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Rollins College Rollins Scholarship Online Rollins Magazine Marketing and Communications Fall 1941 Rollins Alumni Record, September 1941 Rollins College Office ofa M rketing and Communications Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarship.rollins.edu/magazine Recommended Citation Rollins College Office of Marketing and Communications, "Rollins Alumni Record, September 1941" (1941). Rollins Magazine. Paper 106. http://scholarship.rollins.edu/magazine/106 This Magazine is brought to you for free and open access by the Marketing and Communications at Rollins Scholarship Online. It has been accepted for inclusion in Rollins Magazine by an authorized administrator of Rollins Scholarship Online. For more information, please contact [email protected]. ROLLINS COLLFGE ! IBRARV WINTER PARKI FLORIDA The ROLLINS ▼ ALUMNI RECORD FOOTBALL IS IN THE AIR ■1 ■ EPTEMBER, 1941 '»!. XIX No. 3 ROLLINS COLLEGE CALENDAR 1941-42 Fall Term 3 :30 p. m.—Annual Alumni Memorial Ves- September 25—4:00 p. m.—Meeting of Faculty per Service. Knowles Memorial September 26-30—Orientation Week Chapel 6 :00 p. m.—Class Reunions October 2—Classes begin 8:15 p.m.—Play, Rollins Student Players. October 24—8:15 p. m.—Football, Rollins vs. Mer- Annie Russell Theatre cer University, Greater Orlando Stadium February 22— November 4, 5 & 6—8:15 p. m.—Intramural Play 9:45 a.m.—Service, Knowles Memorial contest, Fred Stone Laboratory Theatre Chapel November 7—8:15 p.m. — Football, Rollins vs. 2:30 p.m.— "Rollins Animated Magazine." Davis & Elkins, Greater Orlando Stadium Campus November 20—8:15 p. m.—Play, Rollins Student 8:15 p.m.—Annie Russell Series event Players. Annie Russell Theatre February 23—10:00 a. m.—Founders' Day Con- November 21—8:15 p.m.—Football, Rollins vs. vocation, Knowles Memorial Chapel Presbyterian, Greater Orlando Stadium February 26, 27—Annual Bach Festival. Knowles November 22—8:15 p.m.—Play, Rollins Student Memorial Chapel Players. Annie Russell Theatre March 3—8:15 p. m.—Concert, Symphony Or- November 27—Thanksgiving chestra of Central Florida. High School Audi- November 28—FALL HOMECOMING—Rollins torium vs. Howard College, Greater Orlando Stadium March 6—8:15 p. m.—Annie Russell Series event December 11, 12—8:15 p. m — Play, Rollins Stu- March 7—Annual Meeting of the Florida Audu- dent Players. Annie Russell Theatre bon Society. Annie Russell Theatre December 14—8:15 p. m.—Annual Christmas Ser- March 13, 14—8:15 p. m.—Annie Russell Series vice. Knowles Memorial Chapel event December 17—Fall Term Ends March 18, 19—8:15 p. m.—Gilbert & Sullivan, Symphony Orchestra of Central Florida. High Winter Term—1942 School Auditorium. January 5—Winter Term Opens March 19—Winter Term Ends January 13—8:15 p. m.—Concert, Symphony Or- Spring Term chestra of Central Florida. High School Audi- torium March 23—Spring Term Opens January 14, 15—8:15 p. m.—Annie Russell Series March 24—8:15 p. m.—Concert, Symphony Or- event chestra of Central Florida. High SchoorAudi- torium. January 29, 30, 31—8:15 p. m.—Play, Rollins Student Players, Annie Russell Theatre April 3—12:00 noon—Annual Good Friday Ser- vice. Knowles Memorial Chapel February 3—8:15 p. m.—Concert, Symphony Or- chestra of Central Florida. High School Audi- April 5—9:45 a. m.—Annual Easter Service. torium Knowles Memorial Chapel February 7—Spanish Institute Dinner April 18—Annual Cervantes Celebration February 8—8:15 p. m.—Annie Russell Series April 23, 24, 25—8:15 p. m.—Play, Rollins Stu-' event dent Players. Annie Russell Theatre. February 13—8:15 p. m.—Annie Russell Series May 29, 30—8:15 p. m.—Play, Rollins Student event Players. Annie Russell Theatre February 19, 20, 21—8:15 p. m—Play, Rollins, May 31—10:30 a. m.—The Baccalaureate Service. Student Players. Annie Russell Theatre Knowles Memorial Chapel. February 20—4:00 p. m.—Annual Irving Bachel- June 4— 7 :00 a. m.—Alumni-Senior Breakfast. ler Essay Contest Family Tree, Lake Virginia February 21—ALT MM DAY 10:00 a.m.—Commencement. Knowles 10:00 a. m.—Registration Memorial Chapel 1:00 p.m.