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MASS. STATE COLLEGE

AMHERST, MASS.

Volume XXI, No. I
October 1938

COLLEGE REOPENS

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THE ALUMNI BULLETIN

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN
MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

ASSOCIATE ALUMNI OF
MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

President, Harry Dunlap Brown '14 of Billerica
Vice-President, Alden C. Brett '12 of Belmont
Secretary. William L. Doran '15 of Amherst
Treasurer, Clark L. Thayer '13 of Amherst
Assistant Secretary, George E. Emery '24 of Amherst

Board of Directors
to 1939

Michael J. McNamara '17 of Hartford, Conn.
David Potter '16 of Worcester

Albert W. Smith '22 of Springfield

Theoren L. Warner '08 of Sunderland
to 1940
Walter T. Bonney '31 of Springfield

John J. Maginnis '18 of Worcester

Lester Needham '14 of Springfield

F. Civille Pray '06 of Amherst
to 1941
Richard J. Davis '28 of Boston

Thomas P. Dooley '13 of West Roxbury

George W. Edman '21 of Pittsfteld

Ralph F. Taber '16 of West Newton
to 1942
Erford W. Poole 196 of New Bedford

David P. Rossi ter 37 of Maiden

Zoe Hickney \\ hite '32 of Worcester

Alfred E. Wilkins '15 of Wakefield

The Alumni Bulletin is sent ten times each year to all members of
the Associate Alumni. Annual memberships are: Sustaining $10.00,
Ordinary $3.00.

Renewal notice: Every member of the Associate Alumni receives,
enclosed in a Bulletin, a statement when his membership expires.
Expiration is always 12 months from date when membership is re-
ceived by Alumni Office.

Cover picture — students on the cross-walk photo-
graphed by John Vondell for the 1938 Index.

'15 William Hatfield recently opened his own
business in Bluefield. West Virginia, a nursery and
landscape architect service. He has been doing work
in South Western Virginia, in West Virginia, in
North Carolina and Tennessee.

'17 Monsell H. Davis is clerk for Swift & Co. at
the Union Stock Yard in Chicago, Illinois.

'17 Major Charles H. Henry, quartermaster
corps, United States Army, has been transferred
from St. Louis to Philadelphia. He is attending the
quartermaster school and is studying business ad-
ministration, economics, law, government contracts,
transportation. He remarks that apparently the
older one becomes the more there is to learn.

'17 Fred C. Larson is industrial engineer with
Waldorf Paper Products Co., St. Paul, Minnesota.

'17 Earl Breckenridge is a life insurance agent.
He is located in the Union Industrial Bank Building,
Flint, Michigan.

'18 Harlan N. Worthley, professor of entomology
at Pennsylvania State College, returned there last
June after a leave of absence during which he did
work for his Ph.D. at Ohio State University.

'18 Raymond St. George, entomologist for the
U.S.D.A., Washington, D. C, has been devoting
some time to the study of termite control.

NEWS AND NOTES
OF THE CLASS OF

1916

Beginning with this issue of the Bulletin and con-
tinuing throughout the year biographic notes about
members of the class of 1916 will appear in a column
under the above head. The material for this column
has been assembled in large part by Dutch Schlotterbeck
for his class.

Although 1916 unquestionably made a mark on
the campus (no doubt several marks) during the
four years which began in the fall of 1912 there
have been two, more recent, permanent, physical
additions to our campus in which 1916 was particu-
larly involved and to which every member of the
class, and every graduate of the College, can point
with pride. These additions are the physical edu-
cation building and the handsome Goodell Library.
Clint Goodwin was architect for both. Goodwin
also drew the plans for the remodeling of the interior
of the Old Chapel now used as headquarters and
classrooms for the liberal arts departments; and if,
by chance, you haven't inspected one or all of these
three buildings we urge that you do so on your next
visit to the campus.

Since 1920 Clint has been partner in the firm of
Morse, Dickinson and Goodwin, architects and
engineers, in Haverhill, Mass. Previous to this he
had been for three years a supervisor in the Haverhill
school department and, for a year, with Thomas
Desmond, landscape architect, in Hartford, Conn.
In 1936 he was awarded the honorary academic
activities medal at the College.

Clint is married and has three children, two boys
and a girl. The older boy, Clinton, Jr., is a sopho-
more at Mass. State.

Jimmie Nicholson was one of the fourteen dele-
gates appointed to represent the American Red
Cross at the XVIth International Conference of the
Red Cross held at St. James' Palace, London,
England, June 17 to 25 inclusive. Held once every
4 years the conference attracts representatives from
the 63 national Red Cross societies of 63 nations.

Delegates were received at an afternoon levee held
at Buckingham Palace by King George and by
Queen Mary. Receptions and dinners were accorded
by his Majesty's Government, the Lord Mayor of
London, and distinguished public officials. Many
significant resolutions were adopted by the confer-
ence, and they will in time, it is expected, become a
part of the Treaty of Geneva.

Jimmie has served the American Red Cross since
1919 and, after having held several important
national offices, is now manager of the Chicago
Chapter, the largest unit of the American Red Cross.
He was a delegate to the International Conference
at Tokyo in 1934.

(Continued on page 7)

TIIK ALUMNI UULLKTIN

DR. J. B. LINDSEY 'S3 AM) MRS.
LINDSEY OBSERVE ANNIVERSARY

ALUMNI NIGHT GATHERINGS
RE HELD OCTOBER 27

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On June 20, last, Dr. Joseph B. Lindsey '83 and
Mrs. Lindsey celebrated their fiftieth wedding anni-
versary at their home on Lincoln Avenue in Amherst.

Dr. Lindsey had been research chemist at the
Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station for
forty years when, in 1932, he was retired from the
position which he long had filled with high distinction.
His pioneering work in animal nutrition is nationally
known.

Since his retirement, however, Dr. Lindsey has
continued to be a
familiar figure on
campus. He is often
to be seen at aca-
demic exercises, at
varsity games, and
he has frequently
stopped in at the
alumni office to assist
in clarifying records
and statistics con-
cerning members of
some of the earlier
classes. As secretary
of his own class he
has maintained a
complete and de-
tailed historical rec-
ord of the activities
of his classmates.

On June 20 Dr.
and Mrs. Lindsey
received many notes
and telegrams of
congratulations from
these Alumni and
from their many
friends at the Col-
lege and elsewhere.
Neighbors, friends,

and associates of Dr. and Mrs. Lindsey called at the
Lindsey home during the day and in the evening.

ELIAS WHITE '94 RETIRES EROM
POSTAL SERVICE

Dr. and Mrs. Joseph B. Lindsey, at the celebration of

their golden wedding anniversary.

Standing, left to right: Joseph B. Lindsey, Jr., Mrs.

Joseph B. Lindsey, Jr., Mrs. Charles E. Goodhue, Jr.,

(daughter), Charles E. Goodhue, Jr.

Annually, for twenty consecutive years, Alumni ol

Massaehusel Is Stale have been meeting in thi fell

in various centers throughout the United State:
They come together to renew their acquaintanc ind
friendship with college contemporaries and cl I
mates, to discuss "old times" on the campus and to
relive happy experiences, to learn about the progress
of Alma Mater. That those Alumni Nighi reunions
have been pleasant and enjoyable events is evidenced
by the enthusiastic reports received each year by the

alumni office.

Alumni f Night is
scheduled this year,
for Thursday, Octo-
ber 27. Although
not every meeting
will take place on
that date — local con-
ditions making some
other date more to
be preferred — it is
expected that most
of the gatherings will
be held on that last
Thursday in Octo-
ber. Watch the mails
for notice of the
Alumni Night get-
together to take
place near you; and
then plan to attend.
You'll have a good
time!

Arrangements are
being made for meet-
ings at the following
places:

Springfield, Mass.
Worcester, Mass.
Concord, Mass.
Philadelphia, Pa.
Washington, D. C.
Cleveland, Ohio
Chicago, Illinois
Fresno, California
Los Angeles, Calif.

Danvers, Mass.
Providence, R. I.
New Haven, Conn.
Hartford, Conn.
Pittsford, Vermont
New York City

Geneva, N. Y.

After having served faithfully and well for more
than forty-one years in the United States postal
service, Elias White '94 was retired on June 1, 1937
from the Los Angeles, California, post office. He
had reached the age limit at which retirement be-
comes mandatory.

In 1895 he joined the railway mail service with
headquarters at Atlanta, Georgia, and remained in
that branch for thirteen years. He then transferred
to stationary office work, and for many years had
been located in Southern California. Mr. White is
now living at 319 East 6th Street, La Verne, Cal.

'24 Alex Grieve is manager of W. T. Grant Store
in Saginaw, Mich. He writes that he often sees
Chet Whitman '24 and Pat Myrick '24.

'24 Will Whitney is assistant to the managing
editor of the Jay Emanuel Publications, 219 North
Broad Street, Philadelphia, the publishers of The
National Exhibitor.

'26 Duncalf Hollingworth is research chemist for
the Panelyte Corporation, Trenton, N. J.

'26 Harold Jensen is chemical supervisor for the
Philippine Manufacturing Co., Manila, Philippine
Islands.

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN

OBITUARIES

Alexander C. liirnie w'97

Alexander C. Birnie w'97, died at the Springfield,
Mass., hospital on July 17, 1938.

Mr. Birnie was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., February
25, 1877, but had spent most of his life in Ludlow,
Mass. He had been prominent in the construction
business in Western Massachusetts for many years.

He is survived by his wife, two daughters, a son,
a granddaughter and a sister.

Wilfred A. Parsons '88

On July 17, 1938, Wilfred A. Parsons '88 died at
the Cambridge, Mass., hospital following a brief
illness. He was seventy-one years old.

He had made his home for many years in South-
ampton, Mass., where he was owner of a large dairy
and fruit farm.

After being graduated from the College, which he
entered from Williston Academy, Parsons worked as
assistant chemist at the Experiment Station until
the illness of his father called him home.

On December 14, 1898 he married Miss Marlina
Way of Portland, Maine, who, with one son, two
daughters, and six grandchildren, survives him.

Wilfred Parsons was a man of high ideals, re-
spected by all who knew him. He was always inter-
ested in the College and, on June 9, 10, and 11,
attended the fiftieth reunion of his class on the
campus.

Through his death Massachusetts State College
and the class of 1888 have lost a true and faithful
Alumnus and friend.

Herbert C. Bliss
Secretary, Class of 1888

Edward L. Kin£ '16

Edward L. King '16 died at his home in Newton
Centre, Mass., on September 7, 1938. He was born
in New Britain, Conn., on January 24, 1894.

Both in College and as an Alumnus Ed was a
prominent and popular member of his class.

At an early age he displayed great interest in
baseball — the story is told of him that, as a small
boy, he distressed his parents by insisting on wear-
ing a baseball uniform to bed in lieu of pajamas.
For four years, he was a member of the varsity base-
ball team at the College and captain his senior year.

After being graduated he played with the Phila-
delphia American League baseball club, the Boston
National League club, the Springfield club in the
Eastern League, and had been sold to the Boston
Red Sox before he entered the curtain and drapery
manufacturing busin33s in BD?ton with his fathsr.

Four years ago he was appointed to the post of
Massachusetts state liquidation auditor for closed
banks in which position he was employed at the
time of his death.

Ed King always had maintained great interest in
his class and College and was a frequent attendant
at 1916 reunions and other alumni gatherings. His
death is a great loss to his classmates and friends.
His wife and three children survive.

G. Merrill Davis '31

On July 30, 1938 the newspapers of the nation
ominously announced that the huge, 26-ton, Hawaii
Clipper with fifteen persons on board was missing in
the typhoon area of the Pacific off the Philippine
Island of Samar. Subsequent dispatches have since
given no word of the plane or its wreckage having
been sighted.

Second officer on the Clipper was G. Merrill Davis
'31.

After being graduated from the College where he
distinguished himself as a baseball and basketball
player, Merrill went to Pensacola, Florida, where he
was trained as an airplane pilot at the Naval Air Base.

He then entered the employ of Pan American Air-
ways and was assigned as pilot to the regular flight
between Miami and Havana, Cuba. He had recently
been transferred to the west coast, and this flight
from San Francisco westward to the Philippines was
his first on the Pacific route.

MARRIAGES

'27 & '32 Lawrence E. Briggs to Miss Mildred
Twiss, August 24, 1938 at Amherst, Mass.

'27 Miss Edith McCabe to Keith J. Lewis, Sep-
tember 10, 1938 at Holyoke, Mass.

'31 Walter T. Bonney to Miss Dorothy Baker,
July 20, 1938 at Greenfield, Mass.

'32 John Burrington to Miss Ella Brown, August
8, 1938 at Berlin, Vermont.

'32 Eben D. Holder to Miss Janet E. Cargill in
New York City, October 12, 1935.

*33 Ralph Bickford to Miss Margaret McGregory,
December 4, 1937 at Aguirre, Porto Rico.

'33 Miss Margaret Gerrard to John B. Kidney,
July 2, 1938 at Holyoke, Mass.

'33 William T. Smith to Miss Emma M. Reed,
July 2, 1938 at Westport, Mass.

'35 & '36 Frederick N. Andrews to Miss Gertrude
Evelyn Martin, September 3, 1938 at Shrewsbury,
Mass.

'35 Miss Charlotte Casey to Douglas Palmer
Adams, September 1, 1938 at Easthampton, Mass.

'35 James E. Gavagan to Miss Jean Earle Percy,
July 16, 1938 at Bennington, Vermont.

'36 Richard T. Kennett to Miss Alice Owens,
August 3, 1938 at Berkeley, California.

'36 & '36 Albert P. Richards to Miss Beatrice
Rafter, June 25, 1938 at Sharon, Mass.

'36 & '35 Roger Warner to Miss Dorothy Cook,
July 27, 1938 at Hadley, Mass.

'36 & '38 Gordon Whaley to Miss Clare Youngren
June 20, 1938 at Amherst, Mass.

'37 & '37 James F. Cutter to Miss Muriel Cain,
August 13, 1938 at Conway, Mass.

'37 & '36 Walter Lewis to Miss Bessie Proctor,
July 27, 1938 at Lunenburg, Mass.

(Continued on page 5)

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN

WITH THE ALUMMAE

By Leonta Horrigan '36

Mary E. M. Garvoy '19, assistant professor of
bacteriology at the College, is on a year's leave of
absence from her position and is taking graduate
work at the University of Chicago. Since February,
1935, Mary has conducted this Alumnae column and
made it a source of interesting information and news
about women graduates of the College.

Annali Flyiin '36 who received her M.A. degree
from Smith on June 20, has been appointed to the
staff of the Erie Day School in Erie, Pa., where she
will teach and do remedial reading work throughout
the school. For the past year and a half she has
been a teacher at the Smith College Day School.

Esther Smith '37 who was recently graduated
from Northampton Commercial College, is to teach
commercial subjects in the Wilmington, Vermont,
High School.

Alice Gunn '34 is teaching in the Athol, Mass.,
High School.

Louisa Townc '38 is teaching home economics in
the Hinsdale, N. H., High School.

Sylvia Winsor Moseley '36 of Acushnet, Mass.,
was the exhibitor of prize-winning gladioli at the
Boston show of the New England Gladiolus Society
in Horticultural Hall in August.

Julia Graves '38 is attending the Northampton
Commercial College.

Kay O'Brien '36 is a member of the Fells Research
Institute at Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio.

The Poets Press, Rockefeller Center, New York,
has just announced publication of a volumn of
poems, "Only the Soft Wind," by Faith Evelyn
Packard '29.

In commenting on the work Professor Walter E.
Prince said, "With this collection a poet who de-
serves well to be known, makes her bow to the
poetry-loving public. Characterized by sincerity, by
delicacy of fancy and expression and often by a cap-
tivating, sprite-like quality, Miss Packard's work
shows, too, an unexpected strength. Her poetry de-
lights the reader by this unlooked-for power as well
as by its nimbleness and grace, its very evident
feeling for the wonder and mystery of nature and of
life. Here surely are poems no lover of poetry can
afford to miss."

Elfriede Klaueke *33, former assistant to Pro-
fessor Lawrence Dickinson '10 in the agronomy de-
partment at the College is lawn consultant for Ross
Brothers Seed Company in Worcester, Mass.

MARRIAGES

(Continued from page I
'37 David Peterson to Miss Miriam Pauline
Hafka, July 9, 1938 at Hartford, Conn.

'38 Miss Frances Morley to Carl S. Gerlach

June 24, 1938 al Amherst, Mass.

BIRTHS

'32 A son, Lennart Ernst, to Mr. and Mrs.
Lewis Long (Stina Berggren '32 1, June 8, 1938 at
Worcester, Mass.

'33 A son, Richard Arthur, to Mr. and Mrs.
Arthur E. Bearse, July 9, 1938 at Sharon, Mass.

'33 & '33 A son, Thaddeus, to Mr. and Mrs.
Benjamin D. Betts (Eleanor Townsend), August 17,
1938 at Brattleboro, Vermont.

'33 A son, George Earnest, to Mr. and Mrs.
Charles W. Moody, May 30, 1938 at Pittsfield, Mass.

'33 A son, Lawrence, Jr., to Mr. and Mrs.
Lawrence Southwick, September 5, 1938 at North-
ampton, Mass.

'33 A son, Gerald Edwin, to Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln
White (Marjorie Carey '33), March 12, 1938 at
Palmer, Mass.

'34 & '36 A son, Richard Hopkins, to Mr. and
Mrs. George D. Moody (Alice Hopkins), July 4, 1938
at North Andover, Mass.

'35 A daughter, Judith Helena, to Mr. and Mrs-
Raymond K. Evans, September 3, 1938 at North-
ampton, Mass.

'36 A son, Raymond Milton, Jr., to Mr. and Mrs.
R. Milton Snow, July 31, 1938 at Fitchburg, Mass.

'30 Sergius Bernard is the newly appointed
coach of varsity athletics at Clark University,
Worcester, Mass. He will coach soccer, basketball,
and baseball.

'30 Bill Drew who has just gone to Carleton
College, Northfield, Minnesota, as associate pro-
fessor of botany spent the summer in Estes Park,
Colorado, near Dr. J. W. Hall '78, a well known
diagnostician of Denver, now retired .

'30 John R. Tank is horticultural inspector for
the New York Department of Agriculture and
Markets. He lives at 1311 Park Avenue, Mama-
ronek, N. Y.

'32 Bill Fisher is assistant buyer of period furni-
ture for R. H. Macy & Company in New York.

'32 Freddie Welch is teaching and coaching at
the Millis, Mass., High School.

'33 John R. Hanson is assistant agricultural
economist with the U.S.D.A. in Washington, D. C.

'34 Russ MacCleery is field representative for
New England for the National Highway Users
Conference of Washington, D. C. Russ lives in
Carlisle, Mass.

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN

ATHLETICS

Football

Mike Fenton, retired janitor of French and Wilder
Halls, has long been a staunch supporter of the
varsity teams. On Monday afternoon, September 12,
Mike was out on Alumni Field to watch the States-
men in their initial pre-season football practice
session — and Mike seemed rather glum.

The reasons he would give you for his gloom were
these.

A squad of thirty candidates reporting for practice
a full week later than squads of forty-five at both
American International College and Amherst.

Ends averaging 5' 6" in height as against the 6' 5"
ends who soon will oppose the Statesmen.

A lack of experienced tackles.

No experienced forward passer.

No experienced punter.

(All of which is probably reason enough to make
any Massachusetts State partisan just a little down
in the mouth.)

But, on the other hand, Mike would readily admit
that there was some cause for cheer, to wit.

Em Grayson '17, helping Coach Caraway with the
line; and the prospect of Lou Bush '34 soon return-
ing to help with the backs.

A squad which although small in numbers and
stature seemed to go about its practice in a big-
business-like way.

Captain Clif Morey '39 of Belmont, a capable
leader, and a competent end.

Red Blasko '40 of Amherst, a good center for
anybody's team.

Some sophomores who should develop into both
ball carriers and linemen.

Leo Santucci '40 of Palmer, a 4' 11 \" fullback
and defensive end who was definitely helpful to last
year's team and who definitely is our hero — next to
Charlie McCarthy.

Tennis Courts

For fifteen years the student body has been ask-
ing, pleading, petitioning for tennis courts — to sup-
plement the two already provided on the campus.
And it would appear that there was some justifica-
tion in the students' position; two tennis courts
seem hardly adequate for the needs of a college
student body of eleven hundred.

Now, at long last it begins to look as though the
students' pleas may be recognized, for a WPA grant
made available in June has been used to construct
and, as we go to press, finish four hard-pan surfaced
courts just west of the physical education building
and to carry construction of four more courts well
along toward completion. All eight courts are yet to
be fenced and made ready for play. But when that
work is done the tennis-minded students (and there
are many of them) should be happy.

The WPA gangs have been working since June 22
in two daily shifts — virtually from sun up to sun
down; and supervising their work has been Curry
Hicks. It seemed that there was no WPA man who
had knowledge of the technique of tennis court con-
struction and it was impossible to hire such a super-
intendent. So Curry took his summer vacation
on Sundays.

FALL SCHEDULES

Football

Sept.

American Int'l College

here

Oct.

Bowdoin

there

Connecticut State

there

Rhode Island State

here

Worcester Tech

here

Amherst

there

Nov.

Coast Guard

here

R. P. I.

there

Tufts

Soccer

there

Oct.

Dartmouth

there

Connecticut State

there

Fitchburg

here

Springfield

here

Amherst

here

Nov.

Trinity

there

Wesleyan

Cross Country

here

Oct.

Northeastern

there

M. I. T.

here

W. P. I.

here

Nov.

Conn. Valley Championships

here

N. E. Intercollegiates

Boston

Rensselaer

here

THK AUJMNI BULLETIN

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WITH

THE

BOSTON ALUMNI

'"!'t"'T

By Dennis M. Crowley '29

Carl Gurshin '17 is in the real estate business in
Newton. He lives at 92 Cotten Street.

Paul Whorf '15 is assistant manager for the In-
ternational Harvester Company's Boston branch.

I. Chenery Salmon m'"2.> is statistician for the
Merchants National Bank on State Street.

Ross Annis '10 has a daughter in the sophomore
class at Bennington College.

Bert Holland '29 teaches science in the Brookline
High School.

Hail Carpenter '19 is manager of the landscape
department of the Burbrec Nurseries out in Lexington.

Elmer Hathaway '09 is assistant treasurer of the
Hathaway Bakeries, 33 Richdale Ave., Cambridge.

Bill Budge '26 is chemist for the H. P. Hood &
Son dairy in Charlestown.

Fred R. Congdon '36 of Great Barrington who is
a Tufts Medical student was vice president of his
class in his first and second years in the school.

Wallace L. Chesbro, M.D., '31 is interne at the
Boston City Hospital. He was graduated last June
from Tufts Medical School along with Milt Kibbe
who is interning at Plainfield, N. J.

Editor's note: It is impossible for us to resist
printing the following little note which has
come to our attention concerning the conductor
of this Boston column.

When Oswald Tippo's son was born recently
Tip named the lad Ray Ethan, after Ray
Ethan Torrey '13, professor of botany at the
College. In writing to Crowley about it Tip
said, "I could see no reason why I shouldn't
name my boy after the man I most admire,
especially since you named your son after the
man you most admire."

Crowley's son is called Dennis Michael, Jr.

PAUL FRESE '28 APPOINTED EDITOR

An illustrated folder recently received from the
business manager of Flower drawer, the home gar-
dener's magazine, announced that Paul Frese '28
had been appointed editor of I tie magazine,

For the past two years Paul has been associate
editor and director of the garden department lor
Better Humes and Gardens and goes to New York
from Des Moines. The plans of his present pub-
lishers call for continued development of Flower
drawer as America's largest all-garden magazine.

CLASS OF 1916

(Continued from page 2 )
Appointive public offices which he has held include
membership on the advisory board of the Cook
County Bureau of Public Welfare; board of directors
of the Cook County Hospital Training School;
manager, Illinois Emergency Relief Commission;
board of directors, Community Fund of Chicago,
Council of Social Agencies of Chicago, and the
Travelers' Aid of Chicago.

Reginald Hart is entomologist for the Florida
State Plant Board and is located in Miami. Reg is
married and has four children (ages ranging from 6'
to 14), all four of whom he thinks will eventually
attend Massachusetts State College.

Reg has been in entomological work since he was
graduated from the College. He was first located in
Massachusetts, next in Cuba, and, since 1921, with
the Florida State Plant Board.

He is the author of numerous scientific bulletins,
articles, and pamphlets on entomological subjects —
some of these written in Spanish, no less.

Reg says that he occasionally sees the following
Alumni who are or have been in Florida.

Wallie Hodge '16 who has been doing land-
scape work for the National Park Service in the
Miami area, and Al Coe '16 who now is in Miami.
Adrian Barnes '25, superintendent of Dade
County parks.

Jerry Curtis '07 who has been doing the
landscape work for the Orange Bowl stadium.

Herbert Armstrong '97 now with the South-
ern Florida Potato Growers Association in
Goulds, Florida.

Doc Gadsby '24, a regional director for the
National Parks Service who formerly was doing
work in Florida.

M. R. Brown '12, assistant nursery inspector
with the Florida State Plant Board and stationed
in Winter Haven.

George B. Merrill '11, associate entomolo-
gist with the Plant Board and stationed in
Gainesville.

Hart's present address is Box 842, Miami, Florida.
He says that he wishes some of his classmates would
write to him, and he promises to reply — in English,
not in Spanish.

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN

As this issue of the Bulletin goes to press the 72nd
class is being admitted to the College. It is expected
that the freshmen, 1942, will number about 340. The
next Bulletin will carry full information about student
enrollment.

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MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE
ALUMNI NIGHT

Thursday, October 27, 1938

Alumni throughout the United States will meet in various local centers

for an enjoyable social evening.
Watch the mails for a notice of the meeting to be held nearest to you.

PLAN TO ATTEND. YOU'LL HAVE A GOOD TIME

DON'T FEED THE BEARS"

Victor Cahalane '24 who is acting director of the
wildlife division of the National Parks Service had a
long, well-illustrated, and interesting article in the
Saturday Evening Post of July 23 called "Don't Feed
the Bears." Cahalane explained graphically and
vividly how the bears, wild animals at best, can and
may do damage to those national park tourists who
are sometimes likely to refuse food to the animals
once the animals are accustomed to being fed.

He concluded his article with the following para-
graph.

"The visitor who still wishes to jeopardize his own
safety and the rights of others might consider the
future of the bears themselves. The cute little cubs
who are fed today grow into big bears who have no
fear of man. Growing up with this strength and
predatory outlook on life and human beings, they
become a menace. By feeding the cubs the way is
paved for a gradual degeneration, leading eventually
to their death warrants. (Park officials do away with
those animals which become ferocious.^ Everybody
likes the bears; they should be given a chance to
lead a normal life. Let us keep our wild life wild.

"Don't Feed the Bears!"

'36 George H. Allen who received his M.B.A.
degree from Harvard last June is executive assistant
in the sales promotion department of the National
Theatre Supply Co., 96 Gold St., New York City.

'36 Elmer Allen is teaching at Smith's Agricul-
tural School in Northampton, Mass.

'36 Dean Glick who is a graduate student at the
Harvard School of Design, was recently awarded the
competitive Austin Scholarship in Landscape Archi-
tecture by Harvard University.

'37 Kenwood Ross is studying law at the North-
eastern University school in Springfield, Mass. Ken
goes to school nights and works during the day in
the office of his father, Walter C. Ross, patent
attorney, in Springfield.

ALUMNI ON FARM AND HOME
WEEK PROGRAM

Alumni not connected with the College who ap-
peared on the Farm and Home week program on the
campus, July 26 to 29, included the following:

Raymond C. Allen '31, instructor in floriculture,
Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y.

R. II. Allen '10, director, Division Plant Pest
Control, Massachusetts Department of Agriculture,
Boston.

L-iurence A. Bevan '13, extension economist.
State College of Agriculture, New Brunswick, N. J.

Leland L. Currier '25, head farmer, Reformatory
for Women, Framingham, Mass.

L. Leland Dudley w'17, superintendent of schools,
Amherst.

George Fuller '14, farmer, Deerfield.

Leland J. Graham '17, manager, Connecticut
Poultry Producers, Inc., New Haven, Conn.

Mrs. Sylvia W. Mosely '36, gladiolus grower,
Acushnet, Mass.

Lawrence D. Hlio iilc. '27, secretary-treasurer,
Northampton Production Credit Association, North-
ampton, Mass.

Ernest Ritter '18, manager, Hardwick Farmers'
Exchange, Hardwick, Mass.

Leonard Salter, Jr. '32, chief, Land Economic
Section, U.S.D.A., New Haven, Conn.

Glenn Shaw '35, feed salesman, Manchester,
Conn.

'37 Ralph Aiken is cost accountant with the
General Electric Company, Fort Wayne, Indiana.

'38 Bill Avery is assistant director of the Kurn
Hattin Homes, Westminster, Vermont.

'38 Edgar S. Beaumont is graduate assistant in
landscape architecture at Kansas State College. In
this position he works under Professor L. R. Quinlan,
formerly of the landscape department at Massachu-
setts State.

THE ALUMNI
BULLETIN

MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

AMHERST, MASSACHUSETTS

HURRICANE

Vol. XXI, No. 2

November, 1938

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MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

ASSOCIATE ALUMNI OF
MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

President, Harry Dunlap Brown '14 of Billerica
Vice-President, Alden C. Brett '12 of Belmont
Secretary, William L. Doran '15 of Amherst
Treasurer, Clark L. Thayer '13 of Amherst
Assistant Secretary, George E. Emery '24 of Amherst

Board of Directors
to 1939

Michael J. McNaraara '17 of Hartford. Conn.
David Potter '16 of Worcester

Albert W. Smith '22 of Springfield

Theoren L. Warner '08 of Sunderland
to 1940
Walter T. Bonney '31 of Springfield

John J. Maginnis '18 of Worcester

Lester Needham '14 of Springfield

F. Civille Pray '06 of Amherst
to 1941
Richard J. Davis '28 of Boston

Thomas P. Dooley '13 of West Roxbury

George W. Edman '21 of Pittsfield

Ralph F. Taber '16 of West Newton
to 1942
Erford W. Poole '96 of New Bedford

David P. Rossiter '37 of Maiden

Zoe Hickney White 32 of Worcester

Alfred E. Wilkins '15 of Wakefield

The Alumni Bulletin is sent ten times each year to all members of
the Associate Alumni. Annual memberships are: Sustaining $10.00,
Ordinary $3.00.

NEWS AND NOTES
OF THE CLASS OF

1916

These biographic notes have been assembled by Dutch
Schlotterbeck for his class.

In replying to questions as to what had been
occupying him since June, 1916, Albert Lindquist

said he was "sorry not to have had that sort of 'full'
and amusing life which would make a good story,"
but he added that he has had a lot of fun. And
doubtless he has had.

Al is presently business manager for the Robbin
Publishing Company at 9 East 38th Street, New
York City. Previously he had been editor of a farm
paper, advertising salesman for a Texas newspaper,
and in publicity work for the National Fertilizer
Association.

He says that the Alumnus he sees most frequently
is Sid Masse '15 because both he and Sid are in ad-
vertising work. Al says, "Sid still lives in Cleveland
where he has his own business doing research and
promotion work for publishers of magazines and
newspapers. He is just as nutty and likeable as he
was when at College; and he is successful."

Cover picture — devastation wrought by hurricane to
the French pines on the East ridge of the campus, north
of the Clark estate. View is toward the southeast.

This impressive row of trees, set out by President
French about seventy years ago, was a magnificent
college landmark. The trees were practically all de-
stroyed by the storm.

— Photo by John Vondell

'20 Henry Lyons is district traffic superintendent
for the New York Telephone Company, 4355 West
50th Street, New York City.

'21 Pete Cascio owns and operates a landscape
contracting and nursery business in Hartford. He
has one of the busiest and most progressive organiz-
ations of the kind in that vicinity.

'23 Don Alexander is regional officer for the
National Park Service, 300 Keeline Building, Omaha,
Nebraska.

'24 Al Waugh, professor of economics at Con-
necticut State College, seems to be taking a pretty
active part in Connecticut political life. At least the
Hartford Courant recently printed his picture on the
front page, and the New York Times had a front page
story, both bits of news having to do with Al's par-
ticipation in a Connecticut primary convention. Al
is hardly a stranger, however, in the political affairs
of his adopted state. For some years now he has
been moderator of the town meetings in Mansfield,
the largest town — by gum — in Connecticut,

Art Hendry is superintendent of Wenga Farm,
Armonk, N. Y., where, he says, "We have 1900
apple, 1000 peach, 200 pear trees, an acre of cherries
and two acres of plums — enough to keep us out of
mischief."

Previous to going to Armonk, from 1916 to 1924,
Art was foreman at Conyers Farm in Greenwich,
Conn., where George Drew '97 was superintendent.

Hendry married Lucy A. Howard of Greenwich
and they have four "husky youngsters," aged 13,
11, 8 and 3.

Art is an active member of the North Castle Post
of the American Legion and has held numerous
offices in the Post as well as membership on various
Legion committees.

He is chairman of the Armonk Board of Educa-
tion (has been for the past six years) and his term of
office runs for another three years. He is a charter
member of the Armonk Independent Fire Company
and of its Fife and Drum Corps; he has been con-
cerned with most of the organization's social activi-
ties and fire work.

For 21 years he has been a member of the Junior
Order of United American Mechanics and treasurer
of Banksville Council for 20 years. He has been
deputy state councillor for 14 years and active in the
council's program locally and throughout West-
chester County.

Art says he is a little too busy with other affairs
to give much time or thought to golf, camping,
stamp collecting or skeet shooting.

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HURRICANE SWEEPS I II KOI <.ll CAMPUS

Student-

Professor C. I. Gunness has jbeen in charge of the
meteorological observations, which are taken daily at
the College, for more than ten years. He has care-
fully recorded the various highs and lows in tem-
perature and wind velocity and humidity; but when
on the afternoon of September 21 he saw the mercury
drop, in the Stockbridge Hall barometer, to the
point where it could drop no farther he could hardly
believe his eyes. The drop meant a hurricane, noth-
ing more nor less.
And being a thor-
oughly scientific
man, Professor
Gunness hurried
home to fill out
the barometric-
record, which
could no longer
be taken in Stock-
bridge, on an ane-
roid barometer at
his house. What
he finally was able
to record was the
lowest barometric
reading ever tak-
en in Amherst.

Meanwhile, as
the barometer
dropped, the ve-
locity of the wind rose until it reached 65 miles per
hour at 5.30 o'clock on the afternoon of the 21st,
when the storm was at its peak in Amherst.

It was an amazing and terrifying sight to watch
the trees, telegraph poles and wires being uprooted,
snapped off, broken and twisted. From Memorial
Hall it seemed as though the campus would be dis-
figured beyond hope of restoration. The county
road from Amherst to Greenfield was blocked by
falling trees as were also the various campus roads.

By 7 o'clock, when the storm was abating, it be-
came obvious that the campus was to be damaged
less than at first seemed probable; although the
destruction from the loss of trees in many localities
through the town was appalling. Students soon
appeared in numbers from fraternity houses and
dormitories, found axes, and joined with the town
emergency crews to help clear up the campus and
the roads. Next day was declared a College holiday
and the students reported to Hap Parsons '27,
superintendent of the college farm, and to Bill Arm-
strong '99, superintendent of grounds, to do their
bit in clearing away the fallen trees. When classes

Freshman girls see storm damage on Pleasant
Street. The tree at the left has crashed through
two stories of the house occupied by Miss Ida
Russell, former secretary and technical as-
sistant to the late Dr. C. H. Fernald (see
page 5, column 2) .

were resumed signs "Men Wanted" posted at the
entrance to the camp. is brought expert wood chop
pers from Pelham and Shutesbury who in
order, under Armstrong's direction, worked up the
fallen trees.

It, was four days of continuous rainfall preceding
the 21st, which rainfall was in excess of any recorded
locally for a hundred years, which made the hum' mi
devastation so complete. Soil around the roocs of

trees would not
hold these roots
in place against
the terrific force
of the wind.

When the de-
struction on cam-
pus was evalu-
ated it was esti-
mated that some
■$50,000 damage
had been done.
A few of the col-
lege buildings suf-
fered some dam-
age to their roofs
(farm buildings
suffered more

than other cam-
pus buildings),
there was dam-
There wai no loss of life or

help dear the campus in front of South College
on September 22.

age to walks and roads
serious accident.

About 275 trees, one quarter of those on campus,
were uprooted, or seriously broken. \The splendid
big elm in front of the Physics Laboratory i (the
Physics Laboratory, oldest building on campus, was
altogether unhurt) was uprooted; the^l915^'class
tree north of Memorial Hall was tipped over^on the
1912 class tree where it remained until recently
righted by Armstrong's men; but the fine double
row of elms leading down onto the campus on either
side of Olmsted Road was not disfigured. Damage to
areas in the town, and on the Amherst College
campus, was, on the whole, greater than that^at
Massachusetts State.

The last issue of the Alumni Bulletin was delayed
(Continued on page 8)

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OBITUARIES

Charles M. Walker '99

Charles M. Walker '99 died suddenly in New York
City on September 25, 1938. He had been taken ill
two days before, when alighting from a train from
Florida.

He was born in South Amherst on March 13, 1879
and entered the College after being graduated from
the Amherst public schools. In College he studied
entomology and, later, did graduate work under
Professor Charles H. Fernald. He was assistant for
a number of years to Dr. E. Porter Felt '91 in New
York State. He afterwards did U.S.D.A. investi-
gational work in Texas and then, for ten years, was
connected with a lantern slide and lecturers' supply
business in New York City.

Since 1918 he had been attached to the Adjutant
General's Office in Washington, D. C, and, in recent
years, had been stationed in St. Petersburg, Florida.

Mr. Walker was a great-grandson of James and
Sarah Walker, who, in 1801, emigrated by covered
wagon and flatboat from Conway, N. H., to Cinci-
nnati.

He is survived by a brother, of Darien, Conn., and
by two nieces. Funeral services and burial were in
Darien.

Bradley W. Ban£s '08

Bradley Wheelock Bangs '08 died on September
22, 1938 at his home in Roselle, N. J., following a
long illness. He was fifty-three years old. He was
born in Amherst and attended the Amherst public
schools before entering the College in 1904.

He was associate chief chemist of the American
Agricultural Chemical Company at its Carteret,
N. J., plant and at the time of his death had been
in the employ of the company for twenty-seven years.

He was a member of Alpha Sigma Phi fraternity,
of Masonic orders, of the First Presbyterian Church
of Newark.

He is survived by his wife, two sons, and a sister.

MARRIAGES

'32 and '34 Eric Wetterlow, Jr., to Miss Marjorie
French, October 2, 1938 at Manchester, Mass.

'34 Walter E. Thompson, Jr., to Miss Frances
Townsend, September 17, 1938 at South Hadley,
Mass.

'35 Miss Shirley Putnam to Joseph Dimock,
August 3, 1938 at New York City.

w'35 Rheal Daze to Miss Grace Battersby,
September 24, 1938 at Holyoke, Mass.

'36 Charles W. Marsh to Miss Evelyn Frances
Farnsworth, October 1, 1938 at West Springfield,

Mass.

'37 Miss Kay Wingate to William Leonard,
August 24, 1938 at Fairhaven, Mass.

BIRTHS

'26 A daughter, Susan Goodrich, to Mr. and Mrs.
George Thurlow, October 10, 1938 at West Newbury,
Mass.

'31 A daughter, Judith Ann, to Mr. and Mrs.
Richard Fraser, June 18, 1938 at Framingham, Mass.

'35 A son, John Robert, to Mr. and Mrs. Emil
Tramposch, July 1, 1938 at Jamaica, Long Island,
New York.

STUDENT ENROLLMENT

Statistics of student enrollment for the college
year 1938-39 in the four undergraduate classes of the
regular four-year course have been supplied by May
Turner '08 of the registrar's office, as follows:
Class Men Women Total

1939 160 74 234

1940 174 65 239

1941 220 104 324

1942 237 114 351
Total 791 357 1148

An increased enrollment in the two-year Stock-
bridge School of Agriculture (193 boys in the enter-
ing class this fall) plus graduate and special students
brings the total numbers of students on the campus
to close to fifteen hundred.

BOB HAWLEY '18 MAKES STUDY OF
COLLEGE TRAINING

In the October 8 edition of School and Society there
appeared an article by Robert D. Hawley '18, secre-
tary of the College, called "College Training as
Preparation for Life and for Living."

Taking his text from a statement of U. S. Com-
missioner of Education, Dr. J. W. Studebaker, "The
college which stands aloof from the responsibility of
equipping its students to make a living is not meet-
ing its most important obligation," Bob interpreted
the results of a survey made some two or three years
ago among Massachusetts State Alumni.

A questionnaire was sent to members of five-year
classes between 1895 and 1930 relative to under-
graduate training received at the College; and re-
turns were received from 453 Alumni.

Fifty percent of the Alumni who replied stated
that their undergraduate specialization was directly
related to their present vocations. In 27 percent of
the cases there was no relationship. In 23 percent
relationship was indirect.

Eighty-five percent of the Alumni questioned felt
that undergraduate training received at Massachu-
setts State had high value as preparation for a vo-
cation; 86.3 percent felt it had high value as prepa-
ration for "effective living."

Undergraduate participation in extra-curricular
activities, athletics and academics, seemed not to
influence participation in civic, social, professional
or political activity in later years according to
answers on the questionnaire.

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WITH THE ALUMMAE

By Leonta Horrigan '36

Miss Margaret Hamlin, placement officer for
women at the College, reports that members of the
class of 1938 are engaged as follows:

Klinor Uall is doing graduate work at the College.

Elinor Brown is studying for her Master's Degree
at Clark University.

Florence Cederborg is doing social work for the
Home for Little Wanderers in Boston.

Jessie Chase is supervisor of the cafeteria at New
Haven Junior College.

Stella Crowcll is assistant to the Home Demon-
stration Agent in the Plymouth County Extension
Service.

Gertrude Iladro has a graduate assistantship in
nutrition with the Home Economics Department at
Massachusetts State College.

Kathryn Hill has a dietician's position at the
Morningside School in Richmond, Mass.

Doris Jenkins is with the Peter Mezitt Nursery
in Weston, Mass.

Eleanor Julian is graduate assistant in history at
Massachusetts State College.

Martha Kaplinsky is taking a nutrition course at
the Boston Dispensary.

Marieta Kenyon is teaching home economics at
Ashfield, Mass.

Lois Macomber is graduate assistant in psychol-
ogy at the College.

Lillian Mann is taking the pupil dietician train-
ing course at the Hahnemann Hospital in Phila-
delphia, Pa.

Carol Millard has a sales position at Kennedy's
in Boston.

Barbara Phillips has a sales position at Gray-
son's store in Boston.

Virginia Pond has a position with an insurance
company in Worcester.

Sylvia Randall is governess in a private family,
and will be with them in Florida this winter.

Jane Schopfer has a dietician's position at the
Orchard Home, Waverly, Mass.

(To be continued next month)

ENTOMOLOGISTS DEDICATE

COMMEMORATIVE PLAQ1 E

Graduates in entomology, members of the enlu
mology staff at the College, friends and gu
gathered on the campus on the morning of September
30 to unveil and dedicate a bronze plaque on the
south wing of the present mathematics building,
marking that building as the original home of eco-
nomic entomology at the College. Il was an inter-
esting and impressive meeting.

The plan for the placing of the bronze tablet on
the math building was conceived by Albert F.
Burgess '95 of Greenfield, who, last summer, ac-
quainted all entomology Alumni with his idea of
marking this original home of entomological instruc-
tion on the campus. The idea met with unanimous
favor, and Alumni contributed the necessary funds.
On September 30 Mr. Burgess may well have felt
gratified at. the success of his efforts.

This dedication program included brief remarks
by Mr. Burgess and Dr. C. P. Alexander, head of
the entomology department at the College: a resume
of the development of entomological training at the
College by Dr. Henry T. Fernald. professor emeritus
of entomology. Dr. Fernald, who was for many
years head of the department of entomology and
who is the son of Dr. Charles H. Fernald for whom
Fernald Hall, present entomology building was
named, was the honored guest at the gathering.

Dr. E. Porter Felt '91, director of the Bartlett
Tree Research Laboratories in Stamford, Conn.,
presented the plaque to the College. The acceptance
was made by President Hugh P. Baker who also
extended greetings to the returning Alumni.

Afternoon meetings consisted of informal dis-
cussions of entomological training and of the work
of the department at the College.

Alumni who registered at the exercises were: E. A.
Back '04, W. B. Becker G, A. I. Bourne G, S. W.
Bromley '22, A. F. Burgess '95, E. D. Burgess '29,
S. S. Crossman '09, R. E. Couhig '37, C. E. Elliott
'38, R. E. Evans '38, E. P. Felt '91, H. J. Franklin
'05, Bertram Gerry '23, Ashley Gurney '33, J. F.
Hanson '37, H. E. Hodgkiss '02, Robert P. Hunter
'31, J. B. Knight '91, W. M. Kulash '33, Quincy
Lowry '13, J. H. Merrill G, E. A. Richmond G,
F. R. Shaw '31, Miriam Morse Shaw G, Marion E.
Smith '35, John N. Summer '07, H. L. Sweetman G,
W. E. Tomlinson G, W. D. Whitcomb '17, F. W.
Whittemore '37.

DEDICATION OF ENTOMOLOGY
PLAQUE

Left to right: Albert F. Burgess '95,

President Hugh P. Baker, Dr. C. P.

Alexander, Dr. Henry T. Fernald,

Dr. E. Porter Felt '91.

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ATHLETICS

JIM WARREN RETIRES

Sept. 24
Oct. 1

Oct.

Oct. 8

Scores to Date
Football

Am. Int'l College, here
Bowdoin, there
Connecticut State, there
Rhode Island State, here

Soccer
Dartmouth, there
Connecticut State, there
Fitchhurg State Teachers
College, here
Cross Country
Northeastern, there
M. I. T., here

Statesmen

37
34

Opp.

2
0

21
25

(Low score wins)

We didn't get up to
the exercises at Bruns-
wick, Maine, on Octo-
ber 1, but an able
scout of ours reports
that Johnnie Blasko '40
of Amherst and Leo
Santucci '40 of Palmer,
center and halfback re-
spectively for the
Statesmen put in a
very full afternoon. In
fact, our scout reports,
three times out of five
when a Bowdoin runner
was tackled (and Bow-
doin was running with
the ball a major portion
of the afternoon) the
loud-speaker would an-
nounce either, "Tackled
by Blasko," or "Tackled by Santucci."

Sergeant Warren schooling Bonnie
over 4-foot hurdles.

When the Rhode Island game came to an end, the
other afternoon, we walked off the field with a visit-
ing fan who apparently was a competent observer
and critic of football and who also seemed to know
considerable about the Rhode Island team. He said
that seven of the regular Rhode Island players had
been sitting on the bench throughout the afternoon
because of injuries which they had sustained in their
opening game three weeks before — with Holy Cross.

An obvious point is that the Statesmen are playing
teams, in football, which can and do display far
superior man power. However, Eb Caraway is doing
a good job coaching your club and his boys are re-
sponding admirably to the teaching.

A loyal supporter of Massachusetts State football
teams said to us the other day, as we were watching
the Rhode Island game, "A football player should
get his board, free. He earns it. A football player
should get his tuition, free. He deserves it."

On February 1, 1921, James A. Warren, sergeant,
cavalry, U.S.A., reported for duty with the military
department at the College. He was retired from the
army, having served therein with perfect record for
more than thirty years, on July 31 last. On October
1 he left Amherst to make his permanent home in
Pasadena, California — and with him went the good
wishes of hundreds of Alumni who had learned to
respect and admire Jim Warren as a good soldier, a
gentleman, an earnest, thorough, and capable
teacher.

Sergeant Warren was an expert horseman; his
instruction in equitation proved to be, for years, a
memorable part of the advanced junior and senior
courses in military science.

Great as was Jim Warren's personal interest in his

students and proud as
he was of their develop-
ment as officers and
cavalrymen this inter-
est and pride was nearly
matched by Warren's
feeling for Bonnie, the
horse he rode for four-
teen years at the Col-
lege.

Bonnie came to Mas-
sachusetts State, a five-
year-old, in 1923 and
became assigned to
Warren as his mount.
He carefully and pa-
tiently schooled the
horse as hunter, jump-
er, and polo pony so
that in shows through-
out western New Eng-
land and in New York
State (including the
Eastern States Exposition and the Hartford Horse
Show) Bonnie won a total of sixteen silver trophies,
cups and plate, and seventy-five ribbons. One of the
most cherished possessions which Jim Warren took
with him to California was a scrapbook of pictures
and newspaper clippings describing the work of the
horse. "Bonnie's Autobiography" he called it.

CLASS OF 1909

THIRTIETH REUNION
JUNE 10, 1939

Headquarters, Paige Lab

S. S. Crossman, Secy.

12 James Street

Greenfield, Mass.

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WITH | A THE

BOSTON ALUMNI

ARTS DEGREES TO BE AWARDED
IN L939

By Dennis M. Crowley '29

Sometimes I wonder where the Boston Alumni
keep themselves. It is long since this correspondent
has had occasion to meet with a group of graduates
and note the addition of new faces and new names
to the group. Always, I have the feeling that I am
writing about the same few people with whom for-
tune, fate, and business bring me into contact. That
is why I would like to see a new name at the head
of this column occasionally. Perhaps such a change
would keep the column a bit fresher. Or another
possibility is that some of the good friends of the
Boston Club might take it upon themselves to send
along some items of interest from time to time. The
most stunning blow of recent time was administered
this column when Dutch Schlotterbeck '16 took over
a corner of the Bulletin for his class. To think that
Dutch, my old standby, would desert me in the hour
of greatest need! Why, he has always been good for
at least a thousand words a year on the men of 1916,
and now I have lost him. Wouldn't some other class
secretary residing near Boston, care to take Dutch's
place in my affections? All that you need do to
earn my everlasting gratitude is to drop me a line
occasionally telling about one or more of your class-
mates who figures prominently in the local scene. If
there is any Alumnus who has a little personal news
to report, and cannot depend on his class secretary
to publicize it, let him send it along to this corre-
spondent. Please don't be bashful about telling of
your accomplishments. We are all anxious to know
what you are doing, and we want to interpret your
achievement in terms of the credit you are directly
bringing to the College. I am personally anxious to
hear from you so that this column may become more
representative of all the Alumni of our area.

Speaking of representatives, there is a meeting due in
Boston soon to which you will not be allowed to send an
appointed delegate. You will have to be there in person
if you hope to gain the benefits of good-fellowship and
friendship that will be in evidence on the evening of
November 18. You must have guessed it by now —
THE FALL SMOKER IS COMING BACK. We
missed our fall get-together last year, and many were
the regrets that it wasn't held. But the Boston Club,
under the leadership of William V.Hayden, Esq., '13
is not going to omit the Smoker Meeting on the eve of
the Tufts game. President Hayden's committee could
not furnish this correspondent with full details of the
meeting when the printer called for Bulletin news, but
(Continued on page 8)

The Bachelor of Arts degree is to be available foi
students who will be graduated next .June.

As was predicted by the advocates of the new
degree no drastic innovations have been necessary in
setting up a course of study leading to its award.
According to recommendation by a Faculty com-
mittee and approval by the Board of Trustees, a
student automatically becomes a candidate for the
Arts degree by meeting the freshman and sophomore
requirements already laid down by the Division of
Social Sciences (hereafter to be known as the Divi-
sion of Liberal Artsl, and the junior and senior re-
quirements already laid down by the departments of
History and of Languages and Literature. Any other
student majoring in the Division of Liberal Arts
may, if he so desires, become a candidate for the
Arts degree by supplementing his departmental re-
quirements with eighteen junior and senior credits
in courses designated as humanistic. Thus there will
presumably be some forty candidates for the new
degree next June.

Two new courses have been added to the curricu-
lum, both in Latin, and one of them is being offered
for the first time this year, with an enrollment of
about a dozen, some of whom are auditors. A few
other new courses and one or two new departments
should be added in the near future: in philosophy,
for example, in which we offer only nine credits at
present; in music, in which we offer twelve; and in
art, in which we offer nine. The faculty committee
felt that our present courses in music and art, with
perhaps a single expansion of a semester course into
one running through the year, might well be tem-
porarily assembled in a Department of Fine Arts.
In general, however, the humanistic group are pretty
well satisfied with the College's offerings in liberal
arts.

The provision for the Arts degree seems to have
caused no violent disturbance either on the campus
or throughout the Commonwealth. It was in line of
progress, fulfilled a genuine demand, is meeting a
definite need.

F. P. R.

SHRINK-PROOF WOOL

There must be something to his process (that of
making wool shrink-proof) because Ralph Peakes
'08, of the office of the chief chemist, warfare ser-
vice, Washington, D. C, received requests for de-
tailed information from eight clothing manufacturers
the day after his patent for the process was granted
early in October. Application for the patent was
made in 1929.

The United States government is to be permitted
to use the shrink-proof processing invention without
payment of royalties; army chemists consider the
results of shrink-proofing experiments highly satis-
factory.

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN

'13 Kid Gore highly recommends the article
"Nobody Put Me on My Back" by W. W. Heffel-
finger in the October 15 Saturday Evening Post,
especially to anyone who recalls Doc Brides' foot-
ball at the College.

Library

State College

TWENTY- FIFTH REUNION

(A 25th That Will Be A 25th)

Class of 1914 - J Massachusetts State College
JUNE 10, 1939

EVERY MEMBER OF 1914 IS TO BE BACK

{Already signed up: Ed Hazen, Les Needham, Warren Baker, Henry Clay,
Francis Small, Ted Nicolet, Harold Morse. How's to let me hear from youl)

Leone E. Smith, Secretary, Camp Sangamon, Pittsford, Vermont
25TH REUNION CLASS OF 1914

WITH THE BOSTON ALUMNI

(Continued from page 1)
the details will reach you by mail shortly. For example,
the committee was unable to reveal until acceptances
are returned what popular athletic director would
attend to meet his old students, or what sincerely am-
bitious coach would tell about the prospects for his team
in its final game of the season. Nor would they permit
me to make definite announcement at this time of the
presence of an outstanding figure in public life who
might be there to offer his encouragement to the men of
Massachusetts State. Further details which they are
reluctant to announce at this time are the place, price,
and entertainment to be offered. But there is one thing
that they positively state, and that is the meeting will
be sensational. Regardless of the prospects of the team
on November 19, this Smoker will be the most popular
fall meeting of years. State graduates will be there in
greater numbers than have attended any similar gather-
ing. They will be there not only to encourage the team,
but to join in a demonstration of loyalty to their Club
and to their College that will far transcend any mere
prospects of lining up on the winning side of an
athletic contest. Please reserve the evening of No-
vember 18 for the Fall Smoker of the Massachusetts
State College Club of Boston. If you are on the mailing
list, of the Club, you will receive full announcement of
the meeting very soon. If by chance, you have not
attended other meetings, and are unknown to our
Secretary, please communicate with him. Address
Charles B. Cox, 7 Copley Street, Roxbury. He is
particularly anxious to hear from Alumni of recent
classes, and will be pleased to have help from younger
graduates in planning the meeting.

HURRICANE SWEEPS CAMPUS

(Continued from page 3)
because of flood conditions in Northampton where
the Bulletin is printed and because of consequent
lack of electric power. The floods which caused
damage and human sufferirg to the north, south,
east and west of Amherst did not reach this town.
Refugees from Hadley were housed for one night
(all that proved necessary) in the cage of the Physical
Education Building.

As this issue of the Bulletin goes to press, four
weeks after the storm, roads have been completely
cleared and electric light and telephone service re-
stored to most parts of the town of Amherst. The
College heat and light service was continued with-
out noticeable interruption throughout and after the
hurricane.

It will be many years before trees can take the
place on campus of those that were uprooted and
destroyed; but the campus was rapidly cleared and
cleaned and, at present, perhaps the most outstand-
ing effect of the storm to be noticed at the College
are the piles of cordwood scattered here and there
about the campus.

It has been said that not for three hundred years
has such a hurricane beaten through this section of
the United States. Let us hope that it will be many
times three hundred years before another such storm
appears.

DON'T FORGET
BOSTON SMOKER, NOVEMBER 18

THE ALUMNI
BULLETIN

MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE
AMHERST, MASSACHUSETTS

ol. XXI, No. 3

December, 1938

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN
MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

Published monthly at Amherst, Mass. (except August and Sep-
tember) by the Associate Alumni of Massachusetts State College.
Entered as second class matter, March 17, 1920, at the Postoffice
at Amherst, Mass., under the Acts of March 3, 1879.
ASSOCIATE ALUMNI OF
MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE
President, Harry Dunlap Brown '14 of Billerica
Vice-President, Alden C. Brett '12 of Belmont
Secretary, William L. Doran '15 of Amherst
Treasurer, Clark L. Thayer '13 of Amherst
Assistant Secretary, George E. Emery '24 of Amherst

Board of Directors
to 1939

Michael J. McNamara '17 of Hartford, Conn.
David Potter '16 of Worcester

Albert W. Smith '22 of Springfield

Theoren L. Warner '08 of Sunderland
to 1940
Walter T. Bonney '31 of Springfield

John J. Maginnis '18 of Worcester

Lester Needham ' 14 of Springfield

F. Civille Pray '06 of Amherst
to 1941
Richard J. Davis '28 of Boston

Thomas P. Dooley '13 of West Roxbury

George W. Edman "21 of Pittsfield

Ralph F. Taber '16 of West Newton
to 1942
Erford W. Poole '96 of New Bedford

David P. Rossiter '37 of Maiden

Zoe Hickney White '32 of Worcester

Alfred E. Wilkins '15 of Wakefield

The Alumni Bulletin is sent ten times each year to all members of
the Associate Alumni. Annual memberships are: Sustaining $10.00,
Ordinary $3.00.

Cover picture — "The Good Earth's Bounty," a photo-
graph by Robert L. Coffin which won first pri~e in a
recent exhibition and competition of the Amherst
Camera Club.

'97 James Bartlett has a florist business in South
Sudbury, Mass.

w'97 Allen N. Nowell, for 24 years secretary and
manager for Sugar Factors Ltd. of Honolulu, is re-
tired and now living on the mainland. His permanent
address is Bank of California, San Francisco.

'08 Dr. Herbert K. Hayes has returned to the
University of Minnesota, St. Paul, where he is chief
of the division of agronomy and plant genetics.

'09 O. B. Briggs is assistant technical director of
the dry yeast department of Standard Brands Inc.,
New York City.

'11 Charles Damon is assistant chief engineer for
the Massachusetts Department of Public Works.
He lives in Haydenville.

'11 Raymond L. Whitney is head farmer at the
Westboro, Mass., State Hospital.

'15 Charles H. Alden is entomologist at the fruit
pest and parasite laboratory at Cornelia, Georgia.

'19 Raymond Parkhurst is the newly-appointed
head of the poultry department at the College.

'23 F. Earl Williams has taken over the principal-
ship of the Gardner, Mass., High School after having
been principal of Agawam High School for the past
eleven years.

'25 Pat Holbrook is with the Liberty Mutual
Insurance Co., Public Ledger Bldg., Philadelphia.

'27 Lewis Whittaker is in the banking business
with the Manufacturers National Bank of Detroit.

NEWS AND NOTES
OF THE CLASS OF

1916

These biographic notes have been assembled by Dutch
Schlotterbeck for his class.

Heinie Walker has been in the fuel business ever
since he graduated from College; with the exception
of some time spent with the U. S. army during the
war when he was a first lieutenant of infantry.
Henie is at present the owner of Burning Oils, Inc.
at 838 Eastern Avenue, Maiden, Mass. He lives at
16 Corey Road, Brookline, Mass.

In Brookline he has been for twenty years steward
of St. Mark's Methodist Episcopal Church, and for
ten years treasurer of its Sunday School. Heinie has
two children, a girl twelve and a boy ten, and he
says he hopes they will both plan to attend Massa-
chusetts State a few years hence.

Heinie likes to watch baseball and football; he
also likes to drive his automobile. At any rate he
has just turned in a car on which he has put 120,000
miles during the past five years.

Esther Chase Stone is keeping house in Holden,
Mass. She has a son five years old; the boy hasn't
yet told her whether he would like, eventually, to
enter his mother's college.

Esther's hobby is growing flowers — she majored
in floriculture while an undergraduate. She is a
member of the American Legion Auxiliary and, at
the present time, is president of the Holden Woman's
Club.

She has taught in the high schools of Gorham,
N. H., Westboro, Mass., and Danbury, Conn.

Mae Holden Wheeler is living in Haworth, N. J.;
she is the mother of three children, two girls, sixteen
and ten, and a boy fourteen.

She has been a member of the Board of Health of
her town and is now active in the Woman's Aid
Society and is superintendent of the Baptist Primary
Sunday School.

After being graduated from the College, and until
1921, she was a teacher in the Norwalk, Conn., High
School, curator in the department of botany at the
College, and laboratory assistant for the Cotton
Research Company in Boston.

Linus Jones is assistant research professor of
plant physiology at the College; he has been en-
gaged in teaching and research work since 1916. He
received his Ph.D. from Rutgers in 1922; he is the
author of 36 scientific, technical articles.

Linus is married and has two sons, aged 9 and 5.

He is secretary-treasurer of the New England
section of the American Society of Plant Physiolo-
gists and a member of the Massachusetts State
chapter of Sigma Xi, national honorary scientific
society.

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NEW YORK ALUMNI MEET

REPORT ON (LASS TKKhS

Surrounded by the skyscrapers of New York, with
the roar of the great city only a stone's throw away,
about eighty Alumni and guests were transported
back to the quiet beauty of the State campus by the
magic of Professor Frank A. Waugh's voice and
camera on the evening of October 28th. Steel and
concrete faded away, cares and responsibilities slipped
into the background as Professor Waugh threw upon
the screen a pictorial history of the men and the
campus of Massachusetts State College from its
inception to the living, breathing present, and added
his own inimitable comment to each picture.

The New York Club has had some fine speakers
in the half century of its existence but no one present
could recall a finer evening than that provided by
Professor Waugh.

There was group singing under the direction of
Ted Law '36; while Joe Cleary '35 organized a
grand quartet which sang several popular and
college songs.

A rising vote of thanks was extended to Walter C.
Paige '91, retiring secretary of the New York Club,
for his untiring efforts on behalf of the organization
which has grown and prospered, in large part, be-
cause of his good work.

New officers of the Club are: president, Bernard
H. Smith '99; first vice-president, William M. Sears
'05; second vice-president, C. H. Gowdy '22; secre-
tary-treasurer, to be filled; assistant secretary, Miss
Pauline Spiewak '31; choragus, Theodore V. Law
'36; assistant choragus, Curtis Clark '35.

Thomas Harrocks '16
Past President, New York Alumni Club

STUDENTS CHEER

On November 10, in Bowker Auditorium, Dr.
James G. Reardon, Massachusetts Commissioner of
Education, was the convocation speaker. In giving
a description of state-supported and state-supervised
educational plans Dr. Reardon declared that if and
when it became desirable to establish a State univer-
sity in Massachusetts he believed such an institution
should be located on the campus of Massachusetts
State College. The students cheered loud and long.

RUTH PUSHEE '34 WRITES BOOK

"In writing her book 'Music in the Religious
Service'," an item from the August 1, 1938, North-
ampton Gazette begins, "Miss Ruth Pushee of North
Amherst has added her name to the already long and
imposing list of Amherst authors."

The newspaper further reports that Ruth has
made the study of hymns and other non-secular
music a hobby for several years, and that she finally
conceived her book "out of her understanding of . . .
good church music, and her desire to educate the
church people of all sects to the beauty and charm
of religious music."

In 1926, the late Professor Charles Henry Thomp
son compiled a complete descriptive list of the
alumni class trees on campus. The li.sl follows, to-
gether with comment (in italics) by Lyle Blundell,
professor of horticulture at the College, on the effect
which the recent hurricane had upon those trees.
It will be appreciated if graduates having further
information regarding class trees or any corrections
to make to the following list will send this information
to the Alumni Office.

1871. American elm. Twenty street trees around
the plot in front (east) of South College, planted
April 24, 1869.

One uprooted. One badly damaged.

1872. "The class of 1872 planted an American
elm for each member graduating. These were street
trees planted on both sides of . . . Olmsted Drive
from South College southerly to bridge at head of
Pond."

One tree uprooted. One broken off at ten feet.

1873. American elm. A splendid tree in a small
triangle of lawn between Wilder Hall and the Physics
Building. "The class of 1873, in addition to the elm
mentioned, planted a sugar maple for each member
of the class on the west side of the road running past
the 'Botanic Museum,' from near Waugh's house to
Stockbridge Homestead."

Elm uprooted. Three maples uprooted, one badly
damaged.

1874. White oak. Large tree seventy-five feet
north of northeast corner of North College.

Broken badly on southeast side, can be pruned to
look well.

1875. American elm. Rows of street trees on
both sides of Olmsted Drive from the south entrance
to the campus to the bridge over the brook. Dug
from the Plumtree swamp and planted in the spring
of 1873.

Undamaged.

1876. Blue Colorado spruce. East and a little
north of old Chemical Laboratory. Died and now
removed.

1877. Species not known. "Planted near the
spot where Memorial Hall now stands." Not located.

1878. White pine. About thirty feet southeast
of the Chapel-Library. "Planted June 19, 1877."
This class also planted the rows of American elms
on each side of the north end of Olmsted Drive, from
the Experiment Station to the Ravine. Set in the
spring of 1875.

O.K.

1879. "The class planted ivy on the south side of
North College but did not plant a tree."

1880. No record secured.

1881. Sugar maples. Row on south side of cross-
walk, between the pond and North Pleasant Street.

(Continued on page 4)

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OBITUARIES

G. Henry Wrifiht '98

G. Henry Wright '98 died, suddenly, at the Frank-
lin County Hospital in Greenfield, Mass., on Novem-
ber 14, 1938. He was sixty-one years of age.

He was born in Deerfield, Mass., in the ancestral
home of Captain George Wright. He attended the
town schools and Deerfield Academy before entering
the College.

Of late years he had been engaged in the ice,
express, and trucking business in Deerfield.

He was a member of the First Congregational
parish of Deerfield and of Mt. Sugarloaf Masonic
lodge. He is survived by a son and by two daughters.

Dr. Edward T. Hull '00

Dr. Edward T. Hull '00 died in New York City
on July 21, 1938, of cerebral hemorrhage.

Dr. Hull was a leading physician in New York,
and a teacher at Fordham University's Medical
College. In College he was class historian, a member
of the Flint Six and of the College Shakespearian
Club.

Burial was in Sheffield, Conn.

MARRIAGES

'15 Earle Sumner Draper to Miss Elizabeth
Cameron Jordan, October 26, 1938, at Atlanta, Ga.

'30 Osman Babson to Miss Geraldine Gold-
thwaite, October 29, 1938, at East Gloucester, Mass.

'34 and '34 Page Hiland to Miss Frances L.
Cook, October 29, 1938, at Waltham, Mass.

'38 Miss Christine Stewart to Joseph A. Arm-
strong, October 29, 1938, at Shrewsbury, Mass.

BIRTHS

'31 A son, Bruce Goodhue, to Mr. and Mrs.
Alan W. Chadwick, November 13, 1938, at North-
ampton, Mass.

'31 A son, Richard Charles, to Mr. and Mrs.
Ernest G . Smith, August 26, 1938, at Rochester, N. Y.

'34 A daughter, Mary Elizabeth, to Dr. and Mrs.
Edward R. Wyman, October 14, 1938, at Great
Barrington, Mass.

'29 John S. Chadwick is going out with the Civil
Aeronautics Authority, Airport Section, as assistant
airport engineer, under the supervision of Hervey
Law '22, who has general charge of this work for the
United States. The intention of the organization is
to survey all the airports existing and prospective
in the United States if time and funds are available.

'35 Freddie Andrews who took time out from his
summer work at the U. S. Live Stock Experiment
Station in Montana to come east to be married has
returned to Columbia, Missouri, where, at the
University, he is working to complete his thesis for
the doctorate.

REPORT ON CLASS TREES

(Continued from page 3)
Supplemented, later, by others and with green ash.
Planted in the spring of 1879. A row of Carolina
poplars planted on the north side of the crosswalk,
opposite the maples, by members of the class who
came up from 1882. The last one of these poplars
was removed in the spring of 1922, thirty-six inches
in diameter.

Slightly damaged. Have been pruned.

1882. Swamp white oak. In a small triangle of
lawn east of North College, at the west end of the
crosswalk. This class also planted a row of American
elms on the west side of North Pleasant Street, north
from the entrance to the campus to the Experiment
Station. Set in the spring of 1881. There is a marker
at each end of the row.

Also, oak north of Paige Laboratory, set out in
June, 1932.

O. K. New tree O. K.

1883. Green ash. Row on east side of North
Pleasant Street, from the crosswalk south to the
campus entrance. Also a row of sugar maples on the
west side of Stockbridge Road, south from Clark
Hall to Mr. Broadfoot's house. Also four trees of
black walnut on the north side of the short cross-
walk north of Mr. Broadfoot's house. Set in 1882.

Green ash — seven uprooted — four more so badly
damaged that they will be taken out. Two walnuts
uprooted; remainder O. K. Maples — two uprooted,
others need pruning.

1884. No record secured.

1885. Species not known. "We planted a tree to
the northeast of the Drill Hall, as I remember, but
when it was looked for several years ago, at the
time a number of us were back, it had disappeared
and we could find no explanation of it."

