Bates College SCARAB
The aB tes Student Archives and Special Collections
10-5-1955 The aB tes Student - volume 82 number 02 - October 5, 1955 Bates College
Follow this and additional works at: http://scarab.bates.edu/bates_student
Recommended Citation Bates College, "The aB tes Student - volume 82 number 02 - October 5, 1955" (1955). The Bates Student. 1208. http://scarab.bates.edu/bates_student/1208
This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Archives and Special Collections at SCARAB. It has been accepted for inclusion in The aB tes Student by an authorized administrator of SCARAB. For more information, please contact [email protected]. °l Hates Student Vol. I.XXXII, No. 2 BATES COLLEGE, LEWISTON, MAINE, OCTOBER 5. 1955 By Subscription Yearbook Staff Organizes; Seniors Pose For Pictures McKay Praises Ike's
Yearbook editor Joy Teacliout Kenzie are in charge of the art and her newly appointed staff, ad- work. Makeup of the yearbook is Bid For World Peace vised by Prof. Robert G. Berkel- being handled this year by Gilber- man. have begun preparations for ta Morris. I.ucinrla Thomas plans the 1956 Mirror. to gather informal pictures of the Secretary Seeks Maude Agnault heads the com- seniors and their friends. Purified Rivers, mittee for the faculty section while Progress has already been made Thehna Pierce compiles the senior on this year's edition. Seniors are Hawaiian State division. being photographed and sports Organizations will be edited by events are being written up as they By Larry Evans Mary Lee Rogers, activities by occur. Miss Teacliout expects to Secretary of the Interior Doug- Betty Lou Warren, VVAA by Nor- have all organization pictures tak- las McKay last Thursday stated ma Tcnnctt, and sports by Anthony en by Thanksgiving. that he "wouldn't care to specu- Parinello. late" about the political effects of Plan Innovations Paige Scovill and Kenneth Mac- President Eisenhower's heart at- Although the same cover is be- tack. ing used, the staff pl?.ns many in- Answering questions from report- Council Offers New novations, particularly in the senior ers at a press conference in the Sun and organizations sections. Tufts Intramural* System, Parlor of Portland's Eastland Ho- Brothers of Lewiston are again in tel, McKay declared the President Plans Shakers Sale charge of printing the yearbook. An to be "the strongest man in the early publication is expected. Stu-C discussed a variety of world for peace." topics at their first meeting held Washington Will Run last Wednesday in the conference "Washington will run" during room of Roger Williams Hall. Bates Takes On the chief executive's convalescence, Student advisers for men were the Secretary pointed out. He selected. Their names will be post- Bowdoin, UNH praised the President's efforts at ed pending approval by the admin- building a strong administrative istration. In Clinic Meets At a press conference held last Thursday in Portland, Secre- staff and noted that Eisenhower A plan to "weight" the intra- tary of the Interior Douglas McKay discussed recent polit- will not interfere with any depart- mural point system was proposed. The Debate Council today re- ical issues with Larry Evans. ment so long as it is operating ef- The new scheme would tend to leased a tentative schedule for ficiently. equalize the present advantage of semester activities. President I,aw- Asked if the Republicans can de- the larger dorms over the small rence Evans announced that the feat Democratic Senator Wayne ones. first debates would be held at high Deans Name 32 Students Morse of McKay's native Oregon, SeU Shaken school clinics. he responded: "We can lick him on his record. What has he done Harry Bennerl introduced the Bates will onpose Bowdoin in Now At Other Institutions for Oregon except bring discredit idea of selling shakers at football the opening debate at Laconia, Thirty-two students transferred Pennington and Pauline Sachse to the State?" games. The plan was adopted and N. H.. October 29. This will be this fall from Bates to other insti- transferred to the University of Declines Comment the shakers are expected to go on followed by a debate against the tutions. Florida, John Davis and James Up- University of New Hampshire in ton to RPI, and James Lynn to McKay, who was governor of sale at the Maine game during From the class of '56 Patricia Back-to-Bates. Lewiston November 4, while two the United States Military Acad- Oregon before his cabinet appoint- Pates teams will clash at Oldtown ment in 1953, declined to state A committee has been set up to emy. November 5. specifically what action his de- provide a liaison between Stu-C Stu-G Entertains Six Women Leave '57 partment has taken or will take on and Stu-G. It will be called the The semester's activities will he Six women from the class of '57 recommendations submitted by the Bates Conference Committee. (Continued on page six) Stu-C At Dinner, are now studying at different col- Hoover Commission. Names Adviser leges. They are: Margaret Eigh- Remarking that the federal gov- The Bates Dragon my, Wheelock; Jacqueline Gillis, ernment's 2,800,000 employees are Last Wednesday night, Stu-C UCLA; Lois Ineson, University oi "too many," the Secretary was accepted the resignation of Vir- Connecticut; Joan