: 4 _ ¦' *¦ ** —* i" n r- r-- -- --r »~r _- <- _- _- «- - » - _¦ You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth. THE PROPHET "On Children" Kahlil Gibran • Friday, October 8 e 7 :00 - 8:00 P.M. Open House - Refreshments will be served. Bix- Pete* McKnight Selected ler Art and Music Center. 8 :15 P.M. Guy P. Gannett Lecture. Ralph E. Lapp, Nuclear Scientist and Author "Can a Democracy Survive Science?" As Lovej oy Recipient Nobody knows better than Dr. Lapp the wide gulf between the science laboratory and the public's awareness of what is going on be- Colbert A. McKnight, editor of the Charlotte (N.C. ) Observer, hind the scenes. Author of ten books and many articles, Dr. Lapp has will receive Colby College's 1965 Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award at a played a major contributory role in the developments that have convocation November 4. marked the atomic age - from the Manhattan Project to the reality McKnight served as a war correspondent for the "Baltimore Sun" of the H-bomb. Given Auditorium. and "Business Week Magazine" before moving to the "Charlotte (N.C.) News." In 1955, he was named editor of the Observer. He Saturday, October 9 has received numerous journalistic awards. The Lovejoy Award is annually given, to a newsman who has 8 :00 - 10:30 A.M. Registration, For those who have not received "contributed to the nation's journalistic achievement" and shows their tickets by registering in advance. Main Desk, Miller Library. "integrity craftsmanship and character." 8:30 - 10:30 A.M. Classes open to visitors. Last year's winner was John Hay Whitney, publisher of the New 10:15 A.M. Dean's Reception. Throughout the morning there York Herald Tribune. will be coffee in the faculty lounge. Lovejoy Building. An 1826 Colby College graduate, Lovejoy is considered America's 11:15 A.M. Luncheon, President Strider, speaker. Wadsworth first martyr to the freedom of the press. He was killed in Alton, 111. at Fieldhouse the age of 34 by a mob which opposed his editorial stand against 1:30 P.M. Varsity Football - Colby-'Springfield. Seaverns Field. slavery. After the game: President's Reception, Runnals Union. The 1965 committee naming McKnight consisted of Erwin D. Canham, Christian Science Monitor ; Herbert Brucker, Hartford Sunday, October 10 (Conn.) Courant; Dwight Sargent, curator of the Nieman Founda- tion for Journalism at Harvard University; Neil Leonard, Boston, a 10 :30 A.M. Special music by chapel choir and flute. trustee and former chairman of the Colby trustees; and President 11 :00 A.M. Morning Worship - Chaplain Fred M. Hudson, Lorim- Robert E. L. Strider. C. A. McKnight er Chapel. Exhibition in the Jette Gallery, Bixler Art and Music Center : The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Laurent and the Field Founda- Two Appointed Dr* Rosenhaupt Is Speaker tion Collection. In Miller Library : main floor - Books and Ephemera, the Anthoensen Press of Portland ; Edwin Arlington Robinson Mem- To New Posts . For Bixler Convocation orial Room : Selected Books and Manuscripts. Dr. Hans Rosenhaupt, National By Pres. Strider Director of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, The appointment of Earl H. Smith will speak at a convocation honor- as director of the Colby College ing Bixler Scholars at 8:00 P.M. in Please Pass!! News Bureau here was announced Given Auditorium on October 15. today by Colby President Robert His topic will be: "Departure and E.L, Strider. The 25 year old Uni- Return : The Humanities in 1965". versity of Maine graduate has been Money Needed news assistant at the college since Dr. Rosenhaupt directs this Parents who have been hurled into panic due to soaring costs of 1962. country's largest private fellowship higher education may soon be given an effective tranquilizer. A plan In addition he is college photo- devoted to recruiting and support- to ease this financial burden is receiving increasing attention and grapher and director of sports in- ing potential college teachers for formation. He will continue in both their first year of graduate study. support from both educators and legislators, capacities. He organizes the selection of Fel- Although the idea of granting tax credits for some expenses of lows by fifteen regional commit- Former editor of the University higher education has been introduced before, it is only now that tees, and guides campus represent- of Maine's undergraduate news- sible definite measures are in view. A bill introduced in 1964 failed atives at more than 1,100 college s pos paper, The Maine Campus, Smith and universities in the United passage by a margin of three votes and has recently been reintroduced. entered the newspaper profession States and Canada. As National Support from crucial areas - bipartisan groups, educators, trustees at the Waterville Morning Sentinel Director, Dr*. Rosenhaupt is re- wliorc he worked for a year prior and educational organizations has been widespread and vociferous. sponsible to a fifteen-member to enrolling at the university, Dur- Increasing college costs, resulting from increased enrollment, in- board of Trustees for the expendi- ing the summer of 1960 he was em- creased facul ty and consequen tly increased salaries arc of prime con- ture of .