The BELOIT COLLEGE. BULLETIN

ALUMNI ISSUE

Middle College Etching by W. Mark Young (See Page 9)

Fall Number, 1936 === BELOIT COLL~U~ BULLETIN

1936-1937 BELOIT COLLEGE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

OFFICERS

President-Dr. Homer M. Carter '09, 1 So. Pinckney St., Madison Vice-President-Mrs. Helen Brown Leff '29, 49 S. Washington St., Hins- dale, Ill. Sec'y-Treasurer-Edward W. Hale '09 , 716 Chicago Daily News Bldg., Chicago

MEMBERS OF ALUMNI COUNCIL For the Period Previous to 1880 Dr. Charles S. Bacon '78, 2333 Cleveland Ave., Chicago 1881-1885 Horace Spencer Fiske '82, 1373 East 57th St., Chicago. 1886-1890 Prof. H. D. Densmore '86, Beloit College 1891-1895 Dr. Edward J . Breitzman '92, 523-525 Commercial Bldg., Fond du Lac, Wis. 1896-1900 Guy F. Loomis '96, 5515 Sheridan Road, Kenosha 1901-1905 Ralph A. Buell '01, 1112 Jones St., Watertown, Wis. 1906-1910 Dr. Homer M. Carter '09, 1 S. Pinckney St., Madison 1911-1915 Sherman L. Dudley '11, 649 Liberty St., Burlington, Wis. 1916-1920 Mrs. Elizabeth Merriman Hulburt '16, 636 Harrison Ave., Beloit · 1921-1925 Herbert H. Helble '21, 838 E. North St., Appleton, Wis. 1926-1930 Mrs. Helen Brown Leff '29, 49 So. Washington St., Hinsdale, Ill. 1931-1935 J . Harter Kirkpartick '31, 407 Highland Ave., Elgin, Ill. Academy Arthur W. Chapman, 6445 N. Washtenaw Ave., Chicago

2 BELOIT COLLEGE BULLETIN Alumni Issue Vol. XXXV October, 1936 No.1 James B. Gage '28, Editor Edited by the Journalism Class (English 13) : James Calvert, Eilleen Crawford, Lewis Day, Katherine Krumrey. Wayne Phillips, Jack Pickering, Wilbur Porter, Charles Wise and Tom Walker. Entered Dec- ember 16, 1902, at the Post Office at Beloit, Wisconsin as Second Cla s Matter under Act of Congress, July 16, 1894 Homecoming is November 7 LANS for Homecoming November gram is the same as previous years, but P 7 are, as yet, incomplete. It is a new spirit should prevail. definitely known, however, that Beloit's Because of the natural interest of the "New Deal" football team will play alumni in alumnus "Bud" Butler's '26 Lawrence College in what should be football team, one of the biggest Home- one of the best games of the year. It comings of all time is anticipated. This is too early in the season to predict re- should be an added incentive to those sults, but the Beloit boys are out not interested in football since it will to avenge a defeat at the hands of give them an opportunity to visit with Lawrence last year. all the old classmates who come back The Homecoming celebration will for the game. If the spectators come reasonably probably follow traditional lines with prepared for the weather to be expected the Freshman bell-ringing and pajama so late in the season, the coolness of the parade and the pep-meeting Friday air will soon be forgotten in the heat night, parade of fraternity and sorority and excitement of the game. Further- floats Saturday morning, the game more, the alumni may rest assured that Saturday afternoon, and the dance and they will receive a warm welcome from fireworks Saturday night. The pro- the students and faculty.

3 BELOIT COLLEGE BULLETIN Enrollment Records Broken; Buildings Improved

ELOIT College entered its ninety-first year OLLEGE was improved by a total ex- B with the largest enrollment in its history. C penditure of $22,500 during the summer The entire student body numbers 576, well months, according to Leon G. Herreid, college over the previous high of 561 set in 1933-34. treasurer. The largest project was the $8,000 The Freshman Class alone accounts for 245, redecoration of Emerson Hall, while the gym another record, exceeding by one the all-time was repainted at a cost of $300. high of 244 made in 1925. Of this group, 136 Hancock Field has been equipped with are men, 109 women. New freshmen total flood lights at the expense of Beloit High 212. With only a few sophomores not return- School, in return for a long term contract for ing to school, the Class of 1939 remains a large use of the field. This improvement repre- one. Eightly-six men and 57 women make up sents a $5,000 investment. New and larger a class of 143. bleachers· have been erected on the east side Both the Junior and Senior Classes are of the field at a cost of $1,000, another $1,000 small, Juniors numbering only ninety, of was used for additional football equipment. which 53 are men, and 37 women. Seniors are These improvements along with the new 91 strong, with the same number of men and coaching staff should enable our team to at- one more woman than the Juniors. There are tract larger crowds. seven graduate students, all men. The entire interior of Emerson Hall has been repainted and six new showers installed. The Although the ratio of women to men in the heating plant has been modernized, and every Freshman Class is unusually high, figures for room has new furniture and four more electric the whole school show a 335-241 relationship, outlets. with the men of the college outdistancing the The fire damage in Stowell Cottage was re- women almost 3-2, the normal figure during paired and the entire house renovated at a the last few years. $5,000 expense. This project includes paint- Illinois again leads the nation, sending 358 ing both inside and outside, new wiring, and students to Beloit. Wisconsin follows with new furniture throughout. 180 concentrated for the most part in the The dining hall in Chapin has been re- Bel~it area, but reaching far in all directions decorated and newly furnished. Dean Kath- to include Sheboygan, Green Bay, Appleton, erine Bill Whitney's suite was remodeled with La Crosse Marshfield, Viroqua, Waukesha, the removal of several partitions. Twelve and Watertown. Michigan contributed eight hundred dollars was alloted to these improve- native sons; Iowa and Minnesota, each five; ments in spite of the work done on Chapin Missouri, Nebraska, and New York, each last summer. The model rooms in Chapin three. One student came from each of the were also replastered and redecorated. following states: California, Connecticut, The S.A.E.'s enlarged their living room and Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Mississippi, soundproofed the ceiling of the first floor hall. Montana, Ohio and Pennsylvania. The basement has been made into a recreation There are two foreign students on the cam- room. All this work was done at a $3,000 pus this year, Jordan Markham, of Vienna, cost. Austria, returning for his third year, and The Sigma Pi boys have also had their Mlle. Henriette Bordenave, of Pau, France, house redecorated recently. French exchange student. Mlle. Bordenave Last but not least, mention should be made won her scholarship in competition with of the improvement in the rear of Morse In- other French girls, made the sea voyage with gersoll hall. The new iron railing, no doubt thirteen other exchange students, and for intended to protect the grass back of Morse six days stayed at the International House Ingersoll, has been serving as a welcome rest- near Columbia University in New York City. ing place for many study-worn students, be- Because of the unusually high enrollment, tween classes. dormitories and fraternity houses are filled to to brim. Five Freshman girls have been obliged to room in town, three of them staying An Invitation at Professor P. B. Whitehead's and two at the All alumni, and particularly those home of Mrs. P.A. Fox. Upperclassmen have passing through the city, will find a also been forced to seek refuge off the campus. cordial welcome from Mr. and Mrs. Hale at the Beloit office in the Daily News Building, 400 West Madison Street, Your friends may want to write .to you. Room 716. It is across the street from Send us your address so. we can print it cor- the Northwestern RR Station. Drop in. rectly in the forthcoming Directory.

4 BELOIT COLLEGE BULLETIN Freshmen Relatives Instructors Appointed

VERY year finds a large number of rela- UPPLEMENTING the Foreign Language E tives of present students and alumni S Department faculty, two new instructors among the Freshman class. This year is no have been named to teaching positions on the campus, in addition to the new athletic staff exception for among the Class of 1940 are: and a student instructor in physics. These Robert Habberstad, son of the late Earl H. '15, were the only changes in the faculty during of Rushford, Minn.; Russell Hamachek, brother the summer. of Bob '39, Manitowoc, Wis.; Glen Johnson, Donald Allen Murray, M.A. (Harvard) was brother of Harold '36, Rockford; James Kesler, selected to teach French and Spanish in the Quincy, Ill., brother of Carl '20, Guy '25, Don Romance Language Department, while Alfred '26, and Ken '28; Walter B. Leishman, Jr., Hayes, who also received his master's degree Beloit, son of Walter B. '08 and·Marion Den- at Harvard, was named to fill a vacancy in ney '08, and the grandson of Wilson Denney the German department. The latter replaced '81; Kenneth Licht, Oak Park, cousin of Edith Willis H. Bowen, who taught French and Ger- man at Beloit last year. Licht '37; John Millett, Wheaton, Ill., son of Hobart '09; John Morgan, South Beloit, brother The new Romance Language instructor at- tended Dartmouth College in his home town of of Bob '38; Robert Ross, Milwaukee, brother Hanover, N. H ., graduating in 1933, and re- of John '37. ceived his M.A. degree from Harvard the fol- lowing year. Within the next eighteen months Don Scott, Rockford, brother of Bob '36; he hopes to obtain his doctor of philosophy George Steele, Lancaster, Wis., stepson of degree. Frank Meyer '09; John Voight, brother of Mr. Murray's father, William Henry Mur- Bob '31, of Oak Park; Dwight Whitney, son ray, is a professor of Modern Languages at of Katherine B. '01 and the late J. Dwight Dartmouth. Whitney, nephew of Albert and Elizabeth, and An athlete as well as a brilliant scholar, grandson of H. M. Whitney, first professor of the new instructor was a member of the varsity English and public speaking at Beloit College; swimming team and participated in intra- John Wilder, son of John W. '05, grandson of mural tennis, baseball, hockey, squash, and S. P. Wilder '71 and nephew of Margery skiing during his undergraduate days at Wilder '05; John Zabel, brother of Katherine Dartmouth. He received a senior Fellowship in 1932-33, was elected to Phi Beta Kappa in '39 Beloit. 1932, and graduated sununi cum laude in 1933. Among the girls· there are: Esther Ascani, Born in Booth Harbor, Me., Mr. Hayes, the Beloit, cousin of Fred '39; June Bjorklund, new German instructor, graduated from Rockford, sister of Wallace; Virginia Carter, Bowdoin college with honors and was the recipient of a Phi Beta Kappa key. After re- Elkhorn, Wis., sister of Ben '30; Kathryn ceiving his M.A. degree at Harvard, he studied Clark, Beloit, daughter of Lee '14 and Kathryn abroad in the University of Munich, Germany. Merriam '14, and sister of Dorothy '38; Ruth He will teach elementary German at Beloit Couve, Aurora, sister of Helen '35 and Flor- this year. A finished pianist in both classical ence '37; Dorrit de Gelleke, Milwaukee, sister and popular music, Mr. Hayes is also keenly of Sylvia, Janet and Gerrit; Betty Dobson, interested in fiction, biography, and other daughter of Mason, Beloit Academy and sister forms of literature. of Mason, Jr., '35 and Don '36; Charlotte Both new instructors have taken residence Ennis, Auburndale, Mass., daughter of Merlin in the freshman men's dormitory. '00. Included in the entirely new athletic depart- ment are Louis E. Means of Green Bay, Wis., Jane Putney Farley, daughter of Wirt '12 of athletic director; Charles E. (Bud) Butler, Winnetka; Janet Ferguson, Rockford, sister of head football coach; Kenneth (Mocco) Mercer, Horace '37; Mary Ann Frost, Oak Park, daugh- as assistant football coach; ;md Robert Scott ter of Alice Spencer Frost '02; Virginia Haf- '35 as freshman football coach and instructor ner, Oak Park, sister of Betty '38; Carol Jack- of gymnastics. Further information about the new coaches will be found in the sports son, Milwaukee, cousin of Stuart Haagenson section of this issue. · '39 and Ken Haagenson '35; Ruth Jevne, Mun- Stanley Frohmader '35, Rockford, Ill., is delein, Ill., sister of Eunice '36; Barbara student instructor in physics, and is working Jordan, Hinsdale, Ill., daughter of William R. on his M.A. degree. '09; Joy Mayhew, Clinton, sister of Mary '38.