LaWall, Uni quick to mention efforts within his ginia Fcdor as one of the senior versity of Pennsylvania Finance department to investigate waste advisers to that organization. Nor- and Commerce School; Audrey and inefficiency. Wass, Boston Dispensary for Med ma Tennett was elected by the McKay Urges Hawaii Statehood ical Technology; Joyce Yacker, board to fill the consequent va- McKay stood with the Adminis- Douglass College. cancy. tration in calling for "immediate" House secretaries selected for the Jerome Becker at Springfield, statehood for Hawaii and in oppos- various women's dorms on campus Christopher Brayton at WPI, Rich- ing admission of Alaska to the are as follows: Miriam Oliver, ard Carey at Bucknell, and Hugh Union at this time. "Each of them East Parker; Karen Dill, West Van Houten at the University of should stand on its own merit," he Parker; F.dith Lysaght, Rand; Michigan also left the class of '57. asserted, since "there always will Janet Kirschbaum, Cheney: Kath- '58 Loses 17 Members be scrapping" if they are tied to- gether in legislative proposals. erine Johnson, Milliken: Elizabeth Transfers from the class of '58 Hawaii, with its larger popula- Warren, Whittier; Joeann Berry, include: Clotilde Chavcs, Simmons; Fryc: Colleen Jenkins, Hacker; Janet Gustafson. Colby Junior (Continued on page four) Elizabeth Trotter. Chase; Patricia College; Hope Kelly, Oswego Lysaght, Wilson. State Teachers' College; Joan Club Night Extend Co-education Middleton, Fairleigh - Dickinson; To enable them to attend the Lucille Narefs, La Salle Junior Campus clubs will hold their Rand open-house following the College; Grace Ondcrdonk, Drew; first meetings next Tuesday rally last Friday evening, freshman Margaret Perham, Chicago; Mary evening. Potential members women were voted 9:30 p. m. co- Jane Rawlings, Leslie; and Jean are urged to attend since the The Hinckley Chinese Collection on display in Pettigrew education extensions by Stu-G. Sievers, Boston University. programs will serve as intro- Also Bryan Bastow. Worcester ductions to the club activities. Because of the full college pro Hall includes the above dragon's head woven into an em- State Teachers' College; Edwin Freshmen are especially wel- gram of extra-curricular activities, broidered scarf. The elaborate gold and bronze threaded Cunha, Lowell Textile Institute; come at all clubs, with the ex- Stu-G was informed that each wo John Ely, Quinnipiac; Lewis ception of the Lawrence Chem- runner is one of the rare items given to the college by former men's dorm would be permitted Heafitz, University of Pennsylva- ical and Jordan-Ramsdell Sci- only one open house and one cabin trustee Freeman Hinckley. nia; Donald Helms, Temple; Rich entific Societies. Membership party in place of the number al- ard Jasper, United States Military in these organizations is by in- A "lover's couch", red and gold chests, portraits, china, vases, lowed in previous years. Academy; Donald Wrieden, New vitation only. screens, wood carvings, and chairs are also on display. Tonight Stu-G plans to entertain York State Forestry School; and, Consult the calendar on page (Photo by Schmid, Bailey) Stu-C at a home-cooked supper in Kunchoon Yu, Washington Col- four for time and place of the the Women's Union. in St. Louis. meetings. \0 TWO THE BATES STUDENT, OCTOBER 5, 1955 Editorials Ivy Leaves More marriages this summer — Unfashionable Einstein Spurs ! Business And The College Congratulations to Dotty Caesar and Frank Loeb. Betty Fish and Students To Atrocious Attire Several years ago, many articles were written about the Dick Cutler, Peggy Perham ana By Anne Berkelman made the correct choice of a col- "decline of the liberal arts college". Although the cause of King Hempel. Bruce and Nancy Once again the self-conscious lege. Quickly your thoughts are this decline was known — lack of funds to meet the rising (Ramsdell) Chandler became the squeak of new" white bucks, the dispelled when someone smiles at costs of operation — there was no solution on hand to combat proud parents of a son, August 27. anguished cries of "Thirty-seven- you. it and still leave the colleges independent. Congratulations and best wishes fifty for books?!", and the chronic "An uppcrclassman? Not on your to Ann Akehurst and John Hodg- Alumni and friends were (and still are) bucking the coughs of exhausted convertibles life. He is a fellow graduate of kinson who became engaged last herald the beginning of another your high school, Peter King. That higher cost of living. For that reason, they could hardly be weekend. academic year throughout the inhibited runt had all C's and was called upon to contribute much more to their alma maters. Jack Merrill and Aurelia country. captain of the tiddley winks team. Government aid would probably have reduced the colleges' Miku are also engaged, not Every campus has its own tra- Nevertheless, he's a partner to independence. married as erroneously report- ditions concerning Frosh Week: fight this thing which is bigger than Common Hurdle ed last week. Bates has cider and doughnuts and both of you. You talk and find he Millike!) freshmen received pain- By raising tuitions to meet the sum needed, these private Uncle Johnnie, while the Universi- is in your first English class. ful