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TTERBEIN COLLEGE WESTERVILLE, OHIO Alumni Association Activities Alumni Officers Elected ident Wallace Cochran, ’60, and Swartz, '36. Secretary Roberta Armstrong Results of the election of officers Wrassman, ’48, were re-elected. INDIANAPOLIS — Seventeen at of the national Otterbein College Curt Tong represented the col tended the dinner meeting at the Alumni Association are as follows: lege and made the “speech of the Indiana Central Campus Center evening.” P. A. “Tim” Newell, on May 21st, when the Central President-Elect (to serve in 1967- x’29, is in charge of arranging Indiana Chapter was formally 68) an “Otterbein College Night” at organized. Paul F. Moore, ’51, is Robert C. Barr, ’50 Crosley Field in July or August. the club’s first president, and Dayton Club and others are in Ruth Ann Smith Moore, '51, is Vice President vited to attend. The next meet secretary - treasurer. Lyle and Mack A. Grimes, ’41 ing will be held on September Gladys Michael, ’19, and Dick 8th at the Powell Crosley Branch Pflieger made the trip from Ot of the YMCA, honoring students terbein. The time and place of Secretary who will be attending Otterbein. a fall meeting are to be an Ann Carlson Brown, ’52 nounced. DAYTON SOROSIS - The new Members of Council (At Large) officers are: Lois Fisher Brockett, NORTHERN INDIANA - The Robert B. Brown, ’51 x’50, president; Ann Hovermale Honeywell Foundation at Wa Franklin E. Puderbaugh, ’30 Farnlacher, ’45, first vice presi bash was the setting for a dinner dent; Joan Hopkins Albrecht, on April 15th, with 25 in at Alumni Trustees ’50, second vice president; Fran tendance. President Turner was Vida Shauck Clements, '01 ces Barnett Bell, ’50, recording the speaker, and he was accom Elmer N. Funkhouser, Jr., ’38 secretary; Helen Hilt LeMay, ’47, panied by Mrs. Turner and by corresponding secretary; Rosanna Dick Pflieger, who showed the Toman Scherer, ’38, treasurer; new Otterbein film. Local Club Meetings Louise Stoner, ’27, historian; Bar bara Fast Reichter, ’57, member SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA - AKRON — Twenty-four attended ship; Releaffa Freeman Bowell, Officers for 1966-67 were elected the covered dish dinner on April ’31, publicity; and Mary Lou at the May 22nd dinner meeting 24th at the home of Jane and Stine Wagner, ’56, and Anita at the Claremont College Facul Russell Bolin. New officers Shannon Leland, ’55, fine arts. ty House. They are: Richard R. elected are: Jack Coberly, ’52, Wagner, ’41, president; James T. president; Miriam Wetzel Rid- DAYTON MIAMI VALLEY - Whipp, ’56, vice president; and inger, ’51, vice president; and Sixty-three attended the April Rose Bruno, x’47, secretary- Kathryn Hancock Lang, ’52, sec 23rd dinner at David’s Buffet, treasurer. The Californians were retary-treasurer. Dick Pflieger, and Dick Pflieger, ’48, from Ot entertained by the new Otter ’48, from Otterbein showed the terbein was the speaker. Don bein film-strip. A summer meet new film. Steck, ’52, was elected president ing is planned at the Clairbourn for the coming year. School where Bill Holford, ’42, COLUMBUS — Chapter President is headmaster. Larry Gillum, ’50, reports a DETROIT — Mr. and Mrs. Fred scheduled dinner meeting will Cheek, x’33 and x’35, entertained TOLEDO — Ralph and Ann Brent- be held October 1st in Colum eighteen at a social and planning linger Bragg, both ’56, were hosts bus. Area alumni are urged to meeting at their home on May to thirty-three at their home on mark their calendars now. Time 21st. New officers are David M. March 27th. The newly elected and place to be announced. Cheek, ’63, president; and Carol officers are Robert Bowman, ’60, Sweitzer Cheek, ’64, secretary- president; Ralph Bragg, ’56, vice CINCINNATI - A dinner was treasurer. The next meeting will president; and Eleanor Tomb held on May 1st at David’s Buf be the annual corn roast at the Davis, ’53, secretary. fet with twenty-five present. Pres home of Ray and Ruth Shatzer (Continued on page 8) 2 OTTERBEIN TOWERS CONTENTS Alumni Activities ............................................................... 2 The Spirit of Otterbein .................................................... 4 Focus on Faculty ............................................................... 7 Revision of Calendar and Curriculum ............................. 8 Editor Commencement Highlights .............................................. 9 Evelyn Edwards Bale, '30 Orator Wins First in Nation .............................................12 Published quarterly by the Alumni Council in the interest of alumni Spotlight on Sports ............................................. 13 and friends. Second class postage In the Spotlight for Service ...............................................14 paid at Westerville, Ohio 43081. Otterbein Bookshelf Expands ...........................................16 JULY, 1966 Otterbein Graduates in Albright Inauguration ...............18 Volume 38 Number 4 Flashes from the Classes .................................................... 