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Winter Issue, 1943 BELOIT COLLEGE BULLETIN

1942 - 1943 BELOIT COLLEGE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

OFFICERS

President-Philip T. Sprague '16, Castle-Abri, Long Beach, Michigan City, Ind. Vice-Pres.-Elmer Macklem '21, 831 Park Avenue, Beloit.

MEMBERS OF ALUMNI COUNCIL

For the Period Previous to 1885 Rev. Frank D. Jackson '84, 189 Janesville Street, Milton, Wis.

1886-1890 *Louis W. Crow, '86, 9106 Lamon, Skokie, 111. 1891-1895 Edgar L. Shippee '92, 1619-60th Street, Kenosha, Wis. 1896-1900 John R. Houliston '99, 704 Gary Avenue, Wheaton, 111. 1901-1905 Wirt Wright '01, 65 East Huron Street, Chicago

1906-1910 Harold G. Townsend '07, Trust Co. of Chicago, 104 S. La Salle St., Chicago

1911-1915 Harold E. Wolcott '12, 912 Ridgewood Road, Rockford, Ill.

1916-1920 Philip T. Sprague '16, Castle-Abri, Long Beach, Michigan City, Ind.

1921-1925 C. Elmer Macklem '21, 831 Park Avenue, Beloit

1926-1930 Howard W. Rose '27, The Buchen Company, 400 W. Madison Street, Chicago

1931-1935 Constance Fulkerson '31, High School, Belvidere, Ill.

1936-1940 Mrs. Arthur R. Curtis '37, 1747 East 69th St., Chicago Academy Arthur W. Chapman, 6445 North Washtenaw Avenue, Chicago

*Passed away Dec. 26, 1942

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The Alumnus Vol. XLI January, 1943 No. 2

PAUL NESBITT '26, Editor

Published at Beloit, Wisconsin, by Beloit College, seven times a year, in October, January, February, March, April, June, and August.

Entered u srcood class mail matter at the Post Office at Beloit, Wi•consio, April 2', 1922, under Act of Cooar- of August a4, 191a.

HE office of the Secretary for New Stu- be surprised to find out how grateful they are. dents is shouting for help from the col- Besides, you will discover that many of them Tlege's alumni group for the year 1943-44. will be influenced by your testimony of a really With Jim Gage in the Army, a shortage of great college. manpower in the department, Beloit believes Send the names of these prospects to the you should give of your time and energy to office of the Secretary for New Students, or help build up a fine group of prospects for the to the Chicago Office at 400 West Madison June and September terms. Street, The Daily News Building. The chief aim of any local alumni group I should like to take this opportunity to should be to build a greater Beloit. One of thank the active Beloit workers who have been the ways in which you can do this is to assist making their contribution to this office for the college in enrolling young men and women years. from your own city. You have a friend, a neighbor, who has a daughter, a son, ready for John B. Laing, college. Tell them about Beloit. You will Acting Secretary for New Students 3 BELOIT COLLEGE BULLETIN

COLLEGE LOSES THREE LEADERS

R. K. Rockwell H. H. Foster M. 0. Moua/

H. H. Foster, Education During his period as an educator, he wrote three college textbooks, which reflect his prin- Leader, Dies ciples. They are entitled "Principles of Edu- ELOIT College students and faculty cation," " High School Administration," and B members are mourning the death of Dr. "High School Supervision." Herbert Hamilton Foster, professor emeritus One of his chief accomplishments during and former head of the education department, his tenure at Beloit was the organization and who died December 1st. He was 67 years of direction of the Burr Training school which age. he instituted 12 years ago to give prospective After an imposing ca reer in the fi eld of teachers practical experience toward attain- education, Prof. Foster retired due to illness ment of degrees. as head of the education department here at Among the organizations of which he was a the close of the 1939-40 term, but taught part member were the National Education asso- time during the past summer session. Until ciation, National Society for the Study of shortly before his death, he had been teaching Education, College Teachers of Education, a class at South Beloit Community high school. National Association of Secondary School Dr. Foster served as head of the depart- Principals, National Society of Supervisors ment after coming to Beloit in 1923. Pre- and Directors of Instruction, Phi Delta Kappa viously he was professor of education at the and Pi Gamma Mu honorary fraternities. He University of Ottawa (Kan.) from 1907- also was former president of the Rock River 1915; head of the education department at Schoolmasters' club and the Beloit Rotary the University of Arizona from 1915 to 1920; club. head of the education department at the Uni- versity of Vermont from 1920 to 1921. H e also taught summer school at the University Roy K. Rockwell of Illinois, the University of Pennsylvania, Roy K. Rockwell, for 20 ye ars a member of the and the University of Tennessee. college's board of trustees and since 1942 treasurer Born in Huron, N. Y., Feb. 13, 1875, Dr. of Beloit College died J anuary 12 at his home on Foster was married on Jan. 2, 1912, to Sherwood Drive in Beloi t. Death was the resu lt Florence Robinson, who survives. of a he art condition which had kept him at home several weeks. His sudden death was a great shock After graduation from Cornell university to the business community, to Beloit College and in 1900, he received his Ph.D. ~ t the U ni ver- to many scores of associates and friends. Mr. sity of Jena in Germany in 1906. Rockwell is survived by his wife and one son, BELOIT COLLEGE BULLETIN

Harold H. Rockwell, of Washington, D. C., a re- Acting President Bradley T yrrell represented the gional coordinator in the rubber conservation di- college as one of the pallbearers at the funeral vision; and by a sister, Miss Helen E. Rockwell, held in Janesville. In addition, a floral tribute and a brother, Lynn Rockwell, both living in Oak was arranged for Mr. Mouat by the trustees and Park, Illinois. faculty of the college. He was born in Lake Geneva in 18'74 and in 1890 He served on the Board of Trustees for 10 years transferred to Beloit College Academy from ' the and for the last three vears has held the office schools of Oak Park. After completing his academy of chairman of the board. Upon his resignation course he spent a year in Beloit College. as a mem- last fall, Justice John Wickhem succeeded him in ber of the class of 1896. After a brief term as a this office. reporter on the Chicago Daily News he returned In a letter to the trustees, Mr. T yrrell paid the to Beloit where he became associated with Mrs. fo11owing tribute to Mr. Mouat, '"Mac' Mouat was Rockwell's father, in the L. C. Hyde & Brittan one of Beloit's most loyal alumni and trustees. He banking institution. Mr. Rockwell became cashier made the statement in hi s letter of resignation that of the bank, later its vice-president and upon the he considered his election to the board and his serv- death of Mr. Brittan he became its president. In ice to the board one of the great honors of his life. 1931 the bank became consolidated with the Beloit He gave unsparingly of his time and money for State bank and Mr. Rockwell served as vice-presi- the good of hi s a lma mater. Beloit College has dent of the merged institution. lost a staunch friend." Mr. Mouat was 70 yea rs of age at the time of Mr. Rockwell was for many years closely con- his death. nected with alumni and college affairs. In his undergraduate days he was a member of Sigma Chi fraternity and he continued an active interest in the fraternity as an alumnus. He was elected a member of the college's boa rd of trustees in 1923, In Memoriam and he served the board and the college in many important capacities. He was for several years Herbert Hamilton Foster chairman of the board's building committee and more recently he was chairman or its investment By R. K . Richardson committee. At their May, 1942, meeting the trustees elected him treasurer of the college. Professors of Education, or, as we used to call them, Professors of Pedagogy, were, in general, not More recently he had given much tiA1e to di- popular in college faculties of the 1920's-the decade recting the sale of War Bonds and Stamps as in which our friend came to Beloit. Their task, as chairman of the Beloit War Bond and Stamp com- their colleagues were apt to see things, was less con- mittee, and under his leadership the community nected with genuine grasp of a field of knowledge made an outstanding record for oversubscription than with a methodology of teaching boys and girls; of its assigned quotas. and there was a wide-spread impression in circles of Liberal Arts, not only that Pedagogy was illib- eral, vocational, and forced upon unwilling institu- tions by ignorant and be-lobbied legislatures, but M. 0. Mouat, Trustee of College that those who professed it sophistically taught their students, implicitly if not explicitly, that information (By John Palmer-reprint from on the part of teachers was relatively unimportant Round Table) and that correct method might suffice for instruc- tion in all branches. Malcolm Mouat, active alumnus of Beloit Col- v\Thatever color of truth there · may have been in lege and chairman of th·e Board of Trustees until this attitude, Herbert Hamilton Foster conquered last October, died January 3 at his home. in Janes- and transcended it from his first coming to the Col- ville. Mr. Mouat who had been in failing health lege. No colleague, so far as I am aware, ever sug- for some time, had served as chairman of the hoard gested that Mr. Foster was a foreign substance in since 1939. the Beloit body. He fitted in. He was one with us. Mr. Mouat was a senior member of the well- His immediate adoption was in part due, we may known firm of Jeffris, Mouat, Oestrich, Wood, and believe, to our faith in his professional worth, at- Cunningham. He was associated with this firm tested by significant publication and by his employ- for 45 years. In 1920 Mr. Mouat declined a ment in other, and honored, schools; in the main it nomination to the Supreme Court of Wisconsin. He was our unconscious tribute to a character that w!ln was a member of the American Bar Association, affection and to a demeanor that disarmed criticism \Visconsin Bar Association, Rock County Bar As- by its obvious spirit of toleration and by its unin- sociation, and served on various civic and indus- trusive and inherent modesty. Apparer;tly Profes- trial organizations. He was very influential in th'e sor Foster understood the situation, demanded noth- affairs of the Republican party aithough he never ing, and got all. sought public office. Dr. Foster held strong views on certain subjects, Mr. Mouat was a graduate of the Beloit College as, for example, on grading. He must have felt, Academy in 1890 and finished his work at Beloit also, that his opinions should receive consideration, College in the class of 1894. While at Beloit he both as the product of honest thinking and as com- was a member of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, of which ing from an expert and an investigator. None the he has been a very active alumnus. In 1934 he less, his positons, though frankly, were undogmatic- was honored by election to the Beloit chapter of ally stated, and were set forth mildly, pleasantly, Phi Beta Kappa. and with arguments. We Faculty members, bow- 5 BELOIT COLLEGE BULLETIN ever different our mind, felt, not that we were be- miss him beyond the power to miss vouchsafed to ing antagonized, but that we were being acquainted others, this be her comfort-that her husband under- with a different experience and with other facets of stood, recognized and gloried in her worth. the truth. All of us, too, recognized our colleague's earnest· ness, but his zeal was not of the kind that makes a moral question of every conceivable issue. He never took himself too seriously, nor did others ever feel "the hackles raise" by reason that any thing he said Alumni In the News subtly insinuated a sense of moral superiority. A few years ago Mr. Foster was Chairman of our Division of the Social Sciences. More, perhaps, than Oscar E. Meinzer, '01, has presented the any other Chairman we ever had, he took his office library with a copy of his recently published seriously, particularly in the way of undertaking book, "Hydrology." It is the ninth in a to impress upon us all a realization of the impor- tance of making genuine contributions toward the series of monographs on "Physics of the training of teachers in our respective fields. Illness Earth" prepared under the direction of various intervened and, once his presence was removed, other committees of the National Research Council. interests, and possibly the inertia born of Adam, There are 24 contributors to the current pub- prevented us from giving his suggestions immediate and obvious result. But his thought was not for- lication which was edited by Meinzer and gotten and what he then proposed has, this current published in 1942 by the McGraw-Hill Book semester, in different ways, and under other aus- Company. Meinzer is Geologist in charge, pices, been in course of achi evement. Professor Division of Ground Water, Geological Sur- Foster was right, and the friendly, disinterested and earnest spirit in which he undertook to put a new vey, United States Department of the Interior, heart within us is bea ring fruit today. If the work Washington, D.C. of his hand was not established upon him, it is, in some measure, now being established upon us. Herbert Foster was one of those men whom stu- dents are apt to call "human." The word is vague and the epithet is often ea m ed too easily. To Fos- Eaton V. W. Read, '29, Director of the ter it belongs in the best se nse: he felt with hi s WPB Inventory Control Program recently fellow human beings. His churchmanship and his life indicate that he genuinely thought of the Lord addressed trade journal editors in New York as hi s Shepherd, and he doubtless prayed to be led relative to the government's recent order re- beside the still waters: but he wanted to be led stricting inventories. Read said "there is defi- with the other sheep and to enjoy the green pas- nite evidence that without limitation of inven- tures in a sociable fashion. When Faculty, or Fac- ulty-Trustee parties w ere to be accorded retiring tories at this time, financially strong merchants associates, or when Spring picnics were the order would again enter the markets prepared to of the day, Dr. Foster w as in the midst of things preempt a disproportionate share of the poten- and at his best. Then we heard hi s voice in our tially scarce goods. This would have left the quartettes and glees, and roared forth many a hu- morous and allusive song of hi s own merry and ap- smaller communities without a sufficient parently ea sy composition. Such an one w as the quantity of goods to mee t their needs. " cheerful and appropriate farewell, compose d in Ger- man, which we all sang together one memorable evening around the Emerson Hall tables, on occa- sion of the leave-taking of Professo r and Mrs. Du bee. Professo r Foster's last sickness-and it went far Lee D . Bo rt '27, has been reelected secre- back of the severcnce of active relations with the tary and treasurer of the Beloit Building and College-was of a type suppose dly co nducive of Loan Association. V. A. Emilson, Ass't. despondency and irritation: and before he was aware of its true nature he did evince tendencies in these Treasurer of Beloit College was named a di- directions. But they never conquered him. Never rector to fill the unexpired term of Leon G. did man who found himse lf mistaken in his inter- Herreid. pretations of affairs acknowledge his mistake in a sweeter and more Christian spirit than did Mr. Foster. His courage and animation were persistent. Visits to his sick-room were less boons to the patient than invigorating experiences «> the visitor. Her- bert Foster led the good life. He fought the good Two Beloit College graduates occupy im- fight for home and wife, and enjoyed it, to the end. portant places in the affairs and organization He died victorious. He knew that 'life is given to of the Chicago Chamber of Commerce. none of us in fee but only on lease,' and 'he yielded greatly.' Leverett S. Lyon '10 is chief executive officer Nor must it be forborne to say that never had man of the business organization and Holman D. more gallant helpmeet. If in the coming days she Pettibone '11 is president of the association. 6 BE L 0 l·T C 0 LL E GE B U LL ET IN CAMPUS COMMENTS

