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TH E OFFICERS:
Ralph M. Horton ’24, President
W illiam A. Kern ’27, First Vice-President
Clarence H. Twichell T 8, Vice-President
G. Dewey Hynes ’25, Vice-President
Ernest F. Staub ’27, Vice-President
William R. Newcomb ’40, Vice-President
Everett D. Barnes ’22, Treasurer

O FFIC IA L PU BLICA TIO N OF COLGATE

Carlton O. M iller T 4, Executive Secretary

U N IV ER SIT Y

William H. Turner, Jr. ’50, Assistant Secretary

ALUM NI

CORPO RATIO N

H A M ILTON , N E W Y O R K

THE PUBLICATION COMMITTEE

THE

CONTENTS

E. Donald Frick ’43, Chairman
H. Carlyle Millard ’26

Where Do W e W ant to Go?, by C. J. Myers ’20

Forty Years of Service, by C. O. Miller T 4

First Deficit Since 1951 (Treasurer’s Report)

Colgate Around the W orld at Christmas

Edmund C. Rice ’34
F. Gordon Boyce ’39
Robert K. Otterbourg ’51
W . Stanley Holt, Jr. ’52Howard O. Colwell ’53

TH E EDITO RIAL BOARD

Great Auks from Little Aardvarks, by R. F. Speirs

Restrictive Fraternity Clauses, by Reed Alvord ’31

Campus Affairs

Careers Conference

Down the W illow Path, by James Louis ’60

Sports

Carlton O. Miller ’14, Editor
F. Reed Alvord ’31, Managing Editor
Walter D. Splain ’49, Sports
Howard D. Williams ’30
Stanley E. Smith ’49
Bruce G. Holran ’56
William H. Turner, Jr. ’50

TH E COVER
W inter’s mantle covers a familiar
campus scene. Against the dazzling
brilliance of sun on new-fallen snow,
the lacey pattern of the willows casts
long shadows from the path skirting
Taylor Lake and leading up to the
new library, in foreground, and on
to the Chapel on the Hill.
Photo by R ichard M yers '59

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1959 Alumni Fund Progress Report, 4 — Season’s Greetings from the
President, 8 — Maroon Memos, 9 — Where There’s a W ill; Christmas
Greetings from the Village, 17 — Colgate Away from Home; Pioneering, 19
— Down the Aisle, 23 — Recent Arrivals; The New Colgate Song Book,
24 — Flashes by Classes, 25 — Completed Careers, 30.

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MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN ALUMNI COUNCIL

Colgate Alumni N ews is published seven times a year: October,
December, January, March, April, May and July. Entered as second class
matter at the Hamilton, N. Y ., post office December 19, 1911, under Act
of Congress of March 7, 1879- Subscription price, $2.50; 50c per issue.

DECEM BER, 1959 — V o l u m e X L III — N u m ber 2

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Where Do We Want To Go?
by C larence J . M yers ’20, Trustee
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Ap r il , at the second annual Alumni Council Con
ference in Hamilton, the suggestion was made that it
might be desirable to take a look at Colgate’s past and present
with a view to doing some further planning for its future. The
general idea was expressed in these words:
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"There come times in the life of an individual, a
corporation or a college when you pause and re-check
your bearings and your course. Perhaps Colgate has
reached that stage in its development and could with profit
take a breathing spell — enjoy a temporary cessation of
change to enable us to take stock, appraise results, con
solidate our position or modify it if our experience war
rants.
"As in all organizations of size and with the earnest
desire to improve, Colgate has had a number of studies
made and has profited by the activities of many hard
working committees. I would like to suggest the pos
sibility of another one — a representative group of
Trustees, administrative officers, faculty and alumni to
give careful thought to a re-statement for the benefit of all
of us, in the light of present-day circ*mstances, of the
answers to three basic questions:
"W here have we been?
— the past and the lessons it can teach.
"W here are we?
— the present — what we are now doing.
"W here do we want to go?
— the future — our plans for it.
" It would seem that much good might result from
such an over-all re-appraisal at this time — a renewed
sense of confidence and direction and purpose.”
Whether anyone might agree that it was worth following
up — implementing is the academic term, I believe — remain
ed to be seen. Evidently folk did. The President and the

Board expressed their hearty approval and lost no time in ap
pointing or inviting others to appoint representatives to such
a Committee (very properly adding students to the categories).
Since I had some part in making the recommendation, the
Board seemed to feel that I should serve as Chairman.
So Colgate now has the All-University Council comprised
of fifteen members, three each representing: The Trustees
(Curtiss E. Frank ’25, Clarence J. Myers ’20 and Harold O.
Voorhis T 9 ) ; The Alumni (Warren M. Anderson ’37, W es
ley M. Cotterell T 9 and Clayton E. Rose ’2 4 ) ; The Faculty
(Wendell H. Bash, Herman A. Brautigam and James F.
W ar dwell) ; The Administration (Eugene T. Adams, William
F. G riffith ’33 and Howard L. Jones ’39) and The Student
Body (Charles Lankau ’60, James Louis ’60 and Philip
Smith ’6 0 ).
Over the weekend of October 30-31, the Council held its
first meeting in Hamilton: defined its objectives; outlined
broad categories of study, established a basic pattern of pro
cedure; appointed sub-committees, and agreed on a general
timetable. W hile we recognize that our undertaking is an
ambitious one, if we adhere to our tentative schedule we will
have a preliminary report ready for the Board of Trustees in
June; a final report in January 1961.
Whatever else may be said of it, the Council’s objective is
simple and clear: to help Colgate plan for tomorrow. Philo
Parker ’12, Chairman of the Board, has said "that the assign
ment of the Council can be of great importance to Colgate’s
future.” President Case welcomed it enthusiastically "because
in the pressure of our day-to-day operations there is all too
little time left to give adequate attention to the future.”
W e hope to measure up to their expectations and to yours.

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The tent on campus at the Centennial in 1919

Forty sparkling candles on
Alumni Corporation’s birthday cake mark

Forty Years of Service
Dr. Howard D. Williams
’30, in his historical article "Three
Anniversaries” in the last Alumni News,
noted that October 10 marked the 40th
anniversary of the Alumni Corporation,
he was referring merely to the length of
time it had functioned as a corporate
body. Actually, only three colleges have
older alumni associations — Williams,
1821; Brown and Middlebury, each 1824.
The Colgate and Columbia associations
came along the following year. For
eighty-four years the old association
operated without a central office and
solely with volunteer help. History and
the record show, however, that this or
ganization proved itself to be remark

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ably effective.
W hen Colgate was ready to celebrate
its centennial, in the fall of 1919, the
number of living alumni had grown to
some 3,000 and were dispersed through
out the world. During the first World
W ar many alumni had become eager for
closer and more permanent relationships
with their College and their fellow
alumni, and the Centennial Celebration
seemed to offer the opportunity to per
fect the kind of organization which would
achieve these objectives.
Nearly 45 per cent of Colgate’s 3,000
living alumni returned to take part in
this celebration; on Friday evening,
October 10, 1919, these proposals were

more foolish? A 'Y ,’ is there anything
sillier on earth? And what on earth
could a man do with an 'A ’ alone? But
when you get the 26 letters all cooperat
ing, what can’t you do with them? 'The
Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want.’
You can say that. 'Our Father who art
in Heaven, hallowed be Thy name.’ You
can say that. Things that cannot be said
are said with 26 letters, when they are
on their job working together. That is
our problem here. W e do not amount
to much one by one, but we amount to a
lot when we work together, and this Col
gate University Alumni Corporation will
be the medium for the expression of our
cooperating interests in Alma Mater on

the H ill.”
From the very beginning, alumni have
by C a rlto n O. M il l e r T 4
been "tapped on the shoulder” by visita
presented at an alumni dinner served un tions from alumni leaders, members of
der a great tent pitched on Broad Street the faculty and staff, the Alumni News
between the Administration Building and and special literature. The alumni in turn
have responded through their class and
Taylor Hall. Mr. James C. Colgate ’84,
Secretary of the Board of Trustees, pre district club organizations (the latter have
sided. After preliminary speeches were grown from nine to 4 8 ) , through many
concluded he turned the meeting over to forms of committee service and by con
George W . Cobb ’94, currently President tributing in these forty years more than
$4,000,000 to Colgate, in addition to the
of the Alumni Association. Others who
generous gifts made toward the construc
played prominent parts were Sydney M.
tion of Huntington Gymnasium and the
Colgate, then President o f the Board of
Student Union.
Trustees; Frank M. Williams ’95, official
At the reorganization meeting direc
representative from the Board of Trus
tees; Raymond E. Brooks 06, who pre tors and officers were elected as follows:
sented the re-organization plan; Ellery — George W . Cobb ’94, President; Ray
C. Huntington, Jr. T 4 , who had pre mond E. Brooks ’06, Vice-President;
pared and presented the legal papers re Professor Alfred E. Alton ’02, Secretary,
and Professor Harold O. W hitnall 00,
quired for incorporation. It was on this
October evening in 1919 that Dr. Harry Treasurer.
The office of the Secretary of the
Emerson Fosdick ’00 delivered one of
his memorable addresses. " I want some University, then occupied by Dr. Alton,
one whose business it is to tap me on became the official headquarters of the
the shoulder and tell me that Alma Mater new Alumni Corporation; it was not until
1925 that the present office in the Ad
is living up here,” he said.
" I want
someone to see to it that I do not fail to ministration Building was established.
pay some of that unpayable indebtedness The outstanding characteristic of the
that I owe to this incomparable little Corporation has been its generous and de
College on the H ill.” Then he proceeded voted volunteer leadership. W ithin this
to symbolize. "Y ou know, the most forty-year period there have been but ten
presidents: 1919-26, George W . Cobb
marvelous thing on earth is a printed
’94; 1926-30, Frank M. Williams ’95;
book, and one of the marvels is this:
1930-35,
W illiam M. Parke ’00; 1935-40,
that there is nothing in that printed book
Walter
C.
Cramp ’00; 1940-44, Howard
but 26 letters. And one of these letters
G. Stokes ’l l ; 1944-47, L. Vincent Colby itself — could you imagine anything
COLGATE ALUM NI NEWS

lings T 6 ; 1947-51, Albert W . Moore
’17; 1951-54, Harold B. Day ’28; 195457 D. Stephen Thrall ’22 and the cur
rent president, Ralph M. Horton ’24.

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but two treasurers, Harold O. Whitnall ’00 and Everett D. Barnes ’22. Fol
lowing Dr. Alton, who served without
remuneration, there have been four full
time Executive Secretaries — Raymond
E. Brooks ’06, 1925-29; Bernard P. Taylor
’24, 1929-35; Herschel L. Mosier ’22,
1935-42 and the present incumbent, Carl
Miller T 4 , who took office in 1942.
Time and space do not permit us to give
greater attention and full credit to the
literally hundreds of men who have
served as volunteer leaders on the national
level, of the district clubs, of the classes
and of committees and sub-divisions.
Some of the principal activities of the
Corporation are reviewed here:
A l u m n i fu n d — ■ It had been recog
nized for some time that something must
be done to meet an annual University
operating deficit which ranged from
$20,000 to $60,000 and which had been
met for nearly thirty years by blank
checks from members of the Colgate
family. The new Alumni Corporation
immediately joined in a campaign in 1920
for a million dollars for endowment and
funds to construct the Huntington Gym
nasium. Upon completion of this enter
prise, it took a leaf from the experience
of some of the oldest living associations
in the country and in 1926 established
the annual Alumni Fund: the Corpora
tion’s program for annual giving to Col
gate. This Fund, conducted annually with
out interruption through 1955, brought
more than $1,599,800 to the University.
During the next three years the Fund
was joined with the University’s De
velopment Fund, when alumni contrib
uted almost $2,000,000 (about 50 per
cent) of the total raised.
Addresses and in fo r m a tio n — Fun
damental to all branches of the
Corporation’s work are the records of
alumni addresses and information which
are being constantly assembled. A master

WS I FOR DECEMBER, 1959

card and two addressograph plates are
maintained for every alumnus. Currently
we have correct addresses for some
11,800 alumni and there are approxi
mately 425 address stencils awaiting in
formation to enable correction.
The latest alumni directory was com
piled and published by the Alumni O f
fice in 1954. Sales were sufficient to
cover its entire cost.

George W. Cobb '94

St u d en t selectio n com m ittees -—

Organized early in the 1930’s under
the direction of a Corporation com
mittee headed by George W . Cobb
’94, its first president, they are vitally
important adjuncts to the office of the
Director of Admissions. A very large
percentage of students entering in these
last decades have been interviewed by
members of these committees, which also
have special responsibility for the screen
ing and selection of the Alumni W ar
Memorial Scholarship candidates. Prior
to the opening of College, eighteen to
twenty send-off parties for freshmen are
staged by these Committees.
A l u m n i awards — The Alumni
Corporation recognizes outstanding serv
ice to the University through two systems
of awards: the Alumni Award for Dis
tinguished Service to Colgate, established
in 1937, which has been presented to
fifty-five alumni; and Maroon Citations
for Meritorious Service to Colgate, first
presented in 1955, through which sixtyfive have been recognized. W hile the
Alumni Awards are restricted to those
who have been students at Colgate, Ma
roon Citations have been used frequently
to recognize unusual services by friends
of the College.

— The late W illiam
A. Reid ’18, Director of Ath
letics, wrote and mailed from his own
office to some 3540 alumni in the
Service during World W ar II the famous
series o f letters entitled "Colgate at
W ar.” Upon the outbreak of the Korean
War a similar series of letters was sent
for six years by the Alumni O ffice to all
Colgate men engaged in war service.
(Continued on page 29)
olgate at w ar

Raymond

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First Four
Elected Officers

Alfred E. Alton '02

Harold O. Whitnall '00

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First Deficit Since ’51:
The endless struggle of
the black and scarlet inks
since 1951 the University has operated
in the red as shown in the recently published report by
Treasurer John W . S. Littlefield ’22. O f the $81,506 deficit,
however, $50,000 was deliberately authorized by the Trustees
of the University to give substantial salary increases a year
ahead of an increase in tuition. The rise in operating costs,
caused in part by the long and severe winter, accounted for

o r t h e fir st t im e

the remainder.
Furthermore, the current year’s budget provides for the
restoration of this $50,000 loss from the new tuition charges
and for the establishing of Renewal and Replacement reserves
to the extent that operations permit.
A balanced overall budget for 1959-60 calls for income
and expenses totalling $3,521,100.
This compares with total income available for current use
in 1958-59 of $3,223,652 and expenses and appropriations
totalling $3,305,159- Thus the net increase in operating ex
pense anticipated for the current year is $215,941.
The principal items of income and expense with the per
centage of each of the total are shown in the following table.
INCOME

AMOUNT

PER CENT

$1,397,258
Tuition and Fees
Funded or Endowment Income
379,499
Gifts and Grants for Current Use
259,719
23,272
Other Sources — Educational
990,518
Auxiliary Activities
34,797
Sundry
Summer Projects
138,589

43.34
11.77

$3,223,652

100.00

Total Income
EXPENSE AND APPROPRIATIONS

Academic Salaries, Wages,
Retirement
Maintenance & Operation
of Plant
Scholarships, Grants-in-Aid,
Remitted Tuition
Prizes and Awards
Other Expense — Department
and General
Development Office
Auxiliary Activities
Colgate Alumni Corp. by
appropriation
Sundry
Summer Projects

AMOUNT

8 .0 6

.72
30.73
1.08
4.03

PER CENT

Ten years ago, operating expenses totalled $1,752,548.
The official close of the Development (Alumni) Fund
three-year campaign for capital gifts ended December 31, {
1958. Originally established with a goal ob $3,300,000, the
campaign resulted in gifts and pledges of $3,985,825, of
which $3,426,342 had been received in cash or securities at
year-end.
The following schedule shows the total gifts, grants and
bequests received for 1958-59:
GIFTS RESULTING FROM DEVELOPMENT (ALUMNI) CAMPAIGN

$106,154
145,534
49,532
447,897

For General Purposes of the Fund
For Current Operations
Restricted to Endowment
Restricted to Plant
Total Campaign Gifts

$749,117

OTHER GIFTS AND GRANTS

Expendable for Current Operations
143,995
Restricted to Endowment
87,215
Restricted to Plant
37,485
Restricted to Research
112,708
Restricted to Special Projects
140,652
Restricted to Future Use
44,700
Sundry
333
$567,088
Total of Other Gifts and Grants
Total of All Gifts, Grants and Bequests $1,316,205
The available income for the year from the University’s
two permanent funds, (T h e Dodge Memorial and the General
Funds) and the special fund created by the bequest of Clar
ence M. Woolley LL.D. ’28, was $379,499. This sum was
slightly higher than that of the previous year and also in
excess of budget estimates. The current book value of en
dowed funds is $8,854,967 and the market value is $12,497,862.
Copies of the current Treasurer’s Report can be secured by
writing Mr. Littlefield.

1959 ALUMNI FUND PROGRESS REPORT

$1,331,542

40.29

234,581

7.10

Subscribers

285,525
2,427

8.54
.07

Subscribed

188,624
56,552
954,034

5.71
1.71
28.86

In addition 1823 Alumni have given $150,426
to the Development Fund in 1959.

80,000
36,732
135,141

2.42
1.11
4.09

REMEMBER ALMA MATER AT CHRISTMAS

Total Expense and Appropriation $3,305,158

100.00

as of November 25

Objective

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$107,225
$125,000

COLGATE ALUM NI NEWS

Around the World
at Christmas
Illustrations by H. C. Millard ’26

It has been one o f Colgate’s most ancient and honorable
traditions to send her alumni into the far corners o f the earth.
Jonathan W ade and Eugenio Kincaid, both members o f the
graduating class in 1822, achieved distinguished careers as
missionaries in Burma, and fo r a hundred years thereafter their
spiritual descendants carried the Christian gospel, which they
learned in our Seminary, into the remotest reaches o f the
globe. In more modern times many Colgate alumni have con
tinued to play the role o f expatriate, interpreting the habits,
customs and doctrines o f democracy in various branches of
government foreign service, in business and professions scat
tered from Saudi Arabia to Samoa; from Brazil to the Belgian
Congo.
Here some o f these Alumni in far-off places describe the
Christmas customs they will help to keep this season. While
there is a brave cheerfulness about each one o f them, we know
they must all share some sense o f poignant loneliness, for
Christmas, more than anything else, means "Home” with a
capital "h” . W e thank them cordially fo r responding to our
inquiries and we wish all o f them, wherever they may be,
whatever they may be doing "fo r God and fo r Truth” — a
warm Colgate greeting and "Godspeed” ! (T h e Editors.)
P akan baru , Sumatra , I ndonesia
R obert D. M oore ’50
Because of high rainfall and a desperate
reach for the sun, the trees here are al
most entirely scrubby underbrush or tall
and spindle-shanked, like a fifty-foot
dust mop.
They are therefore pretty
much of a washout as substitutes for our
traditional Christmas trees. Last year,
however, the Company gave everyone’s
morale a boost by flying evergreens in
FOR DECEMBER, 1959

from the mountains in Java . . . that tangy crisp smell was
rare perfume. I believe it was one of the few years when I
counted as blessings the fingerpricking needles and particular
ly sticky resin that come from the evergreen family . . . W ith
the addition of balls, tinsel, lights and ribbons, the houses
were only a little less fully ornamented than they would have
been at home. Unfortunately, if you are from a northern
State, Christmas is not Christmas at 90-odd degree tempera
tures no matter how hard everyone works to make it seem so.

