Whittier College Poet Commons The Rock Archives and Special Collections 3-1956 The Rock, March, 1956 (vol. 18, no. 1) Whittier College Follow this and additional works at: https://poetcommons.whittier.edu/rock 7 archives The Rock - Alumni lagaZifle 1956 THE ALUMNI PUBLICATION OF WHITTIER COLLEGE GETTING THE LAY OF THE LAND With construction of the new Campus Inn and Student Union expected to start this Fall, sur- veyors are shown marking out the corner stakes for the founda- tions. The new structures will be lo- cated near the corner of Painter Avenue and Earlham Drive. IN THIS ISSUE Trustees Workshop . Study Tour . Sports . Chapter Meeting . 18 Year Old Alumnus . - Exchange Program. Underwater Hobby... Lindley M. Greene Succumbs R. LINDLEY M. GREENE, Whittier's Doldest citizen, and for 35 years a member of the board of trus- tees of Whittier College, died March 7 at his Whittier home. Doctor Vol. XVIII No. 1 Greene would have marked his 103rd birthday on March 29. A publication of Whittier College published Born on March 29, 1853, in Clin- during the months of October, December, ton County, Ohio, Dr. Greene studied March and June at Whittier, California, Box 651. Entered as second class matter under the as a young man in bacteriology in act of August 24, 1912. Berlin, London and at the Carnegie Laboratory in New York. Member American Alumni Council He had also been a district school teacher, college professor, a DR. LINDLEY GREENE Robert O'Brien and Ray Lentzsch country doctor, and a citrus ranch- Editors er. For 28 years he was president of the California Yearly Meet- ing of Friends and 20 years as head of the Whittier Citrus Asso- MAIL WE LOVE TO TOUCH: ciation. Through the years I have enjoyed each copy of "The Rock." I eagerly read it at once to see if there is any Public Relations Assistant news of those I knew in school. OYARD ROWE, senior at Whittier Mrs. J. Stephan Miller College and past editor of the (Martha White, '27) BQuaker Campus, was recently ap- Christiana, Jamaica pointed Assistant to the Director of British West Indies Public Relations at Whittier College, The article which appeared in the October "Rock" about me has been so in an announcement by President very rewarding in the number of Whit- Paul S. Smith. tier alumni I have "re-met" and met— Rowe succeeds Miss Margaret among the latter—the Lisle Sheldons "Peggy" Hayes who left in Novem- with whom I also share common business interests. Thanks so very much. ber to accept a position with Business Margie Phillips, '43 Week magazine in Los Angeles. Al- though Rowe graduates in June, his Hollywood, California appointment becomes effective im- We certainly enjoy "The Rock" and 4 mediately. the opportunity it gives to "keep up." BOYARD ROWE, '56 Mrs. Robert Belt He was recently named to the (Virginia Jessup, e'49) 1955-56 edition of "Who's Who Among Students in Ameri- Needles, California can Colleges and Universities." Rowe has been a member of As always, very pleased to receive the Knights and Squires, honorary men's service organiza- "The Rock." In my estimation, this tions, and the William Penn Society. publication improves with each issue. Rowe has lived most of his life in San Diego and is a Dr. John E. Stecklein, '44 graduate of San Diego High School. He was born in Em- Minneapolis, Minnesota poria, Kansas. I've enjoyed receiving "The Rock." Mrs. David Howton (Margaret Ellen Stein, e'42) Four new members to the Whittier College faculty for the Spring semester are (1. to r.) Dr. Elmer Moots, visiting professor of mathematics; Miss Martha Pacific Palisades, California Hecke, instructor in home economics; Miss Lou M. O'Laughlin, visiting lecturer I enjoy "The Rock" more than I can in art; and Miss Nelle Slater, '50, visiting lecturer in religion. say, living so far away from all my old friends. Mrs. Dale Lynch (Marjorie Harris, e'53) Highwood, Montana Thank you ever so much for sending me the publication of "The Rock". I enjoy reading it very much. Mary Ann Hill, '55 San Diego, California I receive "The Rock" regularly and enjoy it greatly. Please continue send- ing it. I received the sticker also. James Crouch, e'53 Longmont, Colorado PHOTO CREDITS: Robert I. Dill; Whittier News; Perry Griffith, Long Beads; Dexter Press, Inc., West Nyack, N. Y.; Pat Yoneda, '57; Sat- urday Evening Post. THE ROCK Page 2 dealt also with matters pointing Trustees Hold Workshop up the significant place of a good independent college in the HE BOARD OF TRUSTEES of Campus with its wholly new life of the nation. T Whittier College recently meaning to the College involving made a notable innovation as it does the aquisition of most In a day of critical teacher by holding