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OR SEVERAL YEAR Colby has sponsored and been host to various institutes F and special programs. Among these ha e been sessions for business­ men, institutes for hospital administrators, programs for record librarians and coaching schools. These services are about to be expanded with the introduction of a formal program of adult education. Ralph S. Williams, '35, assistant pro­ fessor of business administration, has been appointed acting director. This summer will officially launch an extensive series of activities which will keep Mayflower Hill busy around-the-clock. Groups which have already scheduled summer conferences for the new campus are:

June 18-20 Colby Coaching School Lecturers: HAROLD " RED " DREW, head football coach, University of Alabama; HARRY Co rnE, basketball coach, University of Illinois June 19-20 Maine Public Health Nursing Conference June 19-25 Dirigo Girls State June 19-Sept. 5 The Lancaster Courses in Ophthalmology Director: PARKER HEATH, M.D., Boston June 22-Aug. American Mathematical Society Institute Director: H. M. MAcNEILLE, Providence June 26-Aug. 14 Colby College Summer School of Languages Director: Professor JoHN McCoy of Coloy Aug. 3-15 Air Force ROTC Summer Educational Workshop Aug. 4-13 Audiology for Industry Co-directors: FREDERICK T. HILL, M.D., '10, and JosEPH S.HALOFF, M.D., Philadelphia Aug. 20-27 Fifth Annual New England Institute for Teachers of Mathematics Sept. 9-11 Ninth Annual Institute for Hospital Administrators Director: RAYMOND P. SLOAN, L.H.D., '46 Institute for Medical Record Librarians

. . 1111 COLBY 0: ''"""''"" ALUMNUS Overseas Reports

PRIL 1953 NUMBER 3 Barbara Wentworth, 152, is studying under a Fulbright Editor ...... RICHARD NYE DYER scholarship in the Department of Deaf Education at Man­ Business Mana er, g ELLSWORTH MILLETT, '25 chester University, Manchester, England. * * * The President's Page 2 'M DISCOVERING more and more that " all time is unredeem- Talk of the College 3 I able," and with this comes a certain pressure to partici­ Professor Carl Weber 6 pate in as many activities as possible and to try to understand Wanted: One Artificial Rink 9 the views of as many people as possible. Certainly there is ample opportunity to cultivate both of these since I'm living Overseas Reports l 0 in an active dormitory with 250 English girls and a dozen Merton Leland Miller 14 foreign students. The physical set-up of Ashburne Hall can't compare with the Colby Folk in the Headlines 15 luxurious rooms of the new Foss Hall which some of my English friends and I Sports 17 viewed with awe in the last Alumnus, but after one has learned how to put a Alumni Clubs 19 shilling into the small gas heaters in each of our rooms, there is really no cause for complaint. News of the Classes 19 Manchester weather is notoriously damp and generally "rather grim," but In Memoriam 26 the Londoners need to have a bit of diversion from the subject of their own fog, PHOTO CREDITS: Page 14, Joseph Coburn so we mustn't deny them the pleasure. It's really not so bad! Smith, 24· 15, Uni ersity of Washington; I have nothing but praise for the Department of Deaf Education at Man­ 17, (cartoon) King Features Syndicate; 19, Central Maine Power Co.; 26, Los Angeles chester University. There are sixty of us from many countries and with many City College; 5, 6, 16, 21, Waterville Morn­ variations in experience. We were given a few weeks of formal lectures on some ing Sentinel. of the principles of teaching the deaf, then we were attached to school classes of different degrees of deafness, age, and mentality, and expected to teach at

Publi hed four times yearly on the 15th of least one lesson each day. Psychology and educational theory tended to deteri­ October, January, April, and July by the orate a bit when a little " chap " decided to send my glasses across the room, but Alumni Council of Colby College. Subscrip­ such incidents make for a certain progress in learning (and suffering) by doing. tion rate - $2.50. Single copies - $.75. I heartily approve of the three to four week holidays which we get at Christ­ Entered as second-class matter Jan. 25, 1912, at the Post Office at Waterville, Me., under mas and at Easter. Another Fulbrighter and I spent the Christmas vacation Act of March 2, 1879. having a wide�yed look at Italy and Switzerland. At Easter, Katherine Parker, '52, and I expect to have a circuit tour of this green and pleasant land (Scotland, too!). I've had a chance to see quite a bit of it already - Wales, Chester, York, Stratford-on-Avon (·and a wonderful production of Othello), Bristol, Bath, and The old master - football, baseball, of course London. basketball, horse-racing, or chess - Ed­ All these advantages seem real only as they begin to put people and events die Roundy knows them from funda­ into some kind of perspective. Odd bits of history or literature suddenly become mentals to finalities. The veteran of mor� meanin¥ful and there seems to be a reason to try "to see life steadily and , twenty-eight years coaching at Colby see it whole. is on the diamond again this spring, ·I sail for New York on the Queen Mary July 22 and expect to teach this fall. banging them out, plotting the strategy, and demonstrating techniques. /eanne Hallee, '52, is at Corsica teaching unde1· a special Eddie never stopped learning and he exchange scholm·ship awarded by the Institute of lntemational has never stopped teaching. Hundreds Education. Funds are provided for these awards by the gov­ of Colby athletes are in his debt fo1· the ernment of France. skills and sports philosophy they ac­ * * * quired under his tutelage. ACH YEAR the Institute of International Education send One of the finest compliments paid E forty Americans to France as "assistants d'anglais." him came the other day from an The object of this appointment is not only to teach the Amer­ alumnus watching a practice session. ican language and way of life through conversation, but in "You know," he observed, "Eddie's return to learn about the French and their language. I have one of the old school who still cling been sent to Ajaccio, Corsica. to the belief that it is possible to be Although part of France, Corsica is an island with a character of its own. both a coach and a gentleman and that The people stem from a mixture of races: their island has been dominated by players can be both competitors and the Romans the Saracens, and the Genoese, before becoming a part of France in sportsmen." the late eighteenth century. The Saracens left Corsica its emblem: the figure of a Worth thinking over! (Continued on page 10)

1 The President's Page

President Bixler was selected to broadcast on the Through his mouthpiece, Socrate , Plato explained C olunibia network program1, THI I BELIEVE. The that the rules of straight thinking are unque tionable series, produced by news comnientator Edward R. in the en e that the person who doubts them ex­ Murrow and heard five da';/s a week, presents the pres es them in his own doubt. The attempt to philosophies of thoitghtful men and women from argue them away only establishe them more se­ all walks of life. It is transcribed and distributed to curely. If I follow Plato s rea oning through I see on er fifty CB stations across the country. that what he does is to point out the fixed star that Dr. Bixler's contribution was heard locally over stay with u as we journey across the hills and plains WGUY, Bangor on February 25. The text of that of life. My mistakes in taste and conduct like broadcast is reprinted with the permission of Copy­ tho e of thought, can be shown to come from my right Help, Incorporated, 195 . failure to keep these fixed points of reference in view. It seems to be that these two lines of argument T MUST be distressing to others, as it certainly bring an effective answer to the one who questions. J has been to me, that two interests have been at little skeptici m is a healthy thing. But practically war in my nature ever since I was a child. Where it cannot do the job, and where theory is concerned the heart is concerned I am the kind of person who it can be faced down as soon as we see what reason has strong attachments to the family and friends he really requires. Both heart and head thus point to loves with all the hopes and faiths they imply. But religious belief. Our deepest feelings bring the con­ when the head enters I become skeptic. In recent viction that Ii fe is good and that the world which years this would have troubled me even more than it produced it is God-like. To -supplement this the has if I had not found our great contemporary claim laid on us that we think consistently provides Albert Schweitzer saying that he suffered from a its own reasonable evidence of a power not ourselve similar conflict. by which we are judged. Because much of my life has been spent teaching A person of my type finds life absorbing, there­ philosophy, I have naturally gone to thinkers of the fore, both because of the jo) s of love and friendship past for light on this question. It has come most and also because of the chance offered through ideas clearly from two writers with very different points and the decisions that follow them to work for the of view. William James has taught me that whether kind of society where these joys can be more widely I like to think so or not, I actually do live by my shared. Poverty and prejudice are still with us, it feelings and the beliefs that stem from them. At is true, but the war against them was never waged the root of all my faith is the feeling that I must more skillfully. A teacher likes to remember that carry on and accept what comes. the battle which will have the most results in the Yet there is another tradition, represented most long run is being fought on the plane of ideas. The ably in Plato, which show me that the head has its hope that he may be able to contribute to it is what own un hakeable convictions as truly as the heart. gives his work its fascination.

2 CoLBY ALUMNUS A READER'S DIGEST Foundation A LETTER to President Bixler from Dr. scholarship has been awarded Colby for Albert Schweitzer expressed his regrets deserving students. The college is one at being unable to attend this month's of a small nationwide group, ten in " The Pride of Mayfl.ower Hill " Con vocation. number, who were chosen. will be the title of an article on Writing in his own hand March 9 Selections were limited to moderate­ Colby to be published in the May 9 from Lambarene, French Equatorial sized institutions (enrollment less than issue of the SATURDAY EVENING PosT. Africa, Dr. Schweitzer stated he hopes 1500) who had "the highest academic Free-lance writer Collie Small is the to come to America "after next year" standing." author. and that he is reserving time just for A letter from the Digest reports, "A visits with his many friends. At pres­ careful investigation made by the Foun­ and women of this type. However, ent he is finishing some literary and dation's scholarship advisers showed to do this job well, we feel that our philosophical writings which, with his that Colby qualified handsomely in educational patterns need constant re­ work in the hospital, take all his this connection." appraisal in the light of contemporary energy. • • • needs. Dr. Schweitzer reports that the hos­ CONVOCATION-TIME and the Alum­ "With the aim of evaluating our pital has expanded beyond his antici­ nus publication date coincided so per­ present program and determining the pations. Four doctors and nine Euro­ fectly it was impossible to make any course a liberal arts college should fol­ pean nurses now assist him. An addi­ report on the proceedings in this issue. low to achieve its highest effectiveness, tional doctor for three hundred leprosy From April 14-17 the Colby campus this Convocation was planned." patients under his care is needed. was devoted to addresses, panels, and • • • Describing his trip to Europe (from informal discussions on the place of the A PROGRAM of honors study for out­ the middle of last summer until the liberal arts college in today's world. standing seniors will be inaugurated end of November) Dr. Schweitzer It was an impressively fitting observ­ next year following acceptance by the notes that it was "extremely busy." ance of the completion of the move to faculty of a proposal made by_ the Colby During this time he made records for Mayflower Hill. chapter of the American Association of Columbia on the church organ in A distinguished visiting faculty par­ University Professors. Gunsbach and read a paper before the ticipated: Guy George Gabrielson, The project, to be known as the Sen­ French Academy on The Ethical Prob­ Colby trustee and former chairman of ior Scholars program, will offer from lem in the Evolution of Human Life. the Republican National Committee; three to se en seniors the opportunity Between October 20 and November 24 Theodore M. Greene, professor of to pursue independent study and in- (when he sailed from Bordeaux, philosophy at Yale; Everett N. Case, estigation in lieu of certain course re­ France) he spent two weeks in Paris president of Colgate University; Ma­ quirements. Students selected will and, in the interest of his hospital, vis­ jorie H. Nicolson, professor of English work with members of the faculty who ited Holland, Denmark, and Sweden, at Columbia University; Detlev W. have agreed to serve as tutors or con­ as well as Ulm in Germany and Strass­ Bronk, president of the Johns Hopkins sultants. burg in France. • • • University; and Norman Cousins, Dr. Schweitzer wrote that he had TER NATIONAL has editor of The Saturday Review. ROT ARY IN hundreds of letters still remaining to Janice "In completing its move to May­ awarded a Fellowship to be answered. Although he felt very 1952, H. flower Hill," the Convocation program Vaughan, of Laconia, N. tired, he said that his health was in Latin America. stated, " Colby College recognizes the She will study good. increased responsibilities that go with This is the third such Fellowship expansion. Our times, illiberal in awarded to Colby graduates in recent In the interest of the Albert Schweit­ many ways, demand men and women years. Everett J. Felker, Jr., 1949, did zer Fellowship, President Bixler gave of broad understanding and deep graduate work under Rotary sponsor­ a half hour broadcast March 30 over human sympathy as well as detailed ship at the University of Geneva, Boston University radio station WBUR­ technical knowledge. Switzerland. Harland Eastman, 1951, FM. He was chairman of the Fellow­ "The liberal arts college is the is now working under a Fellowship at ship from its beginning until about ten agency best equipped to develop men the London School of Economics. years ago.

Issue of APRIL 1953 3 VI IT WAS LIKE an Alfred Hitchcock pro­ duction when a Federal agent appeared at a college office last fall and de­ manded to see the head of the student government. Identification was Bashed guardedly by the visitor. Only after co�s�derable probing did he reveal his m1ss1on. "We're doing a survey, " he finally confessed, "and Colby has been recom­ mended as having one of the best stu­ dent governments in the East." His appreciation was not misplaced. More and more the organization has been assuming roles of responsibility which have assured an effective liason between the administration and under­ graduates. In February the student government issued a repor of accom­ plishments of the past year. It boasted of several constructive actions. INEVITABLE - The march by television has finally invaded Mayflower Hill. Through its stimulus hockey has This set is in the student center, the Hangout, at Roberts Union. Profits from been continued on the varsity program. Gifts from members of the board of candy, cigarettes, and coca-cola vending machines in the building provided the trustees made it possible to carry on funds. Reception is limited to a single station, Bangor, as yet the lone TV outlet the sport this past winter despite the in the state. Left to right: Jane Allan, '56, Providence, R. I., Mary Seave1', '56, problems and expenses involved in find­ Needham, Mass., and Sevy Levy, '53, Teheran, Iran. ing suitable ice surfaces. In the area of recreation, arrange­ chairman of a committee on religious A review of the magazine in the ments were made for skating on John­ education. March Publications of the Modern son Pond. Night lights and a warm­ She was also a member of a n.. m­ Language Association of America sums ing house were provided. A check mittee that planned the present Asso­ up what these and many others are cashing service at Roberts Union was ciation' s building in Schenectady. A saying, "As an educational experirnent, inaugurated. Library hours were ex­ bronze plaque at the door of the it will bear watching." tended to 10 p.m. Last fall a student chapel in the building was erected to • • • government conference of the four her memory by the board of directors Maine colleges was brought to Colby TRIBUTES have come from many a year following her death in 1936. under its auspices. sources to Colby, each adding appreci­ Washington has undoubtedly made • • • ation for the job the college has done note of these. In all likelihood the and is doing. THE COLBY SCHOLAR, faculty-student next step will be a citation . . . or a George E. Shaw, historian for written publication devoted to material subpoena. Kappa Delta Rho fraternity, gave addi­ "which can be used in one way or • • • tional recognition last summer when another in connection with classes cur­ A GRADUATE of the class of 1890, he wrote in the Quill and Scroll mag­ rently being taught, " has appeared Adelaide True Ellery, has been memo­ azine of Colby's "remarkable achieve­ with two issues and a third is on the rialized with a scholarship in her name. ment." way. Comments indicate Colby has A grant will be made each year to a Following a factual summary of the fostered a valuable idea that may well woman student, either a junior or sen­ move to Mayflower Hill he added, be imitated by others. ior, who has shown "outstanding re­ " In these days of high income and ligious leadership in the life of the " The purpose is so sound and useful estate taxes, I can think of no more college." that I wonder why someone did not desirable or worthy institution upon Mrs. Ellery was former preceptress think of it before, " Paul Bixler, chair­ which to bestow gifts than Colby Col­ at Acadia Seminary, Wolfville, Nova man of the editorial board of the lege. In my opinion there is less Scotia. Following graduate work at Antioch Review told the editors. 'boon dogglin ' in Maine than in Wash­ Radcliffe, where she received an M.A. Phoebe Lou Adams of the Atlantic ington and if I were a wealthy indi­ in 1895, she held a similar position at Monthly called the Scholar "an inter­ vidual I would rather see my estate Vermont Academy. esting publication." The editor of the used by a New England college than She was prominent in religious and Journal of Higher Education described by the present administration... social life of Union College, Schenec­ it as "noteworthy and unique." Speak­ " Perhaps somewhere among our tady where her husband was on the ing of the initial issue, Frederic G. 6,000 Kappa Sigma Rho's there might faculty. Mrs. Ellery served on the Melcher of Publisher's Weekly wrote, be a few who would care to look into board of directors of the Young W 001- " I think you have an interesting idea the Colby situation either for them­ en's Christian Association and was here, attractively carried out." selves or for interested clients."

