Me reader strongly after the covers are 1933 —President—Russel Shaw closed. Much of this virtue lies in the 76 William St. Portland, Me. clarity and human realism of the charac­ New Fraternities Sec. Mrs. Dorothy F, Carnochan ters who are protrayed admirably Part 37 Falmouth St of it also perhaps comes from a con­ Formal recognition has been granted Portland, Me. tinual exaggeration of the situation The by the University to two new fraternities 1934—President—Philip S. Parsons first organized a year ago. Chi Rho Hampden Highlands, very fact that Laurie is not “typical” of Me. older women who permit their lives to Sigma has thirty-six members and Sigma Sec—Mrs. Robert Russ drift into a round of clubs and parties is Phi Epsilon, originally formed as a local 39 Farm Hill Road the making of the book, at the same time Theta Rho Club, has twenty members Cape Elizabeth, Me. The recognition of the new fraternities 1946—President—Ralph Emerson the very tyranny of the progress of the Island Falls, Me. story compels Mrs. Perkins to deal almost brings a total of seventeen fraternities on Sec.—Miss Mildred Byronas too cruelly with her leading characters. campus It is not expected that fraternity 158 Blake St. The reader at times has almost as serious a houses will be immediately available for Lewiston, Me. doubt of Laurie’s sanity as she herself and the new Greek letter societies Vets Hit Dean’s List her husband seem to have. Perhaps this ex­ Tau Epsilon Phi, reorganized since the Nearly 70 per cent of the students aggeration is unavoidable; certainly it war, is also without a fraternity house. named to the Dean’s List for the fall gives poignance and intensity to a story With the increased enrollment, a keen semester at the University of Maine are which could very easily have been too need of additional fraternities has been veterans. Of the 843 students named to inconsequential to support its own weight felt on campus. It is doubtful that recog­ the Dean’s List, 747 are studying at the At any rate this very exaggeration gives nition will be granted to additional fra­ to the book a quality of terror and drama Orono campus and 96 at the Brunswick ternities at present inasmuch as the pres­ campus. Exactly 523 veterans were on which is unforgettable. ent high enrollment is considered tem­ Happily, the solution which Mrs Per­ the scholastic honor roll at Orono and porary. 50 at Brunswick.

THE MAINE ALUMNUS 18 APRIL, I948 Black Bears Club Has Fine Loyalty Record

An example of what a small group of congenial, interested people can accom­ plish for the University is afforded by the Black Bear Club of Rhode Island. The policy of the Club has been to work Linwood L. “Zeke” Dwelley ’25 was Portland Club of U. of M. Women quietly and without recognition, but in the guest speaker at the meeting of the hopes of encouraging other similar Maine Club in Auburn on March 18. His The Portland Club of University of groups The Alumnus brings the Black colored movies and talk on the Allagash Maine Women held a meeting on April 1 Bears to the attention of alumni. and other Maine Rivers was greatly en­ with thirty-five in attendance. It was voted to hold a rummage sale on April Composed of alumni and friends of joyed by the forty-three alumni in at­ 20 Maine, the group originally met infor­ tendance . mally It now has adopted a set of by­ On April 10 a fashion show and lunch­ laws and hopes to encourage other Boston alumnae held a very successful eon was held in the Lafayette Hotel. It groups with similar interests to form reception for undergraduate women and was a very successful and pleasant affair clubs. their mothers during the spring vacation with about seventy present. Mrs. Alice Charter members of the Rhode Island Mrs. Marguerite Messer Merrill ’42 was Hicks Black ’87, the oldest alumna in Black Bears are: Wesley Ames ’24, chairman of the reception, with Mrs. the Portland area, was guest of honor. George E. Bennett, Carl F. Brugge ’18, Elizabeth Kruse Parkman ’40, Mrs Betty Earle “Doc” Ferren ’20, Alfred B. Ling- Savage Cuetara ’42, Mrs. Mary Hemp­ Notice to New York Area Alumni stead Hemman ’43, Mrs. Martha Sanborn ley ’21, Carleton “Speed” Merritt ’24, White ’23, Misses Arlene Webster ’42, University of Maine alumni and alum­ Henry P. Turner ’22, and William C Elizabeth White ’47, Val Warren ’47, nae associations in the metropolitan area Waring, Jr. Margaret Spaulding ’47, Kay Mills ’47, invite all families to attend a full course While the by-laws call for an annual and Phyllis Hammond ’47 assisting. lobster dinner, Friday, May 21, 1948. meeting in February, special meetings # Time 8 00 p.m, price $2 75, at the Subur­ may be called whenever the president Southern California alumni welcomed ban Restaurant, Hackensack, N. J Reser­ “may deem such meetings necessary,” Dean Edith Wilson at a meeting in Hol­ vations must be mailed in by May 14, to which is monthly during the winter. lywood during the spring vacation. Doc Marion C Eaton, 12 East Ridgewood Such meetings usually are rotated among ’40 and Martha (Chase) Gerrish ’38 were Ave, Ridgewood, New Jersey. the members who are hosts at dinner in in charge of arrangements. New officers their homes. Designed to encourage and Dean E E. “Tad” Wieman, director of elected by Southern California alumni promote interest in the University, the physical education and athletics and for­ were Charles E. Bartley ’43, president, Club also seeks to cultivate sociability mer president of the American Football and Miss Alma E. White ’28, secretary among its members. Coaches Association, has been in New # The dues of the Club are not fixed York where he served as chairman of a On April 9 Dean Wilson met with but these and any contributions are used group which is revising amateur football alumni in the San Francisco Bay area. to promote the objects and purposes of rules so that they may be applicable to Ray Davis ’ll, professor of civil engineer­ the Club. Many students have been en­ both high school and college games. ing at the University of California, was couraged by the Club to attend the Uni­ The plan for having similar football host of the meeting. versity, assisting some of those who rules for high schools and colleges has needed financial help. been under consideration for some time, The Black Bears through its members Southwestern Connecticut alumni had but in the past the two groups have not were a potent force in the Union Build­ Dr Hauck as guest speaker at their worked out final details. It is expected, ing Fund campaign in the Rhode Island meeting in New Haven on April 12. More as a result of this week’s meeting in New area, the first to exceed its quota than fifty alumni turned out for the sec­ York, that a revised code suitable for An effective means of promoting the ond meeting of this newly formed alumni both high schools and colleges will be welfare of the University, the Black association formulated. Bears can well serve as a guide to the The Brunswick Campus many alumni and friends who wish to organize in a similar way. A copy of S.O.P.A. A call has been made for candidates the by-laws may be secured The Black for the baseball, track, golf and tennis Bears of Rhode Island would be happy Any sea-going sailor cruising up teams. to assist any group in forming another the Stillwater past the campus is The Better-Half's Club was entertained chapter. going to quickly conclude that the* recently at one of their meetings by the Phi Kappa Sigma House is the Annex Glee Club which presented many Portland Club of U. of M. Women nerve center of the campus. fine numbers. Flying at the forepeak of the Phi The Brunswick campus is now ruled by The Portland alumnae group enjoyed Kappa Sigma house is the S.O P.A. Campus Mayor Johnny Glew of Fort a meeting at the Graymore Hotel on flag, so well known to Navy men, Fairfield He defeated Osborne N. Ellis March 4 with 36 members and 15 guests denoting “senior officer present of Benton in the heavy balloting. present. Dean Joseph M. Murray '25 was ashore” or the admiral in charge. A week of torrid campaigning saw all the guest speaker telling the alumnae During vacation, however, the the tricks and listened to all the oratory about latest news from the campus Plans brothers made the grievous error of a major political campaign. Ellis were discussed during the business meet­ in naval procedure by not hauling pledging to get things done about the ing for April activities including a rum­ down S O.P A. and hoisting to the campus charged his opponent of being a mage sale and a luncheon for undergrad­ yardarm the repeater flag denoting “tool of the interests” and under the in­ uates. The group also reported a suc­ “commanding officer not present.” fluence of Wall Street. Glew promised cessful meeting in February which fea­ Utopia if elected—and he was. tured Miss Starr Valomenos, pianist.