introduction into Bates life. Re- ty of Connecticut employs its own ". . . You choose a seat, and open colleges faced the possibility of a reduced enrollment. Re- quested by their upperclassmen to Pied Piper and a "Black Trium- your English book and read the gardless of the fact that more students were going to col- "elephant" home from supper one virate" to escort the "lowest of the preface. You continue to read un- lege, regardless of the fact that more scholarships were evening, they were led past Mitch- low" on a nocturnal tour of the til curiosity gets the better of you. available, college expenses were still a matter to be reckoned ell House. The boys obligingly campus. Friend In Need came out and watered the ele- Upset Tradition "Cautiously you turn around and with. phants with their traditional water Fortunately, business and industry in New England rea- Prescribed attire for the occa- see Pete talking with a beautiful balloons. sion: girls wear skirts six inches girl. He spies you and introduces lized the predicament their colleges were in. By setting up Seen at Saturday's football above their knees, plus ribbons and you to his cousin Sally. the New England Colleges Fund, business allowed private game: Lev Campbell, Dave beanies; boys wear pajamas and "Yes indeed, Pete is a swell liberal arts colleges to maintain their own identity. Wyllie, Bernie Staples, Sally carry a bar of soap in the right guy." Perkins, Anne Shultz, Jan Ar- Distribution of Funds hand and a towel over the left Big Brothers Set Example nold, Gail Baumann, Sylvia arm. A feminine member of the Ajamian. Half of this fund is distributed equally among the col- This year the freshmen upset Connecticut Daily Campus staff leges. The other half is apportioned according to the num- tradition by sweeping up the Pied urges the upperclass men to "start ber of liberal arts degrees each college grants annually. Alumna Of The Week Piper and the hooded trio and this year off right" by setting a The institutions participating in this program include tossing them into Mirror Lake a good example, fashion-wise, for Amherst College, Bates College, Boston College, Clark Uni- few minutes after solemnly prom- their "little brothers'. ising "to uplift the ideals and the She describes the "ideal" man as versity, Colby College, Connecticut College, Dartmouth Col- standards of the University to a one who wears clean, pressed kha- lege, Emmanuel College, Fairfield University, Holy Cross place just a little higher than they kis and a v-necked sweater ("and College, and Middlebury College. Also Providence College, were when I came." Splash! please, boys, with a shirt under Radcliffe College, Regis College, St. Anselm's College, St. Smile To The Rescue it"). Michael's College, Smith College, Tufts College, Wellesley A freshman at Northeastern Our "hero" also has his hair describes a common occurrence in combed, or at least resorts to that College, Wesleyan University, Wheaton College, and Wil- Northeastern News: well known alternative of getting a liams College. "As you wander aimlessly "butch" haircut, so that it won't through the corridors of North- show. He also takes time to shave eastern looking for your first in the morning. Social Life At Bates class, you wonder whether you (Continued on page three) Some students on campus are content with the social life at Bates. Others are not. It is to this latter group that we direct our remarks. Prof. Avery Summers In In his first address to the freshman class, prexy stated that extra-curricular activities are, for the most part, in the hands of the students. Whether or not the Chase Hall dance Salvador, Sees Progress series functions properly is up to the students. Whether or Ilene E. Avery, assistant pro- lems seem enormous. Infant mor- not the numerous clubs function properly is also up to the fessor of Spanish, worked in El tality is frightfully high, diet in- students. Salvador this summer as a volun- adequate, sanitation poor. All kinds What They Can And Did Do teer in rural development projects. of diseases are rampant. We cite Friday night's rally, the Rand open-house, and She reports here her impressions of A remedy for these problems is Helen Martikainen the Salvadorean people and prob- not furnished' by simply supplying the Harvest Hoedown as good examples of what the stu- lems. dents can do when they want to improve the social life at better houses and more hospitals. Helen Martikainen, '39, is a Only Americans in the coffee This people's diet habits, supersti- Bates. leading force in the drive to im- A good percentage of students were responsible for the business are likely to know El Sal tions, sense of dependency and lack prove the health of people in vador, a tiny Central American of self-respect are deeply ingrained. success of these affairs. They provided the means whereby undeveloped countries of the everyone could enjoy himself, whether "stag" or "drag". country of less than two million Profits Divided world. people. The primary desire of the agricul- Most Popular Complaint A member of Phi Beta Kap- A casual visitor could ride tural worker is to own his own land. The most popular complaint seems to be that the college pa, Miss Martikainen started through it and observe its exotic The government