Maine Alumnus, Volume 8, Number 6, April 1927
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The University of Maine DigitalCommons@UMaine University of Maine Alumni Magazines University of Maine Publications 4-1927 Maine Alumnus, Volume 8, Number 6, April 1927 General Alumni Association, University of Maine Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/alumni_magazines Recommended Citation General Alumni Association, University of Maine, "Maine Alumnus, Volume 8, Number 6, April 1927" (1927). University of Maine Alumni Magazines. 70. https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/alumni_magazines/70 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]. VOL. 8, NO. 6 APRIL, 1927 TWENTY CENTS RAYMOND L. WALKLEY U. OF M. LIBRARY ORONO, ME. Wingate Hall Entered as second-class matter at the post office at Bangor, Maine, under act of March 3, 1879. 82 THE MAINE ALUMNUS April, 1927 UNIVERSITY STORE COMPANY RGANIZED in 1911 BOARD OF DIRECTORS O and conducted for the Be n ja m in C. K e n t , '12 past fifteen years in the R obert P. Clark, '15 interest of the Athletic Asso- A rcher L. Grover, ’99 ciation, contributing yearly from its profits to the support of J ames A. Ga n n ett, ’08 athletics. Clare H . B row n, ’27 i i■ Taking many mail orders Store Manager , F. L. M anw aring 1 from the Alumni for books im Store Treasurer, I rving P ierce and supplies; making special ■ i■ reunion banners. Books, Student Supplies ■ May we be of service to ■ Tobacco, Sodas, Luncheons ■ you? ■i 3: Confectionery i ■i i ■ i■ i Every Banking Service DILLINGHAM’S OLD TOWN i BOOKSELLERS. STATIONERS AND BOOKBINDERS CHECKING SAVINGS BONDS BANGOR, MAINE TRUST COMPANY TRUSTS VAULTS Savings Department MERRILL TRUST CO. Dexter Bucksport Machias Jonesport ■ NONE BETTER Checking Accounts BANGOR, MAINE State and National Supervision ■ High Grade Bonds ■ KARDEX RAND Bought and Sold LIBRARY BUREAU SAFE CABINET RAND KARDEX SERVICE CORP. PORTLAND—BANGOR G i n g e r A l e OLD TOWN TRUST Blake, Barrows & Brown i Inc. Made by COMPANY President, HARRY M. SMITH, '93 INSURANCE—INVESTMENTS ORONO, MAINE BANGOR, MAINE MAINE MEN Established 1864 Incorporated 1820 i 4 The Maine Alumnus Vol. 8, No. 6 April, 1927 Commencement 1927 and What It Promises Many new features already arranged but delightfully informal in its hospitality. A tentative program appears in this for bear out the commencement commit Alumni should not miss this. issue. Look it over carefully for it is the tee’s promise that commencement this most complete and varied of any yet held year will be seething with real attrac THE MASQUE PLAY at Maine. If this is your reunion year let tions. Something doing every minute nothing keep you from attending. If it The Maine Masque will put on its most seems to have been the committee’s slo is not, come anyway if at all convenient. popular play in the Chapel Thursday gan. A bigger and better commencement Suggestions appreciated. night. Dramatics have been popular this is assured. Eleven classes are holding reunions year and the cast is a strong one. commemorating anniversaries of from PRESIDENT’S RECEPTION five to fifty-five years out. Correspond- A NEW REUNION PLAN ence shows that alumni will be back in President Boardman has given the com PROPOSED large numbers. Some of the returning mittee every co-operation and support. classes plan to shatter all attendance He is holding his reception in the Chapel The alumni office has been advised that records as well as show the campus pep and at an earlier hour than usual so that a new plan of class reunions is to be rec- and Maine spirit unapproachable. alumni and students can step from his ommended for Maine at the annual meet- receiving line to the gymnasium where ing at Commencement. This is based on UNDERGRADUATES STAYING the Student Hop will be held. the so called “Dix Plan” already in use Here the men’s and women’s musical And they are to have an audience and by many of the better organized alumni clubs, glee clubs and combined clubs will many playmates, for this year the under- associations and being rapidly adopted by entertain, and all may dance. This is a graduates are planning on staying over. many more. new feature that is sure to be appreciated. The Military camp which has interrupted At present classes return for reunions the final weeks of the college year has every five years from date of graduation. CLASS FROLICS been discontinued. Examinations con- The new proposal would recast the system tinue through Wednesday and the Com- Just what the reunion classes plan is in order that classes associated as under- mencement Program starts Thursday generally unknown until the last