Ursinus College Alumni Journal, November 1953

Ursinus College Digital Commons @ Ursinus College Ursinus College Alumni Journal, 1937-1969 Ursinusiana Collection 11-1953 Ursinus College Alumni Journal, November 1953 Norman E. McClure Ursinus College William Schuyler Pettit Ursinus College Dick Bowman Ursinus College Muriel B. Pancoast Ursinus College Paul W. Levengood Ursinus College See next page for additional authors Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/alumnijournal Part of the Higher Education Commons, Social History Commons, and the United States History Commons Click here to let us know how access to this document benefits ou.y Recommended Citation McClure, Norman E.; Pettit, William Schuyler; Bowman, Dick; Pancoast, Muriel B.; Levengood, Paul W.; Groff, Vernon; Staiger, Margaret Brown; Much, Sheridan D.; and Gurzynski, Raymond V., "Ursinus College Alumni Journal, November 1953" (1953). Ursinus College Alumni Journal, 1937-1969. 49. https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/alumnijournal/49 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Ursinusiana Collection at Digital Commons @ Ursinus College. It has been accepted for inclusion in Ursinus College Alumni Journal, 1937-1969 by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Ursinus College. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Authors Norman E. McClure, William Schuyler Pettit, Dick Bowman, Muriel B. Pancoast, Paul W. Levengood, Vernon Groff, Margaret Brown Staiger, Sheridan D. Much, and Raymond V. Gurzynski This book is available at Digital Commons @ Ursinus College: https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/alumnijournal/49 November, 1953 UrsiJtlls eollepe Blllletin ALUMNI JOURNAL THE PRESIDENT'S PAGE To the alumni: During recent yea rs U rsinus College has received annually from the alumni a large total of gifts. This generous support has been very helpful indeed, and I hope that, under the direction of the Executive Committee of the Alumni Assoc iation, the total of alumni gifts will increase from year to year. A large total of annual gifts from alumni is important if U rsinus is to continue to grow in strength and influence. Equally important, however, is your help in bringing Ursinus to the attention of worthy students. Because we at the College consider it desirable that you remember our interest in the "average" student as well as in the "brilliant" student, I repeat in the following paragraphs the statement that I add ressed to you a yea r ago. The alumni of U rsinus College take pride in the academic standards of their College, in the high percentage of U rsinus graduates admitted to graduate schools, and in the conspicuous success of the alumni in the learned professions and in other fields. At U rsinus we have our full share of superior and brilliant students. We are glad that this is so, and we hope that this will continue to be so. What I wish to emphasize is that, despite our proper interest in the superior student, we are no less interested in the conscientious "average" student who appreciates the exceptional opportunities that U rsinus College offers him, and who tries to make the most of these opportunities. We do not expect every student to be an "A" student, or even a "E" student, but we do expect him to do his best and to be a good citizen of the college community. lVIany conscientious "average" students improve amazingly during their four years in college. Often the "average" student has unusual balance and stability. Often the "average" student sur passes his brilliant classmate in growth and in real achievement both in college and later. Unfortunately, every year some conscientious "average" students who wish to attend Ursinus are reluctant to apply for admission, or, if accepted for admission, they do not enter Ursin us, because they fear that they will not do satisfactory work in college. I wish to ass ure such students-and their par ents, their pastors, their teachers-that our experience proves that many of them do very good work indeed. iVlany of the most distinguished alumni of U rsinus and of other colleges were conscientious "average" students who developed steadily during their college years, and who after graduation continued to grow. I am, of course, not suggesting mediocrity as a standard or as a goa\. U rsinus seeks to give the best students the best opportunities to develop in the best manner to an appreciation of all that is best in our heritage. It is difficult to know which eighteen-year-old students will be the best men and women at the age of forty or fifty. I believe that the eighteen·year-old student who has not made a brilliant record in school, but who has character, integrity, and determination, deserves more encouragement than he sometimes receives. We welcome such students