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Maine Alumnus, Volume 37, Number 5, February 1956

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ndicative of the spirit now extant in the ALUMNUS Intramural athletic leagues is illustrated I by the following incident which may re­ mind some old-timers of the heating plant scraps of yore. Undefeated Newman Club was to meet FEBRUARY, 1956 VOLUME 37, NUMBER 5 Corbett Hall 4 (fourth floor), also unde­ feated, in a basketball game to decide the lead in one of the non-fraternity leagues. CONTENTS Newman Club’s ace player happens to be a resident of Corbett Hall, fourth floor, and 5 The University some of the residents of that floor thought it unloyal of him to be playing for the op­ 7 Local Associations ponents. 8 The Southland Revisited Game time came, and Newman’s ace didn’t 10 The Teacher Shortage show up. The game didn’t go well for New­ man. At halftime, Corbett 4 had an 11-point 13 Athletics lead and appeared on the way to victory. 14 Necrology During the halftime intermission, the miss­ ing player arrived at the gym out of breath 14 Notes from the Classes and looking like he had experienced an ordeal. Hurriedly changing into his uniform de­ spite his breathless condition, the Newman COVER ace got into the game, but he was far below his usual level of performance. Who will teach them? The youngsters on this month’s cover are typical of the He scored only one basket, but his pres­ thousands of children who will overflow Maine’s elementary schools in the next few ence inspired Newman to rally and to even­ years. For information on what the School of Education is doing about the teacher tually win the game by two points and go shortage, present and future, see the article in this issue. into the league lead. His late arrival was explained as follows: some Corbett residents, an even dozen of STAFF them, so the story goes, decided it just wasn’t cricket for a Corbett man to be play­ Editor DONALD V. TAVERNER ’43 ing for the opponents, so they kidnapped A ssociate Editor WALTER P. SCHURMAN, JR. ’52 him from his room and hied him away to a C lass N otes Editor MARGARET M. MOLLISON ’50 student apartment in Orono village. There they tied him securely, so they thought, to a bed and returned to the gym GENERAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION to watch the game. But the hero of this tale upset the well-laid plans by bursting Officers his bonds, making his escape, and running full-tilt all the way from the village to Thomas G. Mangan '16, president; Henry T. Carey ’22, vice president; Edwin H. Memorial Gymnasium in time to participate Bates ’37, clerk; George F. Dow ’27, treasurer; Donald V. Taverner ’43, executive in the game after all. secretary; Margaret M. Mollison ’50, assistant secretary. The hero scored only one basket in the game, but as the fates would have it, that Alumni Council two points proved to be Newman’s margin of victory and the dastardly deed was Lewis O. Barrows ’16, Frank C. Brown ’30, Clifton E. Chandler '13, Norris C. avenged. Clements ’25, Thomas J. Desmond ’33, Arthur T. Forrestall ’33, John F. Grant ’48, Or as Sam Sezak ’31, director of the In­ Mrs. Emilie K. Josselyn ’21, George E. Lord ’24, Miss Elizabeth A. Mason ’30, Clifford tramural Basketball League, said, “Crime G. McIntire ’30, Alvin S. McNeilly ’44. Robert W. Nelson ’45, Myron C. Peabody '16, just doesn’t pay, that’s all.” Albert S. Noyes ’24, Conan A. Priest ’22, Mrs. Winona C. Sawyer ’43, Ermo Scott, ’31, Interest in the intramural leagues is high Mrs. Lucy F. Sheive ’27, Robert F. Thurrell '15, Thomas N. Weeks ’16. throughout the student body. Some of the more important league games draw good crowds to Memorial Gymnasium. Alumni Trustees The double-header on the evening when the Newman Club vs. Corbett 4 game was Miss Jessie L. Fraser ’31, Raymond H. Fogler ’15. played also paired Phi Mu Delta against Kappa Sigma for the lead in the fraternity division. This pair of contests drew more Published monthly from October to June inclusive, by the University of Maine General Alumni Association. Business office, The Maine Alumnus, University of Maine, Orono, Maine. Subscription spectators than some of the varsity home price, $3.00 per year, included in annual alumni dues of $5.00. Member: American Alumni Council. games this winter. Entered as second class matter at the Post Office at Orono, Maine, under act of March 3, 1870. 3 FEBRUARY, 1956 AN ANONYMOUS GIFT OF $25 STARTED A FUND WHICH HAS HELPED 114 STUDENTS

An anonymous gift of $25.00 made through Harold P. Marsh ’09 in May 1930 was the beginning of the General Loan Fund which has grown to $5098. Loans amounting to $15,775 have been made to 114 students during the 25 years since the fund was established.

The benefits of and need for an unrestricted loan fund to help deserving stu­ dents were immediately apparent, for in 1931-32 all four classes, 1932, 1933, 1934, and 1935, and the Student Senate, made gifts totaling $1077. Two years later the classes of 1934, 1935, and 1936, and the Student Senate, added $559 to the fund, which together with other gifts raised the principal to $2500.

In addition to the anonymous friend who made five additional gifts, several individuals, most of them University faculty members, have contributed to this fund. The largest individual contribution to the General Loan Fund came from the estate of Agnes M. Lindsey in the amount of $1,000.

Several student organizations, too, have a share in this fund. In addition to the classes and Student Senate mentioned above are Phi Kappa Phi, Tau Beta Pi, Heck Club, The Maine Campus, Alpha Zeta, and Beta Theta Pi all made gifts. The Student Senate made three gifts totaling $404.

Unforeseen and unavoidable circumstances sometimes place students in the position of needing immediate financial help to remain in school. It is in this type of situation that the General Loan Fund has proved its true worth to the University and to the students involved.

The University is deeply grateful to the unknown donor whose gift established this valuable fund and to all who have contributed to it. The Fund is open to receive gifts from alumni and friends who are interested in helping needy students. THE UNIVERSITY

Educational T V Cornell University has appointed Dean grants-in-aid of research, in support of this of Agriculture Arthur L. Deering '12 to study. hen the University launched its cur­ serve on Cornell’s National Advisory Com­ Professor Walter Whitney of the English rent series of television programs mittee for an extended program in graduate Department delivered an address at a meet­ on the two Bangor stations last Oct. study in Extension education. ing of the New England Association of 31, President Arthur A. Hauck was asked Professor Robert P. Shay of the depart­ Secondary School and College Teachers. to speak on the potential interrelation of ment of business, economics, and sociology The subject was “What the College Wants education and television in Maine. department accepted an invitation to give a the Incoming Freshman to Know.” Profes­ He pointed out that an educational chan­ paper on “Consumer Credit in the Postwar sor Whitney is chairman of Freshman Eng­ nel had been tentatively assigned to the Uni­ Decade” before the American Finance As­ lish which this year has 36 divisions. versity, and that if it was to become opera­ sociation meeting in New York late in De­ Professor Ronald B. Levinson, head of tional it would require the support of the cember. the Philosophy Department, read a paper whole state, as was the case of 13 of the 17 Lewis E. Clark ’50, Extension Service on “Language, Plato, and Logic” at a three- educational channels on the air at that time. farm management specialist, was the State day meeting of the eastern division of the “An educational television station must of Maine’s delegate to the 33rd annual American Philosophical Association at Bos­ receive its support entirely from the com­ Agricultural Outlook Conference held in ton University. munities through gifts and taxes since it Washington, D. C. Dr. Alfred B. Chaet, instructor in zoology, has been conducting experiments dealing cannot sell program time. This means that Dr. Clinton R. Blackmon of Doylestown, with the problem of death from severe scald­ there must be wholehearted public support Pa., has been named assistant professor of ing. Using marine worms for his experi­ for the undertaking.” agronomy and assistant agronomist at the ments, he has found that when these animals Whether or not the wholehearted public Agricultural Experiment Station. He holds are subjected to high temperatures, such as support will be forthcoming may be indi­ the B.S. degree from Clemson, the M.S. are experienced in burns, they die as a result cated early in February when the Maine degree from the University of Massachu­ of a toxic chemical released into the animal’s Committee on Educational Television, which setts, and the Ph.D. degree from Rutgers. includes four members of the Legislature, circulatory system. Dr. Chaet has been Horton H. Morris ’52A, assistant profes­ and a Citizens Committee on Educational analyzing this toxic chemical in the hope of sor of chemistry, has received a $10,000 Television, which has been studying the eventually being able to destroy it before Frederick Gardner Cottrell grant for one situation, meet at Colby College for discus­ it kills the animal. year by Research Corporation. sion. Two members of the University faculty The grant is in support of a research proj­ “In recent years there has been an in­ with combined service of 69 years died ect involving a study of the synthesis and creasing interest in adult education. Every during December. reactions of certain organic compounds. livingroom can become a classroom Arthur St. John Hill, professor emeritus Two previous grants have been made by (through educational television),” President of electrical engineering, died at his home Research Corporation, a non-profit founda­ Hauck said in his TV talk. “The University in Orono, Dec. 15. tion which distributes its total net income to could increase the effectiveness in all three Professor Hill joined the University facul­ of its programs of teaching, extension, and ty in 1918 after teaching at Columbia Uni­ research. There are wonderful possibilities versity and New York University. He re­ for supplementing the teaching of science, tired in 1949 and was awarded a Doctor of Engineering degree by the University in chemistry, physics, etc., in the secondary 1950. schools.” Among the survivors are two sons, Ralph There is much discussion in the University A. ’28 and Charles S. ’39, and three daugh­ community about the exciting possibilities ters, Alice (Hill) Halloch ’25, Vera Hill of an educational TV station. Whether or ’30, and Edith (Hill) Brewer ’36. not such a station will materialize may well Llewellyn M. Dorsey '16, professor of be decided in the next few months. dairy husbandry, died in a classroom on Dec. 13. Faculty Notes Professor Dorsey joined the University faculty in 1917 following his graduation President Arthur A. Hauck was named from Maine. He received the M.S. degree chairman of the New England Board of at Maine in 1923. In addition to his teach­ Higher Education at its initial meeting. He ing duties, he was associate diary husbandry- is also a member of the executive commit­ man at the Agricultural Experiment Station. tee. President Arthur A. Hauck was named to Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, the Commission on Pre-Professional Edu­ Vermont, and Connecticut educators are cation of the Association of American Col­ members of the board which has adopted leges during the Association’s 42nd annual an interstate compact to promote higher meeting in St. Louis in January. education, especially in the fields of medi­ Santa Claus was much in evidence at the third annual Memorial Union cine, dentistry, and veterinary medicine. Christmas party for faculty, administra­ Capt. Mial D. Stafford, Columbus, Ga., tion, students, and their families just Mid-Term Commencement has been named a member of the ROTC before the Christmas vacation, but faculty. He is a graduate of Yale University when Maine Campus photographer For the first time since 1947 there will be Hank Meinecke ’56 snapped this photo and is a veteran of World War II and the no February commencement this year. Saint Nick was being ignored by the Inaugurated in that year to accommodate Korean Conflict. young fry.

FEBRUARY, 1956 5 Chair” one night and painted out the other still carrying on although most likely not class numerals and painted on our own. It doing much shot putting, hammer throwing, was very soon after this that the practice discus casting, etc., to say nothing of the was discontinued. 100-yard dash which he won for our class A lfred E. Crabtree ’12 in an inter-class meet thereby almost single- handedly clinching the championship for Dear Editor, that year. Referring to letters in the December issue Senior A lumni in respect to the stand-pipe activity, it (EDITOR’S NOTE—Considerable cor­ would be of interest to know the approxi­ respondence on the practice of painting mate date this famous land mark was re­ class numerals on the old stand-pipe has re­ moved. It seems to have survived much vealed that a number of classes thought they later than we had realized and the allure it were the last to accomplish this feat. The furnished for class numerals evidently ex­ letter from “The Last Fool” published in isted up to the time of its demise. Perhaps, December indicates that the year 1911 the “Last Fool” could furnish the informa­ marked the end of the practice with '13 being tion. the last class numerals to adorn the old land The methods of conducting this work mark. Any further comments?) seem to have varied to some degree and that outlined by Mr. Bearce had some merit. He refers, however, to the “assumption” of Senior Alumnus as to the routine followed. Book Review Elected honorary lieutenant colonel His meaning is not entirely clear, but the of the R.O.T.C. unit by vote of the stu­ plan as outlined in previous letter was that 50 th ANNIVERSARY HISTORY CLASS dent body was Dale Starbird, Winter- followed by members of the class (’99) of 1906, by Members of the Class, Forest port. She was presented a loving cup City Printing Company, Portland, p. 107. and her commission at the annual when they were engaged in this form of Military Ball, Jan. 13. recreation. I am not, of course, familiar At the 45th reunion of the Class of 1906 with the methods followed by the other it was proposed that we attempt the printing large numbers of returning veterans, the classes and did not attempt to describe of a history to cover each and every one of mid-year graduation was discontinued by them. the 168 members listed in the Alumni Di­ rectory so far as it was possible to obtain the Committee on Administration because Our method presented no particular di­ reliable information about each member of the small number of students completing lemma because we were fortunate to have even though at that time there were about degree requirements at the end of the first in the “top crew” one of the most powerful 30 whose addresses were unknown. semester. athletes the college has ever produced and The History has been produced largely In 1950 the University graduated its larg­ so hauling the “artist” back to the question­ due to the untiring efforts of W. D. Bearce est February class of more than 200 stu­ able safety of the tank top was, by his and F. J. Simmons. It begins with a back­ dents. There have been less than 70 gradu­ efforts, considerably simplified. The most ward look over the last 50 years listing ating for the last two years. of our crew have now “gone on to their re­ wards” but it is pleasant to know that he is those who have earned advanced degrees, obtained honorary degrees, or are recog­ Employees Honored nized in W ho's W ho in A m erica and other fields of endeaver. Four employees who have given 25 years Each and every member has been fea­ service to the University were awarded gold tured to a greater or lesser degree depending pins at a special recognition banquet for upon the cooperation of the individuals in maintenance, service, and clerical employees, furnishing genealogical and historical out­ Dec. 20. lines. More than 300 attended the second annual Nine pictures include four athletic groups, banquet at which the pins were presented two of the 1906 graduation at Orono and the to Nathan Grose, chef in Balentine Hall; Law School, and three of reunion groups. John Lawson, employed by the buildings Two poems are included, one by Class Poet and grounds department; Joseph Smith, dor­ F. D. Southard, written especially for this mitory custodian; and Kenneth Wood, fore­ edition, and one by Frank L. Bailey. man of the steam plant. Our 79 living members are proud to pre­ President Arthur Hauck presided and sent this fine record of achievement as a commended the employees for their fine possible example to the future 50-year record. Mildred R. Coveil ’34 responded for classes in keeping the names of Maine men the employees. Charles E. Crossland '17, and women recorded in historical form. assistant to the president, led group singing. Copies may be obtained by writing the Class Secretary. Copies of our History may be found in Letters the Library of Congress, Washington, D. C.; Dear Sir; James A. Harmon ’40 has been named ~New England Historic Genealogical Soci­ Associate Director of Admissions at the ety, Boston, Mass.; Maine State Public Li­ I have read with much interest the letter University. He was previously associat­ brary, Augusta, Maine; Maine Historical on page 13 of the October issue of your ed with the University for several years Society, Portland, Maine; the Bangor Public magazine concerning painting class numerals as instructor in mathematics, assistant Library, Bangor, Maine; and the University on the standpipe. to the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, and as registrar. He is a for­ of Maine Library, Orono, Maine. I first entered in the Class of 1910 and, mer clerk of the General Alumni Associ­ — Earle R. Richards, either as a freshman or a sophomore, I am ation. Mr. and Mrs. Harmon and their two children have recently returned to Secretary for 1906, not sure which, I occupied that “Boatswain’s the State of Maine from California. South Berwick, Maine

6 THE MAINE ALUMNUS Sportsmanship, A Career

One of the celebrities of the sports Local Associations world at the head table for the memori­ al luncheon on the late Grantland Rice’s 75th birthday in New York in Southern California Alumni— Coming Meetings November was Dan Chase ’08, execu­ Head Football Coach Harold S. Wester- tive director of Sportsmanship Brother­ man was the guest and speaker at a dinner Pulp and Paper Alumni Luncheon— hood, Inc. meeting of the Southern California Alumni 12:00 noon, Feb. 22 At least one of the writers present, Association in Los Angeles on January 6. Biltmore Hotel, New York City Fred Russell of the Nashville Banner, Coach Westerman discussed the Univer­ North Shore Alumni— was apparently more impressed by Dan February 13, 7:30 P.M. sity’s athletic programs and showed motion Chase than by the galaxy of sports Hitching Post Inn pictures of the 1955 football season at stars because he devoted more space Beverly, Mass. Maine. Arrangements for this meeting were in his column the next day to Dan St. Petersburg, Fla., Alumni— made by George O. Ladner ’26, president of than he did to the luncheon. 12:00 noon, February 11 the group. Calling Mr. Chase “a man who has Pennsylvania Hotel devoted his life to developing Ameri­ Portland Alumnae— can youth through sports” and “the The Portland Chapter of University of Regularly Scheduled Meetings heart and soul of Sportsmanship Maine Women met on January 4 with Weekly— Brotherhood,” he reviewed Dan’s color­ Robert Preti ’46, Portland attorney, as ful career as director since 1926 of Portland Alumni speaker. Friday Noon the organization whose purpose is Mr. Preti spoke to the attending alumnae “to foster the spirit of sportsmanship Commodore Restaurant on “Wills and Legal Problems.” throughout the world.” Casco Bank Bldg. A social hour with refreshments was en­ Boston Alumni joyed following the business meeting. City Club, Thompsons Spa Chicago Alumni— Friday Noon Maine Club of Auburn-Lewiston Head Football Coach Harold S. Wester­ Washington, D. C., Alumni Third Thursday of month man was the guest and speaker at a January Thursday, 12:30 P.M. American Legion Home 14 meeting of the Chicago Alumni Associa­ Lotus Club Auburn, 6:30 P.M. tion. This meeting was held at the home of 14th St. at New York Ave. Augusta-Hallowell Alumni Philip D. Simonton '10. First Friday of month Coach Westerman discussed the Universi­ Monthly— Pioneer House, Augusta ty’s Athletic Programs and showed high­ Chicago Alumni Noon light films of Maine’s 1955 football season. Carson’s Men’s Grille St. Petersburg, Fla., Alumni George Garland ’45 headed the committee First Thursday of month Contact S. H. Winchester ’11 on arrangements for this enjoyable evening. Noon 414-4th Ave. (51-2771) North Shore (Mass.) Alumni— Assistant Football Coach and Head Coach of Baseball Walter Anderson was the guest and speaker at the January 12 meeting of the North Shore Alumni Association. Coach Anderson discussed the Universi­ ty’s Athletic programs with the attending alumni and showed films of Maine’s 1955 football season. Arrangements for this meeting were made under the leadership of Leslie S. Ray, Jr. ’50, program chairman for the group. Southern Connecticut Alumni— Officers elected at the December 13 meet­ ing of the Southern Connecticut Alumni As­ sociation were: Wallace Francis ’42, presi­ dent; Hollis Tedford ’44, vice president; Mabel (Kirkpatrick) Folsom ’28, secretary- treasurer. Mr. Francis succeeds Philip A. Harriman ’24 as president. Black Bear Club of Boston— On December 30, the Black Bear Club of Boston held a Luncheon with Maine students home for the Christmas vacation as guests. Arrangements for this Luncheon were New and retiring presidents of the Southern Connecticut Alumni Assn, are made by Peter J. Wedge ’48, president of shown at the head table with Maine football coach Hal Westerman (right) at the group’s annual dinner meeting Dec. 12 at the Fireside Restaurant, Milford, Conn. the Boston Black Bears, and Kenneth Hight Standing is new president, Wallace R. Francis ’42 of Fresh Meadow Lane, Milford. ’27, president of the Boston Alumni Associa­ At left is retiring president Philip A. Harriman ’24 of 49 Livingston Street, New tion. Haven, Conn.