1886. Scotch elm. A tree near the rim of the
south bank of the Ravine, about eighty-five feet
from Olmsted Drive. A marker was placed by the
tree in 1924.

O.K.

1887. A miscellaneous collection. A "dozen or
more" trees planted, under the direction of Professor
Maynard, as a part of his arboretum, in the Dingle.

Trees in the Dingle generally wind swept and leaning,
but foreign trees will be salvaged by pruning. European
beech. Tulip tree. Two red pines. Corktree. Crack
willow. Red ash — uprooted.

1888. Swiss stone pine. Planted southeast of the
Chapel-Library, near the forks of the road, but has
been removed and now stands about forty feet south
of the south entrance to Memorial Hall.

O.K.

1889. Elm. "Planted between North College and
the Old Chemical Laboratory, a little southwest of
the latter." Not located — apparently gone.

(To be continued next month)

THE ALUMNI BULLKTIN

WITH THE ALUMMAE

By Leonta Horrigan '36

Following is a continuation of notes supplied by
Miss Hamlin on activities of 1938 Alumnae.

Ethel Seal is taking a dietician training course at
the Watts Hospital, Durham, N. C.

Marion Shaw has a secretarial position at the
Calhoun School, Calhoun, Georgia.

Phyllis Snow is teaching home economics in

Wenham, Mass.

Betty Strectcr has a dietician's position at the
Sumner House in Bridgewater, Mass.

Louisa Towne is teaching home economics at
Unionville, Conn.

Ruth Wood has a sales position at Fraser's Flower
Shop, Wellesley.

Ruth gave the Ivy Oration at Commencement
last June, and her talk was devoted to an account
of the activity of the Associate Alumni and an
urgent request that her classmates become members
of the Association. Excerpts from Ruth's talk were
later incorporated in a letter sent to Alumni, urging
these Alumni to renew their own memberships. And
many of them did, thanks to Ruth's logical and
persuasive statements. (Ed. note)

CONCERTS AT TAMiLKWOOl)

Dorothy Donnelly '37 has a dietician's position
at the Albany Hospital.

Elizabeth Baker '36 has a position as house
supervisor at the Kurn Hattin Home, Westminster,
Vermont.

Betsy Worden '36 has a position with the Eastern
States Farmers' Exchange.

Susan Lake '32 has a dietician's position at the
Northfield Inn, Northfield, Mass.

Lucy Kingston '36 has a secretarial position at
the Moore Drop Forge Company, Springfield, Mass.

Frances Wentworth '36 has a secretarial position
at the Anthony House, New York City.

Marjorie Whitney '36 and Apolonia Ziomek

'36 are instructors in foods at Long Lane Farm,
Middletown, Conn.

Rose Ash '37 is in training at the New York City
Hospital. Her address is 1320 York Avenue, New
York City.

Alma Boyden '37 is taking graduate study at
Smith College.

Roberta Walkey '38 is an apprentice teacher at
the Chapel Hill School in Waltham, Mass.

We regret that last month's Bulletin carried an
inaccurate account of Jessie Chase's '38 present
position. She is teacher of home economics and
dietician at Larson Junior College, New Haven,
Conn.

George Edman '21, of Pittsfield, writes that

elaborate and extensive plans .'ire under way for lh<-
1939 season of the internationally famous Berkshire
Symphonic Festival which has been held annually in
Lenox, Mass., since 1934. For four years George has
been acting chairman as well as chairman of the co-
ordinating committee; he has also handled the
publicity and served as clerk of the trustees. Mrs.
Edman is executive vice-president and chairman of
the advisory committee which includes seventy com-
munity chairmen scattered from Maine to California
and from Canada to Florida.

Next year it is planned to present seven concerts
by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, perhaps the
outstanding symphonic group in the United States,
conducted by Dr. Serge Koussevitzky. And, next
year, the Festival trustees are committed to finishing
the new music shed, enclosing it with roll curtains,
installing a permanent stage and lighting equipment,
buying three thousand more steel chairs.

The past summer a record crowd of thirty-eight
thousand heard six concerts by the Boston Symphony,
under Koussevitzky's direction, playing for the first
time in the new Tanglewood shed. This structure,
which cost $94,000 (all money coming from volun-
tary subscriptions), was designed by Eliel Saarinen,
Finnish architect of Cranbrook, Michigan, and the
final plans were executed by Joseph Franz, an
engineer, member of the Festival's trustee board.

Tanglewood is the estate which was given as a
permanent home for the Festival by Mrs. Gorham
Brooks of Brookline. There are two hundred acres
extending from West Street in Lenox into Stock-
bridge and to the shores of Lake Mahkeenac. Here
it. was that Hawthorne lived while in the Berkshires
and wrote "The House of Seven Gables," "The
Wonder Book," and started "Tanglewood Tales."

Two years from now, in 1940, a school for con-
ductors will be established at Tanglewood and,
possibly, some advanced choral study which will be
arranged through the orchestra trustees.

It is felt that the Berkshire Festival is fast becom-
ing an event far-reaching in significance. Already its
friends and patrons come to the concerts from every
state in the Union, from Canada, from Europe. With
conditions so unsettled across the Atlantic there is
definite need as well as definite opportunity for a
great festival center in the United States. And New
England, the Berkshires, would seem to be a pretty
good place for it.

On October 19, 1938, the Hampshire County
Alumnae Group met at the Faculty Club on campus
for supper and a social evening planned by
Ruth Campbell Burgess '34 and Betty Wheeler
Frigard '34. The following attended: Miss Hamlin.
Evelyn Beeman Tracy '33, Ruth Scott '31, Mary
Tomlinson Brown "34, Eunice Johnson '33, Alice
Dwight Kucinski '35, Ruth Pushee '34, Violet
Koskela '35, Marion Smith '35, Sylvia Wilson
'33, and Leonta Horrigan '36.

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ATHLETICS

Football

Statesmen Opp.

Oct. 22 Worcester Tech, here 0 6

29 Amherst, there 0 35

Nov. 5 Coast Guard, here 7 0

12 Rensselaer at Troy, N.Y. 37 0

KINGSBURY '12 NEW PRESIDENT

OF ROGERS AND HUBBARD CO.

An amusing incident which came to our attention
at the Worcester Tech game on October 22 had
nothing to do with football at all but, rather, with
cross country.

Tech's cross country team was scheduled to engage
the Mass. State runners during the first half of the
football game and, awaiting their call to the starting
post, the Worcester boys were sitting in the north
stands on Alumni Field watching the two football
clubs have at it.

An enterprising Mass. State freshman, emplo3'ed
as a salesman of tobacco and cigarettes, was roaming
about the field crying his wares. As he passed the
seated Worcester Tech runners he stopped, looked up
at them, and asked, "Any cigarettes, boys?" The
cross country team — as a team — didn't even smile.

Perhaps it is coincidence, but — ever since Worcester
Polytechnic Institute put its announced policy of
athletic scholarships into effect some three years ago
the Statesmen have not won from Tech in football.
This year was no exception.

It would be something savoring of euphemism to
call the afternoon's exercises down on Pratt Field on
October 29 a game. True, the Statesmen tried
doggedly — valiantly, if you will — to make touch-
downs, to prevent Amherst from scoring. But it
proved completely futile. Meanwhile, four crackerjack
Amherst teams seemed to be enjoying a moderate
afternoon's workout.

For instance, we were standing with Curry Hicks
at one corner of the end zone when a Mr. Marburger
scored Amherst's fifth touchdown. We were so close
to the play that we could have reached out and
touched Marburger as he crossed the goal line stand-
ing up. He wasn't even perspiring.

There appears to be a rumor, more or less persist-
ent, to the effect that Amherst may soon find it
impossible to schedule Massachusetts State in foot-
ball. Certainly it is very true that the Lord Jeff
victories over the Statesmen have become so regular
of late as to border upon monotony. And it must
seem so even to Amherst supporters.

The United States Coast Guard Academy and the
Statesmen were two pretty evenly matched teams
on the afternoon of November 5.

In the last quarter, with the score 0-0, Chet
Conant '39 of Greenfield, fullback, intercepted a
Coast Guard forward pass and ran down the side
lines 95 yards for a touchdown. He received fine
interference. Don Allan '41 of Fitchburg, halfback,
dropkicked the point.

Arthur French Kingsbury was born in Medfield,
Mass., September 6, 1887; in 1908 he entered
Massachusetts State College in the class of '12.

His college career to the casual observer was un-
eventful. Kingsbury was studious, conscientious and
conservative. He wasn't the type that called every-
body by the first name within a month; but he was
appreciated gradually.

He apparently came to College for an education
and considered study as one of the best approaches
to an education, the approach most suited to his
talents. He won recognition in chemistry, then the
class made him secretary and treasurer and finally
president. Late in his college career he joined Theta
Chi fraternity.

When he was graduated he became a chemist for
one of our old and respected New England fertilizer
firms, the Rogers and Hubbard Company of Portland,
Conn.

A master of fertilizer chemistry he soon interested
himself in other branches of the company's affairs
and originated the slogan "It is the quality behind
the analysis that counts." That phrase is also typical
of Kingsbury's methods.

When the company needed a new secretary Kings-
bury was chosen to fill the vacancy. A few years ago
he became vice-president; and this past summer he
was chosen president of the Rogers and Hubbard
Company.

During his years with the organization, the growth
of its business has been enormous. Rogers and
Hubbard have shown the resourcefulness to meet
changing conditions and to capitalize on them. We
all hope and expect that Arthur is beginning a very
active and successful administration.

Louis A. Webster '14

'12 Leon Fagerstrom is manager of the Buffalo,
N. Y., office of the American Agricultural Chemical
Company.

'14 Leland H. Taylor is associate professor of
zoology at the University of West Virginia, Morgan-
town.

'18 Ray Woodbury is plant quarantine inspector,
U.S.D.A. His address is 100 Cooper Street, New
York City.

'22 Harry W. Murray, Jr., is chemist with the
Hecker Products Corporation in Buffalo. His ad-
dress is 93 Cayuga Road, Williamsville, N. Y.

w'28 Chester Murray is district office cashier
with the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company,
8 Mclntyre Street, Bronxville, N. Y.

'37 Ken Ross, who is associated with his father,
Walter C. Ross, in the practice of patent law in
Springfield, was recently transferred to the Ordnance
Department from the Cavalry Section of the Organ-
ized Reserve Corps of the U. S. Army.

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BOSTON ALUMNI

A( ADK.MK S

By Dennis M. Crowley '29

Don Douglass '21 was telling us the other day
about the Hale brothers, John '23 and Larry '25,

who have progressed rapidly in the business world.

John is regional sales promotional manager for
National Distillers Products Corporation with head-
quarters in the Statler Building. Brother Larry is
down in Leaksville, North Carolina, where he is in
charge of all textile production for Marshall Field
and Company of Chicago. He looks out for the work
of nine thousand employees.

Walter Mozdcn "35 is at the Boston University
School of Medicine and looks forward to receiving
his M.D. degree in June.

AI Gricius '37 is a salesman for the Dorchester
Buick Company. He tells us that the recent "tor-
nado" was not altogether without a silver lining —
it helped the automobile business, Al says, lots of
cars smashed.

We have heard from a couple of last year's gradu-
ates, Beany Kohn and Don Silverman. Both live
in Roxbury; both work in town and both are in
more or less the same business. Kohn is with the
Warren-Allen Carpet Company at 88 Canal Street
and Silverman is with Joseph Silverman & Co., Inc.
at 165 Friend Street, wholesale dealers in floor
coverings.

Dr. Thome M. Carpenter '02 of 159 Corey Street,
West Roxbury, continues his good work in the field
of physiological chemistry for the nutrition laboratory
of the Carnegie Institute of Washington. Dr. Car-
penter has recently contributed several articles to
American and German scientific journals.

Hillel Friedman '37 is dairy inspector for the
Boston Health Department.

George Flint '29, who has been with the Mass.
Mutual Insurance Company at Springfield for ten
years, has recently joined the Boston office of that
company, and is living at his family home in Lincoln.

Dan Leary '32 was in Boston during the summer
on business for the National Labor Relations Board.
His usual assignment is at the Kansas City, Missouri,
office of the Board which he serves as attorney.

Hand

The band is going full blast "bigger and better
than ever before." John Paul '39 of Northampton is
manager, Dave Eskin '42 of Brookline is drum major.
Charles B. Farnum of Holyoke is, again, the coach.

The band travelled down to Pratt Field on October
29 to contribute a bright bit to the pageantry that
Saturday afternoon, and plans to appear at the
Tufts Oval on November 19. It is hoped that an
alumni broadcast may be arranged some time dur-
ing the winter on which program the band may be
featured.

Meanwhile, manager Paul is anxious to hear from
individual Alumni or from Alumni Clubs wishing to
sponsor a band concert in their cities. Off-campus
concert appearances can be arranged between
February 20 and March 25 and between April 21
and May 21. John Paul may be addressed in care
of the Alumni Office, Memorial Hall.

Collegian

On November 2, Emery Moore '39 of Sharon,
editor-in-chief of the Collegian and Allan Gove '39
of Walpole, business manager, left the campus for a
trip to Cincinnati, Ohio, where for three days they
attended the annual Associated Collegiate Press
convention. The conference, which is designed to
further the interests of better student publications,
attracts delegates from some two hundred and fifty
colleges.

Collegian representatives who attend these con-
ferences invariably find the sessions very worth-while
professionally, and return to the Collegian head-
quarters in Memorial Hall with new and valuable
ideas.

Both Moore and Gove are serving their fourth
year on the Collegian board; their trip to Cincinnati
was not only one for the benefit of their paper but,
also, represented something of a reward for service
faithfully rendered.

Roister Doisters

The Roister Doisters have just cast "Stage Door"
which will be offered for one performance, only, on
January 20 in Bowker Auditorium.

Beryl Briggs '39 of Ashburnham will play the lead
and other important parts will be taken by Connie
Fortin '39 of Holyoke, Ivan Cousins '39 of Green-
field, and Gerald Dailey '40 of Dorchester. The
entire cast numbers thirty-two.

"Stage Door" is a human interest comedy. It
presents a picture of the semi-professional actor
seeking a part, a job, and a chance for fame on
Broadway. The play represents a defense of the
legitimate theater against the moving pictures: al-
though when done as a movie it was given a different
accent.

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Final and complete figures on student registration
at the College for the first semester are: undergradu-
ate school, 1155; graduate school, 155; Stockbridge
School, 310.

Library

State College

You realize, of course, that Christmas is near at hand

BUT — DO YOU REALIZE THAT

Yesterdays at
Massachusetts State College

By Frank Prentice Rand

the dramatic, humanized, exciting history of your College, is the ideal
Christmas gift from or to an Alumnus of Massachusetts State?

"Yesterdays" will be sent, postpaid, to any address upon receipt of $2.00
at the Alumni Office, Memorial Hall. This may be your last chance to
secure a copy of the book. The edition is nearly exhausted. No reprinting

is contemplated.

'10 R. J. Fiske has a fruit farm in Lunenberg,
Mass. He has served two three-year terms as select-
man in his town. Before taking over his present farm
he had been in school work in the Philippines, had
done entomological work in Puerto Rico, and had
been with the U.S.D.A.

'11 Albert Jenks owns and operates Middlesex
Fruit Farm, West Acton, Mass., also, the Jenks
Tree Service which he developed in 1921.

'19 Irving Stafford is assistant agronomist for
the Soil Conservation Service, and also assistant to
the Regional Conservationist, U.S.D.A., 242 Ken-
sington Place, Syracuse, N. Y.

'19 Charlie Dunbar is instructor in pomology at
Pennsylvania State College.

'20 Bill Luce is farm representative for the Puget
Sound Power & Light Company, Wenatchee, Wash-
ington.

'22 Dr. H. J. Shaughnessy has recently been
appointed associate professor of bacteriology and
public health at the University of Colorado, School
of Medicine, Denver. Dr. Shaughnessy received his
Ph.D. from Yale in 1926. For the past seven years,
he has been director of laboratories for the Illinois
State Department of Health.

'24 W. W. Wood is superintendent of the La
Finca Orchards Company, Marysville, California.
The company owns 1350 acres devoted to the raising
of prunes, almonds, Mission and Adriatic figs, and
nuts. Bill has been with the company since 1926
when he was first employed as a ranch hand. He
became a straw boss, then bookkeeper, and is now
superintendent.

'30 Henry Jensen is teaching in Swannanoa,
North Carolina. He is the author of a recent article
in Cytologia called "The Significance of Meiotic
Irregularities in Hybrids."

'32 Philip Connell is in the merchandizing depart-
ment of the D. H. Brigham Co., Springfield, Mass.

'33 Walter Buchanan is teaching in the Stamford,
Connecticut, High School.

'34 Charles LeClair is in sales analysis and pro-
motion work for the Virginia Dare Company in
New York City.

'34 Howie Sievers is a salesman for the Lederle
Laboratories, Inc., and is working out of Portland,
Maine.

'35 James Sumner is landscape architect for the
Winslow Nurseries, Needham, Mass.

'35 Jim Moran is an aviation cadet at the Naval
Air Station, Pensacola, Florida.

'36 and '34 Jack Sturtevant is agricultural in-
structor at the Weymouth High School, following
Johnnie Farrar '34. Farrar has gone to Bristol County
Agricultural School, in Segreganset, as agricultural
instructor.

'36 Howard Parker teaches English at Montclair
Academy, Montclair, N. J.

'36 Milton Snow is employed at the Tri-City
Co-operative Creamery in Fitchburg, Mass.

'38 Leon Cone was a recent visitor on campus.
Leon took quite a "ribbing" from his friends when
he was back — it seems that he chose Dads' Day for
his visit.

THE ALUMNI
BULLETIN

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MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE
AMHERST, MASSACHUSETTS

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fol. XXI, No. 4

January, 1939

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN
MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

Published monthly at Amherst, Mass. (except August and Sep-
tember) by the Associate Alumni of Massachusetts State College.
Entered as second class matter. March 17, 1920, at the Postoffice
at Amherst, Mass., under the Acts of March 3, 1879.
ASSOCIATE ALUMNI OF
MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE
President, Harry Dunlap Brown '14 of Billerica
Vice-President. Alden C. Brett '12 of Belmont
Secretary, William L. Doran '15 of Amherst
Treasurer, Clark L. Thayer '13 of Amherst
Assistant Secretary, George E. Emery '24 of Amherst

Board of Directors
to 1939

Michael J. McNaraara '17 of Hartford, Conn.
David Potter '16 of Worcester

Albert W. Smith '22 of Springfield

Theoren L. Warner 'OS of Sunderland
to 1940
Walter T. Bonney '31 of Springfield

John J. Maginnis '18 of Worcester

Lester Needham '14 of Springfield

F. Civille Pray '06 of Amherst
to 1941
Richard J. Davis '28 of Boston

Thomas P. Dooley '13 of West Roxbury

George W. Edman '21 of Pittsfield

Ralph F. Taber '16 of West Newton
to 1942
Erford W. Poole '96 of New Bedford

David P. Rossiter '37 of Maiden

Zoe Hickney White '32 of Worcester

Alfred E. Wilkins '15 of Wakefield

The Alumni Bulletin is sent ten times each year to all members of
the Associate Alumni. Annual memberships are: Sustaining $10.00,
Ordinary S3.00.

Cover picture — looking west toward the campus from
the "old Watts place" on East Pleasant Street. This
picturesque and attractive farm was recently purchased
by Al and Mary (Tomlinson) Brown '31 and '34.

— Photo bv John Vondell

'97 Phil Smith went down cellar in his house in
Amherst a few weeks ago — without putting on a
light. In the dark he slipped on a piece of iron pipe
and was thrown for a series of mid-aerial evolutions
which would have done credit to the Flying Codonas.
Phil came down hard, with one leg doubled in under
him. When he got up he thought the leg was pretty
sore but, nevertheless, he then set out on a 350-mile
automobile trip. When he returned home his leg
was still sore, he called his doctor, discovered that the
leg was broken in two places. Phil didn't do any
more riding in automobiles for a while; but we're
pleased to report that he's now up and around again,
almost as frisky as ever.

ALUMNI DAY

Saturday, June 10, 1939

25th Reunion
15th Reunion
10th Reunion

1914
1924
1929

NEWS AND NOTES
OF THE CLASS OF

1916

These biographic notes have been assembled by Dutch
Schlotterbeck for his class.

Ralph Taber put in about twelve years in Ohio
and New Hampshire in extension work in farm
management before he took his present job as ad-
vertising representative for the Curtis Publishing
Company. He lives at 377 Waltham Street, West
Newton, Mass.

Ralph has been vice-president and president of the
Associate Alumni, is now on its Board of Directors.
He is vice-president of the West Newton Men's
Club, a member of the City Republican Committee,
and a director of the local Tax Payers' Association.
He is currently heading a drive for funds to construct
an addition to the West Newton Congregational
Church.

Ralph's older daughter is graduated from the
Eastman School of Music. A son is interested in
engineering. A younger daughter, age seven, has not
yet indicated to mother or father any definite voca-
tional aims.

Leon Whitney lives in Orange, Connecticut. His
daughter is a student at Massachusetts State, his
son has entered Cornell. FORTUNE magazine
printed an article about Leon in its November, 1938,
number and the article is here quoted, by permission,
in part.

"It may be something of a jar to learn that the
bloodhounds that roared across the ice after Eliza
weren't genuine bloodhounds at all. According to
Leon F. Whitney genuine bloodhounds are the mild-
est and gentlest of dogs, never vicious even when on
a man hunt. And Mr. Whitney should know for he
owns sixty-two, the largest pack of bloodhounds in
the country.

"Dogs, and particularly bloodhounds, have been
Mr. Whitney's business for over ten years. ... In
1924, he started raising bloodhounds as a hobby, and
since the depression his dogs have footed his bills for
more research in genetics, canine disease and nutri-
tion, even human cancer. He recently completed a
new kennel and laboratory, which he says is 'the
largest building in the country devoted exclusively to
canine research.' This fall Mr. Whitney is back in
college with his son to study veterinary medicine.

"From 1900 to 1920 the U. S. had imported well
over $75,000 worth of bloodhounds from England.
But the English dogs were trained for showing rather
than trailing and were correspondingly delicate.
Whitney's idea was to cross English dogs with old
domestic backwoods bloodhounds of proved hardi-
hood and in four years he invested about $4,000 in
them. Today he estimates thirty per cent of the
400-odd purebred bloodhounds in the country are
(Continued on page 5)

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REVIEW OK "FLORA HAWAIIENSIS,"
PART THREE

In 1922 Massachusetts State College graduated a
man who today is known as "the leading hotanist in
the Hawaiian Islands," and whose most recent pub-
lication has been handed us for review. That man is
Otto Degener.

As an undergraduate Degener showed himself a
true naturalist. He discovered on the College Hill
the rare subterranean prothallia of Lycopodium
cernuum, and also enriched the State Herbarium
with plants from Bermuda and elsewhere. In the
season 1923-1924 he was graduate assistant in
botany at the College. From 1925 to 1927 he was
botanist at the University of Hawaii, then naturalist
at the Hawaiian National Park, and since 1929 he
has been collaborator in Hawaiian Botany for the
New York Botanical Garden.

Soon after entering upon botanical work in Hawaii
he came to realize that the indigenous flora of the
Islands is facing rapid extinction from the inroads of
domestic animals and the conversion of the lands to
agricultural purposes. So, as he says, he decided "to
make hay while the sun shines," with the conviction
that his would "probably be the last complete col-
lection of native plants ever made in the Islands."
Moreover, he proceeded with the distribution of
specimens through the great herbaria of the world in
order to insure a permanent record of a strange and
vanishing flora. In this generous distribution he has
not forgotten Massachusetts State, and so it comes
about that our College is receiving a growing and
exceedingly valuable collection of Hawaiian plants
though, unfortunately, there is no longer herbarium
space for them and they are perforce stored in the
attic of Clark Hall.

In 1930 Degener published a book of 300 pages on
"Plants of the Hawaiian National Park" — a lively
work which rapidly gained deserved popularity
among tourists to the Islands. Then, as a conclusion
to his more technical studies, he started the "Flora
Hawaiiensis" whose third part has just appeared.
Into it has gone a private income and years of the
most exacting toil.

The work is published in "centuries" and in loose-
leaf format so that it may finally be assembled
according to each purchaser's private wishes as re-
gards the sequence of families. The text shows an
impressive erudition and a painstaking effort, not
only to describe each plant fully and technically, but
to make it yield the last word as to its history,
geography, and economic qualities. Notable is the
preservation of the aboriginal names and uses which
Degener's friendliness with the native people has
made available. Such elements of human interest
give the book a general appeal which is quite un-
common in taxonomic studies. The reverse of each
page of printed description generally bears a draw-
ing of the plant. These plates are done by Japanese
and Hawaiian students under the author's superin-
tendence and they represent plant iconography at its
best. Many new species, varieties and forms are

ALUMNI ATTEND CONFERENCES
ON CAMPUS

At a luncheon in Draper Hall on Friday, Dcci-mbcr
16, President Hugh P. Baker welcomed a group of
landscape Alumni to the campus and struck the key-
note of their meeting when he said, "You men and
women have gathered here to honor a man who is a
great leader, and a great teacher. . . . Dr. Frank A.
Waugh." From all over the United States these
landscapers had come — to visit once again with
their teacher and friend. Professor Waugh, to express
to him their affectionate esteem.

There was, in addition to the reunion, a two-day
session filled full of interesting professional discussion.
Papers were given by the following: Mrs. William
Nelson Breed '29G, Karl M. Tomfohrde '30, John W.
Hyde '25, Neal A. Butterfield '34G, Leslie D. Goodall
'32, Walter B. Hatch '05, Raymond K. Evans '35,
Hervey F. Law '22, Arnold M. Davis '31, Jack
Amatt '28, Wellington W. Kennedy '28, Ben D.
Betts '33, George L. Chesley '27G, and Kenneth R.
Higgins '37.

Connie Wirth '23, Joe Cormier '26, and Milford
Lawrence '17 presided at the meetings.

Alumni who registered were: Vera Breed '29G,
Samuel P. Snow '35, Raymond K. Evans '35, Charles
B. Cox '30, Hervey F. Law '22, Paul W. Rhoades '15,
Louis de Wilde '36, Walter L. Papp '34, Lester W.
Needham '14, William H. Armstrong '99, Peter
Cascio '21, Philip W. Warren '32, Ralph B. Gates
'37, Miriam J. Loud '30, John S. Chadwick '29,
Wellington Kennedy '28, Anthony L. Gagliarducci
'29, O. Frank Burbank, Jr. '30, Milford R. Lawrence
'17, Alfreda O. Warren '33, H. Erie Weatherwax '24,
Neal A. Butterfield '34G, George A. Yarwood '26,
Jack Amatt '28, Edward M. Flavin '37, Karl M.
Tomfohrde '30, Raphael Saraceni '30, Thomas
Lenoir '27, Carl S. Gerlach '37G, Conrad L. Wirth
'23, Benjamin D. Betts '33, William A. Scott '35,
Walter B. Hatch '05, George A. Mallett '13, Palmer
Day '30, Myles G. Boylan '36, John W. Hyde '25,
Parke W. Farrar '08, Robert B. Fisher '37, Murray
W. George '37, Dean N. Click '36, Daniel W. O'Brien
'14, Daniel J. Foley '35, Stephen F. Hamblin '12,
Francis Cormier '26, Philip L. Robinson '21, Everett
S. MacQueston '35, Gus C. Wofford '25G, George L.
Chesley '27G, Arthur C. Bird '25G.
(Continued on page 4)

described, and we note that several new species are
named in the author's honor, such as Eurya Degeneri
Kobuski and Chamaesyce Degeneri (Sherff ) Croiz. and
Eg.

Degener's "Flora Hawaiiensis" is destined to super-
sede all other works upon the Hawaiian plants.
Future workers may modify the limits of species,
may institute new name combinations, but the work
will stand as a monument which a devoted student
has raised to a scientific ideal.

- R. E. Torrey '12
November 18, 1938.

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OBITUARIES

D. Anthony Sheehan '13

D. Anthony Sheehan died at his home in Weston,
Mass., on November 18, 1938. He had been ill for
over a year.

As I rode, on November 21, in the long procession
from his late home, past the Weston Post Office
where the flag was at half-mast, and on to the final
resting place in Waltham, my thoughts were of the
sterling character and achievements of my former
room-mate. Few men carry on to success against the
odds which faced him.

"Mighty" entered College with the class of 1912;
he immediately became boxing champion. Then,
illness forced him to withdraw from the campus; he
returned next year with the class of 191.3.

He played on freshman and sophomore football
and basketball teams. In his junior year he was a
member of the varsity football team. Following his
first varsity game "Mighty" again had to leave
College — this time with a mild case of infantile
paralysis from which he never fully recovered. But
he returned again, and his indomitable spirit kept
him at the head of his class. The scarlet fever epi-
demic also claimed "Mighty," but his hard work
enabled him to graduate with '13.

After graduation he became superintendent of the
Weston Post Office, a position he held until his
death. His death is a loss not only to his family but
also to the College, the class of 1913, the town of
Weston, and the Post Office department for which he
had rendered faithful service.

Joseph A. Macone '13

Robert A. Demand w'14

Robert A. Demond w'14 died at his home in
Greenfield, Mass., on December 8, 1938. He had
been in poor health for several months. He was
forty-seven years old.

After leaving College Mr. Demond went to Green-
field where, since 1915, he had been treasurer of the
Franklin County Lumber Company. He was a
director of the Greenfield Co-operative Bank and of
the Greenfield Savings Bank.

He is survived by his wife, four brothers, and
several nieces and nephews.

Paul Sears Putnam '38

Paul Sears Putnam '38 died at the home of his
parents in Greenfield, Mass., on November 20, 1938,
six months after he had been stricken with Hodgkins
disease.

In College Paul was an outstanding member of
varsity football and basketball teams; he was named
as end on the all-New England football team during
his junior year. While a junior he also won the
College tennis championship.

Paul was a good student as well as a good athlete;
he was a popular member of his class. All who knew
him admired his friendly good nature. His class-
mates are proud to have known such a member
even for this too-short a time; his fraternity is the
better for having had such a brother; the College
can point to his record as an example.

Paul's father is Joseph H. Putnam '94. His sister,
Ruth, was graduated from the College in 1926; his
brother, Ernest, was a member of the class of 1923.

Stanley Flower '38

MARRIAGES

'30 Miss Evelyn Dover to Dana Parker Bent,
November 26, 1938, at Reading, Mass.

'34 Miss Barbara Gerrard to Stanley Olbrecht,
November 24, 1938, at Holyoke, Mass.

'38 Marshall B. Allen to Miss Beverley Luce,
November 26, 1938, at Worcester, Mass.

'38 and '38 Cyrus French to Miss Doris Jenkins,
December 17, 1938, at Worcester, Mass.

'38 Mitchell Jackson to Miss Enid Altsheler,
September 11, 1938, at Brighton, Mass.

BIRTHS

'25 A son, Wilton Douglas, to Mr. and Mrs.
Adrian D. Barnes, October 31, 1938, at Coral Gables,
Florida.

'27 A son, Richard Gardner, to Mr. and Mrs.
Laurence Rhoades, August 15, 1938, at Northamp-
ton, Mass.

'34 A daughter, Shirley Ann, to Mr. and Mrs.
Louis Bush, July 10, 1938, at Greenfield, Mass.

'33 B.L.A. A daughter, Patricia Ann, to Mr. and
Mrs. R. O. Monosmith, November 14, 1938, at State
College, Mississippi.

ALUMNI ATTEND CONFERENCES
ON CAMPUS

(Continued from page 3)
Anniversary

On December 3, Mr. Waugh was a central figure
at another gathering of Alumni, this one sponsored
by Professor Grant B. Snyder, head of the vegetable
gardening department at the College. This meeting
was in celebration of the 30th anniversary of the
establishing of a department of vegetable gardening
at the College by Professor Waugh.

H. F. Tompson '05, now in the market garden
business in Attleboro, Mass., was first head of the
department.

Alumni who spoke at the meeting or who took
part in round table discussions were: Paul Dempsey
'17, Clark L. Thayer '13, Steve Richardson '18,
Carleton Stearns '17, Cal Cartwright '27, Jim Hodder
'37, and Eleanor West '37. Richardson was ap-
pointed chairman of the group, which plans further
get-togethers.

'13 Dr. Nils P. Larson is cited in The Ski Bulletin
(house organ of the National Ski Association of
America) as being active in the development of
skiing in Hawaii. We've always figured that skiing
was for those who didn't live in the near-tropics —
or so the travel ads would have one believe. Evi-
dently something else is true.

THE ALUMNI BULLKTIN

WITH THE ALUMhAE

By Leonta Horrigan '.'if;

Peggy Shea '36 is teaching English and speech al
the Pelham High School, Pelham Manor, N. Y.

I'lli • .il><( li Barry '31 is a puhlic health nurse in
Boston.

Harriet Jackson '34 is teaching civics and mathe-
matics in the Orange, Mass., High School.

Marion Smith '35, who last year received a Ph.D.
from the University of Illinois is now curator in the
entomology department at the College.

Constiintf Hail '36 is teaching biology, general
science, and English at the West Boylston, Mass.,
High School.

Priscilla Bradford '37 is a training supervisor at
Jordan Marsh's in Boston. She does a great deal of
personnel work, and is also editor of the store paper.

Mary Brcinig '37 has a position with the Massa-
chusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company in Spring-
field, Mass.

Eleanor Fahey '38 is studying at Katherine Gibbs
Secretarial School in New York City.

Ann Gilbert '38 has a position at the Massachu-
setts General Hospital in Boston. She is stationed at
the emergency entrance to write up case histories.

Martha Kaplinsky '38 is a graduate student at
the Boston Dispensary, Boston, Mass.

Helen Kingsbury '38 is doing dressmaking at her
home, Wauschacum Lake Farm, Sterling, Mass.

Phyllis Nelson '38 is working at the Liberty
Mutual Life Insurance Company in Boston.

Betty Streeter '38 is assisting at the Strathmore
Inn, Woronoco, Mass.

Elthea Thompson '38 is working in the adjust-
ment office at -Jordan Marsh's in Boston.

Lois Wood '38 is teaching in Collinsville, Conn.

On December 6, 1938, the Hampshire County
Alumnae Group met at the Faculty Club for a buffet
supper and social evening. The following attended:
Miss Skinner, Miss Knowlton, Edith Berten-
shaw Aldrich '29, Ruth Scott '31, Mildred Twiss
Briggs '32, Laura Cooley '33, Ruth Campbell
Burgess '34, Mary Tomlinson Brown 34, Mar-
joric Jensen Cummings '34, Betty Wheeler
Frigard '34, Ruth Pushee *34, Madeline Lincoln
'36, and Leonta Horrigan '36.

CLASS OF li»ir>

( 'ontinued from /<"i;<- 2)

descended from hi:-, original pad Bi ides blood-
hounds Mr. Whitney rai ee cocker paniel ind also

conducts experiments in crossbreeding. About two
hundred dogs are usuallv on his plan-, whirl, mean
an annual food bill of nearly $4,000. Until the
puppies are six months old they live in cages with
raised floors of wire mesh in order to protect I hem
from parasitic infection. Wire floors have no bad
effect on their feet but the first day on the "round
the puppies are pretty unsteady. Whitney sells some
fifty cockers a year at from $35 to $75 each and
about the same number of bloodhounds at $50.
Some of the latter go as pets to people who like to
watch them follow trails but the majority go to
professional man hunters.

"Mr. Whitney spends a good deal of time develop-
ing his bloodhounds' inherent gift for following their
noses. As the first step in training he has several
boys rub liver on their hands and line up with their
hands behind their backs. One boy actually has the
liver and Mr. Whitney gives the dog a sniff of some
clothing belonging to that boy. If the dog then goes
to the right one, he gets the liver; if he doesn't, he
gets a cuff on the nose. When the bloodhound can
consistently choose the boy holding the meat he's
taken out on trails four times a week. As a final
test, a boy lays a trail around a golf course early in
the morning. If the dog can follow that trail in the
evening — after the day's golfers have been around —
he's considered well trained. Most of Mr. Whitney's
bloodhounds work up to this in four or five months.

"About once every two weeks Mr. Whitney takes
his dogs out on a professional man hunt. His rates
are $50 if the hunt is nearby, $100 if it's outside
Connecticut; his assignments are generally finding
lost persons. He also lends bloodhounds to the police
for their maintenance; and the state police of New
York, Rhode Island, Maine, and New Hampshire
each have a pair. Altogether, Whitney bloodhounds
last summer found criminals and lost persons on the
average of one every five days; one dog alone caught
six bank robbers, ten murderers.

"Besides sale of his dogs and fees for man hunting
Mr. Whitney has two other sources of income. One
is his salary as an officer of Balorations, Inc., a
division of Tioga Mills, Inc., of Waverly, New York.
Some years ago Mr. Whitney concocted a new type
of bulk dog food and suggested Balorations, Inc. be
incorporated for its manufacture. In 1935 Tioga Mills
bought Mr. Whitney's company, gave its product the
name 'Tioga Dog Food,' and made Mr. Whitney vice-
president in charge of research. Today the Tioga
brand ranks among the best-sellers of all bulk dog
foods. Mr. Whitney's other source of income is his
prolific writing. He has published seven books to
date. One of them, a Junior Literary Guild selection,
was written in sixty hours. He never spends more
than three hours writing a dog story for a magazine,
and about one a month is published, bringing in
from $85 to $100."

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ATHLETICS

REPORT ON CLASS TREES

Football

"Medford, Mass., Nov. 19. — Al Bennett's place-
kick in the third period today gave Tufts a 7 to 6
football victory over Massachusetts State College. . .
Bennett's boot gave the Jumbos their first victory
since they beat Massachusetts State a year ago."

New York Times
November 20, 1938

Soccer

Coach Larry Briggs '27 calls his 1938 soccer team
one of the most cooperative groups of players with
which he ever worked.

Last year's senior players declared — facetiously
perhaps — that the '38 club would have to be lucky
to win one game. The scores, below, show that those
players were mistaken in regard to the number of
wins; Coach Briggs will vouch for the fact that
something more than luck entered into the final
statistics of the season.

The Statesmen played outstanding soccer on
October 22 when they played Springfield, co-holder
of the National Collegiate soccer title, to a 1 to 1 tie.

Captain Charlie Rodda '39 of Springfield was high
scorer; his total of goals over a three-year period is
24. Bob Jackson '34, previously had held the College
scoring record in soccer with a total of 19 goals.

The season's scores:

Statesmen

Opp.

Oct. 1

Dartmouth, there

Conn. State, there

Fitchburg, here

Springfield, here

Amherst, here

Nov. 5

Trinity, there

Wesleyan, here

Cross Country

Captain Larry Pickard '39, of Salisbury, completed
three years of intercollegiate cross country running
on November 12. In fifteen races Pickard had
taken eight first places, two seconds, and five thirds.
No mean record!

Although the Statesmen won only a single dual
meet this past fall Pickard was always up in there;
at the New England meet in Boston he was ninth in
a field of more than ninety runners, in the Connecti-
cut Valley meet he was fifth in a field of fifty.

The season's scores:

{Low score wins) Statesmen Opp.

Oct. 8

Northeastern, there

37 21

M.I.T., here

34 25

W.P.I. , here

19 41

Nov. 1

Conn. Valley Champion-

ships, Amherst

4th of 7 teams

N. E. IntercoQegiates,

Boston

10th of 14 teams

Rensselaer, here

37 18

The second installment of the article on campus
trees planted by the various classes (the first install-
ment appeared in last month's Bulletin) will appear
in the February issue of the Bulletin.

'92 William Fletcher of Napa, California, and his
wife were recent visitors on campus.

'06 G. Talbot French is state entomologist for
Virginia with business headquarters at 1112 State
Office Building, Richmond. His home, also, is in
Richmond at 1510 Wilmington Avenue.

'16 Carrick Wildon is in charge of floriculture at
the Michigan State College of Agriculture and
Applied Science.

'18 Bob Hawley, secretary of the College, con-
ducted a round table discussion on budget operation
and control at the 19th annual meetings of the
Association of University and College Business
Officers of the Eastern States in Pittsburg, December
4-6. Bob is author of a recent article in Educational
Business called "The Business Administration and
Financial Management of a Land Grant College."

'23 Norm Hilyard manages the Springfield News
Company, 101 Taylor Street, Springfield, Mass.

'27 Eddie Connell is author of two interesting
short stories which appeared in recent issues of
Columbia magazine. When he isn't free lance writing
Ed is acting as tree warden for the town of Stamford,
Conn., is technical editor of the Northeastern Tree
Service, has a part in magazine work for NBC and
the Melville-Marcy Co., publishers. Which ought to
keep him fairly busy.

'28 Gordon Bearse is at the Western Washington
Experiment Station, Puyallup, Washington, where
he is doing experimental work in poultry husbandry.

'30 Dr. William B. Drew is author of a paper in
The American Midland Naturalist on factors affecting
distribution of mosses on barks of trees.

'31 Fran Pray had an article in a recent issue of
the fraternity magazine, Banta's Greek Exchange. The
secretary of the National Interfraternity Conference
saw the article, liked it, and invited Fran to come
down to New York City on November 26 to address
the annual Conference Convention. Fran went.

'33 Ashley Gurney is assistant entomologist at
the United State National Museum, Washington,
D. C.

Basketball

On December 13 Coach Bill Frigard's '34 basket-
ball team opened its 1938-39 season by winning from
Lowell Textile School 42-22 in the Physical Education
Building cage. On December 15 the Statesmen won
from Middlebury, 39-25. Then came the Christmas
vacation. (See page 8 for remaining games.)

Captain Stan Zelazo '39 of Adams has not yet fully
recovered from injuries sustained early in the football
season; but it is expected that he will be able to play
in his share of basketball games before the season is
over.

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By Dennis M. Crowley '29

Ak Gricius '37 who in his short time out of College
already has had a variety of interesting jobs — graduate
student and trainer in the physical education depart-
ment at the College, operator for a private detective
agency, salesman of Buick automobiles — has agreed
to supply the alumni notes for the Boston column this
month. Al is currently employed at William Filene's
Sons Company here in Boston, is working practically
shoulder to shoulder with a young man named Roosevelt.

-D. M. C.

Henry Iacovelli '37, John Talinski '37, Jack
Dohby '37, Donji Wood '38, and Bill Collins '38

are all at Tufts Medical School — and making out
well. And so is Roy Conway '37 at the B. U. Medical
School.

Amby McGuckian '34 is living in Norwood and
is in the tree business for himself — pretty busy
right now.

Bill Kirby *34 is a staff assistant in the merchan-
dizing department at Filene's. He commutes from
Lynn, his home.

Johnny Tikofski '32 is teaching in Walpole. He
recently visited his brother Ed at Langley Field,
Hampton, Virginia, where Ed is an army aviator on
active flying duty.

Joe Lepie '32 has his own law office at 53 State
Street, Boston, Mass.

Tommy Maguire '37 is working at Jordan Marsh
until the hotel business opens up in Florida. Then
he'll go south.

Dave Rossitcr '37 is plugging away at law books
by night and taking care of his probation officer
duties by day, over in Maiden.

Mel Frank w'36 passed his bar exams a couple of
months ago; Curt Clark '35 and Hush Corcoran

'35 also have passed the bar exams.

Harvey Turner '37 is working in the laboratory
for the United Farmers in Charlestown.

Phil Layton '37 was recently elected secretary of
the Newton Ski Runners, a club of ski enthusiasts.
Phil edits the club's publication.

(Continued on page 8)

ACADEMICS

Band

Sammy Snow '35 was manager of the band while
an undergraduate; he was in large pari responsible

for establishing the band as a prominent extra-
curricular organization on campus.

Now, Sam is landscape architect at the Coronado
National Forest in Arizona but, in December, he-
had come east for his vacation and also to attend the
landscape conference at the College (see page 3i. On
December 15, in Stockbridge Hall, the college band
gave a concert, and Sammy was invited to attend.
At one point in the program Sam was called to the
front of the stage and, there, presented with a scroll
inscribed as follows:

Massachusetts State College Band

Honors

Mr. Samuel P. Snow

On this occasion of the fifth anniversary of the

reorganization of the Massachusetts State College

band we, the officers and members, extend to you

our sincere appreciation for the part you have had

in assuring the continued success of our organization.

Joseph Paul Charles B. Farnum J. Edward Malkin

Manager Coach Leader

Then Sam was given the leader's baton and asked
to conduct the band in "Men of Harlech" —his
favorite march.

SirigJinji

Probably not in twenty years has undergraduate
interest in vocal music been at such a high point as
it has now reached.

Mr. Doric Alviani came to the College as instructor
in music and coach of the glee clubs and orchestra in
September, and that, the students have responded to
his magnetic leadership is attested by the following
schedule of public appearances already made by the
student musical clubs.

November 3. Forty members of the Men's and
Women's Glee Clubs in a concert (guest night! at
the First Church in Northampton.

November 6. Vested choir (30 voices) at an
evening service at Grace Church in Holyoke. The
choir also appears regularly at Sunday vesper ser-
vices at the College.

November 16. Forty members of the Men's Glee
Club in a concert at Concord, Mass., under the
auspices of the Middlesex County Extension Service.

December 5. Thirty-six members of the Women's
Glee Club in a concert at Florence, Mass., under the
auspices of the Men's Club of the First Church.

December 11. Eighty members of the two glee clubs
and the choir, combined, at a service at the First
Church in Amherst and at the vesper services, that
evening, at the College.

Orchestra

The orchestra, coached by Mr. Alviani, has ap-
peared twice at convocation exercises at the College.
On Thursday evening, January 5, the orchestra
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Library

'17 Harold Pierce has been appointed head of the

State Collea-e

department of bio-chemistry and acting head of the

department of pharmacology at the College of

Medicine, University of Vermont.

WINTER ATHLETIC SCHEDULES

BASKETBALL HOCKEY

SWIMMING

Dec. 13 Lowell Textile here 8:00 Jan. 4 Northeastern here 3:30

Jan. 11 Williams there 8:00

15 Middlebury here 8:00 6 Clinton H. C, there

14 W.P.I, there 3:00

Jan. 7 Springfield there 8:00 7 Hamilton there 8:00

20 Conn. State there 8:00

11 Williams there 8:30 10 Brown there 8:30

Feb. 11 Wesleyan here 2:00

14 Amherst here 8:00 14 N. H. here 3:30

17 Coast Guard here 8:00

18 W.P.I, here 8:00 17 Union here 3:30

25 Boston U. here 4:30

21 Wesleyan here 8:00 19 Boston College there

Co-captains

Feb. 8 R. I. State there 8:00

Henry G. Andersen '39

10 Coast Guard here 8:00 Captain, Clifton W. Morey '39

Herbert S. Howes '39

15 Amherst there 8:00 Manager, Edward B. Willard '39

Manager, Emery Moore, Jr. '39

18 Conn. State here 8:00 Coach, Lorin E. Ball '21

Coach, Joseph R. Rogers, Jr.

22 Tufts there 8:00

24 R.P.I, here 8:00 TRACK

25 Boston U. here 8:00 Jan. 28 K. of C. at Boston 8:00

Mar. 18 Wesleyan there 2:30

Feb. 11 B.A.A. at Boston 8:00

Captain, Stanley F. Zelazo '39 17 Conn. State here 7:30

Captain, Robert A. Joyce '40 i

Manager, D. W. Hornbaker '39 22 W.P.I, here 2:00

Mgr., Sydney Abramovitz '40 ;

Coach, Wilho Frigard '34 25 Tufts there 2:00

Coach, Llewellyn L. Derby

BOSTON ALUMNI

{Continued from page 7)
Art Bearse '33 is research chemist with Arthur D.
Little, Inc., in Cambridge.

I wish that I could report a record-breaking at-
tendance at the Smoker held at the Bellevue Hotel
on the eve of the Tufts game. But the number of
Alumni at the gathering was not up to our usual
standard.

However, those Alumni who met at Hotel Bellevue
on November 18 for the purposes of good-fellowship,
and renewal of College ties, found their time well
spent. President Bill Hayden and Secretary Charlie
Cox had prepared an excellent program. Management
of the speaking for the evening was in the able hands
of Bill Hayden. Don Tiffany '31 brought over some
of his talented friends to put on a floor show, and it
made a great hit with the crowd.

Among the justifiable criticisms of our Boston
Club is the note that we do not have as good a per-
centage of representation from the younger classes
as from the group who have been out for more than
ten years. That is not a favorable sign for any
organization, for continued effectiveness of a social or
fraternal organization depends greatly upon conti-
nuity of purpose and of enthusiasm. To attain these
ends, we must encourage the younger Alumni to
enter into the activities of the Club and carry on the
good work which has been done. One excellent

ACADEMICS

(Continued from page 7)
(thirty-two members) will give a program of Victor
Herbert, Gilbert and Sullivan, and Jerome Kern
music at the twenty-first annual Union Agricultural
Banquet in Worcester at the Hotel Bancroft.

A male quartette, the Statesman, also under Mr.
Alviani's direction, will sing at the same banquet.

Index

A number of surprises and innovations are being
planned for the 1939 Index by a board which has
been busily at work for weeks. Myron Fisher '39 of
Winthrop is editor-in-chief; Charles L. Branch '39
of Amherst is business manager.

Alumni wishing a copy of the book which will be
published in May (and the editors assure us that the
book will be well worth owning) should place their
orders now. The price is $3.50, the check should be
made payable to the 1939 Index, and sent to the
Index Office, Memorial Hall.

suggestion that has been made to stimulate the inter-
est of the younger men is for the Club or individual
members to foster small informal, home gatherings
or house parties to which a few of the younger men
will be invited. In such sociable setting the newer
graduates will perhaps discover that closer bonds
exist between them and older men who may appear
more distant at the large meetings of the Club. We
expect to report on some of these little gatherings in
later issues of the Bulletin.

THE ALUMNI
BULLETIN

MID-YEARS APPROACH

MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE
AMHERST, MASSACHUSETTS

Vol. XXI, No. 5

February, 1939

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN
MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

Published monthly at Amherst, Mass. (except August and Sep-
tember) by the Associate Alumni of Massachusetts State College.
Entered as second class matter. March 17, 1920, at the Postoffice
at Amherst, Mass., under the Acts of March 3, 1879.
ASSOCIATE ALUMNI OF
MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE
President, Harry Dunlap Brown '14 of Billerica
Vice-President, Alden C. Brett '12 of Belmont
Secretary, William L. Doran ' 15 of Amherst
Treasurer, Clark L. Thayer '13 of Amherst
Assistant Secretary, George E. Emery '24 of Amherst

Board of Directors
to 1939

Michael J. McNamara '17 of Hartford, Conn.
David Potter '16 of Worcester

Albert W. Smith '22 of Springfield

Theoren L. Warner '08 of Sunderland
to 1940
Walter T. Bonney '31 of Springfield

John J. Maginnis '18 of Worcester

Lester Needham '14 of Springfield

F. Civille Pray '06 of Amherst
to 1941
Richard J. Davis '28 of Boston

Thomas P. Dooley ' 13 of West Roxbury

George W. Edman '21 of Pittsfield

Ralph F. Taber '16 of West Newton
to 1942
Erford W. Poole '96 of New Bedford

David P. Rossiter '37 of Maiden

Zoe Hickney White '32 of Worcester

Alfred E. Wilkins '15 of Wakefield

The Alumni Bulletin is sent ten times each year to all members of
the Associate Alumni. Annual memberships are: Sustaining $10.00,
Ordinary $3.00.

Cover picture — a view of the main reading (study)
room in Goodell Library. An enlarged reproduction of
this picture was used for the end papers in the 1938
Index. — Photo by John Vondell.

'73 John B. Minor of New Britain, Connecticut,
recently sent us an interesting item about Fletcher
K. Barrows w'73, of Brattleboro, Vt., as follows:

"Barrows did not graduate but, in the early days
of the Alumni Association, at an annual meeting, he
was voted in as a regular member. He was born in
Marthas Vineyard, January 24, 1852. His family
moved to Brattleboro, Vermont, where he attended
the public schools until 1869, at which time he
entered the College in the class of '73. After leaving
College he was, for a long time, interested in the
mercantile business, and for twenty-two years was
president of the Brattleboro Savings Bank. He was
married in 1877 but has no children."

'83 Samuel M. Holman of Attleboro, Mass., is
the international champion skeet shooter for his age.
He recently celebrated his seventy-seventh birthday
and his fifty-third wedding anniversary at which
time members of the Angle Tree Stone Rod and Gun
Club in Attleboro paid honor to him.

'07 Ralph J. Watts recently resigned as executive
secretary of Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity after fifteen
years of distinguished service. At the 28th biennial
convention of the society, in San Francisco, movies
were shown featuring the late William Penn Brooks
'75 and John Ashburton Cutter '82.

NEWS AND NOTES
OF THE CLASS OF

1916

These biographic notes have been assembled by Dutch
Schlotterbeck for his class.

Charlie Moses is employed with the American
Electric Incubator Company in New Brunswick, N.J.
Previously he had been farming in Ticonderoga, N.Y.
and had been with the Armstrong Cork Company.

He is active in Red Cross and Community Chest
work in New Brunswick. He writes that he fre-
quently sees Lyman Schermerhorn '10 and Maurice
Blake '04 and others who are connected with the
New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station.

Harold Mostrom is educational manager of the
Essex County Agricultural School in Hathorne, Mass.,
where he has been since 1921. Before going to
Hathorne he had been at the Keene, N. H., Normal
School and for three years in 4-H Club work with the
New Hampshire extension service.

He has two sons, eighteen and sixteen years of age.
He is treasurer of the Essex Agricultural Credit
Union, and a member of the Gideons.

Everett Richards is with the Standard- Vacuum
Oil Company in Cebu, Philippine Islands. He has
been a lieutenant in the Philippine Constabulary, a
lieutenant in the U. S. Army. His next leave from
the Philippines will be in 1940 when he plans to look
up many of his classmates on the mainland.

Theodore Glover is instructor in woodworking
and head of the practical arts department of the
Barsntable, Mass., High School. He lives in Hyannis.

His daughter, nineteen, is interested in music and
Ted expects she may study piano and harp at the
New England Conservatory in Boston.

Ben Sander is teaching mathematics in the
Greenfield, Mass., High School. He has a master of
education degree from Harvard. He has been teach-
ing in Greenfield since 1922, previous to which time
he had been farming for himself and employed at
estates in New Canaan, Connecticut, and Brookline,
Mass.

T. Carlton Upham is moving around a lot, but
he maintains 17 Longwood Avenue, Fitchburg, Mass.,
as his address. He has been a teacher, lecturer,
director of plays, a newspaper reporter and editorial
writer, doing special articles on the theater in the
New York Herald Tribune.

He received his M.A. at Harvard and is a graduate
of the "47 Workshop" at Yale. He is author of
"Lost Boy," a play which was produced on Broad-
way in 1932. He is writing another play and taking
options on others. He is married; he has two
children, a boy six and a girl three.

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ALUMNI DIRECTORS

MEET IN AMHERST

On Wednesday, December 28, 1938, the Board of
Directors of the Associate Alumni met in Amherst
to consider several matters of business important
to the College and to Alumni. Harry Brown presided.

There was a discussion of the work of the Com-
mittee on Scholarships of which Earle J. Robinson '12
is chairman. This committee is securing facts and
comparing statistics regarding scholarships at Massa-
chusetts State and at other colleges, and, it is ex-
pected, will report definite recommendations to the
Directors at their next meeting.

Members of the Committee on Scholarships are,
in addition to Chairman Robinson: Hubert G. Elder
'27, David P. Rossiter '37, -John W. McGuckian '31,
George B. Willard '92, Marshall O. Lanphear '18
ex-officio.

There was a discussion of the work of the com-
mittee (composed of Alden Brett '12, William V.
Hayden '13 and Richard J. Davis '28) which is
working with the College Administration and Trustee
Board in regard to the matter of erecting self-
liquidating dormitories at the College. Mr. Davis
reported for the committee, which had met the day
before with members of the College Administration
and Trustee Board in Boston. The Directors also
discussed the matter of life membership in the
Associate Alumni and factors concerning the fresh-
man curriculum at the College.

AGRICULTURE SEMINAR

Alumni who majored in agriculture will be inter-
ested in plans for the third Alumni Seminar. This
Seminar was inaugurated in March, 1935, and was
repeated in March, 1937. Its purpose is to attract
Alumni to the campus in order to renew their inter-
est in their College and also, more especially, to assist
in bringing to their attention the latest developments
in the field of agriculture generally and in their own
specialized field in particular.

The faculty committee in charge has decided to
hold the next Seminar in the fall, on the week-end
of either the Tufts or Amherst football game. This
fall Seminar will include three sessions — Friday
afternoon, Friday evening, and Saturday morning.
More time will be provided for discussion, in accord-
ance with the desires of many Alumni previously in
attendance.

Both sectional and general sessions will be held on
each of the two days. There will be sections for
dairy, general livestock, poultry, and perhaps agri-
cultural economics. Several nationally-known lead-
ers in industry and agriculture will be invited to
participate. The committee is hopeful that the fall
dates will be more convenient for Alumni who have
been unable to attend previously. As plans develop
they will be given publicity. Meanwhile, Alumni are
urged to send suggestions concerning the program
to F. H. Branch, at the College, who is serving
as chairman of the committee on arrangements.

ALUMNI MEETINGS HELD

THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY

The Pittsfield, Mass., Berkshire Eagle printed a
statement, recently, to the effecl thai Massachusetts
State Alumni are not superstitious — and such,
indeed, would appear to be the truth. Because,
entirely unimpressed by the date of the party, thirty
Alumni gathered at the Stanley Club in Pittsfield
to reorganize the Berkshire Alumni Club on Friday.
January 13.

George Edman '21, who called the group together,
was elected president; John B. Hull '91 of Great
Barrington. vice-president; Gertrude (Pierce)
Spooner '31, secretary, and Laurence Spooner '30,
treasurer. Guests from the College were Coach Eb
Caraway, Em Grayson '17, and Professor Guy V.
Glatfelter of the college placement office. These men
talked in most interesting vein about athletics at the
College and in regard to the help Alumni can be in
directing the attention of prospective students
toward Massachusetts State. Red Emery '24,
assistant alumni secretary, who also was present,
urged that graduates become members of the Asso-
ciate Alumni.

An undergraduate vocal quartette, the Statesmen,
led by John Osmun '40 (son of A. Vincent Osmun '03)
were guests of the Berkshire Club and sang a number
of familiar songs.

Larry Jones '26 (assisted by his wife, Mary Ingra-
ham Jones '27) made the plans for what was — to
use the words of Harry Brown '14 —-"a corking
good meeting" in Wenham, Mass., on October 27.
Forty-two Alumni, wives and friends were in at-
tendance.

They heard Starr M. King '21, superintendent of
schools in Beverly and chairman of the alumni com-
mittee on new students, tell of some of the results of
a state-wide survey he had made concerning factors
affecting the enrollment of students at Massachusetts
State. Harry Brown, president of the Associate
Alumni, spoke about the work of that organization.

Writing about the party, Larry Jones said, "The
talks by King and Brown were greatly appreciated
and, afterwards, there was an interesting discussion
period.

"The group was in excellent voice and the singing
was one of the highlights of the evening.

"The best indication of the success of the meeting
was the fact that, although we adjourned at ten-
fifteen so that those who had a long way to go home
might leave without embarrassment, nearly all re-
mained, chatting in groups, quizzing the speakers,
and unquestionably enjoying the opportunity. Not
until eleven-fifteen did the last eighteen or twenty
hunt up their wraps and say their 'goodnights'."

Officers of the Essex County Club, for the coming
year, are: Starr King '21, president; Mary Ingraham
Jones '27, vice-president; Zigmund Jackimczyk '35,
secretary-treasurer.

(Continued on page 5)

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OBITUARIES

Herbert .1. Bolter '11

Herbert J. Baker died January 6, in Plainfield, N.J.,
of a heart attack. He was born April 15, 1885, in
Selbyville, Delaware. He attended the Mount
I lermon .School at Northfield, Mass.; and then en-
tered the College, graduating in 1911. Tn College he
was a leading member of his class, a debater, a
member of the Index board, and a prominent Kappa
Sigma. He was a member, in 1909, 1910, and 1911,
of the college rifle team which for those three years
won the national championships in both indoor and
outdoor shooting. Admired and looked up to by his
classmates, Raker was nicknamed "Bill Bryan" be-
cause of his ardent supporting of William Jennings
Bryan.

For the first two years out of College he served on
the extension staff and made many friends through-
out Massachusetts.

In 1915 he became director of the Extension Ser-
vice at Connecticut State College, serving in that
position until 1923. From Connecticut he went to
New Jersey as director of the Extension Seivice, re-
maining there until his death. He was an effective
speaker and writer in the field of agricultural eco-
nomics and general farm practice and was very
popular with the farmers who had great confidence
in his judgment.

During the World War he was called overseas to
serve under President Kenyon L. Butterfield in the
educational enterprises which were especially active
during the demobilization. He established a school
farm at Allery, France. His work there was of such
eminent character that he was awarded the degree of
Officer of the French Academy by the minister of
education; also the ribbon of a Chevalier du Merite
Agricole.

Frank A. Waugh

Frederick A. McLaughlin '11

Professor E. L> Sumner

Professor Edward Ludwig Sumner died in Worces-
ter, Mass., on November 11, at the age of eighty-
eight.

He taught music at the College in 1910 and 1911,
and cooperated with Professor Edgar L. Ashley and
Dr. S. Francis Howard '94 in compiling the first
book of our college songs.

MARRIAGES

'12 Ezra Shaw to Miss Martha Zuchowski, De-
cember 28, 1938, at Stamford, Conn.

'33 and '36 Walter Maclinn to Miss Frances
Driscoll, December 26, 1938, at Holyoke, Mass.

'36 and '38 Bradley Frye to Miss Winnifred
Taylor, September 17, 1938, at Pittsfield, Mass.

'38 Miss Betty Barton to George F. Cramer, Jr.,
January 1, 1939, at Amherst, Mass.

'38 Miss Katherine Spaight to Clayton Moore,
December 25, 1938, at Springfield, Mass.

REPORT ON CLASS TREES

This is the second and last part of an article telling
about the class trees on campus. The original report
was prepared in 1926 by the late Professor Charles
Henry Thompson. Comments, in italics, on the effect
of the hurricane and about trees planted since 1926 are
those of Lyle Blundell, professor of horticulture at the
College.

1890. Kadsura tree. Two trees between North
and South Colleges on either side of the road. Also
Norway spruce. Marker is by this tree, which is the
first of a row of the trees corner of South College.
The rest of the trees are sugar maple.

Kadsura tree O. K. Norway spruce uprooted. All
maples except one (see picture, November, 1938,
Alumni Bulletin) O.K.

18!(1. No record secured.

1892. Sugar maple. Marker at first tree south of
the diagonal walk leading up to the southeast corner
of South College.

O.K.

1893. Black walnut. Tree about sixty feet north-
west of the northwest corner of North College.
Marker placed in 1924. In a triangular plot of land
northwest of North College is a miscellaneous col-
lection of trees. At the southeast corner of this
planting is a stone marker.

O.K.

1894. Black walnut. About twenty-five feet
south of the southwest corner of South College.

O.K.

1895. Silver maple. About fifty feet north of
North College.

Badly damaged but will be pruned, and saved.

1896. Elm. About sixty feet north of the north-
west corner of the Chapel-Library. It is not a
vigorous tree and its trunk is only six inches in
diameter at shoulder height. Possibly a later planting.

Removed in 1935 — almost dead.

1897. Camperdown elm. Thirty feet north of
the northeast corner of the Chapel-Library.

O.K.

1898. Black oak. Fifty feet south of North
College.

O.K.

1899. Japanese elm. Large, thirty feet southeast
of the southwest corner of South College.

O.K.

1900. Red oak. Thirty-five feet north of the
northwest corner of the Drill Hall.

O.K.

1901. Sakhalin corktree. Sixty feet northeast of
the Veterinary Laboratory.

O.K.

(Continued on page 8)

BIRTH

'35 A daughter, Marianne Keefe, to Mr. and
Mrs. Francis Keefe (Helen Connolly '35), at Newton,
Mass.

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WITH THE ALUMMAE

By Leonta Horrigan '36

Elizabeth (Lynch) Pullar '29 is author of an

article on "New Flowers and Vegetables" which
appeared recently in the magazine section of the
Springfield Sunday Republican.

Agnes MrMahon '."53 is working in the research
laboratories at Harvard Medical School.

Florence Duckering '34, now Dr. Duckering,
with an M.D. from Tufts Medical last June, has
opened an office at 4238 Washington Street, Roslin-
date, Mass.

Charlotte Casey Adams '35 is a librarian at
Valley Forge Military Academy, Wayne, Pa.

Margaret (Hutchinson) Allen '36 is now living
in Tivoli, N. Y., where her husband, Elmer Allen
'36, is teaching at the Leake and Watts Home
School and is assistant to the director.

Dorothy Corcoran '36 is teaching home economics
in Stoneham High School, Stoneham, Mass.

Dorothy Masters "36 is a dietician in charge of
the dietary and housekeeping departments at the
Fairview Hospital, Great Barrington, Mass.

Helen Bruns '36 has taken an apprentice teach-
ing position in the home economics department of
the Beaver Country Day School.

J.i ni ii :i Czajkowski '36 is teaching home eco-
nomics at Essex High School, Essex, Vt.

Phyllis Gleason '37 has a permanent position as
nutritionist at the Judson Health Center, New York
City.

Katherine Machmer '37 is secretary to the
Reverend Charles H. Cadigan of Amherst, Mass.

Nellie Okolo '37 has a position as medical tech-
nician in Truesdale Hospital, Fall River, Mass.

Ruth Bixby '38 is at present employed in the
sales department of McCallum's Department Store
in Northampton, Mass.

Gladys Corkum '38 is doing graduate work in
religious education at the Hartford Seminary Foun-
dation, Hartford, Conn.

Elizabeth Dolliver '38 is attending the Pierce
Secretarial School, Boston.

Theodora Edson '38 is a student at the Burdett
Business College, Boston.

Virginia Fagan '38 is attending Northampton,
Mass., Commercial College.

Elizabeth Gaskell '38 is taking a graduate course
at the College.

Almeda Howard '38 is a graduate student at
Smith College.

Jessie Kinsman '38 is a clerk in the benefit de-
partment of the New England Mutual Life Insurance
Company in Boston.

ALUMNI MEETINGS HELD

THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY

[Continued from page 3

Willis Fisher '98 is principal of IIm- Gilbert Stuart
Junior High School in Providence, R. I. and is tin-
man who, year after year, has been responsible for
the meetings of Massachusetts State Alumni who
live in Rhode Island and southeastern Massachusetts.
This year the representative from the College who
attended Mr. Fisher's supper meeting in Providence
on October 27 was Dr. Malcom McKenzie who, not
so many years ago, had been a pupil of Willis Fisher's
in the Gilbert Stuart Junior High.

Following the meeting Mr. Fisher wrote, "I have
been assured by all those present that we had a
delightful evening. Our banquet was served at the
school, following which we assembled in the audi-
torium for a movie program. Then we adjourned to
the school library where we listened to Dr. Mc-
Kenzie. He brought us a splendid picture of the
present-day College and we appreciated his talk very
much."

Shirley Putnam Dimock '35 was secretary of the
committee (composed of Harry Dunlap Brown '14,
Allister MacDougall '13, Herbert Brown '13, Al
Cook '28, and Dave Rossiter '37) which arranged the
meeting of the Middlesex County Alumni Club in
Woburn, Mass., on December 10. Shirley reported
that a group of about fifty Alumni, Alumnae, wives
and friends were present.

Dean Marshall Lanphear '18 was the guest from
the College and showed movies of campus activities
and told of the work of his office in handling appli-
cations for admission to the College. Dave Rossiter
'37 acted as toastmaster and introduced Dean
Lanphear and Harry Brown, who urged that gradu-
ates become members of the Associate Alumni.

Elaine Milkey ''38 is a stenographer at the Federal
Land Bank in Springfield, Mass.

Barbara Miller '38 is studying at the Bennett
Private Secretarial School in Springfield, Mass.

Evelyn Parker '38 is teaching history at Sleighton
Farms, Darling, Pa.

Dorothy M'ilson '38 is attending McCarthy's
Business College in Northampton, Mass.

A group of Alumnae met recently with Virginia
Smith '37 at her home in Westfield. Among those
present were Mrs. Elmer Allen (.Margaret Hutch-
inson) '36, Francene Smith '36, Alma Boyden
'37, Barbara Strode '38, and Mrs. Maxwell
Goldberg (Shirley Bliss) '38.

Peggy Shea '26, who teaches English at the
Pelham (N.Y.) High School, must have been a little
startled to see herself listed in this column last month
as a member of the class of '36. Herewith the cor-
rection— Margaret's class is (and always has been)
1926.

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ATHLETICS

Basketball

Lack of accuracy in trying for foul shots has had
no little to do with the Statesmen's three basketball
losses since the re-opening of the season following the
Christmas holidays. For instance, in the Amherst
game Coach Bill Frigard's players scored from the
floor 12 times while Amherst scored 10 baskets.
But the Statesmen missed 6 fouls in a row at the
start of the game.

The scores: Statesmen. Opp.

