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Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, “A box where sweets compacted lie" GEORGE HERBERT (1593-1633) The Staff Publisher Donald M. Slew art ’35 Jul Editor John S Day '63 Staff Reporter Christine B Hastedt ’68 Class Notes Editor Mildred (Brown ’25) April 1969 Schrumpf Volume 50 No. 4 Alumni Association Officers Libby Carl A Whitman ’35 President He becomes the University's 11th President, page 5. Kenneth F Woodbury ’24 1st vice president Mary-Hale (Sutton ’38) Furman 2nd vice president Edward H Piper ’43 Treasurer Donald M Stewart ’35 Students Executive Director A profile, page 7. Mildred (Brown ’25) Schrumpf Susan (Johnson ’67) Gaudet Assistant Directors

Alumni Council Special Report Who’s in charge, page 17. Donald F Collins ’49 Raymond R Couture ’51 Dwight B Demerritt, Jr ’51 John R Dyer ’41 Robert L Fuller ’38 Oscar R Hahnel, Jr ’44 Howe W Hall ’14 Harold P Hamilton ’30 Constitution Ralph L Hodgkins, Jr 59 The amended by-laws, page 33. Howard K Lambert ’47 Herbert A Leonard ’39 STATEMENT OF POLICY Harry R Mayers ’30 Margaret (Mollison ’50) McIntosh The General Alumni Association publishes The Maine Alumnus five times a Margaret (Mahar ’59) Merritt year The Alumnus is sent to alumni who have contributed to the Annual Alumni Edith (Talbot ’32) Ness Fund during the past five years, to senior alumni, to recent alumni for two years Alice Ann (Donovan ’40) Poeppelmeier after graduation, and upon subscription. Priscilla (Thomas ’49) Rines This issue is being mailed to all alumni to keep them abreast of a rapidly ex­ Robert P Schoppe '38 panding University Alumni and friends may obtain future issues through a contribu­ Louisc (Perkins ’46) Stebbins tion to the Annual Alumni Fund or by subscription at $5.00 per year. Millie (Simpson 62) Stewart Carl R Toothaker ’39 Fern (Allen ’34) Turbyne Photo Credits: Steven Williams, Al Pelletier, Jack Wales and Martha (Wyman ’54) Weatherbee Marcia Due. John B Wlodowski ’64

3 Director's Corner

New profiles at U MO

will be repeated many times in the means UMO!" That is to say, the focus Rather than get boxed into this Di­ future Our GAA President, Carl A of interest for this alumni association is rector’s Corner with too much philosophy Whitman, wrote to him: “My hearty ORONO At the same time, we will al­ and lofty opinion, I want to join the congratulations on your selection as the ways remain ready to cooperate with editor in opening up the pages of THE one to guide the destinies of our Alma other state college alumni associations MAINE ALUMNUS to make it friend- Mater 1 know that the officers, Council, in the statewide endeavors of the pro­ ly, readable and informative. And it’s and the members of the General Alumni gram headed by Chancellor Donald R. for that reason I’m taking my directorial Association will share my enthusiasm McNeil typewriter in hand to take you on a when they hear the news. We will co­ Finally . I’d like you to take a guided tour of this issue. operate in any way we can.” If you short tour of student attitudes here on It’s not every issue that we can in­ haven't already done so, why not drop a campus We can’t expect every student troduce to you a university president welcoming line of greeting to Win and to reflect our own personal views of the likes of Win Libby. I could write Betty Libby They’re great Maine life in these United States this very year. many things about the quality of this people' But, we can take heart that the human man who has been named President of Don’t close this issue until you have interest profiles that editor John Day the University of Maine at Orono, but I looked into two other subjects of cur­ and staff reporter Christene Hastedt will simply state I believe we have here, rent interest: a policy on giving and a present in this issue reveal a wide truly, a man for the times. In an en­ revised constitution As they say in one ranging variety of people attending deavor to give you a 360° view of him of the public service announcements on UMO. from all sides, we are offering a brief the air, ‘‘You can give to the college of Frankly, these profiles are an attempt biography giving the facts about Presi­ your choice" So, read through the to tell you that while these young people dent Libby, a profile of him by editor “Special Statement of Interest to All on campus today cut their hair all kinds John Day, and, for a view from the out­ Alumni Givers to the University of of ways—short, long and in between, side, a reprint of a vivid piece of writing Maine at Orono.” This is a guide which their greatest concern is for an enriched by Bill Crawford of the Maine Sunday reveals your contributions can in truth educational experience here at Orono. Telegram. be directed for use on the Orono campus. That’s America today. And UMO is typical of the best of our universities. I was with President Libby when he The second GAA matter of current We stand for excellence and op­ met the issues of today head-on at a local interest is the proposed revision of our portunity. alumni association meeting the night Constitution Last amended in 1965, it after he was named to his new position. is now being refurbished to keep in tune Donald M. Stewart I’m sure the reaction of the alumni at with the times. The proposed changes Executive Director that meeting, which was enthusiastic, make it unmistakably clear that “GAA General Alumni Association

The Maine Alumnus,, published five times a year in September, November, January, April and June by the General Alumni Association, 44 Fogler Library, University of Maine, Orono, Maine 04473. Editorial and Business offices at 44 Fogler Library. Donald M. Stewart, editor; John S. Day, managing editor. The General Alumni Asso­ ciation, Carl A. whitman, president, is an unincorporated association, classified as an educational and charitable organization as described in section 501C3 of the 1954 Internal Revenue Code. Total number of copies printed per year, 105,000.. Average per issue, 21,000. Send changes of address to the business office six weeks prior to the next issue. Advertising rates on request. The Maine Alumnus is sent to members and to other subscribers, subscription rate, $5.00 per annum. Member: American Alumni Council. Second class postage paid at Orono, Maine.

4 Libby is appointed President

EDITOR’S NOTE Winthrop C. Libby, 57, was named the 11th presi­ I dent of the University of Maine at Orono April 16 by the university's board of trustees at an executive session. President Libby has served for the past 10 months as acting president His salary was set at $30,000 per year. A member of the university faculty and staff for 35 years, he became acting president of the University last July when Dr. Edwin Young re­ signed to return to the University of Wisconsin. A native of Caribou, President Libby was graduated from the University of Maine in 1932 and received his MS degree in agricultural economics from the universty in 1933. He has also done graduate work in agronomy at Rutgers and Cornell Universities. He was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree by Ricker College in 1968. Appointed to the staff of the department of agronomy in 1934, was made head of the department in 1943. He served as associate dean of the College of Agriculture in charge of resi­ dent instruction from 1950-57 He was named to succeed the late Dean Arthur L. Deering as dean of agricultuer in 1957 In this position he directed the work of the College of Life Sciences and Agriculture, Cooperative Extension Service, and Maine Agricul- tural Experiment Station He was named vice presi­ “Libby knows more about dent for public services in 1968 Dining his years at the university he has been engaged in research ac- Orono than any man living. tivites, extension programs, and many public service Students trust Libby for activities. In 1966 he was named to the President's the best of reasons; he Committee on Rural Poverty, a select group com­ trusts them.” prised largely of cabinet officers and administrative [CALDWELL] officials. The committee later made a report to the President on their findings. He is married to the former Elizabeth Tryon and the couple has a son and two daughters. Bill Caldwell, editorial editor of the Maine Sunday Telegram, in his weekly Downstreet column, des­ cribed Libby as “The Spirit of Orono.” The Alum­ nus, with Caldwell's permission, reprinted most of that column.

BY BILL CALDWELL Given bio-data like this, an IBM computer, programmed Libby old-hat, hidebound, backward glancing at a ‘golden to choose a modern-day college president, would proba­ age’ of education which is dead and gone. This background bly choke on Winthrop C Libby’s punch-card Yet, should put Libby on a wave-length of thinking in collision few at Orono would doubt that among 7,500 students and and clash with the ideas and outlooks of today’s students. 450 faculty, he is the best - liked, most trusted man-on- But, in an old-shoe way, Libby is a perverse contradiction campus. of himself The reason is not because he is a Maine-bred and Maine- Instead of being ‘old guard,’ he is almost avantegarde. raised man from Caribou Or because he is an agronomist But, like a deer in the forest, Libby’s Caribou exterior Or because he has been around the Orono campus for over camouflages his attunement to the times. 37 years. Those characteristics should, by lights, make “The Major Mission of the University of Maine,” says

5 Libby on Libby

Libby (talking ‘Caribou’), “is the education of men and women.” Libby’s simplicity is no simpleness He adds- “But the U of M, like any Umveisity woithy of the name, is a proving ground for ideas as well as a transmission belt of knowledge ... It must be a place wheie different view­ points can be discussed freely and openly in an atmospheie of candor . . .” Quietly preaching his gospel of open- mindedness, Libby goes a long step further, saying "Experi­ ence convinces me that student disagieement is pieferable to student apathy; that student commitment even to false gods is preferable to no commitment whatsoevei, that stu dents who believe in their own maturity and wisdom aie preferable to those who expect the University to function as their parent.” The pomp and prerequisites of a umveisitj piesidency hang loosely on Libby, almost unused He has never “When you get a group of students working on any moved into the President’s house on campus Instead pioblem you come up with a spectrum of opinion ... he lives in his old home in downtown Oiono and walks two just the same as you would find in any other group. miles to work in all weather, ailiving at 7 30 a m in the They tend to act like human beings . not as students, President’s office, first man on duty At night his wite picks per se They do not sell a vested point of view When him up He baiely uses the Piesident s car When he takes they act honestly you can respect them a visitor to lunch, Libby takes his place in the cafeteria line. When he invites a visitoi foi a cup of coffee, he takes you to the undergraduates’ Beai s Den wheie bis table “Yes, theie have been some drastic changes in stu­ fills up with students When Piesident Libby diops you at dent behavior and attitudes It’s the temper of the the SAE fraternity house to change youi shirt he waits times But I am not conscious of the fact that we downstairs and in two minutes he is sunounded by 30 have knuckled under to student pressure We are open ’brothers ’ “I’m Libby,’ he says, stretching out a handshake to a dialogue I feel very strongly that we must to the counsellor on duty, when he carries your bag into have student involvement on this campus. the Gannett Hall doim where you aie spending a night There is no ‘side” to this man But, students must realize that they are transients Libby is proving to be an ideal conduit between the some heie They icmain four, five maybe six years . and times opposite poles of Trustees and Students liustees then they leave They must not alter the identity or rely upon Libby because after almost 40 years on campus philosophy of this college so that it’s changed for all Libby knows more about Orono than any m m living Stu­ times to deny subsequent generations an oppor­ dents trust Libby for the best of all reasons, he tiusts them tunity to get involved with the same problems. In the brief span of two yeais under Libby Oiono stu­ dents have won and are exercising a biggei and more ‘ Theie is strong student sentiment about the posture responsible voice than ever before in changing and im­ of our administration some feel we deal with cer­ proving student life. tain things hypocritically We do recognize the fact For example, an excellent and ne>v Disciplinaiy Code there are changes in attitudes but these do not origi­ enforced jointly by students and faculty (without adminis­ nate at the university They leflect changes taking1 trators), now governs student conduct, student iccommenda- place in then homes and communities. 1 tions have resulted in liberalizing gnl-boy visiting rules in the dormitories, a current student-faculty committee, with “Personally I am repulsed by some of these changes carte blanche from Libby, has just completed a thorough the new attitudes dealing with obscenity and investigative report into all phases of Student Activities, in­ pornogrophy cluding such holy-of-holies at the Deans’ Offices, the of­ fice of the Director of Student Activities, the Student “It is peifectly understandable that many alumni Union, Counselling and Placement Services It will iecom­ and are concerned about students mend major overhauls in many phases of umveisity adminis­ of today. They have in mind tration And Libby hopes to move promptly on putting them an image of the University in effect, wherever feasible that no longer exists. I think Dialogue, frequent, meaningful, mutually respectful, be­ they have a tendency to tween President and students is today part of the fabric of laugh off student activism Orono. It happens half a dozen times a day. This is the when it involves pranks, or kind of an interchange which minimizes the need of stu­ college high-jinks, but be­ dent revolt or administrative repression. come concerned when this The relationship on campus at Oiono might be an eye- activism—and it’s the same opener for other troubled universities And it all occurs in sort of thing—focuses in on a natural, normal way, without the pressure of crisis push­ the evils of our society.” ing it or the fishbowl glare of publicity which follows after a campus collision between Students and AdministraUon. 6 * '* »•» •» A * * ■ ‘ w A <4

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■r The Alumnus would like to present r *• ' * * a one-sided dialogue on the so-called • /»* ’A- . [CHASSE] V “generation gap” We selected 11 Univer­ sity of Maine students—we hope it’s a CHASSE, PATRICK HOMETOWN: CARIBOU, MAINE good cross-section—and let the kids AMBITION GRADUATE SCHOOL, TEACHING, OR WORK sound off Because they’re young and AS A RESEARCH SCIENTIST because they’re students, many of the A biology major, Chasse spends as much time in front of an things they say are sharp and critical. easel and canvass as he does in the laboratory. Most people feel The Alumnus feels their comments are he's very talented. Chasse is president of the Memorial Union Ac­ thought-provoking. tivities Board (MUAB); chairman of the Union Governing Board; a member of the Aits and Activities Board; active in the Young The university’s data processing center Democrats; campaigned for Senator Eugene McCarthy; and spent also has been profiling Maine students last summer as a Jackson Labs trainee in Bar Harbor. According to the computer- 48 6 per- ible curriculum and better guidance stu­ cent of those enroiled at Orono feel According to Chasse’ dents should know• what courses to take, students are more concerned about their Education should not be thought of it they are headed for a specialized social lives, dating parties, etc, than as training people to accept the world career, and why these courses arc neces­ about their academic progress 88 5 per- It should show the world bow to accept sary There should be more latitude in people. cent feel most university faculty mem­ general humanities, social science and Those who rant and rave about the other requirements so that the individu­ bers are genuinely interested in teach­ pollution of out youths’ minds in col­ al will not become lost in the process” ing 72 4 percent did not think that leges and universities are afraid They’re faculty members tended to be aloof and afraid that they have failed in teaching We should have, asserts Chasse. somewhat formal with students 79 per- then children how to make mature ‘Smaller, more intimate courses on judgments on their own ” cent found that students with personal highly specialized and varied topics to problems have easy access to a counsel­ spice up the general curriculum. The He says success of the special seminars here ing service 84 6 percent felt that stu­ seems to back this up. I’m all for an ar- 'The advisor student system here is dents at UMO associate with one an­ rangement such as Colby and other col­ unfair to both the students and faculty other without regard to racial, ethnic leges have adopted in which students can I think it’s too much to ask a full-time pursue practical experience in their or social backgrounds 85 4 percent felt professor to take in 10 or 20 cases for chosen field through special jobs outside that the administration has not banned pre-registiation and other obsolete aca­ the university.” demic rituals Guidance should be left the establishment of controversial stu­ “Universities, perhaps unintentionally, to trained professionals and pre-regis- dent organizations on the Orono cam­ divoice themselves from the outside tration should be left to the computer” pus. 49 4 percent felt that there arc world by their stuffiness and academic purity This separation, and the resultant too many administration restrictions Students today: aimed at regulating conduct between lack of communication, foster miscon­ “Don’t want to take over their respec ceptions by the public, causing land the sexes 78 3 did not see any evidence live universities, they want more free­ giant colleges so much trouble in deal­ that the UMO administration is against dom in living their lives Many uni- ing with state legislation. students with unusual appearances, versities make education too business­ “This apprenticeship program benefits beards, long hair, etc. 91 7 percent felt like too highly structured It’s like the student by giving him practical ex­ that protest demonstrations are not taking round, square, triangular, polyan- perience in his field in a realistic en­ gular and free-form pegs ... and putting vironment, instead of pushing him out popular with the students at UMO as a them through a machine that trims, the back door at graduation with a pile way of expressing their opinions. 59 3 gnaws, abrades and produces only of old texts and valuable little tips like percent felt that a person who advo­ squares.. or rejects. With a more flex­ ... ‘go forth and live.’ ” cates unpopular ideas, no matter how

X continued to page 13 PAUL EARLENE HOMETOWN: THE PENOBSCOT INDIAN RESERVATION, OLD TOWN, MAINE AMBITION: SOCIAL WORK Miss Paul is the oldest of 11 children. Her mother is a Passama- quoddy Indian; her father is a Penobscot. During her sophomore year in high school she enrolled in the Upward Bound Program. It broadened her outlook on many things. She set her sights on a college degree and continued to work with Upward Bound, last sum­ mer as a student aide tutoring younger Indian children on the Pen­ obscot reservation. Earlene started out in pre-med, but found its science courses a bit too dry. She’s a nursing student and plans to go into social work with Maine Indians after graduation.

Upward Bound: “After my sophomore year the guid­ ance advisor asked me I if I wanted to go to summer school. It (Upward Bound) wasn’t what I expected. The people in the program really seemed interested in you.” SHULMA “There were about ten kids in my group that eventually went on to college SHULMAN, MURRY S. I don’t think many of them would have HOMETOWN: WATERVILLE, MAINE decided to continue their education if AMBITION: PUBLISHING they hadn’t become involved with the project.” Shulman is the literary-type. He helped write the University’s “There are many bright Indian kids disciplinary code, is a member of the Disciplinary Board; editor of on the reservation who could go to col­ Ubris, an anthology of student poetry and short stories; is presi­ lege, but they don’t They feel they have dent of the Philosophy Club; and belongs to a fraternity. to quit school and go right to work ” “My younger brother dropped out just His magazine: cellently equipped for writing, find themselves filled with prejudices that are recently. My father felt it wouldn’t do “It is a valuable outlet for student difficult to lose any good to force him to go back ” expression The Maine student is a “There is a strength in naivete’... a unique writer. He maintains a curious Monday nights freshness of sorts. Writers on this cam­ simplicity that isn’t found in urban uni­ pus are, in a sense, naive—but their orig­ “I work with the Student Action versity literary magazines. In larger inality gains what their writing abilities Corps. They are a great bunch of kids. cities, you find schools of writing The lose ” We tutor children on the reservation things a student writes about tend to con­ Many of the children really don’t need form to what he thinks is expected of To put it simply: help in their subjects ... but they act him There is very little of that here in interested because they are eager to Maine Students write about their ex­ “There is a general lack of writing make new friends SAC also is working periences and sincerely paint what they ability on this campus and a preponder­ with retarded children in Brewer.” see and feel I don’t know if this is be­ ance of good, fresh ideas.” cause they are culturally starved and Being Indian don’t know any better... or what ” The university: “The biggest adjustment was not from Writing • “Its role is changing. I think this high school to college, but from our school has no more important function reservation school to a public high “I think the trick to good writing is than to develop in its students individual school. In elementary school, up until to be unique, to be yourself In urban styles of living The stress of education the sixth grade, we had very little con­ centers, getting back to schools of writ­ must be on the individual and his ability tact with people outside the Island. At ing, many students, even though ex­ to be himself in his writing, and in first I didn’t want people to know that I was Indian Once, when I took a friend from school home to the Island, “But now I’m proud of it. I tried to losing his hair, so she blamed me for she asked ‘where are all the tepees?’ ” get my mother to teach me the language. scalping him.” She can speak it fluently, but it’s dif­ ferent now because I am away from Interests: home I can do the dances. All Indian “I’m a big basketball fan. We spent kids love to dance. I don’t perform in last night listening to the Boston Celtics public, though.” game.” “My roommate, she’s from Fort Kent, jokes with me all the time. She cracks After school: up everytime there’s an Indian in a tele­ “Maybe Vista, or some kind of social vision show or commercial. Her father is work with the Indians.”

[PAUL] ------constant, creative living. There still is Campus trends: They have challenged me to keep up on this campus strong remnants of the with the issues of today. They spend a “I think some politically significant university that was . . . the Sophomore great deal of time researching and in­ things have happened on this campus in Owls, Eagles, Senior Skulls and All­ volving themselves with the issues. They the past five years. When I was a fresh­ Maine Women. These groups display will do this at the request of anyone if man the SDS had only 10 members. what once were the ideals of Maine stu­ they consider it a valuable cause. They Now they have a mailing list of over dents The University should no longer are a very selfless group of people.” 100, with the capacity of drawing many attempt to manufacture such student “Several times when I have been in­ ‘types,’ nor should it deify them. It more sympathizers if they need man­ power This definitely is a sign of more volved in SDS functions, peace marches, should produce individuals who can for example, I have been heckled. Al­ contribute to society creatively.” politically-minded students, which is a good thing for this society. The trend though I am a non-violent person, this will continue.’’ has led me to understand why people The Disciplinary Code: are driven to violence.” “It was put into effect this year on a practical, workable basis and it protects On the alleged administration gap both the student and the University Il’s and the need for a more effective Philosophy: a decent attempt at due process of law voice for women students: in that it gives the student the right any “I decided to become a philosophy “Often the people (students) elected individual would have. Now, we are major two summers ago after reading to leadership positions are ineffective... working to improve the code We want an essay by Thomas Paine I came merely henchmen of the Dean’s Office. I to iron out some bugs we’ve found in it across a passage which said that there is think we should take the advising of The most important part is making stu­ a correlation between great civilization student groups out of the Dean’s Office.” dents aware of the code. In this area we and philosophies That seems to be the are especially having trouble getting way many are made, you read something "I was on the President’s Advisory through to women students ” and bingo you have an idea.” Committee of the Student Senate work­ ing to develop a means for students to work closer with the administration. DRAKE, RUTH E. The committee recommended the elimi­ HOMETOWN: WISCASSET, MAINE nation of personnel deans and suggests AMBITION: VOLUNTEER WORK, PERHAPS WITH a Dean of Students. This proposal goes AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE. AFTER before the Trustees in April and will go THAT. . . TEACH IN A ONE-ROOM SCHOOL into effect July 1, if approved.” IN MAINE FOR AS LONG AS THEY EXIST

Miss Drake, who's active in the Students for a Democratic Student activists: Society, claims the protest generation is an “inspiring" bunch of kids. They're also pretty busy. Ruth is a student senator, is on the People don’t realize that the Student Executive Board of the Student Action Corps, has participated in Action Corps and the Students for a a Bangor tutoring project for three years; worked for UNICEF, Democratic Society came from the helped run the Coffee House, campaigned for Senator Eugene same nebula SAC began at a meeting McCarthy; was a member of the Class of 1969 Council, active in of about 10 kids I was one. The group the Philosophy Club; helps edit the Orono Free Press, an under­ split right down the middle over the ground newspaper; is a member of the Women’s Liberation Front; question of change. One group thought and the Grape Strike Boycott Committee. that the change should be immediate and apparent . the other wanted a long- She feels range political change. Basically, they are the same type of people. I saw the “The most valuable project that I need for both and have participated in have worked on is tutoring the Indians both gioups.” It has made me decidedly more aware of the problem of discrimination against them in Maine.” McCarthy • “The least valuable thing I have been “I was very disillusioned. We all involved with is the Class Council. If worked very hard for him. Some of us students are going to be distinguished in even gave up our spring vacations to any way, it should be academically, per­ canvass in Connecticut His defeat — by haps by college. Classes are a waste of a large political machine — could easily time and effort and are of no real ser­ make people resort to action outside the vice as I see them ” appropriate political system.” About the SDS Sororities: “I have very much enjoyed my work in SDS I have worked closely and be­ “They have a great potential... how- come friends with a very inspiring group ever, sorority girls strike me as short- of people .. truly an intellectual group. ranged and hedonistic people.”