Dorothy Norris, sister of Russell '31; Mildred Weyrauch, Sterling, Ill., sister of Ruth and daughter of F . T. '01; Nancy Orr, '38; Janice Wilson, Rockford, sister of Richard sister of George '31; Dorothy Vinson, sister of '39; Jean Wolcott, daughter of Harold '12 of Bob of '36 of Milwaukee; Janet Wallace, Rockford, and Mary Jane Wolfe, Beloit, River Forest, daughter of George A. '14; daughter of J . M. Wolfe '13.

5 BELOIT COLLEGE BULLETIN Notes From The President's Desk

HE brown desert (the campus in July) have to let off steam because there is such a T has changed into the vernal freshness of wealth of band material. I began to hang on spring. Over near North College there is a to my desk because I was sure that this state- flash of gold from a bed of yellow marigolds. ment would be a prelude to a request for an A faint stroke of brown on the oak leaves, enlarged budget, but they didn't ask for an and a touch of color on the Chapel woodbine extra dollar. Those things happen now and combine with the early morning tang to make then. us realize that autumn is here. * * * Delighted to see, in this week's NEWS- * * * Sixteen thousand dollars are now in sight WEEK, a snapshot of Harvard Tercentenary for the Chapel addition. Architect is working scenes, and there, right in front of a popular on details. Work begins in April. We expect Harvard clothing store, as natural as could to rededicate the Chapel on Convocation Sun- be, stood Dr. Collie! day, September 19, 1937. I need $4,000 more. * * * Who will help? Those Harvard men are men. On Friday, September 18, just as the great procession, * * * which included over five hundred education- Student calls: (1) Shall we permit college al institutions from forty countries, was get- buildings to be used for student political ting under way, it began to rain-a regular meetings? Yes, provided only students speak. coastal rain. But the ceremonies went on. (2) Shall I look over a projected Round Ta- Rain ran off the edge of my mortar board as ble article? No, thal1k you-that's your busi- I passed through the aisle formed by the Har- ness. I'll let you know after the thing is pub- vard Board of Overseers, standing there in ished what I think of it. (3) Shall we have their morning coats and silk hats! And, would THE GOLD published annually? That is for you believe it, after this piece of human ef- you students to decide. Trustees will prob- frontery against the elements, the rain stop- ably permit additional fee-iw the students wish to pay for it. ( 4) Senior who has been ped! starving himself for three years wants to * * * know if there is any chance of getting $100 It is sad to look over at President Chapin's somewhere, somehow. Worthy. I tell him to house and to realize that both Mrs. R. C. go ahead-we'll work it out. Now somebody Chapin, widow of our Professor Robert Coit send that check. (5) Can we have Dr. Some- <;::hapin, and her sister, Miss Ada Grabill, who body preach at Vespers? Sorry, he preached acted as temporary dean of women, several a year ago and will again next year. years ago, died this summer. And so on. It's great fun. ": * * * * * You alumni would be surprisedly pleased if Already I can announce that Leverett S. you knew how active is my correspondence Lyon of the Brookings Institution, national with trustees, and with parents. I never send president of the Phi P sis, is one of the speak- out a report to the trustees or a letter to par- ers at our Second Alumni Conference in Feb- ents without being deluged with replies. ruary. * * * * * * Problems of college life? Here are a few: Alumni gifts for 1935-1936 totaled $3,882.11 Gambling. Liquor. Too much going to shows. from 888 people. Personally, I think that's fine and thank you. Too much interest in parties. Now call me a grandmother if you wish. And alumni can * * * help best by showing good examples. This president is delighted to note that all college dormitories are practically filled. It's * * * much more fun- discussing how to reconcile Letter from a student who tells me that he the problems of congestion than of empty never knew anything about the church or the rooms. Bible until he came to Beloit. Last summer * he discovered that the Bible is interesting. I like night football. Of course my age shows itself in a few extra shivers. I miss the * * * sun. But one can actually see the plays better Looking back over many years I believe than in the daytime. that there are more good students, working * * * hard at books, reaching out after ideas, on In came Mr ~ Mear, bandmaster, and his this campus today than ever before. . Prove crony, Professor Huffer, to say that they just it? I can't, but it's my opinion.

6 BELOIT COLLEGE BULLETIN Summary Report on the Alumni Fund

By E.W. Hale ships, had to be supplemented by over $20,000 from regular endowment, to meet the needs ISS KULL read a cheerful report to the of the students during the depression. Hence M Alumni Council at the June meeting, every gift to the Alumni Fund released a and by the close of our fiscal year, June 30th corresponding amount for the purpose orig- had additional returns to report, but no inally intended, ie: instruction and college audience. The report therefore is tardy, but maintenance. none the less interesting in this first issue of The results of the campaign of 1935-36 are the magazine since July 1st. shown below in comparison with similar fig- The college took over the running expense . ures for the previous years. of the alumni office in 1933-34 and the coun- cil decided that all gifts to the alumni fund Number of Amount of should be used for scholarships. I think all Contributions Contributions alumni favored this after hearing the report 1933-1934 ···················· 691 $2,626.38 of President Maurer to the effect that the 1934-19~5 ···················· 549 3,045.96 $6,000 income from invested funds for scholar- 1935-1936 ...... 888 3,882.11

Graduates of 1936 Find Employment

ELL over two-thirds of the members of Robert Wolcott, Chevrolet Co., Janesville; W the 1936 graduating class of 92 have John Roworth, Fairbanks - Morse, Beloit; already notified the college personnel office William Hinckley, Commercial Credit Co., that they have either found jobs or will con- Chicago; Clarence Rowe, United Screw and tinue their education in graduate school. As Bolt Co., Chicago. Alice High, Helen Mc- usual the largest percentage has gone into Millen, and William Boston have found em- business fields. The record to date shows: ployment in Chicago. Burton Ma Whinney is Business: Richard Bredesen, Dennison working in Detroit and Fred Bowers in Stationery, Chicago; Marybeth Chapin, in- Freeport. surance, Chicago; Henry Choquette, Y.M.C.A. Graduate work: University of Wisconsin- work, Chicago; James Cormany, insurance, Bob Daniels (law), Wendell Lindbeck (chem- Milwaukee; Roger Dopp, Aetna Ins. Co., istry), Don Dobson, John Beeby, General Beloit; George Dutton, bank, Sycamore, Ill.; Motors School, Flint, Mich.-William and Mary Gardner, Fairbanks-Morse, Beloit; Webster Owen. University of Michigan- Osborne Griggs, Coca Cola, Rockford; Ver- Kennard Besse (law). Nursing graduate non Halverson, Burroughs Adding Machine school-Irene Houda. Medical school-George Co., Milwaukee; Robert Hernon, real estate, Hilliard, Harry Foster. University of Chicago Oak Park; Allen Johnson, bond house, Chi- -Joseph Linarys. Moser Business College, cago; Donald Johnson, Household Finance, Chicago-Evelyn Cornish. Janesville; Stuart Klinger, Fairbanks-Morse, Social work: Marianna Brown and Arlene Beloit; Wallace Ray, insurance, Peoria; Leroy Smith, Beloit; Ralph Kall, Rockford; Mary Sebastian, Chicago Title and Trust Co.; Robert Lou Messmer. Smith, Boy's Club, Rockford; Robert Startup, sales department of Domestic Engineering Teaching: At Beloit College are Shirley Publication; Jack Fleischer, United Press, Kretschmer, anthropology assistant; Stanley Frohmader, science department; Harold John- Chicago. son, chemistry; Martin van Herik, zoology; Walter Strong, Des Moines Register- Robert Scott, physical education. Katherine Tribune; Filmore Thomas, Eckel's Men's Shop, Koppein is teaching at Winslow, Illinois, and Chicago; Harriet von der Heydt, science work, Catherine Mitchell at Sparta, Wisconsin. Chicago; Corlett Wilson, insurance, Rockford; Harry Armstrong, Lakeside Press, Chicago; Joseph Cutler, brass company, Chicago; David The importance and the cost of freedom Dewar, George E. Keiser and Co., Chicago; were discussed from the chapel rostrum re- Charles Linehan, oil company in Texas; El- cently by Dr. Albert Britt, former president of more McCornack, oil business, St. Charles; Knox College who is in Beloit this fall giving a series of lectures on biography. Freedom Nathan Runge, public utilities, Milwaukee; requires wisdom, and education is a road to- Dean Stromblad, Chappel Brothers, Rockford; ward this, Dr. Britt told the students.

