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Volume XVI Number 3 Directory of Rollins Clubs

Atlanta Miami President: O. S. BANDY, '29. Glen Arden Way, N.E. President: LLOYD TOWLE, '32. 1000 Lincoln Rd, Miami Beach. Vice-President: HARRY E. HARMON, JR., '11, Trust Company Vice-President: MRS. HARRY TUTTLE (Stella Weston), '30, 1729 of Georgia Bldg.. Walnut 4080. N.W. 51st Terrace, 3-1841. Secretary: DOROTHY F. DAVIS, '80, 2730 S.W. loth Terrace. Boston 4-1791. President: RUTH MCWAIN, '35, 105 Abbott Road, Wellesley 1090, Treasurer: FLORENCE MCKAY, '28, 542 S.W. 12th Ave. Wellesley Hills. Vice-President: RALSTON PICKERING, '34, 14 Clifton Ave., Salem 3835, Salem. New York Secretary: MRS. BERNARD MERRIAM, (Tolly Dudley). '33. 17 Card file of Alumni and Former Students is maintained at the Dunster St., Cambridge. Algonquin Hotel. 59 W. 44th Street. First Tuesday of every month is set aside for Rollins Club luncheon at 12:30' o'clock at the Firenze Restaurant, Chicago 0 W. 40th Street. President: ROBERT BUBHANS. '29. 32s E. ('.rand Lake. BOARD OE DIRECTORS Vice-President: ANNAJKANNK PENDEXTER, '30, Dundee. NANCY CUSHMAN, chairman, *35, 117 E. 58th St.. Circle 7-5590. Secretary-Treasurer: ROBERT SPRAGUE, '30, Gordon. Pierce. Ed- ELEANOR ARNOLD, '31, 022 Mansfield Place. Brooklyn. ward & Martin. 135 S. LaSalle St. ROBERT BLACK, '35. 107 E. 37th St. VIRGINIA JAEKEL CLOEGH, '30, 010 Riverside Dr. Cleveland SALLY LIMERICK, '35. 200 E. 03rd St. NORMAN MACGAEITN, '37. loss Park Ave. Stag luncheon held each Monday at the Allendorf Restaurant, nil Chester Avenue. Please ask for Kenneth Warner. GEORGE PORTER, '37. loo E. 4Hth St. ROBERT STEPHENS, '31. 555 E. 3Htb St.. Brooklyn. Ingersoll 2-1071. EDITH STEPHAN, President: '30, 2903 Weybridge Road. Shaker EDWARD WILLIAMS. '31. 1000 Park Ave. Hts. Vice-President: GEORGE GANSON, '35, 3696 Rawndale Rd.. Shaker Hts. Palm Beach Secretary-Treasurer: RAYMOND A. CLARK, '34. 1039 E. 115th St. President: EUGENE BUZZELL, *2S. Palm Beach Life, Palm Beach. Vice-President: ELROY R. GOODELL, '29. Lake Worth. Connecticut Secretary-Treasurer: MRS. CHARLES FELTON, '32 (Imogene BOARD OK DIRECTORS Carmichael). LEAH JEANNE BARTLETT, '30. G. Fox and Co. DORIS LANG, '33, 59 S. Highland St.. West Hartford Philadelphia MRS. STEWART MORSE (Janet Gibney). '31. West Woodstock. DOROTHY MANWARING, '37. chairman, 001 Grove Ave., Jenkin- STERLING OLMSTED ':»>. 1379 Main St.. East Hartford. town. Ogontz 1095. LEONARD D. SEAVER, '28, 00 Adelaide Ave.. Waterbury. HELEN STEINMETZ, '04, 1808 DeKalb St., Norristown, Norris- town 012. LESLIE TAYLOR, '27, 02 1 Fern St.. West Hartford. HELEN JACKSON, '30. 220 Park Ave.. Swarthmore, Swarthmore 871. Daytona Beach EVA THOMPSON, '20. OIOO McCallum St.. Germantown. German- town 3495. President: RONALD STILLMAN, '31. 204 Bellevue Ave., 1292-J. PAIL P. PARIS, 'OO. 1527 Spruce St.. Ten. 427 1. Vice-President: MRS. WILLIAM MOORE (Lucille Tolson). '32, Orinond. Pittsburgh Secretary-Treasurer.: MRS. MORRIS P. BRILKY (Helen Morrow). '30. 22ii Magnolia Ave. Vice-President: MRS. GEORGE PARKMAN (Elizabeth Robertson) ':»>. K.F.I). I. Willock. Secretary-Treasurer: JOHN BULLOCK, '30. 875 Thorn St.. Havana Sewickley. President: F. ANTONIO RODRIGUEZ, 'It. P. O. Box 1100. Vice-President: JULIO SOTO NAVARIIO, '00, 19th St. 208. St. Petersburg Recording Secretary: AUGUSTA NELSON, '10. Placido 14, Ma- President: MRS. BAYNARD MORRISON (Katherine Hieks), '29. tnnzas. 8028 First Avenue, N„ 01-175. Vice-President: MRS. .1. D. STONER (Marion Mulligan), '27, Corresponding Secretary: EDUARDO ARIAS. 1115 45th St.. N.. 50-920. Treasurer: EDEAIIDO MORENO, '10, Apartado 740. Secretary-Treasurer: EUGENIA TUTTLE, '27. 220 13th Ave., N.E., 52-023. Asst. Secretary-Treasurer: MRS. ANNE LUPTON SHOOK, '29, Jacksonville 3929 Dartmouth Ave.. X. President: GEORGE W. GIBBS, '05. Gibbs Gas Engine Co. 5-5011. Vice-President: MAHILOITSE WII.KERSON, '32, 430 Dellwood. Tampa 8-0083-.I. President: MRS. JOHN C. MILLS (Elizabeth Davis), '34, 0409 Secretary: WILLIE PEABL WILSON, '33. 3310 Randall. 7-8404. Bayshore H-42248. Treasurer: HARRISON M. REED. '94. Box 5058, So. Jacksonville. Secretary-Treasurer: MARY ELIZABETH WHITE, '30, 702 S. Dela- 3-1159-H. ware. H-1775. Louisville Washington President: MHS. A. CLINTON COOK (Lottie Turner), 1370 Lee President: II. GORDON ROBINS, '31, c/o Minn. Mutual Life Highway. Arlington. Insurance Co., Breslin Bldg. Secretary-Treasurer: CONSTANCE ETZ, '85, Bethesda. Md„ Wis. Secretary: MARY BUTLER LONGEST, '31. oo Eastover Ct. 230 5. THE ROLLINS ALUMNI RECORD Did You Help ? Officers President Rex Beach, '97 Vice-President WITH the endowment of all Colleges and Universities yield- Thomas P. Johnson, '34 ing a reduced income, they are confronted with two Treasurer Frederic H. Ward, '21 Chairman, Alumni Council alternatives. A. J. Hanna '17 Executive Secretary and Editor One is to attempt to reduce their "overhead", without reduc- The Rollins Alumni Record ing the efficiency of the teaching staff. Katharine Lewis Lehman '27 The other alternative is for the Colleges to look to their loyal Alumni and other friends to make up the loss in their endowment Vol. XVI, No. 3 September, 1938 income. The Auditor's Report of the operation of Rollins College for out-door lire place, hot dogs were roasted, the past academic year showed that it had been able to reduce and a splendid picnic supper was enjoved slightly its "overhead", and that it had also found loyal friends by all. and Alumni whose contributions totaled almost $45,000. This en- Among the alumni attending were Col. abled Rollins to close the year with a practically balanced operat- George M. King, Mr. and Mrs. George Benedict, Miss Amy Dalrymple, R. Picker- ing budget. ing, Ruth McWain, Polly Dudley Merriam, Without this support of generous ■friends and Alumni, Rollins Rip Parsons, Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Abbott, would have been faced with a substantial deficit, as were many and others. of the Colleges throughout the United Stales. New York Club Rollins is grateful and proud of this splendid showing. Is your name on the "Honor Roll" of the "Rollins Alumni Fund"? A representative gathering of about 65 members of the Rollins Club of New York was greeted on the evening of June 8 at Gifts to the Rollins Alumni Fund constitute a proper deduction the Town Hall Club by President Holt, Mr. W. R. O'Neil, Orlando trustee, and under the U. S. Income Tax Law. four members of the faculty, Dean Camp- bell, Treasurer Brown, Dr. Evelyn New- man of the English Department and The following is a list of con- 1931 George C. Holt, Director of Admissions. tributors to the 1938 Rollins George C. Holt, Winter Park Becky Coleman Holt was also present. Alumni Fund since June 1st. 1932 Nancy Cushman, Chairman of the Board Betty Rathbone, Boston, Mass. of Directors of the Club, presided and Charter Students 1933 introduced the speakers. Dr. Holt read a witty speech which he gave to the Marion Coan Barnes (Mrs. Henry), Rock- Robert Houk, Binghamton, N. Y. SU ville, Conn. graduating class on Class Day on the Edwin Libbey, DeLand, Fla. SU shores of Lake Virginia. Next, George Willard Ayres Eliot, Portland, Ore. Marguerite Libbey, DeLand, Fla. SU S. Waters Howe, Orlando SU Holt presented the prospective students. Dorothy Shepherd Smith (Mrs. Charles Marita Stueve, member of the Class of Gay Nineties G.), Strasburg, Va. 1938, discussed the Student Union Build- Ida Foss Fausnaught (Mrs. James C), 1934 ing Fund and reported that so far the Worcester, Mass. Thomas P. Johnson, Pittsburg, Pa. SU undergraduates had raised $11,000 to- Fritz J. Frank, New York, N. Y. Mary Butler Longest, Louisville, Ky. ward the $50,000 needed; and Severin W. Hamilton Johnson, Baton Rouge, La. 1936 Bourne spoke of the 1938 Alumni Fund. Elizabeth H. Rand, Orlando Leah Jean Bartlett, Hartford, Conn. Climaxing the All-Campus program, Dean Marion Curtis Robinson (Mrs. B. M.), Jane Beauchamp, Louisville, Ky. SU Campbell gave an informal greeting, the Orlando Tarcila Laperal, Trudeau, N. Y. SU main one of the evening. 1904 Sterling Olmsted, East Hartford, Conn. Terminating the meeting, five reels of Clara Burleigh Bixler (Mrs. James), Lucy Green Woolston (Mrs. James H.), Rollins movies, "Life at Rollins", were Exeter, N. H. Hartford, Conn. shown, which included: a short color film 1920 Jean Plumb Hodgkinson (Mrs. Irving V.), of Herman Siewert's; the official long DeWitt Cleary Corle, Mt. Dora Terrytown, Conn. Rollins color film, also taken by Mr. Sie- 1937 wert; and a series of three films taken 1924 by John G. Lonsdale, Jrr,. '38, and pre- Wallace Stevens, Hollywood, Fla. Carol Valentine, Stafford Springs, Conn. sented by him for use at alumni gather- 1928 1938 ings. Severin Bourne operated the pro- Georgia Gary Cannon (Mrs. Victor M.), Bernice Gardner, Minneapolis, Minn. jector. Cleveland Heights, Ohio Lyman Greaves, Woodbridge, Conn. Among those present besides special Freda Kuebler, Ann Arbor, Mich. guests were: John Albert, Chris Argyris, 1929 A. Axelrod, Seymour Ballard, Robert Bar- William Bacon Evans, Moorestown, N. J. ber, Victoria Bedford, Severin Bourne, Mary Hansen Green (Mrs. A. A.), Mr. and Mrs. Reginald Clough, Don Bridgeport, Conn. Rollins Club Cram, Bud Cudmore, Homer Cudmore, Virginia Mitchell, South Miami Meetings Nancy Cushman, Mr. and Mrs. Olcott 1930 Deming, Maurice Dreicer, Clementine Hall, Mrs. Elizabeth Ferguson von Hesse, Flora Furen Carmichael (Mrs. E. S.), Boston Club Jackson Heights, N. Y. Kay Hosmer, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Howe, Dorothy F. Davis, Miami A picnic meeting of the Rollins Club of Walter Jordan, Helene Keywan, Sally Louise Ingham Drysdale (Mrs. John A.), Boston was held at Margaret Chapman's Limerick, Betty Lynch, David McCallum, Rangoon, Burma home, Hazelcroft Farm, Westboro, on Sat- Mrs. MacKensie, Jack MacWatt, Charles Ethel B. Hahn, Miami urday afternoon, June n. Although rain Magruder, Bucklin Moon, Emily and Per- Ruth Cole Russell (Mrs. Cloyde), Ossin- threatened to spoil the afternoon, 18 mem- ry Oldharn, Jean Parker, Tom Pope, Al- ing, N. Y. bers of the Club were present. The rain berta St. Cyr, Robert Stevens, Marita Charlotte Stienhans, Orlando stopped about 4:30, a fire was built in an Stueve, Robert Warfield.