[DRAKE] 9 BOWIE, JUDITH E. [DODGE] HOMETOWN: YARMOUTH, MAINE AMBITION: THAT'S A PROBLEM RIGHT NOW. SOMETHING OF VALUE THAT WILL BENEFIT MAN. Miss Bowie is an attractive red-head who is committed to the new image of womanhood. She takes a firm stand on controversial questions and feels other women students should do the same. Judy is a chief justice of the AWS Judicial Board, a member of the President’s Advisory Committee, was a delegate to the model United Nations; and is a member of the German Club. She is ma­ joring in International Affairs Judy is' portant because communications are the essence of human relations. When there “Bugged by the role of women on is a breakdown in communications the this campus in general There are very system operates and not the people few women in leadership positions They What is more important than the are reluctant to be presidents and always people?’’ seem to aim at the role of secretary or treasurer. They seem afraid to be put in a controversial position—to stand up for DODGE, CAROLINE their beliefs. I have done much reading HOMETOWN: MACHIAS, MAINE on this problem One book I suggest is *AMBITION A DOCTORATE IN DRAMATIC CRITICISM THE FEMININE MYSTIQUE The PERHAPS TEACHING AT THE COLLEGE LEVEL university should be a place where wom­ en learn to take on this sort of responsi­ Miss Dodge is co-salutatorian for the Class of 1969. Many bility and to open their minds ” people feel she’s the Maine Masque’s outstanding actress. She is a member of Near Mathetar and Phi Kappa Phi, scholastic honor She advocates societies, Distinguished Student, Class of 1969; Course Evaluation Committee; Arts and Activities Committee; is president of the “I think that it is important that kids en Maine Masque, a resident advisor; and an All Maine Woman. force their own rules through then own judiciary bodies ” About the Masque fust place I don’t think that kids change She is bothered by the fact because they have been selected to a I feel it's going in a new direction society they go right on being useful “The Disciplinary Code is a great step I here will be more student directed members of the community, regardless ” forward, but I can’t understand why work and the kids will have more time more kids haven't read it—the Code ap­ to do lab shows An idea for next year Women’s rights: plies directly to them They should is to have a theatre-in the-round in the realize that while it protects their rights, dining halls after meals twice a semes­ The AWS (Associated Women Stu­ they also have a responsibility to ter ” dents) doesn’t stand up and ask for the familiarize themselves with it ” power they should have I think that Her work as a resident advisor. women students are very conservative After graduation. here I am d’stressed at the back seat “I want to do something of value and “I have enjoyed it I feel that I have they are forced to take in many man­ help people. Classes, papers, and exams to be a student and a friend first rather ners I think, however, that this is the all seem so insignificant when I think than a policeman I am frustrated be­ fault of women, because they enjoy the about what I am going to do next year cause there is so much I would like to double standard.” There is so much frustration building up do with these people and I can’t often­ 1 in this world Antagonism and alienation times because of lack of knowledge or Coming from a small Maine are a problem. Something must be available time ” coastal town done.” * “It was scary . . . going from a high Honor societies The Administration Gap: school of 200 students to classes and “They are an honest recognition of dormitories of more than 200 I’m glad “I think that President Libby is great service to the University, both scholasti­ there were some small classes They He talks with us frankly and open­ cally and socially. really pulled me through.” ly. He communicates and that’s im- “I’ll tell you a story. I’m president of the Maine Masque Well, all year we’ve Home: x tried to think of something to do that “I’d like to stay in New England, or would be of service to the University. go to upper New York State. I think There always was a problem, lack of that once you live here you really get time, of money, etc So we finally decid­ hooked ” ed that we would just resign ourselves to being an honor society and forget about becoming a service group. Each The man she admired most. of us, as individuals, has been of ser­ “JFK I rooted for him since the vice to the University in the past . . . time he was nominated for vice presi­ or we wouldn’t have been chosen in the dent. I liked his brother Robert, too.” [BOWIE] ft

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• • Cowan is a student activist who believes in working through • -ui the system. He has been class vice president for two years; has just • •*.

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> the Sophomore Owls, chairman of the Committee on Higher Edu­ • I. V • 4' J > 1 cation for Maine’s Youth, a member of the Senate Political Lyceum •0 Committee; the Senate Faculty Relations Committee; Free Speech 1 JI and Assembly Committee, Maine Day Committee; Winter Carnival > 4 Committee; and President’s Advisory Committee on Student Ser­ vices. [BERNSTEIN] Cowan sees: » The fraternity system is dying on its » 'I •« feet unless the IFC is not significantly . 0 strengthened and soon The fraternities BERNSTEIN, SPENCER don’t take advantage of any sort of coa­ HOMETOWN: SOUTH HAMPDEN, PA. lition power that they might have as a AMBITION: POSSIBLY THE MILITARY group in the Senate “Politically most fraternities are back­ Berstein spent four weeks last summer on Hurricane Island, a ward. Then houses are unorganized rock in the Atlantic Ocean of Maine’s coast. He says he discovered They are a group of conservative reac a lot about himself during that time. A sophomore, Bernstein tionaries Unless there is a far-sighted started out in the College of Technology, but switched to Educa­ IFC, the system will begin to crumble” tion. He’s a first sergeant in his ROTC Company and is very active in Alpha Phi Omega, a service society that, according to Bern­ The administration stein, is trying very hard to “restore some campus spirit at Maine.” “It’s no help at all They fail to recog- About his summer vacation an instructor You find you really learn nize that the problem is updating the sys­ last year how to help each other when you are tem and practice in loco parentis despite tossing around in a 30-foot open boat the new disciplinary code Little things ‘ I enrolled in the Hurricane Island in 20-foot waves ” such as not being allowed to spend vaca­ Outward Bound School because I thought Each morning Hurricane Island stu­ tion in your own house (fraternity) and I might learn a great deal about myself dents are required to jog three miles having to register all social events with that I didn’t already know There are and jump into the ocean from a 50-foot the deans . chaperones for outings The five of these schools in the United cliff If one student dosen’t make the administration’s attitude is not conducive States, 23 in the world They are spon­ jump his fellow watchmen will not get to change ” sored by many private companies Beth- any breakfast that day leham Steel, for example “You achieve a group attitude with The Student Senate ‘They try to get a cross-section of everybody striving for the same goal. I “The Senate now runs somewhat left kids some of them are sent by state got to know one colored fellow in my of center This is good The University welfare agencies, slum kids from Phila­ watch real well. It changed my outlook.” is not accustomed to a liberal Senate delphia and Watts, and some are college Finding out about yourself: The accomplishments of the past two students like myself” years are most significant. This year in The idea is to mix students from dif­ “You have four days to do a lot of the spring elections, as it stands now, ferent environments put them through thinking They put you by yourself on there will be one liberal and one con­ seamanship and survival tests, and force an island with next to nothing for food. servative candidate and a ticket of SDS them to work as a team You have to fend for yourself. You candidates If the conservative wins, ‘We spent three days training in a learn your limits . what they really this will be harmful to all the Senate pull boat and four days cruising without are and what you thought they were.” has accomplished. I sincerely feel that a conservative Senate will stimulate the growth of the SDS, or at least be to He hopes: their advantage This is not necessarily ‘ That the trustees pass the president’s a bad thing I feel that the liberal Sen­ report on personnel deans and adminis- ate of the past two years has given some tration We need a good dean of stu­ outlet to creative legislation A conser­ dents and a good social affairs coordi- vative Senate would alienate these peo­ 5 nator The committee which would be ple without any legitimate channel to op­ formed as a result of this report would > erate in ” act as an ‘ombudsman’ (attorney for the people) They would have a power to The class system, Cowan feels aid and advise on the selection of ad­ “It’s dying There is no longer a use ministrative personnel and act as an ad- for it because classes are too unwieldy visory board directly advising the dean The Senate should be the entire gov­ of students. This committee would be ernment and students should pay all set up to feel the pulse of the University their money to this one place.” and transmit it to the dean.” [COWAN AND PRESIDENT LIBBY] 11 Did Hurricane Island help you FARRIS, DELIA MAE make any big decisions • HOMETOWN. CUTLER. ME. AMBITION GRADUATE WORK IN EITHER BIOLOGY, “I thought so at the time, but it hasn’t. PSYCHOLOGY OR ENGLISH What it did do was give me a better idea about my capabilities . . what I am Miss Farris is an attractive addition to the College of Life able to accomplish ” Sciences and Agriculture Her father is a lobster dealer in Cutler, a * Hurricane Island is not a cure-all But it small Washington County coastal town, and sometimes during forces you to do things you never summer vacation she hauls traps herself for pocket money. She thought you could . to extend your­ has better than a ? 8 point accumulative point average; works as a self.” companion aid at the Bangor State Hospital with the Student Action Corps; and won an award last year for accumulating over 1,000 books. Why she works in a mental inside a mental institution to get the feel institution of one It’s like a snake pit at times . . . very depressing The state has little ‘Mainly because I want to find out if funds for mental health, the doctors are I like pyschology enough to get involved afraid to try anything new and different with patients Also, because I have to get because they fear they might lose their positions, and there isn’t enough trained staff to go around, only two psychologists for 1,200 patients. Many people never receive treatment. BRIGHT, DAVID L HOMETOWN. PROVIDENCE, N. J. Communicating with mental AMBITION: WORK ON A MAINE COASTAL NEWSPAPER patients OR BE A FREE-LANCE PHOTO JOURNALIST ‘ One thing I’m especially interested in Bright started out as a chemistry major but ruined his chances now is psycho-drama It’s a very effective for a career in science by buying a $5 box camera as a freshman. way to communicate with the patients He fell in love with photography, a hobby that pushed him into They don't have many visitors; nobody journalism Bright wrote a few free lance articles for a small weekly really gets through to them but I feel in Bernardsville, N. J , last summer Nobody told him to do it, that theatre can be an effective way of but one day he decided to take a few pictures of a swamp in New' doing this Jersey that Mayor John Lindsay has his sights on for a new New York airport. He wrote an editorial, which opposed the plan, Her interests pointing out the damage it would do to local wildlife. According I’m a big sailing fan. A great to Bright, the fob caught the eye of his editor, who gave it a full- wanderer When nobody else wants to do page spread and immediately hired the Providence student as a anything, I go ahead by myself A lot summer staffer. During one three-week period, Bright ended up of people are restricted because they as acting editor of the paper He's managing editor of the Maine feel they can only do certain things for Campus and has some strong opinions about college journalism. fun and relaxation One observation helped. I feel Columbia has become a “You know what my big ambition is? more open campus. Buy an island off the Maine coast and “There has been a great deal of change You don't have that type of problem live on it I would get back and forth to in our colleges throughout the country here President Libby is willing to sit the mainland by Friendship sloop in the past few years This has created down and listen to the students That problems, especially in the big institu tions like Columbia ‘chicken incident’ (a dispute between the SDS and campus police last November) “A good part of the trouble stems could have gotten out of hand, or gone from a breakdown in communications College has just become too big The the other way if Libby had not acted like he did ” students don’t have anybody to talk to “I can’t see violence as a solution to any of these problems, though. Some of His newspaper: the demonstrations that have resulted "I will try to make it an open paper. came about because somebody thought We will accept opinions from all sides. they had to be done. I feel there are But, I don't feel I am under any obliga­ many good reasons for these demonstra­ tion to print just what people want to tions, like the one at Columbia, for hear Neither am I required to turn out example, but the tactics got out of hand a mediocre newspaper I am sure the students there attempted The practice of punting what the to go through channels, but were people want to lead is not good journal­ [BRIGHT] blocked. The demonstrations have ism, and there are several examples of it in this state. A newspaper, like an individual has the right to its own opinion, based upon the facts it has on hand The public is free to take it or leave it. “Theie are two other things. I feel a i newspaper should be fun and creative.”

[FARRIS]

*4 continued from page 7 extreme, should be permitted to speak Also: tics Last spring I went to Augusta during the state convention to work for him. I on campus 64.4 said that the prevailing “I’ve become very interested in con­ am glad he’s a maverick . . . that he attitude here is one of “playing cool” servation and joined the National Re­ still is not going to conform to normal sources Council Last summer I worked rather than deeply committing oneself politics. at Acadia National Park. I delved to an issue 5.2 percent indicated they into the Machiasport project . . did a have participated in Civil Rights Ac­ lot of reading on it. tivities. 415 have been involved with “I really don’t like test tube work. It either a fraternity or sorority. 6.8 per­ gets too far away from life. Science is Her books: cent reported being involved, to one becoming too far removed from the “I guess there are well over 1,000 of humanistic Even psychology ... re­ them They’re strewn all over the place. degree or another, with radical student searchers are defining people by statis­ Some in my room . . some in the groups like the SDS. 73.5 percent went tics.1 attic at home. I’m something of a pack­ to pep rallies and Homecoming. 60.9 t rat The books came from secondhand Politics percent of the UMO students have gone shops and places like that. hiking, skiing, camping or sailing. 5.7 ‘McCarthy was very exciting. I was “I feel a certain amount of security percent of UMO students said their stirred up by his new directions in poli­ with books.” fathers were unskilled laborers 25.7 put CAMPBFLL, HUGH JOSEPH JR. themselves in middle-class families; 7 5 HOMETOWN: FARMINGTON FALLS, ME. said their fathers held high-level execu­ AMBITION: GRADUATE SCHOOL AT THE UNIVERSITY tive positions. 17.8 of the students indicat­ MAINE AND THEN A CAREER IN SANITARY ENGINEER­ ed they are paying from 75 to 100 percent ING WITH THE PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE. of their own college expenses. 37.9 per­ Campbell stanch just under six foot six, but dosen’t look like cent are studying from 20 to 30 hours he tips the scales over 200 pounds. He says he wasn't a very good a week 35 2 percent felt they have re­ high school basketball player, but managed to set the all-time career tained the religious beliefs they held rebounding record this year for the University of Maine. He has an accumulative point average of over 3 4 in Civil Engineering. before entering college 10 3 percent said Campbell has been paving his way through college by working sum­ these beliefs have been strengthened mers at International Paper Company in Livermore Falls. Last 13 4 said they have rejected formal re­ month he married his high school sweetheart, the former Jane ligion 37 9 percent of UMO students Simpson of Farmington. He comes from a family of two boys and feel that the primary purpose of college nine girls. One of his sisters is a Catholic nun in Portland Afterschool Basketball is to broaden their intellectual interests and acquire appreciation of ideas. 31.2 “I’ll get into public health work, “I didn’t play during my junior year said they viewed it as a way to develop probably research on air pollution and at Farmington High School because of solid waste disposal Maybe, speaking on an injury . an inflamation of one necessary occupational skills. 91.3 per­ a long-term basis, I’ll try for a Ph D knee No, I wasn’t a high scorer or even cent felt that personal grooming is con- The pulp and paper industry is beginning a very good player in high school It sidered to be a matter of individual to do some good things in this area, but never even entered my mind to go out taste and concern at UMO. 62.8 percent if they don’t police themselves the fed­ for basketball here until my sophomore indicated there are many rules govern­ eral government will force them to clean year up their own pollution ing student behavior. 79.9 thought that ‘ I play for the fun of it. I get a lot of students have a voice in the formation of enjoyment out of a pick-up game in the non academic regulations 75.1 believe gym even in the middle of summer. It’s a great outlet ... a good way to re­ that the college feels it has an obligation lease your pent-up frustrations to parents to look after the well-being of students 70 percent think the student The record newspaper is essentially free from ad­

1 ministrative control 55.4 feel that rules 1 1 “It doesn’t mean much. The way they’re going up now, it will be broken governing drinking and smoking are . // \\ next year. strictly enforced. 97.3 said there are no • rules governing dress. 44.7 indicated that Why the Black Bears jelled during over one third of UMO students leave the second-half of their season campus on an average weekend. 49 per­ “It was a question of some of the cent indicated there is some discrimi­ younger players really coming on. nation in fraternities and sororities. 87.3 They’re going to have a pretty good team found the surrounding community cor­ next year. For the first time in a long dial to UMO students. 87 percent were f while you will see some hot competition 1 * ♦ , r satisfied with the research facilities open • ■f •, to make the varsity. 1 J . r M ‘ < !i • i' • B? 'a''m LX • to them in the library. 93.6 percent * 11 s * i [CAMPBELL] IMIIH /1 thought the Maine Masque is an excel­ V

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Because Donna Maria Manganelli Miss Manganelli, 21, of Canton, senes of forums, facing nearly 40 took her job as president of Alpha Mass , a senior at the university, was judges—educators, journalists and ce­ Delta Pi Sorority at the University opening the mail addressed to her lebrities. They scored each of the of Maine seriously, she wound up sorority several weeks ago when she 50 finalists on her knowledge, aca­ representing the State of Maine in came across the notice seeking ap­ demic achievements, personality, poise the National College Queen Pageant plicants for the National College and her record of service to her col­ It all came about this way Queen title lege and community Wishing to have her sorority rep­ The pageant was filmed in color resented, at least in the application for television with the coronation of stage of the contest, she attempted the new National College Queen to find a girl who would fill out the scheduled to take place Sunday eve­ application blank, but was without ning, April 20 success Finally, a fellow member Miss Manganelli is the daughter of persuaded Donna to fill out the ques the late Mr and Mrs Arnold Man- tionnaire herself and send along a ganelli of Milton, Mass She is ma­ picture joring in elementary education at the A short time later a call from U of M and will teach third grade New York City informed the sur­ in an Orono elementary school start­ prised Miss Manganelli that she was ing this fall Besides having been the representative to the pageant president of her sorority, Donna is an from the State of Maine. All Maine Woman, president of her The contest was held from April dormitory, Penobscot Hall, and was 11-12 at West Palm Beach, Fla, a resident advisor at Penobscot Hall Donna Manganelli with contestants participating in a on the Orono campus

William S Tynan University of Maine Rejects 1,100 New Campus Police Out-Of-State Students Chief Appointed The University of Maine, for its will be accepted The freshman class in Orono, Portland and Augusta campuses, the fall of 1968 was 2413 That year At Orono Campus will reject approximately 1100 qualified 5244 students applied for admission A 39 year-old East Northport, New students for the academic year starting Major reasons for rejecting qualified York, man has been chosen to replace this September All 1100 are out-of- applicants, according to Harmon, are Steve Gould as head of the Campus state students according to U-M Di­ inadequate housing not enough faculty Security Department Roscoe Clifford, rector of Admissions James Harmon members and the 20 per cent limitation Director of Grounds and member of Last year 700 prospective and quali­ for out-of-state students the committee that selected William S fied students were rejected for admis­ The 1969 freshman classes will con­ Tynan as new “chief,” said that he “is sion to the three campuses, all of them sist of 2030 in-state students and 470 someone who will talk with Deans and from out-of-state, Harmon said out-of-state, a 3-6 per cent increase over students ” 1968 The university maintains a ratio of Tynan’s latest job was with the Suffox admitting 80 per cent in-state and 20 per The largest increase in applications County District Attorney as an investi­ cent out-of-state students All qualified this year came from out-of-state resi­ gator and detective He served in this in-state students are being accepted, dents with 22 5 per cent more of them capacity from February 1968 to the Harmon explains seeking to enter the university than did present Previous to this he worked as a in 1968. plain-clothesman and the Criminal In­ As of March 15 of this year the uni­ Harmon added that 72.8 per cent of vestigator for the Suffox County Police versity’s admissions office had received the students accepted at the U-M in Department and for three and a half 5956 applications for its fall, 1969, 1968 were in the top 30 per cent of their years as a patrolman for the Lloyd freshman classes. Of that number, 2500 high school classes. Harbor Police Department. Eight from Maine Summer Course Offered Special Statement Have Won Woodrow At Darling Center of Interest to All Alumni Givers to Wilson Fellowships The University of Maine’s Ira C. Dar­ ling Center on the Damariscotta River University of Maine at Walpole will be the site of a six-week at Orono Summer Session course in marine in­ vertebrate zoology July 7 to August 15. A number of alumni and friends have Woodrow Wilson Fellowships, among Applications for the five-credit hour expressed concern about the use of their the most coveted awards presented an­ course close April 15, and students ac­ gifts since the consolidation of five state nually to graduating college seniors, cepted will be notified around May 1. colleges with the University of Maine. have been awarded to eight University Student enrollment will be limited to 15. Recognizing that alumni identify with a of Maine students during the past dec­ particular campus, and that citizens in ade / a particular locality have an affiliation I The students are listed in a compila­ for the campus in their area, the fol­ tion of Woodrow Wilson Fellows just lowing statement may be made con­ published by the foundation, covering cerning gifts to the University of Maine the years from 1945 to 1967 Prior to SPRING SPORTS at Orono: 1958 awards were made on a limited basis, but since the Woodrow Wilson BASEBALL 1 “All alumni class gifts established National Foundation was established in March 29—at Princeton (2) by students who attended or grad­ 1958 a nationwide program has been 30— Brown at U of Maryland uated from the Orono campus, un­ 31— at North Carolina supported by grants from the Ford April 1— at Pfeiffer (2) less otherwise indicated, are con­ Foundation 2— Brown at Salem Va strued to have been intended by 3— at Virginia 4— at Virginia those contributing for use on the U M alumni who received Woodrow 5— at Villanova 19—at New Hampshire Orono campus only.” Wilson scholarships for graduate study 23—at Bowdoin and their whereabouts in 1967 are 29—at Bates May 2— al Massachusetts 2. “All alumni class gifts established 3— at Massachusetts William H Springer, ’59, who re­ 5— Bates by students who attended or grad­ 7— Colby ceived his Ph. D. at Yale University as­ 9— Rhode Island uated from any campus of the en­ sistant professor of history at the Uni­ 10— Rhode Island larged University subsequent to 13— New Hampshire versity of Massachusetts 14 —at Colby May 27, 1968, will be asked to 16— Connecticut 17- Connecticut indicate on their instrument of con­ Donald R Mathieu, ’60, who received 20— Bowdoin veyance the campus or campuses his Ph D at Stanford University, assist­ 23—at Vermont 24—at Vermont on which the income from their ant professor of history at New York gift is to be used.” State Unversity at Oswego GOLF Alton H Clark, ’61, who received his April 17—at Rhode Island 3 All unrestricted gifts received 18— at Connecticut Ph D at Cornell University, assistant 19— at Brunswick Open through the instruments of the professor of physics at the U M Orono 30—MIAA at Bates Annual Alumni Fund will be used May 2—Yankee Conf at Rhode Island campus. 6—MIAA at Maine for the benefit of the Orono 9 11—New Englands at Williams campus Joyce M Baker, ’62, who received an 12— MIAA at Colby 13— State Tourney at Augusta M A degree in French at Indiana Uni­ 15—MIAA at Bowdoin versity 19—New Hampshire Kenneth F Morgan, ’63, who is a TRACK Ph. D candidate in American history at April 26—New Hampshire the University of Maine and an in­ May 3—Yankee Conf at Maine 7—Colby UMO Students Fast structor for the Continuing Education 10—State Meet at Bates Division. 17—Boston Univ For Biafria • 24—at New Englands Thomas R. W. Longstaff, ’64, a stu­ More than one fourth of the student dent at Union Theological Seminary SAILING population at UMO fasted April 16 to and Columbia University. April 26—NE Dingy Trials at Tufts raise money for starving African children May 3—Yankee Conf at Connecticut John R. James, ’65. James was an in Biafia. honorary Woodrow Wilson Fellow since TENNIS A total of 2,400 students agreed to he accepted another grant to study April 18—at Connecticut 19—at Rhode Island skip three meals Wednesday for the Food German linguistics at Massachusetts In­ 26—at Bowdoin stitute of Technology 28—at New Hampshire for Biafra Program, a service of UNICEF. May 2-3—Yankee Conf at Connecticut 5—Bates The univeisrty agreed to pay $1 for each Dennis C. Hass, ’66, who is now a 7—Colby graduate student in mathematics, special­ 10—at Bates student who turned down a meal. Stu­ 13-14—State Tourney at Bowdoin izing in topology, at Michigan State Uni­ 15—at Colby dents contributed an additional $400 in versity. 17—Bowdoin containers placed in the dining rooms. 15

r Wirtz To Address June 6 Commencement Alumni •AvkB* V i L 1 mittee on Employment of the Handi­ capped An Author of numerous articles on a News wide range of labor topics, Wirtz has

