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\LUMNI-SHIP e Money • "Without the dollars tht their alumni contribute each year, America's privately su archives ions woulde in serious difficulty today." Students • Alumni "frrequently act as academic talent scounts fo md with the college-bound high school students in their communities." • Ideas • "Ideas are the met The Rock - -veiThwhile educational institution must provide and guard the conditions for breeding them. To do so, the' Alumni Magazine )f their alumni." ALUMNI-SHIP • Money "Without the dollars that their alumni contribute each' yea 1960 )orted educational institutions would be in serious difficulty today." S Students • Alumni "frequently act as aca Ima maters, meeting and talking with the college-bound high school students in their communities." • Ideas • "Ideas are the merchan 'f education, and every worthwhile educational institution must provide and guard the conditions for breeding them. To do so, they r he help and vigilance of their alumni." ALUMNI-SHIP • Money • "Without the dollars that their alumni contribute each year, Ar ca's privately supported educational institutions would be in serious difficulty today." • Students • Alumni "frequently act as talent so 'or their alma maters, meeting and talking with the college-bound high school students in their communities," S Ideas • "Ideas are ierchandise of education, and every worthwhile educational institution must provide and guard the conditions for breeding them. Tc o, they need thUh p f their alumni." ALUMNI-SHIP • Money • "Without the dollars that their alumni contribute c 'ear, America's pr atel educational institutions would be in serious difficulty today." Students • Alumni "frequently s academic talent-u maters, meeting and talking with the college-bound high school students in their communities." Ideas • "Ideas are e me dise uc: - - nd ev - wh c.iff1 stitution must provide and guard the conditions reeding them. To so, t y need ilar 4 of i al " I-SHIP • Money • "Without the dollars that t ilumni contribute i yea merica ins uti s ould be in serious difficulty today." • Studeni lumni "frequen y a .s ______demj meeting alking with the college-bound high school stud n their communi ies. Id 'Ideas are the merchan.ise o education, and every worthwhile educational institution must provide uard the conditions for breeding them. To do so, they need the help and vigilance of their alumni." ALUMNI-SHIP S Money • "W ut the dollars that their alumni contribute each year, America's privately supported educational institutions would be in serious diffic today." • Students • Alumni "frequently act as academic talent scouts for their alma maters, meeting and talking with the college-bo 'ugh school students in their communities." • Ideas • "Ideas are the merchandise of education, and every worthwhile educational inst Lion must provide and guard the conditions for breeding them. To do so, they need the help and vigilance of their alumni." ALUM SHIP • Money "Without the dollars that their alumni contribute each year, America's privately supported educational institut
would be in serious difficulty today." 0 Students • Alumni "frequently act as academic talent scouts for their alma maters, meeting talking with the college-bound high school students in their communities." • Ideas • "Ideas are the merchandise of education, and e worthwhile educational institution must provide and guard the conditions for breeding them. To do so, they need the help and vigilanc their alumni." ALUMNI-SHIP • Money • "Without the dollars that their alumni contribute each year, America's privately suppoi ducational institutions would be in serious difficulty today." • Students • Alumni "frequently act as academic talent scouts for t ima maters, meeting and talking with the college-bound high school students in their communities." • Ideas • "Ideas are the mercl' dise of education, and every worthwhile educational institution must provide and guard the conditions for breeding them. To do so, I need the help and vigilance of their alumni." ALUMNI-SHIP • Money • "Without the dollars that their alumni contribute each y America's privately supported educational institutions would be in serious difficulty today." • Students • Alumni "frequently act as demic talent scouts for their alma maters, meeting and taiking with the college-bound high school students in their communities." • Ides "Ideas are the merchandise of education, and every worthwhile educational institution must provide and guard the conditions for breeu them. To do so, they need the help and vigilance of their alumni." ALUMNI-SHIP • Money e "Without the dollars that their alu mt year, Americ.' e d e e - cational ins be in serious difficulty today." Students • Alu t as acade mat ing with the college-bound high school students in t edu rthwhile educational institution must provide and gui AL ' - • ' oney • "Without
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Page 2 THE ROCK WHITTIER COLLEGE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION David E. Wicker '49 President Norfleet Callicott '45 Vice-President Thomas D. Wood '50 Ti-xe A.iumrii Magnzine of Whittier College Past President Wm. H. (Mo) Maruinoto '57 Volumne XXII April 1960 Number I Director of Alumni Relations Editor of The Rock Jane T. Randolph '43 Assistant Director of Alumni Relations Assistant Editor of The Rock in this issue. ALUMNI BOARD Thomas D. Wood 150, Charles W. Rob- Election of Officers 4 inson, Jr. 139, Barbara D. Maple '37, Jean B. Miller '29, Warren Newman 159, President, Vice-President, and two members of Madolyn M. Christopher 135, Homan C. the Alumni Association Board are presented for Moore, Jr. '57, Herbert Adden, Jr. '49, your approval Jean C. Reese '48, Edna T. Nanney '10. Ex-officio: Dr. Paul S. Smith, William Kelley '60, Dr. Robert W. O'Brien, Dr. Basketballers make NAIA Tourney 6 Roy Newsom '34. Milt Stark reviews the 1959 season and the NAIA tournament, and introduces the new football COMMISSION CHAIRMEN coach, John Godfrey Beryl E. Notthoff 135, Alumni Fund; Darlene C. Kruse 950, Clubs and Chap- 9 ters; Stuart Got hold '56, Student- THE ALUMN US/A Alumni Relations; Jack Gauldin '47, An insert . . . Here's an interesting review of the Business and Professional Organiza- role of the alumni in American Education and a tions; Jackie S. Connally 156, Activities. challenge to "alumniship"
SOCIETY REPRESENTATIVES Franklins, Jack Mealer '52; Ionians, Ann Bomberger '56; Lancer, Morris REGULAR ROCK FEATURES Padia '42; Metaphonian, Martha F. Dean '56; Orthogonian, James Daugh- 6 erty 158; Palmer, Joan D. Jessup '54; Sports in Brief Sachsen, Jack Emerson '56; Thalian, 7 Ruth B. Chisler '36; William Penn, Clubs and Societies Bill Morton '59 and Ernie Luther '57; 25 Athenians, Betty N. Conley '54. Old Acquaintances
CLUBS AND CHAPTERS Broadoaks Alumnae, Jeanette E. Mills '45; 1195 Club, William Krueger '33; Cap and Gown Alumnae, Ann D. Chandler '56; Independents, Jack Gil- bert '50; Foundation Club, Thurston Syndor 139 and Ralph Barmore '40.
ROCK STAFF Karin Conly '55, Feature Editor; Milt ABOUT THE COVER Stark '58, Sports Editor; Jack Mealer The special insert "The '52, Production Manager; and Robert H. Dill, Photographer. Advisory Staff: Alumn us/a" discusses many Dr. Robert W. O'Brien, Faculty; James phases of alumni activity. It is B. Moore, Administration; Dick Busse interesting to note that the 61, Associated Students; and David three goals the Whittier Col- K. Wicker '49, Alumni Association. lege Alumni Association has set - MONEY, STUDENTS, and IDEAS - were each empha- sized in the feature. To make The Rock is a publication of the the feature more meaningful to Whittier College Alumni Associa- our alumni, THE ROCK'S cover tion, published during the months relates the feature to our goals. of September, December, April and July at Whittier, California, -t sIn:IAI. REI't)RT Box 651. Member of the American T115 IU-M%t, t l IPRIL tQóO Alumni Council.
APRIL 1960 Page 3 Whittier College Alumni Association Election of Officers For the 1960 -1961 Year
- In accordance with the constitution of the Alumni Association the ballot in this issue of THE ROCK provides for the election of officers for the year 1960-61. Offices to be filled are those of president, vice president, and two Board members. Pictures of the candidates for each office, and a brief biographical sketch are presented for your information. Please check your choice, tear off the ballot, and mail it promptly to the Office of Alumni Relations, Whittier College. The Alumni Board meets four times annually and has an important and vital role in the work of the Alumni Association: guiding and directing the Annual Alumni Fund, the clubs and chapters program, publishing THE ROCK, and presenting a continuous program of education to stimulate and hold the interest of all former students in their Alma Mater. On the shoulders of the alumni leaders rests the responsibilities for the continued growth and progress of the Association to serve in the best interests of Whittier College.
President Board Membership NORFLEET CALLICOTT, JR. 42 JOHN R. (BOB) CAUFFMAN 44 Sales manager of Sues, Young Mr. Cauffman is the Southern and Brown, Inc., Mr. Callicot has Vice President California Representative for A. J. been vice president of the Alumni GENE BISHOP 39 Nystrom and Company. As an un- Association for 1959-60. He has Mr. Bishop is sales representative dergraduate, he was president of the served as president of the Lancer for Insurance Securities Bank Trusts. student body and the Associated Society Alumni and has been active He has a wide background of Asso- Men Students. He also participated in many facets of the Association. ciation activities having served as on the basketball and tennis teams He is a former Air Force Captain. president of the Alumni Association and was a member of the Lancer He won the "Sammie Award" and of the Long Beach-Harbor Society. presented by the Los Angeles Sales Alumni Chapter and as a member He is married to the former Jack- Executive Club as one of the ten of the Board of Directors of the ie Clarkson '48 and has two chil- outstanding salesmen in Southern 1195 Club. Currently he is an ac- dren, Carol, 8, and Jeddy, 4. California. While on campus, he tive member of the Optomist Club, served as editor of the Acropolis Masons, and the El Bekal Shrine. for two years and participated in A graduate of the class of 1939, track and basketball. He is married Mr. Bishop was student body presi- to the former Barbara Jean Stam- dent, a member of the varsity team baugh '43, and has three children, and the Orthogonian Society. He Carolee, 15; John, 13; and Linda, served for two years as graduate 11. manager following graduation.
Page 4 THE ROCK Board Membership DR. JOHN DE WIlT KEGLER 38 Currently adult education princi- pal with the Los Angeles City Schools, Dr. Kegler holds member- Board Membership ships in many professional and com- WILLIAM G. STEVENSON '36 munity organizations. He is a past Associated with International vice president of the Alumni Asso- Business Machines Corporation as ciation and past president of the Regional Manager of Marketing Long Beach-Harbor Alumni Chap- Board Membership Services, and Assistant General ter. TOLBERT B. MOORHEAD '32 Manager of Field Operations in the While attending Whittier, Dr. A native of Whittier, Mr. Moor- Western Region, Mr. Stevenson Kegler was active in student gov- head is the president of the Resi- served as president of the student ernment serving as treasurer of the dential Investment Company. He body while attending Whittier. He student body and the senior class. has been active in the community was also a member of the varsity He was vice president of the Lancer serving as president of the Rotary football team, the Franklin Society, Society and participated in track. Club and the Y.M.C.A. He was and the Knights. He is married to the former Jean also a director of the Whittier Area His wife is the former Dorothy Ray Bassett '38; they are the parents Chamber of Commerce and served Little '35. Their three children are of Jean Ellen, 14; and John Daniel, on the City Planning Commission. Carol Anne, 19; Sue Ellen, 18; and 9. As an undergraduate, Mr. Moor- Andrew Jewett, 10. head was president of the senior class, vice president of the student body, a member of the Franklin So- ciety and the Knights. The former Virginia Keasbey '33 is his wife and they are the parents of three children.
