Colby Alumnus Vol. 32, No. 6: April 1943
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Colby College Digital Commons @ Colby Colby Alumnus Colby College Archives 1943 Colby Alumnus Vol. 32, No. 6: April 1943 Colby College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/alumnus Part of the Higher Education Commons Recommended Citation Colby College, "Colby Alumnus Vol. 32, No. 6: April 1943" (1943). Colby Alumnus. 268. https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/alumnus/268 This Other is brought to you for free and open access by the Colby College Archives at Digital Commons @ Colby. It has been accepted for inclusion in Colby Alumnus by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Colby. r�E COLBY 0 HIL,1943 AL u MN us FURLOUGH ,--- 1 PRATT & LAMBERT PAINT AND VARNISH JENS FREDRICK LA RSON, Architect, Hanover, N. H. HEGEMAN-HARRIS CO., INC., General Cantraclar, N. Y. City FRANK J. LOGAN, Painting Contractor, Portland, Me. (Upper left) Women's Union, Socio I and Recreational Center. (Upper right) Detail of entrance, Louise Coburn Hall, girls' dormitory. (Center) Mary Low Holl {left) and Louise Coburn Hall. At lower left (top to bottom) Dormitory Lounge in Memory of Gertrude B. lone, famous Maine-born editor; Women's Union Lounge; Private dining room, Women's Union. HAT are said to be the last college buildings in this W country to be finished until after the war, are the women's dormitory, union and gymnasium opened last fall on the new Mayflower Hill campus of Colby College, Waterville, Maine. Completion of five other partially-built structures on the 640- acre campus must await the coming of peace. All buildings are Colonial in design, with harmonious furnish ings and modern equipment. Colby College, founded in 1813, and co-educational since 1871, is now co-operating in an Army Air Force Pre-Flight academic training program. The architec tural charm of its interiors will be long preserved through the use of Pratt & Lambert Paint and Varnish. Whatever the project, college or cathedral, war housing or industrial plant, the P&L Architectural Service Department offers prompt, efficient co-operation in securing maximum decorative results at minimum ultimate cost. PRATT & LAMBERT-INC., Paint & Varnish Makers NEW YORK : BUFFALO : CHICAGO : FORT ERIE, ONT. The Colby Alumnus One after another, as they finish their training, get their commissionj FOUNDED 1911 and a furlough, Colby men have been coming back to th e campus-especially any who have a particular friend in the Volume 32 April 15, 1943 Number 6 women's division. This one happened to be a Marine: Wildel' Pearl, '42, wh o just got his bars and wings at Pensa CONTENTS cola and spent quite a lot of his fur President's Page 2 lough as shown here with Priscilla The Talk of the College 3 Higgins, '43, of Portland. The Alumni Fund in 1943 Fred Baker, '27 5 The Soldier Looks at Waterville .... Pvt. Morgan A. Shaw 6 Under the Elms .......... 8 Baseball Prospects Good ............ Dick Reid, '44 9 Dear Editor: A Colby Vacation ....... Cyril M. Joly, '16 10 The January issue of the Alumnw Record Number Attend Colby Meetings 11 caught up with me yesterday. I ha\'e read it on the Ay from cover to cover - Nursing Director Appointed ... 13 every word. After nearly six months . New Books by Colby Authors ................ 14 overseas and having been through the Colby Men With the Colors 15 initial invasion of orth Africa with Dixon, '39, Gets Navy Medal out too much news from home, I can Colby's Top Ranking Navy Officer tell you that our magazine is a wel Reunion in West Africa come stranger. The picture " A White Elder, '40, Injured in Rescuing Airmen Christmas " really brought on a feeling CoL Bisbee, '13, Resigns Command of nostalgia - how many times l'\'e Ambulance Driving in the Middle East seen exactly that same picture coming Good Fishing in Panama in towards the Zete House. Some day Air l\1edal for Fortin, '41 I'll see it again. Believe me it won't be too long. Class Notes About Colby Men and Women ....... .................... 21 - CHARLES A. CowINc, '29 Milestones ............................. 23 Major Army Air Forces. Necrology ........... .. ............ ... ... .. ... ........ ... ......... 23 i\/orth Africa Frank W. Manson, '98 Mary Hall Butler, '12 Dear Editor: Frederick F. Sully, '16 In these past eight years that I ha\·e ¥Pvt. Frank B. Bailey, '42 been away from Colby I doubt if I've ever missed an article in this excellent magazine. In fact I EDITOR JOSEPH COEUR SMITH, '24 don't con ider it a magazine at all but rather mail from BUSINESS MANAGER G. CECIL GODDARD, '29 home. I'm sure that many others feel ADVISORY EDITORIAL BOARD the same way about it, e pecially if Term Expires in 1943 Term Expires in 1944 Term Expires in 1945 they were fortunate enough to suffer Sally M. Aldrich, '39 Robie G. Frye. 