The Ursinus Weekly, June 8, 1959

Ursinus College Digital Commons @ Ursinus College Ursinus Weekly Newspaper Newspapers 6-8-1959 The rsinU us Weekly, June 8, 1959 Marla Shilton Ursinus College Mary Elizabeth Dassler Ursinus College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly Part of the Cultural History Commons, Higher Education Commons, Liberal Studies Commons, Social History Commons, and the United States History Commons Click here to let us know how access to this document benefits oy u. Recommended Citation Shilton, Marla and Dassler, Mary Elizabeth, "The rU sinus Weekly, June 8, 1959" (1959). Ursinus Weekly Newspaper. 388. https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/388 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Newspapers at Digital Commons @ Ursinus College. It has been accepted for inclusion in Ursinus Weekly Newspaper by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Ursinus College. For more information, please contact [email protected]. C'EST HAPPy FINIS reklp ACATION Volume LVIII ~ MONDAY, JUNE 8, 1959 Number 22 172 ReceIve at • s o ay D r. "5·Ie b" Pancoast ReSlgns · Miller Addresses Grads As Ursinus Dean of Men At 90th COllll1lenCeDlent Recently the entire student the past few years many respon bOdy received the news that Dr. sibilities have been added. How UrsLnus College awarded 172 wig. Marion. Ohlo, and the Rev. G. Sleber Pancoast, Dean of ever, he will still be with us as a undergraduate degrees and Jerry W. Trexler, San Mateo, Men, and professor of political political science professor and three honorary degrees at [ts California. Dr. Trexler otficiat science, is retirLng from the po as adviser of the aforemen annual Commencement Convo- ed at the Ursin US ColJege Bacca sition. Dr. Pancoast, who became tioned activities. In his role as cation beld this morning in the laureate Service. held Sunday Dean in 1947, has been an ex disciplinarian, Dr. Pancoast has gymnasium on the Ursinus morning, June 7, in Bomberger ample to every student who has only this to say about the stu campus. President Donald L. Hall on the College campus. had occasion to speak to him. dent body at Ursinus, "I have Helfferlch conferred the honor-I Dr. Paul Miller, tnternation "Sieb", as he ls fondly called by found that the boys and girls ary degree of Doctor of Laws up- ally known journalist and news everyone, has been tlreless in VALEDICTORIAN SALUTATORIAN are all nice. They like to have on the comm~ncement speaker, I paper executive, is the son of William Leigh Godshalk Richard Henry Menkus performing his job as Dean. fun, but basically they are well Paul M1ller. dIStinguished neWS-I a Southwestern minister and be There has never been an occa behaved. They have been little This morning Dr. Donald L. Helfferich presented the paperman and President of gan his career as a reporter in sion when he has not had the trouble." It is this philosophy Class of 1959 with their diplomas upon the completion of the Gannett Newspapers Co. at Oklahoma at the age of eigh time to sit down and speak to a that has made "Sleb" so well Rochester, New York:. Dr. Helf- teen. He graduated from Okla student, offering whatever ad admired and respected by all of four years of undergraduate work. At this time several feTich conferred honorary de- I homa Agricultural and Mechan vice was necessary. Those stu the students here at Urslnus. honorary degrees were presented. grees of Doctor of Divinity upon ical College with the degree of dents who have had the occa HOKORARY the R.ev. L. Harrison Lud- Bachelor of Science, and in 1932 sion to be admonished by him, he joined the Associated Press of have come away feeling only Prizes Awarded Lewi. Hani.on Ludwig.. Doctor of Divinity Jen} William Trexler Doctor of Divinity Trexler Speaks at whJch he became the ChIef of respect for Dr. Pancoast. His I the Washington Bureau and manner and personality are To Outstanding Paul Miller • Doctor of Law!! COJ\DIENCEMEl T HONORS Assistant General Manager. those which lend honor and re Ursinus Students B acea 1aureate on In 1947 Dr. Miller joined the spect to allY pOSition. YALEDICTORIA : Dr. Pancoast received his un William Leigh God!lhalk Sunday JIme 7 Gannett Newspapers at Roches- The following prizes were , ter, N. Y., and by 1957 he had dergraduate degree here at Ur SALUT ATORL\.': sinus in 1937. He received his awarded to students of Urslnus Richard Henry Menkus become President of the huge at the commencement exercises Ursinus Col1ege held its an- newspaper chain which includes Masters degree in 1940 from the MAGNA CUM LAlJl)E: this morning at 11 a.m. nual Baccalaureate Service at eighteen newspapers and four University of Pennsylvania, and William Leigh God~halk The Elizabeth Rockefeller Mc 10 :45 a.m., Sunday, June 7, in radio and four television sta his Doctorate degree in 1956. Dr. CUM LAUDE: Bomberger Hall on the Urslnus tions