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Office of Alumni Relations Whittier College Whittier, California Whittier College Alumni Association Election of Officers For the 1960-1961 Year OFFICERS President Vice President Norfleet Callicott, Jr. LI Gene Bishop
BOARD MEMBERSHIP (Please check two names only) LII John Cauffman H John De Witt Kegler Tolbert Moorhead LII William Stevenson
APRIL 1960 Page 5 Sports... Poet Basketball Team In Brief Makes NAIA Tourney Basketball coach Aubrey Bonham has just completed his 21st successful Coach Wallace Chief) Newman season at Whittier College, but the wily hoop tutor is already worrying has the makings of another fine var- about the rebuilding job he faces for next year. - sity baseball team. The Poet horse- The Poet cage crew returned to the National Association of Intercol- hiders grabbed the Southern Cali- legiate Athletics national championships in Kansas City for the second fornia Intercollegiate Athletic Con- straight year this season even though a fine University of Redlands quintet ference championship for the first whipped Whittier for the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Con- time since 1950 last season under ference crown. The Poets had won Newman. the SCIAC title three years in a downed the Pennsylvanians 66-44 Returning along with outfielder row. to walk off with the national small and captain-elect Bob David are Bonham and the Poets reaped college championship. pitchers Al Balen, Dan Robinson, sweet revenge from the Bulldogs, The Poets ended the season with and Lynn Rodewald, catchers Ken however, in the NAIA District 3 an outstanding 23-9 record but Bon- Baker and Yukio Hamada, infielders playoffs. Whittier, Redlands, Pasa- ham loses six boys from his 14-man Dick Rieke, Steve Polzin, and Den- dena College, and Westmont College squad. Missing from the Whittier nis Evans, and outfielders Dick lineup next season will be three Horn and Don Faubian. Bolster- starters: three-year veteran forward ing the squad are junior college Carroll Hooks, captain and center transfers Mike Busby, Al Bishop, Herm Mason, and guard Bill Hol- Bill Hayes, and Jerry Morgan and linger. Forwards Chuck Kenley. Bill sophomores Greg Risko, Steve Jones, Donner, and Bob Sanford will also Jerry Hester, John Carter, John be lost via the graduation route. Sommers, Bruce Palmer, and Loren The returning starters will be Phipps. Johnston, a 6-4 sharp-shooting for- Busby and Jones are good-look- ward, and Paul Collier a guard ing pitching prospects, Bishop is who fit like a glove into Bonham's fighting for the second base job with style of play after transferring from Poizin, Hester inherits the shortstop- Santa Ana Junior College. Other ping chores and Sommers will see returnees are forward Jim Mc- plenty of duty behind the plate. Laughlin, 6-6 center Tom Houston, Risko, a switchhitter, is expected to and guards Roberson, Sherrill be one of the Poets' leading hitters. Brown, Joe Hernandez, and Ken The Poets tackle an ambitious 31- Reed. game schedule. They opened the Bonham's major task will be to season with an exciting 5-4 win over replace 6-6 Mason, the team's lead- a good alumni nine. ing rebounder and NAIA All-Amer- * * * ican selection. The Whittier mentor The highly successful Pre-Olym- AUBREY BONHAM hopes to pick up a top notch big pic track and field extravaganza of Santa Barbara were chosen to man from the junior college ranks. staged at Whittier College in 1936 compete in the playoffs. Redlands Whittier's main hope lies in pros- has been revived by a group of defeated Westmont and Whittier tri- pects coming up from this year's Whittier Area athletic enthusiasts umphed over Pasadena in overtime, championship freshman team. Eight named the Olympians and will be 62-61, to advance to the finals. Poetbabes are given a chance to staged again this coming June 4th Paced by the hot-shooting spree make the varsity. They are for- in the El Rancho High School sta- of junior forward Bill Johnston and wards Steve Hayes,- Ian Desborough, dium. eight points in the final six minutes and Tom Dickson, centers Rich Lin- According to an announcement by by sophomore guard Bill Roberson, court and Dale Miller, and guards John Whitehead, originator of the the Poets dumped Redlands 70-65 Tom Freese, Jack Nahmias, and Ned event who is now director of public and earned the trip to Missouri. Lazaro. Another froh center. 6-3 affairs at the Presbyterian Inter- The Whittier roundballers ad- Stan Sanders, was the top rebounder community Hospital, the 1960 re- vanced to the second round of the for the Poetbabes, but he expects to vival of the Pre-Olympics will be NAIA tourney before losing to be a regular end on the Poet foot- expanded to attract outstanding ath- fourth-seeded Westminster College ball team next fall and may give up letes in a number of spectacular of Pennsylvania, 69-60. The Poets, the hardwood sport. Olympic Games events including who were seeded 13th, downed Fer- Bonham has experienced only one track and field. ris Institute of Big Rapids, Michigan losing season in his 21 years at Whit- Reserved seats may be obtained 77-71 in the opening round. West- tier, and its a good bet that the vet- at the Wm. Penn Hotel in Whittier. minster went on to defeat defending eran coach will mould his returning Proceeds will benefit the Presbyter- national champion Tennessee A. & squad members and a bunch of ian Hospital, and the Southern Cali- I. and gained a finals berth against green sophomores into another win- fornia Olympic Fund. Southwest Texas State. The Texans ning team on the Quaker campus.
Page 6 THE ROCK Society and Godfrey Succeeds Chapter News Coryell As W.C. by Karin Conly Football Coach ATHENIAN gals were really By MILT STARK pleased to be able to deposit $300, Rock Sports Editor in their newly formed book fund for women students on campus. The Whittier College's new head foot- money was raised at the January ball coach, John Godfrey, can boast fashion show-luncheon benefit at of a unique accomplishment - he the Disneyland Hotel. once handed ex-Poet mentor Don This book fund will allow any Coryell one of the rare defeats of Poet coed to apply to the Scholar- his coaching career, and it was prob- ship Board on campus requesting ably the most one-sided. JOHN GODFREY needed money for the purchase of Godfrey recently succeeded Cory- books. The Athenian group hopes ell as the Poet headman. Coryell to continue this project annually. new Trojan mentor Johnny McKay. who compiled a record of 23 wins, The 38-year old, bespectacled God- CAP AND GOWN ALUMNAE five losses, one tie, and three South- frey has served as Coryell's number held an all-member luncheon on ern California Intercollegiate Ath- one aide during the past three sea- March 5th at the Campus Inn to letic Conference championships in sons. decide on a project for the year. three seasons at Whittier, resigned Godfrey does not plan to use the Their Newsletter will carry in- to become an assistant at the Uni- Coryell "IT" offense that has be- formation of the details and deci- versity of Southern California under come so popular with Whittier fans, sions. but he does promise that the Poets THE FRANKLINS were at it will still play the same kind of ex- again when thirty actives and alum- Joyce (Mori) Nishimura '57 citing, hard-nosed football. The ni had a party-date with "lady luck" served as general chairman. Among new coach will install a Wing-T at a February card party. her assistants were Joe '37 and Jean formation for next season. These active alumni will next be (Thomson '39) Beeson, Ron and "I plan to stress defense and all- enjoying a May dinner-dance local- Chris (Youngquist) Zimmerman '58, out team effort," said Godfrey, "and ly. Ann (Gourley) Caffrey '55, Jim and hope to maintain the ferocious de- A CHRISTMAS PARTY was the Coralyn (Weinert) Watkins '58, Jo fensive play and gang tackling that latest activity of THALIAN alum- Ann Vandette '58, Sheila (Hark- has been the trademark of Coryell- nae when they met at the home of ness) Muller '57, and Nick and coached Whittier teams. Dorothy Van Sandt in La Habra to Gloria (Evans) Konovaloff '55. "We don't expect to have a lot of entertain the actives. An informal coffee hour brought depth, but we've got real good qual- The group enjoyed various sewing together SACRAMENTO Area ity ballplayers, and we don't intend projects and exchange of holiday alumni who meet once a year, this to lose any games next fall. Red- ideas, before presenting the actives time at the home of Richard and lands will be the team to beat again with gifts. Jean (Newman) England on March in the conference. I think we had There's lots of CHAPTER news 5th. Associate Director of Admis- one of the finest freshman crews in the air! sions Robert E. O'Brien was in at- that has ever hit this campus, and A coffee hour was hosted by ap- tendance with the group. I'm expecting some of those boys to proximately fifty members of the help us out. We've got lots of ends BAY AREA alumni club for direc- Reactivation of the LONG and backs, but I sure wish Santa tor of alumni relations Wm. H. BEACH-HARBOR alumni will take would leave me a couple of big, (Mo) Marumoto in January at the place at an affair scheduled for burley interior linemen!" Plymouth House in Berkeley. The May. This group for many years Coryell warns to watch out for a alumni heard up-to-date campus de- was one of the most active chapters personality change in Godfrey. "He velopments, as well as seeing "living in the Alumni Association. has been known on the campus as an easy going character who is pret- proof" on colored slides. Over 700 alumni have been invit- ty close to the players, but he knows Boyard Rowe '56 served as gen- to the first Orange County Chap- this is a tough game for tough kids eral chairman; he was assisted by ter dinner- meeting April 21 at Ko- Adele (Parkins '60) Reynolds and no's in Santa Ana announces Mrs. and that you don't play drop the handkerchief and win; so his tough Paul Flucke '58, who was the mas- Carl F. Siegmund (Nelda Connally ter of ceremonies for the evening. '52). President Paul S. Smith and side will begin to show next Septem- Over 30 PALO ALTO area alum- History Professor Harry Nerhood ber, and I'm confident he will do an ni were joined by Dr. John Bright, are co-speakers. outstanding job." former Whittier professor, and Mo If any of Coryell's winning magic Marumoto at their first gathering IS YOUR AREA INTEREST- has rubbed off onto him, and they in January. Another former faculty ED??? If your community would have been close enough together for member, William Raab, served as be interested in forming an alumni a long enough time, Godfrey is MC for the meeting held at the lo- chapter contact director of alumni bound to come up with a winner at cal YMCA. relations Bill (Mo) Marumoto. Poetville.
APRIL 1960 Page 7 THE ROCK
This month The Rock participates in a quality publica- tions projects which will have the largest circulation for an article of this type ever attained in the history of American publishing. The special sixteen page supplement, The Moonshooter, is a cooperative enterprise, by and for alumni magazines that have a total circulation that exceeds three million. It is a project that nearly 350 institutions of higher learn- ing in the country are participating in. The topic is one that takes a searching look at the relationships between the alumnus and his alma mater. To use Chancellor Samuel Gould's apt pharse, these are the people who are the "distilled essence" of our colleges and universities. These are the people to whom our insti- tutions owe their reputations, and on whom they must stake their future. Among Moonshooter's aims is to help rekindle in the re- der a constructive self-consciousness of his role as an alum- nus of his institution. Futhermore, it examines the rela- tionships, both real and potential, between alumni and their institutions—and why and how these relationships can be kept alive and strengthened, to everyone's benefit.
Page 8 THE ROCK THE AL UMNUS VA
ALAN BEASDAN, JON BRENNEIB
As student, as alumna or alumnus: at both stages, one of the most important persons in higher education.
a special report I-us IS A sALUTE, an acknowledgment of a partner- ship, and a declaration of dependence. It is directed T to you as an alumnus or alumna. As such, you are one of the most important persons in American education a today. Salute... You are important to American education, and to your alma mater, for a variety of reasons, not all of which may be instantly apparent to you. You are important, first, because you are the principal product of your alma mater—the principal claim she can and make to fame. To a degree that few suspect, it is by its alumni that an educational institution is judged. And few yardsticks could more accurately measure an institution's declaration of true worth. You are important to American education, further, because of the support you give to it. Financial support dependence comes immediately to mind: the money that alumni are giving to the schools, colleges, and universities they once attended has reached an impressive sum, larger than that selves. Unlike most other forms of human enterprise, received from any other source of gifts. It is indispensable. educational institutions are not in business for what they But the support you give in other forms is impressive themselves can get out of it. They exist so that free people, and indispensable, also. Alumni push and guide the legis- through education, can keep civilization on the forward lative programs that strengthen the nation's publicly move. Those who ultimately do this are their alumni. supported educational institutions. They frequently act Thus only through its alumni can a school or a college as academic talent scouts for their alma maters, meeting or a university truly fulfill itself. and talking with the college-bound high school students Chancellor Samuel B. Gould, of the University of Cali- in their communities. They are among the staunchest de- fornia, put it this way: fenders of high principles in education—e.g., academic "The serious truth of the matter is that you are the freedom—even when such defense may not be the "popu- distilled essence of the university, for you are its product lar" posture. The list is long; yet every year alumni are and the basis for its reputation. If anything lasting is to finding ways to extend it. be achieved by us as a community of scholars, it must in most instances be reflected in you.If we are to win intellec- HUNDREDS of colleges and universities and tual victories or make cultural advances, it must be ary schools from which they came, alumni through your good offices and your belief in our mission." Tsareec= important in another way—one that has nothing The italics are ours. The mission is yours and ours to do with what alumni can do for the institutions them- together.
Alma Mater. At an alumni-alumnae meeting in Washington, members sing the old school song. The purpose of this meeting was to introduce the institution to high school boys and girls who, with their parents, were present as the club's guests.
