inEiniKiiWEBii JANUARY, 1962 OTTERBEIN COLLEGE WESTERVILLE, OHIO DOES THE WORLD HAVE? The future of the world is in his hands. How scientific equipment. well this youngster and his colleagues are edu­ Some students are now excluded from college, cated may determine the course of history. or given inferior education, because we neglect­ It is up to us to give the world the best possible ed to see the problem. We must act to provide chance by giving our future citizens the best our youngsters with more and better college fa­ possible college educations. cilities and the finest college training possible. Even now some of our colleges are overcrowd­ Help the college of your choice now. Help it to ed. In less than ten years, the number of appli­ expand and improve its facilities and to pay its cants will double. teachers the salaries their high calling deserves. 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Kier IT BRIGHT 2 OTTERBEIN TOWERS CONTENTS Editor’s Corner ....................................................................... 3 Festival of Arts ................................................................... 4, 5 Faculty News ........................................................................... 6 Campus News ........................... 7 Second and Third Generation Students ........................... 8, 9 Sports News ........................................................................... 10 Development News ............................................................... 11 Alumni Club News ............................................................... 12 Alumni Institute ................................................................... 13 Alumni Constitution ...................................................... 14, 15 Cdass of 1961 ..................................................................... 16-18 "Her halls have their own message Spotlight on Alumnus .......................................................... 19 Of truth, and hope, and love, "Her stately tower Flashes from the Classes .................................................. 20, 21 Speaks naught but power Letters to the Editor ............................................................. 22 For our dear Otterbein!" Births-Deaths-Marriages ............... 23 Bulletin Board ....................................................................... 24 Otterbein Towers Editor Arthur L. Schultz, ’49 Assistant Editors Tcnnie E. Wilson ’33 Charlotte E. Combs Published quarterly by the Alumni Council in the interests of alumni and friends. Entered as second- class matter at the post office at Westerville, Ohio, under the act the EDITOR'S comer I of August 24, 1912. This year will see the launching of a major fund-raising January, 1962 campaign for Otterbein College. The essential strength and Volume 34 Number 2 worth of a college such at Otterbein is dependent upon the sac­ pf. MKNtBFR AMERICAN ALUMNI rifices and loyal support of its’ constituents. ^ COUNCIL The college is proud of the thousands of alumni who are using the education they received at Otterbein to make a better world ASSOCIATION OFFICERS but is also concerned that many more young people must be served President in a few short years. Rhea McConaughy Howard, ’23 How Otterbein College will meet the ever-increasing demands Ex-President is dependent upon the cooperation of alumni to make this forth­ J. Robert Knight, ’28 coming campaign a success. Vice Presidents • James Eschbach, ’58 J. Parker Heck, ’30 Helen Moses, ’16 1 Secretary Elsie Rennert Short, ’3j; Members-al-I.arge Alice Davison Troop, the COVER page Dwight C. Ralleiigcr, ’39 Denton Elliott, ’,3/ Hans Conried, outstanding stage, screen, radio and TV star, Faculty Representatives will guest star in the Otterbein College Theater production of John Becker, ’50 "John Browm’s Body” on March 1, 2 and 3. Roger Wiley, ’52 This is the first time that a professional guest star has appear­ Ex-officio ed in an Otterbein dramatic presentation. College Treasurer and Presidents of Alumni Clubs -3- —— Festival Df Arts The second annual Festival of Arts will be held at Otterbein College February 25 through March 11. The festival will consist of the following events centered around the theme "Crisis and Expres- sion-The Civil War.” February 25-March 11 - Exhibits of Brady Civil War photographs in the Association Building Lounge and exhibits of professional Broadway theatre productions centering around the Civil War in Cowan Hall. February 25-Coffee Hour; initial showing