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"Mainrok" Building, Chemical and Agricultural Limes The Colby Alumnus Of course we were all delighted with FOUNDED 191 I the Bowdoin and Maine games. May I 11 say to you and McCoy that the football news letters are one of the most inter­ Volume 30 January I 5, 1941 Number 3 esting and one of the best ideas of its kind the College has developed. Leonard W. Mayo, '22. CONTENTS I I note that you have been receiving letters of appreciation on the accounts The President's Page ········································· 2 of the games that Coach McCoy is writing.

The Talk of the College ······································· 3 I would like to add my two cents worth and say how much I appreciate this in­ To Work or Not to Work? 5 formation. Here in New York we get very meager accounts of the games from Born to Social Work 9 the New York newspapers, naturally, and Notable New Books by Colby Authors ...... 12 these letters help keep us in touch. The College is indeed fortunate to have such The Number Two Official of Maine ...... Bernard E. Esters, '21 13 a splendid man as Coach McCoy in charge of football, win or lose. With the Local Colby Clubs ...... 15 Lawrence R. Bowler, '13. Necrology ···················································· 17 Wilbur C. Whelden, '90 The football issues alone were worth $2.00. Be sure we get more of them next Charles Hovey Dodge, '92 year. Clio M. Chilcott, '95 C. S. Parker, '26. Arthur W. Cleaves, '98 M. Wilma Stubbs, '00 The weekly series of descriptions of Carl H. Witherell, '01 Colby football by Al McCoy is certainly a John C. Lindsay, '06 scoop. I am sure that every alumnus who has had any interest in football has relished Elvira Caroline Hall, '19 these letters with great interest. Claire Kyle Johnson, '30 Bi£rr F. Jo11es, '07. Class Notes About Colby Men and Women ...... 20 I have enjoyed THE ALUMNUS a great In Service 21 deal. Please do not allow my subscrip­ tion to lapse at any time as it is the best M ilestones 24 reading I receive. Coach McCoy's letters are tops and he is to be congratulated for his efforts. EDITOR OLIVER L. HALL, '93 Carl R. MacPherson, '26. ASSISTANT EDITOR JOSEPH COBURN SMITH, '24 BUSINESS MANAGER G. CECIL GODDARD, '29 Through the medium of the informed EDITORIAL BOARD letters that Coach McCoy has been writ­ ing, I have been able to follow the Colby Term Expires in 19U Term Expires in 1942 Term Expires in 1943 team, whether I was in New York or in Arthur R. Austin, '33 Alfred K. Chapman, '25 Sally M. Aldrich, '39 Bernard E. Esters, '21 Myrta Little Davies, '08 Frederick E. Daker, '2i Panama. My deepest appreciation for Clarence L. Judkins, '81 Nellie Pottle Hankins, '25 H. Warrell Foss, '06 this great service to those Colby alumni Catherine C. Laughton, '36 Caleb A. Lewis, '03 R. Irvine Gammon, '37 who have not been able to be present at Harold F. Lemoine, '32 Raymond Spinney, '21 Emily Hanson Obear, '14 these games. F. Stevens, '89 Harold M. Plotkin, '34 Hazel Cole Shupp, '11 Edward Pvt. Gabriel D11mont, '40. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Those football letters of Coach McCoy Alfred K. Chapman, '25 Oliver L. Hall, '93 Ervena Goodale Smith, '24 were "great stuff" - they alone were G. Cecil Goddard, '29 Caleb A. Lewis, '03 Joseph Coburn Smith, '24 worth the price of THE ALUMNUS. Way1ie W. McNally, '21. PUBLISHER -The Alumni Council of Colby College. Entered as second-class mail matter Jan. 25, 1912, at the Post Office at Waterville, Me., under Act of March 3, The 1879. new football issue was fine. Send it next year. ISSUED eight times yearly on the 15th of October, November, January, FPbruary, Kenneth R. Copp, '27. March, April, May and July; and in addition, weekly during the football season.

pe year. Single Copies, $.25. Correspondence SUBSCRIPTION PRICE - $2.00 r My two children have been following regarding subscriptions or aJvertising shoulJ be addressed to G. Cecil Goddard, Box the football report with great eagerness. 477, Waterville, Me. Contributions should be sent to The Editor, Box 477, Waterville, The weekly accounts certainly make Maine Maine. and California seem much clo er. Three cheers for the 1940 squad and their coach. Merle E. Hamilton, '21. 2 THE COLBY ALUMNUS

.\fter eleven years. the Pre ident'_ Christ­ " One cannot help thinking back to the ma Letter eemed to the writer to have time in mid-depression when Colby authori­ become a bit stereotyped. I hope our ties ventured to tart upon thi great proj­ alumni found my recent report to the Trus­ ect, so important to the cause of �Iaine tees interesting reading, even though it education. Far too many people thought lacked the more personal tone which I have it too ambitious; although admitting the tried to inject into my annual letter. nece sity for a change from the outgrown The holiday season was made a happy and inadequate present Campu , they felt one for all of us by the announcement of a the time to be unpropitiou . It certain!) generou contribution to our building funds wa unpropitious; but vi ion and enthusi­ by an anonymous friend, about whom I asm and courage \Yere not to be denied; can only say that he had not previously and Io and behold here is the new Colby been connected with the College, but whom so nearly a fact that one may gue with \Ye now_ welcome a a member of the Colby some accuracy as to the time when it will family. be in operation.

An editorial in the Portland Press Herald " Colby men and women are to be con­ reveals the attitude of the pre s of Maine gratulated for their ju tified faith in them­ and even of a wider area toward the Col­ selves, in their friends and in the future. lege. And this attitude extend to an ever­ But more than the men and women of increasing number of people outside the Colby are to be congratulated; the whole Colby circle, who by their generou words tate of Maine i to be congratulated upon the loyalty that has made the new college and voluntary gifts are assisting in the possible. It has been a Chri tma season completion of our great undertaking. Here the editorial: of note in Maine; big project after big project has been announced to. give our "Announcement that some anonymou economic future a greater mea ure of cer­ Santa Clau has made a present of $100,000 tainty. But no Chri tma present i likely to the New Colby fund is about the best to pay bigger dividends as the decade roll news to come out of \i\Taterville since the on than the one which Pre ident Johnson project first was launched. Pre ident John­ has just had the p'.easure of announcing. son say that the change from old Campus Sometime the State will be able to learn the to new will not be made until eight build­ identity of the donor and to give him the ing are available on Mayflower Hill, and meed of prai e properly owing to one who that six of the requisite eight building are has pu hed a great enterprise of faith and complete except for interior finish and confidence o much nearer to completion." equipment. \i\Tell, this Chri tma pre ent ought to provide an excellent start upon a seventh building, leaving only one more to q� be erected before the College move . #

THE TALK OF THE COLLEGE RAFT - Disquieting rumors College. Tha decades come and go, All-America " team. Small wonder, D throughout the last months the Flying Yankee supplants the then, that Helin is the choice of his that President Johnson's term of Sloop Hero, young men wrestle with teammates for the captaincy of foot­ office was to end next June may now Physical Chemistry instead of Greek, ball for next season. The alumni be dissipated. The Trustees, so we the faculty numbers fifty-four instead present at the Football Banquet were are told, have insisted that, contract of two, the student body has multi­ amazed when this taciturn Finn re­ or no contract, the President shall plied from seventeen to seven hun­ sponded to the applause greeting his remain on the job. This will be good dred - but the head of the college election with a speech which was as news to all who contemplated with a still is concerned about building well turned out as any of the evening. sinking feeling any change in the ad­ problems, for which money, which They should not have been surprised, ministration. We can imagine, how­ still " answers all things,'' is still however, for that quality of thorough ever, that he himself acquiesced wit " the grand consideration, " and he workmanship is Helin's outstanding mixed emotions. All who know how still finds that "in this part of the characteristic. You have watched his he and Mrs. Johnson have been look­ country it is very difficult to obtain business-like actions on the field - ing forward to the time when they much of it." Hands across 120 years: dumping the interference, going would be free to enjoy the woods and President Johnson, meet President down under punts, receiving passes gardens of their home on the St. Chaplin! over his shoulder, always at the right Croix River and to build their spot at the right instant, tireless and " dream home " on the edge of the APTAIN - When the picture of dependable. Now he is going to new campus, can realize that a post­ C Eero Helin in the last issue was work on the business of being captain ponement of the date of retirement captioned "No Better End in Maine, " and we can rest assured that next could not be accepted without a tug. it represented merely our own opin­ fall will prove that he can master Yet, the prospect of leaving the May­ ion. We pause to point out, however, that assignment just as well as any flower Hill projt:)ct in an unfinished that since going to press that state­ other. state must have been an even more ment has had ample corroboration. upsetting thought. At any rate, the Specifically, the coaches and scouts ICTORIES - Looking back over word is out that "Prex " has ac­ of all three opposing colleges were V 1940 it seems safe to call it the cepted the call to remain in harness unanimous in naming him "All­ greatest year in the history of Colby and we wish for him an early fulfill­ Maine," (the other end on the All­ athletics. In hockey, basketball, ment of his goal, so that he may Maine team receiving only a ma­ baseball, tennis and football - five move into the President's office in jority vote). He was also named sports - no Maine college stood the Miller Library and enjoy, for one "All-New England " b y one radio above Colby in the final standings, year at least, the administration of a sports commentator, and received although the title had to be shared college in a functionally - planned honorable mention for the " Little in two instances. The potentialities campus. for 1941 are just as good, if not bet­ ter. Whether you cover Colby sports ROTHERS - From a letter as a spectator or newspaper reader, it B penned by a president of this has been a pleasure to follow the college w recently came across the well-coached Blue and Gray teams following paragraph: William 0. Stevens, '98, upon around the sports calendar. The masons are going on with the publication of his twenty­ the College Building, - have com­ second book, " Pistols at Ten NSWER - People not connected pleted a greater part of the first Paces." A story. But money, which answers with the college frequently ask all things, is the grand considera­ James H. Hudson, '00, upon his us: What is the secret of the steady tion. In this part of the country, reappointment to the Supreme progress and advancement of Colby, it is very difficult to obtain much Court of Maine for a seven year despite all handicaps of business con­ of it. People are greatly distressed on account of their debts. I was term. ditions and whatnot? It is a ques­ told yesterday that there were not Angier L. Goodwin, '02, upon tion which can be answered in more less than 500 debtors in Augusta his election to the Presidency of than one way. One answer, however, jail! You can easily conjecture the Massachusetts Senate. how hard a thing it must be to get was borne in upon us a few weeks money where so many of the people Nathaniel Tompkins, '03, upon ago as we watched the trustees are so much embarrassed. his election to the Presidency of assemble for their November meet­ Except for that one sentence about the Maine Senate. ing. Now, there is not much reason the Augusta jail, this letter might Carl R. Smith, '12, upon his ap­ for a busy, hard-pressed man or have been written by President John­ pointment as Commissioner of woman to attend a college trustee son at any time within the last three Agriculture for the State of Maine. meeting except a sense of devotion years. As a matter of fact, it was Ruth C. Holbrook, '19, upon the to the aims which the college is try­ written on June 12, 1821, by Jeremiah publication of her book, " Katie's ing to achieve. And yet twenty-one Chaplin and refers, of course, to the Quilt." out of the twenty-eight members took struggle for the erection of South time off to be pTesent in Waterville 4 THE COLBY ALUMNUS

to consider and pass judgment upon and then hastily correcting himself. Colby problems. Furthermore, nine Afterwards, Judge L. B. Sanborn of of these came from various points Portland came up to Tompkins with beyond the borders of the State and this sage advice: "Always remem­ a little calculation shows that their ber, Than, that there are no gentle­ attendance involved a total travel of men in the Senate! " I 7,000 miles. Add to that the ex­ penses of two nights in Pullmans or TATE -The inaugural addres hotels, not to mention the personal S of Governor Sumner Sewall cost involved in spending a day or contained the following sentence : more away from their offices, and you Amendment of the personnel law get an index of the seriousness and so as to attract i11to State service importance in which Colby trustees each year a limited number of the hold their trust. Those who live graduating classes of our Maine closer are, of course, no less ready to colleges might ·well deserve y01ir make sacrifices for duty and, as a study. matter of fact, some of these local We heartily agree. For years Prof. members donate, in terms of service Warren, director of the placement on committees month after month, work at Colby, has been pointing out the equivalent of a transcontinental that Maine business and industry Governor Saltonstall Takes Oath trip or two. All of this is merely one have been allowing out-of-state con­ way of pointing out that Colby Col­ cems to come in and skim the cream lege has a conscientious, as well as respectively. We wonder if this has off of the annual crop of Maine col­ able board of trustees, and in this ever happened before, or ever will lege graduates. The talent and abil­ fact lies one answer to the secret of again. ity are here, otherwise the insurance our gratifying record of development. companies, General Electric, Fire­ stone, chain stores and so on would AFE - The friends of Gabriel La­ B LOC - It was quite a Colby not send their representatives to our S picque, the French Exchange alumni reunion at the State campuses. Furthermore, many of the student at Colby in 1938-39, and the House when the Legislature convened young men would prefer to find their readers of this magazine who read on New Year's Day. We were proud livelihood in Maine, but the jobs that his affecting letter from the Maginot to see Nathaniel Tompkins, '03, wield­ open up for those of superior busi­ Line a year ago, will be thankful to ing the Senate gavel, while just be­ ness and administrative potentialities learn that he has survived the war. low the rostrum sat Royden V. are almost entirely elsewhere. That The President received a letter from Brown, '11, Secretary of the Senate. Governor Sewall is conscious of this one of " Gabby's " American friends Then Senate President Tompkin and is contemplating steps to steer a transmitting the following message delegated Robert B. Dow, '20, to in­ share of this ability into the non­ (tran lated): "I would like you to form the House that the Senate had political positions of State ad'minis­ send him a word telling him that I been organized and was ready for tration is a heartening sign. am safe and sound, and I hope very business. Just then W. Mayo Pay­ son, '14, arrived with similar official much to see him again in the near 0 DYSSEY - The eye-witness ac­ tidings from the House, where he is count of the fall of France by future on the new Colby Campus." Kathryn Herrick, '35, in the Decem­ He said that he had received "de Republican Floor Leader. Inciden­ ber issue proved to be a thrilling fort jolies lettres longues, affec­ tally, Warren Belanger, '34, is the Democratic Floor Leader of the story to many readers. Since last tueuses, spontanees " from his Colby House, where there are eleven Colby August her parents have received no friends. His letter was eight weeks representatives. So all in all, the letters, but recently a b1ief cable or on the way, coming by Clipper and alumni of this college seem to have two gave the information that she censored. Letters written in Eng­ the affairs of state pretty well in had a position with the Associated lish might cause him trouble, so his hand. Press, Paris Bureau. Just before friends are urged to write in French. Christmas, however, Professor Rollins His address was given as: cio Cafe had a communication from a school Fonlupt, route de Vienne, Lyon, ENTLEMEN - Tompkins, it will in Istanbul, Turkey, asking for a France. G be recalled, has been Speaker recommendation of Miss Herrick in of the House, and there formed the regard to a teaching position. OUBLE - On the second day of habit of recognizing members on the That's all we know, but we have a D 1941, two Colby men adminis­ floor as "the gentleman from Som­ suspicion that with Kay's talent for tered the oath of office to the gov­ erset " or " the gentleman from getting into the thick of things, she ernors of two states - Sewall of York." In the Senate, however, the will take up residence in Turkey just Maine and Saltonstall of Massachu­ practice is to speak of the members about the time that the German Army setts. The administrators were as "the Senator from Kennebec " and starts rolling towards the Near East. Nathaniel Tompkins, '03, and Angier so on. So in his first ses ion of the If so, we may expect some further L. Goodwin, '02, presidents of the year, President Tompkins kept rec­ graphic stories from our unofficial senates of Maine and Massachusetts, ognizing members as "gentlemen " war conespondent. THE COLBY ALUMNUS 5

