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Published for Graduates and Former Students of Marietta College Die MARIETTA ALUMNUS PUBLISHED FOR GRADUATES AND FORMER STUDENTS OF MARIETTA COLLEGE VOL.X No.3 APRIL 1931 <THE MARIETTA ALUMNUS Subscription Price $2.00 per Year (Member of the American Alumni Council) Published quarterly by the Alumni Council of Marietta College, at Marietta, Ohio. MEMBERS OF THE ALUMNI COUNCIL Term to Expire 1931: Term to Expire 1932: Myron A. Hays, '80 Howard W. Dickinson, '89 C. C. Middleswart, '94 Henry M. Dawes, '96 Allan T. Williamson, '98 Joseph C. Brenan, '96e Ruby A. Wilder, '08 Miss Willia D. Cotton, '98 Corwin L. McMahon, '20 Beman G. Ludwig, '19 Term to Expire 1933: William S. Plumer, '91 Asa E. Ward, '02 George J. Blazier, '14 Mrs. Jessie Hyde Palmer, '20 Howard E. Beebout, '25 EDITORIAL STAFF Arthur G. Beach, '91 George J. Blazier, '14 Thomas H. Kelley, 74 Charles A. Ward, '90 Miss Willia D. Cotton, '98 Entered as Second Class matter May 2, 1922, at the Post Office at Marietta, Ohio, under the Act of March 3, 1879. THE MARIETTA COLLEGE GLEE CLUB and Orchestra will make their second appearance 7 he Marietta Alumnus on the air Saturday night, April 11, 1931 from 10:00 to 10:30, Eastern Time, Station W.L.W. of the Crosley Radio Corporation in Cincinnati. Vol. X. No. 3. April, 1931 This will be the second appearance over the 'Nation's Station'. The first was March 29, 1930, the night following the audition arranged to test the excellence of the voices. No word could be Tabic of Contents sent to the Alumni last year because of the un­ certainty in the final appearance, but this year William Webster Mills 59 no audition is necessary. Editorial Comment and Review 64 But several alumni happened to hear the President's Message 69 broadcast last March, among them Robert H. Walker '78, who had been an invalid confined to College Glee Club by James Bird 70 his room for three years, and Earle Humphrey '15; both writing in enthusiastic letters. Marietta College Glee Club and This year we can all make this a Marietta Col­ Orchestra Ensemble 71 lege night. There is no question of the excellence Athletics 78 of the program and the performance of the club. It is hoped that you can invite the attention of The Reading Table 82 your friends to tune in at this hour. Prospective News by Classes 84 students in your city can be called by telephone to have them to listen in also. Again, it is hoped that many of you will send ington, which has made rowing history* the club "fan" letters telling how the program The picture of grim, plump old Hy Coni- came to you and how you have enjoyed it; a few telegrams during the broadcast would encourage bear, patron saint of American rowing, the members of the club. Address the "fan" will some day hang in the beautiful boat letters to any club member whom you may know house which Marietta has built for its or to Professor G. L. Hamilton, Director, Care, crews, even as it hangs in the boat houses Marietta College. of a score of rowing schools in America, where the coaches are men developed un­ The following, is clipped from the Co­ der Conibear at Washington, or later un­ lumbus Dispatch for March 8, 1931: der his style of rowing. Hugh Fullerton Says: That is because Ellis McDonald, captain * Little Marietta College, backed by the and stroke of Washington in 1928, is coach entire city, is doing the finest bit of college at Marietta, and because Ed Hawes, the sport development in the Middle West. man who makes the beautiful wrought Two eight-oared crews, composed mostly iron work in Marietta, and who started of farmer boys who never saw a skiff until Marietta rowing, also is an old Washing­ two years ago, are rowing racing shells on ton oarsman. the Muskingum course through the heart * Maybe you do not remember the start of the beautiful old city, and getting ready of rowing at Washington. The school was to compete with the leading crews of East poor and the athletic department poorer. and West,.on the water. On May 16, Old Hy Conibear, who had been trainer Marietta, by special invitation from Harv­ and rubber for the Chicago White Sox, ard, will row on the Schuylkill at Philadel­ was hired at $1800 a year to train the phia, against Navy, Pennsylvania and teams. Ed Hawes and some of the other Harvard, and from June 8 to 13, the Uni­ fellows wanted to row. Conibear never versity of Washington crew, en route to had been in a boat, excepting in a skiff the great Poughkeepsie regatta which it in a lagoon at Chicago. He