FEBRUARY, 1956 7 The Southland Revisited

A Studied Evaluation of Public Education in the South by a University Professor Who Taught There 30 Years Ago

By Dr. Frank C. Foster Professor o f Education

egregation is not the major issue or in­ story” in that part of our country. for adults as well as youth, open evenings terest in education in the South. And The vitality of this movement to improve and summers as well as winters. S it can be shown that in many ways the education generally is today one of the Offerings in shop, music, art, business, South is doing more for public education South’s major investments in building anew hobbies provide opportunities for growth in today than Maine. that part of our nation. improved occupational skill to better home To those who read the news every day of And I think this holds a real lesson for us. and community life. the more spectacular events in the South, this may seem contradictory. But after trav­ e have allowed ourselves to think that hen I look at the progress which has eling there a month and a half, visiting W the New England area is the part of W been made in education and in general schools, colleges, state offices and many the United States where education has had cultural relations in the South, in the 30 communities I am convinced those state­ its beginning and its major growth. years since I first taught school there, I am ments are accurate. We should revise this thinking—bring it confident for the future. Segregation is a difficult enough problem. up to date in the light of developments in This feeling I have despite the news you It is a frustrating and confusing factor in the other parts of the country, such as the South. read frequently of sporadic outburst of feel­ South’s development. For example, a comparison of the avail­ ings both for and against desegregation. For But the big issue and significant force in able statistics on attendance, investments in the South has powerful forces of great moral southern life today is education itself. schools and teachers’ salaries and the re­ and spiritual strength that have led and By this I mean that the money that has sources available for education tells this continue to lead the move towards equality gone into plant, the improvements I saw story today: for all people. demonstrated in teaching itself— in fact, the After my travels in the deep South this whole increase in the quality and quantity The South has been drawing more per tax year, this is the way I believe those who are of education is the real “story behind the dollar into building for the future through education and their youth than we have here in the midst of the effort to bring under­ in Maine. standing and justice see the conflict: Frank C. Foster, professor of educa­ But the figures are not as striking as the Since the Civil War and Emancipation tion, was on leave of absence last spring programs and the buildings themselves. Proclamation, three things have happened to to study public education in the south, In city after city, town after town through further the idea of equality. They are: the where he taught school more than 30 the deep South the most attractive and strik­ New Deal (whether you like its policies or years ago. His observations on the educational improvements in the three ing building you see is the new school. not) which gave the South the best chance decades and on the desegregation prob­ In Lynchburg, Va., for example (a town it has had since Reconstruction to recover lem are stated in the accompanying ar­ of about the size of Lewiston), sits a beauti­ from the impoverishment of the Civil War; ticle. t he improvement in public education gener­ Dr. Foster began his teaching career ful new school plant costing four and a half in China, where his parents were mis­ million dollars. ally; and the historic decision of desegrega­ sionaries, shortly after graduating from And these are increasingly the “people’s tion of the United States Supreme Court on Colby College in 1916. He has devoted schools.” I was shown through the half May 17, 1954. his career to teaching and to work al­ lied with education and religion. finished structure of the new Woodrow Wil­ He earned the B.D. degree at Union son High School in Portsmouth, Va. Set in ith this background in history, leading Theological Seminary and the M.A. at a beautiful park with a large auditorium, W southern thinkers now make these ob­ Teachers College, Columbia University, this investment in the future will serve the both in 1924, and the Ph.D. at Teachers servations about the present conflict in racial College in 1933. whole city as a civic center with programs relations:

8 THE MAINE ALUMNUS 1. The Supreme Court decision—restating 7. The South as a whole, according to In Mobile, Alabama, a talk by a school the principle of equality of man—is but one good authority, seems to be divided about administrator pointed up another phase of step in a long series of accomplishments to­ 20 per cent strongly in favor of desegrega­ the problem. wards equality of all citizens in all parts of tion; about 20 per cent strongly opposed; He observed that desegregation would be the nation. And the decision must also be and the remaining 60 per cent undecided. hard for Negro teachers since teaching, for seen in the relation of the United States to The fate of the Supreme Court decision is in them, is the highest form of employment. the whole world—we would have lost our the hands of this middle group, and the con­ Thus a high percentage of Negro college moral standing before the world had the tending forces are working to win support graduates go into teaching. court made any other decision; yet such from its members. In Mobile, for instance, the salary level profound changes in society are not peace­ 8. The range of opposition varies with the of Negro teachers is slightly higher than that fully and lastingly made as quickly as such number of Negroes in the population. Where for white teachers. This is simply because decisions are released and publicized. slavery was the greatest force, there are the the colored teachers have a higher level of 2. Looking at it in a slightly different largest concentrations of Negroes and the training, and because many well educated way; the decision states our position as a greatest resistance by white people to deseg­ white teachers can find other ways to sell nation. The method of bringing about de­ regation. In other areas the transition could their services—while Negroes cannot so segregation is still to be worked out. be made without much adjustment. easily. 3. There have been many other examples of failure to realize in fact what we define ne Negro teacher pointed out to me ut of all the confusion in the Negro- by law. For instance the Emancipation that colored teachers will be drawn white issue in the South today, there O Proclamation gave the Negro legal freedom, O into other professions when the caste lines seems to be a general feeling that desegrega­ are broken and employment is opened up but not economic and spiritual freedom. tion is inevitable. Desegregation in education is but one ap­ in occupations now closed to them. The strategy is to seek the time to work proach to this wider problem. Then I found great differences in different out peacefully and without violent disruption 4. It follows, too, that the basic attitudes states in the South in the way the problem this problem brought to a sudden climax by that are at the root of the segregation prob­ is regarded. the Supreme Court of the United States, in lem cannot be settled by legal decision alone. Mississippi, I learned from the High its historic decision “ordering” desegregation The decision helps; at the same time it School Supervisor, is definitely set against in the public schools. opens up old sores and rouses bitter opposi­ desegregation—but not against equal facili­ tion from some who have been oblivious of Time is the important factor here. Or as ties for both sides. the progress towards open relationships. one Negro observer put it, “I’m just going to This State will go into a system of private Teachers have been meeting together with­ sit back and wait and see what happens.” schools, he said, rather than accept the out any discrimination for many years in To give you an idea of the complex nature principle of desegregation. state and county meetings throughout the of the problem, here are some of the im­ Louisiana, on the other hand, I felt is South. Negro supervisors are employed in pressions I got first hand of the desegrega­ pushing forward more rapidly in education state offices. But since the decision some tion issue while traveling in the south this and would begin to make adjustments soon­ protests have been heard even against this year: er. much equality. One reason for much of the friction, for One of the most persistent impressions left 5. Government institutions have apparent­ example, is the effort the southern schools from all my conversations and observations ly made more progress in fair play than re­ have been making to provide equal-but- in the South is the lack of communication ligious institutions. Churches in the South separate facilities for white and Negroes. between white and colored people. have made fine-sounding resolutions in sup­ Many of the Negro schools I visited were The continual references to “we” and port of the desegregation decision; yet they better than the white schools in the same “they” assume a dividing line, and treats remain the most segregated of organizations. communities. Their teachers were better, “them” as a solid block. 6. The great struggle is within the south. too. Actually there are many white people in To make of this anything of a North-South Actually this may help simplify desegrega­ the South who are moving towards desegre­ controversy is to confuse the nature of the tion eventually, one Negro principal told gation; there are also differences between contest. The South, as I have said, has good me. His school is geographically located in Negro individuals. Some of them would and great forces of its own for moral and keep segregation in order to hold their jobs a neighborhood where white students could and security. Others insist on “justice,” and spiritual progress. Such groups as the South­ attend and feel proud of their education. It ern Regional Council have a long record of would be no loss to them—except in tradi­ the opportunities that came through cultural intermingling. daring and steady education in behalf of tional racial pride! justice and understanding. Most all wish to act with caution to avoid Again, the Samuel Armstrong Negro High More hate is expressed against the Na­ violence and any set-back from progress al­ School in Richmond, Virginia, was new and tional Association for the Advancement of ready gained. up-to-date. The John Marshall High School Colored People than any other group active for white students—same city—was old and The caste system is not new, either to in the campaign. This is probably because it run down. north or south. It is written deep into the has been the agency to bring the suits in cultural roots of our nation, even though We do not have a school in Maine that court leading to decisions. The NAACP is we may be farther away from it than some matches in educational offerings and range damned for being a group of “Northern others. Niggers.” As a matter of fact James Weldon of courses the Negro school in Portsmouth, For instance in the South reference is Johnson, the first executive secretary (who Virginia. frequently made to the fact that the North died, incidentally at the railroad crossing in This sort of comparison can be made in is also deeply prejudiced, and cold in its Wiscasset, Maine) was born in Florida and every southern state—although of course treatment at times of the individual person taught school there before coming north. this does not mean that all Negro students of color or of another race. Walter White, the revered secretary who have access to new and modern schools or The simple fact is, of course, that the died this year, was a native of Atlanta. The well trained and qualified teachers. NAACP has good reason for maintaining But the progress has been great over the struggle for respect to people as individuals, its home office in New York, but that does time I can recall when I first taught in the regardless of race, religion, class or nation has not been won in any part of the country. not make it a northern force. They are South when it was accepted practice to pay It is part of the “coming victory of democra­ definitely one of the forces in the South lower salaries to Negro teachers, no matter carrying on a battle of ideas and ideals. what their qualifications. cy,” yet to be won.

FEBRUARY, 1956 9 About five years ago when the 1950 cen- sus figures were published, educators in Maine, in fact, throughout the na­ tion, became suddenly face to face with the knowledge that unless something was done and done quickly U. S. education would deteriorate alarmingly. The problem which the census figures revealed was, of course, an acute shortage of teachers, or more basically, a tidal-wave of students. The increased birth-rate of the war and post war years was obviously going to raise havoc with the educational system that already had a shortage of teachers. In the State of Maine there were 214,712 babies born from 1936 to 1948, the 12 years that provide the 1955 school population. What the School of Education In the 12 years that provided the 1946 school population, there were only 187,404 births. But, and this is the figure that has Maine educators pondering, in the 12 years is Doing About that will provide the school population in 1960, there were 248,937 births in Maine. This latter figure is not a prediction or a possibility; those children are alive now and the Teacher Shortage preparing to flood the Maine schools in the next few years.

he teacher shortage which is inherent in Tthe above birth-rate figures is aggra­ vated, in Maine, at least, by the fact that in the late twenties and early thirties the birth-rate was considerably lower in Maine than in the previous and subsequent periods. The below normal birth-rate of that period means a below normal number of teachers of the age which ought to be providing a large proportion of the teaching staff now. These are some of the basic reasons for the widely-discussed teacher shortage. There are many other contributing factors includ­ ing the number of teachers who leave the profession each year, the number of teach­ ers who leave Maine to get the higher teach­ ing salaries paid in other states, and the number of graduates of the four teachers’ colleges in Maine: the lowest number this June since 1946. One of the agencies in Maine that is con­ tributing heavily toward the solution of the problem is the University’s School of Edu­ cation. Primarily, the School of Education is providing an increasing number of better qualified teachers. Dean Mark R. Shibles expects the enrollment to continue to in­ crease. This year the four teachers colleges in the state have enrolled 1160 future teachers. The School of Education has 448 future teachers enrolled in education and in ad­ dition has 130 students from other colleges taking education courses. Most of the lat­ ter group will qualify for teaching certifi­ cates. Dean Mark R. Shibles, long conscious of the requirements of Maine schools, he School of Education’s output of has been reorganizing the School of Tqualified teachers for both elementary Education to better meet the needs of and secondary education has now become the state for more and better qualified teachers. a considerable portion of the state’s total

10 THE MAINE ALUMNUS output. This happy situation didn’t come teaching job he would be required to teach and complete in two years a curriculum about overnight, however. biology and unless he had taken some bi­ which leads to the B.S. in Education degree. When Mark Shibles became Dean of the ology courses as electives while in college School in 1947 it had 118 students enrolled he wouldn’t be prepared. The same student he third division of the basic curriculum in the two-year curricula then offered. Stu­ entering the University today would select is Professional Education courses. Pro­ dents preparing to teach worked in the other T the area of natural sciences and mathemat­ spective teachers taking the Secondary colleges for two years and then transferred ics. In this field of concentration he would School Teaching Program are required to to Education for two years of professional take eight to ten hours of physics, eight complete 27 hours of psychology and edu­ and subject matter courses. hours of chemistry, eight hours of biology, cation courses. Those taking the Combina­ The scope of the General Extension Di­ six hours of mathematics, six to eight hours tion Elementary-Secondary School Teaching vision of which Dean Shibles is director has of geology, and the three-hour course Teach­ Program are required to complete 38 hours been expanded and four Extension Centers ing Science in the Secondary School. in education and psychology. opened in Orono, Portland, Presque Isle, He is further required to take eight ad­ The General Education and Field of Con­ and on alternate years in Augusta and ditional hours in one of the following centration requirements constitute a liberal Auburn-Lewiston. Teachers are required specialization fields: physics, chemistry, arts education, although this portion of the by law to take refresher courses to main­ biology, or mathematics-astronomy. curriculum is planned for prospective teach­ tain their professional proficiency. These Frequently teachers gain their first teach­ ers, but it is the professional courses that courses are designed to keep them abreast ing experience in small high schools where qualify the Education student as a teacher, of latest developments in education and are they are called upon to teach all or most both in regard to certification by the State offered through extension as well as at the of the science and mathematics offered by Department of Education and in profession­ Orono campus. Most teachers keep up with the school. Preparation in the field of con­ al proficiency. their refresher requirements through Satur­ centration of the natural sciences and mathe­ The basic psychology courses give the day courses at the centers or through ex­ matics is intended to meet the demands of prospective teacher some insight into the tension courses offered in their areas. such teaching positions and also to serve personality and thinking of the school-age Perhaps, the major change from the stu­ as a sound program of preparation for any youngster and the education courses help dents’ point of view was when the School science teacher who may have to adapt his him acquire the techniques of teaching. All became a four-year program instead of instructional activities to changing educa­ education students take the practice teaching two in 1954 after years of planning. tional needs. program which takes them into a school The faculty has thoroughly revamped the Other fields of concentration available for approximately two months of observa­ curriculum in the past eight years moving are social sciences, English, foreign lan­ tion and teaching. the theme of training away from the major- guages, physical education for men, and Students in the Secondary School Pro­ minor plan to a field of concentration plan physical education for women. There are gram take 12 hours of education courses, which produces teachers capable of teach­ also cooperative programs under which eight hours of student teaching and observa­ ing a wider range of subjects. graduates of the teacher-training depart­ tion, and nine hours of psychology. Those ments of approved commercial schools may in the Elementary-Secondary School Pro­ rospective teachers can vary their pro­ earn the B.S. in Education degree; students gram take nine hours of psychology, eight Pgrams within the flexible curriculum to who have completed an approved three-year hours of student teaching and observation, suit their interests, but all students in Edu­ curriculum at Portland School of Fine and and a varying number of hours of education cation must complete a program of three Applied Arts and Westbrook Junior College courses. basic divisions: General Education, Field of may transfer with full credit and complete When a student has satisfactorily com­ Concentration, and Professional Education. a curriculum which leads to the B.S. in pleted the four-year program of the School The prospective teacher usually enters the Education degree; and students who have of Education he is eligible for a state teach­ University with certain preferences as to the completed an approved two-year curriculum er’s certificate and has the facilities of the subjects he believes he would like to teach. at the Northern Conservatory of Music in School’s placement bureau to aid him in If he is not sure, the exploration provided in Bangor may transfer with appropriate credit finding a teaching position. meeting the General Education requirements may aid his final selection. To meet those o further prepare the student for a career requirements he must take 12 hours of Tin teaching the School of Education English, two hours of speech, nine hours offers three advanced degree programs. De­ of social studies, 11 hours of natural sciences pending upon their previous preparation and and mathematics, and six hours of fine arts the emphasis they wish to give their advance or other cultural subjects. study, students can qualify for the Master of He selects either a general area of in­ Arts in Education, the Master of Science in struction such as science and mathematics, Education, or the Master of Education de­ and follows a prescribed list of courses de­ grees. signed to give him some proficiency in at Candidates for the degrees of Master of least three specific fields in this general area, Arts and Master of Science are required to or a group of specific subjects, pursuing each complete thirty hours of work, including a for a more limited number of hours, such thesis for which six credit hours is ordinarily as history, English, and mathematics. allowed. A student who elects to work in one of The degree of Master of Education is in­ the fields of concentration, which, except tended for persons with experience in teach­ in the case of the prospective foreign lan­ ing or educational administration, and for guage teacher, are strongly recommended persons who intend to enter these fields. by the School, will take 40 to 50 hours in Programs leading to this degree are designed to aid the student in improving his profes­ his field of concentration. sional efficiency rather than to prepare him for further study or research. nder the major-minor plan a student Student observation and teaching un­ der the guidance of an experienced A number of “type programs” have been who wished to teach science would U teacher is an integral part of the School established for the Master of Education normally take a chemistry major and a of Education’s curriculum for future degree. These programs are designed to physics minor. Chances are on his first teachers. 11 FEBRUARY, 1956 assist students in achieving increased pro­ will qualify former elementary teachers for fessional efficiency in the commonly-found recertification. The courses are given as a VARSITY BASKETBALL areas of public education. The type pro­ unit during the six-week Summer Session. grams are classified as “General,” programs The other way in which the School of Me. Opp. designed for those whose probable work in Education is contributing toward the solu­ Dec. 3 Vermont, away 54 53 the school requires some form of general tion of the teacher shortage is the special Dec. 7 Bowdoin, Orono 71 73 type of certification, and “Special,” pro­ type program for the Master of Education Dec. 9 Colby, Orono 64 65 grams for those whose work requires some degree mentioned above and entitled “Ele­ Dec. 14 Bates, away 68 86 form of special type of certification. The mentary School Teacher Preparation for Jan. 7 Northeastern, away 64 65 general programs include: (1) General Ad­ Graduates of Liberal Arts Colleges.” For Jan. .9 Colby, away 75 90 ministration and Supervision, (2) Secondary the college graduate who has no professional Jan. 14 Bowdoin, away 82 66 School Administration, (3) Elementary training or experience this program offers Jan. 21 Bates, Orono School Administration, (4) Secondary the opportunity to earn the advanced degree Feb. 4 Rhode Island, away School Teacher, (5) Elementary School and achieve full certification by enrolling Feb. 6 Connecticut, away Teacher, (6) Measurement and Guidance, for one Summer Session and one full aca­ Feb. 8 New Hampshire, Orono (7) Foreign Language Teacher—Elemen­ demic year. Feb. 10 Connecticut, Orono tary School, (8) Foreign Language Teach­ Feb. 14 Colby, Orono Numerous other ways of easing the situa­ er-Secondary School, (9) Elementary Feb. 16 New Hampshire, away tion in coming years have been suggested. School Teacher Preparation for Graduates Feb. 18 Massachusetts, Orono President Arthur A. Hauck advocated one of Liberal Arts Colleges. Special programs Feb. 20 Rhode Island, Orono such idea recently when speaking at a Tufts include: (1) Business Education, (2) Physi­ Feb. 25 Bates, away University convocation. cal Education, (3) Agricultural Education, Mar. 3 Bowdoin, Orono (4) Home Economics Education, (5) In­ “Each year our campuses are visited by a dustrial Arts Education. hundred or more ‘recruiting officers’ repre­ FRESHMAN BASKETBALL senting business and industry,” he said. “A (All games at Orono) espite the School of Education’s de­ recruiting program by admired teachers who Dec. 7 Maine Maritime 90 61 D veloping program of teacher training know and appreciate the satisfactions of Dec. 9 Portland Jr. College 112 44 and an indicated rise in the number of academic life, who place a high value on the Jan. 10 Ricker College 95 74 graduates of the teachers colleges in the social worth of teaching, would certainly Jan. 14 Fraternity Leaders 74 57 state during the next few years, it is apparent bring more able young people into the pro­ Jan. 21 Maine Central Inst. to education officials that Maine will con­ fession.” Feb. 8 Wash. State Teachers tinue to have a shortage of elementary teach­ Feb. 10 Maine Central Inst. ers. That is the level of education at which ow can alumni help ease the teacher Feb. 14 Husson College the situation is and will continue to be most H shortage? Feb. 18 Portland University critical. If you are a parent or citizen interested in Feb. 20 Higgins Classical Inst. Mar. 3 Bowdoin Freshmen In addition to its four-year program the the proper education of your boys and girls, School of Education offers two abbreviated you can ask your local school authorities VARSITY INDOOR TRACK programs designed to help alleviate the about the extent of the teacher shortage in elementary teacher shortage in Maine. your community; you can find out what is Dec. 10 Frosh-Soph. 89 2/3 27 1/3 being done to encourage college graduates Jan. 7 Bates, away 81 1/2 44 1/2 All figures published relative to the teach­ and former teachers of your community to Jan. 21 Bowdoin, Orono er shortage indicate that in the next 10 years become teachers; you can work with others Feb. 11 New Hampshire, Orono it would require one-half of all the young in your community to get a concerted com­ Feb. 18 Connecticut, Orono people presently expected to graduate from munity project underway to encourage those Feb. 25 Intramurals college to meet the total demand for new people to become teachers. Mar. 3 Northeastern, away teachers from this source alone. Since only about 20 per cent of new college graduates If you are a college graduate with a liberal FRESHMAN INDOOR TRACK enter the teaching profession, it is obvious arts background or a former teacher and Dec. 10 Frosh-Soph. 27 1/3 89 2/3 that additional sources of teachers must be would be interested in preparing for a teach­ Jan. 7 Bates Jayvees, Orono 93 24 found. ing position, you can write to Dean Mark R. Jan. 14 So. Portland, Orono 84 20 Shibles, School of Education, Campus, for Two such sources are the former women Feb. 11 Deering, Orono details. teachers who left the profession to get mar­ Feb. 18 Portland, Orono ried or to take different employment and If you are a teacher who has recently Feb. 25 Intramurals women who have a liberal arts education but completed one of the two intensive training no training or experience in education. It programs, you can tell others of your ex­ WINTER SPORTS is estimated that there are at least half a perience and urge other qualified people to Dec. 10-11 Giant Slalom & Cross million women through the age of 54 who enroll. Country, Franconia, N. H. have no children under the age of five and If you are in educational work (teacher, Dec. 31-1 Intercollegiate Invitation. who are not now in the labor market. administrator, or school board member) in Lyndonville, Vt., sixth a community which has or expects a teacher Jan. 14 Dartmouth Invitation, aine is one of a number of universities shortage, you can investigate what is being Hanover, N. H. M and teachers colleges in the country done to encourage women to enter teaching Jan. 20-21 U. of New Brunswick, already taking steps to help ease the teacher and if nothing is being done you can orga­ postponed, date pending shortage by offering special courses to the nize an encouragement movement. Feb. 4-5 Eastern Intercollegiate, two groups of women which enable them to Lyndonville, Vt. Through its increasing enrollment of qualify for certification or recertification as Feb. 10-11 Colby Carnival, Waterville future teachers and its special courses for teachers. Feb. 17-18 Maine Intercollegiate, non-teachers and former teachers, the School Farmington The School of Education is now offering of Education will become an increasingly Feb. 25-26 Rumford Carnival, Rumford in the Summer Session a sequence of pro­ potent force in the State of Maine’s efforts Mar. 3 Pending fessional courses, three in number, which to solve the teacher shortage. Mar. 11 Golden Ski Races, Bald Mt.

