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GE .f ** ,r MARCH / 1969 V RECORD Founders Week at Rollins / 1969 — story on page 4 In keeping with all that's new at Winter Park, the 1969 Rollins Alumni Fund has been reorganized and expanded to achieve greater participation and increased dollars. The general campaign will run from March through June. It will be based on the Class Agent system used so successfully by many other colleges and universities. Each class will have a Chairman who will be assisted by one Agent for every ten classmates. It will be the Agents who will be responsible for the general solicitation. Leadership gifts will be a vital factor in increasing dol- lars contributed. Under the Chairmanship of John C. Myers '42 the leadership gift phase of the campaign will be expanded. Alumni who contribute $100 to the Fund become regular members of the Hamilton Holt Club. Those who contribute $250 or more become Bronze Star Members. Silver Stars are awarded to those giving $500, and Gold Stars to those contributing $1,000 or more. Not Warren C. Hume only are we counting on many new members of the National Chairman Hamilton Holt Club, but we also hope that former mem- bers will advance to one of the three new categories within the Club. The importance of annual giving to the future of Rollins College cannot be overstated. Like all other colleges and universities, Rollins' operating costs have soared beyond Warren the income from tuition fees and endowments. It will become increasingly more difficult for Rollins to provide competitive faculty salaries, supply new and improved Hume equipment and facilities, maintain a stimulating curricu- lum, and offer increased scholarship aid. Annual giving is a necessary answer to budget balancing. Charts My personal thanks go to each of the Class Chairmen and Class Agents who will give their time and interest to Rollins this Spring. I would also like to express my appre- New ciation to all of you who have supported the Fund in the past, and I hope we can count on each and every Alumnus Course to give to the 1969 Fund." * Please remember that only unrestricted gifts are cred- ited to the Alumni Fund. ROLLINS COLLEGE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION 1968 - 1969 OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS Ben Aycrigg '49 President RECORD MARCH / 1969 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 Founders Week/1969 Treasurer Dedication of the Archibald Granville Bush Science Robert B. Colville '26 Center featured event of this outstanding week ... Frances D. Divine '38 Dr. Wernher von Braun appears as special Rollins Blanche F. Galey '35 guest ... by Todd Persons '58 4 Sara H. Howden '35 B. T. Heineman '64, MBA '67 Science and the Invasion of the Monomaths: C. Douglas Kerr '66 An Alumnus Speaks Kenneth F. Peloquin '54 An author of numerous space-oriented articles and Betty R. Pratt '47 books offers his observations and conclusions on this Elfreda W. Ramsey '35 seldom-examined byproduct of the technological Robert F. Stonerock '41 explosion in a special article ...by William R. Shelton '4.8 8 ALUMNI TRUSTEES Tar Topics 10 June R. Myers '41 John G. McKay '37 Where are They Now? William E. Winderweedle '28 Voted "Most Likely to Succeed," but did they ? EDITORIAL STAFF President of his class . .. now a corporation executive ? Walter M. Hundley Campus siveethearts . did wedding bells ring ? Director of Alumni Affairs Find out the ansivers to these and other interesting Editor questions designed to make a visit to Reunion '69 a must 11 Loison P. Tingley Assistant to the Director Ben Aycrigg All Aboard for Reunion/'69 ^ Alumni Consultant News of the Classes and Alumni Clubs Report is Member: American Alumni Council Editorial Office and Alumni Office ABOUT THE COVER: Silhouetted against a magnificent Alumni House, Rollins College Cape Kennedy sunrise, the mighty Saturn-Apollo 8 space- Telephone (305) 646-2266 V RECORD craft is shown here as the United States prepared to Winter Park, Florida 32789 launch man's deepest penetration into space last Decem- ber. Aboard the craft on December 21, 1968, were U.S. Astronauts Frank Borman, James A. Lovell, Jr., and Wil- The ALUMNI RECORD is published liam A. Anders. In an historical circumlunar mission last- quarterly by Rollins College Alumni ing seven days the eyes and ears of the world focused Association, Winter Park, Florida, and upon the unprecedented technology and teamwork which Is distributed to graduates, former stu- had made