Maine Alumnus, Volume 35, Number 3, December 1953
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The University of Maine DigitalCommons@UMaine University of Maine Alumni Magazines University of Maine Publications 12-1953 Maine Alumnus, Volume 35, Number 3, December 1953 General Alumni Association, University of Maine Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/alumni_magazines Part of the Higher Education Commons, and the History Commons Recommended Citation General Alumni Association, University of Maine, "Maine Alumnus, Volume 35, Number 3, December 1953" (1953). University of Maine Alumni Magazines. 453. https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/alumni_magazines/453 This publication is brought to you for free and open access by DigitalCommons@UMaine. It has been accepted for inclusion in University of Maine Alumni Magazines by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@UMaine. For more information, please contact [email protected]. F ----------------- X • • A Chance Acqu-aintance . Leads, To $169,000 Bequest Edward D. Hemingway was born in England but lived most of his life in Philadelphia. He went to a private school but never attended college, a fact which he seemed to regret. Early in life he entered the paper business established by his father. He married a Philadelphian who was described as “charming.” Mr. and Mrs. Heming way were lovers of nature and outdoor life. Their admiration of the beauties of the State of Maine led them to build a summer home in Washington County to which they came for many years. Ultimately they became citizens of the state. The Hemingways travelled extensively after retirement. On one of their trips they happened to meet a young Maine alumnus who was working for an advanced degree. Mr. Hemingway attended the Commencement at Maine when this student received his degree. As a result of that interest and the impressions he gained of the University and its students from his rare visits to the campus, he decided he would like to be helpful to the University. * I When his will was probated in 1950 it was learned that he had left $169,164 to the University to establish the Helen B. Hemingway Fund in memory of his wife The income and principal of this fund may be used at the discretion of the Trustees for scholarship awards to worthy students. The Trustees voted to use the income only for scholarships to be awarded to “worthy and needy” students. This year 83 students have received Helen B. Hemingway Memorial scholar ships. In this way the memories of the Hemingways are being usefully perpetuated. Their names are forever recorded as generous benefactors of the University of Maine. Published monthly from October to Tune inclusive, by the University of Maine General Alumni Association, Business office, The Maine Alumnus University of Maine, Orono, Maine Subscription price, $3 00 per year, included in annual alumni dues of $5 00 Member. American Alumni Council* Entered as second class matter at the Post Office at Orono, Maine, under act of March 3, 1870 ■X THE MAINE ALUMNUS vol. 35 - DECEMBER, 1953 NO. 3 GENERAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Officers In Issue.... George E. Lord ’24, President Thomas G. Mangan ’16, Vice President A Cooperative Fisheries Program 4 T. Russell Woolley ’41, Clerk George F. Dow ’27, Treasurer Donald V. Taverner ’43, Executive Sec. Faculty News 5 Margaret M. Mollison ’50, Assistant Sec. Homecoming, 1953 6 Alumni Council Black Bear Awards 7 Lewis O. Barrows ’16 Henry T. Carey '22 Clifton E. Chandler ’13 Your Memorial Union 8 Norris C. Clements '25 Thomas J. Desmond ’33 Alumni in the News 10 Raymond H. Fogler ’15 Arthur T. Forrestall ’33 Local Association News 11 Mrs. Emilie K. Josselyn '21 Alfred B. Lingley '20 Athletics 12 John II. Mahoney ’27 Elizabeth A. Mason ’30 Necrology 15 Clifford G. McIntire ’30 Alvin S. McNeilly ’44 Class Personals 16 James F. O’Connor ’36 Myron C. Peabody ’16 Conan A. Priest ’22 Mrs. Winona C. Sawyer '43 Mrs. Lucy F. Sheive ’27 Robert F. Thurrell ’15 Christmas Greetings Thomas N. Weeks ’16 December at the University is a colorful, exciting month. Cold, frosty Alumni Trustees North winds and deep snows .. dazzling brilliant morning sunlight. .. bright colored coats, scarfs, stocking caps . stinging ears and running Jessie L. Fraser '31 noses .. skiis and snowshoes . .. snowball fights ... skating on the crack Harold J. Shaw '14 ing, groaning ice at the MOC cabin. A gray-stone fireplace glowing with warm reds and yellows of burning logs . hot coffee and Christmas carols after a sleigh ride through moon THE MAINE ALUMNI’S sparkling white woods . Christmas Vespers with the smell of balsam and pine . Christmas wreaths with pine cones and red ribbon. Staff Slush . rain . glazed highways . automobiles with snow-treds and Editor, Donald V. Taverner ’43 chains . a call for a wrecker. a dent in the new