Dickinson Alumnus, May 1955
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DICKINSON ALUMNUS Seventy-five Years Young vol. 32, No. • I I MAY, 1955 11 ~bt ~ickin~on allumnu~ Published Quarterly for the Alumni of Dickinson College and the Dickinson School of Law Editor - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - • Gilbert Malcolm, '15, 't7L Associate Editors - Dean M. Hoilman, '02, Roger II. Steck, '26 ALUMNI COUNCIL Class or 1955 Class of 1956 Class or 1957 Mrs. Helen W. Smethurst, '25 Hyman Goldstein, '15 Dr. E. Roger Samuel, '10 Wendell Holmes, '21 Francis Estol Simmons, '23 Winfield C. Cook, '32 c. Joseph G. Hlldenberger, '33 Mrs. Jeanne W. Meade, '33 Mrs. Helen D. Gallagher, '26 Dr. Edward c. Ratrena- H. Monroe Ridgely. '26 Judge Charles F. Greevy, '35 Dr. R. Edward Steele, '35 perser, '36 Dorothy H. Hoy, '41 Dr. Weir L. King, '46 Denton B. Aehway, Carl F. Skinner, William E. Woodside, Class of 1952 Class of 1953 Class of 1954 GENERAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF DICKINSON COLLEGE President C. Wendell Holmes Secretary Mrs. Helen D. Gallagher Vice-President H. Monroe Ridgely Treasurer Hyman Goldateln -·c)o==========================llC>·- TABLE OF CONTENTS Philadelphia Club Pays Tribute to Boyd Lee Spahr 1 "I Know of None Better" - .. - . - - . - - 2 182nd Commencement Program - . - 5 Eight to Receive Honorary Degrees at Commencement . 6 Elected President of Westminster College . 12 Hold Testimonial Dinner for Dean Hitchler . 13 Death Claims Oldest College Trustee . 14 Professor M. W. Eddy to Retire in June . 15 Reviewers Laud Book of Professor Sloane . 16 Writes History of the Methodist Church in Carlisle . 17 Write Story of Micmac Indians in Canada . 18 "Let's Have a Better World" . 19 Dickinson College Athletic Policy . 28 Roster Lists 1,446 Names of Life Members . 30 Personals . 42 Obituary . 48 -·<)or======================= II(>·- Life Membership $40. May be paid in two installments of $20 each, six months apart or in $10 installments. Alumni dues $2.00 per year including $1.00 for one year's sub• scription to the magazine. All communications should be addressed to The Dickinson Alumnus, West College, Carlisle, Pa. "Entered as second class matter May 23, 1923, at the post office at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, under the Act of March 3, 1879." ~~iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii~~~~ THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS MAY 1955 Philadelphia Club Pays Tribute To Boyd Lee Spahr '. LOWING tributes were paid to Dr. and also as a member of the firm of G Boyd Lee Spahr, '00, president of which Dr. Spahr is the senior partner. the Board of Trustees, in commemora• He was followed by Dr. Carl C. Cham• tion of his 75th birthday at the annual bers, '29, vice-president for engineering dinner of the Dickinson Club of Phila• affairs at the University of Pennsylvania delphia held at the Merion Cricket Club, and a Dickinson Trustee, who spoke in Ardmore, on April 13 with 120 present. behalf of the Trustees of Dickinson It was one of the finest affars ever College. planned by the officers of the Philadel• J. Milton Davidson, '33, chairman of phia club. the Alumni Annual Giving Fund, Dr. Robert L. D. Davidson, newly brought the greetings of the General elected president of Westminster Col• Alumni Association and President Wil• lege, Fulton, Mo., and the club's presi• liam W. Edel the tribute of the adminis• dent, acted as a capable toastmaster. The tration, faculty and students of the Col• Rev. Dr. Milton Nichols, '06, offered lege. the invocation. , Every speaker told of some facet of With another year to serve as the Dr. Spahr's record as a student, lawyer, club's president, Dr. Davidson appointed citizen and trustee and of his many years a committee of three to handle the club's of devoted service and his many con• affairs during his absence in Missouri. iHe tributions to the College. named James L. Mcintire, '35; Winfield The highlight of the evening then S. Cook, '32, and Mrs. Jeanne Whitaker took place when Dr. Davidson presented Meade, '33. Dr. Spahr with a beautifully bound vol• ume containing letters from his class• After the dinner, Dr. Davidson intro• mates, fellow trustees, professional as• duced the following trustees who were sociates, and those affiliated with him in present: Judge John Klepser, of Altoona; learned societies. It was bound in red Glenn E. Todd, of Carlisle, and Dr. leather with a white leather inlay on the Whitfield J. Bell, Dr. Carl C. Chambers, front cover with the College seal and the Dr. Roy W. Mohler and Dr. William C. words of dedication stamped in gold. Sampson, all of the Philadelphia area. The letters were all gold edged and the Dr. E. A. Vuilleumier, Professor