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OFFICERS Stephen Gardner '40, Los Angeles, President; How- ard Seelye '48, Palos Verdes Estates, Vice President; John D. Kegler '38, Palos Verdes Estates, Immidiate Past President; Eugene M. Marrs '50, Whittier, Past President. MEMBERS AT LARGE Herb Adden '49, Whittier; Jack Gauldin '47, Whit- tier; Wayne Harvey '60, Whittier; Arthur Hobson '43, Whittier; Jack Mele '43, Whittier; Russell Vin- cent '40, Whittier. CLASS REPRESENTATIVES Al Eichorn '67, Hacienda Heights; Ron Gastelum '68, La Mirada; Greg Hardy '66, Whittier. COMMISSION CHAIRMEN Joe Gaudio '35, Newport Beach, Alumni Fund; Mrs. Mandy Hammond '63, Whittier, Activities Co-Chair- man; Mrs. Eleanor Rau '63, Whittier, Activities Co- Chairman; Howard Seelye '48, Palos Verdes Estates, Publications. ASSOCIATES PRESIDENT Al Stoll '49, Whittier CLUB PRESIDENTS Wayne Harvey '60, Whittier, 1195 Club; Mary Lar- sen '66, Huntington Beach, Cap and Gown Alumnae; Alice Lembke '40, South Pasadena, Broadoaks Alum- nae.

SOCIETY PRESIDENTS Mrs. Joseph Caviezal '64, Whittier, Athenians; Mrs. Audrey Mills '57, Anaheim, Jonians; Mrs. Larry M. Krogh '63, Whittier, Metaphonians; Mrs. Dagne Sharts '60, Whittier, Palmers; Miss Marilyn Kyte THE'ROCK2 '66, Whittier, Thalians; Mrs. Denese Elmendorf '66, Pico Rivera, Vesticians; Dick Robbins '50, Whittier, Franklins; Jerry Corbett '61, Whittier, Lancers; Rob- ert Franz '55, La Habra and Jim Daugherty '58, CONTENTS Fullerton, Orthogonians; Jim Eyraud 58, Temple City, Sachsens; Robert McDermont '64, Los Angeles, Dr. Paul Smith 3 William Penns. Welcome Dr. Case 6 Dr. Paul S. Smith, President. Whittier College; Jim Rikel '69, President. Associated Students; Dr. Rob- Psychodynamics of ert W. O'Brien and Dr. W. Roy Newsom '34, Faculty 7 Representatives. the Restless Campus ALUMNI REPRESENTATIVE TO THE Black Students at Whittier 10 ATHLETIC BOARD OF CONTROL Alumni Awards 12 Howard Seelye '48, Palos Verdes Estates. Alumni Day, Commencement 14 THE ROCK STAFF 16 Darrell W. Ryan, Editor; James B. Moore, News Sports Round-up Editor; John Strey, Sports Editor; and Bob Bates, Where They Are Now 18 Graphics Designer. Member: American Alumni Council Faculty Notes 20 American College Public Relations 21 Association. Old Acquaintances

THE ROCK is published quarterly during the months of Septem- ber. December. March, and July by Whittier College in the interests of the Whittier College Alumni Association. Second Class Postage paid at Whittier, California. Send changes of address to The Alumni Magazine of Whittier College the Whittier College Alumni Association, Whittier, Calif. 90602. SUMMER 1969 • Vol. XXVIII, No. 2

COVER: Portrait by Paul Boris

9 1958 Dr. and Mrs. Smith

TWO DECADES OF PROGRESS D)RO P,& MI OoiJYLjI

By MYNATT SMITH, EDITOR & PUBLISHER WHITTIER DAILY NEWS

1969 Commencement 1934 3

1926 1939 1946 Willa Kiug. Sharmon Hawley & Dr. Smith

The careers of a man and an institution are tak- to succeed Doctor Smith. Doctor Case will be at ing separate paths after nearly 50 academic years the helm when the 1969 fall session opens. Until together, but it is a separation unique because they then the Indiana Quaker who first came to the will remain together. Whittier campus in 1922 will continue as chief Paul Samuel Smith and Whittier College, the executive. Since that long-ago date he has held Southern California school which bears the name two titles, head of the department of history and of the poet John Greenleaf Whittier, are the prin- social sciences, and president. The chancellorship cipals in this change. will be his third. He has resigned the presidency of the college to The college itself will move along new paths and become its chancellor. The latter duties will restrict into new fields when the change in lealership takes his once wide-ranging educational career to the place. This will be inevitable, and the man who narrower challenge of building, expanding, staffing succeeds Doctor Smith will face towering demands and directing the newly launched Richard M. on a campus where change and newness have been Nixon Institution of Human Affairs at the college. hallmarks of the Smith regime - largely in the At what for others might be the mature age of fields of capital investment and physical expansion 72, this new task is no new or outsized effort for - but where the next great changes are more Doctor Smith. Since 1951, when he assumed the likely to come in student life and academic pursuit. presidency of the college after serving as a profes- Doctor Smith's principal contributions in the sor for 29 years, he has spent most of his waking latter, apart from the intimacy he established as a moments establishing,, a firm financial foundation history professor years ago with many of his stu- for the school by shoe-horning gifts and bequests dents, have been the development of the Whittier from a wide variety of philanthropic sources College campus in Copenhagen and the general throughout Southern California. studies program for freshmen and sophomores us- On a scale possibly less arduous but no less wide- ing the facilities of the social studies laboratory. ranging, he plans to carry on similar efforts in When he assumed the top executive position in behalf of the Institution named for the 37th Presi- 1951, it was no sudden discovery on his part that dent of the United States - a man who was one of the college was strapped for funds, lacking in cam- Doctor Smith's students and the man who ranks pus structures, short on faculty, under-supplied naturally as the No. 1 alumnus of the campus in with students, and in need of almost everything a the hills along Whittier's Painter Ave. The Nixon college requires. As a result, Doctor Smith dedi- Institution under the Smith guidance will not only cated most of the next two decades to raising funds. perpetuate the best known family name in Whit- Virtually single-handed, he built its assets from a tier; it will prepare future students for roles in $2,500,000 figure at the start of his presidency to human and world affairs. One of its cardinal prin- more than $20,000,000. In that time he was the ciples will be that men are best prepared for the guiding spirit in directing the construction of 14 kind of free enterprise economy which exists in campus buildings at a cost of more than $10,000,000. America by schools like Whittier College which The list includes an administrative center, a music receive much of their support from such an eco- building, a student center, residence halls, a mag- nomic base. nificent new library, a huge modern science build- The actual change in command began when, on ing, a lecture hail and a new athletic stadium. July 7, Dr. Harold C. Case, president emeritus of Many well-to-do families in the Whittier com- Boston University and a one-time (1945-51) trus- munity were led by Doctor Smith to contribute to tee of Whittier College, was named acting president many of these projects, but the great weight of

4 1947 1954 Dr. Smith, Ivan & Donna 1969 Alumni Day

gifts has come from persons outside the community The immediate task ahead for Doctor Smith - persons whose interest in the college had to be will be two-fold, as enunciated by Thomas W. generated by a rare combination of attributes that Bewley, chairman of the board of trustees. The developed in the president, an educator with the retiring president will help acquaint his successor foresight to understand the need and the gift of with the duties of that position and will undertake getting the wealthy to see that need and help pro- only nominal requirements in the operation of the vide it. In virtually every one of these solicitations college. Eventually he will spend all of his time in Doctor Smith employed the argument that free developing the Nixon Institution, which will have enterprisers should invest in a private school that its own housing and its own faculty and will be- promotes the system under which they prospered. come a part of the college campus. He saw to it that Whittier College joined a band Doctor Smith said the Institution will stress of other independent Southern California colleges teaching, research and philosophy in the promotion which had similar views and which today carry on of American constitutionalism in the thinking and a continuing program of inviting substantial con- behavior of oncoming students who come under its tributions from private corporations and individ- influence. uals. The most unusual aspect of the new program is It is significant that the college and Doctor that for both the college and Doctor Smith it Smith chose the year 1969 in which to make the assures the continuity of their long association. change now pending. That was the year that the The college faces a number of needs - more space former Whittier College student, Richard M. Nix- and continued physical growth, improved and more on, who was first a student under Doctor Smith attractive conditions for faculty, and broader hor- in 1930, assumed the Presidency. The Nixon chair izons for students. For the new Chancellor the fu- had been established several years ago at the col- ture holds a heavy schedule if he is to achieve in lege but the position had not been developed. The the next few years the fulfillment of all the plans professor and the student who have known each he has for the Nixon Institution. other so many years have also shared their suc- In his near half-century in education - all of it cesses and failures over the years. Doctor Smith spent in Whittier after his graduation from Earl- was an advisor to Congressman Nixon when he ran ham College in Indiana and the University of Wis- for Senator, and later for Vice President. He knew consin - he has been in turn a teacher, author, the pain of the unsuccessful race for Governor of lecturer, philosopher, historian, thinker, adminis- California which Nixon had conducted following trator, professional and community leader, and a his hairline loss to the late President Kennedy in recognized authority in the rarefied field of fund- the presidential campaign of 1960. raising. These are not all of the attributes that Thus it was an event of thunderclap proportions might be assigned to Doctor Smith, but each in when it dawned on the Whittier community and its own way will serve him in his new adventure. the Whittier College campus that one of their own Whittier College, meantime, will be witness to was to occupy the White House. that enterprise as a part of its own future growth. The first thought of developing the Nixon Insti- Having seen the Paul Smith tradition leave its tution came shortly after the 1968 election, and indelible endowment of creative leadership, the ripened after the Washington inaugural of early institution will now look on as he brings the new 1969. The groundwork having been completed, the Nixon establishment into being. plans were formally unveiled in June. Now the There is no end yet in sight for this long asso- development will be launched. ciation of a man and a college.

5 WHITTIER WELCOMES DR. CASE

Dr. Harold C. Case, President Emeritus of year tenure there. He is presently Chairman of the Boston University, Named Acting President Board of the Council on Religion and International Affairs founded by the Andrew Carnegie Endow- Dr. Harold C. Case, president emeritus of Boston ment for the study of crucial international prob- University, has been named acting president of lems in their ethical and moral aspects. Recently Whittier College, as announced by Thomas W. he concluded a study of the universities and tech- Bewley, president of its Board of Trustees. nical schools of East Africa in cooperation with the Dr. Case will assume the Whittier position on State Department of the federal government. September 1 and serve until a successor has been Dr. Case has also been related to the business selected for President Paul S. Smith who has been world. Currently he is a member of the Board of named Chancellor of Whittier College and Direc- Directors of Sterling Drug, Inc. with commercial tor of its newly-established affiliate, The Richard operations in 137 countries, and serves on the ad- Nixon Institution of Human Affairs, a specialized visory board of the Boston State Street and Trust graduate school. Co. Mrs. Case has also shared widely in the pro- Dr. Case served as a member of the Board of fessional life of her husband. She comes from a Trustees of Whittier College while pastor of the Quaker background with a college president father. First Methodist Church of Pasadena and his son a She has served on numerous boards and commis- student at Whittier. He left Pasadena in 1951 to sions directed to human betterment including mem- assume the presidency of Boston University where bership on the Executive Board of the United he made significant contributions both in plant de- States National Commission for UNESCO. velopment and curriculum growth during his 16-

