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JCTOBER, 1940 c-A Lu M N u s

HELLO, FRESHMAN! Here in our attractive main dining room Colby men will begin their 36th annual Colby Night activities at the annual alumni dinner promptly at 6:00 o'clock. On Saturday we will have a special football luncheon before the Colby-Bowdoin game, between the hours of 11: 30 A. M. and 2: 00 P. M. The opening whistle is at 1:30 P. M. And in the evening dinner will be served in the Main Dining Room and in the Tavern between 6: 00 and 8:30.

I sincerely hope you will make us your headquarters over the Colby-Bowdoin weekend. No effort will be spared to make your weekend a most pleasant one.

AUBREY F. GARDINER, Manager THE ELMWOOD HOTEL

:5-3- HOV 1 7 1941 Frosh cap... green tie .. . tip your The Colby Alumnus hat to co-eds and itpperclassmen. . . . this is the season when the Freshnian FOUNDED 1911 is a prmninent part of the Colby scene. The girl going into th e lt'brary is

Blanche E. (" S1mny ") S11iith, a Volume 30 Oetober 15, 1940 Number 1 junior, 20, who co?nes from Blooming­ dale N. Y., fitted for Colby at North­ field Seminary, and wa11ts to be a CONTENTS teacher. The freshman iii the scene is Alden vVagner, 18, born in Newark, The President's Page 2 N. I, orphan, graduate of Good Will The Talk of the College ...... 3 School where he was president of his class, leader in the Hi-Y, catcher on Six Buildings Now on Mayflower Hill ...... 5 the ball team, a11d generally outstand­ ing. He is working his wa)' and looks Wearers of the Gray Forty-Five Years Ago ...... 6 forward to being an i11d11strial en­ Florida Went Honestly for Hayes! ...... Gov. M. L. Stearns, '63 7 gineer. He comn111tes from Hi11ckley daily with a couple of other Good Will From a Freshman Diary of 1909 ...... Diana Wall Pitts, '13 9 bO)IS.

Newcomers on the Colby Faculty ...... 10

Introducing: Colby's Top-Flight Mathematician ...... 11

On Working Your Way Through College .. Clarence L. Judkins, '81 13 The "Football Is ue of the Colby Alumnus" is a dandy. The innoyation is Life, For Colby, Begins at 123 ...... Austin Lake 14 certainly worth continuing, and I can as­ ure you it will be read to the la t word, Looking at the Season ...... Arthur R. Austin, '33 16 many times, in all probability, if such letters are continued. Local Club News ...... 16 Floria11 G .•-Jr<_\', '15. On the Campus ...... 17 It i a great idea. To those of us who Necrology ...... 17 cannot attend all the games it gi,·es us a feeling of almost being right be ide �lcCoy Class Notes About Colby Men and Women ...... 20 a he runs the team. Edwi1i H. Shuma11, '38. Milestones ...... 2·3 In my opinion. the '· Footb:ill Issue" was an extremely good job. I confess that EDITOR OLIVER L. HALL, '93 when I first began to read. I expected to ASSISTANT EDITOR JOSEPH COBURN SMITH, '24 find the usual platitudes characteri tic of BUSINESS MANAGER G. CECIL GODDARD, '29 a college man's description of a game won by the home team, and Al McCoy· graphic EDITORIAL BOARD and analytical description of the game was Term Expires in 1911 Term Expires in 1942 Term Expires in 1943 therefore a very pleasant surprise. Arthur R. Austin, Alfred K. Chapman, '25 Sally Aldrich, '39 '33 , �· Bob ,.l11tho11)•, '38. Bernard E. Esters, '21 ,,1 Myrta Little Davies, '08 Frederick E. Baker, '27 Nellie Pottle Hankins, H. Warren Foss, '96 Clarence L. Judkins, '81 '25 It i a noYel idea and I do believe it is Catherine C. Laughton, '36 Caleb A. Lewis, '03 R. ll"vine Gammon, '37 well worth your effort-. Coach l\IcCoy did Raymond Spinney, '21 Emily Hanson Obear, Harold F. Lemoine, '32 _. '14 a very good job in describing the game, ,t, Hazel Cole Shupp, '11 Edward F. Stevens, '89 Harold M. Plotkin, '34 and of course hi idelight are always EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE interesting. So you ha\'e my permission Alfred K. Chapman, '25 Oliver L. Hall, '93 Ervena Goodale Smith, '24 at least to keep it up. G. Cecil Goddard, '29 Caleb A. Lewis, '03 Joseph Coburn Smith, '24 Philip W. Hussey, '13.

To u o remote from the scene of action, PUBLISHER -The Alumni Council of Colby College. Entered as second-class mail matter Jan. 25, 1912, at the Post Office at Waterville, Me., under Act of March 3, where we usually get little more than the 1879. score until the "Alumnus" arri,·es some time later, this innovation i like an oasis ISSUED eight times yearly on the 15th of October, November, January, F�bruary, on the desert. I incerely hope that the March, April, May and July; and in addition, weekly during the football season. "Football Issue" will be continued as SUBSCRIPTION rRICE - $2.00 per year. Single Copies, $.35. Correspondence I will be looking forward to intimate regarding subscriptions or advertising should be addressed to G. Cecil Goddard, Box accounts of Colby \'ictories. 477, Waterville, Me. Contributions should be sent to The Editor, Box 477, Waterville, Ransom Pratt, '21. Maine.

(More letters next month) 2 THE COLBY ALUMNUS

.113• address to the students at our open­ to the loyalty of Colby men in time of their ing asse11ibl-y on �eptember twenty-fifth so country' need.

closely parallels 'l •hat I would like to say to In the \Norld \Var, the College was turned over to the Government and became the Colby graduates through this depart- an army camp. The regular instructional 111e11t that I am ta!?ing the liberty of reprint­ program vva u pended, and it place was ing my remarlcs herewith: taken by military training under army This morning mark the opening of the officer until the clo e of the \\·ar. 123rd ·ear in the hi tory of Colby College. From both of the e di rupting experi­ Last \\"eek I attended the bicentennial cele­ ence , the College emerged with a noble bration at the University of Penn yh·ania. record of service and resumed its normal The official program listed the repre enta­ proa-ram with increased strength. 'v\Te are tives of 313 .\merican college and univer­ now confronted with a ituation which may sitie in the order of their founding. terminate in war although to me thi does Among the e Colby occupied the 2 th posi­ not eem likely in the near future. At any tion. A.s the mar ha! called my name, I rate, warned by the experiences of countries felt. as always on such occasion , a ense unprepared, we have definitely and wi ely of pride that I wa repre enting a venerable entered upon an unprecedented program of in titution. preparation and thi program will inevita­ The colorful and impre sive program, at bly affect Colby College, in just what ways \\"hich President Roosevelt and Ex-pre i­ and to what extent I do not know. dent Hooyer received honorary degree , But I am convinced that thi College, as brought vividly to mind the clo e connec­ in the Civil War and the W arid War, will tion between our colleges and our govern­ meet the pre ent emergency with devotion ment, and the important contribution and courage. And I ay this fully aware which the colleges have made to the e tah­ of the impre sion that is commonly held li hment and preservation of our American that college student are oft and unwilling way of life. Overhanging these exercises, to meet the realitie of the world situation. like a dark cloud, wa the unexpre sed but The fact is, I think, that you young people in istent feeling of uncertainty as to are disillusioned and are unwilling to be whether education and government could -"·ept off your feet by the ordinary emo­ meet succe fully the challenge which now tional appeal . But ·becau e you have mind confront the ideals and practices of and know how to u e them, I am confident democracy. that you will meet the demands made upon As my train pulled out of the Broad you by the present emergency, becau e you Street Station, my mind turned to two will accept them as rea onable. occa ions in the pa t when this college met But do not think that, at an age far be­ the condition of war. In the Civil War yond the po ibility of military service, I nearly all the tudents entered the army, am blithely submitting you to the horrors and the work of the College wa practically of actual war. I was an officer in the suspended. The number of students in World War in the rehabilitation service of those day wa very small. The names of the Surgeon General. What I saw in army tho e who died in that war are inscribed in ho pita! seared my soul with a loathing for letter of gold on the tablet beneath the Lion war. But when a mad dog is at large, he of Lucerne in the library - mute te timony (Continued on Page 19) THE COLBY ALUMNUS 3

TALK OF THE COLLEGE

COOP - At this time, with the screen. Being a shy lad, whenever public, nevertheless, much of the in­ S presidential election in the off­ he was shown carrying the ball for a terest in each series has come from ing, historians are recalling the fa­ touchdown or long gain (which was the internationally- known people mous campaigns of the past. The frequent!), Daggett attributed the whom Dr. Libby brings to Water­ closest, most heated, most bitterly play to " Joe Bush." Most of the ville. Looking back over the list controversal of these was the Hayes­ youngsters, of course, got the point of past lectures, numerous "big Tilden campaign of 1876. Scholars all right, but afterwards some of the names " stand out. Among those of still debate who really won. It will little kids as they were going out hi·rh office, for example, have been be recalled that the returns from were heard to agree with each other Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby, Florida and two other Southern that Johnny was pretty good all Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, States were delayed, and when the right, but, boy 0 boy, that man Bush Senator LaFollette, General Smedley news came that they had gone Re­ was the one who really starred on Butler, Admiral Sims, Ambassador publican a terrific hue and cry was the Colby team. We had been some­ Ruth Bryan Owen, and Rt. Hon. raised, with charges of fraud and what appalled by the fact that Dag­ Lord Alfred Duff-Cooper. In the whatnot. gett is graduating this year, but we field of letters have been: William This explains the historic impor­ now are toying with the tempting Butler Yeats, Carl Sandburg, Thorn­ tance of the document which appears wish that there could be some way of ton Wilder, Mary Ellen Chase, Abbe in print for the first time (as far as enrolling " Joe Bush " in next year's Ernest Dimnet, and others. There can be ascertained) in this issue of freshman class. al�o come to mind such figures as actor Edward H. Southern, World The Alwmnus. The connection with War hero Sgt. Alvin York, cartoon­ this college lies in the fact that the HIRTY-NINE- Few small col- the con­ ist Bruce Bairnsfatber, presidential author and central figure in leges, we believe, can equal Stearns, T candidate Norman Thomas, and many troversy was Marcellus L. Colby's roster of founders and presi­ a European Count or Countess, diplo­ '63, Governor of Florida. dents of colleges. Now, the number Me., was mat, journalist and so on. Stearns, born in Lovell, is thirty-nine, with the elevation of with This year, besides a most interest­ one of those lads who, along Frank C. Foster, '16, to the presi­ news ing list of six speakers, Dr. Libby Shannon and others, upon the dency of Ashville College, North has outdone himself in obtaining the of Sumpter, took the stern-wheel Carolina. Who'll make it forty ? services of Mrs. Franklin steamer for Augusta and thence by D. Roose­ velt who will give ·a " boat to Portland to enlist in the non-political " LATFORM -While not usually address on " The Problems Union forces. He entered as a pri­ p of Youth " thought of as a contribution to on October 30. How Dr. Libby vate and came out of the war 1st (who the community life of central Maine, still claims allegiance to Lieutenant. Later he went to the Repub­ this is exactly what the Colby Lec­ lican Party) was able Florida as a surveyor, was elected to persuade ture Series amounts to. Year after Mrs. Roosevelt to come to the legislature, became Speaker, to Waterville year, under the energetic direction of before her regular winter Lieutenant Governor, and Governor lecture tour Dr. Libby, there have come to Water­ is a mystery to us. from 177 4-77. He died in 1891. ville authors, travelers, scientists, This document was presented to statesmen and authorities of one kind ISTINCTION - For the college, along with a large photo­ most spe- or another with a good story to tell. D cialists, college professors, graphic print of Gov. Stearns receiv­ for The college audience, of course, has example, "professional ing Harriet Beecher Stowe on the distinction " always formed the nucleus, but it is is a sweeter reward than steps of the Florida State Capitol. "public obvious that an increase from 400 to distinction." To be The donor is Miss Sophia A. Walker acclaimed by 1,000 "patrons," as Dr. Libby likes one's fellows, who really of New York, sister-in-law of Gov. understand to call them, has come largely from and appreciate your particular Stearns, whom she remembers as : field the citizenry of this and nearby of endeavor, really means " One of the best men I ever knew." something. towns and cities. Even when radios To the college and alumni body, carry the voices of world-famed per­ therefore, it is a cause for congratu­ EW STAR - Johnny Daggett sonages nearly every day, there is lation when any of the faculty mem­ N spent the summer as a coun­ something about seeing, as well as bers are honored within their own cillor at the State Y Camp on Lake listening to these people in the flesh interest groups. Looking around Cobbosseecontee, which, by the way, that keeps lectures high in appeal to with this in mind, we were pleased to is one of the best of its kind in the thinking people. They constitute a ee that Prof. Edward J. Colgan was country. (Free plug for Ken Smith, definite addition to the cultural op­ elected to succeed Dean Holmes of '26, State Secretary.) One week he portunities of this section of the Harvard as president of the New was prevailed upon to borrow the state. England Association of College Colby football movies for an even­ While it has been observed that the Teache1·s of Education. We also note ing's entertainment and, naturally, most significant and enjoyable lec­ that Prof. Richard J. Lougee is pres­ was asked to explain and comment tures are frequently given by speak­ ident of the Maine Mineralogical So­ upon the plays as they flashed on the ers who are virtuaJly unknown to the ciety, and that Orwin Ru h, Libra- ::::. THE COLBY ALUMNUS rian, is president of the Maine Evidently this is not our problem Library Association. Prof. Thomas alone, for the other day we ran across M. Griffiths was appointed State His­ the text of an address which men­ torian last year. Prof. Herbert L. tioned " the alumna! group." And )J°ewman is vice-president of the Na­ then, somewhere else, we read with tional Association of Biblical In­ our own eyes the expression: "the structors. Prof. Carl J. Weber is Louise H. Coburn, '77, who was alumnors." Will someone please chairman of the program committee awarded a "Pioneer Woman " justify the hybred etymology of that (a national officer) of the College gold medal. one? Even the undergraduate term English Association. Ellsworth W. Dr. John F. Casey, '08, who " the alums " is better than that. Millett is president of the New Eng­ wa presented with a gold medal However, until someone can sug­ land Intercollegiate Hockey Associa­ by the Missi ippi Valley Medical gest a better solution, we propose to tion. And the most responsible Society. continue to call this magazine "The extra-cunicular position held by a Frank C. Foster, '16, who was Alumnus," and to refer to our read­ faculty member is Dean Marriner's elected President of Ashville Col­ ers, both male and female, as post as president of the New Eng­ lege, Ashville, N. C. "alumni," trusting that this techni­ land College Entrance Certificate cally masculine noun will be under­ Board. All of which is good evidence wards the camera, revealing the lit­ stood in its broad sense (as in the that a gratifying number of the tle donkey mascot, trotting out with word "mankind ") and will always Colby faculty are recognized as the ball hung around his neck, and be accepted as meaning the whole " leading citizens " within their re- Capt. Dag·gett on his back. The group of onetime students of this pective professional groups. rehearsals when the animal wouldn't coeducational institution. budge, were funnier though. The UBLICATIONS - And, while we whole business seemed pretty cock­ -Those figures about the are pointing with pride our eyed to us, but after we saw the RASS P to G new athletic field dealing with faculty, we note here four produc­ antic which ome other colleges did thousands of cubic yards of rock and tions which came off the press during for the camera in these pre-season dirt are perfectly meaningless to us. the summer: " The Irish Land League footqall movies, the Colby sequence So far, we have never had to split Crisis," by Prof. Norman D. Palmer, did not seem so far-fetched. We rocks by the cubic yard, nor are we '30· and a text of Wadsworth's heard that in the Paramount edi­ quite certain what that unit means " he White Doe of Rylston " edited torial offices, the choice finally had to T in terms of wheelbarrows full of and with introduction by Dr. Alice be made between the Colby shots and dirt. However, when we read of "a Pattee Comparetti, of the Depart­ some practice scenes taken at New half ton of grass seed," that rings a York University. Colby won out, ment of English. Reviews of these bell. Our own landscaping projects books wili appear in a later issue. and these few seconds of celluloid have involved grass seed - as much An interesting facsimile edition of entertainment went on the national a a pound or two at a time. But as " Poems on Several Occasions," by circuit. for half a ton! Whew! Yes, it is a Mather Byles (1744) , published this ENDER - The only times we are big project. ummer, carries an introduction by G sorry that we belong to a co­ C. Lennart Carlson, of the Depart­ educational college is when, in writ­ ment of English. A new and revised ing, we come up against the problem ENDEZVOUS - There used to edition of a syllabus for a high school of gender. How can one get around R be a saying (now obsolete, un­ course in Bible Study, which is ac­ the necessity of committing rhetori­ fortunately) that if one stood on ceptable for college entrance units cal atrocities such as: "Every boy Trafalgar Square (or wa it Picca­ has just been published, and is chiefly and girl in the senior class, when he dilly Circus ?) in London, he would the work of Prof. Newman, although or he receive hi or her diploma sooner or later meet everyone he the name of his committee, rather from the Dean of Men or of Women, knew. So far as Colby alumni go, than his own, appears as author. respectively, thereby becomes a mem­ the same might be said of Mayflower ber of the alumni or alumnae, as the Hill. Hang around there all summer EWS REEL - Did you see the case may be, body of this college." and you will see more college friends N Colby football team perform in So far as undergraduates go, we than at Colby Night, Commence­ the Paramount ews a few weeks usually evade the issue by the sexless ment, or any other occasion. For ago ? We happened to be on May­ word "student." But, as for the rest example, consider the case of Arthur flower Hill when they were being of the Colby family, if you say " the G. Robinson, '06, and Dr. Hugh L. made and it was a good show. As graduates " you seem to ignore those Robinson, '18, who used to be neigh­ finally used, the shots were disap­ former students who did not complete bors in far-off Tientsin, but had not pointingly brief. The opening scene their course, but who are just as loyal seen each other for years until they of the boy.> crashing through a brick and integral a part of our group as each walked around the Miller Li­ wall was far more impre sive in actu­ those who did. If you say " the brary one morning this summer and ality than on the screen. One good alumni" you run the risk of slighting bumped into each other at the steps. gag didn't get in at all, where the the ladies. If you say " the alumni If that can happen, anything can. team broke out of a huddle, lined up, and alumnae " you find your elf irri­ So - we'll be seeing you on May­ napped the ball and charged to- tated by awkwardness. flower Hill! THE COLBY ALUMNUS 5