R io de J aneiro , B razil
A loysio de M oraes ’55
To understand Christmas in Brazil we
must bear in mind . . . First, December
is an extremely hot month. The scenery
ds, therefore a special one and has been
an influence in the formation of our
Christmas traditions. Second, the pre
dominating religion is Catholicism, which in my opinion re
quires more formality and less spontaneity or diversification.
Lastly, we have a long tradition of a close family circle.
Christmas Day is preceded by a feverish season of prepara
tion. Through American influence "Silent Night” and "Jingle
Bells” are heard everywhere either in the original or with
Portuguese words. The central figure for the children is
"Papai Noel,” the old man dressed in red, with long white
hair and beard, who leaves them presents in their shoes. In
the small towns the Nativity Scene is always found in the
living room of almost any home. In the big city the Christmas
tree has almost completely replaced the scene at Bethlehem . . .
The big celebration takes place on Christmas Eve. At
midnight the families go to "T h e Mass of the co*ck,” socalled because it finishes just before the co*ck crows. After
wards they go home for an abundant supper of turkey stuffed
with prunes, a sweet fried bread with a coat of glacé and lots
of various nuts as well as apricots, raisins, dates, cakes and
sweets. Christmas Day is rather late. Generally there is a
big lunch for the family and intimate friends who might be
far from their own folks. In the early evening the most re
ligious might gather for a prayer at the Nativity Scene, other
wise some visiting to friends or relations will complete the day.
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V ig a n , I locos S u r , P. I.
T h e R ev . I. H u b e r t R eyn o ld s ’36

In the metropolis of Manila Christmas
caroling for hand-outs begins early. But
in the provinces, the various combina
tions of singers or instrumentalists tend
to wait until Christmas Eve. Our Vigan
Community Center, of the United Church
of Christ in the Philippines, has pioneered in caroling-without-begging. W e go to those sick in their homes or in the
hospital; those in prison; and those away from home, such as
the Constabulary boys.
Most people display some kind of Christmas Star Lantern;
some create a wide variety of designs and themes to compete
for prizes. Not many homes have Christmas trees, but some
institutions buy them from the mountainsides above 3,000
feet. Cards and gifts are exchanged. Family feasting is
garnished with treats of coconut, rice, sugar and special banana
dishes; there may also be chicken, duck, goose or lechon
(barbecued suckling pig) ; perhaps even goat, but turkey is
rare. The highlight of Christmas comes in thousands of
Churches on Christmas Eve. Our church follows the tradition

12 days, umpiring field hockey, refereeing the British Junior
Covered Court Championships and four days in charge of our
outstanding Juniors whom we have selected for an Instruc
tional Group.

B eiru t , L ebanon
J o h n C. Craig ’42
This is our fourth Christmas in Lebanon, Land of the
Cedars. In Beirut, where we’ll be trimming our tree and fill
ing three stockings, one can find Papa Noel listening to chil
dren’s wishes in French, Arabic and Armenian, toys and tinsel
(with a 100% mark-up to cover customs duty), a stationery
shop selling Hallmark cards to the recorded strains of "Come
all ye Faithful”. These touches are welcome reminders of
home, but somehow even they are overshadowed when one
realizes that Beirut is no farther from Bethlehem than Hamil
ton is from New York City and that in nearby villages the
people’s way of life has changed remarkably little from the
days when their forebears were the subjects of the stories of
the Bible and the Koran.

of reenacting the drama of the first Christmas.

C aracas , V e n e z u e l a
Sa n J o se , C osta R ica

D u d l e y P. M u sc h et t e ’31

C h a r les T . W ood ’49

Christmas in San Jose, Costa Rica, means the dry season
with bright, warm sunshine and cool nights. The children
are on summer vacation. There is a week of free-for-all bull
fights at Plaza Viquez where hundreds of boys and men of all
ages play toreador to an on-rushing bull. Avenida Central is
closed to traffic and every night the young and old turn out
to promenade. W ith turkey, presents, Christmas trees and
stockings there is a strong Christmas spirit. W e join with you
in singing of "Joy to the W orld” and "Peace on Earth, Good
W ill toward Men.”

D u f f ie l d , D e r b y s h ir e , E nglan d
R o ber t A. B u rro w s T 2

Actually Christmas Day is my one really
restful day of the 365. After the Queens
Speech my wife and I will eat turkey and
Christmas pudding in the peacefulness of
our own home and this year end it with a
toast to Colgate, while I remember the Class of 1912 and re
gale myself with happy recollections of the three days in
Hamilton in May, 1958. All that in preparation for a hectic

Somehow, without snow, Christmas just
doesn’t seem the same, and explaining to
a couple of youngsters how Santa
manipulates his sleigh without the necessary roadbed is par
ticularly difficult.
As far as the celebration is concerned, it’s much the same
here as in the States, particularly in the larger towns. There
are some 40,000 Americans as well as many Europeans here,
and every effort is made to keep up the old traditional Christ
mas customs. Much of this has rubbed o ff over the years onto
the local populace, who now seem to make as much over the
Christmas season as they do over their traditional Three Kings
Day. Christmas trees are imported at quite a price, and a
complete line of ornaments, decorations, toys and goodies are
all available. Again, at a price. For instance, turkeys last
year brought about $2 per pound, and a medium sized tree
ran about $17. If one has the where-with-all, he can celebrate
in the same style as in the States, with the exception of the one
thing money won’t buy here — SNOW .
My family and I, here in Venezuela, take this opportunity
of wishing a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to
all of those other Colgate families, expatriates like ourselves,
in whatever part of the world they may now be making their
homes.
COLGATE ALUM NI NEWS

Saigon, Sud V iet N am
G eorge P. C ase ’37
Christmas, as you probably know, has be
come international and is celebrated here
in Vietnam as a full holiday. Aside from
the comparatively large foreign com
munity which celebrates in the traditional
way with turkey and goose and presents for the children, this
group, together with the million and a half Vietnamese Chris
tians, also give weight to the religious aspects of Christmas. To
others here, mostly Buddhists, it is a happy holiday but tradi
tional gift giving and celebration is reserved for Chinese New
Year early in February.

A bqaiq, Saudi A rabia
C harles C. B eebe ’32
Christmas for the Saudi Arabs follows the time of Ramadhan during which they neither eat nor drink, during daylight
hours, for 30 days. After sundown prayer, they stay up half
the night visiting, eating and drinking gahwa (c o ffe e ). When
the new moon is first sighted following the last day of the
month of Ramadhan, they break their fast and celebrate the
feast of Id al Fitr. All male Arabs dress in their best white
robes, gafiyahs and guttras with their black and gold thobes
and attend daylight prayers, some in small groups in the
mosques, others in crowds of hundreds up to thousands out in
the open desert. They face Mecca and say their Koran and
pray to Allah and Mohammed, his prophet.
Following prayer, both the Bedouins and the town Arabs
visit their friends and feast on camel meat, lamb and fowl,
rice, goat milk, fruit and dates. A guest in a Bedouin desert
tent or in a town house, removes his shoes and sits cross leg
ged on huge rugs, eats with his fingers, and is often honored
by being served the eye of a sheep as the most desired of
delectable morsels. The feast of Id al Fitr lasts three days and
gifts are exchanged. Americans are invited for tea and coffee
at a reception given by the local Amir. It takes about three
days back to work to recover from Id al Fitr. P. S. we all
still miss Christmas time in the good old U. S. A.

B ogota, Colombia
W illiam J. N eisel ’33
Christmas in most Latin American coun
tries, including Colombia, comes during
the annual vacations of the majority of
business firms, most of which close about
December 16 and reopen January 7.
Schools have their long two-and-a-half
month vacations starting late in November and the exodus
of vacationers starts right after Christmas.

FOR DECEM BER, 1959

Christmas Eve is a bigger event than Christmas Day.
Everyone goes to Mass, and later there are parties in the
homes. At midnight, the city and surrounding hills are light
ed with fireworks, rockets, torpedoes, etc. Christmas is a
family celebration and is spent at home. Presents are ex
changed just as in the States, but in some Latin-American na
tions January 6 (the Day of the Kings) is the time when chil
dren receive gifts.
Our own Christmas is geared to Latin-American custom.
Our sons usually make their annual trips down to spend a
couple of weeks and we try to make at least a short trip to
some place in the interior. Needless to say, we would like to
take this opportunity to greet all Colgate alumni, but especial
ly those overseas for whom we have a special sympathy.
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St . Cro ix , V irgin I slands
H arold J. B enedict ’20

On Christmas Day, 1959,
my wife and I and our
guests will be having
Christmas dinner under
the Tamarind tree on our
patio. Across 60 feet of sandy beach lies the Caribbean. The
temperature will be about 80 degrees. Dinner will be preced
ed by drinks flavored by limes from our own trees. Local
items on the menu will be plantain baked in spices and wine,
home-made mango chutney and home-made guava jelly. The
local sorrell weed will replace cranberry sauce. The plum
pudding will be doused with 120-proof rum and ignited. And
Santa Claus will arrive via water skis drawn by six green sea
horses. Skaal and Merry Christmas!
T o kyo , J apan
K azutaka W antanabe ’25
The Japanese are one of the most non
religious peoples in the world. They do
not have an equivalent word for God.
But Christmas is beautiful with the fir
trees and its decorations with twinkling
lights. It cheers up the streets. It is
nice to exchange gifts and drink to be merry. After the awful
devastation of war, the decorated trees brightened the streets
and gave a heart-warming atmosphere to the frustrated souls of
millions. Regardless of whether the Japanese understand the
true meaning of Christmas or not, if a Christmas tree alone
will serve to bring joy to them — why not utilize it? Every
store, railroad station, cafe, bar, dance hall has an elaborate
one. Radio and T .V . play Christmas hymns almost all day.
Almost everybody knows "Holy Night” and "Jingling Bells.”
On December 24 the main streets of Tokyo are literally packed
with hundreds of thousands of people, men and women. It is
almost impossible to walk, even dangerous.

H a va n a , C u ba
D a n ie l W . M a ch o n ’36

W hile you are gathered
around the Christmas tree
and eating turkey, I shall
probably be reclined by our pool in the exact same posture as
shown in the sketch. I estimate that this will probably tran
spire around 10 :00 a. m., at which time the presents will have
been distributed and I again will be flat broke. Let me take
this opportunity to extend to you and all my friends every
good wish for a Merry Christmas and a Happy and Pros

R angoon , B urma
T he R ev . E dwin T. F letch er ’22
General missionary services comprise all the arts and skills
available. The Pwo Karen people for whom we work live in
rural areas in Irrawaddy Delta. Christmas is the cool time of
year. It may get down to 60 degrees and frequently special
open air meetings are held on threshing floors with pageantry
and scripture episodes with improvised costumes. It is also
the season of limited touring. Law and order permits some
field work again after several years of unrest. Groups from
town schools and institutions travel to the villages and com
bine entertainment with religious emphasis.

perous New Year.
Ist a n bu l, T u r k ey

B u en o s A ir es , A rg en tin a

H e n r y L. W e l l e r ’40

E dwards P. G a l p in ’39

Since Jesus was one of the prophets, the Eve of his birth
will find Moslem Turks as well as those of the minorities at
the midnight masses celebrated in the two large Catholic
churches fronting the main street of Istanbul s shopping cen
ter. Many of the Foreign Service Americans will come to
church following parties at their flats which lie on the im
mediate slope down to the Bosphorus.
Cold storage chickens and gobblers from the United States
— making their appeal by price rather than taste — will feed
our college community on the 25th, usually at noontime din
ner parties. Christmas cards will be all over the city and the
gypsies will bring in branches of an evergreen shrub to which
they have added red berries, selling them from house to house
and on the market streets. The shopkeepers may decorate the
largest stores of Istanbul and Ankau with Christmas trees.
The possibility of snow is about that of New York s.
There is a general holiday air for the calendar is the same and
the human hopes for good things in the New Year unifies
this great city.

Seasons greetings to all
good Colgate men from
the Galpins. In Buenos
Aires Christmas is cele
brated much the same as in
the United States. W e have Christmas trees and turkey, but
the weather is hot. The swimming pool replaces the skating
pond and there are fireworks. Before Christmas Santa Claus
arrives by airplane and daily rides from his hotel to Harrod’s
atop a Panagra limousine. In Argentina the children enjoy a
second Christmas. According to local custom on Epiphany,
called "Reyes,” they put out their shoes and during the night
the Magic Kings come and fill them with wonderful presents.

Season's Greetings
Co p e n h a g e n , D e n m a r k
D a n ie l A. M ic h elso n ’51

To all Colgate Alumni and Former

I have not tasted my moth
er’s turkey for three years
and I would like very
much to be home in New

Students Mrs. Case and I extend our

York. However, I ’ll probably take a street-car with my wife to
her Mother’s house in one of Copenhagen’s suburbs. There
we will have typically rich Danish fare centered around good
cheer and a duck or goose . . . goose being on the luxury side.
Unfortunately, for Americans, turkey here in Denmark is just
the name of a far-off country. But my wife •
— Inger •—
promises me a Christmas tree and her own special Season’s
cheer. The same to all my Colgate Friends.

heartiest good wishes for Christmas
and the New Year.

COLGATE ALUM NI NEW S

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Enrollment for the 1959 fall semester totals 1386. This in
cludes 1338 undergraduates, two special students and 46 grad
uate students. O f the undergraduates, 293 are seniors, 270
juniors, 390 sophom*ores and 385 freshmen. O f the graduate
students, seven are full time, 23 are part- time and 16 others
are preceptors, also part time.

MEMOS
W ord has been received that Colgate will definitely be asked
to participate on NBC’s ”College Quiz Bowl” in late February
or early March. The popular television show which tests col
lege students’ ability to have a quick recall o f general facts is
seen Sunday afternoons in the east. Robert G. Smith, instruc
tor in English and director o f forensics, will coach the team.
*

Following a suggestion made by his mother early in the summer, C. Leonard Corbin ’62, Laconia, N. H., Russian Studies
major, found a way to accomplish the continuous Russian
language practice urged by Dr. Albert Parry, Chairman o f the
Department, and at the same time do a service to his towns
people. Leonard held classes in the Russian language at a
park clubhouse in his hom e town during the summer, an idea
which met with such enthusiasm that Leonard’s "students”
began to look fo r a person who could take his place after he
returned to college in the fall.
*

A beautiful pair of matched swans are now living on Taylor
Lake after an interval of five years when the lake was without
the regal white water birds. Each two and a half years old,
they were given to the University by Mrs. Hilda Rodman of
Sharon Springs.
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David Smith ’60 o f Scarsdale is one o f three American stu
dents selected by the Experiment in International Living to
guide 12 Russian students this fall in a tour o f the North
eastern Seaboard which will take them to New York City,
Cambridge, Mass., Penn Yan, the Philadelphia area and
Washington, D. C. Another group o f 12 will tour the West.
David was one o f 66 Americans selected to tour Russia last
summer in an exchange o f students program which began in
1958.
*

The Vetville apartments on the north side of College Street
have been sold or demolished. Constructed as "temporary”
housing for married students after World W ar II, the units
have housed married students and faculty for 14 years.
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Sigma Nu held a slight lead over Sigma Chi in the intramural
standings as the fall competition neared its completion in midNovember. Other contenders included Phi Tau, Phi Gamm,
ATO and Lambda Chi.
FOR DECEM BER, 1959

Phi Kappa Tau fraternity won the football display contest
during both Homecoming Weekend and Fall Party Weekend.
The contests were sponsored by the Maroon and the Student
Senate.

Roger Goodrich '38, production manager and chief announcer
and newscaster fo r Station WHEC, Rochester, may hold a
record fo r following Colgate’s football fortunes. Roger and
his wife have not missed a Colgate game, at hom e or away,
since 1940. Roger is currently secretary o f the Colgate
Alumni Club o f Rochester.
*

Two outstanding art gifts have been presented to the Univer
sity recently. Luis de Hoyos ’43 contributed a 67-piece col
lection of pre-Colombian sculpture, mostly Mexican. The
other gift was a still life painting by Bernard Buffet, a French
painter currently enjoying tremendous world-wide popularity.
The painting was given by Mr. Sidney Blauner of New York
City through the Hammer Galleries, owned by Victor Ham
mer ’24.
*

A book o f poems by Bruce Berlind, Assistant Professor o f
English, with graphics by Arnold Herstand, Assistant Profes
sor o f Fine Arts, was published in Hamilton last month. The
book, entitled ” Ways o f Happening,” was printed on hand
presses by Mr. Berlind in his basem*nt workshop under the
name "Chenango Editions.” Three hundred copies o f the
book were printed, ten o f which include four original etchings
by Mr. Herstand. The regular editions are available at the
Campus Store fo r $3.
*

A group of students headed by George Hadley ’60, West
Hartford, Conn., have recently organized Alpha Chi Epsilon
and are preparing to petition the University for permission
to establish a new fraternity on the campus.
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over my shoulder, I open a book of Swinburne s poems and
read in it. I do so, even though some of my younger
colleagues think that it’s all very much like smoking marijuana

cigarettes.
Now I ’ve got to be careful. I must remember what
Heliototogabalo, my familiar, warned me against. O f course
you know that every warlock, like every witch, has a familiar.
Mine — Heliototogabalo — is eight inches tall, is invisible,
and right now is sitting on my left shoulder. He feeds upon
nothing but lightning bugs and thus is able to see clearly in
this dark world. I need him, because I find it increasingly
difficult to see life steadily and see it whole, as Matthew
Arnold said we should. Heliototogabalo said to me, What

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Russell F. Speirs

The follow ing is an abridged version o f a talk which Russell
F. Speirs, Professor o f English, gave in Chapel. H e had been
planning to speak on the plays he expected to see in New
York during a college recess but when illness prevented him
from making the trip he substituted the above title. The re
sult is a rich and humorous subjective analysis o f his wartime
experiences. (E d.)
i am , with nothing to tell you about Broadway.
Neither can I speak on the topic, "Great Auks From
Little Aardvarks Grow.” I had hoped to tell you how such a
metamorphosis is performed in a modern university. But
surely you must understand that it would take at least an hour
to develop such a theme. Moreover, I suspect that I chose the

O h ere

subject partly because I am fond of Aardvarks
although,
never having been in Africa, I ’ve never met one — but chiefly
because of the alliteration. I ’m a sucker for alliteration. When
Tennyson writes,
"O n the bald street breaks the blank day,” I feel elated.
I feel happy, not because Tennyson accurately realizes the com
ing of dawn to Hamilton in March, but because of the sound
of the B ’s in the line. And I ’ll tell you something else. Some
times, when I ’m certain that none of my coadjutors is looking
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ever you do, don’t spout poetry at them.”
So that’s out. Poetry is out. And probably a good thing
too. So what’s left? I haven’t time to speak a sermon. I ’ve
never delivered a sermon. I wouldn’t know how to go about
it. But perhaps Fragments Toward a Sermon might work.
Let’s take a text, not from the Bible, but from a book which
you know . . . Tolstoy’s War and Peace. On Page 1241 in that
work, underlined in my book, are these words, spoken by
Pierre Bezukov, "W e imagine that when we are thrown out
of our usual ruts all is lost, but it’s only then that what is good
and new begins.” For a prayer, let’s ask the question, Who
will deliver me from the bottom of this rut?”
Now let’s move backward to a time when I was in a rut
but did not know it until long after I ’d been delivered from
it. Let a man stay too close to his specialty too long a time

and he is in danger o f losing perspective and a sense o f propor
tion.
One decade and seven years ago I had dwindled into a
smug citizen — complacent, with limited curiosity and feeble
sympathies.

