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• Boston OAK GROVE Back the Attack Emphasizes Preparation for College Headquarters of the and Gracious Living in a Program de· vote

Glenwood J. Sherrard THE NEW ENGLAND President & Managing Director TEACHERS' AGENCY RICKER CLASS ICAL INSTITUTE and JUNIOR COLLEGE HARRY E. LEWIN, '20; Two years of Junior college. Four DORIS A. LEWIN, MGRS. years of Secondary School. 407 L1BBY BLDG. 10 Co:-icREss So. War Emergency courses in Radio, Portland, Maine Blueprint Reading, and Meteorology. "The demand for qualified teachers is Intensive courses in Shorthand and greater than ever before in the history Typewriting preparing for Civil Serv­ of this Agency. May we show you ice examinations in four months. our personalized ser\'icei Call or PRINCIPAL ROY M. HAYES write at once."

COBURN Classical Institute Boothby & Bartlett Co. /11 theu 11ma, the high school years are too precious to be wasted. Our GENERAL INSURANCE small classes, thorough drill, and close an

COLBY'S THE INSTITUTE OF LIVING PRESIDENT ROBERTS formerly known as The Neuro-Psychiatric By Bertha Louise Soule Institute

Biography . . . anecdotes . . . pictures of the Hartford Retreat Should be on the shelf of every If you have an interest in psychology, soci­ Colby man and woman ology or education, apply for staff appoint­ ment now. Applications are being consid­ ered for immediate or later appointments. 151 pages; 9 illustrations; red cloth binding; Through training and practical experience a valuable preparation is received for the post­ price, $2.50, postpaid war period. The great work of reconstruc­ tion and social rehabilitation will require many workers experienced in this specialized SEND ORDERS TO field. Write to: MISS ADELAIDE RAY Colby College Alumni Office 459 Marlborough Street Box 477, Waterville, Maine Boston 15, Massachusetts " Whan that Aprille with his The Colby Alumnus shoures soote ..." began Jeff Chaucer, and Aj:ml showers have been a by­ FOUNDED 1911 word ever since. This month the Colby co-eds blossomed out on rainy Volume 33 April 15, 1944 Number 6 days with Sou'westers (frankly, the most sensible fashion fad observed for some time), here modeled by Kath­ CONTENTS erine (" Kagen ") McCarroll, '45, of '[ The President's Page 2 Ridgewood, N. J. She is majoring in English, looking towards a journalistic The Talk of the College 3 or advertising career. A certain Deke The Gay Nineties- The Golden Age . . H. Warren Foss, '96 5 bomber navigator in Charleston, S. C., will doubtless pin up this cover over Then and Now ...... Diana Wall Pitts, '13 7 his bunk. A Troll Story of Mayflower Hill ... Helen M. Watson, '44 7

The Good Old Days of 1954 ...... Perry Scope, '58 9 Reunion - a Reminiscence 10

= Wins Guggenheim Award 11 "Cluky" Mathews - Scientist, Teacher . . Charles W. Spencer, '90 12 Dear Editor; Sonnets by a Soldier ...... S-Sgt. R. Irvine Gammon, '37 13 That " Snowville " picture certainly Fund Drive Has Full Support 14 looked good to these sun-burned eyes! Activities on Mayflower Hill 15 I look forward to each issue of the Alumnus. 16 The Rare Book Comer -LT. FRANCIS W. JvGGINs, '31. With the Colors 17 Corpus Christie, Tex. Prowls Pacific, Sinks Ship, Gets Medal Spends Leave on Hardy Pilgrimage Dear Editor; Orchids to the 43rd I enjoyed the February Alumnus Army Journalism very much and thought the cover was Service Personals pretty swell. I have seen several Additions to Service Roster alumni magazines of other colleges, Promotions but I am sure I haven't seen one on a Overseas or on Sea Duty par with Colby's. Class Notes About Colby Men and Women .. 23 - PvT. RoBERT WESCOTT, '44. 24 Milestones Dear Editor; Necrology- Beecher Putnam, '89 .. 24 It is a great pleasure to receive and read each issue of the Alumnus, for it EDITOR JOSEPH COBURN SMITH, '24 does provide a medium for Colby people everywhere to keep remotely in BUSINESS MANAGER G. CECIL GODDARD, '29 touch with each other, with you who ADVISORY EDITORIAL BOARD still remain on the campus, and with Term ExpU- in 19M Term Expires in 1945 Term Expires in 19'6 Colby and its memories. Robie G. F rye, '82 Hugh D. Beach, '36 Margurite M. Chamberlain, '15 Charles H. Gale, '22 Elizabeth W. Butl

No one would claim, however, that we ·hould accept the tradi­ tional views of the liber al art program uncritically. It i high time that we looked at some of the subject that till now have not belonged to the liberal arts family and asked ourselves whether they houldn't be there. It i time al o that we exam­ ined all our offerings with reference to their relation to the needs of the educated man. This i an urgent ta k for any college faculty today and I am sure that the members of our own faculty are ready for it.

o far as the long range view is concerned Colby should therefore proceed with confi­ dence to plan its program along lines that have proved worth while in the past with such modification as are suggested by the special insights of the present time. But it is obvious that for a few years we must also do a pecial job for the men and women who return from the war. Although most of them feel now that they want to come back to the familiar four years of college it is clear that some of them will require short cour es adapted to their spe­ cial needs which will be ready and waiting for them just as soon as they are discharged. Some of the men who come back will be hurt in body or in mind. 'vVe must be prepared to take them as they are and to give them all po sible assistance to help them in developing the talents and intere ts they have. This means that from the start we must have a guidance program that will meet them ·with complete understanding and will provide individual atten­ tion through college and afterward.

What this adds up to is that we cannot escape "acceleration" during the war and for some time later. It need not, however, be the same kind of acceleration that we have now. For example, it is entirely conceivable that we might work out a co-operative program with the other Maine colleges which would enable u to alternate our ummer se sions with theirs or to offer only the type of summer work in which we wished to specialize. At the same time we shall submit our liberal arts program to a searching examination in the belief that we can eliminate its most serious weaknesses and increase its obvious ource of strength. We shall do this with the more determination because of our firm conviction that where there is no liberal vi ion democracy itself must perish.

S'. THE COLBY ALUMNUS 3

THE TALK OF THE COLLEGE

ENU-This is our spring literary events gotten this Colby girl down? ress of the college, the co-eds had de­ M number. Poetry, short fiction, Not at all. " ow, I am happy to cided that there was no better way to amiable essay, fantasy, or prophesy - say," she concluded, "we are all we ll, express their birthday felicitations than they are all present, not to mention a on top of the world and glad to have a by giving this fund a start-off. So they page of good solid propaganda for the share, no matter how small, in the new convassed the dorms with jelly glasses, Alumni Fund. It goes to show what Colby." running back to empty out the change the editorial associates of this maga­ whenever a tumbler was full, and they feel like it. finally lugging the bag of silver down zine can produce if APPY BIRTHDAY We H to the bank to exchange it for crisp Two or three of the contributions chanced upon a little scene in Age, new "lettuce." We would like F. D. have to do with Colby s Golden the hall just outside President Bixler's R. to know that he is not the onlypres­ which varies strangely according to the office the other day. Fran Shannon, ident whose birthday is celebrated by experiences of each writer - and one '44, and Jody Scheiber, '47, were in gifts towards a good cause. puts it a decade into the future. We the act of presenting the President with refuse to believe, however, that all of some sort of a scroll. As he unrolled the intervening periods were dark tJ:is, it turned out to be a five-foot long ages, devoid of pleasant memories. ELLOW - The award of a Gug- b1�thday card lettered with some appro­ F 'Will someone speak up for the far­ pnate doggerel and inscribed with the genheim Fellowship to Prof. Carl away eighties? The glamorous twen­ signature of about every girl in college. J. Weber (detailed elsewhere) is na­ ties? The turbulent thirties? Those As we finally dug it out, the story was tional recognition of the head of our electric pre-Pearl Harbor years? We that Jody had stumbled upon Bixler's English department in a way that will hereby challenge contributions from all natal date in Who's Who a few days gratify all Colby people. In the field . of our readers on the topic: "To me previously and so the dorm girls had of English literature and cultural his­ the best time to be in college was ...." straightway gone about to create an tory, Prof. Weber is one of only three oversized greeting card. recipients in North America, the other two residing in Toronto and Cam­ HARE - Inevitably, we suppose, But this is not all. The pictorial S bridge. (Other awards were made for future student generations are go­ part of the document depicted an projects in American history and litera­ ing to take the Mayflower Hill build­ Easter bunny under whose nose was a ture, Latin American work, biologic ings for granted, seldom realizing that sheaf of "lettuce " - at least the leaves sciences, music, etc.) If anyone has those bricks and pillars are made of were green and were numbered and earned the right to take a year off from human decisions to do without this or the numbers totalled $35. This, they academic duties and get a book out of that for the sake of seeing them hastened to explain, was the girls' gift his system, it is Weber. The Colby erected. Take one small portion of to the Orchestra Fund which the Pres­ Library has gotten out a bibliography the Women's Union, for instance. ident had announced at the Colby­ of his published writings, listing ex­ Here is what it cost. Community Symphony Concert two actly 200 titles. From No. 47 on, vir­ When the Alumnae Secretary was days before. (He had told the audi­ tually all of these writings have had to traveling over the Eastern states mak­ ence that the Juilliard Foundation of do with Thomas Hardy (except for ing calls upon Colby women to ac­ New York had been so impressed with Edwin Arlington Robinson edging in quaint them with the dream of this the achievement of our orchestra as a bit towards the last) so it is no won­ indispensable wd beautiful structure, depicted in the roto section of a Boston der that the Guggenheim trustees were she followed one country lane for miles paper last December that they had impressed with Weber's qualifications to come to a trim little house sur­ offered the college $500 for further de­ for handling a definitive piece of work rounded by orchards. She was wel­ velopment of this project, contingent on Hardy. The project proposed by comed by the housewife who listened upon the college raising an equal Prof. Weber and accepted by the trus­ eagerly and pledged herself to a $60 amount.) Knowing how close to the tees concerns the novelist and his first " in the project, adding that President's heart was the musical prog- "share wife. A college gains prestige through she would pay it that fall if the apple its faculty and this reward to the inde­ was good. Well, the pledge was crop fatigable scholarship of one of our p·ro­ not that fall, but over the ensuing paid fessors is something for us all to gloat of a dollar or two at a years payments over. time came at intervals. The other day the Alumnae Secretary received a check for the balance, together with an Charles H. Pepper, '89, for talk­ ARDY AGAIN - It was bound explanation for the delay. After she ing a burglar into jail. (Page 23.) H alumna to happen. When hundreds of had made the pledge, this Lt. Whitney Wright, '37, deco­ wrote, "we had a new baby, an appen­ young men go through Colby College rated with the Navy Cross for and are exposed to the wonders of the dectomy, a two and one-half year siege " extraordinary heroism in connec­ with tuberculosis, two broken arms and Thomas Hardy Collection on this tion with military operations against campus it was inevitable that one of a broken leg, to say nothing of a total an armed enemy." (Page 17.) crop failure of 6,000 bushels of apples them would regard this war as a destroyed by hail." And had these heaven-sent opportunity to visit Dorset. 4 THE COLBY ALUMNUS