tackled the has won many times, will stop off at Mar- job, admitting he knew nothing of rowing. etta to train and race with the Ohio boys. He scorned rowing machines. His theory ' Marietta has put the Middle West on was that men learn to row on water. They the rowing map* The only college be­ built Old Nero, a flat-bottomed scow, and tween Culver, Indiana, and Syracuse, New rigged it with oars. With pencil and York, that has taken up the finest of all paper, plump Hy sat, sweated, studied to college sports and the one which, perhaps, find what made a boat go. He discarded develops the highest type of athlete, is all theories and worked out a stroke of his little Marietta. own. There was insurrection. The crew ' There is romance in the tale of Mari­ went on strike, and then, one day, Hy, etta's crew, a romance that is a continu­ with tears rolling down his face, pleaded ation of that of the University of Wash- (Contiuued on Page 81.) WILLIAM WEBSTER MILLS 1852-1931 Alumnus, Trustee, Secretary-Treasurer and Friend to all Marietta College Faculty, Students and Alumni. THE MARIETTA ALUMNUS Vol. X APRIL 1931 No. 3. WILLIAM WEBSTER MILLS By GEORGE J. BLAZIER MR. WILLIAM WEBSTER MILLS, '71, September as a Freshman. He was grad­ Secretary of Marietta College since 1895 uated in 1871. In college he was a mem­ and Treasurer since 1900, passed away at ber of the Alpha Digamma Fraternity to his home "Millgate" at one-thirty o'clock which organization he remained intensely in the afternoon of Monday, March 16, loyal to the end of his life. He was a mem­ 1931. Mr. Mills had been confined to his ber of Alpha Kappa Literary society. He home in his last illness for two and one was made a member of Phi Beta Kappa in half weeks. Wednesday, February 25th, 1915 and in 1921 the degree of Doctor of was the last day he went to his duties at Laws was conferred on him by Marietta the First National Bank. His illness, College. Just a few weeks before his death though not apparently serious at the be­ he had been invited to go to the 1931 Com­ ginning, had the form of a general decline mencement of Wabash College for the and finally complete exhaustion which same degree which had been voted by the could not be overcome. It is thought that faculty and trustees of that institution. an illness a year ago was the beginning of Soon after his graduation from college the period of failing strength and vigor. Mr. Mills suffered an accidental injury, His physicians, two of the city of Mari­ the result of a collapsing building into etta, one from Columbus and one from which place he had stopped in a rain and Chicago, fought the battle which took on windstorm—an accident in which one the most grim aspects ten days preceding other person lost his life. On his recovery his death. His brother, Mr. John Mills, from this injury in 1873 he went to Craw- had made the statement at the Founders' fordsville, Indiana, where he became con­ Day celebration, February 13th, "Will is nected with the firm of Elston & Co., tired.'" Many of his friends had observed Private Bankers. Here he was for four­ for six months past that he was not in the teen years where he became very closely buoyant health so characteristic of him identified with the business and other when he usually said, "Oh, I'm all right." community interests of Crawfordsville. Mr. Mills was born in Marietta at the Both he and Mrs. Mills, to whom he was Mills home 301 Fifth Street January 27, married in 1875, formed many lasting 1852. He was of the third generation friendships in this community which is from settlers in the Marietta settlement the seat of Wabash College—the faculty migration. His grandfather Captain Wil­ and students of which were among the liam Mills came to Marietta in 1792. large number of their friends. Being an officer in the army, he was made Mrs. Mills taught a class composed commandant of the town of Marietta dur­ largely of Wabash students in Sunday ing the Indian uprisings and wars of School and their home became a center 1791-1795. Mr. Mills' father, Colonel John for informal gatherings of these and many Mills, Sr., was born in Marietta in 1795. others of the college generations between His grandmother was Mrs. Sarah (Board- 1875 and 1887. To hear from one of the man) Mills and his mother, Mrs. Dorothy friends whose acquaintance was thus Webster Mills, a native of Massachusetts made, which he did most frequently, was who as a graduate of the Ipswich one of the real joys of Mr.
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