ALUMNI ISSUE MARCH, 1965

SWÄRTHMORECOLLEGE BULLETIN

A light-hearted issue celebrates spring What students do for fun

a prescription for zipping up U. S. Davis Cup competition an inside

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MARCH, 1965

1 What Do They Do for Fun?

8 Is Baseball Here to Stay? An Interview with Leland MacPhail, Jr. ’39

13 Television and the World of Sports An Interview with William MacPhail ’41

18 What's Wrong with the Davis Cup Competition in the U. S.? By Edwin J. Faulkner, Associate Professor of Physical Education for Men

23 The College

26 Class Notes

49 Swarthmoreana, a Crossword Puzzle By Charles M. Bush ’49

Editor Maralyn Orbison Gillespie ’49 Director of the News Office

Assistant Editor Kathryn Bassett ’35 Director of Alumni and Fund Offices

T he Bulletin, of which this publication is Volume LXI, No. 5, is published monthly except January, June, August, and November by Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.

THE COVER “Half the fun of Swarthmore,” says Andy Fleck ’65, pictured on the cover with Joel Jaffe ’65, “is its casual dating, and the most fun are things that happen spontaneously. You meet someone for dinner and you decide to go to Philly, even though it is raining and you are both broke and you don’t have anything special to do. You spend twenty-five cents for a cherry whip, which is like long rope and tastes like a combination of jello and glue. It’s terrible but fun. You play the pinball machines in a penny arcade on Market Street. You talk to a man digging in the street. Perhaps if you do have some money, you start out for a concert and then decide to go to a pro basketball game because you have never seen one.” The seven-page story “What Do They Do for Fun?” begins on the next page. What Do They Do fo r Fun ?

t r JL A o w does the present generation of Swarthmore students have a good time? Statistics point out they make higher scores on their College Boards and they earn more Ph.D. degrees, but do they have any time for fun? What do they do when they are not “turking” or sudsing the laundry or sleeping? We put the question to eight students, diverse in their interests and enthusiasms. One was president of Student Council; another was editor of the Phoenix. A sophomore woman headed the Social Committee. There were Honors and course students, seniors, and one freshman who lost his underclass anonymity the night he played a cymbal solo in the Freshman Talent Show. Fun, said the eight students, is often spontaneous, frequently purposeless, often absurd. It can also be organized, creative, serious of purpose, and at times tearful. It is seldom a bash. Chacun à son goût. And yet for all the differences, fun had some common denominators in the group. Walking through the Crum. Bull sessions. Working together for a common purpose. Somerville snack bar after the library closes at ten. Open houses in the dorms. For the common and uncommon in fun at Swarthmore in pictures and text, please turn the page.

Depending upon your generation, it was the Charleston, the bunny hug, or the big apple. In 1964 at the Christmas dance fun was the frug, or the watusi, or the swim.

1 IBRI What Do They Do for Fun?

j go caving whenever I can. I read books about it in high school and always wanted to go myself but never had the chance until college. I spent twenty-four hours in a cave last year right after exams on an Outing Club trip to West Virginia. We inched through passageways so narrow you couldn’t turn your head. We had to make one drop of 150 feet by ropes and crawl through stream beds twice. We were prepared for one with an extra set of clothes, but we didn’t know about the other crossing. In wet clothes you shivered when you moved in the 50-degree temperature.

Potting is loads of fun. It’s something I had always wanted to do and I finally learned how here. I have “The Phoenix takes about sixty hours a week, and most^of this comes an unsatisfied creative urge some­ out of sleep time; but it’s fun and you have a product. times, that is almost like a hunger— Juniors Alex Capron (standing), Dick Greenberg, and a desire to paint, or sew, or make Delia Fortune put an issue of the paper to bed. something. I’m disturbed when I don’t have the time.

What’s fun about editing the Phoenix? The people. That’s what makes everything at Swarthmore so interesting. The Phoenix takes about sixty hours a week, and most of this comes out of sleep time, but it’s fun, and you have a product. Twice a week you can reach into the mailbox and pull it out.

The fraternity is a big part of my social life. There are parties every week or two, with a band maybe twice a semester, but more importantly the fraternity means a place to go to be with close friends when your work gets you down. There is always someone to play pool or Ping-Pong with or just to talk to.

“Potting is loads of fun. It’s something, “There is always someone at the fraternity house to play pool I had always wanted to learn to do.” or Ping-Pong with or just to talk to.” Jan Burgess ’66 works at the potter’s wheel. Steve Penrose ’66 relaxes at the DU pool table. 3 March, 1965 5 J '.. Is . There s Clothier tower to climb (in October and May with permission from the Dean). Climber Liz Probasco is a junior.

What Do They Do for Fun?

i am not conscious of doing anything for fun. It is just one of those things that happen. It isnt the nature of the activity, for seminars are often fun. It’s fun to cook a meal in the lodges or to make cookies for a special occasion. Evening open houses in the dorms are wonderful. So is Wade House work, although at times it’s so depressing and frustrating that I come back in tears. But my group of junior high girls possesses a lot of joy and energy and enthusiasm and some of it rubs off on me. Then there’s that wonderful swing in the big oak as soon as you come out of the dining room, and the Clothier tower to climb, and Crum to walk in. People complain about too much work, but they manage to find ways to relax. Nobody let’s himself get too martyred.

4 Swarthmore Alumni Issue Steve Nathanson, a senior philosopher in Honors, says it’s easy to shoot an hour and a half with his hanjo. “I used to prefer to play and sing in a group, but now I often enjoy playing instrumentals alone.”

J enjoyed being Student Council president. It’s an opportunity to talk to a lot of people and to learn a little about how the College ticks. Council meetings are efficient in getting business done, although we do a surprising amount of joking around. We don’t need a humor magazine; we have the Student Council minutes. For fun I also play the banjo. It’s very easy to shoot an hour and a half that way.

March, 1965 5 What Do They Do for Fun?

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JL take long walks in the Crum for relaxation. I spend a lot of time in bull sessions in the dorm talking about politics, and foreign affairs, and various items in the news; or girls and social problems here, or graduate school and career plans. We talk a lot about moral structures. In winter I like to play hockey on the Crum and to watch the little kids skate. In spring and fall I go joy-riding on my motor scooter with a date and discover back roads with names like Possum Hollow. It’s fun to get excited about what you are studying, and once or twice a semester, you see the interrelationships. It’s exhilarating and that’s what keeps people going.

Wendy Hyatt ’68 and Greg Ingram ’65 go joy-riding on a motor scooter.

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^ .’ootball and all sports-they’re fun. Otherwise you wouldn’t be playing them because there is no emphasis on ball here. You don’t have to go out just because you played ball in high school. You play just because you enjoy it. The team as a whole has a lot of fun together. The guys take pride in the way they play and try to perfect it. Then there’s the midnight mile for guys who are not out for a winter sport and who are dying at their desks for exercise. At 11:45 in the evening you dive down to the track, all bundled up—the costumes are outlandish—and you run a regular mile around the track. There s something about coming back to the dorm and streaking into a hot shower and then into bed that s great.

March, 1965 IS BASEBALL HERE TO STAY?

Yes, says Lee MacPhail, president of the , who points out some of the major problems facing the sport, suggests some solutions, and concludes baseball has never been better.

