Whittier College Poet Commons The Rock Archives and Special Collections 7-1958 The Rock, July, 1958 (vol. 20, no. 2) Whittier College Follow this and additional works at: https://poetcommons.whittier.edu/rock archives The Rock - Alumni Magazine 1958 The Alumni Magazine of Whittier College Commencement 1958 Recession review Grad reviews first year Alumni coaching staff JULY 1958 EARL MYERS and COMPANY Ta'tatee • Rea Sara& 0 . 117 East Philadelphia St. 501 West Central Ave. WHITTIER LA HABRA OXford 4-2077 OWen 7-1588 Earl Myers Grant Myers Robert Nevil '52 /(11'fl TV's Ed Sullivan invites you to 7 (e- fn er$ o ii e4law& the most exciting photo show ever * K a o mlo an f lowers Funeral Directors 14608 East Whittier Blvd. Whittier NEW CAMERAS OtII DISPLAY HERE NOW' OXbow 6-8689 Order by Phone Day or Night We deliver to Whittier, La Habra, La Mirada, Fuller- New ton, Pico, Rivera, Downey, Lqw Serving Whittier Area Norwalk and surrounding price Since 1894 area. on this deluxe-model •Weddings movie-maker •Interior Landscaping 401 E. Philadelphia St. BROWNIE MO'V-.eI CAMERA •Flowers for all Occasions OX. 4-3238 Formerly called the Woods B G PHOTO SUPPLY Some Owners and Operators 146 East Philadelphia Street Rowland D. White '25 Carolyn 51 and Whittier, California David E. White '57 Andy (Jack) Wood 50 OXford 4-3879 C. E. Emerson 2 Bricks and bouquets . congrat- ulations to Alumni Association offi- cers who were re-elected for the Tle .Alimni Magazine of Whittier College 1958-59 term: prexy Tom Wood '50, v.p. Dave Wicker '49, and Board Volumn XX July 1958 Number 2 members Jean (Culp) Reese '48, and Herb Adden, Jr. '49 . More kudos to presidential appointees to 40 40 the Alumni Board: Rev. Bob Shuler '38, Edna (Thornburgh) Nanney in this issue.. '10, and Madolyn (McKenzie) . Christopher '35. Also ready to re- ceive handshakes is popular Dr. Commencement 1958 10 Robert W. (Bob) O'Brien, who fills 300 seniors receive degrees . Raymond Wittcoff a newly-created post on the Board delivers address to 3000 . Class reunions. as faculty representative. Sport shorts . Whittierites hon- Review of current recession 14 ored into the Southern California High School Hall of Fame by the Richard Spangler, Economics Professor reviews recent Helms Athletic Foundation were Ed recession trends. Suggett '25 and John Arrambide '35 along with Wallace "Chief" New- First Year Grad reviews "Internship" 16 man . 1195 Clubbers recently Charleen Finney, relates many interesting experiences of sponsored a real humdinger of a Spring BBQ in the new Campus Inn her Public Affairs Internship with Coro Foundation. with over 300 in attendance. The 1195 Spirit Award went to Ken Full coaching staff of W.C. Alumni 20 "Mother" McNall '38, for best ex- Eight Alumni coaches lead Montebello High School to emplifying the spirit of WC during the last twenty years. sports success. Odds and ends . former PR Director Dunc Wimpress received his PhD degree this past month from the University of Denver and is cur- rently serving as Assistant to the REGULAR FEATURES President at Colorado School of MO-TO-RAMA 3 Mines . Congrats to Alumni Achievement Award winners Calvin President's Corner 5 J. Smith e'30, General Manager of Directory of Advertisers 5 radio station KFAC, and Reverend Evert Ezra Ellis, '28, minister of the Minutes of Meeting 7 St. Paul's Methodist Church in San Alumni Album 9 Bernardino. Circulation of the two alumni publications, THE Sports in brief 19 ROCK and PEBBLES FROM THE ROCK, is some 10,000 per Campus news 23 issue apiece. It's estimated that Old Acquaintances 26 150,000 pieces of mail will be sent from the Alumni Office alone this coming year . -. College President Paul S. Smith was the first to re- ceive the newly-inaugurated "WC Alumnus Chair" presented to him The Rock is a publication of Whittier College, published during the months at the Alumni Day Luncheon by the of September, December, March and July at Whittier, California, Box 651. Association. Entered as second class matter under the act of August 24, 1912. The Rock "Old alumni directors never die, is a member of the American Alumni Council. they just keep coming back for William (Mo) Marumoto, '57, Editor more" - seen at the Alumni Day Robert Gartin, '50, Advertising Manager Leonard Craven, '52, Sports Editor Luncheon were Ed Patterson '37, Jack Mealer, '52, Production Manager Shirley Hill, e'45, Assistant Editor Len Crofoot '49, and Bob O'Brien ADVISORY STAFF '53. Ken Beyer '47 was the only ex- Dr. Robert O'Brien, Faculty Toni Pasqua, Associated Students director not in attendance George Tenopir, Administration Tom Wood, Alumni Association Homecoming this year will be on (Continued on Page 8) 3 ORCUTVS • GROCERIES • VEGETABLES • MEATS • BEAUTY AIDS Format' staff change; Advertising added, In Rock Revision The Rock has had its face lifted •. not only the face, but the format, MUMS the staff and the budget. Bill Maru- moto, in