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WELCOME CLASS OF 1956 ROLLINS ALUMNI RECORD No. 6 JUNE, 1958 Vol. XXXIII GRADUATION HONOR ROLL Ninety-five members of the class of '56 CLASS GIFT In this issue of the RECORD, listed 1956 of Rollins College became full Graduating seniors of the class by classes, are the names of the Rollins fledged Rollins Alumni Friday, June 1, of 1956 commemorated their en- Alumni who contributed to the 1955-56 when degrees and honors were be- trance into the Rollins Alumni Alumni Fund, all 759 of them. With the stowed on the members of this newest family by contributing—100 per- official close of the Fund Year on June class of graduates by President Hugh cent—to the Rollins Alumni Fund 1, a preliminary recapitulation shows McKean. for 1956-57. The class gift of a total of $33,341.10 contributed to Rol- Harland Cleveland, publisher of The $746.20, an average gift of $7.85 lins College by Rollins Alumni. Reporter Magazine, and son of former from each of the 95 graduating This came in three types of gifts. Dean of Women, Marion VanBuren seniors, is the first contribution Contributed directly to the Alumni Cleveland, delivered the commence- to the 1956-57 Alumni Fund Drive, Fund—$14,671.10. Alumni Patrons con- ment address in Knowles Memorial which will not officially begin un- tributed $2,600 to the Diamond Jubilee Chapel. In his address, "The Trouble til next fall. The class of 1955 Fund. Gifts from Alumni for specified With Citizenship", he said in part: established this precedent when uses; $16,069. "A soldier or any other citizen, who all the graduating seniors voted Statistically speaking the Alumni stands for nothing, will easily fall for to give their remaining contin- Fund contributions represented a par- anything. Freedom isn't something you gent fund deposit to the then em- ticipation of 16 per-cent of Alumni so- get to, it's something you work at. In- bryonic Annual Alumni Giving licited. The average gift was $19.33. deed, the greatest threat to freedom in Plan for Rollins Alumni. The These figures are for the direct contri- our day may well be the passion of so class of 1956, followed suit in butions to the Alumni Fund and do not many of our fellow-citizens to with- what Alumni officials hope will include the Patrons' gifts or those for draw into an apathetic neutralism re- become a tradition for graduating restricted use. cently popularized by 'peace of mind.' classes at Rollins. Officers and directors of Rollins Citizenship can't be described, it has to Alumni, Inc., and officials and trustees be participated in. We as Americans of Rollins College all have expressed cannot withdraw from the kind of DEVELOPMENT themselves as highly gratified with the world we have helped to build. No response of loyal Alumni and the re- American college graduate can afford Looking to the future development sults of the first year under the present to be an average citizen." of Rollins College, President Hugh Mc- plan. Mr. Cleveland became an Honorary Kean recently announced the appoint- Rollins needs the support of every Alumnus of Rollins when he was ment of Jefferson Hamilton, one of the Alumnus and continued Alumni sup- awarded an honorary doctorate of law. South's leading campus planners, as a port will play a vital part in the de- The Rollins Decoration of Honor was consultant for the development of the velopment and prestige of our Alma presented to Walter Chambury, who Rollins Campus. Mater. retired as professor of piano this year. Hamilton has served in a similar ca- Note: While every effort was made He also became professor emeritus. pacity at the University of Florida and to see that the name of no contributor George Walton Milam, Jr., Jackson- at Stetson University for the past three was omitted it is possible, in a list of ville, and Jeanne Newton, Winter Park years. this size, to miss some one. Should this received the Algernon Sydney Sullivan "Rollins has one of the best archi- occur please let us know and please Medallion and Sue Dunn, Sarasota, the tectural heritages in buildings of any be assured that it was not intentional. Libra Honor award. institution in Florida", Hamilton said. The General Reeve awards for "This should be recognized in any Scholarship went to Franklin Banks, future development of the campus." Maitland; Joe Mulson, Longwood, Fla.; Development plans for Rollins in- INSTRUMENTS? Shirley Miller, St. Petersburg; John clude a new dining hall, dormitories, Got any