Whittier College Poet Commons The Rock Archives and Special Collections 7-1967 The Rock, July 1967 (vol. 23, no. 2) Whittier College Follow this and additional works at: https://poetcommons.whittier.edu/rock Recommended Citation Whittier College, "The Rock, July 1967 (vol. 23, no. 2)" (1967). The Rock. 18. https://poetcommons.whittier.edu/rock/18 This Magazine is brought to you for free and open access by the Archives and Special Collections at Poet Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Rock by an authorized administrator of Poet Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. in J L :K The Alumni Magazine of Whittier College / Vol. XXIII, No. 2 JULY, 1967 WHITTIER COLLEGE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OFFICERS Eugene M. Marrs '50, Whittier, President; Dr. John D. Kegler '38, Palos Verdes Estates, President-elect; Thomas V.Deihl '47, Whittier, Immediate Past President; and Kenneth L. Ball '34, Whittier, Past President. MEMBERS AT LARGE Stanley C. Alexander '48, Santa Ana; Ray S. Dezember '53, Bakersfield; Stephen A. Gardner '40, Los Angeles; Wayne L. Harvey '60, Whittier; and Russell P. Vincent '40, Whittier. CLASS REPRESENTATIVES Judith Ann Shuler '64, Santa Ana; Kenneth Hunt '65, Downey; Gregory Hardy '66, Torrance. COMMISSION CHAIRMEN Wayne Harvey 60, Whittier, Alumni Fund; Mrs. Alan C. Davidson '63, Whittier and Mrs. George Marich '63, La Puente, Activities Co-Chairmen; Stephen A. Gardner '40, Los Angeles,Publications; Donald C. Bishop' 61, Hacienda Heights, Student Alumni Relations; Dean E. Triggs '33, Ventura, Education. ASSOCIATES PRESIDENT Vincent Sinatra '33, Glendale. CLUB PRESIDENTS Dr. Robert Thompson '43, Whittier, 1195 Club; Mrs. Anthony Pierno '54, Whittier,. Cap and Gown Alumnae; Alice C.Lembke'40, South Pasadena, Broadoaks Alumnae. SOCIETY PRESIDENTS Mrs. John Baker '57, Whittier, Athenians; Mrs. Ronald Rogers '57, La Habra, Ionians; Mrs. Hollis Griffen '60, Costa Mesa, Metaphonians; Mrs. Kendall Bowlin '55, Whittier, Palmers; Mrs. Lela Martin '64, Whittier, Thai- President's Message . 3 ians; John W. Brink '56, Whittier, Franklins; Stuart Gothold '56, Whittier, Lancers; Elwyn B. Dyer '50, Los Alamitos, Orthogonians; Robert Davis '62, Los Angeles, William Penns; and Jack W. Baker '59, San Gabriel, Part III 4 Sachsens. Who is Whittier College? . EX-OFFICIO Dr. Paul S. Smith, President, Whittier College; Buck Ferguson '67, President, Associated Students; Dr. Robert Alumni Award Winners 7 W.O'Brien,. and Dr. W. Roy Newsom '34, Faculty Rep- resentatives. ALUMNI REPRESENTATIVE TO THE Alumni Day and Commencement 8 ATHLETIC BOARD OF CONTROL Eugene M. Marrs '50, Whittier. THE ROCK STAFF Sports Round-up 10 Darrell W. Ryan, Editor; Richard Cheatham '68, Sports Editor; and Bob Bates, Graphics Designer. Member: American Alumni Council American College Public Relations Association Poets Promenade 11 THE ROCK is published quarterly during the months of Septem- ber, December, March, and July by Whittier College in the inter- ests of the Whittier College Alumni Association. Second Class Postage paid at Whither, California. Send changes of address to the Whittier College Alumni Association, Whittier, Calif. 90602. Old Acquaintances . 15 WHITTIER COLLEGE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Whittier College, Whittier, California 90602 / OXbow 3-0771 /Extension 221 July, 1967 Dear Fellow Alumnus: I would like to take a few minutes today to discuss some of the things that the Alumni Association has done this year, as well as what we plan to do in the future. We started last year's administration with a new alumni director, and, I might add, an alumni president who wasn't too familiar with alumni work. However, I am happy to state that the transition has been a smooth one. We have had additional board meetings this year which we used as "brainstorming sessions." Through these extra meetings we have encouraged a master plan of development for our Alumni Association. It gives me a great deal of pleasure to note that alumni giving is well ahead of last year and we have had increased community exposure largely through the efforts of Dr. Bob Thompson and the 1195 Club. We have enjoyed receiving your many compliments on the contents and attractive covers of The Rock and we can look forward to a stimulating series entitled "Whittier College Contributes" next year. Our future plans include an orientation retreat by the board of directors and officers of the Association. We plan to become better acquainted with our responsibilities as alumni and formulate future plans. The Association can look forward to a most successful year under the leadership of John Kegler '38 judging from his enthusiasm past and pre sent. I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of the board members, commission chairmen and officers for their invaluable help in making this year productive and enjoyable. Sincerely yours, Eugene M. Marrs 1 50 President Whittier College Alumni Association WHO Is WHITTIER