Jan. 7 Springfield, there 31 51

11 Williams, there 38 51

14 Amherst, here 31 34

DENMARK

Benton Cummings '33 and his wife, Marjorie
(Jensen) '34, had plans worked out for a trip
to Denmark last fall. Ben, who is 4-H club leader
in Hampshire (Mass.) County, president of the
State 4-H workers association, and director of the
youth sections of the Three County Fair in North-
ampton, wanted to observe and study certain phases
of youth work carried on in Denmark. But, just as
the boat was about to sail, some of Denmark's neigh-
boring countries began saying cross words and
pointing guns at each other. Instead of taking the
boat Ben and his wife took a trip to Florida. Den-
mark will come later — if, as, and if.

ALUMNI ATTEND UNION AGRICULTURAL MEETINGS

The 21st annual Union Agricultural Meetings in
Worcester, Mass., January 4, 5, and 6, drew a large
group of interested Massachusetts State Alumni to
the big Worcester Municipal Auditorium where the
discussion sessions were held and where the exhibition
hall was located.

Al Lombard, of the State Department of Agricul-
ture in Boston, who was in charge of the Meetings,
set aside a room on the main floor of the auditorium
for use of Alumni of the College and, in that room,
on the afternoon of January 5 President Baker met
and chatted with dozens of Alumni who dropped in
to visit with him. It proved a very happy occasion.

We are most appreciative of Mr. Lombard's kind
cooperation in making the alumni meeting place
available, and so are the officers of the Worcester
County Alumni Club — Zoe Hickney White '32, presi-
dent, and Andy Love '25, vice-president — who spon-
sored the alumni gathering.

We were surprised to meet Earl Cromack '24, there
in the Worcester Auditorium. We hadn't seen
Cromack for fifteen years, five of which, it seems, he
had spent as an agricultural missionary in Africa.
We asked him if he had happened to see any gorillas,
lions, or other big game — in the jungles while he was
in Africa. And Earl said no, but he did tell us of an
encounter he had had with an African buffalo. This
beast — according to naturalists and explorers — is the
most ferocious and dangerous of all African wild
animals.

Well, Earl shot a buffalo one morning, dropped him
with six steel-jacketed bullets. Cromack's native
beaters then indicated that it was safe to approach
the kill, and Earl proceeded to do so. Whereupon,
the supposedly dead buffalo rose to its feet,
wild-eyed, and charged directly at Cromack who,
though naturally surprised, did manage to raise his

gun to his shoulder and pull the trigger. The only
report was a click — the magazine had been emptied.
And there stood Mr. Cromack!!! Just as the in-
furiated buffalo had come to within 10 feet of the
hunter the animal again fell to the ground, this time
really dead — the previously-fired bullets had finally
taken effect.

Earl told us about this as calmly as though saying
that he had drunk two cups of coffee for breakfast.
Our hair stood on end.

George Cotton '22 was kept busy greeting visitors
at the booth of the Harris Seed Company of Cold-
water, N. Y.; he is Eastern sales representative for
the company.

George said that his classmate, Frank Hooper, now
carried on his own produce (commission) business in
Albany, N. Y., that Hoop was in partnership with
Joe Evers '21 who has charge of the western New
York end of the business.

Tick Biron '27 represented the H. L. Frost '95
Insecticide Company in the Frost booth which was
well filled with power spray machines of various
types. Tick was handing out cigarette cases, made
of a plastic material, to customers and prospective
customers of the Frost company. We haven't bought
much bug poison lately but we did manage to get
hold of one of the cigarette cases. Pretty good, too.

Alumni who took part in the various section meet-
ings at the Union Meetings included: William R. Cole
'02, Albert I. Mann '26, Donald H. Cande '15,
Raymond T. Parkhurst '19, Frank R. Shaw '31,
Arnold Davis '31, Loring V. Tirrell '19, Louis A.
Webster '14, Joseph A. Hagar '21, Albert F. Burgess
'95, Emil F. Guba '19, Warren D. Whitcomb '17,
James R. Clark '36, Oliver C. Roberts '18, and
Julius Kroeck '22.

ALUMNI DAY, SATURDAY, JUNE 10

Watch the Mails for Notice of Your Reunion

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ACADKMICS

By Dennis M. Crowley '29

Don Douglass '21 is enjoying his new home at
12 George Street in Belmont. He recently bought
the house and property.

When Connie Wirth '23 was in Boston, on his
way to the landscape conference at the College, he
and Shinny Folsoin '23, sales manager of the Boston-
Florida Citrus Fruit Company, and Francis Buckley
'23, special representative of General Motors Accep-
tance Corporation in Boston, watched the Bruins-
Canadiens hockey game in Boston Garden.

Al Ilovey '35 of Wakefield, who has been doing
graduate work in forestry at the University of
Michigan, has come back to the East. At present he
is assigned to a forest salvage unit and is working
out of Amherst.

Kingsbury Houghton '38 is teaching and coach-
ing in Wayland. He is living in West Roxbury. He
spent last summer in New Mexico with the Univer-
sity Archaeological Expedition.

Al Gricius '37, who rapidly is becoming a pretty
important ally for the conductor of this column, again
comes to bat with the following notes about Alumni in
the Boston area. — D.M.C.

Wendy Lapham '37 is working for the Massa-
chusetts Bonding Company — and, despite the rigors
of daily commuting between his home in Carlisle
and Boston, he manages to keep his school-boy
complexion.

Norm Clarh '38 is living in Sharon and working
for the Fuller Brush Co.

Herbert Atlas w'36 is working in the Leopold
Morse clothing shop in Boston.

Ralph Shreiter '35 is working for a florist in
Sharon.

George (Red) Congdon '35 is chemist for the
Cliquot Club Ginger Ale Company in Millis.

Joe Kennedy '37 attended the annual Military
Ball at the College and says that State needs a
larger dance floor than the Drill Hall affords. Joe
reported that "cheek to cheek" dancing was im-
perative at the Ball — but he didn't add that this
was exactly a hardship.

Music

On Sunday afternoon Januarj 22, the Choir, tl»-
Women's Glee Club, the Men's Glee Club, and the
Statesmen quartette will sing in the Springfield,
Mass., Municipal Auditorium. Doric Alviani, in-
structor in music at the College, will direct

The half hour program will be under the auspices
of the Springfield Y.M.C.A. which, annually through-
out the winter, sponsors Sunday afternoon concerts
by distinguished musical organizations and lectures
by outstanding speakers.

Each group — choir, glee clubs and quartette- will
sing individually; they will combine to sing Dear
Land of Home and two college songs, When Twilight
Shadows Deepen and Sons of Old Massachusetts.

Quarterly

Sidney Rosen '39 of Dorchester is editor of the
Collegian Quarterly, a supplement supplied gra-
tuitously by the Collegian board and to which
students, faculty, and Alumni are invited to con-
tribute.

The first issue (Autumn) was an attractive twenty-
page booklet of poetry, essays, and fiction. A poem
by Beryl Briggs '39 of Ashburnham and printed in
the Quarterly was this:

Boredom —

Is like a cat,

That yawns, turns its lazy head,

Blinks empty eyes —

And sleeps in the sun.

ENTOMOLOGISTS MEET

During the annual meeting of the American Asso-
ciation of Economic Entomologists held at Rich-
mond, Virginia, the last week in December, nineteen
entomologists who were graduated from Massachu-
setts State College met at dinner.

The College was represented by F. R. Shaw '31
of the department of entomology, who gave a brief
statement concerning present conditions in that de-
partment. A brief report was made by A. F. Burgess
'95 concerning the meeting of entomologists which was
held in September at the College, when a plaque was
installed on the building where entomological in-
struction and experimental work was carried on by
Dr. C. H. Fernald, who developed the department of
entomology at the College.

The nineteen men who attended this dinner meet-
ing does not represent the entire number of graduates
from the department of entomology who were in
Richmond during the week. Those at the dinner
were: J. R. Parker '08, F. R. Shaw '31, W. A. Baker
'19, Philip A. Readio '20, Roger B. Friend '23, T. B.
Mitchell '18, Louis Pyenson '31, Maxwell Pyenson
'38, Ashley B. Gurney '33, Ralph W. Dexter "34.
B. A. Porter '14, C. M. Packard '13, Leland H. Taylor
'14, H. W. Allen '13, O. G. Anderson '13, L. S. Mc-
Laine '10, J. A. Hyslop '08, G. T. French '06, and
A. F. Burgess '95.

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'15 Phil Whitmore was severly burned about the
face and legs on December 22 while fighting a fire
which completely destroyed the large barn on his
farm in Sunderland, Mass.

Library

State College

SIXTY- NINTH COMMENCEMENT

Massachusetts State College

Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, June 9, 10, 11, 12, 1939

ALUMNI DAY — SATURDAY, JUNE 10

Watch the Mails for Detailed Information about Your Class Reunion

1889 1894 1899 1904 1909

1914 1919 1924 1929 1934 1936 1938

REPORT ON CLASS TREES

{Continued from page 4)

1902. Mossycup oak. Fifty feet northeast, of
Memorial Hall.

Uprooted and removed.

1903. Pin oak. East of Draper Hall.
O.K.

1904. White oak. Eighty feet southeast of the
Chapel-Library.

O.K.

1905. Tupelo. Between the Chapel-Library and
Memorial Hall.

O.K.

1906. Umbrella magnolia. In a small triangular
plot of lawn northeast of South College.

O.K.

1907. White fir. East of Draper Hall.
Uprooted and removed.

1908. Pin oak. Twenty-five feet south of the
Veterinary Laboratory.

O.K.

1909. Pin oak. Northwest of the Stockbridge
House and southeast of Wilder Hall.

O.K.

1910. Purple European beech. South of French
Hall.

O.K.

1911. Pin oak. Planted northwest of French
Hall. Died and was removed.

1912. Red oak. About thirty feet north of
Memorial Hall.

O.K.

Norway spruce. North of Fernald Hall.

1913.
O.K.
1914.

Station.
1915.

Larch. Planted northwest of the Waiting

Not located. Probably dead.

Pin oak. Twenty feet north of northeast
corner of Memorial Hall.

Tipped to an angle of forty-five degrees — uprighted
and guyed.

1916. Sugar maple. Two trees, fifty feet on each
side of the street entrance to Alumni Field.
O.K.

1917. Sugar maple.
Alumni Field.
O.K.

To right of field entrance to

1918. Elm. Tree planted north of crabapple
group between Stockbridge and Draper Halls. Not
located.

1919. Norway maple. North of Fernald Hall.
Badly broken at the top but will be pruned and left.

1920. Elm. Planted northeast of the old Chem-
istry Laboratory.

Tree removed in 1935 to location near Thatcher
Dormitory .

1921. European planetree. North of the Waiting
Station.

O.K.

1922. Sugar maple. Planted north of the Micro-
biology Building. This tree was clandestinely re-
moved the night following planting and never re-
placed.

1923. European ash. South side of crosswalk at
north end of Pond.

O.K.

1924. Tree planted, but removed the following
night. Another planted but met with similar fate.

Norway maple. North of main gate to Alumni
Field.

Tipped to twenty degree angle.

1925. Group of mixed coniferous evergreens back
of the new Goessmann Laboratory.

O.K.

Sugar maple. East of Goessmann.

1933.
O.K.
1937.

O.K.

Gift trees in front of Library.
Except south tree which was slightly damaged

in storm following hurricane.

THE ALUMNI
BULLETIN

vol. XXI, No. 6

MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE
AMHERST, MASSACHUSETTS

March, 1939

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN
MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

Published monthly at Amherst, Mass. (except August and Sep-
tember) by the Associate Alumni of Massachusetts State College.
Entered as second class matter, March 17, 1920, at the Postoffice
at Amherst, Mass., under the Acts of March 3, 1879.
ASSOCIATE ALUMNI OF
MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE
President, Harry Dunlap Brown "14 of Billerica
Vice-President, Alden C. Brett '12 of Belmont
Secretary. William L. Doran '15 of Amherst
Treasurer, Clark L. Thayer '13 of Amherst
Assistant Secretary, George E. Emery '24 of Amherst

Board of Directors
to 1939

Michael J. McNaroara '17 of Hartford, Conn.
David Potter '16 of Worcester

Albert W. Smith '22 of Springfield

Theoren L. Warner '08 of Sunderland
to 1940
Walter T. Bonney '31 of Springfield

John J. Maginnis '18 of Worcester

Lester Needham '14 of Springfield

F. Civille Pray '06 of Amherst
to 1941
Richard J. Davis '28 of Boston

Thomas P. Dooley '13 of West Roxbury

George W. Edman '21 of Pittsfield

Ralph F. Taber '16 of West Newton
to 1942
Erford W. Poole 96 of New Bedford

David P. Rossiter '37 of Maiden

Zoe Hickney White '32 of Worcester

Alfred E. Wilkins '15 of Wakefield

The Alumni Bulletin is sent ten times each year to all members of
the Associate Alumni. Annual memberships are: Sustaining $10.00,
Ordinary $3.00.

Coverpicture — Dan Glazier's sawmill (formerly known
as Gil Watson's) in North Leverett, Mass.

Ray Torrey '12 used to play around this mill in his
youth — but he never monkeyed with the buzz saw.

Dan Glazier is the grandfather of Thelma Glazier '40,
student-assistant clerk in the Alumni Office.

The pencil sketch of this picturesque, hundred-year-
old landmark is the work of Harry Fraser '26, landscape
architect of Norwood, Mass. A talented artist with the
pencil, Harry has done many fine sketches (some of
them have been on exhibition at the College); but Pro-
fessor Waugh thinks that this picture of the Glazier mill
is one of the best that Harry has ever done.

CHRYSANTHEMUM NAMED FOR
CLARK L. THAYER '13

Exhibited for the first time anywhere at the fall
flower show of the Massachusetts Horticultural
Society in Boston last November was a new chry-
santhemum named for Clark L. Thayer '13.

This chrysanthemum is of a full-petalled, small-
flowered, or pompon type. It is maroon colored, the
bloom is two or three inches in diameter, the foliage
is dark green. It is a greenhouse chrysanthemum,
and has excellent keeping qualities as a cut flower.

The Clark L. Thayer chrysanthemum was de-
veloped by the Bristol Nurseries, Bristol, Conn.
(Alex Cumming, co-owner of the nursery and origin-
ator of the variety, is father of Rod Cumming '35);
and plants will be on the market in 1940, or as soon
as stock is available.

NEWS AND NOTES
OF THE CLASS OF

1916

These biographic notes have been assembled by Dutch
Schlotterbeck for his class.

Cy Little majored in bacteriology at the College
and, after graduation, took his M.D. degree at
Tufts. He has been engaged in pathological research
and teaching since that time — in Boston and in
Pittsburg. He is now pathologist at the Ohio Valley
General Hospital in Wheeling, West Virginia, and
consultant pathologist for the Reynolds Memorial
Hospital in Wheeling, and the Martins Ferry Hospi-
tal in Martins Ferry, Ohio. He has written technical
articles for medical journals.

Cy is married and has two boys, ages 7 and 11.
The older has visions of eventually attending Annap-
olis. Both lads are taking piano lessons (with a
minimum of protest) .

Cy writes, "Stan Hall has come through this
town twice, and stopped for a chat. He still has the
same twinkle in his eyes, the same friendly hand-
shake, and the same easy manner. Remember those
qualities in 1916?"

Her!) Bishop is president of the Forest Lake
Dairy in Palmer, Mass. He has been with this
concern for twelve years. Herb has four children,
three girls and a boy. One of the girls is planning to
become a nurse; the boy, Herb hopes, will enter
Massachusetts State.

Bill Coley is head of the science department in
the Bridgeport .Connecticut, High School. He has
an M.A. degree in education. He has two children,
a girl fifteen, and a boy eight.

Bill says he frequently sees Loren Sniffen '26,
Franklin Hubbell '17, George Mallett '13, Raymond
Walker '14, and Tommy Harrocks '16.

Frank Haskell is living in Ozark, Alabama,
where he is employed by the U.S.D.A. as manager
of a project to develop a 35,000 acre tract of worn-
out farm land into a forest, game, and recreational
area. He took his M.F. degree from the Yale Forestry
School in 1924, and has been principally engaged in
forestry work since that time, and mostly in the
South. He says his present work is most interesting
— an earth dam approximately 3000 feet long has
just been finished for impounding an 800 acre lake.
He has charge of the project nursery for producing
trees and shrubs for replanting and seed for game
food plantings.

Frank came North last summer (first time since
1925) with his wife and two children and visited with
Bed Darling in Northboro, Mass. Frank says his
youngsters would like to live in the North, with
the damyankees, but — not for him. He has grown
to like warm weather too well.

THEl ALUMNI BULLETIN

INTERIOR OF SOUTH COLLEGE
IS REMODELED

In an effort to observe and record latest develop-
ments of construction for readers of the Alumni
Bulletin we took a walk over and into Goodell Library
one day, three or four years ago, when that building
was being built. And the contractor's superintendent
of construction tossed us right out — quick. "Out-
side, now. Outside of here — before you get hurt."

We attempted a similar reportorial investigation
while Thatcher Hall, men's dormitory, was under
construction. And we were promptly advised to
withdraw from that building, too.

For the past few months South College has been
emptied of its executive and administrative offices
while, under an EPW grant, the interior of the
building was being remodelled. And we stayed
away from South College — until on February 6,
when the treasurer's and cashier's offices moved back
in and opened for business. (The other departments
will have moved in by the time this Bulletin is printed
but, on February 6, the building was not quite ready
to receive them.) We inspected the treasurer's office
and the cashier's office — full of students paying their
registration fees — and then we passed on, upstairs,
to have a look at the rest. We'd hardly reached the
top of the stairs, hardly set foot inside the new office
for President Baker, when we came face-to-face with
the superintendent of construction. The greeting
was familiar. "All right now, boy, — outside. Off
these floors, and outside."

Administration Offices

Well, too much is too much. That's all. And so
we hunted up Gunnar Erickson '19, college business
officer; and Eric personally conducted us on a
complete tour of the building from top to bottom.

Under the new arrangement of the building's
interior South College will be given over entirely to
administration offices. There will be no dormitory
rooms.

In the basement will be the extension service
multigraphing and mimeographing departments and
janitor Walter Brown's supply storerooms.

On the first floor will be treasurer's and cashier's
offices; dean's, registrar's and short course offices;
and some extension offices.

On the second floor will be president's office; and
offices for the advisor of women, placement depart-
ment, secretary, publicity department, extension and
4-H departments.

The third floor (south wing) will be given over
entirely to extension and soil conservation offices.
The tower rooms, fourth and fifth floor, have not
yet been assigned.

Bud Boss '17, Architect

Entrance and exit to the several offices has been
made more convenient and logical by the new con-
struction work. The rooms have all been repainted,
new flooring and electric light fixtures installed. The
cost of the work was $63,000.00. Bud Ross '17 was
the architect.

ALUMNI MEETINGS HELD

THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY

This is the conclusion of the article, begun in tin-
February Bulletin, telling about gatherings of Alumni
held throughout the country last fall anil in the early
winter.

Leone Smith '14 writes from Camp Sangamon in
Pittsford, Vermont, "The Mayos (Frank Mayo 17
and the Urquharts (John Urquhart '20) joined with
Mrs. Smith and me for a reunion on October 27.
We had a good time, and enjoyed the movies of
student life at the College. Some change in things
from the 'old days'!"

Eight Alumni and their wives assembled at the
home of Bert Tupper '05 in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, to
observe Alumni Night on the evening of October 27.
They read the reports on the hurricane damage done
on campus, and were relieved to note that this
damage was not so great as was at first felt it might
be. Back copies of the Alumni Bulletin were scanned;
and, before the group broke up after an enjoyable
evening, John Crawford '20 was re-elected secretary.

Bob Hawley '18, secretary of the College, and Mrs.
Hawley were guests at the alumni supper party in
New Haven, Connecticut, on October 27. Dick
Smith '17 made the arrangements for the gathering,
which proved a most enjoyable one. After supper
there was an informal discussion of College affairs,
and Bob, of course, was well-qualified to supply all
the answers — although he admits that his wife did
help him out in a few instances when questions were
asked about women students.

Fred McLaughlin '11 went from the College to the
meeting of the Central New York Alumni Club in
Geneva, N. Y., on November 5 where a group of
thirty-three Alumni came together and, according to
George Slate '21, secretary, "enjoyed Mac's talk and
had a good time." Ellsworth Wheeler '26 was re-
elected president of the group and Lewis VanAlstyne
'18 secretary-treasurer.

Harold D. Phelps '09 of Rochester has since re-
ported another gathering of Central New York
Alumni held at the Powers Hotel in Rochester on
January 11. Dean Swift '30 made arrangements for
this dinner meeting (held annually at the time of the
winter meeting of the New York Horticultural
Society) and at which were present, besides Swift
and Phelps: Carleton Bates '08, Fred Jones '30,
Richard Wellington '06, L. M. VanAlstyne '18,
George Slate '21, Carl Guterman '25, Perley East-
man '08, and W. J. Weaver '12. Also present at the
Horticultural meetings but unable to attend the
dinner were Myron Hazen '10 and Leon Fagerstrom
'12.

On December 3, Bob Hawley met at the home of
Harlan Worthley '18 in State College, Pa., with a
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OBITUARIES

Arthur Amber Brigham '78

Arthur A. Brigham of the class of '78, died in
Lakeland, Florida, on November 12, 1938, following
a brief illness, at the age of 82.

Dr. Brigham was born in Marlboro, Massachusetts,
October 6, 1856. In College he was an excellent
student, and stood very high in his classes. After
being graduated from the College he served, in 1888,
in the Massachusetts House of Representatives.

He had a long and interesting career that took
him into the far corners of the world. He lived and
worked in Sapporo, Japan, where he was professor
of agriculture at the Imperial Agriculture College of
Japan; in Goettingen, Germany, where he obtained
the degree of Doctor of Philosophy; in Kingston,
Rhode Island, where he was professor of agriculture
and director of the agricultural experiment station
of the Rhode Island State College; in Ithaca, New
York where he was general manager of the Cornell
Incubator Company; and in Brookings, South
Dakota, where he was principal of the State School
of Agriculture. His later years were spent in operat-
ing a poultry farm at Brinklow, Montgomery County,
Maryland. In recent years he divided his time
between Florida and Maryland.

Dr. Brigham was particularly interested and active
in Grange work, serving at one time as Master of the
Massachusetts State Grange. Throughout his entire
life he had a great gift for finding warm and sympa-
thetic friends wherever he went, and this happy
faculty he retained to the last.

Reuben Brigham

Richards B. Mackintosh '86

Of the death of Richards B. Mackintosh '86, the
Salem (Mass.) News for January 17, 1939, has the
following notice:

"Richards B. Mackintosh, for many years a resi-
dent of Peabody and one of the best known natural-
ists in this section, died suddenly last evening at
Brookline. Born in West Roxbury, November 17,
1865, his family moved shortly thereafter to Dedham
(where he spent his boyhood) and he was graduated
from the Dedham High School."

He came to the College in the fall of 1883 (entered
the sophomore class) and was graduated with the
degree of Bachelor of Science and with honors in
June, 1886. After graduation "he entered the wool-
pulling business in Peabody, and for many years
was superintendent of the J. B. Thomas Company.
He entered the employ of the United States Ma-
chinery Corporation in 1909 and remained there until
his retirement in 1937.

"He was a member of the Quarter Century Club
of the 'Shoe'. He lived in Peabody until the last few
months, when he moved to Brookline. He was a
member of the First Unitarian Church of Peabody,
a member of the Corporation of the Warren Savings
Bank, a director in the Peabody Historical Society,
a life member of the Appalachian Mountain Club,
and for many years made an annual hiking trip in
the White Mountains; a member of the New Eng-

land Botanical Club, Boston Mycological Club, the
Massachusetts Horticultural Society, the Essex
County Ornithological Club, of which he was one of
the founders, and the Morse Science Club. He is
survived by his wife, Mary Elizabeth (Lord) Mack-
intosh; a son, Charles G. ('21) of High Point, North
Carolina; a daughter, Mrs. Edmund S. Homer of
Brookline, and a grandson and grand-daughter. He
was a man of fine personality, rare attainments, and
an authority on ornithology, botany and mycology.

"All his life the study of natural science was his
hobby, and hundreds of persons in Peabody and
greater Salem owe their knowledge of outdoor
beauty to his leadership."

Since graduation he had served as secretary of his
class, and had been instrumental more than any
other in keeping the members informed of one
another and drawn together on occasion. Upon
entering the class in its sophomore year he was
quickly recognized to be of sterling qualities. He was
active in athletics, fond of all outdoor sports, sang
in the glee club and did well in whatever he under-
took. As a classmate writes, "Mack lived as all
right-thinking men would wish to live. He was an
honor to his father and mother and family and an
example and inspiration to his associates, a character
looked up to by all."

W. A.Eaton '86
C. W. Clapp '86

MARRIAGES

'92 George E. Taylor to Miss Emma Parsons,
January 21, 1939, at Amherst, Mass.

'37 and '36 W. Squier Munson to Miss Dolores
Lesquier, February 11, 1939, at Springfield, Mass.

'38 Russell E. Smith to Miss Ruth Greenwood,
December 26, 1938, at Methuen, Mass.

BIRTHS

'22 A son, Donald Chauncey Perry, to Mr. and
Mrs. Lester Stimmel (Margaret Perry '22), August
13, 1938, at Fort Collins, Colorado.

'26 A daughter, Carol Lee, to Mr. and Mrs. F.
Joseph Cormier, January 20, 1939, in New York City.

'28 A daughter, Cynthia Hale, to Mr. and Mrs.
Douglas W. Loring, January 3, 1939, at New Haven,
Conn.

'30 A son, Barry, to Mr. and Mrs. G. Dean Swift,
January 8, 1939, at Rochester, N. Y.

'31 A son, Carl Daniel, to Mr. and Mrs. Carl G.
Holm, January 11, 1939, at Worcester, Mass.

w'17 Hayden H. Smith was promoted, on De-
cember 22, to the rank of navy Commander. He is
executive officer of the S. S. Argonne.

w'21 Mark Galusha of Williamstown, has been
named director of the division of livestock disease
control in Massachusetts.

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WITH THE ALUMMAE

By Leonla Horrigan. '36

Alio«- Gaumond Dion '30 is teaching at the West
Street School, Southbridge, Mass.

Margaret McMahon '33 is working in the
laboratory for pneumonia research at George Wash-
ington University, Washington, D. C.

QUEEN ANN

Ann Cooncy '41 of Northampton who was

chosen queen of the Winter Carnival at

the College, February 10 and 11.

Margaret Murphy '35 is teaching civics at the
Westfield High School, Westfield, Mass.

Bcrnice Schubert '35 and Shirley Gale '37 are

studying for their doctor's degrees at Radcliffe College.

Dorothy Brown '37 has a position as associate
4-H club leader in Middlesex County.

Ruth Kodis '38 is taking a laboratory technician
training course at the Worcester City Hospital,
Worcester.

Solveig Liljegren '38 is attending secretarial
school in Boston.

Marjorie Woodin '38 is teaching at Phillipston,

Mass.

Barbara Strode '38 is an apprentice teacher at
the Smith College Day School, Northampton.

IIOWAKI) RUSSELL '18 APPOINTED
TO GOVERNOR'S CARINET

Howard L. Russell '18 of Upper Darby, Pa I
been appointed to the cabinel of Governor Arthur
H. James as the Pennsylvania State Secretary of
Public Assistance.

Pennsylvania Social Work, the official quarterly
publication of the Pennsylvania < 'onli-rence on Social
Work speaks of the appointment as follows.

"Mr. Russell comes to his new task with long ex-
perience with the relief problem, having helped to
develop policies and procedures for Pennsylvania
during the regimes of both Governor Pinchot and
Governor Earle, and during the administrations of
Directors Biddle, Johnson and deSchweinitz. A
business executive for many years and fully aware of
the necessity for giving assistance speedily with
proof of the absence of resources as the criterion,
Mr. Russell should bring to Pennsylvania an ad-
ministration which is cognizant of the total prob-
lem— amelioration of suffering, administered eco-
nomically by adequate, competent and strictly non-
political personnel."

FERDINAND WAS FIRST

The figure, below, of Ferdinand the Bull, the work of
the members of Theta Chi fraternity, won first prize in
the snow sculpture competition held during Carnival
week-end. The judges had no easy job. A dozen
striking and well-conceived sculptures lined Pleasant
Street in front of the several fraternity houses and not
only added a gala touch to Carnival but also attracted
much attention from passing motorists, many of whom
stopped to take pictures

Like previous Carnivals this year's event was a great
success. Unlike the last two Carnivals this year's event
was graced with snow.

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ATHLETICS

ROBERT LULL '11 IN VERMONT
LEGISLATURE

Hockey

The 1939 hockey season is history. And, although
the Statesmen failed to land in the win column
except on one occasion, Coach Red Ball '21 is satis-
fied that his players did pretty well — considering the
fact that they frequently found themselves opposing
hockey clubs far more superior than the scores would
indicate, and considering the fact that the hours the
Statesmen spent in practice sessions were less in
number than the hours spent in the actual games.
Suitable ice for practice was scarce.

The trip to Lake Placid (December 26, 27, 28) for
an intercollegiate tournament was an interesting pre-
season event. The Statesmen played three games:
won from St. Lawrence, 5 to 0; lost to Hamilton and
M. I. T.

Clif Morey '39 of Belmont was captain and goalie
— the same Morey who also was captain of last fall's
football team. Who recalls any Alumni (other than
Hub Collins '22, Hank Gowdy '22, Fred Riel '38)
who were captains of more than one team or of one
team for more than a season?

The season's scores: Statesmen Opp.

Jan. 4 Northeastern, here 1 5

7 Hamilton, there 1 2

10 Brown, there 2 7

17 Union, here 4 4

19 Boston College, here 2 5

Basketball

The spectators went wild (granted, perhaps, they
were a trifle partisan) on the evening of January 21
when the Statesmen rallied in the last minute of
play to overcome a 2-point lead and then, in the
remaining few seconds, drop in another basket to
win from Wesleyan, 32-30.

The game, played in the physical education build-
ing, was nip and tuck throughout. The lead went
first to one team, then to the other; Wesleyan was
in front 16-13 at the half.

With a minute left to go the score favored Wes-
leyan, 30-28; then Herbie Glick '38, forward, of
Amherst, dropped in a basket to tie the score and,
as the climax, Fran Riel '39 of Turners Falls scored
the winning 2 points with a shot which travelled
almost from mid-floor.

Scores (since the last Bulletin) :
Jan. 18 Worcester Tech, here

21 Wesleyan, here
Feb. 8 Rhode Island, there

10 Coast Guard, here

Statesmen Opp.

36 63
32 30

37 54
53 22

Swimming

Joe Roger's swimmers have taken part in three
dual meets so far this season, and have won from
Worcester Tech and Wesleyan, lost to Williams.
More, next month, about the swimmers.

The State of Vermont seems to be more or less in
the political limelight of late; and the following
paragraphs may throw interesting sidelights on the
situation. Robert D. Lull '11 of Fairhaven is cur-
rently a member of the Vermont legislature and, in
reply to our request for his views, he has sent us
these notes from Montpelier.

"There are two ideas which stand out as being
firmly fixed in the minds of a great majority of the
members of this Legislature.

"One is the idea of independence. I doubt if there
is a group of men and women assembled together
anywhere, for any purpose, that personifies the spirit
of independence more absolutely than does this legis-
lative body. Sometimes it seems possible, yes even
probable, that the spirit of Ethan Allen still stalks
the halls of our state house. That this independence
which has been the heritage and tradition of Ver-
monters throughout the years still lives there is not
the slightest doubt.

"Secondly, the idea of thrift is everywhere ex-
tremely noticeable. One of the first questions in
every member's mind is, 'How are we to run our
state efficiently and economically?' To express this
thought in another way: 'How are we to run the
government of this State and still keep within our
means?'

"One of the most difficult committees to get any
bill through, in its entirety, is our Appropriations
Committee. Expenditures are watched with an eagle
eye; and yet there is a desire on the part of all to do
what we should do to keep Vermont abreast of
conditions which exist in this rapidly changing world.
You may rest assured this is no easy task and yet,
somehow, some way it must be done.

"If our country as a whole could grasp these two
Vermont characteristics fully and try to understand
that they still do exist, people might be able to
understand the attitude of Governor Aiken on this
matter of 'state's rights' and flood control.

"To those of you who do read this humble effort,
if I could convey to your minds clearly that our
governor is not simply expressing his own personal
ideas and attitude concerning this controversy but
is rather making an earnest endeavor to express the
feelings of all the people throughout the State my
efforts would not be wholly in vain.

"There is one thing certain, you may all rest
assured, that neither the Federal Government nor
the utility companies is influencing the thoughts or
decisions of the people of Vermont or of Vermont's
governor.

"In a more general sense, an endeavor to clarify and
bring up to date the statutes of a state is a rather
confusing and trying experience to the average lay-
man and it is not at all surprising or even alarming
that many of the acts which are passed are not all
that could be desired; yet, after it's all over, I feel
sure the final results will be most creditable."

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WITH | A THE

: HI

BOSTON ALUMNI

ACADEMICS

By Dennis M. Crowley '29

Kclwin C. Ilowiird '93, after forty-five years as a
pedagogue (the last thirty-two years in the Boston
School Department), is now retired and has gone to
live on a farm in the Green Mountains. His address
is County Road, Montpelier, Vermont.

On February 25, at the University Club, there
will be a meeting of younger Alumni — mostly from
the last two or three graduating classes — for the
purpose of better acquainting these men with the
activities of the Boston Alumni Club. There will be
refreshments and an evening of entertainment, travel
movies, and music. Bill Hayden '13, president,
will talk informally about the Boston Club.

The younger graduates will be the guests of a
group of Alumni including: Bill Hayden '13, Fra
Kennedy '24, Ducky Swan '27, Joe Forest '28,
John McGuekian '31, Ed Dona£hy '32, Dick
Davis '28, Don Tiffany '31, Dennis Crowley '29,
John Kay '29, Charlie Cox '30, Eddie Ilaertl '27,
Demmy Galanie '27, Garabed Monradian 25,
George Flint '29, Lewie Keith '25, Jimmy
Robertson '34, Frank Homeyer '28, Karl Tom-
fohrde '30, Eddie Frost '31, Paul Smith '31,
Al LaPrisc '28, Alex Lucey '34.

Al Gricius '37 tells us that Bob Perriello '37

is doing a fine job as public health officer in Attleboro,
Mass., and is much in demand in the vicinity of
Attleboro as a speaker on public health topics.

That Ev Roberts '37 is travelling and buying
nursery stock for the Frost and Higgins Company.

That Syd Salamoff 35 is finishing his last year
at Tufts Dental School — and is among the honor
group of students in his class at Tufts.

That Emil Koenig '36 (one of State's greatest
fullbacks) is also at Tufts Dental School.

That Tony Nogelo '37 and Mitchell NcJame '38
are both at Harvard Business School — and declare
the courses to be "plenty tough."

'13 Larry Bevan has been appointed to serve
temporarily as acting director of the New Jersey
State Extension Service in agriculture and home
economics.

'32 Bob Tetro has left the College, where he has
been connected with the department of agricultural
economics for the past three years, and gone to
Washington, D. C. to be assistant agricultural
economist in the dairy section of the Agricultural
Adjustment Administration.

Collegian - Musi<- - Index

In the Collegian "I January Hi there appeared a
story by Mabelle Booth "■'•'■> of Foxboro which, in
pari , follows.

"One day last September the soporific member*
of the convocation audience were Bhocked out of
their customary lethargy by I he appearance on On-
stage of an enthusiastic young man who announced
that there was to be a session of college songs. Be
fore more than ten of the freshmen, sophomores,
and juniors had a chance to go back to sleep again
it appeared that the young man had a voice; and
in as short a time again the students discovered that
they had voices too, and were singing right along
with him, exhibiting a zeal seldom seen at the College,
and never at convocation. Soon to become familiar
to everyone on campus for his enthusiasm, drive,
and personality, the young man was Doric Alviani,
new instructor in music; today, more surprised about
the whole affair than any one else, he is the honored
recipient of the dedication of the 1939 Index.

"For his enthusiasm in arousing student interest
in the long forgotten field of musical endeavor, for
his unflagging work in training these musical groups.
Mr. Alviani has earned for himself a place not only
among those whose pleasure it is to work under him
but among those who want to see the establishment
of a high musical tradition at Massachusetts State
College. It is truly the voice of the students, speak-
ing through the Index, that has dedicated the year-
book to him as a live and active force working for
the good of our College."

"Sta£e Door"

The Roister Doisters presented the George Kauf-
man -Edna Ferber play, "Stage Door" for one per-
formance on Friday evening, January 20, in Bowker
Auditorium — and we liked it fine.

We liked it because the girls were nice to look at
(and the cast of 32 was made up largely of girls).

We liked it because the set, designed by James
Robertson of the landscape architecture department,
was very attractive.

We liked it because the sparkling Kaufman-
Ferber lines were well spoken by the cast.

We liked it— -especially — because of the highly-
convincing performances given by Beryl Briggs '39
of Ashburnham, Bettina Hall *39 of Foxboro. Connie
Fortin '39 of Holyoke, Joan Sanella '39 of Spring-
field, Irma Alvord '41 of Turners Falls, Priscilla
Taylor '39 of Jamaica Plain, Olive Norwood '39
of Worcester, and Margaret Firth '40 of Lawrence.

'36 Don Donnelly is county extension editor for
Hampden County, Massachusetts. He is living at
17 Holland Avenue, Westfield.

'37 Phil Spear has gone to Huntington Park.
California, to work for the Joy Termite Control
Company which is owned by Johnnie Joy '30.

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'98 Randall D. Warden is author of an article,
"Forty Years of Playgrounds" in the February, 1939,
issue of the Journal of Health and Physical Education.
Mr. Warden is director of physical education in the
public schools of Newark, N. J.

Library

State College

SIXTY- NINTH COMMENCEMENT

Massachusetts State College

Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, June 9, 10, 11, 12, 1939
ALUMNI DAY — SATURDAY, JUNE 10

Watch the Mails for Detailed Information about Your Class Reunion

1889 1894 1899 1904 1909

1914 1919 1924 1929 1934 1936 1938

60th Reunion 1879 - - 60th Reunion

George P. Smith Dr. Roscoe W. Swan Hiram E. Walclron

ALUMNI MEETINGS HELD THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY

(Continued from page 3)

group of Alumni who dropped in to chat about the
College and about other mutually-interesting sub-
jects. In the group were Frank N. Fagan FG,
Warren Mack G, Raymond Swift '18, Ed Thacker
'37 and Cy French '38.

Then, on December 6, Bob Hawley attended the
alumni supper party arranged in Philadelphia by a
committee composed of Pat Holbrook '25, Tom Gasser
'19, Emory Burgess '29 and Ken Steadman '35.

Other Alumni who attended were Gil Haeussler '25,
Robert Chisholm '19, Herbert Fairbanks '95, Lincoln
Murdough '27, Charlie Gould '16, Arthur Bixby '36,
John Appel '37, Lillian Mann '38, Dorothea Donnelly
'37, Louis deWilde '36, Charles Appel '37, H. W.
Allen '13, and Howard Russell '18.

After the supper there was piano music by one of
the Appel twins (or maybe by both of them — Bob
wasn't sure) ; there was an informal discussion
session which lasted until late in the evening — and,
before the evening was done, Dr. Gasser and Pat
Holbrook were appointed a committee to arrange a
similar gathering of Alumni next year. Everybody
had a good time.

activities on campus which were greatly enjoyed.
Then there was music, and games and, refreshments;
it was midnight before the group finally broke up.

Perez Simmons '16 of Fresno, California, writes
that present, on November 5, at the annual meeting
of the San Joaquin Valley Alumni were Mr. and
Mrs. Norman D. Ingham '05, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick
L. Greene '94, Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Barnes '16,
and Mr. and Mrs. Perez Simmons. The meeting was
held at the home of Norman Ingham.

Zoe Hickney White '32 and Huck Love '25, presi-
dent and vice-president, respectively, of the Worcester
County Alumni Club, planned a party for that Club
in Auburn on November 19, a party which brought
out a group of forty Alumni in spite of a pouring
rain. And those Alumni who came were glad they
did — Huck reported the party as being most
successful.

Professor Rollin Barrett went down from the
College and took with him some movies of student

Walter Mack '18 made the plans for an alumni
meeting held at the Union League Club in Chicago
on November 13.

Walter speaks of the meeting this way, "We had
about a 9(K attendance of the Chicago Alumni. It
was really the finest meeting we have ever had and
everyone there showed extreme interest. Naturally,
the presence of President Baker and Dean Machmer
helped things along tremendously. We have not had
the pleasure of talking to either of them for several
years and we certainly enjoyed hearing of the pro-
gress that has been made since their last visit here."

Alumni who attended the Chicago meeting were:
Harry E. Curran '16, Monsell H. Davis '17, Malcolm
F. Dull G, Mary E. Garvey '19, Dr. James W.
Kellogg '00, Walter A. Mack '17, James T. Nicholson
'16, George T. Plowman, Jr. '20, Andrew J. Reed, Jr.
'16, Earl F. Williams '27, Horace G. Marchant '17,
Frank Bainbridge '18, Edmond L. Cance '36, Robert
L. Jones '20, Judson L. Field '92, Converse Torrey
'20, Richard L. Holden '17.

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BULLETIN

DR. AND MRS. WAUGH

MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE
AMHERST, MASSACHUSETTS

ol. XXI, No. 7

April, 1939

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MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

Board of Directors
to 1939

Michael J. McNaroara '17 of Hartford, Conn.
David Potter '16 of Worcester

Albert W. Smith '22 of Springfield

Theoren L. Warner '08 of Sunderland
to 1940
Walter T. Bonney '31 of Springfield

John J. Maginnis '18 of Worcester

Lester Needham '14 of Springfield

F. Civille Pray '06 of Amherst
to 1941
Richard J. Davis '28 of Boston

Thomas P. Dooley '13 of West Roxbury

George W. Edman '21 of Pittsfield

Ralph F. Taber '16 of West Newton
to 1942
Erford W. Poole '96 of New Bedford

David P. Rossiter '37 of Maiden

Zoe Hickney White '32 of Worcester

Alfred E. Wilkins '15 of Wakefield

The Alumni Bulletin is sent ten times each year to all members of
the Associate Alumni. Annual memberships are: Sustaining $10.00,
Ordinary $3.00.

Cover picture — Professor and Mrs. Frank A. Waugh
in the garden of their house on the college campus
where they have lived for more than thirty-five years.

'20 Henry Lyons, who for eleven years has been
district traffic superintendent for the New York
Telephone Company, was appointed employment
supervisor last September and is in charge of per-
sonnel work for the Manhattan area of the company.
His headquarters are at 140 West Street; he is in
the same building with Jim Maples '20.

Henry's daughter, Alice, is planning to enter the
College in September, 1940; and the father wonders
if she may not be the first of the second generation
from the class of 1920. Henry wrote us that if
Professor Julian is still teaching German when Alice
arrives, he (Julian) will be pleased to see the young
lady — for she has won high school honors in that
subject and, as Henry says, will be likely to raise
the average of the Lyons family in Professor Julian's
courses. Henry all but flunked German in his
freshman year.

'28 John L. Nutting of Berlin, Mass., was elected
on February 6, to a three-year term on the school
board of his town. John has been active in town
affairs for some time.

'34 Al Ryan is to be a "staff lecturer" in English
at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, for the sum-
mer session, 1939. He received his M.A. degree from
Harvard in June, 1938, and is now completing his
work for the Ph.D. at the University of Iowa. Al's
wife (Polly Hillberg '34) is secretary to the head of
the political science department at the University.

NEWS AND NOTES
OF THE CLASS OF

1916

These biographic notes have been assembled by
Dutch Schlotterbeck for his class.

Frederick Stearns is teaching history and soci-
ology at the Keene, N. H., high school. He has beeni
head of his department for the past five years. He •
took his M.A. at Harvard in 1930, and then went to
Keene; previous to which he had been teaching in:
Adams, Mass., and at American International
College in Springfield.

Fred has two girls, 14 and 11, and a boy, 12. All
three are interested in music.

George Ray is professor of physiology at the Long
Island College of Medicine, Brooklyn, N. Y. He
took his M.A. at Harvard in '21, his Ph.D. in '22,
and was for the next two years instructor in the
Harvard Medical School. From 1924 to 1933 he-
taught in the Western Reserve School of Medicine
(assistant and associate professor) and then went to
Brooklyn. He is the author of thirty or thirty-five
articles on physiology.

George is married and has three sons. He says it
will be O.K. with him if they all choose to enter
Massachusetts State.

Bill Harris has a farm in Rocky Hill, Conn., and
is also agent for the Hartford County Farm Bureau.
For eleven years, after graduation, he helped his
father with a farm in Deerfield; then he went to
Connecticut.

Bill says he frequently sees Burt Harris '13,
Rodney Harris '14, Don Francis '17, Pete Cascio '21,
Charlie Huntington '16, Ernest Clark '14, Roger
Friend '23, Al Spaulding '17, Ray Clapp '21, Roy
Norcross '26, Al Mann '26, and Ben Ellis '13 (until
Ben moved from Connecticut to Cape Cod).

Charles Hathaway is New York agent for the
Mount Hope Finishing Company, 320 Broadway,
New York City; and has been with that organization
for twenty years.

For the information of Alumni who like salt water, ,
Charlie has a 30-foot cruiser on Long Island Sound;
and he probably could very easily be persuaded to
take out a passenger or two now and again.

Carlton Gunn operates his own farm in Sunder-
land, Mass., — and likes it. He has long been active
in local, state, and national Grange affairs.

He hopes that his two boys, now thirteen and
eight, will eventually be enrolled at Massachusetts
State.

Carl often sees Alumni of the College for, he says,
"There are fourteen of us right here in Sunderland.
Not bad for a small town!"

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ANNUAL "FAMILY ART SHOW" IN MEMORIAL II ALL

Contributions Are by Alumni, Students, l;ic nllv

Since 1921, when Memorial Hall was opened as a student social center, Professor Waugh has been regularly placing
ibitions of paintings, etchings, and other works of well-known artists on display in the main lounge oi the budding. In
II he instituted what he called a "family" art show and once each year, since then, he has proudly placed on exhibition
iriety of work contributed by Alumni, students, faculty, and faculty wives. This year's "family" show was arranged in
[riorial Hall on March 1 — to continue throughout the entire month.

Professor Waugh usually includes one of
his own works in these "family" shows — as
"evidence of good faith," he says. His con-
tribution, this year, is pictured below.

Five or six years ago Mr. Waugh under-
took, with characteristic zest, to master the
technique of etching; since then he has
spent several summers studying with some
of America's best artists. Two summers
ago he went with Mrs. Waugh to Fontaine-
bleau, France, to study with the man whom
he regarded as the world's outstanding
teacher. (Incidentally — and this has nothing
to do with drawing or etching — Professor
Waugh first saw a trained seal at a little
circus near Fontainebleau. He'd seen cir-
cuses before, but had never happened to see
a juggling seal; and he was delighted by
the animal's performance. When he came
back from France he told us about this
animal act as excitedly as though he had
been a nine-year-old boy.)

A collection of Mr. Waugh's drawings or
etchings would make a fascinating ex-
hibition in themselves (see cover on May,
1937, Bulletin) — he feels, however, that the
other picture shows which he arranges in
Memorial Hall are "more important." But
we're happy to say that, at our request,
Mr. Waugh has promised to exhibit his
collection of photographs of well-known
members of the faculty and staff — photo-
graphs he has taken — in the Memorial Hall
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OBITUARIES

Charles Sumner Plumb '82

Charles Sumner Plumb '82, professor of animal
husbandry, emeritus, at Ohio State University, died
on March 4, 1939 at Columbus at the age of seventy-
eight. He was born in Westfield, Mass.

Mr. Plumb received an honorary Doctor of Science
degree from Massachusetts State College in 1929, a
similar degree from Purdue University in 1935, and
an LL.D. from Ohio State University in 1937.

The New York Times of March 5, 1939 spoke of
Dr. Plumb in part as follows.

"After being associate editor of The Rural New
Yorker from 1883 to 1884, he served for three years
as first assistant at the State Agricultural Experi-
ment Station in Geneva, N. Y., and from 1887 to
1890 was professor of agriculture at the University
of Tennessee and assistant director of the Tennessee
Agricultural Experiment Station.

He was vice-director and later director of the
Indiana Agricultural Experiment Station between
1890 and 1902, and at the same time professor of
agricultural science and of animal husbandry and
dairying at Purdue University.

Dr. Plumb was a former secretary and treasurer of
the Society for the Promotion of Agricultural Science
and the American Kerry and Dexter Cattle Club,
and a former president of the Indiana State Dairy
Association, the American Cheviot Sheep Society
and the American Southdown Breeders Association.

He was historian of the Masonic Grand Lodge of
Ohio from 1925 to 1935, president of the Ohio
Masonic Historical Society and a Fellow of the
Grand College of Rites of the United States.

Decorated in 1929 with the Chevalier du Merite
Agricole of France, Dr. Plumb also was an honorary
member of the English Southdown Society and the
English Oxford Down Society.

Among his works were 'Biographical Directory of
American Agricultural Scientists,' published in 1889;
'Indian Corn Culture,' 1895; 'Types and Breeds of
Farm Animals,' 1906, which, translated, was used
as a text-book in Russian colleges; 'Beginnings in
Animal Husbandry,' 1913; and 'Judging Farm
Animals,' 1916.

He had contributed articles on agricultural and
livestock subjects to encyclopedias and other refer-
ence works, and had written for government bulletins
and trade periodicals. He was an authority on sheep.
He made five trips through Europe between 1897 and
1927 to investigate livestock production and man-
agement."

Irving G. Davis FG

Irving G. Davis, FG, since 1920 the head of the
department of agricultural economics at Connecticut
State College, died at Storrs on March 15, 1939.

'34 George H. Bigelow to Miss Harriet Boit
Wiswall, March 11, 1939, at Falmouth, Mass.

w'36 Robert Ryan to Miss Mary O'Leary,
February 20, 1939, at Northampton, Mass.

'38 Robert E. Alcorn to Miss Cecile Hutchinson,
March 1, 1939, at Mittineague, Mass.

'38 Clifford N. Luce to Miss Virginia Peasley,
June 13, 1938, in New York City.

BIRTHS

'28 A daughter, Heather, to Mr. and Mrs.
Wellington Kennedy, March 8, 1939, at Greenwich,
Conn.

'32 and '32 A daughter, Elizabeth, to Mr. and
Mrs. Carey Howlett (Anna T. Parsons), March 9,
1939, at Northampton, Mass.

w'32 A son, John Pitkin, to Mr. and Mrs. John
Schoonmaker, March 1, 1939, at Northampton, Mass.

LUCKY THIRTEEN CLUB

MARRIAGES

'32 and '33 Philip W. Warren to Miss Alfreda L.
Ordway, September 23, 1938, at Hudson, Mass.

On January 31, at the Stockbridge House on
campus, nine members of the class of 1913 met and
organized the Lucky Thirteen Club. Present were
Joe Cobb, Jim Dayton, Fred Griggs, Joe Murray,
Clark Thayer, Harold Ryder, Paul Serex, Harold
Staab, and Kid Gore. It was decided that the Club
should hold regular meetings and take an active
part in College and Alumni affairs.

A 30th reunion committee was appointed.

It was voted to appoint an endowment fund com-
mittee and to raise and present $50.00 a year for
the next five years to the Academic Activities Board
to be used in the promotion of music at the College.

Jim Dayton, who acted as treasurer for the 25th
reunion of the class last June, reported a balance of
$206.04 with all reunion bills paid. Jim merited —
and received — the congratulations of the Club.

"FAMILY ART SHOW"

(Continued from page 3)
lounge at commencement time. Alumni will be
pleased.

Professor Waugh is not the only member of his
own immediate family to possess ability as an artist.
Daughter Dorothy, sp'17, has done, among other
things, some beautifully designed and executed
posters for the National Park Service. Currently
she is in charge of the publishing of A. A. Knopf's
children's books.

And Sidney Waugh, sp'24, is one of America's
outstanding young sculptors. Sid's work has been
acclaimed not only in the United States but also in
Europe; his famed Zodiac bowl, for one piece, is to
be seen in the Victoria and Albert museum in London.

With the idea of having some sport with son
Sidney, Professor Waugh wrote to him a while ago
and advised that Sid enter the competition for the
(Continued on opposite page)

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WITH THE ALUMMAE

By Leonta Horrigan '36

Congratulations to Betty Lynch Pullar '29 on

her recently published magazine articles, which
should be of interest to many Alumni. They include:
"Suburban-Commuter's Garden" in the New York
edition of the American Home Magazine; "Forcing
Spring Flowers" in the Consumer's Digest Magazine;
"Morning and Evening Flowers" in the garden
section of the New York Times (March 5, 1939);
"Window Boxes for Sun and Shade" in the annual
Flower Show edition of the New York Herald-Tribune
(March 12, 1939).

Thclma Fricdrich '31 is teaching home economics
at the Wilson High School, Middletown, Conn.

Mary Marshall '31 is teaching home economics
at the Belchertown High School.

Edna Thornton '35 is teaching English in the
Wilmington High School. She spent last summer in
Europe, visiting France, Belgium, Holland, and
England.

Evelyn Mallory Allen '36, with her husband,
Robert Allen Jr. '35, is running a florist (greenhouse)
business in Worcester.

Helen Allis '36 is at the information desk of the
Franklin County Hospital in Greenfield, Mass.

Harriet Andrus '36 is working in the personnel
department of Forbes & Wallace department store,
in Springfield, Mass.

Helen Downing '37 of Holyoke, is the first
woman ever to be elected to an executive office in
the Holyoke Musicians' Union. She is a member of
the Board of Directors of that organization. Helen
is giving private piano lessons, is a substitute teacher
at the Holyoke High School, and directs and plays
in her own dance orchestra.

Lois Fun '37 is curator of the Children's Depart-
ment of the Natural History Society in Worcester,
Mass.

Mary O'Connell '38 is working in a lawyer's
office in Wakefield, Mass , and has also been doing
substitute teaching in English and history.

The Hampshire County Alumnae Group held its
February meeting at the Faculty Club at the College
Among those present were; Mildred Twiss Briggs
'32, Eunice Johnson '33, Sylvia Wilson '33,
Ruth Campbell Burgess '34, Marjorie Jensen
Cummings '34, Ruth Pushee '34, Ellen Connery
'35, Alice Dwight Kucinski '35, and Marion
Smith '35.

"FAMILY ART SHOW"

(( 'ontinued from page I

new Jefferson nickel. Sidney takes more ot

unkindly to competitions '.is Professor Waugh km .•.
and the reply came back, "Pipe down on that
competition stuff. Anyway, I'm to be a judge of
the new nickel." And that was the truth. Sid was
to be a judge; but the father hadn't heard of it.

This year's "family" art show in Memorial Hall is.
according to Mr. Waugh, the best to date. The
works displayed are varied, capably executed, and
highly interesting.

There are drawings done in watercolor, oil, pencil,
tempera, and pastel. There are wood carvings, and
a display of papier mache masks. The contributors,
and their contributions, are as follows. Initials,
following names, have these meanings: G — Gradu-
ate Student; F— Faculty; FW— Faculty Wife.

Orton L. Clark '08 (F) — Wood carving; a decora-
tive design and a ram's head.
Frank Prentice Rand (F) — Three papier mache

masks (see page 3).
Mrs. George E. Emery (FW) — Water color of a

circus midway and pastel portrait of a clown.
Jack Murray w'14 — Three tempera pictures of

birds (see page 3 for one and, if all goes well, the

cover of next month's Bulletin for another).
Robert D. Carpenter (G) — A garden design done

in crayon, and a water color landscape.
Dorothy Waugh sp'17 — Four pen and ink drawings

for book illustrations (see page 3).
Warren F. Mack (F) — Two woodcuts, one of the

"cabbage patch"; the other of Old Main at

Penn State.
Carl Gerlach G'37 — Three pencil drawings of trees.
Julius Kroeck '22 — Two oil paintings, a sailing

ship and a New Hampshire landscape.
Rebecca Field w'27 — Landscape, water color.
James Robertson, Jr. (F) — A Pittsburg water

color, and a Hadley scene done in pastel.
Francis Alberti '27 — Four crayon cartoons.
A. Rodger Chamberlain '27 — Two water color

flower designs.
Walter Whittum '25 — Four pastel drawings, two

of tropical landscapes, one a shipping scene, one a

still life.
Miner Markuson (F) — Two pencil sketches.
Raymond H. Otto '26 (F)— Three landscapes,

water color (see page 3).
John P. Cone '32 — Two water color landscapes of

the Vermont scene.
Clifford Lippincott '39 — Water color landscape.
Stephen Hamilton w'31 — Two water colors of

winter landscape.
Mrs. Henry T. Fernald (FW) — Two flower studies

in water color.
Harry E. Fraser '26 — Two pencil sketches; one of

a brook in winter, one of a group of willow trees.
Frank A. Waugh (F) — Pen and ink drawing of a

bridge in Durham, England.
Guy V. Glatfelter (F) — Five wood carvings of

birds, polychromed.

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ATHLETICS

Information Department

A letter addressed to the editor of the Alumni
Bulletin came to us the other day (written by an
Alumnus in the class of 1908) and, in part, the letter
was as follows:

"In your March 1939 number of the Alumni
Bulletin — in the athletics column, page 6 — the follow-
ing question is asked, 'Who recalls any Alumni (other
than Hub Collins '22, Hank Gowdy '22, Fred Riel
'38) who were captains of more than one team or of
one team for more than a season?'

"Who is this chap who writes your athletics
column? Is he too lazy to consult the old college
records or is he simply trying to find out whether
Alumni graduated before 1922 read his column?

"If whoever wrote that item — above — is particu-
larly interested I would suggest that he look up the
records and note the captaincies held by J. E
Halligan '00, Michael F. Ahearn '04, George E.
O'Hearn '04, Frank H. Kennedy '06, George R.
Cobb '08."

Well, we replied to the letter and confessed to
being responsible for the column in question, and,
further, promised to print in the next Bulletin the
results of an examination into the records. We have
consulted old copies of the Index and back issues of
the Signal, forerunner of the Collegian, and dis-
covered that the five Alumni named by our corre-
spondent held, among themselves, the total of
eleven varsity and class captaincies as follows:

Captain
James E. Halligan '00 Football, baseball
Michael F. Ahearn '04 Baseball ('03), basketball
George E. O'Hearn '04 Football, baseball
Frank H. Kennedy '06 Football, baseball
George R. Cobb '08 Football, baseball (2)

Danny Leary '33, a former captain of football and
presently a lawyer in Kansas City, Mo., has sent us
a long item from the Kansas City Journal which tells
of Mike Ahearn's present work at Kansas State
College where he is director of athletics.

The reporter, Parke Carroll, says of Ahearn, in
part, "He keeps his boyish enthusiasm, and 'figger,'
wearing his years lightly and still being able to beat
almost any man in the conference at golf. He's more
than a trifle Irish around the edges, a great story
teller and a great companion.

"They call Mike the 'Patron Saint of Kansas State
athletics.' That goes for coaches and everyone else
connected with the institution as well as the athletes.

"I maintain that one of the main reasons K-State
coaches are successful is that they are happy and
contented and feel a sense of security, so far as a
coach can feel secure. Which checks right back to
the gray-haired little leader known as Mike."

Basketball

The basketball team broke even on the season —
seven wins, seven losses.

Captain Stan Zelazo '39 of Adams was high scorer

for the season, Johnnie Bemben '39 of Hadley, runner-
up.

Scores (since the last Bulletin):

Statesmen Opp.

Feb. 15 Amherst, there 40 37

18 Connecticut State, here 47 58

22 Tufts, there 42 41

24 Rensselaer, here 60 52

25 Boston University, here 32 41

At the small high school basketball tournament
held in the physical education building following the
varsity season these four Alumni, Bob Moriarty '28,
Herbie Grayson '26, Leon Stanne '31, and Fred
Riel '38 were coaches of competing teams from
Monson, Holden, Hadley and Deerfield.

Swimming

When a team engages in intercollegiate competition
(in its own class) and year after year wins from 66 to
85 percent of its contests then that team is doing
well by itself, its coach, its college. Such is the
record Joe Rogers' swimming Statesmen have made
since 1935 when the College entered intercollegiate
swimming — four or five wins in six meets each
season.

This year Coach Rogers developed no individual
New England champion swimmer (as has been the
case once or twice before) but he did develop a
team which worked hard and with grand cooperative
spirit all season long. For example, Roy Morse '40
of Boston liked to swim distance events — but, on
Rogers' request, Morse practiced and swam the
breaststroke (which he detests) and did it so well
that he pulled at least one meet out of the loss
column by winning the breaststroke event in a
decisive medley relay.
The season's scores:

Statesmen Opp.
Jan. 11 Williams, there 21 54

14 Worcester Tech, there 48 27

Feb. 11 Wesleyan, here 43 32

17 Coast Guard, here 58 17

21 Connecticut State, there 54 21

25 Boston University, here 59 16

Hockey

By action of the Joint Committee on Intercollegiate
Athletics, hockey has been dropped as an inter-
collegiate sport.

A hockey team will be continued on an informal
basis; but there will be no varsity team, as such,
nor a prearranged schedule. Lack of practice facili-
ties at the College, comparable to those available to
competing teams, motivated the Committee in its
action.

PRE-SEASON BASEBALL TRIP

April 3 E. Stroudsburg Teachers at E. Stroudsburg

4 Moravian at Bethlehem

5 Lafayette at Easton

6 Villanova at Villanova

7 Lehigh at Bethlehem, all Pennsylvania

8 Long Island Univ. at Brooklyn, N. Y.

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By Dennis M Crowley '29

Younger Alumni

An alumni club is only as effective as its members
try to make it, and the amount of cooperation and
support that they give their organization determines
the usefulness and value of the club to them. It
was in realization of these self-evident truths that a
small group of younger Alumni gathered recently to
work upon a plan to make their Boston Club function
more effectively for them. They felt that the Boston
Alumni have been confining their activities to a
limited number of meetings in a year, and that hardly
enough opportunity is afforded members to become
well acquainted. Moreover, no vigorous efforts have
been made to bring the younger men into the full
activities of the club as they appeared upon the
Boston scene. To seek means of developing alumni
aims along these lines a group of men from the classes
of 1937 and 1938 were asked to join in the organi-
zation of a group within the Boston Alumni Club to
promote more frequent meetings.
First Meeting

On February 25, the first gathering was held at
the University Club. Meeting in an entirely informal
manner, and depending upon telephoned notices, the
committee brought out a very satisfactory attend-
ance. Whatever was lacking in numbers as com-
pared with other Boston Alumni gatherings was made
up in interest and the inspiration of ideas. There
was an informal round-table discussion of alumni
affairs and some spirited debate on a few matters in
which not all graduates can see eye-to-eye. President
Bill Hayden '13 had not yet become adjusted to
Boston's icy weather after his Caribbean cruise, and
vice-president Ducky Kennedy '24 presided. Alumni
Secretary Bill Doran '15 and assistant secretary Red
Emery '24 spoke briefly on ways in which the younger
Alumni can work for the betterment of the College.
Dave Rossiter '37 conveyed to the group an account
of the many excellent things that are being done by
the Associate Alumni to aid the College and to help
State College men. These were no cut-and-dried
speeches, but frank discussions that were provocative
of many questions and expressions from the members
present.

Monthly Gatherings

As a result of the frank consideration of the ways
in which younger graduates could best help the
College and help the Boston Club to function for
them, it was agreed that frequent informal gatherings
at which Alumni can meet with ease are a great need.
It was decided to hold these meetings monthly at
the University Club, and at a nominal charge. The

ACADEMICS

Roister Doisters

The commencemenl play will be "Our Town"
the Thornton Wilder !9:j8 I'ul it z<r Prize play which
has been running successfully on Broadway during
the past two years.

The play is done without scenery or special CO
turning; it represents, in that respect, an interesting
example of modern stagecraft.

The scene is a New England village, in the shadow
of Mount Monadnock. There is a good do;i] of local
color.

"Our Town" will, perhaps, be presented lor the
student body on Friday evening, May 5. There will
be a matinee performance on Saturday, May 6, for
High School Day visitors. The commencement per-
formance will be on the evening of Saturday, June 10.

Alumni clubs wishing to arrange for a performance
of "Our Town" in their towns — between May 8 and
June 1 — should write to Sidney Beck '39, manager
of Roister Doisters, 389 North Pleasant St., Amherst,
Mass.

CLASS OF 1938— FIRST REUNION
Saturday, June 10 — Alumni Day

Class Banquet on the night of the 10th
Plan to be back!!

Ruth Wood, Fred Sievers

Alumni Club will not guarantee banquet arrange-
ments for its members, but will welcome them to
eight o'clock meetings, after which light lunch will
be served. The next meeting on this plan will be on
March 22.

Alumni-Alumnae Dance

One projected feature of the younger alumni pro-
gram is a joint meeting of Alumni and Alumnae this
Spring. In place of the usual banquet, we would like
to have a dinner-dance, with a limited amount of
speaking and maximum entertainment in the inter-
vals between courses.

You will hear more of these monthly meetings of
Alumni and, as we gather the younger graduates in
a more active organization, the "old reliables" of our
Boston Club will work with the newer members to
make ours a truly effective Club, and, we hope, the
central club to which Alumni from all Eastern
Massachusetts will be attracted.

Those present on February 25 were:

Eddie Ilaertl '27, Ducky Swan '27, L.
Francis Kennedy '24, Earle J. Robinson '12,
Paul A. Smith '31, Dave Rossiter '37, Don Silver-
man '38, Bill Riley '38, Walter Simonsen '37,
Bud Fisher '37, Bill Johnson '37. Robert Fein-
berg '38, William Bullock '38, Parker Ryan '28,
Al Grieius '37, Ossie Holmberg '32, Bob
Perriello '37, George Congdon '35, John
McGuekian '31, Joe Forest '28, Garabed
Mouradian '25, Dennis Crowley '29, William
Doran '15, and George Emery '24.

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN

'14 Stan Freeborn, assistant dean at the Univer-
sity of California, Berkeley, and assistant director of
the California Agricultural Experiment Station, has
recently been made a fellow in the Entomological
Society of America.

Library

State College

MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

FRIDAY, SATURDAY, SUNDAY, MONDAY, JUNE 9, 10, 11, 12
Saturday, June 10, is Alumni Day

1879

George P. Smith

SIXTIETH REUNION

Dr. Roscoe W. Swan

1879

Hiram E. Waldron

1889

FIFTIETH REUNION

Franklin W. Davis, 42 Kenneth St., West Roxbury, Mass.

1889

1894 100$ Attendance FORTY-FIFTH REUNION 100% Attendance 1894
Dr. S. Francis Howard, Norwich University, Northfield, Vermont

1899 100% — too FORTIETH REUNION 100? — too 1899

Frederick H. Turner, Great Barrington, Mass., Herbert Dana, 80 Boylston St., Boston

1904 THIRTY-FIFTH REUNION 1904

Sumner Parker, Amherst, Mass. Parkman Staples, Perkinsville, Vt.

1909

THIRTIETH REUNION

S. S. Crossman, 12 James Street, Greenfield, Mass.

1909

1914 TWENTY-FIFTH REUNION

"A bang-up reunion," says Ed Hazen (North Amherst, Mass.)
and Ed should know.

1914

1919 TWENTIETH REUNION 1919

Gov Field, Bill French, Asa White — Committee
Gunnar Erickson, Raymie Parkhurst (Amherst, Mass.) making local arrangements

The first, last, and only
FIFTEENTH REUNION FOR 1921

Eddie Bike, 126 Wyoming Ave., Melrose, Mass. Al Waugh, Storrs, Conn.

1929 TENTH REUNION

Committee: Dennis Crowley, 140 Manthorne Rd., W. Roxbury, Mass.
Clif Johnson, 465 Congress St., Portland, Maine
Johnnie Kay, 42 Winthrop Ave., Reading, Mass.

1929

1934's FIFTH

Bill Frigard

Amherst, Mass.

and the 1934 Committee

1936's THIRD

Cal Hannum
Amherst, Mass.

1938's FIRST

Ruth Wood

8 Cross St., Wellesley, Mass.

Fred Sievers, Amherst, Mass.

ALUMNI DAY, SATURDAY, JUNE 10

Watch the mails for details of your Reunion and Plan to be Back

DECORATIVE DESIGN

Buuum

ASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

HERST . MASSACHUSETTS

I. XXI, No. 8_- May, 1939

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THE ALUMNI BULLETIN
MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

ASSOCIATE ALUMNI OF
MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

Board of Directors
to 1939

Michael J. McNamara '17 of Hartford, Conn.
David Potter '16 of Worcester

Albert W. Smith '22 of Springfield

Theoren L. Warner '08 of Sunderland
to 1940
Walter T. Bonney '31 of Springfield

John J. Maginnis '18 of Worcester

Lester Needham '14 of Springfield

F. Civille Pray '06 of Amherst
to 1941
Richard J. Davis *28 of Boston

Thomas P. Dooley '13 of West Roxbury

George W. Edman '21 of Pittsfield

Ralph F. Taber '16 of West Newton
to 1942
Erford W. Poole '96 of New Bedford

David P. Rossiter '37 of Maiden

Zoe Hickney White '32 of Worcester

Alfred E. Wilkins '15 of Wakefield

The Alumni Bulletin is sent ten times each year to all members of
the Associate Alumni. Annual memberships are: Sustaining $10.00,
Ordinary $3.00.

Cover picture ~ Decorative design, by Jack Murray
w'14. The original tempera drawing was on display in
the "family" art show in Memorial Hall during the
month of March.