7 BELOIT COLLEGE BULLETIN

Roll of Donor The following alumni were the first to tell the College about some pros- pective Beloit student who later enrolled here. No doubt many other alumni were instrumental, and the College would like to express its gratitude to all for their influence. Harold Johnson '36 Julian F. DuBois '10 Kenneth Haagenson '34 Charles E. Butler '26 Annabel Studebaker '35 Merlin Ennis '00 Hobart Millett '09 Marion Bronson '36 Jeannelle Thornton '35 John H. Martin '34 C. Dorothy Badenoch Shedd '34 Olive Wilson '34 Leon G. Herreid '23 Joseph Cutler '36 Harriet Rogers '35 Walter A. Kinne! '30 Kennard Besse '36 Frank Meyer '09 Ardis Reid '35 Eleanor Holmes '38 Isaac K. Lewis '05 Arnold Melzer '27 Marjorie V. Fellman '28 Robert Voight '30 Barbara Rivet '36 George Wallace '14 Graydon Ellis '29 Lois Woodward '37 John Watson Wilder, Sr., '05 Alice Berens '33 Harold E. Wolcott '12 Helen Couve '35 Carl R. Kesler '20 Janet DeGelleke '34 Robert Scott '36 Donald Dobson '36 Katherine Bill Whitney '01 Mason Dobson '35 Clarence S. Pellet '86

8 BELOIT COLLEGE BULLETIN Band Enlarged N THE fall of 1927, a small group of Beloit THE ETCHING IS I College Freshmen interested in music got together and organized a Freshman band. HERE There were only eight or ten members at September marked the delivery of the first, and Thomas K. Mitchell, Raymond R. etching of Middle College prophesied in Schroeder, Vernon and James Runge, and Frank Hildebrand, all '31, were the backbone. the a.dvertising section of the last two Mitchell acted as leader of the band. i~ues of the Alumnus. The artist, Soon, however, membership was extended W. Mark Young, of Chicago, has done a to other classes and with the growing success fine piece of work. He has sketched of the orginization, the group asked college the building from the northeast, result- officials to aid in organizing a college band. ing in a most satisfying picture to The men finally succeeded in getting Professor alumni. It is possibly the most familiar Ralph C. Huffer to direct, a position which he approach to the structure, and Mr. held for five years. During this time the band Young has preserved its atmosphere for had grown to a membership of about 15 or 20, a few instruments had been accumulated, a us delightfully. It makes a beautiful permanent place for rehearsals had been pro- reminder of the college for home or of- cured, and uniforms and music had been ac- fice, and it is hoped that many alumni quired. will take a.dvantage of this opportunity Feeling now that the task was too much for to secure the picture, both for senti- him, Professor Huffer relinquished his posi- mental reasons and for the silent testi- tion as director, and arrangements were made mony it carries to .all who see it. to engage Ferd R. Lhotak, previously director of the Fairbanks-Morse band, as leader. Mr. Unframed copies may be purchased at Lhotak remained in that capacity for two the Bookstore on the CampUs, at the years, leaving before the 1935-36 school year Chicago office in the Daily Ne.ws Build- began for a similar position at Valley Forge ing, (Room 716), or may be ordered by Military Academy, Wayne, Pa. mail from the Chicago office. The cost The present director of the band is S. Edgar delivered by mail is $2.00. Chicago Mear, of Whitewater, Wis. Besides w9rking Alumni may have their copies framed at with the band as a unit, Mr. Mear giye~ les- sons free to all members of the band who need the Dearborn Art Galleries, through or want extra help. Under Lhotak, the band whom the etching was ordered, at an ad- developed both in size and ability. Despite ditional cost of $1.90 FOB at the Gal- a very discouraging start last year, and a leries, 64 West Randolph St. A framed scarcity of material, the enthusiastic appr val copy now graces the wall of the Chicago of the student body after one or two concerts office. last spring showed that the band had possibili- ties of development under Mear. This year there is more and better material With the increased size of the band, there in every department than there has been has been difficulty in procuring instruments since the band was organized. There are for everyone. Among the instruments now three or four very good cornetists, the total owned by the band are two tubas, a pair of number in that department, nine or ten, being tympani, a clarinet, two French Horns and two three times as large as last year. Competent altos being used as French Horns. baritone and French Horn players are in the Instruments must be furnished by the oboe fold, along with excellent trombonists, a very · and bassoon players, but the expensiveness of good tuba player, new this year, and a good the items and the slenderness of the budget flutist. There are also men who can handle make it almost impossible for the band to oboe and bassoon. purchase these instruments. In addition, the But wonder of wonders, not a single saxo- two players using altos should have French phonist can be found in the entire college! horns, but such a purchase would also be Band enrollment is larger than ever before. beyond the means of the band. The group Thirty-seven students are already attending needs a full set of music stands and a practice regularly, and with the close of the liberal. supply. of sheet music. With such a football season a few more can be expected. promising beginning and enthusiastic turn- Eight girls are registered, four of them play- out of student musicians, it is hoped that the ing the clarinet, one a cornet, one a flute, one necessary equipment can in some way be ac,-. a cello, and t.he. other a bassoon. quired.

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A REVIEW OF SPORTS

LTHOUGH playing a different and more experienced football players, but the entire A inspired brand of football than has been squad are willing workers and have already seen at Beloit in several years, the Beloit mastered the essential fundamentals of foot- eleven has · come out of its first two games ball. · with a 6 to 6 tie with the University of Dubuque and a 32 to 7 loss to a powerful Lake Forest team. This year for the first time in the history of the college, three of the four FOOTBALL SCHEDULE scheduled home games are to be played under the newly installed floodlights at Hancock September 25-Dubuque 6; Beloit 6 Field. The defeat at the hands of Lake Forest was October 3-Lake Forest 32; Be- somewhat excusable on the grounds that the loit 7 Lake Forest team this year is probably the strongest team produced there in the last de- October 9-Corn ell, here; cade. The game was played at Farwell Field (night game) at Lake Forest. Beloit showed a weakness at the ends, a defect that was also evident last October 17-Ripon,, there year. Lake Forest's touchdowns were made by a 30-yard run, a 40-yard run, a 50-yard October 24-Knox, there return of a punt, another short end run, and a October 30-Coe, here (night sprint of 25 yards with an intercepted pass. game) Beloit's lone score was made on a pass from Bob Gates to Jim Brown, Brown also kicking November 7-Lawrence, here I the extra point. Beloit gained 193 yards on passes but was driven back by the heavier and faster Lake Forest team. A much more extensive intramural pro- In the game with the University of Dubu- gram has been planned this year than has que, the Iowans were completely outplayed ever before been attempted at Beloit. In the by Coach "Bud" Butler's men, earning 12 first past there have been but seven sports in- downs to Dubuque's six. Statistics on the cluded on the program and already this year, games also show that Beloit gained 134 yards plans for a total of 17 sports have been com- to Dubuque's 106 from rushing, 77 yards to pleted. These 17 sports are divided into two their opponent's 34 fro mpasses, and complet- divisions, a major and a minor group. ed 6 out of 9 attempted passes, while Dubuque In the major sport division are included: completed 3 of 8 attempts. Beloit's touch- touch football, diamond ball, water polo, down came in the first quarter and was the re- volley ball, bowling, basketball, track, and sult of consistent hammering at the line and swimming. Included as minor sports are: an ice skating carnival, ping-pong singles, cross a series .of end runs. Stan Oberg scored the country, tennis singles, tennis doubles, golf, points on a plunge through center. Beloit horseshoes, handball, and basketball golf. came close to stopping their opponents drive All of these innovations in intramural for a touchdown which was scored with but athletics at Beloit come as a result of a ques- 30 seconds left to play in the half. tionnaire which was distributed to the stu- The coaching staff of Louis Means, athletic dents by Mr. Means and Mr. Scott. A study director, "Bud" Butler,, "Ken" Mercer, and of these questionnaires by the intramural Bob Scott are handicapped greatly by the lack council resulted in the above increased sched- ule of events, and several other changes in of reserve strength. The usual lineup for the procedure and awards. first two games has been: left end, Milton One of the most radical of these changes is Anderson; left tackle, Bob Anderson; left that favoring a large supremacy cup to be held guard, Horace Ferguson; center, Paul Mitzner; one year at a time. It will be awarded to the right guard, Bud Manger; right tackle, "Red" organized group having the highest number of Meyer; right end, Jim Brown; quarter-back points at the end of the intramural season. Cy Williams; right half, John Resh; left half, The points are to be given on the basis of the Bob Gates; and full back, Stan Oberg. total of firsts, seconds, and thirds in all of A Freshman squad of 35 members is also the sports included on the program. The second place trophy has been eliminated in working daily under the direction of coaches each event and provision has been made for Scott and Means. Twelve of these men are medals to be awarded in individual events. 10 BELOIT COLLEGE BULLETIN Although there was a demand for fencing Sorority Rushing Results .and badminton both of these sports have been omitted for the present year due to their being comparatively unknown among most of the LIMAXING a brilliant rushing week, 77 students. These sports will be taught in the C Beloit College women were pledged to regular gym classes and perhaps included in the four Greek letter sororities the Sunday the intramural schedule in the future. Box- following convocation. Informal ceremonies ing and wrestling will not be included in the inter-group competition, but will be all-school were held at the chapter houses. events with weight divisions for each class. PI BETA Pill led with 31 pledges. They . Another of the new developements in Beloit are: Gail Murphy, Jane Salisbury and Jane athletics is the mixed social and recreational Wilson, Chicago, Ill.; Margaret Birch, Suzanne athletic activities. Already a mixed doubles tennis tournament is being played off, and Flock and Mildred Weyrauch, Sterling; Betty plans are being made for two mixed swim- Klein, Elizabeth Sanduss, Milwaukee; Mary ming parties each semester. Gharrity, Ruth Raddant, Helen Skinner, The first of the intramural activities will Mildred Schettler, Beloit; Ruth Coffey, Des be touch football which will start Monday, Plaines, Ill.; Mary Louise Cornick and Wilma October 12. Jean Domke, Omaha; Ruth Couve, Aurora; Lois Jeanne Dougherty, Elm Grove, Wis.; Cross Country Charlotte Ennis, Auburndale, Mass.; Jerry Farley, Winnetka; Ruth Hostetler, Evanston; Cross country racing is also being boomed as Ruth Jevne, Mundelein, ill.; Barbara Jordan, an inter-collegiate sport this year. In the Hinsdale, Ill.; Mary Kendall, Downers Grove, past the only cross country race at Beloit was Ill.; Ruth Larson, Rochelle, Ill.; Diana Mar- the annual Turkey Day run. This year it shall, Delavan, Wis.; Jane Melick, Eureka, is hoped that races may be scheduled with Ill.; Edith Simen, Libertyville, Ill.; Mary Wil- Cornell, Ripon, Coe and Lawrence. If this plan is followed the races will be run the same son, Steator, Ill.; Louise Wood, Marshfield, day that Beloit plays football with these Wis. schools. The runners will be started so that they will finish at· the football field between DELTA GAMMA announced the pledging halves. There are now between 15 and 20 of Kathryn Clark, Betty Dobson, Mary Jane boys working out daily and Mr. Means expects Wolfe, Beloit; Dorrit de Gelleke, Helen Porth, the number to be doubled. Dorothy Vinson, Milwaukee; Janet Ferguson, Jeanne Rogers, Jean Wolcott, Rockford; Mary When the Beloit team went to Lake Forest October 3 for the second game of Ann Frost, Gail Morse, Oak Park; Virginia the season, many students drove down via Hafner, Janet Wallace, River Forest; Nancy a special bus, chartered by the college, McDonough, Iron River, Mich.; and Nancy and their own cars. Spirits are high this Orr, Chicago, making a total of 15 pledges. fall, and the team has the full support of the student body. Night games are mak- KAPPA DELTA'S 15 pledges are Doris ing is possible for a larger number of Bosco, Edith Clark, Doris Ann Windt, Jean townspeople to attend the home games. Forberg, Lois Lamberg and Charlotte Hansen, An experiment in educational methods is Chicago; Norrine Britten, Jean McDermott, being inaugurated at Beloit this year. The Eleanor Regan, Oak Park; Elizabeth Burks, idea is not new in the educational world but Batavia, Ill.; Lois Douglas, Juda, Wis.; Dorothy represents a distinct advance in the Beloit Fischer, Park Ridge; Dorothy Norris, Elgin; curriculum. The new course, designed for Genevieve Wilde, Jackson, Mass.; and Dorothy seniors only, is called a "correlating seminar". As preparation for the comprehensive examin- Ralston, Beloit. ations . and theses which students who are The 12 pledges of DELTA DELTA DELTA candidates for graduation with honors must are Harriet Dahlstrom, Shirley Ann Hutchin- write, and as a valuable study for other seniors who are majoring in zoology, psychology or son, Marjorie Rasmussen and Clara Belle sociology, 15 students and four professors Byus, Chicago; Janice Guthridge, Wilmette; meet two afternoons a week to discuss the Lorraine Beda, Glenview, Ill.; Helen Jean subject matter. The study of "Human Be- Mills, McNabb, Ill.; Betty Jean Risetter, havior" is the theme of the course for the Beloit; Gloria Rubel, Oak Park; Carol Jackson, first semester. Professor Carl Welty, head of Milwaukee; Ruth Poff, Waukegan; and Hen- the biology department, will present the riette Bordenave, Pau, France. biological approach in the first ten sessions, Professor Ole deWeerdt, head of the psycho- Formal fraternity rushing was delayed a logy department, will present the psychologi- week this year to give Freshmen more op- cal approach in the next ten sessions, and Professor Lloyd Ballard, head of the sociology portunity to become oriented. As the Alumni department, will conclude the series with the Bulletin goes to press there are no announce- sociological approach. ments of fraternity pledges. : 11 BELOIT COLLEGE BULLETIN

