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VOL. XL JUNE, 1954 Nos. 3 &. 4

VERY OLD, YET ALWAYS NEW - AND THRILLING ACADIA BULLETIN

Vol. XL Wolfville, N. S., June, 1954 Nos. 3 & 4 A NEW PRESIDENT OF THE A.A.A.U. "rrAKES OVER"

NORMAN H. MORSE, '40, PHD., Professor of Economics at Acadia

Dear Alumni: hand and told me that I would have a Isn't it strange, how things happen? note ready for printing in this issue. On the day of the annual meeting of the I am afraid that I have very little to Alumni Association I received a call from say to you at this time, except. to report the Chairman of the Nominating Com­ briefly about the annual meeting. The mittee asking me to accept the office of meeting was not attended by a large num­ President. I pointed out my many de­ ber but it was nonetheless interestjng and ficiencies, including my gross ignorance most encouraging. We learned that gifts of alumni affairs, but to no avail. I and dues had amounted to $15,946.21 and simply became your President! And be­ that $12,750.00 had been paid over to the fore I could recover from shock, the edi­ University. An enthusiastic discussion tor of the Bulletin took me firmly by the developed concerning the merits of Acadia ACADIA BULLETIN as shown by studies of the achievements Canada and the United States. Perhaps, of her graduates compared with those of also, some of the older branches of the other universities in Canada and the Unit­ Association should be reorganized and ed States. Acadia's record is extremely some new ones established, especially in good and we have every reason to be the Atlantic Provinces. This might, how­ proud of our Alma Mater. Representa­ ever, require the services of a full time tives from some of the branches of the alumni representative who would main­ Alumni Association requested that this in­ tain close contact with the branches and formation be passed on to the branches inform them both of the accomplishments in greater detail than is given here and and the needs of Acadia. Until such a that the branches receive directives from plan can be worked out-if it is desired­ the Executive suggesting ways to support we are fortunate in having the services of the Association and the University more Mr. Earl Hawkesworth on the same basis effectively. It was also suggested that as we had those of Mr. Reg Dunn. branches make every effort to send a re­ As a final word, may I welcome to our presentative to the annual meeting. group the members of the class of '54 The Executive recommended that two and wish them every success. They, like Committees be appointed: the first to the rest of us, can do much for Acadia, work with the Administration to prevent first, by upholding her name, second, by overlapping of financial drives, and the encouraging students to attend her halls, second to bring in recommendations con­ and third, by contributing, even in small cerning a reorganization of the Alumni amounts, to the Alumni Fund. Association by broadening the Executive Yours in the service of Acadia, to include graduates in other parts of NORMAN H. MORSE, '40.

"CLOSING" AT ACADIA~ 1954

Reported by the Editor of the Bulletin

Baccalaureate Sunday at the front of the north section, ~hose The chill morning and grey skies of having part in the service on the platform Baccalaureate Sunday later gave way to backed by the choir under the direction rain, yet much the usual crowd gathered of Dean Collins, and the graduation for this outstanding service of the Clos­ march. ing Exercises. If the congregation was President Watson Kirkconnell led the somewhat smaller it could easily be ac­ service, assisted by Dr. F. H. Eaton, Sec­ counted for by the smaller graduating retary of the Board of Governors, and Class. This meant fewer students to call Drs. Merrick and Whidden of the Facul­ friends and relatives to the campus. The ty of Theology. For perhaps the first order of procedure was the time-honoured time in the history of the University, a one--the academic procession, with the native son of Baptist Mission work in members of the Faculty taking the seats India was the preacher of the Baccalaur­

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eate sermon_ Dr. V. E. Devad'utt, now ing, which allegedly took place at the Visiting Lecturer at Princeton University breakfast on the Ridge held earlier in and Theological Seminary, is Dean of the the morning. During the course of the Faculty of Theology and Chairman of business session it was decided to pro­ the Department of Philosophy at Seram­ vide the university with enough money to pore College, India, and President of the erect a new flag pole in front of Univer­ Baptist Union of India, Pakistan, Burma sity Hall. The first reunion of the Class and Ceylon. Dr. Devadutt's sermon was was announced for Closing time 1964_ a survey of the influence of Christian Major Fred Kelly of the Department of lniSSlOnS on the life of his native coun­ Physical Education was made an Hon­ try. In flawless English and with deep orary Member of the Class, and the little sincerity and passion, he paid tribute to daughter of Scott Sheffield was present­ the changes in Indian ways of life that ed with the certificate of Bachelor of can be traced to the work of Christ.ian Babyhood, "with all the right and pnv­ missions during the last one hundred and ileges pertaining thereto." sixty years. He himself was a living tri­ Besides two musical numbers, one bute to this record of achievement. Dr. vocal, the other instrumental, other feat­ Devadutt's sermon appears elsewhere in ures of the occasion were the usual Class this issue of the Bulletin and in the cita­ History and Prophecy. Bill Corning pre­ tions for the honorary degrees readers will sented the record of the "doings" of the find further biographical data concern­ Class of '54, while Shirley Eagles gave a ing him. forecast of the destinies of the respective The evening service, as has been the members of the group to be realized custom for some years, was held in the twenty years hence. After the reading Baptist Church under the direction of of the Class Ode by the author, Neil H. the pastor, Rev. H. C. Olsen, who was Fisher, the Acadia University Quartette assisted by Dr. Ben Gullison. The ser­ sang, "Hail, Alma Mater", then came mon was delivered by Rev. E. J. Barrass, the final word-Valedictory, by Murray now pastor of the United Baptist Church MacNeilly. As has been our custom for at Tryon, P.E.1. Mr. Barrass based his some years both the Ode and Valedictory remarks on a text taken from Acts 20:24, are given here. "But none of these things moved me". Mr. Barrass portrayed the indomitable ODE - CLASS OF '54 character of the life and witness of the Must we at such a time as this be sad? I grant it is a time of fond farewells. apostle Paul and emphasized that such But it holds something more than parting ability to withstand whatever opposition lears. It is a monument of four full years. may try to do to one, is found in a con­ In which we've come of age and then secration to and vision of the Living prepared. It is the enlrance to anolher life. Lord. A slone by which we slep to greater Ihings. Class Day Leaving our gift. we lake our memories. The final meeting of the Class of 1954 'Twas four shorl years ago-so short a lime. When we a s freshmen slood before these was held at ten o'clock with the Life halls. President, Alan Baker, in the chair. Af­ To view Ihe Fundy shore and shady slopes. These rolling hills and ivy covered walls ter the usual welcome had been extended Have through this time endeared themselves to those present, the President called for 10 all: Wilh each succeeding year they've come 10 the reading of the minutes of the meet­ mean

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More than we ever thought they would. ·till cause it was the expected thing to do. now. As members of the Class of '54. But it hasn't been the individual motives They are a part of that which we hold dear, for coming here that has moulded us as Let us be grateful then, and give our thanks individuals. It has been our interactions That we have much to reminisce with pride. one with another that has influenced our And that our futures hold so much in store; Undreamt of treasures hidden in the realms behaviour, and these interactions that of life, have left us with so many things hard Fulfilling prayers, rewarding Christian deeds. Promising fortune. health, success and wealth. to put a finger on. It has been these in­ As well, we'll have to face despair and grief, tangibles, moulded through our inter­ But it will phase us not-we've been pre­ pared. actions during our stay here, that have Though we may stumble, we will falter not. given significance to a college education. Our journey's just begun and we shall see it through. Individually, we have had manifoid ex­ As years roll by and obstacles are passed. periences, and the common experiences The momentG here will be endeared to all. These thoughts are ours to keep. to cherish shared have been perceived differently e'er. from individual to individual. Yet un­ For we have gained a host of friends--and more. derlaying these individual experiences has 'We will be back', and with this thought in grown up the common bond, the Acadia view, The Class of '54 bids "fond adieu". spirit, the indomitable spirit that has united us as one. VALEDICTORY, 1954 Acadia has given us an education, a Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen: liberal education. We who are about to A valedictory is bidding farewell, a become college graduates are considered farewell to what has passed in review be­ educated. But how do we differ from fore us. A retrospection such as this the uneducated? What are we edt.:cated cannot fail to bring to each of us here persons supposed to be like? Is our edu­ today, some feeling of regret that four cation complete? These and many more years of fruitful life at Acadia are about questions come to our mind at this time. to be terminated. We as members of Acadia has taught as that education is this class have watched others arrive at more than information, or skill, or propa­ this stage, wondering what they thought, ganda, and most important, that there is and how they felt, as the last grains of no cheap popular substitute for education. sand slipped from their hour glass of No one escapes education. It comes with educative experience. We as a class are pleasure, work, and disappointment; experiencing this phenomenon today. It through friends and lovers, in laws and is a distinct and unique phenomenon, as­ customs, religion and popular art, posters sembled as we are here, and each of us and proverbs. Acadia and its meritorious in a manner peculiar to himself will par­ faculty have contributed in furthering take of this rich experience, and depart these ends. knowing that his four stroke cycle at No living person is yet educated, for the Acadia has been completed. learning process is never completed. Each of us has had different motives Each of us must discover the path of wis­ for coming to Acadia. There are those dom for himself. Perhaps one of the few of us who have come out of their great discoveries in acquiring a college sincere love of learning; a large number education is that it makes us humble. who have come to prepare for a profes­ The more knowledge that we acquire, the sional career, and others who came be­ more that we realize how little we do

4 ACADIA BULLETIN Miss Blackadar and Dr. Devadutt

Closing Exercises were a great occasion lor Miss Helena Blackadar, '94, Dr. DevadulI, preacher 01 the Baccalaureate Sermon and recipient 01 an honorary degroe, was one 01 Miss Blackadar's "boys", years ago in India, She spoke lor her class at the Alumni re­ ception, and the next morning received the Alumni cup Irom Dr, Kirkconnell lor the class previous to 1920 having the largest percentage 01 living members present. She and Dr. Devadull are holding the coveted trophy. ACADIA BULLETIN know, and how much there is to know. time to gaze into the hazy future, and as When we have reached that poin t. in our we pee r, make those startling predictions educative journey where we are aware based for the most part in very limited of how little we do know, we have just knowledge. scraped the bottom of the barrel of knowl­ Looking into the future necessitates edge, and are in the initial stages of being that we consider the past and the pres­ educated. ent, what has been, and what is. The The education that we have acquired past has been a stormy one. Most of us at Acadia is but a stepping stone to some­ made our debut into this world as de­ thing else. It is a means to an end. pression babies. As we were developing Some of us are using the education gain­ and maturing, world tension was mount­ ed here as the prerequisite to further edu­ ing higher and higher, until finally in our cation on a higher level. Others visual­ early adolescence we witnessed the on­ ize ste pping into a good po ition based slaught of the second World War. Pass­ on their four years of academic toil. ing from adolescence to young adulthood However, it is not our immediate goal in the post-war era, we have seen the vain tha t concerns us as we make the transi­ attemp ts of man to put down his arms tion from life at A cadia to that of the and to establish world peace. The threat world. Our ultimate end is success. Suc­ of a third W orld War is upon us. Some cess is the road that we all want to travel. go so far as to say that that threat is But the problem is, has been, and always already a reality. will be-"What are the characteristics of Man 's invention of atomic weapons has success?" The answer to that question led him to believe that his hand has cre­ rests with each one of us here today. ated the determiner of his fate. As we Most individuals possess assets which can go forth from these halls of learning the be turned into success, but in the fi nal prospect of world peace seems remote. analysis, the stamp of success is determ­ But as university educated men and wo­ ined in the mind of the individual him­ men we have a responsibility to fulfill, se lf, whether or not that goal has been and a vi tal role to play. It is up to each attained. Everyone of us has a role to one of us somehow, somewhere, to impart play in this social order, and everyone has to those less fortunate, the Christian a niche to fill on this terrestrial ball. democratic principles of education that Sucess and happiness will not come over­ we have acquired at Acadia. We as lead­ night for they can only be attained ers of tomorrow must leave behind a through prolonged effort on your part. world be tter than we have experienced. It is our responsibility to succeeding gen­ Let us turn for a moment and cast our erations. reflections to the future, that is, "What is The hour has come when we must go going to happen?" No forecast of our forth to new horizons. Each of us will future can be of a fixed and definite go his way on the path of life, but as we character. No definite or convincing venture fo rth, let us be mindful of the answer can be given to the ques tion, debt that we owe to Acadia, our noble "What is going to happen?" T he ans­ Alma Mater, which has given us above wer to that question wi ll be revealed everything else, real signific ance to life. through man's own activities over a per­ iod of time. It is natural for us at this Classmates, farewell! Acadia, good-bye!