NEW YORK ALUMNI TO MEET

On May 6, Bernard H. Smith '99, president of the
New York Alumni Club will be host, with Mrs.
Smith, to members of the Club on an inspection tour
of the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens. Cherry blossoms
will then be at their height, as well as the crab apple
blossoms.

Mr. Smith, who is a trustee of the botanic gardens,
extends a cordial invitation to any Alumni who may
be in New York to join with his party on the 6th.
He should be addressed at 9314 Ridge Boulevard,
Brooklyn, N. Y.

'91 Dr. E. Porter Felt was one of the three
sponsors of the Eastern Shade Tree Conference held
at the New York Botanical Garden last December,
and is the author in the recently-published "Proceed-
ings of the Conference" of an article on the broader
aspects of hurricane damage caused by the great
storm of last September.

w'31 Rufus H. Thompson has published an
article m the A merican Journal of Botany for Novem-
ber, 1938, entitled: "Coronastrum: a new genus of
algae in the family Scenedesmaceae." He is a gradu-
ate student in botany at Stanford University.

NEWS AND NOTES
OF THE CLASS OF

1916

These biographic notes have been assembled by Dutch
Schlotterbeck for his class.

Since 1925 Francis M. Andrews has been princi-
pal of the Perkins Institute for the Blind in Water-
town, Mass. He has a master of education degree
from Boston University; he is the author of articles
published in Teachers' Forum and in the Proceedings
of the American Association for the Instructors of the
Blind.

He is a member of the executive committee of the
American Association of Instructors of the Blind,
secretary of the Massachusetts Association for Pro-
moting Interests of the Adult Blind.

Francis is married, has two children — a girl 14
and a boy 10.

Last June, at the College, he was presented with
an honorary academics medal — for "a career of ser-
vice to young people deprived of the joy and ad-
vantage of physical vision, for remembering that
values to be sought and cherished are not merely
economic but cultural, for exemplifying an uplifting
ideal."

Harold Caldwell says his family is his hobby. He
has two girls 19 and 11; a boy 16. The girls are
musical, the boy is athletic — and he plans to enter
the College with the class of '43.

For eight years, before he went into business for
himself, Harold was poultryman and superintendent
at the Westboro State Hospital and at Seabrook
Farms, Bridgeton, N. J. He now owns and operates
Caldwell's Poultry Farm on routes 110 and 2 in
Littleton, Mass., and says that the sign proclaiming
his business also means "Welcome" to any Alumni.

He regularly attends and enjoys the 1916 suppers
in Boston and believes such gatherings constitute
an excellent medium for keeping class and college
spirit alive among Alumni.

Tom Ilarrocks is sales manager for H. Reeve
Angel & Co., in New York City. He is past president
of the New York Alumni Club and — although he
doesn't say so — he has been an energetic and effec-
tive worker in behalf of that group. He does say
that Walter Paige '91, Sid Haskell '04, Skip Smith
'12, Tom Hemenway '12 and several of the younger
Alumni, men and women, have been "towers of
strength" with the Club.

Tom lives over in Maplewood, N. J., with his
family — he has three children. He says he tries to
pay his bills with reasonable promptness and that,
for vacations, he likes to take some inexpensive ocean
voyage, a cruise or a freighter trip. He has been to
Europe once.

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ALUMNI DIRECTORS MEET AT THE
COLLEGE

Senior Class Officers Present

On March 24, 1939, the directors of the Associate
Alumni met, in Draper Hall at the College, to discuss
numerous items of alumni business.

Earle J. Robinson '12, chairman of the alumni
scholarship committee, outlined, briefly, a carefully-
drawn-up tentative plan for the set-up of a scholar-
ship fund. John McGuckian '31, Marshall Lanphear
'18, and David Rossiter '37, members of the com-
mittee, all spoke in regard to details of the plan.

It was recommended that alumni aid be given to
those students with good scholastic records or prom-
ise, and that scholarship awards be made as a re-
ward for leadership in any of a number of fields.

It was the feeling of the Board that alumni scholar-
ship funds should be administered entirely through
an alumni organization and that, eventually, there
might be three committees concerned with the
scholarship fund: (1) for collecting the money; (2)
for investing it; (3) for disbursing it. A committee
is to be appointed to continue with the plan along
the lines outlined by Mr. Robinson and his group.

The Directors heard Starr King '21 state that in
his opinion and in that of his new-student committee
(Belding Jackson '22, Willard K. French '19) the
most effective way in which the College can over-
come the general lack of knowledge of its scope and
work now prevalent among secondary school officials
is through the engaging of a competent person,
qualified in the field of education, to be continually
in contact with high school officials and teachers.
This man would discuss, with secondary school
principals, every phase of undergraduate instruction
and admission at Massachusetts State, and would
bring back to the College such recommendations as
high school men might make.

The Directors voted to convey their recommend-
ation to President Baker that a college contact
officer be appointed as soon as possible.

Mr. Lanphear, in reply to the Directors' request,
presented statistics regarding freshman "scholastic
mortality." These showed that about 10 % of the
freshmen had flunked out of College for the past five
years — a percentage comparable to freshman flunks
at Colby, Williams, Trinity, the Universities of
Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont. The Directors
plan a study of the college entrance requirements.

Officers of the senior class were present at the
meeting. They had been invited (as will officers of
each succeeding senior group) that they might learn
more of the work and activity of the Associate
Alumni. The senior officers were: Howard Steff,
Constance Fortin, Dorothy Nichols, Robert Glass,
John Bemben and Charles Rodda, and they were
interested in what they heard and learned.

These senior officers, together with Albin Irzyk
and Catherine Leete (daughter of Richard Leete '14)
of the junior class, were appointed members of an
alumni-student committee to study alumni-student
relations.

AL SPAULDING M7 CITED AS
INSURANCE EXEC1 TTVK

By kind permission of The Spa tator, [a national
magazine denoted to insurant the following

article is here reprinted. Editors of the Spectator also

loaned the cut.

To the growing roster of insurance advertising
men whose services and abilities have been recog-
nized by election to high ranking officerships in their
companies, add the name of A. W. Spaulding who
recently advanced to the post of secretary of the
Hartford Acci-
dent & Indem-
nity Company.
Advertisi ng
and publicity
were Mr.
S p a u 1 d ing's
specialties
when he came
with the com-
pany, though
with the years
he gradually
assumed in-
creasing duties
in agency and
production di-
rection. Since
1934 he has
been associate
manager of the
company's a-
gency depart-
ment.
Mr. Spaulding

was graduated from Massachusetts State College in
1917 and hopped almost directly from his classrooms
to the Western Front where he served with the U. S.
Army Ambulance Service, being attached to various
French divisions. He is extremely reticent about his
war record but the impression persists among his
friends that it is mighty outstanding. In the button
hole of his business suit is a small riband that signifies
a decoration from the French Government but
curious questioners are turned away from the topic
with a smile or a jest.

Immediately following the war, Spaulding took a
job with the American Writing Paper Co., of Holyoke,
Mass., where he gained considerable experience in
direct mail work. He came to the Hartford Fire
Insurance Company as assistant advertising manager
under John W. Longnecker. Not only did they do a
first class advertising job for the Hartford Fire but
after office hours they made an able writing team and
two books under the signature of Longnecker and
Spaulding were important contributions to adver-
tising literature. "Advertising Property Insurance"
had a real agency slant to it and thus was a practical
premium producer for agents as well as a helpful
{Continued on page 5)

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OBITUARIES

Charles Sumner Howe '78

Dr. Charles Sumner Howe '78 died at his home in
North Amherst, Mass., on April 18, 1939. He had
been failing in health for some years; he was eighty
years old.

He was born in Nashua, N. H. and was graduated
from the high school at Franklin, and from the
College in 1878. For the next year he did graduate
work in mathematics and physics.

He was principal of the Longmeadow, Mass., high
school in 1879 and, the next year, became principal
of the Albuquerque, New Mexico, academy. He re-
turned east in 1882 and did graduate work at John
Hopkins for a year. He was adjunct professor of
mathematics at Buchtel College, Akron, Ohio, from
1883 to 1884, and from 1884 to 1889 he was pro-
fessor of mathematics and astronomy at the same
college. From September, 1889, to June, 1902, he
was professor of mathematics and astronomy at
Case School of Applied Science at Cleveland, Ohio,
and was president of the Case School from 1902 to
September, 1929, when he was retired.

Dr. Howe held honorary degrees from Massachu-
setts State College, the Case School, Armour Insti-
tute of Technology, Mount Union College, Oberlin
College and Western Reserve University. He was a
member of Phi Sigma Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi,
Sigma Xi and Tau Beta Phi. He was a past president
and honorary member of the Cleveland Chamber of
Commerce, a member of the board of trustees of the
Cleveland Welfare federation and of the Cleveland
Humane society. He was past president of the
Society for the Promotion of Engineering, a past
president and honorary member of the Cleveland
Engineering society, a past president of the National
Society of Sigma Xi and honorary member of the
University Club of Washington, D. C, and past
president and honorary member of the Cleveland
University Club and an honorary member of the
Union Club of Cleveland.

Dr. Howe was married twice. His first wife, Miss
Abbie Waite of North Amherst, whom he married in
1882, died in 1924. On September 20, 1929, he
married Mrs. Ida Puffer of North Amherst. She
died in 1938. Dr. Howe is survived by three sons.

S Charles O. Buffington w'85

Charles Owen Buffington w'85 died at his home in
Ware, Mass., on November 15, 1938. For twenty-
seven years he had been mail carrier on a 33-mile
rural route in Ware. He was held in high respect and
affection by the many who knew him.

Bernard P. Johnson w'15

Bernard P. Johnson w'15 died in Westfield, Mass.,
on October 27, 1938, of cancer of the throat. Mr.
Johnson had operated an amusement business for
several years, supplying parks and fairs with various
amusement devices and shows. His widow, and
three daughters, survive him.

MARRIAGES

'31 Miss Sally Bradley to Alan F. B. Lusk,
April 1, 1939, at Bombay, India.

'34 and '36 William B. Esselen, Jr. to Miss
Katherine O'Brien, December 28, 1938, at Amherst,
Mass.

'38 Albert W. Pollard to Miss Kate Hammond
Burress, March 29, 1939, at Pendleton, South
Carolina.

BIRTHS

'31 A daughter, Virginia Beryl, to Mr. and Mrs.
Frank T. Douglass, March 15, 1939 at Springfield,,
Mass.

'31 A daughter, Carol Seabrook, to Mr. and Mrs.
Francis C. Pray, April 21, 1939, at Northampton,
Mass.

w'33 A son, Bruce Gordon, to Lt. Colonel and
Mrs. J. F. Heron (Honore Frecheville w'33), March
22, 1939, at San Antonio, Texas.

A. D. TAYLOR '05 PRESIDENT OF
LANDSCAPE SOCIETY

At the recent election of the American Society of
Landscape Architects, A. D. Taylor '05, was chosen
president for the third term (a distinction without
precedent). At the same time, Harold B. Bursley
'13, was made trustee of the southeastern region,
and Melvin B. Borgeson '23, was elected auditor for
the Society.

'22 Howard J. Shaughnessy is director of labora-
tories for the Illinois Department of Public Health,
1800 West Fillmore Street, Chicago. He has been on
a year's leave of absence, during which time he was
associate professor of bacteriology at the University
of Colorado School of Medicine.

'28 Jack Amatt has been appointed professor of
horticulture and landscape gardening at the Univer-
sity of Maryland, College Park.

'29 Charles Gifford is landscape gardener for the
Winn Nurseries, Norfolk, Virginia.

'33 Sam Gilmore, when invited to exhibit in the
current "family" art show, sent his regrets. However,
he is still working in the art line and has recently
completed an article in this field for the new edition
of the Encyclopedia Britannica. He also claims to
be doing some landscape gardening. His address is
120 East Union Avenue, Bound Brook, N. J.

'34 Larry Schenck was appointed cashier of the
Chicago real estate office of the Massachusetts
Mutual Life Insurance Company on April 1, last.

'35 John Moulton is civil engineer with the
Montpelier and Wells River Railroad Company,
Montpelier, Vt.

'38 Eddie Czelusniak has been appointed baseball
coach at St. Michael's high school in Northampton.

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WITH THE ALUMMAE

By Leonta Horrigan '36

Mary Coonoy '36 has taken a position as tech-
nician in Raymond Mutter's laboratory in Holyoke,

Mass.

Loin Fun '.37, who is curator of children's work at
the Worcester Natural History Museum, Worcester,
Mass., spoke at the Recreation Conference on
campus, March 11, 1939. Her talk, given at the
Nature Study and Gardening program, was entitled
"The Contribution of
the Natural History
Museum Children's De-
partment."

Beatrice Waxier '37

has a position as dietic-
ian at the Beth Israel
Hospital in Boston. She
trained there as stud-
ent dietician last year.

On April 11, 1939,
Miss Hamlin's class in
Vocational Opportuni-
ties for Women had as
guest speakers two re-
cent Alumnae: Eleanor
Fillmore '36, and
Roberta Walkey '38.
Each told of her work
in progressive school
education and of the
opportunities for wom-
en in this field. Eleanor
is teaching in a day
school in Detroit, Mich,
and Roberta at the
Chapel Hill School in
Waltham, Mass.

Betty Eaton '39

The Hampshire Coun-
ty Alumnae group met for supper and an informal
evening on March 21, 1939, at the Faculty Club.
The following members were present: Ruth Putnam
Snyder '26, Ruth Scott '31, Mildred Twiss Brings
'32, Eunice Johnson '33, Sylvia Wilson '33,
Mary Tomlinson Brown '34, Ruth Campbell
Burgess '34, Marjorie Jensen Cummings '34,
Betty Wheeler Frigard '34, Buth Pushee '34,
Ellen Connery '35, Marion Smith '35, Marion
Bullard '36, Leonta Horrigan '36. Miss Skinner,
Miss Know I ton, Mrs. Maude Marshall and Mrs.
Broughton were guests.

AL SPAULDING 17 CITED

(Continual from r>"Kr '■',
commentary for professional advertising men. And
their book on cooperative advertising was, we be-
lieve, the first on the subject.

Mr. Spaulding, it is said, was a natural as a col-
laborator and in the joint work of these two authors
you will find none of the unevenness that is common
in collaborations. It was their method to write
chapters individually and then inspect each other's
proofs as they came from the printer. On one occa-
sion, his co-worker tossed a chapter of proofs on
Spaulding's desk and there followed a mild contro-
versy over which had written the chapter. The

original typist consulted
her notes and it was
discovered that Spauld-
ing was the author. He
had so closely followed
the style of the book
that his work could not
be told from his col-
laborator's.

This ability to col-
laborate— and cooper-
ate— with others is an
outstanding trait of Mr.
Spaulding's and is one
of the big reasons for
the steady success he
has enjoyed in his
field which requires,
of course, just that
understanding and
team work. Another
thing about him that
even a casual visitor
will immediately recog-
nize is that he is an
extraordinarily direct
thinker. He is quick
to size up a problem or
a point and gets to the
heart of matters with-
out fuss or feathers.
After a few years
with the Hartford Fire, Mr. Spaulding switched over
his entire time to the Hartford Accident and Indem-
nity Company, and was made manager of its pro-
duction department in 1927. In 1934 he was ap-
pointed associate manager of the agency department
and placed in charge, also, of the company's publicity.
He was elected assistant secretary in February, 1936.
He lives in West Hartford with Mrs. Spaulding
and their two boys whose ages are ten and twelve.
His recreation is his farm at Chesterfield, N. H.,
where he spends absolutely every free minute that
he has.

-Photo by John Vondell

a Lumn i Dfiy is sfliueofly, juih 10

Better
Be Back!

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ATHLETICS

CHARLES L. RICE '01, DIRECTOR
OF WESTERN ELECTRIC

Raseball

Coach Eb Caraway seemed well pleased with the
results of the "southern" trip which his Statesmen
took into Pennsylvania during the vacation week
preceeding Easter. The team played five games;
won two, lost two, and tied one.

Paul Fanning '39 of Milton, Fran Riel '39 of
Turners Falls, Johnnie Bemben '39 of Hadley, and
Ellsworth Twible '41 of Gilbertville did the pitching.
They pitched well.

The scores: Statesmen

Opp.

Apr. 3

East Stroudsburg Teachers 1

(Called in 9th;

rain)

Moravian 8

Lafayette 3

Lehigh 4

Long Island University 4

The schedule:

Apr. 19

Connecticut State, there Cancelled ; rain

Williams, here 15

Bowdoin, here

May 3

Amherst, there

Trinity, here

W. P. I., there

Tufts, here (double header)

Connecticut State, here

Wesleyan, here

New Hampshire, here

Springfield, there

Boston College, there

Union, there

June 10

Amherst, here

Winter Track

The season's scores: Statesmen

Opp.

Jan. 28

K. of C. meet, Boston
(1-mile relay) 4th of 4

Feb. 11

B. A. A. meet, Boston
(1-mile relay) 2nd of 3

Connecticut State, here 27

W. P. I., here 34

Triangular meet at Medford
Tufts 72i, W.P.I. 28J, State 28|

Mar. 18

Wesleyan, there 27

Spring Track

The schedule:
Apr. 22 Boston University, there

29 Trinity, here
May 6 Tufts, here

13 Easterns at Worcester

19-20 New Englands at Durham, N.

27 Connecticut State, there

'34 Frank Batstone is now living at Fulton Ave.,
Falls Church, Virginia, and is working with the plans
and design branch of the National Capitol Parks,
(Interior Building), Washington, D. C.

An item from the New York Times of April 12,
1939 regarding the election of Charles L. Rice '01
to the board of directors of the Western Electric
Company is, in part, as follows.

At the annual meeting of stockholders of the
Western Electric Company yesterday Charles L.
Rice, vice-president of the company and manager of
its Hawthorne works in Chicago, was elected a mem-
ber of the board of directors.

Mr. Rice has been associated with Western Electric
for more than thirty-seven years, having started in
the company's student training course in New York
soon after his graduation from Massachusetts State
College and Boston University. He rose through the
manufacturing organization and for three years was
head of the company's former London factory. Since
1914 he has held executive positions at the Hawthorne
works, largest of Western Electric's manufacturing
plants. He became works manager in 1926 and
vice-president in 1928.

In addition to being a member of the Illinois State
Housing Commission and a director of the Illinois
Manufacturers Association, he is president of the
LaGrange Park District Commission and a trustee
of Knox College and of the Armour Institute of
Technology. Mr. Rice also has been president of the
Chicago Association of Commerce and of the Greater
Chicago Safety Council.

RILL DOLE '27 AN EXCHANGE
TEACHER IN ENGLAND

On September 1, last, Bill Dole '27 was granted a
year's leave of absence by the Hartford, Connecticut,
school board "for professional improvement through
an exchange teaching position in England." Bill had
taught English in the Hartford high school for
eight years; he took a similar position at the Nun-
thorpe Secondary School in York.

When he left for England, Bill looked forward to
the experience as a broadening one for his whole
family (who went with him) — except he guessed
his three-year old son might not retain much.

By Christmas time Bill's expectations were being
fully realized. He was profiting professionally; and
his whole family were enjoying "living like real
Englishmen — in woolen underwear, and eating
Yorkshire pudding."

'21 Guy C. West is superintendent of grounds for
the Rhode Island Country Club, at West Barrington,
R. I. This club maintains a large and superior golf
course which is Guy's first pet. However, the grounds
received a terrific punishment at the hands of the
September hurricane, so that Guy is now using his
entire training in landscape architecture and horti-
culture to repair the damage.

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WITH 4 A THE

BOSTON ALUMNI

By Dennis M. Crowley '29

Thome M. Carpenter '02 is acting director of
the nutrition laboratory (located in Boston) of the
Carnegie Institution of Washington. A year ago
Dr. Carpenter was elected vice-president of the
American Institute of Nutrition at the annual meet-
ing and, in May, was elected chairman of the North-
eastern Section of the American Chemical Society.

Dr. Carpenter has been host, during the past year,
to graduate students from the College who have
come down to Boston for the purpose of visiting the
nutrition laboratory.

Al Grieius '37 writes us that Bill Boynton '35

received his master's degree in bacteriology from
Yale and is now a freshman at Tufts Medical School.
Also studying medicine at Tufts are Fred Basa-
mania '37, Irv Hardy '37, Fred Goodhue '37,
Don Haselhuhn '36, Bo£er Allen '36, Irv Binder
'38 — and they all find they have to study plenty,
or so Al says.

Bill Kewer '37 is in his second year at Harvard
[ Business School. Miteh NeJame '38 (named last
I June as "man of the year" at the College) is in his
first year at the same school.

Walt Guralnick '37 and John McNally '37 are

at Harvard Dental.

Bert Holland '29 is teaching science in the
Brookline high school.

Ed Steffek '34 who is a salesman for the Joseph
Breck Company on State Street, had an article on
garden shrubs, flowering quinces, in the New York
Times of April 16.

We heard from Carleton Finkelstein '36 the

other day. Fink is working at the United States
Northeastern Penitentiary at Lewisburg, Pennsyl-
vania, gathering material for his doctor's degree in
criminology. He writes, "Life at the penitentiary is
very interesting and, for the most part, enjoyable.
One meets a fine class of people here, bankers,
lawyers, stockbrokers .... really, you have no
idea!"

Charles Cook '30 is a florist. He lives at 261
Cabot St., Beverly, Mass.

ACADEMICS

Music

Fred Criggs '13 would have thrilled, indeed, i"
have heard the combined glee clubs sing his "Winn
Twilight Shadows Deepen" on the evening of March
17. A capacity audience in Howker Auditorium did,

The occasion was the Social Union-sponsored
concert of the combined musical clubs, trained and
directed by Mr. Doric Alviani. It was a varied and
interesting program — and long. Long because musi-
cally-active students were so eager to perform, and
justifiably. They gave a grand concert.

There were selections by the men's and women's
glee clubs, by the Statesmen and the SI a let I es, the
choir, the orchestra, and by the groups combined
Some of the numbers were staged with rather elabo-
rate theatrical effect. One, in particular, was striking
and impressive — a tableau of six or eight men who,
garbed in the athletic vestments of the "good old
days" (circa 1880), sang old college songs.

At the academics insignia convocation on April 20
Milton Auerbach '39 of Springfield was awarded the
academics conspicuous service trophy for his able
organizing of the Statesmen, a male quartette which
has brought great credit to the College and itself in
some thirty or forty public appearances during the
past academic year.

AL CHADWICK '31 LEAVES DRAPER

On April first, Alan W. Chadwick '31 resigned as
manager of the college boarding hall and as instructor
in food technology to become superintendent of the
Hospital Cottages for Crippled Children at Baldwins-
ville, Mass. It was only with the knowledge that he
was thereby accepting greater opportunity for pro-
fessional advancement that we regretfully accepted
his resignation.

Alan came to the College from Worcester, Mass.,
and was graduated in the class of 1931. As an under-
graduate he was interested in the work of the dining
hall and, in his senior year, became head waiter.
After graduation he worked with a coal concern in
Worcester and, in 1932, returned to the College to
be assistant to Mrs. Cora Hatheway, manager of the
dining hall. Alan's keen desire to forge ahead, and
his faithful and painstaking work made him the
logical choice for manager when Mrs. Hatheway was
obliged to relinquish her position because of ill health.
Alan attended summer sessions at Columbia and
Cornell, besides doing special work at the National
School Cafeteria Association in Chicago.

In 1935 he married Miss Mary Goodhue. They
have one son, Bruce, born last November. Alan is a
member of Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity.

Both Mr. and Mrs. Chadwick have done much in
the social life of the college community. Alan has
been an actor and director with the Patterson Play-
ers, faculty dramatic society, as well as president of
the group. We are glad to have been associated with
them, and the whole community joins in wishing
them well in their new environment. Fred C. Kenney

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'15 F. Ellwood Allen, now of the National
Recreation Association, has an illustrated article in
the last number of Recreation (February, 1939) on
"The Planning of School Grounds for School and
Community Use." This includes one of Fred's good
landscape drawings.

Library

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MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

FRIDAY, SATURDAY, SUNDAY, MONDAY, JUNE 9, 10, 11, 12
Saturday, June 10, is Alumni Day

1879

George P. Smith

SIXTIETH REUNION

Dr. Roscoe W. Swan

1879

Hiram E. Waldron

1889

FIFTIETH REUNION

Franklin W. Davis, 42 Kenneth St., West Roxbury, Mass.

1889

1894 100J Attendance FORTY-FIFTH REUNION 100 ^ Attendance 1894
Dr. S. Francis Howard, Norwich University, Northfield, Vermont

1899 100 % — too FORTIETH REUNION 100?— too 1899

Frederick H. Turner, Great Barrington, Mass., Herbert Dana, 80 Boylston St., Boston

1904 THIRTY-FIFTH REUNION 1904

Sumner Parker, Amherst, Mass. Parkman Staples, Perkinsville, Vt.

1909

THIRTIETH REUNION

S. S. Crossman, 12 James Street, Greenfield, Mass.

1909

1914 TWENTY-FIFTH REUNION 1914

"A bang-up reunion," says Ed Hazen (North Amherst, Mass.)
and Ed should know.

1919 TWENTIETH REUNION 1919

Gov Field, Bill French, Asa White — Committee
Gunnar Erickson, Raymie Parkhurst (Amherst, Mass.) making local arrangements

The first, last, and only
FIFTEENTH REUNION FOR 1924

Eddie Bike, 126 Wyoming Ave., Melrose, Mass. Al Waugh, Storrs, Conn.

1929 TENTH REUNION 1929

Committee: Dennis Crowley, 140 Manthorne Rd., W. Roxbury, Mass.
Clif Johnson, 465 Congress St., Portland, Maine
Johnnie Kay, 42 Winthrop Ave., Reading, Mass.

1934's FIFTH

Bill Frigard

Amherst, Mass.

and the 1934 Committee

1936's THIRD

Cal Hannum
Amherst, Mass.

1938's FIRST

Ruth Wood
8 Cross St., Wellesley, Mass.
Fred Sievers, Amherst, Mass.

ALUMNI DAY, SATURDAY, JUNE 10

Watch the mails for details of your Reunion and Plan to be Back

THE ALUMNI
BULLETIN

GIRL GRADUATE

MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE
AMHERST, MASSACHUSETTS

/ol. XXI, No. 9

June, 1939

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THE ALUMNI BULLETIN
MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

ASSOCIATE ALUMNI OF
MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

Board of Directors
to 1939

Michael J. McNamara '17 of Hartford. Conn.
David Potter '16 of Worcester

Albert W. Smith '22 of Springfield

Theoren L. Warner '08 of Sunderland
to 1940
Walter T. Bonney '31 of Springfield

John J. Maginnis '18 of Worcester

Lester Needham '14 of Springfield

F. Civille Pray '06 of Amherst
to 1941
Richard J. Davis '28 of Boston

Thomas P. Dooley '13 of West Roxbury

George W. Edman '21 of Pittsfield

Ralph F. Taber '16 of West Newton
to 1942
Erford W. Poole '96 of New Bedford

David P. Rossiter '37 of Maiden

Zoe Hickney White '32 of Worcester

Alfred E. Wilkins '15 of Wakefield

The Alumni Bulletin is sent ten times each year to all members of
the Associate Alumni. Annual memberships are: Sustaining $10.00,
Ordinary $3.00.

Cover picture — Bettina Hall '39, biology major who
next year goes to Radeliffe for graduate work in endo-
crinology. Bettina has been arts editor of the Collegian
for three years, a member of the Roister Doisters, vice-
president of the Zoology Club, three years a member of
the Dads' Day Committee and secretary for two, and
three years a member of the Women's Athletic Associ-
ation. She is a member of Lambda Delta Mu sorority.

— Photo by John Vondell

NEW BEDFORD ALUMNI MEET

On Friday evening, April 21, at the New Bedford
Hotel, twenty Alumni and wives gathered for a
supper and reunion.

Professor and Mrs. Rollin Barrett were guests
from the College; and, after the supper, Rollin
showed colored movies he had taken of student
activity on campus.

Charlie Harris '30, Erford Poole '96, and Walt
Moseley '37 were in charge of the reunion which was
highly enjoyed by all who attended.

'21 Jimmie Alger is Wirthmore serviceman for
the Eastern Grain Company. His sales territory is
on Cape Cod; his address is 32 Worcester Street,
Bridgewater, Mass.

'29 Harold Adams is director of the division of
food and sanitation of the Flint, Michigan, health
department.

NEWS AND NOTES
OF THE CLASS OF

1916

These biographic notes have been assembled by Dutch
Schlotterbeck for his class.

Fred Barnes, who frequently is in attendance at
the 1916 suppers in Boston, is clerk for the Kendall
Mills (hospital supplies) in Walpole, Mass. He has
been with the concern eight years, previous to which
he was in the lumber business. Fred is married, he
has two daughters, 14 and 16.

George Danforth has conducted his own adver-
tising business since 1925; his business address is
581 Boylston Street, Boston. His home is in Waban;
he is married, has a girl 8 years old, a boy 13.

Emilio Cardarelli operates his own landscape and
nursery concern in Cromwell, Connecticut.

He has been a selectman and chairman of the
board of education in his town, and finance officer
of his Legion Post for fifteen years.

He has two children, a girl 16, and a boy, 12.

Frederick Jerome is in the insurance and real
estate business in South Hadley Falls, Mass., and
acts as advisor on several farms in connection with
property he has sold.

His twin boys have been graduated from South
Hadley high school — both made football letters. A
younger son and daughter now attend the school.

Harry Curran is a livestock buyer for Swift & Co.
at the Union Stock Yards in Chicago; and he has
been in Chicago since 1920. He has one son — now
five years old.

Stanley M. Prouty is a captain in the United
States Army, at present on duty with the R.O.T.C.
unit at Boston University. After being graduated
from the College Stan served three years in the
Philippine Constabulary; since then he has been an
officer in the U. S. Army, and has found the army an
interesting and active career.

With the Philippine Constabulary he served in
Luzon, Camarines, Tyabas, and Battan provinces,
in Manila, and on the islands of Jolo and Sulu off
Borneo. Commissioned with the army he went first
to Tientsin, China, and later was detailed as assist-
ant military attache to the Legation in Pekin.

He travelled extensively in China and Japan, and
in Siberia. He made an extensive trip on famine
relief work, in 1920, in the interior of Shanshin
Province. Since returning to the United States he
has been on duty at Madison and Plattsburg Bar-
racks in New York; Camp Dix, N. J.; Fort Benning,
Georgia; Fort Hayes, Ohio; and Fort Huachuca,
Arizona.

Stan is married and has one boy, twelve years old.

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PROFESSOR EDWARD A. WHITE '95
RETIRES AT CORNELL

On June 15, at Cornell University, in Willard
Straight Hall, a testimonial dinner will be held in
honor of Professor Edward A. White '95, who is
retiring as head of the department of floriculture and
ornamental horticulture at Cornell after 26 years of
active service. Ray Allen '31, instructor in flori-
culture at Cornell, is chairman of the committee in
charge of the event.

Before going to Cornell in 1913 Professor White
was engaged in educational work at Connecticut

Professor White

State College, Texas A. and M. College, and Massa-
chusetts State. He organized the first department of
floriculture at Massachusetts State in 1906; he
organized the present department at Cornell in 1913
as a separate unit. In 1923 ornamental horticulture
was added, and the name changed to the Department
of Floriculture and Ornamental Horticulture. Today
the department stands as one of the best equipped
of its kind in the world and has the largest student
registration of any similar department in American
colleges. Graduates of the department occupy
prominent poisitions in educational, journalistic and
commercial fields of horticulture throughout the
world.

Professor White has been honored in his cooperation
with many societies, especially by the American Rose
Society of which he was the secretary for a number
of years. He ably filled an important position as
chairman of the committee on horticultural edu-
cation for the Society of American Florists and
Ornamental Horticulturalists. He was secretary of
the Federation of Horticultural Societies of New
York State and he is a Fellow of the Royal Horti-
cultural Society. Professor White has travelled
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INTERESTING PROGRAM FOR
ALUMNI DAY

Class Reunions on Saturday, June 10

Alumni arc planning, in large number-, to return
to the College on June 10, Alumni Daj according
to all reports which have come to the Alumni Office
from the several class secretaries, And an interesting
program has been arranged for I hem.

The annual meeting of the Associate Alumni will
be held at 10 o'clock on the morning of the 1 0th. in
the auditorium of Memorial Hall. There will be an
election of officers (have you returned your ballot?),
a discussion of the work done by the Associate
Alumni during the past year and of projects under-
taken for 1939-40.

After the annual meeting will come the Alumni
Luncheon — to be served by a caterer in I he Drill
Hall. Wives and husbands of Alumni and Alumnae
are, as always, cordially invited. Tickets to the
luncheon are limited, and it is urged that Alumni
purchase their tickets as soon as they register at
Alumni Headquarters in Memorial Hall.

The Alumni Day speaking program will follow the
luncheon. Speakers are to be President Baker and
alumni representatives from three reunion classes.
Franklin W. Davis '89, Lester Needham '14, and
Dennis M. Crowley '29. It is expected that Albert
King w'71 — last living member of the first class at the
College — will be present for the Alumni Day program.

There will be an Alumni-student band concert
immediately following the speaking program. This
is an innovation — an idea (and a good one) of Connie
Hemond '38 who was student manager of the band
last year and who is now making arrangements for
the return of graduate musicians.

At three o'clock Alumni Marshal Clif Johnson '29
will form and lead the Alumni Parade to the baseball
game with Amherst. The Statesmen already have
won a ball game from Amherst (see page 6) and
will be planning to win their second game of the
series on June 10. Amherst, on the other hand, is
presently making different plans.

The Alumnae Tea will be held in the seminar room
in the Old Chapel at four o'clock on the 10th.
Alumnae — and Alumni — are invited. The tea is in
charge of Ethel Blatchford '34, Kay MacDonald '34
and Leonta Horrigan '36.

After the ball game there will be a half hour con-
cert on the chime which Bernard Smith '99 presented
to the College two years ago in memory of his class-
mate, Warren Elmer Hinds.

The class suppers and reunion meetings will start
at 6:30 o'clock — with plans in charge of the various
reunion committees.

At 9 o'clock, in Bowker, the Roister Doisters will
present the commencement play (see page 7).

Three breakfast parties are scheduled for the
commencement week-end — a Roister Doister break-
fast at 8:30 on the morning of the 10th, Varsity and
Academics breakfasts at 9 on Sunday morning. All
are to be in Draper.

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OBITUARY

GEORGE PACKER '22 GETS AROUND

John A. It.'irr! '75

John Atherton Barri '75 died at his home in
Bridgeport, Connecticut, on May 7, 1939. He was
the last surviving graduate of the class of 1875.

On April 11, Mr. Barri sent the 1875 class records
and a collection of other memorabilia to the Alumni
Office. With the material was this note:

"I am today sending the class records to the
College. My dear friend, Dr. Billy Brooks, passed
on this past year leaving me the last member of the
class. I was born in Cambridge, Mass., on February
27, 1855; and am just now recovering from the first
serious illness of my life. My father was Captain
Thomas A. Barri, a West Pointer, killed in action in
the battle of Gettysburg. My mother, Fanny Howe
Barri, was the youngest sister of Elias Howe."

Mr. Barri again wrote, on April 12, to the Alumni
Office, saying, "I finally got the box off yesterday.
In it is a picture of our class nine — which was the
best there was in College at the time and was almost
the varsity. I believe we were the first team to win
any important event from Amherst College — and
that was a game we won from Amherst '75, the score,
33 to 32.

"The story connected with the size of the score
was that Piatt, our pitcher (and a good one), and I
were on our class crew which was getting ready for a
race. The morning of the ball game we had walked
over to the Connecticut River, rowed 4 or 5 miles,
and then walked back again. Early in the ball game
we got way ahead, but as Piatt became arm and leg
weary the score on the other side started mounting;
and the ninth inning finished just in time to save us."

At the time of his death Mr. Barri was president
of the Berkshire Fuel Company in Bridgeport. The
firm's premises are on the site of the original Berk-
shire Mills, established in 1783 and one of the first
industries in Bridgeport.

Mr. Barri is survived by his wife, a sister, and a
stepdaughter.

MARRIAGES

'91 Walter C. Paige to Miss Hattie F. Towner,
January 4, 1939, at St. Petersburg, Florida.

'31 John Northcott, Jr., to Miss Maybelle
Cassidy, April 24, 1939 at New Bedford, Mass.

'36 and '36 Alfred Brueckner to Miss Edith M.
Parsons, May 5, 1939, at Indianapolis, Indiana.

'38 and '39 Alfred S. Page to Miss Priscilla
Taylor, April 10, 1939, at Brattleboro, Vermont.

BIRTHS

w'26 A daughter, Mariann, to Mr. and Mrs.
David J. Horner, May 1, 1939, at Amherst, Mass.

'29 A son, Frederick D. Ill, to Mr. and Mrs.
Frederick D. Thayer, April 23, 1939, at Springdale,
Connecticut.

'33 A daughter, Pauline Marie, to Mr. and Mrs.
Richard F. Whitcomb, March 14, 1939, at Spring-
field, Vermont.

When he was an undergraduate, George Packer '22
worked during summer vacations for Albert W.
(Cherry) Dodge '12, New England representative
for the F. A. Bartlett ('05) Tree Expert Company.
Packer's job (one of his jobs) was to climb trees and
saw off such limbs as were dead or diseased or other-
wise in need of violent surgical treatment.

One day, Frank Hooper '22 (then also working for
the Bartlett Company) became horror-stricken when,
on looking up forty feet into a tree where George was
working, he saw Packer seated on a limb and, un-
concerned as you please, sawing that limb off the
main trunk of the tree. Hoop yelled, and George
changed his position — just in the nick of time. The
limb came crashing down.

That story has been told, we hear, about number-
less tree men; but Hooper swears that it is true in
this particular case. At any rate, the story has
little bearing on what is to follow except that, after
being graduated from the College, Packer forsook
tree surgery and entered the advertising business
with N. W. Ayer & Company in Philadelphia. He
remained in the employ of Ayer for several years
and then went to work for H. N. Elterich, Inc., of
New York.

We heard from Packer a few weeks ago and here,
in part, is what he said.

"As I write this note I am somewhere in the
Indian Ocean between British East Africa and India.
I will arrive in Bombay a week from today — where
this letter will be posted. I have gone through with
the plans I referred to back in September, 1937.
That is, I went to South Africa and then along the
same route I am now following to Ceylon, on through
India, Burma, Siam, down through Malaya and the
East Indies, back to Singapore, over to Manila, up
to Hong Kong, back to Manila again and on to
Australia.

"After about a month in Australia I took one of
the Matson ships home, with stops in New Zealand,
Samoa, Fiji, and finally Honolulu. Now I am doing
just about that same trip again — with a few minor
changes.

"My work is most interesting. You see, the com-
pany that I am with handles advertising for such
U. S. concerns as Parker Pen, Westclox, Cocomalt,
and so on, who are selling in foreign markets. These
firms have wasted considerable money in the past
because their advertising and packaging was not in
tune with local needs. My job is to find out — if
possible — what can be done to smooth the path the
merchandise follows between the manufacturer and
the final foreign consumer. All of which is far afield,
I grant, from my original plans when I was a student
at the College."

'13 Charles D. Walker is agent for the Metro-
politan District Water Supply Commission and is
living in Pelham (R.F.D., Amherst). The Com-
mission is constructing near Pelham one of the
largest earth dams in the United States.

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WITH THE ALUMMAE

By Leonta Horrigan '36

Const mice- Hull '3<i brought a group of her high
school students from West Boylston to campus on
High School Day, May 6. During the summer
Connie is to be assistant hostess at the Windmill,
West Yarmouth, on the Cape.

Barbara M. Clark '37 is a social worker at the
Hartford Retreat, Hartford, Connecticut.

Phyllis Gleasoxi '37 is at present affiliated with
the Nutrition Clinic of the New York Hospital. She
is completing her course which originated in the
Boston Dispensary Food Clinic.

Esther Smith '37 is teaching commercial subjects
in the high school in Wilmington, Vermont.

Kathryn Hill '38 is now dietician in a small
sanatorium run by Dr. Allen of New York. Her
address is 203 Eighth Avenue, Asbury Park, N. J.

On April 26, 1939, Miss Brigs* and Miss Merriam

attended the Worcester County Alumnae meeting.
Miss Briggs spoke to the group on the subject of
handicrafts.

ANNUAL ALUMNAE TEA

Saturday, June 10, at 4 p. m.

in the

Seminar Room, Old Chapel

Ethel Blatchford '34, Kay MacDonald '34
and Leonta Horrigan '36, in charge.

All Alumnae are cordially invited.

LARRY BEVAN '13 APPOINTED
EXTENSION SERVICE HEAD

Laurence A. Bevan, who was graduated lrr,m
Massachusetts State College in 1913, was appointed
director of the Extension Service ol t h<- New J<
State College, at New Brunswick, on May 2. 1 939.

He is well fitted for I his position through many
years of training and experience. For thro- years
after bis graduation from Massachusetts State he
taught vocational agriculture at the Concord, Mass.,
High School and at the Norfolk County (Mass.i
Agricultural School. He then took a position as
county agent in Litchfield County, Connecticut, and

later in Berk
shire County.
Massachusel I
He became
much inter-
ested in the
marketing of
farm products,
and left his
work as county
agricultural a-
gent to take a
position as as-
sistant mana-
ger of a potato
farm in Ver-
mont, paying
particular at-
tention to the
distribution of
crops. Afterthis
he followed his
interest in
marketing by
accepting the
position ^ of
director of the
Massachusetts
Division of Markets in the State Department of
Agriculture, and remained there for seven years. His
outstanding work in this field brought him an oppor-
tunity to take the position of extension marketing
specialist at the New Jersey State College of Agri-
culture.

Upon the recent death of his director, Herbert J.
Baker, who was a graduate of Massachusetts State
College in 1911, he was appointed acting director
until his appointment as permanent director of the
New Jersey Extension Service.

Alumni friends congratulate Laurence Bevan on
his opportunity for directing a larger field of work,
and also congratulate New Jersey farm and home
folks in having a man of Mr. Bevan's training and
ability as director of their Extension Service.

Willard A. Munson '05

'24 Howard Norwood is special agent for the
New England Mutual Life Insurance Company in
Monmouth, Maine.

Lawrence Bevan

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ATHLETICS

Baseball

As we go to press the Statesmen have played
seven of their fifteen ball games, and have won all
seven — these in addition to the pre-season set of five
games, in which they won two, lost two, tied one.

The fine pitching of co-captains Fran Riel '39 of
Turners Falls, and Johnnie Bemben '39 of Hadley
and of Carl Twyble '40 of Gilbertville has been a big
factor in the success to date. Pitcher Frank Fanning
'39 (not twin-brother Paul as was stated in last
month's Bulletin), of Milton, would have seen duty
along with the three other pitchers except that in
the Amherst game, on May 3, he injured himself
sliding into first base and probably will be out of
the lineup for the remainder of the season.

While the pitching has been of major import in
keeping the Statesmen up in the win column (Johnnie
Bemben's brilliant game against Amherst down on
Pratt Field, for instance) the club has done great
work both defensively and with the bat.

For the first time (at least during Curry Hicks'
term of office) the Massachusetts State ball team
played a double-header — two seven-inning games
with Tufts, on Alumni Field on May 13. Riel
pitched the first game, Bemben the second.

A thrill in the first game was the home run by
Warren Tappin '40 of Winchendon. And Tap
brought another tremendous burst of applause from
the spectators when, in the second game, he made a
diving, head-over-heels, shoestring catch of a high
Tufts fly to right field.

In this second Tufts game Al Irzyk '40, of Salem,
who was playing shortstop, scooped up a sizzling
grounder close to second base and threw to first for
the put-out in a play that was definitely big-league.

The scores to date:

Statesmen

Opp.

Apr. 26

Williams, here

Bowdoin, here

May 3

Amherst, there

Trinity, here

Worcester Tech, there

Tufts, here, 1st game

2nd game

Remaining games:

May 16

Connecticut State, there

Wesleyan, here

New Hampshire, here

Connecticut State, here

Springfield, there

Boston College, there

Union, there

June 10

Amherst, here

PROFESSOR WHITE RETIRES

(Continued from page 3)
widely in Europe and in Central America visiting
important rose growers, and collecting orchids.

Professor White is the author of numerous books
and papers. His second edition of "American Orchid
Culture" was published last month. His "The
Florist Business," "Chrysanthemum Culture" and
"Principles of Flower Arrangement" are standard
texts among students and commercial florists.
Through his writing, his activities in teaching, and '
his membership in many societies and organizations
he is a well known figure. Professor White was the
first to hold the position of head in a department of I
floriculture. His influence in the advancement of the
field received national acclaim when he was honored
last year with the gold medal of the Massachusetts
Horticultural Society.

Few people in the world can speak with more
authority on orchids than Professor White; he has
devoted a large part of his life to orchid culture, and
has a collection of over 2,000 plants in the Cornell
orchid house — over 100 of which were collected by
him in Costa Rica and the Canal Zone in 1936. His
latest orchid hunting expedition was in the fall of
1938 when he visited many countries in South
America.

The Cornell. Countryman, undergraduate publi-
cation at Cornell, concludes a testimonial article
about Professor White with this paragraph:

"When Professor White retires from Cornell this
June he will leave behind him an enviable record.
He sails for Hawaii in August where he will assume
a lectureship in adult education for six months. After
this he intends to go to Java, Siam, India, and to
the Himalaya Mountains to study the flora of that
part of the world and collect different varieties of
orchids."

The cut of Professor White on page 3 was loaned
by the Cornell Countryman.

Joe Paradysz is the grounds keeper of Alumni
Field and general handyman around the
physical education building for Curry Hicks.

Last fall he asked Curry for the crate in
which the new baseball score board had been
shipped to the College, and last winter, during
what spare time he had, Joe fashioned that
crate into a perfectly good automatic baseball
score board. Curry provided four dollars and
a half's worth of paint and wire.

Joe has the score board rigged, now, out
back of right field on the varsity diamond on
Alumni Field. He has it connected to an old
storage battery; lights flash to indicate strikes,
balls, and outs. Pretty good.

Varsity Club Breakfast. Draper Hall, June 11, at Nine

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.V I T H

BOSTON ALUMNI

By Dennis M. Crowley '29

The Boston Alumni Club launched a somewhat
different type of reunion on May 6.

Calling our banquet a dinner-dance may have been
stretching the point just a bit. There was a dinner,
and an excellent one they tell me, but your reporter
arrived after the tables had been cleared and the
"swing" was in full blast. There was dancing too —
plenty of it — and loads of fun for all who were on
hand for the usual fine get-together of Boston Alumni
of Massachusetts State. But, still and all, it was
about the same kind of a meeting that we have
always had — a great time for all, a message from the
College delivered by Robert D. Hawley '18, Secre-
tary of the College; and a pleasant opportunity for
the renewal of old acquaintances.

So a few of our good friends who may have been
frightened off by the sound of the words "dinner-
dance" ringing out to footsore waltzers of the past
need not have avoided our pleasant evening of
friendship and frolic.

More about this Boston banquet next month

ACADEMICS

Music

The combined musical clubf made their lecond

public appearance on i:mi|>u- when on the nigl
April 21 and 29, they presented the "Mikado" before
two near-capacity audiences. Not tin- "hot" or

The Statesmen ! ! !

Auerbach, Hubbard, Hager, Osmun
Singing with Glee Clubs at World's Fair

"swing" versions — but just real, honest-to-goodness,
Gilbert and Sullivan Mikado. And the audiences
were most enthusiastic.

Writing about the event in the Springfield Union,
George Soule '41 of Springfield, said, "The first
nighter was greeted inside the lobby by libretto
hawkers and ticket-takers in Japanese costumes.
Within the theater, whose soft illumination came
from strings of Japanese lanterns, ushers in oriental
dress gave the patron a program folded and colored
in the manner of a Japanese fan."

(Continued on page 8)

"Isn't the moonlight terrible!"

Ward and Helen Janis

in the Roister Doister stream-lined

production of Thornton Wilder's

Pulitzer Prize (1938) play,

Our Town.

Commencement presentation

Saturday evening, June 10

at nine o'clock.

Mail orders are already
being received.

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'29 John Chadwick, who is landscape architect
with the National Park Service, Richmond, Virginia,
writes that Len Bartlett '31 is now with National
Capitol Parks (Washington, D. C), working on the
Chesapeake and Ohio canal project.

Library

State College

Alumni Day, Saturday, June 10

8.30 A.M.
10.00 A.M.

12.00 M.

2.15 P.M.

3.00 P.M.
3.30 P.M.

6.30 P.M.
9.00 P.M.

GENERAL PROGRAM

Roister Doister Breakfast — Draper Hall.
Annual Open Meeting of the Associate Alumni, Auditorium,
Memorial Hall.

Alumni Luncheon (caterer-table service), Drill Hall.
Alumni, Alumnae, wives, husbands cordially invited. Fol-
lowing the luncheon the annual alumni speaking program
will take place in the Drill Hall.

Concert by the College Band — near Memorial Hall.
Alumni who as undergraduates played in the Band will join
with the students in this concert.
Alumni Parade — will start at Memorial Hall.
Varsity Baseball — Alumni Field. Statesmen vs. Amherst.
Following the ball game there will be a half-hour concert on
the chime — Old Chapel.

Class Reunions and Suppers. Fraternity Meetings.
Roister Doister Play— "Our Town" by Thornton Wilder—
in Bowker Auditorium.

Clif Johnson '29, Alumni Marshal

ACADEMICS

{Continued from page 7)

George also singled out these members of the cast
for their exceptionally fine individual performances:
Robert Carpenter (G) of Lansing, Mich., Fletcher
Prouty '40 of Springfield, Marion Maschin '39 of
Westfield, Ivan Cousins '39 of Greenfield, Isadore
Cohen '40 of Dorchester, Betty Moulton '42 of
Worcester, Rosa Kohls '40 of Dorchester, Regina
Krawiec '41 of Belchertown, Robert Dunn '40 of
Pittsfield, and Milton Auerbach '39 of Springfield.

And Soule added, "The students, however, gave
full credit for the operetta's success to Mr. Doric
Alviani (the director) for his painstaking and intense
drilling."

"Our Town"

It will be a smoothly finished performance of
"Our Town" which Alumni will see in Bowker
Auditorium on Saturday evening, June 10. The play
will have been already presented publicly by the
Roister Doisters before that date.

This first performance was given on Saturday
afternoon, May 6, before an audience composed of

undergraduates, faculty, and High School Day
visitors — an audience which was most attentive and
appreciative.

"Our Town," by Thornton Wilder, is the story off
the people who live in a small New England village
(about the size of Amherst, or of your town), and i
the play is staged by the Roister Doisters just as
was the original New York production — without '
scenery. "Our Town" won the Pulitzer Prize in 1938. .

Among the able actors who, on June 10, will be>
making their last appearance with the Roister r
Doisters are these seniors: Beryl Briggs of Ash- •
burnham, Connie Fortin of Holyoke, Olive Norwood!
of Worcester, and Joan Sanella of Springfield.

Alumni classes returning for Commencement mayv
secure seats together for the play. Tickets will be ■
on sale in Memorial Hall on the morning of Alumni i
Day and reservations will be held until noon on
June 10.

ACADEMICS BREAKFAST

Draper, Sunday, June 11, 9 o'clock

THE ALUMNI
BULLETIN

HOPE"

MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE
AMHERST, MASSACHUSETTS

rol. XXI, No. 10

July, 1939

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN
MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

Published monthly at Amherst, Mass. (except August and
September) by the Associate Alumni of Massachusetts State College.
Entered as second class matter, March 17, 1920, at the Postoffice
at Amherst, Mass., under the Acts of March 3, 1879.

ASSOCIATE ALUMNI OF
MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

President, Alden C. Brett '12 of Belmont
Vice-President, Albert W. Smith '22 of Springfield
Secretary, Marshall O. Lanphear '18 of Amherst
Treasurer, Clark L. Thayer '13 of Amherst
Executive Secretary, George E. Emery '24 of Amherst

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

to 1940

Walter T. Bonney '31 of Springfield

John J. Maginnis 'IS of Worcester

Lester Needham '14 of Springfield

F. Civille Pray '06 of Amherst
to 1941
Richard J. Davis '28 of Boston

Thomas P. Doolev '13 of West Roxbury

George W. Edman '21 of Pittsfield

Ralph F. Taber '16 of West Newton
to 1942
Erford W. Poole '96 of New Bedford

David P. Rossiter '37 of Maiden

Zoe Hicknev White '32 of Worcester

Alfred E. Wilkins '15 of Wakefield
to 1943
Harry Dunlap Brown '14 of Billerica

William L. Doran '15 of Amherst

Mary E. M. Garvey '19 of Amherst

Lawrence L. Jones '26 of North Beverly

The Alumni Bulletin is sent ten times each year to all members
of the Associate Alumni. Memberships are: Annual $3.00, Sustain-
ing SI 0.00.

Renewal notice: Every member of the Associate Alumni receives
a statement, enclosed in a Bulletin, when his membership expires.
Expiration is always 12 months from date when membership is
received by Alumni Office.

Cover picture — Bob Coffin, the photographer who
took this unusual picture of sunlight streaming through
trees on the Clark Estate (near the old reservoir) on
campus, likes to call the picture "Hope." The picture
won first prize in the Amherst Camera Club's summer
landscape competition and has been exhibited in the
Connecticut Valley Salon, an exhibition of pictures
taken by members of camera clubs from Hartford,
Connecticut to Claremont, New Hampshire.

TESTIMONIAL FOR DR. WAUGII

Nearly two hundred Alumni and friends gathered
at the Lord Jeffery Inn on Friday evening, June 9,
to pay tiibute to Dr. and Mrs. Frank A. Waugh.
Mr. Waugh retires in June, after having been at the
College thirty-seven years.

Speakers, following the banquet, were Thomas
Desmond, Milford Lawrence '17, Paul Moriece '40,
Frank Prentice Rand, Ralph A. VanMeter, Connie
Wirth '23 and Joe Cormier '26.

Wirth and Cormier, representing the Society of
Landscape Architects who are graduates of Massa-
chusetts State College, announced the establishment
of the Frank A. Waugh foundation, a scholarship
fund provided by landscape Alumni and others to be
used in assisting worthy students in the department
at the College.

President Hugh P. Baker was chairman of the
program and introduced the toastmaster, H. Erie
Weatherwax '24, who presented the various speakers
and who read many letters and telegrams of con-
gratulations from Alumni.

NEWS AND NOTES
OF THE CLASS OF

1916

These biographic notes have been assembled by Dutch
Schlotterbeck for his class.

Jimmy Nicholson has left Chicago, where he
was manager of the Red Cross Chapter (Alumni
Bulletin, October, 1938), and gone to Washington,
D. O, where he is to take charge of the American
Junior Red Cross.

Harold Wooley is living on a five-acre farm in |
Woolwich, Maine and is working for the Bath (Maine)
Iron Works.

Before going to Maine, Whis had been in horti-
cultural work in New Hampshire, Massachusetts,
and North Carolina.

He has a daughter, 17; and three boys, 11, 14,
and 16 who, he says, are good baseball and hockey
players. Whis has been teaching them.

Frank Andersen is living at 60 Egmont Street,
Brookline, and operating the Andersen Laboratories
of economic research for industrial planning and
advertising.

Clayton Hager owns a milk and ice cream manu-
facturing business in Somerville, Mass. His ice
cream plant has shown a fine business gain in recent
years. He builds much of the equipment used by his
many customers, and gives the type of service that
makes his product much in demand.

Clayt is married and has three children, two boys
and a girl.

William Mahoney lives at 105 Washington Ave.
in Wmthrop, Mass., and is a representative of the
Utica Mutual Insurance Company. He writes that
his son is keenly interested in music and shows
promise as a pianist.

Alcide Courehene is inspector of dairy products
for the Massachusetts Department of Agriculture.
He lives in Springfield, 50 Dexter Street.

He has two boys and both of them, he thinks, will
go to Massachusetts State.

DORMITORY NAMED FOR
DR. THATCHER

Mrs. Roscoe W. Thatcher has recently been in- ■
formed by President Guy Stanton Ford of the Uni-
versity of Minnesota that a new dormitory for
graduate students at the University is being named I
in memory of Dr. Thatcher.

Dr. and Mrs. Thatcher were at the University for
eight years, 1913-1921, where Dr. Thatcher was head
of the chemistry department and, from 1917 to 1921,
dean of the college of agriculture and director of the
experiment station.

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ALUMNI ENJOY REUNION FESTIVITIES

Large (iroup Assembles on Campus on June 10

Directors elected at the annual Alumni Meeting on
Saturday morning, June 10, to serve until June 1943
were Harry Dunlap Brown '14, William L. Doran '15,
Mary E. M. Garvey '19, and Lawrence L. Jones '26.

Seated at the head table at the Alumni Luncheon
in the Drill Hall were three men, guests of the
Associate Alumni, who have served Massachusetts
State College long, faithfully, and well, and who are
to be retired this year. They were Fred C. Kenney,
treasurer, who came to the College in 1907 as suc-
cessor to George F. Mills; Frank A. Waugh who,
since 1902, has been an inspiring teacher and pre-
ceptor and proponent of the liberal arts tradition;
Henri Haskins '90 who, in the year he was graduated,
became chemist in the agricultural experiment
station and who has continued in that work ever
since. Mr. Haskins completes 49 years and six
months of service to the Commonwealth on Decem-
ber 27, next, when he will have reached the age
limit set by the state retirement board.

Alden Brett, toastmaster, introduced John B. Minor
'73 of New Britain, Connecticut and Daniel P. Cole
w'72 of Springfield, both present at the luncheon.

The speakers who Mr. Brett presented were Franklin
W. Davis '89, Lester Needham '14, Dennis M. Crowley
'29, and President Hugh P. Baker.

President Baker, in his talk, recommended that a
University of Massachusetts be established here in
Amherst.

That Dr. Baker's idea is one shared by Alumni is
evidenced by a report presented to the Alumni Directors
on October 30, 1937, by a committee appointed to secure
facts regarding the desirability of establishing a State
University at Massachusetts State College.

The committee, composed of Ralph Taber '16, Alden
Brett, and Joseph H. Forest '28, reported, after a care-
ful survey, that "university status is inevitable and
desirable."

Sherm Frost '24 was present for bis 15th reunion

and with him his wife and daughter. The daughter'c
grandfather, Dr. Arthur L. Miles '89. was also
present — for his 50th reunion.

BILL DORAN RETIRES

Bill Doran '15
been secretary of
Associate Alumni
nine years when,
June 10, be was suc-
ceeded by Wbitey Lan-
phear'18. At the Alumni
Meeting, on the 10th,
Charlie Peters '97 made
the unanimously - ap-
proved motion that a
vote of thanks be duly
recorded for Mr. Doran
in the minutes of the
appreciation of Bill's work as secretary. Charlie
had once been secretary himself and he well
knew what holding that office involved.

Jerry McCarthy's ('21) little eight-year old daughter
was on campus with her father and kept asking if
there would be balloons for her to carry in the Alumni
Parade. She remembered the bright-colored balloons
which 1921 had at its Fifteenth Reunion three years
ago. Jerry had to confess that there would be no
balloons this year but that the young lady should wait,
as patiently as possible, until 1941. Then she'd see.

Associate Alumni

The bright green Tyrolean hats with the long
yellow feathers (they really looked more like clown
hats) which were sported by members of the class
of '24, added a gay touch to
the Alumni Day festivities.
Mrs. Kenyon L. Butterfield.
whose husband was an honor-
ary member of the class,
wore one of the hats at the
Alumni Luncheon at which
she was guest of 1924.

(Continued on page 8)

Officers of the Associate
Alumni elected on June
10 for the year 1939-40.
Left to right: Marshall O.
Lanphear '18, secretary;
Albert W. Smith '22, vice-
president; Alden C. Brett
'12, president; Clark L.
Thayer '13, treasurer.

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OBITUARY

Professor Robert Wilson Neal

Professor Robert Wilson Neal died at his home in
Springfield, Mass., on May 6, 1939. He was sixty-
eight years old; he is survived by his widow, his
son Robert and two grandchildren.

From 1906 to 1920 Professor Neal taught English
at this college; in the latter years he was especially
active in developing a major in Journalism. He had
served a long apprenticeship and was a master of
his craft. He was a graduate of the University of
Kansas, B.A. 1888; M.A. 1889; later he received
masters degrees from Harvard and Yale. He studied
law, was admitted to the bar, taught at the Univer-
sity of Kansas, the University of Cincinnati and at
Rutgers College. For two years before coming to us
he was one of the editors of Worlds Work. He was a
charter member of the American Teachers of Journal-
ism, a member of Phi Beta Kappa and of Phi Kappa
Phi. He wrote continuously for various newspapers
and periodicals — editorials, book-reviews, poetry, and
special articles. He published books on the Short
Story and on Editorial Writing. In 1920 he left us
to teach journalistic writing in the Home Corre-
spondence School of Springfield of which, at the
time of his death, he was vice-president and a mem-
ber of the Board of Directors.

We remember Professor Neal as an enthusiast in
his work. The important thing for him was the
subject matter not the teacher, which perhaps
accounts for his efficiency in giving instruction by
correspondence and through his editorials. Despite
his theory, his own personality was a potent influence
on the generations of students who came under his
instruction here, and they are mindful of and grate-
ful for his friendly help and inspiration. We remem-
ber him as one who always had the courage of his
convictions. He was a stalwart fighter in every
good cause. Although he seemed stern in his zeal,
he had a very tender heart. He has left many
students who treasure the memory of his friendship
as a most precious possession.

A. A. MacKimmie

MARRIAGES

'32 J. Edward Doyle to Miss Susan Kilburn,
June 5, 1939, at Easthampton, Mass.

'33 George Hodsdon to Miss Jane Heineken,
February 26, 1939, at Bethesda, Maryland.

'33 Maurice White to Miss Mary McSweeney,
May 27, 1939, at West Concord, Mass.

'39 and w'40 Harry G. Anderson to Miss Helen
Hallas, June 10, 1939, at Newton Center, Mass.

BIRTHS

'15 A son, Stephen Canning, to Mr. and Mrs.
Enos J. Montague, June 11, 1939, at Northampton,
Mass.

'28 A son, John Stanley, to Mr. and Mrs. Harold
E. Clark, March 28, 1939, at Honolulu, T. H.

'28 A daughter, Rita, to Mr. and Mrs. Christopher
Prestopino (Josephine Panzica '28), March 14, 1939,
at New York City.

'28 A daughter, Susan Barbara, to Mr. and Mrs.
Wayne Van Vranken (Marjorie Beeman '28), Janu-
ary 6, 1939, at New York City.

'30 and '33 A son, Donald Frank, to Mr. and
Mrs. Herman U. Goodell (Irene Armstrong), January
20, 1939, at Northampton, Mass.

'32 A daughter, Priscilla Ann, to Mr. and Mrs.
Warren Fabyan, April 10, 1939, at Westfield, Mass.

'32 A son, Robert C. Jr., to Mr. and Mrs. Robert
C. Gunness, May 24, 1939, at Chicago, Illinois.

'33 A son, David Michael, to Mr. and Mrs.
Daniel J. Leary, May 24, 1939, at Kansas City, Mo.

'36 and '31 A son, Wayne Beaman, to Mr. and
Mrs. Lynn R. Glazier (Evelyn Beaman), May 18,
1939, at Great Barrington, Mass.

'38 A son, Peter, to Mr. and Mrs. James Burke,
June 10, 1939, at Northampton, Mass.

GRADUATION EXERCISES

Two hundred and thirty three undergraduates
became Alumni at the graduation exercises on
Monday afternoon June 12, forty-seven of them
receiving the A.B. degree then first awarded by the
College.

Governor Leverett Saltonstall gave the address;
diplomas were presented by Walter F. Downey,
Massachusetts Commissioner of Education.

Alumni who received the Ph.D. degree were: Carl

F. Dunker '36, and Arthur Sidney Levine '35. Those
who received the Bachelor of Landscape Architecture
degree were: Kenneth R. Higgins '37, John Lavrakas
'38, and Robert W. Thorndike '37. Those who re-
ceived the Master of Science degree were: Dean
Asquith '33, Kenneth E. Benson '38, Carl J. Bokina
'38, Robert E. Evans '38, Arthur L. Frellick '18,
Ralph H. Granger '35, Herbert Grayson '26, Saul

G. Gruner '38, Elmer W. Hallowell '37, Harold C.
Hemond '38, Robert P. Hunter '35, James D. Lee
'38, Leo D. Lipman '37, Archie H. Madden '30,
Ambrose T. McGuckian '34, Charles H. Moran '36,
George E. O'Brien '37, Alfred H. Planting '37,
Maxwell Pyenson '38, George R. Richason, Jr. '37, I
Frederick J. Sievers, Jr. '38, William N. Sullivan,
Jr. '30, Winthrop S. Thomas '34, Myron A. Widland
'37, and Sidney Williams '37.

'28 Myer Lynsky is the author of a recent pub-
lication called "Sugar Economics." Dr. Cance says
that the work represents the most comprehensive
compilation of statistics on the production, con-
sumption and distribution of raw and refined sugar
that he has ever seen.

Lynsky, who formerly was associated with the
U. S. Department of Commerce, is now research
economist and statistician for the U. S. Cane Sugar
Refiners' Association and, according to Dr. Cance,
has won an acknowledged place for himself in the
field of economics.

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WITH THE ALUMMAE

By Leonta Horrigan '36

Congratulations to Mary Garvey '19 on her
election to the Board of Directors of the Associate
Alumni. The two Alumnae now on the Board, are
Mary and Zoc Hickney White '.'$2.

Carrolle Anderson '32 has accepted a position
teaching botany at Adelphi Col-
lege, Garden City, N. Y.

Laura Adams '34 is a research
chemist in Boston, Mass.

Elizabeth Cook '34 owns a
greenhouse in Shrewsbury, Mass.,
and specializes in growing car-
nations, which are sent all over
the eastern part of the country.

Fanny Hagar '34 is a nurse in
the Clinton, Mass., Hospital.

Lois Friedrieh '35 recently
accepted a position as an assistant
in the Treasurer's office at Smith
College.

Eleanor Fillmore '36 is to be

a counselor at Sea Pines Camp,
Brewster, Mass., for the summer.

Virginia Stratton '36 is an

agent for the Society of Preven-
tion of Cruelty to Children. Her
headquarters are in Springfield,
Mass.

Sally Wilcox '37 who was

formerly with Hovey's, is now in
the actuarial department of the
Liberty Mutual Insurance Com-
pany, Boston, Mass.

Mabelle Booth '39, the first
graduate of the College to be
awarded the A.B. degree. She
majored in economics, was on
the Collegian Board, the
women's glee club, a member
of the Bolster Doisters and of
dance committees. She is a
member of Phi Kappa Phi and
of Lambda Delta Mu sorority.

Betty Dolliver '38 has completed her studies at
the Pierce Secretarial School in Boston, and has
taken a position with the General Radio Corporation
in Cambridge, Mass.

The Alumnae Commencement Tea was held this
year in the Seminar Room of the Old Chapel, instead
of in Memorial Hall as heretofore. Everyone seemed
to enjoy the change this pleasant room offered, with
its comfortable privacy, where Alumnae might come
to chat with classmates and friends.

The Alumnae Tea has come to be one of the
popular commencement events; and, this year, a
large group of Alumnae were in attendance.

ACADEMICS BREAKFAST

Bernard Smith '99 presided at i he annual brea
meeting of the Academic Activities Alumni Club on
Sunday morning, .June 11, President Smith's mm,
ductory remarks were a fitting prelude to the award
of the honorary academic medals which followed.
Recipients of the medals, Henry •). Hurl 19, Stuari
B. Foster '14, Frederick H. Turner '99 and Dl
Theodore S. Bacon '94, were presented, respectively,
by Willard K. French '19, Harry Dunlap Brown I 1,

Charles A. Peters '97 and S

Francis Howard "94.

Dean Machmer's citations,

when he awarded the medals,

were as follows:

Henry .1. Burt, throughout your
college course you represented with
notable distinction the art of public
address. As a debater, as a member
of the Public Speaking Council, w-
an orator in the Burnham and
Flint contests, you maintained both
an idealism of aim and an excellence
in technique of such a nature as to
elevate the taste and standards for
your college generation. Since your
graduation you have continued to
apply your gifts along these lines,
primarily for the benefit of your
fellow men in the field of rural life.
The Academics Board is proud to
present you its honorary medal of
recognition.

Stuart B. Foster, twenty-five
years ago you were a high-minded
and indefagitable editor of under-
graduate publications. For four
years you were associated with the
campus newspaper. During your
junior year you were editor-in-chief
of the college yearbook. To both of
these publications you gave the
service of your abilities and the
stimulus of your idealism. Now,
upon the occasion of your twenty-
fifth reunion we beg you to accept

from us the gold medal which expresses our appreciation

of your contributions.

Frederick II. Turner, business manager of Aggie
Life, president of the Reading Room, member of the
Index board, competitor in the Flint Oratorical Contest,
you did much in your day as an undergraduate to
promote the activities for which this Board now stands.
As an alumnus, too, you have played your part in
many ways. We recall with pleasure the gracious share
you had in the dedication of the Chapel Chime, which
has come to be so lovely a feature in our campus life.
We would recognize the interest and activities of men
like you, and with that in mind, confer upon you this
medal.

(Continued on page 8)

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ATHLETICS

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Baseball

Eb Caraway and his Statesmen have been riding

high on the baseball crest during the past three years;

the season just past was one of the most successful

ever experienced at the College.

