Whittier College Poet Commons The Rock Archives and Special Collections 9-1959 The Rock, September, 1959 (vol. 21, no. 3) Whittier College Follow this and additional works at: https://poetcommons.whittier.edu/rock archives The Rock - Alumni Magazine 1959 Dinner-Dance Disneyland 8 p.m. Friday November 6 Parade, Brunches, Play, Football Game All Day Saturday November 7 Churches, Golf Sunday, November 8 SEE YOU THERE te = The .Alumni Magazine of Whittier College Where Are They Now?" A feature on former Professors SEPTEMBER, 1959 1 'lit/h fe Civanj 64 4w& compan y Printing * -f lowers Funeral Directors "Where Good Printing 14608 East Whittier Blvd. Whittier is Not xpensive" OXbow 6-8689 • COMMERCIAL Order by Phone • and SOCIAL Day or Night • PRINTING We deliver to Whittier, La Habra, La Mirada, Fuller- ton, Pico, Rivera, Downey, Serving Whittier Area Norwalk and surrounding Since 1894 For This Service area. CALL o Weddinqs 401 E. Philadelphia St. OXford 4-3991 • Interior Landscaping • Flowers for all Occasions OX. 4-3238 Formerly called the Woods 226 W. Philadelphia Street Some Owners and Operators Rowland D. White '25 David E. White '57 WHITTIER Carolyn '51 and C. E. Emerson Andy (Jack) Wood 50 I 11111 III 1111111 ILLIII llllll(lIllIllILllII UI . [tlllllhllllltllhlIIlllIIlllIllhllIlIltlllllIll I 119 South Greenleaf Avenue Whittier, California OXbow 8-8041 Reservations 1c0140 4144WAII JE 1-1232 4f TVFt Where Whittier has shopped with confidence for 54 years. Hawaiian Bar B 9 • Sukiyaki Top flight merchandise and Served by Girls in Kimonos star bright brands names for LUNCHEONS and FAMILY DINNERS you and everyone in your family. SEE OUR FINE ORIENTAL GIFT SHOP GREENLEAF AT BAILEY Near 1st St. at 15131 Harbor Blvd., Santa Ana OX. 4-5651 2 WHITTIER COLLEGE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION David E. Wicker '49 President Norfleet Callicott '45 Vice-President Ite L;241CS~K~ Thomas D. Wood '50 'Ihe 1ttmiij Mmgazjxie c,V W2aittier College Past President Wm. H. (Mo) Marumoto '57 Volume XXI September 1959 Director of Alumni Relations Number 3 Editor of The Rock Jane T. Randolph '43 Assistant Director of Alumni Relations Assistant Editor of The Rock in this issue ALUMNI BOARD Thomas D. Wood '50, Charles W. Rob- inson. Jr. '39, Barbara D. Maple '37, Where are they now? Jean B. Miller '29, Warren Newman '59, 5 Madolyn M. Christopher '35, Homan C. Here's a brief look into the present lives Moore, Jr. '57, Herbert Adden, Jr.'49. of five former Whittier College professors Jean C. Reese '48, Edna T. Nanney '10. Ex-officio: Dr. Paul S. Smith, William Kelley 'GO, Dr. Robert W. O'Brien, Dr. Geologically Unsafe Building Sites 8 Roy Newsom '34. Whittier College professor Beach Leighton discusses geological and the homeowner COMMISSION CHAIRMEN Beryl E. Notthoff 135, Alumni Fund; Topic: FOOTBALL 10 Darlene C. Kruse '50, Clubs and Chap- ters; Jack Mealer '52, Communica- Staffer Milt Stark records the conversation tions; Stuart Got hold '56, Student- of a past and a present football coach Alumni Relations; Jack Gauldin '47, Business and Professional Organiza- Special Insert tions. 13 Presenting a summary of the 1958-59 Annual Alumni Fund and a list of contributors SOCIETY REPRESENTATIVES Franklins, Everett Hunt '48; lonians, Ann Bamberger '56; Lancer, Jack Car- lisle '50; Metaphonian., Kathy B. Marsh '55; Orthogonian, James Daugherty '58; REGULAR ROCK FEATURES Palmer, Phyllis L. Newsom '54; Sach- sen, William Patterson '58; Thalian, Mo-To-Rama 4 Sports in Brief Ruth B. Chisler '36; William Penn, 17 Don Freeman '55. President's Corner 12 Old Acquaintances 18 CLUBS AND CHAPTERS Broadoaks Alumnae, Jeanette B. Mills Director of Advertisers 12 '45; 1195 Club, William Krueger '33; Cap and Gown Alumnae, Ann D. Chandler '56; Independents, Jack Gil- bert '50. ABOUT THE COVER ROCK STAFF Karin Conly '55, Feature Editor; Milt Homecoming! Meeting old Stark '58. Sports Editor; Jack Mealer friends . eating too much at 152, Production Manager; and Robert the brunches. the parade. H. Dill. Photographer. Advisory Staff: winning the football game (?) Dr. Robert W. O'Brien, Faculty; James B. Moore, Administration; Robert Col- the dinner-dance . all the lier '60. Associated Students; and pleasures awaiting Whittier Col- David E. Wicker '49, Alumni Associa- lege • alumni are spelled out on tion. the front cover with photo- graphs -of previous Homecoming Days. This year, as you will also note on the cover, Homecoming The Rock is a publication of the TIJEBE will be spread over three days, Whittier College Alumni Associa- in order to incorporate some tion, published during the months new ideas and to give proper of September, December, March prominence to existing ideas. and July at Whittier, California, 1ei'rcI;EI(. I93o This is a printed invitation to Box 651. Member of the American attend . hope to see you there! Alumni Council. 