Rollins College Rollins Scholarship Online Rollins Magazine Marketing and Communications Summer 1968 Rollins Alumni Record, June 1968 Rollins College Office ofa M rketing and Communications Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarship.rollins.edu/magazine Recommended Citation Rollins College Office of Marketing and Communications, "Rollins Alumni Record, June 1968" (1968). Rollins Magazine. Paper 230. http://scholarship.rollins.edu/magazine/230 This Magazine is brought to you for free and open access by the Marketing and Communications at Rollins Scholarship Online. It has been accepted for inclusion in Rollins Magazine by an authorized administrator of Rollins Scholarship Online. For more information, please contact [email protected]. ROLLINS ALUMNI RECORD JUNE/1968 Rollins' Largest and Most Successful Alumni Reunion — story on page 13 ROLLINS DECORATION OF HONOR presented to ROBERT F. STONEROCK April 27, 1968 "I am tapping you on the "a testimonial rather than a shoulder," wrote Dean En- memorial" to his lifetime at yart six months before his Rollins. death in 1961, as he ap- pealed for Alumni support On April 27, 1968, as in the drive for the first President McKean, Trustees, building that Rollins Alumni Alumni, and college officials as an Association were ever gathered for the Field House dedication, President Stone- to give their college. Men like Hank Lauterbach, the rock made no mention of late Howard Showalter, and the difficult last few hun- Tom Johnson were quick to dred thousand dollars he accept leadership in organ- had seen raised. Instead izing the campaign for a he modestly announced, Field House, which the Dean "Mr. President, we give this wrote would "attract more building to you free and from the Navy, in which he clear: it's all paid for!" men who would meet the served until 1945. He came standards of Rollins man- home to practice accounting A few hours later, a de- hood." It was Robert F. and to establish his own lighted President McKean Stonerock, however, also re- firm, R. F. Stonerock and asked Bob Stonerock to sponding to that "tapping," Company, in 1959. For stand before the Reunion who steered the drive to its many years Bob's firm gen- Luncheon and proclaimed, final success. erously audited the books "Robert Franklin Stonerock Bob Stonerock had felt for Rollins Alumni, Inc., and . because you have suc- the Dean's gentle touch fif- in 1966, and again in 1967, cessfully presided over an teen years earlier as he and Bob accepted the Presiden- effort which will enhance his bride, Mary Marchman, cy of the Association deter- the quality of the life of all received Dean Enyart's mined to see the successful future Rollins students, I am blessing upon their marriage completion of the Field proud ... to confer upon in Knowles Memorial Chap- House which Dean Enyart you the Rollins Decoration el. Bob was then on leave had hoped would become of Honor." ROLLINS COLLEGE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ROLLINS ALUMNI 1968 -1969 OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS Ben Aycrigg '49 President RECORD JUNE/1968 Judge George C. Young '38 First Vice President and President-elect Charles E. Rice MBA '64 Second Vice President in this issue Catherine B. Coleman '38 Secretary Don W. Tauscher '55 Treasurer The Student and the Draft Robert B. Colville '26 Can history enlighten contemporary concern? Frances D. Divine '38 An article by Dr. Jack C. Lane £ Blanche F. Galey '35 Sara H. Howden '35 Eugene McCarthy Visits Rollins 6 B. T. Heineman '64, MBA '67 C. Douglas Kerr '66 Tar Topics 7 Kenneth F. Peloquin '54 Betty R. Pratt '47 The Class of 1968 Elfreda W. Ramsey '35 s Robert F. Stonerock '41 Student Citizenship ALUMNI TRUSTEES A letter to incoming students and their parents from June R. Myers '41 President Hugh F. McKean 'SO Q John G. McKay '37 William E. Winderweedle '28 1968 Rollins Alumni Reunion! / An Alumna Speaks A most successful Reunion . four pages of EDITORIAL STAFF photographs and story . by Linda Wissing King '60 18 Walter M. Hundley Director of Alumni Affairs Editor Alumni Clubs Loison P. Tingley Numbers and activities increasing 17 Assistant to the Director Ben Aycrigg Alumni Consultant News of the Classes n Suzanne S. White Class News Editor Member: American Alumni Council I Editorial Office and Alumni Office Alumni House, Rollins College Telephone (305) 646-2266 Winter Park, Florida 32789 ABOUT THE COVER: Much has been said . much more could be said . about Rollins' The ALUMNI RECORD is published beautiful new Enyart-Alumni Field House and the by Rollins College Alumni Associa- dedicated men and women whose collective ef- tion, Winter Park, Florida, five times forts have made it a reality. But this is only a Per year, and is distributed to grad- typical example of the wave of enthusiasm and uates, former students, and seniors