7 received honorary degrees from 13 i m u i i —nir—rrw J - » rr~w~—rr—m—~—f— colleges and universities Lois Jordan heads Portland Alumnae Lois (Brown) Jordan ’59 has been elected president of the University of Willard Wirtz Maine Women’s Alumnae at Portland The other officers are: Donna (Grant) Rauschke ’59, vice Willard Wirtz, Secretary of Labor Friday, June 6 president; Gwendolyn (Hughey) Kinney under President John F Kennedy and 9 00 am 11 00 pm ’59, secretary, Sally (McLaughlin) John­ Lyndon B Johnson, will be the featured Alumni Registration, Memorial Union son ’60, treasurer; Carol (Wescott) speaker at the 136th commencement ex­ 2 00 p m Dormitories open — Classes 1895-1926 Peters '61, corresponding secretary, Pa­ ercises of the University of Maine at Hart Hall, 1927-1969, Hancock Hall tricia (Smith) Ranzoni ’62 and Marilyn Orono, Friday, June 6 2 00 p m Campus Visits 3 00 p m Alumni Council Meeting (Matthieu) McDermott ’59, co-program Wirtz, who was appointed Secretary of 6 00 p m Reunion Class Dinners (see individual chairmen, Carolyn (Johnson) Rumery class programs) ’58, publicity chairman, Mary (Louder) Labor by the late President John F. Ken­ 8 30 p m Social Evening Main Lounge, Memorial Ahlers ’62, membership chairman, and nedy in 1962, will also be awarded an Union Opportunity for alumni, friends and faculty to meet Dr Donald R Verna (Wallace) Andrews ’49, auditor honorary Doctor of Laws degree at the ceremonies which are scheduled for McNeil, Chancellor, and Officers of the General Alumni Association, at 10 15 am at Alumni Field an Open House Dr. McNeil will * Before joining the Labor Department, Saturday, June 7 address joint meeting Wirtz career included law teaching, the in Portland area practice of law, labor arbitration and 8 oo a m - 5 00 pm Chancellor Donald R McNeil will public service At the time of his ap­ Alumni Registration Memorial Union address a combined meeting of the pointment as Under Secretary of Labor Class Breakfasts, West Commons Cumberland County Alumni Associa­ in 1961, when he served with Secretary Senior Alumni Breakfast Bears Den Memorial Union tion, University of Maine Women’s Arthur Goldberg, Wirtz was a member 9 30 am Senior Alumni Meeting Alumnae of Portland, and the Tn- of the Chicago law firm of Stevenson, Reunion Oass Meetings Alumni Group, which represents alumni Rifkind and Wirtz and a professor of Class Pictures from the University of Maine at Port­ law at Northwestern University. 11 45 a m Alumni Luncheon—all classes land, Portland Junior College, Portland Honoring Golden Anniversary Class of Born in DeKalb, III, March 14, 1912, 1919, West Commons University and Gorham State College in Wirtz attended Northern Illinois State Honoring Retiring Faculty Portland May 14. Teachers College from 1928 to 1930, the General Alumni Association Annual Dr. McNeil also spoke to the Merry Meeting immediately following the University of California at Berkeley luncheon Meeting Bay Alumni Association and from 1930-31, and Beloit College in May 1 to a combined meeting of the 2 30 p m Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony, opening the Wisconsin from 1931-33, He received a new Alumni Center, for friends and North and South Kennebec ounty Alum­ bachelor of arts degree from Beloit and alumni of the University of Maine ni Associations graduated from Harvard Law School 3 30 p m Tea and Reception, honoring former General Alumni Association execu­ in 1937 tive directors Clambake for Remainder of afternoon—cards, tennis, His teaching career includes a year as horseshoe pitching, cnbbage at Alum­ R. I. Alumni English teacher at Kewanee, Ill., High ni Center Carleton “Speed” Merritt ’24 will throw School and the teaching of law at the 5 30 p m Social Hour — banquet first course on his annual clambake for Rhode Island University of Iowa and at Northwestern. the Mall 6 00 p m Alumni Banquet — all classes — West Area Alumni Association members Sat­ From 1942 to 1946 Wirtz served in Commons urday, Mav 17. Washington, D C., as assistant general 9 00 p m Open House and Dance, Memorial Union counsel of the Board of Economic War­ Stewart will address fare, as general counsel and public mem­ Worcester, Mass., Alumni ber of the War Labor Board and finally as chairman of the National Wage Stabi­ General Alumni Association Director lization Board. Donald M. Stewart will speak to mem­ bers of the Worcester, Mass, Area During the time he spent in the Cabi­ Alumni Association Friday, May 16. net, Wirtz served as a member of the 16 President’s Council on Aging, President’s Council on Physical Fitness and the Advisory Council of the President’s Com- I ’ / ’•» f • • • X 9 r * <• J w

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change: ' . - ' ' - J college or university board must V. I “To the activist mind, the fact that our board provide a large part of the answer of trustees is legally entrusted with the property and by reaching, in Vice-Chancellor Boyer’s words, privileges of operating an educational institution is “the most crucial decision a trustee will ever be more an affront than an acceptable fact. What is called upon to make.” - considered relevant is what is called the social They must choose a new president for the place reality, not the legal authority. and, as they have done with his predecessors, dele­ “A decade ago the reaction of most trustees and gate much of their authority to him. presidents to assertions of this kind was a forceful The task is not easy. At any given moment, it has statement of the rights and responsibilities of a been estimated, some 300 colleges and universities private institution to do as it sees fit. While faculty in the United States are looking for presidents. The control over the curriculum and, in many cases, qualifications are high, and the requirements are so student discipline was delegated by most boards exacting that many top-flight persons to whom a long before, the power of the trustees to set university presidency is offered turn down the job.

policy in other areas and to control the institution 5 As the noise and violence level of campus protests financially was unquestioned. has risen in recent years, the search for presidents “Ten years ago authoritarian answers to radical has grown more difficult—and the turndowns more questions were frequently given with confidence. frequent. • - '. Now, however, authoritarian answers, which often “Fellow targets,” a speaker at a meeting of col­ provide emotional release when contemplated, some­ lege presidents and other administrators called his how seem inappropriate when delivered.” audience last fall. The audience laughed nervously. I The description, they knew, was all too accurate. asa result, trustees everywhere are re-exam- “Even in the absence of strife and disorder, /W ining their role in the governance of academic administrators are the men caught in the / colleges and universities, and changes middle as the defenders—and, altogether too often -X. M seem certain. Often the changes will be these days, the beleaguered defenders—of institu­ subtle, perhaps consisting of a shift in attitude, as tional integrity,” Logan Wilson, president of the ••• President Hester suggested. But they will be none American Council on Education, has said. “Al- ) . the less profound. though college or university presidencies are still In the process it seems likely that trustees, as highly respected positions in our society, growing Vice-Chancellor Ernest L. Boyer of the State Uni­ numbers of campus malcontents seem bent on doing versity of New York put it, will “recognize that the everything they can to harass and discredit the college is not only a place where past achievements performers of these key roles.” are preserved and transmitted, but also a place This is unfortunate—the more so because the where the conventional wisdom is constantly sub­ harassment frequently stems from a deep misunder- jected to merciless scrutiny.” standing of the college administrator’s function. Mr. Boyer continued: The most successful administrators cast them- • * ** •• 1 “A board member who accepts this fact will selves in a “staff” or “service” role, with the well­ remain poised when surrounded by cross-currents of being of the faculty and students their central con­

controversy. . . . He will come to view friction as an I . cern. Assuming such a role often takes a large ■J . essential ingredient in the life of a university, and measure of stamina and goodwill. At many in­ vigorous debate not as a sign of decadence, but of stitutions, both faculty members and students ha- • I • * ** * » robust health. bitually blame administrators for whatever ails them I “And, in recognizing these facts for himself, the —and it is hard for even the most dedicated of ad­ trustee will be equipped to do battle when the ministrators to remember that they and the faculty­ college—and implicitly the whole enterprise of student critics are on the same side. • . I * * w • • higher education—is threatened by earnest primi­ “Without administrative leadership,” philosopher * * *• « ** , X tives, single-minded fanatics, or calculating dema­ Sidney Hook has observed, “every institution . . . gogues.” runs down hill. The greatness of a university consists

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ing the professor as a specialist, it has become more • —* \ • y . • • •• • • • • • • difficult to promote faculty responsibility for edu- ”" y'Ho’s in charge? Today a new group ' cational policy.” L / has burst into the picture: the col- Said Columbia trustee William S. Paley: “It has k/ lege and university students them- been my own observation that faculties tend to as­ ▼ selves. - • sume the attitude that they are a detached ar­ VThe issues arousing students have been numerous. bitrating force between students on one hand and Last academic year, a nationwide survey by Educa­ administrators on the other, with no immediate tional Testing Service found, the Number 1 cause responsibility for the university as a whole.” of student unrest was the war in Vietnam; it caused protests at 34 per cent of the 859 four-year colleges et in theory, at least, faculty members and universities studied. The second most frequent seem to favor the idea of taking a greater cause of unrest was dormitory regulations. This part in governing their colleges and year, many of the most violent campus demonstra­ universities. Inlhe American Council on tions have centered on civil rights. YEducation’s survey of predictions for the 1970In’s, many instances the stated issues were the real 99 per cent of the faculty members who responded causes of student protest. In others they provided said such participation was “highly desirable” or excuses to radical students whose aims were less the “essential.” Three out of four said it was “almost correction of specific ills or the reform of their col­ certain” or “very likely” to develop. (Eight out of leges and universities than the destruction of the ten administrators agreed that greater faculty par­ political and social system as a whole. It is impor­ ticipation was desirable, although they were con­ tant to differentiate the two, and a look at the siderably less optimistic about its coming about.) dramatis personae can be instructive in doing so. In another survey by the American Council on • • • Education, Archie R. Dykes—now chancellor of the at the left—the “New Left,” not to be con- University of Tennessee at Martin—interviewed /% fused with old-style liberalism—is Stu- 106 faculty members at a large midwestern univer­ f ^k dents for a Democratic Society, whose sity to get their views on helping to run the in­ W leaders often use the issue of university stitution. He found “a pervasive ambivalence in reform to mobilize support from their fellow students faculty attitudes toward participation in decision­ and to “radicalize” them. The major concern of making.” sds is not with the colleges and universities per se, Faculty members “indicated the faculty should but with American society as a whole. have a strong, active, and influential role in de­ “It is basically impossible to have an honest • *. X. • ’ • cisions,” but “revealed a strong reticence to give the university in a dishonest society,” said the chairman time such a role would require,” Mr. Dykes re­ of sds at Columbia, Mark Rudd, in what was a fairly ported. “Asserting that faculty participation is es­ representative statement of the sds attitude. Last sential, they placed participation at the bottom of year’s turmoil at Columbia, in his view, was im­ the professional priority list and deprecated their mensely valuable as a way of educating students colleagues who do participate.” and the public to the “corrupt and exploitative” Kramer Rohfleisch, a history professor at San nature of U.S. society. Diego State College, put it this way at a meeting of “It’s as if you had reformed Heidelberg in 1938,” the American Association of State Colleges and an sds member is likely to say, in explanation of his Universities: “If we do shoulder this burden [of philosophy. “You would still have had Hitler’s academic governance] to excess, just who will tend Germany outside the university walls.” the academic store, do the teaching, and extend the The sds was founded in 1962. Today it is a loosely range of human knowledge?” organized group with some 35,000 members, on The report of a colloquium at Teachers College, about 350 campuses. Nearly everyone who has New York, took a different view: “Future encoun­ studied the sds phenomenon agrees its members are ters [on the campuses] may be even less likely of highly idealistic and very bright. Their idealism has

I . J ‘Student power' has many meanings, as thegovernance young seek a role in college ' J'V Attached to a college (intellectually, led them to a disappointment with the society around them, and they have concluded it is corrupt. Most sds members disapprove of the Russian experience with socialism, but they seem to admire the Cuban brand. Recently, however, members re­ turning from visits to Cuba have appeared disil­ lusioned by repressive measures they have seen the government applying there. The meetings of sds—and, to a large extent, the activities of the national organization, generally— have an improvisational quality about them. This often carries over into the sds view of the future. “We can’t explain what form the society will take after the revolution,” a member will say. “We’ll just have to wait and see how it develops.” In recent months the sds outlook has become in­ creasingly bitter. Some observers, noting the escala­ tion in militant rhetoric coming from sds head­ quarters in Chicago, fear the radical movement soon may adopt a more openly aggressive strategy. Still, it is doubtful that sds, in its present state of organization, would be capable of any sustained, concerted assault on the institutions of society. The organization is diffuse, and its members have a J _ strong antipathy toward authority. They dislike carrying out orders, whatever the source.

ar more influential in the long run, most observers believe, will be the U.S. National Student Association. In the current spectrum of student activism on the campuses, leaders Fof the nsa consider their members “moderates,” not radicals. A former nsa president, Edward A. Schwartz, explains the difference: “The moderate student says, ‘We’ll go on strike, rather than burn the buildings down.’ ” The nsa is the national organization of elected student governments on nearly 400 campuses. Its Washington office shows an increasing efficiency and militancy—a reflection, perhaps, of the fact that many college students take student government much more seriously, today, than in the past. The nsa talks of “student power” and works at it: more student participation in the decision-making at the country’s colleges and universities. And it wants changes in the teaching process and the traditional curriculum. In pursuit of these goals, the nsa sends advisers around the country to help student governments with their battles. The advisers often urge the students to take their challenges to authority to the 4 • F emotionally) and detached (physically), alumni can be a great and healthy force courts, and the nsa’s central office maintains an participation—participation that gets down to the up-to-date file of precedent cases and judicial ‘nitty-gritty’—is of course difficult,” Dean C. Peter decisions. Magrath of the University of Nebraska’s College of A major aim of nsa this year is reform of the Arts and Sciences has written. “Students are birds academic process. With a S315,000 grant from the of passage who usually lack the expertise and Ford Foundation, the association has established a sophistication to function effectively on complex center for educational reform, which encourages university affairs until their junior and senior years. students to set up their own classes as alternative Within a year or two they graduate, but the ad­ models, demonstrating to the colleges and univer­ ministration and faculty are left with the policies sities the kinds of learning that students consider they helped devise. A student generation lasts for worthwhile. four years; - colleges and universities are more The Ford grant, say nsa officials, will be used to permanent.” ‘ “generate quiet revolutions instead of ugly ones” Yale University’s President Kingman Brewster, on college campuses. The nsa today is an organiza­ testifying before the National Commission on the tion that wants to reform society from within, Causes and Prevention of Violence, gave these four rather than destroy it and then try to rebuild. “prescriptions” for peaceful student involvement: Also in the picture are organizations of militant ► Free expression must be “absolutely guaran­ Negro students, such as the Congress for the Unity teed, no matter how critical or demonstrative it of Black Students, whose founding sessions at Shaw may be.” University last spring drew 78 delegates from 37 ► Students must have an opportunity to take colleges and universities. The congress is intended part in “the shaping and direction of the programs, as a campus successor to the Student Nonviolent activities, and regulations which affect them.” Coordinating Committee. It will push for courses on ► Channels of communication must be kept the history, culture, art, literature, and music of open. “The freedom of student expression must be Negroes. Its founders urged students to pursue their matched by a willingness to listen seriously.” goals without interfering with the orderly operation ► The student must be treated as an individual, of their colleges or jeopardizing their own academic with “considerable latitude to design his own activities. (Some other organizations of black students program and way of life.” are considerably more militant.) With such guidelines, accompanied by positive And, as a “constructive alternative to the disrup­ action to give students a voice in the college < and tive approach,” an organization called Associated university affairs that concern them, many observers Student Governments of the U.S.A, claims a mem­ think a genuine solution to student unrest may be bership of 150 student governments and proclaims attainable. And many think the students’ contribu- • X that it has “no political intent or purpose,” only tion to college and university governance will be “the sharing of ideas about student government.” substantial, and that the nation’s institutions of These are some of the principal national groups. higher learning will be the better for it. In addition, many others exist as purely local or­ “Personally,” says Otis A. Singletary, vice-chan­ ganizations, concerned with only one campus or cellor for academic affairs at the University of specific issues. Texas, “my suspicion is that in university reform, ■ the students are going to make a real impact on the xcept for those whose aim is outright dis­ improvement of undergraduate teaching.” ruption for disruption’s sake, many such Says Morris B. 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-yHo’s in charge? Trustees and ad- Others—at the other end of the spectrum—demand % J ministrators, faculty members and the destruction of the whole enterprise, without %/ %/ students. Any other answer—any proposing any alternatives. ▼ ▼ authoritarian answer from one of If the colleges and universities survive these the groups alone, any call from outside for more demands, it will be because reason again has taken centralization of authority to restore “order” to hold. Men and women who would neither destroy the campuses—misses the point of the academic the system nor prevent needed reforms in it are enterprise as it has developed in the United States. hard at work on nearly every campus in America, ** * The concept of that enterprise echoes the European seeking ways to keep the concept of the academic idea of a community of scholars—self-governing, community strong, innovative, and workable. self-determining—teachers and students sharing the The task is tough, demanding, and likely to con­ goal of pursuing knowledge. But it adds an idea that tinue for years to come. “For many professors,” from the outset was uniquely American: the belief said the president of Cornell University, James A. that our colleges and universities must not be self­ Perkins, at a convocation of alumni, “the time re­ centered and ingrown, but must serve society. quired to regain a sense of campus community . . . This idea accounts for putting the ultimate legal demands painful choices.” But wherever that sense authority for our colleges and universities in the has been lost or broken down, regaining it is hands of the trustees or regents. They represent the essential. view of the larger, outside interest in the institu­ The alternatives are unacceptable. “If this com­ tions: the interest of churches, of governments, of the munity forgets itself and its common stake and people. And, as a part of the college or university’s destiny,” John Caffrey has written, “there are government, they represent the institution to the powers outside that community who will be only public: defending it against attack, explaining its too glad to step in and manage for us.” Chancellor case to legislatures, corporations, labor unions, Samuel B. Gould, of the State University of New church groups, and millions of individual citizens. York, put it in these words to a committee of the Each group in the campus community has its own state legislature: interests, for which it speaks. Each has its own “This tradition of internal governance . .. must— authority to govern itself, which it exercises. Each at all cost—be preserved. Any attempt, however has an interest in the institution as a whole, which well-intentioned, to ignore trustee authority or to it expresses. Each, ideally, recognizes the interests of undermine the university’s own patterns of opera­ the others, as well as the common cause. tion, will vitiate the spirit of the institution and, in That last, difficult requirement, of course, is time, kill the very thing it seeks to preserve.” & where the process encounters the greatest risk of • !. -• ’ I . breakdown. . • < ho’s in charge there? The jigsaw “Almost any proposal for major innovation in the puzzle, put together on the preced­ universities today runs head-on into the opposition ing page, shows the participants: of powerful vested interests,” John W. Gardner has trustees, administrators, professors, observed. “And the problem is compounded by the Wstudents, ex-students. But a piece is missing. It must fact that all of us who have grown up in the aca­ be supplied, if the answer to our question is to be demic world are skilled in identifying our vested accurate and complete. interests with the Good, the True, and the Beautiful, It is the American people themselves. By direct so that any attack on them is, by definition, and indirect means, on both public and private subversive.”- \ colleges and universities, they exert an influence In times of stress, the risk of a breakdown is that few of them suspect. especially great. Such times have enveloped us all, The people wield their greatest power through in recent years. The breakdowns have occurred, on governments. For the present year, through the 50 some campuses—at times spectacularly. states, they have appropriated more than $5-billion Whenever they happen, cries are heard for in tax funds for college and university operating abolishing the system. Some demand that campus expenses alone. This is more than three times the authority be gathered into the hands of a few, who $1.5-billion of only eight years ago. As an expression would then tighten discipline and curb dissent. of the people’s decision-making power in higher Simultaneously, much power is held by ‘outsiders’ usually unaware of their role 4

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% Brookings Institution’s “Agenda for the Nation,” grew rapidly. ✓ presented to the Nixon administration: « “Power is allocated with money,” he wrote. illions of dollars every year went “The day is largely past of the supremacy of the to the campuses for research. Most of autocratic president, the all-powerful chairman of it was allocated to individual faculty the board, the feared chairman of the state appro­ members, and their power grew pro­ priations committee, the financial patron saint, the portionately. So did their independence from the I M all-wise foundation executive guiding higher educa­ college or university that employed them. So did tion into new directions, the wealthy alumnus with the importance of research in their lives. Clearly his pet projects, the quiet but effective representa­ that was where the money and prestige lay; at tives of the special interests. This shift of power can be seen and felt on almost every campus. Twenty % years of federal^ impact has been the decisive in­ fluence in bringing it about. “Decisions are being made in more places, and

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federal programs of aid to higher education have < that we are willing to exercise the necessary caution • % been remarkably free of taint. But the federal power which will permit the institution—with its faults— to influence the direction of colleges and uni­ to survive and even flourish?” versities was strong and, for most, irresistible. In answering that question, the alumni and Church-related institutions, for example, found alumnae have a crucial part to play. As formei themselves re-examining—and often changing— students,• they know the importance of the* highei their long-held insistence on total separation of educational process as few others do. They under­ church and state. A few held out against taking stand why it is, and must be, controversial; why federal funds, but with every passing year they it does, and must, generate frictions; why it is, found it more difficult to do so. Without accepting and must, be free. And as members of the public, them, a college found it hard to compete. they can be higher education’s most informed anc persuasive spokesmen. he power of the public to influence the Who’s in charge here? The answer is at once « * . • * • • • - - campuses will continue. The Carnegie simple and infinitely complex. Commission on Higher Education, in The trustees are. The faculty is. The students are its important assessment issued in Decern- The president is. You are.

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z and universities are taking part. It was pre­ their institutions. Copyright © 1969 by Edi­ pared under the direction of the group listed torial Projects for Education, Inc. All rights I . •• U • k / below, who form editorial projects for reserved; no part may be reproduced without i education, a non-profit organization associ­ the express permission of the editors. Printed ated with the American Alumni Council. in U. S. A. I X « I I / * K • • WILLIAM S. ARMSTRONG GEORGE C. KELLER ROBERT M. RHODES DOROTHY F. WILLIAMS i • • Indiana University Columbia University The University of Pennsylvania Simmons College \ * DENTON BEAL JACK R. MAGUIRE STANLEY SAPLIN % RONALD A. WOLK Carnegie-Mellon University The University of Texas New York University u Brown University / * DAVID A. BURR JOHN I. MATTILL VERNE A. STADTMAN ELIZABETH BOND WOOD * ’ . r The University of Oklahoma Massachusetts Institute The Carnegie Commission on Sweet Briar College of Technology Higher Education CHESLEY WORTHINGTON MARALYN O. GILLESPIE KEN METZLER FREDERIC A. STOTT , CORBIN GWALTNEY '' Swarthmore College f The University of Oregon Phillips Academy, Andover Executive Editor WARREN GOULD RUSSELL OLIN FRANK J. TATE JOHN A. CROWL • z • < George Washington University i The University of Colorado The Ohio State University f Associate Editor I CHARLES M. HELMKEN JOHN W. PATON t CHARLES E. WIDMAYER WILLIAM A. MILLER, JR. American Alumni Council Wesleyan University Dartmouth College « Managing Editor 5 < * Z fl

"UMO" Stressed in Proposed Revisions of GAA Constitution

This proposed revised GAA Constitution will be presented to the alumni for their consideration at the Annual Meeting which will be convened immediately following the Reunion Luncheon, in the Me­ morial Gymnasium, Saturday, June 7. 1969.