Breaking even
in a series of
five pre-season
games, winning
two, losing two
and tying one,
the Statesmen
then played a
15-game sched-
ule and won 12
games, includ-
ing two victor-
ies over Am-
herst. Co-cap-
tain Johnnie
Bemben '39 of
Hadley pitched
the first game
against Am-
herst and won,
8-4. Co-captain
Frannie Riel
'39 of Turners
Falls pitched
the second one
and came out

in front, 5-2. Warren Tappin '40 of Winchendon

has been elected captain for next year.
The season's scores:

Co-captain Bemben

8-4

Statesmen

Opp.

Apr. 26

Williams, here

Bowdoin, here

May 3

Amherst, there

Trinity, here

W.P.I., there

Tufts, here

Doubleheader

Conn. State, there

Wesleyan, here

New Hampshire, here

Conn. State, here

Springfield, there

Boston College, there

Union, there

June 10

Amherst, here

Spring Track

The season's scores:

Statesmen

Opp.

Apr. 22

Boston University, there

Trinity, here

May 6

Tufts, here

Eastern Intercollegiates,

Worcester

5 points

Connecticut State, there

26 §

108|

At the annual Varsity Club meeting at Commence-
ment the Club indicated its approval of the contem-
plated plan for the raising of an Alumni Scholarship
Fund and pledged the wholehearted cooperation of
the Club in support of the plan.

On Saturday afternoon, June 10, young Joe Jodka
'42 of Florence thumbed a ride down to Winchester
and, at a swimming meet there, broke the New
England Amateur Athletic Association record in the
100-meter breast stroke. He should be of some help
to Joe Rogers next year.

1939 FOOTBALL SCHEDULE

Sept

Springfield College (night)

there

Oct.

Bowdoin

here

Connecticut State

here

Rhode Island State

there

Worcester Tech

there

Nov

Amherst

here

Coast Guard (night)

there

Rensselaer

here

Tufts

here

We are a little tired of making note of corrections
in these pages, although not quite so tired of that
as of making
the slip which
calls for the
correction. At
any rate, you
may have no-
ticed in last
month's Bulle-
tin that Joe
Paradysz,
caretaker o f
Alumni Field,
had made a
new automatic
baseball score
board out of
the old crate
in which an-
other score
board had been
delivered to
Curry Hicks.
Well, this orig-
inal crated
board was a
football score
board and not

a baseball score board, as the Bulletin stated. In
other words, there is only one automatic baseball
score board on Alumni Field, and that is the one
Joe built. A good one, too.

'34 Jimmy Sibson was a campus visitor just
before Commencement. Jim is teacher-coach at the
Portland, Maine, High School.

Co-captain Biel
5-2

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WITH

■

THE

BOSTON ALUMNI

By Dennis M. Crowley '29

The new officers of the Boston Club, elected at the
dinner meeting on May 6, are: L. Francis Kennedy
'24, president; Frederick W. Swan '27, vice-
president; Albert Gricius '37, secretary; Robert
Fcinburg '38, assistant secretary; Garabcd
Mouradian '25, treasurer.

The new president, L. Francis Kennedy, lost no
time in selecting an executive committee, and has
called upon Thomas P. Dooley '13, Lewis Schlot-
terbeck '16, Earlc Robinson '12, Harry Dunlap
Brown '14, Lewis Keith '25, Elmer Barber '2fi,
Bill Bullock '38, John W. McGuckian '31, Bill
Hayden '13, Ed Haertl '27, and Dennis Crowley

"29 to work with the

elected officers in the
management of the
Club until the spring
of 1940.

On May 23 this
executive committee
met and outlined plans
for next year's meet-
ings: monthly gather-
ings at the University
Club; an Alumni Night
meeting; a smoker; a
banquet and dinner
dance.

The Club is issuing
membership cards
($1.00, annual dues),
and all Alumni who
hold memberships will
be assured of knowing —
well in advance — all
about each meeting of
the Club. Checks for
membership should be
sent to Al J. Gricius,
16 Fossdale Road, Dor-
chester, or to Garabed
Mouradian, 95 Whit-
temore St., Cambridge.

These membership
cards, with the indi-
vidual member's name
inscribed, will be sent
immediately upon re-
ceipt of the dollar.

ACADEMICS

Roister Doisters

"Who is this boy Hoxie" was the question on
everybody's lips as we Icl'i Bowker Auditorium after
having seen the Commencement performance of
Thornton Wilder's "Our Town" by the Ro
Doisters. Playing the pari of il»' stage manager,
George Hoxie '41 of Northampton had carried uh
back to our own high school days in our own town.
In friendly, conversational manner Hoxie had led u-
from one scene to another on the stage just as effec-
tively as though he had been sitting beside us telling
us the story of life in this quiet New Hampshire
village. It was startling to realize that such a finished
performance would be given by a college sophomore.
Outstanding among the able Roister Doisters who
also contributed admirable performances on the
evening of June 10 were Helen Janis '42 of East
Templeton, Gerald Dailey '40 of Dorcester, Wesley
Aykroyd '41 of Worcester, Charles Griffin '39 of
Holyoke, Joan Sanella '39 of Springfield, Connie
Fortin '39 of Holyoke, and Beryl Briggs '39 of
Ashburnham.

It is obvious that a play cannot be a play without

actors, but the Roister
Doisters proved that
our town or anybody's
town can be brought
before our eyes without
scenery, and with only
a stepladder for a second
story window, and a
plank for a drugstore
counter. It is safe to
say that never for a
moment did one mem-
ber of the audience
(Continued on Page 8)

Massachusetts State
College Glee Club
singing at the World's
Fair, at the Washing-
ton Statue, on Thurs-
day, May 18.

The half hour con-
cert was relayed by an
amplifying system to
numerous points on
the Fair Grounds and
was broadcast over
the Fair station of
WNYC.

Doric Alviani, in-
structor in music,
conducted. New York
Alumni who were
present Mere de-
lighted by the pro-
gram and by the
spirit of the singers.

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'35 Sam Snow, junior landscape architect in the
U. S. Forest Service, presents an enticing article on
"Recreation on the Coronado National Forest" in an
attractive booster magazine recently issued by the
city of Tucson, Arizona.

Library

State College

GOOD SUMMER READING
"Yesterdays at Massachusetts State College"

By Frank Prentice Rand

Published by the Associate Alumni Price $2.00, postpaid

A few copies of this fine book are still available through the Alumni Office.

REUNION FESTIVITIES

{Continued from page 3)

Dr. Roscoe W. Swan, George P. Smith, and Hiram
E. Waldron, all members of 1879, celebrated their
Sixtieth Reunion and had a fine time.

A picture of Dr. Swan as an undergraduate member
of a college baseball team hung in Coodell Library dur-
ing the commencement week-end. The resemblance
between the young baseball player and the Alumnus
who returned after having been graduated sixty years
was most striking.

The college band played a concert on the lawn
outside of Memorial Hall before the alumni parade
formed to march to the ball game. Erma Alvord '41
of Millers Falls, resplendent in a new white uniform
with plenty of gold braid, was the smart-appearing
drum major.

Erma led the band as the band marched onto
Alumni Field ahead of the Alumni procession — the
first time, so far as we can recall, that a woman has
led Alumni in their march to the commencement
ball game.

Connie Hemond arranged for several Alumni,
former members of the student band, to com? back
and play for the commencement parade. Connie
himself set a good example by blowing lustily on the
big helicon bass. Bob Spiller '37 performed with
equal vigor upon the big bass drum.

If one man, more than another, has a good chance
to get into the thick of things on Alumni Day, that man
is the Alumni Marshal, who this year was Clif Johnson
'29 of Portland, Maine. Clif escorted the newly-elected
President and Secretary of the Associate Alumni to
their places in the presiding officer's chairs at. the
Alumni Meeting in the morning. He helped seat
Alumni at the luncheon. He formed and directed the
Alumni Parade to the ball game. And, he told us
afterwards, he had a grand time.

The 20-year class, 1919, had a reunion schedule
mapped out for it by Gunnar Erickson, Ray Park-
hurst, and Bill French which made the recent tour
of Canada and United States by the King and
Queen of England seem like a restful vacation.

Three classes which started their reunion festivi-

ties on Friday night, the 9th, were 1899, 1909, and I
1914.

The Class of '99 attended the Academics Breakfast
in a body on June 11. The program following the
breakfast was held under the trees west of Draper
and, when the program ended, the 40-year class
stayed right there under the trees and later had
Sunday dinner in the dining hall. Not because the
class was tired of running around but because it
was pleasant under the trees and because the food
in Draper is good.

Dr. S. Francis Howard '94 had charge of the forty-
fifth reunion of his class. Dr. Howard drove down
from Northfield, Vermont, where, at Norwich Univer-
sity, he is head of the chemistry department. His
automobile license plate numerals are — appropriately
enough — 1894.

ACADEMICS

(Continued from page 7)
doubt that here was a section of Grovers Corners
before us on the stage.

The play was particularly suited to an alumni
reunion; revisiting our town at Commencement was
an unexpected but pleasant experience.

Anna A. Flynn '36

ACADEMICS BREAKFAST

(Continued from page 5)
Dr. Theodore S. Bacon, distinguished physician
and loyal alumnus, in a day long before the word Aca-
demics had any significance as a name and before the
organizations now so designated had assumed the rather
ambitious form of the present day, you were a pioneer
along the lines of our interest this morning. In your
association with the glee club, the publication, Aggie
Life, and the press club you were paving the way for
the programs later to develop. We are honored to have
you with us today and we hope that you will prize this
little token of our esteem.

President Hugh P. Baker gave a concluding word
following these presentations; and officers for next
year — Dr. Frank A. Waugh, president and Sidney
Masse '15, vice-president — were elected.

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BULLETIN

AT THE COUNTY FAIR

MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

AMHERST, MASSACHUSETTS

Vol. XXII, No. 1

October, 1939

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MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

ASSOCIATE ALUMNI OF
MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

President, Alden C. Brett '12 of Belmont
Vice-President, Albert W. Smith '22 of Springfield
Secretary, Marshall O. Lanphear 'IS of Amherst
Treasurer, Clark L. Thayer '13 of Amherst
Executive Secretary, George E. Emery '24 of Amherst

BOARD OF DIRECTORS
to 1940

Walter T. Bonney '31 of Springfield

John J. Maginnis 'IS of Worcester

Lester Needham '14 of Springfield

F. Civille Pray '06 of Amherst
to 1941
Richard J. Davis '28 of Boston

Thomas P. Dooley '13 of West Roxbury

George W. Edman '21 of Pittsiield

Ralph F. Taber '16 of West Newton
to 1942
Erford W. Poole '96 of New Bedford

David P. Rossiter '37 of Maiden

Zoe Hickney White '32 of Worcester

Alfred E. Wilkins '15 of Wakefield
to 1943
Harry Dunlap Brown '14 of Billerica

William L. Doran '15 of Amherst

Mary E. M. Garvey '19 of Amherst

Lawrence L. Jones '26 of North Beverly

The Alumni Bulletin is sent ten times each year to all members
of the Associate Alumni. Memberships are: Annual S3. 00, Sustain-
ing $10.00.

Cover picture — Roberta's trained ponies photo-
graphed by Grant B. Snyder on September 7, at the
Three County Fair, Northampton, Mass.

On the board of directors of this Fair (founded in
1818 and reported to be the oldest agricultural fair in
continuous operation in the United States) are Joe
Parsons '27, Ben Cummings '33, and Red Emery '24.
Parsons was chairman of the grounds committee,
Cummings had charge of the youth departments, and
Emery was a member of the committee on the grand-
stand show.

Other Alumni connected with the Three County Fair
this year were Clarence Parsons '27, judge of cattle,
Sylvia Wilson '33, in charge of the home economics
section of the youth exhibits, and Paul Brown '21 and
Eddie Burke '10, assisting in the youth exhibit de-
partments.

The cut of Asa Kinney '96 which appears on page 5
was loaned by the Mount Holyoke Alumnae Quarterly.
The cut of Joseph Hills '81 and Daniel Willard '82,
on page 7, was loaned by the Vermont Alumnus,
University of Vermont.

COLLEGE RE-OPENS ON SEPT. 20

As this issue of the Bulletin reaches the hands of
its subscribers the College will have re-opened for
its seventy-second year.

Enrollment in the freshman class, again limited by
the Trustees, probably will number about 240 boys,
110 girls. Exact figures will appear in the next issue
of the Bulletin.

NEWS AND NOTES
OF THE CLASS OF

1916

These biographic notes have been assembled by
Dutch Schlotterbeck for his class.

Perez Simmons' daughter plays the piano well
and thinks her father's singing is terrible.

Perez lives in Fresno, California, where he is
entomologist for the U.S.D.A.; he has been in
entomological work since he was graduated from the
College and stationed, at various times, in Massa-
chusetts, Washington, D. C, Maryland and Cali-
fornia.

LEADING COMMENCEMENT PARADE

A snapshot taken on Alumni Day, June 10,
shows the Class of 1879 in 100^ reunion attend-
ance at the head of the alumni parade. From
left to right: Hiram E. Waldron, George P.
Smith and Dr. Roscoe W. Swan. Other classes
with 100 % attendance last June were 1873 and
1889.

His hobbies are western scenery, flower gardening,
fossil hunting, and bird study. He is a past presi-
dent of the Fresno Natural History Society and
active in Rotary affairs. He holds a Rotary record
of ten years perfect attendance. He is one of the
sponsors of the annual San Joaquin alumni meetings.

Herbert Walhden says that, beginning on his
sixtieth birthday, he plans to devote his entire time
to attaining one life-long ambition, viz: play one
hole of golf and keep the ball out of the rough from
tee to green.

Walkden is a U.S.D.A. entomologist, stationed in
Manhattan, Kansas. He often sees Mike Ahearn
'04 who also is in Manhattan. Mike plays a grand
game of golf.

THE ALUMNI l',l H.LKTI N

ARTICLE BY JOE CORMIEK 2(J

TELLS OF WORLDS FAIR

SITE DEVELOPMENT

It now appears pretty definite that next year,
1940, Grover Whalen's "super colossal extrava-
ganza," currently on view in Flushing, Long Island,
will re-open its gates, buildings, and myriad exhibits
for those eagerly expectant multitudes who will not
have glimpsed, before then, a view of the fabulous
"world of tomorrow."

But it is not quite so well or widely known that,
after 1940, when the New York World's Fair will
have ceased to be, a park and playground area as
advanced and as comprehensive in its design as
even the entire Fair will take form on Flushing
Meadow.

The two pictures, below, show (at the left) the
buildings of the Fair in process of construction and
(at the right) the landscape architect's conception
of Flushing Meadow Park as it will appear when
completed, after the Fair has closed.

Flushing Meadow Park

In Landscape Architecture magazine for July, Joe
Cormier '26 has a long and well-illustrated article
which recounts, in complete detail, the entire history
to date of Flushing Meadow Park, its conception,
its design, the plans for its future use.

The Park will become New York City's finest.
It will cover 1260 acres; it will be one mile wide
(at its widest point) and three and a half miles long.

The plan of the Park has been closely co-ordinated
with the Fair design so that main axial lines may be
perpetuated in future development. Many Fair
buildings have been constructed of permanent
materials so that they may be resolved into perm-
anent units in the Park. In fact the entire Park plan
is the result of "splendid cooperation between the
Fair, State, and City agencies" and, according to
Cormier, "will be unique in form and scale among
parks in this country .... a permanent 'Exhibit A'
of the value of cooperative planning."

Flushing Meadow Park will include beautiful and
grand-scale formal malls and gardens comparable to
the famous gardens at Versailles; it will include,
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ALUMNI DORMITORY PETITION

RECEIVED FAVORABLY BY

STATE LEGISLATURE

On July 26 Governor I.cvit'-ii Saltonstall signed,
and thereby approved, a bill permitting Alumni of
Massachusetts State College to incorporate a a
private agency for the purpose of constructing,
equipping and maintaining buildings for dormitories
and commons at the College.

The corporation, as approved by the Governor
and General Court, will be strictly non-profit; its
funds will be provided by the sale of bonds, secured
by the pledge of the payment of rentals. The college
Trustees are authorized to lease campus land to the
Alumni for the sites of the buildings.

Upon the liquidation of the costs of the dormi-
tories the buildings will then become the unincum-
bered property of the Commonwealth.

Legislative Approval

The legislative bill providing for the construction
of these self-liquidating dormitories was introduced
last spring by an alumni committee composed of
Alden Brett '12, William V. Hayden '13 and Richard
J. Davis '28. Successful passage of this bill through
both houses of the legislature was brought about by
the grand cooperation with the alumni committee of
Representative Albert Bergeron of Amherst, Alumni
resident in the Commonwealth, and Trustees and
administrative officers of the College.

The Alumni Corporation, will include the following
(and their successors): Ralph F. Taber '16, Harry
D. Brown '14, Alden C. Brett '12, William V. Hayden
'13, David H. Buttrick '17, Richard J. Davis '28,
Louis W. Ross '17 and Eleanor Bateman '23.

Need for additional dormitory facilities at the
College is readily apparent when it is seen that
present dormitories can accommodate only 18^ of
the men students and 33^ of the women. Under
present conditions many students are forced to live
one or two miles from campus. With limited trans-
portation facilities available, this is expensive of
time and most inconvenient from the point of view
of full and beneficial participation in the activities of
college life. The success of the alumni petition for
dormitories will remedv this situation.

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN

OBITUARIES

William J. Manton « '83

William J. Manton w'83 died at his home in
Bellvue, Texas, on January 3, 1939. He was eighty-
three years old. He has been engaged in stock
raising and farming; he had lived on the same farm
in Texas for more than fifty years. His widow and
six children survive him.

I*r. Burt L. Hartwell '89

Burt Laws Hartwell '89 died at Edgewood, R. I.,
on July 12, 1939 of an acute heart attack, a month
after having attended (with all other surviving
members of his class) his fiftieth reunion at the
College. He was seventy-four years old.

He was born in Littleton, Mass., the son of Charles
P. and Lucinda Hartwell.

He received his master's degree from the College
in 1900, his doctorate from the University of Penn-
sylvania. Previous to entering the College he attended
the Bryant and Stratton School in Boston.

While in College he was president of his class; he
was president, also, at the time of his death. He
played on the football team, was leader of the college
choir and quartette, a member of the Shakespearian
Club.

He majored in chemistry and plant physiology
and, for two years after being graduated, served
under Dr. Goessmann at the State Experiment
Station. He then went to the Rhode Island Experi-
ment Station as assistant chemist to Dr. Homer J.
Wheeler '83, then in charge. Later he became chief
chemist.

He was agronomist from 1913 to 1928, station
director from 1912 to 1928, professor of agricultural
chemistry at Rhode Island State College from 1908
to 1928. Since 1928 he had been editor of the farm
news department of the Providence Journal and
Bulletin.

In 1891 he married May L. Smith of Stowe, Mass.
They had one daughter (Mrs. L. B. Newton) and
there is a granddaughter. Two brothers also survive.

Dr. Hartwell was a fellow of the American Society
of Agronomy, a member of Phi Kappa Phi, Sigma
Xi, Pi Gamma Mu, and the American Chemical
Society. He had served on important national com-
mittees dealing with chemical and plant research.

Franklin W. Davis
Secretary, Class of 1889

Dr. Paul D. [sham '29

Dr. Paul D. Isham '29 died on August 28, 1939, of
pneumonia, at the Portland, Maine, Hospital. Paul
had been making a rapid recovery from his sickness;
on the 27th, when Clif Johnson '29 visited him,
complete recovery seemed to be a matter of only a
short time. A sudden relapse, next day, proved fatal.

Dr. Isham was in Portland to conduct experiments
for a sardine canning company and for the National
Canners Association of Washington, D. C, on whose

chemical staff he had been for three years. Pre-
viously he had been at the experiment station at
Pullman, Washington, after having received his
master's and doctor's degrees at the College.

He was born in Hampden, Mass., in 1907 and was
graduated from Springfield Classical high school. In
College he was leader of the glee club, a member of
Q.T.V. fraternity and of Phi Kappa Phi.

He is survived by his wife, two sons, aged 4 years
and 15 months, his parents, grandparents, and two
brothers.

Edmund Greene w'3t>

Edmund Greene w'36 died suddenly, in Boston,
on June 6, 1939. He was a graduate of Jamaica
Plain high school and, at the time of his death, was
taking courses at Boston University.

MARRIAGES

'28 Miss Julia Lawrence to Charles R. Gray,
June 17, 1939 at Springfield, Mass.

'29 Harry Copson to Miss Lois Vogt, September
9, 1939 at Westfield, Mass.

'30 Harold White to Miss Alma Hendrickson,
July 31, 1939 at Relay, Maryland.

'32 Ernest W. Mitchell, Jr., to Miss Katherine
Hart, September 12, 1939 at Belmont, Mass.

'32 Patrick E. O'Donnell to Miss Martha Broth-
ers, September 3, 1939 in New York City.

'33 Walter Kulash to Miss Mary Gobush, June
18, 1939 at Northampton, Mass.

'34 James H. Flynn to Miss Lillian Walker,
June 17, 1939 at Holyoke, Mass.

'35 Ralph H. Granger to Miss Doris Hartwell,
June 30, 1939 at Arlington, Mass.

w'35 William W. Bodman to Miss Delia Lamson,
June 1, 1939 at Agawam, Mass.

'36 Miss Constance Hall to Jack Robbins,
August 30, 1939 at Sharon, Mass.

'36 Addison Sandford to Miss Frances Wallis,
September 1, 1939 at Wenham, Mass.

'37 Malcolm Butler to Miss Bernice Dahlen, July
2, 1939 at Saugus, Mass.

'37 Austin W. Fisher Jr. to Miss Jean-Claire
Beach, August 26, 1939 at West Newton, Mass.

'37 and '37 Ralph Gates to Miss Ruth Todt,
August 12, 1939 at West Springfield, Mass.

'37 Frederick W. Goodhue to Miss Elinor Kellogg,
June 24, 1939 at Haydenville, Mass.

'37 William H. Moss to Miss Marcia Everson,
July 26, 1939 at Amherst, Mass.

'38 Gilbert Bristol Jr. to Miss Ethel Norsworthy,
June 24, 1939 at Milford, Mass.

'38 Frederick C. Riel to Miss Ellen Milkey, June
24, 1939 at Turners Falls, Mass.

'39 and w'41 William H. Cox to Miss Garnet
Cadwell, May 12, 1939 at York, Maine.

THK ALUMNI KWLLKTIN

WITH THE ALUMMAE

By Leonta Horrigan '36

Catherine (Kills) Law '34, who is living at 34-54
50l,h Street, Woodside, Long Island, N. Y., is a
teacher-demonstrator in the Y.W.C.A. at 610 Lex-
ington Avenue, New York City.

Dr. Grace K. Tiffany '34 has a medical practice
in Framingham, Mass.

Barbara M. Clark '37 is a psychiatric aide at the
Hartford, Conn., Retreat.

Connie (Hall) Kobhins '36 is living in Freer,
Texas.

Annah Flynn '3(5 who is a teacher at the Erie
(Penn.) Day School, took a vacation trip to Wyoming
this summer.

Eleanor Fillmore '36 now has a teaching position
in the high school at Attleboro, Mass.

Jessie Chase '38 has been appointed to the
faculty of the New Endicott Junior College which
opened on September 19 at Pride's Crossing, Mass.
Jessie is in the department of foods and tea room
management.

It will be of interest to those Alumnae who were
undergraduates in 1934-35 to know that Mrs. Edith
Putnam, who was then housemother of the Abbey,
was married in July to Mr. Ely Griswold, and is
now making her home in Pennsylvania.

BIRTHS

'22 and '23 A daughter, Helen Frances, to Mr.
and Mrs. Clarence F. Clark (Frances Martin),
August 26, 1939 at Greenfield, Mass.

'27 and '29 A daughter, Rosalind French, to Mr.
and Mrs. Frank T. White (Ruth Faulk), July 13,
1939 at Brockton, Mass.

'30 A daughter, Carolyn, to Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Cook, June 18, 1939 at Beverly, Mass.

'31 and G A son, William Morse, to Mr. and Mrs.
Frank R. Shaw (Miriam Morse), July 3, 1939 at
Northampton, Mass.

'32 and '33 A daughter, Nancy Elisabeth, to Mr.
and Mrs. Philip Warren (Alfreda Ordway), July 31,
1939 at Auburn, Mass.

'34 A son, Robert George, to Mr. and Mrs.
Russel Sturtevant, July 16, 1939 at Halifax, Mass.

'35 and '35 A daughter, Stephanie May, to Mr.
and Mrs. Alfred Newton (Marie Currier), May 17,
1939 at Fall River, Mass.

'39 A daughter, Barbara Anne, to Mr. and Mrs.
C. Nelson Julian, July 5, 1939 at Baltimore, Md.

ASA KINNEY '96 RETIRES \l
MOUNT HOLYOKE

Asa Kinney was retired Lasl June from the Ml

Holyoke College faculty The rbook was

dedicated to him with these words, 'Worl is love

made visible' To him whose apprei lation o\

and groining things, whom- years of vision and tare have
cultivated a campus of beauty, we dedicate the 1939
Llamarada.

A splendid article by Alma Stokey in the Au I
Mt. Holyoke Alumnae Quarterly speaks of Mr. Kinney
as one whose "foresight, energy, and devotion have
enriched all our lives."

|^f4^

Asa Kinnev '96

The article goes on to say in part, "We have beenfor-
tunate in having during these critical years (1896-1939,
during which the Mt. Holyoke campus plan and
planting was being developed) a man like Mr. Kinney
with his appreciation and enjoyment of the irregular
contours of our landscape, and his employment of
the appropriate informal treatment.

"Mr. Kinney's teaching began in the spring of
1899 with a course in floriculture to which was
added an optional hour of landscape gardening.
Afterwards this was changed to a course in landscape
architecture in the first semester and plant culture
in the second. Generations of college students have
had a training which has given them an appreciation
of the variety and beauty of plant materials, the
possibilities in home planting, the uses of hedges and
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THE ALUMNI BULLETIN

ATHLETICS

Football

The Statesmen have a tough nine weeks ahead of
them. And they know it; they've gone to work with
a vengeance.

The team reported for its initial practice session
on Monday, September 11. On Saturday, five days
later, there was a full morning's scrimmage. And,
although in this scrimmage the execution of plays
may have left something to be desired, not even the
most critical observer would have complained about
the spirit with which the boys played football.

The team opens its season on September 29 with a
night game against Springfield College. Last year
Springfield was the only team on Amherst's schedule
which was not

Oct. 7 Dartmouth, there

14 Connecticut University, here

21 Springfield, there

28 Trinity, there

Nov. 3 Amherst, there

11 M.I.T., here

Cross Country

The schedule:

Oct. 14 Northeastern, here

21 M.I.T., there

28 Worcester Tech, there

Nov. 2 Springfield, here

7 Connecticut Valley Race, Springfield

13 New Englands, Boston

17 Trinitv, there

defeated by our
rivals of tradition;
last season Am-
herst was gener-
ally reported as
being the best
small college team
in the East.

Accordingly, the
opening game will
prove one of the
severest tests of
the season.

Some of the boys
you are sure to
see perform for
Coach Caraway
this fall are Capt.
Johnny Blasko
'40 of Amherst;

Don Allan '41 of Fitchburg; Al Irzyk '40 of Salem;
Philip Geoffrion '40 of West Springfield; Joe Larkin
'41 of Watertown; Babe Lavrakas '40 of Watertown;
Carl Nelson '40 of Gardner; Lou Norwood '40 of
Rockport; Red O'Cormell '40 of South Hadley Falls;
Jim Payson '41 of Millis; Al Prusick '41 of Green-
field; Howie Rudge '40 of Worcester;
'40 of Palmer; Ralph Simmons '41
Paul Skogsberg '41 of Worcester.

The schedule:

IT WON'T BE LONG NOW

Roger Brown,
Jr., '40 of Lexing-
ton is captain of
soccer, Rino Rof-
finoli '41 of Wil-
liamstown is man-
ager. Larry Briggs
'27 is coach.

The Varsity trots onto Alumni Field

Chester Putney
'41 of Orleans, Vt.
is captain, and
Daniel Shepard-
son '40 of Athol
is manager of
cross country. L.
L. Derby is coach.

'37 and '37 It
Look Memorial
August 20 — with
former swimming

was like old times — over at the
Park pool in Northampton on
Chick Cutter and Jim Hodder,
co-captains at the College, corn-

Leo Santucci
of Pittsfield;

Sept. 29

*Springfield, there

Oct. 7

Bowdoin, here

Connecticut University, here

Rhode Island State, there

Worcester Tech, there

Nov. 4

Amherst, here

*Coast Guard, there

Rensselaer, here

Tufts, here

*Night game

Soccer

The schedule:

Sept. 30 Rensselaer, here

peting together and winning their respective events.
The occasion was the 10th annual Western Massa-
chusetts championships, and competition was the
keenest in the history of the event. Cutter won the
220 and 440 freestyle races, setting a new record in
each; Hodder won the 100 yard breaststroke. Joe
Rogers was director of the meet.

'21 George Edman was in charge again this year
of the many details of arrangement in connection
with the famous Berkshire S3'mphonic Festival held
in August in Stockbridge, Mass.

Writing about the Festival in the Springfield Re-
publican, Trustee David Malcolm commented upon
Edman's connection with the event, in part as
follows:

"The clerical work, the publicity, the studying of
the public's comforts and the details of housing the
artists .... is ably taken care of by George Edman.

"George seldom misses a trick, and down to the
tiniest details provision for unexpected developments
is planned long before their need occur."

THK ALUMNI BULLE1 !

By Albert J. Gricius '37

On August 19 the Boston Club held its clambake
at the Kelsey Ranch, Lexington, and the event
turned out to be a great success. Highlights were
as follows.

Al Spolman '"2,7 and his wife attended -coming
all the way down from Amherst. And Al pitched a
pretty good game of Softball.

Harry Nissen '14 came down from Hillsboro, N.H.,
to show us how to hit three home runs in the Softball
game.

Earle Robinson '12 donated a mighty fine box of
cigars for the boys.

Clayton Ha&ar '16, Lexington, attended with his
whole family.

The food was excellent; everybody had all he could
eat, and then some.

Charley Mouradian '25 was slightly hurt in a
close play at the Softball game where Ducky Swan
tagged Mouradian out sliding into second base.

The following are the members presently paid up
of the Boston Club: president, L. Francis Kennedy
'24; vice-president, Frederick Swan '27; treasurer,
G. K. Mouradian '25; secretary, Al Gricius '37;
Dennis Crowley '29, Elmer Barber '26, Thomas
Dooley '13, Miss Eleanor Bateman '23, Edward
Haertl '27, William Bullock '38, John Crosby '25,
Earle Robinson '12, L. H. Keith '25, Robert Feinburg
'38, Harry Dunlap Brown '14, Don Douglas '21,
Justin McCarthy '21, Matthew Murdock '22,
Huntington Rutan '30, George Emery '24, Malcolm

C. Stewart '34, Al Flynn '26, Hobart W. Spring '22,
Warren Whitcomb '17, Chas. Pearson '12, Henry
Walker '34, Peverill Peterson '14, G. Donald Meserve
w'25, AUister MacDougall '13, Ed Donaghy '32,

D. L. Galanie '27, Atherton Clark '77, S. M. Tashjian
'31, Ralph Aiken '37, Raymond Jordan '37, William
Jordan '35, L. O. Anderson '14, Dr. Joel Goldthwait
'85, Dave Rossiter '37, Edwin Steffek '34, Alden
Brett '12, James Alger '21, A. C. Kelley w'10, Daniel
O'Brien '14, Robert Perriello '37.

A football meeting will be held on October 18 at
the University Club. Movies, Caraway, et al.

Joseph Kennedy '37 has moved to Florida with
his family.

Roger Rlaekhurn '35 is selling insurance for the
Monarch Life Insurance Company of Springfield.
Roger is living in Stoneham.

DANIEL HTLLARD '82 RECEIVES
VERMONT DEGREE

At. commencement exen
sity ol Vermonl conferred the honorary degree >>i
Doctor of Laws upon Daniel Willard

railroad pn-sidi-nl in I In I ,,!■■■: -

Acting for
Presiden t
Bailey of
the Univer-
sity, Dean
Joseph L.
Hills '81
presented
the degree.
In making
the award
he referred
to the re-
cipient as
having been
his college
mate at
Massachu-
setts State
sixty years
ago.

In reply to
Dean Hills,
Dr. Willard
said, "Yes,
you were a
sophomore

when I was a freshman. I think it high time that
you, as a member of your class, made amends, in
this pleasant way, for the indignities it heaped upon
me in those days of long ago."

Willard '82 and Hills '81

ASA KINNEY '96 RETIRES

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walls, the planning of walks so that by structure and
position they not only save the grass and shoes but
please the eye, and standards of suitability in plant-
ing so that they may not only employ appropriate
styles but refrain from indulgence in unmotivated
rock gardens.

"There are many pictures of Mr. Kinney which
come to mind as one thinks of his years of service
which began in the administration of Mrs. Mead,
continued through that of Miss Woolley, and on into
the administration of Mr. Ham: the young Mr.
Kinney as a member of the walking parties enjoyed
by the vigorous students of the '90's and early 1900's;
Mr. Kinney with a wife, home and two children
when faculty homes and children were rare; . . . the
hard-working and cheerful manager of the college
farm and student farmers during the war; ... an
actor in many faculty plays doubling and tripling in
parts when men on the faculty were scarce; ... an
active and understanding member of the school
board of South Hadley; ... an adviser to collectors
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THE ALUMNI BULLETIN

'19 Carl Bogholt was acting chairman of the
University of Wisconsin philosophy department
during the past summer session. He will continue
as chairman during the first semester.

Library

State College

JHass. State Kjolleqe Gfiurnm Q\lakt

Will be observed late in October. The exact date of meetings
of Alumni to be held throughout the United States has not yet
been determined; but watch the mails for announcement of
the meeting to be held nearest to you ! And then plan to
attend; you'll have a good time !

ARTICLE BY JOE CORMIER '26

(Continued from Page 3)
also, an arboretum and the Willow Lake sanctuary
for migratory water fowl. The latter two features
will be developed along purely naturalistic lines. In
the arboretum the plant arrangement will place
emphasis on composition for landscape effects rather
than on grouping of plants by species as in the usual
botanical gardens and arboretums. However, trees
and shrubs will be arranged in ecological groups and
will be labeled.

"Willow Lake," says Cormier's article, "offers an
opportunity to develop a haven for migratory water-
fowl. . . Wild rice and kindred sources of food will
attract the ducks, geese and other air commuters,
and cat-tails, iris, loosestrife, marshmallow, and
shrubs along the bank will furnish the cover and
privacy they require. Swamp azalea, summersweet,
and magnolia will provide a screen along the shore
where, from the cover of foliage, amateur naturalists
and professional ornithologists may gape to their
heart's content. No boating of any kind will be
permitted on this lake."

Meadow Lake, on the other hand, will cover 91
acres and will be used for boating and canoeing and,
in winter, for skating carnivals. "Band concerts will
be presented during the evening for the enjoyment,
and perhaps inspiration, of the boatmen and their
consorts."

Facility in Flushing Meadow Park for active
recreation and sports will include batteries of dozens
of tennis and handball courts, areas for a variety of
other adult games — basketball, paddle tennis, shuffle
board, and horseshoe. There will be eleven baseball
diamonds, football, lacrosse, field hockey and soccer
fields. At a boat basin (salt water) landing pier
there will be capacity for approximately 100 boats
of from 15 to 50 foot length. Children's play areas
will be of comparable scope.

A City Building which, during the Fair, houses
the New York City Exhibit will be converted to
include, among other features, the largest indoor
skating rink in the world. Throughout Flushing
Meadow Park will be eight miles of trails for exclu-
sive use of bicyclists, five miles of bridle paths. The
entire project, on which combined expenditures for

permanent improvement represent some $90,000,000
to date, will stand as a "permanent monument to
appreciate, intelligent planning."

This above-outlined resume can tell of only a few
of the Flushing Meadow features which the Cormier
article in Landscape Architecture describes in full
detail. Nowhere in the magazine article, however,
does author Cormier say or even hint that he, per-
sonally, had any connection with this tremendous
recreational development. But a reliable scout of
ours has provided the information that, in the pre-
liminary councils and subsequent activities which
have provided for the construction of what will be
New York's finest recreational area, a far from
insignificant part was played by one Francis Joseph
Cormier '26, landscape architect, New York City
Department of Parks.

ASA KINNEY '96 RETIRES

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on how to repair a clock or polish old furniture;
... an adviser to all amateur gardeners of the com-
munity telling them when and how to transplant
seedlings, what kind of spray to use; an unofficial
college photographer preserving records of all aspects
of college life and in recent years taking the indi-
vidual pictures of all freshmen; ... a mine of wisdom
and good counsel (like other mines sometimes re-
quiring a little digging); and at all times a faithful
and helpful friend.

"We rejoice that Mr. and Mrs. Kinney will con-
tinue to live in South Hadley and will have freedom
to indulge in extended trips not permitted during
Mr. Kinney's forty-one years of almost continuous
service. We can continue to enjoy the charms of
their hospitable home and beautiful garden. We
hope to profit for years to come from the many
activities, the wealth of experience, the rich memories,
and the salty but kindly wisdom of Mr. Kinney."

(Incidentally, Asa Kinney, Jr. '29 stopped in at
the Alumni Office as this article was being made
ready for the Bulletin. He was on his way from
Binghamton, New York, to Boston and had stopped
in South Hadley to visit his parents. But Mr. and
Mrs. Kinney were away on a trip. — Ed. note)

THE ALUMNI
BULLETIN

/ol. XXII, No. 2

MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE
AMHERST, MASSACHUSETTS

November, 1939

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MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

ASSOCIATE ALUMNI OF
MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

President. Alden C. Brett '12 of Belmont
Vice-President, Albert W. Smith '22 of Springfield
Secretary, Marshall O. Lanphear 'IS of Amherst
Treasurer, Clark L. Thayer '13 of Amherst
Executive Secretary, George E. Emery '24 of Amherst

BOARD OF DIRECTORS
to 1940

Walter T. Bonney '31 of Springfield

John J. Maginnis '18 of Worcester

Lester Needham '14 of Springfield

F. Civille Pray '06 of Amherst
to 1941
Richard J. Davis '28 of Boston

Thomas P. Dooley '13 of West Roxbury

George W. Edman '21 of Pittsfield

Ralph F. Taber '16 of West Newton
to 1942
Erford W. Poole '96 of New Bedford

David P. Rossiter '37 of Maiden

Zoe Hickney White '32 of Worcester

Alfred E. Wilkins '15 of Wakefield
to 1943
Harry Dunlap Brown '14 of Billerica

William L. Doran '15 of Amherst

Mary E. M. Garvey '19 of Amherst

Lawrence L. Jones '26 of North Beverly

The Alumni Bulletin is sent ten times each year to all members
of the Associate Alumni. Memberships are: Annual S3. 00, Sustain-
ing £10.00.

Cover picture — Fall, north of the campus "Lovers7
Lane." Photograph by Grant B. Snyder.

SIG EP HOUSE CATCHES FIRE

Those cynics who heard the fire alarm number for
the corner of Phillips and Pleasant Streets ring loud
on the night of October 19 and who felt that here
was just another student celebration were all wrong
in their hasty judgment. The Sigma Phi Epsilon
house was on fire.

Sparks from a fireplace had ignited shingles on
the roof —and the fire department was called in a
hurry. Damage was reported as about fifty dollars.
There was insurance.

UNDERGRADUATE ENROLLMENT

Figures for the current enrollment of undergradu-
ate students, as compiled by May Turner '08 of the
registrar's office, are as follows.
Class Men Women Total

1940 168 62 230

1941 193 96 289

1942 222 115 337

1943 234 111 345

Total 817 384 1201

Freshman registration is just under last year's
figure. The class of 1942, as freshmen, enrolled 237
men, 114 women.

NEWS AND NOTES
OF THE CLASS OF

1916

These biographic notes have been assembled by Dutch
Schlotterbeck for his class.

A recent dispatch from the news service of the
American Red Cross tells of a delegation of three
Red Cross officials who sailed from the United States
on October 2 for Europe to investigate and report on
war relief problems in the belligerent countries.

One of the delegates was Jimmy Nicholson, of
whom the news release said, "During his twenty
years of service with the Red Cross he has attended
international conferences in London and Tokio and
is therefore completely familiar with the organization
at home and abroad."

Stan Prouty, who has just finished a tour of
duty as captain on the military staff in charge of
the R.O.T.C. unit at Boston University, has been
promoted to the rank of major and given charge of
a battalion at Fort Huachuca in Arizona.

Stan had been stationed at this Fort earlier in his
army career (he has been in the regular army for
twenty-three years) and was particularly pleased to
be reassigned to the post. He and his family all like
Arizona.

Raymond Cushin£ was a welcome visitor at the
September meeting of the Greater Boston '16 group
at Warmuth's in Boston.

Cush and his wife were making their first trip
east of the Mississippi River since 1927; but Cush
promised, before the meeting was over, not to stay
away so long again. He lives in Littleton, Colorado,
where he raises horses and "white faced" cattle, and
says he spends much of his time in the saddle.

Cush retains all his old pep and enthusiasm; he
has a western dialect, dresses and walks like a cow-
boy, all of which helps make him very pleasant and
interesting company. He invites any Alumnus to
stop off and visit him in Littleton and promises the
visitor a "mount" (gentle) upon which to tour the
countryside.

Ray Clapp has been manager of the Middlesex
County (Mass.) Farm Bureau since 1923. Sixteen
years ago the organization was doing about a
$200,000 annual business; it's business last year was
approximately $1,000,000.

Ray's hobby is shooting. He is a member of the
Middlesex Rifle Club and the Massachusetts Rifle
Association. He was a shooting member of the
Massachusetts Civilian Rifle Team at Camp Perry,
Ohio, for six years, captain of the team for six years.

In the "President's Match" in 1938 he placed 94th
among 1979 competitors. In the "Wright Memorial
Aggregate" he placed fifth civilian among 660 en-
trants. He has two legs on the distinguished marks-
manship medal; he thinks target shooting is fun.

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ALUMNI DIRECTORS MEET ON
CAMPUS

Directors of the Associate Alumni met, on campus,
on October 13 an<i gave consideration to several
matters of business important to the Association.

Increased Membership

Discussing means through which membership in
the Associate Alumni may be increased, the Directors
decided to continue with the plan whereby officers
of the senior class be invited to attend meetings of
the officers and Directors. Last year's senior officers,
Howie Steff, Bob Glass, Constance Fortin, Charlie
Rodda and John Bemben, attended such meetings
and were tremendously impressed by the interest
which Alumni show in regard to the College and with
the work of the Association. These senior officers
consequently urged their classmates to become paid
members of the Associate Alumni; many members of
the class of '39 did join.

Further discussion of plans for increasing member-
ship resulted in the appointment of a committee to
carry on the work of securing new and additional
members.

Dormitories

President Alden Brett '12, chairman of the alumni
committee which has charge of the erection of self-
liquidating dormitories at the College, reported for
the alumni corporation set up following passage of
the bill in the legislature.

A necessary legal endorsement of the bonds which
will provide money for the construction of the build-
ings is now being sought by the corporation. Since
no precedent for such endorsement appears in
Massachusetts statutes this matter is proceeding a
little more slowly than had at first been anticipated;
but Mr. Brett said he believed sale of bonds would
proceed rapidly and construction begin soon after
the legal interpretation now being sought had been
secured.

Study of Publicity

Lester Needham '14 reported, as chairman, for an
alumni committee which had been studying the
college newspaper publicity. On February 25, 1939,
at a meeting in Boston, members of the Boston
Alumni Club had expressed a wish, and later put
their feelings in writing to the Directors, that there
might be a wider covering in the Boston papers of
news events dealing especially with the athletic
contests at the College. Needham's committee, set
up in response to this expression of alumni feeling,
had carefully investigated the college athletic pub-
licity and discussed the matter at length with Pro-
fessor Curry Hicks. The result was that Curry
immediately took steps to have a series of news
articles planned and prepared in connection with
State College athletics and distributed to many
papers including those in Boston. This series will
continue throughout the sports seasons.

At a meeting in Boston on October 18, Alumni
present expressed their great pleasure not only with
the number but also the quality of the athletic news
articles which had appeared this fall in Boston papers.

LOUIS WEBSTER U APPOINTED
DIRECTOR OF MARKETS

Louis Webster ' I i of Black I
appointed director of i In- bureau oi n n the

Massachusetts state department of agriculture
of Louie's predecessors have been Bill Munson 'd~>.
now director of the Massachusetts agricultural ex-
tension service and Larry I'.evan 'l.'i now director of
the agricultural extension service in New Jersey.

AL WAUGH 24 MADE HEAD OF EC
DEPARTMENT AT I . OF CONN.

The trustees of the University of Connecticut, at
Storrs, have announced the appointment of Al
Waugh '24 as head of the department of economics
at the University.

If Al assumes his new responsibilities with any
measure of the dictinction he displayed when serving
as toastmaster at the 1924 reunion banquet last June
the economics department at Storrs ought to get
along all right.

WHITTUM '31 NEW PRESIDENT OF
PRINTING COMPANY

F. Kinsley Whittum '31 recently was appointed
president of the John E. Stewart Company, printers,
of Springfield, Mass. As head of the organization he
succeeds his brother, Walter W. Whittum '25, who
has left the firm to take a position with Petree and
Dow, engineers, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

The younger Whittum is definitely optimistic con-
cerning the future of his business. Orders are larger
at the present than at any time during the current
year.

HERBERT HEMENWAY '95 GIVES
GARDEN LECTURES

Herbert D. Hemenway '95 of Holden, Mass., is
well and widely known as a lecturer on diverse
horticultural subjects.

In 1937 the Chautauqua, N. Y., Bird and Tree
Club engaged Mr. Hemenway for a three-day series
of talks. Later that year he was re-engaged to make
a survey of Chautauqua trees and recommendations
for their care. The Club engaged him, again, in
1938 for another three-day lecture series and, this
past summer, for a two-weeks course with lectures
twice a day.

Following this 1939 course the secretary wrote,
"At its last Board meeting the Club passed a reso-
lution of appreciation and thanks for your great
contribution during these past two weeks to the
horticultural knowledge of those who took advan-
tage of your conferences."

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MARRIAGES

'26 Roland D. Sawyer to Miss Louise Otis,
June 24, 1939, at Alna, Maine.

'29 Dr. Harry Copson to Miss L. K. Vogt,
September 9, 1939, at Cranford, N. J.

'31 H. Daniel Darling to Miss Anne Mooney,
July 25, 1939, at New Haven, Conn.

'32 George G. Smith to Miss Dorothy Kronvall,
October 12, 1939 at Whately, Mass.

'34 Russell Taft to Miss Constance Lothrop,
June 26, 1939, at Greenfield, Mass.

'35 Edward H. Genest, Jr. to Miss Harriet
Holden, September 16, 1939, at Pittsfield, Mass.

w'36 Louis Fuller to Miss Ruth Bullock, July 15,
1939, at Medford, Mass.

'38 and '38 Richard Towle to Miss Louise Rutter,
September 16, 1939, at Waltham, Mass.

'39 Vincent Schmidt to Miss Lillian Hatch,
August 21, 1939, at Reno, Nevada.

BIRTHS

'24 and '26 A son, Nelson Forbes, to Mr. and
Mrs. L. Francis Kennedy (Evelyn Davis), Septem-
ber 27, 1939, at Cambridge, Mass.

'25 A son, Charles George, to Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Mouradian, July 28, 1939, at Cambridge
Mass.

'28 A son, Walter H., Jr., to Mr. and Mrs. Walter
H. Marx, September 8, 1939, at Manchester, N. H.

'31 A daughter, Gail Brenda, to Mr. and Mrs.
Edwin Westendarp, October 10, 1939, at Saugus,
Mass.

'32 and '33 A son, Charles Edmund, to Mr. and
Mrs. Herbert L. McChesney (Charlotte Miller), July
14, 1939, at Springfield, Mass.

ALUMNI ATTEND MEETINGS OF
CHEMICAL SOCIETY

The 98th meeting of the American Chemical
Society was held in Boston from September 11 to 15.
Alumni who attended the several sessions of the
meetings came together for a luncheon on September
13 at Pieroni's Restaurant (clam broth, lobster, other
sea food) ; and Paul Serex '13 said of the event, "Boy,
we had a great time." That was what Al Gower '31
of East Lansing, Michigan, said, too.

It must be admitted, though, that Dr. Serex
could have been especially pleased with the turn of
events. Paul's hobby is philately (stamp collecting,
according to the dictionary) and, at the luncheon,
Serex was seated with Dr. Thorne M. Carpenter '02
who, it soon developed, shared Paul's great interest
in stamps. Little enough chemistry was discussed
that noon by Serex and Carpenter.

Alumni who attended the luncheon were Dr. C. A.
Peters '97, Dr. Thorne M. Carpenter '02, Dr. Paul
Serex '13, Dr. R. W. Fessenden '26, R. A. McAllister
'27, Dr. W. R. Smith '28, F. C. Stratton '28, Dr. R.
Vartanian '29, F. W. Jones '30, Dr. Ralph F. Nicker-
son '30, S. C. Stanford '30, A. H. Gower '31, T. J.
Oliver '33, Dr. Roger G. Bates '34, George R. Pease
'35, and Nelson P. Stevens '35.

Others, present at the Chemical Society meetings
but unable to be at the luncheon, included Dr.
William E. Tottingham '03, H. A. Noyes '12, Dr. S.
B. Foster '14, G. M. Gilligan '21, George L. Baker
'22, Dr. Eleanor F. Chase '22, Dr. Thomas F. Shea
'23, Solomon Gordon '25, John W. Kuzmeski '27,
Dr. Oliver Plantinga '28, W. A. Egan, Jr. '29, Dr.
A. E. Bearse '33, James W. Clapp '36, A. H. Gardner
'36, Dr. Chapman Crooks, Ph.D. '37, Robert Caughey
M.Sc. '38.

Future luncheon meetings are now planned for
forthcoming meetings of the Society.

'PROGRESS REPORT" FROM CLASS OF 1939

"Progress reports" are being received almost daily
in the Alumni Office from members of the class of
1939. The youngest Alumni are, many of them, con-
tinuing with their education either in the graduate
school at Massachusetts State or elsewhere, and in
professional schools; many of them have taken jobs
with which they plan to continue indefinitely. All
appear interested in what they are doing.

garden apprentice at the Missouri Botanical Garden
in St. Louis. He is working toward his masters degree.

Harvey Blake is a graduate assistant in the
floriculture department at Pennsylvania State Col-
lege, and expects his masters degree in August.

Leon Ciereszko is assistant in the laboratory of
physiological chemistry in the Yale School of Medi-
cine, New Haven.

Lloyd Copeland, Emerson Grant, Frank
Healy and Ray Smart are reserve army officers
at Fort Meade, South Dakota.

Bill Barrett is working for a master of education
degree at the State Teachers College in North
Adams.

Sidney Beck is laboratory assistant at a Bellows
Falls, Vt. dairy.

Don Cowles is a student at the Yale School of
Forestry.

Roger Decker is a graduate assistant in the
chemistry department at Iowa State College, Ames.

Larry Bixby is an assistant supervisor with the
Farm Security Administration in Lancaster, N. H.

Stan Bettoney has a two-year appointment as

Paul Haynes is in the sales and statistics depart-
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WITH THE ALUMMAE alumni club formed in holyoke

By Leonla Horrigan '36

Alumni and undergraduates are glad to welcome
Mary Garvcy '19 back to the campus after her year
at the University of Chicago where she has heen
studying for her Ph.D. degree in bacteriology. She
plans to return to Chicago next summer to complete
her work.

Betty Lynch 1'iillar '29 has published another
article in the New York Times. It appeared on
October 1, 1939, and was entitled "Qualities of
Good Soil for the Growth of Plants."

Eunice Johnson '33 is a student church army
mission sister in New York City.

On September 22, 1939, Helen Downing '37 of

Holyoke brought her orchestra to the campus to
play for the freshman reception.

Mabelle Booth '39 is taking graduate work at
Columbia University.

Geraldinc Bradley '39 has begun her studies at
the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, New
York City.

Grace Cooper '39 is teaching home economics
and history in the Petersham High School, Peter-
sham, Mass.

Betty Eaton '39 is working as a receptionist and
typist at the Time and Life Building in New York
City, and is also studying modern dancing at the
Barbara Mettler School of Dance and Music.

Marjorie Harris '39 has a position as teacher of
domestic science in the Peters High School, South-
boro, Mass.

Anne Fern Kaplinsky '39 has a position as clerk
in the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Com-
pany in Springfield, Mass.

Mariorie Litchfield '39 is head of the home
economics department at Litchfield High School,
Litchfield, Conn.

Olive Norwood '39 is working in the Original
Thread and Needle Shop at 671 Boylston Street,
Boston, Mass.

Buth E. Wood '38 is in Park Ridge, Illinois,
working as a recreational leader at the Park Ridge
Girls' School, and studying sociology at North-
western University.

Dorothy (Doran) Minarik '34 and Charles
Minarik '33 are making their home in Beaumont,
Texas, where Mr. Minarik has accepted a position
in the State Experiment Station.

Early this fall Conrad II. mond -lr. '38, his brother,
Harold 38, Mederi< Beloin '38 and hall a dozen

other young graduates living in Holyoke, Mass., had
the idea that ii would be a good plan i! a Massachu
setts Stale College Alumni Club were organized in
their city. And so they Benl out card to Alumni in

I loh okc- .Hid \ i.inii v in-, ii ing i hose v. I,., v., re similar-
ly interested in the idea to gather at the Roger Smith
I lot I in Holyoke on the evening of October I. Nol
all Alumni who wanted to come to this organization
meeting found it possible to attend on thai particular
evening; but the following did appear.

Esther Dunphy '37, Constance Forlin '39, Virginia
Fagan '38, Dorothy Wilson '38, Mary A. Cooney '36,
Norma Harvey w'38, Marion Becher '38, Harry B.
Berman '20, Edwin A. Bieniek '38, Horace T. Brock-
way, Jr. '28, Cecil C. Rice '28.

Edward J. Burke '10, Frank H. Krumpholz w'34,
Stanley Podolak '39, William E. Bosworth '31,
Frederick W. Jerome '16, Warren C. Bray '38,
Harold C. Hemond '38, Mederic H. Beloin '38.
Conrad Hemond, Jr. '38, James E. Gavagan '35,
Hugh J. Corcoran '35, James Olivier '38, Laurence
Johnson '39.

Lloyd Ellegaard '38, Donald S. McGowan '38,
Howard B. Driscoll '37, Walter C. Mayko '38,
William F. Welcker '38, Joseph Freedman '37,
George Pierera '39, Herbert M. Halpern '38, Rudolph
Kuc '37, Mary Elizabeth Streeter '38, Ruth Wood '37,
Bill Ingham '14, Helen A. Downing '37, and Velda
Stefanelli '36.

They organized a Holyoke Alumni Club, elected
Conrad Hemond '38 their president, Cecil C. (Sam)
Rice '28, vice-president, and Connie Fortin '39,
secretary-treasurer.

They determined that the purpose of their Club
should be to foster the best interests of the College
especially in Holyoke and vicinity. They decided
that their meetings should be of an informal and
social nature (following the transaction of any
necessary business); they outlawed long speaking
programs. They decided to have another meeting
on October 26, Alumni Night.

CLASS OF 1939

ment of the American Optical Company, Southbridge.

Ossie Villaiimc is teaching agriculture in the
Brattleboro, Vermont, High School.

Gerhard Wilkc is teaching in the Madison Mili-
tary Academy, Old Lyme, Conn.

Fred Estabrook has enrolled in the Thayer
School of Civil Engineering at Dartmouth.

James Graves is doing milk testing work in
Putnam, Conn.

George Haylon is at the Georgetown University
School of Law, Washington, D. C.

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ATHLETICS

Football

The Statesmen are proving to be exactly the kind
of ball club the fans like to watch. The lads show
fight, fire and plenty of oomph.

To be sure, your club has yet to win a game — as
we go to press. But the boys have played some
cracking good football. Spectacular, too.

JOHN CRAWFORD '20 INVENTS
SPEED-TESTING MACHINE

Scores to date: September 30, Springfield 0,
Mass. State 0; October 7, Bowdoin 19, Mass. State
14; October 14, University of Connecticut 7, Mass.
State 6.

Both touchdowns in the game on October 14 were
scored during the last two minutes of play. The
Statesmen scored first, driving beautifully down the
field seventy yards, with Benny Freitas '42 of Fair-
haven, halfback, finally going over the line for six
points. Nobody seemed to worry when the kick for
the extra point was blocked.

Then Connecticut received the ball, threw five
long, wild forwards. One pass was completed for
almost fifty yards, another for a touchdown. And
their kick for the extra point was good. That was that.

Playing guard for the Statesmen this fall is one
Ralph Simmons '41 of Pittsfield —a transfer from
Clemson College, South Carolina, suh.

Simmons is a natural football player; his football
sense is nothing short of uncanny. In three games
he has diagnosed opponents' plays with an accuracy
that is unbelievable until it is seen. He has a re-
markable faculty for being in the right place at the
right time — or wrong place, as the opponents view it.

Simmons is, perhaps, the most picturesque player
ever to appear on Alumni Field. He stands five feet
six, and weighs 228 pounds. He plays football with
his shirt sleeves rolled up; and, we almost blush as
we report this, a special type of suspender or brace
is now bein<; designed to keep Ralph's pants in place.
No belt arrangement known to man has yet proved
effective. Simmons has no hips.

Captain Johnny Blasko's biggest jolt to date has
come not in any of the three games so far played;
it came in a radio broadcasting studio just before
the contest with Springfield.

It had been planned that the Springfield captain
and coach, and Johnnie and Eb Caraway, should all
be interviewed in a short program a few nights
before the game.

A script was made ready, and John carefully
studied the lines in preparation for his first broad-
casting. Then, when the program finally got under
way, the sports writer who did the interviewing
began the session by unexpectedly ad libbing a
question to Blasko. John hurriedly thumbed through
his script but, naturally, nowhere found the answer.

If you've already made your radio debut you can
understand just how Blasko felt at this broadcast,
as he desperately searched all through his script —
for a cue that wasn't there.

When he was an undergraduate John Crawfor
'20 seemed to be principally interested (in an extre
curricular way) in public speaking. After graduatio:
he became a newspaper and publicity man; h
currently is on the staff of the Cleveland Plain Dealei
and writes a psychology column. He is, too, a travel
ling representative of Alpha Gamma Rho fraternit. '
and secretary of the Massachusetts State Colleg
Alumni Club of Cleveland. Now, it develops
Crawford is also something of an inventor — of
machine, or meter, used to test and record the speei
with which a baseball player, or anyone else, can
hurl a baseball.

Learn Their Speed

Mentioning the machine to Whitey Lanphear 'IS
in a letter, awhile ago, Crawford said, "It's the firs
of its kind, expensive as a new dorm, but a swel
piece of promotion for a paper. We send it arounc
our circulation area getting folks to test their am
and learn their speed in feet per second. How thej
love it!"

The other day we saw a drawing of the machine
in an Associated Press article in the Springfield Unioi
and to our un-technical eye the contraption resemblec
something Rube Goldberg might have devised. But
very obviously, the machine works and works welll1
For the accompanying article said, "The meter
housed in a trailer, spent the summer at picnics
country fairs, and American League games. Lasl
season it recorded the efforts of approximately 23,00C
persons."

Outfielders Faster

The article also told about Atley Donald, Yankee
rookie, and three of the Detroit Tigers being the
fastest American League throwers tested by th€' I
machine.

"These four pegged the ball at a rate of 139 feet
per second. This compares with Walter Johnson's
134 feet back in 1917 at a Bridgeport, Conn., arms
laboratory on a less sensitive recorder. At that
time Christy Mathewson did 127 feet per second
and Smoky Joe Wood 124 feet.

"General conclusions already drawn by Crawford
are that outfielders are nearly as fast as, and in
some cases faster than pitchers; infielders generally*
are a little less speedy on their throws into the meter.

"To give an idea of what the average person will1
do, Mayor Harold Hitz Burton of Cleveland hit 76.i.
Governor John W. Bricker of Ohio did 96. Stellaa
Walsh, the woman athlete, hit 94, which stood for aa
time as a women's record."

Remaining football games.

Oct. 21

Rhode Island State, there

Worcester Tech, there

Nov. 4

Amherst, here

Coast Guard, there (night)

Rensselaer, here

Tufts, here

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By Albert J. Gricius '37

Some of last year's graduates now in the Boston
area are Ilcrbic Howes, Herbie Glick, and Allen

Gove at the Harvard School of Business Adminis-
tration; Phil Burgen, an investigator for Household
Finance Corp., 59 Temple Place; George Brody,
with the Prudential Insurance Co., 79 Milk Street.

John It.ilcom is a student at the Episcopal
Theological Seminary, 99 Brattle Street, Cambridge.

Milton Auerbach is a student at the Harvard
Dental School and plans to continue his musical
interests with the Harvard Glee Club. Auerbach
was the organizer of the super-excellent quartet,
the Statesmen, at the College last year.

Walter B. Van Hall '28 is now living at 215
Stratford St., West Roxbury and is actively inter-
ested in the Boston Alumni Club. He has been with
the General Ice Cream Company since graduation
j and was employed by them in Springfield for two
i years, at Burlington, Vermont for one year, and at
1 Schenectady, N. Y. from 1930 to last September.
] Walter has an active position as assistant manager
of the large plant of the General Ice Cream Company
in Charleston. His hobby is taking color moving
[pictures of his pride and joy, son Arthur, fifteen
months old.

Ed Steffek '34 is assistant editor of the Massachu-
setts Horticultural Society's Horticulture magazine.

Henry Walker '34 and Warren Southworth '34

are teaching at the Belmont Junior High School.

Elmer Barber '26 was down in Maine all summer
but is now back at Arlington High School, teaching
mathematics. Elmer tells us that he is to play the
leading role in "Soup to Nuts," a play which Arling-
ton teachers are to produce this winter.

Hank Darling '24 has recently opened his own
investment office at 53 State Street. Good luck,
Hank.

Harry Stiles '21 is living in Arlington and is
working with market reports for the U.S.D.A. here
in Boston.

Franeis Small '14 is inspector for the dairy
division of the Massachusetts Department of Agri-
culture, Boston. His home is in Somerville, 11
Pembroke Street.

VIC CAHALANE '21 WHITES
AIMUT DEEB

In a well-written (and handsomely-illustrated

article in the October, 1939, National Geographic
magazine, Vic Cahalane '24 tells about "Deer <»l the

World." Beginning his article with an account of
how a deer robbed the ice cream freezer behind his
(Vic's) cabin in the Chiricahua Mountains of South-
eastern Arizona, Vic traces the evolution of deer (and
their tastes in food) for pretty nearly twenty-five
million years. That long ago deer were no bigger
than cats, Vic says, and they "scurried through the
Oligocene forests fighting their battles with long
saber-like teeth. Somewhere in those long mysterious
centuries the structure of deer gradually changed."

The article recounts many interesting facts about
deer; for instance, what becomes of the antlers that
deer cast off every year. The article tells about
deers' curiosity, about their ability as swimmers and
divers. It is a fine piece, and well worth reading.
It concludes with a synoptic study of twenty-seven
species.

Game Preservation

Cahalane is acting director of the wild life division
of the National Park Servive. His popularly-written
magazine articles are doing much to enlist public-
sympathy and support for the preservation of wild
life in the United States.

Last spring, in the April 29 edition of the Saturday
Evening Post, Cahalane had an article called "Swan
Song." This article told about the trumpeter swan,
a majestic bird which once inhabited the United
States in great numbers, numbers which had been
reduced to 50 by 1931. Wanton hunting had been
the cause. Through efforts of the National Park
Service to preserve these swans there now are nearly
a hundred of the birds living in western wild life
refuges. But, as Vic pointed out in his article, the
future of the trumpeter race will not be secure until
there are at least one or two thousand of the birds.

STEVE HAMILTON w'31 EXHIBITS
PICTURES

Alumni will be pleased to know that, though he
retired from active teaching last June, Professor
Waugh is continuing to live on campus and take an
active part in many college affairs. He is continuing
in charge, for example, of the Memorial Hall art
exhibits, the first of which he put on display in the
building in 1921.

The first exhibit of the current college year was a
series of pencil sketches and "transparent oils" done
by Steve Hamilton w'31. Steve has returned after
several months in Labrador, at the Grenfell Mission;
the pictures he displayed were, many of them,
Labrador snow scenes — very attractive even though
you may not like cold weather.

Incidentally, White and Wyckoff of Holyoke have
bought the rights to six of Steve's paintings and will
use these winter landscapes for Christmas cards in
1940.

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'34 Dr. Roger Bates has been appointed chemist
with the National Bureau of Standards in Washing-
ton, D. C. He received his Ph.D. degree from Duke
University, Durham, N. C.

Library-
State College

THE DIVISION OF AGRICULTURE AT THE COLLEGE

announces the third

Biennial Agriculture Seminar

Friday and Saturday, November 24 and 25

For all Alumni of the College who are engaged in agriculture and who
wish to discuss in seminar sessions the latest developments in the agricul-
tural field. In addition to the general sessions there will be section meetings
for those interested in dairy industry, poultry, animal husbandry.

Speakers will include Al Mann '26, Dick Foley '27, C. H. Parsons
'27, Francis Warren '26, R. T. Parkhurst '19, Randall Cole '34,
and J. J. Warren '17

Complete programs for the entire meeting will be sent on request to
F. H. Branch, Stockbridge Hall.

'15 Ralph Tower is publicity representative for
Burroughs Wellcome & Co., (U.S.A.) Inc. He lives
at 1421 Maple Avenue, Downers Grove, Illinois.

'20 Joseph R. Sanborn has an article called
"Sanitary Quality in Fabricated Paper" in the Paper
Trade Journal for July 6, 1939.

'21 Edward B. Landis has opened his own law
office in the Court Square Building, Springfield.

'31 Allen West has been appointed professor of
forest entomology at the University of New Bruns-
wick, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada.

'35 Sheldon Bliss of Greenfield received his M.D.
from Tufts Medical School last June.

'35 Dr. Arthur Gold has opened his offices for
the practice of dentistry at 4 Chestnut Street,
Springfield, Mass.

'35 E. T. Hall is landscape architect for the
Prospect Nurseries, Cromwell, Conn.

'37 Bob Fisher recently received a two-year
appointment as student gardener at the New York
Botanical Gardens.

'10 Josiah Folsom, associate agricultural econo-
mist of the U.S.D.A., Washington, D. C, is author
of a recent department publication which makes an
exhaustive and detailed study of farm labor con-
ditions in three New Jersey counties.

'18 Harold Sullivan has been appointed assistant
manager of the benefit department of the Massachu-
setts Mutual Life Insurance Company, Springfield.

'19 Paul Faxon is a salesman for the Stewart
Warner- Alemite Sales Co., Hartford, Conn.

'25 Xavier Peltier is doing plant quarantine
work in the southwest. He is living at 327 Senorita
Avenue, Nogales, Arizona.

'29 Francis D. Alberti has taken his landscape
training into Rhode Island (Cranston) and into the
service of the United States Engineers. He is work-
ing in the Division of Rivers and Harbors, and finds
the work very enjoyable and more like landscape
architecture than anything he has struck lately.

'29 Tom Lane is personnel supervisor with Lever
Brothers Company, Hammond, Indiana.

Alumni Day, Saturday, June 8, 1940

1920

1925

1930

Twentieth Reunion

Fifteenth Reunion

Tenth Reunion

Jim Maples, Ralph Stedman

Lewis Keith has plans in mind.

Herm Magnuson was on cam-

and Tub Dewing look forward

for the most memorable meeting

pus last June at commencement

to the biggest gathering of the

the class has yet experienced.

to make a careful reunion sur-

class in two decades.

vey. Don't miss '30's Tenth.

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BULLETIN

HOLYOKE S HILLS

Uljne Jiu^tsmt's dtwthtgs

MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

AMHERST, MASSACHUSETTS

id. XXII, No. 3

December, 1939

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MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

ASSOCIATE ALUMNI OF
MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

President. Alden C. Brett '12 of Belmont
Vice-President, Albert W. Smith '22 of Springfield
Secretary, Marshall O. Lanphear '18 of Amherst
Treasurer, Clark L. Thayer '13 of Amherst
Executive Secretary, George E. Emery '24 of Amherst

BOARD OF DIRECTORS
to 1940

Walter T. Bonney '31 of Springfield

John J. Maginnis '18 of Worcester

Lester Needham '14 of Springfield

F. Civille Pray '06 of Amherst
to 1941
Richard J. Davis '28 of Boston

Thomas P. Dooley '13 of West Roxbury

George W. Edman '21 of Pittsfield

Ralph F. Taber '16 of West Newton
to 1942
Erford W. Poole '96 of New Bedford

David P. Rossiter '37 of Maiden

Zoe Hickney White '32 of Worcester

Alfred E. Wilkins '15 of Wakefield
to 1943
Harry Dunlap Brown '14 of Billerica

William L. Doran '15 of Amherst

Mary E. M. Garvey '19 of Amherst

Lawrence L. Jones '26 of North Beverly

The Alumni Bulletin is sent ten times each year to all members
of the Associate Alumni. Memberships are: Annual $3.00, Sustain-
ing $10.00.

Cover picture — the Holyoke Range, looking south-
west, from South Amherst.

— Photograph by Grant B. Snyder

YOUNGEST ALUMNAE FIND JOBS

Miss Margaret Hamlin, placement officer for
women at the College, has given us the following
information about Alumnae in the class of '39.