THE ROLLINS ALUMNI RFXORD, September, 1938. Published quarterly by Rollins College in March, June, September and De- cember. Office of publication: Pinehurst Hall, Winter Park, Florida. Entered as second-class matter June 28, 1938, at the post office at Winter Park, Florida, under the Act of August 24, 1912. THE ROLLINS A L U M N R E C O R D for SEPTEMBER 1938 The Woodstock Reunion Celebrating Prexy's 66th Birthday

DOCTOR HOLT'S birthday always draws a most of arms in natural aluminum color, sizes W/z inches congenial group of alumni, students, trustees, square with four rests, or 5 inches round with five rests. faculty, new students, parents and friends to Similar trays have been in use for two years without Woodstock, Connecticut, but this year, his 66th birth- marring, according to Seaver. As soon as Seaver's day, seemed to have drawn the best crowd ever. At committee completes its report and submits a sample, least that was the judgment of many. The Woodstock a decision will be reached. summer staff, Mrs. E. C. Price, Jr., Ellen Loshbough An Alumni Directory and Sue Terry, were in charge of registration, which was extended to a large blackboard borrowed from the Professor VV. Hamilton Johnson, who has been study- academy next door. After everyone had satisfied his ing since last Commencement the proposal made at or her curiosity about "Sunset Hill" and its antique that time for the publication of names, addresses and treasures, activities were transferred to the shores of biographical data of alumni, suggests the publication of a "Rollins Roster" to be divided into a series of vol- Roseland Lake. umes, volume I to include all students who attended Alumni Council Meeting Rollins from its founding in 1885 until the 1900 Com- At 11:30 a brief meeting of the alumni was held at mencement. Succeeding volumes would each include the boathouse under the chairmanship of Fred Hanna, the students for individual decades since 1900. The Chairman of the Alumni Council. Dorothy Davis of first voume would be issued as soon as the necessary Miami acted as secretary of the meeting. Lucy Green data can be obtained and prepared for publication. Woolston of Hartford read several reports prepared by Succeeding volumes would come out as rapidly as Watt Marchman discussing the Placement Service, the the alumni office is able to prepare the material for alumni magazine and other phases of the work of the them. He further suggests that in order to keep the Alumni Office. "Roster" up to date, annual supplements should be pre- Becky Coleman Holt, Chairman of the Social Com- pared and published in the Alumni Record covering mittee, announced that the Alumni Council had en- such additional information about all students as may gaged the Vienna (Austria) Boys Choir at a fee of have been obtained during the previous year. $450 to give a concert in Winter Park next January at Professor Johnson also pointed out that approximate- which she hopes several hundred dollars can be realized ly 900 students attended Rolins during the period be- for the 1939 Alumni Fund. fore 1900 and that out of this number probably not Sterling Olmsted announced the formation of a Rol- more than 400 current addresses are on file in the alum- lins Club of Connecticut with headquarters in Hartford. ni office. It is obvious, therefore, that the Alumni Of- The Club will cooperate with the clubs of New York fice has a tremendous task ahead of it in attempting and Boston. to get in touch with even a considerable majority of George C. Holt made a report of the enrolment for these old students. The only way in which this can the 1938-39 year and discussed ways and means where- possibly be done will be through the hearty coopera- by alumni can help the college select incoming students. tion of all the former students whose addresses are Frank Abbott, Chairman of the 1938 Alumni Fund, known and who can therefore be reached. reported the progress of the Fund and urged those He further urged all former students to be willing to present to help carry out the program of the Alumni give at least a few hours' time and thought to assisting Office. He stressed the value of the Alumni Office to the Alumni Office in this work. The list of students alumni and expressed the hope that every former stu- of the period 1885 to 1900 prepared by the Alumni dent would pay his share of operating cost, $2._ Vir- Office for the "Gay Nineties Luncheon" in June of this tually all present who had not previously contributed year included 305 names. A careful check of this list made donations, the largest being $100 by Mrs. Ida against the list of students prepared by Professor Baker Foss Fausnaught for the furnishing of a room in one of and published in the Rollins Record of 1918 has added the new dormitories. A total of $134.15 was collected 362 names. Professor Johnson has added from mem- for the day, $12.15 being received from the sale of ory the names of other students who were at Rol- punch, donated by Mrs. Leila Holt Rotival and sand- lins during the seven years of his attendance, making a wiches donated by mothers of Woodstock alumni under total of 700. Moreover, this list prepared by Dr. Baker the leadership of Mrs. Child. included 444 names without any designation as to years Miss Helen Steinmetz, member of the Council, an- in which the students were enrolled. His list extended nounced that the Alumni Office now has a full ship- to 1916. Assuming that 200 of these names without ment of the beautiful Wedgewood plates, in the center Class designation were in attendance before 1900, there of which appears an excellent likeness of the Chapel. would then be a total of approximately 900 students She reminded the alumni that the prices are $2.00 per attending Rollins during that period. plate, $10 for 6, and $18 for 12 and suggested the use Afternoon Program of these plates not only for use by alumni but as gifts. Following the alumni meeting, approximately 150 Miss Steinmetz also made a report for the committee friends gathered for a picnic luncheon on the shores of on ash trays, of which Leonard Seaver of Waterbury, the lake. At two o'clock Miss Marita Stueve, one of Conn., is chairman. This report indicated that a large last year's graduates, called the meeting to order and manufacturing concern is now working on ash trays to presented the program, which consisted chiefly of an be made from aluminum with colored alumilite, indes- tructible finish. It is proposed to include the Rollins coat (Continued on page 6) THE ROLLINS ALUMNI RECORD for SEPTEMBER 1938