4 COLBY ALUMNUS PIANI UTCH T Fania Chapiro played An ambitious modem dance per­ Dr. Ermanno Comparetti and his D Beetho en s Concerto in C Minor, formance of Henrik Ibsen's Peer musicians provided an exciting and No. III as soloist with the Colby Com­ Gynt was produced March 19 by fun-filled evening March 7 when the munity Symphony orchestra January a cast of more than fifty girls. Colby College band presented its first 18. The orchestra also gave a concert Doris Martin, in her first year as music festival. It is intended that the in Pittsfield March 22. . . Exhibitions instructor of physical education, occasion become an annual event. since the turn of the year have included did an effective job of adaeting the High school musicians from Skowhe­ a selection of paintings and sculpture Ibsen text and in directing. A gan and Winslow and some under­ from the Boston Society of Indepen­ Bennington College freshman, graduates from the University of Maine dent Artists and some striking water Elaine Bland, spent five weeks augmented the Colby band in a highly colors by Harvard Professor Benjamin working in the dance program of enjoyable concert, musingly climaxed Rowland, Jr. ..Art historian Erwin the college and at Waterville high with President Bixler's conducting of Panofsky, professor at the School of school during February and March The Stars and Stripes Forever. Humanistic Studies, Institute for Ad­ as a .field assignment from Ben­ Thirty-two high school and sec­ vanced Studies, Princeton, New Jersey, nington. was Averill lecturer February 6. ondary school students represent­ In January, the Colby Library Asso­ ing every state in New England ciates heard Professor William A. Jack­ competed in the Montgomery Dean Mark Shibles, 1929, of the son> assistant librarian in charge of Speaking Contest March 7. Pro­ University of Maine gave the ad­ rare books at Harvard, and in March a fessor Cecil Rollins handled de­ dress when the senior class held talk by Harvard graduate student Bur­ tails of the smooth-running affair. its annual banquet January 8. dett Gardner who has been doing his Winners were John Cameron, Ph.D. research at the Colby library Lawrence high, Fair.field; Stephen A tag day, sponsored by the senior among the recently-acquired papers of R. Rivkin, Roxbury Latin School, class, raised $500 for Nick Sarris, who English author Vernon Lee. West Roxbury, Massachusetts; is still under treatment for polio in Bos­ and Anne Weess, Sylvester high ton. Alumni wishing to write him First Lieutenant Frederick C. school, Hanover, Massachusetts. should direct mail to Children's Hos­ Dietz, USAF, is the newest ap­ pital, Division 36, 300 Longwood A e­ pointment to the AF ROTC fac­ This has been a hustling new year nue, Boston, Massachusetts. Nick's ulty. Lt. Dietz holds an A.B. from for Powder and Wig with productions progress is slow but steady. He's be­ Columbia and had begun his of Tennessee Williams' Summer and ginning to walk now with braces and studies towards a master's degree Smoke; a Theatre-in-the-Round pre­ crutches. He was on hand for the in teaching when he was recalled sentation of The Corn Is Green; and Boston College - Colby basketball skir­ to active duty in 1951. He served now Hamlet on the docket for spring mish at Boston Gardens. for a year in Korea as a B-26 pilot. and Commencement.

LARGEST EVER - Seventeen seniors have been elected to Phi Beta Kappa making the largest delegation ever chosen at the college. Seated left to right: Electra Paskalides, Portland; Alice Colby, Denmark; Catherine Ellis, Waltham, Mass.; Alice-Jane Tyler, Augusta; Phebe Dow, Presque Isle; Jane Hinson, Orrington; Ellen Hay, Yarmouth. Stand­ ing: Sarah Packard, Gorham; Ruth Lyon, Worcester, Mass.; Sally Mathews, Weymouth, Mass.; Florence Fisher, Natick, Mass. Back row: Arthur Kimball, Waterville; Theodore Johnson, Watertown, ·Mass.; Charles Anderson, Dorchester, Mass.; Harold Cross, Belle Plaine, Kansas; David Swindells, Fall River, Mass.; and Paul White, Revere, Mass.

Issue of APRIL 1953 5 IN AcADEMic AND LITERARY CrncLEs, not only in Wthe United States but throughout the English-speaking world, the names of Carl Weber and Colby College are synonymous. The world's leading authority on the life Editor, and writings of Thomas Hardy is known in the Bodleian Library at Oxford and in the British Museum almost as well as he is known at the Huntington Library in Cali­ Teacher, Scholar fornia or at the Congressional Library in Washington. A cry of protest was therefore heard when it was learned that Professor Weber had relinquished, at his own request, after thirty-two years, chairmanship of the depart­ Carl Weber retires as ment of English. That act generated the false rumor that this energetic teacher and scholar had decided to retire be­ head of English Department fore he reached his sixtieth birthday. The Alumnus is glad to report that Professor Weber still remains at Colby both to devote full energies to as teacher and schclar. His handing over the adminis­ trative duties of department chairman to his younger col­ his other college duties league and former student, Professor Alfred K.Chapman, signifies merely that Professor Weber's other duties have become so important to the college they require his full time. Professor Weber is one of a few persons who combine the qualities of prolific writer patient bibliographer, and keen literary detective. He has thus been able as Curator ' of Rare Books and Manuscripts to make the Colby Library known and respected throughout the world. To his credit is the longest list of books and articles written by any

6 COLBY ALUMNUS per o� ever connected with the college sorship in English, so that since 1928 - a h t that keeps growing every year, he has been Roberts Professor of Eng- although it was already long and im­ lish Liter�ture. . pressi e when former librarian N. Or­ Graduated from Johns Hopkins in v in Rush compiled his Bibliography 1914, Weber was one of a group of of the Published Writings of Carl young Americans who became noted Jefferson Weber. Rhodes scholars - a group that in­ The Colby Library Quarterly is one cluded Frank Aydelotte, Christopher of not n;iore than a dozen library jour­ Morley, and Senator Fulbright. From . nals which have literary recognition in 1914 to 1917 Weber spent three years American universities and research at Oxford, from which he received both libra�ies. For this distinction the high the B.A. and the M.A. d�grees. In _ quality of Protessor Weber's editorship 1938 he was honored with the degree is alone responsible. As editor of the of Doctor of Letters by Franklin and Colby College Press he has employed Marshall University. the professional aid and has won the NDER Professor Weber the English personal friendship of one of America's u department has expanded in size great printers, Fred Anthoensen. and influence. From two persons the Important as are his writings and his staff has grown to twelve, half of them e�itorship, Professor Weber's most sig­ with the Ph.D. degree. The number of mficant contribution continues to be his students majoring in English increased amazing accumulation of the rare beyond the proportional increase in books and manuscripts at the Edwin totai enrollment. Several of Professor Arlington Robinson Treasure Room of Weber's students have followed him as. the library. How Professor Weber Rhodes Schoiar; at Oxford; others. even makes the acquaintance of the have won Fulb··ight scholarships; a hundreds of donors, much less induces few have returned to Colby to become· them to part with precious books and his colleagues, and many others have papers, remains a mystery. As o e gone on to the great graduate schools,. friend has said: " Professor Weber and from there to positions in colleges. makes you feel he is doing you a favor and universities all over the country. when he accepts a book, because you know it will have loving treatment and To enumerate all of Professor Web­ permanent care." er's publications would cover several pages. So, ignoring the hundreds of ROFESSOR WEBER will continue to P articles, essays, and bibliographies that teach juniors and seniors his fav­ have appeared in periodicals and orite course, From Browning to Hardy, pamphlets, only his important full­ a study of the Victorian writers. He length books are here noted. will devote the remainder of his time as Curator of Rare Books and Manu­ Between the time when he published scripts and as editor of the Quarterly Footprints (annotated selections from and the Colby College Press. the writings of A. J. Roberts) in 1928 Carl Weber is one of the few teach­ until the date of this Alumnus, Profes­ ers at Colby who first took over in the sor Weber has published the following: middle of a semester. Most come in The Best of Browning ( 193Q); An In­ September, a few at the opening of discretion in the Life of an Heiress - the second semester in February. But Hardy's Lost Novel (1935); -annotated with the ink scarcely dry on his dis­ edition of Tess of the D'Urbervilles charge as an artillery officer in World (1935); Hardy at Colby (1936); an­ War I, Weber arrived in Waterville on notated edition of Far From the Mad­ March 17, 1919, and at once took over ding Crowd ( 1937); Rebek_ah Owen a full program of classes as instructor and Thomas Hardy (1939); his great in English under President Arthur J. definitive biography of Hardy, entitled Roberts, 'who himself headed the de­ Hardy of Wessex, published by the partment until 1921, when he handed Columbia University Press ( 1940); over the departmental administration The Three Wayfarers, facsimile of first to Weber. Promotion was rapid: edition of the Hardy short story, with assistant professor in 1922, associate introduction and notes (1943); The professor in 1924, and a full professor­ First Hundred Years of Thomas Hardy ship in 1926. After the death of Pres­ (1942); Hardy Music (1945); Hous- ident Roberts in 1927, the president's man's A Shropshire Lad, with intro-· name was given to Colby's top profes- duction and notes (1946); Hardy in

Issue of APRIL 1953 America (1946); A Bibliography of Jacob Abbott ( 1948); A Centennial Bibliography of the Published Writings Quotes from Northwestern of Sarah Orne Jewett, in collaboration with his wife, Clara Carter Weber President Bixler was on the Northwestern Reviewing Stand Forum (1949); A Thousand and One Fore­ from Chicago January 25 over the Mutual network. Mode1·ator was Dean Edge Pa£ntings (1949); annotated edi­ James McBurney, Northwestern School of Speech. Others on the panel tion of Tess of the D'Urbervilles for we1·e Northwestern Dean of Men James McLeod and Dean F. A. Kahler of the Modern Library (1951); Hardy New Trier high school, Wilmette, Illinois. The following excerpts are and the Lady from Madison Squai·e from Dr. Bixler's give-and-take with the group. (1952). On the intellectual level there was never more need for creative ideas By this time it is quite obvious to than at the present time. In science, in economics, in politics, in business Alumnus readers that Professor Weber and the professions our youth has a tremendous chance to do something will not be idle. He has before him that will be significant in history. I think the opportunity is greater here many more years of active production than ever before. for Colby - both the products of his • * * • • own pen and of his exceptional ability The great teacher is one who points the student beyond his own per­ to entice items for his beloved Treasure sonality. Perhaps initially he arouses the student's enthusiasm by certain Room from collectors all over the emotional qualities he himself has but after that initial stage the work world. Colby's "Hardy Perennial " is must not be either student centered or teacher centered, it must be idea still hardy. centered. • • • • • Our youth has wonderful physical courage. Put them in Korea and RUCE WEIN, '55, Bogota, New Jer­ they show magnificent stamina and initiative as well. .. But I don't see B sey has been elected co-chairman of quite that same courage and initiative in facing up to problems that are the Regional Council of the Student intellectual and I think that the fault must be our as teachers.. . Can t Christian Movement in New England. we work out an educational system which will call forth that same fear­ A year ago Raymond Grant, Jr., '52, lessness where ideas are concerned? was co-chairman of the General Com­ mittee. Grant is now chairman of the National Student Council of the YMCA. The Colby Student Christian Asso­ ciation is esteemed to be one of the best in New England. Colby has con­ tributed more leadership to the SCM and the YM and the YWCA than any other college or university in this region if not in the entire country according to Professor Richard Gilman, SCA adviser. Professor Gilman has been appointed director of the Summer Seminar which the SCM will sponsor at Martha's Vineyard.

OR THE THIRD TIME in less than a F year Colby students, faculty, and staff made the visit of a Red Cross bloodmobile to Mayflower Hill a rous­ ing success. One hundred and thirty-two pints of blood were contributed on February 24 for a new high at the college. All but one pint came from members of the Colby community. The previous top had been 125 pints. It is of interest to note that during that week the Maine Red Cross col­ lected 445 pints of blood in the state. NE W CHAIRMAN - Professor Alfred King Chapman, Colby Phi Beta Kappa, Colby led the list followed by Augusta '25, who has succeeded Dr. Cad Jeffe1·son Weber as chairman of the department of with 117 pints, Portland with 116, and English. Professor Chapman, a former student of Dr. Weber, joined the faculty Waldoboro with 80. in 1928.