12 THE MAINE ALUMNUS Runner, Coach Honored Paul Firlotte ’56, Maine’s ace cross country and distance runner, and Coach Chester Jenkins were among those honored at the annual B angor D aily News sports recognition banquet, A thletics Jan. 28. Firlotte received the newspaper’s award as Maine’s outstanding amateur athlete for 1955. Coach Jenkins was east Coach Ted Curtis’ ski team has com­ cited for his outstanding contributions He polled “several of the more faithful peted in only one meet for score this winter. to Maine athletics for more than 30 University of Maine football followers, men years. In the first meet of the year, an individual who have watched Pale Blue teams for many invitation affair at Franconia, N. H., a new years” to find this team. Those who partici­ comer to the team, Everett Cowett, Ashland, pated in the poll realized that the game has finished 24th and Leon Akers, Andover, changed through the years. No emphasis The basketball, indoor track, and ski finished 26th in a field of 139 Olympic, ski was put on any one phase of the game. teams were getting back into action follow­ club, and collegiate skiers over a seven mile Straight, all-around football ability was the ing the Christmas layoff as the Alumnus course. criterion. went to press. In the Intercollegiate Invitation at Lyn- Here’s the team selected: Coach Harold Woodbury’s varsity basket­ donville, Vt., Maine, a junior division team, END: Phil Parsons ’34 ball team played what the coach described competed against seven senior division teams END: (tie) Verne Beverly’20, Mose as its worst game of the season in losing a and finished sixth. Nanigian ’28, Joe Hamlin ’38 one-point verdict 64-65 to highly-rated At this writing, Coach Curtis’ men are TACKLE: Ginger Fraser ’26 Northeastern at Boston in a game that preparing for the Big One, the Eastern In­ TACKLE: Julius Pike ’33 opened the post-holiday schedule. tercollegiate, Junior Division meet at Lyn- GUARD: Tom Golden ’55 Two days later the Pale Blue lost to Col­ donville Feb. 4-5. Two years ago Maine GUARD: Pat Hussey ’21 by 75-90 at Waterville but bounced back was third in this meet. Last year the Pale CENTER: Jack Small ’56 the following week with a 82-66 win over Blue took second competing without their QUARTERBACK: Jim Duffy ’56 Bowdoin. The Black Bears set a new team ace downhill and slalom man Milton HALFBACK: Hank Small ’24 record for free throws scored in a single Christie, Camden. HALFBACK: (tie) Jim Buzzell’29, game against Bowdoin hitting on 42 of 63 If Maine wins the junior division title Milt MacBride ’35 attempts from the foul line. The previous from M.I.T., Massachusetts, Colby, Bow­ FULLBACK: Ed Barrows ’42 record was 32 set against Connecticut three doin, Amherst, Yale, and St. Michael’s, and HONORABLE MENTION: Paul Lam- years ago. it appears that they have a good chance, oreau ’27, Ray Cox ’53, Jack Zollo ’49, Tom The Bowdoin win gave Coach Wood­ they will automatically move into the senior Dickson ’27, George Cobb ’24, Lavon Za- bury’s five a 2-5 record for the season, and division meet at Middlebury on Feb. 17-18. karian ’30, George Ginsberg '21, Ed Bog­ with Bates, who broke Colby’s 17-game In the spirit of the All-Team season, danovich ’54, Pat Peakes ’28, Rod Elliott State Series winning streak recently, Rhode Owen Osborne, co-sports editor of the Ban­ ’38, Lyman Abbott ’30, Don Favor ’34, Island, and Connecticut next on the sched­ gor Daily News, decided to have a little fun Dutch Bernheisel '15, Roger Stearns ’41, ule the chances of improving that record in in his column “Speaking of Sports” and find Thurlow Cooper ’56, Lew Clark ’55, Frank the next few games seems unlikely. an unofficial All Time, All-University of Pluta ’55, Jim Gulliver T5, Dave Baker T5, Meanwhile, Coach Jack Butterfield’s star- Maine Team. and Hamp Bryant T5. studded freshmen continue unbeaten. An innovation in the freshman schedule this year pitted the frosh against the top four teams in the fraternity division of the Intra­ mural League. Phi Gamma Delta, Kappa Sigma, Phi Eta Kappa, and Phi Mu Delta each played a quarter and gave the talented freshmen their toughest game of the season. The Bear Cubs won 74-57. Coach Chester Jenkins’ varsity trackmen had little trouble in downing Bates at Lew­ iston 81 1/2 - 44 1/2. Coach Jenkins had ex­ pected the meet to be close because indica­ tions were that Bates had one of her strong­ er teams and because the small Bates indoor field necessitates running shorter distances in the dash and hurdles and sharper turns in the longer runs than in the Maine cage. But the opposition failed to materialize, and Jim Varner, Bronx, N. Y., paced the Pale Blue with wins in both hurdle events and in the dash. Coach Jenkins’ freshman team have posted two impressive victories subduing the Bates Jayvees 93-24 and South Portland High Four veterans of last year’s team who form the nucleus of experience on this School 84-20. year’s club are (1. to r.) Pete Kosty, Pawtucket, R. I.; co-captain Gus Folsom, Handicapped by unseasonable January Millinocket; co-captain Mike Polese, Belmont, Mass.; and Thurlow Cooper, weather in Maine and throughout the north­ Augusta. Polese and Folsom are seniors; Kosty and Cooper are juniors. 13 FEBRUARY, 1956 write if we’re to keep our rightly place in the “Notes From the Classes” section of the ALUM­ NUS. Notes from the Classes 1 9 0 5 Mr. Ernest L. Dinsmore 231 Woodford St., Portland This is February—the shortest month of the year. W Dunton died on December 27, 1955, in South Although it is the shortest it gave to us two of the NECROLOGY Portland, where he had lived for the past eight longest and greatest Americans ever to receive the years. Presently he was executive assistant of the highest honor in the gift of the people—George 1902 Maine Turnpike Authority. Survivors include his Washington—and Abraham Lincoln. Yes, their EDITH MAE BUSSELL. Miss Edith Bussell died widow, a son, a daughter, Joan M. ’53, a sister, birthdays were in February. It may be that you, too, on December 30, 1955, after a lengthy illness. She and a brother. His fraternity membership was in have a birthday in February. If such is the case, was a retired school teacher having served 38 years Sigma Alpha Epsilon. your secretary, on behalf of your classmates, ex­ of service in the Old Town School Department, tends to you heartiest congratulations and best for 14 years she was principal of the Great Works 1929 wishes for many more such days as the years come School and for 23 years was a teacher of English ARTHUR RUSSELL COGGINS. A. Russell and go. at the Old Town High School. Survivors include Coggins died on January 4, 1956, at the Elliot, seven cousins; among them are, Marion S. 14, N. H., Hospital. He was a native of Malden, If your life has known some sorrow, may Dorothea ’20, and Stephen R. ’20. Miss Bussell Mass., and had resided in Manchester, N. H., since you a glimpse of heaven borrow, was a member of Alpha Omicron Pi Sorority. 1929. Since graduation he had always been em­ Just for Today. ployed by the New England Telephone and Tele­ If now and then a day is drear, may you 1907 graph Co. and was the PBX foreman in Manches­ have some extra Cheer, HEBER PENN PURINGTON. Heber P. Puring- ter. He had served as director and treasurer of the Just for Today. ton of Wilton died on December 29, 1955. For 35 New Hampshire Credit Union As an active mem­ Into each life some rain must fall, but may years he served as a civil engineer with the U. S. ber of the Southern New Hampshire Alumni Assoc., you have no rain at all, Government. Following his retirement in 1943, he he had served in many of the offices of the group. Just for Today. returned to Wilton. Survivors include his widow The survivors include his wife, three sons, and a Do not think about tomorrow; never any and a brother. brother, Donald ’33. Mr. Coggins was a member trouble borrow, 1911 of Beta Theta Pi Fraternity. Have fun Today GEORGE NEWTON VARNEY. George N. Var­ Orland Trask is now retired, although on occa­ ney died on December 11, 1955, at the Farmington 1953 MABEL SARAH HUTCHINSON. Miss Mabel sions he fills in for short periods when his former Memorial Hospital. He was educated at Dartmouth, company needs his assistance. He and Mrs. Trask M I.T., and the University. He was a member of Hutchinson, an elementary grade teacher in Old the Bangor High School faculty for 33 years as a Town since 1924, died on December 25, 1955. She are still living, in retrospect, the three wonderful physics teacher; he was head of the science depart­ was a graduate of Castine Normal School and in days they spent at the University last June. After ment there for 30 years, until his retirement in 1954. 1953 completed work for her B.S. Degree at the leaving Orono on June 12 they spent several days at Bristol, before returning to their home in Survivors include two sons and a brother. University. Survivors include her parents, two sisters—one is Dorothy (Hutchinson) Simonton ’37, Portland where they have been residents for many 1913 a brother, Waldo ’30, two aunts, and two uncles. years. During the summer they divided their time WALTER CLYDE GROVES. W. Clyde Groves, between Portland and Moxie Cove in the Bristol vice president and general manager of the Donora 1956 area. Their son, Dr Harry M., is finishing his in­ Southern Railroad until 1949, died on January 1, RICHARD MARSHALL BOWDEN. Richard ternship at Kings County Hospital, Brooklyn, N. Y. 1956, in Monongahela, Pa. Previous to his affiliation Bowden died in a Boston hospital on March 15, An item on Page 52 of the Nov.-Jan. issue of with the railroad, he was with the American Steel 1955, after a long illness He was born in Rum- Down East Magazine may be of interest to some of and Wire Company Survivors include his widow ford, attended the schools of Mexico, and spent our Classmates. Our President, Horace “Hod” Hil­ and two sisters. Mr. Groves was a member of two years at the University before being stricken with a brain tumor. Survivors include his father, ton, had purchased and furnished a home for his Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity. retirement years. But due to the death of Mrs. ARTHUR WATERHOUSE RICHARDSON. A mother, a sister and a brother. Mr. Bowden was a member of Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity. Hilton his plans have been changed and the proper­ lifelong Old Orchard Beach resident, employed at ty is now for sale. The property is situated on an various periods in his early life as a dairy inspector improved road about ten miles from the city and in Maine, Mass, Iowa, and Michigan, Arthur W. near stores and the post office. The plot of land Richardson died on January 2, 1956, in South Port­ SENIOR ALUMNI contains about thirty acres, much of which is wood­ land. He had operated a dairy farm in Old Orchard. 1 8 9 1 William A. Valentine of 1933 Parish St., land. There is plenty of space, however, for a gar­ Survivors include a sister and a brother. den. Fruit trees and berries are also in production. Philadelphia 30, Pa , one of the active “Hod” now lives at 385 Union St , Bangor. 1916 members of the Eastern Pennsylvania University of LLEWELLYN MORSE DORSEY. Llewellyn M. What about a news item from you? How else can Maine Alumni Association for many years, was in we keep this column going? Dorsey, professor of dairy husbandry and associate attendance at the December 15 meeting held at The dairy husbandman at the University’s Agricultural Quaker Lady Restaurant in Philadelphia. Experiment Station, collapsed and died on De­ cember 13, 1955, while conducting a class. Pro­ 1898 General Alfred A. Starbird of R.F.D. 1, BY CLASSES fessor Dorsey had been at the University since 1917; Underhill, Vt., is spending the winter in he received his M S. degree in animal industry in Washington, D. C. (at 2500 Que St., N.W.). He 190 6 Earle R.Ri c hards 1923. He was a member of several agricultural so­ had wished to be in Vermont to attend the Decem­ 11 Parent St., So. Berwick cieties. He is survived by his wife His fraternity ber 3 meeting of the Vermont Alumni Association 50th Reunion, June 8-10, 1956 membership was in Sigma Alpha Epsilon. but settled for sending greetings After Frank A. Banks received his honorary 1917 membership in the American Society of Civil En­ CECIL MAX HILTON. C. Max Hilton of 1899 Wallace E. Belcher of York Lynne Ma- gineers at their annual meeting in New York on Greenville died on December 14, 1955. For many nor, City Line and Berwick Road, Phila­ Oct. 26, he and Mrs. Banks toured through the Big years Mr. Hilton was superintendent of woods op­ delphia, on November 28, was presented with the Smokies to Tuscaloosa, Ala., and on his return erations in the forestry department of the Great fifty-year Veteran’s Medal from the Grand Lodge to New York started his third trip around the Northern Paper Co. He was a director of the Lake of the Masons of Massachusetts. The presentation world on Nov. 17. On the way he stopped several Shore Mines Ltd. of Kirkland Lake, Ont., Canada, and reception took place at the Radiant Lodge No. days in Lisbon, Madrid, Rome, Cairo, Bombay, and of the Guilford Trust Co.; he served as treasur­ 606 in Philadelphia. Mr. Belcher attended the Calcutta, Rangoon, Hong Kong, and Manila. About er of the Mt. Kineo, Inc. Survivors include his wife, Eastern Pennsylvania University of Maine Alumni two weeks were spent in and around Delhi as a a son—Louis ’54, and a brother, William ’11. Mr. Association Meeting held on December 15 in Phila­ member of the board of consultants on the con­ Hilton was a member of Phi Kappa Sigma Fra­ delphia. struction of the Bhakra Dam. On his return to San ternity. Francisco he and Mrs. Banks enjoyed the holiday 1919 1 9 0 3 Harvey D. Whitney season with relatives in Glendale, Cal. Frank and LEON CARLETON HARRIS. Leon C. Harris 698 Minot Ave., Auburn Mrs Banks plan to drive to Orono for our 50th of Arlington Heights, Mass., died on December 1, Amid the Christmas cards which I received in reunion in June stopping over to visit their child­ 1955. He was head salesman of the Boston branch December were the following bits of news of ’03ers. ren’s families in Ann Arbor and Toledo. of the H. J. Heinz Co. Survivors include two George L. Freeman, of R F D. 2, Gray, says We are sorry to report that Guy Bennett was daughters and a sister. Mr. Harris was a member there is no news just now, except to say he’s denned taken seriously ill in early September so as to be of Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity. up for the winter and won’t appear again until the hospitalized for a considerable time. He is re­ groundhog gives us the cue. Says it was 15° in Gray cuperating very well at his home, 308 Rose Park 1922 at that time Dr., Toronto 12, Ont., Canada, but has to be care­ ARTHUR MOSES BOWKER. Arthur M. Bow- ful not to overdo. Although at last reports he had ker died on December 19, 1955, at his home in From LaGrange, Me., John L. Robbins sent the Bath. A civilian employe of the Navy since 1936, news that he retired a year ago (last July 31, 1954) not resumed his business career, he and Mrs. Ben­ he had been with the office of the Supervisor of and now manages to keep pretty busy with a garden nett are talking and planning to be back for the 50th reunion next June. Shipbuilding, USN at the Bath Iron Works for a and a lawn to look after in the summertime, with number of years. Mr. Bowker received a master’s plenty of snow in the winter to handle. Herbert P. Downing and Mrs Downing cele­ degree from the University in 1929 He had been a Henry H. Haines of 228 Water St., Box 399, brated their 50th wedding anniversary on Dec. 20 past president of the Merrymeeting Bay U. of M. Skowhegan, informs us that he is well, happy, and at their home, 28 Prospect St., Dexter. Contrasted Alumni Association. Civicly he was the first presi­ doing business every day, sometimes, with a buck with present day conditions Mr Downing recalled dent of the Lions Club, a trustee of the Bath Trust saw Henry did mention that he had some political that after their marriage they went to Lynn, Mass., Company, and a corporator of both the Memorial aspirations, but has decided if Eisenhower is keep­ where he was employed in the turbine research de­ Hospital and the Patten Free Library. Survivors ing his second term a secret, then Henry will keep partment of the General Electric Co. at the rate include his widow, a daughter, and a son, Arthur his decisions secret, too. of seventeen and one-half cents per hour with a M., Jr. ’52. Mr. Bowker was a member of Sigma Yours truly attended the Maine Club Meeting in promise of an increase in wages if he “ made good.” Alpha Epsilon Fraternity Auburn last month and received a gift for repre­ Frederick D Southard, 3427 Freeman St., San senting the oldest class in attendance and probably 1925 Diego 6, Cal., has found a snapshot of the old the oldest member. Hal Westerman, Maine’s Foot­ standpipe with the ’06 numerals painted on the side JAMES WILLIAM DUNTON. A Maine Turn­ ball Coach, always draws a good crowd. pike official and former Gardiner resident, James by a party which included “Kewee” Crowell, “Eddie Always welcome letters from ’03ers; you must K.” Colby, “Win” Bearce, and one or two others. 14 THE MAINE ALUMNUS Edward Bridgham has been confined to the Bath Memorial Hospital with pneumonia. He is conva­ lescing and we hope, by the time you read this item, he will have returned home in good health. Irene (Richardson) Durgy (Mrs. Herbert A.) lives at 15 Woodstock Ave., Rutland, Vt. For some years she has spent winters in Florida. Herbert P. (Putt) Bruce writes that “his health is good, his hair thin, and that he still gets along fine with Mildred.” Their oldest daughter, Bet- tina ’38, is married to Arthur Smith ’38 and has given them three grandchildren: two daughters and one son. Their younger daughter, who married George Flaherty of Holy Cross, has a score of three sons. Their son Herbert Jr. is remarried and very happy with his golfing, boating, and skiing. A fine family, “Putt” and Mildred! “Putt” is assistant manager of the New England Fire Insurance Rating Bureau. He states, a bit smugly, that he has not re­ tired because he dislikes housework and dishwash­ ing. You have a point there, “Putt” ! 1 9 1 1 Reunion time rolls around again this June for the ’11ers; the class officers are: President, Russel Smith, 604-A Custom House, Phila. 6, Pa.; Vice Pres., Arthur B. Richardson, Chese- borough Mfg. Co., 17 State St., N. Y., N. Y.; Sec.- Treas., Avery C. Hammond, 287 Ohio St., Bangor. You’ll be hearing soon about reunion plans; drop any of the class officers a line if you have sugges­ It was a birthday occasion at the ’06 ‘Little Reunion* on August 20, 1955, at tions or news for the class column. Win Bearce’s summer home in Bristol. Left to right: F. J. Simmons, H. W. 45th Reunion, June 8-10, 1956 Bearce, Carlson, Richards, Prince, W. D. Bearce, Karl, Hoxie, Mrs. Nutter, John S. Barker has moved from Rochester, Sherman (at rear), and Elliott. N. Y., to 2607 Kirkwood Pl., W. Hyattsville, Md. Dr. Clyde H. Merrill of Altadena, Calif., recently sent us his street address as: 1297 E. Calavaras, “Shorty” and Mrs. Southard are planning to re­ 1908 Mr. James Gannett turn for our reunion in June and make some visits 166 Main St., Orono 1 9 1 2 Lloyd E. Houghton of 178 Leighton St., in the Boston area beforehand. Pete Lord and Jim and Marian Gannett met at Bangor, retired in December after being the Bangor Airport the day after Christmas. Pete employed 43 years in the Woodlands Division of the 1907 Mr. Karl MacDonald was seeing his son Richard off on his return trip to Great Northern Paper Co. He was the captain of 27 Nelson Ave., Wellsville, N. Y. Charleston, West Virginia, and the Gannetts were Maine’s first cross country team and for several Mildred (Mansfield) Martin, 11 Shepley St., saying goodbye to their daughter, Judith Fielder, years held the Maine Intercollegiate record in the Portland, says she has no news. Edith (Tate) two mile run. Brawn, 140 Castle Ave., Westbury, N. Y., called on who was on her way back to Syracuse, N. Y. Guy Durgin has retired from the St. Lawrence 1 9 1 3 Hubert M. Wardwell of Concord, Mass., her last August, and they enjoyed a nice visit. Corporation, Ltd., mill at East Angus, Quebec. Mildred says she is taking “ Meticorten” for her was named president and director of Mid­ He is making his home with his daughter Margaret dlesex Mutual and Lynn Mutual Fire Insurance arthritis and she thinks it really helps. at 162 Hanna Road, Leaside, Toronto, Canada. Alton A. Austin, Ridlonville, is another with no Companies and manager of Utica Mutual’s New Stacy C. Lanpher has recently retired as Clerk England general agency in October. He has been news. He enjoys working in his garden in the early of Courts of Piscataquis County, a position he has morning before it gets too hot. Says he must be in the insurance business in Concord since 1920 held since 1922. He was Judge of the Piscataquis and was vice president of Middlesex Mutual at the getting along in years, for he became a great grand­ Municipal Court from 1919 to 1922. His address father last year. He was feeling fine when he wrote. is: Sebec Station, Dover-Foxcroft. time of his new appointment. He is also a director As I had not heard from Minot S. Blaisdell, Roydon L Hammond is associated with the of the Harvard Trust Company. Mr. Wardwell is Petersham Rd., Hubbardson, Mass., for a couple American Automobile Association in Washington, active in civic affairs and serves Concord as town of years, I was glad to get a postal saying he was D C His address is 4917-44th Street, N. W., Wash­ moderator. well and enjoying life. Said he would like to sec ington, D. C. 1 9 1 5 Raymond H. Fogler, Assistant Secretary “the boys.” He can see a lot of them in 1957 if Clarence, Mrs Weston, and Alvin have returned of the Navy, was one of 16 nationally he will attend our 50th anniversary Reunion. to their home in Atlanta, Georgia, after having prominent leaders in the fields of government, edu­ Received a letter and in opening it, found that spent several years in Savannah where Clarence was cation, industry and commerce who were honored Major Fred S. N. Erskine, U.S M.C., Retired, had engaged on engineering projects with the U. S. with the designation “Significant Sig” at Sigma Chi sent me his address, Hotel St. George, 51 Clark S t, Corps of Engineers. Their home address is 2400 Fraternity’s 100th anniversary convention last sum­ Brooklyn 1, N. Y. Fred at least let me know he Edinburgh Terrace N. E., Atlanta 7. Alvin is con­ mer in Cincinnati, Ohio. was alive and that is more than several classmates tinuing his studies at Emory University. Clarence do. and his wife visited in Madison, Maine, his old 1 9 1 6 Mrs. Evelyn W. Harmon Probably the reason that some of the classmates home, this past summer and made a call on Prof. (Evelyn Winship) do not return the postals that I send out is similar Charles P Weston ’96 and his sister, Miss Susan Livermore Falls to the following explanation of Moses W. Weld, Weston in Orono. Their Christmas card states that 40th Reunion, June 8-10, 1956 308 1/2 N. Jackson St., Mobile 16, Ala. I will quote Clarence has now “retired from dams to hobbies.” This last month, with the excitement and happi­ his postal. “ Meant to answer sooner, but stuck ness of Christmas and New Year’s, has gone by so postcard on the mantle and forgot it until the 1 9 0 9 Mr. Fred Knight very quickly. I am glad to say that I received more Alumnus arrived yesterday, for which I thank you 9 Westmoreland Dr. letters and news than I have for some time, and my Still alive and getting my time in at the shop West Hartford 7, Conn. courage and enthusiasm increased accordingly. Laid up a couple of months last spring with two Mary Ellen Chase whose retirement from the faculty of Smith College was noted in the Alumnus Please keep up the good work. vertebrae partially crushed, but getting along very Very thrilling and interesting news to me was good under my own power again.” of October ’55 is apparently not going to stop sharing with others her comprehensive knowledge that our classmate, Charles Blackman, professor in Harry P. Everleth, 1421 26th Avenue, S., St. the College of Agriculture at Ohio State University, Petersburg, Fla., writes that he is still repairing of literature including the Bible. Early in Decem­ ber she delivered the second of the Averill series has gone to India. He is working thru the Techni­ diamond tools. He had a fine vacation in the cal Cooperation Administration and the Govern­ Great Smoky Mountains last summer. Said they of Lectures at Colby College on “The Literary Value of the Psalms.” Her classmates applaud the ment of India to advance the agricultural teaching, also had a lovely summer in St. Petersburg with research, and extension program of India. His wife temperatures lower than in Maine. (Believe it or vigorous spirit which leads her on to continuing accomplishment Her great contributions to litera­ is with him, and they expect to be there for two not! Your secretary can vouch for that. The years. He wrote that everything that they saw Maine weatherman gave over the radio the tempera­ ture and education are a source of unbounded pride to all the people of Maine. there was just like looking at National Geographic tures of the various places and usually Tampa was pictures. They traveled by air, visited friends in lower than Pitcher Pond, Me ) Leslie Edgcomb is proprietor of a flourishing steel warehouse business, operated under the firm England, and spent two days in Paris and four in After the Jan. personals were sent in, I received Rome. I wrote to him at once and am hoping that a postal from James P. V. Fagan, 400 Poplar St., name Edgcomb Steel Co. His headquarters are in Philadelphia where he established his first ware­ some day before too long we may have a letter Laguna, Calif. He was just back from a visit to for our column. his wife’s relatives in Portland, Ore. While there, house in 1923. In recent years he has opened they called on George R. '09 and Sarah (Brown) branch warehouses in Charlotte, N. C., and in I received a fine letter from Omar Edes. Like al­ Sweetser ’08. Said he hoped to get over to Pasa­ York, Pa Les spends his winters in Florida and most everyone else, he thinks that what he does has dena to see “Stubs” Wildes before he changes his his summers at Kennebunk Beach. In both places no interest to the other members of the class, but address again. I understand Jim enjoys quite a bit he pursues actively his hobbies of boating and I found his letter most interesting. I wish I could of his time smoking his pipe on the beach and golfing. impress it on the class members that everyone has watching the surf, or perhaps it might be the Word has been received through the Alumni something of real interest about which he could Office that William A. (“ Bill” ) Fogler was mar­ write, if he were only willing. I am afraid people blondes that go by. are too modest. Omar works in Cambridge and In the latest list of class members given me by ried in late November to Mrs Diana Pitts. They are spending the winter in California returning to has his home in Nekton. Some of his family live the Alumni Office, I find that one of our “lost” in Florida the year ’round, and he likes to get classmates, Florence G. Beale, has become Mrs. Rockport for the summer months. Mrs. Fogler has been a teacher in the Rockland High School for down there for a few weeks each winter whenever H. L. Ellingson. Orono has no information as to possible. He plays golf week ends and enjoys that. when the change was made or where the informa­ 17 years. Mr. Fogler retired recently after more tion came from. Can anyone give me any informa­ than forty years as an executive in the Philadelphia I had a nice letter from one of our “lost” law tion that will lead to the address of H. L. Ellingson? Electric Co. alumni, Charles F. Harlow of Sanford. He wrote