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HORTON ACADEMY CLOSING Alta De laney. Lewis Plenny Die on. Howard Monday evening's activities in Univer­ Iva n Fowlie. Barnard Re g inald Harrison. sity Hall were given over to the Closing Donald Stanford Hogan. Edward G eorge Hol­ ling um. Ca role Eileen Horton. David Samuel of Horton Academy. Principal L. C. Johnston. Ina Jane La rkin. Claude Dou g las T rites presided, and prayer, after the Lively . David Hamil ton Ma bon. G aham Ross Matheson. P ul Edw a d Me rrithew. Elizabe th march and singing of "0 Canada", was Ja n e Milligan. Charles Norm a n Morrison. offered by Rev. Charles Savage, House David Oliver Mosher. Shirley Anno Mac­ Beath. Ke nneth Vincent MacLachlan. Thomas Master at t.he Academy. Other items Gordon MacLeod. Sara Belle MacQuarrie. on the program were a piano solo by Robert Layton cCla re. Richa rd Angus Mc­ Fagde n. Ron ald And e w McW hirter. Harold Nancy Caldwell, Petitcodiac, N. B., and Ama sa Plum r. Charles Allison Price. James a violin solo by Basil Phillips, Charlotte­ Christoph r Russe lL Joan Lois Sh aram. Mal­ colm S irley Swim. G urney Cbester Tri tes. town, P.E.I. The Valedictory was de­ Robert Douglas VanBuskirk. William G e orge livered by Harold Plummer of Hartland, Vinton. Thelma Augusta Wasson. Scott W al­ lace Weeks. Charles Edgar Whidden. Robe rt N. B. Evan Wright. Darlene June Young. Rev. Earle Hawkesworth, the newly Certificates appointed Field Representat.ive for the Elizab th Chapm an Atkinson . Ronald Ern­ University, gave the address. Mr. s t Berry. Ma reta Je an Blakeley. Mary Louise Hawkesworth pointed out, and he was ad­ Cairns. Basil Colin Du ncanson. Phyllis Evelyn Gord on. Be verly Ann Hennigar. Cba rles Don­ dressing his words particularly to the ald Lord. Halle Ruth Lumsden. Barbara Ann graduates, that the world as we have MacKinnon. Be rnice MacLe od. Lillian Sheila known it is being torn to pieces but that MacMillan. Muriel Eve lyn Peckham. Je anne Ethe l Pickard. no definite pattern has yet emerged. He Horton Prize List told that in many parts of the world young people are playing a vital part in $10.00 Prize for the highes t aggregate in grade n ine-Christine Woodworth. Church helping to reshape something of worth Stree t. N. S. from the pieces. "Only those with train­ $10.00 Prize for the highest aggregate ill grade te n-Barbara Hume. Enfield. N. S. ed intellects and strong wills can shape $10.00 Prize lor the highest aggregate in this fluid process of life, and to those be­ grade e leven- Donald Campbell. Brooklyn. P.E.I. long the future", he said. $1 0.00 History Prize-Wallace DeWitt. Blom­ Principal T ri tes presen ted the various idon. N. S. diplomas to the recIpients and the prizes SIO.OO Scie nce Prize-Ronald Buckler. Tata­ magouche. N. S. to the winners. A list of each in full is $10.00 English Prize-Joyce Merrick. Wolfville. added here: N. S. SIO.OO french Prize- Basil Phillips. Charlotte­ Arts Diplomas town. P.E.I. Nancy Elizabeth Caldwell. Natalie Evelyn $10.00 Mathe matics Prize- Ronald B,mson. Dave Crowell. WaHace Frederick DeWitt. Seal Cove. N. B. Alexander Hiltz. Joyce Dorothy Merrick. Bar­ bara May Morrison. Harry Basil Phillips. Bev­ $5.00 Girl's Athletic Award. Joan Sharam. erly Gwendolyn June Terris. Murray River. P.E.!. $5.00 Boy's Athletic Award-Charles Morri­ Science Diplomas son. Hampton. N. B. Benjamin Cutlilfe. $100.00 Ingram B. Oakes Scholarship to Acadia Unive rsity-Basil Phillips. Char· General Diplomas lottetown. P.E.I. John Raymond Adamson. Donald Earl $75.00 Ingram B. Oakes Scholarship to Acadia Archibald. Robert Douglas Balcom. George Universi ty-Bev rley Terris. Springhill. N. S. Ronald Benson. Norman Harvey Bird. Sterl­ ing Eugene Bradford. Richard Robbins Buck­ Birk's Medal-Leaders hip in Student Affairs ler. Ronald Vielor Buckler. Donald Murdock -Nancy Caldwell. Petitcodiac. N. B. Campbell. Everett James Card. Marion Governor-General's Medal - David Hiltz. Frances Clark. Wayne Mason Cook. Bessie Bridgewater. N. S.

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Under the Auspices of the A.A .A.U. volume are asked to be sure to specify what their money is for when it is sent The Executive of the AAAU. had to the Alumni Office. arranged for two special features apart Thanks were tendered Dr. Patterson from the usual annual meet.ing of the for his assistance in helping to keep the Association held on Monday afternoon of mailing list of the office up to date. Closing. The first of these was a pres­ Speaking of mailing lists, it was also re­ entation of the Gilbert and Sullivan oper­ ported that besides the mailing out of etta, "Iolanthe", or "The Peer and the Bulletins, somewhat upward of 26,000 Peri" by the Acadia Light Opera .So­ other pieces of mail went out from the ciety, on Saturday evening. The ~oClety office during the year. The thanks of had given the operetta twice prevIOusly, the Associated Alumni were also tendered both times to good houses and on each Rev. Reg. Dunn for his work on behalf occasion drawing genuine praise for its of Alumni branches throughout the Mari­ efforts. The large attendance on Satur­ times. Rev. Earle Hawkesworth who has day evening of Closing was. pr~of of ~he taken over Mr. Dunn's duties was intro­ wise choice of the ExecutIve masking duced to the gathering. Prof. Roy \Vatson, director of the oper­ A recommendation to change tt_e date etta to bring his cast together, once more for the observance of Founders' Day to for' a presentation. In the major roles sometime in October was .accepted. Also were Tom Hall as the Lord Chancellor, several recommendations designed to ef­ Mel Scott as Lord Mountararat, Douglas fect a closer working relationship be­ Dahlgren as Lord Tolloler, Jo~n Andrews tween the Association and the adminis­ as Private Willis, Wallace ReId as Strep­ tration were adopted. The list of those son Ruth Ann Morse as Queen of the graduates who had taken out Life Mem­ Fai;ies and Nancy Colpitts as Iolanthe. bership was presented to the gat:lering, A large number of other students took and with those present standing the list the parts of the two choruses. All gave of graduates who had passed away during a splendid account of themselves. the year was read. Both these lists are Mrs. Jack McLerman and Miss Ruth given below. The slate of officers for Morgan were the accompanists. . the year was presented by the nominating The annual meeting of ASSOCIated committee and accepted. Prof. Norman Alumni was held at 3.30 Monday after­ H. Morse, '40, Wolfville, was named noon under the direction of Charles President of the AAAU.; Miles Keir­ Eaton '33 President of the organization. stead '45, Moncton, N. B., first Vice­ Vario~s r:ports were present.ed reviewing President, and Miss Helen Yeo, '41, the work of the year. The Treasurer re­ Charlottetown, P.E.I., the second Vice­ ported that $1,020.00 ~as received fr~~ President. Other members of the Exe­ those taking out LIfe MembershIp, cutive named for a two-year term were $470.00 in dues, and $14,~56.21 in gifts Dr. Laura Logan, '01, Wolfville; Dr. to the Alumni Fund, makmg a total of Gordon Richmond, Ex. '14, Wolfville, $16,739.36. and Mrs. F. H. Sexton, '29, Wolfville. It was also reported that the Record of Graduates, revised and brought up to A well-attended Alumni Reception was date by President Kirkcormell, would held in the Memorial Gymnasium follow­ soon be on sale. The price of the book ing the Closing Exercises of Horton is to be $5.00. Alumni ordering the Academy, Monday evening. A special

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Reading lell 10 righl: Rev. E. J. Barrass. Dr. V. E. Devadull. Pro!' Guillord B. Reed. Mr. K. A. Wilson. Dr. L. deV. Chipman and Pro!' P. M. Bayne. ACADIA BULLETIN fearure of this gathering wa the greet­ 'SO Norma MacKenzie McGrath 5'1 7 Louise Swartz ings from the J uiblee Classes, 1894, 1904, '42 Ru tb Power James and 1929. Miss H elen Blackadar, '94, '27 Margaret V. Belyea '46 Helen Nichols Earle who admitted she was "scared to death '41 George E. MacDonald of the mike", brought greetings and rem­ '30 Hemy Adams '14 Letha S. All n iniscences from he r class. Dr. C. E. A. '23 C.O.T. Wieden De W itt spoke for the Class of 1904, and '37 Milly Ma cDonald Armstrong '34 Katherine MacRitchie Kemp the Master of Ceremonies Gerald Porter, '12 John B. Grant Ex. '40, read a greeting from the Class '17 John F. Wright '40 L. B. Sellick of 1929. M rs . Florence Jost, Sem, '1 4, '37 Donalda Fraser O ttawa, told the gathering that members 'OS Lome C. MacMillan '32 Beatrice Rawding Seamone of her Class were raising a substantial ' II Helen Bancroft Robinson sum to go towards the Alumni Fund for ' II C. W. Robinson the coming year. Both the retiring Presi­ NECROLOGY dent of the Associated Alumni, Charles Mrs. Harriett Scoll Campbell. '03. Eaton, '33, and President Watson Kirk­ Mrs. Lena Price Wolfe, 5'25. connell, brought greetings. The Unive r­ Mr. Perry M. Mullock, (MA ), Mrs. Marie Ma cKem:ie, Ex. '33. sit Quartette sang two sets of numbers, Mr. Homer Ma cLeod, Ex. '33. -­ FinaUy, came the time for refreshments Rev. Archie Ma cLeod, '25. Mr. Aubrey C. Titus, '29. and moving about for some talk. Mr. Arthur Tingley, '27. Mr. Frank Chipman, '98. Dr. Thomas A. Skinner, '10. The following is a lis t of those who Mrs. F, H. Beals, Sem. 'S7. have become Life Members during 195 3­ Mr. E. H. Moffatt, '96. Dr. 0, G. Davis, Horton, '28 54: Mr. Ernest Chapell, Hor .. '14. '53 Margaret Johnson Miss Elizabeth Gillespie, Sem. '95. '51 Frances Turner Daniels Mr. Harold E. Parker, Ex. '17. '09 J. M. Shortdilie Mr, Charles G. Ma cOrdrum, Ex. '29. '21 Otto G. Parsons Mr. Walter A. Ferris, '23. '29 Rupert O. Morse Rev. Austin Kempton, '91. '38 Winnifred Barkhouse Rowse Miss Sarah Enright. Sem. '13, E'13 J, E. Sproule Mrs. Nora Lewis Smith, Sem. '14, '29 R. Steeves Dr, Arthur S. Lewis, '01. '49 Richard Sircom Sen, Walter Jones, '04, 5'98 Lulu Dobson IDce Mr. Geo, D. Blackadar, '91. '38 Clarence Mercer Mrs. Jennie Tamplin Stirling, Ex. '23, '30 Keith J, Raymond Mrs. Pleasah Brownell Caldwell. Ex. '14. 'SO George Ruffee Mr, Frederick A, Crawley, Ex. '09. '29 Helen Ingraham Dadson Mr. Herbert Tucker, '22. '30 Kenneth C. Fisber Rev. E. J. Chisholm, '29. '34 R. H. Montgom ry '29 Frances Coldwell Thomas Miss Mildred K, Bentley, '01. 5'10 Enid H. Gunter Rev, Colman W. Corey, '87. '30 Irene Clements MacKinnon Mrs. Pauline Schurman Linkletter, Sem. '16. ~ '42 J. Victor Fraser Dr. Leslie E, Eaton, '03...... ­ '08 Harold 1. Spurr '42 Anna Hamilton LI. H. Gera ld Meynell, '51. '51 Virginia Allen Mr, Harold R. Thomp on,~. E'27 Gordon H, Baker Dr, Horace G, Perry, '03. '30 D, M. MacLean nev. Harold Davidson. '94. '29 R. H. Bishop '42 G. H. Nickerson Mr. Karl A. Margeson , Ex. '06. '45 Miles Keirstead Mrs. Beatrice Ha rris, '37. '40 Eunice Nixon Keirstead Mr. J, W. Illsley, '91. '37 Lorne K. Baker Miss Ruth Woodworth, '17. '51 Th.lma E. Chute '49 Donald l. McClare Rev, Mockell C. Higgins, '89. '40 George W. Hand Charles W. Kn owles, E' 14.