It does not surprise us in the least that more complicated than the average Da\'id C. Libbey, '38, whom we re­ "WHEN OUR BOYS RE­ newspaper reader realizes. These are member :is the tall, quiet boy in the TURN FROM THE FRONTS, wholesome ideas to filter into the din­ 1 Library, should make a pilgrimage to WE MUST BE READY TO ner table conversation of American the Hardy country :it his first oppor­ OFFER AN EDUCATION WOR­ families and the only trouble with the tunity. To a newsman, however, THY OF THE TREMEN­ Colby iJea is that it ought to be re­ searching for human interest stories DOUS EFFORTS THEY HAVE peated in e\'ery state. And, for that and unaware that Colby is the U. S. MADE." matter, in e\·ery one of the United Hardy capitol, it seemed worth the :\ations. 1 cable charges on 400 words to describe how an American soldier rneled in the tion nowadays seems to be adopting a slogan to keynote its objectives, so may opportunity to sleep in Hardy's study, R ICKER - The many Ricker grad- see his birthplace and Yisit the grave f suggest that Colby take these words uates among our readers have containing the great man's heart. One of its President as its statement of pur­ probably heard of the total loss by fire likes to imagine the amazement with pose. You might print them in caps of Wording Hall a few weeks ago. It which Libbey's hospitable British host and send :i copy to each member of was a staggering blow but the general and hostess must ha\·e learned that the faculty, and boarJ of trustees. It feeling of loyalty which an event of Thomas Hardy is :i by-word in a rural will do no harm to remind them of this kind engenders, may lead to bet­ American college of which they had the magnitude of the job ahead." ter things for this fine old Aroostook never heard. The dispatch is reprinted We fully agree with this former his­ �chool. The Ricker trustees, we learn, in full elsewhere in this mag:izine and tory professor. How does this look to are embarking upon a $300,000 cam­ constitutes rather :i w:inning incident you at the top of this page, orman? paign to build more adequate facilities in Anglo-American relations. in place of the destroyed building. TREATY - ff you want a fore- This project has the cordial best wishes M AINE ART - Commencement taste of the issues coming up at of the Colby family. Ricker and Colby will h:ive :i new attraction this the peace negotiations which will fol­ have been traditionally close. In fact, year - an opportunity to see an exhi­ low victory, come around to the cam­ R. C. I. was born in the minds of two bition of Maine art which may well pus on May 6 and watch 50 or 75 high Colby men - Rev. Joseph Ricker, '39, warrant the respectful notice of metro­ school kids "write the pe:ice." and Judge Jonathan G. Dickerson, '36 politan art circles. Prof. Samuel M. Colby is to be host to a " model - who were snowbound in Danforth Green, the young etcher and scholar peace conference," with delegations one winter night and got to talking who came onto the Colby faculty last from \'arious Maine schools and acad­ about little Houlton Academy and fall, has felt strongly that rhe role of emies each representing one nation at what it could mean to the region if the State of Maine in the nation's artis­ the peace table. Already the history properly de\'eloped. How Dr. Ricker tic life is more fully sensed outside this classes in each participating school are sold the idea to the Colby trustees, state than at home. The fact is that busily identifying themselves with helped raise an endowment, obtained Maine has both exciting scenery and a their " nation-for-a-day " and are bon­ the gift of the Institute building (now regional culture of its own, a kind of ing up on that country's particular burned ) from the widow of his college­ super-distilled New Englandism which aspirations and fears, the elements of mate, Judge William E. Wording, '36, has made it a prime source spot of strength and weakness of its bargain­ and e\'en contributed $5,000 from his inspiration to hundreds of artists. A ing position, and its general economic own meager ministerial savings, is all selection of top-drawer paintings and and political background. part of the school's tradition and ex­ prints ·will be hung, including works What will happen when they get to plains why they gratefully named it bv Winslow Homer, John Marin, arguing about the Polish boundary, the for him. The principal's chair has \Valdo Peirce, Marsden Hartley, and disposal of Korea, the African colonies, been occupied by William . Knowl­ Colby's Charles Hovey Pepper. The the rehabilitation of conquered nations, ton, '64, Arthur M. Thomas, '80, Jus­ Martha Baker Dunn Lounge of the the question of indemnities arid repa­ tin 0. Wellman, '98, and other Colby Union will proYide a spacious and fire­ rations, and the whole problem of or­ men down to the present able incum­ proof gallery for the exhibit. We hope ganizing and implementing a world bent Roy M. Hayes, '18. In turn the many will avail themselves of this op­ society - is anybody's guess. school has repaid its debt to the col­ portunity. True, it is amusing to think of these lege with a steady stream of Aroos­ dewy-cheeked youngsters tossing off tookites - a specialized breed of Yan­ SLOGAN - From Lt. Torman D. decisions in one afternoon on problems kee (or Swedish) manhood and wom­ Palmer, '30, US 1R, stationed at which have the world's best brains anhood who good naturedly took the Camp Kearney, California comes a baffled. Yet the project isn't absurd. kidding from their fellow students suggestion: "Recently I received a The point is not what solutions they (and Dr. Libby) about Spudland and newspaper clipping which reported may arrive at, but the fact that out of turned out to be the backbone of their President Bixler as saying to the trus­ this play-acting they will learn some classes. Yes, Ricker and Colby are tees at the Boston meeting: ' When important truths: that there has to be linked in the affections of a good many our boys return frnm the f1·onts, we a willingness to give and take; that good folk and the school is to be con­ must be r·eady to offer an education the little nations, too, have rights; that gratulated as it recovers from a severe worthy of the tremendous efforts they once you get into it, the problems of a blow and goes on to heights of greater have made. ' Every kind of organiza- just and durable peace are infinitely effectiveness. THE COLBY ALUMNUS 5 THE GAY NINETIES -- THE GOLDEN AGE

By H. Warren Foss, '96

HE best time to go to Colby was sympathetic attitude toward the great along with the Po/ire Gazette - would T in the gay nineties. That period Columbus for we, too, were facing a be surpassed by higher forms of litera­ did not constitute the golden age be­ new world. Safety bicycles were ap­ ture. Little did we dream, however, cause of our privations, of which we pearing in large numbers, adventurous that the time would come when the had many - no moving pictures, ra­ young men were beginning to smoke editors of three of the leading maga­ dios, or airplanes. Neither were they cigarettes, and the battered faces and zines in America would be Colby the golden age on account of the limi­ long hair of heroic sophomores in men * \,vho had studied English under tations of those horse and buggy days turtle neck sweaters gave evidence that Rob. - front yards, picket fences, watering football had come to Colby. Great changes were taking place tubs, tin peddlers, spare rooms, what­ Yes, we were living in a changing throughout the country. The South nots, feather beds, and the whole vast world. Shirt waists with balloon was becoming The New South. The category of antiques. No, they were sleeves - made popular by Charles Wild West with its stagecoach rob­ the best days because a certain some­ Dana Gibson - would prove only a beries, train hold-ups, and Indian war­ thing told us that we were on the very passing fad. Men would soon discard fare, where flourished such colorful threshold of one of the great epochs of congress boots, cut-away coats, and the characters as Deadwood Dick, Jesse the world's history. We felt the antici­ high collars which had supplanted the James, Buffalo Bill, and Sitting Bull, patory thrill of startling inventions and celluloid variety. We should not al­ was fast becoming the Golden West marvelous discoveries. ways be reading Rudyard Kipling, surpassing even Horace Greeley's fond­ In our day Professor Roentgen pub­ Mary E. Wilkins, Ian MacLaren or est dreams. lished his discovery of the X-ray, and Laura Jean Libby. Even if it were Even the Bible was undergoing Yes, We Have No Bananas immediately some of the young Colby only or changes and great was the consterna­ Pistol Packin' Mama, physicists began experiments in Shan­ songs would be tion in some quarters over the Revised non Observatory. Possibly because of composed someday that would drive Version. Shailer Mathews delivered a Sweet Rosie O'Grady, Little An­ defects in the Crookes tube which they out lecture in Waterville on the new ver­ nie Rooney, Boozer Brown. used, the results of their work never and As a sion after which one dear old lady was appeared in any of the technical jour­ matter of fact about the time we left heard to remark that she liked to listen nals. Incidentally, however, they college, but not because of our going, stumbled upon several laws of nature one of America's favorites came along - There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old • - George Horace Lorimer, '98, Tl1e Satur­ which had escaped the attention of day El'eni11g Post; S/1eppard E. Butler, '03, Town To-Night.· Someday our popu­ Archimedes, Galileo, and Sir Isaac Libert.v .'1agazine; Merle Crowell, 'JO, The ewton. During our second year lar magazines, Puck and fudge - American Magazine. Alexander Graham Bell startled the world by opening in Tew York the first telephone booth for long distance communication and actually talked with Chicago. Before we left college Waterville opened its first very modest telephone exchange. One of our even­ ing diversions was to stroll down town and look upon the first house in W a­ terville lighted by electricity. We saw for the first time men in uniform going from house to house delivering the United States mail. Our beloved Sam Osborne appeared in a resplendent uni­ form with JANITOR blazoned on his cap. Electric car lines were being built. For five cents one could ride in an open car from Waterville to Fair­ field. We read of a man out west who had invented a horseless carriage. Some were bold enough to predict the coming of a flying machine. Early in our course we helped cele­ WHAT THE WELL-DRESSED COLBY STUDENT WAS WEARING - brate the 400th anniversary of the dis­ IN 1895 covery of America and entered into a Puff sleeves and stand-up collars were part of the scene in the Gay Nineties. 6 THE COLBY ALUMNUS

to Dr. 1\rlathews but she hadn't much and trustees. The patron saint of the naissance our makeshift army set out use for his revei .>ed vision. ,\nglo-Saxons - a scholarly gentleman unescorted to move the cannon. We It was in our

THEN AND NOW

By Diana Wall Pitts, , r 3

the happy days we graduated The contrasts in the Co/bys of thirty on the heel.• of dinner, almost before J once a year, not every few weeks. years apart were impressed upon Mrs. you knew it, the speaker was finished, It was June - ah! June! Bridal­ Pitts last December when she attended diplomas were handed out and another wreath left snowy trails along the the graduation and wedding of her set of youngsters was launched. No campu , and apple blossoms shook daughter Josephine (Mrs. Fred B. Mc­ secluded nuns, these, but well informed snowy petals over paths by the Messa­ Alaiy) all in one eventful winter after­ young people on whose shoulders rest lonski. noon. In this antiphonal essay she World War II, and Victory at any (That's about enough snow for taints up the differences in tempo. price!!) Commencement, sez I. attended a Which do you think were the Golden My room-mate of the Golden Days December graduation on Mayflower Days? married the man of her choice. They Hill; and a raging blizzard with tem­ were both Juniors. She was promptly invited to leave college. V\Then I indig­ perature of eight below zero attended ates in caps and gowns here, as we II· nantly asked why, a professor sa id, it, too. We had difficulty finding the might never negotiate the Hill if the "Because of the bad example she sets rnad to the Women's Union, and our storm grew worse, or the temperature other girls, and" (listen to this) "she car froze up while we were in at the fell any lower. Then, too, if we didn't exercises.) might tell things." hurry we might meet ourselves coming (She was just ahead of her time! On On the aforesaid lovely June morn­ out. These G. I. exercises are like time this December afternoon all the faculty ing in 1913, we marched in slow and and tide.) and all the graduates and friends stately line, for all the world to see, Three golden days of good fellow­ hastened from the Union to the little from the campus down to the Baptist ship, laughter, speech-making, ban­ Episcopal Church below the Hill, and, Church, our caps firmly adjusted with quets and, finally, diplomas. We there, one of the graduates, diploma long hat-pins, and our gowns Aoating were, at long last, launched upon the still in hand, took her marriage vows, back in the summer breeze as we went Turbulent Sea of Life. What matter in the candlelight of the early winter leisure! y to Baccalaureate. Three full that we were about as ready for it as twilight, amid the chrysanthemums, days of exercises still lay ahead of us nuns from a convent! We were and all the college beamed approval.) before diplomas and Commencement launched, the bottle of champagne was these Dinner would make of us the finished broken (not drunk), and we spent Could it be that are the Golden product. months looking leisurely for just the Days after all, and those other days, of (In breathless haste we made for right job, and years of engagement be­ too much leisure and false standards Chapel and Baccalaureate on the old fore we would consider marriage. are only gilded by Time? ' ' campus this December day in 43, with (In December 43, Baccalaureate was (Today's ways are best.) the firm purpose of seeing our gradu- followed by dinner, and then swiftly Maybe!