SIX BUILDINGS NOW ON MAYFLOWER HILL

Work on Dormitories, Grounds, Athletic Field, Accomplished This Summer

HAT " it really looks like a college from the boiler room in the east dormitory, according to President T campus now " is the common dormitory to the Miller Library is Johnson, are not yet in sight. comment of visitors to Mayflower Physically, the topography of the being laid so that the ditch may be Hill, now that the fifth and sixth new campus has changed materially filled in and the ground smoothed structures have risen and more and this summer, due to the efforts of two more of the grading has been accom­ over. great behemoths which have been plished. The Roberts Union and the Wom­ roaring day after day, week after Last Commencement, it will be re­ en's Union will be in far better con­ week, as they devoured tons of earth membered, saw the laying of the cor­ dition for visitors this fall, since the down in the hollow, back of the nerstones for the two dormitories fo concrete floors have been laid and dormitories, and then disgorged it men which surround the green be­ stairs installed. This is as far to­ where dirt fill was needed around the tween the Miller Library and the wards completion as these buildings buildings. An estimated 64,500 cubic lake. Althou"'h they do not now can be carried until the final stage, yards of earth have been moved by appear as massive buildings, these which will consist of building the in­ these tractor-scoopers, and the area two dormitories will accommodate terior partitions, plastering, plumb­ from which it was taken will form some 225 boys - as many as are in ing, wiring, doors and trim, decora­ the small lake which has been such Hedman and Roberts Halls, Taylor ticn and furnishing. The possible an attractive part of the development House, and all the college-owned fra­ date of this final stage of work, of plans. This is a natural basin and is ternity houses put together. When course, hinges upon the final pay­ fed by springs, so that some people six fraternity houses can be built, the ment of all pledges by the contrib­ estimate that the thawing of next men's housing problem for the pres­ utor:;; to these building funds. winter's snow will fill the pond, and ent size of student body will be well The foundations for the Women's the springs and rain water will main­ !. taken care of. Dormitory were laid last spring, and tain it. Even if this is not the case, it At this writing the exteriors of show the outlines of that building a certain amount of artificial feeding re both dormitories are virtually com­ which will house some 150 girls, to­ can easily be supplied. At any rate, plete and most of the scaffolding has gether with dining and infirmary there will be a lake on the campus been taken down. The steam conduit facilities. Funds for building this next summer.

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Two new dormitories loom up in the rear of the Miller Library, as seen from the Second Range­ o. way across the basin of the future lake. y· 6 THE COLBY ALUMNUS

Another big advance in this sum­ filling in other sections with 12,000 completion of buildings already par­ mer's development program has been yards of earth and 8,000 yards of tially constructed, plus the women's the final work on part of the athletic loam. dormitory, the science hall, and the layout. From time to time during This has resulted in a level area of addition of a gymnasium to the about 300,000 square feet (six acre ) the last three years considerable pre­ Women's Union. Colby can move to liminary work has been done in this which will be devoted to three foot­ the new campus. area, laying the drains in a low-lying ball fields and running track. This Even so, the campus will by no section, dumping material from build­ will soon be seeded down with half a means be complete. The student ing excavations, and leveling off part ton of grass seed and a good turf housing of the fields. This work was stepped should result by next fall. will still be insufficient, al­ up last summer and a power hovel, The quarter-mile running track has though every fraternity house that is two afr - compre sors and several used 1,000 cubic yards of rock base built will help. Also, the athletic trucks made rapid progre s. The which wi ll be covered with a deep program will have to continue to be chief difficulty was a ridge of rock layer of cinders in graduated izes. c-arried on in the old plant. Never­ which ran into the field at about the Across the road, work has been theles , the college will be able to thirty-yard line. This necessitated started on a field for tennis courts operate on Mayflower Hill without drilling, blasting, and excavating and baseball diamond. Also, a park­ most of the problems which have about 1,500 cubic yards of rock. ing area to accommodate 1,000 cars been uch severe handicaps on the old Other work included laying 800 ha been laid out. location, and one by one we trust feet of tile piping, excavating 5,000 Thus, step by step, the new plant that all the units of the model devel­ cubic yards of earth from some areas, i� approachinQ," completion. With the ooment will be added. WEARERS OF THE GRAY FORTY-FIVE YEARS AGO

With Captain Clayton Brooks holding the ball, the "University Team" for 1895 sit for their picture down at Sam Preble's studio. Seated, from left to right are: H. A. Lamb '99 (sub.); A. L. Holmes, '98 (full back); H. W. Dunn, '96 (sub.); F. W. Alden, '98 (half back); Captain Brcoks, '98 (left guard); H. H. Chapman, '97 (right tackle); R. C. Shannon, '99 (left end); L. T. Patterson, '98 (half back); H. T. Watkins, '96 (quarter back). Standing: W. L. Hubbard, '96 (sub.); F. P. H. Pike, '98 (right end); V. A. Putnam, '99 (left tackle); J. L. Thompson, '96 (right guard); T. C. Tooker, '96 (sub.); H. E. Hamilton, '96 (center); F. G. Getchell, '96 (mgr.). THE COLBY ALUMNUS 7

FLORIDA WENT HONESTLY FOR HAYES!

Statement by Gov. Marcellus L. Stearns, '63

HE political canvass in Florida The followi11g article deals with the matters stood on the 8th and hence T in 1876 was unusually vigorous co1itroversial p1-eside11tial election of it was that the State was generally spirited and exciting on the part of 1876. Never in the nation's history did conceded to the Republicans by an both political organizations - But such bitterness and indignation result increased majority over 1872. the election on the 7th of Nov. was from a presidential contest. The As soon however as the news was generally peaceable - save the law­ Democratic partisa11s were convinced telee:raphed from New York that the less demonstration made early in the that their ca11didate had bee11 elected result of the l ational ticket de­ morning of that day by destroying preside11t of the United States, bnt pended on the result in Florida, the the telegraph line at several points that fraud a11d viole11ce in the states of whole Democratic Camp was around. and tearing up the Railroad track Florida. South Carolina a.nd Loiiisiana Their partizans be_2:an to gather in and burning three of its tressel had robbed him of his election. We crowds and loudly boast of their bridges - one a few miles east of nm• know that f;'aud was em ployed ability and determination to seize the Tallahassee and one a few miles west by both parties . . To what extent Til­ State at all hazzards. The wildest from Live Oaks in Suwannee Co. for de11 had been deprived of the high commotion prevailed. There was a the purpose of cutting off communi­ o.ffice of president has never been fully sudden change in the peaceful aspect cation between the State and United established. The election is still. a of affairs as well as in the Demo­ States authorities -The U. S. Mar­ matter of controversy. Couseqnently c�atic opinion that the Republicans shall beino- at the time at Live Oaks a11:v ma.terial which snpplics additional had canied the State. One of their ready to cooperate with the State facts has real ·;:alue for the student of number however did venture several authorities for the preservation of that period of the Ha.lion's history. days afterward to send a private the peace. The following article contains such dispatch to a friend North that the All communication was thereby material. It is a new and ge1-ii1,ine Republicans had undoubtedly carried suspended with other parts of the source of infornuition. It is a sincere the State. But that dispatch having State throughout the entire day until and appare;1tl31 h011est narration of been made public he was soon bull­ night when the lines were again re­ politfral affairs in Florida at the time do::ed into retracting it and adhering paired - Fortunately however such of the election by the writer, <.i:ho was to the Democratic policy of lyin.e: the precautionary measures had already an active participant in that affair. State through at any cost. been taken and efficient police ar­ He was Go'l!ernor Marcellus L. Experience in former elections had rangements established that the Stearns, a g ad ate of Colby College r u shown that the Democracy of Florida which were generally feared 'in the class of 1863. troubles would not hesitate to resort to whole­ were nevertheless prevented. William J. Wilkinson sale fraud by raising and falsifying Department of History. On the 8th up to the time the in­ returns whenever it became neces­ formation was received that the Na­ sary. In 1872 the Republicans car­ tional election would turn on the re­ 2024 in 1872 - a gain of only 46 or ried the State by 157 9 majority yet sult in Florida - about 4 P. M. - less than 3 per cent. Consequently the whole Democracy and its press, the State was conceded to the Repub­ the net Republican majority in the without an honorable exception set licans. A., a Candidate of that party first Twenty Counties reported was up a claim to the State and strenu­ for the office of Governor I received 5348 a�·ainst 4061 in 1872. The Nine­ ously asserted that claim up to the many congratulations from promi­ teen Countie3 remaining to be heard day of the canvass - not however by nent Democrats upon my election. from gave in 1872 a net Democratic giving facts and fig·ures but by gen­ There was no serious doubt felt about majority of 2482 and allowing the eral assertions. It was not discov­ it by prominent men of either party. same ratio of increase for these coun­ ered upon what ground they based The reports of the election from the ties as had been made in the Eleven their claim until the State canvas ers different counties were coming in Democratic Counties already re­ met and opened the county returns. very favorable to the Republicans. ported, namely, 3 per cent, would Then it was found that the returns At this time or immediately after be­ have given in 1876 a net Democratic from one county (Jackson ) had been fore there was time to act on the majority of 2556. In other words, on ch an �·ed just 2000 votes by cracing information, there were Twenty of the day after the election it was the figure 1 in the column of thou­ the Thirty-nine Counties in the State known that 20 counties had given a sand of the Republican vote and in­ reported - of these nine were Rep. net Republican majority of 5348 and serting it in the column of thou ands and 11 were Dem. The Nine Rep. that the other 19 counties, if they of the Democratic vote - thus effect­ Counties had given majorities aggre­ maintained the same comparative in?; a change of 2000 votes in favor gating 7418 against 6035 at last pres­ gaiil3 on rate of 1872 would give a of the Democracy and electing their idential election in 1872 - a o-ain of net Democratic majority of 2556, entire ticket by 421 majority. Thi 1333 or 22 per cent - while the which, taken from the net Republican fraud however was so apparent that Eleven Dem. Counties had given ma­ majority, left the State to the Re­ the Canvassing Board unanimously jorities aggregating 2070 against publicans by 2792 majority. Thus voted to send to the County for a cer- 8 THE COLBY ALUMNUS