10 ACADIA BULLETIN One Hundred and Eleventh Convocation

Ideally beautiful weather smiled upon McLaughlin. loan Edith Woodstock. N. B. Macleod. Iver Pirie the young graduates for some of whom Forbes Glasgow. Scotland this day was their last at Acadia, and for Newell. David Stowell Bridgewater. N. S. Newell . Horton all of whom it was a kind of day of days Ed w a rd Central Port Mouton. N. S. -one that marked the climax of their en­ Pin o. Reta Elinor Halifax. N. S. Pitcher. Gertrude Marie Lockcport. N. S. deavours at Acadia. At nine-thirty the Reid. Wallace Keene Melrose. Mass. academic procession began forming in Schurman. Marion Isa bel Central Bedeque.P.E.l. front of the Memorial Gymnasium. Shef1ie ld. Scott Albe rt Advocate. N. S. Shortly after nine forty-five, it moved S ~ 0 Id 9 . Anne Elizabeth Lune nburg. N. S. Sim on8. William Lloyd Summ rside. P.E.I. off across the Raymond Field, across Sm·th. G wendolyn Lois Pictou. N. S. Main Street and up the trce-lined lanes Swim. David MacAllister Middleton. N. S. Taylor. Robert Mq cKenzie Halifax. N. S. to the front steps of University Building. Thompson. Eug ene Mayne Oxford. N. S. Promptly at the stroke of ten, the stirring Wallace. l oyce Elizabeth W olfville. N. S. Waye. Sa mmy New Abe rdeen. N. S. notes of "The War March of the Priests" Wilso . Barbara again sounded out through College H all Louise Bridgetown . R.R. l. N. S. Youn g. D Ie dams Deep Brook. N. S. and the young men and women about to Bachelor of Arts with Honours receive "the due reward of their labours" Angus. Murray Edmund (History ) Pictou. N. S. filed into the centre of the auditorium. Eag les. Shirley Gertru d e Dean Evan M. \Vhidden opened Con· Louis (Eng lish) Guys borough. N. S. vocation with prayer, and Dean Longley Bachelor of Science "on the authority of the Senate" began Andrews. lob Edward North Range. N. S. Anthon y. Horace W olfville. N. S. presenting the graduates for thei r de­ Bruce . Malcolll'l Murray She lb urne. N. S. grees, which were awarded as follows: Clarke. Robe rt Douglas Fair Vale . N. B. Dyson. james Herbert Stuart W olfville . N. S. Bachelor 01 Arts Fraser. Doug las Gordon Wolfville. N. S. Fre eman. Carlos Delp laine Caledonia. N. S. Adams, John Coldwell .. . Welsford. N. S. Frew. Shirle y Ann Grand Falls. Nfld. Baker, Alan Wilfred _ Bridgewate r. N. S. Gilling ham. Angus Ballett. Wendell Carlyle Charlottetown. P.E.!. Mel in Ochre Pit Cove. Nfld. Beaumont. Harold Kay Halifax. N. S. Gourle y. Albe rt Carli. Ie Amherst. N. S. Beck. Barbara Maxine Harrison. William Ashley Kentville. N. S. Marion Lunenburg. N. S. Kell. Gwondoline Myrtle Bishop. Florence Isabel Paradise. N. S. Washington Moncton. N. B. Blofield. Loris Valletort Montreal. Que. Le wis. Ronald lames Annapolis Royal. N. S. Burgess. Roswald MUllay Beaver Brook. N. S. Loring . Douglas Howa rd Chesler Basin. N. S. Cann. Roger Carl Sydney. N. S. MacDona ld, lohn Cla rk Liverpool. N. S. Chute. Shirley Belle Waterville. N. S. Ma cGre gor. Thoma s Grant Montreal. Que. Clarke, Ruth Emma______Hartland. N. B. Macintosh. G rqome Wallace Andover, N. B. Coit. Nancy Alden__ Hopkinton. Mass. MacKeigan. Walla ce Corning. William Frederick Yarmouth. N. S. Burton Sydney Mines. N. S. Dingle. Roy Warren Halifax. N. S. MacLe od, Miriam Parke Petito Riviere. N. S. Fenwick. Vivian Grace _ Billtown. N. S. MacNe ily, Murray Marg eson Auburn. N. S. Fisher. Neil Hubert _ Middleton. N. S. Semp le. Charles Emmerson Gardener. Thomas Conrad Sydney. N. S. Richard Sydney Mine s. N. S. Troupe. \Villiam Victor Digby. N. S. Haley. Charlotte Penrose Santa Monica . Cal. Webster. David He nry Cambridge. N. S. Howard. Ross Archibald Pennfie ld. N. B. Bachelor 01 Science with Honours Holmes. lohn lames Charlottetow n. P.E.!. Jess. Alice Alma Port Williams, N. S. Gardner. Prescott Elliott. B.Sc. Leim, Barbara lean SI. Andrews. N. B. ( Chemistry) Liverpool. N. S. McFetridge. Mary Harlow. Audle y Craydon. B.Sc. Ellen .Middle Musquodoboit. N. S. (ChemiRtry) Sable Riv r W est, N. S. Maclachlan.. Mary Audrey Boston. Mass. Isenor. Neil Raymond (Physics ) Lantz. N. S.

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McGowan. Sidney Malcolm. B.Sc. NON·DEGREE DIPLOMAS (Physics) ______Kilmuir. P.E.!. Sweeny. Phillip Randolph Applied Science Certificates (Biology) ___ .Yarmouth. N. S. Bezanson. Gordon Parker. __ Darmou!h. N. S. Yeo. John Bruce. B.Sc. Bond. Austin Caswell. _Granville Ferry. N. S. CChemistry) . Montague. P.E.I. Dyson. James Herbert Stuart _Wolfville. N. S. Bachelor of Science in Home Economics Fisher. Richard Morris ______Moncton. N. B. Barteaux. Zelma Melzena Moschelle. N. S. Giffin. Ronald Sherwood..Vicloria Vale. N. S. Bishop. Marga re! Jane ______Woodstock. N. B. Hodd. James Cooke. Laurilla Donald . ______Harrington Harbour. Que . Isa beL ____ R.R . 2. New Glasg ow. N. S. MacDonald. John Clark____ Liverpool. N. S. Daniels. Elizabeth Irene..____ Windsor. N. S. MacInnes. Ian Campbell _ Hortonville. N. S. Farris. Janet Berla ______Fairhaven. N. B. Nichols. Robert William_ . Truro. N. S. Hennigar. Ann Mary ______Chester. N. S. Prosser. Donald Enslow_____ .Hebron. N. S. Mosher. Phyllis Joan..___ Victoria Vale. N. S. Semple. Charles Emmerson Murle y. Shirley Blanche _ Acaciaville. N. S. Conrad ______Sydney. N. S. Townsend. Mary Wright. Eric Manning. _. ___ Middleton. N. S. Cunningham __ _ New Glasgow. N. S. Whitehead. Hubert Roy __ __ Halifax. N. S. Woodbury. Gwendolyn Lee .Middleton. N. S. Licentiate in Music POSTGRADUATE AND PROFESSIONAL Haverstock. Mona Master of Arts Marion ______Hammonds Plains. N. S. Bicke rton. Bliss Carman. B.A. Diploma in Secretarial Science (History) ______Kentville. N. S. Bishop. F10rence lsabeL _____ Paradise. N. S. Hamilton. Anna Marguerite. B.A. Fraser. Mary Olive______Stellarton. N. S. (History) ______Tatamagouche. N. S. Jess. Alice Alma ______Port Williams. N. S. McLaughlin. Joan Edith _____Woodstock. N. B. Master of Social Work Pineo. Reta Elinor______Halifax. N. S. Sholds. Anne Elizabeth _____ Lunenburg. N. S. Algie. Margaret Jean. B.A. . Moncion. N. B. Smith. Shirley Joan ______Halifax. N. S. Baker. Walter Oran. B.A. __ Bridgewater. N. S. Wallace. Joyce Elizabeth ____Wolfville. N. S. Wilson. Barbara Bachelor of Divinity Louise______Bridgetown. R.R. 1. N. S. Cochran. O wen Darrell. B.A ...Kentville. N. S. Diplomas in Home Economics Morrison, G eorge Alexander. B.A. ___ . ____ Saint John. N. B. Hillman. Marjorie Gloria____Woodstock. N. B. Spencer. Marilyn Murray_____ Monclon. N. B. Bachelor of Education Baker. Carroll King. B.A. Sheffield Mills. N. S. THE HONORARY DEGREES Campbell. Patricia Jane. B.A. __ .. ______Pictou Landing. N. S. Six persons representing various pro­ Cumming. Jessie Elizabeth. B.A. ..______Middleton. N. S. fessions and callings were presented for Flor·an. Joan Alice. B.A . .._____ Moncton. N. B. honorary recognition after the degrees Hall. Thomas. B.Sc. Summerside. R.R. 3. P.E.I. Langille. Maryella. B.A. _____ Yarmouth. N. S. had been conferred upon and diplomas Langley. Reeta Lillian. B.A. ______. _ Port Hawkesbury. N. S. presented to the graduates. Of the six, Melvin. Edw ard Arthur. B.A ..._. Halifax. N. S. Murray. Anna Lois. B.A. _Meadowville. N. S. one was a graduate of Acadia, two had MacAskili. John. B.A. ___Glace Bay. N. S. been students there for sometime, another MacKa y. Robert Alexander. B.A. ______Glace Bay. N. S. had been on the Faculty for twenty-seven MacLella n. David Lome. B.A. ______Sydney Mines. N. S. years. Previously it has been the custom MacNintch. Patricia Anne. B.A. ______Sackville. N. B. to give the citations for these recipients MacTavish. Clyd e Alexander. of honorary degrees in the Bulletin only B.A. _ Sydney. N. S. Olmst ad. James Ansel. in an abbreviated form. This year we B.A. ______Little River. N. S. Tothill. Edw ard George. give them in full as they were read y the B.A. ______Mount Dennis. Onto respective Deans, those for the D octor of Walker. George Carruthers. B.Sc. ______Kentville. N. S. Divinity degree by Dr. Whidden, the Wetmore. Elizabeth Anne. B.A. Westmount South. C.B.. N. S. other four by Dr. Longley.

