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Bates College SCARAB The aB tes Student Archives and Special Collections 5-15-1963 The aB tes Student - volume 89 number 27 - May 15, 1963 Bates College Follow this and additional works at: http://scarab.bates.edu/bates_student Recommended Citation Bates College, "The aB tes Student - volume 89 number 27 - May 15, 1963" (1963). The Bates Student. 1434. http://scarab.bates.edu/bates_student/1434 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Archives and Special Collections at SCARAB. It has been accepted for inclusion in The aB tes Student by an authorized administrator of SCARAB. For more information, please contact [email protected]. • "Bates Student Vol. LXXXIX, No. 27 BATES COLLEGE, LEWISTON, MAINE, MAY 15. 1963 By Subscription Peace Corps Designates Fifteen Earn Department Honors; Two Seniors For Training "The question before our generation is whether America i Beta Kappa Elects Members is qualified to lead the free world. There is fear that "Essential to personality of any institution is the maintenance of certain traditions," we lack understanding of the world challenge, the vision stated Dean Healy in his Senior Honors Day address last Wednesday. As spokesman for without which freedom will perish. There is fear that this the college community Healy emphasized Honors Day as an important tradition at Bates, nation may lack the understanding heart which is so essen- and announced the names of those seniors who had earned recognition as outstanding tial for the leadership the world requires." So spoke R. Sar- members of their class. gent Shriver as he assumed the directorship of the newly > Elected to the Phi Beta Kap- created Peace Corps in the spring of 1961. pa were the following seniors: Since that time the Peace* nome is in Lexen Dies From Heart Attack Carolyn Berg, Howard Blum, Corps has attempted to alleviate Turner Falls, Mass. William Holt, David Hosford, these fears by sending more "We were requested to take gen- Professor Gesta Ernest Lex- Nancy Levin, Leslie Nute, Mil- than 4000 young (and not so eral as well as specific exams en died of a heart attack yes- dred Pruett, Marion Schanz, and young) people into more than before being considered." Peter terday at 3:30 p. m. at his Judy Trask. stated. "A general four-hour home at 32 Mountain Ave- forty countries throughout the William Holt received the world. Often called the silent exam tested us on our knowl- nue. Dr. Haas, the attending edge of language, history, and physician, said that Lexen, College Club Music Award. generation these men and wo- Departmental honors were English. Other tests covered who was forty, suffered a men are serving as surveyors in awarded to the following schol- Tanganyika, farm extension areas of particular pertinence massive coronary. to the candidate's specialized ars: Carolyn Berg, in physics; workers in Columbia, rural Lexen, who came to Bates as Howard Blum, in government; school teachers in the Philip- field. Each candidate is also re- quired to pass a physical exam- an instructor in Physics in David Compton, in French; pines, and as community health 1954. has been an Assistant William Dunham, in history; workers in Costa Rica. ination." Peter will follow a similar schedule of training as Professor since 1957. He re- Nancy Levin, in sociology; Lois Work in Costa Rica ceived a B.S. degree in Chemi- that of Judy Warren. He hopes Payne, in mathematics; Anna Two members of the present cal Engineering in 1948 and a Poehler, in biology; Natalie Sho- Senior Class have chosen to to be sent to Colombia to teach English and participate in com- M.Ed, in 1954 from Northeastern ber, in biology; George Stone, in spend the next two years of University. economics. their lives working abroad un- munity health projects. der the auspices of the Peace Tradition Behind Corps While at Bates, Lexen was an Winning high honors were Corps. Judith Warren '63 hails active participant on Faculty David Hosford, in history; Les- Although the term Peace lie Nute, in history; Mildred from Springfield. Mass. "My I Corps has a new ring to Amer- team? and a frequent spectator at Bates sporting events. Pruett, in French; Joyce Schil- cher in mathematics. Highest honors were awarded Atlantic Honors Six Solar Eclipse To to William Holt, in chemistry; and Judith Trask, in English. In Essay Contest Occur July 20; Neale Schuman and Nancy Prof. Whitbeck has announced Levin were honored as the out- that several Bates students have Will Shade Me. standing senior members of the gained recognition in the 42nd A total eclipse of the sun will Outing Club. Annual Creative Writing Con- occur on July 20 and its shadow The Mother Abbey Award was presented to Alan Marden. test sponsored by the Atlantic will cross Maine from Quebec Monthly Magazine. The Rob Players award went • Judith Trask '63 received an beginning at 5:41 p.m. E.D.T. to David Hosford. Honorable Mention for her es- The eclipse will last for four Elected to the Bates Key Club say "Men and Women in Love." minutes and-pass into the Atlan- from the senior class were The following students were tic at 5:45. Carolyn Berg, Elizabeth Davis, awarded Certificates of Merit At any one point on the earth Joan Lang, Nancy Levin, Eliz- for their writing: John R. Wil- 4„.