COMMENCEMENT • SUMMER ISSUE, 1956 K A L A M AZ OO

COLLEGE

A LUMNU S

Vo lume XV III Jul y, 1956 No. 3

Anderson, New Prexy 2

Ju ne ... and Graduation 3

June ... and A lu mn i Day 6

" W e Dedicate this Build ing" 8

Speaking of Books 10 Albert Van Zoeren '23 (right) extends congratulations to his successor, Hugi1 Anderson '43, Library Gifts 10 newly-elected president of the Kulamazoo College Alumni Association.

W . D. Wallace Memorial 11

A Year for Celebration 12

Lucinda 14 ANDERSON/ NEW PREXY

Three Named to Boord 19 Hugh V. Anderson sends

News from the Campus 20 following message to alumni through pages of the ALUMNUS Campus Scenes 21

Spo rts 22 The Kalamazoo College Alumni natural desire to appear familiar Association has just completed two with his new surroundings. In the Woodworth Field Dedica t ion 22 very successful years under the pres­ months since I learned of my elec­ idency of AI Van Zoeren. This tion as alumni president, I have tried A lu mni Office rs Announced 22 same period saw Kalamazoo College to become more familiar with the make good progress in such diverse College's history and its present pol­ Clubs Repo rt 23 areas as increased endowment, high­ icies and problems. As you might er faculty salaries, a more selective suspect the effort has begun to bring A lumni News 24 admittance policy, and a number of forth its own rewards in the form of fine additions to the faculty. Our new friendships, a fresh awareness alumni have helped to make this of our traditions, and, I hope, a bet~ possible by showing an increased ter understanding of some of the desire to participate in the affairs of problems which Kalamazoo College the College. We have done this not faces. only by contributing our money to If we are to be of maximum use­ the Annual Fund Drive, but, for ex­ fulness to Kalamazoo College, the ED ITOR: MARILYN HINKLE '44 ample, by encouraging interest in ALUMNI PR ES.: HUGH V. ANDERSON '43 Alumni Association will need the Member, American Alumni Counc il Kalamazoo College on the part of continuing help of those who have high school students, by soliciting helped so generously in the past as Published qua rterly by the Kalamazoo Col­ money for the College, and by ac­ well as the help of others who have lege Alumni Association and f:alomazoo Col­ cepting new responsibilities in our not yet found the way in which they lege, Kalamazoo, M ich. Entered as second alumni organizations. class matter January 18, 1940, at the Post can be of use. For these latter, I Office at Kalamazoo, Michigan, under the Perhaps the most rewarding as­ hope that new friends and knowl­ act of March 3, 1879. Pub lished quarterly, pect of taking on a new responsibil­ edge will reward them for their ef­ January, April, July, and October. Subscrip­ ity is that one is forced into new forts. tion rote: One dollar per yea r. areas of thinking and learning by a (See Pagr 22 for Electio11 )

2 KALAMAZOO COLLEG E June . . . and GRADUATION

On the cover- Under the age Dr. Bates has done research in that instead of contrasting the terms, old oaks of the campttS quadrangle, Honduras and Guatemala. As a he believed "we would gain if we the presentation of a diploma, the member of the staff of the interna­ attempted to unite them, to look at turn of a tassel, and a warm hand­ tional health division of the Rocke­ the sciences as a part of the human­ shake pronounce the completion of feller Foundation he conducted an ities- to look at science as an art." student days and the entering of a investigation of mosquito biology From that view he defined science wider world. in Albania, and in 1939 was sent to as "the characteristic art form of Egypt to establish a laboratory for Western civilization." "I am prob­ Commencemen t malaria research. When the project ably misusing the word 'art,'" he was abandoned at the outbreak of A scientist who has played a said, "but it seems tO me a conven­ major role in combatting malaria World War II, Dr. Bates was trans­ ient term for all of man's efforts to ferred by the Foundation to direct a and yellow fever, and a churchman find meaning in the apparent chl!os who for over thirty years has been laboratory for yellow fever research of the real world in which he lives at Villavicencio, Colombia. Since a leader in interchurch cooperation, -tO make adjustments between the were the speakers for the 120th an­ 1952, he has been a member of the symbolic inner world of thought, of nual Commencement exercises and divisional committee for biology the mind, and the outer world per­ Baccalaureate services at Kalamazoo and medicine of the National Sci­ ceived by the sense - to find form College. ence Foundation. He is the author and pattern in the universe ... This of four scientific books which have Dr. Marston Bates, professor of is the quest of the artist- to find zoology at the University of Mich­ been acclaimed for their readability form, pattern, meaning, significance as well as their scholarship. igan, who has been engaged in for him and for others in his expe­ health mission research projects in Dr. Bates stated that "an increas­ rience with the world. Writer, a wide area of the world, gave the ing schism" between the humanities musician, painter, sculptor, all are address at the Commencement and the sciences, particularly in the searching for meanings which they exercises on Monday morning, June intellectual world, "seems to me to can express symbolically, and which 11, on the campus quadrangle. His be particularly unfortunate, and to can give satisfaction and understand­ topic was "Science and Understand­ result from a misinterpretation of ing to the creator and to his audi­ ing." both areas of knowledge." He said ence."

SUMMER /\LUMNUS, 1956 3 in 1948, serving as chairman on ar­ rangements. He was secretary of the committee on the war and reli­ gious outlook in 1919 which made a series of major studies of religious problems after World War I. He has participated in major religious conferences in Jerusalem, England, and Germany. Dr. Cavert cautioned his audience against placing undue emphasis on security in formulating life careers. "Although we still give lip service to ideals of heroic living, our Amer­ ican practice is softer than that in any other generation," he stated. He suggested that the graduates place emphasis on the creative rather than the acquisitive impulse. A way of being successful, Dr. Cavert declares, "is to identify your­ self with something greater than Outstand1ng scholars in the Ka lamazoo College graduatmg class were (fron t row, left to right) Gretchen Boh r, Waukesha, Wis.; Endrene Peterson, Manistee; Fleurette Kram, Chicago; yourself. This means being more and Donna Ullrey, Berwyn, Ill., all receiving deg rees cum !crude,; (back row, left to right) concerned to serve a worthy cause Jacob Slonimsky, New York, N. Y.; Frederick Hucison, Skaneateles, N. Y.; and Steward Staf­ than to make everything serve you. ford, Jackson, all cum laude; and Richard Brown, Milwaukee, Wis., receiving his degree And you will find that in the long magna cum laude. Not present for the photograph: Jurgen Diekmann, Ludwigshafen, Ge rmany, run the men in whom service has and Janet Osborn, Hastings, both magna cum laude; Gnd Dorothy Nichois Hackett, cum laude. become the master motive are the men who find the greatest peace of mind and the greatest zest in life." Degrees Conferred In addition to the honor grad­ man's way of finding understanding Dr. Bates said the same role is uates pictured, members of the sen­ played by the scientist. The scientist ... We need the insight of both the ior class receiving degrees were "has particular methods, particular poet and the scientist in our own Carolyn Crossley, Ruta Lapsa, Jus­ search for meanings, and partic­ techniques, particular ways of search­ tin Ruhge, Robert F. Skora, Donald ing for understanding; but these are ularly, we need to put science into E. Stowe, David N. Stuut, and only the special attributes of his its proper perspective as one of the Angelo Vlachos, all of Kalamazoo; art forms, one of the humanities, of particular art." B. Duane Arnold, Jackson; Andrew the kinds of knowledge." To the argument that the purpose W. Bennett, Chicago; Richard A. of science is prediction and the con­ Baccalaureate Bowser, Niagara Falls, N.Y.; Ruth trol of nature and technology, Dr. The speaker for the Baccalaureate L. Chamberlain, Royal Oak; David Bates said, "Certainly in all areas of service on Sunday afternoon, June D. Crane, Cedar Springs; Marylou knowledge we have the contrast be­ 10, was Dr. Samuel McCrea Cavert, Howell Crooks, Lansing; Gordon A.. tween the practical and the theoret­ executive secretary in America of Dudley, LaGrange, Ill.; Monica ical. We have only to think of the the World Council of Churches. His Evans, South Roston, Mass.; Lois J. pros and cons in discussions of art topic was "On Finding One's Frey, Downers Grove, Ill.; John C. for art's sake, and to match these Work." Frueh, Grand Rapids; Richard C. with discussions of science for sci­ Dr. Cavert is responsible for the Hackett, Watervliet; Marcia Dick­ ence sake. When we do this, we work carried on by 31 American son Hargis, Battle Creek; Thomas find the 'pure' scientist and the church denominations as members R. Hathaway, Mansfield, Ohio; Isa­ 'pure' artist tO be brothers, neither of the World Council and had an belle Johnston, Mt. Clemens; Cle­ worried about control or conse­ important role in the Second As­ mence E. Lewis and Roger M. Me­ quences; both pushing on in the sembly of the World Council of Guineas, Detroit; Phillip W. Lewis, search of understanding of them­ Churches in Evanston, Ill., in 1954. Cloverdale; A. Herbert Lipschitz, selves and the world about them. He was one of the influential Amer­ Bronx, N.Y.; Jerre H. Locke, Rich­ With such a concept of science, we ican churchmen who helped in for­ land; Jean L. Mcintyre, Rochester, cannot give science any special mation of plans for this organiza­ N. Y.; J. Michael McNerney, Oak patent on truth, any unique and ex­ tion at the constituting assembly of Park, Ill.; George A. Malcolm, clusive value. It becomes only one rhe World Council at Amsterdam Jamaica, British West Indies; Joseph

4 KALAMAZOO COLLEGE A. Meagher, Bay City; David W. Hornbeck Prize in physics, Richard University of Michigan Engineering Moran, Holland; Marylyn Eck Mor­ Brown and Robert Thomason; Oak­ School; Susan Prince, University of rell, LaGrange Park, Ill.; Susan ley Prize for highest rank in class, Pennsylvania in political science; Prince, Columbia, S. C.; Everett E. Richard Brown; Upjohn Award in Justin Ruhge, teaching assistantship Shafer, Western Springs, Ill.; Pa­ chemistry, Steward Stafford; Sher­ in physics at University of Missouri tricia Greenwood Stein, South Bend, wood Prize, Jurgen Diekmann; and School of Mines and Metallurgy; Ind.; Joan L. Story, Benton Harbor; the James Hosking Memorial Prize, Robert Skora, Stritch School of Med­ Robert L. Thomason, Newton, Duane Arnold and Paul VanStone. icine at Loyola University; Jacob Mass.; Charles Tucker, New York, Slonimsky, University of Michigan N.Y.; Nancy Wolff Underhill, Wil­ Another Outstanding Record Medical School; Patricia Greenwood mette, Ill.; Robert D. Vandenberg, Twenty-six of the fifty-four grad­ Stein, Western Michigan College; Los Altos, Calif.; Paul D. VanStone, uating seniors have plans for con­ Robert Thomason, University of Albion, N. Y.; Gerald F. Webster, tinuing study, to add another high Michigan in physics; Charles Tucker, Grosse Pointe; and Herbert C. Wur­ percentage year to the well-estab­ Brooklyn Law School; Frederick ster, Cassopolis. lished tradition. They include An­ Hudson, Colgate Rochester Divinity The following awards went to drew Bennett, graduate work at the School, with Danforth Foundation graduating seniors for achievement University of Chicago; Richard Fellowship and Rockefeller Brothers in their specific areas: James Bird Bowser, Colgate Rochester Divinity Fellowship; Fleurette Kram, teach­ Balch Prize in American history, School; David Crane, University of ing assistantship in biology at North­ Andrew Bennett and Roger Mc­ Michigan Medical School; Monica western; Endrene Peterson, graduate Gineas; William G. Howard Memo­ Evans, teaching assistantship in biol­ work in library science at the Uni­ rial Prize in political science, Marcia ogy at Northwestern; Lois Frey, versity of Michigan; Steward Staf­ Dickson Hargis; Kalamazoo College University of Michigan Library ford, Upjohn Research Scholarship Athletic Association Medal, David Service Scholarship; John Frueh, at Harvard; Donna Ullrey, fellow­ Moran; Stone Prize in education, Graduate School of Business at ship at Radcliffe College in bio­ Patricia Greenwood Stein; Williams Northwestern; Marcia Dickson Har­ chemistry; Jurgen Diekmann, teach­ P r i z e in mathematics, Richard gis, School of Law at the University ing assistantship at University of Brown; Florence E. Grant Award, of California; Thomas Hathaway, Illinois in organic chemistry; Rich­ Fleurette Kram; Hammond Prize University of Michigan Medical ard Brown, University of Wisconsin, in philosophy, Frederick Hudson; School; Isabelle Johnston, Horace National Science Foundation Fel­ Hodge Prize in philosophy, Jacob Rackham Scholarship in English, lowship in physics; and Janet Os­ Slonimsky; Hodgman Prizes in ten­ University of Michigan; Ruta Lapsa, born, teaching assistantship at Uni­ nis, Jurgen Diekmann, David Moran training at Bronson Hospital in med­ versity of California, Berkeley, in and Donald Stowe; John Wesley ical technology; George Malcolm, psychology.

