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BIG MOMENT Boston OAK GROVE Back the Attack Empha�17es Preparation for College Headquarters of the and Gra.:10u,, Purposeful Living in a Pr gram COBURN Classical Institute Boothby & Bartlett Co. In tliese times, the high school yura arc too precious to be wasted. Our GENERAL INSURANCE small classes, thorough drill, and close and friendly supervision bring out a student"s best efforts. Write: 185 Main St. Huc;H A. SMITH, '20, Princ-ipal Waterville, Maine Waterville, Maine COLBY'S Colby Glassware PRESIDENT ROBERTS Colby glassware will make an excellent gift to Colby husband or wife and Colby friends. Beauti By Bertha Louise Soule ful hand-blown crystal tumblers in authentic Colby colors. Three Colby designs - official College Seal, White Mule, and Sloop Hero. Biography . . . anecdotes . . . pictures 5 oz. size - $2.50 per dozen Should be on the shelf of every 10 " " - $2.95 " Colby man and woman 12 •. " - $335 " .. - H" $3.65 " 151 page'; 9 illustrations; red cloth bind}ng; (Packed in gift cartons and prepaid east of the points. Allow price, $2 .50, postpaid Mississippi. Add 25c for western two weeks for delivery.) Send orders to: SEND ORDERS TO Colby College Alumni Office THE COLBY ALUMNUS Box 477, Waterville, Maine Box 4i7 Waterville, Maine The Colby Alumnus After a thousand days and nights of study, recitations, lab periods, term FOUNDED 1911 papers, and examinations, th e instant when a student grasps the diploma is Volume 33 May 15, 1944 Number 7 one moment to be remembered for life. This senior is Elizabeth Shatu Wood, '44, daughter of Rev. Ch ester F. Wood, CONTENTS 'I 4. Born and brought up in China, The President's Page 2 Betty has lived longer at Colby Col lege than anyivhe1 e else in this coun The Talk of the College 3 try. Sh e has an even bigger moment Memorial Day - 1944 5 coming up than the one depicted here, Art and the State of Maine . Prof. Samuel M. Green 6 however, because on th e day after Doings on the Hill 10 Commencement, u ith th e elegant in First Novel Acclaimed 12 terior of Dunn Lounge, Women's Union, as a setting, and many of he1' The Rare Book Corner .. 13 college mates present, Betty and Ron With the Colors ...... 14 ald M. Reed, '43, will be united in Beach Fun at Anzio marriage. Decorated Mine Host in Naples Colby Athletes Keep on Winning Service Personals Additions to Service Roster Dear Editor; Promotions My copies of the are Overseas or on Sea Duty Colby Alu mnus slowly catching up with me .... It is Class Notes &om Colby Men and Women 20 somewhat of a consolation over here to Milestones 22 know that the finer aspects of our civi Necrology 22 lization are going on and preparing for Chester H. Sturtevant, '92 the better days to come. John F. Wood, '93 - CAPT. STANLEY A. PAlNE, '37. John B. Gibbons, '00 Somewhere in Grace E. Masterman, '00 New G11inea William E. Small, '19 f:r Capt. Harold M. Sachs, '21 Dear Editor; Mildred Hawes Shea, '23 I don't want to miss a single copy of f:r Capt. Roderick F. MacDougal, '31 the Alumnus. It's a priceless bit of f:r Lt. George M. Neilson, '41 literature which takes my heart back Carrie E. Burdwood, '41 to Colby with every issue. Its message Dave H. Morris, Hon. LL.D., '43 is such that, even as an alumna of the Old Campus, I, too, picked up my EDITOR JOSEPH COBURN SMITH, '24 thoughts and spirits and followed the mass move to Mayflower Hill. Don't G. CECIL GODDARD, '29 BUSINESS MANAGER ever alter the magazine. As it is, it is a ADVISORY EDITORIAL BOARD wonderfully close link to Colby friends Term Expires in 19" Term Expires in 1945 Term Expires in 1946 and invaluable life-long memories. Robi� G. Frye, '82 Hugh D. Beach. '36 Margurite M. Chamberlain, '15 -ANlTA THIBAULT BOURQUE, '36. Charles H. Gale, '22 Elizabeth W. Butler, '21 Jane Montgomery Cole, '38 F. Elizabeth Libbey, ':29 Alfred K. Chapman, '25 William Finkeldey, '43 Atlanta, Ga. Diana Wall Pitts, '13 James McMahon, '44 H. Warren Foss, '96 Norman C. Perkins, '32 Betty Ann Royal, '42 R. Irvine Gammon, '37 Spencer Winsor, '40 Edward F. Stevens, '89 John J. Pullen, '35 Dear Editor; Many thank for the continued flow EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE of the Alu mnus. It might appear that Alfred K. Chapman, '25 Oliver L. Hall, '93 Ervena Goodale Smith, '24 G. Cecil Goddard, •2g Caleb A. Lewis, '03 Joseph Coburn Smith, '24 one takes for granted each of the superb copie of this looked-forward-to as second· class mail PUBLISHER -The Alumni Council of Colby College. Entered magazine. To me, the Alumnus matter Jan. 2.5, 1912, at the Post Office at Waterville, Me., under Act of March 3, 1879. means more than just the arrival of ISSUED eight times yearly on the 15th oi October, Ko,·ember. January, February, March, April, May and July. �nother magazine, it stirs unbounding SUBSCRIPTION PRICE -$2.00 per year. Single Copies, $.2.5. Checks should be rnterest concerning Colby's ever-ex ALUl\L US. Correspondence regarding subscriptions made payable to THE COLBY panded outlook on matters of past, or advertising should be addressed to G. Cecil Goddard, Box 477, Waterville, Me. Contributions should be sent to The Editor, Box 477, v;aterville, Maine. present, and future significance. should A subscriber who wishes to discontinue his or her subscription give notice -PVT. CHARLES D. KEEF.. '39. it will be continued. to that effect before its expiration. Otherwise Somewhere i"n th e South Pacific .. \ committee cumpu--ed chiefly t1f younger memlier· of our faculty has recently made the foll• 1\\·i11g stwgestin1i:-. a� to our teaching pro gram: I. The st11dc11t slio11!d be ta11ylit to bcco111c a yood 't.l'orlrnian. In all \nitten \\·ork empha ·i:- ,..lrnuld be laid nn clarity, organization, and good Engli ·h. �crupulou.; attention ..,1wuld lie paid tu indicating what is and what is not original. .) 1 le shuuld ktwz,• ubo11/ the history 011. I go·;•cr11111ent of this a11d uthcr cottllfries. ,\ - a freshman he ·hould have a year of modern l�urnpean hi tory and later a year nf either .\merican hi ·tory or Amer ican goyernment. ' :). He s/uJl(fd /rn07..L li is mvn rnlture. Thi,.. mean· (as now) that he huuld have a year of either F:nglish or . .\merican literature. -!-. c/-I slwlt/d Imo<.•' the c11lt11rc of at least Ollt' forciy11 co1111try. Duri1w the fir t two year· he . hould be required to take either a year of a foreign la1wuage or a one-year cour e in a foreign culture. reading the literature in translation. The committee i inclined to feel that our pre·ent "reading knowledge examination " in a f reign language ha not accom pli ·heel it purpo e. For at least ome tudents it ,,·ould recommend an inten ive year' training in a f reign language \\"ith . ix h urs a ,,·eek of clas room in truction and extra hour for tutorial \\·ork. ·' I-I c should hm.'e trai11i11g i11 logical Iii i11h11y. al ·u in the use of ab tract ideas and the critical eYaluation of ource·. :\ tart can be made in the required cour·e in fre hman Engli h. (i. I-!c should hm:e so111e k11owledye of the facts a/Ill 111cthods of 11atnral science. T\\·o ,·ear-cour. e� (a now) in natural cience, each in a different fiel s. TI-IE COLBY ALUMNUS 3 THE TALK OF THE COLLEGE S ITUATION NORMAL - Com- medicine was first studied as a learn said farewell to the office and gave mencement in May; summer ses able science. The world's first institu himself a couple of days' pre-induction sion; begin in October - all this tion of higher learning, however, is vacation. On May 1 he received fur sounds strange to most of us who generally regarded as the University of ther orders. " You are hereby com assumed that the September-to-June Salerno which began as a school of manded to stay where you are," they academic year was something immuta medicine and may vt>ry well have been aid, in effect. So, with a mixture of ble, yet that is the Colby calendar now, an outgrowth of the teachings at not disappointment and relief, he came and no one seems particularly per too-distant Monte Cassino. All this back to the Alumni Office and com turbed. Students, faculty and presi took place some ten centuries ago - a menced to straighten out some of the dent take it all in their stride. Change span which makes our own 125 year things that already had begun to go is in the air. Further evidence that old college seem positively juvenile. haywire. 10 doubt Cecil would have nothing is assumed to be unalterable is This university was distinguished by made a good Marine, but if they insist the report of the "Young Turks" on the fact that at a time when Jews on taking only the l 8-to-26 boys, Colby the faculty which President Bixler re were objects of religious persecution College can make Yery good use of him ports upon the opposite page. throughout Europe, members of this right here. Looking ahead, Dean Runnals re faith were found both as teachers and The same near-miss pulled Ermanno ports that the number of freshman ap pupils at Salerno. Although for cen Comparetti, instructor in music, back plications is nearly double those at the turies one of the great seats of learning to academic pursuits just a day before same date last year, so it seems as in Europe, Colby fellows sight-seeing induction. The 26 year-old age limit though the women's enrollment will be around the ruins of this invasion point also clarifiedthe position of Gordon W. governed only by the number of dor need not look for the campus, for the Smith (French ), Philip S. Either (Ger mitory accommodations available. The university closed its doors in 1817, just man), Samuel M. Green (Art), and Mayflower Hill quarters, of course, are as the backers of a proposed center of several others who have not yet already crowded beyond normal capa learning in the district of Maine in reached the status of decrepitude as city, so any increase must be found by America, were persuading a young marked by their 38th birthday. reopening Foss Hall or some other ex Massachusetts parson named Jeremiah pedient. A dozen or more of the Chaplin to go up and start classes in a incoming freshmen will be in the little village called Waterville. Th is School of Nursing, while even more college began when the hoary old uni p EACE - Well, as forecast in our are attracted by the Medical Tech versity left off. Perhaps we are the in last issue, about 80 youngsters nology program. heritors of Salerno's great traditions from Maine high schools descended As for the men, Dean Marriner feels of leadership and learning and toler upon Colby on May 6 and proceeded that the enrollment has reached its ance. to blue-print a settlement of the world minimum this year. Not a man is in war. The comments of accompanying college except by order of the govern teachers were enthusiastic and all agreed that this dash of make-believe ment, so to speak, and this normal N EAR MISS - Last winter, as we number of 17 year-olds, physical or reported, Uncle Sam put his had promoted a lot of serious history other deferments, will slowly be added finger on Alumni Secretary Cecil God study by their pupils. Observers at the to, judging from a trickle of inquiries dard. He passed his physical, signed sessions, in turn, were amazed by the from om own and other young men up with the Marines, took his three grasp of details shown by the girls who who are being discharged from