A TROLL STORY OF MAYFLOWER HILL

By Helen M. Watson, '44 rot NCE upon a river there was a Miss Watson comes from Hartford Hoibie Troll, who lived under the ltJ· Q called the Messalon Ski­ and will graduate this spring. She oc­ Brooklyn Bridge, would come to spend the bridge, Bridge by those who crossed it on bar­ casionally submits a riotous sketch for August in Maine, and the time of the rel staves in their earliest days of sally­ The Echo and looks forward to a singing of boids was officially in sea­ ing forth to ski on Dead Man's Hill. career in journalism, at least until son, and the verce of the toitle was This name for the bridge was retained "The Lieutenant" in the South Pacific hoid in the land. gets home. This fantasy was in re­ later, when the staves grew to more Hoibie, being a New Yorker, sponse to a request by the Editor to was graceful outlines and became steel­ Enterprising, so, although he did describe Life on The Hill. not edged Dartmouth Fliers (or ilk) and try to sell Faith the Brooklyn Bridge, Dead Man's Hill assumed comparative or even a gold brick, he did sell her a anthill proportions. (Except that those Papa Troll, Selfcon Troll, and little Silver-plated Trowel and the idea of Ski­ who couldn't pronounce Messalon Faith Troll. When little Faith heard trying to find out where the kids were and Bridge just said "The Bridge," the kids walking across her Bridge go�ng who walked across her Bridge so still do.) around the middle of July every year, gaily half the year. But just about that of Anyhow, under this Bridge there she knew that Spring had come to time, Jerry Oogee walked over lived a family of Trolls, Mama and Maine at last. Then her little cousin the Bridge taking his father on a little THE COLBY ALUMNUS

field trip, and was heard to expound most familiarl y as the Blue Beetle. The main differences from college the theory that Mayflower Hill was This chariot performs its functions life on the old campus run somewhat once covered by the sea to within fif­ most creditably under the tutelage of as follows: teen feet of the summit. Then Faith an assortment of Apollos of both gen­ One may now arise at 7:58 and still knew that the kids walked across her ders. There are two main rules to be make not only an 8:00 class, but an Bri

THE GOOD OLD DAYS OF 1954

By Perry Scope, '58

N INETEE fifty-four! What a This forward-looking sketch of Col­ The swimming team set a couple of year that was for Colby! And by 's real "Golden Age," was contrib­ records in Yale·s Payne Whitney gym '55, '56 and '57, too. uted by an anonymous member of the instead of fighting their hearts out in We freshmen who descended on Editorial Board who is in the class of a sea of blazing oil. That vvinter our Mayflower Hill in the fall of '54 did so '36 and is on the staff of Newsweek. club received a bid to the National In­ literally. They landed from all direc­ vitation Basketball Tourney in Madi­ son Square Garden, not an assignment tions - the helicopters, family and sin­ New York points with Canada. Very to wipe out a dozen pill boxes. It gle models, using Colby's new terminal early in television's history, Colby took made you feel good to watch the base­ down back of the stadium near the advantage of unusually good reception ball team work out and know that was Messalonskee river· the private planes to use its sets in the class rooms. I re­ a harmless horsehide they were throw­ found plenty of room at the Waterville member that one of the first series of airport just acrosss the way; and the lectures was delivered by Speaker of ing around, not a hand-grenade. exchange students from Europe n the House Pete Mills, direct from From '54 on, the Phi Betes could schools came in on the 9: 15 A. .M. Washington. His series was heard and win themselves a summer trip to " Strato-Fearless," eight hours out oi seen simultaneously by 87 colleges China, India and all over bv strato­ London, while the kids from South from Miami to Orono, but because of liner. The big commercial lines had America and the Orient joined forces our location he came through espe­ worked out an agreement with the Ed­ in Para, Brazil, and came up together cially clear to us. ft seems to me that ucation Ministries of about a hundred on the "Equatorial " - daily between Prof . Wilkinson (long may he wave) nations which gave students a terrific . Buenos Aires and Montreal. had a lot to do with setting up that break on rates, most of which were Yes, the freshmen entering Colby in series because of his past association covered by scholarships. And there the fall of '54 had special reason to ex­ with Pete. Wilkie made it part of his seemed to be more Phi Betes than pect a glorious four years on the hill. " stepped up " Poli Sci course. usual coming along. A long hard war Their class was the first to fully rep­ There were a lot of other reasons had been fought to give us a chance to resent centers of learning all ov�r the why '54 was a good year to be enter­ grow, mentally as well as physically. world. For Colby had really made a ing Colby. The world had cooled off. Most of us had fathers, brothers, uncles name for itself in liberal arts circles by The kids were learning to fly their own or cousins who had "been around " going all-out to assist war-torn nations planes instead of bombers and fighters. the world, and brought back knowl­ in the reconstruction of educational The football team that year knocked edge of all peoples, knowledge of facilities and intellectual ideals. Those the drawers off of Bowdoin, as usual, toleration, a new perspective, some entering students were a cross-section instead of a bunch of Germans or Japs. understanding of how to get along of humanity, amply fulfill- with folks eYerywhere. ing Colby's policy, an­ That was the background nounced that spring, of ex­ the freshmen had in 54 changing scholarships on a and a lot of them set out world-wide basis. Inci­ to make the most of it. io: dentally, the January, '55, Yes, in retrospect, I'd llJl edition of The Alumnus say our class had every proudly featured its first reason to start fast. The !IT it International Section with educational world was our copy from all its represent­ oyster in its widest sense. It's uue we took a lot of I� atives in foreign lands. It didn't take the '54 things for granted but frosh long to get rollin?:. most of us appreciated the What a start they had. specials. We were all Take those television pretty casual about Colby's courses. The ridge in air terminal its tdevision to back of the chapel was a set-up and its own FM OL natural spot for a relay sta­ broadcasting station, W2- Jl tion because of its height MUL. And we figured )Id in relation to other sur­ that a place like this would rounding points. The sta­ naturally have a big field tion was completed in the house, golf course, stadi­ summer of '54 and that um, indoor swimming pool and hockey rink. The fall it became a vital link WELCOME TO COLBY, FRESHMAN! in the New England Net­ lake looked as though it work which connected the family helies dropped in from all directions had always been there, so 10 THE COLBY ALUMNUS we didn't think twice about it. An

REUNION --- A REMINISCENCE J HAD been forty years " out of col- !is. It occurred to me that one college­ he had known, he quickly transferred lege." In the stress of "getting a mate, who was a senior when I en­ his gaze to a brown-haired man oppo­ start in life," gaining a precarious foot­ tered, had made his home in C- after site. Seeing no trace of the past there, hold in living, and building the sem­ graduation. Resorting to the tele­ he looked dubiously at me again. I blance of a career, years had gone un­ phone book, I found his name, and, waved my hand feebly, and he realized counted. Time had spent itself in the calling his office, I was reassured by what forty years had done to youth. relentless pursuit of an ever-receding his answering voice, the unmistakable The theme of conversation at lunch at goal. But, four decades form an im­ resonance, so familiar across the corri­ the University Club could be no other pressive period in a man's life, and the dor at old " South College." than the fate of the boys, now elder! y impulse could not be resisted to be Reaching his office at the appointed at best, and of the girls, indeed, no back at the Commencement Reunion hour of his invitation, I seated myself younger. of my Class, in the last stand, it then in the ample waiting-room till my host A few weeks thereafter found me on seemed, of the veterans of 189-. should be at liberty. Presently, his the campus of the dear New England During the previous spring, I had figure stood framed in the doorway - college of happy recollection. But the occasion to make a first visit to a cer­ the same Jack Little, tall and lithe, "boys " of 189- how altered every tain western city, and in the cheerless with a characteristic sway, as he looked one, how pathetic with some, and the hotel room on the morn ing after ar­ about for his caller. I saw him fix his fiftieth anniversary remnant of 188- rival, I found myself speculating on eyes upon my whitened head, then, how tragic! Indeed, one feeble cele­ the possibility of turning up an ac­ convinced that such antiquity could brant of the semi-centennial was led by quaintance in that unfamiliar metropo- not be possible to the lad of eighteen the hand and placed directly opposite THE COLBY ALUMNUS 11

to me at the Commencement dinner­ house, hardly ' presentable ' for receiv­ stant, she confessed quietly-" Do you . table blind and bent. His unseeing ing callers, but I hastened to the door know ' he hasn't written to me smce. manipulation of the lobster (the inevi­ just as I was. It was Jack, as hand­ I am afraid he didn't like my looks." some as ever! ' Then her eyes di­ table dish ) dismayed me. I left the My protest discounted her infer­ lated as she added almost under her ence - "The years have been most table with the conviction that reunions breath - "Handsomer." After an in- kind to you, Margaret Ware." are not altogether joyous.

Thereupon, as the diners dispersed, heard my name called, and a lady It presented herself with - " I am Mar­ WINS GUGGENHEIM AWARD garet Ware." My response was a bit ungracious - " Look here, Madge Ware," said I, "when I was in college, were normal times,'' said Prof. Weber, you never so much as looked in my " I would, of course, go to England where in London and Dorset could direction. You were observant of big­ I best carry on my work. But since that ger game. Now, after forty years, you is impossible I shall have to rest satis­ d are seeking me out." She parried the fied with what aids to my research I [0 graceless rejoinder and went on to say can find in the great libraries of Bos­ J that she had never married, had de­ ton, New York and Washington. Once I have pinned down certain in­ It voted her life to teaching, and latterly [l) formation that still eludes me, I can do to the care of her mother. " I am the ac�,ual writing of the book any­ alone, now," she avowed. I recalled to where. mind her gentle art of pleasing, and In a sense this award recognizes the her easy triumph over her " ri\'al," famed Thomas Hardy Collection in Dora Mills, in capturing Jack Little's the Colby Library, for using the ma­ undivided attention, in my day. I terials assembled here over the last fif­ ventured to mention my having seen teen years Prof. 'Neber began discov­ ering and publishing new information spring in the far-away city. It· Jack that about the great English poet and novel­ br She asked particularly after him. ist, among which might be mentioned: Hardy"s supposedly-lost first no,·el, his The following season, I found my­ first short story, and the impressive self once more in the West, and I spread of Hardy's writings in transla­ looked up J. L. He had lost his wife Prof. Carl /. Weber tion over the nations of the globe. during the year, and he was living in rooms at the Club, hardly more home­ Furthermore, Prof. Weber was called HE award of one of the famed like than his quarters at 29 " South T upon to anotate Yarious textbook edi­ Colleo-e," so many years before. I told Guggenheim fellowships to Prof. tions of Hardy's novels. In 1939, a him �hat Madge Ware had inquired Carl J. Weber of Colby's Department splendid gift of Hardy material from for him at the Commencement. Then, of English was announced at the Carroll A. 'Vilson, New York attorney i>­ as we parted, I charged him - " You foundation's New York headquarters and bibliophile, provided the basis for re. write to Madge, she's alone now." on April 9. This will enable Prof. a surprising body of new information I Weber to spend 12 months, beginning which was published in a Colby Mono­ rd Hastening from the Commencement October 1944, on leave of absence from graph, Rebekah Owen and Thomas th. Dinner at the next visit to the college, the college working on a research proj­ Hardy. In 1940, the centennial year 3! to catch my train away, someone pur­ ect connected with Thomas Hardy. of Hardy's birth, appeared Prof. Web­ er's critical biography of the author, sued me calling, "Miss Ware wants to The Guggenheim fellowships were rly Hardy of Wessex: His Life and Lit­ see you." I turned back somewhat sur­ founded by John Simon Guggenheim, no prised that she should seek me out erary Career, a book which won high copper magnate, for the encourage­ praise from reviewers, critics with such persistence a second time, ment of literary and historical research. and DD but she disregarded my manner. scholars. od Inquiry fails to disclose any previ­ "Have you seen Jack Little recently? " Since the appearance of this volume, be ous fellowship from this foundation she asked quickly. "No," I replied, awarded to a representative of a Maine Prof. Weber explains, additional ma­ !.I} " not since two years ago." "Do you terial has come in ever-increasing he college. know," she confided, "he began writ­ quantity to the Colby Library calling, ing to me, and wrote regularly, espe­ The fellowship 'vvas granted to Prof. so he claims, for revision and correc­ le· cially at Christmas Time. Last sum­ Weber on the strength of his projected tion. The Guggenheim award will by mer he was here, and called to see me. preparation of a book on Thomas make possible this fresh attack upon ire I happened to be at the back of the Hardy and his first wife. " If these the problem. 12 THECOLBY ALUMNUS