6 PSYCHODYNAMICS OF THE RESTLESS AMPUS total situation. The first is to place the unrest in perspective; to recognize that, while these clashes are dramatic and sometimes frightening, they are not universal. The second is to examine some aspects of the psychodynamics of these confrontations. Consider what proportion of students in colleges and universities has actually been involved in campus activism. The total enrollment in higher educational institutions in the United States is approxi- mately 6.7 million. A recent survey of 600 colleges by Educational Testing Service showed that, while the number of chapters of radical student organizations, such as SDS, has doubled in the last five years, the proportion of students enlisted in these groups has not changed. In other words, while in absolute numbers these groups have grown with rising college population, the percent of the total they represent is the same. The study also showed that these groups could mobilize, at best, 10% of the student body on a controversial issue. Thus, while they are a strong, vocal and visible minority, Dr. Judith K. Steiber is a counseling psychologist and 90% of the students, based on this sample, have assistant professor of psychology at the University of Bridgeport. She earned her bachelor's degree from Rad- remained uninvolved in campus unrest. cliffe College and her Ph.D. from Columbia University. What is it, then, that feeds and perpetuates the A certified psychologist in the state of Connecticut, Dr. feeling that we are threatened by an irresistible Steiber was formerly associated with the Counseling Psy- wave sweeping to engulf all of higher education? chology Service of the West Haven Veterans' Hospital. The mass media are, in some measure to blame. Explanations of current student disturbances What sells newspapers and magazines, draws view- most frequently look to determinants rooted in the ers to television sets and convinces advertisers that past. Among forces blamed are long-denied aspira- their money is well spent, is drama. At Berkeley, for tions of black citizens, over-permissive child-rearing example, a newspaper reporter from a major San practices of an affluent middle class, technological Francisco newspaper kept an office on campus rath- developments which have bred a sense of alienation er than at the paper itself to be in a position to leak in the individual, unresponsive political systems and news to both sides in the student-administration useless wars. conflict. Television and news cameras were set up It is presumptuous to try to formulate pat anon Sproule Plaza in the center of the Berkeley swers for harried administrators who, besieged from campus. Students could demonstrate at noon, at- all sides, are subject to attack no matter whom they tend afternoon classes and return home to see placate. Whatever course of action they choose themselves on the evening news. The point is that makes them vulnerable either to being hung in media are not confined to reporting the news but effigy, barricaded in their offices by students or at- take on the responsibility for making news when it tacked by trustees or state politicians. suits their interests. Two things may be helpful in understanding the To see the scene in perspective is to negate neith- Reprinted from University of Bridgeport Quarterly with er its reality nor its urgency. Most frequently over- permission. looked are the forces in the here-and-now which

7 work upon both students and administrators. These It has also been shown that ambiguity is a source are the psychodynamics of the current conflict. of anxiety. When cues in our environment, upon Recent approaches to group dynamics emphasize which we depend for signals of how to respond, not the historic antecedents of behaviors but the become vague and uncertain, we become intensely experience of the individual in the present. Such uncomfortable. Much of our social and political an approach would question the usefulness of know- structure and our ethical and moral precepts exists ing how Freud and Spock influenced the upbringing to provide direction as to how to interpret the of today's college students, or whether they are behavior of others and how to behave ourselves. acting out the frustrations and unfulfilled aspira- Ambiguity, for the student, stems from his need to tions of parents who were radical once in their own define his identity and future in a society where the youth. To stress the past may impede rather than old answers have broken down and where preach- facilitate the achievement of genuine communica- ment and reality are in deep conflict. He faces a tion. world where the growth of wealth has not solved Accounting for behavior in terms of a past which ghetto problems, where more voices command cannot be changed serves the purpose of alleviating through the mass media and there is less power to the anxiety of the administrator. He cannot be held control politics, where there are more vocations to accountable for forces outside his control, nor can choose from and less freedom to choose. he reasonably be expected to alter them. The best Faculty and administrators find that their roles he can then do is cope on an ad hoc basis with each are no longer defined by traditional respect for crisis at the moment it emerges. authority, tradition and intellectual prowess in ab- They are not abstract political and social forces struse fields. Shoben1 has pointed out that the price with which the administrator deals, nor faceless of academic freedom has been political neutrality. mass. A very basic fact for him is the emotion he Demands by students for social commitment on the experiences in the moment when he must face stu- part of institutions of higher learning open vistas dent demands and make an answer. The feeling of involvement whose end is beyond imagining. which looms largest, both for those who sit-in and What more complex obligations and responsibilities demonstrate and those tenants of the ivied tower will entangle those colleges who declare abandon- who have been dispossessed, is anxiety. ment of the principle "in loco parentis"? Can ac- Personality theorists recognize anxiety as a state quiescence to black students' insistence or recogni- human beings strive to avoid at all cost. In our tion of their identity in the end lead to some other efforts to escape it we resort to the irrational de- form of the segregation they now attack as demean- vices of projection, rationalization, repression and ing? Simple trust in basic principles of freedom and reaction formation. We engage in irrelevant and equality provide no compass in these new uncharted meaningless activity merely to escape the unpleas- waters. Thus the educator, like the student, also ant sensations which accompany such tension. Such faces anxiety born of ambiguity. techniques tend to distort reality and interfere with What are the consequences on both sides? constructive behavior. The student, alienated, anxious, lonely and un- Under threat, administrators become more rigid certain, seeks relief from his tension in action. The and authoritarian than was ever their habit. Stu- kind of confrontation present in a campus revolt dents become more vociferous and inflexibly de- answers his emotional needs. His anxiety is re- manding than the situation may warrant. Anxiety duced by the activity of organizing, picketing, occu- shuts their ears to the meaning of one another's pying buildings. Activity helps avoid thinking. He words and leads them to act in ways inconsistent can postpone facing such unanswerable questions as with the very principles they espouse. Students de- what goals should he pursue in life, what values are manding freedom are blind to the fashion in which crucial for him. He can blunt the existential aware- their assertion infringes on the freedom of others. ness of isolation in the camaraderie of the revolu- Administrators who have preached nurturing of re- tion. He dulls awareness of one-to-one encounter by sponsibility in the young become terrified of sharing labeling all of his antagonists "the establishment." their power.

8 Educators seeking valid new grounds for holding onto leadership, beset by financial exigencies and political pressures, experience equal strain. It is easier to strike out against a group stereotyped as shaggy-haired, pot-smoking, sexual libertines than if the same group is perceived as tormented young men and women confused and adrift. Rather than to recognize the validity of feelings it is safer to deny them as Jacques Barzun does2 when he claims that "emotionalism has no place on campus" and conclude that "since student rebels tend to be emotional it can safely be assumed they are also un- reliable." The way out will not be found if, on the one hand, panicked authority clings stubbornly to the If these are some of the elements which enter into belief that nothing but pure reason can solve the the restlessness on campus, then these are the facts problems of campus revolt, or, on the other, the a solution must take into account. The magic term students succeed in enthroning the individual and which is always involved is "communication." Its momentary impulse as master and source of all meaning is taken for granted and consequently the truth. Knowledge of human development reinforces term, intended to convey all, conveys nothing. that firmness need not be rigidity, that reason can What is meant is not merely a verbal interchange be tempered by love. The answer is neither to suc- between individuals. If such exchange is kept at a cumb to nor to resist all demands indiscriminately. superficial level, anxiety on both sides is never dealt Misperceptions and misunderstandings in the with. No one comes to grips with the realities of course of such exchanges can only be controlled by feelings which are ultimately such powerful deter- basic genuineness and honest willingness to face minants of action. some difficult questions. The administrator will At some point and at some level can the admin- have to ask himself whether his resistance to stu- istrator face his own fear at how deeply his roots dent demands comes from genuine conviction that and traditions are threatened? Dean Ford of Har- what they ask is educationally unsound or from the vard recognized this in a recent article speaking of anxiety generated by challenge to his power and his concern over the possibility of anti-intellectual- control. Students will have to determine whether ism which might end honor to the scholar. Can their demands for change evolve from their clear students face the fact that they basically fear the vision of new goals and search for ways to attain responsibility that goes with freedom, the loss of them or from their hostility and fears which cause security that must accompany autonomy? them to goad the establishment. Classic studies in the behavioral sciences suggest Meaningful communication can emerge from this techniques worth applying rather than relegating very different kind of confrontation. No one asks them to textbooks. Lewin, Lippitt, and White in for campus apathy as the antidote to campus un- their study of authoritarian, democratic and laissez- rest. The task is to discover and harness the poten- faire leadership, showed how vital joint planning tial for creativity and growth that underlies the and consultation among all participants were to seething currents of the restless campus. achievement by the group. Coch and French4 dem- onstrated the value of worker participation in decision making when it came to boosting factory pro- 1. Shober, E. J. -"Student Unrest, Some Forms Within the Chaos." Nat. Ass'n Sec. Schools Prin. Ball., S. '68, ductivity and morale. Yet, for the most part, higher 1-12. education still is struggling to break away from the traditional model of information imparted by lec- 2.Barzun J. - The American University. 3. Ford, F. L. - "To Live With Complexity." Harvard To- turers and absorbed by students for regurgitation day, Autumn 1968, 4-12. on command. 4.Coch and French.

9 The Negro population of America has, in recent years, shown an increasing unwillingness to wait upon the evolutionary slowness of their progress toward full acceptance as men and citizens, and toward equal participation in the benefits of our culture. Confrontations, ranging from patient non- violent demonstrations to armed uprisings, have become more and more frequent. One of the main targets of such demonstrations Blcka has been higher education, with increasing demands' that black people should be given a more equal opportunity for college and university education. Students We have, of course, been aware that Whittier would sooner or later have to cope with this problem. In February of this year, the members of the Adminis- at trative Committee of the College met on a Monday morning in the President's office to discuss various questions, including that of the possibility and de- Whittier sirability of seeking Negro faculty members. When the members of the committee emerged from Pres- ident Smith's office, they found in the lobby six representatives of the Black Students Union waiting College to call upon the President. These young people had come to present to the administration of the college a set of five demands. These demands were for: 1. Black professors "to teach courses in such a way that makes those courses relevant to black people"; 2. Black coaches, for both men and women, since "black athletes have problems which are common to them and can be related to and solved only by black people"; 3. More black speakers for convocations; 4. Ameli- oration of the housing situation in the Whittier community; 5. Black students on the recruiting committee to procure more black students "on a regional as well as a national basis." When President Smith undertook to discuss these questions, he was told bluntly that the demands were not negotiable, that no discussion was needed or desired, and that the college was expected to conform to all demands by noon of the following Tuesday. This was, as Dr. Smith told the students, completely impossible. The Faculty Administration Policy Committee, consisting of the members of the College Adminis- trative Committee and of the Faculty Advisory Committee, met several times during the ensuing week, and on Tuesday a set of proposals were sub- mitted to the Black Students in response to their demands. In effect, this recognized the relevancy of the students' concerns and proposed that college action be undertaken leading toward the satisfac- tion of these concerns, with black students serving on all committees involved. Final decision, however, was in all cases to rest with the college administration.

10 Numerous further meetings of the Faculty Ad- ministration Committee and of the Black Students Union, with proposal and counter-proposal, brought the two gradually closer together. A public rally was held on the campus and attended by a large number of students and faculty members. At this meeting, speeches some of a somewhat inflamma- tory nature, were made by both white and black students, both supporting and opposing the position of the Black Students Union. In view of the nature of some of the speeches at this rally, it seemed desirable that the college should have a formally promulgated policy for deal- ing with possible campus disorders. This policy, while recognizing the necessity for free speech and dissent, indicated that interference with the orderly life of the college community could not be tolerated. Any violators would be subject to disciplinary action, possibly leading to expulsion. Although the announcement of this policy led to a good deal of heated discussion, the policy remains in force. Two faculty meetings were now held at which, after lengthy discussion, the official college response to the Black Students Union demands was drawn up. Several additional meetings of the Faculty Admin- istration Committee together with representatives of the Black Students Union eventually resulted in mutual agreement on all questions, with some con- cessions on both sides. The whole process of negotiation, from the sub- mission of the original demands of the Black Stu- dents Union to the final agreement, took almost a month. During this time there were numerous meetings. Some of these were conducted during the school day, which led to some interference with classes and other college activities, while others took place on weekends. Discussion was lively and sometimes acrimonious, tempers flared and angry words were exchanged. There can be no doubt that the results wholly justify the amount of time and nervous tension expended. There is no way at present to foresee future events, and none of us is so naive as to think, that these questions have been permanently settled. However, in view of the difficult, indeed the almost insoluble, problems involved in the whole current confrontation between the races in America, and particularly in view of events on many college and university campuses, Whittier College can indeed be proud of the way in which all parties to the con- troversy, in the best tradition of Quaker compro- mise and conciliation, have arrived at a peaceful and constructive agreement.

