Colby Alumnus Vol. 63, No. 1: Fall 1973
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Colby College Digital Commons @ Colby Colby Alumnus Colby College Archives 1974 Colby Alumnus Vol. 63, No. 1: Fall 1973 Colby College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/alumnus Part of the Higher Education Commons Recommended Citation Colby College, "Colby Alumnus Vol. 63, No. 1: Fall 1973" (1974). Colby Alumnus. 83. https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/alumnus/83 This Other is brought to you for free and open access by the Colby College Archives at Digital Commons @ Colby. It has been accepted for inclusion in Colby Alumnus by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Colby. rhe Colby Alumnus Fall 1973 The Colby Alumnus Fall 1973 1 The College Students unite in a PIRC / Flagging fraternity member ship leads to housing difficulties / Alumni appointments 10 Annual Fund Report by Robert S. Lee '51 12 Sports 14 Books Recent books by Colby authors range from chilling tales of the Maine woods to American folk humor 15 Class News 17 To Grasp the Budding Growth- Nettle and All by Julius Seelye Bixler Dr. Bixler looks out over his Colby years in a two-part article beginning on page 17. 45 Milestones THE COVERS: The outstanding event The Colby Alumnus / Volume 63, Number 1 / Fall 1973 of the fall was the festive two-day Published quarterly / fall, winter, spring, summer / by Colby College opening of the addition to the Bixler Editorial Board / Leslie J. Anderson '71 and Richard N. Dyer An and Music Center. Designed by the Boston firm of Jolrnson-Hotvedt, Design and Production / Donald E. Sanborn, Jr. the building houses the Museum of Layout / Gloria MacKay Art and the Lenk Studio facilities for l'hotogTaphy / Irving Faunce '69, Dick Maxwell, Leslie Anderson '71 painting and sculpture. Letters and inquiries should be sent to the editor Front cover: an architectural study by change of address notification to the alumni office Steve Rosenthal, whose photographs of Entered as second-class mail at Waterville, Maine the gallery appear on pages four and five. Back cover: photo by Leslie An Postmaster, send form 3579 to derson '71. The Colby Alumnus, Colby College, Waterville, Maine 04901 PIRC Students on several campuses in Maine have joined to form a Public Interest Research Group (PIRG), a state-wide, student-con trolled organization engaged in lobbying, research, and legal action aimed at protection of public in terests. Last spring Student Gov ernmem voted $--1-800 to finance its share of PIRG activities for the 1973 fall semester. The merits ot a three-dollar surcharge on the reg ular activity fee, refundable to any student not wishing to support PIRG for spring semester fui:iding, are being considered. The students have combined their resources to establish an office in Augusta, and have hired a director, Attorney Suzanne Spitz, and an administra tive assistant, i\Iarretta Comfort, LO supply expertise and professional lobbying, and to provide continu ity over exam and vacation periods. The Energy Crisis The Maine PIRG is a new di As homeowners and businesses low rection in student acti\'ism, based er their thermostats, Colby has on a model evolved by Ralph made changes in it calendar and Nader and his associates following adopted day to day measures aimed \VE ARE SORRY the stormy spring of protest in 1970. PIRG's are operating in 18 at consen•ing energy. Among the TO ANNOUNCE schedule alterations are the delay other states. In Maine fi\'e colleges and univer ities are supporting ing of the start of the January Because of the uncertainties of Program and the cancellation of PIRG: The University of Maine fuel supplie and other energy Family Winter Weekend. This campu e at Orono, Portland-Gor problems, Family \\'inter means the January Program will ham, and Farmington, Colby, and begin on the 15th and continue Weekend, February I, 2, and 3, Bowdoin. Each member elects a until February 7th, thereby elimi 197·1, ha been cancelled. Keep local board to serve as a clearing nating the interim period. Regis your skis waxed and your skates house for suggestions and com plaints and proposes projects to the tration for second semester will be sharpened. ee you next year! on Sunday, February 10th, as sched state board. The latter controls uled. PIRG'S fund and re ource , selects In addition, the administration priority action areas, and ensures has adopted a revised work day to proper use of the PIRG name. make maximum use of daylight hours and taken various measures Continuing Effo1ts with regard to the use of electricity and to the hours when campus Strider has expressed the hope that The Committee to Study the Fu facilities are open and heated. In- no more drastic measures will be ture of Colby continued it work . asmuch as no athletic contests will necessary, but if it becomes clear through the summer and, after a be held during the first two weeks further steps are needed, those that brief respite in August, i back at of January some events will be re "would be least disruptive to our i1s task of preparing recommenda .cheduled if feasible. President academic program" will be sought. tions for the board of trustees. The 1 rnmmittee has divided itself into station which reaches two-thirds of novel My Mortal Enemy is assist n,·elve task torces to study specific Maine viewers, has purchased ;rnt professor ot English at Stone a1ea!