THE BELOIT COLLEGE BULLETIN ALUMNI ISSUE The Chicago Daily News Building Home of Beloit College's New Office :-: M I D W I N T E R E D I T I 0 N :-: BELOIT COLLEGE BULLETIN BELOIT COLLEGE ALUMNI CORPORATION OFFICERS President-Robert P. Robinson '05, 919 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago Vice President--Helen Brown Leff '29, 4232 Western Ave., Western Springs, Ill. Secretary-TreasureT"-Edith G. Kull, Beloit College MEMBERS OF ALUMNI COUNCIL For the P eriod Previous to 1880 Dr. Charles S. Bacon '78, 233 Cleveland Avenue, Chicago 1881 -1885 Rev. Wilson Denney '81, 817 Milwaukee Road, Beloit 1886-1890 Prof. H. D. Densmore '86, Beloit College 1891 -1895 Malcolm 0. Mouat '94, 14 W. Milwaukee St., J anesville 1896-1900 Eugene J. Reitler '96, 417 E. Grand Ave., Beloit 1901 -1905 Robert P. Robinson '05, 919 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago 1906 -1910 Dr. Homer. M. Carter '09, 1 So. Pinckney St., Madison Lyle K. Munn '07, Second National Bank, Beloit 1911 -1915 Arthur F. Collins '13, 333 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago 1916 -1920 Lyle L. Richmond '16, 1142, 7 So. Dearborn St., Chicago 1921 - 1925 Roderick M. Grant '22, 619 Washington Blvd., Oak Park 1926 -1930 James B. Gage '28, Beloit College Helen Brown Leff '29, 4232 Western Ave., Western Springs, Ill. Academy Arthur W. Chapman, 6445 N. Washtenaw Ave., Chicago President of Chicago Alumnae Assn.-Elsa Haeger '10, 126 S. Kenilworth, Oak Park President of Milwaukee Alumnae Assn.-Irene Eldridge '20, 2041 W. Wisconsin Ave., Milwaukee, Wis. President of Chicago Alumni Assn.-George M. Fraser '29, 5219 Lakewood Ave., Chicago 2 BELOIT COLLEGE BULLETIN Alumni Issue VOL. XXXIII BELOIT, WISCONSIN, JANUARY, 1935 No. 2 JAMES B. GAGE, '28, Editor Published by the Journalism Class of Beloit College (English 13 ·and 14) : Frances Bremer, James Cor- many, Robert Daniel, Ross Dick, Willis Hoard, Katherine Koppein, Eldon Opie, Walter Ansel Strong, Jr., Helen West. Entered December 16, 1902, at the Post Office at Beloit, Wisconsin, as Second Clas• Matter under Act of Congress, July 16, 1894 Beloiters Win Offices HREE Beloit graduates won public of- in his Green Bay address last fall. Barbara fices in the recent nation wide elections. Burke one of Senator Burke's two daughters T Two alumni were defeated in their is now a Junior in Beloit College. contests. Maurice Coakley '26 fulfilled the class John Anson Ford '07 was elected Super- prophesy of Donald K. Johnson when he was visor of the third county district in California. elected state senator from Rock County. The This office carries with it the spending of prophesy gave Coakley until 1936 to become millions of dollars for county relief. The vic- senator but he beat it by a year and a half. tory is a tribute to the honesty and integrity Coakley is the youngest senator in Wisconsin of one of Beloit's graduates. John Anson Ford and the first one from Beloit in 15 years. Aft- has lived for the past 13 years at 1556 N. er graduating from Beloit he attended law Mariposa Ave., Los Angeles, California. He school in Madison where he also held a posi- has lived an adventurous and happy life since tion as record clerk in the senate. Coakley 1907 when he graduated. He has visited practiced law in Hawaii for a brief period Europe four times and has traveled in Mex- and has been practicing in Beloit for the past ico, Hawaii and Canada. Before organizing two years. In 1931 he substituted for Pro- the advertising agency that now bears his fessor R. B. Way in the political science de- name, he worked in the journalistic field and partment of Beloit College. taught history and economics in the Beloit High School. Mrs. Ford was Lois Gold- Cleland P. Fisher '26 was defeated in the smith also of the class of 1907. race for District Attorney of Rock County by John Matheson, son of Alexander E. Mathe- The November election spelled the victory so_n '90. Cleland Fisher has been a lifelong of Edward · R. Burke '06 over Governor resident of Janesville where he is in partner- Charles W. Bryan for United States senator ship with his father, Arthur M. Fisher, United in Nebraska. Senator Burke made the New State Commissioner. Fisher attended Har- Deal the only issue in his campaign, and the vard law school for three years after leaving farmers fairly tumbled over each other to sup- Beloit College. He was admitted to the Wis- port their local champion. "Eddie,'' after consin bar in 1931. graduation from Beloit, was graduated from the Harvard Law School. He