It is September, 1942, the "time of the break
ing of nations.” Here in Hamilton the brown ducks
with their green satin necks, and the austere white swans are
sitting, sedate and peaceful, on Taylor Lake. But the leaves of
the campus oaks and maples, appropriately enough, are multi
plying the color red. My friend, Gene Adams, sharing an
apartment with me in the Rockwell house, is a disturbed
bachelor in a disturbed world . . . dreaming of becoming a
naval officer. I too, knowing that at the advanced age of
forty-one I must go into service, have nightmares. But being
extremely naive, I want to go in at the bottom and work my

l l right .

way up.
COLGATE ALUM NI NEWS

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From Little Aardvarks Grow

OR,* EveryJ Other Inch a Soldier
In mid-September, naked and afraid, I stood in the Syra
cuse Armory, taking a physical examination. I moved forward
painfully, from station to station, finally arriving at a place
where someone handed me a little bottle. I filled it with
beautiful amber fluid and moved on. I came to where they
were examining ears.
"Your ears are full of wax,” I was told. "G o back to
station number two and have them washed out.” I went back,
feeling very unsanitary. It seemed to me that Niagara Falls
was falling, first into one ear, then into the other. Somewhat
dizzy, I started moving again, from station to station, trying
to explain that it was my second time through the line. Soon
I became aware that I was causing considerable confusion, and
my prophetic soul told me that I was destined, should I get
into the Army, to cause endless confusion. This was but a
foretaste of chaos to come. . .
I was still flustered when I encountered the doctor ex
amining hearts. He looked at my papers and said, "W ell, I
believe they need you more in civilian life than in the Army.
Can’t we get your blood pressure up, find something wrong?
Tell you what; just hang around awhile and we’ll find a way
to send you back to Colgate.”

I had been affected by whatever
mysterious force it is that works inwardly and binds the
separate persons of a group together, giving them solidarity.
I looked at all the other "poor, bare, forked animals” standing
there — the fellows I ’d been with since early morning when
the bus left Morrisville. Now I didn’t especially want a
military career. And I didn’t exactly want to become a
military hero. But neither did I want to see a face sneering
at me daily from my bath-room mirror. I mumbled some
thing, got past the psychiatrist, left my finger print and my
peace of mind, and took an oath. I was promoted from what
I had been in civilian life to a private in my Uncle’s Army.
When I came to, I was in Fort Niagara. Before we had
been issued uniforms, we were put in charge of a corporal.
"All right, fellas,” he said, "Now I ’m gonna give you the
straight dope. You never throw nothin’ on the ground. You
put your cigarette out on the sole of your shoe. Then you
field-strip the butt. You throw the tobacco on the ground.
It’s good fertilizer. You roll up the paper and throw it away.
You break the match in two. Nobody sees nothin.’ You
never throw nothin’ on the ground. Now I ’m gonna take you

th a t

He marched us several hundred yards. "A ll right, fellas,’
he said, "pick up everything what don’t grow. Pick up all the
cigarette butts and match sticks and put them in the G. I. cans.
Remember now, everything what don’t grow.”
I was about to say, "But Corporal — ” and call attention
to a certain inconsistency. But a small voice within me . . .
said, "D on’t say nothin’.” I didn’t say nothin’. Instead, I
began to pick up cigarette butts . . .
I wasn’t making much headway in the Army. It was like
getting in on the ground floor of a new enterprise and finding
myself in the cellar. O f course it was too early for me to com
prehend that this apparently meaningless activity was in reality
part of an inscrutable process of delivering me from a rut . . .

with teeth in it blew in from Lake Erie.
The chow line stretched out to the end of doom. There
in the mud, usually with rain beating down on us, we stood
in a line that moved with the speed of an arthritic turtle. I
often said to myself lines from a Frost poem:

cold w ind

T he rain to the wind said,
"You push and I’l l pelt.”
They so sm ote the garden bed
That the flow ers actually knelt
And lay lodged, though not dead.
I know how the flow ers felt.

tim e

on your first detail.

Forward march.”

FOR DECEMBER, 1959

I thought I understood what Frost meant. But I suspect
that I was just feeling sorry for myself. It probably was high
time for me to be rained on that way.
Much as I tried to love my fellow men, I soon developed
an intense hatred of sergeants. One in particular. I might
never get to fight the Germans or the Japs, but I would never
give up warring against sergeants. Day after day I went on,
picking up cigarette butts. W hen there were no butts to be
picked up, we were supposed to hide.
It was then that I began hearing voices: the voice of John
Keats, saying:
Thou still unravished bride o f quietness,
T hou foster child o f Silence and slow Tim e.

Or,
Thou wast not born fo r death, imm ortal bird,
N o hungry generations tread thee down.
T he voice l hear this passing night was heard
In ancient days by em peror and clow n;
Perhaps the selfsam e song that fou nd a path
Through the sad heart o f Ruth when, sick fo r hom e,
She stood in tears am id the alien corn.

And Hamlet spoke to me reminding me of
(Continued on page 26)
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Time, discretion, education, are tfie
priceless ingredients of progress

Toward the Elimination of
Restrictive Fraternity Clauses
by R eed A lvord *31, Secretary o f the University
Most Alumni do not subscribe to The
Maroon. But even those who do would
find it difficult, i f not impossible — no
matter how carefully they might have
follow ed the multitudinous stories, edi
torials and commentaries which have ap
peared. in its pages during the past five
years — to know exactly where Colgate
now stands on the issue o f restrictive
clauses within its fraternity system. This
factual chronology is designed to answer
that question. ( Editor )

opens on March
10, 1954, when the president of the
Student Senate brought before his col
leagues for consideration four proposals
"fo r eliminating restrictive fraternity
clauses” :
h e f ir s t c h a p t e r

1) Call on the President of the
University to outlaw all chapters which
persist after a given date;
2 ) Call upon those houses with
clauses to leave their nationals at once;
3) Institute 100% rushing;
4 ) Call for periodic reports by each
fraternity to show "the constructive
action it had taken in this direction.”
In reviewing the several alternatives,
faults were found with each one except
the last, "calling for periodic reports from
each fraternity.” Two weeks later the
Senate proposed a bill which called for
bi-annual reports o f progress from each
house but tacked on an "either, or”
clause: eliminate restrictive clauses by
1964. It did not specify the penalty, pre
suming it to be understood.
This bill was submitted as a refer
endum to the Colgate student body on
May 3 when it failed to receive the re
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quired majority by 41 votes. (599-361;
302 not voting.)
It was then re-sub
mitted on May 18 when it was passed by
a vote of 748-331.
The Board of Trustees took official
notice of this action at its meeting on
June 12, 1954, when a Committee of five
was appointed "to consider the action of
the Students’ Association regarding the
elimination of alleged discriminatory
clauses in the Constitution o f certain fra
ternities.” This Committee, headed by the
late Albert W . Moore T 7 , reported to the
Board at its fall meeting on October 9
that it had been working throughout the
summer and had held a meeting as re
cently as the preceding evening. "W e are
disturbed,” Mr. Moore told his col
leagues "by a statement appearing in The
Maroon of September 29 calling for im
plementation of the plan as voted by the
Students’ Association last spring.” (In the
meantime, the Senate had decided to drop
the "either, or” clause but had neverthe
less put teeth in its proposal by specific
ally calling upon all social organizations
to submit by November 15, 1954, a list
of its restrictions on membership and an
outline of a two-year program designed to
remove them.)
M a tter fo r T r u st ees

It was Mr. Moore’s contention that
the determination of such a sensitive
matter involving University policy was
properly a prerogative of the Trustees;
moreover, the appointment of a Trustee
Committee to recommend action should
have served notice that it proposed to
reserve to itself the authority to do so.
The Board overwhelmingly upheld Mr.
Moore and his Committee.

At its next regular meeting on Janu
ary 21, 1955, in the absence of Mr.
Moore, the late Mr. Charles S. Roberts
presented the report of his Committee.
In summary, its prologue called attention
to the fact that it had “received informa
tion from fourteen other colleges and
universities of comparable type” and that
"the general tendency (has been) for
Boards of Trustees to go on record as
being in favor of permitting no new fra
ternities with restrictive clauses to come
into a college and to urge (those) having
such clauses to bring all possible pressure
to bear through regular channels to have
them removed. . . (Moreover) we feel
that forcing the issue. . .with a definite
time limit and with implementation by
constantly changing generations of under
graduates would be grossly unfair to the
fraternities with offending clauses.”

C la u ses R elics o f P ast

Recognizing that "the idea of restric
tive clauses are relics of the past” and
that every effort should be made to re
move them where they exist, the report
recommended that the Alumni InterFraternity Council should work in "active
cooperation with the IFC on campus and
each fraternity individually in accom
plishing the removal of restrictive mem
bership clauses, and to report to the
Board at the end of three years as to the
progress that has been made.” It further
recommended that no new fraternity with
a restrictive clause be established at Col
gate.
The Board adopted the recom
mendations without change.
The three years which elapsed between
the adoption by the Board of the "Moore
Report,” the acceptance by the AIFC of
its new responsibilities and the presenta
tion of its fact-finding report to the
Board on January 17, 1958, were not
quiet ones on the fraternity front.
Throughout much of this period The
Maroon lost no opportunity to champion
the cause of removal. Most of its stric
tures were directed against the AIFC and
the Board, though even the student body
was chided for its apathy.
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members of all chapters of the na
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had recently eliminated racial and
religious clauses and the fourth
had dropped racial restrictions.
3 reported racial restrictions, which
they were actively trying to re
move.
FOR DECEM BER, 1959

1 reported both racial and religious
clauses, but the Colgate Chapter
has been rallying support of other
Chapters to eliminate them.
1 reported racial and religious re
strictions in its initiation ritual but
the local Chapter had disregarded
them ; these same restrictions were
dropped from the constitution and
bylaws in 1950.

AIFC O ffe r s A id
In conclusion, the AIFC offered to
continue "to give further aid and assis
tance to those fraternities having restric
tive clauses, in eliminating such clauses;
and give direct assistance to any chapter

which may request it in furthering that
objective.”
The Board voted to accept the AIFC
report with thanks and to accept its of
fer of continued assistance.
If The Maroon had been restive over
what it felt was "lack of action,” some
elements of the Faculty indicated that
they shared the same sentiments.
In
March it was announced that a motion
would be brought before the next meet
ing of the Faculty "commending to the
Trustees the request of the Student
Senate that a representative on-campus
Committee, including students, be made
responsible for assisting the fraternities to
eliminate racial and religious discrimina(Continued on page 24)
13

CAMPUS AFFAIRS
Summer in Europe

Tau Kappa Epsilon

R. Chester Roberts

President Case has announced the in
auguration of a summer program in
Europe in which Colgate will cooperate
with Princeton, Columbia, Rutgers and
Swarthmore on a three-year experimental
basis in offering opportunities to under
graduates for independent study in inter
national affairs. Robert E. Elder, Profes
sor of Political Science, will represent
Colgate in planning the program, which
will be financed by grants from the
Carnegie Corporation and directed this
year by Dr. Gardner Patterson of Prince
ton.

Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity has pur
chased the old Sigma Chi house on Broad
Street and hopes to move in by the start of
the second semester after renovating the
interior and painting the exterior. They
will continue to use their present house
on E. Pleasant Street as an annex.

Dr. R. Chester Roberts, Professor of
Chemistry who retired at Colgate last
June, is visiting Professor of Chemistry
at Oberlin College for the fall term.

Campus Fund

gren ’17 represented the University at an
Air Force R.O .T.C. workshop at Maxwell
AFB, Alabama, which considered ways
and means for strengthening the working
partnership between the Air Force and
colleges and universities which offer
R.O.T.C. training.

Phi Beta Kappa
Seniors with Phi Beta Kappa averages
for their junior year were honored re
cently at a special convocation at which
Dr. Ernest J. Simmons, Professor of
Russian Literature at Columbia Univer
sity’s Russian Institute, was the speaker.
Dr. Simmons is currently one of nine
American Phi Beta Kappa Visiting
Scholars who are scheduled to visit 80
campuses this year.

Carl A . Kallgren 917 .
Dean of the University Carl A. Kall

The Maroon Key-sponsored Campus
Fund Drive has set a goal of $8,888 for
the annual campus appeal in January in
support of twelve national and local
charities. Since the first drive in 1947,
some $90,000 has been raised.

Concert Series
Luboshutz and Nemenoff, noted piano
team, opened the Colgate Concert Series
on October 22. Other concerts in the
1959-60 series include The Masterplayers
of Lugano, featuring twenty of Switzer
land’s virtuosi, November 1 7 ; Roberta
Peters, Metropolitan coloratura, February
8, and the Buffalo Philharmonic Or
chestra, March 10.

Some two hundred persons attended the formal dedication of the new Sigma Chi house on
October 31. Guests included some 50 alumni as well as representatives of the national fraternity
and neighboring chapters, officers of the University and division heads, undergraduate members,
families and friends.
Photo by Broussard ’GO

Informal Weekend
. . .

The Weavers, popular singing group,
will appear on campus in mid-December
during the University’s second informal
party weekend. They will appear at a
special concert in Huntington Gym
nasium.

Jazz Ensemble
The Colgate Jazz Ensemble, led by
Dexter Morrill ’60, N. Adams, Mass.,
has completed the recording of a 12-inch
L.P. record which will be on sale this
month. The Ensemble is a large dance
band with original arrangements by the
leader. It has appeared at dances and
concerts at high schools and universities
throughout the New York and New Eng
land areas.

Hugh F. Loveland
Hugh F. Loveland, Assistant Professor
of Botany, attended an unusual summer
school at the Philadelphia College of
Pharmacy and Science.
Twenty-eight
teachers from 13 states studied radio
chemistry, learning how to use radio
isotopes to benefit mankind.
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14

COLGATE ALUM NI NEW S

DOWN THE WILLOW PATH
Careers Conference
Co lg a te a l u m n i made valu
able contributions to 1000 under
graduates on November 20-21 when they
served as consultants during the 1959
Careers Conference.
Twenty-three different vocational areas
were represented at the conference,
largest of its kind ever held on the
campus. Throughout the two-day ses
sions the consultants urged the students
to make an intelligent, well-organized ap
proach to a career.
Panel sessions on Friday afternoon and
Saturday morning were presided over by
student chairmen. Consultants took two
of their meals at the fraternity and upperclass houses, where they discussed careers
informally with the undergraduates.
Highlighting the conference for the con
sultants were a reception at the home of
President and Mrs. Case and a concluding
luncheon at Colgate Inn.
ix t y

Alumni participating in the conference as
consultants are: In Advertising and Public Re
lations, Thomas Vohs ’43, Robert Pecka ’58
and Ted Mulford ’41; in Radio and TV,
Harold B. Day ’28, Douglas Wilson ’5 7 -and
Thomas Campbell ’37; in Banking, Howard
Miller ’27, Russell Buchanan ’50 and William
Knowles ’57.
Also, in Investments, Austen Colgate ’49,
R. C. VanTuyl ’34 and Donald Tiffany ’43; in
Insurance, Robert Derrenbacker ’59; in Sales
and Marketing, R. C. Eustice, Jr. ’4 l, William
C. Graham ’43 and Robert L. James ’58; in
Medicine, Dr. Mather Cleveland H ’59, Dr.
Fred W . Anderson ’4 l and Dr. David C.
Thurber ’39; in Physical Sciences, George
Kleinspehn ’45 and William B. Wheatley ’42.
Also, in Biological Sciences, Robert Ed
wards *43, Arthur W . Cooper ’53 and Marenes
R. Tripp ’53; in Psychological Counselling and
Social Work, Richard B. Kurz ’51, John
Hardiman ’48 and John Burger ’49; in Law,
Garrett Bewkes ’47, H. Alan Young ’58 and
Edward S. Nel son ’50; in Government and
Foreign Service, David Davies ’49, Douglas
Metz '55 and George Ogg ’54.
Also, in Journalism, Robert Rhodes ’49 and
Ross L. Weeks, Jr. ’58; in Industrial Relations
and Personnel, George Brewer ’2 8 ; in Engi
neering and Public Utilities, William Kern
27, T. H. Kendall ’23 and Frank Bonham ’39;
in College Teaching and Administration, Rus
sell Blackwood ’51, Mark Barlow, Jr. ’52 and
H. Wilmarth Mott, III ’55.
Also, in Secondary Teaching and Guidance,
Philip Sanborn ’35, James Van Slyke ’51 and
Robert Shostak ’53; in the Ministry, the Rev.