11 By HOWARD SEELYE '48

Recipient of the Whittier College Alumni Achieve- and in October, 1967 he was elected president, man- ment Award was Richard H. Deihl, class of 1949. aging officer and director of the company, positions Deihl is distinguished for his accomplishments in he still holds. the field of business and finance, for he is president In addition to his Home Savings work, Deihl of the world's largest savings and loan association, serves on the board of directors of three other firms Home Savings. in the local financial community and is a member After graduating from Whittier High School, of the Charter Oak Unified School District Board Dick came to Whittier College and received his of Education. bachelor's degree in economics in 1949. He was elected to a full 4-year term in April, While at Whittier he was a member of the Lancer 1969 after serving a year and a half as an interim Society and later married Billie Beane, a member appointee. of the Athenian Society who served as student body Dick Deihl comes from a family of Whittier Col- secretary while at Whittier. lege alumni. His brother, Tom, is a 1947 graduate Deihl took graduate work in marketing and fi- of Whittier College and served three years ago as nance at the University of California at Berkeley Alumni Assn. president. Tom's wife, the former and during the years of 1951 to 1955 he served in Pat Cattanach, was Associated Women's Student the United States Air Force as a fighter pilot. president in 1946 and his father, Vic, was a pro- While serving in the Korean War he received a fessor at Whittier. Distinguished Flying Cross, Air Medal and three Dick's wife, Billie, graduated in 1950. The couple clusters. has four children, Cathy, Vicki, Mike and Chris and the family lives in Covina. As a member of a pioneer Whittier-area family prominent in the field of finance, he quickly made his mark. Deihl was with Rio Hondo Savings and Loan Wallace J. (Chief) Newman, H'51, did something Assn. for a number of years and later was affiliated June 7 which had never been done before. with National Cash Register Co. He won the Shirley Mealer Alumni Service In 1960 he joined Home Savings and Loan as a Award, the first honorary alumnus to be granted loan agent and subsequently served in senior posi- the coveted award. tions in both savings and lending fields. Despite the fact that the Chief received his un- Deihl was named executive vice president in 1966 dergraduate education elsewhere, no alumnus could

12 Richard H. Deihl 149 Wallace (Chief) Newman H'51 ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENT MEALER SERVICE AWARD AWARD argue with the decision to honor Newman for his There he won three letters each in football and contributions to Whittier College. baseball and was captain of the baseball team his While it seems lately that Newman is destined senior year. In 1923 he played in USC's 14-3 Rose to go down in history as the coach of the world's Bowl win over Penn State. As a collegian, Newman most famous third string end, the Chief comes by played center but was such an excellent passer that his honor rather handsomely. he was often called into the backfield for special Newman, a birthright member of the Mission duty. Indian Tribe, came to Whittier College in 1929 At Whittier College his work was not confined to after an enviable record as a coach at Covina High football, however, as he coached the baseball team School. for 27 years, winning nine conference titles, and At Covina his football teams won four straight one tie. championships and two CIF titles. He coached During World War II, Chief was called to Whit- four baseball champions and two basketball title tier High School where he coached football and teams. baseball while Whittier College shut down its ath- At Whittier, where he coached fulitime for 19 letic plant for the duration. years, his teams won six SCIAC championships and Finally, in 1964 Chief Newman hung up his sweat- tied twice for the title. In 1958 he was named to shirt and whistle and put away his chalk - he had the NAIA (National Assn. of Intercollegiate Ath- continued as a lecturer - and called it a career. letics) Hall of Fame in football. But Newman is still in Whittier and still one of During his tenure as head man at Whittier he the city's greatest boosters of Whittier College. He developed a number of All-Conference, Little All- proved this last year when he was co-chairman of Coast, several Little All Americans and developed the campaign to raise funds to light Memorial Stad- innumerable men who spread out into the ranks of ium. high school and college coaching staffs. And wherever they talk about Whittier College Newman learned his football at Sherman Insti- football heroes and team exploits, the name of Wal- tute in Riverside and later at Polytechnic High lace (Chief) Newman will always come up. School in Riverside, where he graduated. Because he's a legend in his own time. After a year at Riverside Junior College, where While Whittier College honored one of its elder he played competitive football simultaneously at statemen June 7 at Alumni Day, a singular honor Sherman Institute, Chief moved on to the Univer- went to one of Whittier's younger alums for signi- sity of Southern California. ficant achievement.

13 The college Campus Inn was the scene of the 1969 annual Alumni Day luncheon June 7 - celebrating 66th commencement day - which was presided over by Alumni president Stephen Gardner. Alumni named Coach Wallace J. (Chief) New- man H'51, longtime Poet mentor and President Nixon's football coach, to receive the Shirley Meal- 6 er Alumni Service Award. Honored with the Alumni Achievement Award was Richard H. Diehl '49, vice ALUMNI DAY president of Home Savings and Loan. Installed as new officers of the Whittier College COMMENCEMENT Alumni Association for the year 1969-1970 were Howard Seelye '48, Los Angeles Times writer, president; Wayne L. Harvey '60, accountant and lecturer in business administration at the college, vice president; Leonard H. Crofoot '49, president o Western States Plywood Corporation, alumni board member; and Tien "Tony" Zee '61, president of Zee International Toy Co., board member. Seelye and his wife, Gloria (Walls '48), are well known foi

14 Steve Gardner. Chief Newman, and Howard Seelye Stanley Meyer—Honorary Doctor of Laws Degre lltill 111 111 111

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their many services to the college. Son Randy, a ored with a Doctor of Science degree at the same senior, is editor of the Quaker Campus for the com- time that Robert D. Fisher and Stanley Meyer ing year. each received honorary Doctor of Laws degrees. Two television shows marked the 66th commence- Colonel Borman was commander of man's first flight ment day; the first featuring interviews with alum- to the moon, last Christmas, the flight of Apollo 8. ni, faculty and students on KNBC's "Speak Up," Fisher was cited for his work in higher education, immediately before the Alumni luncheon. Colonel having co-founded the Association of Independent Frank Borman appeared on the second which was California Colleges and Universities, and served videotaped at 2 p.m. on the patio of the president's both Western Reserve and USC as financial vice home. The "On Campus" show of the Independent president. Meyer, who established a music scholar- Colleges included host Bob Wright from KNBC, ship at Whittier through a benefit performance, professors David Bender, physics, and James Ro- and was cited for his work in counseling and pro- mig, English, and students Blame Vincent, junior viding scholarships for students in higher educa- aerospace engineering major from Corvallis, Ore- tion, is a television and motion picture director and gon, and James Bennett, junior math-physics ma- producer. jor from San Diego. The show, "What's It Like Up Delivering the address for the graduating class There" will be aired July 6 at 2:30 p.m. on channel 4. was senior class president, pre-medical major Rob- Astronaut Borman delivered a short and to-the- ert Lawrence Downie, North Hollywood. point commencement address for the 590 bachelors Student and faculty enjoyed meeting Colonel and masters candidates assembled with 4,000 guests Borman and his wife following commencement at in overflowing Harris Amphitheatre. He was hon- the president's reception on the Poet Quad.

Robert D. Fisher—Honorary Doctor of Laws Degree Colonel Frank Borman Hugh Fenderson and Ross Stewart "Co-Athletes of the Year"

By JOHN STREY SPOPIS Found-UP Poet Sports Information Director

Two all-time Poet greats—halfback Ross Stewart Stewart missed two games in mid-season, but and forward Hugh Fenderson—three year letter- shook off a thigh injury to finish fast and accumu- men in football and basketball respectively, share late 842 yards in eight games last fall. His record the 1969 Whittier College "Athlete of the Year" spree was enhanced by a big junior year when he award, as selected by the athletic board of control. netted 1,020 yards, after gaining 620 as a sopho- Both young men enrolled as freshmen in the fall more. of 1965, the 5-8 Stewart coming from Claremont Fenderson sparked the Poets to a 25-5 mark and High School and the 6-3 Fenderson from Centen- a trip to the NAJA national basketball tourney in nial High in Compton. Kansas City. His 1,343 career points surpassed the The careers of the two outstanding athletes close- former standard of 1,236 by Bill Moore, from 1946- ly paralleled, both jumping into starting assign- 48. ments in the first game of their sophomore seasons Coach Ivan Guevara labels Fenderson as the best and finishing with All-American recognition and all-around player he's seen in 13 years at Whittier. Whittier College school records. "He has been our leading scorer and rebounder the past three years. Yet, his best skill lies in his defen- "We've had co-athletes only once previously in sive ability and we always assigned him to cover the the 22-year history of the award," athletic director hotshot on the other team." John Godfrey said. "But these boys were so evenly matched, even down to their classroom work that it Both Fenderson and Stewart earned "player of was impossible to separate them, although they ex- the week" awards from the Southern California celled in different sports. Basketball and Football Writers Assn. respectively, Setting an all-time three-year Poet rushing rec- with Fenderson feted twice. ord, Stewart piled up 2,484 yards in leading the Fenderson became the Poets' first all-American Poets to two straight Southern California Intercol- in six years after his selection to the NAIA third legiate Athletic Conference championships in foot- team. He also was all-conference and all-district ball. first team.

16 Stewart also won all-SCIAC and all-district hon- was the RBI leader with 29. John Mele had 22, ors, and the previous year gained honorable men- Armour and Higa 21 each and St. George 20. tion on the Associated Press Little All-American Armour pitched six straight SCIAC victories with eleven. an earned run average of 2.1. Sophomore lefthander Whittier College made it three out of four in Steve Ridenour, who came along rapidly the last major sports competition for the 1968-69 season by half of the season, went 4-0 and an ERA of 3.2. adding an undisputed baseball championship to He made the second all-conference team with Spare previously won titles in football and basketball. at shortstop and Higa in the outfield. Whittier's poorest track performance in many The Poets represented the Southern California campaigns netted only nine points in the SCIAC Intercollegiate Athletic Conference in the NAIA meet at Pomona and the Poets finished last, three district 3 tournament, but suffered successive one- points behind fifth place Caltech. run defeats to Biola and California Western. La Sophomore hurdler Eugene (Pokey) Cleek was Verne College eventually won the district crown. the only bright note in a dismal picture, running a 15 second fiat for second in the 120 high sticks. Dave Armour, selected with Occidental's John Freshman Fred Platou was fourth in the javelin, Kinard as the two all-SCIAC pitchers, tossed a freshman Doug Thomsen fourth in the mile and two-hitter to lead the Poets to a 4-0 conquest of Doug Perez fifth in the two mile. Redlands in a replay of an early 9-9 tie to give Poet golfers atoned for a disappointing 4-6 dual Whittier the undisputed title. meet season with a surprising second in the con- The leading hitter in NAJA district 3 last year ference golf meet at Pomona National course and with a .415 average, Armour was one of three Poets taking third in the overall ratings. above the .300 mark. John St. George batted .336, Whittier's No. 1 man, John Bell, fourth in the followed by Armour at .310 and shortstop Don 1968 meet, moved up to third place, shooting rounds Spare at .303. of 77 and 78 for a 155. He won a sudden death Two, other regulars hit consistently all season - playoff from Redlands' Doug Mathews. Teammate Gary Mould at .295 and Stan Higa at .287. Mould Clay Cooke was sixth at 159.