FEBRUARY, 1956 15 that after completing one year and part of the sec­ And the news about Grace’s children and grand­ Dean Peabody Honored ond he had to leave for reasons of sickness at children of whom she is justly proud: Ermince went home. In 1916 he enlisted in the Army and served to Bates, but being more interested in a home and three and a half years. After coming out he helped family than in a career, left to be married to Har­ A new $1,350,000 women’s dormitory his brother in Massachusetts, who had a trucking lan Burke. Grace says Ermince has made a at Temple University will be named wonderful wife and mother. The Burkes have four business. He has been in the automobile business Peabody Hall in honor of Gertrude D. in Sanford since 1921. I was very glad to receive children, Foster 12, Mollie 10, Jane seven and the letter from him and appreciated his writing. Jack two. Peabody ’20, dean of women at Temple Mollie, the second daughter, is a registered From Hartsdale, N. Y., came a note from an­ since 1930. other “lost,” Louise F. Ewer. She wrote that she nurse and before marrying Leo Torrence, held took courses at Maine one summer after gradu­ several excellent positions, in the nursing field. The The dormitory, to be built at Broad ating from Mount Holyoke, and hardly considered Torrences live in Milwaukee where Mollie had herself a member of the class. We were glad to been in public health nursing. Since her marriage and Norris Streets, Philadelphia, will Mollie has been doing volunteer work for the Red hear from her. be a four-story, L-shaped building ac- We were very sorry to hear of the sudden death Cross Frank, the older son, graduated from Maine of our classmate, Prof. Llewellyn M. Dorsey, who in civil engr. and is with the State Highway Dept, commodating 289 students and nine had taught at Maine for thirty-eight years. Our in bridge work. He married a U. of M. girl and proctors. most sincere sympathy goes to his widow. they have one three year old daughter, Dorette. A greeting card from Lawrence Philbrook was The younger son, Everett Jr., is a senior at Dover- Miss Peabody, who earned the M.A. most welcome. It showed a picture of Philbrook Foxcroft Academy. His main interest is in com- degree at Teachers College, Columbia Farm, a very popular hotel at Shelburne, N. H., in merical art. He plans to study in this field after the White Mts. It is a long white house, cozy and this year. It is no wonder Grace is so proud of University in 1925, was awarded an comfortable looking, with the most beautiful trees this family of such varied and diverse interests, honorary Doctor of Laws degree at in front—a most wonderful place to spend a vaca­ each making a success in their chosen field of en­ tion, especially in the autumn, when the trees deavor. Maine in 1942. She joined the Temple must be gorgeous. Squirt Lingley thinks lie’s in the Alumnus plenty, faculty in 1923 and became head of A letter from Lewis O. Barrows tells of the great but goes on “Here’s a little dope like I’m writing work he is doing on the list of “lost.” Let s all my death notice. American Legion, Director Navy home economics in 1926. pitch in and help him to discover as many “lost” League, Past Exhalted Ruler BPO Elks, 32nd degree as possible before our reunion in June. Mason, Knight Templar, in line of office in the A note from Alice (Poore) Rollins tells of Shrine, Director Providence Court of Jesters, Di­ adding two new grandchildren to the family this rector Providence Gridiron Club, and very active record player; the house is really lived in and has year—Mark Albert Hagerling of Pittsburg and in the Maine Black Bear Club of R. I. In a clumsy a guest room. So there is the picture, for those Clyde Edward Rollins of Ithaca. Congratulations. way, do a little for charity.” who can’t stop to see us, of Beulah and ‘Doc’ in A Christmas card from Edith (Flint) Coe of From the Claremont, N. H. November 10, In­ 1955. We send our greetings to all our old friends.” Buckfield announced that she was planning on dependent, under the heading, “Leb Store Observes going to her second daughter’s wedding in Ithaca Its 95th Year,” we gather news of Stan Currier 1921 Mrs. H aro ld just before Christmas. We are hoping to have more and his wife Priscilla. Stan, as you remember, W ood (Leta Weymouth) details later. graduated in civil engineering and started work High St., No. Berwick Please write often and soon. I shall be very glad with the U. S. Geological Survey. He quit that in 35th Reunion, June 8-10, 1956 to hear from any class member. Don’t think that 1921 to enter retailing. Priscilla comes from Brook­ On Oct. 31st Linwood J. Kelley who is principal you have to wait for me to write to you. I try to get lyn, N. Y., and graduated from Adelphi College. of Lewiston High School was elected president of around to everyone as often as possible. She was Stan’s assistant in Grants. Stan was at the Androscoggin County Teachers Assn. Linwood different times European buyer and a division and Florence (Morrill) Kelley have lived at 84 1 9 1 7 S c h u y l e r Jr., now receives mail at manager for Grants. Later they both transferred to Russell St., Lewiston, for the past few years. 105 Hillwood Circle, Spring Hill, Ala. Montgomery Ward’s and while there were mar­ Just a few days ago I was surprised and de­ Adrian Holmes is now located at 445 Locust ried. In 1938 they bought the controlling interest lighted to see a picture of Raymond C. Wass in Ave., Paramus, N. J., since his retirement two years of the largest department store in Lebanon which the Boston Herald. I believe the occasion was the ago. He had previously lived in Burlington, Vt. is now known as Currier and Co. Both Stan and election of Ray as Pres, of the New England Junior During the summer months he is at his home in Priscilla are active in its management. College Council. Ray lives at 110 Woodland Rd., Buckfield, Maine. A letter from Gertrude Peabody, in early De­ Auburndale 66, Mass. Mrs. Wass is the former cember, tells of Kathryn (Gordon) Myers’ daughter Mildred T. W. Bisbee. 1 9 2 0 Miss M. Eleanor Jackson being at Cornell and, “Last summer one of our nice Our class president, George Ginsberg, sends me Suite 1230 Chamber of Commerce Bldg. Temple girls got acquainted with K’s daughter at some news of Perley L. Berry. It is exceptionally 80 Federal St., Boston a sorority convention and went to their home to good news as Perley intends to get up to our 35th Grace (Tripp) Foster writes that she has lived visit. Janet brought back messages to me! Isn’t it reunion in June. He lives at 1959 Stone St., Mobile, “a busy life and loved it.” They lived in Dixfield interesting that people’s lives merge and separate Ala. for 25 years, Strong for nine years, and have been and retouch from time to time?” Very modestly in Thank you, Emily, for your card which brought in Dover-Foxcroft between three and four years. the last paragraph Gertrude writes, “ My big news the following news; Blanche (Tague) Webster has Grace says, “I have worked most of the time, in this month is that our lovely new women’s dormi­ sold her house at 44 Bancroft St., Portland, and between babies, at several different types of work. tory to be started in January is to be named ‘Pea­ is now living at 24 Concord Ave., Cambridge, I’ve also managed to produce and bring up four body Hall.’ The announcement was just made this Mass. children, three of whom are married.” Grace has month.” Gertrude is so wonderful and has done I wrote a bit of news about Emily (Kritter) taught, done secretarial work, and found the most such a superb job as Dean of Women at Temple, Josselyn recently but did not have the following interesting work several years in the Dixfield Post we are all thrilled to have this recognition given at the time. Miss Mollison catches me up on a Office. She was a member of the school committee to her at Temple. few items. Emily was a member of the 1955 Pro­ for several consecutive years in Dixfield and now Earle and Beulah (Duran ’22) Ferren of East gram Committee of South Eastern Zone, New belongs to several clubs in Dover-Foxcroft. This Providence, R. I. Doc has sent a wonderful letter York State Teachers Assn, Chairman of Panel year Grace is president of her literary club, head of which is quoted because it w ould lose so much Discussion Group (Retirement and Social Se­ an extension group, as well as helping in church of Doc, if doctored. “ Business-wise, after a few curity: How they affect teachers) at Zone Con­ work and membership in other clubs. years of shakedown experience teaching and selling, vention in Yonkers, N. Y., and Chairman of the I have been with the Phoenix Mutual Life In­ 1955 Year Book Committee, Gamma Chapter, surance Company in Providence, R. I., for nearly Delta Kappa Gamma, National Honor Society of Alexander Skillin and Son twenty-five years. Women Teachers. FLORISTS “ Family-wise, we had no children for sixteen Harold and I had a Christmas card from Richard years until a good doctor friend found us a baby Falmouth Foreside, Maine and Martha (Woodbury) Kurth. It was a picture girl for adoption in 1938. Eleven months and of their attractive home in Sandwich, N. H. (North Cut flowers— Corsages— seven days later a son was born to us only seven­ Sandwich, that is). They go up there weekends, Funeral Designs— teen months younger than his adopted sister. Better holidays, and vacations. Martha is still teaching in Wedding Designs late than never, we had our whirl of diapers, two Quincy, Mass. This was Martha’s first Christmas healthy cubs, became hosts to the neighborhood in her new home as she and Richard were in Flor­ Jo h n S k illin ’52 youngsters enmasse. Our children have both loved ida last year at that time. animals both wild and domestic so we have a huge Last evening when we switched off the last pro­ Collie, a black cat, a parakeet, canary, and a tank gram on TV we had lots of snow on the ground. of tropical fish. But we have entertained about When we awoke this morning it was all gone due everything for short visits, turtles in the bathtub, to a violent storm Did this happen to the place ROCKEFELLER screech owls in the cellar, frogs in the sink, and where you live, too? tame crows all over the place, and sometimes we’ve could afford to pay $6, $7, $8, $9, and more suspected we’ve had bats in our attic. No dull 1 9 2 2 Mrs. Albert E. Libby for vitamins. Can you? We have devel­ moments however. Beulah rather rebels when Dick (Minnie Norell) oped a system of distributing vitamins by tries out taxidermy on all of the small birds and 55 Bayview Ave., So. Portland mail order only which will save you up to By the time you read this, Christmas will have 50%. Eliminate the commissions of 4 or 5 animals his friends bring him from all around. middlemen. 20 element formula with ALL Things have simmered down considerably. Judy, been forgotten but not my joyous December 25, with vitamins and minerals for which need has blue eyed and seventeen, is friendly, wholesome,, the three young hopefuls, my grandchildren Tom, been established, plus 6 others. 100 capsules and as regular as a three-leafed clover. She is in Pete, and Jane Dresser of 163 Main St., Wenham, $3.15. We pay all postage in continental her first year in secretarial school. Dick, dark and Mass. Their Mother, Mary (Libby ’46) is my U. S. Write today for free literature. a composite of us both, is sixteen, in high school, oldest daughter and their father is Richard Dres­ and quite a naturalist for his age. ser, Boston University ’49. He is in the Account­ Springer & Dashnau ing Dept at the Boston office of the New England We re probably average suburbanites, mixed up Telephone Co. 3125 Miller St. in boy and girl scout problems, community, church, and school affairs, refinished antiques, and have I have two other granddaughters, but more about Phila. 34, Pa. mixed in a lot of good fun with friends along the them when I need a fill-in for this column. way. The back yard fireplace really cooks, the Wyman Hawkes furnished the life-line this month playroom offers ping-pong, billiards, and the usual with the news of his busy life. He has been “In­ structor and Head of the Division of Farm Crops 16 THE MAINE ALUMNUS at the Bristol County Agricultural School” in Seg- reganset, Mass., since 1925. That same year he tic, Esquire, Midland, Southern Review, Pictoral married a town girl, Eliza Atherton, who was Review and Liberty magazines. Oh yes, and he has Home Demonstration Agent in Somerset County in been doing local research writing and is a mem- ’23 and ’24. They have two sons: F. Blaine ’47— br of Phi Delta Kappa, national honor society! Alpha Gamma Rho at Maine, now instructor at 1 929 MiSS Barbara Johnson the Norfolk County Agricultural School in Wal­ 32 Orland St., Portland pole, and Dennis ’50, Sigma Chi. The latter is a Mary (Buck) Booker and husband James ’30 are “commissioned officer in the army and the father now at 61 Doan Ave., Painesville, Ohio. of Wyman’s first and only grandchild, Joann aged Roderic C. O’Connor of Dracut, Mass., is one 17 mos.” I think Wyman has been able to pack in of the five industrial representatives recently ap­ a great many extra-curricular activities as he has pointed by the Maine Department of Development been a state officer in the Grange for many years; of Industry and Commerce. Rod is currently presi­ a member of the school committee; lay leader in dent of our 1929 Class. the local Methodist church; helps with the Boy Guy L. Furbush receives mail at 369 Summer St., Scouts and Red Cross; and is chapter adviser to Stoughton, Mass. the F.F.A. boys. In addition to all this he is quite We’re always waiting for those newsy letters from a camera enthusiast, which seems like such a re­ each of you to keep the column lively. warding and interesting hobby. 1 9 3 0 Mrs. Ernest Pero 1 9 2 3 Mrs. Norman E. Torrey (Jeanette Roney) ( Toni Gould) 11 West End Ave. Westboro, Mass. 9 Poplar St., Bangor As I write this, the effects of the holidays are Exciting news from the West Coast! The Everett just beginning to wear off. All the gaiety and ex­ Mansurs after 14 years of marriage are announcing citement has left me rather exhausted. Ours was a the arrival of their first child. A lovely little girl, happy time, but we should not be selfish and think Marjory, who weighed 6 1/2 lbs. As I reported in The family of Mary (Libby) Dresser about those who were not so fortunate. this column after seeing Everett last summer, he is Best wishes to Esther (Hawkes) Brake of Rt. 2 a successful planning consultant in San Gabriel, ’46 helped with arrangements for the Box 516, Yuba City, Calf., who started with our Calf., at 505 Segovia Ave. Best of wishes to all holidays. (See the ’22 class column for Class but graduated with ’29. We hope that she, three of you! an item .) her doctor husband, and children were not per­ And speaking of the West Coast, I was delighted sonally affected by the floods. to learn that when Bea (Cleaves) and Carl Stevens Good luck to Cliff McIntire who indicates he will ’22 were out there last summer that they visited at Boston University at a workshop in the Warren seek a third full term in Congress in 1956. Mardi (Willey) and Stuart Frost ’28 at 1608 English Project. She revised the English Depart­ Thanks to Prexy Pearse for the appropriate calen­ Glorietta Ave., Glendale 8, and saw their only ment at Watertown High School for credit. In dars to keep me on time. He and his partner, child, Donna, who is now attending N.C.L.A. The December she went up again to be on a panel on realtors and insurance representatives, have opened report is that a fine reunion was had by all and I grammar at the fall meeting of the Warren English a branch office in Beverly, Mass., at the Chamber can believe it! Project. of Commerce Building, 275 Cabot St. Here on the Home Front one of our busiest men Mary Waterhouse, after attending the summer The Portland Telegram recently printed an inter­ in town is James “Tessie” MacLeod. Besides being session at the University of Maine, is teaching esting picture of Gerald York and his tame foxes. city engineer and director of public works, which home economics at Sanford. Gerald runs a Rangeley vacation resort located in means keeping abreast of the needs of a growing Editor’s Note: We call ’25ers attention to the a game preserve which sounds inviting. Bangor, it is up to him to name the new streets 1923 column in last month’s ALUMNUS (January), From my many and much appreciated Christ­ that are laid out. Yes, for 24 years he has been where due to our error in makeup John McCobb, mas cards, here are a few addresses and bits of dreaming up suitable names for our public ways. very much a member of the 1925 Class, is written news interesting to our class. And there’s a lot more to naming a street than up. Barbara (Hunt) Sevigny ’31 whose husband, the meets the eye at the corner. “A street name must 1 9 2 6 Mrs. Albert D. Nutting late Dr. Tony Pelletier, was a member of 1930, is be short, easily spelled, not confused with any other now at 3215 S. W. 9th St., Boynton Beach, Fla., (Leone Dakin) where Mr. Sevigny is in the real estate and insur­ street, dignified and in keeping with the locale” 17 College Hgts., Orono said MacLeod when he made front page news re­ ance business. Her son, Bob Pelletier, is in the 30th Reunion, June 8-10, 1956 Marine Corps. cently. He and Mrs. MacLeod live at 63 Poplar G. S. Wheeler is located at 208 Pleasant St., St. and their one child, James, has been doing Laconia, N. H. President and Mrs. Delyte Morris (Dot Mayo) graduate work since getting out of service. William D. Buckley gives us a change of street sent a beautiful card made in the School of Fine Another 1923er who is also aiming to make Ban­ address in Williamsport, Pa. He’s now at 929 Mary Arts, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, gor an ideal place in which to live is Donald St. Ill., where Delyte is “Prexy.” Johnston, who for many years has been and still From Springfield, Mass., we hear that Wilfred Our class treasurer Syl and Peg (Merrill '32) is Supt. of the Water Dept. He is married to A. Beaudette is at 3 Pearl St. Place. Pratt checked in from 2 Hermit Thrush Rd., Cape “Trix” (Matheson ’18) and they reside at 366 Elizabeth, Maine. Center St. Their one daughter lives in Mass., and 1 9 2 7 Mrs. Robert Thaxter she has two little girls. How about a New Year’s Resolution to send a (Edith O’Connor) word or two to your class secretary? It would be 159 Fountain St., Bangor appreciated. 1 9 2 4 Mrs. Clarence C. Little H. Russell Beatty, president of Wentworth In­ (Beatrice Johnson) stitute of Boston, was elected vice president and Box 558, Bar Harbor 1 9 3 1 Mrs. Sam Sezak treasurer of the recently organized Technical Insti­ (Ethel Thomas) Dear Classmates: tute Foundation, Inc. Betty (Hunt) Lamb has moved from Portland 4 Gilbert St., Orono Bill Hanscombe, dean of Maine basketball 25th Reunion, June 8-10, 1956 to Annisquam, Mass., where her address is 26 coaches, is serving his 27th year with the Presque Leonard Street. Her husband, Myron, has a new Let’s not forget plans for our 25th Reunion Class Isle Indians. In 1932 his team captured the State Gift this spring. Bill Hamblet has started us off position as city planner for the city of Gloucester Title, and in 1940 and again in 1941 Presque Isle where Betty also teaches school. There was a fea­ was the runner up for the Eastern Maine Title. ture article on Betty in the Gloucester Times De­ Bill has a real record in the field of secondary cember 7th. Good luck in your new habitat, Betty. school basketball coaching. DAKIN’S Representative Theodore Vaitses has gone and done it. On December third he married the beauti­ 1 9 2 8 Mrs. William B. Ledger Sporting Goods ful Elizabeth Buffum Beaumont, a Vassar graduate (Emma Thompson) Camera Supplies and a Junior League member. The class sends its 75 Woodmont St., Portland 4 very best wishes for a long and happy married life, Jerome Knowles, Jr. (Romeo) of Northeast Har­ Shep Hurd ’ 17 M.A. Hurd ’26 Ted. bor, who served as professional appraiser for the Bangor Waterville Ethelyn (Percival) Howard is senior president of Maine Turnpike Authority for two and one half Basil Smith ’40 the Children of the American Revolution Society years, has been elected vice president of the Ameri­ and on several committees of the D.A.R. She is can Institute of Real Estate Appraisers for the also secretary of her church group which adds up New England Region for 1956. He was also elected to a good deal of extracurricular duty. She and her a member of the governing council of the institute husband, Frank Howard, live at 81 Hillsdale Rd., for three years at the N. Y. meeting of the Na­ Medford, Mass. tional Association of Real Estate Boards. GOOD Anna (Daley) Nicholson has a daughter, Gail, Dr. Lawrence Cutler of Bangor has been named who is a sophomore at Jackson College (Tufts). a member of a new advisory committee on sec­ Anna is active in the Historical Society in Medford, ondary school accredita from the State of Maine. and Mass., where she lives at 59 Terrace Road. What is more he is chairman of the School com­ Fred M. Lindahl has a new position as plant and mittee in Bangor. All goes to prove if you want tool engineer at the Chapman Valve Manufactur­ something done get a busy person to do it. GOOD ing Co. He lives at 28 Plateau Ave., West Spring- Ruth (Densmore) Hertzberg—is running the cof­ field, Mass. fee shop that the hospital auxiliary has built in for you Happy cruising to you all. Brattleboro, Vt. She says she is having fun and I bet she is doing an efficient job. I also hear she Mrs. Merrill Henderson brought honors to her Home Ec. Training—won a (Anne Thurston) national contest for excellence in a kitchen plan. Quechee, Vt. She got a nice prize, too. it’s HOOD’S I am warning you that unless I get some coopera­ Frederick Scribner is married and has four child­ tion from you, this column will be missing one of ren. He is English teacher and journalism adviser these days. at Greenwich H. S. Since leaving “Maine” he has Edith (Hannington) Moberg writes that she and acquired a M.A. from U. of Conn, and is still try­ ICE CREAM her husband were in Boston last summer; he was on ing for some scholastic degrees, meanwhile he has a Westinghouse Fellowship at M.I.T. and she was published stories in Story, College Humor, Scholas­

