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It has been accepted for inclusion in Colby Alumnus by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Colby. ;rhe COLBY ALUMNUS Fall 1980 page 20 page 26 Contents 1 News from the Hill 6 Notes on People 10 Kingsley Harlow Birge 1916-1980 11 A Tribute by Julius Seelye Bixler 11 Books 13 A Conversation with Pen Williamson 14 Colby and East Germany (The German Democratic Republic) 18 The Invention of the Colby Brick 20 The Human Development Major: Product of an Era by Leonard Mayo 22 Broadsides from the Cuala Press 26 Sports by James Cook 28 Class Correspondence 41 Milestones Volume 70, Number I, Fall 1980 College Editor: Nancy Crilly Editorial Associate: Richard Nye Dyer Design and Production: Martha Freese Shattuck Contributing Writer: James Cook Photography: David Brancaccio, James Cook, Nancy Crilly, Paul Deranian, Peter J. Kingsley, Robert Mayer, E. Jason Pelletier, and Ron and Dick Maxwell of the Central Maine Morning Sentinel The Colby Alumnus (USPS 120-860) is published quarterly by Colby College, fall, winter, spring, and summer. Postmaster: send form 3579 to The Colby Alumnus, Colby College, Waterville, Maine 04901. Address changes should be sent to the alumni office. We encourage you to write letters to the editor. Credits: Photographs in the annual fund report are by Mark Shankland and the Echo staff. The report was prepared by the alumni relations and annual giving office. Cuala Press Broadsides are reprinted with permission of Liam Miller of the Dolman Press, Dublin, Ireland. Covers: Students from the Colby Environmental Council met at Professor Jan Hogendorn's farm in East Vassalboro for the annual cider-pressing party. E. Jason Pelletier '81, son of Eugene J. Pelletier '51, took the front-cover photograph. The illustration on the back cover is from our holdings in Special Collections of the Cuala Press. News from the Hill South African Stocks Sold Robert Pullen were appointed to holdings in South Africa, calling the committee in 1978 after a profits from companies in that The college divested more than faculty resolution condemned the country "tainted." The majority three-quarters of a million dollars apartheid regime, a white-minority report disagreed, saying that by worth of stock from its portfolio rule in South Africa that systemat­ being active shareholders, by in September because two corpora­ ically oppresses blacks. The latest voting for those resolutions which tions did not comply with Colby's action of the trustees is part of the support human rights, Colby could guidelines concerning operations in "aggressive shareholder" policy, ameliorate conditions for blacks in South Africa. supported by the majority of the South Africa . Economics professor The unanimous decision by the advisory committee, which seeks to Thomas Tietenberg, chairman of Investment Committee of the improve the situation in South the advisory committee, said, board of trustees was made on the Africa through changes in cor­ "When company actions seem recomm ndation of the Advisory porate activities. A minority dis­ clearly and inevitably to violate Committee on Investment Respon­ sent prepared last year by the two human rights, Colby will divest." sibility . Faculty, students, alumni , students on the advisory committee The stocks divested were from and administrative vice-president urged the college to divest all of its Dresser Industries and the Engel- 1 hard Minerals and Chemicals Cor­ The college has no investments K.D.R. was estimated to be poration. in any South African firms, nor in worth $428,820, and the other Dresser , a manufacturing com­ any multi-national corporation seven fraternities were each valued pany, refused to sign the Sullivan whose major activities are in South at about $159,000. Interfraternity Principles, which require com­ Africa. The portfolio of the college Council president Daniel Sheehy panies in South Africa to improve does have stocks in industries with '81 called the assessments "unrea­ conditions for blacks, through affiliates in that nation, including sonable." None of the buildings desegregated facilities and better three companies which last year has heating equipment (heat is education and housing. Dresser had not signed the Principles. piped in from the boiler in Roberts also declined to comply with out­ Since then, Loctite and Coca Cola Union), kitchen facilities, or an side monitoring of its activities in have adopted the Principles. Col­ adequate number of showers. that country. Colby's stocks in lege guidelines suggest that if a Dean of Students Earl Smith Dresser were valued at $326,250. corporation has not signed the called