of Exhibits, 3:00-5:00 P.M., Association Building. Fletcher Hodges, Jr. Silent movie, "The General, ’’starring Buster Keaton. Mr. Robert Verbeck, silent film authority, will talk about the picture, 8.00 P.M. One of the programs in the Fes­ tival of Arts series will feature Cowan Hall. Fletcher Hodges, Jr., curator of February 20-Introduction of Festival Arts Program, 9:30 A.M. the Foster Hall Collection at the Cowan Hall. University of Pittsburgh. February 28-Lecture, "The Civil War Comes to Ohio,’ by James Mr. Hodges is a graduate of A. Rhodes, State Auditor of Ohio, author and noted authority on Harvard and became curator of Ohio during the Civil War. 9:30 A.M., Cowan Hall. the Foster Hall Collection in In- March 1-2-3-Theatre: "John Brown’s Body,” by Stephen Vincent dianajK)lis, Indiana, in 1931. This Benet, starring Hans Conried, professional guest star and w’ell-known collection consisted of information stage, screen and TV actor. The play will also feature the Otterbein and material about Stephen Collins College A Cappella Choir under the direction of Professor Richard Foster, the American composer of Chamberlain. 8:30 P.M. Cowan Hall. the mid-nineteenth century. It was March 5-Lecture: Bruce Catton, noted Civil War Historian and founded by Josiah K. Lilly of In­ Senior Editor, American Heritage. 9:30 A.M. and 8:30 P.M. Cowan dianapolis. Hall. In January, 1937, Mr. Lilly pre­ March 7-Music: "Folk Songs of the Civil War Period,” by Grace sented his Foster Hall Collection to Cresswell, one of America’s favorite folk singers. 8:30 P.M. Cowan the University of Pittsburgh which Hall. was then completing a Stephen Foster Memorial building on the March 11-Music: "An Evening With Stephen Foster and Ben university campus. This building Hanby,” featuring a discussion by Fletcher Hodges, noted authority was a tribute to the Pittsburgh on Stephen Foster, and the Otterbein A Cappella Choir and Glee composer who had been born in Clubs. 8:00 P.M. Cowan Hall. Pittsburgh and composed most of his famous songs in that city. Hodges became the first curator of A folk singer, who learned bal­ the Stephen Foster Memorial Col­ lads in rural Tennessee, will sing lection in Pittsburgh in 1937 and folk songs of the civil war periotl has remained as curator for the as a feature of the Festival of Arts past twenty-five years. at Otterbein. He was technical advisor to Mrs. Grace Creswell, of Nash­ Twentieth Century-Fox Film Cor­ ville, Tennessee, will sing authen­ poration in the 1939 production tic folk songs in Cowan Hall at of "Swanee River,” based on the 8:30 P.M., Wednesday, March 7. life and works of Stephen Foster. Authentic folk songs are songs He is the author of a number that, by their own strength, seem of magazine articles about Steph­ to refuse to die. They endure be­ en Foster and has spoken in Fost­ cause beneath their simplicity and er programs in many parts of the sincerity lies the very life of a United States. Hodges discussion people and in all of life’s situa­ on Stephen Foster will conclude tions, these folk songs are an integ­ the Festival program on March ral ])art of our cultural heritage. 11th. -4- trilogy, "A Stillness at Appomat- Civil War ox,” which won both the Pulitzer Prize for history and the National Historian Book Award in 1954. "It looks now as if I started To Lecture something I can never finish,” says Catton, "because I am still writing Featured lecturer for the second on the Civil War and will be for annual Festival of Arts at Otter- some time to come.” In the spring bein will be Bruce Catton, Senior of 1954, his short life of General Editor of American Heritage. A Grant was published — "U. S. noted Civil War Historian, Cat- Grant and the American Military ton will speak twice in Cowan Hall Tradition.” In 1955, Doubleday at 9:30 A. M. and 8:30 P.M., Mon­ published his novel for teen-agers day, March 5. called "Banners at Shenandoah.” Bruce Catton — journalist, auth­ This was followed in 1956 by or, historian, top authority on the "This Hallowed Ground,” a gener­ Civil War, and Pulitzer Prize-win­ al account of the Northern armies’ ner — is best known now as Senior war, and in 1958 by "America Goes Editor of American Heritage, The to War.” Many leading U.S. mag­ Magazine of History, which was BRUCE CATTON azines and newspapers have carried launched in its present book form his articles and commentaries. in December of 1954. Lloyd Lewis, a distinguished his­ Mr. Catton was born October 9, Howard chain of papers and for torian in Chicago, started some