has purchased does not have the proper facilities for a healthy social at- working for the World Health qualities — the lush, tropical foli- large tracts of land from private mosphere. In the cases referred to above, the cage, Rand Organization in Geneva in age, dark-skinned natives and owners and used part of it to set up gym and reception rooms, and the road back of the Parkers 1949. Since 1952 she has been thatched houses. It requires more three rural colonization projects. were the scenes where these successful activities took place. chief of its Public Health edu- than sight-seeing, however, to gain The men can obtain work in the This seems to prove that it is not a question of where cation section. an understanding of the factors government - owned sugar cane social events occur but a question of who does or does not Cosmopolitan Consultant which give an individual personali- fields nearby and receive 80 cents a spare the time and effort to make them a success. This post has carried her to ty to the country. day for their labor. All profits from India. Sweden, the Nether- Live On Subsistence Level the sugar harvest are divided lands, France, Germany, Aus- It is a great advantage in many among community members, each tria, Italy and Haiti in consult- ways to study and live in a coun- share determined by the number of ing with health specialists all try as small as El Salvador. In a days that each man has worked. (XI over the world. limited time, I saw the length and Charity Degrades bates Student In 1953 the American Acade- breadth of it, met its government The money obtained for the my of Physical Education officials and had contact with all sugar cane is expected to be used EDITORIAL STAFF awarded her the Administra- social classes. to pay off 20 year mortgages on the EDITOR-IN-CHIEF tive Award for 1953 for sig- The largest part of the population peasants' houses. The principle in- Sylvia Perfetti '56 nificant contribution to the belongs to what we call the lower volved here is an important one — MANAGING EDITOR ASSISTANT EDITOR Public Health Service program. class. These are mainly agricultur Lawrence Evans '56 Betty-Ann Morse '56 charity is noble in times of crisis Paris Awards Medal al workers living on subsistence but as a permanent condition, it is SENIOR ASSOCIATE EDITOR Marjorie Connell '56 In the same year the city of level under semi-feudal conditions. ASSOCIATE EDITORS Sybil Benton '56, Richard Bean '57 degrading to the recipient. Paris awarded her a medal at Fear Class Conflict The peasant pays for his land and NEWS EDITOR Robert Harlow '57 the meeting of the Interna- It is toward this group of people ASSISTANT NEWS EDITORS .... Wilma Gero '57, Miriam Hamm '57 home just as any other property tional Union for Health Educa- that the government officials and holder. FEATURE EDITOR Madeline Travers '57 tion. many of the wealthiest men of Girls Foster Initiative SPORTS EDITOR Robert Lucas '56 Before working for the Salvador have turned in the last MAKE-UP EDITOR Joan McGuire '56 The government has trained, World Health Organization, ten years in an effort to raise liv- through scholarship programs, a STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERS Roger Bailey '57, Arthur Schmid '58 Miss Martikainen served in the ing conditions. BUSINESS MANAGER „ Thomas Moore '56 group of intelligent young girls as public health departments of Their motivation is not entirely social workers. They are chosen ADVERTISING MANAGER Wilbur Stone '57 Connecticut, Maryland, Okla- unselfish. They fear class conflict CIRCULATION MANAGERS Meredith Greene. Linnea Swanson from the lower middle class so that homa, North and South Caro- and know that a more prosperous they possess a certain cultural back- Faculty Consultant — John C. Donovan lina and Virginia over-all population would increase ground but have lived in rural Published weekly at Chase Hall, Bates College, during the college year. Tel. She received her Master of the market for goods and produce 4-8021 (Sundays only). Printed at the Auburn Free Press, 99 Main Street, areas and understand peasant psy- Auburn. Entered as second-class matter at the Lewlston Post Office Jan. 30, Public Health degree from greater wealth. chology. 1918, under the act of Mar. 3, 1879. A member of the Associated Collegiate Press. Yale Medical School in 1941. From our point of view the prob- (Continued on page three)
, //
THE BATES STUDENT, OCTOBER 5. 1955 THREE YE OLDE HOBBY SHOPPE Inquiring Reporter Invites Ire, Reaps Few Replies To Query What do you think of Freshman the future, I could see that he was trying to Rules? Disguising myself as a After they left, I quickly aban- fool me by using the Socratic freshman to evoke truer respon I , doned the masquerade and hurried method so 1 left him there and 1 sit out hot on the trail of answers down to the Den to drown my dripped my way back to the dorm. to this question. sorrows. On the way over, how- The first door I knocked at was Stopping to speak to a coed in ever, I was almost literally locked so I knew it was a fresh- front of Hathorn Hall, I intoned drowned by a bucket of water and man room. A voice said, "Come sweetly in my hist inquiring re- mud hurled by one of a hundred in." I did. And from the same porter tones, "Hello! What do you garnet-capped rioters. voice, "My roommate's a queer. 