Colby College Digital Commons @ Colby Colby Alumnus Colby College Archives 1940 Colby Alumnus Vol. 29, No. 8: July 1940 Colby College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/alumnus Part of the Higher Education Commons Recommended Citation Colby College, "Colby Alumnus Vol. 29, No. 8: July 1940" (1940). Colby Alumnus. 243. https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/alumnus/243 This Other is brought to you for free and open access by the Colby College Archives at Digital Commons @ Colby. It has been accepted for inclusion in Colby Alumnus by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Colby. �he COLBY IULY,1940 c-A Lu M N us EDUCATED! Where COLBY FOLKS Go Boston New York ,THE NEW YORK HOME Headquarters of the FOR COLBY FOLKS Colby Alumni BOSTON'S FAMOUS Singie 2.50 to $4.00 Dot<ble PARKER $4.00 to $7.00 �pecial Rate<> to HOUSE J4;un1h Grouv.; Write fnr Booklet "C Glenwood J. Sherrard Pre iclent & Managing Director Providence Portland Lewiston Hospitality in PROVIDENCE HOTEL DeWITT 200 Modern Guest Rooms COLUMBIA HOTEL Single $2 to $3.50 Double $3 to $5.00 "The Friendly Hotel" Congres St., at Longfe:Jow Square Princess Restaurant Modern, European, Fireproof Crown Tap Room Good Food and Deep Sea Cocktail Lounge Courteous Service in our Banquet a.nd Convention Facilities Comfortable Rooms Coffee Room Dining Roorr Reasonable Rates Cocktail Lounge Excellent facilities for Popular Priced Restaurant Reunions, Banquets, Dances, Meetings and Conventions Ample Parking Space PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND Garage in Connectior J. Edward Downes, Manager Colby Headquarters in Portland James M. Acheson, Manager Hallowell Bangor Pittsfield !1 WE ARE EXPEC TING YOU AT The Bangor House The Lancey House The European plan, $1.50-6.00 PITTSFIELD, MAINE Worster Tourist lodge, $1.00 per person Famed fo r over thirty years f01 Hallowell, Maine its good fo od, the Lancey Housf Meals from 5oc -- Rooms from 1.50 in Pittsfield, has with pleasur6 Famous fo r Excellent Meals and pleasant umembrances, often served Colby College, its Student Real New England Cooking and Alumni. ''from soup to nuts fo r fift y cents" Our fifty cent luncheoJUI complete with W. W. LEHR, desserts are a popular feature of our Owner and Manage,,, HOME AWAY FROM HOME Official COLBY Hotels Higher Degrees The Colby Alumnus D. D. -Rev. Evan J. Shearman, FOUNDED 1911 '22, the American Interna­ tional College of Spring­ field, Mass. Volume 29 Number 8 M. D. -Alton D. Blake, Jr., '36, by the University of Pennsyl­ vania, Philadelphia, Pa. CONTENTS M. D. -E. Noyes Ervin, '36, by Johns Hopkins University, THE COVER Baltimore, Md. Photograph of Conrad W. Swift, '40, and Virginia Duggan, '42 M. D. -Milton M. Goldberg, '36, Tufts Medical School. The President's Page -------- -------------------- ---------­ 2 M. D. -Don Larkin, '35, by McGill Talk of the College ---------- ----------------------------­ 3 University, Montreal, Can­ Ten Receive Honorary Degrees ----------------------------­ 6 ada. Digest of Commencement Speeches -------------------------- 8 M. D. -Howard C. Pritham, '36, Cla s Day Oration, by Klaus Dreyer, '40 Tufts Medical School. Class Day Address, by Pl'ofessor Webster Chester M. D. --JQhn Reynolds, '36 by the Alumnae Luncheon Remarks, by Ina McCausland, '15 University of Pennsylva­ Baccalaureate Sermon, by Rev. Albert W. Beaven nia, Philadelphia, Pa. Boardman Sermon, by Vernelle W. Dyer, '15 D. M.D.-Louis Rancourt, '36, by Commencement Address, by Elizabeth F. Brenner, '40 Tufts College. Commencement Address, by Ernest C. Marriner, Jr., '40 LL. B. -Howard R. Brackett, '37, Kay Herrick Escapes German Bombs ---------------------- -­ 14 by Boston University Law Student Oratory in the Fifties ----------------------------- 15 r - School. Spirit High at Commencement Dinner_ _______ By Alice Frost Lord 16 LL. B. --James Glover, '37, by Bos­ Echoes from the Class Reunion-_____________________________ 17 ron University Law School Oommencement Play a Hit --------------------- -----------­ 19 LL. B. -Robert Haskell, '37, by Graduate Bodies Elect ------------------------------------ 20 Harvard Law School. om Colby's "Victory Year" _______________ By Leonel L. Saucier, '27 21 LL. B. -Asa Roach, '37, by Boston Local Colby Clubs ---------------------------------------­ 23 t<:m University Law School. Necrology ------------------------------------------- 24 LL. B. -Percy H. Willette, '37, by Frederick G. Chutter, '85 Boston University Law Verne M. Whitman, '94 School. Haven Metcalf, '96 ion M. A. -Stanley L. Clement, '39, Class Notes About Colby Men and Women___________________ _ 25 �r byUniversity of Maine. Milestones ______ - -- -- --------- ---------------------- ---- 27 M. A. = -Constance Knickerbocker, '39, 'by Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Med­ EDITOR OLIVER L. HALL, '93 ford, Mass. ASSISTANT EDITOR JOSEPH COBURN SMITH, '24 M. A. -Lawrence A. Peakes, '28, by Bates College. BUSINESS MANAGER G. CECIL