Pauline Brissett is doing graduate work in
economics at the College.

Rita Buckley is dietitian and Mildred Czaj-
kowski instructor in sewing at Sleighton Farm,
Darling, Pa.

Elizabeth Clapp is teaching home economics at
the Arlington, Vermont, high school.

Justine Crosby is a home demonstration agent
with the Franklin County, Mass., Extension Service.

Doris Dyer and Wilma Foerster are social ser-
vice internes at the Foxboro, Mass., State Hospital.

Marjorie Esson is a student dietitian at the
University Hospitals, Cleveland, Ohio.

Marion Glynn is teaching in the Williamstown,
Mass., high school.

Marion Gunncss is doing graduate work at the
University of Wisconsin.

Kay Kerivan is teaching French and doing
graduate work in language and literature at the
College.

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NEWS AND NOTES
OF THE CLASS OF

1916

These biographic notes have been assembled by Dutch
Schlotterbeck for his class.

II. Gleason (Pete) Mattoon has maintained his
own business as a consultant in arboriculture pretty
nearly ten years. Previous to 1930 he had been with
the U.S.D.A., farm bureau, and had taught horti-
culture. Meanwhile he had looked forward to the
time when he might establish his own business; he
is pleased that his idea worked out and that he has
been able successfully to establish himself as a con-
sultant in the Philadelphia area.

Pete is president of the Pennsylvania Forestry
Association and of the Shade Tree Commission of
lower Merion township. He is a former president of
the Civic Association of Bala-Cynwyd and chairman
of the Forestry Research Council at Pennsylvania
State.

Pete has two boys, the older of whom is in college.
The younger, aged eight, has not yet come to any
conclusions regarding higher education.

Clayton Nash took his LL.B. at Northeastern
University and is now successfully engaged in the
practice of law in Dedham. He lives in Weymouth.
He has been a member of the school committee in
Weymouth.

Clayt likes to watch baseball and football; but
camping is a strenuous enough form of outdoor exer-
cise to satisfy his craving for personal participation.

Charlie Huntington has his own tobacco farm
in Windsor, Conn.

He has been representative in the Connecticut
State legislature, 1933-1937, and chairman of the
Board of Finance for the town of Windsor from
1928-1939.

Charlie has five children, three boys and two girls.

Louis Rowe operates his own farm in Hudson,
Mass. Before taking over the farm he had been a
salesman, county agent, and seedsman.

Louis' 16 years old daughter thinks she would like
to be a journalist.

K riies l Russell, a past-president of the Associate
Alumni, is treasurer and general manager of the Old
Deerfield Fertilizer Company in South Deerfield,
Mass. Ernest modestly says that although his
company is a small one it is not the least important
in the Connecticut Valley area.

He is also president of the Northampton and
Boston Express Service which operates daily trips
between the two cities. The express company has
seven trucks ranging in size from a small pickup to
a ten-wheel Mack.

Ernest has three children, two boys and a girl.

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HORTICULTURE SHOW IS 30TH
IN SERIES

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS MEET
ON CAMPUS

In 1908 Professor Edward A. White '95, then head
of the floriculture department at the College, ar-
ranged a fall flower show in French Hall; it proved
to be the first in a series of exhibitions of which this
fall's horticulture show, held in the cage of the
physical education building November 10, 11, 12,
was the 30th. The 1938 show was not held because
of hurricane damage to fruit which, it had been
planned, would have been used in quantity.

Central feature at the 1939 Hort Show

In 1920 the show took the form of a "Fair," pre-
sented on the lawn north of French Hall; the "Fair"
was held west of Wilder in 1921. All the other shows
were flower shows up until seven years ago when the
entire horticulture division cooperated to arrange an
exhibition in the cage. The horticulture shows have
been held there ever since.

The pomology department provided this year's
central feature (see cut) , a monument of 2500 apples.
Surrounding this central exhibit were commercial
and student (both College and Stockbridge) displays
and exhibits from Smith and Mt. Holyoke Colleges.

Clark L. Thayer '13 and Dr. Ralph A. VanMeter
were co-chairmen in charge of this year's show —
which attracted 14,000 visitors. Mark Gordon '40
of Springfield was student chairman. James Robert-
son, Jr., assistant professor of landscape architecture,
designed the entire show.

Vegetable exhibit in 1939 Hort Show

The third annual conference "i the Mat achu
State College Landscape Architects' Association was
held on campus November 3 and 4. Milford Lawrence
'17, Joseph Whitney '17, Charles Bartletl Cox '30,
and Arnold Davis '31 presided at the several sessions.

The general theme of the conference was a dis-
cussion of plant materials and the use of plants in
landscape design. Professor Arthur K. Harrison gave
a fine talk on the planning and planting of gardens
which struck a keynote for the professional dis-
cussion at the sessions.

Alumni who gave talks were: George Yarwood
'26, Eddie Connell '27, Dan Foley '35, Bob Fisher
'37, Stephen Hamblin '12, and Pete Cascio '21. A
fine letter from Johnnie Veerling '35, in Texas, was
read.

President Baker gave a talk on "Standards in a
Profession,"; and members of the faculty on the
program were Emil Tramposch '35, Lawrence
Dickinson '10, Dr. Waugh and Professors Blundell,
Robertson and Martini.

At a business session these officers were elected to
the Frank A. Waugh Foundation: Ray Otto '26,
chairman; Joe Cormier '26, vice-chairman; Dan
Foley '35, treasurer.

Newly-elected officers of the Association were
Conrad L. Wirth '23, chairman; Milford Lawrence
'17, vice-chairman; Mim Loud '30, secretary; Dan
Foley '35, treasurer. New directors, elected for
three years, were Loud, Yarwood and Lawrence.

These Alumni registered: Joseph F. Whitney '17,
William A. Scott '35, George A. Mallett '13, Edward
A. Connell '27, Charles Bartlett Cox '30, L. S. Dick-
inson '10, H. H. Worssam '28, Harry E. Fraser '26,
Jack Amatt '28, Russell N. Barnes '27, George
Harrison Bigelow '34, O. Frank Burbank '30, Myles
G. Boylan '36, Raymond K. Evans '35, Daniel J.
Foley '35, Anthony L. Gagliarducci '29, Ralph B.
Gates '37, Murray W. George '37, D. Newton Click
'36, Stephen F. Hamblin '12, George A. Hartwell '35,
W. B. Hatch '05, Milford R. Lawrence '17, Les
Needham '14, Elizabeth A. Taylor '34, Robert W.
Thorndike '37, Raphael Saraceni '30, Edward B.
Willard '39, Paul Whitney Rhoades '15, Hervey F.
Law '22, Richard A. Fraser '31, Parke* W. FarrarJ'08,
George A. Yarwood '26, E. L. Packard '35.

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OBITUARIES

Albert W. King w'71

Albert W. King w'71 died at his home in Taunton,
Mass., on September 13, 1939. He was the last
living Alumnus to have been a member of the first
class to enter the College. King was greatly inter-
ested in the College and his class; he frequently
returned for commencement reunions.

He was born in Raynham, Mass., on April 23,
1852. After leaving College he was employed for
many years as bookkeeper for the Taunton Ice
Company.

He is survived by a daughter, and two sons.

Edward L. Bass w'79

Edward L. Bass w'79 died at his home in Bethel,
Vermont, on September 28, 1939. He was eighty-
three years old.

After leaving the College he engaged in the lumber
business and for many years was a lumber dealer in
Bethel.

His wife survives him.

Dr. Joseph B. Lindsey '83

At the beginning of our sophomore year at Massa-
chusetts State, we of the class of 1883 discovered, to
our surprise, that our number had been augmented
by Braune from Brazil and by Lindsey of Marble-
head, Mass.

Our first impression of Lindsey was that he seemed
a bit awkward and was possessed of a truly stentorian
voice. We were not long in discovering that his
mental caliber was fully on a par with the volume of
his voice, with which every member of every class
from 1881 through 1942 must be familiar.

Ever alert for opportunities for mental develop-
ment, Joseph Lindsey soon cast his lot with the
College Shakespearean Club and lost no time in
becoming associated with the Washington Irving
Literary Society. In the former, every Saturday
night for three years was devoted to a study of
Shakespeare and other authors, among whom Scott,
Longfellow and Tennyson were favorites. In
the weekly meeting of the Washington
Irving Society, Lindsey soon became one of
the society's ablest debaters, for there his
logical mind was used effectively. Already,
at the close of our freshman year, Nourse
had won the gold oratorical medal which
debarred him from further competition at

Dr. Lindsey and his family, photo-
graphed in Amherst on the occasion of
Dr. and Mrs. Lindsey's fiftieth wedding
anniversary, June 20, 1938.

Standing (left to right) bach of Dr.
and Mrs. Lindsey, are Joseph B. Lind-
sey, Jr., Mrs. Joseph B. Lindsey, Jr.,
Mrs. Charles E. Goodhue, Jr. (daughter)
Charles E. Goodhue, Jr.

A granddaughter, Bosalind Goodhue,
is now a freshman at the College.

the close of our sophomore year; but this second
year the class was most ably represented by Lindsey
who easily won the gold medal of that year. His
Websterian style, and his deep impressive voice re-
lieved the judges of any possible doubts or misgivings
as to the proper recipient of this special honor.

Upon graduation from the College, Lindsey became
assistant chemist of the newly created State Agri-
cultural Experiment Station at the remunerative
salary of $4.00 per week, which at the end of three
months was raised to $5.00 and, on April 1, after
eight months' service, was raised to $10.00 per week.

This period, however, was conducive to his future
half century of marital bliss, for he sought a room
in the old Dickinson Homestead, familiarly referred
to as "Mark's Meadow," and promptly fell in love
with the youngest daughter of Mark Dickinson; she
had been graduated from Mount Holyoke College,
also in 1883. In that connection the writer served as
the catalyst in bringing Miss Dickinson and young
Lindsey together. They were married in 1888.

Before Lindsey's marriage he had accepted the
position of chemist with the L. B. Darling Fertilizer
Company of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, where he
remained until he decided to further pursue the
study of chemistry, botany, and other sciences in
Germany.

In the summer of 1889 it was the writer's privilege
to meet the young couple on their arrival in Amster-
dam, to introduce them to some of the peculiarities
of European life, and to put them aboard their train
for Goettingen, Germany, where they were to spend
two happy and profitable years, while Lindsey was
working for his Ph.D. degree. This the University
later honored itself by its bestowal upon him.

Back in Amherst as assistant to Director Charles
A. Goessmann, Lindsey did notable work which soon
brought him wide recognition throughout the country,
culminating with his being made the head of the
chemical department of Massachusetts State College,
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WITH THE ALUMNAE

By Mary E. Garuey '19
and Leonta Horrigan '36

Bethany Snow is at the Simmons College Library
School.

Bernice Taylor is an assistant in horticulture at
Wheaton College, Norton, Mass.

Kleanor Ward is a house instructor at the Kurn
Hattin Homes in Westminster, Vermont.
(To be continued)

On October 26, the Hampshire County Alumnae
group held its first supper meeting of the year. The
following members were present: Jane Pollard
Gore '22, Edith Bertenshaw Aldrich '29, Mildred
IViss Briggs '32, Betty Wheeler Frigard '34,
Barbara Gerrard Olbryeh '34, Buth Pushee '34,
Violet Koskela '35, Marion Smith '35, Marion
Bullard '36, Katherine Maehmer '37, Rita
Anderson '39, Marjorie Damon '39, Belva Sin-
clair "39, Marion Stomberg '39 and Leonta
Horrigan '36.

MARRIAGES

'34 Chester French to Miss Elizabeth Welsh,
August 10, 1939, at Nevada, Missouri.

'34 Robert A. Magay to Miss Mary Dorothy
Boxshus, August 6, 1939, at Worcester, Mass.

'35 Albert B. Hovey to Miss Vivian McCarty,
October 6, 1939, at Dubois, Wyoming.

'35 Miss Mildred Hovey to Dr. George Edward
Crowell, October 28, 1939, at Springfield, Mass.

'35 Robert M. Koch to Miss Helene Rodowis,
November 18, 1939, at New York City.

'36 and '36 Alden Eaton to Miss Irene Gingras,
June 25, 1939, at Adams, Mass.

'36 Miss Gertrude Vickery to Clyde L. Becker,
September 4, 1939, at Greenfield, Mass.

'38 Robert Buzzee to Miss Ethel May Gilbertson,
October 14, 1939, at Easthampton, Mass.

'39 Miss Joan Sanella to William Valdina, June
11, 1938, at Winchester, N. H.

w'39 Miss Eleanor Fitts to Steven Allen Cash,
December 24, 1938, at West Dennis, Mass.

BIRTHS

'28 A daughter, Alice Reed, to Mr. and Mrs. H.
Malcolm Dresser, October 30, 1939, at New York
City.

'33 and '34 A son, Benton Bruce, to Mr. and
Mrs. Benton Cummings (Marjorie Jensen), October
29, 1939, at Northampton, Mass.

'34 and '34 A son, Robert Bruce, to Mr. and
Mrs. Page Hiland (Frances Cook), November 5,
1939, at Meriden, Conn.

OBITUARIES

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a position which he filled with signal ability. In
1932 he was retired, as professor of chemistry,
emeritus; he continued to live in Arnlu-r-i ;,i hi
Lincoln Avenue home. He died on October 27, ]'.)■','.).

Owing to an early unfortunate illness, Lindsey, for
many years, had to forego attendance at conventions
and eliminate many outside activities that would
have brought him the even far wider recognition for
which his extensive knowledge, splendid initiative,
and high mental qualities so eminently qualified him.

A more unselfish and staunch friend could hardly
be imagined than our greatly beloved and lamented
classmate. His loyalty to his Alma Mater was of
the same true and devoted type that he invariably
displayed towards his friends.

Lindsey was never so happy as when he could
assist a student or friend with helpful advice. His
influence for the best and noblest was shown in his
local contacts, in his efforts in behalf of the town of
Amherst, his College, the State, and the Nation.

We of the class who knew him as a great moral
force, the truest of friend, and the wisest of counsellor,
will ever revere his memory, and we one and all
share the burden of sorrow which has fallen upon his
family.

Dr. Homer J. Wheeler '83

William H. Smith w'84

William Henderson Smith w'84, of Amherst, died
on October 29, 1939, after a long illness. He was 75
years old. He had been born in Amherst and, after
attending the College, he operated the South Pleasant
Street farm which had been owned by his family for
187 years.

He is survived by his wife, a son, and a grand-
daughter.

Nathan D. Whitman '01

Nathan Davis Whitman '01 died on September 29,
1939, in Pasadena, California. He was born in
Boston on March 23, 1878.

After being graduated from the College he became
a consulting engineer and engaged in the design,
manufacture and installation of reinforced concrete
pipe in the Middle West and on the Pacific Coast.

From 1923 to 1939 he was chief engineer of the
American Concrete and Steel Pipe Company in Los
Angeles, California. He was a member of the
American Society of Civil Engineers, and was re-
garded as one of the outstanding engineers in the
country in the field of reinforced concrete pipe.

"Pinky" Whitman was a transfer from M.I.T. to
the sophomore class of 1901. He was active in
student affairs — varsity quarterback, artist for the
1901 Index, business manager of the student paper.
He was a member of Phi Sigma Kappa.

He is survived by his wife and one son.

Dr. A. W. Morrill '00

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ATHLETICS

Football

Scores to date: September 30, Springfield 0, Mass.
State 0; October 7, Bowdoin 19, Mass. State 14;
October 14, U. of Connecticut 7, Mass. State 6;
October 21, Rhode Island State 23, Mass. State 20;
October 28, Worcester Tech 0, Mass. State 7; No-
vember 4, Amherst 13, Mass. State 0; November 14,
Coast Guard 0, Mass. State 6; November 18,
Rensselaer 7, Mass. State 7.

The Statesmen's initial offensive thrust, after re-
ceiving the kickoff against Worcester Tech on
October 28, proved a perfect play. Don Allen '41,
halfback, of Fitchburg, received the ball from center
on a backfield shift to the right, cut through tackle,
and raced 65 yards to a touchdown. Blocking was
so effective that not a Worcester player within 15
yards of Allan was on his feet as Don crossed the
goal line.

Captain Blasko's kick for the extra point was
good, and that ended the scoring for the afternoon.
The Statesmen never threatened seriously again;
Tech threatened plenty.

It must have given Leo Santucci '40, 4 foot 11
inch halfback from Palmer, great satisfaction to
knock down, in the end zone, a Worcester forward
which would at least have given Tech the chance to
tie the score. Worcester's winning pass, last year,
was completed to a player racing just out of reach
of Leo through Santucci's defensive territory.

The Amherst game was just 13 minutes old when
Uncle Jeff's boys had 13 points against the States-
men. It looked, at the time, as though Amherst
might run up a tremendous score, but the 13 points
proved to be the final total — for both clubs.

The touchdowns came as the result, first, of an
Amherst interception of a State forward pass on the
Statesmen's 25-yard line and, later, through re-
covery of a State fumble at about the same position
on the field.

The Statesmen threw 16 forward passes during the
game; 9 of these were completed — to Amherst re-
ceivers. Which might be something of a record.

It was so cold at the night game with Coast Guard
down in New London on Tuesday, November 14,
that Captain Johnnie Blasko '40 wore his gloves
during the second half. And John is one who gets
plenty of exercise during the course of a game, too.

Buddy Evans '42, 150-pound Negro halfback from
Pittsfield, made State's touchdown, following a 50-
yard drive.

The Statesmen spotted a rattling good Rensselaer
club a touchdown and point in the early minutes of
the game on Alumni Field on November 18 and then
had to fight uphill all afternoon in order finally to
tie the score.

In the last three minutes of play, State had the

ball on about their own 35-yard line. The ball was
snapped to John Seery '42, halfback, of Brookfield,
who then threw a high, arching 40-yard pass to end
Paul Skogsburg '41 of Worcester who was tackled in
his tracks. From then on Seery and Evans alternated
at carrying the ball with Bud finally going over on a i
fourth down from the 2-yard line. Captain Blasko
cooly kicked the point.

Ten Years of Soccer

Eleven years ago this fall Hans VanLeer '32,

Phi!

Connell '32, and Maurice Suher '30 went to Professor
Hicks and told Curry that there seemed to be enough
interest among State students so that a soccer team
might be recruited and games played. Curry listened,
agreed, provided the boys with some equipment; and
soccer at Massachusetts State got under way.

The game was played informally in 1928 — without
an intercollegiate schedule; in 1929 the University
of Connecticut was played as the only intercollegiate
game. State tied Connecticut 2 and 2 in that first
game.

Since then an intercollegiate schedule of at least
five games and of as many as eight has been played
annually.

led

Of a total of 66 games the Statesmen have won 34
lost 24 and tied eight. In no year have they finished
under .500 in the intercollegiate league. In no year
have they finished over .500. The league includes
Springfield, Yale, Wesleyan, Harvard, Williams,
Amherst, Brown, Mass. State, Tufts, Dartmouth,
Trinity, Connecticut, M.I.T.

Larry Briggs '27 has coached soccer since its in-
ception; he is preparing a form letter now, in retro
spect, to send to his "old" players (the record, fo
one thing, will make good reading) . Briggs lool
upon Vin Couper '38 (captain in '37) and Jim Blaci
burn '35 (captain in '34) as two of his outstanding
players. The boys had speed, courage, a liking for
the game, smooth technique. Eddie Waskiewicz '32
was captain of the club in 1931 — undefeated in its
full schedule of six games.

Briggs was sick that fall: Eddie did a good deal1
of the coaching, helped by Fred Ellert '30 and Leoni
Stanne '31.

The highest scoring Statesman was Charlie Roddah
'39, captain in '38, His total of goals was 24. Bobt
Jackson '34 is runner-up with a total of 19.

The 1939 scores:

State

Opp

Sept. 30

Rensselaer, here

Oct. 7

Dartmouth, there

Connecticut Univ., here

Springfield, there

Trinity, there

Nov. 3

Amherst, there

M.I.T., here

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By Albert J. Gricius '37

On Wednesday evening, October 18, the regular
monthly meeting of the Boston Alumni Club was
held at the University Club, and the evening given
over to a discussion of football.

Coach Eh Caraway and
his two assistants, Em
Grayson "17 and Lou
Kush '34, came down
from the College and
brought with them movies
of the Bowdoin and Con-
necticut University games.
While Boh Hunter '35
operated the picture ma-
chine Eb described the
action as it appeared on
the screen. After describ-
ing the pictures, Eb went
into considerable detail in
regard to the lads who are
playing for him and the
prospects for the season.
It was an interesting talk.

Em Grayson, line coach,
next told about his work
with the linesmen. Lou
Bush, who helps with the
backfield coaching, became
completely engrossed in
his subject and gave what
probably was the longest
public address of his career as he talked about what
Bennie Freitas, Jim Bullock, Bud Evans, and the
other backs are doing.

Red Emery '24 spoke briefly about the work of
the Associate Alumni, telling the club members how
their interest in newspaper athletic publicity had
been the prime factor in having the Alumni directors
give attention to the matter to the end that more
athletic material now is being supplied to Boston
papers. Next came refreshments and a general,
informal discussion session.

Eighty-nine Alumni were present for the gala
evening, including four former football captains,
Larry Jones '26, Bush '34, Dave Kossiter '37 and
Fred Sievers '38.

Ma Goodwin rolls out the pie crust

Warren Baker '38 has returned from Fort Ogle-
thorpe, Georgia, where he was on a one-year tour of
active duty as a Thomason Act officer. Warren is
now living at home in Hanson.

(Continued on Page 8)

MA GOODWIN CHEERS FOB
THE GIRLS

An interview-article by Alan Bell '43 of Web
in the Collegian for November '■>, about Ma Goodwin,
is in pari as follows.

"Having girls come to ibis school was the best
thing they ever did!" declared a very positively-
opinioned lady the other day. For over twenty one
years she has been making friends 'and opinion
Slate and, mure important, keeping them.

Her name is Anna Goodwin but nobody ever calls
her that unless, perhaps, it's the tax collector. No,
indeed, she is called "Ma." "Ma" Goodwin. The
title hangs right out in front of her house where so
many of her "boys" eat each day. A little sign, as
signs go, it says simply
"The Colonial Inn Ma
Goodwin's."

< mmmI Influence
Speaking further about
co-education, Ma says, "It
puts more pep into the
life of the boys! Girls
should be around, all the
time, then they can tell
these boys when they don't
have proper manners!"
And Ma Goodwin drew
herself up. She had said
it. There it was.

Probably the first thing
you notice about Ma is her
tall, sparse frame and the
proud way she holds her
finely featured head. Some
colored folks move slowly,
so they say, but Ma seems
continually to scurry from
one stove to another, from
one task to another. For
a lady who was seventy
years old on November 6,
and whose working day begins at seven and ends at
seven, such alacrity is surprising.

Ma was born outside of Chattanooga, Tennessee,
back in 1869, the daughter of a not too wealthy
railroad foreman. Living on her grandmother's farm
until she was fifteen, she got much of her schooling
from an Amherst-born school teacher, Miss Mary
Scott. Miss Scott later asked Ma to come North
and work at Storrs School, in Connecticut, as a
companion and nurse girl. This was about 1886.
Then, the following year, Ma came to Amherst
where she worked for a Mr. Stone, on North Pleasant
Street.

In 1891— but let Ma tell it:

"Well, in '91 I met this very nice man, you know,
and I thought and I thought. Finally I said to
myself, 'Anna, why don't you get married?' So I
did!" Mr. Goodwin died in 1923.

In October, 1918, after deciding to open a board-
(Continued on Page 8)

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w'86 John E. Bement has retired from active
business — he had operated a coal and fuel business
in Amherst — and is now living at 1017 15th Street,
North, St. Petersburgh, Florida.

Library

State College

"Yesterdays at Massachusetts State College"

By Frank Prentice Rand

This book presents an exciting, dramatic account of the progress of your College,
from the days of its early beginnings — and a story of the men and women whose lives
and careers have been a part of Massachusetts State.

"YESTERDAYS," published by the Associate Alumni, should be in the library of
every Alumnus. The price of the book is $2.00, postpaid anywhere; orders should be
sent to the Alumni Office, Memorial Hall.

Only 72 copies of the book remain; we suggest that you place your order now.

"Yesterdays" is the ideal Christmas gift to or from an xVlumnus

of the College.

MA GOODWIN CHEERS

(Continued from Page 7)
ing house for college students, Ma scoured the near-
campus neighborhood and finally purchased the
house, where she now is, when it was just a farm
dwelling. Her present kitchen was a milk house
cooled with water piped from a spring located on the
site where the new Kappa Sigma house is placed.

Boarding House

And so began the steady flow of students and
teachers up Ma's squeaky porch. Ma has seen the
campus change, seen new buildings come, new ideas
evolve — everything seems to have changed but Ma
herself.

She insists that her boys have manners — those
who work for her at least. Woe betide the hapless
waiter who forgets his "Good noon, Ma" and, to
Ma's daughter, "Good noon, Oilie" when he comes
on duty. Woe betide the be-trayed waiter who fails
to cry, "Hot stuff! Coming through!" when he
weaves his way past a congested part of the kitchen.
His first premonition of breakers ahead comes when
Ma in a crisp voice says, "Take it easy there, take
it easy! Come out of the ether!"

Ma just laughs at her, well, reputation. "You
know," she said, "I like to scare the very daylights
out of these boys and then, when they're 'way down
low, I jes' soft soap 'em, jes' soft soap 'em."

It's only natural that Ma should have poignant
memories of many of her boys. She leaned back,
squinted her eyes at the ceiling and remembered
names like Tom Ferguson '28, John Calvi '31, Bob
Chisholm '19, Norm Hilyard '23, Walter Bonney '31.
(And others who went away to the War and, as Ma
said, "never came back.")

Some of the boys have been away for years. Yet

BOSTON ALUMNI

(Continued from Page 7)
Ernie Mitchell '32 is the director of physical
education at the Shirley School, Shirley, Mass.

Frank Fanning '39 of Milton, left last month
for a three months' intensive air training course at
Parks Air School, East St. Louis, Illinois. Frank is
one of the 4000 selected from various parts of the
country by the War Department to augment the
air corps of the army.

H. S. Stiles '21 is living in Arlington and is
working with the U.S.D.A. Fruit and Vegetable
Department. His office is in the Federal Building,
Boston.

New, paid-up members of the Boston Club include
Richard Davis '28, John Northcott '31, Joe
Kcil '35, Asa Kinney '29, Joseph Forest '28,
Bertram Holland '29, John McGnckian '31,
Albert Edministcr '13, Albert J. Kelley '13,
Joseph Cassano '25, AHie Wilkins '15, F. M.
Hines '31, Oscar Holmberg '32, Kendrick Cole
'34, Larry Jones '26, George Congdon '35, E.
A. Perry '16, Melvin Jack '25, H. S. Stiles '21,
Charles Eshback '37, John Kay '29, C. A. Frost
'29, and Ralph Taber '16.

more than one thousand Christmas cards are sent
to Ma every year. She saves them carefully and
intends to paper a room with them some day.

"My boys don't forget me," she said, looking up
with a half-smile twisting one corner of her mouth.

THE ALUMNI
BULLETIN

WINTER GLAZE

MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE
AMHERST, MASSACHUSETTS

ol. XXII, No. 4

January, 1940

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN
MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

ASSOCIATE ALUMNI OF
MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

BOARD OF DIRECTORS
to 1940

Walter T. Bonney '31 of Springfield

John J. Maginnis 'IS of Worcester

Lester Needham '14 of Springfield

F. Civille Pray '06 of Amherst
to 1941
Richard J. Davis '28 of Boston

Thomas P. Dooley '13 of West Roxbury

George W. Edman '21 of Pittsfield

Ralph F. Taber '16 of West Newton
to 1942
Erford W. Poole '96 of New Bedford

David P. Rossiter '37 of Maiden

Zoe Hickney White '32 of Worcester

Alfred E. Wilkins '15 of Wakefield
to 1943
Harry Dunlap Brown '14 of Billerica

William L. Doran '15 of Amherst

Mary E. M. Garvey '19 of Amherst

Lawrence L. Jones '26 of North Beverly

The Alumni Bulletin is sent ten times each year to all members
of the Associate Alumni. Memberships are: Annual $3.00, Sustain-
ing $10.00.

Cover picture — a winter scene photographed on the
January Road in Leverett. The January Road was,
years ago, a part of the old stage road from Boston to
Albany.

Bob Coffin, who took this picture, has given it the
name "Winter Glaze."

'95 Harold Frost recently was appointed trustee
of the Andover-Newton Theological School.

'14 and '27 Two Alumni who recently spoke be-
fore the Amherst Horticultural Club were Lester
Needham, sales manager of the Adams Nursery in
Springfield and Ray Griffin, manager of the Gillett's
Nursery in Southwick.

Lester talked about tree peonies; Ray's subject
was wild flowers.

'20 Guy MacLeod is entomologist in the division
of parasitology at the University of California,
Berkeley.

'28 Warren Tufts is supervisor for the Farm
Security Administration in the farm debt adjustment
department. His address is 106 Main St., Brockton,
Mass.

'30 Spencer Stanford is instructor in chemistry
at the College of Wooster, Ohio.

'32 Robert Gunness is a chemical engineer
in the research department of the Standard Oil
Company of Indiana. His home is at 7757 Phillips
Avenue, Chicago, Illinois.

'38 Johnnie Hoar is announcer at radio station
WTMA, Charleston, South Carolina.

NEWS AND NOTES
OF THE CLASS OF

1916

These biographic notes have been assembled by Dutch
Schlotterbeck for his class.

Eleven members of the class showed up for a
supper and gab-fest in Boston on November 28. We
met at Fred Gioiosa's store then went to Warmuth's
restaurant, next door, for supper, returning to Fred's
afterward for the talk. We had a swell evening, the
spirit ran high; it sounded just like a room in old
South College.

Those present this time were Walker, Fernald,
Hagar, Rich, Gioiosa, Darling, Perry, Mahoncy,
Anderson, Caldwell, and Schlotterbeck.

The '16 crowd meets on the second Tuesday of
each month, and if everyone knew what good times
are had we feel sure that there would be even larger
attendance. Plans for our 25th Reunion--in 1941 —
already are being discussed.

Wilbur Locke is agricultural agent for the Hamp-
den, Mass., County Extension Service and is keeping
himself plenty busy in the neighborhood of Spring-
field. Before taking over his present responsibilities
he developed a sound background for his work by
having worked as a herdsman, farm foreman and an
assistant county agent.

Bill has four daughters, ranging in age from 7 to 17.

Harold Aiken lives in Southboro and works for
the Dennison Mfg. Co. in Framingham, Mass.

Before going to work with the paper company,
Harold had been engaged in farming, had been a
bank field agent, and in the advertising business.

He has three boys.

Everett Sanderson is professor of bacteriology at
the University of Georgia Medical School in Augusta.

After being graduated from the College, Sanderson
took his M.S. at Brown, his Ph.D. at Yale, and his
M.D. at Washington University in St. Louis.

He has been in teaching and doing research work
in bacteriology and public health since '16. He has
been a member of the International Health Division I
of the Rockefeller Foundation; he was appointed to
reorganize the bacteriological laboratories of the City
of St. Louis municipal hospitals.

He is author (and co-author) of a score of scientific
articles. He is a member of Sigma Xi and Phi Sigma, i
honorary scientific societies.

He holds membership in the American Medical i
Association, the American Public Health Association, i
the Southern Medical Association, the Medical I
Society of the State of Georgia, the Richmond
County Medical Society, and the Georgia Society of
Pathologists.

At present he is the guardian of the 13-years-old
great, great granddaughter of the founder of the
University of Georgia Medical School.

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FRED KKNNEY RETIRES AS
COLLEGE TREASURER

ALUMNI ATTEND AGRICULTURE
SEMINAR

Dr. Frank A. Waugh was the toastmaster at a
dinner in Draper Hall on Tuesday evening, Novem-
ber 21, when friends of Treasurer Fred C. Kenney
gathered to pay their respects to a man whom many
of them had known for a long time and whom all of
them respected. Mr. Kenney was to retire from his
position at the College on December 20, when he
reached the state retirement age of seventy.
In his opening remarks Professor Waugh said,

"Mr. Broad-
foot (for many
years Fred
Kenney's as-
sociate in the
treasurer's of-
fice) has told
me that there
are 189 people
here present.
If it were twen-
ty times that
many, that

would not be
anywhere near
the total who
would like to
be able to be
present."

Mr. Waugh
said, further,
that his job,
that night, was
to initiate Fred
Kenney into
the select so-
ciety of the emeriti. He said that if "E" meant
"without" when used as a prefix before the word
merit, then Fred Kenney had no qualifications what-
ever for membership in the society.

Fred C. Sears, professor emeritus of pomology,
Mr. Kenney's next door neighbor on Mt. Pleasant
for thirty-two years, next spoke of Mr. Kenney as
being conscientious and keen, a fine citizen, a splendid
neighbor, one of the best friends a man ever had.
And Fred Sears knows.

President Baker characterized Mr. Kenney as
"one of the finest examples I have known of an
honest, efficient and unselfish public servant."

Dr. Baker continued, "Through his (Mr. Kenney's)
years here, there has been a quiet, genuine, heart-
felt sympathy for the men with whom he has worked
on the campus all the way from the person doing the
simplest work with the lowest income to those who
make up the administrative group. Really, the story
of Mr. Kenney's fine helpful relationship with people
who have been a part of the college community has
not been told and possibly can never be told, but we
do know and appreciate his great heart qualities.
He is a man who has clung tenaciously to the best in
human relationships."

Fred C. Kenney

Photo by Frank A. Waugh

On November 24 and 2f., Alumni of the College

were welcomed back to the campus by the division

of agriculture which had arranged a Iwo-day seminar

program for them for the purpose of discussing

current problems and new developments in the

agricultural industry.

Alumni who appeared on the interesting program

were Willard A. Munson '05, James W. Dayton '18,

C. H. Parsons '27, Albert I. Mann '26, H. C. Foley

'27, Francis Warren '26, R. T. Parkhurst '19, Randall

Cole '34 and J. J. Warren '17.

The seminar sessions included not only general

meetings but also specialized sectional meetings for

those interested in dairy industry, poultry, and

animal husbandry.

Alumni who registered at the sessions included the

following:

'10 John N. Everson, Amherst, Mass., professor of
agronomy

'10 Otto V. T. Urban, Springfield, Mass.

'12 John E. Pierpont, Hamden, Conn., superintend-
ent, New Haven Dairy Company

'13 Albert F. Edminster, East Freetown, Mass., rep-
resentative, Eastern States Farmers Exchange

'13 George A. Post, Springfield, Mass., greenskeeper,
Springfield Park Department

'14 Warren S. Baker, Hanson, Mass., director of re-
search, Charles M. Cox Company

'14 Emory B. Hebard, Colrain, Mass., farmer

'14 Leslie H. Norton, Lakeville, Mass., poultry
farmer

'15 R. W. Harvey, Springfield, Mass., executive,
Eastern States Farmers Exchange

'15 Enos J. Montague, Amherst, Mass., farmer

'15 Ernest B. Parmenter, Franklin, Mass., poultry
farmer

'15 Harlow L. Pendleton, Fitchburg, Mass., inspector,
Massachusetts Department of Agriculture

'16 Herbert W. Bishop, Palmer, Mass., president,
Forest Lake Dairy Company

'16 Carlton M. Gunn, Sunderland, Mass., farmer

'16 Richard C. Taft, Oxford, Mass.

'17 Michael J. McNamara, Hartford, Conn.
(Continued on Page 6)

Mr. Kenney came to the College in 1907 to take
the position of treasurer, which position he has
ably filled ever since. Mr. and Mrs. Kenney plan to
continue to live in Amherst, but expect to travel,
setting out in the near future for Florida.

Chosen to succeed Mr. Kenney is Robert D.
Hawley '18, secretary of the College since 1926.

Succeeding Mr. Hawley, as secretary, is James W.
Burke '38, extension editor. Mr. Burke was appointed
to the extension department in 1935, coming to the
College after having taken courses at Cornell. He
completed work for his bachelor's degree at Massa-
chusetts State, received the degree with the class of
1938.

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OBITUARIES

ALUMNI ATTEND INTERSCHOLASTIC
JUDGING CONTESTS

John E. Bement w'86

John E. Bement w'86 died at St. Petersburg,
Florida on December 16, 1939 following an illness of
almost six months. He was 77 years of age; he had
recently retired as head of the coal and fuel business
which he had for years conducted in Amherst, and
gone to Florida to live. Mr. Bement married Miss
Mary Smith of Amherst in 1889; all of their married
life was spent in Amherst until Mrs. Bement's death
in 1934. His second wife was Miss Ida Darling of
Mendon who survives him together with a daughter,
two grandsons, and a granddaughter.

Mr. Bement was prominent in the affairs of the
Amherst Business Men's Association.

Burial was in Wildwood Cemetery, Amherst.
James K. Williams w'26

James R. Williams w'26 of Glastonbury, Conn,
died on December 14, 1939 in Burbank, California.

Mr. Williams was a prominent figure in the aviation
industry. He had gone to the West Coast to live,
last May, after eight years of flying in and near
Hartford, Connecticut, where he was private pilot
for Colonel Edward A. Deeds. In California he was
associated with the Lockheed Company and the
Porterfield Aircraft Company.

Williams began his aviation career in 1922 when
he entered the Tex Rankins School of Aviation in
Phoenix, Arizona. In 1923 and 1924 he "barn-
stormed" with his own plane in the southeastern
states and later moved to Niles, Michigan, where he
operated the Niles School of Aviation and later be-
came president and general manager of the Niles
Aircraft Corporation.

In 1929 he became general manager of the Empire
Air Transport of Syracuse, N. Y., and a year later
was affiliated with the Greenfield, Mass., Tap and
Die Corporation as aviation representative. In 1930
he returned to Hartford.

Mr. Williams was 38 years old at the time of his
death. He attended Glastonbury schools and en-
tered Massachusetts State from Phillips Andover
Academy. He was a member of Q.T.V. fraternity.

He was a member of the Society of Quiet Birdmen,
and the Society of the Descendants of the Founders
of Hartford.

He is survived by his wife, his mother, a daughter,
a son, a brother, and five sisters.

MARRIAGES

'34 Donald Chase to Miss Marion Johnson,
November 30, 1939, at Washington, D. C.

'34 Arthur S. Levine to Miss Sarah I. Toabe,
December 24, 1939, at Lawrence, Mass.

'35 Walter O. Johnson to Miss Mary Silver,
December 16, 1939, at Upper Montclair, N. J.

'36 Miss G. Virginia Smith to Arnold James
Bullock, November 18, 1939, at Westfield, Mass.

'36 and '37 Louis deWilde to Miss Dorothea
Donnelly, November 23, 1939, at Huntington, Mass.

'37 Miss Virginia J. Connor to Walter C. Rodgers,

On November 17 and 18 the College sponsored its
annual interscholastic judging contests for students
of vocational agriculture in high schools and county
agricultural schools.

Alumni who came to the campus with vocational
students, and who registered for the contests, in-
cluded the following:

Louis H. Moseley '06, Agawam High School
Eric C. Vendt w'32, Barnstable High School
Jesse A. Taft '30, Barnstable High School
John B. Farrar '34, Bristol County Agric. School
Harold A. Mostrom '16, Essex County Ag. School
Everett Roberts '39, Essex County Agric. School
Clarence M. Wood '22, Essex County Agric. School
J. Stanley Bennett '23, Essex County Agric. School
Paul W. Brown '21, Hopkins Academy
Lewis H. Black '27, Stow High School
William T. Smith '33, Westport High School
Herbert F. Bartlett '26, W. Springfield High School
Maxwell Pyenson '38, W. Springfield High School
Jack Sturtevant '36, Weymouth High School
Andrew W. Love '25, Worcester North High School
Andrew Karlson '33, Worcester North High School
John E. Gifford '94, Worcester North High School
Thomas P. Dooley '13, Jamaica Plain High School
Henry C. Wendler sp'18, Jamaica Plain High School
Foster H. Weiss, FG, Norfolk County Agric. School
John C. Burrington '32, Williams High School,
Stockbridge, Mass.

GEORGE EDMAN '21 APPOINTED
MANAGING EDITOR

On November 28, George W. Edman '21, county
editor of the Berkshire Eagle, was appointed managing
editor of the paper.

Edman started newspaper work in 1922 as West
Springfield reporter for the Springfield Union; he
later went to Pittsfleld as correspondent for the
Union from that area.

He joined the Eagle staff in 1929, but continued
his Union connection. He is also correspondent for
the Boston Globe.

In addition to his newspaper work Edman serves
as clerk for the Berkshire Symphonic Festival and,
among other things, handles the publicity for this
famous festival. He is a trustee of the Stockbridge
Three Arts Society which owns the Berkshire Play
House.

September 9, 1939, at Westfield, Mass.

'39 Miss Dorothy L. Koehler to E. Whitman
Strecker, October 14, 1939, at Greenfield, Mass.

BIRTH

'37 A daughter, Nancy Caroline, to Mr. and Mrs.
R. Milton Snow, November 24, 1939, at Fitchburg,
Mass.

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WITH THE ALUMMAE

By Mary E. Garuey '19
and Leonla Horrigan '36

Ernui Carl '34 has begun a three-year term of
service as teacher of science at the American Collegi-
ate Institute, Izmir, Turkey.

Helen Lubaeh '36 is assistant dietitian at the
hospital for joint diseases in New York City. She
has had her position since December, 1937, when she
completed her training at Montefiiore. In a recent
letter, she wrote, "For variety's sake I am studying
for an M.A. at Columbia."

Francene Smith '36 has a research position at
Cornell Medical College. Her address is 437 East
58th Street, New York City.

Peg Calkins '37 is now Mrs. Leonard C. Robinson,
and is living in Yarmouth, Maine.

Maida Biggs '37 completed her training at the
Boston Bouve School of Physical Education last
May, and is now teaching physical education at
Sweet Briar College, Sweet Briar, Virginia. Her work
includes corrective posture training, teaching sports,
and supervising the lake and cabins.

Elinor Ball '38 is a student dietitian at the
Hahnemann Hospital, Philadelphia, Pa.

Ruth Bixby '38 is teaching home economics at
Pittsburgh, N. H.

Elinor Brown '38 is teaching English at the
Acton High School, Acton, Mass.

Gladys Corkum '38 has received her master's
degree in religious education and is now pastor's
assistant at the Second Baptist Church of Holyoke,

Mass.

Virginia Fagan '38 has a secretarial position in
the Moore Drop Forge Co. in Springfield, Mass.

Barbara Phillips '38 is teaching home economics
at Alton, N. H.

Jane Schopfer '38 is teaching home economics at
Duxbury, Mass.

Roberta Walkcy '38 is teaching home economics
at Rutland, Vermont.

The Hampshire County alumnae group elected
officers at its last meeting, held in the Stockbridge
House on campus on December 5. Betty Wheeler
Frigard '34 was chosen president; Aliee Dwight
Kueinski '35, vice-president; Shirley Bliss Gold-
berg '38, secretary-treasurer.

ALUMNI MEET THROUGHOUT
UNITED STATES

Alumni Night meetings wen- of greal interest, this
year as usual, to graduates of the College throughout
the United States. Alumni came together in groups
at points as widely separated as Pittsford, Vermont,
and Los Angeles, California, Philadelphia and
Chicago. And according to reports received by the
Alumni Office "a good time was had by all."

On November 14 Larry Briggs '27 went from the
College to Holden, Mass., where a meeting of the
Worcester County Alumni Club was held.

Huck Love '25, Zoe White '32, and Kd Sou Ilia-re
'3(5 were in charge of the event; Bed Darling '16
sponsored games and entertainment.

Briggs took with him moving pictures of campus
scenes and of football games and also a reel of pictures
which he and Red Ball '21 had taken in the fall of
1937 when they took an automobile trip in Mexico.

Larry also carried some Mexican costumes to
Worcester which, before the evening was over, were
modelled by Huck Love. Everyone agreed that
Huck, capering around in sombrero, serape, and
armed with a murderous machete, looked typically
Mexican.

Forty Alumni, men and women, gathered at the
Hotel Roger Smith in Holyoke on October 26 for
dinner and an informal meeting of the Holyoke
Alumni Club.

Conrad Ilemond '38 was the presiding officer and
introduced Bed Bosworth '31 as toastmaster. Red
presented President Baker and Alumni Secretary
Marshall Lanphcar '18 as the speakers for the
occasion.

After the program Red confessed that he never
before had acted as toastmaster; but no one would
have guessed it. He did a fine job.

President Baker talked about those factors which
tend to bring Alumni together; Marshall Lanphear
spoke about the work of the Associate Alumni. After
the speaking there was an informal reunion.

At the fall meeting of the Boston Alumnae the
following officers were elected: president, Sarah
Wileox '37; vice-president, Buth Kinsman *37;
secretary, Avis Taylor George '32; treasurer,
Josephine Fisher Whiting '34.

A scholarship committee was chosen as follows:
Ellen Guion '36, Mary Kane '29, Gertrude
Barnes Hale '32, Jessie Kinsman '38, Priscilla
Bradford '37, Elsie Nickerson Bike '26, Justine
Martin '39. In a recent letter Mrs. George de-
scribed the very praiseworthy object of this group:
". . . . to raise funds to be used as a scholarship for
girls unable otherwise to graduate. No time limit is
to be placed on the loan and a minimum of $25 is to
be kept in the fund at all times. Miss Skinner is in
charge of this fund. The Worcester group is also
contributing. . . ." This is indeed a commendable
interest that Boston and Worcester Alumnae are
showing toward their alma mater.

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ATHLETICS

Football

November 25, on Alumni Field:
Massachusetts State, 7.

Tufts, 34;

Dec.

12
13

WINTER SCHEDULES

Basketball

Mass. State
Trinity, here
Middlebury, here

39
25

Opp.
63
34

Remaining Games

Jan. 6 Springfield, here, 8:00
10 Williams, here, 8:00

13 Amherst, there, 8:00
17 Clark, there, 8:00

20 Wesleyan, there, 8:15
Feb. 7 Rhode Island State, here, 8:00
9 Tufts, here, 8:00
10 Coast Guard, there, 8:30

14 Amherst, here, 8:00

17 Connecticut Univ., there, 8:00
20 Worcester P. I., here, 8:00
24 Rensselaer P. I., there, 8:45

Mar. 2 Boston University, there, 8:00

Captain, Alfred H. Rudge '40

Manager, Henry M. Schreiber '40

Coach, Wilho Frigard '34

Track

Jan. 27 K. of C. Meet, Boston, 8:00
Feb. 10 BAA. Meet, Boston, 8:00

16 Connecticut Univ., here, 7:30
24 Tufts and W.P.I., here, 2:00

Mar. 2 Connecticut Valley Indoor

Championships, here, 2:00
Captain, Robert A. Joyce '40

Manager, Edwin M. Lavitt '41

Coach, Llewellyn L. Derby

Swimming
Jan. 13 Worcester P. I., here, 3:00

17 Connecticut Univ., here, 8:00
Feb. 10 Wesleyan, there, 3:00

16 Coast Guard, there, 4:00
23 Bates, here, 8:00
Mar. 1 Union, there, 8:00

15-16 N.E.I.S.A. Meet, Williamstown
15th at 2 and 8; 16th at 2
Co-captains, Roy E. Morse '40, George T. Pitts Jr. '40
Manager, Harold E. Griffin '40
Coach, Joseph R. Rogers, Jr.

'20 John Crawford, promotion manager for the
Cleveland Plain Dealer, recently arranged a benefit
interscholastic football game in Cleveland which was
attended by 50,000 people. Net cash return — and it
was in five figures — was used to help needy families
in Cleveland and for the public school medical fund.

ALUMNI ATTEND AGRICULTURE
SEMINAR

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'17 James J. Warren, North Brookfield, Mass.,

poultry farmer
'18 Roger F. Clapp, Middleton, Mass., Farm Se-
curity Administration
'19 Herbert R. Bond, Westwood, Mass., Massachu-
setts Milk Control Board
'21 James W. Alger, Bridgewater, Mass., poultry

service department, Charles M. Cox Company
'21 C. Donald Kendall, West Springfield, Mass.,

Eastern States Farmers Exchange
'21 Richard A. Waite, West Springfield, Mass.,

Eastern States Farmers Exchange
'22 Richard E. Field, Conway, Mass., dairy farmer
'22 Albert W. Smith, Springfield, Mass., manager,

United Dairy System, Inc.
'23 Eleanor W. Bateman, Lancaster, Mass., investi-
gator, Massachusetts Dept. of Agriculture
'23 Vernon D. Mudgett, Sterling Junction, Mass.,

farmer
'24 Allen S. Leland, Northampton, Mass., county

agricultural agent
'25 G. K. Mouradian, Cambridge, Mass., ice cream

manufacturer
'26 Carl A. Fraser, South Yarmouth, Mass., 4-H

Club agent
'26 Albert I. Mann, Storrs, Conn., assistant extension

dairyman, University of Connecticut
'26 Francis W. Warren, Stow, Mass., farmer
'27 Lawrence D. Rhoades, Northampton, Mass.,
manager, Northampton Prod. Credit Association
'29 Stephen Adams, Demarest, N. J., ice cream

manufacturer
'29 Matthew L. Blaisdell, Norfolk, Mass., farm

manager
'29 Richard Kelton, Bolton, Mass., farm manager
'30 A. M. Davis, Amherst, Mass., landscape architect
'30 Charles W. Harris, Dighton, Mass., county

agricultural agent
'30 Frank A. Skogsberg, Pittsfield, Mass., county

agricultural agent
'30 Wilbur F. Buck, Amherst, Mass., conservation

agent
'33 Raymond F. Pelissier, Amherst, Mass., Agricul-
tural Adjustment Administration
'33 Harold L. Soule, Somerville, Mass., bacteriologi-
cal chemist, New England Dairies, Inc.
'34 Randall K. Cole, Ithaca, N. Y., instructor in

poultry husbandry, Cornell University
'34 Robert C. Jackson, New Bedford, Mass.
'34 Russell E. MacCleery, Carlisle, Mass., N. E.
representative for National Highway Users ;
Conference
'34 Robert R. Stockbridge, Farmingdale, N. Y.,

instructor in poultry
'35 Ellen Connery, Easthampton, Mass., agricultural

economics department, Mass. State College
'35 Leslie Limball, West Springfield, Mass., Agricul-
tural Adjustment Administration
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WITH

ffirn -

THE

BOSTON ALUMNI

A/ Gricius '37, former conductor of this column, has
left us, at least temporarily — and is now Lieutenant Al
Gricius, Fort Knox, Kentucky. Al will be at this post
for probably a year; we hope to hear from him soon
and to learn how it seems to be so close to so much gold,
buried in them thar hills.

Kichard Hubbard '35 recently resigned as a
teacher of math and vocational guidance in the East
Greenwich, R. I., High School and is now teaching
algebra at Belmont High. Dick also is doing some
work in the Harvard School of Education.

Ed Steffck '34, who is assistant editor for the
Massachusetts Horticultural Society, had an inter-
esting article in the December 17 New York Times
describing shade trees which are especially suited for
growth in cities.

The Boston Club came together for an informal
meeting on Wednesday, November 15, at the Uni-
versity Club.

Eddie Haertl '27 and Ducky Swan '27 had
charge of the entertainment which consisted, in part,
of a showing of composite cartoons.

The next meeting was announced for December 20
when Frank Stratton '28, chemist for the Boston
Police Department, will talk about his work in law
enforcement.

Charlie Mouradian '25 is successfully carrying
on the business of the Regis Ice Cream Company,
95 Whittemore Street, Cambridge. He is also putting
his business talent to work as treasurer of the Boston
Alumni Club; while he continues as treasurer we can
be assured of securing every penny's worth wherever
our meetings may be held.

Doc Fabyan '32 is teaching school in Tyngsboro.

Charlie Eliot '38 is living in Beverly and is work-
ing with the State Department of Public Health.

Charlie Frost '29 is assistant route foreman for
the Gulf Oil Co., Chelsea. He lives at 301 Pleasant
Street, Belmont.

Arthur Fontaine '32 is a produce inspector. He
is located at 29 Fargo Street, the Boston Terminal
Market Building.

Ed Nash '33 is junior landscape engineer on the
Salem, Mass., maritime national historic site.

MERRILL WELCKER '38 ELECTED
ALDERMAN

Merrill (Bill) Welcker 38 ■• elected to the
Holyoke, Mass., Board of Aldermen in thi
elections on Tuesday, December 5. Bill is in the

real estate business in Holyoke.

There were thirty-eighi candidates for election to
the Board: fourteen were elected.

For his "platform," Bill made (his statement, "I
am a graduate of Massachusetts State College
I want a chance to show what I know, not about
politics, but about good government."

DEAN MACHMER ELECTED OFFICER
OE EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION

At the annual meeting of the Eastern Association
of Deans and Advisors of Men held in Atlantic City
in November, Dean William L. Machmer was
elected president of the society.

He had previously been vice-president and for
many years a member of the organization's advisory
committee.

HILL

DOLE '27 TELLS OE

EXPERIENCES IN ENGLAND

Bill Dole '27, who teaches English in the Hartford,
Connecticut, High School, spent the past year as an
exchange teacher in Nunthorpe, York, England.

He is now back in Hartford and tells, interestingly,
of his experiences in an item in the English Leaflet
for December, 1939, published by the New England
Association of teachers of English.

In the article Bill says that he applied for the
exchange position because he felt that wide ex-
perience in England is essential for a teacher of
English literature. He named three ways in which
his experience had been beneficial to him: through
the opportunity to visit literary shrines; the oppor-
tunity to observe the difference in vocabulary and
to acquire a better understanding of Anglo-Saxon
derivatives; and the opportunity to observe and take
part in the wealth of English drama.

Bill concluded his article with this statement: "I
have many friends in England, both men and boys,
whom I hope to correspond with always. There
hangs in my home my greatest treasure, a beautiful
picture of York, given to me by my boys, who
called me a "Yank at Nunthorpe." Therefore my
interest in England is personal. But also I like to
think that exchanges like this emphasize the force of
our common language which all of us in both coun-
tries are anxious to preserve. Around the English-
speaking world I believe can be built a powerful
league of nations who stand for peace and justice."

'30 Randy Barrows is doing investigatory work
in New England on flood control. He is a junior
engineer's aid; his address is 801 Industrial Trust
Building, Providence, R. I.

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'23 Howie Baker is entomologist for the U.S.D.A.
and is located in St. Joseph, Missouri, at 2925 Olive
Street.

'24 Pat Myrick, who is inspector for the National
Park Service, is living at 115 Forest Hill, Jefferson
City, Missouri.

Library

State College

" tf eMe^dau4s " by Frank Prentice Rand

Published by the Associate Alumni, "Yesterdays" is the story
of Massachusetts State College from earliest days to 1933.

"Yesterdays" is a book which every Alumnus should own. A
copy will be mailed postpaid, anywhere, for $2.00. Orders should
be sent to the Alumni Office, Memorial Hall.

"Yesterdays is as exciting as a football game." — Louie Lyons '18

KAPPA SIGS MOVE INTO NEW HOUSE

Kappa Sigma has a fine new house at Massachu-
setts State College; and the boys moved in just
before the Christmas holidays started.

The house had been contemplated for nearly thirty
years; an active building committee at last brought
the plans and ideas to realization. Work started on
the construction last July, was completed in December.

The new house is located on the west side of
Butterfield Terrace and from its west veranda a
magnificent view of the Connecticut Valley and the
Berkshire Hills may be obtained.

The house is of brick construction and includes,
among its features, a living room, library, dining
hall, game room, a suite for the house mother, and
study accommodations for forty boys.

On the building committee were Ernest Russell
'16, and Clifford Belden '24, and these members of
the faculty: Dr. Frank A. Waugh, Professor G. V.
Glatfelter, and Assistant Dean Marshall O. Lanphear
'18.

'26 Eddie Rowen is landscape architect for the
Brown Brothers Nursery in Rochester, N. Y. Ed is
the designer of his company's new retail display
gardens, an attractive feature of which includes an
area given over to an impressive display of roses.
Ed is now finishing work on format and copy for
the new Brown catalog.

'33 Dick Hammond is employed by the Monahan
Poultry Service in Framingham, Mass.

ALUMNI ATTEND AGRICULTURE
SEMINAR

(Continued from Page 6)
'36 Lynn R. Glazier, Great Barrington, Mass., milk

inspector
'36 Owen S. Trask, Sterling, Mass., Nashoba fruit

storage
'37 John P. Brooks, Holliston, Mass., nutritional

research
'37 Ernest K. Davis, Worcester, Mass., foreman,

H. P. Hood & Sons, Auburn, Mass.
'37 H. Henry Friedman, Dorchester, Mass., dairy

inspector, Boston Health Department
'37 Haskell S. Tubiash, Dorchester, Mass., chemist,

bacteriologist, New England Dairies
'37 Harvey G. Turner, Morrisville, Vermont, dairy

manufactures
'37 Karol S. Wisnieski, Worcester, Mass., laboratory

technician
'38 Carl J. Bokina, Hatfield, Mass., Extension Service
'38 James D. Lee, Chester, Mass., Extension Service
'38 Robert D. MacCurdy, Watertown, Mass., H. P.

Hood & Sons laboratory
'38 Maxwell Pyenson, Otis, Mass., vocational agri-
cultural instructor
'38 William C. Riley, Holyoke, Mass., dairy plant

work
'38 Frederick Sievers, Jr., Amherst, Mass., research

assistant
'39 Osgood L. Villaume, Brattleboro, Vt., instructor

in agriculture, Brattleboro High School
'39 Stanley H. Wiggin, Boston, Mass.

ALUMNI DAY ON CAMPUS IS SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1940
- AND IT WON'T BE LONG, NOW !

THE ALUMNI
BULLETIN

RAIL FENCE

MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

AMHERST, MASSACHUSETTS

V>1. XXII, No. 5

February, 1940

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN
MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

Published monthly at Amherst, Mass. (except August and
September) by the Associate Alumni of Massachusetts State College.
Entered as second class matter. March 17, 1920, at the Postofnce
at Amherst, Mass., under the Acts of March 3, 1879.

ASSOCIATE ALUMNI OF
MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

BOARD OF DIRECTORS
to 1940

Walter T. Bonney '31 of Springfield

John J. Maginnis 'IS of Worcester

Lester Needham '14 of Springfield

F. Civille Pray '06 of Amherst
to 1941
Richard J. Davis '28 of Boston

Thomas P. Dooley '13 of West Roxburv

George W. Edman '21 of Pittsfield

Ralph F. Taber '16 of West Newton
to 1942
Erford W. Poole '96 of New Bedford

David P. Rossiter '37 of Maiden

Zoe Hickney White '32 of Worcester

Alfred E. Wilkins '15 of Wakefield
to 1943
Harry Dunlap Brown '14 of Billerica

William L. Doran '15 of Amherst

Mary E. M. Garvey '19 of Amherst

Lawrence L. Jones '26 of North Beverly

The Alumni Bulletin is sent ten times each year to all members
of the Associate Alumni. Memberships are: Annual S3. 00, Sustain-
ing $10.00.

Cover picture — The most photographed rail fence in
the vicinity of Amherst. This picturesque fence is a
boundary on the old Watts' Farm, just north of Wild-
wood Cemetery, now owned, by Al Brown '31.

Photograph by Robert L. Coffin.

'32 Bill Batstone is poultryman at Conyers Farm,
Greenwich, Conn.

'33 Malcolm Fowler is an insurance broker in
Los Angeles; his address is 541 South Spring Street.

'34 Roger Alton is back in the south once more,
doing landscape architecture work. At present he is
carrying on a large construction job on the campus
of Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge.

'34 J. Lee Brown, B.L.A., is to be the new in-
structor in landscape architecture at Oklahoma
A. & M. College, in which position he succeeds Rudy
O. Monosmith, B.L.A., '33, who recently transferred
himself back to his Alma Mater at Mississippi
A. & M. College.

'34 Bill Lister is accountant for the L. H. Hamel
leather goods in Haverhill, Mass.

'37 Harold Meyers is clerk with the First National
Bank & Trust Company in Greenfield.

The accounts of Alumni Night meetings, begun in an
earlier issue of the Bulletin, will be continued next
month as will, also, the notes on the activities of mem-
bers of the class of 1939.

The 1916 column which has appeared in the Bulletin
for the past several issues will be resumed next month.

HENRI HASKINS '90 RETIRES

Henri Darwin Maskins '90

On Wednesday, December 27, 1939, Professor
Henri Darwin Haskins '90, was retired from his
duties as chief of laboratory in State fertilizer control

work when he
reached the
mandatory
State retire-
ment age of •
70. Professor
Haskins' work |
in directing,
fertilizer con-
trol service and
in connection
with legislation
governing such
service had be-
come a nation-
ally recognized
model. His nu-
merous bulle-
tins and arti-
cles in the field
of chemistry
and fertilizer
control have,
many of them,
been accepted
as text books
in this work. He has served as editor of the Associ-
ation of Official Agricultural Chemists' Journal. He
has been a member of the Association's executive
committee and held other offices in the organization.
He is a member of the American Association for the
Advancement of Society.

Phil Smith '97, chief of the State feed control
laboratory, has been an associate of Professor Haskins
for many years, and will succeed him in taking charge
of the fertilizer control work.

"Job Well Done"

Phil says of his predecessor, "The world is full of
men who spread themselves too thin in an attempt
to adjust satisfactorily the affairs of the universe.
Mr. Haskins' connection with the Experiment
Station indicates a belief in a job well done without
the distraction of a multiplicity of other interests.
Through his profession he has made a lasting contact
not only with those engaged in similar work but also i
with a long line of junior chemists who for a time
have worked with him and profited through the
association."

When Professor Haskins had completed 45 years
of service in the Experiment Station, in 1935, Di-
rector Fred J. Sievers said of him, "In his responsible
position he has established himself as a national
figure among agricultural chemists and has gained
the respect and admiration of his associates and of
the representatives of the fertilizer industry. Massa-
chusetts State College is proud to own him as an
Alumnus."

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HARRY BROWN '14 APPOINTED
TRUSTEE OE THE COLLEGE

Early in January it was announced by Governor
Leverett Saltonstall that Harry Dunlap Brown '14
of Billerica had been appointed Trustee of the
College to serve until 1947.

Harry's distinguished record as an Alumnus deeply
interested in the College qualifies him admirably for

membership on
the College
Board of Trus-
tees. He has
always been a
literally tire-
less worker in
behalf of the
best interests
of Massachu-
setts State.
Notably was
this so during
his term of of-
fice in the
State legisla-
ture in Boston
and then, more
recently, when
he served the
Associate
Alumni first as
its vice-presi-
dent and, af-
terwards, as
president. He continues his official connection with
the Alumni Association as a member of its Board of
Directors.

Harry Dunlap Brown '14

NEW DORMITORIES TO BE ERECTED
BY ALUMNI CORPORATION

At their January meeting, in Boston, the Board >A
Trustees of the College announced the acceptance <>f
two new dormitories at the College, these to be
provided on a self-liquidating ba8is by and through
an Alumni Corporation (see October 1939 Alumni
Bulletin) .

An Alumni committee composed of Alden Brei i
'12, William V. Hayden '13 and Richard J. Davis
'28 introduced a bill before the Legislature- in the
spring of 1939 providing for the construction of the
dormitories. The bill was ably supported by Alumni,
by the college administration, by parents of students
'to whose attention the project was called by student
organizations), and other friends of the College; it
was received favorably by the Legislature, approved
by Governor Saltonstall.

At a special meeting of the College Trustees, held
on January 24, a lease under which the College will
occupy the buildings was negotiated. Construction
will start soon. Details as to the architectural
features, locations of the buildings (which will be one
a dormitory for girls and one a dormitory for boys),
and pictures will appear in next month's Bulletin.
Bud Ross '17 is architect.

President Baker writes, "May I express through
the pages of the Alumni Bulletin the deep appreci-
ation of all the College for the splendid work which
our Alumni have been doing in promoting and
bringing about our present dormitory building
program at the College.

"These buildings have been needed for some time
and yet I am sure that the plan would have remained
a nebulous dream for many years to come had it
not been for the splendid support of our many
interested Alumni."

ALUMNI AT UNION AGRICULTURAL MEETINGS IN WORCESTER

The twenty second annual Union Agricultural
Meetings were held in the Worcester, Mass., audi-
torium on January 3, 4 and 5, under the direction
of Alfred W. Lombard, of the State Department of
Agriculture. A large group of interested Alumni
were present for all or for part of the three day
program.

The Worcester County Alumnae Club were hos-
tesses, on the 4th, to Alumni, and served coffee and
refreshments in an attractive room, kindly provided
by Mr. Lombard, in the auditorium. Zoe Hickney
White '31, Evelyn Mallory Allen '35 and Peg
Ohlwiler Vaughan '32 were in charge of these ar-
rangements. President Baker was guest; and Alumni
enjoyed chatting with him throughout the afternoon.
Professor Rollin Barrett showed his excellent colored
movies of student life; the two large groups of
Alumni who saw these pictures at the two different
showings were very pleased.

On the committee on arrangements for the Meet-

ings were Bill Cole '02, Julius Kroeck '22, Huck Love
'25, Joe Putnam '94, Paul Dempsey '17 and Earle
Carpenter '24.

Alumni who took part in some of the section
meetings included Win Thomas '34, Frank Shaw '31,
Bill Cole '02, Huck Love '25, Lee Rice, Jr. '37, and
Lynn Glazier '36. During the course of the sessions
Paul Dempsey '17 was elected president of the
Massachusetts Vegetable Growers Association and
Andrew Love '25 the secretary. Jim Dayton '13
was elected secretary protem of the Massachusetts
Federation of Vegetable Growers.

George A. Drew '97 was elected a director of the
Nashoba Fruit Producers Association, and these
Alumni were elected directors at large: Wilbur T.
Locke '16, S. L. Davenport '08, Richard Lambert
'21, Andrew Love '25, Willard Munson '04, Roger
Peck '19, Roger Coombs '21.

Arthur Howard '18 of Pittsfield was elected presi-
dent of the Massachusetts Fruit Growers Association.

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OBITUARIES

Dr. Josiah Newhall Hall '78

Dr. Josiah Newhall Hall died in Denver, Colorado,
on December 17, 1939. He was eighty years old.

After receiving his medical degree from Harvard
in 1882, Dr. Hall went to Denver in 188.3 and began
the practice of medicine in a neighboring town,
Sterling, which had a population of 250 people. He
was mayor of Sterling in 1888 and 1889.

In 1892 Dr. Hall went to Denver to become pro-
fessor of therapeutics at the University of Colorado.
He also was physician for the city and county of
Denver, member of the staffs of St. Joseph's, St.
Anthony's and Mercy Hospitals.

In 1917 he became a major in the army medical
corps and served twenty-one months, first as chief
of medical service at Camp Logan, Texas, and then
consultant in the base hospitals of the southwest. In
1937 he retired from active practice after he had been,
for years, the physician registered longest in the
state of Colorado.

Dr. Hall was president of the state board of medi-
cal examiners in 1891, president of the Colorado state
board of health in 1903 and 1904, and active in
affairs of the state medical society until just before
his death.

He was a member of the American Medical Associ-
ation, Medico-Legal Society, the New York Medical
Society (of which he was president in 1900), the
Climatological Society and president of the American
Therapeutic Society in 1916. He was the author of
a book and more than 140 articles prepared for
national medical publications.

Dr. Hall is survived by his wife who is widely
known in Colorado for her work in the state Histori-
cal Society, by his son, and by four grandchildren.

Charles Edward Beach '82

Charles Edward Beach died at his home in West
Hartford, Connecticut, on January 12, 1940. Since
his graduation from College his life had been passed
in his home town, West Hartford, and on the family
estate, Vine Hill, which he managed. Public spirited
in temperament, he found time and opportunity to
be of service as a member of the Board of Selectmen
for several years, president of the West Hartford
War Bureau during the World War, and a member
of the Connecticut General Assembly in 1907. Among
his business activities, he was president of Beach &
Company, Incorporated, of West Hartford and chair-
man of the Board of the Whitlock Coil Pipe Company.

His college life was of a quiet studious nature; but
he took part in the football activities of those days
and was a member of the college team. He was
always a loyal member of the class and later of the
Alumni Association, and it is doubtful if any mem-
ber of either exceeded him in regularity in returning
to the campus at Commencement.

He is survived by two sons, three grandchildren,
a brother, and two sisters. His wife was the late
Catherine C offing Beach.

David Goodale '82

Louis Brandt '10

Louis Brandt '10 died in San Francisco on Novem-
ber 21, 1939, after several weeks illness. At the
time of his death he was associate landscape archi-
tect with the National Park Service.

Louie Brandt came to the College from Everett,
Mass., and made an outstanding record with the
class of 1910. He was class captain, a member of
his class football and basketball teams, a member
of the glee club and college choir, a winner of the
Burnham declamation prize, and artist for the 1910
Index. He was a member of Kappa Sigma fraternity,
a major in landscape architecture.

Following his graduation he went to Minneapolis
to work with the city park department, afterwards
going to the University of Illinois as an instructor
in landscape architecture. He later went to Liver-
pool, England, to study at the Institute of Civic
Design and Town Planning and became one of the
first students to receive a certificate from this famous
institution.