„i _u * .u abeth Little, Nona Long, Carol an total eclipse of the sun is vis- , ..... ., * . __ son '63. "Death in Venice: A Long. Judith Mosman, Ruth AnnA Conflict Between Life and Art": ible only about three times m Raymond. Paula Schmidt, Ju- Barbara Hudson '63, "I Have a 1.000 years, although in one dith Trask. Song to Sing"; Linda Browning calendar year two eclipses of Judy Warren '63 and Peter Koch '63 Chosen as College Club mem- '64. "The Highest Art"; Anne the sun must occur and five are bers were Howard Blum. Paul reasons for joining are not ican ears the idea behind its Tobey '63, "Fra Lippo Lippi possible. Castolene. Thorn Freeman, especially unique." Judy stated. creation dates back some fif- Comes to Life"; Richard Dow There will be only five total David Hosford. William Holt, "I just believe in what they're teen hundred years, when St. '64. "Samuel Clemens: Living solar eclipses visible from any- William LaVallee, Douglas trying to do and think it's a Benedict led young men from Cynic." where in North America from Smith, George Stone, Howard good thing. I have no immediate the comfortable society of Rome This work was done in con- now until 2025. Thus the total Vandersea, Louis Winkler. obligations and this seems very to work in the underdeveloped junction with Prof. Berkelman's solar eclipse of July 20 is of par- Nancy Levin was elected to worthwhile." areas of nothern Europe. One of creative writing course. ticular interest. the American Association of Judy leaves in June to study America's greatest proponents This eclipse of the sun will College Women. in an American University of- of such a movement was William occur when the moon passes di- fering strong courses in Latin James, who at the turn of the Dale Hatch rectly between the sun and the American culture. She will century proposed a ''peace earth so that the moon's shadow Planting Of The Ivy army" of young men to go to Funeral services for Dale is cast upon the earth. This al- study language, customs, and Hatch '66, will be held tomor- geography of Latin America war against nature. In "The ways occurs at new moon, but Moral Equivalent of War" row, at two o'clock in the Cen- solar eclipses do not occur each with special emphasis on Costa tral Square Congregational Rica where she will eventually James gave his idea impetus. time the moon is new; the Church in Bridgewater, Mass. work as an instructor in health Purpose of Corps moon's shadow passes either Flowers or other expressions of above or below the earth. Solar education in conjunction with The present day Peace Corps, sympathy may be sent to the mobile health units in the area. created by President Kennedy in eclipses may be partial, total, or church or Mr. and Mrs. Stanley annular, depending on the size As far as Judy knows she'll be fulfillment of a 1960 presidential Hatch of 1633 South Street. living in a rural farming com- of the shadow cone falling on campaign pledge is trying to Steve Quattropani '65 is pres- munity. In preparation for this the earth. They are visible as furnish mankind with some of ently recovering in Bath Mem- she will be given on the spot ex- total over a very narrow band of the substitutes. orial Hospital. What appeared perience working with Spanish the earth at any one time, and "The purpose of the Peace to have been bronchial pneu- speaking communities at the may last from a few seconds to Corps is to permit America to monia has been checked with University of New Mexico be- eight minutes. participate directly, personally, anti-biotics and his temperature fore leaving for Costa Rica. and effectively in this struggle has dropped markedly. Dr. Volunteers Tested for human dignity. A world Stetkevych announced yesterday. On behalf of the Bates A sense of adventure, of trav- community is struggling to be Stetkevych hopes to be able to students we would like eling and meeting people are born, America must be present release Quattropani today or to express our deepest some of the reasons for Peter at the birth, helping to make it early tomorrow, but said that sympathy to the Hatch Koch's interest in the Peace successful." he will have to wait and see if and Lexen families.