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CONTENTS In this Alumnus the usual content has been changed somewhat to bring Talk of the College .... 2 readers a symposium of opinion on patterns for thinking in these times. "The New Way of Thinking" .... William Ernest Hocking 3 The authors are: William Ernest Hocking, 76, of "Four Freedoms of College Life" ...... Julius Seelye Bixler 7 Madison, N. H., retired Harvard phi­ losophy professor, visiting lecturer at the world's greatest seats of learning, "A Faith for Young Americans" Roland I. Gammon, '37 12 author of books on politics, philosophy and religion and regarded as " the out­ "Chef- An appreciation of an unusual member of the class of 1922" standing representative of the idealistic Leonard W. Mayo, '22 15 tradition in America today." Julius Seelye Bixler, 56, president of Colby since 1942, philosopher, author, Class Reunions 16 teacher, former president of the Amer­ ican Theological Society and the Na­ 20 Milestones tional Cou ncil on Religion in Higher Education and honored at last year's Class Notes 22 M.l.T. Convocation as one of the world's great thinkers. Roland Irving Gammon, 34, ew York City, brilliant graduate of Colby in the class of 1937, free-lance writer SPENCER H. WINSOR, '40 EDITOR former correspondent for Life Maga­ BUSINESS MANAGER ELLSWORTH W. MILLETT, '25 zine, author of "The B-29 Story " for the A.A.F., former manager of a New ADVISORY EDITORIAL BOARD York public relations company, associ­ ate editor of Pageant and now manag­ TERM EXPIRES IN 1950 TERM EXPIRES IN 1951 TERM EXPIRES IN 1952 Charles H. Gale, '22 Ralph E. Ddano, '40 Jane Montgomery Cole, '38 ing editor of See Magazi ne. Richard G. Kendall, '32 Leland D. Hemenway, '17 Spencer H. Winsor, '40 Their works here recorded represent Dwight E. Sargent, R. Irvine Gammon, '37 Diana Wall Pitts, '13 '39 Dr. Hocking's address before the 129th Richard S. Reid, '44 Josephine Scheiber, '47 Sidney B. McKeen, '49 John M. Richardson, '16 B. A. Royal Spiegel, '42 John J. Pullen, '35 graduating class of Colby; Dr. Bixler's Elizabeth F. Savage, '40 Charles W. Weaver, '30 Joseph C. Smith, '24 baccalaureate to the same group and Gammon's " A Faith for Young Amer­ icans " which appeared in the April PUBLISHED-The Alumni Council of Colby College. Entered as second-class issue of Re dbook Magazine and is re­ mail T'latter Jan. 25, 1912, at the Post Office at Waterville, Me., under Act of March 3, 1879. printed here by special permission of that periodical and the author. ISSUED eight times yearly on the 15th of October, November, January, February, March, April, May and July. Your Al umnus editor may well be accused of thus producing a "heavy " SUBSCRIPTION PRICE - $2.50 per year. Single Copies, $.35. Checks should be made payable to THE COLBY ALUMNUS. Correspondence regarding subscriptions fare for his readers, but we feel we do or advertising should be addressed to Ellsworth W. Millett, Box 477, Waterville, Maine. not err in presenting these appeals for Contributions should be sent to The Editor, Box 477, Waterville, Maine. good thinking. And we are confident, A Subscriber who wishes to discontinue his or her subscriptia:n should give notice that with appropriate contemplation on to that effect before its expiration. Otherwise it will be continued. these messages, the reader will receive an intellectual reward from these J spokesmen for three generations. 2 THE COLBY ALUMNUS

THE TALK OF THE COLLEGE

OMMENCEMENT - The 129th man

Commencement Address - The New W"ay of Thinking

by William Ernest Hocking, Ph.D.,

Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy and

Civil Polity, Emeritus, Harvard University

HREE YEARS AGO a very quences of subordinating that self­ T secluded scientist put aside his un­ interest to a world-interest, embodied finished mathematical work and be­ in a world government .... gan - contrary to every habit of his I do not say that Einstein is right DR. HOCKING long lifetime - to address himself to here: in my view world government the A.'l1erican public. He was a per­ must come, if at all, by way of world much respect by bringing to that in­ fect example of the man of theory in law, and not world law by way of telligent people the then-new astro­ contrast to practice; having been world-government. But I do agree nomical instrument, the telescope. brought up in Germany, he had had that we require a new way of think­ But for a hundred years, the export­ no advantage of progressive education, ing: and if this is so, every college man ing of scientific ideas has required no of "learning by doing " or the project and woman in the land is concerned; deliberate effort. For science has be­ method; he was not even what we come its own missionary to the extent and a few moments on that new way. call a " laboratory scientist ": he had are justified on the present occasion . that every people will go to get it, simply tried to make mathematical I. The first comment I wish to wherever its sources are: and the ma­ sense of what laboratory workers had make is that a new way of thinking chine, everywhere in demand, is a done. is already upon us .... scout mission for the science implied But, to his great dismay, he found There has never been a time when in its making. Given a certain facility in communi­ that his ideas had begun to affect. the student has not felt a drive to have practice, and on a large scale, and in some knowledge of the total planet he cation, science and literature are auto­ ways that filled him with horror and inhabits, not to speak of the total uni­ matic missionaries of culture. All with apprehension for the future of verse. But this drive has several stages great literature is now world literature, mankind. To his credit as a man, he of responsibility. The first stage is that not because it is imposed, but because seemed to feel a certain responsibility. of the contemplator or traveler or ex­ it is wanted. The same is true of great Unlike Archimedes, he drop_pedhi s cal­ plorer; the man who wants to know art: it belongs to man, not alone to its culations, betook himself to the ros­ or to observe or to contribute to the local producer. ... trum, and called for what he described world map. Legal and political ideas have been exported far more slowly, for fairly as "a new way of thinking ". The second stage is that of the obvious reasons. For nearly two cen­ Albert Einstein did not make it too educator, the man who has an impulse turies we have assumed that morals clear just what he meant by this new to bring all men to a common mind. and customs, as ingredients of positive of thinking. It was certainly not The passionate educator has an almost way law, are and ought to be relative to the the new way which he had helped to fanatical interest in seeking out the societies in which they appear. ... into physics; it was some­ most unpromising human material, as introduce Here also the work of the educator has easier to understand, for if to demonstrate by the hardest cases thing much made itself felt. Oriental students in to take it to the village the identity of human reason, - like he wanted American law schools have carried Socrates in the Meno, - or like squares of America. home to many lands, notably to Siam Schweitzer in the Congo. For many It had nothing to do with his math­ and China, notions of a common law years we in common with the rest of ematics: it was more like what whose principles have a certain uni­ Nietzsche had already called a "trans­ Western civilization, have been export­ versality. valuation of values ". In simplest ing ideas with varying success. The present century has seen a re­ terms, it called for breaking down our The most deliberate of these activi­ um· markable Bowering in Asia of codes of exaggerated reverence for the sovereign ties has been that of the religious mis­ it· civil law based on Western models. putting something higher sion, which has usually been in part The Chinese Civil Code of 1930 is in um­ nation-state; also a scientific mission. The earliest �nd in value than the nation-state's self­ many ways the most remarkable of interest; taking all the hard conse- Jesuit missionaries to China gained these. And it should be said that prob- 4 THE COLBY ALUMNUS ably the greatest single world influence lege graduate without first asking his ... We fell into a discussion about the in law during this century has been the consent. merits of the Occupation, as seen by German CiYil Code. - the Burger­ II. My second comment is that the the university tudent; and this discus- lichesgesetzbuch which went into new way of thinking requires more of ion was continued, at my invitation, force January l, 1900. It comes nearer, us than simply exporting our present by correspondence by one of these stu­ I think than any other document to cultural treasures. dents after I had returned home. He expressing what we might call the The natural and original missionary began by saying - common legal conscience of mankind. " I will hriefly inform you about myself. method is simply to indoctrinate other Twenty-six years old; youngest son of a parts of the world as we indoctrinate farmer's family in Rhineland; .. .. fiye UT THERE IS a third stage in children, with the best we have. This years a soldier; wounded three times; ... B this process of creating a world method is not sufficient for the present now six semesters in the study of law." mind : I will call it the stage of task: it is sure to encounter an intelli­ With this introduction, his enure responsi ble inculcation. gent resistance. writing is the story of a mind open and This occurs when one nation seeking something which it has not If it were a matter of transmitting assumes responsibility for the cultural yet found either toward the East or our logic or our mathematics, this development of another. Education toward the West, though the repudia­ comment would not apply. These cul­ may be deliberate; but it must be per- tion of the oviet allurement is deci­ tural possessions are not " ours ": the uasive and leave the subject of educa­ sive: (I quote his words) multiplication table belongs to every­ tion free.... " My political outlook is still entirely flex­ body and therefore to nobody. Most ible. The parties from the East can offer me This country has had relatively little people agree to it, without much sales nothing, because I learned of the Soviet para­ experience with colonial administra­ dise at the outset of the war in its own place tion, and it definitely refused to accept resistance. . . . and home .... As for the Western parties a mandate. In its treatment of the But our art, our schemes of educa­ (including America) they lack political lead­ ers to whom I would be inclined to entrust Philippines, it set a new standard in tion, our la' s, our human rights, our an entire people.. . " the field of education. But in 1945, we democracy, are not like the multiplica­ The grounds upon which he rejects found ourselves for the first time, be­ tion table. things that need only to be the So iet system are worth special cause of the unconditional surrender understood to be accepted. They are notice, for they hold equally good policy, in charge both of the govern­ affected by our history, and therefore against the system of Hitler under ment and the education of a major bear traces of time and place. There which he fought: European power older in civilization are reports - I do not say true reports, "I reject a Ru sian Socialism .. for no one than ourselves and in many ways more ought to choose for himself his own sla,·e­ but at least persistent reports - that advanced. holder. In the eastern sector of Germany, our efforts to democratize Germany are beside the (disastrous) economic 'novelties', In our position as receivers for cer­ not shiningly successful; and the prac­ the human spirit is also held in chains, - a tain parts of the German state, we step of progress toward total Totalism! " have assumed on behalf of the victori­ tical conclusion is drawn that the 'With remarkable unanimity the ous allies what is in effect a mandate: pupils must be bad at heart, full of re­ German students I met were disen­ we must de-Nazify our Zone; we must surgent nationalism, or even azism, chanted with what this writer called re-orient and re-educate the German - and that we must keep at it for a "Totalism " including the police state people; we must " democratize " long time. I doubt both the diagnosis in every form· but it did not follow them. i.e. , we must inculcate democ­ and the practical conclusion. that American democracy is the alterna­ racy. Since we can only do this work I invite you to step for a moment tive: by such insights as we have, we have "Here democracy is the trump card. But into the mind of a typical German stu­ thi word is daily abused and shamed until it been assuming that American ideas of dent of the present day, and to look becomes its own dirge. What is and what democracy and education have a degree through his eyes at, our program of ought to be lie too far apart. \¥hat democ­ of universal validitv: we have felt re- racy ought to be, that we already know even indoctrination. ponsible for maki�g our Zone of Ger­ to the lowest circles of these western Zones. In Munich, in June of 1948, I found But almost everyone grasps the fact that it is many (and to some extent Japan) - a facade. Governments set up with im­ democratic after the American pattern. myself seated beside three German stu­ mense expenditure according to the rules of We address ourselves to the active dents who had been listening-in on a the democratic game remain phantoms, - e Germans; but especially to the conference of German jurists consider­ why? Because they remain alien to the reali­ matur rjes of the economy of the people. They students. ing the legal aspects of the Occupation. loudly propagandjze their will to help, to And since this is a national effort, it govern for the people: yet they continue the concerns the American student. Every dismantling of the industry wherebv alone this distended population can live. Surely I graduating class in America must be cannot take away a person"s shoes and then aware, perhaps uncomfortably aware, ''A new mental world say to him, ' Now you can walk better be­ of responsibilities and stakes in Europe intruding cause you have no shoes to carry. ' " and Asia which constitute a new test citizenship is My student friend understood very of our own culture and for which we itself upon the American well that a military occupation could are not prepared by earlier experience. never be a government by the people: A new mental world citizenship is in­ college graduate . . . " it could therefore not give an example truding itself upon the American col- of democracy in action. But he re- THE COLBY ALUMNUS 5