the weeks of grace and waited for the call, were representing various countries. services. He expects 20 or so fresh meanwhile working like mad to get the They identified themselves personally men to enter in June, and a few more Alumni Fund campaign lined up. The with their assumed nationalities and bargained, wangled and fought for next fall. call came for May 2, so he cleaned out their peoples with vehemence and In short, everything seems normally his desk, gave last minute instructions, guile. Yet, as international confer abnormal. ences go, this one was characterized by overtones of concessions for the global P LACE NAMES - The geographi good which speaks well for the brand cal names "Monte Cassino" and of teaching in our schools. " Salerno " are familiar to every news That the afternoon and evening pro paper reader as bitterly-defended Ger gram moved through its schedule like man strongholds in Italy. It is one ·of Fred F. Lawrence, '00, elected clock work, is a tribute to Professors the curious freaks of war, however, president of the Savings Division of Russell and Fullam, who had carefully that when our Colby boys assaulted the American Bankers Association. organized the modes of procedure. those positions they were unwittingly Capt. Robert E. Anderson, '42, After the afternoon committee sessions, trying to erase the birthplaces of higher awarded the Bronze Star Medal for an afternoon tea, an MEMORIAL DAY 1944 "Who would not. if it could be 111ade certain that the nc·w 111orni11g (If wiil_·crsal Zibert)' shau!d rise on our race by the perishing of one gcHeratio11, who 1c1ould not consent to die?" - Ralph Waldo Emerson, speaking of this college's sacrifices i11 the Ci<_•il War, lVateri•ille, 1163. REPORTED DEAD LT. JEAN-PIERRE ARMAND J- MASSE, '35, 2Nn LT. FORREST H. EDSO , "42, USA, killed with French Army, killed in battle near Sedan, France, in action, Torth African campaign, May 2, 1943. May 16, 1940. 2Nn LT. DONALD A. GRAY, '43, USAAF, killed LT. HARRISON A. GORMA , '43, USN, lost in in airplane crash near Fort Meyers, Fla., May 4, 1943. the sinking of the USS La.'lgley, early in 1942_ ALICE A. MA LEY, '38, WAC, died in automo LT. CLARENCE R. SIMMO rs, '37, USAAF, bile accident, Hartford, Conn., May 19, 1943_ flight instructor, killed in airplane crash, Kelly Field, February 10 1942. MIDS. WILLIAM L. LYMAN, }R., '45, US TR, Merchant Marine, killed when his ship bearing gaso E S. CHARLES F. MAGUIRE, '40, US , killed line and munitions was dive-bombed during the in in airplane crash, San Diego, August 19, 1942. vasion of Sicily, July 13, 1943. ENS. WILLIAM L. GUPTILL, '41, US , killed LT. (Jc) H. ROBERT WIT, '42, USNR, killed in in airplane crash, near Creeds, Va., Sept. 6, 1942. airplane crash, Deland, Fla., July 30, 1943. ENS. VICTOR P. MALI S, '39, USN, killed m PVT. RICHARD E. NOYES, '41, USA, killed in airplane crash, Minneapolis, Minn., Sept. 22, 1942. action during the invasion of Italy, Sept. 11, 1943. E S. ARNOLD M. MYSHRALL, '41, US , killed CAPT. HAROLD M. SACHS, '2 1, USA MC, died in airplane crash near Miami, Oct. 4, 1942. from illness contracted in the North African theater, in New York, Oct. if, 1943. 2No LT. ROBERT W. TURBYNE, '37, on leave CPL FRED BLUMENTHAL, '40, USA, killed in from USAAF, killed in airplane crash in Andes moun action in Italian campaign, Oct. 15, 1943. tains, 350 miles from Lima, Peru, Jan. 22, 1943. LT. MYRON L. MA TELL, '4 1, USAAF, re ENS. JAMES W. SALISBURY, '39, USNR, killed ported killed in Caribbean Sea area, causes unspecified, in airplane crash, San Diego area, Feb. 25, 1943. Oct. 21, 1943. PVT. FRANK B. BAILEY, '42, USA, died from CAPT. RODERICK F. MACDOUGAL, '31, USA, illness, Camp Devens, Mass., March 18, 1943. died from heart attack, Liverpool, England, Feb. 24, 1944. CAPT. RALPH C. BRADLEY, '23, USAAF, Bight surgeon, suffered injuries in a plane accident in Feb LT. GEORGE M_ TEILSON, '41, USA, died from ruary, 1943, from which he died at Fort Dix, N. J., woun REPORTED MISSING CPL. PAUL R. STUBBS, '40, USAAF, reported 2Nn LT. HAROLD A. JOH SO , '42, USAAF, missing in observation plane in Panama Canal Zone reported missing in action somewhere over Europe, area, June 12, 1941. June 13, 1943. SGT. OBS. JOHN C. KITCHE , '42, RCAF, 2 o LT. ROBERT A. LAFLEUR '43, USAAF, reported missing in action somewhere over Europe, reported missing in action somewhere over Europe, Oct. 7, 1942. July 2, 1943. 6 THE COLBY ALUMNUS ART AND THE ST ATE OF MAINE By Samuel M. Green, Assistant Professor of Art JN these days when an international The recent trenJ 111 American rt to the Maine woods and wrote of attituJe is so important, it may towar WATCHING THE BREAKERS, A HIGH SEA - Winslow Homer TI-IE COLBY ALUMNUS 7 when he came to be something of a recluse chose to retire to a point jutting far out into the sea where he could watch and record the tremendous drama of these elements, came, of course, to Maine - Prout's eek. Our exhibition shows two pictures by this greatest of American painters: a fine watercolor of fishermen in a dory, and a dramatic oil of the sea crashing against granite rocks and throwing up a great cloud of spray, •vatched by a huddled knot of people. A present day painter who is equally stirred by the Maine scene is John Marin, whose two watercolors on the walls were the most controversial in the show. Th is painter has been com SHIPS JN ICE, MAINE- Fitz Hugh Lane ing to the coast for many years, at tracted by its cold blue waters, its where in . Tew England, and where on display at Colby College. Land island-studded reaches, its black-green some lumbering and seafaring survive. scape is, of course, the most obvious spruces, to work out his complex prob artistic reflection of place. The early People in the middle states and the lems of relationships of objects and school is included in the show with west often peak of ew England as spaces. In contrast to the intellectual the realistic Ships in lee by Fitz Hugh being culturally sterile. Many will ad Marin, the Lewiston-born Marsden Lane ( 1804-1865) a Gloucester painter mit, perhaps the cultural failure of Hartley. combined Winslow who learned his craft from studying Homer's Boston, but what of the hinterland? realism with an emotional intensity in the Dutch marine painters and found Edwin Arlington Robinson and Edna the presence of the forces many of his subjects, such as the ex and forms St. Vincent Millay, in their early work, of nature. Related to the ample here shown, in the Penobscot more ex Robert Frost, Tristam Coffin, Mary pressive phases of modern Bay region of Maine. - art, his de Ellen Chase, Rachel Field, and Ken partures from strict representation are neth Roberts are some accepted ew Most impressive, however, are Win ba ed on emotional reasons, rather than England writers who write about ew slow Homer's landscapes. This artist intellectual ones, as in 1arin's case. England and, indeed, all except one are from Maine. It is interesting to note in this connection that the so-called local-color school of writing, which de pended on the awareness of place for its inspiration, found Maine writers among its first conspicuous adherents. Such writers as Harriet Prescott Spoff ord, Harriet Beecher Stowe (in her Maine period; e.g. The Pearl of Orr's Island), and most appealingly, though a little later the more and more greatly admired Sarah Orne Jewett. All of these writers got the special feeling of Maine which still produces so much in literature. Every week, it seems, a novel, story, or volume of poems comes from someone who has retired to the Maine woods or an island off the coast. It is evident that this region has a strong appeal for a certain kind of artis tic expression; not epic or major, per haps, but important in a lyric way or in a minor key. Now, how do artists react to this spe cial Maine emanation? I will answer by illustrations drawn from the artists included in the Exhibition of Maine Art which has been assembled and put BLUE SEA, CROTCH ISLAND, MAINE- John Marin 8 THE COLBY ALUMNUS camp �cene painted near Fryeburg by Ea,unan Johnson, born in Lovell, who i' called by some: "America's fore mo\t genre painter." Sculpture is represented in the show bv the /lead of Milton by Paul kers, O\\'ned by the college and familiar to 1110,t alumni. Although this is a dis tingu1�hed piece of work executed in Rome in the best classical tradition, the que5tion was raised by a visiting art critic \\'hether this Maine man might not ha\·e become a greater sculptor if he had remained at home and allowed his remarkable talent to develop into a truer expression of his own individual perception. Any true exhibit of regional art must not neglect folk art and crafts. This '" popular ·· art i " art with a small a." as contrasted with the more pre tentious "art with a capital A." Nevertheless, it is, after all the most intimate expre sion of the people of a region, for it represents their own self FOX ISLAND, MA/NE - Marsden Hartley taught expression uninfluenced by training and foreign traditions. Hence, Others drawn to the Maine scene which, \\'hile on exhibition in \'arious connoisseurs are learning to look at vary from the more con\'entional natu parts of the country, has aroused much the e paintings dug out of old attics ralistic painter, like Alexander Bower comment for it sen iti\'e documenta with new appreciation as the intimate of Portland, whose fine landscape of tion of a definite time and place, its expres ions of a provincial society, and the Limerick Hill was shown, to An clothes, \'ictuals. customs. Probably at their best - because they spring drew Wyeth, young Port Clyde painter e\'en more \Yidely kno\\'n today than completely from their own region - as (son of the famous illustrator) whose was Hardy in his time is Waldo authentic expressions of indigenous Road to Friendship is a watercolor in Pein:e, another Bangor painter, whose ideas :rnd experience. The Col� ex the great tradition of Homer, but with Christmas at Cedar Street records a hibit of J\laine Art has a number of certain qualities deri\'ed from contact family scene in the arti t's home. It is the e " primitives," both portraits and with contemporary ideas in art. The signihcant, perhaps. that some critics landscapes. One of the most interest same might be said of Charles Hovey point out that Peirce. who has painted ing is the self-portrait of Rev. Jonathan Pepper (Colby, '89) whose Rough Day all over the world. is at his best when Fisher ( 1824) the extraordinary Epis at .4ttean is typical of the vigorous, workinu in the en\'ironment where his copal rector of Blue Hill who also de personal style of this Maine-born artist family has been rooted for generations. signed and built his own house, wrote who was largely responsible for intro The show al o exhibits a maple-sugar and illustrated a book on animals, kept ducing modern painters to Boston art circles. The Colby exhibition also includes a painting of the Libby House, Portland, by Edward Hopper, vvho is typical of the many artists who are attracted to Maine occasionally, though not usually identified with this state. Another is Stow Wengenroth, probably our great est living artist-lithographer, who finds on the coast of Maine such subjects as Old Ships which create nostalgia for the old seafaring days. Leaving the landscapes and