17 !: I-- -ic REV. CHARLES W. COOPER, JR. JOSEPH F. BOSIO

REV. CHARLES W. COOPER, JR. One of the highlights of his career, At Whittier College in 1952, Charles Cooper notes, is a trip to the Holy Land, [HEREiz, Cooper served as student body president Europe and Africa in 1957 which he di- and, since then, has devoted himself to a rected for the United Church. career of the ministry and religious work. In addition to his activities, JoAnn The son of long-time Whittier profes- Cooper has been busy as well. She has T11 EYc sor of English, Dr. Charles Cooper, he been teaching a class of physically handi- now is following in his father's footsteps capped children and has a masters de- by pursuing a career which combines re- gree in education in counseling and guid- ligion and journalism. ance from Lehigh University. She will be ARE- At present, Cooper, who earned his a counselor at Rock Middle School in bachelor's degree in divinity at Yale Uni- Newtown, Pa. next fall. versity in 1955, is editor of United Church of Christ Sunday Bulletin Service, which weekly reaches over half a million people JOSEPH F. BOSIO in 3,500 churches across the country. Joe Bosio's life has been well-organ- Earlier he had been pastor of Brea ized, regulated and somewhat routine, he Congregational Church for three years, cheerfully admits. .\ : pastor of La Mesa Community Church In fact, with some candor, Bosio notes in Santa Barbara and editor of promo- "I've been at the same place (of business) tional materials for the Stewardship for over 30 years and my young execu- 11 7 Council, United Church of Christ, as well tive neighbors consider me somewhat of as editor for the United Church of Christ a square -they change employers every desk calendar and plan book. two years." Edited by His editorship duties took him to Penn- The same place is the City of Los An- Howard Seelye '48 sylvania, where he lives with his wife, the geles, where Bosio is assistant city attor- former JoAnn M. Weinert (Class of '52) ney for Water and Power. and their three children, Jim, 14, Larry, After graduating from Whittier Col- 11, and Jan, 10, at 1465 Sinkler Rd., lege in 1932, where he was student body Warminster, Pa. president, Joe went to USC, where he Cooper was a delegate in 1956 to the received his law degree. General Council of Congregational-Chris- Shortly afterward he entered the city tian Churches and was a member of the attorney's office and except for three Board of Directors of the Southern Cali- years out for World War II, he has been fornia Conference of the United Church there ever since. of Christ and a member of its executive He served a short time in the criminal committee. He also was president of min- division of the city attorney's office and isterial associations in Brea and Santa in May 1936 moved over to the Depart- Barbara. ment of Water and Power, where his In community affairs he has been a specialty has been municipal revenue member of Kiwanis and Lions and a bond financing and joint venture con- member of the Santa Barbara City Park tracts with utilities. and Recreation Commissions. In Pennsyl- A resident of 3223 George Circle, Pas- vania he is a member of a local civic adena, Bosio is married to the former association. Elise Rousseau, his wife of 32 years. He is working on a master of science They have a son, John, 22. degree in communications at Temple During the war he served in the South University to bring together professional Pacific as advanced base operations offi- training in the fields of religion and jour- cer and was discharged with the rank of nalism. lieutenant commander.

18 NED LAZARO DR. RICHARD M. THOMAS WILLIAM E. KELLEY

He is a member of the Los Angeles Bar have taken him from such widely-sep- WILLIAM E. KELLEY Assn., Federal Bar Assn., Atomic Energy arated places as Rhodesia, Kenya and Call him "Mister," because Bill Kelley and Public Utility Law Committees, Phi Carbondale, Illinois. has chosen a career in the U.S. Navy Alpha Delta Legal fraternity and Ameri- A 1941 Whittier College graduate, since he was student body president at can Legion Water and Power Post No. Thomas served as Associated Men's Stu- Whittier College in 1960. 342. dents president his senior year. From After a year in Stockholm, Sweden While he lists sailing and bridge as his 1941 to 1945 he was in Civilian Public where he traveled under the auspices of hobbies, Bosio also finds some pleasure in Service, later served as Pacific South- the National County of YMCAs of Swe- watching the political career of his one- west Regional Executive for World Uni- den, and another year at the Southwest time executive committee member in 1932 versity Service, was western representa- Branch of the Los Angeles YMCA, Kel- —Richard Nixon. tive for Mental Health Materials Center, ley took officer's training in the Navy at and was with the Southern California In- Newport, Rhode Island and was com- NED LAZARO dian program for the American Friends missioned in Dec. 1962. Trails for Ned Lazaro have led to the Service Committee. He served as communications officer on fields of higher education and social con- For a three-year period after complet- the destroyer Herbert J. Thomas, later cern. ing his doctorate and masters at UCLA, was advanced to Lt. (jg) and became As president of Associated Men's Stu- Thomas was development advisor to the communications officer on the guided mis- dents in 1963, Lazaro left Whittier after governments of Rhodesia and Kenya for sile destroyer USS Berkeley. graduation to do graduate work at UCLA, the U.S. Agency for International De- Later aboard the USS Chipola, a fleet where he was a teaching assistant for velopment. oiler, Kelley was head of the ship's oper- four years. Since 1966 he has been with the South- ations department and became a full In June 1967, he passed his doctoral ern Illinois University at Carbondale, lieutenant. examinations in political science and for where he was director of the Community In August 1967 he took a course at the a year taught American and Latin Amer- Development Institute and now is direc- U.S. Naval Destroyer school in Rhode ican politics at San Fernando Valley tor of Community Development Services. Island and is now operations officer of State College. Thomas and his wife, the former Bar- USS Collett, where he now serves. Early in 1969 he received a research bara Jean Benson, have three children, During his Navy career he has spent grant from the Latin American Studies Laurel Lynn, 22, Richard Menlo, 21 and two years with the U.S. Seventh Fleet, Center at UCLA to study Latin Ameri- Rebecca, 14. They live at Rt. 1, Box 25, much of it along the Viet Nam coastline. can urban politics. At the same time he Heritage Rd., Carbondale, Ill. In 1965 Kelley transferred from the Nav- is working on his doctoral dissertation In community affairs he has been al Reserve to the regular Navy. and hopes to do field research on Vene- active with the Illinois Commission on He is married to the former Joann G. zuelan urban political development. Human Rights, American Civil Liberties Taylor, a former TWA hostess. They live Lazaro has been serving as a volunteer Union, American Foreign Service Assn., at 1444 Pine Ave., Apt. 1, Long Beach, coach of the Karl Holton probation camp American Sociological Assn., Illinois So- Calif. basketball team in Los Angeles and has ciological Assn., Adult Education Assn., Military decorations which Kelley has assisted Ed Warnshuis, a former Whittier American Academy of Political Science, received include the Republic of Viet College student, establish a library at Society for International Development, Nam Service Medal, U.S. Viet Nam Ser- Camp Holton. American Association of University Pro- vice Medal with five campaign stars and He also has taken a direct interest in fessors and the Carbondale Unitarian Fel- two Navy Unit Citations. politics, working for Robert Kennedy in lowship. A letter of commendation was awarded the 1968 California primary and for He is currently president of the South- to him in 1967 for his work in preparing Thomas Bradley in his race this year for ern Illinois Chapter of the Society for a ship for sea when a strike had halted Los Angeles mayor. International Development and is past shipyard activities. Lazaro, at 27 is still single and lives chairman of the program committee of Looking to the future Kelley is hoping in Oceanside at 502 S. Clementine St. the Carbondale Unitarian Fellowship. for an opportunity to obtain an advanced In looking back, Thomas feels that his degree and take command of a ship. experience as an advisor to the govern- DR. RICHARD M. THOMAS ment of Kenya for two years shortly af- Since college days, Dick Thomas has ter it received its independence was the undertaken public service pursuits which high point of his life.