8 COLBY ALUMNUS VARSITY HOCKEY Colby Opps. 2 -············· New Hampshire ...... 3 4 ...... Bowdoin ·-······················9 2 ...... M. I. T ...... 4 6 ...... New Hampshire ...... 7 !...... Bates Mfg. Co...... 14 1 ...... Yale Cougars ...... 4 10 -············· Bowdoin ...... 7 8 ...... Bates Domestics ...... 5

LTHOUGH ice conditions were spotty, A the hockey team played eight games. Off to a slow start the Mules finished strong with wins over Bow­ doin and the Bates Co. Domestics. The outstanding performances of the winter were by Captain "Bo" Fisher, Walpole, Mass., Dick Skelley and Jack King, both of Melrose, Mass. Fisher, first line center, racked up seven points WANTED · One Artificial Rink in the second Bowdoin clash. Skelley made eleven goals and seven assists during the season. Goalie King's per­ formance against Bates, when he made LUMNI interested in the Colby win­ April 18 to formulate details of the 53 saves, won him a tremendous ova- campaign. Selective solicitation, lim­ . A ter sports program are awa e of tion from the Lewiston crowd. the tremendous handicap the hockey ited to those alumni and friends inter­ teams have faced due to lack of natu­ ested in this special project, will com­ Manpower-wise, the future of hockey ral ice. In the last two seasons more mence in the near future. It is hoped is brighter. The first line and one than half of the scheduled home that the new facilities will be available defenseman will graduate. This leaves games have had to be cancelled. In­ for the 1953-54 skating season. nine lettermen and eleven freshmen adequate practice facilities have, fur­ The proposed rink will be located for next year. thermore, resulted in poor condition­ in the vicinity of the fieldhouse to ing. Despite these circumstances, enable participants to use its dressing '53 SKIING RESULTS Colby's hockey men have performed rooms. It is contemplated that the FTER CANCELLATION creditably against other New England rink will be 200 feet long and 90 feet of two home colleges who in many cases have had wide, the standard NCAA dimensions. A meets, the ski team competed in access to artificial ice. The ice-making equipment will be the Eastern Intercollegiate Ski Associa­ housed in a unit approximately 20 tion championships at Lyndonville, In the long-range program for the feet by 50 feet, located about 50 feet Vermont, February 6-8, placing only a Mayflower Hill campus, coll_ege author­ away. It will take nine miles of fraction of a point out of third place. ities incorporated plans for an- artificial steel pipe to house the brine which �aptain Dana Andersen won the jump­ rink. Due to the very poor ice condi­ freezes the ice surface. The ice pro­ mg crown. tions of the past winter these plans vided will be usable at weather tem­ Due to the lack of snow the Winter have been accelerated. A study of the peratures up to 55 degrees. Carnival meet was transferred to needs for hockey and for gene�al skat­ The completion of an artificial ice Sugarloaf Mountain at Kingfield and ing was submitted to Colby trustees plant will help materially in providing to Farmington. Colby swept the February 21. By vote of the board, Colby with one of the best rounded downhill and won second, fourth and such construction has been approved collegiate winter sports programs in fifth in the slalom, competing against subject to the raising of necessary New England. In addition to varsity the University of New Brunswick, funds. It was pointed out that seven and intramural hockey, the rink will University of Massachusetts, and the eastern colleges, including Bowdoin, be available for figure skating and for University of Maine, but lost out in have either completed or are planning general recreational skating by stu­ jumping and cross country_ to place to build artificial rinks. dents and faculty. second behind Maine. The Wiedner Bill Millett, '25, Gordon Jones, '40, Cup race at Waterville Valley, New and Joseph Wallace, '43, were author­ Hampshire and the annual costume 1953 hockey team abo e: front, "Bo" ized to form a committee to initiate Fisher, captain, Norwood ; Laraba, Manches­ races with alumni (the varsity won) and carry out this drive. Preliminary ter, . H.; King, Melrose; Yorks, Winthrop; rounded out the season. Haskdl, Dedham; MacGillivray, Weston; estimates indicate that approximately· Colby declined an invitation to com­ $100 000 will be needed. (back row) Cohen, manager, White Plains ; pete in the National Collegiate , Reed, Woolwich· Rice Pelham; Skelley, Mel-· cham­ Prospective members of the Artificial rose; Tyler, Cumberland Center ; Porath pionships in Ogden, Utah, due to the foe Rink Committee met in Waterville Augusta; and Kaufman, Lynn. lack of transportation and funds.

Issue of APRIL 1953 9 Overseas Reports Continued

Tip of the Gulf D'Ajaccio, Corsica - The Gen_oes� watch towers were built to protect the entrre JSland. In the event of an attack a message was relayed by a light from one tower to the next.

Moor; the Tuscans left their dialect; Through several organizations such as their most striking characteristics. the Genoese gave them their names the Club des Lecteurs, the Cine Club They have suffered numerous re erses and left an ever-standing memorial of and the Jeunesse Musicale de France, I with ensuing economic crises; yet they _ _ watch towers which surround the have made numerous acquaintances contmue to live heads held high and _ island. Even today Corsica is consid­ with people in the town. with great national pride. ered in a primitive and rustic condi­ My only regret is that the year will This pride may well be one of the tion; it is relatively unspoiled and un­ soon be over and that I do not have factors which contribute to manifesta­ frequented by tourists. another year to spend here. tions of anti - Americanism. The Ajaccio, the capital of this Mediter­ French seem to fear the imROsition of ranean island, is nestled at the foot of ' Barbara Hamlin, 52, is studying American culture. Although they are a beautiful gulf and surrounded by under a Fulbright scholarship at the willing to concede and profit from our mountains which are topped with snow University of Pa1·is, Paris, F1·ance. tech ical a vantages, they insist upon in the winter. In the town the palm � � keepmg their own culture intact. This trees and the warm sun add a tropical .... fear is readily understandable in view atmosphere. Although the town has of the preponderance of American 35,000 inhabitants, it still maintains a SIDE from the obvious scholastic ad- products sold in France and their re­ village aspect. A newcomer is soon A vantages of study at the Univer­ sentment seems to vary according to familiar with the faces of the people sity of Paris, the Fulbright program is economic and educational levels. A and the students. giving me an incomparable opportu­ reasonable attitude characterizes the As an a1>:;istant I have tried to enter nity to become acquainted with the life higher levels; fear and mistrust, the the life of Ajaccio. My main oc­ and attitudes of the French. My obser­ into lower. cupation is my conversation classes vations, however, can hardly be con­ The same may be said for the French with small groups of students. Through sidered as fact, for, to an American, attitude toward militarism. The lower them I have learned much about the France and its people present conflict­ levels consider United States armed island, its history, its beautiful sights. ing aspects which defy satisfactory in­ forces in France as occupation forces, Outside of classes, again with the stu­ terpretation. others recognize them as a necessary dents, I play basketball with a civic I see here a comfortably dressed consequence of world conditions. They league. Part of my social life is made populace which on phenomenally low are, however of one voice in express­ up of activities with a group of fellow wages buys its clothing at twice the ing their fear at the rearmament of professors. Together we have formed American price. The low price of Germany and their chagrin that a mili­ a tiny choral group which meets once a food may account for this somewhat, tary man is heading the government week. but even this is high in proportion to We have planned numerous project.> the wage scale. In reality the French of the United States. To them this together such as Sunday hikes or bi­ are undergoing severe economic diffi­ bodes war. cycling, or even meals celebrating spe­ culties which they face with an admi­ The Communist Party is using these cial French or American holidays. rable courage. This courage is one of fears in a determined psychological

10 CoLBY ALUMNtJS warfare against the United States and Lieutenant Colonel William E. Gara­ the larger churches of the city to care it is my feeling that this is a prime bedian, '261 is a chaplain at the for the 1500 or more who will attend. source of the anti-Americanism which Munich, Germany military post, the On Christmas Sunday evening we had is encountered. Although I am not largest military post in the world. a Munich-wide service at which over in a JX>Sition to analyze the situation, * * * 1500 were present. Several chaplains communism does not seem to be too participated and music was furnished great a threat here. In Paris, they have NE OF THE PLACES where I conduct bv the local German Philharmonic an efficient Party Center which pub­ O religious services is a German Choir and an orchestra. lishes newspapers and issues posters church whose congregation has its At Christmas the Catholic personnel proclaiming the promise of universal services before we move in for ours. had a midnight Mass. In order to peace and the decadence of America. It's a small church, well filled every accommodate the more than 2000 who Thus an American is struck immedi­ Sunday at the American service, and attended, and because the Germans had ately by his seeming unpopularity. the atmosphere is that of a small, their own services in their churches at The party members, however, seem to friendly church back in the States. the same time, a large hall in the be limited to the workers and the in­ The congregation consists not only of Deutsches Museum was used. It was tellectual idealists of the student body. men in uniform, but their families, transformed into a church for the In general, the people fear the Russians Department of the Army civilians, evening with the altar surrounded by a and are not interested in sacrificing school teachers, state department em­ profusion of floral decorations. their nation to a communist world of ployees, and even a few native Ger­ Not every installation has a chap­ peace. Membership in the party is mans. Probably a dozen or more lain, so that it becomes necessary for dwindling and the party newspapers denominations are represented. Near­ chaplains to have two or more services are published at a daily loss. by, in the dependent school buildings in different places in order to reach the In their dealings with us the French at another hour we conduct a Sunday men where they are. In the tactical repudiate the impression given by the school for about 200 American young­ outfits the chaplains must provide JX>Sters. They are most courteous, sters. So we have an American church services for the men when they are in warm, and friendly and have neglected community in a foreign land, and as a the field as well as for those who re­ no measures to welcome us and make chaplain I am able to give the same main back at their permanent stations. a place for us among them. They spiritual ministry as I would in a parish We could use some more chaplains. seem genuinely to like and admire us back home. As it is, we employ civilian clergymen but are beset by doubts resulting from At the present time we are complet­ to assist us in giving the coverage de­ their insufficient knowledge of the ing our plans for Easter services. In sired. Some of these are American United States and its people. I am addition to the regularly scheduled missionaries, some are English-speak­ continually astonished to encounter services, the Protestant chaplains of ing German clergy, and some are non­ this in even the well-educated. Munich will conduct a Union Easter English-speaking German clergy who America is misrepresented. She is Sunrise Service. This has become an nevertheless can say Mass for the selling herself short. With the re­ annual affair in which we use one of Catholic personnel. sources at her command she should be flooding Europe with the proof of what she is. We have a vigorous young cul­ ture. We are sensitive to the arts. The French consider us hard-headed materialists. We are a peace-loving nation of families living under a form of government which affords us a max­ imum of liberty and expression in this government. When is Europe to learn this? Certain! y not from the com­ munists. Yet the most efficacious form of propaganda, the film industry, contin­ ues to send films to Europe which are both artistically poor and misrepresen­ tative. If Hollywood will not answer the challenge, the documentary films of the government should be supple­ mented by artistically fine films which show American community and family life. We should make Europe cog­ 's nizant of our contributions to art and IN MUNICH, GERMANY - The Har/aching Community Church of which literature. The information would be Lt. Col. Garabedian is chaplain. Mrs.. Garabedian is secretary of the Protestant gladly received. They surely want to Women's Guild and of the Sunday school. Daughters Barbara and Joan are know. teachers.

Issue of APRIL 1953 11 ing aids are supplied. Many feel that these lectures provide a wonderful op­ portuni ty to reach the troops with guid­ ance toward making them better as men, as soldiers, and as citizens. The chaplain, among others, is there wherever the men are to serve them in such a way that when they leave the . service they can look back on it as a real factor in their growth in maturity, character, and good citizenship.

No1·man D. Palmer, ']a, is visiting Fulbright Professor of Political Scz'ence at the University of Delhi, Delhi, In­ dia. Professor Palmer expects to return to the United States in mid-August. In September he will resume his work as Professor of Political Science and Chairman of the Department of Politi­ cal Science at the University of Penn­ Norman Palmer, '30, in front of the sylvania. A substantial book on " In­ This conversation by Norman Palmer Hindu temple on Chamundi Hill over­ ternational Relations " written by Pro­ an� his daughter Patricia is with young looking Mysore in southern India. A fessor Palmer and Di•. Howard C. Per­ residents of Madras who seem less in­ religious procession i's in the back­ kins will be published this spring by terested in Inda-American relations ground. Houghton Miffl.in. than in baksheesh. * * * Because the chaplain lives so closely For to the men, any diffidence that they Y MAIN TASK has been to help in- the entire month of May I shall be in may have had before toward the clergy M augurate a post-graduate program Kashmir where I shall partici­ pate is swept away, and they feel free to in political science and international in a special program in American studies, consult him for advice and help. A affairs at this university. Since it is which is being oq?;anized by the _ large part of the chaplain's work is in located near the capital of India, it is United States Educational Founda­ tion the field of personal counseling. The the closest rhing India has to a truly in India and which will be financed problems that are brought to him are national university, and I am sure that by the Ford Foundation. I am so varied that he would have to be a in years to come it will develop into a also giving occasional lectures at Indian clergyman, psychiatrist, social worker, good university. At the present time, universities under the auspices lawyer, and expert on Army regula­ it is still in the process of development, of UNEsco, and if my schedule per­ mits,_ tions combined to be able to give all and much needs to be done. In addi­ I shall go to Ceylon and Pakistan U ESCO. the help desired. In many cases he is tion to advising regarding program, for the first contact and becomes the clear­ etc., I give several lectures a week at My wife and young daughter, Patty, ing house through whom the counselee the university, and direct some stu­ are with me in India. We have spent is directed to the one most capable of dents in particular projects. I am also three weeks in Kashmir, and thor­ helping him. making brief visits to other Indian uni­ oughly enjoyed the experience. In the The chaplain has a part in the Char­ versities. Before I leave India I hope near future we expect to spend about acter Guidance Program. This pro­ to visit most of the twenty-eight uni­ sixteen days in the south of India. We gram is designed to improve living, versities in this country, as well as some have already done justice to the Taj recreational, and religious and moral of the affiliated colleges. Mahal, which is even more impressive conditions in the Army so that morale I am giving a series of lectures on than words can convey, and have seen may be high and delinquency low. A postwar American foreign policy to many other objects and places famous council studies the conditions peculiar / college and university teachers of Delhi for their historic or scenic signifi­ to its unit and location and makes rec­ and vicinity. In December I addressed cance. On the southern trip we plan ommendations for improvements. One a general session of the Indian Political to visit the remote caves of Ellora and of the duties of the chaplain in this Science Conference held at the Muslim Ajanta, which no less an authority than program is to give a lecture once a University in Aligarh. In January and Nehru himself has described as the month to all the troops on a topic con­ February I gave twelve lectures on in­ most remarkable places in India. cerned with morality, good citizenship, ternational relations in Lucknow. In Speaking of Nehru, I have met him and the building of character. Some March I went to Peshawar in Pakistan personally, and have heard him soeak i of the topics discussed in the past are for a Colloquium on Learning in the on several occasions. I also had a ong Citizenship, How Twentieth Century which was spon­ interview with Skeikb Abdullah, the The Meaning of · Free Am I?, The Hardest Victory, sored jointly by the United States Edu­ leading figure in Kashmir. It is very Marriage, What Is Right?, and The cational Foundation in Pakistan and easy to meet interesting and important Nation We Serve. Material and train- the University of Peshawar. people here.