tified copy of the county return and this difference except upon the basis this time had been an extreme parti­ to canvass said county from the cer­ of wholesale & systematic fraud com­ zan and one of the most active work­ tified copy, which was done, and the mitted in the interest of the Demo­ ers in his party and the contest be­ State finally declared for the Repub­ cratic State & National tickets and I came very bitter & personal in the lican ticket by 1579 majority. Re­ believe most of it was obtained in County. Conova was defeated, but membering these facts and knowing that manner. Many Democrats have charged that his defeat had been the inducements now to be greater since asserted that their success was procured by unfair means, intimida­ and the opportunities equal, the Re­ not at the polls but effected after the tion and fraud at these two precincts. publicans feared similar proceedings election and thqt they would prove it A majority of the County Canvassers and consequently determined to send beyond dispute if I would contest the being his ardent supporters listened messengers to all the counties not office of Governor in the Courts with to his complaints with favor, threw reported to ascertain the vote and my opponent. From my knowledge out the two precincts and returned get it announced as quickly as possi­ of the facts I am convinced that it Conova elected. Thus it was that the ble, also to get certified copies of was the intention of the Democrats fraud in Baker Co., as it is called, county & precinct returns and collect to make the returns show 100 ma­ grew out of a local fight among Dem­ any and all facts it was possible to jority for the Tilden Electors and ocrats and was done by Democrats obtain bearing on the election. The they would have succeeded in making for Democrats. At the time it was first messengers dispatched by spe­ done there was no reasonable doubt cial train that night soon returned & but what the State had gone Repub­ This document, now in the Colby reported that two rails had been re­ lican by a large majority and conse­ Library, is a copy of the original moved from the track and their train quently could not have been owned by Aretus E. Stearns, done ditched about three miles out from with a view of effecting the State or Esq., of 114 Congress St., Rum­ Tallahassee. Electoral ticket - If there was any ford, Me., and attested by him and improper motive it must have been It was under this condition of another nephew of Gov. Marcellus for the purpose of effecting the affairs that I answered a telegram L. Stearns, M. L. Stearns of Cen­ local ticket, and when, as some of the from the Chairman of the Republican ter Lovell, Me., to be in the Gov­ County Officers now testify, National Executive Committee in­ ernor's writing, though unsigned. the County Judge Driggens said to them quiring what the situation was, as It was given to Colby College by "We are beaten unless something follows - Sophia A. Walker of New York is done ", he did not refer to the State (The manu cript does not include City, sister of Mrs. Marcellus L. or National tickets of either party the text of the telegram which was Stearns. evidently intended to be inserted at but to the local County ticket. this point. - Ed.) Now this whole matter was The telegraph lines were now them show 90 maj. as they claim, if brought to the attention of the State again out, the Democrats having first one of their own counties had not Board of Canvassers by the Demo­ telegraphed to party frienas "living at failed them. This WflS Baker County, cratic Attorneys who urged them to or near the termini of said lines a small Democratic county which go behind the County return and their instructions. What those in­ gave 95 Democratic majority but c o r r e c t the error, which was structions were, I do not know. I was returned by the County Can­ promptly and unanimously done. So only know that when our messengers vassers by throwing out two pre­ it required no Jason to be sent in finally got through on the railroads & cincts, 41 Republican majority, which earch of this " Golden Fleece " took teams for these distant counties, made the returns from all the coun­ which was discovered, captured and they found the roads picketed with ties in the State show on their face returned at the time to the rightful armed men who threatened their 45 majority for the Hayes Electors. possession by the State Board of lives if they attempted to proceed An effort has been made to create an Canvassers - But when this Board farther and that they were thus pre­ impression that this change in Baker went behind & corrected Baker vented from reaching mo t of these County was effected by Republicans. County returns, the Republican At­ distant counties - that the returns This is a great mistake. The facts torneys asked them to go behind and were held back until the country be­ are these: The County Canvassers correct the returns of other Counties gan to demand them, then they were were Democrats who, partaking of where they had been defrauded - sent in only after it was too late to the general spirit and following the especially Jackson County, a large get certified copies or other evidence precedents of their party, honestly Republican County where there are of their fraudulent character and believed they had the authority to 600 or 800 Republican majority, but made to show a Democratic increase throw out precincts for fraud at the which had now for the first time been of 115 per cent over their vote of polls. In this County two Democrats returned 100 Democratic majority. 1872 instead of less than 3 per cent were running for the Legislature - I believe and now publicly charge shown in their Counties reported be­ Mr. Gurganus, the regular nominee that there was a fraud of 600 votes fore the importance of Florida was of his party, and Mr. Conova, as an committed in the interest of the known. independent Democratic candidate. Democratic party at the election of Having a very full knowledge of The Republicans made no nomination 1876 in Jackson County, State of the political situation in the State at but supported one or the other of Florida, and I demand that this Com­ the time I am unable to account for these candidates. Mr. Conova up to mittee fully investigate it to the end THE COLBY ALUMNUS 9

that justice may be done and the and on the defensive in regard to the tiously and ascertain the true result truth of history established - The State ticket while the Republicans of the ballots cast at the polls_. The State Canvassers after a full fair were on the offensive in regard to the �epublican visitors with whom I was open and public investigation of all State ticket and on the defensive in thrown, most by -reason of political Give us a the evidence adduced before them by regard to the Presidential Electors. associations, always said " either and both parties during the The Board were unanimous on all fair honest result, and if Hayes has airly carried the State give it to him time allotted to them in which to points of law and, while not unani­ f 5. and if Tilden has fairly carried it make the Canvass from the 27th day mous on all questions of fact they 'S give it to him " - Wm. E. Chandler of November to the 5th day of De­ were unanimous in their votes on id of New Hampshire was especially cember, did declare the Hayes Elect­ these questions to the extent of IV emphatic on this point and, on one ors chosen by a majority of 930 votes electing the Republican tickets both id occasion when I expressed some ap­ te and upon this declaration of the State and Electoral. When their re- prehension lest, under the excitement d, proper and lawful officers I did issue suit was ascertained the Democrats growing out of the prevailing con­ l· the certificate of Election to sai immediately changed their opinion of viction among Republicans that they ts electors. I believe the Canvass was their own construction of the law and were being kept out of Democratic IS conducted throughout impartially and desired to submit the question of Counties for the purposes of fraud bt conscientiously with a view of arriv­ construction to the Supreme Court of against them some of our own men b- ing at a correct and just result in the State, to which proposition the mi_g·ht be impelled to commit some e­ accordance with the law as under­ Board of Canvassers readily con- rash or fraudulent act in regard ta ne stood and construed by the Demo­ sented being desirous of only a legal the election, he said it would be most or unfortunate if anything of the kind- cratic member of the Board in a long result and confident of the correct- 1y to occur - the eye� of the whole written opinion submitted to and ness of their position. But the Cou 1: t,.___ en world are upon us and it would e adopted by the Board two years be­ overruled the Attorney General's . � al · better to lose the election by unfa1r fore. This construction of the law opinion of the law and held that the . he means than to have the country thmk was questioned by neither party in returns must be canvassed according be we had attained it by unfair means, during the examination and can­ to the face of the same regardless of llD 1876 and furthermore, in that event it was Both parties oc­ frauds. This decision defeated the is vass of the votes. more than probable that Gov. Hayes be­ 1te cupied exactly the same position Republican State ticket but left the would come out publicly and decline Board as to their duties and ty fore the R e p u b l i c a n electors chosen - the office. powers - The face of the returns Throughout the Canvass there were I fully believe Florida was carried were against the Tilden Electors so present a large number of prominent as honestly for '38 Hayes as Massachu­ the Democrats desired the Board to Gentlemen from abroad representing setts or New 1te York or Indiana for go behind the returns & investigate both political parties who witnessed Tilden. 10· but they were against the Republican the count and every transaction con­ to ' I invite the fullest investigation State Ticket so the Republicans de­ nected therewith. I never heard one into every nd transaction connected with sired the Board to go behind the of these Gentlemen express a wish or the election in Florida '8S in 1876, con­ returns & investigate - Thus the desire that the Canvassers should do fident that the So more thorough the Democrats were on the offensive in anything more than to discharge investigation in the more evident will regard to the Presidential Electors their duty honestly and conscien- appear the integrity en of the result. nd ful FROM A FRESHMAN DIARY OF 1909 of 1rd Sept. 16, 1909 - A feature of the after-dinner pro­ Oct. 30 - We are settled in Ladies Hall. gram of the opening evening of rer Today is Colby Day and we won Such fun! We've hung everything Freshman Week was a pair of U· the bi g basketball game. Freshies 11d on our walls " except the kitchen speeches on the topic "If I Were a vs. Sophomores so we don't have ies stove." We like it here but it's a Freshman Again." The alumnae to mind them any more. long way. from home. We were speaker was Diana Wall Pitts, 'r3, uch a game! Our neal'ly all day getting here by boat (whose daughter is a member of the court is out-of-doors, and in the and by train. entering class) who deftl3• opened her middle of the game the rain just (Now it takes 2 hours and if JoJo remarks by reading some extracts poured down. We kept right on drives it's nearer an hour and a half.) from the diary of her IY'& n freshman play:ng. Dr. Cro well, our da·ys. She was prevailed upon to physical Sept. 17 - allow these extracts to be pri11ted in direct�r, opened an umbrella and ran ge Elsie and I 1have wandered all over us. al'Ound under it refereeing. :es THE ALUM The ball the campus today like lost souls. got so heavy with mud that it wa he The upperclassmen are enjoying Oct. 10 - impos ible to throw it as high as the of themselves, I guess. But we don't 0ur matron's daughter had a beau b:lsket. As we were ahead when the of know where to go for anything. We last night. We had loads of fun over rain b::igan we stayed ahead, because 111· were supposed to have German in it. She must b::i at least 30 years old! none could get a basket and we won ! nd Champlin Hall, but we couldn't even (I must have thou"'ht her old and We were soaked to the kin and black find the hall. decrepit.) with mud. It was great fun though! 10 THE COLBY ALUMNUS

Dec. 4- and the other is a short white silk Prof. Peck's day she began to run. Today is the first English class one! I shall wear the kid one and Said she'd have to hurry or she'd we've been to for six weeks. It only carry the silk one in my hand. meet herself coming out! meets once a week anyhow and in Jan. 15 - May 10 - October when we met last, Professor Went to a social last night and Went to a C. E. social at the church Roberts got so outdone with the way wore my new automobile veil. It's vestry last night and wore my new we laughed all the time that he flung lovely and at least a yard Jong. (I dress. Mr. Wood walked home with down his book and shouted, " Get out can't imagine why I had an auto veil, Abbie, and Mr. Woodard with me. of here, all of you, and don't come I'd never been in an auto in my life, This morning we found a sign in back till you get over this silly, High and never expected to.) Mr. Rideout front of our rooms, someone had put School giggling." Today we didn't walked home with me. The girls said up that read "Kindling Wood Ave­ dare crack a smile. they knew when I wore that veil, I nue." expected to take a ride-out. Dec. 10 - June 17 - The President's reception is tomor­ April 14 - The campus is beautiful now with row. I needed some white gloves to W e go to chapel every noon for 15 bridal wTeath. I just got A in math. wear, so I went down to a " smoke minutes. Some of the professors It's really wonderful - for Prof. and water " sale in the city, where a drag it out for half an hour and we're Hatch called on me just twice all store burned last week. Such a o hungry we can hardly wait. When term. The first time I shook my crowd ! I waited in line an hour, but Prof. Peck leads it, he mutters a head, and the second time I said, " I I got the gloves! (Paid .35) When Psalm and a prayer and we're out in don't know." It's grand to be a I got them home I found they weren't five minutes. Ada was late getting Sophomore. Wonder if I'll ever be a mates. One is a long white kid glove, there today, and when she saw it was senior!!!

