October 24, 1964 Number 3 Academy Votes in Mock Election; Five Alumni Join Trustee Board, L.B.J
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34 ZEbe Dtertielb troll Vol. XXXIX Deerfield Academy, Deerfield, Mass., October 24, 1964 Number 3 Academy Votes In Mock Election; Five Alumni Join Trustee Board, L.B.J. Landslide Buries Goldwater If the maxim "As Deerfield goes, so goes the nation," can be used Offer Vast Experience To School to predict the results of the presidential election, President Lyndon Baines Johnson will decisively triumph over Senator Barry Goldwater, as he did in THE SCROLL's recent mock election. Johnson accumulated October 12 Meeting Announces 376 student and faculty votes while Goldwater polled 205; there were Distinguished Electees 13 abstentions. Johnson got 63% of the total, and Goldwater received 35%. Five alumni were recently elected The faculty returns strongly favored Johnson, as did those of the to the Board of Trustees of Deer- freshman, junior, and senior classes. The seniors cast 70% of their field Academy, according to an ballots for Johnson. The President was given 79% of the day boy vote. announcement made at the meeting ?I" However, the Republican candidate carried the maverick sophomore class of the Board in Deerfield Monday, by eight votes. Sophomore dormi- October 12. New members include tories Chapin and Pocumtuck were Lid Mr. Elliott Donnelley, Lake Forest, swept by Goldwater, while Johnson Class Agents Meet !r- Illinois; Mr. William P. Drake, had only a one-vote margin in Berwyn, Pennsylvania; Mr. John W. Scaife. Johnson was given a com- To Evaluate Fund, Hanes, Jr., Great Falls, Virginia; Ls- fortable margin of victory in each Mr. James P. Lewis, Beaver Falls, al of the other dorms. Plunkett re- Make Future Plans New York; and Mr. John J. Louis, ot turned 66 Johnson votes, 25 for Jr., Winnetka, Illinois and Phoenix, le, Goldwater, and 2 abstentions. by Jed Dietz Elliot Donnelley '23 William P. Drake '32 ;. Arizona. Faculty members and students On the weekend of October 2 Mr. Donnelley, a member of the Corporation, Fund of east their votes on printed ballots A member of the class of 1932 at the United and 3 approximately 23 members class of 1923, attended Dartmouth Philadelphia reading "Please indicate which of Deerfield, Mr. Drake later gradu- and Vicinity, and a of the Alumni Fund Committee met College. He is vice-chairman of the trustee of Baldwin Bryn the two presidential candidates you ated from Bowdoin College, where School and Board of Directors of R. R.Donnel- College, among Personally favor (or dislike the to assess their efforts of the past he is an Overseer. Bowdoin also Mawr others. l ley and Sons Company, east)." year and to build on their findings The Lake- granted Mr. Drake an honorary Mr. John Hanes graduated with side Press, Chicago. He served for Master of Arts degree in 1962. the class of 1943 at Deerfield and THE plans for the coming year. SCROLL wishes to thank three years as mayor of Lake For- Starting in 1934 as a student trainee following three years in the army, all The weekend commenced concerned for their cooperation. Friday est, is a trustee of Lake Forest with the Pennsalt Chemicals Cor- he received his degree at Yale in night as the Class Agents attended College, is chairman of the Board poration, formerly the Pennsylvania 1950. From 1950 to 1952 he worked a dinner in POLL RESULTS the lobby of the Dining of Chicago Youth Centers, and is a Salt Manufacturing Company, Mr. for the Office of United States High Hall, the annual Fall Rally, and a director of the Protection Mutual Drake moved through various po- Commissioner for Germany; from brief meeting L.B.J. B.G. A* in the Lecture Room. Insurance Company. Mr. Donnelley sitions with the company to become 1953 to 1957 he was special assist- Presiding at the Overall 376 205 13 meeting was J. is the father of three Deerfield president in 1955. He is a director ant to Secretary of State John Thomas Faculty 44 19 5 Griffin '46, the retiring alumni, including Thomas E. II '51, of the Bath Iron Works, the First Foster Dulles. From 1957 to 1959 chairman of the Students 332 186 8 committee, who James R. '53, and David E. '60. Pennsylvania Overseas Finance (Continued on Page 8) Boarders 286 175 8 reported briefly on the achieve- ments Day Boys 46 11 0 of the past year and com- Seniors 127 52 2 mended the Agents for a task well Juniors 94 49 4 done. He then introduced Earl R. Sophomores 57 65 1 Silvers, Jr. '35, as the chairman of Freshmen 54 20 1 the Alumni Fund for the next two * Abstentions years. On Saturday morning a dis- cussion was held to delineate the future goals of the Alumni Fund. Mr. John Wallace Mr. Conklin Submits Report Mr. Frank B. Conklin, the Alumni Takes Alumni Post, Secretary, released a report of the weekend to the Class Agents on Assists