Kalamazoo College conferred four honorary degrees at the I 20th Commencement- to a Kalamazoo leader, a scientist, and two religious leaders. Those honored were (left to right) the Reverend Homer J. A rmstrong, pastor of the Jefferson Avenue Baptist Church of Detro1t, an honorary Doctor of Divinity deg ree; the Reverend Samuel McCrea Covert, executive secretary of the World Council of Churches in Ame rica, an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree; President Weimer K. Hicks who conferred the degrees; Dr. Marston Bates, professor of zoology at the University of Michigan, an honorary Doctor of Science degree; and Donald S. Gilmore, Kalamazoo, chairman of the board of the Upjohn Com­ pany, an honorary Doctor of Laws degree. June ... and ALUMNI DAY

KALAMAZOO COLLE G E A 25th anniversary was marked by the class of 1931. Pictured are (front row ) John R. Stroud, Howard (Pat) Hoover, Robe rt F. Merson, Mrs. Merson, Frederick J. Wolff, Grace Richardson Wolff, Ford B. Perry and Mrs. Perry; (second row ) Gordon L. Moore, Geraldine Vermeulen Moore, Morlan J. Grandbois, Miss Kling, Evelyn Rankin Rye, Helen Hey ­ wood Kling, Richard G. Jackson, Margaret Oakley Johnson, Josephine Read Kuch, Dr. Curtis W. Sabrosky, Leila Rams ­ dell Jackson, Willis D. Pease, and John J. Kuch . Familiar fcaes in the foreground are LeRoy Hornbeck '00, and Dr . '94 and Mrs. Charles J. Kurtz .

The concluding message Morlan Grandbois '31 had for us at the alumni banquet was, "Whether we are 25 year OLD graduates or 25 years AGO graduates, our future depends upon what we see now and tomorrow and what we DO abou t it now and tomorrow. Remember- it's all in a I ifetime !" The director of merchant sales for St. Regis Paper Company, and former president of the Kalamazoo College Alumni Association, is shown at the left as he ad­ dressed a capacity crowd in Welles Hall. Others pictured are (left to right ) Mrs. Grandbois, President Hicks, the speaker, and toastmaster Willis Pease '3 i.

Memb ers of th .a reunion class of 1926 in ci uded ( frist row ) Ruth Wilbur Shivel, Alice Starkweather Doubleday, Helen Going Bla ck, daughter Barbara, Robert T. Black, Royena M. Hornbeck; (second row ) Donald B. Doubleday, Beatrice Cheney Stinson, Donna Rankin Jones, Dr. Kenneth L. Crawford, Alma Smith Crawford, Dorothy Allen Dowd, Winifred Merritt Bowman, Edwin G. Gem rich, and Blanche Grandbois Bush.

Pictured with a group of 1916 reunioners are (first row ) Ruth Goss Eldridge, Ralph M. Ralston, Ruth White Ralston, Dorothy Garrett Rockwell, Dr. Donald C. Rockwell, Elizabeth Blanchard Dewey, Elizabeth Marvin Taylor, Sara Brown Priddy, Mark S. McKinstry; (second row ) Frances Clark Bouwman, J. Burt Bouwman, Lindsey R. Goss, Bessie Freeman Rickman, Leland J. Kerman, Lucile Owen Kerman, Gertrude McCulloch, Lydia Buttalph Moyi e, Elizabeth Stetson Fleugel, James B. Fleugel, and Bee !31inston McKinstry. Together for the 50th anniversary of the class of 1906 are (first row ) Jessie Hoyne Howard of Bneton Harbor; Vir ­ gin ia Hess, daughter, and Dr. George W. Hess af Birmingham, Alabama; Elizabeth Farley Wisner of Buchanan; Harry G. Burns and Gertl'ude Taylor Burns '07 of Kalamazoo; (second row ) Dr. Coe S. Hayne '99 and Ethel Shandrew Hayne of St. Joseph; Dr. Charles J. Kurtz '94 and Mrs. Kurtz of Chicago; Lillian Ethelyn Gibson, Florence Winslow, and For ­ dyce B. Wiley, all of Kalamazoo. Eight of the sixteen living graduates af 1906 were on the c" mpus for the reunion .

SUMMER ALUMNUS, 1956 7 UPT O N S CIENCE HALL

DEDICATETHIS BUILDING# ~"

THE DEDICATION ceremony halls, and the pleasant feeling of the his share to lasting endeavors. In for the Louis C. Upton Science Hall building is carried out through the his love of youth he always looked was held on Saturday afternoon, use of nature colors- greens, yel­ to the future, and his spirit will June 9, as the highlight of the Com­ low, brown, and shades of red. march on with those yotmg people mencement week end. This beauti­ Speaking at the dedication cere­ who come through these doors to­ ful new building which was built mony were Frederick S. Upton, morrow, and tomorrow and tomor­ to house the departments of biology brother of the late Mr. Upton and row." and mathematics, is named in honor Trustee of the College; Dr. Richard Miss Frances Diebold: "The fun ­ of the late Louis C. Upton, founder U. Light, chairman of the Board of of the Whirlpool Corporation and damental faith of Man in one of his Trustees; President Weimer K. noblest institutions, a temple of member of the Kalamazoo College Hicks· and Miss Frances Diebold. Board of Trustees. learning, is symbolized for us by Takin~ part in the Dedicatory Litany that composite community of schol­ The Louis C. Upton Science Hall were Robert C. Upton, son of the ars- young and old alike- we is a four-floored structure, embody­ late Mr. Upton; Cameron L. Davis, recognize in the concrete as Kalama­ ing the latest in facilities. The Trustee and builder of the Science zoo College, the most recent physical ground floor is designed with outside Hall; Albert Van Zoeren '23, pres­ addition to which is Upton Hall. groups in mind. The main lecture ident of the Alumni Association; Today, we dedicate this fine, friend­ room can accommodate two hundred Dr. H. Lewis Batts, Jr., of the biol­ ly building in commemoration of people and is equipped with an ad­ ogy department; and Thomas Hath­ Louis C. Upton, who although a joining cloak room. The floor is away, senior biology student. The leader in the practical, every-day tiered with permanent seating, and Litany was written by Dr. Charles application of science, was nonethe­ the room itself is completely equip­ K. Johnson '32. The Reverend less an individual inherently atttmed ped for audio-visual aids. An attrac­ Lloyd ]. Averill offered the closing to the historic faith mankimd has tive seminar room is also found on prayer. consistently shown in his temples of the ground floor, lined with glass Mrs. Louis C. U peon was present learning. This basic faith- which and natural birch cabinets for dis­ for the ceremony as well as other we anticipate is sincerely at the plays. The botany physiology lab­ members of the family, including heart of Upton Hall- is 'the in­ oratory and the lounges make up the her daughter, Mrs. Henry Sears exhaustible value of the accumu­ balance of the first floor. In the Hoyt of Winnetka, Illinois. A recep­ lated experience of the human race basement of the new building, there tion was held in their honor in as a guide to wise action in all rela­ is a completely equipped darkroom. Hoben Hall following the dedica­ tions of life. This experience is On the second floor are found the tion. developed in science, recorded in office and conference room of Dr. history, embodied in literatme.' In Lewis Batts, the natural history lab­ Frederick S. Upton: " . .. I would this sense, Upton Hall has added oratory for ornithology and ecology, like to refer briefly to Lou's connec­ real strength to all our several edtt­ a large freshman laboratOry, and a tion with this College, which is cational disciplines, not alone to smaller lecture room. On the third honoring his memory today. As has those of biology or mathemafics floor are the microtech laboratOry, been stated, he served on the Board the staff laboratory for advanced of Trustees for a nttmber of years " students, a laboratory for embryol­ and was a member of the Board at PICTURES ON OPPOS ITE PAGE ogy and anaromy, a lecture room, the time of his death in 1952. Dur­ (First co lumn, top to bottom) and the office and conference room ing his service on its Board there Exterior view of Upton Science Hall, Dr. of Miss Frances Diebold, head of were many serious problems, and in Thomas Walton in conference room adjoin­ the biology department. There are those years he became very fond of ing his office, Dr. Lewis Botts in general four classrooms on the cop, or fourth the College and spoke often of its biology lob. floor, and the office and conference bright future. Because he was keen­ room of Dr. Thomas Walton, head ly devoted to the higher education (Second co lu mn, top to bottom) of the mathematics department. All of youth, Kalamazoo College be­ The Upton family views the Louis C Upton three lecture rooms are tiered and came one of his major interests ... portrait at the Upton Science Hb ll Dedica­ tion -Mr. and Mrs. FredErick S. Upton, have permanent seating, and are Speaking for the Louis C. Upton M rs. Lou is C Upton, and (at right) Rob­ completely equipped with audio­ family, I can say that we believe it ert Upton and daughter, and Mrs. Henry visual aids. The lighting through­ is most appropriate to dedicate this Sea rs Hoyt, daughter of the louis C. Up tons out is flourescent. Extensive use is science hall in Lou Upton's memory. (cente r); the main f loor lecture room; and made of built-in display cases in the He was one who contributed beyond Miss Frances Diebold 1n the microtech lob.

8 KALAMAZOO COLLEGE SUMMER ALUMNUS , 9 5 6 9 Listed below are the names of donors of books and/ or periodicals from January 1, 1956, to the present time : Mrs. M yrtie Adams Mr. and Mrs. C. V. Patterson Dr. Peter Boyd-Bowman Dr. Edward Rickard Dr. John Copps Mr. Walter E. Scott THE LIBRARY Dr. Marion Dunsmore Mr. and Mrs. Carl W. Siegel Mrs. S. E. Greer Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Stocker GRATEFULLY Mrs. M. Lee Johnson U. S. Steel Foundation, Kalamazoo College Old Dominion Foundation, ACKNOWLEDGES Women's Council through Am. Library Assn. Dr. and Mrs. Charles J. Kurtz Dr. Donald Vanliere THESE GIFTS Dr. and Mrs. Richard U. Light Mr. and Mrs. John K. Walsh Mr. Allan B. Milham Mrs. E. L. Woodhams Mr. Robert Miyagawa

Contributions to the following memorials were received : Dr. Robert J. Eldridge Mr. and Mrs. Donald J. King Dr. Osborn H. Ensing Miss Jeanette Rosenberg Dr. Howard C. Jackson

SPEAKING OF BOOKS By Dr. Arnold M ulder, Professor Emeri tus of English Along comes a British writer Those books resulted in a movement prisoner, Robert Dudley, who later named Alfred Dodd who not only called "euphuism" that affected became the Earl of Leicester. After claims that Francis Bacon was the English literature for many years. her release, according to Dodd, she author of Shakespeare's plays but But there is more. Dodds believes gave birth secretly to a boy, who that he wrote virtually everything that the man we know as Edmund was accepted and brought up as his else that was published in the great Spenser, sometimes listed as the son by Sir Nicholas Bacon. Age of Elizabeth. greatest British poet before Shake­ Later, after she had become For more than a hundred years speare, was merely a political clerk. queen- still according to Dodd - certain people have been trying to Francis Bacon bought his name for Elizabeth secretly married the Earl prove that the man named Shake­ the title page of a long poem of his of Leicester and bore him a second speare did not write the works at­ own called The Faerie Queene! son, who in course of time became tributed to him. Various writers And that is only a part of the the famous Earl of Essex. In 1601 have urged the claims of various story. Bacon, according to Dodd, - this is sober history - Essex was poets, known and unknown, but wrote a great many other things arrested by the government and be­ Francis Bacon has on the whole re­ that are listed in histories of English headed for treason. Two years later mained the favorite candidate for literature as having been written by Que e n Elizabeth died- heart­ the honor. the great poets and dramatists of a broken. Conventional history qas And Alfred Dodd, in a book great age. Before Dodd gets through sometimes suggested that the heart­ called Francis Bacon's Personal there is hardly a writer left in the break was over a lover she could not Life-Story, undertakes to prove that Age of Elizabeth whose work was save; Dodd asserts that this largely the advocates of the Baconian not that of Francis Bacon. (You was over a son who rose against his authorship of Shakespeare have been can find the book in Mandelle; a mother. far too modest. According to Dodd, fairly adequate college library must That will give a faint idea of the not onlv did Bacon write Shake­ reflect all sorts of points of view.) fantastic lengths to which the Brit­ speare; he also wrote the plays of Extravagant though these claims i~h writer goes. But his main con­ Ben Jonson; and of Christopher may be, they pale into insignificance cern is not with Essex but with Marlowe; and of several other play­ in comparison with claims as to Bacon. If Dodd is to be believed, wrights of that age. Bacon's personal and political ident­ Bacon must have been the greatest Nor does he stop there. Accord­ ity. Dodd, in brief, sets out to prove man who ever lived. All in all, ing to Dodd, Bacon wrote the two that Francis Bacon was the son of Dodd sounds a little like the pres­ long prose books attributed to John Queen Elizabeth. According to him, entday Russians who claim credit for Lyly, Euphues, and Anatomy of Wit Elizabeth, as a young girl and while everything the world has learned to and Euphues and his England. in prison, fell in love with another call great.

