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Maine Alumnus, Volume 27, Number 5, February 1946 The University of Maine DigitalCommons@UMaine University of Maine Alumni Magazines University of Maine Publications 2-1946 Maine Alumnus, Volume 27, Number 5, February 1946 General Alumni Association, University of Maine Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/alumni_magazines Part of the Higher Education Commons, and the History Commons Recommended Citation General Alumni Association, University of Maine, "Maine Alumnus, Volume 27, Number 5, February 1946" (1946). University of Maine Alumni Magazines. 107. https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/alumni_magazines/107 This publication is brought to you for free and open access by DigitalCommons@UMaine. It has been accepted for inclusion in University of Maine Alumni Magazines by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@UMaine. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The University Cabins help provide needed housing for veteran students and families. Vol. 27, No. 5 FEBRUARY, 1946 Vol. 27 FEBRUARY, 1946 No. 5 Published monthly from October to June inclusive, by the University of Maine General Alumni Association, Business office, Room 514, 6 State St., Bangor, Maine, orThe Alumnus, 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 Bangor, Maine, under act of March 3, 1870. PROBLEMS and PROSPECTS ROBLEMS of housing and prospects which are described as comfortable, con­ of the students and a recreation hall. of the highest student enrollment since venient, and attractive. Planned and built Fenced off from the main base the Dow Ppre-war years were uppermost in the for Presque Isle winters, the trailers Field Dormitories will have their own minds of faculty and administration mem­ should present no difficulty in housing entrance with free, unrestricted access. bers as the beginning of the Spring Se­ families at Orono in satisfactory comfort. In addition to such emergency measures mester drew near last month. Returning Each unit is self-contained as far as gen­ all regular rooming facilities on the cam­ veterans, an estimated 30% of them with eral housekeeping facilities are concerned; pus will, of course, be used to their utmost families, were the primary factor in both. the University has constructed a central capacity. Every fraternity house will Discharged veterans, both former stu­ service building with a recreation room, continue in maximum use and all dormi­ dents of the University and others, have toilet facilities, and laundry units supplied tories be filled. for months been filing applications for ad­ with hot and cold water. mission. These applicants will swell the To facilitate the relief of housing The Longer View ranks of the present student body by an shortages the State recently appropriated estimated 500 persons at least. Latest in­ $15,000 for use of the University in mov­ Several projected plans for further re­ formation from the Director of Admis­ ing and setting up the trailers. Indispens­ lief of the housing shortage with the fall sions and the Office of Veterans’ Educa­ able also was the cooperation given by the semester in mind are not yet ready for tion is that 300 former Maine students State Highway Department which carried announcement. However, it can be re­ and 200 others have definitely been admit­ out the moving job. ported that the F.P.H.A. authorities have ted for February entrance. This means Other relief measures have been taken authorized the University to have the use that the current enrollment of over 1200 also. One of the former poultry houses of a number of temporary housing units men and women will become more than among the University farm buildings has from former war-industry areas where 1700, something very like pre-war pro­ been converted into four attractive and they are no longer needed. This will in­ clude 152 family units and 300 dormitory portions. comfortable apartments, fully equipped for housekeeping and offering a home to vet­ units for single men. H ousing eran families. The same arrangement is Advance inquiries for the fall semester planned for the old “Spearin’s Inn” above leave no doubt that the size of the student From the beginning of the indications the campus on the banks of the Stillwater. body at that time will exceed anything of sudden increase in enrollment in Feb­ previously recorded at the University. ruary, an increase which had not origi­ Dow Field Dorms Largest pre-war enrollment was 2100 stu­ nally been expected until fall, the grave dents. The latest and most significant step in problem of housing has thrust up its head. Besides the housing being arranged on Steps have been taken and others are alleviating some of the pressure as far as the campus for the spring semester, many being planned to alleviate in considerable single men are concerned came with the veterans are locating houses, apartments, measure the most immediate aspects