President Under The Holt's Chapel Tower By CLARA ADOLFS, '30

Message Weddings June 18, 1938—Robert A. Robertson and Mary An- thony. Witnesses: Ann Anthony and Robert Ferran. By Dr. Lindsay McNair. WHILE motoring through Pennsylvania, New June 20, 1938—Thomas Willingham Lawton, Jr., and York and New England this summer to in- Anna Belle Linger. By Dr. Fred Turner. terest friends in Rollins and interview prospective students, I have been very much heartened by the aid given by alumni. For instance, when I was in COLLEGE CALENDAR the beautiful old Quaker summer resort at Buck Hill Falls, Pennsylvania, I was delighted to see what a won- 1938 derful work in recreational and athletic activities Isabel September 27—First Faculty Meeting of the New Green was doing with the hundred or more children Year. there and how popular Tom Powell (who is getting September 27-October 2—Orientation Week. his Ph.D. next year at the University of California) was at the swimming pool. September 30—Football: John B. Stetson Uni- Then Sally Stearns, the only girl coxwain in the his- versity at DeLand. tory of college crews, collected a responsive group to October 1—Alumni Tea Dance for Incoming hear me talk on Rollins at the old Peterborough Barn Students at President Holt's home, 208 In- which she and her family have converted into a modern terlachen Ave. theatre and where five or six other Rollins Thespians, October 2—Panhellenic Tea. including Bryan Owen and Si Vario, are disporting and October 3—Registration of Old Students. cavorting on the boards. October 7—Football: South Georgia State College Nancy Cushman (La Cushman in the Annie Russell at Orlando. Theatre) is another Eleanora Duse up in New London, October IS—Football: Oglethorpe University at New Hampshire, where she is leading lady, manager, Atlanta. director of publicity and always a booster for Rollins. She invited all the good souls for miles around to a tea October 28—Football: University of Miami at in my honor where I told the story of the little college Miami. so far away. At Chautauqua I was glad to note that November 4—Football: Newberry College (place- Julius King, who was at Rollins before my day, is as- undecided). sisting Dr. Bestor. I also found Sally Luce Smith and November 18—HOMECOMING for Alumni. Alberto Warren in the professional theatre there. Betty Football: Ohio Wesleyan University at Trevor and Roberta Beach came down from Buffalo to Orlando. see me there. There also was Lucile Jackson McClure, November 18-19—Annual Meeting, Florida Acad- who used to be our Director of Physical Education for emy of Sciences. Women, with her four handsome children. November 23—Thanksgiving Service, Knowles After speaking at Lake Placid I was greatly pleased Memorial Chapel. that I could take the time to motor over to Trudeau to Football: University of Havana at Orlan- see Tarcila Laperal, the only Filipino who has ever at- do (tentative). tended Rollins. When she left Rollins three years ago November 26—Football: University of Tampa at she began the study of medicine at Duke where she Tampa. contracted tuberculosis and for the last two years has December 2—Football: John B. Stetson Univer- been on her back trying to get over this disease. I am sity at Orlando. sure her friends will be glad to know that the nurses as- December 9-10—Rollins Student Players produc- sured me that she is headed for a speedy and complete tion, Annie Russell Theatre. recovery. But it has been pretty hard for a girl from December 13—Concert, Symphony Orchestra of a far distant country to be away from her family and Central Florida, High School Auditorium. to have gone through what she has been through. I December 14 — Rollins Christmas Service, know her Rollins friends will want to write her. Her Knowles Memorial Chapel. address is just Trudeau, New York. December 17—Fall Term Ends. At Watch Hill Sally and Marcelle Hammond, some- 1939 rimes known as the "Rhode Island Red" and "Black Jauary 4—Winter Term Opens. Giant" (no reference to size), introduced me to the elite January 13 or 14—Concert, Vienna (Austria) of Rhode Island when I spoke at the Ocean Hotel. Boys Choir, High School Auditorium, Their indefatigable father, editor of the Watch Hill and benefit of the 1939 Alumni Fund. Winter Park Topics, saw that Rollins was described in February 21-27—Founders Week. the most alluring terms to the summer vacationists. February 25—ALUMNI DAY. (Continued on page S) THE ROLLINS ALUMNI RECORD for SEPTEMBER 1938 Faculty Appointments Gifts . . . SEVERAL changes in the faculty and staff, including appointments to positions left vacant by death or resignation, and an expansion of the By A. J. HANNA, '17 health program, have been announced by President Chairman, Alumni Council Holt as follows: Mrs. Christie Frederiksen Balazs of Pittsburgh, Pa., acting dean of women to fill the vacancy caused by retirement of Mrs. Robert J. Sprague who has served Rollins since 1933. Another Room Furnished Dr. Robert A. Wise of New York City, college phy- sician to succeed Dr. B. A. Burks, deceased. OUT of the enthusiasm of the annual summer Mr. Howard W. Bailey of the University of North reunion at Woodstock last month has come Carolina, assistant professor of dramatic art, to fill a the latest gift toward the furnishing of a room vacancy caused by the death of Annie Russell. in one of the new dormitories. This gift, $100, came Dr. Thurston Adams, assistant professor of physical from Mrs. James Fausnaught (Ida Foss) of Worces- education, who will survey the Rollins program with a ter, Mass. This leaves 24 rooms to be provided for. view to emphasizing health education. Ii is hoped other alumni will wish to "take a room" and Mr. Ralph S. Clark, director of publicity, has re- thus clear up at an early date this obligation of the signed his position to accept an executive post with college. Ward, Wells and Dreshman, philanthropic campaign It will be recalled that when the five new dormitories directors of New York. Mr. Clark first became asso- —Hooker, Lyman, Gale, Fox and Cross—were erected ciated with Rollins in 1929 when the Rollins Endow- out of a loan from the Government there was no pro- ment Fund campaign was inaugurated. In 1932 he vision for furnishing the rooms, the cost of which was accepted the appointment by President Holt to serve $100 each. Accordingly, President Holt and the Trus- as publicity director of Rollins. He is one of the tees invited alumni and friends to come to the rescue. leading publicity men of the country. Many have generously responded and very appropri- It is largely through Mr.- Clark's activity and splendid ately nearly all the rooms provided for have been fur- cooperation that Rollins has received nation-wide pub- nished in memory of some relative. A dignified plate licity. His articles about the unique phases of the edu- on each door carries the name of the donor and the cational system adopted by President Holt have ap- name of the person in whose memory the gift is made. peared in leading newspapers and periodicals all over Mrs. Homer Gage, daughter of a founder, furnished five the United States. rooms, as did Mrs. C. F. Mather-Smith, Joseph Wid- ener, Mrs. E. V. Seeler, Miss Amy Lawrie, Mrs. E. M. S. Chandler, mother of an alumnus, and J. Page Laugh- ago, in 1908, at a cost of $20,000 which was donated lin. To date a total of $3,804.47 has been received for by Andrew Carnegie on condition that an initial en- this purpose. dowment of a like amount be raised by other friends of Robing Rooms for the Chapel Rollins. Under the leadership of President W. F. Mrs. George E. Warren has made another generous Blackman this additional $20,000 was raised, the don- gift to Rollins. It is an addition to the Knowles Me- ors being: morial Chapel which will provide adequate robing L. A. Chase, founder of Winter Park $10,000 rooms for the choir, one for men and one for women. Wyeth Brothers of Chicago 1,000 Ralph Adams Cram has designed the enlargement Dr. D. K. Pearsons, Chicago 3,000 which extends west from Dean Campbell's classroom A. E. Angier, Boston 1,000 in the small "El" at the corner of Holt and Chase Mrs. Dwight Spencer, Manchester, Conn. 1,000 avenues. S. Mills Ely, Binghamton, N. Y. 1,000 Carnegie Library Building Thirty Years Old Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Saunders, Another plan for memorials at Rollins which has South Bend, Ind. 1,000 proved very popular and at the same time has pro- Trustees of the Palmer Fund 500 vided funds for the very heart of the college, namely, L. F. Dommerich 500 the library, has been the endowing of books. It pro- Mrs. Orilla Ames, Swampscott, Mass. 500 vides, through a modest life membership fee of $50 in F. W. Lyman, Minneapolis, Minn. 250 the "Book-a-Year Club", an ever growing Endowment Kimball C. Atwood, Bradenton 150 Fund for the Rollins Library. Membership guaran- Miss Grace Dodge, New York 100 tees that every year a book will be purchased in the name of the donor or in memory of someone designated $20,000 by the donor, and placed on the shelves of the Library. Carnegie is still an attractive and an extremely use- Each volume will bear on the inside front cover a print- ful structure but the library has completely outgrown ed label stating that it was purchased by the income its quarters. One of the greatest present needs of the from the membership fee of the donor. So far 29 college is an adequate structure which would cost, pos- books have been endowed at $50, thereby adding sibly, $300,000. In the meantime it is hoped many alum- $1,450 to the endowment of the library. ni and friends will continue to endow books and in that Older alumni will recall that the present library manner enrich the equipment of Rollins. building, Carnegie Hall, was erected just thirty years (Continued on page 6) T II E R () L I. I N S A L U M N I R E COR 1) fo SEPTEMBER 1938 Circling The Globe News of With Rollins Alums Rollins By RICHARD WILKINSON, '32 WHETHER to tell of the joys of meeting and vis- Writers iting old Rollins friends from here and there about the globe, or to chronicle the similarly Bx ROBERT BLACK, '35 pleasant meetings with fraternity brothers in Norway and Heidelburg, or again to help you climb aboard a HOMING—another best seller to add to the already Russian street-car—a feat calling for all the daring long list of books by Grace Livingston Hill, and skill of Will Rogers and Georgie Miller combined— former member of the Rollins faculty. Homing and then to let you peak through the hedges and by- (J. B. Lippincott, Philadelphia), is the story of Jane ways of much-talked-of Bali, is a real problem. Scarlett, a button counter sales girl in a big department The statistics of this nine months jaunt over some store, who, an orphan and almost penniless, faced life twenty-eight countries which covered more than thirty- courageously and hopefully. Her poise and character five thousand miles is uninteresting so I won't mention won her many friends. A wealthy young lady customer it—again. It was only an accident which permitted: took a fancy to her and invited her to spend a happy Mussolini to arrive in Berlin the same day I got there; interval at the beach; the customer's brother, a young Austria to be still Austria while I was there; bullets to lawyer, became attracted to Jane and a beautiful ro- miss me in Palestine; the celebration of the feast of mance follows. Excitement entered Jane's life in the Rahmadan in Egypt while I was in Alexandria; the form of an inheritance, a hidden trunk, a kindly old annual washing and burning of Indians at Benares; the lawyer and several minor villains. birth of a princess while I was on board a Dutch ship; Other books by Mrs. Hill include Marigold, Brent- my colored pictures of a Balinese cremation; and an wood, Daphne Deane, Sunrise, The Substitute Guest, air raid black-out practice in Hong Kong. My real re- Mystery Flowers, etc. gret was that I landed in Europe about the time Prexy * ii:- -* Holt sailed away and thus was unable to see him in Wilson Mills, '38, of Canon & Mills Aircraft, Inc., is action at Geneva. preparing a book based on his flying experiences, en- Usually the street-car was the cheapest and most in- titled / Have Nine Lives. teresting way of traveling around foreign towns, but * * » riding a Russian street-car is an event, an experience Time carries the name of Reg Clough, '36, on its you must now have. The car is about the size and editorial staff. He writes for the Business and Finance vintage of the huge old Indiana Interurbans, the track Department, and likes