"CLUKY,� MATHEWS--- SCIENTIST, TEACHER

By Charles W. Spencer, '90

E D MATHEWS entered Colby The Librarian-Emeritus of Colgate daunted and soon came back " to from the Portland High School U niver.•ity in this sketch admirably continue the ascent up the academic in the autumn of 1887, thus becoming supplements the obituary of Dr. ladder. a member of the Class of 1891, which Mathews published in the March issue. The professorship came in 1904, and included figures like Frank Jo h nson the chairmanship of the Department and Norman Bassett, whose contribu­ of Geology thirteen years later, at shown by another who was present: tions to Colby's welfare are well which time he became also State Ge­ " The examiner would hold up a speci­ known to this later generation. At ologist of Maryland, ha\'ing been As­ men for him to recognize; he jumped some time during his college course he sistant Geologist since the organization at each one as a Jog does at a bone - acquired the nickname "Cluky," - in 1 9 . He had thus attained these neYer hesitated, never made a mis­ no one now seems to know how or . important positions in the prime of take.. Methinks old friends will why: but in letters to special �olby life after a thorough apprenticeship. easily recognize "Cluky " here. friends, to the \'ery last, he used It 111 He was always intensely proud of this He was immediately appointed In­ signature. He followed his brother. connection with " the Hopkins." Tt structor in mineralogy and petrogra­ is Shailer, into the Delta Kappa Epsilon recorded that he particip�ted in phy, becoming Associate in 189'5. and the fraternity. He participated \'ariously training of ome two hundred gradu­ Associate Professor in 1899. Instruct­ in what are now called "extra-curricu­ ate students in geology, nearly half ing graduate students calls for exacting of lar activities." His share in the \'ery whom obtained Ph.D. degrees. His endeavor. It has been said that re­ .first attempts at football at Colby was particular specialty in his field was search is encour:igeJ by " showing that a broken ankle, the result of the un­ concerned with " the geology and enthu ·iasm can be combined with pre­ taught violence of a fellow-exp ri­ petrography of the metamorphic rocks � cision."· Succeeding to a part of the menter. Besides the damage to him­ of the Piedmont region of Maryland work of the lamented Professor G. H. self, this dashed Colby's expectations, and Pennsyl\'ania " involving the " Williams put him on his mettle, and in­ reasonably founded on his track per­ terpretation of a complicated in addition there wa� sharp stimulus and formances in High School, for a State highly metamorphosed terrain." in the presence in some of his classes record, Later, he did make good, of those who had been his fellow-stu­ There were numerous activities col­ though not record, time in dash and dents. He must have o\·er-driYen him- lateral with his academic position. To hurdle e\·ents, and won the New Eng­ elf, for in the winter of 1898-99 he take a few examples: he was, 1919-22, land championship in the half-mile. received direful warnings from physi­ Chairman of the Division of Geology The Oracle records him as " second cians, and had to take " time off... and Geography of the ational Re­ bass " in the '' Colby Quartette," and But, always a good fighter. he was not search Council. For the State of Mary­ as taking part in the Junior Prize De­ land he was not only State Geologist bate. And, for a while, he and I - but also a member of sundr y boards probably mostly he - ran the College and commissions, such as forestry, Book-store at 22 orth College. But weather-service, water-resources, state the most important feature of his col­ de\'elopment, the Maryland-Virginia lecre course was the fact that he fell boundary, etc. "Maryland has many u�der the spell of "Whiskers " Bay­ things to thank him for." His profes­ ley, (Professor of Mineralogy and Ge­ sional publications are too numerous ology - the whiskers were red). This for listing in thi space and cover a happened to a number of others - (I, very wide range. (See Who's Who, even T, took - and passed - a course National Cyclopedia of American Bi­ in crystallography!). But, for Ed, thi ography, Current vol. A; also a very contact meant the beginning of his complete appraisal in Science, March career. 17, 1944.) They indicate, among other He followed graduate study in ge­ things, his interest in the history, car­ ology at Johns Hopkins University, tography and bibliography of Mary­ putting in summers as Field Assistant land; as witness his History of the on the U. S. Geological Survey, 1891- Mason-Dixon Line, the Bibliography 94, being Fellow in 1893-4, and taking and Cartography of Maryland. Of hi his degree in 1894. Of his doctor's Catalog of Published Bibliographies in examination, a traditionally terrifying Geology it has been said: "Tf Mathews ordeal, President Gilman, in decorous is given the latitude and longitude to language, observed: " Mr. M. passed a the nearest fifteen minutes he can soon capital examination. His knowledge gi\'e one any analysis of record." The is accurate and his mind works rap­ work of the Maryland Historical Soci­ idly." Further light on the scene is Dr. Edward B. Mathews, '91 ety was enriched by his activity. Serv- THECOLBY ALUMNUS 13

ice as Treasurer of the Geological So­ ciety of America is significant as still further extending the boundaries of his SONNETS BY A SOLDIER interests. The Penrose bequest of nearly four million dollars for conser­ vation and development was in his By S�Sgt. R. Irvine Gammon, '37 care, and this duty, successfully dis­ charged, required devoted attention. PARTING IN WARTIM'fi He was more than once Vice-President of the International Congress of Geolo­ Still in our hearts stirs the sensual South, Di gists and made several trips abroad to Where young love laughed 'neath suns that never set attend the meetings. But sweeten summer's state 'ti! two forget There was one of his activities Winter's savage sighs and autumn's scarlet mouth; which, until very recently, was news Still, still we hold a heavenly loan in fee, to me: his interest in genealogy. A We who loved and laughed down the dream-dear years, colleague in the G. S. A. has testified: Till war spawned no parting of pretense or tears " He has shown me his genealogy To blot the scutcheon of love's eternity. straight back to the god Odin. I my­ self am a cousin not, I think, on the Splendor fades from the air, and now no more Odin, but on the Cro-Magnon side! " The moon with silver strides moves up the sky, Nor music lingers when sweet voices die, For myself, I like to think of him as And all who loved and laughed crowd death's dateless door - O' belonging to a family devoted to the Yet love, stark and sunless while lovers are gone, fu cause of education. His great-grand­ Shall sleep through the night like the lambent dawn. father on the maternal side was Daniel Hascall, one of the principal founders of what is now Colgate University. SEMPER FIDELIS We all know what Shailer Mathews was in services to Colby, on the spot, Let this remembered be our finest hour, and in what his service to humanity Though -flaming armies clash and worlds collide has meant for Colby's fame. And it In hell-red wreck of idols deifi,ed, should not be forgotten that their sis­ And endless night seems murdered mankind's dower; ter, Grace, now Mrs. H. S. Philbrick, God grant that we who felt love's fairy power also served Colby on the spot as teacher And breathed the atmosphere of stars still trust and Dean of Women, at the turn of To close far furrows in the finite dust, the century. Truly one of the great And drink deep old soul wines of shrine and fiower. families in the Colby Family! Bright bride of beauty! In this terror time, His connection with the Eutaw When fratricidal man forsakes his brother, Place Baptist Church in Baltimore was What hope but the heart's in its sou1·ce sublime, nearly coincident with his whole career What faith but that we trust one another! after leaving Colby. Deacon since Till tribal war lords won to peace and prayer, Jl 1910, he gave great variety of service Forever will we love and life be fair. Ill' - Sunday School, Young People's or­ ganizations and in church finance. REUNION IN WARTIME The tribute from his fellows in the diaconate mentions, among other un­ Rejoice, my beloved, in our love's rnre grace, forgettable traits, "the kindness of his Which heaven restores ere estrangement starts nature and the loyalty of his friend­ To drain distilled delight from out young hearts, ship '' - wholly in accord with our re­ And mock all magic from the night's starred face; membrance. Yea, bright-haired rebel, let us kiss and st1Jell ier And so I think of him, flrst, as Love's aching fiood, suck dry the honied ruth, ar· friend; meetings after 1900 were in­ Too long denied by tongues that poison truth, .rr· frequent, but we always "picked up " But else fall dumb her snow-chaste soul to tell. from where pr!O'.vious encounters had left off. And then as scientist, teacher Hope of my heart! Foregoing false goodbyes, and scholar, making signal contribu­ We glimpse rainbow rifts through life's lowering cloud, tion to the lustre of Colby's crown. A Wipe idle tears forever from our eyes, full life, well lived all the way through. And catch God's whisperings mid the madding crowd. A " servant of the Lord," one of " the Hushed in holy union on our hearts we lay spirits and souls of the righteous," for Soul-sealed love that neither time nor men betl'ay. whom we may "praise Him and mag­ nify Him forever." fl· 14 THE COLBY ALUMNUS

FUND DRIVE HAS FULL SUPPORT

..•Needs Our Help ... to the same, for the Alumni organiza­ The College is facing an extremely The position I turned over to my tion carries on for every one of us. difficult financial situation. I am con­ successor would have been difficult The Alumni Fund makes possible fident that Colby alumni will respond enough under any circumstances but the tie with the campus that each of generously to the urgent needs of their with developments of the past two us needs. It is a sort of life-line that College. years Dr. Bixler has had a tough job we can pull on at any time. I would A. G. Eusns, '23. indeed. As we Colby people have hate to think that the life-line failed to Treasurer come to know him we are sure that hold because I failed to do my part. Colby College he will see it through and, when the This year my work has taken me to war is over, will emerge as a great one of the out-islands of the Bahamas leader in the onward march of the Col­ where I have sojourned for several ... More in '44 ... lege. He is stout-hearted and shows months. The news of the Council In these days it is well for us to back no signs of discouragement. But he activities, gleaned through the pages of Colby College to the limit and that has needs our help, and I can think of no the Colby Alumnus, has been stimu­ to do with the necessity for keeping better way than for each of us to lating. Carry on! alive and vigorous every good institu­ double our contribution to the Alumni MARY DoNALD DEANS, '10. tion of learning which operates under Fund t his year. Teacher pri\·ate auspices. I am not one who is FRANKLIN W. JoHNSON, '91. Eleuthera, Bahama Islands afraid that the Government is "going President-Emeritus to take over education " for I believe Waterville, Maine ...We Are All in 1-A . that the Church, the Corporation the The satisfying growth of the Alumni Labor Union and the University will ..• Facing an Obligation •.. Fund reflects the reaction of a satisfied continue to be the bulwark of our free If every graduate who received schol­ Alumni, - not with itself, but with civilization. I do consider it essential arship aid while he was at Colby would the performance of its College. The however to have as many good private consider the sum a loan to be paid off magnificent response of Alumni in institutions as possible. Let the alum­ by appropriate annual contributions to service is a glorious witness to that sat­ nus of every private institution take it the Alumni Fund, the College would isfaction. The 194 3 response from the upon himself to see that his Alma Ma­ receive many times what it does now. general Alumni in larger amounts, and ter receives annually from him gifts in I have never been able to see that that larger total than ever before achieved, proportion to his belief in a continuing way of looking at scholarship aid is is more evidence of that satisfaction. and strengthened program of education too scrupulous. And may I point out The Alumni Fund has grown from under private auspices. Our motto for that the realistic facing of such an obli­ a modest Christmas remembrance to a the 1944 Alumni Fund might well be gation calls for annual contributions of respectable asset in the College budget. "Give More in '44." more than a dollar or two? Now, more than ever before, does the LEONARD w. MAYO, '22. FREDERICK A. PoTTLE, '17. College look to this source of income, Dean, School of Applied Social Sci­ Professor of English relying upon your generous response in ences Yale University time of real need. Our induction call Western Reserve University has sounded. We are all in 1-A. We

. . • Opportunity to Enlist need no further greeting from our The 1944 Alumni Fund provides an President. Give now as never before. ... You'll Find the Younger Men ..• Your College is in need. opportunity for the Alumni of Colby Perhaps a more recent graduate can CYRIL M. J oLY, '16. College to enlist in the service of their better appreciate the wide and good use Lawyer Alma Mater. The need for money is to which our Alumni Fund is put. If Chairman, Alumni Council urgent, and if all Alumni will increase so, I can certainly testify to the many Waterville, Maine their contributions to the maximum the benefitsmade possible only through the combined efforts of Alum nae and contributions of Colby's graduates to Alumni should establish a substantial ... Difficult Situation . this fund. It would seem that a means of meeting Colby's financial ob­ regret that I find it necessary to healthy balance resulting from this ligations. point out that the College is in even year's campaign would be the best A.LONA NICHOLSON BEAN, '05. greater need this year than last. The form of " insurance " to aid our col­ President, Alumnae Council loss of our Army contract means a loss lege in successfully spanning these lean Wilmington, Massachusetts of approximately $100,000 a year. We and difficult years. I'm sure you shall have less than sixty men students. The find the younger men, wherever they ...Cany On .• effect of our reduced registration is are, digging deep into their khakis or The challenge presented to us by par­ shown by the fact that the semester Navy blues to help build up the 1944 ticipation in the Colby College Alumni bills for the first semester this year Alumni Fund. Fund is one of the biggest opportuni­ were approximately $50,000 less than WILLIAM FINKELDEY, '43. ties of the moment. It is as important for the corresponding semester last Private, AUS as buying war bonds and is equivalent year. Camp Blanding, Florida THE COLBY ALUMNUS 15