loyalty which is sweeping over the Rollins corn- of Rollins College. Second-class pus. The new Crummer Hall, the Archibald Postage paid at Winter Park, Florida Granville Bush Science Center now nearing com- 32789. pletion, many proposed new additions to the Winter Park campus ... all are contributing to Rollins' heightening prominence in academic VOLUME 45 NUMBER 2 excellence. Student criticism of the draft, as our security as to warrant what I have been able to ascertain it, one called "an unnecessarily in- may be looked at from two levels. flated draft call." This group in On one level he is critical of the no way feels that sense of im- duplicity of this society's over- mediacy which pervaded America whelming emphasis on education, after Pearl Harbor and sent mil- while at the same time creating a lions of enthusiastic young men system — the draft — which pre- into the service determined to vents, or at least deters him, from crush dictatorship. The World attaining this desired end. As War II soldier, when he thought one student, headed for graduate about it, had a very clear idea of school, told me, "I consider educa- what all the fighting was about. tion to be as important to the In a curious but nevertheless quite national welfare as service in the clever sort of way the present stu- military; the problem is one of dent generation stands America's priorities." On the second level World War II position on its head: comes criticism of the war itself. "The unwitting German soldier Many students that I have and German citizen of World War talked to are extremely sophisti- II," one noted, "are castigated for cated in their knowledge of the not refusing to obey the incon- war. They know that not only the scionable dictates of a Nazi state. American people but the govern- Yet the students of today who see ment itself is sorely divided over the war in Vietnam as a glaring the issue of the Vietnamese war sore in their consciences are criti- and their views reflect this divi- cized for their reluctance to be- sion. Thus, many oppose the war, come draftees." and some see it as harmful to As a historian I am prone to American interests. They are mention to the students that their completely unmoved by and in situation may not be as unique fact are quite dubious of the ad- as they think. To make a point, I by Dr. JACK C. LANE ministration's explanation for our cited for them the Roman experi- HISTORY DEPARTMENT involvement. They not only con- ence. In the early days of the sider it unreasonable but also im- Republic, military service was a moral to ask them to kill Viet- clearly recognized part of civic namese. For these students, the duty of every citizen. The armies >■ avoidance of the draft is their way of protesting American involve- ment in Viet Nam. Even those students who are not so certain as to the efficacy of our involvement in Viet Nam, NAPOLEON cannot see that the problems in that area of the world so threaten UKMS THE WOktt K) KU3. HUM* CUtS-3% o WtHS « ffll WCflR WMU IMmmr incredible "Victory waiter Lord Napoleon by which the small city state de- One of my students, a very eligi- Dr. Jack C. Lane, assistant Professor of fended itself and advanced its ble draftee, mulled this question History, received his PhD from the Univer- sity of Georgia in 1963. He came to Rollins frontiers were made up of farmers over and the next day came to me shortly after graduation and will complete and townspeople who served on a with his response — in written his fifth year in August as a member of the temporary basis over a limited Rollins faculty. At the present time he is form. What he concluded gave a member of the Faculty Administration period of time. In doing so they me a lesson in the dangers of his- Committee and the Admissions Committee; were motivated by a high sense torical parallels (a lesson, inci- he is also chairman of the Social Science Division and the Humanities Foundation of civic pride and patriotism. By dentally, all of us can never learn Course. For the coming school year, Dr. the end of the Republic, however, too often), but more importantly Lane has been given tenure and promoted military and civic duty had ceased as another student had done with to Associate Professor. to compliment each other. Since the Nazi Germany argument, he the frontiers of Rome still had to found another interpretation of be defended against the barbarian the Roman experience. It should SPEAK UP AMERICA! In March, 1968, at President Mc- pressing in from the north and be remembered, he wrote, that Kean's request, the Rollins Student east, this apathy on the part of the Rome was an empire, that it was Association, Rollins Young Demo- Roman citizens led to an increas- crats, Rollins Young Republicans expansionist, and that it did con- and the Center for Practical Poli- ingly dangerous expedient: the quer.