The University of Maine DigitalCommons@UMaine University of Maine Alumni Magazines University of Maine Publications 10-1964 Maine Alumnus, Volume 46, Number 2, October-November 1964 General Alumni Association, University of Maine Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/alumni_magazines Part of the Higher Education Commons, and the History Commons Recommended Citation General Alumni Association, University of Maine, "Maine Alumnus, Volume 46, Number 2, October- November 1964" (1964). University of Maine Alumni Magazines. 367. https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/alumni_magazines/367 This publication is brought to you for free and open access by DigitalCommons@UMaine. It has been accepted for inclusion in University of Maine Alumni Magazines by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@UMaine. For more information, please contact [email protected]. W. Jerome Strout ’29 W. Gordon Robertson President In providing opportunities for graduates Vice Chairman of the Board of the University of Maine to make Member, Board of Trustees, vacationland their vocationland, the University of Maine Bangor and Aroostook Railroad is proud to be among the leaders in Maine business and industry. In addition to the president of the railroad, the follow­ ing top management people have attended the university: 0. Dale Anthony '56 Kenneth S. Ludden ’32 Arno H. Shepardson ’49 Assistant Engineer Assistant to Vice President-Marketing Assistant Engineer Edwin J. Berry ’56 Frederick B. Lunt ’36 Richard W. Sprague ’51 Assistant Engineer Regional Vice President-Sales Director Public Relations Howard L. Cousins, Jr. ’42 John M. McDonough ’42 Vinal J. Welch ’50 Vice President-Marketing Night Supervisor-Machine Bureau Principal Assistant Engineer Clark E. Crane ’59 David G. Merrill ’52 Paul S. Wheeler ’33 Assistant Manager-Highway Division Division Master Mechanic Assistant Engineer Hugh G. Goodness ’51 Francis D. Murphy, Jr. '32 Assistant General Freight Agent Assistant Chief Mechanical Officer Harold W. Hanson ’50 Roger R. Randall ’52 Mechanical Engineer Assistant Engineer J. Charles Hickson ’51 M. Thomas Scanlin '41 Assistant to Vice President-Marketing Traffic Analyst William M. Houston ’51 Assistant General Counsel Vaughn L. Ladd ’24 Chief Mechanical Officer BANGOR and AROOSTOOK RAILROAD VOLUME 46 OCTOBER-NOVEMBER NUMBER 2 Editor: Dr. T. Russell Woolley ’41 Associate Editor: Virginia (Cushman '62) Rudbeck Class Notes Editor: Mildred (Brown '25) Schrumpf Letters to the Editor: Arthur F. Mayo ’58 CONTENTS On the cover. The Freshman Cometh 5 Over 1300 Freshmen arrived on campus Campus in Autumn 10 September 10 to participate in four days Sports 13 of orientation prior to the opening of Local Associations 14 classes on Monday, September 14. More Sons and Daughters 18 pictures of the Class of 1965 (the 100 year class) appear on pages 5-7. Necrology 20 \ \ Class Notes 22 EDITOR’S STENCIL This issue of the Maine Alumnus will be than-usual one for color and the amount Maine in this way ask to be removed from received by approximately 13,000 ex-stu­ of information on the 52 pages in i t . was the mailing list. We would wish, on the other dents of the University of Maine. If you circulated free to twice the regular number hand, to know of anyone who desires to be receive it, there is certain meaning attached of persons, or about 30,000 alumni men and included. We will send a copy on request. to your subscription. It means you are a women. Some people from a long ago grad­ Finally, if you would simply declare your potential contributor or an actual contribu­ uated class wrote of their surprise and wish and vote by sending here a modest tor to the Annual Alumni Fund or a special pleasure at having received a copy. regular or a generous gift—it would be exchange subscriber. You may already have The point is not too unexpected, every the least of favors in return for us to in­ made a contribution this year, because other thing in the world costing what it clude a continuing subscription as a part about 2,000 folks have already sent a gift. does; the August-September issue required of your regular active member earned Your receipt of the magazine does NOT a lot of money from the publishers, the privilieges. We’d like to look at it as such automatically indicate that you have already General Alumni Association. We were hap­ a fair exchange. Naturally, the remainder contributed, since we no longer distribute py to have sent a larger number of maga­ of your gift will amplify the support which simply to paid subscribers. That way only zines to so many addresses (which we have the Association tries annually to bring to 2,000 subscribers could at this