ACTIVITIES ON MAYFLOWER HILL

Undergrad Banquet- The custom­ cal weekend. He played at an infor­ Deputations - The S. C. A. recently ary undergraduate women's banquet mal evening at President Bixler's sent out two deputation teams, one to was held Monday evening, March 20. home, participated in Dr. Comparetti's Oakland and one to Portland. The It was a formal party held in the dor­ Music Appreciation Class, gave a full first group consisted of a musical trio, mitory dining rooms, with guests in­ recital Friday evening, and at the all­ and Professor H. L. Newman as cluding Dr. and Mrs. Bixler, Miss Run­ college assembly, Saturday morning, speaker. The other deputation group nals, and women faculty members. Dr. Hodgson and Professor Cecil Rol­ went to the Central Square Baptist After dinner in the Dunn Lounge, lins presented an interesting program Church in Woodfords, Maine, where humorous talks were given by repre­ combining music and poetry. they furnished recreation on Saturday evening, and conducted a discussion sentatives of the different classes who • * * were introduced as titles of "best for the Young People's Society on sellers." The speaker of the evening Tournaments - Spring has finally Sunday. was Mrs. Sumner Sewall, wife of the come to Colby (we hope) and tourna­ • • • GoYernor of Maine, who stirringly ments are well under way again. This discussed the position of women in the year the tournaments include basket­ Symphony Orchestra - On Sunday post-war world. Mrs. Ruth Yeaton ball, ping-pong, shuffie board, deck ten­ evening, April 2, the Colby Com­ McKee, '37, was the toastmistress. nis, paddle tennis, and bowling. Girls munity Orchestra held its final concert • * * get W. A. A. credit toward their under Dr. Comparetti for the duration numerals, " C," or cup if they partici­ of the war, with Mozart's Symphony Shamrock Inn - A St. Patrick's pate in these tournaments. in G Minor as the outstanding selec­ Day Cabaret was sponsored by the Stu­ * * • tion. Appreciation of Dr. Comparetti dent Christian Association. This gala was shown when he was presented event was held in the Women's Union Journalist - Mrs. Elizabeth May with a fine fountain pen and a record with appropriate decorations. The Jive Craig, political columnist and head of album of the same symphony "to re­ Bombers, a Vvaterville orchestra, sup­ the Women's Press Bureau in Wash­ mind you of how we didn't play it." plied the music, and a floor show pre­ ington, D. C., spoke to a large group senting the " Shamrockettes " was the of students and townspeople on • • * highlight of the evening. "Women in the Post-War World." Operas- One of the recent addi­ * * * She gave many personal items about tions to Colby's curriculum is a discus­ Victory - The Freshman basketball different well-known people at Wash­ sion once a week on an opera. On C! team defeated Higgins Academy in its ington. April 1 at the home of Mrs. E. J. Col­ 00 very exciting last game. The score * * * gan the talk was on the opera " Magic was tied three times in the last five Flute.'' The participants listened to minutes of the game, but Bob Nar­ Teas -A new feature on the Hill is the opera over the radio and then dis­ dozzi's jump shot gave Colby a two tea every Friday afternoon in the Smith cussed it. point margin. Lounge. Each week two freshmen * • • • * * from each dormitory serve as hostesses, and an enjoyable hour is had by all Beauty Contest - The Sigma Kap­ Phi Beta Kappa - Constance Bar­ who care to come around. pas had their Open House date sched­ bour, Mary Roberts, and Mildred uled for April 1. The Dunn Lounge Steenland are the three seniors of '44 • • • took the form of " Colby Island " and who were elected to Phi Beta Kappa, Tonic - The Alpha Delta Pi had the customary " board walk " and Colby's highest academic honor. Sorority advertised their Saturday even­ beach concessions. The highlight of * * * ing program for the air students and this April Fool's Party was when the Recital - Dr. Hugh Hodgson, the Colbyites as a "Medical Clinic " " beauty contestants " were chosen ll famous pianist who is head of the Fine where all could receive their spring �r?m a .mong the air students. They Of Arts Department of the University of tonic. This magic elixir contained 1omed m as good sports, and a certain � Georgia, gave Colby a wonderful musi- dancing, singing, and skits. young man, dressed as a hula dancer, to 2 iis est �· an ill � {)(

ALMOST DESERTED 16 THE COLBY ALUMNUS was acclaimed " Miss Mayflower Hill " He was in Bermuda with a carrier ready been Jescribed in this magazine. and won the prize - an issue of when Pearl Harbor day came and after This opportunity of hearing at first Beauty Parade. some refitting for battle duty, they hand some details of tactics and meth­ * * * cruised in northern Atlantic waters and o

HE Boston Colby alumnae plan to T hold their spring tea and annual O booklovers, "Kelmscott " is a finest printing ever produced, is made meeting on Saturday afternoon, April T magic name. Between 1891 and possible in no small part by the funds 29, promptly at three o'clock. Place, 1896, fifty-three volumes were issued available for such "special " purposes the Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy from the Kelmscott Press, England, un­ from Library Associates' fees. St., Cambridge, near the Fogg Art der the guiding genius of William The typical Kelmscott Yolume Museum, which is suggested as the is Morris. These books " influenced the parchment-bound, with place to spend an hour or two before heavy hand­ art of printing as no man in modern made paper. Not satisfied the meeting. After the business meet­ with any times influenced it," but since every existing type, Morris designed ing, several recent alumnae will de­ and cut work was issued in a limited edition his own Golden, Troy, and Chaucer scribe their war-time activities. they have since become highly-prized fonts which exhibit great legibility As our mailing list never catches up and collectors' items, seldom available for grace. Many of the books have with many swiftly moving graduates, orna­ purchase and then often at prohibitive mental initial designs or we hope everyone who hears of the . borders. pnces. Some are printed in two colors. meeting will plan to attend, with or They For these reasons, the Colby Library are not "pretty " books, but convey without a personal notice. a Associates had their eyes opened in ex­ sense of forthright master-craftsman­ - MARGUERITE CHAMBERLAIN, '15, ship which Secretary. citing surprise at their meeting on carries an impression of March 17 when an exhibition of 21 quality and power. Kelmscott volumes was spread out for The Kelmscott edition of The WATERVILLE ALUMNI their inspection and it was revealed Works of Geoffrey Chaucer is the most HEAR COLBY ACE FLIER that this rich collection ranks second magnificent and is said to be " the fin­ only to Harvard's holdings ( 47 vol, est production of any modern press." A GROUP of local Colby alumni umes) among New England colleges. A copy sold at auction in New York and Waterville townspeople (Other holdings: Brown, 13; Dart­ a few months ago for $975, but Col­ heard Lt. Comdr. Hawley G. Russell, mouth, 10; Smith, 10; Wellesley, 10; by's specimen was not acquired on any '38, tell of his war experiences at a Williams, 10; Yale, 6; Amherst, 2; such scale. There are 87 woodcut meeting held in the USO Lounge (one­ etc.) That these were acquired over illustrations by Sir Edward Burne­ time Deke House) on March 29th. the past few years without any fantas­ Jones. It is a large, imposing volume " Monk," as the officer was invari­ tic expenditures is attributable to the - gi'eat in every sense of the word. ably known to his college friends, told assiduous hunting of Prof. Carl J. When Colby's Treasure Room is in a humorous and casual way some Weber, Curator of Rare Books and opened in the Miller Library, one of the incidents which have befallen . Manuscripts, and of Librarian N. Or­ would be hard put to it to find a vol­ .; him as a Na y fighter pilot with five win Rush. That any Colby student ume more worthy of the place of Japanese planes on his score. may now see and handle some of the honor than this Kelmscott Chaucer. THE COLBY ALUMNUS 17