APRIL. I948 THE MAINE ALUMNUS Faculty Appointments P e r s o n a ls New faculty appointments for the spring semester have been announced by Dr. Hauck. These include- from the CLASSES John Gronousksi, Jr., instructor in eco­ 2U. nomics, was graduated from the Universi­ NECROLOGY engaged in the investment banking busi­ ty of Wisconsin and also was awarded a ness in Boston as a partner and later pres­ Master’s degree by the same University. 1886 ident of H. P Wood and Company. He He served four years in the Army, part IRVING BURTON RAY. Report of was also prominent as an executive and the passing of Irving B. Ray on March of this time as an instructor. He has director of various public utility compa­ 21, 1947, has been received by the Alumni nies and industrial organizations In more also been a teaching instructor at the Office Mr. Ray was a resident of Har­ recent years he became know'll for his University of Wisconsin. rington where he had engaged in farming studies of forest development and conser­ Chester A Darling, a graduate of and the insurance business before his vation on his extensive plantations in fatal illness He was 84 years of age at Maine, will be an instructor in electrical Parsonsfield His acreage in and around the time of his death He was a graduate that town was often visited for study by engineering He has worked at the in civil engineering and a member of Beta experts in reforestation Mr. Leavitt was Syracuse plant of General Electric Com­ Theta Pi fraternity. an active Mason, member of several busi­ pany. A veteran of four years’ service 1892 ness clubs in Boston, and always an active as an Army radio operator, he comes CHARLES MAURICE RAND supporter of the University Alumni As­ LETTE Prominent physician of Mon sociation from Orleans, Mass mouth for more than fifty years, Dr. FRED THADEUS DAVIS A mem- Henry Holland ’44 holds an A M. de- Charles M. Randlette of the class of 1892 ber of the class of 1900, Fred T. Davis of gree from Harvard and has taught at succumbed to a long period of ill health Bangor, died on March 8 in a local hos­ Escuela Agricola Panamericana in H on- on February 27 A native of Richmond pital. For more than 30 years he was prominent as an automobile salesman in duias He served as a captain in the Maine, he attended the Maine State Col lege to receive the degree of B.S. m the v i cinity. Mr Davis was a native of U S Army during the war and will be chemistry. He was a member of Kappa Orono and graduate of the local schools. an instructor in romance languages. Sigma fraternity Later he entered Bow­ Following his attendance at the University he became for a time a telegraph opera- A. new instructor in the Physics De- doin medical school for further study and then transferred to Dartmouth College tor He served a while as a selectman of partment, Bradford T Joyce, received his where he completed his professional train- Orono He also served as Penobscot degree in engineering physics in Febru- ing in 1896 He served his internship at County deputy sheriff. Mr. Davis was ary, although he was a member of the the Central Maine General Hospital. active in the Masons and other fraternal organizations. Class of 1946 He served in the Navy Lewiston, until 1898 when he took up his general practice in Monmouth where he 1 9 1 4 in electronics and comes from Portland spent the remainder of his life Dr Rand­ JOSEPH HENRY JOHNSON. The Henry H Fogler ’43 of Hastings-on- lette was always interested in the activi­ death on August 13, 1947, of Joseph H Hudson, N Y, has been a graduate fel­ ties of the University and attended main Johnson of Weston, M ass, has been re- programs on the campus. reported to the office. Fifty-three years of low of Maine the past year. He will be an age, Mr Johnson succumbed to illness at instructor in, chemical engineering and a 1896 Waltham. Mass. He is survived by his research assistant in the department of FREDERICK ANDREWS HOBBS wife and three children. On March 13 Frederick A Hobbs, promi­ industrial cooperation nent attorney in Alfred, died at his father’s 19 3 0 George K Wadlin, J r, a recent gradu­ home in Alfred Mills at the age of 73. He EDGAR LESTER WOODIS A be­ Was a native of Hollis and a graduate of lated report of the passing of Edgar L. ate of Penn State, has also done graduate Woodis on December 31, 1939, has been work at Maine He will be an instructor the Maine State College in 1896 with a B S degree in science He became a mem­ received at the Alumni Office through in civil engineering ber of Alpha Tau Omega fraternity while the conrtesy of his fraternity, Phi Kappa Also appointed an instructor in civil at Maine Later he entered on the study Sigma The last report in the Alumni Office gave Mr Woodis’ occupation as engineering, William R. Gorrill, holds a of law in Alfred and was admitted to the Maine Bar in 1900 For a time he taught president of Tidewater Construction Com­ B.S. degree from Northeastern Univer­ in Westbrook and Affred high schools pany. Yarmouth, Maine. sity He has worked for large construc­ and then entered on the practice of law tion contractors in Massachusetts in South Berwick. Later he moved to A native of Lubec, Earland K. Sleight Biddeford and to Alfred. From 1907 to BY CLASSES 1911 York County chose him as county ’43 also holds a M S from Maine He attorney and in 1931 and 1932 he was 1898 Dr Elmer Drew Merrill, pro- will be an instructor in chemical engineer­ surveyor of the Port of Portland He was fessor of Botany at Harvard ing. He has served as an officer in the a veteran of the Spanish-American War University and the Arnold Arboretum, Navy and later worked for an industrial and the First World War. He was active has been awarded the George Robert in politics and numerous fraternal organi­ chemical company. White medal of honor, highest horticul­ zations, and received recently the 50-year tural award in America. Presentation to jewel of Masonry. Dr. Merrill was made at the 119th annual Just previous to the end of the fall OWEN JOHN LED YARD Word meeting of the Mass. Horticultural So­ semester, the new cafeteria just north of has been received of the passing on De­ ciety in token of his “having done the Dunn and Corbett Halls was opened cember 2 of Owen T Ledyard of Bath most to advance interest in horticulture Originally scheduled to be put into ser­ We regret that no details of his demise in its broadest sense.” Dr Merrill is an are know'll at this time He had been en­ vice in the early fall, the opening was de­ international authority on plant life and gaged previous to his death in the real the author of numerous books and articles layed by truck strikes and lack of equip­ estate and insurance business on botany During March Dr Merrill ment. 1900 was also busy with plans for the annual Formerly at the Sanford Naval Air DAVID WILLARD LEAVITT. The New England Spring Flower Show as he Station, the building was moved and re­ death of D Willard Leavitt, prominent assisted the show manager of the Mass Horticultural Society in planning the an­ assembled in Orono With a capacity of public utility executive and expert on forest conservation, occurred in Coral nual exhibit. over five hundred, the cafeteria feeds the Gables. Florida, on March 8 Mr Leavitt 1899 Mrs. Charles Watson, the for- men housed in Dunn and Corbett These was 67 years old at his death Following m e r Rena Morrissette, has an­ men formerly ate in the Field House his attendance at the University of Maine nounced that she is permanently located dining room under a system of staggered where he was a member of Sigma Alpha at 4319-55th Avenue, St. Petersburg, Epsilon fraternity, he served in the Span­ meal hours, an unsatisfactory arrange­ Florida ish-American War and subsequently was Word comes from Arthur C Wescott ment because of long waiting lines and an engineer in the surveying business In of 167 Washington Ave, Washington, interference with class schedules. 