quired of a good government that it Do you see an ugly resurgent them and finds them wanting. Not hould be for the people; and to this nationalism in that word Germanen­ Capitalism. Not Communism : extent that it should know the deeper tum, the German tradition? Or are "The ideas of Communism are certainh­ as well a the material needs of the you surprised as I was to see an ex­ not better, but as younger they are far mor� dangerous, for they are borne by young popu­ people it ruled. This was his severest N azi soldier talking in this vein about lations striving upward.'. judgment of the Occupation, as it classical antiquity and Christianity? Then what of Christianity? affected the student body. What is it Yet there is not the slightest doubt that "Here (he writes) we must make a dis­ the German students want? these were the things he wanted in his tinction. We must separate Christianity as a "We go about in shabby clothes which we college training; and he added bitterly, religion from the Christians, the bearers of were already wearing before the time of our Christianity, the human beings. Christianity ·•For this type of education no office under military service. and we do not chan{!e them as a religion remains forever young, and can­ the military government has vet shown anv because most of us have nothing to change to not be replaced by something better, because . understanding, and there is littie prospect th;t We shall shiver through the third winter in it is written in the human soul. But ideas it will appear there ... ." unheated rooms. But for what end i are always borne by human creatures. and it " Because we are concerned for something I am afraid he was justified in his is Joubtful to me whether the Christian higher, the culture of the West' This civi­ judgment of the educational steering creawres are any longer living (in the requi­ lization may go under with us, but it will we were at that time giving the Ger­ site force to lite our history out of its sham­ bles)." J- not be through us. (We are seeking- ro un­ man schools .... derstand its spirit.) What we want to do is In his continued search for a load­ imply to make Germany what it was, the But let him continue to talk and lifting idea he likens himself to hearth of the western mentality, building it­ reveal a little more of what it is he is l· Goethe's Faust, the ever-seeking. He self (again) upon the threefold basis - " Ill seeking for and fails to find either in speaks of many of his fellow students What do you think? Fellow stu­ �· his old training or in the new: as despairing, and becoming nihilists. dents here in America ? lir " I do not doubt the capacities of America, America has everything, but not the JCS What would you say is the threefold the land of unlimited possibilicie . . But in load-lifting idea: it has not so far �· basis of western civilization' My stu­ all the western nations does there not fail (ce­ Ill! dar) the touched with any fire the souls of those dent friend said: load-lifting idea?" "The threefold ba is of clas ical antiquity, Many of o.ur slogan words have had, who are ready to suffer any hardship ltl Christianity, and the German tradition." in their day, a load-lifting power, but for a new and greater human order. Ia! What do you say to that list of they must be strong to meet this emer­ For himself he refuses to give up the od foundations) gency. Our friend reviews some of search, and he closes .a letter with this !er

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�i· be)' 10 !ht lone lyl mai ht- cry uld Honorary Graduates, June 1950 - Carroll N. Perkins, LL. D.; James L. Wilson, Sc. D.; Merton Miller, LL. D.; ok: Hocking, LL. D.; Arth ur W. Proetz, Sc. D.; Stephen Coburn Pepper, L. H. D.; Henry R. Spencer, Litt. 1plc William E. Dr. Bixler and James Brendan Connolly, L. H. D. re· D.; 6 THE COLBY ALUMNUS surprising credo: make impossible the brutalities of the " (This Code) follows in its theo­ "As for me. I bdieYe-in spite of e,·erything police tate. but must gi,·e birth in retical procedure the principles in the triumph of Christianity. in the un­ some form to that political recognition which the modern juridical sci­ changing mi;s10n of a man and of a people, in a future freedom, in a Peace, and in an of the human individual which is the ence is spreading steadily over the understanding among the peoples. essence of the democratic polity. whole world, and which are tend­ "Perhap I am wrong. ·who knows?" When we try by political pressure to ing to constitute a sort of universal enforce more than this. we are doing common law ... thus facilitating HAT, friends. do you think of a our utmost to make the word " democ­ the de\'elopment of international W mind like that? racy" a word of ill-omen. relations." In its coolness to American democ­ Once we learn this lesson which is And though American college stu­ racy, do you think it would be im­ in part a lesson in the humility which dents have �een brought up on the proYed by ten or fiftyyears further drill comes from honesty - recognizing that doctrine of sociological relativity for at by an occupying go\'ernment? our own democracy is imperfect - we least three generations, we still ha e the Do you agree with the writer are on the true scent toward " the new confidence in the normal mis ionary of a despatch from Frankfurt to way of thinking". impulse of mankind to suppose that our democracy has in it something uni­ the New York Times only a week Ill. My third comment is an affirm­ \'ersally ''alid. I say we are right. ago Sunday, " It is accepted that ati\'e one. The new way of thinking I said, you notice, not our democ­ this is the time for maximum consists (at least in part) in distin­ racy, but omething in it. The task political work in the fields of re­ guishing the essence of our aims from of the present era is to make the orientation and re-education. The their parti ular embodiment. - or let analysis, and to extract the absolute latter is important not alone to re­ us say, the absolute from the relati\'e, from the relative. move traces of the past, but to - and in holding to both. This is a new way of thinking be­ ensure that the future is demo­ We cannot transmit "our ' version cratic in the Western rather than cause it implies that neither the abso­ of democracy, because as it stands it is lutist nor the relativist is entirely right. in the Eastern sense " ? not uniYersal. Or, a our current soci­ The absoluti t supposes that he has the Assuming that anyone knows what ological outlook would put it, it is final extract in hand, and that he has \ the writer means by "maximum politi­ "relati ·e" to our conditions. You of only to read off his axioms to show that cal work", do you believe,- doe any­ the graduating class are products of the life liberty and the pursuit of happi­ one believe that any political insistence age of scientific relatiYity in regard to ness are the first premisses of every can ensure that the German nation's all human habits and ends. enlightened con titution subject to no future will be democratic " in the But it has occurred to you, no doubt, withdrawal and no condition . The Western sense "? that if relativity is the last word, as relatiYist. on the other hand, rejects In my opinion no proposal could be well as the first, we should not try to finality, and he ought in all conscience more stupid in its pedagogy, more un­ transmit our culture at all. The idea to stop missionizing at all. democratic in its spirit and more hos­ of " one world " is excluded from the ote too that each one of them tile to the new way of thinking to beginning. And not only in world should top thinking. The absolutist which the condition of the world now go\'ernment pure nonsen e, but the because he has the truth and needs no invites us. notion of a declaration of fundamental farther enquiry. The relativist because Or do you have the impression "'·hich human rights, lately adopted by the he thinks as he is born to think, and I strongly get from this correspondence, assembly of U. . is an anachronism, can't help his opinion. I suggest that that the democratic spirit is there, in - fit for the age of Thomas Jefferson, no doctrine which releases the human the very freedom with which he criti­ who could talk about " unalienable mind from thinking can be a true doc­ cizes the present achievement and aim. rights" as endowments of man by his trine. The new way of thinking is a What we haYe to convey is not our Creator, but whose work antedated the deadly foe of all old ways of thinking political mechanism, but the spirit of nineteenth century in which every im­ which invite the suicide of thought. democracy; and that spirit is present portant school of jurisprudence from That is one reason why I began this in any man who believes that the state Austin and Savigny to Duguit and talk with a reference to Einstein. His exists for man, and not man for the Roscoe Pound denounced the natural way of thinking in physics goes by the state. It is precisely the seeking of the rights theory as a possible basis for name of relativity. But all his life he soul, beyond any present formulae for modern law. has been in pursuit of an absolute a load-lifting idea, it is this which con­ The extraordinary thing is that man­ formula for all relativity, and now he stitutes the freedom and the dignity kind insists on working for agreement thinks he has it. The paradox is quite of man, and which the state is bound on principles of law, both of domestic simpll!. to protect, e en against the majority law and of international law as if these The apparent shape of any physical inclination. schools of jurisprudence had not object, say a square table top is rela­ And any one who has, as my corre­ existed. More than that, it achieves tive to the point of view. A simple spondent has, an incurable bias toward omething. In the preface to the Eng­ geometrical calculation will give you Christianity, must have with it that lish version of the Chinese Civil Code the formula for the shape as a precise respect for the soul in every human of 1930 of which I have spoken there function of the point of view. The being which of itself will not alone occur these words: apparent shape is relative; the formula THE COLBY ALUMNUS 7

Baccalaureate ,, ,, by Julius Seelye Bixler Four Freedoms of College Life

Members of the Class of 1950: THE NEW WAY OF THI KI1 G HERE is an old story about a some­ T what garrulous wife who came DR. BIXLER for. the apparent shape is not relative. from her husband's death bed to find Generalize this experience: herself surrounded by sympathetic The issue of compulsion is vigor­ The discovery of the relatiYity of friends asking what his last words ous! y debated still. You may recall the language, custom, law, morals to were. " Last words! " she replied, " he little girl at the progressiYe school who space, time, history, religious belief, didn't have any last words. I was with burst into tears one day as she said: etc., is one of the most important initi­ him right up to the end!" "Teacher, do we have to do what we ations of the educated man. But the A baccalaureate sermon at a last want to do? " It is to this question of discovery is not relative in the s me chapel service is in some respects like what we want to do and why we want sense: the proposition, morals are r la­ the loquacious wife. Because of the to do it that my remarks this morning ti e to space and time is supposed to shortness of the time it will be difficult are directed. be absolute. for you to reply to these last words of The first of my last words will be The discovery of relativity is not an mme. Perhaps you will say that this unpleasant to some of you and so I l· abandonment of the absol�te, but a will get it over with as quickly as pos­ lp is in line with much of your college cry journey to a more defensible absolute. sible. To introduce it let me call atten­ OD It is impossible to surrender your total experience where your own desire to tion to the very inspiring feeling we fhe human claim to an absolute in truth know was so often stifled by the m­ have today when so many are here to ects and rightness; though it is necessary structor's eagerness to parade his take part in this service of worship. nee to do hardthinking to define what that knowledge before you. Your entire class is present, and along absolute is. with the faculty many of your families The question of how much forcible 1011 But now. when you have found and friends have assembled to do you feeding there should be in school is of IUSI your absolute, you have found that honor. You may remember that some which spontaneously unites you with course a very old one. Long ago Plato of your parents were here also for your all other man. It is this which consti­ put the matter with his accustomed first chapel service four years ago. tutes us One World. For men are wisdom when he said that the aim of They were hardly expected to attend the ser ices in between but we did have made one, not first by political consti­ education is to help students not to tutions, but by the unity of their ideal the hope that during those intervening learn the things they like but to like aims. years you would support the college's the things they le arn. In what it im­ church and chapel program. Did you And this unity of aims, showing it­ plies this is a very modern remark as do so) Tot I regret to say, in such a self in identities of conscience the you will at once observe and ind icates way as to make us feel that the build­ world over, is what sustains the long ing was too small. For many of you an important battle line along which struggle of mankind for a law binding this last service in Lorimer Chapel is His upon nations. the educational forces of the present rhe also the first. Here lies the importance of the day are drawn up. e he Does it not seem a bit ironical as you thinker for the world of tomorrow. ilure reflect on it that so -much undergradu­ His discovery of an element of identity " he In addition to ate effort goes into arguments for more in conscience is itself an immediate con­ 1ui1e freedom FROM there is freedom when the freedom actually tribution to unity and to world law. given in such an area as this is used in ical To know that such discovery is pos­ freedom F 0 R. Beside so negative a way? 1-da· sible is, I suggest, a load-lifting idea freedom from restrictions Why did you stay away from church :npk for the students of Germany and of and chapel in such large numbers? )' all America. there is freedom for growth Admitting that I cannot hope to do ecisc May you, in your own work, see the and for the acceptance of justice to all that went on in your The �angible fruit of the new way of think­ minds let me nevertheless put the case nula mg. responsibility .. . " as I see it. First of all, a fairly large 8 THE COLBY ALUMNUS group of you felt at home in your own point in upbraiding you for that is now what was becoming Miller Library and denominations and did not want to in the past. There is a point, how­ looked at the confusion there. At change. e, er, in drawing lessons that apply to Roberts nion we climbed the iron I honor your loyalty to your own the future. I have used this illustra­ staircase and tried to think what lobby church but would ask simply whether tion simply to bring out the obYious and social hall would look like. We you could not have strengthened it by but so often forgotten fact that in addi­ wandered over the gras of what is now adding to it an inter-denominational tion to freedom from there is freedom eaverns Field and Coombs Field and loyalty. As you join the larger society, for. Beside freedom from re trictions wondered how football and baseball for example, are you going to haYe there is freedom for growth and for the could e\'er be played there. nothing to do with union ser\'ices and acceptance of responsibility. And I ince that time we have watched federated groups) Do you think that should be blind indeed if I were not confusion yield to order - not so rap­ the God we worship as Lord of the able to ee that in many respects you idly as we might wish, but with a common life is interested in one creed ha,·e accepted this positiYe freedom and steadiness that is apparent as we look only and has no ear for an thing that ha,·e acted on it. You have been free back on ir. Certainly Colby has fails to conform to a set ritual ? to grow and to create and you haYe changed more during your stay than in It is your right, of course, to retain done both of these things. any other four years. If I could see the old pattern without trying to sup­ Think back on the change since that into your minds and hearts today I feel plement ir. As I sense the rising wa\·e Iirst service in the old chapel held at confident that I should find the same of sectarianism, howe\'er and feel how four o'clock on the September after­ e\'idences of internal growth through hard it is to bring people together in noon in 1946 when you had just ar­ steadiness of purpose. movements toward union, I wonder rived. Some of you may remember The fact is the more remarkable be­ whether the common cause does not that you and I talked at that time of cause creative growth has not charac­ ha\'e a special claim. the possibilities for growth ahead of terized all a pects of our ociety. You A second group of you, not quite so you if you would learn and oractice the as persons have grown toward unity, large, has decided that you are all art of concentration. Do you recall while the world has been falling apart. through with this God-business. Re­ that on Sunday afternoon, two days The contra t is worth dwelling on ligion is a fake and a sham which may later. we came up here to Mayflower because the positive factors though less have had its place at one time but must Hill and a ked ourselves how much obvious, are just as real. The disinte­ now go by the board along with other creative growth there would be on the gration of the world is so conspicuous outmoded superstitions. Again I can college's part before you graduated ? that we sometimes forget the aving only applaud the integrity of the con­ We peeked through the cracks in the and healing processes of creative scientious seeker after truth. I am my­ wooden partition that sen·ed as a door growth that are also at work. Let us self completely convinced that the poet to this unfinished chapel. We walked take a moment to analyze them espe­ is right 'vv hen he says that there is more down the ramp to the basement of cially as they affect you. faith in honest doubt than in half the creeds. But notice that he did not say all the creeds. Unless I am wholly wrong the earch for truth is itself a creed. It has its own humility and its own need to express in worship the mood of rever­ ence. It is this mood that we have tried to satisfy in the services at Colby. Here again as you enter the larger society I think you will do well to join those who are trying through worship to respond to the claims the truth lays on them. The religious experience of association with comrades of a similar mind is invaluable. One who remaim on the outside misses more than he knows. A third group has used Sunday morning as a means of allowing sleep to knit up the raYelled sleeve of care. I will not attempt to make any com­ ments to this group because it has al­ ready followed its usual Sunday morn­ ing custom and has withdrawn to its own unapproachable citadel. Building Progress -Dr. George G. Averill, right, opens Averill Hall after There is of course absolutely no its dedication. eil Leonard, chairman of the board, at left . THE COLBY ALUMNUS 9

