Maine Alumnus, Volume 23, Number 7, April 1942

The University of Maine DigitalCommons@UMaine University of Maine Alumni Magazines University of Maine Publications 4-1942 Maine Alumnus, Volume 23, Number 7, April 1942 General Alumni Association, University of Maine Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/alumni_magazines Part of the Higher Education Commons, and the History Commons Recommended Citation General Alumni Association, University of Maine, "Maine Alumnus, Volume 23, Number 7, April 1942" (1942). University of Maine Alumni Magazines. 435. https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/alumni_magazines/435 This publication is brought to you for free and open access by DigitalCommons@UMaine. It has been accepted for inclusion in University of Maine Alumni Magazines by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@UMaine. For more information, please contact [email protected]. UJFe UNIVERSITY and NATIONAL DEFENSE This year, as every year, the University of Maine stands for service to the State and the Nation. But this year the University faces a need for service beyond that expected in ordinary times Your University through its stu dents, its faculty, and its facilities is contributing to National Defense in whatever ways it can while still adhering to its principle of providing sound educational opportunities. THE NATION AT WAR... Challenge to the University w ITH the necessity of an all-out war effort touching every aspect of the nation’s life, the University of Maine faces the challenge of how best to contribute to this country’s Victory Program As a public servant, supported in large part by public funds, the University accepts its responsibility for contributing to victory Toward this end it offers the following services: I. TRAINING by regular and special courses of men and women for leadership in the armed forces, for pro duction of the weapons of war, and for maintenance of the domestic front in civilian defense, in business, in education, and in the home . .. 2. Use of the facilities of the University, its buildings, shops, and laboratories, night and day, as these may be needed in the war effort.... 3. Cooperation with government, the armed forces, and industry by alumni, faculty, and students, in every way, wholeheartedly, toward the one aim of victory. In pledging itself to this Victory Program the University is confident that all Maine men and women will join unreservedly with it to uphold the traditions of national service established by Maine men and women in the past. 1 i MAINE ALUMNUS Vol. 23 APRIL No. 7 1942 GENERAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION 9n 9Mue.... Officers The University and the War............................................................. 4 George D. Bearce, ’ll, President Robert F. Thurrell, ’15, Twenty-fifth Reunion Planned by 1917........................................... 6 Vice President George E Lord, ’24, Clerk With Maine Alumni in the Service................................................. 7 Winthrop C. Libby, ’32, Treasurer Charles E. Crossland, T7, Summer Session Plans Announced................................................... 8 Executive Secretary Philip J. Brockway, ’31, Campus Events.....................................................................................9 Assistant Secretary With the Teams................................................................................. 10 Alumni Council / Hazen H. Ayer, ’24 Local Associations............................................................................. Andrew J. Beck, ’13 Mrs. Merrill Bowles, ’21 Raymond H Fogler, ’15 Alumni Personals F. Drummond Freese, ’15 Earle R Gowell, ’30 M. June Kelley, T2 Fred D. Knight, ’09 Alfred B Lingley, ’20 Alton T Littlefield, ’21 Frank W Linnell, ’29 Norman H. Mayo, ’09 91 Cast Be ^bane Richard E. McKown, ’17 Myron C. Peabody, ’16 Harold M. Pierce, T9 To a casual campus visitor it might appear that theie is little evidence that the Harold J. Shaw, T4 University is in this war. The answer is to be found in the lead article of this issue. Mrs. Gilbert Stanford, ’35 Training hundreds of citizens in important skills through courses at the University Thomas N Weeks, T6 and elsewhere in the State, giving subject matter “refresher” courses chiefly to college ❖ # men and women, preparing undergi aduates for officer training schools and for the Alumnus Advisory Board armed services generally by modifying and accelerating the curricula; these and other Hazen H Ayer, ’24, Chairman important activities are positive evidences that the University is making an important Miss Elizabeth Bright, T7 contribution to the vital victory program. John E. Frost, ’37 Removed as the University is from the big industrial defense production centers Miss M. June Kelley, ’12 and therefore in a degree from the zones in greatest danger of attack, it is natural Bryant M. Patten, ’23 that a University community might catch the “war spirit” more slowly. This appears to be true of many, if not most, institutions. And it is well that there is this balancing effect, otherwise the fine values built up over a period of years might be wantonly FRONT COVER: discarded. Pictured on the cover this month On the other hand, we face a grave emergency, the outcome of which will deter is Aubert Hall, constructed in 1914. mine whether there shall be any colleges in the future. It is no time for anyone to The building houses the Depart say “It can’t be done.” Educational journals and college administration officials fre ments of Chemistry and Chemical quently state that education—particularly higher education—is “on the spot.” Is not Engineering, including the Pulp this the golden opportunity for colleges and universities to show that they are equal and Paper Division, and Physics. to the situation, that by quickly and completely adapting their programs to the emer It was named in honor of Alfred gency they can and will furnish at any price the trained leadership so sorely needed Bellamy Aubert, professor of chem today to assure the victory on which hinges the future of this country—and of istry from 1874 to 1909. education ? Vol. 23 APRIL, 1942 No. 7 Published monthly, from October to June inclusive, by the University of Maine General Alumni Association. Business office, Room 414, 6 State St, Bangor, Maine, or The Maine Alumnus, University of Maine, Orono, Maine Subscription price, $2 00 per year, included in annual alumni dues of $3 00 National Advertising 1 epresentatives: The Graduate Group, Inc., 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York City, Boston, Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, and San Francisco Member: American Alumni Council Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at Bangor, Maine, under act of March 3, 1870 -_u. Alumni, faculty and students, and all other persons interested in the present and future of the University of Maine are asking fundamentally two sorts of The UNIVERSITY.. questions about the University in rela tion to the nation’s war effort. The first of these questions is What is the Uni- versity doing to help the nation to vic mathematics, personnel management, pow- tory in its struggle for survival? The significant importance for its extent and variety. second question, closely related, is What er distribution, physics, foremanship effect will the war have on the present Appropriate to the fundamental pur - training, aerodynamics, and metals and and future of the University? With pose for which a University exists, one corrosion. Many of these classes, it will these basic questions and a multitude of of the most significant contributions is be noted, are highly technical in nature related problems, the Trustees and Ad being made in the field of instruction and related unmistakably to the College ministration, and especially President of Technology, for this is in a large Hauck, are working daily to chart the Defense Training measure an engineers’ war, particularly from the point of view of production of course of University policy This article On the campus and throughout ten materials of war On the other hand, is an attempt to answer the first question towns and cities in the State, defense these defense courses and participation in and by inference to throw a little light training courses of many kinds are being war work is by no means confined only upon the obscure and uncertain answers given by University faculty members or to engineers We find the liberal arts to the second question, answers which no under University direction. One group faculty contributing training in manage person at the present time can give with of such courses, under the direction of the ment, production, economics, and science, any assurance U. S Department of Education and local with widespread interest and a large reg What is the University doing to help ly directed by Professor Benjamin C. istration. the nation to victory? The answer to Kent, ’12, head of the department of engi this question consists of the cooperative neering drafting, has nearly 700 students Other courses are conducted under the and enthusiastic efforts of free men and currently enrolled in both evening and State Department of Education, Division women in administration, faculty, re day classes. Subjects include accounting, of Vocational Education for Defense search, Extension services, and student construction, radio, electrical measure Workers, by the Mechanical Engineer body In the aggregate it is an answer of ments, surveying, drafting, structures, ing Department headed by Prof. Harry D Watson ’18 These include machine shop practise and welding training

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