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Rollins College Rollins Scholarship Online Rollins Magazine Marketing and Communications Winter 1958 Rollins Alumni Record, January 1958 Rollins College Office ofa M rketing and Communications Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarship.rollins.edu/magazine Recommended Citation Rollins College Office of Marketing and Communications, "Rollins Alumni Record, January 1958" (1958). Rollins Magazine. Paper 178. http://scholarship.rollins.edu/magazine/178 This Magazine is brought to you for free and open access by the Marketing and Communications at Rollins Scholarship Online. It has been accepted for inclusion in Rollins Magazine by an authorized administrator of Rollins Scholarship Online. For more information, please contact [email protected]. ROLLINS ALUMNI RECORD No. 1 JANUARY, 1958 VOL. XXXV ANIMATED MAGAZINE MOVES INDOORS The thirty-first edition of the Rol- lins Animated Magazine went to press Sunday Feb. 23 in Knowles Memorial Chapel. Six contributors representing DEAN FRENCH RESIGNS the business world, American Military, Religious, Foreign and American In- Dr. Sidney J. French, Dean of Rol- dian affairs made living presenta- lins College since the fall of 1954 has tion of their assignments under the announced his resignation to accept a editorship of President Hugh McKean. post with the new University of South Because of inclement weather dur- Florida at Tampa. He will be dean of ing two of the last four issues of the the basic college and director of edu- Magazine, it was decided this year to cational or institutional research. publish the magazine indoors. Speaking for himself and his wife, Contributors this year and their sub- who is outstanding in her own fields jects are as follows: of radio and speech, Dean French Roger Blough, Chairman, Board of said: "We're both very sorry to leave Direcectors, U. S. Steel Corp. spoke Rollins and our friends here. Rollins on "Breaking through the Capital Bar- is a fine school. But this is a real rier"; Gen Albert C. Wedemeyer, for- challenge." mer commander of U.S. forces in the China Theatre, "Arming for Peace"; Dean French came to Rollins from Dr. Fred Hoskins, Secretary General Colgate University where he began as Council of the Congregational Chur- an assistant professor of chemistry in ches, "Era Hoppers"; Ataloa, Chicka- 1932. In 1938 he became a full profes- saw Indian Princess, "A Rainbow In the Indians' Sky"; Mohammed Ali, Am- sor and remained in various teaching bassador to the U.S. from Pakistan, and administrative roles until he came "Pakistan's Role in World Affairs"; to Rollins. Major General John B. Medaris, U.S. Army Ballistics Chief, "The Challenge At the new State University he will of Our Times." Dr. Edwin Granberry aid in developing policies, programs again was chairman of the Animated and regulations for inclusion in the Magazine. first catalogue. The first students, a Under the new plan the seating was reserved for students, patrons, fac- freshman class of approximately 1500, ulty and staff until 2:30, when the will enroll at the new university in the doors of the Chapel were opened to fall of 1960. Dean French will assume the general public. Dr. Sidney J. French his new duties in September. Founder's week dinner, honoring the Patrons of the College was held at the Orlando Country Club, Satur- day night at 7:00 p.m. Two of the contributors to the Animated Magazine LIBRARY GIFT HONORS HANNA did double duty. Dr. Hoskins de- Library, now numbers 228 members. livered the sermon at the Sunday A gift of $5,000, from a friend of Rollins, who wished to remain anony- The contribution can honor the donor morning services in the Chapel and or any person he wishes to designate, General Wedemeyer at the Convoca- mous, has been given to Mills Memor- ial Library, honoring Dr. A. J. Hanna whose name will appear in each of the tion observing the seventy-third anni- books purchased from proceeds of the versary of the founding of Rollins in recognition of his more than 40 years of service to the College. B-A-Y membership. Monday morning February 20 in the The income from the fund will be Chapel Convocation. used to purchase 34 books each year for the library. The selection will be STAR made by Dr. Hanna during his lifetime, Anthony 'Tony' Perkins, x54, is play- PURE OIL GIFT and thereafter under the Library au- ing the leading role in the Broadway production of "Look Homeward An- An unrestricted gift to Rollins of thorities, the donor stipulated. Under the Book-A-Year plan, now in gel." His latest picture "Desire Under $2,000 has been received from the Pure The Elms" is scheduled for release in \ Oil Foundation