Albert M. Parker ’28, Chairman Laws of the General Alumni Assoc­ of the Constitution and By-Laws iation to up-date them in keeping Committee, has served in several with the changed course and antici­ capacities in the Alumni Association pated future position of the Univer­ of the Greater New York Area and sity of Maine at Orono (UMO). Mr. was President of the New York As­ Parker reports, “This work has en­ sociation and Chairman of its tailed coordination with and con­ Scholarship Committee He has sideration of the many helpful and served on the Alumni Council for worthwhile suggestions from the two terms, and has been a member General Alumni Office in Orono and of the Executive Committee for most from other active alumni on the of that time. In the last two years he campus in Orono and in the New ALBERT M BARKER has been Chairman of the Stem Club York City area. The Chairman Chairman Committee wishes to take this opportunity to Constitutional By-Laws The Constitution has been active in thank all these individuals for their Committee revising the Constitution and By­ timely and helpful suggestions.”

tive Directors (one of whom may be an alumna) and such other Article I—Name and Objects officers as may be chosen, to have such duties and to be elected as prescribed in the By-Laws Section 1 The association heretofore constituted by the alumni of the University of Maine at Orono and formerly known as the General Alumni Association of the University of Maine shall on and after July 1, 1969 be known as the General Alumni Association Article IV—Alumni Council and Executive Committee of the University of Maine at Orono (UMO) Section 2 (a) The initials UMO are the abbreviation of the name Section 1 There shall be an Alumni Council (hereinafter referred of and identify the University of Maine at Orono and shall have to as the Council) which shall be the representative body of the that meaning when used herein So long as the Bangor campus retains Association a present position as part of and subject to the administration of Section 2 There shall be an Executive Committee made up of the the University of Maine at Orono, it shall be included in the UMO elected Officers of the Association and no less than three and no identification, as shall any other facility wherever located which more than seven members of the Council appointed from the Council similarly operates subject to the administration of the University of by the President Maine at Orono Section 3 The Council shall be charged with consideration of (b) The term “Association ’ as used for convenience herein shall matters in the name and stead of the Association between meetings mean the General Alumni Association of the University of Maine at of the Association, except the Council shall not amend the Constitu­ Orono (UMO) tion or By-Laws Furthermore, the Council shall receive reports of Section 3 The objects of the Association shall be (1) to advance all meetings of the Executive Committee. the interests of the University of Maine at Orono, (2) to achieve Section 4 The Executive Committee shall act for and in the place wider recognition and broader understanding of the educational of the Council between meetings thereof and shall prepare matters for aims of UMO, (3) to establish a mutually beneficial relationship review by the Council between UMO and the members of the Association, (4) to foster a spirit of loyalty and fraternity among the students, the faculty and graduates of UMO, and (5) to cooperate with alumni associations Article V—Committees similarly dedicated at the other institutions forming parts with UMO of the group of institutions recently by legislative enactment given the name of the University of Maine Section 1. Committees may be appointed or chosen by the President, Section 4 The Association may adopt By-Laws and from time to by the Executive Committee or by the Council to carry out such time amend the same It may acquire and dispose of property, receive activities and duties of the Association as are assigned to them. and hold gifts and bequests in trust or otherwise, to be used and applied by the donors but within the limits of its objects and purposes The Association has been organized and shall be operated exclusively Article VI—Place of Business for charitable, educational, fraternal and other non profit purposes The donations received by it through the annual fund drive or other­ wise and its investment income shall, after deduction of the Associ­ Section 1. The principal place of business of the Association shall ation’s normal operating expenses, be used for carrying out, in con­ be at Orono in the State of Maine nection with UMO only, the objectives of the Association Article VII—Annual Meeting Article II—Membership Section 1 The annual meeting of the Association shall to the extent Section 1. All persons who have received a degree in regular course possible be held within one week of the Spring Commencement at from UMO or are members at the time of adoption of this revision of a time and place in Orono to be determined by the Executive Com­ the Constitution, or who have been in attendance as students in any mittee of the Council . department of UMO for a period of not less than two semesters but Section 2 Officers and Council members as submitted for election who have not received a degree and are no longer students, are by the Nominating Committee shall be voted on by the membership members of the Association. at the Annual Meeting. Other nominations may be made from the Section 2. Any recipient of an honorary degree from UMO shall floor. A simple majority vote of those present shall be sufficient for be a member of this Association election.

Article III—Officers Article VIII—Seal Section 1. The officers of the Association shall be a President, Section 1 The seal of the Association shall be similar to that of First Vice President, Second Vice President (who shall be an alumna), the State of Maine but with the words “General Alumni Association- Clerk, Treasurer, Executive Director, one or more Assistant Execu­ University of Maine at Orono” forming a surrounding border. 33

I section, the President of the Student Senate of UMO, by virtue of his Article IX—Amendments office, shall be invited to membership on the Council, together with the ranking officer of the Student Senate who shall be of the opposite Section 1. This Constitution may be amended by a two-thirds vote sex In the event that all Senate officers are of the same sex, the of those members present and voting at any annual meeting of the additional appointee shall be a member of the Senate of the opposite Association, provided the amendments proposed shall have been sub­ sex from the President, and shall be selected by the officers of the mitted at a previous meeting of the Association or notice of such Senate amendments shall have been sent to all members of the Association (f) The Immediate Past President, by virtue of his prior office, at least one month prior to the annual meeting by means of an shall become a member of the Council for one three-year term. alumni publication or otherwise Section 2 A sufficient number of Council members shall be elected at the Annual Meeting to maintain a Council of 24 elected members. The normal term of service shall be three years, except in the case of election of a member to serve out an incomplete term. The By-Laws—Article I—Officers and Staff terms of the Council members elected at the Annual Meeting shall begin on July 1 of the year in which they are elected and shall termi­ Section 1. The President, First and Second Vice Presidents, nate on June 30 of the year in which their successors are named. Clerk, and Treasurer of the Association shall on election hold office With the exception of the Immediate Past President, officers and for two years or until their successors are elected and qualified. members shall be ineligible for re-election or re-appointment for a Section 2 The President shall preside at meetings of the Associa­ period of one year after having completed two successive full terms. tion and of the Council and perform such other duties as pertain Section 3 In case of a vacancy occurring during the year, the to the office The Vice Presidents in order of First and Second Executive Committee of the Council shall make a temporary appoint­ shall act in the absence or illness of the President In the absence ment until the next annual meeting, when a member of the Associa­ of the President and both Vice Presidents, a chairman pro tern may tion shall be elected to serve the incomplete term. be elected by the Association or Council. Section 4 The Council shall hold a regular annual meeting at Orono Section 3 The Clerk shall keep a true and permanent record of the preceding the annual meeting of the Association. Other meetings meetings of the Association, and of the Council, and perform such may be held at the call of the President of the Association or of other duties as may from time to time be prescribed In the absence the Executive Committee The Council may act by majority vote of of the Clerk, a clerk pro tern shall be appointed by the presiding those present officer Section 5 Fifteen Council members shall constitute a quorum at Section 4 The Treasurer shall have charge of the funds of the any regular or special meeting Association and shall deposit such funds in such depository as shall Section 6 The President, two Vice Presidents, Clerk and Treasurer be selected by the Treasurer and approved by the Executive Com­ of the Association shall, by virtue of their offices, be the general mittee of the Council and shall give bond in such amount as may officers of the Council, but the Council may elect from among its be directed by the Executive Committee of the Council, the cost of own members such additional officers as it may deem necessary the bond to be paid from the funds of the Association. Officers shall discharge the duties usually incumbent upon such officers, All bills of the Association shall be paid by checks signed by the together with any others which may be assigned by the Council. Executive Director (or, in his absence, by an Assistant Executive Section 7 Payment of bills or other charges approved by a vote Director authorized by the President), and to be countersigned in of the council or Executive Committee shall be made from the treasury either case by the Treasurer or the Clerk of the Association The Treasurer shall execute, and acknowledge when necessary, any Section 8 Any member failing to attend two consecutive annual conveyances, endorsements, assignments, transfers, stock powers or meetings of the Council shall be considered to have forfeited his other instruments of transfer and any proxies in the name and behalf membership unless otherwise determined in the discretion of the of the Association as approved by the Council or its Executive Com­ Executive Committee, and his vacancy shall be filled as provided in mittee unless the Executive Committee designates another to perform Article II, Section 3, of the By-Laws such functions. The fiscal year shall be from July 1 to June 30 and the Trea­ surer shall submit a preliminary annual report at the annual meetings By-Laws—Article III—Executive Committee of the of the Association and Council as of June 1 A full audited report of the prior fiscal year shall be presented by the Treasurer to the Council Executive Committee by September 1 Section 5 The Executive Director shall be appointed by the Section 1 The Executive Committee shall have the authority to Executive Committee for an initial two-year term and this appoint­ call special meetings of the Association whenever in their opinion ment shall be subject to confirmation at the next succeering meeting an emergency requiring such a meeting arises of the Council Such appointment shall be continued for subsequent Section 2 The First Vice President shall be chairman of the two-year terms again subject to review by the Council at its meeting Executive Committee In his absence the President shall preside, next preceding the anniversary date of such appointment and in the absence of both, the committee may elect a chairman Section 6 The Assistant Executive Directors shall be chosen pro tern annually by the Council at its annual meeting and shall serve Section 3 The Clerk, or a Clerk pro tern elected by the Executive until July 1 of the succeeding year or until their successor(s) Committee, shall act as Clerk of the Executive Committee meetings are chosen and qualified The rate of their yearly compensation, and shall furnish all members of the Council with minutes of the shall be fixed by the Council It shall be the duty of the Execu­ meetings tive Director to keep a registry of all members of the Associa­ Section 4 The Executive Committee shall meet at the call of the tion, to keep in touch with the local and other organizations of the President or at the request of three members of the Committee The Alumni and to assist them in their work, to see that information Executive Committee may act by majority vote of those present concerning the welfare of UMO is distributed to the Alumni, to Section 5 Six members of the Executive Committee shall consti­ maintain liaison on behalf of the GAA with the administration, faculty tute a quorum and students of UMO, to appraise the officers, Council and mem­ bers of the GAA of events and trends affecting the welfare of UMO, to act as liaison officer with the Alumni Associations of any of the other institutions included under the general name “University of By-Laws—Article IV—Nominating Committee Maine” and to act as executive officer of the Association subject to the control of the Executive Committee of the Council, and perform Section 1 At least 90 days prior to the Annual Meeting, the such other services and duties as may from time to time be pre­ President of the Association shall, in each year, appoint a Committee scribed by the Association or Council on Nominations consisting of five members of the Association Chair­ The Executive Director shall give at least seven days notice by man of the Nominations Committee shall be the Immediate Past mail of the time, place and objects of all special meetings of the President of the Association In the event that he is unwilling or Council called by the President or the Executive Committee and all unable to serve, the President shall appoint a Chairman meetings of the Executive Committee called by its Chairman or at the request of three members of the Committee, but such notice may be waived. By-Laws—Article V—Standing Committee The Assistant Executive Director(s) shall assist the Executive Di­ rector in the performances of his duties Section 1. Standing committees as required shall be appointed annually by the President to serve until the following annual meeting and to have such duties and powers as prescribed by the President. Such committees shall include Campaign, Budget, Nominations, Stu­ By-Laws—Article II—Alumni Council dent Relations, Headquarters. Section 2 Special committees may be elected by the Council or Section 1 The elective membership of the Council shall consist Executive Committee of the Council or appointed by the President of twenty-four members of the Alumni Association, viz. of the Association from time to time as occasion may require (a) One member from the Alumni of each of the College of Life Sciences and Agriculture College of Arts and Sciences College of Technology By-Laws—Article VI—Annual Giving College of Business Administration College of Education, and Section 1 A program of annual giving shall be prescribed each T Nineteen members at large from any college or colleges of year by the Council in order to finance the objectives of the Associa­ UMO tion All of the aforementioned shall be nominated at an Annual Meeting of the association and shall be elected by a majority of the members present and voting at such meeting By-Laws—Article VII—Amendment (c) The number of women members on the Council shall be in approximately the same ratio to the total Council membership as the Section 1 These By-Laws may be amended by a two-thirds vote number of women members of the Association bears to the total of those members present and voting at any annual meeting of the number of is members. Association, provided the amendments proposed shall have been sub­ (d) By virtue of their offices the President, two Vice Presidents mitted at a previous meeting of the Association or notice of such Clerk and Treasurer of the Association shall be members of the amendments shall have been sent to all members of the Association Council. at least one month prior to the annual meeting by means of an (e) In addition to the 24 members of the Council specified in this alumni publications or otherwise. Adopted in 1965 Present Constitution of GAA

Article I—Name and Object BY-LAWS Section 1. The Alumni of the University of Maine hereby constitute themselves an association to be known as the General Alumni Association Article 1—Election and Duties of Officers of the University of Maine Section 2 The object of this Association shall be to foster a spun of Section 1 The President, First and Second Vice Presidents, Clerk, and loyalty and fraternity among the graduates and former students of the Uni­ Treasurer of the General Alumni Association shall be elected by ballot at versity of Maine and to effect united action in promoting education and the the annual meeting of the Association, a majority of the votes of those welfare of the University The Association may adopt Bv-Laws and from present and voting being necessary for a choice. Officers so elected shall time to time amend the same It may acquire and dispose of property hold office for one year or until their successors are elected and qualified receive and hold gifts and bequests in trust or otherwise to be used and Section 2 The President shall preside at meetings of the Association applied as prescribed by the donors but within the limits of its object and and of the Alumni Council and perform such other duties as pertain to purposes It is the intent and purpose that this Association has been and is the office The Vice Presidents in order of First and Second shall act in organized and operated exclusively for charitable, educational, fraternal the absence or illness of the President In the absence of the President and recreational, and other nonprofitable purposes The net earnings of its in­ both Vice Presidents a chairman pro tern may be elected by the General vested funds shall be applied to the benefit of student scholarships the Uni Alumni Association or Alumni Council versity of Maine Foundation, and the University, while donations received Section 3 The Clerk shall keep a true and permanent record of the through the annual fund drive, or otherwise may be used for the normal meetings of the General Association, and of the Alumni Council and per­ operating expenses of the Association and for carrying out the objectives form such other duties as my from time to time be prescribed. In the ab­ of the Association sence of the clerk, a clerk pro tern shall be appointed by the presiding of­ ficer Article II—Membership Section 4 The Treasurer shall have charge of the funds of the As­ sociation and shall deposit such funds in such depository as shall be selec­ Section 1 All persons who have received a degree in regular course ted by the Treasurer and approved by the Executive Committee of the from the University of Maine, or arc members on adoption of this re Alumni Council and shall give bond in such amount as may be directed vision of the Constitution or who have been in attendance as students in by the Executive Committee of the Alumni Council, the cost of the bond any department of the University for a period of not less than two to be paid from the funds of the Association semesters but who have not received a degree re members of this Associa All bills of the Association shall be paid by check signed by the Treas­ tion urer after written approval by the Executive Director, or the President of Section 2 All persons who have received a degree from a school or the General Alumni Association in the absence of the Executive Director College which is now, or is hereafter included in the University of Maine, The Treasurer shill execute, and acknowledge when necessary, any con­ or who have attended at least two semesters of such school or college but veyances endorsements assignments, transfers, stock powers or other have not received a degree likewise, upon such inclusion of such school or instruments of transfer and any proxies in the name and behalf of the As­ college, members of this Association sociation as approved by the Alumni Council or its Executive Committee Secton 3 Any recipient of an honorary degree from the University unless the Executive Committee designates another shall be a member of this Association. The fiscal year shall be from July first to June 30 and the Treasurer shall submit a preliminary annual report it the annual meetings of the General Association and the Alumni Council as of June first A full audited Article III—Officers report of the prior fiscal year shall be presented by the Treasurer to the Executive Committee by September first Section 1 The officers of this Association shall be a President, First Section 5 The Executive Director and the Assistant Executive Di- Vice President, Second Vice President who shall be an alumna, Clerk ectors shall be chosen annually by the Alumni Council at its annual meeting Treasurer, Executive Director, one or more Assistant Executive Directors, and shall serve until July first or until their successor(s) are chosen and one of whom shall be an alumna, and such other officers as may be chosen qualified The rate of yearly compensations, if any, shall be fixed by the to have such duties and to be elected as prescribed in the By L aws Council It shall be the duty of the Executive Director to keep a registry of all members of the Association, to keep in touch with the local and other organizations of the Alumni and to assist them in their work, to see that Article IV—Alumni Council information concerning the welfare of the Unversity is distributed to the Alumni, and to act as executive officer of the Association subject to the Section 1 There shall be an Alumni Council which shill be the repre control of the Executive Committee of the Alumni Council, and perform sentative body of the Association The Council shall choose an Executive such other services and duties as may from time to time be prescribed by Committee and prescribe its duties The Alumni Council shall receive re the General Association or Alumni Council. ports of all meetings of the Executive Committee Furthermore, the Council The Executive Director shall give at least seven days notice by mail shall be charged with consideration of matters and of general policies of of the time, place and objects of al’ special meetings of the Council called the Alumni Association, the welfare of the University, and shall exercise by the President or the Executive Committee and all meetings of the all the authority of the Association between meetings of the Association Executive Committee called by its Chairman or at the request of three mem­ except the Council shall not amend the Constitution or By Laws bers of the Committee, but such notice may be waived The Assistant Executive Director(s) shall assist the Executive Director Article V—Committees in the performance of his duties. Section 1 Committees may be appointed or chosen by the President, by the Executive Committee or by the Alumni Council to carry out such Article II—Alumni Council activities and duties of the Association as arc assigned to them Section 1 The elective membership of the Alumni Council shall con- Article VI—Place of Business sist of twenty-four members of the Alumni Association, viz. (a) One member each of the Section 1 The principal place of business of the Association shall be College of Life Sciences and Agriculture at Orono in the State of Maine College of Arts and Sciences College of Technology School of Law Article VII—Annual Meeting College of Education College of Business Administration, and Section 1 The annual meeting of the Association shall to the extent (b) Eighteen members at large from any college or colleges of the possible be held within one week of Commencement at a time and place University shall be nominated and elected by a majority of the whole in Orono to be determined by the Executive Committee of the Alumni Alumni Body present and voting. Council (c) The number of women members on the Council shall be in ap- proximately the same ratio to the total Council membership as the number of women members of the Association bears to the total number of its Article VIII—Seal members (d) By virtue of their offices the Alumni representative or representa­ Section 1 The seal of the Association shall be similar to that of the tives of the Board of Trustees of the University shall be members of the University of Maine but with . the words ‘General Alumni Association, University of Maine ” COUI(elj By virtue of their offices the President, two Vice Presidents, Clerk and Treasurer of the General Alumni Association shall be members of the Article IX—Amendments Council iQH ThOse elective members of the Alumni Council whose terms Section 1 This Constitution may be amended by a two thirds vote at expire subsequent to 1965 shall remain in office for the remainder of their any annual meeting of the Association provided the amendments proposed terms Of the vacancies which still occur among the elective membership by shall have been submitted at a previous meeting of the Association or the expiration of current terms in 1965, three shall be elected for terms notice of such amendments shall have been sent to all active members of expiring in 1966, and one elected for a term, expiring in 1967 and eigh the Association at least one month prior to the annual meeting by means shall be elected for terms expiring in 1968, beginning in 1966, eight shall of an alumni publication or otherwise be elected at the annual meetings for terms of three years each 35 Section 3 In case of a vacancy occurring during the year, the Section 6 The Executive Committee shall meet at the call of the Executive Committee of the Alumni Council shall make a temporary ap­ Chairman or at the request of three members of the Committee The Execu­ pointment until the next annual meeting when a member of the Association tive Committee may act by majority vote of those present and six members shall be elected to serve the incompleted term shall constitute a quorum Section 4 The Council shall hold a regular annual meeting at Orono preceding the meeting of the General Alumni Association of the University. Article IV—Nominating Committee Other meetings may be held at the call of the President of the Association or the Executive Committee The Council may act by majority vote of those Section 1 Prior to the Annual Meeting, the President of the General present and fifteen Council members shall constitute a quorum at any regular Alumni Association shall in each year, approximately 60 days in advance, or special meeting. appoint a committee on Nominations consisting of five active members of Section 5 The President, two Vice Presidents, Clerk and Treasurer of the General Alumni Association Other nominations may be made from the the General Alumni Association shall by virtue of their offices be the gen floor eral officers of the Council, but the Council may elect from among its own members such additional officers as it may deem necessary Officers shall discharge the duties usually incumbent upon such officers together with anv Article V—Standing Committees* others which may be assigned by the Council Section 6 Payment of bills or other charges approved by a vote of Section 1 Standing committees as required shall be appointed annually the Council or Executive Committee of the Council shall be made from the by the President to serve until the following annual meeting and to have treasury of the General Alumni Association such duties and powers as prescribed by the President Special committees Section 7 Any member failing to attend two consecutive annual may be elected by the Council or Executive Committee of the Council or meetings of the Council shall be considered to have forfeited his membership appointed by the President of the Association from time to time as and his vacancy shall be filled as provided in Article II, Section 3, of the occasion may require By-Laws. Article VI—Statutory Appointments Article III—Executive Committee of the Alumni Council Section 1 The Alumni Association shall make such nominations and appointments as are or may be authorized by the Legislature of Maine Section 1 The Executive Committee shall consist of five members of the Council appointed by the President of the Association In addition the President, two Vice Presidents, Clerk and Treasurer of the General Associ­ Article VII—Membership Payments ation shall by virtue of their offices be members of the Executive Committee with voting power. Section 1 A program of Annual giving shall be prescribed each year Section 2 The Executive Committee of the Alumni Council shall by the Alumni Council in order to finance the objectives of the Association have and exercise all the authority of the Association with authority to act Active membership each year shall depend upon participation in the program in the name and stead of the Association between meetings of the Council of annual giving Section 3 The Executive Committee shall have the authority to call special meetings of the Alumni Association whenever in their opinion an emergency requiring such a meetng arises Article VIII—Amendments Section 4. The President shall designate one member of the Committee to act as Chairman In his absence the President shall preside and in the Section 1 These By-Laws may be amended by a two-thirds vote at absence of both, the committee may elect a chairman pro tern any annual meeting of the Association provided the amendments proposed Section 5 The Executive Director or an Assistant Executive Director shall have been submitted at a previous meeting of the Association or notice appointed by the Executive Director shall act as Clerk of the Executive of such amendments shall have been sent to all active members of the As­ Committee meetings and shall furnish all members of the Council with sociation at least one month prior to the annual meeting by means of an minutes of the meetings alumni publication or otherwise