has been prac- Harold Gilbert '33 was defeated as candi- ticing law in Omaha from that time until date for the Wisconsin Assembly on the prog- two years ago when he was elected to Con- ressive ticket from Walworth county. gress. "Ed" Burke's election was assured in the general election when Arthur Mullen, Thomas R. Pfisterer '21 announced his can- Postmaster Farley and Franklin D . Roosevelt didacy for the County Superintendent of supported him. It was Burke's definition of Schools in Stephenson county, Illinois. He the new deal which President Roosevelt used campaigns under the Republican banner. BELOIT COLLEGE BULLETIN The President's Page Dear Friends: of Penn ylvania who has now maintained for Your president would like to speak to you twenty years a program among alumni for about the finances of the College. mall, 5teady gifts to the college. He .has We are actually noting an improvement in made a specialty of trying to encourage every the reception by the College of gifts. Within alumnu to put $100 for the College in what- the last month gifts amounted to just under ever ir~surance policy may be written, or in his $10,000. One gift of $3,000 a year for three will. Said this official, "Too often alumni, years from the Carnegie Corporation goes to when they hear of a bequest to their college, the Department of Fine Art at the College, think of it a a large thing and do not imagine a continuation of a some- that they themselves can what larger annual gift give bequests, but here which has obtained for at the University of some years. This un- Pennsylvania we have doubtedly will be the been asking them to final gift on the part of think in terms as small the Corporation, as en- as $100 and the income couragement for the Col- during the last few year lege to get started in this has been very satisfy- department and we shall ing." have to look out for Now do not imagine added income to main- that the president of tain this work. your Alma Mater is the The other gifts were kind of fellow who i . from friends of the Col- waiting around for ome lege and ran all the way of you folks to die in from $100 to $500 in order to get money for size. They came in re- the College. I do think sponse to requests by me that all of us need to be for help to relieve the reminded of the tre- pressure on the College mendous importance in due to the program of the near future of loyal student aid and they are alumni who are arrang- distinctly encouraging. ing in some constructive We are beginning to way for income to come think in somewhat small- to the College. There er terms in the matter of isn't an alumnus any- gifts. I am beginning where who wants to to realize what Nicholas Murray Butler think of his college as getting out of date or meant two years ago when he stated that lo ing out in equipment or resources and yet Columbia College would have to begin to most of us think that we are too poor to do think in terms of ten-dollar gifts instead of anything. the larger amounts. A I look into the near Therefore my word to all of you dear future, it seems to me that the College can friends is to look up your wills and put the well consider organizing a program of gifts in College in for at least $100; or, when you maller units, for this ready money is a valu- write some insurance, just put $100 in for the able help in aiding u in the maintaining of College, for in this way a stream of gifts will adequate programs and in going ahead in a come to us and we will all be the better for it. thorough-going way. Cordially yours, Not long ago I attended a meeting of trust officers in the city of Philadelphia. At this meeting I was very much impressed by the report made by an official of the University 4 BELOIT COLLEGE BULLETIN College Opens Chicago Office ICK up your telephone, you who live cou ld be gained. Time traveling between in Chicago, and call FRANKL! Beloit and the city would be aved and there P4084. And if you do not get a thrill would be time for much more individual visi- when the answer comes through "Good morn- tation in homes of prospective students as well ing, Beloit College," then we will be not only as alumni. surprised but disappointed. In addition to these reasons, public high The College has established a Chicago chools of Chicago have worked out a coopera- office in order to further alumni interest in tive program of visitation by college represen- the College and also in order to increase the tatives so that !es and less can be done in the work for new students in the Chicago area.