Logan Summer Expedition Successful

NDIANS in the southwest are hard put to a day down the new Pan-American highway. I outdo the average American tourist in pic- All the hotels were filled and extras had to turesque dress, according to Prof. Paul H. find rooms in private homes. Nesbitt, who recently returned from two The two major accomplishments of the ex- months in Mexico and New Mexico as leader pedition this summer were the dating of the of the Beloit College-Logan Museum expedi- Starkweather ruin and the discovery of a tion. sculptured stone slab in the doorway be- "Watching the 2,500 tourists at the Hopi tween two of the stone houses. snake dance was more fun than watching the By means of remnants of the wooden posts Indians," Prof. Nesbitt said, describing one that once supported the roofs of the houses woman tourist on the shady side of 60, who the date of the pit rooms was set between 800 came in wearing blue denim overall trousers, and 900 A.D. and that of the surface rooms, a bright shirt, a Mexican sombrero, and as or rock houses, between 1050 and 1150 A.D. the finishing touch to her ensemble carried a The analysis was made in a southwest lab- poodle. oratory by the tree ring method. But the snake dance itself is worth the long The sculpture, as Prof. Nesbitt describes it, hours of waiting to keep a seat' sitting under is "a carving of a male figure in bas-relief a sun that beats down directly-it's a sincere, on a slab of laminated limestone." It is the impressive, and sacred ceremony, perfectly only known piece of sulpture ever found in carried out by the Indians, Prof. Nesbitt said. the southwest, and, unless further discoveries From the foot race at 4:45 a.m., to the ac- are made in this district in which compar- tual snake dance, which does not begin until atively little work has been done to date, the courtyard is -in shadow, the ceremonies will be put down in archaeology as the work are carried out exactly according to the ritual of some "village idiot," not as a product of that has changed little in centuries. the true culture of the people. The weird guttural singing of the Indians, The carving is well done, all the details of the beating of their feet on the board cover- the body showing clearly. It is symbolic of ing a hole in the ground, known as the sipapu, the reproductive activity of mankind, accord- and representing the entrance to the spirit ing to Prof. Nesbitt. The slab was found ly- world, as each in turn dances over it, the ing face down in the doorway, where it ap- sight of the Indians of the Snake clan danc- parently had fallen from its position as a seal ing, every other one holding a snake, grasping to make the opening between the two rooms it in his mouth about five inches back of the smaller. Only one small piece was broken head and holding the tail stretched out in his off from a corner. hand while the two medicine men try to cor- One burial discovered below the adobe ral the snakes that have been used and are floor of a room proved a puzzler to Prof. thrown to t he ground in the courtyard- it's Nesbitt and the student anthropologists until a thrilling way to spend 12 hours. they were able to reconstruct the situation. On the day that the Beloit party witnessed The burial was normal in every respect and the ceremonies, the Indians used about 12 well preserved except that there were no rattlesnakes, a number of bull snakes from leg bones. The feet bones were in place and four to six feet long, and about 15 blue racers, the rest of the skeleton was in the usual which are long whip-like snakes. position. Taking a leg bone from another The blue racers, once put on the ground, skeleton and putting it in the position it would disappear into the crowd in an in- w ould have had in this burial with the knees stant, Pr of. Nesbitt said, while women flexed, they saw that the bone woul~ have screamed and children fell over backwards projected above the floor of the room. Evi- trying to get away from them. The bull dently the burial was made under the floor siiakes and the blue racers weren't harmful, at the proper distance, and then the hard so the medicine men concentrated on keeping adobe wore down through years of use, until the rattlesnakes out of the audience. the leg bones were exposed. Rather than The expedition covered 8,500 miles, driving stumble over them as they went about their from Beloit to Mexico City, and back up to work, the Indians pulled them out and threw Reserye, N.M., where they .stayed for a month them away. completing their excavations at .the Stark- "The population of the village probably weather ruin. . . , . numbered about 500 at one time," Prof. Nes- Mexico . City they found full of American bitt said. "We have found 60 burials and ex- tourists, coming in at the:· rate: of .40 to .50 cars cavated 15 stone houses and 18 pit rooms." BELOIT COLLEGE BULLETIN

The largest room the students excavated ranch, near Reserve, where the expedition was a pit room 37 feet across, which Prof. has made its headquarters for the past four Nesbitt believes must have been a ceremonial years. room or kiva. Steve Hudson, the owner of the ranch, is a The pit rooms were the earliest of the personage around whose life a top-notch novel dwellings on this site, circular excavations could be written. This year he was always in the ground four or five feet deep. They complaining about his failing eyesight to his were roofed over with the entrance through Beloit guests-but he killed a coyote at 400 the adobe to the east. The stone houses, yards with one shot from his rifle. On another built by later people, are of crude masonry, occasion he said to Prof. Nesbitt, "See that sometimes chinked with fragments of pot- horse over there?" pointing to a horse which tery when they had not smaller stones avail- the expedition leader could just make out, able. The rooms or houses are all connected about half a mile away. "Well," he continued, and entrance to them was through the top. "I don't think they've got a hobble on him." Prof. Nesbitt and his student assistants, Plans for next year's expedition are in- Bob Elsom of Beloit; John Bennett, Milwau- definite, Prof. Nesbitt said today, but there is kee; Tom Coleman, Madison; and Ken White, a chance that Miss Shirley Kretschmer, who Polo, Ill., found the Southwest dryer than will be his assistant at the museum this year, ever this year. They encountered only two may head the party. Miss Kretschmer major- or three rains during the time they were gone. ed in anthropology at Beloit College,' and as In New Mexico they stayed at the Hudson a junior went on the expedition last summer.

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RESIGNS FROM COMMITTEE Senator Edward R. Burke '06, who was on the campus in June for his daughter's gradu- Milwaukee Meeting ation and the 30th reunion of his class, has again been getting in the headlines, this time The annual meeting of Beloit for his resignation from the Democratic na- graduates teaching in Wisconsin tional committee on which he had been serv- high schools in conjunction with ing for Nebraska. the Milwaukee alumni has been Senator Burke said he could not "close my set for Thursday night, November eyes to what I consider mistakes and danger- 5 at the City Club, according to E. ous tendencies of the Democratic adminis- W. Hale, Alumni Secretary. Din- tration." ner will be served at 6 p.m. "I yield to no one in my appreciation of the unparalleled accomplishments of this ad- A program is now being plan- ministration," the Beloit graduate said. "Un- ned for this affair which is held der our present leadership a record of at the time of the state teachers' achievement has been made of which we are convention. In all probability, a all entitled to be justly proud. However, I number of college faculty mem- have found it necessary to vote against cer- bers will be present and new tain administration measures and to express things about the college will be my opposition to some doctrines which I con- discussed. sider neither Democratic nor for the best in- terests of the country. Ed Benton of Milwaukee is "Since I cannot give blanket approval to chairman of the local committee. all that has been done and must continue to He and Mr. Hale announce that protest against what seems to be wrong, it notices will be sent out shortly is doubtless better that I should not remain and further information given at on the committee." that time concerning reservations for the dinner. RETURNS FROM CHINA The date of the gathering has No further efforts to penetrate the Gobi been changed to Thursday night desert in the interests of science will be made rather than Friday noon because until conditions in China have become set- it was felt more would prefer this tled, Roy Chapman Andrews '06 declared up- time. Dinner will be served early on his return recently from the orient with and promptly so that those who Mrs. Andrews. And when that will be he ad- have evening engagements may mits it is difficult to predict. keep them. Mr. and Mrs. Andrews spent much of their time 011 their recent trip in Peiping where Beloit College will again have they kept house Chinese fashion. They re- an exhibit at the Milwaukee Au- turned with 12 crates of antique Chinese fur- ditorium in connection with the niture and paintings with which to decorate teachers' convention. This year it their New York home. Mr. Andrews is cura- will feature services of Logan tor of the American Museum of Natural His- Museum for art teachers in public tory in New York City. schools. Arrangements are being Japan is certain to control the Far East in made to have a traveling collec- Andrews' opinion, and every well-informed tion of New Mexican bowls for art person in the east considers a Russo-Japan- teachers to use, and portfolios of ese war inevitable although it is difficult to reproductions of strikingly de- set the date. The Japanese are pouring troops signed Southwest bowls are being into China and now control that country as printed and will be distributed to far south as the Yellow rive!'.. Peiping and all art teachers. Tientsin, key Chinese cities, are now con- trolled by the Japanese. Tommy Mills '05, former football coach at Beloit, is giving a series of radio talks over DR. BRANNON HONORED an important chain originating in Chicago. He is on the air almost every night. In addi- The Montana School of Mines at Butte tion, "Tommy" recently addressed the Cornell conferred an honorary degree of Doctor of University club of Chicago. Laws upon Melvin Amos Brannon, formerly chancellor of the University of Montana, and for several years president of Beloit College, at its June Commencement exercises. Dr. If you know of Beloit friends who do Brannon, now retired and a resident' ·of Madi- not get the Alumnus Bulletin, tell us son, Wis., was honored as "teacher, friend of their new addresses or have them send youth, scientist, administrator" by R. H. the correct address to us for the new Jeese, dean of the faculty, in presenting Dr. Directory, to be published soon. Brannon for the degree. 14 BELOIT COLLEGE BULLETIN

