Trinity College Alumni Magazine, July 1963
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T RINITY COLLEGE A LUMNI MAGAZINE 1963 REUNION • ANNUAL ALU:\I.l\'1 Ar-;D Fu:-.:o REPORTS JULY 1963 VOLUME IV, NUMBER 6 TRINITY COLLEGE ANNUAL REPORT ALUMNI MAGAZINE TRINITY COLLEGE VOLUME IV ALUMNI ASSOCIATION N UM BER 6 June 1963 To Trinity College Alumni: CO TENTS Annual Alumni Report T is a pleasure to have the opportunity to report to the Annual Fund Reports I Alumni at large on the stewardship of the affairs of Association Notes your Alumni Association during the academic year Commencement 1962-1963. Even before outlining some of our progress Necrology during the past year I would like to thank each and every Reunion member of the Alumni Association for his individual part in the growth and success that the Association has enjoyed. Editor Elsewhere on these pages you will find an inspiring KENNETH C. PARKER report by John L. Bonee Jr., Class of 1943, Vice Presi dent for the Alumni Fund, on the tremendous success Alumni Editor that the Alumni Fund had this year. We all appreciate JoHN A. MASON '34 the many hours of work that John put in along with all those people who made up his special committees and A ssociate Editor the Class Agents in realizing the goal. Also, elsewhere JUNE L. THOMAS on these pages you will find a most interesting report from Lloyd E. Smith, Class of 1923, Vice President for Sports and Photography Admissions Interviewing and Recruiting, with respect ROBERT M. SALTER to the strides made in these activities. Again we thank Lloyd and all those interviewers and recruiters who Editorial Board worked so hard both for him and the College this past F. GARDI ER F. BRIDGE JOHN F. BUTLER '33 year. DOUGLAS L. FROST '59 Our campus activities this year were significantly suc ALBERT E . HOLLAND '34 cessful under Vice President Wi lli am R. Peelle of the RICHARD K. MoRRis '40 Class of 1944, Vice President for Campus Activities. ROBERT C. STEWART Specifically, during the year Bill and his group managed a SHERMA P . VOORHE ES highly successful fall Campus Conference for all those people who are actively participating in various phases Advisory Council of alumni affairs; also, during the fall they managed a ROYDEN C. BERGER '28 Homecoming program that was dampened by the threat GEORGE H. MALCOM-SMITH '25 of torrential rain - from which it was spared - and WILLIAM K. PAYNTER '37 L. BARTO WILSON III '37 made thoroughly pleasurable by a tremendous football victory over Amherst and by an All-Alumni post-game reception and buffet supper. The Reunion program was CovER: Valedictorian Stanley J. Marcuss Jr., left, Hartford, Cocnecticut, and Sa as significantly enjoyable as always, with particular em lutatorian David C. Brewster, New York phasis on the various seminar programs that were held. City, both received honors in general During the past year we have continued to intensify scholarship and economics. Marcuss has won a Marshall Scholarship to study in our activities in the area of development of Area As England and Brewster is the recipient of sociations. This was all done under John Gooding Jr., a Ferguson Economics Prize. Class of 1931, Vice President for Area Association Second Class postage paid at Hartford, Connecticut. Activities. It is pleasant to report that our associations Published six times a year, October, November, Janu ary, March, M ay and July by Trinity College, Hart are expanding and that we now have twenty-three active ford, Connecticut. local associations with several splinter groups from During the year two special committees were activated which worked long and hard with, we hope, what will prove to be significant results. Bill Peelle chaired a com mittee on the development of "Alumni Enthusiasm for the College"; this committee has included undergradu ates in its membership. A full report has been rendered by this committee with the recommendation that its ac tivities be carried on into future years with the hope that there will be an ultimate general upgrading in the in terest of Alumni in Alma Mater. Also, a special com mittee on financial problems facing the Association was formed and met on a number of occasions and is now Herbert R. Bland '40 planning to go forward with specific recommendations for the future. some of the larger ones. At the same time there are Your Alumni Association is indebted to John A. several new groups in the process of organization. During Mason of the Class of 1934, Alumni Secretary, for his the past year it has been particularly pleasing to see a hours of work in our behalf both during the regular day significantly younger group