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The University of Maine DigitalCommons@UMaine University of Maine Alumni Magazines University of Maine Publications 6-1955 Maine Alumnus, Volume 36, Number 9, June 1955 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 36, Number 9, June 1955" (1955). University of Maine Alumni Magazines. 338. https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/alumni_magazines/338 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]. crease as had been granted the younger members of the staff. We wish to pay tribute to the loyalty of Alumni Trustee Report the staff members and their fine service to the University. Physical Plant ing Council for Professional Development. The new dormitory for men which has 3 OUND growth, the maintenance of high This reflects credit not only upon the College been under construction for over a year will academic standards, an attractive physical of Technology but also upon the University be ready for use next September. This build­ plant maintained in good condition and the generally. ing which will house 250 students has many largest legislative appropriation in the his­ Beginning January 1, 1955, members of attractive features that will make it the best tory of the University are some of the im­ the University academic and administrative of our men’s residence halls. It will cost portant yardsticks by which the continued staffs became eligible for Social Security. about $800,000. progress of the University may be measured. Through an unfortunate quirk in the law A generous gift by the University Store A summary of some of the events and de­ establishing Social Security the University Company made it possible to complete and velopments of the year now closing is pre­ and many other land grant institutions had equip the game room in Memorial Union sented in this report. not been eligible for the plan as colleges for billiards and table tennis. This room has generally were. The benefits of Social Se­ Registration been used practically to capacity since it was curity together with the University retire­ opened in February. There is urgent need The registration for the fall semester of ment plan which is being continued now for the facilities which will be provided 1954 was 3068, of whom 763 were women assure University employees at least reason­ when the unfinished parts of the building are and 2305 men. This is an increase of 107 able income upon retirement. University completed. over the preceding year. In addition there office and service employees were already Food processing is an important Maine were 1251 who were enrolled in Summer included in Social Security. industry. There has been a growing de­ Session, 2200 enrolled in general extension The larger appropriation by the State for mand for more research in this field. To courses and 800 in correspondence course the next biennium has made it possible to meet this demand it was necessary to make work. make modest salary increases, especially of a small addition to Holmes Hall (Agricul­ An enrollment of about 3200 is forecast those in the professorial grade who had not tural Experiment Station). This work which for next year. The number of applications previously been given the same rate of in­ (Continued on Page 5), for 1955-56 shows an increase of 25 per cent over this year. Many well qualified women applicants could not be admitted for lack of housing facilities. A cadem ic you Can Save There were no changes in major adminis­ trative positions during the year. Four new Your Alumni Association money by sending your alumni dues now before the department heads, all in the College of Agri­ annual request is mailed September 1. By doing so, you will not only be sharing culture, were appointed as follows: Botany —Dr. G e ddes Simpson, succeeding Dr. F. H. in the Association’s program of “promoting the welfare of the University” but Steinmetz, retired; Entomology—Dr. Jesse you will also assure yourself of receiving The Maine Alumnus during the coming Livingstone, succeeding Dr. F. H. Lathrop, year. retired; Agricultural Engineering—Prof. By­ Beginning with the first issue of The Alumnus you can be sure of: ron Bondurant, succeeding Prof. Frank , resigned; Food Technology—Dr. • Publication on the first of each month Matthew E. Highlands. • Top-flight sports and campus news coverage The departments in the College of Tech­ • Increased photo coverage nology were re-accredited by the Engineer- • Sketches of outstanding alumni careers • Late news of the faculty • Local Association Meeting reports and calendar COVER • Class Personals Davy Crockett received a degree • An interesting, informative alumni magazine that will keep you “in at the University’s 104th Com­ touch” with what’s new at the University and with your classmates mencement. He was photographed as he honed up for final exams on and friends. the front steps of the Library with his trusty rifle handy. This isn’t the famed Indian fighter, of course. Here’s my check for my alumni dues for 1955-56 which include a subscriptior He is David E. Crockett III of Cam­ to The Maine Alumnus. Annual dues $5 (husband and wife $6). Sustaining den, Maine, and no relation to his dues $15. storied namesake. He took his de­ gree in history and government Name- ............ ......... .. ...... .. Class and, not unlike the original Davy, will leave his wife and child behind in a few weeks to serve his country Address a spell with the U. S. A rm y. Published monthly from October to June inclusive, by the University of Maine General Alumni Association B usiness office, T he M aine A lum nus of Maine. Orono, Maine. Subscription price, $3.00 per year, included in annual alum ni dues of $ 5 . 0 0 University class mailer at the Post Office at Orono, Maine, under act of March 3, 1870 Member. American Alumni Council. Entered as second- - ' r I FOUR hundred and eight University sen­ iors, the smallest class since 1947, received their degrees at the 104th Commencement, June 12. The University also awarded 47 104th Commencement advanced degrees and eight honorary de­ grees to distinguished leaders in various fields. Citing the hazards facing democratic self the past without being able to change one Recipients of the honorary degrees were government in the world today, Deputy Sec­ iota of its record; we are condemned to the Chester G. Abbott, Portland, prominent retary of Defense Robert B. Anderson, present by what has been done in the past. Maine banker, Doctor of Laws; Robert B. commencement speaker, told the graduates It is only the future which we have the Anderson, Washington, D. C., Deputy Secre­ that not the least of those hazards are those power to influence, and to which we have tary of Defense, Doctor of Laws; Elizabeth individuals “who supinely surrender their any chance of making our own contribution. Coatsworth Beston, Nobleboro, noted Maine capacity for independent thought and who “There is abundant evidence to suggest author, Doctor of Letters; W. Linwood become intellectual parasites. The success that if we go about it properly, we can Chase, Boston ’20, Boston, Dean of Boston of any democracy has always depended produce a very bright future indeed. If we grant mankind only the wisdom to avoid University’s School of Education, Doctor of upon the capacity of a sufficient number of self-destruction, the possibilities for the Laws; Rear Admiral Edward Ellsberg, its people to think and act as independent beings.” future of our country are breathtaking in Southwest Harbor, USNR retired, noted sal­ Assuring the graduates that the United their import.” vage officer and author, Doctor of Humane \ States has every need for adequate defense Letters; Clifford G. McIntire ’30, Perham, Baccalaureate Address Congressman for the Third Maine District, in case of trouble in today’s world, Secretary Doctor of Laws; John R. Newell, Bath, Anderson warned that the world also has Dr. James W. Lenhart, minister of the president of the Bath Iron Works Corpora­ need for constructive work as well and State Street Congregational Church of Port­ tion, Doctor of Laws; Russell I. Thackrey, cited the importance of the college and uni­ land, was the baccalaureate speaker. He Washington, D. C., executive secretary of versity graduate in that field. based his address on a quotation from Henry the Association of Land Grant Colleges and “The relationships of past and present are Thoreau, “If a man does not keep step Universities, Doctor of Laws. largely fixed for us,” he said. “We inherit with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.” “The crucial question,” he continued, “is are we being transformed by the renewing of our minds, or are we conforming to this Alumni Watch Award Winners world and all its ways?” Warning the seniors against being strict Voted by the students to conformists and urging them to use to the “have done the most for the utmost their powers to make decisions need­ University during their college ed in the world today, Dr. Lenhart pointed careers,” Cynthia Nelson, Port­ out that “society is in need of the power of land, and Llewellyn Clark, decisive ethical and moral choices. Westbrook, were awarded the “And, if you’re not in step with the mass Portland Alumnae Memorial mind, perchance it’s because you’ve been Watch and the Washington listening to a different drummer.” (D.

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