an all-day Workshop of the property on both sides of shortages in the nation, it was on February 6, 1956. After a pointed out that the number of Philadelphia in the one hundred persons certificated in 1954-1955 tour of inspection of the cam- block east, a memorial chapel, a pus and of college operations, supplementary administrative who were holders of bachelors' the major part of the day was building, and the development of degrees from accredited Cali- devoted to a consideration of extensive parking facilities for fornia institutions, Whittier Col- the College's Development Pro- student cars. lege has trained more of this gram and its planning for the group than any other indepen- future. The Workshop also gave in- dent college in the state, and terested attention to the aca- more than eight of the twelve It was a day of exciting events demic program of the College in state colleges. This is indeed a including induction into Board the knowledge that educational significant and a remarkable re- membership of La Motte T. Co- worthiness is one of the primary cord. And, in a day when there hu and Thomas M. Erwin, and inducements for material and are also shortages of engineers the announcement of a generous moral support without contro- and other technically trained gift of $25,000 made just before verting the notion that a good personnel, it was pointed out the Workshop session convened. academic program has to be fi- that among the liberal arts co- This made it possible for Presi- nancial before it can be devel- educational colleges in Califor- dent Paul Smith to report that oped! nia, Whittier is second in fur- $100,000 had been raised during nishing the undergraduate train- the preceding six weeks in a cur- In this connection the Ford Foundation grant furnished an- ing of those taking their doc- rent endeavor to measurably torates in science during the ten match the magnificent Ford other source of encouragement. This was because the Founda- year period of 1936-1945, and Foundation grant to Whittier of again held the same position for approximately $300,000 as pub- tion chose Whittier, as one of 126 colleges out of 620 across the five year period, 1946-1950. licly announced in December. Whittier's participation in the All of these monies will go the nation eligible for consider- ation, to receive an "Accomplish- Intercollegiate Program of into the endowment fund to pro- Graduate Studies (the IPGS) vide income for the improve- ment Grant", a bonus sum of money of about 401yo (included and its program of the Liberal ment of faculty salaries which Arts Center for Adults are other is one of the trying problems in the grant total). This brought the College the added distinction indications of its educational vi- facing the great majority of non- tality. tax supported institutions of the of ranking in the top 207o of the nation. Indeed the steady solici- colleges of the country and as The spirit of the Workshop tation of funds is as necessary in one of 8 California colleges out was wonderfully optimistic and the case of Whittier as in any of the 25 eligible for considera- constructive. There was general institution of its kind and is an tion in this state, -to be so hon- feeling that the problems of in- essential part of its program of ored. dependent higher education are up-grading campus operations The Workshop discussion cov- indeed serious—perhaps more and equipment in order to main- ered not only financial matters serious in California than any tain its position in a highly com- including college endowment other state—but that Whittier's petitive field. (which it is hoped will be close historic background, her strate- The elaboration of this led the to $2,000,000 by 1957 and a dou- gic location and the accomplish- Workshop into a consideration bling since 1951) and the atten- ments of recent years gave sub- of the development of North dent investment problems, but stantial promise for the future. Pictured right are the members of the Whit- tier College Board of Trustees who gathered on February 6, for a Board Workshop. Front row, (1. to r.) Dr. Donald Spider, Sada Blake, Edna T. Nanney, Loretta M. Cook, Ethel K. Eckels, Dr. Homer Rosenberger and President Paul S. Smith. Second row, James E. Brock, Milton A. MacLean, Dr. Raymond Thompson, Thomas M. Erwin, M. C. Lautrup, Aubrey Wardman, La Motte T. Cohu and 'John D. Gregg. Third row, John A. Murdy, Sr., Row- land D. White, Will B. Wickersham, Glenn H. Lewis, Arthur F. Corey, John L. Compton and Dr. C. C. Trillingham. MARCH 1956 Liberal Arts Center Dr. Connick Leads Second Annual WO YEARS AGO in the Fall T of 1954, under the direction College Study Tour To Europe of Dr.