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Colby Alumnus Vol. 54, No. 2: Winter 1965 Colby College Digital Commons @ Colby Colby Alumnus Colby College Archives 1965 Colby Alumnus Vol. 54, No. 2: Winter 1965 Colby College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/alumnus Part of the Higher Education Commons Recommended Citation Colby College, "Colby Alumnus Vol. 54, No. 2: Winter 1965" (1965). Colby Alumnus. 47. https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/alumnus/47 This Other is brought to you for free and open access by the Colby College Archives at Digital Commons @ Colby. It has been accepted for inclusion in Colby Alumnus by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Colby. • THE COLBY ALU�I::'\U perspective WI TER J<)6" Photography by EARL SMITH, except page 16 (Emlyn Williams) and 20 b RONALD l\1AXWELL, and page 15 b' THE COLBY ALUM us is published in the spring, BACHRACH. ummer, fall, and winter by the Alumni Council of Colby College. Entered as second-class matter Cover: adaption of the construction of January 25, 1912 at the post office in Waterville, a letter, from Pacioli's Summa de Maine, under the Act of March 2, 1879. Arilhmetica (16th c.) nificant conversations are encouraging; but I value most the occasional remarks I heard of joy comment and enthusiasm, both for the independence ... and for the pursuit of an area of interest which the tudent had not been able to probe deeply <: • .... ��·� i;,,"'j. �_ before." . After twenty-five years of devoted work as head of women's physical education, Miss Janet Mar­ THE AL Mi' must report, sorrowfully, that chant has retired. THE ALUMNUS has tried to con­ DR. HERBERT CARLYLE LIBBY '02 died on February vey some sense of her contribution and her ac­ 2i at the a�e of 6. Followin tlze traditional tivity in an article on page But we are aware summatio11 of lzis life and work (pages -1, 5) we 17. have reprinted s lcction from a few of the that no such words can speak for the generations of women who have grown under her guidance. m7riad letters sent to Dr. Libby on Colby '[I.Tight last fall. The growing de ire of tudent to be heard in matter of planning - a recent, though national Leonard :Mayo recalls one fine da when Dr. phenomenon - evidenced itself in January. The Libby was patiently altempting to e tract a defi­ members of Blue Key and Cap and Gown organ­ nition of the word " phenomenon ". 1o\ ed to iLed a daylong " conversation " with members of frustration, he ingled out one tudent. " If ou the administration, board of trustees and faculty. tood on the sLep of hernical Hall, and l ke<l n<ler di cu ion were the academic and social toward Memorial Hall, and Lhere aw three torks direction the college might take and specific wallowing clock , what would ·ou call lhaL?" plan a to hou ing, curriculum and independent Mr. Mayo remembers that the tudent hesitated tud ·, and architectural modification. not an in tant. " 1 would call it a terrible wa Le The tudent demon trated that a long tradi­ of time." tion of a kind may indeed be broken. Rather Dr. Libby mile<l in the silent moment, an<l than being concerned with their own time at then, in hi preci e pee h, aid " la di - college, these ampus leaders evinced a definite milled!" wi h to improve the educational lot of Colby tudent to come. All in all, this fir t of several propo ed colloquie brought home one salient ou?" " tud)ing fa t: the college, to become truly excellent, must "How wa it?" be a true communit . last week of Januar · ha taken o, n air own. Back from ' on location ' project , To a someday-to-be-published anthology of the are greeted b th e who ta yecl on apt phrase, add a Colby psychology professor's . But not like afler a \'a aLion. 1 ·eithe1 de cription of the state of several unacquainted groups waiting for the very late arrival of the ite ure what the other has been about for coordinator of a conference: "There we were, clustered in nodules of anxiety." 