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Hates Student Vol. XCII, No. 20 BATES COLUEGE, LEWISTON, MAINE, MARCH 30, 1966 By Subscription Departments Set Programs 100th Commencement Boasts For '68 Theses And Comps By Henry Seigal Thesis and comprehensive Five Honorary Degree Recipients Recently Dean Healy's of- required of all seniors: Gov- fice compiled a list of the ernment, Spanish, German, changes to be instituted in the French. Bates College will award Under the new calendar, Judge William H. Hastie thesis and comprehensive pro- Thesis required of all sen- five honorary degrees at its seniors will complete their re- Judge Hastie graduated grams at Bates, effective be iors, but no comprehensives One Hundredth Commence- quirements for graduation in from Amherst College, Phi ginning with the class of 1968. required at all: Philosophy. ment, Monday, April 25, Pres- April. Commencement exer- Beta Kappa, in 1925 and Har- Each department will have Religion, Economics, History, ident Phillips, has announced. April 25, beginning at 10:00 vard Law School in 1930. At complete and final authority English, Chemistry, Speech, The degree recipients will cises will be held Monday, Harvard he was one of the over these changes and the Physics, Geology, Sociology. be Samuel M. Graves, princi- a.m. in the Lewiston Memorial few Negroes up to that time department may change these Comprehensives required of pal of Wellesley, Massachus- Armory. to serve on the "Harvard Law all seniors; thesis optional etts, High School; The Honor- Review" and after graduation requirements at their discre- Samuel M. Graves tion. However, the changes with permission: Biology. able William H. Hastie, judge he was named a law clerk to will not be retroactive. Once Comprehensive examina- of the Third United States Samuel M. Graves gradu- Supreme Court Justice Felix a specific program is an- tions only: Mathematics. Circuit Court of Appeals, Phil- ated from Bates College in Frankfurter in Washington. nounced for the seniors of one Theses will be given credit adelphia, Pa.; Mrs. Evelyn M. 1924, having been editor of In 1933 he received the de- class, it will be carried out at the descretion of the de- Phillips, wife of the President the Bates Student; Ivy Day gree of doctor of juridical sci- and any change will affect partment. The credits will be of Bates College; Dr. Priscilla Toastmaster; Class Day speak- ence at Harvard. the seniors of the succeeding three or six depending en the F. Pollister, professor of bio- er; and president of his class Joining the legal staff of classes only. length of time spent on the logy at Brooklyn College of He has done graduate work the Department of the Interior, The following is the sched theses. Detailed thesis ar- the City University of New at Boston University, and has he was appointed a judge of ule which Dean Healy has re- rangements for each depart- York; and William H. Schu- served frequently as a visit- the District Court of the Vir- ceived from the departments ment will be decided at a fu- man, president of the Lincoln ing professor of education at gin Islands, and two years which will be effective for Center for the Performing summer schools including the later he became dean of the the graduating class of 1968: (Con't. on Page 5/Col. 1) Arts, New York City. University of Maine. Howard University School of In 1958, Mr. Graves was Law. As civilian aide to the C. A. Chooses elected president of the Mas- Secretary of War in 1940-42, Commissioners sachusetts Secondary School he devoted his attention to BE A C A "BIG BROTHER" Principals Association, and the problems of desegregating Recently appointed to work later he was appointed by the various branches of the armed (OR "SISTER") along with the new slate of Governor of the Common- forces. C. A. officers are six commis- wealth to the Massachusetts In 1946 he was appointed Commission for Education Governor of the Virgin Is- will have the opportunity to sioners. Andrea Peterson will The Campus Association which submitted its report on lands, where his able admin- serve as "big brothers" or be heading the Commission of and the local Y. M. C. A. have education in Massachusetts a istration helped bring about recently agreed to co-spon- "big sisters" to a local disad- Social Action; Campus Serv- ice, David Rinderer; Commun- little over a year ago, with his present appointment to sor ten Bates students who. vantaged child. great acclaim. ity Service, Don Miller; Pub- the federal bench three years beginning