10 K A lAMA ZOO COLL E GE MEMORIAL PROGRAM cals from rson MRS. WALLACE HONORED

A memorial program honoring Miss Nancy West, Newton, Mass., egel the late Winifred Dewing Wallace, who has just completed her junior :ker Kalamazoo benefactor who made year at Kalamazoo College, is the the College the residuary beneficiary first recipient of this newly estab­ dation, of her extensive estate, will be lished scholarship. r Assn. established at Kalamazoo College to Miss West is studying at the further the scholarly interests and Breadloaf Summer School of Eng­ alsh The Following creative capacity of students. lish of Middlebury College. Middle­ The program, in the form of three bury is providing a scholarship projects in the field of English and for Miss West's tuition, and the Win­ Section the humanities, will be known as ifred Dewing Wallace Scholarship the Winifred Dewing Wallace will cover her room and board for Memorial Program in English. "" ing the summer. Looks Tow arc/ One of the three projects is the In memory of Mrs. Wallace a Winifred Dewing Wallace Scholar­ plaque will be installed in the main ship for students in each class to be entrance room of the campus li­ awarded annually on the basis of the Approach of brary. The plaque of special design competitive examinations. and creation has been made pos­ A second project is a visting lee­ sible by gifts from the Women's curer program in which a guest lee­ a Special Year bf Eng'1st Council and friends, under the curer in English will teach on the campus for one semester every third leadership of Mrs. Donald S. Gil­ r'ho later more. cer. After or fourth year. in the Life Dodd, shL The third project is a summer Mrs. Wallace, who died Jan. 1, foy, who study or travel program in which an 1954, named Kalamazoo College up as hi undergraduate majoring in English the residuary of her estate, the of our College n. may study abroad or at one of the amount being approximately $1,- become leading American summer schools 300,000 which was placed in the Dodd­ in English. College's endowment fund. the Earl a second e became In 1601 THE ROAD TO SECURITY THE ~ssex was t and be­ "The Road to Security" is the title of the Kalamazoo College ears later bequest brochure including information on making a will, changing a -hean­ will, suggested language for making a bequest, and examples of Kal­ 125th ;tory has amazoo College memorials through the years, etc. For a copy of this he heart­ booklet or further information, address any of the following members could not of the Kalamazoo College Bequests Committee: ANNIVERSARY is largely gainst his MR. DAVID GREENE , CHM. MR. HAROLD B. ALLEN 2626 Oakland Dr., Kalamazoo The Upjohn Co., Kalamazoo IN 1958 MR. PAuL H. ToDD ea of the MR. EDWIN G. GEMRICH Box 591, Kalamazoo the Brit­ 222 S. Westncdge Ave., Kalamazoo latn con­ DR. MAYNARD 0. WILLIAMS MR. H. CLAIR jACKSON 11006 Montrose Ave. iJUt with 219 W. Lovell St., Kalamazoo Garrett Park, Maryland believed, MR. HERBERT H. GARDNER MR. FLOYD R. OLMSTED ~ greatest Birmingham National Bank 123 W. Michigan, Kalamazoo 1 in all, Birmingham, Michigan the pres­ MR. RALPH M. RALSTON MISS MARILYN HINKLE credit for 20 I N. Park St., Kalamazoo Kalamazoo College :arned to

L E r S U M ME R ALUMNU S , 195 6 li A Y E A R FOR CELE BRAT ION A century caught the i greatest liter rh:1t early er 1958 ing an imp ene. Nearl By Dr. Weimer K. ~ ic pa sed since College with I write this manuscript high above charter, achieved after four attempts we then are confronted with tht hundred yea the Rockies on my way to the Bap­ in 185 5, is a story of steadfast and challenge of maintaining an er.· tist Convention in Seattle and to four courageous leadership. Equally fas­ vironment in which they may be alumni gatherings on the West cinating are the records of the nurtured. State institutions, witt Coast. The 123rd year of our Col­ 1890's, when Dr. Slocum and C. C. their seemingly limitless funds, art lege is now history. Another Com­ Bowen dreamed of a great cathedral moving dauntlessly ahead, gaininb mencement season, my third, is still of learning high on the hill, and in stature and appeal. To succeed fresh on my mind. then made that dream come true. in our fellowship, we must artrat: One cannot experience the ten­ One finds deep satisfaction, too, in and hold a superior faculty, expanc sions and the excitement of a grad­ the accomplishments of Dr. Stetson departmental budgets, screen enter· uation week end without a sense of and Dr. Hoben, who built the mod­ ing classes even more carefully, relief when it is finished. But this ern college and crystallized their broaden the national reputation or year the customary letdown has not achievements in a fellowship in the College, and add to our alread enveloped me. Instead, my mind is learning. attractive campus until we have th still preoccupied with the Com­ Such accomplishments justify our "perfect" physical plant. Do we be· mencement meetings which accen­ designating 195 7-5 8 as a year of lieve in Kalamazoo College and in· tuated vividly the nearness of the celebration. In all segments of col­ dependent education sufficiently tl 125th Anniversary, a mile-stone we lege life, we must seek to make the permit no barrier to block the road shall reach in 1958. Even more awe­ anniversary year the most significant to a greater future? .n some is the realization that in less in history. Alumni should plan now Yesterday morning, as I rushed tl than fifteen months we shall enter to return for Homecoming, to at­ clear my desk before leaving for tht our Anniversary year. tend the area dinners which will be airport, Ethel Knox, alumna anc An occasion of this import places sponsored in every section of the author from Grand Rapids, knock~ a responsibility upon us all. How country where even a handful of the on my door. She was there to deh· should we pay tribute to the found­ College family are grouped, and to ver a letter from J. Blinn Stone. ing fathers? How should we rec­ reune at Commencement. Our grandson of Dr. James A. B. ognize the host of friends, alumni, Trustees have approved an elaborate Stone and his talented wife, Lucind. and faculty who have given unspar­ educational convocation, which Hinsdale Stone. Time only permtt· ingly of their time and talents that should contribute to the thinking of ted me to speak most briefly to Mi the College might serve more fully? the intellectual world. These and Knox, so she left on my desk tht For many, including the writer, the many more celebrations should high­ letter dated July 25, 1860. One 12 5th Anniversary will represent light the year's activities. hour later, when the pressures h.d the most important milestone reach­ But an anniversary should be far eased, I turned to the antique mar.· ed during their association with more than a series of festive occa­ uscript to find that it was from tht Kalamazoo. As the motors of our sions and nostalgic tributes. It should pen of the illustrious Ralph Walde plane drone monotonously on, these be, even more, a time for soul­ Emerson. The document was a let· ideas and their attendant respons­ searching in which we evaluate the ·ter of introduction of Lucind. ibilities prey heavily upon my mind. work of the past and dedicate our­ Stone, in which Emerson praised I believe there are three areas of selves to use that past as stepping Kalamazoo College as he wrote: interest which should occupy the stones to the future. What should attention of the College family. be the role of Kalamazoo College " .. . a lady whom I could heartily First, an anniversay should be for in the future? We have believed in wish to serve desires an introduc· celebration of achievement and for the liberal education, in sound cion to you. Mrs. Stone is the wife recognition of service of the many. scholarship and high academic stand­ of Rev. Dr. ]. A. B. Stone, Pm· We have reason to be proud of Kal­ ing. We have maintained that reli­ ident of a College in Kalamazoo, amazoo. We are anxious that our gion should be at the very core of Michigan, a thriving and important contributions to education be rec­ the educational experience. We have College, which, as I learned last ognized. Even a casual perusual of purposely limited enrollment, con­ winter, on the spot, has been created our history reveals periods which vinced that the impact of professor mainly by the character and energy excite the imagination. One is cap­ of Dr. and Mrs. Stone, and which upon student offers the optimum op­ now exerts no mean influence in the tivated by the pre-Civil War days, portunity. Are these values worth education and refinement of the when Kalamazoo moved to the fore­ fighting for in an age of mass edu­ · State. Mrs. Stone is a woman of ex· front of Midwestern colleges. The cation and automation? cellent sense, and is dearly esteemed long struggle for a degree-granting Assuming an affirmative answer, by a large circle of friends ...."

12 K ALAMAZ OO CO LLE ' U M M E A century ago the infant college of advancement and times when pro­ particular than at any time since the caught the imagination of America's gress seemed slow. Yet from each turn of the century. Therefore as greatest literary figure. Already in period of quiescence Kalamazoo has we approach this significant mile­ that early era Kalamazoo was mak­ emerged a stronger institution. stone, we must weigh the role of the ing an impact in the educational College for the years that lie ahead. · scene. Nearly one hundred years has We enter today an era of promise. With pride in the past, with belief passed since Emerson honored the At this time there is greater hope for in the present, and with faith in the College with his presence. These one the independent church-related col­ future, no goals for Kalamazoo Col­ hundred years have witnessed eras lege in general and Kalamazoo in lege are beyond achievement.

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S1gns of oge ore evident in areas of the above reproduction of the valuable Rolph Waldo Emerson letter, doted July 25, 1860. A recent gift from J. Blinn Stone of Detroit, grandson of Dr. and Mrs. J. A. B. Stone, it refers to the "thriving ond important College" ortd the "character and ene rgy of Dr. and Mrs. Stone." Eli zabeth G. Gaskell, wri te r of LIFE OF CHARLOTTE BRON TE and other works, was the recipient of the letter which served as on introduction of Lucinda Hinsdale Stone. The letter, in its entirety, is to appear in a forthcoming book on the life of Mrs. Stone from the pen of Miss rthel Knox '1 3. Copyright, Ethel Knox, Jul y, 1956

SUMMER ALUMNUS, 1956 13 such people called infidels. I found, this experience led me to think LUCINDA was mountain-born. however, that they had a standard twice before I made up my mind She looked up. She liked to get up of morality higher than that of about anything. When I went home early in the morning. And when she many church members, a high stand­ in the fall ... I went right into the mentioned the fact, she meant very ard of justice and true righteousness. academy again and pursued my early- before sunrise. When she This was a puzzle to me; it afforded studies; and the next summer I was a child, she felt she had lost me a study, and I derived from it taught again." something from the day if she failed lessons which have followed me all Her academy courses included to see the sun climb up over the my life. It has led me to discrim­ Latin and Greek. Early in her teach­ Camel's Hump. Hinesburg, where inate more carefully as to what ing career she studied French pri­ she was born on the last day of Sep­ Christianity really is. I heard more vately with a scholarly Frenchman. tember, 1814, was a pleasant Ver­ harmful gossip in some of the After she was fifty, she began the mont village midway between the families of church people than in study of German. Several years foot of the highest peak of the other families who were thought to later, she learned Spanish. She was Green Mountains and the shore of have no religion. I found too that past seventy when she climbed to the Lake Champlain, and she explains, the latter had read many books of top of the temple at Philae while a "north and south, midway between which I was ignorant. Altogether, hot sun beat down on the white Middlebury and Burlington, the stat:>e road running directly by our ho~se." There was a college at Mid­ dlebury and another at Burlington. Faculty and students from both often stopped at the Hinsdale home. The teacher of the district school usually boarded there. The Hins­ dales were the only family in the village who subscribed to a news­ paper. They read every issue as soon as it arrived so that it might circulate. It was Lucinda who did the circulating. She learned a great deal from her neighbors in her de­ livery newspaper service, she says, and adds that her life-long habit of ~.b a ring stemmed from that experi­ ence. When she was past eighty and living in Kalamazoo, she remarked: "I am sure that my whole life has been greatly influenced by the loca­ tion of my childhood home, and the intellectual atmosphere surrounding it." She began going to the near-by district school when she was three, and, in a sense, she never stopped going to school. She taught her first ~.chool in a neighboring community when she was fifteen. This is what she wrote of that experience: "It furnished some very good les­ sons which have helped me all my life." She learned, for instance, that "among very common people who had not read many books there was a grain of common sense that made their conversation really instructive." When she boarded 'round during that summer, she found out more. She records: "There were several LUCINDA HINSDALE STONE families . . . who did not believe in who together with her husband, James A. B. Stone, President of Kalamazoo Col lege, served any church, and I had always heard this institution from 1843 to 1863.

