University of the Pacific Scholarly Commons Pacific Review University of the Pacific ubP lications 5-1-1941 Pacific Review May 1941 (Commencement Issue) Pacific Alumni Association Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/pacific-review Part of the Higher Education Commons Recommended Citation Pacific Alumni Association, "Pacific Review May 1941 (Commencement Issue)" (1941). Pacific Review. 93. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/pacific-review/93 This Newsletter is brought to you for free and open access by the University of the Pacific ubP lications at Scholarly Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Pacific Review by an authorized administrator of Scholarly Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. ••I rXCIFIC MAY 1941 VI VOLUME FIFTEEN NUMBER TWO COMMENCEMENT ISSUE COMMENCEMENT CALENDAR Friday, June 6 Saturday, June 14 9:00 p. m. Senior Ball 10:00 a. m. Meeting of the Board of Trustees Hotel Stockton 10:30 a.m. Oratorical Contest Sunday, June 8 Anderson Hall 3:00 p. m. Baccalaureate Service Sermon, President Tully C. Knoles Sunday, June 15 College Auditorium 1:30 p. m. Alumni Banquet 4:30 p. m. San Joaquin County Alumnae garden Anderson Hall party honoring the class of '41 at home of Mrs. C. M. Jackson on West Lane. 7:00 p. m. Commencement Exercises All are invited. Address, Dr. Aurelia Henry Reinhardt, President, Mills College Tuesday, June 10 Baxter Stadium 7:15 p. m. Senior Sing 9:00 p. m. Reception Friday, June 13 Given by President and Mrs. Knoles 8:30 p. m. Commencement Concert honoring Dr. Reinhardt, graduates, Conservatory of Music alumni, trustees, faculty and other Reception for Conservatory Graduat­ friends. ing Class by Delta Chapter of Pi Kappa (No special invitations issued) Lambda—Anderson Hall Anderson Hall Date for Alumni Commencement Proposed Amendment to Alumni Banquet Set Association Constitution The annual Alumni Commencement The nominating committee for new officers of Banquet has been scheduled this year the Pacific Alumni Association appointed by Presi­ for Sunday afternoon. June 15 at dent Charles Segerstrom Jr. desires to present the 1:30 P. M. in Anderson Hall with following amendment to the Constitution of the •KL 0 • Charles H. Segerstrom Jr. presiding. Association: * Honored guests will be the class of To amend Article VI, Section 2, to read: 1941 who will be formally inducted iMSBfr i¥i 'n^° a'umn' membership. Several short "There shall be an Alumni Council to consist of the p and interesting features will make up officers of the Association and twelve members to the program. be known as Councillors. Said Alumni Council shall Placing of the banquet on Commencement day manage and carry on the affairs of the Association met with such approval last year that the plan has and perform such other duties as may be assigned been adopted permanently by the Alumni Council. to it by the Association. All members of the Many find it now is possible to attend all of these Council shall be holders of degrees granted by affairs on Commencement day. We urge all to the College of the Pacific." attend and bring friends with them. Reservations If the above amendment is adopted by the Asso­ are eighty-five cents per plate for the banquet and ciation at its meeting on June 15 there will be if you plan to come piease notify the Alumni Office. three additional members of the Alumni Council. Alumni Receptions Highly Successful Alumni of Napa College Recall President and Mrs. Tully C. Knoles have been hon­ Past at Reunion ored at several receptions held by Pacific alumni Dr. Rockwell Hunt, dean of the graduate school groups throughout the northern part of the state of the University of Southern California, was the this spring. Among the parties given were the in­ principal speaker at a reunion banquet of more formal receptions at the homes of Dr. and Mrs. than 80 alumni of the old Napa College at Cedar Anthony Boscoe of Sacramento, Mr. and Mrs. J. Gables in Napa on Saturday, May 17th. A. Berger of Oakland, Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Sum­ Dr. Hunt recalled some af the early history of ner of San Francisco. Latest affair was in the the college which once flourished but moved from garden of the John D. Crummey home on Park Napa 45 years ago. Dr. Walter Morritt and Henry Avenue in San Jose, at which two hundred alumni Tillman also gave extemporaneous tlks. from the old College Park campus paid their re­ Following the banquet delegates filed into the spects to Pacific's president. Music at all the Methodist Church and there compared unforget­ receptions has been furnished by Conservatory table anecdotes of their early college days. The musicians, students and faculty alike. In celebra­ reunion closed late that afternoon with most of the tion of the college's 90th anniversary and also in delegates returning to their homes that night. honor of Dr. Knoles