it. as smooth as the Dinkey Line, and the doors are never closed because there are always people literally hanging PRESIDENT HOLT'S MESSAGE on. After hanging on by anything from a conventional (Continued from Page 3) strap to a Russian passenger, you must worm your George Call and Ray Greene were helpful in arrang- way inside the car. The conductoress stands at one ing my itinerary in Maine, and at Yarmouth, just out of end of the car and you pass up your money and name Portland and Miss Robie of the Art Department saw to of the stop at which you wish to get off to the person it that I was given a most unusual audience. Just re- in front of you. He in turn passes on the fare and cently, she was instrumental in arranging an entertain- the name of the destination until both reach the woman ment the proceeds of which—which must have beep a in question. She passes you back a ticket and change, tidy sum—were given to the scholarship fund of Rollins. for it would be impossible for her to get through the Among undergraduates who have helped especially crowd of humanity to you. Getting off the car is a were Richard Wesson whose parents had me meet a man-sized problem which calls for all of Coach Mc- distinguished group at dinner and Peggy Lincoln who Dowall's football strategy. If possible, you worm your invited me to speak at the Hanoum Camp in Thetford, way forward toward the exit, but this is seldom Vermont. The Blochs had me speak at their attractive achieved before you reach your destination. The more camp at Hillside, New York in the Berkshires, and at usual method is to await the stopping of the car and the Symphonic Festival in Lenox 1 had the pleasure of to take full advantage of the momentum you may thus seeing Miss Leonard, Mr. Honaas, Bill Vosburgh, our gather and do a one man flying wedge down the isle. trustee Mr. Milton Warner and many other friendsof If you dont reach the exit this time you must wait un- Rollins. Ralston Pickering, President of the Rollins til the next stop and try to complete your progress. He Club of Boston and Sanford Chapin helped me out who gets to the exit before his time will in all prob- when I spoke at the New Ocean House at Swampscott. ability leave the car whether he would or no. Other speaking engagements which have kept me busy All difficulties faded away when I met Eleanor telling about Rollins have been at Camp Marienfeld, Sprague, class of 1925, dietician at the American Col- Chesham, N. H., Lake Clear Camp and Camp River- lege Hospital, at Beyrouth, Syria. Looking over the dale, both in New York, the Rotary Clubs of Bruns- campus there I almost thought I was back at Rollins, wick and Augusta, Maine, Lytton Lodge in the Range- even though Lake Virginia had now become the Med- ley Lakes of Maine, Melvin Village, N. H., Litchfield iterranean Sea. Eleanor is doing a grand work and she and Newport, Rhode Island, where arrangements were certainly is in a beautiful and interesting part of the made by Maud Howe Elliott, daughter of Julia Ward world. Howe. 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bach; George A. Dorr; Phyllis N. Dorr, '37; Professor and Mrs. Bruce Dougherty; Frederick R. Drake, Jr., Hearthstones '40; Matthew G. Ely, Jr., '40; Alan Fast, '41; Mrs. New Kappa Kappa Gamma Alumnae Club House in James Fausnaught (Ida Foss), '93; Davitt Felder, '38; Winter Park Irving M. Felder, '39; Nathaniel S. Felder; Dr. and Mrs. John Palmer Gavit; Adolf de Campet Gentil, '42; The first unit of National Fraternity Clubs of Kappa Luiz de Campet Gentil, '42; Lyman B. Greaves, '38; Kappa Gamma to be known as "Hearthstones" will be Mr. and Mrs. Albert A. Green (Mary Hansen); '29; opened in Winter Park on October 13, 1938. Miss A. E. Guthrie. Such a club or fraternity home, established for alum- Professor Alberta Hawes Henry; William Henry; nae of the fraternity is a new venture in this, and per- Erika Heyder; Jean Plumb Hodgkinson, '37; Irving V. haps in any, fraternity. The National officers of Kap- Hodgkinson, '37; John G. Homan, II, '39; Harriett pa Kappa Gamma feel that the social purpose of the Hubbard; Professor Virginia R. Hughes; Peggy Jenks; organization should be extended beyond campus life Elsa P. L. Jillson; Professor Hamilton Johnson, '93; and offer group living to those alumnae who wish to Bob Kurvin, '39; Mort Lichtenstein, '39; Mrs. George abandon professional life for a season or permanently, C. Lincoln; Ellen Loshbough; Mrs. Lucy T. Lythgoe; or to women whose family life is such that they wish Paul Ma, '39; Ruth Bartlett Macatee; Mrs. Flora L. independence of living among congenial companions. Magoun; Priscilla Magoun; Richard M. Magoun; A National fund has been created for the purpose of Theodore Magoun; J. M. Marshall; E. W. Marshall; building these Hearthstones in several sections of the Mrs. D. E. McWain; Ruth McWain, '33; Professor country. and Mrs. Charles S. Mendell, Jr.; Cornelia Miller; Pro- Winter Park was chosen for the location of the first fessor R. Beatrice Miller; Frances Montgom- unit, which is to be known as the "Boyd Hearthstone ery, '41; Esie Moore, '39; Joseph M. Morse, '35; Mr. of Kappa Kappa Gamma"—named for Mrs. Louise and Mrs. Stewart L. Morse, '34; Joan Oak; Mrs. Lura Bennett Boyd, the only living founder of the fraternity. Oak; Ella Olmsted; Mrs. H. D. Olmsted; Miss Luella The site is on Lake Osceola out on Interlachen Ave- G. Olmsted; Sterling Olmsted, '36. nue, directly across the street from the University Golf Mr. and Mrs. F. F. Page; William Page, '38; Mar- Club house. The property formerly known as the Lee ion E. Paine; Lillias Parker, '37; Mrs. Floyd W. Phil- Place has been completely remodeled and suitably fur- lips; Luverne Phillips, '41; Ralston Pickering, '34; nished and should make an ideal environment for com- Nancy Poole; Mrs. E. C. Price, Jr.; Virginia Quantrell, fort and enjoyment, which the fraternity hopes to offer '39; Professor Helen Rae; Professor John Rae; Betty to its guests. Rathbone; Charlotte Rathbone; Betty Reser, '40; The national officers hope for a club house relation- Blanche E. Robson; Dr. Edward G. Rowland, '95; Mr. ship with Rollins alumni, students and faculty which and Mrs. Cloyde H. Russell, '30. will be mutually pleasant and interesting. Marvin M. Scarbrough, Jr., '39; Mr. and Mrs. Rich- ard Shattuck, '35; F. W. Shepherd, '17; Jean Sherman; Lee Sherman; Dorothy Shepherd Smith, '33; George WOODSTOCK REUNION M. Smith; Priscilla Smith, '39; Sally Stearns, '36; Helen Steinmetz, '04; Mr. and Mrs. Peter Stoner, '32; (Continued from page 2) Mabel F. Taylor; Lois S. Terry, '40; Alice Thayer; Mr. explanation of plans of the student campaign for a stu- and Mrs. James Tuverson, '37; Robert B. Ward, Jr.; dent union building. Davitt Felder, on behalf of stu- Professor Edward F. Weinberg; Miss E. W. Wheelock; dents and alumni, and Dudley Darling discussed the Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Wingate; Jane Louise Wingate; Student Union Building. It was announced that ap- Robert A. Wise; Lucv Greene Woolston, '36; Nancy proximately $12,000 toward the $50,000 needed had H. Work. already been raised. Enrolment for the coming year is higher than it has been previously reported, according to an announcement made by George C. Holt, who GIFTS . . . asked for the cooperation of alumni. (Continued from page 4) The last speaker was Dr. Holt. He reviewed some of the high lights of his thirteen year connection with Outstanding 1937-38 Gifts to the Library Rollins and discussed some of his ideals for the devel- opment of Rollins. Dr. E. Stanley Abbott has presented 114 volumes of Among those present were: Dr. Hamilton Holt; literature and history. Dean W. S. Anderson; Professor A. J. Hanna, Mr. and Mrs. William C. Bowers: 33, volumes of valuable Mrs. George C. Holt; Mrs. Leila Holt Rotival; "Sandy" Spanish books. Rotival; Mi'ss Constance Holt; Miss Sylvia Holt: Frank Grace O. Edwards: 76 volumes of Scott and Lytton. S. Abbott, '29; Dr. and Mrs. Thurston Adams; Maxwell A. Kilvert: 10 volumes and 862 magazines. Ward Atwood, 39; Warren W. Averill; Leah J. John R. Klosterman, '34: 66 volumes. Bartlett, '36; Dorothy Begeman; Arthur Bifield, '40; Mrs. George Trumbull Ladd: Madonna Collection of Severin Bourne, '32; Donald Bradley; '39; Arlene 278 pictures. Brennan, '39; Roger Brindle; Mrs. N. D. Cass; Mrs. Edgar C. Leonard: 119 volumes, many on art. Peggy Cass, '39; Richard C. Camp, '39; Florence M. Rockwell C. Osborne: 40 volumes, 632 magazines, in- Cenedella; Margaret Chapman, '30. cluding almost complete sets of two philatelic Frances Daniel, '39; Dudley Darling, '41; Mr. and magazines on which subject the library had prac- Mrs. S. Boyd Darling; Dot Davis, '30; E. M. Davis; tically no material. "Penny" Davis, '38; Rosalie Dean, '39; Mrs. Dens- Fred W. Vanderpool, '10: 290 miscellaneous volumes, more G. Ellis; Jean Densmore, '40; Edward Diefen- magazines and pamphlets. 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critic and Professor of English; Dr. Fred Lewis Pattee, author, critic and Profes- CLASS NOTES sor of American Literature; Dr. Jessie B. Rittenhouse (Mrs. Clinton Scollard), poet, critic and instructor in the art of Faculty its present size. In 1924 she sold out to writing poetry; and Donald S. Allen, as- Mrs. Maude Barron and retired to pri- Mrs. Marjorie Daingerfield Holmes was sistant professor of dramatic art. vate life, but financial reverses forced Prof. Edwin Granberry taught at the in charge of the Sculpture department of her back into business and she opened the the Grand Central School of Art held summer session at the U. of Fla. Peschmann Tea Room in the former home Dr. W. S. Beard, formerly assistant at Guild Hall, East Hampton, Long Island of the late M. M. Smith. . . During her during July and August. She spent the to President Holt, is supply minister of years of active life, she took part in the Second Congregational Church of latter part of the summer at "W'estglow", every civic movement in Winter Park, Blowing Rock, N. C. Holyoke, Mass. and is one of the life members of the Miss Catherine A. J. Brebner sent us Miss Virginia Hughes has completed Winter Park Woman's Club. Rollins Col- her third year as one of the Chief Execu- a card from Rome where she was stay- lege was one of her favorite projects, and ing after visiting Sicily, Naples and other tives of the Girl Scouts organization in she gave unstintingly toward its needs." the Philadelphia area. She will visit interesting spots. Her home address is the campus during the last week in Sep- In June Dr. J. C. T. Uphof visited 16 Purley Park Road, Purley, Surrey, tember for the opening of college. Honduras and Guatamala and spent the England. We regretfully announce the death of next two months in the Republic of El Mrs. Angela Palomo Campbell, assist- Miss Susan E. Peschmann, who was at Salvador, where he worked for the cof- ant professor of Spanish, spent the sum- one time house mother of the Kappa Al- fee plantations. At the conclusion of this mer in Atlanta, Ga. pha house and a revered resident of Win- work he returned to the U. S. by Mexico Dean Anderson and Miss Robie attend- ter Park for many years. The follow- City and Vera Cruz. ed a party given by Mrs. Charles H. ing editorial appeared in the Orlando Dr. William Melcher taught at the U. Belledeu in July at Yarmouth, Maine, in- Morning Sentinel regarding Miss Pesch- of Fla. this past summer. augurating a Yarmouth Student Fund. mann's death: "Miss Peschmann came to The Blowing Rock School of English, Dean reports the party really turned into Winter Park in 1911 from Grand Rapids, affiliated with Duke University and es- a Rollins affair—he spoke for 20 minutes Mich., in quest of health following a se- tablished by Dr. Grover, held a six weeks' about Rollins and Walter Royall sang and vere attack of typhoid fever. Soon after summer course at Blowing Rock, N. C, read two of his poems. arriving she opened a boarding and room- on the crest of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Dr. Rhea Marsh Smith and Dorothy ing house in what is now Barron Hall, The faculty as announced in a June issue Lockhart Smith spent the early part of known then as the Peck home. Her busi- of the New York Times Book Review, the summer in Texas with Dr. Smith's ness grew so rapidly she purchased the included the following members of the family, and then they drove 1800 miles property and enlarged the residence to Rollins faculty: Dr. Richard Burton, poet, to Philadelphia. Dr. Smith is having his CIRCLING THE GLOBE WITH ROLLINS ALUMS - Richard Wilkinson

