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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 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 tayecl 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 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 Alwa · interested in youc.h work, he wa aCLi\ e in the un ympathetic role of the opposition. A dispas- the earl organization of the ''\'atenille B �s· Jub. ionate review would probably find him sometimes and will be remembered for Lhe unda Morning wrong many time right, always in pired by a deep . �fen' Cla.5 whi h had a t0tal member hip of 1700. and unselfi h love for Colby College and a jealous He wa a Di tricl Governor of RotaT), and pht)ed an wi h to pre erve its character and ideals. His volun aggre ive role in the ·work to keep olb in v\'ater taT)' relirement removes from the active Faculty one Yille. of Lhe few remaining links between the new and old He en·ed two term a f\Ia or of "'at nille in 1927 olb . v\Te deeply regTet his withdrawal, but our and 192 during which a ity Planning Board, a Park final feeling i one of gratitude for hi long, faithful, Commi ion and a Public Debt .Amortirntion Fund and intelligent ervice ". were created. Pre ident trider paid thi tribute to Dr. Libby: He \ought unsucce full · the Republi an nomina " Dr. Herbert Carlyle Libb was one of the most dy tion ac; Governor of 1 Iaine in 1 2 . nami teacher in Colby hi tory. Generations of stu For many year , Dr. Libby o upied ome church dent attribute to him their succe s in speaking and pulpit in i\!rune and among hi writings are a ollege thinking rapidly and clearly in public gatherings. He textbook, HA 'DBO K FOR p BLlC PE Kl 'G CLA E , al o i,, va an organizer and manager of great skill, and YAR:. roR BO\ , TRO 'G ELE ION FOR PUBLIC PE.\K- during his long career at Colby few faculty members 1. c. numerou hi tori al I ooklet'> for the Public Li ma le a more la ting mark. bra!')', Federal Trust ompan , f thodi t hur h, the " It i mo t gratifying that the alumni chose Dr. fall. Colby .llbum of War Da)'s, and Colby in the Creal Libby for pecial honor at Homecoming last War. He lea\e two unpul Ii heel book�. THE rn TORY 11 the member of our college community join OF to Mrs. Libby THE CENTRAL :--.r l�E POWJ:.R 0 fPA. y and LE 01 me in e, tending our profound sympathy fRU. ( TllE ICO::'\D WOR D WAR. and the family." 5 benefiLed and ah rn Lheir progen who in Lum have been and will be benefited ... Thus, if we be permitted Lo am nd Lhe Talmudic wriLing, of this great Leacher ... Lrul may it be said: "He taught his neighbors' on and therefore it i a if he had created those on and their children and their hilclren' children unto countle genera Lion ." RALl'll :\°A�ll ' 34 I ha 1 come to look to him for hi ad\'ice and criticism on o ca ion when I wa to pre ent a paper before a medi al meeting. ow it "·a not Lhe technique of deli,·ery, but Lhe form and con Lext of the article for which I . ought hi help. I learned Lhat however wa a weak word, "·hile Letters to an but was trong and incisi' e. He was always ready and willing Lo help. I realize now that I hould Educator ha,·e added Lo the tille page of many of my pub licaLion , Edited by Professor Herbert C. Libby. On Colby Night last, the college honored HER But, youLh often i umhinking and it i only now BERT CARLYLE LIBBY '02 former professor of that I can make up for thi omi ion. speech, editor of the LUM u , and administrator. FREDERICK T. HILL, :\LO. '10 Nlany hundreds of letters were ent by his stu You told w to " land up and call your souls dents and colleagues, and every one conveyed a )'Our own." picture of a kind but {trm, wann and uenerolls PALL\!. EO:\IL:--O '26 spirit. It is quite safe to say that Dr. Libby was truly, using that sometimes outworn expression, a I hall ne\'er forget the day ou chided fifteen " beloved teacher." of Lhe girl in my la , including my elf. We The following extracts are only representative were being initiated into Chi Gamma Theta, an of a handful of these Zellers; and were, it might honorary ophomore ociety. '\\ e ·were dre ed in be added, extremely difficult to select, there being yellow licker , ) ellow hat , rubber boot and so many memorable lines and paragraphs in the woolen gloYe . Each one of u carried in one thick, bound volume of remembrances. hand a pail full of candy ki e ; in the other hand an umbrella and a traw uitcase . . . ou reque ted u to line up, place our hand on the A a relative newcomer to Colby, I cannot houlder of the per on in front of u , parade up claim the distinction shared by so many of my and down the ai le , and aero in front of the friends and colleagues of having studied under chapel platform - reciting in uni on and loud the great Herbert Carlyle Libby. Those who tone Slogginu over Africa. '\i\Te ·were embarra ed have had the privilege appear to regard them but I have forgiven ·ou long ince. F. ELll BETH LIBBEY selves in a kind of category rather like the sur "29 vivors of the Battle of Agincourt or Custer's last I 1 as ah1·ay aware of and appreciated your stand. Evidently you gave no quarter to anyone! approval of my early striving ... You found On the other hand, I have never yet met one of many ways to how that you were aware of a those urvivors who ha not said that under your women' di\'ision at Colby. You aw to it that direction, terrified as he may have been, he Lhe women's dean had a part in e\'ery po ible learned more than under the instruction of al college event. Frightened a I wa at fi..r t to meet most anyone else. your requests Lo introduce prominent women PRE !DENT ROBERT E. L. STRIDER lecturers, I would not have refu ed for world . I felt, a I am sure you did - though no mention He who teaches his neighbor's son is as if he had of the fact wa made between us - that my created him (THE TALMUD, SANHEDRIN, ig) representing the women in a public way wa one tep towards reminding people that they were a His real memorial will be manifested in tho e part of Colby. ' 6 very pupils ... who e lives he has enriched and NINE1TA :.\I. R NNAD o me Do you remember the time you helped Speak the speech I pray you, as build a barrel? It ·wa taned in the fall of 193 1 and we were two year building it. I pronounced it to you, \fy parent ent the material down from Fairfield on the treet car. I hall never forget trippingly on the tongue . the look of con ternation on your face a ·ou Nor do not saw the air too looked at them. In tead of the turdy oak, a re quired, the taYe and bonom "·ere of 'cry thin, niuch with your hand. lea7} tuff and the head 'rn· "·ood of extreme HAMLET, III, 2 den i t,-. "'e u eel the chapel in Iemorial Hall as a works hop. Time ha dimmed the man 1 frus tration but I remember well the enjo) ment and gale of laughter that o frequently occurred; o much we forget. But I have many memo ries how you u ed to drop ·our cool and pound on of )'OU that time can never erase. I see )IOU often among the Chapel pews, listening, the pew when I "·a at a cri t ical taO"e; how I coach ing. I tried to oak the ·ta,·es in alcohol one night and hear you sa)•ing "That was a money-mak �ou howed me that if continued, the barrel ing cough, Sprague," after I used it to cover a memory would not endure; how we put it on exhibition lapse the night I won the Goodwin. GEORGE F. SPRAGUE '31 in the Hallowell conce t - "·e had it nearl fin i bed then - and ho"· proud m parent were! It didn't win an· prize but we were all pl ea ed It "·as from ·ou that I first learned to respect with what you had accompli hed. I wa e retly and cheri h the hi tory of our college, and THE · . pleased that ·ou thought it worth of di pla l L l\lNU ha never been the same since you re recall we completed it that warm June cla in linqui hed it editorship. Nor have I forgotten 1932 and covered it with heep kin to help it re how kind you were to m on, who e attendance i t the rigo of daily life. wa not made ea y at the college where his fa I know there are many better barrel around ther was an officer. To you, more than any other an I '>hall alway� see )Our £a e a you stood be You made me the recipient of your boundle fore the clas in Public peaking - your face warmth and generous �pirit. You quieliy and wiLh the arclonic twinkle in your eye . Little forcefully made me feel that you cared about me Lhings remain in memory, a the morning I had as a person and then translated that concern into LO �tancl before the clas� and repeat " the gentle practical reality which made it po ible for me man \\'a unparliamentary from the beginning to to complete my education. You [helped] me find the end of hi peech ". I must haYe looked de part time work [and] guaranteed a loan from the termined becau e ;ou aid " re you biting nail, :.