"'ALUMNUS/ Alumnus + alumnus= Many people cling to the odd notion that in this casi
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ni of hundreds of schools, colleges, and universities in yore have been replaced by seminars, lectures, laboratory behalf of their alma maters would make a glowing record, demonstrations, and even week-long short-courses. Visit if ever it could be compiled. The alumni of one institution the local high school during the season when the senior took it upon themselves to survey the federal income-tax students are applying for admission to college—and try- laws, as they affected parents' ability to finance their ing to find their way through dozens of college catalogues, children's education, and then, in a nationwide campaign, each describing a campus paradise—and you will find pressed for needed reforms. In a score of cities, the alumni on hand to help the student counselors. Nor are alumnae of a women's college annually sell tens of thou- they high-pressure salesmen for their own alma mater and sands of tulip bulbs for their alma mater's benefit; in disparagers of everybody else's. Often they can, and do, eight years they have raised $80,000, not to mention perform their highest service to prospective students by hundreds of thousands of tulips. Other institutions' alum- advising them to apply somewhere else. nae stage house and garden tours, organize used-book sales, sell flocked Christmas trees, sponsor theatrical HE ACHIEVEMENTS,in short, belie the popular image. benefits. Name a worthwhile -activity and someone is And if no one else realizes this, or cares, one group probably doing it, for faculty salaries or building funds or Tshould: the alumni and alumnae themselves. Too student scholarships. many of them may be shying away from a good thing be- Drop in on a reunion or a local alumni-club meeting, cause they think that being an "active" alumnus means and you may well find that the superficial programs of wearing a funny hat. P,54/Vf 7E,4,V W/NTZrR/44V6N! Why they come
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ITHOUT THE DOLLARS that their alumni contrib- heritance taxes, was no longer able to do the job alone. ute each year, America's privately supported Yet, with the growth of science and technology and Weducational institutions would be in serious democratic concepts of education, educational budgets difficulty today. And the same would be true of the na- had to be increased to keep pace. tion's publicly supported institutions, without the sup- Twenty years before Yale's first alumni drive, a pro- port of alumni in legislatures and elections at which fessor in New Haven foresaw the possibilities and looked appropriations or bond issues are at stake. into the minds of alumni everywhere: For the private institutions, the financial support re- "No graduate of the college," he said, "has ever paid ceived from individual alumni often means the difference in full what it cost the college to educate him. A part of the between an adequate or superior faculty and one that is expense was borne by the funds given by former bene- underpaid and understaffed; between a thriving scholar- factors of the institution. ship program and virtually none at all; between well- "A great many can never pay the debt. A very few can, equipped laboratories and obsolete, crowded ones. For in their turn, become munificent benefactors. There is a tax-supported institutions, which in growing numbers are very large number, however, between these two, who can, turning to their alumni for direct financial support, such and would cheerfully, give according to their ability in aid makes it possible to give scholarships, grant loans to order that the college might hold the same relative posi needy students, build such buildings as student unions, tion to future generations which it held to their own." and carry on research for which legislative appropriations The first Yale alumni drive, seventy years ago, brought do not provide. in $11,015. In 1959 alone, Yale's alumni gave more than To gain an idea of the scope of the support which $2 million. Not only at Yale, but at the hundreds of other alumni give—and of how much that is worthwhile in institutions which have established annual alumni funds American education depends upon it—consider this sta- in the intervening years, the feeling of indebtedness and tistic, unearthed in a current survey of 1,144 schools, the concern for future generations which the Yale pro- junior colleges, colleges, and universities in the United fessor foresaw have spurred alumni to greater and greater States and Canada: in just twelve months, alumni gave efforts in this enterprise. their alma maters more than $199 million. They were the largest single source of gifts. NI) MONEY FROM ALUMNI is a powerful magnet: it Nor was this the kind of support that is given once, per- draws more. Not onlyhave more than eighty busi- haps as the result of a high-pressure fund drive, and never ness corporations, led in 1954 by General Electric, heard of again. Alumni tend to give funds regularly. In established the happy custom of matching, dollar for dol- the past year, they contributed $45.5 million, on an annual lar, the gifts that their employees (and sometimes their gift basis, to the 1,144 institutions surveyed. To realize employees' wives) give to their alma maters; alumni that much annual income from investments in blue-chip giving is also a measure applied by many business men stocks, the institutions would have needed over 1.2 billion and by philanthropic foundations in determining how more dollars in endowment funds than they actually productive their organizations' gifts to an educational in- possessed. stitution are likely to be. Thus alumni giving, as Gordon K. Chalmers, the late president of Kenyon College, de- ANNUAL ALUMNI OWING is not a new phenomenon on scribed it, is "the very rock on which all other giving must the American educational scene (Yale alumni rest. Gifts from outside the family depend largely—some- founded the first annual college fund in 1890, and times wholly—on the degree of alumni support." Mount Hermon was the first independent secondary The "degree of alumni support" is gauged not by dol- school to do so, in 1903). But not until fairly recently did lars alone. The percentage of alumni who are regular annual giving become the main element in education's givers is also a key. And here the record is not as dazzling financial survival kit. The development was logical. Big as the dollar figures imply. endowments had been affected by inflation. Big private Nationwide, only one in five alumni of colleges, uni- philanthropy, affected by the graduated income and in- versities, and prep schools gives to his annual alumni received more of it from their alumni than now education's strongest financial rampart
fund. The actual figure last year was 20.9 per cent. Allow- ing for the inevitable few who are disenchanted with their alma maters' cause,* and for those who spurn all fund solicitations, sometimes with heavy scorn,t and for those whom legitimate reasons prevent from giving financial memo: from aid,§ the participation figure is still low. Wives
stY? Perhaps because the non-participants imag- to ine their institutions to be adequately financed. Husbands (Virtually without exception, in both private and tax-supported institutions, this is—sadly—not so.) Per- haps because they believe their small gift—a dollar, or five, or ten—will be insignificant. (Again, most emphati- Women's colleges, -as a group, have had a unique cally, not so. Multiply the 5,223,240 alumni who gave problem in fund-raising—aild they wish they knew how nothing to their alma maters last year by as little as one to solve it. dollar each, and the figure still comes to thousands of The loyalty of their alumnae in contributing money additional scholarships for deserving students or sub- each year—an average of 41.2 per cent took part in 1959 stantial pay increases for thousands of teachers who may, —is nearly double the national average for all universi- at this moment, be debating whether they can afford to ties, colleges, junior colleges, and privately supported continue teaching next year.) secondary schools. But the size of the typical gift is often By raising the percentage of participation in alumni smaller than one might expect. fund drives, alumni can materially improve their alma Why? The alumnae say that while husbands obviously maters' standing. That dramatic increases in participation place a high value on the products of the women's col- can be brought about, and quickly, is demonstrated by leges, many underestimate the importance of giving wom- the case of Wofford College, a small institution in South en's colleges the same degree of support they accord their Carolina. Until several years ago, Wofford received own alma maters. This, some guess, is a holdover from annual gifts from only 12 per cent of its 5,750 alumni. the days when higher education for women was regarded Then Roger Milliken, a textile manufacturer and a Wof- as a luxury, while higher education for men was consid- ford trustee, issued a challenge: for every percentage- ered a sine qua non for business and professional careers. point increase over 12 percent, he'd give $1,000. After the As a result, again considering the average, women's alumni were finished, Mr. Milliken cheerfully turned over colleges must continue to cover much of their operating a check for $62,000. Wofford's alumni had raised their expense from tuition fees. Such fees are generally higher participation in the annual fund to 74.4 per cent—a new than those charged by men's or coeducational institutions, national record. and the women's colleges are worried about the social and "It was a remarkable performance," observed the intellectual implications of this fact. They have no desire American Alumni Council. "Its impact on Wofford will to be the province solely of children of the well-to-do; be felt for many years to come." higher education for women is no longer a luxury to be And what Wofford's alumni could do, your institution's reserved to those who can pay heavy fees. alumni could probably do, too. Since contributions to education appear to be one area of family budgets still controlled largely by men, the * Wrote one alumnus: "I see that Stanford is making great prog- alumnae hope that husbands will take serious note of the ress. However, I am opposed to progress in any form. Therefore I am not sending you any money." women's colleges' claim to a larger share of it. They may be starting to do so: from 1958 to 1959, the average gift t A man in Memphis, Tennessee, regularly sent Baylor University a check signed "U. R. Stuck." to women's colleges rose 22.4 per cent. But it still trails the average gift to men's colleges, private universities, and § In her fund reply envelope, a Kansas alumna once sent, without comment, her household bills for the month. professional schools. I t ERICH HARTMANN. MAGNUM for the Public educational institutions, a special kind of service
RTMeducational institutions owe a the university's "Associate Alumni" took matters into P==f debt to their alumni. Many people their hands. They brought the facts of political and aca- imagine that the public institutions have no finan- demic life to the attention of alumni throughout the state, cial worries, thanks to a steady flow of tax dollars. Yet prompting them to write to their representatives in sup- they actually lead a perilous fiscal existence, dependent port of higher faculty pay. A compromise bill was passed, upon annual or biennial appropriations by legislatures. and salary increases were granted. Alumni action thus More than once, state and municipally supported institu- helped ease a crisis which threatened to do serious, per- tions would have found themselves in serious straits if haps irreparable, damage to the university. their alumni had not assumed a role of leadership. 10 In a neighboring state, the public university receives A state university in New England recently was put in only 38.3 per cent of its operating budget from state and academic jeopardy because the legislature defeated a bill federal appropriations. Ninety-one per cent of the uni- to provide increased salaries for faculty members. Then versity's $17 million physical plant was provided by pri- WFTM iN Sit Ut! OWSHr
Students on a state-university campus. Alumni support is proving The Beneficiaries: invaluable in maintaining high-quality education at such institutions.
vate funds. Two years ago, graduates of its college of and lobbying. But the effect is often to prohibit the alumni medicine gave $226,752 for a new medical center—the from conducting any organized legislative activity in be- largest amount given by the alumni of any American half of publicly supported education in their states. medical school that year. "This is unfair," said a state-university alumni spokes- 10- Several years ago the alumni of six state-supported man recently, "because this kind of activity is neither institutions in a midwestern state rallied support for a shady nor unnecessary. $150 million bond issue for higher education, mental "But the restrictions—most of which I happen to think health, and welfare—an issue that required an amend- are nonsense—exist,- nevertheless. Even so, individual ment to the state constitution. Of four amendments on alumni can make personal contacts with legislators in the ballot, it was the only one to pass. their home towns, if not at the State Capitol. Above all, In another midwestern state, action by an "Alumni in their contacts with fellow citizens—with people who Council for Higher Education," representing eighteen influence public opinion—the alumni of state institutions• Publicly supported institutions, has helped produce a $13 must support their alma maters to an intense degree. They million increase in operating funds for 1959-61—the most must make it their business to get straight information significant increase ever voted for the state's system of and spread it through their circles of influence. higher education. "Since the law forbids us to organize such support, every alumnus has to start this work, and continue it, on OME ALUMNI ORGANIZATIONS are forbidden to engage his own. This isn't something that most people do natu- in political activity of any kind. The intent is a good rally—but the education of their own sons and daughters S one: to keep the organizations out of party politics rests on their becoming aroused and doing it."
a matter of Principle
NY WORTHWHILE INSTITUTION of higher education, Association of University Professors to rally s'Iccessfully one college president has said, lives "in chronic to the v.p.'s support. tension with the society that supports it." Says When the president of a publicly supported institu- The Campus and the State, a 1959 survey of academic free- tion recently said he would have to limit the number of dom in which that president's words appear: "New ideas students admitted to next fall's freshman class if high always run the risk of offending entrenched interests academic standards were not to be compromised, some within the community. If higher education is to be suc- constituent-fearing legislators were wrathful. When the cessful in its creative role it must be guaranteed some pro- issue was explained to them, alumni backed the presi- tection against reprisal. . dent's position—decisively. The peril most frequently is budgetary: the threat of ' When a number of institutions (joined in December appropriations cuts, if the unpopular ideas are not aban- by President Eisenhower) opposed the 'disclaimer affida- doned; the real or imagined threat of a loss of public— vit" required of students seeking loans under the National even alumni—sympathy. Defense Education Act, many citizens—including some Probably the best protection against the danger of alumni—assailed them for their stand against "swearing reprisals against free institutions of learning is their allegiance to the United States." The fact is, the dis- alumni: alumni who understand the meaning of freedom claimer affidavit is not an oath of allegiance to the United and give their strong and informed support to matters of States (which the Education Act also requires, but which educational principle. Sometimes such support is avail- the colleges have not opposed). Fortunately, alumni who able in abundance and offered with intelligence. Some- took the trouble to find out what the affidavit really was times—almost always because of misconception or failure apparently outnumbered, by a substantial majority, those to be vigilant—it is not. who leaped before they looked. Coincidentally or not, For example: most of the institutions opposing the disclaimer affidavit 10- An alumnus of one private college was a regular and received more money from their alumni during the con- heavy donor to the annual alumni fund. He was known to troversy than ever before in their history. have provided handsomely for his alma mater in his will. But when he questioned his grandson, a student at the N THE FUTURE, as in the past, educational institutions old school, he learned that an economics professor not worth their salt will be in the midst of controversy. only did not condemn, but actually discussed the necessity I Such is the nature of higher education: ideas are its for, the national debt. Grandfather threatened to withdraw merchandise, and ideas new and old are frequently con- all support unless the professor ceased uttering such troversial. An educational institution, indeed, may be heresy or was fired. (The professor didn't and wasn't. The doing its job badly if it is not involved in controversy, at college is not yet certain where it stands inthe gentleman's times. If an alumnus never finds himself in disagreement will) with his alma mater, he has a right to question whether 10- When no students from a certain county managed to his alma mater is intellectually awake or dozing. meet the requirements for admission to a southwestern To understand this is to understand the meaning of university's medical school, the county's angry delegate to academic freedom and vitality. And, with such an under- the state legislature announced he was "out to get this standing, an alumnus is equipped to give his highest serv- guy"—the vice president in charge of the university's ice to higher education; to give his support to the princi- medical affairs, who had staunchly backed the medical ples which make higher education free and effectual. school's admissions committee. The board of trustees of If higher education is to prosper, it will need this kind the university, virtually all of whom were alumni, joined of support from its alumni—tomorrow even more than in other alumni and the local. chapter of the American its gloriously stormy past.
are the merchandise of education, and every worthwhile educational institution must provide and Ideas guard the conditions for breeding them. To do so, they need the help and vigilance of their alumni. Ahead0:
HITHER THE COURSE of the relationship between alumni and alma mater? At the turn into the WSixties, it is evident that a new and challenging relationship—of unprecedented value to both the institu- tion and its alumni—is developing.