(Continued on page 30)
FOR DECEM BER, 1959

by J a m es L o uis ’6 0 , Editor, T he Maroon
N THE SURFACE

it would seem
that this has been a
fairly calm year thus
far on campus —
especially in contrast
with the preceding
one. Such is not
James Louis '60
really the case, how
ever, as Colgate continues in her transi
tional period.
It is true that things have been less
explosive this semester, but the issues
that made the campus often seem like a
boiling cauldron last year are still present.
The difference is that
the proposals
which stirred up such immediate con
troversy last fall and spring have now
been relegated to committees for orderly
discussion and evaluation.
The most controversial issue — and
the most widespread in its possible effects
— was the series of recommendations
contained in the tome-like Humanities
Report. Many of these individual pro
posals are now under study by sub-com
mittees of the Faculty. Nevertheless, a
few steps have already been taken to im
plement some of its suggestions — e.g.,
the decision of the Psych Department to
require theses of all of its graduating
concentrators.
The question of an honors program
and increased independent study are
still important issues and — in our
opinion — a crying need. (As a matter
of fact, a discussion of its own centers
around whether or not an honors pro
gram involves, by definition, independent
study.)
The feasibility and desirability of a
three-semester system is also being con
sidered by a faculty committee. Several
faculty members recently visited Dart
mouth to evaluate the successes and
failures of their three-semester experi
ment.
Last year’s voluntary chapel system
was a total failure. As a consequence, re

quired attendance has been reinstated.
This does not rule out, however, the
question of how to make week-day
chapels as meaningful as possible.
W hile the football situation has been
remedied to a great extent by the pres
ence of a coach for whom everyone —
players, students, alumni, and administra
tion — has the greatest respect, the issue
of athletic scheduling is probably the
most talked-of question. Despite a poor
record, the team has looked good in all
its games except Princeton and Yale. But
why Syracuse (when our respective
athletic aims are so obviously out of line
with each other) ? Why a steady diet of
teams like Army, Penn State and Holy
Cross to fill the gaps in our schedule?
Why not teams sharing our intercol
legiate athletic ideals — teams like Har
vard, Dartmouth and Lehigh?
Some issues remain in full force. A f
ter expressing dissatisfaction with the
present system regulating class attend
ance, the Faculty has only reaffirmed a
more rigid version o f the old cut system.
Despite the fact that the Library and
the Athletic Center are already in partial
operation, the problem of the physical en
largement of our educational facilities is
still of prime importance.
Hopefully, the keynote for this year,
in contrast with last, is "order.” W e all
acknowledge that Colgate is definitely in
the midst o f a transitional period. But
transition to what? This is the big issue
— the individual issues cannot be ironed
out successfully without a blueprint of our
common goal.
This is the task assigned to the AllUniversity Council, which quietly held
its organizational meeting here on the
last weekend in October.
Superficially, it has seemed a calm year.
Hopefully, it is not the calm before the
storm, but rather the calm of early spring
just before the full blooming. The issue
is "order” or "chaos” in our transition
to the "Colgate-of-the-Future.”
15

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Preston Adams, they come to us from other life in

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For more information, write to Vice President

surance companies.

L. M. Huppeler, 501 Boylston Street, Boston 17,

Pres had long felt he wasn’t moving ahead as well

Massachusetts.

as he should. He was even considering other kinds of
employment. About that time he saw an ad telling
about our Leaders Association. The fact that so many
New England Life agents were meeting the high
standards of qualification for this organization was an
eye-opener. Pres knew how success has a way of gen
erating more success. This was the kind of atmossphere in which he wanted to work.
The climb has been steady for Pres ever since he
joined New England Life. Now he’s really hitting his
stride. He has qualified for our Hall of Fame as well
as the Leaders Association he had read about not so
long ago.
Perhaps a career like that of Pres Adams appeals to
you. There are opportunities at New England Life for

Preston G . A d a m s, holding h is you ng est d aug hter Sh aro n , p o ses with
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These Colgate University men are New England Life Representatives
Montague P. Ford '18, Boston
Paul F. Ford CLU '23, Philadelphia
Asa F. Voak CLU, '35, Cleveland
Carl L. Russell, Jr. '38, New York

Paul G. W. Anderson, Jr. '39, New York
Robert Oltman '41, Worcester
Evans F. Spear, Jr. '42, Boston
Jere D. Gilmore '42, New York

Robert
Martin
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Armstrong '44, General Agent,
Philadelphia
Baltimore '47, Harrisburg
Orth '48, Burlington, Vt.
Clemons, Jr. '51, Panama City, Fla.

Ask one of these competent men to tell you about the advantages of insuring in New England Life.

Record Decade for Bequests

campus Affairs

(Continued from page 14)

legacy to Colgate of $ 1 0 ,0 0 0 in the
will of the late Myron C. Taylor
H’29 brought the total received by the
University during the past ten years under
wills and similar instruments to more
than a half million dollars — the most
productive bequest decade in Colgate’s
long history (except for the single Austen
Colgate bequest of $1,614,150 in 19 2 7 ).
Specifically, twenty-five legacies since
1949 have totalled $507,917 and an ad
ditional $69,000 is known to have been
paid in life income gifts which will ulti
mately inure to the University.
Following is a summary of bequests by
decades.
No. of Bequests
Total Gifts

1819-99
28
1900-19
13
1920-29
13
1930-39
10
1940-49
U
1950-59
25
Life Income Gifts —

$ 68,447
175,772
374,676
364,586
106,128
507,917
69,000

100

$1,666,526

Totals

Not all the twenty-five persons whose
estates have benefited Colgate since 1949
were Alumni. They include women,
Trustees, Professors, relatives of Alumni,
Baptist friends of the University, honor
ary degree recipients and some whose in
terest in Colgate was inspired by faculty
members or Alumni. W hile most of the
bequests in existing wills which have
been reported to the Committee are from
Alumni and Trustees, sixty per cent of
the total actually received by legacy with
in the past ten years has come from others
than Alumni or Trustees.
I f such a
proportion is maintained, Colgate’s esti
mate of future legacies will be substan
tially increased.
Their bequests varied in type, in pur
pose, as well as in amount: some were
in cash and property; some represented a
residuary estate; most were unrestricted
but some were earmarked for endowment
or other specified purposes. One will
contained a contingent legacy after rela
FOR DECEM BER, 1959

tives were first provided an income for
life, and another substantial gift was
also received from a life insurance trust.
Following is a list of legacies reported
since January 1, 1950:
Ethel L. Ayrault, Frank S. Beveridge
H ’50, Clara W . Bloxham, Murray Ledyard Burr, Waldo S. Butler and Henry
Colgate.
Also, James L. Doyle ’09, Charles W .
Hadden, Frederick C. Hicks ’98, Arthur
L. Hoover, Orrin R. Judd and Marion H.
Lewis.
Also Frank B. Moore ’88, Pierrepont
B. Noyes ’92, Norman F. S. Russell ’01,
Frank L. Shepardson, Mrs. Fannie M.
Shoemaker and Hobart C. Skinner.
Also Charlotte E. Smith, Martin S.
Stern, George C. Tanner T 6 , Myron C.
Taylor H ’29, Ida B. Vosburgh, J. Ambler
Williams ’00, Clarence J. Woolley and
Life Income Gifts.

Clarence W. Young
Clarence W . Young, Professor of
Psychology, is working on an evaluation
of the program for gifted high school
students held on campus during the sum
mer.

Department Gives Books
The Department of Romance Lan
guages has donated some 200 books rang
ing from grammar reviews to complete
novels to the Earlville Central School.
The books are valued at approximately
$

1, 000 .

Wilson L. Farman
Wilson L. Farman, Professor of Eco
nomics, recently served as an editorial
(Continued on page 23)

Christmas (Sr^tuujs from tlqv ®tUag?
by P a u l F. Sw a r t h o u t ’21
o a l l yo u Colgate men who look homeward this Christmastide, your
neighbors in Hamilton send out a word o f renewed fellowship. W e wish
that you could be here on a snowy evening to see the library windows alight
with the glow flooding the hillside and reaching down the W illow Path, and
the brightness of the Athletic Center gleaming across the Valley. The lights still
shine from the old halls and the Chapel tower, and above them the ancient stars
silently witness the unfolding drama of creative change. W e, who have the
privilege of watching daily this transformation, feei your presence with us in
sharing and in faith. At this blest Advent season we voice our greetings to you,
and indeed our common hopes, in the hymn which never grows old:
"Glory to God in the highest
and on earth peace,
Good will toward m en!”

bell

system

t e a m w o r k fa c t o r

IN EFFIC IEN T, ECO N O M ICAL TELEP H O N E S E R V IC E
D ire ct D ista n c e D ialing is an exam p le of the
v alu e of unified re s e a r c h , m an u factu re and o p eratio n s

J_here are great advantages to the
public and the nation in the way the
Bell System is set up to provide tele
phone service. It is a very simple
form of organization, with four
essential parts.
Bell Telephone Laboratories does
the research.
The Western Electric Company
is the Bell System unit which does
manufacturing, handles supply, and
installs central office equipment.
Twenty-one Bell Telephone oper
ating companies provide service
within their respective territories.
T h e A m erican Telephone and
Telegraph Company co-ordinates
the whole enterprise and furnishes
nationwide service over Long Dis
tance lines.
Each is experienced and efficient
in its own field. But the particular
value of each is greatly extended be
cause all four parts are in one organ
ization and work together as a team.
Direct Distance Dialing—one of
the greatest advances in the speed
and convenience of telephone serv
ice—is an example of the value of
this unified setup.
Already more than 8,000,000 tele
phone customers in more than 700
localities can dial direct to as many
as 46,000,000 telephones throughout
the country. Each month there are

EXAMPLE OF TEAMWORK. At left is new fast-moving switch (actual size) used in Direct
Distance Dialing. Many of them go into action automatically every time you dial. Enclosed
in gas-filled glass tubes to assure perfect contacts. Made to last 40 years. The result of
Bell Telephone Laboratories and Western Electric working together to get the best and most
economical design. At right is remarkable new machine, designed by Western Electric,
which automatically assembles 360 switches an hour at a very small cost.

more. Millions of others can dial
direct over shorter out-of-town dis
tances. Calls as far as 3000 miles
away go through in seconds.

done it. And just money couldn’t
have done it, although it takes
money and a lot of it for telephone
improvement.

All of this didn’t just happen. It
called for years of intensive planning,
the invention of wholly new ma
chines and equipment, and the de
velopment of new operating and
accounting techniques.

The simple truth is that it could
never have been done so quickly and
so economically without the unified
setup of the Bell System.

Research alone couldn’t have done
it. N either m anufacturing nor
operations separately could have

BELL TELEPHONE

For many a year it has given dy
namic drive and direction to the
business and provided the most and
the best telephone service in the
world.

SYSTEM

bIlT^h
ISFSY
STEM

Pioneering

Colgate Away from Home:

Northern Jersey Club
Underwrites Scholarships
B u ffa lo
i
I

Buffalo area alumni used the occasion of
the University of Buffalo-Colgate freshman
football game, October 10, as an opportunity
to get together and enjoy some excellent foot
ball. The freshmen won: 13-8.
George B. Cowper ’54
Secretary

game co*cktail party at the Mitchell Field
Non-Commissioned Officers’ Club.
Plans are in the making for a dinner dance
at the Mitchell Field Club on May 6, and a
golf tournament at Bethpage State Park on
June 29Gus Raitz ’49
President

N o r th er n N e w J er sey
C en t r a l N e w J er sey

A tailgate party prior to the Rutgers game
put on by Central New Jersey Alumni and
their guests was so successful it is expected
to become a permanent fixture for future area
games.
Robert P. Jaycox ’53, assistant to the Direc
tor of Admissions, was guest speaker at the
monthly meeting of the club held at the Old
Union House in Red Bank on October 16. W e
hope to have other faculty and staff at future
meetings.
Erv Wilkinson ’51
President

D enver

Colgate’s traveler and ambassador of good
will, Jim Dickinson ’39, was the guest speaker
at a meeting on September 30 which had been
planned to take advantage of his presence in
the area. Jim did his usual good job of carrying the Colgate message to Alumni.

H artford
The Hartford Colgate Club held its month
ly luncheon at the City Club on October 20
| and the group voted to renew the monthly
[ luncheons the second Tuesday of every month
I at the City Club.
To the telephone commitee working with
George Barton ’49, president, and Charlie Oaks
’48, vice president, much credit is due. Clay
ton Parsons, Sr. ’33, as head of the club’s
student selection committee, is another officer
who helps keep the Alumni Club together in
the area.
Norman F. Sayers ’40
Secretary-Treasurer

L ong I sland
The first Friday evening of every month has
been set aside by the Long Island Alumni Club
j as its bowling night when the group get to1 gether at the Roosevelt Field Bowl-o-Rama.
There are presently four teams of five mem
bers each, and it is hoped to have more.
On November 22 the Long Island Club
members joined Syracuse alumni for a post-

FOR DECEM BER, 1959

The "Firehouse Gang” held its customary
meeting at Station No. 1 on Chestnut Street
prior to the Princeton game. Proceeds of this
party go to help support the Northern New
Jersey Scholarship, story of which appears
below.

N .N .J. Sch o larsh ip
Since 1956 one of the prime objectives of
the Northern New Jersey Alumni Club has
been the accumulation of sufficient funds to
provide an annual scholarship. A qualified
applicant from a list submitted by the Admis
sions Office is selected by the Club’s officers,
and the stipend— sometimes as large as $400—
based upon need, is allocated in two install
ments during each of the four academic years.
The scholarship is renewed annually on the
same basis as all University scholarships.
The annual Colgate-Princeton post-game par
ty and the regular Glee Club concert and dance
at the Hotel Suburban in East Orange provide
a large share of the funds for this worthwhile
project. A portion of club dues is also allo
cated to the fund, particularly for costs of
administration.
The Northern New Jersey Alumni Club is
the only one directly helping to underwrite
the education of a worthy student.

P h ila d elph ia
Coach Emeritus Andy Kerr spoke at the Rob
ert Maxwell Memorial Luncheon held in the
Warwick Hotel, Philadelphia, on October 5.
Colgate alumni of the area were alerted of
Andy’s visit and the luncheon was well at
tended by his many friends.

P ittsburgh
Andy Kerr of Colgate and V. K. Krishna
Menon of India addressed separate luncheon
groups in the Press Club of Pittsburgh on
Friday, October 30.
In their respective talks, each made awed
and rather gloomy reference to a powerful
northern neighbor.
For Defense Minister
Menon it was Red China; for Andy it was
Orange Syracuse.
W hile Mr. Menon indicated pretty emphati
cally that his people have no intention of

(Continued on page 22)

e . sanborn ’35, Supervising
Principal, Irvington - on - Hudson

h ilip

High School, has invited six Colgate pro
fessors to come to Irvington — one a
month from October through March —
to introduce his seniors to new worlds of
ideas and to indicate some of the relation
ships that exist between them. In chron
ological order the topics for discussion
are: philosophy, the arts, literature, psy
chology, social sciences and physical sci
ences. H alf of each session will be de
voted to a lecture by the visiting profes
sor, while the other half will be spent in
questions and answers.
"In this age of atoms, ideas, and ma
chines,” Mr. Sanborn pointed out, "the
transition from high school to college
campus or vocation is increasingly dif
ficult for even the most able students.
Although the secondary school curricu
lum is much more challenging than it was
only a few years ago, it has limitations
which prevent it from doing little more
than touch on such fields as philosophy,
logic, sociology, psychology, economics
and related areas of learning. Nor does
the most competent teacher always have
time to demonstrate the ties that bind his
field closely to others.”
The presentation by the professors is
not aimed at any special group within the
senior class. All are included. Mr. San
born feels very strongly that every high
school graduate should have the oppor
tunity to hear, at least, an expression of
ideas that concern people in college, gov
ernment, business and the professions.
"A ll seniors will not profit to the same
degree from this kind of intellectual
fare,” he says, "but I am hopeful that all
pupils will see in better perspective their
own experiences to date.”
Dr. Eugene T. Adams, Dean of the
Faculty, addressed the first meeting on
October 13 on "Philosophy,” and accord
ing to Mr. Sanborn "definitely got the
series o ff on the right foot.” Others to
follow are: Assistant Professor Arnold
(Continued on page 22)
19

Optimism is the Keynote of Winter Sports
• T h e fo r m a l o p e n in g of the beautiful new W illiam A.

Reid Athletic Center marks a milestone as Colgate enters
upon another winter sports season that has the earmarks of
being one of the best in Maroon history.
The impetus of the new Center is expected to add even
greater incentive to the winter programs of future years as more
areas of the spacious building are completed. Greater prac
tice areas, more locker and team space and better all-around
working conditions hold out the hope that Colgate will more
and more make itself felt as one of the winter powers in
athletics.
At present, the Center is already in use as far as the Bowl
ing area is concerned. The hockey team formally inaugurates
the artifical ice rink when it hosts Cornell on December 11
and other units will be opened as they reach completion.
The handsome new rink, with its potential seating capacity
of 3,000, ushers the Red Raiders into a new era in hockey, a
sport which once carried Colgate’s name to the top of the
intercollegiate ladder. Lack of ice, an oddity in this snow
belt, forced the University to suspend the sport at the end of
the 1951 season.
Student interest in hockey stayed at a high level, however,
thanks to both Howard Starr, the former coach in his capacity
as director of the intramural program, and Lloyd Huntly ’24,
director of student activities. These men fostered an informal
team which, in the past two years, laid the foundation for
the team which takes the ice formally this December.

Improvement also is expected in basketball, thanks again
to an influx of sophom*ores who enjoyed fine first-year
records. Howie Hartman has four of last year’s starters —
Art Brandon ’60, Ken Norum ’61, Bill Salisbury ’61 and
Larry Ludd ’60 — back once more and Dave Davenport ’6l
has won his battle with the books to add still another power
ful entry.
Up from the frosh to put pressure on these veterans have
come Bob Duffy and John Doyle in the backcourt and Mike
Tausey at center. This trio brings fine ball handling and
shooting accuracy, speed and height to the varsity picture and
for once Hartman should be able to go to his bench without
much of a dropoff from the first team.
The cagers play a 20-game regular schedule and also take
part in the Downeast Classic during the holidays at Bangor,
Me.
The indoor track team, which as usual is based on the
mile relay unit, looks to be the equal of last year’s entry, ac
cording to Jade Warner. Jack even offers the prospect of
improvement because his group of Bill Benson ’60, Warren
Davis ’61, Jim Gunther ’61 and Tex Kennedy ’61, all
veterans, could get their indoor time down to around 3:21
which is a respectable figure these days.