'de-occurrence, but an indicati\e one, of uary Program of Independent tud . years of Janplan , set a the trial period are o er. This pring the facully re\iew perspective periment, a sa} it, gives it it ble sing, re· the Colby Alumnus/ winter i965 or di penses with it. volume 54, number 2 Alect the ing that decision, howe,·er, will be Ian L. Robertson '51, editor 'mony of professors who have obsen·ed the Ell worth W. Millett '25, business quickeni manager ng of intensit), intere t in Lhe other tu­ IN THI ISSUE dent' information, meaningful talk. One faculty � Winter Weekend; 4 Herbert Carlyle Libby; 6 member has summed it up: " ... the greater self­ Lelters to an Educator; g President's Page; 10 Bar reliance, the greater use of the library facili tie , 'one; 15 Class Notes; 2.7 rews of the College; 34 and the apparent increa e among tudent of ig- Electrnnic Teacher; 36 Alumnus Portrait; 38 Sports. WINTER WEEKEND Colby's initial FAMILY Wl TER WEEKEJ\D, held January 29-31, brought a goo<lly num­ ber of alumni and alumnae, their wives and hu band , and their children to the campus. There wa kating and kiing, a leighride, basketball and hocke) games, and comi\i­ ality for all. In the Alfond Aren�. katers co eretl a variety of agei.: Heather Ma Intyre (daugh­ ter of Charles and Joan Camma1111 Mac­ Intyre, both '51) and Frank Carpenter '14 harpenecl their blade and tried the indoor ice. Murray Gore of "'atenille hitched up hi hor es and bell to an old cutter, and whisked the young ter aero field and pa - cure. And the tudent an<l college taff hared their new lope, a hit of the -veekend, with the returning graduates and their families. The Weekend wa the fir t of what the alumni office, through the efforts of BiJJ Millett, Sid Farr, and Ruth Brown, hopes will become an annual (and gala) affair. THE AL M1 s hope o, too. 2 3 Herbert Carlyle Libby 1879-1965 Familiar among public speaking c/as memories were Dr. Libby's calculated efforts to distract the j1olenlial orator. Dr. Herbert Carlyle Libby '02, assi tant to the late president Arthur J. Roberts and head of the public speaking department for many years, died in ·water­ ville on February 27 at the age of 86. He was born in Burnham, the eighth son of Isaac C. and Helen Green Libby. His father was a country school teacher who later engaged in farming and buy­ Dr. Libby was ne,�s editor of the COLBY ECHO and ing and selling of livestock. participated in intercollegiate debating and peaking The family moved to Waterville where the elder contests. He was a Zeta P i. an undergraduate, Libby bought a large tract of land and entered the he edited the book, COLBY STORIES, and a book of Yer e, electric railroad business, building even railroads in DER THE WILLOWS. His college cour e wa inter­ Maine and the Canadian provinces. Young Herbert rupted in i8gg when his father died but he later Libby worked with his father, whose activities in­ tudied at the Curry School of Expression (now Curr) cluded the presidency of the Watenille Trust Com­ College), Boston, and wa graduated from Harvard pany, construction of two condensed milk factories, in i904, haying majored in English and hi tory. and sheep ranches in Montana. Upon his return to \l\Taterville he became intere ted He was president of the debating society at \l\Tater­ in local and state politics and with three other bought ville High School and he founded and edited the high the WATERVILLE MAIL, of ·which he became editor. school NAUTILUS, which is still published. He was \!\Then it was sold in igo8, he became as istant to President Robert and instructor in public peaking. 4 graduated in i8g8 with English honors. \\'hen a <lepanment of public peakin wa reated he became it head and •rn ad,·an ed t0 full profe 'Or. He continued a a i tant to Pre idem Roberts and al o taught peaking, debate, journali m and Engli-.h compo ition. A gift of 2 � ,ooo from Job :\Iontgomer:. Camden law ·er and in<lu triali t, wa among e,·eral giYen to timulate public peaking . \part from cla- room duti , Dr. Libby ened a' president of the tale Referendum League which ecured pa age of the initiati\ e and referendum law and later dire ted the prirnar;. He edited the olb catalogue for everal )ear , lor i; � ea1 was editor of THE LL':\l.:'\L' and for q :ear­ was director of the le ture our e. He al o ened a chairman of the om.men emen t ommi ue , of the Following his re ignation from the college faculty Lon:jo� convocation , the Lo,·ejo) Buildin ommit­ ;:n the age o( 65, he ga,·e hi attention largely to the tee. and a d1ain11an of the mmittee of 100 for the de\ elopment of a large acreage of shore land which Colby Centennial. ame \\'ilh h.i · purci1a e in 1931 of the Pemaquid Land For ten )ears he w an in tn1ctor at the Bango1 ompany at Pemaquid Point. He was manager and heological eminary, for two \ear dire tar of the trea. urer of the company at the time of his death. Eastern Mu ic amp and for three )ear wa uperin­ The board of trustees of Colby adopted upon his tendent of Waten'ille public - hool.
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