next September, The purpose of the new pro- In 1965, he received national later. gram is to benefit the chil- licity, Sue Miller; "No Name" recognition as an educator by- Judge Hastie will receive dren in two ways. First, it will Commission, Andy Kusmin; being elected president of the the degree of Doctor of Hu- give them many enjoyable and Member at Large, Craig National Association of Sec- mane Letters. Ivy Day at Night and educational experiences Lindell. ondary School Principals. Mr. Mrs. Charles F. Phillips which have been denied them These commissioners will Graves has been a guest of By Gretchen Hess As President and Mrs. up to this time, such as hik- make up the members of the the President at the White The traditional Bates Ivy Charles F. Phillips prepare for ing, bowling, visiting a library C. A. cabinet in addition to the House to honor the education Day will have a new innova- their retirement, the College or fire station, and attending officers for next year: Bruce committees of House and Sen- tion this year, being held at will give formal recognition of a college sports event. Second- Lyman, president, Chuck ate, and has been called up- night at 7 on April 4. The the invaluable part Evelyn M. ly, it will give each child a Learned, vice president, Bar- on to address many state and program will include the cer- Phillips has played in the ad- relationship with an older per- bara Prentice, Secretary, and local educational association emonies in the chapel and son who cares about them. The Dave Burtt, Treasurer. meetings. the planting of the ivy beside essence of the big brother pro- (Con't. on Page 5/Col. 1) Carnegie Hall. Flood lights gram is its one-to-one rela- will be provided so that the tionship. darkness will not impede the The children will be from planting. Following the pro- the fourth through sixth gram there will be a reception grades, ages ten through Men's Dorm Plans Revealed and dance in Chase Hall Ball- twelve. They will be selected room until 12. by a committee of social serv- The campus is cordially in- ice professionals from lists vited to watch the Seniors submitted by local agencies cringe as the Juniors strike, and schools. while the Sophomores take The Bates volunteers will be notes for next year. screened by the same commit- Led by Tom McKittrick as tee and selected on the basis class Marshall and Harry of compatibility with the in- Marsden as toastmaster, the dividual children. The stu- Junior class will invade the dents must be able to meet Chapel. Charlie Wall will de- with the child at least once liver the President's Address, every two weeks for the entire Paul Hardy the.class oration, school year. This is most im- and Tom Todd will present portant because the prema- his Ode to the Ivy. Butch ture breaking of one of these Construction of a new dor- pany of Augusta at a cost of with the conversion of Hedge Bradford will toast the Sen- relationships could be very mitory for men will begin this about $750,000, and the build- Laboratory into Hedge Hall. iors. Keith Harvie will toast harmful to the child. Spring. Housing about 150 ing will be completed in With the completion of this the coeds and Sally Myers The program will be limit- men, the building will be con- time for occupancy in the fall new structure, each of the will toast the men. Ted Kneis- ed in size in order to assure structed on Bardwell Street of 1967. older buildings can be left ler will glorify the faculty close personal attention to next to Smith. This project is the second vacant in turn during the and Carol Renaud will be sure each Bates volunteer. The contract for the dormi- step in a ten-year building year necessary for their reno- the athletes do not escape tory has been given to the and remodeling program for vation to be completed. unscathed. (Con't. on Page 5/Col. 1) Stewart and Williams Com- dormitories begun a year ago Two BATES COLUEGE, LEWISTON, MAINE, MARCH 30, 1966 COMMENTS ON VIET NAM PROSPECTUS by Robert M. Chute power politics of South East wing, western oriented, totali- the seas? And what of our sense and reason in weighing The whole Viet Nam adven- Asia have no more Justifica- tarian regime, regardless of abhorrence of interference in the relative merits of the ture seems to me to be just tion than would the attempt the numbers of people who the internal affairs of other claim of the contending gov- an Asian version of the en- of China to make similar had suffered repression or countries? Our support of free ernments to rule Vietnam.