The University of Maine DigitalCommons@UMaine University of Maine Alumni Magazines University of Maine Publications Summer 1975 Maine Alumnus, Volume 56, Number 4, Summer 1975 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 56, Number 4, Summer 1975" (1975). University of Maine Alumni Magazines. 310. https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/alumni_magazines/310 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]. 4 • * A ♦ ' l i Volume 56 Number 4 Summer 1975 The Maine Alumnus publisher Lester J. Nadeau ’59 •I editor Wanda Conley Owen 2 On Tap . Wraparound of news and events on campus art % Arline K. Thomson 4 The Harrises Come Back . Reunion for a post WW 11 graduate photo credits 7 Paideuma . Pound scholars at Maine Keith Dresser Al Pelletier 8 Tom Lynch ’38 . an Alumnus Profile Jack Walas Jilumni association officers 10 Pat’s president Gordon I. Erikson ’43 12 Alumni news First Vice President i John F. Wilson ’33 I 14 Rudy Comes To Maine Second Vice President Mrs. Eleanor (West) Yerxa ’33 15 Annual Giving Treasurer James H. Webster ’59 16 Sports . Maine at Connecticut Clerk Mrs. Clara (Peabody) Hersum '27 18 The Man Who Saved James Bond . an Alumnus Profile alumni council 19 Class Notes William E. Bodwell ’50 Howard L. Bowen ’24 31 Memoriam Leslie C. Brewer ’44 Stephen A. Briggs ’65 34 On Tap Leland F. Carter ’42 Donald P. Corbett ’34 37 Second Century Fund Inside back cover J. Edward DeCourcy ’34 John K. Dineen ’51 Dr. James F. Donovan ’45 Cover: “Summer Patchwork” by Arline Thomson Terry Ann Dorr ’74 Kenneth S. Field ’27 George P. Hitchings ’37 Photographs in patches: Bradford, Ernest Pero, Jeanette Roney Pero, Mary Ralph L. Hodgkins, Jr. '59 Top, front cover Crowley Mulvey, Lavon Zakarian, Emerson Stymiest. Wallace H. Humphrey ’32 Class of 1925 Third row: Paul Wadsworth, Mrs. Niran Bates, Niran Dr. Waldo M. Libbey ’44 Left to right, first row: Cedi J. Cutts, Lincoln A. Sen- Bates, Charles Stover, Frank Larrabee, George Melvin T. McClure ’57 nett, Louise Q. Lord, Mildred Brown Schrumpf, Winter, Ralph Corbett, Emma M. Schlosberg, Dr. James H. McGowan ’76 Robert N. Haskell, Velma K. Oliver, Chester A. Baker, Charles Schlosberg, George H. Barnes, Margaret H. Donald L. Mooers ’60 Mrs. Elwin L. Dean, Elwin L. Dean. Second row: Ann Pearce. Fourth row: Ada Wadsworth, Lewis P. Arthur K. Nicholson III ’67 Thurston Henderson, Nan Mahoney Bradford, Ar­ Roberts, Horace Croxford, Isabelle Croxford, Ken­ Robert L. Olsen '50 thur N. Parmenter, Rev. Stanley B. Hyde, Arlene neth Haskell, Carleton E. Nims, Vernon L. Hodgkin, William P. Palmer III ’58 Ware Hyde, Pearl Woodward Fickett, F. H. Parsons, Jim Booker, Thomas B. Smith, Franklin E. Pearce. Albert M. Parker ’28 Elizabeth Peabody Parsons, Edith Hanington Moberg, Josephine Mary Profita '38 Mary Waterhouse, Drew Steams, Carl E. Ring. Third Mrs. Mary (Carter) Stiles ’31 Center Right, inside front cover David E. Svendsen ’65 row: Verner F. Robinson, Frank W. Hussey, Laurence Class of 1950 Tcxrey A. Sylvester ’59 B. Blethen, Elwood N. Osborne, Philip Ehrlich, Left to right, first row: Don Barron, Guy Rowe, Joann '■jfa. Pauline (Jellison) Weatherbee ’40 Michael O’Connor, Charles M. McEwen, Hope Nor­ B. Rowe, Margaret M. McIntosh, Bill Bodwell, Harry wood Bannister, Leona Reed McDonald, Carl A. Le- E. Bickford, Jr., Frances R. L. Needleman, Robert L. annual alumni fund committee jonhud, James T. Blair, Walter D. Scannell. Fourth Freeman. (Class officers) Second row: Neal Martin, National Chairman row: Clifford V. Irish, Emily E. Irish, Robert S. Pike, Allegra Anderson McLean, Ellie Hansen Brockway, John F. Wilson ’33 Mansfield Packard, Ernest Ridlon, Vaughn B. Everett, Isabelle Sands Sampson, Dottie Butler Marsden, Sue Vice Chairmen Carl B. Eastman, Frederic A. Soderberg, Frank J. Dartnell Hadge, Jeanne Thompson Nason, Toby Thomas J. Desmond ’33 McDonald, June D. Burton, Ray H. Burton, Albert H. Nason. Third row: Paul N. Sferes, Irving L. Cushman, George P. Hitchings ’37 Repscha, Claude H. Tozier. Robert N. Cratty, Merle S. Johnston, Marilyn Jones Mrs. Helen (Wormwood) Pierce '41 Chase, Arnold J. Buschena, Jr., Robert H. Elliott, A. Leonard N. Plavin ’48 Bottom, front cover W. Harris III, Floyd E. Brown. Fourth row: Scott Eugene F. Sturgeon ’65 Class of 1940 Webster, Myron Zimmerman, Edward W. Lent, Vin­ Arthur Nicholson III ’67 Left to right: first row: Nat Doten, Dick Morton, Alice cent J. P. Leblanc, George W. Sampson, Irv Marsden, Ann Poeppelmeier, Charles Weaver, Ruth Trickey alumni representatives to the intercollegiate Frederick Andrews, Dave Hale, Don McIntosh. Fifth Parker. Second row: Priscilla Bickford Nelson, Vir­ athletic advisory council row: Bill Betts, Ed McDermott, Donald Rawson, J. ginia Tuttle Merrill, W. Dwight