1 Dr. Beach Leighton

Dr. Richard Harvey Marilyn Veich

Dr. C. Milo Connick

Dr. Nelle Slater Leighton's emphasis was on the recognition and identification of potential landslides and the steps I FACULTY NOTES that can be taken to prevent them. A graduate of Cal Tech, he is chairman of the Qualifications Board for Engineering Geologists, Orange County. Dr. C. Milo Connick, Chairman of the Philosophy Robert B. McLaren, Lecturer in Education and and Religion Department, has been named to a Director of Chapel, has just published All to the Committee of 100 to raise funds for the support of Good: A Layman's Guide to Christian Ethics with Boston University School of Theology, the oldest a foreword by Elton Trueblood. He was also a dele- theological school of the United Methodist Church gate from Whittier College to the American Asso- of which he is a graduate in 1942. ciation of Higher Education meeting in Chicago this Wilburt Fenner, Lecturer in Art, displayed his spring. ceramic work and the work of his students during Dr. Donald Nuttall, Assistant Prof esor of His- the month of April in the foyer of the John Stauffer tory, addressed the convention of the San Diego Science Center. County Historical Society on the subject of Ivan Guevara, Assistant Professor of Physical "Gaspar de Portola: Disenchanted Conquistador of Education, and Head Basketball Coach, gave a Spanish Upper California." He also spoke to the speech on "Defensive Basketball" this spring at the Historical Society of Pomona Valley on the same NAJA Basketball Coaches Clinic in Kansas City, topic this spring. Dr. Nuttall's account tells of Missouri. Portola's expedition in 1769 to Monterey Bay to Dr. Richard Harvey, Associate Professor of found Alta California. Political Science, has published a political study Dr. William Robinson, Chairman of the Depart- of former California Governor, Earl Warren, entitled ment of Political Science, and International Rela- Earl Warren: Governor of California. According to tions, is a contributer to the Nineteenth Report Harvey, the aim of the book is to fill an existing gap of the Commission to Study the Organization of in works analyzing the nature and techniques of Peace. The Commission, consisting of 100 persons, Warren's political approach and to relate his politi- is a research affiliate of the United Nations Asso- cal practices and principles to his decisions on the ciation of the United States. Supreme Court. The two themes stressed by. Har- Dr. Nelle Slater, Associate Professor of Religion, vey are Warren's non-partisanship in politics and spoke to the Woman's Auxiliary meeting this spring. his social progressivism. This fall, Harvey will direct Her talk centered on her European study of educa- the Whittier College in Copenhagen Program. He tion at the university level. She illustrated her is also the author of a new text entitled, The Dy- talk with personal slides. namics of California Politics and Government. Marilyn Veich, Dean of Women, recently gave a Dr. Beach Leighton, Chairman and Professor of dance concert entitled "Breakup". Her choreog- the Geology Department, spoke on the subject of raphy was motivated by the paintings and philoso- landslides at a Geologic Hazards Conference spon- phy of Kandinsky at the University of Southern sored by the Office of Emergency Planning. Dr. California for her Master of Arts degree. Charles Scanlon will soon retire, after thirty-five years of `32 service to the Alhambra City ) Schools where he served as assistant superintendent-business. The Scanlons have three children: Charles, who is in the U.S. Navy; Mi- chael, a senior at Cal Poly, Pomona, and Charlene, who is a junior at Whittier College. The Scanlons are residing in ACQUAINTANCES San Gabriel. Jane (MacMurray) Troutner is presently a physical education teacher at South Whittier Junior High School. Dr. Lucile (Williams) Harri- re-elected to a four year term as trustee '11 son recently attended the in- to the Pasadena Area Junior College Dean Triggs, Oxnard county auguration in Washington, District. `33 superintendent of schools for D.C. She is residing in Whit- William C. Jones, who has been Dean 24 years will be honored at tier. of Administration at University of Ore- his retirement in June. gon, will leave Eugene to accept the posi- Jessamyn (West) McPherson tion of professor of government at Emory Kenneth Ball recently re- has completed her newest and Henry College in Virginia in the Ap- ceived an engraved copper `12 book, Except for Me and Thee palachia, near where he grew up. He has `34 plaque from the Dairy Coun- about her Quaker forefathers. served on the national board of the cil of California for his lead- She calls it her companion YMCA and is currently chairman of the ship and service to the dairy book to Friendly Persuasion focusing this national scholarship committee. He was industry. story on Jess and Eliza Birdwell and president of Whittier College in 1944-51. Ralph Rich has retired after 32 years their activities with the underground rail- in the California schools, 28 of those road of Civil War days. Eleanor Kennedy retired from coaching and teaching in Los Angeles the Los Angeles City Schools, high schools. Ralph is now teaching so- Almeda Nordyke is still active `27 Elementary School Adminis- ciology and coaching tennis at Coeur as the treasurer of the Lake tration, in July, 1968. Eleanor d'Alene High School in Idaho. Ralph and `14 Company Division of Retired is serving as president of the his wife have two sons, Robert and James, Teachers and of the Lake Alpha Tau Chapter of the Delta Kappa who are both in elementary school. Company Council of Church Gamma Society. Her present position is Women United. She is presently living as college advisor at Cal-State, Long J. Harold Bailey is proud to in Lakeport, California. Beach, "Teacher Training Education De- announce the birth of his fifth partment." She and her husband, Paul, '35 grandchild, James Scofield whose father, Captain William Florence (Bargar) Otter has are planning a rather lengthy trip to J. Bailey, is presently serving taught kindergarten for thirty- Spain and Portugal for September and in Vietnam. `20 seven years in Calexico, Cali- October of 1969. They are at home in fornia and plans on retiring San Pedro. William Olsen is presently chairman of in June. Henry Korsmeier recently retired from the mathematics department at Pasadena the position as Cerritos College's assis- City College. He has been a member of the college's faculty since 1946. Reverend Byron Deshler is the tant superintendent and business mana- pastor of the First United ger. Henry has been with Cerritos four- Hubert Perry, uptown banker and long- `23 Methodist Church in Yuma, teen years. He and his wife (Katherine time resident of Whittier, has been Arizona. His son David is the Skillen '25) are at home in Whittier. elected to the presidency of the Whittier- pastor of Holliston Avenue Clara (Janeway) Stevens is with the Area Chamber of Commerce. Hubert has Methodist Church in Pasadena; his Fullerton Public Library and has been been on the board of directors of the daughter Patricia Johnson is living in transferred from the Hunt Branch back chamber for three years and vice presi- Youngstown, Ohio; his son Paul is senior to the main library to be supervisor of dent of the civic division for the past planner for the city of Santa Ana; and adult services. She is residing in Fullerton. year. his son Thomas is a social worker for Dr. Roy Strain has been enjoying his Dr. Clifford Thyberg, superintendent Cedars of Lebanon Hospital. last five years of retirement. He is serv- of West Covina Unified School District ing on the Downey Community Hospital received Citizen of the Year award in Joe Buckmaster was recently Commission which is building a new West Covina for 1969. honored by his friends at a $6,500,000 hospital for the city of Downey. `24 testimonial dinner at the Sat- Dorothy (Pfeiffer) Brown is icoy Country Club in Ventura. Marie Church retired after 40 on a sabbatical from Bell Joe began his coaching career years of teaching; in Oregon `38 High School, where she has in Ventura County in 1934, and served in '28 for twelve years, and thirty- taught since 1942. She is at- various titles until his retirement in 1960. eight years were spent in var- tending Cal State Long Beach Gennady Blinoff and his wife are now ous positions including princi- to complete work for a general secondary enjoying retirement. They are at home pal at Ewha High School in Seoul, Korea. credential since she is having to teach in Concord, California. English as well as music. Her oldest son, Nevin, is a freshman at University of Pete Kridler, top California California at San Diego. Second son, Charles F. Eckels of San Ma- Highway Patrol aid has re- Alan, is in the ninth grade in Huntington rino recently won the Golden '30 '26 tired. Pete joined the patrol Park. Dorothy and her husband, Elvah, Apple Award, 1969, for the in 1936 and served in Los An- are co-president of Huntington Park County of Los Angeles. The geles until 1963 when he was Chapter of American Field Service. Elvah award is presented to teachers assigned to Fresno as a supervising traffic is with the Huntington Park Fire De- for their outstanding contributions to the inspector. He was named deputy commis- partment and has piano tuning, rebuild- teaching profession. Eckels has also been sioner in 1967. His home is in Sacramento. ing and repairing as busy hobbies.

21 John and Jean (Bassett) Kegler are at Margaret (Hathaway) Fobes' daughter, has served on the Chamber of Commerce home in Palos Verdes where Jean com- Fran, graduated this June from Whittier in Orange as Treasurer and Vice Presi- bines homemaking with teaching kinder- College. dent. Her oldest son is a controller and garten for the Palos Verdes Peninsula Frances (Gunn) Gardner sends news daughter is an accountant. Elaine and schools. John is immediate past president that her son, Lee, is a freshman at Whit- her husband lost their home in the 1967 of the Kiwanis Club of San Pedro and is tier College and is majoring in political Pasco Grande forest fire but have re-built currently conducting a study for the Los science. their home on the same site. She worked Angeles City Schools on computer appli- as a precinct worker during the Nixon Leila Glover is on the faculty at Santa cations to the education of adults. campaign. Paula High School as vice principal in Martha (Shuman) Kittinger is present- charge of guidance and curriculum. Mary Jo (Walling) Reid is the division ly assistant superintendent for the Los Carol (Collins) Gordon and her hus- chairman of the Business, Behavioral, Nietos School District. Martha received band, Basil, have four children; Bob, 25, and Social Sciences at Los Angeles South- her specialists certificate in curriculum married, John, 22, and graduating from west College. Mary is at home in Van from the University of Southern Cali- Nuys. the U. of New Mexico; Carol, 18, gradu- fornia in June, 1968, and is currently in ating from high school, and Lynn 13, in Betty (Gates) Roberts has three chil- their doctoral program. the eighth grade. dren: Neal, 22, Brian, 20, and Eric, 17. Dr. Joe McClain is presently district Wilfred Hoidridge is in the administra- Elsie Severence is working with needy superintendent of schools in Pico Rivera. tion as a supervisor in the L.A. City children in Mexico. Joe is also an associate professor at Whit- Schools. Some of his responsibilities in- Terry (Fisher) Solursoh and her hus- tier College where he is teaching evening clude a principalship at Bryson Elemen- band, Julie, have a daughter, 17, who classes. tary School. His wife, Kay, is elementary will be attending college. She is manufac- office manager at the Miles Avenue School. turing ladies' coats in Los Angeles. Robert Akers is Director of Betty (Eliot) Jochimson is a librarian Keith (Cole) Steelman has been doing Plastics Business Center of at the School of Theology at Claremont. volunteer clerical work with the Republi- `39 Union Carbide Europe work- Her three children are: Bruce, 17, Scott, can State Central Committee Headquar- ing out of Geneva, Switzer- 13, and Christine, 7. ters. Her daughter, Stephanie received land. He is on the board of Jo (Popple) Mason has taught in El her degree in bacteriology at UCLA and directors of four of Union Carbide's com- Monte, raised two sons, and moved is working in the serology lab in Long pany's in Europe. His children are 25, around with her builder-husband to Beach. Keith's son, Regan, 20, is a pre- 20, 18, and 6. Northern California, Minnesota, and now law student at UCLA. Mary (Ellingsworth) Almond is teach- Texas. She has worked as a caseworker Mary Ann (Munroe) Stokes has had ing kindergarten in Bishop. She and her with ADC families. a collapsed vertebrae and is still wearing husband, Ralph, have three children: a Don Morrison and his wife, Ruth, took a surgical collar. She has to spend time daughter who is teaching, a son who just a safari trip through Northwestern U.S. in traction daily. She and her husband finished UCSB, and a daughter at Chico and Canada this year. have enjoyed playing golf when their State. health is in better shape. Ed Neushutz is Chief of Staff at Pacific Gene and Rose (Frank) Bishop are still Hospital in Long Beach. He has been a Bill and Ellen (Welsh) Tufts are still living in Long Beach. Gene was a high proctologist for the past twenty years. living in Eugene, Oregon. Bill is complet- school principal but is now head of the Also, Dr. Neushutz is a private pilot with ing his 30th year with Union Oil Com- Long Beach office of an investment and instrument rating. Son, Dennis, 23, is pany as area sales manager for the south- life insurance field. He also has served as attending college, and daughter, Diana, ern half of Oregon. They have a married president of the Chamber of Commerce, 21, is married and working. daughter in Salem, a son finishing his a position which took them to Hawaii, second year at Oregon State, and a son Phil and Doris (Mead) Ockerman are Washington, D.C., and Japan. Rose was in junior high. They celebrated their living in Fremont where he is superinten- a charter member of the Long Beach 25th wedding anniversary in Hawaii this dent of youth for the city. Doris is teach- Civic Light Opera. They have two sons, year. Anthony, 13, and Gene, 11. ing kindergarten. Son, Jerry, graduated from Whittier College and is doing his Val and Binky (Craven) Valentine are Ruth (Haendiges) Blair and her hus- fifth year out of Stanford University. living in Long Beach. Val has worked for band, Malcolm are celebrating their 21st Their daughter is returning from teach- 23 years as a teacher and principal in year as the owners of the largest toy store ing and travelling in Europe. Excelsior High School. Binky has been in the Inland Empire. They also have a doing a lot of substitute teaching. They Western Auto Franchise store. They have Bill Patterson has worked as a radar have one son, Lonnie, who is a senior at two children, Barbara, 24, who is a Whit- officer with the Army, research physicist Raymond College, University of the Pa- tier College graduate and working for Air on missile programs, Chief project engi- cific. They will be moving to San Cle- West, and Jack, 18, who graduated from neer on Atlas ICBM, vice-president of mente where Val has accepted a position Pacific High School. Ruth has been tak- Astronautics Division for Advanced Mis- in adult education. sile and Space Systems, deputy general ing flying lessons. He has his license and Chuck Wallace is superintendent of manager of Manned Space Department, his own plane. Taft Union High School. His daughter, and is presently general manager for Re- Diane, is married and living in London, Ruth Dallas is on her 26th year with search and Engineering of Space Sys- England; Christine is married and living Fluid Pack and is waiting for the 30th tems. His eldest two daughters are mar- in Los Angeles; and youngest, Lindy, is year to roll around so she can retire on ried. Daughter, Evelyn is going to San attending University of Colorado spend- full pension. Diego State, and daughter Carolyn, and ing this past summer in Switzerland. His son Billy live with him and his wife, Kathryn (Smith) Dietrick reports that wife, Alice, is director for the local pro- Alma, in Rosemont, Pennsylvania. her oldest three children are married and gram for mentally retarded adults. 19 year old son is in the Navy in Alaska. Frank and Irma (Girard '51) Payne Dorris Williams got her commercial li- She is still teaching fifth grade in the are living in Whittier and he reports a cense and instructor's rating, flew for two South Whittier School District. golf handicap of 10. years with the WASP, taught civilian fly- Virginia (Hoskins) DuPrez is a vice Louise (Williams) Perkins taught in ing for seven years, and returned to the principal in a junior high in Riverside. the L.A. City Schools and La Verne Col- Air Force as the only woman air traffic She is going to Europe this summer to lege. She is currently employed at Clare- control officer. She has attained the rank see a son who is in the Army in Ger- mont Graduate School. of Lt. Colonel by working in assignments many. Another son graduated from Cal Elaine (Nelson) Piper works with her in Panama, England, and now Japan. Poly Pomona this June. husband, George, as an accountant. She She will be retiring in two years.

