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University of the Pacific Scholarly Commons Pacific Review University of the Pacific ubP lications 3-1-1932 Pacific Review March 1932 Pacific Alumni Association Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/pacific-review Part of the Higher Education Commons Recommended Citation Pacific Alumni Association, "Pacific Review March 1932" (1932). Pacific Review. 59. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/pacific-review/59 This Newsletter is brought to you for free and open access by the University of the Pacific ubP lications at Scholarly Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Pacific Review by an authorized administrator of Scholarly Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. liss Belle Joachims, College of the Pacific, Stockton, California. J/ PACIFIC REVIE'A' No. 4 VOL. VI COLLEGE OF THE PACIFIC, STOCKTON, CALIFORNIA, MARCH, 1932 "Alice in Wonderland" WHO'S NEW Outdoor Exercises Highlights ON THE FACULTY SINCE '24 Will Be Presented at Planned for 75th of Pacific Pacific April 21-23 Commencement The College of the Pacific is the only co-educational denominational College "Alice in Wonderland" will be pre The first outdoor Commencement of Liberal Arts in an area 1000 miles sented by the Pacific Little Theatre exercises of Pacific are being planned long and 800 miles wide between Los April 21, 22 and 23 as the last of its for June 13. The seventy-fifth com Angeles and Albany, Oregon, and be series of International plays this sea mencement anniversary is the occasion tween the Pacific Ocean and Salt Lake son. The dramatization will be a com for this unique feature. It is also con City. bination of Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Ad templated that the exercises will be High School Area Served ventures in Wonderland" and "Through held in Baxter Stadium in the evening. It serves the largest area, from the the Looking Glass" arranged by Alice Dr. Robert A. Millikan will give the standpoint of high school population, Gerstenberg- Alice will be-played by commencement address. Internation of any college in the United States. Audrey Squires, senior member of Pa ally known as a physicist and a Nobel This area extends from Chico to cific Players. prize winner, Dr. Millikan is the chair Fresno, and from Reno to Berkeley. This play is popular this season be man of the Executive Council of the In it are 90 high schools with a total cause of the hundredth anniversary of California Institute of Technology at enrollment of 28,294. California is Mr. Carroll's birthday, which occurred Pasadena. "The Changing World" is credited with the fastest growing high January 27, 1932. Columbia University expected to be his subject. schools of any state in the Union, with plans a special celebration of the event Special committees representing the an enrollment of half a million stu in May when the original Alice, now dents, which indicates Pacific's oppor Alumni, Associated Students, Faculty, Mrs. R. G. Hargreaves, will come from and other groups are being designated tunity. England to attend the festival. Included in the same area are three to assist in making this one of the out Junior Colleges, with a total enroll Origin of Story standing events in the history of Pa ment of 3411, from which come many It was near the banks of the placid cific. to Pacific for upper class work. River Cherwell, a few miles above Ox Alumni Committee ford, that a young mathematics lec Pacific has no competition in its The general alumni commemoration class on account of this strategic lo turer, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, re lated on a summer day in July, 1862, committee appointed to stimulate an cation. The enrollment has increased interest in this event includes: Mary from 448 to more than 800 since it lo the story of a little girl who wandered JOHN GILCHRIST ELLIOTT through a rabbit hole into amazing Elizabeth Bannister '62, Elizabeth cated in Stockton- Widney Leggett '66, Alfred Bannister Accredited Rating underground adventures. His bright-eyed listeners were the John Gilchrist Elliott, head of the '67, Jettora Watkins Hyde '70, Lizzie The academic standards of the insti Misses Lorina, Alice and Edith Lid- Department of Piano at Pacific since Wilson Bruner '71, Emma Tantau tution have been consistently raised, 1927, is an outstanding pianist. His un Blauer '72, Emma Palmer Mosbaugh and Pacific has now the highest ac dell, daughters of the dean of Christ Church College at Oxford, and the usual ability is shown both in his per '73, Lucy L- Gober Boyd '75, Mary V. credited rating possible. It is a member story they heard was one that later formances and his teaching. Gibbons Cooper '76, Libbie Butler of the Association of American Col Werry '77, Eliza Goldsworthy Parma- leges and is included on the accredited charmed the world of childhood as As president of the Stockton Musical Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, by lee '78, May Martin Stewart '79, Perley list of the Association of American Club he is now especially active in F. Gosbey '80, Freeman B. Mills '81, Professor Dodgson under the nom de stimulating and developing apprecia Universities. It is also on the approved Edward P. Dennett '82, Albert B. Mc- list of the American Association of plume of Carroll. tion of music in the vicinity of the Col The centenary of the birth of Mr. Kee '83, Adelaide Crawford Hall '84, University Women which entitles all lege. The organization of the Stockton Glenn Harter '85, John Archibald women graduates of the College to ac Carroll is really the celebration of the Community Concert Association is due birth of "Alice in Wonderland." It is Armstrong '86, Edward B. Mering '87, tive membership in the organization. to his initiative. This genuine asset to Grace Huggins Bronaugh '88, Samuel The Pacific Conservatory of Music an anniversary as important as that of the city is similar to more than 250 of any statesman or soldier—it is the cen Cary Evans Jr. 89, Rockwell D. Hunt was one of fourteen institutions on the like kind in the United States which '90, Lynn Carroll Simpson '91, Irvin tenary of the birth of nonsense, which initial list of the National Association serve to present concerts by world Clifton Hatch '92, Leila Walton Ellis as G. K. Chesterton of the New York of Schools of Music. famous artists and furnish musical at '93, May Bell Gilman '94, Louis Sam Times says, "provides a holiday of the Increased Upper Division Enrollment tractions which add prestige and dis uel Kroeck '95, Alice May Jordon '96, mind." tinction to local communities. Registration figures this semester Alfred J. Case '97, Hugh Baker '98, show that the enrollment of the senior He received his Bachelor of Music Edith Van Anda Dungan '99, Rue class is larger than that of any other Dr. Knoles Will Celebrate degree at Northwestern University Dana Fish '00, William A. Angwin class. When President Knoles came to 13th Anniversary April 2 where he studied under Carl Milton '01, George M. Hench '02, Frederick Pacific 13 years ago, more than half Beecher and Arne Oldberg, head of H. Tibbetts '03, Irving W. Snow '04, of the student body was in the lower Dr. Tully C. Knoles will enter upon the Department of Piano. He also re Harold Saxe Tuttle '05, Rose Moodey division classes. his fourteenth year as president of Pa ceived instruction from Edward Col Hart '06, Daniel F. Rittenhouse '07, The development of the curriculum cific April 2. The average period of ser lins of Chicago and Ernest Hutcheson Esther Cynthia Macomber '08, Anna for upper division and graduate stu vice of his sixteen predecessors has of New York- Wythe Hermitage '09, Edwin E- Town er '10, Roy Wilmarth Kelly '11, Nathan dents and the addition of the teacher been about five and one-half years. Mr. Elliott was piano soloist for the training facilities are contributing fac William McChesney '12, Amos Edwin He is to be congratulated upon the Northwestern Glee Club in 1925 when tors to the increase in upper division Clark '13, Guerdon A. Cowan '14, Wil- progress that Pacific has made under it made a transcontinental tour. His enrollment. The graduate students at lian S. Kellogg '15, Harold A. Noble his administration. When he came to performances attracted favorable com Pacific this year number 108. With 90 '16, Freda Dustin '17, Alma Williams Pacific from the University of South ment from critics in all cities visited, graduate students last year, it was re '18, Justin K. Dyche '19, Mary Eliza ern California in 1919, he was con particularly in musical centers. ported by the Survey Committee of fronted with three possibilities for the beth Ferguson '20, Bishop M. Estes '21, Mrs. Elliott, also, holds a Bachelor Erford A. McAllister '22, Ray R. Wil the Methodist Board of Education that future of the College. Pacific had more graduate students of Music degree from Northwestern, son '23, Hazel Glaister Robertson '24, It could go out of business, sell its and has exhibited her talent on the Pa Lucy Woodhouse Brown '25, Cleetis (Continued on page 4) endowment and use the proceeds to cific stage. She assists in the faculty Brown '26, Henderson McGee '27, form a Wesley foundation for the Uni concerts each year when the eight- Maureen Moore '28, Caroline Leland Second Annual Open House versity of California or Stanford. It piano ensemble is presented. Mr. and '29, Wesley N. Sowyer '30, and Ber- Will Be Held April 21, 22 could become a junior college for Stan Mrs. Elliott are the proud parents of a nice Bergquest '31. ford as it practically was then.