Lee MacPhail 39, president of the Baltimore Orioles, watches sign up to manage the hall club. Interview with Leland MacPhail, Jr. ’39 President of the Baltimore Orioles Memorial Stadium, Baltimore, Maryland

Q Mr. MacPhail, is professional baseball a good in­ season. Now we have a new television contract with vestment today? ABC for a game of the week that’s just so much frost­ ing on the cake. And as far as the game on the field A It’s not a bine chip, and I wouldn’t advise a widow goes, I don’t think there is any question that it is to buy it—it’s too risky. Yet most of the ball clubs better than it has ever been. The players are bigger, make money, and certainly anyone who sold a major faster, and stronger than ever before. I don’t feel there league franchise over the last five years has realized many times over his original investment. But it takes is this crisis in baseball. a lot of money to operate a ball club; and if you have Q Do you think the ABC telecast will hurt attend­ a bad year and attendance falls off, you can lose a lot ance? of money. A We hope it will go up. It’s possible you could be Q Where does a ball club make most of its money? telecasting against your own team, but we play mostly Saturday night games. This additional television rev­ A Most of our revenue comes from gate receipts. The enue can really be a big help to the clubs financially second major source used to be concessions—hot dogs as the returns are over and above each club’s home and beer, but television revenue has taken over second TV package. place and pushed concessions down to third. Q Will you black-out the game of the week when it Q What’s your largest expense item? competes with home games? A Player development. It costs us more than $1 mil­ A No. If you do that your TV market is decreased too lion a year in scouts’ salaries and expenses and for the markedly. Also too many cities have two teams to operation of minor league clubs. Pro football has a big make that feasible. advantage over us because colleges serve as their farm system. Q What are some of baseball’s problems? Q What kind of a financial year did the Orioles have A One problem baseball has had has been the fact that the clubs expanded from eight-team leagues to last year? ten-team leagues. We were much better off before. By A We paid our first dividend last year, amounting to adding two more teams to each league, we really about 27 cents a share. When the club first came to complicated our lives. The biggest reason for expand­ to Baltimore in 1954, they had to borrow money from ing was that it was hard to say to people in Minne­ the bank to get started. Gradually we’ve been paying apolis and Kansas City and on the West Coast that off the loans, and were finally in the clear with money you can’t have major league ball. in the bank. Q What complications did expansion bring? Q About how much does a share of Oriole stock cost? A Well, for one thing, it makes the season a little too A Recently the average price has been $18 to $20. We long. With an eight-team league you can play a have a lot of one-share owners: parents buy a share for shorter (154-game) schedule, instead of our present their sons for Christmas. 162-game one. We play balanced schedules in base­ Q What other major league clubs are public corpora­ ball, unlike pro football, an equal number of games at tions that sell stock on the market? home and away with all league teams; consequently A The San Francisco Giants and the Milwaukee the necessity for 162 games. We also had to give up Braves. dates with the Yankees, our biggest drawing card, to play the two expansion teams, the Los Angeles An­ Q Your father claims baseball is in real trouble. Do gels and the new Washington Senators. you share his alarm over the future of the game? A Lots of people are crying the blues about baseball, Q Do you think there will be further expansion? and yet baseball had the best season in ’64 it has ever A There is talk about it. There are still major popula­ had. The attendance figures for the National and tion areas that deserve , and it American Leagues totaled 22 million during the regu­ would solve the scheduling problem. However, expan­ lar season, while up until 1945, just twenty years ago, sion is at least three or four years away. We’ve got to it had never been as high as 10 million in any one wait until we have enough good players to stock new

March, 1965 9 Where’s the action?. . .in college football, professional football, or professional baseball?

teams; everybody is still hard pressed for talent after ships, so they are lost to baseball forever. the last expansion. Q How are you trying to solve these problems? Q Do you think playing baseball is as attractive a ca­ A We have recently been working with N.C.A.A. com­ reer as it once was? mittees at both the college and professional levels. A I think it is becoming more and more attractive. These meetings have been helpful and have been con­ Salaries are higher than ever before. The pension ducted in an atmosphere of mutual cooperation. For plan is probably better than anybody else’s, including our part, we have worked toward establishing good companies like GE and Bethlehem Steel. A good summer amateur baseball programs for the college major league ball player today is set for life. player who is a professional prospect to augment the Q What about boys who want to go to college as short college season. This sometimes requires a reason­ well as play pro baseball? able interpretation of N.C.A.A. eligibility rules. The colleges, of course, want us to extend our restrictions A A lot of players today sign professional contracts after high school but go to college in the off-season. to prohibit clubs from signing college players until after graduation. We can give a player a standard college scholarship as part of his contract, and he can go to any school Q Have you made any changes in the Baltimore farm he wants. The College bills the Commissioner's Office system since you’ve been head of the Club? which in turn bills the individual ball club. Twenty to A Yes, naturally in the course of years, we have made twenty-five boys in our organization are going to many personnel changes, but the operation has re­ school on this plan now, and the plan started only two mained about the same. Most major league systems years ago. are similar. We employ about 25 full-time scouts and Q What if the boy decides he wants to do something have working agreements or affiliations with seven else? minor league clubs, where we send our players for development. Most are subsidized by the parent club, A He can quit anytime he wants to. If he’s good, he although a couple break even and Rochester makes doesn t want to. There are very few players in my money. experience who had the ability who didn’t stay with it; in fact, I can’t think of any. Q A Baltimore sportswriter has said that judging players is your long suit. How do you make your Q You said earlier that pro football had the advan­ judgments? tage over baseball because colleges were their farm A Decisions are based on the reports of our people in systems. Why doesn’t this work out for baseball too? the field—the managers, the coaches, the scouts. A First, baseball is a different game from football. It requires more finesse and skill and consequently de­ Q What about the charge that the game of baseball is filled with a lot of dead air today? mands more training. Second, college baseball is not good enough. One of the problems is the quality of A Well, one of the sports editors in Detroit recently | coaching. Too many JV football coaches run baseball went to a Detroit Tigers baseball game, a Michigan as a sideline. Another problem is scheduling. Sched­ State football game, and a Detroit Lions football ules need to be longer and better in order to give game, and with a stop watch clocked the actual college players the experience they need, and this is amount of time the ball was in play in each game. difficult because of weather and the fact that college The amount of action during the baseball game was semesters end in May. And what makes us really mad greater than that in the other two. For some reason, is when a good baseball prospect runs afoul of college I think some of the press has been anti-baseball re­ football regulations. He enters college, frequently on cently. Maybe we haven’t done the proper public an athletic scholarship, and therefore must play foot­ relations job. ball-most good baseball players make good football Q What do you think of Milwaukee moving to Atlanta? players too. Many baseball careers are ended before A Not much. I don’t think they should leave. Kansas they begin by football injuries. Some schools require City wanted to move to Atlanta and the American the boys to play spring football to keep their scholar­ League said no. I think the should