consider ing the genre, or story-telling type of subject matter, the special qua I ity of a place as an artistic expression is a little more difficult to explain. The Pic Nick, by Jeremiah Hardy of Bangor ( 1800-1888 ) is a unique genre picture OLD SHIPS -Stow Wengenroth TI-IE COLBY ALUMNUS 9 a diary in an undecipherable code and, according to report, " never wore an overcoat nor flannels in winter." Craft work, too, is evidence of a native artistic expression. The figure head, pilot house eagle, renderings of embroidery, stencilled walls, weather vanes and other such items on display are touchstones to the past. Not merely sentimental curiosities, they are to be observed seriously as reflections of their environment and as objects of beauty because of their honesty of exe cution and respect for craftsmanship. It will be seen that Colby's Exhibi tion of Maine Art has a deeper purpose than merely to bring together some en joyable pictures. For the first time, perhaps, it has been possible to study in one place representative expressiom of artistic feeling engendered by the Maine region and try to sense the feel ing that underlies them all. That some of the best artistic work in Amer ica has been and is still being done under the inspiration of this distinctive region, should be a matter of pride to every native a-nd adopted son of Maine. SELF PORTRAIT - Rev. Jonathan Fisher A PIC-NTCK IN THE NEW ENGLAND WOODS - Jeremiah P. Hat·dy 10 THE COLBY ALUMNUS side by side on two screens for compari- son. DOINGS ON THE HILL Libe Associates - Dr. Luella F. Korwood, instructor in English, was Awards - The Women's Athletic \\'ere brought in by .. special wait the speaker at the April meeting of the Association sponsored a coffee for the resses " dressed in white, and then a Library ssociates. Her subject wa winners and ru nners up of the spring community sing was held. olos and .. , lexander Pope " and she tried to tournament. The \'arsity basketball trios of popular songs \\'ere sung by ans\\'er the question, " Ts Alexander team \\'ere guests. \'arious glee club members. Pope a poet? ·· :\ social hour followed. * • * * • .. • • • Conference - �fargery Owen, '45, Champ - George E. Ulman of Card Party -The Panhellenic Coun and . 'ancy Jacobsen, '46, represented • fonson. '46, won the annual Patriot's cil featured something different on the Colby at the New England Student Day five mile ·· baby marathon " race Hill. a bridge party complete with Government Conference at the Univer sponsored by the Portland Boys' Club. prizes. Refreshments were donated by .. sity of Vermont in Burlington. Repre Thi marks the fiith time in the la t the "alums of the ororities. sentati\'es included women from many ten years that a Colby man bas won New England colleges. the marathon, other winners be ing Lecturer - Profes or !arjorie H. � * • Herbert de \'eber, '36, Cliff Vesey, '36, >."icolson professor of English at Co " Pops ., - The College Glee Club and Dana Robinson, 'H. lumbia University, gave a very interest presented a delightful " Pops Concert " ing illustrated talk entitled, "Science with the appropriate furnishings. Se,· Art - Dr. Jakob Rosenberg, curator and the Imagination." he also was eral pieces were sung by the Glee Club, of print at the Fogg �Iuseum, Har guest speaker at the Recognition and then a string ensemble accom van1 University, lectured to a group of Assembly at which time she presented panied two numbers. The new Colby Colby students and to\\' nspeople on the a \'ery stirring and appropriate talk. Alma Mater, with words and music problems of "quality in art." He Since she is the national president of written by Dr. Comparetti, was sung illustrated each period with a drawing Phi Beta Kappa, the members of the by the Glee Club :rnd then by the audi of the great artist and in contrast a Colby chapter held an informal recep ence. Following this, refreshments drawing of one of his followers, shown tion for her after her lecture. * • * Peace Conference - A model peace conference was held at Colby on May 6. Some 80 stu Prof. Harlow - Colby was very for tunate to hear this very well-known speaker who is teacher of Religion and Social Ethics at Smith College. Pro fessor Harlow interestingly addressed the all-college-chapel Sunday morning and the Colby Student Forum that NQTED ARTIST DEMONSTRATES CRAFT evening in President Bixler's hou e. Waldo Peirce, Maine-born artist of international repute, attended the open * * * ing of Colby's Exhibition of Maine Art and found himself the center of attraction Field Day - The annual athletic as he sat down on the steps of the Union to sketch. Sitting with him may be round-up of the Women's Athletic A - seen Katherine McCarroll, Ida Tyler, Nancy Jacobson, Barbara Bond, Nancy sociation was held on May 6 on the Grahn. Standing are Crystal LaFleur, Virginia Hall, Ruth Yankowsky, Elaine Mayflower Hill athletic field. The Anderson, Louise Callahan, Barbara Baylis, Norma Taraldsen, Josephine Sheiber, events began in the afternoon with the Sarah Roberts, Phoebe Blai;dell. archery tournament and then a THE COLBY ALUMNUS 11 " corker '' baseball game. After this the athletic awards of the year were given out and then a picnic supper on the hill in back of the chapel was held. The exciting tug-of-war was won by the Juniors and Freshmen. * * * Painter - The center of attraction at the grand opening of Colby's Exhibi tion of Maine Art was Waldo Peirce, a noted American artist who sat on the steps of the Women's Union and sketched the Colby coeds. Later he painted an easel portrait in oils before an interested audience. Dr. Frederick Deknatel, Professor of Fine Arts at H. Harvard, who spoke on John Marin � was an interesting contrast to the pre ceding practical artist. * * * Concert - The famous Austrian KEEPING VP COLBY'S BASEBALL TRADITIONS choral group the Trapp family, finally Members of the White Mule squad this spring are, left to right: Front row: appeared at Colby and gave a concert Woods, Warshaver, Bruckheimer, Crozier, Currier, Nardozzi, LeShane. Back which was scheduled for last Decem row: Coach Millett, Hannigan, Wright, Arseth, Clark, Foster, Cates, and Solo ber. They wore their native dress of mon (manager). Austria and played recorders. The group sang some Yodels from the Aus Pianist - Mrs. Augusta Scheiber, a Oliver W. Larkin of Smith College on trian Alps and several other light ew York City artist of great skill and "The Tative Element in American choral numbers. charm, played a piano program rang Art." He described the qualities of ing from Bach to Prokofieff. She has indigenous American artistic work, as recently appeared as soloist with the contrasted by the work of those who Albany Philharmonic Orchestra, the followed the European traditions. Col Pennsylvania Symphony Orchestra, the by's exhibit, he declared, was an im portant milestone in the recognition of ti· , ew York City Symphony Orchestra regional art in this country. id. and as soloist in the Beethoven Anni bl versary Musicale. iJI. * * * RECOGNITION DAY AWARDS Ill. Echo - The new girls who will take ns. over the Echo for next year are as fol Jl· lows: Editor-in-Chief, Joan St. James, H O, IORS and prizes were awarded ld. '45; ews Editor, Roberta Holt, '45; to 28 Colby College students at Make-up Editor, Margery Owen, '45; the annual Recognition Day exercises Feature Editor, Joan Gay, '45; and on May 6 covering the year's work in Business Manager, Ruth Rosenberg, different undergraduate fields. '46. The Condon Medal, highest under * * * graduate honor, was awarded to Lou Baseball - Abbreviated by the early ise A. Callahan, '44, Swampscott, Commencement date, the Colby base Mass., who was voted by the members ball schedule consisted of home-and of the senior class to be " the best col home games with Bowdoin and Maine, lege citizen." winning one and losing three. Bow The Lelia M. Forster prizes of $125 ACCEPTS BANGOR JOB doin won the opener 9-3, and Maine each, open to the freshman man and Ill the next 15-6. The Mules came back woman deemed " most likely to bene Norman C. Perkins, '32, Colby track to defeat Bowdoin 6-4 and lost the fit society," were awarded to Douglas coach, has accepted a position as Di- final to Maine 6-5 in a nip and tuck C. Borton, E. Rutherford, N. J., and 1·ector of Athletics for the Bangor pub battle. Alice M. Billington, orth Dartmouth, will organize the physi lic schools. He Mass. cal education program from the 6th grade through senior high school and, Folk Art - The final lecture in con Winner of the Student League for the duration, coach all high school nection with the exhibition of Maine Scholarship was Joan M. St. James, '45, athletic teams. Art was given on May 7 by Prof. Millinocket. 12 THE COLBY ALUMNUS William L. Whittemore, '46, Skow BIXLER PAMPHLET PUBLISHED .. In literary form and development hegan, and Mary Elizabeth Lohnes, BY HAZEN FOU1\DATION it has the beauty of a magnificent musi '45, Torth V/ eymouth, \fo.ss., received cal composition. I f all of those who certificates for .. Honors with Distinc are charged with responsibility for the tion " in scholarship. Q NE of a series of pamphlets on direction of higher education would religion and education published give these discus ions a careful read " Honors in Schobrship " were bv the Hazen Foundation of Haddam, ing, it would urely mean that a new awarded to Constance Barbour, 'H, · conn .. is by President Julius Seelye a nd glorious day for religion in higher Portland: Roland j. Barriault, 'H, Bixler. entitled : The Resources of eJ ucation would dawn." Waten·ille; Janet S. Jacobs, '45, Atlan Rf:1igio11 and the .-lims of Higher Ed Lic City, N. ) . : Bernice E. Knight, 'H. uc11tio11. The content is one of a Westbrook; Mary L. Roberts, '44, Nor FIRST NOVEL ACCLAIMED series of papers gi,·en by Or. Bixler at way ; Joan .lvl. St. James, '4), Milli the Hazen Conference on Student nocket ; Elizabeth R. Scalise, '46, Low THE /'.IS�. By Thomas Savage. 