cooperation with the Board of the Alumni Association, has re- Whittier Grocery viewed and revised many phases of gend 424 E. Philadelphia Association business, and probably the most noticeable is The Rock. At fho Whittier the Board meeting of April 10, 1958, official approval was given to a three-phase change of the Rock a new format, a change in staff 9@ P,d composition, and the addition of ad- vertising. The change of format involved a revision of the cover, the addition T Of several pages to The Rock, more To dag 1 &MW& feature articles, and a general *7ajWMWx change of of the layout. Instead of You'll get a bonus yield offering news of the Campus and College, which was often several every three months weeks old at publication date, The ,4"v Rock will provide feature-type ar- (Since 1927) ticles of more general interest. Under the direction of Maru- moto, several Whittier College •All Kinds of Protection Alumni will assist in the production of The Rock. Bob Gartin, '50, is the •Personal Service advertising manager, Jack Mealer, '52, is serving as production man- ager, Len Craven, '52, is the sports •Convenient Location editor, and Shirley Hill, e'45, will be the assistant editor. Serving in an advisory capacity will be Dr. Robert A Ol Current Interest Rate .1.10 per year Frank B. Chandler O'Brien from the Faculty, George Ienopir from the Administration, Ken H. Chandler '51 paid 4 times a year Tom Pasqua, Jr., from the Student Body, and Tom Wood from the Open a savings account by mail today 1402 West Hadley St. Alumni Association. Whittier Advertising is now being accept- IIIi - iSTR ed in The Rock. This is quite a nor- SAVINGS OXford 2-1201 mal practice among alumni publi- (24 Hours a Day) AND LOAN ASSOCIATION cations and will help defray pro- duction costs, while providing some 9219 East Whittier Boulevard valuable advertising benefits to many Pico, California business firms and professional men. 4 WHITTIER QUAD WEST ARCADIA The TWO COMPLETE DEPARTMENT President's STORES •. known for famous name brands Corner WHITTIER: 1192 Quadway OXbow 3-2753 ARCADIA: My last letter to you pointed to the need for a reformation in the relation- Baldwin at ship which has existed between the Alumni of Whittier College and the in- D u art stitution itself. This change, I felt, should be organizational as well as philoso- phical. It has come to pass. Acres of Since our first board meeting with Bill Marumoto in April there have been Free Parking scores of meetings both large and small for the purpose of streamlining our operation, improving and enlarging upon communications with alumni, and developing projects which have significance for our college. Alumni work has been conducted through six commissions designed to en- compass the interests and needs of the association: Student-Alumni Affairs, Directory of Advertisers Alumni Fund, Clubs and Chapters, Publicity, Activities (Social), and Edu- cation. The last was established for the great body of school people, products Earl Myers & Co 2 of Whittier's excellent teacher training program. However, it needed to be Carands 2 more inclusive, as other groups expressed interest in organizing within the B.G. Photo Supply 2 framework of the Association; e.g., ministry, law, Y.M.C.A., etc. So this com- White-Emerson Co 2 mission has been expanded as the Commission on Business and Professional Pico-Rivera Savings 4 Organizations. An opportunity to exploit the latent relationship between Orcutt's Grocery 4 Whittier Town and its College has been given form in the creation of a Com- Chandler Insurance 4 mission on Public Relations. Meetings are planned with service clubs, mem- Hinshaw's 5 bers of city government, and local merchants in order that the College may Whittier Sanitary Dairy 6 reaffirm its acceptance of the responsibilities for community leadership. Frank Dore & Sons 6 Whittier Radio and TV 6 You hold in your hands remarkable evidence of exciting changes in our Quaker City Savings 8 publications. The refreshing new format of the Rock, advertising which will Jim Childs Buick 18 help defray costs of other publications, the newsletter which you have already Hill's Clothiers 18 received; all these represent changes initiated to bring you closer to Whittier Tall Girl 18 College. Gould-Rhone 18 Smith & Benson Realtors 18 Every one of the commissions listed above is now active with people dili- Sam Yocum 22 gently endeavoring to plan and execute projects which will make next year Vaupel's 23 a stepping stone to a great future for the Association. Student-Alumni Rela- Friendly Hill's Pharmacy 24 tions will work with undergraduates during orientation and for the balance Blanket House 24 of the school year, that students may be made aware of their relationship to Gregg-Smith Insurance 24 alumni Clubs and Chapters plans the reactivation of chapters and society Ballard and Brockett 24 groups who may desire assistance in this regard.