Maine Alumnus, Volume 59, Number 1, Winter 1978
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The University of Maine DigitalCommons@UMaine University of Maine Alumni Magazines University of Maine Publications Winter 1978 Maine Alumnus, Volume 59, Number 1, Winter 1978 General Alumni Association, University of Maine Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/alumni_magazines Part of the Higher Education Commons, and the History Commons Recommended Citation General Alumni Association, University of Maine, "Maine Alumnus, Volume 59, Number 1, Winter 1978" (1978). University of Maine Alumni Magazines. 301. https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/alumni_magazines/301 This publication is brought to you for free and open access by DigitalCommons@UMaine. It has been accepted for inclusion in University of Maine Alumni Magazines by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@UMaine. For more information, please contact [email protected]. * be back in Maine... To once again savor its good life and now share that exhilarating experience with my family. Io both entertain and serve all who love this great State by continuing publication of the Magazine of Maine along the lines developed over the past twenty-three years by its founder — now editor emeritus — Duane Doolittle. Io join Down East Editor Dave Thomas in maintaining established standards of recalling Maine's fascinating past, reporting her vital pre sent, and revealing the potential of her future. And to improve upon those respected standards where possible. [t's an exciting challenge and one which, we believe, has already been excitingly engaged — both in picture and in word — to make Down East now — more than ever before — The Magazine of Maine. And now Down East is a Maine excitement you can enjoy eleven times a year instead of ten. [t's an excitement I invite you to share." H. Allen Femald '54 Publisher 1 1 ( ) Please send me Name 1 a year’s subscription 1 to Down East (11 is- Address ----- ------ ....... 1 sues). 1 am enclos- City------ ----------------------------------------------------- State_________Zi p I ing my check or ■ i 1 money order for Mail this coupon and remittance to Down East Magazine, Camden, Maine 04843 1 Lt The Magazine of Maine f Volume 59, No. t -Of. t / Winter 1978 publisher Lester J. Nadeau ’59 editor Donald M. Stewart '35 The Maine Alumnus art director Arline K. Thomson photography /jgfceith Dresser "l Pelletier 2 On Tap . Wraparound of news and events Jack Walas 4 Founders Endowment Fund . raising our sights alumni association officers President 6 Jack Butterfield John F. Wilson ’33 I First Vice President 8 Commitment . personal goals for alumni Arthur Nicholson III ’67 Second Vice President 9 Alumni News Josephine M. Profita '38 Treasurer 10 Homecoming Fun James H. Webster ’59 Clerk 12 Alumni Career Award Pauline J. Weatherbee ’40 Executive Director 13 Annual Giving . new Fund Chairman Lester J. Nadeau ’59 alumni council 14 Sports . and schedules Leslie C. Brewer ’44 Edward T. Bryand ’52 16 Alumnus Profile . man on the move Clara P. Chapman ’27 Llewellyn E. Clark ’55 17 Books from UMO Donald P. Corbett ’34 Evelyn W. Desmond ’47 18 Argyle Boom John K. Dineen ’51 Dr. James F. Donovan ’45 21 Letters to the Editor Terry Ann Dorr ’74 Gordon I. Erikson ’43 22 Class Notes Kenneth S. Field ’27 Preston W. Hall ’54 43 In Memoriam George P. Hitchings ’37 Ralph L. Hodgkins, Jr. ’59 48 On Tap Wallace H. Humphrey ’32 William D. Johnson ’56 Gordon Lewis '78 Melvin T. McClure ’57 Michael McGovern ’78 Cover: A new wintery view of Stevens Hall Tower, seen through the camera of Jack Walas and the Alan F. Merritt ’58 Donald L. Mooers ’60 cover design of art director Arline Thomson. Both were honored at UMO with Robert L. Olsen ’50 one-man/woman art exhibits in the Memorial Union galleries. William P. Palmer III ’58 Leonard N. Plavin ’48 Patricia N. Shaw ’70 Torrey A. Sylvester ’59 Eleanor W. Yerxa ’33 ex-officio members Howard R. Neville,president university of maine at orono George D. Carlisle '35,president university of maine foundation Larry K. Mahaney '5\, chairman university of maine at orono development council annual alumni fund national chairman Torrey A. Sylvester ’59 alumni representatives to the . athletic advisory council Bertis L. Pratt, Jr. ’43 Ernest J. Reidman ’38 Myron W. Zimmerman ’50 The Maine Alumnus, published four times a year in the Fall, Winter, Spring and Summer by the general Alumni Association, Alumni Center, University of Maine at Orono, Orono, Maine ^4473. The General Alumni Association, John F. Wilson, presi dent, is an unincorporated association, classified as an educa tional and chantable organization as dcscnbed in section 509(a) (I) of the Internal Revenue Code Total number of copies printed per year, 