00- If alwnni wish, their intellectual voyage can be continued for a lifetime. There was a time when graduation was the end. You got your diploma, along with the right to place certain initials after your name; your hand was clasped for an instant by the president; and the institution's business was done. If you were to keep yourself intellectually awake, the No-Doz would have to be self-administered. If you were to renew your acquaintance with literature or science, the introductions would have to be self-performed. Automotion is still the principal driving force. The years in school and college are designed to provide the push and then the momentum to keep you going with your mind. "Madam, we guarantee results," wrote a col- lege president to an inquiring mother, "—or we return the boy." After graduation, the guarantee is yours to maintain, alone. Alone, but not quite. It makes little sense, many edu- cators say, for schools and colleges not to do whatever they can to protect their investment in their students— which is considerable, in terms of time, talents, and money—and not to try to make the relationship between alumni and their alma maters a two-way flow. As a consequence of such thinking, and of demands issuing from the former students themselves, alumni meetings of all types—local clubs, campus reunions—are taking on a new character. "There has to be a reason and a purpose for a meeting," notes an alumna. "Groups that meet for purely social reasons don't last long. Just be- cause Mary went to my college doesn't mean I enjoy being with her socially—but I might well enjoy working with her in a serious intellectual project." Male alumni agree; there is a limit to the congeniality that can-be main- tained solely by the thin thread of reminiscences or small- of keeping intellectually alive for a lifetime The r t will be fostered more than ever by a talk. growing alumni-alma mater relationship. But there is no limit, among people with whom their a new Challenge, a new relationship
education "stuck," to the revitalizing effects of learning. representative of a West Coast university has noted the The chemistry professor who is in town for a chemists' trend: "In selling memberships in our alumni associa- conference and is invited to address the local chapter of tion, we have learned that, while it's wise to list the bene- the alumni association no longer feels he must talk about fits of membership, what interests them most is how they nothing more weighty than the beauty of the campus can be of service to the university." elms; his audience wants him to talk chemistry, and he is delighted to oblige. The engineers who return to school 10, Alumni can have a decisive role in maintaining for their annual homecoming welcome the opportunity to high standards of education, even as enrollments bring themselves up to date on developments in and out increase at most schools and colleges. of their specialty. Housewives back on the campus for There is a real crisis in American education: the crisis reunions demand—and get—seminars and short-courses. of quality. For a variety of reasons, many institutions find But the wave of interest in enriching the intellectual themselves unable to keep their faculties staffed with high- content of alumni meetings may be only a beginning. caliber men and women. Many lack the equipment With more leisure at their command, alumni will have needed for study and research. Many, even in this age of the time (as they already have the inclination) to under- high student population, are unable to attract the quality take more intensive, regular educational programs. of student they desire. Many have been forced to dissipate If alumni demand them, new concepts in adult educa- their teaching and research energies, in deference to pub- tion may emerge. Urban colleges and universities may lic demand for more and more extracurricular "services." step up their offerings of programs designed especially for Many, besieged by applicants for admission, have had to the alumni in their communities—not only their own yield to pressure and enroll students who are unqualified. alumni, but those of distant institutions. Unions and Each of these problems has a direct bearing upon the government and industry, already experimenting with quality of education in America. Each is a problem to graduate-education programs for their leaders, may find which alumni can constructively address themselves, indi- ways of giving sabbatical leaves on a widespread basis— vidually and in organized groups. and they may profit, in hard dollars-and-cents terms, from Some can best be handled through community leader- the results of such intellectual re-charging. ship: helping present the institutions' case to the public. Colleges and universities, already overburdened with Some can be handled by direct participation in such ac- teaching as well as other duties, will need help if such tivities as academic talent-scouting, in which many insti- dreams are to come true. But help will be found if the tutions, both public and private, enlist the aid of their demand is insistent enough. alumni in meeting with college-bound high school stu- dents in their cities and towns. Some can be handled by • 10, Alumni partnerships with their alma mater, in making more money available to the institutions—for meeting ever-stiffer educational challenges, will grow faculty salaries, for scholarships, for buildings and equip- even closer than they have been. ment. Some can be handled through political action. Boards of overseers, visiting committees, and other The needs vary widely from institution to institution— partnerships between alumni and their institutions are and what may help one may actually set back another. proving, at many schools, colleges, and universities, to be Because of this, it is important to maintain a close liaison channels through which the educators can keep in touch' with the campus when undertaking such work. (Alumni with the community at large and vice versa. Alumni trus- offices everywhere will welcome inquiries.) tees, elected by their fellow alumni, are found on the gov- When the opportunity for aid does come—as it has in erning boards of more and more institutions. Alumni the past, and as it inevitably will in the years ahead— "without portfolio" are seeking ways to join with their alumni response will be the key to America's educational alma maters in advancing the cause of education. The future, and to all that depends upon it.
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The material on this and the preceding 15 pages was prepared in behalf of more than 350 schools, colleges, and universities in the United aiumni- States, Canada, and Mexico by the staff listed below, who have formed EDITORIAL PROJECTS FOR EDUCATION, INC., through which to per- form this function. E.P.E., INC.. is a non-profit organization associated with the American Alumni Council. The circulation of this supple- ment is 2,900,000. ship DAVID A. BURR The University of Oklahoma GEORGE J. COOKE Princeton University HN MASI3FIELD was addressing himself to the subject DAN ENOSLEY of universities. "They give to the young in their impres- Stanford University DAN H. PENN, JR. sionable years the bond of a lofty purpose shared," he Harvard Business School RANDOLPH L. FORT said; "of a great corporate life whose links will not be Emory University I. ALFRED GUEST Amherst College loosed until they die." L. FRANKLIN HEALD The links that unite alumni with each other and with The University of New Hampshire CHARLES M. HELMKEN their alma mater are difficult to define. But every alum- Saint John's University JEAN D. LINEHAN nus and alumna knows they exist, as surely as do the American Alumni council MARALYN ORBISON campus's lofty spires and the ageless dedication of edu- Swarthmore College ROBERT L. PAYTON Washington University cated men and women to the process of keeping them- FRANCES PROVENCE Baylor University selves and their children intellectually alive. ROBERT M. RHODES Lehigh University Once one has caught the spirit of learning, of truth, of WILLIAM SCHRAMM, JR. The University of Pennsylvania probing into the undiscovered and unknown—the spirit VERNE A. STADTMAN The University of California of his alma mater—one does not really lose it, for as FREDERIC A. STOST Phillips Academy (Andover) long as one lives. As life proceeds, the daily mechanics FRANK J. TATE The Ohio State University of living—of job-holding, of family-rearing, of mortgage- ERIK WENSBERG Columbia University paying, of lawn-cutting, of meal-cooking—sometimes CHARLES E. WIDMAYER Dartmouth College are tedious. But for them who have known the spirit of REBA WILCOXON The University of Arkansas intellectual adventure and conquest; there is the bond of CHESLEY WORTHINGTON Brown University the lofty purpose shared, of the great corporate life * whose links will not be loosed until they die. CORBIN GWALTNEY Executive Editor This would be the true meaning of alumni-ship, were HAROLD R. HARDING Assistant Secretary-Treasurer there such a word. It is the reasoning behind the great * All rights reserved; no part of this supplement service that alumni give to education. It is the reason may be reproduced without the express per- mission of the editors. Copyright © 1960 by alma maters can call upon their alumni for responsible Editorial Projects for Education, Inc., Room 411, 1785 Massachusetts -Ave., N.W., Washing- support of all kinds, with confidence that the responsi- ton 6, D.C. EDITORIAl. ADDRESS P.O. Box 5653, bility will be well met. Baltimore 10, Md. Printed in U.S.A. Old Acquaintances
Paul K. and Lola (Taylor) Cosand live at of his articles have appeared in surgical journals. The spotlight is on the Classes of 525 W. Walnut, Monrovia, where he is credit Daughter Jeanne is a sophomore at Stanford 1908, 1928, 1938, 1948, and 1958 supervisor for Southern Counties Gas Co. University and son Arthur is a high school Daughter Helen, 17, is a senior in Monrovia senior. - the featured classes this issue. High and a violinist with the San Gabriel Valley C. Merton Johnson, 159 N. San Dimas Ave., Class secretaries are listed by each Junior Symphony Orchestra. Their other chil- San Dimas, is head counselor at Roosevelt High class numeral. Send news to your dren are George, 15; Carl, 12; Sharon, 6. School, Los Angeles. Wife Peggy (Keating '30) class secretary or to the Alumni Office Kenneth E. Cox has been with the Whittier is on leave from Mt. View School district. Their Finance Corp. for the past 15 years. He and children are Nancy Larson, '55 graduate of at Whittier College. Jeannette (Sanders '29) have three children: University of Nevada, who has three daughters Bob '53 who teaches band and orchestra in the and is living in the Mother Lode country; Mer- Little Lake District, and who enjoyed his sec- ton, '57 graduate of Cal Poly, who is an orna- ond consecutive summer visiting Europe, Africa mental horticulturist with Pomona City Parks; and Asia; Joellen '58, kindergarten teacher in Bill, a Junior in Bonita High School. the Los Nietos District; Donna, 13, an eighth grader. Edith (Johnson) Morris lives at 134 W. Poplar Ave., San Mateo. Son Robert, graduate of Po- '08 Mildred (Dorland) McMurray, 115 Miramonte mona, is married and working for Varian Corp. Drive, Fullerton, is still teaching eighth grade in Palo Alto; daughter Mary, Mills College at Los Nietos. She writes that husband Bruce alumna, is working for her Masters in speech "gets about in the U.S. and Canada in what is therapy; and youngest daughter, Ann, is a Coila (Carter) Burchell, the only living grad- NOT dying an industry as many think: he is uate of the class of 1908 is living in Aptos Cali- Whittier College student participating in the very busyas on the Board of Directors of Sunkist." Copenhagen program. fornia since the retirement of her husband from The McMurrays recently returned from a vaca- the Naval Air Station at Alameda on January 1, tion by car over 4000 miles of Mexico. Her ps- Miriam (Kelsey) Bruff is busy taking care of 1900. ter, Dorothy (Dorland) Ingalls '33, accompanied her Doctor husband and helping in raising her them. 14 grandchildren. The oldest, Becky Bruff, went to Switzerland last summer as an exchange stu- E. Ezra Ellis, 1560 N. Mountain, Claremont, (Miriam Pearson) dent under the American Field Service and an is vice president of the Southern California Ambassdor of Goodwill. She is a Whittier High Mrs. Merrill Barmore School of Theology there. Son Don, graduate School senior. 