GODDARD, '29 M. A. -Francis Calvin Prescott, EDITORIAL BOARD Leonel L. Saucier, '27 Myrta Little Davies, '08 '38, by Fletcher School of ,e Harold F. Lemoine, ·32 Nellie Pottle Hankins, '25 Term Expires in 19�U Law and Diplomacy, Med­ Frederick T. Hill, '10 Hazel Co.e Shupp, '11 I Thaddeus F. Tilton, '20 Catherine C. Laughton, '36 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ford, Mass. Harland R. Ratcliffe, '23 Oliver L. Hall, '93 M. A. -Girlandine I. Priest, '26, by for Grace Wells Thompson, '15 �se Term Expires in 194! Caleb A. Lewis, '03 Bate College. Mira L. Dolley, '19 Edward F. Stevens, '89 Ervena Goodale Smith. '24 1re M. A. -Maynard Waltz, '38, by Joseph Coburn Smith, '24 Term Expires in 1941 Caleb A. Lewis, '03 Wesleyan University, Mid­ le11 Clarence L. Judkins. '81 Raymond Spinney, '21 Alfred K. Chapman. '25 dletown, Conn. nts Bernard E. Esters, '21 Alfred K. Chapman, '25 G. Cecil Goddard, '29 M. S. -Frederick B. Oleson, '38, by I Univeristy of Maine. m mat- PUBLISHER-The Alumni Council of Colby College. Entered as second-class � M.B.A.-Robert . Anthony, '38, by ger Act of March 3, 1819. J ter Jan. 25, 1912, at the Post Office at Watervire, Me., under the February, March, I Harvard School of Business ISSUED eight times yearly on the 15th of October, November, January, Administration. April, May and Jul� . per year. Single Copies. $.35. Correspondence regard rng SUBSCRIPTION PRICE-$2.00 . I I\l. ED.-Richard P. Hodsdon, '29, by Bo 477 Watervtlle, subscriptions or advertising should be addressed to G. Cecil Godd�rd, � · Bates College. Me. Contributions should be sent to The Editor, Box 477. Waterville, Maine. ·1 1\1. ED.-Charles W. Jordan, '29, by Bates College. 2 THE COLBY ALUMNUS -= =-=- Within the space of two years, the cor­ week, have accepted their respon ibility for nerstones of six Colby buildings h::tve been seeing this undertaking through, and in no laid, and the structures of four of these may small part the two dormitories commenced be seen today on the sky line of Mayflower thi spring have been made possible Hill. The last two cornerstones were swung through their gifts. I am eager that the into place during the Commencement just Colby family realize and appreciate the fact past, and day by day the bricks of the walls that their support is being augmented by for these two dormitories are rising. an ever-widening circle of friends of this college. There was something deeply significant to me at this occasion. When we laid the There was another mood which I could cornerstone for the Lorimer Chapel, the not throw off as we laid the cornerstones in Roberts Union, the Women's Union, and the that quiet countryside. Hourly we had been Miller Library, we were erecting buildings receiving more and more disastrous reports made possible by the gifts and pledges of from Europe, but it was hard to realize that our own Colby family. As such, they are in Europe and Asia war was raging with monuments to the self-sacrificing generos­ unprecedented ferocity ana that this was ity of an alumni body whose loyalty can be soon to be extended to Africa-the three equalled by few if any institutions, large or continents in which man has longe t dwelt small. Nevertheless, it has been obvious and struggled toward the goal which we that even though our own people have out­ have called civilization. The results of this done themselves on behalf of their college, struggle through the ages seemed to have the project of the Mayflower Hill campus crumbled in a few short months. Material was of such magnitude that the assistance and spiritual values, slowly and latoriously of a wider circle of friends must be solicit­ accumulated through the centuries, are be­ ed. It was equally obvious that the magni­ ing ruthlessly destroyed. tude of the benefits to be obtained far ex­ In this period of gloom, bordering on de­ ceeded the gain that would accrue to Colby spair, the simple exercises of that Sunday College itself. This project is of definite presented a heartening contrast. The beau­ importance to the whole educational set-up tiful buildings which surrounded us were of the State of Maine, and every citizen and dedicated to the arts of enlightenment and friend of this State has a stake in its early peace. The Mayflower Hill project has been r·ompletion. termed a venture of faith. The achieve­ ments of a hundred and twenty year and Such was the line of reasoning which we the present vitality of Colby College are the submitted to the public last year. And so, basis of that faith. on that Sunday afternoon, as representative leaders from different parts of Maine, none That the light of learning shall not grow of whom had any previous direct connection dim; that the knowledge and love of God with this college, spread the mortar on shall rule the lives of men; that freedom which rest the cornerstones of these two and justice shall prevail-these are the su­ dormitories, I realized that our faith in our preme ends which America must serve.