PRESIDENT BLAISDELL RESIGNS AWARDED DEGREE After 25 years of educational leadership in John Pitt Deane, for many years head of Claremont, President James Arnold Blaisdell the Biblical Literature department of Beloit '89 has presented his resignation from active College, was awarded an honorary degree of service as president of Claremont Colleges. Doctor of Divinity by Northland College, The resignation was announced late in June, Ashland, Wis., last June. The award was shortly after President Blaisdell returned to made at Northland's commencement exer- the west coast from Beloit where he had giv- cises, in which Mr. Deane had a part as bac- en an address in connection with the City of calaureate speaker. Before coming to Beloit Beloit's Centennial celebration. he served on the Northland faculty, was a Dr. Blaisdell is the son of one of the early pastor in Ashland, and for several years has professors at Beloit. He went to Claremont in been on the board of trustees of Northland. 1910 and served 18 years as president of Po- mona College. In 1925, under his leadership, the Claremont Colleges were organized and Thomas Howells this year won the John Scripps College opened. Billings Fiske prize poem contest, the six- His plans for the future have not been di- teenth annual competition established by Hor- vulged. ace Spencer Fiske '82 in memory of his fath- er, John Billings Fiske. The committee of RETURNS FROM RUSSIA award was made up of Gladys Campbell, Ruth Fisher of Janesville, daughter of Mr. Morton D. Zabel and Thornton Wilder and and Mrs. Arthur M. Fisher, Beloit College the award made at the June convocation of graduates and herself a student at Beloit in the University of Chicago. the late 20's, has returned recently from three years in Russia. She went to that country for a three weeks' trip and remained three years. More than 1,000 alumni are not listed in the She acted as newspaper correspondent for current directory which was printed in 1929. several large English dailies in Moscow, and That makes the forthcoming issue the more has had many interesting things to tell about important. Be sure we have your correct ad- the U. S. S. R. dress. BULLETIN MAURER-GIBSON WEDDING Rockford; Douglas Cox, Kenneth Licht, Bruno In the chapel of Beloit College where her Virgili, Don Smith, Oak Park; George Lewis, parents were married, Margaret Maurer '35, Milwaukee; James Kesler, Quincy, Ill.; Louis second daughter of President Irving Maurer Toepfer, Sheboygan, Wis.; Joseph Jernegan, and Minnie Vogt Maurer, was married Oc- Elmhurst, Ill.; Warren Wilhelm, Chicago; Rob- tober 10 to Noble Gibson, also '35, of Hinsdale, ert Maylahn, Shorewood, Wis.; David Heinz, Ill. A large reception followed at the Maurer Aurora, Ill. home. SIGMA CHI: Morton Henry, Carl Oblinger, The Rev. von Ogden Vogt, uncle of the Byram Reed, James Kurz, Elmer Johnson, bride, performed the ceremony and President Chicago; Henry R. Webster, Evanston; Nick Maurer gave his daughter away. Serving in Roman, Milwaukee; Bruce Duncan, Glen the wedding party were schoolmates of the Ellyn, Ill.; Walter Leishmann and Dwight bride and groom: Mary Maurer as maid of Whitn~Y. ;; Beloit; Russell Hamacheck, Mani- honor, Natalie Green, Barbara Rivet, Shirley towoc, Wis.; William Ellett, Oak Park; Sid Kretschmer and Janet de Gelleke, bridesmaids, Morgan, Lake Geneva, Wis.; Julian Dubois, Lloyd Maurer, best man, Ray Gibson, Richard Sauk Center, Minn.; Charles Paterson, Omaha, Kelly, Marshall Samuel, Walter Strong, Neb.; J6hn Guest, Aurora; George Meyer, Philip and Ogden Vogt, ushers. Wausau, Wis. The couple left immediately for the East SIGMA ALPHA EPSILON: David Allison, where they will live in Schenectady, N. Y. Mr. Highland Park, Ill.; Lowell Dwinnell, Chi~ Gibson is with the General Electric Company. cago; Glenn Johnson, Robert Porter, Rock- ford; Chester Prouty, Wheaton, Ill.; Donald FRATERNITY PLEDGING Wildauer, River Forest, Ill. Following are men pledged to fraternities SIGMA PI: John Millett, Wheaton; Guil- on Saturday, October 10 : bert Piper, Racine, Wis.; Embert Stanger Des BETA THETA PI: Ray Barwick, Des Plaines. ' Plaines, Ill.; Alfred Castle and James Gordon, -In addition, some groups pledged upper- Quincy, Ill.; Donald Middaugh, Red Wing, classmen. Minn.; Firmin Praet and l:Joward van Wyn- Pledged last spring were: Sigma Chi: Ed- garden, Chicago; Theodore Ruwitch, Highland ward Lucke, Milwaukee, and Otis Andrews, Park, Ill.; Harold Sandblom, Evanston, Ill.; Glen Ellyn, Ill.; Beta Theta Pi: George Steele, Don Thompson, Evansville, Wis.; John Voight, Lancaster, Wis., Ben Kough, Moline, Ill., Jack Oak Park; Henry Warren, Belvidere, Ill.; Wilder, Glencoe, Ill.; Tau Kappa Epsilon, Stanley Zabel, Beloit. Arthur Casper, Darien, Wis. PHI KAPPA PSI: Hale Smith, Roodhouse, This brings the total men in the class Ill.; Everett Lunn, Malta, Ill.; Don Scott, pledged to groups to 57 per cent. 15 BELOIT COLLEGE BULLETIN

WHAT'S HAPPENING ON THE CAMPUS

Players are holding tryouts for new mem- experience in the Balkans. coupled with the bers prior to the selection of the cast for the report of the Bulgarian delegation to the trial first play to be given this fall. The play has of Macedonian patriots. not as yet been decided upon. It has been Dr. Albert Britt, former president of decided to offer for sale season tickets for Knox College, is giving a series of 16 lec- the three plays to be presented during the tures on biography, offered as one hour year. New officers of the organization are: credit for Sophomores, Juniors, and Sen- John Bennett '37, president; Ted Kridler '37, iors. The lectures are held on Monday, vice-president; and Elizabeth Launspach '37, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday aft- secretary. ernoons from 4:30 to 5:30 o'clock. Dr. Freshmen have held their elections, Britt is covering the outstanding figures managing to get ahead of sorority and in English biography. Among well known fraternity pledging. Officers of the Fresh- biographical works of Dr. Britt. is the man Class are: Louis Toepfer, Sheboygan, noted book, "Lincoln for Boys and Girls." Wis., president; Janet Ferguson, Rockford, Following the series of lectures given vice president; Ruth Coffy, Des Plaines, by Dr. Britt, students will be privileged secretary; and Henry Warren, Belvidere, to hear Dr. Charles Burnell Olds, an out- treasurer. standing alumnus of Beloit, on the Porter In Chapin Hall the officers elected we·re: Missionary Lecture series. Dr. Olds, who Janet Wallace, Oak Park, president; Nancy was awarded an honorary degree by Be- Orr, Chicago, vice-president; Ruth Coggeshall, loit College last June, will speak on the Oak Park, secretary; and Diane Marshall, Del- subject, "Where Orient and Occident Meet avan, treasurer. -In the Building of the Kingdom of God." The students of the college, as well as The Associated Students again voted to use the residents of Beloit, will have the op- $300 of their social fund for a membership for portunity of hearing Dudley Crafts Wat- each student in the Beloit Concert Association son, official lecturer of the Chicago Art this year. The series for the season promises Institute, .in a lecture on Vincent Van to be one of the finest ever offered to Beloit. Gogh and his paintings, at the Edward Nino Martini, tenor star of Metropolitan Dwight Eaton Chapel, Oct. 13. Mr. Wat- Opera, concert, radio, and motion pictures, son, who was given an honorary de~ree by Beloit College two years ago, will show will be heard on October 23 in the the first 75 colored slides of Van Gogh's works. concert. The second will present a famous Within the last 30 days Mr. Watson has team of two-piano recitalists-Malcolm and delivered 47 lectures on this subject. The Godden; and the third will bring 15 year old Art League of Beloit, in conjunction with Ruggiero Ricci, one of the world's youngest the college, is sponsoring the lecture. great violinists. Paint and a few new pieces of furniture can The juniors nosed out the seniors during work miracles. The rooms in Emerson Hall the sec1md semester of '35-'36 to take class and Stowell Cottage are bright and cheerful in honors. Nine students attained 3.00 their new colors, the lighter corridors being a ("A") averages, and all but one of these remarkable improvement. The second coat of were members of the class of '37. Eight paint on the exterior of Stowell is at last com- of them were men, Jean Pence '37, pleted and the girls residing there are glad to Chicago, sister of Betty '35, being the only have screens on their windows again. woman to attain the perfect average. The On September 30 at the First Congrega- eight men were: William Corlis, Munsey tional Church Professor Paul Nesbitt Crost, Ned Crow, Milan Fiske, Milton spoke on the Logan Museum Southwest Goff, Harold Johnson, John Kinley, and Expedition through Mexico and south- Charles Klontz. western United States. He showed lantern The Reading Room for students, inaugurat- slides of scenes in Mexico along the new ed last year, proved to be such a success that Pan - American hig-hway from Laredo, it is open again this year in the Informal Texas to Mexico City. He spoke under Seminar Room in Morse Ingersoll Hall. A the auspices of the Women's Guild of the plea has been made to the students to lend First Congregational Church. their books. Edward Haskell, brother of Eldora Haskell, Phi Sigma Iota has selected its new senior, spoke to the International Relations members for the present year. Those Club at their first meeting, on the topic students to whom the honor has been ex- "America as Affected by European Problems." tended are; Henriette Bordenave, Jean Mr. Haskell is president of the Bulgarian- Eldredge, Jane Melchert, and Robert Macedonian Workers Educational Clubs in the Wilson. The selection wa8 made on the United States and is on a lecture tour. He has basis of scholastic aptitude in all sub- just returned from a five months sojourn in jects and outstanding proficiency in one Bulgaria and his lecture was .a report of his of the Romance languages.