\Ii · anborn?" \i\Taterville Bank, thus enabling me to pay my DORI SA="'BOR:-; BCCK '2 tuition. And all this came about because of your ; deep sen itivity to my problem and your un ol icited, gratuitou , and insistent efforts to ameli orate them. FREOl:..RICK A. C:I lRI· I Bl· R '3 J If anyone were to ash me what single course in One of my most vivid 111emories of the winter my college career had the most forceful 011d con of 1919 is watching the cloch on 1'\Iemorial Hall structive impact, there wo uld be no hesitation in tower from a classroom in Chemical Hall and, replying, "Dr. Libby's cowse in Public peahing mirabile dictu,wish inu that it wouldn't go so fast. and Debating." Furthermore, I find that opinion That's the hind of freshman English class ·you lo be generally held by all who took that course ta ught. - for it was truly "liberal education" in the LYDE RL ELL 022 fullest nnd best nieaninu. REGl:'\ALD II. '->ILR·rn,\:-;T 02 1 Colby College in honoring Dr. Herbert Carl le Libby, i imply honoring it elf. . . . In a later epoch, when you sonorously in For to me, Profe or Libby is Colby College . toned in Colby' old l\lemorial Hall "An empty In my life' ·work I have met Colby graduate all barrel has a sound peculiarly its own," there mer the world, in France, in Italy, in Greece, in were sophomore rhetoricians such a I who vowed frica from Egypt to Rhode ia. Yet no matter never to make a speech again. Even now, I can vhere it wa ... when the bond of union of be ee you, head cocked and laughter bubbling, ing Colby men wa established, inevitably the thrust home the riposte: "Gammon, would that nc. t que tion wa : " Did you know Profe or the vow had been kept! " Libby? "At the very mention of hi name it was But, garrulous or garroted, who of us admiring delightful to watc11 the eye light up and the pupils and friends can ever forget you? Or cea e gentle mile on the e alumni a heartwarrninu to cherish and esteem you? Or fail to rejoice that memories were awakened anew for u . we have been privileged to know a great spirit, ... I have never met anyone who e whole be speaker, teacher and friend such as you? If elo ing was more characterized by kindne , under- quence is impassioned implicity, you embody it; tanding and consideration of others. He incul if the orator is a hero, you are both. In retro cated in his students a lm·e for knowledge, a de spect . . . I salute you saying with \l\Tilliam termination to excel, and in pired all of u to Blake: "When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a utilize our education to become better men and portion of genius; lift up thy head!" women. 8 ROL ND GA;\L\!ON '33 REV. WILFRED c. H RLEY, c.s.P. '19 These paraaraphs from the introduction lo the an- changes being studied by the faculty toward this encl IDE:"T 1111al REPORT OF THE PRE indicate directions the are reduction of the number of required courses, in co/lcf1f is laking. In ensui11a isrnes of THE LU:\li\'U , troduction of more eminar courses (particularly at Pre ide11l /rider will elaborate 011 some of these the Fre hman and enior level , but elsewhere too), s /ll fl'lllt:lllS. and wider opportunities for honors work. an colleae. '\'hile we reco nize • Colh) i a liberal • Colby is not ufficiently the '.due of an) number of Yocational and pre-pro co-educational, ancl "·e are undertaking tudies of te in a number o( in titution ional program of tudy hou ing and dining possibilitie that will unify our ot higher education of unque tionecl quality, "'e mu t communit;. Extracurricular activitie haYe eYery rea- maintain that it i our mi ion not tO prepare our on for e:-..i�tence, and we must encourage them. Inter graduates for pe ific 'ocation but to prepare them collegiate and informal athletic are important, o fo1 any ,·o a ti on - indeed, a "·e can be t achie' e it, long a� the maintenance of their program does not for lfring con tru Li\ el� in an increa ingl� rnmple:-.. afTect ound aclmi ion and academic standards. Fra "·orkl. terni tie ancl ororities ha\·e their function, o long a the e organi1aLion encourage and upport the ob jeni,·e char the institution i pointing towards. THE PRE IDE. -T - P_\GE . \ - for the tudenL thernseh'e , we hope to attract Toi ard a d ifinition to Colb) more and more of the kind of tudent "·ho "·an L to learn and who i prepared to play a con- of dir ction tructi\ e role in the life of Lhe college, both as student and later a alurnnu . In order to achieve this end ROBERT £. L. TRIDER we must trengLhen the admi sion program, build up Lhe endowment for cholar hip and loan , and en- ourage Lho e tutlent acti\·ities and oraanization that e en,tin <1.re are oing to require develop iniLiaLi\e and enterpri e. Lrengthening o'er the next few ear. Our all nLion to non-"' tern mdie i inadequate. and we certain ly hould the re�pomibilities of family life but we have now reached the point wherein we al o create agencies to solve the problem created by thi farming out process. In other words - in tead of facing up to our own problems and actually contributing to their solution we in tum become pani ipant by proxy and hence A Program fo r Citizenship never gain the experience of coping with the problems. This i not to be taken as a plea for the reduction or removal of agencie , but rather to present a line of thought which, in pan, wa instrumental in prompt Professor Geib's program is probably uniq ue - THE ing the consideration of the proposal which follows. ALUMNUS is aware of no such program either currently Crime is a problem created by our society and per operating or under consideration at a11)' college or uni haps omething can be gained by permitting society versity in the count1)'· Ye t, there is no doubt that the itself to contribute to the amelioration of the problem sys tem and philosophy of punishment in our society, and not comforting ourselves with the naive belief and the rescue of the first offenders, is an important that the police and prisons will do the job. Finally consideration for our society and our times. it must also be tated that other considerations, far For the sake of brevity, Professor Geib - a member more academic and sociologically relevant, played a of the sociology department - has sta ted the program key role in the formulation of the propo al. in its simplest form with little theoretical background and/or justifica tion. Copies of a complete statement THE COLBY CREATIVE CITIZE HIP PROGRAM are available (page 40). ·with the support of the tate Board of Prisons and under the sponsorship of a foundation grant, Colb College could institute a very limited rehabilitation program for a small number of young adult first-time If practice makes perfect, as the ancient adage would offenders. The program at Colby would be predicated have us believe, it may be well to reflect a moment on two major premi es: (1) that the pri on is not a and ask if our present day society is affording this suitable social organization for the rehabilitation of opportunity to its members. We would take the posi a criminal and (2) that the key to deviant behavior tion here that perhaps we are doing ourselves an in stems from an inadequate socialization. The program justice by shunting the problems which face us into is designed, in effect, to replace the prison which mu t special niches and then creating special agencies to be viewed as negative vis-a-vis rehabilitation. The deal with these problems. Consequently as individu change of locale from prison to college community als - both singly and collectively we need never di would realign the relationships of the criminal from rectly concern ourselves with the solution to social that of a prison situation to a milien where already problems and/or the implementation of the solution. established, po itive, functioning relationships exist. We need never get our hands dirty cleaning up the To say this more simply, deviant behavior (crime) mess we have made. This is not too unlike the ostrich may be a product of too many negative (i.e. anti who buries his head in the sand to protect himself. social) influences. The very organization of a prison The best example of this farming out of responsi only enhances the opportunity for these negative in bility has been evidenced in the family - not only do fluences to sustain and perpetuate. A college, by its i o we create organization upon organization to assume very nature, although its student body and alumni ma\ be con\'inced otbern·i e, exhibits and e tabli he highlv po iLiYe influences. Thi ha been empiri cally e tabli hed and these po iti\-e influence operate at and between all leYel ; faculty and administration, student body and all other member of the staff. A a matter of fact - we might eYen ay, in a 'ery general \\'a}, Lhat the inculcation of the e po itiYe influence are the prime function of a college . ..