2 Dorothy (Essley) Wilson reports that working as a director of dental research Washington honor medal for his entry on her oldest son, Wayne, 20, is in Florence for Ion Company, Costa Mesa. Their old- the subject, "A Free Ballot - A Free and her second son, Jon is going to Cal est child, Barbara, is a freshman at Whit- Country." McKay is an operations staff Western in the fall. She is spending her tier. officer at Offutt. time playing golf and enjoying the beach. Francess (Harkness) Van Riper retired Williametta Spencer is publishing her Pat (Price) Yates has been working from Los Angeles County Department of work on two Christmas choral pieces, for Avon and was past president and Public Service. She was listed in Who's both of which are based on Medieval honorary life member of the PTA. She Who of American Women in 1964 and English texts. Last year she won a na- and her husband, Hugh, have three chil- 1965. tional competition for choral work. dren, Hugh III, who is married, Sandra who is a R.N., and Laurinda, a junior in Shirley (Hays) Talago and John Ameluxen was recently high school. her husband, Cdr. Joseph Ta- appointed athletic director '46 lago, Jr., USN (Ret.) live in `50 and head of boys physical ed- Robert Post recently opened Falls Church, Virginia. Joe ucation at Mark Keppel High a Chrysler-Plymouth Auto- is employed in Washington in Alhambra. `40 mobile Agency in Denver, D.C. as an account executive with Mer- Marilyn (Green) Benham has a new Colorado. rill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner, and Smith. job as consultant with the Washington The Talagos have six children: Joseph State Parks and Recreation Commission, Dr. Edwin Bronner, author III, 16; Kristin, 14; Marie, 12; Daniel, and is keeping very busy, but enjoying and historian, has been named 11; Anna, 10; and Anthony, 8. the excitement and challenge. The Ben- `41 librarian at Haverford Col- Harold E. Walker has been serving as hams are at home in Tacoma. lege in Pennsylvania. Dr. Deputy President of Fresno State Col- Charles Dickson is presently assistant Bronner has been on the fac- lege from April through August, 1969. He principal of pupil personnel services at ulty at the college since 1962. He previ- is regularly the Executive Vice President Los Altos High School in Hacienda ously taught history at Temple Univer- of the college. Heights and is teaching psychology at sity in Philadelphia from 1947 to 1962. Mt. San Antonio College. He is also He has been on the board of the Friends Margaret (Mahon) Curran working on the Ph.D. in clinical psychol- Historical Assn. since 1952. and her husband are taking a ogy at the California Graduate Institute Art Marshburn is president of the fac- '48 sabbatical during the next in Westwood. ulty senate of Santa Monica City Col- school year to make a detailed Eldon Edwards, a member of the lege this year. He and his wife, Carol tour of the United States McNally intermediate school faculty in (Mead) '41, are at home in Topanga, through a historical perspective. La Mirada, was awarded the honorary Calif. Howard Seelye is the newly elected PTA life membership for his sincere de- president of the Whittier College Alumni votion and interest in the children in La Robert W. Harlan has been Association and will take office in June. Mirada. elected president of the Asso- Howard is a political and governmental James Macon is presently employed as '43 ciation of Professional Direc- affairs writer for the Los Angeles Times principal of Robert B. Wardlow School tors of the YMCAs of the and has been a newspaperman for 23 in the Fountain Valley School District. United States. He has been years. He and his wife Gloria (Walls) Norman Thyburn of Plymouth, Michi- program chairman for the 1969 Triennial are residing in Palos Verdes Estates. gan, is presently assistant to the director, Conference. They have two children: Randy, who is University of Michigan Institute for the a senior at Whittier College and the new study of mental retardation. He also Waltrand (Stocsling) Hecht editor of the Quaker Campus, and Jeri, serves the University of Michigan em- is presently chairman of the who will be a freshman at Whittier this ployees, as head of the credit union. board of trustees of the Mill `44 fall. Carroll "Willie" Williams and family Valley Public Library. Wal- John Seeman recently sold his Whit- are now back in the San Diego area after trand was the recipient of the tier Lumber Yard and is managing a enjoying a year in Northern Calif. Willie honorary life membership in PTA for lumber yard in Encinitas. Betty (Stanley and his wife Sally have four children: service to school libraries. '47) is teaching in Rancho Santa Fe Chris, 16; Sue, 14; Wendy, 6; and David, 4. William Lassleben is presently a part- where the family now resides. The See- ner in the law firm of Bewley, Lassleben, mans have two daughters: Sue, 15, and Gale and Marva (Klein) Bran- Whelan and Miller in Whittier. He has Julie, 11, who enjoy their own horses. don are currently residing in served as assistant city attorney for `51 Fullerton where Gale is still Whittier since 1951, is on the board of Joy (Taranto) Berger is pres- publishing the Community directors for the Presbyterian Intercom- ently enjoying her job as an Advocate newspapers, a chain munity Hospital, a life member of the `49 elementary teacher at Santa of weeklies in southeast Los Angeles Hoover-Lincoln PTA, a member of the Fe School in Monrovia. County and western Orange County, cov- Sierra Club, and active in Boy Scout and Frances (Kitchen) Brittain is ering seven small cities. He is also run- Explorer Scout organizations. He and his living in Brawley where she is doing ning an advertising agency, and serves wife have three children. home teaching and tutoring from bed- on the Calif. Constitution Revision Com- Beverly (Barker) Simmons and her side. Their four children, Marguerite, 14, mission. He and Marva have two chil- husband, Fred, live in Los Banos, Calif. Thomas, 13, Linda, 12, and Douglas, 10, dren, Lisa and Clay, who will both he She is busy with housework, sewing and are all doing well academically in school attending Sunny Hills High School next hobbies, such as mosaic making and gar- and seem to be musically inclined. year. dening, while her husband, a civil engi- Warren Knox is currently president of neer with the U.S. Bureau of Reclama- Howard Campbell is DISC chairman the College of Idaho. Warren has served tion, is still busy on the San Luis Project, for the First Presbyterian Church for as assistant to the president of Pomona a huge state-federal joint project to get 1969-1970. He is also serving on the fi- College and as vice president of Whit- water from Northern Calif. into Southern nance committee, as chairman, for the man College. He and his wife, Nancy Calif. Hawaii State Mental Health Association. (Chambers '48), are at home in Cald- Howard is residing in Honolulu. Shirley (Roberts) Firestone well, Idaho. Gracia (Giddings) Wedel is back to has been doing substitute Gerald McKay is a Lieutenant Colonel teaching kindergarten, after a year in '45 teaching in the Tustin High in the Air Force and has been named as third grade, where she has taught 18 School District and is also a winner in the 1968 Freedoms Founda- years. Gracia is also active in the First teaching piano. Her husband, tion at Valley Forge letter writing con- Congregational Church in Wasco, the Dale, has retired from the Navy and is test. Colonel McKay received the George Delta Kappa Gamma Sorority, and van-

23 ous school activities. Little league, youth Walter Nelson is teaching in the Nor- Campus Crusade for Christ. She is pres- church, and high school keep the Wedel's walk Public Schools after teaching eight ently in London, England. children busy. Gracia and her husband, years in Europe. His eldest daughter led W. Ross McMillan is now assistant track Larry, spent last Christmas in Mexico in her drill team to victory in the Hi Neigh- coach at San Bernardino Valley Junior Puerto Vallarte and enjoyed a very re- bor Day parade this year. A son, Jeff, College. He is also a board of directors laxing trip. won a varsity letter, and his wife is com- member for the Civic Light Opera and Dale Wonocott is in his seventh year at pleting her degree at Cal Poly Pomona. San Bernardino Symphony, a member of Orange Coast College where he is coach- SCTSA and SPAAU track officials asso- ing football and baseball. During the Dr. Kathleen (Davis) Polk ciation. He and his wife Jane have two summers he is found at Dale's Ice Cream will be starting her third year daughters: Ann, 5, and Jill, 3, and one Shop in Balboa, selling "Frostees and `54 in an OB Gynecology residen- foster daughter, Lou Ann Matzke, 12. Frozen Bananas." cy at Mercy Hospital in San Wayne Reinecke is presently director Diego. of the Arcadia High School Symphony Beverly (Kelley) Harding and Donna (Noble) Hartwell and her fam- orchestra, and along with his wife, Su- her husband, Darrell, were ily continue to live in Illinois where they sanne (Rayburn), who is also a violinist, '52 both the honored recipients of are enjoying ice skating and all the out- plays violin in the San Gabriel Valley the Honorary Life Member- door activities of the cold snowy climate. Symphony orchestra. The Reineckes, who ship in PTA in February. Mary Alice (Whitney) Hill is the new are the parents of three children, reside Their daughter, Debby, will be attending president of the Mill Valley Branch of in Arcadia. Whittier College next fall. The Hardings the American Association of University Boyard Rowe has been business admin- are at home in Temple City. Women. She and her husband have three istrator of the First Congregational Elizabeth (Hickok) Langley received her children, 11, 8, and six months. Church of Berkeley, Calif., since Septem- Ph.D. degree in Education from Loyola Bob and Pat (Josten) Moritz and sons, ber, 1967. University in June of 1968. She is now Jeff and Tom, have been in the Chicago employed at Northeastern Illinois State area for the past year. With a promotion Marilyn (Hunter) Blake and College as Associate Professor in the to Branch Manager of the Western Re- her family are residing in Va- Department of Guidance and Counselor gional office of the Reserve Insurance `57 caville, California, where Mar- Education. Her oldest son, Michael, Company, they'll be moving back to Ar- ilyn's husband, Bill, who has earned his M.A. degree in psychology at cadia, California. retired from the Air Force Ball State University this June. after 20 years, is working with fibreglass, Donald Rothrock, Western regional Donald Booth is currently primarily Corvettes. Marilyn is teaching sales manager for commercial trades for doing research at UCLA on the second grade in Vacaville. The Blakes the 3M Company's Printing Products `55 urban problems under a have three children, 14, 12, and 8 who division, has been promoted to national National Science Foundation are involved in sewing, tumbling, and sales manager for Industrial Graphics. Faculty Fellowship. He is on swimming. He and his wife, Joan, and their four leave as head of the economics depart- Warren C. Fick, Assistant Vice President children will be moving to St. Paul, Min- ment from Chapman College. of Great Western Savings and Loan Asso- nesota. Rosemary (Laurance) DeBenedetti has ciation, has been named manager of the Phyllis (Paige) Six is completing her left teaching and her violin and become association's new Wilshire-La Cienega M.A. in elementary education in June, a full-time mother and housewife with office. Fick joined Great Western Savings 1969, at Pasadena College. Phyllis is her two girls: Diana, 1, and Celia, 3. The in 1965 as a systems analyst. Warren and also working part-time at the Community DeBenedettis are at home in San Jose. his wife (Phyllis Luther '51) are at home Adult Training Center operated by Pasa- Stuart and Janie (Soderberg) Gothold in La Habra. dena City College. are at home in Whittier where Stu is Darold Gress is presently a teacher at with the L.A. County Schools as a cur- Sanger High School and is also director Nancy (Johnson) Akin is curriculum consultant. Janie does some lec- of a Bob Mathias Sierra Boys Camp. rently residing in West Co- turing in archaeology. The Gotholds have Nancy (Riddle) Iverson is completing `53 vina where she is a member three children: Jon, 13, Susan, 10, and her year as president of the Newport of AAUW and is president of Eric, 2. Presbyterian Church Women's Associa- Delta Phi. Velna (Kaenal) Reinwajd and her hus- tion in Bellevue, Washington. Andy Andikian is the president of the band are residing in Walnut, Calif., where Mary (Chu) Yao is teaching the han- East Los Angeles Lions Club. Neal is with T.W.A. and Van Nuys dicapped children in Hanford public James Cowan was recently named as A.N.G. They have four daughters: Lisa, schools in California. She and her hus- county superintendent of schools for Ven- 11, Laura, 10, Linda, 9, and Lois, 7. band have a daughter Gretta, 6 years old. tura County. He and his wife, Ann, are Velna has a Camp Fire group, works with residing in Ventura with their three chil- the youth choir at the United Methodist Shannon (Mihld) Belles and dren: John, 11, Janice, 9, and Jeffrey, 8. Church, and is an Amway Distributor. her children are residing in Alfred Evans was recently appointed Delmore Westlund has joined the offices '58 Apple Valley while her hus- as division services manager in Shell Oil of Dean Wittei and Company as an ac- band, Major Robert Belles, Company's Denver, Colorado Exploration count executive. He is accredited by the serves his year of tour duty in and Production Area. Alfred and his New York Stock Exchange. Delmore and Southeast Asia as an aircraft comman- wife, Marilyn, are at home with their his wife, Ruth, and their three children der in an F-4 (Phantom II) fighter air- young son in Lakewood, Colorado. live in La Habra. plane. He is stationed in DaNang. Dr. Alfred and Sally (Randall '55) Larry and Carol (Stewart) Cann are at Gobar are residing in Fullerton where Wes Bosson has been named home in Whittier where Larry is working Sally is a college counselor at Troy High principal of Temple City High for Dr. Beach Leighton as an engineering School. Alfred's consulting business, Dar- '56 School. Wes and his wife, geologist. The Canns have two sons, Jeff, ley/Gobar Associates has now grown to Nancy (Ince), are residing in 5, and Bruce, 11/2. 40 employees. He is also teaching finance Whittier with their two chil- Norris C. Hundley, Jr. is an assistant in the Graduate School of Business at dren. professor at UCLA whose special interest Cal State Fullerton. Ann (Hiatt) Fleshman is enrolled at is the American West. With grants from Joy Huss was recently appointed assis- Alaska Methodist University and is the Ford Foundation and the California tant professor of the occupational ther- working towards her master's degree in Water Resources to assist in the research, apy program at Indiana University. She teaching. he has completed a history of major con- will receive her M.S. in Education in Shirley (Milligan) Hindson is director troversies over the Colorado River, and August, 1969. of the University Ambassador team for a book of readings on the American West.

