Colby College Digital Commons @ Colby Colby Alumnus Colby College Archives 1954 Colby Alumnus Vol. 43, No. 2: January 1954 Colby College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/alumnus Part of the Higher Education Commons Recommended Citation Colby College, "Colby Alumnus Vol. 43, No. 2: January 1954" (1954). Colby Alumnus. 186. https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/alumnus/186 This Other is brought to you for free and open access by the Colby College Archives at Digital Commons @ Colby. It has been accepted for inclusion in Colby Alumnus by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Colby. �HE COLBY 0 A L u M N u s !lNUARY I954 Alumni Council Membership 1953-54 OFFICERS Term Expires July 1, 1955 CARLETON D. BROWN, '33, Chairman Vtna Parent Adams, '22 Orono, Maine ELEANOR B uTLER HUTCHINS, '29, Vice-Chairman Edward D. Cawley, '17 Lowell, Massachusetts ARTHUR W. SEEPE, Treasu1·er issie Grossman, '32 Newton, Massachusetts RICHARD N. DYER, Editor of ALUMNUS R. Leon Williams, '33 Clifton, Maine ELLSWORTH W. MILLETT, '25, Secretary Term Expires July 1, 1956 HONORARY MEMBERS Elliott E. Buse, '20 Baltimore, Maryland FRANKLIN w. J OHNSON, '9 1 Philip W. Hussey, '13 North Berwick, Maine JosEPH C. SMITH, '24 Donald B. Tupper, '29 Cape Cottage, Maine Selma Koehler, '17 Boston, Massachusetts REPRESENTATIVES FROM ALUMNI CLUBS MEMBERSHIP-AT-LARGE Bangor A. A. D'Amico, '28 Term Expires July 1, 1954 Franklin County George A. Toothaker '38 Hugh D. Beach, '36 Rumson, N. J. Houlton Ralph 0. Peabody, 35 Pauline Lunn Chamberlin, '26 Waterville, Maine Knox County Diana Wall Pitts, '13 Flora Norton Dexter, '17 Kingfield, Maine Millinocket Roderick E. Farnham, '31 Roland I. Gammon, '37 New Rochelle, N. Y. Portland Alumni Maynard M. Irish, '39 Nathanael M. Guptill, '39 Presque Isle Robert V. McGee, '38 Newton Highlands, Massachusetts Southern Kennebec Paul L. Davis, '3 1 Dana A. Jordan, '35 Lewiston, Maine Southwestern Maine Elizabeth Thompson Goodspeed, '36 Term Expires July 1, 1955 Waterville Gordon K. Fuller, '3 1 Frank S. Carpenter, '14 Augusta, Maine Albany Augustus M. Hodgkins, '28 Frank C. Foster, '16 Orono, Maine Boston Alumni Allen F. Langhorne, Jr., '50 Ernest C. Marriner, Jr., '40 Inglewood, California Boston Alumnae Frances M. Palmer, '34 Dwight E. Sargent, '39 Portland, Maine Boston Colby Club Nelson T. Everts, '50 Eleanor Butler Hutchins, '29 Waterville, Maine Chicago Leslie E. Cook, '22 Sigrid E. Tompkins, '38 Portland, Maine Hartford William F. Powers, '25 Barbara Libby Tozier, '30 Portland, Maine New York A. Frank Stiegler, Jr., '28 Providence N. Douglas MacLeod, Jr., '44 Term Expires July ], 1956 Philadelphia George A. Parker, Jr., '42 Leonard W. Grant, '15 Brighton, Massachusetts St. Petersburg, Fla. Ralph Nash, '1 1 David R. Hilton, '35 Waterville, Maine Springfield, Mass. William A. Cowing, '04 Peter Mills, '34 Farmington, Maine Washington, D. C. Ellen G. Dignam, '35 Arnold S. Peabody, '34 Houlton, Maine Worcester J. Lewis Lovett, '28 Kathleen Monaghan Corey, '43 Pittsfield, Maine Maine Teachers' Club Earle A. McKeen, '29 Edith Eilene Emery, '37 Haverhill, Massachusetts Catherine Dolley Larrabee, '22 East Hartford, Connecticut Faculty Representative MEMBERS ELECTED BY THE COUNCIL Philip S. Either, '30 Term Expires July 1, 1954 Athletic Council Representatives Bernice Butler McGorrill, '2 1 Portland, Maine Raoul H. Violette, '33 William A. Macomber, '27 Augusta, Maine Bernard M. Johnstone, '32 Burton E. Small, '19 Wollaston, Massachusetts John P. Davan, '33 Milroy Warren, '14 Lubec, Maine / Alumni Fund Chairman D. Ray Holt, '2 1 Ill/ COLBY '�) '"''ow1•11 AL LJ lv1 N LJ S On the Threshold of Destiny 1954 NUMBER 2 John M. Richardson, 'i6, member of College is part and parcel of the Editor .. ......................... RrcHARD NYE DYER the Alumnus Advisory Board and fitness of the new Colby to take her Business Manager, ELLSWORTH MILLETT, '25 ed;tor and publ£sher of the Rockland place in the great task before us. The Courier-Gazette, is guest editorial qualities of leadership and achieve­ The President's Page 2 writer. ment in Colby's little people of the old order sets the pattern and adds Talk of the College 3 HIS WORLD OF OURS is never still. to the prestige of her giants of the Undergraduate Report 5 T It is forever on the move forward. new epoch. A Thrilling Challenge 6 Today's opportunity dies with the Already the New Colby is entering Alumni Trustees 9 sunset and tomorrow is another day. the promised land. She is the cyno­ The Small College 10 Civilization progresses constantly with sure of many eyes in the world of American education - our distin­ Alumni Fund 13 daily strides of giant size, always for­ ward in our knowledge of the world guished President Bixler is more