269 pp. (;ui would have done some research if it Thomas Savage knows those things hadn't been for the dishes that pile up and of the small mountain hamlet and so in a bachelor's sink. its people he writes well. True, buffalo Just people like that. Above them, grass does not bend in the wind nor always present and inescapable, was the was southwestern Montana "little Pass. Only those who have lived in known " in 1913, but those are minor small towns in the Rockies or Sierras flaws. Jess and Beth Bentley, Amy can appreciate the claustrophobia and Cy Pierce, Slim Edwards and Rev which is a seasonable disease when erend Pritchett are very real people. winter closes the Pass, when trains are Their lives and their sorrows and their days or weeks late, when wires are sometimes pathetic pleasures are real, down and there is no link whatever not fictional. The Pass is easy to read, with the Outside. but it will not be forgotten quickly. Tom and Elizabeth Fitzgerald Savage LEXANDER POPE died on May valuable and significant items have re A 30, 1744. About 1844, the lit vealed his generosity towards this col high quality ...at one moment you erary societies of W atervitle College lege. This group of Pope "firsts " feel that it is dominated by a spirit of thought highly enough of this writer doubtless represents the patient hunt grim realism, but by the time you have to include four volumes of his works ing in book auctions over a term of laid it aside you remember only the in their small libraries. (The college years and the expenditure of not incon courage of the people you have met library consisted chiefly of theological siderable sums of money. and the beauty you have seen through tomes.) Now, on May 30, 1944, this Pope's rating among all-time English their eyes "; to the New York Times: College is commemorating his bicen poets has gone up and down with the " . . . easy to read, but it will not be tenary with a display of rare Pope first years. Samuel Johnson praised him to forgotten quickly." The latter review, editions that puts the Colby Library the skies, Keats excoriated him, Byron in full, follows: near the top of the list in yet another defended him, Mathew Arnold decided category of special collections. that he was a great writer, but not a With the announcement of these poet. Today, the pendulum is swing Jess Bentley married Beth Ford and holdings, it is probably safe to say that ing towards renewed appreciation of took her to his ranch on Horse Prairie. there is now better original source ma Pope. Discussing his stature as a poet, The neighbors welcomed the bride terial for the critical study of Pope here Prof. Luella F. Norwood, of the Colby at Colby than exists in any other col to with a shivaree. Beth wanted chil English faculty, in the Quarterly lege library outside of a few great uni JU dren, but her boy lived only a day quotes an ingenious analogy of The versities. First in rarity, is the almost llD And Beth, too, died. She died during Rape of the Lock by R. K. Root as the hard winter when all the hay was unobtainable first issue of the first edi follows: � died in the willows tion, parts I & II, of An Essay on Man ID gone and the cattle " Suppose one were asked to write which Jess had brought ( 1733). The Universal Prayer ( 1738) xn and the colt today a great poem on a week-end home across his saddle died behind the is '!-nother collector's prize. house-party, its heroine an empty stove. Jess ordered hay, but the trucks Prof. Frederick A. Pottle, '17, writ headed debutante, its hero a college were buried in the snow on the Pass. ing in the Colby Libmry Quarterly, undergraduate; its chief episode a ride Finally the train broke through with says that these volumes "form a group in a motor car, the mixing of cocktails, feed for the cattle. Jess Bentley car that few libraries in the world will not a game of bridge; its story a passing ried on. covet." He explains further that while flirtation, in the course of which the The Pass is quite plotless. It's a the individual pieces are of great in undergraduate hero, having accepted a terest, the important things about the novel of the West, but there's no kill dare, snips a lock from out the debu Pope collection is its comprehensive ing, no rustling, no schemes to steal the tante heroine's permanent wave. And ness: it contains all the first editions of ranch. The only romance in the book the poem must not be merely such oc Pope's works during the latter half of is the love of a man for his wife and casional verse as might become the his poetic career. of a woman for her man. That is all, pages of Punch or The New Yorker; yet Thomas Savage has not written a There are 2 books in the Bicenten it must be so great a poem that people negative story. The people of Salmon ary Exhibition. Eight of these were will still read it, not only with amuse City and of Horse Prairie are very real. Library purchases, and twenty came in ment but with the thrill of poetic de There is a grimly virtuous Mrs. Cooper one splendid gift from Carroll A. Wil light, two hundred and more years who wanted to ask her husband where son of New York City. Mr. Wilson, from now, when motor cars and bridge he learned to dance so well but was born in Waterville and an honorary and cocktails and permanent waves afraid he might tell her. There is Doc graduate of this college, has taken a may all stand in need of explanatory Morse, voted the man most likely to warm interest in Colby's special collec .footnotes. That is what Pope has succeed in the class of '81. Doc, who tions and not a few earlier accessions of done." 14 THE COLBY ALUMNUS BEACH FUN ATANZIO even The Colby Alum11us, and if I had some film I'd have someone take my A VIVID description of what life is DECORATED picture reading it there. like on the Anzio beachhead " I sure would like to have a re comes ro us from Lt. Andrew Bedo, union. Guess I'll have to send an air '43, of the Chemical Warfare Service. plane up to s�y-write: 'Any Colby He writes: men around ? . "Things were really popping last night - F."e air raids. I was trying to sleep in my dugout, but the noise was MINE HOST IN NAPLES awful, so I came out to look at the shovv. I found my CO standing out F any Colby officers on the Italian there in the light created by German J front ever get a Naples leave, the flares. It was a tremendous spectacle. chance are that if they have any com All around red tracers fly up from ack plaints to make about their hotel ack guns. The roar of the guns is (which is doubtful ) they would find deafening and their projectiles explode themselves face to face with Lt. Evan overhead with an orange flash. Then J. Mcllraith, Jr., '43. you see flares dropped by Jerry and they light up the place. One of our The fact that Evan was pulled back boys, an extraordinarily cool kid, gets from the Cassino front because of a out of his hole and takes the oppor stomach ailment was noted in last tunity to write a V-mail letter. You month's issue, but now we have fur think that the noise cannot get any ther details, thanks to the corre louder. Then Jerry drops a red flare spondent of the Chicago Tribune. - target! He starts his dive and you l.� It may be a far cry from busting can hear the whine of his engine and azi tanks (remember in the Febru you dive into your hole too. When he ary issuen to supervising the care and begins his dive everything opens up on SOUTH PACIFIC - Captain feeding of 350 guests, but Mcilraith him and the noise rises to a roaring Robert E. Anderson, '42, U. S. A., finds that there is no lack of excite crescendo. Then come the bombs, has been given the Bronze Star ment in his newer assignment. whistling, and your relief when they Medal, by direction of the Presi It was a pretty good hotel until the explode somewhere else. Or, if they dent, for heroic action last Septem Germans pulled out of Naples seven don't explode, 'God Bless Czechoslo ber in the Solomon Islands. months ago. For something to re vakia,' you mutter under your breath. The award was made on April 2, member them by they chopped up Then another dive - same story, ex 1944, by Lieutenant General Mill many of the rooms and bombed out cept that this time anti-personnel stuff f ard F. Harmon, commanding the ront of the building. Much of the is dropped. The small bombs go United States Army forces in the six story hostelry has since been re R-R-R-R-RIP over the field and you South Pacific area, to the Infantry habilitated, but it will be a long time keep your fingers crossed, even though captain for: before the scars of war are removed. you know (you hope) that your dug "Arguing with the Italian help out is safe from this type of bomb. " The performance of meritorious doesn't leave many dull moments Minutes after it is all over the flak services at Arundel, Solomon Is around here,"' Mdlraith said. " Then comes down like rain, but you are re lands, on September 9, 1943, when there are such jobs as arranging menus lieved by this time. Then the shells he crossed treacherous terrain, brav and keeping the bars stocked. When start coming, but we can't mind them ing enemy machine-gun fire to help you have 350 American officers around because we know that we can't do any evacuate three wounded soldiers." with poker games raging at night, the thing about them. And so the night place isn't exactly a rest home." goes on. Finally you fall asleep and Three Italians who work at the wake up with the sunlight shining on amazed! Their losses are much larger piano, accordion and violin, pose as an your face and the cook hollering than ours and I am confident of our orchestra, providing the counterpoint ' Chow ! ' During the day Jerry is not success here. Of course we are all dug for the knives and forks at meal so daring. We have swell air support. in, but quite comfortable. I have a times. With their eyes on tips, they Once I saw him try to sneak in, but nice metal spring mattress in my dug go from 0 Sole Mio to Funiculi our boys caught him and not one of out. I waterproofed the place and re Funicula, and then give out with some the enemy planes got away. inforced the top with strong beams and weird versions of When Irish Eyes Are "It is amazing how well our boys some spare sand bags. I have a lan Smiling, Pistol Packin' Mama, and take this punishment and, boy, is Jerry tern and some good books there and even an occasional college song med- THE COLBY ALUMNUS 15 ley. We hope that the Manager insists American soldiers as much as possible upon On to Victory as the theme song WOUNDED, PRISONER of the atmosphere of a big college for his hotel. IN ITALY game at home. They ended up as Cpl. Raymond Zavaglia, '46, is a finalists for the ETO championship COLBY ATHLETES German prisoner, accordino- to word and the deciding game was played in Wales to a 6-6 tie. KEEP ON WINNING received bv his -parents. He was re ported missing on March 18 and In basketball, too, Stan has been go three days later the War Depart ing to town as the player-coach of just OLBY athletes may not be com- C ment telegraphed that he was alive about the hottest club in the ETO. peting on Seavems Field nor and a prisoner of war. Since then They were unbeaten, with victims in against their familiar rivals in Maine his family have heard from him cluding Air Corps units, Infantry, State Championship races, but it takes three times. He told them that he Quartermasters, Engineers, and even more than a war tO keep them from was wounded in his hand, but ac one all-star quintet that came over continuing tO win athletic laurels. cording to his statements and as from Iceland (was Puiia on it?) to try Last summer, for instance, Pfc. Ben evidenced by the improvement in their luck. The climax came when jamin Zecker, '44, in the Dartmouth his handwriting, his injury is heal Stan had the distinction of stepping up Marine unit, won a majority of the vic ing nicely. to the Commanding General to receive tories chalked up by the Big Green on Ray was inducted at Camp Dev the big trophy for the team. the diamond. Down in Boston, A-S ens last June and went at once to Just before baseball came along, Joseph Slattery, '42, helped the Coast Camp Wheeler, Ga. He went Gruber wrenched his knee and has Guard team of that area run up a big across in a replacement been spending some weeks in a gen - unit in De string of vicrories. cember. He wrote from North eral hospital trying to nurse a cartilage In basketball, we may note Ens. Africa: " A year ago the thought back into po sition. He expects to get Richard Wescott, '43, as player-coach of being overseas today would have fully fixed up, however, and to play of his ship's team which was unde seemed to me to be a dream. Now