10 Swarthmore Alumni Issue have done the same as long as the city involved, in height-it can be just over the ring for wrestling or this case Milwaukee, was properly supporting the boxing, for instance, and well up out of the way for team. We could have moved to Atlanta too, and cer­ baseball or football. The Orioles and Yankees will help tainly for at least five years would have done better Houston open it in a week-end series of exhibition financially than we can anticipate doing in Baltimore. games in April, the last week before the season opens. Q Do you go with the club to Miami for spring train­ Q What do you think happened to the Phillies last ing? year? A Yes, and stay most of the time. It’s the pleasantest A About the same thing that happened to us, only part of the year. I wouldn’t miss it. worse. They collapsed. We didn’t collapse; we played along about the same way we had all season. The Q How many ball games do you see during a season? Yankees just got hot. We won seven out of eight of A I see almost all home games, and when the club is our last games but still couldn’t gain. on the road, maybe a third of the away games. When Q Is the lack of equal competition in the American I’m not with the Orioles, I’m generally with one of the farm clubs. I probably see about 150 games in a League a thing of the past? regular season. A If you take out the Yankees, you would have had a different pennant winner in four of the last five Q Do you enjoy them? years. But I think the days of Yankee domination are I A Oh, yes. But it’s hectic at times with the pressure about over. of the daily winning and losing. If you had seen John Quinn the last days of the Phillies’ season, you d know Q Why? what I mean. You can die a thousand deaths when a A A few years ago they were getting the best ball pop fly drops with the bases full, or your pitcher loses players out of high schools and colleges. They were control in the ninth, or the umpire blows one at the spending more money on scouting and had a better wrong time, or the “game-winning” line drive goes organization. Now the other teams have improved I right at an opposition fielder. their organizations and are making equal investments in young talent. And rules have been passed by the Q Do you advise Hank Bauer on strategy? leagues, intended primarily to keep bonus costs down, A No, I think strategy is strictly up to the . but which also tend to equalize competition. Not all general managers follow that rule, but I do. Q What is the background of this new bonus rule? Q Is there truth to the charge that there’s no room in A As it was originally stated, it said you couldn’t give baseball any more for the colorful players who used to a player over a certain amount of money or you had make the game interesting because organization men to carry him on your roster. This rule was hard to run the ball clubs and demand conformity? control. Then we tried the first-draft rule whereby A It all depends upon how your colorful character every player at the end of the season was subject to produces on the field. If he can play well enough, one a draft for $8,000 or you had to put him on your roster. of the twenty clubs will put up with him. Stuart and Then everybody got mad because they were carrying Belinsky, for example, just acquired by your Phils, are a lot of high school youngsters. Then last December no gray flannel suit types. we passed the free-agent draft rule, similar to the one Q Which of the new stadiums impresses you most? in pro football. We were reluctant to go to it because A Houston. It’s really fabulous. It’s covered and com- it takes away from free enterprise and restricts the | pletely air-conditioned. It has five restaurants, nine players’ right to sign with whom they want, but some­ levels, and synthetic grass. Thirty thousand cars can thing had to be done. Last year a boy from the Uni­ park—far more than at the World’s Fair. There’s a versity of Wisconsin received a $200,000 bonus to sign. weather station in the dome. Ten thousand seats are This, of course is bad for many reasons. We hope a on slide rails to adjust for either football or baseball. draft will equalize talent and keep the bonuses down. For cameras and TV a gondola lets down to any (Continued on next page)

You can die a thousand deaths when a pop fly drops with the bases full

March, 1965 11 The Yankees are still the team, to beat

Q You are noted for being an active trader. Why coming up from the farm system who look good, and didn t you make any deals during the interleague we hope that players who had below par seasons last meeting at Houston last November? year can come back and do better. Siebern at first base A We haven’t made a trade so far this year. At Hous­ should do much better, and Orsino, the catcher who ton we just couldn’t get the players we wanted. When broke his hand last year, had had a real good year the you get near the top, the other clubs are more reluc­ year before. And of course, we’ll depend on tant to give you what you want, and then too you are [Swarthmore ’53] again. He’s one of our top pitchers. looking for a better type ball player. Last season was one of his best years with an earned Q What specifically were you looking for? run average of 1.84. He had real good control, walked 16, and struck out more than 50. That’s excellent. A We wanted to add a regular outfielder. Hitting in the outfield has always been our problem. When Q Who is the team to beat? Powell was hurt last season and we were without him A The Yankees. But both leagues are so well balanced for a month, we had trouble playing .500 baseball. that the outcome depends upon what kind of year the players have. Several clubs have sufficient talent that Q How do the Orioles look for next season? if they have good seasons and they don’t run into A We are optimistic. We have four or five players serious injuries, they can win.

Lee MacPhail, right, watches baseball with his father Larry, former Yankee owner, center, and president .

L ee MacPhail has headed the Baltimore Orioles Next year he was general manager of the Toronto baseball club since 1958, when he was named general Club in the . After military serv­ manager. He was made president of the club in 1960, ice in World War 11, his next baseball jobs were as the year the Orioles finished in second place and gave business manager and then general manager of the the Baltimore fans something to cheer about for the Kansas City Blues, a Triple A farm club in the New first time. Last year the Orioles finished third after giv­ York Yankees organization. He headed the farm sys­ ing the Yankees and the White Sox a memorable see­ tem of the from 1950 to 1956, and saw battle during the last frantic month of the season. in 1957 was given increased responsibilities and the Lee MacPhail started his baseball career in 1941 as new title, Director of Player Personnel, the title he held business manager of the Reading (Pa.) Class-B Club. when he joined the Baltimore Orioles. 12 Swarthmore Alumni Issue Julie Diamond ’6 5 TELEVISION AND THE WORLD OF SPORTS

Interview with William MacPhail ’41 Vice President in charge of CBS Television Sports

485 Madison Avenue, New York, New York

Q Mr, MacPhail, your father was a big name in base­ there’s John Quinn, as you know, who is general man­ ball for many years, first as president of the Cincinnati ager of the Phillies, and his father was Bob Quinn, Reds and the Brooklyn Dodgers, and later as president long-time owner of the Braves. There are the of the New York Yankees. Are there many other father- O’Malleys: Walter, owner of the ; son combinations in the sports world? the son, Peter, president and general manager of the A Several come to mind immediately. In baseball, Spokane Indians; and the Griffiths: Clark, the father,

March, 1965 13 The is the most looked at single sports event on TV; basketball and tennis have been disappointing

was long-time owner of the Washington Senators; Q What sport draws the largest television audience? and his son, Calvin, is now owner of the Minnesota A Major league baseball and pro football are the most Twins. popular sports, and over a whole year baseball has Q What was it like to grow up with as colorful a the larger number of viewers because the season is character as Larry MacPhail for a father? longer and the teams play every day. The World A Well, Lee and I lived baseball as children and we Series is the most looked at single sports event on TV. saw at least a game every week (and two on Sunday) NBC presently has the World Series rights, and we when Dad was with the . One of might as well go “black” on those days. the big thrills as a kid of 10 or 11 was the night Dad Q How much money do you think it will take to se­ brought Burgess Whitehead and Lew Riggs, two cure the World Series rights when they come up for Columbus players, home to dinner. Afterwards they bid in 1966? played ping pong with Lee and me in the basement. A NBC is now paying $3,650,000, which includes the I can still see that basement in Columbus. Both White- All-Star game. We presently assume the price will go head and Riggs subsequently became major league up but the way this industry changes so rapidly you stars. can’t be sure. Q Did your father encourage you and Lee to choose Q How does this price compare to the cost of the baseball as a career? National Football League games? A Really, father didn’t want either of us to go into A CBS signed a two-year contract with the NFL for baseball. He wanted me to go to Harvard Business $28.2 million last year. The cost is comparable because School and learn a profession that was constructive the World Series runs for a minimum of four and and didn’t have the insecurity, horrendous hours, and maximum of seven games while the NFL schedule for tension that baseball has. Of course, Lee and I a year includes seventeen broadcast dates. promptly went into baseball—Lee after college, I after Q Did the seasons results justify the price? Navy service. A Yes, I think they did. We were very fortunate. Q How long has CBS been televising sports? When we go in and bid, we take a calculated risk A The first sports program on the CBS Network was and we must guess how successful we will be in sell­ horse racing. The Network did the Belmont Stakes in ing the package to the sponsors. This year we prac­ 1947 and added the Kentucky Derby and Preakness tically sold out the NFL series. As prices go up and in 1948. However, sports were not a major part of CBS the economy changes, who knows? It’s just the type programming in the early days of network television. of business in which you have to take a fresh look The first CBS baseball game was August 11, 1951; the each day. Some events that we telecast for no rights Game of the Week with began in 1955 fees before, we now have to pay for. On our CBS and continues to this date. The first National Football Sports Spectacular, for example, rodeos and figure League games were televised in 1956 and have con­ skating at one time wouldn’t charge us anything be­ tinued on the network for the past nine years. The cause they wanted and needed the exposure. Now that Sports Department at CBS was under the News Divi­ the other networks have copied this concept and there sion until 1960, when it became an operating unit in is considerably more sports coverage on TV, the price the CBS Television Network reporting directly to the tag for the World’s Figure Skating Championship, President. which we are doing next winter, is up to $50,000. Q What percent of CBS programming do sports oc­ Q Would you please comment on the fact that ac­ cupy? cording to recent Nielsen ratings the number of view­ A About eight percent or 330 hours. We can’t reach ers of NFL games decreased eleven percent last year? the number of people the nighttime shows do because A There were various reasons for this. The baseball there just aren’t that many sets on in the afternoon, season went a week longer. You had exciting finishes but in terms of share of sets, sports programs do pro­ in both the National and American Leagues. People portionately as well. didn’t turn to football as readily as in other seasons.