24 L. Robert Morgan has been named man- Captain Jerry D. Ellis is presently the Katherine (Dennis) Pond is now work- ager of a marketing division sales office Commander of the Air Force weather de- ing as a volunteer substitute teacher in of the Reuben H. Donnelley Corporation tachment located at Gray Army Airfield, Livermore, California. The school district of New York. His office is in Houston, Fort Lewis, Washington. He is also a there has stopped hiring substitute teach- Texas, and his primary activity will be in member of the Commanding General's ers because of lack of funds. sales development with oil companies in Special Staff. This brings him the respon- Jon (Tony) Yinger has been promoted the Southwest. sibility of all the weather support fur- to Associate Professor of Political Science nished to the Army units at Fort Lewis. at Cal State Fullerton. His wife, Antonia, is a full-time student is now a Betty (Thompson) Chandler in the nursing program at Pacific Luther- Penelope Arnold CPA with Rooney, Ida, Nolt, is bookkeeper for Coastside an University. and Athern in Oakland, Cali- Drug in Pacifica, Calif., where Joy (Ragsdale) Hinkley is entering her `63 `59 fornia. She is active in the her husband, John, is the eighth year teaching third grade in the East Bay Chapter of the Cal- pharmacist and manager. Bet- Pasadena City schools. ifornia Society of CPA's. ty is active in the St. Andrew United James Ernst Nussman was attacked and Kathryn (Epperson) Curtis worked Presbyterian Church, a member of the shot fatally in the chest in the evening of eight months of 1968 as an administra- choir and one of the 3rd and 4th grade March 11, 1969 in Washington, D.C. tive assistant to Regional Mental Health church school teachers. The Chandlers Known as a gentle and quiet man, Nuss- and Retardational Planning Committee. have two children: Karen, 4, and Duane, 2. mann graduated from Whittier College a cum laude political science major. He She instigated the local Posey County Mary (Robson) Garvisch is a medical was active in the Wm. Penn Society, Association for Retarded Children in the technologist at the Westminster Com- Omicron Delta Kappa, A Cappella Choir, fall of 1968. Her two year old daughter, munity Hospital, while her husband is a Poet Theatre, and United Fund Drive as Karen, is a Mongoloid retardate. teacher of social psychology at Fountain well as a student of pipe organ, an ex- Ronald Haxton is a battalion surgeon Valley High School. change student to Fisk University, and a for the Second Battalion of the Fifth member of an international student work Marine Regiment stationed about 30 camp in Berlin in 1960. At the time of miles southwest of Da Nang, Viet Nam. his death, he was the secretary to the Richard McAteer is a candidate at Marilyn (Wrench) Botting has American Council on Education's Over- Whittier College for a Masters in Edu- recently re-married and now seas Liaison Committee, established to cation this June. '60 has three sons (9, 5, and 4). assist in the growth of new universities Barbara Meze is teaching second grade She has resigned from teach- in Africa and the Caribbean and Pacific in Reseda. This summer she will be ing to become a full-time areas. Nussmann was widely travelled, teaching literature for the gifted fifth homemaker to her family and husband having just returned from a trip to a and sixth graders. After summer school who is manager of Watson Carbon & number of African countries. He was she will travel to the East Coast. Chemical Company. studying what he thought to be a clear Martha (Luke) Rowland is living in linkage between poverty in this country Fairfax, Mann County and teaching John Chu is a lab technician and is and the newer ones through a fresh, real- third grade in the Mill Valley elemen- head of the laboratory at Hanford Hos- istic view of national security which did tary schools. Husband, Richard, operates pital in California. not depend upon questionable military a beauty salon in Mill Valley. hardware. Nussmann received his Master Stan Sanders has opened law practice Marcia (Hursey) Brown and her hus- in Public Affairs from Princeton Univer- in Los Angeles but will be moving to band and son are now living in Orange sity, studied Labor Law and Social Leg- Watts. His wife graduates from USC this after their Madjisha Canyon home was islation at Harvard Law School, and at June and is applying for a Danforth fel- destroyed in the recent flood. She is cur- the African Studies Center of the Uni- lowship in history with the aim of getting rently teaching government classes at versity of California at Los Angeles. her Ph.D. in history. Orange High School. Carol (Heinz) Shupek is active as a Thomas Cunningham is on volunteer at Presbyterian Intercommun- duty as a Captain in the Air ity Hospital, Whittier Area Fair Housing Kate (Guest) Bailey is now '62 Force at the Nakhon Phanom Committee, and Hillcrest Congregational teaching mentally retarded Royal AFB in Thailand. He Church. is a personnel officer in a unit `61 children in the inner-city of Charles Thibodeau was recently made of the Pacific Air Forces. San Diego. She had been an associate in the law firm of Berger, Christopher Cross, former Community teaching in Whittier for sev- Rothstein, and Gehler in Denver, Cob. en years previously. Relations director at Whittier College, has been named Special Assistant for Thomas Blinn has moved to Mickey (Smith) Brussow and her hus- Student Affairs in the Department of Justice, Illinois to accept a band are still in Cochabamba, Bolivia, Health, Education and Welfare. new position with Western with Wycliffe Bible Translators. Their Cross served at Whittier 1962-1965, was `64 Electric as an installation son, Gordie, has made a hit with the Assistant to the President Cal State Los supervisor of new telephone native people there and their over-all Angeles, and presently Director of Spe- equipment. work is reported as very successful with cial Projects at the University of the 43 new members in their church there. Pacific. He was named to Outstanding Paisan Loaharanu will receive a M.S. Young Men of America in 1968. He and in Food Science and Technology from Paul Deese has been named Baseball his wife Heather (Wood '63), are the Virginia Polytechnic Institute in June. Coach of the Year in the College Divi- parents of two children. He has been selected by the FAO/IAEA sion of the National Collegiate Athletic Marilyn (Greve)-Hays with her husband, to represent Thailand in the Internation- Association. He has been head Baseball Andy, has moved to Albany, California al Training Course in Food Irradiation Coach at Chapman College. He is the where he is working as an architect. to be held at M.I.T. this summer. He youngest coach and the first from the Steve Jones is a professional baseball will return to Thailand in August to re- western United States to be selected for player with the Kansas City Royals, assume his research duty at the Office the honor since it was initiated in 1964. playing as pitcher. of Thai Atomic Energy for Peace, Minis- Deese is also an assistant professor of Patricia Meakin is presently teaching try of National Development, Thailand. physical education at Chapman where in Huntington Beach Elementary School. Kenneth Long will be teaching at Leb- he has been a member of the faculty and She is teaching seventh and eighth grade anon Junior High School in Lebanon, baseball coach since 1963. English. Oregon.