Barrell, Arlo E. Gil- Bertis L. Pratt, Jr. ’43 Walter Allen, Doug King, Emile L’Heureux, Elwyn R. patnek, William W. Treat. Third row: Charles H. Ernest J. Reidman *38 Morrow, Chap Norton, Jack Denison, Tom Sweetser. Clough, Jr., Virginia Pease Dogherty, Frances Rhoda Vernon W. Tozer ’51 Richards, Betty Libbey Stallard, Polly Cooper Cotting. Bottom Left, Inside Front Cover Fourth row: Harry S. Nelson, Jr., Wayne Shipman, Maine Alumnus, published four times a year in the Fall, Clarence H.M. Perry, Polly Jellison Weatherbee, Class of 1945 Left to right, first row: N. Richard Knudsen, Richard Winter, Spring and Summer by the General Alumni Associa­ Robert B. Robertson, Ralph T. Grant, Roger Cotting. tion, Alumm Center, University of Maine at Orono, Orono, H. Danforth, Robert M. Chase, Carolyn Chaplin Maine 04473. The General Alumni Association, Goidon I. Top, left, Inside front cover Grant. Second row: Thelma Peacock Smith, Margaret Erikson, president, is an unincorporated association, classified Class of 1930 Moore Francis, Grace Wentworth King, Robert G. as an educational and chantable organization as described in Left to right, first row: Parker Cushman, Bee Cush­ Martin, Morton C. Patten. Third row: Dorothy Cur­ section 509 (a) (1) of the Internal Revenue Code Total number man, Frank McCann, Myrilla Guilford Daley ’31, Wil­ rier Dutton, Virginia Wing Moore, Barbara Higgins of copies printed per year, 96,000. Average per issue 24,000. Bodwell, Doris Emery Spencer, Ethel Tarr Smyth, Send changes of address and letters to the editor to the business liam Daley, Laurine Hebert, Hector Hebert, Rosella office six weeks prior to the next issue. $5 00 to the Annual Loveitt, Vera Hill, Lillian Loveitt, Rose Zakarian, Sally Lockett Taylor. Fourth Row: Ruth Horsman, Alumni Fund is a subscription to The Maine Alumnus for one Elizabeth Mason Carter, Lila Stymiest. Second row: Bob Smyth, Bob Dinsmore, Ben Warner, Bob Dutton, year. Second class postage paid at orono, Maine 04473. Louise Boothby ’31, Laurence Boothby, Richard Jim Donovan. * quality, low-cost higher education, we look forward to new direction and reassess­ ment in the hard days ahead for the uni­ versity. Mr. McCarthy’s talents and experience in diplomacy, planning, education, goo ernment, and administration bring a set <5f dynamic and unique strengths to bear on the mission of the university. He has the full support of the trustees and we look forward to welcoming him into the uni­ versity family. The search has been an exhaustive and extensive one, characterized by its open­ ness and its expedience. It has been a gratifying experience for me and I believe for the other trustees on the search com­ mittee to have been so intimately involved in a process of selection that included con­ tributions from Maine citizens and differ­ ent constituencies within the university. We are pleased that that process has re­ Left to right: UMO President Howard R. Neville, William S. Cohen, Representative to the United Slates sulted in the selection of Pat McCarthy. Congress from Maine’s 2nd district, and Lewis C. Dowdy, Chancellor at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. illiam S. Cohen, representative to Carolina Agricultural and Technical State the U.S. Congress from Maine’s Second University before becoming president. He District was the featured speaker at the has several posts in state and national Ad­ 151st Commencement Excercises of the visory committees and is the recipient of June 18, the Maine Senate upheld University of Maine at Orono, Saturday, the Outstanding Alumnus Award from On May 17. 1291 undergraduate and Indiana State University. Governor James B. Longley’s veto of legis­ graduate students received degrees. lation establishing a University of Cohen, a graduate of Bowdoin College Medical School. This marked an in 1962 and Boston University Law School the medical school proposed for the cur­ in 1965 was awarded an honorary Doctor rent legislative session. However, Senator of Laws Degree and Lewis C. Dowdy, Minnette Cummings, R-Newport, spon­ Chancellor at North Carolina Agricultural sor of the bill, said proponents probably and Technical State University, Greens­ will reintroduce it at the January, 1976 boro, North Carolina was awarded an I ames H. Paige, Chairman of the Uni- special session. honorary Doctor of Pedagogy Degree. Jersity Board of Trustees, issued the fol­ /There were varied reactions to the turn Cohen was elected to the U.S. Congress lowing statement to The Alumnus as we of events. Senator Alton Cianchette, in 1972 and reelected in 1974. went to press: D-Pittsfield, believes the Governor failed Dowdy, former president of the Na­ The Board of Trustees is pleased to an­ to find common ground for communica- .