1928 he was granted the M A degree from N J , regarding the future plans for the the University. For several years he was fiftieth reunion of the class Mr Wescott THE MAINE ALUMNUS 20 APRIL, I948 writes: “We have been informed by the At a recent training session for YMCA President of the North East Company, secretary of the class of 1899 that much students from all parts of Maine held on interest is being shown in the 50th Anni­ farm equipment firm, is Frank P. Preti the University campus, Harvey Pease of of Portland The company was organized versary Reunion in June, 1949. If the Wiscasset, veteran speaker and clerk of interest being shown is any indication of in 1945 to serve a territory of approxi­ the House of Representatives, was one of mately 2,500 farms. the probable number that will attend this those present to advise the youngsters on meeting, every member of the class will procedure. The training session was held Miner Stackpole of Augusta, district make a supreme effort to be on hand It in preparation for a model state legisla- engineer for the U. S. Geological Survey, will be a record crowd and a memorable ture to be carried out by the Y boys and was a speaker at the annual meeting of occasion.” girls in Augusta in May the Maine Association of Engineers in February Another member of the 1917 1 9 0 5 Chief electrical engineer of the 1916 Manager of the Marine Divi- class was also prominent in the meeting, Public Works Design Depart­ sion of General Petroleum as Bryant L Hopkins of Waterville, Di­ ment for the U. S. Navy at the USMC, Corp, of San Francisco, California, is rector of the Kennebec River water stor­ Camp Lejeune, N C, Base is Walter J. Charles E Dole The business address of age, was elected secretary-treasurer of Shaw. He resides at 3166 Lee A ve, Mid­ the company is 417 Montgomery St. Mr the association way Park, N C. Dole resides at 5964 Buena Vista Ave., 1918 his departure for Europe on 1 9 0 7 A recent speaker on the campus Oakland, Cal. w a s Lucius D. Barrows, chief Who's Who in Engineering for 1948 an agricultural inspection tour, contains a biographical sketch of Arno W E L Newdick, chief of the Plant Industry engineer for the State Highway Commis­ Div of the Maine Dept, of Agriculture, sion in Maine He addressed a meeting of Nickerson, consulting engineer of 441 Lexington Ave., New York 17, N Y was the recipient of a check for $1,000 students of Maine government to acquaint from the seed potato growers of Maine as them with the activities of the highway 1917 Everett “Shep” Hurd has been an “expression of appreciation for services department. Mr. Barrows is located at elected one of the 12 directors rendered ” Mr Newdick is president of the headquarters of the Commission in of the National Sporting Goods Dealers the Potato Association of America. Augusta. Association which has over 5,000 mem­ A new book Elements of Electrical Benjamin E Brann is an engineer with bers He is the only eastern representative Engineering by Prof Walter J. Creamer American Type Founders, Metuchen, on the board. has just Come from the publishers for sale N J. His present address is 239 Amboy John H Magee of Bangor was one of this spring It is issued by McGraw-Hill Ave, Metuchen, N. J. the speakers at the annual dinner of the Book Company The text is designed to Elmer J. Wilson, originally employed Home Builders Association of Maine held serve as a medium of transition from con­ by General Electric Company in Lynn, in Portland recently. Mr Magee is Fed­ ventional college mathematics and physics Mass , is now in the employ of Sylvania eral Housing Authority for the state of to the more advanced courses in electrical Electric Corporation, Salem For several Maine and is justly regarded as one of the engineering It is based on Prof. Cream­ years Mr. Wilson operated a retail florist leading authorities in phases of housing. er’s 25 years of experience as a teacher. store in Lynn before joining the techni­ One of the candidates for nomination At the annual meeting of the Maine cal staff of Sylvania. He lives at 14 for state senator from Oxford County in Association of Engineers Prof. Harry D. Manning Road, Lynn, Mass. Republican primaries is Roland H Cobb Watson of Orono, Head of the Depart­ of Denmark Mr Cobb as a potential ment of Mechanical Engineering at the 1 9 0 8 Word has been received that legislator from the forest-fire areas of University, was elected vice president of Walter L Sturtevant, formerly Oxford County has spoken of the need the association a chemical engineer for Rayhestos Man- for wise and proper legislation for this hattan in Passaic, N J , and now retired and similar problems. 1920 Dwight D Ingraham is now lo- from active professional life, has been The name of Edmund P. Mahoney has cated with the Hartford Ac­ appointed an honorary member of Com­ been posted by Gov Hildreth for the post cident and Indemnity Co, Bell Bldg., mittee D-ll, on rubber, of the American of judge of the Portland Municipal Court Manchester, N. H Society for Testing Materials At last Judge Mahoney was named to his second re| ort Mr. Sturtevant was living in St tour-year term in this post He has been Augustine, Florida affiliated with the Portland courts since appointment in 1940 as recorder by Gov. 1 9 1 1 After 13 years of servicc in Lewis O. Barrows ’16; he was elevated GOOD Augusta as chairman of the to the judgeship in 1944. State Public Utilities Commission, Col. Cecil Siddall of Sanford was reap­ F ran k . E. Southard has been given a 3 pointed recently to the Maine Military and months leave of absence by Governor Defense Commission by the Governor. Hildreth for a much-needed rest from the GOOD duties of the busy condition The leave of absence was necessitated by poor health It was reported that the Governor refused O LD SOUTH for you. to allow Col. Southard to resign, feeling that his services to the state arc too valu­ Photo Eng raving Corp. able and hoped that the long rest might permit his return to duty Col Southard 9 9 BEDFORD STREET it’s HOOD’S makes his home in Augusta BOSTON, MASS. LIB 2042 1 9 1 2 Representative Frank Fellow's of ICE CREAM Bangor was a speaker at the TAKES PRIDE IN SERVING 20th Anniversary dinner of Phi Gamma The Maine Alumnus Delta Club in New York in February Congressman Fellows is a member of the Maine chapter Fellows has also been named recently to a special House com­ mittee to investigate any reported irregu­ As You 'RememberIt- - larities in election expenditures in the forthcoming presidential campaigns THE BOOKSTORE 1914 A. W. “Artie” Abbott, former captain and catcher of the 1911 A Friendly championship baseball team of Maine, is justly proud of his expanding string of food concessions. From Rye, N Y . all S e r v i n g along the shores of Connecticut to Bos­ ton. the Abbott Concessions flourish at the larger beaches. Recently he added the Canadian National Exposition held in UNIVERSITY STORE CO. Toronto, Canada, to his list At the present sixteen locations are included in THE BOOKSTORE THE BARBER SHOP his extensive operation. Captain Charles M Kelly is teacher of ON THE CAMPUS mathematics and science at the Hackley Schools, Tarrytown , N J APRIL, I948 2 1 THE MAINE ALUMNUS Public Works Association This is an sented by the class of ’25. Some of the 1 9 2 1 Mrs. Emilie K Josselyn, high lights were Robert Haskell as 15 Caryl Ave., Yonkers 5, N. Y. honor achieved by his splendid profes- sional record chairman of the Maine Development Merton Corson is an engineer at the Arthur Cloudman who has-been at the Commission. He said the Commission Portland Copper and Tank Works. He Jackson Memorial Laboratory for many since 1935 has concerned itself with help­ is secretary of Portland Chapter 46 of years has moved to Chicago where he has ing Maine farmers to help themselves. American Society of Tool Engineers. accepted a position with the Argonne Harland A Ladd, Maine Commissioner Mert lives at 65 Evans St., South Port­ National Laboratory to do atomic re­ of Education, told of the situation in land, Maine. . search His address is P. O. Box 5207, State Schools today. Mildred Brown Harold E. Pratt is superintendent of Chicago 80, Illinois. We were sorry to Schrumpf (Brownie) gave demonstra­ the Pejepscot Paper Company with which lose him He has one daughter, Dartha tions using herbs for flavor. Frank Hus­ firm he has been associated since grad­ Dr John A Small who is Associate sey and Robert Pike, were among those uating from Maine. He is secretary- Professor of Botany at New Jersey Col­ in attendance treasurer of the