2 Alice Obregon returned from Germany Charles and Patricia (Phil- while her husband, Terry, completes his at the end of July 1968. She got a job lips) Ball are now living in Ph.D. in aeronautics. at the Lowell Joint School District teach- `66 Hacienda Heights. He is in William Scarpino completed advanced ing the mentally retarded. Montebello School District training as a combat engineer at Ft. Francis Olson is now on Coast Guard and is working on his M.A. in Leonard Wood, Missouri, with the Army cutter STORIS out of Kodiak, Alaska. psychology. Leigh Unger presented a piano recital His duty includes fishing patrol, search, Roger Busico was cited for his out- this spring in Orange County. and rescue missions. His wife, Ann, is standing airmanship and courage as a David and Wendy (Waterhouse) Ward. with him enjoying the tranquility. pilot on successful and important mis- low are at Vance AFB where he is taking Wayne and Helen (Cosand) Overbeck sions completed under hazardous condi- flight training after completing OCS with now live in Garden Grove. He left the tions with the Air Force Medal. He has the Army this spring. She has been sub- editorship of the Banning Daily Record been on duty in Viet Nam. stitute teaching in South Pasadena. Gazette for a spot on the communications Evelyn Doggett, after completing grad- faculty at Cal State Fullerton. She is uate work at the University of Alaska, is Jeanne (Fowler) Baker and teaching kindergarten in Anaheim's Mag- teaching school in Anchorage, Alaska. her husband, Hyatt, are liv- nolia School District and they are both Mary (Larsen) Douglas will be teach- `68 ing in Collins, Colorado where enjoying their daughter Lara, 2. ing girls physical education in junior Hyatt is pursuing a course in high in Anaheim. Her, position includes engineering science with spe- a department chairmanship. She has also cial emphasis in civil engineering and is Wilhehnina Binfield recently been serving as Chairman of Cap and working for a professor on a research resigned from the American Gown Alumnae for 1968-69. Her hus- project in air pollution. She is teaching `65 Red Cross and is travelling band, John, teaches history at Loara fifth grade and has a rather unique class across the U.S. visiting rela- High School in Anaheim. with both the high and low achievers. tives. Jeffrey and Joan (Steffy) Greenacre During this pilot program study each Shirley (Morse) Bishel in an instructor are in Indiana. He is program director day, she is left to do remedial work with at Rio Hondo Junior College in biology for the Data Procession Department of those children who need extra assistance. and microbiology. Indiana University after receiving his Karen (Ostrom) Brothers is a 1968 Richard and Sharon (Gidding) Craft M.A. in Management from the Univer- Design Major graduate. Her husband is are living in Whittier. He is working on sity of Illinois. She has been teaching an architect graduate of the U.C. Berke- completing his doctorate in religion at junior high and working on her M.A. in ley. The Brothers are both currently serv- Claremont in June of 1970. She is in her Chinese history and culture. ing in VISTA in Michigan. fourth year of teaching in East Whittier Bettye (Compton) Hays has become a Jim Colborn is a professional baseball City schools. reading specialist for the Whittier School pitcher with the Chicago Cubs but is Janice (Linville) Dark is teaching District. studying this year at the University of French to fifth and sixth graders in Ev- Richard Hanna was named Fountain Edinburgh where he played basketball anston, Illinois. Summertime finds her Valley's Outstanding Young Educator for Scotland's national team. He won the teaching art to Wilmette and Intercity this spring. All British Isles honors at the season's children. Eric Hartman graduated from Boalt end. Hall School of Law at the U of Southern Barbara Harris is attending Portland California with a J.D. degree in June. Leonard Hardtke has been commis- State University and received her mas- John and Linda (Sutton) Kemp both sioned a second lieutenant in the Air ters degree in social work this June. She received their M.Ed. within the past Force upon graduation from OCS at plans on returning to work in the Orange year. Lackland AFB in Texas. Hardtke has County Welfare Department. Sally Peèkham gave a concert with been assigned to Randolph AFB, Texas, Kenneth Hunt is an insurance broker Robert MacSparran at Whittier College for pilot training. in Pasadena. He is working on graduate this spring. She is currently working with Clucy Hooker is teaching in Saddle studies in business at UCLA. Martial Singher of the Music Academy Brook, New Jersey and enjoying skiing Amy (Roberts) Quinny is teaching of the West at Santa Barbara. and travelling through the New England third grade in Chula Vista. Next year Sandra (Sanderson) Pitkin and her states. She will be instructing sailing and she plans to return, with her husband, husband, Willis, have "adopted" a boy directing a counselor-in-training program to get a masters degree. financially through the Foster Parents at a Camp Fire Girls camp on Kenai Raymond and JoAnna (Cumming) Plan. The boy is eight years old and lives Lake in Alaska during the summer. Ritchey expect to go to N.E. Thailand to in Hong Kong. Wesley Kruse was awarded a Bachelor do research on rural development for his Pat (Neilson) Walworth is enjoying of Foreign Trade by Thunderbird Gradu- dissertation. He has been working for her volunteer work at Roosevelt School ate School of International Management Standard Oil of California in wholesale near Salinas. She has eight non-English in Arizona. marketing. She finished her M.A. in 1967 speaking children to instruct in language Margaret Law is currently taking grad- and is now working for Commonwealth development and reading. uate work in the School of Social Work Independence Life Insurance Company. at San Diego State. Gary Victor was recently appointed ac- Gloria (buck) Cain is teach- Elinore Lower is beginning a program count executive with Parker Advertising ing pre-first grade at Lincoln this summer at San Francisco State for of New York in Palos Verdes. `67 Acres in San Diego. Her hus- her M.A. in Education. band, Jim, is working on a Ron Nelson was commissioned an En- James Q. Whittaker, M.D. received his M.S. in mathematics at San sign in the Naval Reserves last October degree in Medicine at Marquette School Diego State and is a computer program- and was a student Naval aviator, flying of Medicine and is now an intern at mer at General Dynamics-Convair. Memorial Hospital in Long Beach. the Navy's jet trainers in Meridian, Mis- Janice (Hartman) Cheny is teaching at sissippi. This summer Ron was trans- Dorothy (Taylor) Williamson is a stu- St. Paul High School in Santa Fe Springs ferred to Pensacola, Florida for "carrier dent at the Institute of Applied Linguis- in the physical education department. qualification" aboard the aircraft carrier, tics, University of Madagascar, studying Ruth (Stichal) Cruihkshank is teach- CVT, Lexington. French full-time. She and her husband ing instrumental music for Los Nietos Donna Roemer is a third grade teacher hope to vacation in the Comores Islands Elementary School District. and East Africa. at Ceres Elementary School in East Jane (Israel) Honikman is director of Whittier City School District. Donna re- Thomas Wilson has been a member of summer employment for Stanford Uni- cently attended the 1968-69 New Teach- the Midwest Stock exchange since 1966. versity students at the placement service ers Conference at Monte Carona.

6 Maribeth Sheperd, after finishing her Jan Pollard to Michael Jackson, March Mr. and Mrs. William Sweeney (Ai-dath graduate year at Whittier will be teach- 16, 1969. Kinniger), 8808 Manchester Road, Sil- ing at Bella Vista School in Montebello. Ruth Stichal to Barrie Cruickshank, ver Springs, Maryland 20901, a daughter, Maribeth became engaged to Jim Arehart June 29, 1968, at home, 13604 Franklin, Miriam Laurel, on April 1, 1969. this spring. Apt. 16, Whittier, 90602. Mr. and Mrs. Warren Williams, 515 S. Kenneth Spence has been commissioned Class of '68 Montezuma Way, West Covina, 91790, a a second lieutenant for the Air Force af- Cheryl Bronn to MacArthur Moore, at daughter, August 5, 1968. ter graduation from OCS at Lackland home, in Long Beach. Mr. and Mrs. Ken Hodges (Cheri AFB, Texas. Spence has been assigned Jean Campbell to Charles Kleiner, at Warnshuis '63), 3671 Meadville Drive, to Vance AFB, Texas for pilot training. home at Fullerton. Sherman Oaks, 91403, twin daughters, Carol (Pifari) Stiner has completed Faye Hi-owning to Allan Heyn, May 9, October, 1968. her M.A. in home economics at San Jose 1969, at home in Somerdale, New Jersey. Class of '63 State and is a stewardess for United Air Susan Gat-bet- ('69) to Brian McDon- Mr. and Mrs. John L. Stoody (Annette Lines. ald, April 12, 1969, at home, 804 Royce Johnson '65), 1818 Albion, Denver, Colo- Mike Stone worked on communications Street, Apt. 118, Pensacola, Florida. rado, a daughter, Della Jean Rosalind, during the recovery of the Apollo 10. He Elizabeth Gill ('69) to Kenneth Sher- March 21, 1969. is a communications specialist aboard the man, April 1969, at home, Ft. Lewis, Class of '64 USS Princeton. Washington. Mr. and Mrs. Dennis McReynolds, Ellen Ueda is curently on a federal Judith Hathaway to David Langenes, 13372 Mystic Street, Whittier, 90601, a grant at the Graduate School of Library June 7, 1969, at home, 36604 East Third daughter, Stacy Jo, July 18, 1968. Science, Drexel Institute of Technology Street, Apt. A-23, Tucson, Arizona 85716. Mr. and Mts. Neal McKinley (Judith in Philadelphia. Judy Hendrix to Charles Shaffer, July Watts), 11990 S.W. Tremont, Portland, 5,1968, at home, 13632 E. Penn, Whittier, Oregon, 97225, a daughter, Michelle Anne, Cynthia Haskins is presently 90602. November 23, 1968. attending Ohio University in Susan Givens to Clark Jackson, Febru- Mr. and Mrs. Hollis H. Moore (Dorcas '69 Athens, Ohio, as a graduate ary, 1969, at home, in Alhambra. Wells), 22 Taft Court, Novato, Califor- student in hearing and speech Tracy Pfeifer to Winston Hoose, March nia 94947, a daughter, Melissa Wells, sciences. Cynthia was honored 29, 1969, at home, in Los Angeles. May 29, 1969. by being appointed as a graduate assis- Martha Roman to David Gardner, June Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Williams (Mar- tant as well as receiving a scholarship. 7,1969, at home, 745 South Power, Mesa, tha Grains '62), 123 Janine, La Habra, Arizona 85201. 90631, a daughter, Melissa Lou, April 8, Class of '69 1969. newlyweds Lynne Frankel to George Craig, June Class of '65 6,1969, at home, 119723/4 Idaho Street, Mr. and Mt-s. Richard Auriemma (San- Los Angeles. dra Cords), 3471/2 Heliotrope, Corona Del Class of '45 Virginia Lopez to Alan Kukei, at home, Mar, 92625, a son, Anthony Christopher, Frances E. Harkness to Herbert Van in La Habra Heights. November 16, 1968. Riper, at home 10550 Dunlap Crossing Linda Jean Puryear to William Jack, Class of '66 Road, Sp. 20, Whittier 90606. March 1969, at home in Ventura. Mr. and Mt-s. Charles Bell (Patricia Class of '62 Phillips), 1737 Manor Gate Road, Ha- Marian Dvorkin to Jon Yinger, Decem- cienda Heights, 91745, a daughter, Kath- ber 12, 1968, at home, 9772 East Santiago, newcomers ryn Elizebeth, April 7, 1969. Villa Park, California 92667. Mr. and Mrs. Rod Snowdon (Cheryl Class of '63 Mattoon), 1908 W. St. Anne Place, Santa Class of '50 Martha Luke ('65) to Richard Row- Ana, 92704, a son, Michael Milton, April Mr. and Mrs. Clemet W. Cochran (Jo- land, December 21, 1968, at home, 40 25, 1969. anna Ci-aun '51), 16242 Skagway, Whit- Power Land, Fairfax, California 94930. Mr. and Mrs. Gary Giddings (Anne tier, 90603, a daughter, Shelly Ann, Feb- Wilson), P.O. Box 422, Bakersfield, 93302, Class of '64 ruary 26, 1969. a son, William Warner, December 20, Pamela Barnard to Thomas Blinn, Class of '52 1968. June 22, 1968, at home, Justice, Illinois. Mr. and Mrs. Stephen H. Smith, 7961 Class of '67 Barbara Brancheau to John Ootland, Rosina, Long Beach, 90808, a daughter, Mt- and Mrs. Anthony White (Mary August 3, 1968, at home, 528 Font Boule- Sheryl Lynne, August 24, 1968. Owens), 4334 Maxson Road, El Monte, vard, San Francisco, 94130. Class of '57 91732, a daughter, Ingrid Lansing, March Virginia Snedecor to George Dottl, Mi-*and Mrs. Roger Frederickson (Shir- 27, 1968. April 12, 1969, at home in Hacienda leyDavis '59), 7 Bell's Court, Philadel- Heights. phia, Penn., 19106, a daughter, Christian Class of '65 Gay, April 10, 1969. in memoriam Holly Haynsworth to Thomas Wilson, Class of '60 April 6, 1968, at home, 3064 Greenwood, Mr. and Mrs. John Campbell (Anita Highland Park, Illinois 60035. Glen), 650 West Hacienda Drive, Corona, Class of '13 Patricia Thompson to Dr. Frederick 91720, a daughter, Linda Janine, January Elmer Crumly, July 10, 1968. Reiner Harris, November 30, 1968, at 15, 1968. Herbert N. Hoskins, April 19, 1967. home, 6415 North Rosemead Boulevard, Class of '61 Class of '38 San Gabriel, 91775. Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Hinckley (Joyce Betty Willmat-th Carson, June 14, 1968. Class of '66 Ragsdale), 4521 Lasheart, La Canada, Class of '42 Carol Pearce to Claude Bennett, III, 91011, a son, Craig Alan, November 25, Blanche (Cannon) Mat-tens, April 5, October 25, 1968, at home, 600 East Coun- 1968. 1969. try Club Drive, Yuma, Arizona 85364. Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Starkley, 4341 Class of '49 Carolyn Waymore ('65) to David Parlor Avenue, San Diego, 92122, a son, William MeBurney, May 26, 1966. Hume, at home, 2391 Carlsbad Avenue, William Sèott, December 5, 1968. Class of '50 Sacramento, 95821. Class of '62 John Clifford Moot-c, January 31, 1969. Class of '67 Mr. and Mrs. David Newquist (Darlene Class of '61 Gloria Houck to James Cain, August Haynes '63), 438 Van Buren, Monterey James E. Nussman, March, 1969. 31, 1968, at home, 4435 Arizona Street, Park, 91754, a son, Dana David, on Sep- Harvey N. Wright, former president of San Diego, 92116. tember 17, 1968. Whittier College, May 4, 1969.

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