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Maine Alumnus, Volume 34, Number 7, April 1953 The University of Maine DigitalCommons@UMaine University of Maine Alumni Magazines University of Maine Publications 4-1953 Maine Alumnus, Volume 34, Number 7, April 1953 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 34, Number 7, April 1953" (1953). University of Maine Alumni Magazines. 519. https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/alumni_magazines/519 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]. Vol. 34 APRIL, 1953 . No. 7 Published monthly from October to June inclusive by the University of Maine General Alumni Association, Business office, The Maine Alumnus, University of Maine,• ? n*’ per ?ear> included in annual alumni dues of $5 00 Member: American Alumni Council Entered as second class matter at the Post Office at Orono, Maine, under act of March 3 1870 « ’ V. - . ■"'V then outright gifts of money and food climbing the mountainside to a beautiful have a strong toehold here—a quasi- home at its peak then down the sheer drop tiagic, natural setting, we thought. thousands of feet below to the sea, jolted In the fertile farmlands, about every a trifle as the bus bites off a sizeable square inch of soil is under cultivation. piece of mountainside, forcing a donkey With equipment and methods as primitive and cart to spraddle the low, much- as in Biblical times, the fruits of the broken-through retaining wall, and we farmers’ labor come from groves of lem­ tore on, horn blaring, to our destiny, or on, orange, fig and other fruit trees, end­ destination! less vineyards with silkworms busy among Armed with guidebook information, the vines, vegetables with ponderous we invaded Rome. Was this a Michelan­ yield, fields of bamboo, with olive trees gelo9 Bernini? Raphael? Botticelli? clinging even to ledges. A round stone Gothic, Byzantine, Baroque, Renaissance? well with water windlass-drawn by mule It didn’t matter: they were superb and I or oxen, a deep-walled lane and storage got them all mixed up anyway. Only hut and the farm picture is completed four days! Not much time to enjoy our with a small stone house—one wall some­ air-conditioned Excelsior Hotel rooms. times donated by mountainside or hill— The ruins were splendid by moonlight, and stone stable with red tile roofs and especially the Colosseum where spooky, a small courtyard Three good crops a moving shadows might have been arena Anne Axhlev Carrington ’25 season are expected lions or tigers but more probably were half trained pickpockets. By Annf Ashlfy Cxrringion '2S Pompeii with its walls, wine vats, fire­ places and columns still standing, its Thenceforth allowing three days for ISIT the Mediteiranean in summer, stepping stones and sidewalks raised a city, one day for a town, we explored: say the travel folders, and find those above the refuse line of the streets, its exquisite Florence with its great Byzan­ Vexotic lands uncluttered by tourists. So, cobblestones rutted by passing chariot tine cathedral, churches and bells and leaving the States with a temperature of wheels looks as though it were destroyed museums, enjoying nightly concerts be­ 90 last summer, my husband and I near­ only a few years ago Vesuvius looms neath our hotel balcony, the picturesque ly froze to death on an air-conditioned over it smug-looking, innocent, no longer “Hill Towms”, dirty Genoa with its tre­ steamship for two weeks and landed in smoking But the great lava vats down mendous cemetery simply “out of this Naples in a temperature of 102. We de­ in “Little Vesuvius” still boil, spatter and world”, then Venice, the gem of all cities frosted in short order steam and I didn’t feel comfortable walk­ if one doesn’t mind mosquito bites. We Judged by their coastlines, the Medi­ ing over its acres of hot, resounding floor burned incense in our royal suite on the terranean countlies and islands are just nor when I picked up a piece of sulphur Grand Canal until the Indians back in a series of arid, seal mountain ranges, crystal and burned m\ fingers on it Old Town must have caught our distress dependent for greenery on sciub growth, The Amalfi Drive of 1600 figure eight signals umbrella pines, spindle-shaped cypresses, cuives of narrow road cut from a rock The Rivieras—Italian, French and tciraced vineyards and olive and almond shelf halfway up a towering mountain Spanish—are as scenic as picture post trees Nesting into them, cities and ham­ range, skirting the resort-fringed sea is cards but so expensive that my husband lets radiate heat fiom white limestone spectacular (and hair raising if the glass- considered putting a second mortgage houses with red tile roofs. Moonsh flat topped bus is driven by a mental case as on our home oi dome capped buildings and magnificent oms was) Glancing up past vineyards (Continued on Page 8) cathedrals, chuuhes