1896 HERBERT LESTER NILES, 96, of San Luis Obispo, Calif, on Feb 23, 1969, in San Luis Obispo Native of Glenburn Retired civil engineer Following retirement experi­ mented in gardening as a hobby Survivors two daughters, son, nine grandchildren, seven great-grandchildren Member Phi Kappa Sigma Fraternity 1899 CHARLES ELBERT BLACKWELL, 94, of Anaheim, Calif on Feb 5, 1969, in Buena Park, California Native of Madison Citrus rancher in California Survivors son three daughters, 10 grandchildren, 17 great-grand­ 1908 WIILIAM ANDREW HILL, 83, New- 1913 ALBFRT RICE BURPEE, 82, of Rock­ children He was a charter member of Omega bury. Mass on March 20 1969, in Newbury land on Feb 15, 1969, in Rockland Native Mu of Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity Massachusetts Native of Winterport Retired of Rockland Retired Chemist Survivors wife, 1957 Civil engineer and agent, New York Life 1901 WILLIAM HARRIS BOARDMAN, 90, two sons of Thomaston, on Feb 13, 1969, in Waldoboro Insurance Company L Landscape painter and Native of Calais Retired civil engineer (1960) sketcher of professional status Survivors Wife, 1914 WILLIAM RAYMOND THOMPSON, Survivors nephew, step-son Member Phi with whom he observed 54 years of marriage 76, of South Acton Mass, on Feb 24, 1969 Kappa Sigma Fraternity on March 5 1969, and 1 sister Member Phi in Middleboro, Massachusetts Native of Orono Gamma Delta Fraternity Since 1930 until retirement in 1957, associated 1901 THOMAS BUCK, 87, of Berkeley, Calif , with U S Government Farm Credit Adminis­ on March 13, 1969, in Berkeley, California 1909 HENRY LEIGHTON NASH, 81, of tration with headquarters in Springfield, Massa Native of Orland Earned Ph D , at the Uni­ West Dummerston, Vt on March 11 1969, in chusetts Acting as held representative for Fed­ versity of Chicago (1909) Professor of mathe­ Brattleboro, Vermont Native of Cherryfield eral Land Bank Survivors son, William R matics, University of California at Berkeley Retired 1948 as an official of Western Electric Jr, 38, Bryantville, Mass, two daughters, one 1911 until retirement, also taught at the Uni­ Company, after 40 years with the Company Mrs Bernard (Marie ’39) Koller Pueblo, Colo , versity of Maine 1902-1906 Veteran of World Survivors wife, son Member Sigma Alpha 13 grandchildren, two great grandchildren War I No survivors Member Phi Kappa Sigma Epsilon Fraternity three brothers Member Theta Chi Fraternity Fraternity 1909 PRESTON LLEWELLYN CORSON, 83, 1916 JAMES EMMONS TOTMAN, 75, of 1908 BALLARD FREESE KEITH, 82, of of Mercer on March 12 1969, in Skowhegan Baltimore Md , on March 22, 1969, unex­ Bangor, unexpectedly, on March 13, 1969, in Native of Wilton Retired after 30 years with pectedly, in Palm Beach, Florida Native of Bangor Native of Old Town Senior partner New York Telephone Company Traffic Depart­ Fairfield Incorporator, vice-president of Sum- in law firm of Keith and Keith Also earned ment as a traffic engineer Survivors wife mers Fertilizer Co, Inc , from 1922-1965 In­ degree from University of Maine School of step-son four step grandchildren coporator, president, chairman of the board Law (1912) He was a Rhodes Scholar, with a and chief executive officer of Northern Chemi­ BA degree in 1911. Served in Coast Artillery, cal Industries from 1944-1966 Served with 7th World War I Survivors wife, two sons, Al­ 1910 EDWARD JOSEPH GRADY, 86, of Regiment in World War I Member General fred J ’49, Northport, Edward H ’49, Bangor, Watertown, Mass on Oct 16, 1968, in Water­ Alumni Council three years, member Univer­ daughter, Mrs Wm. R (Marion ’50) Powers, town, Massachusetts Native of Bangor Sur­ vivors sister sity of Maine Foundation seven years, presi­ Bangor, four grandchildren, nephew Member dent of the Maryland (U of Maine) Alumni Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity Association Awarded Honorary LLD in 1951 1912 FRANK WILLIAM WINCHESTER, 80, Received the Black Bear Award in 1961 Sur­ 1908 GEORGE JESSE HOPKINS, 82, of of Clinton, Conn , formerly of Somerville, vivors wife, son, four grandchildren, two Bath, on Dec 20, 1968, in Bath Native of Mass on Feb 23, 1969, in Clinton, Connecti­ brothers two sisters, nieces, nephews, uncle Lewiston Draftsman Bath Iron Works. Sur­ cut Native of Lynn, Massachusetts Retired Arnold W Totman ’07, Houlton Member Phi vivors. wife, daughter, Mrs Frank (Barbara engineer from Stone and Webster Engineering Eta Kappa Fraternity. ’44) Frost, New York City, brother, two sisters, Corp of Boston Survivors wife, two sons, niece, Dorothy (Wing ’41) Nystrom (Mrs one Dr John David ’50, Old Greenwich, 1917 RAYMOND FOWLES PENDLETON, George), Barrington, Illinois Member Beta Conn , six grandchildren Member Theta Chi Theta Pi Fraternity 73, of Carmel, on March 22, 1969, in Bangor Fraternity. Native of Camden Farmer and pulpwood 36 dealer past 50 years U S Army veteran ot 1924 XVII LIAM FRANCIS DRISLANE, 68, New York Native of Jersey City, New Jersey. World War I. Survivors wife, son, Roger L of Lynnfield Mass, unexpectedly, on March Received degree in zoology from the Univer­ ’48, Spungfield, Va , four brothers, sister, one 28 1969, in Lynn, Massachusetts Native of sity of Maine and a B S degree in Home Eco­ granddaughter. Lynn, Massachusetts Attended the University nomics from Farmington State College tn 1949. of Maine for one year, attended Boston Uni­ For the past eight years taught in the home 1917 MISS BLANCHE LAURE1 TE MUR­ versity foi two years Graduate of Bryant economics deparment at a Rochester, N. Y. PHY, 81, of Portland, on Feb 9 1969, in Stratton School Piesident of the Essex High School Also held a Master’s degree from Portland Native of Lewiston Attended Farm­ Bituminous Concrete Corp of Peabody and Cornell University Had taught at Skidmore ington Stale College before earning B S degree Diacut Veteran of U S Army, World War I. College Survivors include a sister Member of at the University of Maine Also held an M A Survivois wife three sons, daughter, nine All Marne Women and Alpha Omicron Pi degree from Clark University, Woreester, grandchildien Member Sigma Alpha Epsilon Sorority. Mass (1918), took advaneed studies at Har­ F laternity vard and Columbia Universities Taught at 1933 EDWARD ARTHUR DYER, 58, of Bar Haibor and New Bedford Massaehusetts 1924 GRAM JUULS WHEELER, 68, of Cornish, on March 21, 1969, in Cornish. Na­ High School:, and in Portland Schools Sur­ Bloomfield N.J on Oct 17, 1966, in Bloom- tive of Sebago Self-employed in the pulp and vivors sister, nephew, niece Member Phi Mu held, New Jersey Native of Montclan, New lumber business until illness forced retire­ Sorouty Jersey Owner oi business machines office ment four years ago Veteran of World War Survivor sistei Member Phi Eta Kappa Fra­ II, serving four years m Africa and Europe. 1917 PERCY D.AN1E1 EMERSON, 74, of ternity Survivors wife, two sons one, Ronald E., a Saco on Feb 17, 1969, in Biddeford Native junior at the University, two sisters, nephew, 1924 BIAIR COBURN WHITE, 66, of nieces Member of Lambda Chi Alpha Fra­ of Lyman Before retirement employed at Saco Holden on Feb 13 1969 in Bangoi Native of ternity Lowell Shops Survivors wile two daughters Danforth Xlso attended Bowdoin College and six grandchildren Member Alpha lau Omega Georgetown University. I umbering business 1933 I HERON OTIS WH1CHER, 57, of Fraternity Survivors two nieces one nephew Eliot, on March 8, 1969, in Portland. Native of Sanford Employed as field technician for the 1917 COL. HERBERT EVERETT WAI KINS, 1925 ADOIPH RFXROIH PRESCHER, 64, Eastern Artificial Insemination Corp. Served in 73, of West Palm Beach, Fla , on Dec 7, 1968 of Plantsville Conn , on Feb 21, 1969 in U S Navy m World War II. Survivors: wife, in West Palm Beach, Florida Native of Port­ Meriden Connecticut Native of Southington, son, brother, Ralph F. ’40 of Wakefield, Massa­ land Veteran of World War I served as Connecticut Attended the U'niversiy for one chusetts Member Alpha Gamma Rho Fra­ captain in U S Army in France Also served year graduate of Maiyland Dental School ternity in World War II Survivor wife Member Practicing dentist Southington, Connecticut, 42 Delta Tau Delta Fraternity. years Survivors wife two daughteis, seven 1933 HORACE ALLEN LOVELL, 57, of giandchildrcn. two bioihers sister Member Brunswick, on Jan. 18, 1969, in Brunswick. Na­ 1920 COL. WAITER CORNELIUS WHITE Sigma Chi Fraternity tive of Brunswick Druggist and president and (U.S A.F. Ret.), 72, of Pittston, on Maich 19, treasurer of Allen’s Drug Store, Inc. For more 1969, in Gardiner Native of Ware Massa­ 1926 CHARI FS RAYMOND FARRiNGlON, than 30 years also operated the Horace D. chusetts Graduate of USMC West Point 68, of Arlington Va., on Feb 12, 1969, in Lovell Monument Company Survivors wife, N Y , 1923 Retired from U S An Force in Arlington Virginia Native of Chesterville At­ two sons, daughter, half-sister, two giand- 1953 after 35 years of service Survivors wife tended the I niversity for one year and the New children Member Kappa Sigma Fraternity son. Walter T ’51 Passiac NJ , two brothers York F orest Rangers School For past 30 years one Col Horace H ’17, Riverside, Calif in Geographical Society; Washington, D C , as 1933 DAISY DEMEYER FARNSWORTH sister, Mrs Ralph (Helen ’20) Wcntwcrth of cartographer Survivors wife daughter, two (MRS. HARRY) 58, of Ellsworth, on March 26, Hope Holder of Legion of Merit Award USA giandcluldren broiheis, two sisteis, nephew 1969, in Ellsworth Native of Eastbrook Sur­ order of Southern Cross Biazil Member Phi Ihayden Farrington ’53, Diydcn vivors husband, four sons, two daughters, one Kappa Sigma Fraternity sister, 10 grandchildren Member Alpha Omicron 1927 PFRCY LYMAN NU1UNG, 68, of Pi Sorority 1920 SWASEY XX ADI IN 70, ot Ft Lauder Skowhegan on March 12, 1969, in Skowhegan 1937 JOHN COOK MOORE GARDINER, dale, Fla. on Tcb 2 1968 in the vcteians Native ol Skowhegan. Railed in 1967 as main­ JR., 57, of Detroit, Michigan, on July 8, 1968, Hospital, Ft Lauderdale, I londa Native of tenance man at Fairview Hospital Survivors in Detroit Michigan. Native of Castine Also Canton U S Navy veteran of World War I wile son, sister Member Sigma Phi Sigma earned Master’s degree from Eastern Michigan Survivors daughtei, three granddaughtcis Fraternity Univeisity and was a teacher of mentally re­ tarded children in Clawson, Michigan Survivors, 1921 MISS FLORENCE TIMER SALLEY, 1928 RUSSFL1 F A ION FOS1ER, 62, of wife, Faith (Folger ’37) Gardner, sister, brother 70, oi Providence R I , on Feb 7, 1969, in Augusta on Feb 17, 1969, in Augusta Native Providence Rhode Island Native of Bangor of Augusta Served as Kennebec County com­ 1940 LAWRENCE JOHN GLEASON, 53, oi Eained M A Brown Universit) (1933) Teach­ missioner for 18 years Foi several vears owner Buffalo, N Y , on March 27, 1969, in Buffalo, er for 21 years in Providence School Depart­ and operator of a dairy faun Survivors four N Y Native of Bangor Also attended Massa­ ment, picviously taught in New Hampshite sons, three of whom arc David X '56, Madison, chusetts Institute of Technology For past 30 and Connecticut schools Vocational and ed Conn Keith R ’62. Palatka, Fla., Thomas E years consulting engineer in Buffalo, New York ucational counsellor Active in Rhode Island 67, Augusta, sister lour grandchildren Mem­ Survivors mother, wife, daughter, son, a sister, University of Maine Alumni group No sur­ ber Ihcta Chi Fraternity. brother, Col Thomas E ’44, Little Creek, Va , vivors Member Pi Beta Phi Sorority. nieces and nephews 1929 DR FDXXARD ARI HUR Bl ANK, 61, 1922 HUDSON EVFREIT IRACY, 70, ol of Stockton Calif on Jan 6, 1969, in Stock- 1941 DONALD TWI1CHELL BRACKETT, Houlton on Feb 24, 1969 Native of Winn ton California Native of Lowell, Massachu­ 49, of Wiscasset, unexpectedly, on Feb. 10, Retired Foimer owner of Aroostook Print setts lamed MD degree Boston University 1969, in Wiscasset Native of Portland At­ Shop, Houlton Survivors wife, son daughter School oi Medicine 1933 Since 1956 Psy­ tended the University for 3 years Graduate of four grandchildicn chiatrist Stockton (Calif) State Hospital Fel­ Northeastern School of Law in Boston, 1949. low of the American Psychiatuc Ass’n since Practiced law in Wiscasset and was a registered 1922 GRADUA1E. CH VRIES MANLY 1962 Survivors wile two brothers land surveyor Since 1962 he served as Lincoln HOWEI I , 73, of Cupertino, Calif formerly County attorney Served in World War II in of New Jersey and Otono, on Jan 16 1969, 1929 ROBFRI HOWARD JACKSON, 62, ot U S Air Force Survivors wife, two daught­ Bergenfield, N J , on Apul 6, 1969 Native of ers, sister Member Phi Gamma Delta Fra­ in Cupcitino, California Native of New Jer­ ternity sey Graduate of Swaithmore College (1919), Fast Eddington Oihcc manager for Alcoa earned M'S at University of Maine (1922) Aluminum Company for past 35 years 1943 MELVIN HUBERT COONS, 50, of Widely known pulp and paper executive pro Survivors wife, Jennie (Davidson ’31) Jackson, East Longmeadow, Mass , unexpectedly, on fessor emeritus of paper technology, Univer­ son, two- brothcis, Laurence B ’34, Woodsfield, March 17, 1969, m East Longmeadow, Massa­ sity of Maine Held 1963 University of Maine Ohio, Seth P ’32, Orono, sister, eight grand­ chusetts Native oi Woodland. Also earned Pulp and Paper Honor Award Survivois wife, children Member Sigma Chi Fraternity Master’s degree at the University of Maine three sons (1951) Co-ordinator of curriculum for East 1931 JOSEPH SYDNEY SEVILLE, 60, of Longmeadow School system; formerly principal 1923 THEODORE LEFAVOUR FOWLER, Worcester, Mass, on Feb 2, 1969, in Wor­ Maplessade School Served in U. S. Army Air 67, of South Byfield, Mass , on Feb 9, 1969, cester Native of Beveily, Massachusetts Since Coips in World War II Survivois. mother, in Honolulu, Hawaii, unexpectedly, while 1942 had been employed at Reed Rolled wife, two daughters, two sisters. Member Delta visiting a daughter Native of Farmington At­ I bread and Die Co , Holden, Mass, of which Tau Delta Fraternity. tended U of Maine for one year Graduated company he had been treasurer foi the past from Bowdoin College in 1924 From 1932 un­ 10 years Suivivois wife, son Member Sigma 1949 RAYMOND THEOPH1LE LAY ALLEE, til letirement in 1967, with Union Central Alpha Epsilon Fiaternity, serving as president 47, of Cedar Falls, Iowa, on Maich 1, 1969, in I ife Insurance Company serving as manager lus senior year an automobile accident in Cedar Falls, Iowa of its Boston office for 25 years Survivors Native of Old Town. Teacher of Romance wife, daughter, son, brother, four grand­ 1932 MISS OI IVE PERKINS, 59, of Kenne­ Languages at Northern Iowa College, Cedar children Membei Beta Theta Pi Fraternity. bunk Beach, on Match 22, 1969, in Rochester, Falls Also earned master’s degree from the 37 University of Iowa (1952) Survivors wife, 1958 LAWRENCE RUSSELL LOWD, 32, of 1966 DOROTHY LUNT SAUNDERS (MRS. two sons, brother. West Falmouth, on Dec 16, 1968, in Falmouth, C. EMERSON), 61, of Houlton, on Oct 17, in an automobile accident Native of Portland 1968, in Houlton Native of Passadumkeag. 1949 JEANNETTE SMITH DRORBAUGH, Although graduated in 1961, was affiliated with Graduate of Gorham State College Earned (MRS. WILLIAM C.), 40, of Rye, N Y, on Class of 1958 Electronic design engineer at B S degree from the University of Maine Feb 20 1969, in Rye, New York Native of Southworth Machine Co , Portland Previously Employed as a teacher Survivors husband, Bangor. Formerly program director of the employed by Radio Corporation of America, daughter, sister, Feme Lunt ’39, New York Y W C.A in Providence, Rhode Island. Sur­ Camden, New Jersey Active and accomplished City vivors husband, father, three brothers, James clarinetist in U of Maine Band, active in B. Watson ’40, Seattle, Washington, John T musical organization in Portland area Survivors Watson ’42, Wellesley Hills, Mass, Richard parents, wife, son, daughter Member Theta 1949 HONORARY LLD. TRYGVE HALVAD- Smith ’54, Phoenix, Ariz , three daughters, one Chi Fraternity SAN LIE, 72, of Oslo, Norway, on Dec. 12, son. 1968, in Geilo, Norway, of a heart attack First secretary general of the United Nations, 1954 MISS MARY ELIZABETH BAYLIES, 1964 ARTHUR JUSTIN STAPLES, JR., 26, serving eight years 1946-1953 Awarded an 43, of Winchester, Mass, on Dec 3, 1968, in of Presque Isle on March 8, 1969, in Taiwan honorary LLD at the University of Maine, Boston, Massachusetts Native of New Bed­ (Formosa) in an automobile accident Native 1949 ford, Massachusetts Attended the University of Worcester, Massachusetts A graduate of the for two years, graduated, 1954, from Jackson U S Army Language School Monterey, Calif, College of Tufts University Secretary at Har­ he was assigned specialist-five, to duties in 1958 HONORARY LLD. OTTO HEYWOOD vard Graduate School of Education, Cam­ Taiwan of translating and interpreting Chinese NELSON, 82, of Bangor, on Dec 24, 1968, in bridge, Massachusetts Formerly secretary at Before entering the army he was a teacher at Clearwater Beach, Florida Native of Bangor. Boston YWCA, Antilles Consolidated School Higgins Classical Institute Charleston Sur- Director of Merrill Trust Co, Bangor Retired at San Juan, Puerto Rico, and Arthur D vivors parents, father Arthur J ’27, Presque 1966 Awarded honorary LLD in 1958 Also Little Company, of Cambridge, Massachusetts Isle sister Mrs Eldon (Joanne ’55) Coyken- honorary member University of Maine Founda­ Survivors parents, sister. dall, Manchester Conn , uncle, two aunts tion Survivor wife