TO WORK OR NOT TO WORK?

THE BILL OF RIGHTS The response to our invitation to !ems for a college education could be Dear Editor; comment on the Boston, Herald edi­ solved. Dr. J. F. Hill of Waterville To deny anyone the right to " work torial printed in the October issne and his most charming wife became his way through College " is to deny lias been spirited, as these pages very hrnch interested in this young him the " Bill of Rights ''. Great show, and brings out many aspects of fellow. Through their advice and Creator of day! That such a question the question of the advisabilit31 of their assistance this country boy en­ should even be discussed in the working one's way through college. tered Colby as a Freshman. COLBY ALUMNUS shows the trend This Freshman was a real Fresh­ of the times; the trend away from youngsters whose malformed bones man. He was somewhat athletically Democracy. Colby College always have been straightened and made inclined and showed some ability. He prided itself upon being the poor useful again by the ministrations of reported to the football squad in the man's college. These poor men we t this same man. Fall, to the basketball squad in the out of Colby and became America's What would the Herald do about Winter, to the track and the baseball leading teachers and leading min­ those men? Isn't this world a lot squad in the Spring. Morning, noon isters. Are we to deprive the America better place on their account? and night he worked for his meals of the futme of the benefits it de­ RAY c. YOUNG, '15 by waiting on dining room tables. rived from these men who " worked New Britain, Conn. Between classes in the morning and their way through Colby College"? after lunch in the afternoon he BERNARD CRANE, '20 THEY MAKE BEST RECORDS mowed lawns, raked leaves, spaded Atlantic City, N. J. Dear Sir: gardens, shoveled snow, sawed and I have read with interest Clarence split wood for sitting room stoves. IT BURNED ME UP Judkin's article in the last ALUM­ The fact is: He did everything pos­ Dear Sir: NUS and in general I agree with his sible to earn enough cash to pay for Being so close to election, I didn't contention. his books and personal incidentals. uppose I could get " burned up" In the past twenty years of my I have had many opportunities of over anything excepit politics, but experience in the laboratories of a chatting with this fellow, now a man your Boston Herald editorial came large industrial organization, I have with gray hairs and long past the too closely after a recent visit to had an opportunity. to watch the middle age in life. I have often asked Colby to let it pass unchallenged. progress of a good many young men him this question: Would you, if you It probably brings up the old argu­ from the time they left high school had your life to live over, work as ment of bench, bar, and pulpit, as to until they finished college and were hard to overcome those youthful " What is Success "? If Success con­ established in teaching or industry. problems in order to obtain a col­ sists of sliding through college with In most instances the boys who lege education? His answer has al­ plenty of money, joining the right have made the best record for them­ ways been the same " You can bet fraternities, wearing the right dress selves are those who have had to your last dollar that I would. to the social events, and then ending work for at least a part of their col­ "Those hardships were a silent edu­ wants, up selling bonds that nobody lege expenses. Working for a year cation to me. Those ideals and aims Herald and will soon default, our or two after high school combined which one desires in life can be ob­ editor is probably quite correct. with night courses along their chosen tained only through self sacrifice, fel­ But some of us old-fashioned line, has been the answer for many firm determination and much courage. I was lows have a different idea. boys. They obtain a little more ap­ I have something which will never class re­ back in June to my 25th preciation of what the world expects be taken from me - a college edu­ to union. It was my good fortune of them after leaving college than cation, a college degree. I would with spend a good part of my timc those who do go straight through with again make the personal sacrifice." a couple of men who entered college no concern except for their classroom JOHN WESLEY COOMBS, '06 with me, but never got the chance to work and social pleasure. Duke University graduate with the boys with whom w. B. DEXTER, '14 Durham, North Carolina they entered. Poor fellows;- they Lakewood, Ohio had to work their way through col­ YOU CAN 'T DO BOTH lege. One of these unfortunates, YOU BET I WOULD (a nationally known geologist) oc­ To the Editors; To the Editor: cupies several inches in the latest I remember a young man who I doubt if anyone genuinely be­ edition of "Who's Who in America." graduated from Coburn thirty-eight lieves that a man should devote a The other pitiable case occupies a years ago this last June. I know that large part of his too-brief time at position in the surgical world where this lad had aspirations of entering college to manual labor, unless he he is looked up to with respect by some institution of higher learning, has to. It is not that the manual every Shrinc1· in New England, and but, being the son of a village black­ labor will do him any harm - quite his name is spoken with awe and smith and one of five children, he the contrary; but there are only reverence by the five thousand odd could not see how the financial prob- twenty-four hours in a day, and a 6 THE COLBY ALUMNUS

man, after saving a reasonable por­ themselves, and, since they are slower I say this in all sincerity and truth tion for sleep, exercise, and general than their brilliant neighbors, should that there has never been anything relaxation, has not any too much have all their time for study. so highly rewarding in my life as left for getting an education. That 3. If the college has jobs to my experience at Colby, and con­ was true when I was in college, and award, it should give them to schol­ sequently no sacrifice has been too I think the demands which the fac­ arship holders. It is a mistake to great. ulty make on a student's time are divide help to students up into such I would advise the boy or girl of considerably greater now than they small parcels that nobody gets any college calibre who has little or no were in 1913-17. There is a general significant help. The scholarship financial resources to work his way tendency at least to supplement text­ holder is precisely the man who has only if he is physically strong, and book assignments with work requir­ demonstrated his ability to carry out­ able to adjust himself to the rigors ing individual research. It is possi­ side work without too great damage of hard work and disappointment. bl e to estimate the amount of time to his education. Coupled with this he must have ab­ required to " prepare " a text-book 4. Besides its present endowed solute confidence in himself, and, last assignment in Latin or mathematics, scholarships, the College should set but not least, he must look for spirit­ but if you set out really to learn aside a considerable fund for loan ual and not financial returns. All a something about the ubject without scholarships and cash loans, with the poor boy needs is pluck. His parents, reference to anything but your own usual arrangement of exemption friends, and the College should fur­ ignorance, there is no limit to the from interest for a period of years. nish the inspiration. Men of the Col­ amount of time that can be spent This system is in successful operation gan and Wilkinson type will rejoice profitably, not merely on four at many colleges. At Yale, where in doing it. I was deeply impressed course .. but on one. Furthermore, it practically anyone who needs it can when I read the stimulating article i5 d?cidedly more expensive to go to get a loan scholarship for the full on " Colby's Top-Flight Mathema­ college now than it was twenty-five amount of tuition, provided he main­ tician ". There is nothing more years ae:o. so that "working one's tains a scholastic average of c+, beautiful than to contact a great way through college," if taken lit­ the loss in principal is said to be only personality in the flesh, rather than erally. means givin'5 more time to about five per cent. in a fiction story, or in one's dreams. manual labor and less to studies. 5. Any college student who does Borrowing, to my mind, is not work for pay for the College should Without attempting to analyze the ideal, unless done on a small scale. be strictly supervised, and disci­ entire problem, I shall content myself I am still in debt. This is largely plined if he shows any tendency to with stating some random principles due to my choice of career and the regard his job as a sinecure. It is economic condition of the times when which I have arrived at after a con­ proper to give a man money outright . iderable period of intimacy with I launched out. The clerical pro­ because he excels in scholarship, but fession is not at all lucrative. self-supporting students at Colby and it is very bad for his character to pay In closing may I state that with­ elsewhere. him for the performance of a job out the opportunity of working my 1. No student should attempt, or which he has shirked. My own keen­ way the whole thing would have been be allowed by the college adminis­ est regrets regarding my " working impossible. What is true of Cam­ tration, to take on work enough to my way through Colby " arise from bridge and Oxford is also true of the pay his entire expenses. The amount the fact that I was sometimes guilty Universities of the Netherlands. of time necessary to earn one's table of irregularity and shiftlessness in There is no such thing as working board is about the limit that any stu­ the work I was supposed to do. one's way through in that country dent can profitably spend in non­ FREDERICK A. POTTLE, '17 and at first I could hardly believe it scholastic labor. Every student ap­ Yale University in America. plying for admission should be re­ May I slightly twist Lincoln's well quired to show in advance how he known utterance and say, "All that will meet his bills; and unless he can IMPOSSIBLE IN EUROPE I am or ever hope to be I owe to Dear Editor; cover his tuition and room-rent by America " . . . . . or should I have Well, I'll add my bit to the "Work­ cash, scholarship, or loans, he ought said " Colby College "? ing Your Way Through College " not to be admitted at all. FIRST LIEUTENANT }AMES BLOK, '32 2. Students whose preparatory page. First, I should like to say that CHAPLAIN-RESERVE, u. s. A. record shows that they are of rela­ the entire experience has been my Fort Devens, Mass. tively inferior quality should not be highest joy. It has been my highest admjtted if it appears that they must joy because of my thirst for knowl­ YOU MAY GET CHEATED "work their way." A college has a edge and intellectual inquiry. It has Dear Editor: responsibility to help brilliant poor given me the opportunity of living Working your way through col­ boys financially, but has no such re­ with the finest of men, with profes­ lege? Yes, it has been done by sponsibility toward dull poor boys. sors whose examples have stirred my some and has been done well by Thfa is not to say that they should ambition and enthusiasm in the most others. I would not recommend it or not be admitted and given every op­ worthy channels. I am tempted to advise it unless one wanted to write portunity of education that the bril­ mention the names of two of them a book about his expe1iences. liant boy has; it is simply to say that who will continue to live in my mem­ To carry on one's college work they should pay for their education ory just as much as my own mother. satisfactorily and engage in activi- THE COLBY ALUMNUS 7