Maine-New Hampshire lege for Women, has been elected Presi­ Edward M. Curran is the Federal judge section of the Technical Association of dent of the Torrey Botanical Club of in Washington who presided over the the Pulp and Paper Industry. He is also New York City. John has also completed recent court proceedings in the coal president of the Merrymeeting Bay his work for a doctor’s degree at Rutgers strike. Alumni Association and co-chairman University. Congratulations, John Mail Norris Clements of Winterport, a large with Arthur Bowker of Bath on the can be sent to—The New Jersey College successful poultry man, has been elected Union Building Campaign. His daugh­ for Women, New Brunswick, N. J. John to the Agricultural Committee by Dean ter, Frances, is a freshman at Maine, has two children. Deering. He succeeds Thomas Murray Louis is a freshman at Brunswick High. Many of you might be interested to of Hampden “Hep’s” address is 17 Whittier Street, know that the Jackson Laboratory, having Only two more years before we cele­ Brunswick. been largely destroyed by the Bar Harbor brate our 25th. What are your ideas for Ray Smith is employed by the New a reunion? We want a good one, please Jersey Bell Telephone Company with fire last October, already has two wings whom he has been associated since grad­ rebuilt and is humming with activity. A send in your suggestions. It is not too large additional building is on the way early to begin making plans to attend uating from Maine. He has two sons— as a fine summer school unit for visiting 25’s twenty-fifth. one at the University of Notre Dame; students who are embryonic scientific the second registered at Maine for next workers and who come here for training 1927 Mrs. Edith O. Thaxter, fall Ray lives at 264 Kent Place Blvd, in research each summer. All Prexy’s 106 Fountain St., Bangor Summit, New Jersey. To quote Ray. energies are being devoted to this restora­ A timely letter from “Barney” Poor “Summit is a relatively small town and enclosing two new items has helped a lot about the nearest thing I can find to tion and to fund raising for the projects. It is tough going but the Lab has many “Barney” says that while he was at the Maine*” friends who are pulling hard for a finer New England Gas Association Convention 1924 Mrs C C. Little, setup than ever. It was most gratifying in Boston last week (he is employed by b ox 558, Bar Harbor to get letters and wires from practically Blackstone Valley Gas and Electric Com­ News pickings are lean but here are every important research unit here and pany of Woonsocket, R. I., but I don’t a few Arthur Eastman is an electrical abroad commending the past work and know in what capacity) he met “Mike” engineer with the Navy Material Catalog placing hope in the future. This has Lavorgna and Paul Wentworth, both of Office at 116 East 16th St, New York, meant a great deal to us. the class of ’27 N Y Mike is now Sales Manager of the James MacLeod of Bangor was recent­ 1925 Mrs. George Lord, Richmond Radiator Company and had ly made State Chairman of the American 38 Forest Ave., Orono just moved his wife and two children to Sorry not to have been able to get in New York from St Louis where he had the class personals for the April issue but been with the Mueller Furnace Company. SERVING now that Vacation, Farm and Home No more definite address given. Paul MAINE STUDENTS Week and house cleaning are out of the Wentworth is with the Brockton Gas Since 1892 way will send in what I have gathered. Light Company in Brockton, Mass Prescott E Thornton is coach of the P A R K ' S HARDWARE The Bangor Community Chest has & VARIETY Limestone High School skiers who were among its new budget committee members top scoring team in a sports meet held in Earle Webster 31.37 MILL ST.. ORONO. ME. Limestone in February. Prescott is agri­ Speaking of Websters—not so long ago cultural instructor at Limestone High I was listening to an afternoon radio quiz School show, and was interested when one of the Elizabeth Peabody (Mrs Frederick contestants was Mrs Daniel Webster of Member Federal Reserve Bank Parsons) lives at 156 Roberst Blvd., Fairfield, Maine. She and Danny were in Snyder 21, N Y Her husband is busi­ New York on vacation. Danny is town ness manager of the Park School in manager in Fairfield Snyder One item which should be of more than Farm and Home Week was well repre- passing interest to classmates who reside in Maine is the fact that Neil Bishop is seeking nomination as governor at the DEPENDABLE PHOTOS Republican Primary in June. Neil has been a senator for eight years, Young men and women will Years of Experience and Modern holding the unique distinction of being Equipment insure Satisfactory the first person from Sagadahoc County always find this banking in­ Results to ever be elected four times a state sena­ stitution interested and help­ MYERS STUDIO tor He has served continuously on the Old T own Legislative Committees on Education, ful in their business progress. Agriculture, State Hospitals and Indian Responsibility is reflected by Affairs as chairman of each. a checking account, which is True Hospitality He advocates a pay as you go policy Famous Maine Food for Maine and makes it plain that he is also a factor in establishing a farmer candidate From 1932 until last Modern Cocktail Lounge credit and standing. November when fire destroyed his proper­ Convenient to Everything ty, he operated a large Jersey dairy farm Rooms from $2.00 in Bowdoinham. He has four children. Among the new committeemen on the The A llen H o tel C o . State Advisory Committee to assist the Also operating Farmers’ Home Administration Credit Merrill Jones Inn program is John A. Snell of Augusta, assistant state supervisor of Agricultural Newport, Me. Education. Trust Company Dr. Clyde Swett of Island Falls was With thirteen offices in elected vice president of the Maine Pub­ Eastern Maine licity Bureau Today’s paper has a front page photo of Dr Swett at the Harvard Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Club in Boston where he received the Stone Trophy Award for the Katahdin \rea Boy Scouts of America. This tro- THE MAINE ALUMNUS APRIL. I948 phy was awarded to the Council for hav­ years, and is secretary of the Board of this column a request that all the mem­ ing attained the largest increase in en­ Supervisors of the Oxford County Soil rollment in the past five years in New Conservation District. bers of the class of 1934 show up for re­ England. Dr. Swett is past president of union. Phil is having meetings with Larry the Katahdin Council and a prominent 1932 Mrs. Albert F. Gerry, Chatto, Roscoe Cuozzo and Andy Watson “scouter.” 1 7 1 /2 Spring St, Brewer and some of the other fellows around And that is that! If you folks want Homer Huddilston is manager of sales campus to set up general plans for secur­ news items, send them in as “Barney” did 1 promotion and merchandising with Will- ing attendance and planning a program. son Products, Inc., Reading, Pa. I just received a fascinating letter from 1 9 3 0 | M rs Polly Leech, Linwood Cheney is supervisor of pre­ Mildred Havey Berdeen. I wish I had Homer Folks Hospital, pared foods for Henke & Pillot, Inc., 304 room to reprint it all. It was mailed Oneonta, N. Y. Milam St., Houlton, Texas. His home March 6 from Frankfort, Germany, where Donald Caverly is with Sylvania Elec­ address is 3647 Maroneal, Houston 5, her husband, Capt. T. N. Berdeen, tric Products, Inc., 500 Fifth Ave., New Texas EUCOM, is stationed. They have had a York City. He lives with his wife and Leon E. Savage is general manager of fine home near the Headquarters Build­ three children at 181 Post Road W., the L P. Burton Company, Chemical and ing in Frankfort for one and a half years Darien, Conn. Marine Engineers, New Orleans, La. but are soon to move to Heidelberg along Russell V. Lathrop is manager of the Home address is 339 Betz Place, New with the rest of EUCOM. They have New W. T. Grant store in Bangor. Fol­ Orleans 20, La. found a home in Weinheimn which she lowing graduation he was employed with Amel Kisonak of Lisbon was elected says is a delightful place in the mountains the New York Telephone Company for president of the State of Maine Fish and and a