“Prexy” Harold Boardman ob served his 95th birthday in his room at Thayer Hospital, Water- ville, with the family bringing in the dinner. Confined for six weeks with a heart attack, he is ready to leave the hospital as soon as he regains his strength Editor's note: Your class reporter and Phil McCarthy, ass’t dean of men, former ass’t executive director, Alumni Office, called on “Prexy” two days previous to his birthday and found him looking forward to driving his new car, going to his summer cottage at Hancock and attending member of our Historical Society In the past the Council of State, Edinburgh, Scotland, and senior alumni breakfast at Orono on June 7 years I have been to California twice, taken a Advisor to Gov John Winthrop of the Massa­ trip to I ake Louise and Banff, and attended chusetts Bay Colony ” Camden Rotarians honored C the New York and Montreal Faisr Kendall Hopkins on occasion of his My son Milburne I Richards Maine ’34, MR. KARL MACDONALD '98 92nd birthday on Feb 25, 1969 He Univ N H , ’36, Lt Col in the U S Air Force, Box 18 was also cited for his unbroken has retired from government service and works Belfast, Maine 04915 attendance record, as of Feb 25, Mr Hopkins for RCA at the Patrick Air Force Base on Cape Kennedy “My daughter Edna H Rich­ Gladys (Beale) Ellingwood, Fair- had never missed a meeting for 43 years and field Montana, writes she is in good 10 months, or since he helped found the or­ ards Maine ’33 is the wife of Robert I Staples, Maine, ’32, lives at Ogunquit Mr '07 health except for the fluid in her ganization, Apr 21, 1925. He attended his ears which caused her to fall oc- 70th reunion at Orono last June. Staples is an engineer for the Savin Construc tion Co in East Hartford Conn They soon casionally She lives alone and says she is happy as long as she can hire her house work From Alfred R Peaks, Sacra­ leave for Florida for a four months stay, they done mento, Calif Retired about two have a married daughter with two children, so I have a great granddaughter, sixteen, a Junior The Alton Austins, Mexico, had their 61st '01 years ago from practice of ac­ wedding anniversary last September (He and counting Passed my 90th year last at Winthrop High School and a great grand son, four years old ” I are in the same class regarding the July I have good health except for failing anniversary and month He had a shock some eyesight I enjoy the Alumnus and the “It was always a great delight for Dick to time ago and cannot write or feed himself bulletins. attend class reunions in June and see old with his right hand His health is good and he classmates He spent many happy hours visiting can walk with the help of a cane The Arthur Silvers’ wrote from classmates, and acquiring data for the 1906 Howard Stetson Denver, Colorado, has lived Palo Alto, Calif, in mid-March Class History ” alone for four years and does his house and '02 “Hope you folks get cleared out Congratulations to Gladys for her great­ yard work The oldest grandson served two of snow by June 6! It’s lovely here grandchildren, and all praise to the memory of years in Germany and youngest is now in Viet with fruit trees in bloom, daffodils, camellias Dick Richards, our efficient and faithful Class Nam out—We are visiting our youngest daughter Sec’y for many years We wonder how Erwin Hussey has spent the but will be back home April 2.” It wouldn’t Frederick J Simmons, B A , ’06, Harvard, ’25 winter at Gateway Village, Springfield, Mass., be Reunion week without the Arthur Silvers' Certif Univ of Cambridge, Eng, ’29, Retired after moving from Ormond Beach, Fla He Professor of Sociology, Keene State College, sure picked a good winter to move with two MR. FREDERICK J SIMMONS attended the U of M Homecoming in Novem­ of the worst snow storms in years Now that 12 Glen Ridge Parkway ber He met ten Alumni that he had known, he is nearer, we hope he will attend Com­ Montclair, NJ. 07042 and many others It was inspiring to see the mencement The wife does the driving and it many excellent changes at the University. is an easy drive after one gets to Portsmouth. / Robert Thorndike Olds, son of During the summer, Mr Simmons did more Mrs Lowell (Balentine) Reed, Nashua, N H , Robert Franklin Olds, an interna- says “My husband and I were in Bert Stevens’ tionally known Engineer research on the lives and careers of the gov­ in our ernors of Maine at the State Library, Augusta class where life was not so soft ” Bert Stevens, class, has been for 25 years and is as you remember, worked in Stillwater nights, still employed with IBM His father’s (Robert These data may become a book, if his eyes and health permit This winter he is still studying attended classes day time besides doing a two F’s), Designs & Drawings of Dams in U S and mile stunt for the track team A full length in many foreign lands now constitute the “Nice Colonial History (his hobby), doing genealogi­ cal research, attending the ‘Dunworkin Club, oil painting of him hangs in one of the Uni­ and Valuable” Olds Collection” at the Smith­ versity buildings. sonian Institute, Washington, D C the theatre, plays, musicals, American, English, and Russian Ballets at Lincoln Center and at Ben Williams has been m Cambridge, Mass , Mrs Jane Reed Olds (Mrs Robert F ), the New Madison Square Gardens, and he for the winter with his sister at 107 Oxford St. and her son Robert Olds live near each other especially enjoys the witty and brilliant talks He is probably following his regular routine of in Arlington, Va. of authors at the five monthly meetings of the reading, walks, library and church with Mrs Gladys A Russell Richards, widow of Book and Authors Luncheons at the Wal- probably a trip to Boston to Alumni meetings Earle R Richards, of our class still lives at dolf Astoria Hotel New York City. Joe Goodrich, Wisconsin Rapids, Wis, who So. Berwick. She writes,—“I spend most of Mr Simmons is the author of the “Bio­ called on me last June, says he and wife are my winters on the west coast of Florida This graphy of Emmanuel Downing (1585-1660) in better health than on that trip Perhaps they winter I shall be at St. Petersburg, Fla. I am Lawyer of the Inner Temple, London, Eng, would like to attend commencement next June active in the Church when in Berwick, and a Dublin, Ireland, Salem, Mass, and Clerk of 6, 7, and 8. 38 MR. JAMES A. GANNETT MR. ERNEST LAMB MR CLIFTON E. CHANDLER 166 Main Street 46 Sargent Crossway 12 Pinewood Drive Orono, Maine 04473 Brookline, Massachusetts 02146 Cumberland Center, Maine 04021 Since the last ALUMNUS, three I have received a card from /l o June 6th* 7th and 8th mark y°ur members of the class have left our Roby Littlefield who writes that he < next commencement dates—remember '08 ranks; George J. Hopkins and '10 has run into K Dyer, who is living 1 the old slogan “ ’Tis later than we Ballard Keith and William A. Hill in Portsmouth, New Hampshire think” still applies I realize that I had the pleasure of calling on George at Roby writes that except for a “snowism” due none of us wish to be so reminded This is not his home in Bath a few years ago and met to three feet of snow, he is fine The Lamb a Reunion year but do you realize 60 years Ballard quite regularly at the Bangor Rotary family could not get out of our house for three have passed since you entered U of M9 Most Club weekly luncheon His son, Edward ’49, days It was the worst storm that Boston has of you have been back within this period but if is a lawyer and, with his father made up the had in over a hundred years you have not returned in recent years you law firm of Keith & Keith. He is a member The Maine Medical Center Hospital in should by all means make an effort to come of the Rotary Club. William Hill graduated Portland, Maine, has completed a thirteen story back this year You will be surprised to note in Civil Engineering but was well known for wing which will look after one hundred and how the University has grown and you will his marine paintings At our 50th Anniversary fifty beds It will cost nine million dollars and have fun in meeting your “old buddies”. Just several of his paintings were exhibited at the will be named after our classmate and his wife remember the dates and come. Art Department. Grover and Edith Richards who made a gift Did you take notice in the January issue of Spring finally arrived but the winter of 1968- of $1,000,000 What a wonderful gift for such the ALUMNUS of the passing of our old friend 69 was a rugged one with snow measured m a worthy cause. and classmate Hubert M. Wardwell on Nov. feet instead of inches One member of the My youngest son Dave, Maine 62, who is a 29, 1968 at Concord, Mass. “Wardy” as he class got stuck in the snow in his own drive­ war correspondent with the United Press Inter­ was affectionately known to most of us, was way and, to his chagrin, had to thumb a ride national and stationed in Saigon, writes that a loyal alumnus and was an enthusiastic sup­ to Bangor to do his volunteer job at the returning to Saigon from a mission at the front porter of the class, especially the Reunions. hospital But skiers were happy he heard over a radio a group of young Vietna­ Received a card from “Larc” Ober and he In late October I had a chance meeting mese children singing in their own language is enjoying an extended tour in South America with Will and Bell Cobb on State Street in the Maine Stein song It gave Dave a great —also received a nice long letter from “Flicky” Bangor It was all the more pleasant because kick but naturally a longing for home and the Ruhards and “Flicky” usually calls a “spade it came as a complete surprise. campus a spade” when he sees an opportunity to help A letter from Earle Vickery reports that he Mail me any class news you have It will be the class or the University. This time he is is driving a new car or, as his letter states “1 of interest to all of us much upset about the errors which crept into am still trying to adjust to a new car1—you the recently published history of the class. know it is hard teaching an old dog new “Flicky”, I am given to understand that efforts tricks ” MR GEORGE D. BEARCE are being made to correct these errors Thanks An Easter Card brought Greetings from 138 Franklin St. for your interest and constructive criticism. Elon Brown from his home in Norway He Bucksport, Maine 04416 writes “Have gotten through the winter very well so far. We have a lot of snow but it is At the Jan 4 meeting of the U of MR. HAROLD P. ADAMS working down and April will see it removed I M Alumni Meeting at St Pete Fla. 18 Longview Terrace think Have been working in the store as 'll the old reliables attended including Kennebunk, Marne 04043 usual Have been with L M Longley & Son “Nemo” N E Smith, Sid Winchester now for 27 years and hope to continue until and Parker Cooper planned but were unable 55th Reunion, June 6, 7, 8, 1969 I am at least 95 Had a nice trip last tall out to come The Bearces made it after a drive of to Troy, N. Y , to see my grandsons and my 250 miles from Pompano Beach From J Russell Hudson. “I am daughter-in-law Had another trip this winter We lost two of our classmates in ’68 Elmer wintering in Bartow, Fla, collecting down to Nashua, N H , to visit my son Tobey who has not been too well for the past '1 teeth and bones of prehistoric ani­ Horace ” Elon is a real inspiration. two years or so and that Great Guy, Maurice mals and visiting various farms, “lot” McCarthy, late last fall “Tot” was a graves and commencal plants”. Your secretary was presehted his masonic MR. FRED D. KNIGHT great booster for Maine and was active m campus affairs and Manager of our Varsity pm for 50 years service to Village Lodge #26— 9 Westmoreland Drive Bowdoinham After an extended illness West Hartford, Connecticut 06117 baseball team in 1911 The sincere sympathies of his classmates has been sent to his daughter, I am much better with the outlook of spring Mrs Brcmner H Brown who suggested that approaching and being able to get out. 60th Reunion, June 6, 7, 8, 1969 Phil Thomas has an interesting and rewarding friends who wished to send flowers might in­ hobby as indicated in an article with his picture A card from Margaret Gernty stead forward the amount to be spent for and pictures in the Portland Press Herald He states she is on a safari to Tanzania floral tribute to the U-M 1911 Scholarship “paints” pictures with stained glass—not unlike '09 and other East African countries fund Everyone appreciates this fine thought the method used in church windows. He also She was enjoying the strange scenery Marcia Brown is also a loyal alumna creates with paint and charcoal Phil has a and the many exotic animals and birds in the The Sarasota U-M Luncheon was engineered grandson at Maine in the 2-year associate wild. by N E “Nemo” Smith, Feb 19 and the usual degree program in chemical engineering. A note from Harold Miller indicates he is 1911 members attended A very successful time. well and still actively interested in electrical Irving Hooper who is staving in Duneden, engineering and the problems of power supply 1 la for the winter attended the March Meeting MR. HARVEY P. SLEEPER He follows closely the affairs of the “new” in St Petersburg but was disappointed that 327 Lupine Way University of Maine. _ Sid Winchester was the only classmate to greet Short Hills, New Jersey 07078 In a phone call from Elton Towle, he stated him his intention of being in Orono for our 60th f w DillBill 1V1C11CI1Mellen wrotew an interesting It will be a double-barrel affair for the ' I and newsy letter • some weeks ago. Towles—Vira’s 60th is at Mt. Holyoke the MR. WILLIAM E. SCHRUMPF I HeHe consoledconsoled meme oon my “heart experi­ week before ours. 84 College Ave., ence” (to quote Bill) of last summer; The Jess Masons hope to get back for our Orono, Me 04473 congratulated our classmate Harry Titcomb on 60th. Their daughter Bette, the first ’09 baby, his honor title of Superintendent Emeritus; and lives in Bangor. The Masons have a brand Ted (Alden) Chase writes from introduced me to The National Huguenot new great grandson, the first, of which they Windsor Hall Rest Home, 519 Society, of which he is a National Officer with are understandably proud '12 Palisades Ave , Windsor, Conn Not the title of “Genealogist General”. I am sure Walter Harvey is well and Edna is too far away, his son, Gordon 41, that he would be happy to hear from some of recovering slowly from her last heart seizure. is manager of Scars, Roebuck Co. in Warwick, the members of our class, or any other, who Walter thinks he will come to the 60th if home R I. and in his 26th year with the company. are interested m the subject. His address is conditions permit Ted’s other sons, Stephen ’46, is a dentist in Major Wm Henshaw Mellen, 1338 South Mam Vida Pike writes that Lew, who has been in Norway, South Paris, and Faulkner ’41 is in St , North Canton, Ohio 44720. Bedford Veterans Hospital for 17 months, re­ Windsor, Conn and is branch manager for I also received a nice letter from a fellow mains about the same. She drives from their Howards and Richards, Inc Jerseyite, Harry Titcomb. He says he has been home in Wellesley to see him three times a Jim Boyle a Waterville attorney made the living alone since the death of Mrs. Titcomb week In recent months she has been able to Bangor News with a two-part article on the in 1966, following 47 years of happy married return to some of her civic activities which is American Legion which is commemorating its life His daughter Patricia lives in Bristol, Conn, good for the morale. Vida’s health is ob­ 50th anniversary Jim was in Paris, France, in with her husband Hugh and their daughter viously good or else she could not stand her 1919 at “the birth” during a 3-day caucus in Cindy who is ten this summer. Hugh is School pace of living Pans that year Jim has, through all the years, Principal in Bristol and is famed locally as Indirectly, I hear that Harold Rich is again been a dedicated worker and is recognized on a Singles Tennis Champion. Harry visits them having leg trouble We are sorry and hope the state and national levels in the American Legion frequently. Harry would like to hear from you thoughts of our 60th will help mend his difficul­ and bears the title “Mr. Legion.” A very in­ ’15-ers at his home at 1626 Marconi Road, ties. teresting series, Jim. Wall, N. J. 07719. 39 MR. EVERETT G. HAM Francis Head to sell our home. Hope to spend some time in 44 Shirley Road 73 Westchester Ave. Maine in 1970 ” Wellesley, Massachusetts 02181 Pittsfield, Mass. 01201 Victor O Harkness, nationally known spe­ cialist in power generation and all types of Roger Gowell has along with many / No news doesn’t make a column water and sewage transmission equipment, is / other community interests been com­ Had supper with Freddie Haines now associated with the consulting engi­ piling for his public library informa­ m North Egremont last week He neering firm of Camp, Dresser and McKee, tion about early Androscoggin Coun­ spends half a day as caretaker on Boston Vint’s career covers a span of nearly ty families Since your scribe stems from one a nearby estate, and chauffeurs various folks 50 years in various capacities with Fairbanks, of these Roger and I have had correspondence, to Florida Is playing the piano to keep his Morse and Co, in research, design, sales and which has been pleasing for so few of you arthritic fingers healthy servee of electrical machinery, engines and write to me on any subject. I have just had my 69th day of skiing since pumps We always like to hear that classmates have November 16 when snow was made Week-end Wilbur Parks, has been recognized as a mem­ financially remembered their Alma Mater, es­ crowds I have skipped, and also severe ber of the National Sports Age Retailer Panel pecially when the gift runs well into a four- weather And a couple of days I was snow­ One of only 400 retailers throughout the figure amount Tim Bonney has made such a bound It has been the best skiing I ever en­ United States who provide statistical data bequest to the GAA to be credited to 1916 joyed Golf soon on their store’s operation which is then com­ Good for Tim! The Bonneys have been hosts piled into a report which reflects trends and to their old friends Clyde Benson ’17 and wife. MR. DWIGHT DEMERI IT practices Wilbur owns Park’s Hardware and The Bensons are now living in Winthrop (ME.) 15 University Place Variety store, in Orono. in retirement. Orono, Maine 04473 Retired from the florist business in Bidde­ When m Florida in January I was able to 50th Reunion, June 6, 7, 8, 1969 ford, Lester Barbour, of Yarmouth, keeps busy contact Bob Robinson by telephone only. The with art lessons, gardening, searching for Robinsons celebrated their 50th wedding anni­ driftwood and camping A small greenhouse versary last September and the advent of their At the March 15 luncheon of Maine Alumni at the International furnishes plants and flowers to make his home first great grandchild in December. and grounds a place of beauty This past fall Burke Bradbury has reported the death of '19 Club in St Petersburg, Fla ye scribe met up with Ralph and Mrs he was co-chairman of the art exhibit at Yar­ his wife, Velma in December after an extended mouth’s Clam Festival illness This loss means so very much to Burke Wilkins and numerous others from older and and his usual exuberance has suffered. younger classes Ken MacQuairie was recently honored by MRS. SIORMONT JOSSELYN his associates at the Middlesex Bank where (E mi lie Kritter) MRS. HAROLD COFFIN Ken was a member of the board for many 229 Kenoza Avenue (Grace Bristol) years, 32 in all After receiving his law degree Haverhill, Massachusetts 01830 66 Eighteenth Street from Northwestern Univ in 1925 he formed Bangor, Maine 04401 the law firm of MacQuarne and Perry and Ed McManus, “In October, ’67, was active in the firm until his retirement in I reared from the Social Security Your class reunion committee has 1964 Ken has been active in civic affairs in '21 Administration, Bangor, after 31 met again and our Interim Reunion Melrose for years, including membership in the years, the last 28 years as District z17 is largely decided upon For 17-ers Planning Board He lives at 24 Larchmont Manager After getting Medicare in operation, who can be in this area on Friday, Road, Melrose I said to myself I am done' Best part of June 6, there will be a class dinner somewhere Charles M Poor (more commonly known as retirement is one does not have to get out in on campus. Saturday we will join in the regular Marty”) has been spending some time this the morn'” activities of General Alumni and Senior Alumni winter in Yuma Arizona Mr and Mrs Poor From Dot Hart’s Christmas card, “Dick, Sunday we are again invited to Searsport for who reside at 1300 I afayette East Apt 606, with himself thrown lh is giving me a Christ­ one of “Shep” Hurd’s memorable gatherings Detroit, Mich will be at the 50th in June mas present of three weeks in the Netherland Plan to be here if you can. Antilles—on the tiny island of St Maartens, President Ed has received letters of thanks M. ELE4NOR JACKSON, C. L. U near the Vngins (Quite a gift, Dot') Dick, for the Class of 1917 Scholarships. It was Fairlawn Nursing Home Dot’s son is with Radio Free Europe, his ofhce awarded to Miss Carol L. Philbrook of Vmal- 265 "Lowell Street is in Munich, Germany Dot continues to enjoy haven, Class of 1971. Lexington, Massachusetts 02173 her work with young people in the High School in Woodstock, Vermont. Congratulations are due to Bill Reynolds who From the Alumni Office I erone Alice Jones, Orleans, Mass • “My hooking was recently married to Mrs. Emily Phillips M Damon has been appointed gioups' Whoever thought I’d be in head-over­ Keanney of Gahana, Ohio and Northeast '20 chairman of the Conservation Dis heels' Four classes a week, three hours each, Harbor. tnct in South Paris seven rugs at various stages' Great fun'” Joe McCusker was visiting in Bangor and Alfred Frawley has retired as a leading Ban­ The Alumni Office announces the following Orono a few weeks ago, on his way to Houlton gor druggist and lives in Ft Lauderdale, Fla students have received our class scholarship: for some ice fishing. We understand that he was From Lillian Budway Treat. “After my Barry Cohen ’70, Bangor; Elizabeth J. Taylor caught in one of the big snowstorms on his way husband retired, we bought an air-stream and ’71, Wayne home and spent a couple of unplanned days have had a marvelous time traveling through­ Give with the news, please! I’ll settle for getting back to Boston. out the country. At present we are in Fresno postals