this feat a reality. For the role Rollins College dents, and seniors of Rollins College. has played and will continue to play in endeavors such as Second-class postage paid at Winter these you are invited to read the account of Founders Park, Florida 32789. Week/1969 beginning on the following page. Dr. Wernher von Braun, designer of the Saturn rocket, appeared as a VOLUME 46 contributor to Rollins' 1969 Animated Magazine during NUMBER 3 Founders Week. "Small colleges with well-equipped and staffed pre-med students John Anderson 71 (back to schools like this one at Rollins are the hope of camera) and David McCarley '71 explain their technology in this country," states von Braun, as clinical centrifuge in a chemistry student lab. FOUNDERS WEEK Wernher von Braun Headlines Brilliant Animag Contingent... by TODD PERSONS '58 Todd Persons received his Bachelor of Arts Degree from Rollins in 1958. He received an Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award in his senior year. For nine years he was a news writer for the Orlando Sentinel-Star. In 1965 he was cited by a Congressional sub- committee investigating land fraud for a series of articles on illegal land sales' practices in Central Florida. In 1967, Persons was named manag- ing editor of the Cupboard News, a bi- weekly newspaper in Orlando. The "The Florida Press Association judged an atmos article he wrote on racial tensions as the rocket best single news story in the state. warm- "Yes, I believe there are life forms on Mars," von Persons is married to a former Rollins covers Braun tells interviewer Todd Persons as they stroll student, Janet Corliss. They have three I embryi through the Bush Science Center." children and live in Maitland. appars Here von Braun is shown on the steps of the Bush Science Center. The Center was made possible by a $1.1 million gift from Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Bush, a $1.2 million grant from the government and a $1.5 million government loan. Before delivering his speech at the Animated Mag- azine, Wernher von Braun sits in the audience and chats with Clarence J. Bassler, Jr., Director of the 1969 Bush Foundation. ^ li p||| fc5Ss» ■The drudgery is removed from learning in an atmosphere like this," says the world's foremost rocket engineer as he 1) examines experimental warm-blooded animals in a biology lab, 2) dis- covers a "missing stage" in an anatomy and embryology display, and 3) studies evaporation apparatus in a chemistry lab. FOUNDERS WEEK... 1969 "He doesn't look like a scien- von Braun has had to shuck his tists enjoy talking in abstract terms tist." lab coat for Madison Avenue grays to confuse the public. Even doc- The elderly woman in the yel- to tell NASA's story to the public tors. It used to be you had a cough. low dress and hat meant it as a and sell the space agency's budget Now it's still a cough, but you compliment, and that's probably to a Congress that may appear can't understand that it is from the way the smiling man who just conservative to the doctor only listening to a doctor." bustled past her into the new $3 V2 when it relates to space-spending. On his job: "I enjoyed working million Archibald Granville Bush "It's a billion-dollar headache," in a laboratory a helluva lot more Science Center on the Rollins cam- he admitted as we began an exclu- than what I'm doing now. Now, I pus would have accepted the re- sive interview-tour of the science try to get money for other people mark. center with Dr. von Braun for the so they can have the fun." Dr. Wernher von Braun looks ALUMNI RECORD. On Russia's development of an and sounds more like an urbane Once away from his friendly, orbiting bomb: "We must develop corporation president than the but persistent aides, von Braun a system to detect them in the stereotyped, frizzy-haired, white- noticeably relaxed. He was obvi- orbit. We build our lines of de- smocked, bug-eyed theoretical ously enjoying the brief respite fense at great cost, and sometimes babbler that Hollywood has often from a whirlwind of responsibili- by the time they are finished, they projected as the typical scientific ties. are already obsolete. The DEW genius. Our student guide, Biology ma- Line is often referred to as the A scientist he most assuredly is, jor Jack McKallagat led the way MILDEW Line." but he would be the first to decry down long, carpeted hallways and A student rushed up to remind the patented image of the pure into laboratories bustling with stu- the doctor he was already late for theorist.