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Official COLBY Hotels Higher Degrees The Colby Alumnus D. D. -Rev. Evan J. Shearman, FOUNDED 1911 '22, the American Interna­ tional College of Spring­ field, Mass. Volume 29 Number 8 M. D. -Alton D. Blake, Jr., '36, by the University of Pennsyl­ vania, Philadelphia, Pa. CONTENTS M. D. -E. Noyes Ervin, '36, by Johns Hopkins University, THE COVER Baltimore, Md. Photograph of Conrad W. Swift, '40, and Virginia Duggan, '42 M. D. -Milton M. Goldberg, '36, Tufts Medical School. The President's Page ------­ 2 M. D. -Don Larkin, '35, by McGill Talk of the College ------­ 3 University, Montreal, Can­ Ten Receive Honorary Degrees ------­ 6 ada. Digest of Commencement Speeches ------8 M. D. -Howard C. Pritham, '36, Cla s Day Oration, by Klaus Dreyer, '40 Tufts Medical School. Class Day Address, by Pl'ofessor Webster Chester M. D. --JQhn Reynolds, '36 by the Alumnae Luncheon Remarks, by Ina McCausland, '15 University of Pennsylva­ Baccalaureate Sermon, by Rev. Albert W. Beaven nia, Philadelphia, Pa. Boardman Sermon, by Vernelle W. Dyer, '15 D. M.D.-Louis Rancourt, '36, by Commencement Address, by Elizabeth F. Brenner, '40 Tufts College. Commencement Address, by Ernest C. Marriner, Jr., '40 LL. B. -Howard R. Brackett, '37, Kay Herrick Escapes German Bombs ------­ 14 by Boston University Law Student Oratory in the Fifties ------15 r - School. Spirit High at Commencement Dinner______By Alice Frost Lord 16 LL. B. --James Glover, '37, by Bos­ Echoes from the Class Reunion-______17 ron University Law School Oommencement Play a Hit ------­ 19 LL. B. -Robert Haskell, '37, by Graduate Bodies Elect ------20 Harvard Law School. om Colby's "Victory Year" ______By Leonel L. Saucier, '27 21 LL. B. -Asa Roach, '37, by Boston Local Colby Clubs ------­ 23 t<:m University Law School. Necrology ------24 LL. B. -Percy H. Willette, '37, by Frederick G. Chutter, '85 Boston University Law Verne M. Whitman, '94 School. Haven Metcalf, '96 ion M. A. -Stanley L. Clement, '39, Class Notes About Colby Men and Women______25 �r byUniversity of Maine. Milestones ______------27 M. A. = -Constance Knickerbocker, '39, 'by Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Med­ EDITOR OLIVER L. HALL, '93 ford, Mass. ASSISTANT EDITOR JOSEPH COBURN SMITH, '24 M. A. -Lawrence A. Peakes, '28, by Bates College. BUSINESS MANAGER G. CECIL GODDARD, '29 M. A. -Francis Calvin Prescott, EDITORIAL BOARD Leonel L. Saucier, '27 Myrta Little Davies, '08 '38, by Fletcher School of ,e Harold F. Lemoine, ·32 Nellie Pottle Hankins, '25 Term Expires in 19�U Law and Diplomacy, Med­ Frederick T. Hill, '10 Hazel Co.e Shupp, '11 I Thaddeus F. Tilton, '20 Catherine C. Laughton, '36 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ford, Mass.

Harland R. Ratcliffe, '23 Oliver L. Hall, '93 M. A. -Girlandine I. Priest, '26, by for Grace Wells Thompson, '15 �se Term Expires in 194! Caleb A. Lewis, '03 Bate College. Mira L. Dolley, '19 Edward F. Stevens, '89 Ervena Goodale Smith. '24 1re M. A. -Maynard Waltz, '38, by Joseph Coburn Smith, '24 Term Expires in 1941 Caleb A. Lewis, '03 Wesleyan University, Mid­ le11 Clarence L. Judkins. '81 Raymond Spinney, '21 Alfred K. Chapman. '25 dletown, Conn. nts Bernard E. Esters, '21 Alfred K. Chapman, '25 G. Cecil Goddard, '29 M. S. -Frederick B. Oleson, '38, by I Univeristy of Maine. m mat- PUBLISHER-The Alumni Council of Colby College. Entered as second-class � M.B.A.-Robert . Anthony, '38, by ger Act of March 3, 1819. J ter Jan. 25, 1912, at the Post Office at Watervire, Me., under the February, March, I Harvard School of Business ISSUED eight times yearly on the 15th of October, November, January, Administration. April, May and Jul� . per year. Single Copies. $.35. Correspondence regard rng SUBSCRIPTION PRICE-$2.00 . I I\l. ED.-Richard P. Hodsdon, '29, by Bo 477 Watervtlle, subscriptions or advertising should be addressed to G. Cecil Godd�rd, � · Bates College. Me. Contributions should be sent to The Editor, Box 477. Waterville, Maine. ·1 1\1. ED.-Charles W. Jordan, '29, by Bates College. 2 THE COLBY ALUMNUS

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Within the space of two years, the cor­ week, have accepted their respon ibility for nerstones of six Colby buildings h::tve been seeing this undertaking through, and in no laid, and the structures of four of these may small part the two dormitories commenced be seen today on the sky line of Mayflower thi spring have been made possible Hill. The last two cornerstones were swung through their gifts. I am eager that the into place during the Commencement just Colby family realize and appreciate the fact past, and day by day the bricks of the walls that their support is being augmented by for these two dormitories are rising. an ever-widening circle of friends of this college. There was something deeply significant to me at this occasion. When we laid the There was another mood which I could cornerstone for the Lorimer Chapel, the not throw off as we laid the cornerstones in Roberts Union, the Women's Union, and the that quiet countryside. Hourly we had been Miller Library, we were erecting buildings receiving more and more disastrous reports made possible by the gifts and pledges of from Europe, but it was hard to realize that our own Colby family. As such, they are in Europe and Asia war was raging with monuments to the self-sacrificing generos­ unprecedented ferocity ana that this was ity of an alumni body whose loyalty can be soon to be extended to Africa-the three equalled by few if any institutions, large or continents in which man has longe t dwelt small. Nevertheless, it has been obvious and struggled toward the goal which we that even though our own people have out­ have called civilization. The results of this done themselves on behalf of their college, struggle through the ages seemed to have the project of the Mayflower Hill campus crumbled in a few short months. Material was of such magnitude that the assistance and spiritual values, slowly and latoriously of a wider circle of friends must be solicit­ accumulated through the centuries, are be­ ed. It was equally obvious that the magni­ ing ruthlessly destroyed. tude of the benefits to be obtained far ex­ In this period of gloom, bordering on de­ ceeded the gain that would accrue to Colby spair, the simple exercises of that Sunday College itself. This project is of definite presented a heartening contrast. The beau­ importance to the whole educational set-up tiful buildings which surrounded us were of the State of Maine, and every citizen and dedicated to the arts of enlightenment and friend of this State has a stake in its early peace. The Mayflower Hill project has been r·ompletion. termed a venture of faith. The achieve­ ments of a hundred and twenty year and Such was the line of reasoning which we the present vitality of Colby College are the submitted to the public last year. And so, basis of that faith. on that Sunday afternoon, as representative leaders from different parts of Maine, none That the light of learning shall not grow of whom had any previous direct connection dim; that the knowledge and love of God with this college, spread the mortar on shall rule the lives of men; that freedom which rest the cornerstones of these two and justice shall prevail-these are the su­ dormitories, I realized that our faith in our preme ends which America must serve. To neighbors has been well founded. Some these aims Colby College is dedicated, and 879 citizens, and their number grows each we shall carry on in the faith of our fathers. THE COLBY ALUMNUS 3

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OMMENCEMENT - When you used room in South College and were other u e, together with a descrip­ C come to think of it, there is making the rafters ring with banging tion of the property, was filed with something impressive in the way that heels and shouted song to the screech­ the New England Council this win­ thousands of adults all over the na­ ing strains of "Turkey in the Straw." ter and an issue of their bulletin tion leave their work and journey A knock on the door sounded. "Come came out with a breezy "Campus for back to their respective campuses on in, you darn fool," said the future Sale" item. The President says that every June. It is a sentimental rite President of Colby College, "the a few tentative nibbles have been that belies the conception Qf success­ door's unlocked!" In walked Presi­ made 'by various speculative parties, ful Americans as single-minded, hard­ dent Champlin. Silence. "What's but that no one who appears really headed realists. Why this compul­ going on here ?" he thundered. Stew­ to mean business has yet appeared on sion to revisit Alma Mater? art explained that they were enjoy­ the horizon. The remote hope is that Many reasons come to mind. The ing a little song and hoped that they the property may be exchanged for alumni may be vaguely homesick for were not d•oing anything amiss. The the equivalent of two or three new the environment where they spent stem-visaged doctor looked all buildings. Such a proposition would four years : not their happiest years, around, accepted a broken chair, laid just about mean Moving Day for Col­ (as orators so glibly say) , but years his cane across his tall hat on the by College. of development, changing ideas, floor. "Go right ahead," he said, stretching vision, intense experiences, noticeably relaxed in demeanor. So crossing the threshold to adulthood. the boys rendered a few Qf their fa­ ONORARY-What an important Many come back to show Qff their vorites. The doctor arose. "Thank H part of the Commencement rit­ ual the honorary degrees have be­ college to wife, husband, children. you, I think I shall go now. And Some merely want an excuse to get (hr-r-umph) perhaps it would be just c•ome! The "hoods"-vestigial re­ away from their daily routine. Others as well if you did not mention this to mains of medieval scholasticism­ like to see and gloat over the progress anyone." "And so," concluded the add dabs of color to the severe black being made. Some enjoy the stimu­ white-haired graduate Qf 66 years robes ; the traditional words of the President : "The hood with which you lation offered by the speakers at the ago, "this never has been mentioned, have been invested, and the diploma various exercises. Most look forward to my knowledge, until today." which I now place in your hand. to the fellowship of renewed ac­ . . . "; the craning Qf necks to get a quaintances with classmates or teach­ DDRESS-From the learned ad­ good look at the Nobel Prize winner, ers. dress of George Lyman Kit­ A the veteran teacher, the distinguished But unexpressed, and probably tredge, we seem to recall only the fol­ scholar, the preacher of the Gospel; subconscious, we 'believe there is the lowing : -all this contributes to the pagean­ hunger to escape for a day or two Of all the hundreds of times within try of Commencement. from the petty and the transitory, the last thirty years that an alumnus and feel oneself again a part of an has asked me why the faculty didn't It is an old tradition. At the very institution which is permanent, well­ do this or that, in not one case was I first Commencement, in 1822, when i-ooted, worthy in accomplishment, unable to say that the matter had al­ George Dana BQardman and Ephraim noble in aim-an institution dedica­ ready been discussed by the faculty. Tripp became the first alumni of the ted to the proposition that Truth shall Is learning worth while? To a man college, the honorary degree of A.M. make us free. who asked me what was the use of was given to one Samuel Wait. Just working so hard to learn things which why, is obscure. Apparently he had R. CHAMP-A different sidelight you promptly forgot after examina­ been ordained to the ministry four D on the rather grim picture of tions, I asked in return : "How many years 'before, and in the following President James Tift Champlin which pounds of beef have you consumed year was to becQme a tutor in Colum­ we have always held was given by during the last thirty years?" He bia College. But there must have Judge Horace W. Stewart, '74, who made a quick estimate of many hun­ been something about him that stamp­ was introduced to the Alumni Lunch­ dreds of pounds. "Well then," I said, ed him as outstanding, for the judg­ ment of those early trustee was not eon gathering as the Oldest Living "how much of that remains in your Graduate. He also brought out a system as beef?" The implications are misplaced. Twelve years later, Wait became the first president and found­ lighter side to the personality Qf bis obvious. chum, Nathaniel Butler, '72, whom er of Wake Forest College, that splen­ did Baptist college in orth Caro­ most of us knew as a president of this OR SALE-There is no "For Sale, lina. college or Dean of the School of Edu­ Consult Your Broker" sign on the F Hom>rary doctor's degrees, how­ cation at the UniveTSity of Chicago. Colby campus. Nevertheless the ulti­ eve1', did not come into vogue until Well, it seems that Stewart and mate disposal of the present Colby 1839, when Professor Irah Chase of Nat greatly enjoyed singing and property is receiving some thought on Newton Theological Institution was dancing. In fact, Butler was describ­ the part of the trustees, even though com­ given a D.D. Also in that year and ed as "almost a professional dancer." the Number One problem is the state­ for a few years following, the rather So one night, in company with an­ pletion of the new campus. A campus dubious practice of conferring an other student who was a fiddler of ment of the fact that the for an- honorary M.D. was carried on. The parts, these boys had found an un- might soon become available 4 THE COLCY ALUM ·us first Doctor of Laws wa conferred to bring them together. The outcome give u. th e truth, that we can trust in 1831 upon Nathan Weston, Chief was a ba,e'ball game in 1 2 between you. W want you to be quiet and

Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court the Bowdoin and Colby classe of ' 4 poised, for th n we know that every­ of Maine and one of the charter mem­ held in Augu,ta on the park in front thing i all right" . . climax of the ber of the Board 'Of Trustee . There­ of the State House where now stand prngram : the tradition:-; of Old Colby, after only the honorary degrees of those gloriou. avenues of tall elm . by Helen . Han on, 'J 5; the in pfra­ LL.D., D.D., and A.M., were given At the encl of the 9th the score wa tion of the New Colby, by Ina M. Mc­ until as recently as 1903 when Col­ 7-7, and the Bowdoin sophs ;;uggested cau>:land, '15. by's first Litt.D., was conferred upon that the game be called but the Col­ Profes or Walter Cochrane Bronson, by boys wanted to play it out and the OUBLE TROUBLE-When one of the Engli h department of B1"'0wn game ended in the 10th with Colby, D has two alma maters, he double Univer ity. These fancy doctorate '84, winning 9-7. Then both teams hi;; alumni fund obligation . This is that we hear of nowaday , then, are a adjourned to the Cony House for din­ "\vhat happened to James H. Halpin, comparatively recent development. ner and an evening of fraternizing. '26, who spent two years each at Col­ Some big names appear among Cummings continued his role of by and Bowdoin. But if he wanted those early recipients: Hannibal Ham­ peacemaker until graduation, feel­ either alumni ecretary to think that lin, General 0. 0. Howard, Samuel ing a compul ion to interpret the rival he was contrbuting exclu ively to one F. Smith, General Benjamin Butler, colleges and rival fraternities to each fund, he shouldn't have put the James G. Blaine, Thomas Brackett other and secure mutual re pect and check in the wrong envelopes. A Reed, and President William Rainey friend hip. Years pa ed and Cum­ it wa , Bowdoin' Wilder forwarded Harper. Most of the presidents of mings, now a young missionary, his check to Colby's Goddard with the the college and the outstanding mem­ found himself in Burma and con­ note: "Haven't you got one f'Or us, bers of the faculty appear on the rolls fronted by a situation where the preferably larger?" And o the ex­ at one time or another. hatred between Burmese and Karens change was made. But we never did A graduate of the seventie feels even exceeded the rift between brown find out which one wa larger. sure that there was no investment and white races. There ensued a life­ ceremony in those days ; the president time of con tructive mediation which r"\UARTETTE - For four years merely announced the fact that the has left a permanent imprint upon \...... (. Colby College ha enjoyed and honorary degree of such-and-such had the relationship between these peo­ bragged about the Class of '40 Quar­ been voted to o-and-so. The fact ple , a career recognized by the Brit­ tette. Four lads started harmonizing that several Engli h divines are i h government when the Kaiser-I­ together in the hower room of the among those receiving D.D.'s in the Hind decoration was conferred upon freshman dormitory, oon began mak­ 0arly year eems to support the Dr. Cummings, a medal which you can ing appearances as the Freshman theory that the recipient did not even o"b erve any year upon hi gown at Quartette, and then, year after year, have to be present. Can any reader the Boardman Service. Who can say kept gaining in smoothness of per­ throw light on this? When were ci­ that this Bowdoin-Colby background formance. They were heard over the tations and hood first used? For that of Cumming was not, in the inscrut­ radio, at Glee Club Concerts, at Col­ matter, when did the g1·aduating cla s able way of Providence, the most im­ by Night, at Chapel, at alumni gath­ and faculty first wear caps and pol'tant part of his college education? erings, before women' clu'bs, ervice gown�? There is much unwritten his­ club , church group -and always tory about Colby College. Can you LUMNAE LUNCHEON - From brought d'own the hou e. It was a contribute ome details? A the distaff side come these pleasure to watch as well a hear highlights: the table decorations, yel­ them, as they would swing into one of EDIATOR-In all the years that low and lavender ..the sparkling their favorites, the effortless precision M we have admired Dr. John E. 'brevity of Toa tmistress Grace Farrar of the chords, the by-play that went Cummings, '84, we never once sus­ Linscott's introductions . . an un­ along with "Old Man Noah," or pected that he was not a 100% Col­ scheduled reunion of six members of "Cocaine Bill," the melancholy har­ by man. During a luncheon conver­ '97 .. announcement that '97 had mony of the well-known "Whiffen­ sation with him, however, we were raised over $2,000 towards "The 1897 proof Song," and the downright mu- shocked to learn that he is 25 o/o Bow­ Room" in the Union ..applause for icianship 'Of their difficult num­ doin, having passed his first year in the long journeys oo Waterville taken bers on the musical club tours. that institution. However, it was all by Minnie Bunker, '89, and Antha Their every public appearance re­ for the best in the end. Having be­ Knowlton Miller, '90, from Califor­ flected quality, and Colby College has C'Ome a member of Psi U in Bowdoin nia, and Ellen Peterson, '07, from been the gainer thereby. Just before and therefore having no fraternity China . . Minnie Hartford Mann, Commencement, you will be glad to affiliation at Colby, he occupied a sort '80, here to celebrate her sixtieth re­ know, the Quartette made a perma­ of neutral position in the strenuous union with Arthur W. Thoma , '80 nent rec'Ord of their rendition of fraternity rivalries at this college, . . speakers for the reunioning "Alma Mater," using the facilities of and also was in a po ition to know classes . . food for thought in Aldine WLBZ, o next year you may hear both sides in any discussion of the C. Gilman's response for the 1915 their voices opening and closing "Col­ relative merits of Colby and Bow­ class .. she had asked a pupil what by at the Microphone." At the Alum­ doin. It being borne in upon him, he expected from a teacher . . the ni Luncheon the four seniors were therefore, what fine fellows there reply: "We want to feel that you will called up and, for the last time as un­ were in both colleges, he set about always play your part, that you will dergraduates, they sang their favor- THE COLBY ALUMNUS 5 ites. We trust they will 'be back oo­ again. The Necrol1ogy column this tion. In particular is one item which gether at future Commencements for month records the passing of "Whit," makes a book collectior's mQuth fair­ years to come. A team like that is and now only Clark is left. ly water. It is a copy of Edna St. not lightly to be disbanded. We give Vincent's "King's Henchmen" in­ you the Class of '40 Quartette : Hal­ ESSON-One of the finest trib­ scribed : "To Thomas Hardy, with the sey A. Fredel'ick, Jr., Conrad W. L utes to President Johnson that admiration and love of many years,'' Swift, Buell 0. Merrill, and Spencer we have ever heard was given at the and signed by the author. In view Winsor. Long may they sing! Testimonial Dinner tendered by the of the fact that Mi ·s Millay is an Waterville Alumni Association oo the hon1orary graduate of this college, a GAIN, QUARTETTE-Neverthe­ President last month. We are not re­ native of Maine, and one of the top­ A less, this is not the first good ferring to any of the speeches by the flight poets of our times, this volume quartette that has been heard in this eminent alumni and trustees on the has associations of extraordinary C'ollege. The class of 19 30 had one list, but to the thought given by the value. It represents another princely that gave a great deal of enjoyment spokesman for the student body-E. gift from Mr. Herman A. Oriel of and received a lot of prestige. But Robert Bruce, '40. The gist of the New York City. possibly the only real rival is the fa­ young man's tribute was : Item two. One of the few edi­ mous '94 quartette : Edward C. Clark, "You, President J1ohnson, have tions of Hardy not in our collection 1st tenor ; Francis B. Purinton, 2nd given us one thing that may prove to was the 1920 "Mellstock Edition" of tenor; Verne M. Whitman, baritone ; be more important than all the rest of all his work published as a de-luxe Jacob Kleinhans, basso. They were our education at Colby ; you have set for the millionaire-collector mar­ �o good that they formed the nucleus shown us that by single- minded per­ ket. Only 500 were printed and only for Colby's first full-fledgedGlee Club, severance, anything can be accom­ rarely does one come on the market. which in the winter of 1892 made a plished. It is a lesson that we shall Naturally, the Library has been on tour of the state. And when we say never forget !" the watch for some time but the price tour, we mean tour. Listen to this It might have 'b een expected that was always way out of reach. How­ itinerary: Monmouth, Livermore the demands of the Mayfliower Hill ever, recently two sets were adver­ Falls, Farmington, Wilton, Oakland, undertaking upon President Johnson tised. One was on sale in New YQrk Bath, Wiscasset, Waldoboro, Damari­ would mean the sacrifice of opportun­ from the library of an English Duke, scotta, Round Pond, Thomaston, ity for extending his personal influ­ and the other was in the hands of a Rockland, Camden, Bar Harbor, Ells­ ence upon the students, and to a cer­ London bookseller. To make a long worth, Dexter, Newport, and (trium­ tain extent that probably has been story short, the latter set was finally phal climax) Waterville. The story true. Nevertheless, the present gen­ purchased at a price which, taking of that trip is a classic which we eration of Colby students, as Bruce advantage of the falling English promise t:> reveal in these columns pointed out, have gained something Pound and all available discounts, ometime. that is unforgettable ; they have came to the astounding sum of about But to get back oo the '94 Quar­ watched at first hand a demcnstration $1.98 per volume! But just hold tette : "Our first rehearsals were held of the maxim: "The difference be­ your eats-all is not yet told. in the college dormitories," wrote tween the difficult and the impossible When the shipment arrived and the Whitman once, "and during these is that the latter takes a longer time volumes examined, Professor Weber performances the Quartette would be to accomplish." nearly fainted when he discovered roundly anathematized 'by those stu­ that this was Hardy's own private set diously bent ... At last, when that HIRTY YEARS-Apparently it is iof the edition! His autograph was degree of proficiency was arrived at Tthe consensus of the opinion of there and some marginal corrections that a selection could be completed Colby graduates that it takes just and annotations in his handwriting. only two tones flat, and the First thirty years of maturity to make a The set was later traced back to the Tenor could remember a few of the good trustee. At least, you will note estate of the econd Mrs. Hardy, auc­ words, we began to frame the bold that after the ballots were all count­ tioned off after ber death. project of giving public concerts. A ed, there emerged three members of But now for the human interest church sociable was the scene of our the class of 1910 as the elected rep­ element, ju t to show how a book­ maiden attempt. . . As, when a stone resentatives of the alumni and alum­ sleuth ob erves. The volumes all ap­ :s thrown into the water, the wavelets nae on the Board. For some reason peared new, in fact nearly all of the recede in undulating circles from the there pops into our head the follow­ pages were uncut with the exception center, S'O the circle of our renown ing squib : of one, which had been cut all the way !!et in motion by a Baptist sociable, Question : What is the difference through, and that was "A Pair of spread far and wide. Neighboring between a radical and a conservative? Blue Eyes,'' the story which recorded towns heard of our vocal ability, en­ Answer: About thirty years. his QWn firnt romance. The only pages gagements resulted, and erelong we of poetry similarly cut were those Yrere giving entertainments in remote OSTSCRIPT-We thought that written about his first wife just after sections of the State. We were every­ P April's Thiomas Hardy is ue would her death. Remember that Hardy where kindly received (before the button up that subject for good, was 80 years old when this edition concert) ." but you can t keep a good thing came out, and you get an authentic But the inexorable hand of Grad­ down and just since publicatiQn there clue as to the thoughts of the old man l'.ati

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GEORGE LY MAN KITTREDGE and her foremost sch•olar in the field distingui hed son ; herself an ardent Doctor of Laws of Engli h literature. lover of Maine, to whose scenic and One preparing a citation for Pro­ arti tic development he has long fes�o1· Kittredge is appalled by th e given generou_ , upport. Founder and CARROLL ATWOOD WILSON thought of what that distinguished president of the Curtis Institute of Doctor of Laws gentleman has already heard in the Music in Philadelphia. Recipient of Born within a few miles of thi way •of eulogium. He ha received decorations from foreign countries in campu:;:, great-grandson of a Trustee, honorm·y doctorates from Harvard, recognition of her generosity, and of gra ndson and son of graduate of thi Yale, Oxford, Chicago, and Johns honorary degrees from colleges and College, Mr. Wilson ha earned the Hopkin ; he is a fellow of the Ameri­ i.:nive1 ities in recognition of her honor to be conferred upon him, not can Academy of Arts and Sciences, of achievements. Long a friend of this through these family ties with Colby Lhe Royal Society of Literature, and College, and recently a member of College, but by his own achievements of Jesu College, Cambridge. Though the Board of Trustees. and attainments. A graduate and he ha probably trained more D<>ctors trustee of Williams College, a former of Philo ophy than any other man CLARE LEIGHTON New England Rhodes ch<>lar, an able now living, he never thought it neces­ Doctor of Fine Arts and efficient director of the Rhodes .ary himself to proceed in course be­ Di tinguished figure in the world and Guggenheim foundations, Mr. yond the A. B. degree. He has looked of art; native of our Mother Country. Wilson is above all known among hi like a venerable Viking since he was Elected a member of the Society of wide circle of friend as a lover of thirty, and Viking-like, his progress Wood Engravers in 1928, he attract­ "book . A diligent student, an ener­ in the conquest 'Of knowledge has ed world-wide attention in the next getic investigat<>r, and a wise reader, been ruthless and super'b. Latin year by her illu tration of Hardy's he is a friend of and a builder of li­ grammars and editions of Cicero and Return of the atioe; after winning braries. A generous supporter of the Vergil are fun for this professor of Fir t Prize in the International En­ activities of the Colby Library Asso­ English; indeed, he is very adept (to graving Exhibition held at the Art ciate . In recognition of hi cholar­ paraphrase the title of one of hi own Institute of Chicago in 1930, she was ly ervice in the bibliographical books) in Words and Their Wicked elected Fellow of the Royal Society world and of his able career in the Ways. He is 'One of the greatest liv­ of Painter Etcher . By her illu trn­ legal professi<>n, Colby College today ing Chaucerians, and is unsurpassed tion of the book of other auth'Ors adds another Wilson to its list of in Shake pearean scholarship. The and of her own writings. Miss Leigh­ graduates. subject nearest his heart, one ton has earned for herself a reputa­ guesses, are ballads and witchcraft. tion as the foremost woman wood­ We do ourselves high honor in con­ MARY LOUISE CURTIS BOK engraver <>f her time . In this cen­ ferring the degree of Doctor of Laws Doctor of Letters tennial year of Thomas Hardy, he i upon America's most famous teacher Daughter of one of Maine's most now engaged in illu trating hi works.