(Continued from page 5) ceremonies, he is temporarily interred until the next ceremony. This infrequency is due to the almost pro- Twenty-four hot hours by bus across the Syrian hibitive cost of cremation and not to any religious prin- Desert from Damascus lies Baghdad, romantic city of ciple. It was my good fortune to be able to witness the East and home of another Rollins alumnus, Yer- and protograph one of these ceremonies from begin- vant A. Aristakes, '33. I had no conception of the true ning to end. (If you are in Columbus any time, I will meaning of the word hospitality until I stayed in Yer- be glad to show you these photographs.) vant's home and visited that city. Baghdad includes Cremation liberates the soul from its wanderings be- the ancient, the romantic, the dirty, but from it rises tween earth and a heaven into which it cannot enter today the new, the modern, and the clean, capital of until the body has been burned, the Balinese believe. a new nation in the old cradle of civilization. Yervant's So this ceremony is a joyous occasion, preceded by sev- whole family is making a definite contribution to the eral days of feasting, dancing and native music. Bam- progress of this country. Since I visited him, Yervant boo towers twenty-five feet high, decorated with intri- has been promoted and is now residing in Basra, Iraq. cately colored paper flowers, colored panels, heads of Taking a further leap to Japan, it is quite possible to evil spirits and gods, receive the remains of the dead find Vincent Canzoneri, '35, blowing notes from strange which are wrapped in white cloth and carried by a oriental instruments or sawing out unearthly tunes from priest up an inclined plane to the very top of the towers. an instrument that looks like anything but the violin In order to defeat the evil spirits, who can travel only he had at Rollins. Vincent has also mastered the lan- in straight lines, some seventy-five men carry each guage, and "researches" all around the old libraries in tower along a zigzag course to the burning ground Tokio. If he doesn't come home soon he will grow where after hours of parade, washing, sprinkling and slant eyes. making offerings to the gods, the fires are finally lighted. When I saw Bob Currie, '33, he had been teaching Next day the ashes are carried on the heads of natives and playing around Hawaii so long that he could not in conically shaped containers to the beach where they speak more than a sentence or two without using a are placed in outrigger canoes and carried away from phrase of native Hawaiian. At last reports, however, shore to be spread on the sea, thus allowing the spirit he still had not taken to wearing the grass skirt. to return to heaven. On the way from India to China, I stopped at Sing- Tradition says that the spirit of a good Balinese apore and sailed south past Sumatra to Java and that returns immediately to Bali, a strayer is kept for a time little dot of an island just south of Java called Bali. in heaven as punishment, while an evil doer is pun- Maybe you thought Bali is just the name oi a song; ished by being reincarnated outside of Bali. So, in if so, get Professor Honaas to play a recording of Bal- keeping with this idea, though returning in the flesh, I inese music and you will probably feel certain that there found the high point of my trip to be a revisit to_Win- is no music about it. ter Park and Rollins this last spring. Thus I discov- Cremation, an elaborate ceremony, takes place but ered that while East is East and West is West, the di- four times a year in Bali. If a native dies between rection South I like best. THE ROLLINS ALUMNI RECORD for SEPTEMBER 1938