12 COLBY ALUMNUS Barbara Holden, '4 2, holds a Ful­ President and Mrs. Bixler bright scholarship and is studying at BUSY ! the University of Strasbourg in Alsace, The . Colby and Bates glee clubs Take Western Trip France. will have a " home - and - home RESIDENT * * * series" this spring. Bates will visit P and Mrs. Bixler had the opportunity to meet many alumni FT�R MO TH s orientation program Mayflower Hill for a concert April A and friends early in the winter on a m the cold, rainy Paris of last 19 and Colby will participate in a trip which took them from Texas to October the 180 Fulbright students return match at Lewiston May 3. the west coast and return. Lack of assigned to study in France separated Climax of the musical season will space does not permit a full report but - 100 remaining in Paris and the rest be May 15 in Boston when the glee Dr. Bixler has given some of the high­ departing for the provinces. club presents an evening concert for lights in the notes which follow. I was one of twelve to come to the alumni, parents and friends at New England Mutual Hall. University of Strasbourg where I am Dallas, Texas, December 30 enrolled with other Americans and Europeans in the course for foreigners ONTEMPORARY CENTERS Entertained at supper by Harold and with French students in the Fac­ C CR1s1s is the Mitchell, '08, and Mrs. Mitchell. Also ulty of Letters. In the former I am title of the current Gabrielson lec­ present were Francis Heath, '17, and preparing for a diploma in modern ture series, sponsored by the depart­ his wife; Charles Sansone, '28, and his French studies which includes a thesis ment of history and government. wife; and Alden Wagner, '44, and his as well as oral and written exams; and Speakers have included Carl G. wife. in the Faculty of Letters, I am prepar­ Anthon, professor of histor_y at Colby El Paso, Texas, December 31-January 1 ing for a teaching certificate in French from 1945-49 and recently Higher Edu­ literature of the nineteenth century. cation Advisor to the U. S. High Com­ Major Antonio Bolduc, '4 1, met the I am very happy to have come to mission in Berlin; H. H. Chang, train as did Elwood Gair, '5 1, and his one of the provincial universities (and former special envoy to the UN from wife (Cynthia Cook, '5 1) and fyfrs. one of the best) and to have this oppor­ the Republic of China; Jan Papanek, Constance Choate Trahan, '46. En­ tunity to know a part of France hich former ambassador to the UN from tire group joined Maj or and Mrs. Bol­ 0. is so particular. Czechoslovakia; Professor Edwin duc for dinner at the Officers' Club Last week the French government Reischauer of the department of Far New Year's day. granted an amnesty to the Alsatians Eastern Languages at Harvard; Y. P. Los Angeles, January 5-10 convicted for their participation in the Mei, visiting professor of Chinese Civi­ massacre of Oradour-sur-Glane. Al­ lization and philosophy at Bowdoin; Attended various educational meet­ sace suffered martyrdom during the Richard Frye, assistant Rrofessor of ings with Dean Marriner as well as a last war, and the whole province rose Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard; Colby dinner at the Hotel Biltmore. in protest over the condemnation of and Robert T. Parsons, dean at the Arrangements for the latter were made the thirteen Alsatians, just boys in 1942 Kennedy School of Missions of the by Thomas Reynolds, '14. About 30 when they were incorporated by force Hartford Seminary Foundation. were present including Mrs. Jessie into the German S.S. Pepper Padelford, '96, daughter of Material conditions have improved former President George Dana Board­ greatly since my first visit to France man Pepper. She was accompanied by in 1949; but reconstruction is still very Morgan Padelford, her son, and his slow, the cost of living, frightfully wife. high, and the lack of adequate housing, A luncheon was given for the Bixlers a maj or problem. Much as they fear by the Divinity School faculty at the the Communist menace, the French University of Southern California. are equally disturbed by what they con­ sider the somewhat audacious pro­ San Francisco, January 14-17 and acts of John Foster nouncements John Everett, '17, arranged for a and President Eisenhower. War Dulles Colby dinner at the Whitcomb Inn. cannot face the thought of weary, they Again a fine group was on hand, a conflict which another world conflict, among them Miss Minnie Bunker, '89. end of Eurog� surely, if will mean the January 16 Dr. Bixler called on Fred Western civilization. not of our entire Fletcher, '82, Colby's oldest living grad­ HE uate, residing in Berkeley. He was T Colby Community Symphony " in fine fettle." orchestra has been elected to me m­ The Bixlers had dinner with Dr. bership in the American Symphony and Mrs. Alexander Meiklejohn. Dr. Orchestra League, an organization " to Meiklejohn, former president of Am­ stimulate the growth of civic and com­ herst College, gave a Gabrielson lecture munity symphony orchestras and to Barbara Holden, right, '42, poses with. at Colby four years ago. January 15 further the welfare of these organiza­ friends in Pat·is on the day of little the Bixlers were luncheon guests at tions by an interchange of ideas." Pascal Pinoteau's baptism. Leland Stanford University. Mr. and

Issue of APRIL 1953 13 Mrs. Sandor Salgo (Priscilla Patterson, ' 41) were hosts. He is an associate IN MEMORIAM professor of music at Stanford. Seattle, January 18-21 A pleasant dinner meeting with alumni and friends was arranged by Merton Leland Miller W. Malcolm Wilson, '33, James A. Daly, '41, and Robert Rice, '42. They were present with their wives as were about a dozen others at the home of GREAT Colby friend and benefactor, Dr. Miller returned to Colby with the Rices. A Merton Leland Miller, 189-0, his wife in September 1939 to lay the cornerstone of the new library and Mr.Wilson took the Bixlers to Lake­ passed away in Santa Monica, Califor­ again at Commencement of 1950 to side School where Colby's history de­ nia January 25. President Bixler had celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of his partment head, Paul Fullam, once called on him only a week before his graduation. At that time he was taught and to the University of Wash­ death. awarded an honorary doctor of laws ington where they saw Stanley Chapple, Dr. Miller not only made substan­ Hon.'47. tial financial contributions to Colby, degree with the following citation: but bestowed upon it years of intense Minneapolis, January 23 friendship and loyalty. When the col­ Student of anthropology at the Uni­ Luncheon with Lew Church, '-02, at lege elected to move to Mayflower Hill versity of Chi'cago under the famous the Minneapolis Club. Dr. Bixler Dr. Miller presented several gifts to Professo1· Starr, you earned a doctorate spoke at the Blake School for Boys. the development program. The Miller of philosophy and later became an Madison, Wisconsin, January 24 library is named in honor of his associate prnfesso1· of anth1·opology at The Bixlers were met at the train parents. the same institution. Then you four- by Oscar Rosen, '50, and were taken to the University of Wisconsin. Chicago, Illinois, January 25-28 About 30 alumni and guests were present at the Orchid restaurant Janu­ ary 28. The gathering was arranged for by Leslie Cook, '22, and Oscar Chute, '29. (During his stay in Chi­ cago Dr. Bixler participated in a Re­ ligious Emphasis progrn.m at North­ western University, giving four lec­ tures.) Washington, January 30-31 A Colby dinner was in (harge of Esther Power, '20. About 30 were in attendance including Congressman Charles Nelson, '28, and his wife (Elizabeth Gross, '28).

MONG other recent speaking engage­ FOURTEEN YEARS AGO - Dr. and Mrs. Merton Miller with President A ments by Dr.Bixler were: a chapel Franklin W. Johnson at the laying of the cornerstone· of the Miller Libi-a1·y in the talk at Phillips Exeter Academy Febru­ fall of 1939. ary 22; a speech for the Portland Soci­ ety of Colonial Dames March 4; a sup­ Born five miles from Waterville in neyed west to the 01·ient to do research per talk before the South Portland the village of Benton, the son of Wil­ work in the Philippine Islands. Teachers' Association March 5; and an liam and Esther Pearson Miller, Dr. Turning f1·om the world of scholar­ address April 7 at the annual confer­ Miller later moved to Lowell, Massa­ ship to that of finance you have become ence of the National Association of Col­ chusetts where he took his high school your college's generous benefact<>r. lege and University Chaplains, Prince­ work. Graduate study at the Univer­ Where ancient alchemists sought the ton, N.J. sity of Chicago brought him a Ph.D. f<>rmula by which baser metals could Dr. Bixler has accepted invitations in 1897. be transmuted into gold, you have to speak at several Commencements in­ From 1903 to 1914 Dr. Miller did demonstrated how gold itself can be cluding the Lincoln School at Provi­ research in the Philippines on assign­ transformed into the still more precious dence, R. I.; the Waynflete School, ments from the native government. element of truth. Portland; Ethel Walker School, Sims­ He spent brief periods in the United Surviving Dr. Miller are his "'.Vidow bury, Conn.; Pine Manor Junior Col­ States and Japan before going back to of Pacific Palisades and two nephews, lege, Wellesley, Mass.; and New Eng­ Manila in 1919 to become a bank man­ John Reed of Arcadia and Robert Reed land College, Henniker, N. H. ager. He retired in 1928. of San Gabriel, all of California.

14 COLBY ALUMNUS Frederick Padelford '96 Charles Brad.lee '08 Sarah Young '09 Samuel Cates '12 Leslie Arey '12 George Perry '12 Harold Marden '21 Donald Miller '25 Daniel Fenner '52

The library at the University of CHARLES B RADLEE, 1908, headmaster Washington has been dedicated to the for the past twenty years at the Pebble late FREDERICK M. P ADELFORD, 1896, Hill School, Dewitt, New York, will LLD. (Hon.) 19 34. Dr. Padelford retire at the close of the present aca­ was, at the time of his death in 1942, demic year. He wiU continue his one of the leaders among the nation's active interest in the school, however, English scholars. He was an inter­ as headmaster-emeritus and as a mem­ national authority on Edmund Spen- ber of the board of trustees. ser. Widely-known in private education, " His fine spirit and great works Mr. Bradlee has served as president of Leslie B. Arey, 1912 have had a permanent influence on the the Country Day School Headmaster:;' university and on the humanities here Association of the United States and age limitation in 1946 and went to and elsew her e," Washington President as president of the New York Associa­ Solon to live in the family home. At Raymond B. Allen has written. tion of Independent Schools. He was the time of her retirement, Wheaton Dr. Padelford went to Washington headmaster of Country Day _School for conferred upon her the degree of as a teacher in 1901 and continued to Boys in Kansas City, Missouri before Litt. D. teach and counsel there for four going to Pebble Hill. decades. In 1920 he became dean of SAMUEL CATES, 1912, is a country the university's graduate school, a post doctor and proud of it. A tribute to The Solon Methodist Church (Fed­ he held until his death. Dr. Cates' years of service in East Vas­ erated), Solon, Maine has been reno­ The library contains a collection of salboro was included in the December some of the books he most prized. vated and much of the credit must go A.RAH B. YouNG, 20 issue of the Waterville Morning They were presented in 1944 by his to S 1909, L.H.D. Sentinel. (Hon.) 1931, who has lent her energies widow, Mrs. Jessie Pepper Padelford, It reported that Dr. Cates drives to make the building more beautiful 1896. 3,000 miles a month to visit patients d useful. It was through her vision an and in the twenty-seven years he has that the renovation of the' church was been in practice he recalls only one launched and under her stimulus that day when he could not get onto the Solon Methodist Church Memorial the roads to make calls. Surprisingly Fund was instituted in 1949. Miss enough this was not in the days of Young is secretary of the Fund Com­ inadequate transportation, but Febru­ mittee. ary 18, 1952 when "the great snow" The Sanctuary was redecorated in stiffied the state of Maine. the fall of 1950 "to the glory of God Dr. Cates was born in South China and in loving memory of members and sixty-two years ago. With his twin friends of the church." Choir screens, brother, Barker Cates, he entered Colby rails and hangings, new hymnal racks in the class of 1912. Tragedy struck, and electrical outlets were installed and however, when his brother died while shutters restored; cracked walls were still a freshman. repaired and ceilings, walls, pews and Classmates, particularly those in floors painted, as well as all exteriors. Alpha Tau Omega, will remember Dr. An annex for wood, kitchen and stor­ Cates as a track man. His specialty age purposes was added during the was the half mile and for many years summers of 1951 and 1952. A special he held the college record of 2.01 1/5. dedicatory service was held November "In his years of medical practice," 30, 1952. the Sentinel stated, " he has had occa­ Miss Young, after thirty-seven years . sion to meet many people. To Dr. on the faculty of Wheaton College, Cates they are ' not patients, but Frederick M. Padelford, 1896 Norton, Massachusetts, was retired for friends.' ''

Issue of APRIL 1953 15 Africa, Sweden, Norway, and Burma. " These figures," he adds, " do not incl uc.le the magazines newspapers, stamps, and cards I have received."

HAROLD C.MARDEN, 1921, Waterville attorney, has been named a Justice of the Maine Superior Court. He suc­ ceeded Justice Arthur E. Sewall of York. Justice Marden has had a wide and useful career of public service. He has been a city councillor; the city's mayor; the attorney for Kennebec County; and from 1937-1 940 was a state senator. In making the appointment, Gov­ ernor Burton Cross stated that he con­ sidered Marden to be " a man of the highest integrity ... with an excellent legal background. In fact he is con­ sidered to be one of the top members of his profession in Maine."

Dr. Do ALO W. MILLER, 1925, pres­ ident of Curry College, has recently completed moving the college from downtown Boston to a thirty-four acre campus (formerly private estates) in Milton, Massachusetts. Governor Burton M. Cross swears in Harold C. Marden, 1921, as a Developing out of a speech and ora­ Justice of the Maine Superior Court. tory school founded seventy-four years ago, the institution received its charter LESLIE BRAINERD AREY, 1912, has the subjects pursued by the members as a college in 1938. been named Man of the Year by Phi of his professorial staff are as numerous It specializes in liberal arts education. Beta Pi medical fraternity. He served as the investigators themselves." About 200 students are now enrolled two terms as national president of the Since 1924 Dr. Arey, author of the although Dr. Miller believes this will fraternity, 1933-39. A portion of a brilliant Text Book of Embryology, increase within five years to about 300, tribute to Dr. Arey in the organiza­ has been chairman of the department the college's goal. tion's November 1952 Quarterly states: of anatomy at the medical school and Robert Laughlin Rea Professor of " Almost four decades ago, fresh The new vice president of Bangor Anatomy. He has held numerous from a doctorate in zoology at Har­ Theological Seminary, effective Septem­ appointments in fraternal, scientific, vard College, following undergraduate ber first, will be the Reverend DANIEL and professional organizations which training at Colby College, Leslie Arey W.FENNER, 1952. His duties will con­ the Quarterly reports " he wears with came west to join the faculty of North­ sist of student enlistment, fund-raising, the unpretentious and natural grace of western University's Medical School. public relations, and work of a general the scholar." " Content with one uprooting from a promotional nature. He will travel cozy, and generally self-satisfied to�n extensively in the interests of the Sem­ in the rock-ribbed state of Mame GEORGE PERRY, 1912, is a world-wide inary. (Camden), he has remained in the correspondent. No, not for newspa­ He has resigned as pastor of the Fed­ robustious plainstate of his adoption, pers! His hobby is letter-writing. In erated Church of Skowhegan where he to witness Northwestern's growth from an article in the January Rotarian he has been for the past four years. a small but creditable school to one of reports that in the last four years he Before entering the ministry the populous faculty, of investigational acu­ has received letters and cards from Reverend Fenner was founder and men, and international influence. . . nearly every corner of the earth. owner of an insulating and weather­ "In the years between 1915 and A count shows the following: from proofing company at Glens Falls and Utica, New York. Prior to that he 1952 Dr. Arey has served, with Os­ Australia, 60; New Zealand, 38; Eng­ was a salesman with the Armco Com­ lerian equanimity, under six successive land, 35; the Philippines, 27; the pany in Kansas City. deans, has witnessed the growth of Netherlands, 29; Germany, 14; Al­ He and his wife, the former Robin the faculty to 750. . . The breadth geria, 12; France, 5; India; 21; Den­ Becker of Middletown, Ohio, have four of his own interests has made for har­ mark, 6; Japan. 4; and others from children. mony in his own department, where Brazil, Switzerland, China, South