'R2 Hugh D. Beach, "36 under Dr. Libby's stare "At a distance Frederick E. Baker, '27 Ch arl es H. Gale. '22 Elizabeth Whipple Butler, '21 of about H. \Varren F os s, '96 F. Elizabeth Libbey, '29 Alfred K. Chapman, '25 18 inches " and also lucky R. Irv ine Gammon, '37 Diana Wall Pitts, '13 Tames hlc:'.\Iahon, '44 enough to have read John PulJen's arti Emily Hanson Obear, '14 Norman C. Perkins, '32 B etty Ann Royal, '12 cle on the learned doctor Harold M. Plotkin, '34 Spencer 'Ninsor, '40 Edward F. Stevens, '89 in this issue. Could any mail from horne have EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE brought back such lucid reminiscence ? , En·ena Goodale Smith, '24 Alfred K. Chapman '25 Oliver L. Hall. '93 This particular article I consider the G. Cecil Goddard, '29 Caleb A. Lewis, '03 Joseph Coburn Smith, '24 best of the "I'm Glad I Studied Un der" serie . It needed to be written PUBLISHER -The Alumni Council of C'olby College. Entered as second-class mail matter Jan. 25, 1912, at the P ost Office at \>Vaterville, Me., under Act of March 3, 1 for a long time and all the bouquets 1879. should go to John for doing the job. ISSUED eight times yearly on the 15th of October, November, January, February, I have yet to find an uninteresting May and July; and in addition, weekly during the football s eason. March, April, article in the Alumnus. Keep up the be SUBSCRIPTION PRICE - $2.00 per year. Single Copies, $.25. Checks should aood work and keep those of us 'vvho bl to COLBY ALUMNUS. Correspondence regarding subscriptions made pay a e THE are or advertising should be addres ed to G. Ceci l Goddard, Box 477. \Vato.-ville, Me. a long way and a long while from Contributions should be sent to The Editor, Box 477, Waterville, Maine. Colby in closer touch with her. A subscriber who wishes to discontinue bis or her subscripti on should give notice - DrcK NoYE , '35, SK2c USNR. to that effect before its expiration. Otherwise it will be continued. , aval Section Base, ,\forehead City, . C. The trayeJinrr troupe that toured the alumni a. ·uciat10ns ha re turned to \Vaterville bringing a new idea of the warmth of Colby family feeling. \ \.ith 'ecil Goddard guiding us and acting a man ager, Judge Cyril Joly. :.1rs. Bixler and I made eight one-night tands in a many different cities. 'cv n hundred graduate I raved the peril of re tricted travel and the threat of re tricted f od to greet us, and we came home realizing that though Colby i a mall colleo-e there are tho e wh love it. We had a fine en<l- lff from the 'Waterville A ociation with a banquet at the Elmwood attended by uyer HO. Dr. Ralph Reynold presided and Dr. Ted Hill \\"a - t a tma ·ter. The ne.'t nio-ht at .. ugu ta in pite of competition \\"ith bad weather, church ·upper , and civic function Bill Macom ber and hi- cohort turned out fur a good meeting at t. :.lark' Pari h Hou e under the chairman hip of Frank Carpenter. The Portland dinner the followino- eveni 1io- broke all rec rd for attendance. In fact Leo She-ong had to end the hotel' employee ut fur more chair and even then the room wa hardly large enough for the vociferou ly cordial crowd. By the time we reached Bo ton the next night we knew the peeche of the other in the troupe a well a our own and "·ere able to relax and watch the banquet er in the Lenox ballroom a well a to listen to the kind words of welcome from Mr . Rich and John Bru h. Providence gave u a lun cheon at the Biltmore. \Ve had uppo ed that meant an early a-et-away, and a a matter of fact Judge Joly had bought a ticket for th p rino-field bu- leaYing at 3 :00. But we reckoned without our ho t . They were ready to make it a real party and, under \Vayne McNally' chairmanship the fea t f good cheer contin ued throughout the afternoon. Joe mith' !ides of ::-.IayflO\ er Hill brought the meeting tu an end at ju t about undown. The good people of V\Torcester had seen and heard us before- in January to be ex plicit - but a many a had attended the ear lier meeting turned out again for another din ner at the Bancroft where Lewis Lovett pre ided. At Hartford we stopped long enough for a conference with Charles Seaverns and Fred Baker, our alumni fund chairman, postponing the alumni gathering until later in April. Jn \Vaterbury Dr. and Mrs.