Ursinus College Alumni Journal, Winter 1949
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Ursinus College Digital Commons @ Ursinus College Ursinus College Alumni Journal, 1937-1969 Ursinusiana Collection Winter 1949 Ursinus College Alumni Journal, Winter 1949 Thomas P. Glassmoyer Alexander E. Lipkin Muriel B. Pancoast Vernon D. Groff Elizabeth Ballinger Grove See next page for additional authors Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/alumnijournal Part of the Higher Education Commons, Social History Commons, and the United States History Commons Click here to let us know how access to this document benefits ou.y Authors Thomas P. Glassmoyer, Alexander E. Lipkin, Muriel B. Pancoast, Vernon D. Groff, Elizabeth Ballinger Grove, and Norman E. McClure .. .. -,- 1 Ursilltls eollege IStillefill ALUMNI JOURNAL Winter 1949 I Vol. XLVI The Ursinus College Bulletin No.5 Published Bi-monthly by Ursinus College, Collegeville, Pa. Entered mt the Post Office at Collegeville, Pa., as Second Class Mail Matter, under the Act of Aug. 24, 1912. URSINUS COLLEGE BULLETIN ALUMNI JOURNAL-WINTER, 1949 (,.,..~-lt'-:' EDITOH-Thomas P. Glassmoyer '36 Editorial Committee A lexander E. Lipkin '37 Vernon D. Groff '38 Muriel B. Pancoast '38 E li zabeth Ballinger Grove '38 Memorial Fund Drive Progressing Delaware County Needs Local President i\ [CClure, in his report to the alumni in this Alumni Society issue, states that to date less than 10% of the alumni soli cited It has come to our attention that Delaware County, a have responded (0 the initial appeal for contributions to section which stands high in the percentage of students sent the Alumni Alemorial Scholarship Fund. W'hile this first to U rsinus, and thus, presumably, with a great many alumni report by no means affords a basis for prognostication as to among its residents, has no organized regional alumni society. the ultimate success or failure of the drive, we believe it docs From the number of potential mernbers who have commented pointedly emphasize the need for in creased efforts on the on this situation, it appears that the interest is high, but only part of all of us who look for attainment of the $ 100,000 the organization is lacking. goal. Expanding the prese nt solicitation methods to include To those alumni who fall in this Delaware County group direct contact :tnd personal interview should not be delayed. and who are thinking about the desirability of a local organ The appointment of class chairmen, with a view to the organ ization, we suggest that you get in touch with the officers ization of class tcams, is a step in the right direction. of the Alumni Association, who will be happy to speed a new To raise $100,000 over a three-year period from an alumni local on its merry way by giving any needed assistance with body of approxirnately 2500 persons is certainly not an overly lists and know-how. ambitious goal. A recent survey of the results of Amherst We hope that there will be more news of this project in College's $1,000,000 endowment campaign, just concluded, reveals that its alumni, with 60 f/r, contributing an average the very neaf future. of $210, succeeded in surpassing that figure within a two year period. I n li ght of those statistics, our aims are extremely modest. U rsinus has been hampered since its founding by an inade Acknowledgment quate endowment, which today amounts to only $795,000. Thl:! staff, in its tussle with a first issue under new The Treasurer of the College, in his latest report, lists the editorship, has received invaluable assistance from inadequacy of its endowment funds as one of the College's the following non-members to whom we are deeply major financial problems. The Alumni Memorial Scholarship grateful: DOllald L. Hellferich, '21; Calvill D. Fund in addit 'on to commemorating our war dead, will be YO.ft, '30; C. Sieber Pall coast, '37; and Frallces a sub~tantial fa~tor in reducing this deficiency. It is a worthy Thierol! Classmoyer, '40. project and deser ves your whole-hearted support. Give now and give generously! To the Alumni: On November 5, the Reverend C. Eugene Blum, '27, President of the Alumni Association, and Mrs. Elizabeth Ballinger Grove, '38, Secretary of the Alumni Association, addressed a letter to all alumni. The following excerpts are of especial interest: "The Executive Committee, authorized by the Alumni Association to decide upon an appro priate memorial to those who gave their lives in vVorld War II, voted on July 24 to raise $100,000 to establish The Alumlli 1IIJemoriai Scholarship FUlld. The fund will be a permanent fund, and the income will be used to provide scholarship grants. "We decided that we could provide this memorial within a short time, and that it would be unwise to undertake