Maine Alumnus, Volume 57, Number 2, Winter 1976

The University of Maine DigitalCommons@UMaine University of Maine Alumni Magazines University of Maine Publications Winter 1976 Maine Alumnus, Volume 57, Number 2, Winter 1976 General Alumni Association, University of Maine Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/alumni_magazines Part of the Higher Education Commons, and the History Commons Recommended Citation General Alumni Association, University of Maine, "Maine Alumnus, Volume 57, Number 2, Winter 1976" (1976). University of Maine Alumni Magazines. 308. https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/alumni_magazines/308 This publication is brought to you for free and open access by DigitalCommons@UMaine. It has been accepted for inclusion in University of Maine Alumni Magazines by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@UMaine. For more information, please contact [email protected]. V A / Winter is here ... time to enjoy a Bar Harbor Airlines Winters' Holiday in needn’t be City Winter Holiday. There’s ’’^Wrtiuch to do. fantastic Quebec City. ’* „ m F restaurants. History and atmosphere * * Ski at fabulous Mont Ste. Anne, with its mile-plus trails and Eastern oozing throughout the Canada’s only gondola. Novice skiers can start right from the top of this Send for our Quebec City Winter Brochure beautiful mountain on the shores of the St. Lawrence River. Expert skiers Bar Harbor Airlines Winter Brochure are welcome to try the famed World Cup trail. It truly is a mountain for all Bangor International Airport skiers. Nearby Lac Beauport offers family skiing night and day just fifteen Bangor, Maine 04401 minutes from Quebec City. bm/m/wh? Daily Service Connecting BOSTON—PORTLAND—AUGUSTA—BANGOR—BAR HARBOR—PRESQUE ISLE-QUEBEC CITY Volume 57 Number 2 Winter 1976 publisher The Maine Alumnus Lester J. Nadeau ’59 editor 2 Letter from the Executive Director Wanda Conley Owen art 4 On Tap . Wraparound of news and events on campus Arline K. Thomson 6 A Look at The Creature Man . UMO’s anthropology museum photo credits Keith Dresser 9 Dr. Cynthia Nelson ’55 . Lady Anthropologist . Alumnus Profile Al Pelletier ' Jack Walas 10 Where Are We? . An essay on education by the director of UMO’s Honors Program alumni association officers 12 Continuing Education Takes a new Step President Gordon I. Erikson ’43 13 To Pool or Not To Pool. .from the horse’s mouth First Vice President John F. Wilson ’33 14 Colby H. Chandler ’50. Successful personality in focus . Alumnus Profile Second Vice President Mrs. Eleanor (West) Yerxa ’33 15 Second Century Fund . Big news is good news for UMO Treasurer James H. Webster ’59 16 Books . Review of an outstanding text plus other Maine authors Clerk Mrs. Clara (Peabody) Hersum ’27 17 Sports. Women; They’re Here To Stay alumni council William E. Bodwell ’50 18 Alumni News . Happened, Happening and About To Happen Howard L. Bowen ’24 Leslie C. Brewer ’44 21 Class Notes Stephen A. Briggs ’65 Leland F. Carter ’42 36 Memoriam Donald P. Corbett ’34 J. Edward DeCourcy ’34 38 On Tap John K. Dineen ’51 Dr. James F. Donovan ’45 Terry Ann Dorr ’74 Kenneth S. Field ’27 Coven Palauan Story Board from the University of Maine at Orono’s Anthropology Museum ... George P. Hitchings ’37 The people of Palau in the Western Caroline Islands, Micronesia preserve the folklore, Ralph L. Hodgkins, Jr. '59 legends and myths of their culture by reducing them to a stylized series of cartoon-like Wallace H. Humphrey ’32 Dr. Waldo M. Libbey ’44 pictures which are carved on planks of local hardwood. These are usually then painted with Melvin T. McClure ’57 earth colors. The stories are never fully pictured on the boards but just enough is shown so James H. McGowan ’76 that the Palauan, who knows all the stories by heart anyway, is reminded of the moral or Donald L. Mooers ’60 admonition contained in the story. This especially fine specimen in the Anthropology Arthur K. Nicholson III ’67 Museum is the story of the Brave Boy and The Crocodile. Robert L. Olsen '50 William P. Palmer III ’58 Albert M. Parker ’28 Josephine Mary Profita ’38 Mrs. Mary (Carter) Stiles ’31 David E. Svendsen ’65 Torrey A. Sylvester ’59 Mrs. Pauline (Jellison) Weatherbee ’40 r lie ^nual alumni fund committee ri lit National Chairman Arthur Nicholson III ’67 Vice Chairmen I Torrey Sylvester ’59 Thomas and Constance Perry ’67G ’68 Richard and Patricia Shaw ’70 ’70 11 David and Barbara Simard ’65 ’65 John D. Buckley ’49 Raymond R. Couture ’51 alumni representatives to the intercollegiate athletic advisory council Bertis L. Pratt, Jr. ’43 Ernest J. Reidman ’38 Vernon W. Tozer ’51 The Maine Alumnus, published four limes a year in the Fall, Winter, Spring and Summer by the General Alumni Associa- 7 tion, Alumni Center, University of Maine at