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The Maine Alurtinus November 1966 VOLUME 48, NO. 2 EDITORIAL .................................. ... 4 ALUMNI ASSOCIATION AWARDS ............. 5 SPORTS . 8 HOMECOMING ROYALTY...................................... 10 CAMPUS NEWS ....................................................... 11 STUDENTS PLANNING POOL ..................... 14 ALUMNI TRIP 16 LOCAL ASSOCIATIONS ...................................... 17 NECROLOGY . 20 SONS AND DAUGHTERS ................................ 22 CLASS NOTES 25 THE COVER i ■ FRONT—Does your eye for beauty match that of today’s student. These five coeds ran for Homecoming queen. Please turn to page 10 and compare your vote with that of the stu­ dent body. INSIDE—Mrs. Evelyn (Adriance ’38) Miles of Orono cap­ tures Clarence Cook Little Hall under a full moon from across the mall. THE STAFF Editor: Dr. T. Russell Woolley ’41 Associate Editor: Robert A. Kelleter ’63 Class Notes Editor: Mildred (Brown ’25) Schrumpf Photographers: Al Pelletier, Frederick L. Youngs may be discouraged or even carefully schooled to avoid leadership, because intellectually gifted ones go from col­ AN EDITORIAL lege directly to graduate school or into professional schools. There the indoctrin­ ated attitudes are the ones appropriate to scholars, scientists, and professional men. Good! Not good, however, be­ yond the purely professional tasks — What's A Leader for the broadening of interests; instead rather narrowing and technical. “The academic world may appear to want to educate the techinical expert who advises The news of a shining big group of wealth.” Also, . .leadership is dis­ the leader, not the leader himself.” freshmen - the men and women of persed among a great many groups in Where is the broad moral leadership — the Class of 1970 is fascinating. They our society.” Very few of our most prom­ are bright young folks, healthy ones, inent people, he believes, take a really the articulation of cherished values of eager and impatient. Many of their large view of where our society is head­ our society? So much energy may be parents, teachers and neighbors are say­ ing, or of what major trends determine devoted simply to “tending the machinery ing: “Ah, yes, there they go-off to col­ our future or what we should be doing of our complex society” that the heading lege to become the leaders of tomorrow.” about the major trends. In fact, says he, may be obscured, and the ambition of True, some of them will become lead­ most folks avoid the leadership assign­ a motivated and capable leader may ers in our relatively open leadership ment and are simply tending the machin­ be quashed. system in United States society. What ery of that part of society to which they Thank goodness for the traditions should be of concern to us all is, the pro­ belong. And, he states, “The cure is not in songs, in customs, in newspapers; for cess by which some of these will be to work against the fragmentation of the continuation of military training and determined, but more importantly -- leadership ... but to create better chan­ of fraternity and sorority self govern­ the kind of preparation they will find nels of communication among signifi­ ment, of debating groups and student at a great university. cant leadership groups, especially in con­ clubs. It may be in these, or just possibly Not much longer ago than one year, nection with the great issues....” But, in the classroom, that the leaders will be John W. Gardner left the presidency of “... .we are immunizing a high propor­ identified and will be motivated and Carnegie Corporation to become sec­ tion of our most gifted young people will,succeed to the places of real emi­ retary of health education welfare in against any tendencies to leadership.” nence where they will be needed. Let us the cabinet. Just prior to that change The proof offered is reasonable. Life resolve that they learn to express the he wrote an essay on leadership and we is a bit more complex in a crowded pop­ values that hold society together, and that looked at it to see what predictions he ulation. Young folks are aware of being they conceive goals which can lift people might have included about young peo­ anonymous members of a mass. How out of petty preoccupations. ples’ opportunities to become leaders. to exercise leadership is not a clearly Welcome, members of 1970! Be ambi­ He said, “... .leadership in the U.S. is not visible process and so it is thought to be tious! Learn to become