14 Swarthmore Alumni Issue Bill MacPhail, right, for CBS bid an unprecedented $28.2 million to secure NFL television rights from League Commissioner Pete Rozelle.

We also had unseasonably good weather all across rocketed, and the same is true in golf, where the per­ the country and people had the opportunity to be out­ centage of increase is even higher. ABC s recent win­ side more. The races in the NFL were not as close as ning bid for the PGA, for instance, was something like usual, with the Baltimore Colts clinching their title $195,000, a tremendous jump over the last purchase four weeks before the season was over. price of $75,000. Q What are some of the other sports covered by CBS Q How significant is this drop? Does the picture look TV? brighter for 1965? A We haven’t missed many! Let’s go through a year: A I don’t think it was an alarming decrease. Of Beginning in January on Saturdays there is the CBS course, it looks a little significant when we were off Golf Classic every week. On Sundays the CBS Sports 11 percent, the NCAA was off 15, and the AFL was Spectacular—and it covers everything from the Harlem off 19. But the same reasons could hold for all of us. Globe Trotters, to auto racing and volley ball. There’s One season isn’t significant; but if it happens again, the baseball game of the week through the spring there is probably more to it. Basically, I have no rea­ and summer and NFL football in the fall. In between son to believe that people are less enthused about we do The Triple Crown of horseracing and golf professional football. It still seems to be getting more tournaments, including the Masters. converts, Q Which sports have turned out to be disappoint­ Another concern is the steadily increasing price ments on TV? spiral, caused primarily by the competitive nature of the networks themselves. Football prices have sky­ A Pro basketball, for one. College basketball may be 15 March, 1965 The telecasts of the 1960 Winter Olympics promoted whiter sports more than anything else

more exciting, and as a matter of fact we tried tele­ on an average of less than one minute for each com­ vising Big 10 basketball one winter. It worked fine in mercial. I don’t think that’s dominating the game. The the Midwest, but the people in Atlanta and Seattle alternative is pay TV. weren t too excited about it. Another major problem is that it wouldn’t pay us to televise Saturday evening Q What about pay TV? games because we would have to pre-empt prime A I’ve been at CBS now for nine years. When I came, time, and the teams for the most part won’t play in I heard how pay TV was coming in three years, and the afternoon. Tennis also has pulled a low rating, people have continued saying it all along. Naturally, surprisingly, because it is constantly active and a lot we are not particularly in favor of it, but when and if of people play it. It will get a truer test this sum­ it arrives, nobody is going to be better prepared to get mer, however, when CBS will do a seven-week pro into it than the three major networks. So far every tournament. In the past we’ve only done it as a one trial of it has fallen short of a roaring success. Many shot affair. Golf doesn’t rate high in number of viewers people believe it suffered a serious set-back when but is attractive to advertisers because those who do California voters defeated a referendum about it on watch it are likely to belong to the country club set the ballot last November. However, there appear to and be able to afford advertisers’ products. be plans ahead for future experiments. Q Which sports telecast are you most proud of? Q Sportswriters have claimed TV killed boxing. Is A The Squaw Valley Winter Olympics in 1960 was this true? the greatest thing we have ever done. These telecasts A I personally disagree with that statement com­ helped further winter sports more than anything else. pletely. The public image of boxing has been going Ski resorts reported a tremendous increase in interest down hill over the past several years. There has been and sales of ski and hockey equipment also boomed. much discussion of federal and state commissions and many instances where there has been a demand to Q What has been the effect of television on sports? outlaw this sport. Various scandals and deaths have Let’s take pro football first. undermined the public’s confidence. Two networks A Well, both the late Bert Bell and Pete Rozelle, the formerly carried a “Fight of the Week” but currently present NFL Commissioner, have said TV has been there are no boxing series on TV. Boxing is not pro­ the single, most important factor in promoting the grammed on TV because the fights have not been NFL. And the rise in the NFL has been spectacular. first-rate. If the fights were first-rate, the public would Some years ago it was almost not socially acceptable become enthused; and if the public became enthused, to go to a pro game. Now just try to get a ticket! TV would again carry fights. Q What about the charge that TV dictates too much Q Sportsivriters also blame TV for wrecking the minor to sports: for example, the time-outs in football for leagues in baseball with its scorched-earth policy. Are commercials? they right? A Pro football games and other sports events on tele­ A The minor leagues were experiencing difficulties vision are free to the public. Somebody has to pay before TV was a real factor. Since World War II for them. Almost half the commercials are not in­ people have been traveling more; they’ve become serted in playing time. The commercials are given more sophisticated; and the minors have had a hard when the teams take time out or when they score. You time competing for the entertainment dollar. People may get a game in which there’s no scoring, and, of don’t want to see the second best any more when they course, the teams often save their time-outs until the can travel relatively few miles to see major league end of the game. Under our agreement with the NFL, games. Television has become a kind of whipping boy CBS has two optional periods for commercials. If after for the ills in sports, and a lot of the charges you’ve ten minutes of the first and third quarters there have been talking about can be directly attributed to the been no scores or time-outs, the official will call a fact that the press is resentful of TV. They are com­ time-out for the purpose of a commercial. We used it petitive mediums, and they vie for the same adver­ 42 percent of the time last year, and stopped the game tising dollars.