12 FOR KENNETH ALLAN WILSON, Q,C, confer upon him the degree 01 Civil Laws. honoris causa. Mr. am authorized by the Senate President Kenneth Allan Wilson. Kennelh Allan Wilson, Q.C. Brunswick. was born in Saint and FOR LEVERETT DeV. CHIPMAN. M.D. received his early educalion in schools Mr. President: By authority 01 the Senate 01 Ihal City. Having decided to enler. the have the honour to Levere\! DeV. he allended the Kmge M.D. 01 School in Saint John and was is a native 01 this County the degree of Bachelor 01 Civil his High School education at Laws in 1912. For the nexl two he was Academy in Kentville. He is all Arls !dudenl at Acadia On Acadia University. reo November 12. 1914. he was called New the degree 01 Bachelor of Arts in Brunswick Bar. and since that tim: he h.as and Masler of Arts in 1904. been active in Ihe legal and busmess hie Having decided to become a onVSlClun of Saint John and the Maritime Pro~inces. Chipman enrolled al the He has also found time 10 engage m the McGill from which he work 01 his Church and Demonination. and with a medical in 1908. For Ihe next in many social and welfare agencies of the two years he interned at the Royal Victoria Cit~ . Hospital in Montreal. After five 01 An active member of the Cenlral Baphst general in the State 01 Church 01 Saini John, Mr. Wilson is well 1909·14. to New York lor two known and lor his line contribu· 01 the Manhattan tion 10 the Boards and Committees From 1916 10 01 the Maritime United Baptist Convention. pracliced as a For years he was a member of the in the diseases 01 the Eye. Ear. and Canadian Foreign Mission Board and Throat in the City 01 Saint John. New Bruns­ was the treasurer 01 the Eastern wick. where he was and Section of the Board. He has also rendered appreciated as a successful service 10 the Board. practitioner. He in 1946 and since and in was elected to the 01 then he has made his home in Wolfville. convention. He was one of the Here he has done somo work in his chosen to the Federation 01 Canada. lield. but has occupied himsell with and been a 01 the Federation looking after his beautiful with Council since ils inception more than a decade and other rec",aliions. For he has been a In Dr. active Ihe Acadia of the American Governors. 1925 a Fellow of the As a citizen of Saint John. Mr. Wilson has Ophthalmology and found lime to serve on a number of important he became a Fellow and Boards and CommitlQes. He was organizing the College 01 Surgeons, Canada: and Chairman 01 the Air Cadets, and has been a Director member 01 the Board in a Charier Member of the Canadian 01 Management of local Seamen's Union Ophthalmological In 01 an un­ which was the lale usually busy Iile. found time war. He was the of the 10 write a number 01 articles for medical New Brunswick Division of the of Canada. and a member 01 the a resident 01 Saint John. Dr. Chipman Sea Cadet Committee. For nearly became interesled in the work 01 the Red years he was a Director, Treasurer and Cross. and lor twelve 1934·46. he tor of the Children's Aid Society for Provincial President John City and County. presidency covered the war years. when the Red Cross did Some 01 Mr. Wilson's other activities in· and when all otlicials elude the Presidency of the Saint Kiwanis lime fully Club. the of the Saini branch of the Canadian Ihe of also look a keen interest in the Board of Trustees 01 the local and lor ten 1936-46. and Membership on the National Council 01 was pres'a<,m 01 the Saint John 01 the the Y.M.C.A. Boy Association. Because of his outstanding service as a Because ol his skill Solicitor; his devolion 10 in work of the Kingdom of his great interest in. to the Maritime United Convention social and /?"lH

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FOR REV. V. E. DEVADUTT, Th.D. then minister of the United Baptist Church at Marysville, N, B.. at Bear River, N, S .. at First Mr. President. Baptist Church, Truro, and aUniversity of Toronto. He graduated with interest of the Churches of the East in the degree of Bachelor of Science in 1907. Ecumenical Christianity. having taken first class honours in Biology As a leader in his own Church and Uni­ during each year of the undergraduate course. versity in India. and a scholar and preacher. Following graduation. he was employed for whose abilities and convictions are respected the summer by the Biology Board of Canada in theological circles throughout the world. at Seven Islands. Quebec. Here he was he rsity. Ernest Barrass was born in Durham. Eng­ He organized the Department of Biology. land in 1889. and having received his educa­ learned the language of the country. and tion in that country and in Scotland. came to was able to teach the various branches of Canada in 1913. Biology in Chinese to students in Arts. In that year he was ordained in the First Medicine. and Dentistry. To facilitate instruc­ Springfield United Baptist Church. N. B., which tion. he compiled a Chinese textbook in he served as pastor. Successively he was Biology which is now in its third editicn.

14 graduate. Elsie Porter 01 the Class of 1910. and accepted an appointment as As;;i£ltant Professor of Biology CIt Univ<1>rsity. Soon after. he was given of absence 10 serve in Ihe Canadian Army lor the duratioll 01 the war. He was appointed Bacteriologist for the Army M"dicai years. with the rank of Captain. Proft!S~ior Bayne soon himself 10 be With the end of the war Dr. Reed returned O;n able and leacher. and a to Queens where he was made a full Pro­ member of the Acadia Along fessor and head 01 the Department 0/ Bac­ Ihe lale Dr. H. G. teriology. Here he has remained for thirty­ bers of Ihe Department live years and has won wide recognition as encouragement and assistance 10 scores a teacher. writer. and Scientist. young men and women al Acadia, many From 1919 10 1940 Professor Reed served as of whom have done graduate work in Consultant in Bacteriology at the Kingston or have gone on 10 make careers General Hospital. and from 1919 to 1930 was in medicine and dentistry. Consu!lant in Dairy Bacteriology to the On­ addilion 10 his teaching. Pro- tario Department of In 1930 he lessor Bayne has lime during Ihese was appointed Editor of the years to go 10 Ihe University each American Journal of and held Ihe students are on Ihe the until the outbreak War a Mission Study Group. II other duties demanded his al!ention. and active worker in Ihe Wolfville In 1934-35 he was in where he visited United Church. he has also served in Ihe most of the important United Church and as a Iruslee with research in Medical of Pine Hill eluding Cambridge University member 01 the im­ leur Institute. ;:)cOcHi'!V. and in addition his at Queens Dr. Raed has of Crustacea both leaching and research. Islands lor his Master's Thesis in to 1921 he published a number of and Chinese Biological Melaphors. 1921. papers in fish preservation. During the next Because 01 service as a leacher twenly years he published many artid"m and of in the field bolh in China on such important as here at Acadia, his 10 his and the immunology luber· chosen Held of Science. his to promote infections of Man, Gas CI1,ri;

15 ACADIA BULLETIN tions of man. In addition. he has attended The prize list follows in full: many National and International Conferences in his field. some of them as an official Ca­ UNDERGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIPS: nadian representative. Amelia Black Bursary: Douglas Fairbanks In 1953 Dr. Reed was elected President of Dahlgren. Parrsboro. N.S. the Royal Society of Canada. Sarah 1. Manning Bursary: Joan Marie Cox. Because of his outstanding contributions Annapolis Royal. N.S. to the field of Bacteriology. his service to the Class 01 1905 Scholarship: Elinor Maude cause of Education. the welfare of man. and Bourns. Petitcodiac. N.B. the defence of Canada. I present him to you Bill Smith Memorial Scholarship: Donald Mr. President that you may confer upon Malcolm Macpherson. Montreal. P.Q. Professor Guilfird B. Reed the degree of Chipman Scholarship: Donald Reginald Doctor of Science. honoris causa. Copley. Toronto. Ontario. J. Fred Fraser Scholarship: Edward Malcolm Thompson. New Glasgow. N.S. D. F. Higgins Scholarship in Mathematics: Donald Ross Sinnott. Springhill. N.S. THE PRIZE LIST FOR 1953-54 Mariana Cochrane Lockwood Scholarship: Nancy Lee Jones. Fort Fairfield. Maine. Ralph Manning Memorial Scholarship: Before Dr. Kirkconnell called upon Margaret Jean Diamond. Charlottetown. Professor Guilford B. Reed, President of P.E.!. Max Bowlby McKay Scholarship: __ Sandra the Royal Society of Canada and one of Wecgle. Bridgewater. N.S. those on whom an honorary degree had Clara Marshall Raymond Scholarship: Nancy Shaffner. Middleton. N.S. been conferred, to deliver the Convoca­ Thomas Dadson Memorial Scholarship: Shirley tion Address, he read the lengthy list of Jane Pettis. Truro. N.S.. and Ira Maxwell Sutherland. Annapolis Royal. N.S. prIze wmners and made the various Margarita Joy Cullen Scholarship: Naida presentations. As is generally the case, June Putnam. Kentville. N.S. some of the youthful prize winners dis­ Edgar Emerson Eaton Scholarship: Philip Bentley. R.R. 1. Berwick. N.S. tinguished themselves by carrying off two Khaki University and Y.M.C.A. Memorial or more of the top awards. A reading Scholarship: Evelyn Anne Payne. Bridge­ water. N.S. of the prize list will show who these Edward Mannnig Saunders Scholarship in people were in each case. It is always Science: Josephine Helen MacFlldgen. Glace Bay. N.S. considered an invidious business to single Edward Manning Saunders Scholarship in out one or more persons from a list for Arts: George Igor Shillih. Toronto. Onl. Harold Campbell Vaughan Memorial Scholar­ special mention, but one may be pardoned ship in History: Lorne Robert Moase. in this case, perhaps, for calling att.ention Summerside. P.E.I. Murdock C. Smith Scholarship in Marine to the four awards that went to George Biology; Josephine Helen MacFadgen Igor Shillih, a native of Yugoslavia, who Glace Bay. N.S. came to Acadia a year or so ago, then PRIZES IN COURSE: speaking five or six languages with a re­ Beals Memorial Prize in English: Florence Joan MacDonald. Sussex. N.B. markable degree of fluency. Also, for Chem.ic':ll Institute 01 Canada Prize: Jacqueline the first tjme in the history of the Uni­ Lilhan Bouchard. Millinocket. Maine . Class 01 1892 Prize: George Igor Shillih. versity, at least so far as the editor of the Toronto. Ontario. Bulletin can determine, there were joint S. C. Gordon Prize in Education: Anna Lois Murray. Meadowville. N.S. winners of the Governor-General's medal, Ralph M. Hunt Prize in Physics: John Gilbert the highest award t.o be conferred. The Chambers. New Glasgow. N.S. Marion McColl Prize in Home Economics: two co-winners, Shirley Eagles and Ashley Margaret Irene McCurdy. Middle Musquo­ Harrison, had identical marks throughout doboi\, N.S. Margaret and Mary Millard Memorial Prize' the last three years of their stay at Acadia, Shirley Blanche Murley. Acaciavill(,. N.S·. and it is for the highest average for these G. P. Payzant Prize in Music: Patricia Elizabeth MacKenna. Dayton. N.S. three years for which the medal IS Whinnie Rhodes Prize in Music: Basil Phillips, awarded. Charlottetown. P.E.I.

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ATHENAEUM DEBATING SOCIETY PRESENTATION TO DR. LUMSDEN

Murray MacNeily (left). president of the Athenaeum Debating Society presenting Pro!' C. B. Lumsden with an engraved Debating 'A" in appreciation of his services on the Faculty Debating Society during the se venteen years he was a member of the Theological Faculty. The presentation was made at a banquet given at the Hotel Paramount by the Debating Society in Dr. Lumsden's honour and attended by the student debaters. interclass and intercollegiate. and the Faculty Debating Committee.

H. Rosamond Wallace Prize in Music: Div·ided Weagle. Bridgewater. N.S. and Donald equally between Mona Haverstock. Bed­ Sinnott. Springhill. N.S. ford. N.S.; Julia Jackson. Bridgetown. N.S. Home Economics Club Prize: Shirley Blanche Grace Burgess Oulton Prize in Voice: Ruth Murley. Acaciaville. N.S. Ann Morse. Berwick. N.S. L. DeV. Chipman Prize lor the best B.D. thesis: Special Music Prize lor success in the art 01 Owen Cochran. Kentville. N.S. teaching; Marina Gray. Yarmouth. N.S. TROPHIES AND CONTEST AWARDS: Special Prize lor the junior student in Violin making the most progress: Michele Class 01 1907 Essay Prize: Donald E. Roberl· Hayden. son. Kingston. N.S. Ralph M. Hunt Prize lor Public Speaking: Secretarial Science Prize; Marilyn Moore. Murray Margeson MacNeily. Auburn. Halifax. N.S. N. S. Henry Todd DeWolle Prize in Greek: Melville Scott. Wolfville. N.S. Herbert francis Scoll Thomas Memorial Trophy in Debating: Murray Margeson Harrison Wentworth fawcell Memorial Prize: MacNeily. Auburn. N.S. Carol Pennington. Yonkers. N.Y. Waller S. Ryder firs! Prize: Donald Robert­ Daisy and May Donovan Prize: George Igor son. Kingston. N.S. Shillih. Toronto. Ontario. WaIter S. Ryder Second Prize: Roger Cann. Vic/or E. Gould Memorial Prize in Biology; Sydney. N.S. Donald Copley. Toronto. Onto Orlay Bligh Cup: Alan Willred Baker. Bridge­ Mining Society Prize: Wendell Carlyle water. N.S. Barrett. Charlottetown. P.E.1. Alumni Trophi€>s:Largest number of mem­ Canadian History Prize: Shirley Gertrude bers present - Class of 1929; larg€> st Louise Eagles. Guysborough. N.S. percentage of m e mbers pr€>s ent-Class of french Government Book Prizes: Sandra 1894.