George Ly man Kittre

Albert William Beaven Clare Leighton Cli·nton Joseph Daviss�� · Preacher Artist Experimenter

CLINTON JOSEPH DA VIS SON by crystals gave the first direct proof Convention, his preeminence in the Doctor of Science of the theory of wave mechanics and broader field brought him the presi­ A scientist who, after a brief the undulatory properties of matter, dency of the Federal Council of period of teaching, has devoted his an experimental triumph which won Churches. A preacher o0f interest and talents to research as a member of the No0bel Award for Physics in 1937. power among college students, a de­ the staff of a great and essential in­ fender of the rights of the people, dustry. Member of many learned so­ ALBERT WILLIAM BEAVEN and an outspoken advocate of social cieties; recipient of numerous medals Doctor of Divinity justice; the preacher of our bacca­ , and awards in this and other coun­ A graduate o0f Shurtleff College, laureate sermon. tries. the first Baptist College by the Mis­ A skilled experimenter, he has done sissippi, honored by many institu­ HILDA LIBBY IVES work of great merit in electron emis­ tions ; the President of a great Theo­ Doctor of Divinity sion and focussing, and his investiga­ logical Seminary. A leader and past A modern missio0nary to the rural tions of the diffraction of electrons president of the Northern Baptist church, and a pioneer builder of larg-

Hilda Libby Ives Payson Smith Henry Arthur Sanders Minis tel' Educator Classicist 8 THE COLBY ALUMNUS

er parishe An intelligent , under- School of Education. A member of tanding, Christian mother, who has the National Advisory Commission on transfigured a great sorrow into a Education ; recipient of the highest great service. Interdenominationally national recognition granted to an and internationally minded, she has educator-the American Education consistently urged and exemplified Award. cooperation in the world ta k of Throughout his long and di tingu­ Christianity. A pa tor and teacher, ished career, Pay on Smith ha cham­ he has helped to bring the Christian pioned America's school with acri­ women of today into the Apo tolic ficial devotion, and ha manifested succession. undeviating loyalty to the principle that American education must be HENRY ARTHUR SANDERS kept forever free from political and Doctor of the More Humane Letters partisan control. Hi unflinching A native son of Maine; graduate courage in defending that ideal, even of the University of Michigan and at great cost·to his own security, has Doctor of PhilQsophy of the Univer­ left all of us, citizens and educators, sity of Michigan and Doctor of Phi­ his grateful debtors. losophy of the University of Munich. For many years Professor of Latin in the University of Michigan; for GRACE GATCHELL three years Director of the School of Classical Studies of the American Master of Arb Academy at Rome; recently retired A native of Maine and a graduate Grace Gatchell as Chairman of the Department of of Colby allege in the Class of 1897; Teacher Speech and General Linguistics at the from that year onward a teacher in University of Michigan. the pu'blic schools of Massachusetts. Author of many scholarly papers PAYSON SMITH During a professional service of thir­ and works, among them the publica­ Doctor of Pedagogy ty-three years in the English Depart­ f1on of the Old and New Testament More than forty years a teach­ ment of the Somerville, Massachu­ manuscript in the Freer Collection; er and administrator of schools ; ten sett , High School, Miss Gatchell was educator of scholars ; a teacher both year Commissioner of Education the friendly and inspiring guide of witty and wise ; an acknowledged au­ here in his native State; twenty years many boy s and girls. We welcome thority on the interpretation and da­ Commi sioner of Education in our her today as a brilliant and devoted ting of manuscript in the classical parent State of Massachusetts ; now teacher who has brought honor to her tongues. lecturer in the Harvard Graduate college.

DIGEST OF COMMENCEMENT SPEECHES

CLASS DAY ORATION erable lives. In Poland, thousands of would now be my ta k to point out By Klaus Dreyer, '40 men and women, belonging to the in­ what attitude the United tates T is a terrible feeling to know that telligentsia 'Of that promising country, should take toward the belligerent I the beautiful colleges of Oxford and among them many tudent , were counh·ies. But I am, at this moment, and Cambridge with their tradition of annihilated by the firing quads of the not concerned with politics. I am hundreds of years are once more victorious conquerer, merely because speaking for a group of educa­ empty, that any day now they might they were students trying to get a ted men and women who hope suffer the same fate as the library of liberal education ; clergymen, profes- for prog1·ess in civilization. The Louvain. And it makes us sad to ors, and student died like martyrs, war in Europe has implications for think that the universities of Ger­ merely because it was feared that this country which ultimately may be many, once the highlights of the edu­ they would one day stir their unfor­ more important than the question of cational world, have practically been tunate people t'O rise against the tyr­ intervention or i olation. It offers a turned into laboratories, in which the anny of dictatorship. Facing such challenge to all civilized people and 'best minds of Germany spend their horrible facts, we can only come to especially to the people of this coun­ time, inventing more deadly bombs, one conclusion : in Europe, the God­ try. With Europe sinking into an more poisonous gases, more devastat­ dess of Getti.ng-'On, against whom abyss where education seems to be ing shells. John Ruskin warned us some seventy regarded a the mo t dangerous ele­ If we move even farther to the east years ago, has been pushed aside by ment conceivable, America is becom­ 'On the map of Europe, we come to an even more dreadful goddess. The ing, perhaps has already become, the a country where our fellow students Goddes of Destruction has spread educational center of the world. It have not only stopped getting an edu­ her armor-clad wings over a Europe is our obligation, and especially that cation, but where the mere fact that gone mad. of tudent and educator , to carry on they were students has cost innum- If this were a political speech, it where Europe leaves off. THE COLBY ALUMNUS 9

Let us accept the challenge which groups. Nature is crowded with illus­ lection and withdrawal of all who evi­ has come bo us from Europe. Let trations of organisms that live togeth­ dence a tendency toward independ­ us not stand by idle while Europe re­ er socially. Many of these evidence no ent thinking could reduce the group turns to the dark ages, torturing and apparent advantage nor helpfulness to a common level of those more killing innocent people for speaking to each other. Other illustrate the supine, plastic, suggestive individuals the truth. Let us strive to strengthen advantage of beir,g close together for who may continue to be easily mold­ with all our might the upward trend the ake of food getting or for repro­ ed by iothers, and who are unable to of civilization which seems in danger ductive opportunities. as ert their own potentialities as in­ bo fall back to the low level it comes There are also the social insects dependents. Such methods could con­ from. Let us erect pillars, strong pil­ like the ants, bees, wasp , and term­ tinue a Nazi type of state for a very lars never to be destroyed, the pil­ ites whrose colony organization is the long time. This might 'be the "thou­ lars on which Ibsen wanted society to illustration of as perfect an organ­ sand years." Yet, no matter how long rest : freedom and truth. i m or superorganism as any animal such a process continued, the inner In our combined strength, we can or plant body we know. In the ant p'Otentialities of the thinking human defy tyranny and warn the dictators colony every ant always works for cannot be lost. of Euriope with the immortal words the good of the nest. There seems to of Homer: "Esetai haemar." The be self-forgetfulness on the part of ALUMNAE LUNCHEON REMARKS day will come ! The day will come every individual in the colony. This By Ina H. McCausland, '15 when your realms of brutal oppres­ love and sacrifice is not learned. It is AYFLOWER Hill,-The New sion will fall to ashes ; and after that a character which springs from with­ M Colby ! What a challenge of day, there will be no obstacle barring in. The ant can't help it. The result­ broadened horizons ! For ten years, our road to peace on earth and good ing organization, the ant nest, is a su­ inspired by the great vision and tire­ will to men. perorganism that has always been the less energy of President Johnson, wonder and envy of man. Man has workers from coast to coast have ADDRESS OF CLASS DAY GUEST often tried to pattern his social state shared in creating a tangible college By Prof. Webster Chester, Sc.D. upon it. to meet the needs of a new era. At 0 E of the most momentous In all dictator tates planned on our luncheon today, may we turn our times in evolution occurred insect social life, the dictator's word thoughts to the intangible? when certain cells, after dividing, re­ takes the place of the instinct. While We now know that the war of mained together and became a colon­ he is in power there is insured com­ twenty-five years ago did not make ial •organization. In this colony each mon guidance. This, of course, uni­ the world safe for democracy. Some part wa independent. There were fies the state. This is the most com­ of you remember as I do the days of circum tances, however, when the mon thread of interest in dictator heavy headlines, when Prexy Roberts whole colony acted a a unit. These countries. As compared with insect warned : "Wars will never cease until indicated mutual aid of each part for social success the weak part in the hatred, suspicion, envy and jealousy the whole colony. This cooperative adaptation is that, since dictators may die out from the hearts of men !" He theme 'became more and more em­ change, the fixity of behavior of the was right. phatic as organisms evolved. The group is uncertain and varied. To be Democracy is a way of life,-Chris­ colony very quickly became the or­ constant, the determination must tianity operating. It demands self­ ganism itself when each cell gave up arise from within each individual. discipline and a plan. It demands it independence and worked not for As long as apparent environing per onal courage of men and women itself but for the whole. The organ­ circumstances are circumstances of oo use the finding of science in con­ ism then became a social society of difficulty, want, privation, adversity, structive way . We, in America, must cells and the activity of the organism each German soul can be urged to face the facts ; we must influence our was included in the cooperative be­ c•ontribute perfectly to the whole. If mas e , the people who feel but do havior of all the cells. he is told that the world is against not think, and we must do this Wherever we find an organism, we him, that he is deprived of hi rights, tlu·ough leaders who can captm·e their note the actual evidence of the love in terms of the state, he i ea ily led imagination with a goal as purpose­ and sacrifice 'Of each of the individu­ to any extreme that may lend itself ful for good to a free people as the al units of which the body is compos­ to a common accomplishment. During goal of Deutschland Uber Alles is pur­ ed. The successful organism is a these conditions his behavior may be poseful oo the azi '. succe-sful cooperative. Now and like that of the ant. He may appear You have your drama of the New then, within an organism, the coop­ to exhibit loyalty because he cannot Col'by. I have mine which I desire to eration become interfered with. Cer­ help it. His actions may seem to be share with you in these days of mili­ tain cells may become sick, may die inherently, unreasonably, religiously, tary preparedness. Because the and m'Ost often, the others cooperate unselfish and cooperative, but still, 1!)40' must progre s in the fields of to repair these. under changed conditions, he might human engineering, my dream is that Only when certain cells refuse to completely revolt. He might substi­ Colby build upon its already strong grow up and take their cooperative tute rea on for emotion. He is a very foundation of guidance, the �piritual part in the organism can the other different unit from the ant in the center of higher education in Maine. cells do nothing. ant social group. When he becomes Let Mayflower Hill become synono­ This same spirit of cooperation an individual again, he may be tempt­ mou among educators and laymen bec•omes evident when certain individ­ ed to assert his freedom of action. a the tronghold for personal train­ ual organisms unite into social On the other hand, constant se- ing.

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Busines demands more character just before the dawn of a more real­ in the strength of any nation. It is education. It demands initiative, co­ istic idealism, may we match the Lor­ interesting to note that even in total­ operatioon self-confidence, and de­ imer Tower that points toward the itarian countries which reject reli­ pendability. The high schools need stars over Mayflower Hill with a pro­ gion as we think of it, it has been teacher of execut ive training who gram of high purpose which will make found that they could not even go on understand the problem back of the the New Colby a citadel for human to their military program until they lazy, troublesome, shy, and indiffer­ engineers. When you have time, had built within their people a body ent pupil. Parents need help in guid­ study again the sky-writing on the of ideas and loyalties to something ing and prodding their children who January Alumnus Cover, the enlarge­ 'bigger than themselves, by which the are neither students nor athletes. The ment in Life Magazine Qf January people were lifted out of selfishness non-academic-minded child cries out 8th, or the original Christmas Greet­ into corporate willingness to act to­ for understanding because he does ing of the Joseph Smith's. Translate gether. not like himself as he is ; he thinks that heavenly code as your vision and The body of ideas that they have that he and hi efforts are of no use, experience advise. To me it is sym­ accepted is vastly different and al­ -and yet he comprises about 80% of bolic of my dream for a guidance cen­ most in deadly enmity to Christian­ our school population. ter in Maine of which our 'boys and ity ; 'but America needs to face the Such a dream for the New Colb ' is girl can say, "I will lift up mine fact that that sort of basic undergird­ not radical. With its department of eyes unto Mayflower Hill, whence ing of our morale and of our life has business science, its liberal arts, and cometh my help." been given largely in this country by its guidance equipment and personnel the Christian religion. We have been it has unparalleled opportunity to taught to believe in God, to feel that BACCALAUREATE SERMON serve Maine and the Northeast. To in the doing of His will, life found its develop young people of personal By Albert W. Beaven, D.D. purpose, and that the attitudes that courage who have initiative and self­ HE nation is profoundly stirred we should take, were illustrated by confidence, who can c'Ooperate and be T at this time by the need for de­ the life and teachings of Jesus Christ, dependable, we must have more ac­ fense. It is my purpose to emphasize and that in our loyalty to the will of tion programs. I would wish that here, as a minister of religion, that God, we have found the source of Colby's 'beautiful campus could be the strength and ultimate defense of reality, the basis of goodness, and the alive with students of human nature, a nation can be both in the tangible biggest purpose of life. This does and the college policy would expand and the intangible area. The apostle not mean that everybrody has accept­ to include uch plan for conferences, Paul said, 'We fight not against flesh ed it. It does mean, as Walter Lip­ eonventions, clinics, and case work and blood, but aganst the prince of man recently pointed out, that this for high school boys and girls that the poweT of the air.' While this is has been the accepted foundation of Colby students would be able to bal­ highly figurative, it points directly to thought and ideology on which we ance theory with practice. Let us two areas both of personal and na­ have built. create community projects, social tional resource, the seen and the un­ The thing we need to face today cience workshops, round table dis­ seen. Other people are stressing the is the fact, as was pointed out in a cus ions, and human relati'Ons insti­ necessity for undergirding the nation recent article in "Fortune," that we tutes, as well as exchange opportuni­ in the material realm, I stress here are allowing the foundation of reli­ ties for students of definite goals. the necessity for undergirding the gion to be weakened in Amercan life. All Colby women have great nation in the moral and spiritual There is a mood of cynicism and su­ wealth,- ome have material re­ realm. perciliousness toward it, an attitude sources of which they have shared The question of the uniting of the of indifference on the part of many generously in building the tangible people of a country through the intellectuals, an attitude of careless­ college. Others have ideas, and still things they believe and to which they ne s on the part of those who profess others have executive abilities. In are loyal, and by which they live , is it, but do not work at it. The net re­ these dark days which I believe are one of the mQst important features sult, as Walter Lipman has also point­ ed out, is that we bad a foundation, 'but today we are forgetting to strengthen it, and see that it gets a (At left) SOME COMMENCEMENT PERSONAGES fair proportionate empha is in Amer­