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Thirteen seniors holding at least a B average were elected Associate Members of the Chamberlin Science Club recently. They are; CALENDAR Munsey E. Crost, Milwaukee, chemistry; Helge Edgerstrom. Rockford, zoology; Milan Sept.17-Registration for Upperclass- Fiske, Beloit, mathematics; Milton Goff, Rock- men. ford, chemistry; Elizabeth Launspach, Chi- Y.W.C.A. Tea. cago, chemistry; Marion Loomis, Chicago, botany; . Matthew Rodermund, Milwaukee, 18-W.S.G.R. Party for Freshman mathematics; Barbara Roth, Milwaukee, Women. chemistry; Robert Taylor. Des Moines. chem- 19-Mixer in Gym. istry; Dorothy Wendling, Des Plaines, geology; 25-Sorority Banquets. James Howe, Evanston, chemistry; and 26-Dubuque at Beloit. Charles Klontz, Rockford, chemistry. Sorority Banquets. Professor Ivan Stone spent the summer 29-International Relations. in Geneva., Switzerland, as a member of the American Committee in Geneva, an Oct. 3-Lake Forest at Lake Forest. organization comp!ISed of eight professors 4-Beta Open House. of political science and representatives 10-Cornell at Beloit. of peace organizations, who received all 13-International ·Relations. English speaking visitors, served them as an information bureau, explaining the 14-Faculty Women's Tea for operation and work of the League of Freshmen. Nations. and lecturing for students. Prof- 17-Ripon at Ripon. essor Stone aildressed the students in Fraternitv Parties. Chapel on October 1, on "League Build- 30-Beloit Players. ings, Old and New." 31-Coe at Beloit. On October 10, in the Little Theatre in Scoville Hall. a marionette show will be given, Nov. 7-HOMECOMING: LAWRENCE brought to the campus by the college. The AT BELOIT. show is a branch of the original Yale Puppet- Homecoming Dance in Gym. eers, two other branches of which are now in 11-Shakespeare. Los Angeles and in New York. It is reputed 14-Sorority Parties. to be one of the best in the country. The figures are unusually large and the stage 21-Fraternity Parties. properties are very good. This, plus the fact 26-Thanksgiving Day. that the Little Theatre stage is a small one 28-W.S.G.A. Dance. should lend an air of reality to the perform- ance. Dec. 5-Ball State at Beloit. Freshman women residing in North College 12-All College Christmas Formal. elected for their president Mary Kendall of 15-Armour Tech at Armour Tech. Downers Grove, Illinois. 18-B Club Amateur Show. One of the most unusual and interesting 19-Christmas Vacation Begins. annuals ever published at Beloit Colleite is promised by the editors of the 1937 Gold. J an. 4-Classes Resume. The theme has been chosen, but is being kept 8-Armour Tech at Beloit. secret until a later date. 21-Final Exams Begin. The book's coffers were reenforced this year by an additional $150 secured from the student Feb. 2-Founders Day. body by placing the Gold among the regular 6-All College Mixer. college fees. John Bennett, editor, Shirley Gru.bbs, as- sistant editor and Michael Thomas. business manai;er, are planning a book so different in ELECTED TO Pm BETA KAPPA artistic conception and design that they feel that many alumni would appreciate having this fine record of the 1937 school year. Seven members of the senior class were honored by election to Phi Beta Kappa. Although the students are paying $3 for Six men and one woman make up the the volume, alumni may secure copies for list of students who have achieved the $2.50. L ater in the year a direct mail cam- highest scholastic award that a collegt or paign will be launched among the alumni by university can bestow. The following Kay Krumrey, alumni subscription director, seniors were elected: William Corlis, and plans are being made so that sub<;criptions Anna, Illinois, son of G. R. Corlis '10; may be secured at Homecoming in November. Munsey Crost, Evanston; Edwin Crow, The Alumni Directory will be printed this Milwaukee; Milan Fiske, Beloit; Milton year. But before we go to press we must have Goff, Rockford; Charles Klontz, Rock- your correct name and address. Please send ford; and Jean Pence, Chicago, sister of it in. Betty '35, also a Phi Beta Kappa.

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and one-time pastor of the same church, of- DEATHS ficiated at funeral services in the home. Burial was in Beloit. At a recent meeting of the prudential com- George W. Bunge mittee of the American Board of Foreign Mis- Coming as a shock to returning students sions in Boston, a memorial was placed on the and faculty members, word of the death of permanent records of the board, praising Mrs. George William Bunge at his home in La Chapin's splendid service. Crosse, Wis., was received Sept. 14. Mr. Bunge, who was 64 years old, attended the Miss Marguerite V. Davis old Beloit Academy and later Beloit College, from which he graduated in 1893. He was a Word has been received of the death of member of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. Miss Marguerite V. Davis ex-'16 in 1934. Born in Eitzen, Minn., on March 15, 1872, he attended elementary schools in that locality Don. C. Younger before coming to Beloit. While at the college, he achieved fame as a football player, and One of Beloit's most popular business men, later he won letters in that sport at the Uni- Donald C. Younger '24, died June 19 in Beloit, versity of Wisconsin. Mr. Bunge received his after an illness of three weeks. He was 37 doctor of law degree from University of Wis- years old. consin in 1895 and the following year was Mr. Younger graduated from Freeport high school and attended the University of Illinois. awarded an M.A. degree by Beloit College. After attending Beloit College, he became One of the best-known practicing lawyers of associated with the Reitler Clothing company, La Crosse county, he was a member of the a position which he held at the time of his county Bar association, and w as a partner in death. the firm of Lees and Bunge at the time of his Surviving are the widow; two children, bon death. Jr., and William; and two sisters, Mrs. William Surviving are his widow; three sons, George Bach and Miss Madalyn Younger of Freeport. C. Bunge, Chicago; William Wheeler Bunge, Milwaukee, and Jonathan C. Bunge, La Crosse; one daughter, Helen L. Bunge, Madison, and Howard Green ten brothers and sisters. Funeral services Howard R. Green, prominent Janesville, were held in La Crosse on Sept. 16. Wis., tobacconist and a member of the Beloit College class of 1908, died Aug. 3 at Janesville, Mrs. Robert Coit Chapin according to word received by the alumni of- On the night of July 4 in the home built fice during the summer. While in Beloit, he by the first president of Beloit College, Mrs. was affiliated with Phi Kappa Psi fraternity Robert Coit Chapin died after an illness of and was a member of several basketball several weeks. She h ad been frail for several teams. years. A member of the M. F. Green and Sons Mrs. Chapin was widely known for her company, dealers of leaf tobacco, in Janes- missionary work. She was the daughter-in- ville, he was also secretary-treasurer of the law of the first president of Beloit College, Janesville Country club and a member of its Aaron L. Chapin, and the widow of the one- board of directors. time professor of economics at Beloit. She was known and beloved by many generations Carl H. Bramer of college students. Carl H. Bramer, member of the Class of Two weeks after her death and partly be- 1906, and a resident of Watertown, Wis., for cause of it, Miss Ada Alice Grabill, sister of many years, died May 1 at Bradley Memorial Mrs. Chapin, died in the same home. The hospital in Madison. He had been ill for many house, at the corner of Chapin street and Col- years, suffering his first attack in 1914. Fun- lege avenue, built in the early 50's, now stands eral services were held in Watertown, and empty. burial made there. Mrs. Chapin was Winogene Grabill and was born in Missouri. She attended Drury College where she met Mr. Chapin. Later she took William Henry Frost advanced work at Bryn Mawr and Oxford, The Rev. William Henry Frost '93, retired and in 1907 married and came to Beloit. Dur- rector of St. Andrews Episcopal church in ing her 30 years here she was active in church Milwaukee, died in that city October 5. His and literary circles of the city, and for six two surviving children were both graduates years was head of the World Fellowship of Beloit College also: Alice '19, now Mrs. Council of Wisconsin Women when it was Frederick A. Schneider of Libertyville, Ill., first being organized. At the time of her and John '25 of Milwaukee. death she was still serving on the prudential committee of the American Board of Foreign Almost two college generations have gone Missions. through school since the last Directory was The Rev. Elmer Voelkel of the First Con- published. A new one is coming out this year gregational Church of Beloit and the Rev. and Miss Kull strongly desires to have all the Wilfrid Rowell of Hinsdale, college trustee addresses correct. Tell us if yours is not.

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Friends of William Bledsoe, who several BIRTHS years ago was an instructor in the economics department at Beloit, will be interested to hear of his marriage July 10 to Miss Sonja To Herbert Crane, '32, and Mrs. Crane, 643 Dahl of Hollywood, Cal. The marriage took South Fourth street, Aurora, Ill., a son, David place in Lake Tahoe, Cal. Following his Kelly, late in June. teaching here, Mr. Bledsoe was with the Na- To Mr. and Mrs. William B. Kent (Olive tional Labor Advisory Board in Washington, Cortis, '28), 300 So. Kenilworth Ave., Oak was later with the HOLC doing magazine Park, a son, Barry Hughes, May 7. work. More recently he has been in Holly- To Mr. and Mrs. James Murtaugh (Ursula wood working with writers' and actors' guilds Netzinger, '27), ,709 Juneau avenue, Milwau- and publishing a magazine for them. His kee, a son, July 27. wife also is connected with the motion picture To Mr. and Mrs. Daniel R. Lyon (Leta business. Southworth, '18), 141 Crowell street, Hemp- stead, Long Island, N. Y., a son. Daniel Frank, Two Rockford people, Lila Day and Lee July 4. They have another child, Leta Janet. Nelson Daniels '37 were married at Gasport, To Paul Ashbrook Pratt, '18, and Mrs. Pratt, N. Y., at the colonial homestead of the bride's 150 First avenue, south, Wisconsin Rapids, a . great-great-grandmother. Mr. Daniels is side- daughter, Mary Van Horn, June 20. show manager with the Beers-Barns shows To Walter Ceperly and Georgina Macpher- and Mr. and Mrs. Daniels spent the summer .son Ceperly, both '28, a son, Geoffrey, June after their marriage touring in a trailer. '10, 1935. Mr. Ceperly is now advertising man- ager for Fairbanks, Morse and Co., in Indi- Marion Alice Sheldon '23 was married July anapolis. 23 to Hunter D. Price. They live at 1916 To Mr. and Mrs. Rixford Knight (Mary Spruce street, Murphysboro, Ill. Schindler, '28) , a son, John Pike. May 3. Mr. Knight was on the economics staff at Beloit at Two campus marriages were of great in- one time. They reside in Jamaica, Vermont. terest early in the summer to under-graduate To Charles Nieman, 28, and Mrs. Nieman, friends. On June 16, the day after Com- 1775 Lincoln avenue, St. Paul, a son, Stephen mencement, Katherine Nathan '37. of Lancas- Charles, July 19. ter, wis., was married to Ralph Matthiesen of Linden, Wis. Two days later, Mrs. Matthie- sen's room-mate at college, Mary Matthiesen, MARRIAGES sister of the groom, was married to Donald Russell '38. The Matthiesens are livin~ in Alice K. McNeel '29 was married June 13 to Linden at the present time, and the Russells at Samuel Henry Eckstein of Milwaukee. After 1207 Monroe street, Evanston. leaving Beloit College Mrs. Eckstein gradu- ated from the University of Wisconsin. The Gerrit James de Gelleke. of Milwaukee. was couple will live in Milwaukee. Her father married August 29 in Milwaukee to Vivian is J. H. McNeel, principal of Beloit high Naomi Fridell also of that city. Gerrit was school. preceded at Beloit by a sister, Sylvia, and has had two other sisters enrolled here. He was On September 19 Hazel M. Schroeder '31 be- in the class of 1934. came the bridge of James McMakin of Hins- dale. Among her attendants was Mildred In Waukegan, Ill., on August 29, Josephine Castor '31. Mr. and Mrs. McMakin will make Edwards '34 was married to Edward Nuss- their home in Memphis, Tenn. baum '35. Both are Beloit people and are now living in Beloit where the groom is with Announcement has been received of the his father in the electric welding business. marriage on September 5 of John Thayer Andrews, a member of the Beloit faculty in Elizabeth V. Anderson. of Byron, was mar- '34-35 and '35-36, to Miss Elizabeth Burditt ried August 18 to Donald Carr, of Oregon, Ill. Parker of Wabon, Mass. Mr. Andrews is now After leaving Beloit Mrs. Carr went to a teaching in the Department of Philosophy at Rockford hospital school of nursing and was Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vt. employed there at the time of her marriage. At the Chicago home of her mother, Mrs. Late in June, Kathryn Allen and Donald John Mcinnis, on October 3, Helen Mcinnis de Vlieg, both of Rockford, were married in was married to Robert W. Gordon of Oak the home of the Lutheran pastor of that city. Park. Both were recent students in the col- Both · are employed at the Barber-Colman lege. plant. Edna Knapp, a Beloit student several years In the parish house of St. Thomas' church ago, was married to Robert Stott of Beloit on in Beloit on June 27, Elizabeth Munn became September 15 in Chicago. After a trip to the bride of Eugene A. Winger '28 both of Colorado, they took up residence in Beloit Beloit. James B. Gage '28, acted as best man where Mrs. Stott is with the telephone office, for Mr. Winger. A reception was held at the Mr. Stott in the postoffice. Hilton Hotel. Mrs. Winger is a graduate of 19 BELOIT COLLEGE BULLETIN