OU H E GRmi\TN, I think, in should give us a new feeling for the Y o far a you have taken advantage subtle distinction between illusory and of the four freedoms of college life. real. " Mr. Whistler," said a lady to The first of these i the freedom to whom he had shown one of his pic­ seek the end as contrasted with the tures, "I never saw a sunset like that." means of Ii elihood. ' Madam,'' he replied, " don't you You have not alway felt this free­ wish you could ? " dom as a privilege. You have often rebelled as normal students should, HE SECO D FREEDOM you against the fare set before you. How T have gained is freedom to look be­ futile and irrelevant and alto�ether use­ yond the violence of the present to the less much of the course material has harmony which is the normal life of seemed! man. Profes or Blanchard of Yale has re­ It is .a truism to say that the savage minded us that it was Carlyle who conflicts which during �he nineteenth called economics the dismal science century were under cover h�.ve now where all men are supposed to be come out into the light of day. Fifty scrambling for wealth at the expense years ago violence seemed to Bare up of their neighbors. And that a great only in remote corners of the British mathematician described mathematics Empire or in spasmodic strikes in the as the subject where nobody ever textile industry which were almost knows what he means or whether equally remoYed from the thinking of what he says is true. It was Dean Inge college people or in the fantastically who called history the record either of unreal wars of the world described in events that probably never happened or the fiction of H. G. Wells. events that do not matter. And phi­ Today force is out in the open as a losophy was once set forth by one ot factor to be reckoned with. As popu­ the greatest of its practitioners as the lar authors Trollope, Dickens and finding of bad reasons for what we Thackeray yielded to Joyce, Faulkner believe on instinct or as an inverted and Hemingway. fre filter into which whatever goes in clear But Colby goes on building as if us comes out cloudy? peace were just around the corner and r:· Yet even though all these and many Dr. fohns on proudly opens foh nson within its walls men and women study other objections have occurred to you Hall. ideas as if reason could actually be during the years past, I am sure that­ made to prevail. What a paradox, yon you feel now and that you will increas­ Justice, in the same way, may at one say, or even - What a contradiction! ingly feel in the years ahead that the time have been a convenient device for Are we not kidding ourselves in plan­ drive toward truth for its own sake and insuring success in the warfare of ning for a peaceful future ? Many of the desire to know for the sake of primitive tribes. ow that it is here you who have taken part in the great­ knowing are of inestimable worth. as an ideal we miss its point unless we est mass movement for violence in his­ The love of truth is a passion which see that we should revere it not because tory could well be pardoned for think­ can be cultivated and which, when it is it is useful but purely and simply be­ ing that force is after all the final indulged, yields rewards that are not cause it is justice and as such requires arbiter and harmony but an idle dream. measurable in any other terms than obedience. And yet - there is such a thing as their own. Man began to think in order that he treating force by understanding it. At Many people will tell you that you might eat, says Professor Montague, certain times it is, alas, true that we came to college to learn what is useful but now he has evolved, or, at least, have to meet force with force or with and particularly what is useful in the he sometimes evolves, to the point the show of it. If the other fellow is bitter competitive struggle ahead. Un­ where he eats in order that he may both armed and crazy it is hard to see doubtedly you believe this yourselves think. how mere peaceful gestures will be and undoubtedly your belief is partly Whether it have to do with the nerve enough to stop him. correct. But some of you I know will cells of the earthworm or the novels of But we know that merely arming to agree with me that this is not the whole Thomas Hardy, the truth has a fasci­ meet his threats will not be enough story, just as competition, - thank nation of its own, and not a fascination either. Arms have now reached the God, - is not the whole of life. merely but a rational appeal which point where they create a kind of de­ The truth may have been found use­ springs from its own intrinsic worth struction that prevents them from set­ ful in the struggle for survival but such and its rightful and undeniable claim tling moral issues. usefulness does not constitute its only upon our loyalty. We must, it would seem, have arms claim on our attention. Now that it is Even if it promised happiness we plus, and the plus certainly includes should not really want to live in a 1/ltr established as an end of thought it ideas. In this sense violence can never makes demands of its own. world of illusion. And education have the last word. It is a part of the 10 THE COLBY ALUMNUS whole picture and must be given its elled like a Dali figure kicking hi If we are to combat the tendency of appropriate corner but there are other own severed head across a blasted modern society to fall apart we mu t corners. lt must be placed in the landscape. Certainly," he continues, see what falling apart means and what larger setting of history, psychology "the whole man is not included in the kind of unity it i that is broken up. and philosophy. and must be uncler- popular tallies of the aked and the This the college in its appeal to reason tood in its incompleteness and insuffi­ Dead from John Dos Pas os to Nor­ tries to do. And this, ] am confident, ciency. At the same time its cause in man Mailer." o vve often hear it said you ' ill continue to do through life. our own misconduct and our own fail­ that today we have music that has for­ In the last analysis irrationalism must ure must be pointed out. gotten how to sing, art that fa ils to be met by reason, defeatism by purpose \Ve shall both meet the threat of Yio­ depict except as it depicts the disjointed nihilism by the affirmation of value, lence and free ourselves from its curse fanta ies of the unconscious, literature despair by hope. What gives us faith only by allowing our minds to play that has become truncated in its de· in the future is the fact that each of upon all its facets and discovering the pendence upon the inhabitants of the these negative and fearsome alterna­ relationships that make it what it is. mental underworld. philo ophy and tive is actually confronted by one that To deal with it we need therefore the psychology that find inspiration in the is po itive. larger perspectives which the so-called abnormal. Jf the pendulum swings now toward liberal disciplines of the mind, u eless Some of you are aware that on the de pair we must believe that it will as they sometimes seem, open to us. shelves of our own Robinson Treasure right it elf just as we must believe that Room in the Miller Library we have whether man was set on this planet by the play of blind forces or by the long HE THIRD FREEDO f is like the one of the finest collections of the works of Henry James that exi ts any­ range purpose described in the book T second. It is freedom from frag­ we call Colby's Book of the Year,• it mentariness. where in the world. J t has already been used by scholars and bids fair to imply is not in the cards that having I often feel that our culture can be attract more interest as the James re­ once risen above the plane of animal said to live by half its mind, and that vival gains strength. life, red as it is with tooth and claw, the lower half. So tremendous has he should now destroy himself by re­ Why is there such :> revival . J � it been the enthusiasm for exploring the turning to it. not becau e, unlike many contem�ora1 y unconscious and so deter�nined has The eYolutionary process even when authors, James satisfies our cle�1re to been the effort to explain conduct by thought of as a play of mechanistic complexes, compensations, a!¥1 the rest withdraw from the partialness and forces doe not point in this direction that we forget how relative is the term fragmentarines of the immediate and certainly God could have had no "unconscious " itself. As the un-con- moment to the larger outlines of the such intention. \\That a difference is made by one's po int of view ! That great Quaker "If we are to combat the tendency of modern society to leader, Rufus Jones, a former neighbor fall apart, we must see what falling apart means and what of ours in outh China, Maine, u ed to tell about the farmer driving a horse kind of unity it is that is broken up. This the college in and \\·agon who got lost one evening its appeal to reason tries to do ... in the by-roads of South China and found himself going up a hill that "In the last analysis irrationalism must be met by seemed to la t fore"er. Finally, he reason, defeatism by purpose. nihilism by the affirmation met a man walking by the side of the road and he called to him " Where's of value, despair by hope... " the top of this hill? " "Stranger, ' re­ plied the other " this is no hill, you've just lost your back wheels." scious or non-conscious it has meaning total picture presented by rea on only by reference to consciousness. alone? That Henry James sees the pic­ HE FOURTH FREEDOM is one But the conscious life is so obviously ture with an artist's rather than a phil­ T that you may consider obvious, there and so completely taken for osopher's eye is true. But the act of namely freedom to be yourselves. granted that it is in real danger of be­ synthesis which is the di tinguishing It hardly needs to be emphasized to ing forgotten. mark of reason is there and is I think, men and women of your age for is not Lewis Mumford has said that we the basis of his appeal. "To thine own self be true " the fav­ have developed today a sort of inverted Just as violence can properly be orite ethical maxim of college life? I hypocrisy, substituting blackened for treated only by placing it in its setting remember with what eloquence Count whited sepulchres, a hypocrisy that ac­ and just as the vagaries of the uncon­ Hermann Keyserling - a philo opher knowledges the forces of darkness and scious can be met only by incluciing youthful in spirit if not in years - denies those of light. them as data that contribute to con- used to expound this doctrine at his so­ called Sd1ule der Weisheit in Darrn- "Instead of the whole man,'' Mum­ cious life, so the first step in overcom­ tadt. ford observes, "our writers have cre­ ing any fragmentary view is to ee ated only Surrealist Man, disembow- what it is a fragment of. "Human De�tiny." Pierre Lecomte du Nouy. THE COLBY ALUMNUS 11