14 KALAMA Z OO CO LLE G E roof. She found "wonderful records" She came to Kalamazoo from Kalamazoo Baptists bargained. The there which demanded her imme­ Massachusetts in 1843, when her Baptists agreed to suspend instruc­ diate study. She gained a good deal husband, young and already distin­ tion if at the same time they were of first-hand information about the guished in his field, resigned from allowed to name the president of digging-up of ancient Troy from Dr. the faculty of Newton Theological the Branch. Schliemann himself while she was a Seminary to become pastor of Kal­ The plan worked for awhile, but guest in his home. amazoo Baptist church and president the Branch began to show signs of These notations from her mem­ of an institution remembered as the malnutrition. The State's plan fail­ oirs, taken together, point to the pat­ Old Branch, and a somewhat bat­ ed because sap did not flow from the tern of her living: She thought; she tered Branch it was. parent tree. It couldn't. The legis­ taught; she traveled. Often she did Michigan had acquired state­ lature had not appropriated the all three at once. It would be hard hood six years before, and only a necessary funds. After a year or to find a man or woman who has few years before that, the Baptist two, when the Branch was practical­ built into a lifetime more purpose­ Territorial Convention had set up at ly broken clean off the nebulous ful activity- intellectual, physical, Kalamazoo the first literary institute "tree," the bargain was no longer spiritual- than the records accord in Michigan. It had already taken binding. Without interruption, ac­ to lucinda Hinsdale Stone. One root and begun to grow when the cording to the records, the re-ani­ might estimate that she added at new State launched its plan for a mated Institute carried on. least six years to her span of eighty­ central University with numerous It was during this transition per­ six by habitually getting up early Branches throughout the State. The iod that the new president arrived, in the morning. She did more than authorities did not start the parent his wife beside him. They were in that. She doubled, or perhaps tree a-growing before expecting it step. Both were scholarly. Both tripled, it by sharing everything of to branch out. They began with the were experienced class-room teach­ value she acquired. Everything from Branches. They felt that they ers. Both were awake to the prob­ ideas to keepsakes, some of which should establish one Branch at Kal­ lems of human relations, particularly were priceless, she shared as oppor­ amazoo. But there was the Baptist as they concerned education. To­ tunity offered, and when no oppor­ Institute, not yet a very tall tree, to gether they not only put new life tunity presented itself, she was more be sure, but well rooted, a strong into the school, they transformed it. than likely to create one. competitor. University trustees and They built up an institution that any forward-looking educator would be proud to claim. "So flourishing was the college under Dr. Stone's administration," says one writer, "that it sometimes numbered 450 students and the standard of scholarship was very Now a free lance writer, Miss Ethel Knox '13, the author, taught high." There could scarcely be a English for thirty-five years at Grand Rapids Central High School. better example of two heads being She was one of the recipients of a Kalamazoo College alumni twice as good as one. Through Dr. Stone's untiring efforts, many Mich­ citation during the 19 51 Convocation stating that "She bas been igan residents came to understand an inspiration to thousands of young people and her work has the value of the kind of liberal arts college he and the talented Lucinda e·mbodied the highest ideals of Kalamazoo College." She is were building. It appears that they presently engaged in the writing of a book about the life of more than anyone else were repons­ ible for the fact that the first charter Lucinda Hinsdale Stone. granted under the General College law ( 185 5 ) authorized Kalamazoo to call its institute a college. The Michigan and Huron Institute of 1833, designed by its Baptist found­ ers "to provide education for all youth between the border lakes," was popularly known as the Baptist In­ stitute. After Michigan became a State, it changed its name to the LUCINDA Kalamazoo literary Institute, be­ came briefly a Branch of a university not yet open to students, and emerged at last as Kalamazoo Col-

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• salary. Her husband .was paid two hundred dollars a year and he had the small tuition fees demanded of fewer than a hundred students. Lucinda ) never named it, nor did she found the .._./ "Female Department," but she cer­ tainly strengthened its foundations, from her own wide experience and her own bank account. Twenty years later, when she resigned under a cloud of criticism, most of the females then on campus went with her. She couldn't stop them, although she tried to. We can only be amazed and at the same time highly indignant at the charges brought against her. The ac­ cusations amounted to frivolity. Had not a copy of the Atlantic Monthly been found on her desk? And hadn"t she recommended the reading of Ivan­ hoe? And Ivanhoe was a novel! Had she not, moreover, required her young ladies to memorize lines from the pen The "Old Branch" was a two-story f rame structure with a single room below and two rooms of Lord Byron? Didn't she know that above. As the first building of what is no·N Kalamazoo College, it stood in the area of the Lord Byron was an infidel? present Bronson Pork until 1855. At first she treated the criticism lightly. She probably told herself that Socrates too had been accused of cor­ rupting the youth. She may even have gained a sort of cool satisfaction upon lege. It is noteworthy that, according where she saw slavery first hand, be­ finding herself in such eminent com­ to official records, it is the only school came an ardent abolitionist, gave up pany. All the same. the storm was in­ of college rank in the State where in­ her position. and spent several months creasing. None of it seems to have struction has been continuous smce with her married sister in Grand come from students, and little if any 1833. Rapids, Michigan. from parents. Other forces were at Looking back to Lucinda's own Dr. Stone, meanwhile, had finished work. Lucinda tells us that she always school years, we can readily see why his course at Andover and settled him­ thought twice before making up her she understood so well the problems self in his first pastorate at Gloucester, mind, and we know that once her mind facing girls in a co-ed school, in the Massachusetts. He traveled to the was made up, she was firm. The best early forties. When she was a teen­ wilds of Michigan for his bride and interests of the college, she believed, ager, a boy's education was designed took her back to Gloucester, where he demandd her resignation. She stood to teach him to think: a girl, on the remained as pastor until Newton Theo­ by her decision even when the Board other hand, must be "finished." That logical Seminary called him to its asked her to come back on her own is to say, she must be given sufficient faculty. Lucinda's first child was born terms. glamour to enable her to get herself in Gloucester. When the family came During all their married life Dr. and a husband. Lucinda didn't enjoy the to Kalamazoo in 1843, they had no Mrs. Stone worked side by side with finishing process. She insisted upon thought that Lucinda would be teach­ unity of purpos·e and complete under­ the same educational training that ing. She was to occupy herself with standing. Their students report that young men were given. So she gave making a home and bringing up a they were equally efficient, equally 'in­ up the idea of glamour and reentered family, as any well-bred New England spiring. Dr. Stone also was under a the academy in her home town. And girl was expected to do. She was to cloud. There were accusations whis­ that is how she got herself a husband. be- as she had been since her mar­ pered and later spoken openly before She was enrolled in the class of James riage three years before- a helpmate. a church court of misdemeanors rang­ A. B. Stone, a promising young in­ When she saw the situation her hus­ ing from a preposterous. though fiimsy, structor, conscientious and dazzingly band must deal with in Michigan. how­ morals charge to one . of mismanage­ brilliant. Both were independent think­ ever, she knew at once what was re­ ment of college funds. Whatever his ers. They challenged one another, and quired of his helpmate. The Branch, as faults may have been, Dr. Stone was at the same time discovered that they it was still called, was to be co-educa­ obviously not guilty as charged. One had many interests in common. They tional. "in fact if not in theory." There absurd claim of dishonesty was easily became good friends, and when she were the young ladies. No provision had answered, but it threatened the very was graduated and he entered Andover been made for them, none whatever, existence of the college. Years later Theological Seminary, they did not beyond the privilege of enrollment. Mrs. Stone w1·ote in her memoirs: "A forget. Their welfare became her personal denominational college was in danger Her teaching absorbed her com­ responsibility. She found herself Head on one side and only one man and pletely for several years and took her of the "Female Department," with no woman"s interests on the other ... at last to a plantation in Mississippi, funds for operating it. She had no much of the trouble ... arose out of

16 KALAMAZOO COLLEGE his insisting upon an open, rather than When Lucinda Stone turned sadly college students on a holiday. Letters a purely Baptist corporation for the from the work she loved on the cam­ written by some of these earlier travel college. He wanted Kalamazoo College pus of Kalamazoo College, she began students point out certain differences. to be an educational institution, not to see that her greatest work lay The main idea was always plenty of merely a Baptist College. As such he ahead. She was fifty. In the 1860's hard study, beginning with months of wanted it to take hold of the people fifty was an advanced age. Dr. Stone preparation at Mrs. Stone's home of the city and state, and be a moral was fifty-four. Both were realists - school in Kalamazoo. During the and intellectual force ... I am con­ with vision, and therefore with courage months abroad there were set times vinced that under strong excitement a and a sense of proportion. Here, when for lectures, assignments, study, dis­ I' mental hallucinatio n sometimes seizes skies were blackest and the two were cussion. Both before and after visiting people ... a kind of moral epidemic beyond the halfway mark, they remind a place of historic interest, an immense . " . Not that they are not in some one of nothing so much as Michael­ amount of reading and daily writing sense r esponsible for what they do, but angelo's statue, Dawn, and of the was required. When they visited the the responsibility consists in ... cul­ lines Mrs. Browning wrote as she view­ Pyramids, for instance, the girls tivating a state of mind and morals ed it from a Casa Guidi window. knew what they were seeing. Wher­ that makes an act justifiable to their "Day's eyes are breaking bold and ever they went, they knew what to distorted vision." Dr. Stone resigned passionate expect from natives and what natives at the r equest of his Board. It has Over his shoulder, and will flash had a right to expect from them. happened to other far-seeing educa­ abhorrence Daily they recorded their impressions tors. On darkness- and with level gaze as well as interesting factual details. Dr. Stone and his wife lived to the meet fate." Through precept and example they end of their lives in Kalamazoo, active, When they turned from doors closed learned to think of themselves as trustworthy, highly respected resi­ to what they so generously offered, seekers rather than critics, as Amer­ dents. Both were publicly honored, their level gaze found a wider horizon, icans concerned with intercultural deeply loved. That fact is sufficient an even greater opportunity to use understanding and friendship. People, proof, if proof were needed today, of their talents in the service of their all sorts of people, were therefore as the absurdity of the charges, but what fellowmen. They became American important as places. Informal acquaint­ continued persecution meant to these ambassadors of goodwill -and they ance with world famous personalities, two devoted teachers is painful to think didn't stop being teachers. like Dr. Schliemann or Dam Pedro of of even now. They had given to the The plan by which they brought Brazil, were but one facet of this early Kalamazoo College community what their vtswn into reality was com­ "school of international understand­ might be looked upon as the best years pletely new. It unfolded as they went ing." Travel continued for a year or of their lives, not to mention most of along. Greatly simplified, it may eighteen months, with enough "stay­ their savings and their combined in­ be described in two words- travel put" intervals to enable the girls to come. The future was dark. Yet as we schools. The idea does not seem startl­ gain more than a superficial view of look at those far-off clouds, beauty ing to us. \Ve hear much about a region. In frequent di scussions led and poetic justice emerge. "study tours," planned generally for by Dr. and Mrs. Stone the travelers