a much more ambitious enterprise that would require our combined efforts over a period of years." This important decision has the enthusiastic approval of the Board of Directors of U rsinus College. Many other colleges and universities have chosen this type of memorial. It is appropriate; it supplies a real need; and the goal is attainable. It give, each of us, whatever his chief interest at U rsil.us, an opportunity to record his sense of obligation to those U rsinus men who made the final sacrifice in the second World War. It gives each of us also an opportunity to help Ursinus College, and to help the students who will attend U rsinus College in the future. The Committee plans to complete the work in three years. The alumni are invited to make an "averageH contribution of sixty dollars, payable, if the donor wishes, in three annual instal1ments. Some alumni will choose to give one-half or one-quarter the "average" amount; other alumni will give many times the average amount, as a few have already done. Less than ten percent of the alumni responded to the first invitation (November 5) to contribute to The Alumlli Memorial Scholarship FUlld, but their contributions and "pledges" are slightly more than ten percent of the desired total. The Executive Committee is now planning an organization in each class to urge every alumnus to make a contribution. Whether your gift is to be $600 or $60 or less, to send it now or to send one third of it now will save the Committee both trouble and expense. Your envelope should be addressed to The Alumlli Memorial Scholarship FUlld, Ursinus College, and your check should be made payable to Ursill/ls College. This undertaking deserves our whole-hearted cooperation. It is in harmony with the long-term plans of the Board of Directors, and the attainment of th is goal will hasten the day when we can supply other needs, especially the erection of residence halls for women. I most earnestly hope that all alumni will help and will help promptly. A gift today-even a small one-will help more than a larger gift some time in the indefinite future. With this earnest appeal for your cooperation in a worthy cause go to all alumni my best wishes for the year 1949. N. E. MCCLURE. January 3, 1949 tn ALL.Ai\IERICAN Three Grads Play Hockey on Bunny Vosters Ranks 14th in All.Philadelphia Team U. S. Women's Singles T'hrcc former U rsinus hockcyitcs were 11J(u/ge 11m-shaw Voslers~ 'i-O, retained included on the A II-Philadelphia wom her place among the nation's top-flight en's hockey first tcam, which participated women's tennis players when she was in the three-day Middle Atlantic tour listed I+th in the 19-18 national wom nament, held at Swarthmore College, en's singles rankings issued December last November. The three named were 19, 19+5, by the United States Lawn II itt/a lintierson, '+8, center forward; 'rennis Association. llJatige JJars//{/w r' OSiers, '+0, right half In the U . S. championship tourna back; and Belly Brar/waj! Baird, '+5, ment held at Forest Hills, Long Island, right fullback. Jalle ,lIelVil/iallls, '+9, last August, Hrs. Vosters reached the captain of the 19+8 College team and quarter-final round. Previously, she had president of the \ VAA, also appeared in placed second in the Middle State, the tournament as a member of the AII \Vomen's Singles Tournament. College first team. 'rhe tournament consisted of a series of 16 contests among sectional teams King Heiges Leads Heidelberg from Pennsylvania, New Jersey and 11 to Championship Delaware, and two college ail-star teams. From the contestants, four l\liddle At A sports article published in the York lantic teams were chosen to compete in Gazelle alld Daily several weeks ago re the national tourney held at vVinnetka, vealed that H. King Heiges, '37, coached HILDA ANDERSON, '+8 Illinois, over the Thanksgiving week the Heidelberg High School football end. team to the European Command cham pionship of the American Occupation Hilda Anderson Makes All. Zone in Germany. The league consisted America Hockey Team Ursimts Alumnae Hockeyites of high schools for dependents of mili Tie for Championship tary and civilian personnel in the oc lIiltfa Anderson, '+8, won national cupied zones of Germany and Austria, recognition in the sports world in her The U rsinus College Alumnae team and included, in addition to H eidelberg, first year in big-time hockey when she tied for the championship of the \Nom Nurnberg, Frankfurt, i\Iunich and was named center-forward on the 19+8 en's Philadelphia Field H ockey Asso Vienna. Coach Heiges' team went All-America women's hockey team at ciation league, \\lith a record of seven through the regular season of six games the close of the National intersectional victories and one loss for the season.