1 think of Freshman Rules?" I glared over at the guilty fresh- don't know how I'll ever adjust to Beanie Brigade man, ami, thinking that I . was him." This obvious attempt at an Whereupon, two little men about to assault him bodily, he apology was unnecessary. jumped out of a hush, scribbled wrestled me into a king-sized pud- I could see it all myself. The Why do more college omethiug in their black hook-, ill. in front of Roger Bill. poor lad was stretched out on the and told me I was on report for The Direct Approach floor trying to get a sun-tan with coeducating after 5:.iU. T a k i n g advantage of his bis desk lamp. I whipped oiT my beanie to show proximity, I casually gurgled into We Obtain Formula men and women smoke (hem 1 was really an upperclass- hi- ear, "Say bud, what do you It wa» plain that my junior iiian in disguise, hut they scribbled think of Freshman Rules?" Freud was the better subject, so again and suggested that I keep As we came up for air, he said, turning to him, I asked, "What do my headgear on permanently in "Whassa matter? You a wise guy?" you have to say about Freshman Rules?" LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS by Dick Bibler Ibis was a foolishly worded question for he immediately re- VICEROYS plied, "The purpose of Freshman Rules is to orient the incoming student to all phases of college than any other life." Nature Boy Turns Brown "Gung Ho!" I thought. "Who wants to read that in the STU- filter cigarette? DENT?" I looked back at Nature Boy, who by this time, strangely enough, had turned a deep brown. Deciding to use the casual ap- proach, I queried, "The Freshman Rules are pretty crummy, aren't they?" He grunted, "I like 'em!" I could see that I was licked so 1 Because only Viceroy walked out and went next door. Southerners And Hound-Dogs This room was perfectly quiet. gives you 20,000 filter traps Here at last I knew I would find the answers I sought. This would in every filter tip, made be the culmination of a long, hard, wet night's work. Two freshmen sat at their desks studying. A from a pure natural substance lumpy shape moved on the bunk. I screamed. found in delicious fruits "It's only a hound dawg," drawled the Southerner. I ripped off the blankets and found myself and other edibles! "THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT CLASS YOU'LL BE TAKING— staring into tw) round puddly £0 H I BCPKT A LITRE: EXTRA WOT- FRCW YOU THIS TE£M,» eyes. Hail Caesar! Yes, only Viceroy has this filter composed of 20,000 tiny Prof. Avery "It's a cocker spaniel," I filter traps. You cannot obtain the same filtering action Ivy Leaves squealed. "One might deduce that in any other cigarette. (Continued from page two) (Continued from page two) from the physical evidence pre- The next issue of the Campus They are the intermediaries be- sented," ' said the Southerner's The Viceroy filter wasn't just whipped up and rushed to brought this retort from a "big tween government and community. roommate. market to meet the new and skyrocketing demand for fil- brother": "Now in reply to this They organize community groups, I turned to the scholar. "What tered cigarettes. Viceroy pioneered. Started research more request, I should like to say that iron out conflicts between neigh' do you think of Freshman Rules? ' than 20 years ago to create the pure and perfect filter. I shudder at the thought of seeing bors, and continually foster the verv "Anna virumque cano, Troiac four thousand male students till difficult idea in the peasant that this qui primus ab oris," he said. I Smokers en masse report that filtered Viceroys have a walking around at the same lime is his town and will grow only beat a sad but hasty retreat ad through his effort, and he must ac- finer flavor even than cigarettes without niters. Rich, attired in the dress requested by astra up the 96 stairs to my fourtli 3 this young lady. How* could you cept responsibility and initiate pro floor room. satisfying, yet pleasantly mild. possibly tell one from the other? jects. piece of improvisation plus effi- Dress No Judge Bad Traditions Exist Viceroy draws so easily that you wouldn't know, without ciency. "I have yet to meet the person There exists a deeply embedded looking, that it even had a filter tip .. . and Viceroys cost It is a simple and startling ex- who can accurately judge the qual- tradition in the peasant to follow, to ample that a government with a only a penny or two more than cigarettes without filters! ity, personality and integrity of an- accept unquestioningly, to hold his limited budget can carry on an ef- other by merely judging bis clothes. abilities ill low esteem. fective health program with a min- That's why more college men and women smoke VICEROYS than "If, however, this were true, lit Several foreign groups have par- imum of expense any other filter cigarette . . . that's why VICEROY, is the largest- me say that 1 would never attend a ticipated in helping I%1 Salvador. It Death Relieves selling filter cigarette in the world! school whose students didn't dress was one of the areas chosen by It is a moving experience to take well. Point Four for the establishment of part in one of these projects. All Einstein 'n Me