Rosary College and had held a position in The marriage of Eleanor Elizabeth Allen Milwaukee with the state headquarters of and Stuart Delbert Klinger '36, both of Beloit, ·the Federal Housing Administration until took place July 18 at the home of the bride's shortly before her marriage. Mr. Winger is parents. Mr. Klinger is employed by Fair- associated with Fay Hulburt '16 in the tailor- banks-Morse and Company. ing business in Beloit. They live at 1111 Ran- dall street. Carl Yagla '38 was married September 6 in Harold Fowler '30 and Helen Truman, both the chapel of the First Congregational Church of Rockton, were married June 10 at the to Edna Bally. Both young people are resi- Rockford Court Street Methodist Church. dents of Beloit. The couple resides at 359 After a trip into northern Wisconsin they re- Highland avenue. Carl is with his father in turned to Rockford where Mr. Fowler is a the radio business. case aid in the Rockford office of the Illinois Emergency Relief Association. The residence in 406 North Johnston avenue, Rockford. A romance begun during college days was culminated August 1 with the marriage of Unattended and in the presence of a small Anne Louise Spalding '37 and Nathan Philip group of relatives, Jeannette Granger '32 was Runge '36 which took place in the First Con- married in Janesville early in June to Graham gregational church at Wauwatosa. Both were Charles Butler, also of Janesville. The wed- active in school, Mr. Runge being one of the ding occurred in the home of Sidney Bost- outstanding football and track stars of the wick '16 whose wife was Winifred Granger. past few years. Since his graduation he has The couple is living in Janesville. been with the American Blower Application Co., in Milwaukee, and the couple is living in that city. ' Late in the summer, William Austin Cure- ton '31 was on the campus with his bride who was Margaret Peterson of Chicago. The mar- In a garden setting on September 3 Adabeth riage took place August 29 in South Shore Lull became the bride of Joseph Walters Fox Community Church. '28. Both are Beloit people. Mrs. Fox has been active in musical work with the First In the Kohler, Wis., home of her parents, Congregational Church, and Mr. Fox, son of Martha Thorkelson was married September the late college physician, Dr. P . A . Fox, has 5 to Robert D. Riddell '29 of Sheboygan. Mr. a position as a chemist with the National Lock Riddell is associated with the Kohler Com- Co. in Rockford. The address of the couple is pany, and the couple will reside in Sheboygan 626 Church street, Rockford. Richard Straw- Falls. bridge, fraternity brother of the groom, was best man, and a number of other college Charles Gilbert Jenckes '26 of Wheeling, mates were present. W. Va., and Mary Jane Rutledge of South Orange, N. J ., were married September 7 in The marriage of Mary Grace Bradfield '27 South Orange. An informal reception follow- to John Dilworth Alexander took place Sep- ed. The couple is at home at 147 Franklin tember 5 in the First Presbyterian Church in street, Bloomfield, N. J . New York City, and the couple is residing at 227 Sullivan street there. A college romance was culminated June 30 when Helen Shock and Arch John Kelso both '35 were married at Community Church, Park Two of the most popular Beloit College Ridge, home of the bride. Helen Koehler, also students of recent years were married Septem- a Beloit graduate, was maid of honor, while ber 8 when Mary Jane Quisenberry, daughter Dorothy James, another schoolmate, was one of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Quisenberry of of the bridesmaids. Robert Koll, college Maplewood, Mo., graduate in the Class of 1935 friend of Kelso's, was his best man. William became the bride of William Willard Wirtz, Hinkley and Richard Kelly, fraternity brothers son of W. W. Wirtz, of DeKalb, Ill., graduate were among the ushers. A reception was held of 1933. The wedding took place in Maple- at the Park Ridge Country Club. The couple wood. Mr. and Mrs. Wirtz are now residing is now living in San Francisco where the at 40 Dana street, Cambridge, Mass., while groom is employed by the American Licorice Mr. Wirtz completes his work at Harvard Law Company. Their address is 398 West Portal School. He came to Beloit after two years Ave. of schooling in the west and shortly proved himself a leader in school activities, being the Lois Benson of Rockford became the bride leading debater, editor of the Round Table, of Louis Picken '35, of the same city, on football star, and, during his Senior year, August 17 in the bride's home. Mrs. Picken president of the Associated Students. Mrs. was graduated from Rockford College and is Wirtz was active in Players, and both were a library assistant at Rockford Public Library. elected to Phi Beta Kappa because of outstand- Mr. Picken is with the Ingersoll Milling Ma- ing scholarship. Mr. Wirtz has been success- chine Company. The residence address is ful at Harvard, last year being one of the ten 2224 Hancock Street. editors of the Harvard Law Review. 20 BELOIT COLLEGE BULLETIN

In the Wesley Memorial chapel at Madison Governor Horner of Illinois was among the 0n June 11, Eddis A. Mellor of Wauwatosa guests present at the wedding of Elizabeth was married to Edwin F. Schooff '27, of Janes- Rose Hinton '35 to Montieth Weaver of Kan- ville. Mrs. Schooff is a graduate of the Uni- kakee, which took place in St. Paul's Episcopal versity of Wisconsin and has been teaching in . Church, Kankakee, late in June. The bride Janesville. Mr. Schooff is connected with the is the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Ralph Hinton, Burroughs Adding Machine Co., and the Manteno, Ill. Elizabeth Yarnelle of Ft. couple reside at 439 Grove street, Janesville. Wayne, Ind. ,college mate, was maid of honor. Ralph Hinton, Beloit graduate, was best man. On September 2 in the F irst Methodist Harold Fillmore, also a classmate of the Church of Harvard, Ill., Isabelle Hancock of bride's, was one of the ushers. A reception that city became the bride of Randall H. for 200 followed. Mr. Weaver attended the Miller '29 of Sheboygan, Wis. Miller attended University of Illinois and is with the Hoffman law schools at Harvard and Madison after Specialty Co., Chicago, where the couple is graduating from Beloit, and is now practicing living at 4738 Woodlawn avenue. law in Sheboygan where he is also assistant district attorney. June 19 was the wedding date for Lois Bruce Gordon '34 of Wilmette, Ill., and Robert llo Charlotte Hollstein of Beach, North John Meythaler, of Monroe, Wis. The cere- Dakota, was married to John Kendrick Strong . mony was performed at the North Shore '33, of Beloit, on August "26 in Beach, and the Baptist Church and a reception followed at couple is at home at 55 Elizabeth street, Hart- the Shawnee Country Club. ford, Conn., where Mr. Strong is continuing his work at the Hartford Seminary. Robert Strong was his brother's best man. Helen Mae Carver '32 was married August 31, 1935 to Bruce Phelps of Scales Mound, Ill., and the marriage announced late in June of Friday, June 12, was the wedding date of this year at the close of the school year. Mrs. Ruth Mortonson '37, of Milwaukee, and Floyd Phelps had been teaching in Scales Mound. Bordson, of Watertown. The ceremony was She took her M.A. at Beloit in 1933. Mr. performed at the Shorewood home of the Phelps is in business in Scales Mound where bride's parents. Mrs. Bordson continued active the couple is living. work in music after leaving Beloit, teaching stringed instrument work at Oconomowoc high school, and making her musical debut in Mil- Hope Withers '33 of Beloit was married June waukee March 5 this year. 20 to Ira James Gwinn of Mapplewood, West Virginia, at the First Methodist Church in Sue Willcox '36 was married August 1 to Beloit. The ceremony was performed by Dr. Walter Allen Mueller. Both are from Chicago. M. E. Graber, dean of men at Morningside College, la., where both the bride and groom Mr. Mueller was graduated in June from have been on the faculty. A number of college Northwestern University. friends of the bride were in the bridal party or assisted in serving at the Central Avenue At the Delavan home of her parents, Mar- home of the bride for the reception which gery Gates '28 was married July 3 to Paul followed. The couple is at home at 1416 S . Arthur Proctor of Madison. The Rev. Charles St. Aubin street, Sioux City, Ia. Boardman, Beloit graduate, read the cere- mony. Mrs. Proctor has been in Y.W.C.A. and Girl Reserve work since leaving Beloit, and On Friday, June 12, at the home of the had had a successful career in Rockford and bride's parents in Naples, N. Y., Marion Springfield, 0. Mr. Proctor was graduated Weisenberger '34 and Robert Parker '31 were from the University of Illinois in 1927 and is united in marriage. Only the immediate fam- a chemist with the Burgess Chemical Labora- ily was present. Mr. and Mrs. Parker re- tories in Madison where the couple is re- mained in the East for the summer while he siding. attended summer school at Cornell University. In September they returned to Darien, Wis., Classmates of 1922 were united in marriage where Mr. Parker is superintendent of the July 7 at Plainfield, Ill., when Leila Fraser Darien Consolidated School. became the bride of James S. Parker of Beloit. The Rev. H. A. Studebaker of Beloit was one At noon on September 26 in the parsonage of the two officiating • clergymen. Dr. and of the Second Congregational Church of Mrs. Charles Bacon of Chicago were among Beloit, Ruth Rau '15 became the bride of the Beloit alumni present at the ceremony. Marshall M. Northrop '14. Both are Beloit The bride has been a teacher for a number of residents. Mrs. Oscar Christianson of Madi- years. Mr. Parker, who has his master's son, who was Lucile Rau '20, attended her degree from Northwestern, was for a period sister, and Professor Filmer S. Northrop of of three years a reporter on the Beloit Daily New Haven, Conn., member of the Class of News, taught English in a boys school in 1915,, was his brother's best man. Mrs. North- India for three years, and at present is an rop was a teacher in Beloit high school until instructor in economics at the University of her resignation this summer. The couple Wisconsin. resides at 757 Euclid avenue, Beloit.