>, and one oi the many items studio facilities in Lewiston. 111 hill College in North Easton, Mass. Lieing evaluated is the phy!>ical operation since 1961, vVCBB has He i� the author of Willa Cat her pla11L. Headed by Protessor Jame� Lieen restricted in ib local prn St1a11ger in Three Worlds. Theo Armstrong ot the music depart gramming ability due to the ex dore S. Adams, associate professor ment, this group is exploring war uemely limited production facili- ol English at the State Univ. ol to utilize more eftectively existing 1ie11 at its transmitter site in Litch N. Y. has explored "The Concise Liuildings and recommend pri01i field - only 193 square feet com Presentation of Scene, Character, ties ior new construction. The pos pared with 1500 square feet avail and Theme" in My Mortal Enemy. !>ibili t y ot a toundation grant fur able tor studios at the new loca Among Professor Adams' publila aid in construction of expanded tion. "The new building alo11g tions is Six Novels of Cather - A !><.ience facilities provides this task with the mobile unit purchased 'fhematic Study. lorce with one tocus. Other groups' last year opens programming pos An associate professor of English targets are not so tangible, such as sibilities we could only dream at Merrimack College, John .J. the task force developing recom about during Channel !O's first de i\lurphy writes about "The Re mendations for a system of on-go cade," said General Manager H. !>pectable Romantic and the Un ing evaluation of all offices and Odell Skinner at a press confer wed Mother: Class Consciousness functions of the college. Professor ence. in My Antonia." Professor Murphy Francis Parker, committee chair participated in the Univ. of 1\e man, feels such a system could be braska's International Seminar on Freshman Facts one of the committee's most valu \Villa Cather this fall. James R. able contributions. The 39 1 members of the freshman 13ash of Indiana State Univ. dis The committee is involving all class were selected from 3,435 ap cus!>es "Willa Cather and the Ana levels of the college community - plicants. They represent 302 pub thema of Materialism." Dr. Bash trustees through their planning lic and private schools. One hun has authored a study of primiti c.ommittee, faculty through task dred and one freshmen are enter vism in Miss Cather's works. force membership, and students ing with financial aid, over a quar Colby professor of English and through open hearings which may ter of the class. One hundred and curator of rare books, Richard Lie held periodically as recommen ninety-five students were in the top Cary, as editor of the Library dations appear, so that when its ten percent of their graduating Quarterly, investigates the role members meet with the board in class. A statistical summary of the played by Maine author Sarah June, the proposals they present Class of 1977 can be obtained from Orne Jewett in the formation of will be workable tools. the Admissions Office. Miss Cather's style in "The Sculp tor and the Spinster: Jewett's 'In fluence' on Cather." Library Receives Grant Willa Cather Centennial A grant of $5,000 has been made The Miller Library is celebrating Bog Named Natural Landmark to the Colby College library the centennial of Willa Cather, through the U.S. Office ot Educa American novelist famous for her Six Maine wetland areas, includ tion. The funds will be used to vivid depictions of life on the great ing the Colby-Marston Preserve strengthen the library's resources prairies of the midwest at the turn (better known to former biology in government documents, includ of the century, with an exhibition students as the "Colby Bog"), have ing retroactive files of Congression of her letters, manuscripts, first edi been designated Natural Land al hearings in microformat. The tions, and foreign language edi marks by Interior Secretary Rogers grant is made under the College t ions of her work, and with an en C.B. Morton. The Preserve is con Library Resources Program au tire issue of the Colby Library sidered a classic example of a thorized by Title II-A of the High Quarterly devoted to critical arti northern sphagnum bog.