440 North Painter Ave. of Boston University with a degree in composin '28 and arranging, was with Charlie Barnett's ban Mary (McMurray) MacRill lives at 627 East Whittier, Calif. on tour of the West Coast last year. A trumpet H Street, Ontario. Son John graduated from player, he now has his own jazz quartet which USC cum laude last June and will start law Virginia (Allen) Ganaway and husband Jack records for Enrica Records in New York, play- school next year. Mary enjoys her three grand- live at 1608 Marco Polo Way, Burlingame. ing some of Don's own compositions. children, Ranny, 8; Johnny, 6 and Mary Anne, 5. Robert and Edna (Bumgardner) Amsbury are Esther (Foster) Frost and husband Jack live Arlington Mills has been in the property in- enjoying their new home in La Habra Heights at 131 Baldwin Ave., Crockett where he is an surance business in Whittier for 27 years. He (2257 West Road) with their three sons, Bert, industrial engineer for C and H Sugar. Daugh- and wife Lois have two children Ron, 14 in Fred, Ray. Daughter Patricia is married and ter Lisa Eppy is a junior at Crockett High Whittier High School, and Jan, 1l. has an 18-month old son. Bob is president of School and son Johnny is an eighth grader. Genevieve (Mailer) Henkle, 1329 Sherwood Mobile Radio Inc., an exclusively two-way radio Esther taught at Vallejo High School in 1958-59. Road, Highland Park, Illinois, writes "Since 1955 business and is a member of the advisory board The family is planning to attend the Olympics I have been a registered representative with an of the Electronics Division of the L.A. Trade at Squaw Valley this year. investment house in Chicago, a job I find very Technical College. Leota (Frazier) Curtis is a bookkeeper for stimulating. To date I've worked off 20 hours Estalene (Bailey) Gafford taught school six Curtis and Co. in Whittier. She has three child- at Northwestern University School of Commerce years prior to her marriage to Dr. James A. ren and ten grandchildren. and taken other courses on La Salle Street and Gafford, '26. Since Jim's death, while serving as Edward J Guirado is judge of the Whittier elsewhere to improve my understanding and medical officer aboard a cruiser during World District Municipal Court, past master, Whittier skill in my field." War II, Estalene has maintained the family Lodge, F & M; past president of the Lions Club Irene (Montgomery) Newsom and husband home at 2705 East California St., Huntington and of the Chamber of Commerce; on the Board Vernon live at 9931 S. Santa Fe Springs, and are Park. Daughters Patricia and Sally both plan of Directors of the Salvation Army; a member "still ranching at Fillmore. Both our sons are to teach school upon graduation this summer, of Phi Delta Phi Legal Fraternity and Order married; Monty graduated from Cal Poly, San Patricia from USC and Sally from Whittier. of the Coif president of the Whittier Shrine Luis Obispo; Bill from Whittier College, class of Rowland '25 and Ruthetta (Bailey) White cel- Club. In 157 and 1958 he served in Superior '55.,' ebrated their 25th wedding anniversary last June Court of Los Angeles County by Judicial Assign- Merrill '25 and Miriam (Pearson) Barmore bytaking a trip to Hawaii. On August 29 ment. He is past president of Los Angeles celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary in their elder son, David, '57 was married to County Municipal Judges Association. 1954 with a trip to Hawaii and in 1958 visited Lynn Ann Pletz of Anaheim and is associated Marjorie (Harris) Simpson, 2229 Stuart St., Alaska. Their newest and all absorbing interest with his dad in White-Emerson Co. Younger Berkeley 5, is librarian for Downer Medical is golf. Daughter Bette '56 married Dale Jor- son, Ed is a senior at W.C. Library on Berkeley Campus, under the Atomic dan, and has two children, Joyce 5 and Paul 3. Marjorie H. Brown, 254 Eugenia Drive, Ven- Energy Commission. Her daughters are Jennie, Sanni (Ruth Ann) graduated from San Jose tura, is supervisor of Extension Services for 17 and Kathy, 13. State in 1956 and is teaching in the physcial Ventura County Free Library. She enjoyed a Herman H. Henkle, 3430 Lake Shore Drive, education department of La Habra High School. recent luncheon in San Diego at the home of Chicago 13, has finished 12 years as librarian Mary Alice is a junior at Whittier College. Peg (Stubbs) Canfield '25. Other Whittier alums of the John Crerar Library (of Science, Tech- Lewis Elmer (Oak) Pendleton is supervisor of attending include Mary Esther (Cox) Davis '27, nology and Medicine) and 10 years as lecturer child welfare and attendance at Covina High Mary Virginia (Platt) Hahn '27, Ruth Price '27, ,,n the faculty of the Graduate Library School, School. His son Oak Lee, 28 is with the Edison Helen (Jessup) Bell '27, Beryl (Moore) Wood- University of Chicago. He is now concentrating Co., and he has two granddaughters. ward '26, Dorothy (Verplank) Levy '26 and on plans for a new library building in affiliation Glenn C. Perry, 2525 Alturas Drive, Bakers- Vera Manshardt '27. with the Illinois Institute of Technology. Last field is affiliated with the Superior Oil Co. yearhe was editor of the Catalog of the Clif- Nina (Caldwell) Harris, 320 West Bixby Road, Dorris (Persing) Gillette and husband Howard is our most widely traveled class member (See ford G. Grulee Collection on Pediatrics (340 pages) published by Crerar Library. He was '53 celebratedtheir 20th wedding anniversary in next issue for details!) January. She teaches fourth grade in Los Nietos Marie Church, 275 Robincroft Drive, Pasade- elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1959. He writes, District. Son Bob, 18 is in the Navy, assigned na, became an educational missionary to Korea to the U.S.S. Mullony stationed at San Diego. in 1915. She taught English for 25 years and "Personal travel included some exploration of uranium mining country of Colorado with my Howard's son, Bolton, lives in Encino with his was principal for 10 years of Ewha High School wife and two sons. and University. June 25, 1950 she was evac- college freshman son, Douglas and some touring uated from Korea and taught in Japan for two of southern New Mexico with my elder son, Richard and L!le (Schroeder) Smith live at 5056 S. Waverly Dr., Pico-Rivera. Dick is with years, returning to Oregon in 1952, where she David, stationed at the Army Air Defense School had previously taught for 16 years. She re- in . El Paso. Received some welcome letters from Southern California Edison Co. and Lyle recently visited Korea in May 1956 as a guest of her old friends following appearance of my picture retired from teaching. former students. Retired since 1954, she is a in LIFE magazine on October 12, 1959. Elizabeth (Shreve) Pemberton was bookkeeper member of Pasadena-Foothill California Retired Louise (Holton) Clevenger has been teaching for the Barmore Dairy from 1928 to 1939 and Teachers Association. kindergarten for ten years in the Hudson School then married Carl and lived in Salem, Oregon Lucille (Clark) Burckhalter after seven years District, La Puente, and serving as organist for for seven years before moving to Whittier (blO as supervisor in. the personnel division of the the La Puente Community Church for 15 years. N. Comstock Ave.) Los Angeles Schools administrative office, is now Husband Earl is now owner of a service station Elden Smith, senior vice president of Security administrative assistant to the assistant superin- in Anaheim. Son Richard '56 and his wife, First National Bank and second vice president tendent of the South Elementary District of Nancy (Stombaugh '59) are living in Whittier. of Town Hall of L05 Angeles for 1960, has Los Angeles. She is state chairman of selective Daughter Annette (Mrs. Lawrence Part) is liv- moved his family from Riverside to Los Angeles. recruitment for Delta Kappa Gamma. Next ing in Covina and has a daughter, Kimberly Wife Harriet is spending part of her time re- year she plans to take a Sabbatical and with Ann. vising her textbook "Your Life as a Citizen," her husband, travel around the world. Arthur J. Hunnicutt, M.D., 848 Sibert Court, Gum & Co. Daughter Hannah, 22 graduated Latest news from Addison and Eve (Setzer) Lafayette, Calif., is president of the San Fran- from Stanford University and is doing personnel Cole in England includes plans for a trip to cisco Surgical Society and chief of surgery at work with Pacific Finance Corp. Son Lewis, 20, Scandinavian countries this year. Highland Alameda County Hospital. Several is a junior at Haverford College, Deborah, 17
APRIL 1960 Page 25 is a senior at Westlake School, Los Angeles, and Martin, 11 is a fifth grader. (Wilma Pemberton) William H. Sucksdorf, Jr. is a La Habra Mrs. Don E. Shively Heights citrus rancher. He and wife Janelle 16127 Haldane St. have a daughter, Carolyn who is a freshman at '37 La Habra High School and a son Bill, seventh Whittier, Calif. grader. Elvin C. Hutchinson has recently been se- Bob '27 and Margaret (Woodard) Ashton en- lected as the new principal of Costa Mesa's Gene M. Bishop, '39 joy their cabin at Lake Arrowhead and water newest junior high school. skiing. Son Donn '58 spent two years in the Earl and Barbara (Dawson) Maple visited Eu- service on Guam and is now coaching at Bell- rope this past September where they saw Eng- Suggests you ask about flower High School. Daughter Marilyn, 23, mar- land, Holland, Germany, Switzerland, Italy and ried Jack Taylor, a graduate of Stanford. France. SAVING and (Ola Welch) Mrs. Barbara Robinson Mrs. Gail Jobe 27 rue de Fountainebleou INVESTING Rt. 3, Box 492 '34 '38 Cosa Blanco, Morocco with Vista, California Emma (Brown) Dale was honored as the first Carlos '37 and Constance (Cole) Bailey are INSURANCE recipient of the Belben Award which is presented the parents of twins, Douglas and Stephen, 12 to the Teacher of the Year in the Compton years old. Connie belongs to the Whittier "- Secondary School District. The award was made man's Club and the Auxiliary to the Whittier SECURITIES at the Teacher's Club Banquet in November, Osteopathic Society. Most of her time is taken 1959. up with her family and their pets, all of whom TRUST Gail and Ola Florence (Welch) Jobe are still seem to generate problems. farming in Vista, Calif. Besides his other duties, Arthur Lindenmeyer and his wife are both Gail has been appointed to the State Commission teaching school. In June Arthur expects to FUND on Housing and is director on Calavo Board in leave the teaching field to develop their property Los Angeles. Ola is guardian of the Job's in Escondido. They hope to raise a "crop" of Daughters and organist for Eastern Star besides beautiful homes. being on the PTA and Church Boards. Dorothea (Minor) Willard is in her fourth year of teaching in Orland City Schools. Her Dr. and Mrs. C. Herbert Ellis (Betty Wilson Trustee: Pacific National Bank '38) are the parents of three children, Charles, daughter, Barbara is a high school senior, while a sophomore at Swarthmore College; Terry, a her boys, Henry and John are a sophomore in of San Francisco high school senior; and Bob, a high school fresh- high school and in the sixth grade respectively. man. Betty is director of the Scarsdale, New Dorothy (Sayers) Ludwig is living in Lake York, Friends Nursery School in the religious Grove, Oregon where she owns her own insur- education field. She also works in the curricu- ance agency. She intends to return to teaching lum planning and editorial areas for Friends in in the near future, if only to do substitute work. the Philadelphia office. She has served as a committeewoman and area 406 Times Building chairman of her area and had charge of the present governor's campaign when he was run- Long Beach 2, California ning for secretary of state. (Hazel Hayes) Betty (Willmarth) Carson has been substitut- Mrs. P oul H. Gardner ing in the Pasadena secondary schools for the Phone: GArfield 7-1703 321 N. Comstock Ave. last few years and will be teaching part time 3 at Muir High School this semester. Her hus- HEmlock 2-8931 Whittier, California band is an application engineer with General Electric Co. They are the parents of two boys, Josephine (Risser) Boyle has two children, 14 and 11. JoDee, her daughter, is now a junior at Whit- Charles J. Moolick has completed his thir- tier College and her son will become a Whittier teenth year of teaching modern languages at student in September, 1960. Mt. San Antonio College. He is working on Mary Helen (Fisher) Bastady and her hus- his doctoral degree in Spanish at USC and has band, Ernest, have one son Donald who is several books completed or under way which he AL STOLL. '49 teaching at Porterville Union High School. Her hopes to be able to announce the publication of husband is an orange rancher. Mary Helen is in the near future. He has two daughters, Associated with TILLMAN & REEDER busy with church and community activities. Damiana, 4 and Marisa, 2. REAL ESTATE BROKERS Irene (Tuttle) Jenkins is teaching third grade Ralph Zellers is active in his own real estate at Eastmont Elementary School in Montebello, and insurance business in Bakersfield. He was TO 4-0712, TO 4-9311, Res. OX 7-6156 and is corresponding secretary for the Montebello recently elected Lieutenant Governor of division Teacher's Association. 