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Jack Bryson, student chairman of the named Treasurer, Kay Brown, vice-president, Maurer Memorial Fund committee has an- and Dick East, manager of oratory and de- nounced that the money now in the student bates. They replace Ed Gates, Henry Smith, fund would be invested in war bonds until and Barbara Ellett who graduated at the end conditions permit the purchase of a worthy of the first semester. memorial. The fund now stands at $476 with a number of pledges still unpaid. Three Beloit students represented the Col- lege at the Student Victory assembly of mid- Recently elected members of the Union west colleges which was held at Carleton Col- Board are Al Turnstrom, Chairman; Bruce lege. Those attending were Betty Poole, Durling, Ward Black, Barbara Ellett, Shirley Jane Couffer, and E lmer Sandburg. The pur- Kling, and Jane Wilson. pose of this meeting was to make plans to coordinate the war efforts of the various col- Thirty prize-winning photographs selected leges in the midwestern area. by the Associate Collegiate Press were exhib- ited recently at the Art hall under sponsor- Beloit College has recently been granted a ship of the Round Table. All pictures were chapter of the American Association of Col- taken and developed by students in American lege Professo rs. Object of the organization is colleges and universities. to maintain high standards in college and uni- versity teaching. Associate Professor A. M. Art Rimmke, senior athlete, has been voted Coon is the newly-elected president and other the most valuable Beloit athlete for the fall officers arc Prof. Lloyd Ballard, vice-presi- season. Previously he was elected honorary dent; Prof. Neville L. Bennington, secretary- football captain and all-Midwest conference trcasurer. center. A Student Committee in War Participa- Five seniors were selected to serve on facul- tion has been formed to take the place of the ty committees by a recent joint meeting of the Old Defense council. The committee plans General Board of Associated Students and the to concern itself not only with civilian defense Faculty Committee on Student Activities. measures for the college, but also to build air They were Ed Gates, Bruce Durling, Dick raid shelters in each of the college buildings. Pettibone, Bob Birkemeier, and Charles Scrap drives and defense stamp sales arc to be Gedge. They will hoh:I non-voting positions promoted. During a recent lack of workers on the committees which were selected at a on the city rationing board, the Committee faculty meeting early in the semester. helped in registering fuel oil applications. Charles Gedge was named co-ordinator first Donald Gropp was named President of As- . semester and John Palmer for the second. sociated Students. Vernon Satterthwaite was Other members are Don Patterson, Polly

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Robinson, Vincent Di Raimondo, Jone Rehn- ward Movement" in the University of Ver- berg, Doreen Davis, Ruth King, Fern West, mont. Hal Cuttle, Ed Carlson, and Joe Walker. The junior and senior honors students had Joins Navy the opportunity to meet Dr. Friedrich Spiegel- berg at tea on Wednesday afternoon, January 13. Dr. Spiegelberg, on the Beloit Campus for two weeks on the Brewer Founda.tion, is a distinguished lecturer in theology, psychol- ogy, and philosophy. Two senior honors candidates, Vincent Di Raimondo, and Arden Grossnickle expect to graduate with honors in January and at least one junior candidate will complete his course in August, all of these on the accelerated pro- gram, which shows that the latter is not in- compatible with Honors work. All men living in the Beta Theta Pi fra- ternity house were placed in quarantine for one week (Jan. 31 to Feb. 6) by order of Dr. Cyril Carney, college physician. The quar- Hollie Lepley, popular and successful Gold antine was ordered as a result of a recent case coach, has been commissioned an ensign in the of measles contracted by Bob Elsner. U.S.N.R. and reported for duty February 11 Associate Justice John D. Wickhem was at Chapel Hill, N. C. He has been assigned the main speaker at the Founders' Day chapel to a physical education instructor's post. "Lep" services held February 3. Dr. Rowell, col- joined the athletic staff in 1937 and has pro- lege chaplain, and Acting President Bradley duced consistent championship teams in golf Tyrrell also gave brief talks and the college and swimming. More than any other individ- choir sang several special selections. ual he is responsible for the smooth function- The Founders' Day chapel · service was in- ing of the intramural sports program which augurated in 1939 by the late President has replaced intercoll egiate sports. Maurer in honor of the men who founded Beloit College. U. S. and Beloit College Urge A lecture on Synthetic rubber and Plas tics Students to 'Stick' was given before the local chapter of Sigma Both federal and College officials, speaking of the Xi early in February by Dr. H. Mark of new training program involving colleges, urge students to remain in school as long as they can. Brooklyn Polytechnic institute. Dean Her- Manpower Chief Paul V. McNutt has urged 18 man Conwell is president of the local chapter and 19 year-olds to stay in the college until called. of Sigma Xi, an honorary scientific fraternity. President T yrrell, Dean Conwell, War Committee Chairman Whitehead and other College people have The next Players production, "Night Must strongly advised students to keep on with their Fall," will be directed by Louise Burno of the courses. class of 1946. In a statement to the students of the college Mr. Tyrr~ll declared, "There is no point, financial or A letter recently received by Prof. Richard- otherwise, which makes it practical for men to quit school before being called. . . . If a student . is son from Rev. Richard D. Leonard, formerly called within sixty days of the beginning of the of th e_ History department, states that after semester the full amount of the tuition will be pastorates in Weston and Marshfield, Vt., he refunded. Board and room bills will be refunded is now pastor at Lyndonville, Vt. Besides hav- partially on the basis of the number of days spent in school. If called to active duty after 60 days ing charge of the Peoples Methodist Church of the beginning of the semester, tuition would only he cares for the Community church at Lyndon be charged on the basis of the number of days spent and at a "tiny, open-summers-only" crossroads in school." church at East Lyndon. In addition he travels "The government wants trained men. When they thirty miles and back each Thursday to teach go into the service they will be judged for ad- vancement upon the amount of college which they religion in the high school at Marshfield. Last have completed and also upon the quality of their summer he taught a course in "The West- grades," Mr. T yrrell explained. 8 BELOIT COLLEGE BULLETIN FRONT LINE NEWS Beloit Warriors Classified Joe Tamulis, '39, has been commissioned a sec- ond lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps. More than 400 Beloit College men are in service Lt. Tamulis recently announced his mtt"riage to today. The number of men serving in each of the Miss Mary Lou Stang of Reedsburg, Wisconsin. various branches of armed forces is indicated below. Ensign Robert L. Jorgensen, '41, bas been made Army ...... ,.. 199 Executive Officer on a 110' sub chaser. His ship Army Air Corps ...... 78 left Miami in early January, destination not known. Signal Corps ...... 19 Navy ······-··········-············· 88 Navy Air Corps -···· ·········-·· ····- 19 Lieut. Don Eldredge, '40, reported missing in a Coast Guard ...... 5 flight over France with a United States Army Corps Marines ...... ···-· 12 bomber squadron, is now a prisoner of war in Coast Artillery 5 Germany. Eldredge was a member of Beta Theta Pi fra- ternity in the class of 1940 at Beloit and had been stationed with the corps in England. Lieut. Charles Judson Allen, '39 produced his first show in December and came up with a smash Another member of Eldredge's squadron in Eng- hit. The show was entitled "We Did It Before" land is Bill M cKearn, x43, who has been reported and was given in Indianapolis and the critics have wounded while flying a B-17 bomber over the con- been raving ever since. It featured Dr. Fabien tinent of Europe. McKearn was a Phi Psi in the class of 1943 and has been in the air corps since Sevitzky, conductor of the Indianapolis Symphony la st December. with a cast of 65 doughboys. Lieut. Allen, a tired man, returned to his regular duties and received the official congratulations from his general. He was then informed to prepare Prof. Felix \Vassermann, former member of the for a return engagement. Beloit College faculty and a refug~e professor from Germany, in a letter to Dr. I van Stone (Govern- ment dept.) reports that his mother is now dead after a long imprisonment in a concentration camp Lieut. Frank Licher, x42, was named by General in France. His wife's doom has been sealed, Prof. MacArthur as the head of one of several American Wassermann said, since she has been deported to patrols seeking to engage the fle eing Japanese army a concentration camp in eastern Europe where he in the jungles of New Guinea. His patrol was expects her to die a slow death by starvation, cold reported to have been in the jungles for three days and torture. During the 1939-40 term, Prof. barely missing overtaking the Japs upon their en- Wassermann taught a course in comparative religion trance into one village. at Beloit.