Record Breakers

• W h a t co u ld ea sily b e the best soccer team in Colgate’s
history romped through its schedule with nonchalance this
fall and, as this was written, was awaiting a possible bid to a
post-season tournament to determine the national champion.
If the booters get their bid .— and the 6-1 record over
some of the country’s best teams seemed like good insurance
— they will be only the second Maroon sport squad to be so
honored. The 1955 Red Raider baseball team was the first.
Mark Randall’s men lost their opener to Cornell, a decision
the players eagerly tell you they could reverse without question
Thanks to the informal program of the past two years, Ole
if the two met again this year. Then, in rapid succession,
has some experienced skaters at his command. Chief among
they
took apart such highly regarded soccer terrors as Penn
these is Joe Wignot ’60, the football captain who also is un
State, Connecticut, R.P.I. and Rochester. In all, the club
official leader of the hockey team. Backing Joe up from his
fashioned four shutouts and in the other three games, the
center position are W ally Gnaedinger ’60, Fred Holmes ’61
goalies have yielded only eight points while the Maroon attack
and Dave Eldon ’60 while Ken Kerr ’61 is expected to lead
has run up 40 goals overall.
the sophom*ore contingent.
Big men on the attack have been Jim Taylor ’61 and Bob
Optimism is the keynote of the rest of the winter squads.
Morvillo ’60 while Mac Edwards ’61, Don Roehm ’61 and
Mark Randall isn’t exactly bubbling over about his swim
goalie Pete Smith ’61 have been mainly responsible for keep
ming team but this year’s entry figures to be among the
ing the opposition in check.
strongest of recent years. Back from last year’s team, which
On the other side of the ledger, Jack Warner’s cross
posted an 8-2-1 record, come such stars as Mike W olk ’60
country team ran into difficulty getting off on the right foot
and John Boyd ’60 in the freestyle, and Jack Fritts ’60 in the
and wound up its chart with a 2-7 mark. The harriers beat
fancy diving. A good contingent also is on its way up from
R.P.I. and Union while losing to the likes of Army and Syra
last year’s all-winning freshman team.
cuse. Inexperience, a not uncommon Bugaboo for cross
Harvey Potter’s 1959 wrestling team enjoyed one of Col
country, took a heavy toll although Captain Bill Benson ’60,
gate’s rare winning seasons in that sport, a 6-4 mark, while the
Tex Kennedy ’61, Jim Lloyd ’62, G eoff Vaughn ’62 and
freshman wrestlers won all five of their matches. Anchor
Pete Gross ’60 did what they could to stem the tide. Help
men for this year will be drawn from among Charlie Bieber
appears on the horizon since the frosh cross country team won
’61, 123-pounder; twins Peter and Paul Venier ’61, 130 and
all of its six meets for the first unbeaten yearling record in
137 respectively; Dave Daley ’61, 157, and Jim Hanco*ck ’61,
heavyweight.
the sport here.

Ole Kollevoll ’45 and his skaters are booked for at least 11
games this year with the possibility of still another being
added which should give the Raiders six chances to appear
at home. Along with Cornell, home opponents who will help
dedicate the rink this winter include Hamilton College, Penn
sylvania, Yale and Middlebury. Plans are in the making for
several other events to fill out a full ice card. These will be
announced in the next issue of The News.

COLGATE ALUM NI NEWS

! "Toughest Losing Team in the Country”
by W a lter D. Sp l a in ’49, Director o f Athletic Publicity
•Dr . E ddie A n d e rso n said it. "The toughest losing team in
the country, maybe the best loser I ’ve ever seen.”
The veteran Holy Cross coach has seen a lot of them, too,
in his 34 years as a head coach. Even after all that time, he
could still admit he was scared while his Crusaders were fighting o ff the Red Raiders for a 14-12 win.
That any team on the way to its twelfth straight defeat
could put up such a powerful fight is a tribute to A1 Kelley
and the way he has brought the Red Raiders back into the
game.
Take another viewpoint, that of Bill Reddy, sports editor
of the "Syracuse Post Standard,” who took time away from
the high-flying Orange to write in his column:
"Colgate University’s football team, in its first season under
a new coach, A1 Kelley, hasn’t won a game. Y et it has
wrestled admiration from loyal followers who have seen a
team which refuses to quit and which, in its sixth straight set
back last Saturday, showed the kind of courage that deserves
praise.
"Injuries, lack of depth and even some bad breaks have
bedeviled the Red Raiders, but a team that can keep trying
in spite of such discouragements is a team of which to be
proud. The 'Colgate spirit’ still has meaning.”
There isn’t much else that can be said.
The Raiders led only twice in their first six games and
those leads were snuffed out, once by an eyelash scoring play
and another time by an avalanche. That about set the pattern.
When they had a chance, the Raiders made a fight of it. They
even battled Penn State when they didn’t have a chance and
gave the Nittany Lions some anxious moments in the early
going.
In ways, this year’s team reminded you of the 1955 eleven
which took its own sweet time about scoring and generally had
to wind up with a fourth-quarter rush to get on the sheet.
That was the club, you may recall, that put on a garrison finish
in the final minutes for a 21-20 win over Dartmouth and had
to do it all over again, two weeks later, but lost this time to
Holy Cross.
This year’s team has also reserved most of its scoring for
the last few minutes. A breakdown of the first six games
(Continued on next page)

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Above, Ed Ramm '61 (81) catches a pass to score against Cornell

Above, John Bouzan '62 catches a pass against Cornell
Below, Ed Abel '61 runs for a 2-point conversion against Cornell

Scores of Final Games
The following three games were played after "deadline'
for copy for this number of the magazine.

Colgate

Bucknell

Colgate

Syracuse

Colgate

Brown

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FOR DECEM BER, 1959

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I

Football Roundup
(Continued from page 21)
shows the Raiders scored seven of their nine touchdowns in
the fourth quarter. They never registered at ail in the third
quarter of any game, the other touchdowns coming in the first
period at Penn State and the second period at Princeton.
This rush to the wire almost, but not quite, won the Cor
nell opener. Bob Paske ’61 and Ed Abel ’61, splitting the
quarterback job, brought their club back from a 14-0 deficit
into the lead, 15-14, with five and a half minutes left to play.
The Big Red used up all but 19 seconds of that time, scoring
finally on a fourth-down, 17-yard pass to take back the win.
The Rutgers game followed pretty much the same pattern
but in this one, Colgate was down 15-12 and was striking for
the clincher when the Scarlet intercepted one of Abel s passes
on their 20 to end the uprising.
Holy Cross was the same story, too little too late, but in
this one the Raiders outplayed the Crusaders for all but the
first period and a couple of minutes in the second. That was
all the Purple Knights needed, though, to establish a 14-12
win. Colgate pounded the big Crusader line mercilessly and
softened it up enough for Jacque MacKinnon 62 to score twice

in the last stanza, one an 11-yard sprint and then on a 90-yard
punt return. Another MacKinnon sortie set up a field goal
try as the game ran out but Charlie Ehin ’60 could hardly boot
the soggy ball out of the mud.
MacKinnon’s punt return was the longest run of any Col
gate player since John Owens ’54 returned a Cornell pass 100
yards in the 1952 opener. John Maloney ’61 almost matched
this run when he broke through the Rutgers line for an 80yard burst that triggered that comeback.
Nothing Kelley could do seemed to have any effect on
snapping the losing string which dated back to the Prince
ton game of 1958. A1 switched his offenses almost hourly,
using a variety of wings, flankers, reverses, double wings, op
tions, short and long passes and what have you. The Raiders
came up unaccountably for some games and, as against Yale
and Princeton, were just as unaccountably down.
Maybe the Yale game, which they lost 20-0 in the mud,
gave the Raiders inspiration for their all-out fight with Holy
Cross. The Elis, who won only two games last season, found
enough heart and spirit to go unbeaten, untied and unscored
on in the first five games. Certainly, the Red Raiders needed
all the heart and spirit they could muster for the big fight
ahead with Syracuse.

COUNTRY HOME FOR SALE

ANYONE FOR HOCKEY?
Special Notice to Colgate Alumni Ice Hockey Enthusiasts:
Save the weekend of February 19, 20 for an ice hockey
reunion on the campus. Announcements will be forth
coming inviting all ex-hockey players and managers to
• An All-Alumni Tournament
• See the Freshman and Varsity Teams in action
• A testimonial dinner to J. Howard Starr

Irvington
(Continued from page 19)
Herstand, "The Arts,” November 17-18;
Professor Jonathan H. Kistler, Litera
ture,” December 8-9; Assistant Profes
sor Robert D. Myers, "Psychology,”
January 12-13; Professor James A. Stor
ing, "Social Science,” February 9-10, and
Assistant Professor Joseph J. Thurner,
"Science,” March 8-9.
Another phase of this experiment, and
one which directly concerns the alumni,
was held at the business office of Peter
Peyser ’43 following the high school ses
sion. Dr. Adams addressed a group of
approximately twenty alumni and their
wives on basically the same subject pre
sented to the high school seniors that
afternoon.
It was regarded as highly

successful and a similar pattern will be
followed by each of the succeeding speak
ers from the College.

Colgate Away from Home
(Continued from page 19)
tangling with the Red, Andy could make ho
such promise with reference to the Orange.
Andy’s appearance before a luncheon meet
ing of Colgate alumni drew the biggest Colgate
turnout in Pittsburgh since the last visit of
"The 13”. His talk was lively, reminiscent,
witty.
His celebrated memory enabled him to re
call that his first meeting with Ernest R. Braun,
Jr. ’21, "Mr. Colgate” around Pittsburgh,
had taken place some 35 years previously in
the same building (then the Keystone Athletic
Club) in which this meeting was being held.
Andy was accompanied on his visit to Pitts
burgh, where he watched Syracuse trim Pitt,
35-0, by Bob Roberts of Hamilton.
Bob was a welcome visitor to the Colgate
men of Pittsburgh, though before his stay
was over he had taken on the rather hunted
look which devout Republicans tend Jo develop
in this Democratic stronghold.

Ten-room house on 32 acres
with trout stream, wood
lot, ski slope, 3 miles from
Colgate campus.
Spiral
staircase, 2 fireplaces, 2
baths, oil-steam heat. Com
pletely renovated and dec
orated. $16,500. S. E. Smith,
Colgate University.

During Bob and Andy’s stay they were
guests at a co*cktail party in the home of Bob’s
daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Charles
A. Cooley ’54, recent newcomers to Pittsburgh,
where Chuck is Director of Development for
the Academic Disciplines at the University of
Pittsburgh.

U tica -R ome
Karl Lawrence, Professor of Physical Edu
cation, represented the Athletic Department
at the annual Colgate-Cornel! Alumni Smoker
on September 23 at the City Club in Utica.
Karl showed and commented on a film of foot
ball highlights of 1958, followed by a buffet
supper.

W est ch ester
Boy, did it rain and rain and rain at the
Club’s scheduled Tailgate Party prior to the
Yale game in New Haven. W e were reliably
informed that there was a parking lot some
where under the lake which covered it, but
a great many people couldn’t stir up the cour
age to look for it. A few hearty souls did
appear but attendance was understandably
light.
A1 Egler ’51
President

COLGATE ALUM NI NEWS

D avid B. Crew 3d and Frances C. Garrett,
on September 28 in Elmira. She is a graduate
of Skidmore College. David is presently at
tending law school.

1949
|

Donald W eil and Phyllis W . Gschwind
of Port Washington, on November 19 in Manhasset. Don is a publishers’ representative
with offices in Flushing. The couple lives in
East Northport.

I 1952
Robert D oremus and Barbara

Kathryn
Macintosh on September 19 in Denville, N. J.
The bride, a graduate of Sullins Junior Col
lege, Bristol, Va., is employed by Hayden,
| Stone and Co., Maplewood. Bob is an under
writer with the Home Insurance Co., New
York.

1954
Michael W . Lodato and Sylvia Helen
I Bromley on September 12 in New Rochelle.
» The bride is a graduate of Cortland State
Teachers College. They are living in Spotswood, N. J., while he is working toward his
doctorate in mathematics.

bride attended Hood College and received a
B. S. degree last June from the Department of
Nursing, Faculty of Medicine, Columbia Uni
versity.
Lucien is associated with General
Cable Corp. of New York.

Maurice D. Schmaier and Betty Frances
Steele on August 31 in Port Arthur, Texas.
A graduate of the University of Texas, the
bride received her Master of Music Degree
from Indiana University, where she is at pres
ent working for the Doctor of Music degree.
She also has a teaching assistantship. Mau
rice is working on his doctor of Philosophy
degree in American Literature and Folklore at
Indiana and is also a teaching associate.
Lt. Edward C. Simpson, USAF, and Nancy
Christine Jones on October 18 in San Antonio,
Texas, where they reside at 711 Fulton Court.
Ralph Alonzo Sturges 3d and Janet Gallaudet on September 12 in Bloomfield Hills,
Mich. The bride was graduated from Smith
College in 1955 Ralph is a junior at Colgate
this year after interrupting his education to
serve in the armed forces.

1959
Peter G. Castle and Martha H. Oliver on
June 20 in Buffalo.

W illiam L. D onahue and Rita Lesko on
August 29 in Endwell.
V incent J. Eible , J r . and Louise Patetta
on September 27 in Bloomfield, N. J.
W illiam P. Halquist and Marijane Normandin on June 12 in New York City.
Angelo F. La D uca and Barbara Gugino
on June 27 in Niagara Falls.
Casimer E. Lipinski, J r . and Patricia Joan
Hand on September 19 in Kenmore.
J ames A. Madura and Loretta Sovak on
August 8 in Youngstown, Ohio.
G ary R eitzas and Lois Blum on July 5 in
Providence, R. I.

R ussell C. Staurovsky and Anne Marie
Koizen on August 22 in Fairfield, Conn.
Mati T ammaru and Carol Hughes, on July
18 in Scarsdale.

1955
Dr. Robert M. Greene and Suzanne Krim
on August 16 in Huntington Station.

W alter E. Mallory, III and Janet Strain
last June 6, after which they spent ten weeks
touring Europe. W alt received his master’s
degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Techj nology in June and is now working for East
man Kodak in Rochester. Janet, who at
tended Vassar, is completing her senior year at
the University of Rochester. They are living at
| 24 Pinnard St., Rochester.

Robert L. B arber and Esther Louis Tay
lor on August 22 in Auburn. Classmates B ob
Hersam and B ill H uther were in the wed
ding party,
also G erald
W ood ’53,
Arnold Chadderon '54 and B ob B radford,
Gene T appan, D ave V an Sickle and Sum
ner N orthcutt, all ’57. The bride is a grad| uate of Oswego State Teachers College and
has taught two years in Webster Central
I School. Bob is a claims adjuster of Liberty
Mutual Insurance Co. in Syracuse, where they
reside at 1101 Court St.

1956
Stephen N ichols and Lesia Martinuk of
| College Point, Long Island, last April 4.
( Stephen is Operating Supervisor for Mont
gomery Ward and Co., Oakland, Calif., where
they live at 343 Hanover Ave.

1957
D onald W . Everett and Sarah P. Turgeon
on September 12 in Summit, N. J. Sarah was
! graduated from Centenary College. Don is
| working for the Great American Insurance
Co., Portland, Me.
Lucien O. Frohling and Joan Sheila
Penney on September 19 in Nutley, N. J. The

FOR DECEM BER, 1959

1958
G eorge B. Condit and Joyce Elaine King
on October 3 in Delmar. The couple lives at
20 S. Allen St., Albany. She is employed by
the Family Life Insurance Co. and he by
Walker Laboratories.
E lmer C. Humes, J r . and Suzanne Mac
Millan in Pittsford on October 7. The bride
attended the University of Rochester and Roch
ester Institute of Technology. Elmer is now
a candidate for the Master’s degree in Geology
at Rochester.
Lewis A. H urwitz and Dale Vicki Gold
berg on August 29 in Wilmington, Del. Dale
is in her senior year at Simmons College;
Lewis is studying at the Boston University
Law School.
Lt. Stuart Lewis and Janice Melcher on
September 19 in W est Brighton. Janice is a
graduate of W ells College. Stuart is presently
stationed at Laredo AFB, Texas.

J ohn W'. T homas, J r . and Rosemary
Elaine Mihalko on January 2 in Elmira.
T homas B. T readwell and Jean
Kresge on September 12 in Syracuse.

Alfred G. V. V an B euren , J r . and Cath
erine Ann Amy, on September 12 in Larchmont.
R obert A. W ilson and Marcia Kay Milton on August 22 in Jamestown.

Campus Affairs
(Continued from page 17)
consultant in connection with a new text
on Managerial Accounting to be publish
ed by Houghton M ifflin Co.

William Askew

Richard T. Scott, J r . and Jeanne-Marie
DeFillippo on September 30 in Rye. The cou
ple lives in Mamaroneck. She is employed by
Borden Co., New York, and he by National
Credit Office, Inc., New York.
Lt. Robert J. Stemmermann and Denyse
Anne Grennan of Plandome on September 5
in Manhasset. The bride is a graduate of
Marymount College, Arlington, Va. Bob, who
is associated with Procter and Gamble, is
currently on active duty with the Air Force
and stationed at Maxwell AFB, Alabama.

J ohn A. W illard and Rosalie Margaret
Varga on August 29 in Edison, N. J. A grad
uate of Syracuse University, the bride is in
the business-executive training p r o g r a m
of Carson, Pirie, Scott and Co. of Chicago.
He is attending law school. They reside in
Oak Park, 111.

Power, Public Opinion and Diplomacy,
a book of essays dealing with the years
1848 to 1914 and edited by William
Askew, Professor of History, has been
published by the Duke University Press.

John E. Rexine
John E. Rexine, instructor in the Clas
sical Languages, has had a book entitled
Religion in Plato and Cicero published
by the Philosophical Library of New
York.
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Recent A rrivals
1945
To D on and D orothy Hansen, a son,
Mark Earle, on July 2 to join older broth
ers John 9, and Peter 7. Don is sales manager
for The Cravanette Co., manufacturers of
chemicals for the textile industry. The Han
sens live at 474 Linwood Ave., Ridgewood.

1948
To W illiam and J ean Fitzhenry , their
first child, a son William John, on October
10. Bill practices law in Buffalo, where they
live at 483 Crescent Ave.

1949

Society of New York, Charles lives with his
family at 60 E. Howard Dr., Bergenfield, N. J.

1952
To the Rev. Lawrence and Margaret
B lack, a daughter Elizabeth Boynton, last June
5. The newest member of the Black family
is now officially enrolled in the Cradle Roll of
her father’s church, the North Presbyterian
Church of Rochester.'

1955
To Dr. and Mrs. Howard B. Goldstein,
a daughter, Jessica Marla, on September 10.
Howard is interning at the Graduate Hos
pital of the University of Pennsylvania.

To Charles T. and Leah W ood, a daugh
ter, Loraine Christine, on October 20 in Syra
cuse. Chuck and Leah were on leave in the
United States this fall, staying with his par
ents (D r. G. A. Wood T 3 ) on Oneida Lake
and have now returned to San Jose, Costa Rica.