FEBRUARY, 1956 17 with a substantial contribution. The Gift will need quite a few “Maniacs” and mentioned Marion Esso Promotes Harding (Dickson) Lester, Bruce Ashworth and Leif Soren­ the help of all of us! son from our class. Tom and Marnie have two Arvo Solander has been made a full member of Harold D. Harding ’30 has been boys both as tall or taller than they are. Tommy, the American Society of Civil Engineers. The is in his third year at the academy and very much Holyoke, Mass. Transcript-Telegram had this to say promoted to the position of Assistant about Arvo: “Solander, who is a civil and sanitary interested in mining engineering. Lewis is 13 1/2 and New England Division Manager of the graduates from grammar school in June. They engineer, operating out of his own office at his have a 22 ft. travel trailer and described a wonder­ South Hadley home, has had 24 years’ experience Esso Standard Oil Company. ful trip which they took to the west coast last sum­ in this field. He has resided in South Hadley for the past six years. He was associated with the Mass. He joined Esso in 1929 as a Service mer stopping at state and national parks. Hope Board of Public Health for six years as an engineer Station Salesman in New Jersey and their next trip takes them through Orono. in the early 1930’s and by the U. S. Public Health My husband chatted recently with Bryce Jose Service in the late 1930’s and early 1940 s, sta­ was transferred to New England in who was on campus interviewing students for jobs tioned in the South and Mid-west. A native of 1935. He has held a number of posi­ in the Connecticut Bell Telephone Co. The Jonses live at 95 Santa Fe Ave., Hamden, Conn. Winchendon, he received his B.S. degree in civil tions within the company including engineering from the University of Maine in 1931 A recent plea in this column for whereabouts of and his M.S. degree in sanitary engineering from District Manager in Maine, District missing 33ers brought results. Bernice Woodman Harvard in 1932. During World War II, he served Manager in Massachusetts, and New Lowery ’32 writes that Luthera (Burton) Dawson, as a major in the U. S. Army Sanitary Corps. He Mrs. William, lives at 6302 Central Ave., Capitol is married to the former Elizabeth Ray of Newton. England Operations Manager. Heights, Md. The Dawsons have two boys aged They have three children, Nancy, Joanne, and about 9 and 11 I should guess from their picture. Sarah.” Arvo’s South Hadley address is 508 Am­ Luthera works for Internal Revenue. herst Road. Maybe you could help us locate the following Don Henderson has been promoted to district sity, and has one semester to go for her doctor of 33ers: Hyman Emple, Henry Fine, Clayton Fisher, plant engineer in Waterbury, Conn., for the South­ education degree. Millard Fitzgerald, John Fletcher, Amedeo Foggia, ern New England Telephone Company. The Wind­ From the Alumni Office comes news of Cdr. Mildred French, Mrs. Christine Greeman, Arthur sor, Conn. News Weekly published a fine picture of Albert A. Dekin, USNR, who is now at sea, and Garvin, Solomon Govrin, Arthur Grossman, Har­ Don and the following news item: “ Mr. Henderson executive officer on his ship. His sea-going address riet (Porter) Hackett, Harry Hall, Jr., Lt. Col. joined the telephone company in 1937 as an en­ is. USS Neptune (Arc-2), Fleet Post Office, New Allan C. Hamilton, and Carl G. Hand. gineer’s assistant in Hartford. In 1942 he was ad­ York, N. Y. His home address is: 8212 Glen vanced to engineer and from 1943 until 1945 worked Myrtle Ave., Norfolk, Va. 1 9 3 4 Miss Claire Sanders at the Bell Telephone Laboratories on a special Josephine (Carbone) Feeney, Mrs. Patrick, of 123 1/2 Main St., Orono project. In 1948 he was transferred to New Britain and in 1951 became supervising engineer for the Veazie, was recently given special recognition for The postman actually brought me a Christmas Hartford district. The following year he returned superior work accomplishment. She is one of nine card with news on it! The card was from Effie (out of the 886 Veteran’s Administration em­ (Mayberry) and Leif 33 Sorensen. Effie writes to New Britain in the same capacity.” Don lives ployees in Maine) to receive a special pay boost at 67 Bloomfield Ave. in Windsor. that Leif is superintendent of claims for London Martha Wasgatt has recently moved from from M. L. Stoddard, VA head in Maine. This is and Lancaster Insurance Co. in Hartford, Conn. Chambersburg, Pa. to 28 High St. in Farmington. all part of the federal government’s incentive They have two boys. Tom is a sophomore at Wes­ awards program designed to recognize superior leyan College, Middletown, Conn., and Greg is in Dr. Howard N. Cookson now resides at 1030 accomplishment by employees. the third grade. They live at 94 Brookmoor Rd., Ash St., Arroyo Grande, Calif. An interesting Christmas card was received from West Hartford, Conn. Thanks a lot, Effie. Beryl (Bryant) Derry and husband Herman have Dr. and Mrs. J. Rice Moody (Doris Baker) and Lewis Hardison is general manager and partner recently moved to 886 Shore Rd., in South Portland. their 4 children of 59 Kay Street, Newport, R. I. of the Clark Seed Farms, Richford, N. Y. At the Rodney Dyer lives at 612 Essex Ave., Gloucester, On the front of the card was a cleverly arranged annual meeting of the National Potato Council in Mass. picture of the fireplace and the front door of the November, he was elected Secretary. He is also Myrilla (Guilford) and Bill Daley were regular Moody’s home MERRYMOODS. The narrative, director of the Empire State Potato Club and of fans of the University of Maine football team this below the caption, OUR HOLIDAY DOORWAY the N. Y. Certified Seed Growers Cooperative. fall. Their oldest daughter, Myrilla, is a student AT MERRYMOODS, was as follows: “Turn the Lew has three daughters. Corrella, the oldest, is a here. They are now living in their new home at 17 knob of this festive fireplace and forth will come freshman at Hiram College, Hiram, Ohio. Sylvia Riverside Drive, Falmouth Foreside, Portland. the Moodys six:— is a junior in high school, and Marcia is in the Bill now is in his first year at Wesleyan Univer­ fifth grade. The family lives at 11 Union St., 19 3 2 Miss Angela Miniutti sity at Middletown, Conn., and already allied Dryden, N. Y. 7 Catell St., Apt. 5, Bangor with his chosen fraternity, Phi Nu Theta. Jayne is a freshman at Rogers High and after­ Irving Smith has joined the staff of the Albert Dr. James Bates was recently re-elected council­ R. Mann Library of the New York State Colleges man in Eastport. noons helps at Dad’s office as a dental assistant. Curtis our junior higher and sportsman is chiefly of Agriculture and Home Economics, Cornell. His Erma (Gross) Fletcher, Mrs. John M., lives at new address is 109 Summit Ave., Ithaca, N. Y. 1628 Veteran Ave , Los Angeles 24, California. A concerned with basketball at this time and baseball teacher of English at Polytechnic High School in in its season. Can you help me locate Ralph M. Dougherty, Riverside, Calif., she has her master’s degree in Stanson as another Little League enthusiast and Rita (Lancto) Eberach, Lillian (Russell) Foster, English from Teachers’ College, Columbia Univer- chief scout for our ever straying canine, somewhat Henry B. Gersoni or Malcolm F. Goodwin? misnamed “Buddy.” Doris to wish you all Peace at this Sacred Sea­ Mrs. Thomas S. McGuire son. (Agnes Crowley) Jay to dispatch Happiness to one and all in the 21 Widgeon Way, Greenwich, Conn. MAINE SECURITIES COMPANY coming New Year.” I feel quite sure the Moodys The Fred C. Roberts (Edna Matthews) are pres­ would not mind my sharing their Christmas card ently residing at 106 Woodrook Drive, Springdale, 465 Congress Street with you all. Conn. Drop me a line with the particulars? Major Mildred E. Smith has returned from her Mail reaches Lt. Col. Robert G. Higgins at Base two years’ assignment in Heidelberg, Germany, and Weather Station, C.A.F. B., Fort Worth, Texas. P o rtland, M e . is now stationed in New York. Her address is: Hq. 1st Army, A G, Governors Island, N. Y. Hugh E. Ryan has been named manager of the A short note from Mrs. William Lowery, Jr. Stamford, Conn, branch office of the General Ad­ (Bernice Woodman), 1527 Elm St, Utica, N. Y., justment Bureau, Hugh has been with this com­ pany since 1948. Before coming to Stamford, he Distributors of Building tells that she is working 4 days a week now at her bookkeeping job, and keeping house. Christmas had been in the White Plains branch. Materials is a busy season for husband Bill who delivers ACME SUPPLY CO., ESC. parcel post. I don’t want to bore you with a list of my Christ­ 60 Summer St. Bangor, Me. mas presents but do want to tell you about the Bangor Furniture Co. T. M. Hersey ’34, Pres.-Treas. very special gift I received, as a class secretary, from Margaret Mollison, Assistant Alumni Secre­ Complete House Furnishers Philip Johnson ’43, Vice Pies. tary. It is a very pretty letter opener, white, with a blue seal of the General Alumni Association, 84-88 Hammond Street University of Maine These gifts were sent to the Bangor, Maine class secretaries as a help to them in opening all their newsletters from classmates. I hope that I’ll JOHNSON’S HUMMOCKS receive lots of letters from or about 32ers so that my letter opener, which is being reserved for open­ ing letters of ’32ers, will get a lot of use during Sea Food Grill the year. 1 9 3 3 Mrs. Winthrop C. Libby (Betty Tryon) LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY Allens Avenue 14 Spencer St., Orono SPRINGFILD • MASSACHUSETTS We are having another old fashioned winter here ORGANIZED 1851 P rovidence, R hode I sland in Orono, but in spite of all the cold weather and snow the new women’s dorm is progressing rapidly Cecil S. Woodbrey '41 out in the field in front of Balentine. It is of General Agent brick and will look much like the new men’s dorm Earl A. White ’44 STANLEY BROWN completed last summer. Robert S. White '50 General Manager Our Christmas cards brought news of a few of Career Life Underwriters our classmates. We had a nice long note from 415 Congress St., Portland 3, Me. Marnie (Smith) Baldwin. She and Tom live at 63 Canterbury Pike, Norwich, Conn. They see Phone 2-0102