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MEDALS: ART EXHIBIT AT CLOSING TIME Un iversily Medals: For highest standing in The Annual Art Exhibit arranged by their major fi eld. providing they have an " AU a verag e in their major. the Art Department was held in Welton Biology: David Henry Webster, Cambridge, Hall from Sunday to Tuesday of Clos­ bridge, N.S. ing. The special attraction this year was Chemislry: William Ashley Harrison, Ke nt. in the crafts, and the weaving was par­ ville, N.5. ticularly interesting. Skeins of wool Foods a nd Nu lrifion: Shirley Blanche dyed with natural plant materials were Murley, Aca ciaville, N.S. exhibited by Edith Bethune. Finished English: Shirley G ertrude Lou ise Eagles, Guysborough, N.S. scarves, bags and rugs made from their Geology: Doug las Howard Loring. Chester beautifully harmonized colours were Basin, N.S. shown, also small pieces of tapestry and Ralph B. Mounce Medal in Engineering: hooked rugs. The pottery also showed Donald Enslow Prosser. Hebron. N.S. much skill and pleasing design. Margaret Henry Birlcs Medal in Educafion: Thomas Harold Ha ll, Summerside. P.E.!. Keirstead, a graduate of the Acadia French Governmenf Medal in French: George Ladies' Seminary, was prize winner in the Igor Shillih, Toronto, Ontario. evening class. Helen Boggs showed some George Wilber f Cox Cup and Medal: Murray good pieces also. Paintings and sm all Margeson MacNeily, Auburn. N,S. sculpture, with some wood carving com­ Governor General's Me dal: Shirley Gertrude Louise Eagles, Guysborough, N.S. and pleted a very enjoyable exhibition. William Ashley Harrison, Kentville. N.S. -H.D.B.

CO NVOCA T ION ADDRESS, ACADIA UNIVERSITY, MAY 18, 1954

By DR. GUILFORD B. REED

First, I should li ke on behalf of my been asking myself: Who am I, a fe llow honorary graduates and myself to scientist long devoted to the study of the express our very great appreciation of the lowest forms of life and their parasitism honour awarded us today by Acadia Uni­ on man, to address a glittering group of ve rsity. For mysel f, it is a great nostalgic young men and women just emerging pleasure. H aving been brought up a fe w from the academic cocoon? Those of miles from here in a home where the yo u familiar with biology will recognize cardinal virtues were godliness and learn­ that my simile is not inappropriate. T he ing, whe re Acadia stood for higher pupal stage is a period of intense de· learning intertwined wi th godliness, my velopmental change, the lowly larva em­ early aspirations hav at last been ful· erges as a complex and generally beautiful fiUed. I must have the Acadia record adult. I congratulate you on your fo r durability. I entered this U nive rsity emergence. The fact that you have in 1908 and now after 46 years I am stayed the course and broken through honored with my fi rst Acadia degree. the finish line calls for only nominal You asked me, Mr. President, to congratulations from me, I have too long address my remarks to the graduating been an undergraduate, lived and worked class. I accepted the invi tation with with undergraduates. But, I congrat.u· alacrity as an honour but I have since late you most sincerely on your emergence

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into a world you are sorely This is opportunities are for the has always reguired power men and women of Rome in the the world is in a critical stage, Christian era the at 20 In the Western are at a cross perhaps more situation grad­ many which have been negotiated ually improved, very slowly, in past centuries. It is you and your rate until our children to see that this CriSIS IS a life expectancy to better and not the The a new dark age. your finest but you re- country up to the 19th bacillus alone annually of 50 to 60 persons thousand population. years ago we learned the ways typhoid bacillus. Now in the half the world it considerably less thou-

flourishes at man's

years ago we typhus, fever, and Eastern States. my town on the St. own ment surmounts the common pressure more than a increased power in the summer 1849. A new cataclysm threatens. prevailed over a wide area. The Are we to meet threat by ways this microbe are now known. methods? you and your We have find better and more lasting that we found in past? world inconsis- is not is rampant of incon- as it was in Canada a century ago. If you the list rna jor inconsistencies find the same underprivileged is in rebellion. The cry IS inde- During IS done to red uce spiritual, a by use of

19 ACADIA BULLETIN biotics. These substances are still un­ antagonisms. This is not a new or unique known or not available in large areas of approach; it is humanism in the broadest the world. sense. It provides scope for every type In hal f the world the expectation of of talents and for varied forms of effort, life at birth remains approximately where commercial, technical, scientific, educa­ it was in Rome in the first century. tional and Christian. But if we found the means of extending Many agencies, private, national and our knowledge of microbe control and international are deeply engaged in these applied the knowledge on a world scale problems, missions, world health organiza­ we should immediately be confronted with tions, F.A.O., U.N.E.S.C.O. and many an equally serious dilema of even more others, a few have long been so engaged. pressmg urgency. Lives saved from But the effort is still very limited in' rela­ microbes would succumb to starvation. tion to the magnitude and urgency of the This winter I have daily passed a line need. If this is a correct approach, new of immobile ships, Great Lakes grain methods and greatly increased effort are carriers, loaded to the scuppers with the essential. finest bread grain of the world, Canadian In the words of Rattary Taylor, in a Northern wheat. The ships are still im­ new provocative book, "Today we have mobile . From Vancouver to Halifax to think on a world basis." But thinking every grain bin is full to overflowing. on a world basis does not imply the We are told the market is glutted, and neglect of our own house. The founda­ not only with wheat. In all North tions of our own institutions and culture America there is a glut of cereal grains, must be kept strong, the superstructure butter, cheese, meats, fish and many other well equipped and pleasing. food products while millions are being This is why I congratulate you 011 your demoralized, physically, mentally and emergence today when we so sorel)! need spiritually by the scarcity of what we new thought and a new approach to hold in disturbing abundance. world-scale problems. If you look at the situation through Many years ago I quoted a few fa m­ other than professional eyes you see equal­ iliar lines from this platform, or the ly glaring inconsistencies between the two precursor of this platform. They come halves of the world. to mind as appropriate today: The oldor order changeth yielding place to Masses of the world's people have just new, become conscious of these inequalities and And God fulfills himself in many ways. Lest one good custom should corrupt the as a result. these great areas have become world. the prime nursery of the fanaticism which is sweeping the world. Petty witch hunt­ Acadia Alumni Record ing will have little influence on these Graduates who have waited pal:iently great areas nor will the substitution of for the appearance of the revised edition another form of fanaticism turn the tide. of the Acadia Alumni Record will be glad A very great deal may, however, be done to know that the end is in sight. All of by decreasing the inequalities which now the book has been printed except for a exist between privileged and under­ section on non-graduating ex-students, privileged areas. No easy task, and if and this final portion of the book has now it is to be effective it must be done speed­ passed the galley proof stage. Bound ily, effectively and without creating new copies should be available this summer.

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Acadia University Prize 'Winrlers

GOVERNOR-GENERAL'S MEDAL Shirl e y Eagles and W. Ashley Harris on. co­ w inne rs 01 the Gove rnor·G e neral's me dal lor the h ighest average in the s e cond. third and lourth y e ars of the Arts or Science cours e . Both stude nts had e xactly the s ame average . and upon request. His Ex ce llency. the Gov­ ernor-G e n e ral was ple ased to grant the so cond medal. Both stude nts w e re also winners 01 the Unive rs ity's Medal lor an A average in the major course. MURRAY AND HIS TROPHIES Murray MacNeily . winne r of the Cox Cup and Medal which goes e ach colle g e ye ar "to the male s tudent who has made the m os t outs tanding re cord in intercolle giate athletics. othe r e xt ~ a - curricula r activities. and s cholar­ All photos in this issue, includ ing the s hip"; the H. F. Scott Thomas Me morial T, ophy in De bating. and als o the Ralph M. COJ'er, arc from M d,A ule).', Sludio, Wolf­ Hunt Prize lor Public Speaking. "tI/e . The edilor wishes 10 say " Thank Yau " for Ihe cooperatio n which has made their .He possible.

21 ACADIA BACCALAUREATE SERMON, 1954

DR. V. E. DEVADUTT

alumna for

two per cent I t is a very small Though from the the achievement since the Mission in 1800 wisdom. I see a relevance yet its influence In the field I have chosen this very the country this morning. Immense. Perhaps there is a every reason to to the West. you your many your had a great many that your SOCieties strive of these could o!1Iy the of has contributing peoples in the to the West these And yet, people who to church membership movement in through your you had some share. I may be permitted to say one n"I'~nl'::I1 word. It in the 1926, servICes. every I came a church service who a lady, an a the

22 ACADIA BULLETIN percentage of the people who attend to which this community has been an church services on this continent is slight­ heir right from the very beginning of ly higher. our ci vilization. Despite this fact, despite the fact that The first people to befriend these men it is only a very small proportion of people who were socially ostracized, these men that attend churches, the other fact still who lived outside the pale of society, remains - you cannot understand the were the Christian missionaries. Christian history of western civilization unless you missionaries went to these people, pro­ trace the influence of Christian forces on claimed the gospel of Jesus Christ, the it; the impact of Christian ideals upon gospel that tells them that there was no the development of the democratic ideals reason why they should be subjected to of European peoples; the influence of the these indignities; there was no reason why Christian faith upon many of the social they should be trea ted as if they did not objectives that these people have set be­ belong to human society at all; because, fore themselves. they were egually the children of God I as those people who were subjectjng Speaking about the achievements of the them to these disabilities. The Christian Christian missionary enterprises in India, gospel that God came into this world, T would like to think of three things: gave himself up for man, that men may Christian missions gaye to the people of live, that Christ died not only for the India a new sense of the worth and the privileged people, but that Christ died dignity of the human indiyidual and for all-that Christian gospel came as human personality. something new to these people. Their Instead of theorizing on it, let me give hopes were rou cd and hundreds of them, you some concrete illustrations. We have literally thousands of them, as a matter had in India for well over three thousand of fact, came into the Christian Church. years a group of people called the "Un­ The Christian gospel set the captive free. touchables." These people would live These people who formerly would not outside cities, outside villages, having no be allowed to go into the cities, these access into the cities or into the villages. people who had no access even in to the These people were the disinherited of the villages, who had always to live outslde human society. The only right that they cities and outside villages now go about had was the right to serve others, often walking the highways and byways of for a wage that gave them le ss rhan one cities and villages wi th their heads held inadeguate meal every twenty-four hours. high, because they know they are living Today the present session of the Indian in a world tha r. belongs, not to this group, Parliament is discussing a law-a law in not to that group, not to this person, not order to eliminate once and for all dis­ to that person, but to God, who is the crimination against these people. How Father of all men. That is a tremendous did that come about? How is it that the achievement. That is an achievement of conscience of many people in India is which the C hristian mis ionary enterprise roused against this social evil? It is could really be proud. true that even a few years ago, under the leadership of one of our national leaders, Our Constitution was drawn up by our a fight was started against the discrimina­ own people . It is said to I c one of che tion and the disabilities to which this finest constitutions in the world, because community has been subjected for ages, we benefited from the study of those 23 ACADIA BULLETIN of other countries, including the constitu­ bathe in order to remove the contamina­ tion of your own country, and the person tion. And some of my best friends who helped to draw up this constitution, today are amongst Europeans. Not the const ~ tution of independent India, be­ only did the gospel of Jesus Christ set longed to the so-called depressed classes, the captive free, but it also brought the Dr. Am!Jedkar. Here is something of mighty down from their seats. wh: ch anyone could be proud. II Let me give you an illustration to show Let me tell you something about wom­ yOC! the importance of this one incident en in I ndia. You will know that the that the man who drafted the Constitu­ President of the United Nations Assembly tion of India, or helped to draft the Con­ is an Indian woman, Mrs. Pandit. She stitution of India, belonged to the so­ is a very charming woman, a very able called depressed classes, to the so-called woman. Let me tell you something about Untouchable classes. I come from a my own mother. She was a cultured convert family. My grandmother never be­ woman. She was an educated woman, came a Christian. My father and mother but she was married at the age of eight; came from very orthodox Brahmin fam­ she was a mother at the age of fourteen; il;es. My father's mother, my grand­ and she died before she was forty. mother, wa s one of the proudest women I am not very old and yer I knew person­ r h a ~ I have ever met in my life. She ally the first Indian woman graduate. \\-ou~d walk, often a distance of two or India has travelled a long distance during three miles in order to bring fresh water, the last thirty or forty years. For ages, drinking water for herself, because she though, theoretically, Indian men always would not drink of the water brought to affirmed a certain amount of respect for her by anybody else; and, if while bring­ women, and they do respect them, yet ing this water, even the shadow of an out­ women were looked upon as beings who cast person fell on her, or fell across her had no rights of any kind in society. path, she would throw the water away Their proper place was behind locked and go back the whole distance in order doors. It may be that in the homes they to br,'ng fresh water. She was proud of exercised a certain amount of authority, the fact thar she was the heir to a culture but their place was properly in the home. whose origin went back to the dim dawn The first women to come out of their of history. This was the way that one homes, to go into society, to participate class of people treated another class of in social affairs, to render service to people in India. And today I have in society, were Christian women. How did my home a man who cooks food for me-­ these women do that? How were they a man who belongs to the lowest of the enabled to do it? It was the missionaries Untouchable classes. And often many who went out from various countries of parents sit with me around the table and the West-including from this Uni­ eat of the meal cooked by this man. versity-women missionaries who went I was taught when I was a child-l out-it was through their help, through was not brought up in a Christian church their leadership and instruction, that these unfortunately when I was a small boy, women were enabled to come out of their and I was told that if I shook hands with homes. Often they went out into villages a European, with a missionary, it would to teach. They went out as nurses, be well for me to go back home and braving scandal and sometimes social 24 BULLETIN ostracism. They were the pioneers always of women hood in and it is III about the 15 un­ But IS not all. greatest There is an un­ think) of the mISSIOnary mission fields. in India is the founding of the a revolution on­ this is a very small Church. a revolution back which you we in our Church as find two individual­ many as you would III ity the community. Church anywhere In world. It is true there are of which As I told you a moment ago, we are ashamed. I do not want to East to you a picture of the spiritual sections people in the the church. And yet despite treated as less than human despite worldiness that When of church in you talk of a farmer in India, YOll are again again not talking type of whom of strength. you know as the I think one of my students A now in an area in Assam a no man is allowed to go; as a to him; a piece fact educated to a rich landlord; go. his