of our fellow alumni taking and at all other hours of the night and day. John has an active part in the affairs of the area groups. Book visited many of the Area Associations and visited with prize awards, pre-freshman picnics, coordination of re many individual alumni during the past year and con cruiting and interviewing activities and just good fellow tinues to be a source of strength to the administration. ship continue to be the prime motivation for area The Alumni Association of Trinity College is in the groups. It has been the personal pleasure of the Presi process of "coming of age." This fact has presented a dent of your Association to have visited with a number variety of problems to the Executive Committee of the of thes_e groups during the past year. We take this op Association and they have met them with suggestions portumty to express to you our appreciation for your for progress. hospitality. In conclusion, I should like to note that the Alumni Seymour E. Smith of the Class of 1934, as the Senior Association at its annual meeting on Saturday, June 8th, Vice President of the Association, has been a constant recognized the completion by President Jacobs of ten help in the administration of its affairs, as have been years of service to our Alma Mater. An appropriate cita Robert A. Gilbert of the Class of 1938, the Treasurer, tion was given to Dr. Jacobs as well as a Polaroid and Robert W. Barrows of the Class of 1950, the Secre Color Camera as a tangible evidence of our sincere tary. The other members of the Executive Committee thoughts for him. have been particularly willing this year to devote time to our several meetings and discussions. H E RBERT R. BLAND '40, President Association Officers and Committee Members 1963-1964 Officers Executive Committee President HERBERT R . BLAND '40 1963-64 DREW Q. BRINCKERHOFF '43 Senior Vice President SEYMOUR E. SMITH '34 DouGLAS C. LEE '52 JoHN T. WILc ox '39 Vice Presidents 1963-65 JOHN L. BONEE '43 Alumni Fund HARRY K. KNAPP '50 ROBERT J. GILLOOLY '54 Campus Activities ETHAN F. BASSFORD '39 DAVID A. ROBERTS '55 Area Associations WILLIAM H. GoRMAN II '39 Ex Officio GLOVER JoHNSON '22 Admissions Interviewing GERALD J. HANSEN JR. '51 Nominating Committee and Recruiting Public Relations DONALD R. REYNOLDS '51 1963- 64 RICHARD A. LEGGETT '39 and Publicity WINFIELD A. CARLOUGH '54 1963-65 FREDERICK J. EBERLE '27 Secretary JoHN GuNNING '49 JoHN T. FINK '44 Treasurer JOHN F. WALKER '29 1963-66 THOMAS BURGESS JR. '32 Alumni Secretary JOHN A. MASON '34 E. LAIRD MORTIMER III '57 Athletic Advisory Committee 1963-64 NELSON A. SHEPARD '21 1963-65 WILLIAM GORALSKI '52 1963-66 JoHN GooDING JR. '31 1 We must use all the keys of man's genius to unlock the doors of nature's secrets - GLENN T. SEABORG From the Commencement Address: Man is a curious animal. and this is the mark of his progress. He has searche-d for the invisible and has probed for the unknown, he has groped for the inacces sible and has struggled for the unattainable. He has disobeyed every injunction that he not eat the fruit of the tree of knowledge. But he has accepted the great challenge that if you know the truth "the truth shall make you free." Hundred Years' War or Thirty-Years' War, no War The fruit of the tree of knowledge can be sweet, or it of the Roses; it is a dynamic struggle and now - no can be bitter, but man's curiosity drives him to deter later - is the time to put on our armor. And the only mine which it is. If knowledge and truth shatter the armor we can put on is knowledge - a growing knowl dream of some placid Eden - we must be reconciled to edge nourished by constant vigilance, study and percep labor and trial outside the gates. We must use all the keys tion .... of man's genius to unlock the doors which hide nature's Continuing education has thus become an imperative. secrets. Though the prospect may sometimes be awe As a scientist, I know that the physics and chemistry some, we must never fear to uncage nature's forces or of today cannot be comprehended on the basis of an to strike off the fetters of restraint against thought or in individual's undergraduate general courses of 30 years quiry . ... ago. The same is true of the advances in medicine and So, if I were to discuss with you today what you technology. Even in the humanities and social sciences can do for yourselves, your families, your country - there can be no vitality if they do not keep pace with the yes, even your world - it would be to accept problems as rapid advances in this developing and revolutionary challenges asking you for solution - and, with hope in scientific and technological society.