18 THE MAINE ALUMNUS Gowell paid his annual visit in late November. Christmas card tells of his purchase of a new home in Wakefield, R. I. Not far from Kingston- nice and cool near the shore in the summer and warm in the winter. Bill Veague’s Christmas card came from St. Petersburg—what a life—either old age or the tourist business must have him. Quite a few Christmas cards from other 38ers. Liz and Allen Trask (and 4 children and 2 dogs), Rod and Buby (Black ’37) Elliott, Waldo and Phyl Hardison, Midge (Lynds) and Dunc Cotting, Char­ ley Lowe and family, and the good Lords (Dwight and Betty and the 4 terrors!) Dwight had heard from Chunk Ireland via phone when he was in Washington, D. C., recently. If this seems disjointed, remember I had to write it soon after spending New Years eve with the Haggetts. We now call him “Road Block John.” Believe me, I have really checked through all my sources this month—as the strain and suffering that I have gone through these past two months has been too too much—for one so pure in heart, which is typical of all members of Phi Kappa Sig. Miss Helen M. Philbrook 1939 15 Webster Rd., Orono Hi, The new year has just started as I write this, but it will be near the holidays in February before you read the news that has been sent along by three good people. Betty (Homans) Hancock’s letter came just too The Kellers bring season greetings via their fine family of four. (See the late to be included in last month’s news, so here ’36 class column for details.) are the items she sent along. She wrote that Kay (Cox) Bennett, Johnny ’37, and their four year old daughter were visiting in Maine last summer and 1 9 3 6 Mrs. Edwin P. Webster, Jr. with a husband that would permit or condone a called on them. The Bennetts have a home they (Phyllis Hamilton) daughter of a Maine Alumna to be seen socially built at Soundview Lane, Sands Point, Long Island. 258 Norway Rd., Bangor with a student of Bowdoin—one Peter Hickey. Marion (Kiszonak) Owen surprised Betty and Sum­ 20th Reunion, June 8-10, 1956 b) Writ erroneously drawn and signed by initials ner with a visit. With her was her husband, daugh­ With our reunion coming along this June, be rather than full name. ter, and son. How about some vital sataistics, sure and send on some notes of news so we’ll spread c) Furthermore—not registered. Marion. The Owens live at 1109 Kennedy St., the enthusiasm to others to return. This is our d) Writ not delivered by proper certified official. Falls Church, Va. “twentieth” reunion—quite the event in life! e) A reporter with so many to cover with so Betty has also seen Lucille (Fogg) Baldwin, Bob, Lyn and Adolphine (Voegelin ’38) Keller toured few resources (helpers please note) for news— and their 4 sons. Just as soon hear from you too, in Europe on a combined business and pleasure having to carry the ball alone—must of necessity Lucille. Thanks for the letter, Betty, and I hope trip. Lyn is export manager of Wallace & Tierman take advantage of all tid-bits as they come his way I’ll see you before the next Homecoming game. Co. The Kellers have four children and live at 11 and be given a reasonable amount of poetic license. My good source of information, Spike Leonard, Garden St., Montclair, N. Y. f) The court also felt that it was gross injustice says that a note from Maxine (Cates) Caldwell an­ to tax a man’s estate and reputation to such great nounces a change of address from Exeter, N. H., to 1 9 3 7 Mrs. Gordon B. Raymond lengths. Valley Cottage, N. Y. And Bill Hilton’s address is (Barb Lancaster) g) And finally the case was dismissed with the 23 Lenape Lane, Newark, Del. 37 Glenwood Ave., Portland recommendation that the proper apologies be Jeannette (Lamoreau) Ela sent along a very nice Merton R. Sumner has recently joined the made, which should be more than enough punish- Christmas letter about her family, and added a Brown Company, Berlin, N. H. (I hope), as a de­ men for any Phi Kap. letter telling about some other ’39ers. Jeannette sign engineer. To quote from the Brownco News Fine picture of A. Veague stepping down as and Ben ’40, with their six children, live at 1610 Review: He served as a mechanical draftsman chairman of the Bangor City Council—made all Elroy Drive, Lemon Grove, Calif. The children with the Phoenix Engineering Corporation, Burns the syndicated papers throughout the country re­ are Diana, Danny, Christi, Pat, Mike, and Jenny. and Roe, Inc., and the Buell Engineering Company. cently—had such a political machine built up They range in age from 14 to 3 1/2. Jeannette and the He was a mechanical engineer with George C. that they couldn’t get rid of him. children drove across country to Presque Isle last Sharp, Inc., consulting engineers and naval archi­ Bob Harvey—1956 Red Cross Fund chairman summer, and had a grand trip. Ben is working for tects, for three years before joining the Merchant for Melrose, Mass. Bob is with Stone and Webster. the Ryan Aeronautical Co. Marine as an operating engineer. In 1946 Mr. Made quite a name for himself as a Red Cross and The news of ’39ers that she sends along is that Sumner joined Ebasco Services, Inc., as mechanical Boy Scout Worker. she saw Mildred (Sutter) Osborne and they live at engineer. He is a member of the American So­ ciety of Mechanical Engineers. He is married and the father of two boys and a girl. We are indebted to the Brownco paper for furnishing us with this news of one of our classmates. All our best wishes for your success in this new position, Mer­ HOTEL KENMORE ton. At a Penobscot County Farm Bureau Directors 490 Commonwealth Avenue at Kenmore Square meeting held recently in Brewer, Jerome Emerson, Corinna, was elected vice president. The Penob­ B o st o n , M assachusetts scot County Farm Bureau is affiliated with the State Farm Bureau which in turn is affiliated with the American Farm Bureau Federation. We are 400 Large Comfortable Modern Rooms happy to locate Jerome, whose name is listed in our “lost files.” How about some more accurate All With Private Bath and Radio information about you and your family, Jerome? We have a new address for Mr. and Mrs. Henry Television Available Arnold Spavin (Frances Austin) who live at 2808 Virginia Street, NE, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Arnold ’38 is chief fire protection engineer with NOTED FOR ITS EXCELLENT CUISINE the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission, Santa Fe Operations, Albuquerque, N. M. Fran, I should All Function and Public Rooms Air-Conditioned enjoy hearing from you sometime soon. Audrey (Bishop) Thibodeau sent me a photo Also, Air-Conditioned Suites and Guest Rooms Available of her two girls, Bunny and Ann. This is only half of hers and Tib’s family—hope to see the two Ample Parking Space boys another time. There was a dearth of news at Christmas, but I am always hopeful of hearing from some of the Home of the Famous Mural Lounge rest of you. 1938 Mr. Robert L. Fuller and 47 Andrews Ave, Portland Dear Classmates and friends—if any. Be it Popular Sportsmen’s Bar known that the case of Fuller vs Schoppe dis­ missed at January term of court on the following W i l l i a m T. B i g l e r grounds. a) Any nervous breakdown or suffering Mrs. General Manager Schoppe may have had was not caused by my writings—it is probably the result of a home life

FEBRUARY, 1956 19 7 Hillside Ave., Presque Isle. There are two child­ mas Eve to write such a long and interesting letter! Los Angeles and Chicago, he received awards for ren, Michael 10, and Barbara 4. Her husband heads Bill and Vivian Treat sent Holiday Greetings. his recent work. the Aroostook Film Transport. Did you all see Bill’s picture in “Life,” Sept. 19, I do want to thank those who sent pictures of Madeline (Sutter) Blackstone lives at Moses 1955, on page 50? their children which I am forwarding to the editors Lake, Washington State, and is supervisor of the I’m saving some of my mail for next month— in hopes that some may reach the press in this or second grade teachers in that district. She has two still remembering Elnora’s warning! future copies. Erna (Davis) and Paul Wentworth’s included the newest and fourth child, Lucinda. Our children, Dorothy 13 and Sandra about 10. 1 9 4 1 Mrs. Vale Marvin Alice (Pierce) Weaver lives in Weaver, Alabama. congratulations to Erna and Paul on R.F.D. 1 in Charles ’40 is a Major, and they have five children, (Hilda Rowe) Bucksport. two boys and three girls. The Elas and Weavers Kennebec Rd., Hampden Highlands Please keep the letters coming, as we have rather used to see each other when they both lived in 15th Reunion June 8-10, 1956 a short column this month, and I know you all Happy New Year, everyone. We really hit the Berkeley. want to receive your money’s worth from your dues Thank you so much, Jeanette, for the grand let­ jackpot on news this month. It is wonderful to by a lot of news of your classmates, so please ter, and I do hope that some of the others will have so much news. Nice letters from Donald pitch in and do your part. Devoe and Joanna (Evans) Bardo. We’ll start with follow the example set you and Betty. 1 9 4 3 Mr. Paul Smith Donald. He and Muriel had their third child, P.O. Box 133, New York 25, N. Y. 1 9 4 0 Mrs. Artemus E. Weatherbee James Donald, who was born on September 2nd. Thanks to all of you who sent me news during 1 9 4 0 (Pauline Jellison) James has two sisters, Barby, 9, and Judy who is 6. the holidays. I still hope to hear from many of the 9302 Second Ave„ Silver Spring, Md. At about the same time Donald was promoted to Lt. Colonel in the Air Force Reserve. They have rest. The tree is down, the gifts have been tucked Margaret June (Williams) Wells, 103 Tallman away, the parties are over; and tomorrow the had their own home in Stoneham, Mass, for a year. Don is still a research associate and assistant Ave., Cranston 10, R. I., is a homemaking teacher children go back to school. at the Hugh B. Bain Junior High School. She was It was wonderful to receive so much Christmas professor at Tufts University, in the general area of psychology and specializing in human engineer­ married last April to Edward Gray Wells. mail. We have notes from Rachel (Kent) Clark Warren Bickford, 18 Marion St., Holbrook, and Barbara (Welch) Wilson. Their letters are ing. Their address is 44 MacArthur Rd., Stoneham. Thank you, Donald, for the newsy letter. Mass., recently transferred to the Boston office of especially welcome because we have been friends Koppers Co. Chemical Division as sales representa­ from kindergarten and shared all of our girlhood From Joanna (Evans) Bardo, Clinton '42, came their clever Christmas card telling their doings for tive (plastics). secrets! Rachel keeps very busy with all sorts of Earl Renwick, now living in Portland, recently community activities. She and Ken have three the past year plus all the news Joanna received from other 1941ers on their cards. The Bardos spoke at the Pilot’s Grill in Bangor at a luncheon lovely daughters; Betsy (10), Nancy (7), and Mar­ meeting of the Eastern Maine Life Underwriters tha (2 1/2). They live on Byran St, Fort Fairfield. have two daughters, Rebecca who is in the third grade and Cynthia who is in the first. Cynthia Assn. His subject was “Going Places.” Earl is Barbara and Mai live in Edmonds, Wash, at manager for the Phoenix Life Insurance Co. 21120-86 P1 W. They have two little boys; David came home from the hospital before Christmas, (3) and Randy (2). Recently they completed their having had an operation on the cords behind her The Berkshire Mutual Fire Insurance Co. has new rambler which sounds like a real dream house. knees and now can walk with only wrist length transferred Harold Emerson to the home office as Barbara was in Maine last summer, and the Welch crutches This is the start of a new era for Cyn­ manager of the underwriting department. Since family had its first reunion in eight years’ The thia, Joanna says. What a wonderful Christmas joining Berkshire in 1952, he has been special agent Clarks and Wilsons also had a reunion of their present for the Bardos I’ll quote from the letter for Maine and N. H After leaving the U. of M., own. How I wish the Weatherbees could have other news—“Saw Isabelle (Crosby) Shipman in where he majored in Business Administration and been there! beautiful Laconia, N. H., this summer. Her ad­ Education, he served in the Navy as a Pharmacist’s Ben and Jeannette (Lamoreau ’39) Ela sent out dress Route 3, Guilford, N. H. Betty (Grant) Mate. He started his insurance career with the long and interesting Christmas letters They have Adams, 376 Thickett St , So. Weymouth, Mass., S R Crabtree agency in Island Falls. He became lived at 1610 Elroy Drive, Lemon Grove, Calif., says they are busy with their four children. Laura Maine state agent of the American Druggists In­ for two years. Ben works for Ryan Aeronatical Craft) Hutchins lives in Waldoboro, Me., and they surance Co. in 1950, later transferring to Mass. Co. in San Diego as a process design engineer. have one son, Brent. Charlene (Perkins) and Wal­ From there he moved to his present company. Har­ And they have six children’ Jennifer (3 1/2), Michael ter Strang have moved into a new house at High old is married and has two children. The Emersons (5), Patrick (7), Christine (10) Danny (11), and St., Camden, Me Betty (Mosher) and Clifton have moved from Alfred, Maine, to Yale Hill in Dianna (14). Jeannette’s letter tells of all their Whitney live at 33 Hubbard St , Montpelier, Vt. Stockbridge, Mass. many activities. They sound like a wonderful and Sally (Culbertson) Nardone lives at 24 Elizabeth Chester Cram of Kennebunk has been appointed busy family. Also enclosed in the letter was news St , Presque Isle, and has three children, 2 girls Assistant U. S. District Attorney for Southern of classmates whom Jeannette saw last summer and a boy.” The Bardos frequently attend the Maine. Chester is married to the former Ruth when she and the children were in Maine. Southern Conn. Alumni Association meetings. Renwick of Athol, Mass., and they have two child­ Josephine (Freeman) Mundt had her third child Thank you, Joanna, for all that news. ren Chester is a veteran of World War II and the last April, a boy named David. The last address Now for the Christmas card news’ Barby and Korean War. He was a First Lieutenant in the I have for the Mundts is 709 Inskip Rd., Knoxville, Jim Harris and three children, Jimmy, Jeff, and Air Force. After bailing out of a B-24 on which Tenn. Hawley are living at 6217 Malcolm Drive, Dallas, he was bombardier, he spent 11 months in a Ger­ Erwin Heald, his wife, and two children live at Texas. From Readfield, Maddy (Smart) Beardsell man prisoner-of-war camp. He received his law 18 Raymond St., Framingham, Mass. writes that she’ll see us all at reunion next June. degree from Georgetown U. in 1951. Mary Curran is still “workin’ for the railroad” She saw Cam (Doak ’40) Hurford last summer. Mary (Hempstead) Hemman, 11 Westview Dr., and lives at 42 Thornton Rd., Chestnut Hill, Mass. Cam and Bob have bought a house in Shreveport, Norwood, Mass., is a candidate for the Norwood Thank you, Jeannette, for taking time on Christ- La., 121 Bruce St. Lib and Maynard Files have a School Committee. Mary’s qualifications include new address, 55 Ferguson Lane, Warwick, Va. her U. of M. degree in Education and two school Lib writes, “ Maynard returned from Arizona Oct. children, Stephen and Nancy, who are in the SERVING 1. We moved into a new house after a quick trip third and first grade, respectively, of the Balch MAINE STUDENTS to Florida to see my brother’s family.” School. Her husband is Robert Hemman, an en­ S in c e 1 8 9 2 Anna and Bill Chandler have a new daughter, gineer graduated from Tufts. She served for two Barbara Ellen, who was born on Nov. 25th in years as secretary of the Norwood Mothers Club, P A R K ' S HARDWARE Portland. Congratulations to the Chandlers. Ruth for one year as Year Book Chairman, and is now & VARIETY (White) Wight writes “Greetings from New Jersey Program Chairman. Last year she was a member (652 Fairfield Circle, Westfield). We moved down of the P.T.A. Board. She has been very active in 31-37 MILL ST.. ORONO. ME here in Sept., as Bill has a new position as quality numerous organizations and undertakings, like the control supervisor for Cooper Alloy Corp’s new Red Cross and the Community Chest Drive. aircraft parts plant in Clark, N. J.—We’ll be head­ Ruth (Eastman) Lee has recently been named a ing back to Maine come summer, as we are build­ member of the Farm and Home Improvement SUPERIOR PAPER ing a summer camp at Lockes Mills, Me.” Project Committee at a meeting of officers of the From the Alumni Office, more news. Roderic Women’s Division of the Maine Extension Associa­ PRODUCTS COMPANY Gardner has been appointed town manager of tion. Kingstown, R. I., and will take over his new office Irving Keiter, 269 Bonad Rd., Chestnut Hill, Leonard E. Minsky ’50, Gen. Mgr. about January 1, 1956. Previous to this appoint­ Mass., is a sales manager with Atlantic Heel Co. Wholesale Paper Merchants ment Rod was senior administrative analyst on the He is married to the former Barbara Caplan of staff of the city manager of Kansas City, Mo. He Hull, Mass The Keiters have two children, a Bangor & Caribou Maine is married and has an eleven year old daughter. daughter of 6 and a son of 3. Irving sells to shoe Rockwood Berry has been re-elected president of factories and travels to Maine about once a month. the board of directors of the Maine Farm Bureau Clifford “ Bruz” West, 6020 Hanover Ave., is a Association. Marine Major (reserve) with USMC at Hqrs. Marine Corps He writes that he was on campus 1 9 4 2 Mrs. Barbara Cuetara about a year ago and almost got lost. Bruz in­ (Barbara Savage) forms me that Major Don Allen is with him, Don Known throughout the state 10 Charles St , Orono Bryan is in Washington, Major Rab Healey and We have one item from the Alumni Office to Barbara (Smiley) Healey are at Quantico, Sam for quality and service relay on to you, and that is that Joseph Higgins is “ Bud” Inman is in Richmond. assistant manager for the Nichols Poultry Company, Kingston, R. I. Joe’s father, Raymond, graduated 1 9 4 4 M rs. Charles Cook from Maine, incidentally, in 1920 (Margaret McCurdy) Francis and “DJ” Andrews are enjoying their 48 Penobscot St., Bangor community life in Natick. Scotty is in 4th grade A recent newspaper clipping read “YOUNG GOP and Bobby is in kindergarten. DJ keeps us posted WALGREEN AGENCY TO OPPOSE NELSON?” Willard E. Riley voiced (and we are grateful) on Andy’s activities, and the a possible intention to seek his party’s nomination SKOWHEGAN, M A IN E newest venture is a center for direct mail advertis­ in the June primaries to oppose Charles P. Nelson ing located in the Statler Office Building lobby. It of the Second District. Willard is engineer and is a new concept in advertising and its opening was treasurer of the Record Foundry and Machine Co. John Sealey, Jr. ’36 televised. The name for the “gimmick” is Ad of Livermore Falls. Man’s Alley, in case any Boston alumni are in the Another ’44er makes the news—Lawrence A. vicinity of the Statler. Andy’s success in direct Graham was elected to fill the vacancy on the mail advertising continues and at two conventions, Electric Light Commission in Holyoke caused by

20 THE MAINE ALUMNUS Esso Promotes McNeilly

Alvin S. McNeilly ’44 has been pro­ An Invitation moted to the post of Assistant District Manager for Massachusetts by the Esso To Pioneer, Standard Oil Co.

He returned to the University follow­ in The ing war service with the Army Air Force 1942-45 and joined Esso as a Development Sales Trainee in February 1947 fol­ O f lowing his graduation. He is now a member of the Alumni Council.

On August 1, 1949, he was promoted to Industrial Salesman and on Febru­ ary 1, 1954, to District Merchandising a t o m i c Assistant in the Massachusetts District.