Cultivate your distinctive gifts, he HAVE LISTED these four free­ the free inquiring mind. used to say. Believe that you can best I doms of college years not because To have the columns suggest the serve the spirit of Truth by making they are confined to this period alone Greek intellectual tradition while the yourself an unique organ for its ex­ but because it seems to me that they chapel expressed the J udaeo-Christian pression. Realize that there is no one begin in college where the real intro­ faith in the power of love, and to blend else with just your quota of potenti­ duction to the intellectual life takes the two in a style that would speak to alities and set yourself to make the place. It is obvious, however, that they us of the distinctive qualities of New most of them. should continue for the rest of one's England life was, I said, our purpose Whoso would be a man said Emer­ days. We are all interested in the in choosing the architecture that we son, must be a non-conformist. Do we future because, as the man said, we have.

believe this todav· and do we act on expect to spend the rest of our lives J· the belief? there. HEN I COULD NOT REFRAIN 41 That keen French critic of American Our interest in you as our immedi­ T from commenting on this building life, Andre Siegfried, has said that the ate companions in this community of in which we are now gathered. American individual is caught in a scholars now changes to an interest in Sometimes people tell me that it you as friends who though absent should have been Gothic since that is conflict because he recites the creed of - the frontiersman while actually he is share our enthusiasms and our point distinctively the architecture of religion. sinking into the predicament of a job­ of view. We are still engaged in a Here again I cannot agree. conscious mass-man. While his body common enterprise and we shall need Gothic has indeed the power to performs on a dehumanized assembly each other's support. suggest the mysterious, the super­ line his national memory recalls the Men occasionally stumble over the natural, and therefore the transcendent pioneer. This American predicament, truth, it has been said, but most of God. But it wins this power at the he continues is nothing less than the them pick themselves up and hurry off expense of its own inner strain. Its dilemma of the western world wh;ch as if nothing had happened. This will towering mass borne up by slender is going . through a second and mo e not be your experience, I am sure, be­ vertical piers and counterbalancing profound industrial revolution where cause you have fallen too hard. The buttresses, a stone skeleton of props individualism is crushed in the delib­ truth has left its mark on you and it is and ribs illuminated only by narrow erate destruction of the eccentric. the mark not of the slave but of the pointed windows of stained glass, gives the impression of extraordinary inner We can all agree with this to the free man. tension. no extent of saying that the coming of If college has done· what it should rt is true, of course that some re­ fear in our national life has meant the the scales of prejudice have dropped ligious experience is tense and tortured. i!C's going of individual thought. What a from your eyes and you are free to see But there is a kind of religion which ker shoddy exhibition, after all, is put up the intrinsic quality of reasonableness relies not on darkness and �1ystery nor bor by those who think only by formula· as it exists beyond competition, savag­ on the suggestion that man is debased loo and who use words merely as stimuli ery, and fragmentariness and as it en­ and that God is always beyond his to call forth an emotional response. ables you to become your true selves. comprehension. Instead it affirms How lazy, for example, is the mind Not long ago I had occasion to show God's effort to communicate with man. which blames all our woes on com­ to a lady some pictures of our May­ This is the religion of the Word, of the munism and can think of no relief for flower Hill campus. She felt that our Book of the Idea. Its message is set our troubles but that of exposing the architecture was out of step with the forth in this chapel with its feeling for fellow travelers in our State Depart­ march of time and said so in no un­ the spacious, the luminous, the free. ment. No one in his senses doubts certain terms. There is nothing that This building is oriented toward the that communists in such places would gives me a greater pain, she remarked, notion of space rather than the strug­ be a serious menace. But they would than to see a lot of Greek temples go­ gling and dynamic passage of time. have faults enough of their own and ing up on a Maine hillside where of Within its four walls one feels at home one would be a sufficient danger in them­ all places they do not belong. instead of receiving the impression· that selves without turning them into OUl, I came back with the comment that he is a transient voyager. scapegoats for the mistakes we in our our buildings are not temples though Its horizontal lines intimate the to own shortsightedness are responsible it is true that the colonnaded portico is presence of a God who tabernacles not for. reminiscent of the Greek style. Our with men instead of one who remains far· How easy it is to see red and how purpose, I said, is to show that the above their ultimate aspirations. Here ; I hard it is to see clearly! In order to mind of man as a rational being works the worshipper feels the influence of JUDI see well we must think and in order to in the same way whether it happens the old ew England meeting house her think rightly we must be ourselves. to be on the shores of the Mediter­ where long ago freedom and authority i5- "Trust thyself," said Emerson, to ranean or nearer the North Pole in met and learned to live together. 5SO­ quote him again, "every heart vibrates central Maine. I went on to say that May the influence of this college rm· to that iron string." If he were alive we welcomed the reminder of Greece bring about their continuous and re­ today would he not add that this is the because it was in that country, after peated meeting in your own hearts. way to cause vibrations even in the iron all that the eyes of man were opened And may the God of reason, harmony, oUl· curtain ? to the possibilities that stretch before and peace be with you. 12 TH'E COLBY ALUMNUS

An Alumnus Views the Times Reprinted from the April, J.rJ.)(), issue of "Redbook Jfaga­ ::.:inc ·· by special pcr111issio11 of its A Faith For editors and the author. That materialism is now at full flood. Much of it has been good, en­ joyable, necessary in a new nation. Its Young Americans spectacular benefits in equipping the �nited tates with wheels and wirigs, . in d1sgorg111g canned goods, ice cubes, by Roland I. Gammon, '3 7 and Canasta into every home, in feed­ �E DAY LAST WINTER, DaYid :\.mericans today are distracted. We ing, clothing, sheltering, and entertain­ ing 150 million people, O E. Lilienthal, then chairman of fritter away our days in fragments; has been with­ the Atomic Energy Commission, con­ we mea ure out our li\•es in minute out parallel in history. We now pro­ ducted a group of Senators through hands, comic strips, singing commer­ duce more in a single day than was Los Alamos. I'!ew J\Iexico's atomic cials. Before society's science-served formerly produced in an entire century. Forbidden City. They stopped for a kaleidoscope of neon noise, gadgets Yet we still feel the need for omething moment before a massive "pile " pro­ and goods, we have forgotten who we More. ducing the same energy that lights the are, why we are, and where we are Because of materialism's pro\·en in­ sun. A Senator looked with respect going. The individual's spiritual adequacy in atisfying man's spirit, I at the great power plant halted for re­ power and the nation's moral earnest­ believe the second half of the Twenti­ ness have been sicklied o'er with sensa­ pairs. and remarked, "I suppose these eth Century will proYe a period of sig­ silent machines represent the greatest tions. And in their place - cynicism, nal ad\'ance in religious belief and unused power in the world." apathy, pride, neurosis, schism of soul, practice. fost of us would like to " ::\lo, there's one greater," replied the lamming and banging of an ac­ quisitive society. share in uch an expansion of faith ... Lilienthal. "To me the greatest un­ but how ? used power is the indwelling spirit of Those of us most concerned with The Christian trui ms of brotherly God." survival m such a society - the young loYe have been repeated and memo­ ince the war. most of us between graduates, mothers, teachers, profes­ rized so long that now they are only the ages of twenty and thirty have con­ sional and civic leaders, the fifteen mil­ repeated parrotlike without the centrated on keeping ourseh·es and our lion veterans - will turn, if we are origi­ nal Yitalit country go ing strong. Back from bat­ wise, to this " greatest unused power y which compelled men to tle or bursting from thousands of in the world." It has not been tried li\'e by them. What we must hammer schools and colleges. we're milking the and found wanting; in most cases it out today in words as hard as cannon cm�s. ironing the shirts, manning the simply has not been tried. balls is a spiritual equivalent so strong machines and selling the goods. that we cannot escape its truth and Yet somewhere along the way, some­ HE URGE into the Twentieth realit . where down the assembly lines, four­ T Century, riding a tidal wave of First, I believe that through prayer lane highways and prefabricated din of new invention and stirring an increas­ and action - the faith and good works radio and press. we have lost a sense ing absorption in goods instead of of old - every young American can of what is vital. Tow, when Easter goodness, greatly speeded up our daily gradually realize God within himself. symbolizes the re-birth of mankind, living and left us "no time for re­ Second, by intelligent participation in many young Americans are pausing in ligion." the church of our choice, each of us reflection. Beyond the fellowship of We have become so immersed in our can help close the breach between re­ freedom, beyond Sunday baseball, worship of material goods, so belliger­ ligion and science. Third, through the union security and radio giveaways, ent in our demand for shinier cars and projection of a new enlightened world many young Americans, including my­ trickier washing machines, that we picture, each of us can help build a self. seek the assurance of Something have lost the power to enjoy the leisure peaceful political order based on the More. which results. We have reached a acknowledged Oneness of all peoples Entering the crossroads of the cen­ point where technology is stronger and religions. tury, we might ponder this well. For than we are. As a result, the atomic what is the Something More we seek bomb, which should have been our ffERE A D THERE young Amer- but the rediscovery of God ? What is greatest advance since mastery of fire icans are doing exactly that, not at the heart of our homesickness but and the wheel, has become the symbol just v. ith words, but in their everyday failure to cherish His ind welling and climax of our blindman's buffwith lives. Garry Davis, a combat flyer in spirit? technology-run-rampant. World War II who returned to a sue- THE COLBY ALUMNUS 13

