Maine Alumnus, Volume 49, Number 5, June 1968

The University of Maine DigitalCommons@UMaine University of Maine Alumni Magazines University of Maine Publications 6-1968 Maine Alumnus, Volume 49, Number 5, June 1968 General Alumni Association, University of Maine Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/alumni_magazines Part of the Higher Education Commons, and the History Commons Recommended Citation General Alumni Association, University of Maine, "Maine Alumnus, Volume 49, Number 5, June 1968" (1968). University of Maine Alumni Magazines. 284. https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/alumni_magazines/284 This publication is brought to you for free and open access by DigitalCommons@UMaine. It has been accepted for inclusion in University of Maine Alumni Magazines by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@UMaine. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Alumni Association Officers Carl A. Whitman ’35 President Kenneth F. Woodbury ’24 1st vice president Mary-Hale (Sutton ’38) Furman 2nd vice president James F. White ’30 Clerk Edward H. Piper ’43 Treasurer •• T. Russell Woolley ’41 Executive Director Mildred (Brown ’25) Schrumpf Philip O. McCarthy ’62 Assistant Directors Narrowing The Generation Gap Alumni Trustees Frank C. Brown ’30 Richard Talbot ’07 of Orono, seated Helen (Wormwood ’41) Pierce right, was one of better than 500 uni versity alumni back for commence ment-reunion But that’s not unusual because Dick, despite his years, makes Alumni Council it a point to keep pretty well up to Donald F. Collins ’49 date on campus developments. It’s a Raymond R. Couture ’51 rare day when he misses a Maine base Dwight B. DeMerritt ’19 ball or football game, for example. John R. Dyer ’41 On a sunny day beneath the shady elm Robert L. Fuller ’38 trees Dick, a senior university alum Oscar R. Hahnel, Jr. ’44 nus, talks to Constance Shaw of Ban Howe W. Hall ’14 Harold P. Hamilton ’30 gor and Bruce McLeod of Limestone, Ralph L. Hodgkins, Jr. ’59 two of the newest members of the Harold K. Lambert ’47 University of Maine’s alumni com Herbert A. Leonard ’39 munity. Harry R. Mayers ’30 Margaret (Mollison ’50) McIntosh Mrs. Margaret (Mahar ’59) Merritt Edith (Talbot ’32) Ness Mrs. Alice Ann (Donovan ’40) Poeppelmeier Volume 49, No. 5 Mrs. Priscilla (Thomas ’49) Rines Robert P. Schoppe ’38 Director’s Comer......................................4 Sports ...................................................... 21 Louise (Perkins ’46) Stebbins Mrs. Millie (Simpson ’62) Stewart Commencement........................................ 5 Dining Halls .......................................... 26 Carl R. Toothaker ’39 Class Reunions ........................................ 9 Vice President Humphrey ................28 Mrs. Fem (Allen ’34) Turbyne Martha (Wyman ’54) Weatherbee On Campus ............................................. 15 Local Associations .............................. 29 John B. Wlodowski ’64 Letters .......................................................17 Necrology ...............................................31 What’s Happening ...............................18 Class Notes .............................................33 University Board of Trustees Lawrence M. Cutler ’28 The Staff President / \ W. Gordon Robertson Editor: Dr. T. Russell Woolley ’41 Vice President Managing Editor: John S. Day ’63 Arthur H. Benoit Frank C. Brown ’30 Class Notes Editor: Mildred (Brown ’25) Schrumpf Ralph H. Cutting Robert N. Haskell ’25 Hubert H. Hauck 9 Lucia M. Cormier Photo Credits: Jack Loftus, Danny Maher, Carroll Hall, Al William T. Logan, Jr. Pelletier, Jack Walas, John Day, Hinckley Photo. Helen (Wormwood ’41) Pierce Owen H. Smith ’41 3 Let's Be Prepared Timely is the marriage made in June of the student body occurred almost and traditional also is Commencement. sixty years ago. He also reminded of The largest single commencement of the the gold-fish swallowing craze and the University was conducted on June 7 panty-raids. Today’s faddists have adop for the Class of 1968, and this event was ted the almost more sensible habit of followed by alumni activities that even inviting political opponents to the cam ing and on Alumni Day Saturday. Mem pus. one must regard them. The major differ bers of the Class of 1968, having elected Academic work is better done these ence between learning how to make a their alumni class officers also had their days, by better prepared students com living and on the other hand learning president represent them at the alumni peting, after passing restricted admission t “professionalism” is the understanding banquet; thus, the old hands were as standards, for a distinguishing mark. about how much all other human beings sured personally of new workmen in the Certainly there are still more facts to should be valued in our own lives. The effort to spread goodwill for the Univer be learned each year as the world pro college man or woman today is putting sity. The association of alumni was gen gresses, but the summary of those facts in this kind of knowledge very rapidly. erally reinforced by this regular infusion may be accomplished better by good Is