He and his wife Jennie (Bridges) McNeilly ’43 make their home in Mel­ rose, Mass.

the death of his father. He was appointed as a her letter. They both seem to be plenty busy with ENGINEERS! member of the Appropriation Committee in 1951 community affairs. Their address is 59 Groton for a 3 year term and reelected in 1954 for an­ Ave., Cortland, N. Y. SCIENTISTS! other three year term. Lawrence is president of Priscilla (Moore) Connon writes that her brother the Graham Mfg. Co. of Holyoke, a paper proc­ has recently moved to Portland so I have hopes of Join WESTINGHOUSE in the research essing firm, and holds an engineering degree from seeing Priscilla one of these days. She and Wilbur and development of nuclear reactors the University. He served as lieutenant with the have two children—Jean who is in the second grade Navy in the Pacific during World War II. and Jeff who just started school this fall. Their for commercial power plants and Dr. and Mrs. Eugene A. Mawhinney (Anne address is North Anson. for the propulsion of naval vessels. Dowling) have a new mailing address: College In December Carolyn and I attended a meeting Apts. A-l, Sixth and College, Elmira, N. Y. Dr. of the Portland Club of University of Maine Wom­ Mawhinney completed his Ph.D. in political sci­ en. We had a chance to chat a bit with the As­ PHYSICISTS ence at the University of Illinois in 1955 and is sistant Alumni Secretary, Maggie Mollison, and now assistant professor of political science at El­ also enjoyed a talk and demonstration on Christmas mira, New York. Cooking by “Brownie” Schrumpf. Had a note from Esther (Holden) Hopkins dur­ MATHEMATICIANS ing the holidays saying that she had regained al­ 1946 Mrs. A. D. Gamber most completely. We all wish you our best, Esther. (Terry Dumais) As you know, Esther was stricken with polio last Route 5 Box 824G, Everett, Wash. year. 10th Reunion, June 8-10, 1956 MECHANICAL ENGINEERS Received a cute card with a picture of the six I am hoarding all the Christmas notes that I’ve Millay children. Helen writes that she is busy received from you and I shall be sending out the with her own and children’s activities. news piecemeal from now until June; my sincere Congrats to the William Westons (Virginia thanks to all of you who took time out during METALLURGISTS Smith) on the birth of a son, Nathan Smith Wes­ such a busy season to send me greetings and news ton, on December 27th. of you and your families. Thanks to all of you who sent cards, let’s hear My first news came from 48 Dorann Avenue in NUCLEAR ENGINEERS from more of you. HAPPIEST OF NEW YEARS! Princeton, N. J. You guessed i t . . . greetings from Dave Holmes! The Holmes now have four child­ 1 9 4 5 Mrs. Robert Dutton ren: Charles 4 1/2, John 3, Susan 2, and Liza 1 1/2 CHEMISTS (Dottie Currier) mos . . . Dave is planning to attend the Reunion in 79 Revere St., Portland June . . . hope many of you are making your plans Here it is the first of January and time to get down far in advance, too. New ! Westinghouse to business on the column once again. The Christ­ And a more up-to-date address for Marguerite mas season did bring in some news, but we will need McNeil . . . 85 Mansfield Avenue, Burlington, Vt. Fellowship Program Marguerite is now an assistant professor of educa­ much more if 1945 is to be represented in the March . . . in conjunction with the University issue. Please sit down and drop a note to Carolyn tion at the University of Vermont. Certainly or me, huh? would enjoy hearing from you and how you are of Pittsburgh. This new Westinghouse enjoying your teaching. Bud and Pat Hale have just moved into their new program enables qualified candi­ home in Rumford. Bud works for the Oxford In August Donald Dodge wrote from the De­ Paper Co. there. pendent School, APO 4, San Francisco, Calif., that dates to attain their M.S. and Ph.D. Belated congratulations are in order for Eleanor he would soon be teaching in Kisarazu, about 50 degrees WHILE ON FULL PAY. (Flint) Currier and husband Dick. Way back in miles from Tokyo. Don spoke of meeting several February, 1955, they became the parents of a son, people from Massachusetts, but so far he’d come SALARIES OPEN across noone from Maine. Daniel. He is nearly a year old now and walking Ample housing available a few steps, so Mommy and Daddy are on the Also have another far-away address for you. jump. Nice to hear from you, Nell. Their address Shirley (Titcomb) and John Mader and their in modern suburban com­ is North Jay. family left October 19th for the Ganta Methodist munity 15 minutes from From the Alumni Office comes the news that Mission, Ganta, Liberia, West Africa. our new plant. Ideal Wilfred Perry was married to Catherine Anne Have also found what I think is a more recent working conditions. Ex­ Meehan last November. They went to New York address for Al and Muriel (Adams) Sanford; they cellent pension plan. Edu­ City and Washington, D. C., on a wedding trip are now in Montpelier, Vt. at 49-D Greenwood cation program. Health and then to Waltham, Mass., where Wilfred is Terrace. Also in December came the news of the & Life Insurance. employed by the Raytheon Manufacturing Co. We appointment of William C. Gibson as assistant di­ have no street address unless it is still 127 Crescent rector of the group pensions division of the Massa­ St., Waltham, Mass. How about a card, Wilfred? chusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. After serving Send Complete Resume To: Al Smaha has had another major activity added in the Navy Bill finished his course at the Uni­ MR. A. M. JOHNSTON to his many. He has recently been named Bangor versity and joined his present company in 1951. WESTINGHOUSE BETTIS PLANT chairman for the 1956 March of Dimes campaign. The Gibsons’ address is 201 Overlook Drive, Spring- He served as co-chairman last year. Al is executive field, Mass. P.0. Box 1468 vice president of the Columbia Markets of Maine Editor’s Note: See the photo accompanying the Pittsburgh 30, Penna. and manages the one in Bangor. He and his family 1922 Class Column for an item on Mary (Libby) A live at 67 Boutelle Rd. Dresser. Just before Christmas I received a nice long letter from Carolyn (Cavett ’46) Gordon. Ann and 1947 M rs. Richard L. Banton Sherwood (“Flash” to most of us), have two (B J. Durgin) daughters—Paula who is six and in the first grade, 30 High St , Newport and Debbie who is 14 mo. I believe that Sherwood Hi, everyone, and a very Happy New Year to is the owner of a commercial advertising business you all! Why Peg and Joanie asked me to write although Ann didn’t mention anything about it in this column I shall never know, because I never

FEBRUARY, 1956 21 write to anyone. My intentions are good, but I don’t seem to follow them through! However, Christmas cards have been my salvation and I do have a little news. First off, thanks loads to Jane (Longfellow) Cul­ len who wrote a note on her Christmas card and then a letter after the holidays. The Cullens are now living in Waterville again at 18 Boutelle Ave., and John, who is 3 1/2, is industriously learning to ski this winter, while 1 year old Peggy is proving herself to be a perfect little lady! Jane sent along news of Edith (Strout) Richards. Edie’s husband is the Rev. Craig Richards and they have two little girls, Kathy, who was 2 years old in August and Jeanette Diane, who was born last August. The Richards live at 898 Middle St. in Bath. Also, from Jane came news of Beth (Clement) Wachendorf. Beth’s husband is a newspaperman with The Stars and Stripes in Germany. Beth and her mother are visiting relatives in England through the holidays and Beth expects to join her husband after the 15th of January. Do write and tell us of your “doings” in Germany, Beth. It has been years since many of us heard from you. I had a nice note from Marilyn (Tobey) Hayes. The Hayes family is now living at 709 Cuthbert St., Midland, Texas, and enjoying life in “the wide open spaces” very much. “Toby” and the child­ ren, Dick and Tobie Ann, are hoping to come to Maine sometime in ’56 and we’re looking forward to a real get-together. Another note brought word of Barbara (Wood- These bright shining faces arc the family of Warren G. Smith ’49 of 780 fin) Dana and young Greg. Greg is now 5 years Embury Rd., Pen field, N. Y. (See the ’49 class column.) old and in kindergarten. Barbie is living at 12 Rose Ave. in Marblehead, Mass. Leslie is now 8 years old and “ Andy” is 2 1/2 (I Bob and Helen (Gordon) Threlfall are living in Lois (Hovey) Ward and Jim are in Houlton. Bloomington, Ill. Bob is with the General Electric “ Lovey” madly chases two little boys through the think)! Jay (Maxwell) Franzen (Mrs. Harold), has a son Co. there Their 2 children are Gordon, 3, and day, while Jim is at the bank. The Wards have just Joan, 1. May we have your address, Helen? completed a camp at Nickerson Lake and can’t be Bruce and the Franzens live on Rt. 2, Jefferson- town, Kentucky. I do wish she would write more John Bibber became city manager of Old Town moved through the summer months! on January 1, 1956. For the past 3 years he has “Mamie” (Littlefield) Hussey got her children than just “Hi” on her Christmas card! Judge and Mrs. Wm. Flora (Barbara Weick) been town manager of Berwick. John is married over chicken pox just before Santa Claus made his and has 2 children rounds! Ann is now in the first grade and Robbie have a son, Carl, who was born last summer. The Floras are living in Presque Isle. Stephen C. Knight, Jr., is now an assistant pro­ is in kindergarten. “Marnie” and Roy live at 10 fessor in the department of civil engineering at the Third Ave. in Augusta. This past summer we had a surprise visit from Sally (Phillips) Bickford, Bill, Diana, and Robbie. University of Vermont His address is 14 Abnaki From Norfolk, Va., came news of Anna Mae Ave., Essex Junction, Vt. (Berry) Nelson. Rod is now stationed at Norfolk It was a real treat as we had not seen the Bickfords in years. Sal and I did not have a chance to get John A. Hill, Jr., has recently been named to the and they live at 175 W. Randall Ave. They have Finance Committee of Natick, Mass. He is opera­ two children, “Skiff” 4Vi and Leslie Ann 1 1/2 who, caught up on the news, as Bill was weary after a 4 day auto trip with the kids and wanted to get tor of the Natick Oil Co. John’s address is 21 according to Anna, keeps her much busier than Travis Rd., Natick, Mass. exams did at Maine! The Nelsons are hoping home! Sal did mention that Val Warren is now someday the Navy will let them make a Home­ living in Lexington, Mass., and Sal talks with her on I now have an address for Ted ’49 and Ruth coming at Orono. the ’phone occasionally. The Bickfords are living (Berglund) Dyer—436 Ferry St., Malden, Mass. in Waltham, Mass., at 254 Beal Rd. Barb (MacNair) Edwards and her family are in Hastings N Bartley, Jr. Houlton, too. Barb says she has been sewing since Gerry Small is back at work with Time magazine. 1949 Mrs. She is now picture researcher for the art, cinema, (Jayne Hanson) last January and still isn’t through! With 2 little 4 Maine Ave , Millinocket girls I imagine there is lots of sewing to be done. education, theatre, and science section of the maga­ zine. Sounds mighty impressive, Gerry, keep up the Merci buttercups to you all for all the wonderful good work. Gerry is living at Apt. 2 A, 431 River­ Christmas cards. It is always so wonderful to hear side Dr., New York City. from you and the column certainly does prosper BANGOR BOX CO. Dottie (Salo) Chapman, Mrs. Charles V., is liv­ with the glad tidings of the classmates. From all ing in Annandale, Va. “Chappie” is stationed at the cards with pictures I would say the ’49ers have PAPER BOXES, FOLDING CARTONS the Pentagon and they have a little boy 3 years produced a beautiful crop of children. I hope as COMMERCIAL PRINTING old. Their address is Box 509A-RI. 3. How about the year goes by many of them can be put into 75 So. Main St., Brewer, Me. a note from you people? the Alumnus for you all to admire. From Jan (Crane) Jacobs comes the news of her H. F. Drummond, 1900 As for the Bantons—here we are at 30 High St. in Newport, the two of us rattling around in a big family. . . . They have two children . . . Dea 2 1/2 and Pres, and Treas. old house and loving it. Rick is very busy at the Bihm 1 1/2. Dana is working for International Paper mill and I’m just busy! Rick is trying to make a Co. and they are living in Corinth, New York, skier out of me, so most of the winter months I R.F.D. 1. Jan spoke of seeing Butch (Ansell) move slowly and with a great deal of groaning! Hague and her 3 cute children during the summer. But it’s fun! We see a lot of Maine alums as this Bill Newdick has forsaken Maine for a wonder­ HAYNES & CHALMERS CO. seems to be a good place to stop for coffee or to ful promotion in the Internal Revenue Dept, as personnel manager for the office in Lawrence, Mass. A. S. Chalmers ’05, Treas. feed the baby and we love it! So stop anytime! I am afraid this is all the news I could squeeze from His mail now does to 508 Main St., No. Andover. HARDWARE the Xmas cards, the address book, and the old Janie (Libby) and Bruce King certainly have a grapevine. sweet family of four. Their children are Buzz, BANGOR MAINE Our class seems to be the “lost” class of Maine! Nancy, Pat, and Peggy. The Kings have just moved Won’t you please try to drop Peg or Joanie a note and are now living at 63 Neptune St., Beverly Cove, or a postcard soon? These poor gals get so discour­ Mass aged—let’s try to help them! June (Swanton) and Evan Johnson have just moved into a new ranch house in East Hartford, friendly Hospitable 1 9 4 8 Mrs. Wm. G. Ramsay Conn., at 206 Manor Circle. Their family consists | (Jessie Cowie) of two cute gals, Kathy and Karen. Evan is in­ 1605 Armstrong Ave., Staunton, Va. strumental director of the new high school there. Bob ’49 and Betty (Busch) Begley have a new He is also playing trumpet with the Hartford daughter, Kathryn Elizabeth, born October 27, Symphony Orchestra. 1955. Their son Kevin is now 5 years old. The Craig Marble has just opened his dentistry office Begleys’ address is 401 North Cecil, Hobbs, N. M. in Willimansette, Mass. Previously he was with the Bob is with the Shell Oil Co. in Hobbs. U. S Public Health Service. Craig is married to A Christmas card brings us up-to-date on Gene Agnes Slobojan of Garrison, N. D., and they have and Sherry (Lane) Dow. They have 3 children— a 6 mo. old daughter, Kirsten Sue. Their home a girl, 4, a boy, 2, and a boy, 1. Their address is address is 16 Czepiel St., Chicopee. IN BANGOR, MAINE Rt. 3, Houlton, Maine. Hugh Hatch is the store manager of the W. T. “Loss” (Lawrence ’49) and Harriette (Watson) Grant Co. in St. Johnsbury, Vt. He and his wife, Famous Maine Food Litchfield recently moved into their own home. Toma (Decrow), reside at 53 Pleasant St. Family Plan Rates. Their address is 23 Beechwood Rd., Florham Park, The Warren Smiths of Penfield, N. Y., have a Comfortable, newly decorated rooms N. J. Their daughter Cindy is now 8 months old. new daughter born Dec. 1 named Cynthia Jean. from $3.50. Convenient to shopping, Dick and Betty Lutts are living at 34 Elm Tree That brings the family total up to 4, 2 boys and 2 business, bus and air terminals. Lane, Levittown, N. Y. Dick is assistant manager girls. Horace W. Chapman, President at the J. C. Penny & Co. store there. They have Dick Smith is the new director of the Children’s 2 children—Peter, 6, and Richard, 5. Home in Burlington, Vt. After attaining his degree

22 THE MAINE ALUMNUS churches to serve, I will leave it to your imagina­ Joins Columbia Faculty tions as to how my time was spent. Wish you could get back to the Campus and look Lawrence D. “Larry” Pinkham ’50, around though. ... It is a real pleasure to be former editor of The Maine Campus, back studying again. . . . They have a swell bunch of kids and a lot of enthusiasm. . . . Still haven’t has been appointed an assistant profes­ got used to the fact that this is an entirely new sor of journalism at Columbia Univer­ group and that I really don’t know them. . . . Find MORE myself thinking of the former classes and when I sity’s Graduate School of Journalism. walk into some classrooms I find myself thinking He received the M.S. degree from the of the old friends who have left___ Must be getting old. School in 1951. skiing Mr. Pinkham joined the P rovidence 1 9 5 1 Mrs. W. Gregor Macfarlan (Winifred Ramsdell) Jo u rn a l following graduation from Co­ 751 Stevens Ave., Portland lumbia. In 1952 he covered the Olym­ 5th Reunion, June 8.10, 1956 My goodness, here ’tis time for another column pic Games in Helsinki and subsequently for the Alumnus. In case some of you that are in LESS toured Europe before returning to the warmer climates are interested, it has been very cold here in Maine and right now it sounds like a United States and a job with the W all small hurricane outside—wind, rain—much to the Street Journal. dismay of our ski-loving friends! expense He joined the United Press in 1953 Received a most welcomed letter from Margaret "Peg” Flint. Peg, a Lieutenant in the Army, writes as a reporter on the day bureau in New the big happy news is that in February she will York where he worked until his ap­ be coming back to the states for reassignment. Peg is stationed at present in the Far East and when pointment at Columbia. has really been seeing that part of the world. She has visited Hong Kong and Macau and is planning a leave this month taking in Manila and Bangkok. you fly Sounds very exciting, Peg, and we’ll be looking forward to hearing from you when you get back in sociology from Maine he graduated from the in the good old U.S.A. George Warner Brown School of Social Work. He Northeast has been working for Social Agencies in Maine and Another classmate that is traveling far and wide was director of the Forest Park Children’s Center is Dick Martin. Dick is at present (or at the time we received his letter in Dec.) in Monrovia, Liberia. in St. Louis. Nathan Smith Weston is the new son of Mr. and Dick writes that he is not exactly in the darkest to a Africa, but is just one step out of the jungle! An Mrs. Bill Weston in South Windham. item of interest is that Dick heard the Stein Song, Guess that winds up the column for this month. when he was in Abidjan on the Ivory Coast! That 1 9 5 0 Mr. Richard R. Davis old favorite sure gets around, huh? Dick is with 24 Pleasant St., Milo Carrier Corporation and after his work in Liberia is finished he will be off to the Gold Coast, Nigeria, Elizabeth Ann Lundsredt, a graduate of the Peter French Equatorial Africa, the Congo and Angola. Brent Brigham Hospital, is engaged to become the Dick writes that so far every where he has traveled bride of Kenneth Lancaster, who is employed by in South America & Europe he has found someone the Maxwell House Sales Division of Manchester, from Maine. If anybody knows of someone in the N. H. area that Dick is now traveling in, I’m sure he Got some news about “Norm” Powell... He is would appreciate your letting him know the ad­ teaching business education at the Hinesburg High dress. I believe it would be best to send any mail School at Hinesburg, Vt. His wife, Ruth, is an to Dick at the New York office and it will eventual­ ordained Congregational Minister and is the pastor ly catch up with him. Mr. Dick Martin, c/o Car­ of the First Baptist Church at Enosburg Falls. rier Corporation, International Division, 385 Madi­ They have a 21 month daughter, Peggy. son Avenue, New York 17, New York. Good Luck, Herbert Gerald Pulsifer has recently received his Dick. doctorate in plant pathology at the Iowa State Nancy Whiting, who is teaching in Bitburg, Ger­ College in Ames, Iowa. many, spent 10 days skiing in the Austrian Alps Janet Fickmger (Wilson College “55”) is en­ during the Christmas holidays, staying at the Hotel gaged to Ralph Cook . .. Ralph is now a student KitzbuehellerHorn, Kitzbuehel, Austria. at the Bangor Theological Seminary and will be A letter from Joan (Rossi) Martin tells us that receiving his bachelor of divinity degree this June. she and Eph (’52) are now living in New Mexico. all-expense Miss Virginia Pauling (Burdett College) recent­ Eph is an Army Aviator stationed at Holloman ly became the bride of Herbert Alvin Harriman at Air Force Base. Ephraim IV keeps the Martin Lynn, Mass___ “Herb” is a design engineer in household busy, and is now two and a half. Joan Lynn, Mass___ The newlyweds are living at Felton says they like it in New Mexico, it is very warm winter St. in Lynn. and dry and quite unlike New England. Their Miss Elaine Dmitrieff of South Britain, Conn., only complaint is the dust storms and they must recently became the bride of Harlan J. Choate at be viewed first hand to be believed! Thanks for Flushing, N. Y. Upon returning from their honey­ the letter, Jo. moon the couple are residing at Newton Center, Dick and Caroly (Gerrish) Dwelley are now re­ Mass. . . . Harlan is a senior at the Boston Col­ siding in Norwich, Vermont. Dick is chief geolo­ . . . at a top ski resort of your choice lege Law School. gist at Appalachian Sulphides, Inc., at So. Straf­ in New England or the Laurentians. Elwyn Morrow has been appointed the assistant ford, Vt. Find out how convenient, thrifty county supervisor in the Farmer’s Home Adminis­ Alvin “Al” Mason became the new recreation and enjoyable your winter vacation tration office at Augusta, Me. Since graduation he director at the Portsmouth, N. H. Community Cen­ can be .. . has been employed by the soil conservation ser­ ter on December 19. Al was previously engaged vice at Vermont. as a recreation director at Concord, N. H. Good send for your Ora J. and Sarah (Ames) Lombard ’54 became luck, Al, on your new job the parents of a fine baby boy this last October. Andrew M. Harvey has been appointed special They are living at Penobscot Ave , in Millinocket. agent for the Phoenix of Hartford Insurance Group FREE Have had the bloodhounds working these days in Maine. Andrew’s headquarters will be at 174 and came up with the following: Federal Street, Portland. COLORFUL FOLDER “ Bill” Mason is living in the Los Angeles area in Douglas McKay is interning at the Eastern Maine California and his address is: 1316 Fifth Avenue, General Hospital in Bangor. Douglas graduated Los Angeles, Calif. . . . He is employed at the Arm­ from Tufts Medical School last June. The McKays strong Cork Company. have two children, a daughter Anne—3 1/2 and a son Shirley Johnson (Mrs. Willard F. Greenwald) is Hugh—1 1/2. Their address is 64 Bradbury Street, living at 816 Orange St. in New Haven, Conn. . . . Old Town. Her husband is a resident surgeon at the Yale Harold Gillis is employed as District Engineer University, New Haven Hospital. . . . They have an for Allis Chalmers Co. in Detroit, Mich. The 18 month old girl. Gillises have a daughter, Suzanne Marie, and re­ N o r t h e a s t side at 9550 Faust Avenue, Detroit, Michigan. Irving Grunes is living at 19 Clovelly St., Lynn, Erroll Murphy, graduated from University of Mass. He is employed as a technical engineer. Chicago Law School last June, is now practicing Warren Thurlow Perkins is apparently enjoying law in San Francisco, Calif. Erroll’s address is the sunshine down below for his address reads: 2121 Sacramento Street, San Franciso, Calif. Apartado 45, Barcelona, Venezuela. . . . Anybody Mary Marsden and Mark (’50) Shedd and family wishing to contact him should write care of the are now living in Greene, Maine, where Mark is Airlines Mene Grade Oil Company, c/o Engineering Dept. Elementary Supervisor at the Washburn School in Dept. M, Logan Airport When we all read this I hope to have the mid­ Auburn. years past and be getting into the spring semester. Mr. and Mrs. Alan Plaisted of Ipswich, Mass., Boston, Massachusetts The Campus is really active these days and every­ have announced the birth of a son, Scott Leigh, body apparently profited from the Christmas va­ December 9. cations. . . . Being a minister and having two Mr. and Mrs. Paul Rourke of 121 Main Street,