\s a beginning, the program could be iniliated with four acl1Ye member (the term "member " hereinafter refers to lho e indi,·iclual relea ed b) the court to participate in the olby Creati' e ili1en hip Pro gram). Becau e thi would be a first auempt at the program, extreme care would be exerci eel in lhe elec tion of the fir t member from tho e indi' iclual whom the coun were willing to relea e to lhe program. e\eral crite1ia not nece arily of bona-fide crimino logical rele' ance, would be u ed in the elect ion of the fu t member . ge, intel ligence, t ·pe of offen e, fa m by Professor Frederick A. Geib il) , and enYironmental ba kground were on itlere The program, then, is reall} a work program a o i ated wilh a college. The four member would be con sidered temporary member of the olby allege ta[ and tlleir work as ignment would be elected b · their cei,·e an hourly wage and be subject to the same con preference, insofar a po ible. wide range of oppor lrol and expectations as the other workers (with the tunit · i po sible becau e of the nature of the work e:\.ception of special in tances noted below). carrietl on by the college. In addition, a current ex ne of the keys to the program lies in the work pan.,ion program widen the opport unit by making plan. It should be obvious that the work opportunity a,·ailable opening in the con tniction trade . mem of the program could provide training and experience ber might elect library work, duti in the food er for future employment. However, the most salient 'ice 12 various activities of the members (i.e., work foremen, plete his cholar hip before he seek termination. no i o[ the Colby Creati,·e Citizen hip program. \\Tith little or no additional expen e the college is extending the utilization of it facilitie into another area, highly compatible and not at all incon i tent with the basi aim and funcLion of the college. Pragmatically the college i providing a chance to a mall number of offender , with a high " reclama ti n " potent ial, to avoid a pri on experience which an be hown i a debiliLating experience and con tributor to the perpetration of crime. Jn onduct ino- the Colby Crea ti\ e Citizen hip Pro gram the allege i both tangibly and publicly making ;1 direct ancl ,·irtuall) immediate contribution to o ciet in addition to the longer ra nge goal of graduat ing a \\·ell edu ated iti1enr) . To refer to our opening remark�. the llege i taking a bold tep forward in a uaging the trend of parli ipation b · proxy. It ,,. uld ofter a li,·ing example to all tho e a oc iated with the olle e o that in ome mall "·ay we can REArPR.\l AL. e, d1 feel that we are a part of a direct attempt to Although at fir t there would be only four member lv the problem of o iet ·. participating in Lhe pro am, it i p ible that e,·en Finally, the in ·titmion l the olb Creative 1t1- might constitute the optimal number i' n the f ili 1en hip I rogram oul l n t but bri ng prai e and reco - lie ·n ailable at olby. "\\ ith the propo d .· pan ion nition Lo th coll ge for it progre iYe and po itive o{ the college, however, it i n eirnble that a mem auempt in the area of reclairnino- re pon ible citizen - berhip of ten could be maintained adequate! ·. \\Tith an area whi h pre entl ' fi nd it elf in a mora of thi number, member ould participate in intramural onfu ion and inacl qua ·. Colb� ' role a a leader alhleli , fom1ing team for bowlin , oft ball, 'olle · among educational in titution further en- ball, ba kelball, touch football, and h ·e . ,\nd there h;1n eel. i the po . ibility that fraterniti and other rndent group mi ht " pon or " membe a pecial part i i to the future and progno i of the program, it pants 111 their affai . i diffi ult L tipulate with any certaint ; however, In brief, Lhi con titute the reative itizen hip two po ibiliLi might be ment ioned in clo ing. First · Program a it could op rate during the fi t ear. of all, in a 'ery limited wa we are reating a living, Rather than pre enting a routine ummary [ th functioning plan in whi h we ma empirical! te t foregoing propo al I would like to take a moment to a large number [ relevant and a ocialed crimino- quell the more ardent criti of uch a program. Fir t 1 gi al on iderati n . ondl r, the ucce of the of . 11. we do not intend to fl the ampu with program might be u h that Colb in the future might hardened and dangerou criminal - furthermore the hancU 7 or 1 member and it may be that our i ter con tact and o iation f the program member with in tiLU Lion in �Iain ould and would handle an the . tuclent body would be light, if indeed it o urred eq ual numb r. Fr m the e very mall beginning it at all. ertainly, four r five ·oung adult , fir t time i po ibl L envi age the plan operating to uch an offender , who ha' e never been to pri on annot be e, tent Lhat a highly ignificant per enrage of firt on idered a eriou threat to the moral and alue time o!Iender ·wi thin the tate need never uffer a of a high ly elected intellig nt group of young men pri on e perience at all. Optimi ti ally " e might and women. Thi ertaint i fu rther a ured b the on lude by ugge ting that the u e of thi plan infreq ue nt opport unity for an a iation of a pro need not be limited to the Late of Jaine nor re- longed, intense nat ure. erved lu iv I for in titution of higher learning. It i:. not the aim of thi program to place in jeop ther organi1ation wi th the ame qualiti and po- ard) those atLending lby, nor i it the aim of the tential a lby might al o en•e a well. p1ogram to alter or detra tin any way from the major The plan i de epti el imple in de ign and opera function of the college. The pr gram mu t be looked tion; thi mu t not be con trued a a limited poten at a a high ly po iti e addiLion to the already rich tial. The benefit to our o iet , our ollege, and and Yaried a et of the ollege and it program. our Ive ap1 ar to be Ya t n l far rea hing: the ri k Let u · quickl)', Lhen, look at what thi program in olved negligible. urel lby hould be fir t to doc!) and peculate briefly on Lhe polential and prog- take up the hallenge. • Assigned to teach English at a second ary sch ool in Cameroon a year ago, CARL STINSON '63 noticed the plight of the local fish ing industry. Calling on his Bath, Maine, heritage, he organized a cooperative in the coastal town of Kribi, where he teaches. Th is work, which has turned into virtually a sec ond fulltime job, was photographed by 1\ 1orton Engelberg, the top picture be ing featured on the inside cover of the Peace Cor ps' 1964 report to the Con gress. In a letter, reprin ted in the ALUl\rN s (Summer 1964 ), Carl wrote of the sense of "good fort une " he found among the Africans: " ...security came not through savings or insurance programs but through fa m ilial love and gener osity and necessary solidarity in the face of fa milial problems." In like at· titude, Carl is obviously comm itting all of his energies. ees of the General 111eological Sem inar in New York City. class 1918 IJ'inifred Greeley ha retired as li- brarian of uffield (Conn.) High hool. nder her aegis the librar notes grew {rom 500 to 5,000 volumes. The pupils aud the board of education pre 1910 senLed gifts and paid tribute to her at Dr. Frederick T. Hill ontinue to fe tiYities marking r tirement in De- y na ember. fift receive honors: he was named the tion' outstanding doctor at the annual plus meeting o( the American Colle e of , K RL R. KE 1 o '06 has had a remark Ophthalmology and . cl air. in the permanelll archiv . om engine r friend of mine i1i • er has also been re:i p- B st n. who ha e a contra t for the lo the tate Board of Ed uca cl ign f additional water upply works &ve year term ... !