a Demonstration Rural Health Pro- around there exists terrible poverty "To be more specific, I wouldn't gram, A large clinic was set up in and disease. A child can die and its even attend a school whose staff Cuatepeque. parents feel no sense of sadness be- didn't dress well — Princeton for Nurse's Campaign cause at least he will not have to example, with its unfashionable Radiating out from this center in- suffer for as many years as they and late Dr. Albert Einstein." to a 50 mile area are a series of have. "Now that the l'epsodent smiles simple one-room clinics in rural Here are the children with bloat- have disappeared and halitosis has areas. Kadi clinic is staffed by an ed bellies and skeleton frames — reasserted itself;" (us the Wes- auxiliary nurse who has received a middle-aged people with skins as leyan Argus so poignantly puts it) nine months' nurses' training withered and dried as prunes. It is "now that the warm, 'friendly1 course. so easy to run away from this handshake has become its usual She carries on a campaign for bet- shocking and often nauseating sight. cold and clammy self, we shall ter sanitary conditions and does a Yet there is a substantial number close the unclosed circle (the fam- considerable amount of preventive of Salvadoreans who have the cour- 20.000 ily circle, that is) with a profound, as well as curative medicine. age to accept the conditions as they scientific, intellectual sagacious This project was truly impres- are and work hard in a slow monot- Tiny Filter Traps... hymn of praise for , . ." the ltates sive. No money has been spent on onous daily fight to bring about plus that Real Tobacco Taste frosh. Long may they wave. frills. The central clinic is a master- progress. FOUR THE BATES STUDENT, OCTOBER 5, 1955 Squaredancers Swing Partners McKay Lauds President, Describes Summer Jobs At Saturday's Harvest Hoedown (Continued from page one) students in the Park Department. tion, is enjoying great prosperity "Write early," he advised, for Applaud Skits, and has already adopted a consti- there is "extreme competition" for tution, the 62-year old administra- available positions. Impersona tions tor observed, Alaska, on the other As a solution to problems of hand, has only 150,000 inhabitants river- and air-pollution which have Sponsored by the Frye Street and has not yet railed a constitu- ben vexing the Department of the dormitories. J.B., and Roger Wil- tional convention. Interior for many years, the Secre- liams Hall, a "Harvest Hoedown" Notes Summer Jobs tary recommended more compre- was held between 8:30 and 11:30 hensive legislation. Citing case his- Secretary McKay, whose depart- p.m. last Saturday, behind Parker tories in Oregon, he called pollu- ment operate.- the national parks, Hall. tion a "threat to human health." was eager to mention summer em- Illuminated by artificial lights Since his department administers ployment opportunities for college and a harvest moon, the affair was American territories and mandates attended by many students who en acquired after World War II, Mc- joyed popular and square dancing Climbers Conquer Kay observed that "the sun sets to recorded music. Old Speck Mountain; only four hours a day on the In- MacKinnon Introduces Talent terior Department." Master of ceremonies William Council Places Open (Continued on page six) MacKinnon introduced "You Approximately 50 Bates students Were There", . which featured a and chaperones left Rand Hall at >kit. several impersonations,, and K:.t(l a.m. Sunday for Old Speck, Directors Cast dialogues. site of OC's first mountain climb. Chaperones for the affair in- The first OC work trip will be 'Sabrina' Leads cluded faculty members and house- held the week.nd of October Hi. After extensive tryouts, Virginia mothers. Refreshments were served Eight Bates nun will reroute four Fedor and Robert Damon were The road back of Parker Hall was the scene of the Saturday and red scarfs were given as sou- miles of the Appalachian Trap. chosen to play the leads in the "Hoedown" sponsored by J.B., Roger Bill, Frye Street dorms. venirs of the "Harvest Hoedown". Frederick Huber and Lewis kc- Robinson Players' November 17, zemper, director of 1 rails for the 18, and 1° presentations of "Sa- Anthology Bids Poets Maine Appalachian Trail Club, will brina hair". Offer Original Work CA Rents Reproductions; supervise the work. Prof. Lavinia M. Schaeffer and OC Council Openings her assistant directors, Richard All college students are invited Profs Discuss Paintings Judith Svirsky is the newly- Pierce and Roger Lucas, have se to submit original verse to be con- elected OC director of hikes and lected Miss Fedor to play the part sidered for possible publication in Students and faculty gathered men's Union to view 25 reproduc- trips. There are openings on the of Sabrina Fairchild. Damon will the Annual Anthology of College yesterday afternoon in the Wo- tions at the CA art exhibition and council for one senior man and one portray Linus L: rrabec, Jr. tea. Poetry. senior woman. Those interested in Cast Characters Explaining the fiiner points of Manuscripts must be typed or 'Vogue' Offers Prizes either position should contact a Reginia Abbiati has been selected paintings by Roualt, Turner, Ver- written in ink on one side of