PROWLS PACIFIC, After a year in camp and field he still SINKS SHIP, GETS MEDAL prefers a good volume and a fireside and, visiting in Dorset, he was made AWARDED the Navy Cross for to feel right at home. Whenever Mrs. " extraordinary heroism in con­ W. J. Perham and her family (her nection with military operations husband is a colonel serving in the against an armed enemy," Lt. Whitney * * * * * East) could tear Libbey from the well­ Wright, '37, was mentioned in a * * stocked shelves of their own library, dispatch from " Advanced South Pa­ * * they took him to places where Hardy cific Air Base " on March 23. had lived and written. While the whole story is evidently " I spent a long weekend with these not available for publication, the dec­ !1096 very pleasant people," said the Ameri­ oration may be presumed to reward an * * * * can, " and my bedroom had been the engagement in which Lt. Wrigh 's * * great man's study. If his ghost ever plane sank a heavily-gunned Japane e *** ** wandered by night I should have seen patrol vessel and nursed his plane it. A replica of this room is shown at 111- home over a thousand mile stretch of the local museum. IC· Pacific water with one motor disabled. ,; " Among other places which we vis­ L As what the dispatch dubbed " an ited was the home of Judge Jeffrey's aerial cop, ' Lt. Wright is skipper of a (the hanging judge) which is now a Navy Liberator which patrols the far cheerful tea room. We spent some reaches of the South Pacific watching He married Louise Weeks, '38, daugh­ time in a museum filled with Roman for enemy task forces, photographing ter of Prof. Lester F. Weeks, '15, and antiquities and relics of earlv Briton. evidences of special activity, or search­ Ethel Merriam Weeks, '14. Then we visited Hardy's birthplace, a ing for lost American planes. They little thatched cottage where we had also make weather observations. Oc­ tea. At Stinsford Church we were casionally they sight an enemy ship SPENDS LEAVE IN shown his wife's grave in which his and are prepared to deal with it as did HARDY PILGRIMAGE heart is also buried." Whit upon this occasion. They think nothing of a hunt extending over ten RMY life in England was not ORCIDDS TO THE 43rd! hours and the Guadalcanal beat takes A Hardy enough for Sgt. David D them almost witltin sight of Truk. C. Libbey, '38, so he utilized a leave G LOWING accounts of the 43rd .t These ' snoop planes," officially to visit the stamping ground of Colby's Division, including the former ;tr called the Ocean Search Service, usu­ literary patron saint and this fact, National Guard outfit from Waterville ad ally have a deadly monotonous assign­ strangely enough, was picked by an which contains several Colby officers 13· ment, but occasionally run into action. Associated Press correspondent and on and men, were given to the press re­ rs.. Once, for instance, they outsmarted March 16th the following dispatch ap­ cently by Col. Paul A. Chase who has the Japs on Greenwich Island, 710 peared in American papers: returned to this country for duty in miles north_ of Guadal. When they Boston after 14 months in the South judged the day to be right, the plane LONDON, March 15 - (AP) - Pacific. of flew ove!" at 11 o'clock as it had been An American who loves the books of "The 43rd was in combat for 83 doing daily. This time five Rufes Thomas Hardy was the happiest G. I. days," reported Col. Chase. "That's (Boat Zeros) hustled into the air and in Britain the other day when he was longer than any other outfit over there. swarmed around the big plane with­ asked to visit an English family who It's the best damned division in the lived in the famous novelist's old home Ill· out doing any damage. A few min­ United States Army. The 43rd took in the heart of what is called the �· utes later, however, a second American the Russell Islands, Reodova, New rk plane made an unheralded appearance "Hardy country." The trip was ar­ Georgia, and other assorted real estate. DI­ and caught all five Rufes on the water ranged by the hospitality bureau of And the 43rd captured the Munda air­ D} and destroyed them like sitting ducks. the American Red Cross Washington port, reports from the other services ur Club in London and the lucky soldier notwithstanding." was Sgt. David C. Libbey, of Newport It· Whitney Wright entered the Navy Col. Chase singled out Lt. Col. H. about a year after graduation and took avenue, Pittsfield, Maine. Chesterfield ne Marden, '21, as doing "a Libbey is in the air force, in com­ great job," �­ his training at Pensacola. He Bew At­ continuing: "I can't begin lantic patrol duty until Pearl Harbor munications, but his life up to Army to list all is the names of the other New and then went into the Pacific theater. days was spent among books. He was Englanders who are [)( carrying on on the For a long time he was skipper of big a librarian at the New York City Pub­ island. I can say, �­ though, that you Coronado flying boats, and more re­ lic Library and assistant librarian at haven't heard the last Of of the 43rd. Its cently of a long range Navy Liberator. Washington College, Chesterton, Md. officers and men have the peculiar idea 18 THE COLBY ALUMNUS that the war won't be won until we go mimeograph, multi-color lithograph, out and fight, so that's exactly what DON'T BOTHER slick paper, and regular full-sized or they've been doing and intend to do." ME NOW, SARGE tabloid newsprint jobs. Among them Besides Lt. Col. Marden, '21, the Colby GI's should be careful how is our own Sky Hook published by following alumni (as far as can be they get absorbed in this magazine. Colby's 21st CTD. Some of the posts judged from their addresses) are now Pvt. Harold Joseph, '44, writes represented are Fort Collins, Fort attached to the ·Brei Division: Maj. from the South Pacific that he Brady, Morris Field, Terminal Island, Philip L. Miller, '29; Capt. Robert E. was happily reading a COLBY Selman Field, Reno AAB, Montgom­ Anderson, '42; Sgt. Oliver C. Mellen, ALUMNUS borrowed from his ery Area, Camp Stewart, Eglin Field, '36: Sgt. James L. McMahon, '44; top-kick, Sgt. Oliver (" Andy ") El Centro USMCAS, Fitzsimmons Pvt. Charles D. Keef, '39; and Pvt. Mellen, '36, when he gradually be­ Hospital, Peterson Field, San Diego Harold S. Joseph, '44. Col. Spaulding ,came conscious of a disturbance Area ( rfarines ), Miami Area, Camp Bisbee, '13, went overseas with his which proved to be his own buck Campbell, Bainbridge Field, Las Ve­ regiment in this division, but is now in sergeant hollering: " I'm going to gas, Fort MacArthur, Daniel Field, California. Maj. William Mansfield, keep yelling 'Fall in! ' right into Will Rogers Field, Williams College well known to many Colby men as the your ear until either I bust my lung Naval Unit, 12th Armored Division, Winslow High School coach, also saw or break your eardrum!" Hal was Houlton Air Base, Brooks Field, Fair­ service with this outfit. just remembering how we had torn field- Suisun :\AF, and Westo\'er down the Bowdoin goal posts three Field. ARMY JOURNALISM years ago, but he sighed and fell in. The Editor wishes to thank all those who took the trouble to send in these W RITTNG one of the SCA Service most interesting examples of wartime Letters about a year ago, the '38. Hale and Libbey also sent copies journalism and invites you all to come Editor appended a postscript to the of the Army magazine Yank, printed in and look over the collection when­ effect that he was a collector of unusual in Jerusalem and London, respectively. eYer you come back to the campus. newspapers and would be interested in A copy of The White Falcon was seeing samples of service papers from mailed by Sgt. Howard Williams, '39, SERVICE PERSONALS training camps and abroad. The re­ when he was stationed in Iceland, but 2nd Lt. Burton D. Currier, '44, re­ sult has been a steady trickle of news­ a careful study of the eight tabloid­ cei\'ed his wings as a Marine fighter papers from all parts of the globe size pages fails to reveal any mention pilot on Jan. 30 at Pensacola, and is which have piled up into a collection of Iceland whatsoever. The same is now at Cecil Field, Jacksonville, ad­ of about fifty different kinds, some true of a paper called The Defender, dress: VSB 4, Flt 168. with a number of copies of each. which could be from Hawaii. Lt. A. V. (" Tony ") Bolduc, '4 1, is Most interesting f�om the collector's Quite a unique sheet is The Jungle S-4 for an anti-aircraft outfit which viewpoint, perhaps, are those published Leer, "the only newspaper within made one of the recent invasi;ns in for the armed forces overseas. There 2,249 miles," printed aboard a trans­ the J ew Guinea area, assigned to a are several issues of the C-B-l Round­ port out in the Pacific and sent by Lt. Marine Task Force. They landed up, published in Delhi for the China, Gene McAlary, '35. from LST's and he says that the Japs Burma, T ndia theater of war, and made Some fellows in the Southwest Pa­ had been there for two years but hadn't famous when the peppery column cific wrote that they were not allowed improved the place much. Tony says written exclusively for it by Congress­ to send home local civilian papers, but that he has spent enough hours in fox­ woman Clare Boothe Luce (honorary from the other direction have been re­ holes to qualify as a veteran. His bat­ Litt.D., Colby, 1941) was suppressed ceived the Sunday Hindustan Standard tery's score is five enemy planes. " by the War Department as being po­ (date line: " Calcutta - August 4, A-C Henry V. Rokicki, '44, has litical," and one of the issues received 1943, Sharaban 15, 1350, B.S." Any­ moved to Williams Field, Chandler, here happens to be the one announc­ body explain that?), The London Ariz., for advanced training. Recently ing this action. It was sent in by Lt. Daily Mail (four pages!), London he bumped into 2nd Lt. Richard Hay­ Ritz Searle, '40. Daily Herald, the Belfast Telegraph ward, '43 , in Tuscon. Dick introduced Two other rare items were sent by (front page all classified advertising), his B-24 crew to Rocky and they said Lt. Gabriel 0. Dumont, '40: the The Sun, Nassau, Bahamas, and the that Dick is a great skipper. They Eighth Army News, published in Mid-Ocean News, Hamilton, Ber­ had a good time talking over football Sicily, and the Tripoli Times. It is in­ muda. and hockey days. teresting to note the differences in in­ Back from overseas also have come Ens. Oren Shiro, '42, admits that he terests, idioms and attitudes in these "pony " editions of Time and News­ is getting fat down there in the South British army papers, compared with week, reduced to 6 by 8 inches and Pacific. His ship knocked down a Jap the American papers. identical with the regular editions ex­ plane, he writes, in about five minutes Samples of three editions of The cept that the pages have been rear­ that seemed like an hour. Stars and Stripes have been received: ranged to eliminate all advertising. Cad. Timothy C. Osborne, '44, has the African (two francs), from Cpl. These, it is understood, are Bown to transferred to Pensacola for intermedi­ Eddie Sarantides, '43; the Middle the U. S. armed forces overseas. ate flight training. East (four cents), from Cpl. Clarence The papers from training centers in Pfc. J. Milton Stilwell, '43, writes E. Hale, '26; and the English (one this country represent about every size, from Quantico that he was feeling penny), from Sgt. David C. Libbey, kind and printing process, including kind of homesick one night and within TIIE COLBY ALUMNUS 19

a few hours came across three Colby with a malarial control unit somewhere men who he didn't know were there: in the South Pacific. Pfc. John P. Turner, '44, Pfc. George 2nd Lt. Frank S. Quincy, '43, was H. (" Bud ") McKay, '44, and ( sur­ commissioned on March 18, with navi­ prise!) Pfc. Dominick M. Puiia, '44, gator's wings. He called at the college who had just returned from Iceland. during a furlough before going to Pfc. Edward H. Miselis, '45, has Alexandria, La., to pick up a Fortress been with the Air Corps since his in­ and crew. duction last April and was overseas Capt. W. M. McAllister, '26, is as­ for a while and now is stationed in the sistant G-2 in a Corps Headquarters in Miami area: Hg and Hg Sec, 92nd England, the type of work he has been Service Grp., APO 695, c-o PM, in for two years. Mac's sister is an Miami. Army nurse in England and they have Pvt. Albert I. Ellis, '44, is back at been able to get together frequently. Fort Bragg, N. C., after divisional He hopes to be able to look uo his maneuvers in Tennessee for two and a classma-te, Clarence E. Hale, '26,- who half months. is in the country somewhere. Edward C. Carey, '46, SM-3C, is Pfc. Paul F. Murray, '43, is with a with an armed guard outfit and s.iys Leatherneck combat unit completing that he finds Colby SCA letters or e its training at Camp Pendleton, Ocean­ Alumnus waiting for him after every side, Calif. He plays in the division trip. He looks forward to the time band and has a sharpshooter's medal. when the only victory Colby men will Sgt. Donald G. Leach, '44, recently be fighting for will be against Bow­ Taking time off from his battle won his third stripe in Ireland where doin, Bates and Maine. against malarial mosquitoes, Cpl. Ed­ he is chief personnel clerk for an Air S-Sgt. Harry Hildebrandt, '43, is at­ ward Sarantides, '4 3, relaxes against a Force squadron. tached to the 21st Training Group, North African palm to peruse his fav­ Cpl. Philip M. Caminiti, '44, is as­ sistant athletic director at Camp Sibert, It· Squad C, at Jefferson Barracks, Mo., orite magazine (guess what). but expects to revert back to weather Ala. He ran off a boxing show and among those who helped out on the I forecas;ing whenever he arrives "some­ S-Sgt. Raymond D. Stinchfield, '36, . refereeing were Joe Louis, Al Blozis d. where. former instructor in gunnery at various Capt. Edson H. Cooper, '31, writes Army air fields, is now ball gunner on and other sports 1 uminaries. Lt. Louis Sacks, '39, who got gypped 'D from England, where he is with the a Fortress operating out of England. out of a European trip in the fall of finance division. He hopes to have a Kenneth Morton, '45, AS, and 1939, when th� war broke out just a chance to look up his classmate, Eliza­ Francis B. Ward, '45, AS, have duty week before he was planning to sail as beth Walker. about as close to Colby as anyone, be­ foreign exchange student, has at last Pfc. Robert M. Wasserman, '46, had ing attached to the . aval Section Base gotten as far as England and may get a three davs' leave in London a few at Portland, but they write that they . to France yet. He is in the Civil weeks ago and got into conversation welcome the Colby letters none the Affairs Center, learning to become an with a man who turned out to be a Sir less. In April they were scheduled to administrator of occupied territories, Robert Young, member of Parliament go to Wellesley for four months at the and finds the work very absorbing. from Scotland, who was most gracious Naval Supply School there. (So Cpl. Francis R. Altieri, '33, with a in showing Bob around and giving Wellesley has gone co-ed, huh?) bombardment squadron in England, him a pass to the Distinguished Stran­ Lt. John E. Geagan, '42, skipper of writes that his son is growing at a rate gers' Gallery in the House of Com­ a B- 17, is training his crew at Ard­ which makes him potential Colby foot­ mons. Bob is with a medical detach­ tl1 more, Okla. ball material about 18 years hence. by· ment. Pvt. Christie C. Adams, '45, is sta­ 2nd Lt. John M. Lomac, '43, USMC, Maj. Harvey D. Eaton, Jr., '16, has tioned somewhere in the South West has shoved off across the blue Pacific. been transferred from the Military Pacific. The El Centro post paper, Desert School of Instruction at Ft. Belvoir to S-Sgt. Ray F. Kozen, '42, recently Diggings, carried a picture showing the Selective Service Headquarters in upped his rating and moved with the Johnny in the basketball team which, Washington. whole wing headquarters from Presque it said, was " unbeaten until they hit Lt. Arthur T. Eaton, '45, was re­ Isle, Me., to Grenier Field, . H., San Diego." cently transferred from Fort Jackson, Adm Unit, Sta 1, (Hq) NAW ATC. Ens. Ben Harding, '42, is waiting at S. C.", to Camp Barkeley, Texas, where The two Atwater boys are in air the Armed Guard Center, Brooklyn, he is taking advanced training in first crew training. A-S James Atwater, for assignment. While in Torfolk he aid. '44, is nearing the end of his CTD had a 15 minute chat with Ens. Laurie Sgt. Fred E. Rogers, '45, is now at training at University of Arkansas, L. Harris, Jr., '42, who "certainly ap­ the Bayshore Staging Area, San Fran­ while A-S Shipley Atwater, '45, has peared to be in the best of health." cisco. He is in the medical detach­ been sent to the classification center at Pvt. James Lunden, '46, formerly at ment with a mobile Quartermaster's Santa Ana, Calif. (Sqdn 15, Flt C). Fort Ethan Allen, is now at Camp Liv­ battalion. Hubert E. Smith, '46, Ph M 3-C, is ingston, La., Co E, 342nd Inf. 20 THE COLBY ALUMNUS