lovely quaint town just 15 minutes two years and then began his career with Game Association on March 24. Amel from Heidelberg. The Berdeens’ side trips the Grant Company. He commenced his is principal of Lisbon High School and and holidays sound like a travelogue. merchandising career with the Grant president of the State of Maine Reserve They have visited Paris, Luxemburg, store in New Orleans, La., and from Officers’ Association He was discharged Strasbourg, Lucerne, Switzerland and there went to the store at Muskogee, as a major after European service with Berchtesgaden, six months in Bavaria Okla, and later to the company’s Salt the 5th Armored Division, and was pro­ while Tom took a course at Sonthoffen. Lake City store. His first position as moted to lieutenant colonel in the Reserve Recently Mildred had a three day trip to store manager was at the Berkeley, Calif, Officer Corps. Berlin. They have two German maids store where he remained until promoted I have a new list of the addresses and who speak nothing but German and they to a merchandise checker for the Grant members of the class of 1932 which the are all learning to speak the language. stores in the mid-west Subsequently he Alumni Office kindly mailed me to try to They have attended carnivals and in gen­ was manager of the stores in Utica and inject a bit of variety in many newsless eral have had a very rich experience. Syracuse, N. Y., and then became a dis­ column. I’m thinking of publishing bits Now don’t you all wish you had stayed trict manager, a position which he held in the service—might have saved our­ of it in this column just to pad it a bit. selves the trouble of going back in. for four and one-half years before coming Fun to read it over though. I tried to to Bangor. Russ is married and has two Please let’s make the next two columns decide which member of the class has full of news and plan on reunion. children, Kenneth and Betsy. With his drifted into a far country and some dis­ family he is living at Penobscot Terrace tance from Orono and think that Thomas Mrs Thomas McGuire, in Brewer. Morrison may be my choice He is living 209 W. 107th S t, Clifford Mclntire of Perham has been at Bangkok, Siam and his address is New York, N. Y. named to take over active management of Chulalongkarn University. Last month the notes seemed to be in­ the Membership and Public Relations De­ By the way, do you know that this is volved with those from an other class, partment of Maine Potato Growers, Inc. our reunion year? That should be news so that the ’35 column was prefaced by He joined the firm last November 19th Hope we can have a large gathering. a report that was meant for us. as assistant general manager and manager There is really little to report this of the Credit Department. He has de­ 1933 Mrs John R. Carnochan, month. I had an Easter vacation in Maine, veloped a long range price support pro­ * 37 Falmouth S t, Portland but other than seeing some 1948 Maine gram for the potato industry, and in this Sam Calderwood served as chairman of alumni, I didn’t hear from any ’35ers. connection he recently appeared before the the Bangor Red Cross fund drive. Sam In New York, on February 26th, Flor­ House and Senate Agricultural Com­ is disaster chairman of the Penobscot ence Kaminsky became the bride of Dr. mittee at Durham, New Hampshire, and County Chapter and was actively respon­ Arthur Lieberman, also of Bangor. Flor­ at Springfield, Massachusetts. His testi­ sible for the Red Cross assistance rendered ence, since her matriculation at Columbia, mony before both committees was very by the local chapter in the fire disaster favorably received, and he has been com­ of last fall mended for his work in this connection by Rev. Bessie Cox recently spoke at Gov. Hildreth. Machias on “International Relations.” BANGOR BOX CO. Your secretary is most grateful to Paul Tillie Bell Bunker has moved to Brewer from Portland and is living at 43 Jeffer­ PAPER BOXES, FOLDING CARTONS Wadsworth of Hiram for a recent letter COMMERCIAL PRINTING in which he sends news of two other class­ son Ave 75 So Main St, Brewer, Me mates. “Ralph A. Corbett, of Orono, as­ H F Drummond, 1900 1 9 3 4 Mrs. Robert C. Russ, Pres and Treas. sistant dairy specialist for the Agricul­ 39 Farm Hill Rd , tural Extension Service, has been granted Cape Elizabeth a 5 month leave of absence to study for Spring holiday travelers in the class of a Master of Science degree in Dairy Hus­ '34 included the Jack Leddys and the E dward E. C h a se, President bandry at the University of Wisconsin. Larry Chattos. The Leddys have just He will return to Maine and report for returned from a three weeks cruise to MAINE SECURITIES COMPANY duty on July 1st.” “Carleton K. Nims is Nassau—sounds like a dream The Chat­ soon to go to North Dakota as soil tester tos have been to Miami and stopped en 465 Congress Street in the Soils Laboratory at Riverdale, route in New York, Washington, D. C, Portland, Me. working on the largest earth fill dam in and the Carolinas. the world, across the Missouri River. Among Maine men representing the Mail addressed to Sullivan, N. H , will be Portland Sales Committee of the New forwarded to him. He has been working England Milk Producers Association was in the Bureau of Standards in Washing­ Stanley Blanchard of Cumberland Center. ton, D. C., for several years; he is mar­ Mrs. Ralph T. Wells (Merthyl Coy) ried and has two boys.” And news of lives at 1211 Terrace Drive, Springfield, Paul, himself, is that though the October Ohio. fire disaster wiped out his farm buildings Marion Martin is still keeping the class of Boston. Massachusetts and everything, his herd of Registered of ’34 on the map. She has been elected Herefords was unharmed. He has pur­ Delegate at Large to the Republican Life Insurance, Annuities chased an adjoining farm and writes, National Convention. “Our new home was built about 1793 and Frederick Hinton has just left his posi­ Croup Insurance, Pensions has been in one family ever since. The tion with U S. Rubber in New York City building is very well preserved and was and accepted a position with Mantle Lamp D w ig h t S a y w a r d originally used for a tavern in the stage Company in Chicago. His present address coach days where stages stopped over is 7233 N. Sheridan, Chicago, 111. General Agent for State of Maine night on their journey from Portland 415 Congress Street, Portland through the White Mountains.” He has I had a nice note from our president, two daughters. 9 and 4 years old. He also Phil Parsons, about our coming reunion has been a Rural Mail Carrier for 17 in June. He would like me to include in 23 APRIL, 1948 THE M AINE ALUMNUS of the Central Maine Power Company. Rabbi B. Periman officiated. Leo’s wife has been teaching homemaking in secon­ His home is in Rockland, Maine. was born in Austria but lived the great­ dary schools in New York. Dr. Lieber- Joe Mullen has accepted a position as er part of her life in England. She grad­ man received his medical degree from the District Sales Representative for the uated from Cornell Law School, Ithaca, University of Michigan, subsequently to Aro-Equipment company, covering the N. Y., and is now associated in the theat­ his pre-medical training at Bowdoin; his states of Maine, New Hampshire and rical business in New York City. Leo post-graduate work was at the Jackson Vermont. His home address is 323 Buck graduated from Harvard Law after grad­ Memorial Laboratory at Bar Harbor. uating from U. of M. During the war he Dr. and Mrs. Lieberman will live in Ban- St., Bangor. spent three years in the army, two of gor. 1938 Mrs. Roland P. Wirths, which were in the European Theatre. He The Maine Father and Son Business 47 Falmouth St., Portland is a member of the Maine Bar Association. Firms featured in a Portland paper This certainly is a baby year and the Leo is now associated in the theatrical showed Mr. Walter L. Emerson, Sr., and class of 1938 is among the leaders, I’d say. business in New York City. I only have Walter. The Walter L Emerson and Let’s see, in 1965 all these youngsters his home address in Bangor, but I’m sure Son firm, founded in 1905 by Walter s should be entering the U. of M. I am he can be reached c/o Mr. Abraham grandfather, deals in insurance and is just getting adjusted to small cries around Lieberman, 49 Parkview Ave., Bangor. located in Lewiston. Walter joined the the house myself, three hour feedings, Since my husband has become a sports firm in 1935, was a navy lieutenant for orange juice and cod liver oil. Have four years, and returned to Lewiston in writer, I have become a devotee of the three more births to report this month. sports page. Have noted that in the recent October, 1945 It certainly is wonderful. 