KALAMAZOO COLLEGE OF SENIOR CLASS ALUMNUS 41% TO CONTINUE STUDY Volume XVII July, 1955 Number 3 A percentage of the seniors equal versity in education; Philip Kellar, Editor, Marilyn Hinkle '44 to the record high of last year, 41 % , Indiana University in medicine; Published qua rte rly b y the K alama zoo Col ­ will continue studies in graduate Kathleen Lathers, New York School leg e Alumni Association and Kalamazoo Col ­ schooL Samuel Allerton will enter of Social Work; Susan Laycock, lege, Kalamazoo, Mich. P resid ent of th e Alumni Association : Harvard for work in physical bio­ Ohio State University in speech cor­ Albert V an Zoeren '23 chemistry under a National Science rection, assistantship; Shirley Lostut­ Me mber of the Ameri can Alumni Council. Ente red as second class m atte r January 18, Foundation Fellowship; William ter, Smith College in English; Jer­ 1940 at the P ost Office a t K alamazoo, Michi­ &'an, under the act of M a rc h 3, 1879. Pub. Baum has a scholarship to continue ome Ludwig, University of Cincin­ hshed quarterl y , January , April, July, and Oc tober. Subscri ption rate: One dollar per work in public administration at nati in organic chemistry, research year. Kalamazoo College; Mary Jane Beat­ assistantship; Mary Jean Mertz, Col­ tie, Cranbrook Art Academy; Mar­ gate Rochester Divinity School in shall Brenner, Bowling Green State religious education, scholarship; Gor­ University in clinical psychology, don Noble, St. Louis University in teaching assistantship; Emerson teaching of chemistry, DuPont fel­ TABLE OF CONTENTS Campbell, University of Wisconsin lowship; Irene Olson, Western Re­ in pharmacy; Burtis Crooks, Colgate serve University in nursing educa­ COMMENCEMENT 2 Rochester Divinity School; Don tion; Fred A. Sauer, Detroit College FROM PRESIDENT HICKS Davis, University of Michigan Med­ of Law; Charles Seifert, University THE FOURTH "R" ical School; Duane DeVries, Mich­ of Michigan in medicine; Robert FREDERIC GROETSEMA igan State University in English, re­ Stelle, University of Michigan, in LIVING WELL IN A DANGEROUS medicine; Bruce VanDomelen, Uni­ WORLD -WILLIAM G. POLLARD search assistantship; Lawrence Diet­ erman, University of Oklahoma in versity of Wisconsin in nuclear phys­ BREAK GROUND FOR UPTON HALL chemistry, teaching assistantship; Ar­ ics,teaching assistantship; Lee Van­ FUNCTIONS OF EDUCATION DEPT. 10 leigh Dodson, Michigan State in bio­ Haaften, University of Michigan Law NEWS FROM THE CAMPUS 11 chemistry, research staff member; School; Wilbur Vary, Michigan SPEAKING OF BOOKS 14 Stanley Dunham, in government at State University in political science; 'INTERESTED IN KALAMAZOO Kalamazoo College; Sivert Glarum, Bertram Vermeulen, Garrett Biblical HISTORY? 18 Brown University in chemistry, Na­ Institute; Margaret Wong, St. Louis 3 FROM K 19 tional Science Foundation Fellow­ University in bio-chemistry, fellow­ BASEBALL DIAMOND UNDERWAY 19 ship; Theresa Hansen, Louisiana ship; Marcia Wood, Cranbrook SPORTS NEWS 20 State University in English, assistant­ Academy of Art; Gene Wright, Uni­ CLUB NEWS 21 ship; Elaine Johansen, University of versity of Michigan in education; and ALUMNI NOTES 22 Wisconsin in zoology, assistantship; Thomas Wylie, Kent State in clin­ Marion Johns, Michigan State Uni- ical psychology. The delight/ttl storybook fantasy, "The Wiz­ LOOKING AHEAD ard of Oz," provided the theme for this year's an­ nttal May Fete, which was charmingly presented MAY JUNE 17-26 BAPTIST WOMEN'S HOUSE on May 13. The cover picture, taken in "blue HOUSE PARTIES FETE JUNE 26-JUL Y 2 CONFERENCE OF Mztnchkinland" finds Miss Anneliese Frey as a YOUTH AND ADULTS OF Munchkin, Miss Phebe McLean as the tin woods­ EPISCOPAL CHURCH man, Miss Irma Grissom as the scarecrow, and JULY 5-9 STATE JR. BOYS AND GIRLS Miss Nancy Higdon as Dorothy. Miss Higdon, TENNIS TOURNAMENTS who arranged the choreography, was co-chairman JULY 11-13 JC TENNIS TOURNAMENT of the pageant with Miss Donna Houghtby who JULY 17-24 CAMP FARTHEST OUT directed the music and the chorus. JULY 25-30 NA T'L BOYS AND JUNIORS TENNIS TOURNAMENTS The selection of the traditional Qzteen of the SEPT. 15-16 FACULTY CONFERENCE May went to Miss Marcia Wood of Kalamazoo. SEPT. 18-21 NEW STUDENT DAYS Reigning with her over the May celebration were SEPT. 22 REGISTRATION the members of her court, the Misses Mary jane SEPT. 23 CLASSES BEGIN Beattie, Sara Horn, Marion johns, Mary McDon­ Queen Marcia OCT. 12 HONORS DAY ald, Fleurette Kram, and Gretchen Bahr. OCT. 15 HOMECOMING Page 2 ALUMNUS COMMENCEMENT Degrees were conferred upon Robert R. Casler, James R. Cramp, Ketchen, Stephen E. Styers, and eighty-three graduating seniors at the Eugene F. Czarnecki, Donald Day­ Gene R. Wright, South Bend, Indi­ 119th annual Commencement at ron, Duane DeVries, Lawrence ]. ana; David ]. Larson, Plainwell; Kalamazoo College on Monday Dieterman, Jack M. Doyle, H. Stan­ Kathleen M. Lathers, Ypsilanti; W. morning, June 6. Opening with an ley Dunham, John P. Gideon, Shirley Lostutter, Ft. Wayne, Indi­ impressive procession of graduat­ Thomas A. Gilman, Stanley W. ana; Jerome H. Ludwig, Coloma; ing seniors and faculty members in Glass, Nancy ]. Higdon, Timothy Mary C. McDonald, Scarsdale, New academic regalia down the sloping D. Lemon, Daniel B. McFadden, York; John C. O'Brien, Vicksburg; hillside from Stetson Chapel, the Mary Jean Mertz, Charles ]. Morel­ Irene T. Olson, Waukegan, Illinois; ceremony rook place under the aged lo, Harry T. Phillips, Frederick A. Gene F. Orsolini, Chicago; Cath­ oaks on the campus quadrangle. Sauer, Jr., Robert E. Stelle, Lee Van­ erine A. Rutherford, Portland, One of the nation's eminent sci­ Haaften, Bertram W. Vermeulen, Maine; Charles L. Seifert, Battle entists, Dr. William G. Pollard, Marcia ]. Wood and Thomas G. Creek; C. Stuart Siegel, New York executive director of the Oak Ridge Wylie, Kalamazoo; William C. City; Mary C. Steiner, Wooster, Institute of Nuclear Studies, deliver­ Baum, Three Rivers; Emerson W. Ohio; Don C. Steinhilber, Berrien ed the Commencement address, "Liv­ Campbell, Madison, Wisconsin; Springs; and Margaret Wong, Kam­ ving Well in a Dangerous World," Robert L. Copeland, Watervliet; ayut, Burma. the complete text of which appears Patricia A. Corby, Williamston; C. Receiving master of arts degrees in this issue of the Alumnus. Burtis Crooks, Jr., Oaklyn, New Jer­ were Wilfred E. Law and Walter E. Degrees were conferred by Pres­ sey; Richard ]. Davis, Arleigh R. Scott. ident Weimer K. Hicks. Receiving Dodson, Marion J. Johns, Judith H. Robertson, and Ingrid Scharenberg, Four honorary degrees were pre­ his degree summa cum laude was sented at the Commencement exer­ Samuel