I. The four senior members of the Colby faculty : Professors Ash­ ican life. craft, Parmenter, Libby and Chester. 2. Harvard's Kittredge and Ju t what program America can Colby's Johnson. 3. A long way from home: Ellen J. Peterson, '07, or should take, in regard to her ma­ Shanghai, China; Antha Knowlton Miller, '90, Pasadena, Calif.; Minnie F. terial defense, it is not my duty to Bunker, '89, Oakland, Calif. 4. Alumnae Association "Big Shots": re­ ti'ring president, Grace Farrar Linscott, '01 ; incoming presid;nt, Florence point out, but that America can give Carll Jones, '12; newly elected trustee, Mary Donald Deans, 10; alumnae her elf immediately to this matter of secretary, Ervena Goodale Smith, '24. 5. The oldest living graduate, undergirding the moral and spiritual '74, chats with President Johnson, while Arthur Judge Horace W. Stewart, well being and loyalty of the nation, W. Thomas, '80, sixty years out, looks on. 6. Golden jubilee of 1890: Merton L. Miller, Charles W. Spencer, Melvin M. Smith, William L. Soule, any thoughtful man can see. We and William R. Curtis. 7. E·dwin E. Lake, president of senior men, know enough to go at thi , and do it takes first puff on ancient Class Day Pipe, assisted by Helen H. Brown, now. Each of us i immediately re­ Undergraduate speakers at Commence­ president of senior women. 8. lated to it. An attitude of cynical ment Exercises : Elizabeth Fitzgerald Brenner and Ernest Cummings Mar­ indifference to the great religious tra- riner, Jr. 12 THE COLBY ALUMNU dition of America is unworthy of "Hitler may be to blame for this shed and aggressive nationalism to either 'OUrpast or our future. If the war but we arc to blame for Hitler " lhl• way of the rmon on th Mount Church is not doing what it hould, as a great university preach r has but it ha· been done 'by Chri tian and those who profess to be intellect­ aid. "Hitleri m ha got to be de­ revolu tionary methods. ually and scientifically trained know �troyed," even Chamberlain d clared Finally, ju t before I ailed, thou­ that it is not and know what should but also, if we would eriou. ly follow sand. of Burme e Buddhi t women be done, then, they are exactly the Christ, Hitlerism has to be destroyed organized the Burmese Women' one tJo enter the Church and help it in Britian, France and America and Freedom Leagu . But the fact of do what it ought to do. Religion can in you and me ! In a word, the sel­ their division into ten political par­ not pass from one generation to an­ fi hne. , the pride, the rnthles insis­ ties, from C'O mmunist to extreme other except through pe'Ople. It does tence on our own way regardle. of right wing, and united only by their not pas because we have church the right of other , the materiali�m hatred of the Briti h government, buildings 01· fi nances. It passes be­ of u all, our love of ea e and com­ made for confusion worse con· cause it means something to one per- fort, our self-indulg nee which defie founded. on and he passes it to the next. The the law of God and the progres of ga in, we find that the an wer per on, who because of ignorance humanity- uch is the deepe t cau e longed for by the Burmans of go'C>d ab'Out religion, becau e of hi preju­ of the wa r. Therefore, the only final will, wa given by the former head­ dice , which he will not rise above, answer i "a world war against el­ m i tre of the largest Chri tian girl because of his indifference, or unwill­ fi-hne s," "a total war," God' war "chool of Burma and signed by the ingnes to obey its inner mandates, is "to produce a new moral climate for leading university women and lead­ actually voting by his negation to the world." A our Secretary of War er of the country : weaken the piritual fabric of our broadca ted from coast to coast late "Our country is in great trouble. community life. la t year : "The war to end war ha · Every Chri tian wants Burma to be After all religion and those who never been won becau e the war to free. The time ha come for us to work in that field are attempting to end selfishne s has never been give our all for her freedom. The face some of the 'biggest and most ul­ fought," i.e., fought to a fini h. Jesus only hope for Burma lies in our re­ timate question that life hold . Their Chri t alone ha the moral right to turn to the living God with repentant search for the reason for life, its pur­ d mand by the power of Hi Love heart . Every Chri tian needs to ee pose, and the attempt to get men re­ that we become "totalitarian" for hi. sins clearly and definitely and let lated t'O that purpose in a creative Him who is "the way, the truth and the Holy Spirit burn out all the clros way, is one of the most important the life." in order to be free to meet the coun­ factor that can happen in the mak­ We have to choo e and failure to try'� real needs. ing of personality, and of community decide i to decide again t Him. "True patrioti m con i ts in giving life. If there is an actual scientific Which i it to be : "The azification our whole life, thought and energy spirit, a spirit that inquires as to what of the World" or "The Evangelization to the rebuilding of Burma. It de­ is real; and experiments to find how of the World?" mand all our moral courage, per i - this reality works out in life, then, tence and adventuous pirit. We need Just before I left Burma, in order certainly thi is an area into which to be living in th e lives of the pe()ple to save the life of an Indian aint, I people of a scientific temperament of the country. To do this we do not drove by car through three mo'b in can plunge without hesitation. Un­ need to take side politically but we one night. My friend wa cut and questionably it is difficult, but by the do need to take ide morally and another missionary had her jaw brok­ same token it is important, and each piritually. We need to see clearly en with a piece of iron pipe. A mob of us may bear our share in this quest what the real enemie of the pe'Ople of oil field workers and another of for reality, and in helping men build are : debt, bribery and corruption, landless farmers united with thou­ a faith by which they find hope, clear hate and fear, greed and superstition. sand of students marching all over purpose and deep and abiding l'Oyal­ It is up to each to deal drastically Rangoon for hours on end shouting : ties by which they can live. with the e thing in hi own itua­ "On with the Revolution ! On with tion and then he can deal with them the Revolution !" in individual el ewhere, no matter to THE BOARDMAN SERMON When the Burme e-Indian racial what side they belong. By Rev. Vernelle W. Dyer, '15 riot broke out in Mandalay, after the " ow is the time for each Christian killing of hundreds in lower Burma, EW people today care to di cuss to decide to take definite respun i­ "Foreign Missions" without first because the English officer in charge bility for his country. Let us go for­ F was really lstening to God he was facing the challenge to this entire ward with God's authority, obeying able to lead the proud Mohammedans globe : "The Nazification of the World Him imply, immediately, willingly, to ap·ologize to the Burmese, which In This Generation !" A year ago or and recklessly." brought peace in tead of war. It was even a couple of months ago most Both the librarian of Congress and done by guidance instead of by guns. Americans laughed at the idea. Now Dorothy Thompson have pointed out It was the revolution of the Cross we know how terribly near the Nazis that "The Fifth Column" has ucceed­ overcoming the revolution of blood­ are to carrying out their horrible ed so well in the democracies becau e goal. They have oome all too close in shed. we have believed in nothing ; it wa n't making their nightmare a terrible Fortunately, the nationalism of the popular to stand pas ionately even reality, a graveyard for freedom, de­ two million Karens of Burma has for the truth and the right. mocracy and true religion. been turned from the way of blood- Are you and I ready at last for this THE COLBY ALUMNUS 13

NEWLY ELECTED TRUSTEES

Merle Crowell, '10 Mary Donald Deans, '10 Frederick T. Hill, '10

Editor Teacher Doctor

revolutionary Christianity of the first to·o bitter-wise, too tightly geared, danger lay in the forces which cause century? Are we willing to have it produced the novels of the hectic the political doctrine. With deep said of us : "Those that have turned twenties which are great grey monu­ compassion they wrote of the hun­ the world upside down have come ments to the disillusionment of an gry, the naked, the disinherited of the hither also ?" Do we realize it is era. Dreiser, Dos Passos, Joyce, earth. They called new and vital Christ or chaos? Hemingway and Faulkner - these warnings. They felt the first wind of were the giants of despair. And they the approaching storm. were followed by the little imitative The soorm has broken now, and COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS men 'busily producing the Life-Is­ there are great tasks for the young By Elizabeth Fitzgerald Brenner, '40 Like-That literature. When the pages writers to undertake, great stories for HOSE of us who wish to write of ficti'On begin to look more like case them to tell. The individual must be T could not have chosen for our histories of psychiatry than like rec­ protected from the rising tide of col­ coming of age a more exciting, a ords of humanity's fight towards di­ lectivism. Whether he is tormented more promising time-the first year vinity, a shock is needed to restore by political or economic forces ; of the war-torn Forties. correct perspective. whether he is refugee or share-crop­ On all sides we see a world of pas­ That shock came. In the Thirties, per-he must not be forgotten. Writ­ sion ; a world in conflict. But con­ the world was faced with a great ers must keep him before the con­ flict is the material from which stories economic upheaval setting forces inoo science of the nation ; must demon­ are made. Literature, like economics, action which every man had to face. strate the inde tructible worth of the is a study of human wants. If those The question was no longer : how can individual body and the individual wants were automatically fulfilled, you keep a soul alive in a world with­ oul. there would be no study of economics out meaning, but how can you keep So we are lucky, tho e of us who -and there would be no writers of body and soul together in a world di­ want to tell tories of man and his fiction. Fiction deals with the way rected by huge economic and social eternal journey. We have faith and in which man struggles for happiness forces over which you have no con­ the trength that come from faith. -the battles he fights and the mis­ trol? We believe that tomorrow's 'book is as takes he makes in that unending Some authors, alarmed by the important as today's headline ; that quest. growth of a dangerous political idea, fiction may help to shape reality. We The fiction writer attempts to trace turned to the novel of propaganda ; believe that we al o may serve ; that the true path through the wilderness they attacked that system of thought we al o may help to clear some of error. Following the first World which elevates the state above the portion of the right road for the feet War, a sick and weary generation, man. Other writers cried that the Qf humanity. 14 THE COLBY ALUMNU

COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS challenge this phi lo -ophy of fear. . tart contributing a" o·-r fathers did. I challenge this undue pe imi m. The Ernest C. Marriner, Jr., '40 There are plenty of chances in the attitude of American youth today is a romance of America. Willkie and ODAY I am talking about the at­ belated hangover from the depres- vV atson, Fairless and Knudson and Ttitudes of American youth. Those ion. It should have disappeared long the rei:;t can be our examples of that. attitude will naturally be instrumen­ ago. Now it mu t disappear if thi Hero worship, this emulating of great tal in haping the future c<0urse of nation is to urvive the ordeal., both men ? Per hap . Rather, I think, the our nation. While we are profound­ of peace and wa1-, which face it. We glorification of that thing which ly affected by world conditions, in the youth may be deflated, but we mu t make American opportunity imp'Or­ long run the future of our nation in not be defeated. tant and unique-that thing which war or peace depends upon youth ever A young college graduate, bei ng attracted John Winthrop and Roger remaining worthy 'Of our great land. interviewed by the per onnel mana­ William to thi great land: freedom, Our father graduated from school ger of a big busine concern, is re­ liberty to work at what we like · free­ into an America of opportunity, of ported to have tated that he "would dom to make for our elves our own freedom. We newest Colby alumni be ati fied with a vice-presidency, to status in a free society. were educated by depression. This is start with." "But," came the Te- Thi romance, this glamor, this an important fact. We were in ponse, "we already have twelve vice­ hero wot hip. this freedom-these grammar school on that fateful president ." "Oh, that's all right," thing made America. And the e Black Friday of October, 1929. Youth interrupted the young man, "I'm not thing are not dead ! If we youth can no longer has that optimistic, a sured ,uper titiou ." ,ee the e things it will be only with outlook on life which characterized I do not ugge t an imitation of an optimi tic attitude. For liberty is the Twenties. Deflated by the early this conceited young man's tactic a the mo. t optimistic conception men depression, we adopted a pessimistic, a change for the better, but I do em­ can have. If we can see the e things almost defiant philo ophy which has pha ize the need for returning to an which are the real America, no one S'Omehow hung on and i with u even attitude of optimism. need fear for the future of this na­ today. We youth mu t top a king, and ti'On.

