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Colby College Digital Commons @ Colby Colby Alumnus Colby College Archives 1971 Colby Alumnus Vol. 60, No. 3: Spring 1971 Colby College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/alumnus Part of the Higher Education Commons Recommended Citation Colby College, "Colby Alumnus Vol. 60, No. 3: Spring 1971" (1971). Colby Alumnus. 70. https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/alumnus/70 This Other is brought to you for free and open access by the Colby College Archives at Digital Commons @ Colby. It has been accepted for inclusion in Colby Alumnus by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Colby. The Colby Alumnus Spring 1971 Departments The Colby Alumnus The Colby Scene l Marriages, Births 30 Volume 60, Number 3 Spring, 197 1 Class News 12 Deaths 31 Published quarterly (fan, winter, spring, summer) Features by Colby College STUDENT HOUSING 4 Editorial Board: David C. Langzettel, editor Colby has been a coeducational college for ioo years, but in the 1960s Richard N. Dyer men began to be housed in dormitories formerly considered to be on the "women's side" of the campus and likewise women were housed Layout: Peter Pennypacker '69 on the "men's side." The president and trustees have approved and David C.Langzettel "dormitory autonomy." The college has not introduced coeducational dormitories. This article includes the board's statement on the Business manager: subject. Sidney W. Farr '55 APPOINTJ\IENTS 6 Letters and inquiries should be sent to the editor; Next fall Colby will have two new deans; a fourth Charles A. Dana change of address notification Professor and two Avalon Visiting Professors will join the faculty. to the Alumni office. OTHER TIMES I MORE QUIET TI MES 7 Entered as second-class mail at \Vaterville, J\Iaine Photographs of commencements before World War I convey the tranquility of a relatively uncomplicated world. The pictures were Postmaster send Form 3579 to made from glass negatives given Colby by the son of the photographer, The Colby Alumnus the late Professor Edwin]. Roberts. Colby College Waterville, Maine 04901 Cover photos: Peter Pennypacker '69 Paul G. Jenson, newly appointed dean of faculty, meets members of the Educational Policy Committee, Anthony Maramar co '71 (Simsbury, Conn.) and Carolyn Additon '71 (Pillsburg) during an April visit. Environmental Studies plines to en\'ironmental studies, terioration and depletion of nat and to gain '\'Orking experience ural re�ource!>; the\' belie' e "that The stimulus of being in Iaine, a with some aspect of Maine's en the nation' �mall, 'pri,·ate liberal largely unspoiled state fighting ,·ironment. art college can make a substantial early and hard to top pollution, is The resurgent En\'ironmental contribution toward !>Oh ing the!>e producing \'igorou response at Col Council, with roots in the outing problems by strengthening their by. An environmental studies pro club, ha become an independent program!> ol em·ironmental gram will be introduced in the fall. student organizati on. lt began studie� ... said Robert E. Kin�inger, The multidi ciplinary major won meeting weekly this spring and is 'ice pre ident. faculty approval in March partly putting out a newsletcer. \\'ith help in re pon e to student concern over from a Student Go,·ernment alloca Pullen on Patriotism the environment reflected by for tion, the council cle,·elopecl a leuer mation in December, 1969, of the Yesterday's revolutionarie are writi ng campaign again t the ST Colby En\'ironmental Council. today's consemus patriot�. But and i recycling paper. The group Faculty members ha\'e been influ both "hard hats" and dis�ident, plans to boycott products in non ential in this area a well, both as antiwar youths now claim w be returnable container and bring educators and by fo tering environ patriot . \\'here did thing get conservationist speaker· to campu turned around? mental protection laws. John Pullen '35 pro,·ides impor Environmental tudie will draw Aid for New Program tant insight into the question in a from the department of chemistry, ne\\' book, Palrioti 111 in A111erirn, geology, biology, mathematic , ad The\\'. K. Kellogg Foundation ha� an exhau ti,·e un e ol 200 ) ears of ministrati e cience, government, awarded Colby, 5,000 to upport national .'>entirnent published ;\fay economic and sociology. It should the en,·ironmental tudies program. -I b) American Heritage Pre!