4 cornered meet here between South Port­ Hugh Ryan is employed by the Gener­ This morning a letter came from Bennie al Adjustment Bureau, 31 Mamoroneck land, Cheverus, Deering and Portland (Mrs Blake Smith, Marguerite Benja­ two of the records won or shared by Ave, White Plains, New York. His min) about the birth of Sterling C. Smith residence address is 146 Mayflower Gar­ Johnny Gowell were still intact after the on Dec. 13th. Bennie says she and Blake 18th running of the event in February, dens, Stamford, Conn. have four children, Suzanne 5 1/2, Sandra Everett C Creamer is the assistant to 1948. These records are 45-yard high almost 4, Stephen 1 l/2, and Sterling al­ hurdles—6 seconds (shared) and the 300- the mechanical engineer of the Magnus most brand new. As you may remember, Metal Division National Lead Company, Blake is farming in Exeter and the chief yard dash, 35 seconds which he holds Fitchburg, Mass His residence address is crop is potatoes but they also have a nice alone Johnny’s Alma Mater, South Port­ School Street, South Ashburnham, Mass. herd of registered Hereford cattle. Bennie land High School, which has dominated And so until next month— the meet for years, won again by the sec­ also told me that George and Barbara ond largest score ever posted. 1936 Mrs Edwin P. Webster, Jr., Brown Roundy stopped at their place Box 215, Hampden Highlands last summer on their way to Quebec. 1939 Mrs. Donald Huff, Richard Lunt is employed by the E. I. George and Barbara live in Walpole, 1 Swan St., Calais du Pont de Nemours & Company in the Mass. (168 Diamond St.) Bennie and Herbert Leonard, Oxford County Agent plastic division His address is 1718 Blake’s address is R.F.D., E. Corinth. for the Extension Service, has been ap­ Spring St., Parkersburg, Va Next in order of birth was Miriam pointed district agent during the five- Kay Hoctor is Educational Consultant (Hilton) and John Coffin’s baby, Feb. 23, month leave of absence of Ralph Corbett. for F E. Compton & Company. Her ad­ John Stanley (to be called Stanley) He His headquarters will be at Orono until dress is 5 Cedar A ve, Old Orchard Beach, weighed 9 lbs. 15 oz. The Coffins have the return of Mr. Corbett in July. Maine. three children now, Allen who will be 6 Dr. Corwin Olds has been appointed Willard and E’Llora Crane are parents in April, Judy 3 last July. John was a senior chaplain of the California National of a son, George Lincoln, who was born member of the class but did not gradu­ Guard. He served during the war as Feb 19. Willard is in the operating de­ ate He is an automobile mechanic em­ chaplain of the Central Pacific Base Com­ partment of the Central Maine Power ployed by Capitol Cadillac-Oldsmobile mand. Company in Portland. The Cranes live at Company in Washington, D. C. He is 31 Haven Rd, South Portland also Deacon in the Warner Memorial 1940 Mrs Edward R. Ladd, Presbyterian Church, Kensington, M d, 108 Talbot Ave., Rockland Gordon Levensallor, of the W. H. Gor­ Assistant Scoutmaster, member of Kens­ The only news I have this month comes ham Company in Bangor, is a member of ington Masonic Lodge Their address is from the Alumni Office. So blame the the board of directors of the Eastern 3320 Glenway Drive, Kensington, Md. brevity of this column on yourselves! Maine Contractors Association. Fred E. Holt of Machias has been ap­ Gerald Beverage is on the legal staff An announcement came of the birth of Edward Swasey Calderwood II whose pointed forestry specialist for the Agri­ parents are Dr and Mrs. George C. Cal­ cultural Extension Service of the Uni­ derwood. George married Priscilla Bell versity of Maine. He succeeds Albert D. H AYN ES & CHALMERS CO. of Portland. They have a little girl be­ Nutting During the war Fred was a lieutenant (senior grade) in the navy. A. S Chalmers ’05, Treas sides their new baby. The new baby weighed 6 lbs. 12 oz. and was born March For the past two years he has been county HARDWARE 8. George went into the Navy during the agricultural agent for the Maine Exten­ war and served in the Pacific Theatre. sion Service in Washington County. He BANGOR MAINE He is now stationed at the U. S. Naval is married and has three children. Hospital, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. Captain Emil F. Hawes is studying a Hope we have the biography correct, course in Engineering Sciences at the Air George The class would like to know Force Institute of Technology, Wright- Bangor Furniture Co. more about you, I’m sure. Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio, John Clark was elected director of the Headquarters of Air Material Command. Complete House Furnishers Maine Aeronautics Commission on Feb. He was previously stationed at MacDill 1. The announcement of his appointment Air Force Base, Florida. 84-88 Hammond Street was made by Gov. Hildreth. He succeeds James Litz and Miss Theresa Caston- Bangor, Maine Col. Philip E Tukey, Jr, of Cape Eliza­ guay were married in Limestone on Feb. beth who resigned as of February 20. 1. After attending the University Mr. John attended Boeing School of Aero­ Litz graduated from Bentley School of nautics in Oakland, California He served Accounting, and is now employed by DAKIN’S as co-pilot for United Airlines, served F. H. Vahlsing Inc., of New York City. three years as a command pilot in the He and Mrs Litz are living in Fort Sporting Goods Naval Air Transport Command, worked Fairfield. Camera Supplies two years as sales manager of Marden Airways in Waterville, and was employed 1941 Mrs. Vale G. Marvin, Shep Hurd '17 M. A. Hurd ’26 as sales manager of the Peavey Manu­ Kennebec Rd , Bangor Waterville facturing Company in Waterville at the Hampden Highlands time of his appointment. John is quoted The engagement of Miss Alice Denni­ as saying he is particularly interested in son to Thomas Fairchild has been an­ Distributors of Building promoting possibilities for the sports­ nounced by Miss Dennison’s parents. Materials man pilot who likes to use his plane for Miss Dennison received her R.N. at the hunting and fishing. John has two daugh­ New England Baptist Hospital in Boston ACME SUPPLY CO. ters His address is 15 Dalton St., in 1945 and was assistant head nurse Summer & South Sts. Waterville. there until Sept., 1947. At that time she Bangor, Me. Leo Liberman was married January joined the staff of the Hyde Memorial T. M Hersey ’34, Manager 27 to Miss Antoinia Maddison of Detroit, Home for Crippled Children in Bath. Philip Johnson ’43, Sales Engr Michigan. The wedding took place in Tom served in the U. S. Army as a first Temple Emanual in New York City. lieutenant with the 93rd division. Now