IT BEGINS TO LOOK LIKE A CAMPUS NOW From the slope of Mayflower Hill one looks down on the rear of one of the two new Men's Dormitories, the Roberts Union in the distance, and the Miller Library. ties which have a very definite place art an intimate friend; to gain a tion, which really includes some of on the American college campus is all standard for the appreciation of the social and all of the cultural that the average student can do. other men's work and the criticism activities as well as booklearning. Getting an education is a job in it­ of your own; to carry the keys of the Then, if the summer's income is self. Washing cars, waiting on table, world's library in your pocket and not sufficient, a scholarship which is doing housework, etc., ad infinitum, feel its resources behind you in given as a reward for outstanding are jobs by themselves. whatever you undertake; to make work in the classroom, may be pre­ There are always part-time jobs hosts of friends among the men of sented to him without injuring his and odd jobs that one can find your own age who are to be leaders pride. whereby to supplement his ex­ in all walks of life ; to lose yourself The problem with girls who are chequer, but to work one's way in generous enthusiasms and co­ not financially independent is some­ operate with others for common ends through college and do a satisfactory what different. They are equally am­ - this is the offer of the college for piece of academic work is a Hercu­ bitious, but not as strong. Many the best four years of your life." lean task. One may work his way are able to work a little, but gener­ MARY DONALD DEANS, '10 through college and gain thereby in­ ally they need more assistance than Keene Normal School struction, but he will find it difficult boys and a well earned scholarship Keene, N. H. to get an education. He may make allows them to benefit more from the good things the college has to offer. points and get credits but an educa­ SCHOLARSHIP AID NEEDED Therefore I would strongly advise tion is more than that. Dear Editor : against working one's way through Many graduates who worked their I feel that a college student who college without a reasonable amount own way through college do not want can earn part of his college expenses of outside assistance. their sons and daughters to do like­ appreciates the privilege of an edu­ FLORENCE KING GOULD, wise. Why? Because they realize cation much more than one who does '08 Newto11 Centre, Mass. that they were cheated of somet�dng not help. This can be accomplished very real, very vital in their college in two ways, summer work and experience. After all is said and scholarships. A TRAINING FOR LIFE done, "what is a college education? " If he can earn a substantial Dear Editor: William DeWitt Hyde has an­ amount in the summer - and there It was my happy · experience to swered that question so completely I seems to be a healthy tendency have worked during my school and quote it herewith in toto : "To be at among boys to do so - the student college days. Much that was · taught home in all lands and ages; to count can be free to devote all of his time out of books is forgotten, but the nature a familiar acquaintance and during the college year to his educa- many experiences gained in my work- 8 THE COLBY ALUMNUS

ing hours have remained with me told if young people didn't take this are few hours to spare. A corallary throughout my life. During my va­ time-honored way of getting an edu­ to this is the value of being sys­ cations I was fortunate in having cation. tematic - to accomplish the most, some business and also some mechan­ But most of us would agree, I efficiently, with least effort, least ical experiences. While in college think, that health should never be amount of time and no retracing of I did newspaper work, coached in jeopardized. This, again, is a relative steps. basketball as well as doing lesser question and the young person needs 2. The mental stimulus. One is odd jobs. All tended to develop am­ wise counselling on that matter. forced by circumstances to keep alert bition and desire for leadership and Social life, too, is very important, at all times. kept me from wasting valuable spare but the very atmosphere of a college 3. Appreciation of the hard­ time. Any honest work is bound to campus (especially a co-ed or co-ord working non-college man. One must further the development of character campus) still gives much to those appreciate in a community the man and the more a young man or woman boys and girls whose schedules of on the marginal income or the grad­ has to do the more capacity is devel­ studying and earning leaves little uate of the school of hard knocks. oped for carrying the heavy loads of time for leisure. College men are not always under­ work for future years. There is much to be said. in favor stood by these people because of lack I seriously believe that those who of working before coming to college of realization of what the hardwork­ are dependent upon their own finan­ or even working a year or two "be­ ing man has to bear. cial resources after leaving college tween halves " in order to accumu­ 4. Value of thrift. Much has will derive more benefit from some late enough funds to come back. been said about this to which I can occupation while taking their college Such students discover that " all of add little. Thrift means a better course than they will suffer from any life " educates and they bring more credit rating in the business world. over-exhaustion from the result of adequate resources to classroom 5. Working provides an oppor­ the same. The Social life of the col­ learning from such experiences. tunity for a college education which lege is important, the lectures and I hope we will never see the day could not be obtained in any other research study are essential, the when a college education becomes way. practical application of toil for re­ prohibitive except for those who have In contrast to the above advan­ muneration to help pay the term bill full financial resources. Some of us tages are certain disadvantages: is quite as important, and in my day are mighty glad that Colby gave us First and most important is the there was time for all and from my the chance to " work our way danger to one's health. Hard work, observation that same time exists through." We consider it a very poor food, loss of sleep, and worry today. definite part of our education, at that. are underlying factors producing poor It appears to narrow down to MYRA WHITTAKER, '35 health and failures. As school physi­ whether college is to prepare for life Baptist Institute, cian in my community I have seen and the meeting of life's problems in Philadelphia, Pa. this occur again and again. the everyday experiences of obtain­ Secondly there is too much dissi­ ONLY IF HEALTHY ing a livelihood or is it to train to be­ pation of energy. Burning the candle To the Editor: come ladies and gentlemen, in the at both ends can sap so much youth­ Having worked my way through most narrow meaning of those ful energy that we can become stale college and medical school, I have a words. Our American colleges fit at the age of 30. few ideas on this subject. for an industrious life or at least that In short, I think working one's way To begin with, the opportunity to is the purpose in sending our boys is a good thing, but it can only be work one's way was a struggle. No and girls to them. Therefore the done by the healthy boy or girl who one handed me a job on a platter, more industrious the life in college has the mentality to learn easily and willing as I was to work hard. I the better prepared are they for the quickly, and is constitutionally stable shall always remember one "posi­ day of their leaving the college to enough to withstand emotional strain tion " which required my washing start their life in the world of without a breakdown earlier or later dishes for five hours daily for three affairs. in life. HAROLD DONNELL, poor meals and then being fired be­ E. '12 JAMES c. BRUDNO, '27, M. D. Baltimore, Md. cause the friends whom I persuaded Wollasto11, Mass. into the place left one by one in silent disgust. During summers employ­ WISE COUNSELLING NEEDED ment was available because I was IT ALL DEPENDS Dear Editor: willing to work on construction jobs To the Editor: It seems difficult to be dogmatic for thirty-five cents to forty-five Yes, nearly everything depends on about any question that has real pros cents an hour ten hours a day and the individual, as The Boston Herald and cons. But from experience and this in the prosperous times of 1924 says in the provocative edito1;a1 observation I lean heavily in favor to 1926. quoted by Mr. Judkins in his good of " working your way through col­ There are many advantages that I article on "Working Your Way." lege " if that is the only alternative personally feel beneficial and have So we've been trying to put indi­ to not getting the education. How influenced me today: viduals pro way-working and indi­ many of the " men and women who 1. Learning the value of time. viduals con way-working in a neat made good " stories could never be Every hour is precious when there little balance. On one side are the THE COLBY ALUMNUS 9 normal productive folks we know It depends only upon the number We are going to live in a world of who have worked their way and who and earnestness of the individuals force for many years. By necessity, could not otherwise have had any who really want it. human nature will have a tendency college. On the other are the people MYRTA LITTLE DAVIES, '08 to revert to primitive instincts. Edu­ who haven't way-worked, and who Westville, N. H. really don't happen to be drones or cation of the liberal arts type can snobs either. Maybe they're not and will act as a deterrent to that WORTH ALL IT COSTS typical, but, anyway this is what trend. One of the great needs today we've been wondering. - Dear Editor; is to learn how to use the things we Why not more colleges in which it An article in the COLBY ALUM­ have, not necessarily to create more is the rule rather than the exception NUS "On Working Your Way things. It will require all that schools for students to work for a part or all Through College " has stimulated a and colleges working overtime can of their expenses in a variety of little retrospective thinking. Again stipulated occupations? There could I ask myself the question, Would I do to teach the people of the world be no occasion then for false pride, try to work my way through College how to live in the world. Let's have and with normal health and re­ to-day? Most emphatically: Yes! fewer "gadgets " in education, but sistance, would not the college en­ Another question immediately sug­ more fundamental teachings about vironment, academic, social, plus gests itself, that inevitable : Why? life ; and let's not make the objective wage-earning be more like that Try to enumerate reasons pro and of life the aquisition of material lived-in before and after college? con, then strike a balance and see things alone. Would not this be desirable? For, where you land. The result won't Certainly I would again work my after all, college is more than an in­ make sense, but I'll stick to my an­ way through any college which offered terlude to a man or woman and the swer, "Yes," for the impelling reason and gave me what Colby College more the theme of the whole life­ that education is worth all it costs, gave me years ago! piece gets into it, the better. It's in time and effort, and a lot more LEO G. SHESONG, '1 3 been done. Why not more often? than most people pay for it. Portland, Maine

BORN TO SOCIAL WORK I F there is such a thing as inherited tended Rutgers, saw Civil War serv­ the " larger parish " had been in­ bents, Leonard Withington Mayo, ice, became an executive in a coal vented, he preached and ministered '22, Dean-elect of the School of Ap­ mine, and finally felt a call to the over a circuit of little churches around plied Social Sciences, Western Re­ ministry. Hodgdon, and even today " Elder serve University, was chromosomi­ When his daughter Myra was a cally slated to make his mark in the young woman, he was asked to take Mayo " is a beloved name in the field of social service. over the management of the Berk­ memories of the older folk in that About a hundred years ago a shire Industrial Farm for Delinquent section. young Irish widow who had just Boys at Canaan, N. Y., for a couple One of his six children went to buried her husband in an Indian vil­ of years, so he took her along as his college : William Withington Mayo, lage of frontier Ohio arrived in New assistant. When he returned to his Colby 1879. A crack school teacher York with her small son to take Broome Street parish, Miss Dooley Will was principal of Hebron Acad� passage on a packet back to Ireland. obtained a position in far-off Maine emy when bis wife's ill health made Stricken with yellow fever in a lodg­ where George Hinckley had started a it necessary to move to Colorado. He ing house, she made the eight year home for homeless boys known as was a high school principal there for old boy spend most of his time out­ Good Will Farm. Here we will leave eight years, during which period Mrs. doors, and one day he came back to her while we go back and pick up Mayo died. Returning east, Mi-. - find the door barred against him by another thread of the story. Mayo accepted a position aS manager quarantine officers and his mother About 125 years ago, in Hampden, of Good Will Farm, where Myra dead. Sitting disconsolate on a curb­ Maine, a boy named Leonard Mayo Dooley was one of the staff. stone, he was picked up by a friendly was born and grew up to learn the Of engaging· personalities and com­ policeman who took him home and cooper's trade. Of inquiring mind, mon ideals, Miss Dooley and Mr. later placed him in an orphanage. searching spirit and social conscious­ Mayo made a perfect match and be­ Some twenty years later John Dooley ness, he felt an inclination to preach came engaged and married. Shortly returned to that identical street, but and to serve. So, giving up his trade, afterwards he wa called to the this time as minister of the Broome he attended the theological seminary uperintendency of the Berkshire Street Tabernacle, the forerunner of at Thomaston, which was a sbort­ Farm (mentioned above) and here a settlement house work in the Lower lived offshoot and rival of Waterville son was born and named for his East Side. The intervening years College. grandfather Leonard. Two younger had seen the intrinsic worth of the There followed ordination, several children were Julia (Colby 1927) , and lad make itself shown when be was parishes along the Maine coast and Loui e (Wheaton 1932). During bound out to an Upstate doctor, at- finally in Aroostook county. Before Leonard's college days, the Mayos 10 THE COLBY ALUMNUS