\fr. and f r yd ney. ustra.lia, eem to think I l b ce Small ce e rated th ir an help them and have ta lked me into pl m- making C equent trips Lo Bost n for that purp 1 lun· I rned a lot about ydoey that I never knew or imagin d, pe- AUIACE ially a to its size- I water uppl y is '· Ashford to Ed ith H. Black omparable with th supply C the en Placerville, 7, Cali(. tire B ton metropolitan area o[ 25 ities and town fully supplied and 5 and his mast r's fr m H an-·a r 1931 john Davidson is chairman of 1965 campaign of the United Fund Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania. 1 932 The Very Rev. Harold F. Lem (hon. DD '57) was awarded the LHD gree by Adelphi University in ber. The citation, in pan, noted his " personal and professional in in Adelphi ...its students and f has been a blessing . . . " and con ued: " (We are) proud to re your achievements as ecclesiu leader, minister to the human 1p priest of the Episcopal Church. award leader in the community." Dr. oine, who is Dean of the Cathednl RETAILERS OF THE YEAR Named by the Men's and Boy's Apparel Club of New the Incarnation, has been a deputy England: left to right, HOWARD MILLER. '40, PACY LEVINE '27, and I.UDY LEVINE ': u. five General Conventions of the They received a placque from the NEW ENGLAND APPAJtEL RETAILER, the Boston copal Church and a clergy delegate trade publication, in recognition of their selection as 1964 'Retailers of the Year.' the Anglican Congress in Toronro. tion thru its ntarctic Research Pro him, and be able to return home and gram. The N F is an independent show our alumni that they had in fact agency of the federal governmen t. Get a fearless lumni Fund committee, ting the scienti ts and their eq uipment one that would go to •· the end of the to Antarctica, suppl ing them with earth for dear old Colb ". Well, the food and shelter and whatever else Chief of taff took a real long hard the need i the Nav · job. The use look at me, and then very cautiously icebreakers to get the cargo ships in, - it eemed to me - asked when I and have pecially trained quadrons was at Colby. \ ell, BiJJ, I guess l 've of plane and crews for carrying car developed an lumnifundman· nose, go and personnel, and for search and because this man turned out to be m to rescue operation . tation and facili victim: it was Captain MAX HOLZRICH- tie are on tructed b the eabee . TER, N, '4 2. ince graduation he ha the Thi mammoth ta k i done on a bud operated from Pole to Pole; wa om get of 20 million a year b Task manding Officer of Patrol quadron end Force 43 under the ommand of Rear Eight; became Executive fficer of the , dmiral Jam R. Reed . It i rightl carrier INTREPID, and he i now named " Opera tion De p Free1e." Deput ommander Polnr olicitatio11 : Captnin Holzrichter awuica is the colde t, windi t, and D1. Burbank in the ntarctic phase IMlt deso late place in the world, of t/1e Ford ar11paign. Above, Dr. Bur � it ia truly the world' "pri e bank and tile colors. · '-• Kinui6c laboratory ". Twelve n have agreed on a �o-year rreaty no territorial clai.Jm are r c.og and where all branch of i investigation can � pursued y and all resulu exchanged in data collection centers. There t 6o scientific stations on the t. fiye or which are merican, mojunction with ew Zealand. of &hr aubjects under LUdy ari • CXllmic rays. marine biology, aurora, pLanta and animals, eanh'a magnetic field, satel -.--.-.,.__ and funhcr exploration. lcienlific uudy is coordi ational Science Founda- ar tic, solicit 1934 has taugh t at Rutger , where he head or reference in the Newark Dr. Pa ul Ward. husband of Cr11her leg Library. He has also been on 1 i11r' ll'ahef1eld IVard, ancl former pro staff of \\'ashington State fe�sor at Colby, has resigned a� presi and wa a librarian in the ew Yo clenL of Sarah Lawrence College to he Public Librar ...JJo no/d Tlwmp 011 c.omc exeu1tive secretary of the Ameri formerly mini ter at the 1\ lillinoc.k can Hi toriud A so<.iatio11 in Wash Bapti t Church, i now pastor of tht ington . u.c . . . Pein Mills was ar a Se 011d Bapti t 'hun.h in Calai . \\'hi c.hai1·ma 11 for the Pine Tree Council, i11 ,\ Jillino k t, he aw the complc:ti ll'hile we are talking about the f1111(/ Boy S' ouu. of .�merica, annu.d dri\'c of a 11ew pan.onage, a uew Cini ti raisi11g s11cce.1ses of two of our collew·s in Franklin Cou nty ( fe.) last fa ll. ed uca tion building and the redew (Williams, Bowdoin), we ca n't ltelp tio11 of the int rior ol Lhe church. wishing out loud that �i111 ilr n be11e110- 1935 le11ce will befall nfiglt boring Colby IVarren BiJhop, "ice president - College in co ming mon ths ...tlte ]. 4 re earch ror the Union luwal Life brave olrl college, now deep into it.1 E/b1•rt Kjoller i now 'ice prt�ide In�uranc.e Company of Portland wa second century of sernice, neNls a f11111/ of Pr fe �io11al Emplo ment and P c.Iwirman of a panel on budgetary con shove from some unexpected quarter lo ment, Inc., a pe onnel t ting. pla trol and fu11ctional co u. at the ftr�t an ment and areer counseling finn wh· meet the Furrl Foundation Cltalle11ge. nu;i l co11fere11 e of the Insuranc.c Ac. has offiLC in �fa a hu etts and Co Publisher Charles W. IVeavfr, Jr. '30, c.ounting and "tati tical sociation. nee.Li UL .. IVa/t r and i\Iarge1 · L writing in the 1'A HUA (1'.11.) TELEGRAPll. orthea tern haprer, held in Hart- Ret•d of Farmington elebrat d th pointed out in his editorial that 5uth ford in November . .. Roger Rhoades 25th wedding anniver ar on De elDo help could wme from citizens of that i a�si ·tant profe sor of cdu 1950 Farnham \\' d r ei' ed her ma rer of Russell IVash burn, coad1 at Deering a clt:grcc f1 m ' \ York tale ni High chool in Portland, is chairman it in .\!ban in June. of the Portland Y.M.C.A. Basketball Committee. 47 BIRTHS A son, Pete Nelson, to Jr. and :\Irs. George N. Bowers, Jr. (Myra Hemen indu trial and r way, '5 1) Sept. 28. f the on, Phillip Andrew, to Dr. and fr . Henry L. Poirier, December 10. 1951 Arnold Sturtevant has succeeded hi fa ther, Regina/cl Sturtevant '2 1, chairman of the col T1tm�r is now asso iat cl with rust lege's board of tru t · ·--- --""" Cowl • a B�ton g u ra t in • C:W ees, as president of inn. where he will manag live in New the Li ermore Falls ��11111•11� andsen' idng opera ti 11 ancl . Trust Company. He tb ucers in de prod el pi ng all joined the bank in ln.lurance. Prior to hi re nt 1955, a auditor, becoming vice presi t John was admin istrati' dent i n 1 959, and was elected to the nt in the Boston offi of board of directors two years later. His �-llallllCri. ,ca In ur.mce Comp.111y. Manual o( Procedures for bank emer gency preparedness has been recom mended for general use by the Federal ughland i dire t r Reserve Bank of Boston, and ha been ucation at the Fi rst n i used country-wide. Arnold is currently in t ewton, !\la a· presiden t of the tru t company ection . ary graduated from An- of the J\fai11e Bankers ssociation Shirley Kydd Bastien, R.N., is on the Thcological School la t taff of the Child With a Handicap dqree o( master of r - BIR II • Clinic at Thayer Hospital in ·w ater n ... Sh�rwood Tarlow da ught r, nd1ca Loui·e, lo Rev. ville. Prior to her new job, Shirley was of the Duk County a11d �Ir.;. E er Lt • Bauer (Mildred ch tu ... Jane Hammond '4 ) De . 1. a rehabilitation nurs ing instructor at the University of Maine Nursing .continuing tradition 1953 School course given at Thayer. . . Bob Michael Manus i s agency secretary Daggett, studying for his B.D. at Hart lhe home office of the United Life ford Seminary, has served as pastor of Accident Insurance Company in the Monterey Congregational Church cord, New Harnp�hire... Nancy T in Monterey (Mass.) where he expects die Meserve served this fall as c to be ordained in May. ma11 of the Windham (J\.Ie.) Uni Elwood Gair has been appointed di Fund Town's Unit. rector of product management of the BIRTHS Burry Biscuit Division of the Quaker A son, Richard Emerson, to Mr. Oats Company. He is responsible for l\frs. Philip JV. Hussey, Jr. (M the national marketing of all Burry lJe Wolfe '55), December 15. product lines and will also supervise ; ' -- . A daughter, Marcy Ruth, to Mr. marketing planning, advertising and i\lrs. .Samuel J. Greenberg (Elaine promotion of food store, vending, in Carleton Reed Kahn) November 10. stitutional and ice cream products. Woody was formerly with the Colgate individual peace corps Lael Swin11ey Dick Gellman Linda Scanlon Seal Lael Swinney '62 is serving in Tur On December 5, Dick Celtman '64 key as a nursery school teacher and left for Tanganyika. He had studied child care social worker. Before leav at Lincoln (Penna.) University, and ing in December, Lael trained intens spent three and a half weeks at the MARRIAGES ively for twelve weeks at Portland Peace Corps field training camp in Lt. George B. McLaughlin to Els (Ore.) State College, studying both the Puerto Rico. He studied Swahili, and M. Stewart '63, December 19, 1 Turkish language and the facets of the the history and culture of Tanganyika. Wellesley, Massadrnsetts. country's culture and history - in ad Linda Scanlon Seal '64 (with her hus Mary M. Stinneford to Emile S. dition to the necessary professional band, Earl) are serving as seco!ldary lio, Jr., December 26, Olean, N. Y. training. As a nursery school teacher, school teachers in Ethiopia. After a she will instruct at technical institutes ten-week training course at the Uni Sally M. White to William A. Bu which operate day nurseries for the versity of California at Los Angeles - November 28, Waterville. pose of training teachers in the mod where they learned Amharic, the lan James P. Dolian to Joanne M. R' ern tedrniques of child care, recreation guage of Ethiopia - they left the ards '65, November 21, Brunswick. 