Maine Alumnus, Volume 41, Number 4, January 1960
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The University of Maine DigitalCommons@UMaine University of Maine Alumni Magazines University of Maine Publications 1-1960 Maine Alumnus, Volume 41, Number 4, January 1960 General Alumni Association, University of Maine Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/alumni_magazines Part of the Higher Education Commons, and the History Commons Recommended Citation General Alumni Association, University of Maine, "Maine Alumnus, Volume 41, Number 4, January 1960" (1960). University of Maine Alumni Magazines. 194. https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/alumni_magazines/194 This publication is brought to you for free and open access by DigitalCommons@UMaine. It has been accepted for inclusion in University of Maine Alumni Magazines by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@UMaine. For more information, please contact [email protected]. L a te Xm a s G ifts Write Us We Mail Them Direct and Bill You Suggestions Chinaware T.V. Cups & Saucers University Plates Wedgwood Cups & Saucers Maine Steins Cloth Goods Sweat Shirts T-Shirts All Sizes Sweaters Animals University Store Co. On The Campus Orono, Maine T h e M ain e. AI u m s i m A VOLUME 41 NUMBER 4 STAFF Acting Editor A rthur W. R eynolds ’48 Class Notes Editor M argaret M. M o llison ’50 GENERAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Officers President D r . G eorge F . D o w ’27 1st Vice President A lvin S. M cN eilly ’44 2nd Vice President M rs. L ucy F. Sh eiv e ’27 Clerk E dw in H . Bates ’37 Treasurer H arry T. T rew orgy ’49 TABLE OF CONTENTS Executive Director T. R u ssell W oo lley ’41 Ass’t Exec. Director M argaret M . M o lliso n ’50 Tuition Increase for 1960 5 The University Serves You 6-7 Alumni Council Alumnus Named All American 8 Mrs. Winifred C. Anderson ’35 Dr. C. E. Bennett Honored 9 Frank C. Brown ’30 Henry T. Carey ’22 Bertrand Russell on Education 10-11 Clifton E. Chandler '13 Arthur T. Forrestall ’33 Maine Wins Six Straight 12 John F. Grant ’48 M. Eleanor Jackson ’20 Local Associations 14 Mrs. Emilie K. Josselyn ’21 Alfred B. Lingley ’20 Notes From The Classes 16-25 Thomas G. Mangan ’16 Clifford G. Mclntire ’30 Robert B. McLeary ’42 Robert W. Nelson ’45 Albert S. Noyes ’24 Carlton B, Payson ’41 George A. Potter ’20 ON THE COVER Mrs. Barbara L. Raymond ’37 The cover photo this month shows the entrance to Colvin Hall after Mrs. Winona C. Sawyer ’43 a heavy snow. This scene should bring back memories to many Robert P. Schoppe ’38 alumni, both co-eds who used the entrance going to and from classes Ermo H. Scott ’31 and alumni who lingered there for a final “good-night” after a date. Stanwood R. Searles ’34 Colvin Hall, built in 1930, accommodates fifty-eight students. It Edward C. Sherry ’38 was named in honor of the late Caroline Colvin, Professor Emerita Thomas N. Weeks '16 (Law) of History and Government and the first Dean of Women at the University. Alumni Trustees Raymond H. Fogler '15 Mrs. Rena C. Bowles ’21 Published monthly from October to June inclusive, by the University of Maine General Alumni Association, Business office. The Maine Alumnus, University of Mainefame. Orono, Maine. Subscription price. $3 00 per year, included in annual alumni dues of $5.00 Member: American Alumni Council. Entered as second- class matter at the Post Office at Orono, Maine, under act of March 3, 1870. A Name W ritten Twice. Onto U niversity H istory Oliver Crosby was graduated from the University in 1876. From an ex tremely modest start he became one of the University’s outstanding alumni, measured by his professional achievements in mechanical engineering and by his loyalty to the institution. Although Mr. Crosby spent most of his life in St. Paul, Minnesota, his affec tion for the State of Maine and his Alma Mater never dimmed. It was not sur prising, therefore, and surely no less gratifying, that in 1921 he left a bequest of $100,000 to the University for the construction of the hydraulic laboratory that bears his name. For one who had achieved such conspicuous success, it was doubly pleasing that his name should be written into University history again in 1954, this time through a generous gift of $10,000 by his daughter, Mrs. Ernest Trowbridge Paine, in memory of her father. The income from the Oliver Crosby Fund, which is awarded annually to a deserving student in mechanical engineering, is proving to be of immeasurable assistance to ambitious, able, and needy students. Thus the name of this distinguished alumnus is indelibly written twice on the pages of University history, for which the University and all concerned will