Lieut. W. J. McKearn, x43, took part in the Corp. James F. Finnigan, '39, member of the daylight raid over Romily-sur-Seine which is 80 United States Marines, was wounded recently in miles southeast of Paris. The targets included the fighting in the Solomons. While at Beloit he railway shops as well as one of the Nazis' biggest was a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity. air stations in France. Lieut McKearn also bad a chat with King George VI last fall when the king and American officers visited the American air base somewhere in Eng- Dorothy L. Beck '25 is with the American Red land. Cross as recreational Director stationed at the U. S. Naval Hospital, Pensacola, Fla. Ella Kneller '09 of Elkhorn, Wis., bas become a student instructor in the Army Air Force Technical The son of Joseph Hissem, x15, Ensign J. M. Training Corps and bas gone to St. Louis for three Hissem reported missing in action was awarded the months' training in the Radio School at the Univer- navy cross for performance in battle of Midway sity of St. Louis. Later she will be located as junior Island. instructor at Traux Field, Madison, Wis.

Sgt. Frank T. Al_len '35 has arrived safely in Clarence W. Van Beynum '11, Travelers Insur- North Africa. He is with a hospital unit. ance Co. ad manager, has taken on the job of pub- Ed Mathys '44, who enlisted in the marines in licizing the Hartford campaign of Russian War September is now connected with the Marine Avia- Relief. His address is Route 1, Portland, Conn. tion Ordnance. Helen E. Webster '44 is in the War Department, Ben Bradley '38, bas been transferred from the Adjutant General's Office, Office of Dependency Army Enginer Corps to Military Intelligence. He Benefits, Newark, N. J. Her address is 324 Carteret is now in school at Camp Ritchie, Maryland. Place, Orange, N. J. 9 BELOIT COLLEGE BULLETIN

Carroll H. Wegemann '03 has recently taken the Bondi, Leon A. '33-Lieutenant (j.g.), USNR. Com- posi tion of Senior Geologist for the Petroleum Ad- munications Watch Officer. ministration for War. His address is Room 1218, Bowers, Donald C. '36-Cadet. Air Forces Weather 624 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago. He was formerly Training School. with the National Park Service with headquarters Carlson, Clifford A. '33-Purchasing Agent, U. S. in Omaha, Neb. Army Air Corps, Dayton, Ohio. Clement, Dr. Arthur V. '34-2d Lieutenant, M edical Corps, Jefferson Barracks, Mo. Cook, Charles '46-Navy V-6, Great Lakes, Ill. Col. John W. Thompson, '18, Beloit's ranking Duncan, Bruce M. '41-Navy. Army officer, who was among the defenders of the Durkop, Gerhard G. '44-Army. Philippines when Bataan and Corregidor fell, is Ehlert, Howard '41-Privatc, Army. now a prisoner of the Japanese on the island of Ennis, John L. '44-Army. Formosa. Evans, Harry R. ' 18-Major, Quarter Masters Of- fice, Fort Bliss, Texas. Finnigan, J ames F. '39-Corporal. Special Weapons Bn., U. S. Marine Corps. S.W. Pacific. On his first trip to sea, Ensign Kenneth B. Nelso n, Fry, John M. '45-Navy Air Force for pil ot training. '39, ran into a 100-mile-an-hour hurricane aboard Galin, Dr. Albert N. '29-Captain, Medical Corps. his 100-foot Coast Guard cutter but the worst was Commanding Officer, Station Hospital Detach- yet to come-he was stricken with appendicitis and ment, APO 701, Seattle, Wash. underwent an emergency operation in the storm as the ship pitched and tossed. The operating table Gardner, Stephen P. '35-Ensign, US R. Pearl was made fast to the floor with braces. Nelson Harbor. climbed on for the operation, done with a spinal Gibson, H. Hurst '42-Corporal. Attending Field anesthetic, and watched the whole proceedings. Artillery Officers' Candidate School. Class No. 49, Fort Sill. Okla. Goff, Charles G. '39-DEML (CIC), Hq. VI, S.C., Chicago. Gotto, George S. '43-Cadet, Army Air Corps. It is now Lieut. Colonel Robert G. Fergusson making this Beloiter of the class of 1933 the top- Gray, Emily M. '35-Lieutenant, 29th WAAC Post ranking alumnus in the service. Bob's rise since Hq. Co., Ft. Sheridan, Ill. his graduation from West Point in 1936 has been Gross, John W. ' 12-Sergeant, Co. B, !st. Bat., 3d meteoritic. In less than seven years he has been Inf. Reg., Wisconsi n State Guard. promoted from 2nd Lieutenant to 1st Lieutenant, to Hay, Frances '19-Lieutenant (j.g.), {.;SNR. As- Captain, to Major and now to Lieut. Colonel with signed to active duty with the \VAVES. the General Staff Corps assigned to Headquarters, Heinz, J. David '40-0fficers' Candidate School, 7th Division, Ft. Ord, California. When Pearl Army Admin. School #1, Co. D., Fargo, N. Dak. Harbor was bombed, Lieut. Colonel Fergusson was Aide to Chief of Hawaiian Artillery, Fort DeRussy, Hernon, Robert F. '35-Private, Officers' Tng. Hawaii. While at Beloit has was a member of Co rps, California. Beta Theta Pi fraternity and a star track and field Inman, Robert T. '25-Lieutenant. Radio Engineer, performer. New York City. Kesler, Guy W. '24-Lieutenant (S.G.). Naval Mine Warfare School, Yorktown, Va. Three Beloit alums were among the 1100 new Keye, Vernon E. '32-Field Director, Red Cross E nsigns commissioned· at the graduation exercises of Psychiatric Unit, Great Lakes NTS. the first class of United States Naval Reserve Mid- Keys, Thomas E. '3 1-Captain, Sanitary Corps, shipmen's School at Notre Dame on January 28th, A CS, Officer in Charge, Cleveland Branch, War 1943. They were Ensign J ohn J. Tyrrell, '42, so n Dept. Army Medical Library, 11000 Euclid Ave., of Acting President Bradley Tyrrell who attended Cleveland, Ohio. the exercises; Ensign Richard A. Reynolds, '42; Klein, Louis J . '38-Ensign (SC) USNR, Naval Ensign Harry Gavey, '41. The ceremonies were Supply Depot, Newport, R. I. brief but very impressive. The address was by 1 Rear Admiral John Downes, United States Navy Linehan, Charles M. ' 36-Ensign, US R. Commandant of the Ninth Naval District. Lockwood, J ames E. '34-Coxswain, U. S. Coast Guard Anchorage, 90 Streeter Drive, Chicago. McEvoy, Harry K . '32-Sergea nt, Army Air Corps. Mathys, Edward V. '44-Private, Marine Corps. The following list contains the names on fil e in May, Jam es B. '25-Corporal, Detachment Clerk, the Alumni Office that have been added since the Camp Pontchartrain, New Orleans. publication of the last bulletin and up to and in- Menaugh, Thomas H. '41-Midshipman, USNR cluding January 15, 1943. Midshipman's School, New York City. Allen, John James '34-Technical Sergeant, Hq. Sq., 2d Dist., AAFTTC, 455 Lake Ave., St. Louis. Michael, John W. '41-Corporal, Btn. Hq. Co., Camp Swift, Texas. Anthony, Robert L. '42-ERC, Signal Corps Radio Tng., Milwaukee. Morris, Robert S. '28-Private, Personnel Dept., Berryman, Lester C. '28-Private, Army Air Corps. !25th Inf., Gilroy, Calif. "Somewhere in the Pacific." Nelson, Donald S. '38-Signal Corps.

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Parker, Robert E. '31-Lieutenant (j.g.), Naval Officers' Tng. Sch., Ft. Schuyler, The Bronx, N.Y. Pillsbury, Lewis E. '40-Corporal, Officers' Candi- date School, Class 54, Ft. Sill, Okla. Pratt, Jack F. '40-Corporal, Army Air Base, 8th Weather Sqdn., Presque Isle, M e. Rebman, Dr. Lester W . '25-Lieutenant ( S.G.), U.S. Navy {214), Fleet Post Office, New York, N. Y. (Overseas duty). Sculley, Fred D. '41-Private, Co. D, 353d Engin- t eers, Camp White, Ore. Seeman, Robert W. '45-A.S. (R), U. S. Coast Guard Tng, Sta., Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn, N. Y. Co. 22, Platoon 1. Sherwood, Cyril B. '23-Private. Radio School. Speare, H. Caswell '42-Private. Co. L, 10th Qn. T.R., Barracks T-618, AF.1-32466679, Camp Lee, Va. Steele, George H. '40-Ensign. Flying Instructor, Wold-Chamberlain Field, Minneapolis. Taylor, Clayton M. '42-Army. Thomas, Allen M. '31-Lieutenant (j.g.), Instruc- tor in Navigation at Naval Training School, Princeton, N. J. Teaching commissioned srndent- officers. Thomas, Cleveland L. '35-Ensign. USNR. Timm, Donald H. '42-Corporal, Camp Davis, N.C. Selected to attend Officers' Candidate School in Anti-aircraft branch of Coastal Artillery. Toler, John H. '42-Ensign. Naval Reserve Air Base-USNR, Pasco, Wash. Watson, Ivan '27-Lieutenant (S.G.). Navy. Quon- James fl. Hicks, Commander, U.S.N., Chief Naval set, R. I. Inspector of Machinery at the Fairbanks plants, Weeks, Charles H. '18-Captain, Air Corps, Com- under whose jurisdiction the Diesel School is oper- manding Officer, 95 lst Single Engine Flying Tng. ated. This Unit is quartered in part in the Teke and Sqdn., Luke Field, Phoenix, Ariz. Porter houses. Weld, Leigh K. '43-Private, Army Medical Corps, Camp McCoy, Sparta, Wis. Wickhem, Frank '24--Captain, Army in Judge Ad- vocates Dept. Now serving as Provost Judge in Honolulu, T. H. Cooperating with Fairbanks, Morse & Co., Beloit Wolcott, Robe rt '3'6-Lieutenant ( S.G.), D.C., College has negotiated an arrangement with the United States Navy to house a nd feed a number U.S. 1., San Juan, Puerto Rico. of the enlisted personnel of the Na val Training Zumhagen, Vernon E. '46-A.S. V-6, Co. 1689, School, Diesel, of Beloit. USNTS, Great Lakes, Ill. The Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity house on College Avenue, which was formerly occupied by the college president, has been assigned to the unit College Made Gift of Ingersoll for barracks and mess quarters, and Porter House, now used as an overflow dormitory for girls, will Home · be taken over for barracks and as a "Sick Bay." The Ingerso ll home next to the first Congregational Minor alterations and the installation of addi- church on Church street has been presented to Be- tional shower facilities are now underway in both loit College as a gift by Mrs. Charlotte Ingersoll houses. The Navy uses its own beds and other Morse, wife of Charles H. Morse. Mr. and Mrs. furniture as req uired. Morse have established an endowment for the The "Tckes" have moved to North Dormitory, maintenance of the home. In addition, the house where special quarters are being provided. The has recently bee n completely redecorated in interior girls in Porter House are now occupying the Inger- and exterior. soll home on Church street, recently given to Be- The new home, which will be used as an ovt:r- loit College by Mrs. Charles H. Morse. Aow women's dormitory for women who formerly ."Beloit College is proud to be able to have a lived in Porter house, was presented to the college part in this important educational work of the with all the furnishings. The gift enabled the Diesel unit, and to do so without appreciably lim- College to turn over Porter house for the use of iting its facilities for its regular student body, or the navy without cramping its housing facilities for further use of the Navy or Army, if called upon," for women. Acting President Tyrrell states. 11 BELOIT COLLEGE BULLETIN