To W ayne, II and V irginia K ing, a daugh
ter Katherine Anne, on October 13 in Oceanside, Calif.

1950

1959

To Charles and M arie Morrison, their
first child, a daughter Kyle, on September 5. A
staff worker for the American Geographical

To G eorge H. and S usan Potter, a
daughter and first child, Clara Virginia, in
Hamilton on June 1.

1958

The New Colgate Song Book
By L loyd L. H u n t l e y ’24
Director o f Student Activities
h e n i r etu r n ed to Colgate one of
my jobs was directing the Marching
Band. New arrangements for our march
ing songs were needed and I looked
around for a couple of Colgate Song
Books, published by the Alumni Corpora
tion in 1932. There were exactly two left
on the campus.

From time to time I received requests
from the broadcasting companies for the
music of certain Colgate songs; also from
the various Alumni Clubs and occasion
ally from our football opponents. Fortu
nately, we had a supply of "lead sheets”
and we temporized by using them.
However, in 1953 it was decided that
we should publish a new edition. I con
sulted Mr. Ernest S. Meyers of the legal
firm of LaPorte and Meyers in New
24

York, experts on copyright laws. It de
veloped that the music house which pub
lished the ’32 edition was defunct — a
victim o f the depression — and that Col
gate didn’t even own the copyrights to
its own songs.
For five years the Song Book project
languished, principally because there
were no funds available to underwrite it.
Then in 1948 Carl Miller T 4 , Helen
Amberg, Manager of the Campus Store,
and John Littlefield ’22 and I met and
agreed on a scheme whereby the Campus
Store would supply the capital, provid
ing we could clear the copyrights and
find a reliable music house which would
publish the book so that it could be sold
to our alumni, students and friends at a
reasonable price.
Ed Rowe ’17 had an old friend who
was a Columbia Law School classmate
on the legal staff of Broadcast Music,

Inc. A series of meetings were arranged
with this firm, details were ironed out, a
deal was made and the 1958 edition of
the Colgate Song Book was delivered in
June.

The new edition appears in an attrac
tive maroon hard cover bearing the Col
gate seal. It was bound by Alan Chidsey’s ( ’21) firm, J. F„ Tapley Company
of Long Island City.
The book is dedicated to W illiam H.
ho*rrner H ’34, who established the De
partment of Music in 1912 and who
served as Chairman until his retirement
in 1934, and to Robert G. Ingraham ’13,
musician and song writer, Chairman of
the Song Book Committee under whose
auspices preceding editions were pub
lished. You may obtain a copy from the
Campus Store for $2.50, postage prepaid.

Discrimination
(Continued from page 13)
tion.” This proposal was subsequently
modified to recommend "that the Educa
tional Policy Committee through its ap
propriate Sub-Committee (Committee on
the Residential College) be authorized,
in consultation with representatives of
the students and other parties at interest,
to assist the fraternities in their efforts
to eliminate racial and religious discrimi
nation.” When the President made it
clear during the ensuing discussion that
"any such new Committee would not
eliminate the responsibilities given to the
AIFC by the Board of Trustees,” the
resolution was passed. When this resolu
tion was presented to the Board it de
clined to approve it, reaffirming its posi
tion that adequate machinery already was
established through the AIFC.
At the request of the Lambda Chi
Alpha fraternity, the Executive Com
mittee of the AIFC met on May 23, 1959,
with the fraternity representatives to dis
cuss a proposal to remove restrictive
clauses from its charter. In preparation
for this meeting the AIFC had already
consulted with representatives of the CRC
(Continued on page 26)
COLGATE ALUM NI NEW S

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Classes
ance, and an open house at their home on
Maple Ave. in Hamilton. The Andersons
moved to Hamilton in 1956 after his retire
ment from the pastorate in the Pulaski Baptist
Church.

Statements made in this space in the last
number caused some confusion among mem
bers of the class.
According to the most recent information
in the Alumni Office master file, there are
I correct addresses for three graduates and for
three non-graduates as follows:
I
B erton A. Garrett, Ballston Spa; the
i Rev. W alter C. Mason, Arvin, Calif.;
Stuart R. T reat, Auburn; the R ev. Louis T.
Foreman, Maywood, 111.; the R ev. G eorge
K. Hamilton, Dundee, and M errill J. Ober ,
Bayside, Ya.

Arthur E. T hurber
354 Sherrill Rd.
Sherrill, N. Y.
The Rev. Stephen Cunliffe , who retired
last June, has a new home at 921 S. Sycamore
St., Ottawa, Kansas, where his daughter is
Dean of Women at Ottawa University. He ex
pects to do supply preaching in area churches.

W illiam B. D unning
114 S. Fulton St.
Auburn, N. Y.

G eorge C. D apson
448 Broad St.
Oneida, N. Y.

B enjamin C. Harvey has, since 1925, been
engaged in a campaign to improve New York
State’s Court System. He has been aware of
the reluctance of the public to use the courts
and the consequent increase in other agencies,
arbitration bureaus, commissions, etc., to settle
j disputes between man and man and between
man and his governments. This he does not
consider a healthy condition for a free society.
Mr. Harvey has submitted a number of pro
posals to the State Legislature, Court Commis
sion and other bodies.
His principal and
most recent proposal calls for the creation of
one Court of Appeals and eliminating all
other appellate courts.

G eorge E. Eddy

Mrs. Ina Mae

Albert Salathe, formerly of Long Beach,
Calif., has a new address: Maunaolu College,
P. O. Box 267, Paia Maui, Hawaii.
} "1

E ugene F. F laherty
Hamilton, N. Y.

Dr. Leslie B liss, retired Librarian of the
Huntington Library in San Marino, Calif., is
now field representative for the library. He
is presently surveying the newest acquisition
to a collection of Jack London manuscripts and
letters which he started 35 years ago: a col
lection of letters by the author to a life-time
literary friend and London’s personal library of
almost 6,000 books.

228 Castlebar Rd.
Rochester 10, N. Y.

R obert W . Moore, J r .

Gavin Collester, wife of

14 Troy Lane
Waban 68, Mass.

Harry J. Collester of Clifton, died on Sep
tember 12 in a Wayne Township nursing home
after a long illness. Her son, Superior Court
Judge Donald G. Collester ’26, also resides
in Clifton.

J ulius A. Migel
Charlestown, R. I.

J ulius A. Migel is the oldest student at the
University of Rhode Island. He commutes three
mornings a week fro-m his home in Charles
town, R. L, and is taking the course in
"Problems of International Relations.” Re
tired from business ten years ago, he has de
voted his time to United World Federalists
and The Institute for World Order.
Herman G. Patt
1 Granby Rd.
Granville, Mass.
The Rev. and Mrs. Frederick L. Anderson
recently celebrated their golden wedding anni
versary at a family dinner with 27 in attend-

FOR DECEMBER, 1959

W illiam H. Haigh has retired after 50
years of teaching in public and private schools,
the last seven as Latin teacher in the Yar
mouth, Mass., school system.
On a leave of absence from the Waterville
Central School, Lawrence V. Roth is
spending three months abroad doing research
for his new World History to be published in
1960.

Charles E. G lendening

Ayer Bldg.
Washington Sq.
Philadelphia 6, Pa.

Dr. W illiam Sale T errell has announced
his intention to retire as of December 31, 1959,
as Executive Secretary of the Connecticut Bap
tist Convention. He assumed this responsibili
ty August 1, 1941. Mrs. Terrell, currently
President of the United Church women, re
ceived the L.H.D. degree at the recent in
auguration of Dr. W . S. Litterick as President
of Keuka College.

D ick T urner spent the summer in Spain,
where he was in charge of a group of Ameri
can university students under the auspices of
the Experiment in International Living. The
first month was spent living with and getting
to know Spanish families, while the remainder
of the time was devoted to traveling about the
country.
Dick has been professor of In
ternational Marketing and Advertising since
1956 at the American Institute for Foreign
Trade, Phoenix, Ariz.
F rederick A. Piotrow
1100 S. Goodman St.
Rochester 7, N. Y .

Clarence J. Myers is a member of the
Board of Trustees of the Independent College
Funds of America, Inc., newly-formed national
office which serves as a coordinating center and
clearing house for 40 state and regional as
sociations representing 477 independent lib
eral arts colleges.
Herschel L. Mosier
103 Liberty Ave.
New Rochelle, N. Y .

W illiam F. Farnham has recently been
appointed public relations coordinator for the
New Haven (Conn.) Goodwill Industries.
Edwin T. F letcher, who has been engaged
since graduation in missions work in Burma
until forced to return to this country by the
war, has recently returned and hopes to re
locate in his first station in Bassein. Mr.
Fletcher followed a century later in the foot
steps of the first two graduates of the Colgate
Seminary, Dr. Eugenio Kincaid and Dr. Jona
than Wade, Class of 1822.
Chellis A.
Nichols ’82 preceded the Fletchers by 52 years
in Bassein.
Orrin G. J udd
275 Clinton Ave.
Brooklyn 17, N. Y .

D onald G. Collester of Clifton, N. J.,
has been appointed a Superior Court Judge
of the State of New Jersey. Mr. and Mrs.
Collester have a son, Donald, who is now a
junior at Colgate.
Anthony M eyer , J r . was recently elected
Chairman of the Central Bergen County
(N . J .) Chapter of the American Red Cross.
W illiam A. K ern
10 Franklin St.
Rochester 4, N. Y .

N orman L. D ungan participated in the Sec
ond Annual Regional Tax Institute held in
Cleveland, Ohio, the latter part of October.
He spoke at a session on Recent Tax Develop
ments.
J ohn G. K auderer, J r .
110 Morningside Dr.
New York 27, N. Y .

W illiam D. B igart S’28 has left Musk
ingum College to become Guidance Counsel
lor and Professor of Human Engineering at
the Lawrence Institute of Technology in De
troit.

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of deliverance. W hen I was young in K . P. duty, I used to rail
against the long hours and the greasy pots and pans. By doing
K.P. I learned something about patience. And I met persons
I never would have met anywhere else. And I learned from
them what I never could have learned from any others. In my
early days of basic training, when I was every other inch a
soldier, I felt sorry for myself for having to march eight hours

Great Auks
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T h e insolence o f o ffic e and the spurns
T hat patient merit o f the unworthy takes.

And then, across the centuries, the voice of Chaucer:
W hat is this world, what asketh man to have,
N ow with his love, now in his colde grave,
A llon e withouten any com pany?

In those early days, had it not been for the voices I,
though not in my grave, would have been often "allone, with
outen any company.” I sent a post card to my friend, Gene
Adams. On it was one word: TRAPPED.
Once, after evening chow, I was walking along, thinking
of things long past. Suddenly I was aware that I was not
alone. Others had joined me, or I had joined others. W e
seemed to have unconsciously fallen in step with each other.
When I tried to turn a corner to go my own way a sharp voice
barked, "N o breaking of ranks.” I tried to explain that I didn t
belong to the group. "N o talking in ranks.
So, with my
new-found companions I marched along, right into — the
guard house.
W hen I was not the cause of confusion, I was the victim
of it. W hen I had completed basic training in Atlantic City,
I was waiting to be shipped elsewhere. I was avid for a
change. Early one morning about three hundred of us, with
barracks bags packed, awaited shipment. At intervals during
the day, names were called — ten, fifteen, twenty at a time.
Meanwhile we marched in formation, to kill time. By night
fall all but twenty of us had left. Among that last remnant
were good friends of mine. I was happy in the thought that
I would be going with them. A sergeant called out every name
but one — mine. I felt as forlorn as old Eben Flood on his
hillside.
"Sarge,” I said, "why didn’t I g o?”
"Y ou ’re in the hospital,” he said.
"Listen,” I said, " I ’m not in the hospital.

I ’m here.

shipped me.
But they did. To Lowry Field. Then to Dalhart, Texas,
a place that would make the Black Hole of Calcutta look like
sweet Auburn, loveliest village of the plain. To Salt Lake
City. To Alexandria, Louisiana, where I finally persuaded the
Army to come round to my way of living. But that’s a long

"It looks O. K .,” I said.
"I just got out of uniform,” he said.

"How’s the suit

look? Like the color?”
"Looks fine,” I said.
W e talked, above the noise, of trivial things that, some
how, at that moment, seemed to me momentous. Then the
train stopped. The young man, still smiling, said, "So long,
Sarge. I ’ll be seeing you.”
He got off, leaving me alone, among strangers, in an

Touch me. I ’m real.”
"W ell,” he said, "I go by the records. The records say
you’re in the hospital. So — you’re in the hospital.”
Two months later they found me. By that time I had
been through basic training a second time.
I felt just like
Superman. It was good to be alive. I didn’t care if they ever

story.
The dreadful thing about being in a rut is
often too far down in it to recognize it for what
most baffling thing about being delivered from a
at the time it is happening you seldom recognize

a day in loose sand.
Not until I gave up building a wall of poems between
myself and others did I discover something poetic and exciting
in the life about me and in the language men used in reacting
to it. W hen I learned that I was a leaf disengaged from a
branch and that the Army was a wind — albeit a capricious
one, blowing me this way and that, and not always in a direc-.
tion I would have chosen to go — I began to apprehend the
value of all kinds of experience — for their own sake and
for what they contributed to my salvation.
Then, one day, it was all over. From the separation center
at Fort D ix I went to New York City. I went down out of the
bright sunlight into a dank, dreary subway station. I got on a
subway train. I stood, looking at hard, drawn, tired faces —
faces behind The Daily Mirror, T he Daily News, The Times.
They looked like the faces of persons in ruts. Suddenly a
young fellow with a smile (it was the only smile in the sub
way) pushed his way past others and said to me,
"H i, Sarge, how does the hat look?”

that you’re
it is. The
rut is that,
the process

alien world.
I returned to Hamilton.

Eventually I got into a rut again.

But this time I was able to see over the top of it.

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Brooklyn 15, N. Y .

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rector of Finance and General Counsel for the
American Management Association.
R ussell H. W hitman, Counsellor for Economic Affairs in the American embassy at
Cairo, Egypt, has recently been appointed D i
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K enneth E. J ohnson
32 West End Ave.
Binghamton, N. Y.

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Attention you members of the Class of 1930.
Come June of I960, you will be celebrating
your 30th Reunion at Colgate. Start setting
aside some money so that you will be sure to
make this Reunion. Detailed information will
be sent to you at a later date.

J. Leslie Hart

"Just Murder, Darling,” by James Brussel,
published by Scribner’s, was the first sale
made by G eorge L. Cantzlaar as a new
author’s representative and proprietor of Johnson and Owsten, Inc., 211 Center St., New
York City.
The Rev. G eorge B.
come pastor of Our
Church in Newark, N.
been pastor of Palisades

Hassey S’30, has be
Saviour Presbyterian
J. He has recently
Park Church.

A lbert L. Lawrence
246 N. Main St.
Herkimer, N. Y.

Carl T. Arlt
of the St. Louis
Louis, Mo. Carl
Phyllis Betts of
daughters live at
Groves, Mo.

is Assistant Vice-President
Federal Reserve Bank, St.
and his wife, the former
Hamilton, and their two
1411 Bridle Rd., Webster

Edmund C. Rice
53 Stratford Rd.
Scarsdale, N. Y.

Robert T. Samuel has been promoted by
IBM from Director of Market Planning in
the Marketing Services Corporate Staff to D i
rector of Data Processing Methods. This is a
newly-created staff unit.

B art A mendola
3921 River Rd.
Reading, Pa.

Richard B oeckel, salesman and carpenter
in Eggertsville, recently attended a district as
sembly of Jehovah’s Witnesses into which he
was baptized during World W ar II. There he
met the last of four war buddies, from whom
he had earned the nickname "Deacon” at the
time, all since converted to the faith.

FOR DECEM BER, 1959

Arthur G. Pulis, J r . has been appointed
President of the Real Estate Board of Newark,
Irvington and Hillside, N. J. He had pre
viously been President of the Franklin Capital
Corp. in Newark.
K irby Peake
249 Pondfield Rd.
Bronxville 8, N. Y.
C. B urton Frawley visited the campus the
last weekend of October. He has been Florida
State Agent for Preferred Mutual Insurance
Co. of New Berlin for more than a year and
lives with his family at 439 Lighthouse Dr.,
N. Palm Beach Village, Fla.
Lt. Col. J erome F. Lieblich is stationed
with U. S. Army Elm, MAAG, Netherlands,
and may be addressed care of USA Embassy,
10 Lange Voorhout, The Hague, Netherlands.

D ana O. Mozley
2025 Broadway
New York 23, N. Y.
Lt. Col. W illis M. Lewis , USAF, is staff
Chaplain for Central Air Defense Force. He
and 15 other chaplains serve the needs of a
15-million square mile area and spend 16 to
20 days of each month visiting widely-scattered
and isolated radar stations from Canada to
Texas.

J. F rederic Martin
8726 Constance Lane
Brentwood Village
Cincinnati, Ohio

Edward R. M e Auslan is the author of a
recent article in the Oil and Gas Journal, en
titled "In the Niobrara . . . Oil may yield to
special methods.” The author is a petroleum
geologist in the oil development department
of Union Pacific Railroad Co., Rawlins, Wyo.
Charles J. H ughes, J r .
Madison, N. Y.

J ohn F. Robertson, Canastota attorney,
has been appointed Transfer Tax Attorney for
Madison County.
Gaston E. B lom
7 South Lane
Cherry Hills Village
Englewood, Colo.
W illiam T. A lderson has been elected to
the Council of the American Association for
State and Local History. He joined the staff
of the Tennessee State Library and Archives in
1953 and is now Executive Secretary of the
Tennessee Historical Commission. He is co
author of A G uide to the Study and Reading
o f Tennessee History and edits the Tennessee
H istorical Quarterly.
Holman J. Swinney is director of the
Idaho Historical Society,
organization was one of
American Association of
tory 1959 award of merit

Boise, Idaho. This
three to receive the
State and Local His
"for its dynamic pro-

gram to develop an interest in the history of
Idaho through publications, marking of historic
sites and the encouragement of local historical
societies.”
T im e has appointed G arry V alk Advertis
ing Manager. W ith the company since 1946,
he was named Assistant Advertising Director
in 1958. He lives with his wife and two chil
dren in New Canaan, Conn.

Richard F. Cleary, J r .
26 DeHart Rd.
Maplewood, N. J.
Frederic S. Cushing, former Assistant
Director of the Rinehart and Co. College De
partment, has joined Henry Holt and Co., Inc.,
as Manager of its College Department.
J ohn M uyskens
11 Jay St.
Canton, N. Y .