The cornerstone for Kalamazoo Hall was laid in 1857 at the location of whi ~ h 1s now South Street and .~v'.ichigan Avenue. It was later known as "Lowe' College Building'' (lower ieft) . The "Upper College Building" (at the right), fin1shed in 1855, was first used as the Theolog­ ical Seminary. It was named Williams Hall 111 1924 and continued to give servi ce until 1-ioben Hall was erected on the same site in 1937. (Note the N.Y .C.I) were helped to evaluate what they had tion was organized with fourteen mem­ seen and recorded. One who climbed bers. Two years later two hundred had with Mrs. Stone to the white roof of joined. Mrs. Stone was their chosen the temple at Philae writes: leader until she began taking her "It was a liberal education to go travel classes abroad. Even then she sight-seeing anywhere with her. She served. Commissioned by her Board, was a born teacher and a spiritual she bought and brought back many mother to hundreds of young people." fine paintings and casts still owned by It is apparent that she was also a the Library Association. The Kalama­ devoted and inspiring mother to her zoo club was like tinder. Similar own three sons, all of whom grew to clubs came into being throughout the manhood in Kalamazoo. One contem­ State. The powerful State Federatipn porary writer, speaking of his friend, and the General Federation were on Dr. Stone, remarks: "Hi~ home life the way. In her "Club News" (Detroit and home relations have left an ideal Press and Tribune) Mrs. Stone refers memory. He was proud, in the best to "this post-graduate education ... sense, of his family." established in almost every little vil­ lage in our State." During the last Only one son, the youngest, outlived twenty years of her life she directed his mother. He wrote her regularly club work through correspondence, a for years and visited her often. His task, writes one of her contemporaries, son, aged ten, was present at his "which would have appalled and over­ grandmother's eightieth birthday cele­ whelmed most younger women." bration, an impressive event engi­ neered by the Reverend Caroline For twenty years Dr. and Mrs. Stone Bartlett Crane, of the People's Church were active workers in a small earnest in Kalamazoo. Of the hundreds who group of Michigan residents who were came to do her honor, none paid a determined to open the doors of the finer tribute than that same ten-year­ University to women. The group old, now a business man in Detroit, seemed to thrive under the stimulus who always spent a part of his sum­ of opposition. In 1870 their goal was mer holiday with her. His tribute, a won. For Dr. and Mrs. Stone it was poem, was read with the others, and possibly t he i r most far-reaching yet with a difference. Caroline Bart­ achievement. At once they began to lett Crane had a keen sense of values work on the next step in co-education and an instinctive recognition of the -women on the University teaching dramatic moment. Here a small boy staff. Even after the sudden death of gives sincere expression to what he the devoted husband who had always feels about the wonderful woman who walked forward with her, Mrs. Stone is his "grandma." His last two lines continued to work tirelessly to create say, with the directness of a child, favorable public opinion. what everyone else has felt and wanted "In daily and weekly newspapers," to say all along. says one writer, "before women's clubs and various organizations, by " ... Teach me to be good and true, Dr. and Mrs. Stone .. personal letters, calls upon thoughtful To try to live and be like you." in their later years. people and people of wealth and in­ It is impossible to record the educa­ fluence, she presented her cause and tional activities of Dr. and Mrs. Stone and an intelligent interest in the best steadily won friends for it." in strictly chronological order, because, in current literature." On June 25, 1894, when the Board with the single exception of the break Mrs. Stone could see the logical gave up its prejudices, it surrendered with campus life, there was never a development of aroused interest. She to public opinion, a triumph indeed for time when one activity ended and was always, as one has put it, a leader the woman who had been largely re­ another began. Education, as they out into new paths." Her next step sponsible for creating that opinion, a understood it, was many faceted. Re­ led eventually to the conferring of a woman eighty years old, who when fracted light from one plane brought brand new title- "Mother of Clubs." widowed late in life never surrendered another to life. On a winter visit to Boston she ob­ to loneliness, but turned instead to the Even before the two launched their served the activities of the Saturday next step- a building for co-eds. She travel schools, they were actively Club and the New England \Voman's did not live to see that goal attained, interested in adult groups organized Club. She asked questions, made but with eyes of faith she saw it- a for self-improvement. The records notes, and was allowed to copy a club woman's building rising on the Uni­ speak of the Saturday evening gather­ constitution, which she brought home Yersity campus. For Lucinda was ings in their home during the later along with ideas and methods she had mountain-born. Always she looked up. teaching years and of the monthly met. These she adapted to the inter­ As she grew older she looked out Board meetings of the Library As­ ests of her group and presented her too, far out, across frontiers. She de­ sociation with their literary programs. plan as soon as she returned. The clared, having already proved her These groups "fostered art, history, entire report was accepted without a declaration, "The World is my Coun­ and literature study, lecture courses, dissenting vote. The Library Associa- try; to do good is my Religion."

18 KALAMAZOO COLLEGE FACULTY MEMBER STUDIES IN SPAIN THREE NAMED TO BOARD

Dr. Peter M. Boyd-Bowman, as­ annually elect one member to · sociate professor of foreign lan­ the Board for a three-year term. Mrs. guages, became the first faculty Crawford, who was graduated from member in the history of Kalama­ Kalamazoo College in 1927, served zoo College to receive a coveted on the Kalamazoo Board of Educa­ Guggenh ~ im Fellowship. tion for eight years and was its pres­ He is among the select group of ident for four years. She is a former 275 scholars and artists awarded chairman of the Parents' Council of fellowships totaling more than Kalamazoo College and for several $1,100,000 for 1956 which are an­ years has been a member of the nounced by the John Simon Gug­ board of the Baptist Missionary genheim Memorial Foundation. The Training School in Chicago. For the Guggenheim Fellowship awarded last seven years she has served on Dr. Boyd-Bowman amounts to the national board of the Women's $4,5 00 to cover 15 months of American Baptist Home Missions study, including four months of re­ Society, and has been Midwestern ~ earch in Spain this summer and vice president of that society for the continuing research on a part time last three years. She has served on basis when he returns to the Kal­ the state board of the Women's Bap­ amazoo College campus next fall. MRS. KENNETH L. CRAWFORD tist Missions Society of Michigan, Dr. Boyd-Bowman's study is on the executive board of the Michigan the regional origins of early Spanish Baptist Convention, the board of colonists of America, on which he The appointment of three new Myrtle Heege Center and Y.W.C.A., has been working for the last five members to the Board of Trustees of and Community Chest budget com­ years. Thus far he has identified the Kalamazoo College was announced mittee. in June. They are Mrs. Kenneth l. birthplace or regional origin of Bixby, a graduate of the Univer­ Crawford, Kalamazoo; and H. Glenn about 40,000 Spaniards and other sity of Michigan, has been an exec­ Bixby and Ralph T. McElvenny, Europeans who contributed to the utive with the Ex-Cell-O Corpora­ both of Detroit. conquest and settlement of the Span­ tion in Detroit since 1928, and has Mrs. Crawford (Alma Smith '27) ish colonies of America. This was been president and general manager was named to the Board as the offi­ done by studying passenger lists, of that company since 1951. He is cial representative of the Kalamazoo chronicles, biographies, genealogies, a director of Gaycrest Dairy, An­ College Alumni Association as the grants, wills, protocols and other gola, Ind.; Howell Electric Motors, result of an election conducted 16th Century sources. Howell, Mich.; the Chrome and among the alumni. The alumni Classified according to year of Chemical Company, Detroit; Pure sailing, exact destination in Amer­ Sealed Dairy, Inc., Fort Wayne, Ind.; ica, and inter-American migrations, and the Industrial National Bank of the statistics will show by years the Detroit. He is a trustee of Grace relative contributions of each Span­ Hospital and a director of N.A.M. ish province to the population of McElvenny, a graduate of Stan­ any region of America. The findings ford University, is a Detroit attorney also will illustrate periodic migra­ and executive. He is executive vice tion trends from individual towns or president and director of the Amer­ provinces in Spain to certain regions ican Natural Gas Company. Prior of the New World. When com­ to his association with that company pleted the study will provide a sound in 1945, he served as assistant direc­ historical basis for theories relating tor of the United States Securities dialectal features of American Span­ and Exchange Commission in Wash­ ish to specific regions of Spain, such ington. He is a director of the as Andalusia or leon. United light and Railways, Con­ Dr. Boyd-Bowman joined the Kal­ tinental Gas light Company, Mil­ amazoo College faculty last fall, waukee Gas light Company, St. coming to the local campus after Joseph light and Power Company, serving in the foreign language de­ and the Iowa Power and light Com­ partments of Yale and Harvard Uni­ pany. He is a member of the Amer­ versities. DR. PETER BOYD-BOWMAN ican and Chicago bar associations.

SUMM~R AlUMNUS, 1956 19 F R 0 M THE CAMPUS Several summer tennis tourna­ Peter Ugincius, Jackson junior, is The Reverend Lloyd J. Averill, ments are being played off at Stowe the recipient of the John Wesley dean of Stetson Chapel, is directing Tennis Stadium. The 72nd Annual Hornbeck Scholarship in physics for a ten-week summer service project National Collegiate Athletic As­ next year. The Hornbeck Scholar­ in Chicago on "Students in a Chang­ sociation tennis championships were ship is a memorial set up by friends ing Community." This is one in a held June 25 to 30. Alexo Olmedo of the late Dr. Hornbeck in recogni­ series of projects conducted through­ of the University of Southern Cali­ tion of his outstanding service as a out the nation by the American Bap­ fornia defeated Jack Frost of Stan­ teacher and head of the physics de­ tist Convention Department of Stu­ ford for the crown. Kalamazoo Col­ partment at Kalamazoo College for dent Work. lege's Les Dodson was earlier a vic­ many years. tim of Olmedo, 6-4, 6-4. Dodson, The largest number of people playing some of the finest tennis of from any one concern to complete Over five hundred high school his career led Olmedo 4-1 in the courses in the Industrial Relations students were on the Kalamazoo Col­ first set and 4-2 in the second before Center of Kalamazoo College re­ succumbing. Dr. Allen B. Stowe lege campus for the Model Repub­ ceived diplomas at graduation exer­ lican Convention in April. Gov­ was elected vice president of the cises for CBS-Hytron management ernor William G. Stratton of Illi­ NCAA tennis coaches at their an­ and supervisory personnel on June 1. nois was the ke)'note speaker. The nual meeting. Graduating from the courses were 65 nominations went to Dwight Eisen­ July 9 to 11 featured the State persons ranging from the manager hower for president and Christian JCC Junior and Boys' Singles Cham­ to the foremen. Herter, governor of Massachusetts, pionships at Stowe Stadium. From During the first year of the In­ for vice president. July 11 to 14, the State Junior Boys' dustrial Relations Center, 30 com­ and Girls' Championships were panies in the Kalamazoo area have held. Then, on July 30 through participated in its program. The August 5, the USLTA National Jun­ Mrs. James Kirkpatrick was courses have been taken by 300 ior and Boys' Championships have named chairman of the newly or­ members of managerial and super­ been scheduled. ganized Friends of Kalamazoo Col­ visory personnel. lege Library, and Mrs. Richard U. Light was named vice-chairman. The Kalamazoo College girls' The executive committee member­ The annual Upjohn Lecture Series tennis team shared the MIAA title ship includes Mrs. James Buckley at Kalamazoo College was held in with Calvin. Audrey Braun defeated (Clara Heiney '30), Mrs. Donald early May. The following lectures Kalamazoo College teammate, Mimi Doubleday (Alice Starkweather were scheduled and open to the pub­ Johnson, to win the MIAA women's x'27), Mrs. Fred Mehaffie, and lic: Dr. John C. Babcock on "Ana­ singles championship. Miss Braun, Michael Lindstrom. Nearly one hun­ bolic-Androgenic Hormones;" Dr. Birmingham, who studied tennis dred alumni responded on the mem­ Herman Hoeksema on "The Struc­ under Hamtramck's Jean Hoxie, bership card appearing in the last ture of Novobiocin;" Dr. George compiled a fabulous record this Alumnus. If you wish membership Slomp on "Electronic Titrations;" spring. She won a total of 108 in the organization, address Dr. Wen and Dr. Gerald E. Underwood on games and lost only one. Chao Chen, librarian of Mandelle "Virology and Chemotherapy." Library.