ce ful Broadway stage career, finally 'vV hether your enlightenment be self­ -bucked what he called his "selfish, started or church-inspired, your first elf-indulgent life, ' went to Paris to " It is dangerously obligation is to act. And the Church help organize the World Citizen Move­ needs your support fully as much as ment. Cord Meyer, a wealthy lawyer's past the time for expression society. For perhaps the fundamental on badly wounded on Guadalcanal, problem engaging us (both above and has devoted his postwar life to the of a faith-heartening idea below the mid-century's economic and leader hip of United World Federalists political crises) is man's schism of soul and the truggle for a peaceful world. big enough to challenge and resulting from the struggle between Father James Keller, founder of the religion and science. Both Gandhi, Christophers, tells the story of a spirit­ unite men's minds. Yet who peaking to man's spiritual side, and ually-awakened woman and what hap­ Einstein, speaking to his physical side, pened when he began acting on her will give it expression if we have warned us, "l\llake peace or beliefs. In a tiny California town, a perish! " But there can be no abiding young egro studying to be a teacher spiritual freeholders fail ? " peace until we resolve the century-old took a· part-time job at a filling station conflict between religion and science - to help support himself and his wife a co nflict more apparent than real. until he got his degree. But some cus­ Recognition of the pervading Oneness tomers, who preferred to buy gasoline ages ha\·e agreed as to the overwhelm­ of all reality can lead us again to a only from white men, objected. The ing benefits of religion as the supreme unified philosophy of life, to peace of owner was about to fire the boy when hygiene. Don't you think it's worth mind as well as peace on earth. This his earnest woman neighbor asked, investing one twenty-five-thousandth of is step number two. " How many customers will you lose if your time in giving it a trial? " you stand by thisfellow ? " T IS dangerously past the time for "About eighteen. Maybe twenty." The girl gave it a trial. "Think," I expression of a faith-heartening " If I get you twenty new customers, she exclaimed to Forman, "what it idea big enough to challenge and unite will you keep him on ? " the neighbor meant - a whole day spent without men's minds. Yet who will give it asked. expression if we spiritual freeholders fear. To fear of life or death, of old "You bet I will." fail? Young laymen everywhere can Not only did this aroused woman age or sickness, of my job or my contribute to the metaphysical har­ Tly bring in twenty new customers, but future or anything else. I felt free for mony of science and religion by show­ Dll- five more for good measure. She is the first time in my life! " ing that each holds a different view of one of an enlightened minority today the same reality. We can reinterpret aJy This girl had discovered the supreme who kno w they first must change Tineteenth-Century science in the light igi· themselves before they can change th"e hygiene of living one's daily life suc­ [O of religious truth (finding even in world. cessfully. For her, as for us, religion physical hypotheses evidence of the 00' Step by step, each of us can change is realization, and each person must same nonphysical factor which is the IOD himself. When the author and lec­ realize God in his own way. There is, essence of religion). We can reinter­ turer Henry James Forman was editing pret orthodox religion in the light of however, no more a short cut to spir­ a national magazine, he tried to dis­ modern science (finding in any religion courage the idea that any staff member itual health than there is to physical worthy of the name the capacity to was indispensable. fitness. You hone the razor's edge of broaden and deepen its original content One girl in the office defeated the your spirit through self-discipline; you with the inclusion of new truth). program completely. She was not lift yourself by your higher Self to Dr. A. Cressy Morrison, former pres­ especially pretty and had no special higher things. Prayers, ego denial, ident of the New York Academy of talents, yet everyone recognized her as Sciences, in rebuking the excessive the most necessary member of the staff Scripture reading, right discrimination materialism of science, recently wrote, - actually indispensable. between the real and the nonreal, non­ " We are still in the dawn of the sci­ Forman determined to find out why. attachment to worldly things, practice entific age and every increase of ligh t She seemed to be a complete success of the presence of God - these are the reveals more brightly the handiwork of as a human being with such quiet radi­ prerequisites to the awakening of your an intelligent Creator. Jn the ninety ance, serenity and goodwill as somehow years since Darwin we haYe made stu­ drew people to her. What was her soul. You begin and continue; you pendous discoveries; with a spirit of precious secret? Once, it seems, she persevere through painful distractions scientific humility and of faith chanced upon a magazine suggestion and delays. Only remember that the grounded in knowledge, we are ap­ which urged the reader to try the great­ result- the realization of God within proaching ever nearer to an awareness ner· est hvgiene of all. you and your emergence as a co­ of God." not "Try religion for a single da y! " it The eminent French scientist Le­ worker with Him - constitutes the rdaY said. " Only twenty-four hours out of compte du Touy emphasized that the highest blessing that life bestows. in more than half a million hours of your point of departure between religious sur· probable life span. All the great of all This is step number one. and scientific quests lay in their differ- THE COLBY LUM TU ent methods of. observation: religion seeking truth through inward illumina­ tion and science through outward ex­ " .. For today, in our age of accumulation and the periment. ft was his belief, after thirty years' work with the Rockefeller Bomb, there are really just two ways of life : love and the and Pasteur Institutes, that there is a spiritual purpose in evolution and that want of love. Those who choose the higher part will lift we can account for the birth and devel­ opment of life, man, and conscience on themselves out of their own selfish spher e and into the this planet only through acknowledg­ ment of a guiding creative Intelligence. larger world of boundless possibilities. Those who give Similarly, from the religious side. Protestant, Catholic and Jewish leaders of themselves must emerge as co-workers with God and, are striving to harmonize scientific dis­ believing first in One covery with theological dogma. Rein­ World of the spirit, assist in the hold Niebuhr Jacques Maritain, Harry achievement of One World of men and nations.... " Emerson Fosdick, Mordecai Kaplan, Karl Barth (to name a few such inter­ preters) welcome new truth as an en­ largement of our spiritual heritage. a each attains to Goel, in his own way. Each in his own way was li\·ing the They not only con icier evolution a It cannot be the lot o( many in charac­ Golden Rule according to his lights. fact but the magnificent manifestation ter and accompli hrnent, to overcome of God's unfolding plan. They find in Experts estimate that ubversive , try­ the miniature solar systems of the atom the poverty of a Negro childhood like ing to undermine our democratic gov­ evidence of that "beauti ful orderlines Ralph Bunche and become not only ernment, comprise less than one per of the uni\·erse " which the prophets U. ' . mediator in the rab-Palestine cent of the people of the country. revealed. war, but a top global diplomat. It can­ There are an equal number of young To such inYestigators as Dr. John A. not be the destiny of many to forego O'Brien, research professor of the phil­ mericans, I'm sure who beyond osophy of religion at the University of the fame and fortune o( his .homeland career, cares of family and aimless elf­ . otre Dame, the findings of nuclear like ,\lbert chweitzer and live half indulgence, will work just as hard to physicists already sound the death knell his life ministering to the diseased restore integrity and divine truth to of materialism. "To the real scien­ nati\·es of French Equatorial Africa. our way of life. For today, in our age tist," Dr. O'Brien says, "there is no common clay. Every particle of matter of accumulation and the Bomb, there is aglow with miracle and with mys­ T EACH in his own way can fol- are really just two ways of life: love tery, singing a refrain in homage of B low the gleam. Louis Lovell of and the want of love. Those who that infinite Power from whose cre­ Newton Connecticut, recently noted choose the higher part will lift them­ ative hands it came." Christian the­ that older people, especially those over selves out of their own selfish sphere ology and relativity physics, then, are not as far apart as first supposed. The fifty-five, are always the first to lose and into the larger world of boundless scientific absolute, as C. S. Lewis sug­ their jobs when business tightens up. possibilitie . Tho e who gi e of them­ gests, is beginning to look more and Owner of a big garage, auto and farm­ selve must emerge as co-workers with more like God. equipment business, Lovell recently be­ God and, believing first in One W arid gan hiring only workers fifty-five and of the spirit, assist in the achievement O ALL of us, who would become over in age. "As a little businessman, of One World of men and nations. So, S sensitive fighters for One World, first must achieve that metaphysical l'm more than satisfied," he explains. the new American demanded by the understanding which sees the world as "I'm not trying to tell big business atomic age realize God, reconciles re­ One. We then may join that growing how they should operate or whom they ligion and science builds the brother­ band of modern heretics - the intelli­ should hire. All I know is that I've hood of man. In his concern with Left gent young Americans who believe in had nothing but success with the older and Right he never forgets the exist­ God and live as though they believed guys." ence of Above and Below; in confront­ in Hirn. For, in the end, the struggle A humble Long Island barber en­ ing the crises of his century, he make to prove God on our own pulses and listed first the support of friends and peace with himself, with nature and help close the schism between religion neighbors, then of editors and senator , with his fellows. Remembering always and science, only obligates us to perfect in a gigantic letter-writing campaign who he is - the living son of the liv­ our imperfect social order. which helped to smash the radical ing God - he becomes a forerunner of Each of us must work in the world, forces in the 1948 Italian election. the superrace that must come. THE COLBY ALUMNUS 15

An appreciation of an unusual member

Chef of the class of I 922 by a classmate

" HEF ' WEYMOUTH was an much ceremony as my roommate the "Chef's " staff, sought him out to C institution at Colby College would observe, and standing on the solicit his help and his protection; his from 191 until the time of his retire­ threshold with a huge wrench over help was needed in determining the ment in 1939. Since his death on Feb. one shoulder he would hold his old hat cause of the indisposition of the fur­ 17. 1950, he has become a cherished in his other hand and scratch his head nace. and his protection was a must in tradition. He was an honorary mem­ ruminatingly at the same time. The view of the wrath of the boys, whose ber of the Class of 192_ and as much a chances were that the call was a purely anger was rising in inverse ratio to the part of the life and activities of the col­ social one but it might also have a seri­ temperature in the dormitory. lege as the president or the captain of ous purpose. If it was the latter J was The " Chef " was found, and after the football team. never in doubt, for " Chef " had about delivering himself of a few choice com­ ments on the inadequacies of students The first time I saw him he was pre­ as much deviousness in his makeup as selected for furnace duty proceeded siding with vigor over the temporary lotre Dame tackle. He came very with Mr. Gale to the basement. He kitchen in the old gym in the autumn quickly and unmistakably, not to men­ assured the unhappy student that this of 1918. The college was far from tion colorfully, to the point and always particular furnace was a delicate piece normal that fall being turned over to left me with no defense when I was of mechanism requiring a high degree military training for students, but the at fault. of mechanical competence, and that only the most careful and mericulous ' Chef " had a job to do and, like a That wrench, by the way, was a strange and wonderful object. It was treatment would uncover the difficulty. good soldier, proceeded to do it. He a symbol of office and at the same time So saying he closed his eyes, seized the wore a large white apron and a high an instrument of pre cision. One cold wrench in both hands, and delivered a starched hat, and woe betide the luck­ winter day my roommate, who was series of rocking blows aimed indis­ less freshman, or senior for that matter tending furnace for Hedman Hall, and criminately at the body of the defense- who failed to jump when he spoke or who in that capacity was a member of (Continued on Page 20) to who otherwise fell hort of fulfilling tD his obligations as the "Chef " saw them. !e The " Chef "· was really in his prime, re however, as the head janitor, sup erin­ tendent of grounds and buildings, lO director of · maintenance, unofficial fl· freshman ad isor, and general facto­ rt tum of the campus, all of which posi­ tions he assumed after the war. He knew every pipe in every steam line in n· the college, he was familiar wit h the th intricacies of every furnace, he could Id call every radiator by name - and fre­ nt quently did when they were working badly - and he held in the pal m of his o. hand the fate of every freshman who was earning his tuition in college main­ t· tenance work. !f· The " Chef " was a large man and tit he moved across the campus with a j[· slow but steady and plodding gait. He wore large denim overalls and jumper and a battered brown felt hat set on the back of his head. His face was full and ruddy and his blue eyes were forever belying his bark, which �­ was always worse than his bite. of He used to open the door of my room in Hedman Hall with about as 16 THE COLBY ALUMNUS

Old Timers and 5;'year Classes Hold Reunions

The Old Timers, June 10, 1950 (Classes of 1882-1899)

OLD TIMERS CLUB The meeting was one of the largest Hall on the new campus. HE Old Timers Club held its and one of the best the Old Timer Of a graduating class of 23 boys and T eighth annual meeting and dinner ha\'e had. 15 girls, eleven former students and in 1ary Low Hall on Mayflower Hill Old Timers present included Robie four wives, daughters and husbands at 6:00 p.m. on Saturday, June 10, 1950. G. Frye, ' 2; Sam hepard, ' 3, and sat at dinner with Stella Jones Hill at '84; Replies to the announcement of the his sister; John E. Cummings, the head of the table presiding over the meeting indicated an attendance of Dudley M. Holman, '84. repast in her usual delightful manner. about 30. Including wives and hus­ Harvey D. Eaton, Joel Frank Larra­ Fir t there was a pause of silence of band and a few guests, 44 sat down to bee Charles G. Richardson, Walter B. 30 seconds in memory of those of the dinner from classes ranging from ' 2 Farr, all of ' 7; William M. Cole ' class who had passed away during the to '99. Albert H. Drummond ' , and Mrs. last half-century. Then the flood gates The Class of 1900 which was cele­ Drummond· Merton L. Miller, '90· of memory were opened wide and the brating its Fiftieth anniversary in the William L. Soule, '90. cla s lived over and over again their adjoining Louise Coburn Hall, joined Franklin W. Johnson, '91; Edward four happy years as undergraduates. the Old Timers after dinner. C. Teague, '91; Miss Bertha D. The mention of one happy moment or The whole company, led by Harvey Teague, '91; Mrs. nnie M. Barnes prank brought to mind others of like '94. Eaton, '87, sang Phi Chi with great '94; Mrs. George L' moreux nature, and all too oon Dr. Johnson effect. Sam Shepard the only survivor Warren Foss, '96; Albert R. Keith came into the room to remind the boys of '83, gave an amusing talk about his '97, and Mrs. Keith· Ruth tevens and girls that the Old Timers awaited class. Reed, '97, and Mr. Reed. their arrival in Mary Low Hall. A President Bixler came in for a short Herbert Philbrick, '97; Mrs. R. few minutes later members of the class '98; isit and made an inspiring address. Stinneford, Raymond H. Cook, of 1950 became members of the Old Later Dean Marriner came in. He '98, and Mrs. Cook· Mrs. Mabel Timer ' club of Colby. gave an interesting and amusing talk Humphrey Hall, '9 . Tho e present were Miss Louise M. about old records, diaries. note books E. G. Shannon, '99· Ambrose E. Ben on, Erne t T. Cushman and and newspapers, which he had dug out. Warren '99 and Mrs. Warren- and Mrs. Cushman, Mrs. Mary Philbrook He made valuable suggestions about Mrs. Etta Purington Parsons, '99. Dunning, Simon P. Hedman his the de irability of moving to May­ Guests present were: Dr. George daughter, Florence, and her husband, flower Hill certain things on the old Averill, Dr. George F. Parmenter, Mrs Mr. Wahlin; Mrs. Stella Jones Hill, campus of great historical and senti­ George F. Parmenter, Profes or and Fred Foss Lawrence, Miss Nella M. mental significance, uch a the Paul Mrs. Thoma Ashcraft, and Mr. and Merrick, Miss Ethel M. Russell, class Revere bell, and the Lovejoy boulder. Mrs. John Reed. agent; Frank J. Severy, class agent. '82 The Old Timers came from far and - Robie G. Frye, and Mrs. Severv, Dr. Charles F. Towne � near, Merton Miller, '90, coming from and Mrs. To ne and Gertrude M. California. SOTH REUNION OF 1900 Pike Towne. Among the guest were Dr. George o Saturday, June 10, 1950. the During the evening Orin A. G. Averill, Dr. and Mrs. George F. 79th class to graduate from Learned phoned and expressed his re­ Parmenter, Dr. and Mrs. Thomas B. Waterville College Waterville Univer­ grets at not being able to attend. Ashcraft, Mr. and Mrs. John Reed from sity, Colby University and Colby Col­ fter the baccalaureate service on California, Mr. Reed being a nephew lege held its 50th reunion at 6 p.m. in Sunday many of the cla s departed to of Merton Miller. the dining room of Louise Coburn their homes and their work full of THE COLBY ALUMNUS 17