HERRICK ESCAPES GERMAN BOMBS KAY

HE war came home to Colby peo­ fact that on the first bombardment of we dashed down tairs, wondering Tple on June 4, when the voice of Pari in World War II, three bomb Y: here the air raid shelter might be. one of the recent girl graduates came struck within fifty feet of their We had no time to find out. Standil}g over the ether from Paris to describe "Kay" was an electrifying shock. in the lobby, we watched several very to her startled listeners ju t how it "It was about 1 :30 this afternoon, frightened people come running in feels, when you hear the fiendish when the alarms s'Ounded,'' began this covered from head to foot with soot, whi tle of one of the newest type diminutive young lady, apparently un­ for the first bomb had shrouded the German bombs hrieking towards perturbed by the fact that her first entire neighborhood in a cloud of you. radio experience was 'Over an interna­ black dust. To the hu ndreds of acquaintance tional hook-up to an audience num­ "A oon a the du t cleared away, of Kay Renick, the announcement of bering millions of anxiou listeners. we stood in the doorway, nervou ly her name on the Paris broadcast was "As usual, people didn't hurry watching. From the house oppo ite, the first knowledge that they had that about reaching air raid shelters. They three wounded people were 'being she was in the war zone. Native of will from now on! And not a few taken out on stretchers by policemen, Bethel, an accomplished linguist, Phi were lei urely wandering about when while efficient oldier were getting Beta Kappa student, and mu ician, the siren had already been blowing ambulance and telephoning for doc­ she won an exchange fellowship to f'Ol· several minute . But somehow tors and nurses. Even before the France following her graduation from this time, the planes seemed to come bombers were out of earshot a few Col'by in 1935. There followed teach­ a little bit lower than usual, and the daring soul ventured into the street, ing positions in Cape Elizabeth, Me., drone of the motors more distinct. staring wide-eyed at the two ruined and the Abington Friend School in "I'd left the restaurant where I buildings nearby. The house on the Philadelphia, and last summer she was having lunch, and had reached oppo ite corner, not m'Ore than 40 sailed for Holland to teach in an in­ the NBC office, when all of a sudden feet from the NBC office, was all but ternational Quaker school. Except a shrill whistle pierced the air. Not demolished. Divans, tables, chairs for her family and intimate friends, a siren or police whistle this time, and one bed are still tretched pre­ therefore, few knew that she never but a whistle which made one realize cariously on what remains of the top reached Holland, but stopped off in that German iren bombs have as ter­ floor. Several women's dresses are England and obtained a position as rorizing an effect as the invent'Or still hanging on the wall, and there i as i tant to the representative of the could possibly have hoped for. S'omething almost gho tly about the National Broadcasting Company in "There was a terrific crash, and telephone still standing on a little Paris. then another, with flying glass all corner table. To Colby friends, therefore, the about us. Without waiting any longer "The streets, filled with debris, are THE COLBY ALUMNUS 15 being slowly cleared by a core of not have been caught by falling ''ll"iter, doors and windows drawn workmen and volunteers, but it will tones when the bomb struck. from hinges, and furniture rather the be days before all the debris can be "Lines of police have closed the worse for having been knocked about hauled away. Fortunately, no cars street to automobile traffic and to the by the concussion of bursting bombs. happened to be passing when the numerous and curious onh>okers. NBC i covering the war, but today dropping pla ter fell, but it is not yet "The NBC office, a true victim of the war covered the NBC headquar­ known for certain whether s

STUDENT ORA TORY IN THE FIFTIES

Po ssibly rw custom has come down toiling among the rocks and breakers words. Onward and the whole uni­ though the whole history of this C()/lege of life's tormy coast, 'but now we verse m

By Alice Frost Lord

For a report nf I. he Com­ ciliou ne_s and skepticism. ni•mce rnent Dinner fr om an The grace that come "onlside vie1v poirit" we are pleased to present this ac­ with it is from the joy of count hy onp, whn i� well­ retro.pection, he indicated. known thro•1ghnut the state Dr. George Lyman Kit­ fe atu.,re fn r the as a writer tredge, professor emeritus Lewi ·ton Ev ning Jo•Jrnal. e at Harvard (who had been the main speaker of the ' OT pride and preju­ morning) proved no more N dice, but pride and serious in his luncheon ad­ friendline s pervade a col­ dre s, for he jauntily read lege campus when com­ off a bit of verse in which mencement comes around, he derided any uper-wis­ old graduates return, and dom of univer ity faculty. there is good fellowship at President John-on had a luncheon table. It is taken occa ion to "point much the same, wherever with pride" to the fact that you go, whether, for in­ 10 of the 16 Phi Beta Kap­ stance here in Maine at pa new members were men, Orono, Waterville, Bruns­ this pring. But the women wick or Lewiston. were represented on the This year it chanced t'C> luncheon program by an be at the Colby gathering easy peaker who i till that account of stock was easy to look upon. he was taken of names long famil­ Mary Curtis Bok, whose iar in print and people act­ name is o well known in ually seen there for the Maine, in connection with first time. There was Dr. philanthropie and civic en­ George Otis Smith, who terpri e at Camden. Tall happens to be president of and slender, ""ith a boyi h the trustees, tall behind the bob, Mrs. Bok suggested table array of white petu- State Championship Trophy and Donor the artist or musician. She nias, dignified, and with a is president of the Curtis neat turn of phrase as toastmaster. one, 11 years ago), her large t staff, Institute of Music at Philadelphia. He was very sure Colby has no infe­ and her large t balanced budget. Hers was a friendly me sage, noth­ riority complex. There were other matters of pride : ing stilted. She liked the phrase, for President Franklin W. Johnson felt gains in a library that is unique, with college graduates who go out to lead the same, speaking with buoyant op­ regard to her now-famous Hardy col­ "productive lives ;" to be careful of timism of the success of the vast May­ lection, and her mathematical mater­ their personal relations ; and to move flower Hill program for "An Old Col­ ial; interests that are not provincial on through the years with a simplicity by on a New Site," despite the fact but universal, through the service that is not arrogant but friendly. She that no million-dollar gift could be Colby alumni are giving throughout wi bed more women read the news­ announced at this time. Not in 1941, this country and abroad, with new papers, to keep up with world events but probably in 1942 the institution graduates prepared to be instru­ and to do constructive thinking. will find itself operating in the new mental in bringing the world out of Then there was the governor of buildings, he stated ; and with four its present despair. Maine, debonair as ever, with a gra­ structures built and two more going One compensation for the inability ciou word for Colby ; and hi silver up this season, it can be said that no of many young men and women to trophy, to be given yearly to the money is being spent that is not in obtain positions is to be found in the Maine college that is champion at hand. increasing number who are going football, and in 20 years to be award­ There are some proud firsts for the further in profes ional and graduate ed permanently to the winner of the college year that is just closing, ac­ work. mo t football honors, or points. It cording to this speaker. For Colby Fred A. Pottle quoted Chaucer at was a handsome gesture-and Colby has realized her largest stu dent body, his audience, but very discreetly was pleased. her largest graduating class, her larg­ "Englished" it, in explaining why So, this was not Colby's farewell est proportion of faculty members to graduates should return for college to the old campus. That awaits one students ( 12 to one, against 1 7 to commencement for a cul'e of super- more commencement, it seems. THE COLBY ALUMNUS 17

ECHOES FROM THE CLASS REUNIONS

GOLDEN JUBILEE 1900 REUNION take an active part in the Grange, OF CLASS OF 1890 N the evening of June 15, 1940, Clubs, Church and social affairs of I ETY'S fiftieth anniversary O eleven members of the class of Jay and Wilton. N was part of a Commencement 1900, and one guest, enjoyed a mo t Marian Matheson, i living in the when "every spot was a high spot." happy get-to-gether. The four men old Osborne home with her 'brother There wa nothing spectacular, but •of 1900 who were able to attend their and sister and delighting the Metho­ two features may be described as dis­ fortieth reunion accepted the gra­ dist audience every Sunday with her tinctive. On Saturday morning four cious invitation of the alumnae of sweet singing. '90 men made pilgrimage to the Wa­ the class of join them for a blending Louise Benson i staying at home terville cemetery and left a spray of of reminiscences and the enjoyment these days caring for her aged par­ palms and flowers at the grave of of an irreproachable chicken dinner ents. She takes an active part in all 'Prexy" Roberts, a classmate. And at the charming home of ella Mer­ ·ocial and patriotic activities in Oak­ on Saturday evening we had the rick on Main Street in Waterville. An land and in her spare moment does pleasure of dining with President and evening which passed all too rapidly secretarial work. Mrs. Johnson and holding the "cere­ was filled with eager, "Do you re­ Nella Merrick is still living in the mony" of reunion with them. This member when's," "what has become "White House on the Hill." The last graceful recognition of the close ties, of's ...", "You haven't changed a twelve years she has conducted most in the case of both of them, with bit' ," and singing the old beloved successfully a gift shop business in Dana W. Hall was warmly apprecia­ college songs. her home. She has also done research ted. Present at the occasion as guests Those present were : Mr. and Mrs. work and written numerous lengthy ' were : Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Curtis, Mrs. Fred F. Lawrence, Portland ; Mr. and papers for Clubs. Miss Merrick has K. B. Miller, Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Mil­ Mrs. Charles F. Towne, Providence, completed a four years study course ler, Mrs. A. J. Roberts and sister, R. I. ; William B. Jack, Portland ; in the Chatauqua Literary and Scien­ Professor M. M. Smith, Dr. and Mrs. Mrs. Stella Jones Hill, Northeast Har­ tific Institute and recently received W. L. Soule and Mr. and Mrs. C. W. bor ; Mrs. Grace Cheney Masterman, her diploma. Spencer. A pleasing feature was a Jay; Mr. Arnold M. Sanborn, Wil­ Letters and greeting were read telephone call from Ernest G. Walker ton ; Mrs. Marian Osborne Matheson, from Frank Severy, civil engineer, of of Washington, D. C., a non-graduate Waterville ; Miss Ethel M. Russell, Los Angeles ; Simon Hedman, in the but one who has taken a consistent Augusta ; Miss Louise M. Benson, In urance Business in Worcester, interest in Colby affairs. The connec­ Oakland ; and Miss Nella M. Merrick, Mass. ; Ernest Tupper, retired teach­ tion was }ong enough to permit a Waterville. er ; Susie Hall Sawyer ; Grace Holden ; Carrie Tozier; Jennie Tirrell Gerry ; brief conversation with all present. Perhaps none of us have achieved Mary Lamont Ingraham ; Mary Phil­ Mrs. K. B. Miller, "she that was" world fame, but each and every one seems to have filled creditably his or brick Dunning ; Mary Small ; Lou Antha Knowlton, came on from Cali­ Ames VentTes; and M. Wilma Stubbs. fornia, first attending her "fiftieth" her niche in life. Towne is Deputy Superintendent 'Of Schools of Provi­ Mary Dunning and Wilma Stubbs at Vassar, and then coming hither for dence ; Jack is Superintendent of have done notable literary work, and a corresponding anniversary here. Schools of Portland ; Sanborn is Su­ we are proud to claim for 1900 James In 1890, twenty-one men and four perintendent of Schools 'Of Wilton, Henry Hudson, who was appointed, women were graduated ; Miss Hall Maine ; and Fred F. Lawrence is November 13, 1934, Justice of the took her degree in 1919. Of these, Treasurer of the Maine Savings Bank Supreme Judicial Court 'Of Maine. nine men and three women are now in Portland. -Nella Mary Merrick, survivors ; five men were present at Gertrude Towne is certainly a very -Fred Foss Lawrence. this Commencement. One non-grad­ active person. Besides taking a de­ uate man and three non-graduate cided interest in the school work of 1905 REUNION women survive, but, with the Providence, she is doing much in edu­ HE 35th reunion of 1905 began exception of Mrs. K. B. Miller, were cational and charitable work for with the arrival, late Friday af­ unable to be present. Considering T young people who need help. ternoon, June 14, 1940, of Stephen the circumstances of illness and dis­ Stella Hill has an Antique Shop in and Alona Bean, Cecil Clark, John tant residence, the attendance was Northeast Harbor and incidentally is Pugsley, and Axel Uppvall. Little pretty good, but the absences were quite active in Club and Church af­ leep was had that night and appar­ regretted. The quality of the occa­ fairs. She has recently been appoint­ ently it wa not needed for everyone si'On for those present left nothing to ed "The Pioneer Woman" of North­ was up bright and early Saturday for "be desired. east Harbor Women's Literary Club. one of the busiest and mo t interest­ The survivors of '90 are not ex­ Ethel Russell is still in the Court ing day in our class hi t'Ory. The pecting another half-century of sur­ House in Augusta where he ha o forenoon found u occupied with the vival, but they are looking forward efficiently held a trustworthy po ition program on the campus, so that our with bright hopes to the "Old Colby nearly all the years since her gradua­ fir t get-to-gether was at the Alumni on a new campus and with new equip­ tion from Colby. luncheon in the old gym and the ment. " Gi:ace Masterman i a happy wife Alumnae luncheon at Foss Hall. Get­ -Charles W. Spencer. and mother and in addition to all this, ting together in the late afternoon, a 18 THE COLBY ALUM ·u. group picture was taken on the cam­ and Mary Donald Dean , Keene N. l\1ary Wa hbum, Dorothy Webb pus, copies of which will be sent out H. In addition, wives and hu bands, Houston, Evelyn Whitney. shortly. l\Irs. Henry B. Moor, Mrs. Lucille A gu e;:L: l\Irs. Fred Dunn, Mrs. At 7 P. M. promptly we met again Soper Blake Mr. Myron E. Berry, Leonard Grant, Mr . Prince Drum­ at the Elmwood, where a private din­ Mr. Erne t C. Marriner, Dr. . J. mond, Mr . Leon Spinney, Mrs. Ray ing room had been re erved for us. Fernald, Mr. Allan P. Gilli , and Young, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Eaton, The next hour was one of the most Mary Hitchcock, Colby, 1941, daugh­ .'.\Ir. and Mr . . L. Nourse, G. H. fascinating we have ever experienced. ter of Ca�silena Perry Hitchcock, O'oe:ir, Allan Houston . Gales of laughter filled the room as made a mo t enthu iastic reunion some old prank was recalled. Eager group. 1920 REUNION interest and enthusiasm for the col­ We met at "The Wishing Well" in l\10.G tho e in the class of 1920 lege and Mayflower Hill were con­ Waterville, at even o'clock, June 15. A who returned for C'Ommence­ tinually in evidence. Inquiry for the The reunion upper wa a delici