>s. form a bridge between academic The grant will be used to expand His "acknowledgements" point di ciplines, and the public and pri pertinent librar · rewurces. to Colby a a principal \'antage vate intere t be ond the college. The Kellogg trustee. are con point: part o( the book i ba ed on Major will be prepared to work cerned with matters such as popu letters lrom Colby oldiers, Zemro not on.ly with group fighting pol l:uion growth, en\'ironmental de- mith and Nathaniel B. Coleman lution and to pursue career in en in 1862-65 and Robert C. Ransom vironmental educati'on, but for In the pict!lre above, Stephen R. Orlov Jr. in 1968. The Ci\'il\\'ar letters graduate work in traditional disci 'ii (Hllll, Mass.), Olllgoi11g t11de11/ appeared in the 1969 ummer- t all Governmenl preJide111, tall< to an pline uch as law, theology, busi A l1111111u in an article b l\.Ir. XBC newsman nbo!I/ renrtion to a ne s and medicine. To accompli h March nppearr111ce by Ceor<ria Le1ris Pullen. thi they will need to under tand lnlor ]11/ia11 Bond. The "FirJ/ T1�'s How do we define ''patrioti m" the relation hip between ecological <lay" team waJ fol/owi11g the civil if yesterday's rebel become toda) · ystem , contribution of the disci- rights lender on n pealiinu tour. patriot? Pullen con tend that the 1 Ransom '66, who was killed in Viet Both received $6,ooo grants from Nam. The e moving documents the Providence, R. I., foundation. )latrioli$m first were printed in The ,\'ew They were among 70 students Yorker mag::tLine. Pullen writes: chosen from 34 institutions in the "i\fike's story is important in that country. A charitable trust estab nAmenca it demonstrates how, in a far-oft lished by Mrs. Thomas J. Watson war that does not e\'en really exist Sr. in memory of her husband, the as lar as mo�t Americans are con foundation chose Colby last fall to cerned, in the obscurity of a distant join "outstancling colleges and uni jungle, unthought ol, lorgotten, a versitie "in the program. man may still adhere LO qualities of courage ancl loyalty to his lellow A 'Greening' for Business countrymen that are among the e - entials ol patriotism. " The biggest sell-job American business ever faced concerns not Humanities Grant a new product but business itself. It must prove to a discontented The college has received a $200,000 nation that busines can work for grant from the Andrew \V. l\Iellon everyone, including a "turned off" distinction alwap has in\'oh ed Foundation of New \'ork City. It generation from which it must re changing values, comcience and is one o[ 16 totalling $3.2 million cruit. judgment, with some son ol opposi awarded to private, independent This note of urgency ran through tion to the go' ernment being the ti beral arts colleges. Sot M. Linowiu' speech April 2 to one constant. ''The whole histoq The funds cannot be used for en Colby's 20th lnstitute for Maine of our people indicate that public dowment. They may be spent in Business. The former Xerox board support lor the national gO\·ern such areas as salary increases, ad chairman and ambassador to the menL varies according Lo the degree ditional faculty and paid release OrganiLation of American state is ot corn·iction people ha\'e that i Ls time for faculty. com·incecl of a widespread frustra course is justified not onl) on ra The l\fellon Foundation was tion ancl sense of helplessne "that tional but on moral grounds. \\'hen formed in 1969 through merger of simply has no parallel in our this corniction is strange t, \\'e h:n e the Old Dominion and Avalon history.. .. These are times of been the most united, ... "·hen it foundations. paradox when we have learned to ha been weakest, we ha\ e been achieve most and to fear most; most di ,·ided." Watson Fellows when we seem to know more about Pullen documents his contention with public opinion research and An ex-Marine conservationi t and historical examples: Daniel \\'eb a member of the Nigerian Davis ster gave u a new meaning for the Cup tennis team are the first Colby word "hawk" in i812, when men scholars to recei\'e Thomas J. \\Tat were drafted for "i\Ir.i\1adison's son Foundation fellowships for a \Var," the precursor oi "i\lr.John year of foreign tra\'el and study. son's" and "i\lr.1 ixon's \\'ar. " The athan V.E. ·woodruff will author also reminds us that study parks, preserves and wildlife Lincoln was denounced for pro e areas, looking ahead to work in cuting an undeclared \\·ar in 1861. recreation and conservation. An The episode of Fort Sumter and English major and active outdoors the war's beginning are treated in man from Hartford, Conn., he will a chapter entitled "Abraham visit England, Germany, Switzer Lincoln's Tonkin Gulf." land and the Scandanavian coun Pullen, ·whosebook will be re tries. Frank 0. Apantaku, who viewed in a forthcoming Alu11111w, plans a career in public health takes up the role of consci en tious medicine, will study the cultures of objecwrs, the attitude of soldier India, Indonesia and Micronesia in the field, the effect of national to relate them to the development Colby had the distinction of having of tropical medicine.