old musical instruments? Opdyke, Flemington, N. J. and Dewey class room buildings, a conservatory of Anything from a piccolo to a tuba will Anderson, Orlando. music and a field house. do. If you have, Ed Rosevear can use Always colorful, the academic pro- The campus planner received his them — in Alaska. Ed '49, wife Eleanor cession moved across the campus in and their three youngsters are leaving the brilliant sunshine, the blue and training as an architect at the Univer- sities of Minnesota and Pennsylvania, Cocoa Beach and will go, via New white robes of the choir contrasting York, to take over the job of directing brightly with the black caps and gowns and spent 15 years with New York and Philadelphia firms, recently devoting the music program at Sheldon Jackson with Mills Memorial Library and Junior College in Sitka. The school Knowles Memorial Chapel furnishing his energies to the field of overall- planning. offers a training program to Indian a beautiful background. and Eskimo students from 40 villages in the Territory, and is sponsored by REUNION the Presbyterian Board of National TWO GRANTS Dean Arthur E. Enyart attended the Missions. At present they have but one Rollins College has received two fiftieth reunion of his graduating class instrument, a trombone, and no funds grants from Industry, according to an at Ohio Wesleyan University, Dela- available for purchasing more. They announcement made late in May by ware, Ohio, June 8. will be responsible for repairs and President Hugh McKean. The college shipping costs. The address is Presby- received a $1000 grant from the U. S. terian Board of National Missions 156 Steel Foundation which will be allo- SEE YOU IN OCTOBER 5th Avenue, New York 10, N. Y. Atten- cated to the Faculty travel program Under our new schedule of publica- tion: Miss Katherine E. Gladfelter. which was reinstated last year when tion this is the last issue of the U. S. Steel gave a similar grant to Rol- RECORD for the current year. The lins. next issue will be mailed to all Alumni, DEAN FERGUSON The second grant received by Rol- whose correct addresses are in Alumni Former Dean of Women, Esther B. lins was $300 from Radio Corporation House files, in October, and will carry Ferguson, now Resident Head of Casa of America. This was given in appreci- news of the reopening of Rollins. Until Iberia is confined to the Florida Sani- ation of Rollins' cooperation with fur- then Alumni House staff wishes for tarium and Hospital in Orlando, where thering the education of RCA employ- each of you a pleasant, profitable and she has been seriously ill for several ees during the 1955-56 academic year. satisfying summer. weeks. THE ROLLINS ALUMNI RECORD ALUMNI FUND ROLL OF HONOR GAY '90S CLASS OF 1907 CLASS OF 1917 PARTICIPATION 23% PARTICIPATION 23% PARTICIPATION 13% Mrs. John Abell Berkeley Blackman A. J. Hanna (Allyne Sturdevant) Dr. Cassius A. Boone Mrs. George H. Kunst Hervey A. Colvin Elizabeth D. Burleigh (Mary Conaway) Joseph K. Dorn Mrs. F. Gray Rush Randolph Lake Dr. Fred Ensminger (Elizabeth Knox) Mrs. Hazel C. Lenfest Walter F. Flentye Mrs. Eda B. Woolley (Hazel Coffin) Cecilio Fuentes (Eda Brewer) Paul L. Thoren Mrs. J. B. Gordon Mrs. Davis E. Fishback CLASS OF 1918 (Eleanor Moreman) (Lillian Wilmott) PARTICIPATION 18% M. Flossie Hill S. Waters Howe CLASS OF 1908 Mrs. Sara Y. Belknap William I. Huffstetler PARTICIPATION 22% (Sara Yancey) Emma Desire King Mrs. John L. Boynton Col. George Morgan King Mrs. Thomas Harry (Katherine Waldron) Dr. Frederick L. Lewton (Lillian Bingham) Mrs. Kenneth Fuessle Mr. and Mrs. Orville B. McDonald Mrs. J. W. Mclntosh (Elizabeth Russell) (Beatrice Perkins) (Eunice A. Baldwin) W. Wright Hilyard Mrs. C. M. Mallett Ruby E. Pierce Mrs. C. E. Hofbauer (Blanche Wilmott) William F. Roper (Eleanor Coffin) Cora Mawhinney Mrs. A. P. Vaughan Finley A. B. Mackeil Ida May Missildine (Margaret Burleigh) Anne Catherine Stone Mrs. Day Muir Mrs. G. A. Volby (Daisy Huffstetler) (Ida S. Lamson) CLASS OF 1919 Mrs. Reinhard Siedenburg PARTICIPATION 17% (Paula Dommerick) CLASS OF 1909 Mrs. Neil S. Jones Frederick J. Turner, Jr. PARTICIPATION 14% (Virga L. West) Mrs. Annie G. Ward Mrs. Frederick M. Ryder Mrs. Gertrude H. Royal (Annie Guffin) (Julia Steinmetz) (Gertrude Hall) Dr. and Mrs. Alton B. Whitman James M. Willson Dr. Florence M. Stone (Maude Neff) Thomas A. Yancey Mrs. Eugenia S. Young CLASS OF 1910 (Eugenia Swain) CLASS OF 1920 PARTICIPATION 19% PARTICIPATION 11% CLASS OF 1900 Marguerite V.