The Pacific Alumni July 1928

University of the Pacific Scholarly Commons Pacific Review University of the Pacific ubP lications 7-1-1928 The aP cific Alumni July 1928 Pacific Alumni Association Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/pacific-review Part of the Higher Education Commons Recommended Citation Pacific Alumni Association, "The aP cific Alumni July 1928" (1928). Pacific Review. 43. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/pacific-review/43 This Newsletter is brought to you for free and open access by the University of the Pacific ubP lications at Scholarly Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Pacific Review by an authorized administrator of Scholarly Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. fhe Pacific Alumni VOL. Ill COLLEGE OF THE PACIFIC, STOCKTON, CALIFORNIA, JULY, 1929 No. 6 NEW SECRETARY Dr. Roy W. Kelly, '11 Pacific Meets First Requirement Elected President For Rockefeller $250,000 Pledge of Association GIFTS OF $25,000 AND $35,000 Dr. Roy Willmarth Kelly, '11, was Pacific Awards elected president of the Pacific Alumni FOR MEMORIALS HELP Association at the Alumni Day ban SWELL TOTAL quet Saturday, June 8. Other officers 123 Degrees at include Mrs. Edith MacKerricher Tib- betts, '05, vice-president; Miss Berniece Money sufficient to meet all debts 72nd Graduation Fiola, '28, secretary-treasurer, and Miss and obligations was in the bank on Lorraine Knoles, '21, Mr. Harold A. July third, according to an announce Noble, '16, Mr. James Corson, '27, ment made by Dr. John L. Burcham, and Mr. N. M. Parsons, '02. vice-president of the College and gen One hundred and twenty-three de Dr. Kelly received his M. A. and eral chairman of the recent campaign. grees were awarded at the Seventy- Ph. D. from Harvard and has held The first requirement for obtaining the second annual Commencement of the positions as an industrial engineer with General Education Board's gift of College of the Pacific, held on Monday, the Associated Oil Company, the $250,000 has thus been met by the June tenth, in the college auditorium. Southern Pacific Company, and with College. Of these, ninety-five were Bachelor of the Crown-Willamette Paper Com The second requirement—$500,000 Arts degrees, fifteen were Bachelor of pany, with which he is now connected. additional endowment—has been par Music, eleven were Master of Arts, Mrs. Tibbetts is a conservatory tially met, and an extension of time one was Master of Music, and one was graduate and resides in Berkeley. She has been granted by the Board to finish the honorary degree, Doctor of Laws, is greatly interested in Camp Fire this project. When complete, the Col awarded to Robert Eccles Swain, Act work, and in work among foreign stu lege will have an endowment of one ing-President of Stanford University. dents at the University of California. She has traveled extensively, and has million dollars. The spo.ker of the occasion was High lights of the campaign were Bishop Charles Wesley Burns, of the held many executive positions. Miss Fiola is a resident of Stockton the gifts of Thomas F. Baxter, chair San Francisco Area, who dwelt on the and a graduate with the class of 1928. man of the Board of Trustees, Mr. and need for cultural institutions as op BERNIECE FIOLA, '28 While in school, she was editor of the Mrs. W. C. Anderson of Los Gatos, posed to those that deal exclusively who has been elected Secretary-Treas- Pacific Weekly and a member of the and Mrs. Benjamin Holt of Stockton. with vocational subjects. urere of the Alumni Association. All College Honor Society. She has Mr. Anderson and Mrs. Holt are also Features of the affair were the done extensive secretarial work and members of the Board of Trustees. awarding of degrees to Gordon Knoles, brings to the office a great deal of son of President Knoles, and to Edgar Baxter Field experience in the type of work the Jacobs, the son of a classmate of Pres Spanish School, position demands. Baxter's gift was for twenty-five ident Knoles. Miss Alma Williams, thousand dollars, which is in addition '22, was awarded the first Master of Visitors, Feature Amendment Adopted to his gift of the airplane and hanger. Music degree earned in course. Besides the election of officers, the By an agreement with the administra Previous to the graduation exercise, following amendment to the Constitu tion, this money will be used for pay the functions of the week had been the Summer Session tion was adopted: ing the expenses incurred by the build recital of the senior music students "The annual dues shall be two dol ing of the stadium, and the bowl will with the orchestra, on Friday night, lars and fifty cents for each calendar be named Baxter Field at an appro Alumni Day and the President's