the tax bills "one of the Principles, the college will divest most serious threats to the frater­ its holdings unless the company nity system in many years." The can show that it has similar stan­ fraternities have suffered through­ dards of business ethics. The com­ out the 1970's from declining mittee is investigating the remain­ membership and rising costs. Mr. ing company, Pepsico, to see Sheehy said that the fraternities whether its own policies are ade­ have united to appeal the tax quate. assessor's decision, and will "try The recent divestment is only a to prove we're not fraternities, but small part of the college's con­ dormitories, we can really only sell tinual evaluation of the corpora­ the houses to the college, since tions in its portfolio to insure that Colby owns the land." The ad­ the college invests ethically. Last ministration, according to Dean year, the committee investigated, Smith, will "assist the fraternities among other issues, the marketing in the preparation of a defense in of pesticides banned in the U.S., any way we can." uranium mining in this country, and the foreign marketing of infant formula. "The committee has found it can make distinctions Homecoming A wards among resolutions," said Tieten­ Arthur "Red" O'Halloran '50 was berg. "We have ended up support­ Tieten berg named Colby "C" Club Man of ing management about half the the Year and ten alumni were time." Although Engelhard , a manufac­ turer and refiner of ores, minerals, and metals, has signed the Prin­ ciples, it has not complied with the Fraternities to Fight monitoring requirements. The Property Taxes Engelhard stock was worth $442,500. For the first time, Colby's eight "Without any opportunity to fraternity houses are being taxed verify the company's accomplish­ by the city of Waterville. Seven ments, the committee presumed houses will each be billed between that they are not sufficient," said $3 ,200 and $3 ,700. The eighth and Professor Tietenberg. "We invited largest, Kappa Delta Rho, will be Engelhard to rebut that presump­ asked to pay more than $8,000. tion with solid evidence. It failed The city tax assessor has said to do so; we recommended divest­ that privately owned fraternity ment." He also said, "The behav­ houses are not granted the same ior of Dresser and Engelhard was exemption as educational build­ clearly extraordinary: most com­ ings. He cited "a lack of under­ panies in equivalent circumstances standing as to ownership" as the in South Africa sign and comply reason the buildings have not been with the Principles." taxed in previous years. O'Hal/oran 2 1onored for outstanding work as schools, hospitals, and public efficiently. That, coupled with the ::lass agents during homecoming facilities. additional storm windows, will weekend. Earlier this year, the college reduce annual energy costs by Pen Williamson, director of received nearly $90,000 to help pay approximately $200,000. The alumni relations and annual giving, for the energy-control computer, newest measures should be work­ aid that O'Halloran's "enthu­ to put storm windows in five ing by second semester. siasm for Colby had been his classroom buildings, to insulate Plans for the third phase of the trademark for years. Everywhere two dormitories, and to replace an funding include installing solar he goes, he talks of Colby and as underground heating main. The panels to heat water for the athlet­ his own children admit, he had new funds will be used to install ic complex and a passive solar consistently promoted its excellence instruments in 19 buildings that are heating system in the fieldhouse. in academics before anything to be linked to the computer in Reducing heat loss from the Hill­ else." Colby's physical plant building. side dormitory complex is also a The "C" Club award is pre­ The system will measure and con­ top priority. sented annually by graduate letter­ trol the heat in the buildings more athletes of the college. An insurance executive for nearly thir­ ty years, Mr. O'Halloran was a track star and team co-captain as an undergraduate. He has en­ couraged many people to attend Colby, including his son, Daniel '80, who was co-captain of the hockey team last year. Achievement awards to class agents were presented by David Marson '48, chairman of the alumni fund. Raymond Spinney '21 was awarded the G. Cecil Goddard Class Agent Achievement Award for his nine years as a class agent. Jane Russell Abbott '41, Susan Comeau '63, J. Warren Bishop '35, and Stephen Bartow '60 received the Frank S. Carpenter Improvement Awards. Joseph Coburn Smith Best Overall Performance Awards went to Arthur J. Sullivan '22, A. Frank Stiegler, Jr. '28, Robert S.