16 Swarthmore Alumni Issue Q Do you think this accounts for the fairly universal people contend. bad press which CBS received when it purchased the Q What about your fathers proposal of having four New York Yankees? major leagues of six teams each? A Yes, somewhat. A I think Dad’s theory might make good sense, and Q Would you please give some of the arguments in something along these lines will probably be worked support of the purchase? out in time. Both measures could help baseball. With changing times, everything has to change. A CBS has been looking to diversify. It doesn’t want to control baseball, and its investment proves it has Q Do you see any trends in televising sports? full confidence in its future. It recently purchased the A Sports are competitive, wholesome, exciting, imme­ Fender Company in California which manufactures diate, newsworthy and dramatic; there are few other electric guitars. It also invested handsomely in “My programming areas in television that have all of these Fair Lady.” These are all part of the diversification attractive features. As a result, sports are popular with policy that CBS has pursued. Why didn’t the press viewers and, thus, the telecasts are very saleable to complain vehemently when Anheuser-Busch bought sponsors. With the tremendous increase of sports pro­ the Cardinals years ago? gramming by all three major networks, practically all Q Your father has said baseball is in serious trouble. sports have received exposure, and for many of them— Do you agree with him? such as hockey, bowling, water-skiing, softball—this increased exposure has meant increased participation. A No, I don’t think baseball is in as much trouble as Also, sports have been a major aid in erasing social we are constantly reminded of. Both the major leagues barriers among nations. Many of our telecasts are set all-time attendance records last year. I do think it shown in foreign countries and, in maybe a small way, is not in the best interests of baseball to have a ten- help to bring people closer together. The new trend club league. What excitement is there in going from may be in live telecasts from other countries. With the seventh to sixth place? The NFL has only seven teams advent of Comsat and Telstar it will be possible, in in each division. This works out better, for each team the very near future, to bring sporting events from is closer to the top and has a greater opportunity to other countries live to American audiences. There will rise in the standings. be time and electronic problems, but this tremendous Q What do you think of the suggestion of interleague technical advance may well alter our present sports play? programs. All future Olympics may be broadcast live A I think it’s a good one. People in Philadelphia from any part of the world. should have a chance to see , and Sports today are more popular than ever before- people in Boston should be able to see . more people are participating (in keeping with the It would make baseball more attractive and encour­ President’s Physical Fitness program) and more people age more people to go to the games. In my opinion, are watching. I sincerely feel that TV has helped con­ it wouldn’t hurt the World Series rivalry as some siderably in creating this healthy situation.

Bill MacPhail ’41 has been associated with the sports world since his discharge from the Navy in 1945 after four years’ service. His first sports job was as road secretary for the New York Yankees, and the following two years he was assistant general manager of the Kansas City Blues in the American Association. In 1949 he filled a similar post for the Memphis Chicks of the Southern Association and then moved in 1950 to Colorado Springs, where he was general manager of the Sky Sox in the Western League for the next four years. In 1955 he became director of public relations for the Kansas City Athletics and later that same year joined the Columbia Broadcasting System as director of sports. He was made vice president of CBS Tele­ vision Sports in 1961.

Bill MacPhail, left, with Green Bay back Hank Gremminger.

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What’s Wrong With the Davis Cup Competition in the U. S.? 4~ i r 14 V.

This year's Davis Cup coach points out the shortcomings of the U. S. preparation and proposes a program to put the U. S. on top.

By E d w i n J. F a u l k n e r Associate Professor, M ens Physical Education

ur problem in the 1964 Davis the players used to the courts, to year. We were only a couple of O Cup Challenge Round was that have them learn as much as possible strokes away from winning, but we nearly all our work with the players about their opponents, to work on didn’t get the breaks. had to be done in the two weeks getting their first serves in deep and The attitude and spirit of all our leading up to the matches in Cleve­ with spin, to improve their returns players was exceptionally good. They land. Some preparation went on be­ of service, and to get finish on their were dedicated to winning the Davis fore, such as observing the U. S. volleys. Perhaps the biggest and Cup, and they were responsive to players at Merion, South Orange, most important accomplishment of their captain and their coach. Vic and the Nationals, and preparing all was the self-control McKinley Seixas did a fine job as captain. He statistical studies and scouting re­ and Ralston learned to exercise after had great rapport with the players ports on both the U. S. and Austral­ we showed them on charts of not only because of his experience ian players; but the actual work of matches they had recently played but also because of the kind of getting this across to the players and how many points each had given to person he is. He didn’t spare himself planning the course of the matches his opponent when he lost control of in any details of the job to see that each was to play had to be done in himself emotionally. Because their things were right for the players. that short period of time we had at self-control was greater than it had And, of course, he added a great Cleveland. been in any other international com­ deal by being able to play against Accordingly, we had to stick to petition, I think our team played to them and give them good compe­ the things which could be put into the limit of its ability under the type tition. immediate use. We worked to get of training schedule we had this Nevertheless, though many things

18 Swarthmore Alumni Issue The 1964 U S. Davis Cup team poses with its captain, Vic Seixas, at left, and its coach, Ed Faulkner, at right. are: Charles McKinley, Dennis Ralston, Martin Riessen, Clark Graebner, Arthur Ashe, Frank Froehlmg, and Charles Pasarell.

times when they weren’t called for. were right, there were a number of In this year’s campaign, we could Statistical studies showed him how difficulties about this years Davis have improved the whole program if impractical this was and, more im­ Cup campaign which could be elim­ the players had traveled together as portantly, showed him such things inated in future years. Without these a team during the entire summer as the importance of getting his first difficulties we would be back ahead tournament circuit, had received serve into play deep and with spin of Australia where we belong. the benefit of continuous coaching and of returning his opponent’s serve The biggest factor of all was lack throughout the summer, and if court constantly. These ideas paid off in of time. It takes years of continuous, space had been reserved for them. his match against Stolle and in the able management to build up an The chief thing a well-organized doubles match. Against Emerson he outstanding Davis Cup program. Davis Cup program should do for was simply overpowered. Once a long-term plan is established us in future years is assure that our It was not possible to work with and carried out, it keeps going by players arrive on the Davis Cup with McKinley on his flat serve in the its own momentum. That is how it a sound knowledge of fundamentals. period of time we had. He is short is with Australia. We have the know­ This year they did not. It was sur­ and a flat serve is risky for him. Still, how potentially to adapt the scout­ prising to see the deficiencies in the it’s tempting to him to try it because ing procedures, such as the statistical games of our best players—the seven he is so strong and he can hit so analysis and moving picture study young men who were members of hard. His percentage of flat balls in used so effectively in professional the squad. is very low. Oddly enough, the chief football and Olympic swimming and Chuck McKinley has always been reason for the low percentage is that track, to tennis. inclined to take wild chances at