Orono, Orono, Maine 04473 The General Alumni Association, Gordon I Erikson, president, is an unincorporated association, classified as an educational and chantable organization as described in section 509 (a) (1) of the Internal Revenue Code Total number of copies pnnted per year, 96,000. Average per issue 24,000 Send changes of address and letters to the editoi to the business office six weeks prior to the next issue $5.00 to the Annual Alumni Fund is a subscription to The Maine Alumnus for one year Second class postage paid at orono, Maine 04473 I » A GREETINGS FROM NORTH HALL Lester J. Nadeau, Executive Director, General Alumni Association. , I think it enough about UMO’s problems and ac would be safe to say that we had an histori tivities. cal Homecoming in October, with Rudy If this is true, then the GAA must re Vallee performing to an impressively at evaluate its efforts to maintain the com tentive full house in the gym. Homecom munication between us in the most pro ing Luncheon featured guests: Con ductive manner possible. gressman William S. Cohen, Governor It is, after all, the primary function of James B. Longley, new UMO Chancellor the Association to inform. We do this in Pat McCarthy and New Hampshire Chan many ways. Through alumni club activity, cellor Bruce Poulton. And though we lost much increased—(President Howard to New Hampshire, spirits were revived Neville, for instance, is speaking at more with live Dixieland at the postgame cele alumni meetings this year), through the bration. Maine Alumnus and through the Annual The weekend did not pass without mis Alumni Fund, in itself, a way of reporting haps, of course. We discovered after die about the Orono campus. dust had settled, that the “Welcome Home More alumni involvement is the entire Alumni” banner, the “Welcome Alumni” empljasis of President Gordon Erikson’s sign on Memorial Gym and the wooden administration. To accomplish this, we sign “Welcome Gold and Silver Men” were must have a two-way flow of information, all among the missing. Since then, “Gold response, reaction and comment on and Silver Men” has turned up and cam UMO’s climate, status and plans. pus police tell us that they expect the other All of you receive the Maine Alumnus two to reappear before the year is out. the fall. But to strengthen the (continuity Homecoming Weekend is the time of of our relationship, the mail will bring all Merchants year when I have to take' pause for alumni the Winter and Spring issue of the I National thought, since it symbolizes what the Gen magazine for this academic year. Your Bank of Bangor eral Alumni Association is all about. And I only obligation is to evaluate the news of Member FDIC. have to say that I believe the University of the university’s accomplishments and Telephone 0 Maine may have reached the most crucial needs, to comprehend its goals and to 942-4801 milestone in its history. At no other time realize how much your active support on to reach all branches has the interest, understanding and sup any level—whether financial or manning a and departments port of alumni been more vital. phone or attending your local alumni club We must preserve our identity. meetings—is required. i Our pride and prejudice that the uni Whether it’s a star of the Twenties or a versity is a singular institution of distinc controversial speaker of the 70’s, a new tive personal and academic stature can university budget or a proposed building;1 only be sustained by an unusual effort on we need to hear from you. Your reactions the part of all of us who have spent forma will be part of our next hundred years. tive years on the Orono campus. One of the most startling statistics that we, as alumni, find hard to admit or explain is why so few of us seem to really know 2 Her hair-do may have been early dust mop but she could teach English and soI can we. She was good. But we’re better. Because we have the educational tools she had to do without. To advance the progress from her to us into our second century, we need the support of our alumni. Through your UMO education you have inherited what she stood for. Don’t let her down. Don’t let us down. Give to your alumni fund today. Annual Alumni Fund GENERAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION NORTH HALL ALUMNI CENTER UNIVERSITY OF MAINE AT ORONO, MAINE 04473 3 ON TAP • ON TAP • ON TAP • ON TAP The university of maine at The current statue, situated on a main factor was the reduction of glass ORONO’S 12,000-PERSON COMMU five-foot concrete base, has a plastic cover areas and exposed exterior areas, which NITY IS BEING ASKED TO PROVIDE ing but was never treated with wood pre represented a 252 V2 decrease in energy A NEW SYMBOL OF THE SCHOOL’S serving chemicals.

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