recep Close to two hundred and twenty- year, which shall include a subscription priate service on Homecoming Day tion on Saturday, and the Baccalaur five have completed registration for to the Alumni magazine, provided that next fall. eate Sermon on Sunday. The atten Pacific Summer Session, according to in a household where there is already The Anderson gift was for thirty- dance at all these functions exceeded C. E. Corbin, Registrar. This exceeds one full membership, additional mem five thousand dollars, and will go to the attendance of preceding years, and by almost fifty the total registration of berships, not including a subscription ward paying for the Social Hall. This indicated the interest which the Com last year, and the probability is that to the Alumni magazine shall be one building will be renamed as a memorial mencement season arouses among the this year's registration will climb still dollar and fifty cents for each calendar to the donors. friends and Alumni of the College. higher. year." Mrs. Holt's gift was for twenty-five The feature of this year's session it thousand dollars, but the purposes for the Spanish School under the direction which it will be used has not as yet of Dr. Abel Alarcon. This group has Pacific Graduate to Direct been decided. George Burcham Accepts taken over the Epsilon house, where New Albanian University Board Receives Credit they eat and hold classes together. All Evanston Church Position conversation is carried on in Spanish, To the Board of Trustees goes the and all activity carries a Spanish at Elliott Taylor, '28, who has been greatest credit for putting over the George Burcham, '25, has just been mosphere. assisting Dr. Samuel W. Irwin at the difficult task. Inspired by their Chair appointed director of religious educa Teachers in service and students at Collegio Internazionale Monte Mario man, Mr. Baxter, they gave liberally, tion at First Methodist Church, Evans- tempting to make up regeular semester of Rome this year, has now been given and encouraged others to do so, also. ton, Illinois. In June of this year deficiencies compose the greater part the position of director of a new school Close to. one hundred and fifty thou George received his S. T. B. degree at of the student body. Courses in Edu to be established in Albania. sand dollars was raised from this the Garrett Biblical Institute at North cation are among the most popular. He will leave Rome almost imme group. western University. A number of outstanding lecturers diately to supervise developments in In spite of adverse conditions, the Albania. The new school, to be known church and Alumni groups came Dr. Ernest S. Tittle is the pastor of will be present at different times dur this church, which is the largest in ing the session and speak to the Sum as the American-Albanian University, through quite well, although not up to will be established on 380 acres of land expectations. The feeling among the Evanston, the one attended by the stu mer School as a whole and to particular dents at Northwestern LTniversity. The classes. Included in this group are given to Dr. Irwin by King Zogu of staff, however, is that there has never Albania for the foundation of an Amer been a period in the history of the work of the student group at this Dr. Lincoln Wirt of the National church is quite outstanding, the Sun Council for the Prevention of War, ican university. school when Pacific has been held in Besides admitting young_ men and as high esteem by the citizens of day evening services being eliminated, Mr. Vierling Kiersey, State Superih- and the evening period is under the tendant of Public Instruction, Dr. Leo women for classical instruction, it will Northern California as at the present train Albanian teachers in American time. Poor conditions and not lack of direction of the students. nard W. Mayo, Dean of the National Training School for Institution Execu methods of instruction. The univer friendship was felt to be the cause of George is spending the summer with sity will be supported partly by Ameri the only fair showing of these two his parents in Stockton and will leave tives, and Mrs. Anna L. Saylor, Chief of the State Social Welfare Commis- can church interests and partly by the groups. the latter part of August to take up Albanian government. (Continued on page 4) his duties in this new capacity. THE PACIFIC ALUMNI July, 1929 — 1+ THE PACIFIC ALUMNI Engagements Deaths Published six times during the college year in the months of September i October, November, February, May and July, by the College of the Pacihc +— * Alumni Association. Subscription price one dollar a year. Miss Gladys Rourk, '29, TKK, and Friends of Miss Grace Carter, sec Mr.

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