3 ~k A pictorial report of the Second Annual Alumni Leaders Conference FIRST will be made in the December issue of The Rock . At the same time the newly elected officers and com- mission chairmen will be announced. QUALITY Football teams of yesteryear will be staging reunions this season at four home games . Cliff Neilson heads the '54 team shindig on Sep- DAIRY tember 19 ... the '24 squad follows with Frank Shaffer as host Homecoming finds the '34 and '39 clubs gathering with John Arram- PRODUCTS bide and Myron Claxton as chair- men . Don Rothrock calls togeth- er the '49 group for the last home game of the year on November 21. •WHOLESALE • RETAIL The 1958-59 14th Annual Alumni Fund report shows that $14,684 contributed is a new record but far below most schools our size ...the 12.2% of the alumni participating is c%TTI \ about 9% under the national aver- number-wise approximately )QUAKERM AID gend age . 1121 contributed . an average lk' gift of $13.09 . Fund chairman, Beryl Notthoff '35, has high hopes M I L.K of upping these figures. Alumni in the following classes go will hold their reunions on June 11 Serving the Area • . '05, '10, '15, '20, '25, '30, '35, '40, '45, '50, and '55. For Over .40 Years The successful Lancer Career To Seminar held last spring was under the direction of Dr. John Arcadi '46 . alumni spend a half day on You'll get a bonus yield campus to advise undergrads about their future vocations in a pilot on your savings study inaugurated by the alumni office. Past student body prexy Mike Murphy '59, follows Carleen (Fin- WHITTIER ney) Bedwell '57, as the second Whittierite to he selected for the SANITARY DAIRY Coro Foundation program . He begins the nine-month public af- COMPANY fairs internship this month. Beginning Wednesday, September 126 - 130 So. Comstock Ave. 16th at 7:15 a.m. at Welch's Whit- tier, and every Wednesday morning OX. 4-2622 A Ol during the football season, the 1195 Current Interest Rate II.10 per year Club will again host football break- fasts open to alumni and friends Open a savings account by mail today alike. Popular professor Mabel F. Rice of the Education Department has - been appointed to the Newberry- KENNETH L. BALL, Manager SAVINGS Caldecott Medal Book Committee of Class 1934 AND LOAN ASSOCIATION the American Library Association 9219 East Whittier Boulevard for 1959-60 . the committee selects Pico, California the two most distinguished children's books of the year for the Newbery (Continued on Page 17) 4 Throughout the nation, college students and graduates will always find room in their memories for those pro- fessors whose classes they once attended. The inspiring lectures. The copious amount of notes taken. The surprise quizzes. The informal chats on campus between teacher Nearly a dozen requests for informa- and student. The final exams! tion were sent to former Whittier College instructors . these five were the only All these things may now lead that one-time student ones who had responded by "deadline" time. If there are other former instruc- to ask the question of any number of teachers—"Where tors you would like to know about . Are They Now?" please let us know. Address: 110, Avenue Mozart, Paris (XVI). cooper At this address one can find Dr. and Mrs. Charles W. Cooper—that is, Until mid-October, when they will be returning to their home in Santa Barbara. Dr. Cooper, formerly Professor of Fine Arts and on the staff at Whittier College since 1938, left the campus in 1954. Since that time, he and his wife have spent a two-year assignment as Co-Secretaries of the Quaker International Center in the famous city of Paris, France. The Center, itself, is an old thirty-room house com- plete with courtyard, which has survived among the myriad of modern apartment houses. The building houses the foreign staffs and provides the offices for several American Quaker programs. The programs under the supervision of Dr. and Mrs. Cooper have included a food and clothing distribution plan (now being terminated); counsel and clothing for refugees; monthly dinners for diplomats, at which the Coopers serve as hosts; evening student soirees for French and foreign young people; an English conversa- tion class; the entertainment of traveling Friends; and especially their aid in solving personal problems which come to them. A most interesting part of their stay in France, Dr. Cooper writes, is that they have been able to visit with so many tourists from the Poet campus. Many students have stopped to say hello, as well as several touring professors. Equally as enjoyable has been the oppor- tunity for travel throughout Western Europe. In conclusion, he states: "See you at Homecoming!" Dr. Harold Lillywhite, who was a member of the Poet faculty from 1947-1953 in the campus Speech Depart- ment, now resides on a small ranch in Beaverton, just outside Portland, to enjoy his leisure hours.