of the announcement that arrangements are be­ and rooms in Orono, Bangor, Old Town, ing made at Dow Field air base in Bangor problem, those which cannot wait on and surrounding communities. Through for use of former WAC barracks to be long-range, permanent solutions. As has the efforts of Registrar James Gannett ’08 converted into dormitories. Again the of­ already been told in this magazine, the the tremendous demand for such living ficials of the Federal Public Housing Au­ University Cabins have been altered from facilities is being met as rapidly as pos­ their traditional bachelor-quarter status to thority have aided in the emergency by sible. providing for the use of these buildings. accommodate families of veterans. Eleven In spite of every effort, however, there Here three barracks buildings, each hous­ student-families continue to enjoy life in will be more applications for admission in ing 50 single men, are being partitioned the cabin colony. Newest addition to the the fall than the University can hope to off into suites of a sleeping room and study cabin area is a group of 30 trailers brought accommodate. This situation, unwelcome room for four men. Each building has its to the University from the Presque Isle as it is to all concerned, must be faced by own toilet facilities. Adjacent to the Air Base and transferred to the use of all who have an interest in the University. dormitories is a dining hall for the use the University by the Federal Public Early applications for entrance from high Housing Authority. The five expanding school seniors and from veterans who and 25 single units of the trailer colony SOLUTIONS to the housing emer­ have definite knowledge of their intent to gency are partially provided by enter in September will go far toward will provide this semester housing for 30 the innovations pictured. At left, more veteran families. Dow Field Dormitories, converted preventing disappointment and will also The students, wives, and children mak­ from WAC Barracks, will house assist University officials in the complex ing up the trailer colony will have homes 150 single men. At right, family task of planning ahead. Trailers provide homes for 30 vet­ erans and their families. Business Manager Doten With the FACULTY New Dormitory Manager Returns To Campus Post Appointed To University Newly named member of the legislative Alumnus Lindsay B. Chalmers ’25, for­ Returning to the University after near­ committee of the Maine Teachers’ Asso­ merly with the Office of Quartermaster ly four years’ leave of absence for Army ciation is Dr. Glenn Kendall, Dean of the General, Washington, D. C., and experi­ service, Henry L. Doten ’23 has resumed School of Education Members of the enced restaurant manager, has been named his duties as Business Manager for the committee have the responsibility of Manager of Dormitories for the Univer­ University and reoccupied the desk in studying legislation involving Maine sity. The position includes general re­ Alumni Hall which he left at the call to teachers. sponsibility for operation of both eating war in May, 1942. A reserve officer, and other facilities in the University Mr. Doten was among the earliest men At a recent meeting of the New Eng­ dormitory system. called from the University staff. land division of the American Society for Horticultural Science at Amherst, Prof. A graduate of Maine in Economics in His first period of service was at the 1925, Mr. Chalmers entered the restaurant Supply School of the Corps of Engineers, J. H. Waring was named vice chairman. business in 1926 following a year of em­ Columbus, Ohio Subsequently he was Dr. Waring is Professor and Head of ployment in credit investigation work. He transferred to the office of the Chief of the Department of Horticulture The was first employed in the Schrafft system Engineers, Supply Division, Pentagon Horticultural Society is made up of teach­ in Syracuse, N. Y., and New York City, Building, Washington, D. C. Since Feb­ ers and others interested in the scientific as trainee manager and assistant manager. ruary, 1943, he has served with the Army development of horticulture. In 1928 he was named assistant mana­ Specialized Training Division as chief of the training contracts branch of the Pur­ Dr. Herbert D. Lamson, Associate ger for Rutley’s, Inc., at 1440 Broadway, chases Division. He was a member of Professor of Sociology, has just finished, New York, for a year, then entered the the joint Army and Navy Training Con­ at the request of the American Associated employ of the Loft Company as manager tract Board and served as secretary of Boards for Christian Colleges in China, of the restaurant at Long Island City. this Board. a 900-title bibliography in Sociology to be He remained with Loft, Inc., until 1936 used in restocking the war-ravaged college when he became manager of Rainbow Included among the responsibilities of libraries in China.
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