NEWCOMERS ON THE COLBY FACULTY OUR new members of the Colby F faculty were guests of honor at the annual reception tendered by President and Mrs. Johnson to the tudent body and staff of the college on September 25. They are : Dr. Walter C. Wilson, in tructor in eco­ nomics; Thomas M. McGrath, in­ structor in English; Francis Calvin Prescott, in tructor in history ; and Janet Marchant, instructor in physi­ cal education. Mr. Wilson is a westerner, taking his undergraduate work in the Uni­ versity of Nevada, class of 1931, and his graduate work for the Ph.D. de­ gree at Clark University. He has been lecturer to the Massachusetts State Employment Service and in­ structor in economics and business at Left to right : Thomas M. McGrath, English ; Janet Marchant, the University of Delaware. Mrs. physical education ; Francis C. Prescott, history ; Walter C. Wilson, Wilson, it is interesting to note, has economics. a law degree and has been admitted to the Massachusetts Bar. versity. He is author of a volume of courses new to the Colby curriculum, Taking the place of Prof. Alfred poem , published by the Louisiana "History of the Far East," and "In­ K. Chapman, on a year's leave of State University Press. ternational Relations." absence for graduate work at Colum­ Mr. Prescott is a native of Guil­ Miss Marchant will be instructor bia University, is Mr. McGrath who ford, Maine, and graduate of Colby in the women's division of the depart­ won a Rhodes Scholarship from the in 1938, receiving Phi Beta Kappa ment of health and physical educa­ University of North Dakota in 1939, honors. For the past two years he tion. Native of New Jersey, she has but was unable to take advantage of has been carrying on graduate work done both undergraduate and gradu­ this appointment because of the out­ at the Fletcher School of Law and ate work at Teachers College, Colum­ break of the European war. He is a Diplomacy at Medford, Mass., a spe­ bia University, receiving her A.M. member of Phi Beta Kappa, with cialized graduate school administered degree in 1933. She has been chair­ high honors in English, and last year jointly by Harvard and Tufts Col­ man of the department of physical studied under a graduate fellowship lege. He received the degree of A.M. education at Adelphi College for the in English at Louisiana State Uni- last June. Prescott will teach two past seven years. THE COLBY ALUMNUS 11

9� -- COLBY,S TOP--FLIGHT MATHEMATICIAN

HE scene is at the front entrance want some slight elucidation, we will T of Memorial Hall. A knot of This is the first of a series of make a stab at it. If you don't, skip sketches by which we aini to the next paragraph. students are seated on the steps in in­ troduce some of the yomiger mem� To start with, we all know the the sun, all heads bent in concentra­ bers of the Colby faculty to ou.r three dimensions of space, and have while an ex­ tion upon something, readers. aud show that our tradi­ heard about a mysterious " fourth cited hum of questions and argu­ tion of great teaching is by no dimension." Well, mathematicians ments arises. " What goes on ? " means confined to the past. didn't stop there ; they went on and you wonder, and your mind suggests found out that if they "make be­ various collegiate matters which lieve " that there are any number of that while the words are good English might be at the bottom of such in­ different dimensions, it helps them to words, yet he must be talking an­ terest. Approaching and peering explain a good many practical things, over the heads, you see a pencil other language. But his papers must particularly in physics (Quantum rapidly jotting down mathematical make sens2, for there is a mailing mechanics ). All that is in the realm a diagram, symbols and pointing to list of people and institutions all of geometry. The study of calculus while a resonant voice, enriched by a or "functions,'' (remember in your over the world who want every one trace of accent, carries on an ex­ sophomore year ?) has been similarly of hi3 publications. He speaks regu­ planation. developed to dizzy heights, and this larly before the American Mathe­ The speaker is a man in his late in its more complicated forms is thirties, whose dark hair, ruddy high matical Society and other profes­ known as "analysis. " Now, it seem cheekbones and flashing grin give his sional bodies, f r e q u e n t 1 y being that the Viennese mathematician maturity a boyish expression. As selected for one of the general ses­ Menger (now at Notre Dame) has you eavesdrop, you discover that the sions - proof of the recognition ac­ fig-ured out what would happen if one subject under debate is a mathe­ corded him by his mathematical abstract space were placed (" im­ matical puzzle, one of those ingenious p2ers. His explorations and findings bedded ") in another abstract space, brain-teasers. The students, you are the basis of work being carried reasoning from the purely geometric gather, had trailed their instructor on by several other mathematicians ; point of view. What Schoenberg is out of the classroom, down the stairs, particularly by Bochner of Princeton. doing is also investigating this im­ and across the campus without a Schoenberg's particular field, if bedding of abstract spaces, but ap­ break in the conversation. Now, you must know, is "positive definite proaching it (and successfully) with they were excitedly getting down to functions, with applications to the the technique of analysis (calculus ). the principles behind the puzzle. isometric imbedding of metric spaces Does that give you any inkling as to Apparently, nothing less than ex­ 4n each other." To understand that, what it is all about ? No ? Well you have to take a good many then, treme measures could bring that par­ suppose you try to express i� 150 ticular class to an end on that day. cJurse3 of college math, but if you words the end-product of years That is the way that of concentrated study and Assistant Professor Isaac brilliant speculation! And J. Schoenberg is teaching now, let's get back to mathematics at Colby. Colby. Dr. Schoenberg (his Obviously, however gra­ friends call him " Iso ") tifying it may be to have combines in a rare way significant contributions the two opposite qualities to human knowledge com­ n, which make up the ideal ing out of polby, it could l· college professor: he is a be that such a scholar top-flight creative thinker was a complete flop as a ir in his field and he is a teacher for undergradu­ t· teacher, in the fullest ates. Not so with Schoen­ sense of the word. berg! His mind can re­ To the lay person, there turn from the dizzy is something awesome heights and deal with the n· about a mind that is able simple bewilderment of a If. to roam a bout in the freshman without impa­ r· ethereal realms of higher tience and without los­ al mathematics. Perusing ing stride. Strangely one of Schoenberg's many enough, it is the elemen­ published papers, you tary classes which he par­ have a baffled sensation Assistant Professor Isaac J. Schoenberg ticularly enjoys teaching. 12 THE COLBY ALUMNUS

He says that it keeps him conscious to ride, ski, climb mountains, do Prof. G. A. Bliss of University of 6£ fundamentals and he enjoys the strenuous outdoor work. On the Chicago, so the Schoenbergs set out �hallenge of making students see the other hand, he plays the violin with for America, little knowing that the fascination of his subject. almost professional skill - although blight of N aziism was about to creep

· Something of Schoenberg's ap­ never in public, not having the time over the high traditions of the Ger­ proach is seen in a new course ca1led to practice to the extent he deems man universities. " Non - Technical Mathematics " necessary - and is highly literate A year in Chicago in study, an­ which he introduced last year. musically. His ister, incidentally, is other as instructor, another on the Aimed for students who do not plan Irma Schoenberg Wolpe, now of Harvard faculty (where he came to to take any further work in math, New York, a concert pianist (her re­ know Marston Morse, '14), a year he is freed from the necessity of cital here last winter was notable) and a half as a Fellow at Princeton's drilling them on fundamentals pre­ and wife of Stefan Wolpe, composer. In titute for Advanced Studies, the paratory for advanced work, and so Schoenbzrg doesn't know when or balance of that academic year as can teach the subject solely for its why he began to specialize in mathe­ acting assistant professor at Swarth­ cultural and mind-stretching values. matics. He remembers that he had a more, and then, in the fall of 1936, Students say that it is a hard course, liking for figures even as a small Colby College - those are the bare but fun. boy in Roumania. He was born in facts, although the real story of There is no text book for such a Galatz, a Danube port, and his fam­ those years is the gradual acceptance cour e (he could write a good one, if ily moved to J assy when he was ten. of Schoenberg by American mathe­ not occupied with more important He naturally matriculated at the maticians as one of the few young work ) and the secret lies in the fact University of Jassy, receiving his men whose progressive research is that he has gone back to Seventeenth A.M. degree at the age of 19, and important and worth listening to. and Eighteenth Century mathema­ then spending three years of study The Schoenbergs like Waterville tics, a time when it was held to be a at the Universities of Berlin and and Waterville likes them. Their delightful intellectual accomplish­ Goettingen, returning to J assy for a home is the scene of informal gather­ ment. The literature of that period year's work and a Ph.D. degree in ings where there is apt to be a hum devotes much attention to mathemati­ 1926. of good talk, and refreshments with cal puzzles, tricks, analysis of games There followed a year of compul­ an Old World flavor. Under some of chance. and so on. The school­ sory military service as an artillery sort of cooperative arrangement, masters of the Nineteenth Century, officer in the Roumanian army, and half a dozen of the faculty's " young he says, turned the science into a then positions on the faculties of intellectuals" have been dining with grim and determined grind, an ad­ Jassy, Goettingen, and a summer ses­ the Schoenbergs nightly for a couple junct to the machine-age civilization. sion at University of Jerusalem. of years - a highly successful pro­ German scholarship took it over and This last was a most eventful experi­ cedure, they report, both from the the keynote became drill, and more ence for two reasons : he had to lec­ culinary and conversational stand­ drill. So, being familiar with the lit­ ture in Hebrew, and here he met the points. The apartment has many erature (chiefly French and Italian ) charming daughter of his revered European heirlooms - furniture, of those earlier Centuries, he has Goettingen professor, Edmund Lan­ rugs, pictures, silver - and reflects called upon this tore of knowledge dau. Back in Goettingen, his visits the taste and cultural background of to enliven the subject · for the stu­ to the master's household became the hostess. dents in " Math la." more and more frequent and in 1930 Dolli Schoenberg is little and gay, His teaching schedule also includes Dolli Landau became his bride. with an infectious laugh. The fam­ courses in Advanced Calculus, Geom­ Then came the turning point in his ily consists of two little girls, 9 and etry, Mechanics, and a seminar course career: the day in 1930 when he re­ 3. Mrs. Schoenberg's mother (who, called " Special Topic ," which really ceived word that he had been awarded by the way, is the daughter of the means that he carries the handful of an International Research Fellowship famed Dr. Ehrlich) came to America senior math majors into as advanced from the Rockefeller Foundation to following the death of Prof. Landau, work as they are able to comprehend. enable him to devote himself to his arriving from Germany, with what His classroom manner is vigorous, thinking on the calculus of varia­ possessions she was allowed to bring, energetic, never losing the attention tions. The authority in this field was a mere matter of days before Hitler of the class, and using the blackboard marched and travel ceased. Prof. constantly and effectively. One notes Landau's magnificent collection of his vivid and concrete analogies, his mathematical treatises was be­ ability to crystallize abstract con­ queathed to Prof. Schoenberg, and is cepts. English is, of course, an ac­ now installed in the Colby library. quired language, and yet he has an Schoenberg doesn't talk much extraordinary gift for precision of about international affairs. The phrase, and he talk with wit and events cut deep, but he only says of grace. It is more than linguistic his native Roumania : " It isn't a ability, it reveals clarity of mind and happy place to live in, now." He a quality of personal distinction. appreciates America. A few days . In person, Schoenberg exudes vi­ ago, he received his final papers and tality. He enjoys hard exercise, likes took his oath as an American citizen. THE COLBY ALUMNUS 13

ON WORKING YOUR WAY THROUGH COLLEGE

By Clarence L. Judkins, '81

'WORKING YOUR WAY ' through co,J!ege often cost him the major benefits of the The American mak'ng his first visit to one of the col­ education he seeks. leges at Oxford or Cambr:dge is likely to be impressed Like so many problems of this sort, nearly everything at once by the absence of student-waiters, student-sales­ depends on the individual. Some boys are bright enough men o-r any other evidence of the honorable American mentally and strong enough physically to carry the double tradition of " work'ng your way through college." All load of study and self-support. They are the ardent, ver­ students at Oxford and Cambridge are gentlemen (except satile youngsters who, through many generations of . the few co-eds who are ladies), and all labor in the dormi­ American youth, have given the trad tion of "working tories, dining halls, laundries, etc., is performed by well­ your way through " its glory. But every year there are trained servants who call their bet ers Sir. Scholarships youngsters who have to spend so much time washing are available for a few selected students. But it is un­ dishes in a cafeteria or washing cars in a garage that thinkable that an Oxford or Cambridge undergraduate they miss out on most of the intellectual, athletic and would lower his social standing by doing odd jobs about sacial development which four years of college ordinarily the university ! provide. All too often there is sickness and not infre­ The present war may, of course, break down th.is bar­ quently a nervous breakdown. Better to delay college a rier. Already a section of the British press is demanding year ar two, Mr. Benjamin advises, so that minimum that the social and financial requirements which have funds can be accumulated in advance and only moderate restricted matriculation at' Oxford and Cambridge to the part-time work will be necessary during term-time. ruling class be changed in favor of a more democratic The answer to both England's and America's problem arrangement. Simultaneously on this side of the Atlantic, is likely to be found in the increasing tendency to estab­ it is interesting to note, many college presidents and lish an adequate scholarship system, so that the superior deans are now discouraging over-ambitious youths from boy, whatever his family and financial background, may attempting the difficult task of entirely supporting them­ participate in university life on complete equality with selves while attending college. Roy A. Benjamin, Jr., has the rich man's son_ "Working your way through " pro­ an article in the September "Current History " entitled vides, after all, only a sham democracy in our colleges, "Don't Work Yo.ur Way Through College." He quotes if it limits the poor student to only the crumbs of the several experienced educators who maintain that the collegiate table. energy and time required of a boy to finance himself - The Boston Herald.