was a program presided over Many of the alumni brought old photographs, by Pacific alumnus, Rev. F. H. Busher, in ft e Old programs and other souvenirs and circulated them First Methodist Church in San Jose. among their former classmates. PACIFIC REVIEW Pacific Musicians Star at Conference Allan Balches Fete Golden Jubilee College of the Pacific Conservatory of Music There aren't many couples who are honored as graduates made important contributions to the Mr. and Mrs. Allan C. Balch of Los Angeles were biennial convention of the California-Western Music on their golden wedding anniversary. On May Educators Conference held in San Jose April 6- 10 on the California Institute of Technology campus 7-8-9. in Pasadena the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra Eleanor V. Short was vice-chairman of the local played Mendelssohn's Wedding March as Mr. and committee which handled the many details in con­ Mrs. Blach arrived to receive several hundred guests nection with being host to the convention. In ad­ who came as an expression of appreciation for the dition to her executive duties Miss Short directed an influences the Balches have made upon colleges outstanding boys' choir from the San Jose element­ and cultural organizations. Mrs. Balch is a member ary schools. of the College of Pacific Class of 1886. Jean Schellbach another Pacific teacher in the Tea was served in the afternoon in the Atheneum San Jose public schools conducted the cantata "The while Adolf Tandler conducted his Symphony. In Nazarine" which was presented Sunday evening the evening buffet supper was served and the guests April 6th. danced until midnight to the music of Rudolf Friml's Two bands which were in a class by themselves dance orchestra. All the decorations were carried for all-around excellence were presented from Tur- out in gold, and there was a huge parchment scroll lock High School and Stockton High School, and bearing the testimonial of the State Legislature to they were directed by Al Rageth and Harold the magnificient part played by Mr. and Mrs. Balch in furthering higher education. Heisinger respectively. Bernice Rose was chairman of the Rural School Honored guests present from the College were Festival which presented students from San Ben­ President and Mrs. Knoles and Miss Grace Carter. ito, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, San Mateo and Solano counties. Ivine Shields, Pacific graduate who teaches in Homecoming. Drive for the fund was successful Sacramento Junior College was chairman of the enough to afford the tower and spire. Campus Northern District of the California-Western Con­ living groups, organizations and faculty members ference. have contributed the money needed for pews and Organization assistants for the Conference Band, other chapel furnishings. Orchestra and Chorus concert were Norma Bentley, Chester Mason, Evelyn Ward, Kenneth Dodson, Ed Simonsen, John Hubbard, John Farrar, David Harms, Dorothy Dale Arnold and Al Rageth. The three most popular presentations of the Flic • • • • entire conference were directed by Conservatory graduates. Virginia Short's amazing string orches­ tra from Stockton High School won tumultuous College Bookst ore applause; Erwin Ruff's boy quartet from Hanford High School was the hit of the Conference Ban­ sends greetings to the quet; and J. Russell Bodley's Pacific Choir sang at a general session with beauty of tone and inter­ New Alumni pretation which may well serve as a model of a Class of 1941 cappella singing for many years to come. In addition to Bodley, other Conservatory faculty • members who contributed to the conference were REMEMBER IF YOU EVER NEED Horace I. Brown, who judged the string section of the conference orchestra, and John Gilchrist Pacific Jewelry, Belts, Buckles Elliott who addressed the piano clinic and was a Rings, Pins, Stationery member of the panel discussion group of the Col­ lege and University Section. WRITE US .> Architects Completing Details On New Building Every order given personal attention Construction of the new Chapel and Religious Education Building on the campus will begin dur­ W. H. Morris William E. Morris '32 ing the summer, as soon as the architect and con­ Manager Assistant Manager sultant have completed specifications, approved by the building committee appointed by the Board of Trustees. It is hoped to dedicate the building at PACIFIC REVIEW Alpha Chapter of Epsilon Alumnae Elect Personals Alpha Chapter of Emendia Alumnae held their 1876 annual garden luncheon at the home of Mrs. Edna COOPER. Mary Gibbons Cooper, '76, is recover­ Wagener in Palo Alto on May tenth. A garden ing from a prolonged illness of several months. tour was the diversion of the afternoon. Officers elected for the coming year were Mrs. 1886 Evvie M. Tillman, president; and Mrs. Ramona CHAPPEL. Bertha Baldwin Chappel, '86, is ser­ Sorensen, Secretary-Treasurer.