some ball - unless the invasion comes feated at last report. At the same time that I'm here, there remains only along and he starts playing a rougher on the Pacific coast, his teammate, Lt. one thing, that is to do my part." game, and for keeps. John Lomac, '43, was player-coach for His a?dress is: Cpl. Raymond his Marine base team which ran up a Zavaglia, American Prisoner of SERVICE PERSONALS string of wins before bowing to San War, 36321, Stalag 344, Germany, Paul Adams, '46, RT 3-C, has gone Diego. Another Marine, Pfc. Abie via New York, N. Y. west to Treasure Island, San Francisco, is, '43, was attracting the notice Ferr and hopes to see some Colby fellows the sports cribes as a star guard on of out there. Address : RMS, Co 34. Cherry Point team which ran up a sports writers. The Bates team, us the Cpl. Lowell P. Leland, '29, is at the of 21 wins. Yet another ing the \'-12 boys, had three or four string Personnel Replacement Depot, Co E, (what is it about these Colby fellows in the line-up every Leatherneck Fifth Group, Second Regt, Camp Rey ?), Pfc. Mike Puiia, '44, game, while Dana Robinson, '45, run Marines nolds, Pa., but suspects that his address on the champion team of Ice ning under Bates colors, came in sec played may soon include an APO number. ond in the Tew England Cross Coun land. Lt. Gabriel 0. Dumont, '40, is Ad some good hockey play try Meet. Colby has jutant at the 22lst AAF Base Unit uniform, so it is not surprising ers in The one who is really making a Sec F, Alexandria, La., and thinks tha or three found chances to put � that two name for himself in Army athletics, this assignment may prove more or less war or no war. When Pfc. on skates, however, is Cpl. Stanley Gruber, '41, permanent. Joseph R. \Vallace, '43, was in Tew who is with a paratroop outfit. Last Robert W. Sparkes, '36, C Sp, is at a he could run over York he found that fall, just before sailing, he played for base in New Guinea which he thinks evenings and soon made a to Brooklyn six innings in an exhibition game is the best he has yet had. Good chow Crescents. Further position on the against the Red Sox, collecting a single and plenty to do, he says. more, when he found that Pfc. Ernie and a double. Pfc. Ernest G. Weidul, '43, got the Weidul, '42, was in New Jersey, he mumps so he could catch up on his cor got him ontO the team with him, so Arriving in England just in time ;or respondence. He majored in lan with Colby men front and back, the the football season, Stan played end guages at Colby, so since joining the Brooklynites really went to town. Joe on the Paratrooper team competing Army he has ee - going to engineering received quite a write-up when the against other Army teams and demon ? ? schools - radio in Boston, electronics Crescents played the Boston Olympics. strating American football all over the power in ew Jersey, and now more Meanwhile, out in California, Lt. Don isle. One time they played at Oxford, power work in Baltimore. His wife ald Butcher, '44, found it possible to while the Oxford-Cambridge Rugby and baby girl are down there with him. play with the San Diego Skyhawks game was going on in an adjoining Address: 1829 Kinship Road Dundalk from time to time this winter. field. Their biggest crowd was at a ' game sponsored by the American Red 22, Md. Fall saw no football at Colby, but Cross in one of London's big sporting Courtney Simpson, '45, in a training Ens. Harold F. Brown, '35, USCGR unit at Holy Cross, was first string stadiums. There were five Army walked into his first class at the Flee� bands and the Red right guard and played a whale of a Cross supplied girls Sound School at Key West, Fla., to to serve as cheerleaders to give the find season, according to Massachusetts that his instructor was none other 16 THE COLBY ALUMNUS than Lt. (jg) Joseph W. Bishop, '35, and constructive teachings which have Pvt. Raymond W. Farnham, '36, who also turned out to be the officer provided the answers for much of his finds that personnel and classification in charge of Harold's group. thinking and questioning. school is " college all over again," but Florence M. Boak, '41, RM 3-C, George A. Sederquist, '46, S 2-C without the campus spirit. He is 16 WAVE, graduated from radio school (RM), is overseas in Pacific waters. miles from Washington at Fort Wash in April, took a week at home, and is 2nd Lt. James Ross, '36, visited the ington, Md. (Co G, Bldg 109, Class now addressed at: Communications, college on his way to the AAF, Myrtle 31). NAS, Norfolk, Va. She says that her Beach, S. C. He received his commis Sgt. Arnold Green, '37, sends his Air Base duty is "wonderful - real sion on April 1 at the Miami Beach new address so that Colby communica Navy and makes you feel like you're Air Corps OCS. He expects to be put tions won't have to go from Maine to really in it." into public relations, adjutant or per California and thence to Italy to reach Lt. John E. Stevens, '42, arrived in sonnel work. Also in his same OCS him. He has seen quite a lot of England safely with his plane "Jack class and commissioned on the same Southern Italy, part of it from a cattle the Ripper," and the Colby Mule em day was 2nd Lt. Laurence M. Edwards, car, and says that while the country blazoned on it. (In the excitement of '43, who is slated for adjutant or per side is beautiful, the general ways of leaving, he forgot to get a photo of it.) sonnel work somewhere. living are about 20 years behind. He His navigator, 2nd Lt. Eugene Struck Lt. Ernest M. (" Bud ") Frost, '38, is is willing to give Italy back to the poets hoff, '44, was unfortunately held up plans and training officer of one of the and take Presque Isle. and hospitalized just before leaving, so technical school squadrons at the Mi Lt. William A. Small, '40, has spent that Colby duo had to be broken up, ami Beach OCS. fifteen months overseas with a weather much to their sorrow. Struckie subse The Alabama Colby Club (pictured squadron and finds that hjs observa quently got on a new crew and was in the last issue) has moved largely to tions of orth Africa, Sicily and Italy last reported en route to foreign lands. Camp Attlebury, Indiana, it seems. leave him with little longing for Euro Ens. Ray M. Flynn, '42, writes from Pvt. Bernard R. Dutille, '46, is in the pean travel. some censored location that he has seen company store. Pvt. Robert Lucy, '45, Sgt. William Conley, '42, recently three Colby men: Pvt. Marc Jack Tem got picked up by his CO from his received his third stripe, but remains mer, '43, Lt. Robert C. Dennison, '43, home town and is now driving a jeep. at Camp Blanding and can be found and Lt. Charles E. Barnfather, '41 - Pvt. Richard Marcyes, '45, is a rifleman in the 226th battalion, company C. all of which sounds like England, to us. and, at the moment, was on KP. Pvt. Lt. Roger M. Stebbins, '40, believes 2nd Lt. Richard M. Crummett, '43, Stanley Levine, '44, is attending cook that the Dean would be dumbfounded sends in a new address at APO 140, ing school. to learn that he has been made a pro New York. He is with a bombard Pvt. Joseph Chernauskas, '40, writes fessor of Quartermaster Trucking at ment squadron, AAF. from England that the first Colby man Camp Livingston, La. He takes a Capt. Stanley A. Paine, '37, writes he has seen was Gardner Oakes, '40, green company and stays with it until from a cocoanut palm grove some who is with a railroad unit. Oakes they move out. He met Chap. Everett where in New Guinea to say that the had not previously been known to be A. Rockwell, '20, and enjoyed many scene lacks only a yacht in the distance in service. (Details, please.) good chats with him. and a few other accessories to make it Elwin F. Hussey, '44, S 1-C, is at Pvt. Perley Leighton, '43, an Army a Hollywood idyl. Unfortunately, he tending radio school at Del Monte, alumnus of Stanford University and says, tl1e effect is sometimes marred by Calif. Address: Class 3-A-2, Room Oregon State College, is back on a rifle "extraneous diversions." He is with 217, NTS. and taking his basic all over again a medical detachment. The Trinidad Colby Club took a while waiting to start work in com 33% loss of membership when Lt. munications. He is with Co A, 840th Pvt. Philip A. Stinchfield, '40, is at (jg) Robert Borovoy, '39, left for the Signal Training Battalion, WSCUTC, Parris Island taking work in the Per States and a new assignment. How Camp Kohler, Calif. sonnel Classification school. He ex ever, Lt. (jg) Harry K. Hollis, '38, and Pvt. Edward R. Cony, '44, was also pected to move on to New River in Lt. M. Milton Goldberg, '36, still plan at Oregon State and now is in the in May. to carry on the club activities. fantry. While theoretically at Camp M-Sgt. K. Dreyer, '40, has changed Lt. (jg) Tiffany V. Manning, '39, Roberts, he went on bivouac right his first name to Kenneth and was pro has gone to sea as a medical officer, and from the train and has been sleeping moted to Master Sergeant just before was pleased to findthat he was not sea out ever since. leaving these shores. He is now in the sick on his first voyage. Pfc. Gerald Katzman, '46, a gunner ETO. Pvt. Charles D. Keef, '39, has been on a Liberator bomber, is now receiv Pvt. W. T. Belger, '44, is in the sta pulled back from the Solomon Island ing his overseas training at the 302 tion complement at Halleron General jungles to an English-speaking island Bombardment Processing Unit, Cha Hospital, Staten Island, and has talked with the amenities of civilization. He tham Field Ga. with a good many hundred American is interested in the differences between Pfc. Merritt Emerson, '44, is a gun boys back from the European battle American and British customs and nery instructor at Tyndall Field, Pan lines. He finds the rumor-mongering vocabularies. ama City, Fla. and racism on the part of a small num Cpl. Sidney J. Rauch, '43, is in a Pvt. Seabury Stebbins, '45, was ber of loudmouths is a disturbing radio intelligence outfit and has re wounded in the fighting on the Anzio morale factor and he writes apprecia cently been shifted from North Africa beachhead and received the Purple tively of "Pop " Newman's tolerant to Italy. Heart. He was sent there as a re- THE COLBY ALUMNUS 17 placement. The war to him is mostly mud, cold, and lack of food and sleep. Pvt Brewster A. Branz, '40, is with a field artillery outfit in England, but fully expects to be on the move in the ETO until Hitler is trounced. Lt. Robert Canders, Jr., '39, sends Easter Greetings by illustrated V-mail from the Anzio beachhead. T-Cpl. Robert M. Wasserman, '46, recently receiYed his technician's rat ing. He is with a medical detachment in England and bumped into his class mate T-5 Robert L. Cook, '46. Lt. Shelley L. Pratt, '42, US R, is stationed in a hot box, otherwise known a a coral isle in the Central Pacific. 