A-C Norman Epstein, '46, is taking A-C Philip H. Watson, '44, is taking advanced navigation at Ellington Field, COLBY TEXANS MEET ad,·anced flight training at Aloe Field, Texas, PO Box 1424. Lt. Col. Leslie H. Wyman, '26, Victoria, Texas, with hopes of getting 1st Lt. Evan J. Macllraith, '43, was was host to five Colby officers sta­ his wings about the middle of April. pulled back from the Cassino front and tioned at Camp Barkeley, Texas, on Lt. Maurice Schwarz, '38, is flight hospitalized with yellow jaundice and March 25th. A pleasant evening of control officer for a bombardment threatened with stomach ulcers. He is fellowship and exchange of Colby group based in Italy. In that country he mel Capt. Lewis K.leinholz, '30, now better, but reclassified and has reminiscences was enjoyed by all H. been given the job of manager of two present. The following attended: (also biology instructor for a time at hotels in Italy. (So take a look at the Lt. Winthrop E. Jackson, '37; Lt. Colby) who is A \• iation Psychologist manager, you fellows who go into a Ernest C. Marriner, Jr., '40; Lt. for the 15th Air Force and doing very well, accorcling to Maurice. GT hotel; it may be Mac.) Gordon 0. Merrill, '41 ; Lt. Wes ton George A. Sederquist, '46, S 2-C MacRae, '42; and Lt. Arthur Eaton, Lt. Andrew Bedo, '43, sends word (RM), is on Pacific waters, address: '45. Capt. Samuel Pennell, '22, from the Anzio beachhead that they Navy 134, FPO, San Francisco. was unable to come. are clucking shells from all directions, A-C Leo Franklin, Jr., '43, is at Yale but can dish it out as well as take it. University, Sq I, Class 30-44, Sect 49, Ens. John E. Gilmore, '40, was com­ Rm 2600, Army Air Forces Technical attack of rheumatic fe\'er at the Great missioned on March 29 at the US School. Lakes NTS. Coast Guard Academy and expects to Jacob Kramer, '46, QM 3-C, is with Lt. E. Robert Bruce, '40, is a para­ be assigned to a cutter operating out of the amphibious forces on a LST boat trooper, Co T, 1st Prcht Regt, Fort the Boston area. and has left these shores. Benning, Ga. He has finished training Lt. John T. Foster, '41, is instructor Cpl. Wilbur F. Mcintyre, '46, is with and is about ready for overseas. Be­ in the Maintenance Engineering divi­ a bombardment squadron in the South fore leaving Camp Fannin. his regi­ sion of the AAF Technical Training Pacific area. ment had a new Chaplain: Lt. Everett Corps at Yale. He and his wife and Lt. (jg) E. M. Tower, Jr., '40, is at A. Rockwell, '20. "It was a pleasant baby are living at 15 Thomas St., ew sea in Atlantic waters. meeting," Bob writes. Haven. Pfc. Patterson Small, '44, is in New Edward J. McCarthy, '36, S 2-C, is Ens. Ralph 0. Peabody, '35, is kill­ Guinea with a Cavalry service troop. training at the US aval Construction ing time with the Acorn Training De­ Sgt. Edward P. Cleveland, '39, is Training Center at Camp Peary, Wil­ tachment, Fort Hueneme, Calif. He holding down some unnamed island in liamsburg, Va. has been assigned to a " Gro-pac " unit, the South Pacific with about a dozen Lt. Francis W. Juggins, '31, wants which means going into a newly cap­ other Marines and operating a radar to be added to the list of "Texans." tured harbor and fixing it up for effi­ unit. He left Oahu last January. He is attached to the Main Station at cient use. He says that he rated pretty Mids. George D. Godfrey, '43, is at Corpus Christi as Assistant Personnel low in the sea-sickness test so thinks Midshipman's School, Furnald 532, Officer, and would be glad to contact that he will have to ride to Tokyo by New York City 27. any other Colby fellows. rail. His wife and kids are in Au­ 1st Lt. David Brodie, '42, is attached Lt. vV endell C. Brooks, Jr., '42, Ma­ burn, Me. Ralph is wondering how to the Office of Strategic Services in rine pilot, underwent the traditional two old men like Millett and Loebs Italy. His war travels have taken him rites of initiation as a "shellback " can carry on at the college. already to Capetown, South Africa, when they crossed the Equator. " Just Maj. Emmons B. Farrar, '14, writes and Cairo, Egypt. like fraternity initiations," he wrote. from England that he'll take Maine Capt. Murray B. Miller, '29, has 2nd Lt. William E. Frazier, Jr., '44, snow and sub-zero weather anytime just finished a second course in plastic was commissioned on March 18 at the over the continuous fog and dampness surgery in England. Previous study Carlsbad (N. M.) Army Air Field. that is typical winter weather o er had been done in this field at Harvard. He wears a bombardier's wings, but there. Ens. Robert S. Rice, '42, has set sail has also completed instruction in navi­ Robert W. Sparkes, '36, C Sp, ar­ on the Pacific, and Ens. Charles W. gation and aerial gunnery. rived at Tew Caledonia on March Nightingale, '42, who served as Bob's Pvt. Phillips B. Pierce, '45, one of 22nd. He has the sincere sympathy of best man, left on a carrier in January. the ex-ASTP boys at Alabama Poly, is all his friends on the loss of his brother, Both are pilots. now at Fort Jackson, S. C., Co A, 101st Bill, in action. Lt. Harold D. Seaman, '42, has had Inf, APO 26. Pvt. George F. MacPhelemy, '46, a most interesting assignment as Aide­ Cpl. Edward F. Loring, '42, former writes from overseas that it was warm de-Camp to Maj. Gen. Dahlquist of � ussian. scholar at Indiana University, enough to play a little football in the 70th Division. Hal says that it is 1s now m Co B, 32nd Signal Training March. That doesn't sound like Eng­ the most instructive job a young officer Battalion, Camp Crowder, Mo. land. Maybe Italy? He is with a can get and provides a general picture Pvt. Clarence R. Fernald, '40, has bomber group. of all the arms and services. He was gone overseas with a general hospital Ens. Dwight K. Beal, '41, has been promoted to First last September and unit, APO 519, N. Y. in the Naval Air Corps since 1941. now is at the Command and General Cpl. William H. Graham, Jr., '45, He instructed in Jax for a while and Staff School, Fort Leavenworth, Kans. reports his new address as Co B, 226th then at Dallas for a -vear and a half. Robert L. Jacobs, Jr., '46, S 2-C, is Trainjng Battalion, 69th Regt, Camp At present Red is at Miami undergo­ recovering very satisfactorily from an Blanding, Fla. ing operational training in torpedo THE COLBY ALUMNUS 21