Allerton. Other honor grad­ Detroit; Alice Dudley, Clearwater, Florida; Gladys Lyon Fox, Dowa­ cises. Receiving the degree, Doctor uates included Mary Jane Beattie, of Divinity, were the Reverend DraytOn Plains; Don Davis, Dowa­ giac; Irma M. Grissom, and Mal­ colm A. Jamieson, Royal Oak; Charles R. Bell, Jr., minister of the giac; Sivert H. Glarum, Wyncote, First Baptist Church of Pasadena, Pa.; and Bruce H. Van Domelen, W adei ]. Halasa, David C. Kimball, and Robert L. Timmer, Grand Calif., and the Reverend Frederic Shelby, all with magna cum laude Groetsema, minister of the NewtOn honors. Receiving their degrees with Rapids; Theresa A. Hansen, Elm­ hurst, Illinois; Robert L. Haymans, Highlands Congregational Church cum laude honors were Howard J. in NewtOn Highlands, Mass. Dr. Berkley; Arthur E. Hill, Jr., and Hirschy, Kalamazoo; Martha Hoard Bell is a leader in the affairs of the Frank A. Minto, Birmingham; Sara Smith, Plainwell; Donna Houghtby, American Baptist Convention and ]. Horn, Grosse Pointe; Billy N. Batavia, Ill.; Elaine Johansen, Lin­ and gave the Baccalaureate address. coln Park; and Gordon E. Noble, Howlett, Mary A. Killeen, Susan T. Dr. Groetsema is a graduate of Kal­ Vicksburg. Laycock, Mary Lou Schofield, B. amazoo College in the class of 1931. Bachelor of arts degrees were also Thomas Smith, Jr., Wilbur B. Vary, He has twice been honored by the awarded to Rafael A. Bendek, Jack and Ronald A. Ware, Flint; Philip Freedom Foundation for the excel­ A. Bowen, Marshall H. Brenner, E. Kellar, Gary, Indiana; Shirley ]. lence of his sermons. Four years Recipients of honorary degrees on June 6 ore shown with President Weimer K. Hicks. Left to right, Dr. Leland I. Doon, Pres. Hicks, Dr. Wil­ liam G. Pollard, the Reverend Charles R. Bell, and the Reverend Frederic Groetsema. ALUMNUS Page 3 ago he was guest lecturer at Cam­ bridge University in England. Le­ Baccalaureate land I. Doan, president of Dow Chemical Company, received an The Baccalaureate sermon was de­ our way toward that goal it has honorary Doctor of Laws degree; livered by the Reverend Charles R. been found on more than one oc­ and Dr. William G. Pollard, the Bell of the First Baptist Church in casion that the old law of cause and Commencement speaker, received Pasadena, Calif. effect seems to stand in our way. the degree, Doctor of Science. Dr. Kalamazoo Co 11 e g e graduates Confronted by such set-backs the Doan has been given credit for a were cautioned there are no shortcuts temptation has come just as often as large part of the development which for achievement of sound moral and we have been defeated to meet the has made the Dow Chemical Com­ spiritual values. Commenting that situation with some artificial remedy. pany's expansion the greatest in re­ "every choice leads to some value" "Thus much of our present pros­ lation to its size of the six major and "every seed bears its kind," the perity is being pyramided," he cau­ chemical companies in the United Reverend Bell told the graduates: tioned, "not upon the creation of States. "It is a dark day in any person's wealth- which conforms to the law Awards to members of the senior life when he or she seeks some value of cause and effect- but upon a class for outstanding achievement without paying the legitimate price vastly increased debt- which is an were presented by Dr.