2nd Lt John M. Lomac, '43, USMC, ST.rlFF CONFERENCE AT ATLANTIC CITY has arrived at his destination in the Thij candid jhot of the high command of the AAF Redistribution Center South Pacific. shows distribution at its best. In the group are, from left to right, Captain (now '41, Sgt Jerome Orenstein, after a Major) Elmer C. Warren, the former Colby Registrar, the former Colby Person sojourn at Miami Beach, is now back nel Officer, an ex-mathematics professor, and a prominent graduate of M.l.T. at Camp Ellis, Ill., attached to the At the end of the conference, Capt. Warren, spokesman for the group, stated that 125th General Hospital. after much refiection and viewing the subject from all angles, the conjerence ar Pvt. Paul F. Feldman, '34, was in rived at itj decijion as of one mind. ducted into the Army on March 31, 1944, and is now at Camp Gordon, Lt. Oren Shiro, '42, US R, wrote recently received, reveals casually that Augusta, Ga., with the 1261 Engineers, from the South Pacific that he is over he is "in excellent health, fully recov Co. A (c) Bn. He found himself in whelmed and speechless at the news of ered from a bullet wound which gave the next barracks to Pvt Emory P. Waterville High's New England bas me an enjoyable three months' rest in Worthen, '37. ketball championship. He avers that the hospital." He goes on to speak of Lt. E. Robert Bruce, '40, is with the he and Burt will have to take a back his "rather uneventful life." Andy is 515th Paratroop Infantry at Camp seat to their kid brother Teddy who in an outfit which took the Russell Is Mackall, . C., and says that they are played on the team and looks like the lands, Rendova, and the Munda air ready to play and hope to get in the family's number one athlete. field. game before too long. Cpl. Donald E. Sterner, '44, is with S-Sgt. John R. Turbyne, '35, has ar Pvt. Philip E. Peterson, '46, has re a troop carrier wing, signal company, rived in England. ceived a bayonet wound, so his sister and recently arrived in England. He Pvt. Allen Sarner, '46, was in the says that everything is rationed in Eng (Lois, '44) tells us. However, it isn't ASTP at CC ry, but when that was land except the girls. as bad as it sounds, since it was his liquidated he was shipped to Camp own weapon and just a slight acciden Lt. Charles A. (" Chuck ") Dudley, Polk, to Texas, to Louisiana for '45, is flying a Thunderbolt in Eng tal dig. He is at Camp Maxey, Tex. maneuvers, and has finally landed with land and, at last report, was getting Pvt. Burton G. Shiro, '44, and Pvt MP Platoon, 75th Div, APO 451, final polish in combat fighter training. Maynard C. Rabinowitz, '46, are now Camp Breckinridge, Ky. Lt. R. A. Yellen, '32, writes from with the 43rd Division and 103rd In Maj. C. Malcolm Italy that he read of Waterville's cham Stratton, '33, is ex fantry (Waterville National Guard out ernti ve officer with an pionship high school team in The ordnance group, fit) vY hich was commended in the re the first ordnance outfit Stars and Stripn He hopes that they to land on port published in the last issue. Italy on Sept. 9. His description all come to Colby next year. (As a of the Timothy C. Osborne, '44, Av-Cad, invasion is: "Wow! Some matter of fact, most of them are only show! " is plugging away at the long course �£ juniors. -Ed.) Yellen is with a bom Ens. Philip E. Wysor, '42, says that Navy flight training at Pensacola. His bardment group. life in. the South Pacific is not so bad, c), Flight address is Class 2C-44-P( except for the heat and the insects, but S-Sgt. Joseph E. Rancourt, '42, is Brigade PO. that home seems pretty remote. with the 496th Ordnance H.A.M. Co., Ens. A. G. (" Tee ") Laliberte, '42, at Camp Van Dorn, Miss. Pvt. Lawrence N. Gray, '35 has ar is flying out from Atlantic shores and rived somewhere in the British Isles. says that there has been more real ex Comdr. Samuel R. Feldman, '26, re He just missed the Boston Alumni the time he was in cently received his new rating. He is citement than all Dinner before leaving. North Africa. He and his wife are with a Na\·y mobile hospital unjt in living at 2015 Dorchester Rd., Brook the Pacific theater. Lt. Gg) John E. Walker, '29, is now lyn 26, and would welcome calls from S-Sgt. Oliver C. (" Andy ") Mellen, at the aval Traini.ng Station (I) at Colby friends. '36, in a letter written Feb. 2, but just Fort Schuyler, ew York 61. 18 TI-IE COLBY ALUMNUS Lt. Elmer L. Baxter, '41, in the AF Pvt. Fred W. Howard, '44, is at SA T school at Orlando, listened to a DON'T SHOOT, I'M A COLBY Camp Lejeune, Tew River, S. C., tak lecture on emergency survival tech MAN, TOO ing officer's training for the Marine niques and tried out rattlesnake, palm Corps. cabbage and other edible possibilities. Relaxing after a mission a few A-C Walter B. Maxfield, '44, Flight Then he went home to find that his in months ago, Lt. Whitney Wright, H, Bks 13, Class 44-G, Coffyville Army structor was none other than the hus '37, walked into an Officers' Club Air Field, Kansas, has completed his band of "Ippie " Solie, '39, and that at the base and smack into his fra primary and is now taking his basic they were invited over there for sup ternity brother, Ens. Robert D. flight training. per. Going with some gastronomical Johnston, '39, also a Navy pilot. trepidation, he and Betty were relieved After bringing their post-college Capt. Rudolphe J. A. Pomerleau, '29, careers up to date Bob went on to to find nothing on the menu more out - has seen considerable active service landish than sliced alligator, which say that he had just had a funny since he joined the Army Medical turned out to be delicious. experience. " One of our Libs tried Corps in May 1942. He was attached to shoot me down," he said. At a Lt. (sg) Machaon E. Stevens, '39, to the staff of the new station hospit l this, Whit burst out laughing. It dropped in from the South Pacific the at Fort Devens battalion surgeon with was his plane, he admitted, that had other day. He was sent back to the the 45th and 29th infantry divisions, taken a pot shot at Bob. It seems states for some new training which he and ser\'ed as troop transport surgeon that the Liberator sighted this me hasn't figured out yet. He has been on one of the largest luxury liners in dium bomber cruising around in a engineer officer on a minesweep in the the world which was transformed into suspicious manner (actually, it was Solomons. Probably the avy just a transport, this taking him to the searching for a reported Nip sub) thought he would like to attend his European and African war theaters. and when spotted, it turned back fifth reunion at commencement. After a lea,·e spent at his Waterville towards Rabaul. Whit took his home, Capt. Pomerleau left on March Lt. Whitney Wright, '37, arrived in plane up into a cloud and came 30 for Rochester, l\1inn., to attend a Waterville just a few days before the down fairly close. As the first in post-graduate course at the famed last Alumnus v\"aS published which re quiring tracers crossed in front of Mayo linic. L pon completion, he ex ported his exploits and decoration in Bob's nose, however, he flipped up pect to return to his post as command ific. As it turned out, the South Pac so the stars on his wings would ing officer of the medical detachment our account was an understatement. show and then beat it out of there. as igned to the 70 th Military Police His plane has accounted for three Jap No harm was done. After all, these battalion in Connecticut. ships, rather than one. The episode Phi Delts always were playful. Ha, which caused him trouble was an ha! Whew! cargo ship. Although it was enemy ADDITIONS TO SERVICE already sinking from Whit's bombs, he ROSTER had one missile left and decided to lay Sgt. Frederick W. Perkins, '45, in it on so he made another low altitude valided home with chronic arthritis (Names are a t 1941 To Sergeant, Donald G. Leach, '44, k- Burnham, Paul 0. Ph M 3-C USNR USA, overseas. l( To Sergeant, Richard E. deNazario, 1943 '43, USA, overseas. Franklin, Leo A-C USAAF To Sergeant, Kenneth C. Suther ht Murray, Paul F. Pfc USA land, '35, Rapid City, S. D. iy * *** . * To Corporal, F. M. Drummond, '45, lll * * 1944 * USA. ac * Frazier, William Lt USA To Corporal, Emanuel K. Frucht, Hussay, Elwin F. S 1-C USNR '42, Liberal, Kans. '9, Wood, John M. Pvt USA !1120 To S M 1-C, Joseph D. Slattery, '42, cc * * USCG, at sea. 41 1945 * * To Ph M 1-C, W. Malcolm Wilson, * !ti Barrows, Arthur· N. Cpl USA * '33, US IR, at sea. *** ** :al Burke, Thomas W. Pvt USMC To Ph M 2-C, Joseph B. Croteau, th Cook, Edward M. A-S US R '41, USNR, Bethesda, Md. u, Ridgley, Garrett V. Pfc USA _To S 2-C, M. Gerald Ryan, '37, )Q Zadek, David S. Pvt USA US R, Bainbridge, Md. in To Q M 3-C, Robert M. Perry, '45, to 1946 USNR, overseas. . he Boyne, Philip J. Pfc USA To A R T 3-C, Arthur A. Parsons, To 1st Lieutenant, John E. Stevens, rs. Ilsley, John L. Pvt USA '46, USNR, Corpus Christi, Texas. Ile Katzman, Gerald Pfc USA '42, USAAF, England. To R T 3-C, Paul B. Adams, '46, ch To Ensign, John E. Gilmore, '40, USNR, San Francisco, Calif. USCG, New London, Conn. a 1947 To Midshipman, William A. Crow ed Freedman, Howard H. S 2-C US R To Ensign, William Hutcheson, '44, ther, '45, USNR, Boston, Mass. USNR, at sea. :I· McCoy, Donald A. A-S USNR To Ensign, G. Ellis Mott, '39, 1d USNR, Hollywood, Fla. OVERSEAS OR ON SEA DUTY nt To Ensign, Frank Strup, '44, US R, (Note: In this group we list those whose tt PROMOTIONS addresses arc given in care of postmasters at To Commander, Samuel R. Feld ew Orleans, La. To 2nd Lieutenant, Laurence M. Ed New York, New Orleans, or San Francisco, man, '26, US R, South Pacific. and so arc presumed to have left this conti wards, '43, Miami Beach, Fla. To Major, C. M. Stratton, '33, USA, nent for active service.) To 2nd Lieutenant, Harold M. England. Polis, '43, USA, San Bernardino, Calif. Ens. Andrew Watson, '43, US IR To Lieutenant Commander, Alfred Lt. (jg) Tiffany V. Manning, '39, M. McCoy (Fae.), US R, overseas. To 2nd Lieutenant, Frank S. US R To Captain, Robert H. Carey, '44, Quincy, '43, USAAF, Alexandria, La. Joseph D. Slattery, '42, SM 1-C, USA, Italy. To 2nd Lieutenant James S. Ross, USCG To Captain, John T. Foster, '4 1, '36, USAAF, Myrtle Beach, S. C. W. M. Wilson, '33, Ph M 2-C, USAAF, ew Haven, Conn. To 2nd Lieutenant, Dwight Sargent, USNR To Captain, Saul Millstein, '42, '39, USA, Lexington, Va. USMC, Lauderdale, Fla. Sgt. Thomas S. Vose, '39, USA To 2nd Lieutenant, Harland S. To Captain, R. J. A. Pomerleau, '29, Lt. Gerald L. Goodman, USMC Thompson, '45, USA, Rapid City, S. D. '42, USA, MC, Rochester, Minn. Ens. Alden E. Wagner, USNR To Master Sergeant, Kenneth '44, To Captain, Gordon S. Young, '37, Dreyer, '40, USA, overseas. Lt. Antonio J. Bolduc, '41, USA USA, Camp McC ain, Miss. Lt. John M. Lomac, '43, USMCR To Lieutenant (jg), Dwight K. To Staff Sergeant, Joseph D. Dob Beal, '41, Miami Fla. bins, '38, South Pacific. Ens. R. N. Noyes, '36, US R To Lieutenant (jg), Donald A. Gil To Staff Sergeant, Richard B. Lt. Harold 0. Sweet, '36, USA foy, '40, US R, Key West, Fla. Holmes, '39, USA, Camp Chafee, Ark. Lt. John E. Stevens, '42, USAAF To Lieutenant (jg), Virginia E. To Staff Sergeant, Raymond F. Sgt. R. E. deNazario, '43, USA Gray, '40, WA VE, Bronx N. Y. Kozen, '42, USAAF, Grenier Field, Sgt. Philip C. Buck, '43, USA To Lieutenant (jg), Harry K. Hollis, . H. Cpl. A. T. Strongin, '29, USA '38, us_ TR, Trinidad. To Staff Sergeant, Joseph R. Ran Pvt. Norman R. Rogerson, '37, USA To Lieutenant (jg), Robert I. John court, '42, USA, Camp Van Dorn, son, '42, US R, at sea. Miss. Lt. Col. James E. Davidson, '30' USA To Lieutenant (jg), T. V. Manning, To Sergeant, William R. Conley, '42, '39, at sea. USA, Camp Blanding, Fla. Ens. William Hutcheson, '44, US R Pvt. To Lieutenant (jg), Donald A. Par To