minute graduates might hold reunions to-gether. evening Evidences of student support but the live ones are busy and the fight for The accompanying chart is self-explan and co-operation are shown by the band, the limelight between such live wire ag- atory. In brief, the basis of the schedule boys and girls musical clubs and the gregations as 1922-1917-1912, 1907, 1902 is that each class shall come back to Orono masque All these are volunteering to of the twentieth century group and the with three other classes associated with it take an active part in the program and more dignified but perhaps even more in college, instead of, as at present, with to “stay for commencement”. impressive appearance of the older groups “strangers” (classes separated by more should assure anyone of a very interesting than a college generation). At the end of BAND time between lunch and the ball game. A a cycle of nineteen years a class will have The band will be on hand for Class Day committee on class reunions is already held a reunion with each one of the six exercises Friday P.M.; for class frolics working with the several class secre- classes contemporary with it in college. and the ball game on Saturday; for the taries To take a specific instance, in 1923 the parade to the Alumni Banquet and for classes of 1901, 1900, 1899, and 1898 Commencement on Monday A fine BASEBALL would meet at one time, together with Maine spirit is shown by these boys. other groups of four classes, both earlier It was difficult to get a baseball game and later years. At the next reunion, in scheduled this year. The other Maine DANCING 1928, 1901 would be eliminated from the colleges are taking examinations on that group, while 1897 would be added, to come date. However the Athletic Board voted Alumni and students, with wives, daugh- back with 1900, 1899, and 1898. Reunions a game should be scheduled and Prof. ters, sweethearts and friends, will find would occur every five years, except in the Kent is hard after one. He will get it. dances galore. A Student Hop for Friday case of every fourth reunion, when the Maine has a fine ball club and alumni night; an Alumni Hop for Saturday night interval would he four years. will enjoy seeing it in action. offer one and all. be he student or alumnus Classes might also hold twenty-fifth an opportunity to dance on these evenings THE ALUMNI BANQUET and fiftieth anniversaries as at present. to excellent music—and free of charge. This will necessitate merely a slight mod There will also be numerous house The Maine band will lead the parade ification of the Dix Plan, and it is felt parties at the several fraternity houses to the old gymnasium where the tradi that the sentimental appeal of these cele to which, of course, alumni will be wel tional banquet will be held. A real ban brations is such as to make their elimina comed. quet will be provided and stunts at it this tion most undesirable. There would of Dancing and about everything else, but year will be dignified but good. Speak course be instances when a class would packing the old grip, will end when the ers will be few and the best to be obtained. normally be scheduled for a reunion, un strains of the last waltz die down at the More will be told about the Banquet der the Dix Plan, at, say, its twenty- Commencement Ball—formal to be sure, in the May ALUMNUS. fourth or twenty-sixth year. In such a 84 THE MAINE ALUMNUS April, 1927 case it would seem to be a question for Proposed Reunion Plan the service of the bureau of appointments decision by the class as to whether such a on a more efficient basis. reunion should be omitted in view of the 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 The entire work of the Committee on important celebration held one year earlier Appointments has recently been reorgan- or one year later. ’32 ’32 ’31 ’31 ized and placed under the chairmanship To take a further example, the class of ’30 ’30 of Professor O. S. Lutes, Head of the ’29 ’29 ’29 1920 would under the proposed arrange- ’28 ’28 ’28 Department of Education. An aggressive ment have reunions in the following years : ’27 ’27 ’27 effort is being made to make the bureau ’26 ’26 ’26 ’26 1923, 1927, 1932, 1937, 1942, 1946, 1951, ’25 ’25 ’25 function more efficiently both for the *24 ’24 1956, 1961, 1965, 1970, 1975, 1980, etc. If ' 23 ’23 ’23 graduates of the University and for the it was decided to have a reunion at the ’22 ’22 ’22 ’21 ’21 ’21 Superintendents and other officials of the end of the twenty-five-year period, the re- *20 ’20 ’20 state who have to employ teachers and ’19 ’ 19 ’19 union of 1946 could be easily shifted back ’ 18 ’18 ’18 school administrators.