148,000. Average per issue, 37,000. Send changes of address and letters to the editor to the business office six weeks poor to the next issue $5.00 to the Annual Alumni Fund is a subscnption to The Maine Alumnus for one year Second class A blond pippin (Webster: any of several vaneties of apple) at the Student Fair on the Mall, which thnlled postage paid at Orono, Maine 04473 hundreds of alumni returning to Orono. See pages 10-11 for more fun at Homecoming. ON TAP • ON TAP ON TAP • ON TAP • ON TAP • ON TAP A Lifetime of Learning — and Sharing Fight for Salmon not yet Won by Carole Bombard ’64 Commencement. Croxford began his UMO t career in 1920, back in the days when he Wood and pulp wastes deposited in the Fifty-seven years ago Paul Croxford, 76, of “rode the streetcar back and forth from lower portions of the St. Croix and Penob Portland began his college career at the Brewer to the University wearing itchy scot Rivers in Maine may strip the water of University. In 1977 he received a Certificate leggings for Military Drill and carrying a bag dissolved oxygen during warm months to a of Advanced Study at the 156th lunch.” He received his B.A. in 1924 in degree intolerable to upstream-migrant At psychology and became an English and lantic salmon, according to Robert E. Len Latin teacher in the Maine public school non, Atlantic Salmon Investigations, UMO, system. After earning a Master’s degree in who notes the natural degradation of the Education in 1966 Croxford retired from waste deposits may require years. Lennon is teaching and trained to be a lay preacher in the author of a bibliography on literature the United Church of Christ. pertinent to the restoration of Atlantic Sal After his wife’s death in 1970, Croxford mon in New England, published by the Uni returned to UMO in a degree program versity of Maine at Orono’s Migratory Fish requiring 30 hours of prescribed study Research Institute and the U.S. Fish and beyond a Master’s degree. “The University Wildlife Service. is the center of my interest," he explains. “My wife and I spent so much time here together that I feel closer to her here and can imagine her with me.” » This summer was probably his last year at UMO. Croxford is not about to become I sedentary however. “I like to do volunteer work to help older people,” he says, and one Calling All Alumnae of his favorite projects is the “Talking If you are a woman graduate of a regionally Books” program maintained for the blind. accredited four-year college or university, He is an active member of the President’s AAUW is for you! according to Agnes Club, the senior Alumni Club, a football Patterson ’70, membership chairman for the enthusiast and a member of Beta Theta Pi. Maine division American Association of In Portland Croxford continues to do University Women. part-time lay preaching and is a member of “Through local AAUW programs, a the Woodfords Congregational Church. He dynamic force in the lives of educated also swims at the YMCA every day and is women for nearly 100 years, members proud of being a Weight Watchers further their education, serve their maintainer. communities, and enjoy the friendship of What changes have come over UMO since other educated women,” says Mrs. he began study here in 1920? “There is a Patterson. ( wonderful increase in the programs and Topics for study and action during clinics available for young people,” 1977-79 include Women as Agents of according to Croxford. “The physical plant Change, Politics of Food, and Redefining is much larger compared to the days when I the Goals of Education. was a year ahead of Rudy Vallee and all of Mrs. Patterson urges prospective our activities were held in Alumni Hall.” members to get in touch with her at 18 Frost Paul also enjoys the good abundant food Lane, Orono, 04473 or directly to the as compared to bringing lunch from home, American Association of University and of course, remembers the itchy leggings Women, 2401 Virginia Ave., N.W. for Military Drill. Washington, D.C. 20037. 2 ON TAP • ON TAP • ON TAP • ON TAP • ON TAP From the University Stem Collection, No. 62, donated by Michael Keller '66, R.F.D. 1, Weeks Mills, Me., About eight inches tall, pewter cap, dark blue background with beige him. Raisedfigure of child with halo and outstretched arms From Munich. i •u* Stein Collection IF* & •>’. i •? ; . Named for Jones '<) A' r ’• .?••••'•!• The steins which are featured at the top of these pages in each issue are in drawings by o ■ art director Arline Thomson from a collection which has now been named the Nelson B. Jones Collection. The steins have now been housed in nine glass cases in their own room in the Memorial Union. Nelson Jones began the collection in 1962 when he was the first director of the Union, a position he assumed in 1953 and held u ntil 1967.