Mr. Conklin October 8. In the report he noted that the alumni were pleased to Announcement was made last have had the opportunity to see Week by Mr. Frank L. Boyden of "what is going on inside Deerfield the John W. Hanes, Jr. '43 James P. Lewis '35 John J. Louis, Jr. '43 appointment of Mr. John G. today," and that they had had a Wallace of Holyoke, Massachusetts successful weekend. He cited the to problems the position of assistant to Alum- of maintaining an inde- Admissions Officers Meet At Hotchkiss; New Members Join Secretary Frank B. Conklin. Mr. pendent school on the present in- W come allace, who began his duties last from tuition and small endow- Mr. Miller Travels To Chicago, Detroit Photographic Board Week, will work in the administra- ments. To meet this pressing tion .f oi alumni activities with problem, the Agents decided to Mr. Mr. John C. Boyden and Mr. with the possibility of college edu- SCROLL Photographic Editor Conklin raise the Alumni Fund from and the Alumni Office scholastically deprived the addi- staff. $150,000 to $200,000 yearly. Robert E. Harwell of the Admis- cation for Joe Baker has announced youths. members to his sions Department and Mr. Russ A. tion of seven new staff as a result of recent tryouts: A graduate of Deerfield in 1952, Miller, Director of Studies, have all Phil Doughty, Peter 'Ir. Wallace received his college Peter Bishop, ed taken trips this fall to meetings Town Meeting To Argue Cliff Kiracofe, Oz La- ucation at Haverford. From 1957 Halstead, to pertaining particularly their Mike Milburn, and Kip 1959 he was a management to po- Goldwater-Johnson Issues trobe, trainee with the Bank of New York, sitions. Sterne. New York City. He joined the Had- The four required pictures in- ley At The Hotchkiss School, Lake- Deerfield's annual Town Meeting, cluded one dealing with sports,_ Falls Trust Company, Holyoke, ville, Connecticut, Mr. Harwell and Massachusetts scheduled this year for Friday, another depicting some aspect of in June, 1959 as an Mr. Boyden represented Deerfield assistant October 30, will be staged by mem- school life, and two pictures for treasurer and Director of in a meeting with representatives Public which the photographers were giv- Relations. He became a from Andover, Choate, Exeter, Hill, bers of the Senate and the Forum, Inernber of the bank's Board of en free rein, with the provision that Di Hotchkiss, Lawrenceville, Loomis, the Academy's two forensic socie- rectors in 1959, an assistant vice- one must be snapped with a flash St. Paul's, and Taft. The group ties, contesting the merits of President in 1960, and a vice-presi- and the other taken indoors with dent discussed current admissions poli- America's two leading presidential in 1961. In August, 1961 Mr. the available light. The photographs cies and trends at the various aspirants. There is no particular Wallace became the bank's chief submitted were judged on the basis schools. angle of approach or viewpoint administrative officer, prior to the of imagination, composition, and the r,merging specified, the resolve being a uniq- of the Hadley Falls Trust October 7 Mr. Miller was at the quality of the pictures and the uely indefinite one, "Johnson vs. printing. ,—(2141Pany with the Springfield Safe University of Chicago, where he Deposit and Goldwater." Trust Company, toured the campus and familiarized In addition to the assignments SPringfield, Massachusetts. He is himself with the acceptance system Speaking in support of the in- given to members of the Presently board, serving as chairman of there. The following two days cumbent President Johnson will be which include mainly the coverage the Board of Directors of Sterling Ele were spent at Detroit, where he Jim Jolis, Jed Horne, Bill Jerome, of athletic contests and school ac- ctronics, Chicopee Inc., Falls, attended a large meeting of the and rebuttalist Randy Hack. Sena- tivities, or posed photographs of Massachusetts and is a member the of Association of College Admissions tor Goldwater's conservativism will masters or students, free-lance pho- Board of Directors of the Safe John Wallace '52, is the newly- Counselors. Afterwards, he presid- be defended by Ned Post, Jim Fink- tography in the form of candid and "ePosit Bank and Trust Company, appointed assistant to Alumni ed at a six-man Advisory Commit- elstein, Peter Halstead, and Jed creative shots is encouraged and SPr ingfield. Secretary Frank B. Conklin. tee of the A.C.A.C. which is dealing Dietz. often featured in THE SCROLL. 2 THE DEERFIELD SCROLL October 24, 1964 A Perfect Weekend Conformity "Great! Another weekend! I thought I'd In questions of conduct, that word Conform- never make it through that week." At times it ity, and its opposite, have been bandied around seems that we live for nothing else than a week - so much that they are slightly nauseating.