16 COLBY ALUMNUS FRESHMAN BASKETBALL (since January 15) Basketball Tea m Captures Colby Opps. 71...... M. C. I...... 97 78 ...... Ricker ...... 62 Portland Y. M. C. A. 85 Th ird Consecutive State Title 58...... M. C. I...... 66 7 . Hebron ...... 61 77 ... Portland J. College . . . 51 115. Coburn ...... 33 by Charles Morrisey, '56 8 I Higgins ...... 77 70 ...... Bates Freshmen ...... 67

BASKETBALL OR a team to lose its captain early in New England and finally finished (since January 14 ) F in a successful season is to invite third behind Connecticut and Holy Colby Opps. disaster. But such was the situation Cross.... Weigand fouled out of onl} 87. . ..Maine ...... 68 ...... Bowdoin ...... confronting Coach Lee Williams and one contest.... Four out of the five 81 ...... 58 7 . St. Michaels ...... 68 his basketballers New Year's Eve when seniors hit for a phenomenal forty per­ 70 . St. Anslems ...... 63 Captain Frank Piacentini, leading cent of their shots.... Piacentini was 67 ...... Boston University ...... 52 scorer, tore the ligament in his knee. within 14 points of attaining the cov­ 6 . ... Bowdoin ...... 77 76 ortheastern ...... 78 The question was could the White eted 1000 mark for three years play 73 . . M. I. T...... 49 Mules regain their winning pace? when he was sidel�ned permanently 76 . Maine ...... 60 Once back on their home court, they February 25 . ... Lallier who led the 78 ...... Bates ...... 70 did just that and compiled the most team with 507 points and topped the 72 ...... Boston University . . . 68 outstanding record in the hhtory of state series with 197, averag_ed 19.5 per Maine basketball. They won 21 and game, scored 1057 for three years play. lost 5 over the season; went undefeated ...The team averaged 83.5 in the prommng among the sophomores are in Maine college competition, extend­ state-series games .... Climax of the Lou Zambello, Somerville, Mass., who ing their streak to 26 straight games great season came at Boston Gardens played in every game; Sirakides and over a three year period; and marked with 28 point surge in the final quarter Don Lake, Milton, Mass., diminutive up a 19-2 record against New Eng­ to edge Boston College, 72-68. ball handlers whose performance land clubs. Only Holy Cross and Despite the fact Coach Williams is against B.C. was throbbing. More Northeastern, ambng the latter, turned losing fi e starters, he will have a good sophomores - Bill Rosen, 6'1" New the tables. nucleus around which to build. Most Haven, Conn., Johnny Jacobs, 6'1" Five lettermen held down the start­ Portland, Paul McClay, 6'3" Water­ ville, Bill Shiebe, 6' 4" Middle Village, ing posts. All averaged in double fig­ FRONT AND CENTER • • • By Alan Maver New York and Larry Lapointe, 6' 1" ures. When one player had an off­ Livermore Falls - will provide the night there was always someone else height. to step in. The present seniors finished their three year varsity careers with a The real veterans, however, will be 66-19 record. little Captain-elect Tony Jabar, former Waterville high school captain, and Here are other highlight<;. Two ·whitey Thurston, Arlington, Mass., C oilier' s Colby men were selected for fine set shot artist, the only juniors on All New England team. Ted Lallier, this year's squad. 6'7", was named first-string center. Coming up from Ed Roundy's fresh­ Piacentini received honorable mention. men outfit that won 11 and lost 3 are (Lallier was also named first string on Bob Bruns, Forest Hills, N. Y., whose the All New England team chosen by 31 points against Ricker College came coaches.) ... All five starters were within two of breaking the field house chosen on either the first or second record· Justin Cross, 616" Rockland, All-Maine team chosen by the four col­ Me., and Dave Van Allen, 6'5" Larch­ lege coaches. Piacentini and Lallier mont, N. Y., both good ball players; were tapped as starters. Rebounder Johnny Ziegler, Columbus, Ohio, high Ro Nagle, center Ted Weigand, and school captain who has been out­ Dick Hawes, a sparkling forward, standing under pressure· and Don were on the second team.... Rice, Greenfield Mass., who despite a Little Dino Sirakides, Newark, N. J. broken hand suffered early in the sea­ sophomore, established a collegiate son proved himself an effective ball scoring record at Boston Gardens by handler. Coach Williams will have a hooping seven field goals against Tufts . green team but one with potential. in ten minutes ....Du ring the season King Features Syndicate distributed His success up to now should be a clue the team was never rated less than fifth this feature on Lallier nationwide. to the court future of the Mules.

Issue of APRIL 1953 17 AT BOSTON - The head table at the Boston alumni meetmg, Left to rig ht: Mrs. Albert Thiel, eil Leonard, '2 1, Hazel Peck Holt, '21, Albert Thiel, '28, President f. Seelye Bixler, Hiram Moody, '21, Dean Pauline Tompkins, Ray Holt, '2 1, Ellswort/1 Millett, '25, Olive Pullen Palmer, '40.

s THIS ISSUE of the Alumn11s goes to press A Colby al umni clubs throughout the east Baseball T earn off to a Strong Start are meeting. To date the following officers have been elected : Boston: Albert Thiel, '28, president; Carl OACH Eddie Roundy's baseball forces does boast several capable of .3 00 or MacPherson, '26, vice-president; Ray Greene, C were in fine shape when they better - Captain Dick Hawes, '53, Jr., '47, secretary-treasurer; Hiram Moody, opened in Washington, D. C. March Portland; Paul Dionne, '53, Nashua, '23, Nissie Grossman, '44, and Howard Fer­ 30. A new indoor net for the field New Hampshire; and Charlie Wind­ guson, '3 1, executive board; D. Ray Holt, '2 1, representative to Alumni Council. house had permitted players to get into horst, '54, West Haven, Connecticut, Portland : John Hyde, '08, president; condition considerably earlier than in to name three. Theron Stinchfield, '33, vice-president; Philip years past. The club compiled a 5-1 For defense Roundy has four veteran Caminittin, '48, secretary-treasurer; Maynard record on the trip, losing only to Navy, Irish, '39, representative to Alumni Council. infielders. Hawes at third has a strong Providence: . Douglas Macleod, '44, pres- and pushed across 57 runs to 37 for the arm and can move. Shortstop Don ident; Ernest Carpenter, '50, vice-president; opposition. Against American Univer­ Lake, although a sophomore, is an out­ Barbara Baylis Primiano, '44, secretary-treas­ urer; N. Douglas Macleod, representative to sity, Colby pounded out 16 markers, standing infielder who received all­ Alumni Council. only to have the contest cancelled by scholastic honors at Milton (Massa­ Springfield : U. Cleal Cowing, '27, presi­ rain in the third inning. chusetts) high school. Aubrey Keef, dent; Paul Feldman, '34, vice-president; Roundy's 1953 edition is well en­ '54, Vanceboro, can pivot on that all Mrs. U. Cleal Cowing, secretary-treasurer; dowed with the essentials for a win­ William Cowing, '04, representative to important double-play, and Maurice Alumni Council. ning team. There is speed and there Mathieu, '54, Winslow, at first base is Connecticut: Clayton Johnson, '25, presi­ is savvy. A great percentage of the agile and fast. dent; Mary Foss Ogden, '19, vice-president; players have played summer ball. They Catherine Larrabee, '22, secretary; John Gow, The outfield of Dionne, Windhorst, know baseball, they think it, and they '23, trea5urer; William Powers, '25, repre­ and Doughty is one of the fastest in sentative to Alumni Council. play heads up. recent years. Only three of the starting Five veterans compose the pitching nine will be lost by graduation, Dionne, staff - Stan Doughty, '54, West Paris, · EXTENSlVE trip by Dean and Mrs. Ernest Hawes, and Fitzgibbons. Marriner during December and January also a capable outfielder- Mac An­ A The scores of the games we have gave them the opportunity to meet with drews, '53, Presque Isle, and Art Eddy, played to date : many Colby alumni and friends. '54, Gardner, Massachusetts, both top­ The Marriners spent nearly a month in flight; 6'5" Ro Nagle, '53, Flushing, Colby Opps. Inglewood, California visiting their son Er­ Mar. 30 Georgetown University 10 3 nest, '40, assistant administrative officer of New York, fresh from the basketball Mar. 31 U. S. Naval Academy 2 10 the city, and his wife (Prudence Piper, '4 1). wars with a sizzling fast ball; and a Apr. 1 American University• 16 2 Daughter, Ruth Marriner, '48, flew out from transfer student, Bill Wing, '54, Rich­ f. pr. 2 Bolling Air Force Base 5 4 New Haven at Christmas. mond, who has had considerable hurl­ Apr. 3 Bolling Air Force Base 18 7 In Pomona, the Marriners called ,on Miss Apr. 4 Towson State Teachers 5 4 Grace Berry, dean of women at Colby, 1902- ing experience. Apr. 6 Upsala College 17 7 09, and in Redlands, Miss Sarah Patrick, Though Roundy is still not certain Colby dietitian in the 1920's and 30's. Just that he has a long ball hitter, the squad 11 Rained out after third inning. prior to Christmas the Marriners entertained

18 COLBY ALUMNUS J eph Coburn mith '24, his wife, Erveoa, '24 and their on, eorge, '49. J nuary 6 the Dean attended meetings in Lo Angeles of the National Conference of cademic Deans and of the Association of American Colleges. News of the CLASSES " Returning from California," the Dean re­ ports " we went to Texas and were royally entertained in Houston by Maurice Krinsky, '35 and Timothy Osborne, '48, and had din­ Class of 1887 and member of the board of directors, assist ner with alumni in the area. After stops in At a meeting of the Maine Bar Association in the advisory board of the Salvation Army, New Orleans and Chicago we were guests in Jan. 22, Harvey Eaton was honored as the Cle eland of Mr . Marriner's sister, Miss Etta and work on the board and executive com­ Creech, '12 director of the School of Nursing "grand old man of the Maine Bar." H.:! mittee of the Albany Federation of Churches." of the Family Health Association." has been a member for 64 years. A total of $55 0,000, highest quota in Albany's history, was met t:nder Dr. Pratt's COLBY CLUBS Class of 1888 direction. Edith 1\ ferrill Hurd, confined to her home, Dr. Herbert C. Libby's stimulating public would be happy to hear from classmates. BO TON speaking classes, which he has been conduct­ Her address is 256 South Norton Ave., Los A talk by Elizabeth Lewis Marsh, '28, high­ ing for citizens in Waterville, have attracted Angeles 4, Cal . lighted the October meeting of the Boston wide-spread interest. Colby Alumnae Association. A dinner was followed by a business meeting conducted by Class of 1902 Class of 1 904 Pre ident Frances Palmer, '34. Harry Pratt Dr. donated his full time Eva Clement Ames and Vernon Ames Mrs. Lewis reported on a recent trip to last fall to the Albany (N. Y.) Community Honolulu to vacation with her son and his spent the winter with their son in Albuquer­ Chest. Typifying him as " Red Feather wife, Sgt. and Mrs. Howard C. Marsh. He que, N. M. . . . William Cowing has been is stationed at Hickam Air Field. She spent Leader . �o. 1 " the Albany Knickerbocker elected to his fourth two-year term in the 25 days on the island which, she reported, News gave Dr. Pratt a lengthy tribute in went bv all too fast. General Court of Massachusetts. He is also . the Oct. 15 issue which read in part, The 72nd annual dinner meeting of the chairman of the Committee on Education and " During the fund drive, such as the Chest Boston Colby Alumni Association was held a member of the Committee on Public Health. Friday, March 20. It was the largest meeting :s presently waging, Dr. Pratt is going until in the organization's history, with 232 alumni, 10 p.m. and later most nights filling speak­ Class of 1907 parents of students and friends in attendance. ing engagements and meeting with workers Roscoe Emery is the new president of the President Hiram Moody, '23, of Winch ester presided. from division leaders down to ' soldiers in Washington County (Me.) Chamber of Com­ Miss Pauline Tompkins, Colby's new Dean the field'. merce. One of its founders, he has been first of Women, was introduced for the first time " But he's the man to do it, all agree. He vice-president for several years. to the Association. Dr. Bixler gave one of has worked in every capacity for most of the his typically inspiring talks to the group. 28 Having just returned from a six-weeks' trip campaigns the Chest has had. Dr. Pratt Class of 1909 to the We t Coast, where he spoke before was among the charter group of canvassers Eugene Allen has been living with his sis­ alumni gatherings, he remarked upon the who worked in the initial Community Chest ter, Mrs. Harold Small, in Tenants Harbor, growing active interest of the alumni body drive in 1925. Me. since his retirement in 195 1 as teacher throughout the country. He noted that the "Despite his prodigious task at Chest head­ of physics at Senior high school, Atlantic City, recent move to Mayflower Hill has achieved nationwide recognition for Colby. quarters Dr. Pratt finds time to attend the N. J. His recreation is music as it was in Oldest alumni by class present were Robie Rotary Cl ub of which he is a past president his college days. Frye, '82, Sharon; Dudley Holman, '84, Rockland, Maine, and Albert Robinson, '93, Warren. Gordon B. Jones, '40 Secretary-Treasurer FLORIDA The opening meeting of the winter season was held January 17 at the Detroit Hotel, St. Petersburg. A second gathering was held February 12 with a luncheon at the home of Mrs. Lester (Alice Smith, '03) Horne. Donald Putnam, '16, is president of the group; Edwin Russell, '15, vice-president: and Mrs. W. F. (Effie Lowe, '05 ) Patch, ecretary-treasurer.

NEW Y0RK The executive committee of the New York Alumni Association has voted to re-establish a scholarship fund which was discontinued dur­ ing World War II. In 1940 the fund produced $115. In 1941, it amounted to $110. Members of the Colby group are being solicited for contributions. 10. The annual spring dinner was held April Carroll Perkins, '04, received the Josiah Drummond medal from the Waterville Masonic Lodge A report will be made in the next Alttmnus. December 8 in honor of having completed fifty years of service. A similar medal was also Janet Gay Hawkins, '48 presented to Charles Vigue, Secretarv '98.