Beloiter Drives Toward Tunisia With British Army

(The following description of fighting in Egypt article and we could go to a truck and pick it is taken from a letter written by Charles E. Bachman out for you. If you could only have seen us x# to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. 0. Bachman, i Chicago, Ill. Mr. Bachman is an ambulance dri'Ver -two or three in a truck which nobody had with the American Field Forces, GHQ, Cairo scrounged before, up to our waists in trunks, Egypt. Now with the British 8th Army near the kit bags and sacks. We'd open up a trunk, J Tunisian border.) take out anything we wanted and dump it over the side. Both hands going all the time. And . KNOW you've been watching the West- then run on to the next lorry. Fun? It's the I ern Desert action closely and wondering greatest sport in the world. That, as I say, what we were doing. Well, we were in is found when he has been caught in a pocket things at the start and have been going strong somewhere and captured. ever since. When you receive this, look back One nite one of our boys was left behind at the news for today and you will know about with a truck in workshops when we moved up where we are by how far the British have during the day. He took the truck and along gone. Our advance once the enemy was with a workshop Lieutenant in a three tonner blasted from his dug-in position has been in- set out to find us at nite. They took the wrong credibly fast. More than once we have come road and after they had gone for a while more than fifty miles west in one day. started passing a long truck convoy pulled off Over our ·route the desert was covered with to the road-side. They had gone along past burned out tanks, lorries and planes. One these trucks for two miles when they suddenly place we passed by was a main German land- realized the voices they'd been hearing were ing field. There must have been at least 100 speaking German. They whipped around and destroyed planes on the ground. He had no raced back down the road. They took the petrol to move them with. Lorries by the convoy so completely by surprise that not a thousand are scattered all about, some burn- shot was fired at them and they fin ally reached ing, some mangled heaps of twisted steel still our camp. But Joe Farrell won't forget that smoking but mostly in good condition- nite. abandoned trucks with complete supplies. The A few days ago we camped by the sea and tanks left are, of course, riddled with shell had a day off-that's what they said it would holes and· all smashed to bits. On the first be. We ended up making a SO mile run at day we moved up, the dead bodies of enemy nite with S ton lorries booming up at us out dispatch riders were still lying next to their of the dark. And then up at S the next day motor-cycles where they fell. to move on but anyway we had the morning At times we were actually ahead of the and afternoon free. So-down to the beach. enemy positions when he had been cut off and On the way along the shoreline we picked up left in a pocket behind us. After he had been a few Italian rifles that had been abandoned cleaned out of such pockets was when he lost and fired at various targets which presented the most equipment. We'd go over a rise and themselves. All of a sudden about ~ mile lo !-in the valley below would be hundreds ahead there was a great commotion, shouting of untouched German and Italian trucks. and waving of white flags. Nine Italians ran Loot! Good Lord, there was so much we out of the dugouts they'd been hiding in and were giving rifles away. Brand new Mauscrs, gave themselves up. Funny? They ran up sub-machine guns, Italian guns and so on happy as hell and offered us cigarettes by the which by the Geneva Convention we arc not hundred. So grimly and with fixed bayonets allowed to carry. Some of mine follows-- we marched our first prisoners of the war brand new pair of Italian binoculars, thou- down along the Mediterranean shore and into sands of Italian cigarettes, gabardine jacket, camp. What sport l They'd left a complete new boots, shirts, matches, cigarette lighter, canteen store there which is where all my German pack sack, mess kit complete, socks, Italian cigarettes came from. There are at canteens, books, the ink this is written with, least 50,000 of the things still on the beach and so on indefinitely. You could name your there. 12 BELOIT COLLEGE BULLETIN Prisoners! The Germans pulled out with their own chaps and do a good job so it's all- most of their Africa Corps-what was 1eft of right with us. it anyway-and left their comrades-in-arms For a period of about a week we had not to take the rap. One nite where we camped time to shave, no water to wash, slept in our 7,000 were in barbed wire pens waiting to be clothes and we arc still on emergency rations evacuated back. What a sight to see all the as supplies have not caught up to us yet. poor devils. All they had with them was Things are straightened out now and we get a food and cigarettes they'd been able to save. day off once in a while like today to clean up Dirty, bedraggled and completely worn out and get a good nite's sleep. The farther we from the terrific bombardment from land and go the greener it gets. I can look off to my air they'd taken for over a week. Milling right and sec real green grass. around in the sunset in barbed wire pens, I've been writing this in a hurry so as to Italians ! and they are glad to be taken prison- get everything in before supper. It's not very er. They don't want to fight. They're no well composed and I haven't been able to de- good anyway. scribe what I've seen and done very well but German prisoners are different. Some think I hope you'll get some idea of what we've been they are fighting for a cause. They don't like doing lately from it. If I took the time I to be captured and have to be watched. When cou ld do a better job but I'd rather put things a mixed bunch of prisoners is taken the Ger- down as they come to my mind. mans are always evacuated first and as soon We think we're the first Yanks to capture as possible. . prisoners in Egypt. We'll claim so anyway One nite an Italian ambulance rolled into until proven wrong. That was really funny. our camp containing two medical officers and They'd left their trucks and holed into some 10 wounded men. They'd been driving all cliffs by the sea-really good dugouts. But nite looking for somewhere to surrender. after two days they ran out of water and were I've had a great time talking German to awfully glad to sec us. These Italian cigar- patients in the ambulance. That is what we ettes aren't bad. They're better than our issue. have been hauling most of lately-Germans (slightly perfumed) We scrounged so much and lots of Italians. Many are nice chaps stuff it took us all morning to sort it out and who like the war no more than we do and put it away. A good little chemical stove to agree with my ideas on the subject. Some are cook with and 'a handy little Jerry blackout Nazis tho and have to be watched. They candle lamp are prize items. Now we have won't say much. , hot cocoa at nite or else, make it at nite, put In our present camp site we discovered a it in the thermos and drink it in the morning. complete German library and I picked up sev- It really gets cold at nite now. I sleep in eral books. Some of the propaganda books a sleeping bag I bought, three blankets and concerning America and Germany and printed covered with a poncho. It takes that much to for the German soldier consumption are very be really warm. interesting. Of course, now we sleep in Jerry A few days ago I got a notice that you de- dugouts and so on. You'd be surprised at all posited $20.00 for me. Thank you very much. the British equipment we recaptured too. Out I can use it when and if we get near a canteen \ of one Italian truck I got a fine new pair of again. It will also come in handy when we ) British boots and a pile of cigarettes. It's a meet up with some of the boys who get in a sight to see the MDS pull into a new camp- scrounge pile first-usually tank outfits-and site. All the trucks disperse to various holes were able to pick up cameras and so on. We and then whoosh! everybody in the unit is out can get Zeiss cameras and binoculars now for scrounging to sec what Jerry left behind. We a pound-$4.00-The more I get the more I probably won't get another chance at untouch- bring home. ed stuff again because from here on the retreat We heard yesterday that 60,000 Yanks had is an orderly one. Al even rode into camp a landed in Morocco and an unknown number few days ago on an Italian motorcycle he'd here in the desert. Just the thing to polish picked up. He almost got a Fiat staff car but this show off. 1 Jerry was smashed pretty badly some officer beat him to it. So much for this time and is still running like hell. Per- scrounge. haps he will make a stand, perhaps not. I It's not uncommon to see German and hope we finish him off out here now. Any- Italian prisoners with red cross armbands way you can tell where we are by where the working with us. They like to look after line has moved to. 13 BELOIT COLLEGE BULLETIN ON THE EDUCATION AL FRONT