An honorary membership in the· A presentation of a large part of College chapter of Pi Kappa Delta, the oratoria, "Elijah," ( Mendels­ honorary society in oratory and ex­ sohn) was given by an all-alumni temporaneous speaking, was award­ group on Sunday afternoon, May 27, PICTURE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ed to President Hicks at its spring in Stetson Chapel. Directed by initiation ceremony. Delivering the Mabel Pearson Over ley, vocal parts address at the banquet was Dr. were taken by Helen Brink Lincoln Kalamazoo Gazette- Pages 3, 4, 5 Charles K. Johnson '32. '52, soprano; Martha Hoard Smith Upton family and tennis team. '55, mezzo soprano; Betty Baker LeRoy '43, alto; Stanley Farnsworth Schiavone Studio- Pages 9, 13 - 18 Student body officers elected for '54, tenor; and Thomas R. Hath­ next year are Robert Jenkins, away '56, baritone. Also appearing Fred Sauer ' 55 -Cover, pages 2, Canandaigua, N. Y., president; 6, and 7 on the program were David Squiers Christie Neilson, Jackson, vice pres­ '40, cellist, and Mr. '43 and Mrs. David Fischer '59-Page 21 ident; Jeanette Frost, Flint, secre­ Edward Thompson (Betty Heystek tary; and Gaylord Dugan, Detroit, '44), narrators. treasurer.

20 KALAMAZOO COLLEGE The Ka lamazoo Col lege VJ~~·ity tennis learn is pictured at the right. This year's season has brought the MIAA con:,ecutive victori es to 123. The teams have competed for twenty-one years witho1:t !oss. The last de­ feat in a dual match wu; with Albion on May 15, 1935. From :ef•, f~ont row, Chuck Nisbet, Dean Pinchoff, Mike Becl, Dave Moran, Bob Brice, Les Dodson; bock row, Fred Tivin (manager), Jurgen Diekmann, Jim Fowler (captain), Dave Sp1eler, Bob Yuell, Don Stowe, )r. Al.en B. Stowe koach) .

CAMPUS SCENES

If one could read Ru3sian, he would find the following on the bla~kbomd, "Kalamazoo College, 1955-56 sch.,ol year- the first group of students studying Russian language. This language is interesting and not too difficult I" Pictured at the left with their teacher, Voldemars Rushevics, are Marcis Hargis, Lois Frey, Dolores Kaudel, Jerre Locke, Kai Schoenhals, and Milan Rakich.

Kalamazoo College has cdded recently another foreign language to the cu rriculum. Now in the second yea r of in:,truction, Greek also takes its place in the foreign language deportment. Pictured at the righ t are Dr. Marion H. Dunsmore and students, includ­ ing Richard Bowser, Earl Shaffer, Mary Ann Terburgh, and Emily Gregory.

SUMMER ALUMNUS , 1956 21 S PRIN G R E S UM E WOODWORTH FIELD SPORTS ' DEDICATION HELD By Richard Ki shpough

An unbeaten tennis season and a John Frueh's share of first place Kalamazoo College won the first complete sweep of MIAA tennis in the high jump marked Kalama­ baseball game ever played on Wood­ honors highlighted Kalamazoo's zoo's only top honor in the MIAA worth Field, 6-2, to set the scene 1956 spring spring sports campaign, meet as Albion ran away with the on May 1 for the dedication cere­ but disappointing results in other championship. Kalamazoo finished monies which were held during sports ruined the Hornet hopes of fourth behind Albion, Hope, and intermission of the MIAA double­ winning the League's All-Sports Hillsdale. Dick Ehrle was the lead­ header with Hope. During the ded­ Trophy. Kalamazoo had led the all­ ing point-getter and most valuable ication ceremonies between games, sports race throughout the fall and member of Coach Rolla Anderson's Dr. Weimer K. Hicks presented a winter, but Albion copped both team, posting a total of 55 points citation to Tom Woodworth, local track and golf titles and finished near in seven meets. businessman and sportsman, whose the top in both tennis and baseball financial backing enabled the College The golf team, under Bill Laugh­ to edge the Hornets in the trophy to revive baseball a year ago and race by a 75-67 margin. lin, showed great promise, but had to have its own diamond for use one of its less impressive perform­ Coach Allen B. Stowe's tennis this season. The citation paid tri­ ances on the day of the MIAA men won 21 dual meers and tied bute to Mr. Woodworth and was meet. The Hornets wound up in one for the first unbeaten mark ever signed by Dr. Richard U. Light, fifth place, but gained some con­ posted by a team under the veteran chairman of the Board of Trustees, solation from the fact that Kalama­ Hornet coach. The tie was a 4-4 and Dr. Hicks. Dr. Light also spoke zoo's Don Winterhalter won medal­ deadlock with powerful North Caro­ during the dedication ceremonies, as ist honors with a 154-stroke total lina, a match which the Hornets did Glenn S. Allen, Jr., '36, Mayor for 36 holes at the Kalamazoo missed winning by an eyelash. Hor­ of Kalamazoo, and Rolla Anderson, Country Club. net victims during the year included athletic director. Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, and Notre Dame on the regular season part of the schedule, and Duke, Vander­ bilt, Tennessee, Colgate, and David­ ALUMN I COUNC IL MEETS son on the southern trip. In the MIAA tennis meet at Stowe Stadium, Kalamazoo players ALUMNI OFFICERS ANNOUNCED won every set played against men from other schools. The last two The semi-annual meeting of the Others attending the Council rounds in both singles and doubles Alumni Council served as an oppor­ meeting included Coe S. Hayne '99, were all-Kalamazoo affairs, with Les tunity for the retiring president of Harry G. Burns '06, Harvey Bouck Dodson taking the singles title from the Kalamazoo College Alumni As­ '09, Mable Stanley '10, William C. Jim Fowler after Fowler had down­ sociation, Albert Van Zoeren '23, to Buchanan '14, Lucile Owen Kerman ed Dean Pinchoff and Dodson had present the newly-elected head, '15, Bessie Freeman Rickman '16, ousted defending champion Jurgen Hugh V. Anderson '43. Council Mary Hallett Miller '17, Ruth White Diekmann in the semi-finals. Dod­ members went on record in express­ Ralston '18, Lucile Norcross Hirschy son and Diekmann topped Fowler ing their appreciation to Mr. Van '20, Marion Graybiel Means '22, and Pinchoff for the doubles crown. Zoeren for his effective leadership Pauline Kurtz Jacobs '24, Ruth Wil­ Pinchoff and Mike Beal were named during his two years of office. The bur Shivel '26, Alma Smith Craw­ the year's most valuable players. meeting was devoted, chiefly, to a ford '27, Ruby Herbert Oggel '27, Coach Henry Lasch's baseball review of the year's alumni program Lois Stutzman Harvey '29, Charles J. team wound up in sixth place in and a discussion of the 125th anni­ Venema '33, Dorothy Simpson Pal­ the MIAA after a disappointing sea­ versary to be observed in 1958. mer '36, Jane Meyer Rapley '37, W. son. The diamond squad dropped two The other newly-elected officers of Harry Rapley '38, Forrest S. Pearson close decisions to Alma's champions, the Alumni Association are Lois '41, Helen Glaser Reed '46, Charles 3-2 in ten innings and 6-4 in a sec­ Stutzman Harvey '29, vice president; E. Starbuck '48, Al Grabarek '49, ond game, and also dropped several Dorothy Simpson Palmer '36, secre­ Elizabeth Osborn Childress '50, other close decisions. John Yodhes tary-treasurer; and Garry E. Brown Garry E. Brown '5 1, and Marilyn copped the team's batting champion­ '51, Gerald Gilman '42, and Gordon Hinkle '44. The next meeting will ship and most valuable player honors Dolbee '50, members of the exec­ be held on Saturday, October 6, the with a .407 batting average. utive committee. date of Homecoming.

22 KALAMAZOO COLL E GE C L U B S REPORT

BUSY ALUMNI·

Rochester- Robert Barrows '42, arrangements for the meeting and Detroit- The Kalamazoo Club of who will be remembered as one introduced Pr·esident Hicks to the Detroit met for its annual spring of the Index "Oskars," was elected group. An election of officers named dinner on May 26 at the Fisher head of the Rochester, N.Y., Alum­ Gordon Bogart '41, president, and Club. Master of ceremonies was ni Club on June 1. Mary Joslin Marcia Clemons MacCready '48, John Lundblad '49. Appearing on Discher '50 and Sue VanHouten '54 secretary-treasurer. the program were Dr. Raymond are vice president and secretary­ New York -A dinner meeting on Hightower; Dr. Laurence Barrett; treasurer, respectively. The Club April 6 marked the spring meeting Sally Needham, Detroit admissions met for a buffet supper at the new of the New York Alumni Club. counsellor; Albert Grabarek '49, K­ home of Dr. x'45 and Mrs. Forrest Held at the Hotel Shelbourne, it was Club president, and Marilyn Hinkle. Strome (Edith Hoven '45) . Dr. in charge cf the Reverend Gordon At an election cf officers, Joseph Strome is the retiring president, and Kurtz '48, retiring president. New DeAgostino '50 was named pres­ during the evening, he reviewed the officers are Harold Hinckley x'49, ident, succeeding Eugene Stermer year's progress in circulating among president, and Robert Glickenhaus '51. Other officers are Nancy Gif­ high school students knowledge of '50, secretary-treasurer. fels '50, vice president; Virginia the facilities and advantages of Kal­ Fowler Brandle '49, secretary; and amazoo College. According to re­ Flint- May 14 was the date set by Roger Cox '53, treasurer. ports, a "streamlined version of the Flint Alumni Club to honor charades" was played. their prominent member and friend Kalamazoo Clttb Elects- Results of of the College, Dr. Enos DeWaters a mail ballot in the Kalamazoo area 1V ashington, D. C.- The annual '99. For the occasion, letters of named Charles Starbuck '48 to the picnic of the Washington Alumni congratulations and greetings to Dr. presidency of the Kalamazoo Area Club members and their families DeWaters from his many Kalama­ Club. He succeeds Douglas Braham was held from 3:00 to 9:00 p.m. zoo College friends were compiled '42, who has served as head of the on Saturday, June 30, at the Takoma and presented in a bound volume. Club for the past two years. Other Recreation Center. The facilities of During the program, tribute was newly-elected officers are Dr. Rich­ the park were enjoyed, and a potluck paid by President Hicks, Trustee ard Walker '41, vice president; and dinner was served. Chairman of ar­ Ray Lewis, Marilyn Hinkle '44, Al­ Jane Meyer Rapley '37, secretary­ rangements was Harold B. Simpson bert Van Zoeren '23, and Jeanette treasurer. '3 7, Club president. Frost, Flint student. The dinner meeting was held in the Mott Build­ 1V estern Alumni Tour- A few days after Commencement, President Lansing- Summer acttvlttes have ing of Applied Science at Flint Jun­ Hicks began an extensive trip bffome a part of the alumni pro­ ior College. Philip Vercoe '24 made through the far west to attend the gram in several localities and arrangements for the meeting and American Baptist Convention in brought together alumni families of presided during the program. Serv­ Seattle and to meet with the alumni the Lansing area on J une 28. The ing the Flint Alumni Club are clubs along the Pacific coast. picnic was held at Ferguson Park Philip Vercoe, president, and Stan­ and was in charg~ of Allen T. Hayes ley Chalmers '51, secretary-treasurer. On Wednesday morning, JW1e '35, vice president of the Lansing Two New Clubs Formed-This 20, he met with Kalamazoo College Alumni Club. spring, clubs in Cleveland and in alumni and friends at the Conven­ tion breakfast, held at the Hotel Southwestern Michigan- The St. Midland were formed. The Cleve­ land alumni dinner was held at the Roosevelt. The breakfast was high­ Joseph River Yacht Club was the lighted by the reunion of four alum­ scene of an area alumni dinner Carter Hotel on May 23. Under the leadership cf Jack Braham '39, there ni who were graduated from Kal­ meeting on April 24. Over sixty amazoo College more than fifty years members met to hear_ President were fifteen present for the occasion which was held in honor of Pres­ ago, namely, the Reverend Stewart Hicks' message about the College. Crandell '03 of Battle Creek, the Forrest Pearson '41, president of the ident Hicks. Parke Browne '52 was in charge of organizing the Midland Reverend Charles McHarness '01 of Club, was general chairman of the Spokane, Wash., William C. Stripp event. area alumni who met on May 21 at the Midland Community Center. '99 and Ruth Wheaton Johnson '06 Jackson- The Jackson Alumni Alumni present named Parke Brown of Seattle. While in Seattle, the Club met for dinner on the evening as continuing chairman, assisted by local alumni club met at the home of April 26 at the First Baptist Kenneth Olwn '42 and Weslev of Edith Kuitert '41 in President Church. Wayne Dressel '50 handled Archer '50. (Continued on Next Pa)l.e)