were in charge of Opportunity Farm Director of the ERB, which was then for Boys, in New Gloucester, Maine. carrying more than 300,000 families Thus, we have shown that with on a budget of nine million dollars a one grandfather administering a month. Len was pretty harried that Lower East Side slum mission, the year, perhaps that was when his hair other a horse-and-buggy Aroostook turned gray, but he licked the job preacher, a father and a mother who and, unbeknownst, was being watched were consecrated to social service and by more than one. beloved by hundreds of underprivi­ And so, in 1936, he became assist­ leged boys, Leonard's career was ant director of the Welfare Council strongly conditioned, if not actually of New York City. Since it has ap­ predestined towards social work. peared in the newspapers, it is no Nevertheless, he did not feel cer­ secret that in the fall of 1939 he was tain of that in college. His class­ offered and strongly urged to accept mates remember Len Mayo as one the position of Commi sioner of the of the outstanding men in the stu­ Health and Welfare Department of dent body. Captain of track (middle the State of Maine. Few know how distances), honor student, class presi­ close he came to accepting it, but he dent, a superb debater, in demand for finally decided to remain in New York. all dramatics, genuinely interested in One direct result, however, was that religious activities, the wit of the the Welfare Council created the Lambda Chi Alpha house (and of LEONARD W. MA YO, '22 office of " Associate Director " in any other group he happened to be fare director, dean of the training order to give him a substantial pro­ in - including Ma Frost's kitchen), school for institutional workers, motion. perhaps the most accurate straw as and assistant director. Incidentally, The Welfare Council exists to co­ to his future lay in the fact that he Father and Mother Mayo are now ordinate the work of seven hundred was invariably delegated to see Prexy there, and Will, at a hale 85, is or more independent agencies, public Roberts about this or that and usu­ officially the director of religious and philanthropic, in Greater New ally came back with the hoped-for activities, but both find themselves York, and to serve as a clearing decision. Mark that point, it is sig­ constantly lending wise, good-hu­ house for the more than two million nificant. mored, and sympathetic ear to the names of individuals and families But on his grad�ation day in 1922 troubles of a swarm of problem kids. who have been aided by one or more he did not know just what he was There followed three years in of these agencies, thus preventing going into as a life work. He was which Len was a member of the fac­ much duplication of effort, or even disinclined to enter teaching, law, or ulty of the New York School of fraud. the ministry - although well fitted Social Work, teaching courses on in­ Len has the usual duties con­ for any of them. (He would also stitutions and delinquency, and taking nected with the administration of a have made a swell actor, radio an­ quite a load of graduate study on the professional and clerical staff of fifty, nouncer, super-salesman or politi­ side. He breezed past the require­ but his particular contribution i cian.) That summer, while he was ments for a master's degree without more fundamental. He spends much assisting his father with the work at bothering to pick it up, and has most of his time attending or reading the Opportunity Farm, they had a visit of the academic credits for a doc­ reports of staff or board meetings of from Leon Faulkner, one-time "boy " torate, but one wonders whether he various social service organizations. of Mr. Mayo on Berkshire Farm and will ever be allowed time off to clean Thus he has at his finger tips a now an out tanding figure in social it up. fuller picture of New York relief service work. He was interested in In 1935, Mayor LaGuardia snatched work than, perhaps, any other living Len and suggested that he think seri­ Mayo out of the peaceful academic person. It is his job to perceive the ously of this as a career, advising shades and thrust him into the tur­ flaws in this picture and work out him to try it out for a year with his moil of the Emergency Relief Bureau ways whereby these needs can be father and then let him know how it of New York City. That was a met, say, by an expansion of the appealed. punishing job, his toughest experi­ work of agency A, a different method The upshot was that next year ence to date, his friends say. With by agency B, or by a complete change Faulkner gave Len a job as high politicians and pressure groups bat­ in policy by agency C. Then it is up school instructor, athletic director, tling over every job and policy, with to Len to present the situation to the and director of parole in the Mary­ radicals picketing the offices and various organizations concerned and land State Training School for Boys. newspapers hunting for missteps to get them to take the necessary steps. In 1925, Faulkner was made di­ pounce upon, Len was made Director Obviously, this is a delicate task, and rector of The Children's Village, a of Personnel. In other words, he had it is right here that he shines. model institution for boys and girls, to organize the hiring, firing and Articulate and lucid, his opinion will at Dobbs Ferry, N. Y., and he took training of nearly 10,000 supervisors be grounded on unassailable data, and, Len along. During the next six and investigators. He was also one no matter how upsetting, the con­ years, Len became successively we!- of four general assistants to the sensus of the meeting will usually THE COLBY ALUMNUS 11 swing his way. This is his daily placement bureau for children ; or­ ident of the New York Colby Club work, and New York is a better place ganizing a Bureau for the Aged ; and of the Colby Alumni Association. because of it. work with the City Department of Reading the above indicates that The Director of the Welfare Coun­ Health in regard to anti-syphilis and it took no great perspicuity on the cil, Robert P. Lane, has this to say other campaigns ; membership on an part of the president and trustees of about Len's ability as a negotiator: advisory committee on the budgets Wes tern Reserve University to select " His manner is so affable and en­ of the Department of Health and Mayo as the best available man to gaging that it is easy to underesti­ other public departments ; member­ fill the office of Dean of their School mate the firmness and precision of ship on Governor's Council on of Applied Social Sciences. He is to mind that underlies it. He knows Employment and Placement Service join the faculty on January 15 as how to make concessions on smaller under Department of Labor; member­ Associate Dean and teach a course points without losing sight of his ship on executive committee, N. Y. or two during the second semester major objective. His judgment of chapter of American Association of while he gets acquainted with the issues, of persons, and of timing is Social Workers ; membership on ad­ situation. In June he will be in­ first rate." visory committee on Training Schools ducted as full Dean. Mr. Lane talked to the writer at to Federal Children's Bureau; mem­ We predict that even the austere length about Len in a way that ex­ bership on board of National Confer­ office of a deanship will not tone Len plains the latter's reputation as one ence of Juvenile Agencies; member­ down. Today at 41, his gray and of the nation's top-flight young men ship on Child Welfare Advisory somewhat balding head fortunately in the field of social work today. Board, New York City Junior League. lends him an air of mature distinction Among the Mayo assets, Mr. Lane Furthermore, just to keep time which somewhat counteracts the mentioned: an education and pro­ from hanging heavy on his hands, hopelessly impish quality of his off­ fessional training of the best; good more than one organization has duty personality. The brown Irish and varied experience ; wide knowl­ drafted his services. He is president eyes of his great-grandmother spar­ edge of social agencies; a mastery of the Child Welfare League of kle as he gets off onto one of his in­ of detail, without losing sight of America; chairman of the board of exhaustible store of stories, engages long range aims ; the ability to have the Westchester County Council of in a bit of side-splitting mimicry, or all of his information on tap ; an Social Agencies ; lecturer at the New perpetrates an execrable pun. No extraordinary capacity for organiz­ York School of Social Work, and at wonder that his colleagues call him ing information and presenting it the New School for Social Research. "Colby's oldest undergraduate." with fervor ; equal effectiveness be­ A year ago he was director of a sur­ The move to Cleveland w1ll be a fore large or small groups; a gift vey of the welfare work of the wrench to the Mayos who have for making and keeping friends ; the Episcopal Diocese of New York - a been Westchester County residents willingness to overwork himself six months' extra-curricular activity throughout their sixteen years of cheerfully and continuously; capacity which gave him a new Buick. Last married life. Mrs. Mayo attended for decision ; courage to tackle any June he took on a six weeks' emer­ Colby as Lena Cooley with the class situation or problem, no matter how gency job as director of the Child of 1924 and they have hordes of insurmountable it may seem; the Care Division, United States Com­ friends and a pleasant home in ability to deliver at short notice, over mittee for the Care of European Hastings-on-the-Hudson. The chil­ and over. Children, during which he shuttled dren, Margaret, 13, and Kathryn, 11, If that catalog of qualities seems back and forth by plane from Wash­ make a lively household, and the elder to make Len a paragon, don't blame ington and set up the organization. can usually beat her father at ping­ the writer, he is merely reporting. Also last summer, Mayor LaGuardia pong. But Mr. Lane was not just piling it appointed him to the Appeals Board From now on, we won't see the on, he was genuinely trying to give of the Department of Welfare of Mayos so often at football games or the answer to the question: "What New York City under the State Labor commencement, but they expect to is it that makes Mayo tick? " Relations Board. He is a past pres- spend a month or so in Maine each Besides a man's boss, another good summer and promise to stop off at source of information is his secre­ Colby to see how things are getting tary, and one of the young ladies in along. Len's outer office compiled for me a Usually, in an alumni biography, list of his more recent special activi­ the subject has his career behind him ties. It is impressive from sheer or, at least, is well settled in it, and bulk, and explains why you don't his future is clear. This is not so in always find him in when you phone. the case of Leonard Mayo. This Here it is: sketch is merely a report of prog­ Participation on committees ap­ ress. His chief distinctions, we be­ pointed to recommend revisions of lieve, lie yet ahead. A college pres­ the New York City Charter, the new ident? A Governor? A cabinet State Constitution and codification of member, as secretary of a future New York State's Public Welfare and Department of Social Welfare? State Charities Laws; organizing a You guess! 12 THE COLBY ALUMNUS

NOT ABLE NEW BOOKS BY COLBY AUTHORS

THE CODE DUELLO WHEN GRANDMA WAS A GIRL

PISTOLS AT TEN PACES. By William KATY'S QUILT. By Ruth Holbrook. Oliver Stevens. Houghton Mifflin Co. Doubleday Doran & Co. New York. 1940. Boston. 1940. ATY'S QUILT, which was the W ITH that arresting title, Dr. K Literary Guild's selection for William 0. Stevens, '99, has August, is written and illustrated by written " The Story of the Code of Ruth Holbrook, '19. It is written Honor in America," published last about actual incidents in the life of autumn by the Houghton Mifflin Miss Holbrook's mother, whose fam­ Company, as an authentic history of ily was among the earliest settlers of duelling in the United States, where Vanceboro, in Washington County, the practice was more prevalent and Maine. It is an altogether charming widespread than in any other coun­ and delightful book, one which was try of the world. written for children but which ap­ The work is compiled from con­ peals to grown-ups as well. temporary sources and responsible Not the least appealing features of histories revealing " the most ruth­ the book are the quaint and amusing less murder cult ever known," yet it drawings by Miss Holbrook which is far from being a record of cumu­ are found on nearly every page, in­ lative honors to satisfy the tastes of cluding over twenty in full color. readers of the Crime Club school of The lithographic process used in the literary appetite. It is an enthrall­ printing reproduces the soft texture of pencil and crayon without the ing study and appalling revelation of WILLIAM 0. STEVENS, '99 the satisfaction of the Code of Honor slightest loss of quality. The furni­ from William the Conqueror to within ture and clothes illustrated are au­ Dr. Stevens has brought together the 20th Century. As Dr. Stevens thentic examples of that period. It in " Pistols at Ten Paces " a chapter asserts, "It was a long sorry tale of is a gay, colorful, beautifully designed of great social, moral and economic futile bloodshed and slaughter, all in specimen of book art. significance, not as a record of cumu­ the name of defending the honor of lative wrong-doing, but as a picture This is the story of a little girl officers and gentlemen." of life in the formative years of our who lived in Calais in the 1870's and The " code duello " was. especially nation, as terrifying as true. His had to sew patchwork in order to grow up to be a lady. Katy hated it fashionable in the South, spreading writing of conditions so deplorable is and each day after she had sat and westward where pioneer lawlessness relieved WY an easy narrative style of gave easy justification for indiscrimi­ sewed tiny pieces of cloth together, which he is master, lightened by she hated it more. nate killing. The virus of duelling touches of delicious irony. infected the country as far north as That duelling is now extinct evi­ One day after a business trip, New York City, but happily for New dences the immense advance in civi­ Daddy came home with the exciting England the practice was not counte­ lization to which, with all present news that the family would move to a nanced in the northeastern states. limitations, we have progressed dur­ new home, way off in Vanceboro. It is amazing how men of eminence ing the existence of the republic. Katy was happy about riding away in our national life condoned and par­ - E. F. S., '89. in a train and moving into a new ticipated in the passion of killing to house, but when Mother said they satisfy personal resentment, and how must get to work at once on new powerless were efforts to outlaw and Editor's note: An appreciative re­ quilts to take with them, Katy sighed suppress in the face of popular sanc­ view of Dr. Stevens' book occupied deep down to the bottom of her shoes. tion. the leading place in the New York She was unhappy all day long until Two outstanding duels are accorded Herald-Tribune Book Section on Sun­ she found that all the neighbors chapters of vivid interest -" The day, December 22. Terming it " a wanted to help. Katy wondered how Political Duel " between Alexander fascinating history," the reviewer grown-up ladies could laugh and talk Hamilton and Aaron Burr wherein concluded : " Mr. Stevens has missed and seem to be having a good time the Vice-President of the U. S. is nothing in this century of duelling, while they were cutting up cloth into best remembered as "the man who during which the code of honor silly little shapes and sewing it to­ killed Hamilton "; and "The Two spread, flourished and died in Amer­ gether again. To be sure it all led Commodores,'' Stephen Decatur and ica - and yet in our own era of co­ to a quilting party that was l'eally James Barron, leaving the latter operative suicides bt>tween nations, fun. Especially when Cousin Lou known to history as " the man who his co-operative suicides of gentle­ spread the loveliest quilt of all out killed Decatur." men seem positively genteel." ove1· a chair and everyone saw a big THE COLBY ALUMNUS 13 red patch in the middle with the let­ bought for her because she sewed So Katy, who is now Grandmother, ters K-A-T-Y embroidered in fancy patchwork. still has her quilt, which became more precious than ever with the satin stitches. So Katy had a beautiful Katy's quilt even helped save their patch, on which is embroidered " The new quilt of her own to take to her home when a forest fire came rushing fire of 1868." new home and thought maybe patch­ toward it and all the family quilts Miss Holbrook was born in Vance­ work wasn't so bad after all. were drenched in water and spread boro and attended Colby for two After they moved to the new house on the roof. The quilts saved the years before attending art school in in Vanceboro, there was a big cele­ house but a black hole was burned in Boston. She has resided in New bration to open the bridge between Katy's quilt. She felt very sad to York for the last ten years. She also Maine and Canada. President Grant have her beautiful quilt spoiled until wrote and illustrated " Cap'n Benny's was there and Katy talked with him Mother said she would help make a Birdhouses " and has illustrated two about her cherished new shoes with lovely new satin patch to cover the books by other authors. ta sels and red tops that her Daddy hole. - Phyllis Sturtevant Sweetser, '19.

THE NUMBER TWO OFFICIAL OF MAINE

By Bernard E. Esters, · 21

HE man on the rostrum stood brother Colbyite to become presiding T poised calmly as though await­ officer of the Senate. ing a signal. Suddenly his right The next in session was also a hand arose in the air. As it de­ Colby man, also a member of the scended the crack of the gavel class of 1860, J. Manchester Haynes sounded sharply. A hush crept over of Augusta who reversed the cus­ the Senate Chamber. tomary order and became President Nathaniel Tompkins of Houlton, of the Senate in 1879 and Speaker of Colby '03, had performed his first the House in 1883. official act as President of the Maine Others to hold this honor during Senate. The 90th Maine Legislature the almost a century and a quarter was in biennial session. of Maine legislative history include Every person in the room, partici­ Benjamin Ames of Bath, first Speaker pant or onlooker, well knew one of of the House in 1820, acting gov­ the most critical periods in Maine ernor the following year and Presi­ legislative history was at hand. dent of the Senate in 1824; David None knew better than the older Dunn of Poland in 1843 and 1845; heads how vital to the successful Frank Farrington of Augusta in 1919 completion of their deliberations and 1923 and Burleigh Martin of would be the wise counsel and logi­ Augusta in 1927 and 1931. cal, unhurried leadership of the man The unusual commentary on this they had chosen to preside over their brief historical sidelight is that not sessions. THE PRESIDENT OF THE one of these seven men who previ­ Those who had served in the Maine SENATE ously have been elevated by their House of Representatives six years fellows to the two highest offices the before when " Than " Tompkins was their fellows to preside over both Maine legislature can bestow on one speaker of that body knew a good branches of the legislature. The of its members have ever been ele­ choice had been made; knew, too, election of Nathaniel Tompkins the vated by the people of Maine to the the seasoned advice and expert direc­ evening before was the eighth. office of Governor. Whether or not tion they might expect when matters Four of the holders of this rare honor " Than " Tompkins will elect to try of serious import arose. And that were men of Colby College. to break precedent in a precedent there would be many such crises no­ The first Colby man to win this breaking era is a decision firmly body for a moment doubted. distinction was Reuben Foster of locked behind grim lips as he looks Strangely enough the unusual Waterville, graduate in the class of to the heavy responsibilities ahead. significance of the simple gesture of '55, who became Speaker of the House In the same year that J. Manches­ opening this session, which might of Representatives in 1870 and Presi­ ter Haynes, the third Colby man to well have gone unnoticed, had few dent of the Senate two years later. occupy the rostrum in both branches historic counterparts in the span of In the following term Edmund F. of the legislature, was presiding over 120 years since the first Maine legis­ Webb, also of Waterville, Colby '60, the Senate, the next Colby man who lature was convened in 1820. In that was chosen Speaker of the House would follow him more than three time only seven men had been ac­ and, two years later, followed in the score years later, Nathaniel Tomp­ corded the distinction of election by footsteps of his fellow townsman and kins, was born in Bridgewater in cen- 14 THE COLBY ALUMNUS