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40 MR. LESLIE W. HUTCHINS MRS. WILLIAM E SCHRUMPF Lucy Farrington Sheive who has been with 30 Alban Road (Mildred Brown) the Extension Service will also retire in June Waban, Massachusetts 02168 84 College Avenue and with the honorary title of Consumer Orono, Maine 04473 Your class secretary has written Marketing Agent Emerita also awarded by the / innumerable letters to class members Board of Trustees. Haskell has resigned as Abba Fernaid was one of a panel of three who have not forgotten our class, of the Board of Trustees artists speaking and exhibiting at the South or Maine, but are involved however Eastern Maine General Windsor Art League of Conn, on January. in living their respective lives in familiar Hospital after 17 years on the board, Her medium is water color and this is her areas, and Maine may seem far away and years as president Bob is on the hobby She is employed by the State Welfare Although the response has not been heavy, Board of Trustees of the Greater University Dep’t of Conn. it lends encouragement to a continuance of this of Maine activity We hope to hear from those who Walt Scarnell has retired but plans for other MRS. ELDWIN A. WIXSON, SR. have received a request from us, please re­ work (Hope Craig) member—you are the class of 1922—it cannot Kay (Atkins) Wing who owns a retirement Oaknole, Rt. 2, be vibrant without you home at Seal Beach, Calif, is on a months Winslow, Maine 04901 A letter from one of the faithful, Conan A visit with her daughter, Susan, a member of Priest, living at Syracuse, N Y discloses some the Peace Corps in West Samoa Susan will / Prof. Harold Bowie took part in of his retirement activities CAP retired from complete her work and return to the United the dedication ceremonies Jan. 17, General Electric after a long career and belongs Stites 1969 for the Breck Hall of Science to the “77 Club”, a group so called from Why not come back this vear at Reunion at American International College, working during the depression in building 77 time June 6 to 7 The Class of 1924 is cele- Springfield, Mass, representing the AIC faculty at Schenectady, when radio was young and oriting its 45th and you’ll know many of that in cornerstone ceremonies. For the past 26 so were we class Mavbe we could get together on plans years, Harold has been chairman of the De­ Here is his letter in part “My personal for our 45th next year! partment of Mathematics at AIC. activities are confined to gardening, reading An article from the Kennebec Journal, detective stories, and lisUning to my large Augusta, features Mrs. Lael Morgan, (Mrs. record collection MRS. 1RYGVF HEI^J AD ED), daughter of Gene and Mrs. Warren, Thanks Conan for your contribution to the (Shirley Roberts) Augusta, and calls her newspaper woman, column—its “life blood” in the class of 1922 — 503 Riserside Drive author and sailor Lael and her husband (while will others please contribute9 Augusta, Maine 04330 in Alaska) bought a Maine built schooner and Another letter was from a former classmate sailed from Cape Cod to Alaska and then to who labored with us for many long hours in Theodore Rone Recently retired, Hawaii Lael has written The Woman’s Guide Aubert Hall, H L “Hy” Rammer “Hy” kind founder of Hamilton Kent Mfct. Co , to Boating and Cooking. She has now started ly sent with his letter a group picture of all z26 is an inyentor who insists that he is on her second book, You don’t have to be chemical students, taken on the steps of old not an inventor’ Instead Ted in­ Rich to Own a Boat. Aubert sists that he is an improvisor Much of the The day after our last column was mailed success of Hamilton Kent and of Ted re­ Emma Thompson Leger sent a calendar volves around Ted’s improvisations Ted, an from the Woodford (Portland) Congregational MRS. WILLIAM W. RICH avid fisherm m has directed some of his im­ Church which contained a letter from our (Ruth Spear) provisations along the lines of that sport, le a president, Frederick H Thompson, D.D., who, Prides Crossing, Massachusetts 01965 simple pump to remove excess water from the with Mrs Thompson was in Arizona in mid- bottom of a boat, a battery powered wind-up Januarv He wrote that even though he’d had George V Blmchard writes that fishing reel ind one of his latest ideas is a he and his wife recently enjoyed a the flu, the wonderful climate there had already fisherman s first aid kit This includes tools begun to work help for his arthritis. Other z23 six weeks vacation trip to California ind directions for removing a fish hook that classmates there at the time were George and and Hawaii In California they has become embedded in the flesh This came Thelma Dudley visited their three daughters and their families as a direct result of an unfortunate experience David H Stevens new award was the George Their daughter Joanne Woodman and her hus­ involving a fellow fisherman Another im­ Bartlett Award of the Highway Research band Chester made the trip to Hawaii with provisation of Ted s is a handv milk box that Board of the National Academy of Sciences. them is wired in such a wav that every time the From the letters to Matt—(which aren’t The latest word from Arthur and Mabel Pea­ milkman sets the milk m the box a light getting used very fast in the Bulletin, un­ body Wilson comes from Japan where they flashes on thus notifying the householder that fortunately)—Peg Stanley Hale (Mrs. Edward visited on their return from a most interesting the milk has been delivered Ted’s good works R ) lives at Hale House, Castine. Ted was a year spent in South Australia They are ex­ are not limited to improvisations, he has been member of the Class of 1926 pected home in late April instrumental in furthering soap box races for Mrs Hudson Berce (Bernice Bolster) is an boys clubs etc He is also a most loyal mem­ MRS. GEORGE DOW active volunteer for projects carried out by ber of the class of ’26 and I hope we will (Myrtle Walker) the Madigan Memorial and Aroostook General all see him at our next big reunion in 1971. 100 Bennoch Road Hospitals in Houlton She has just assisted in Gerald Wheeler supervisor of White Moun­ Orono, Maine 04473 making the Chanty Ball sponsored by the tain National Forest, retired Jan. 24, 1969 Hospitals a big success after 41 years of federal service He has been 40th Reunion, June 6, 7, 8, 1969 supervisor of this three quarter million acre MRS. CLARENCE C LITTLE National Forest for the past 14 yrs Class Prexy, H. Richard Fitz- (“Bea” Johnson) Morns, is married to Evelyn H. Burns, former personnel manager Little Haven MRS. ROBFRT THAXTER z29 R.F.D #1, Ellsworth, Maine 04605 for the New York Telephone Com- (Edith O’Connor) pany in the Long Island territory. She re­ 159 Fountain St., 45th Reunion, June 6, 7, 8, 1969 tired last summer Dick has retired and the Bangor, Maine 04401 couple is living on Cape Cod in South Hazen Ayer, our esteemed Presi­ Those of you who received the Chatham, Massachusetts By now you’ve all dent, “Spike” Sparrow and I are / letter of “Class Doings’ in Febru­ received Dick’s letter on Reunion. working on plans for our reunion ary know that we are all about at beginning with our dinner at the the “retiring age” and noticed that MRS. ERNEST J. PERO Penobscot Country Club, Friday, June 6th many classmates reported joyfully that they (Jeanette Roney) Please overcome all obstacles and come and just loved retirement If you did not receive 11 West End Avenue have fun We invite suggestions from any class the letter it is because we did not have your Westboro, Massachusetts 01581 members who will volunteer to help with new Write to George F. Dow and ideas correct address We send smypathy to the mem- ask for one / bers of the families of Polly Nicker­ John and Ruth Conti to whom I spoke via There have been literally columns and telephone this week when we were in California son Nolan and Max Murphy of our columns printed in Bangor and Portland papers class who recently passed away. near them, plans to attend our reunion Others ibout our next three retirees’ have also expressed their pleasure in looking Max’s wife was Sula Sprague who died forward to our meetings Dr George F Dow, Director of Maine Agri­ several years ago She was so lovely when she The most heart-warming mail which your cultural Experiment Station will retire in June came to our 25th reunion. Polly was so full of secretary has received recently consisted of after 42 vears of service to the State of Maine, life and enthusiasm it is hard to think she is two letters from students who had help from ind I expect he will be busier than ever! no longer with us though she had never come our scholarship fund They expressed piofound Dean John E Stewart, Dean of Men, retires to our reunion. thanks and said they would not have been able in June but that isn’t stopping him any' This To add a personal note, our older daughter to stay m college without our generosity What spring semester he has been “brushing up on presented us yesterday with a new grand­ better reminder could we have to stimulate our Math” so that he may continue to help the daughter. This makes four grandchildren in the forwarding a check for 24’s class fund ’ Ponder University Math Dep’t John and George have family. Although my husband has retired, I on this and act, my friends, if you have not been awarded titles Emeritus by the Univer­ still continue to teach history at the beautiful already done so. sity Trustees. new high school—quite luxurious—and know I 41 would miss contact with my teenagers. Our port, N H recently to map out plans. Present Since July ’66 Ken Nash has been with the younger daughter, Maine ’64, lives in Reston, were, Stan Searles, our class President, Ed Pesticides Regulation Division of U.S. Dept, Virginia, and our son is a design engineer Decourcy, Vice-President, Pete Karalekas, of Agriculture, Washington, D C. and living with Hamilton Standard division of United Air­ Treasurer, and Alice DeCourcy, who poured in Pasadena, Md craft in Connecticut. the tea Major General Roland M. Gleszer was Thanks for the news Keep it coming The reunion committee consists of the fol­ awarded the Distinguished Service Medal in Alice Bagley left recently on a photographic lowing, some of whom have been notified in recent Pentagon ceremonies for his exceptionally safari in Africa. She surely gets around Last advance meritorious service in a position of great year she was in New Zealand Fern and John Turbyne, Johnny Gilman, responsibility while serving as the director of Roscoe Cuozzo, Tom Hersey, Abe Stern, Al Army Management from Aug ’66 to May ’68 Lib Murphy took a spring vacation this year His son, Capt Peter Gleszer, ’64 graduate of in Florida and visited with Helen Lengyel Lyon and Merle Hildreth You will be hearing more by class letters in US Military Academy is serving in Vietnam Lloyd McCollum has been retired from the the near future In the meantime, make plans and his daughter, Susan, is at Mary Washing­ U S Patent Office since Jan 1966 and re­ to be on campus June 6 and 7 We’ll be look­ ton College turned to his home town of Jonesport He is ing for you' Northeast Airlines has transferred Albert renovating an old house overlooking English­ Crowder from Boston where he was Manager man’s Bay Sounds like an interesting way to of Stewardess Services, to Philadelphia where spend his retirement MRS. CHARLES G. PAINE he will be station manager. (Louise Rosie) Lucky Bob Burns and wife Alice are off to MISS ANGELA MINIUTTI 212 West Broadway Bangor, Maine 04401 the Bahamas for Easter to celebrate their 25th P O. Box #114 Wedding Anniversary. North Berwick, Maine 03906 Kenneth Kimball has been ap- We were delighted to get back to Campus Harold E Bryant has resigned as pointed group product director, in- recently, our excuse being the Indianapolis executive vice president of the dustrial products, for the Non- Symphony concert Unfortunately our #3 z32 Maine Potato Council and con­ Woven Fabrics Division of Chicopee child did not choose U of M as our other sultant to the Maine Potato Com­ Manufacturing Company, New Brunswick, two did, so we do not get back as frequently mission, after seven years in both posts, to New Jersey Ken has been with Chicopee since as we used to The campus grows with every accept the position of general manager of the 1956 trip Texas Citrus Exchange in Edinburg, Texas Janet Brown Hobbie, Allentown, Pa, writes that she keeps busy with AAUW, Church and Brig Gen Wheeler Merriam, retired from Woman’s Club, and her hobby of stencilling the Army in 1965, is busier than ever as Dean and country painting Her husband Caleb is MRS. JAMES A. BYRNES of Students at Franklin Pierce College, a executive VP of Lehigh Valley Dairy Their (Barbara Bertels) coeducational liberal arts college The Mer­ son Andy is a freshman at Clemson, daughter 15 Kenduskeag Avenue riams’ six children have all flown the coop Nancy has three little boys and to quote Janet Bangor, Maine 04401 and they would welcome any classmates to on grandparenthood, “it has no flaws,” Susan visit them at their Jaffrey Center, New Hamp is on Sen G Nelson’s staff in D C , Deborah / In the midst of the most spectacu­ shire Home is teaching in Allentown Love these people lar snowstorm in the memory of Mrs Abbie (Sargent) Neese, Bala-Cynwyd, who take time to write—thanks Janet' living man, intrepid Dr Bob Ohler Penna, writes that she and her husband, Dr Arnold Kaplan, Bridgeport, Conn , has been and five companions went climbing Paul Neese, spent a few weeks in January in presented a diamond tie pin by United Life around on Mt Katahdin The expedition got Hawaii and Accident Ins Co on the occasion of his under way on February 23, before the storm, 25th anniversary as their representative Last but by Tuesday the 25th, during what must year if you recall, Arnold was named “Mr have been a regular arctic blizzard they de­ MRS. WILLIAM J. MURPHY Mutual Agent of Conn ” by the Independent scended to their Camp 2, below the timberline, (Marjorie Moulton) Mutual Ins Agents Assoc to wait it out They weathered the storm in a 33 Deake Street Our deepest sympathy to Horace Crandall, tent, and remained in sleeping bags until Thurs­ South Portland, Maine 04106 Presque Isle whose wife Katherine passed day morning, and emerged that afternoon at away in November Katahdin Park shelter Although this was not Hello' It’s spring in Maine and done just for fun, but for testing survival gear I’m grateful for that as well as for Horace S Field has been named sales manager for the L Bisson Co , a Bath truck­ and techniques, they said they were happy with z33 an Alumni Office that does send their experience and are looking forward to news' ing firm The company is agent for Beekins Van Lines in the Bath-Brunswick-Portland another climb The February 6 “Enterprise” of Maynard, area and “Hockey” will handle all sales and Dick Berry, “Cape Elizabeth’s leading Re­ Massachusetts carried an item about Dr allied activities for Bisson He was with Shell publican”, according to the Bangor Daily News Samuel Bachrach M D It mentions him as a Oil Co as Industrial Lubricants Mgr for political staff writer, is a five-term veteran in nationally known physician with a special in­ eleven years and Dist Sales Mgr for Fox & the state legislature Senator Berry at home is terest in the elderly It also states that he was Ginn for some fourteen years He is president a consulting engineer, his and Kay’s oldest cited for efforts during World War II He is of the Maine Ski Council son Andrew is in business with his father, and practising in Worcester and has just been elec­ A welcome note from the Carl Ingrahams, they will soon be joined by Richard Jr, the ted president at the Board of Directors of the next oldest son Worcester Public Library Birmingham, Mich (Libby Philbrook ’36)— Carl was elected a District Court Judge in Dr Win Adams came back to Bangor in Dr Jean Sabine, Belmont, California, has Nov ’68 so has necessarily given up his law April, according to an announcement by Eastern received a Senior Associateship from the Na practice They have two married children, Maine General Hospital He has set up, and tional Research Council to work in space medi­ three granddaughters and two grandsons will be in charge of, a new program for medical cine, continuing previous work in hematology Clifford S Mansfield, Melrose, Mass, has treatment in the emergency room Win has with a new slant been elected a director of Fay, Spofford & been in Danville, Virginia, since 1967 as district It’s difficult to beat the class of ’33 and I’m Thorndike Inc, engineers, Boston Cliff has director of Health Services for the Common­ sure we have another “first ” Courtney Stover been with the company since 1945 and has had wealth of Virginia was just re-elected to his 25th year as tax col­ broad experience in the design, supervision and News of the Lowell family from Henry lector of West Bath But that’s not all—since construction of water supply and distribution he’s division manager of Southfield Electronic the first two years of his service he paid him facilities Sales, daughter Phoebe graduated from MSU seif only what he thought the job was worth Hope to see many of you at reunion, June with a BA in Political Science, daughter Libby and let the remainder of his legal salary go to 6-8 has been a secretary in her father’s office prior the town' That should put your faith back in to starting a two year course in X-Ray Tech, humanity' Mr Stover is manager of Hyde- at Henry Ford Hospital Henry’s wife Anne is Lambert Apartments in Bath and treasurer of MRS. ALBERT TEMPLE SMITH Sagadahoc County (Dorothy Jones) in her fourth year of teaching fourth grade in 25 Thompson Street a new individualized teaching curriculum. Brunswick, Maine 04011 MRS. JOHN J. TURBYNE (Fern Allen) j / One of our class authors, Eliza­ 70 Boston Avenue 'S beth Ladd, Dark Harbor, who has Waterville, Maine 04901 written 15 books, has joined VISTA WANTED in Weston, W Va for 6 weeks The Art Department of the Univ, of 35th Reunion, June 6, 7, 8, 1969 training From there she will continue her tour Me. is trying to locate lithographic of duty in the Appalachia region The news this month is entirely stones (flat limestones used for / Carroll A Homan, East Walpole, has been hand printing). Please contact concerned with our 35th reunion, appointed Quality Control Manager for Bird & scheduled for June 6 and 7. Son, Inc He is technical representative for Prof. R. Ghiz at the Art Depart- Ed DeCourcy called me with the Bird & Son in the American Society of Test­ ment, Carnegie Hall, U. of M., information that the “Board of Strategy” for ing materials and a member of the Research Orono. this important event met at his home in New­ Committee of the Asphalt Roofing Mfg. Assoc. 42 MISS JO PROFIT A of City Trust Co , has been announced by Mr. MRS. DONALD W. BAIL 268 State Street North, President of the bank. Sherman is (Josephine Blake) Bangor, Maine 04401 engaged in various land and agricultural enter­ 70 Wildrose Avenue prises in Easton and Trumball He and his If those nice people in the Alumni South Portland, Maine 04106 / four children reside at 545 North Park Avenue, office keep snipping my column Easton, Pa I A F\ The Legion of Merit has been each installment, I shall be forced William B Page was named special assistant /[ / awarded to Lt. Col. Carl Davis for to sue for breach of something or to the Commissioner of National Headquarters • outstanding service as associate pro­ other’ Of course, I keep repeating the items of Environment Control Administration, a new fessor, Department of Electrical En­ “scrapped” in the subsequent column with the component of the Dept of Health, Education gineering, U.S. Air Force Academy. Carl is result that by the time the so-called news and Welfare in Rockville, Md He has been now chief of the electronics branch at the Air reaches you it is colder than last Friday’s Fish' with Public Health Service since 1949 Since Force Weapons Laboratory, Kirkland AFB and One of my juciest left-overs concerns none 1963 he has been chief, Ofhce of Architecture is a member of the Air Force Systems Com­ other than Col Joseph H Hamlin, USA (Ret ) and Engineering at National Institute of Health. mand He was awarded his M S. and Ph.D. Joe has been appointed Assistant Director of See you all in June from the University of Illinois. Planning, Management and Administration of Mark Taylor, purchasing agent for General the National Security Industrial Association Electric, Somersworth, N H , was speaker at a And what is that9 A group organized to main­ MRS. VERNON A. FLETCHER recent meeting of the N H Purchasing Agents tain an effective and working partnership be­ (Lucie “Scottie” Pray) Association. He is a past president of this group. tween industry and government, as visualized RFD #1 Burlington, Vermont 05401 by its founder, James Forrestal, the first The new director of student activities at Secretary of Defense This position is, of Mrs George N Gledhill (Lucile Green Mountain College, Poultney, Vermont course, made to order for our Joe who has al­ Hall) informs us that her son is Mrs Caroline Wright Lovejoy. Caroline has Howard is now at the University of served as dietitian at U of M and as home ways had the ability to sell refrigerators to the '40 service director for Bangor Hydro. people of Eskimo land at fantastic Maine and a member of the Class prices jet' of 1972 She also tells of the birth of a grand­ Robert and Gladys Clark (’43) McLeary of From the Alumni office comes the mforma- daughter Wendy Harper, boin on July 11th, Readfield were feted at a silver wedding anni­ tion that Gordon Chute has been selected for 1968 versary party m January They have a daughter, promotion to Chief, Branch of Field Surveys Wendell G Eaton, Bangor Superintendent Mrs Charles Baxter Jr of Waterville. Bob is Atlantic Region, (Geological Survey) of the of Schools, is now engaged in a 12 week pro­ associated with Jones, Hoxie, and McLeary, United States Department of the Interior Our gram of study at the University of Florida at an insurance and bonding firm in Augusta. very best wishes to Gordon' Gainesville, Florida Eaton’s main area of News of the Gordon Ramsdell family states Tom Lees, vice-president of General Electric study will be that of individual instruction and that daughters Mary and Holly are students at Credit Corp is m the news again It was re­ the methodology involved in reorganization of Maine Mary, a junior, is spending the spring cently announced that he will head a newly- school curriculum to achieve this more con­ semester in Washington, DC. as an interne created Home Products Business covering centrated approach Among others, Wendell in the office of Congressman William Hathaway. financial plans such as revolving charge and will be studying with Dr William Alexander, Gordon, Associate Prof, of Biochemistry, is credit, time sales financing and inventor) a pioponent of the “Middle School” for grades in the division of Inspections Laboratory at financing for appliances, home furnishings, five, six seven and eight and this method of the Agri Exp Station. stereo and TV school system organization will be carefully Had a chat with Flossie Atwood Butterworth examined recently Dale (’41) teaches at Westbrook High MRS. ROBERT BALDWIN I homas G Fielder of Pittston, Vice President School and has an extensive wood working (Lucille Fogg) and Director of the Depositers Trust Co , re­ shop at their farm home in Cumberland Home 3 High Street cently was guest speaker at a supper meeting and family keep Flos hopping. Daughter Jane Essex, Connecticut 06426 of the Gardiner Lions Club commutes to UMP and the twins are junior New Jersey State Conservationist, Richard high age The two older girls are both teachers. 30th Reunion, June 6, 7, 8. 1969 W Akelev 40 was the keynote speaker at the That’s all for this month. Keep tuned to the innual meeting of the Central Aroostook Soil Alumnus for the latest news of ’42. / Hope to see you all at Reunion and Water Conservation District held at the Great plans are underway for June Hotel Caribou The theme of his address was 6th 7th and 8th The new chancellor “25 years of soil and water conservation” MRS. HENRY R. BEDARD will be at Open House, Friday night, Dick” born and raised in Aroostook County, (Dottie MacLeod) June 6th at Memorial Union to meet Maine was the hrst District conservationist for the 73 Church Street Alumni Let’s hope that our class of ’39 will central Aroostook area before moving up the North Attleboro, Massachusetts 02760 have a terrific turnout There will be a ribbon SCS ladder to his present position in the Garden cutting ceremony at the former North Hall State Jo Bail forwarded to me a very The place has been renovated for use as our nice thank you letter from Sonja alumni center. ‘3 Bergman, who is recipient of the The appointment of J Sherman Edwards to MRS LAWRENCE MUZROLL Class of 1943 Scholarship for this the advisory committee of the North End Office (Virginia Jewett) spring semester Sonja is a senior in home I oomis School economics and has hopes of going on for her Windsor, Connecticut 06095 master’s degree Among those of the U. of Me. faculty to be / A Margaret Nichols is still teaching elevated to the rank of full professor is George LX Spanish and French and is currently Clifford, from associate professor of mechanical PRAY’S COTTAGES 1 planning her second trip around engineering South America in July Her address is And 122 South 39th St Omaha, Nebraska 68131 A nice note from Don Wheeler, Canton, Mass, reveals that he has just completed 20 General Store The eldest daughter of Tina (Pinkham) and years with John Hancock Life, and is presently Jack Byrne was married on Sept 27, 1968 an account executive in the group insurance I he reason I recall the date is because it was department He has also just been elected presi­ Boats and motors for rent— the day before our daughter, Linda was married dent of the Canton chapter of S.P.E.B.S.Q.S A., Non-resident licenses—gas and I inda lives in nearby West Harford and is an Inc—barbershop singing society. oil—Nearest service to Baxter I P N graduate from Hartford Hospital Don’s letter also contained some sad news— We had grand reunions last year with Gwen a notice of the obituary of Earle Rankin of State Park on the west—Green­ (Weymouth) Wilhelmsen One of her sons Norwood, Mass Earle, who was 47, died in ville 43 miles—Millinocket 32 graduated from Loomis last year and played January at New England Deaconess Hospital football one year for Larry Gwen lives in after a long illness. miles—Patten 65 mile s—New Gibson Island, Maryland Another obituary, unfortunately, is that of modem ranch houses and one- Honey Dougherty Mesrobian lives in Me­ Melvin H. Coons of East Longmeadow, Mass. room apartments—A village in thuen, Mass, and has a son at Bowdoin and A native of Woodland, Mr Coons had been one who is a junior in high school employed in the East Longmeadow public the wilderness. Bea Gleason Danforth still lives in Bloom­ school system, most recently as co-ordinator of field Hills, Michigan One daughter is married curriculum. Evelyn Pray ’37 and living in Chicago, son Tom was married Mary (“Mollie”) Tarr Janney is keeping busy last summer, and the youngest daughter, Norma down there in Tennessee—104 Delmar Circle, Ripogenus Dam is at Western Reserve University Billy, aged Oak Ridge 37830. They have 3 sons at the U. 10 is the youngest of Tenn , including 18 yr. old twins, and a Greenville, Maine 04441 Kathy Sawyer Alford (daughter of Fran daughter, age 7 in the second grade. In addition Sawyer and Will Alford) was married at to many civic activities, Mollie adds that she Tel: 695-2526 Christmas time to Robert Charles Garrett of and Doug are planning to work for advanced Falmouth Foreside, Maine in Landbeck, Austria degrees at the U. of Tenn. 43 MRS. GEORGE R. BROCKWAY MRS. CHARLES COOK MRS. WALTER C. BROOKS (Peg Spaulding) (Elinor Hansen) (Margaret McCurdy) R.F.D. 3, Auburn, Maine 04210 Old Dover Road 56 Madison Street Rochester, New Hampshire 03867 Bangor, Maine 04401 Jean (Bryant) and Oliver Yeaton have moved to Wyckoff, N J , where 25th Reunion, June 6, 7, 8, 1969 Soon I hope to get more news in the column for you Do take time z50 he is sales supervisor for du Pont’s George McLean has been named z47 to write either the Alumni Office dyes and Chemicals Div, Eastern / vice-president—Actuary of Massachu­ or me district Bill Harmon of Cumberland is working setts Blue Cross, Inc Prior to this Congratulations to Winifred Paulin Collins hard in his own business which he started last promotion, George was serving as (Mrs Hayward) for being selected to member­ summer Eugene Hart is director of the Parks Actuary for the non-profit plan for health care ship in Pi Lambda Theta Rho Chapter at and Recreation Div in the State Parks Com Actuarial So- New York University Winnie continues as Now when you want to go camping in one of He is a Fellow of the Casualty Maine’s campgrounds, you’ll know who to write ciety, member of the American Academy of chief dietitian at Perth Amboy General Hospital International Congress of and during this past year completed require­ to for information’ Neal Martin has been Actuaries and the named a senior trust officer with Depositors Actuaries ments for a master of arts degree in dietetics Belated congrats are in order for the Dick and nutrition The society is a national degree Trust Co Neal and family live in Manchester Hale’s on the birth of their first child, Heather and professional association for women in Another class member with Depositors is Phillip education 1 he Collins family live at 456 Orange Tribou who is manager of the Richmond branch Ellen Dick is with the Forestry Dept at U of Irving Block has been appointed manager of Maine Rd Orange. N J Al Smaha, president and general manager of A change of address for Charles L Carpenter plant engineering in G E’s River Works Utili­ the Columbia Markets Food Cham, has opened is 3113 Marion Drive Royal Oak, Michigan ties Operation Irv his wife and three sons live two new stores, one at Lincoln and one at in Marblehead Dick Fish has been named Brewer His food chain, numbering 10 markets, assistant underwriting secretary of Hartford is Maine’s second largest food retailer and MRS. MERLE F. GOFF Steam Boiler Inspection and Ins Co Dick the largest independently owned food chain (Ruth Fogler) lives in Hazardville, Conn Dick Hammond who Al lives in Orono He is a former Jaycee “Out­ 117 Norway Road is a group representative with New England standing Young Man ” Bangor, Maine 04401 Mutual has been awarded the coveted Chartered Congrats too, to the proud parents of Leonard Life Underwriter designation by the American Brooks (Mr and Mrs Franklin ) Leonard, Bob McDonald has made a change College of Life Underwriters Dick and family class of ’69 U M P was among those chosen and is now manager of the Grosstai live in Hingham Mass Jim Adams has been for “Who’s Who among students in American Ski Center in Allegany, N Y I elected vice-president of the Warren Trask Co Universities and colleges ” gather that the family, including The Adams family reside in South Glastonbury, Dr (Cal) J Gordon Webster is on standby three daughters are all avid skiers and most Conn John Murphy is now a managing editor at Patrick A F B , Fla , to assist the Apollo happy about the new venture of the Press Herald, Evening Express and crews in case of launch site emergency During Ruth (Preble) Finney writes that she and Sunday Telegram and lives in South Portland the Apollo launches he is aboard a rescue husband Bob ’50 have moved from Westfield Congratulations to Margaret Mollison McIntosh helicopter in case of an emergency call During to Dunstable Mass Bob is now doing project for receiving the Black Bear Award at Home- World War II he served in the Far East Theater work in all mills of Strattmore Division of coming ceremonies of Operations He received his B S in chemistry Hammermill Paper Co Their oldest daughter 't from the University, M D from Tufts Medical Pat is a Junior in high school, Carol is 13, MRS GEORGE BRAGDON and D C P degree from Royal Post Graduate Debbie 10 and Paul 4 (Patricia Murphy) Medical School in London, England Florence Greenleaf, girls phys cd instructor 175 Lowell Street Our heartfelt sympathy is extended to Ruth at the High School of Commerce Springfield Andover. Massachusetts 01810 Hall True and family E Milton True died Mass has been selected Outstanding Candlepin recently at a Bangor hospital after a long illness Personality of the Year She was honored at Greetings 51'ers Had a nice note the World Candlepin Bowling Council’s Annual / from your truly and duly elected Hall of Fame Awards on June 15, at Kenne­ class correspondent Hilda (Livings- MRS. ALICE (MANEY) MCFARLAND bunkport Pat holds an MS from Springfield ton) Miller She and Stan ( 50) Osteopathic Hospital of Maine Inc. College She is preparing a bowling manual and their three sons Scott David, and William 335 Brighton Avenue for teachers will be returning to Framingham, Mass in Portland, Maine 04102 Those of you who ski Maine likely know August after a two year stint on Kwajalien that Otto Wallingford married to Margaret Island Stan has been projects director there I A £ I hoped you all survived our Stackpole 45 and an ex apple grower, has for Lincoln Laboratories rugged winter Our Maine winter, operated Lost Valley Ski Area in Auburn since Commissioner of Education Dr Harvey NX this year in particular, reminds one 1961 The ski school there is the largest in the Scribner gave an address to the Vermont Feder­ of Whittier’s Snowbound “Mimi” state Do you also know he has invented a ation of Women’s Clubs in February His (O’Beirne) Mitchell reports that the Mitchells powder making machine? It is towed by a snow topic was ' Vermont Design for Education ” have made another move They are now located tractor and transforms hard icy slopes to the The Webber Oil Co in Bangor has named in Westchester County after spending three powder snow skiers travel miles to find About I am Mahaney president and chief operating years on L I Paul is the new Supt of Schools 35 ski areas in New England use these machines officer He had previously served as the manager in Yonkers The school district is made up of now as well as some even farther away And of the retail heating oil division and public 42 schools and “Mimi” writes that he is enjoy­ 22 men work full time producing more relations and advertising manager He has also ing the challenge been a director of the company since 1964 Commander Charles “Pat” Foster, Ellsworth, Calvin C Avery and family of Hartford, commanding officer of the Bangor Naval Re­ MRS FRFDERICK P. ANDREWS Conn have returned to Maine as the area serve Center, turned the reins of command (Verna Wallace) representative for Factory Inc Assoc , as a fire over to Commander Wayne P Libhart of 16 State Avenue protection advisor and inspector They live Brewer at a recent ceremony before the Military Cape Elizabeth, Maine 04107 in Gardiner Sea Transportation Service Division Unit in 20th Reunion, June 6, 7, 8, 1969 Lt Col John H Casey has recently been Bangor Under Cmdr Foster and Cmdr Lib- assigned as commander of Fort Campbell, hart the MSTS unit has received a letter of j a College in Miami, Fla , in 1966. Westford, Mass. Please dont be shy, would enjoy a replace­ Thomas Brigham has returned from his tour ment anytime. MRS. PHILIP E. JOHNSON with the electrification program of the Peace Mrs Grace L Heath, M.Ed has been ap­ (Eini Riutta) Corps in 1 cuador after what he termed “a pointed a student-teacher supervisor by Farm­ 10 Atwood Lane fine mtercultural experence and also a pro­ ington State College Mrs. Heath has been at Brunswick, Maine 04011 fessional engineering experience.” Farmington since 1948 and will supervise at Dr Henry P Sheng, associate professor of the Mallett School there. John J Canavan, physics mstruc- chemical engineering Youngstown State Uni- Receiving promotions: Clayton W Dodge, to / tor at Vermont College in Mont- versitv, presented a paper entitled ‘‘Liquid­ associate professor, Math and Paul R Belyea, pelier since 1958, has been named liquid Separations in a Conventional Hydro­ associate chemist, Maine Agricultural Experi­ chairman of the Science Department clone’ at the Maich meeting of the American ment Station. Roderick J Cyr, M Ed. B U., He holds both undergraduate and master’s Institute of Chemical Engineers in New Orleans. guidance counselor, Wethersfield High School degrees from U. of M , and has done advanced (Connecticut), has been named general chair­ Fdwin Pert has been elected to the board of man for the ’69 Connecticut Science Fair. work at the University of Vermont, College tiustees of the Pine Iree Chapter, The of Medicine He joined the college faculty Arthur Silsby Allen has received his Ph D. Arthritis Foundation He will assist the founda­ botany and plant pathology from Michigan after teaching at Poultney and Fair Haven tion in charting ways to expand its programs High Schools m Vermont State University. and financial base in Maine as chairman for Keith Hall, one of 16 chosen nationwide, is Ernest W Johnson of Bay Village, Ohio, the development has been promoted to the newly created position attending under a fellowship program, the of Director of Sales Education, Training and Herbert R Doten has joined the Edward C. State College of North Carolina. Keith re- Manpower Development for Pharmaceutical Jordan Co, Inc , planners and engineers with ceived his B S from Farmington State Teach­ Sales, Ortho Pharmaceutical Corp in Raritan, officers in Portland, Orono, and Presque Isle, ers College, M Ed Maine, and has done grad­ N J He was formerly manager of the Lake as tr importation engineer He also holds an uate work at Keene State College and the Uni­ Erie Division MS degree in civil engineering from Maine versity of Massachusetts. for the same company and is married to the former Patricia Fortier Major Nelson O. Newcombe, holder of the Raymond E Robbins, Jr writes to say he is Bronze Star Medal, Air Medal and Purple still designing transformers and other magnetic of Orono The Dotens have five children— components for telephone equipment for Strom­ Debora 11, Dorothy, 9, Kathleen, 8, Carol, 6 Heart, recently received the Army Commenda­ berg Carlson in Rochester, NY He and his and David, 3 months tion Medal during ceremonies held in Vietnam. Dirk Brown has been named manager of Wife Carole is waiting at 3006 Plantation Road, wife, the former Nancy Stanley of Southwest Columbus, Georgia. Harbor, have three boys, Dana, Jeff and training in the personnel division and an of­ Timmy ficer of the State Mutual Life Assurance Co of Alice F. Hunnewell, Extension Agent for the America Worcester, Mass MRS. GARY BEAULIEU Cooperative Extension Service, retires in June (Jane Caton) after 13 years as agent in Penobscot County MISS HILDA STERLING 6 Willow Lane Prior to her Extension Service position, she 700 Boulevard East Cumberland, Maine 04021 was a high school home economics teacher for 27 years Apartment 6C Weehawken, New Jersey 07087 Lou Taulane who was formerly a William E Fowler is Maine’s new assistant buyer of packaging materials for state horticulturist After graduating from a '57 General Food, has left headquarters i r— r— Hiei lie Johnsonjonnson family—Bill, Marilyn Youngstown, Ohio, high school he worked in (Pennell ’57),, I ucinda Margaret to become a group leader at Jell-O’s nurseries until World War II came along He W (January(J.inuarv 18,IK 1958),1 William Leigh­ Dover Plant enlisted as an aviation cadet and saw service ton (November 9, 1959), Johanna John Littlefield has been appointed public in the European Theater After the war he I.ynn (November 16, 1962) and Thomas Pen­ relations representative from Maine to the had nurseries in Youngstown, Ohio, and nell (June 10, 1968)—has moved to 37 State New England Regional Heart P R. Council Ellsworth, joined our class at Maine and joined Street, Groveton New Hampshire 03582 where John is also state publicity chairman, Maine the National Guard just before it was acti­ he is superintendent of the Finishing Depart­ Fed of Young Republicans and the Kennebec vated for the Korean War He stayed in for ment, Groveton Papers Company In 1961, City GOP Committee and was Nixon’s chair­ 20 years Between wars he graduated from Bill received a Bachelor of Science degree in man for Randolph during the campaign Indiana University in 1957 with a degree in Pulp and paper technologv at our alma mater Arthur Brownell is the new commissioner of business, saw duty in Vietnam (discharged in natural resources m Mass 1966), then re-enrolled at Maine for advanced Omar Norton is Director of Elementary Ed­ Received a note from Tede (Vangelli) work in horticulture His family includes ucation for the Pine Tree State while his wife, Wheaton via a nephew of hers I taught Tede daughter Deborah (now Mrs I aurcl Poors) Lleanor (I urner ’61), is a fifth grade teacher and her husband, John, have two children, son Jeff who just graduated from the U of in the Manchester school system They live on Pam 9 and Timmy 7 Sounds as though the ski­ Conn , and daughter Roberta, a senior at Conv Narrows Pond Road, Winthiop ing bug has hit her, too, as she says she High School We congratulate Joan (Mason) Lane who “bumped into” Jane Farwell Russell at Sugar­ has been selected as one of Maine’s Outstanding loaf' Young Women of America Richard Rose, manager of the Rockville, Robert Mortimer, manager of Computer Conn So N E Telephone Co. office was REAL ESTATE Operations, joined Union Mutual Life Insur­ recipient of the Distinguished Service Award. AND ance Company, Portland, in 1955 A member of Congratulations to Mr and Mrs. Thurlow the Data Processing Management Association, Cooper' Their son, Scott Thurlow, was born INSURANCE he married Christina (Colello) on October 24, March 21. Thurlow is a salesman in Me., & 1959 1 hey reside at 25 Amerescoggm Road, No N. H for L. G Belfour. For The Northshore Falmouth Foresidc, with Karen (April 1962), Loren Sibley is the triumphant coach of Jeffrey (September 1963) and Susan (March the Freeport Falcons. Loren, his wife Pat and Area of Boston 1965) their five children live in Freeport. Leslie S. Ray Dave and Betty (Connors) Hughey moved into their new two story Colonial home (61 Old Orchard Road, Sherborn, Massachusetts Insurance Agency, Inc. WHOLESALE Les Ray ’50 927-2600 01770) last July while “neighbors”, Joe ’58 and Dot (Johnston) Pelc, have changed their Real dealer Estate address to 8 Carmel Road, Andover, Massa­ The Uphams Realtors ISLANDS chusetts 01810. WOODLANDS Stu Carroll’51 922-2527 Norman Stetson, a major m the U.S. Air OCEAN ACREAGE 129 Dodge Street (Route 1A) Force, is serving a tour in Vietnam. His wife, Anna, and four daughters keep the home fires RICHARD A, GAY, Beverly, Mass. burning at 1822 Barker Drive, Winter Park, MILBRIDGE, ME. 546-7086 Florida 32789. 45 MRS LEO M. LAZO MRS. MARK SHIBLES Roland E Dubuis has been promoted the (Jane Ledyard) (Elizabeth Colley) Department Chief, Computer System Develop­ 49 Martin Street 2827 Chateau Circle South ment for Western Electric’s, Greensboro, North West Roxbury, Massachusetts 02132 Columbus, Ohio, 43221 Carolina Shops.