22 and child psychology. United States on September 17. jean Cross to Stephen A. Zorn. Rett'.rnin IN MEMORIAM g to America in 1937, the Robinsons became superintendents of the \Valker J\.lisionar y Home in Au burndale, i\rassachusetts. Mr. Robinson was a pioneer in good cau es. Class agent almost until his cl ath, he wa also active in the alumni affairs of his fraternity. In China he wa a charter member of the Tientsin Rotary Club and the chapter of the American Association of University i\len and was promoter of the first all. cit hobby exhibition in Tientsin. His interest in rare books, bookplate , john Fo lt'r P/11/brook . 91, died in calligraphy, tamp , coin , tools, ships a11d oriental art kept him en Palmer, now a e ond lieu ten nt Auburn on Jul 10. A Phi Beta Kappa both youth ful and active. ia the air force, has graduated f'r m raduate. he had pr pared at Coburn i\lr. Robinson is che accounting and finan �ffi Cla ic. I In titute. Editor-in-chief of survived by his wife; two daughters and two sons, one munt al heppard ir For B of whom Da � , and is being assigned t i na '47; and two sisters, dlll ir Force Base in Florida ...Jim one of whom is Esther Harvey '1 1. Slis bas graduated from the air Cor · • · launch officers' course - lso t 1908 d LO Abbie Weed Brown, 78, died in Berlin, New Hampshire, on May 18. he wa born in Baldwin, and edu cated at Deering High School. A member of Delta Delta Delta, she was un i' or. i his daughter. active in YWCA, class vice-president, and class poet. Mrs. Brown taught at Windham High chool for seven years and at u tin-Cate Academy from 1943-49. he erved as clerk of the Strafford chool Di trict (N. H.) for twenty- in Lee, ni11e ears, and was elected a trustee of that town's library. . P ters 11 i urvi,·ed by two i\rrs. Brown leaves her daughter and ns. three brothers. 190 Arthur 1909 died , elso11 Irving Mixer, 77, died on �fa i\la 1 3 in an Clemente, California. The native of South Pari prepared at Hebron cademy. He was a mem ber of Phi Delta Theta, was active in dramatics and debating, and served on the board of THE ORACLE. J\lr. Mixer taught in J\Iaine schools from 1910 to 1919, including three ears in Waterville. After serving as a high school principal in Lynn (J\Ias.), he commenced a thirty-year career a teacher and submaster in Bo ton. Ir. Mixer received his A.M. Uy J. Coroni , from Bo ton University and his ED.M. from Harvard. He moved to Cali fornia after his retirement in 1953. l r. Mix er lea es his wiCe, J\Iae. and � Abbie Hague Warren, 76, died in S arboro on December 23. Born in Bridgton, he had lived for many years 23 in Plainfield, New Jersey. At Colby, She had s rved as treasurer of the partially paralyzed. He had lived in she was a member of Delta Delta Richmond Bu incs and Professional Dayt 11a Beach f r the last ten yean, Delta. lrs. Hague returned to laine Women' Club and the oroptimist and had sLill been acLive tea hing a last June, and had lived with her Club. bible cla and as pre sident of the brother in Gorham. Another brother She leaves her hu band, Jame : and loca l philatelic society. He had several is also among her survivor . a son and a daughter. arti le n stamp collecting published in s oTr' ro TllLY JO R AL. Rev. � Iden wa a dir ct descendant of John Leonard Oal 1950 Hugh W. Sten/ors, Jr., 35, died on l\fa 14 in Boston. He was a native of Quincy and a graduate of hlton ( ra s.) High School. A member of Delta Upsilon, he was active in the iven t the Outing Club, Library Associates, Cam awards a embly era and International Relations clubs. After working for Maas Bros., Inc., in Florida, he moved to Weymouth ( lass.) in 1954 and at the time of his 0- death was assistant treasurer of the ti- avings bank there. He had done I graduate study at the American Insti tute of Banking and at Dartmouth. fr. Scenfors leaves his wife, Doro th : a son and daughter; and his parents. 1952 Frederick A. Stritch, 35, died in Roche ter, New Hampshire, on fay 1 1. A nati e of Sanford, he prepared at the local high school and at Coburn Clas ical Institute. A pharmacist, he attended Colby for two years, com pleting his education at Massachusetts Colle e of Pharmacy. Mr. Stritch had mo ed to Rochester in 1959 from his home town. He lea es his wife, Edith; a daugh ter and two sons; five sisters and four brothers, one of whom is Bertram '49. 25 with being the fir t to sugge l movin� He fi nanced the gold mining e pedi· honorary the college to a new ite, when he wa) tion of his fa bled brother, ir Harry, a memb r of the boar From Hou ehold Finance Foundation, an unre stricted gift as part of a program of aid to pri vately upponed liberal arts colleg . From the E o Education Foundation, a grant of 5,000 to be u ed for laborator con truction. From the Texaco Company, an unretri cted grant of 1,500 toward developing the caliber vf leadership required by the " national well being ", for the even th con ecu tiYe ear. From Shell Oil Companies Foundation, under the program hell A si , 1,500 - part for "encouraging additional profes ional de elop ment of the individual member of the faculty;" part for the discretionary u e of departmental admini trative officers. In the Art Museum EXHIBITIOX THI YEAR IN THE Jl:.TTE GALLERY HA\'f included a loan show from the J\Iu eum of 1 fod em Art featuring th photography of Lucien lerg ue, Ya uhiro I himol , and "ra lker Evan�; A ,Hu ewn Lool Mi s Marchant retire Through the •ear he ha earned the affection of all of us ... Tr e hall miss her lively pre e11ce and her common sen e. Colb ' a cepts with re(!,ret her haracte>i1t1c of Janet Uarclu111t is ]r111el Jfarc/11111 1 <1·1th lo retire al thi tim , and we hope she decision camelfl. lier /1'101ogrnj>lt lun•e graet•d pages of college enjovs her freedom from the activitie which har1e Jwblication-: Tl! \I \1 1'l 011d \B T 01 8\ . occupied her so [011 . General foreman n el Gri ndall OYersees the no"· m.tkc1 ; area operations manager 'onnan Pou lin i in charge of conditioning. This, the real k<:) 1 a p;ood kiing urface, i a him·d \\·ith Lhe w. of a Lractor with v Ski Slope prospers now guns on the slope We've got the problem of mal< ing snow liclud, and not even !11.other Nature can argue with tha t. ANY OF THE SWARM OF SKIERS SWEEPING DOW THE Colby slope will agree with George 'Vhalon's claim. Under the direction of the genial super intendent of buildings and grounds, a crew of seven has leagued with half a dozen snow guns: the result has been a good base and good snow, plenty of it, a well-conditioned surface, and a large throng of schussers each afternoon and night. The natural snow cover this year has been poor, and the skiing, at best, intermittent. But the Colby slope has missed few days since mid December. The snow makers, who work from about nine-thirty at night until the middle of the following morning, have kept the ski area opera tional. Made from Messalonskee Stream water, atomized under high air pressure, the granular snow has resisted the best efforts of importune thaws and high winds. Colby and others were selected, the report states, on the ba is of the following criteria: their commitment to superior scholarship, their plan and ability to make pace-setting improve mem , the quality of their leadership, their po tential for sening as models for excellence in their regions, and strength of support from alum ni and other source . Once chosen for considera tion, they were asked to prepare "improvement plan ncompassing the total institution." Jame ·w. Armse , director of the Special Pro !rram in Education, puts the grants in focus as far as their impact on tho e who receive them. He i quoted a telling Ford Chall n e Campaio'J1 college officials: "The grant may olve a few immediate problems, but it ,,·ill create other . It won't make your life COREBOARV happier. The wholly new level of excellence the grants are de igned to help you reach, while it is Con/ 3 ,600.000 comforting to contemplate, is disturbing and dis ruptiYe to achieve." The foundation ha stressed that while the Cash, as of February _./ 1,;-1 127 grant give the colleges' leadership leverage and freedom in \vhich to advance their programs, To be raised, l.Jy June 30 _./ J 73 they al o impo e on the leadership a heavy re- pon ibility " to make hard decisions necessary to reach a ne' plateau of performance." THE