tral Aroostook County. The year the Board of Selectmen of Houlton By far the greatest contribution was 1879. which position he held for two years. that Nathaniel Tompkins has ren­ His youth was like that of any This was his first introduction to dered to the people of Maine as a other Aroostook County farm lad of politics and his last for many years. public servant was his untiring his day and it was probably in those Always interested in the affairs of efforts to bring greater light into early years that he accumulated the the Republican party, he was a fre­ dark corners of the state finance and experience and knowledge which gave quent worker and contributor to its administration as chairman of the him such a sympathetic understand­ councils but it wasn't until 1930 that Special Joint committee named to ing of the lot of the farmer. he sought public office for himself. probe into state affairs following the Runnells scandal. In the public schools of Bridge­ Then, at the urging of many of his To thi tremendous task he brought water he prepared for Ricker Classi­ friends he became a candidate for a deep and thorouO'h knowledge of cal Institute at Houlton from which the legislature. the intricacies of state administra­ he was graduated in 1898. He was His victory was easily won and he tion and finance and his understand­ destined for college and had made up succeeded himself in the following ing of every phase of state affair his mind to pursue the profession of session. Hitherto representatives to was a bulwark of assistance to his law. But with money not too plenti­ the legislature from Houlton had been committee. ful in Aroostook that year a delay content with but two terms at the Nathaniel Tompkins is closer to wa nece sary and young Tompkins most. Tompkins appeared destined Colby College than his own four became a teacher in the schools of to be Speaker of the House of Rep­ years would indicate. His wife, his home town for a year before en­ resentatives and his fellow towns­ Ragnhild Iverson Tompkins, is also a rolling at Colby in the fall of 1899. people sent him back to Augu ta a graduate of the college in the class third time to enjoy that honor and He was !?:raduated from the Water­ of '08, and his daughter Sigrid grad­ serve with distinction and credit to ville in titution in the class of 1903 uated in 1938. The latter is now his constituents and to his state. after what he would probably term studying law preparatory to carrying "four uneventful years." The Colby He then took a sabbatical term on the legal tradition of the family. Oracle, citing the accomplishments of from politics to devote more atten­ An inveterate bridge player, he tion to the varied interests of his that class shows that, while class might be inveigled into a mild game athletic , including baseball and large law practice and to pursue more of rummy if a fourth is not available. diligently his duties as president of football, occupied some of his atten­ He is not a good golfer by his own the Houlton Savings Bank. He also tion, the field of running things be­ admission but he enjoys the sport and served, in 1936, as a very active prec - g-an, even then, to point the turn his plays often in season. In the spring ident of the Aroostook Bankers life was eventually to take. He be­ he can quite readily be talked into a Association. And during all this came uccessively secretary and fishing trip and find occasional ex­ time he was an interested member of president of the athletic association, cuses in the fall to scout woods roads the Board of Trustees of Ricker. assistant manager, manager and in search of partridge. president of the Colby Oracle and Returning to politics to seek elec­ If you are looking for " Than " also, in his Sophomore year, found tion as one of the three Senators Tompkins toward the latter part of time to be editor-in-chief of his class from Aroostook County, his victory most any afternoon when he is in journal. in the 1938 primary election when he town he will probably not be in his His goal was Harvard Law but led a field of ten candidates, was a office. More likely you will find him again there followed an interim tribute to the record of substantial upstairs in the Meduxnekeag Club period of a year when he served as citizenship and reliability he had playing bridge or bowling. But if sub-master at Ricker to bolster up established in all his dealings with you want a friendly chat, legal coun­ the law school treasury. He emerged the people, public or private. He led sel or sound advice there will be no from Harvard a full fledged practi­ his party ticket in a field of six reluctance at foregoing his relaxa­ tioner of the law in 1907 and in the candidates when he sought reelection tion. fall of the same year hung out his last year. Then, as in the previous Service to his fellow man has ever shingle in Houlton where it has been election, the familiar query was : been an attribute of the character of ever since. " Tompkins, of course, but who will Nathaniel Tompkins and, whether he the other two be ? " Shunning the spectacular and wary appreciates it or not, impositions on of the headlines, Tompkins the youth­ His first term in the House he his time and patience are many. Oft ful lawyer found his greatest joy in served on the committees on Judici­ heard is the advice, " Let's see what the studious application of bis time ary and Banking and followed those Than has to say about this." You to his chosen profession. He early assignments up with a repeat as may not like it or you may, but you'll built for himself a well deserved member of the Judiciary in his sec­ get it straight from the shoulder. reputation for integrity, honesty and ond term and also as a member of Such is the background of an un­ industry. Conservative then, as now, Ways and Means. Last year in the selfish public servant and a sound he enjoyed a respect not always ac­ Senate he was a member of the com­ and wise counselor now chosen to be corded to beginners in the law. Only mittee on Banks and Banking and President of the Maine Senate, an a few years after he had established chairman of the potent Taxation com­ office that is second only to that of practice he was elected chairman of mittee. the governor. THE COLBY ALUMNUS 15

BOSTON COLBY CLUB HE Boston Colby Club held its T second meeting on November 15 at Wilbur's Downtown Colonial Res­ WESTERN MAINE ALUMNAE Wayne E. Roberts, Miss Caro Hoxie, taurant. It was the largest meeting SPONSORING SCHOLARSHIP Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Gurney, in the history of the club. Forty­ Mrs. George W. Chase, Mr. and Mrs. four Colby men and fifteen guests OR the past three years the Newton L. Nourse, Mr. and Mrs. A. sat down to dinner. The father of Western Maine Colby Alumnae F L. Whittemore. two boys in Colby and three alumni Association has supported a Colby Thirty-one Colby women gathered came in for the after dinner show­ at the home of Miss Ina McCausland scholarship by means of rummage ing of the pictures of the Maine on Read Street the evening of No­ sales, bridge parties and contribu­ series football games. tions. This year, under the able vem ber twenty-first for the regular We were delighted to welcome leadership of Mrs. Arad Linscott, fall meeting of the Western Maine among our guests Owen McDowell, chairman of the Ways and Means Colby Alumnae Association. High­ coach of Newton, Mass., High School Committee, we sponsored a b�nefit lights of the program were the report Football Team, and Albin R. John­ bridge. The party took place at the by Mrs. Herman P. Sweetser of the son and Frank Butcher, both of B. and P. W. Hall on Cumberland October council meeting and Colby whom have sons in Colby. We were Avenue in Portland, November thir­ Ni

Not the least attractive feature was his replies to the questions shot at him from all sides. Everyone de­ parted at a late hour, all declaring it the best meeting we have held. The Boston Colby Club extends a hearty welcome to any Colby man who is in Boston on the third F1iday of each month. Just drop in and make yourself at home. - Carl R. Bryant, '04.

NAUGATUCK VA LLEY CLUB

HE Naugatuck Valley Colby Club T held its sixth annual dinner meeting Friday, November 15, 1940, at the University Club rooms, Hotel Elton, Waterbury, Conn. They were pleased to have as guest speakers Dean Ernest C. Maniner and Prof. Elmer C. Warren, Director of the Personnel Bureau and Regis­ trar. Dean Marriner gave highlights FRATERN ITY TURKEY WINNERS of Colby campus news and brought The Zete track captain, Vic Lebednik, (left) holds up the biggest turkey as his team greetings from the college to the emerged with top honors in the annual Pre-Christmas Interfra· ternity Turkey Meet held in the Field House. The Dekes, represented by Alumni, parents of undergraduates Shelley Pratt, were second, while the A. T. O.'s and Non-Frats tied for third and prospective students. Prof. War­ honors and their prize is held jointly by Dick deNazario and Frank Quincy. ren's interpretation of work being Coach Perkins stands at right. Individual first place winners were awarded the bags of fruit and candy shown in the foreground. done in his field at Colby was of great interest to all. Wall Pitts, '13 ; representative to the College through the medium of the Among those present were the Alumni Council, John M. Richardson, Alumni and Alumnae Funds. president of the Naugatuck Club, '16. On the club's executive board Members of the Alumni Fund Com­ Dr. and Mrs. John H. Foster, John were placed Roland Ware, '21; mittee are: Francis F. Bartlett, '26, Thomas Foster, Arthur D. Craig, George Sprague, '3 1; Anna M. Boyn­ Chairman ; H. C. Marden, '21; former Leonora A. Knight, Dorothy M. ton, '06 ; Hazel Lane, '16; E. C. Fund Chairman, Theodore R. Hodg­ Crawford, Mr. and Mrs. Theron E. Teague, '9 1; Milton C. Stephenson, kins, '25, Farmington ; Richard Dana Alexander, Mr. and Mrs. Percival '19 ; Florence Perry Hahn, '03 ; and Hall, '32 ; and Dr. Cecil W. Clark, '05, Dixon, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Boland, Henry K. Allen, '27 ; An entertain­ N ewtonville. Mass. Mrs. Chester A. Baxter, John S. ment committee was appointed, in­ The members of the Alumnae Fund Parker, Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Hubbard, cluding John S. Tibbetts, '26 ; Helen Committee are : Esther French Mr. and Mrs. B. H. C. Riefe, and deRochemont Cole, '36; and Grace Spaulding, '16, Chairman, Bangor; Mr. and Mrs. Earl W. Pierson of Lermond Wyllie, '19. Violet French Collins, '18, Wollaston, Waterbury; Mr. and Mrs. E. E. The next meeting will be held Mass.; and Ina McCausland, '15, Eisenwinter of Watertown; Mr. and either February 5 or 6 at the Copper Portland. Mrs. J. R. Putnam, Prospect, Conn.; Kettle in Rockland. Dr. Wilkinson, President Johnson and Treasurer Mrs. Julia Hoyt Brakewood of Wood­ head of the Colby History Depart­ Eustis have been invited to attend b1idge, Conn.; and Elizabeth B. ment, will be the speaker. the meeting to discuss the fiscal poli­ Carey of New Haven. cies and the needs of the College. FUND COMMITTEES TO MEET

KNOX COUNTY COLBY CLUB " METZ " TO LEAVE CITY JOINT meeting of the Fund 0 N December 11 the newly 9r­ A Committees of the Alumni and EV. HAROLD c. METZNER, ganized Knox County Colby Alumnae Councils will meet Febru­ R pastor of the Pleasant Street Club elected the following officers : ary 8, at the Elmwood Hotel to out­ Methodist Church of Waterville since President, Horace P. Maxcy, '29; line the campaign for the 1941 1929 and known to hundreds of Colby vice-president, Lester H. Shibles, '15 ; Alumni Funds. For the second con­ students as " Metz," has accepted a corresponding secretary, Ruth Brack­ secutive year the two committees call to the Trinity Union Methodist ett Spear, '16; recording secretary, are collaborating in the preparation Church of Providence. Few local Frances Quint, '38 ; treasurer, Her­ of the Annual Fund literature and pa tors have had the popularity anci bert W. DeVeber, '36; representa­ the conduct of the campaign to stim­ influence on the student body which tive to tpe Alumnae Council, Diana ulate Annual Alumni gifts to the he has enjoyed. THE COLBY ALUMNUS 17

spent the rest of his life, mostly in graduated Cum Laude with the de­ NECROLOGY or near Chicago. gree of B.A. Hers was a joyful I remained in the East, and saw progress through college for she was him only once again in all the years. very popular and greatly beloved. WILBUR C. WHELDEN, '90 About ten years ago my work called She in turn loved and revered her W ILBUR C. WHELDEN, long me to Chicago, I looked him up, and Alma Mater. prominent in public life in for four weeks we renewed our old Upon graduation she took up Portland, died October 10, at his friendship and rehearsed old experi­ teaching, spending four years at home in that city. ences. I found him the same genial, Ellsworth High, nine years in New­ Mr. Whelden had served as Repre­ straightforward, good companion that buryport High, five years in Charles­ sentative to the State Legislature he had been in the earlier years. town High, Boston, and seventeen from Portland and as Recorder of He was an attractive person, a man years in the Washington Irving High the Portland Municipal Court. He good to know. Animated, quick at of New York City, a school of seven had practised law in Portland from repartee, a good story teller, but thousand girls. 1893, when he was admitted to the genuine, frank, and an upright Having majored in languages, she Cumberland County Bar, until he character. He was the type that chose French as her subject. She gave up active work eight years ago makes the enjoyable companion and made frequent trips abroad for study, because of ill health. the warm friend. We who knew him travel and research work, especially of old find it hard to think that be 'He was born at Bristol September in the history and traditions of that has passed out of our present sight 11, 1865, son of Capt. Charles and part of her native state once included and touch. Emily R. Whelden. After his gradu­ in French Acadia. She was co­ In business he was a salesman. ation from Colby he was principal of author with a friend of a French This had appealed to him from the Cornish High School one year and grammar. first, more than a student life, and in then went to Portland where he In 1930 she retirea ana went it he made more than a moderate studied law in the office of Josiah H. abroad for five years, returning in success. Drummond, '46. June 1935 to attend her class reunion His family, I believe, consisted of Mr. Whelden served in the House at Colby. In that year, too, the alum­ five : his wife, who was a Waterville of Representatives in 1895 and 1897 nae elected her to the Board of girl, three daughters and a son. So and was appointed Municipal Court Trustees. far as I know, all are settled in or Recorder in 1898 by Gov. Llewellyn near Chicago. Deeply interested in !>t:nealogy she Powers and reappointed by Gov. John wrote an interesting and compre­ - Howard A. Lincoln. F. Hill. He was chairman of the hensive history of the Chilcott fam­ Cumberland County Republican Com­ ily back to the 16th centm·y in Eng­ mittee two terms and _was a member land. She was a member of the of the Portland Republican City CLIO M. CHILCOTT, '95 Society of Genealogists of London, Committee many years. ITH the passing of Clio M. England, of the Daughters of the He was a member of the Delta W Chilcott, on October 6, 1940, at American Revolution, of the Colonial Upsilon Fraternity. Johns Hopkins Hospital, into the Dames of the 16th Century, and of He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Higher Life, this world lost a brave the Descendants of the first Crusade. Helen D. Whelden of Portland. and beautiful spirit. Miss Chilcott was the youngest of a She had the faculty not only of family of six, five brothers having making friends but of keeping them, predeceased her. She is survived by CHARLES HOVEY DODGE, '92 for she was sympathetic always in a sister-in-law, Mrs. Langden S. Chilcott HARLES HOVEY DODGE died the sorrows and in the joys of each of Brewer, Maine, by one niece, at his home in Chicago October one. Mrs. Alton B. Jackson of Win­ C chester, Massachusetts, 9, 1939, after an illness of a few Numerous tributes have come tell­ by three nephews, weeks. ing of the influence of her life on Langden S. Chilcott of I met Charles at Hebron Academy, that �f her friends. She loved life, Brewer, Maine, James C. Chilcott of New where we both were in the Class of was happy, public-spirited, generous, York City, and Theodore E. '88. There the acquaintanceship true and courageous, having a high Chilcott of Winchester, Massachu­ grew into a very warm friendship. standard of life and of its accom­ setts. We entered Colby together that fall plishments. She had a fine mind and Through a long year of illness with the Class of '92. He remained was a clear thinker and in whatever she was ever hopeful and cheerful'. only through the fall term, dropping she undertook, perfection was her Up to the last her invariable reply to back and completing his first year goal. a morning greeting, was "I am bet­ with '93. Then he left college to She was born in Sullivan, Maine, ter, thank you." To those of us who enter business. (I had already left but her parents moved to Ellsworth, love her, her life was a benediction at the end of my first year to enter Maine, in her infancy, and there she and an inspiration. Firm in the another college.) For a few years passed through the public and high faith of the Episcopal Church she he was located in Waterville, then schools with high honors, entering passed, a valiant oul, with a smile moved to the middle West, where he Colby in the class of '95 and was on her lips into the Great Beyond. 18 THE COLBY ALUMNUS

