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Maine Alumnus, Volume 28, Number 3, December 1946 The University of Maine DigitalCommons@UMaine University of Maine Alumni Magazines University of Maine Publications 12-1946 Maine Alumnus, Volume 28, Number 3, December 1946 General Alumni Association, University of Maine Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/alumni_magazines Part of the Higher Education Commons, and the History Commons Recommended Citation General Alumni Association, University of Maine, "Maine Alumnus, Volume 28, Number 3, December 1946" (1946). University of Maine Alumni Magazines. 127. https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/alumni_magazines/127 This publication is brought to you for free and open access by DigitalCommons@UMaine. It has been accepted for inclusion in University of Maine Alumni Magazines by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@UMaine. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Vol. 28, No. 3 DECEMBER, 1946 •1 .-A<* . ■ • V * ■ J llll 'M m Here’s what the present Recreation Room at the M.C.A. looks like now at almost any hour of the day. It’s much too crowded. Similar crowded conditions exist in the game room across the hall. With a record number of students now on the campus, the well-known M.C.A. Building, long the rendezvous of undergraduates, is no longer adequate. There just aren’t enough recreational facilities for the needs of the students. And of course the M.C.A. Building was not designed for its present extensive use. PLANS FOR THE NEW UNION BUILDING INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING RECREATIONAL FACILITIES: Six bowling alleys Six pool and billiard tables ; Six ping-pong tables Hobby rooms for leisure time activities Three student lounges This is the first in a series of advertisements giving information about the proposed Union Building Vol. 28 DECEMBER, 1946 No. 3 Published monthly from October to June inclusive, by the University of Maine General Alumni Association, Business office. The Maine Alumnus, University of Maine, Orono, Maine, subscription price, $2 00 per year, included in annual alumni dues of $3 00. Member: American Alumni Council. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at Orono, Maine, under act of March 3, 1870. J NE of the most generally interest­ area is home to 196 G.I. families. The 23 real financial problem. Regardless of the ing aspects of the post-war Uni­ buildings there are supplemented by the number of dependents he may have, he versity campus is the presence in large familiar University Cabins and by trail­ receives, under the terms of the G.I. Bill, numbers of married students. Of the ers brought in from Presque Isle last $90 per month for subsistence. Although 1,971 veterans attending the Orono cam­ year. The total result is a compact and his tuition, books, and supplies are paid pus, 544 are married. Many of these have homogeneous colony of almost 300 fami­ for by the government, there remains the one or more children. The parade of wives lies who are managing successfully to ever-present problem of feeding hungry and baby carriages across campus to meet combine college and home life and also, in mouths, and the purchase of fuel, clothes, papa after a long hard day in the class­ many cases, a full-time schedule of work. and other necessities. The high costs' of room has become an accepted feature of Other families, of course, live in the near­ living today make it difficult even for two the college scene. Diapers on the clothes by towns and cities, but it is the group in to keep within a budget of $90, and many line, grocery shopping lists, and perennial the campus houses which presents, per­ of the men are also supporting one or worry over the family budget are an im­ haps, the most interesting aspect of the more children portant part of the college experiences of new feature of college life. Many ingenious ways of meeting this these men even though such studies are The new apartments, brought in from situation have been found. A large number not recognized in the college curricula. South Portland through arrangement with of the wives are working part or full time. Because of the general interest in this the Federal Housing Authority, have two Typists, stenographers, and clerical work­ post-war development and the effect it has sizes of apartments. Each building in ers on the campus are numerous; depart­ on campus life in general, a story on the use for students has eight apartments, the mental assistants, laboratory workers, veteran families should be appropriate in four at each end consist of four rooms nursery school teachers, and library work- The Alumnus. each, kitchen, living room, and two bed­ ers help to make up the list of bread- rooms. These are used for veterans with winners. One family from the Cabin South Dormitories children. The center apartments have colony operates a full-time grocery store three rooms each. All have their own on Grove Street nearby and also rents Anticipating the great invasion by vet­ baths with stall shower. The University bicycles to those wanting to tour the erans the University took energetic mea­ provided the apartments partially fur­ Maine countryside inexpensively. Others sures to meet the situation and to provide, nished, including two coal stoves, one for have found employment off campus in as far as opportunity permitted, the great­ cooking, the other a space heater, ice re­ restaurants, stores, and manufacturing est need of all, housing. Besides dormi­ frigerator, beds, chairs, and chest of draw- (Continued on Page 8) tory space for single men, the demand for ers convertible to a desk. family housing was anticipated. As a re­ FRONT COVER: College life for many sult of this forethought and of intensive ex-G.I.’s nowadays includes walking home Finances effort on the part of administration of­ from class with wife and child. This new ficials the pre-fabricated housing, shown The rent for the University apartments, phase of campus life is one of the impor­ at the top of this page, was set up and established by the F.H A., is reasonable. tant post-war developments for which col­ today, known as South Dormitories, the Nevertheless, the married veteran faces a lege administrations must provide. In the living room of their Mr. and Mrs. Dalmar McPherson of apartment Mrs. Philip Sweet- Stillwater, below, team up in the .. ' ser of Portland and daughter attractive kitchen of their apart­ ■ - • ’ • _ • ... Karen, 14 months, wait for ment to get supper. In center, Mrs. the man of the house to re­ Arthur A. Hauck pays a neighborly turn from class. He is a senior visit to Mr. and Mrs. Jean Hufnagel in Agriculture. and 10-months-old Douglass. •• . ' X .X ‘ , V *’ r . V ^ • s - • * t * • * N td- . " < > v r . 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After carefully proval on the latest floor plans. A meet­ Maine men lost in World W ar II, and weighing the relative needs of the Uni­ ing of presidents of student organizations pledged their support to help make possi­ versity and the factor of greatest useful­ enthusiastically endorsed the Union Build­ ble the proposed Union Building. Presi­ ness to the largest number, it was reluc­ ing as an appropriate memorial and dent and Mrs Hauck were hosts to this tantly decided that cost would make it- pledged student support to help make the outstanding group of student leaders. necessary to omit the big hall which had building possible Prof Harry D Watson T8, chairman of been under consideration. While this hall the Alumni-Faculty Advisory Committee was much desired, an expenditure of about Special Gifts on Student Campaign, presided.
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