S UMM ER A L UMNUS , 9 5 6 23 John V . Balch '08 died on May 11 in Engagements Deaths Follansbee, W. Va. He taught school N aomi North W illiamson '02 died in Illinois and West Virginia, and be­ Miss Patricia A. Corby '55 and Glen suddenly on June 23 in Wilmington, came associated with the banking busi­ Brown '57 announced their engage­ Calif. Her home was in Tecumseh, ness in 1919. He retired in 1955 as ment on July 5. An August wedding Mich., where she was a prominent and cashier of the Citizens Bank of Fol­ is planned. civic-minded citizen. She was a former lansbee. Survivors include his wife, member of the Kalamazoo College Mollie, four sons and three daughters. Th engagement of Miss Patricia ]. Alumni Council. Following the death Reynolds to Marshall H. Brenner '55 of her husband in 1938, she spent her Robert A. Chapman '16 died sudden­ was announced on June 10. The wed­ winters in California and in travel, ly at his home in Lakeland, Fla., on cling will take place on August 25. visiting Hawaii, Japan, and South March 21. He was chairman of the America. Mrs. Williamson is survived social science division and head of the by two daughters and two sons, Dr. department of sociology at Florida Marriages Edwin Williamson '33 of Kalamazoo Southern College in Lakeland. He is Miss Joyce Gault was married to and Charles L. Williamson x'28 of survived by his wife, Kathleen, a son Charles Seifert '55 on February 4 at Monroe, 12 grandchildren and 3 great and a daughter. the First Methodist Church in Battle grandchildren. Her father, Lucian G. Creek, Mich. North, served on the Kalamazoo Col­ C. Val Berry of the class of 1923 lege Board of Trustees from 1903 to died at his home in Kalamazoo on Miss Sally Siefert '57 and Stephen 1910. June 10. Mr. Berry was the owner and Styers '55 were married on March 18 founder of Precast Industries, one of at the Lakeview Baptist Church in Letitia Steelman Pomeroy '04 died the largest midwest producers of pre- Battle Creek, Mich. on July 1 in Kalamazoo, where she had resided all her life. She is survived by her husband, Arthur, and a step­ daughter. William Grover '07 died in Detroit on May 11. He had been a lawyer in the state of Michigan since 1913. He ALUMNI NOTES is survived by his wife, Anna, and four daughters.

CLUBS REPORT cast concrete products, which he or­ Miss Judith M. Ulrich became the (Continued from Previous Page) ganized in 1926. He had been Selective bride of Charles Burtis Crooks, Jr., '55 on May 26 in the Holy Trinity Hicks' honor. The meeting was ar­ Service board chairman in Kalamazoo since 1940. He is survived by his wife, Lutheran Church, Camden, N. J. ranged by Marjorie Sundstrom the former Christel VanderHorst x'23, Stetson Chapel was the scene of the Ketcham '41, club president. a daughter and a son. wedding of Miss Marylou C. Howell The Reverend John Ransom '34 '56 and Richard D. Crooks '54 on M. Lee Johnson '29 died on July 11 was in charge of a meeting of alum­ May 19. ni in Portland on June 20. The in Vancouver. B. C., following a heart attack. Mr. Johnson, who resided in Miss Joan L. Story '56 was married group, together for the first time, Kalamazoo, was on a western vacation to Robert L. Copeland '55 on June 30 dined at the Mallory Hotel. The with his wife and their three children. in Orleans, France. Reverend Mr. Ransom was named An active alumnus of Kalamazoo Col­ Miss Ruth L. Chamberlain '56 and permanent chairman of the Port­ lege, Mr. Johnson had served as na­ Robert L. Gallagher x'57 were married land alumni. tional president of the Alumni Associa­ on June 16 in the Shrine of the Little The San Francisco dinner was tion in 1943 and 1944, was a member Flower, Royal Oak, Mich. held, June 21, on the campus of of the Board of Trustees since 1948, Maxine J. Sherwood became the University of California with twenty­ and was general chairman of the 1955 bride of ] . Michael McNerney '56 in Annual Fund Drive. He was owner five alumni present. The commit­ late May in Stetson Chapel. and manager of the Oakley and Old­ Miss Carolyn B. Schlick was mar­ tee in charged included Alexandrine fie ld fuel firm, past president of the ried to Edward L. Yaple '53 on June LaTourette Hemp '07, chairman; Fuel Credit Bureau of Kalamazoo, had 16 in St. Joseph Catholic Church, Maurice Post '07, Wilhelmina Hui­ been a member of the board of direc­ Kalamazoo. zinga lanam '21, and Mary Wil­ tors of the Michigan Retail Coal Deal­ liams Danielson '50. ers Association, and served on a gov­ Miss Sue Stapleton '54 and James Bambacht '54 were married on June 13 The Southern California Alumni ernment board handling the distribu­ tion of coal during World War II. He in Portage, Mich. Club met for dinner on June 22 at Miss Marjorie A. Wright x'54 be­ the First Baptist Church in Pasa­ is survived by his wife, the former Margaret Oakley '31; two sons, came the bride of Stanley J. Pavlick dena. Over thirty alumni were Thomas who is a member of the sen­ x'57 on June 30 in the Methodist present for the meeting arranged by ior class, and Robert; and a daughter, Church, Dowling, Mich. Dr. Ralph McKee '34, retiring pres­ Sarah Kate. He leaves, also, his St. Paul's Episcopal Church was the ident. Named to office were Donald mother, three brothers and one sister setting for the marriage of Miss Linda Hellenga '34, president, and Charles including Robert E. '38 of Tucson and S. Johnson and Robert E. Puckett '47 Krill x'39, secretary. Winifred '27 of Ft. Myers, F la. on June 30 in San Diego, Calif.

24 KALAMAZOO CO LLE GE Miss Jeannette A. Frost '58 and Dr. and Mrs. George Mallinson Mr. '55 and Mrs. Don Davis (Evelyn vVilliam E. Connors '57 were married (] acqueline Buck '48) are the parents Biek '54) are the paren'ts of a daugh­ on June 24 in Stetson Chapel. of a son, Charles Evans, born on May ter, Karen Elizabeth, born on May 16 Miss Gloria M. Wallace '53 will be­ 19 in Kalamazoo. in Ann Arbor. come the bride of John L. Foster '52 A son, John Stanley, was born on Mr. '53 and Mrs. Milton G. Mont­ on August 11 in the chapel of the First April 27 to Mr. '51 and Mrs. Stanley gomery (Mary Jane Fee '54) announce Methodist Church, Evanston, Ill. ]. Chalmers (Sue Waters '51) in Flint. the birth of a daughter, Nancy Lynn, Miss Sarah L. Beals and W. Clarke May 28 was the birth date of Thomas on May 13 in Detroit. Bertrand x'53 were married on June \Villiam, son of Mr. and Mrs. John W. John Michael, son of Mr. '53 and 23 at the Alumni Memorial Chapel, Reps (Constance Peck '43) in Ithaca, Mrs. John P. Stammen, was born on Michigan State University, East Lans­ N.Y. July 4 in Ann Arbor. ing. Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Brown (Alice Mr. '43 and Mrs. Allan Reyburn an­ Bell '47) announce the birth of a son nounce the birth of a daughter, Julia on May 30 in Jackson. Ann, on July 5 in Detroit. Births Lt. x'52 and Mrs. Ronald Harvey are Mr. '51 and Mrs. John A. Dagg Mr. '53 and Mrs. John Catherwood the parents of a son, William Fred­ (Peggy Lindsay x'S2) are the parents (Marilyn Snyder x'53) announce the erick, born on May 13 in Newark, N.J. of a daughter, Jill Susan, born on July birth of their second son, James Rob­ April 16 was the birth date of David 12 in Detroit. ert, on April 1 in Kalamazoo. Bruce, son of Mr. '52 and Mrs. Will iam Mr. '51 and Mrs. A. William Evans A. Zuhl of Schoolcraft. (Elaine Clark '52) are the parents of a Jeffrey Stuart, son of Mr. '52 and News daughter, Elizabeth Ann, born on Mrs. David Cummings (Gail Curry '52), was born on May 27 at the Naval 1885 April 18 in Kalamazoo. Kalamazoo College's earliest living Air Facility Hospital, Port Lyautey, A daughter, Alice Louise, was born alumna, Bertha Stevens Balch of Kal­ French Morocco. on April 17 to Dr. '43 and Mrs. H. amazoo, was among the more than 100 Mr. and Mrs. Morris E. Stimson Lewis Batts (] ean McColl '43) in Kal­ guests at the lOOth anniversary tea of (Dorothy Hubbel '48) announce the amazoo. Eurodelphian Gamma Society held on birth of twin daughters, April 19, in May 8 was the birth date of Nancy Sunday afternoon, April 15, in Bowen Park Forest, Ill. Gail, daughter of Mr. '42 and Mrs. Hall. Eric Pratt (Patricia Miller '47) in Kal­ Mr. '54 and Mrs. Allen Tucker amazoo. (Helen Birdsell x'55) are the parents 1904 Mr. and Mrs. Michael Waskowsky of a son, Thomas Birdsell, born on Dr. and Mrs. George Dasher were announce the birth of a son, Nicolaus March 24 in Beloit, Wis. on the campus for the Commencement Paul, on May 1 in Kalamazoo. Mr. June 14 was the birth date of Jeffrey week end, coming from Bluefield, Va. Norden, son of Mr. '48 and Mrs. Mon­ Waskowsky is head of the art depart­ 1906 teith R. Bilkert in Rutland, Vt. ment at Kalamazoo College. D r. George W. Hess was honored on Mr. '47 and Mrs. Lewis E. Shiflea Jeffrey Paul, son of Mr. and Mrs. January 4 by Howard College, Birm­ (Lois Nave '47) are the parents of a Paul Carsok (Elaine Dryer '49) was ingham, Ala., on his retirement as pro­ born on March 12 in Grand Rapids. daughter, Becky Lou, born on March fessor of mathematics and head of the 21 in Kalamazoo. Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Kibler, Jr., mathematics department. He had May 19 was the birth date of Alex­ (Shirley Jeanne Olson '44) announce taught there since 1926. the birth of a daughter, Bonnie Jeanne, ander Bennett, son of Mr. '42 and Mrs. James T. Rooks, an eye, ear, nose, on February 27 in Benton Harbor. Charles E. Garrett, Jr., in Kalamazoo. and throat specialist in Walla Walla, Mr. '49 and Mrs. Chester J. Drag Mr. '47 and Mrs. Paul Teske are the Wash., writes, "My health is good and announce the birth of a son, James parents of a son born on April 24 in I am working full time every day." Michael, on June 7 in Kalamazoo. Kalamazoo. Mr. '51 and Mrs. Wayne E. Magee Mr. x'52 and Mrs. Elwood Schneider, 1907 (Nancy Pierce '51) are the parents of Jr., announce the birth of a son in Kal­ Another "distant" alumnus with his a son, John Wilson, born on May 30 amazoo on March 29. wife, coming from California for C~m­ in Kalamazoo. Mr. '58 and Mrs. Douglas Steward mencement was the Reverend Ralph Hinkle - no relation to the editor! Dr. and Mrs. Harold Harris are the announce the birth of a daughter, parents of a son, David Michael, born Cheryl Marie, on July 1 in Kalamazoo. 1910 on May 30 in Kalamazoo. Dr. Harris Mr. and Mrs. Raymond B. Steffen Maynard 0 . Williams writes, "Over is a member of the English department are the parents of a daughter, Lori the Fourth, at Yellow Springs, Ohio, at Kalamazoo College. Lynn, born on June 22 in Kalamazoo. the Williams Tribe, 26 strong, plans to A daughter, Laurel Beth, was born Mr. Steffen is basketball coach at Kal­ get together. This is not only a 'What on April 30 to Mr. x'51 and Mrs. Rob­ amazoo College. hath God wrought?' occasion but also ert J. Hyames, in Kalamazoo. June 25 was the birth date of Ken­ a problem in logistics. I met Mrs. Wil­ April 27 was the birth date of Kirk neth Webster, son of Mr. x'47 and Mrs. liams in China. George ('41) is back Dwight, son of Mr. '53 and Mrs. Philip Richard L. ycum (Ruth Gilson '48) this year from Turkey, where he is a L. Dillman (] oyce Tiefenthal '53). in Kalamazoo. Professor at Robert College. Charles Mr. '53 and Mrs. James Morrell Robert Joseph and Richard Thomas, (class of 1954), who just got his M.S. (Marylyn Eck '56) announce the birth twin sons of Mr. '48 and Mrs. Louis in Hydrology at Stanford, was born in of a daughter, Martha J o, on May 2 G. Collins, were born on June 28 in Istanbul. Mary (class of 1950), whose in Kalamazoo. Kalamazoo. husband is Personnel Director for the