19 Marriages, Births, Deaths .................................................. 29 ALUMNI COUNCIL Bulletin Board ................................................................... 32 President Denton W. Elliott, ’37 President-Elect (To serve 1967-68) Robert C. Barr, '50 Past Preside tit Harold F. Augspurger, ’41 the EDITOR'S comer Vice President Mack C. Grimes, ’41 Secretary Congratulations are in order for the Otterbein Speech De Ann Carlson Brown, ’52 partment, which celebrates its sixtieth anniversary this year. Special events are planned for the coming season, and a his Metnbers-at-I.arge torical brochure is being published. Alan E. Norris, ’57 Helen Knight Williams, ’43 It is especially significant that in the past year Greg Sabatino .\lberta Engle MacKenzie, ’40 became the first Otterbein student to win top honors in the William F.. LcMay, ’48 Interstate Oratorical Tournament, which is recognized by Amer Robert B. Brown, ’51 I ranklin E. Pudcrbaugh, ’30 ican colleges and universities as the official national contest. Alumni Trustees Philipp L. Charles, ’29 Donald R. Martin, ’37 Harold L. Boda, ’25 Homer D. Cas.sel, ’17 Horace W. Troop, ’23 L. William Steck, ’37 Earl R. Hoover, ’26 Herman F. Lehman, ’22 the COVER page Vida Shauck Clements, ’01 E. N. Funkhouser, Jr., ’38 Executive Secretary The 1966 graduates gathered on the Campus Center terrace Richard T. Pflieger, ’48 to sing the Love Song and hear taps sound the close of the 119th year of Otterbein College. The old tradition has been moved to Ex-officio College treasurer and presidents of a modern setting — a fitting symbol of ancient truth in the Alumni Clubs world of today and tomorrow. The SPIRIT of OTTERBEIN........... and his mother, a devout United Brethren, divided “Buckeye” the money into equal portions for loan to her seven children. Cary, a voracious reader of any and every book he could lay his hands on, at seventeen took by his share and set out in the fall of 1896 to attend the Mary Altman Oppy, ’36 academy at Otterbein University. After one year at Walk once more down to the end of the hall of the Academy, he returned to Pandora High School. that ivy-clad building, over the well-worn boards In 1898, although he had not yet graduated from high smelling faintly of polish. Turn to the right into a school, he obtained, at the age of nineteen, a certifi quiet, cool classroom. The light from the high Gothic cate to teach and spent one year teaching in a small windows seems palely tinged with green as if filtered country school. But the link with Otterbein was through the ivy leaves that are fluttering outside the strong, so back he came in 1899 for another year. half-opened windows. In one corner of the room Then back to teach at a school called Victory. Then shelves filled with books extend to the ceiling. The finally there was enough money for him to spend four blackboard is covered with the quaint, crabbed hiero consecutive years at Otterbein, where he graduated glyphics so familiar to the hundreds of students who in 1905 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. came for encouragement, advice, or just good “talk” about books during the thirty-two years in which Pro Not all his time at college was spent with books, fessor Cary Oscar Altman taught English at Otterbein. however. He quarterbacked the varsity football team At the roll-top desk in the corner sits “Prof,” with at a time when Otterbein played Ohio State. Some his hobbies, gardening and fishing. He is wearing his times even today it is recalled that Otterbein once de famous black bow tie. feated Ohio State, 42-6. On the football field Cary acquired the nickname by which both faculty and The atmosphere of this classroom always seemed students best remember him. As he walked off the particularly suitable for the study of the world’s great scrimmage field one afternoon, a student by the name literature; but more important, the professor seemed of Clyde E. Cowan asked him where he came from. particularly suited to his work. For here was a teacher, When Cary replied, “I’m from Ohio,” Cowan said, not a pedant; here was a mind that not only under “Oh, you’re a Buckeye then.” Somehow the nickname stood but felt what Matthew Arnold meant when he “Buckeye” stuck; it was a name that not only seemed wrote about the best that has been thought and said to suit him but to please him as well. “Buckeye” was in the world. Professor Cary O. Altman believed in an influential member of Philophronea Literary So the worth and the force of his materials, and he spent ciety and also a member of what could probably be his life sharing with his students his insights about termed the first fraternity on the campus, a secret his love for literature. Not only that—he encouraged organization called the “Props” composed of eight them to write some themselves. Over the years he men, four from Philophronea and four from Philo- taught many courses, among them the Nineteenth mathea. As insignia these eight wore a tiny gold skull- Century Essayists, the Romantics, Browning and Ten and-crossbones with emerald eyes.