WAS interested in reading an cause him to miss out on the essen­ prospective student, " Help pay your I editorial recently in one of the tials of a college course. How else, way through College," whether you are a rich leading New England newspapers on except by his own manual efforts, man's or a poor man's son. orking Your Way Through Col­ By so doing you will not only learn "W could many a boy obtain a college lege." to work, but will know the worth of a education ? The writer was evidently not in dollar when you come to earn it your­ The advice of the writer of the with the idea, and cited the self. sympathy above seems to me to be entirely fact that in Oxford and Cambridge Who is so helpless as a rich man's wrong. I go so far as to say to any universities such a condition was al­ son, who has been encouraged by his most unknown, as a student in those family to spend money lavishly all institutions would lower his social WHAT DO YOU THINK? through his college course, when he standing by manual labor. There is has been graduated, has to face the dignity in labor, and the English cus­ Ma1iy readers themselves worked all world, and has to earn his own tom tends to disparage manu�l labor, or pa.rt of th.eir way thro1tgh Colby. living ? Loo/ling ba.ck at it, was it worth it ! From experience however honorable it may be, and to Did yo1t sacrifice too much iii the way and observation I make snobs of its graduates. of mental fatigue, impaired health, con­ have come to the conclusion that by stant worry, lack of social opportuni­ of the editorial re­ far the majority of college graduates The writer ties? Would it have been better to ferred to, however, does admit that have stayed out and earned enough who make a success of life, are poor money to Pay yoitr way! Is borrow­ lately a section of the British press men's sons who have contributed by ing a good solution? Or did working their own efforts is demanding that restrictions pre­ your imy make y01t all the more ap­ towards their col­ venting workingmen's sons from ob­ preciative of your education! Did it lege expenses. keep you out of mischief? Did the While writing this there taining a liberal education be re­ opportunity to work give you an edu­ came to moved, and that the colleges become cation otherwise utterly out of the my mind the memory of two mem­ qtlesti01i ! In short, what would be bers of my class whose story per­ more democratic. your advice today to a boy or girl of The editorial also refers to an arti­ college calibre who has little or no fectly illustrates my point. cle in one of the American periodi­ financial resources for ed·ucationf We John and Charles were brothers. should Hke to print a symposi1tm on Their father was cals entitled, "Don't Work Ypur Way this q1£estio1i in the next issue of THE dead, and their Through College," as this tends to ALUMNUS. Will yon contribute to it? mother - a fine type of a woman, dissipate a student's abilities and to who was greatly devoted to the wel- 14 THE COLBY ALUMNUS

fare of her two boys - was too poor They managed to get along until era! times, first to the Maine State to provide the means to send her boys their senior year, when their neces­ House of Representatives, and then through college. sary expenses were too heavy for to the State Senate. Both boys taught district schools them, and first one, then the other, John taught school in Maine, then every winter, as was the custom of dropped out of college. many students of Colby in straight­ Charles had become acquainted in Boston, and finally became princi­ ened circumstances in those days, and with a nice young lady in the Water­ pal of one of the largest city high worked at whatever manual labor ville Classical Institute, studied law schools in Massachusetts. they could find to do every summer. with her father in a northern Maine Both are now deceased, but the les­ Often they were entirely without town, married the daughter, was ad­ son taught by their lives ought to be money, and sometimes asked me for mitted to the bar, and began the an example and an inspiration to a small loan, although I was far from practice of law in one of the larger other poor boys in their struggle to being in easy financial circumstances cities of Maine. obtain an education. myself. They promptly paid me He built up a lucrative Jaw prac­ Would the editorial writer of that back, and I was always glad to be of tice, became president of Maine State newspaper say that these boys ought temporary relief to them. Bar Association, and wa elected sev- never to have come to college ?

LIFE, FOR COLBY, BEGINS AT 123

By Austin Lake, The Boston AmePican

OLBY COLLEGE is going glam­ The following breezy article on swirled through the elms and burbled C orous. The little soot-stained Colby's football prospects was written in the gutters of the old gymnasium institution with its ancient, ghostly by the star sports re porter for the - an arthritic, stable-like structure halls and is dingy setting beside the Boston American. It is reprinted which was reared in great-grand­ B. & M. freight tracks is undergoing here because it is entertaining, accu­ a Cinderella transformation. For the rate in most respects, and interesting paw's time when dumb-bells, flying Colby which its alumni remember as as representing the impressions of one rings and such ante-dated gym­ a conglomerate hodge - podge of making his first visit to Colby. cracks of the primitive Phys-ed pe­ weather-worn brick, limestone and riod were the only aids to exercise. granite, is going to be deserted and Yes! it was raining liquid nickels, words are too vivid, just ride up 175 junked. A new dream college is quarters and dimes, and behind the miles to Waterville and take a per­ springing up a few miles north of old gym, where a large, glass-roofed sonal peek. For life at Colby is be­ Waterville on Mayflower Hill - a baseball cage lay in the hollow of ginning again at 123. a colonial-style city of culture which hill, Colby's weather-bound football It was raining - great, depressing silhouettes against the rugged Maine refugees were loping through forma­ gusts of equinoctial moisture which hills and looks down on the winding tions, raising throat-clogging clouds Kennebec. The central library, mod­ of dust. elled after Dartmouth's Baker Memo­ They were lads of average thick­ ri al, is built. The dignified Baptist ness of thigh and breadth of shoul­ chapel with its ripples of terrace, is der, some in freshman green and complete. The quadrangular dormi­ some in varsity blue as Coach Al Mc­ tories, the men's and women's Unions Coy, the old Lafayette Maroon, and I are under construction. watched from a balcony. Powerful tractors are bulldogging "Johnny," shouted McCoy, as his the grounds, gouging out an artificial voice came bouncing back from a lake (to be fed by an artesian well myriad echoes, "Ja ...ahn ...nay ! " with waters that go cascading down A small wiry youth separated from a series of graduated falls). Steam­ the herd on the floor and came clat­ shovels are chewing an athletic field tering up the stairs - little Johnny from a shale ledge (it will be ready Daggett of the Waterville Daggetts, for autumn in 1941). Winding drives current Colby captain and halfback and arboreal vi tas are taking form with an "All-New England " classifi­ from what was recently a boulder­ cation who, in build. size and action strewn, pine-whiskered wilderness. uggests something of Harvard's old And when it is done, perhaps a year midget immortal, Eddie Casey. For hence, Colby, from a smoke-smutted Daggett, like Eddie Casey, is one of architectural ragbag (there are those those out-size football paradoxes, a who love it thus) will be the most man with a small frame who hits like eye-charming small college in New a giant, fluid hips and high knee ac­ England. And if you think my glory COLBY SON DAGGETT tion which seldom gives a tackler THE COLBY ALUMNUS 15

VETERANS IN COLBY LINE Helin, left end Daly, right guard Baum, left guard Hughes, left tackle more than a shoelace or a belt loop to It's a good looking, bigger team Jimmy, the catcher whom Cleveland snatch. than most small colleges and a better kidnaped from high school in '38 Colby's varsity squad is a melting balanced line than is usual elsewhere amid a lot of scandalized hollers. pot with a curious mixture of racial this year. So the ends will be Eero Tackles ? Oren Shiro (190- strains. There's Eero Helin, of Fin­ Helin, the only Junior letter-man and pounder, whose daddy runs a hotel nish parentage, from Quincy, at left a high-cheek-boned, tireless lad typi­ directly across from the college half. (He's almost certain to be Col­ cal of his racial strain; John Lomac, campus); Del Matheson (a 20(}­ by's next captain); Mel Baun:i and pounder sophomore from Ipswich); a black-haired, swarthy six-footer, Irving Liss, two Jewish boys, at left Bill Hughes (Quincy, wants a who is making newspaper work his guard; Abdul Hassan, an Arabian teacher-coaching job next year), and objective ; Harold Bubar, a potato Mohammedan who practises his faith, Louis Volpe (another Quincy kid ­ farmer from Aroostook (has a wob­ at right guard ; Bobby LaFleur, of there are five on the squad). It's a bly knee), and Hal Hegan (Lynn), French extraction, at right half; Abe big and rangy tackle squad with lots the best pass receiver on the squad Ferris, a U. S. born Syrian, at left of anchorage (averages 194). and brother of Lynn Classical's guard; Irvin Macllraith, of Scotch The guards will be Jimmy Daly descent, at left half, and Dan Scio­ (brother of Boston College's Leo) letti, a 200-pound Swampscott husky who is reckoned one of the best whose folk came from the big Medi­ guard in Colby history (he married terranean boot, at fullback. God a Waterville girl named Shirley Fur­ bless America! bush after the Bates game last year McCoy, who was at Lafayette in and works summers in a local tooth­ the old, lusty rawhide day when men pick works - no kidding!); then braided the hair in their ears and Dick DeNazario (who never played scratched matches on their chins, football before coming to Colby) ; uses what he describes as the Har­ Elliott Kraft (Brookline) ; Abdul low system, a mixed assortment of Hassan ; Mel Baum (Malden ; he tricksies which include reverses, spin­ drives a truck du1ing summers) and ners, floating backs and such-like de­ Irving Liss (Quincy). signed by Richard Cresson himself. Center ? McCoy looked half tear­ Most of these are framed around ful. Daggett, whom McCoy terms his " Lost the best center in Maine " "getaway back." And it's worked he mourned, "Joe O'Neil busted out'." reasonably well, too, so well that dur­ As a matter of record the casual­ ing McCoy's tenure Colby has beaten ties among Colby athletes is heavy, Tufts and Middlebury (for the first and of the 78 youths pictured in the time in history), New Hampshire last three freshman teams, 38 flunked (for the first time in 24 years), Bates out, and only 26 are playing. So the (for the first time in 10 years) and center job this fall will be a toss up Maine (for tne first time at Orono). COLBY SON LAFLEUR between Eddie Loring (Framing- 16 THE COLBY ALUMNUS ham), Ernest Weidul (Dedham), " He played the Bowdoin game last now like a repetition of last year's Charley Cross and Rex MacN amee. year with a broken jaw," said McCoy. game for Colby with one exception, McCoy proposes to shift Weidul to a "Got it in the Vermont game and Bates will not garner three touch­ tackle position with occasional trials didn't report anything about it." downs as they did in "39". This is as a blocking back. Daggett is the focal point of the going to be Colby's year and we are "We have to be interchangeable," backfield, an all around athlete who not going to share championship said he, "we haven't enough depth." holds the state broad jump and in­ honors with Bowdoin, Bates or even door pole vault record. (His father powerful Maine. Here then is, at first glance, one wrote the Colby Football song, " On of the most promising lines in small to Victory.") Behind him comes BOSTON COLBY CLUB college football, the antithesis of the Wendell Brooks, Dean's list student current college complaint. Colby, and a good passer with a galloping, At the last meeting of the Club beaten only once last year (Bowdoin kangaroo kind of stride. Then for the 1939-1940 year, on May 17, 6-0), will give any and all of its Bobby LaFleur, a strawberry blond, the following men were elected to seven opponents vigorous afternoons. curly headed sophomore, and Irvin office for the 1940-1941 year: Dick White, the 200 pound blocking Macllraith (Tome School and the President - Linwood L. Workman, ' back of last year's Colby team, is only private schoolboy on the squad). 02 ; Vice-President - Arthur W. playing with the Philadelphia pro Finally there is a strapping boy Coulman, '24; Treasurer - Berton E. Eagles this semester, so that position named Dan Scioletti, a sophomore Small, '19; Secretary - Carl Brjant, goes to John Stevens, a scholarly fullback from Swampscott (200 'Oi; Representative Colby Alumni type who took all of McCoy's plays pounds) who runs, kicks and passes Council, H. T. Urie, '20. home with him this summer and re­ and favors quick cutbacks through The Club will start its regular hearsed them after hours in a pipe tackle. He looks as though he'll gain monthly meetings on October 18. factory. Abe Ferris, dark-skinned Colby some yardage this year. lad who runs a local filling station In round figures this sums up to WESTERN MAINE and is a licensed air pilot, is Stevens' another good Colby team as good, ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION understudy. perhaps, as the one which tied Bow­ Then comes Daggett. doin for the state title last fall. ORE than 50 attended the pic­ M nic sponsored on September 14th by the Colby Alumnae Associa­ LOOKING AT THE SEASON tion of Western Maine at Wind-in­ ' Pines, the cottage of Mrs. Harold B. By Arthur R. Austin, 3 3 Burnham, at Raymond. There were games, swimming and boating, fol­ SPORTS PREVIEW ways has a scrappy lot of boys that lowed by a New England supper. URELY our White Mules, with would be tickled pink to paint our Mrs. John A. Vickery wa chairman S one of the smallest squads in White Mules green, and this year is of arrangements. recent years, have started on the stronger than ever. Among those present were Mr. and right path for a championship cam­ Next comes Bowdoin, but without Mrs. J. Stuart Branscomb, Mr. and paign. Already they have polished a certain Mr. Perkins, it may be Mrs. Burrill D. Snell, Mr. and Mrs. off two rugged foes in the Wildcats rough going on the Polar Bears. A. L. Whittemore, Mr. and Mrs. of New Hampshire and the Beavers Johnny Daggett and Company should Wayne E. Roberts, Mr. and Mrs. of the City College of New York. avenge last year's defeat and may Vickery, Mr. and Mrs. Arad E. Lin­ (By the way, how did New York show Bowdoin some of the finer points scott, Mr. and Mrs. Guy W. Chip­ Alumni like the looks of the team ?) of place kicking. man, Mr. and Mrs. Franklyn Grant, Before the largest crowd ever to Maine, which always has a good Mr. and Mrs. Carlos L. Hill, Mr. and sit in Woodman Stadium at an open­ team, and did a beautiful job in the Mrs. Percy D. Mitchell, Mr. and Mrs. ing game Colby defeated a very con­ Metropolis the same day Colby over­ Garnold Cole. fident New Hampshire team and on came C. C. N. Y., is bound to be the The Misses Mira Dolley, Ethel V. the following Saturday showed their highest hurdle in the McCoy-coached Haines, Martha B. Hopkins, Helen V. heels to an undefeated C. C. N. Y. boys' path. The Orono Collegians Robinson, Sarah Cowan, Helen F. eleven. There was a splendid rep­ have a fine running and passing at­ Curtis, Betty M. Franklin, Pauline resentation of both old and new tack, but so has Colby. Our line is Abbott, · Margaret Abbott, C a r o alumni from New York and vicinity without a doubt the strongest for­ Hoxie, Ruth E. Williams, Evelyn S. at this game. About five hundred ward wall from end to end that has Whitney, Ina McCausland, Beverly had their first opportunity in years worn the Blue and Gray for the past Grant and Elizabeth Rich. to see their Alma Mater play on a decade. The backs are fast, hard Mrs. Annie Skinner, Mr . Paul New York field. running and deceptive and with this Fraser, Mrs. Max E. Turner, Mrs. Before the State Series games combination I'm looking for a Colby Milford Whitney, Mrs. Mulford Rich, Colby takes on Middlebury and Ver­ Victory. Mrs. Elliot Barta John H. Lee, mont. Apparently the first named Last but not leas.:, on the schedule Owen Keenan, Wallace Rich, Doug­ is one that we don't have to worry is Bates, who plays host to Colby on lass Hill, Harold Burnham Jr. and about a great deal, but Vermont al- Armistice Day at Lewiston. It looks William Burnham. THE COLBY ALUMNUS 17

