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For more information, please contact [email protected]. 0 A ALUMNI may well be proud of their part in pro­ Then, there’s the case of Bill, who runs a hot dog viding scholarship aid for worthy students. Thanks to stand; John, who repairs shoes; Sam, who fixes watches alumni, 40 students are being helped by means of gifts and clocks; Susan, who waits on table and “baby sits” and bequests to the extent of more than $3,000 this year. for faculty members in the evening—all are able to Endowment funds from alumni for scholarships now remain in college because of scholarship help. total more than $86,000. Alumni may also be interested to know that 664 stu­ The scholarships are going to worthy students, too. dents are now working on campus jobs to defray part For example, one girl—let’s call her Mary—gets $500 of the cost of their college educations. from her mother who is boarding 6 orphan children Funds available for aid to students never are suffi­ for the State in order to help pay her daughter’s col­ cient. Alumni and others who are interested in helping lege expenses. But even by working practically every deserving young people will have to search far to find spare minute Mary still doesn’t get enough money to pay a more worthy way than bolstering the scholarship her way. It’s at this point that scholarship aid comes program at the University of Maine through gift or in mighty handy for Mary. bequest. The UNIVERSITY of MAINE ORONO, MAINE Vol. 31 FEBRUARY, 1950 No. 5 .Published monthly from October to June, inclusive, by the University of Maine General Alumni Association, Business office, The Maine Alumnus, University of Maine, Orono, Maine. Subscription price, $2.00 per year, included in annual alumni dues of $3.00. Member: American Alumni Council. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at Orono, Maine, under act of March 3, 1870. — - EARLY two hundred seniors re­ have long since been forgotten, and to ally contributes his small part and be­ ceived their diplomas at Commence­ them we are indebted beyond measure. comes a regular contributor, the total ment exercises held in the Women’s Gym­ We have had access to the fruits of their reaches sizable proportions. The activi­ nasium the evening of February 3. labors through the medium of this Uni­ ties of the General Alumni Association At a dinner in Memorial Gymnasium versity which in the eighty-five years of are of vital importance, and I am sure given to the Seniors by the General Alum­ its existence has been built up and main­ that anyone who has supported the work ni Association prior to the Commence­ tained by the devotion of its loyal sup­ of the Association feels a glow of personal ment exercises, Dr. Arthur A. Hauck porters, not the least among whom have satisfaction in reviewing its achievements presented certificates of merit to some been its alumni. All of us can in some over the years. seventy-five veterans’ wives! Dr. Hauck measure discharge his debt to those who “Becoming a loyal alumnus means giv­ and the administration realized fully the have gone before and to those who have ing something of yourself. Active partici­ great contribution that these wives made established and maintained this Univer­ pation in a local association of your fel­ toward the successful completion of their sity by becoming in our turn its loyal low alumni offers rich rewards in friend­ husbands’ postwar academic efforts, and supporters. Here is an area in which we ship and through these associations will took this way to show their admiration can accept our responsibility as individu­ come opportunities for real service to your and appreciation. als in a free society. University. The University of Maine is Dean Joseph M. Murray ’25 was toast­ an institution of which we may all be master for the dinner and Richard S. proud. It is such because loyal men and Bradford ’30, Vice President of the Mer­ women have given of themselves to make rill Trust Co. of Bangor, was the speaker it so. It is being passed on to us as. a for the occasion. precious heritage to cherish and maintain. Its prestige is enhanced or damaged by “I am always deeply stirred,” said Mr. how well we, its alumni, fulfill our re­ Bradford, “as I see the slowly moving sponsibilities in citizenship, in our vari­ line of black-gowned figures with the ous careers, and in our alumni activities. hoods of many color combinations ... the The University of Maine is what we slowly marching line seems to extend choose to make it. Let us not fail in our back so far there is no beginning and to responsibility.” stretch so far ahead that there is no end as I realize that I am viewing only a At the close of Mr. Bradford’s inspir­ segment in a procession constantly mov­ ing talk, everyone moved on to the Wom­ ing out of the past and into the future. en’s Gymnasium for the Commencement At Pomona College the oldest member of exercise. Rabbi Milton Elefant, Direc­ the alumni body passes a lighted torch, tor of the Hillel Foundation at the Uni­ symbolic of the light of knowledge, to the versity, gave the prayer. President Albert youngest member of the graduating class, N. Jorgensen of the University of Con­ which he someday may pass on in his necticut was the Commencement speaker turn. Thus each of us receives a heritage and chose as his topic, “The Major Prob­ from the past and with it a responsibility lems Facing Your Generation.” to conserve it, add to it, and pass it on. President Jorgensen was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. Dr. “So it is with you tonight. Your grad­ Richard S. Bradford ’30 uation marks the climax of your having Hauck read the following citation: “Na­ been privileged to receive during the past tive of Illinois; graduate of Coe College, years all that could be offered you only “... What is our responsibility to the master of arts, and doctor of philosophy, by a great institution of learning and University? Our responsibility is well the state university of Iowa; eminent edu­ with the privileges come many responsi­ defined in the stated purpose of the Gen­ cator, who began his career as a high bilities. It is the responsibility of becom- eral Alumni Association, ‘To foster a school principal and school superinten­ ing loyal alumni of your Alma Mater spirit of loyalty and fraternity among the dent ; in the field of higher education he that I want to stress tonight. graduates and former students of the served as associate director of the bureau University of Maine and to effect united of research, state university of Iowa, and “Individually you are one of a group of as professor of educational administration 14,000, but whether you remain a mere action in promoting the welfare of the at Michigan State Normal College and statistic or contribute to that result which University.’ The responsibility of loyal the University of Buffalo; in 1935 he was makes the whole greater than the sum alumni begins with the financial and moral appointed to the presidency of the Uni­ of all its parts, remains with you. The support of your association. Regularity in making your annual contribution takes versity of Connecticut, which under his fundamental principle of Western Civili­ wise and courageous leadership, has zation is that the individual and not the care of the largest part of the financial gained notably in prestige and influence. mass is of primary importance. Hence support. The activities of the Association individual responsibility is the keystone so vital to the continued welfare of the “We welcome you to the University of Maine as the head of a sister Land-Grant of our culture and the whole society can University require an operating budget consistent with the functions it must ful­ University, bound to us by many ties of exceed the sum of its parts only where in­ fill. These activities cannot be maintained friendship and common purpose. In rec­ dividual responsibility impels each of us with any of us taking the complacent at­ ognition of your distinguished achieve­ to contribute unstintingly to its growth. titude of allowing someone else to carry ments in educational administration and in “All of us have partaken of learning the load. All of us have many obligations public service, the trustees of the Univer­ accumulated through the ages by hosts of to fulfill and our incomes are subjected to sity of Maine are happy to confer upon men and women whose lives and names myriads of demands, but if each one loy­ you the degree of doctor of laws.” THE MAINE ALUMNUS 3 FEBRUARY, 1950 Of Alumni Concern With the Faculty Dr.