a member of the council by Sunday. to play Maude Larrabee, with Of Cash, Vacation For meer and El Greco was Dr. Roy sheet, with the contributor's home Frances I less as Julia. Ronald Wal P. Fairfield. Dr. Rayborn L. Zer address, name of college, and col- Literary Competition den and Charles Dings have been by discussed works by Wood, Notice chosen to play Linus Larrabee anil lege address appearing on each Senior women interested in writ- Renoir, Dufy anil Brueghel. Tickets for the Bates Col- manuscript. ing, publishing, merchandising or I (avid Larrabee respectively. Tagliabue Comments lege Lewiston-Auburn Ambas- Gretchen Larrabee will be por- The closing date for submission decorating are eligible to enter sadors' Conference are still trayed by Paula Schilling, with of manuscripts is November 5. Vogue's 21st Prix de Paris Con- Paintings by Van Gogh, Picasso available at the office of John Ruth Zimmerman playing Margar- They should be sent to the Nation- test. and Orzoco were explained by B. Annett, assistant to the et, the maid. Kenneth 1'arker will al Poetry Association, 3210 Selby Writing ability, grasp of subject Prof. John A. Tagliabue. Prof. president. be Fairchild and David Daniels Avenue, Los Angeles 34, Calif. matter, general intelligence, origi- Robert G. Berkelman commented nality, and demonstration of on works by Homer, Constable, Admission to the five confer- will play the part of Paul D'Argen- special talents are the points on Holbein and Seurat. ence sessions which feature am- -•III. Patricia Richmond, Bonnie which contestants are judged. Students signed up at the door bassadors from Austria, Li- Richman, William Christian, and Calendar for the pictures they wished to beria, Pakistan. Turkey, and James Parker will portray the Lists Prizes Today rent. In the event of several sign China is $2.50. I uestS at the party. First prize is $1,000 cash or two ing for one picture, names were Stu-G, Stu-C Supper Meeting, weeks in Paris. Other prizes in- drawn at 5 p.m. The semester ren Women's Union clude $500 in cash for the second tal fees ranged up to $1.25. Saturday place winner and ten $25 awards Say it with Ice Cream at Varney Directs Affair Dance, Chase Hall for honorable mention winners. Successful | candidates will be given CA's campus service commission GEORGE A. ROSS Sunday top consideration for jobs on sponsored the art show, with Viv- Bates 1904 Elm Street Barristers, Roger Williams Hall Vogue, Glamour, House & Garden, ian Varney directing the affair. Philosophy Croup, 7:30 p.m., Dr. Vogue Pattern Book and Vogue Letitia Chamberlain registered the D'Alphonso's home Knitting Book. names of students who wished to Anyone interested in entering the Tuesday rent the reproductions. DRY CLEANSING YOUR FAVORITE contest may obtain enrollment Marjorie Scott played the piano Club Night STERLING PATTERNS blanks from the Prix de Paris D> throughout the exhibition. SERVICE FT A, 7 p.m., Women's Union in rector, Vogue, 420 Lexington Ave- Refreshments were served by Mar- Towle — Gorham — Lunt Spofford Club, 8:30 p.m., Dr. nue, New York 17, N. V., before garet Ten Broeck and Madeline Reed and Barton Wright's home October 15. Travers. £ttinttnnr, International — Wallace Jordan-Ramsdt-11 Scientific So-
SIX THE BATES STUDENT, OCTOBER 5, 1955 Campus Welcomes New Faculty SCM Selects Theme For Ed. note: This is the final in- taught at Syracuse and Russell a part-time instructor. Formerly, Fall Conference At Colby stallment on new faculty members Sage College. Morrill was employed as an indus- at Bates. Specializing in public finance and trial chemist for the Pepperell "Revolution and Reconciliation' the new concept of missions as a Manufacturing Company in Lewis- provides the theme for the fail fulfillment of the Reformation. Joseph A. Dowling, who replac- fiscal policy, he is the author of a conference of the Student Chris Held for Maine area students, the es Dr. John R. Willis in the cul- forthcoming textbook, "Social ton. At present he is associated with the research and development tian Movement in New England event is chairmanned by Nancy tural heritage department, is a na- Legislation, the American Experi- laboratory at the Bates Manufac which takes place October 21 to Eggleston of Colby and Stanley tive of Dalmuir, Scotland. He be- ence". October 23 at Colby College. Maxwell of Bates. came an American citizen in 1945 turing Company. Geologist Is Expert Skier Rev. H. Edwin Rosser, a repre- Maxwell and the C. A. dorm after serving in World War II. The Heads Circulation Joining the Bates faculty as as sentative of the Student Volunteer representatives will handle details new instructor found Bates students sistant professoi of geology is AnneHart. new head of circula- Movement for Christian Missions, and registration on the Bates well-informed on world and inter- John D. Reid, who earned his M.A. tion at Coram Library, was Inc., recently a missionary in Mex- campus. national affairs. from Syracuse in 1951. A profes- pleased by the up-to-date facilities ico, will deliver the main addresses. A student of American history sional skier at 19, he was taught anil the general appearance of the Missionary Speaks and literature, Dowling is working Debaters Attend skiing at the North Conway ski library. She studied