are this perpetual servitude state of belonging as an asset to an impersonal society. want to be treated as individuals. But there is not only a for in- there is also a for com-

IS III a sense an I am a

are In school, I have come, temple, and so on­ various national lt IS influences to found in into what r am today; there in India. is in my a great longing com­ supernational community and this longing for prays, "Thy kingdom come," on a certain level in an intense 2' ACADIA BULLETIN resentment against colonial powers, be­ "I have before me an Utopia. T his is cause a group of people who belong to my ideal-a classless society, a society another nation, who are ruled by another where every man will be free to enjoy nation, somehow do not have a sense of the fruit of his own labour, where there nationhood, and often there is a resent­ shall be no exploitation of any kind. I ment against that fact. A revolution is am working for the establishment of a going on, and this revolution was started kingdom of the dispossessed of the human not by the Communists as we often think society." That is the messianic message but it was set afoot by the Christian forces of the Communists. and by the liberal ideas that travelled to Christianity is messianic. The Christian the East from the West. Church is messianic, but often it forgets When the Christian Gospel was taken that fact. But how is it to fulfill its to India and when it proclaimed that all messianic mission, its messianic function? men were egual before God, that Christ It can fulfill it in only one way. You died-remember that, that is the heart remember Jesus Christ, when he was of the message of the gospel, that Christ starting on his public mission, the tempter died for all-Christ died not for a mass came to him and made some suggestions ,)f people, an impersonal mass of people, to him and said, "If you can only provide but. that Christ died for each and every for these hungry people," and you should mdividual, each and every individual with know the hunger of these people; you his own peculiar aspirations, with his own should know the nature of the poverty peculiar sense of frustration-when the and nakedness that exists in the East Gospel was taken to India and proclaim­ in order to appreciate the significance of ed this message, it was bound, destined, that suggestion-"If you can only pro­ to start a revolution. vide food for these people, surely you Sometimes we are baffled. Communism will get the following that you want as comes to us and says, "I have the key the messiah. Or if you can impress these to all your problems. It is I who can people with your miraculous powers, meet the aspirations that are building in strike wild wonder int.o their hearts, you your hearts. If you have been under will get a great following. Or seize tyranny of your own people, I will redeem power, political power. After all, in this you from that tyranny. If you have been divided world where each nation is com­ subject to social disabilities, I can see peting against the other, political power that those disabilities are removed. Trust is necessary-so seize power and you shall yourself and your fate to me." But we succeed in your messianic mission." Jesus have started the revolution and therefore Christ set aside those temptations. The we have a responsibility for it. W e can­ day came when his disciples understood not allow this revolution to be betrayed that he was truly the Messiah. They into Communist hands. We have got to made the confession to him. At Cesarea see that this revolution takes a proper Philippi, Jesus Christ, we are told, im­ course and is saved for democratic ideals mediately after the confession by Peter, and ends. Now, therefore, there is a "Thou art the Christ," began to speak to great unfinished task, and what is the them of the manner in which the Son motive? of Man was to suffer at the hands of Communism is messianic. It holds out the elders, how he was to be betrayed to before people a messianic hope. It says, them, how he was to die, and how he

26 A BOOK REVIEW

Of' ORIZAlIA, Memories a Childhood in Mexico) by del in Frances K. del Press, 386 Fourth Ave., New $2.50) . of Orizaba is the reminis­ cences of childhood of author in Mexico, written in Since the connection del with Acadia a times recent years In section publication, he needs, as we are wont to say on occasions, "any introducrion to an " And yet, a words to follow its may not out a messianic mission, and its messianic mission its

Army in in You being as the followers of Medal for distinguish- has for and service in France. he went to the United (the native his father) where he studied at of Minnesota, receiving in 1921 the

was the and the cross of triumph also, but if it, the judg­ surely be upon it, and come and take heri­ has given to Church. follow Christ; its if we follow on over twenty give us have made us the

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Now Orizaba. ful of at indelible manner In scenes and events author's attempt to hood themselves upon his memory. This is not a staid, trite chronicle, but a collection of inci­ dents with life and here are the came day-to-day of a household story is the of out­ with rhetoric. look undue frivolity in check; the indulgent yet ever country may faithful servants; the solicitous care of something of parents who sternness with if not so or well

New Appointments At Acadia

from the office)

Governors has an­ versity. Rev. Mr. Ralph M.Th., to appointed Biblical Litera­ ogy. ture rank: from University of associate professor. completed residence took theological course at Spurgeon's for a Ph.D. at the College, England, and followed had a year this with an Arts course and for the of Aviation Medicine under Board a year psychology at Toronto. He psychology and with the Confedera­ tion Company and done case work on ex-convicts for John Howard Society. He is also joint-author with William community of an book on Mental Convention will welcome sion to theological strength at Lovat

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ACADIA ASSOCIATES, INC

THE ACADIA BULLETIN tho ha, been approved by t:,e United States Treasury De· The Official Organ of the Associated partment. Alumni of Acadia University Gifts for Acadia made in the United States by (Published Six Times a Year) those desiring tax exemptiOn, should be made Editor: George Edward Levy, '27 able to Acadia Associates, Inc., and sent 10 Treasurer, Charles B. Messenger, President, Amen· THE EXECUTIVE OF THE can Institute of Finance, 137 Newbury SI., BaSIon ASSOCIATED ALUMNI OF ACADIA UNIVERSITY Gifts by alumni intended for the Alumni FUI1,\ should give the Class to which the 8ift IS to b. ned President: Normall H. Morse, '40. ited, Vice·President: Miles '45. Second Vice·Presid.nt: Helen '41. The relevant extract in the letter from the Tre. Suretary.TrcaS/lrer: M arioll Reddell, '27. wry Department is as follows: Past Presidenl: Charies E. Ea/on, '33. "Contributions made to you (Acadia AssoCLate>, Other Members of the Executive: Inc) are deductible donors In computing thel! t3x.J.b!e net rncome in marmer and to the extent Reliring in 1955 provided by section 2'; (0) and (g) of the Internal Mrs. Fred Kinsman, Ex, '22, Revenue Code, E, Chalmers '36. deVIses. or transfers, Or for Dr. G, "",WLUU,,C in computing the vallie of the Mrs. Elaine '44. decedent for the manner and to Relirillg 1/1 1956 8!2 (d) and d!6 Laura Gordon Ex, '14. Mrs. F. H. Sexton, '29. manner (The ACADIA BULLETIN ,ntered as (,1\ second malier at tbe Post Offia De· Code. partment, OlltrWa.)

Watson on to Rex A Lucas, Mr. Lucas IS a graduate of McGill the academic at Columbia. teaching experience ar was also warden of residences. He has study of the cultural t,',ources of Mont­ real, sponsored b)' the that cit)'_ Miss Marsh who will ment of SecretarIal

of Western Ontario in in Education from the onto in 1949, and her M.A Administration Columbia hold the rank of assistant

29 ACADIA BULLETIN PERSONALS

We extend congratulations to the following ter, Nancy, April 10, 1954, a sister for Susan and Acadia students who received degrees from the Sally. Dr. Battenhouse is minister of the Third Professional Schools indicated: Congregational Church, Rockville Center.

D"lfioUf;~ M ~d;cct1 Scho~­ 1938 Ralph John Day '48 Born to Major James R. Feindel, M.D., '38 and Percy Hugh Kirkpatrick '49 Mrs. Feindel at Toronto W"tern Hospital on William M itchell Larsen '49 April 7. a son, Thomas James. Dr. Feindel is David Everett Macleod '49 doing special work at the University of Toronto, Hazel Jones Murphy, Ex. '50 living at 3100 Kingston Road, Toronto, 13. Athol Leith Roberts '42, winner of the Victoria Born to Mr. and Mrs. Alex J. Reeve (nee Mary General Hospital Attending Staff Prize. McCausland '38), Winnipeg, January 17, 1954, a daughter, Meredith Anne. D"lhousie Law School­ Donald John Burke '53 ,1939 Kenneth Lee Crowell '49 Born to Mr. George Crawford '39 and Mrs. John Turney Jones '51 Crawford (nee Isabel MacKay, Dal. '37), a Ivan St. Clair Johnson, Ex. '50 daughter, Ellen Rose, at Pictou, N .S., May 8. Eric Harvey Palmer '5 1 194() D"lhous;e Dentttl School- Born to Major Francis E. Barr '40 :md Mrs. William Harris Young '50, winner of the Alpha Barr, 40 Mark Avenue, Easrview, Ontario, De­ Omega Plaque for highest standing in examin­ clember 11, 1953, a son, Gregory Edward, a ations. brotber for Pamela Frances. Major Barr IS Officer·i n-Charge of the utilities section of the No."" Scoti" Techn;c,,1 .ColI~ge­ Directorate of Works, Army Headquarters, and (Civil Engineering) employs several civil, electrical and mechanical James How~rd Bentley '51 engineers. The section controls operation and Simon Reid Giffin '52 maintenance of utilities at army installations aeross Robert Boggs MacKean '5 1 Canada. Charles Andrew Clements '5 0, (With Honours Born to Mr. S. R. Kennedy and Mrs. Kennedy in Engineering) (nee Eleanor Fairn, Dip. in Sec. Sc. '40) . 6 (Elecrrical Engineering) Ogilvie Street, Halifax, a daughter, Eleanor Gay, Ralph Emerson Hennigar '52 Dec. 31, 1953 . Mr. Kennedy is at present in Ivan Cottnam Smith '52 Great Britain where he is studying radio and television techniques on a BBC Imperial T rust (Mechanical Engineering) Bursary. Gordon Parker Bezanson '54 Born to Principal L. e. Trites and M~s. Trites Ronald Standwood Burcher '52, winner of Ath­ (nee Jocelyn Patterson . '40) Wolfville, a $On, lone Fellowship May 24, John Patterson. Richard Morris Fisher '54 Hubert Roy Whitehead '54 1941 (Mining Engineering) Born to Dr. Charles ]. Bishop '41 and M rs. W illiam Tennent MacKenzie '52, winner of the Bishop, Kentville, N .S., a son, John Charles Doug­ Mining Society of Nova Scotia Scholarship. las, April 7. (Metallurgical Engineering) Born to Rev. M. Allen Gibson and M rs. Gibsoft, Chester, N. S., a daughter, Peigi Ruth, M ay ~ . Manuel Gonzalez '52 John Morrison Macleod '52, winner of William 1943 Srairs Memorial Prize. Born to Mr. Murray H . Manzer '43 and Mn. (Master of Engineering) Manzer, Fredericton, N .B., a daughter, Natal.ie Franklyn Henry Theaksron '41 (N.S.T.e. '48). Joan, (February 26, 1954) , a sister for Marilyn, BNt'I1HS: David and Gary. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Carman Apt (nee 1933 Bernice Fennimore), both of '43, a second daugh­ Born to Mr. Keith S. Chipman '33 and Mrs. ter, Sara Elizabeth, Dec. 6, at Hamilton, Ontario, Chipman, Halifax, a son, Robert Keith, on May Mr. and Mrs. Apt. are living in Caracas, Vene­ 9. zuela, where their address is Sinclair Oil and Re­ fining Co., Apartado 1706. 1936 Born to Rev. Paul Battenhouse and Mrs. Bat­ 1944 ten house (nee Eleanor Esten '36), Rockville Born to Mr. and Mrs. David Milligan (nee Center, Long Island, their third child, a daugh· Helen Reid '44), 127 Smith Ave., Truro, N .S.,