EGLLEGE? PART 3 The opportunity to expound on the nature of the another 40% from other communities in Southern modern undergraduate is a risky invitation to give California; while 20% are from elsewhere in the to a college professor. Although each instructor has state, 20% are from other states, and more that his own ideas, it is a precarious undertaking to five percent are from other countries. Seven stu- identify the real differences between Whittier stu- dents in ten now live in college operated dormi- dents then and now. tories. Statistics reveal that Republicans outnumber Today is a time of authentic revolution in stu- Democrats 2 to 1 (as they did twenty years ago), dent mores and morals - a fact sometimes equally and Moslems outnumber Quakers (as they did not unacceptable to parents, teachers and alumni. twenty years ago). Whether we recognize it or not, the students of the Have these changes made Whittier a cosmopoli- late 1960's are NOT quite the same as those of an tan student body reflecting the changing world and earlier era. To be sure students on the Poet cam- the affluent society? My own perspective, broad- pus seem to exhibit a minimum of the outward ened during the past six years by two European symbols of the revolt - the beards and sandals, university assignments (Exeter and Copenhagen) the marijuana and L.S.D., the sex-without-love, the and summer session stints at two American uni- sit-ins, the teach-ins, the love-ins, and the general versities (New Hampshire and Hawaii), leads me stance of alienation. There are those in the Whit- to the conclusion that our students have not wholly tier family who are able to make themselves be- escaped the revolution of our time. lieve that our little microcosm is unchanging in a Whittier students have always reflected some of changing world. They believe that our students the societal transition occurring elsewhere within somehow have escaped the revolution of our time. their peer group. A careful reading of Charles This new revolution of the younger generation is Cooper's history of the college gives support to this not the indifference of the early 1950's nor the view. When 'existentialism' was the key word to alienation of ten years ago nor even the traditional describe the now students at the beginning of this and stylized deviant behavior characteristic of some decade, the Poet campus was not without its small individuals in all former student generations. The minority of examples. The majority of our under- overt symbols are the outward expression of a new graduates, however, had deep concerns for the and exciting generation of students unwilling and world (Peace Corps, Civil Rights, American Friends unable to accept the values and the standards of an Service Committee) or ambitions to prepare them- older generation. Critics refer to this new ethos selves for full participation in the status-occupa- which perplexes and worries parents, teachers and tional world (The Establishment). administrators alike as the 'Hang Loose Ethic.' Today the in system for explaining the 'happen- 5 It is a response to a credibility gap between the ings' on the college and university campuses is one professed Judeo-Christian democratic pronounce- featured in mass circulation publications. This new ments of our generation and our actual societal ethic is generally considered by social critics and behavior in the family, in the marketplace, in race sociologists to include the following aspects: 1) a relations, and in the Vietnam involvement. The certain quality of irreverence for the established new ethos goes far beyond that of our day which order, 2) humanism, 3) the virtue of spontaneity, logically raised questions about the gulf between 4) the value of the pursuit of new experience for its professed beliefs and real behavior. The Hang own sake (existentialism revised?), 5) the place of Loose Ethic challenges the traditional assumptions tolerance of many points of view, and 6) the impor- and things once taken for granted, and clearly tance of equality. affirmed even by undergraduates in revolt, are no A survey of Poet freshmen conducted in the longer accepted. The new approach is 'hanging a Spring of 1967 by graduate student, John Wathen bit loose' from the American traditions. To not gives some clues as to their reaction to the Hang grasp this difference is to miss the fundamental na- Loose syndrome. Three students out of five agreed ture and challenge of the Hang Loose Ethic. with the irreverent aspect of the new ethos, al- Important changes in the Whittier College stu- though approximately half of these students modi- dent body have occurred since the time two-thirds fied it with distinctly Christian beliefs. The major- of its members were from the local community and ity (77%) of the freshmen agreed with the human- less than one in four lived in college dormitories. ism aspect though it too was qualified by liberal Today 15% are from the local high school district, religious ideas.