FEBRUARY, 1956 23 you all and believe me, I only wish I could answer Winthrop, are the proud parents of a baby boy, Fine Coaching Record every letter I get. I’d love to—but just can’t find Paul, born on Thanksgiving afternoon. time. Maybe someday I’ll have the time to do some A note from Marion Waterman informs us she of the things I should. Oh, well. I’d love to hear became Mrs. John Meyer last August. Marion is One of the few Maine graduates to be­ from you—and so would the other members of the teaching in the Business Administration College of class, via the column. Syracuse University, while her husband, John, is gin a football coaching career on the a research assistant in the N. Y. State College of college level, James V. Sullivan ’51 is 1 9 5 3 Miss Helen Strong Forestry, Chemistry Dept., Syracuse, where he is compiling a fine record as freshman coach 197 Albemarle St., Springfield, Mass. also studying for his Ph.D. He is an alum of Cradle News: Penn State College. Thanks for the news, Marion. at the University of Delaware. David Shea Johnson born in December is the Miss Lorraine Morris became the bride of Louis Sully’s team won three games while son of Warren and Barbara (Mason) Johnson. The R. H. McLaughlin last fall in Limestone. Louis is losing one and tying one this past season Johnsons live at 109 West Elm St., New Haven, engaged in farming. Conn. We are receiving the news of the marriage of to bring his coaching record to 12 wins, Engagements: Henry Dillenbeck to Miss Deborah Ingalls of five losses, and two ties. The engagement of Jeanine Wortman to Ralph Knoxville, Tenn., last summer. Henry is a Lt. Posphala of Denver, Colo., was announced in No­ stationed with the 40th Figher Interception Squad­ Sully played under former Head Coach vember. Neanie is with the Promotion Dept, of ron, McGhee Tyson Field, Knoxville, Tenn. The Dave Nelson at Maine in 1950 and fol­ KOATU in Denver, Colo. Mr. Posphala graduated Dillenbecks’ home address is 709 Niff Street, Mary­ from the Univ. of Denver and is now an insurance ville, Tenn. lowed Nelson to Delaware where he has adjuster in that city The wedding is planned for Miss Virginia “Ginny” Nickerson became the February. bride of Mr. James Cooney, Jr., in the Old South earned his M.Ed. degree while serving as coach and equipment supervisor. This Ruth Keirstead and John Welch recently an­ Church in Boston last fall. The couple are residing nounced their engagement. Miss Keirstead is a in Beverly, Mass. Ginny has a teaching position winter he is coaching the freshman bas­ home economics teacher at Mapleton H. S. Lt. and her husband is associated with the Arthur An­ (jg) Welch is serving with the U. S. Navy. dersen, Co. accountants. ketball team. I was pleased to read in the paper this morning Marriage Bureau: the announcement of the engagement of Ethel Stone On August 13 Lida Maxim became the bride of and Colby Swan. Ethel is at present an assistant Gerald Muench, USN. Jerry is from East Alton, in the French Department at the University of Ill., and graduated from the United States Naval Colorado where she is doing graduate work. Colby where are you? I’d love to hear from you. Fran Academy. They are now living at Long Beach, did graduate work at Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst, and Dick have a son, Ricky, who really must be Calif. and is an industrial engineer with B. E. Cole grown up by now. Remember, let me know where In July Mavorite McLellan was married to Harold Company at Norway. you are, Fran. Hansen. “Bud” is in the Air Force. Mac is Another recent engagement being announced is Ginny (Norton) Beach, Woody, and daughter teaching school in Oklahoma City. They are living that of Miss Nancy Curtis to John Hawley. Miss Kathy are living at 4201 Parkton St., College at 534 E. Indian Drive, Midwest City, Okla. Curtis is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College. Gardens, Baltimore, Md., where Woody has 15 Nancy (Schott) and Mike Plaisted were happy John is employed as an industrial engineer by the more months with the army. with the arrival of Scott Leigh on Dec. 9. Mike is Diamond Match Company in Chico, Calif. Beth (Leighton) and Chuck Furlong and family being transferred to Cincinnati, Ohio, in Jan. That’s it this month, folks, see you next month are living at 301 Keyes Ave., Watertown, N. Y., Joan (Thomas) and Steve Robinson have changed and don’t forget to start making plans to attend and like it very much Chuck is working for the their address to 35 Ruby Dr, Ashbourne Hills, our 5th reunion come June 8-10, 1956. Western Electric Company. They have two daugh­ Claymont, Del. ters, Cynthia, three, and Susanne, one year! Beth Claire Filliettaz is now working for the New says she missed the Alumnae Meetings in Portland. England Telephone Co. in Lewiston. Her address We miss you, too, Beth. is 95 Summer St., Lewiston. Ruthie Ellingwood’s Christmas cards are always Dolores Bell is teaching the second grade in so different! This year’s shows a real snowy night Farminton, Mo. Her address is 208 W. Columbia Dorothy McCann with an airline hostess and two pilots blazing the St., Farminton, Mo 59 Fessenden St. way!—Walking. Ruth’s really been seeing some Paul A. Geerinck has completed 2 years with Portland of the country out in California. She’s living with Signal Corps as a Lt. He is now employed with two other T. W. A. hostesses now at 1361 No. the General Telephone Co. at Lafayette, Ind., on Laurel Apartment 1, Los Angeles 46, California. survey and research projects dealing with expansion As always, it sounds like you’re really living, facilities His address is 804 So 14 St., Lafayette, Ruthie! Ind. and so am I, with another A card from Vonnie (Leonard), Ken, Denise, and Lt. Ernest Khoury is now one of the youngest time for another Valentines Lisa Ste. Marie came from Germany! And are NIKE missile battery commanders in the entire Day and Washington’s Birthday . .. and time to those children cute! Germany must be agreeing With anti-aircraft command of the U. S. Army, and is hear from lots of you who haven’t written yet. But them. commanding a battery set up in defense of Boston now, on with the news! Jean (Gyger) and Angus Black sent greetings at the NIKE installation in Lincoln. Mass. Serving Quite a few of you sent Christmas cards—and with a picture of their two children and two dogs. with him is also a ’53er—Lt. David Field. thanks a bunch! They came from all over, too — Very novel card from Jean, Gus, Chuck, and 1 9 5 4 Miss Marjory L. Robbins North, East, South and West! My desk looked like Sandy—and Kobuk and Kiska, the Alaskan huskies! a cross-section representation of the country. I got a nice letter from Hugo Cross, who’s having 220 Fisher Ave , Roxbury, Mass. A card from Steve and Priscilla Burnard came a successful second year teaching and coaching at 1st Reunion, June 8-10, 1956 from Haddonfield, New Jersey, where Steve is Perley High School in Georgetown, Mass. Last First a correction for a mistake which occurred working with RCA. At night, he’s going to Drexel year his team won their league tournament . . . and back in the October issue: Richard K. Bailey is Institute of Technology where he’s working on his he’s hoping for another good year. Christmas va­ the minister of the First Congregational Church of master’s degree. Steve and Priscilla have a son, cation took him to California. Those lucky teach­ Hadley, Mass., not Springfield, as I reported. Dick Andy, who is two, and a son, Steven, J r , who is ers He hoped to see the Rose Bowl Game and the and his wife, June, live at 58 Middle St. and would eleven months old. Their address, 310B Princeton Tournament of Roses----- and I sure hope your be very happy to meet any Maine Alums who are Rd. plans materialized, Hugo! And that you saw same traveling or residing nearby. A card from Frannie (Litwinowitz) and Dick of the ’52ers that are out on the other coast Hugo’s Now a report from the New York Stork Market- Gunn came postmarked Kennebunk. Gee, Frannie, address is 40 Colrain Rd., Topsfield, Mass Steven Carl Dow arrived upon the scene at 165 Allen Ridley is employed as a chemist in the ice Second St., Troy, N. Y., on December 23rd He cream laboratory of H. P. Hood and Sons . . and was greeted by Carol (Farrow) Dow, the de­ boy how I’d love to have that job. Only I’d like to lighted Mama and Bill Dow (Class of ’55), the be a tester—chocolate, please. Imagine being sur­ proud Papa Alumni, rounded by ice cream on all sides. Mmm—what a way to live. His address is 32 Fairview St , Ded­ Joan Reed who is employed by the Aetna Life Students, ham, Mass. Insurance Co of Hartford, is now Mrs. Laurence Harold Whittum, Jr., of Brewer is in the army, Buttler, Jr. The wedding took place in November. stationed at Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, Ala. Mr. Buttler was graduated from Gettysburg College Teams He was married last August to Patricia Gibson of and is a member of Phi Kappa Psi. He is a trainee Sunland, California—and they now are living at at the Aetna Life Insurance Co. in Hartford. 754 Big Cave Rd., Huntsville, Ala The Renovated Harriet (Johnson) and Bill Currie are living at 30 Metten Road “Brookside,” Newark, Del. Bill is in personnel and employee relations—Cham­ CROWN HOTEL bers Works of Dupont Company, and Harriet is a busy mother to one year old Deanne Elizabeth. is your Hi, to all of you. headquarters Carl McDermott, coach at Ayer High School in Insurance C om pany Fairhaven, Mass., is quite infamous down that or Boston. Massachusetts in Providence, R. I. way! He was the subject of an article by Ralph Wheeler published last fall in the Boston Herald' Life Insurance, Annuities Will look forward It seems last year Carl’s team had a 5-2-1 record Group Insurance, Pensions but this year’s group had a 1-5 record. Of course, to seeing you soon and often. that was this fall—maybe things got better. But the article dealt with the fact that Carl’s team Dwight Sayward G eo r g e J. S a n k e r played for the sport of it—with no pressure! And Manager that s the thing. Carl sees a silver lining for next General Agent for State of Maine season—and with your kind of attitude, you can’t Crown Hotel miss! Well, golly I’ve lots more news for you—but 415 Congress Street, Portland that’s enough for the month! It’s fun hearing from 24 THE MAINE ALUMNUS your alumni friends enjoy reading about you. So . . . in Hawaii. Their address is 422 Kalaimaker St., Made 1st Lieutenants As we go to press, Albert “Bert” Daniels is Apt. 3, Honolulu, T. H. among 348 Marines attending the 14th Officers’ With those in the working world . . . Six members of the Class of 1953 Candidate Class at the Marine Corps schools in Harry Stanhope is employed by the Goodyear have been promoted to the rank of Quantico, Va. Tire and Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio. His address is Charles Otterstedt writes that he has been in the 1782 High St., Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. First Lieutenant at Fort Dix, N. J. United States Army for three months. In De­ Patricia Gill writes that she is working for William A. Bunter, Lehan A. Ed­ cember, Charlie finished eight weeks of combat Oscar E. Rudsten Advertising Agency in Boston, infantry training at Fort Dix, and he has volun­ Mass. Pat lives at 17 Saint Francis St., Medford, wards, Charles M. Foote, Warren Hath­ teered for Officers’ Candidate School in the Air­ Mass. away, Ronald E. Leathers, and Perles- borne Infantry. His recent address is Pvt. Charles In a letter from William E. Brown, he writes Otterstedt, US 51360775, Company C, 364th In­ that he is presently working for the Western Elec­ ton Pert, Jr., are now wearing silver fantry Reg., Fort Dix, N. J. tric Company in Kearny, N. J., as a product engi­ bars. 2nd Lieutenant Sumner Cahoon has completed neer. Bill reports to Fort Sill, Okla., on March 26, the officer basic course at the Chemical Corps and he is interested in contacting any '55 grads who They all entered the army in June School, Fort McClellan, Ala. Sumner entered the will report to Fort Sill at that time. His address 1954, and all are graduates of the basic Army last August. is 445 Bergen Avenue, Jersey City 4, N. J. On a card from John Pulsifer, he writes that Marion Bugbee is teaching home economics at officers course at the Infantry School there is an alumni group at Bainbridge, Md. John, Fort Fairfield High School. In August, she attended at Fort Benning, Ga. Willis Reed, William “ Lil Bill” Johnson, David a conference of I.F.Y.E. delegates in East Lansing, They are serving with various regi­ Chandler, and Donald Williams are undergoing Mich. Marion tells me that she traveled from basic training in the United States Navy. Western Michigan to Washington, D. C., and near­ ments of the Fighting 69th Infantry Engagements and Family Notes . . . ly to New York City ON SIX DOLLARS. At that Division at Fort Dix. Cynthia Parker, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and John rate, it certainly would not cost her much money to Mixson plan to be married this month. John is travel around the world! Her address is 2 High St., employed by the government in aeronautical re­ Fort Fairfield. search in Norfolk, Va. Elizabeth (Betsy) Parker and Joan Gerrish reside Charlene Riopello ’57 is engaged to Thomas Shea. at 273 Beacon St., Boston, Mass. Betsy is teaching Norma (Bessey) and Earle Colby who were Tom is employed by the Sewall Construction Com­ a group of 15 three-year-olds at the Ruggles Street married in September are living in Dover, N. H., pany, Old Town. School in Roxbury, Mass., and Joan is teaching in a 38 foot trailer. Earle is employed by W. H. Janet Bishop writes that she became engaged to second grade in an elementary school in Newton, Hinman, Inc. Shortly after graduation in ’54, Paul Butler November 26. Jan, who is attending Mass. Norma traveled to Los Angeles where she took a Katherine Gibbs School, resides at 1010 Zero Sally Gillchrest and Jean Eastman are teaching position in the office of a gas company in Holly­ Marlborough St., Boston 16, Mass. Paul is pres­ at Kennett High School in Conway, N. H. Sally wood, but now she’s back in New England to stay! ently employed by the Connecticut General Life is a math instructor, and Jean is teaching home On Dec. 3rd Richard Shimp was married to Insurance Co. in Hartford, Conn. economics. Marilyn Stubbs of Sherman Mills, Maine. Dick is Mary Carlson '58 has announced her engagement Patricia Sweeney is directing the girls' physical serving in the U. S. Air Force and the couple re­ education program at Fairfield High School, Fair- to John Douglas. Mary is in nurses’ training at field. side in Savannah, Ga., where he is stationed. the Maine Medical Center, Portland. John resides Miss Judith Campbell of Camden, who is teach­ in Hiram. My notes tell me that Mary LaFlamme has ac­ ing at the Morgan Memorial Day Nursery in Boston, cepted a position at the Stark School in Glen- Edward *56 and Joyce (Reynolds) Ludwig an­ brook, Conn. Mary El is teaching two kindergarten is engaged to marry Cedric Joyce who is serving in nounce that their daughter arrived December 24. the Army. A summer wedding is planned. sessions. Ed, Joyce, and Laura Jeanne reside at 105 Main Mary Strickland and Shirley Putnam have been Tom Hoyt and his wife, Ilse, are living at 749 St., Orono. 118th St., Whiting, Indiana, and Tom is employed named to the faculty at the Simpson School in in the Product Engineering Dept., McCormick Barbara (Daniels) Smith recently welcomed her Meriden, Conn. They are teaching fourth and Works, International Harvester Co. Chicago. husband, Robert ’54, home from Alaska. Bob second grades, respectively. Ray Storey has been appointed art director and has been stationed in Alaska, and Barbara and Your letters and cards have been so interesting editor of Young America, the magazine of the little Sandra have not seen him for a year. this month that I hope to hear from more of you Youth For Christ Movement with headquarters in James '54 and Gloria (Young) Horsfall are living in the future. Los Angeles. Ray is also president of Alpha and Omega Films, a non-profit Christian Film Corpora­ tion. Robert White was graduated from Officer Can­ didate School, U. S. Air Force as a 2nd Lt. in De­ cember. When he completes his 8 weeks of train­ ing in radar at Tyndall A.F.B., Florida, he will be located at the Air Force Cambridge Research Cen­ UNFORGETTABLE! ter, Laurence G. Hanscom Field, Bedford, Mass. Bob and Bill Calkin '55 got together Thanksgiving Day. Right now, Bill is continuing his training in the Cadets at Harlingen A.F.B., Texas. HOLIDAY’S BIG lOth ANNIVERSARY Ronny Perry was graduated from the Army Aviation Tactics Course at an Army Aviation ISSUE ON LEISURE School in Alabama in December. He was awarded the wings of an Army aviator at this time. Lt. Perry’s wife, Diane, is residing at 11 Amhearst St., For an entire decade, this magazine has been the voice of the Portland. Lester Bickford, his wife Cathy, and two daugh­ biggest single change in our time - our new leisure! The leisure in ters who were living in Warren, R. I., where Les had a position as assistant plant engineer to the which you live longer, better, more enjoyably. Kleistone Rubber Co., are back in Maine now This month, Holiday’s 10th birthday issue presents a significant where they really feel at home. Les is now plant engineer at the Ecko-Tebbets Co. in Lock Mills, portrait of this new and ever-increasing free personal time and Maine, and they are living at Bryant Pond. While living in R. I. the Bickfords met lots of Maine opportunity. Testifying on this wonderful topic are a whole galaxy grads, among them Mr. Alfred Lingley ’20, “ Buck” Burger '42, and Ernest Hess '50. Even their next of noted writers! Don’t miss their challenging views in such door neighbor was a Maine man, Charles Loring of 42, who is employed by the U. S. Rubber Co. in articles as: Bristol, R. I. The Bickfords sent news of Bill and Hazel Grove: Bill is stationed in Tacoma, Wash., JA M E S A. M ICHENER'S report on the rewards of understand­ and their address is 5708 111th S-W, Tacoma. Their little girl, Dawn, is three now, and they have a son, ing your own — and other — lands! Carl, about one year old. BERNARD DE VOTO'S Thanks to all who sent Christmas letters. Don’t “Heavy, Heavy, What Hangs Over?” — forget your New Year’s resolution to see everyone how our search for relaxation often turns into a race against time! in June, REUNION-TIME. BRUCE CATTON’S analysis of the joys of collecting — stamps, 1 9 5 5 Miss Hilda Ann Sterling 1003 North Ocean Ave., dolls, or battlefields! Seaside Park, N. J. PL U S a host of other adventures in leisure activities by E. B. With the monogramed letter opener which I re­ ceived from the Alumni Association, I have been White, Edward Steichen, Joseph Wechsberg, Silas Spitzer, Roger busy opening mail that I have received from many Angell, Clifton Fadiman, Aubrey Menen . . . and more! of you. I sincerely appreciate the time that you have taken to write to me; however, I am sure that every ON YOUR N EW SSTA N D FEBRUARY 16! one of you has something to tell me about your work, studies, or travels. I hope that a letter to your class secretary was March HOLIDAY Magazine one of your New Year’s resolutions. If not, you can make it, now, by dropping me a few lines. I am A CURTIS MAGAZINE always glad to hear from you, and I know that 25 FEBRUARY, 1956 Winning Basket

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A complete and carefully documented history of worship and houses of The pulpit was opposite the front entrance in the middle of the length of worship in early Portland is found in Parson Smith's Diary and in Mr. Deane' s the church, which was placed broadside to Congress Street. It was painted Journal. From the first church meetings, when the hardy settlers struggled white, decorated with green, and over it was an elaborate sounding board through deep drifts to the cold and uncomfortable little meeting house hung on a rod suspended from a carved pineapple in the ceiling. This sound­ (where they had to stand during the long service, there being no pews), to ing board hung to within three feet of the minister’s head. In front of the the time of the demolition of the old First Parish Meeting House, we have pulpit, facing the congregation, was the deacon’s seat, where for some time a clear picture of the churches of Portland. sat Judge Samuel Freeman, in long waistcoat and breeches.

The services and prayers were long. During prayer the congregation stood, This same church on Congress Street, though built in 1740, did not have turning up pew scats to gain room. At the annual fast in 1750 Parson a steeple until 1759, not until 1803 were the pews painted. It was a truly Smith says he had “ uncommon assistance, with an HOUR in EACH of the imposing structure whose massive white-oak timbers were selected as care­ FIRST prayers.” At the “ Amen,” all the seats went down with a thankful fully as -those going into a frigate The high-partitioned pews were square, bang somewhat annoying to the good Parson. raised a step above the aisles, with a railing and short balustrades atop the partitions. Hinged seats were built around three sides and the fourth It is interesting to note that the two fluted pillars at the end of the was taken up by a door as high as the partition, giving the pews the appear­ narrow building at Free and Congress Streets originally supported this same ance of a prisoner’s box. pulpit in “ Old Jerusalem” , as the First Parish Church was sometimes called.

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