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a daughter, Constance Grace (March 2, 1954), a l3arb.lra Anne, M arch 17, 1954. Child reported sister for Carol Louise. Mr. Milli);an is on the doing wdl, parent J bit " bushed" -- whatever that Staff of th e N.S. Agricultural College. means! Born to Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth C. R"binson Eorn to Rev . J ohn Porter '50 and Mrs. Portel', (nee Mary Stairs), both same class, Jamestown, Chester B3sm, N .S., n dn u ~h l.er, Shelagh Elaine, N.Y., a son, Stewart Kenneth, Marcb 27, 1954. April 28, at Fi shermen's Memorial Hospital, W e regret to report that later information tells uS Lunenburg, N .s. the child died shortly after birth. Born to Mr. Don.tld 8. MacBe.1th '50 and Mrs. MacBcHh (nee $"., M acDonald, Ex_ '50) , 85 1946 'dward St., Chari ttetown, P. E.I.. , a daughter, Born to Mr. James M. Harding '46 and !'vIrs. S"r., Donalda, FeSru.try 18. 1954. Mr. MacBeath Harding, at the fishermen's Memorial Hospital, will be teachinr, at t e new ha rlottetown High Lunenburg, N.S.. a son, James Foster, January 1, School next ye.r. 1954 . Born to Mr. C. S . Miner and Mrs. Miner (nee 1951 Alice Morse, '46), Belmont, Mass., on febr!lary Born to Mr. and M rs _ Kenne th Lee C rowell (nee 14 , a sec')nd daughter, Diane Elizabeth. Avis e1t), both cI s of '5 1, a son, Kenneth Lee, Mr. and Mrs. Jess Wentzell (nee Heather Mac­ April 14, 195 4. Donald '46), 93 Gilmour Screet, Ottawa, "wish to bring their friends up to date on their family". * • • They have two children, Robin Lee, born Feb. i'iARRIAGES: 11, 1952, ond Peter Gordon, born July 1, 1953. 1940 Born to Mr. Joseph Pinkus and Mrs. Pinkus The marriage of Mr. John C. Spurr, Eng. Cert. (nee Isabel Frances MacDonald '46) a daughter, '40, ,lnd M i s Pearl Browcrr, rook pbce on April Ruth Anne, Nov. 19, 1953, a sister for Donna. 17, 195-1, at the FIrst Bapri t Church, Hali fax, Born to Mr. Ralph Belyea Ex. '47 and Mrs. N.S. T h ~ y are living at 26 Lakcfrom Road, Apt. Bel yea (nee Margaret Courtney Miller '46), a 16 , D artmouth, .S. d.lughter, Margaret Anne, March 16, at Moncton General Hospitat Moncton, N .B. 1950 Born to Dr. F. W. Stacey '46 and Mrs. S " "y The marriage of Mr. Lawrence Ra lph Keddy, (nee C. Jean Clarke, Horton, '46), a sen, Robert ')0, Berwick. and M ISS Ruth Agnes Pe rrier, New Charles, January 30, 1954, a Delaware Hospital, Mill.1S, look place rece ntly at Kcnrvil le, .S. \'\Ii!mington, Delaware. The m. rriage of John Eugene Lambert . a and 1947 M ss E il een Bentrice ' en ncdy, Brockvi lle. Ont., took place A pril 3. They will res ide in Ogdens­ Born to Mr. Rodney A. Bradley '46 and Mrs. bw\: , N Y., whe re r. Lam ert is a Chemical Bradley (Mary 1. MacDonald '47), a son, Wil­ En~in er with Canadia lnd ,,!,r,e' Lim ited . liam Scott, April 19, 1954, at the S yd ney City T he nurri ge of Mr. ougb. A rmstrong, and Hospital. Miss M argaret G rady '5 1, took place on April Born to Rev. A. M. McLachlin and Mts. Mc­ 24, 195·1, at -dmundston, .B. M r. and Mrs. Lachlin (nee Patricia Andrews '47), a so n, Stephen Armstrong arc living at 21 7 Queen Street, Sarnia, Andrews, February 1954. Mr. and Mrs. McLach­ where Mr. A rmstrong is employed with the Dow lin live at 49 Grenview Boulevard, T oronto, 18. Chemiccd Company .1S .1 Che mical Engineet. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Elgin CouttS (nee Helen Munart, Ex. '47), 108 Brenrcliffe Road, Leaside. 1952 Toronto, a son, Peter Thomas, April 19, 195 4, a Mr. Walter B. M urray, '52 and M iss Joan brother for Donald. Mr. Coutts graduated from Sutherln nd, '53 of ~rl1lo u th , .5. , wcre married Osgoode Hall in 1949 and pr.ac tises Inw in Tor­ at Centr

Born to FlO John A. Archibald '50 and Mts. The I11 JI'I ;n;:e of Mr. Byron Roy Enman. '55, Archibald, Portage L. Prairie, M an., a daughter, New G l.ugo\ , .S. and Mis Mildred Elizabeth

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MacKay, of that place took place there, June lZ, Alberta Tretheway, Lite.D., aOO a gt.du.te of 1954, at Trinity United Church. 1894, who is now making her home with her Ion Robert and family in Pasadena, California. T he Bulletin e.xtends good wishes to the fore­ going young cou ples. 1895 The death of Mr. N. J. Lockhart took place at • • • • Estevan, Sask., May 20. Mr. Lockhart was a DEATHS: native of Aylesford, N.s., and spent put of his 1889 boyhood at Cavendish, P.E.I. He obtained both The death of Rev. Mockett C. Higgins oc­ rhe Bachelor's and Master's degrees from Acadia, curred at h is home, Claremont Manor, Clare­ and graduated in Law from Dalhousie in 1902. mont, Califo rnia, Ea ter Sunday. Mr. Higgins In 1906 he went to Winnipeg and finally on to was a son of the late Dr. Daniel F. Higgins, one Estevan, where he practised law and was for many time Professor of Mathematics at Acadia. After yearS Crown Prosecutor in his district. He was graduation from Acadia in Theology he pursued made a Q .C. in 1914. Besides his wife Mr. Lock­ further studies in this field at Rochester Theo­ hart i. survived by one son, Hugh, in Montreal and logical Seminary, and then returned to Nova Scotia a half-brother, E. W. Spurr, in Eureka, N .S. where he laboured for many years as the pastor 1904 of churches of his denomination. After the pass­ Senator J. Walter Jones, former Premier of ing of his wife in 1942 he removed to California Prince Edward Island, died suddenly of a heart where he made his home with his sister, Miss attack in his office, Ottawa, March 31, 1954. The Elizabeth B. Higgins. During these years of ee­ late senator was a native of Prince Edward uland, tirement he continued active in such church and and was graduated from Prince of Wales College community duties as he was able to undertake. In­ in 1898. He spent the next ten years studying terment was in the family lot of the Old Cem­ and teaching, at Acadia where he graduated in etery, Wolfville. 1904, Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph, Ont., 1891 Cornell, Columbia, Clark and Chicago. For three years he served agricultural organizations in the We regret to report the death of the Rev. ]. W. United States returning to his native province in llIslev, Omaha, Nebr3Sb, which occurred in De­ 191 2, after which time he devoted himself to cember of last year. Mr. IIIsley died as the result farming, stock ralsmg, and fur farming. He of an accident when he was struck by a car in entered politics in 192 1 and was first elected to front of the church he had been attending for rhe P.E.I. Legislature in 1935 as a Liberal mem­ thirty years. No further details regarding the ber and was undefeated in subsequent electoral deceased have come to hand. contests. In May 1943 he became Premier old­ T he death of Rev. Austin T. Kempton, Cam­ ing office until he was named senator in 1953. bridge, Mass., on March 26, 1954 has been re­ He is survived by members of his immediate fam­ ported to the Bulletin. Dr. Kempton pursued ily. studies at ewton Theological Seminary after his graduation from Acadia, and was honored with 1914 the Doctor of Divinity degree, honoria causa, in The death of Mr. Charles W. Knowles, a native 1921. T he greater part of Dr. Kempton's long of Avondale, N .S ., and for many years a re id­ and active career was spent in the United States ent of New York city, on May 14, hos beln re­ where he was pastor of a number of Baptist ported to the Bulletin. At the time of his death, churches, his most noted pastorate being that at Mr. Knowles was Vice-President of the Walter Broadway Baptist, Cambridge, where he ministered Keddy Construction Company of New York. for twenty-seven years. He was widely known as 1923 a lecturer as well as preacher and administrator, The death of the Rev. Walter A. Ferris occurred and was one of the pioneers in the illustrated at Saint John, N .B., recently. Mr. Ferris waa a lecture method, hi' collection of slides being out­ native of that city, after his graduation he served standing. Dr. Freeman is survived by his wife Baptist churches at Mira, N.S., Margaree, N.S., and cwo sons. Both he and Mr. Higgin. were and Penobsquis, N .B. He had retired several consistent in their loyalty to their alma ma/u. years ago on account of ill health. He iJ sur­ 1894 vived by his wife. T he de th of the Rev . D . Livingstone Parker, 1937 occu rred at a hospital in Oakland, California, Jan­ Mrs. Beatrice Crowell Harris passed away at uary 23, 1954. Mr. Parker was a native of Barrington, N .S" early in May. Mrs. Harris had Liverpool, N.S" where his fother, Rev. David O. had a successful teaching career at Lodteport, Parker, was pastor of the Baptist Chu.rch. After Shelburne and Wolfville High School, and for a pastomte in ova Scotia at Berwick, he went to some years since her retirement due to ill health, Colgate University for further studies and follow· she conducted correspondence courses for the De­ ing pastorates in Kansa5 nd California, he became partment of Education of Nova Scotia. No im­ salesm an for the American Bible Society. Since mediate relatives survive her. 1949 his health had not permitted him to con­ The Bulletin tenders sympathy to the relat.iv., tinue his dut i.,. Mrs. Parker died some years and friends of th.,e deceased members of the ago. His only living near relative is a sister, Mrs. Acadia Alumni.