SUMMER ALUMNUS, 1956 25 Ci ty of Berkeley, California, was born 1914 Winifred Johnson now resides in Ft. in Beirut, Lebanon. Owen ('58) was William Buchanan, who was state Myers, F la ., where she is ·district chief born in France. Having driven out to supervisor of resident agents for the supervisor for the department of pub­ California, Daisy and I will soon head Mills Mutual Insurance Company in li c welfare. back to Yell ow Springs, but will take Lansing, has retired. A surprise din­ 1929 longer en route than the kids. Of ner was held to honor him in Kalama­ Lt. Colonel John H. Kuitert recently these, counting children, in-laws and zoo on May 22. Among alumni friends completed a 34-week advanced officer grandchildren, there will be seven: Bill present were Louis Raseman, Donald course at the Army Medical Service Danielson ('48), born in Grand Rapids Strickland, Dr. Donald Rockwell, Le­ School, Fort Sam Houston, Texas. The and educated at Kalamazoo Coll ege; roy C. Bramble, James B. F leugel, course trained him in the tactical, ad­ Mary, Jean, Paul and Mark. Charles, Leon W. Nichols, Harry C. Harvey, ministrative and professional duties of educated at Kalamazoo College and and Ralph 11. Ralston. a field grade medical officer. Colonel Stanford; Shirley and David and Rich­ Kuitert has been assigned to Ottawa, ani Burton, NOT named after the 1916 Harry C. Harvey was elected pres­ Canada. famous Arabian N ights Orientalist. ident of the Goodwill Industries, Inc., George, who has been teaching at The in Kalamazoo. Ralph M. Ralston '16 1931 Hill School, Pottstown, Pa., for the Ann Ess Dunning Morrow is a fre­ past year and who is to sail for Turkey was elected treasurer of the same or­ ganization. Mr. Ralston was also quent contributor to educational jour­ o n August 22 will drive out to Yell ow chairman of the Kalamazoo Area nals. "A Teacher Looks at Prejudice" Springs with his Kalamazoo College PTA Council's campaign to acquaint appeared in the March-April issue of schoolm ate and wife Mary Hosford voters with the school building bond American Unity, issued by the Coun­ \Villiams and their two children, Janice cil Against Intolerance, New York. ISS Ue. and Rodney. Owen, with the Air Force Two of her forthcoming articles are in Washington, will bring his wife 1920 slated to appear in Clearing House and Betty Lou and their three kids; Janet, Joseph Schensul received a plaque The English Journal. Mrs. Morrow is ] ohnny and Marlene. Owen is also a from the American Restaurant Mag­ a teacher in the Pontiac, Mich., Sen­ Kalamazoo College grad, and Betty azine for "outstanding work in the up­ ior High School. Lou worked in the Registrar's Office grading of the industry." This honor there. The hostess of the jamboree, goes to restaurant operators "who have 1936 Ruth, attended Antioch College and is devoted their lives to the pleasant A recent v1s1tor to the campus was now the wife of Dr. Albert Burns Ste­ task of extending gracious hospitality Mrs. John Northam (Lou Barrows) wart of the physics department at An­ through their restaurants to their fel­ and family from Manhattan, Kansas. tioch. Their four children, Margaret, low men." Her husband teaches statistics at Kan­ Helen, Patty and Mark, will also be sas State Coll ege. on the receiving line in Yellow Springs 1922 Dr. Hugo Aach, physician and sur­ 1938 geon on the staff of Bronson Method­ Carlton H. Morris, a State Senator 1911 ist Hospital, was elected president of in :Michigan, and the Republican floor The Reverend Dr. Alfred Grant the Kalamazoo Torch Club. leader and chairman of the committee Walton, m1111ster of the Flatbush on taxation, received the honorary de­ Tompkins Congrega tiona\ Church. 1923 gree of Doctor of Laws from Western Albert Van Zoeren was re-elected wrote the following poem about a Si­ Michigan College during their 53rd president of the board of trustees of berian crabapple tree on the church annual commencement service. the Kalamazoo Home for the Aged. lawn. The poem and a picture of Dr. Alvah B. Davis and his wife, the for­ 1939 Walton and the flowering tree ap­ mer Millicent Schermerhorn of the Robert D. Hotelling received his peared in the May 15th issue of the class of 1925, operate the Davis Motel Master's degree in education from the New York Times. at Portageville. ~- Y., in Letchworth University of. l\1:ichigan and has ac­ State Park. cepted a position as Director of Chris­ SIBERIAN CRAB APPLE tian Education for the Illinois COI•• Comes spring, [ cannot wait to see 1925 gregational Conference, an association The rainbow·wreathed crab apple tree, Dorothy Scott Horst, a member of of over 300 churches in the state. He That blooms in wanton ecstasy, Nearby the church's door. the Kalamazoo Central High School and his wife, the former Frances Ring Though other splendor may abound faculty, will go to Australi a as an ex­ '39, are residing in Elmhurst, Ill. l n shrub or bush, bright blossom -crowned. change teacher next year under a Ful­ No rarer beauty could be found Nor could one ask for more! bright award. She will teach for the 1941 Margaret Hootman Marsh from La­ First comes blush, a tinted haze next school year in \ Vyong, New South As buds unfold, and then .... a blaze \Vales. Canada, Cali f., stopped o n the campus Uf flowering flame and petalled praise, That words cannot recite. during Commencement activities to 1927 greet '.tl classmates. Corollas flash and colors cry Like sunset splendor from the sky Dr. W. Wells Thoms was on the And rapture holds the passer-by, Kalamazoo College campus during May 1942 Spell-bound with delight! to give an illustrated lecture on "Mis­ Robert S. Barrows read a paper be­ Within God's house, my heart is stirred, l wait on Him. I hear His Word, sionary Journeys in U nknown Arabia." fore the a nnual meeting of the society And, seeking strength, I undergird He has been a medical missionary in of Photographic Engineers at West My feeble faith with prayer. Arabia for the last 25 years and is in Point, N. Y., on May 11. The subject Then, coming out, I lift my e.ves And beauty conquers all surmise, charge of the Knox Memorial Hospital dealt with recognition of low-contrast For, lo, bedecked in blossomed guise, photographic im ages in aerial photog- I see God standing there! is Muscat, Oman.

26 KALAMAZOO COLLEGE raphy, factors affecting the recognition Vicksburg. ).Jich., High School, has ac­ Cha rles T . Goodsell will enter Har­ and a means of evaluating it. He has cepted a postttOn as principal of ard University for graduate work in been working on various aspects of re­ Schoolcraft High School. the fall. He was recipient of the Her­ search on the photographic process B a rbar a Schrieber Hamlow is em­ bert Lee Stetson Fellowship. granted since joining the Kodak Research Lab­ ployed in the purchasing department by Kalamazoo College, and has also oratories in 19-+3, where he is now a cf Ross Gear and Tool Company while been granted a non-teaching fellow­ research physicist. her husband ts working on his Ph.D. ship of $500 by Harvard University. He in pharmacy at Purdue University. has been in the service since his grad­ 1943 uation, stationed in Germany. Dr. Charles F. Haner has been ad­ 1951 Ensign Robert M iyaga wa has com­ vanced to the rank of full professor at Three graduates of 1951 received pleted Aight training at the :\laval Air Gt·innell College, Grinnell, Iowa. He ).Jaster's degt·ees from \Vestern Mich­ Training Base, Hutchinson, Kansas. He is also chairman of the psychology de­ igan College. \iVith their special fields has been ordered to duty with the partment. they are N oble Arent, secondary ad­ naval patrol squadron at Oak Harbor, ministration and supervision; Conrad \Vash. 1945 Hinz, general administration and super­ Marjorie Bur gsta hler received a Dr. Ward B. McCart ney, Jr. has as­ ,·isicn: and Harley Pierce, teaching of 1\faster of Fine Arts degree at (ran­ sumed the presidency of the Kalama­ physical education. brook Academy of Art, Bloom field zoo Valley Dental Society. Bettye F ield has taught for the past IIills, Mich. 1946 two years in Orleans, France, and Allen Tucker is in Japan with the Marion N. Stutes wrote the third­ Kairslantern, Germany. She received Army but hopes to be discharged in prize winning slogan in a national truck her ).faster's degree from Vanderbilt time to enter Detroit College of Law promotion contest sponsored by Chev­ University and is now working on her in the fall. Doctor's degree. rolet. He won a $500 defense bond in 1955 the local contest and a $2500 bond in Vic B r aden has been doing some J ohn C. O 'Brien recently completed the national one. He was one of 11,000 teaching on the elementary level eight weeks of advanced individual who competed. along with his work in psychological training on the Army's Nike surface testing. He plans to complete his de­ to air guided missiles at Ft. Bliss, Texas. 1947 grees in another year and become as­ He entered the Army last August and George W. Otis is now assistant dis­ scciated with a guidance program in received basic training at Ft. Carlson, trict manager for Socony-Mobil Oil a public school system. Colo. Company, at Grand Rapids, Mich. He W illiam C. Baum, who has been en­ and his wife, the former Shirley 1952 gaged in graduate work in political Stevens '.fS, and family reside in Ada, Lewis A. C rawfor d received his science at Kalamazoo College during 1-.fich. ).J.D. degree at \Vayne Gniversity and is interning at the Highland Park the past year, is the recipient of a fel­ 1948 General Hospital in Highland Park, lowship from the University of Iowa Dr. W illiam Redmon is a resident in ).Iich. to begin work on his Ph.D. degree in political science and philosophy. orthopedic surgery at Henry Ford Richard Mea ns graduated from Col­ R obert R. Casler was graduated Hospital in Detroit. gate-Rochester Seminary, Rochester, from recruit training at the Naval 0:. Y. Attending the exercises were 1949 Tt·aining Center, Great Lakes, I ll. the Harold D. Aliens '21, the Rever­ Fred and Martha Jackson Tholen Joseph G reen was discharged from end 'SO and l'l'l rs. Bradley Allen and have moved to Howell, 11 ich .. where the Air Force in 1\fay and is continu­ Dr. and 1\hs. '22 ).[yron G. 1\Ieans. he is city manager. ing his studies at Trinity University in John Fonner is 1\linister of Music Houston, Texas, is the new home of San Antonio, Texas. and Religious Education in Parkview Bruce and Florence Chisholm Bowman, Church of the X azarene in Dayton, 1956 who moved there from Rochester, New Ohio. Rhine J a ger is with the Army em­ York. He is now Youth Secretary of ployed as a technician servicing ai.t:­ the l\ortlm·est YMCA in Houston. 1953 craft guns at a U .S. Air Force base Donald L. B all received a Ph.D. de­ near Oxford, England. 1950 gree in chemistry at the Graduate N a ncy Giffels received her ]\faster's School Convocation of Brown Univer­ 1957 degree from Wayne University in sity, Providence, R. I. He wrote his Donald D . May is an assistant mor­ sociology in June. Jack J. Porter and thesis on "Studies in Pet·oxide Reac­ tar gunner with the 16th Infantry Horace L. Webb received Master's tion 1Iechanisms." Regiment's Heavy 1\J ortar Company at degrees from Western Michigan Col­ R icha rd C. Wilson is a nuclear Fort Riley, Kansas. He is also play­ lege in the teaching of social sciences engineer at \Vestinghouse Company in ing baseball for the 16th Infantry and the teaching of science and math­ Pittsbu-t·gh, Pa. Regiment. ematics, respectively. D ennis A . H ill recently participated Noble and Joanne Schroder ( x'52) 1954 with the 1st Infantry Division in the S ieve rs have moved to Indianapolis Arvalea Bunnin g Crawford h a s 75th anniversary celebration of the where he is district manager of Indi­ taught violin and saxette in the Mil­ Army's Command and General Staff ana for the Chicago Steel Service waukee schools this past year. College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Company. William Way received a Master's de­ He is a radio operator in Headquarters Hector C. Grant, former athletic gree in sociology from \Vayne Univer­ Company of the Division's 16th Reg­ director and assistant principal of the sity in June. iment.

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