ARTHUR W. CLEAVES, '98 tion to his students. He had balance, Her major work in prose was pub­ 0 N October 12th, while watching judgment, and a capacity of analysis lished by Revell in Chicago, and was the Brown - Colgate football which made him as he grew older a entitled, "How Europe Was Won for game in Providence, Arthur W. councilor among his brethren espe­ Christianity," being the life-stories Cleaves passed suddenly away. He cially with younger men. of men concerned in its conquest, a was a member of the class of 1898. For a number of years following series of gracefully and lucidly writ­ He attained high rank as a student. his pastorate at Newburyport be en­ ten ketches of the lives of Christian He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa gaged in editorial writing for the missionaries from St. Paul till and of Delta Upsilon. newspaper there and for the Glouces­ modern times. But she further ter Daily Times and the Lynn Even­ contributed numerous Dr. Cleaves was born in Boston on stories and ing News. During the last years of March 20, 1876. He completed his sketches in prose to a very wide his ministry his ervices were regu­ preparation at Waterville, in Coburn range of current periodicals. Her larly broadcast. He had a wide hear­ Classical Institute. Following his poems are scattered through as wide ing outside his immediate parish. graduation from Colby he entered a range of current periodicals as her Colby, his alma mater, conferred The Newton Theological Institution prose production, and have found a the degree of Doctor of Divinity upon and graduated in 1901. He then be­ place in several anthologies of con­ him in 1920. came pastor of the Baptist Church at temporaneous verse, such as CON­ The suddenness of his passing came TEMPORARY AMERICA North Scituate, Massachusetts, where WOM­ as a shock to his family and to his he was ordained. After that he had EN POETS, MAINE AND VER­ friends. It leaves, however, the a pastorate at Newburyport, where MONT POETS, and very recently, memory of a man in full vigor pass­ he remained until 1920, when he went THE POETIC VOICE OF AMERICA. ing out with a record of high achieve­ to Chicago as Editor of The Baptist, Her mother, long a widow, died in ment and with no chapter of declin­ following in this position Clifton D. 1929. Miss Stubbs continued to livP. ing strength. His passing leaves a Gray, now President of Bates College. quietly, busily engaged in her author­ distinct loss in the ranks of those He did this work with fine success ship and with her flowers in Union who by training and maturity, and being gifted in editorial writing. Place, having a wide acquaintance in intellectual grasp are fitted to be the Bangor and a wider fellowship in the In 1922 he was invited to become inspired guides of this generation. realm of poetry. pastor of the First Baptist Church in He is smvived by his widow, Mrs. Miss Stubbs was a faithful alumna Providence, the oldest Baptist Church Mary Ellen (Nudd) Cleaves, and four of her college and her classmates and in America known historically as the sons : Emery Nudd Cleaves of Cleve­ friends from Colby will remember her Roger Williams Church. Here he re­ land, Ohio, Alfred Sargent Cleaves with the deepest respect and affec­ mained until the time of his death. of this city, Arthur Baily Cleaves of tion. During these years he attained a Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and Rich­ position of wide influence in the city ard Dalton Cleaves, a senior at Har­ CARL H. WITHERELL, '01 and in Rhode Island and in the Uni­ vard University. IEUTENANT -COLONEL CARL versity. He was active in secular L H. WITHERELL died sud­ affairs and was appointed by Gov­ M. WILMA STUBBS, '00 denly while at upper on November ernor Norman S. Case as representa­ ATE in the evening of Monday, 19, 1940, at Fort Brady, Saulte Ste. tive for two commissions sent to L September 2, in Bangor there Marie, Mich. Full military honor Europe. One was a Conference on passed from earth, as quietly as she and Masonic rites for Colonel With­ Adult Education at Cambridge, and had lived, Miss Mattie Wilma Stubbs, erell were held in Waterville on No­ the other the International Advertis­ better known in the world of con­ vember 23rd. Military escort was ing Exposition in Berlin. He was temporary American poetry as M. given the body from Waterville to well versed in Rhode Island history Wilma Stubbs. Miss Stubbs was the the cemetery in Oakland, where Com­ especially in the life and work of daughter of William C. and Annette pany G of Waterville fuwished fir­ Roger Williams. L. Morrison Stubbs, and was born in ing squad and a bugler to render last positions of impor­ He held many Bucksport in 1878. She was gradu­ honors to a soldier who died while on work of the tance in the larger ated from Colby College in 1900, and active duty. Northern Baptist Convention, being for the next decade was engaged in Colonel Witherell was born in Oak­ President of the American Baptist teaching. She was assistant princi­ land, Maine, on February 19, 1878, Foreign Mission Society in '35 and pal of the High School in Caribou, the son of James H. and Emma Bel­ with '36. He was also identified Me., from 1900 to 1906, and then anger Witherell. He prepared for many local organizations and for sev­ taught French and English in the college at Westbrook Seminary and eral years Grand Chaplain of the High School at Bristol, Conn. She received his A.B. degree from Colby Grand Lodge of Rhode Island Masons. went to France and studied at the in 1901 and his M.D. degree from He was for many years a trustee of Sorbonne in 1908-9. The year fol­ Harvard in 1905. Fo1· the next nine Newton Theological Institution. lowing she taught French in the years he practised in his native town, Dr. Cleaves possessed a clear and High School in Woodford , Portland. then went to Augusta, where he incisive mind. He was eminently a She then retired from teaching and practised until 1916. scholar and if he had chosen the gave herself to literary work in both Being a member of the medical teaching side of the ministry he prose and poetry, but especially the staff of the Second Maine Infantry, would have made a great contribu- latter. he went with that regiment to the THE COLBY ALUMNUS · 19

Mexican border in 1916. He then Theta Fraternity. He was a lieu­ One of her friends writes the fol­ entered the regular army as a first tenant, senior grade, in the Medical lowing about her: " She was much lieutenant, Medical Corps, and served Corps of the United States Navy beloved by her hospital associates. in the A. E. F., 1918-19. He was during the World War and did con­ She was noted among her friends for promoted to captain in 1918, made a voy and patrol duty. her reserve, integrity, and charm. major in 1919 and was appointed Dr. Lindsay is survived by his She was gifted with a sense of humor lieutenant-colonel in 1937. Colonel widow, Marie Strom Lindsay, and a and sparkling wit." Witherell was eligible for retirement son, John Strom Lindsay, a student Ill health forced Miss Hall to re­ in June, 1941. at Washington and Jefferson College; sign her position at the Newton Hos­ Colonel Witherell was an active and two sisters. pital and she went to Florida to live man all his life. While he lived in with her sister, Mrs. Mary Sparrowe, Oakland he took part in everything in whose home she was tenderly cared ELVIRA CAROLINE HALL, that pertained to the go-0d of his '19 for during a long period when she home town. He was a member of w ORD has been received of the made a brave but losing fight to re­ the Board of Health there for six death of Elvira Caroline Hall gain her health. years, was Superintendent of Schools on October 26, 1940, in Miami, A kindly, generous, cheerful per­ for two years and served for several Florida. son, her passing is a source of sor­ years as chief of the town fire de­ E. Carrie Hall, as her friends row to her many friends. Her col­ partment. knew her, was born in Bowdoinham, lege classmates will remember her He was a member of the Zeta Psi Maine, where the first years of her with deepest affection. Always a Fraternity. life were spent, after which with her loyal alumna, she has been a faithful Colonel Witherell is survived by parents she moved to Richmond, supporter of alumnae activities. The his widow, the former Lillian Pellkie Maine, where she received her public deepest sympathy is extended to her of Portland, a son James of Bangor, school education. sister, Mrs. Sparrowe, whose address a brother Von of Massachusetts, a After finishing her course of study is Box 2127, Miami, Florida. step-daughter, Ellen Cowing of at the Richmond High School she en­ Wakefield, Mass., and three grand­ tered Colby in the year 1887 and for CLAIRE KYLE JOHNSON, '30 children. three years was a member of the HE many friends of Claire Kyle class of 1890. At the end of her T Johnson will be saddened to third year she was called home by the hear of her death in Newton, Mass. JOHN C. LINDSAY, '06 death of her mother and took up the on October 2, 1940. She was born R. JOHN C. LINDSAY, resident duties of homemaker for her father December 18, 1908 in Chester, Maine, D physician and psyc�iatrist at and sisters. the daughter of John L. and Jessie the Connecticut State Reformatory, Years later, after her father had Mae Kyle. The family came to Wa­ Cheshire, for more than fifteen years, passed on and the Richmond home terville in 1922 where she attended died on November 16, 1940, in New closed, she returned to Colby and Waterville High School and Colby Haven Hospital after a Jong illness. finished studying for a degree and College in the class of 1930. While Dr. Lindsay was considered an au­ graduated with the class of 1919. at Colby she was prominent in col­ thority in his field. Prior to his go­ During her second period of under­ lege activities, was a member of the ing to Connecticut he was senior graduate work at Colby she rendered Chi Omega Fraternity, and was physician and executive officer at the the college a great service assisting greatly interested in young people's Boston (Mass.) State Hospital, sen­ President Roberts with the adminis­ organizations of the First Baptist ior assistant physician at the State trative work of the Women's Divi­ Church of Waterville of which she Hospital in Worcester, Mass., and sion. From a letter written by a was a member. On December 17, assistant superintendent of the Nor­ close friend comes this tribute : 1927 she was married to C. Evan folk County Tuberculosis Hospital at "It was a difficult time for the Johnson, Colby '27. They lived for South Braintree, Mass. He served as women when ' Rob ' had no Dean of several years in Walpole, Mass., assistant physician at the Massachu­ Women and Miss Hall was very help­ where Mr. Johnson was a successful setts State Infirmary, Tewksbury, ful in the college, helping to preserve coach and teacher. They moved to and at the State Hospital in Augusta, the women's position of dignity and Newton, Mass., in 1937 where Mr. Maine. decorum, which she could do so well." Johnson now teaches. Claire was Dr. Lindsay was born in Portland, After being graduated from Colby, active in the Walpole Mothers' Club Maine, on November 22, 1883, the Miss Hall taught at Dean Academy and N ewtonville Woman's Club work. son of Mr. and Mrs. George W. Lind­ in Franklin, Mass., and in other She is survived by her hu band, two say. He prepared for college at the schools for a time, but decided that daughters, Beverley Ann, 12, and Waterville High School and received her choice of occupation should be Dorothy Eleanor, 4; her mother his A.B. degree from Colby in 1906 that of dietitian. She p1·epared for Mrs. John L. Kyle, of Skowhegan'. and his M.D. from Harvard in 1910. this profession at Simmons College Maine ; a sister Helen Kyle Swan He was a member of the American in Boston and accepted a position as (Mrs. Gordon), Colby '26, of East Medical Association, American Psy­ dietitian at Dummer Academy in By­ Milton, Mass., and two brothers chiatric Association, New England field, ¥ass. A year later he entered Harry and Frederick. Deepest sym� Society of Psychiatry, Connecticut the ewton Hospital where she re­ pathy is extended to her husband and State Medical Society, and Phi Delta mained for twelve years. her family. 20 THE COLBY ALUMNUS