Anthropology Obviously one cannot deal iri a single se- mester's course with all the works of spiritual R. PAUL NESBITT, Curator of Logan value written between the beginning of the D Museum, has been notified by the Of- second century A.D., and the present century. fice of War Information that the Logan Mu- Furthermore, Dr. Richardson already teaches seum will henceforth receive two copies of a course entitled, "Underlying Ideals of Euro- each official war poster. As a contribution to pean Civilization," in which he treats a num- the war effort it is urged that these messages ber of the great classics of ancient and me- and appeals be posted as they appear. The dieval times. In my own course, therefore, I Museum plans to preserve one copy of each have chosen to make use of writings of the poster for historical record. 19th and 20th centuries. My students and I read Tolstoy's Con/ ession, with its vivid de- scription of the amazing reversal of values ex- perienced by the great Russian count. We read autobiographies of Ghandi and of Albert Biblical Literature and Religion Schweitzer. The one book most appreciated Eleven courses are offered by this depart- by students and teacher alike ·has been Dos- ment. Dr. Carl Purinton writes on the value toeviki's novel, The Brothers Karamazov. We of one course to Modern Literature. have attempted but with only partial success to trace the religious development of a very "As a new member of the faculty of Beloit modern poet, T. S. Eliot. College, I have been invited to say something The advantages of such an approach to re- about the work of my department. I shall ligion arc numerous: not only are religious speak only of one course, which is of an experi- values found to be present in contemporary mental character. This course deals with the life and literature, but they are seen also to be study of religious values in modern literature. appreciated outside of narrow religious cir- The idea of such a course was suggested to me cles. Moreover, this approach to religion is by an article of H. G. Wells which appeared free from any suspicion of being didactic. in Harper's magazine some years ago. The ar- \Vhen one reads a first hand description of ticle suggested that we ought to have a mod- religious experience written with the power of ern Bible, to call attention to the existence of a great artist, he finds himself sharing in the works of great spiritual value which have been experience. Education then becomes participa- written since the close of the biblical canon. tion in the thing being learned, rather than As a teacher of Biblical Literature and Re- learning about it. In other words, education ligion, I have been much interested irr this becomes life itself. suggestion that religious values are to be found in great works of literary art outside French of as well as within the Hebrew-Christian Bi- ble. For one thing such an attitude calls at- In December, Theta Chapter of Phi Sigma tention to the fact that religion is and has Iota and members of the French classes con- been an ongoing experience and that one may tributed money for five packages of food to be find its evidences in the life and literature of sent through the International Red Cross un- our own as well as of ancient times. der the auspices of the Coordinating Council 14 BELOIT COLLEGE BULLETIN of French Relief Societies, to French prison- It will be conducted as a symposium; it proposes to ers of war. One package keeps a prisoner treat the following : 1. Conditions leading to the War. alive for a month. The menu of these pris- 2. Meaning and Scope of Global War. oners is: morning, a cup of tisa11e; noon, a 3. War Aims. bowl of cabbage soup with a spoon of jam or 4. Post War Conditions. margarine; 4 o'clock, 125 grams of bread; no 5. Post War Problems (Provisions for economic and social security; Search for ethical stand- supper . Further contributions are expected ard ; Conditions of an enduring peace; Re- to be sent the second semester. organization of the economic system; Public assistance-pensions and relief; Occupational opportunities, youthful crime, mobilization of Music human resources; Community planning; Sub- sidies; Regimentation and indoctrination.) The youngest daughter of Prof. Huffer, 6. The Individual in the Post War World. (Free enterprise; Liberty and security; Threat of Katherine '46, not only plays the piano, clari- Authoritarianism; Values of Individualism; net, and 'cello, but promises to be a worthy suc- Foundations of the Democratic Ideal.) cessor to John Tyrrell whose organ playing An effort will be made to discuss materials which during his four years at Beloit became prac- describe this period of swift and significant social change. The course aims: 1) to indicate Ameri- tically a tradition. Katherine has appeared in ca's stake in the present conflict; 2) to give an in- chapel services as a member of a quartet of sight into and understanding of the economic and clarinets under the direction of Mr. Allen social situations with which we will be confronted Scholl, in charge of Beloit's instrumental program. as a result of the War; and 3) to evaluate the After only a few months of organ lessons, Katherine present status of the democratic ideals which the played the organ for an all-college sing directed by democracies are fighting to preserve. Prof. Jackson. During the spring she will make her debut to the college as a 'cellist in a string trio with Library Bob Nelson, violinist, and Patricia Dolan, pianist. A new project, the Student Library Committee's "Books of the Year'' subsidized by the Library, was Fine Arts launched last October by the Committee. Each month during the school year two or more of the group Mrs. Caroline Pitkin McCready of Oak Park has select one book of ficti'on and one of non-fiction to recently given to the college her large and valuable be purchased solely for student leisure and informa- collection of Chinese art. This is one of the most tional reading. These books are purchased by the important additions ever made to our art collections. Library from funds raised in the annual book auc- It includes some very fine examples of Chinese tion sponsored by the student committee, and when painting, early bronzes, sculpture, ceramics, glass, those funds are exhausted, from the regular library jade, and ivory. The collection is now being ar- budget. A display of all titles purchased has been ranged in a special room on the second floor of the kept in the main lobby of the Library throughout Art Hall and will be opened to the public in the the year, with those titles which are in circulation near future. The art department is planning a represented by dummies made from the book jackets. formal opening at which it is hoped that Mrs. Mc- With one or two exceptions all books purchased for Cready will be present. Arrangements are also be- this project have been in almost constant usage unti' ing made for a lecture by Mr. Langdon Warner of the final examination period of the first semester Harvard University, the foremost authority on when leisure reading seems to give way to the Chinese art in this country. traditional cramming. Beloit College has Jong possessed a very distin- Members of the 1942-43 Student Library Com- guished collection of Asiatic art. Soon after the mittee are Jean Gregory, Shirley Kling, Betty Ann founding of our art department by Mrs. Emerson in Fowler, Mary Kneil, Ralph DeSha, and Jim Dug- 1892, an important gift of oriental art came to us gan. Following is the list of the books selected and from Mrs. Mary Ripley Goodwin. Since then many made available to date, and we can recommend valuable additions have been made by the late James them heartily for alumni as well as student reading. W. Porter and by Mr. and Mrs. Lucius Porter. Other objects have been loaned by numerous friends STUDENT LIBRARY COMMITTEE of the college. With the recent gift by Mrs. Mc- Cready, Beloit now possesses what is probably the Book Selections to Jan. 1943 finest collection of Asiatic Art owned by any col- Fiction lege in the United States. Glasgow, E. In this our life, New York, Harcourt, Brace, 1941. Hobart, A. T. Tlze cup and the sword, Indianapolis, ECONOMICS - PHILOSOPHY - SOCIOLOGY Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1942. Hurston, A. N. Dust tracks on a road, Philadelphia, Beginning with the first semester of 1943-44 the J. B. Lippincott Co., 1942. departments of Economics, Philosophy and Sociology Morley, C. Thorofare, New York, Harcourt, Brace will offer a course in Tlze War and Social Recon- & Co., 1942. struction: Problems and Tl a/ues. This course will Stern, G. B. Tiu young matriarch, New York, Mac- run for two semesters and will be open to all classes. millan, 1942. 15 BELOIT COLLEGE BULLETIN

Non Fiction Adams, F. P. Innocent Merriment, New York, Whit- War Produces Demand for tlesey House, 19;42. Science ·courses Benet, W. R. The dust which is God, New York, Dodd, Mead & Co., 1941. Student elections in Mathematics, Chemistry, and de Roussey de Sales, The Making of tomorrow, New Physics have increased over 100% since the entrance York, Reyna! and Hitchcock, 1942. of this country into the war. In 1940 the combined Gramling, 0. Free men are fighting, New York, elections in these departments was 258; the semester Farrar and Rinehart, Inc., 1942. just completed showed 420 students taking one or Leech, M. Reveille in Washington, New York, Har- more courses. per, 1941. The greatest increase was in the department of Maurois, A. I remember, I remember, New York, Physics where there were 103 elections for the first Harper, 1942. semester 1942-43 compared with 38 in 1940-41. Wilson, F. Crusader in crinoline, Philadelphia, J. P. Mathematics elections jumped from 101 to 173 and Lippincott Co., 1941. Chemistry from 119 to 144.

1942 ,. Spiegelberg is Brewer Lecturer Dr. Friedrich Spiegelberg, lecturer in the Brewer series, gave a series of six lectures in the compara- tive religions class and a public lecture in the chapel. '1011> 1942 Born in Germany, Dr. Spiegelberg attended the increase gymnasium at Hamburg and has spent twenty terms 2~ at various German universities (including Dresden, increase Hamburg and Leipzig) doing graduate work. His fields are philosophy, psychology and theology. Dur- 194:0 ing 1926 and 1927 he did research in the catacombs 104?. at Rome and in the excavations at Ephesus. He has written seven books, two inEnglish; "The Bible of the World" and "The Religion of Non-Religion." 1940 200% The subject of his series was "Shintoism-a spir- increase itual background of the Japanese mentality, how to meet the Japanese in the war and in the peace to follow."

Forty-one Beloit college men in the army enlisted reserve corps will be a ffccted by the recent an- 1940 nouncment received by Acting President Bradley Tyrrell that the army enlisted reserve corps will be called to active duty early in the second semes- ter. The notice also stated that all medical stu- MATH. CHEM. PHYSICS dents including dental and veterinary students would continue on an inactive status along with approved engineering course students, students in electronic training group and aviation cadets en- 1940 vs 1942 Science Enrollments listed in deferred status.

Miss Katherine Johnson, class of '41, has recently accepted the position of Secretary in the Chicago Office, and in addition will do some field work r 5% Drop in Enrollment in Chicago and the surburban area. Miss Johnson majored in Sociology and is interested in person- Second semester enrollment has dropped about nel work. 15 % according to the registrar's office. This figure Mrs. Josephine Reed Warner, class of '19, has is much smaller than the anticipated drop and com- become associated with the college as a Field Repre- pares with a loss of 20% at the state university. sentative, taking over much of the work in Wis- The decline is due to first semester graduations, consin and Illinois. Mrs. Warner began her work those entering the armed service and those who in October. dropped from school. 16 BELOIT COLLEGE BULLETIN

Frances Butler, Brookline, Mass., to Ensign Louis ENGAGEMENTS J. Klein '38, Apr. 11, 1942. Address-30 Adding- ton Road, Brookline. A lice Brewer '42, Chicago, to Sgt. William Leslie Martha F. Knight '42, Wheaton, Ill., to Leonard Davidson '39, Ft. Benning, Ga. R. Engstrom, Freeport, Ill., Nov. 14. Address- Marjorie E. Izard '43, Chicago, to Wayne G. Peer Manor Apts., 6146 Kenwood Ave., Chicago. Tl10rstensen '41, Chicago. Mildred Lundt '36, Beloit, to John C. Clarke, Be- Jean Schroeder '43, River Forest, to Sgt. John W . loit, Dec. 18, at the army chapel, Fort Lewis, Wash. Michael '41, Shorewood, Wis. Kathryn Johnson, Rockford, to Lt. Rowell A. Frances Puckett '42, Washington, D. C., to M cC/enegl1an '41, Rockford, on Nov. 4 at Van- Richard Wilford '42, "Somewhere in England." couver, Wash. Velma Anderson, Rockford, to Pvt. Leigh K. Weld Ethel Haven, New York City, to Thomas D. '43, Rockford and Camp McCoy, Sparta, Wis. Mabry, Jr. '25, Clarksville, Tenn., recently in Trin- Dona/a Weston '41, River Forest, to William J. ity Episcopal Church on lower Broadway, New Plumley, River Forest. York. Lzicille Worcester '39, Oak Park, to Dr. Charles E. Eleanor Cook to Dr. Stanley C. Mui/Jo/land '16, Klontz, Jr. '38, Cherry Valley, Ill. Santa Barbara, Calif., Aug. 21, 1941. Address-25 Monte Vista Road, Santa Barbara. Lucille M. Peterson '44, Rockford, to Ralph W. MARRIAGES Cotta, Rockford, Nov. 14. Address-2200 Block, Auburn St., Rockford . . Elizabeth Anne Adams '43, Evanston, to Thomas Evelyn A. Ketelson, Spencer, Ia., to Lt. Arthur C. Allan Wallace '43, Oak Park, Jan. 25. Pierson '30, Alton, Ill., Sept. 22, 1942, in the chapel of the Church of the Crossroads in Honolulu, T.H. Edna Pettengill, Beloit, to Sgt. J. W yche Allen Address-Lt. A. C. Pierson, U.S.N.R., N.A.S., Box '42, Beloit, Nov. 28. 1397, Pearl Harbor. Margaret Beck '23, New York City, to Mario De Aud/ey Ann Quirt '42, Marshfield, Wis., to Don- Siena, also New York, December 26. Their address ald A. Sandro '41, Oak Park, Dec. 19. is 106 Morningside Drive. Dorothe Radke '41, Graysl ake, Ill., to Sgt. Clar- Helen Anne Bryan '45, Hinsdale, Ill., to 2d Lt. ence Collins, Grayslake, Nov. 12. Mrs. Collins will Theron Sheridan Ward, Jr., August, 1942. Address: reside in Grayslake while Sgt. Collins is stationed 731 Spring Road, Paso Robles, Calif. at Kelly Field, Texas. Marilyn Jane Burress '44, Sycamore, Ill., to Wil- Margaret W. Ranney '41 , Burlington, Wis., to liam E. Staderman, Freeport, Ill., December 24. Daniel 0 . Jenkins '41, Streator, Ill., Nov. 14. Ad- Helen Hawk to Clifford A. Carlson '33, Dayton, dress-14110 Portland Ave., Beloit. Ohio, Sept. 15, 1940. Address-638 Earl Ave., Ellen W. Alden, Waterville, Me., to Byram E. Dayton. Rud '40, Chicago, Dec. 5, in the chapel of the Cam- Evelyn Joan Grant to Dr. Arthur ft'. Clement '34, bridge, Mass., Congregational Church. Joliet, Ill., June 7, 1941 . Dr. Clement is 2d Lt., "Ardis Elizabeth Reid '35, Winnetka, to Ensign Medical Corps, Station Hospital, Dental Clinic No. Richard Watson, McKeesport, Pa., Oct. 24, 1942, 2, Jefferson Barracks, Mo. at Norfolk, Va. Address-78 Abbottsford Road, Velma Boles, Toledo, Iowa, to Lt. William H. Winnetka. Collins, Jr. '37, Sept. 21. Address-D Battery, 411th Betty Jean Risetter '40, Beloit, to Sidney F. CA (AA) Bn., Camp Davis, N. C. Morgan '41, Chicago, at Dubuque, Ia., Aug. 26, Mary Jeanne Boys, Cicero, Ill., to 2d Lt. Thomas 1942. E. Crum '39, June 6, 1942, Camp Carson, Colo. Miriam Rotlz '45, Monroe, Wis., to Gerard ]. Address-305 Altura Way, Colorado Springs, Colo. Beardsley, New York City, Dec. 12. Address-2615 Ramona E. Davis '39, Rockford, to William E. Jerome Ave., Bronx, N. Y. Nelson, Chicago, Nov. 28. Address-1305 Auburn Inez Russell '39, Kenosha, Wis., to Lt. Raymond St., Rockford. E. Bernberg, U. S. Army, Sept. 27, at Edgewater Charlotte Eichberg '41, Beloit, to Thomas Lindsay Beach Hotel, Chicago. '41, La Porte, Ind., Dec. 31. They are living in Lorraine Freund, McHenry, Ill., to Burton San Antonio, Texas, where he is stationed with the Stephens '30, Chicago, Dec. 26. Army Air Corps. M. Pauline (Polly) Studebaker '37, Beloit, to Fred Evelyn Finnigan '39, Lynn, Mass., to William H. Daniel Kay, Chicago, Dec. 26. Address-343 S. Crawford, Jr., Dec. 17. Address-16 Western Ave., Craig Place, Lombard, Ill. E. Lynn, Mass. Mary Lou Stang, Burlington, Wis., to Lt. Joseph Margaret A. Sell, Philadelphia, to Lt. Russell J. J. Tamulis '39, Beloit, at Quantico, Va., on Dec. 24. Fosse '37, son of Dr. Benjamin Fosse '01, Beloit, Dec. 23, at Camp Hood, Texas. Norma E. Tewes '41, Waukegan, Ill., to Dr. Frank J. Kraus, Louisville, Ky., Jan. 1, 1943. Ad- Virginia Zwygart, Monroe, Wis., to Robert W . dress: 1844 Deer Park Ave., Louisville, Ky. Goetz '44, also Monroe, Nov. 22. Address-19100 Dorothy Devert, Crete, Ill., to Ensign Jack Toler Ninth St., Monroe. '42, U. S. Navy, Dec. 9. Address-Lincolnshire, Patricia Jean Hubbell '41, Elgin, Ill., to Lt. John Crete, Ill. H. Schultz, Nov. 12. Address-303 W. Geer St., Pio/a Wade '30, Beloit, to Pfc. Philip Albrecht, Durham, N. C. Beloit, at present-Camp Claiborne, La., Dec. 28. 17 BELOIT COLLEGE BULLETIN