$6,000,000 annually in grant- Dr. Hans Rosenhaupt ployed by the Bangor Daily News. cern to the bill's proponents. The measure therefore, would permit a to Fellows and subventions to grad- years, interrupted by army service. A graduate of Waterville High uate schools. During World War II, ho served credit against the Federal income tax of persons paying college ex- School (1957), Smith received his the Army in Military Intelligence, penses. Unlike tax deductions which are proportionate and therefore A.B. degree from Maine in 1962. Dr. Rosenhaupt, born in Frank- rising in rank from private to reducing Ho is president of his class and a l'ort-on-Main, Germany, in 1911, at- favor high income groups, the tax credit operates by an captain. In 1947-48 ho lectured in member of the university's Annual tended the university in Frank- individual's tax by one dollar per credit received and thus serves to the United States and Canada un- Fund Committee. fort, Berlin, and Munich. In 1935 relieve the lower and middle-income taxpayer. The credits would be der tho auspices of Rotary Interna- Smith is a director of the Water- he received a Ph , D, degree from based on a percentage dependent upon amount spent, with the maxi- the University of Berne. He tional on foreign affairs. Those ville Boys Club and public rela- cam- mum credit allowable set at $325. to tho United States that same lectures provoked a book, How to tions chairman of the University Wage Peace, published in 1949. Ho Because the tax credit would come to anyone paying educational Photographers Association. A num- year, and in 1940 became a natural- ized citizen. Before tho war he came to tho Foundation from Co- costs, colleges and universities themselves could increase financial aid ber of his photos have been chosen lumbia University, whoro from 1948 for publication by the wire services taught German and French at Oalc in the form of scholarships. Park Junior College for two years, to 1958 he was responsible for ad- and by various national magazines, missions to tho Graduate Faculties. Much of the prevailing opposition has been a result of confusion including Life and Time. Gorman at Knox College for one semester, and German and Psychol- While at Columbia ho also served of tax credit and the tax deduction concept, which to repeat, favors Ho Is married to the former Bar- ogy at Colorado College for six as research associate to Columbia's higher income taxpayers. Additional opposition has been based on the bam Hubbard of Watorville. They Committee on tho Future of tho fact that those with incomes too low to pay Federal taxes would not hnvo two children, University and directed a study of be helped and that benefits would be greater for student? at private The announcement has been Aftor leaving Colby, he served at tho Performance of 80,000 graduate made by Colby College of the ap- Konts Hill School In Maine and lat- students. rather than public institutions. pointment of Robert J. Bruce, an er at Brooklino High as teacher- As a student of modern Gorman Despite these objections, increased understanding has yielded alumnus, to tho newly-created ad- coach, While in Massachusetts ho literature, graduate education and increased support and it remains for parents to sit back and hold ministrative post of Director of tho received a masters degree in edu- of tho problems of high-level man- their breath. Alumni Fund. cation from State College of Boston power, Dr, Rosenhaupt lectures at Bruce and did further graduate work at , a native of BrooMino, colleges, on radio and television, Mass., prepared at Brooklino High Boston University. and addresses conferences, School. At Colby ho was a member Don't forgot Parents' Weokond BRUNCH, Sunday morning in Dunn During the past year, Bruce Dr. Rosenhaupt is also tho author of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity Lounge, Runnals Union 0-11. 50c por person - sponsored by DAT1*sorority and for two years taught in tho United Kingdom of several books, and contributes as nn end was for benefit of scholar-hip fund. named to tho All-Maine football under a Fulbrlght Grant for tho to various periodicals published team. State Department. both horo and abroad. Letters Edito rials: Candid s Win, September 28, 1965 To the Colby Echo: We would appreciate it if you would run the following item in For Course Revision No One Votes your paper.