18 for Kiwanis International and will be attend- ing the Kiwanis International Convention in 11176 E. Florence Miami, Florida in June. Corner Florence and Santo Ana Freeway Margaret (Brewster) Ekholm works with her husband in an insurance and accounting office. Downey, California Their son, David, is 13 and in the eighth grade. SMITH and BENSON Margaret is also organist in the Escalon Metho- dist Church and holds an office in Eastern Star. —Realtors— Sibyl (Hofstetter) Landon and husband Joseph JOHN R. (BOB) CAUFFMAN. '45 spent six weeks traveling in England, Denmark, City and Country Properties Norway, Germany, France and Belgium this past Distributor for A. J. Nystrom and Co. Commercial and Industrial Land summer. They were able to take in several mu- sical events in Salzburg, Austria during their Maps Globes - Charts - Models 244 EAST PHILADELPHIA STREET visit. WHITTIER, CALIFORNIA Harold Stephens is working for General Elec- tric Atomic Power Equipment Department in 9715 La Alba, Whittier, California OXford 4.3608 San Jose. He and his wife Mary Lou, have two children, Gregory, 9, and Linda, 12. Harold has OWen 77-171 been active in Little League Baseball and has also won several public speaking awards. Anoth- er side line is teaching machine accounting (IBM) at G.E. THE WHITTIER BOOK STORE William and Dc Vee (Bartell) Roode have one son, 17, who is senior class president of Orange Kendall D. Bowlin '55 •SCHOOL and OFFICE SUPPLIES High School. William is assistant superinten- -Insurance - dent of Costa Mesa Public Schools, and Dc Vee GREETING CARDS • BOOKS is a part-time teacher of physically handicapped Life - Health - Group children. STATIONERY Verda M. Hawkins is working for Shell De- 530 W. 6th St., L. A. 14 velopment Company as a chemist, searching 125 No. Greenleaf Ave., Whittier 123 - abstracting and indexing technical reports and MAdison 7-3151 Oxford 2-9683 -Ox 4-5316 correspondence. She is living in San Francisco Telephones: OX 4-3953 on top of one of the three steepest hills and has an excellent view of the bay. Bruce D. Martin and his wife, Lenore, '41 with Eyes Examined Glasses Fitted their four children are living in Fort Jones, California where they enjoy the freedom of Paul S. Barmore '41 space and the mountains. Bruce has served six DR. R. D. WINNEN, Optometrist years on the Republican Central Committee. He Real Estate Broker is still in the dairy farming business and at pre- Hours: 10 am, to 5:30 p.m. sent is director of the Siskimyou Milk Producers Real Estate • Property Management Mon. & Fri. 10 am, to 9 P.M. Association. Walter Dalihtz and his wife Dorothy are the Insurance 1137 Quadway, Whittier Quad parents of two daughters, Ann, sophomore at Whittier College, and Jean, a high school sopho- 14516 E. Whittier Blvd. OX. 3-1710 Whittier, Calif. OXford 3-2319 more. Walter has been employed with Lockheed Aircraft Corp. for the past 18 years in a super-
THE ROCK Page 26 visory position and also serves on the Board of Directors of the Palmdale Irrigation District and of the Palmdale Fin and Feather Club. Martha (Shuman) Hittinger has been principal MONTE'S of the Rancho Santa Gertrudes Elementary School in Los Nietos since 1953. She is also currently president of Delta Sigma Chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma and a board member of Camera Shop the Family Service Association of Whittier. In addition she is serving a three year term as ad- visor to Educational Policies Commission, Na- 223 NORTH GREENLEAF tional Education Association. Chester Albert Halley along with his wife, Grace, and 16 month old son, Daniel Craig has OX 4-4308 returned to Memard, Texas where he is join stock farming and finding time for hunting an Earl Myers fishing. "Everything Photographic" Helen (Crosbie) Stevenson and her husband John are members of a co-operative group, most of the members of which are active in the Ar- genta, British Columbia, Friends meeting. They are the parents of fourteen year old twins, David and Janet, and a twelve year old, Tom. & Co. Alice (Olson) Mayberry is living at 2027 Com- modore Road, Newport Beach. Her oldest daughter, Marilyn, was married in May, 1958. Dorothy (Dill) Shuler is working at Security WHITTIER OFFICE First National Bank as a new accounts teller. Her four children are: Jack, who is a Junior at UCLA; Susan, a junior at Arcadia High School; 117 E. PHILADELPHIA ick, sophomore at Arcadia High; Gregg, a Tth grader. OXford 4-2077 Phil Ockerman is secretary of the East Ook- land YMCA where he has been located for five years. He and his wife Doris have three chil- dren, Dale, 7; Jerry, 13; and Shirley, 16. Joy (Fossum) Burke and her husband Clete are currently spending their twelfth year at Indiana University where he is a full professor in the Psychology Department. Joy occupies her- self as a nursery school teacher mornings and homemaker in the afternoons, looking after son Michael, an eighth grader and daughter, Karen, we are happy to help you a fourth grader. LA HABRA OFFICE with any picture taking Lambert and Mary Louise (Follett) Ferguson are the parents of four teenagers. Lambert is a 501 W. CENTRAL AVE. problems you might have partner of Madsen Electric Supply which deals in wholesale industrial electric supplies, parts and equipment in Vernon, California Mary Lou OWen 7-1588 Monte Wicker 38 spends part of her time teaching.
We Give S & H Stamps (lone Pike) Mrs. Robert Stull '41 158 E. Dexter Ave. Covina, Calif.
Robert Tidd has recently returned to the Unit- ed States after spending six years in Brazil as a chemical engineer. He was in charge of a INSURANCE chemical plant owned by ALBA SA, a subsidiary of the Borden Company. looking for a gift? Dr. Edwin B. Brunner is associate professor of AND history at Temple University and will conduct a study tour to Western Europe in the summer see us about of 1960. He has recently edited a small book REAL ESTATE entitled, Sharing Our Quaker Faith, for the whittier college: Friends World Committee for Consultation, of Birmingham, England. •playing cards Georgiana (Stacy) Vey and her husband Eben are living in Chicago where he is a professor • Auto at the Illinois Institute of Technology and she •baby bibs teaches first grade. They are the parents of a ten year old son, Jimmy. • Fire •children's T-shirts (Sarah Applebury) •children's sweatshirts Mrs. Robert S. Faulkner • Life '42 38711 Sage Tree •glassware Palmdale, Calif. • Medical •stationery Walter F. Worrill is executive secretary of the Washington Park Branch YMCA in Chicago. • Compensation His older son, Conrad, attends Pasadena Jr. Col- lege, preparing to enter Whittier College in 1960. His second son, Oscar, is 8 years old. Wife Anna Bell works part time in the comptrollers * Group office at the University of Chicago. Charles F. Schermerhorn and his wife have . two children, Peter, 6, and Andrea, 18 months. • Major Medical He is the manager of budgets at Autonetics, a division of North American Aviation, Inc. He is also completing his graduate work for MBA • Boats degree at USC and serves as a commander in the WHITTIER COLLEGE Naval Reserve Submarine Squadron 1. In con- junction with his reserve position he has been • Ask us for any BOOKSTORE a member of the Naval Reserve Policy Board which was convened to advise the Secretary of the Navy on matters of policy affecting the other type Naval Reserve. STUDENT UNION John T Tidd has a private medical practice as a pathologist in Yankton, South Dakota. He BUILDING is associate professor of pathology at the Univer- sity of South Dakota Medical School. Other OXbow 3-0771 -Ext. 29 accomplishments include a wife and five children. Carol (Shafer) Scaly and her husband Gerald have one daughter, Glenda, 13. Carol is active in. Women of the Moose and AAUW affairs. She has also served as recording secretary for the Native Daughters of the Golden West.
APRIL 1960 Page 27 Portia E. Perry is the Educational Director in John W. Nicoll was recently elected superin- the Congregational Church in East Orange, New tendent of schools of the Pacific Grove Unified Jersey. School District. Mary (Abbot) Lemke isan Elementary school Mildred Hawley is principal of the Riley Ele- principal at Laurel School in Brea, California. We have the Keys mentary School in Long Beach. She is also She will retire from the profession following serving as president of the Delta Epsilon Chapter completion of this school year. to your Men's of the Delta Kappa Gamma Society, and as re- Richard '50 and Barbara (Root) Phelps have cording secretary of the Long Beach Adminis- a new son, Randall "Randy" Phelps born Jul trators Association. 12, 1959. Richard is a research analyst wit Clothing Problems! Captain Raymond Mann is stationed in Guam Hughes Aircraft in Fullerton. on temporary duty with the Chinese Air Force Bill and Jeanne (Roberts) Lee '51 have three in Taiwan. He and his family have visited Japan boys, Gary, 7; Dan, 5; and Bobby, 3. Bill is this past year and are planning a tour of south- currently serving as director of curriculum of the east Asia in February. In October of 1960 he El Monte School District and also as secretary will be returned to duty in the United States of the El Monte Kiwanis club. The family has after completing two years of foreign shore duty. recently acquired a cabin at Big Bear which Venona (Holmes) Fox is presently residing in they jointly own with the Tom Hall family, Madrid Spain where her husband Arthur is Class of '49. stationed. In the past they have been situated Bob '45 and Jackie (Clarkson) Cauffman took in New Mexico, Japan, Washington, and Eng- a cruise through the Carribbean over Christmas land. She is teaching at the Madrid Elementary where the; visited Jamaica, Panama, Colombia, Dependent School and also taking University of and the Dominican Republic. Bob is working Maryland extension classes. with the schools selling scientific and geographic Miss Ruby A. Fletcher is presently employed eqipment. as educational assistant at the Downey Methodist Eileen (Bennetts) Martin and her husband, Skip have three boys, Douglas, B'/i; Gregory, Church. 5Vi; and Lance, 1. Skip is a claim adjuster for Beneficial Standard Life Insurance Co. in Los Angeles. (Barbara Robinson) Clara (Blumen) Jones and her husband, Rick, Mrs. Arthur T. Hobson have six youngsters, Ruth 10; Ricky Jr. 8; Jef- 317 S. Ocean View Ave. frey, 6; Carla, 4; Debra, ; and Brian, 2. Dur- 113 ing the years since she graduated she has done Whittier, Calif. social work, taught school, written a hi-weekly column for the Ukiah Daily Journal and is now Edgar Farnum and his wife Irene have four a housewife. Her husband is working for the children, Catherine, 15, Barbara, 12, David, 9, Lawrence Radiation Laboratory in Livermore. and Thomas, 5. Ed is physical education direc- Barbara (Jones) West and her husband, Rollo, tor and coach in baseball and basketball at Shen- have four girls, Linda, 8; Deena, 5'/; Carla, 4; andoah High School in Shenandoah, Iowa. This and Paula, 21 months. Rollo is the Southern HILL'S is his sixth year in this position. Area Staff Supervisor for the General Telephone Co. Roger and Joanne (Smith) Strem are living CLOTHIERS (Lois Topping) in Tracy with their four children where Roger Mrs. Roland Shutt is minister of St. Mark's Episcopal Church. He 127 E. Philadelphia St. 915 S. Pacific Ave. was recently appointed chairman, liivision of 118 Visual Aids, Northern California-Nevada Council —Whittier— Sunset Beach, Calif. of Churches. Bob '49 and Miriam (Radden) Freeborn are L. Bert Hill Ellen (Kendig) Lewis and her husband have the parents of two boys and two girls. Bob is Dick Thomson '34 been farming in the wheat and cattle country a counselor at San Gabriel High School and out- of Oklahoma for eight years, but have recently side activities include a varietv, of lessons for the John "Rusty" Marshall '54 returned to the Los Angeles area where they children and participation in PTA activities. took education courses at Long Beach State Col- Jane (Robinson) Holliday is employed as a lege and are now teaching in Imperial. They psychologist for Southwest Cooperative Special hope to return to farming again soon. Education Programs which is connected with the Rose (Rambousek) Vakoc has been teaching Inglewood Unified School District. was born August 10, 1959, and their daughters school in the same elementary school for sixteen are Jean, 10; Marilyn, 7; and Judy, 5. Ralph years. Clifford Cole and his wife Edith have three is teaching at Hueneme High School in the Ox- children. Cliff is teaching fifth grade in Clare- nard Union High School District where he is Bill Bayless is teaching journalism and is ad- mont and working toward an M.A. at Clare- viser to the newspaper staff at Chaffey High chairman of the Social Studies Department. mont Graduate School. They are also very ac- Alma (Smith) Hall and her husband, Howard, School. He also handles the school publicity. tive in the local Democratic Club. He and his wife, Barbara, have three children, have five children, Nancy, 