Issue of APRIL 1953 19 Class of 1910 send, Dabney and . Tyson, investment coun­ lectured on the Story of the Boswell Papers A letter from Alice Henderson Wood reads sellors and dealers in securities. at the New Jersey College for Women Feb. in part: " I have been a missionary in Haiti s. Class of 1916 for twenty-eight years, with my husband, Maude Huckins Webster of South Wey­ who was made 'Chevalier d'Haiti ' a few Class of 1918 mouth, Mass., writes that she keeps busy with years ago. Harold Scott represented Colby Jan. 9 home, (her husband carries a heavy schedule " The government has shown appreciation at the inauguration of Pres. J. Richard of school duties) church affairs, and the of the work done and has given us a ' com­ Palmer at Westminister College, Salt Lake League of Women Voters.... Ruth Brackett placement ' on the sea front to build a new City, Utah. . . . Winifred Greeley teaches Sturtevant spends summers at her lovely sea­ church as their present church, built twenty­ English and Latin at Stafford high school, side cottage, and winters at the Copper Ket­ eight years ago is too small. The church, as Stafford Springs, Conn. . . . Daniel Sullivan tle in Rockland. She i · always eager to see we found it here, was four burned walls ha resumed law practice in the Merrimac Colby friends . ...Mina Tit1;s Sawyer writes and it had stood there for fifteen years, as Valley (Mass.) and become associated with feature articles for newspapers. She has also the building had been burned down. We the law office of James A. Donovan in had many of her p ems accepted for pub­ have three boys and one daughter." Lawrence, Mass. He will specialize in cases lication. Helen Robinson retires this June after 30 of workmen's compensation. He has been Elizabeth Hodgkins Bowen continues with years as librarian at Portland high school. a commissioner on the Massachusetts Indus­ her teaching at Edward Little high school in She studied library science at Simmons Col­ trial Accident Board since 1932. Auburn. She spent Christmas with her son's lege. . ..Pauline Herring, who teaches at family in Claremont, N. H. where she en­ WaynAete School , Portland, has received Class of 1919 joyed greatly her grandchildren, Debbie and newspaper comment on the bird feeding sta­ Mary Titcomb and Matilda Titcomb Pavey Robert. . . . Frances Trefethen writes en­ tions at her Westbrook home. Miss Herring are still teaching French and Spanish at thusiastically of her teaching at Dobbs Ferry, offers birds not only the usual diet of seeds, Erasmus Hall high school , Brooklyn, N. Y. N. Y . ...Marion Miller Chase's husband, suet, grain, bread and doughnuts, but occa­ ... Margaret Putnam Greaves instructs Latin Edward, is a state senator representing Cape sionally Johnny cake, cheaply made, she says, at Houlton high school. This year will com­ Elizabeth ....Marion ToetJne Hopkins raises with bacon fat, water and cornmeal. plete 30 years for her as a teacher. small animals of all kinds ....Marion Wy­ Hospitals Must Educate was the title of an Marion Campbell ewton has been living man Sim and her husband drove from Cali­ article by Dr. Frederick T. Hill in the Janu· in the west for 21 years. She says she fornia last summer to Victoria Falls. ary issue of Hospitals magazine. would love to hear from Colby friends. Her Edith Pratt Brown "It is my sincere conviction," Dr. Hill address is 720 South Sixth Street, Bozeman, Marian Copeland wrote, " that every well-run hospital, regard­ Class of 1917 Mont .... Wood has made her home in Farmington, Me. since the less of size or location, can and should con­ Col. Tom foyce has retired from active death of her husband in 1947. She lives sider an educational program as within its duty with the army to go into business in with her sister-in-law who is on the faculty province." Chicago. He hopes to drive up to Colby of the State Teachers College. The contributions in this field at the this Commencement with his son, eighteen, Phyllis Sturdivant Sweetser is librarian of Thayer hospital, Waterville, where Dr. Hill and daughter, seventeen. . . . F1·ed Pottle is medical director, are striking testimony the Prince Memorial library, Cumberland that it can be done. He was program chair­ Center, Me., and is tutorjng under the state's . man at the thirtieth annual New England program for handicapped children ...Mil­ dred Cook Hospital Assembly in Boston March 23-25 Burgess has been recuperating from an operation. She had been working and has been elected the new president of each Thursday at the Togus, (Me.) Veterans the Assembly. hospital with mental patients. Class of 1913 Elmer Hussey has retired to his old home Class of 1920 in Norway, Me., after 40 years in educational Earle Tyler is the majority floor leader work. For the past 27 years he has been in the Massachusetts House of Representa­ head of the Guidance and Personnel Depart­ tives. ment at Hope High School , Providence, R. I. Class of 1921 Class of 1914 Wayne McNally represented Colby at the Abbie Sanderson was released Jan. 1 by the inauguration of Pres. William C. Gaige at Chinese Communists after being under house Rhode Island College of Education March arrest for 21 months. She is expected to re­ 19 ... . Dorothy Rounds is vice president turn to the States soon. . . . Two members of the Classical Society of ew England. of the class have been elected trustees of the . . . Tom Grace is chairman of the Law­ Thayer hospital, Waterville. They are Ethel yers Mortgage and Title company, New York Merriam Weeks and F. Harold Dubord. City.

Class of 1915 Class of 1922 Prince Drummond resigned Feb. 1 as trust Leonard Mayo is chairman of the social officer of the Depositors Trust Company, Wa­ Col. Thomas F. foyce, '17 welfare department of the ational Coun- terville, to j0in the Augusta office of Town- Retired from the infantry cil of the Churches of Christ in America.

20 COLBY ALUMNUS Class of 1925 Russell quire ha been elected state sena­

r fr rn Kennebec County.

Class of 1926 Hilda Fife, profes or in the English de­ partment at the Univ. of Maine, has been elected a director of the New England branch of the College Engli h Association .... The Rev. Carroll Tripp was Colby's delegate at the inauguration of Pres. Carl W. Borgmann at the University of Vermont and State Ag­ ricultural College, Burlington, Vt., April 11.

Class of 1928 Clair Wood spoke at a meeting of the American Association of School Adminis­ trators at Atlantic City, Feb. 16-18. . .. Dr. Charles Towne has been elected vice-presi­ dent of the Kennebec County Medical Asso­ ciation.

Class of 1929 Cecil Goddard has been chosen for the office of go ernor of the 285th Rotary Inter­ national District which encompasses Maine, the Province of Quebec, part of Massachu­ setts and part of New Hampshire. His actual election as governor will take place TOWN MEETING - Brainard E. Caverly, '36, first selectman of Benton, Maine, answers a at the International Convention of Rotary question 1·egarding money matters at the community's town meeting Marc/1 9. Chin in hand at Paris, France, May 24-28. at right is - yott guessed it - the Benton tax collecto1·. Col. Charles Cowing is a test co-ordinator with the Air Force at Pascagoula, Miss. ganizational meeting was held at Colby been elected state treasurer of Maine Re­ Graduating from Randolph Field, Texas, in March 14. The group is a result of Cy's publicans. the first air cadet class in 1932, Col . Cow­ tireless efforts. He conceived it and he was The Rev. Clarence Morrill is the new ing has flown every type of military aircraft the principal organizer. administrator of Holden Hospital, Carbon­ except jets. He is most at home in the The Rev. Richard Cu mmings is associate dale, Ill. He was formerly pastor of cabin of a multi-engined plane. Thoroughly secretary of the American Baptist Foreign Methodist churches 10 Medford and Law­ familiar with electronics and atomic and Mission of the American Baptist Convention. rence, Mass. From 1946 to 1948 he was guided missiles, he graduated from the Air field representative for the New England War College, Maxwell Field, Ala., in 1951 Class of 1933 Deaconess hospital in Boston. He has been as top man in his class. New address for Evelyn Hall Spaulding assistant administrator of the Methodist hos­ Ed Niziolek, member of the Massachusetts is 800 orth Essey Ave., Compton, Cal. pital, Brooklyn since 1948. . . . Dr. f ohn state police, has been promoted to sergeant, . . . Rosamond Barker, living in Menlo Park, Merrick has moved to Bronxville, N. Y . senior grade. He is assigned to the bar­ Cal ., is secretary to the regional sales man­ racks at Framingham. ager of the Ralston Purena Co. . . . The Class of 1936 Rev. Leonard Helie has recently retired as Class of 1930 Mr. and Mrs. Al Robinson have moved to minister of the Sanford (Me.) Uni ersalist Col. fames Davidson has been assigned to 54 Lakewood Rd., Newton, Mass. . ..Ray­ church. Fort Knox, Ky. mond Farnham will be a delegate of the Maine Teachers Association to the National Class of 1932 Class of 1934 Education Association convention in July at Roy Starbuck has been named superinten­ The Rev. Arthur Coulthard is the new Miami Beach. dent of the Congregational Church School in pastor of the First Congregational church, Attorney Francis Barnes has formed a law Webster, Mass ..... Dave Vigue has been Lawrence, Mass. During the past six years, partnership in Leominster, Mass., with M. appointed manager of American International he has been a minister at the Central Con­ Fred O'Connell, associate justice of the Underwriters, Inc., a newly formed Massa­ gregational church, Durban, South Africa. Fitchburg, Mass., district court since 1932. chusetts company which will serve the entire Ben Lisco mb bas been named assistant The new firm will be known as O'Connell New England territory. Offices are in Bos­ general manager of the Clifshaw Pontiac Co., and Barnes. ton. Augusta ....The Rev. Preston Pennell is The Rev. Frederick Knox is pastor of pastor of the New Gloucester (Me.) Congre­ Beulah Fenderson Smith has had two poems the First Baptist church, Randolph, Mass. ga tionai church. accepted by the Ladies Home fournal, "New His daughter, Ruth, is a sophomore at England " and "First Heartache." Six of

. .... Norman "Cy" Perkins has been her poems have been read on television .. . Colby Class of 1 935 . elected president of the newly formed Maine f. Warren Bishop, head of the business lohn Roderick is attached to the Paris office High School Coaches Association. The or- administration department at Colby, has of the Associated Press.

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Class of 1937 Phil Stinchfield is chief of the Advisement licah Sliapi1•0 Mellion has joined her hus­ A boost to Ro Gammon and his cam­ and Guidance Section at Togus (Me.) Vet­ band, a major who is helping to train paign to make the country " Maine-con­ erans hospital. Chinese ationalists on Formosa. Mrs. Mel­ scious " was given last fall by' Earl Wilson, Prince Beach is a lieutenant colonei at lion writes: " I plan to be over here at famed Broadway columnist. Ro is asso­ Fort Sam Houston, Texas, after service in least two years and I have hopes of resum­ ciate editor of See magazine ....Dr. Ralph Japan and Korea. He is a chief surgeon. ing my teaching at the private school for Stowell who has been practicing dentistry in ...Arthur Thompson is associate professor Americans in Taipei." Her two children, Oakland since 1946 has been recalled into of engineering research at Penn. State. Jennifer, 6, and Michael, l 1h, accompanied the avy. He is aboard the USS Currituck her. as a lieutenant commander. Ronnie Reed (Elizabeth Class of 1941 and Elizabeth Norman Beals has purchased W. W. Berry Wood, '44) have announced the birth of a The Rev. Linwood Potter is pastor of the and Co. in Waterville. The concern handles new daughter. They now have three chil­ First Congregational church, Farmington, stationery and office supplies. Norman was dren, Sandra, Brian, and Barbara. N. H. He spent eleven months as chap­ previously associated with Montgomery and lain in Korea before returning to the states Ward in New England and New York last July 1952. state. Class of 1944 Elizabeth Mathes Stange is living in Men­ Class of 1938 Class of 1942 ton-on-the Lake, Ohio. . . . Malcolm Mc­ Edville Lemoine is stationed at the Rhein Eero Helin will take over as football and Quil/an teaches English and social sciences at Main Air Force Base working in civilian track coach at Lexington (Mass.) high Croydon Hall Academy, Atlantic Highland, supply work .... Dr. Fred Emery is a pe­ school next September. He was selected N. J. He received his M. A. at Teachers diatrician in Bangor. He has five children. from 51 applicants. . . . Eleanor Stuart College, Columbia in 1952. He attended the Dr. W. Kenneth Holbrook has been elected has been promoted to assistant professor of 27th annual conference of the Secondary Edu­ president of the Mystic Valley Osteopathic French at Wilson College, Chambersburg, cation Board at the Hotel New Yorker March Society which includes several towns in the Penn. Working on her doctorate at Penn. 6-7 . ...George Godfrey is in the sales de­ vicinity of Reading, Mass ....Dr. Howard State, she has been awarded a travel scholar­ partment of W. J. Voit Rubber Corp., Los Libby has opened a dental office in Cochitu­ ship which she will use this summer touring Angeles. . . ate, Mass . . Philip Colman with the Mer­ France. Dr. Stanley Short has opened a dental rill Trust Co., Bangor, since 1942, has been William Vaughan has been elected to the office in Falmouth, Mass. The Shorts have elected assistant trust officer. ... Jo Bodurtha Maine House of Representatives from Hallo­ two children, Nancy and Bob. . . . Eugene Gagnon and her husband have moved to well ...•Dick Hansen is with the traffic Struckhoff was appointed city solicitor of Los Angeles, California, from Scarboro, Me. department of General Foods. Concord, N. H., last December.

Class of 1940 Class of 1943 Baron Pearl, after a very successful coach­ Harold Polis is district manager for the Class of 1945 ing career at Skowhegan high and Maine Bankers National Life Insurance Co., Dan­ Paul Huber is manager of Maine's newest Central Institute, is coaching basketball and bury, Conn. . . . Elwin Hussey of Windsor, radio station, WRKD in Rockland. The assisting in football at Brunswick high. . . . is a member of Maine's legislature. 250-watt outlet went on the air October 1.