number of our cla s couldn't be preS­ appointed an Assistant Professor at As promised, no extensive speeches ent. the College the day before. Norman were made. Eddie Roundy and the A we l'ooked over the '25 Oracle Palmer, Charlie Giles, Stanton Weed, Mrs. made the party complete-Eddie we were all reminded of the popular Buck Weaver, Red Lee, Dean Quinton extending greetings to the returning befv re and nfter type of advertise­ and Don Allison were among others members. After a good sing with Lee ment, in which the after is a decided who celebrated and took freely of the and Arber in the driver's seat, danc­ improvement over the before. Fifteen splendid dinner served by the former ing was in order and Dean Quinton years certainly dealt kindly with the DKE chef, Harry Tozier. made candid camera shots of the "twenty-fivers". More weight and a Among the girls present were : group. Dean says these will be on little more gray hair, of course, but Helen Chase, Marjorie Deering, display at the 15th. Better come ! All otherwise in perfect shape. Louise Ray, Barbara Libby Tozier, in all, 34 were present which was Ruth Young, Frances Thayer, Bar­ most gratifying. Sorry that the bal­ Only four girls made the Alumnae bara Taylor Cahill, Mary Rollins Mil­ ance of the Class could not have join luncheon but when we joined the men ­ lett, Lucile Whitcomb Elsemore, Eve­ ed the fun too. at six-thirty for dinner, a few more lyn Hale Page. -Robert P. Brown. feminine representatives made their appearance. Our president, Ethel Childs Storer, was up from Ports­ mouth, N. H. ; Nellie Pottle Hankins COMMENCEMENT PLAY A HIT came all the way from Kansas and brought her attractive husband along; HE play this year was certainly ing to continue still his search for Ellen Smith Siebel was up from Tout of the ordinary. K'ung, by wisdom in a mountain retreat. Chien­ Cooper's Mills ; Ethel Littlefield Whit­ Mrs. Larz Anderson, is a dramatiza­ Kwan, finding her "lotus dream of tier from Readfield; Marjorie Sterling tion in five scenes of events in the happiness" with the Prince of Lu bit­ Holway and her husband dropped in ; life of the Chinese sage-K'ung ter indeed, returns to the home she Flora Harriman and Doris Hardy Fu-tse, known to all rather by the fled from, in deep remorse. At the were present from Waterville. Every­ Latinized name Confucius. Mrs. An­ death of K'ung, she comes again to one had a pleasant evening exchang­ derson has made an effective stage­ the schoolroom-now a shrine for his ing news and we hope the next re­ piece out of the meager facts of Con­ memory, joins unobtrusively in the union will see many more present to fucius' life and her own considerable odd and beautiful ceremonies honor­ share the pleasure. knowledge of Chinese words and ing him, and remains behind. She The men present were : Russell ways. She has kept to the spirit of speaks a few last words of regret, Squire, Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Crie, Mr. those ancient times-478 B. C., is the drinks poison, and dies. and Mrs. Keith Weymouth, Earl Mer­ date at which her play takes up the This brief sketch indicates the main riman, Ralph Larrabee, Alfred Chap­ story-and has taken only such liber­ threads of the story, but does not tell man, Joseph Gorham, E. W. Millett. ties as are customarily accorded his­ of the charm and humo r and beauty We were very happy to have as our torians for the stage. in the lines and action. There is a guests, Mr. and Mrs. Richard D. Hall. K'ung, the play, is set throughout real Chinese flavor not only for the The class talked enthusiastically in the schoolroom at the unpreten­ dialogue, for the incidental verses, about the twentieth reunion, and we tious home of Confucius. There, five but also for the ceremony and busi­ do hope that all will make plans to students of the philosopher wrangle ness-deep bows, much drinking of come back at that time. over his maxims for the conduct of tea (sam chu), courtship a la Chin­ -E. W. Millett, life, and over the trouble that may oise, and all the dramatic details of -Doris W. Hardy. come from the presence of K'ung's Oriental life. young and lovely wife-Chien-Kwan. Gordon Richards

goddess lighted by an amber spot­ The two dances of the Sing Song .'weet, '22, Waterville ; alumnae a - light, and gold-ringed Chinese-red GirL were designed and directed 'by sociate ::;ecretary, Mr . Ervena Good­ side-drapes, and blue and brown dec­ Mi:s Virginia Gardner of the Depart­ ale mith, '24, Waterville. oration for platform and tables, gave ment of Physical Education. In the New Alumnae Council Members : the eyes of the audience a feast of third scene, the Butterfly Dance, done Undergraduate representative, Han­ color. ju. i; before K'ung came to drive away nah B. Putnam, '41, Houlton. Mem­ When the tage lights were dimmed these interloper who might "con­ ber. at Large : Mrs. Pauline Lunn for the romantic second scene (the taminate the eyes of his wife," cap­ Chamberlain, '26, Waterville ; Mrs. Prince 'Of Lu visits Chien Kwan at tured well the pirit of the occasion. Mary larkin Dundas, '17, Water­ evening) , the beauty of the setting Contra-ting . trongly, the Funeral ville. Delegate from Local Associa­ brought a spontaneous burst of ap­ Dance of the last scene gaYe a state­ ti n : We tern Maine, Mrs. Ruth ' plause. And the last scene, the mem­ ly, sombe1· tone perf ctly appropriate Hamilton Whittemore, '12, Portland ; orial ervice to K'ung, joss-sticks to that occa ·ion. Bo ton. Mr . Hazel Breckinridge flooding the tage and audience with Music for the Exit Song of the Mailey, '11, Andover, Ma . ; Oonnec­ incense, the candles and Chinese lan­ girls wa compo ·ed by John White ticut Valley, Mrs. H !en Thomas Fo - terns, the movement and ceremony, Thoma Oriental records from the ter, '14, Middlebury, Conn. ; Water­ made a powerful impression. files of the Music Room were played ville, Mrs. Loui c Williams Brown, Mrs. Andernon lent the hangings, at the intermi sions, also. '34, Waterville. the shell, the costume for the Sing Profe or Cecil A. Rollins, as u ual, Executive Committee: l\1r . Helen ong Girls, and many of the proper­ directed the production. It was re­ Leighton Austin, '29 ; Mr . Doris Fer­ ties. The college is grateful to her marked that thi i hi. eleventh Com­ nald Blackington, '2 1, Dorothy Good­ for her generous assistance. mencement Play. His assi tant, Ed­ win '37; C. Esther Murray, '18; Many of the other costumes came ward B. Porter, acted as Technical Anne F. Murray, '20. from the college chests, a bequest of Director. Mrs. Rollins, Mrs. Sophia Scholarship Loan Fund Committee: the King estate, and from Mrs. A. Hannon, Mis Winnifred Odlin, Mis Dean Ninetta M. Runnal , '08 ; Mrs. Percival Wyman. The e we1·e authen­ Elizabeth Buckner, and Miss Mary Eleanor Creech Marriner, '10 ; and tic 'Originals. All combined to make a Farrell aided in handling CQ tumes, Treasurer of the College. gorgeous picture. properties and make-up. Alumnae Fund Committee : Mrs. Esther French Spaulding, '16 Ban­ gor; Mrs. Violet French Collins, '18, GRADUATE BODIES ELECT W olla ton, Ma s. ; Mrs. Madon White mith, '17, Worce ter, Ma s. ALUMNI COUNCIL Chairman: Cecil W. Clark, '05, FINAL FU ND FIGURES Newtonville, Mass. ; Vice Chairman: 1940 1939

George B. Barnes, '26, Houlton. Alumni contributors ______693 632

New Council Members (elected by Alumnae contributors ____348 430 ballot) : Francis F. Bartlett. '26 ; Paul M. Edmunds, '26 ; Cyril M. Joly, '16; 1,041 1,062 Richard L. Sprngue, '18. Alumni Rep- Gifts to Alumni

1·esentative on Athletic Council : Fun.d ______$4,657.5 0 $4, 267.33 Theodore E. Hardy, '28. Gifts to Alumnae

Executive Committee: Francis F. Fund ------1,602.84 1,680.00 Bartlett, '26; Robert E. Owen, '14 ; G. Cecil Goddard, '29 ; Cecil W. $6,260.34 $5,947.33 Clark, '05 ; Ellsworth W. Millett, '25. Nominating Committee : Cecil W. RECENT BEQUESTS Clark, '05 ; Francis F. Bartlett, '26; Ellsworth W. Millett, '25. The sum of $2,000 has been receiv­ Alumni Fund Committee : Francis ed from the estate of the late Matie F. Bartlett, '26, (Chairman); H. C. E. Goodwin of Skowhegan, the in­ Marden, '2 1; T. R. Hodgkins, '25; come to be u ed as the Fonest Good­ Cecil W. Clark, '05; Richard D. Hall, win Prize Fund and will be expended '32. as prizes f,or an annual speaking con­ Finance Committee: Cecil W. test as esta'blished by Forre t Good­ Clark, '05 ; G. Cecil Goddard, '29 ; A. win, '87, and continued by Mrs. Good­ G. Eustis, '23 ; Francis F. B�rtlett, win since his death. DR. CECIL W. CLARK, 'OS '26; Prince A. Drummond, '15. The sum of $25,000 has been re­ Chairman, Alumni Council ceived from the estate of the late ALUMNAE COUNCIL Hugh R. Chaplin, '80, of Bangor. Officers: President, Mr . Florence Mrs. Mary Rollins Millett, '30, Wa­ Since Mr. Chaplin's

COLBY'S �� VICTORY YEAR "

By Leonel L. Saucier, '27

The boys pictured above played a large part in the series last winter. Unbeaten in state series play were victories which brought to Colby teams state champion­ pitchers Hal Hegan and Joe Slattery, whose hurling en­ ships in baseball and hockey, co-championships in foot­ abled the ball team to ride through to the champion­ ball and basketball, and a top berth in the uncompleted ship. In track, Colby's highlight was Gil Peters who tennis tournament. In football, fleet-footed Clyde took off his baseball uniform to establish a new State Hatch and Captain-elect Johnny Daggett reeled off Meet record of 6' 1 �8 " in the high jump. Colby tennis hundreds of yards in spectacular runs. Diminutive players were leading the state tournament in points Ray Fortin's classy hockey play brought him All-New when rain and final examinations forced the abandon­ England recognition and gave Colby second place in ment of the meet at Bowdoin and deprived Captain Pi­ the N. E. Hockey League, as well as the state title. nansky and last year's singles champ, Charley Lord, of Lanky, sharpshooting Al Rimosukas, captain-elect of a probable fifth state championship for Colby in the basketball, was the state's top scorer in the Maine "Victory Year."

N summarizing the athletic achieve­ account of themselves in the 1940 veloped well enough to tie the Uni­ I ments of Colby teams during the campaign. versity of Maine for the state title. year 1939-40, we note with pride that Coach Bill Millett's hockey team If all of Coach Eddy's boys come back unusual success wa enjoyed on prac­ not only won the state title, but came next year, thus preventing his having tically all fronts. The Mule teams out second in the New England Con­ to rebuild once again, he is going to were tied for two State Titles, won ference. The Mule pucksters made give us a court five well worth watch­ two others, while C'Cmtinued bad up one of the finest small college ing, during the 1940-41 seaoon. weather spoiled the opportunity to hockey teams in the East, and they ot 'being sati tied 'v ith a tie for a gather in another title. should be equally strong next winter. title, Coach Roundy developed a ba e­ Coach Al McCoy's powerful grid­ The two games they played and lost ball combine this spring that mowed iron machine went through its season by narrow one and two point margins down all state oppo ition with clock­ with five wins, one tie and but one against the powerful Bo ton College like regularity. The Colby pa timers defeat, the latter at the hands of team, were cla sed a stand-out games collected even tate Series wins be­ Bowdoin whom they tied for the in the East last winter. fore dropping one game and then Championship. Several important key Coach Roundy's ba ketball team went on to win the ninth and last men were lost via the graduation came along lowly at first, but game of the eason for a clear cut route this June, but we feel sure that through careful manipulation of the title. Coach McCoy' boys will give a good players, the Colby cuurt cluster de- everal early pring games were 22 THE COLBY ALUMNU

lost, but after Coach Roundy found Finishing third in a meet which in­ the smQoth functioning infield that he NEXT FALL'S cluded participants from nine col­ had been striving for, the team click­ FOOTBALL SCHEDULE leges is an enviable record for the ed beautifully. The superb pitching Sept. 28-Univ. of N. H., here. Mule cinder stars. of Hegan and Slattery, who won four Oct. 5-C. C. N. Y. at N. Y. C. The Colby tennis team was doing State Series games each, was also a Oct. 12-Univ. of Vt., Burlington. very well against it State of Maine great factor to Colby's diamond suc­ Oct. 19-Mi,ddleb ury, here. opponents and seemed headed for the cess. This Mule baseball team was Oct. 25-COLBY NIGHT title, leading Bowdoin 12-10 in the one of the finest developed in many Oct. 26-Bowdoin, here. State Tournament, when all matches years. Nov. 2-U niv. of Me., at Orono. had to be cancelled due t;o continued Injuries prevented Coach Cy Per­ Nov. 11-Bates at Lewiston. downpours of rain plus the proximity kins from getting better than fourth of final examinations. place in the State Track Meet, but the This is the largest number of points The Golf team got in a few CQlby coach did succeed in develop­ garnered by any Colby Track team matches, but the weather man pre­ ing a record breaker in the person of in this meet for many years. Equal­ vented them from completing their Gil Peters, who went 6' 1 % " in the ly encouraging is the fact that a total schedule. high jump. of 15 men reached the finals. Coach Well, this winds up my job for the Although fourth place is a familiar Perkins, I would say, has done very year. It has been pleasant-this spot for Colby track teams in State well indeed, and the prospects are gathering of athletic news for you Series Competition, it is very encour­ that he may do even better next year. feUow alumni, made especially so by aging to note that the team finished In the Eastern lnternollegiate A. the courtesy extended me 'by Mike with a twenty point total, just Qne A. the Colby track men finished third, Loeb and the members of the coach­ lone point behind third place, Bates. behind Tufts and Connecticut State. ing staff.