11; Johnny, 8; David, Chuck, 7; Lillie Bethe, 6; and Carl, 4. Martin Ortiz is executive director of the East 6; Rickey, 4; Bobby, 3. Her husband teaches Central Area Welfare Planning Council, a Com- journalism and handles publicity at Fullerton Harriet (Barber) Raper is a California Youth munity Chest sponsored welfare planning body. Junior College. Alma spends her spare time Authority teacher, with five years of service at He was recently named a member of the Whit- doing PTA work, Jr. Ebell, AAUW, and church Fricot Ranch School in Calaveras County and tier Branch of Alpha Kappa Delta by Dr. Rob- work. four years at the Boys School at Paso Robles. ert O'Brien of Whittier College. He has also Stanley Alexander is the owner of Alexander's Don McCaslin and his wife, Marilyn, have a done o great deal of writing and speaking on new son, Wayne Scott, in addition to their Moving and Storage Co. He and his wife, Elea- Mexican American affairs. nor have two children, a five year old boy and daughter, Joanne, 13. Don is in his tenth year an eight year old girl. They are active in ciurch Lenora (Marchant) Homyer is married to a with the Los Angeles City Schools. and community affairs. marine consultant from Portsmouth, England. Morris and Carla Jo (Mock) Hanberg have Herbert Roesener is chairman of the music They took an extensive trip to South America five boys, Ricky, 10; Larry, 9; Barney, 7; Kirk, department at Montebello Senior High School in the summer of 1957, and resided in Wash- 11/2; and Kris, 6 months. Morris is employed where he also directs the band and orchestra. ington, D.C. for a year. This year Lenora is as insurance manager and secretary to Carl This is his eleventh year of service at this insti- doing graduate work at Long Beach State Col- Mock Mortgage Co. in Santa Asia. tution. lege working toward an Administrative Creden- James Bruff has a general medical practice in Richard C. Gripp has recently been appointed tial in elementary education. Whittier and also boasts of an 18 month old son. assistant professor of political science at San Ralph and MaryBelle (Coleman) Nichols are Joseph Waddington and his wife Lena have Diego State College. the parents of four children. Their son, Robert, one son, Stephen, who is three years old. Joseph
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Page 28 THE ROCK teaches the sixth grade at Orchard Dale Ele- is working with Wagenseller & Durst, Inc. as a mentary School in the East Whittier City School securities salesman. District. Rev. Dwight Hoelscher is presently associate Robert D. Routh is the father of two children, minister of the First Congregational Church in Jan, 12, and Stephen, 10. He has his own busi- Prescott, Arizona, ness, Bob's Camera Mart and has recently op- Arend and Betty (Dayhuff '52) Franken have ened a second store both of which are in the two daughters, Sharon, 8, and Shirley, 5i/2, Santa Ana area. Bob has also been elected Arend works as a materials and process engineer FORD president of the newly formed Orange County for Litton Industries. Betty occupies herself as Photo Retailers Association. a housewife and mother. Alia Mae Bearden is chairman of the woman's THUNDERBIRD Physical Education Department at the College of the Sequoias in Visalia, California. (Laura Lou Daus) Bill and Lois (Riley) Shaffer are the parents From the Ford Family of two boys, 5 and 7. Bill is a life underwriter Mrs. Richard Neville and a licensed stock broker affiliated with the 6966 West 85th St. of Fine Cars W. G. Nielsen Co. in Burbank. Lois is return- '58 Los Angeles 45, Calif. ing to teaching this month after being inactive for seven years. Frank Zoll is working for Uncle Sam as an "Service before and after Sales" Ada (Matlack) Babine and her husband Walter ordinance parts specialist in the infantry sta- are living in Santa Barbara with their five tioned in Germany. children, two boys and three girls. Vivian and Frank Gardner, who received their We guarantee the best service Bob Bayless is principal of Rossmor School in Masters degrees in '58 are keeping busy. He is in Southern California Los Alamitos. He and his wife, Mary Lou are teaching mathematics at Santa Fe High School living in Long Beach with their six month old and she is working toward her Ph.D. in history daughter, Robyn. at USC. Donald G. Hart and his wife Darlene have two Pat Putnam is a 2nd Lieutenant in the Marine sons, Alan, 4, and Paul, 2. He has been very Corps stationed at Pensacola, Florida. active in the education field, serving in the Dow- ney area as teacher and now as principal of the Donna (Curry) Burrow is doing research in biochemistry at UCLA and also giving folk . new Woodruff Junior High School. He is also president of the Association of Downey Area tar lessons n her home at 12017 Culver Dr., Culver City.i Public School Administrators. Marty Stromberg, Jr. is a reserve captain for Bob Perry is having an exciting time as an Western Air Lines and has been busy covering Ensign in the Navy. While stationed overseas runs throughout the United States and Canada. on the USS Fiske he has visited all the Med- He is the father of four children, the oldest, iterranean countries. He will return home in Carl, is a freshman in high school. His wife, March. FRANK DORE Joann is taking education courses at Orange Kenneth Eugene Fields, small son of Max and Coast College during her free time. Joan (Ferl) Fields, is a fortunate little boy, with Arlene (Mitchell) Bird and her husband Nor- a beautiful mother and a daddy who can coach man are the parents of a five year old daughter, football teams to undefeated seasons. and SONS Donna Lynn who started kindergarten this year. Sandy (Davidson) Blake is teaching third grade Norman is business manager for Reedley High in Long Beach while husband Paul finishes his School and College, while Arlene teaches P.E. dental studies at USC. 345 South Greenleaf Ave. at the high school half days. After graduation this June, with a BS in phys- Frances R. Warnock is working for the Los ical therapy from Loma Linda, Billie Harmon Whittier, California Angeles County Health Department in El Monte will continue training and working in five dif- as a public health nurse. This past summer she ferent hospitals in Southern California for five OX 8-3794 spent 72 days in Europe touring fourteen differ- months, ent countries. Joan (Folland) Perkins has taken a leave of absence from teaching to care for her small son Joel, but she will return to her first grade class- (Anne Marie Reese) room in Montebello this September. Mrs. James Stecklein Ron and Chris Zimmerman have made San 10131 S. Memphis St. Mateo their permanent home since Ron was '53 appointed Systems Supervisor for Bethlehem Whittier, Calif. Steel, Chris is busy keeping house and caring for their young daughter. Marguerite (Dupont) Harrell and her husband Iry Hendrick, who teaches at Montebello Jun- are still living in San Francisco. Their daugh- ior High, recently moved into a new home in ter, Kathy, is a year old, Brea with his wife Sandy and daughter, Julie Carol Dawn West is teaching physical educa- Lynn. tion at San Leandro High School. Alfred G. Evans, 203 Lynn Drive, Ventura, is Leonard Metz, proud papa of a new baby girl, working for the Shell Oil Co. as Office Super- is busy with his sales job with 3M Company in visor in the Purchasing-Stores Department. Los Angeles and also his graduate work in psy- Winegene (Grau) Sweet and her husband Bill chology at LA State. have a newaddition to the family: Jill Ann, Liking the place where you teach sure helps, born September 17, 1959, Win has been busy and Jacquie Wilson loves Corona del Mar. She teaching, doing church work, and fixing up their likes Europe too, after her trip there last sum- new home. mer. WHITTIER QUAD Being a housewife, mother and doing tutoring on the side keeps Meg (Myers) Hiemke busy. WEST ARCADIA (Alice Carpenter) Husband Howard '57 is equally busy, teaching Mrs. Phillip E. Spivey 6th grade and also studying for his administra- tion credential in the evening. 240 Loyola Road TWO S4 Dick Ferguson is teaching at Chino High Costa Mesa, Calif. School and plans to move up there in June COMPLETE when his wife, Donna (Rich) graduates from Audrey (Rogers) Haas and her husband Theo- Whittier. (See Newcomers.) dore are living in Westchester with their two After graduation,Bob Morgan received a Mas DEPARTMENT children, Krista, 2, and Gregory, 4 months. Ted ters degree in business administration from In STORES
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APRIL 1960 Page 29 diana University. Now he is putting in his six is John Carroll who is in his second year at months for Uncle Sam at Fort Ord. UCLA Law School. Also stationed at Fort Ord are Bill Tibbetts Teaching kindergarten for the second year, and Vester Glenn who is training with the 52nd Nancy (Nicholl) Rogers still likes New York, it's Army Band. climate and it's people. GETTING MARRIED Jim Daugherty Continues in the training pro- Burbank is the home of Rick and Nancy(Lur- gram at J. C. Penny Co. His wife, Marilyn vey) Thacker who are the proud parents of one OR (Mark), after teaching one year is now busy year old Randi. Rick is doing well as an ac- caring for their young son. (See Newcomers.) count executive with Blaire Associates. Ed and Carolee (King) Lawrence have moved Doris (Fitzgerald) Morton has. her hands full GOING TO HAVE to Reseda, where Carolee teaches at the Shirley and is enjoying it, teaching 34 fourth graders Avenue School, largest in L.A. City, and Ed is plus a Spanish speaking girl from Mexico. Es in his second year at UCLA Law School. dificil, no? Dick is working in Long Beach. A BABY? Lyman and Marlene (Dreher) Marsters are Corrinne (Johnson) Schulz writes she would teaching. He at Orange Grove, fifth grade and like to hear from some of her school friends. Marlene teaches home economics at El Rancho She is currently caring for her son, Matt at her High School. home at 14935 Lindhall Whittier. Husband Bonnie Barneke, now teaching mathematics at Dave works for the So. áahf. Gas Co. see us first Los Altos High School, is looking forward to Joyce Bachelder taught home economics at this summer when she'll be a member of Dr. Frank Wright School in El Monte last year and about announcements Connick's European study tour. now she has assumed the position of housewife Bob Teeter is studying toward a Masters de- in her home n Temple City. Having receivedi the academic honor scholar- and invitations gree in psychology at Sacramento State College. Alice Atwood is claims examiner for the So- ship for this year Paul Flucke continues in his cial Security Administration in Huntington Park. second year at Pacific School of Religion in As if teaching home economics at Carmel Berkeley. Gaining valuable experience as youth incidentally didn't keep her busy enough, Marilyn Matthew adviser at the Congregational Church there, he also runs a charm school for eighth graders. hopes to have a part-time pastorate next year. regular commercial Bob Newsom finds translating Hebrew very Another, whose life work will be religion, is time consuming during his second year at the Dick Calkins who is in his second year at So. printing is really Dallas Theological Seminary. Calif. School of Theology at Claremont. He is Jo Ann Vandette is doing well as a speech also the minister to the college-age group at the tail that therapist for the Palo Alto School District. First Methodist Church in Long Beach. Next Bob Van Oosting has an interesting life as year Dick will continue his schooling in the East. wags our dog owner of Schmaltz-Van Oosting Co. special- Barbara (Nagel) Brossmer is enjoying taking izing in Polynesian and Hawiian renta's in Pico care of her small daughter Pamela, while hus- Rivera.M This fall he is planning a business trip band Fred does graduate work at the University to the South Pacific. of Calif. at Santa Barbara. Tom Woodbury is stationed at Camp Drake, Bob '57 and Shannon (MihlcI) Belles are thor- near Tokyo, serving in the Army Security Agen- oughly enjoying their new home and good clear POSTAL LITHO cy of the United States until July, '61. weather of Tucson, Arizona. Bob is a pilot with Diane (Gruenemay) Gerson writes that she the Air Force and Shannon teaches 31 third and her husband Gus had a hard time settling graders there. down to work after a wonderful holiday in Las Marilyn (Gore) Vassos is teaching fifth grade Printing Service Vegas. She teaches kindergarten in East Whit- in Long Beach, while her husband works for his tier and he is a recreation director with L.A. Masters degree at Long Beach State. City Schools. This year as Luene (Holmes) Corwin is teach- 124 South Washington Ave. After teaching first grade in Norwalk after ing home economics for the second year she graduation, Marion (Davies) Odle now keeps looks forward to June when her husband, Norm, Whittier, California busy caring for her small daughter, Ann Louise. receives