bombers and soon expects to go to the Pacific coast to pick up- a carrier. Ens. Machaon E. Stevens, '39, and Lt. (jg) William C. Carter, '38, after several near-misses, finally got together on a South Pacific isle for a good Zete reunion. Pfc. Thomas W. Farnsworth, Jr., '43, sends in a picture of himself in front of the Taj Mahal, the beautiful dome of which looks like a thistle, ap­ parently being covered by a maze of scaffolding. Whether this is for pro­ tection, repair or camouflage is any­ body's guess. S-Sgt. Frank L. Jewell, '40, is over­ seas ( c!o Y Postmaster) as a Classifi­ cation Specialist. He says that he will probably be " a swivel-chair soldier even though I may have to put n.y chair in a fox hole." While at Sey­ mour Johnson Field a few weeks ago he saw Sgt. Tom Vose, '40, and Cpl. Herbert D. Stearns, '41. Lt. Charles H. Card, '40, is some­ where overseas with an engineering outfit. THE COLBY CLUB OF AUBURN, ALABAMA Lt. (jg) George Holbrook, '36, has f uj� before their ASTP u nit disbanded, the above boys at Alabama Polytech­ . , been seeing the world. After a year in nic fnjt1tute, Auburn, Ala., lined up as follows: (front row) Floyd E. Harding, Iceland, he is no·w on duty. in the '43; Harold Friedman, '45; Bernard R. Dutille, '46; Sydney Parris, 145; (back) South Pacific. Robert Singer, '45; Robert Lucy, '45; Richard /. Marcyes, 145; John W. McCul­ John W. Lord, '45, Y 2-C, is aboard lum, '45. Absent from picture: Stanley I-!. Levine, 144. Phillips B. Pierce, ship in Pacific waters. '45, had already left. S-Sgt. Arthur R. Austin, '33, is with a headquarters and service company in effects, except to the J aps. ' Bill is with muck and slime,'' he writes, " none of an engineering battalion, overseas. a mortar battery, to judge from his us who came back would trade it for Cpl. Richard A. Field, '43, has the address. love or money." After a leave at home least military address of any soldier we Cpl. Edward Sarantides, '43, is he is now or{ duty at Fort Lauderdale'. know: Two Rock Ranch, Petaluma, bossing a gang of 75 prisoners in a Fla., and is now taking training as a Calif. (f ust duding it for a while, swamp drainage project in Africa, hop­ landing signal officer on a carrier. Dick?) ing to foil the Anophelines (skeets, to A-S Robert M. Gray, '43, has been Pfc. Milton W. Hamilt, '42, another you) who are about to go around lay­ with an AAF college training detach­ i!lC victim of ASTP liquidation, finds him­ ing eggs which will breed the malaria ment at Eastern Oregon College, La mt self in the 78th Division at Camp Pick­ carriers. Ed at last made connections Grande, Ore., but (like Colby's unit) ett, Va., along with Pfc. Harry L. with Cpl. Howard A. Miller, '41, and this will be liquidated in the near \(! Levin, '44, and Pfc. Eliot B. they had some good Colby talk. He future. (" Huck ") Kraft, '43. Milt's address reveals that Edward Principe, '44, is T-5 Robert C. Ryan, '41, is with a ar· is: Medical Detachment, 309th Inf, with a fighter squadron in Corsica. division finance section overseas, prob­ rch APO 78, Camp Pickett. Lt. Howard F. Rowell, '43, has been ably in England. of Jean Pearson Burr, '41, SPAR, stood in England since last October and is Dana I. Robinson, '45, A-S, has been 5th in her class at Storekeepers School. flying a P-51 in the inth Air Force. transferred from the Bates V- 12 unit She is living at 7 Winter St., Plymouth, Robert M. Perry, '45, QM 3-C, is at to Bks 30, Co V, Camp McDonough, Mass. sea with a Coast Guard ship. Plattsburgh, N. Y. Mary L. Buss, '34, American Red Alta Gray, '41, S 2-C, WAVE, has _Pfc. Robert_ Bedig, '46, is serving Cross Social VIorker, has arrived in finished her course at the Link Trainer with an engmeers construction bat­ Australia for duty with the armed School at Atlanta, Ga., and is now talion in England having been there forces. Until her ARC appointment, assigned to duty at Pensacola. since October. Miss Buss was with the Children's Di­ Capt. Saul Millstein, '42, has re­ Sgt. Lewis E. Weeks, '42, is overseas !tJJ vision of the Rhode Island Department turned to this country after a year as a (APO NY) with a medical depot com­ J. of Social Welfare. Marine dive-bomber pilot which in­ pany. Lt. William H. Hughes, '41, USMC, cluded action at Guadalcanal, the Rus­ T-5 Roger B. Tilley, '37, is in a has been seeing action in the Pacific sell Islands, i\funda, Bourgainville, and truck outfit, QM, overseas. theater, but, he writes, "with no ill Empress Bay. " In spite of all the Maj. Frederick K. Poulin, '37, is 22 TI-IE COLBY ALUMNUS medical officer with the 12th Army Air Currier, Burton D. Lt USA MCR To Corporal, Wilbur F. Mcintyre, Force, which is mentioned frequently MacLeod, Norman D. Jr. Sgt USA '46, USA, overseas. in communiques. To Corporal, Joseph S. Strup, '45, 1945 Sgt. John MacLeish, '41, is now at USA, Miami Beach, Fla. Ambrosia, Ronald V. Pvt USA Charles L. Main, the 438th Sub Depot, Santa Maria, To Seaman 1-C, Bailey, Owen W. M USNR '43, Calif. USCG, Brooklyn, N. Y. To 2 - , Edward J. Mc­ Sgt. James F. Kavanaugh, '42, is 1946 eaman C Carthy, '36, overseas Pacific with an aerial mapping Donahue, Robert N. Pvt USA US TR, Camp Peary, Va. Louis Deraney, outfit, while his brother, Pvt. Leo F. Kelly, D. Robert FC3-C US R To Seaman 2-C, M. '43, USNR, Sampson, . Y. Kavanaugh, Jr., '43, is at Camp Grant, Risser, Elden F. Pvt USA To Air Cadet, John R. McDonald, Ill. (2 9th MTB, 1643 SU.) Rogers, Fred E. Sgt USA '46, USA, AAF, Sherman, Texas. Three Parsons boys are in service. 1947 Ens. Donald A. Parsons, '42, is exec Briggs, Kerry S. Pvt USA officer on a LCI in South Pacific wa­ Finkelstein, Jason D. Pvt USA OVERSEAS OR ON SEA DUTY ters. Pfc. Richard E. Parsons, '45, is Levek, Arthur W. Pvt USA (Note: In this group we list those whose somewhere in the same area in a Ma­ Rogers, Richard H. Pvt USA addresses arc given in care of postmasters at rine replacement outfit. The third New York, New Orleans, or San Francisco, brother, Arthur A. Parsons, '46, S 2-C, and so arc presumed to have left this conti­ nent for active service.) is training to be a radio technician at PROMOTIONS the Bliss Electrical School, Takoma To Lieutenant Colonel, Albert R. Capt. Donald G. Jacobs, '20, USCG Park, Washington, D. C. Rogers, '17, USA, Fort Devens, Mass. Capt. Albert A. Snow, '23, USA Pvt. Philip E. Peterson, '46, formerly To Major, Edward J. Gurney, '30, PFC Robe11 A. Peterson, '29, USA Capt. Edson H. Cooper, '3 1, at Louisiana U, is back in the infantry: USA, North Camp Polk, La. USA Co G, 393rd Reg, 99th Div, APO 449, To Major, Elmer C. Warren, fac­ Mary L. Buss, '34, ARC ulty, Lt. I. Bums, '36, USA Camp Maxey, Texas. Atlantic City, T. ]. Martin To First Lieutenant, Charles E. Ens. Harold W. Hickey, '36, USCG Barnfather, '4 1, USA, overseas. Robert W. Sparkes, C.Sp., '36, To First Lieutenant, William E. USCG ADDITIONS TO SERVICE Pierce, '44, USA, India. Lt. (jg) Norman W. Beals, '37, ROSTER To First Lieutenant, Harold D. Sea­ USNR (Names are added here only when a service man, '42, USA, Camp Adair, Oregon. Maj. Carroll F. Danforth, '38, USA blank has been filled out and returned, in­ To Lieutenant (Junior Grade ), SSML 3-C Edward M. Hooper '38 ' cluding a mailing address. Numerous others US R ' are known by hearsay to be in service, but Charles A. Lord, '42, USNR, overseas. have not yet informed the college of their To Second Lieutenant, Lawrence Lt. Maurice C. Schwarz, '38, USA whereabouts.) Berry, '41, USA, Asheville, . C. Pvt. Stanley Schreider, '39, USA To Second Lieutenant, Harland S. Sgt. Raymond D. Stinchfield, '39 ' 1929 Thompson, '45, USA. USA Savage, Eugene T. Lt (jg) USNR To Ensign, Ralph P. Pallin, '45, S-Sgt. Frank L. Jewell, '40, USA USNR, Fort Pierce, Florida. Lt. Charles E. Barnfather, '41, USA 1932 To Midshipman, Douglas N. Smith, Sgt. George L. Beach, '41, USA Yellen, Rueben A. Lt USA AAF '45, USNR, Boston, Mass. Sgt. John C. Eaton, '41, USA To Staff Sergeant, Russell E. Butler, Pvt. Maurice Rimpo, '41, USA '29, USA, Camp Banning, Calif. Lt. (jg) Elmer M. Tower, Jr., '42, 1934 · To Staff Sergeant, Frank L. Jewell, USNR Buss, Mary L. ARC '40, USA, overseas. Ens. Franklyn A. Ervin, '43, US R Flynt, Willard C. Ens USNR To Staff Sergeant, Clarence R. Reid, Lt. George H. Jahn, '43, USNR '42, USA, overseas. Lt. Howard F. Rowell, '43, USA 1938 To Sergeant, James F. Kavanaugh, Ralph M. Sawyer, '43, S 2-C, USNR Danforth, Carroll F. Maj USA '42, USA, overseas. Sgt. Norman D. MacLeod, Jr. ' ' '44 To Sergeant, John MacLeish, '41, USA Pvt Christie 1941 USA, Santa Ana, Calif. C. Adams, '45, USA Pvt Burr, Jean Pearson SPAR USCG To Sergeant, Thomas S. Vose, '39, David A. Choate, '45, USA USA, Seymour Johnson Field, N. C. Pvt. Nathanael Lenson, '45, USA To SSML3!C, Edward M. Hooper, S 1-C Robert M. Perry, '45, USCGR 1942 '38, overseas. PFC Robert E. Bessey, '46, USA Dyar, Richard R. A-S USNR To Pharmacist Mate (third class), Pvt Francis Heppner, '46, USA Tower, Elmer L. Jr. Lt (jg) USNR Hubert E. Smith, '46, USNR, overseas. D. Robert Kelly, '46, FC 3-C, USNR To Technician (fifth grade), Roger Charles Kramer, '46, QM 3-C' 1943 B. Tilley, '37, USA, overseas. USNR Kavanaugh, Leo F. Jr. Pvt USA To Corporal, Francis R. Altieri, '33, George A. Sederquist, '46, S 2-CRM' USA, overseas. USNR 1944 To Corporal, William F. Graham, Hubert E. Smith, '46, PhM 3-C, Barnes, Lowell E. A-S USNR '45, USA, Camp Blanding, Fla. USNR TI-IE COLBY ALUMNUS 23

1879 Rose Beverage Lane lives at 1096 Bay 1919 William W. Mayo received birthday Street, Fall River, Mass. Her older Myra Dolley was recently appointed greetings from many of his relatives daughter, Marian, is married to a man dean of girls at Deering High School, and friends on April 12th, his 89th in the service, has two sons and now Portland, Maine. Miss Dolley has anniversary. He and Mrs. Mayo are lives in San Francisco. The younger taught French at Deering High School spending the winter with his oldest daughter Rhoda, is married, has a son since she graduated from Colby. She daughter in Rhinelander, Wisc. and lives in Fall River. Her son, has served two terms as Alumnae Willis, is in the Merchant Marines. Trustee, and was active in the local Colby Association. 1886 Bertha Robinson Wheeler lives in Albert M. Richardson retired from Phillips, Maine. "For the duration " Gordon E. Gates is a member of the the Portland, Maine, Y. M. C. A. Oc­ she is working in a local bank, taking faculty at Ewing College, Allahabad, tober 15, 1942, after almost twenty the place of a young man in the serv­ India. Phyllis Sturdivant Sweetser was re­ years of service beyond retirement age. ice. Her mother, about 86, is still He went into the office of Harmon & living. elected to the Cumberland School Newcomb, Fashion Clothes, in Port­ Committee and is serving as chairman land in April, 1943, to assist in the of the board for the third year. duties previously performed by a mem­ 1910 ber of the firm now in the armed Merle Crowell is author of an article 1922 service. in the March issue of Rotarian on Charles H. Gale has been transferred Robert G. LeTourneau, the remarkable from the Cleveland to the New York 1889 personality who made a fortune on office of Hill and Knowlton in the Em­ E. L. Sampson continues fulfilling earth moving machines and has put pire State Building. The Gales are his duties as an indispensable citizen most of it into a philanthropic founda­ now living on Locust Hill Road, of Jefferson, Maine. Occasionally as tion, to spread the gospel of " practical Darien, Conn. 'Ji, pulpit supply, regular teacher of a Christianity " over all the world. "good-sized " men's class in Sunday 1931 .1 : School, and for many years treasurer Joseph M. Trefethen, assistant pro­ of the church. Recently, he was PEPPER, '89, HAS fessor of geology at University of elected by a large majority Town Clerk UNEXPECTED VISITOR Maine and State Geologist, is putting : \ for the fifteenth consecutive year. much time and thought into ascertain­ retired to his H. B. Woods, having BROOKLINE, Mass., April 6 ing Maine's possibilities for the pro­ '39, a wide range native town, Calais, after (U.P.) - Charles Hovey Pepper, duction of mica, manganese and peat in the ministry, devotes him­ - all war materials. of service 79, a portrait painter, surprised an I raising the self to civic duties, of which intruder in his home early today : .\ has town's quota for the Red Cross and engaged him in conversation 1933 recently been his chief concern. until police arrived. Carleton D. Brown has been elected Wakened by his invalid wife, chairman of the Board of Alderman 1895 who heard a noise downstairs, the of the City of Waterville. Lila Harden Hersey is still at The artist tiptoed to the first floor. In Maine, enjoying the the living room he found a stranger 1.:R Oaks, Pembroke, 1935 "simple country life." dozing on a divan. l Hope Bunker left the Colby faculty Lane in Wakefield, Mass., "Tired? " Mr. Pepper asked. I Blanche last year and is now on the staff of the to take life rather leisurely " Yeah," the man replied. \'R is having U. S. Geological Survey, Box 829, these days. " How did you get in? " Carlsbad, New Mexico. '+I, Annie Waite is at the library in "I really couldn't say." West Boylston, Mass. She says "more "Was it through the bulkhead?" A people are reading than ever before." The stranger could not recall 1936 I Emma Fountain is basking in the Mr. Pepper asked the man's Hugh D. Beach has a new position \ sunshine at St. Petersburg, Fla. name. The stranger gave it and with Nervsweek magazine as publicity ;GR Linda Graves is busy with church then asked the name of his " host." director. He was formerly radio di­ work, club work, teaching sewing with "Been drinking?" the artist rector for the Ch.inese Ministry of In­ the 4-H girls, and substituting in the asked. formation. High School. " Let's see. I've been drinking for thirty-four hours." 1937 1907 Meanwhile a maid had called Joseph L. Packard has a pos1t10n in R.\J, Grace Stetson Grant is now teaching police, who took the intruder away the office of Alien Property Custodian in Parsonfield Seminary, Kezar Falls, with them. in Washington. He is now living on Maine. a 50 ft. boat called the Chalomer. 24 THE COLBY ALUMNUS

MARRIAGES \'iola Jane Ruggles to Lt. (jg) 194 1 George Holbrook, '36, at St. Mark's Anne Polynick of ·ewark Valley, Prudence Piper is an administrative Chapel, Southboro, Mass., Oct. 16, New York, to '39, analyst with the Department of Agri­ Lt. C. B. Rossignol, 1943. culture in Washington. She is living on Feb. 13, 1943. Mrs. Rossignol was, at 1800 lrl'ing St., N. W. until recently, the operating room supervisor at the Long Island College BffiTHS Hosrital. Lt. Rossignol is stationed at 1944 To Cpl. and Mrs. Francis R. Altiere the Finney General Hospital, Thomas­ The sel'enteen seniors of the class (Francis R. Altiere, '33), a son, Rich­ ville, Georgia. who graduated last December are en­ ard Francis, in August, 1943. gaged in the following pursuits: Barbara Grace Holmes of \\'aterville, Kay Clark is chalking up accounting To Lt. (jg) and 1rs. George T. Maine, to Sgt. John Colby Eaton, '41, Pugsley (George T. Pugsley, '34), a records in that department of General on December 1, 1943. Sgt. Eaton re­ Electric in Schenectady, New York.

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