22 COLBY ALUMNUS Pre iSingapore to Peru." ... Cynthia Wilbur has under the tomic Energy Commission. a law office there. been named director of public information Class of 1946 A letter from Santa Monica, Cal., brings for the Massachusetts Wing of the Civil Air Cloyd Aarsetli is with Pathe newsreels m word that Howell Clement is with the elec­ Patrol. ...Elizabeth Beamish Jolley is liv­ New York City.. ..Virginia Brown Kellner tronics department of General Electric Co., ing in Orlando, Fla. i. a housewife in Mamaroneck, N. Y. . . . where he is affiliated with a new receiving Courtney impson received his degree from tube warehouse.... Cyril foly, fr. has been Class of 1950 Richard U1·ie, a graduate of Boston Col­ New York University College of Dentistry last elected chairman of the Waterville Republi­ lege Law School , was admitted to the bar June. He ha opened an office in Manches­ can City Committee. ter, Conn. . . . Aud1·ey Dyer Houghton has Eugene Hunter has been named basketball last fall .... Yogi Rosen has been studying at moved to Peacham, Vt. where her husband is coach at Morse high school, Bath. . . . The the University of Wisconsin since graduation. principal of the academy. Rev. Walter Towle has received his bachelor He received his M. A. in modern European of divinity degree from Yale. Since Sep­ history last February and is now working Class of 1948 tember of 1951 he has been pastor of the toward his Ph. D. Dorothy Wonhley Cleaver lives 10 Wil­ First Methodist church, Shelton, Conn. The Allen Pease received his M. A. Dec. 19 mington, Del. where her husband is a chem­ Towles have two young sons. from Ohio State. . . . Robert Stander is an ist with the Dupont corporation. . . . The education specialist at Sampson Air Force children's librarian at the Winchester Square Class of 1949 Base, Geneva, N. Y .. ..Dick Lyon has branch of the Springfield (Mass.) city library Davison Bryant is a sales executive with been discharged from the Army. He served is Rebecca Bixby Casey ....The Reverend Reed & Barton Silver Co. . . . Norma Thistle two years as a sergeant and was instructor Everett Bauer has assumed the pastorate of Powell has moved from Wakefield, Mass., to in the signal corps at Camp Gordon, Ga. . . . the Hill Memorial church in Allston. His Providence, R. I. ...Marie Wilson is study­ A welcome note came to Dr. Bixler from wife, 1ildred Hammond Bauer, is working ing for her master's degree in social work Bob Rosenthal Feb. 25. Bob is stationed at with the City Missionary society of Boston. at the Hartford (Conn.) Seminary Founda­ Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio. Dick Billings has been certified as a senior tion. . . . Bernard Crossman has received Ken facobson hit the headlines of the Wa­ secretary of the YMCA by the board of cer­ his LL. B from the University of Southern terville Sentinel March 5 when he telephoned tification of the National Council of YMCA's. California. . . . Dave Cla1·k is on the staff his mother with birthday greetings from Or­ He is associate adult program and member­ of the Students Union at Ohio State Uni­ leans, France. Part of Ken's work is staging ship secretary of the Schenectady chapter. ... versity, Columbus, Ohio. The Union caters shows for servicemen with the Army's Spe­ Dr. Herbert Parisi is on the staff of the to 23,000 undergraduates. department. . . . Since her Waterville Osteopathic hospital. He is a Bob Slavitt has left his law practice in cial Services she did post­ graduate of the Des Moines College ot orwalk, Conn., to become a private in the return from France, where Osteopathy. infantry. . ..Sam Horne was admitted to graduate work in 1950-5 1, Charlotte Stern Mike Puiia coaches basketball and track the Maine Bar Feb. 11. He will graduate has been working in New York. Formerly at Livermore Falls high school. ...Shi rley in June from Boston University Law School. assistant editor of Magazine Digest, she is Bessey is state recreation specialist with the Barbara Starbuck has returned to the states now doing research for The Reporter.

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23 Issue of APRIL 1953 Class of 1951 George Wasserberger was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Army at Fort Riley Agoos Leather Companies, Inc. in October. ... Ed Bittar, now at Yale, represented Palestine on a panel at the fourth 145 South Street annual high school UNESCO conference at New Britain State Teachers College. BOSTON MASS. 11, Latest address for Maxine Rosenberg is the Studio Club, 210 E. 77 St., N. Y. C. Priscilla Davis Runkle, husband Jim and Telephone 925 Waterville daughter Virginia have moved to their newly PURELAC DAIRY PRODUCTS, INC. built home at 56 Old Billeric:a Rd., Bedford, SPECIALIZING IN ICE CREAM MIX Mass. Jim O'Brien graduated in June from QUALITY DAIRY PRODUCTS Boston University Law School and has been PASTEURIZED MILK, CREAM admitted to the bar in Massachusetts. . .. MASD EL H. Foss, Mgr. Mary Bracy is an instructor in art at the WATERVILLE, MAINE Northern Conservatory of Music. . . . Ken Graham teaches English at Shattuck School, Faribault, Minn. Sally Blanc/1ard Maynard is a student at TRrnERrrn Tufts. . . . Charles Tobin will receive his master's in education from Bridgewater (Mass.) State Teachers College this June. SHOE . . . Sumner Fox teaches seventh grade at the Center School Litchfield, Coan. He re­ Da11id Lynn, '52, seaman USN, has been FOR CHILDREN ceived h.is M. A. in education from Harvard accepted for officer's candidate school, New­ Made by last spring. port, Rhode lsla11d. THE GREEN SHOE MFG. CO. Dick Grant, traveling in Europe, studied Boston, Mass. during the fall and wimer at Innsbruck Uni­ versity, Austria ....A word from Bob and assigned to a destroyer escort in tbe Pacific. Nancy Ai·chibald (Nancy Nilson). Bob His address: USS Walton, DE 361, c/o A. Y ARCHIN & COMPANY graduated from Officers Candidate School last F.P.O., San Francisco, Cal. . . . Forrest Goodall has returned from Korea where he INSURANCE July and was married the following day. After six months in San Diego, during was a corpsman with the First Marine Divi­ 153 MILK STREET which time Nance did secretarial work, they sion. He is now on maneuvers in the Cario­ BOSTON MASS. went to Hawaii where they have met Clay beaa ....Ens. Bruce MacPherson is attend­ Bloomfield who is stationed at Pearl Harbor. ing a naval justice school studying naval Fenton Mitchell has been promoted sales court martial procedures and law. engineer of the Springfield, Mass., district for GEORGE H. STERNS, '3 1 fanet Perrigo Brown is at the Cornell Univ. the Carpenter Steel Co., of Reading, Pa. The FRED J. STERNS, '29 School of Nursing. After graduation in Mitchells (Mary Leighton) have a new HERBERT D. STERNS, '41 September, she plans to work in surgery at daughter, Linda Carol. ...Pvt. Dick. Smit/1 the Newton-Wellesley hospital. . .. Betsey STERNS DEPT. STORES has completed a 13-week radio communica­ Smart is very enthusiastic about graduate tion course at Fort Dix, N. J. WATERVILLE SKOWHEGAN work at the Yale Univ. School of Nursing. Ted Shiro was unanimously chosen "most . . . Nelson Howlett is at Tufts Medical 11 "The Stores of Famous Brands valuable player " in the Camp Chaffee, Ark., School. ... feanne D'Wolf and Lois Cook Post basketball tournament. Ted's team (he are physical therapy students at the Mayo was player-coach) lost out in the finals, 68- Clinic, Rochester, Minn. . . . William Carter 73. . . . f ohn Ely has been honorably dis­ 111 is at the Harvard Law School. charged after serving as a laboratory tech­ Maine Freightways The Navy has Don Hailer and Tim Terry. nician with the Army in Japan. Both are stationed at Newport, R. I., in 35 Charles Street Class of 1952 0. C. S ....Pvt. Graham Pierce is at Fort CAMBRIDGE, MASS. Ronald Lannan and Howard Gaskill have Jackson, S. C .... Pvt. Herbie Nagle is now been commissioned Marine Corps lieutenants. in France ....The Alan Davises have moved

. . . Ed Pecukonis is studying for his mas­ to the Jersey side: 96 Reservoir Ave., River­ ter's at Boston College. . ..Howard Sacks side, N. J ... . foan Martin is working for Boothby anJ Bartlett has enlisted in tbe Army. . . . Patricia Er­ the National City Bank in N. Y. C. . . . skine, will join the faculty of Beverly Jun­ fames Gruniger is with the Travelers' Insur­ GENERAL INSURANCE ior high school this Sept. as an English ance Co., Hartford. . . . Bev Bak.er is an teacher. . . . foe Denis is a research chemist executive trainee in merchandising , and ad­ Main Street 185 at Oak Ridge National Laboratories. vertising at Filene's. WATERVILLE MAINE Ens. Ray Keyes, having completed Navy fean Ellen Brewer is working for her M. A. Supply School at Bayonne, N. J., has been in teaching at Radcliffe.

24 COLBY ALUMNUS Ensign Clayton Bloomfield, '5 1, to SaJly BIRTHS v s Oxx, Submarine Base Chapel, Pearl Harbor, T Hawaii, December 15. A son, Christopher Jay, to Mr. and Mrs. . A facqueline Dillingham, '5 1, to Robert Leon /. Braudy, '39, December 30. Schlier, Laconia, New Hampshire, Febru­ T A daughter, Susan Totman, to Mr. and ary 14. I Mrs. Arne Askjem (lune Totman, '42) Nancy Ewing, '5 1, to Lieut. Robert Burke, T January 4. s First Baptist Church, Rowley, Massachusetts, A daughter, Barbara Shaw, to Mr. and T January 17. A Mrs. Ronald Reed, '43 (Elizabeth Wood, '44) fames O'Brien, Jr., to Nancy Mc­ I '5 1, November 3. Ginn, St. Joseph's Church, Newport, Rhode c A daughter, Melissa Lee, to Mr. and Mrs. L Island, January 24. s E. Dean Finney (Tacy Hood, '44) June 21. fohn Torrey, '5 1, to Helen Thrall, St. MARRIAGES A son, Jeffrey Armitage, to Mr. and Mrs. Peter's Church, Weston, Massachusetts, De­ James Bouton (Carolyn A1·mitage, '46) De­ Lee Hutchinson, cember 21. '18, to Isabelle Fuller, cember 30. December 27, 1952. A son, Christopher Remsen, to Mr. and Marian Lewis, '18, to William Black­ Mrs. Harman Hawkins, (fanet Gay, '48) man, in New York City. February 15. G11y Whitten, '19, to Marjorie Maxwell Be There ! A daughter, Mary Larkin, to Mr. and Mrs. Knight on New Year's day. Emmet J. Hughes (Eileen Lanouette, '48) Barbara Sherman, '32, to Arthur Burger, in October. March 28 in New York City. Commencement A daughter, Lauren Sue, to Mr. and Mrs. fohn Hunt, '35, to Alice Tibbetts, January 12 -15 Marvin Josolowitz (Marv Josolowitz, '48) 17. June December 24. Mortimer Lenk, '41, to Patience Ann Wil­ A daughter, Linda Adair to Mr. and Mrs. liams, January 22. Edith Carpenter, '52, to Arthur Sweeney, Charles B. Day, Jr. (lean Bonnell, '49) July Marjorie Cate, '42, to Arnold Berke, New Christ Episcopal Church, Andover, Massa­ 23. York City, January l. chusetts, December 27. A son, George Albert, to Mr. and Mrs. Ruth Archibald, '48, to William Murphy, Joseph Denis, '52, to Kathleen Valliere, George Parker (Alice Rogers, '49) Decem­ Jr., Cambridge, Massachusetts, February 14. Sacred Heart Church, Waterville. ber 11. Charles Chapman, '48, to Gloria Brown­ Elizabeth Leverdson, '52, to Warren Fine­ A son, Kevin Joseph, to Mr. and Mrs. lee, January 25. gan, '5 1, New Rochelle, New York, Feb­ Geo1·ge Paine, Jr. '50, January 11. A. Howell Clement, '48, to Norma Jane ruary 28. A daughter, Susan Ellen, to Lt. and Mrs. Robertson, September 6, 1952. Sylvia Rice, '52, to Lt. Donald Allan Car­ Alan Rowe (Shirley Town, '50) February 16. Elizabeth Beamish, '49, to Richard Jolley, man, Evangelical Congregational Church, A son, Benjamin Robinson, to Mr. and Mrs. January 9. Needham, Massachusetts, December 13. Benjamin Sears (Nancy Ricker, '50) January fean Beauchamp, '49, to Ensign Alfred Margai·et Randall, '53, to George Whitney, 28. Johnsrud, February 6. '52, Sacred Heart Church, Waterville, Feb­ Antoinetta Fera, '49, to Ernest Romano, ruary 14. A daughter, Linda Joan, to Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence, Massachusetts, January 25. Nancy Dyer, '54, to Robert Bacon, Ber­ Kleber Campbell (Helen Leavitt, '51) Octo­ Thomas Blake, '50, to Barbara Moulton, lin Congregational Church, Berlin, New ber 21. Guilford, Maine, January 31. Hampshire, December 27. A daughter, Celeste Christie, to Mr. and Gerald Frank, '50, to Joan Harriet White, Betty Robertson, '53, to John Deuble, '52, Mrs. James Keefe, '5 1, February 20. New Haven, Connecticut, February 12. on March 28. A son, David Whitney, to Mr. and Mrs. Philip Savage, '5 1, to Joan Rood, First Carole Starr, '53, to Arthur Schein in Bos­ David Pape, '53 (loan Millett, '52) Janu­ Methodist Church, Meriden, Connecticut. ton in March. ary 16.

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1885 William Henry Snyder, 89, died 18 G Julia Ella WinslottJ, 90, died January 9 in Los Angeles. A promi­ February 25 after a brief illness in Wa terville nent educator, he was a guiding factor in Portland where she had been living sinc:e the development of Los Angeles City College 1929 when she retired from teaching. and Hollywood High School. Borl"! in Fairfield, the daughter of Isaac Morning Sentinel The son of a Baptist and Sarah Winslow, she moved co St. Albans, minister, Dr. Snyder was Maine when she was 12 years old. She wa5 native of Auburn, educated at the Friends Boarding School, Maine. Following his Providence, Rhode Island (now Moses Brown graduation from Colby, School ); the Rhode Island State Normal he received his A.M. in School ; and Colby. She also studied at the geology from Harvard. American School of Archaeology in Rome. Colby awarded him a Miss Winslow caught two years at Coburn Sc.D. in 1898 and the Classical Institute before going to Girls High University of California School in Brooklyn, New York where she an LLD. in 1934. WATERVILLE, MAINE was on the faculty for 40 years until her He moved to Los retirement. She was a member of Sigma Angeles in 1907, two Kappa sorority. years later becoming the second principal of Grove Hollywood High School, a post he held until Surviving are her sister, Miss Rena L. Oak 1929. That year he was named director of Winslow, Portland ; three nephews, Howard for College and Emphasizes Preparation Los Angeles City College (then Los Angeles 0. Winslow, Newton Center, Massachusetts; Living in a Program Gracious, Purposeful Junior College) . He directed its activities Arthur M. Winslow, Seattle, Washington, and to Girls. Excellent Depart­ devoted entirely until his retirement in 1934. Harold M. Winslow, San Diego, California; Talent in Music, Art ments for the Girl with Author of numerous articles for educational a niece, Mrs. Bradley Johnson, Dade Cit)', Recreational Life with or Dramatics. Joyous journals, he was also credited with writing Florida; and several grand and great-grand Winter Sports featured. Riding included. one of the first school text books on general nieces and nephew . ings. Beautiful New Fireproof Build science. In addition, he was co-author of MR. AND MRS. ROBERT OWEN textbooks on geology and physics. Box C VASSALBORO, MAlNE. Frances Elizabeth Clzuller, 81, Dr. Snyder was honored i.n several ways 1 !)4 during his life. The athletic field at Los died in Needham, Massachusetts January 11 after a long illness. DRAGON CEMENT COMPAN� fu� Angeles City College bears his name as do rwo scholarships. An annual lecture has also British-born, Miss Cbutter prepared for SUCCESSOR TO been established at the college in his honor. Colby at Coburn Classical Institute. She did LAWRENCE PORTLAND CEMENT COMPANY Ia 1947 Donald B. MacMillan, arctic ex­ graduate work in ?ranee, Germany, and Ital/. Dragon Portland Cements plorer, named a Labrador Bay after him. A retired school teacher, she was author of Dragon Mortar Cement Dr. Snyder and MacMillan became friends several textbooks on art literature. For many when the two were teaching at Worcest�r years she li1·ed in East Northfield, Massachu­ MILL AND SALES OFFICE : (Massachusetts) Academy where Dr. Snyder setts. She was a member of Sigma Kappa. Thomaston, Maine was head of the science department. At the time of his death, the Citizen­ NettJs of Hollywood called his contributions 1905 Solon White Purinton, 71, died multitudinous. suddenly February 3 at his home in "Because those contribution� were also of Waterville. Compliments a lasting nature," an editorial read, "his Mr. Purinton was born in Richmond, Marne great work will live on through the lives of February 5, 1882, the son of Amos E. am! Sarah Moore Purinton. At the age of four of thousands who were inAuenced by him. Most fitting indeed was the designation of him as he moved to Waterville where he attende

