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Colby College Digital Commons @ Colby Colby Alumnus Colby College Archives 1950 Colby Alumnus Vol. 39, No. 8: July 1950 Colby College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/alumnus Part of the Higher Education Commons Recommended Citation Colby College, "Colby Alumnus Vol. 39, No. 8: July 1950" (1950). Colby Alumnus. 322. https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/alumnus/322 This Other is brought to you for free and open access by the Colby College Archives at Digital Commons @ Colby. It has been accepted for inclusion in Colby Alumnus by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Colby. THE COLBY 0 · ALUMNUS JUL� 1950 � rd � lft .. Ill e 11 If· For The One Who Could Not Be There . • . * A Special Commencement ... �EPOSITORS The Waterville � Trust C:Ompan, Morning Sentinel Member Federal Reserve System Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corpo ration is the paper carrying the United States Depositary most news of Colby Col- Authorized to Act as Trustee & Executor lege. If you want to keep OFFICES at in touch with your boys, Waterville - Oakland - Fairfield - Madison Skowhegan - Augusta - Winthrop read the SENTINEL. Gardiner - Hallowell - Richmond Waldoboro - Wiscasset Boothbay Harbor Complime nts of WATERVILLE HARDWARE Lawrence Portland Cement Co. & PLUMBING SUPPLY Dragon Portland Cement Dragon Mortar Cement COMPANY Sales Office: 256 Water St., Augusta Mill: Thomaston 20 MAIN STREET WATERVILLE, MAINE Lawrence: Quality Cements Since 1832 7� r/� 'Pfte44 339 WATER STREET · AUGUSTA, MAINE FOLDERS BROCHURES BOOKS STATIONERY BUSINESS FORMS FOR ESTIMATES Monotype Composition CALL School and College Publication AUGUSTA 440 Complete Printing Service Hotel and Camp Folders Photo by William H. Tobey, '44, Waterville Se n tin el photographer, The Colby Alumnus shows President Bixler and Dean of FOUNDED 1911 Women Barbara A. Sherman, '32, bringing Commencement to Patricia Jensen, '50, in Thayer Memorial Hos pital where she spent Commencement Volume 39 July 1 5, 1950 Number 8 week following a major operation. 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 Council 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<ler of the 43r<l DiYision Associa Fund was elected by the Board of C Commencement of the college tion: Dr. Franklin W. Johnson, ·91, Trustee to membership for a three was held in fair warm weather, ruffied honorary president of the _ ational vear term. only by thunderstorms on aturday D.K.E. Fraternity; Sumner T. Pike, . Hoard reappointees were Gabrielson, e\'ening when Reunions were held. and H-'4 . acting chairman of the , tomic '.'\eil Leonard '21, Yfanhew T. Mellon by a high wind Monday at the gradu Energy Commission: Dr. lmer V..'. and Frederick A. Pottle, '17. • ation exercises. Campbell, '17. hairman of the 'a • • • :\fost alumni were quite amazed at tional onference of the tate Sanitary UILDINGS - Board Chairman Engineers: uy G. Gabrielson, trus the physical progress made during the . Tei! Leonard announced that tee, national chairman of the Republi B year or se\'eral years since they had o\·er $100.000 in cash and pledges had , seen the fayAower Hill Campus. can Party· Albert J. Thiel, '2 presi been raised to match contingency dent of the i ational aterproof Paper Since June a year ago two new dor v\ pledge of $1-0 000 by the Davella mitories for men Johnson an<l verill fanufacturers ;\s ociation. and Robert :\fill Foundation, thus assuring the '20, Halls, have been built and dedicated . Wilkins, president of the Con- erection of the new biology-geology necticut tate Association of Life foundations for five other fraternity. building. He said that about 30,000 hou e have been placed, the interior nderwriters. wa still needed to equip the structure. "" • • * of the Keyes Chemistry building has The trustees authorized construction OUNCIL ELECTIONS - been completed and is being equipped, The of the new women's dormitory al Coomb baseball field has been put into C Council elected !1-lacomber a though some $600,000 is still needed use and a great deal of landscaping has chairman of the council for the next before it can be completed. Develop been done. two years, Yoted to make Ellsworth ·w. ment Fund hauman Reginald H. * * * * * (Bill) ?-.1illett Alumni ecretary, and turteYant, '2 1 reported that approxi EOPLE - One of the most distin Earle McKeen, '29 .. chairman of the mately 500,000 had been raised dur P guished Yisitors to the campus ballot committee, announced the fol ing the fl cal year. during the commencement period was lowing as elected by the alumni body Four fraternities, Delta Upsilon, Phi :Yferton L. Miller, '90. who with Mrs. for membership on the Council: Delta Theta, Zeta Psi and Tau Delta '34 .\1iller, came from alifornia to take George E. Ferrell, '18 Peter Mills, Phi, Yoted to construct houses with an his first look at Miller Library for Albert C. Palmer, '30 lark R. hible , eye toward occupation in the fall of which he was responsible. He had '29, Hilda Fife, '26, and Doris Don 1951. The structures will cost over 34. been here for the laying of the corner nell Vickery, orman C. Perkins, 100,000 each. '32. • * • * * stone some 10 years ago. member of the Athletic Council. The Council reelected Elizabeth ;..filler was twice honored at Com CULTY - ssistant Profes or of wanton Allan '33 E. Richard Drum A mencement. first by the lumni Coun Physics Winthrop H. Stanley re mond, '28, and Bernard E. E ter, '2 1, F cil which awarded him with a "Colby tired June L after 30 years service at as .A.lumni Trustees. Brick '' and then by the College which * * * * Colby. Dr. George F. Parmenter, made him an honorary Doctor of Laws. professor-emeritus of chemistry.. ' as EW TRUSTEE Ellerton M. Other Colby men receiving honorary awarded an honorary Doctor of Science Jette, president of the C. F. degrees were James L. Wilson, '20, N degree by the University of Massachu- Hathaway company of \ aterville, Henry Russell Spencer, '99, and Car etts .. June 3. '04. chairman of Colby's Bu iness Manage roll Norman Perkins, ix facu1ty promotions were an * * * * * ment Institute and co-chairman of the nounced Commencement Weekend: corporate division of "the Development LUMNI COUNCIL HONORS - Paul . Fullam and Luella F. or A The Alumni Council at its an wood, from a sociate to full profe sor nual session, Saturday, June 10, of history and English, respectively; '41, awarded other " Bricks " to Milroy and Robert W.