book, The Day of the Liberals in Spain and Arizona which we visited last year." her brother and sister in Fort Pierce. She published this fall, and it is being an- Ed. Note: Mr. and Mrs. Mowbray spent returned to New York City this summer nounced as the Cervantes Medal winner. some time this summer in Aurora, Ohio. to resume her studies at the New York The Cervantes medal was conferred on School for Social Research. Dr. Smith last April by the Spanish In- Class of 1904 Ed. Note: Word comes to us that Mr. stitute of Florida in recognition of the Secretary: Mary Hardaivay A/gee and Mrs. Ray Greene, after touring Que- contribution he has made to the interpre- (Mrs. I.. C.) 1017 Cumberland Road, N. bec, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick tation of Spanish history and government. E., Atlanta, Ga. during July, located at Brushwood Lodge, Dean Charles A. Campbell had a glor- Helen Steinmetz has had a very bus) Bath, Maine, near Merry-meeting and ious summer in England, Paris, and summer, including a trip into Virginia, Boothbay Camps several days before re- Switzerland. Between times he took a de- attending the Kappa convention, a trip to turning to Winter Park on Sept. 1st. lightful cruise to Norway which he de- the Pennsylvania mountains in July and Class of 1925 scribes as "thrillingly beautiful." running up to the Woodstock Reunion Dr. Marion Rous, former Professor of in August. 15th Reunion 1940 piano at Rollins, gave two piano recitals Ed. Note: Mrs. L. C. Algee had a seven Becky Caldwell writes that she attend- this past summer, one at Norfolk, Conn., weeks vacation in her home in Orlando ed her first Kappa Kappa Gamma Con- and another at Salisbury, Conn. This during the summer, where she welcomed vention on July 1-8 at the Homestead, winter she is giving a lecture course on a new grandson. Later in the summer Hot Springs, Va. "Ten members of Delta the programs of the Philharmonic Sym- she assisted at the Fulton County Demo- Epsilon Chapter attended, among them phony Orchestra, sponsored by the School cratic Headquarters by keeping office. Mesdames Wattles, Chaffee, Van Fru- of Music of New York University. Her address is 1017 Cumberland Rd., N. thaler, Simpson and Miss Helen Stein- Professor Royal Wibur France spent the E., Atlanta. metz. Helen Barker Richardson, our co- summer with his family in Mexico where Class of 1906 organizer, is the same sweet Helen we he was one of the professors on the fac- knew at Rollins. Jane Smith, Mrs. James ulty of the International Summer Univer- Secretary: Carrie Ensminger Nickel D. Tuverson, came down from Ohio and sity conducted by Centro de Estudios Ped- (Mrs. Henry), Silver Lake, Sanford. it was a grand Rollins reunion. The agogicos E Hispano-Americanos under the It is with regret that we report the Florida representation was swelled by authority of the Mexican Department of death of John Lawrence Boyer in Tampa alumnae members from Miami and Miss Education. Prof. France had a long in- on June 30th. Mr. Boyer was Florida Alba Bales of Winter Park. There were terview with President Cardenas and was salesmanager for Colgate-Palmolive-Pete over 500 in attendance at the Conven- one of a party of American professors Co. in Tampa, where he lived for the tion, the first one south of the Mason and to go at President Cardenas' request to past ten years. Besides his widow, Mr. Dixon line in 68 years. study the vast experiment in cooperative Boyer is survived by his brother, Chaun- Becky spoke at the Hearthstone dinner farming in the Laguna, the cotton region cey Boyer, '12. on the "Boyd Hearthstone Environs". of Mexico. At the conclusion of the sum- Class of 1915 The first Kappa Club House will be mer, Prof. France was honored with a opened October 13th in Winter Park. Doctor of Laws degree by Centro de Es- Mr. and Mrs. Caryl E. Twitchell From Virginia, Becky went to Wash- tudios. Boyd France, who enters Rollins (Dorothy Buxton), of Owatonna, Minn., ington, visiting Army friends of Manila this fall, took summer courses at the are planning to spend»a month in Winter days, then on to N. Y. to meet Betty Centro de Estudios. Park this winter. Rathbone. "We spent a jolly week to- Class of 1918 gether . . . Lunched with Kay Hara and Gay Nineties heard about her job with General Mo- Chairman: Henry B. Movvbray, '98, 442 24;// Reunion in 1942. Secretary: Anne Stone, Winter Park tors, dined with Charles Magruder and Chase Ave., Winter Park. put our ok on his title of Associate Editor Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hutchinson (Mar- We regret to note that Mrs. Florence of an architectural magazine Pencil jorie Talman) drove to Prvidence, R. I. Point. Went dancing with Tommy Hudson lost her mother, Mrs. Mary A. during July from their home in Holly- Hudson, on June 22. Thompson and discovered he had a three wood, California. While in Providence months old son . . . Saw Fred Hanna at A letter from Maud Neff Whitman re- they visited Bob's brothers and sisters, veals that she spent practically all the the Algonquin Hotel. and on their return trip stopped over in "I returned home over Eastern Air summer in Orlando with the exception of New York City and in Milan, Ohio, short trips to Daytona Beach and Jack- Lines, leaving New York at 4:00. Stopped where they visited former Rollins stu- for dinner with friends in Washington, sonville, where she visited her sister, Mrs. dents. Charles H. Pillsbury (Ray Neff), who boarded an Atlanta bound plane and much Florence Keezel is singing at Jones to the Steward's dismay, phoned football was a Rollins student. She and Dr. Whit- Beach Stadium at Jones Beach, Long Is- man will take their vacation in N. C. officials (connected with my business of- land, this summer in one of Schubert's fice) at every stop of the plane, Balti- about the middle of September. new musical productions. Willard Ayres Eliot, charter student, is more, Richmond, Charlotte and Greens- Sara Muriel writes early in August boro. It was after midnight when we living in Portland, Oregon, and is care- from Dearborn, Mich.: "I've been taker of the Naturalist Pittock Bird Sanc- landed in Atlanta. . . . Spent the day at- 'abroad' again—that is, over the bridge tending to office business in Atlanta. tuary, Oregon Audubon Society. He is the into Canada. I'm seeing all this section author of two valuable studies of natur- Took a midnight plane which landed me around Detroit, Dearborn, Ann Arbor, in Daytona Beach, made a connection with al life, Birds of the Pacific Coast (1923) etc., while visiting a friend whose hus- and Forest Trees of the Pacific Coast National Air Lines arriving in Orlando band teaches in Ford's Institute of Tech- at 6:00 a. m., July 16—the end of a per- (1938). nology." Gertrude Wilcox, who is one of the li- fect fortnight." Class of 1919 brarians in the New Bedford, Mass., pub- Class of 1926 lic library, spent her vacation at Nan- Secretary: Dr. Florence Stone, 245 Len- ox Road, Apt. 5-G, Brooklyn, N. Y. 141/; Reunion in 1940. Secretary: Cath- tucket. erine Young Gore (Mrs. W. H.), 1002 Dr. George R. Gleason, '01, of Guada- Ed. Note: Dr. Florence Stone spent South 7th Ave., Springfield. III. lajara, who received the Rollins Decor- three weeks this summer with her sister, ation of Honor in 1936, took post gradu- Anne C. Stone, in Winter Park. Florence Webber B. Haines announces the re- ate work at the University of Southern returned to N. Y. early in September to moval of his law offices from Orlando to California this past summer. resume her medical research at the Long E. Park Ave., Winter Park. Elizabeth Rand went to Sewannee, Island College of Medicine. Florence's From C. Ellwood ("Bo") Kalbach, of Tenn., for a short visit in August, and name and that of her brother, William E. 675 North Terrace Ave., Mount Vernon, after returning spent a few days at Day- Stone, who is an entomologist, and in N. V., comes an announcement of the birth tona Beach. charge of the U. S. Government Labora- of a daughter, Gail Dixon Kalbach, on Marion Coan Barnes writes that she tory in Mexico City, appear in a recent January 31st, 1938. Congratulations, Bo! and Mr. Barnes toured Glacier, Yellow- edition of the American Men of Science. Class of 1927 stone and Rocky Mountain Parks by motor bus this summer. The "beautiful scen- Class of 1923 137/1 Reunion in 1940. Secretary: Jean- ery and Yellowstone were extremely in- 182// Reunion in 1941. Secretary: Ray- nette Dickson Colado (Mrs. Gavino), teresting, but I think I was more thrilled mond W. Greene, Winter Park Winter Park. with the canyons of the Colorado, Utah Frances James spent the summer with Ed. Note: Dickie Colado is registrar of T H E ROLLINS A L L' M N I R E CORD for SEPTE M B E R 1938 the new County Day School for boys and interruption! He and Peter Babich met been Associate Editor of Pencil Points, girls, a "modern school embracing Nurs- in Wilmington and talked an hour for an architectural magazine of the first or- ery, Kindergarten, Elementary and Sec- each year since they last saw each other. der, published in NYC. We have seen a ondary Divisions", which will open at 2075 Since then, Mrs. Cockrell won't let him copy of the magazine and were greatly Glencoe Ave., on October 3rd. Mrs. Carl sav anything about women talking, and impressed by it. Congratulations, Char- Pick is Director and Miss Lillian Long, who could blame her? Cy says he is busy lie! .. . Charlie has a degree of B.S. Principal. at his chemist work and happy about in architecture from the University of everything except the fact that he does Florida. Class of 1928 not live in Florida. Cecile Louise Piltz, who received her nt/i Reunion in 1939. Secretary: Ger- Dot Davis, now Executive Secretary of B.S. from Rollins, is now associated with trude Ward Barnuin (Mrs. II. IV.), II'in- the Greater Miami Apartment House As- Fanchot & Schachtel, attorneys and counter Park. sociation, was lucky enough to have a sellors-at-law, with offices in the Lincoln Mr. and Mrs. Philip Cadman (Ellen month's vacation which she spent in NYC Building in NYC and Cecile's name ap- Huffer) and very young daughter, Mar- and environs, and good enough to take pears prominently on the firm's letter- ian, visited the campus the last of August. time out to write. She attended the head. Their home is in Cleveland. Woodstock Reunion. Peter Berger writes: "Your letter and Lois Briggs Beebe (Mrs. Irving H.) Herrick McConnell had a real vacation the Alumni Record reached me when I and daughter Marsha, are making their this year up in North Carolina where he was just for a day in Budapest. I am on home in Hyannis, Mass., on Cape Cod, and his wife enjoyed the mountains. By a trip wth a 'folding boat' (Faltboot) where Lois has been conducting a Day the way, Mac, did you receive the June down the Danube from Passan toward the Camp for small children. issue of the Record? In it is the answer Black Sea. My friend and I reached Bel- Alan Bartlett spent part of the summer to your last question about our Alumni grade today; it is a fine, rapidly grow- in Chicago and Detroit. Returning to Secretary. ing town where the river Save discharg- Florida, he stopped over in Winter Park After several changes in the past year, es into the Danube, and where there are for a week before going on to Venice Nadine Wright Meek thinks she is finally famous old towers from the Turkish wars where he is in the real estate business. settled in Winter Haven. How about in the 17th century. On Sept. 15 the new sending us a picture of the two children school year will begin in Budapest." Class of 1929 for our scrap book? Altho we asked for news for this edi- 10/// Reunion in 1939. Secretary: Master Edgar Russell sent us a snap of tion particularly, please do not think that Nancy Broun, 645 Putnam Ave., Orlando himself at his first birthday party. Papa it is too late to write for we will care- Laura D. Shelby is now Mrs. J. Mer- Cloyde has been busy looking up old fully keep all such communications until rill Frazer and lives at 227 E. 20th St., friends in New York City while Mama the next issue. If these notes are rather sketchy it is Covington, Ky. Ruth is renewing old acquaintances in because your secretary is on vacation and Catharine Wells is connected with a Ossining where they live and where she had difficulty getting her brains to work; publishing company in Boston and is tem- was born. Thanks for the newspaper porarily located at 118 Marlboro St. clippings and information about addresses. she is just staying at home, storing up energy for the next go-round. And too, Her home address is 424 S. Rosalind Ave., Next best to being in the mountains she has told just about everything she Orlando. where it is COOL is to hear about them. Philip Cummings and Miss Cornelia Harrison Cobb wrote that it was 36 de- knows! Class of 1931 Weston were married in the Chapel at grees when he was at the top of Pikes Lake Placid, N. Y., on June 23rd. After Peak recently, and that he had discovered ith Reunion in 1939. Secretary: Jewel October 1st they will be at home at 122 the thrill to top all thrills—in the Black Leivter, Orlando. North Mountain Ave., Montclair, N. J. Forest a solid three miles of roller-coaster Bob Stephens is at the Guaranty Trust Iona Pope Bassett spent the summer in road with dips about fifty feet high and Co., Fifth Ave. and 44th Street, and not Winter Park with her mother. She and three hundred feet apart. That should at the Central Hanover Trust Co., as re- Ellsworth are living in Washington, D. C. be a tonic for city boredom. ported last June. Bob has helped the Ad- Flora Furen Carmichael was in Fort Class of 1930 missions Office tremendously ths summer Myers for about a month last spring, com- in the selection of new students. <)tli Reunion in 1939. Secretary: Clara pared with which, nothing specially ex- Mr. and Mrs. Harry Tracy (Lois Bart- Adolfs, Winter Park. citing has happened to her. Thanks for lett) have opened a new summer resort While the response to the last Class the information about names on the "lost" hotel in Laconia, N. H.—"Tall Timbers". letter was not 100%, it was gratifying to list, and be sure to stop in Winter Park It is a farmhouse hotel, set in the midst of a certain extent because a number re- the next time you come down. apple orchards, surrounded by forests sponded with information about the lost Mrs. Dorothy Furen Willis was gradu- with trout brook winding thru its mead- ones and some wrote for the first time ated last June with a B.S. degree from ows. From the veranda one can look since graduation. the Univ. of Houston, Texas. Her pres- across the tree tops to Lake Winnesquam First of all came a clipping about the ent address is Box 1094, Baytown, Tex. and the city of Laconia with Mt. Belnap, wedding on August 2nd of Fred Keiser Louise Ingham Drysdale dropped in for famous for skiiing and climbing, looming and Miss Lydia Louise Jones of Provi- a week end at President Holt's home at above. During the winter the Tracy's are dence, R. I. They are now living in Woodstock in July on her way from In- at Hotel Venice-Myakka at Venice, Fla. Winter Haven. Congratulations and best dia, where her husband, a graduate of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Greene (Dorothy wishes, Fred. Oxford, works for the Burma Oil Com- Allen) announce the birth on August 23 We wish you could all see the picture pany. Louise was in the class of '30 but of a 6% pound boy whom they have of two-year old Todd Persons; he is a left after two years. She was at Rollins named David Lee. handsome youngster and well might Mar- during the inception of the conference President Holt had a very nice letter tha (Schanck) be proud of such a son. plan, and was one of the students who from the parents of Otto Wolfgang Au- They are living in Hightstown, N. J. for took a most active part in its shaping. hagen who died suddenly last March 22, a few months now while Mr. Persons is Louise's father was the Methodist Minis- enclosing tributes and obituaries published attending school. We shall look forward ter in Winter Park until 1928, at which in the Berlin press, and a recent photo- to seeing you and Todd in Florida next time he was called to a large London graph of Otto. Mr. Auhagen, speaking winter, Martha. Church. He raised funds for and built of his son, said (Translated) : "The year Although Virginia Stelle said she had the Methodist Episcopal Church on Inter- in Rollins was decisive in influencing his nothing exciting to write, nevertheless she lachen Avenue in Winter Park . . . After professional career. Next to his legal ed- did tell about some other Rollinsites, gave leaving the United States, Louise, for one ucation (he was about to take his exami- her new address in Brooklyn, and told vear, was in the Sheldon-Nixon School in nation as Judge's Deputy) he worked in- about seeing the Pre-View of the World's Florence, Italy, and spent the next year tensively in the field of American Law, Fair, and Yvondering how many from Rol- at Oxford University studying English In this field he was reporting assistant at lins would attend. Literature. In 1932 she left for Burma the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Interna- Maybe one way to get news is to print where she married Mr. Drysdale. She tional Law and Foreign Private Law, and an untruth. At any rate, Cy Cockrell de- has been living in Burma and in Assam in the last year was an active co-worker nies that he is attending Oberlin, as stat- since. In returning to England for her in the German-American Economic Asso- ed in the last Record; he says he got his vacation she decided to come by way of ciation." wife there, but not a degree! Can you the Pacific, Canada and the United States. Sarah F. Doggett Joerger (Mrs. Rob- imagine Cy talking for six hours without Since last May, Charles Magruder has ert W.), has announced the birth of a 10 THE ROLLINS ALUMNI RECORD for SEPTEMBER 1938