SELECTION OF THE COLLEGE IN 1 6 2 FOR A i.8 million challenge grant from the Ford Foundation pl ced Colb r in di tingui hed com pany. The grant came less than two ) ar after the foundation announced it pe ial Program in Education "to trenglhen Ameri an higher education by as i ting ele ted pri vate colle e and universities in different regions of the oun tl] to reach and u tain ne' 1 vel of academic e\.cellence, admi ni trati e e[e ti' ene , and fin ancial npport." In a report titled TOWARD GR.EATN ' I. HIGH R ]0'111 on Miss TVatson Rollins toucATJO. , i ued at the clo e of i 964, t he foun dation reveal that 2 i .5 million h been allo CLAYTO W. JOHN 0 , ' 25 ; JEA1 M. WATSON, '29; cated under the program to ten unive itie and and HE 'R w. ROLLINS, '3 2, were nominated alum forty- even colleges. Emph izing the challenges ni tru tee at the fall meeting of the Alumni which liberal art colleges ha e had to meet in Council. Mr. John on is executive secretary of the face of rising enrollment and changi ng the Hartford avings Banks ssociation, Hart knowledge, the report tates: " ince i hallmark ford ; Mi ·watson i chairman of the Mathe i liberal education, the college of liberal arts mati Department at Williams Memorial Insti mu t come to grip with the dri e toward pe ial tute in ew London, Connecticut; and Mr. Rol izat10n . . . And it mu t keep and recruit able lin who ha been renominated, is owner of Rol teacher in an academic mark tpla e that i in lin & Dunham Company in Waterville. crea)ingly competiti e - not only in alaries but in research the revised constitution of the Alumni opportunitie and J borator and li According to . m, section 2) other alum ii may be brary facilities, resources in wh..i h the large uni Council (article : gned by 25 alumni and �led versit nominated by petition si y clearly has the upper hand. (The college nomina with the executive secretary. If there are no �as reco gnized thi demand in allo a ting ub tan the above na ed candidates shall t1al tions by petition, r:z sums from it Ford program for laboratory by the council at its annual meet· be declared elected 3 1 and li brary resow' es and for fa ully salarie .) ing commencement weehend. PRE IDENT !)TR IOER erved on the Commi ion on For the :,econd time in a )ear ;in address Internat ional nder landing, pon ored by the at Colby has attracted national atten tion ,-\ so iation of r\merican Colleges, which pub (Adlai Ste\'enson's commencement addre s J i . hed NON-WE ' TJ:.RN TUDIE Ii THE LIBERAL AR1 figured prominently in the presidential cam OLLEG J· . Th report, which a k if a y temat1l paign). John Hay \Vhitne) \ speech cleli\' LUd) of the ' non-\\lestern ' world hould be in. ered on the occasion of hi being named the corpora ted into libera l ed ucation, tate that thirteenth Elijah Parish LoYejoy Fellow, �ooner r later e,·er) ollege will have to Four Carol Drama , ba eel on cu tom urrountl ing lu-i una eremony in different countries S IGC\IFICAl\"T CHANGES WH ICH H \'E BEE:'\ A. - and written by A DEL HEI:'\'RICH, instructor in nounced in the Air Force ROTC program were mu ic, ha' e been pur ha ed by the Bo ton Iu ic made pos ible by the recently enacted ROTC Compan ·. he ha al o publi hed ome fifo Vitalization Act. Of primary concern to college chora l �etting and four organ chorale prelude . students is the opportunity to complete Air Force Three of her Chri tm, anthems ha,·e been e ROTC in two years. Cadets will begin this pro ' lected by G ;\. JBLE BULLETIN a among " the gTam with a ix-week field training course con newe t and be t of publi hed choral mu ic." ducted in the summer between sophomore and The Carol Drama , for variou in trument and junior years at either Keesler AFB (l\Ii .) or fax ,·oice·, trace the origin of the carol and the em well AFB (Ala.). Students will also take one cour e rgence of Chri tma mu ic. each emester of their junior and senior years in the college's department of aerospace tudies. Colby will continue its four-year program and cadets will now be eligible to compete for cholar ships covering tuition, other school fees, cost of The mu ic shell, which formerly stood in Portland books and a retainer fee. If not awarded a chol and now is rising in its new location east of Coombs Field. was the gift of an anonymous donor. Designed arshi p, they will receive the regular retainer pay for jJrojecting exceptional sound, the shell will be used . ) AFROTC (about 1,000 . Colby's program, the fo r co ncerts and recitals durinu the spring, summe1 only one in Maine, was e tabfohed in 1951 and is and fall months. now directed by Major \i\Talter ]. Brooks. Faculty ALBERT MAV R I Ac, chairman of the department of history and government, has been appointed to two national education committees: the Fulbright National Screening Committee of the Interna tional In titute of Education and a three-man committee established by the Educational Test ing Sen-ice to develop a new college test in the 32 area of American government. A View of Benjamin Butler proachecl Butler ,,·ith the propo ition." Cary re- ount . "Con temptuou of the then inane office and already harboring certain a piratioir of hi own. the General twit ted: ·A. k him 11·hat he think I haYe done to de en·e to be punished at 46 ) ear of age by being made to it a pre iding offi er of the enate and li ten for four Year to debate� more or le tupid in which I co�ld take no part or ay a 11·ord, or eYen be allm1·ed to \ l ... al) ontinue : "He proclaimed hi de ire to remain with hi ann ·in the clo ing operations of the war, and uttered the e prophetic word : ' Tell him that I aid laughing! ' that with the pros p l of a ampai211 before u , I would not quit the battlefield to be Yice pre ident eYen •vith him elf a pre ident, unle he would giYe me bond in ureti in the full um of hi four ·ear ' alary that within three month of hi inaugura tion he 11; ll die unre-i!!l1ed.' " "\\'i thin ix month of Lincoln' inauQUra tion ." the epilogue con lude " hi Yice pre i dem . .-\ndrew John on, uc eeded him.'' Thi i� ue of the Q ARTERLY i deYoted to But- 1 r, with the major article written b' Harold B. Ra� mond. a o iate profe or of hi tory at olby. He cl [ nd- the fiery Republican a a oldier, pol i ti ian. and tale man. In contra t with the eYere cr1 u i m of many Butler biographer (while mili tar · go' ernor of Jew Orlean . Butler acquired the pi thet ·· Bea t ") . Ra 'l11ond write- : ' Al though he had hi fu ll hare of the failino- of 'The il le l , ge ' Butler did po e a robu t enthu ia m for new and unpopular cau e which often pu t him well ahea l of hi ontemporarie ." And, in a e tion deYoted to Butler' college da · , Dean Erne t . 1\Iarriner cite him a " a seriou rne), tate nat r, maj tudent and leader of hi cla a well a a prank · . ongre man, and go' rn r f ter." ell , ' ho ' graduated from olb in J collection of letter (contributed b Butler' Abraham Lincoln, contemplating hi re- le - granddau hter, Je ie , me �Iar hall of Jamaica . tion, and unc rLain of i e Pre id nt Hannibal Plain, Ia achu ett ) round out the i ue. But Hamlin' ng, appeal t Yoter . ttled on Ben Butl r till at i ue i tbi parado. ical human bei who had ically a pronoun e l flair f r politi al man who, in the midst of the Ci\'il \\ ar, prophet oetn e1 idency. . "An emi. af) wa. app inted and ap- refu eel hi only teppino- tone to the pre 33 JEA B 1 DY CHA!Ri\lr\N, DJ:.P.\ RT;\f EN T Ol· ;\!ODER:\' FORJ:.lG:\' LA:\' Gl' .\ G E � electronic teacher Language laboratories have by now become often, because of the complicated nature of the such a common adjunct to the teaching of for equipment, the tudent wind up wrapped in a eign languages, that the general public is well tangle of tape, the teacher is fru trated at not aware of their existence if not of their exact pur having an engineering degree, and the learning pose. There are, in fact, many educators and of a language has become lo t in the electronic teachers who have only a hazy notion of the use chao . fulnes of electronic equipment in language Despite these various pitfall , it i widely recog teaching. This haziness is understandable, since nized that laboratory equipment, carefully there is no common agreement within the pro matched with the talents and interests of the fession as to what constitutes an ideal language faculty, and thoroughly integrated into the lan lab, and con equently the manufacturers pro guage program, can be an effective tool in the duce a bewildering variety of electronic gadgets language learning process. It was with this in as they try to comply with the demands of con mind that the Department of Modern Foreign flicting schools of thought. All the frantic ac Languages at Colby recently installed its new 36- tivity surrounding the language lab is aimed at position language lab. Because of its unique de making the teacher's job more pleasant and the sign, it offer all the advantages of the most mod 34 student's learning more effective, but only too ern equipment and the greatest flexibility for the adaptation of new deYelopmenc in methodology . ..