tions, followed by a discussion of America's foreign policy in the light of present day events. " Statistics for Classroom Teach­ ers," by Prof. Elmer C. Warren, is a OPENING OF THE COLLEGE course designed to· aid the teacher to SOME RECENT understand the statistical methods OLBY began its 121st year on and computations used in educational Sept. 19, when the members of FRESHMAN CLASSES C literature. the Class of 1944 and their parents "Appreciation of Music," by Dr. convened in the Chapel and heard 1930 165 1935 176 Ermanno F. Comparetti, will cover President Johnson extend the official 1931 177 1936 205 musical history and the evolution of welcome of the college. There fol­ 1932 182 1937 197 musical culture, using phonograph lowed the usual events of Freshman 1933 166 1938 214 and piano for illustrative purposes. Week - the buffet supper as guests 1934 182 1939 184 of the faculty, registration procedure, Note : These were the figures as selection of courses, physical and announced immediately after MEMORIAL BOOK FUND medical examinations, library in­ freshman registration each year. RECEIVED struction groups, identification pic­ tures, student activities meeting, dis­ Jan. 13 - His Excellency, Carlos cussion groups, placement tests, voca­ Mrs. Lina Small Harris of Lees­ Davila, one time Provisional Presi­ tional interests and personality tests, burg, Va., has made a gift of $5,000 dent of Chile and former Chilean am­ social evenings, Sunday chapel with to the college to establish a fund, the bassador to the United States, on: John W. Brush, '20, preaching, Sun­ income from which will be used to "Today in the Americas." day afternoon hike to Mayflower buy books in the fields of economics Feb. 6 - Sir Thomas Beecham, Hill, with picnic supper and vesper and sociology in honor of her father, Bart., leading figure British music service, and all the other details in Albion Woodbury Small, '76, one­ and director of the London Philhar­ which aim to introduce the Colby time president of this college, and monic Orchestra, on: "The Changing freshman into his college work later head of America's first depart­ Patronage of Music." effectively and painlessly. ment of sociology at the University March 11 - Stuart Chase, econo­ It is the largest class in history: of Chicago. mist and commentator on social prob­ 156 men, 79 women, a total of 235. lems, author of " Rich Land, Poor It also has an unusually wide geo­ Land " and other books, on : " The GRADUATE FELLOWSHIPS graphical distribution: 14 states and Great Transition." OPEN TO WOMEN countries. Maine leads in the mat­ ter of state delegations, with 99 boys The American Association of Uni­ and girls. Massachusetts is next EXTENSION COURSES versity Women will award grad­ with 74, followed by New York with uate Fellowships for 1941-42 to can­ 19, Connecticut with 17, New Jersey VENING extension courses for didates who have completed two with 8, New Hampshire with 6, adults will be offered by Colby E years of residence work for Ph.D. Rhode Island with 4, Pennsylvania College this year on Monday even­ degree or who have received the de­ with 2, and single representatives ings from October 14 to December gree. These come under two head­ from Vt:: rmont, Maryland, Florida, 16, embracing courses in literature, ings : 1. National Fellowships. 2. Texas, Philippine Islands, and Japan. mathematics, history, education, and International Fellowships. Any music. Colby alumnae interested may ad­ COLBY LECTURE COURSE Dean Ernest C. Marriner, director, dress : Secretary, Committee on Fel­ has announced the following cmTicu­ lowships, American Association of lum for this year, which is the fif­ HE 1940-41 Colby College Lec­ University Women, 1634 I Street N . ture course as announced by Dr. teenth year of the Colby Extension ' T W., Washington, D. C. Herbert C. Libby, chairman of the Courses : lecture committee, is as follows : " America Through Her Authors,'' Oct. 15 - Vincent Sheean, war cor­ by Dr. C. Lennart Carlson, taking up NECROLOGY respondent and author of several the contributions which ten Ameri­ books on foreign affairs, on : " Per­ can authors have made to the spirit sonal Interpretation of the News." of America today. PERCY F. WILLIAMS, '97 Oct. 30 - Mrs. Franklin D. Roose­ " Mathematics for the Million," by ERCY F. WILLIAMS, for over velt, on : "The Problems of Youth." Dr. Isaac J. Schoenberg, will present P twenty years associated with the Nov. 12 - Elissa Landi, stage and a popular and non-technical explana­ Fessenden School in West Newton, screen actress and playwright, in a tion of the highlights of mathematics Mass., as teacher, assistant to the dramatic program entitled, "Thumb­ through the ages. headmaster and registrar, died on nail Sketches." "The United States and Contem­ July 24 at his home in West Dennis Dec. 5 - Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr., porary World Problems," by Dr. Wil­ Mass., after an illness of severai journalist, just returned from Central liam J. Wilkinson, assisted by Fran­ months. Since 1929 he had devoted and South America, on: " My Most cis C. Prescott, will devote the first himself exclusively to the practice of Interesting Interviews." meetings to famous presidential elec- law in West Dennis. 18 THE COLBY ALUMNUS

He was born at Great Pond, Maine, his graduation from Colby, he took He leaves a widow, Ramona Pear­ on June 28, 1874, the son of the late his master's degree at Tufts College son Hill, a mother and three sisters. Edgar and Sarah Emery Williams, in 1899. Mr. Allen was a member of many and prepared for college at Coburn ALBERT H. WEYMOUTH, '22 Classical Institute. After his grad­ educational associations and societies LBERT H. WEYMOUTH died uation from Colby in 1897 he did and for nearly twenty years served on August 7 from a blood clot graduate work at Harvard and in in various capacities with the Boy A at Eddington Pond, where he was 1921 received a Bachelor of Laws de­ Scouts of America and had been spending his vacation. Affection­ gree from Suffolk Law School. awarded the Silver Beaver Award for ately known by his many friends as Mr. Williams was principal of the distinguished service to boyhood. "Doc," Mr. Weymouth for the past Springfield (Maine) onnal School, He was a member of the Alpha Tau seventeen years was a well-known Greely Institute, and the West Den­ Omega fraternity. representative for N. H. Bragg & nis (Mass.) Grammar School from In 1903 Mr. Allen married Annie Sons of Bangor. 1897 to 1901, and from 1901 to 1904 Olivia Burleigh at Vassalboro, Maine. Born at Howland, Maine, the son was head of the science department She died in 1909, and his second mar­ of Frank D. and Lottie Heal Wey­ at the Choate School in Wallingford, riage to Nina G. Wi lbur took place at mouth, he prepared for college at Conn., before joining the staff of the Dark Harbor, Maine, on July 25, 1911. Higgins Classical Institute and en­ Fessenden School in 1906. From Mrs. Allen died in 1919 at Water­ tered Colby in the cla s of 1922, re­ 1926 to 1929 he was manager of the bury. maining until the spring of 1920. Sea Pines School for girls in Brew­ Mr. Allen is survived by two sons, He was a member of the Delta Upsi­ ster, Mass. Francis W. Allen, Colby 1934, and lon fraternity. Mr. Williams was a member of Burleigh G. Allen. Surviving are his wife, Helen Wood many clubs and associations in West Weymouth ; his father, Dr. Frank Newton and Boston, and a member THOMAS A. SMART, '07 Weymouth of Brewer; and a brother, of the A. T. 0. fraternity. He leaves HOMAS A. SMART died at his Dr. Raymond Weymouth (Colby '25) a widow, Rebecca Baxter Williams ; a home in Dexter, Maine, on April T of Bar Harbor. son, Percy F. Williams, Jr. (Colby, 13, 1940, following an illness of sev­ '29), of West Dennis; and a daugh­ eral months. He was born in Dexter June 27, ter, Mrs. Joseph Walters, of Brew­ AUGUSTE GERTRUDE ster. 1883, the son of George A. and Ethel MARQUARDT, NEE Brann Smart, and prepared for col­ lege at the Dexter High Schoo!. MACK EPRANG HARRISON S. ALLEN, '98 Following his graduation from ANY hundreds of the big Colby ITY officials and members of the Colby in 1907, Mr. Smart returned to M family hold in fond remem­ C board of education of Water­ Dexter and entered the clothing brance Dr. Anton Marquardt who bury, Conn., and teachers, pupils and business, in which he remained until died in 1927 in the thirty-sixth year alumni of Leavenworth High School his death. He was a member of the of his distinguished service as pro­ paid tribute to Harrison S. Al len, local school board and the first pres­ fessor of the German language and for thirty-eight years a teacher in ident of the Dexter Parent-Teachers literature in Colby College. Word has the Waterbury schools, who died on Association. For several years he been received of the death of Mrs. July 21st. was a member of the board of trus­ Marquardt on June 5, 1940, in Temple Known to many as " Pop " Allen, tees and treasurer of the Abbott City, California, where she and her he was mourned by the entire city. Memorial Library. He was a mem­ sons have resided for the past Death followed an operation, from ber of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fra­ eighteen years. which he failed to rally. He was ternity. Mrs. Marquardt was born October seventy years old. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Mary 8, 1855, on the island of Fehmarn in On Mr. Allen's retirement from Cowie Smart, two daughters, one the Baltic Sea, was married in 1 85, Leavenworth High School on June brother, and four sisters. and c:rn1e with her hu band to Amer­ 21st, he was given a souvenir of his ica soon after. For some years Dr. service at the school by student lead­ MARLON .T. HILL, '12 Marquardt taught in Watertown, ers. The folio presented to him at AHLON T. HILL died on July Mass., where their two son were that time contained the signatures of M 10th as the result of a heart born, Herman C. and George M. In the mayor, members of the board of attack during a golf game in Hol­ 1891 the family came to Waterville education, faculty and entire student yoke, Mass. He was connected wHh and Colby. Man y will recall the body of the Leavenworth Scho ol. A the Marvellum Company and was abounding friendliness and lavish history of Mr. Allen's work at the well known in military circles, having hospitality of their farm-home, "Gute school from the time he began his served as a second lieutenant in Wotan," in Oakland. duties was also included. France with Co. G of the 103d infan­ Mrs. Marquardt wa a motherly He was born in Hallowell, Maine, try and prior to that time with Co. D soul, a gentlewoman, a type of Ger­ on August 9, 1870, the son of Charles at the Mexican border. man womanhood at its best. Her son A. and Hannah Sanborn Allen. He Mr. Hill was a native of Brooklin, Herman writes of her: "A more un­ prepared for college at Oak Grove Maine, and prepared for Colby at the selfish and loyal bein!?,· never lived. Seminary and received his A.B. de­ local schools. Re was a member of She was a most beautiful character, gree from Colby in 1898. Following the Zeta Psi fraternity. an example for anyone to follow.'' THE COLBY ALUMNUS 19

THE PRESIDENT'S PAGE should begin this year with more seri­ in accord with the great majority of (Continued from page 2) ous thought than you have ever given your elders. The futility of the must be destroy3d or confined. Pre­ to your responsibilities as citizens of World War in securing the safety of paredness, which at times has in­ a country that may, before the year democracy was apparent. You have creased the probability of war, now is over, be the only stronghold of a right to form an op1mon, even has become a necessity. There are democracy remaining in a world though you did not participate in forces now abroad which can be otherwise controlled by ruthless dic­ that war. But I am disturbed that tators. student expression has seemed to checked only by a show of greater force. The million and more of college place greater weight upon the ma­ An intelligent person forms a plan students, of whom you are a part, terialistic rather than the moral of action with a goal to be attained. are a highly favored group. You are issues involved. The strong note of You have decided to carry on your set apart from the great mass of cymc1sm and materialism is un­ education at Colby College. There is production workers and are continu­ worthy of youth whom we had come the possibility that each of y u ing your education at very substan­ to think of as characterized by a high young men who are 21 years of ag , tial cost, because, as the President degree of idealism. or when you reach that age, may be states, we must have educated and This year throughout our American called for a year's service in the intelligent citizens to handle with colleges we should put clear meaning army. There is no reason why the sound judgment the difficult prob­ into terms which have been loosely uncertainty should prove upsetting. lems of the day. Of course, it is not used and have been cheapened by The conscription bill has become law. expected that as scientists, engineers, repetition. Such a term is " democ­ Fortunately, the law provides that economists, and specialists in many racy," which is based on a recogni­ any college student, subject to the lines, you will at the end of this year tion of the inherent value of human draft, may have his call deferred un­ emerge as leaders in this critical beings and of their right to share in ti1 the end of this college year. Even period of history. But, in the long the control and exercise of the gov­ if this were not so, there is only one view, this is the part you will be ernment under which they live. We chance in 41 that you would be called expected to play. have enjoyed certain freedoms so at this time. But, as it is, you can What does this mean for you dur­ long that we have forgotten that count on this year without inter­ ing this year at Colby College ? through the years men have fought ruption. In the last three numbers of the and died to give them to us. Now It had been feared that defense " Atlantic Monthly " has appeared a that freedom of speech and of the jobs and impending conscription series of articles on the current atti­ press, freedom of assembly and of might cause a falling off in college tude of college students toward the worship, are denied in many coun­ registrations. As the year is open­ war. The first, by Professor Whit­ tries that once enjoyed them, we ing, this is not found to be the case ridge, was a vigorous indictment of must realize the priceless heritage in most colleges. At Colby we seem student attitude, based on the ex­ we have received and be ready to to have more students than ever be­ pression of this attitude in college defend them. fore, in spite of more rigid Tequire­ papers and in student petitions to the Another term, " the American way ments for admission. Anticipating President. The second was an an­ of life," needs definition. Within the the possibility of such a result, Pres­ swer to Professor Whitridge by two lives of the present college genera­ ident Roosevelt wrote the following undergraduates of Harvard and Yale, tion, we have been told that the letter to Administrator Paul V. Mc­ which contains this statement: "We happy day was at hand when there Nutt, under date of August 20: will not fight just for the sake of would be " two chickens in every "Repe>rts have reached me that se>me fighting; but convince us that war is pot and two automobiles in every young people who had planned to enter the best means of serving our Amer­ garage." It is not passing college this fall as well as a number strange of those who attended college last year, ican ideals, and we will follow you that youth should assume a materi­ are intending to interrupt their educa· tion at this time because they feel that anywhere." The October "Atlantic " alistic attitude and place undue em­ it is more patriotic to work in a ship­ contains an article by Professor phasis on money and the yard, or to enlist in the Army or Navy, ease that it than it is to attend college. Such a de­ Cram, reviewing a flood of letters will buy. All of us, I fear, old as cision would be unfortunate. "\Ve must have well-educated and in­ from students to the editors. This well as young, have grown soft, and telligent citizens who have sound judg­ article not only analyzes these let­ have lost sight ment in dealing with the difficult prob­ of fundamental lems of today. We must also have ters, but discusses the attitude of meanings. Our complacency has had scientists, engineers, economists, and other people with specialized knowledge, American educators toward their a rude awakening. If the American te> plan and to build for national defense students and certain modern ti-ends way of life has any meaning as well as for social and economic at all progress. Young people should be ad­ in education which have in his judg­ and I think it has, we shall take th vised that it is their patriotic duty to � ce>ntinue the normal course of their edu­ ment contiibuted to the distressing necessary steps for its preservation. cation, unless and until they are called, situation. I commend the reading of You students so that they will be well prepared for at Colby College, and greatest usefulness to their country. these articles to all of you students all -of us, must re-examine our scale They will be promptly notified if they are needed for other patrie>tic sel'vices." and to the members of our teaching of values. We have been concerned As I have said, you are, for the staff. with many things of little intrinsic present, relieved of uncertainty. You I am neither distressed nor sur­ worth. There are other things of are assured at least an uninter1:upted prised that college youth should not supreme value. For some of these ' year to can-y on your education. You wish to go to war. In this you are men should be willing to die. 20 THE COLBY ALUMNUS