—44th Annual Alumni Luncheon- (Dates for the Adult Education Program will be Meeting, College Commons announced later.) PAGE TWO ROLLINS ALUMNI RECORD ROLLINS 57th YEAR ROLLINS will celebrate its 57th opening on Thursday, member of the faculty this year. The Count will teach September 25 with a meeting of the Faculty and courses in French and French civilization. the launching of the Orientation Week program for Distinguished as a lecturer and world-traveler, Count incoming students. Returning undergraduates will ar- de Noue is a member of an illustrious French family rive for registration on Wednesday, October 1 and every- that traces its descent from the Tenth Century. The old one will get down to classes on October 2. family title is Marquis de la Granche, and the Count Registration figures at press time reveal that this has many connections in America. His great-grandfather year's student body will be equal to that of last year. was Major-General William S. Harney, famed in the This, in spite of the very unsettled world condition and Mexican and Indian Wars. the draft, is due in large measure to the splendid work of As vice-president of the National Society for the the alumni throughout the country in cooperation with Safeguarding of French Art, Count de Noue originally the Office of Admissions. They have assisted largely came to the United States to express the apprecition of in contacting prospective students and "selling" them the French people for the splendid cooperation of the on Rollins. American Committees in restoring ruined masterpieces The Orientation Week program will consist of assem- of architectural and scenic splendor. He remained in this blies, talks by various members of the Administration and country, lecturing on French art and culture, until called Faculty on the Rollins Plan, courses in Character Hy- into military service with the French army at the start giene, Placement Tests, College opportunities and re- of the war. sponsibilities, Chapel Choir Auditions, Physical examina- Because of his excellent command of the English tions, individual meetings with advisors, College sings, language, Count de Noue was assigned to the British a movie and informal social get-to-gethers at various Expeditionary Force as a liaison officer. He was in the dormitories following the evening assemblies in order to battalion of the Coldstream Guards and took part in the become better accjuainted. On Saturday afternoon, Sep- battle of Flanders and the historic fighting and retreat tember 27 from 4 to 6 there will be an All-College tea from Dunkirk. dance at the President's House to which alumni are Joe Justice of Rollins football fame has been appointed invited. Freshman Coach at Rollins. New Members of the Faculty Dr. Nathan C. Starr, formerly Acting Dean of Wil- liams College and a graduate of Harvard and Oxford Universities has been appointed Associate Professor of Rollins in the Service English for the coming year. Dr. Starr will replace Dr. Herman F. Harris who retired last June. ( Sufflementing the list frinted in the June issue) Graduating "cum laude" from Harvard in 1917, Dr. Starr entered the U. S. Army and served as a First JOHN "BUDDY" ALBERT, '42—Army Air Corps, Lieutenant in the Infantry, with a year's service over- Lakeland, Fla. seas, until the close of the World War when he entered EARL BRANKERT, '41—Army Air Corps Oxford and received his B.A. and M.A. degrees in the Honor School of Jurisprudence. Later, he entered the ROBERT DAVIS, '41—Navy Graduate School at Harvard where he took the A.M. and Ph.D. degrees in English Language and Literature. He WILLIAM M. DAVIS, II, '37—Camp Lee, Va. also served as one of the first Tutors in modern languages GEORGE EHRLICH, '42—Naval Air Cadet, Pensa- at Radcliffe as well as at Harvard. cola, Fla. Before joining the faculty at Williams College, where he served as Assistant Dean and later Acting Dean for IRVING FELDER, '40—Camp Croft, S. C. six years, he taught at Colgate University and at St. PETER P. FRANKEL (Peter Boulton), '44—Platoon John's College in Annapolis, Md. At the latter institu- No. 58, Recruiting Depot, Parris Island, S. C. tion he was also Assistant to the President and Dean of Juniors and Seniors. Last year he devoted his time to EARLE HAIGHT, '23—1st Lieutenant, El Paso, Texas independent research at the University of North Caro- JOE D. HANNA, JR., '40—Aviation Cadet, Parks Air lina, working on a book treating fundamental assump- College, E. St. Louis, 111. tions underlying literature, and on a study of concepts of Romanticism. He also continued creative work in WALLACE N. MACBRIAR, JR., '41—371st School poetry at the University. Squadron, Air Corps Technical School, Scott Field, A contributor of both learned and general articles to 111. English and American periodicals, his specialized fields of teaching include Neo-Classicism and Romanticism, THEODORE PITMAN, '41—Ensign, Navy Elizabethan non-dramatic literature, Honors Work and GEORGE ROGERS, '35—33rd Battalion, Camp Croft, Reading Courses, and Contemporary Fiction. S. C. Count Jehan de Noue, who lectured at Rollins College last year as a member of the Adult Education faculty GORDON L. SPENCE, '37—32nd Infantry, Fort Orel, during the winter term, is returning to the College as a Calif. SEPTEMBER, 1941 PAGE THREE ESCAPE FROM SYRIA By ELEANOR M. SPRAGUE COATS, purses, glasses on the way from Bombay and slippers! These to New York. 1,000 essentials we decid- Americans at Suez trying ed upon in case of an air to get out.