Colby Alumnus Vol. 34, No. 5: March 1945
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Colby College Digital Commons @ Colby Colby Alumnus Colby College Archives 1945 Colby Alumnus Vol. 34, No. 5: March 1945 Colby College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/alumnus Part of the Higher Education Commons Recommended Citation Colby College, "Colby Alumnus Vol. 34, No. 5: March 1945" (1945). Colby Alumnus. 279. https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/alumnus/279 This Other is brought to you for free and open access by the Colby College Archives at Digital Commons @ Colby. It has been accepted for inclusion in Colby Alumnus by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Colby. "HE COLBY 0 !lRCH_, 1945 ALUMNUS COLBY ON TO VICTORY R. J. PEACOCK CAN NING CASCADE WOOL EN MILL COMPANY Oakland, Maine Lubec Maine Manufacturers of Canners of WOO LENS MAINE SARDINES The Wa terville Morning Sentinel is the paper ca rrying the most news of Colby Col •••COFFEE, JHAT GRACES . THE TABLES 6F AMERICA1S lege. 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MAINE'S OLDEST AND Electric Refrigeration LARGEST STA TIONERS 176 Main Street Heating and Plumbing Monument Square WATERVILLE MAINE Equipment "Established o,·er a Century" PORTLAND MAINE COLBY ALUMNI ARE INVITED TO BANK BY MAIL WITH Dakin S orting p Emery-Brown Co. Goods Co. The Federal SUPPLIES FOR HUNTER, WATERV!LLE'S ATHLETE, FISHERMAN Trust Company LEADING WATERVILLE, MAINE 25 Center St. 67 Temple St. DEPARTMENT STORE \1ember, Federal Deposit Ins. Corp. BANGOR WATERVILLE For Compliments of Compliments of SERVICE, DEPENDABILITY and QUALITY - Call Wm. Levine and PURI TAN ALLEN'S Sons MEN'S CLOTHING RESTAURANT 151 Main Street Drug Store 19 Main Street ROBERT A. DEXTER, Mgr. WATERVILLE MAINE WATERVILLE MAINE 118 Main St., Waterville, Me. Compliments of Compliments of Boothby and Waterville Bartlett RE D STAR GENERAL INSURANCE LAUNDRY Fruit & Produce Co., Inc. South Street 185 Main Street l 0 Sanger Avenue WATERVILLE MAINE WATERVILLE MAINE WATERVILLE, MAINE ,,I COMPLIMENTS OF HOLLINGSWORTH & WHITNEY COMPANY Manufacturers of Pulp and Paper MARK Mills at Winslow and Madison, Maine, and Mobile, Alabama COMPLIMENTS OF BATH IRO N WORKS CORP ORATION Shipbuilders & Engineers Builders of NAVAL AN D MERCHANT VESS ELS Bath Maine The Colby Alumnus Dear Editor: - The ovember issue of the Alumnus just arrived and the FOUNDED 191 I world suspended for 15 minutes while I quickly glanced over it. Before long, Volume 34 March 15, 1945 Number 5 however, every word will be read - probably many times. The football article has already helped me win an argument with a Bates man in my unit CONTENTS regarding the 1941 game. The President's Page 4 - PFc. \VILLIA�I FINKELDEY, '43. The Talk of the College .. 5 Philippines Colby's Second Half-Century Frederick A. Pottle, '17 7 The Midwinter Commencement 9 Dear Editor: - The ovember is ue S.S. Colby Launched 10 o{ the Alumn1ts came in last night and Pictorial Section 11 I can't remember ever enjoyi�1g one With the Colors 19 more. It's the first I've seen since my Bronze Star to Nelson, '27 channel crossing last summer, and I Report from Down Under was definitely not "au courant. " The Getting Acquainted with the French only interruption of my cover to cover White Imperialism is Vulnerable reading was for fire missions. Killing Life in Alsace the Hun must come first, even before Service Personals such ob\'ious pleasures. Tonight, if light is aYailable, the issue will stand Class Notes about Colby Men and W men ................... 24 a re-reading. Milestones 25 - PVT. BREWSTER A. BRANZ, '40. Necrology 26 With the Third Army Charles A. Flagg, '86 Willard L. McFaddan, '98 Jessie Curtis Foye, '99 Dear Editor: - I got my November Seth H. Allen, '04 copy of the Alumnus and have read it Dennis T. O'Leary, '18 all already although I only received it * S-Sgt. F. 0. Sawyer, '37 yesterday. But, as soon as one comes * Sgt. George 0. Nelson, '40 I always stop whatever I am doing and * Pfc. Gilbert E. Potts, '42 proceed to devour the contents and I *Pvt. John C. Stevens, '42 don't stop until I have read it all. I *Pvt. David Bruckheimer, Jr., '47 really enjoy reading