Class Notes About Colby Men and Women

1877 yesterday, in his final sermon before a thousand Hi-Y boys on the Campus. Louise H. Coburn was awarded retirement, in Dorchester Temple Then June 25-29 I had a Girl Re­ " Pioneer Woman " honors by the Baptist Church. He is ending 21 serve Group here at the Quadrangle, Maine Federation of Women's Clubs years' ministry in that church and 39 and then the Y. Group came July 3." at their annual meeting last summer. years at Winter Hill Baptist Church,

She was presented with a gold medal Somerville. He also served as re­ 1907 testifying to this honor. Miss Co­ cording secretary of the Northern Fred W. C. Rideout is an officer in burn has had a long and outstanding Baptist Education Society for 10 the Latin-American Division of the record of club membership and lead­ years and was president of the soci­ Export-Import Bank, Washington, D. ership. She is a member of the ety for nine years. C. He advises on loans and prepares Skowhegan Woman's Club, the Town He is a trustee of Andover Newton the proper papers when a loan has Improvement Society, the Maine Theological School, a member of its been approved. Writers' Research Club, Daughters executive committee, a director of the of the American Revolution (past Baptist Hospital Board, of the Mass­ 1908 State Regent and a national officer), achusetts Baptist Convention, and of Dr. John F. Casey, senior visiting the W. C. T. U., and numerous organ­ the Evangelistic Association of -N ew physician at the St. Elizabeth's Hos­ izations affiliated with the Bethany England. He is vice president of the pital in Boston, was honored by the Baptist Church. Florence Crittendon League, vice Mississippi Valley Medical Society on president of the Massachusetts Chris­ September 26 for his work with the 1882 tian Endeavor Union, president of new drugs, sulfapyridene and sulfa­ Dr. J. F. Hill, aged 86, of the class the Andover Newton Alumni, presi­ phiazole, which reduced deaths from of 1882, and Samuel B. (Jack) Shep­ dent of the Boston Baptist Ministers' pneumonia to 6 per cent from 21 per ard, aged 79, of the class of 1883, Conference, and of the Dorchester­ cent among 75 patients at the hos­ held an old-fashioned Colby reunion Milton Ministerial Association, and pital since January, 1939. at Dr. Hill's home on September 26th moderator of the Boston Baptist Dr. Casey delivered a paper on the and visited Mayflower Hill together. South Association. results of his work with the new A graduate of Brockton public drugs at a meeting of the society and 1892 schools, Colby College, and of An­ stressed the importance of the gen­ Charles P. Barnes on July 31st re­ dover Newton Theological School, he eral practitioner administering the signed his position as Chief Justice married Jessie Curtis and has two drugs promptly in pneumonia cases. of the State of Maine. children, Dr. L. Curtis Foye, Arling­ He was presented with a gold medal ton, and Eunice F. Hutchins, Ossin­ at the post graduate assembly of 1893 ing, N. Y. doctors from Illinois, Mississippi and Dr. George Otis Smith has been After a rnception to him and Mrs. Iowa. appointed by Governor Lewis 0. Bar­ Foye next Wednesday evening, Dr. Dr. Casey has been a specialist in rows to a two-year tern1 on Maine's Foye plans to go to Florida for the internal medicine in Boston for many military defense commission, which Winter, after which he will continue years, and has been associated with was set up in June by the state legis­ to reside in Dorchester. He expects St. Elizabeth's Hospital for twenty­ lature to supervise distribution of to do occasional preaching " as op­ five years. He entered Colby with defense moneys made available under portunity presents itself." He said the class of 1908 but left at the end a new $2,000,000 bond issue. to the reporter last week : " I of his freshman year. In 1909 he re­ Mary E. Spear, while on vacation preached my first sermon in a little ceived his medical degree from the in Nantucket in August, met with a country schoolhouse in Winslow, Me., New York College of Physicians and painful accident, resulting in a frac­ in 1895, and have been preaching Surgeons. While at Colby he be­ tured hip, when the chair in which continuously ever since. I have came a member of the Zeta Psi fra­ she was about to sit in an never been without a pastorate." ice cream ternity. parlor slipped and she fell to the Dr. and Mrs. Casey ha ·e five sons floor. She is still a patient in Nan­ 1902 and two daughters. Two of the sons tucket Cottage Hospital and making Vera N. Locke writes, "For the have been graduated from Harvard the usual slow recovery, hoping to be last five years the National Y. W. and a third entered in September. out before Christmas. C. A. has conducted an Orientation The other two sons are at the Boston Course for secretaries here at Ober­ Latin School. 1898 lin, and I have been in charge of the The Boston Globe on Sept. 30th house for them for two summers. It 19 10 ", arried the following item of interest is a four weeks course and the 54 Leona Garland Berry attended the to this class : students came from all over the 51st convention of the New Hamp­ " My one desire during my minis­ country. The Theological Quadran­ shire Librarians Association held at try has been to exalt the Christ," gle is well suited to ca1;ng for such a Keene Teachers College, Keene, N. Rev. Dr. Otis Williams Foye said group. From June 20-24 we had over H., September 4-7. THE COLBY ALUMNUS 21

Mary Donald Deans drove with her mander of the legion. The 152nd 1929 mother to Mexico City, this past field artillery covers t erri tory Ruth Daggett Fuller, husband, and summer. She attended classes at the throughout northern Maine in Aroos­ two sons have purchased and are re­ National University in that city for took county, as far as Bar Harbor. modeling a home outside Hallowell. a month and enjoyed many trips to In its ranks are 54 officers and 726 Her husband works at the State quaint and out-of-the-way places, be­ men. The body is equipped with House in the laboratory. sides visiting the towns usually ex­ French 75 millimeter guns, all truck­ State Representative Chester E. perienced by tourists. Some of the drawn. Merrow of New Hampshire, chair­ unique villages visited were in com­ man of the Ways and Means Com­ pany with Miss Frances Toor, who 1922 mittee of the House, is a candidate is an authority on Mexican Customs, Laura Stanley is in Washington, for the Republican nomination for Folklore, etc., one of the instructors D. C. for the winter. Congress from the 1st district of at the Summer School. The exchange New Hampshire. was excellent this summer - it was a 1923 Robert W. (Bobby) Scott has good season to spend in Mexico, not­ H. R. Ratcliffe will teach a course signed as teacher and coach at withstanding the Revolution propa­ in History of Journalism at Suffolk Hebron Academy for the year 1940- ganda circulated. There was no University during the present aca­ 41. He was previously at Bar Har­ cause for alarm and the contacts demic year. He has previously bor High School, and spent last year made and experiences enjoyed make taught journalism at Simmons Col­ at the University of New Hampshire very pleasant memories of the land lege and has been a member of the studying and assisting in coaching of Manana (tomorrow) . staff of the Boston Transcript for freshman teams. sixteen years, now holding the posi­ Lowell P. Leland received his Ph.D. tion of city editor. 1912 degree from Ohio State University at Leora Prentiss, French teacher at Ohio State's summer commencement 1924 Cony High School, was absent from on August 30th. Marion D. Brown was the super­ her position for a few weeks while Earle A. McKeen has been elected visor of a refugee camp held at Colby undergoing a series of operations in principal of the Williams High Junior College during July. Twenty­ Massachusetts. School in Oakland (Maine) for the two youngsters from six to fourteen ensuing year. Mr. McKeen has had years in age, recently arrived on eleven years of teaching experience, 1913 these shores, were given an introduc­ nine of which have been as principal A report on a survey by Ernest C. tion to American ways and a month of secondary schools in Maine. He Marriner of the occupations of Maine of physical upbuilding in the New comes to Oakland from Ashland high school graduates of 1938 was England countryside. (Maine.) High School, where he has published in " School and Society " served as principal for the last three for August 3, 1940. 1925 years. Alfred K. Chapman, on leave from 1914 his faculty position at Colby, will be located at Columbia University this Milroy Warren of Lubec was 1930 winter, taking work in English. His elected a director of Maine Sardine Philip A. Stinchfield, manager of address is: 400 West 119th Street, Packers at the annual meeting held the Maine State Employment Service New York City. in Bangor in August. in Skowhegan since Nov. 22, 1937, tendered his resignation to the Maine 1927 Management Compensation 1916 Commis­ Marjorie G. Dunstan bas obtained sion to accept the position as princi­ On April 28 at a special vesper a year's leave of absence from her pal of Monson Academy. During the service Rev. Earle R. Steeves was in­ position in Newton Centre, Mass., past half year Mr. Stinchfield was stalled as pastor of the First Con­ and for the next year will teach at on leave of absence in order to take gregational (Unitarian) Church of the Punahou School in Honolulu. courses in history and government Leominster, Mass. Marjorie Rowell Shaw is now liv­ during the second semester at Colby ing in Winthrop with her three chil­ College. 1917 dren while her husband, Lieut. Shaw, Mr. Stinchfield graduated from Hazel Gibbs is back at Cony High U. S. N., is on sea duty. Strong High School at Strong and School again this fall. Dorothy Giddings is back at Cony Colby College, where he received his High School again this fall. A.B. degree. He has since attended 1920 Marguerite Chase Macomber and summer sessions at Bates Colle<>'e"' John F. Choate of Winslow has three children are residing at School and the University of Maine. been given command of the 152nd Street iI1 .<\.ugusta, while Bill is sub­ Connected with several schools in field artillery, Maine National Guard. rnaster and assistant coach at Cony. Maine, Mr. Stinchfield served as For several years Colonel Choate has principal of the Junior high school been an executive officer of the unit, 1 928 at Stratton for one year; ·sub-master was at one time commander of the Betty Gross Nelson and her lawyer of Stratton High School for one local American Legion post and has husband are members of the Young year; sub-master of Monson Acad­ occupied the post of department com- Social Group in Augusta. emy at Monson for four years and 22 THE COLBY ALUMNUS principal of the same institution for ors for his scholarship and ability. Drop a line and it will be appreci- two years. His connection with the " Al " Wheeler is a funeral director ated. - Paul Palmer. Maine State Employment Service as in Oakland. He says his life is not already stated has been since 1937. so excitin� but he's doing very nicely. 1938 "Ken " Johnson, on his last report, Walter B. Rideout is a Teaching­ 1932 was looking for a job. It has been Fellow at Harvard this year. He will Stanley L. Clement received a some time so I hope he has found also continue work on his Doctorate. Master of Arts degree from the Uni­ something. "Norm " Beal is assist­ He will be assistant to the eminent versity of Maine in June. Subject anl manager of the Montgomery English scholar, Prof. Howard Mum­ of his thesis was : "The Status of Ward store in Putnam Conn. He ford Jones. Student Participation in Government probably ha been moved by now as Frederick B. Oleson received a in Maine Secondary Schools with he was expectin� a transfer last Master of Science degree from the Special Reference to Student Coun­ summer. " Barney " Holt is attend­ University of Maine last June. Sub­ cils." ing B. U. Law School and, I under­ ject of his thesis was : " An Investi­ stand from one of his co-workers, is gation of the Variation of Dispersion 1933 helping- Liberty Mutual Insurance and Refractive Index of Carbon Di­ Mary Smith Strout and her hus­ Co. solve some of their problems in oxide with Density." band, Francis L. Strout, have moved the summer time. to Sanford, Maine. Wayne Sanders is living- in Spring­ 1939 Vesta Alden Putnam and her hus­ field, Mass. He is a chemist and Patrick Martin, formerly of Mad­ band, George C. Putnam, '34, and salesman for The Mosher Co. He is awaska, will teach French at Wins­ daughter, Elizabeth, have moved back happily manied and says he sees low High School. to 550 Highland Avenue, Westfield, very few Colby people. Leo Seltzer G. Allan Brown is working in the New Jersey, from Plainfield, N. J. is a medical student at the U. of Ver­ Reservations Department of the Louise Coburn Smith spent her mont. It looks as if there would be American Airlines, Inc. at 140 Fed­ August vacation in Maine. sufficient doctors to handle any ills eral Street, Boston. Carola Loos Hinke and her hus­ there might be in our class. Dorothy V. Weeks of South Port­ band, Robert Hinke, spent two weeks "Harry " Hurwitz is a practicing land will teach the guidance courses camping in Maine this past summer. lawyer in New Bedford. I'm sure he in Farmington High School this year. Priscilla Perkins travelled to the could fix any of you fellows up with She received her A.B. degree from Pacific Coast this past summer where anything you need in the legal line. Colby last June. she visited for some time in Cali­ Reynold Pierce is in Dexter, Maine. The First Congregational Church fornia. Says he has had several jobs of short of Salem, N. H., celebrated its two duration and knows just how " Ken " hundredth anniversary on August 1934 Johnson feels. 24-25. The bicentennial service was Norman Taylor, former Colby ten­ William Donald (" Bill to you ") held on the 25th with Nathanel Gup­ nis star, has been elected instructor Deans is a banker in Biddeford. The till, the pastor, preaching the sermon. in mathematics at Pinkerton Acad­ Biddeford Savings Bank is the place emy, Derry, N. H., for the year 1940- if you happen to want to touch him 1940 41. For the past four years he has up for a loan. He was building a Marjorie Day is teachino- Latin, been at North Yarmouth Academy, camp last spring and was a busy French and English in Parsonsfield Maine. man. " Duke " Robbins is a married Seminary, Kezar Falls. Marjorie man and is an automobile dealer in Chase is a Psychiatric Aide in the 1935 Massachusetts somewhere. I've lost Newo-Psychiatric Institute of the Martin O'Donnell will teach social his card so I don't know the city. Hartford Retreat, in Hartford, Conn. studies and assist with football That completes the list of men that I Isabel C. Abbott is a Student Tech­ coaching at Winslow (Maine) High heard from last spring. More of you nician, in the Taunton State Hospital, School this year. should write in and we'll have you in Taunton, Mass. Helen B. Brown is the next issue. a student in the Prince School, Sim­ 1936 Now a word of appreciation to the mons College. She is studying Per­ John Rideout, former Rhodes contributors in last year's Alumni sonnel and Merchandisino-. Louise Scholar, has an instructorship at fund. Our showing was fair and Holt is a student at Katherine Gibbs Brown University for the present we're going to exceed it by many School, Boston, Mass. Lydia Abbott academic year. times this year so start loosening is teaching English and Latin in Joe O'Toole has been admitted to the string on the bankroll and be North Berwick High School, orth the Graduate Division of the Univer­ thinking of the Alumni fund for 1941. Berwick. sity of Hawaii in Honolulu. When you have a dollar or o send it Ruth E. Rowell is a student in the in and it will be credited to our fund Simmons School of Library Science. 1937 account. Adrianna Rodgers is a student in the Stanley Paine is attending the Your agent is still working for the University of Wisconsin Graduate University of Pennsylvania Medical Firestone Tire and Rubber Company School of Home Economic . Eliza­ School and has received several hon- in Lewiston, Maine, 24 Park St. beth Walden i a student Technician THE COLBY ALUMNUS 23