Inc. Richard A. Elliott, effect, a contribution of $150.00 will '52, who is in the advertising-merchan- purchase a book for Mills Memorial March. Tony's talents as an actor have dising division in their Chicago offices Library every year in the future. The earned him a most important place plan, established under the direction on the stage and screen. He plans a sent the company contribution to Pres- trip to the Campus later this year if ident McKean. of Dr. Edwin O. Grover in 1933 to In his letter enclosing the check provide an endowment fund for the his schedule will permit. Dick said: "Contributions are made only to non-tax supported colleges and universities and only to schools hav- ing graduates employed by the Com- THREES AND EIGHTS pany. Further preference is given rela- tive to superior curricula, faculty, JOIN YOUR CLASSMATES ON CAMPUS staffs, trustees, alumni support, stu- FOR THE dent body, business and financial management." Dick was graduated in 1952 and he ALUMNI REUNION WEEKEND and his wife Jeannie Wiselogel, '52, APRIL 25, 26, 27 live at 1943 Paddock Lane, Wheaton, 111. THE ROLLINS ALUMNI RECORD husband Robert and sons Ronald and CLASSIFIED INFORMATION Gregory live at 3282 Grand View : Mamie Blue Blvd., Los Angeles 66, Calif. You '00 Kelley, (Mrs. J. E.) and Mary Lynn 8. Mail reaches them should get on her list for the Christ- has sent Alumni House an in- at Route 2, Candler, N. C. mas letter. It's good. teresting picture of her great grand- From Laura Windsor Mills (Mrs. Al- Mary Rose Jarrell Taylor (Mrs. Har- son, Charles Edward Kelley, Jr., of bert): "Besides being a housewife and vey) writes: "I've just come back from Tampa. Mamie still lives in Plant City, mother (our son Eddy will be nine in a month's visit to Florida's West Coast, Fla., where she is now retired. Mail April) I have been a member of "Ber- and have no sun tan to show for it. will reach her addressed to P. O. Box gen County Players" for the past five My husband and I were pursuing fish 615. years and was in "Goodbye My Fancy" and wild life, but the weather didn't 7 1 ' SECRETARY: Mary Branham, 126 Lu- there last May. Also on music commit- cooperate very well. Came home with cerne Circle, Orlando, Florida. tee of Tenafly Woman's Club and our car loaded with plants, including member of "Theatre Club Inc." in New two small orange trees to experiment Marjorie Blackman Wallace writes York City. My husband has been with that she and Glancy now have their with in Connecticut." Mary Rose lives the New York Times for a number of at 14 Porter Road, Farmington, Conn. fourth great-grandson, who was born years." in September. "They're a husky, hand- Nancy Mclntosh Dubben (Mrs. Rob- '3g SECRETARY: Marita Stueve Stone some quartet," says Marjorie. ert M.) writes: "My news is very limit- (Mrs. Wendell} Rollins College. Mabelle O'Neal, sailed from New ed. Two daughters, Judith 12 and Eliz- Opal Peters Wilkerson (Mrs. Wil- York January 21 on the SS Caronia for abeth 11. Homebase still is Pleasant- liam) writes: "I want awfully to come a world cruise which will end in New ville, N.Y., summer at Water Hill, down in April and we're making plans. York early in May. N.Y., where we sail. We visit Florida Life in the Air Force is subject to ")"i SECRETARY: Ray Greene, 242 Chase each spring usually staying on Siesta sudden changes you know, so April ■*■*' Ave., Winter Park, Fla. Key, Sarasota and cruising with may find us Texas-bound. I enjoy our Your secretary has been confined in friends there. Will try this year to get life but my accomplishments are small the Winter Park Memorial Hospital inland if we go down in late April." — a little piano, a little bridge and lots # following an appendectomy. He is 34 SECRETARY: Lt. Col. Burleigh Drum- of housewifery—having a baby daugh- back at home and making plans for mond, Quarters 46, Ripley Drive, Red- ter is our great triumph." Opal's pres- the thirty-fifth reunion of our class. ent address is HQ. TTAF, Gulfport, stone Arsenal, Huntsville, Ala. Miss. Richard Boone Rogers is the archi- Robert A. Roberston has been named tect for the new eight story city hall chairman of the Share-in-America sav- '39 SECRETARY: Frances Daniel Divine for Orlando now under construction. ings bond drive for the Orlando area. (Mrs. John H. Ill) 847 Mayfair Cir- Completion date is set for June. He He was in Washington early this cle, Orlando, Florida. has offices at 14 East Church Street month where he went to confer with Bill Scheu, president of Distributors in Orlando. high Treasury officials on campaign Inc., wholesale distributors for con- 'IS SECRETARY: Robert Chandler, Central matters. sumer goods of CBS, writes that they Agidrre, Puerto Rico.