daughter, Alleine Lee, in Julv at Green- and for a time was Resident in Pediat- lass and Mr. Douglass have bought a new ville, S. C. rics (Diseases of Children) at the same home at 716 N. Peninsula Drive, Daytona hospital. I received both my M.D. and Beach, and they spent the middle of Aug- Class of 1932 D.N.B. (Diplomate of the National ust getting settled in it. ntfi Reunion in 1943. Secretary: Lu- Board) in 1936 At present I am in pri- cile Tolson Moore (Mrs. William), Mi- vate practice with my husband in Hunt- Class of 1934 ami, Fla. ington Park. . . Dr. K. C. does general 9/A Reunion in 1943. Secretary: Olive Betty Armstrong Cross (Mrs. Deane), practice with special attention to diseases Dickson, 103 E. Colonial Drive, Orlando. is the proud mother of two lovely daugh- of the Ear, Eye, Nose and Throat, and ters, Edythe Coral, aged 4 and Mary my own practice is limited to the care of "1934 Briefs" Louise, born on March 22nd. Mr. Cross women and children. I assist my husband Fellow Classmates: Your very unreli- is with Sohio, and they are now living in with surgery and give some anethetics al- able secretary had planned to reinstate Belpre, O. so. .. . We have a young son, Kennerley herself in your good graces this time by Al Valdes is manager and owner of Jr., aged 4, who helps to occupy my spare having a good old-fashioned roll call. the Winter Garden Press, and he does time." Mina hopes their next vacation With the encouragement and material distinctive and high grade printing and will bring them back to Florida and Rol- assistance of Bob Stufflebeam, who sup- designing. lins, which she is anxious to see again. plied the tricky little reminder postcards, Edmund and Edith Kimball are the Last Thanksgiving Day, Ruth Jean she (that secretary) hoped to glean at proud parents of Eleen Louise Kimball, Phillips was married to Mr. C. W. Frank- least a speck of "info" from fully three Class of '55, Al Valdes writes us. Ed, lin, and since that time the couple have fourths of you famous individuals—but who is now a full-fledged orange grower lived near Denver, Colo. However, after alas! you must be too busy with your vari- lives with his family in Clermont. Sept. 1st, their address will be Ethete, ous accomplishments, for out of the sev- An interesting item appeared on June Wyoming. Besides keeping house, Ruth enty-odd cards sent, I have received all 26 in the Orlando Sentinel-Star's "Tea Jean has been teaching in high school. of sixteen replies. My consequent deduc- Table Chatter". "Via the grapevine Dorothy Hallett and Gregory S. Mau- tion is that there are others of this "liaiul- system, we hear that our old friend Sev- ry> Jr-i were married June 17 at the picked class of '34" who are just as negli- erin Bourne ... is about to get engaged St. Luke's Cathedral, Orlando, Fla., the gent as yours truly. (confidentially speaking, of course) to a Very Rev. Melville E. Johnson, dean of Mary Butler Longest's mother answered most attractive New Yorker . . . The de- the Cathedral, officiating. The bride's our card to say that daughter is jaunting scription given us is—'She's a darling, maid of honor was Miss Louise Wahl- thru California and the Northwest of about medium height, dark hair and eyes berg and the groom's best man was these United States. While in California —flashing eyes—and quite pretty'. Which George Gilleland of Daytona Beach. Bucky expects to see Holly Lynip, who goes to show that Sev does not always Tinsley West and Welborn Phillips were formerly attended Rollins. prefer blondes—as we had heretofore sus- ushers. An informal reception at the Thomas P. Johnson was elected vice- pected." bride's home followed the ceremony. president of the Rollins Alumni Associa- The marriage of Alice Reynolds Bur- Dorothy is a member of Phi Mu sorority. tion to succeed Asa Jennings, '30. He took dett to Harry Delphos Orr, Jr., On Satur- Mr. Maury was graduated from Georgia his office on Alumni Day during Founders day, June nth, at Point Pleasant, W. Va., Military Academy and Washington and Week at the Association's annual meeting. has been announced. Lee Univ. He is a member of Pi Kappa Following his graduation, Tommy has been News of the marriage of Jeanne Sim- Alpha. He is associated with the Orlan- very active in the work of the Association. mons of Tampa to Mr. Ralph Hodgkin- do office of Southern Acceptances. The He is also chairman of the Alumni Advis- son of Worcester, Mass., on the evening couple are at home at the Colonial Orange ory Committee of the Student Union Build- of Tuesday, August 23, in Tampa, has Court Hotel. ing Fund, and has generously contributed just been received. Jeane attended the A letter from Nancy Howard Navas- both time and money to the work of the Florida State College and received her cues says that Jesus gave up the idea of Association and to the Student Union Bldg. A.B. from Rollins. She did postgraduate taking part in the Spanish War, and in- campaign. work at the Univ. of Colorado and Har- stead came to America to be with Nancy On a recent trip to Chicago and Nebras- vard Univ. For the past few years she and their children. Jesus hopes to get ka, Tommy contacted Rollins alumni en has been on the faculty of the Woodrow settled soon in a teaching position in a route. Wilson Junior High School of Tampa. college or university, the type of work he Eleanor Wilcox Roberts writes that she Mr. Hodgkinson was graduated from likes best. Aside from teaching, he has was hostess this summer to two class- Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Har- spent 3V2 years in the Commercial Ser- mates, Elizabeth Marshall nad Nancy vard College. He has been on the facul- vice of Spain and 1V2 years in Stockholm Crane. Elizabeth is a Public Health ty of Williston Academy for the past six for the Spanish Government. Nurse in Montclair, New Jersey, and years. The couple will make their home Priscilla Hakes, daughter of Mr. and Nancy is a secretary for the Wilcox Boil- at Ford Hall at Williston Academy, East- Mrs. Otto H. Hakes, of Fredonia, N. Y., er Co. in N.Y.C. hampton, Mass. was married on Friday afternoon, August Donald Dunlop sent us a picture post- Albert M. Johnston, M.D. is an in- 19th, to Edward Walter Williams, '31, card of those beautiful mountains in terne at the Methodist Hospital, Indian- son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Gilbert North Carolina, which leads us to believe apolis, Ind. His present address is 109 Williams of Brooklyn, N. Y. The lovely that Roxboro, where he is stationed, must E. Frambes Ave., Columbus, O. ceremony was held in the St. Johns Epis- be in the mountainous section of that state. Don says that he is still Athletic Class of 1933 copal Church in Fredonia, and a reception and dinner followed the wedding. Director at Roxboro. He spent the sum- ■jth Reunion in 1943. Secretaries: Tliel- Priscilla is a member of the society of mer at Myrtle Beach, North Carolina and ma Van Buskirk Douglass (Mrs. Henry), Mayflower Descendants, and is a direct Lake Erie—nice vacation we think. Box 5323, Seabreeze Station, Daytona descendant of John and Priscilla Alden. Duke Wellington writes that Miriam Beach; and Philip Horton, 118 Pine St., Before attending Rollins she graduated (Sprague) and the baby, now two years Peekskill, N. Y. from Pine Manor Junior College. She se- old, are well. They vacationed at Har- Mr. and Mrs. David W. Shepherd (Jean cured her MA. degree from Columbia bor Springs, Mich. Duke has recently Fullington) of Barnesville, Ga., have an- University in 1936. She is a member of been appointed Personnel Supervisor and nounced the birth of a son, John Gordon Kappa Kappa Gamma and of the Wo- Director of the Training Program of the Shepherd. men's University Club of N. Y. N.Y.A. in Ohio, located in Toledo. Liona V. Odell was married on Sept. Edward is also a member of the May- Clinton Nichols has more ambition than 1st to Mr. Marvin Greenwood Stevens of flower Descendants. He attended Brown most of us. He is receiving his Master's Farmington, Maine. The couple will be University, received his B.A. from Rollins Degree this summer from Columbia Uni- at home early in October at 410 Fifth in 1931 and MA. from Columbia Uni- versity. He will hold the position of Vice- Ave., Mt. Dora, Fla. versity in 1933. He is a member of the principal of Putnam High School, Putnam, Mina M. Ashley, M.D., sends greet- SAR, the Brown Club of N.Y., Psi Upsi- Conn. ings from Huntington Park, Calif. Since lon Fraternity, and many clubs. He is in Bob Stufflebeam reports "I'm still en- leaving Rollins, she writes that "I went the investment business. gaged in the Country's most booming in- directly then to medical school here in The couple will make their home after dustry—Public Relief Administration". Southern Calif., finishing my class work the 1st of October at 1060 Park Avenue Bob is with the State Welfare Board up in June 1935. I then spent an Interne- in New York City. there in Michigan and we think he must ship at the Los Angeles General Hospital, Ed. Note: Thelma Van Buskirk Doug- be doing a good job or else he is a good T H E ROLLINS A L UM N I R E CORD T E M B E R 19 3 8 11 politician—-he keeps liis job from year to Lake Easy has an intriguing sound, famous boys choir of Vienna, Austria. year! doesn't it? That's the crop this time. We hope We were very interested to learn that Mary Lucas is forsaking the East for the you've enjoyed some of it, anyway! . . • Maurice Dreicer arranged a program the glamor of the West. She is to teach Yours, over WEAF on July 20th. We do not in Portland, Oregon this year. She says —OI.IVE DlCKSON-, Secretary that Hal Sproul, former professor at Rol- know the details, nor were we fortunate Class of 1935 to have heard the program, but we be- lins, is also out there teaching music, and lieve it must have been a great success. that she will be on the lookout for other 7/// Reunion in 19+2. Secretary: Blanche Marian Morrow is still in Lake Worth, Rollinsites. G. Fishback, 536 N. Orange Ave., Orlando Fla. and has been busy nursing her moth- Johnnv Cudmore writes a newsy and Nancy Cushman has been extremely er who has been ill for some time. We interesting letter to tell us of his progress busy with dramatics. She directed the sincerely hope that Marian's patient is as a medical student at Temple Univer- three plays that the Tudor City Players now well on the road to complete re- sity, Philadelphia. He is now serving as put on during the Season of 1937-38, in- covers president of his medical fraternity and cluding The Family Upstairs, .and The Kinsman and Alice Butler Wright are has been vice-president of his class. He Ghost Flies South. She was Business and the very proud parents of Kinsman Ed- hopes to interne at Bellevue Hospital in Publicity Manager for the New London ward Wright, Jr., who was born on July N.Y.C. when the time comes. John says Players, New London, N. H., for their 27, 1938, at Norwood, N. Y. Congratula- he is still single, unengaged, and unat- sixth season, July i-Sept. 3, 1938; and tions! tached, and that he sees, at intervals, in addition to her two-fold duties as Man- Jack Howden is not to be outdone by Vicky Bedford, Reggie and Ginnie Clough ager, she also performed in three plays, his fellow classmate Kinsman, for on and Gordon Spence. George and Margaret, Climbing and Betty Currier Morris and husband T. August 6, 1938, his wife Sara (Harbottle) Dukey. presented him with an heir whom they J. are still at Stoneleigh College. T. J. Ruth McWain, who has been the out- have named William Beath Howden. teaches there and is also assistant to the standing leader recently in alumni activi- Again we say Congratulations! President. Betty, not to be outdone, has ties in Boston, is taking her vacation in opened up a tea room for the students Jimmv Gowdy is also a proud father of Europe. a son born on April 12 who has been and says she is plenty busy. We think Louise Large, we learn, has been mar- named Greig Allen. Jimmy is still with she must have a grand setup. She calls ried since October 23, 1937. Her husband the G. P. A. as assistant secretary of it the "Pepper Mill Tea House". is Oliver McCoy, from St. Louis. He was the Chicago area. Tommy Lawton from Oviedo is another graduated from Washington and Johns Mona Graessle was married this sum- newlywed of our Class. He was married Hopkins, and has been professor of Para- mer to William W. Walker. Jeannette in the Knowles Memorial Chapel the sitology at the University of Rochester Houghton Fanus was her matron of hon- early part of the summer. His wife, the Medical School for the past seven years. or. Mona and her husband live in Jack- former Annabelle Linger, is a school For a month Mr. McCoy was visiting sonville where he is manager of the Gil- teacher who struggled with the country- lecturer at Yale University. Their new- bert Hotel. boys and girls in Oviedo, and to quote address is 12 Meadowbrook Road, Roch- Eugene (Bud) Coleman took a trip to Tommy: "Altho she said she didn't make much headway with her teaching, she did ester, N. Y. Bermuda early in the summer and spent Winthrop Brubaker was married on manage to catch a husband, so the year the remaining months studying art with June 25 to Miss Josephine Tone of South Wayman Adams at Elizabethtown, N. Y. wasn't a complete flop after all." They Haven, Mich. The Brubakers are now- had a grand honeymoon trip to Virginia, residing at 202 W. 10th St., NYC. Bob Barber is on his way to Nova Sco- Washington and NYC and are located in tia and Bermuda, this being only one of The engagement of Sally Limerich to Orlando where Tommy will be engaged Mr. Sterling Callisen of Rochester Uni- several cruises which he has taken in con- in the citrus business this season. nection with his position of selling travel versity has been announced. No imme- Jeannette Houghton Fanus is still living diate plans for the wedding have been for the American Express Co. When he in Daytona Beach. She plans to teach is not traveling he is officially located again in the school system there—and we revealed. during business hours in an office on the Elfrieda Winant has been keeping very- hear that she is an a Number 1 Music busy this summer at Rollins in the Office main drag of NYC.—Fifth Avenue and Teacher, too. Forty-Ninth, no less! of Admissions. Bernard Bralove is an attorney for the Curt and Connie Ganson have informed Buck Moon has stuck to his writing, National Labor Relations Board, and he us that their daughter, born March 2, has we're delighted to learn. He has a short and Mrs. Bralove are living at the War- been named Gale Santaella. story coming out in Harper's in Septem- burton Hotel, 21st and Sanson Streets in ber. Our best congratulations on that Philadelphia. They have been married Class of 1936 Buck—we'll sure be looking for that and over nine months now and are very hap- will show it proudly to our friends and py. They returned in August from St. 6th Reunion in 19+2. Secretary: Doro- say "I knew him when, or, I went thru Louis, where Bernard was sent for three thy Smith Latmson (Mrs. John Clark), college with him, etc."! months to try some cases. Shelby-ville, Ky. Have Schrage recently resigned from Bill Twitchell is a graduate student Sterling Olmsted has been awarded the Campbell's Soups and is now trying his in the School of Chemistry, University Edward Griffin Seldon Fellowship at Yale luck at his own racket—a kind of novelty of California. Hiss address is 2622 Col- University for the coming year. This advertising which involves traveling from lege Ave., Berkeley. fellowship entitles him to a sum of $700 one place to another. Theresa R. Buck sailed from New York with a year's study at Yale toward his Burleigh and Mary Lib (Jones) Drura- August 4th to serve for a five year term Ph.D. . . . During the past two years mond, a couple of our newly weds, have under the American Board of Commis- Sterling has been working for his M.A. an apartment in Mansfield, Ohio, where sioners for Foreign Missions (Cong.) as in the Yale graduate English department Burleigh is with the Westinghouse Elec- a nurse in a missionary hospital at Mt. ... As an undergraduate at Rollins, tric Co. Burleigh says they have some Silinda, Melsetter District, South Rhode- Sterling was a member of the debate team "peachy" Chippendale Furniture in their sia, Africa. for four years, at one time debating Ox- apartment, and one modernistic comfort- Margaret J. Hubbard is private sec- ford University. Besides his activities in able chair! retary to the Manager of Bonding De- debate and public speaking he was on the Bob Stevenson is still around Orlando. partment office of Employers' Liability fencing squad, a member of the Rollins He and wife, Hannah, reign over a love- Assurance Corp., Ltd., in Buffalo, N. Y. Key Society and Pi Kappa Delta, na- ly new home in the country located on a Becky Coleman Holt was matron of tional honorary debate fraternity. The large orange grove. Steve spends his honor at the wedding of Ann Griffith Baker Play Co. recently purchased a spare time going fishing over on the Walker to J. E. Early in Evansville, In- peace play written by Sterling during his East Coast—but we have never seen any diana, on Sept. 17. The former Miss senior year at Rollins. of the fish! Walker was maid of honor at Becky's Announcements have been received of Virginia Shrigley has also joined the wedding. the marriage of Amelia Dailey, '38, to group of newlyweds. She was married Becky is in charge of social activities Law Mallard, in Lakeland early in Aug- this summer in Davenport, Fla. to Clar- of the Alumni Ass'n and is planning a ust. The couple left for a short wedding trip and will make their home in Palmet- ence W. Mims of Lake Wales. Her ad- mammoth benefit early in January for to where Law is associated with the Pal- dress is a brand new home located on the 1939 Alumni Fund. It will be in the metto Public Schools as music supervisor. Lake Easy just out of Lake Wales. That form of'a concert in Winter Park by the 12 T H Ro L U M N I RECORD for SEPTEMBER 1938