26 COLBY ALUMNUS He i ur i ed b his widow, Mrs. Grace �anager of Frankfort Distributing Company Br n Pur � inton · two daughters, Mrs. m 1931, the position which he held at the w1aht Moody irginia Beach, Virginia ; and time of his death. Mr . Eu ene Gordon of Springfield Massa­ He leaves his wife; a daughter, Ann Compliments chu ett · four grandchildren and one sister. Eli.zabeth ; two sisters-, Mrs. George Joy of Mr. Purint n was a memb er of Delta U1·mlo n Westbrook, Maine and Miss Gladys Welch of fraternity. of Waterville; and three nephews. He was a member of Phi 'Delta Theta fraternity. 1909 Munroe Elias Young, 69, died Howard B. Crosby October 4, in Andover, Massachu­ etts after a long illness. 1913 Charles fames Keppel, 64, died January 22, in Los Angeles Cali- Born in Calais Maine, the son of Captain ' fornia of a heart attack. and Mrs. Matthew A. Young, he was a 0arad- 0 uate of Calais Academy. An educator, Mr. Keppel had been director PRINTING the Maud Booth Home in Los Angeles He was a memher of Delta Kappa Epsilon o! LETTERPRESS - OFFSET - BooK BINDING since 1948. This was a Community Chest and served as Class Chaplain for two years. He was employed for thirty years by the Home for children. William Whitman Company, Textiles and Prior to that he had been assistant head­ master at Cranbrook School, Bloomfield Hills Kennebec Journal later worked at the New England Medical AUGUST A, MAINE Michigan (1927-35), headmaster of th Center, Boston, Massachusetts. � Tome School, Port Deposit, Maryland (1935- Surviving are three sisters, Mrs. James "Maine's Largest Commercial Printing Plant " 40), and headmaster of the Tamalpais School, Huson of Calais· Mrs. Walter Warburton and San Rafael, California (1940-48). Mrs. Wil lis Haycock of Methuen, Massachu­ Mr. Keppel received his M.A. from New etts with whom he made his home; also York University in 1925. He was a member several nieces and nephews, among them Gor­ of Delta Upsilon and Phi Delta Kappa. don S. Young, D.M.D. of Bar Harbor, '37. He is survived by his widow, the former Shoe Corporation Laurel Wyman, Colby 1912; a son, Bruce, 1913 Howard Bttck Greene, 62, died on duty with the Navy; twin daughters, Of America January 1 in Middleboro, Massa­ Shirley (Mrs. Wishard Brown) and Virginia chusetts. (Mrs. Evan J. Macllraith, Jr.) and seven Born in Otisfield, Maine, the son of Mr. grandchildren, all residents of California. COLUMBUS 15, OHIO and Mrs. George H. Greene, he attended Bridgton Academy prior to entering Colby. Ill health prevented him from completing is 1914 Dorothy Tubbs Davis, 61, died in Waterville February 9 following a col lege career. For the past five years he BOLTON-SMART CO., INC. has been self-employed as a contractor. brief ill ness. Wholesale Purveyors o Choice A tribute in the Bridgton News shortly She was born in Norway, Maine, the f after his death declared in part, daughter of George E. and lvah Millett BEEF LAMB VEAL PollA "Some may remember his love of tennis Tubbs. For the past 20 years she lived in POULTRY FISH and golf, in spite of the fact that he was crip­ Waterville where she was a member of the BUTTER CHEESE EGGS pled from infantile paralysis. · Others may Women's Club, on the Thayer Hospital Aux­ 17-25 SOUTH MARKET ST. iliary and in the Ida M. Whittemore Philathea remember him when he was Master of the BOSTON, MASS. Class of the First Baptist Church. Grange in Harrison, or Noble Grand of the Telephone: LAfayette 3-1900 IOOF in Bridgton. . . Mrs. Davis was a member of Delta Delta " Howard joined the church in North Delta sorority. She is survived by two sons, Bridgton, was choir leader for seventeen Cyrus of Oakland, and Robert of Falmouth years and has been an ardent worker in the Foreside, and three grandchildren. INDUSTRIAL FuEL OIL - 01L BuRNElts church and Sunday school in Middleboro, Massachusetts for the past six years." The board of directors of the American 1914 Harry Philip Fuller, 61, died Oc- Robinson.-Kenney, Inc. Cancer Society (Massachusetts division) has tober 6 in Coopers Mills, Maine. established a memorial in his honor. Mr. Fuller was born in Hallowel l where he BANGOR, MAINE Surviving are his widow, the former Ethel attended high school. He taught in New Chessman; two sisters, Mrs. Bertha Clark of Jersey and New York and for many years was RAY Burne,-s Heat Colby College Newton, Massachusetts, and Mrs. Helen Doty head of the commercial department in Irving­ of Middleboro, Massachusetts; his sons, ton (New Jersey) high school. Philip and John; his daughters, Mrs. Ruth He was in Delta Upsilon fraternity ; a Paton of Attleboro, Massachusetts · Mrs. former member of the Franklin Lodge No. Dorothy Davis of Norfolk, Virginia, and 10 in Irvington, New Jersey ; a member of Waterville Miss Frances Green of Middleboro, Massa­ the Associated Humane Societies of New Jer­ chusetts; and several grandchildren. He sey and the American National Red Cross. Fruit & Produce Co. , Inc. was a member of Alpha Tau Omega. He also belonged to the United Business Edu­ Association of the Irvington high cation Sanger Avenue school ; the New Jersey Education Associa­ tion · and the National Congress of Parents WATERVILLE, MAINE 1913 Harold Norwood Welch, 63, died and Teachers. suddenly March 8 at his home in A veteran of World War I, he is survived Lexington, Massachusetts. by his widow. Mr. Welch was horn in Revere, Massachu­ setts, the son of the late J. Howard and Emery-Brown Co . Elizabeth Norwood Welch. The family 1915 Grace Wells Thompson, 60, died moved to Waterville in 1889 where he was at her home in Waterville Decem- WATERVILLE1s educated in the public schools before enter­ ber 19. ing Hebron Academy. He attended Colby Born in Clinton, the daughter of Burton LEADING two years and was graduated from the New an

Issue of APRIL 1953 27 She was a lifelong member and very active in the Pleasant Street Methodist Church 0£ Waterville, serving as financial ecretary for many years. She was a member 0£ Martha Washington Chapter, Order 0£ the Eastern A Ma tter of Will Power Star, the Waterville Woman's club and the Conservation and "Garden Department 0£ the club, and was president 0£ the Boothbay Colby is the stronger today for the support it has received from alumni Region Garden cl ub. and friends. Many who have wanted to commit their resources to the Mrs. Thompson also was a trustee of the establishment of infiuences which are everlasting have named Colby Col­ Waterville Public Library and was active in lege their beneficiary. American Red Cross work, having served as Home Service chairman during World War HE COLLEGE has received from the estate of Ida E. Nichols of fl. She was with the Department of Health $1200 and Welfare for several years; had served as T Bangor Maine. She was the widow of Elmer L. Nichols, 1893. The secretary of the Kennebec Chapter, National bequest was designated " to be placed in the educational funds of the col­ Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, Inc., and lege with interest available for unrestricted use by the college." was medical field agent for Maine in the Selective Service svstem. She wa in tru­ mental in organizi�g the Republican Women 0£ Maine and was its first president. Mrs. Thompson was greatly interested in 192 Francis Hoxie Jones, 47, died War of 1812; House Divided, the Civil War; Sigma Kappa and held many local and na­ suddenly March 3 after fighting a and Time of Peace, World War II. tional position in the sorority. grass fire near his home in South China. "His latest novel, The Unconquered, i Surviving are her husband, Arthur; one He was born in Waterville, the son of Her­ cheduled for publication in June by Hough­ son, Franklin; and two grandchildren, all bert and Mary Webber Jones, and graduated ton Mifflin Company." 0£ Waterville. from Oak Grove Seminary in 1922. Williams began his writing while working Mr. Jones was employed for everal years as a reporter for the Bo ton American after by the Plimpton Press, orwood, Mas achu­ graduation from Dartmouth in 1910. setts and later by the Northeastern Press, He is survived by his widow; a son, Roger, 1922 Ha11nali Naomi Maher, 53, died Augusta, as an expert foreign language type­ who is publisher 0£ the Guy Gannett news­ December 6 in Hallowell, Maine. setter. papers in Maine: a son, Ben, fr., Boston; and Miss Maher had been head of the Livermore During two years of service in World War a daughter, Mr . Fred Wardwell of Beaufort, Falls high school English department since II, he was clerk general in Headquarters and North Carolina. 1928. Service Company, 254th Engineers, and saw service. He received the Purple Six years after receiving her A.B. from much combat 43 Trevor Edgar Lamb, 33, died Heart, Distinguished Unit badge, Victory 19 Colby, and following a period of teaching, December 19 in Patchogue, New medal and other citations. Since his dis­ she was awarded a master of arts degree by York. charge, he has been a poultry farmer. the college. She did further advanced work Mr. Lamb was born in Wollaston, Massa­ He is survived by his widow, Ruth S. at Harvard and at Boston University. chusetts and attended Berkeley Preparatory Jones; a brother, Harvey H. Jones, Lewiston ; In reporting her death the Livermore Falls school as well as Boston English high school. and a si ter, Miss Miriam E. Jones, Haver­ Advertiser stated in part: "In nearly a quar­ He lived most of his life in Ea t Boston until ford, Pennsylvania. ter 0£ a century 0£ teaching here, Naomi he went to Patchogue as division manager Maher made conspicuous contributions to the of a Sears Roebuck store. growth of a cultural background in our town; 1932 Frederick Joseph LaF/e11r, Jr., 44, During World War II he was a naval commencement programs which, written un­ died December 4 in Fall River, inspector in the Ro�ton area. He was a der her guidance, expressed and interpreted Massachusetts after a brief illness. former member of the Mas achusetts State the life of our community; . . . exacting A graduate of B. M. C. Durfee high school, Guard and of the ew York National Guard. standards of work ... ; inspired teaching of he received his medical degree from the Uni­ He is survived by his wife; his parents, literature . . . ; her unflagging encourage­ versity of Massachusetts. After interning at Mr. and Mrs. Frank T. Lamb; and a son, ment and practical, specific advice to young Fall River General Hospital, he spent three Trevor. students . . . ; and her continuing interest years as house surgeon at the Midtown Hos­ in the careers of students beyond high school ; pital, New York City. Dr. LaFlcur special­ FORMER FACULTY •.• these are some of the ways that ·she made ized in ear, nose and throat care. herself a powerful and lasting influence in He is survived by his parents, Dr. and Mrs. The deaths of two former faculty members Livermore Falls." Frederick J. LaFleur. have been reported. Leslie Rogers Moore, in­ Another fitting tribute to Miss Maher was structor in science at the turn of the century, a newspaper comment published by the Liv­ Ben Ames Williams, 63, died sud- 1942 died in Florida January 11. ermore Falls Trust Company and written by denly February 4 in Brookline, H on. After leaving Colby, he worked with the Reginald Sturtevant, '2 1. A portion of it Massachusetts while engaged in the Massachusetts State Utilities where his organ­ declared : ancient Scottish game of curling. ization and research with the gas and electric One of the nation's top shqrt story writers, " People used to marvel at the near pro­ systems of the state were considered outstand­ Williams was awarded an honorary Litt.D. fessional results Naomi Maher could always ing. Dr. Moore was particularly interested by Colby in 1942. A similar honor was get from immature actors of high school plays, in young people and helped many to acquire given him by his own alma mater Dartmouth yet her only secret was perfection of detail. an education. in 1948. From minute scenic effect to the last inflec­ An obituary by the Associated Press re­ tion of speech, she knew no such thing as ported: "He lived an active, aggressive life On March 14 C11llen Bryant Colton died 'just about right.' far removed from the popular conception of suddenly in Glen Rock, New Jersey. He "She still does teach ; and with her life, the bookish novelist. He loved curling, hunt­ was 52. reminds those of us who are still ' taking the ing, fishing, and riding, and, in addition, Mr. Colton was an instructor in English at course ' that the test we all one day must pass possessed one of the world's most valued col­ Colby from 1930-34 and later taught at New is not 'How much

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THE SUCCESS of the Erie Canal in New York created great enthusiasm jn Maine one.fourth of its rnpital stock should be invested in stock of the Canal Company. for this new mode of transport. As early as 1791 a committee was chosen to The Canal was complered early in 1830. There were 27 locks, each named learn the feasibility of a canal from Sebago Pond 10 rhe Presumpscor Ri,·er. for its locality. Sometimes, there's an interesting story behind the names - for As a result of the committee's glowing r�port of irs possibiliries in opening up �xample, the lock at Horse Beef Falls. Some time before 1776 a mill was estab­ the "back country" co commerce, \'\/oodbury Srorer and orher inreresred Port· lished beside the Falls, owned by a man noted rhroughout the area for his parsi­ landers in orporated in 1-95 as the "Cumberland Canal Corporadon." Their mony. He fed his workers, because rhat was the custom of the day, but he fed objecdve was to open a canal connecting Sebago wich rhe river at Saccarappa. rhem sparingly. One day when the men were scooping their daily ration from Anorher corporation, "Propriecors of rhe Falmourh Canal," was formed ar rhe rhe beef barrel, they found a horse's hoof and a horseshoe wirh the meat. The same rime to unite the Presumpscor wirh Fore River in Portland. mills immediately became known as Horse Beef Mills, and the Falls, Horse Beef Financing the project ._· ould be by popular subscriprion. But the general Falls. The names endured for nearly a century. public must have been somewhat apathetic co a cnnal, for even a legislature· The Cumberland & Oxford Canal served its purpose well until the rail· approved lottery did nor yield enough money !O srart work. Undaunred, rhe roads supplanted it for freight-carrying. But to the one-time existence of the promoters soughr and received further aid from a sympa1he1ic S1a1e Legislarure. C & 0, Portlanders of today owe thanks - if for no other reason than the Jn 1825 the Canal Bank, now The Canal Narional Bank of Portland, was facr that many of the beautiful old trees lining Portland Streets were freighted chartered, with a capital of 5300,000. One condidon of the charter was that by Canal boat from a tract known as "Thousand Acres" along the Songo River.

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