\t the ame time, it doe away ·with many of the more obYiou di advantage of corn·entional equipment. In addition, it i parti ularly adapted to an e. ten ive program of oral te ting, "·hich ha long been a problem for language teacher . Ead1 of the tudent po ition i full • equipped to proYide the three em ial feature of the lab: Ii ten, re pond, record. The tudent ha , in the booth, a head et with a boom microphone, and a imple ontrol panel with which he can operate remotely-a tape machine tored in a cabinet at the front of Lhe room. From hi po ition he can do anything one can do wi th a normal tap e re corder (li ten, record fa t forn•crd rewind). Ho\\· e\ er, the fact that the ma lu ne i not in front of the tudent tend lO cut do"·n a great deal on the need for repai and on tape breakage. The machine them eh·e are designed to play fifteen or thirty minute cap artridge . The m.i terial to be tudied i pre-recorded on the m track of the dual-track artrid and the e pla ed in the cabinet a requ ted b • the tu- dent . (The laborawry perat on a librar • ba i , and thirt ·- ix diff ren t mp uld be u ed at am gi' en moment). He m ) then re ord on the tudent tra k; hould another 1 udent u e the ame cartridge later, he ma · era the ( nner student work, but not the me terial on the ma - ter track, o th t one artri dge me and O\ el. hu the tucl nt ma li ten to the prepared material, ma · r ord him If. and then li ten to what he he d ne, om1 aring it \\'ith the Professor Bund)• at the control board of the laboratory. model. In thi wa) , he i con tan ti� heari ng a 0/Jpo�ite page: the student's co11trol jJ anel enables him to native peak.er of the Ian uage c a model. aml hey in any recorded program of the thirty-six stations in the ca binets. The ca binets consist of tape re his exp ure to the language i not limi te l lO hi· tored corders and co 11trolli11g moc/11/es: A, ojJerating the student weekly cla meetin . po itio11: , the master board; and B, the bias between the two stations. The indi' idual m hin ma\ al o b on tr l The audio-lingual facility, now in jJractically continuous ied from the ma Ler con ole f ; t ting. Thu. a oj1eration, was mode possible through funds which have Cam teacher at the on le can a k a qu tion , tart all been donated during the Ford Fo undation Cholle1we Jioign. the machines runiung, and record all the individ ual r pon e at on e, that an emir la an be te ted at the ame time. The indi' idual art riclge can then be orr ted by the tea her at hi c.omenien e. ,\ J11rther feat ure of the eq uipmen t lie in it modular de ign. Ea h of the e eral function of On everal count , then, -we feel we have �he indiYidual ma hine i con trolled by a plug a' oided many of the normal di adYantages of the tu m module. hu , if a macrune i not perating om entional language laboratory, and our properly, it can u ually be repaired in a matter of den t may till benefit from the ob"iou advan mmut h} repla ing the ap1 ropriate module, tage of having on call model that are accurate • pre .incl there i eldom any need t tak the ma hine both phoneticall and grammati all a the tudy apart to lo ate the parti ilar . ur e f the mal pare for their clas room performance in the function. of foreign language. 35 In i964 the Fifty-Plus Club re alumnus portrait ceived iLs mo t di Lingui hed mem ber, a man who wa one of eleven MARSTON MORSE per on to be honored by the award of the ational J\Ieclal of cience. 1910 Other of the lub have been known for ignifi cant achievement, but none has been accorded the inLer national renown that for the past thirty year:-. ha ome Lo Harold ;\Iarston ;\Ior e. Known to the en tire world of maLhematic'> - regardles of lan guage, race or color - a i\f arston ;\for e, he is till H�u-old l\Ior e to hi college contemporaries, who even in undergraduate day recog nized him as much more than a precocious "whiz kid." • traight A tudent, e peciall) brilliant in mathemaLic , he 'rn captain of the var ity tenni team, a member of the track team, piani t of the glee club and chapel organi t. There wa noLhing i,·ory-towered about the scholar hip of thi fellow who had been born in "Waterville in 1 92. \\Then 1\Iar ton Mor e wa born, nhur Robert had been graduated from Colby only two year , and Franklin Johnson only one. Like mo t ·waten·ille boy then prepar ing for college, Mor e entered Co burn, graduating in i910 under George tanley LeYenson. Follow ing his Colby graduaLion in i914, he immediately entered upon grad uate work at Har;ard, taking his ma ter's degree in i915 and his doc torate in i917. v\Then Mor e was completing his graduate work, the United States entered \i\Torld \Var I. He at once enlisted in the ambulance corps and was sent to the battlefields of France. There, for conspicuous bravery, he was decorated with the Croix de Guerre by Marshal Petain. At the end of the war he became an officer in the U. S. Coa t Guard Artillery Reserve. The first rldwo war was not to be Morse's only military experience. THE AL ·MNUS is indebted to Dean Ernest C. Marriner for this portrait of Dr. !Ylorse. "\IVorld "\!Var n saw him a technical con ullant in the office of Ord Marston Morse is the ongmator nance, U. . Army, where he made of a branch of mathematics called 5ignificant contribution to the per T'a rintional Theory in the Large. feclion of merican fire power. He In i957, commenting on Morse's wa giyen the l\Ieritoriou Award Out of an infinity leadership at a conference, THE NEW in i944 by General ommerYell and YORK Tll\IES said: " The theory of the erti fica te of Ierit in i 948 b of designs analytical functions has been one of Pre ident Truman. France made the main mathematical tools used him a he,·alier of the Legion of a niathematician in aerodynamic research, communi Honor. cations theory, and Yirtually all other areas of electronics." During all of hi profe ional life chooses one �Ior e ha been connected with Marston l\Iorse has neYer let his leading uniYersiti . He began a pattern absorption in a specialty interfere in tnt tor at Han·ard in 1 919. From with the d.iversit of interests he 1920 to i925 he wa an a i tant fo r beauty sake . manifested as a Colby student. profe sor at ornell; then, after a Throughout the years he has nur \ear at Brown, he returned to Har tured his zeal for music, having Yard a a i tant profes r. Hi pro long a ociation with the Princeton motion wa rapid; he became an a - mphony Orche tra. He still ociate pro(es or in 192 and full play a good game of tennis. Per prof or in i 930. hap most important of all is his in- istence that mathematics is a In 1935 Marston Mo e made an branch of philosophy. Like Leo imponant profe ional deci ion. nardo and Go ethe he ees an essen There had ju t been tarted . t tial unity in all thing . He says that Princeton, under braham Flexner, mathematics, with all it di cover a new kind of re earch organization ie , i not merely a matter of logic, called the In titute of dvanced but ra ther i the re ult of mysteri mdies. It fi t unit to operate ou power no one can understand. wa mathematics, ' here for e Morse the mathematician is also found him elf a colleague of Albert He attended numerous conferences Mor e the my tic. " Out of an in Ein tein, with whom he maintained in Europ and lectu red at Zurich finity of designs a mathematician a cl�e friendship until Ein tein' as early a i936, follO\ ed by cores choo es one pattern for beauty's death. of lecture and paper in uni ersi ake and pulls it down to earth, no tie all over the continent in ub- one knows how. Onl then does the Recognition of Iorse in cientific eq uent years. In i962 he was logic of word and form set the circles has been hown in man hainnan of the . . delegation to pattern right." To Marston Morse Wa) and many nations. leader in the Congr of �Iathematicians at a poem by Robert Frost i made the the National cadem of cience , tockholm, attended by 3,000 per ame way a new mathematical a former chairman of the divi ion on . There he had the delicate formula is achieved. of mathernati of the ational Re ta k of lead.in hi delegation in search ouncil, president of the de i ion concerning the recogni The cientific contribution of \meri an 1 Iat hematical ociety, tion of ciemi t in uch unpopular thi Colby man have even extended and representati\ e of the Vatican to place a outh Africa and Ea t Ger into the realm of game . He ha I.beAtom for Peace Conference at man . hown that a ingle game of chess, the United ation , hi fame had in tead of neces arily ending in a Honorar , degree have come to '>pread beyond hi own ountT) even victory or a draw, could be ex Marston Iorse in abundance from before '\"orld \ ar 11. tended forever b the adroit appli Europe a well as at home, honor cation of the principles of dynamics. Honor ha,·e ome to Mor e in a ary doctorates having been be- Ycritable hower. He was elected towed by Colby, Kenyon, Iary- He is quite a fellow in his mel low 73rd ear, this Harold Marston rorrespondant of the French Acad 1and, Brooklyn Polytechnic, Notre em of cience , an organization Dame, Bo ton College, Fordham, 1or e, who u ed to defeat his cla s mate equally in the classroom and founded in 1666 and ompo ed of 'William , the Uni er icy of Paris, on the old Deke tennis court on r 11 Frenchmen and about an equal Vienna Tecbnische Hochschule, College Avenue. 