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PERSONALIA: 192:0 1891 A note from Mrs. Wm. Leonhardt (nee Mona Parsons , A .L.S. '20), Lacen, N.H., Netherlands Dr. and Mrs. L. R. Morse, Lawrencetown, N.S., to the Alumni Office , calls attention to a new have returned home from spending the winter in book written by one of the R.A.F. Fliers she and St. Petersburg, Florida. her husband sheltered during the Second World 1897 War from the German Gestapo. In the book Dr. and Mrs. A. C. Archibald, who have retired bearing the title "Boldness Be My Friend", she and her husband are briefly mentioned. The book to Daytona Beach, Florida, have returned from "­ with J Foreward Lord Tedder is bei ng pub­ trip to London, Ontario, to participate in the by lished in Canada Ryersons, and is appearing dedication ceremonies of the new Talbot Street by Baptist Church. in various European cQun cr ie$, among these be in ~ J. Netherlands' edition in Dutch. 1901 A recent newsp"per item tells uS that Dr. H . H . Miss Laura Logan, Wolfville, N . S., who has Titu., ha s been advanced to the rank of senior had a diStinguished career in the field of nursing professor at Denison Un iver;ity where he has taught education for forty-five years in the United States, for twenty-six years. He will now be relieved of is to be honoured at the Commencement of the some of his administrative duties and can deVOL.' University of Cincinnati in June with the honor­ more time to creative work in the fie ld of Phil­ ary Doccorate in Science. osophy. 1920 19()5 The Bulletin extends congratulations to Dr. R. S. The Bulletin extends sympathy to Rev. E. S. Longley, Dean of A,·ts and Sciences at ACJd,a . Mason, Wolfville, N.S., and the members of his on his nomination to a Fellowship in the Royai fa mily on the death of Mrs. Mason in April, Society of Canada. He is one of thirty-two new after a brief illness. Included in Mrs. Mason's Fellows who were installed at the annual ses­ family are Dr. Karl, Acadia '21, Rev . Dr. Merle, sions at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, '22, Marjorie (Mrs. Alvin Robertson) '26, Enid May 31.June 2. (Mrs. Eugene Davis) '3 5 and Eva (Mrs. M. W. A recent newspaper item tells of th e recogn ition Lohnes), an Ex. Dr. and Mrs. Mason had Miss Edna G. Peck, is gaining for herself in the been married a few months short of fifty·five years. United States as a book reviewer. M iss Pe<:k 1907 has b~en on the staff of the Boston Public Lib rary for twenty· five years, "nd for more than The Bulletin extends sympathy 10 Dr. H . G. fifteen years has served as Chief of the Book Stenderson, Excelsior, Minnesota, on the death of Selection Department. For two years she organ · his wife, late last year. ieed and presented over the Columbia Broadcast· 1911 ing System a program entitled "Meet the Author" . She has given book talks in both Canada and the Lewis Bain Boggs, Penticton, B.C., was ac· United States. claimed " Man of the Year' of this conununilY some time ago in a ceremony that is one of I he ,1922 annual highlights of this town of 9,000 inhabit­ The Firs t Baptist Church, Pawtucket, Rhode ants. Island, has marked the twenty.fifth anniversary of 1914 the pastorate of Re v. Egbert G. Prime, D .O ., with special services from April 23 to 25 . Mr. W. Clifford Fritz, Eng. '14 sends the following note regarding his activities: "Retired 1924 from Panama Canal Service Feb. 28, 1954. Came Mr. Curry M. Spidell '24 and Mrs. Spidell (nee to Canal Zone, Jan. 1936, as a civilian employee Beatrice Innis '23) are now living at Milan, Mich· of the U .S. Navy. Resigned U.S. navy employ. igan, where Mr. Spidell is engaged 011 the staff ment March 1937 to accept appointment with of a Federal Correceional Institution. Panama Canal Builrling Division; remained with P.C.B.D. until Jan. 1941 and tben transferred to 1927 the Engineering Division. My section of the Eng. Harold F. Archibald, after sixteen years of ser· Div. was later reorganized and renamed Con· vice at Keuka College, Keuka Park, N .Y., first as tracts and Inspection Division. Leaving Panama Professor of Math ematics, and for the lust eight late in March and will settle in R.I. unless Mrs. years as Business Manager, has resigned that posi . Fritz can be sold on permanet residence in what tion to accept an appointment as Manager of the must surely have been God's first creation-Nova Stetson University Law School, located recently a, Scotia". We have not yet heard whether Mrs. St. Petersburg, Florida . Fritz has been sold on this proposition, but we trust that she can be. Mr. Fritz also says they have 1928 two daughters, both graduates of Smith College, The Bul/,tin extends sympathy to Mrs. C. Gor· Northampton, Mass. Mrs. Fritz is a native of don MacOdrum (nee Frances Pariee, '28) on the Wales and was a member of Q.M.W .A.A.C. death of her husband, C. Gordon MacOdrum, during the First World War. Member of the Ontario Legislature for Leeds. Mr.

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MacOdrum was . 1 0 for a time a student at Acadia 1938 and late.r studied law at both Dalhousie and O s­ Frederick R. Woodward has removed from Lun­ goode H all. He hod been mayor of Brodcv ille enburg to Windsor, N .S. from 1939 to 1943, and was first elected to the Alfred Rogers has removed from Vancouver to Legislature in 1951. Besides his wife, Mr. Mar.­ Toronto. Odrum is survived by two sons and cwo brothers. 1940 M rs . Loring A. Spraker (Eleanor Kerr) waS Ru th E. Olleren.haw (nee Ruth Wetmme, recendy elecred Corresponding Secretary of the W olfville ) has removed from Toronto to P Ort Canadian Women's Club, Boston, for the year Credit, Ontario. 1954-55 . 1929 1941 Mrs. Harold Wedgewood (nee Marion Dixon), Commander Donald Padmore, R.C.N. and Mrs. Sourh Africa, visited her parents who reside in Padmor. (Hortense Gilliatt '41) and their two HollIston, Mass. The latter part of May, M rs . children, Mary and Richard, moved from Ottawa Wedgeweod joined her husbabnd in England and to \Xravedey, N.S ., in October 1953. Co;nmander planned to make an extended tour of H olland be­ Padmore is nOw Ofificer-in-Charge of H.M.C. fore returning to their home in South Africa. Gunnery School, H .M .C.S. Sradacona, Halifax, Their tWO daughters, Virginia and Patricia, are N .S. at a boarding school in Johannesburg. 1942 Guy Henson was awarded a Trave lling fellow­ Keirh Eaton, now with the Department of ship in Adult Education for six months earlier in J ustice, O ttawa, has just returned from England the year, and has been visiting Adult Education where he argued one of the last cases to be pre­ centres in American Universities and Scbools and sented to the Privy Council. in the field of Labour. The Builetin extends sympathy to M iss Daisy 1943 Winifred Smith on the death of her father, in M r_ and Mrs. Allison London (nee Jessie Me­ February. M e. Smith lived at Lockeport, N . S. W alker '43) are living in Wenford, Ontario, n A clipping from a New England n e wsp ape~ part of Metropolitan Toronto. Mrs. London is tells us that M is. Dorothy Wilson, Assistant Pro­ doing pub li c relations work for the Robert Simp­ fessor of Music at Bucknell University, Lewisburg, son Compa_ny Limited. Mr. and Mrs. London Penn., was one of seven composers represented on have a daughter, Janet, born in July 1953. the second of a pair of Bennington Composers' Conference concerts in N ew York early in March 1944 of this year. T he N ew Y ork Herald Tribune Mrs. Carol Fraser Armstrong, wife of the Rev_ commenting on her work said it sbowed ucep­ S. ]. Armstrong, reportS that after J une 15, abe tional craftsmanship. and her family will be living at Clemenupote. where her husband has taken over the duties of 1934 his new parish. Ralph V. Creighton, who was for some time 1946 Nsistant Manager of The Royal Banlc: of Can­ M iss Frances Smith is now living at Morris­ ada, Truro, N.s., has been appointed to a sim­ town, N.J., where she is employed a5 a secretary iln r posit.ion as First Assistant of the bank's branch in the Research Department at Sandos Pharma· at N as u, Bahamas Island, B.W.1. ceuticals in Hanover, N .]. For the second successive year, Hamilton Pitt of 129 Spencer Street, W insted, Conn., has been 1947 included among the winners of the awards from M iss Helen 1. Wilson has been appointed ~ ­ Freedom's Foundation at Valley Forge, Pa., for .istant Superisor of Home Economics for the his contributions to n better understanding of the O ttawa Public Schools and lives at 124 Fourth American way of life during 1953. M r. Pitt Avenue. submitted an essay of 1,500 worw entitled, "In 1948 Defence of Prudes", in wh ich "he stressed that the recognition of rhe dignity of man, truth and Mr. Ernest B. Lelacheur '48 and Mrs. Lela­ the im portance of character were what built the cheur {nee Ruth Levine '49} have moved to Chat­ American nation". ham, Ontario, where they live at 21 Sparica Drive. M r_ Lelacheur is local manager of Central Mort­ 1935 gage and Housing Corporation. Mary .Clark is Research Librarian .at the Un­ Mrs. Joan Regan Ex. '48 has moved from Char­ ivrtsity of Redlands, Redlands, California. lottetown, P.E.I. to Halifax, N .S. Malcolm J. Ferguson reports that he and his 1937 wife have purchased a new bungalow at 71 Zow:in Rev. Iver D. MacIver, who has been mInister Ave., D orval, P.Q_, and that they also have a of Queen's Road Presbyterian Church, St. John's, new daughter, Holly, born in December 1953. Newfoundla nd, for the paSt four years has ac­ The)' also have a daugbter, Heather. Me. Ferg­ cepted a call to St. Paul's Presbyterian Church, uson is with the Bell Telephone Company at 5250 SCOts town, Quebec. He was inducted as Minister Decarie Boulevard, Montreal. of his new congregation, April lO. Phillip Smith reports that he is a graduate

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student in Anthropology at Harvard University and has accepted a call to become Assistant Min­ and recently returned from field research work in ister at the First Baptist Church, Calgary, Albena, Mexico. While there he was a member of an with especial responsibility in giving leadership to archeological expedition into the Maya region, a new work in the Alwdore District of that city_ Yucatan, sponsored by the Carnegie Institution of Ronald Smith is employed with the Bell Tele­ Washington, D.C. phone Company at 5250 Decarie Blvd., Montreal. James P. Foster left the employ of Harvard 1949 College Observatory in December, where he had William S. Dexter reports that he was mar­ been for two years, as a solar observer at Sacr~­ ried in 1950 and now has two children, Susan mento Peak, New Mexico, and is now working and Christopher. He is teaching in the High for the Physics Department of Yale University in School, Bridgewater, N.S. Slonne Physics Laboratory. Rev. John A. Branscombe, formerly pastor of 1951 the First United Baptist Church, Dorchester, N.B. Norma A. Hatfield is nOW living in Lancaster, is living in Sudbury, Ontario, where he is pastor New Brcmswick . of the Calvary Baptist Church in that city. 1952 Arnett Dennis has removed from Montreal to Summit, New Jersey_ Carleton Nixon is at Snow Lake, Manitoba, for Marie Wall Coulter writes that she and her four months. In September he plans to enter husband have just moved to the city of Brockville Dalhousie University to complete the Master's in The Lake of the Thousand Isles District. Her degree during the next two years. husband is employed by the Phillips Electrical Margaret von Fricke is nOW living in Cleve· Company as Methods Engineer and she has taken land, Ohio, US.A. a position as dietitian at the Ontario hospital in Cottnam Smith, Chester, is nOw at Peterboro, Brockville. Ontario, where he has begun a two-year course of study with the Canadian Electrical Company. 1950 1953 Merville Vincent and Lee Stickles, both of the Miss Reta Langley has been appointed as 3 elnss of '50, have completed the fourth year of social worker On the staff of the Hants County Medicine at the Dalhousie Medical School and Children's Aid Society. have started their period of internship at the Saint John General Hospital. • • Jean Sholds has moved from Lunenburg to HORTON: Ottawa where she was employed with the Depart­ Orris L. Davidson , '37, is now Assistant Min­ ment of National Health and Welfare, and is now ister of the First Baptist Church, Kingston, Onto private secretary to The Hon Mr. Justice W. P. Mr. Davidson discontinued his studies foJlowing Pouer 'I Z of the Exchequer Court. graduation because of ill health and later after his Rev . Ray Salmon has ended his services with the recovery, pursued studies in Theology at Mac­ Baprist Church at Portage La Prairie, Maniroba Masrer University.

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