in New York State, New Pancoast has been teaching here Cain Prize Carol Ruth LeCato campus. Officiating was the ReV' England, and the Middle West. at Ursinus for twenty-two years A prize of $50 is awarded an Hubert heldon Levenson nually to a. member of the Soph Laura Louise Loney Jerry W11liam Trexler, Senior j He is President of the Frank E. -since ]937. Busy as he was Minister of the congreg.ational Gannett Newspaper Foundation with his duties as Dean and with omore Class for excellence in Richard Henry Menkus Jeanne Burhans ~'urtz Church of San Mateo, CalIfornia. and of the WHEC and WHEC- his teaching tasks, Dr. Pancoast English. It has been endowed by the late George Nox McCain of Harry Zall The Rev. Mr. Trexler, who is TV in ROchester. He is Publish still found time to be the base DEPARTMENTAL HONORS to receive the honorary degree er of the "Times-Union" and ball coach, a job which he un Philadelphia. Mr. James Michael, '61 ENGLISH: William Leigh God halk of Doctor of Divinity at Ursinus I "The Democrat and Chronicle." dertook in 1947, and the faculty MATHEMATICS: Carol Ruth LeCato adviser to Pi Gamma Mu, the Oreland, Pa. College Commencement ~n Dr. Miller holds other dlstlng honorary social science frater The Duttera Prize BACHELOR OF ARTS Monday, Jun.e 8, was born m uished positions. He is a Dircc nity, and the Men's Student A prize established by Mrs. Letty Millicent Achey Allen ",TiJliam Kinloch, Jr. Tampa, FlOrIda, and was edu- tor and First Vice President of Government. Amos Duttera to be awarded to Kenneth Alan Bailey James Monroe Kriebel, Jr. cated in the public SCh?ols of The Associated Press, Chair Dr. Pancoast, who is married the student attaining the high Richard Louis Barbour Gertrude Fetterolf Laurenson Akron,. Ohio, Akron Umver~ity man of the Advisory Board of is est standing in the study of Justine Alberta Baver Loib Gail Lefever and Hl~am C?llege, from which the American Press Institute of to a former Ursinus graduate, Robert Beaver the father of two daughters. Dr. church history. John Paul Lim, Jr. he recel.ved hIS Bachelor. of Arts Columbia University, Member of Rosalie Heather Bellairs Thomas Martin McCabe degree m 1941. He r.ecelved his the Pulitzer Prize Board, Past and Mrs. Pancoast live on Sev Mrs. Anne Markland Bruce Edson Birch William .\rthur McQuoid. Jr. enth Avenue here In Collegeville. McWilliams, '60 Rohert Eugene Blew Richard ('otton Maddork, Jr. Bachelor o~ DI vim ty degree President of the New York State When interviewed about his Collegeville, Pa. Linda Dora Brenner Elise Ann Meit7.ner from Oberlm Graduate SChool IPublishers Association, Mem resignation, Dr. Pancoast said Emil Fred Bretzger amuel Clemons Miller of Theology, Obe~lin, Ohio, in ber of t.he Gridiron Club and The Peters Prize Albert Francis Bubel William David Miller, 3d 1942 and was o~damed at Ches- National Press Club of Washing that he felt the job was too The Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Morgan much for him to handle, for in Elizabeth Davis Buggeln Roy Jacob Moyer terland Church In June! 1941. He ton, D. C., and a Director of the A. Peters Memorial Prize of $50, Anne Curtis Buxton Mary eborak was ~ter of the First con- I Brand Names Foundation. established under the will of Nancy Marie Byrne Fusako Ono gregational Church of Holyoke, Swinton Chosen Emma Jane Peters, is awarded William Holmes Carson, Jr. Milton Curtis Parker, Jr. Massachusetts, from 1949 to 1956 Dr. MiUer. who has traveled 10 annually to a man in the, Sen Anthony Peter Cianci ancy Layton Parsly and is now Senior Minister ot I official capacity through Europe, Ann Colbert Patricia Lea Patterson the Congregational Chul"ch of Central and South America, and As New MSGA Rep. ior Class for excellence in the William Harold CODnelly, Jr. Sandra June Piper study of the Bible. Bruce John Cuthbert Lawrence Newman Powell, Jr. San Mateo, California.. He has I the Near East, resides w~th his From Sophomores Mr. Paul A. Constantine, '59 Allan Evans Daniels Pre ton Clarence Risbaw held many posts in the Congre- wlfe and four children m Ro Philadelphia, Pa. Barbara Ellen DeGeorge Jacqueline Robbins gational Church and in interde- chester. He Is active in the ost On Monday, June 1, in an el Ba rry Lee Dempsey Patricia Ann Robinson nominational organizations, in- PresbyterIan Church and a t: The Ursinus Women's Club Michael Joseph Drewniak, Jr. Carolyn Elizabeth Royle ection held among Freshman Prize cluding membership in the Ex-I 01 business and industrial! clvic Llewellyn Fogel Dryfoos, Jr. Joan Marie Schaefer ecutive Committee of the Gener- and social organizations m his men, John Swinton was elected A prize offered by the Ursinus Valerie Anne Cross Dunnington William Dougla Seasholtz as next year's Sophomore repre Cora Lee Eddy Michael John Semach al Council of Congregational hOf!le Clty.

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