Mrs. Albrecht will continue her teaching at Stough- Mich. He had practiced dentistry for 65 years. ton, Wis. Address---115 E. Washington Street. His widow and two daughters survive. June E. Wilson, Rockford, to Sgt. Thomas E. Walker '36, Hinsdale, Dec. 12. Sgt. Walker is on temporary assignment at Fort Knox, Ky. Frank Wesley Shumaker '92, passed away on December 6 in Berkeley, Calif. He had spent most Ensign Ona M. Hubert, U. S. Naval hospital, of his life in New York City but about three months Great Lakes, to Ensign Robert G. Wolcott '36, San ago went to Berkeley to be near a sister. Mrs. Juan, Puerto Rico, on Nov. 28 in the chapel of Great Shumaker passed away in the East last year. Mr. Lakes Naval Training Station. Address-Lt. (S.G.) Shumaker was present last May for the fiftieth re- Robert G. Wolcott, D.C., U.S.N., San Juan, Puerto union of his class at Commencement. Rico.

Roy S. Lillibridge, a member of the class of 1909, died on October 25 in Milwaukee. For many years he was in the life insurance business in Milwaukee. BIRTHS Survivors are his widow, a son and a daughter.

A daughter, Sarah Barbara, December 11, to Mrs. Clara Maklem Gregory, wife of Seth W. George B. Clementson '29 and Mrs. Clementson. Gregory '93, passed away in her sleep Saturday 1617 Emerson St., Beloit. morning, January 2, at the family home in Palm- dale, Calif. A son, James Paul, January 1, to Fay Root '32 and Mrs. Root. Rockton, Ill. A daughter, Barbara Swift, December 21, to Mr. George Mills Bird, graduate of Beloit in 1923, and Mrs. Robert F. Balsley (Frances Murphy '34). died suddenly of a heart attack at his home, 14 9 North West St., Aurora, Ill. Blake Terrace, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on the morn- ing of January 19. He was born in Menonminee, A daughter, Barbara Janette, January 4, to Mr. Mich., Feb. 26, 1898. He lived for some time in and Mrs. George H. Stellman (Ernestine Bilger Beloit where he graduated from high school. He '34). 7457 N. Overhill Ave., Chicago. was an outstanding student while in College. A daughter, Nancy Elizabeth, January 2, to Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Mitchell (Helen Markham '35). 4219 Pine St., Philadelphia. Mr. Bird was married in June, 1923, to Irene A son, John Robert, November 4, to Kennard J. Bull, Beloit 1919, who survives him. He was for a Besse '36 and Mrs. Besse. Central Trust Building, time with the Bell Telephone Co., Minneapolis; a Sterling, Ill. cost accountant with General Electric, Chicago; and for the last several years a Publisher of Insur- A son, Alan Lee, December 20, to Richard G. ance Trade Publications in Cedar Rapids. Bredesen '36 and Mrs. Bredesen. 5435 Village Green, Los Angeles. A son, Robert Louis, November 4, to Robert .L. Louis W. Crow '86, died at Evanston, Illinois, Cashman '36 and Mrs. Cashman. P.O. Box 321, December 26, 1942. Mr. Crow was born at Crystal Lawton, Okla. Lake, Illinois, September 24, 1864. A son, Richard Henry, December 21, to James He attended the West Division High School in Corcoran '36 and Barbara Brailsford Corcoran '39. Chicago and was for one or two years in the Beloit 453 Central Ave., Beloit. College Academy. He entered college with the class A son, John Arthur, December 20, to Mr. and of 1886 and graduated with that class. He was a Mrs. Harold G. Michler (Carolyn Quixley '37). very loyal member of the Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity. 2008)/, Pearl St., Santa Monica, Calif. During his rnllege course, he was interested in A daughter, Janet Logan, November 16, to athletics; was one of the best tennis playe rs in col- Dayton R. Clark '39 and Charlotte En'nis Clark '40. lege during his time, and played on the baseball 401 Lawrence St., Ann Arbor, Mich. team for four years. He was a great lover of out- A son, Lynn Bartlett, November 10, to Bartlett M. door sports and very handy with the rod and gun. Foster '39 and Mrs. Foster. Necedah, Wis. He was in the lumber business and that took him into the wilds of Wisconsin and Michigan where A daughter, Bessie Alice, January 14, to Ralph he was very much at home. //an Keuren '39 and Mrs. Van Keuren. 1728 Porter Ave., Beloit. At the time of his death, he lived at Skokie, Illi- nois and was a representative in Chicago of the Upson Company of Lockport, New York, manufac- turers of wood fibre wallboard. He had represented this company since 1928 when he left the lumber business to go into this allied line. DEATHS Mr. Crow was a friendly man; very popular in college and in the city of Beloit during his stay Dr. Henry Hu!!h Dickinson, a member of the class there. He was a good friend, and of course had of 1880, Beloit, died recently in Boise, Idaho. He many warm personal friends because of his lovable was born in Harmony, Wis., Aug. 18, 1858, and re- qualities. ceived his early education at Beloit College, later He leaves a widow, two sons and a daughter, and taking medical and dental courses at Ann Arbor, the record of a happy useful, and honorable life. 18 BELOIT COLLEGE BULLETIN

George Wilbur Dudley of West Salem, children-Wilbur N. '28, Robert, and Ruth Wis., died at Rochester, Minn., on October 1, Dudley White '33, and by one brother and 1942, following a long illness. He graduated two sisters-Sherman '11, Lillian '01 (Mrs. from Beloit College in June, 1900, and was Lucius Porter), and Jean '15 (Mrs. Paul R. married to his classmate, Mary E. Nichols, in Josselyn). A brother, Walter B. '04, died in June, 1904. He had been in the banking busi- 1932. He was a member of the Congrega- ness ever since he graduated from college. tional Church, Sigma Chi fraternity and the Mr. Dudley is survived by his widow; three Rotary Club.

CLASS ITEMS & NEW ADDRESSES

William B. Buck is a sergeant at an Air Standards Association's sectional committee on the A C Base with residence address-516 N. Tejon safety code for the use, care and protection of St., Colorado Springs.-Ralph L. Cheney, 1736 G abrasive wheels. St., N. W ., Washington, D. C.-George W. Childs, Harold M. Conard, c/o Jack Bentley, Thomp- 180 E. Delaware Place, Chicago--A. G. Ransome, 13 son Falls, Mont.-Dora W. Fluekiger, 116 808 Galena St., Janesville. West 72nd St., New York City.-Robert M. Telfer, George W. Dunshee, 2701 Colfax Ave., So., 843 Ridgewood Place, Los Angeles. 86 Minneapolis. Dr. George W . W.ilson, 2359 N. Sherman Rev. Warren P. Behan, 285 Voorheis Road, 14 Blvd., Milwaukee. 94 Pontiac, Mich.-Rev. Arthur E. Fraser, 3001 Raymond M. Barron, 4711 7th Ave., Ken- Crest Ave., Cheverly, Md. 15 osha, Wis. 5 William R. Holden, 32 Scott Blvd., Mt. Clem- George Lysle Ballard, Sales Manager, Pan- 9 ons, Mich. 16 handle Eastern Pipe Line Co., Detroit. Resi- Rev. C. Burnell Olds, 161 Harrison St., dence: 14415 Glastonbury Road.-James G. Ewing, 96 Princeton, N. ]. 3752 Oxford St., Indianapolis, Ind.-Merle P. Lyon Robert J. Teall and Alice Olds Teal, 523 N. is with the Federal Trade Commission in Washing- 00 Ave. 66, Los Angeles.-William T. Whitney, ton, D. C. He has purchased a home at 4408 Elm Monmouth Ave., Seabright, N. J. St., Chevy Chase, Md. Mrs. Henry W. Cullison (fie/en Goodrich), Mrs. W. F. Newton (Helen Hillhouse), Pam- Os 32 Lisbon St., Sandwich, 111.-f/erbert J. 17 ora Quartermasters, Maj. W. F. Newton M enzemer is in charge of the English Department, Base, Parma, Calif.-Williston E. Reckhow is with State School for the Deaf, Knoxville, Tenn. the American Brass Works, Kenosha, Wis.-Dr. J. G. Townsend, 9923 Foothill, San Fernando, Calif. Paul Hobart has been elected a Trustee and -Rowland fl. Wehmhoff, 444 West lOOth Place, a Deacon of the Community church, Roscoe, 06 Chicago. Ill. Julian P. A 11derson, 1225 Michigan Ave., Frank M. Armin, 1131 East 2d Street, Long Evanston.-William N. Lathrop, 6019 W. Beach, Calif.-Rev. Ralph G. Coonradt, for 18 08 Wisconsin Ave., Milwaukee. many years a mi ssionary in China, has returned to this country as a ''Returned Missionary--<>n Travel A lvin Hammerschmidt and f/erna Meyer Status." Mail will reach him in care of his brother 20 Hammerschmidt '19, 555 S. Madison St., Clarence, Woodstock, Ill. Waupun, Wis.-Mrs. George D. Lyon (Florence Peck), 262 King G eo rge St., Annapolis, Md. fl. Frederic Beck is in charge of U. S. Hous- 09• ing at Wright Air Field in Dayton, Ohio. He Rev. f/a/e11tine W. Elston, 606 N. Crafford and Mrs. Beck (Neva Dolson '09) are living af 3d 21 St., Bushnell, Ill.-Mr. and Mrs. Walter St. and Smithville road, Dayton. Moffitt (Jenniebelle Brown '21), 1223 Wildwood Drive, Los Angeles.-Mrs. John R. Crews (Lillian Rev. Mary Hubbard Candy, Route 2, Well- Meredith) went to Charleston, III., in October to 10 ington, Ohio.-Mrs. Carl W. Parkin (Flossie teach English and Dramatics in the Illinois State McBride), 41 Hamilton Ave., Elgin, Ill.-Justice Teachers' College. She expects, to be there "for Jolin D. Wickliem of the Wisconsin Supreme Court the duration" while her husband is in service. Her will be a part-time lecturer at the University of Wisconsin law school next semester. Several of the address is 403 Lincoln Street. law faculty have gone into se rvice. Grace Gayton has a civil service position in 22 the administration office of records at Great Jean P. Mallery, 322 New Post Office Build- Lakes, IIl.-James S. Parker has been appointed a 11 ing, Minneapolis.-Ervin B. Winter, c/o research economist with the Social Security Board, O.P.A., Placer Hotel, Helena, Mont. Washington, D. C., and will start work February Wirt Farley, 618 Sheridan Sq., Evanston.- first. This is a war-service appointment. He will 12 Mrs. Walter A. Johnson (Grace Lyman), work in the bureau of research and statistics of the 1219 W. Adams Blvd., Los Angeles.-/ng/e R. Shue, Social Security Board. Mr. Parker wrote his Ph.D. vice-president of the Gardner Machine Co., Beloit, thesis on social security reserves and has been inter- has been appointed a member of the American ested in the financing of social security ever since