of opening dedication had 'been written by Chemistry, opened the speaking _prowam Dr. Whitfield J. Bell, Jr. This was read by giving a report on the Quest1on?aires by Dr. Davidson in making the present~• which had been sent to all alumni and tion. The response of Dr. Spahr rs appealing for every one to fill in and re• printed on following pages of this issue turn the form The remainder of the pro• of the magazine. gram was then devoted to the tributes to A different note was then interjected Dr. Spahr. by Vice-iPresident Gilbert Malcolm when Sherwin T. McDowell, '36, opened he said that the one who merited· the 'this part of the program t? speak. as the praise for the life of Boyd Lee Spahr representative of the Philadelphia Bar was his wife, the former Katharine Feb- 2 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS iger, as he presented an arm full of red President on the cheek. roses to her. Mrs. Spahr then received a The program closed with a short standing enthusiastic ovation from every speech by C. Wendell Holmes, president one present as she kissed the Vice- of the General Alumni Association. "I KNOW OF NONE BETTER" By BOYD LEE SP AHR, '00 Text of an address made by the President of the Board of Trustees at the annual dinner of the Dickinson Club of Philadelphia on April 13, 1955. I am most a:ppreciative of what has sisted of the President and a Dean. One been said and done here tonight, for I of the faculty doubled as Treasurer and can assure you that this testimonial, while another as Librarian, the latter with somewhat embarrassing, is most gratify• rather perfunctory duties as the library ing, but I presume that you want some• was open only a few hours daily, five thing more than an expression of thanks, days a week. The two literary societies at which I do give most heartily. that time maintained their own libraries It is difficult to believe and yet it is a in Bosler Hall with a student librarian fact that my connection with Dickinson and they also were open only a few hours began 61 years ago, for it was in the daily. Nowadays the library is a student autumn of 1894 that I entered the pre• workshop open seven days a week with paratory school, then conducted in old approximately 110,000 volumes and a South College on the site of the present trained library staff of six or seven. Alumni Gymnasium. In those days there Up to World War II, the trustees had was not the variety of subjects taught in set a limit of 600 on the number of the secondary schools that there is today. undergraduates, with 25 % women, but We had the ancient languages, mathe• to maintain this would have been unfair matics and English, and that was all. In to the Gis who flocked to the colleges in two years we went through beginner's great numbers under congressional legis• Latin, Caesar, Cicero and Vergil, begin• lation and accordingly the limitation was ner's Greek and the Anabasis, algebra, removed. Today we have between 850 plain geometry, English composition, and 900 undergraduates, which is about some reading in the Victorian classics and the number which can be properly accom• two or three of Shakespeare's plays. In modated in the physical plant and with a 1896 twenty-seven of us went over to proper ratio of students to faculty which College in the entering freshman class. now numbers 75. All together we had 71 in the Class of On the financial side it is only in re• 1900 and we graduated 43. In the col• cent years that the College has had any• lege of our day, including the three thing like a substantial endowment. In classes preceding us and the three classes its early days, 150 years ago and more, following us, the average per class was it had very little, but that was true of all 80, but 30 out of this average did not colleges at that time. Unfortunately, later graduate, so that the average graduating years produced very little, so that other number was 50. The faculty in our day institutions, including many younger was 14. The administrative staff con- than ours, far surpassed the College in THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS 3 resources. When I first became a Trustee the Parents Advisory Council recently of the College in 1908 it had a total en• created by President Edel is now raising dowment of approximately $325,000, the Parents' Appreciation Fund to sup• against which there was a debt of plement faculty salaries. At the present $126,000. Today our endowment in se• time a special committee of the Trustees curities at market value is upwards of is studying the matter of salaries and $3,200,000 and we own valuable real also of academic tenure. The faculty may estate in Baltimore under the will of the be assured that the Trustees will en• late Lemuel T.