WINGS OVER COLBY RESULTS OF YEAR'S ATHLETICS To meet the increasing demand for flying instruction, the Colby College Civil Ae1·onautics CQurse, introduced Football Baseball last fall, has been extended through Colby Opp. Colby Opp. Elon ...... 3 4 University of N. H...... 20 6 the summer, with thirty new students Catawba . . . . . •. . . . •...... 2 Lowell Textile ...... 26 enrolled. While Colby graduates and Davidson ....•...... •...... University of Vermont ...... Duke ...... undergraduates predominate, stu­ Middlebury ...... 13 12 Bowdoin ...... •...... ••..... 10 Bowdoin ...... 0 6 dents from eight different institutions Northeastern ...... 8 University of Maine ...... 6 are on the list. Clark ...... Bates ...... 28 20 Trinity .....•...... Financed under the government's Bowdoin ...... 10 C. A. A. program, Airway's Inc., of . Basketball Bates ...... · Waterville, is serving as the agent of Northeastern ...... Colby Opp. the college in providing the actual in­ Maine ...... •.•...... Hartwick ...... 38 45 Bowdoin .....•.•...•..••...... struction and flying equipment. This University of N. H...... 27 38 l3ates ...... •...•...... 4 organizati,on, headed by Wesley Mar­ ...... 43 Trinity . 59 13 Trinity ...... •...•...... den of Waterville, is also running C. Clark ...... 41 61 Bowdoin ...... Northeastern ...... 40 23 A. A. flying courses for Bowdoin and Maine St. Anselms ...... 45 37 Bates University of Maine. Bates ...... 38 36 Maine In addition to those entered in the Northeastern ...... 36 41 summer C. A. A. school, there are six University of Maine 45 31 Lowell Textile ..... 48 32 Golf Colby student , including two girl , ...... 47 36 Boston University . Colby Opp. who t;ook the course last winter and ...... 44 46 University of Maine . Maine ...... l'h 71h obtained their private flying licenses, 38 Mass. Inst. of Tech...... 44 Bowdoin ...... • . 3 6 ...... 48 who are spending the summer work­ Bates 37 Maine 5 'h 3 1h ing for commercial and instructor's M. I. T. 'h 8¥., Tufts certificates. This involves full time Hockey B. U. daily work in ground school, shop Colby Opp. Bates work, and 200 hours of flying to gain Dartmouth ...... 3 8 Bowdoin ...... precision and cross country experi­ University of N. H...... 4 Tennis ence. Middlebury ...... 10 Colby Opp. Williams ...... (no ice) Catawba ...... 6 FACULTY CHANGES Bowdoin ...... 1 Wake Forest ...... •....

Northeastern ...... Univ. of North Carolina ...... Fromotions: Philip S. Either to be Mass. Inst. of Tech. Maine ...... assistant professor of modern lan­ Boston College ...... Bates ...... guages ; C. Lennart Carlson, to be as­ Bowdoin ...... Maine ...... sistant professior of English. Boston University ...... (cancelled) Bowdoin ...... 6 Boston College ...... 5 Tufts ...... Appointments: instructor in eco­ ...... N ortheastem ...... 9 New Hampshire ...... nomics. Walter C. Wilson, A.B., Uni- THE COLBY ALUMNUS 23

versity of Nevada, Ph. D., Clark Uni­ Father knew it but he did not tell me. Mary Koopman in it. The Colby ver ity, now on faculty of University Tell Fanny that her cushion works Echo will soon be published and will of Delaware ; in tructor in English, first rate but I have broken the send you a copy. If there is any news Thomas M. McGrath, A.B., Univer­ strings •off it already by squirming from Bowerville I want you to write sity of North Dakota, app'Ointed a'bout in my chair. It seems nice to of it. I have not been homesick at Rhodes Scholar, but appointment sus­ have a warm room to sleep in after all, I am o busy. I lost two lessons pended because of European war ; t'O sleeping all winter in the cold. Have in Latin, in Greek and in Algebra. be instructor in history, Francis Cal­ you seen any of my scholars since I have made up the Latin. I can't vin Prescott, A.B., Col'by, 1938, M.A., school closed ? If you have, what is write any more now, as I have no Fletcher School of Law and Diplo­ the news from the ridge. Wendell news, but I want you to wTite as soon macy (under joint sponsorship of Philips lectures here Thursday next as possible. Harvard and Tufts) 1940. and I shall go to hear him. If you Love to all, Resignations: Sharon L. Finch, in­ have a chance to see the Portland Your brother, structor in classical languages ; Transcript of January 6, look for a Edgar H. Crosby. Charles M. Anderson, instructor in poem called "The First Snow" by P. S.-Thank you for those apples. economics. Leave of absence : Alfred King Chapman, assistant profess·or of Eng­ LOCAL COLBY CLUBS lish, for one year for further gradu­ ate study. NORTHERN AROOSTOOK Means Committee at the annual meet­ MEETING ing with picnic May 16th, at the home ALUMNI PHOTO EXHIBIT of Mrs. William Berry of the Shore During the C'Ommencement week­ BOUT thirty alumni of Northern Road, Cape Elizabeth. Twenty-seven end a collection of pictorial photo­ Aroostook welcomed Pre ident A members were present. graphs by six Colby alumni were on Franklin W. Johnson and Alumni Mrs. Whittemore was elected a del­ display in the Library and attracted Secretary, G. Cecil Goddard, at a egate to the Alumnae Council, Wa­ much favorable comment. All were chicken pie supper held in Caribou at terville, with Miss Martha Hopkins on sbndard salon mounts and sev­ the Episcopal vestry, Thursday night, as alternate. Miss Sylvia Brazzel eral had already been hung at various May 16th. Mr. John A. Partridge pre­ and Mrs. Berry were elected to serve photographic exhibiti'Ons. It is hoped sided at the meeting. Foll'Owing the on the Scholarship committee. that this may be made an annual af­ beautiful pictures of the developing Annual reports were given and a fair. Those submitting prints were : Col'by Campus, President Johnson new constitution adopted. Plans were Harold E. Clark, '28, Fletcher Eaton, told his story of those things which made for the fall picnic to be held '39, Gardiner E. Gregory, '39, he considers make Colby a college with Mrs. Harold Burnham at her George D. Hill, '38, Willard D. Libby, worth moving. summer home at Wind-in-Pines, Ray­ '37, and Joseph C. Smith, '24. Mrs. Rose Carver Tilley was elect­ mond. ed President of the Association for AN OLD LETTER the ensuing year. Those present were, MEETING OF CONNECTICUT Colby University, Mr. and Mrs. James Crowley of Van ALUMNAE Feb. 17, 1877. Buren ; Mrs. Jo ephine Scribner and HE Spring Luncheon of the Con­ Dear Sister : Elinor Barker of Limestone ; Mrs. necticut Valley Alumnae Associa­ I have now been here a week and I Virginia Sirois and Mrs. Harriet Tit­ T tion was held at the Peter Pan Tea thought I would write you how I am comb of Fort Fairfield ; Mr. and Mrs. House, West Hartford, on May 18. getting along. This week has 'been Ernest Loane, Mr. and Mrs. "Spike" Twenty-five member were present. one of very hard work. Olneys Uni­ Williams, Mrs. Doris Cunningham of The following officers were elected versity Algebra which we study is Presque Isle ; Mrs. Rose Tilley, Mr. for the ensuing year : President, very difficult indeed. and Mrs. Wilmer Mo'Oers, Mr. and Elizabeth B. Carey of New Haven, Chaplin and I have studied till af­ Mrs. Earl A. McKeen, Miss Peggy Gonn. ; Vice President, Elsie Gardiner ter ten or eleven about every night. McEachrean of Ashland ; Mr. and Pierson of Waterbury, Conn. ; Secre­ We are reading the Odes of Horace Mrs. John Partridge, Mr. and Mrs. tary, Margaret Adam Austin of now, which is very fine reading. We Philip Miller, Vernon Bolster, Leonard Hartford, Conn. ; Trea urer, Eliza­ have had warm weather most of the Finnemore, Evelyn Johnson, Blanche beth J. Dyar of Holyoke, Mass. time, but one or two days were quite Farrington, Rita Belyea, Pearle Mil­ cold. Our l':>om looks quite nice. It ton, Jeanette Benn, and Clara Piper A di cu ion wa held regarding the is snowing and blowing some today. of Caribou. cholarship fund for 1941. It was The new gymnasium is nearly com­ unanimou ly agreed to continue this pleted. It will be a very nice one. I WESTERN MAINE ALUMNAE special fund and contributions from suppose you are glad to have a vaca­ MEET various members were reported. tion after so long a time of work and RS. A. L. Whittem'Ore, re-elected Helen Thomas Foster told of her study. I board at the same 'Old club. M president of the We tern faine recent visit to Colby and answered We have some new boys in our class Colby Alumnae, appointed Mrs. John que tion about the new campus. and some of the old ones have left. Vickery chairman of the Hospitality The next meeting of the asS'Ocia­ Many are not back yet. Aunt Fannie Committee and Mrs. Arad E. Lin­ tion will be held in the Fall. ha a little baby. Did you know it. scott chairman of the Ways and -Margaret Adams Austin, '13. 24 TIIE COLBY ALUMNU,

WATERVILLE ALUMNI WORCESTER ALUMNI F. of Wynnewood, Penn., and Mil­ ENTERTAINED dred C. Chutter, librarian at Oberlin FETE JOHNSON EMBER of the Worce ter College. HE final meeting of the Water­ M Cou nty Oolby Alumni were en­ Tville Colby Alumni Association on tertained at dinner June 6, at the VERNE M. WHITMAN, '94 May 22nd t'Ook the form of a testi­ home of President Frederick Kinch UNICIPAL flags nd articles. 1875, in Winthrop, Maine, the son of ed their per onal felicitations to the In 1887 at Bo ton Dr. Chutter was George S. and Prudence Grant Met­ President and asked him to autograph married to Carolyn Clark Cutler. He calf. He attended Colby College from their programs. is survived by two children, Reginald 1892 to 1894, and in 1896 received THE COLBY ALUMNUS 25

his B.A. degree friom Brown Uni­ forty scientific workers in branch of­ versity, from which he also received fice · throughout the country. Dr. School Directory an M.A. degree in 1897. He did Metcalf was recognized as an author­ graduate work at Harvard and the ity in his field and attained fame by RICKER CLASSICAL INSTITUTE University of ebraska, from which evolving a cure for soft rot in sugar and JUNIOR COLLEGE 11e received his Ph.D. in 1903. beets. He also 1rnlped no trace the Houlton, Maine After teaching botany, biology, chestnut tree blight to a fungus * * * * nnd bacteriology at Brown, Tabor brought to thi country from China. s;xty-one gr�du:� n�w in colleg�. College, the University of Nebraska, In 1899 Dr. Metcalf married Miss Excellent i:;re�ar�to;y courses. and Clemson College, Dr. Metcalf Flora May Holt, a Colby classmate Two years of Junior College. joined the U. S. Department of Agri­ and a member of the Sigma Kappa Costs less than $500 culture in 1906. He organized the sorority, at Nashua, N. H. Mrs. Met­ Principal Roy M. Hayes Division of Forest Pathology and un­ calf died in Washington in 1935. der his leadership the office expanded Dr. Metcalf was a member of the from two assistants to more than Delta Upsilon fraternity. Coburn Classical Institute Preparatory School of many of Colby's famed graduates for 118 years. . . Today, 100 students from 32 towns in 5 states . . 7 teachers trained to Class Notes About Colby Men and Women give personal attention .. Results : graduates in 16 colleges . ..22 at Colby ..one or more on honor roll of every Maine college. 1895 on to speak to the toast : "The Pro­ HUGH A. SMITH, B.A., '20, Principal. Emma Fountain plans to remain in fessors." She has had some experi­ Waterville, Maine St. Petersburg, Florida, this summer. ence of these. Her husband is pro­ With other members of the family fessor emeritus of economics at Trin­ she is looking forward to buying a ity College. Her son, assistant pro­ Hebron Academy house down there and enlarging it. fessor of mathematics at the Univer­ She writes that this happy prospect is sity of Wisconsin, has been on leave "The Maine School fu r Boys" Urnly to leave her "financially em­ the pre ent year and engaged in re- Thorough college preparation barrassed" 'but it is adding zest to a earch at the Institute for Advanced at moderate cost. 81 Hebron life which "has been and is full and Study at Princeton. He is on the boys freshmen in college this varied." editorial board of the Journal of year. Ralph L. Hunt, Principal, Lila Harden Hersey's home address Symbolic Logic and a frequent C'On­ Box H., Hebron, Me. is Pembroke, Maine. During a part tributor. The family spend the sum­ of the winter, however, she and Mr. mer at their home on Alford Lake Hersey live at The Eastland in Port­ near Camden, taking their typewri­ Higgins Classical Institute land, a city in which they have many ters with them. Charleston, Maine friends because of Mr. Hersey's long An Excellent Preparatory connecti