memorie of the old olby campus that vvere happy to note that our class as a relationships to the college, the Alumni wa and with hope and inspiration for whole is still holding its own against and Alumnae. the new Colby campu that now is. the ravages of time. The class elected Ralph to serve as - Frank S. Severy, ·oo VITe are proud of our record as a president until the next reunion and to class. Proof of our loyalty to Colby is serve with him, J. Pauline Herring, CLASS OF 1905 our consistent support of the Alumni Yice-president, and the Rev. John M. ESPO DI G far beyond our ex- Fund in which we proudly exceed our Maxwell, secretary-treasurer. R pectation twenty-two of us sat quota each year. We are going to lay Class agents named were Mary Don­ dO\ n to a fine dinner at the old Elm­ our plans early for our 50th reunion ald Deans and Ralph Good, as wood on the e\'eoing of June 10th for in 1955 which we know is going to be formerly. our 45th class reunion. The most of the best ever. We list here those pres­ Present for the occasion were Leona u had been present at the Commence­ ent at the 45th reunion : Garland Berry and Myron Berry, Al­ ment dinner aturday noon. The Mr. and Mrs. Clarence . Flood, Dr. ton D. Blake and Mrs. Blake, Mar afternoon was spent in looking over the and Mrs. Walter J. Hammond, Mr. and Donald Deans, Ralph Good, J. Pauline new campus, meeting old friends and Mrs. Arthur L. Field, Steven G. Bean, Herring, Frederick T. Hill, M. D., Lil­ making many new ones. Alona Nicholson Bean, Mr. and Mrs. lian Lowell, Eleanor Creech Marriner Hersey Keene had re erved a privat� Hersey R. Keene, Henry N. ( eely) and Dean Marriner ('13), Rey. John dining room for us at the Elmwood Jones. M. Maxwell, Dr. Ira W. Richardson where we assembled at 6:30 p.m. Let­ Mr. and Mrs. Alton I. Lockhart, and daughter, Mrs. Butters. ters were read from Axel Uppvall who Mrs. Mary (Moore) Lord, Mrs. Sarah - John M. Maxwell, '10 was in bed with a respiratory infection (Gifford ) Gray, Mrs. Leona Stevens, and John Pugsley who had some William Hoyt, Glenn W. Starkey, 1915'S 35TH REUNION broken ribs from a recent automobile David K. Arey, Mrs. Blanche (Lamb) HE CLASS of 1915 held its 35th accident. Roberts, Mrs. Ethel (Higgins) Beck, T reunion at the Colonial Inn on the Neely Jones regaled us with a r n­ and Dr. Cecil W. Clark. Augusta road south of Waterville with te ning narrative of life on the shores oi a - Cecil W. Clark, '05 fifteen members present. Members 1. Canadian lake since his retirement discussed college days both before and o: after 33 years of teaching at Syracuse 1910'S 40TH REUNION after dinner. lt University. HE Class of 1910 celebrated its 40th Present were: Mrs. Lena Blanchard ne We would like to tell in detail the reunion at the Elmwood hotel Rickel Mrs. Jennie Collins Farnum, es T interesting things that are filling up the with 14 members and guests present. Miss Aldine Gilman Miss Helen he time and the lives of all of our group. Ralph Good was master of cere­ Hanson. !tr As we looked over the assembly we monies and reported for the class in its Mrs. Marion Steward LaCasce, Miss �­ or ke

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Ina M. McCausland, Mrs. Hazel Ro seven in informal groups we were able 1935 and 1940 gave a lift to the pro­ Dyer, Mrs. ?vfyrtle Everett Waite, fiss to renew old acquaintances and to ceeding that helped to enliven the Mary Wa hburn. catch up on the events of the years e\·ening, but, while it was noisy, it wa Judge Arthur Cratty, Lester Week ince graduation. also very typical. Ralph Bramhall, Dr. Leon Crockett. At the dinner at Killdeer Lodge Syl­ Ot particular importance from any Florian Arey and Leonard Grant. \'ester "Sully " Sullivan provided the point of view, there was indeed no - Helen Hanson and e\'ening's highlight with his entertain­ hangover from the effects of 1930. Leonard Grant, '15 ing reminiscences of the good old day . The men and the women were cer­ During the evening the class presi­ tainly untouched by twenty years and 1920'S 30TH REUNION dent '' Squeek " Squire conducted a when J say that the spirit and enthusi­ ORTY-THREE members of the short business meet ing and the follow­ a m was there, then possibly the answer 1920 F Class of and their guests held ing officer •ere elected : Russell is that that was why they were there. their 30th Reunion at Alden Farm Squire, president· Ed Merrill, vice­ They just refused to grow old. president; Ted Hodgkins treasurer· Camps, East Pond, Oakland. Professor I don't intend to chide the mi ing Edward J. Colgan of the faculty gave a and Dori Hardy secretary. classmate . I merely mention that J Dr. and Mrs. Bixler; eil, '21, and talk on the status of affairs at the col­ ha\·e appropriated a deeper apprecia­ Hildegarde Drummond, '19, Leonard ; lege, and each person pre ent advised tion for all you pleasant people. nd Gus D'Amico, '2 , and Mr . D'Amico; of his name, residence. and occupation. as the 25th comes rolling by, sooner George T. ickerson, '24, and Mrs. Class member elected John F. than we expect, I do hope that you too. ickerson dropped in to visit. Choate as president, Elliot E. Bu e, can have the same happy reaction in All in all the reunion was a complete vice-president, and Lucy Teague, sec­ 1955, as I know we all had when we success. In a later edition of the Alu m­ retary-treasurer, to serve until the next left paulding' Camps that night of nus we shall try to give a more detailed meeting of the class. There being no June 10, 1950. further business to transact the meeting account of the lives and personal adjourned at 11 p.m. Six couple achievements of the 25ers - and it's Those present were Bob and i\.!r . Brown, Phil and �frs. Either, Lindon stayed at Alden Camps during Com­ not too early to begin to think about and Mrs. Cristie, Betty Bartlett Da\'is mencement which wa a very pleasant being present in '55! and husband, Rod ('31) and �frs. spot during a hot weather spell. Those present on June 10 included : Farnham, fr. and Mrs. Gil HarYey, Members of the class present were: Ethel Child Sto\'er and daughter Thelma now Pearce and husband. Mr. Capt. D. G. Jacobs and wife, D. P. Ruth; Gladys and Keith Weymouth; and Mrs. Ray Pape, Mrs. Louise Arm Tozier and wife, Dr. M. S. F. Greene Verne Reynolds; Theodore Hodgkins; strong Ray, lean l facDonald Turner and Mrs. Harriett Sweetser Greene, 0. Clayton and Laura Johnson; Mr. and and husband, Pat Johnson Titcomb K. Porter and two guest s; R. E. Wil­ Mr . William Powers. and husband, and l fr. and Mr . Buck kins and wife and guest, Mrs. McQuil­ .\fr. and Mrs. Edward Merrill; ellie Wea\'er. lan; Dr. J. L. Wilson and wife; Dr. Pottle Rankins; Barnard and Elizabeth - Ray Pape, '30 R. E. Castelli and wife A. E. Green­ Chapman; A. Raymond and Amy law, H. A. Smith Mrs. Pauline Blair, Robinson Cumming; furiel, '27, and Miss Lucy Teague, Mrs. E. McCaus­ Ru sell Squire. 1935'S 15TH REUNION land Rich, Mrs. Stella Greenlavv John Flynn; Robert Fran en; Lau­ HE CLA S of 1935 met at Spaul­ rice, '2 and Earl Merriman; Leota E. Thompson and hu band; J. F. Choate ding 's Lo15 Cabin on Salmon Lake Schoff; Charles Shoemaker; Mr. and T and wife, P. P. Barnes and wife Ash­ with twenty-fiye members and gue ts Mrs. Joseph Gorham. ton Richardson and wife, Rev. John present. Brush, Mr. Charles Wood Mrs. Marion Sylvester F. ullivan- Marion Mer­ The program for the evening in­ Waterman Wood. riam Hooper; Howard and Louise cluded the showing of two reels of ·' A Guests were B. E. Esters, '2 1; R. F. Cates Clark· H. D. and Hazel Berry Visit to Colby ', produced by Joe Sturtevant, '2 1 and wife; Ray Spin­ Pettengill. Smith during the years when '35 was ney, '2 1; Ransom Pratt, '21, and wife; L. L and Winona Knowlton Huck­ in school. V. H. Tooker, '19; George B. Barnes, ins; Alfred K. Chapman; Flora M. '26; and Professor and Mrs. Colgan. Harriman; Mr. and Mrs. Ray Grant: Members elected Betty Wellington Mr. Greenlaw and Dr. Castelli had Bill Millett; and Doris Hardy. Piper as president and David Hilton a sons and the Toziers had a daughter - Doris Hardy, '25 secretary-treasurer. in the graduating class this year. Present for the reunion were Mr. - P. P. Barnes, '20 1930 REUNION and Mrs. J. W. Bishop, Ralph and Bar­ OR the benefit of those who bara Howard \X/ illiams, Commander 1925'S 25TH REUNION F couldn't make it, and those who " Monk " Rus ell (who flew in from HOSE MEMBERS of the Clas of could but just couldn't get around to Jacksonville, Fla., with a Corsair for 1925 who were able to attend it-the 20 year class reunion for 1930 the occasion), Hugh, '36, and Mrs. T '32, reunion felt well repaid for making the was not at all the nostalgic affair one Beach, Dean Barbara Sherman, Dr. effort to be present. About forty mem­ might have expected. Indeed leave me Albert ( 36) and Betty Wellington bers and guests assembled at Bill say that you missed a happy reunion. Piper. Millett' camp where from four to Of course the reuning classes of "Hocker " and Eleanor Chick Ross. THE COLBY ALUMNUS 19