library sci- His subjects include "The Na- toward his doctorate at New York ence at the University of Illinois school. ture of the Social Revolution" and (Continued from page one) University. He is writing his dis- Professor Reid has worked for and has been in public and college "The Problems the Social Revolu- sertation on William Dean Howells. library work for many years. highlighted by a trip to the Univer- industry but finds "more satisfac- tion Presents to the Church and to sity of Vermont November 18 and Professor Authors Textbook tion in teaching" Robert R. Peck has been named Us." Faculty members and minis- an instructor in physical education 19 when the varsity debating team Bates' "manicured campus" was Mrs. Hewitt Joins Faculty ters will lead study-discussion will compete in the annual Ver- for men. Formerly a lieutenant in groups following the talks. what most impressed Dr. John D. Mrs. Rowena F. Hewitt, wife of mont Intercollegiate Debate Tour- the Marine Corps, he served as The subject of the October 22 Hogan, new associate professor of assistant professor of speech Ry- nament. recreational director at Quantico worship service is "Dedication of economics. Dr. Hogan, who earned land H. Hewitt, was named an in- The Debate Council also plans to Marine base in Virginia. Ourselves to the New Missionary his degrees at Syracuse, formerly structor in speech. She will serve take part in the National Recorded Task." The general theme includes in the department while Prof. Discussion Contest in which Bates Players Discuss Brooks Quimby is on sabbatical. placed second in 1953. Mrs. Hewitt attended the Univer- McKayRemarks Barristers Assemble; Tryouts will be held for upper- Plans For Year sity of Maine, Yale Drama School, (Continued from page four) Hear Muller Speak classmen interested in debating on and Cornell, where she received her "Most people don't understand Monday and Tuesday. Sophomores Present and potential members The first meeting of the Bates M.A. in 1948. While at Cornell, our department," he commented in will discuss federal scholarships attended the Robinson Players' Barristers will he held at 7 p.m. Prof, and Mrs. Hewitt worked to stressing the diverse activities un- for qualified high school graduates. first meeting, which was held at 7 Sunday night in the conference gether o.i theater productions. der his jurisdiction. The Depart- Juniors and seniors will speak on room of Roger Williams Hall. p.m. yesterday in the Little Thea- ment of the Interior has tasks the guaranteed annual wage. Walch Directs Debating tre. ranging from educating the Nava- After a short organizational Freshman tryouts are to be held Taking over Professor Quimby's After various committee chair- hos to enforcing mine-safety icgu- meeting, the Barristers faculty ad- on Wednesday. All those compet- duties as director of debate is J. men discussed their plans for the lations. viser, Prof. Ernest P. Muller, is ing are to give five-minute extem- coming year, a melodrama en- Weston Walch, noted debate coach Secretary McKay, who spoke af- expected to speak. poraneous speeches on a contro- and author. The visiting lecturer in titled "Someday Perhaps" was ter the press conference at a Re- Explain Purpose versial public issue. debate has written and compiled presented. Frances Hess directed publican rally in Portland, is a na- The Bates Barristers' purpose is the cast, which included John Love- over 50 handbooks on debate topics. tive of Portland, Oregon, and has to foster interest in law and re- He received a Master of Educa- Notice joy, Richard Pierce, Dorothy 13 grandchildren. He received an lated fields. Membership is open to Casey, and Virginia Fedor. tion degree from Bates in 1940. honorary degree in 1953 from the all classes, the only requirement The Philosophy Group will Sign-ups were held for this Charles E. Reeder, new instruc- University of Maine. being attendance at the first or hold itc first meeting of the year's committees and programs. tor in chemistry, appreciates the Also present at the press con- second meeting. year at 7:30 p.m. Sunday at Students who were unable to at- small size of Bates. Working with ference were Republican Congress- Throughout the year speakers Dr. Joseph D'Alfonno's home. tend the meeting may still register chemistry students at Bates is his man Clifford G. Mclntire of Maine from various graduate law schools Lawrence Evans will present a for committee work by signing up first full-time position. and Charles G. H. Evans, public will present short informal talk* paper on the "Metaphysics of on the dormitory and Little Thea- Carleton Morrill, '25, joins Reed- relations director of the Maine and explain entrance requirements Morality." Refreshments will tre bulletin boards. er in the chemistry department as GOP. to the schools. be served. YOU'LL BOTH GO FOR THIS CIGARETTE!
W J. J^l i^ A %3 J^l sefo a. MW imMm, o^ $MJW I
■ King-size Winston brings flavor back to filter smoking — full, rich, tobacco flavor! And the exclusive Winston filter works so effectively that the WINSTON flavor really comes through to you. College smokers know why Winston changed America's mind about filter smoking. Winston tastes good—like a cigarette should! k$&i tiqantfk&l ».J. R«VNOLD«TOMeeoCO.,W1N»TON.»ALlM, H. C.