Robert C. Otto has been appointed by the
Rockefeller Administration as Associate At
torney for the New York State Banking De
partment. Bob had been associated with the
Chemical Bank and Manufacturers Trust Co.
as Trust Consultant for eight years prior to this
appointment.
Harry W . Peterson has been named
Chemical Product Manager of the Enjay Co.,
Inc., New York petrochemical marketing firm.
Pastor of the Congregational Church of
Everett, Mass., the Rev. Robert A. Roberts
is residing at 19 Pleasant St.

Copley B urket
7910 W . 26th St.
North Riverside, 111.

E. Miles B acon has moved from New M il
ford, Conn., to Rock Island, 111., where he is
Director of an automobile school run by the
Bear Manufacturing Co., which he attended
as a student in 1951.
After a year’s leave of absence spent in
Oslo, Norway, Richard V. D ietrich has re
turned to Virginia Polytechnic Institute, where
he is Professor of Education.

Randall W . B aer
Route 2, Box 260C
Wayzata, Minn.
R obert D. Falk is employed by the Con
tainer Corporation of America in Arlington,
Texas, where he lives at 1208 Dawn Dr.
T homas Hogan, iv
313 E. Genesse St.
Fayetteville, N. Y.

Robert R. Hampton is a sales representa
tive for the Textile Division of U. S. Rubber
Co. His home is at 63 Meadow Lane, Katonah.
N orman K. Mills is a district geologist
for Canadian Pacific Oil and Gas in Alberta,
Canada.
Charles E. Smith , who is drafting engineer
for Haven-Busch Co. of Grand Rapids, Mich.,

has not been in good health recently. He
would enjoy hearing from some of his college
friends. He is living with his family at 3975
Adair *N. E., Grand Rapids, Mich.

Peter W . Popenoe has his own business,
the Popenoe Insurance Agency, in Kansas City,
Mo. His home is at 8515 W . 68 Terr., Merriam, Kan.

115 Willow St.
Brooklyn 1, N. Y.

2 Oak Tree Lane
Ashland, Mass.

Edward V. H ofler has been appointed a
Senior Engineer at I.B.M .’s Federal Systems
Division laboratory in Kingston. In his new
post he will serve as manager of advanced
SAGE (Semi-Automatic Air Ground Environ
ment) product design.

Robert K. Otterbourg has been named an
account executive at Charles Mathieu and Co.,
international public relations firm specializing
in industrial public relations. He had been
associated with Printer’s Ink as an associate
editor.

W illiam J. V esely participated in the Sec
ond Annual Regional Tax Institute held in
Cleveland, Ohio, the latter part of October.
He was Chairman of a session on Compensa
tion Arrangements in Smaller Corporations.

D onald Smith , J r . has been named Execu
tive Operations Operator by the Bell Telephone
Co. of Pennsylvania.
T homas G. Armstrong
Grey Adv. Agency, Inc.
430 Park Ave.
New York 22, N. Y .

R obert L. Gardner

Credit Manager for the S. H. Pomeroy Co.,
window manufacturers in Stamford, Conn.,
Charles D. Currie is living on Chestnut
Hill Rd. in Norwalk.

Frederick N. B ulken has been promoted
by the Scintilla Division of Bendix Aviation
Corporation to Product Manager - Sales. He
was previously a Senior District Application
Engineer.

Charles T. Lanigan, Republican, has been

W illiam E. D umke is a security analyst for

elected Mayor of Rome by a vote of 8,148 to
4,783.

R obert B. Lindstrom has moved from
Mississippi to Raleigh, N. C., to take charge
of top dyeing with the Fred Whitaker Co. He
resides at 511 Pear Tree Lane.
Dr. Anthony T. Oropollo has begun a
general practice of medicine, with offices in
his home at 8 Mt. Pleasant PL,
est Orange,
N. J.
Reynolds Metals Co. has transferred Robert
G. Schreiber from Battle Creek, Mich., to
Jackson, Mich., where he is promotion sales
manager. He resides at 2704 Forrest Lake Dr.

Frederick H. D unlap
Warren Rd., R.D. 1
Ithaca, N. Y .
On September 16 the Rev. Sherwood W .
Anderson was installed as pastor of the
First Presbyterian Church in Chester, Pa.
Transferred from Tulsa, Okla., Peter A.
D arling is now Assistant Plant Personnel
Manager for Scott Paper Co. in Marinette,
W is.

Charles F. F leming, J r . has been named
Assistant Manager of Employment for Arm
strong Cork Co. He has been serving in the
Industrial Division’s Detroit District Office
since 1956.
Dr. G lenn A. Langer is a resident in the
Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. His
home is at 100 Memorial Dr., Cambridge.

W illiam R. M e D onald is Manager of
Professional Recruitment for the Nalco Chemi
cal Co. of Chicago. He resides at 437 Hill
Ave., Glen Ellyn.

E. V irgil Conway

Lester W. Rice

5821 Woolman Ct.
Unit 9A
Cleveland 30, Ohio

K enneth W . Snow has graduated from a
five-month training course of I.B.M .’s Federal
Systems Division in Kingston, and has been
assigned to a Semi-Automatic Air Ground En
vironment Air Defense Sector installation at
Marysville, Calif.

Bear Stearns and Co., Inc., investment bank
ing, New York City. He resides at 8 Hickory
Hill Rd., Eastchester.

N orman W . Smith is teaching history in
the Essex Junction, Vt., High School.
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772 Woodlawn Rd.
Steubenville, Ohio

W illiam H. Armstrong, J r . is associated
with Edward L. Bakewell Real Estate in St.
Louis, Mo.
His residence is 13 Lindworth
Lane, Ladue, Mo.
Charles P. B ovone graduated from the
Harvard Law School last June and is now
associated with the law offices of W illiam W .
Nottingham, New York City. He lives at
139-66 86th Ave., Jamaica.
Arnold Henson is practicing law with
Chadbourne, Parke, Whiteside and W olff in
New York City, and living at 200 Beacon
Hill Dr., Dobbs Ferry.
The Rev. D avid E. M ulford, for the past
three years assistant minister at Union Presby
terian Church, Schenectady, has been called to
become minister of the United-Fourth Presby
terian Church, Albany.
Dr. W illis F isk Paine has opened an of
fice for the practice of dentistry at 195 Nas
sau St., Princeton, N. J.

M itchell S. Rosenheim has been appoint
ed an Assistant District Attorney for Bexar
County, Texas, which includes the city of
San Antonio, where his address is Route 8,
Box 373. He would welcome hearing from
any Colgate men in the area, including those
in service.

Dr. Harry J. W illiams is engaged in
the practice of obstetrics and gynecology in
Baltimore, Md. The Williams, who have a
daughter Linda Jane, aged one year, live at
1600 Dunwich Garth, Lutherville, Md.

W illiam M. B ranch, J r.
274 Churchil Rd.
Northfield, 111.
Two members of the class have received
advanced degrees from the University of
Rochester. They are: Michael W . Lodato,
master of science in mathematics, and K en
neth A. R obb, master of arts in English.

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Discrimination
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and the Student Senate. W hen the sub
sequent meeting with the Lambda Chis
was over, the fraternity specifically asked
the A IFC not to intervene with its na
tional body in its behalf at this time.

N o other direct requests for assistance
have been made to the AIFC to date.
Probably the best summation of the
case is contained in the preamble to the
AIFC’s report of last January:
"A study of available information
on the elimination of restrictive prac
tices in college fraternities clearly in
dicates that progress has come only
after the lapse of considerable time,
the use of extreme discretion in
the choice of tactics and the gradual
education of those opposing the
changes to a realization that dis
criminatory practices are contrary to
the concepts and the philosophy of a
democratic form of government.
"T h e facts elicited . . . indicate
that in recent years considerable
progress has been made by the fra
ternities at Colgate toward eliminat
ing restrictive membership selection.
Much of the progress made within
the national bodies has been due to
the efforts of the Colgate Chapters.”
COLGATE ALUM NI NEW S

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Established in 1946, this office
has helped more than 2,000 Colgate
men
to
find
"job
opportunities’’
while
countless
others
have
been
guided in making other adjustments in
civilian life. Thanks to the liberal sup
port of an anonymous trustee, Colgate
is the only college of its size with an office for this purpose in mid-town Manhattan.
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World
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there
had
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much discussion as to an appropriate
memorial to Colgate’s Gold Star men.
Even before peace had been declared the
Alumni Corporation had decided to build
"A Living Memorial to Our Gold Star
Men” from the lives of carefully selected
young students. Since 1946, some 270
Memorial Scholarships have been financed
by the Alumni Fund bringing to Colgate
many outstanding young men of charac
ter, performance and promise.
A l u m n i c o u n c il — Rigid travel
restrictions imposed very early during
World W ar II led to the practice of
holding two regular conferences of
alumni leaders on campus annually. Beginning in the fall of 1943 the presidents
of district clubs and chairmen of student
selection committees met with their lead
ers and University officials. Beginning in
the spring of 1944, and every year there
after, the annual Alumni Fund Confer
ence was held on the campus. These
conferences were combined into a single
conference held in May during the last
two years. Now in process of organiza
tion is a new Alumni Council to be more
broadly representative of all facets of
alumni activities, to provide additional
means for greater representation of all
alumni at the planning and policy-mak
ing levels, and to give more men the
satisfaction o f participating and of serving
Colgate. This Council comprising some
125 delegates, representing all parts of
the Corporation, will meet annually in
the spring.
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Robert S. Ackerly, J r ., preceptor on cam
pus 1952-54 and M. A. ’59, is now Assistant
Dean of Students at the Illinois Institute of
Technology.

G. Ronald Christopher is teaching in the
Harvey Bolich Junior High School in Cuya
hoga Falls, Ohio. He resides at 2128 7th St.

Dr. Charles N. Conant is a Captain in the
Army Medical Corps stationed at Brooke
Army Hospital, Ft. Sam Houston, San Antonio,
Texas.

W illiam S. Everts has recently taken a
position with the National Aniline Dye D i
vision of Allied Chemical Corp. in New York
City, where he lives at 106 Morningside Dr.

Specializing in the Far East, T homas F .
Howell is enrolled in the American Institute

Robert S. J anss is a salesman for the
American Bleached Goods Co., Inc., of New
York. He resides at 806 Bronx River Rd.,
Bronxville.

for Foreign Trade, Phoenix, Ariz.

Herman C. J ordan, after four years in the
Air Force, is now a first-year student in How
ard University School of Medicine. His new
address is 1849 Third St., N. W ., Washing
ton, D. C.
Ohio State University granted the master
of science degree to Ernest R. Lalonde at
the Summer Quarter Commencement on Au
gust 28.

J ames N. Lloyd and his wife, Rachel, are
living at 127 Eddy St., Ithaca, while he finish
es his Ph.D. in Physics at Cornell.

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G eorge M urdock
100 Sunnycrest
Syracuse 6, N. Y.

Three members of the class have received
advanced degrees from the University of Roch
ester. They are: K eith MacG affey , doctor
of medicine; G eorge R. Martin, doctor of
philosophy in pharmacology, and Marvin
Pomeranz, doctor of medicine.
Continental Can Co. has transferred Her
Apple , III from Atlanta, Ga., to Bal
timore, Md. He lives at 820 Argonne Dr.

bert E.

E ugene J. Canavan has qualified for Na
tional Life Insurance Company’s President
Club, has a new home at 18 Old Stone Rd.,
Darien, Conn., and is the proud father of a
second child.
Employed by the
el don Tool Co. in Cleve
land, Ohio, S. K irk Carpenter, J r . resides
at 274 Cats Den Rd., Chagrin Falls.
Released from Service, J oseph B. Cleaver
has returned to the advertising firm Leo
Burnell Co., Inc., of Chicago, where he is a
research analyst. He is now living at 1400
Central St., Evanston.

R obert D. I les has received the doctor of
dental surgery degree from the School of Den
tistry of the University of Pennsylvania. He is
serving as a dentist in the Air Force for two
years.

J oseph M. K araman has been transferred
by Sears, Roebuck and Co. from Elmira to
Kingston, where he is Manager of the Cata
logue Sales officè. He lives at 12 Melissa Rd.
An executive trainee at the Manufacturers
Trust Co. in New York City, Ralph G. ManCini resides at 34-48 75th St., Jackson Heights.
Assistant Manager of G. -C. Murphy Co.,
variety store in Gettysburg, Pa., T homas R.
M e A llister is living on Main St. in Cashtown.

Richard A. M eyer has joined the Goldman-Meyer Travel Agency of St. Louis, Mo.,
as Vice-President and travel consultant.
An executive trainee at Macy’s, C harles S.
M ueller has recently moved into a new home
at 46 Viola Dr., Glen Cove.

Edward S. O ppenheimer is Assistant
Sales Manager for the Comptometer Corp. of
New York. He lives in Scarsdale at 37 Ver
non Dr.
A digital computer programmer at Hughes
Aircraft in Tucson, Ariz., B ob V int is work
ing on I.B,M . electronic "brains.” Bob, his
wife, Kathy, and their two boys live in a new
home at 6636 E. Julia, Tucson.

Robert Lindberg
80 Beekman Rd.
Summit, N. J.

Ralph M. Antone is a salesman for
Texaco, Inc., in Albany, where he resides at
4 Winthrop St.
Assistant Export Manager for Hupp Inter
national of Euclid, Ohio, Edward S. B enhoff
resides at 261 E. 222nd St.
Now living at 324 Mine Hill Rd., Fairfield,
Conn., B ob B radford has started his third
year of work toward a Ph. D. at Yale.

D ale A. J ohnson, who has spent the past

Employed by Esso Research and Engineering
Corp., Linden, N. J., Charles Loenser is
living at 841 Lindegar St.

two years as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, Eng
land, has returned to the United States and is
now enrolled at Yale Divinity School. Dale
and his wife, Norma, are living at 420 Canner
St., in New Haven.

T om W arne has recently moved from Buf
falo to Canandaigua, where he has a position
with the Lincoln-Rochester Trust Co.

J ohn D. Little is an administrative trainee
with the First National Bank of Miami, Fla.,
where he lives at 441-lA Brickell Ave.

Robert B. Y ouker has been released from
service and is now enrolled in the Harvard
Graduate School of Business Administration.

An Assistant in History at Cornell, Paul A.
Moyer, J r. resides in Ithaca at 934 Stewart

Ave.

Sumner N orthcutt, who received the mas
ter of arts degree in Applied Math from
Harvard University last June and worked in
the Harvard Computation Lab from February
to July, is now working for Sylvania in Need
ham, Mass. He resides at 75 Bennington
St., Newton.
R ichard C. Park is a student at the Jeffer
son Medical College, Philadelphia, Pa., where
he lives at 1209 Spruce St.
Heinz Pichler is now an administrative
officer with the Technical Assistance Office
of the United Nations in Geneva. Heinz, who
has knowledge of several European languages,
was selected for this job from among 250 ap
plicants.
Peter W . R ees is employed as a salesman
by the Atlantic Oil Co. in Buffalo.
D onald S. B ezuyen
93 Elmwood Ave.
Hohokus, N. J.

Aristotle Anthony has been appointed
Coordinator of Psychological Services for the
Ridgewood (N . J . ) Public Schools.
After completing his graduate work at the
University of Michigan, J ames B ullock is
now in service and stationed at Fort Knox,
Ky.

Stacy C. Campbell has joined the Corning
Glass Works as a broadload planner in the
Technical Products Division.
J ansen T. Clopper is one of six new ap
pointments to the faculty of Poly Prep Coun
try Day School in New York. He will teach
French.
Frederick S. Hammer is a Danforth Fel
low in the Graduate School of Industrial Ad
ministration, Carnegie Institute of Technology.
D avid W. Hill is employed as a chemist
by the S. Obermayer Co. of Chicago, 111., and
resides at 420 N. Kenilworth, Oak Park.
Ensign J acques C. N ordeman was com
missioned September 24 at Newport, R. L He
will be stationed on the Coral Sea, aircraft
carrier out of San Francisco, next spring after
further training at San Diego and later at
Bremerton.

G ene Manning, who took graduate work
last year at the University of London School
of Economics and Political Science, is now con-

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Careers Conference
(Continued from page 15)
W illiam F. Davison '23 and the Rev. John J.
Baker ’46; in the Creative Arts, John D. Marks
’31 and David Loovis ’47; in Architecture and
Planning, Arthur Meggett ’36; in International
Business and Industry, Lèster Wright 37,
Robert Wright ’35 and Harry Carpenter ’50;
in Manufacturing and Production Management,
Henry Fawcett ’41, Pierrepont Noyes ’36 and
Daniel Murdoch ’58; in Merchandising, W il
liam H. Jones ’36, Charles Hughes ’40 and
Robert Milgrim ’50.

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Com pleted
C areers
F loyd F. R isley
Floyd F. Risley, 75, perhaps the greatest
track star ever produced in the Utica region,
died at his home in Whitestown August 3,
1959. He attended Colgate Acade/ny for a
time where he starred in track and was a full
back and captain of its 1902 Eleven.
His name was a by-word in scholastic ath
letic circles in the nineties and he was
widely known to Colgate men in the first
decade of the century. He held several records
in jumping events and was prevented by a
fractured knee from achieving fame at the
1909 U. S. Olympics. He coached the Uni
versity of Colorado track team in 1909 and
1910 and that of Hamilton College for several
seasons. Until a few years ago he operated
the Risley Spring Water business in New
York Mills, a business started by his father in
1879.
Besides his wife he is survived by three sons
(all Colgate graduates), Raine F. ’33, Sandy
Creek and New York Mills; Richard C. ’35,
Utica, and Floyd E. ’49, New Hartford, and a
daughter, a brother and eight grandchildren.

C harles Sc h w eik er t ’97
Dr. Charles Schweikert, retired clergyman,
died suddenly July 1 in Mercy Hospital in
Rockville Centre, Long Island.
Born in Manhattan in July 1870, he attend
ed Colgate Academy, spent two years in the
College and earned his Bachelor of Divinity
degree from Newton (M ass.) Theological Sem
inary. Ordained in New York in 1898, he
became Associate Pastor of the old Fifth Av
enue Baptist Church. Thereafter he served
upwards of 60 years as pastor of the follow
ing Baptist churches: New Brighton, 1901-08;
Union Avenue, Paterson, N. J., 1908-18; Port
Chester, 1919-35; Trinity, 1935-41 and Wyckoff, 1941-53, both in Brooklyn.
During World W ar I he served as Religious
Work Secretary in the eastern seaboard camps
for which the W ar W ork Council of the
Y.M.C.A. cited him for exceptional service
and Simmons University, Abilene, Texas, con
ferred upon him the honorary degree of Doc
tor of Divinity.
At Colgate he was a member of Phi Gamma
Delta. He was always active in civic and
community affairs and while in Port Chester
was made an honorary life member of the
Rotary Club.
He is survived by his wife, of 33 Maple
Dr., New Hyde Park, Long Island, and one
daughter, two grandchildren and two great
grandchildren.