THE MAINE ALUMNUS 24 APRIL, I948 he is with the Veterans Administration in Bangor. They plan to be married in drew back, apologized, took a look at correctly, obtained her B.S. in Library her—and then promptly whipped off his Science at Simmons College in Boston June. hat with—“Say-y-y weren’t you the Red Oscar Riddle and Miss Barbara Ham­ Cross lady at Tientsin who gave me the the year following her graduation from den of Rangeley were married recently “Maine.” Since July of ’46 she has been popcorn?” Small world, n’est pas? We on the West Coast as a librarian, and ac­ in Rangeley. Mrs. Riddle is a graduate of have always liked Bill Cunningham’s Oak Grove Seminary and the Lesley cording to Carolyn, “It’s still fun.” At writeups, but, now we can appreciate them present she is the possessor of an apart­ Kindergarten School of Cambridge, Mass. just that much more knowing ’tis Fran Oscar was recently discharged from the ment at 5703—18th Ave. N. E., Seattle who is behind the typewriter pounding out 5, Washington, and she has plans to re­ Army Air Corps with the rank of captain. those daily columns. The Riddles will reside in Rangeley for main there for another year. Carolyn Preston Rand was named in February hasn’t become entirely oblivious of Maine the present. to the three-man management committee Merlin T. Scanlin is a salesman of by the way as she did condescend to spend of Ray Goding post, American Legion, her two weeks vacation at her Steep Falls grain, farm machinery and poultry equip­ for a two-year term. Randy, as I guess ment for General Mills, Inc., Auburn. home last summer. And also from Caro­ most of you know, is associated with the lyn comes the wish that Polly Forbus His residence is Pleasant Ave., Mechanic Maine Potato Growers, Inc, in Presque Falls. would contact her by the U. S. Mail or Isle. that some kind soul would send me Polly’s Bruce Mackay is a draftsman for the Donald Taverner of South Portland, Intercontinent Eng. Corp., 34 Wall St., address to forward on to Seattle. is now Northern New England represen­ Also out of the blue came the news of New York City. His address is Hotel tative of the National Foundation for the arrival of Pamela Ruth Hersey on Irvin, Rm. 420, 308 West 30th St., New Infantile Paralysis. “Bucket” is frequent­ February 23 at the Portland Maine Gen­ York 1, N. Y. ly called upon to speak on the functions eral Hospital. The proud parents? No Virgil Pratt has been awarded a special of local and national organizations in the less than Barbara (Moore) and Dick fellowship by the Horace H. Backham infantile setup. In fact, just recently he Hersey! School of Graduate Studies at the Uni­ was guest speaker at the weekly luncheon We have for the record information versity of Michigan, where he is now meeting of the Bangor-Brewer Lions about the Leap Year wedding of Miss studying for his Ph.D. degree in zoology, Club After spending several years in Barbara M. Putnam of Fort Fairfield to specializing in ichthyology and fishery bi­ the U. S. Army, “Bucket” is widely ex­ Beverly Burnham. The present Mrs. ology. Virgil received his M.S. at the perienced in social work. Burnham was a member of the Cadet University of Maine in 1946 and last year Miss Jean Fitzgerald, daughter of Mr. Nurse Corps at the Eastern Maine Gener­ taught in the zoology department there. and Mrs Charles Fitzgerald, is now Mrs. al in Bangor, and upon completion of her The Pratts are living at Willow Run, Harold Mongovan, Jr. Congratulations training last spring she has been a mem­ Michigan. to you both! Rev. John Reilly of the ber of the nursing staff. The Burnhams I received a nice card from John J. Holy Spirit Church of Asbury Park, will live in Hampton, Va., where Beverly Edmunds announcing the arrival of Karla N. J., a friend of the bridegroom, offici­ is employed at Langley Field in the gov­ Rae on January 3 in Old Town. ated and celebrated the Nuptial Mass at ernment experiment station established I also had a nice note from Robert St John’s Church in Dunellen, N. J. there. Goodwin who has recently been appointed John Derry ’40, was one of the ushers. Two more engagements have occurred pastor of the First Methodist Church in A wedding reception at the Park Hotel, in our class. From the Alumni Office Rockaway, N. J. He had been in East Plainfield, N. J., following the ceremony. comes word of Bob Martin’s engagement Orange for the past two years. His ad­ Both Jean and “Dit” are employed in the to Miss Dorothy M. Seehagen of Augusta. dress now is 68 Church St., Rockaway, sales department of the Calco Chemical Also, not so long ago I read of Ethelyn N. J. Company, Bound Brook, N. J They are Bradstreet’s to Theodore Russell of Win­ Thank you all for your letters and residing in Somerville, N. J. slow. Mr. Russell is a graduate of Colby please may I have more news. Congratulations to Bob Jenkins! Bob with 30 months of the U. S. Navy solidly 1943 Mrs. James Grisham, has received the degree of Master of behind him. Previously I reported that Science in Chemical Engineering from Lynn was the girls’ coach at Unity High 151 Beacon S t, Boston, Mass. M I T. His master’s thesis required the School. She is also a teacher of Home Well, well, spring has at last unfolded building of a small plant for the manu­ Economics. itself! At least that promised kiss of facture of phenol by direct oxidation We will wind up this month’s news springtime was performed in Boston last (By the way, I saw Bob’s father at the with a list of our former classmates who week with the opening of the New Eng­ B A.A Track meet. Coach Jenkins’ boys received their prized sheepskins at the land Flower Show in grandeur that just certainly did well for themselves ) February Commencement Exercises: in can’t be described. Connie (King) Barnes Mark C. Devereux is with the Charles Agriculture are “Deep” Bardsley, Bob and myself drank freely of the spring M. Cox Company of Boston located in Wood, Don Howard, Arnold Cohen and tonic “for it was very sweet, indeed” with Brockton, Mass. His mail goes to 17 W. Larry Wheeler; in Arts and Sciences are literally thousands of brilliant red, bright Chestnut St., Brockton, Mass. Elliott Hale, Jr., George Kelley, John yellow, lavender and white tulips in a Joshua B Montgomery is a salesman Kenoyer, James Mooney, Malcolm Pier­ setting of picturesque Dutch houses, a for Textile Supplies with the Carolina son (With Distinction) and John Mar­ canal and drawbridges. And that bank of Supply Co His mail goes to Apt 2-C, riott; in the school of Education is Royal exquisite orchids! I must not tarry on Isaqueena Apts , Greenville, S. C. Graves; and Technology are Frank Dins- this subject—but my heart now is yearn­ And last, but not least—a new citizen more, Marsden Hutchins, A1 Barmby, ing for the real spring. to welcome—Judith Ann Hempstead, born George Morrill, Bernard Rines, Bill Dottie Crane was planning to go along January 24th, weight 8 lbs. 10 1/2 oz. Con­ Scales, George Hansen, Jr., Bob Threlfall, to the show with us—but, as little Nancy gratulations, Margaret and Dave! For Ellwood Titcomb and Windy Work. has not yet arrived at the age where she the next three months or so, Dave will be Do you find this column rather short can “fend” for herself, it was necessary in Milwaukee on business, during which this month? Well, you know what you for one of the Cranes to be at home. time Margaret will be keeping house at can do to remedy the situation. (’Twas a school day for Icky ) 11 Ohio St., Bangor, Maine. The Hemp- 1 9 4 6 Mildred A. Byronas, First off for new? of the month is that steads expect to settle eventually in the 158 Blake St., Lewiston Frances Donovan is now secretary to fair state of Maine. Bill Cunningham—or, as Mr. Cunningham With much enthusiasm and esprit plans Saw Cecile Littlefield for a moment are beginning to take shape for our forth­ stated in his column, not too long agOy- the other day She was hurrying on her coming reunion From the response thus “vice-president in charge of details.” Did way to work, so we didn’t have much far the ’46ers are really going to make you perchance see that item? Yes, Fran time for conversation Cecil’s address is their first reunion a great success! Isn’t was the subject of a birthday story. Wish 57 Marlborough St., Boston, Mass , and it wonderful to look forward to the I could go into lengths but it went some­ is employed as a staff nurse at the Mass. rounding up of the old gang? I hope all thing like this. It all revolved about the General Hospital. of you share my eagerness and are plan­ time Fran was a Red Cross gal in China— So, ’til next month, folks, when we hope ning to be on campus for the gala affair. when a seventeen year old kid in the Ma­ Spring shall just be bustin’ out all over! Thanks to the alumni office the where­ rine Combat troops in Tientsin approached abouts of Mrs. Randall Ellis (Anna her for some popcorn. It was his birth­ 1945 Mrs Fred Haggett, Keene) comes to us. She and her husband day—and all he wanted was some Ameri­ 105 Main St, Orono Each month as I turn this column into are making their home at Woodland and can popcorn. Fran produced three cans Hilltop Roads, Arden, Del. of the desired item. (So happened it had the Alumni Office, I wonder where on earth news for the next month is coming A recent letter from Pearl Harbor just arrived in a personal