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IALUMNI NEWS ITEMS AND NEW ADDRESSES I 1882-ROGER LEAVITT, one of Cedar 1911-R. R. FENSKA has returned from Falls' (Iowa) most eminent citizens, cele- Budapest, Hungary, where he attended the brated his 76th birthday on June 25. Mr. Second International Forest Congress, Sep- Leavitt, whose hobby is keeping historical tember 10- 14, as official delegate of the Amer- scrap-books, is in great demand as a speaker ican Tree Association.-HOLMAN D. PETTI- on the history of Iowa, Black Hawk county, BONE, president, Chicago Title & Trust Com- and Cedar Falls, and is considered an author- pany, delivered the commencement address ity on the history of this territory. at the forty-ninth annual graduation exercises 1884-FRED. S. SHEPHERD, 54 Hillcrest of Chicago Kent College of Law.-PAUL E. Ave., Manhasset, N.Y. NILSON is principal of the American School for Boys, Talas-Kayseri, Turkey.-LEW SAR- 1889 - GEORGE B. INGERSOLL, former ETT, professor of Speech and English at Beloit city manager, was named as a Republi- Northwestern University, through his new can presidential elector at the Republican book on basic principles of speech, hopes to state convention held recently in Madison. help college students of the future "preserve 1891-Classmates of ALBERT W. WHIT- their integrity and identity of their own char- NEY will be interested to know that his acters." daughter, Martha Woods, was married to Rob- 1912-Dr. HAROLD R. BRUCE, professor of ert Langdon Yates on Monday, April 20 , at Political Science at Dartmouth College, de- White Plains, New York. livered the Burlington High School's com- 1901-The eighteenth annual Music Week of mencement address last June.-Mrs. LOIS Boise, Idaho, was dedicated to the memory of BROWN HARTMAN now lives at 7343 Eigh- LEWIS W. ENSIGN. Participating in the six- teenth avenue, N.E., Seattle, Washir.gton, day program were the Boise municipal band, where her husband is employed by the Lum- Civic Festival Chorus, Little Symphony. com- ber Promotion Corp. bined high school choruses and orchestra, Col- 1913-Rev. and Mrs. ARTHUR N. BROWN lege of Idaho glee clubs, University of Idaho celebrated their fifteenth wedding anniversary trumpet trio, high school concert band and the June 7, at a picnic held in their honor by the selected all - city grade school orchestra. Mukwonago, Wis .. church. FRANK G. ENSIGN '00 was treasurer of the 1914-KNOX BURNO is a member of the Boise Civic Festival Chorus and Music Week River Forest plan commission. This commis- Board. sion has taken steps to control the future 1903-Rev. THEODORE B. LATHROP, growth of the village in an attempt to prevent D.D. is now pastor of the Manhattan Kansas the helter skelter development which has Congregational church. He resides at 710 caused "blighted areas" in so many cities.- Poyntz Ave. The Rev. Mr. Lathrop was pastor EARL J. CASKEY, for six years a Beloit city of the Grace church at Framingham, Massa- councilman, has resigned from that body, and chusetts, 15 years previous to accepting the has announced his candidacy for the office of call to Manhattan. Rock county judge at the spring el ection in 1906-At the Class Breakfast on June 14 1937. ' were Mr. and Mrs. Edward R. Burke, Mr. and . 1 9 1 5-.0L~VE .B. BALLARD is teaching at Mrs. Arthur W. Crawford, Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Lincoln JUmor high school and is living at 219 C. Hart and Janet Hart, Gertrude Morgan North Court Street in Rockford. Illinois. Her Weston and husband, Mr. and Mrs. Francis W. home is in Wayne, Illinois. - Mrs. MURIEL Runge and Lucetta and Donald Runge, W. HAVILAND RUSSELL received a Master of Bradley Tyrrell and Mrs. Tyrrell, (Katherine Science Degree in Education from the Univer- Root '04), Katherine Van Aiken Gates, Mr. sity of Indiana in October. She was elected to and Mrs. Philip B. Whitehead and Julia Pi Lambda Theta, honorary Education fra- Whitehead, Gilbert Morgan Smith '07 and ternity, at Indiana University last summer. Dorothy Whitehead Hough '08. She is a Latin Instructor at LaPorte high W06-Word was recived last May that school and is now living at 105 Alexander MILO S. DILLMAN had ben in a sanibrium Street, LaPorte, Indiana. in White Plains, N. Y. for several months. Re- 1916-Laura Jane King, daughter of MAR- currence of a nervous breakdown was respon- JORIE HULL KING, has been awarded the sible. Chicago Federation of Women's scholarship 1910-"The Economics of Open Price Sys·- to study for a year at the Chicago Art Insti- tems," is the title of the most recent book by tute.-;--GLENN W. BIRKETT, Burlington, Wis- LEVERETT S. LYON, excutive vice president consin, farmer ran a close race with Paul E. of Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C. A Jorgensen, Racine attorney, . who won the copy of the book has been received by the Be- nomination for the First district congressman. loit College Library. It deals constructively Jorgensen 'piled up 9.348 votes while the Be- with open price systems as a means of improv- loit graduate had 7,249.-GEORGE CAREY ing the operation of industries without in- has been elected Commander of the Myron c'. creasing centralization of control. Mr. Lyon Wes.t post . of the American Legion of Beloit. was recently elected National President of He is a veteran of the First Division, A.E.F. Phi Kappa Psi. and a charter member of the local post.-RO- 22 BELOIT COLLEGE BULLETIN BERT COLLIER JR. spent the summer as a her M.S. degree in the School of Library Serv- guide at the Stanley Hotel, Estes Park, Colo- ice, Columbia University, in June, began work rado. His job was to serve as guide for tour- ·as reference librarian in the library of Gouch- ists in the Rocky Mountains National Park. er College, Baltimore, Md., on Sept. 1.-MAR- South High School, Denver. He has had sev- GARET LINDSAY who has been a clerk in era articles published during the last winter. the office at Glenbard high school, Glen Ellyn, One in the Curriculum Review, two in the Ill., for several years, has become secretary to Educational Screen, and one in the Educa- the principal of Francis W. Parker school on tional Digest. Chicago's North Side. Raymond W. Osborne 1917-ELLEN P . ANDERSON, 671 Glen- was recently chosen to be principal there. more boulevard, Glendale, California.-AL- 1930-S. WEBSTER JACKSON, 237 Plover BERT D. THOMAS, 1301 Thirty-first street St., Stevens Point, Wis.-LYLE HOPPER, Be- south, Seattle, Washington. loit attorney, has entered the race for the Re- publican nomination for assemblyman in 1918 - FOREST R. LOWREY, 550 Oak the second Rock county district.-KENNETH street, Winnetka, Illinois. COLLIE is now associated with the John Sex- 1919-EMMETT L . WINGERT, 117 North ton company of Chicago. Prospect avenue, Madison, Wisconsin. 1931-CATHERINE RAYMOND of Edger- 1920-MRS. A. F . McLEOD, 1215 P ark ave- ton, Wis., has left for Chicago to join over 100 nue, Beloit.-:-MRS. L. L. WARRINER, 2981 other cadets for 10 months of training in Sal- Ridge avenue. Dayton, Ohio.-JOHN B. DAV- vation Army work.-RICHARD P . KARR has IS, 209 West Fifty-second street, Minneapolis, been transferred to Fort Stanton, New Mexico, Minnesota. where he has been placed in full charge of the 1921-MRS. JOHN B. DAVIS, 209 West CCC Company. . Fifty-second street, Minneapolis, Minnesota.- . 1932-Mrs. Andrew P . Anderson (MARION FRANCIS W. WEST is teaching mathematics SCOTT) is now living at 74l1h Illinois Street, at Pingry school, Elizabeth, N.J., and his ad- Geneva, Ill. dress is 30 Decker avenue. ' 1933-JOHN S. NASH has moved to 940 1924-FELTON G. CLARK is now director Washington Boulevard, Oak Park, Ill.-Grad- of the Survey of Vocational Education and uating from West Point last year, ROBERT G. Guidance of Negroes in the South Central FERGUSSON is now a Lieutenant in the 11th Region and can be reached at the Industrial Cavalry U .S.A. While at West Point. Lieu- High School in Birmingham, Alabama.-DOR- tenant Fergusson had a part in the picture OTHY WALKER RALPH (Mrs. H. D.) is "Flirtation Walk" which was being filmed at president of the Washington, D.C., Alumnae the time.-RALPH HINTON who is doing chapter of. Delta Gamma. graduate work in psychology at Northwestern 1925-DR. and MRS. WILMOT F. PIERCE University, was elected to Phi Beta Kappa in (FLORENCE SUGDEN '28) now lives at 9371h June on the basis of his grades while a Senior N. Ardmore Ave., Hollywood, Calif. - RUTH in Beloit College and his record in the gradu- HUELSTER WILLIAMS (Mrs. H. L.) now ate school.-LEON A. BONDI has accepted lives at 1024 Monroe avenue, River Forest. the position of Superintendent of the Gales- 1926-MISS LILLIAN E. SPALLA spent burg Cottage Hospital at Galesburg, Illinois. her summer vacation in Jugoslavia, sightsee- He is engaged to marry Miss Gladys Krase of ing and studying customs and costumes. She Galesburg. visited Zagreb, Belgrade, Skoplje, Sarajevo, 1934-CLIFFORD R. JENNINGS is now and Ragusa, but spent most of her time in the living at Chase Hall, Entry "B," Room 21, mountains of Montenegro and villages near Soldiers Field, Boston, Mass. - ALTHEA the Albanian border. Returning to New York CHERRY is teaching History and French at Sept. 21 on the Queen Mary, Miss Spalla im- Palmyra, Wis., high school.-JOHN GACH is mediately resumed her work as instructor of back at Whitewater, Wis., high school whe:-e he English at the College of the City of New York. is coaching football and studying administra- -PHILIP LEE RALPH has accepted a posi- tive work. He spent the summer at North- tion as instructor in history in the Department western University working on his master's of History and Political Science at Rutgers degree.-GEORGE KELLEY is teaching Alge- University, New Brunswick, N.J. Prof. Irving bra and coaching football at Downer's Grove, S. Kull '09 is head of the department. Ill., high school. He held a similar position 1927-Mrs. Raymond k Tipple (THELMA at Winnebago, Ill., high school last year. HUNZIKER), 69 Malden Ave .. LaGrange, Ill. 1935-BARBARA C. ALDERMAN resides 1928-MR. AND MRS. DAVID Q. LEWIS, at 4521 North Larkin Street, Milwaukee.-MR. JR. (HARRIET BROWN '27), 286 North Vine AND MRS. HERBERT E. ANDERSON (LOIS St., Hinsdale, !IL-IRVING B. NEWBURG is BAKER) reside at the Edgebowl Ranch, Green now territorial manager of the General Mo- Mountain Falls, Colorado. They are turkey tors Accessory Corporation, Milwaukee.- ranchers with about 2000 turkeys for Thanks- DR. RICHARD A. THAYER was appointed giving and Christmas markets. - CLAIRE city health officer in Beloit August 14 and HARRISON for three years has written script spent September doing post-graduate work at for Station KWK in Missouri.-BREADON H. the Northwestern University medical school. KELLOGG resides at 1578 Florence Avenue, -ELMER CHRISTIANSON established a new Evanston, Ill. He is with the U. S. Gypsum bowling record ori the Village club alleys in Co., 300 West Adams Street, Chicago.-ELEA- Western Springs, Ill., in July, making a score NORA L. MARKHAM of Reisnerstrasse, Vi- of 296, only four short of a perfect game.- enna, Austria, received her M.A. degree from MARGARET C. SCHINDLER; who received Smith College last June. 23 BELOIT COLLEGE BULLETIN

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