I Greetingscjiucimgs fromnun the snow shovelers’ As I write the column this month MRS. ALLAN G. STEWART ' >< paradise Hope you all have sur- names still sound so familiar, but (Millie Simpson) v vz vived the winter____ —let me know when z60 those of you I see in newspaper clippings just don’t quite resemble Old Bath Road you’ve found your way to the mail- Brunswick, Maine 04011 box Those of you in sunnier climes don’t the person I recall seeing around campus— know what you missed—aching backs and 12 but then in nine years there are bound to be Dick and Nancy (Nichols) Hogan foot drifts Plus some of the greatest skiing some changes—one thing—all of you seem to / moved to New Hartford, NY, around be well and healthy' last summer, where Dick is claim Manager of the Memorial Union on the Dick and Nancy (Nichols ’62) Hogan are manager of the Utica office of Orono Campus is Robert D. Stanley Bob living at 8 Imperial Drive, New Hartford, State I arm Insurance Co Sheri Hogan is now came last June from the field of teaching N Y Dick is working with State Farm Ins two and her brother, Scott, is one year old The Rev Gerald Kinney has been named as Co and is a Claim Manager of the Utica Ken Hartz was elected a public works com­ head of the Citizens Advisory Committee of Office They have two children, Sheri, 2, and missioner of Nashua, N H , in January to be­ the Bureau of Social Welfare, on housing in Scott, 1 come the youngest PWC in the history of the Maine Rev. Kinney sees his job as one of Since graduation, Majorie (Abbott) Plamer city a part-time post Ken is also director of determining the exact needs for housing in has been teaching at the High School Level— the waste treatment division of Improved Maine and helping the elderly and low income but now is enjoying being home with their Machinery Inc , and since he graduated from t groups to finance adequate homes Gerald is newly adopted son, David Abbott the Palmers Maine he has earned a masters in sanitary also executive director of the Methodist Home, address is Dary NH engineering from Penn State The Hartz live Inc , at Rockland. Bill and Pat (Gagnon 59) Bryant and their at 21 Parkhurst Drive, Nashua David Lamb The Class of 1958 Scholarship has been three children, Carol 7, Bill 5, and Michael 4, has been in Vietnam nearly a year now work­ awarded this year to Miss June W Wheelock, have recently moved into their new home in ing as a correspondent for UPI He was selec­ Class of 1969, of Hallowell Many thanks to Concord Mass which they designed and con­ ted from a group of 27 newsmen for the over­ all of you who have supported this scholarship structed entirely themselves Hearty Congratula seas assignment, and prior to working for A note from Frank Young in which he tells lions to both of you—you certainly deserve it' LPI was with papers in Las Vegas and Oak­ me that he has been in McLean, Va for the Richard Seymour after serving as Principal land, Calif past year and half. Frank is now General of Winthrop Elementary School for eight years Robert E Jordan and family moved back to Manager for L E Massey, Inc, of Washing­ will be assuming new duties as curriculum co­ Maine last summer after 5 1/2 years in Rut­ ton, D C and at present is busy making plans ordinator for Union 48, Wiscasset land, Vt They live in Warren and Robert is to expand the store throughout the U S Frank Paul Devine and family will be returning to with the W C Ladd Insurance Agency in Nancy, Blair, Jennifer, Kathryn, Patricia, and Orono as Paul was recently appointed as town Rockland Capt John B Nichols Jr , husband Scott live at 5841 Hilldon Street in McLean manager for Orono the Devine’s have three of the former Carol Hall of Monson, is sta­ Nancy (Wakely) Schlieper writes that she children tioned at Ent AFB in Colorado, where he is and Dave (’56) are now in Altoona, Pa Henry Bouchard who has served as Sears a space systems operations officer in the 14th where Dave—who returned from Vietnam in port town manager for the past four years has Aerospace Defense Division His unit recently November—is in command of the ROTC de­ been named as Rockland City manager earned the USAF outstanding unit award partment of the Altoona branch of Penn State Frederick Pierce has moved to Minneapolis Normand P Liberty has joined the Melcher Their address is 300 27th Ave area from Des Moines, Iowa to assume a new and Prescott Insurance Agency Inc in La- The Thurrells write that they are now living position with Libby Owen’s Ford Glass Co coma N H He and his wife, the former at Colonial Farms Kaolin Rd Box 77 Avon­ He is responsible for sales Division in ND, Judith Cronk of Auburn, have purchased a dale, Penn 19311 Larry is now Sales Super­ S D and Minn Iowa and Wisconsin home on Galen Ave , Laconia Their son, visor for Methanol working out of the Home Robert Hume, of Mill Creek Rd Orrington Ricky is nearly two Office for Hercules in Wilmington, Delaware is a fighter pilot on Active Duty attached to Chuck and Prisca (Labbe) Patrick are in Maine Air National Guard, The Hume’s have Vernon Conn , where Prisca says she is teach­ one daughter, Jennifer, 1 1/2. MRS. DONAL D CORLISS ing chemistry at Rockwell High School plus Calvin Thomas has been appointed to a (Priscilla Sawyer) taking care of two very active boys part time post as business manager to co­ 161 West Shore Drive Son number 4, James Linwood, arrived just ordinate the Bangor Symphony Orchestra’s Marblehead, Massachusetts, 01945 in time for Christmas—Dec 18—to Patty activities to hear from class- (Clapp) and Don Gray. James joins Tommy 8, / It’s sure great Billy 4, and John 21/2 . mates -like the note I received MR. PETER 1. GAMMONS, JR. from Susan (Braveman) Flaschner 30 Ridge Drive who is living with hubby, Alan, in Last Providence, Rhode Island 02914 Raleigh, N C Alan is teaching marketing and MRS. CLARK HOWER personnel management at N C State Univer- (Suzy Dunn) Diana (Quinnam) Judkins and sity while finishing his doctoral program at 583 Overlook Drive husband Dick are living in Mer- the University at Chapel Hill They have two Wyckoff, New Jersey 07481 Z61 rimack New Hampshire, where he is children, Sherri Kim 4, and Scott Kevin 1 with Saunders Associates and she Tammy (Cole) Lombard also dropped a 10th Reunion June 6, 7, 8, 1969 is teaching math at Merrimack High School line from Redding California where she has Darold E Tukey was recently graduated been living since graduation She is teaching a Reunion plans are underway for from the Air University’s Squadron Officer class for the educationally handicapped She June 6, 7, and 8 so please don’t School at Maxwell APB, Ala He is now sta­ also hopes to teach some would be flyers some z59 forget to make your reservations tioned at Davis-Monthan APB, Ariz , as an day as she is now a licensed commercial pilot The new chancellor will be at an P-4C Phantom instructor pilot He was com­ working towaid an instructor rating. open house on Friday night at the Memorial missioned in ’63 after OTS and has served in Received a delightful and newsy letter from Union Viet Nam Capt Tukey is accompanied by wife Mickie (Chapman) Versteeg who is now living Daniel Center has been named superintendent Melissa and son Aaron, 4 in Hastings, Michigan, 49058 Husband, Har- of the New Milford, Conn School system He U S Air Force Captain Antonio J Nuccio vey, is a graduate of Michigan State in 1956 was previously the principal of Yarmouth is attending the Air University Squadron Of­ He is the present director of the Barry County High School ficers School at Maxwell APB, Ala Museum and Charlton Park located about 6 Maurice Stickney has been promoted to William Hamlin will become an instructor miles from Hastings They have a little year ass’t trust officer at the First National Granite internce at the College of Education, Wayne old son John Chapman to liven things up Bank in Augusta He and his wife, the former State Univ in Detroit, Mich , In Sept , he Mickie also wrote about Opal (Grass) Bovat Judy Duffy of Benedicta, and their four resigned his position as principal of the Hall- and Husband Larry who now reside at Box children live on Riverside Dr in Augusta Dale Jr H S 1438 RFD #7, Ledyard, Conn , 06339 The Robert Pickett, who is now an ass’t pro­ Hugh Judge Marbury was born on Jan 16th Kim fessor at the U of M has recently been named Bovat’s have a two year-old daughter, the ass’t football coach to Luke and Nancy (Rich) Marbury They and added again to their family this past live at 3800 Canterbury Road, Baltimore, Md. February Joe Dombeck will be co-chairman of the 21218 Capt John B Nichols, Jr is a member of 1969 Easter Seal Appeal in the State of Maine Inez (Kolonel) Rudman and husband Paul a unit which was recently awarded the Air Joe is head of the Biology Department at and children Andrew 4 and Carole 3 are living force Outstanding Unit award He is a space Brewer High School Married to the former at 454 Garland Street Bangor Paul is a lawyer systems operations officer in the 14th Aero­ Rosanne Daigle of Houlton, the Dombecks with Rudman, Rudman and Carter space Defense division at Ent AFB, Colorado have three daughters and one son They make Paul H Pearson has been named director of He is married to the former Carol Hall of their residence at 30 Ryder Road, Brewer Joe Life Underwriting for the Security Mutual Life Monson. has been named associate director of educa­ Insurance Co of New York Wayne R Crandall has became associated tion for the Roman Catholic Church Diocese David Bruce Platt was born in Feb 1968 in law practice with Samuel Collins, Jr. and of Portland and will assume duties Sept 1 He is the son of Mr and Mrs Bruce Platt. Alan L Bird in Rockland. 46 MRS. CRAIG MILNE MRS. JAMES GOFFI MISS CHRISTINE HASTED (Sandra Farrar) (Dawn Susi) 8B Beech Street Box 795 Knox Hall, Univ, of Maine Orono, Maine 04473 Portland, Maine 04104 Orono, Maine 04473 / The class of 1968 had its first 5th Reunion, June 6, 7, 8, 1969 Living m Brookline, Mass , Carol alumni executive board meeting of Spruce has been promoted to re­ sorts a few weeks ago when I ran Craig and I have just returned / '66 search supervisor in the actuarial into Dick Sawyer, alumni class presi­ from a brief visit to Massachusetts research unit of John Hancock dent at the Governor’s of all places! He was where we stopped to see Richard Mutual Life Ins. Co Carol will be supervising accompanied by a lovely young lady, soon to and Judy (Kay ’65) Ingraham in and training research assistants and clerks in be Mrs Sawyer. Dick is teaching speech and Byfield. They are kept busy watching the the dept and will handle special projects dramatics at Millinocket High School, and antics of 16 month old twins, Joan and Philip, it is rumored that his play (developed com­ and 2% Richard, Jr. Dick works for Phillips MARRIAGES pletely by his students and coached by himself) 66. Mary Miller to Bryce Huff in October. is on its way to the top. Matt McNeary writes from Williamstown, Charles Friedman to Sondra Wartel, BU. The Mass, where he and his wife, Linda Scott, live Friedman’s are living m Philadelphia while We have had a note from Ellie Kent who with Paul Matthew born last September. Matt Charles attends Temple Univ is enjoying her 4-H service in Jamaica where works for Sprague Electric Co. m North Karen Gatchell to Bradford McFarland, Univ she says the people are seeing to it that she Adams where he is a combination develop­ of Calif The McFarland’s live in Veazie. sees the real Jamaica. ment and process engineer for the manufacture Judy Onno to G Herbert Beard, III, a Dr Clark Granger, who received his doctorate of film capacitors. laboratory technician in Waverly, Mass. with us in June will replace Dr. A. E. Brower Other news comes from Dottie (Thompson) Lt Frank Tenore to Sandra Jackley, W. Va. as entomologist for the Maine Forest Service. and Henry Irving ’63 living in Wilmington, Univ Frank received an MS in advertising at Delaware. (Soon to be transferred to Buffalo, W Va Univ , and is now in the U S. Army Elaine Swasey has accepted a position with N. Y.) Henry works for DuPont and received flight training school at Ft Wolters. Eastman Kodak of Rochester, New York. She a Masters in M E. from Drexel in 1967. Dot­ Lawrence Shumway to Theresa Mazzola, New will work as a research chemist m the Methods tie was teaching school and received a Masters England Hospital School of Nursing Lawrence Research and Technical Services Department in Reading last June. She is now at home attends Suffolk Univ. of Kodak Research Laboratories. with son, Lee Edward, born January 28, 1969 Diane Derby to Lt William Minnis, Bowdom Danny Field, now a theatre graduate student, Sheila Stnar has completed work on a Diane will teach in the Baltimore, Md. school has been cast in a leading role in the latest Masters Degree in secondary counseling at system Her husband is m the U. S. Army. Maine Masque production, “The Bacchae”. Northeastern Univ. She is now teaching grade Douglas Grover to Jimmie Elizabeth Parnell, A note from Pete Crolius, honorary member 8 in Melrose, Mass. Alabama College Doug is a research chemist The appointment of Lester Young as teach­ of the class of 1968 and class advisor for two and an officer with the UniChem Corp m years informs us that he has employed two ing-principal of the Glenburn Elementary Tucker, Ga School has been announced. Lester has been ’68ers to work as research assistants. They are teaching and coaching in Vanceboro and Glen­ Scott MacFarland and Hiram Emery (Hi is burn. MRS. STANLEY WENTZELL currently on ‘on leave’ basis while he serves (M. Ellen Willey) hts term m the U S. Navy) Noel K. Evans has become associated with 10 Winslow Road the law firm of Rudman, Rudman and Carter Falmouth Foreside, Maine 04105 Ron LeBretton, currently teaching in Massa­ of Bangor after graduating from George Wash­ chusetts, is taking a rather unexpected vacation ington Law School and being admitted to the First Reunion, June 6, 7, 8, 1969 while recovering from an operation. He is Maine State Bar in August recuperating at home in Old Town. Well, believe it or not reunion A note from Virginia Berglind offers the time isn’t far away but in the mean­ following information: Martha Berglind Burn­ MRS RICHARD FALOON time we have some news to catch (Mary Kate Foote) '67 ham is teaching the third grade in Ludlow, up on Molly McRae Bullard writes Mass George Ritz is a research forester with 4951 St. John Drive that since their marriage in June of ’67, she Syracuse, New York 13215 the Peace Corps in Chile. And Virginia herself, and husband Allan have been living in Clem­ is thoroughly enjoying teaching her class of I received a newsy letter from son, South Carolina Molly has been teaching third graders in Lexington, Mass. 3rd grade, and in December Allan graduated Owen Wells. He writes that Horace with his M Sc On Jan 29 of this year they A note from Charlotte Dupont Douglas sends z65 Horton has returned from Vietnam became the proud parents of Gretchen Laura greetings to all. Her husband is a graduate and is a civilian again, working for student at MIT and Charlotte is teaching N.A.S.A. in Washington, D.C. He, wife At the end of Feb the three Bullards moved to San Antonio, Texas where Allan entered the remedial reading to junior high students in Barbara (Waters) and daughter Angela are Brockton, Mass. living in Laurel, Maryland. Air Force as a 2nd Lt Betsy Fairlamb Parli- man informs us that she and John were married Ronda Fifield has married Jim Sanders. MARRIAGES-. on Nov 28 and are living in Conn where she Ronda is teaching French and English in the Donna Byers became the wife of Neal W and John are both teaching. Arlene Casey Stew­ Cape Elizabeth School system Jim is studying Chapman of Auburn. Donna is a social worker art is teaching jr high in Waynesville, N C for his master’s degree in finance and invest­ for the Maine State Dept, of Health and Wel­ while husband Tom is a student in industrial ment at Babson Inst. March 14th he reported fare in Lewiston. Her husband is assistant arts at western Carolina U in Cullowhee. Living for active duty in the U.S. Air Force. Their manager of the Gate Coffee House. in York Harbor with her parents and caring address is 323 Oceanhouse Rd , Cape Elizabeth. for year old Cynthia Lynn is Bonnie Valentine Barry Titcomb and his bride Diane Smith Gale Husband Hamilton is a Sgt. serving in Miss Judy Jones ’70, has recently become are living in N.Y. state. He is an instructor Viet Nam Before leaving for a tour of duty at St. Bonaventure U. at Olean. the bride of Carl Szych. Carl is presently serv­ in Korea, James Paul marued Janet Mont­ ing a term in the U.S. Army. Linda Mansfield has recently become the wife gomery of New London, N H A daughter, of Gordon Evans, a graduate of Tri-State Marta Lynne was born Nov 16 Jim will be Eveleen Severn and Eric Sass were married College in Angola, Ind. returning to the States in 'April Carol Heber in a winter wedding with many former *68ers Herbert Hoppe and wife Linda Morton are and Robert Laughlin were married on Aug 24 in attendance For a honeymoon the couple living in Portland. Herb is teaching at Falmouth and are living in Dedham where Mr. is a took a skiing trip to Quebec. Eric is the pro­ High School. teaching principal He is also completing his ducer-director for the Maine ETV network. Judith Kimball’s new husband is Michael T. masters. The couple will reside on Riverdale, Orono. Field, a graduate of M I.T and Calif. I T. He Dianne Koenig received her masters degree Ann Sulya to Bob Darby. Ann is a dietitian is presently a geologist for the N Y State Dept in education from Northwestern U in Sept, at Texas Technological College. Her husband is of Transportation. Judy is teaching in the Burnt and in Oct began social work at the Mass Eye attending Texas Tech, majoring in architecture. Hills-Ballston Lake school system, Scotia, N.Y. and Ear Infirmary in Boston She is now en­ They are living at 2114 6th St. in Lubbock Belchertown, Mass, is the home of Lurana gaged to Tracy Greene of Reading, Mass, and Texas. K. Brower and Michael E. McCarron of is planning a June wedding In Feb, Marcia Belchertown. Barrell (’65) became Mrs. Howard Parsons Miss Joan Dennis to Terry Parent. Joan is Lowell Marcia is reference librarian at the employed as a stenographer with the Depart­ Judith A. Holbrook and her husband Thomas Maine State Library and Howard is employed ment of Residence and Dining Halls at the McCallie III, a graduate of the U. of Tenn. as an archivist by Maine State Archives They University of Maine Terry is employed as a BIRTHS are living in Hallowell. Another Feb. wedding teacher in Pembroke. The couple will reside at was that of Sandy Robbins to Ben Severn 37 Key Street, Eastport. Ben and Sharon (Mount) Bramhall became formerly of Falmouth now of Albuquerque, the proud parents of a daughter, Rachel Anne, N M Ben and Sandy are making their home Pat Scamman to Dwight Verrill ’69. She is and are living in Sterling, Mass. at 312 Bryn Mawr, S.E. Albuquerque. Deborah employed as a social worker with the Depart­ Julia Lynn is the new daughter of Alan and Heald is now engaged to Guy DiStasio. She ment of Health and Welfare Division of child Nancy (Horracks) Johnson who are still living is taking courses at UMP and Guy is teaching welfare in Brewer. The couple will reside at here in Syracuse, N.Y, at Abraham Lincoln Jr. High in Revere, Mass. 68 Church St. in Brewer. Mr. Blue Da.'nat

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Ip ANY one location could be chosen in Portland that had, more than all others, the protection of the people, and justice under the law, if not mercy, was known each hardship and triumph of the city from the layout of the first streets dealt to the erring ones There, the flaming oratory of Lloyd Garrison spoke to the Great Fire in 1866, it would be what we know as Monument Square against s’avcry of any peoples, any groups. There, the first recruits of the When there were but three so-called streets in the town (Fore, Middle and War between the States were sworn in. Back), a blockhouse for refuge from Indian forays was built there It housed, Even after the Town Hall was built in 1825, ”The Square” was a market successively, a refuge, a jail, a market place, and in 1825, a proud and lovely place In the lower floors of the Town Hall were stalls for selling country Town Hall. ’’The Square” was the social and political heart of the town — it produce, but many of the farmers, on pleasant days, set up their displays on knew gay strolling couples and, at times, snarling mobs There, the town fathers wagons in front of the Hall. At night flaring torches lighted the scene. installed the first hay scales, beside the town well. There, the farmers brought On the southwest side of the Square was the Portland Museum, where the products, of their fields to sell. There, stood the town wood pile — the were displayed stuffed animals, waxworks, paintings of foreign lands and gift of the "Widow’s Wood Society” where the needy could get fuel to keep battlefields and Indian scenes It was a substitute for the theatre. The digni­ them warm. There, the soup-kitchens of the dreadful depression days of the fied brick mansion of I'd ward Preble — later the Preble Hotel — fronted the Embargo of 1807 fed the populace. There, Stephen S Foster was brutally Square The first newspaper was printed m a room that overlooked the Square's assaulted by a pro-slavery mob intent on tarring and feathering him There, various activities It was never the center of population, but it was unques­ the new and inexperienced town government met and gradually forged laws for tionably the heart of a town.

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