his Master of Theology degree. They William Dark, an office manager at Bio-Chem- will head for Boston where Norm will work for ical Corp., and his wife are planning a two his Ph.D. at Boston University and Luene will OXford 4-3763 month trip to Europe this summer. begin on her Masters in homemaking. Bill Raborn is an engineer working for Aero- Bob Osborn is teaching mathematics and coach- jet General Corp. in Sacramento. ing B basketball at Los Altos High School in the Several camping trips to the mountains and La Puente District. This summer he plans to do deserts have been enjoyed by Doug and Carol graduate work at Whittier. (Brummel '57) Skare and daughter Susan. Doug, Many '58 graduates who are continuing with who teaches sixth grade is also busy as an Ex- their teaching careers write that their second ploror Scout adviser. Carol is active in AAUW. year is much easier than their first: Alice Triggs Bill and Margaret (Klinker) Smith have a teaching third grade in Pico Rivera, Mary Ellen new address in Albany, California, 909 Fillmore. (Todd) Spencer, second grade for Lowell Joint Bill is an engineer for the State Highway Divi- School District, Bob Roemmele, chemistry at sion in San Francisco and Margaret cares for Santa Fe High School, Pain Peck, fourth grade young Gary. in East Whittier, Gussie Andreatta, third grade Don Culbertson has been busy with graduate at Valencia School in Pico Rivera, and Joellen 6 So'e#t4oc work. First winning a PTA scholarship to Cox, kindergarten at Ada S. Nelson School in UCLA and then continuing his work at L.A. the Los Nietos School District. State and Whittier in sociology and education. Marion Schwander teaches second grade in Don also works part time at Sears Roebuck. Fullerton and makes her home in Balboa living Jean Hulbert has resumed her education and with four other girls. willreceive her degree and teaching credential Dean Spencer, who lives up at Tootle, Wash- this year from San Francisco State. Jean writes ington, teaches eighth grade and one high that she spends "every spare minute" skiing in school class there. the Sierras. John and Lois (Fitzgerald '57) Ogle are both Carolyn (Kuns) Halloran is keeping up with teaching this year. John teaches and coaches her teaching ability by tutoring a little, but her basketball in Torrance and Lois teaches home main role now is of housewife and mother. Hus- economics for the third year in Norwalk. band Bob is working for the L.A. Police Dept. Another couple teaching this year is Pat (Ti- George Valiance and his wife had their best tus) and Denos Mitchell. Pat teaches fourth present a day after Christmas. (See Newcomers). grade at San Jose School in Covina and Denos After being stationed in three different states Latin at West Covina High School. last year, Rose (Ridge) and Dave '57(now a Jackie Lime is with the L.A. City School Dis- SALES Lieutenant) Adams and small son, Douglas are trict in West Los Angeles. Future plans include now stationed at Quonset Point, R.I. for four obtaining her art credential. years. With all this "sight-seeing" Rose writes The household of Tom and Lorna (Curtiss) they still miss California and the sun. Reeder in Whittier boasts the new addition of & little Kimberly Kay. Tom works for Rose Hills It's snowing in Germany, writes Cheryl (Sch. ruben) Mueller. Husband Don is an oral sur- Memorial Park. SERVICE geon for the Army and Cheryl is substitute Also living in Whittier are Cliff '57 and Judy teaching and keeping house in their new "little (Stone) Winchell. Judy teaches first and second home on a hill." grades at Wilcox School in Montebello and Cliff Another couple who are far from home are is •a sophomore at College of Osteopathic Phy- Lt. jg Earl '57 and Pat (Hare) Streeter. Don sicians and Surgeons. is stationed in Guam in the Navy and Pat is With a new addition to the family Carol (Mc- teaching third grade. They've been doing a lot Leod) Klefbeck has retired from teaching tem- . of traveling and are planning a trip to the Ori- porarily..Husband Ron works for the Lakeside ent this June. They will head for the "big is- School District and also attends night school at land" (home) in 1961. Palomar Jr. College. Don Alford sounds like an ambitious fellow. After finishing her education at the University After he receives his Masters degree in geolo- of Calif. at Santa Barbara, and teaching for a gical science from Whittier, he plans to go for while, Nancy Leach, is now a hostess for T.W.A. 201 SOUTH GREENLEAF an advanced degree while teaching and doing She has flown all over the U.S.A. and recently research. began flying on jets. WHITTIER Don Hart has been in the Army for 1¼ years Denton Sonke works as a dispatcher for Pa- and is now in the medical corps, stationed at cific Clay Products Transporation in Los Nietos, Fort Bragg, North Carolina. while wife Nancy (Gibson '57) cares for their Ox 4-2033 Claire (Lucas) Neal has been busy tutoring small daughter in their La Habra home. at Brooklyn College's Early Childhood Center Louise (McMillan) Kempf is going to have and also doing graduate work at the New School many tales to tell of her interesting time in of Social Research in political science. She liked Japan when she returns home in 1963 with her southern California so much that she'll be back husband Peter, a Lieutenant in the Air Force. with us this summer. Louise writes that for over a year Peter and she Another '58 graduate continuing his education lived off base in a Japanese style house and en-
Page 30 THE ROCK dured many inconveniences, but now they are living on base where she is substituting at the Class of '57 high school. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Drake (Roberta Roberts), Leaving after the freshman year at Whittier 1227 Eubank Ave., Wilmington, a son, Thomas Ralph Christy obtained an appointment to the Alva, August 4, 1959. U.S. Naval Academy. After graduating in 1959, Mr. and Mrs. James Marsters (Lynn Barstow as an Ensign, he is now serving as a communica- '60), 271C S. 3rd Ave., Upland, California, a tions officer on the USS Twining girl, Susan Faith, January 24 1960. Coming back from overseas, Don and Ginger Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Smith (Ardith Owens), (Floyd) Wills are now stationed in San Antonio, 74 Spruce St., Princeton, N.J., a son, Steven Texas until March when Don's service duty will Malcolm, December 18, 1959. be finished. They have a small daughter, Deb- Mr. and Mrs. Robert Burns (Leitha Griffin FIRST orals and a very very small daughter, Donna. '58), Box 462, Twenty Nine Palms, a son, Jan- (See Newcomers). uary 31, 1960. As of 3 am., January 31, 1960, Bob '56 and Class of '58 Lee (Griffin) Burns now have two boys in the Mr. and Mrs. Tom Reeder (Lorna Curtiss), family. Living in Twenty-Nine Palms, Bob 9931 Rufus, a daughter, Kimberly Kay, Decem- teaches junior high school and Lee—well, she'll ber 14, 1959. QUALITY have her hands full. Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Klefbeck, (Carol Mc- Blake Runcorn's life must be beautiful—it's Leod), 9740 Prospect Ave., Lakeside, a son, Ran- filled with music. Along with teaching fifth dal Anthony, January 6, 1960. grade with its many musical duties, he also sings Mr. and Mrs. William Lescher, 115 Second with the William Hall Chorale, writes composi- St., Seal Beach, a son, William Jeffery, Sep- tions and is going on a tour of Western America tember 2, 1959. in October. Mr. and Mrs. Don Wills, (Ginger Floyd), DAIRY Mary Ann (Piscevic) Samann, who teaches kindergarten in Montebello, and her husband, 107 Middlebury Dr., San Antonio, Texas, a Howard must like to travel. Last year they daughter, Donna Jean, January 9, 1960. visited Eastern U.S. and Canada and this year Mr. and Mrs. Richard Ferguson (Donna Rich they plan a trip to Alaska. '60), 618 E. Philadelphia, a son, Richard "Scott," Two-year-old Linda Leanne is the pride of December 2, 1959. Jack and Marilyn (Miller '59) Emerson. Jack Mr. and Mrs. James Daugherty, (Marilyn PRODUCTS is a finance accountant with the So. Calif. Edi- Mark), 616 E. Live Oak, San Gabriel, a son, son Co. Michael James, October 72 1959. Olive (Murray) Weide is a special assistance Mr. and Mrs. Max Fields, (Joan Ferl), 325 teacher in an experimental program designed to N. College, La Habra, a son, Kenneth Eugene, give special aid to Sunnyvale elementary school August 3, 1959. children who are having reading difficulties. Mr. and Mrs. William Smith (Margaret Klmk- Jane (Howland) San horn is teachingeighth er), 909 Fillmore, Albany 6, a son, Gary Edward, •WHOLESALE is RETAIL grade homemaking at Hawthorne Intermediate September 12 1959. School. Her husband is finishing his junior year Mr. and Ilrs. George ValIance 12710 McGee, as an industrial engineering major at Los An- a daughter, Shari Marie December 26, 1959. geles State College. Mr. and Mrs. Donalil Culbertson, 1639 W. Gordon J. Eyrand is presently serving in the Walnut Ave., Fullerton, a daughter, Soni Marie, U.S. Army. September 12, 1959. Newcomers Newly-weds Class of '40 Class of '48 Mr. and Mrs. Leland Woodward (Caroline Robert J. Wood to Patricia (Slagle) Cogswell Reade), 8123 S. Edmaru, Whittier, a son, James April 3, 1958. At home, 15906 Lujon, La Puente. Brian, August 22, 1959. Class of '50 Class of '45 Peter D. DeVries to Joan Hansen '62, De- Dr. and Mrs. John Arcadi, 448 N. Washington cember 18'1939, at Faith Lutheran Church. Ave. Whittier, a son, William Kevin, November At home, 946C Sargent, Whittier. 14, 1959. Class of '55 Serving the Area Class of '48 Jack Fox to Sandi Schlack, September 14, For Over 40 Years Mr. and Mrs. Ray Hooper (Margaret Clarke 1959. in Santa Barbara. At home, 725 South 50), 9141 Sharon Way, Whittier, a boy, Willard Rampart Street, Los Angeles 57. "Brett" Hooper, January 29, 1960. Class of '56 Class of '50 Jerry Lohr to Shirley Dozier, August 29, 1959. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Bennet (Barbara At home, 296 N. Oakland, Apt. 14, Pasadena, French), 9159 Ardendale, San Gabriel, a daugh- California. ter, Joan Marie, May 15, 1959. Richard T. Smith to Patricia Kay Oatey '59, December, 1959. At home, 637'/ S. Greenleaf Class of '52 Ave. Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Curtis (Sallie Walsh Daniel P. Swift to Janet Louise Graig '61, 155), 439 W. 8th St., Claremont, a daughter, December 30, 1959. At home, 128 South Wash- Carol Elizabeth. Class of '53 ington Ave., Apt. 1, Whittier. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Belliss (Joan Floyd Class of '57 '54) 9702 Imperial, Garden Grove, a daughter, Kenneth Schmutzer to Janis Cook '59, No- Janet Arlene December 5, 1959. vember 27 1959. At the Chapel of Wedding Mr. and Mrs. DonaldS. Turner (Janet Dun- Bells, Bell?lower. At home in Whittier. WHITTIER ham '55), 1839 Lorene, Whittier, a daughter, Class of '58 Barbara Jean, May 15, 1959. Bill Meyer to Janet L. McGraw, February 13, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Killian (Marilyn Lowe 1960. At home, 830 East Leslie Drive, San Gab- SANITARY DAIRY 158), 614 South Milton, Whittier, a daughter, riel. Kerry Eileen, December 7, 1959. Robert Bitter to Sylvia Ann Miller, January, Mr. and Mrs. John C. Byrne (Shirley O'Con- 1960. At home, 433A South Milton Whittier. COMPANY nor), 2727 Revere, Apt. 27, Houston, Texas, Gordon Dierks to Nalsn DeTuncq '61,p Septem- twin daughters, Lisa Kay and Karen Lynne, ber, 1959, Arvin, California. At home, 508 December 20, 1959. North Greenleaf, Whittier. 126 - 130 So. Comstock Ave. Class of '54 George Jenkins to Elizabeth Mary Kirk '60, Mr. and Mrs. Don Wells, 3625 Myrtle Ave., December, 1959. At home, 1112 Greenwood, Long Beach 7, a son, Mark Kenyon, November Evanston, Illinois. 16, 1959. Russell' K. Long to Barbara E. Stone, Febru- OX. 4-2622 ary 6, 1960. At home, 12848 S. Lakewood Blvd., Class of '55 Apt. 12, Downey. Lt. jg and Mrs. N. E. Haack (Marjorie Anne Wilkin), 2301 Georgia Street, Vallejo, California, a girl, Lucinda Charisse December 4, 1959. Mr. and Mrs. Robert 1{olbrook- (Carol Riggs), 1176 South Mayfair Ave., Daly City, California, a daughter, Kirsten Ilene, December 12, 1959. In Memoriam Class of '56 Class of '13 Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Street, 333 N. Alta KENNETH L. BALL, Manager Ave., Whittier, a daughter, December 4, 1959. Bailey Howard, December, 1959. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Sievert (Nancy Held- Class of '44 Class 1934 rich),* 9177 Soutliview Rd., San Gabriel, a girl, Kristen, April 13, 1959. Lela (Layne) Semans, May 18, 1959. Mr. and Mrs. Donald Thompson (Gail Van- Class of '49 derpoel 156), RR#2, Maynard, Minn., a son, Conrad Limbaugh, March 20, 1960. Wiamill Carl, August 7, 1959. Wendell N. Brown, March 25, 1960. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Mooshagian, 15514 Leff in - well, Whittier, a son, Steven Ray, March 2 Class of '54 1959. Ella Mae Starrh, December, 1959.
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