37 numher of foreign correspondants. and the Uni' er ity of Rennes. fiye hot-putters, for in tance) plu th out Landing performance are the key to track renai ance. All of which bode ill for fu ture oppon en t , and harpens the college' chance thi pring - in individual, Late and national meets. It begin LO look like a seemingly infinite tra dition, that of olby a a track and fi kl doormat, i to be a thing of the pa t. basketball ·when the final buaer sounded, Colby trailed ssumption College, 76-72. Those four point were the difference between a win by New England' top mall college team (averaging oYer go point a game) and a major up et. As near a mi w a 63-60 lo to powerful Maine, who had come into the game (played at Orono) better than a l wenty point fayorite, and a 72-7 1 defeat by Lrong pringfield. But there were impressive win , too. One wa an 82-73 up et of St. 11eal Thi j11xla/1ositio11 n elm' another a 79-68 ictory brings to mind the old adage of cracking a nul over Coa t Guard. Following a with a tri/1hammer. But econd win o er Bowdoin (to giYe Colby's shot-pullers have the I ules third place in the tate been concentrating on 16- /b records, with fresh man erie ), the five' final mark tood Bob ffhitson nearing the at twel e win , twel e lo e . 5o-foot mark. Captain-elect for next eason, junior Pete wartz (Brookline, fa .) led the coring v.ri th twenty sports plu points per game. The team' top rebounder, he was named to the Ii ttle New England fir t team and All-Maine. Hi 504 point made him the first junior to core half a thou and points in a ea on. NEAR MISSE , OME SURPRISES: TH US First-year runner Bernie Finkle Pete wa backed b Captain John it has been with hockey and basket ( ewton, Mas .) broke a twenty Stevens (Portland), I of 2 eniors ball. In track, reinforced by a fresh year-old standard with a 4:41.2 (the other is Charlie Eck of Bridge- man contingen t competing on the mile against Tuft .. Another fresh port, Conn.) on the thirteen-man varsity squad, it has been a sea on man, Bob Aisner, (Waban, Mass.), squad that averaged 6-21h in height. of falling records. eclipsed a Colby mark with a high The five al o pre ented Coach With every meet, Bob Whitson of jump of 6-31/2. Records in the Lee Williams (who ·will be on sab Portland rai es the hotput mark; broad jump, dashes, hurdles and batical leave next year) with his his toss of 49-3% e tablished a new other distance events are being 25oth ictory as mentor of the college record and earned him fifth threatened. Mules' ba ketball fortune . place in the Boston A. A. games in Coach Ken Weinbel, demonstra Freshman cagers won nine and January. A month later, again t bly plea ed with the state of affairs, lo t five, and scored an important 38 Bate , he moved the record to 49-6. points out that depth (there are win over the Maine cub . of Miss Janet Marchant, who is re hockey tiring after twenty-fi e years as di The icemen, with a moment of rector of women's ph ical educa glor) - a 6-2 win o er Norwich, tion. THE AL M wishes her good firl-rank.e d of lhe mall college fortune in year to come, and tearm - almost upset top-ranked hope that he shares at lea t some and Pro idence. Boston College of them with the college. Perhap , . e11io1· Roland Mornenu of Berlin, New Tiailing 6-2 in the third period, the too, ' e might find ome wa to in Ham/J hire, ca ugh t i11 the watchful mood rharncleri lie of the hockey player off the Mules came back to core three clude the athletic doings of the ice. A defe11 ema11, Morneau has occa io11- the unusuall quiet dme:i before coed in the e column , after all. al/y ce11te1ed t/te Mules ' third line. pani an fan in BC' McHugh For um in Boston. The ix tied trong Pro\'idence, on l to lose, 4-3, in ud coeds Though they rarely make the port pages in the ALUMNU , wom en's athletics are most evident in all their manifold and manifest activ ity. The reason for this is the work 39 reprints advertisers Avallable from the ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT: Customarily, in the PERSPECTIVE iss ue of TIJE ALUMNUS, di play ad ertising i pre-empted - Challenges and Excellences, the Elijah Parish ' with exception of the CA AL NATIO AL BANR s Lovejoy Lecture by John Hay Whitney. The Li/e in Early Portla nd eries which appears, a editor and publisher of THE NEW YORK HERALD usual, on rhe back (.0 er. We do want to call at TR IBUNE delivered this address on November tention to the firm that adverti e in the maga 21, 1964, when he became the thirteen th Love zine, thank them for their support, and hope joy Fellow. that ou may patronize them. Adva ntages of a Small College, by Barbara How The DEPO ITORS TR T COMPA y and WATERVILLE ard, class of 1965. Miss Howard, editor of TH£ AVI c BA K have long been a ociated with the ECHO, member of Cap and Gown, and elected college' financial affairs, and BOOTHBY A D B �T to Phi Beta Kappa in her junior year, wrote LETI one of the st&te's oldest in urance agenoe this article for LITERARY CAVALCADE as part of (fou�ded in 1859), has helped Colby on innum a series in that magazine designed to help erable occa ions with ad ice and coverage. young people select colleges. Four printing firm have regularly produced The Colby January Program, by President Rob work for the college. K OWLTO & MCLEARY co {· ert E. L. Strider, reprinted from LIBERAL EDU PA y has pri nted the AL M s for over twenty CATION, October, 1962, outlining the independ years. GALAHAD PRESS, KE EBEC JOURNAL, �nd ent study program which has concluded its ATKI s PRINTI G SERVICE are important suppliers fourth year. of this most necessary commodity. 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PORTLAND IN THE 19TH CEN TUR Y . · • COPYRIGHT 1950, THE CANAL NAT IONAL BANK OF PORTLAND, MAINE c:YJ(arket Place IP ANY one location could be chosen in Portland that had, more than all others. rhe prorcnion of d1c pl"ople. a.nll justice under che Jaw·, if noc mere}', '\\JS known each hardship and criumph of the cicy from che layouc of che firsc ::.erects dealt to the erring ones. There, 1hc fl aming oratory of Lloyd Garrison spoke co rhe Great Fire in 1866. ic wou ld be whar we kno'v as Monument Souare. against !aver}' of a.ny pC'op!cs. anr groups. There, che first recruits of rhe When there were but three so.called stree "1803 - Maine's FIRST Bank " Canal J\(f!,tional PORTLAND 14 Congress Square 188 Middle Street Pine Tree Shopping Center 391 Forest Avenue Monument Squore (449 Congress Street) North Gote Shopping Center SACO YARMOUTH SCARBOROUGH WINDHAM OLD ORCHARD BEACH 180 Moin Street 93 Main Street Scarborough Plaza Bridgton Road Veterans Square SOUTH PORTLAND BIDDEFORD GORHAM LEWISTON FALMOUTH 41 Thomas Street Biddeford Shopping Center 11 Main Street Corner of Canal & Cedar Sts. Falmouth Shopping Center BRUNSWICK - 172-174 Moine Street COMPLETE FINANCING, TRUST & BANKING FACILITIES Member Federal Reserve System - Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Lo acquire; and electiom of "·ork from th Col b) c 11 tion. A tudent hibition an' place In the lo,vcr noors of the Town Hall were scalls for selling country Town Hall. "The Square" was the social and polirical hean of the tQ'wn - jc produce. but many of the farmers, on pleasant days, ser up their displa)'s on knew gay scrolling couples and, ac rimes, snarling mobs. There. the rown farhcrs wagon in fronr of rhe Hall. At night flaring torches lighted the scene. installed the first hay scales, beside che town well. There, che farmers broughc On the sourhweM !>idc of chc Square was the Portland 7'-fu eum, where the producrs of their fields to sell. There, stood the town wood pile - chc were displayc