March, 1965 What’s Wrong with the Davis Cup Competition? CONTINUED FROM PAGE 19

he doesn’t use the height he does volleys. Still it is necessary to follow country may not produce all the have. He hits the ball from the same up on this and make sure he keeps good players it should with our re­ low point he correctly hits his slice doing it. sources, but we can do a great deal or twist serves. A McKinley with a At Forest Hills Seixas discussed more with the ones we have. Some dependable flat serve good for sev­ with tennis officials whether or not general difficulties apply to all our eral aces a set in addition to those Arthur Ashe footfaults when he takes players. Most of them take far too he already makes would be a much his characteristic step forward with little time off from competition to tougher player. He wouldn’t have to his forward foot. He doesn’t usually really work out a technical problem labor so hard to win his own serve step on the baseline, so it isn’t a in their games as Bill Tilden did with against someone like Emerson. He question of that. The question is, his backhand in the winter of 1920 in could concentrate more on taking does he “change position” within the Providence or as Pancho Segura did Emerson’s serve. meaning of the footfault rule? The with his backhand and his serve Dennis Ralston has just one type answer is that most footfault judges after he turned professional. Most of game, a fact which may seem or baselinemen pay no attention, but players are content to labor on with surprising when you consider his re­ some day one could, with disastrous serious deficiency and make the best markably artistic touch. For the most results, possibly in a Davis Cup of it. part, though, he just serves and Challenge Round. Such a suggestion Another general criticism is that rushes the net. He should have more to the officials would certainly not our players do not see the same spin and change of pace. be beneath Harry Hopman. This coach from year to year. At the same Frank Froehling has an outstand­ should have been stopped before time they receive a great deal of ing serve but there is too much Ashe ever got on the Davis Cup conflicting advice, much of it from sameness in it. It is almost always team. It’s not a simple problem officials or fans who are not quali­ flat. No matter how hard it is hit, either, since he undoubtedly feels fied either as players or as instruc­ it rarely goes much to one side or that moving his foot forward helps tors. Additionally, they copy other the other. Raphael Osuna exposed its him get his weight into his serve. players indiscriminately, using things weaknesses once and for all in the He would have to find some other like the Hoad scissors-step on serv­ National finals two years ago by way of doing this that felt equally ice or the half backswing on the standing fifteen feet behind the base­ comfortable before he would aban­ serve which Gonzalez persuaded line and returning it by lobbing. don it. Time and good coaching could Ralston to do although he doesn’t do Deep as he was standing, Osuna take care of this, and his serve would it himself. never had to move more than a few improve in the bargain. feet to the right or left to get the Ashe also has a tendency to let up To strengthen ball. A good slice to one side or a slightly on complete concentration the program, appoint twist to the other would keep without realizing he is doing it. A Froehling’s opponents not only hon­ good coach could help him over­ a fulltime coach est but in constant fear. But it would come this fault. Art has all kinds of with adequate salary require basic changes in how he potential which could be developed. and travel allowance tosses the ball and moves his arm. Lack of variety, pace, and spin are It would be a tough, year-long job, problems with both Charles Pasa- but it could be done, His returns rell and Clark Graebner. To teach a The first move to strengthen the of serve are extremely bad and they player how to make shots using a Davis Cup program should be to ap­ could be improved, too. variety of spins and to teach him point a fulltime Davis Cup coach. It’s hard to understand how Marty when to make them is a slow, grad­ He should be an employee of the Riessen could get up near the top ual process. Both these fellows dem­ United States Lawn Tennis Asso­ level with a hitch in his service onstrated the willingness and eager­ ciation, and he should receive a good swing. This should have been taken ness to learn in Cleveland, but in the salary and a good travel allowance. care of at Junior Davis Cup level. short time we had, only the earliest He should then have the right to Maybe it could be corrected now explanations could be launched. choose a fulltime Junior Davis Cup and maybe it couldn’t. But under You can see from this rundown coach. The reason this choice should present conditions, there is no possi­ what opportunities there are with be given to the Davis Cup coach is bility for correction. It was possible the young players who were on our to assure a uniform approach to to help him get more finish on his Davis Cup squad at Cleveland. Our coaching.

20 Swarthmore Alumni Issue Ideally the Davis Cup coach and his team should travel together as a unit right through the summer cir­ Diagnostician for Ailing Tennis Games cuit starting with the National Clay Courts. The Davis Cup players un­ Ed Faulkner has coached seven der their captain and coach should Davis Cup teams from three coun­ set a standard of personal conduct tries. He coached the Spanish and on and off the courts for dedication French teams in 1923 and 1927; he to winning, seriousness of purpose, was head coach of the United States and excellence of conditioning which squads in 1924, 1925, 1926, 1932, could be observed and emulated by and, most recently, in 1964. He has younger and lesser players on the also served as coach of Junior Davis circuit. Cup teams and Wightman Cup In years when the U. S. has to teams. travel abroad, the players who are He came to Swarthmore as tennis in college invariably give up a se­ coach in 1929, and over the thirty- mester of study in order to travel five subsequent seasons his teams abroad early. They could spend the have won 317 and lost 121 team extra time in studying the really matches. In the eleven-year history tough problems in their technique of tennis competition in the Middle and in trying to eradicate them un­ Atlantic States Collegiate Athletic der the fulltime guidance of their Conference, his teams won the coach. Other years, during fall and championship in 1953, the first year winter, the Davis Cup coach should of conference competition, and again travel to the colleges or home towns in 1954 and 1956. In 1958 and 1960 of the players to work with them in­ they were co-champions. In 1959 dividually. During the spring he and 1961 they led the Southern should scout intercollegiate matches Division. and southern tournaments. Naturally In 1927 he helped found the Pro­ his work would encompass a great fessional Lawn Tennis Association many more players than just the top of the United States, later served as five or six in the country. He should president of it, and is currently a help any who are interested and member of its Executive Committee. have a chance of making the Davis In his present position of director of Cup squad at some time. He could junior development for the Amateur keep scouting reports and movies. Lawn Tennis Association in the The Junior Davis Cup coach could Middle States, he travels through similarly travel the country. He the area teaching tennis teachers, would work directly with his players lecturing, and giving clinics. “Ed Faulkner can work with a beginner on the circuit during the summer. “Ed Faulkner can work with a or with a player at the top equally well.” During the fall and winter he would beginner or with a player at the top travel to work with them individ­ equally well,” said Vic Seixas, who, ually, prescribing programs for them along with Bill Tilden, is probably girl just loved Ed as a person,” she to follow and seeing that they had his most famous student. “Ed can said. “He is genuinely interested in the opportunity to play locally. In watch somebody play for a while them, and he helped them tremen­ the spring during the interscholastic and then can pick out the flaws in dously with their games. And it’s and intercollegiate tennis season, he his game.” important to him that the youngsters should scout the country to see how Mrs. F. A. C. Vosters, captain of have fun and enjoy the game.” his players are doing and to seek the 1964 U. S. Women’s Federal Cup The United States Professional out other promising candidates. He team, enrolled her daughter in a Lawn Tennis Association in Febru­ should keep extensive files of scout­ five-day tennis training camp at East ary presented Ed Faulkner its an­ ing reports on players and be in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, where nual award for “contributing the contact with junior development Faulkner was head coach. “Each most to tennis in 1964.” and public parks programs all over the country. (Continued on page 22)

March, 1965 21 Dei VIS C lip continued enable the United States to produce been made of such methods in ten­ the type of teams we are capable of nis. This year saw a beginning in producing. These things cannot be that direction. During the Nationals Both these coaches should be hired done in two weeks in one year. detailed stroke analyses were made with the fullest intention of contin­ Both coaches should use the most of the important U. S. and Australian uing with them for many years, and advanced methods possible. Statisti­ players. A copy of such a study is they should be given the freedom to cal studies, detailed scouting reports, included here. Particular attention make long-range plans. Only in this and moving pictures are common was paid to the percentage of first way will it be possible for our Davis practices in professional football, serves in, the percentage of success­ Cup people to accumulate the knowl­ probably the most carefully coached ful service returns, the type and fre­ edge and experience which will game in the world. Little use has quency of placement, and errors

STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF 1964 DAVIS CUP DOUBLES MATCH United States defeated Australia Overhead nets 1 0 4 4 6-4, 4-6, 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 Overhead outs 0 1 2 0 Summaries: McKinley Ralston Emerson Stolle Sub total 1 1 6 4 Serves— Volley First in 54 58 54 39 Forehand nets 6 5 8 1 Number of serves 74 81 83 70 Forehand outs 4 2 7 1 Percentage 73% 72% 65% 55% Backhand nets 3 6 4 3 Aces 2 1 1 3 Backhand outs 7 3 3 1 Double faults 1 0 2 1 All volley errors Return of serve— including overheads 21 17 28 10 Forehand placement 1 2 5 0 38 38 Backhand placement 1 2 0 3 Ground strokes Total 2 4 5 3 Forehand placements 4 2 4 1 e Backhand placements 0 1 1 2 — — Forehand nets 1 3 3 2 — 4 3 Backhand nets 2 1 11 9 5 3 Sub total 3 "IT 14 11 7 8 Forehand outs 2 3 8 7 Forehand nets 2 2 0 2 Backhand outs 7 3 3 5 Forehand outs 9 4 4 3 Backhand nets 1 Sub total 9 6 11 12 2 2 0 Backhand outs 6 4 1 2 Total 12 10 25 23 18 12 7 7 22 48 30 14 U.S.: 26 non-returns/149 Australia: 51 non-returns/ serves or 83% 154 serves or 67% u. 1 Australia Volleying Won Lost Won Lost Overhead placements 0 5 7 5 Serve, outright 3 1 4 3 Forehand placements 8 12 10 11 Return of serve 6 22 8 48 Backhand Volley 47 38 47 38 placements 12 10 9 5 Groundstrokes 7 30 8 14 Total 20 27 26 21 63 91 67 103 47 47 U. S. on points 166 to 158