at Ursinus. We shall continue to give them special attention, and we are confident that the results will continue to be good. Sincerely yours, October 1, 1953 N. E. McCLURE COVER P I CTURE ALUMNI EXECUT/flE BOARD MEMBERS AND REPRESENTATIVES TO THE BOARD OF D I RECTORS GATHER AT THE ALUMNI OFFICE ON OLD T IMERS' DAY. Left 10 right: Marjorie Shaffer KrufI, '38 ; Paul I. Guest, '38; H. Ober H ess, '33; ll!!argaret Claflin Atkinson, '39; Alalcolm Derk, '26; Alerritt Jeffers, '29; Muriel Brandt Panco ast, '38; Madge Harshaw f/osters} '~O; Thomas P . Glassmoyer, '36; and Calvin D. Yost, '30. THE COLLEGE A New Year Opens At Ursinus With 675 Students C lasses Slarl Seplember 23 The academic year 1953-54 opened on \ Vednesda)', September 23 with ap proximatel), 675 students. The enroll ment of new ~tudents reached approxi mately 220 with 190 of that number being freshmen. As has been the general plan for some years, new students arrived on campus on Sunday, September 20 for registra tion and room assignments; and the regular pre-matriculation pro g ram started on Sunday afternoon with a get acquainted program. Sop hom are s and upperclassmen arrived on ;\Ionda)' and Tuesday of that week, and classes officially started on \ Vednesday. New Stude"ts Talking Over Registration witlt Mr. Pettit Approximately 100 Students Ursinus Welcomes T wo Ursinus Evening School Attend Summer S essions New Members To Its Faculty Opens Its Second Year This year the U rsinus College Sum U rsinus is happy to welcome two new The U rsinus College Evening School mer Term consisted of two six weeks members to its faculty this year. T hey opened for the academic year of 1953- sessions, J une 15 to July 24 and July are Elizabeth Read Foster (i\l rs. Rich 54 on i\ [onday, September 21. Course 27 to September 4. 9 1 students were ard W. Foster) and Dr. Robert Ed offerings have been considerably ex enrolled for the first session and 86 for ward Ogren. panded this year, and classes are being the second . A student could enroll for lVIrs. Foster, who has been elected held on three evenings a week-Mon the maximum of eight semester hours Instructor in History, received the A.B. days, Tuesdays, and Thursdays. in either session or for fourteen semester degree from Vassar College in 1933, the The evening program is open to every hours in both sessions. H ence, through A.i\ I. degree from Columbia University one above the age of 19 and to can the Summer School Term plan, an ex in 1934; and the Ph.D. degree from didates younger than 19 if they have cellent opportunity was offered for stu Yale University in 1938. She makes her been graduated from high schoo!. dents to accelerate or to make up credits. home in Wayne, Pa. Courses available include Economics, Courses were offered on the basis of Dr. Robert Ogren, Assistant Pro Labor Problems, Corporation Finance, requests made by the students; and the fessor of Biology, was graduated from ~Iarketing, Accounting, Public Finance curriculum th is year included courses in \ ·Vheaton College in 1947. He received and Taxation, Business Law, Personnel Economics, P olitical Science, History, the ;\I.S . degree from Northwestern ~Ianagement, English Composition and English Literature, English Composi University and the Ph.D. degree from Business Lettt' r ' Yriting, Education, tion, Languages, Psychology, Philoso the University of I llinois in June of this American Literature, Philosophy, Statis tics, American Government, Psychology, phy, Education, Biology, Chemistry and year. H e and his wife arc living in Fir Tests and AI casuremcnts, and Public Phys ics. croft H all w here i\'lrs. Ogren is serving as preceptress. The Fircroft apartment Speaking. Eleven students completed their col was vacated this summer w hen Dr. and Classes are conducted so as to meet lege credits at the close of the Summer i\ l rs. F. L. Dennis and children moved the needs and interests of men and Term and will receive their degrees at to their new home at 702 Main Street, women in business and industry, teach the 1953 Founders' Day convocation. Trappe, Collegeville, Pa. ers in service and the general public. URSINUS COLLEGE BULLETIN FlfJm the DeSK fJf the !(egistl(JI By WILLIAM S. PETTIT Days are neve r without color and prepared. We tell him where and show was reached with the help of an Alum. sparkle in the Office of the Registrar. him how such preparation may be ac nus of the College. U rsinus of the past, prese nt and future quired. IIluch of our work is of an ad This ++% represents a meas ure of constantly passes in fl eet review. Yes, viso ry natu re. your success in promoting U rsi nus. 'Ve even much pa sses that, with gratitude I f we find that he has somewhat more have no way of knowing how manl 'w e can say, Ursinus will never own.

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