in the Central Maine General Hos­ Robert Carr of Flagstaff High Mass. Mr. Timson is a graduate . of pital, Lewiston. Ruth Blake is teach­ School, Philip Stinchfield of Monson Boston University and is at the pres­ ing and doing Library work in Fal­ Academy, and Flint Taylor of Wyto­ ent time a salesman of the American mouth High School, Falmouth. Mary pitlock High School. James Bunting Thread Company. They will make !· Wheeler is attending the Graduate is teaching at South Portland High their home at 46 Harvest Street, rill School of Wellesley College, and School and Charles Card at Liberty East Lynn, Mass. lte majorin� in Chemistry. Deborah High School. Clyde Hatch is teach­ Phyllis Hamlin, '32, of Waterville, en: Stillings is an assistant in Stevens ing and coaching at Morse High to Earl Lowther Wade, '39, of Calais, llD· Memorial Library, North Andover, School in Bath, Charles Maguire at Maine, on June 19, in Waterville. Mass. Jay High School, and Warren Pearl Mrs. Wade is employed in the Colby I Of the class of 1940 from whom at Madison High School. Carl Mc­ College Library, and Mr. Wade is at­ tht the alumni office has heard, twelve Graw is a science teacher at Hart­ tending the Kansas City Western ,Ji. members are engaged in the educa­ land. Ralph Delano is in Albion. Dental College, Kansas City, Mo. :ti. tional field, eleven of them in the Irvin� Gross, the only out-of-stater Helen Arnold, of South China, to iitJD State of Maine. Rufus Brackley i:; of whom we have record, is teaching John S. Pendleton, Jr., '39, of Water­ Di· principal of Frankfort High School, at the Boston Navy Yard. ville, on May 29, in South China, Maine. Mrs. Pendleton is a graduate of Gates Business College. Mr. Pendleton is employed in the Mont­ lnd· MILESTONES gomery Ward store. They are mak­ jn.;. ing their home at 15 Winter Street, ENGAGEMENTS Webster. Mass., on September 14, in Waterville, Maine. Louise Merriam Weeks, '38, of Wa­ Waterville. Mrs. Morphy was grad­ Anne Griswold, of Hartford, Conn., terville, to Whitney Wright, '37, of uated from the Katherine Gibbs to Albert Elliott Robinson, '36, of Newport, R. I. Miss Weeks is at School in Boston, and has been em­ Berlin, Conn., on July 6, in Hartford, present employed by the Bureau of ployed at the Perkins, Weeks, and Conn. 'ort· Social Welfare in Augusta. Mr. Hutchins law firm. Mr. Morphy was Eleanor Gertrude Butler, '29, of a member of the Zeta Psi fraternity Portland, to Brndford rse; Wright is an ensign in the air service Howard Hutch­ while at Colby. They will make their ins, of Waterville, iear of the United States Navy. on September 3, home in Webster where Mr. Morphy in Falmouth Foreside. Mrs. Hutch­ '.rom Alice Pomeroy Morse, '33, of is assist>ant superintendent of the ins is a member of Sigma Kappa Bradford, Mass., to Arnold Wallace, Webster Shoe Corporation. sorority, and has been a teacher of Orth of Bradford, Mass. Mr. Wallace was English in the high schools of San­ two graduated from Essex Agricultural Marjorie Duffy, of Lexington, turce, Puerto Rico, Gorham, and gllSl School, and he is associated with his Mass., to Philip Stewart Bither, '30, Kennebunk. Mr. Hutchins attended was father at Orchard Hill farm, Brad­ of Houlton, on August 13, in Lex­ Bowdoin College and is a graduate ;up- ford. He is employed by the Agri­ ington, Mass. Both are members of of Princeton University, and Yale 1110D. Conservation program in the Colby faculty. Prof. Either is a cultural Law School. He teacher of German, and Mrs. Either, was a member of Essex county. the Gateway club a graduate of the Bouve School of at Princeton. He is a member of Physical Culture in Boston, is head the law firm of Per­ atin. kins, Weeks, and of the work in physical education for Hutchins. They dield will make their home MARRIAGES women at Colby. at 26 Burleigh jorie Street, Patricia Anne Thomas, '40, of Wa­ Waterville. the Hazel Elizabeth Wepfer, '37, of Geraldine E. Golder, of Auburn, to terville, to Franklin Arad Thompson Jamaica, New York, to J. Marble the George T. of Waterville, on September 14, in Pugsley, '34, of Water­ ;onn. Thayer, Jr., '38, of Waterville, on town, Waterville. Mrs. Thompson was on August 31, in Auburn. :ech· July 5th, in Jamaica. Margaret Jor­ Mrs. Pugsley graduated from Coburn Classical In­ was graduated from >ital, dan, '35, and Mrs. Janet Goodrich the Chamberlain stitute and attended Bradford Junior School, Boston. Mr. 'II is Sawyer, '37, were bridesmaids. Mr. and Mrs. College before graduating from Pugsley will reside on iro· Thayer is employed by the National Beacon Hill, Colby. She is a member of Sigma Boston. Per· Industrial Conference Board, in New Lucille Kappa. Mr. V. Shoemaker, of New Kappa and Phi Beta York City, and they will reside in 1uise York City, to James E. Glover, '37 Thompson, who is associated with the Kew Gardens, Long Island. iibbs of Waterville, on August 19, in Ne New England Telephone and Tele­ Marita Nyberg of North Haven, � 1bott York City. Mrs. Glover is a gradu­ graph Company, was graduated from Conn., to Norman A. Taylor, '34, of 1 JD ate of Cornell University and a mem­ Coburn Classical Institute and from Skowhegan, on July 30, in North ber of Pi Beta rorth Bryant-Stratton School of Business Phi sorority. Mr. Haven. They will make their home Glover graduated Administration in Boston. He is the from Boston Uni­ in Derry, N. H., where Mr. Taylor versity 1tbe Law School last June. He son of Grace Wells Thompson, '15, will be instructor of Mathematics at ence· is a member of Lambda Chi Alpha and Arthur A. Thompson, '05. They Pinkerton Academy. he D lta Theta Phi law it will make their home in Portland. � fraternity, an Bertha Lewis, '33, of East Lynn, d uate Pi Kappa Delta. Mr. and Mrs. Geraldine Estelle Wells, '40, Wa­ Mass., to George A. Timson, of Na­ Glover Diza· will make their home in jciaD terville, to John W. Morphy, '40, of hant, Mass., on June 22, in Lynn, Waterville. 24 THE COLBY ALUMNUS

Barbara Elizabeth Towle, '40, of Helen Johnston Meiklejohn, of ational Park Ranger in Acadia Na- Oakland, to Alfred Howe Wheeler, Pawtucket, R. I., to Raym ond Spin­ tional Park, Bar Harbor. Their '37, of Oakland, on August 19, in ney, '21, of Boston, on August 31, in home will be in Bar Harbor. Oakland. Mr. Wheeler is associated Pawtucket, R. I. Mr. Spinney is Constance H. Hutchinson, of Wa­ with his father in the firm of W. H. Superintendent of the Investment terville, to Donald J. DeLisle, '39, of Wheeler and Son, in Oakland. They Department, of the Employers' Waterville, September 28, in Water­ will make their home at 110 Main Group, in Boston. ville. Mr. DeLisle at the present Street, Oakland. Eleanor Louise MacCarey, '36, of time is manager of a Socony Service Newton Centre, Mass., to Alvin Station in Waterville. Roberta Elizabeth Delano, of Ja­ Schoff Whitmore, of ewtonville, maica Plain, Mass., to George Quincy Mass., on September 7, in ewton Davis, '37, of Hingham, Mass., on BIRTHS Centre. They are to make thefr April 17, in Jamaica Plain, Mass. To Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. Ham­ home at 10 Washington Park, New­ Mrs. Davis was a member of the ilton, (Nancy Nivison, '33) a daugh­ tonville, Mass. class of 1939 at Smith College, while ter, Margaret Campbell Hamilton, Judith Quint, '39, of Roxbury, Mr. Davis was a member of the class born July 31. Mass., to Stanley H. Schreider, '39, of 1939 at the United States Naval To Mr. and Mrs. Wilbut F. Larsen, of Wakefield, Mass., on October 13, Academy at Annapolis. They will (Rebecca Chester, '33) a son, David in the Southern House, Brookline, live in Plymouth. Chester Larsen, August 3, at Port­ Mass. land, Maine. Isabelle Fairbanks, '33, of Houl­ Margaret Youn Clayton, '42, of g To Mr. and Mrs. Irving Malsch, ton, to Allston B. Hobby, of Lynn, Newton, Mas ., to Edwin Enright (Irving l\lalsch, '33) a son, Craig Mass., on August 19, in Houlton. Lake, '40, of Flushing, N. Y., on Buckingham Mal ch, September 2, at Mrs. Hobby for the past year has June 10, in Waterville. Mr. Lake is Bridgeport, Conn. been teaching music and English at at present taking a three months To Mr. and Mrs. Ralph DeOrsay, Ricker Classical Institute. Mr. training course in the Scott Paper (Ralph DeOrsay, '29) a son, Ralph Hobby has accepted a position as in­ Company's Training School in Ridley DeOrsay, Jr., July 29, at Drexel Hill, structor in Staunton Military Col­ Park, Penna. They will make their Philadelphia, Penna. lege, and they will make their home home at 316 E. Ridley Ave., Ridley in Staunton, Va. Park, Penna. To Mr. and Mrs. James Y. Gates, (Doris Roberts, '26) a daughter, Louie Constance Moore, of Virginia Ruth Kingdon of ew Haven to Mary Jane Gates, on July 15, at Mc­ Beach, Va., to George Donald Smith, Lronard Helie, '33, on June 20 in Kinney, Texas. '32, of Fredericksburg, Va., on Au­ Boston. They have a house at 87 gust 26, in Virginia Beach, Va. Mr. Bonad St., Brookline, Mass., and Mr. To Mr. and Mrs. Philip Farley, Smith is Lib�arian at Mary Wash­ Helie is minister of the Second Uni­ (Janet Lowell, '38) a daughter, Susan ington College, Fredericksburg, Va. tarian Society, Brookline. Lowell, on Augu t 15, in Portland, Evelyn Short, '39, of Fairfield, to Maine. Irene A. Frederick, of P ttsfield, to i Buell 0. Merrill, '40, of Boston, To Mr. and Mrs. John H. Fawcett, Quentin LaFleur, '41, of Waterville, Mass., on September 21, in Fairfield. (Helen Smith, '27) a son, John Co­ on June 29, in Waterville. Mr. La­ Hannah Putnam, '41, served as burn, on July 24, in Berkeley, Calif. Fleur is employed by the Lockwood bridesmaid, and Edward Jenison, To Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Stallard, Company. They will make their '40, was b�st man. They will make (Bernard Stallard, '37. Barbara Day, home at 64 Somerset Ave., Pittsfield. their home at 268 Main Street, '36) a son, Jeffrey Neil, on Au gust . Erma L. Sawyer, of Greenville, to Waterville. 22, in Waterville. Ernest B. Harvey, '40, of Greenville, Edjth Falt, '38, of ortheast Har­ To Mr. and Mrs. Robert Brown, on June 29, in Greenville. Mrs. bor, to Paul Gordon Favour, Jr., of (Ro bert Brown, '36, Katherine Rol­ Harvey is a graduate of the Eastern Bar Harbor, on September 14, in lins, '36) a son, Timothy Orman, on Academy of Hairdressing in Bangor. Northeast Harbor. Mr. Favour is a October 1, in Waterville.

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