F rank W . Stanton ’04, S’05
The Rev. Frank W . Stanton, Baptist pastor
for many years, died October 21 in the Shel

FOR DECEM BER, 1959

tering Arms Hospital in Athens, Ohio. He
was hospitalized the preceding Saturday after
a fall.
Born in German, N. Y ., in February, 1877,
he came to Colgate from Utica. He prepared
at the Colgate Academy, was a member of
the college class of 1904 and graduated from
the Seminary in 1905. He was ordained into
the Baptist ministry in Sidney Center in June,
1904, and during his lifetime held a number
of pastorates including the following: Bismark, N. D .; Syracuse, Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Pa.,
and Akron, Ohio. His final charge was in
Warren, Ohio, from which he retired five
years ago.
During World W ar 1 he served as the
Director of Religious W ork with the Y.M.C.A.
at the Pelham Naval Training Station.
He is survived by a daughter, Dr. Elizabeth
D. Stanton, an assistant professor at Ohio Uni
versity in Athens, Ohio.

C lyde L. W illiamson ’10
Word has recently been received of the
death of Clyde L. Williamson on November
24, 1957, of coronary thrombosis in the Gold
Beach Hospital, Gold Beach, Oregon.
Born in Earlville in 1887, he prepared for
college at Colgate Academy and spent his
freshman year in the College. At Colgate he
was a member of Delta Upsilon and frequent
ly visited the campus, the latest time being in
1956.
During World W ar I he served with the
W ar W ork Council of the Y.M.C.A. in New
London, Conn.
Until he went west, about fifteen years ago,
he had been engaged in a number of different
business enterprises in the east, including the
Indian Refining Company of Syracuse; S. W .
Straus and Company and L. S. Treadwell Com
pany, brokers in New York City; Schick Elec
tric Shaver Company in New York, of which
he was district sales supervisor, and the Oregon
Engineering Works in New York. Fifteen
years ago he and his wife visited Port Orford,
Oregon, fell in love with the place and settled
there. Mr. Williamson established Williamson
and Haughland, insurance and real estate
agency, of which he was a partner.
He is survived by his wife, whose current
address is 824-33rd St., Seattle 2, Wash., and
seven children all happily married.

J oh n T. L oeber ’12
John T. Loeber, retired chemistry and phys
ics teacher, died at his home in Pittsburgh,
Pa., on October 22.
Born in Brooklyn in January, 1886, he pre
pared for college in Cushing Academy, North
Adams, Mass. Following graduation he began
his long teaching career in Kingsley High
School, Essex Fells, N. J., and a year later
transferred to Pittsburgh where he taught
successively at East Liberty Academy, Knox

ville High School and the University of Pitts
burgh. Following World W ar I he taught
at the University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie and
Carrick High Schools and since 1928 in the
Peabody High School. During World W ar I
he served in France as the Y.M .C.A.’s Director
of Athletics for the 79th Division. He did
graduate work at Syracuse University, the
University of Pittsburgh and Pennsylvania
State College.
At Colgate he was a member of Phi Gamma
Delta fraternity and a prominent and popular
athlete playing varsity end on the football team
for four years, varsity basketball for four
years, of which he was elected captain in his
junior year. He was also given honorable
mention on Walter Camp’s All-American Foot
ball Team of 1910.
He is survived by his wife, two sons, two
daughters and sixteen grandchildren.

E dwin W . M ugford ’25
Edwin W . Mugford, prominent hotel man
ager, died in Jacksonville, Fla., on August 9Born in Bridgewater, Mass., in 1902, he
came to Colgate from Keene High School,
N. H. In 1923 he started in the hotel busi
ness at the Blackstone in Chicago and was
Assistant Manager at the Drake from 1925 to
1933 when he transferred to the Waldorf-As
toria in New York City and became an assist
ant to Lucius Boomer. Later he became Man
ager of the Taft Hotel in New Haven and in
1939 of the Georgian Terrace in Atlanta, Ga.
In 1943 he became manager of the Seminole
in Jacksonville, Fla. Later he became Resi
dent Manager of the Hotels George Washing
ton, Roosevelt and Ambassador in the same
city.
At Colgate he was a member of Delta
Kappa Epsilon fraternity. During his lifetime
he was an active leader in Boy Scout work.
He is survived by his wife, his mother,
three daughters, a son, four sisters, two broth
ers and seven grandchildren.

E dward L. W ilson , J r . ’40
Col. Edward L. Wilson, Jr., USAF (Ret.)
of Washington, D. C., died October 14 in
Walter Reed Hospital.
Born in Eufaula, Okla., in August, 1918,
his family soon moved to Ridgewood, N. J.,
and Edward prepared for college and was a
prominent athlete in the Ridgewood High
School.
At Colgate he was a member of Delta Up
silon fraternity, played varsity football for
three years and was on the Dean’s List.
After graduation he spent a short time in
sales promotion training with the Atlantic Re
fining Company before joining the Flying
Cadets in 1941. As a flight commander of a
B-42 unit he flew many combat missions in
Africa, Italy and later in Korea. These in
volved the supervision of more than 1000
people.
Between wars he was assigned to Air Force
public relations which ultimately led to his
Capital Hill post as legislative liaison officer
in the House of Representatives. His duties
included presentation of Air Force legislative
programs to Congress and close relationships
with Congressmen and top military leaders.
During the last year and a half, Col. Wilson
was associated with the Air Force Association.

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He became a full colonel before his 35th
birthday and was the recipient of the Silver
Star, two Distinguished Flying Crosses,
Bronze Star, Air Medal with eight clusters and
three Presidential Unit Citations.
He is survived by his father and a sister,
Mrs. Charles Custer of 15 N. Pleasant Ave.,
Ridgewood, N. J., and two brothers.
Interment was made in Arlington National
Cemetery.

B ruce A. L ittlefield ’62
A rth u r F. L ofgren , J r . ’62
Bruce A. Littlefield and Arthur F. Lofgren,
Jr. were killed in an automobile accident on
Route 20 on September 18. W ith two com
panions they were returning to Colgate from
a visit to Hobart College.
Bruce Littlefield, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry
W . Littlefield of 178 Glenarden Dr., Fairfield,
Conn., was born in New Haven, Conn., Sep
tember 28, 1940, and prepared for Colgate at
the Loomis School in Windsor.
Arthur F. Lofgren, Jr., was the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Arthur F. Lofgren of 3 Charles St.,
Wellsboro, Pa., where he was born December
16, 1939. He prepared at Wyoming Semin
ary in Kingston, Pa. Both men were members
of the Sigma Chi fraternity.

Flashes ’58
(Continued from page 30)
tinuing his graduate work at the University of
Wisconsin. He lives in Eagle Heights Apart
ments, Madison.
A reporter on the staff of the Freehold

(N. J .) Transcript, Peter V. Mason is liv
ing at 334 Woodland Rd., Madison.
Pfc. Erwin Schroder is stationed at the
U. S. Army Hospital, Ft. Devens, Mass., as a
psychology specialist in the Mental Hygiene
Clinic.
Although still attending Garrett Biblical
Institute, the Rev. H. Alden W elch is living
in Joliet, 111., and serving as minister of
education in the Grace Methodist Church,
where he was ordained last June.

R obert D. W ebster
325 W est End Ave.
New York, N. Y .

By the first week in November 168 of the
319 members of the Class of 1959 had re
ported their whereabouts and activities to the
Alumni Office. Of this number, 82 are con
tinuing their education in various graduate
schools as follows:
At Colgate —J on C. Cady, W illiam J.
Cashman, J r ., Harold H. D ecker , J r ., W il
liam L. D onahue, Robert K. H askell,
G eorge H. Houlton, Edward J. K ennell ,
J r ., and J ohn T. L eyden.
In Business Administration, at Harvard—
Craig B ollman, J r ., V ance A. H owe,
H eino J. G. G. V on T urk ; at N orthwestern
—-Neal L. Seltzer ; at Pennsylvania —J ohn

W illiam T homas,

J*.

In Dentistry, at B u ffalo— Richard B. My
ers ; at N ew Y ork University — J ames S. At
kinson and Perry M. O pin ; at Rochester—

A lbert K reutner , J r .

In Law, at Albany —W illiam M. O’Hare;
at B rooklyn— D avid J. G agliardi; at B u ffalo
— Angelo F. La D uca ; at California— J udson B reslin ; at Columbia — Matthew C.
Anenberg, Robert M. Schack; at Cornell —
G erald L. Friedman; at D enver —Robert R.
Hoadley, J r .; at Fordham —R obert W.
B land; at Harvard —Robert D. W ebster ;
at Iow a — B rian R. Heaney ; at N ew Y ork
University — Peter G. N ash; at Pennsylvania
— Richard Coman; at Syracuse—Carlton K.
B rownell, J r ., Charles E. I nman, Freder
ick W. Schult , Frederick C. W oodruff,
J r .; at Virginia —T homas L. Langman,
Lewis B. T hurston, III; at Y ale —W illiam
G oldfarb, A lan H. Levine .

In M edicine, at Albany— Frederick A. W il
son ; at B u ffalo — Lattimer H. F ord, J r .; at
Chicago— M orris D. K erstein , M ichael R.
W eiss ; at Harvard —J ay H.'S anders; at J e f
ferson— Charles A. B inder ; at N ew YorkB ellevue —W illiam B. Cohen ; at N ew Y ork
Flow er and F ifth Avenue— B arry Pomer antz ; at Pennsylvania— D orsett D. Smith ;
at Pittsburgh— D avid H. B owman, J ohn C.
Oehrle , J r .; at Tufts— W arren H. G ilbert ,
W illiam P. Straub; , ^ Tulane — Charles P.
R osenbaum ; at W ake Forest— R ichard H.
Me Shane ; at W estern Reserve— J ames A.
Madura.
In T heology, at Colgate-Rochester— Robert
L. B ooher ; at Gettysburg — D ouglas W ern
er ; at Union — L. Stephen Parmelee , J r .
In other graduate schools: at Arizona
{M in es) — H. G ordon F ales, J r .; at B u ffalo
( Clinical Psychology) — Charles A. W eiss ;
at Chicago — Anthony J. B arker ; at Cincin
nati (Arts and Sciences) — Richard C. K eat
ing ; at Cincinnati C ollege o f Embalm ing—
Harold H. Snowdon, J r .; at Connecticut
(Social W o r k )— Robert A. Shapiro ; at H ar
vard (D esig n ) — Michael P. B rooks; at H ofstra (P sychology) — Casimer E. Lipinski, J r .;
at U. o f Iow a (W riter’s W orksh o p ) — J ohn
E. K ingsbury.
Also,
Studies

at
at

John s H opkins ( International
B ologna Italia ) — Robert A.
W i l s o n ; at K ent State — J ames L.
D ’Eramo; at U. o f M adrid, Spain— W il
liam J. F itzgerald; at M ichigan— R oger W.
Sleight, J r .; at N orth Carolina (A n thropology)
— N orman E. W hitten , J r .; at Northwestern
— Philip W. W ilkinson ; at Pennsylvania
(A rchitecture) — Peter G. Castle ; at Prince
ton (P ublic and International A ffa irs) —
Alexander K. Sleght; at Rensselaer Poly
technic Institute — Lawrence R. Paul, J r .;

Frederick W . Phelps , J r .
Also, at Rochester (Chem istry) — Stuart
E. Z immerman ; at Simmons Embalm ing
School— J ohn P. Maurer; at Stam ford— R ob
ert H. D e V oto ; at W illiam sburg, Va.,
Eastern State H ospital (Psychology D ept. ) —
N elson F. Smith ; at Y ale — Charles P.
Hagenah and (A rchitecture) W illiam L.

Laslett.
Employed by business and

industry are:

Paul W. B eardslee, Pet M ilk C o.; D avid F.
B eattie , Merchants N ational Bank and Trust
Co., Syracuse; T racy A. B urnham, J r .,
American Can C o.; Roy T. Carlson, M obil
International Oil C o.; Richmond E. Corwin ,
J r ., A lbert M. Jon es Stable ( harness racer),
Pinehurst, N . C.; Robert A. D errenbacker,
Provident Mutual L ife Insurance C o.; W ilber
P. D ershimer, J r ., G u lf L ife Insurance Co.;

W illiam F. D oescher, T he Bingham ton Press;
Harrison P. D olan, Massachusetts Mutual
L ife Insurance C o.; J ohn E. Estabrook, J r .,
Estabrook Painting Co., Syracuse.

Also, J ohn C. Francis, Travelers Insurance
C o.; Robert A. F uchslocher, Procter and
G am ble; J erry B. G app , Esso Standard Oil
C o.; Peter J. Gridley, /. W alter Thom pson
C o.; Paul D. Grinwis , Y.M .C.A., Newark,
N . J .; W illiam P. Halquist, H alquist Cannon
Stone Co., Sussex, W is.; R ichard A. J enks,
Scott Paper C o.; Michael N- K ellerman,
Dun and Bradstreet, Inc.; T heodore H. K en
dall, J r ., Public Service Electric and Gas Co.,
N ew ark, N. J . ; H. Ross Lemmon , B ell T ele
phone Laboratories ; Richard L. Lowenberg,
Equitable L ife Assurance C o.; J ames W . Mackin , Comm ercial Shearing and Stamping Co.,
Youngstown, Ohio.
Richard C. Mulligan, Pratt and
A ircraft; Robert A. N elson , Texa
J oel N ewman, Stern B ros.; N or
Pancoast, G eneral Electric C o.; G.
K irk Raab, Charles P fizer and Co., Inc.,
B rooklyn ; Charles A. R eincke , J r ., Procter
and G am ble; G ary Reitzas, F. R. Knitting
M ills, Inc., F all River, M ass.; K enneth F.
Rice, J r ., Atlantis Sales; J ohn C. Sassaman,
I.B .M .; W illiam H. Seibert , Texaco, Inc.;
B enjam in R. Shore, J r ., Fairchild Publica
tions; Earl F. Signer , J r ., C hicopee M ills;
R ichard B. Sleezer , T he Travelers Insurance
C o.; D avid M. Small, U. S. Gypsum.
Also,
W hitney
co, Inc.;
man A.

Also, R oger C. Smith , Revere Copper and
Brass; R ussell C. Staurovsky, Shell O il Co.;
M ati T ammaru, Dept, o f Interior, Bureau of
M ines; T homas B. T readwell, U. S. Steel;
Philip A. V ail , M ac/s, N ew Y o rk ; Alfred
G. V. V an B euren , J r ., First W estchester
N ational B an k; Scott H. W erner , Corners
Shop (sporting g o o d s), B ed ford ; Paul E.
W ish , III, J. C. Penney Go.; R obert B.
W yckoff , Pure Carbonic.
Members of the class in various branches of
the armed services are: In the A ir Force —

Robert B. B achman, H oward C. B erky,
D onald F. Campbell , J on L. Cheshire,
Robert J. G erberg, Edwin W . G regory,
Paul D. J affe , Edward H. K enerson, II,
Constantine P. Stefanou , O liver J. Zink .
In the Army — Robert E. D ohm , Richard
D. D riscoll, J ohn F. D urkee , D ante V.

D urante, J r ., G eorge K. Erickson, B ruce
E. Gillespie , Maynard W. G urnsey, Paul
K essel, G eorge P. K ingston, Richard L.
Lindstrom, Edward R. Me Ewan, Abel J.
M errill , W illiam O. Schmeh , Robert S.
T ate, Richard P. Z immerman.
In the Marines — Ray D. Ammon, J ohn S.

Clarke .
In the N avy — Marcus P. B eebe , C lyde
A. Case, III, Raymond C. Harding, T homas
B. Ireland, Paul C. Snow, Raymond H.
V izethann, J r ., Stephen B. W hite .
Five members of the class report teaching
and administrative positions in secondary
schools and colleges as follows: Philip W.
Hart, T he Orme School, Mayer, A riz.; J ames
A. Hoke , H olland Patent Central School;
G eorge R. N elson, Riverdale Country Day
S ch oo l; H unter M. T emple , T he Punahou
School, H onolulu, H aw aii; B radley N.
T ufts , B ucknell University.

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Natural Science and Math Visiting Committee on Campus
U. of Pittsburgh
Annual Cross Examination Debate Tournament
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Cornell
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Hamilton Community Chorus:
Mendelssohn’s "St:. Paul.”
10:30 p.m.
All-University Christmas Vesper
Chapel
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"The Thirteen” Christmas Concert Tour
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20th — Union League Christmas Concert, New York City
21st — Wantagh H. S. (tent.) ; Port Washington H. S.; Sewanahaka H. S.
22nd — Southhampton H. S.; Floral Park H. S.
12:00 noon
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Christmas Invitational Hockey Tournament
(Bowdoin, Brown, Cornell, Hamilton, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Williams, Colgate)
Bangor, Maine
Downeast Classic Basketball Tournament
(Bates, Bowdoin, Colby, Columbia, St. Michaels, Delaware, Maine, Colgate)
Classes Resume
Campus Fund Drive Rally
Army
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Buffalo
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Buffalo
Chamber Band Concert
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Rutgers
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Dartmouth
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Alfred
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Yale
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Hobart
Hamilton
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Clarkson
Wrestling (V )
Albany Academy
Swimming ( F )
Wrestling ( F )
Cornell
Music Department Recital: Colgate Choir
Classes End
Exams Begin
High School Invitational
Swimming (V )
Griffiss Air Base
Hockey (V )
Exams End
Millrose A. A.
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From New York Life's yearbook of successful insurance career men!

ARTHUR C. WOOD, Jr.
signed up for
lifelong security while
still an Army Major!
A decorated Field Artillery Officer who rose from Lieu
tenant to Major, Arthur C. Wood, Jr., began a distin
guished career as a New York Life representative while
still on terminal leave. This was his first full-time job,
and his keen interest in it led him to study for and earn
the professional designation of Chartered Life Under
writer. Now in his fourteenth year with New York Life,
Arthur Wood’s fine sales record assures him of lifelong
financial security under the Company’s unique compen
sation plan.
Arthur Wood, like many other college alumni, is well
established in a career as a New York Life representative.
In business for himself, his own talents and ambitions
are the only limitations on his potential income. In addi
tion, he has the deep satisfaction of helping others. If
you or someone you know would like more information
on such a career with one of the world’s leading life
insurance companies, write:

ARTHUR C.
WOOD, Jr., C.L.U.
N ew Y o rk L ife

Representative at

th e D allas, Texas,
G eneral O ffic e

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