A member of this clas · was recent­ ampton (Ma s. ) chool union. He 1925 ly quoted at length in an A°"·ociated was chosen fr.om a field of 23 candi­ Ell. worth W. Millett has been Pre s dispatch from Washington as dates. ince Augw:;t, HJ 35, he has elected a member of the Board of follows : .·ervcd in the same capacity to the Trustees of Coburn Classical Insti­ Winchendon-A hburnham union. The tute. E. G. Holt, expert of the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce, :::ays "Win�hendon Courier" says the fol­ that by rationing, by reclaiming from lowing about Charlie : "Under hi" 1933 ditches and junk heaps our old tires supervision the school system of Rosamond Barker left New York and other used rubber articles so that Winchendon has been thoroughly City, June 13th for St. Anthony, New crude rubber consumption could 'ue ­ cut down, "we could save a lot of modernized. New text books, methods foundland, where she will be secre­ rubber in a year." of teaching, improvements in school tary to the head doctor at the Gren­ The United States, says Holt, uses building and the building of a new fell Mission for a year and a half. an average of approximately 500,000 school house, have all taken place Elizabeth Swanton sails from New tons of rubber a year. Last year the figure wa 592,000 ton . Reclaimed under his jurisdiction. The pa t five York City July 3 for a cruise to Vera rubber in 1939 amounted to 1 70,000 year:;: have seen greater advancement Cruz and points south. tons ; synthetic rubber production wa in pu'blic chool education in Winch­ 1700 tons "as far as we're able to endon, than any similar period in 1935 judge." The process of reclamatic.n, how­ recent years, and it is with sincere re­ Norman Brown, who ha been at ever, could be stepped up consider­ gret that "The Courier" records Mr. the Pebble Hill School, Dewitt, New ably if necessary, Holt said. Last Mitchell's termination of his stay in York, has accepted a position for next year the reclaimed product repre­ Winchendon." year a head of the chemistry and ented about 28 per cent 'Of the United States' consumption. But in past phy ics department at the Adelphi crises-"scarcity of rub' er and re­ 1922 Academy, Brnoklyn, N. Y. sulting high price "-thi country's Leonard W. Mayo has been elected over 50 u e of reclaimed rubber was president of the Child Welfare 1936 per cent. This was true, he said, in 1928-29. League of America. He will serve in From the radio gossip column, Presumably, also, the output of this capacity while continuing his "Listening In," 'by Leonard Carlton synthetic rubber could be stepped up po ition as associate executive direc­ in the New York Post, June 6, is clip­ enormously if necessary. Under nor­ tor of the Welfare Council of New ped the following : mal conditions, Holt said it cannot York, as chairman of the W estches­ Less harrowing was the experience compete in price with the natural of Hugh Beach of the NBC press de- product. Unless costs were reduced ter County Oouncil of Social sharply through mass p1·oduction of Agencies, and as a member of the synthetics, the price might force peo­ faculty of the New York School of ple to give up using rubber for ome Social Work. things. The production cost •of plantation Hazel Dyer Town for some years rubber from East India is approxi­ has made a hobby of studying the life Boothby & Bartlett Co. mately five cents a pound. Normally and works of Emily Dickinson, the the planter makes a profit when the General Insurance poetess. It was upor- this hob'by that New York price is 12 to 14 cents a she sp-oke to the regular Monday, pound. Against this, the government 185 Main St. estimates a cost of about 30 cents a May 13, meeting of the assembly at Waterville, Maine pound for synthetic, or for produc­ Keene Teachers College. tion from such plants as guayule and Rev. Evan J. Shearman, pastor of goldenrod which grow in the United States. the First Baptist Church of Spring­ field, was awarded the hon.orary de­ 1920 gree of Doctor of Divinity by the NORTHEASTERN Mr. Raymond S. Owen has recent­ American International College in UNIVERSITY ly joined the Hinde & Dauch Paper Springfield this June. Dr. Shearman Company in an engineering capacity, delivered the Baccalaureate Sermon SCHOOL of LAW before the graduating class. A native devoting himself to factory proced­ DAY PROGRAM of Portland, he held pastorates at ures. Mr. Owen is a native of Port­ Three Years Brooklyn, N. Y., and Woburn, Mass., land, and a graduate of both Colby EVENING PROGRAM 'before going to Springfield. College and Wharton School of the Four Years University of Pennsylvania. Prior to • • • joining the organization of Steven­ 1923 A ntinimum of two years of college son, Jordan and Harrison, where he Clifford 0. T. Wieden has been ap­ work required for admission. was engaged in industrial manage­ pointed principal of the Presque Isle A limited number of scholarships available to college graduates. ment studies, Mr. Owen was connec­ Normal School. He has been athletic LL.B. Degree conferred ted with Henry Disston Sons of director at Gorham Normal School & Admits men and women Philadelphia, Penn., from 1920 to for some years. At a recent meeting 47 .• of the Western Maine Board of Bas- MT. VERNON ST BOSTON 1928. Near State House THE COLBY ALUMNUS 27 partment who heard a broadcast from third year at the University of Penn­ Pari the day that NBC's headquar­ sylvania School of Medicine. He has ters there narrowly missed destruc­ Maine Teachers' Agency recently been elected president of the tion in the first German air raid. Re­ Room 308 p•orter was Kay Herrick, ordinarily Upsilon Pi Chapter of the Phi Chi secretary to rone of the network's re­ Fraternity. Eastern Trust Building porters, who had been pressed into Bangor, Maine service in the emergency. NBC's publicity men scurried 1938 Everywhere about, trying to get information on Robert N. Anthony received his Schools for Teachers the gal, without success. Beach pon­ Teachers for Schools M. B. A. degree fr.om Harvard School dered on where he'd heard that name before and suddenly remembered­ of Business Administration in June, she'd occupied the next seat t•:> his at graduating with distinction in the Colby College, Waterville. Me., for field of budgeting control. He has several years and they were gradu­ The Cary Teachers' Agency accepted a position as reseru:ch assis­ ated together. tant in budgeting control at the 49 Pearl St., Room 71 l, Hartford, Conn. School. FRANK 0. JONES, Manager 1937 Well Qualified Candidates Always in Demand Stanley Paine is at the J os ph Our Aim-The Highest Standards of Service Price Memorial Hospital in Philadel­ 1939 Reliable Recommendations phia, working as assistant to the chief Wade S. Hooker is attending Bos­ Member National Association of Teachers' surgeon, having just completed his ton University Summer School. Agencies

MILESTONES Millett, fish & Dresser ENGAGEMENTS ner of Augusta, on June 29, in Port­ Public Accountants Eleanor G. Butler, '29, of Cumber­ land. Mr. Turner graduated from the and land Foreside, Me., to Bradford H. University of Maine and received bis Hutchins, of Waterville. Mr. Hut­ M.A. from Amherst. He is connected Auditors chins is a graduate of Princeton and with the U. S. Biological Survey, with PORTLAND, MAINE Yale Law School, and a member of headquarters in Portland. the law firm of Perkins & Weeks. The Frances Gasster of Brookline, wedding is to 'be on September 3rd. Mass., to Ralph Nathanson, '34, on Adelaide S. Gol'don, '26, Portland, June 30, in Brookline. Best man was to Charles A. Fitts, Jr., of Peter­ Arthur B. Levine, '28, and the ushers Tileston & bo1iougb, N. H. Miss Gordon is a mem­ included : Dr. Arthur B. Wein, '35; 'ber of the teaching staff of the Hous­ and Jacob Hains, '34. The bride is a Hollingsworth atonic Valley Regional High School graduate of Forsythe Dental School in Lime Rock, Conn. Mr. Fitts is a and has been a practicing dental hy­ Co. graduate of the University of New gienist in Boston. Mr. Nathanson, 213 Oongrcss St., Boston, Mass. Hampshire and Columbia University. since his graduation from Harvard Papermakers He is connected with the N. A. Mc­ Law School, has been practicing in for more than 135 years Neil Insurance Company of Salisbury, Waterville. Printing paper for magazines Oonn. The wedding will be in July. Eleanor M. Tolan, '36, of Portland, We use State of Maine pulps Dorothy S. Brown, of Belmont, to Wade S. Hooker, '39, of Holbrook, Mass., to Alvin Lombard Vose, '35, Mass. Mrs. Hooker resigned this Maine Representative of Waterville. Miss Brown was grad­ June from the faculty of Waterville F. Clive Hall, '26 uated from South High School in High School. Mr. Hooker has been in Worcester, Mass., and is employed in business with his father, and is tak­ the general accounting office of the ing a summer course at Boston Uni­ New England Telephone and Tele­ versity Summer School. graph Co., of Boston. Mr. Vose is Amelia Dubay rof Anson, Me., to J. The State now representative of the New York Claude Bouchard, '28, of Detroit, Life Insurance Co. in Waterville. Michigan, June 27, at Madison, Me. engraving Mrs. Bouchard has been in charge of MARRIAGES the French department at Madi on Elizabeth Chadwick McKay of San­ high school for several years. Mr. ford, Me., to Dr. John W. Hunt, '35, Bouchard is now French instructor at on June 29, at Sanford. Mrs. Hunt the Detroit Country Day School in is a graduate of the Faulkner Hos­ Detroit, Mich. He formerly taught pital Training School for nurses. Dr. French at Skowhegan high school. Hunt has been practicing dentistry in Helen Lewis, '38, of East Lynn, Sanford since his graduation from Mass., to Edward Hooper, '38, of Harvard Dental School in 1938. Islingtron, Mass., on June 8, at the Ruth Marston, '37, to Max E. Tur- bride's home in East Lynn, Mass. 28 THE COLBY ALU.MNU '

.Mr . Hooper up to the time of her Waterville High . ch ol in Hl37, and work at Boston University, and has marriage had been employed at the i::ince then has been employed in Wa­ been a member 'Ofthe Winslow High Human Engineering Laboratory in terville. Mr. iechon now hold the .'chool faculty. Mr. Fro -t i. a teach­ Boston. Mr. Hooper since his grad­ position of ub-master in the Prince­ er and as.·i .. ta nt coach at Lawrence uation from Colby has been manager ton High chool for the second year. High School, Fairfield. They will 'Of a laundry in Boston. Elizabeth J. Wilkinson, '37, of Ja­ make their home for the summer in Anna Stobie, '38, of Waterville, to maica, N. Y., to Franci Ryan, on New York City, where Mr. Frost will Norman R. Rogerson, '37, of Houlton, May 28, in Jamaica. l\1r . Ryan has do graduate work at Columbia Uni­ on June 1 in Waterville. Mr . Rog­ received her Master' degree in the versity. erson has 'been , tudying art in New field of Zoology from Columbia Uni­ York this winter with John Sloan, fa­ Yer ity and this year ha been work­ BIRTHS mous painter. Mr. R'Ogerson has a ing as an a sistant in tructor at Bar­ To :'11r. and Mr . Romeo L. Lem­ government po ition in Atlanta, Ga., nard College. Mr. Ryan is a gradu­ ieux, '37, a daughter, on June 29. where they will make their home this ate of Columbia Univer ity and is To James C. Brudno, M.D., '27, and fall. now working on hi Ph.D. in Zoology. :\Ir�. Brudno. a on, Edward Alan Mabel Elizabeth Watts, of Port­ Beth P. Pendleton, '35, of Water­ Bruclno, n June 4, at Wollaston, land, to Floyd M. Haskell, '36, of Yille, to Rev. John Guill Clark, of Ma s. Houlton, on May 16, in the State Tcwk bur) , Mas ., on June 20, in To Robert Curtis, '33, and Mrs. Street Congregational Church 'Of Waterville. This past year, Mrs. Curtis, \\7aterbury, Conn., a son born Portland. Mrs. Ha kell was graduated Clark ha been employed at the Uni­ on May 12. from Bradford Junior College and the ver ity of Maine as a ociate ecre­ To William S. Curtis, Jr., '33, and Bouve Boston School of Physical Edu­ tary of the tudent Christian Asso­ Mr . Curti , Middlebury, Conn., a son, cation. She has taught in the St. ciation. M1·. Clark i at pre ent chap­ tephen Benedict Curti , June 9. Agnes Scho'Ol at Albany, N. Y. Mr. lain of the Massachusetts tate In­ To Margaret Adams Drew, '32, Haskell is now employed as an inter­ firmary in Tewksbury, and is doing and Mr. Drew, a daughter Eleanor viewer for the Maine State Employ­ graduate tudy at Andover- 1ewton Joyce Drew, on December 30, at Clin­ ment Service at Houlton. and at Harvard University. ton, Maine. Carolyn Mae Goodhue of Sidney, Ruth Carll Fuller, '36, of South To Cordelia Putnam Inman, '33, Maine, to Joseph Ciechon, '38, of China, to Ernest Merrill Frost, '38, of and Mr. Inman, a on named J'Oseph Lynn, Ma s., 'On June 22 at Sidney. Wat rville, on June 22, in S'Outh Prie tly Inman, on May 5 at Houlton, 1'.fr . Ciechon was graduated from China. Mrs. Frost has done graduate Maine.

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