22 Swarthmore Alumni Issue each player made. These were fairly cut and dried analyses which have been done for many years by the newspapers; however, many players had never made use of them before. Possibly that had something to do with the rather surprising apathy of The College some of the players toward making use of the statistical studies. A player should want to know anything he can find out about his opponents. Long-time Board Member Dies sequent discussions in small groups Our players seem properly con­ Elsie Palmer Rrown ’88, emeritus were designed to provoke construc­ cerned about their own games, but member of the Swarthmore Board of tive debate and appraisal of specific they are not sufficiently convinced of Managers, died January 21 in Wash­ problems and trends within the At­ the importance of analyzing an op­ ington, D. C., where she lived lantic community. ponent’s game. with her daughter, Janet McPherson The first intercollegiate conference The studies we did emphasized Brown T9. She was in her one in 1962 explored the problems and the tremendous importance of stead­ hundredth year. feasibility of disarmament and arms iness on serve and on serve return. She was elected to the Board of control. In 1963 the conference topic This latter is the most difficult job in Managers in 1912 and became was “Democracy and Development the game and the most neglected emeritus in 1941. She was married to in Latin America.” and unpracticed. Groundstrokes have the late T. Janney Brown, also a been badly neglected in this coun­ member of the class of 1888, and Teacher Education Committee try—at least until the past couple of their five children all attended A new Teacher Education Commit­ years—because of the California in- Swarthmore: Janet T9, Boyd J. ’21, tee, with Dean Susan Cobbs as sistance that hard servings and net Elsie Brown Roberts ’23, Virginia chairman, has been formed. The rushing were the only ways to win Brown Greer ’26, and Dr. Thomas Committee plans to evaluate the tennis matches. The professional McPherson Brown ’29. College’s relationship to the new players like Gonzales, Rosewall, and Two of her children have also Pennsylvania program of institu­ Laver and the amateur champions served on the Board of Managers: tional certification of teachers, to like Emerson and Osuna have shown Virginia Brown Greer was an alumni examine Swarthmore’s offerings in beyond a doubt how vital ground- manager from 1952 to 1956; and Dr. education, and in time to gain a strokes are to a player even if he is Brown is presently serving a term as judgment of the different Master of an outstanding server and volleyer. alumni manager. Arts in Teaching programs. All these problems can be dealt She is also survived by ten grand­ In 1964 ten seniors were accepted with in a very direct and effective children and six great grandchildren. in MAT programs ( one of these stu­ way if the USLTA will appoint a dents chose to teach in Tanganyika fulltime Davis Cup coach, give him Conference Probes Atlantic System in the VISA program) and five the task of appointing a fulltime “America, the New Europe, and the others went immediately into teach­ Junior Davis Cup coach, assign them Atlantic Alliance” was the subject of ing in secondary schools. This year duties mentioned here, and give the third student intercollegiate con­ there are twenty-three students, jun­ them the freedom, the finances, and ference on the Swarthmore campus iors and seniors, taking courses in the cooperation necessary to permit February 12 to 14. United States Principles and Methods of Educa­ the carrying out of the program. government officials, foreign govern­ tion, Introduction to Teaching, and Raising the money among the tennis ment officials, military experts, and History of Education. To fulfill the fans of the country would require leading economists and political sci­ Pennsylvania requirements for the only hard work and ingenuity. It’s not entists from American universities certification of secondary school impossible at all. Picking the right and political institutes were present teachers, a student must take, in ad­ man would be more difficult, since to express their views and discuss dition to these three courses: Intro­ very few coaches have the right problems with some 180 students duction to Psychology, Educational combination of technical brilliance from eastern colleges and universi­ Psychology, a course in United States and the ability to handle players. ties. history, three full courses in the sub­ D avid Schoenbrun, television- ject or field in which he expects to This article was adapted from the report radio news analyst and commentator, teach, and Practice Teaching. made by Edwin J. Faulkner to the United States Lawn Tennis Association in Dec. delivered the keynote address. Sub­ (Continued on next page)

March, 1965 23 Kermit Gordon ’«38 Dorothy Shoemaker McDiarmid ’29 Katharine Scherman Rosin ’38 Director, Bureau of the Budget Member, Virginia House of Delegates Author

Four Alumni Elected to Board of Managers Kermit Gordon ’38, director of the a member of the executive commit­ Bureau of the Budget, and Dorothy tee of the Virginia PTA. She is chair­ Shoemaker McDiarmid ’29, member man of the Fairfax United Fund and The of the Virginia House of Delegates, member of the Cancer Society and were elected to the Swarthmore the Hospital Association. Board of Managers last December, She is married to Hugh McDiar­ College the former for a four-year term, the mid ’30, and the couple has two latter for a two-year term. children: Robert ’58 and Mary San­ (continued) Elected to four-year terms as dra ’62. Alumni Managers were Walter O. Walter O. Simon of Wilmington, Simon ’27, general manager of the Delaware, has been associated with Film Department of the Du Pont the Du Pont Company since 1928. Company, and Katharine Scherman He is a member of the McCabe Rosin ’38, author. Scholarship Selection Committee, Kermit Gordon was graduated president of Del-Mar-Va Council of with highest honors in economics Boy Scouts of America, treasurer of from Swarthmore and was a Rhodes the Diocese of Delaware, and a Scholar. He has been professor of member of the boards of the Wil­ economics at Williams College, con­ mington Symphony, the Ingleside sultant to the Ford Foundation, and Home, and the Wilmington Skating economic advisor to President Ken­ Club. nedy. He was sworn in as director of He is married to the former the Bureau of the Budget in Decem­ Frances Dowdy ’28, and the couple ber, 1962. has four children, two of whom are He is married to the former Mary also Swarthmore alumni: Caroline Grinnell ’39, and the couple has ’59 and John ’53. three children. Katharine Scherman Rosin of New Dorothy Shoemaker McDiarmid York City is the author of a number was graduated from Swarthmore of books which include Spring with high honors in political science. Comes to the Arctic, Spring on an She has been a member of the Vir­ Arctic Island, Catharine the Great, ginia House of Delegates from Fair­ Sword of Siegfried, the Slave Who fax County since 1960. She is presi­ Freed Haiti, and William Tell. She dent of the Fairfax County PTA and is a member of the Riverdale PTA