Marlen Eldredge writes from Altamont, three different times and places. (Law- girl's camp in Virginia for the summer. Millbrook, Dutchess County, N. Y.: "I've rence Tibbett, Jr., had a role in this, I She plans to teach German and history been very busy lately. I organized a notice from the clippings Si sent). Si is in Mrs. Pick's School in Winter Park this Youth Commission in Memphis, Tenn., in coming to New York soon to interview fall. June to discuss the agenda of the World some movie magnates and in the mean- Jimmy Lambert has been in Oregon and Youth Congress and it was very success- time is writing a full length play. between times is obtaining his degree at ful and is now on a permanent basis, Jerry Zipkin is in New York City work- Harvard Medical School with an eye to grouping all youth groups in the city. I ing in his father's concern. opening his own clinic. have just spent a crammed week at the Davitt Felder enters Yale this fall. H. Brown and (Jill Gillette have had World Youth Congress at Vassar where Budd Howland has had a marvelous a gorgeous trip to Honolulu. I translated officially from English into month traveling through the Scandinavian Ruth Melcher spent the summer in Win- French and vice versa, and worked on the countries, the highlight of his tour being a ter Park. Early in the summer she gave solution of world problems with an inter- ten-day North Cape Cruise where, be- a piano recital for the Society of the esting and sincere group of young people sides seeing the midnight sun rise and set Four Arts in Palm Beach, and at South- from 53 nations. Now I am resting on within a few hours in that exquisite set- ern College in Lakeland. Recently she a visit and then I'll be off to two Y. W. ting, he continues his search for Chris spent a fortnight in Asheville, N. C,. tak- C. A. conventions in Canada. Best of all Honaas' middle name. (This makes sense ing a short course in piano with Guy I'm almost certain that Oct .14 will see me to the Conservatory students only). Budd Maier, of the Juilliard School in New- sailing for the Orient! Especially India!" plans to spend the month of September York, with whom she has studied in pre- Daniel Winant spent some time this in Kufstein, Germany (nee Austria) vious summers. summer in Winter Park. Dan is living where Jack Rich will join him for a two A note from Wilson Mills tells us that in Brooklyn, N. Y. weeks tour of the Austrian Tyrol. Don't he and wife Barbara have opened an ex- The engagement of Socrates Chakales those kids have fun? Budd will study in clusive "Little Gown Shop" in Orlando to Mary Frances Drakos of High Point, Vienna this winter and Jack will go to on North Orange Ave. Wilson is still N. C, has been announced. The wed- St. Cloud to teach in the Macjannet School keeping up with his flying, and is now ding will take place in November. there. working on a book, / Have Nine Lives, Reg Clough writes, "I have been on Ran into Dick Cutchin thumbing which is a story of his ten years' flying the editorial staff of Time since last through telephone directories in the Taft experience. March—doing odd writing jobs until a Hotel here in New York several days ago. Bus Greaves writes that he has been month or so ago. Since then I have been He has been in California and is now acsepted by the Medical School of the writing for the Business and Finance de- trying to decide which of several jobs he University of Maryland. Congrats, Bus! partment, which I hope to continue do- wants to accept. Bettve Wyner has announced her en- ing. The work is quite interesting, but Seymour Ballard spent a short time in gagement to Mr. Mark Ter Vehn of Bos- I find each week more evidence to con- New York after graduation, a month in ton. Mr. Ter Vehn, son of Dr. and Mrs. vince me I am completely ignorant of the Illinois, and is now in Pasadena, Cali- H. C. Ter Vehn of Coshocton, Ohio, at- subjects I write about. (That, of course, fornia, comparing it with Florida. N. B.: tended Wittenberg College and is a grad- is no reflection upon my alma mater's line "I still like Florida". At the present time uate of the Child-Walker School of De- attempts with me!)" he is writing a one-act play and is con- sign in Boston. Bettve attended the John Bullock visited Winter Park for sidering going to India to work in a Choate School in Brookline before coming a week the latter part of August. He is publishing house there. to Rollins. She is a Phi Mu. now selling radios in Pittsburgh, but Howard Lyman writes that he is em- Recently we learned that Doris Smiley would like very much to become estab- ployed by the F. W. Woolworth Co. in was married last September to Bernard lished in Florida. Cleveland. While in that city, his ad- J. Brennan, Jr. They were married at Announcement has been made of the dress is the Y. M. C. A. However, he Minnewaska, N. Y., and made their home marriage of Frances Southgate to Mr. expects to be shifted to another territory in Hollywood, Calif., where Mr. Brannan Sam Trentlen Barnett, Jr., of Birming- at the end of the year is in the Real Estate business. They have ham, Alabama, on March 3rd. They are John Lonsdale, writing from Victoria, a tiny son, Alfred Smiley Brennan. living at 950 South 39th St., in Birming- B. C, reports that he will be at Lonsdale, Eleanor Giessen writes that beginning ham. Arkansas, for the next year and a half early in September, she will be teaching Annette Twitchell will be in Miami reorganizing his farm and taking time off music at the Hindman Settlement School this winter in the training department of to tour whatever part of this country he in Hindman, Ky. Sears, Roebuck & Co. She graduated wishes to visit. He expects to visit Rol- Bill Vosburg is at Hillsdale, N. Y., from the Prince School of Store Service lins around the first of March. studying with Alexander Bloch. This Education which is a part of Simmons. Catherine Bailey crashed the "College summer at the Berkshire Symphony con- Board" section of Mademoiselle early in cere he saw Dr. Holt and Professor Han- Class of 1938 the summer with a very good picture of na. Bill is going to play in the Symphony Secretary: Opal Peters, Three Arts herself and an excellent notice. The no- Orchestra of Central Florida this winter Club, 340 West %$th St., New York, A'. >'. tice quoted Cathy as saying: "Am acting and continue his work under Mr. Bloch. in English theatre this sunimer, then back Datal Hiteshaw has spent a gay sum- NOSTALGIC NOTES FROM THE to Broadway with high hopes. Believe mer in the hills of West Virginia. She NEWEST ALUMNI marriage the real career for a woman manages to live a riotous life riding in Bill Spickers has been studying at Co- and will give up stage in event I fall horse shows, displaying her home town lumbia this summer; confides he made an in love. Definitely don't want fame." to the Editorial Convention, and such. "A" in Chemistry. He's been working Mademoiselle notes: "Lucky man if she Peggy Bashford spent the summer at her family's camp in Ontario, Canada. very hard, but with all lie manages to falls, but let him hold off but a while keep his finger on the pulse of things in longer, and Catherine will be starting This month she is commencing work at general and the recently graduated class with a featured part in the next Pulitzer the Pasadena Playhouse in Pasadena, in particular, so that he provided most Prize play. She bids fair to be good, Calif., as a student. Edna Garibaldi writes that she is just of the following gleanings. Bill is con- with her college life behind her bursting tinuing his medical studies this fall, at with honors, memberships in honorary "playing around" in Charlotte, N. C, Belleview Medical School in N. Y. and scholastic and social clubs. . . and and trying to do her best to raise funds Charlotte Stryker has been working for vice-presidency of the entire Student for a new city hospital. an architect in New York City, one Lau- Body." . . With the aid of Dud Dar- Your correspondent has had a fine sum- rence Emmons. Has an idea she may re- ling, Catherine presented The Romantic mer in New York studying piano with turn to Rollins in the fall for post-gradu- Age for one of the summer stock com- James Friskin at the Juilliard. I'm now ate work. , panies near NYC and they were a howl- gainfully employed by the National Broad- Si Vario seems to be well on his way ing success. Cathy has since embarked casting Company, but don't jump at con- to fame in the theatre. This summer he for Europe. clusions and turn off your raido—I'm a has been with the Peterborough Players May Long has had a most interesting lowly secretary. It's great fun and my in Peterborough, New Hampshire. He summer, spending three months in Paris conceit is something terrific, having dis- has had grand parts in several produc- and two in Berlin. She returned to covered that even a wide-eyed Florida tions given there, including Stage Door America this month and is attending lass with a still damp sheepskin can find and—more important—his own one-act Katharine Gibb's school in Boston. employment in this city of large, evil play, Strait is the Gate, was presented Doris Hesser has been a councillor in a wolves. Vienna (Austria) Choir Boys

Formerly Court Singers of the Emperor of Austria Founded by Imperial Decree in 1498

will be presented in a recital for the benefit of the Rollins Alumni Fund

January 13-14, 1939 Winter Park High School Auditorium

HOMECOMING NOVEMBER 18, 1938

Football Game between the Rollins Tars and Ohio Wesleyan University Tinker Field, Orlando fin

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