19, BELOIT COLLEGE BULLETIN the original law was passed in 1935. For the time old.-Harold E. Ford, 609 Cleveland Ave., Mani- being Mrs. Parker (Leila Fraser '22) will remain in towoc, Wis.-David M. Marshall, 126 S. Ridge- Sheboygan, 2326 South 15th St., the present home, wood Ave., Daytona Beach, Fla.-/rvin B. New- until suitable living quarters can be found in Wash- burg is in the Production Control Dept., Bendix ington for both. Aviation Corp., 505 N. Sacramento Ave., Chicago. Jolin E. Davenport, 7426 Iowa St., River Residence: 2403 East 72d St., Apt. 1. H e was mar- 23 Forest, Ill.-E. Blaisdell Gates is an account ried in 1940 to Ellyn O'Connell and has a daugh- executive with the Abbott Kimball Advertising ter, Martha Suzanne, six months old. Agency, 250 Park Ave., New York City. Residence: ter, Martha Suzanne, six months old-Mrs. Gustav 91 Payson St., Apt. 5-L.-lv,lrs. Mario De Siena E. Arnold (Frances M. Pitt), 401 Grant Place, Park (Margaret Beck) was awarded an M.A. in Institu- Ridge, lll.-Margaret C. Scliindler, 1629 Columbia tion Management on June 2d by Teachers' College, Road, N. W., Washington, D. C. Columbia University. On the same day, she ac- Howard B. Graves, Jr., 1454 Jackson St., Apt. cepted the position of House Supervisor of Residence 29 1, Memphis, Tenn. Halls, Barnard College, Columbia's college for un- M. Eugene Beck is Fiscal A.uditor for Todd dergraduate women. She has 2 buildings and 350 30 & Brown in the operation of the Munition's rooms under her supervision. plant at Kingsbury, Ind. He lives at 5906 Midway 24 Mrs. Raymund Cassidy (Elizabeth Evans), Park, Chicago. He is married and has two chil- R.F.D. No. 1, Elburn, Ill. dren, Patsy 4 and Robert 2.-Pliilip G. Bowman, Donald D. Bure/Jard, 920 W. Carter St., Still- 2129 Dewes Ave., Glenview, 111.-Inger C. Claney, 25 water, Okla.-Gilbert D. Carleton, 12031 2424 S. Laflin, Chicago.-Margaret Freeman, 236 Edgewater Drive, Lakewood, Ohio.-Dr. Harry D. N. McLean Ave., Memphis, Tenn.-Mrs. Lester Lapp, 1618 Delaware Ave., Wyomissing, Pa. His Berryman (Marjorie Freer) is employed at the Uni- office address is 135 North 6th St., Reading, Pa.- versity of Chicago, Dept. of Nursing Education, Bartley G. Warner is the Prosecuting Attorney of during the time that Lester '28 is in service. Her King County, Washington. His address is 602 address is 5401 Ellis Ave., Chicago.-Carolyn E. County City Bldg., Seattle.-Mrs. Frank Pratt Sliepard, 913 E. Kilbourn Ave., Milwaukee.-Mrs. (Etliel J. Watts}, 4904 Bayard Blvd., Friendship W. D. Warrick (Alice Royston), 296 Macon Ave., Station, Washington, D. C. Macon, Ga. Her husband is a First Lieutenant in Former Senator will be in the Medical Corps at Cochran Field outside Macon. Maurice Coakley -Mrs. Alfred T. Weeks 4128 charge of the Madison, Wis., office of the (Damaris E. Pullen}, 26 Randolph St., San '30 Republican voluntary committee during the legis- Diego.-Robert 0. Williams and Margaret Perry Williams '32, 870 Highland lative session. The office will open at the Hotel Ave., Elgin, 111. Loraine, Jan. 25. Mr. Coakley was executive sec- Harold F. Beck is a checker in the drafting retary to former Gov. Julius P. Heil.-Mrs. Henry 31 • room of an engineering company in .Detroit. J. Coerper (Anita B. Maas}, 226 North 24th St., His address is 7850 Van Dyke Place, Detroit. Har- La Crosse, Wis.-C. Earl Jolinson '26 and Dorotliy old is married and has two children, Karen, 2Y, Downs Johnson '25, 7247 N. Nora St., Norwood ·and Peter, 9 months.-Mrs. James W. Burt (Alice Park, Chicago.-John R. Kimball, 1805 Tacoma Riese), 404 St. Lawrence Ave., Janesville.-Mrs. Ave., Berkeley, Calif.-Cliarles H. Penliallegon, Henry B. Hill (Marjorie Yourd}, 8603 Hempstead Room 406, Barber Bldg., Brattleboro, Vt.-Alfred E. Ave., Bethesda, Md.-Ric/1ard P. Karr, Box 2388, Eicliler is telegraph editor on the If'asliington Phoenix, Ariz.-Mrs. John H. Meyers (Florence Times-Herald. He and Mrs. Eichler (Bessie Ross- O'Bierne), 1063 Sheridan Road, Menominee, Mich. miller '27) live at 163 Quincy St., Chevy Chase, Md. -Tliomas "Tink" Mite/Jell, 77 Islington Road, Au- Mort B. Aldridge is assistant area engineer burndale, Mass. 27 with the U. S. engineers constructing Carls- Robert Buslinell, 4212 Gilbert St., Western bad airfield. Address : 813 N. Halaguena Road, 32 Springs, 111.-Mrs. Graham C. Butler (Jean- Carlsbad, N. M. Mrs. Aldridge runs the Aldridge ette C. Granger), 727 N. Garfield Ave., Janesville. Vogue Shop in Carlsbad.-Lester Beck is engaged -Mrs. John Crawford (Elizabetli Painter), 585 E. in re-organizing the placement of all U. S. Navy Town St., Columbus, Ohio. Mr. Crawford is a Insurance. He and Mrs. Beck are living at 65 Lieutenant, junior grade, in the Navy. Woodmont Road, Belle Haven, Alexandria, Va.- Cliarles M. Jorgensen, 515 Mill St., Elgin, Mrs. R.H. Brumm (Dorotliy Hapeman), 1118 Stan- 33 111.-Mrs. Charles R. Kubias (Lois D. Rehn- ley J\.ve., Glendale, Calif.-Alden E. Fork, 629 berg), 1319 Ashland Ave., River Forest.-Marvin West 60th Terrace, Kansas City, Mo.-Lucile Ottilie is doing personnel work for the government Grover is working for tire Marquette Coal and Min- while awaiting call into service. He and Mrs. ing Co., Evanston, Ill. Her address is The Elm- Ottilie are living at 1004 Flower Ave., Takoma gate, Evanston,-Leroy Linne, Route 1, Elmhurst, Park, Md. 111.-James D. Motzeff, Banking Commission, Mad- Dr. William M. FitzGerald is with the U. S. ison.-Jo/m J. O'Brien '27 and Elizabeth M. Saris 34 Cartridge Co., St. Louis, with residence at O'Brien '26, 627 Forest Ave., Wilmette.-Guindon 5095 Westminster Place.-J11hn J. Gac/1, Birchcliff C. Olson, 4513 N. Woodburn St., Milwaukee.-Mrs. Hotel, Wisconsin Dells.-Raymond S. Gibson, 53 Ric/Jard B. Simpson (Jean Scliumann), 316 Forest South 3d St., East, Salt Lake City, Utah.-Pliilip Ave., Oak Park. A. Jenks, 217 Third St., Savanna, Ill.-Carol JI. William T. Cooley, Jr., is an executive with Westenberg, Y. W. C. A., 122 State St., Madison.- 28 · Kling Studios, Inc.,-Art & Photography for Mr and Mrs. Artliur F. Wliitson (Ruth Bounsall), advertising-at 480 Lexington Ave., New York City. 157 S. Pinecrest Ave., Wichita, Kans. Mr. Whit- His residence is 76 Richmond Hill, New Canaan, son is in the Functional Test Laboratory of the Conn. He has one daughter, Lynn Carol, nine years Boeing Aircraft Co., Wichita. 20 BELOIT COLLEGE BULLETIN