1889 with one accord had excuses for not not like what I have said about you, "A Metrical Translation of the attending - and our loyal class recall my warning, "if you do not First Book of the Metamorphoses of agent, Carrie True, upheld the honor tell me about yourself, I'll make up a Ovid," has been composed and pri­ of '95 women in her usual gracious tale." vately printed by Dr. John L. Pepper. manner. - Linda Graves. The last issue of the Alumnus 1894 brought to you all our great loss in 1899 John S. Lynch entered Colby Col­ the passing of Clio M. Chilcott. Just Prof. Henry R. Spencer of Ohio lege fifty years ago this fall, and a year ago we lost Lily S. Pray. State University spoke at Oberlin was graduated in the cla s of 1894. Our successful fortieth reunion was College on Nov. 7 on "The Corpora­ After graduation, he took up the the result of much effort on Clio's tive State," one of the Oberlin Lec­ study of law, and while studying was part, then our Class Agent. tures. In announcing the series, on appointed postmaster of Oakdale, Let us take a peep in at our pres­ " Democracy, Communism and Fas­ Massachusetts, and was graduated ent members. Madge Wilson Gray cism," the Oberlin president said that from the Boston University School of in South Paris, with her lawyer hus­ each speaker had been selected "as Law in the class of 1897. Thereafter band, is a flower grower in the sum­ a man who belie ed thoroughly in he practiced law in Massachusetts mer time; doubtless a club worker democracy, but who, by reason of for a little over ten years, and on in the winter. Emma now has built sound scholarship, could take an ob­ April 29, 1908 was married to Julia a house in St. Petersburg and is bask­ jective viewpoint toward the particu­ F. McGlinchey, Calais, Maine, at ing in the sunshine daily. She keeps lar philosophy which he was to Providence, Rhode Island. They busy with her home and has a cousin explain." went to Washington in 1908 and ever with her who directs a book-shop. since that time he has practiced law Send her a line at 2918 Dartmouth 1907 in said state. Avenue. News has just been received of the death of J. C. Milner of heart They have four sons, John S. Jr., Summers find Carrie True in her disease. He was the husband of Thomas W., Neil J., and Phillip C. summer home at South Paris, Maine. Alice Tyler. They lived in Carters­ Three are graduates of the Univer­ Then she journeys up to Auburndale ville, Georgia. sity of Washington, and the young­ for a time, then up to Schenectady Millard C. Moore completed his est, Phillip C., is a graduate of St. around Christmas where her sister term as president of the Hapden Martin's College at Lacey, Washing­ Addie's husband still lives. Drop in ton, and is now a student at the Uni­ County (Mass.) Teachers Associa­ at West Boylston Library and con­ versity of Loyola Medical School in tion in October. He is superintend­ sult Annie Waite about what to read Chicago. John S. Jr. is prosecuting ent of the Southwick Union. and what not, for there she is still attorney of Thurston County, Wash­ Burr F. Jones, who was treasurer helping to educate the young and old. ington, and is up for re-election in of the Hampden County Teachers Motor up in lovely New Hampshire November. Thomas W. is cashier of Association, at the October meeting and find Clara Tozier Miller in the district Puget Sound Power & was elected secretary for next year. Farmington, and then write me what Light Company. Neil J. is a law He is superintendent of schools for she is doing. She does not write. student. East Longmeadow, Hampden and While playing around Boston drop John S. Lynch was the city attor­ Wilbraham. out to Wakefield and call on Blanche ney of Olympia for three years from Adelaide Holway Brown, instructor Lane enjoying art work and instruct­ 1925 to 1928, inclusive. For the last of English in Springfield Classical ing a class in the Sunday School of six years he has been judge of the High School, was a member of the her church. police municipal court of Olympia Committee on Resolutions. and attorney for the Home Owners' Maybe it will not be too wintery to Loan Corporation, and has been since motor - fly maybe - way up to Pem­ 1908 the inception of said corporation. He broke, Maine, to chat with Lila Har­ Merle R. Keyes has been appointed is also past-president of the Thurs­ den Hersey and her husband. In superintendent of school of the ton - Mason Bar Association, and is case they are not there come back to Bridgton (Maine) district, which also also at the present time, in connec­ Portland and take tea with them at includes Naples and Harrison. tion with his duties as judge, engaged the Eastland, their winter home. Col. John E. Hatch is now at Iowa in private practice in certain mat­ Sometime in your travels stop at State College, Ames, Iowa, having ters which he is able to handle. Westfield, Mass., and locate your formerly been at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. class agent, Linda Graves. In sum­ 1895 mer find her digging in the garden, 1910 Our forty-fifth reunion last June - in winter tutoring in mathematics, In her syndicated Washington col­ was much like the New Testament reading, knitting, and writing letters. umn appearing in Maine papers, marriage feast where the guests Now if any of you good souls do EHzabeth Craig mentioned several THE COLBY ALUMNUS 21

men from this state who are on the 1914 rolls of the U. S. diplomatic service. Marston Morse is the author of an Her brief biography of Robert F. article entitled Twentieth Century Fernald is as follows: . ( Reade1:s will do this magazine a favor Mathematics which appears in the 1f they will report to the Editor all alumni Robert F. Fernald, of Ellsworth, is entering military service. Otherwise it autumn edition of THE AMERICAN stationed in Madrid, Spain. He was will �e v�rt11ally impossible to keep t;ack SCHOLAR. sent there from Lisbon, Portugal. of this vital form of al1'm1ii news.) Fernald was born in Winn, Me., in 1890. He graduated from Hebron 1916 Academy and from Colby in 1910. Thomas G. Van Slyke, '36, staff­ Governor Sewall has appointed Dr. He started out in Puerto Rico and sergeant in charge of maintenance Leon D. Herring of Winthrop to be Santo Domingo, was a clerk in the and supply, 211th Coast Artillery war department here, then clerk in one of the Medical Examiners for the American consulate in Catania in (anti-aircraft), Camp Hulen, Pala­ Kennebec County. The number in 1916. He was at Stockholm, Gote­ cios, Texas. the state was reduced this year from borg, Salonika, Lagos, back to the de­ David M. Trecartin, '37, Army fly­ over 100 to 51. partment here in 1929. Then to Dan­ zig - remember, that was the free ing cadet, Darr Aero Tech, Inst .. city of the Polish corridor before Hit­ Albany, Georgia. 1917 ler decided that he was going to Laurel W. Hersey, '39, has been An article by Morrill L. Ilsley, M. make Europe a German fief. appointed an Aviation Cadet, U. S. D., and Ernest M. Hall, M. D., en­ From Danzig to the Americas, at .titled "Associ.ation of Bilateral Tegucigalpa, Puerto Cabezas, La Paz, aval Reserve, at Squantum, Mass. Santiago, and in 1935 to Lisbon, and Francis Johnson, '40, with U. S. Acoustic N euroma and a Frontal then in 1939 to Madrid. You hear Naval Air Service at Pensacola, Fla. Meningioma," appears in the Septem­ that Spain, having been pacified un­ ber issue of the Bulletin of the Los der the dictator Franco, under the Gabriel Dumont, '40, with U. S. Angeles Neurological Society. tutelage of Hitler and Mussolini, will Army at Fort Clayton, Canal Zone. soon enter the war on the dictators' Donald W. Tozier was elected side. That may have fateful conse­ Walter Strong, '40, with U. S. alderman of the City of Augusta on quences to the United States, because Army Air Service, whereabouts un­ December 11. of the ties of language and race with known. A. Raymond South America, and the way Spain Rogers was elected bulges out to the bulge of South Harry Johnson, '40, with 19th In­ vice commander of the Maine De­ America. Spain may take Portugal. fantry, U. S. A., at Schofield Bar-­ partment of the Yankee Division in We don't know what effect that racks, Honolulu. its first public session in twenty-two might have on the Brazilians with years. As their Portuguese heritage. Edward Sprague, '40, with U. S. principal speaker to the Medical Corps at Fort Devens, Mass. convention, he warned against propa­ ganda "swinging us either way in the present international situati 1912 on." him. It is a real temptation to stop " Our job," he declared, " as members A letter from Eva Reynolds Dun­ in California for the remainder of of the older generation, for we are the year, but I don't think wise for us. of the older group, is to maintain bar, written on Nov. 13 on board SS I am sure I never hated so much to Monterey, Matson Line, contains the leave Shanghai, my home, our friends, democracy here. If we go into an­ following paragraphs of general in­ and especially Phil as I did this time. other conflict which i apparently Our home was attractive, my garden terest: inevitable, let us do so without preju­ bursting with chrysanthemums, our dice and hatred, but with a deter­ With two days notice Virginia and friends about to sea tter to the same I packed up and left Shanghai. We indefinite destinations as we are, and mination to finish a job which cer­ did not want to leave so soon nor did poor Phil left to close up the house. tainly was not completed in the last it seem necessary to get away I do have the consolation that he is war." quickly, but since it looked as though relieved to have us off so easily. We we must leave sooner or later, we had reservations to sail on the thought this trip offered a grand op­ Coolidge on Dec. 31, but he felt very 1918 not wait for that, portunity to see a bit of this part of sure that we could In the November, 1940, issue of the the world. It is actually the first and a few weeks more was not worth Harvard Law Review (Vol. 54, No. boat taking evacuees from China. It what this trip would mean. 1 ) is not heavily booked, and the itiner­ We are all wondering whether the is a book review by Norman D. Lat­ ary fascinated us. It includes stops men may also follow soon or whether tin. Mr. Lattin is Professor of Law Suva, for them to stay. at Manila, Sidney, Auckland, it will be possible at Ohio State University. The book PagoPago, and Honolulu.. We can get no direct word until we reviewed is "Cases on the Law of We have splendid accommodations, reach Honolulu, about the end of Persons and the boat itself is a very nice one. November. We are due in San Fran­ and Domestic Relations " by The Shanghai American School would cisco December 3. Our ship's news William E. McCurdy of the Harvard carries very little China news so we probably have kept open only a few Law faculty. Mr. Lattin is the weeks more so there was no particu­ feel shut off from our part of the author of numerous Law Review lar urge to stay on for that. Virginia world. is studying Geometry and Latin an Two days later: The report this articles and other legal items. He hour each day with a teacher so I am morning is that we are to have a likes to take hi family to the Maine in week in Sidney. We are all thrilled hoping she will not lose anything coast for a portion of his summers to those two subjects. Her English and with the idea. A port call for only a French I think she can do. day or in some cases only a few dabble at one of his hobbies, water­ houTS is such a disappointment. The trip is fine, but what to do color painting. Colby folk best re­ This is very probably our only trip once we arrive in the states is our member him a a very capable vio­ here, so it will give us time to do a problem. Philip is a freshman in the good deal. * * * * * I can get this lini t and soloi t with the musical University of Virginia so I do feel off by air mail, tomorrow. clubs. He still finds time to keep up we must go East and within reach of 22 THE COLBY ALUMNUS this interest - though engaged in 1921 greater appreciation of his worth and writing another book - by playing Raymond Spinney served on the the splendid service he is rendering string quartets once a week purely Suffolk County jury for three weeks to the people of his 2,000 mile parish. for pleasure. In this recreation his in December, tTying to carry on his wife participates at the viola stand. office assignments before and after 1932 Mr. and Mrs. Lattin have one child, his days in the courtroom. He and Thomas E. James is an insurance Phillip, age five. Mrs. Spinney are now living at 128 agent for Prudential Insurance Co. in Helene B. Buker is now Director of Chestnut Street, Beacon Hill, Boston. Providence, R. I. the Bureau of Public Health Nursing Chaplain James Blok is now located for the State of Michigan. 1924 at Fort Devens, Mass. John A. Barnes has recently been Henry Rollins was recently elected made a vice-president of the National president of the Men's Brotherhood 1919 Commercial Bank & Trust Company of the Pleasant Street Methodist Dr. Wentworth V. Driscoll, for­ in Albany, N. Y. Church of Waterville. merly known as " Mike," has been George Davis was elected Judge of for several years in St. Albans, Long Probate for Somerset County, taking 1934 Island. Received M.A. degree at office on January first. He has been Major Frank C. Rideout, (husband Catholic University and M.D. at serving as County Attorney for the of Portia Pendleton) has been retired Loyola. His hobby is still - guess past year. He has been residing in from the army and they have bought what - Athletics! Skowhegan for the last few years a new home. Their address is 209 Ed Dunbar writes that he is a min­ practicing law and holding numerous Pleasant Street, Newton Centre, ister in Flemington, New Jersey, the community offices. He and Mrs. Mass. town made famous by the Haupt­ Davis have a two year old son. mann trial. He is married and has 1936 two children, Norman, 18, and Velma 1926 Caroline Totman has been elected Gene, 14. Writes for magazines and Doris Roberts Gates writes from to the Oakland School Board for a local newspapers. 1502 Lee Street, McKinney, Texas, term of three years. Miss Totman Way out in Glendale, California, that she is busy settling in their new is a real estate broker, and an agent Linc Heyes can occasionally be found, home which they have recently pur­ for life insurance in Oakland. when not on the way to Cuba or on a chased and taking care of their very Betty Mulkern is at present sec­ round-the-world trip. Very modestly, active, adopted daughter, Jane ..In retary to the Credit Manager at the he does not admit running the town, her spare time Doris reviews books L. C. Andrew Lumber Co., Portland, but - (1) He is President of Glen­ for church groups, acts as hostess at Maine. dale Rotary Club ; (2) Director of Literary Clubs, lectures on Greek John Dolan, having completed his the Y. M. C. A.; (3) On Executive politics and entertains their many residence requirements for an M.A. Committee of Boy Scouts. In his friends. degree at McGill, has accepted an spare time, Linc is proprietor and appointment to St. Thomas Military manager of a large cleansing and 1927 Academy in St. Paul, Minn. He dyeing house. Man·ied in 1921, he U. Cleal Cowing, instructor at WTites enthusiastically of the school, has two boys and one girl, ages 11-16. Technical High School, Springfield, which has a 160-acre campus and the Every five years or so, a long was presiding officer in the section on latest in equipment, including a newsy letter comes in from Bill Mental Hygiene at the October meet­ luxurious swimming pool and an ath­ Small, who left Colby before gradu­ ing of the Hampden County Teach­ letic park with its own electric plant ation and later received a B.S. at ers Association. He is a son of for lighting purposes. Arizona State College and M.A. in " Bill " Cowing, '04. Sergeant Thomas van Slyke (see Education at Tempe. He has trav­ Herbert Jenkins is working as an Service Department) writes from eled extensively in all parts of the investigator for Soldiers Relief Com­ Texas : " The camp is about two world, and is now located in Phoenix, mission. miles from the town of Palacios on Arizona, as Psychologist, Sociologist, Matagorda Bay in the Gulf of 1929 and Speciali t with Exceptional Chil­ Mexico. Palacios is one of those David F. Kronquist, a salesman for dren. Bill was married in 1922 and boom-towns you'd have to see to be­ Kendall Mills, is now located at 19 lieve - it looks like a movie western has one daughter, age 10, who may Everett St., East Orange, N. J. set. Most of the nearby towns are some day come to Colby. - Burton E. Small. " Anchor to Windward," by E. V. · ramshackle cow-towns that look de­ Mitchell, published in December, is serted during the day except for dedicated to Rev. Neal D. Bousfield. maybe a few sleepy Mexicans slouch­ 1920 A book of travel and description of ing in front of the general store. Dr. Merrill S. F. Greene of Lewis­ the Maine coast in winter, it has The cowboys are usually in town ton was appointed one of the Medi­ much to say about the work and per­ Saturday nights, but they're a far cal Examiners for Androscoggin sonnel of the Maine Seacoast Mis­ cry from the movie versions - they County by Governor Sewall, accord­ sion, of which Bousfield is Superin­ don't even tote guns any more ..... ing to a news dispatch on January 4. tendent. Reading it gives one a I'm getting along fine, personally. THE COLBY ALUMNUS 23