Al Farnham Mr . Ruth Pat Thorne Lin Workman, Jr., wife Johanna Mc­ thick that no real knowledge of their Chaplin Margaret Jordan, Dr. Edgar Murtry, '41, and one bairn showed up post-college, pre-reunion activities ('36) and Rita Carey Smith, Ford early Saturday but had to leave before could be established. ('34) and Briley Thomas Grant Vir­ the reunion to go to Pemaquid to visit Al Brown, '41, and wife, Ruth ginia wallow Seepe and husband, Ar­ Lin Workman, Sr., '02. Moore, included the reunion in their thur, and Mr. and Mrs. Harold F. Six showed up so late they didn't get ,·acation time and are presently spend­ Brown. into the conversations of the dinner. ing Al's respite from teaching duties at - Da\'e Hilton, ·35 These were Bill Taylor and wife, Mary Brown University (where Al is Robinson, '41, Clark Carter and Raye assigned by the avy aviation branch) Winslow Carter, Vernelle (Cappy) at China Lake, just east of Waterville. 1940 REUNION Dyer and George Burns, '47. Phil That seems to wind up the report HE CLASS OF 1940 met at Allen, now plant metalurgist at the on the people seen during the com­ Spaulding·s Log Cabins on Morenci (Arizona) Branch of the T · mencement period with the exception Salmon Lake with 22 members and Phelps Dodge Corporation, didn.'t re- that Henry and Jane Russell Abbott, guests present for the occasion. o port until Tuesday, June 13, although '41, entertained a group of '40ers later particular program was planned and he arrived Sunday night after the long in the evening at their Waterville that was just as well because members drive from Morenci. home and the fact that Ralph Delano found themselves gabbing so much Bill Taylor, Cappy and George couldn't show up because wife Mickey about either college experiences, war Burns all work out of Portland in the Howe, '42, was sick; Buell Merrill ID experiences or present experiences (in­ insurance business. Clark is head of couidn't because Evelyn Short his cluding kids) that a program •v ould the Canadian division of the Vick frau, was ailing and Conrad Swift, ha\1e seemed out of place. of Chemical company working out of who is now somewhere in Pennsyl­ Fred Ford and John Gilmore seemed . Tew York City. Yania, couldn't make it because he had to be the only folk interested in fishing II. Gordon Jones and wife Geraldine had a vacation and couldn't take an­ but they were not successful in getting Stefka, '41 were present and like most on other one. anything but mosquito bites. of the others haven't seemed to change \Ve had our picture taken, but it JI. Fred is doing quite well in an ad­ very much since college days. Gordon didn't come out so it can't be pub­ Cl, vertising business in Boston and does investment counseling for an in­ lished, and . everyone was talking so • 1� brought his wife along to the reunion . surance company in Boston and makes Ill Bob Mitchell, who came along alone, his home in Needham. much that half the group had left be­ 1ef left a wife and three youngsters home The best talker in the class still fore it was pointed out that we should mb in Bangor, Maine, where he is director seems to be Roger Stebbins who is a elect a class secretary. Kk of the Columbia Street Community buyer for Sears in ew York and who This latter problem was cleared up Center. travels about quite a bit in the pursuit when Spence Winsor agreed to ap­ Ernie " Cummings " Marriner who of his duties. He and Ruth Gould poi nt himself and render (meaning, operates as town-manager of "20 miles Stebbins complained somewhat about melt down) this report. of beach (but some of the most beauti­ the dollar-an-hour baby sitter problem ful beach in the world)" at Wells, in ew York which doesn't speak well - Spencer H. Winsor, '40 Maine, was Yery much present with his for the cost of living in and about the· good wife, Prudence Piper, '41, and his metropolis. genial brother-in-law, Wilson C. Spence Winsor showed up with a 1945 REUNION (Dinty) Piper of the Class of 1939. good-looking wife and displaying HE CLASS of 1945 held its fifth John Gilmore teaches and coaches at spinach on his upper lip which he says T reunion at the home of Paul and Waterville High and had planned to he has been sporting now for seven Doris Taylor Huber, First Rangeway, bring wife Ann Jones, '42, along with years. He has been working for the Waterville. him but baby sitter trouble prevented past two years in Joe Smith's old post Though a small group was present it. Edna Slater Pullen ran into the at the college, but has resigned and about 35 members of the class sent 100 same trouble which was complicated will be in other activities in September. messages which were read at the gath­ 1a1 somewhat by what appeared to be an Bill Small is doing accounting work attack of whooping cough on the part for an insurance company, but either ering. of one of the youngsters so that h us­ because he is a naturally quiet fellow The Hubers served a buffet supper Mr. or because Cummings Marriner was lar· band John, '38, now judge of the and President J. S. Bixler stopped in municipal court in Ellsworth Maine, talking so fast on the other side of the i!er for a few minutes to greet class mem­ table, your correspondent was unable 'Om had to stay home. bers. to establish whether he is (a) married for Patricia Thomas Thompson had also Those present included besides the yet, or (b) just where he lives. fo. signed up to come but what appeared Hubers, Douglas Smith, Roslyn Ellen Fitch Peterson and her hus­ Dr. to be measles cropped out among her Kramer, Harold Roberts, '47, Donald to remain home with band, Stuart, were with us, and Dr. and 1on kids and she had Leach, '49, and Maurice Whitten. them. Her husband, Frank. is di­ :'.vfrs. Stanley Kimball, Jr.. but there rector of the Waterville Boys Club. again, the smoke of the talking was so - Maurice M. Whitten, '45 oss. 20 THE COLBY ALUMNUS

CHEF WEYMOUTH J am willing to wager that on winter York and was graduated in June from (Continued from Page 15) nights and on sunny spring days those the Massachusetts Institute of Tech­ less heating plant. There was no more who knew him best will see him still, nology. plodding his steady way along the Jeremy N. trouble and I recall that in thirty min­ Geraldine Pinnette and utes the boys upstairs were basking in a campus paths, watching over the wel­ O'Roak, '53. Miss Pinnette is a grad­ fare of his college, and holding the comfortable and relaxing 70° tempera­ uate of Waterville High School. o ture. erring freshmen to a better perform­ date has been set for the wedding. ance of their appointed tasks. HE " CHEF " was loyal to the Ad­ Leonard W. Mayo, '22 MARRIED T ministration but he never forgot Hildegarde Pratt, '50, and Robert C. that he was a member of the Clas ot Burkhart, '50, May 20, 1950, in Cor­ '22. He had a way of complainin g ning, _ ·. Y. Mrs. Burkhart is a 1946 loudly in appropriate quarter when, in graduate of Corning Free Academy his judgment, student initiative in per­ and received her bachelor of arts degree ENGAGED petuating pranks and stunts was at a in June. She is a member of Alpha Miss Anne Lawrence, '46, and Eu­ low ebb· when stimulation of this kind Delta Pi sorority. During the summer gene L. Bondy, Jr. Mr. Bondy was was successful he chuckled quietly to the couple will serve as recreational graduated from Harvard College and himself and proceeded to take such directors of leepy Hollow Camp at Columbia Law School. A July wed­ steps as his judgment dictated to South Park, Pitt burgh. In the fall ding i planned. thwart in fair and just ways the execu­ they will go to Tew Haven, where Mr. Joan MacDonald and Robert Aubrey tion of such deviltry. Thus he ful­ Burkhart will continue his studies in Mills, '46. Mis MacDonald is a grad­ filled the dual role of student and mem­ sculpture in the Yale University grad­ uate of the University of ew Hamp ­ ber of the Administration to the com­ uate school. shire and did graduate work there. plete sati sfaction of both the student Mary Wheeler, 40, and Peter P. Mr. Mills was graduated from Wil­ body and the President's Office. Bruzga, May 30, 1950, in Boston, Mass. liams College and is now on the fac­ Mrs. Bruzga graduated from Water­ The process by which a man comes ulty of ortheastern University. A ville High School in 1936, received her to be the embodiment of an institution, September wedding is planned. master' degree from Wellesley in 1941, carrying out the best of its traditions fiss Mildred Merrill and Harold E. worked in chemistry from 1941 to and at the same time adding to them, Hall, '17. Miss Merrill was graduated 1945. and worked in medical research was well and amply illustrated in Fred from Hebron cademy and attended from 1945-1950. Mr. Bruzga gradu­ Weymouth. He was a counterpart of the Tilton School at Tilton, r. H., and ated from Lawrence High School in old Sam Osborn of earlier fame. Both operates the Merrill Apple Or chards. 1932 and from the Massachusetts carried with them the authority of the Mr. Hall studied at Harvard, Prince­ chool of rt in 1950. Colby people Administration and its respect, but ton, and Columbia Universities. A attending the bridal couple were Na­ above and beyond that they had an June wedding i planned. thaniel E. Wheeler, '09 Mrs. Annie innate dignity and warmth, and withal Marilyn E. Drake, '51, and Harold H. Wheeler, 'O , athaniel H. a certain saltiness indigenous to New C. Marden, Jr., '50. fiss Drake, a Wheeler, '42, Mrs. Harry W. Marsh, England. Junior at the University of faine. is '35, and Mrs. John J. Sullivan, '40. Fred Weymouth believed in Colby majoring in p ychology. She is a mem­ Colby guests were the Rev. John W. College and he had respect for the ber of Delta Delta Delta sorority. Mr. Brush '20, Miss Elizabeth Wescott. fundamental things in education. He Marden, also a Junior at the University, '40, and Mrs. Forster Chase '42. Mr. held his freshmen up to high standards is majoring in civil engineering. He is and Mrs. Bruzga will spend the um­ of performance and he expected the president of lpha Tau Omega frater­ mer bicycling through Europe. same of the entire college. Frequently nity, a member of the football team, the Ann Jennings, '49, and John W. his exhortations were couched in pretty "M" Club and the lnterfraternity Taussig, Jr. May, 1950 at Winchester, sketchy English but they lacked neither Council. Mass. Mr . Taussig attended House in clarity nor color and they came from a Marjorie Gould, '37, and Howard R. the Pines and is a member of Sigma heart as big and a spirit as fresh as the Murphy. Miss Gould has done gradu­ Kappa sorority. Ir. Taussig was Maine woods. ate work at Radcliffe College. She is graduated from Bowdoin College and The new campus at Colby has a now an English instructor at the Uni­ is a member of Alpha Delta Phi fra­ modern heating plant and its new Yersity of New Hampshire. Mr. ternity. Colby attendants were Alice buildings shine with a splendor un­ Murphy was graduated from Bard Col­ Otis Jennings, '50, and Elisabeth Jen­ known to the ancient piles on College lege, Annandale-on-H udson, Y . , nings, '50 twin sisters of the bride. Avenue. Perhaps the Mayflower plant and is doing graduate work at Har­ fter a wedding trip to Bermuda they will have no need for the omnipotence vard. will live in Linwood Park, Fort Lee, of a " Chef " Weymouth nor for the Janet Pray, '48, and Edward P. N. J. daily guidance of a plumbing and gen­ Stoes el. Miss Pray has done graduate Ann Canuso and Richard A. Durso, eral maintenance ge nius. I wouldn't work for a master's degree at Colum­ '46, April 22, 1950, at Philadelphia, know. But I do know that the bia Univ ersity. Mr. Stoessel attended Pa. "Chef's " heart is where Colby is, and Collegiate School for Boys in New Carol Ann Walker, '5 1, and Nich- THE COLBY ALUMNUS 21

ols R. Lindquist, '48, June, 1950 at TILESTON & Bath Maine. Mr. Lindquist is a mem­ ber of Phi Delta Theta fraternity. John Sexton & Co. HOLLINGSWORTH CO. Arline Bamber, '39, and Peter G. Veracka, May 30, 1950 at orwood, MANUFACTURING PAPERMAKERS Mass. Mr. Veracka was graduated WHOLESALE GROCERS FOR MORE THAN 147 YEARS from Boston College in 1937. They Established 1883 213 Congress St., Boston 7, Mass. will reside in Cambridge for the sum­ mer. Chicago Long Island City Joan Withington, •;1, and William Dallas Atlanta Pittsburgh F. CLIVE HALL '26 H. Ryan, '52, May 27, 1950 at Detroit Boston Philadelphia Maine Representative Torthampton, Mass. Gordon T. Miller, '48, and Elizabeth J. Church, September, 1949. Mrs. Compliments of Miller was graduated from Simmons Hayden, Stone & Co. !r College in 1949 and since that time has 477 Congress Street al Waterville Fruit & been employed at Brown Brothers at Harriman & Co. in Boston in the in­ PORTLAND, MAINE Produce Co., Inc. vestment advisory department. Mr. Members New York and Miller finished his last year towards Boston Stock Exchanges in Sanger Avenue his master's degree at Harvard Gradu­ d- ate School of Business Administration New York Boston WATERVILLE, MAINE and starting in June was scheduled to Springfield Worcester P. join Wright & Co., Inc. in Worcester. IS. Muriel M. Briggs, '49, and Roland r­ : Austin, June 3, 1950 at Lorimer George H. Sterns, '3 1 .er Compl iments of Chapel, Waterville Maine. Mrs. Aus­ Fred J. Sterns, '29 II. tin was graduated from Waterville to High School in 1945. Mr. Austin is a Herbert D. Sterns, '4 1 ch Waterville member of the Don Marlow and the lu- Treble Clef Choral Societies. He is Savings Bank now employed by the Harris Baking Company. After a wedding trip they WATERVILLE SKOWHEGAN will reside at Oakland R.F.D. 1. " The Stores of Famous WATERVILLE MAINE Gloria L. Chasse, '47, and Dr. Vin­ Brands " cent P. Ryan, June 17, 1950, at Water­ ville, Maine. Mrs. Ryan was educated at Mount Merici Academy and was MAINE'S LARGEST OAK GROVE graduated from Coburn Classical In­ COMMERCIAL PRINTING stitute in 1943. Mr. Ryan was gradu­ Emphasizes Preparation for College PLANT and Gracious, Purposeful Living in a ated from Boston College and from Program devoted entirely to Girls. Tufts Medical School in 1950. Fol­ Kennebec Journal ro· Excellent Departments for the Girl lowing a wedding trip to Canada and with Talent in Music, Art or Drama­ Upper 'ew York State they will re­ tics. Joyous Recreational Life with Printing Department I\". Riding included. Winter Sports fea­ side in Connecticut. Willow Street - Augusta �. tured. Beautiful New Fireproof Bldgs. Carmen A. Thibodeau and Robert 20 in MR. AND MRS. ROBERT OWEN B. Panasuk, '49, June 18, 1950, at Tel. 130 Box C Vassalboro, Maine na Waterville, Maine. Mrs. Panasuk was ias graduated from Waterville High nd School and Thomas Business College "Hardware Merchants fJ• RED STAR and has been employed by the Atlan­ ice tic and Pacific Tea Campany in Water­ Over a Century.. :n· LAUNDRY ville. Mr. Panasuk was graduated de. from Cheshire Academy. Following a 1ey and wedding trip to Connecticut, ew ee. York and Washington they will reside Dry Cleaning at 460 orth Main Street, Waterbury �. Connecticut. 1 0 South Street 11a. Pauline A. Wakefield, '52, and Jere Tel. 42 8W Hughes, '51, June 8, 1950, at Augusta, ch· Maine. 22 THE COLBY ALUMNUS

