The University of Maine DigitalCommons@UMaine University of Maine Alumni Magazines University of Maine Publications 10-1949 Maine Alumnus, Volume 31, Number 1, October 1949 General Alumni Association, University of Maine Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/alumni_magazines Part of the Higher Education Commons, and the History Commons Recommended Citation General Alumni Association, University of Maine, "Maine Alumnus, Volume 31, Number 1, October 1949" (1949). University of Maine Alumni Magazines. 154. https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/alumni_magazines/154 This publication is brought to you for free and open access by DigitalCommons@UMaine. It has been accepted for inclusion in University of Maine Alumni Magazines by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@UMaine. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Reproduction From a Color Print. From a S eries. “ Historical Events of Portland ” Copyright 1948. The Canal National Bank of Portland. Maine The First Newspaper Portland's first regular newspaper was called the Falmouth Gazette and There’s a "Public Notice that the Court of General Sessions of the Peace Weekly Advertiser. Volume I, No. 1, is dated January 1, 1785. Benjamin stands adjourned to Wednesday at three o’clock at the House of Mr. Alice Titcomb and Thomas B. Wait were responsible for this endeavor, which Creele . .”— evidently typographical errors being common in those days, continued from that date for some years after. as now. The first issue, which may be seen at the library of the Maine Historical The left hand column on the front page carries a notice: Society, is of four pages, somewhat smaller than our present-day newspapers, "T O THE PUBLIC: From the generous encouragement of a number but larger than what we know today as “ tabloid” newspapers. It has a of Respectable Gentlemen in Falmouth . we have undertaken to very deep masthead and three columns of type. Publish a weekly News Paper . We hope it will meet with Gen­ Even the first issue contained advertisements. One Abraham Osgood eral Approbation . .” "from London” offers an assortment of "English Goods and Hard Ware to And this plea: be sold FOR CASH CHEAP at his store on King-Street (now Congress).” In "O ur Subscribers will recollect . this Gazette, three months in another, James Fosdick "at his Store in Middle-Street offers an assortment advance was to be Paid on receiving the First Number. If to avoid of English and West-lndia goods, Philadelphia Bar-Iron, New England Rum the inconvenience of making just this Sum any Gentleman should per Barrell . .” also for CASH. be inclined to pay three Shillings, or any larger Sum, he shall be Further on, William Pratt "from London has just imported in the brig­ credited with the Same . and, as the Setting up of this Press antine John, a quantity of goods, for which cash will be given . inquire has been attended with some extraordinary Expense, will be at the Store of Joseph McLellan and Son.” Thankfully received.” BUILDING WITH MAINE FOR 123 YEARS THE CANAL NATIONAL BANK OF PORTLAND main Office. 188 MIDDLE ST., PORTLAND, ME. B ran ch . 14 CONGRESS SQ., PORTLAND. ME. Branch, 93 MAIN ST.. YARMOUTH, ME. COMPLETE FINANCING, TRUST & BANKING FACILITIES * M em ber F ederal R eserve System • M em b er Federal D eposit Insurance C orporation ★ OR the first time in several years af- FALL REGISTRATION more nearly meet the University of Maine | fairs on campus might be termed average than for several years. The G.I. F (For the third day of the college year) “nearly normal.” True, the enrollment on seems to be losing his diffident and casual the Orono campus, but not for the Uni­ Sept. 22 Sept. 23 attitude toward the Maine “ Hello” and versity, is at a record number of 4370. 1948 1949 other traditions of the campus. The highest enrollment was in 1948 when Graduates 112 108 The Class of 1953 approached the fresh­ both Orono and Brunswick had 4796 stu­ Seniors 878 1427 man rules with enthusiasm. The blue dents. Juniors 1472 997 “beanies” move in groups about the cam­ There are still on the campus tempo­ Sophomores 1113 850 pus carefully skirting the lawns and “ giv­ rary dormitories, classroom and other fa­ Freshmen ( Orono) 140 811 ing way” to upperclassmen under the cilities. Classes continue to start early (Brunswick) 683 watchful eyes and black spots of the and run until after five in the afternoon. Specials 46 42 Sophomore Owls and the blue stars of the There are crowded conditions in some Two-Year Agriculture 59 47 Sophomore Eagles. quarters and the campus seems to be over­ Three-Year Nurses 55 56 Football practice has had a large flowing with students. group of undergraduate spectators in fair 4558 4338 Finances, or rather the lack thereof, and foul weather. Various campus organ­ continue to plague