oi mosques of color­ ful glazed tiles, mosaic or shimmering maible Pictuiesquc squaics and nariow streets find shade and incredible beautv in tiopical palms, oleanders, bougain- villia and violent hued floweis Sidewalk cafes, gaiety and music and song are everywhere No screens anywhere The flies fly in and the flies fly out, most of them stay Now to get down to biass—hobnails While Naples was badly bombed, it still has a nice rich section and its slums could never have been worse We like uncharted byways so picking our steps over filthy cobblestones and dodging con­ tents of slop buckets which, plumbing failing, arc emptied into neighboihood patios, we invited ourselves into one room flats housing as many as six people. Rental about five dollars a month—a tiny balcony, patch of sky and perilous unlighted stone stanways included. La- Barcelona, Spain boiers admitted that Communists with (Photo Couitesy of Author) APRIL, 1953 THE MAINE ALUMNUS 3 With the FACULTY Nominated For Award— Appointed Department Head— Dr. Reiner Bonde, plant pathologist Dr. John F. \\ itter, professor of ani­ at the University’s Agricultural Experi­ mal pathology at the University, has been ment Station, has been nominated for appointed head of the department of regional consideration as a candidate animal pathology by the tiustees of the for the $5,000 Hobhtzelle award University, it has been announced by The Hobhtzelle award is given ever} Piesident Aithur A Hauck two years to the scientist who has made Di Witter's appointment became effec­ the most outstanding contribution to tive July 1 agriculture on a national basis through A native of Maryland, Di Wittei has publication of the results of his research been a member of the Umveisitv s staff Dr Bonde has been nominated to since 1932 where he has seived as a represent Maine in the Vermont-New teacher, Extension worker, and a mem­ Hampshire-Maine region because of his ber of the research staff outstanding research on potato diseases He was graduated from the Univer­ Since coming to Maine in 1924 after sity of Maryland in 1928 and leceived graduation from the University of Min­ I)r. Irwin B. Douglass nesota. Dr Bonde has published 98 his doctor’s degree in veterinary medicine from Michigan State in 1932 bulletins, journal articles and reports of Presents Research Paper— research work on potato diseases I)r. Irwin B. Douglass, professor of Previous to coming to the Universit}, Assigned To Iran— chemistry at the University, piesented a he worked for the United States Depart­ paper before the Organic Division of the ment of Agriculture on grain rust control Allen W. Manchester, economic American Chemical Society in I os An­ specialist of the University's Extension and for the Minnesota and Nebraska geles during the month of March Service, has been assigned to Iran on a potato seed improvement associations Dr Douglass has been doing a special mission for the Mutual Security Ad­ He received his master’s degree at the research pioject foi the Office ot Naval ministration University in 1927 and his Ph D at the Reseaich and the Maine Institute of Po­ University of Minnesota in 1938 Mr Manchester has left the University tato Starch Manufacturers for Washington, D C, where he will I he paper entitled ‘The Anhydrous New Regional Secretary— meet other members of the group before Chlorination of I hioesters and Related leaving for overseas Professor \ incent A. Hartgen. head Compounds described work done by of the art department at the University, Instruction to improve the extension Charles t Osborne and Di Douglass on has been appointed regional secretary for program there—similar to what is being the i esearch project Collectors of American Art, Inc, of earned out throughout the United States New York City —will be Mr Manchester s pnncipal Named N. E. Member— task. This organization aims to promote Assistant Professor Brooks A\ . Ham­ ownership of paintings, sculpture, and Mr Manchester is the only Maine ilton. head of the journalism department graphic arts by living American artists man to serve on this committee at the University has been named the New Fngland member of the Accrediting Relations Committee ol the Amcncan Society of Journalism School Adminis­ trators Pi of Hamilton will advise the national society on matters of accrediting in New Fngland colleges and secondary schools Holds Top Offices— Dr. Franklin P. Eggert, head of the department of horticultuie at the Um- vcrsitv, holds two top offices in national and regional hoiticultuie associations He has been elected to the national executive committee of the American Society for Horticultural Science at the society’s meeting at Harvard Umveisitv and also to the position of vice-chairman of the New England regional committee for the association Elected Vice President— C.
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