Sergeant, Arnold A. Green, '37, Harold A. Costley, '43, USA sons, '42, USNR, South Pacific. USA, England. Cpl. Donald E. Sterner, '44, U A To 1st Lieutenant, Elmer L. Baxter, To Sergeant, Harry L. Hicks, '42, 2nd Lt. Eugene C. Struckhoff '44' ' '41, USAAF, Gainesville, Fla. USA, Topeka, Kans. USAAF 20 THE COLBY ALUMNUS 1900 lege preparatory high in Cincinnati, Burma. I had a letter from Iet in Fred F. Lawrence has recently been makes her home with her mother. March and while her courage and hope elected President of the Savings Divi Cora Farwell herwood still finds had been firm, he had had many let sion of the American Bankers Associa that the job of being a minister's help ters from those who could give her in tion at New York. It is a distin mate is a full time job and covers a formation, and there seems to be less guished honor. Mr. Lawrence is wide range of activities, many of them and less hope that he may be safe some Treasurer of the Maine Savings Bank outside the church. where. daughter was born to Ted's in Portland. The Amer ican Bankers Christia Donnell Young is still wife a short time ago. Association, because of the magnitude This winter your class agent at teaching: " I spend my spare time and complexity of its problems, oper writing to my boys in the er\'ice. tended a Colby dinner in Rockland at ates through four major divisions: Otherwise 1 still travel in a tiny circle which the speaker was Phyllis St. Clair National Banks, State Banks, Savings - school and home." Fraser ·I 3. She spoke most entertain and Trusts. The Savings Division ingly of her work as Director of Per member includes all savings banks in Elaine Wilson Oxnard lives in the sonnel of Women at the South Port the country, both mutual and stock, midst of constant reminders of war, in land shipyard, with sympathy and un and commercial banks with savings de a town filled with soldiers and planes derstanding of their problems · and partments. The President presides at and military comings and goings, and pride in their accomplishments. We all meetings of the Division, appoints endeavors to do her share of the war were all glad to have with us Under Committees, is a member ex officio of and community work of Houlton. graduate Sarah Hary who is taking the all Committees and exercises the cus Clara Norton Paul reports both sons Hospital Technology course. tomary duties incidental to similar in the service, one in the Army and the - Anna M. Boynton. positions. other in the Navy. he was appointed District Director of Women's Clubs in 1907 1902 York County, Maine Federation, and arah Cummings is still teaching at Lois Meserve Flye of Sheepscott, is looking forward to the spring Fed Framingham Teachers College and her Maine, is vice chairman of Civilian Re eration meeting which is to be held on home address in Woburn will reach lief of the town of Newcastle, chair MayAower Hill. her. Bertha Tead is teaching in Quincy man of several committees, and has Edith Kennison Stene's son John just finished being president of the who has been in Turkey so long has High School, Quincy, Mass. French is her chosen subject, but the study of Wiscasset Women's Club. married a nurse from the American Florence Wilkins Bragdon, since her Hospital in Istanbul. They went on French has fallen off so much that she has been handed several history classes. husband's retirement from twenty individual sightseeing trips to Palestine Annie Cook Starkey li\'es at R. D. years of service in the school system of and there found a Protestant minister Tew Rochelle, N. Y., in 1937, has to marry them, thus av oiding the three Route 5, Portland, Maine. Her hus band is busy contacting school super spent her summers on Great Pond, Bel ceremonies that Turkey requires. Her grade Lakes, Maine, and her winters in other son is working on a project for intendents all over the state and her daughter, Virginia, is director of California and Florida. Her perma the Navy, in Maryland. nent address is Wellesley, Massachu groups of business and industrial girls Nettie Fuller Young received word setts. in the Y.W.C.A. in Greenwich, Conn. at Thanksgiving that her only son Ted Ralph B. Young was recently elected Augusta Colby is teaching in a Com failed to return from a mission over sub-master of Deering High School by mercial High School in Springfield, the Portland School Board. He will and when she is not busy doing this assume his duties in September taking she rations oil and sugar and helps OUT AND IN the position made \'acant by the retire with the draft board. A trade announcement from the ment of Arad E. Li nscott, 98. Mr. Scott, Foresman Co., educational Young has been head of the commer 1905 publishers, gives the information cial department at Deering since com May Lucille Harvey found herself that one of their representatives is ing to Portland in 1921. obliged to give up her position at Port leaving to enter the school supply land High School after 35 years' serv business, but their "regret at his 1 9 1 0 ice because of frail health. leaving is only tempered by the fact Mary Donald Deans has been teach that we have a worthv. successor." ing on the island of Eleuthera, in the fact that the 1906 Our interest lies in the Bahamas, for the past academic year, Ella Maxcy is teaching French in man going out is Forrest M. Royal, but by eliminating the spring vacation Taunton High, spent an enjoyable part '23, and moving into his chair is and holding school on Saturdays, she of her spring recess in New York City Robert L. Jacobs, '24. Looks like a is getting through just in time to take with the head of her department. sort of Colby procession. boat, plane, and train back to Water Beulah Purington is teaching in col- ville for Commencement. This small THE COLBY ALUMNUS 21 island is 5� miles from Nassau and is TICKET RECEIVED BY ALUMNI OFFICE given oYer almost entirely to the Hatchet Bay De,·elopment, which is an Pauline Allen American owned enterprise supplying PRESENTS dairy products for the assau market. The Howling Success The population consists of 14 Ameri cans and -o Bahamians. "Such in Featuring teresting people stop off here," she Joel Allen, V APRIL 3, 19+1 writes, " third sons of earls, artists, :25 A. M. writers, and so on. I shall be lonely PRODUCTION when I leave, for I like the life here." Directed by Captain W. F. Manly She will be back at Keene Teachers Costumes by Vanta New Music College r:ext year. ------The management reserves the right to cancel personal apJJearances if the Star is sleeping. 1 923 Basil B. Ames was recently ap pointed as attorney to the rationing division 0£ the State Office of 0 P.A., Augusta. SPECIAL , OTlCE - After one week at the present location the production will mm·e to 14 l 5 1924 Elizabeth Street, Denver, Coloracio for an indefinite run. There will Paul W. Gates, associate professor of be a Special Perform:ince at 2 A. M. daily for the benefit of the neighbors. history at Cornell University, was ad vanced to the rank of professor. Pro degree fessor Gates received his B.S. The management assures the Public there will be no new from Colby College in 1924, his A.M. Production for the duration. from Clark University in 1925, and his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1930. He has served as an instructor at Harvard University and as assistant professor and associate professsor at Bucknell University. In 19 33-34 he Annie Hooper Hinkley is editor, Betty Wilkinson Ryan is teaching in was a fellow of the Social Science Re business manager, and, in short, runs the zoology department at Columbia, search Council, and in 1934-35 an agri the Waldoboro town paper. where her husband is an instructor. cultural economist for the Resettlement Virginia Dudley Eveland's husband Louise Tracy is director of the nurs Administration. Appointed assistant is a captain in the service stationed in ery school at Hale House in Boston. professor 0£ American history at Cor Alaska. She lives with her mother and Marjorie Gould is finishing her third nell in 1936, he was promoted to the sister on 310 Park Place, Charlottes year at Lasell Junior College where rank of associate professor in 1940. He ville, Virginia. She has a son, John she is teaching English, Journalism, is the author of well-known books and Dudley. and Psychology. articles on the settlement of the public Elsie Lewis Everest is in Miami. Her husband is an Army officerand is land in the Vnited States. 1939 near enough to get home for all his Elizabeth Solie Howard is working meals. at the office of the U. S. Engineers in 1928 Lillian Morse Henry is full-time of the Sec Orlando, Florida. The day after After seven years as head postmistress in Ashland, Mass. the retarial Science Dept. at Mcintosh last Alumnus arrived, she had a call Business College, Dover, . H., Lela from Betty Sweetser Baxter. The 1937 faculty Howards are now living at 408Yz H. Glidden has now joined the Lucille Pinette is teaching Mathema E. I. South St., Orlando, Fla., and the Bax of Bryant College at Providence, R. tics at Colby. She completed her mas ters at 715 Glendonjo Drive. ter's degree at Syracuse last year. 1929 Lora Cummings ewcomb is doing Mary Vose McGillicuddy has been defense work as a machinist in the 1942 in Augusta now for six months while Clutch department of a motor com Betty Ann Royal is working at T� her husband was " breaking in " as the pany near Seattle, Washington. Her Journal of Commerce in New York new State Treasurer. husband is in the Coast Guard. City. Her roommate is Freda Abd, Jean Watson is at Ricker where she Olie Chase has been working for the '39, and Jane Soule and Marie Merrill is Dean of Girls. She plans to go to FBI in the Italian department. Now Wysor are also living at 51 Morton St. Columbia again this summer; has just she spends her time being a minister's George A . Parker is . selling tool, been elected President of the New wife in Arlington, Va. alloy and stamless steel for the Potts England Club there. Jane Tarbell is teaching English at Company in Philadelphia. He has Thalia Bates Savage now lives in Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, also been taking a course in metallurgy New Orleans. N. Y. at Temple University and expects to 22 THE COLBY ALUMNUS take more work in ales development. Lieut. Chasse is a graduate both of To Mr. and Mrs. Torman Thrope, Recently he and his wi(e (Gerry Fen Colby and of Hanard De ntal School. (Shirley Porton, '41), a daughter, Ai nessy, '43 ) had a Colby reunion with leen, on April 19, 1 944. Cpl. Bill Conley and "Catsie " Fussell, BIRTHS To Lt. and Mrs. John D. Powers, '41. To Capt. and i\lrs. Ralph W. How (John D. Powers, '39; Mary L. Carr, ard, (Eleanor Ross, '37), oi Houlton, '42), a daughter, Catherine Louise, on 1943 Maine, a daughter, Barbara Ro How �'lay 6, 1944. Ethel Paradis Emerson feels that she ard, on Dec. 18, 1943. To Dr. and frs. Forre t Batson, has a pretty lucky break. She has a To Lieut. and Mrs. Earl 'vV. Higgins, (Forrest Batson, '30) a daughter, Bar Civil Service appointment as a chemist, (Earl Higgins, '39, and Pauline Lan bara Jane, August 20, 1943, at Dumont, first grade, and, although her head ders, '41), of Bangor, Maine, a son, N. J. quarters are in Atlanta, Ga., her work 1\ lichael Cathers, on March IL, 1944. To Capt. and Mrs. Joel Allen IV, is in a laboratory at the