the Trustees and the izations were off to a good start. Administration. The raise in tuition ef­ commendable job in getting the Class of Because of limited dormitory space, fective this fall is barely sufficient to meet '53 off to a flying start. All freshman about 50 freshmen were housed in various the minimum operating budget for which men are housed in the North Dorms with fraternity houses until upperclass pledging the 94th Legislature failed to appropriate the ’53 coeds assigned to East and West in early October. At that time, the upper­ enough money. Many of the desirable and Halls. classmen will move into the fraternities necessary standards will have to wait— Smaller classes, in many instances, make and the freshmen into the dormitories. not an unknown circumstance. tor better academic standards. The new The Bookstore is still the most popu­ lous daytime spot on campus, with the There are many cheering signs signal­ Plant Science and Engineering Buildings Snack Bar in Carnegie basement also a ling the end of the post-war period. All and the remodelling of Coburn and Win­ favorite rendezvous. students are now at Orono with the official gate Halls will greatly enhance the in­ Alumni can have pride in the auspicious closing of the Brunswick Campus on June struction of students. These additions and opening of the Eighty-Second year of 31—a venture that was a definite success, changes, needed for many years, brighten their alma mater and the Sixteenth year enabling more than 2300 students to start the University’s outlook immeasurably. under the able and inspiring leadership of their college education. A Freshman Week Also heartening is the addition to the Li­ Dr. Hauck. program of renewed vigor was under the brary facilities of the large main reading direction of a faculty committee headed by room and the Bass Room, which until this Prof. Matthew McNeary. The All-Maine year have been used for classrooms. Work A section of the Class of 1953 at is rapidly going forward in the conver­ the freshman assembly when Dr. Women and the Senior Skulls had early Hauck welcomed them to the Uni­ last spring planned a program of indoc­ sion of these two rooms, thus giving more versity. This was the twenty-sixth trination to the customs of the campus. study space in the Library. freshman week, a program originat­ ed at Maine and now almost uni­ These senior honorary groups, assisted by In spite of the large student body, there versally adopted. the Sophomore Eagles and Owls, did a are evidences that this year’s students (Ted Newhall Photo) THE MAINE ALUMNUS 3 OCTOBER, 1949 SONS and DAUGHTERS 53 ROW ONE (left to right) : Jean Hoyt (David W. ’23, Elsie Perry ’23). South Portland; Helen Strong (Willard E. ’24, Ruth Waterhouse ’24), Augusta; Sally Pray (Mary Smith ’22), Hastings-on-Hudson, N. Y .; Patricia King (Milton E. ’20), Brewer; Gertrude Harriman (Philip A. ’24), Wiscasset; Gertrude Wyman (Oscar L. ’26), Orono; Nancy Wheeler (M. Haynes ’29), Fair- field; Phyllis Noyes (Kenneth B. ’19), Orono; Jean DollofF (Richard C. ’27, Erdine Besse ’28), Orono; Beverly Andrews (Langdon F. ’16), North Fryeburg. ROW T W O : Elizabeth Ketchen (Ralph C. ’14), Great W orks; Joan Dunton (James W. ’25), South Portland; Barbara Jack- son (H. Eaton ’21), Brunswick; Jane Purcell (Laura Purcell ’36); Nancy Kelley (Linwood J. ’21, Florence Morrill ’21), Lewis­ ton; Marie Oakman (Walter M.) , Corinth; Jane Noyes (Charles E. ’24), Berwick; Florence Hughey (J. Millard ’19, Edith Deer- ing ’21), East Waterboro; Phyllis Armes (Fred D. ’27), Topsham; Earlyne Blackstone (Earl A. ’29), Caribou; Joan Folsom (Charles H. ’16), Augusta. ROW THREE: Lenore Dinsmore (Wallace S. ’27), Rumford; Joan Hall (John H. ’29), Rumford; Lida Maxim (Harry W. ’30), Lewiston; Joan Huston (Robert D. ’24), Portland; Helen Connon (William D. ’22), Philadelphia, Pa.; Anne Black (W al­ ter L. ’08), Baltimore, M d.; Carolyn Simpson (Oscar S. ’22, Mary Bunker ’22), Centerville, Mass.; Virginia Shaw (Norman ’18), Bar Harbor. ROW FOUR: William Donnell (William T. ’29), Chester, Pa.; Lorraine Harvey (Kingdon ’30, Erminie Davis ’32), Fort Fair- field; Martha Ann White (Philip R. ’22, Martha Sanborn ’23), Reading, Mass.; Loraine McGraw (Earl C. ’22), Hampden; Janet Head (Francis ’18), Bangor; Mary Dickey (Emery S. ’24), Brooks; Cynthia Cowan (Frank I. ’18), Portland; Philip C. Roberts, Jr. (Philip C. ’25, Louise Smith ’28), Portland; Richard Newdick (Erlon L. ’18), Augusta; Gerald Harmon (Carl M. ’26), Bridgton; Moody Bickford (Harry E. ’17), Augusta. ROW FIVE: Thomas L. Dickson, Jr. (Thomas L. ’27), Ridlenville; Chester Cambell (Chester W. ’25), Staten Island, N. Y .; Melvin J. Holmes, Jr. (Melvin J. ’23), Spring Lake, N. J.; Robert Stevens (Dearborn B. ’25, Ellen Myers ’24), Hamburg, N. Y .; Robert Osborne (Sidney ’23), South Deerfield, Mass.