Margaret E. Clark, '48, and Harold Eugene Allen is still playing the A. Atkins, June 10, 1950, at Middle­ ,·iolin, now for the Sagebrushers, a COLBY ALUMNI ARE INVITED boro, Mass. square dance group in Atlantic City, TO BANK BY MAIL WITH Joan Haskell, '52, and Lt. Charles L. _ ew Jersey, where he is teaching. He Butler, June 11, 1950, at Cadet Chapel, spend the summer in Tenants Harbor, The Federal West Point, ·. Y. They will make Maine. with his sister. their home at Fort Devens, Mass. Clark Chapman has both his son and Trust Compan where Lt. Butler is attached to 7th son-in-law with him in his law office in y Tnfantry Regiment. Portland. WATERVILLE, MAINE George nderson is now living in

Member, Federal Deposit Ins. Corp. BORN Stoughton Mass. To :-.Jr. and Mrs. Myron Thompson Leonard Merrill is teaching and lives (Myron Thomp on 'SO), a daughter, in Jamaica Plain, Mass. April 17, 1950, in Water\'ille. Wallace Fogg is a dent\st in York Loring, Short & To ;\-fr. and Mrs. F. A. Feddeman Village. (Alta Gray Feddeman, '41), a son, I elson Mixer is also teaching and Harmon Frederick Coe, July 5, 1949, in Phila­ lives in We t Roxbury, Mass. delphia, Pa. Otis Reed is now retired and lives in MAINE'S OLDEST AND To fr. and Mrs. Robert Hinke Belmont, Mass. LARGEST STATIONERS (Carola Loos Hinke, '33), a son, Carl frs. rorman H. Mayo announces John, on April 30, 1950. the arrival of her first grandson, Don­ Monument Square To Mr. and Mrs. George F. Brown ald, Jr. PORTLAND - MAINE (Marie Boyd Brown, '48), a son, Rob­ Martha Bryant Kelby has twenty-one ert Rogers August 4, 1949. grandchildren. Can anyone in the class To fr. and Mrs. Leon Tobin (Leon beat that record ? Tobin, '40), a daughter, ancy ue John \V hittier is superintendent of May 7, 1950. schools and lives in Wenham, Mass. Compliments of To Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Wood Three men of the class are doctors (Jane Farnham Wood, '45), a son. in the state of Washington. Leo Trask Webber's Dairy, Inc. Bradford Dean, October 31 1949 at is in Everett and Austin Shaw in Ana Norwich, Conn. He has red hair like Corte . They frequently pl�y golf to­ his mother's. gether. Leon Gilpatrick is an M.D. in AUGUSTA ROAD Spokane. June Philbrick Jones of Durango, Winslow, Maine Colo. writes of a recent visit to the Aztec Indian ruins in Aztec, ew Mexico. The Ranger in charge is the son of Dr. Townsend who used to be 1902 in ·waterville. Emer -Brown Co. Grace B. Eisenwinter spenta couple Maude E. Wadleigh y of weeks in January with Vera ash Worcester, Mass. Locke in Oberlin Ohio. On April 12 Class Secretary WATERVILLE'S she ailed on the " America " for a six months' visit in Europe with her niece LEADING in Zurich. While there she will attend 1913 as delegate the Convention of the In­ Fred Hunt led a list of twelve candidates for the four Republican Department Store ternational Association of University Women. nominations to the Ohio General Last year Vera ash Locke changed Assembly from Toledo, in the recent her position as Director and Dietitian state primaries. Fred has been assem­ of May Cottage, a freshman dormitory, blyman for Toldeo for several sessions where she has been for sixteen years, and is one of the leading Republicans COMPLIMENTS to Director and Dietitian of the Grad­ in his section of Ohio. He is a past uate House, Oberlin College. This 1s pre ident of High Twelve Interna­ Mr . Locke's 27th year at Oberlin. tional, a prominent luncheon club. OF

1909 1921 Rev. Edward W. Merrill has been Dr. Grace E. Wilder is the physician Angelo E. Diversi the rector of St. Mary's Church in at the Northfield School for Girls at Kansas City, Missouri, for over 31 Northfield, Mass. As an avocation she years. He has never married. part-owner of the Happy Hunting THE COLBY ALUMNUS 23

Kennel , 96 Plym0uth t., East Edvia Campbell is ant1c1pating a Bridgewater l\[a . which specializes 1928 European cruise this summer. Daniel Shanahan has been laid up in the Engli h pringer paniel. Pauline Brill Trafton this spring had about five months with coronary, and H. Marden is chairman of the an eleven day trip with seniors to C. all his classmates and friends will be � pecial Gift Committee of the YMCA Washington, D. and New York glad to hear that he is much better. C. RenoYation Fund in Waterville. City. Has gone back to work but still has to take it easy. 1922 The Hempstead, . Y. Nassau Re- view tar carried an interesting article 1929 G. Cecil Goddard was elected presi­ HARRIS on Dr. and Mrs. Evan J. Shearman, dent of the Central Parent-Teacher · _6. n old reed organ which has just Association, Waterville. been acquired by the Church-in-the- Charles Jordan has been named BAKING arden Garden City, . Y., where CO. principal of the Webster Junior High Dr. Shearman is pastor, is the same School in Auburn, Maine. Th is organ that Dr. Shearman played when school is the largest junior high school he \,\"as a boy of ten. in Maine. Harris Better 0. M. Chute of Evanston, Ill. repre­ sented Colby at the conference on In­ 1924 ternational Educational Exchanges in George T. _ ickerson is team organ­ Bread Chicago March ization chairman for the General Cam­ 23, 1950. paign of the YMCA Renovation F nd in Waterville. Cake and Donuts Ralph D. McLeary, Concord (Mass ) 1930 superintendent of schools since 1945, Dorothy Balentine Totman's address Waterville, Maine has announced his resignation effective is 59 High Street, Fairfield, Maine. July He will become superintendent Dot has a 5 year old son and works 1. \0 - of schools at Plainfield, . J. in J. C. Penn�y Co. office.

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his new residence on Pleasant t., Maine, wa a candidate for the degree 1932 The Reverend Richard Cummings, Waterville. A housewarming wa held of Bachelor of cience in Business Ad­ pastor of the First Baptist Church of on Sunday, pril 16th. mmistration, with a major in Manage­ Troy, ew York, has been called to an ment, at the College of Business Ad­ ministration at Boston University. Associate Secretaryship of the Ameri­ 1938 can Bapti t Foreign Mission Society. John . Pullen, judge of the munici­ He will assume his new re pon ibilities pal court in Ellsworth Maine gave 1944 in the Home Department of the Soci­ Garry Davis, fir t self-styled "citizen Burton G. Shiro, Waterville, Maine, ety in ew York on August 1, 1950. of the World " and his bride to be, was a candidate for the degree of Mr . Cummings was Barbara C. assistance when he waived the five-day Bachelor of Laws, in the School of Hamlin, '3 1. law thu allowing them to be married Law, at Boston University. on the day planned for their public 1936 wedding in Ellsworth. Dr. Edmund . Irving has moved to 1945 Ronald .\1. Roy, Oakland Maine, 1939 wa a candidate for the degree of Phyllis Rose Baskin, who e husband Bachelor of Laws, in the chool of Dakin Sporting is a real estate manager in Roxbury Law, at Boston niversity. Mass. ha two children - Carol, 6, and fichael, 1 Yz . Last summer they Goods Co. spent a month in akland, Maine, and 1946 Mrs. G. V Cheatham (Mary Supplies for Hunter, Athlete, Phyllis reports they took some beauti­ Roundy) has been elected president of ful pictures of the new Colby campus. Fisherman, Camera Fan Virginia chapter of Delta Delta Delta Her hobby is painting in water colors sorority. 25 Center St. 67 Temple St. and sketching in various media. BANGOR WATERVILLE 1947 1940 Elizabeth B. Richmond of South Warren (Baron ) Pearl, head coach Hanover Ma s., and at present a of all sports at Skowhegan High chool teacher of psychology at Oak Grove for the past few years and a former 11- School, assalboro, Maine, has just COMPLIMENTS Maine lineman at Colby, ha become been appointed by the merican Board head coach of football at Maine Cen­ of Foreign Missions Bo ton for a tral Institute at Pitt field. OF three-year term as a teacher of English in it merican cademy for Girl in Scutari, Turkey. She expects to sail Howard B. Crosby for her new post in August. Mitch Jawor ki's Greenfield, Mas . ba ketball team lost 11 games this year and woo 6. They lost six games in the last two minutes!

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The f11st year atter the close of the Civil War was an occasion for grea t Roaring into lhe thickest settled part of the town. the old woodert re101cing 1n Port land. Never before that July 4th, 1866.-and certainly with buildings 5erved only to add fuel to the fire. It is said that the flames good reason never since that day-has there been such a celebrdt1on. Fire­ "redched even to Falmouth, five miles away, and se tting fire to buildings. crackers. rockets. squibs. bombs. etc .. made the day hideous wilh the11 I h ere ." roar-and all the small boys of the lown very happy. The enl11e city gave itself up to a carnival mood. People fled before the marching. roaring flames, terrified for their very lives. Buildings were blown up in a tulile effort to check lhe fire's progress. Innumerable escapes from serious fires after a while made the celebrants Fire companies from Saco, Biddeford, Bath. Aogusla, Gardiner, Lewiston and heedless of the almost constant rattle of lire engines over lhe cobbled Boston were summoned and worked together with all available men from slreets. But the inevitable happened. A f11ecracker lhrown by some boys the nearby towns, yet were unable to stem the dest ·uct1on. The terrible into a boat-builders yard on Commercial Street near the foot of High fury of the flames may be imagined from the fact thal masses of iron and ignited shavings there. This grew into a major blaze. Finally the conslanl brass mclled instantly; 11on-clad f11eproof buildings crumbled and fell ringing of fire bells and the growing mushroom of smoke 1n the sky caused ltkc pac king boxes, and entire streets were destroyed 1n a matter of minutes. the people to realize this was more than an ordinary f11e. For fifteen hours the fire raged unchecked, finally to burn itself out for By that time a terrific wind had set in from the sea. fanning the fire lack of material. Most of the inhab1tanls of the ruined town fled to the toward the entire town. Brown's warehouse was burning: though this old burying ground on Munjoy's Hill. Fifty-eight streets were laid in ashes ; building was supposedly fireproof 11 was destroyed like a tinder-box by the over fifteen hundred buildings were destroyed ; thousands of people were flames, which by then had reached terrifying ploportions. homeless.

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