them. I particu larly enjoyed the article on football. -T-ScT. SHERMAN A. McPHERSON, '44. EDITOR JOSEPH COBURN SMITH, '24 Italy BUSINESS MANAGER ELLSWORTH W. MILLETT, '25 EDITOR . VIVIAN M. MAXWELL, '44 ASSISTANT Dear Editor: - I wish to express to ADVISORY EDITORIAL BOARD you my appreciation for the receipt of the Alumnus. I can assure TERM EXPIRES IN 1945 TERM EXPIRES IN 1946 TERM EXPIRES IN 1947 you, it is Hugh D. Beach, '36 Marguerite M. Chamberlain, '15 Charles H. Gale, '22 eagerly anticipated and read, not only Elizabeth W. Butler, '21 Jane Montgomery Cole, '38 Richard G. Kendall, '32 by myself, but by my fellow officers, '43 '13 Alfred K. Chapman, '25 Wi.lliam Finkeldey, Diana Wall Pitts, all of whom I am proud to say, have James McMahon, '44 H. Warren Foss, '96 Richard S. Reid, '44 long known of our school, and of some Betry Ann Royal, '42 R. Irvine Gammon, '37 John M. Richardson, '16 of its Edward F. Stevens, '89 John J. Pullen, '35 Elizabeth F. Savage, '40 illustrious alumni, to wit: "Colby Jack " Coombs. - ENs. RoBERT E. TIMMINS, '45, PUBLISHER-The Alumni Council of Colby College. Entered as second-class mail Fleet Post Office US R. 25, 1912, Office at Waterville, Me., under Act of March 3, 1879. matter Jan. at the Post San Francisco, Calif. ISSUED eight times yearly on the 15th of October, NO\·ember, January, February, March, April, May and July. $.25. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE - $2.00 per year. Single Copies, Checks should be Dear Editor: - Just want to let you made payable to THE COLBY ALUMNUS. Correspondence regarding subscriptions knm.v that 477, I ha\'e been receiving the or advertising should be addressed to Ellsworth W. Millett, Box Waterville, Maine. Colby Alumnus regularly, Contributions should be sent to The Editor, llox 477, Waterville, Maine. and that the boys tn my outfit, as well as myself• who wishes to discontinue his or her subscription should give notice A subscriber have enjoyed it very much. to that effect before its expiration. Otherwise it will be continued. - PFc. Rrr.HARD D. GooDRIDGE, '44. Germany Some Yi itors who ha\·e had a chance to . tucly collea-e life on many different campuses told me recently that they were particularly impre eel here by the frequent u ·e of the expres_inn " olby Family " on the part f tho e with whom they talked. The 111 re I watch the life of our college community the more con Yinced I become that it is rn t a mere entimental phra e but tands for an actual \\'Orkino- relati@ship. \Ve are a family here at Colby in the _en e that faculty, admini·tration, and tuclent hare a comm n set of aims and take a common pride in oluy achieYernent . I believe it can be said al o that each gr 1up ha. a larger degree of confidence in the other than i found in many college . :\t least, a I ob erve the atti tude taken by tuclents and member of the faculty tmYarc.l one another I feel the pre ence of an intere t and at times an affection that makes f r a kind of cooperative living that one doe. not alway ee in an in titution of this sort. The re ult. of cour e, i an immeasurable enrichment of our life together. Teachers teach better and tuclents learn better becau e of it. Education become a friendly ex change of opinion in tead of a et of fact to be memorized. The proce called "guid ance " and "coun elling" which on ome campu e i made very tiff and official becomes for us simply a matter of an informal vi it of teacher and student I efore or after cla ses, or at home in the evening. Democratic procedures of Yariou orts appear naturally in a community where rules are made in an atmo phere of mutual respect and understanding. large institution can develop this priceles quality in its social life only with the great est difficulty. Even a mall in titution may easily lo e it. \\ e mu t be particularly on our guard le t omething happen to interfere with it here a \Ye move to our new surroundings on \Iayflower Hill. Yet the danger will not be great .o long a the alumni continue to remind us that this is the kind of college they want to ee continued. The letters we re ceive from servicemen bring out with particular empha_i \Yhat member hip in uch a fam ily may mean in troubled times like these.