Returning to the United States he practiced land-
scape architecture in Cleveland, Ohio, and then went
to Florida, where for a number of years he was active
in landscape work in the Miami region. He special-
ized in the planning of expositions, fairs, and amuse-
ment parks, and laid out or rehabilitated some of
the foremost parks in the United States. He became
mayor of Fulford, Florida which, at the time, was a
growing and booming suburb of Miami. His activi-
ties as mayor were diverse and strenuous, and in-
cluded the preparation of new ordinances for the
management of city business, the organization of
new city departments, planning new physical develop-
ments, opening new boulevards and lighting systems.

In the early 1930's Louis Brandt went to the west
coast as landscape architect for Los Angeles County,
California, where he designed and supervised the
construction of a large fairground and several parks
and playgrounds. He later joined the National Park
Service, with headquarters in San Francisco, as
associate landscape architect; his work covered
fourteen state parks in the region between San
Francisco and San Diego.

Harold Francis Willard '11

Harold Francis Willard '11 died in Honolulu on
August 18, 1939. He was an outstanding worker
with the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quaran-
tine.

He was born in Neillsville, Wisconsin on February
21, 1884, and after being graduated from Massachu-
setts State College accepted a position in Honolulu
as an instructor in agriculture at Mills College, a
military school for Polynesian and Oriental students.
After three years he resigned to become a home-
steader of government land on the island of Maui.

In 1916 he entered the Bureau of Entomology and
remained continuously in its service until his death.
He is best known professionally, perhaps, for a series
of papers reporting on parasitization of the Mediter-
ranean fruit fly.

(Continued on Page 8)

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WITH THE ALUMMAE

By Mary E. Garvey '19
and Leonta Horrigan '36

An interesting letter from Annah Flynn '3(> who

is teaching at the Erie Day School in Erie, Pennsyl-
vania, recently told us about the success which
Martini White w'38 has been enjoying as an actress.

Annah wrote, "Martha and I had our own Alumni
Night party at dinner at The Den. The Den is
famous in Erie for its good food, but I'm afraid the
food suffered lack of attention that night in favor of
Massachusetts State.

"Martha told me what she had been doing since
she left the College, after finishing her sophomore
year. She completed her college work at Syracuse
where she majored in drama. Last year she was an
apprentice at the Cleveland Playhouse. During the
past summer she played with a summer theater in
Syracuse. And now she is a regular member of the
cast of the Playhouse in Erie.

"They have just completed a three week's run of
'A Murder Has Been Arranged' in which Martha
played the sinister secretary, accomplice of the
murderer. They are just beginning 'Tovarich' and
according to press notices Martha is continuing her
previous success.

"Besides her work at the Playhouse she is co-
director of the Children's Theater here; and she told
me that she is enjoying this part of her work almost
as much as the acting."

{Ed. note: Martha White was a member of the
Roister Doisters at the College. Lately she wrote to
Professor Rand, "I'm still in the theater. See what
you startedl")

Mary Ingraham Jones '27 and her husband

Larry Jones '26 spent a busy weekend in and near

Amherst recently. Mary watched the Roister Doister

play one night (see page 7) and next day went to

Deerfield to a swimming meet where Fred Jones.

j son of Harold Jones '13, Larry's brother, swam,

i Then she watched the Amherst-Mass. State basket-

; ball game and on Sunday skied all afternoon in

| Brattleboro, Vermont, and there visited with Al

; Burgess '35 and Ruth Campbell Burgess '34, who

also were skiing.

MARRIAGES

'33 George Dyar to Miss Grace Moores, January
13, 1940, in Milton, Mass.

'34 Donald Chase to Miss Marian Johnson,
November 30, 1939, at Washington, D. C.

'36 and '38 A. Hamilton Gardner, Jr., to Miss
Edith Thayer, September 22, 1939, at East Bridge-
water, Mass.

'39 John Pratt to Miss Jean Bates, December 27,
1939, at Cohasset, Mass.

FRED GRIGGS '13 ELECTED OFFICER
OF EDUCATIONAL GROUP

Frederick D. Griggs '13 of Springfield, ■• member
of the College Board of Trustees, was recently elected
secretary-treasurer of the Association of Governing
Boards of State Universities and Allied Institutions.
This is a nation-wide educational group comprising
33 tax-supported colleges and universities. Mr.

Griggs' selection was by mail poll, to fill tl

caused by the retirement of D. W. Springer who had
served in the
position since
the formation
of the Associ-
ation 18 years
ago.

The Associ-
ation is a con-
ference body
meeting once a
year for the
discussion of
administrative
policies and
problems com-
mon to its
member insti-
tutions. The
1939 session
was held at
the University
of Texas.

Mr. Griggs
has been a Frederick D. Griggs '13

Trustee of

Massachusetts State College since 1928; during the
past five years he has been official delegate to meet-
ings of the Governing Boards Association. He is
former Director of the Middlesex (Mass.) County
Extension Service and was at one time secretary of
the Massachusetts Farm Bureau Federation. He was
a member of the State legislature in Massachusetts,
1925 to 1928. He is now executive director of the
Springfield Tax Payers Association.

1919 MEN MEET

Members of the class of 1919 got together at the
Aurora Hotel in Worcester on Friday evening,
January 5, for supper and a reunion visit. It was
an enjoyable meeting and those who were unable to
attend because of a snow storm look forward to the
next gathering of the group.

Plans for a class letter and for a '19 beach party
on the Cape next summer were discussed. The group
adjourned to Bill French's house after the meal.
Present were: French, Ray Parkhurst, Gunnar
Erickson, Bill Field and his wife, and Frank Leary
and his wife.

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ATHLETICS

Cross Country

It's a little late now — what with snow on the
ground — for us to be telling about last fall's cross
country results; but a complete summary of the
scores, available for last month's Bulletin, was un-
avoidably held over.

The summary (low score wins) :

Statesmen Opp.

Oct. 14 Northeastern, here 34 31

21 M.I.T., there 42 18

28 W.P.I. , there 30 26

Nov. 2 Springfield, here 22 33

7 Conn. Valley Meet at Springfield 2nd of 6

13 New Englands at Boston 11th of 12

17 Trinity, there 27 28

Chester Putney '41 of Orleans, Vermont, was

captain, Dan Shepardson '40 of Athol was manager,

L. L. Derby was coach.

Although the Statesmen seemed not to hit then-
stride until mid season, the boys were much cheered
by their 20-41 victory over Amherst, which dual
race was scheduled as part of the Connecticut Valley
Meet on November 7.

ALUMNI DIRECTORS MEET ON
CAMPUS

Statesmen Opp.

39 63

25 34

26 43
30 34
23 24
34 58
19 43

Rasketball

Scores to date
Dec. 12 Trinity, here

13 Middlebury, here
Jan. 6 Springfield, here

10 Williams, here

13 Amherst, there
17 Clark, there
20 Wesleyan, there

Remaining games:
Feb. 7 Rhode Island State, here, 8:00
9 Tufts, here, 8:00
10 Coast Guard, there, 9:30

14 Amherst, here, 8:00

17 Connecticut University, there, 8:00
20 Worcester P. I., here, 8:00

24 Rensselaer P. I., there, 8:45
Mar. 2 Boston University, there, 8:00

Swimming

Scores to date: Statesmen Opp.

Jan. 13 Worcester P. I., here 47 28

17 Connecticut Univ., here 56 19

Remaining meets:
Feb. 10 Wesleyan, there, 3:00

16 Coast Guard, there, 4:00

25 Bates, here, 8:00
Mar. 1 Union, there, 8:00

15 N.E.I.S.A. Meet, Williamstown 2:00, 8:00

16 " " 2:00

'23 George Holley is with the U. S. Bureau of
Public Roads, Roanoke, Virginia. He recently was
appointed landscape superintendent of the Blue
Ridge Summit Parkway.

On Friday evening, January 12, the Board of
Directors of the Associate Alumni held a meeting in
Draper Hall to discuss a number of items of im-
portant alumni business.

A northeast storm was raging, the winter's worst
snow storm, but there was a full attendance.
Hapless Director George Edman '21 on returning
home to Pittsfield following the meeting had a
blowout somewhere in the wilds of Jacob's Ladder,
arrived home at three in the morning.

Announcement was made of the appointment of a i
committee (Albert W. Smith '22, chairman; Mary ,
Garvey '19, Clark Thayer '13, Marshall Lanphear
'18, Stanley Flower '38, Hugh Corcoran '35, and
George E. Emery '24) to undertake a campaign to
increase the number of paid members in the Associate
Alumni. Membership in the Association and the
support of Alumni is and has been most gratifying;
but the Directors feel that a larger membership can
and should be obtained.

Alden Brett '12, president of the Associate Alumni,
reported for the Alumni Dormitory Committee of
which he is chairman. (For results of the committee's
good work see page 3, column 2.)

The Directors learned that there was a widespread
belief on the part of Alumni that the alumni organ-
ization might be of assistance at this time with
regard to the future success of the football team.

After a discussion it was voted that a committee
of Alumni be appointed to confer with Professor
Hicks and others who are, or have been, intimately
connected with athletics at the College for the pur-
pose of ascertaining what might be done to improve
the quality of performance of the football team. The
committee was instructed to report, with recom-
mendations, at the next meeting of the Board of
Directors.

There was a long discussion of means whereby
good prospective students might be interested in the
College; and Assistant Dean Marshall Lanphear '18
spoke of the good work which George Edman '21,
Tom Dooley '13, and other Alumni had been doing
in bringing the College to the attention of high
school seniors.

'13 Herbert Headle is a land appraiser with the I
U.S.D.A. and is located in Upper Darby, Pa.

'22 Hank Gowdy is manager of Conyers Farm, i
Greenwich, Connecticut.

'36 Robert Logan is laboratory assistant in the e
chemistry department of the University of Kentucky, '
Lexington.

'37 Elmer Hallowell, who received his master's ■
degree in economics at the College last June, is u
working toward his doctorate.

'38 Lyman Gibbs is employed by Hales and
Hunter Company, 166 West Jackson Blvd., Chicago.
He is laboratory technician at the Red Comb Ex-
perimental Laboratory in Riverdale, Illinois.

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WITH JjL

• 1 II L

BOSTON ALUMNI

On Wednesday, December 20, thirty-five members
of the Boston Alumni Club came together for an
informal meeting and social evening at the Univer-
sity Club.

Frank Stratton '28 obligingly gave the group an
evening full of horror — of murders, more murders,
blood clots on the knife, and that sort of a thing.
Frank is chemist attached to the police department
in Boston, and he showed a film, and told an inter-
esting story of science as applied to law preservation
through the detection of criminals.

The speaker scheduled for the meeting of the
Boston Club on January 17 is the Honorable
George R. Farnum, Boston lawyer, former Assist-
ant Attorney General of the United States, former
special counsel for the Boston Finance Commission.
Attorney Farnum will speak on the menace of corrupt
politics, with particular reference to his own experi-
ences in conducting investigations into graft in
municipal administrations.

Tom Dooley '13 hasn't been so excited for a long

time as he was about the trip he took to Dallas,

i Texas, over the New Year's holidays to attend the

j post-season Boston College-Clemson football game.

Tom went to Dallas on the special Boston College

1 train and he himself states that there was one train

i he was determined not to miss. He was at the South

Station three hours before the special pulled out for

the Panhandle. Tom had a great time going, coming,

and in Dallas. His only disappointment was that

Clemson won the game.

Al Edminister '13 is living in Freetown, but
comes in to the monthly meetings here in Boston.
Al has a son who is now a sophomore at State. Al is
one of the leading poultrymen in his section.

VIC CAHALANE '24 HEAD OF NEW
FEDERAL UNIT

On December 27 it was announced that through a
Federal reorganization of divisions of the Interior
Department, Victor H. Cahalane '24 was made chief
of a new unit in the Federal wildlife program

Cahalane, who has been acting chief of the wild-
life division of the National Park Service, takes over
new duties through a co-ordination of that program
with comparable work which is carried on by the
biological survey and the bureau of fisheries.

MARY JONES '27 WATCHES
ROISTER DOISTER PLAY

On January 12, Mary Ingraharrj Jones '27 came to
the campus. While her husband, Larry Jones '26,
was attending the Alumni Directors meeting Mars
watched the Roister Doister's winter play in Bowker
Auditorium. The play was called "The fieneral Died
in Bed"; it was written by Pete Barreca '41 of Pil I
field. At our request, Mary kindly consented to
send us these notes about the play.

"It was fine," she wrote, "a credit to the College,
to the author, and to the Roister Doisters. Inci-
dentally, Professor Rand's convincing directorial
touches were very evident to this Alumna.

"One very interesting point about the play was
that its author could bring so many present-day
situations of conflict, of war, and of loyalties into a
Revolutionary setting and make it all appear not
only plausible but convincing.

"The characters were well portrayed. The dra-
matic situations were effectively staged. My interest
was held throughout. The Roister Doisters who
seemed to stand out in my mind for their excellent
performances were Albert Sullivan '40, Harold
McCarthy '41, Patricia Newell '42, and George
Hoxie '41.

"Pete Barreca, the author, may not yet have
reached the stature of George Bernard Shaw or
Maxwell Anderson; but he has made a good start.

"I'd like to see the play again."

DUTCHIE BARNARD '28 WRITES
ABOUT WAR

The first article in the January number of Harper's
magazine is called "War and the Verities, An Answer
to the Isolationists." It was written by Ellsworth
(Dutchie) Barnard '28. The article has received high
critical acclaim, although we have been told there is
a difference of opinion in regard to some of the views
which Dutchie takes.

In the "Personal and Otherwise" department of
the January Harper's there appears this autobio-
graphic sketch by Dutchie, who writes, "I was born
in 1907 on a farm in Shelburne, Massachusetts, on
the eastern edge of the Berkshires; and I incline to
think that man's real original sin was beginning to
live in cities. I went to Massachusetts State College
at Amherst (not to be confused with Amherst Col-
lege, please) whence I went with a B.S. degree to
get an M.A. in English from the Universitv of
Minnesota; then back to Massachusetts State for
three years as instructor in English and then back
to Minnesota for two more years and a Ph.D. Then
I spent a year teaching at the University of Tampa
in Florida, and in 1937 I came to Williams as one
of the last of Tyler Dennett's appointees. My
favorite course is freshman composition. My favorite
poet is Shelley, whom I worship. My doctor's thesis
was on 'Shelley's Religion'; it was published in 1937
{Continued on Page 8)

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'36 W. Gordon Whaley is author of an article
recently published in The Journal of Heredity, titled
"Inheritance of Leaf and Flower Characters in
Tropaeolum." Whaley is a teacher of botany at
Columbia University, New York City.

Library

State College

fraternity Banquets

Saturday, March 16, 1940

All fraternity initiation banquets are being scheduled, this year, for Saturday,
March 16.

This plan is a cooperative one, brought about by the request of an Alumni-student
committee of which the chairman was Howard Steff '39, and approved by the Inter-
fraternity Conference, Roy Morse '40, chairman.

By and through this plan of simultaneous banquets Alumni will have an oppor-
tunity of meeting, on campus, many of their friends and classmates whom they other-
wise might not see.

Write the president of your fraternity now. Ask hi in to give you full details
about your banquet. Tell him to be looking for you on March 16.

BARNARD WRITES ABOUT WAR

(Continued from Page 7)
by the University of Minnesota Press, and I recom-
mend it both to those who think that Shelley did
not have a religion and to those who do not think
that it matters whether he had one or not. I have
just finished editing the Shelley volume in the
Doubleday, Doran series in literature. I think that
Shakespeare is vastly overrated. I am a baseball fan
and hope to live long enough to see the Yankees
beaten. My great hobby is bird-study. I think
hunting is barbarous. I am a vegetarian from
principle. In politics I am inclined to be conservative;
I think that the sole and sufficient justification of
democratic government is that it is the least bad of
all the forms of government that have yet been
invented. I have never before had an article pub-
lished by a magazine."

Ed. note: The dedication inscription in Barnard's
"Shelley's Religion" is as follows, "To those of my
former students at Massachusetts State College who will
understand the wish that in their hearts, as in Shelley's,
the flame of rebellion against the world of things may
never die."

'35 Bernard Doyle, who was graduated from
Tufts Medical College last June, is interne at the
Mercy Hospital in Springfield, Mass.

OBITUARIES

(Continued from. Page 4)

In 1911 he was married to Miss Mary Hyatt of>!
Leominster, Mass., who died in 1935. He is survived
by his son, Harold Francis, Jr. of Honolulu, and by
three brothers and two sisters all living in Massa-
chusetts.

He was a member of the American Association of
Economic Entomologists, the Entomological Society
of America, and the Hawaiian Entomological Society
in which last named organization he served as secre-
tary for many years, and as president in 1926. His
fraternity was Phi Sigma Kappa.

He took an active interest in the religious and civic
life of his community; through his death his associ-
ates have lost a loyal and sympathetic friend.

(From Journal of Economic
Entomology 32:893. 1939)

The

omas Campion w

•28

Thomas Campion w'28 died in a New York hospi-
tal, following an accident, on December 27. He was
thirty-six years old.

He was graduated from Amherst High School and J
after attending the College entered the employ y
of the New York Telephone Company. He was a a
member of Alpha Sigma Phi fraternity.

He is survived by his wife, his mother, a brother, .
and a sister.

ALUMNI DAY ON CAMPUS IS SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1940
AND IT WON'T BE LONG, NOW !

THE ALUJN
BULLETI

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MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

AMHERST, MASSACHUSETTS

ol. XXII, No. 6

March, 1940

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THE ALUMNI BULLETIN
MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

ASSOCIATE ALUMNI OF
MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

President, Alden C. Brett '12 of Belmont
Vice-Presidenl. Albert W. Smith '22 of Springfield
Secretary, Marshall O. Lanphear '18 of Amherst
Treasurer, Clark L. Thayer '13 of Amherst
Executive Secretary, George E. Emery '24 of Amherst

BOARD OF DIRECTORS
to 1940

Walter T. Bonney '31 of Springfield

John J. Maginnis '18 of Worcester

Lester Needham '14 of Springfield

F. Civille Pray '06 of Amherst
to 1941
Richard J. Davis '28 of Boston

Thomas P. Dooley '13 of West Roxbury

George W. Edman '21 of Pittsfield

Ralph F. Taber '16 of West Newton
to 1942
Erford W. Poole '96 of New Bedford

David P. Rossiter '37 of Maiden

Zoe Hickney White '32 of Worcester

Alfred E. Wilkins '15 of Wakefield
to 1943
Harry Dunlap Brown '14 of Billerica

William L. Doran '15 of Amherst

Mary E. M. Garvey '19 of Amherst

Lawrence L. Jones '26 of North Beverly

The Alumni Bulletin is sent ten times each year to all members
of the Associate Alumni. Memberships are: Annual S3. 00, Sustain-
ing $10.00.

Cover picture — Architect's (Bud Ross') sketches of
the two new dormitories to be built on campus by an
alumni corporation.

An exhibition of some of Dr. Frank A. Waugh's
etchings, pencil, pen, and crayon sketches was hung in
Memorial Hall during February. Two of the pen and
ink sketches are reproduced in this Bulletin.

JOHN W. GREGG '04 ELECTED
TRUSTEE OF LANDSCAPE SOCIETY

John W. Gregg '04 is professor of landscape archi-
tecture at the University of California in Berkeley.
He was recently elected a member of the Board of
Trustees of the American Society of Landscape
Architects, representing the Pacific region.

At the annual meeting of the Society in Washing-
ton Professor Gregg was made an honorary Fellow
of the Society.

COURSE IN FLYING

Twenty students at the College are enrolled in a
civilian pilot training course approved by the Civil
Aeronautics Authority. Instructors on the college
staff give the ground work and instructors at the
Westfield airport teach the actual flying.

Each of the students is expected to be a solo flyer
by June. Ed Beaumont '38 who is taking graduate
work at the College and who is enrolled in the flying
course already has made his solo flight.

NEWS AND NOTES
OF THE CLASS OF

1916

These biographic notes have been assembled by Dutch
Schlotterbeck for his class.

Charlie Fernald is with the Lever Brothers
Company in Cambridge, Mass.

He received his M.B.A. from the Harvard Gradu-
ate School of Business Administration (after having
majored in entomology at the College) and is the
author of "Salesmanship" and "Modern Selling."

Charlie has two boys, aged 15 and 14. He writes
that one is athletically gifted, that the other one is
more like the "old man."

Sax Clark is marketing specialist with the Agri-
cultural Adjustment Administration and Federal
Surplus Commodities Corporation and is engaged
mainly in the purchase of surplus perishable com-
modities for Relief distribution. His work takes him
into every state east of the Mississippi and several
on the west of the river.

Previous to taking his present job Sax was in
market news reporting work and also engaged in the
selling and carlot distribution of fresh fruit and
produce.

Ray Wetherbee of Bolton has been working for
the Federal Land Bank for the past seven years, and
also maintains a poultry business in Bolton.

Ray says he's feeling fine these days, and putting
on weight around the middle. Ray's son is a senior
at the College and is majoring in chemistry.

Dick Potter has been teaching biology at Clark
University in Worcester since 1924. Dick received
his master of science degree from the College in 1923,
his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1931. Dick is the author
of a number of botanical papers, including a Labora-
tory Manual for General Botany and a list of plants
growing in the James Bay, Newfoundland, region.

Dick's experiences as botanical investigator and
collector with the Macmillan expeditions to the North
have been not only interesting but exciting; or at
least so the student body at the College thought
when Dick told about his explorations at a convo-
cation a few years ago.

George Palmer who lives at 408 Fairview Avenue
in Orange, N. J., is with the Socony Vacuum Oil
Company in New York City. Except for a stretch
with the army George has been with the Socony
Company since graduation. He majored in land-
scape architecture.

George has three children, a daughter 16 and two
boys, 15 and 12. The youngsters are somewhat
athletically minded, but the father says he is more
concerned, himself, with spectator sports these days.

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CLASS OF 1882 PRESENTS
SCHOLARSHIP

On January 17, the Board of Trustees of the
College accepted a scholarship gift of $1000 from the
Class of 1882. The fund is to be known as the Class
of 1882 Scholarship Fund; it was created by members
of the class and had been put on deposit to their
credit in the Amherst Savings Bank. The income of
the fund, only, is to be used to assist needy students.

President Baker wrote to David Goodale '82,
secretary of the class, in part as follows: "May I
express for each member of the Board of Trustees
and for myself our warmest feelings of gratitude for
this demonstration of affection for the College which
your class has made. It is heartening to all of us to
receive this material pledge of loyalty for the College
and I can assure you that your gift will be of untold
benefit to needy students through the years head."

BERKSHIRE ALUMNI FUND

At their meeting in Pittsfield on January 26,
Alumni of Berkshire County and vicinity expressed
their interest in establishing a scholarship fund for
students at the College. It is expected that complete
details with regard to the plan for raising the fund
and for its use will be developed at the next meeting
of the Berkshire group.

In a letter to Kenneth Howland '41 of South
Duxbury, new editor of the Collegian, George Edman
'21 of Pittsfield, wrote as follows: "Berkshire County
Alumni of Massachusetts State College demonstrated
a real interest last week when they voted to establish
a loan fund for students or prospective students from
the Berkshires. No huge fund is contemplated. That
is obviously out of the question. We have no rich
uncles. Some of us share the opinion that a loan fund
rather than an outright grant will enable deserving
students who may benefit to share definitely in the
cost of their education and that should engender
some degree of satisfaction.

"The setup of the fund has not been established
definitely but there will be a committee of seven to
administer it, to receive applications, and to pass on
them.

"There are more than 150 Alumni of Massachu-
setts State College in Berkshire County. I should
judge that there are more than 100 undergraduates
from the county. Certainly this is an impressive
record. With such a number we should be able to
develop a fund and a definite interest in the College
that will prove effective. We welcome suggestions
and contributions from Alumni and undergraduates."

'06 G. Talbot French is state entomologist in the
department of plant industry, Richmond, Virginia.

'09 Charles Putnam teaches English and Latin
in the high school at Hilo, Hawaii.

'11 J. F. Adams' address is 2900 Harrison Street,
Wilmington, Delaware. He is doing plant pathology
work for the Peninsula Horticulture Society, Newark.

BUILDING OF NEW DORMITORIES
TO START SOON

It is expected that construction on the new men's
dormitory, one of two dormitories to be built on
campus by an Alumni Corporation, will be started
by the first of March.

This new dormitory will be erected just to the
north of Thatcher Hall and will be very nearly a
replica of that building. It will be of brick construc-
tion and will include 28 single study rooms, 63 double
rooms, accommodations for 154 students.

In the basement there will be a lounge and a
janitor's apartment as well as service, laundry, and
storage rooms.

The proctor's suite will be located on the first floor.

It is planned that the building will be ready for
occupancy in September of this year.

The women's dormitory will be located on the
Clark Estate on the hill near East Pleasant Street,
on a site overlooking the campus. It will be of brick
construction, entirely fireproof throughout, and will
have accommodations for 145 students. This build-
ing will be of the same general construction as the
men's dormitory, but will be equipped with dining
facilities in addition to its study and recreation rooms.
It is expected that the women's dormitory will be
ready for occupancy in February, 1941.

Bud Ross '17 is architect for both of the buildings.
Alden Brett '12 is president of the Alumni Cor-
poration.

ALUMNI MEET THROUGHOUT
UNITED STATES

This is a continuation of the account of Alumni Night
meetings which was begun in the January Bulletin.

Leone Smith '14 was on campus at the time of
the Hort Show on November 10 and told of the
interesting alumni get-together held earlier at his
Camp Sangamon in Pittsford, Vermont. Present for
the supper and social evening were Leone and Mrs.
Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Mayo '17, and Mr.
and Mrs. John W. Urquhart '20.

The Essex County Alumni Club met on November
7 in Wenham, Mass., with fifty Alumni and wives
and husbands present; and those who have been
regular attendants at Essex County get-togethers
declared that this was the best in a long time.

Zigmund Jackimczyk '35, Larry Jones '28,
and Starr King '21 were in charge. Kid Gore '13
was the speaker from the College. Kid's talk was
interesting to everyone, and so were the movies
which he showed of student life on campus.

The "formal" program (meal, movies, and speak-
ing) lasted until about 10.30 o'clock; but it was
midnight before the party finally did break up.

New officers of the Essex County Club are: Mary
Ingraham Jones '27, president; George Thurlow
'26, vice-pres.; Calton Cartwright '27, secretary.
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OBITUARIES

Jonathan E. Holt '88

Jonathan E. Holt died at his home in Andover,
Mass., on October 17, 1939. He was born in Andover
on November 14, 1864, entered the College in 1884
and was graduated with the class of 1888 — of which
eight members are still living.

Holt was a loyal class man, a good student, much
loved by all his classmates. He never failed to
return to the College for all of his class reunions.

The Holt Association of America gave him the
following tribute, "Mr. Jonathan Holt for many
years the faithful sexton of the South Church is
forever with the Lord. If ever any man was a child
of the South Church it was Jonathan. He lived
here. South Church was his home."

Holt was never married. He is survived by a
nephew. We, his classmates, will miss him sadly.
His was a life full of good works.

Herbert C. Bliss, Secretary, Class of 1888

Harry Millikcn Jcnnison '08

On the morning of January 5, while on the way
to the botany building at the University of Tennessee
for his daily classes and office routine, Dr. Harry M.
Jennison '08 died, suddenly.

"Doc" was a respected and beloved member of
the class. A member originally of the College
Shakespearian Club, now Alpha Sigma Phi, he had
been always a leader in class and college activities;
he was manager of varsity basketball, and a speaker
on the Burnham Eight. He attended the 20th and
25th reunions of his class.

He leaves two sons and a daughter, all in college;
Mrs. Jennison died several years ago.

We add here a more detailed statement on Dr.
Jennison's life and career, kindly furnished us by
Professor L. R. Hesler of the department of botany
at the University of Tennesseee at the request of
Professor A. V. Osmun '03 of the College.

"On January 5, 1940, Dr. H. M. Jennison, professor
of botany at the University of Tennessee, died of
heart disease. He was born in Worcester, Mass., on
June 24, 1885, took the B.S. at Massachusetts State
College in 1908, the A.M. at Wabash College in
1911, and the Ph.D. at Washington University,
St. Louis, in 1922.

"Successively, he was instructor in botany at
Massachusetts State, 1906-10; instructor in botany
at Wabash College, 1910-11; assistant professor of
botany and bacteriology at Montana State College,
1911-12; associate professor of botany at the Univer-
sity of Tennessee, 1922-24, and professor of botany
at the same institution from 1924 to his death.

"During his stay of more than seventeen years at
Tennessee Dr. Jennison gave enthusiastic attention
to the flora of Tennessee, and more especially, in
recent years, to the plants of the Great Smoky
Mountains National Park. His broad interests in
natural history led him beyond mere collections and
catalogues into public activity in behalf of conser-
vation." Roland H. Verbeck '08

'PROGRESS REPORT" FROM CLASS
OF 1939

Following is a continuation of the series of notes
begun in an earlier issue of the Alumni Bulletin con-
cerning activity of the youngest Alumni, the class
of 1939.

Charles Christie, Jr. is a laboratory assistant in
the chemistry department at the College and is also
studying for his master's degree.

Charles Griffin is studying for the ministry at
the Andover Newton Theological Seminary in
Newton Center, Mass.

(Continued on Page 8)

SCRUB OAK — DUNES — SNOW

MARRIAGES

'37 and '38 Edward J. 1'hacker to Miss Elthea
Thompson, February 10, 1940, at Dedham, Mass.

'39 and '39 Edward Malkin to Miss Bernice
Sedoff, November 26, 1939, at Winthrop, Mass.

BIRTHS

'27 A son, Sidney Bailey, to Mr. and Mrs.
Clarence Parsons, January 23, 1940, at Northampton,
Mass.

'30 and '33 A daughter, Caroline Cynthia, to
Mr. and Mrs. Fred W. Jones (Marion Taylor '33),
January 21, 1940, at Rochester, N. Y.

'36 A daughter, Marion MacDonald, to Mr. and
Mrs. Clare Pineo, January 21, 1940, at Boston, Mass.

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WITH THE ALUMMAE

By Mary E. Garvey '19
and Leonta Horrigan '36

Emily Henley '37 was graduated on February 8
from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston
where she had been taking special courses in public
health. She plans to remain at the hospital until
September.

Barbara Davis "3(5 is secretary with the National
Recreation Association in New York City. Elwood
Allen '15 is also on the staff of the Association.
Barbara likes her work immensely but does feel that
she was not born to live in a city. She likes the
quiet of the Berkshires.

WORCESTER ALUMNAE SCHOLARSHIP

On April 3, 1935, at a meeting of the Worcester
Alumnae Club, a plan was initiated whereby a
scholarship fund would be established by and through
the Club. The purpose of the Fund was to assist
women students at the College; and it was decided
to place the money in trust with Miss Skinner until
such time as the Fund grew to sufficient size so that
it might be of value.

At this meeting it was decided to accept this
Scholarship Fund as an annual project of the Club,
and the next month a bridge party was sponsored
which brought in $12.00 as a start.

Annually since that time the Worcester women
have engaged in some money-making affair to earn
money for the Fund, and each year have added to
it. There have been rummage sales, rafHes, and
other projects. On February 10 the Club conducted
another rummage sale and has its 1940 contribution
now ready.

Dr. Mary Foley '24 is teaching at Dominican
College, San Rafael, California. She likes the west
coast, especially San Francisco. And she enjoys her
work at the College which, she says, although small
"has all the scope in the world."

The Boston Alumnae Club held a barn dance in
Belmont on January 27 for the benefit of the women's
scholarship Fund. Sally Wilcox '37, president, was
chairman and was assisted by Mrs. L. Francis
Kennedy (Evelyn Davis '26), Mrs. Edward L.
Bike (Elsie Nickerson '26), Ellen Guion '35,
Eleanor Bateman '23 and Laura Morse '39.

Marion Pulley Andrews '19 was a recent guest
at the home of Dr. and Mrs. Frank Hays on campus.

Ruth Pushee '34 is president of the Ladies'
Social Circle of the North Congregational Church in
Amherst. She was one of a trio of musicians who
appeared in a concert at the church on February 9;
she acted as accompanist for Doric Alviani, baritone,
instructor in music at the College.

PHIL SPEAR :57 RECEIVES
CARNEGIE MEDAL

On January 24, Philip Spear '37, who is a! present
associated with John Joy '30 in entomological work
in Huntington Park, California, was awarded a
Carnegie medal for heroism.

The Los Angeles Times of January 25 wrote as
follows about the award of the medal to Spear:
"Smilingly denying that he did anything heroic in
saving a 47-year-old aircraft foreman from being
battered to death on the rocky coast of Maine,
Philip J. Spear, 25, of 9323 San Gabriel Avenue,
South Gate, told of the rescue which brought his
bronze medal:

:' 'I was vacationing at York Harbor in September,
1938, and I had just returned to my room from a
swim when I heard someone shouting like anything.
I still had my trunks on so I ran up the beach to a
cliff where people often fished.

" 'A big crowd had gathered and someone was
being battered against barnacle-covered rocks about
35 feet offshore. I thought it was about time some-
body did something about it. That's all.'

"Spear finally reached the drowning man, Mark E.
Colburn, and the two were pulled ashore with a
clothesline through an angry surf. Both were cut
and bruised by rocks and barnacles.

"Spear, a graduate in entomology of Massachusetts
State College, came to California last year. He said
he is 'very grateful' to receive the honor.

"The awards are made by the Carnegie Hero Fund
Commission for valor in saving or attempting to save
life."

'72 William Whitney is retired from active prac-
tice as an architect and is living at the Hampshire
Arms Hotel in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

'13 James D. French is cotton buyer for the
Palmetto Cotton Company, Newberry, S. C.

'29 Armond Arnurius is doing landscape work
with the Department of Parks in New York City.

'36 Edward Lavin received his M.S. from Tufts
in 1937. He is now chemist in the research depart-
ment of the Shawinigan Resins Corporation (Mon-
santo Chemical Company subsidiary) at Indian
Orchard, Mass.

GUILFORD'S MILL. ASHFIELD

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ATHLETICS

JOE BURBECK '24 ADDRESSES
GREENKEEPERS

Basketball

Scores — since the last Bulletin:

Statesmen Opp.

Feb. 7 Rhode Island, here

42 85

9 Tufts, here

42 40

10 Coast Guard, there

36 38

14 Amherst, here

37 48

Statesmen Opp.
52 20

Remaining games:

Feb. 17 Connecticut, there

20 Worcester Tech, here
24 Rensselaer, there
Mar. 2 Boston University, there

Swimming

Scores — since the last Bulletin

Feb. 10 Wesleyan, there
Remaining meets:

Feb. 16 Coast Guard, there

23 Bates, here
Mar. 1 Union, there

15-16 New Englands at Williamstown

Track

Scores to date:

Jan. 27 Relay (at K. of C. meet in Boston)

1st Boston Univ., 2nd Worcester Tech
3rd Wesleyan, 4th Mass. State
Feb. 10 Relay (at B.A.A. meet in Boston)

1st Worcester Tech, 2nd Conn. Univ.
3rd Mass. State, 4th Colby
Remaining meets:

Feb. 19 Connecticut University, here

24 Tufts and W.P.I. , here

Mar. 2 Connecticut Valley meet, here

ALUMNI MEET

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Bob Hawley '18 visited with Alumni in New
Haven, Conn., on the evening of October 26 at an
informal dinner and reunion meeting.

The party was in charge of Dick Smith '17, who
has been instrumental in bringing Alumni together
in New Haven each fall for the past several years.
Those who were present this year had a fine time
and learned from Bob Hawley, first hand, about new
developments on campus.

On October 28 the Middlesex County Alumni Club
arranged a harvest supper at the Shaker Glen House
in Woburn. Dorothy Brown '37 and Dave Rossiter
37 were in charge.

Professor and Mis. Curry S. Hicks were guests
of the Club; they had a good time. So did the eighty
Alumni who attended the party.

Lewis Keith 2o was the able toastmaster (Curry
was still chuckling a month after the meeting at one
of Lewis' jokes) and George Erickson '19 led the
music and arranged games.

(Continued on opposite page)

The New York Times of February 7 had this to H
say, in part, of the annual national meeting of the
golf greenkeepers association: "The greenkeepers,
those unsung heroes of golf who make life livable for
the three to four million followers of the ancient and
honorable game in this country, began their annual
meeting yesterday, the occasion being the Green-
keeping Superintendents Association turf conference
and equipment show at the Hotel New Yorker.

"Approximately a thousand visitors were in at-
tendance as the event was officially opened with an
address by Joseph H. Burbeck ('24), head of the
famous Bethpage Park course at Farmingdale, L. I.,
one of the world's most sumptuous layouts for public
links players.1

The four 18-hole golf courses at Bethpage wer
designed, built, and are now managed by Burbeck
In addition to the golf facilities at the Park there are
also tennis courts, bridal paths, a stable of riding
horses, and a polo field.

Polo is a big drawing card at the Park, but winte
sports also attract many enthusiasts. As many
15,000 epople have gone to Bethpage on one daj
in winter, to enjoy the skiing and winter sports.

In his address to the greenkeepers on February 6
Burbeck pointed out the great and widespread public
interest in golf, called to the greenkeepers' attention i
the need to promote and serve this interest.

Lawrence Dickinson '10 and Walter Eisenmenger,
head of the department of agronomy, attended the
meetings from the College.

ARNOLD REDGRAVE '28 MAKES
RECORD AS COACH

Arnold Redgrave '28 is coach of football and base-
ball, teacher, and head of the mathematics depart-
ment at the Plainfield, Conn., High School.

At a banquet, on January 11, more than 150
people, including national sports notables, local and
county officials, gathered to pay tribute to Redgrave's
championship 1939 football team.

Undefeated during last fall's season the Plainfield
team won the Connecticut C-D championship, com-
piling the highest rating ever given to a C-D school.'

Among the well-known figures in sports present at I
the banquet were Gene Desautels, Boston Red Sox
catcher; Jack Martin, sports editor of the Providence
Journal; Bill Halloran, widely-known football official; i
Hank Soar, backfield ace of the New York Giants; -
and Christie Christian, football coach of the Univer-i
sity of Connecticut.

The banquet was served by the economics depart-l
ment of the school, was sponsored by a committee
of alumni and friends of the school.

Members of the squad received golf footballs, and
Coach Redgrave was presented with the Father's
Club trophy, awarded to the top ranking C-D foot-
ball team. The squad also presented Redgrave with
a gold wrist watch.

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WITH 4

THE

BOSTON ALUMNI

By John W. McGuckian '31

Albert Dclislc '32 who teaches biology at Suffolk
University is on a leave of absence for the year
1939-40 on a special research fellowship at the
College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va.
Delisle received his A.M. from Harvard in 1933, his
Ph.D. from Harvard in 1937.

At the 24th National Recreation Congress held in
Boston, these Alumni were on the program: Aleck
Minion '29, F. Elwood Allen '15, Larry Briggs
'27, Kid Gore '13, Dennis Crwoley '29.

Al Gricius '37, former secretary of the Boston
Club and former conductor of this column, is now
stationed at Fort Knox, Kentucky as lieutenant
with the 7th Cavalry. Al recently wrote to us,
"Well, here I am guarding the country's gold,
drilling with monkey wrenches, and trying to keep
up with the Kentucky colonels. We've been having
some pretty cold weather down here but we "dam-
yankees" can take it.

"The work here is mighty interesting; the 7th
Cavalry mechanized brigade is one of the crack
units of the Army, and the fort is one of the finest
in the country. Ah sure do like this place, suh."

Dick Mabie '38 lives in Sharon and is working
for the Bird Roofing Company in East Walpole.

Wcntworth Quast '38 lives in Natick and is
working in Boston for the Pilgrim Engraving Co.

ALUMNI MEET

Warren Ide '09, and Mrs. Ide arranged for a
meeting of Alumni in Taunton, Mass. on October 26.

There was a supper, group singing, and a concert
by members of the Dighton High School glee club.

Trustee Clifford C. Hubbard and Dr. Maxwell
II. Goldberg '28 were guests of the group; both
spoke, as did also Samuel Holman '83, member of
the oldest class represented at the party.

Trustee Hubbard spoke enthusiastically of the
College and President Baker. Dr. Goldberg told of
the lively spirit among students and faculty of the
College and about the vigor of classroom and extra-
curricular life on campus.

Alumni present enjoyed the evening so much that
they formed a permanent organization of their group
and look forward to similar meetings in the future.

DEAN MACHMER POINTS NEED
FOB SCHOLARSHIPS

Following are brie) < from l><-,m William L.

Machmer's annual report foi the seal *•„,/, „A> /)<■
cember 31, \'.)'-','.) which won is to he published
pari of the report of the President o) the College.

Scholarships

The College could use to good advantage additional

funds for scholarships. The an m available QOW is

so small that it is impossible to assist, even with
small grants, the most promising and needy students.
No student assisted from the income of trust funds
can be granted more than sixty dollars a year. There-
are many deserving students who are compelled to
meet all or nearly all college expenses through their
own efforts. Many of these succeed, but at the
expense of a comparatively low scholastic record.
At present no student is encouraged to register who
is not prepared to meet the necessary expenses of his
first year, approximately $500.

Arts Degree

Authorized by the Trustees of the College in June
1938, the Bachelor of Arts degree was conferred for
the first time last June upon forty-seven students.
The curriculum changes necessitated for the offering
of this degree were minor and were made with the
minimum of difficulty. The problems which might
have been expected to arise because of the offering
of this degree — an increased pressure for admission,
a divided student body, a demand for new courses
and a marked drift away from science -did not
materialize. Indeed, never has so important a
change been made at the College which created
fewer new problems.

Musical Activity

That a student gains much from participation in
extra-curricular activities whether they be athletic
or academic can not be denied. Their very presence
on the college campus makes for a better spirit and
improves the student morale. This year the work of
our musical organizations, especially the Glee Club,
Orchestra and Choir, has been outstanding. The
Choir has forty regular members and a long waiting
list. This group sings at Sunday Vespers and this
year sang in numerous churches in western Massa-
chusetts.

Curriculum

The work in general engineering, begun last year
with an enrollment of sixteen students, was elected
this fall by twenty additional students. The curricu-
lum was strengthened by the addition of three new
courses: "Properties and Tests of Materials," "Steam
Power," and "Elements of Structures."

Other new courses approved during the year were:
in physical education, "Officiating" and "Tests and
Measurements"; in agricultural economics, "Land
Economic Principles and Problems": in mathematics,
"Introduction to Higher Geometry," "Theory of
Equations," "Vector Analysis," "History of Mathe-
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'08 Thomas Jones is entomologist with the
U.S.D.A. in Morristown, N. J.

'37 John Tuttle is nurseryman at Terry's green-
house in Bristol, Connecticut.

Library

State College

fraternity Banquets

Saturday, March 16, 1940

All fraternity initiation banquets are being scheduled, this year, for Saturday,
March 16.

By and through this plan of simultaneous banquets Alumni will have an oppor-
tunity of meeting, on campus, many of their friends and classmates whom they other-
wise might not see.

Write the president of your fraternity now. Ask him to give you full details
about your banquet. Tell him to be looking for you on March 16.

"PROGRESS REPORT" FROM CLASS
OF 1939

(Continued from Page 4)
Arthur Kaplan is a teaching fellow in the de-
partment of bacteriology and public health at
Washington State College, Pullman.

Leo Leclair is doing clerical work (and training
for editorial duties) with Street and Smith, 79 7th
Avenue, New York City.

Clif Morey is teaching and coaching football,
hockey and baseball at the New Hampton School,
New Hampton, N. H.

Kay Parmenter is doing graduate work at Brown
University for an M.A. degree in English.

Willard Patton, who received his degree last
June after having earlier been a member of the
class of '17, is director of recreation at the Westboro,
Mass., High School.

Joseph Paul is in the office of the U. S. Engineer,
Athol, Mass.

George Pereira is a student in
dentistry at New York University.

the college of

DEAN MACHMER POINTS NEED
FOR SCHOLARSHIPS

(Continued from Page 7)

matics"; in landscape architecture, "Planting De-
sign"; in physics, "Sound and Acoustics"; in edu-
cation and psychology, "Logic"; in economics, [
"Business Practice and Cost Accounting."

Education for Democracy

The College is a democratic institution. . . . The
essence of education is self-development. . . . The
College can not evade the responsibility of giving its
students, in an atmosphere of freedom and demo-
cratic opportunity, those materials necessary to form
a true judgment relative to their duties in maintain-
ing our democracy.

This important educational objective can only be
attained if teachers become "stimulators." It is in
this manner that the student is effectively aided in
his self-development. I am convinced that the work'
of our faculty in this direction is sound and purpose-
ful. The democracy we teach should help toward
making it safe for the world.

Ellsworth Phelps, Jr. is in the production de-.t
partment of the Glenn Martin Company, Baltimore, <
Maryland. The company makes the famous Martini
bombing plane.

ALUMNI DAY ON CAMPUS IS SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1940
- AND IT WON'T BE LONG, NOW !

THE ALUMNI
BULLETIN

UNDEFEATED SWIMMING TEAM

MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE
AMHERST, MASSACHUSETTS

1. XXII, No. 7

April, 1940

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN
MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

Published monthly at Amherst, Mass. (except August and
September) by the Associate Alumni of Massachusetts State College.
Entered as second class matter. March 17, 1920. at the Postoffice
at Amherst, Mass., under the Acts of March 3, 1879.

ASSOCIATE ALUMNI OF
MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

President. Alden C. Brett '12 of Belmont
Vice-President, Albert W. Smith '22 of Springfield
Secretary, Marshall O. Lanphear '18 of Amherst
Treasurer, Clark L. Thayer ' 13 of Amherst
Executive Secretary, George E. Emery '24 of Amherst

BOARD OF DIRECTORS
to 1940

Walter T. Bonney '31 of Springfield

John J. Maginnis '18 of Worcester

Lester Needham '14 of Springfield

F. Civille Pray '06 of Amherst
to 1941
Richard J. Davis '28 of Boston

Thomas P. Dooley '13 of West Roxbury

George W. Edman '21 of Pittsfield

Ralph F. Taber '16 of West Newton
to 1942
Erford W. Poole '96 of New Bedford

David P. Rossiter '37 of Maiden

Zoe Hickney White '32 of Worcester

Alfred E. Wilkins '15 of Wakefield
to 1943
Harry Dunlap Brown '14 of Billerica

William L. Doran '15 of Amherst

Mary E. M. Garvey '19 of Amherst

Lawrence L. Jones '26 of North Beverly

The Alumni Bulletin is sent ten times each year to all members
of the Associate Alumni. Memberships are: Annual $3.00, Sustain-
ing $10.00.

Cover picture — the undefeated Statesmen, Joe Rogers'
crackerjack swim team.

Front row, left to right: John Filios '40 of Woronoco,
Ralph Palumbo '40 of Leominster.

Second row: Robert M. Chapman '40 of Belmont,
Joe Jodka '42 of Lawrence, George Pitts (co-captain)
'40 of Beverly, Roy Morse (co-captain) '40 of Boston,
William Coffey '41 of Northampton, Harold T. Mc-
Carthy '41 of Salem.

Back row: Harold Griffin '40 (manager) of Dor-
chester, Winthrop Avery '42 of Shrewsbury, Bob Hall
'41 of Upton, John Prymak '41 of Lawrence, Carleton
Jones Jr. '41 of Amherst, Howard McCallum '41 of
Northampton, Joseph R. Rogers Jr., (coach).

ALUMNI PUBLISH BOOKS

Prentice-Hall, Inc. of New York City has recently
announced the publication of "Geography of Latin
America" by Fred A. Carlson '18, professor of
geography at Ohio State University. The book
contains 642 pages, is illustrated, and includes a
section on Pan-America dealing with the improve-
ment of political relations and mutual understanding
between the two Americas.

Dr. Harold H. Shepard '24, professor of entomology
at the University of Minnesota, is the author of
"The Chemistry and Toxicology of Insecticides"
recently announced by the Burgess Publishing Com-
pany of Minnesota. Shepard's book is announced
as being more than a college text; it is a reference
book for the entomologist, plant pathologist, and
industrial chemist.

NEWS AND NOTES
OF THE CLASS OF

1916

These biographic notes have been assembled by Dutch
Schlotterbeck for his class.

Rod Darling built the Juniper Hill Golf Course
in Northboro in 1931, and has since maintained and
operated it as a public recreation area. Red has a
corking good course; from all we hear the "sporty,
interesting, picturesque" description of Juniper Hill
is, if anything, understatement. Golfers like Juniper
Hill. The course wasn't made especially for the best
players; it is not too difficult, not too easy, but just
right for the average golfer to enjoy. The policy of
management has been established with the idea of
making everyone perfectly at home, with the idea
that every individual may take full advantage of a
few hours vacation in accomplishing what real recre-
ation is intended to develop.

Previous to going into golf Red was with the
Bowker Chemical Company as district sales manager
in Chicago, sales manager for Seabrook Farms in
Bridgeton, New Jersey, and special representative
for the American Agricultural Chemical Company
in Boston.

He served overseas in the World War for fifteen
months.

Red has been on the school committee in North-
boro and chairman of its building committee. For
several years he has been chairman of the local Boy
Scout council.

Dean Ricker lives in Shrewsbury where he is
employed with the town water department, and
where he operates a poultry farm. He maintains a
store in Worcester where the products of his farm
are marketed. Incidentally, he uses some of his
"spare" time as a special police officer in Shrewsbury
and meets many of his college friends — he says —
while he is in uniform.

For three years, after being graduated from I
College he was an entomologist with the U.S.D.A.;
he then went back to Shrewsbury.

Dean has four daughters and three sons.

AI Gioio.sa operates the Acme Novelty Company, ,
296 Devonshire Street, in Boston and a good many ,'
alumni classes at the College are glad that he does.
Al has supplied many commencement reunion groups -
with reunion regalia, and at reasonable prices.

The monthly 1916 class reunions, in Boston, are
many of them held at Al's store after business hours.

Ray Mooney is a farm manager and teacher in
South Hero, Vermont. He is married and has two
sons; one of the boys is at present attending Harvard.

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GOVERNOR SALTONSTALL COMMENDS ALUMNI ACTIVITY

Praises Alumni Dormitory Plan in Radio Broadcast

On Friday, March 8th, Governor Leverett Sallonstall
spoke, in a special radio broadcast over WBZ-WBZA,
of his appreciation of the work of the Associate Alumni
in providing two new dormitories for Massachusetts
State. Governor Saltonsiall was introduced by President
Hugh P. Baker and, after the Governor's talk, Alden
Brett '12, president of the Associate Alumni, told
briefly about the dormitories.

Following are excerpts from the broadcast.

PRESIDENT BAKER

Mr. Governor and radio friends, this week at
Massachusetts State College we are beginning con-
struction of two new dormitories in which 150 young
men and 150 young women will make their college
home. This, in itself, is not unusual. Colleges from
coast to coast are constantly adding to their facilities
in this way. What is unusual, however, is that
these buildings are made possible to a tax supported
college through an expression of private interest. In
considerably less than one year from today, these
buildings will be completed, and in use, and without
one cent of cost to the Commonwealth. It is because
we feel that this undertaking, initiated by the alumni
body of Massachusetts State College, is tangible and
compelling evidence that the public at large is inter-
ested in the needs of higher education, that we have
sought your presence with us today.

GOVERNOR SALTONSTALL

When I learned of what the alumni body was
doing to furnish needed buildings for Massachusetts
State College, 1 was at first surprised; and then very
much pleased. I say that I was surprised because,
although it seemed to me the project deserved en-
thusiastic support, I fully realize that our people are
more and more coming to expect the government —
national, state, and local — to provide increasing
services and to assume additional burdens. I was
pleased because instead of standing by with out-
stretched hands for tax money, your Alumni them-
selves looked for ways and means to solve the prob-
lem. They successfully enlisted private aid for an
exceedingly important public objective: that of

furnishing necessary educational facilities from a
definitely limited income.

In education lies the answer to many of the SO< Lai
and economic problems facing the world today. With
standards of life distorted by the madness of war,
education becomes more important today than ever
before. Its true development affects the future wel-
fare and perhaps safety of our nation. The relation
between education and the state, if we preserve it in
our country, may even be the force which will keep
alive the spark of civilization which brute force is
threatening to extinguish throughout the world.

In attempting to realize the fullest opportunities
for education, we are today confronted with the
perplexing problem of supporting educational pro-
grams so that more and more learning will be open
to as many willing minds as are ready to go forward.
I am told that out of every three high school gradu-
ates qualified for college, two cannot, or do not,
continue their education. In this Commonwealth
we are blessed, as are few other states, with an
abundance of excellent private colleges and univer-
sities. Yet they alone obviously cannot meet all our
educational needs.

It is the duty of the State to provide and encourage
opportunities for the training of the best possible
teachers. It is the obligation of the State to supply
adequate facilities for the education of its boys and
girls. It is the golden opportunity of the State to
promote the extension of learning ever more widely
all through adult life. Our people, of all ages, must
continually improve their knowledge, so that they
may have a better understanding of the problems
and issues which we are facing.

For some years Massachusetts State College has
been forced to limit its entering class because of
inadequate facilities. Just so far as it lies within our
power, and just so far as it is consistent with the
financial means at our disposal, the State has under-
taken to maintain at Massachusetts State College in
Amherst an educational source to meet the needs of
our young people. The extent to which the Common-
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DR. S. W. FLETCHER '96 APPOINTED
DEAN AT PENNSYLVANIA STATE

Dr. Stevenson W. Fletcher '96 has recently been
made Dean and Director of the School of Agriculture
and Experiment Station at the Pennsylvania State
College.

Dr. Fletcher has been acting head since the retire-
ment of Dean Watts a little over a year ago; and has
been a member of the Pennsylvania State faculty
since 1916. He received his Master of Science and
Doctor of Philosophy degrees from Cornell Univer-
sity.

HAROLD CLAY '14 RE-ELECTED HEAD
OF CITIZENS' ASSOCIATION

The Rhode Island Avenue Citizens' Association
of Washington, D. C, unanimously re-elected
Harold J. Clay '14, in January, as head of their
organization.

Their Neighborhood News publication says, "Mr.
Clay's long, active and constructive efforts in behalf
of the community and the District of Columbia are
well known. As chairman of important committees
having to do with civic betterment his fine work has
placed him in the forefront of leading citizens of the
District."

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MARRIAGES

'27 Frank J. Boden to Miss Jayne Sacawa,
January 31, 1940, at Chicopee, Mass.

'32 John Foley to Miss Grace Alice Bliss, No-
vember 8, 1939, at Jackson Heights, Long Island.

'34 Miss Ethel Blatchford to Robert Purnell,
February 16, 1940, at Amherst, Mass.

'35 Willard Boynton to Miss Ruth Watt, De-
cember 20, 1939, at Boston, Mass.

'35 Miss Cornelia Foley to Frank Putallan,
November 27, 1939, in New York City.

'37 and '38 Edward J. Thacker to Miss Elthea
Thompson, February 10, 1940, at Dedham, Mass.

BIRTHS

'25 A daughter, Janis May, to Mr. and Mrs.
Ralph H. Bray, February 26, 1940, at Chicago, 111.

'34 and w'35 A daughter, Mary Jane, to Mr. and
Mrs. Walter Papp (Helen Powers w'35), February
27, 1940, at Amesbury, Mass.

'35 A son, Paul Jr., to Mr. and Mrs. Paul O.
Wood, June 17, 1939, at Albany, N. Y.

'37 A son, Richard William, to Mr. and Mrs.
Walter Lewis (Betty Proctor '36), February 19, 1940,
at Dover, N. H.

ALUMNI MEET THROUGHOUT THE
UNITED STATES

DR. CHAMBERLAIN HONORED

Dr. Joseph Scudder Chamberlain, Goessmann pro-
fessor of chemistry at the College, was honored at a
banquet on March 7, the occasion of his seventieth
birthday.

Dr. Chamberlain has been thirty years at the
College in the department of chemistry. He is the
author of three chemistry textbooks, has done out-
standing work in the field of organic chemical re-
search. But it is generally agreed that his most
important work has been the effective training of
students for chemical research.

Speakers at the banquet were President Hugh P.
Baker, Dean Machmer, Fred J. Sievers, director of
the graduate school, and Dr. C. A. Smith '11, and
Thomas L. Harrocks '16, both of New York City
and both former students of Dr. Chamberlain.

Alumni present from off campus for the party
included: William M. Dewing '20, Justin J. Mc-
Carthy '21, Gordon P. Percival '24, John Calvi '31,
James E. Doyle '32, Herbert I,. McChesney '32 and
wife (Charlotte V. Miller '33), Eunice Doerpholz '33,
George R. Pease '35, Nelson P. Stevens '35, Ira
Whitney '37, Emory Emerson (M.S. 1939), Harry
Berman '20, Robert Coughey (M.S. 1938), and
Arthur F. Kingsbury '12.

'13 Kid Gore has an article on "Skiing Safe" in
a recent number of Health and Safety, a Boy Scout
publication. Gore is co-author with Larry Briggs
'27 of the Boy Scout Skiing Merit Badge Pamphlet
and of Adventuring for Senior Scouts.

This is the conclusion of the account of Alumni Nigh
meetings which was begun in the January Bulletin.

Dr. C. II. (Tad) Griffin '04 arranged a meeting
of Massachusetts State Alumni in Los Angeles, al '
the University Club, on the evening of November 4.
It was a pleasant evening for everyone.

These were present: Elias White '94, Austin.
Morrill '00 and Mrs. Morrill, W. L. Curtis w'07.
John Becker w'll, George Barton '18 and Mrs.-
Barton, Art Seavy w 18 and Mrs. Seavy, Pauli
Hunnewell '18 and Mrs. Ilunnewell, Art Chand-I
ler '19, Harold Record w'19 and Mrs. Record.l
Don Collins '23, John Joy '30 and Mrs. Joy,
Jack Fowler '33, Phil Spear '37, Tad Griffin '04
and Mrs. Griffin.

Frederic L. Greene '94 and Mrs. Greene were
hosts to San Joaquin Alumni in Selma, California
on November 19.

Mr. Greene writes, "Present at our dinner were.
Max Shaffrath '01, Norman D. Ingham '0.> and
Mrs. Ingham, Perez Simmons '16 and Mrs.-
Simmons, Dwight Barnes '16 and Mrs. Barnes,
Mrs. Greene and myself. We first drank a standing
toast to Massachusetts State College (in good Sam
Joaquin muscatel), enjoyed a dinner, lots of fun, and
talked about the College. We have had meetings for
nine successive years."

Half a dozen Cleveland Alumni and their wives
met at the home of John A. Crawford '20 on the

evening of October 26, debated the state of the
nation as Massachusetts State College might direct
it, ended up deep in salad, pumpkin pie and coffee.
The group voted its regret that there was no Alumni
Night broadcast (but has since been pleased to know
that, through the newly-established college recording
room, victrola records of talks and music by faculty
and undergraduate groups may be sent to all Alumni
Night meetings another year).

Bob Hawley '18 and Gunnar Erickson '19

attended a meeting of Philadelphia Alumni on t
December 6; it was a most enjoyable occasion. Pat
Holbrook '25 made the arrangements which attrac-
ted nearly thirty Alumni to the supper meeting,
Alumni who were most enthusiastic and greatly)
interested in what their guests from the College toldi
them about affairs on campus.

Philadelphia Alumni are looking forward eagerly >
to future meetings of their group.

Eighty-five Alumni and Alumnae, wives, husbands
and friends gathered at the Hotel Victoria, in New
York, on the evening of November 2 for the annual
banquet of the Massachusetts State College Club of
New York City.

Bernard II. Smith '99, president of the Club,
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THE ALUMNI BULLKTIN

WITH THE ALUMMAE

By Mary E. Garvey '19
and LeonlaHorrigan '36

Eunice Richardson '39 has a position in the
seed laboratory at the West Experiment Station,
Massachusetts State College.

Alma Hoyden '37 is studying in the Smith Gradu-
ate School of Physical Education, Smith College, and
is planning to teach the dance in high school when
she completes her course.

Kay Wingate Leonard '37 is substituting in the
Norwich, Connecticut, Academy teaching home
economics.

On Tuesday, March 5, the Hampshire County
Alumnae Club met for supper and a social evening
at the Stockbridge House. Present at the meeting
were Olive Turner '08, Mary Garvey '19, Jane
Pollard (lore '22, Betty Wheeler Frigard '34,
HuCh Pushec '34, Betty Harrington 35, Violet
Koskela '35, Shirley Bliss Goldberg '38, Carol
Julian '38, Kay Kerivan '39, Virginia Pushec
39, Miriam Morse Shaw G, Miss Skinner,
Miss Hamlin, Mrs. Hicks, Miss Briggs, Mrs.
Broughton, Mrs. Marshall and Mrs. Wheeler
(Betty Frigard's mother).

After supper Mrs. Hicks read an interesting letter
from Erma Carl '34 in which Erma described some
of her experiences at the Amerikan Kiz Koleji, in
Izmir, Turkey where she is teaching basic English.

Olive Carroll Cole '19 (Mrs. Fred E.) recently
moved with her family to North Amherst. Her
husband is adjunct professor of agricultural eco-
nomics with headquarters at the College.

Alice Stiles Nickerson '30 is living in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, where her husband (Ralph Nickerson
'30) has a grant with the Carnegie Foundation.

Betty Lynch Pullar '29 had an illustrated article
recently m the Springfield Sunday Republican
magazine section, and another in the garden section
of the New York Times on March 3.

Betty does a good deal of writing on horticultural
subjects; these two articles dealt with the newest
varieties of plants which would be available to 1940
garden enthusiasts and with the adaptability of the
petunia for wide use in the garden.

Annual

ALUMNAE

REUNION

AND

TEA

Saturday

Afternoon.

June

FAMILY AIM SHOW HUNG IN
MEMORIAL HALL

Under the direction ol Professor Jami Rob*
of the department of landscape architecture, the
seventh in a series of "Family Ari Shows," inaugu
rated by Dr. Frank A. Waugh was hung in Memorial
Hall for the entire month of Mini,.

As in the past, the works were varied int< ting
and colorful. A number of the exhibits were pro-
fessional, many of those which were amateur ap
proached the professional in excellence of technique
and composition. It is planned thai photographic
productions of some of these exhibits will appear in
the next issue of the Alumni Bulletin.

The exhibit included the following:

Three oil paintings by Thomas G. Lyman '39.

Three opaque water colors by Jack Murray '11.
One of these was the cover for Woman's Home
Companion in November 1938.

A pewter plate and two water color paintings by
Carl Gerlach, G.

One water color by Rebbcca Field w'27.

Water colors and a pencil sketch bv Dean
'36.

Papier-mache masks by Professor Frank
tice Band.

Water color studies by Robert Carpenter G.

A woodcut by Warren Mack, formerly a member
of the faculty.

Four water color sketches by Mrs. George E.
Finery.

Pencil drawings by Harry Fraser '20.

Transparent oils by Steve Hamilton w*31.

A water color by John P. Cone '32.

Pencil and pen and ink sketches by Francis I).
Albert! '29.

A water color sketch by Ken Waltcrmirc '41 of
Springfield.

The department of landscape architecture was
well represented. Professor Waugh contributed
three etchings, Mr. Martini three water colors.
James Bobertson three water colors and a pencil
sketch, and Bay Otto '26, head of the department,
two pencil sketches and a water color.

DR. JOHN F. LYMAN '05 HONORED

Gi;<k

The February 25 edition of Chemical and Chemical
Engineering News tells of a dinner given recently in
honor of John F. Lyman '05 at Columbus, Ohio.

Dr. Lyman has completed 25 years as chairman
of the department of agricultural chemistry at the
University; 140 friends and former students attended
the dinner given in his honor. Dr. Lyman was pre-
sented, at the dinner, with a gold fountain pen, a
silver engraved tray and a bound volume of letters
from his graduate students, past and present.

'17 John Nelson is in medical research work for
the Rockefeller Institute, department of animal and
plant pathology, Princeton, N. J.

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN

ATHLETICS

Swimming

Five wins for the Statesmen in five dual meets is
the record which Coach Joe Rogers and his swimmers
compiled this winter. Not such a bad one !

Massachusetts State has had intercollegiate swim-
ming teams for, now, six years. And this year's 10CK
season gives the swimmers a record of 8(K of wins
during their six years of competition — which is not
such a bad record, either.

It would be difficult to say that one boy more
than any other was responsible for the success of
the club this year. But Bob Hall '41 of Upton won
the 50- and 100-yard free-style races pretty regularly,
and Joe Jodka '42 of Lawrence developed a happy
habit of winning the 200-yard breast-stroke races.
Incidentally, Jodka set a new meet record in swim-
ming the 200-yard breast-stroke at the New England
Intercollegiate Swimming Association meet at
Williamstown — thereby breaking the record set by
Jim Hodder '37 in 1937. Hodder's record had stood
until Jodka went to work on it.

Coach Rogers thought he had a "nice bunch of
kids" working with him. They worked hard for him
— and meanwhile they worked hard at their books.
The average scholastic mark for the swimming
sophomores was 75.6, for the juniors 77.2, and for
the seniors 82.5. Rogers is rather proud of that.

"How do you do it, Joe?" we asked the coach.
"How do you get your boys to break swimming
records and at the same time make a record with
the Dean?"

"O-oh, I just talk to them," replied Joe. Noth-
ing to it.

The season's scores:

Statesmen

Opp.

Jan. 13 Worcester Tech, here

17 Connecticut Univ., here

Feb. 10 Wesley an, there

16 Coast Guard, there

23 Bates, here

Mar. 15-16 New Englands at Williamstown

5th of 11

competing

colleges

J. EMERSON GREENAWAY '27 NEW
WORCESTER LIBRARIAN

J. Emerson Greenaway '27, librarian of Fitchburg
Public Library, has been elected librarian of the
Worcester (Mass.) Free Public Library. He is to
take over his new work on April 1. Greenaway began
his library work in Springfield, Mass. and continued
it in Baltimore and Fitchburg. He has studied library
science at the University of North Carolina and at
the University of Chicago. He was student assistant
in the Chapel Library while an undergraduate at the
College.

'35 Si Little is forester in the Allegheny Forest
Experiment Station, 3437 Woodland Avenue, Phil-
adelphia, Pa.

ALUMNI MEET

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presided and introduced as guests of honor Pro-
fessor and Mrs. Curry S. Hicks.

Both Curry and his wife talked delightfully about
their work at the College. Curry gave an especially
fine illustrated talk tracing the development of
intercollegiate athletics at Massachusetts State. He
showed slides and pictures of teams, players, and
events from an early day up to the present.

Following this talk, two pictures of Curry were
flashed on the screen. These showed him in his
football-playing days in Michigan and had been
provided by Dr. C. E. Davis, a business associate
of President Smith and a fellow alumnus of Curry's.

Doc Cutter '82, one of the charter members of
the Club and long a wheel-horse in Club affairs,
spoke briefly.

Bus LeClair '34, secretary of the Club, was
properly congratulated on his first venture into
parenthood. Ted Law '33 led the singing of an
excellent quartet.

Everyone this reporter interviewed said he had a
fine time and congratulated Secretary LeClair and
Polly Spiewak '31 on the arrangements.

Tom Harrocks '16

Gene Ensminger, assistant professor of animal
husbandry at the College, was guest of the Chicago
Alumni at a dinner meeting held at tbe Union League
Club in Chicago on December 4.

It was an interesting evening, with nineteen Alumr
present — which number constituted about 91 rr ot
those living in the vicinity, according to a note fron
Walter Mack '18 who made arrangements for the
gathering.

Ensminger told about events on campus as did
also Ruth Wood, vice-president of the class of 1938.
Ruth, who was then teaching at Park Ridge School
for Girls. Park Ridge, Illinois, is now at Aitken's
Flower Shop in Springfield, Mass.

1920's BIG 20th REUNION
Saturday, June 8, 1940

Don't Miss It — Plan Now to Be There!

Tub Dewing
Jim Maples

'31 Ray Allen of the department of ornamental t
horticulture at Cornell is the author of an article inii
the New York Times annual garden section for
March 10.

'33 George Dyar is local representative of the
U. S. Bureau of Biological Survey in Worcester
County. His headquarters are at 410 Federal Build-
ing, Worcester, Mass.

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN

WITH %A THE

BOSTON ALUMNI

ACADEMICS

By John W. McGuckian '31

The annual banquet and dance of the Boston
Club'will be held at the University Club on Saturday
evening, April 6, at 6 o'clock. Dress will be informal.

The Club has made elaborate plans for this meet-
ing and a gala evening is promised.

Roland Sawyer, Jr. '26 will be toastmaster and
speakers will be President Hugh 1*. Baker, and
Louis Lyons '18, feature writer for the Globe.

Following the banquet and speaking program
there will be dancing and bridge.

Alumni and Alumnae are urged to send in their
reservations now to John W. McGuckian, 21 Court-
ney Road, West Roxbury, Mass.

Eddie Bike '24 is state supervisor of park, park-
way, and recreational area study for the National
Park Service, Region 1. Ed's office headquarters are
in Boston, he lives at 126 Wyoming Ave., Melrose.

Eddie has just published an article in the Regional
Review, issued by the National Park Service, telling
about the work of the development of the Mt. Tom
State Reservation in Holyoke. Last year, 1939, the
Mt. Tom recreational program, the first of its kind
in any state park in New England, proved a distinct
success. The primary objective of the program was
to offer park visitors new and stimulating forms of
recreation that utilize the resources of the area.
Bike received the wholehearted cooperation of the
department of physical education at the College (of
which Kid Gore '13 is head) in developing and
setting up this program. Bob Hunter '35, a gradu-
ate student in the department, chose as his thesis
problem a study of the working out of details of the
Mt. Tom Reservation plan.