leaders! based on caste or class, nor even on exceedingly intricate. Bright students —Rim Woolley GENERAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Helen (Wormwood ’41) Pierce Albert M. Parker ’28 Edward C. Sherry ’38 OFFICERS ALUMNI COUNCIL Norma J. Smaha ’54 President Martha (Wyman ’54) Weatherbee Flovd N. Abbott ’25 Robert P. Schoppe ’38 Thomas N. Weeks ’16 Ralph R. Bennett ’24 1st Vice President Kenneth Woodbury ’24 Maxwell B. Carter, Jr. ’44 Carl A. Whitman ’35 Myron W. Zimmerman *50 2nd Vice President Virginia (Tufts ’46) Chaplin Marion Cooper ’27 M. Eleanor Jackson ’20 UNIVERSITY BOARD OF TRUSTEES Clerk Malcolm E. C. Devine ’31 M. Waldo Libbey ’44 Robert L. Fuller ’38 Lawrence M. Cutler, president, ’28 Treasurer Mary Hale (Sutton ’38) Furman Arthur H. Benoit Edward H. Piper ’43 Oscar R. Hahnel, Jr. ’44 Frank C. Brown ’30 Executive Director Howe W. Hall ’14 Ralph H. Cutting T. Russell Woolley ’41 Harold P. Hamilton ’30 Robert N. Haskell ’25 Ass't Executive Directors Ra'ph L. Hodgkins, Jr. ’59 Hubert H. Hauck Mildred (Brown ’25) Schrumpf Howard K. Lambert ’47 Lucia M. Cormier Philip O. McCarthy ’62 Herbert A. Leonard ’39 William T. Logan, Jr. M. Milton MacBride ’35 Helen (Wormwood ’41) Pierce ALUMNI TRUSTEES Roscoe C. Masterman *32 W. Gordon Robertson Frank C. Brown ’30 Margaret (Mollison ’50) McIntosh Owen H. Smith ’41 The Maine Alumnus, published five times a year in September, Nov^rhber, January, April and June by the General Alumni Association, 44 Fog- ler Library, University of Maine, Orono, Maine 04473. Editorial and business offices at 44 Fogler Library. T. Russell Woolley, editor; Robert A. Kelleter, managing editor. The General Alumni Association, Robert Schoppe, president, is an unincorporated association, classified as an educational and charitable organization as described in section 501C3 of the 1954 Internal Revenue Code. Total number of copies printed per year, 105,000. Average per issue, 21,000. Send changes of address to the business office six weeks prior to the next issue. Advertising rates on request. The Maine Alumnus is sent to members and to other subscribers, subscription rate, $5.00 per annum. Member: American Alumni Council. Second class postage paid at Orono, Maine. 4 ’jtf s-’. ’/ - -< ;•.. \ ’■ - ~s Dr. Monroe Romansky ’33 (center) met with long-time friends Stan (Wally) Wal­ lace (left) and William Wells ’31 at the Homecoming banquet where he was honored as the second recipient of the Career Award. Monroe James Romansky ’33 was honored with the many committees of the student body. He was a member of second alumni Career Award during Homecoming. The the Sophomore Owls, of the Senior Skulls and of Tau first Career Award recipient was Louis Schweitzer ’19. The Epsilon Phi Fiaternity. He graduated with a degree in Zo­ citation for Dr. Romansky’s award is as follows: ology in the year 1933. “An outstanding scientist, a discoverer of new uses for “For the honor brought to Maine by a man’s active inter­ penicillin and streptomycin, the author of articles and mono­ ests and achievements out of his business and professional graphs in medical journals, and a recipient of the Legion of career, the Geneial Alumni Association of the University of Merit Award fiom the United States government, are all Maine cites an individual this year. It is the second succes­ personal facts in this outstanding man’s biography. sive year for a person to be named Man of the Year and a “Monroe Romansky is a second-generalion American. recipient of a Career Award. His parents emigiated from the USSR and came to the United States. Dr. Romansky was born in Hartford, Con­ “Monroe Romansky was a fullback on the varsity football necticut. He graduated from Weaver High School in Hart­ team at the University of Maine. He was also a basketball ford, and then after his days at the Univeisity of Maine, he player duiing his undergraduate years, and was active on earned his MD at the University of Rochester, in 1937. He / 5 / ii I / interned in medicine at Strong Memorial Hospital in New disease. At the time of his return to inactive duty from the York. From 1939 to 1940, he was a Gleason Research Fel­ Army of the United States, he held the rank of Major, low at Rochester. Medical Corps. “With these accomplishments, Dr. Romansky was real­ “Nor were his activities in service to the United States izing a goal that he had set for himself while a lad at all of the matters for which he has deserved and received Weaver High School at Hartford.