car. Personals Editor, Vacations and six more days until Christmas . .. home. Margaret M. Mollison ’50 Santa Claus and the wide open eyes of a six-year-old ... a long red Editorial Assistant, Ralph Clark '54 stocking on the mantlepiece . a new train ... a pipe for Dad ... a pair of Sports Editor, Maurice Hickey ’56 gloves for Mom . lend-lease gifts for the aunts and uncles. Press, The University Press, Orono Mistletoe and holly . Christmas dinner with the relatives ... a glass of deep red wine ... baked turkeys and meats .. bubbling brown gravy . .. the smells of hot deep-freezer vegetables ... an afternoon snooze. As the seasons roll along—spring, summer, autumn, winter and spring COVER again, each season is anxiously awaited. The end of the snow and cold of Our cover is a typical scene winter, warm breezes and sunshine of spring and summer, the autumn bril during the Christmas season on liance and dazzling crisp days, and then, winter, with white snow and the University campus. We arc Christmas festivities. sure that it will bring fond mem We believe that winter and December is one of the finest times of the ories to the many alumni now year. Old Man Winter makes a lot of enemies as he teams up with a little located in distant parts. This red-faced gent called Jack Frost to gleefully paint the landscape white and cover is our Christmas card to sparkling in readiness for another red-faced gent called Santa, but we think you! that the Old Man has a jovial spirit which culminates at Christmas time Winter and December is a time for everyone. We hope you enjoy it as much as we do. THE MAINE ALUMNUS 3 DECEMBER, 1953 I /J Co&p.e>iGiiue Graduate, State in ■ London Bond, left, Dingell-John- son Coordinator, and Stuart De Roche, fishery biologist, watch Dr. W. Harry Everhart of the University z,oolog> department examine the scales of a fish. By Ralph Clark ’54 during Commissioner Cobb’s first three- need requires A new sonic sounder, year term as head of the Fish and Game used in mapping the depths of Maine IGHT Maine alumni and one Uni Department although a program, not lakes is one example of available equip versity professor hold in their as complete in scope as the present plan, ment Ehands the future of Maine fisheries had existed many years before this time. This statement was made by Roland Under the unique arrangement, the Two-Way Thesis H Cobb ’17, recently re-appointed Com State contributes generously with assis missioner of the Maine Department of Graduate students on completion of tantships involving full expenses for each Inland Fisheries and Game for a second their project receive their Master's de graduate’s project together with trans consecutive three-year term. gree, while at the same time, these stu portation expenses necessitated by his dents have directly aided the State with He was speaking about Dr W Harry work a definite fish management problem Everhart, who occupies the dual posi Men engaged in this program have Theses are submitted to the University tion of assistant professor of Zoology at the use of the latest modern equipment and the conclusions are applied to the the University and Director of the Maine in the fishery department and have full state fishery program and results of the Fishery Research and Management Di reign to use any such equipment as the projects are utilized in the statewide vision of the Inland Fisheries and Game management of fishery problems. Department, and the eight men who have Watson, as an example of a graduate’s participated in the cooperative program project, made it possible for the State sponsored by the Maine fishery division and the University to prevent unnecessary restrictions of fish ing pressure on Big Lake, Princeton, Many of the graduate students who Maine The data in his thesis, based on have taken part in this program are now information from his project, disclosed full-time employees of the State as the fact that additional fishing would not regional fishery biologists The eight men hurt the fish population in that particular who aid in this service are Lyndon H lake. In another instance, Bond and Bond ’44, assistant leader m the State DeRoche studied obstructions to fish mi fishery division and coordinator of the gration in the State which resulted in Dingell-Johnson federal aid fund, Stuart the removal of some obstructions and in E DeRoche ’50, Sebago, Carll N. Fen- the construction of fishways in other derson ’50, Moosehead, Robert E Foye routes of migration. ’44, Belgrade; Keith A Havey ’50, Wash ington and Hancock, Robert S. Rupp ’50, Range Of Projects Rangeley, Kendall Warner ’50, Aroos took; and John E Watson ’47, Penobscot Projects range in scope from a study of improvement of habitat for brook Assistantships Offered trout and land locked salmon on Mount Desert Island to a study of white perch The Fish and Game Department an in Sebasticook Lake, Newport, Maine.