time be written into our Centennial Directory) even the University. If you haven’t given this listed. You may not in fact have contributed at the expense of 20 cents a copy, when we year, or maybe not this year or the year even in the last year which was from July heard that it was a welcomed and pleasur­ before, won’t you do it early in this centen­ of 1963 to July this year; but you probably able publication effort. We’d like to send did contribute in one of the recent years, so many every time the Alumnus is off the nial celebration period? Send a check today. and so we believe you want to receive the press. Frankly, we can’t afford it! The Alumnus acknowledges all donors, and magazine and may remember soon to send In view of realistic costs and in recogni­ your University alumni office will be grate­ along a gift, in anticipation of being an­ tion, too, of every known alumnus, there ful. Try it, for the good feeling it should nually a reader of the Maine Alumnus. is a balance to be found. Let every person bring, that you have been a part in help­ The August-September issue,... a more- who might not want to receive news of ing Maine continue. GENERAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION a l u m n i t r u s t e e s Albert M. Parker ’28 Mrs. Stella (Borkowski ’47) Patten OFFICERS Frank C. Brown ’30 Alvin S. McNeilly ’44 President Mrs. Helen (Wormwood ’41) Pierce Edward C. Sherry ’38 Norma J. Smaha ’54 ALUMNI COUNCIL Thomas N. Weeks ’16 1st Vice President Robert P. Schoppe '38 Floyd N. Abbott ’25 Carl A. Whitman ’35 A. Percival Wyman ’07 2nd Vice President Ralph R. Bennett ’24 Mrs. Winona (Cole '43) Sawyer Maxwell B. Carter. Jr. ’44 Myron W. Zimmerman ’50 Mrs. Virginia (Tufts ’46) Chaplin Clerk Marion Cooper ’27 James A. Harmon ’40 Malcolm E. C. Devine ’31 Robert L. Fuller ’38 UNIVERSITY BOARD OF TRUSTEES Treasurer Oscar R. Hahnel, Jr. ’44 Harry T. Treworgy ’49 Harold P. Hamilton ’30 Lawrence M. Cutler, President M. Eleanor Jackson ’20 Executive Director Beatrice J. Little T. Russell Woolley ’41 Howard K. Lambert ’47 Arthur H. Benoit Herbert A. Leonard ’39 Frank C. Brown William T. Logan, Jr. Ass’t. Executive Directors Parker F. Leonard ’50 Ralph H. Cutting Helen W. Pierce Mildred (Brown ’25) Schrumpf M. Milton MacBride ’35 Robert N. Haskell W. Gordon Robertson Arthur F. Mayo III ’58 Rcscoe C. Masterman ’32 Huburt H. Hauck Owen H. Smith Published seven times a year, in August, October, December, January, March, May, and June, by the University of Maine General Alumni Association busi­ ness office: The Maine Alumnus, 44 Fogler Library, University of Maine, Orono, Maine. Send changes of address to the business office six weeks prior to the next issue. Advertising rates on request. The Maine Alumnus is sent to members and to other subscribers; subscription price. $2.00 per annum. Member: Ameri­ can Alumni Council. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at Orono, Maine, under act of March 3. 1870 You get 'Blue Chip' service with 'Blue Chip' insurance ... and it's low in net cost, too Maybe you've noticed him —a man in your community sporting a blue Your fellow alumni chip. That blue chip in his lapel is more than mere decoration. It now with C.M.L. distinguishes the agent of Connecticut Mutual... a life insurance career man, trained to give you wise guidance and the most for your money Donald F. Williams ’55 Home Office in family protection, personal retirement programs, business insurance, Lawrence G. Cousins Home Office pension and profit-sharing plans. Clifton E. George ’56 Boston Another Blue Chip plus: he represents a 118-year-old company whose John O. McGillivray ’40 Boston record of higher dividends has meant lower net cost for its policyholders. Discuss your life insurance with the man with the CML Blue Chip. \ He'll give you nothing less than Blue Chip service! " C onnecticut M utual Life INSURANCE COMPANY • HARTFORD AND 300 CITIES FROM COAST TO COAST All-Maine Woman Di Dunlap assists a freshman lass with her “recognition symbol” while an interested owl observes. This year’s beanies are emblazoned with a gold “100” to designate that the Class of 1968 is the 100th class to enter the University. THE FRESHMAN COMETH Freshmen find there are many new faces to learn as well as much useful information in the fresh­ man “mug book.” . Registration is the next step. etween 1,300 and 1,400 freshmen arrived at the University of Maine’s B Orono campus on Thursday (Sept. 10) to participate in a four-day orientation period prior to the opening of classes on Monday, Sept. 14. The first-year students registered for courses, met with deans, academic advisors, and instructors, and took tours of the expanding campus facilities.