35 R. Delos Clow, Jr., is in the Production cause of the year round school program now in Dept., International Harvester, Western and force, I am in the middle of the fourth semester al- 31st Sts., Chicago. His residence is 5046 Grace St., though it is just a little more than a yea r sin~e I Chicago.-Walter G. Duvall is with the Studebaker came to Kirksville. I am fortunate to be second Corporation, South Bend, Ind. Residence: 1202 N. scholastically in our class. I love the work very Johnson Street.-T/ior H. Erickson, Ephriam, Wis.- m.uch, and am more than pleased with future pros- Stanley F. Fuchs, Accounting Dept. Head, Chevro- pects." His address is Theta Psi House, Kirksville let Motor Co., Janesville, with resi dence at 325 S. Mo.-~arisue Cash, 3240 Lakeshore Drive, Chicago'. Fremont St., Janesville.-Robert E. S111itli, Tractor -Lolllse I. Dali111s, 2433 E. Newberry St., Milwau- Dept., Allis Chalmers Mfg. · co., Charlotte, N. C., kee.-David M. Ginn is in service, at the present with residence at 2052 Shenandoah Avenue . He time in Hawaii, and Mary Kendall Ginn '40 is liv- was married in December, 1939, to Miss Jean Otto. ing at 701 Maple Ave., Downers Grove, Ill.-J. Tod -Mrs. Robert Sutton (Lois M. Baker}, 2713 Broom Oclisensclilager, 391 Plum St., Aurora, Ill.-Jerome St., Wilmington, Del. -A bbie111arie Westenber9, II. Stergios, 5629 South Artesian Ave., Chicago Scotts Hotel, 2131 0 St., N. W., Washington, D. C. Lawn Station, Chicago.-Lucile W end/ing is now Harry M. Ar111stron9 and Rose H. Sindelar living at home, Rand Road, Des Plaines, III., and 36 Armstrong '39, 804 N. Marion St., Oak Park. is a secretary at the Douglas Aircraft Plant nea r -Lt. Jolin D.. Beeby, 1619 36th St., Rock Island, there. III.-Henry M. Board111an has moved from Berwyn, Ar~llllr W. Casper, 5461 University Ave., III., to 7 Raleigh Ave., Cranford, N. J.-Mrs. Ham- 40 Ch1cago.-Rut/i Cog9esliall, 178 N. Kenil- ilton Doxey (Gertrttde M Stoll}, 516 S Ashland worth Ave., Oak Park.-Mrs. Charles M. Ganster Ave., La Grange, Ill.-Bernard Hain and Louise (Louise A. Wood}, 406 West 5th St., Marshfield Wright Hain '38, 115 Kenmore Ave., Apt. D, Elm- Wis.-Mrs. George D. Neptune (Gloria E. Rubel): hurst, III.-f/ernon E. Halverso n, Cost Accountant, 700 Fair Oaks Ave., Oak Pa rk. Allis Chalmers Co., Oxnard, Calif., with residence 41 Mrs. Mack Drake (Jane Fairbanks}, 114 at 537 Seventh Street.-Mrs. Michael M. McCall Canterbury, San Antonio, Texas.-Mrs. Wil- (Goldie L. Salladay}, 7657 S. Euclid Ave., Chicago. liam A. Draves, Jr., (!/lice T. Tliorke/son} , 2941 -Joseph B. Rice, Jr., and Betsy Weston Rice are liv- N. Farwell Ave., Milwaukee.-M. Suzanne Essing- ing at 27 Polifty Road, Hackensack, N. J. Mr. Rice ton! ~07 N. Wasson St., Streator, III.-Lt. Jolin M. is working as Production and Planning Superviso r Gnffztli and Ruth' Raddant Griffith '40, 32 Wood- for the Eclipse Aviation division of the Bend '. x vale :'-ve., Greenville, S. C.-Jean G. Hugle is a Corporation. clerk 111 the O.P.A., Court House, Milwaukee. Resi- Ross M. Dick and Shirley Kretschmer Dick dence : 722 North 13th St., 706 Abbotsford Apt. 37 '36, 2533 N. Cramer St., Milwaukee.-Hel9e Jl1ilwaukee.-Danie/ -?-· Lon9, 430 East St., Janes~ E. Ederstro111 is a professor in the Medical school of ville.-Margery J. Mints, 391 Sheridan Road, Win- the University of Missouri. Address: 1318 Ross St., netka.-Mrs. Homer E. Stewart (Eleanor C. Earel), Columbia, Mo.-Janet Engebretsen is a dietitian at 2034 Cornell Road, University Center Station Johns Hopkins. Her address is 600 N. Broadway, Cleveland, Ohio.-Marsliall J. Tlio111pson, 618 North Baltimore, Md.-Mrs. J. Fred Merritt (Elizabeth 14th St., Milwaukee.-Wayne G. Tlwrstensen, 1437 J//illia111s), Stacy Trent Hotel, Trenton, N. J.-Mrs. Estes Ave., Chicago.-Beatrice Wittner received a Howard H. Olson (June Francis}, 1742 Hancock certificate from Perkins Institution at the comple- St., Rockford.-Barbara Roth is a Research' chemi st tion of her year's study at Perkins and Harvard with the American Cyanamid Co., Bound Brook, University School of Education on the education of N. J. Her address is 227 Grant Ave., Bound Brook. the blind. She is now teach'ing primary children -Mrs. Richard H. Schurman, Jr., (Marjorie Win- at the Illinois State School for the Blind at Jackson- terbotliatn}, 309 S. Park St., Streator, III. Mr. ville, III., with residence at 485 East State Street. Schurman is in the Supply Corps of the U. S. Navy 42 Ti111ot/Jy M. Corcoran, 409 Second Ave., As- and stationed in San Diego.-Clifford E. Sward and bury Park, N. J. - Mary Jane Gordon is Alice High Sward '3 6, 2606 Morse Ave., Chicago. teaching physical education and biology at the high Byron M. Bartlett, Jr., 221 N. Grove Ave., school, Chilton, Wis.-C/Jarlotte Hancox has been 3 8 Oak Park.-Mary M. Fountain, 901 Milwau- working since early in November with the Chicago kee Ave., Janesville.-Mar'Vin C. Ho9ard, Jr., Box Welfare Administration as a junior case-worker in 815, Rockford.-Donald S. Nelson is in se rvice and the south side placement office of the employment Edith Simen Nelson '40 is with the Firestone Store bureau and living at the Chicago Commons Settle- in Beloit.-Micliael J. Thomas, 148 East 48th St., ment House, 955 West Grand Avenue.-E111erso11 New York City.-Robert B. Tucker is a mechanic Meiners and Lenore Grobe M einers '43, 2020 W. with' the American Sterilizer Co., Erie, Pa. Resi- Morse Ave., Chicago. dence: 2913 Maple Street.-Mr. and Mrs. Ric/Jard 43 Marcia Anderson, 7351 N. Damon St., Chi- Wedel have recently been appointed to the church cago.-Helen K. Barnes, 1105 McLean Ave., staff of the Court Street Methodist church, Rockford. Tomah, Wis.-Jeanne E. Brey111an is in second year Mrs. Wedel is to be minister of religious education at the Sc~ool of Nursing, St. Luke's Hospital, Chi- and Richard will se rve as assistant to the pastor. cago.-E/1zabetli M ose/ey, 2039 Orrington Ave., Richard is a student at Garrett Biblical institute Eyanston.-~ut/i M. Nystro111 , 305 Dunlap Ave., seminary in Evanston, where Mrs. Wedel also Viroqua, W1s.-Mrs. Earle E. Rodrian (Dorothy studied. -Cecil 0. Williamson (Ruth Weyrauch), McC'!llougli), 1401 Hyde Park Blvd., Chicago.- 1507 Locust St., Sterling, Ill. Mar/u flro111an, 124 Gage Road, Riverside, Ill. 39 Paul J. Bleiler and Mar9aret Burton Bleiler, Jeanne-Marie Mayor, 1400 W. Lake Drive 1253 Webb Road, Cleveland, Ohio.-William 44 Greensboro, N. C.-Hubert F. Willia111s, 314 "Bill" Brannan writes, " I am still attending the Sunset Ave., Rockford.-Roxane M. •Winburn, 85 Kirksville College of Osteopathy and Surgery. Be- Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, N. Y. 21 B .E L 0 I T C 0 LL E G E B U LL ET IN

CALENDAR

OF CAMPUS EVENTS

1943

FEBRUARY 17 MOTHERS DAY. Beloit Players. 21 Choir Concert. 3 Founders Day. 23 Easter Holiday Begins. 6 All College "Turn-Out". 13 Mixer in Gym. 26 Easter Holiday Ends. 16 Boxing Championship. 30 Night Track and Field Events. 28 Inter-College Religious Conference. MAY MARCH

1 Sorority Parties. 5 Beloit Players. 6 Beloit Players. 6 President's Dinner for Seniors. 13 Mardi Gras. 8 High School Day. Mixer. 15 Theodore Paxson, Pianist. 15 Shakespeare Play. 20 "B" Club Show. 17 Recognition Day. 21 Lamya Sarsmast. 18 Final Examinations Begin. 27 Chapin Formal. 21 Final Examinations End. Board of Trustees Meeting. APRIL 22 Shakespeare Play. Alumni and Class Day. 3 Mixed Sports in Gym. 23 Baccalaureate Service 4:30 P.M. 10 Fraternity Parties. 24 NINETY-SIXTH COMMENCE- 16 Beloit Players. MENT.

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OFFICE of WAR INFORMATION

CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION TO BELOITERS

The Spare Parts Branch of the U. S. Army THE GOVERNMENT NEEDS ECONO- Engineer Corps, located in Columbus, Ohio, MISTS and STATISTICIANS. The positions Quartermaster Depot, has many critical va- pay $2600 to $6500 a year plus overtime, cancies to be filled by technically trained per- which increases salaries by about 21 % when sonnel. Positions include administrative, cler- the aggregate does not exceed $5000 a year. ical, technical and warehousing. The greatest need is in the fields of transpor- tation, labor, commodities, and industrial Especially urgent is the need for qualified studies. Requirements for the positions have personnel to staff vacancies in the Electric Ac- been lowered. In general, only 5 years of col- counting Machines Group, including Chief of lege education or experience in economics or Section, Chief Shift Supervisor, Technical Su- statistics, or a combination of the two, are pervisor, Head Tabulating Equipment Oper- necessary for the $2600 grade. The minimum ator, Supervisor and Assistant Supervisor of requirements for the higher grades are pro- the Coding and Editing Staff. Salaries range portionately greater. There are no age limits from $1800 to $2900 per year. Qualified ap- and no written examination will be given. plicants should communicate with the sev- Qualified persons are asked to apply imme- enth United States Civil Service Regional Of- diately at the closest Civil Service Regional fice, Room 1107, New Post Office Building, Office. Chicago.

Women with college degrees in any field may now qualify for Junior Engineer posi- tions in the Federal Civil Service by taking The Commandant of the Navy Yard, at a short tuition-free course. This course has Mare Island, California, requests skilled elec- been developed by the U. S. Civil Service tricians whose services are needed immedi- Commission and the U. S. Office of Educa- ately for the completion of essential repairs tion as a part of the Engineering, Science and replacements on battle damaged ships and Management War Training Program, to and other Naval vessels critically needed in prepare women for engineering activities in the Pacific Fleet. order to supplement the rapidly diminishing supply of male engineers. The Navy Department will pay the cost of transportation and subsistence from Chicago Arrangements have been made for any in- to Vallejo, Cali'fornia, for qualified personnel stitution offering college engineering training to staff these very vital vacancies. to give the course. It may be given as a 10 week full-time day course or as a 27 week In addition to Electricians, experienced evening course covering 320 hours of lecture, Boilermakers, Coppersmiths, Instrument re'citation and problem work. Persons who Makers, Machinists, Sheetmetal Workers and successfully complete the course and who are Shipfitters are required. Wages from $1.10 to otherwise qualified are eligible for Junior En- $1.20 per hour are paid for a forty-hour week gineer positions paying an entrance salary of with overtime on the basis of time and one $2000 a year in Washington, D.C., and half for all authorized work over forty hours throughout the United States. All appoint- each week. If you are doing war work of ments will be war service appointments. equal skill do not apply. Qualified applicants Those interested are urged to secure complete communicate with Seventh United States Re- information about the course from the near- gional Office, Room 1107, New Post Office est institution which offers college engineer- Building, Chicago. ing training.

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