and Sports 21 - in education, science and our w,ay more consulted by top level authori­ Colby Folk in Headlines 22 of life. ties in matters of policy and integrated Class Notes 24 :It * * * * * planning for the small liberal arts college. In Memoriam 29 The literature of progressive Colby, as a Liberal Arts College, thought in the building of tomorrow's 32 Letters must not only join this forward move­ education more and more sees the ment, she must be in the forefront. name of Colby and of Dr. Bixler, and The Colby Alumnus is published four times There can be no standing still for us, the capabilities of the men on her yearly on the 15th of October, January, April, for standing still means actually to faculty are widely and July by the Alumni Council of Colby recognized. No College. Subscription rate - $2.50. Single slip backward, to retard rather than college, large or small, possesses a copies -$.75. Entered as second-class mat­ to advance. Common sense tells us more photogenic campus. ter Jan. 25, 1912, at the Post Office at Water­ that. The time is now for the New Colby ville, Me., under Act of March 2, 1879. The appalling conditions which ob­ to enter into Photo Credits: Pages 4, Howard Gray; 5, the joys of her heritage Bil l Tobey; 8, Russell Longley; 22, Detroit tain in the sick world of today invite - to reap the reward of the labors of Free Press (Mrs. Clifford); 23, Waterville a sane and intelligent spiritual and her devoted sons and daughters of Sentinel (Lawrence), James Moore (Huber); moral leadership such as was never past decades, and to take her place in 24, Waterville Sentinel; 25, World Wide needed before in history. Old shib­ the forefront Photos · 28, U. S. Navy; 30, Braadland of the American scene. Studio. boleths, doctrines and procedures have It is not the size of an institution of passed away and a whole new mental learning that measures its true value attitude and manner of thinking must and possibilities. It is character and ALUMNUS ADVISORY BOARD prevail. The liberal arts colleges of tradition plus a splendid record of the United States are alone qualified past performance that conditions Colby Term Expires July 1, 1954 to provide the leadership that can for future greatness and gives her a Ralph E. Delano '40 stabilize the changing world of this pre-eminent position in this critical Leland D. Hemenway '17 historic era. period. Dwight E. Sargent '39 The Colby of Mayflower Hill, * * * * * * Jodie Scheiber '47 young, strong, vigorous in her virile Betty Royal Spiegel '42 maturity, yet leavened by rich experi­ Charles W. Weaver '30 ence in the struggle for existence Doubt, delay, hesitation, have no covering an hundred years, is ready to place in Colby's planning for the Term Expires July 1, 1955 take her place in the sun. The peer­ future. A hundred years of existence John T. Foster '40 less, physical college is like the blossom is only by way of preparation. Her Roland I. Gammon '37 of the Century plant, slow in develop­ traditions of the past are merely a Edward G. Perrier '35 ment but of perfect beauty in maturity. guide book for greater achievements Joseph C. Smith '24 The scholastic and cultural ideals and to come. Her beautiful campus is Richard S. Reid '47 the fitness of Colby men and women but a show window to advertise her L. Russell Blanchard '38 to take the leading roles in the foun­ wares to a doubting world. She is strong with Term Expires July 1, 1956 dations of the new civilization which a certain knowledge of Cloyd G. Aarseth '46 must emerge from the ruins of the her fitness. She is ready at long last Hilda M. Fife '26 present order, have been a hundred to take her place in the sun, with her Richard Kendall '32 years in the making. Golden Age just around the corner Diana Wall Pitts '13 Every great name in Colby's past of tomorrow. John M. Richardson '16 and every solid achievement of a man Colby stands on the threshold of Elizabeth Fitzgerald Savage '40 or woman bearing the stamp of Colby destiny. 1 The President's Page N THE LAST Alumnus I spoke of the extreme We have al o been able to stimulate the flow of J importance of informal discussion in dormi­ idea by arranging new office for ome of our tory and dining hall as a supplement to classroom de1 artments. Practically the entire first floor of teaching. I should like now to comment on how John on Hall has now been fitted out in this way. essential it is that faculty members as well as The Engli h department ha five office , hi tory three, busine admini tration three, and ROTC students have a chance for this kind of talk. one. The t'vo large room at the ends of the college faculty will develop a vigorous intellectual corridor are now a waiting room for tudents and life only if there is constant interchange of opinion.