shipment from brought news of Bob Ham, who in spite her mother. Result—Fran’s mother re­ from. And as I wait for the miracle to occur, it usually does in some manner as of a very happy winter, writes that he ceived a Mother’s Day card from the will be glad to get back to the states bov.) To make the story short—that very it did this month with a letter out of the blue from Carolyn Small. when his 18 months are up next Septem­ same fellow accidentally bumped into her ber. He hasn’t seen many Mainiacs out emerging from one of the local subways, Carolyn, and I hope I am remembering APRIL, 1948 THE MAINE ALUMNUS 25 Guy P. Gannett Publishing Co., Augusta, there and says he would be pleased to District, N. J. Mail goes to 24 Oak Lane, Morristown, N. J. . Maine Mail goes to 28 School St., Au­ hear from any that are in the Pacific area, Alberta Emogene Closson is Labora­ gusta, Maine. and especially if they are in the navy. tory technician in pathological laboratory Foster Jacobs is Assistant Plant Engi­ To all Mainiacs, however, here is Bob's neer at the U. S. Gypsum Co. in Lisbon address. Box 34, Com Serv. Pac, Pearl at the Maine General Hospital in Port­ land Mail goes to 53 Bramhall St., Falls, Maine Mail goes to 14 School S t, Harbor, T. H. Portland, Maine . , Lisbon Falls, Maine. Quite by chance Evy Shaw came into John H. Kenoyer is a special agent of the advertising department of the Lewis­ Charles Everett Cunningham is em­ ployed at the Aroostook Potato Growers the Federal Bureau of Investigation, ton Sun-Journal several days ago and Dept, of Justice. Mail goes to 1900 that being my place of employment, we in the Seed Dept. Mail goes to c/o Aroos­ took Potato Growers, Crouseville, Maine Bankers Bldg, Chicago 3, Ill were mutually surprised to see each other. Nelua Littlefield is teaching at the Evy is still with the training course at Robert Dinsmore is doing graduate work at the University of Maine Mail Orono High School. Mail goes to 90 Filene’s in Boston and will complete her Park St., Orono, Maine. requirements this summer. goes to Sigma Alpha Epsilon House, Orono, Maine. Lester Nathan Mack is a test engineer Recent engagement announcements in­ for General Electric Co. in Lynn, Mass. clude that of Betty Boterf to Harrison Roger W Dow is a teacher of the sixth grade at McLain School in Rock­ Mail goes to 21 Surrenden S t, Portland, Dow, who is at present employed by Maine. Philco Radio Corp, Philadelphia. Bar­ land, Maine Mail goes to 25 Spruce S t, Rockland, Maine. John Cleveland Marriott is doing grad­ bara Wood of Bangor to John Brookings; uate work at the Univ. of Maine. Mail Maxine Hedrick to Kenneth E Jackson. Merle Phillip Finley is a teacher at Husson College in Bangor, Maine. Mail goes to 10-A, So. Apts., Univ. of Maine, Malcolm Dempsey was married to Orono, Maine. Mary E. Washburn in February Mal­ goes to 143 Broadway, Bangor, Maine. colm is working at the Sears Roebuck Robert F Fischer is working on the Frederick S. McKenney is with G. Company in Presque Isle. Kitchen Crew for the Appalachian Moun­ McKenney & Sons, Saw Manufacturers. tain Club. Mail goes to Appalachin Mail goes to 98 Royal Road, Bangor, 1948 The following items are taken Mountain Club, Gorham, N. H Maine. from the directory cards Mail­ Alton Reynolds Frost is entering the Ellie McLaughlin is a teacher at ing address is indicated—Ed University of Wisconsin to do graduate Springdale School in Springdale, Con­ Philip Harold Albair is employed with work in political science during the sum­ necticut. Mail goes to 43 Hoyt St., Stam­ the Maine Unemployment Compensation mer of 1948 Mail goes to York Village, ford, Conn. Commission doing Personnel work. Mail Maine Harold Brian Mooers is an Electrical goes to 6 Washington S t, Caribou, Maine Dana A Giggey is a teacher at Bangor Willis E Anderson is employed with Designer for the Boston and Maine Rail­ High School. Mail goes to 92 Machias road Co.; Engineering Offices, B. & Burroughs Adding Machine Co as a Blv., Bangor, Maine salesman at 333 Forest Ave, Portland, M. R.R. Co., 150 Causeway St., Boston, Helen Gorden is test engineering with Mass Mail goes to 89 Wayne Ave., Wal­ Maine Mail goes to 126 William S t, General Electric in Schenectady, N. Y Portland, Maine. tham 54, Mass. Mail goes to 15 Baldwin St., Livermore Robert H. Parmenter is a graduate Albert Roy Barmby, Home Washing­ Falls, Maine. ton St., No Reading, Mass Mail goes student at Mass. Inst, of Tech, in Cam­ Paul Ernest Grant is Graduate Assist­ bridge, Mass. Mail goes to 60 Leland St., to 20-F, So. Apts , Univ of Maine, Orono, ant in Physics at Brown University in Maine Portland, Maine. Providence, R I Mail goes to 98 Spring Richard Pratt is now going to Soule Elizabeth Boyce, on Oct 1, 1948, will St., Auburn, Maine College in New Orleans, La. Mail goes to be a student at the New Britian General Agnes A Gray is working on M A. in Hospital Medical Technology School 71 Sweden St., Caribou, Maine. History at Univ of Maine. Mail goes to Alice G Robinson is teaching school. Mail goes to c/o Dutch Lake Club, 217 Balentine Hall, Orono, Maine. Springfield, Maine Mail goes to 124 Pleasant St., Portland, Elmo G. Hall is doing graduate work Maine. Mrs Margaret Ambrose Chaplin is in School of Education at the Univ. of Philip L. Saw'telle is attending Henry Medical Technologist at Central Maine Maine Mail goes to 17 Margin St., Oro­ I. Simmons School of Advanced Floral General Hospital Lab, in Lewiston, no, Maine Designing and Decorating. Mail goes to Maine. Mail goes to 31 Shepley S t, Au­ George E. Hansen, Jr, is employed by 14 Messalonskee Ave., Waterville, Maine. burn, Maine. the Riley Stoker Corp as an engineer at Arnold G. Shaw is an Electrical Engi­ Paul G Clifford is employed in For­ Worcester, Mass. Mail goes to 926 Main neer with Ebasco Services Inc, in New estry Aid, Region 5, U S. Forest Service St, Worcester, Mass. York City, a firm of Consultant Engi­ in Berkeley, Calif Mail goes to Calif. Monson H. Hayes, Jr, is Research As­ neers. Mail goes to R F.D , East Taun­ Forest and Range Exp. S ta, 200 Mercan­ ton, Mass. tile Bldg, Berkeley, Calif. sistant on E. E Staff of Mass Inst, of Tech, in Cambridge, Mass Mail goes to Mrs. Madeline P Shaw is teaching the Richard H Coffin is Plant Engineering 1737 Cambridge St., Apt 302, Cam­ third grade at Hannibal Hamlin School Assistant at Bell Tel Co. in Morristown bridge, Mass. in Bangor, Maine. Mail goes to 18 Nason Leander Montague (Monty) Higgins Ave., Bangor, Maine. is a reporter for Daily Kennebec Journal, Mrs. Frances White Sullivan is a medi­ cal technician in Pathology laboratory at NORTHEASTERN Eastern Maine General Hospital in Ban­ gor, Maine. Mail goes to R.F.D. #3, Ellsworth, Maine. UNIVERSITY REUNION CLASSES Gordon Henry True, mail goes to 15 N. Front St., Richmond, Maine. SCHOOL OF LAW Warren J. Turner is with the Severn- Eleven classes will hold alumni Wylie-Jewett Co., Printers & Publishers. Admits Men and Women Reunions at Commencement in He is assisting the editor of a specialized June. The dates of the program journal published weekly known as “Mekeel’s Weekly Stamp New'.” It is are June 18-20 with Saturday, REGISTRATION devoted to the wants, desires, and in­ June 19, as Alumni Day. The fol­ terests of stamp collectors, and is the Day and Evening Programs lowing groups are scheduled for oldest news weekly of its kind, being programs: established originally in St Louis, Mo. September 13-15, 1948 in 1891. Mail goes to 364 Broadway, So. Portland, Maine. Early application is 1898— 50 Year Reunion Clyde Lawrence Wheeler is a student necessary at Suffolk University Law School in Boston, Mass. Mail goes to 38 Hopewell 1912— 1913— 1914— 1915 Veterans accepted under Rd., Hyde Park, Mass. Ralph H. White is a student at the G. I. Bills 1923— 25 Year Reunion Univ. of Maine. Mail goes to East Machias, Maine 1931— 1932— 1933— 1934 Winslow A. Work is a sales engineer 47 Mt. Vernon Street student. Mail goes to c/o W. M. Work, 1946 R F.D. #3, So. Brewer, Maine. Boston 8, Massachusetts Fred Zachowski is a traveling salesman at present, awaiting a teaching position. Mail goes to Searsmont, Maine. TH E MAINE ALUMNUS 26 APRIL, 1948 Complete Satisfaction

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