24 Swarthmore Alumni Issue Frederick A. Hargadon James F. Govan Walter O. Simon ’27 Librarian General Manager, Film Department, Dean of Admissions Du Pont Company Visiting Artist Program Begins and the Community Committee on completing his doctoral thesis in the United Nations. She is married and field of Soviet politics. Grant Heilman ’41 has provided a has two daughters. During the summers of 1962 and gift for a program of visiting artists Reelected for another four-year 1963, he served as administrative as­ at Swarthmore. Every year an artist term were Thomas B. McCabe 15, sistant and instructor in two Peace will be invited to spend five days on Chairman of the Board of Scott Corps training programs on the campus and to participate fully in Paper Company; Boyd T. Barnard Cornell campus. He has held a Ford college life and in an exchange of 17, President of Jackson-Cross Com­ Foundation Area Training Fellow­ ideas with students and faculty. The pany; and H. Thomas Hallowell, Jr. ship, a Cornell teaching fellowship, artist may be a sculptor, a painter, ’29, President of Standard Pressed and a Center for International a printmaker, a photographer, or a Steel. Studies Fellowship. cinema artist, and will be known as The incumbent officers of the cor­ the “Marjorie Heilman Visiting Art­ poration were reelected for another Govan Named College Librarian ist,” in memory of the donor’s first one-year term: chairman, Claude C. James F. Govan has been appointed wife who died in 1961. Smith 14; vice-chairman, Philip T. librarian of the College and will as­ Sharpies 10; secretary, Eleanor sume his new position on June 1. Dr. New Harpsichord for Baroque Music Stabler Clarke 18; assistant secre­ Govan comes from Trinity Univer­ The Presser Foundation of Philadel­ tary, Joseph B. Shane ’25; treasurer, sity, San Antonio, Texas, where he phia has recently given the Music Richard B. Willis ’33; and assistant has been head librarian since 1961. Department of the College a grant treasurer, Edward K. Cratsley. From 1955 until 1961 he was at the of $4,000 toward the purchase of a University of Alabama as head of new harpsichord. Peter Gram Swing, Haverford Man Heads Admissions the circulation department. chairman of the department, said: Frederick A. Hargadon, Instructor Dr. Govan received his B.A. in “We are particularly interested in in Political Science at Swarthmore, 1948 from the University of the developing an expanded program for has been named Dean of Admissions. South at Sewanee, his Ph.D. in his­ the study of Baroque music with em­ He has been a member of the tory from Johns Hopkins in 1951, phasis on solo and ensemble music Swarthmore faculty for one year, and and an M.A. in librarianship from involving the harpsichord. “We hope to have the new instru­ he will teach part-time in his new Emory University in 1955. ment by next fall,” he continued, post. His appointment coincides with Hargadon received the bachelor’s the planning of the College’s new “and at that time to invite a distin­ degree from Haverford in 1958 after library, made possible by the gift of guished harpsichordist to the campus for a week to play concerts and hold three years of study and was elected Thomas B. McCabe 1 5 and Mrs. workshops on harpsichord playing to Phi Beta Kappa. He did graduate McCabe, which is expected to be on and performance-practice in Baroque work in political science at Harvard the architect’s drawing board by and Cornell, and he is presently summer. music.”

25 March, 1965 Swarthmoreana By Charles M. Bush ’49

DOWN 1 Famous city district 2 Bore 3 Maple seed parts 4 Former Dick Tracy character 5 Occasional face problem 6 Associated with big or jack 7 Roman tutelary god 8 Solar disc 9 Land of the Mariachi 10 Medium 11 Naive person 12 Mesozoic or Paleozoic 13 Triple denial 14 One with quarrels in his quiver 15 Asian capital 21 Nuances 23 Distinguishing character of a group 27 Townships (abbre.) 28 Branched 30 Medieval folklore king 31 Ex prexy and Leibnitz authority 32 New Mexico state flower 34 Medical name of 76 down 36 Sailors 38 British legislative personages 40 Division (abbre.) 42 Cold eavesdrops 44 Arabian rulers 46 Harangue 47 Ordinary 48 Indian water vessel 50 Apiece 5 2 ---- Boutant: flying buttress 55 More melancholy 57 5 down is his home ACROSS 33 Face antonym 64 Apostle 60 Post office container 35 “Every hero becomes 67 Senegal city 62 Splendidly crowned actor 1 Mounts a — at last.” Emerson 69 European blackbird 64 Oldest living Swarthmore 6 —-Unto My F eet” 36 Greek letter 71 English composer alumnus 11 Insipid 37 River of northern France 72 Shaping tool 65 Interstice 16 Young strigiformes 39 Yield 73 Fissile rock 66 Disarms 17 Brains 41 Spore sacs 75 Meadow 68 CHsCOCHs 18 Greek market place 43 Fern seed 76 W ales 70 B est----- 19 Impetuous 45 Home of future 78 @ 74 Abode of the dead 20 Campus sparking spot astronomers 79 Stringed instrument 76 On the nose of most 22 River emptying into 49 Campus revue (with 53 83 Senior honor society witches Baltic across) 86 “Macbeth doth 77 Without 2 3 ------Dorado 51 Indian river m u rd er-----” 80 Former name of Tokyo 24 Wall recess 53 See 49 across 87 Male name meaning 81 Rules (abbre.) 25 Exclamation 54 Slow movers noble and famous 82 Dueling weapon 26 Complete 56 W ooers 88 Leapin’ lizards girl 84 To a ---- : precisely 29 Any part of popular 58 2029 yards in Australia 89 Hog or row 85 Musical direction dance 59 Tasty animal with 90 Readjust a clock ( abbre.) 30 Extraordinary person siphon and mantle 86 “Red as a rose is . . . (slang) 61 Bohemia 91 Adventures 31 Meadow maiden 63 Chinese pagoda 92 Worn away Solution on page 47

March, 1965 49 Sm RTHCOLLEGE M O BULLETIN RE ALUMNI ISSUE . MARCH, 1965

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“How does one take the measure of a college? By the number of Ph.D.’s on its faculty? The books in its library? It’s ‘cut-off point’ on entrance examination scores of applicants for admission? “Surely one of the most significant indices of a col­ lege s quality must be the quality of its alumni. The occupations, interests and values of its graduates, their successes and failures, tell almost as much about the college as about the men and women themselves. Few small colleges—and not many big ones either—can point to a group of alumni as diverse in their interests and as remarkable in their achievements as can Swarthmore College. . . . “To mark its centennial, Swarthmore asked 39 of its 10,944 living alumni to reminisce briefly—in 1,000 words or less—about their college days and the effect of Swarthmore on their lives. The result . . . is a book that will delight the other 10,905 Swarthmoreans and everybody interested in discovering how a great col­ lege makes its mark on students.” Peter H. Binzen, Education Editor, Philadelphia Bulletin

“. . . Although their reminiscences abound in anec­ dotes and in tributes to the personalities that shaped Swarthmore during a sixty-year span, this is no mere sentimental nosegay. . . . As President Courtney Smith Swarthmore Remembered is an informal says in his introduction, ‘Certain themes recur with account of what thirty-nine alumni say impressive regularity: a dedication to academic excel­ stands out in memory about their college lence; the influence of the Quaker tradition; freedom experiences. They were collected in a of inquiry; respect for the individual; the close rela­ 225-page soft-cover pocketbook in honor tion between students and faculty.’ of the College’s centennial. “Swarthmore Remembered will be cherished by Swarthmore Remembered was awarded Swarthmoreans and friends of the College. It deserves certificates of merit by the American a wider audience as well.” Alumni Council and the American Public E. A. N., Friends Journal Relations Association. “I do not know when I have been so moved to both tears and laughter. Scarcely one of the pieces but struck an answering chord, or threw light on some­ Send your order for Swarthmore Remem­ thing never fully understood. . . .” bered to the Swarthmore College Book­ David Scull ’36 store and enclose a check for $1.25 for each copy (residents of Pennsylvania It is not only for those who remember; the common should add 5% for sales tax). denominator rings so true. . . .” Anna Pettit Broomell ’07