Army Air To Lieut. and Mrs. Reuben A. (Joel Allen, '37), a son, Joel Allen V, Forces Gunnery School at Panama Yellen, USA, (Reuben A. Yellen, '32) on April 3, 1944, in Denyer, Colo. City, Fla. In fact the lab is right next a son, Maurice SauJ. (See Page 21.) to the turret sheds where her husband (Merritt Emerson, '44) is teaching gunnery. Ethel's work is mostly bac teriological and consists of testing NECROLOGY water supplies for pollution. he may be addressed in care of Mrs. C. iquet, nary and graduated from Colby in Lynn Haven, Fla. l 92, a member of one of the most illustrious classes in Colby history. He served as principal of Madison High School for a year and then went to Liv ermore Falls to "read " law. Finding ENGAGEMENTS the business world more attractive, young Sturtevant then obtained a posi Ruth Carolyn Holt to Francis B. tion in the Portland Trust Company Ward, Jr., '45, US R. for the expressed purpose of learning Marilyn Shirley Ireland, '42, to Addi bank management. In 1895, he went son E. Steeves, '42. Miss Ireland is back to Livermore Falls and organized on the faculty at Stearns High School, the Livermore Falls Trust Company Millinocket, while Mr. Steeves is a stu with himself as treasurer - a position dent at Meadville Theological Semi which he held at his death, nearly half nary (Unitarian) at Chicago. The a century later. In 1922 he was made wedding is planned for next June. vice-president, and in 1927 was made Doris Ella Blanchard, '45, to William president of the bank (although still Hutcheson, '44. Miss Blanchard is holding the treasurership). He was now a senior at Colby and is a member also a partner in an insurance firm. of Delta Delta Delta sorority. Ensign His outside interests were many. Hutcheson has been stationed at He served three terms in the Maine Columbia University, but his present Legislature between 1926 and 1932, address is clo Fleet Post Office, . Y. · and wa a member of the board of di Freda E. Staples, '44, to W. Leigh CHESTER H. STURTEVANT, '92 rectors of the United Baptist Conven Smith. Mr. Smith attended Gorham Colby College loses one of its most tion of Maine. Always a supporter of Normal School. He was recently dis loyal and eminent alumni with the the First Baptist Church of his town, charged from the United States Army, death of Chester Houghton Sturtevant he was deacon and chorister at the and is now employed at the Keyes on May 8, 1944, in Livermore Falls, time of his death. He was pre ident Fibre Company, where Miss Staples Me., after a week's illness. of the local library association and also has a position. As a trustee of the college from 1927- trea urer of the cemetery association. 33 and 1939-42, and as one of the lead Mr. Sturtevant was a member of MARRIAGES ers in Delta Upsilon fraternity alumni numerous Masonic orders (Blue Lodge Joyce Smith to Ensign George Ellis affairs, he devoted much time and Chapter Council, Scottish Rites - all Mott, '39, US R. Mrs. Mott attended thought to the progress of Colby Col bodies - and Shrine ), and erved as the University of ew Hampshire lege. He was known as one of the Commander of the F. A. Munsey where she was a member of the Alpha leading bankers in the state and was Camp of the Sons of Union Veterans. Zi Delta sorority. Ensign Mott was a frequently called "the uml:er One member of Lambda Chi Alpha frater citizen " of Livermore Falls. In 1898, he married Charlotte Lin nity while at Colby. Mr. Sturtevant was born in Fayette coln Ham of Livermore Falls, who sur Marjorie Ann Clauson to Lieut. Wil on May 4, 1866 the son of Helen vives him as do three sons, Reginald liam R. Chasse, '40. Mrs. Chasse grad Ormsby and Josiah Houghton Sturte H. (Colby, '2 1), onnan G., Ronald uated from Lasell Junior College, and vant. He fitted at Kents Hill Semi- W. (Colby, '24), and one daughter, TI-IE COLBY ALUMNUS 23 Mr . Eleanor Sturtevant Rollins, as He had been connected with the War Manpower Commission in well as ten grandchildren and se\'eral United Printing Machinery Company, Phoenix, Arizona. nieces and nephews. at various times holding tl1e offices of Born in Pittsfield, fe., August 18, Chester turteYant was a man who bookkeeper, secretary, manager, and 1895, the son of D. H. and Lillian combined ound business acumen with sales manager for the Kidder Press di Small, he prepared at Maine Central a remarkably gentle and attracti,·e per vision. He was a member of the Institute and entered Colby in 1915. sonality. His lo s will be mourned Printing House Craftsmen of Boston. Because of service with the U. S. Navy, by his countless friend in community, He made his home in Mattapan and is he did not graduate with his class. He professional and Colby circles. survi,·ed by hi.swif e. later did post-graduate work at Purdue and Indiana University, and in 1940 GRACE E. MASTERMAN, '00 received his Master of Arts degree from Grace Emma Chaney, widow of Arizona State College, the subject of JOHN F. WOOD, '93 Eben E. l'vfasterman, long a prominent his thesis being: "A Survey to Deter John Friend Wood, 77, of Blue Hill resident of Jay. Me., died April 22, mine the Exact Source and Legal Allo Me., died at his home on April 18 19-14, at the Bean Nursing Home in cation of Revenues Derived from Pub LiYermore Falls after a year's illness. from. . hardening of the arteries. lic Lands in Arizona administered She was born at East Wilton, Aug. under the Authority of the Taylor in Blue Hill Tov. 29, He was born 1 , 1878, the daughter of Roscoe and Grazing Act of June 28, 1934." 1866 son of Giles J. and Eliza Friend Celestia Thompson Chaney. She was Mr. Small was in government serv Wood. He attended Blue Hill Acad graduated from Wilton Academy in ic·e almost continuously since 1920, his emy and Coburn Classical Insti te 1896 and from Colby College in 1900, occupations including teaching in the and entered Colby in 1 89, but did following which she taught for seven Philippines and Porto Rico, serving as not continue after his freshman year. years, being on the faculty of Traip sub-agent and principal in the Indian Mr. Wood was engaged in the Academy in Kittery, and at the Ports Field Service, and engineering work in granite busine s for most of his life and mouth High School. Venezuela and Honduras. More re held positions with companies in 1ew On Aug. 7, 1907, she married Eben cently he was with the United States Hampshire, California, and Maine, be E. Masterman of Wilton in that town, Employment Service, serving with the ing in charge of the cutting. He was whose death occurred in October, War Manpower Commission. one of the leading citizens of Blue 1942, since which rime Mrs. Master He was a member of the American Hill, serving in the State Legislature man has made her home with her son Association of Engineers, the B.P.O.E., in 1907, 1919, and 1920. He was a in Lewiston. the American Legion, and of the trustee and treasurer of the Stevens Mrs. Iasterman was prominent in Presbyterian Church of Phoenix. Academy of Blue Hill, and a deacon in all activities looking toward the public He is survived by his widow and a the Baptist Church. His other inter or civic welfare, to which she gave gen daughter, Patricia Ann, age 14. ests included membership in the Ma erously of her time and ability. For sons, I. 0. 0. F., and the Grange. the past 30 years she has served as newspaper correspondent for several CAPT. HAROLD M. SACHS, '2 1 An obituary in his local paper de Maine newspapers. She was a mem Word has just been received scribed him as " a man of sterling qual ber of the Eaton Memorial Methodist � of the death of Capt. Harold ities and interested in all things which H Church of Livermore Falls, and of the Melvin Sachs at his home in had to do with the betterment of the WSCS of that church. Brooklyn, . Y., on Oct. 7, 1943. He town." For many years she served as secre was serving in the Medical Corps, He is survived by his wife, Mrs. tary of Mount Rockomeka Grange and Anny of the United States, in the Elizabeth Maddocks Wood, and a held the same position on the Repub orth African theater when he be daughter, Esther Wood (Colby, '26) lican Town Committee. She was came affected with coronary heart who is on the faculty of Gorham or active in the Pastime Literary Club, trouble. He was put on the inactive mal School. and also in the work of the Jay Farm list and sent back to Halloran General Bureau. Hospital, . Y., four weeks before he Survivors are two sons, Harley l\fas succumbed. It was officially stated terman of Lewiston and Lt. (jg) Ros iliat his fatal illness was developed in JOHN B. GIBBONS, '00 coe Masterman of Corpus Christi, line of duty. He was given a military John Bernard Gibbons, manufac Texas; two daughters, Mrs. Agnes funeral. turer, died on October 29, 1942, ac Brackett of Riley and Mrs. Helen Bean Dr. Sachs was born in Brooklyn Oct. by the of Livermore Falls; 12 grandchildren cording to word just received 21, 1900, the son of Kalman and and a sister, Mrs. Esther Drake of alumni office. Emma Hirsch Sachs. He attended Eliot. Mr. Gibbons was born on December public high school and graduated from 8, 1877, in Boston and attended Phil Colby College in 1921 with the B.S. lips Exeter Academy for four years be WILLIAM E. SMALL, '19 degree. Continuing his studies, he re fore entering Colby in 1896. He left William Edward Small died sud ceived the M.S. from Middlebury in after completing his sophomore year. denly at hi home from an acute 1922, the M.D. from Temple Univer In college he played on the football and thrombosis on ov. 14, 1943, accord sity in 1927 and the same degree from baseball teams and was a member of ing to word just received. He was in Long Island Medical College two years the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity. government sen,ice, working with the later. :r. 24 THE COLBY ALUMNUS Practicing his profession, Dr. Sachs The members of the class of 1923 ex orie of Colby were \'ery dear to him, specialized in X-ray work anJ wa� a tend their sympathy to l\lr. Shea, and and now he joins those other lads who member of the staff ot the Bushw1ck to l\lrs. Shea's mother who resides in went before him and whom he loved Hospital in Brooklyn and the Long Middlebury. so well.'' Island College Hospital. He was a member of county and state medical CAPT. RODERICK F. MAC CARRIE E. BURDWOOD, '41 societies, as well as the Phi Delta Epsi DOUGAL, '3 1 From the Simmons Review of May, 1944, the Alumni Office has learned of lon professional fraternity. He also Struck by an acute heart at the death of Carrie E. Burdwoocl after served as medical examiner for the � tack, Dr. Roderick Frederick H a short illness last September. New York City Board of Health. l\IacDougal, Captain in the �!iss BurJwood was the daughter of Dr. Sachs enlisted in the Army on Medical orps, :\, died in Li\'er r-.1r. and frs. H. A. Burdwood of Mar June 8, 1942, and was inducted as a pool, England, on February 24, 1944. blehead, Mass. he entered Colby Captain, l\!edical Corps, on J uly 17. Born in East Millinocket, Me., l\lay with the class of 1941 but at the end He was tationed at the station hos 7, 1909, the son of Dr. and l\fr . Wil o( a year she decided to transfer to pitals at Indiantown Gap, P RUTH MORGAN '1 S Educational Advisor 14 WEST CEDAR ST. BOSTON 8, MASS. 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