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.