it any wonder that he knows not scholars who have become good teachers. of young graduates. Many of the new where to stop? Beside the classroom standard of listen alumns are married, having begun their An activist on campus is one likely —read—and—write there is also the combined futures confidently while still to annoy, because he differs with the enrolled. Others not married until June technology of studying itself, comprised established policy or practice. The ex of rapid-reader training devices, the com were on their way to the church aisle treme activist may even be unbalanced almost directly from the showery day puter and the micro-film reference stor by an outside influence toward political exercises conducted in cap and gown but age. Indexes abound and the magnetic disruption and careless agitation (an out-of-doors on alumni field. Family tape recorder for sound and picture have evit which goes along with the better changes; studies for higher education; been added as feedback devices to the impulse to do good) such as Communist campus life and student politics; gradu older celluloid film motion recorder. influence to create disharmony anywhere ation from a four-year sequence of The social conscience is greater than in our society. If we are not unfair in courses; and marriage! Has our society it once was in almost every sentient our appraisal we will differentiate among changed its habits so very much? In being. This has been the slow learning the students who take part in demonstra some of the nicer ways it surely has not. of a century of labor, education and tions, and we may land the ones who One cannot help comparing. It is the racial equality reform not yet complete have truly an active interest in the wel essence of our process called education but coming to focus in hundreds of ways, fare of their society. There is one thing that comparisons be made, to point out most of those ways far more recent than certain about the demonstrator—that differences. For instance, in our day at twenty-five years. We’re teaching our while he is today’s activist, he is tomor the University we probably held no seri selves, but it is the students in classes row’s alumnus. Perhaps we can with ous confrontations with the administra who are really learning both the history stand that kind of agitation and demon tion by detaining any dean or vice-presi of and the attitude necessary to the true stration within the alumni body which dent as hostage for 24 hours; yet, there world of brotherly love. We’d like to may shake us up a bit. In any case, we was at Maine a general strike once of believe and we probably have that right can wonder if we are prepared for the the entire student body—as Emeritus to say that, it is the colleges of a nation confrontation. We should be. President Arthur Hauck recently re where social (human) values are best minded some senior alumni. That strike learned and also the reasons why every Russ Woolley The Maine Alumnus, published five times a year in September, November, January, April and June by the General Alunuii Association, 44 Fogler Library, University of Maine, Orono, Maine 04473. Editorial and business offices at 44 Fogler Library. T. Russell Woolley, editor; John S. Day, managing editor. The General Alumni Asso ciation, Carl A. Whitman, president, is an unincorporated association, classified as an educational and charitable organization as described in section 501C3 of the 1954 Internal Revenue Code. Total number of copies printed per year, 105,000. Average per issue, 21,000. Send changes of address to the business office six weeks prior to the next issue. Advertising rates on request. The Maine Alumnus is sent tp members and to other subscribers, subscription rate, $5.00 per annum. Member: American Alumni Council. Second class postage paid at Orono, Maine. 4 N a day darkened by rain clouds and the tragic as Osassination of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, 1123 members of the 100th freshman class to enter the University of Maine graduated Friday, June 7, in commencement exer cises held on the Orono campus. Lord Caradon, minister of state for foreign affairs and permanent United Kingdom representative to the United Nations, felt it was “a suitable day to denounce violence wherever it may be and all its forms and manifestations.” Speaking before more than 8,000 students, parents and guests, the English diplomat spoke out against hate and disorder in his commencement address. “There is a new dimension in the dangers of the world, dangers arising from poverty, population and race—all part of one problem.” “There is the danger that the gulf will grow with the poor and discontented and overcrowded, the colored people of the young nations, on one side, and the affluent, com placent, comfortable, the white people of the older nations, on the other.” “There is a further danger that we of the affluent nations will be so much obsessed with our own selfish concerns and our own comforts that we shall fail to see the danger in time, and so forfeit the respect and the leadership of the world,” Lord Caradon stated.

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