I'm a staff sergeant in charge of teaching in Winslow High; Lois mean enjoying it. I am at the same maintenance and supply for an anti­ Lund is in Old Town ; and Nancy job teaching French and Latin at aircraft machine gun battery, and Libby is living in Kittery and teach­ East Corinth Academy." though the job keeps me pretty busy, ing in Portsmouth, N. H. it's interesting and has given me a As for yours truly, Church and 1940 chance to ' see America first ' at Community Affairs take up a good Two members of the class are Uncle Sam's expense. The regiment deal of time. The Fall was full up working for the New England Home I am in is brigaded here with the with a trip to New York City and the for Little Wanderers. Jean Bridges 197th from New Hampshire and the Fair and a trip to Newton Centre to is located in Jamaica Plain, Mass., 203rd from Missouri, both anti-air­ attend my sister Ruthie's wedding. and Virginia Gray is extension Sec­ craft regiments. We also have a Yes, and Don is still studying at retary, State of Maine Branch Inc., quartermaster detachment and a Yale. Besides his classes, the big and is located in Waterville. medical detachment from Fort Sam thing for him is his preparation for Barbara Mitchell is a student at Houston. All in all, it's quite a "Prelims " which come in the Spring. Katherine Gibbs School in Boston. community." - Dottie Rhoades, '36. Elizabeth Perkins is a student at Francis Barnes has opened a law Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, N. Y. office in Fort Fairfield. Constance L. Tilley is a student at Eleanor Tolan Hooker's husband, 1937 Boston University School of Social Wade, is a teacher in Junior High. Louise Tracey writes, " I am teach­ Work, in Boston. He graduated from Williston Acad­ ing the third grade in the Plainfield Marion B. Jackins is head of the emy and Colby and is now working Grammar School, here in Connecti­ stationery department of F. W. Wool­ for his Master's at B. U. They are cut, enjoying my work a great deal." worth's in Waterville. living in Holbrook, Mass. "Lefty " A note from Eleanor A. Barker Barbara Towle Wheeler writes, Cole (Helen de Rochemont's .hus­ states, "After three years in the " Oakland has needed Girl Scouts for band) is teaching in Thomaston and teaching racket, I've given it up to a long time and I am having fun in is very active in the Sports Clubs. accept a job with Home Decorators getting Brownie, Intermediate, and They see a good bit of Chubby Caddoo Inc. organizing silver clubs in Aroos­ Senior Girls' Troops started." and the Herbie DeVebers. Phyl took - it's a lot more profitable and Private Gabriel Dumont of the 10th Jones is working in New York and a lot more fun! " Signal Corps is stationed at Fort living in New Rochelle. She finds Clayton in the Panama Canal Zone. her work - taking a survey of res­ Ten graduates of 1940 of whom the 1938 taurant policies - extremely confin­ alumni office has record are working A. Willetta Herrick, Rangeley, is ing, although interesting. for insurance companies. Bob Bruce, one of the prize winners of the Lit­ Eleanor Daland Avard and her hus­ Horace Burr, and Ernest Harvey are erary Guild Slogan Contest, winning band vacationed in Maine during Oc­ with American Mutual, Bruce in $100.00. Congratulations on behalf tober. They left the kiddies, Babs Hartford, Burr in Newark, and Har­ of the class of '38 ! and Dale, at home with friends, even vey in Portland. Tom Brenner, Fran­ Carleton Savage is now in the though they missed having them cis Allen, and Bill Taylor are with Canal Zone with the Geological Sec­ around. Betty Miller and Adeline Liberty Mutual in Boston. William tion, Division of Special Engineers. Bourget are both back at Waterville Small and Conrad Swift are rooming Lothrop Ricker has a government High. Teresa Henderson is back at together in Hartford ; Bill is with the position in Washington, D. C. Coburn, Edna Bailey at Kingfield, Travelers Insurance Co. and Conrad A publicity release from Hollywood and Tilly Stinchfield at Berwick with the National Fire Insurance Co. reveals that Jimmy Williams played Academy. Dot Tozier attended Bates John Foster is also connected with the leading role in a television broad­ Summer Session along with Hal the Travelers in Waterbury. Frank cast, " The Little Gray Man," re­ Hickey and Ray Stinchfield. All Lillie is selling insurance for a Maine cently. He is employed by Warner three went out for dramatics. company. Brothers and is studying dramatics Kay Franklin Merrill is enjoying John Gilmore is doing practice under Maurice Kostloff on the side. living in an old Colonial house in teaching in the junior high school of Georgetown, Mass. Edna Allen is in West Springfield, Mass. Spencer Dayton, N. J. Ruth Longley Arms­ 1939 Winsor is a reporter for the Bangor worthy has moved from Madison to Forrest (" Woody ") Doten is Daily News. Edson Small is work­ Norridgewock; Kay Harper Davis wholesale agent for Lucky Strike ing for the First National Stores in from Lynn to Marblehead, Mass.; cigarettes and the American Tobacco Oakland. Walter Reed is principal and Barb and Bernie Stallard from Company. James Chase reports see­ of the Stratton (Maine) high school. Fairfield to Waterville. Jeannette ing him in Standish, Maine, this Leon Tobin works for H. Tobin & Benn must be up to something in summer. Sons (wholesale beef) in Brighton, Boston, for her new address is at the Melvin Markson is working for the Mass. John Morphy, whose marriage Clarendon St. Y. W. C. A. Phyllis Federal Tea Company as general to Geraldine Wells was reported in Carroll Sandquist is living in Brain­ route inspector, covering ten states the October ALUMNUS, is assistant tree Highlands. Betsy Winchell on the average of three times a year. superintendent of the Webster Shoe Morss is back in Brunswick after Arlene E. Paine writes, " I am Corporation, Webster, Mass. Alfred having a peek at her husband's home till enjoying the life of an ' old­ Timberlake is with the Portland - England. Amy Thompson is maid ' school teacher and I really Monson Slate Co. in Monson. Barney 24 THE COLBY ALUMNUS

Jordan is a chemist with the Hol­ Ruth King Gould, '40, of Newton lingsworth & Whitney in Waterville. Center, Mass., to Roger Morris Steb­ Fred Ford is doing continuity and bins, '40, of Hastings-on-Hudson, N. production work for New England Y., on ovember 9, 1940, in Newton MARRIAGES Town Meeting on the Colonial Net­ Center, Mass. Colby people at the Helen Elizabeth Wade, '38, of J a­ work, after taking a couple of courses wedding were : Marjorie Gould, '37, maica, N. Y., to George Wilder Saw­ at B. U. this summer. Dorothy Gould Rhoades, '36, Ruth don, of Ithaca, N. Y., on November Floyd Fitts is a chemist with the Stebbins, '41, Donald Rhoades, '33, 16, 1940, in Jamaica. Miss Kath­ duPont deN emours Co. in Gibbstown, and Florence King Gould, '08. Mr. arine B. Watson, '38, was an attend­ N. J., and Halsey Frederick is with and Mrs. Stebbins will reside in ant of the bride. Mrs. Sawdon is the Wright Aeronautical Corp. in Hastings-on-Hudson. with the ew York Times, while Mr. Paterson, N. J. Tom Elder and Sawdon, a graduate of the college of Maurice Searle are with the W. R. ENGAGE 1ENTS Architecture, of Cornell University, Grace Co. in New York. Clarence Doan Miller to Maurice Searle, '40, is a Land cape Architect. Fernald (husband of Dorothy Smith, both of New York City, in December Ada Bates, "31, of Abbott, to 1940. '42 ) is a clerk in the War Depart­ Maurice Searle is at present Merle Wyman of Monson, on June ment. Harley Bubar has recently ac­ working for W. R. Grace Co., 7 Han­ 29. Mrs. Wyman i still teaching in cepted a position with the Grace Line, over Square, N. Y. C., in the cashiers­ Athens. importers, in New York City. Russell accounts department. Birtwistle is with the Narragansett Verna Greene, '30, to Clement Tay­ Eleanor Wood of Portland to Electric Co. in Providence. lor, of Saco, on June 30, 1940. Mr. Lawrence P. Fitton, '42, of Worces­ and Mrs. Taylor are making their ter, Mass. Miss Wood is a graduate Kenneth McArdle is junior secre­ home in Saco. of Westbrook Junior College and has tary at the New Haven Y. M. C. A. Priscilla Jones, '39, of Waterville, a position with Dun and Bradstreet, Ernest Marriner is with General to John Allan Hauter, (University of Inc. of Portland. Mr. Fitton trans­ Electric and taking a business train­ Arizona, '33) on November 28, in ferred from Clark University to ing course in Schenectady, N. Y. Ed Waterville. Mr. Hauter is New Eng­ Colby. Lake is with the Scott Paper Co. in land District Manager of the Group Margaret Libbey, '37, of West­ Ridley Park, Penna. Earle Lord is Department of the Sun Life Insur­ boro, Mas ., to William Darlow of working for New England Public ance Company of Canada. Mr. and Westboro, on October 26, 1940. Service Co. in Augusta. Ed Jenison Mrs. Hauter will make their home at is assistant manager for the Devon­ Standish Road, Wellesley Hills, Mass. BIRTHS shire Corporation in Manchester, N. To Mr. and Mrs. Eugene A. Mc­ H., the servicing corporation of the Beulah Blossom Fenderson, '36, of Alary, (Eugene McAlary, '35, Ruth Ogunquit, to Robert Morril Smith, National Shawmut Bank of Boston. Michalek, '36) a dau"hter, Barbara '37, of Rockport, Mass., on October Donald Gilfoy is a salesman for the Ann, on November 22, in Westfield, 25, at Ogunquit. Mr. and Mrs. Smith Gilfoy Distributing Co. in Charles- Mass. This is their second child. . will make their home in Rockport, ,"'town, Mass. and Don Gardner for To Mr. and Mrs. Perley C. Fuller­ Mass. Beech-Nut Packing Co. in Leomin­ ton, (Perley C. Fullerton, '27) a a swell Joyce M. Perry, '38, of Rye, Y., ster, Mass. Don writes, "It's N. daughter, Lois Elizabeth, on April 7, job and I have plenty of samples. to Frederick H. Goss, (Unive1 sity of 1940, in Hartford, Conn. I'm slowly going Beech-Nutty! Illinois, '31) on December 21 in Rye, To Mr. and Mrs. H. Marston Don't forget to buy Beech-Nut." N. Y. Mr. Goss is with the West­ Morse, (H. Marston Morse, '14) a Vinnie Allen is with the Railway chester Lighting Co., and they will daughter, Julia, on November 27, Mor­ 45 Express Co. in Portland. John make their home at No. Everts 1940, at Princeton, N. J. rison is preaching at the Congrega­ Ave., Elmsford, N. Y. To Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Mullaney, tional Church in Winslow. Mild.red M. Thibodeau, '38, of Van (Ruth Hodgdon, '37) a daughter, Alexander Anton is a student at Buren, to John P. Madore, on Novem­ Sally, in November 1940. Harvard Dental School. Norman ber 7, 1940 in Caribou. Mr. Madore Danforth is a student apprentice for is an Inspector, Maine Division of Allis Chalmers Mfg. Co. in Milwau­ Markets. kee, Wis. Allan Gray is working for Ernestine Malkus, '38, to Andrew Boothby & Bartlett Co. his B. D. degree at the Garrett Bib­ J. Brennan, of Troy, N. Y., on General Insurance lical Institute in Evanston, Ill. December 3, 1939. Mr. Brennan is 185 Main St. George Nelson is with Pratt & Whit­ an Airplane mechanic at the Troy, Waterville, Maine ney Aircraft in East Hartford, Conn. New York, Airport. Albert Poulin works for Sears Roe­ Elizabeth Elaine Gurney, '34, of buck & Co. in Augusta. Leonard Waterville, to Carleton T. Byrne, of Smith is studying history for his Portsmouth, N. H., on December 30, 1940, at the Sacred Heart Church, in Millett, Fish & Dresser M. A. degree at New York Univer­ Public Accountants Waterville. Mr. Byrne is a graduate sity. Roger Stebbins, recently mar­ and of the Wentworth School of Engi­ ried to Ruth Gould, is connected with Auditors in New York neering in Boston and is employed Sears Roebuck & Co. PORTLAND, MAINE City. at the Navy Yard in Portsmouth.