be forever grateful. resident Lloyd H. Elliott announced No vember 19th that the Board of Trustees The University P had voted to increase tuition for State of Maine residents from $318 to $400 per academic year. Tuition for out-of state stu dents wil Ibe increased from $703 to $800. The increases will apply at both the Orono and Portland campuses. Also increased are dormitory fees from $650 to $700 per year, and a matriculation fee of $25 for all enter Tuition Increase For I960 ing students has been adopted. With all of the additional charges, a State of Maine freshman living in a dormitory in 1960 will pay $157 more than this year. Announced A FUNDS which will be provided by the new schedule of student charges are “absolutely necessary” in order for the on an installment plan stretched out over curred during their stay in the nation’s capi- University to carry on its programs in several months. resident instruction, research, and extension, tol. The students also receive six hours of President Elliott said. academic course credit and arrangements are made for them to graduate on schedule “Although the University received addi r with their classmates. tional funds from the 99th Legislature,” C o m m e n t in g further, President Elliott made the following statements: “The Uni The first student to be given an internship the President said, “only about one-half of in the program was Richard Bennett ’59 of the increase requested was appropriated. versity of Maine is a living history of achievement and service. In these days of South Gouldsboro, and he worked in the “Faced with a cut of about $1,500,000 crisis, the University’s forward progress office of U. S. Senator Frederick G. Payne. in operating funds for the current biennium must not be allowed to falter. Faced with Last year, Donald Mooers of Augusta and under the amount requested of the Legisla a compromise of quality, there is no alterna Sally Curtis of South Portland went to Wash ture, the University has been forced to find ington where Mr. Mooers worked in the tive to the strengthening of the University’s office of Senator Edmund S. Muskie, and other sources of revenue,” he added. financial structure in order that increasing Miss Curtis worked for Congressman James “Practically the only way we have of se competition can be successfully met. curing additional funds is to increase tuition G. Oliver. “Students in the University, on whom the and fees,” he said. additional burden will fall most directly, are “We must take another modest step in our the first to recognize the differences between Dr. Starr Issues Report efforts to catch up in salaries as well as to excellence and mediocrity. They deserve On Language Institute provide much-needed equipment, some new the best efforts of all. facilities and teaching personnel, and funds “Actions of the Board of Trustees in se he $100,690 investment by the federal for such areas as the library, maintenance, curing additional loan funds, adopting the government in the Foreign Language student aid, and other projects—to say state-wide experimental scholarship pro T Institute held at the University last nothing of money required to keep abreast gram, and approving a plan of time-pay summer was eminently successful, according of the inflationary spiral.” ments for costs will all help to resolve in to Director Wilmarth H. Starr. Dr. Starr, dividual student’s problems in meeting the head of the Department of Foreign Lan new costs. While the financial aid pro guages and Classics, has issued a 131-page report, “Through the Language Barrier at T he P r esid en t said the increase in board gram is expected to pass $400,000 this year, an all time high, we must redouble our the University of Maine,” for the United and room fees will be necessary not only States Office of Education. Noting that the to meet steadily rising costs but also to pro efforts to secure still more dollar support for students with ability but without suffi institute provided training for a total of vide funds to pay off loans on dormitories 100 secondary and elementary school teach now in use and new housing units will be cient financial resources to attend the Uni versity.” ers in foreign languages, he pointed out that built under the provisions of the $10,000,000 no tuition was charged and that the teachers bond measure approved by the voters in the received expense money while attending the recent State Referendum. Students To Intern With program. Trustees of the University were “most Congressmen “In the judgment of the director and staff, reluctant” to increase the tuition and fees, and of the students, the Institute succeeded President Elliott said, particularly in view r.