Bob Cole '39, a student in recreational physical
education, was given the responsibility of planning
and laying out the self-guiding nature trail. Eventu-
ally Cole was named director of the Reservation on
the basis of his qualifications as naturalist, recre-
ational leader and nature guide. Robert Joyee '40
of Florence was assigned the job of designing an
amphitheater for the Reservation. Construction of
the amphitheater was carried on by the CCC group
| in that area.

In a recent statement in the Springfield Union
Bike said, "The successful development of the
recreational leadership program for the Mt. Tom
Reservation is a clear indication of the way in which
colleges can assist in the solution of some of the
problems of recreation."

Musical Clubfl

Ted Shawn and his men dancer Carl Sandburg,
Edgar !.<■<■ Masters, the Boston Sinfonietta with the
dynamic Arthur Fiedler conducting, Blanche Vurka,

distinguished dramatic actress, have all appeared on
this year's Social Union program at the College. I'.ut
the Social Union event which perhaps appealed most
to the audience which packed Howker Auditorium to
hear it was the concert by the Massachusetts State
combined musical clubs under the direction of Doric
Alviani, instructor in music.

The concert, presented on March 1, was a long
one. Programmed were thirty-seven numbers by the
men's glee club, the women's glee club, the com-
bined groups, the orchestra, and the orchestra and
singing groups again combined.

There were numbers by the Statesmen and the
Bay Staters, male quartets, by a double quartet,
and by the Statettes, a trio of women students.
There was a violin duo and a flute quartet.

It all made for a grand concert. Mr. Alviani is to
be congratulated.

Barbara Critchett '41 of Amherst is manager of
the women's glee club, Charles Powers '40 of Brain-
tree is manager of the men's glee club, Charles
Gleason '40 of Hanover is manager of the orchestra.

On March 15, Al Smith '22 sponsored an appear-
ance of the men's glee club jointly with that of the
glee club of the Framingham State Teachers College
at a concert in Springfield.

Willard Clark, music critic for the Springfield
Union, wrote of the concert in part as follows:

"Massachusetts State College singers are fortunate
in having as director Doric Alviani.

"Mr. Alviani is not only an expert conductor but
a good showman and while he sometimes breaks the
melodic line or continues a phrase far beyond its
allotted time to make an effect, the effect is sure to
be worth hearing.

"It is seldom that one hears from male singers
such a variety of tone, ranging from finely spun
pianissimi to full-throated fortes.

"The concert also provided the opportunity of
hearing one of the best student male quartets we
have ever heard (the Statesmen). John V. Osmun
('40 of Amherst), Myron D. Hager, Jr. ('40 of South
Deerfield), Stuart Hubbard ('41 of Poughkeepsie,
N. Y.), and Wendell Washburn, Jr. ('41 of North
Attleboro) have been singing together for two years
and have attained an ease and smoothness of de-
livery which made their offerings of notable quality.
A bit of clever action added zip to their performance
and the audience would have been quite content had
they kept on singing indefinitely. One hears many
complaints that no male quartets are available in
this section. These four young men have a lot to
offer and should be in great demand."

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN

'27 Donald Savage is field inspector for the
California Fruit Growers' Exchange, Upland, Cal.

'29 Richard Vartanian is a chemist for the
Hecker Products Corporation, Indianapolis, Indiana.

Library

State College

Seventieth Commencement

MASSACHUSETTS
STATE COLLEGE

Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday, June 7, 8, 9 and 10

ALUMNI REUNIONS — SATURDAY, JUNE 8

Plan, now, to be present for festivities of your class and for the entire

Alumni Day program.

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GOVERNOR COMMENDS ALUMNI

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wealth's resources can be utilized is broadened, of
course, by just so much when graduates and friends
of the College help to develop the physical facilities
of the institution. At the same time they immeasur-
ably raise its prestige.

The significance of the construction of these two
new dormitories is really more than an evidence of
public interest in increasing the facilities for higher
education. To me it is a symbol of a growing spirit
of cooperation between private groups and govern-
ment. In many fields of endeavor the general welfare
will be benefitted if the strong body of the state is
well coordinated with the warm heart and keen mind
of the individual citizen.

The story of how the Alumni of the State College
saw this opportunity and then went into action is an
example worthy of being widely followed. I am sure
that you will be interested in hearing a brief account,
very appropriately from Mr. Alden Brett, chairman
of the committee which made the project possible.
I take great pleasure in introducing Mr. Brett.

ALDEN BRETT

Governor Saltonstall, — I hope every Alumnus of
Massachusetts State College and every friend of
education has heard what you have just said. Your
understanding of our problems and objectives has
been evidenced most fully. Your cooperation in our
building project which is now fully underway has
been of the utmost help, and on behalf of the Alumni
and all friends of the College, I want to offer our
sincere thanks.

The story of our dormitory project, although it is
unique, is a simple one. The College needed dormi-
tory facilities. At present it can house but one-fifth

of its students. Our Association conceived the idea
that it could finance, construct and equip dormitories
from private resources, that these dormitories could
be rented to the students, and that the rent so re-
ceived would pay the cost of construction and
operation so that at the end of twenty years these
buildings could be turned over as a gift to the Com-
monwealth. This plan we intend to carry out.

I believe the Alumni have a right to feel proud of
this accomplishment, just as they have felt a justi-
fiable pride in the Memorial Building and the Physical
Education Building, both made possible through
their efforts and through the efforts of other friends
of education.

The Alumni of Massachusetts State College are
interested in seeing their institution develop to its
fullest effectiveness. We know that the College has
tremendous opportunities for service and that with
these opportunities go unusual obligations. It offers
an opportunity to the sons and daughters of the
ordinary man, and it has an obligation to serve these
young folks well. As Alumni we have had the ad-
vantage of the education which the Commonwealth
has given us, and because we have had the advantage
of this opportunity, we are now glad to recognize
our obligation to the College and the Commonwealth
by making this tangible contribution to its well
being.

We know that the Commonwealth cannot help us
as much as we would wish. We are content to depend
upon public opinion of our services for whatever
support we may receive in the future. But right here
and now, this month, we have started a project to
show our conviction that publicly supported higher
education is worth support from private individuals
as well as from the government. Again, Mr. Governor,
let me thank you for your help in our undertaking.

THE ALUMNI
BULLETIN

EAGLES MERE — WOODCUT

MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE
AMHERST, MASSACHUSETTS

fol. XXII, No. 8

May, 1940

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN
MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

Published monthly at Amherst, Mass. (except August and
September) by the Associate Alumni of Massachusetts State College.
Entered as second class matter. March 17. 1920, at the Postoffice
at Amherst. Mass., under the Acts of March 3, 1879.

ASSOCIATE ALUMNI OF
MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

President. Alden C. Brett '12 of Belmont
Vice-President, Albert W. Smith '22 of Springfield
Secretary, Marshall O. Lanphear '18 of Amherst
Treasurer. Clark L. Thayer '13 of Amherst
Executive Secretary, George E. Emery '24 of Amherst

BOARD OF DIRECTORS
to 1940

Walter T. Bonney '31 of Springfield

John J. Maginnis '18 of Worcester

Lester Needham '14 of Springfield

F. Civille Pray '06 of Amherst
to 1941
Richard J. Davis '28 of Boston

Thomas P. Dooley '13 of West Roxbury

George W. Edman '21 of Pittsfield

Ralph F. Taber '16 of West Newton
to 1942
Erford W. Poole '96 of New Bedford

David P. Rossiter '37 of Maiden

Zoe Hickney White '32 of Worcester

Alfred E. Wilkins '15 of Wakefield
to 1943
Harry Dunlap Brown '14 of Billerica

William L. Doran '15 of Amherst

Mary E. M. Garvey '19 of Amherst

Lawrence L. Jones '26 of North Beverly

The Alumni Bulletin is sent ten times each year to all members
of the Associate Alumni. Memberships are: Annual S3. 00, Sustain-
ing $10.00.

Cover picture — A woodcut, "Eaglesmere," by Warren
Mack, formerly a member of the faculty at the College.
This woodcut was exhibited in the Family Art Show
which was hung in Memorial Hall during the month
of March.

YOUNG ALUMNI ON DUTY WITH
UNITED STATES ARMY

A number of recent graduates who, as students,
took the advanced j'unior-senior work in military
science and received their commissions as second
lieutenants in the cavalry reserves are now on duty
in various parts of the country with the regular army.

Al Bruneau '37 is at Fort Meade, South Dakota
as are also Lloyd Copeland '39, Emerson W. Grant
'39, Frank Healy '39 and Raymond E. Smart, Jr. '39.

George C. Benjamin '39 and Clifford E. Lippincott
'39 are at Fort Ethan Allen, Vermont. George
Bischoff '39 is at Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland.

Isadore Ban- '37 is at the Presidio-of- Monterey,
California; Al Gricius '37 is at Fort Knox, Kentucky.

Howard Cheney '32 is on permanent appointment
with the Air Corps at Mitchell Field, N. Y.; Ed
Tikofski '36 has a similar appointment at Langley
Field, Virginia.

Edward Higgins '38 is on active duty in the air
reserve at Mitchell Field, and George Rozwenc '38
is at Langley Field.

Ed Stoddard '39 is a flying cadet at Brooks Field,
Texas; Warren Baker '38 is a flying cadet at Randolph
Field. Ralph L. Foster '39 (honor graduate) has a
permanent appointment with the regular army and
is at present at Fort Ethan Allen, Vermont.

NEWS AND NOTES
OF THE CLASS OF

1916

These biographic notes have been assembled by Dutch
Schlotterbeck for his class.

Ralph Rillion is vice-president and general
manager of Canadian Nepheline, Ltd., in Lakefield,
Ontario, Canada.

His company is engaged in the business of re-
fining a mineral, nepheline syenite, for use in the
glass and ceramic industries. Kilbon's job is to get
the rock out of the quarry and down to Lakefield
which is at the end of a railroad line and 26 miles
from the quarry. Ralph says, "I suppose like millions
of others you have never heard of nepheline syenite.
All you have got to do is imagine the old familiar
granite with a white texture and you have a perfect
picture of our product as it occurs in the raw. We
grind this up to sugar fineness and run through
magnetic seperatory for the glass trade. For china-
ware, tile, enamelware, and porcelain it has to re-
ceive further grinding until it is like flour and will
practically all pass through a sieve with two hundred
openings to the square inch.

So when you break a glass or your wife greets you
with a barrage of chinaware, just figure that you
may be doing me a good turn and let it go at that."

Previous to taking up this Canadian enterprise
Ralph had done landscape work in Cleveland,
Detroit, New York and in Canada. From 1923-1936
he was engineer in the Borough President's Office,
Bronx, New York.

Charlie Gould is county agricultural agent in
Camden County, New Jersey, which job he took
over in January, 1939. Charlie is well qualified to
handle his present work; he has been assistant pro-
fessor of pomology at the College, county club agent
and assistant county club agent in Hampshire
County (Mass.), manager of the Hampden County
(Mass.) Fruit Growers Association, salesman for the
Old Deerfield Fertilizer Company; he has operated
a large fruit farm and has been special agent for the
Federal Resettlement Administration and for the
Federal Surplus Commodity Corporation. He is the
author of several bulletins on fruit growing and spray
material.

He has been a member of the Williamsburg (Mass.)
school committee, treasurer of the Hampshire
County Farm Bureau, president of the Massachusetts
Fruit Growers Association and president of the
Northampton Production Credit Association.

He was president of the Associate Alumni from
June, 1929, to June, 1931.

Charlie has three sons and a daughter; his son,
John, is a junior at the College.

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN

ALUMNI DIRECTORS MEET
ON CAMPUS

SPRINGFIELD ALUMNI HOLD
LUNCHEON MEETING

The officers and directors of the Associate Alumni
met on campus on Friday, April 12.

They heard Bud Ross '17, architect for the new
dormitories, describe progress in the construction
(see picture) of the men's dorm. This building will
be ready for occupancy when the class of 1944
arrives on campus in the fall. Bids for the con-
struction of the new girls' dormitory will be opened
before the end of April and construction will start
almost immediately thereafter.

The Directors discussed plans whereby additional
scholarships might be made available to undergradu-
ate students at the College.

They discussed plans of the committee, chairman
of which is Al Smith '22, for an increase in the
number of members of the Associate Alumni.

Alumni interest, including membership in the
Association, has been most gratifying; but the
Directors and the committee feel that there should
be, currently, more members in the Association.

A definite program for the purpose of increasing
membership will be undertaken early in May.

Giving attention to the Alumni Day program,
scheduled for Saturday, June 8, the Directors learned
that the College would cooperate in providing an
excellent Alumni Luncheon. P. C. Hicks, caterer, of
Lynn, Mass., has been engaged to serve the annual
Alumni Luncheon in the Drill Hall. Mr. Hicks has
had long experience in arranging alumni luncheons
at college reunions, and will bring all of his facilities
and highly trained staff to the campus.

Tickets for the luncheon will be on sale in Mem-
orial Hall on June 8; and reunion classes are advised
to make tentative reservations for their groups as
far in advance as possible.

The Alumni Day program will open with the
annual Roister Doister breakfast in Draper Hall.
Next will come the meeting of the Associate Alumni
in the auditorium of Memorial Hall at 10 o'clock.
This meeting will be followed by the luncheon and
alumni speaking program.

Then will come a concert by the college band and
the alumni parade to the varsity baseball game with
Amherst — the parade to be formed and led by
Alumni Marshal Herm Magnuson '30.

After the ball game there will be a concert on the
college chime; next are scheduled the class suppers
and fraternity reunions.

The Roister Doisters will bring the Alumni Day
festivities to a close with the presentation of George
Bernard Shaw's "Heartbreak House." This com-
mencement play will be given in Bowker auditorium
at 9 o'clock. Reunion classes are reserving blocks
of seats, together, for the play. Those classes which
already have not made reservation should immedi-
ately get in touch with Wilfred Shepardson '40,
manager of the Roister Doisters, by addressing him
in care of the Alumni Office, Memorial Hall.

The first of a serious of monthly luncheon meetings

of Springfield Alumni was held al the Hotel Kimball
in Springfield on Wednesday, April 10.

Ken Ross '37, Ralph Stedman '20, and Al Smith
'22 made the plans. It was decided to hold similar
Springfield meetings on the third Wednesday of each
month except, perhaps, during the summer vacation
season.

The group looks forward to these informal noon
day gatherings as becoming a very pleasant occasion
for Alumni in the Springfield district. It is planned
that some of Professor Barrett's colored movies of
campus scenes be shown at the next luncheon.

Among the Alumni present at the meeting on
April 10 were Dallas L. Sharp '26, Ruth Wood '38,
Albert Forbush '38, Dick Waite '21, Eddie Landis
'21, Clinton King '07, Norman Hilyard '23, Inza
Boles Hilyard '23, Elaine Milkey '38, Al Yeatman
'31, Herbert Bartlett '2^, Maxwell Pyenson '38,
Anthony Gagliarducci '30, Dr. William B. Coen '32.
Dr. Arthur Gold '35, Fred Griggs '13, A. h. Loring
'17, F. Kinsley Whittum '31, Ross, Smith, Stedman,
and Red Emery '24. \

Kenwood Ross was elected executive_officer of the
group.

DR. THORNE M. CARPENTER '02
ELECTED PRESIDENT OF INSTITUTE

At the recent meetings of the American Institute
of Nutrition in New Orleans, I Dr. Thorne|M. Car-
penter '02, acting director of the Nutrition Labora-
tory (located in Boston) of the Carnegie Institute
of Washington, D. C, was elected president of the
American Institute.

At the meeting of the American Physiological
Society on March 15, Dr. Carpenter presented a
paper on "Respiratory Quotients" in cooperation
with Professor Ritzman of the University of New
Hampshire.

STEEL MEN AT WORK ON NEW DORM — PHOTOGRAPH BY GRANT B SNYDER

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OBITUARY

Clinton G. Chapin w'87

Clinton G. Chapin w'87 died at his home in
Chicopee, Mass., on March 16, 1940. He was seventy-
five years of age.

He was born in Chicopee, attended the Chicopee
schools, and entered Massachusetts State with the
class of 1887. After leaving the College, he was, for
many years, employed by A. G. Spalding Company.
He also was for many years clerk and treasurer of
the First Congregational Church in Chicopee, that
city's oldest church. In 1911 and 1912, he was a
member of the Chicopee Board of Aldermen.

Mr. Chapin is survived by his widow, six children,
six grandchildren, and a brother, William Edward
Chapin '99 of Portland, Maine.

NEW YORK ALUMNI CLUB ELECTS
NEW OFFICERS

MARRIAGES

'37 Nelson Betts to Miss Pearl Borden, March
16, 1940, at Easton, N. Y.

'38 Miss Cynthia Carpenter to John Peck, April
5, 1940, at Sterling, Mass.

BIRTHS

'28 and '29 A son, Norman Bruce, to Mr. and
Mrs. John Kay (Betty Morey '28), December 3,
1939, at Reading, Mass.

'29 A son, John Brereton, to Mr. and Mrs.
Dennis M. Crowley, March 28, 1940, at Boston, Mass.

'29 A daughter, Sarah Ellen, to Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Pullar (Betty Lynch '29), March 22, 1940,
at Tuckahoe, N. Y.

'33 A son, Edward Eaton, to Mr. and Mrs.
Edward Fawcett, February 16, 1940, at Springfield,
Mass.

'33 A son, John Jr., to Mr. and Mrs. John
Kidney (Margaret Gerrard '33), April 1, 1940, at
Bridgeport, Conn.

'34 A son, Louis Jr., to Mr. and Mrs. Louis
Bush, April 3, 1940, at Northampton, Mass.

'35 A son, Robert Eden, to Mr. and Mrs. Richard
Hutchinson (Betsy Perry '35), April 6, 1940, at
Springfield, Mass.

'36 and '37 A son, Richard William, to Mr. and
Mrs. Walter Lewis (Betty Proctor '36), February
19, 1940, at Dover, N. H.

'83 Dr. Homer J. Wheeler, who has been spending
the winter in Florida, wrote, recently, of his pleasure
at meeting David Goodale and Nathaniel Jones,
both of the class of 1882 in Florida. Dr. Wheeler
also has visited with Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Hubbard
'89 in Winter Park and with President Baker, who
spent a short vacation this winter in Florida.

'18 Flavel Gifford is superintendent of schools in
Fairhaven, Mass.

'19 Allen Boyce is engineer and technician on the
Georgia State Planning Board. He lives at 133 W.
Lyle Avenue, College Park, Ga.

The officers and board of governors of the Massa-
chusetts State College Club of New York elected for
the year 1940, are as follows: president, Lyman G.
Schermerhorn '10; vice-president, Stuart V. Smith
w'22; second vice-president, Curtis Clark '35;
secretary-treasurer, Charles W. LeClair '34 (370
79th Street, Brooklyn, N. Y.).

Assistant secretary-treasurer, Theodore H. Reu-
mann '18; assistant secretary, Pauline Spiewak '31;
choragus, Ted Law '36; assistant choragus, Jack
Quinn '28.

The board of governors includes Tom Harrocks
'16, Mrs. Armond Arnurius (Evelyn Sandstrom) '30,
whose terms expire in 1940; Walter L. Morse '95,
Lyman G. Schermerhorn '10, terms expire in 1941;
Sidney B. Haskell '04, L. Francis Cormier '26, terms
expire in 1942; Orwell B. Briggs '09, Walter C.
Baker '32, terms expire in 1943.

SUB-FRESHMAN DAY

A student committee, appointed by the Senate
and headed by Don Allan '41 of Fitchburg, has
paved the way for alumni cooperation in bringing
the advantages and opportunities of the College to
the attention of prospective students.

The Senate-appointed committee arranged and
conducted a sub-freshman week-end on campus
April 12, 13, and 14. Members of the freshman
class, at College, were asked to suggest names of
friends in their high schools (particularly seniors)
whom they felt would be interested in knowing more
about the College. Allan's committee then invited
these high school students for a week-end on campus.

The visitors were provided with rooms and meals
by the various fraternities; they were conducted on
visits to classroom and laboratory sections where
classes were in session; they were guests at the
excellent production of the Gilbert and Sullivan
"Gondoliers," presented by the musical clubs.

They were guests at a dinner in Draper Hall, at
which dinner President Baker, Curry Hicks, and Al
Irzyk '40 of Salem spoke, and at which Professor
Barrett showed his colored movies of campus ac-
tivities.

The committee in charge of the event did a good
job; high school visitors were much impressed by
what they saw and heard.

The Senate's committee had raised the money to
provide some of the items of entertainment through
a Campus Varities show staged earlier in the winter
with the assistance of Dr. Maxwell H. Goldberg '28.

Next year the committee expects to extend its
invitation to high school students whose names
shall have been suggested by Alumni.

'35 Roland Becker expects to receive his Ph.D.
from Northwestern University in Chicago in June.
His thesis topic is "Child Psychology."

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WITH THE ALUMMAE

By Mary E. Garvey '19
and Leonla Horrigan '36

Sally Bradley Lusk '31, who has spent some time
in India, is now back in the United States and living
in South Pasadena, California.

Harriett Jackson '34 is teaching English in the
Lincoln Junior High School in Framingham, Mass.

The Springfield papers recently carried an item to
the effect that Violet Koskcla '35 has qualified for
the position of dietitian at the Northampton State
Hospital.

Ruth Avery '35 is a clerk in the Edith Goodell
Shops, 38 Poplar Street, Belmont, Mass.

Elizabeth Dodge '37 is kindergarten teacher at
the Applewood School, Beech Street, Framingham,
Mass.

Janina Czajkowski '3(> is dietitian at the North-
field Inn, Northfield, Mass.

Barbara Miller '38 is a clerk with the Aetna
Casualty and Surety Company, 1200 Main Street,
Springfield, Mass.

These members of the class of 1939 have been
reported by Miss Hamlin in the following employ-
ment.

Nancy Parks is with the Dewey and Almy Chem-
ical Company in North Cambridge, Mass.

Julia Lynch is studying the teaching of the blind
at Perkins Institute, Watertown, Mass.

Frances Merrill is on the staff of the Christian
Science Publishing Company in Boston.

Justine Martin is taking the nutritionist train-
ing course at the Boston Dispensary.

Ethel Meurer is a student technician at the
Westfield, Mass., State Hospital.

Eleanor Sheehan is doing graduate work in
entomology at the College.

Beryl Briggs is a student nutritionist at the
Boston Dispensary, 25 Bennett Street, Boston, Mass.

Ethel Dixon is dietitian at Estell Manor, May's
Landing, New Jersey.

Elizabeth Jasper is doing office work with the
Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company in
Springfield, Mass.

Phyllis MacDonald is teaching household arts at
Hopkins Academy in Hadley.

Margaret Madden is teaching in the Central
Junior High School, Methuen, Mass.

Frances Rathbone is check teller in the Haverhill
(Mass.) National Bank.

Elizabeth Olson is a graduate student in the
Boston University School of Religious and Social
Work.

Elizabeth Warner is a student at the Simmons
Library School in Boston.

INCOME OE AGRICULTURAL FUND
AVAILABLE TO ALUMNI

The Lotta Agricultural Fund, which w;is set up
and established under the will of the late Lotta M.
Crabtree, has assumed proportions of some signifi-
cance. Under the provisions of Miss Crabtrce's will
loans may be made, without interest, from this Fund
to graduates of the College "who desire to follow
agricultural pursuits but who are without means to
enter upon the same."

PEN AND INK SKETCH BY DP. FRANK A. WAUGH

Over forty Alumni already have borrowed from
the Lotta Agricultural Fund to an aggregate amount
of over $100,000. The amount of money to be
loaned to any individual and the length of time
allowed for repayment of the loan is entirely in the
hands of the Trustees of the Crabtree estate.

These Trustees are also empowered to use the
Fund "to assist needy and meritorious students in
completing their courses of study" at the College;
and many students have received such loans, repaid
them before graduation.

The Lotta Agricultural Fund is made up of the
accumulated earnings of the capital fund left by
Miss Crabtree for this purpose; and is therefore
growing larger each year. The earlier borrowers are
now repaying their loans and these sums are avail-
able for use as new loans, so that an increasing
number of men will be able to benefit.

Any Alumni desiring further information or wish-
ing applications should address the Trustees of the
Estate of Lotta M. Crabtree, 619 Washington Street,
Boston, Mass.

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ATHLETICS

This and That

The candidates for the 1940 football squad have
been going through a strenuous spring session in
preparation for next fall's schedule.

While Coach Eb Caraway is busy with his baseball

squad, the re-
cently engaged
line coach,
John Janusas,
has been super-
vising sessions
and mixing in
some rugged
demonstra-
tions of line
technique with
Captain Ralph
Simmons '41 of
Pittsfield and
the other can-
didates.

Janusas
comes to Mass.
State from
Boston College
where he was
graduated in
1938. Big and
burly, he was
Line Coach Janusas an outstanding

tackle during his college days. Last fall he was with
the Providence Steamrollers, professional football
club.

Janusas is spending three weeks this spring on
campus, will return for the fall season as full time
assistant coach.

The annual high school basketball tournament
conducted at the College, with Larry Briggs '27 '
manager, drew 18,000 people on five nights in March.

Coach Caraway's problem with the baseball team
this spring will be to find hitters who can follow the
pace which Captain Warren Tappin '40 of Winchen-
don is expected to set. Carl Twyble '40 of Gilbert-
ville will probably shoulder the major portion of the
pitching assignments with Jim Bullock, Don Thayer
and George Kimball, all sophomores, being groomed
for their share of this work.

The last four games of the basketball season re-
sulted in the following scores: Connecticut 65, State
35 at Storrs; W.P.I. 64, State 43, here; R.P.I. 43,
State 38, at Troy; B.U. 48, State 22, at Boston.

The winter track team lost to Connecticut on
February 19, 36 to 45 in the physical education
building cage, and won from Springfield, 56-34, here,
on February 27.

In a triangular meet, here, the team placed second
against Tufts and W.P.I. ; in the Connecticut
Valley meet on March 2, the team placed second of
five competing teams. The team lost to North-
eastern in Boston on March 6, 56 J to 15 |.

The physical education building was used for a
dance for the first time when the annual Winter
Carnival Ball was held in the cage on the night of
February 16.

Baseball

Warren R. Tappin, Jr. '40, Captain

Thomas W. Johnson '41, Manager

Elbert F. Caraway, Coach
April 19 Connecticut, there
23 Union, here

26 Bowdoin, here

27 Williams, there
May 1 Amherst, there

4 W.P.I. , here
7 Connecticut, here
11 Tufts, there
15 Wesleyan, there
18 New Hampshire, here
22 Lowell Tech, there
25 Trinity, there
30 Springfield, here
June 8 Amherst, here

Track

Robert A. Joyce '40, Captain

Edwin M. Lavitt '41, Manager

Llewellyn L. Derby, Coach
April 27 Boston University, here
May 3 Trinity, there
10 Tufts, there
14 Connecticut, here
18 Eastern Intercollegiates
at Worcester
24-25 New England Intercollegiates
at Springfield

Tennis

Arthur N. Wannlund '41, Manager

Sidney W. Kauffman, Supervisor
May 1 Clark, here

4 Connecticut, there
11 W.P.I. , here
15 Springfield, there
18 Trinity, there
25 Tufts, here

'25 Herbert Marx is factory superintendent for
the Philippine Manufacturing Company (a subsidiary
of Proctor and Gamble) in Manila, Philippine Islands.

'35 Ted Leary will graduate in June from the
George Washington School of Medicine in Washing-
ton and will then interne at Gallinger Municipal
Hospital in Washington.

'36 George Allen has recently accepted a position
with radio station WOR in the Mutual Broadcasting
System, Times Square, New York City.

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WITH

BOSTON ALUMNI

By John McGuckian '31

The annual spring banquet of the Boston Alumni
Club attracted over one hundred Alumni and friends
to the University Club on Saturday evening, April 6.

Alden Brett '12, president of the Associate
Alumni, spoke briefly, following the banquet, on the
work of the alumni organization and stressed the
need for increasing the number of members in the
Association.

President Baker brought greetings from the
College, spoke of activity on campus, and told of the
place which state-supported colleges and universities
hold in the country's educational program.

In conclusion he said "The Tightness of the growth
of (our) College through the years in curriculum,
student body, and in service to increasing numbers
of people throughout the Commonwealth is demon-
strated repeatedly by the fact that the people of the
Commonwealth in increasing numbers are turning to
the College for help in the education of young people
and for help in the fields of agriculture, industry and
business. It would seem to be the obligation of the
Commonwealth to see that this right opportunity for
higher education for the great number of Massachu-
setts young people who cannot afford to go to pri-
vately endowed institutions should be continued —
and not only continued but increased. We believe
that the door should not be closed in the face of
any young man or woman who is prepared for
college work because that young man or woman
may not have the funds necessary to complete a
college experience.

"The greatest natural resource with which Massa-
chusetts is blessed is this great group of young men
and women — earnest, sincere and determined — who
wish a college education but who cannot afford the
kind of education offered by our privately en-
dowed institutions. Every cent which the Common-
wealth puts into Massachusetts State College is a
sound investment in the sane progress of the Com-
monwealth through the years."

Louie Lyons '18, Nieman curator at Harvard,
gave an interesting review of his career as a news
man on a metropolitan paper.

The speaking program was followed by dancing.
Ed Haertl '27 led the band while Ducky Swan '27

gave an exhibition of the "Holyoke Scuffle," an
intricate dance which Ducky had mastered during
his college days.

ACADEMICS

Music :K (li<- Fair

The Women's Glee Club, under f li<- direction ol
Doric Alviani, instructor of music, is scheduled, now,
for concert appearances at the New York World'
Fair on Friday and Saturday, May 17 and 18.

The exact time and place on the Fair ground foi
these concerts has not yet been definitely decided
but will be announced in Fair publicity.

The Men's Glee Club, which appeared at the Fair
last year, may return for another concert this spring.

The College Choir, called one of the outstanding
organizations of its kind in the East, is at present
scheduled to sing in the Temple of Religion at the
World's Fair on Friday evening, May 17, at six
o'clock.

Stan Newcomb '35 is with the International
Business Machines Corporation, 573 Boylston Street,
Boston.

'88 Herbert C. Bliss, 27 Hayward Street, Attle-
boro, Mass., wrote us an interesting letter a few
weeks ago in which he told of the activities of some
of his classmates. "S. H. Field and wife (Bliss wrote;
are spending the winter in Hollywood, California and
expect to come back east sometime in April. Frank
Noyes of Atlanta, Georgia says he is getting some
real New England weather there —cold and plenty
of snow. And that he is becoming a little tired of
shoveling coal. Francis Foster is spending the winter
at Fort Lauderdale, Florida; says he has nothing to
do but play, swim, and gather driftwood for the fire.
He calls it a lazy life."

Bliss wrote of himself, "I am spending a good deal
of my time walking — by doctor's orders. I cover five
to eight miles every day, and it has done me loads
of good. The doctor says I have improved almost
10(K since last December when he told me to quit
work and take it easy for a while. As I feel now, I
would enjoy a good dance."

'19 Ray Willoughby is associate editor of Psycho-
logical Abstracts at Brown University, Providence,
Rhode Island.

'22 Al Smith has lately devised and patented a
"Milk Bar," a kind of portable soda fountain. Two
of these bars were set up and operated at the recent
Intersorority Ball at the College, and did a sell-out
business of sundaes and milk drinks — which provides,
perhaps, some sort of commentary on campus social
life.

'31 John Calvi is chemistry teacher and assistant
principal at the Athol (Mass.) high school.

'32 Bob Diggs is U. S. forest ranger, stationed at
Apache Creek, New Mexico. He writes that, after
seven years in New Mexico he is about ready to call
that state his home.

'35 Dr. Victor Guzowski is practicing dentistry
at 49 Park Street, Indian Orchard, Mass.

'35 Kenneth Steadman recently has been pro-
moted to the supervisor of the claims department
for the Liberty Mutual Insurance Company in
Pittsburg, Pa.

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'35 Bob Murray recently talked in a seminar at
the horticultural manufacturing department on
campus on the subject of "Efficiency in Manufactur-
ing Plants." Bob is with the Crown Can Company
and will be located in St. Louis after the first of May.

Library

State College

Alumni Day, Saturday, June 8

GENERAL PROGRAM

8.30 a. in. Roister Doister Breakfast — Draper Hall.

10.00 a. iii. Annual Open Meeting of the Associate Alumni, Auditorium,
Memorial Hall.

12.00 m. Alumni Luncheon, Drill Hall. P. C. Hicks, caterer, of
Lynn, has been engaged to serve an excellent luncheon.
Following the meal will come the alumni speaking program.

2.15 p.m. Concert by the College Band — near Memorial Hall.

3.00 p.m. Alumni Parade — will start at Memorial Hall.

3.30 p.m. Varsity Baseball — Alumni Field. Statesmen vs. Amherst.
Following the ball game there will be a half-hour concert on
the chime — Old Chapel.

6.30 p.m. Class Reunions and Suppers. Fraternity meetings.

9.00 p.m. Roister Doister Play — George Bernard Shaw's "Heart-
break House" — in Bowker Auditorium.

PROGRAM ARRANGED FOR VARSITY
CLUB MEETING

The twentieth annual Varsity Club Breakfast will
be held at 9 o'clock on Sunday morning, June 9, in
Draper Hall. Secretary Wilho Frigard '34 and other
officers of the club, extend a cordial invitation to all
alumni lettermen to attend this breakfast meeting
and take part in the program which the Club will
undertake.

Any man who won an athletic letter while in
College is eligible for membership in the Club. Dues
for life membership are only $1.00; and more of
these life memberships are needed!

The more memberships the Club has, the more
effective job it can do in fulfilling its purpose as a
worthwhile organization. The officers are particu-
larly anxious to increase membership among the
younger Alumni; and lettermen are urged to send
$1.00 now to Secretary Bill Frigard, Physical Edu-
cation Building, Massachusetts State College, for
their life membership dues in the Club.

The Club's constitution outlines purpose and
objectives as follows:

1. Social — to give an opportunity of a social get-
together of lettermen of the College.

2. To do whatever it can to foster and aid the
athletic program at the College.

3. To gather and preserve as much historic
athletic material of the College as possible.

4. To recognize distinguished accomplishment in
athletics at the College by individuals or teams
(trophies).

5. To recognize achievement by graduates of the
College in the fields of athletics, physical education I
or recreation (annual award).

STUDENTS HOLD LIVESTOCK SHOW
ON CAMPUS

A group of two hundred visitors, Alumni and t
students, watched the proceedings at what the 3
undergraduate animal husbandry club called the e
Little International Livestock Show on campus,
March 16.

This livestock show is sponsored annually by the
student Animal Husbandry Club; this year's event
was acclaimed as one of the largest animal husbandry
shows sponsored by students of a northeastern
college. Thirty-three students fitted and showed
fifty animals in the contest.

THE ALUMNI
BULLETIN

SPRING EVENING

MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE
AMHERST, MASSACHUSETTS

ol. XXII, No. 9

June, 1940

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THE ALUMNI BULLETIN
MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

Published monthly at Amherst, Mass. (except August and
September) by the Associate Alumni of Massachusetts State College.
Entered as second class matter. March 17, 1920, at the Postoffice
at Amherst, Mass., under the Acts of March 3, 1879,

ASSOCIATE ALUMNI OF
MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

BOARD OF DIRECTORS
to 1940

Walter T. Bonney '31 of Springfield

John J. Maginnis '18 of Worcester

Lester Needham '14 of Springfield

F. Civille Pray '06 of Amherst
to 1941
Richard J. Davis '28 of Boston

Thomas P. Dooley '13 of West Roxbury

George W. Edman '21 of Pittsfield

Ralph F. Taber '16 of West Newton
to 1942
Erford W. Poole '96 of New Bedford

David P. Rossiter '37 of Maiden

Zoe Hickney White '32 of Worcester

Alfred E. Wilkins '15 of Wakefield
to 1943
Harry Dunlap Brown "14 of Billerica

William L. Doran '15 of Amherst

Mary E. M. Garvey '19 of Amherst

Lawrence L. Jones '26 of North Beverly

The Alumni Bulletin is sent ten times each year to all members
of the Associate Alumni. Memberships are: Annual $3.00, Sustain-
ing $10.00.

Cover picture — "Spring Evening" — Photo by John
Vondell. In the picture, taken on the steps of Goodell
Library, are (left to right) Brad Greene '42 of Spring-
field, Mary and Betty Cobb '42 {twin daughters of
Joseph R. Cobb '13) of Chicopee Falls, and Myron
Hager '40, of South Deerfield.

JOHN CRAWFORD '20 WINS U. S.
SAFETY PRIZE

ALUMNI DORMITORIES PLANNED
FIRST IN 1933

John A. Crawford '20, editorial promotion mana-
ger of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, recently was
awarded first prize of $500 in a national contest for
work done by newspaper men in the promotion of
traffic safety.

Crawford's entry, one of 300, was a bicycle safety
campaign which he carried on in 1939 through the
organization of the Plain Dealer "Bicycle Light
Brigade."

ACADEMICS BREAKFAST

Draper Hall

Sunday morning, June 9, nine o'clock

Louie Lyons '18, Nieman curator at Harvard,

will be guest speaker. His subject: "Archibald

MacLeish's old job — and President Conant's

notions about Nieman Fellowships."

During the winter of 1932 it came to the attention
of the Associate Alumni that one or two state univer-
sities, outside of New England, had found it possible
to build dormitories through the use of private funds.
Since dormitories had long been one of the great
needs at Massachusetts State College, and since re-
peated attempts to secure appropriations from the
State Legislature for the purpose of constructing
dormitories on campus had been unsuccessful, the
Directors of the Associate Alumni, at their meeting
on March 3, 1933, decided to investigate the possi-
bility of erecting dormitories through private means.

David H. Buttrick '17, president of the Associate
Alumni, appointed the following committee:
Ralph F. Taber '16, Chairman
George B. Willard '92
Louis W. Ross '17
Harold M. Rogers '16
Clayton W. Nash '16
Theoren L. Warner '08
Sumner R. Parker '04
David H. Buttrick '17

Several meetings were held to discuss ways and
means. The committee corresponded with the
officials of a number of colleges and universities
throughout the country which had used various
methods of financing self-liquidating dormitories. It
became apparent to the committee that a legislative
act would be required in Massachusetts to empower
the Trustees of the College to allow the building of
dormitories on campus by a private corporation.

Harry Dunlap Brown '14, who at that time was
floor leader in the House of Representatives and who
had done an excellent piece of work with regard to
the change of name of the College, came to the
assistance of the committee. Through his help, the
attorney of the House drew a bill which was ulti-
mately presented, informally, to Leverett Saltonstall,
Speaker of the House, to Erland Fish, President of
the Senate, and to the Ways and Means Committee
of the House. G. Bartlett Willard '92, a member of
the Alumni Committee and then deputy treasurer
of the Commonwealth investigated possibilities for
private financing.

At about this time the Federal Public Works Ad-
ministration came into existence; and, since a dormi-
tory project offered possibility for immediate use of
this agency and the employment of a large number of
men, Governor Joseph B. Ely suggested that the
building of dormitories would be a good type of
project for this new federal agency. As a result,
Thatcher Hall and Goodell Library were built on
campus.

Even though the availability and use of federal
funds made it unnecessary for the Alumni to push
their original plans to completion, the alumni efforts
unquestionably had much to do with the securing of
federal funds for these college buildings.

By 1938 increased enrollment at the College was
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CLASS OF 1!)40 VOTES 100$ MEMBER.
SHIP IN ASSOCIATE ALUMNI

In a special senior convocation on May 16, the
class of 1940 voted to take 100 r,' membership in the
Associate Alumni. The action was recommended to
the class by Myron Hager, president, who voiced
the unanimous feeling of the class officers that such
action on the part of the class represented the most
important and valuable action which 1940 might
take in behalf of Massachusetts State College.

The officers, and two or three other members of
the class, had attended meetings of the Board of
Directors of the Associate Alumni and well knew of
the tremendous help which the alumni organization
is giving Massachusetts State. It was because of
these officers' wish to strengthen the Association, to
help the College, the recommendation of 100'; class
membership was made. Marshall Lanphear '18,
secretary, and Al Smith '22, vice-president of the
Associate Alumni, spoke briefly at the class meeting.
Tradition to Be Observed

In accepting 100^ membership for its class, 1940
is setting an important tradition which will be handed
down to the junior class at the Class Night exercises,
June 9.

On June 10, following the award of diplomas to
seniors, there will be an induction exercise at which
the Class of 1940 will be welcomed into the Associate
Alumni.

CORNERSTONE CEREMONY WILL
TAKE PLACE JUNE 8

One of the tnosi interesting events of the Alumni
Day program on Saturday, June 8, will be the
cornerstone exercises at the new men's dormitory
now being constructed by the Associate Alumni.

The cornerstone will be laid at exercises ;>t two
o'clock, following the annual Alumni Luncbi on
Speakers at the new dormitory will be President
Baker, Trustee Joseph W. Bartlett, David H. Buttrick
'17 and Alden Brett '12.

An excellent caterer, P. C. Hicks of Lynn, who
has had wide experience in serving alumni reunion
gatherings has been engaged, through the cooperation
of the College, to serve the Luncheon in the Drill Hall
on Alumni Day. Service and food will be the finest.

At the Annual Alumni Meeting at 10 o'clock in
the auditorium of Memorial Hall there will be re-
ports of a busy year. Officers of the Associate
Alumni for the year 1940-41 will be elected.

The Luncheon will follow this Annual Meeting of
the Association, after which Alumni will go to the
dormitory for the cornerstone exercises. Then, at
three o'clock, Alumni Marshal Herm Magnuson '30
will form the alumni parade at Memorial Hall for
the march to the varsity baseball game.

In the evening will come the class suppers and
reunions, and the Roister Doister play in Bowker
Auditorium, at nine o'clock.

ALUMNI DORMITORY CORPORATION.

Rack row (left to right): Louis W. Ross '17, David II. Buttrick '17 (vice-chairman), William V.

Hayden '13, Harry Dunlap Brown '14, Ralph F. Taber '15 (clerk). Front row (left to right): Richard

J. Davis '28 (treasurer), Eleanor Rateman '23, Alden C. Rrett '12 (chairman).

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OBITUARY

Charles Otis F!a££ '72

Charles Otis Flagg '72 died at the Fuller Sanatorium
in South Attleboro, Mass., on December 6, 1939,
after a nine-week's illness following a shock. He
was born in Westminster, Mass., August 10, 1851.

He attended the public schools in Westminster
and entered the College in 1868 with the second
class to be enrolled. His class helped in the land-
scaping of the campus, and set out the row of elms
leading from the campus entrance to the Old Chapel.

After being graduated Mr. Flagg took charge of a
large farm near Montgomery, Alabama, returned
north in April 1875 to similar work in North Cumber-
land, Rhode Island, where he remained until 1880.
He was afterward superintendent of dairy farms in
Morristown, N. J., and Hardwick, Mass. In 1880 he
purchased a farm in North Cumberland, R. I.,
where he made his home from 1914 until the time of
his last illness.

With the founding of Rhode Island State College
in 1888, Mr. Flagg was appointed president of the
first board of managers and later became director of
the Experiment Station. In 1932 Rhode Island State
College awarded him the degree of Master of Science.

He was first master and a charter member of
Cumberland Grange in Rhode Island. He was
active in the work of his church.

In 1877 he married Celinda E. Alexander; they
celebrated their golden wedding in 1927. Mrs.
Flagg died the following year. Mr. Flagg is sur-
vived by a brother, two daughters, a son, two grand-
daughters and seven grandchildren.

PLANT PHYSIOLOGISTS MEET AT
DARTMOUTH

BIRTHS

'36 and '36 A son, Stephen James, to Mr. and
Mrs. Elmer H. Allen (Peg Hutchinson '36), May 2,
1940, at Morris ville, Vt.

'36 A daughter, Betty Jean, to Mr. and Mrs.
John Pray (Ruth Reed '36), May 16, 1940, at
Florence, Mass.

'35 A daughter, Judy, to Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth
Steadman, March 21, 1940, at Crafton (Pittsburgh),
Pennsylvania.

A number of Alumni visited the College on High
School Day, May 4, to introduce secondary school
students to Massachusetts State.

Among the Alumni who registered were Jimmie
Alger '21, Arthur Tilton '18, Elmer Barber '26,
Belding Jackson '22, Alan Flynn '26, Bertram Holland
'29, Joseph Zillman '34, Doc Gordon '23, and Edmund
Kelsey '17.

The acrostical designs on pages 6 and 7 were pre-
pared by Professor Frank Prentice Rand, general
manager of Academic Activities.

The article about tennis, pages 8 and 9, was prepared
by Sidney Kauffman, instructor in physical education.

These pages have been provided by the Academic
Activities Board and the Department of Athletics,
respectively.

In attendance at the annual meeting of the New
England section of the American Society of Plant
Physiologists held at Dartmouth College on May 10
and 11 were the following Alumni: Dr. Charles A.
Peters '97, Dr. Gordon Percival '24, Benjamin Isgur
'33, Frederic Theriault '38, Harold Clark '28, Lester
Clark '35, Merrill Vittum '39, Karol Kucinski '34,
Charlie Moran '36, Orton L. Clark '08, and Dr. Linus
H. Jones '16.

Papers were presented by Percival, Isgur, Theriault,
and Wilfred Shepardson '40 of Athol.

Linus Jones was re-elected secretary-treasurer, a
post he has held since the organization was founded
in 1933.

BERNARD SMITH '99 SPEAKS AT
ACADEMICS CONVOCATION

On Thursday, May 9, Bernard Smith '99 of
Brooklyn, N. Y., came to campus to be guest speaker
at the annual academics insignia convocation. Mr.
Smith is the holder of the honorary academic activi-
ties gold medal, is a past president of the Alumni
Academic Activities Club.

Mr. Smith was presented with a copy of the 1940
Index, edited by Edith Clark '40 of Sunderland, the
motif of which book is the chime of bells which was
given to the College by Mr. Smith in memory of his
classmate Warren E. Hinds.

In the award of academics insignia which preceded
Mr. Smith's excellent talk, the academics con-
spicuous service trophy was awarded to Peter
Barreca '41 of Pittsfield for his original play "The
General Died in Bed," which was presented by the
Roister Doisters last winter. Roger Lindsey '40 of
Ware, last year's business manager of the Collegian,
was awarded the academics manager's prize of $50.

GEORGE ERICKSON '19 IS HONOR
GUEST AT BANQUET

On April 27 the Trustees of the Middlesex (Mass.)
County Extension Service honored George Erickson
'19, at a banquet at the Wayside Inn in Sudbury,
Mass., in recognition of his twenty years of con-
tinuous service in 4-H work in Middlesex County.
Erickson is 4-H leader in the county.

Nathaniel Bowditch presided at the banquet;
Allister MacDougall '13 was chairman of the com-
mittee on arrangements. Among the guests were
President and Mrs. Hugh P. Baker, Extension
Director Willard A. Munson '05 and Mrs. Munson,
Trustees Frederick D. Griggs '13 and Harry Dunlap
Brown '14. Speakers included President Baker,
Director Munson, Fred Griggs, and George L.
Farley, State 4-H club leader.

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and Leonta Horrigan '36

In a recent letter, Ruth Murder Howe *22 de-
scribed an interesting meeting she and another
Alumna had in Boston a few days ago. On May 10,
Ruth took her eight years old daughter to Station
WAAB for a recording of a story the youngster had
written and sent in for consideration on the "Young
America Speaks" program. While there Ruth met
Kathleen Adams MacAfee w'25 who had come
with her nine years old daughter, also for a recording
of a story. Both of the stories are scheduled for
broadcasting during the week of May 13-18. Ruth
reports that while the young authors were busy in
the recording room, the proud mothers visited and
exchanged notes on family and college news. I am
sure we all congratulate the parents of these two
little ladies.

Berniee Sehubert '35 recently passed her qualify-
ing examination for the Ph.D. degree in botany at
Radcliffe. She is now on a month's trip in connection
with her work. This trip has taken her to the Field
Museum in Chicago, the Missouri Botanic Gardens,
the National Herbarium in Washington, D. C. and
the New York Botanic Gardens. En route she
visited Polly Hillberg Ryan '34 in Iowa. Berniee
has had a number of papers published, is preparing
another. She is also getting her thesis ready for
publication.

Alumnae may be interested to know that among
the students at the College who have been taking
the course given under the Civil Aeronautics Author-
ity, one woman, Roma Levy '40, of Pittsfield, has
passed the examination in ground work and already
has twenty-four hours of solo flying to her credit.
We believe Roma is the first woman student to
become a qualified flyer during her undergraduate
days. Her enthusiasm and success should be an
inspiration to other women students.

ROMA LEVY '40 AND PLANE. THE PLANE IS NOT ONE
USED IN THE C.A.A. INSTRUCTION. IT IS A MODEL
BUILT BY PROF. CHARLES J ROHR FOR HIS SON

SCHOLARSHIPS TO BE AVAILABLE
FROM LOTTA FUND

At the Trustee Convocation on May 2. President
Baker announced to the assembled student* thai
during the next college year, 1940-41, new scholar-
ships amounting to $7,400 would be available I
scholarships will be provided through income from a
fund set up by the will of the late Lotta Crabtree.

One thousand dollars will be for Alumni in the
graduate school; the remainder, $6,400.00, for
students in the four undergraduate clas i

LOTTA CRABTREE IN THE '70'S

FROM TROUPERS OF THE GOLD COAST" BY

CONSTANCE ROURKE (HARCOURT, BRACE)

Miss Crabtree, a distinguished comedienne of the
late 1800's, provided in her will for the establish-
ment of the Lotta Agricultural Fund, income from
which should be loaned to graduates of the College
who wished to establish themselves in agriculture.
The will further provided that, should all of the
income not be so used, such amounts as her trustees
saw fit to make available could be used to help needy
and meritorious students complete their courses of
study at the College.

An Alumni Committee has been in conference
with Trustees of the Lotta Estate during the past
year; and the Lotta Trustees have been most inter-
ested in making income from the fund held in their
trust available to students at the College.

Ethel Blatehiord Purnell '34 has charge of the
arrangements for the Alumnae Tea which is to be
held on Saturday afternoon, June 8, in the Seminar
Room of the Old Chapel at 4 o'clock.

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Varsity Tennis Returns to Massachusetts
State College Campus

After a lapse of twenty-six years tennis
has again been placed on the varsity spring
schedule of intercollegiate athletics at the
College.

The first varsity tennis team in the
history of Massachusetts State was organized
in 1909. The team was captained by Albert
F. Rock wood '10; members of the club were
Leonard Johnson '11, Charles R. Webb '09,
Huang Jen '09, and Frank L. Thomas '10.
This first varsity team played six matches,
tied with Bates, won from Springfield, lost
four.
In 1910 the varsity tennis team won six out of eight matches. Victories are recorded

over Connecticut, Bates, Colby, the Holyoke Canoe Club, two over Springfield College.

Rockwood again was captain of this team.

Leonard Johnson '11 was captain of the 1911 team which won six of its nine matches —
from Connecticut, Holy Cross, University of Vermont, Holyoke Canoe Club, and from
Springfield College two.

Mass. State tennis courts
Girls' athletic field in background

The 1912 team was captained by Alden Brett '12;
schedule, winning four and losing four matches.

and the club broke 50-50 on its

Court facilities at the College, even at this time, were proving inadequate for inter-
collegiate matches and for practice. Regulation size courts were larger than the two avail-
able on campus.

In 1913 the tennis team won two of seven matches. Herman Roehrs '13 was captain
In 1914 the team was composed of Herbert Archibald '15 captain, Earle S. Draper '15,
Ed Perry '16, George Hall '15, Leon
Whitney '16, H. Gleason Mattoon '16,
and Ralph McLain '15, manager. The
team played seven matches, won one of
these, tied one with Amherst.

On September 22, 1914, tennis was
dropped as an intercollegiate sport, prin-
cipally because of the lack of adequate
practice facilities. Interest, too, among
the student body in tennis as a recrea-
tional sport was such that it seemed in-
advisable to set aside the two available
courts for sufficient team practice sessions.

When the Physical Education Building
was constructed, in 1930, it became Two of thc tcnilis courts. (Picture was taken

necessary to destroy One of these two before right hand court had been finished)

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1940 VARSITY TENNIS TEAM

Left to rii>ht, Arthur Wiinnlund '41 of Arlington, Manager; Myron Solin '42 of Holyoke, Robert

Mosher '40 of Holyoke, Alfred Silfen '40 of Sprint-field, Erie Stahlbcrg '40 of Northampton, Robert

Foley '40 of Turners Falls, Ren Stonoga '42 of Watcrtown, Sidney Kauffman, Supervisor.

tennis courts located behind the Drill Hall in order properly to grade for the new building.
Fortunately, however, income was available from the Admiral George Barber '85 Fund
with which a replacement could be made.

Dr. Barber, an eminent surgeon attached to the United States Navy, had left the
College a fund, the income from which was to be used in providing permanent improve-
ments in physical education facilities at the College. This money was used to repair the
remaining old court and construct a new one west of the Drill Hall.

For more than six years these two courts were all that were available for a student
body of nearly eleven hundred. Student interest in tennis was increasing; Professor Hicks
long had been aware of the need for additional courts. In June, 1938, a WPA grant became
available and was used to construct eight hard pan surface tennis courts just west of the
Physical Education Building. Curry Hicks supervised the construction of these courts
and worked literally from sun-up to sun-down daily during the summer of '38 in order
that the courts might be properly constructed.

Last spring the students indicated their wishes that a varsity tennis team be established,
now that practice facilities were more nearly adequate; and, this spring, a team was chosen
and an intercollegiate schedule arranged.

Sidney Kauffman, instructor in physical education, was named supervisor of the new
team and has been working with the boys ever since weather conditions have made outside
practice possible.

The team has engaged in four matches; has won two, and lost two.

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ATHLETICS

Baseball

CAMP NAJEROG ENROLLS SONS
OF ALUMNI

Scores:

Apr. 19 Connecticut, there

26 Bowdoin, here

27 Williams, there
May 1 Amherst, there

7 Connecticut, here

11 Tufts, there

15 Wesleyan, there (13 innings)

18 U. of New Hampshire
Remaining games:

May 22 Lowell Tech, there

25 Trinity, there

30 Springfield, here

June 8 Amherst, here

Statesmen
11
2

Opp.

7
2
4
5
5

Track

May 3

Trinity, there

Tufts, there

Connecticut, here

Tennis

May 1

Clark, here

W. P. L, here

Springfield, there

Trinity, there

Remaining matches:

May 22

Connecticut, here

Tufts, here

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VARSITY CLUB AWARD

At the breakfast meeting of the Varsity Club in
Draper Hall on Sunday morning, June 9, the Club
will present its first honorary award to an Alumnus
who has been of outstanding service in the field of
athletics, physical education, recreation.

A permanent plaque will be placed in the trophy
room of the Physical Education Building on which
the name of each recipient of this award, year after
year, will be inscribed. Each recipient will receive,
also, a certificate of recognition.

Candidates for the award will be selected by the
executive committee of the Varsity Club of which
Wilho Frigard '34 is secretary.

In addition to this first presentation of an out-
standing service award, the breakfast program on
June 9 will include the presentation of a permanent
plaque in memory of the 1871 crew. Pop Clark '87
will make the presentation. There also will be
recognition of the accomplishment of the 1940 un-
defeated swimming team.

President Baker will speak at the breakfast.
Eddie Burke '10 is president of the Varsity Club.

'30 Sergie Bernard is assistant director and coach
of athletics at Clark University in Worcester. Last
winter his basketball team played a schedule of 15
games, won 13.

In June, Camp Najerog, a summer camp for boys
in Wilmington, Vermont, will open for its sixteenth
season. Owners and directors of Camp Najerog are
Harold and Jane Pollard Gore '13 and '22.

As usual, the sons of a number of Alumni will be
campers. This year's enrollment includes Starr, Jr.
and David (Starr M. King '21); Ralph Jr., and J rry

BOB GORE (SON OF HAROLD M. AND JANE POLLARD GORE.
13 AND '22) ON BILLY. PRIZE-WINNING NAJEROG JUMPER

(Ralph Stedman '20); Larry, Jr. (Larry and Mary
Ingraham Jones '26 and '27); Eric (Al and Maude
Bosworth Gustafson '26). Nancy and Peter Gore,
daughter and son of the Najerog directors also will
be at the camp.

On the counselor staff will be Larry Briggs '27,
Red Ball '21, Jim Payson '40 and Russell Hibbard
'42.

ALUMNI IN YALE FORESTRY SCHOOL

Enrolled in the Yale University Forestry School
during the college year 1939-40 have been Donald
Cowles '39, Ralph Arnold '36, Leland Hooker '38,
Robert Perkins '38, and Jack Slocomb '38.

Slocomb, Perkins and Hooker are registered for
the degree of Master of Forestry in 1940.

ROISTER DOISTER BREAKFAST

Draper Hall
Saturday, June 8, at 8.30 a. m.

Because of an expanding Roister Doister
Alumni list formal notice of this breakfast
party is being sent only to members of reunion
classes and to Alumni in Massachusetts.
But all Roister Doisters are cordially invited.
Just drop a note to the manager, in care of
the Alumni Office, Memorial Hall, and tell
him to expect you.

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ALUMNI DORMITORIES

(Continued
again making the housing problem acute. A new
committee composed of:

Ralph F. Taber '16, Chairman

Harry Dunlap Brown '14

Louis W. Ross '17

Alden C. Brett '12

Marshall O. Lanphear '18

Gunnar E. Erickson '19

Eleanor W. Bateman '23
was therefore appointed by Harry Dunlap Brown
'14, then president of the Associate Alumni. This
committee revised the original bill as drawn up in
1933 and, with the help of Representative Albert
Bergeron of Amherst, started a new bill on its way
through committee and into the House.

In the hearing before the Ways and Means Com-
mittee, Harry Dunlap Brown '14, Ralph Taber '16,
and Alden Brett '12 represented the Alumni Com-
mittee. Members of Ways and Means were unfavor-
ably impressed with the bill, in large part, perhaps,
because the proposition was new to Massachusetts
and New England. The alumni request for permission
to erect a self-liquidating dormitory at the College
was refused.

The following year the Associate Alumni tried
again. An Alumni Committee composed of Alden
Brett '12, William V. Hayden '13, Richard J. Davis
'28 again presented a request that the Associate
Alumni be allowed to provide self-liquidating dormi-
tories for the College. At the same time, the college
administration and Trustees presented an alternative
request that the Legislature authorize a state bond
issue for the building of dormitories.

Both bills eventually were presented before the
House, both bills carried with them an unfavorable
report from the Committee on Ways and Means. At
this point, the college authorities, the Trustees, the
students and parents of students, and the Alumni
went to work to demonstrate the soundness of the

PLANNED FIRST IN 1933

from Page 2)

self-liquidating dormitory proposition which the
Alumni Committee had presented. The alumni bill
passed the House, the Senate, and on July 26, 1939
was signed and thereby approved by Governor
Leverett Saltonstall. The Alumni of Massachusetts
State College were granted permission to incorporate
as a private agency for the purpose of constructing,
equipping and maintaining buildings for dormitories
and commons at the College.

The Associate Alumni is most grateful to all of
those who assisted in the passing of this bill, es-
pecially Representative Bergeron, Trustee Joseph
W. Bartlett, President Hugh P. Baker and Secretary
Robert D. Hawley '18.

Significance .
What does this accomplishment mean? It per-
haps has a different significance for everyone.

To the Associate Alumni it brings the satisfaction
of a worthwhile job well done. It again demonstrates
that Alumni of Massachusetts State College are
greatly interested in Alma Mater, that they have the
will and the ability to do for their College the things
that need doing.

When the new dormitories are completed it is
hoped that on a wall in each there may be a tablet
which may read something like this, "This building
was built by Alumni. The names of any individuals
are unimportant because the spirit which inspired
this gift to the Commonwealth is the spirit of all
Loyal Sons of Old Massachusetts."

The Alumni Dormitory Corporation
Alden C. Brett '12, Chairman
Dai id H. Buttrick '17, Vice-Chairman
Ralph Taber '16, Clerk
Richard J. Davis '28, Treasurer
Harry Dunlap Brown '14
William V. Hayden '13
Louis W. Ross '17
Eleanor W. Bateman'23

A scene from the Rm ster
Doister presentation of

George Bernard Shaw's
"Heartbreak House"

I ommencement play.
This plax mi-, staged as
ii purl of the High School
Day program on May 4,
and received high praise
at thai "premiere."

Alumni will see a
finished performance on
8aturdaye vening,June8.

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'22 Stuart Smith, salesman for the Lederle
Laboratories in New York City, recently came to
campus and showed an educational film on poultry
diseases before a group of students majoring in
poultry husbandry.

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State College

SEVENTIETH COMMENCEMENT gSSfSEKE

FRIDAY, SATURDAY, SUNDAY, AND MONDAY, JUNE 7, 8, 9, AND 10
SATURDAY, JUNE 8, IS ALUMNI DAY

1885
1890
1895

1900

1905
1910

1915
1920

1925

1930

1935

1937
1939

Fifty-fifth Reunion. Dr. Joel E. Goldthwait, Rocky Woods House, Medfield,
Mass. Class Headquarters, Room 4, Memorial Hall.

Fifty-Year Class. Henri D. Haskins, 15 East Pleasant St., Amherst, Mass.

Forty-fifth Reunion. Harold L. Frost, 93 Brantwood Road, Arlington,
Mass. Class Headquarters, Room 7, Memorial Hall.

Forty- Year Class. Dr. James W. Kellogg, DeWitt Hotel, Chicago, Illinois;
F. Howard Brown, Ferncroft Road, Marlboro, Mass. Class Headquarters,
Room 8, Memorial Hall. Supper, Stockbridge House.

Thirty-fifth Reunion. Willard A. Munson, Butterfield Terrace, Amherst,
Mass. Class Headquarters, Room 2, Memorial Hall.

Thirtieth Reunion. Josiah C. Folsom, 1616 North Garfield St., Arlington,
Virginia; Lawrence S. Dickinson, Farview Way, Amherst, Mass. Class Supper,
Drake Hotel

Twenty-fifth Reunion. William L. Doran, Clark Hall, Amherst, Mass.
Class Supper, Mt. Pleasant Inn.

Twentieth Reunion. Warren M. Dewing, 14 Michigan Road, Worcester, Mass.;
James C. Maples, King St., Port Chester, N. Y. Class Headquarters, Paige
Laboratory. Supper, Draper Hall.

Fifteenth Reunion. Lewis Keith, 11 Garden St., Melrose, Mass. Class
Headquarters, Senate Room, Memorial Hall. Supper, Draper Hall. Watch
for announcements of 1925's Radio Rroadoast.

Tenth Reunion. Herm Magnuson, 155 Bridge St., Manchester, Mass.;
Miriam Loud, 121 Warren Road, Framingham, Mass. Class Headquarters,
Alumni Room, Memorial Hall. Supper, Lord Jeff.

Fifth Reunion. Dr. Arthur S. Levine, Hort. Man. Bldg., Amherst, Mass.
Class Headquarters, Physical Education Building. Supper, Bloody Brook
House, Deerfield.

Third Reunion. Ralph Gates, 37 South Prospect St., Amherst, Mass. Class
Headquarters, Physical Education Building. Supper, Pomeroy Manor.

First Reunion. Howard Steff, Physical Education Building, Amherst, Mass.
Class Headquarters, Physical Education Building. Supper, Montague Inn.

ALUMNI DAY, SATURDAY, JUNE 8
Plan^to attend the Alumni Luncheon, the Dormitory Cornerstone Program

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MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE
AMHERST, MASSACHUSETTS

v^ol. XXII, No. 10

July, 1940

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN
MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

George E. Emery '24, Editor

Published monthly at Amherst, Mass. (except August and
September) by the Associate Alumni of Massachusetts State College.
Entered as second class matter, March 17. 1920, at the Postoffice
at Amherst, Mass., under the Acts of March 3, 1879.

OFFICERS OF ASSOCIATE ALUMNI OF
MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

President. Alden C. Brett '12 of Belmont
Vice-President, Albert W. Smith "22 of Springfield
Secretary, Marshall O. Lanphear '18 of Amherst
Treasurer. Clark L. Thayer '13 of Amherst
Executive Secretary, George E. Emery '24 of Amherst

BOARD OF DIRECTORS
to 1941

Richard J. Davis '28 of Boston

Thomas P. Dooley '13 of West Roxbury

George W. Edman '21 of Pittsfield

Ralph F. Taber '16 of West Newton
to 1942
Erford W. Poole '96 of New Bedford

David P. Rossiter '37 of Maiden

Zoe Hickney White '32 of Worcester

Alfred E. Wilkins ' 15 of Wakefield
to 1943
Harry Dunlap Brown '14 of Billerica

William L. Doran '15 of Amherst

Mary E. M. Garvey '19 of Amherst

Lawrence L. Jones '26 of North Beverly
to 1944
Donald C. Douglass '21 of Belmont

Norman D. Hilvard '23 of Springfield

John W. McGuckian '31 of West Roxbury
Arthur D. Tilton '18 of Woburn

The Alumni Bulletin is sent ten times each year to all members
of the Associate Alumni. Memberships are: Annual $3.00, Sustain-
ing $10.00.

Cover Picture — Group at cornerstone exercises at
new men's dormitory. Left to right: Louis Warren
Ross '17, architect; Representative Albert Bergeron of
Amherst; David H. Buttrick '17; Mrs. Arvie Eldred,
sister of former President Lewis ; Mrs. Edward Morgan
Lewis; Alden Brett '12, chairman, Alumni Building
Corporation ; Philip F. Whitmore '15; President Hugh
P. Baker; Donald P. Allan '41, president, Student
Senate.

— Photo by Robert L. Coffin

Alumni who received advanced degrees from the
College on June 10 were: Edgar S. Beaumont '38,
Herbert H. Johnson '38, John V. Townsend '39, and
Edmund G. Wilcox '39, Bachelor of Landscape
Architecture; William E. Bergman '38, Wilbur F.
Buck '31, Edward T. Clapp '38, Vernon F. Coutu
'38, William H. Fitzpatrick '39, Samuel J. Golub '38,
Gertrude J. Hadro '38, Lois R. Macomber '38,
Herbert L. McChesney '32, Raymond A. Minzner
'37, Edwin L. Moore '38, Charles Rodda, Jr. '39,
Frank A. Slesinski '38, Frederic R. Theriault '38,
Moody F. Trevett '29, Frederick J. Wishart '37 and
Frank J. Yourga '39, Master of Science; Domenic
DeFelice '36, Kenneth T. Farrell '38, Ashley B.
Gurney '33, Edward H. Harvey '34 and Benjamin
Isgur '33, Doctor of Philosophy.

NEWS AND NOTES
OF THE CLASS OF

1916

This is the conclusion of the series of brief biographic
sketches about members of the class as assembled by
Dutch Schlotterbeck.

Ty Rogers is technical and merchandising consul-
tant in the building field. His home is in Glen
Ridge, N. J.

After army service, following graduation, Ty did
city planning and merchandising in Boston and New
York. He was managing editor of American Architect,
technical editor of American Architect and Architecture.
He has written approximately 300 magazine articles,
several pamphlets., and has prepared a reference
manual architectural reprints. In April, 1938,
Scribners published his book called "Plan Your
House to Suit Yourself," which is commented on,
here, by Professor James Robertson, architect, and
member of the landscape architecture department at
the College.

"Tyler Stuart Rogers' book, 'Plan Your House to
Suit Yourself,' is an excellent work which answers
many questions for those who may be about to build
a house and who wish to incorporate into it some of
those features so necessary to make a house some-
thing more than a mere machine for living.

"In language not at all technical the book sets
forth many well-thought-out ideas with regard to
appointments, design, and arrangements, and gives
consideration to many features of house construction
which are likely to be overlooked by the average
planner.

"Mr. Rogers does not present just so many for-
mulae for successful design of a house but, rather,
his suggestions are such as to permit the builder to
develop his own ideas. There are various tables,
inventories of all kinds, and many interesting sketches
used to illustrate the salient points of design and
construction."

'36 Harold Hale is manager of Valley Acres Farm,
East Canaan, Conn.

The following item about Dutch Schlotterbeck was
prepared by a member of the class who wishes to be
called "A '16-er."

Lewis (Dutch) Schlotterbeck was a varsity
football star in college; the spirit he displayed on the
field was that which has continuously characterized
his work and life from undergraduate days onward.

For a year and a half, after being graduated from
the College, Dutch was in agricultural work in
Massachusetts and New York. From February,
1918, to March, 1919, he was in the Army Air Ser-
vice, as 2nd lieutenant.

In September, 1919, he entered the Harvard
School of Business Administration from which he
received his M.B.A. in June, 1922. He entered the
slate business in Vermont, and remained in this line
of work for more than four years. In February,
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ALUMNI DAY PROGRAM OF INTEREST TO RETURNING GRADUATES

New Dormitory Is Named for President Lewis

Alumni Day was a busy one. It started with the
annual meeting in Memorial Hall and continued
with the alumni luncheon, dormitory cornerstone
program, parade to the ball game, class reunions,
and Roister Doister play (see page 7) .

At the annual meeting Alden Brett '12, Al Smith
'22, Whitey Lanphear '18, Clark Thayer '13 were re-
elected officers of the Association.

Four new Directors were elected to serve until
June, 1944. They were Don Douglass '21, Norm
Hilyard '23, John McGuckian '31 and Arthur
Tilton '18.

On Friday night, June 7, the Class of 1925 sponsored
a radio broadcast over stations WBZ-WBZA. Emil
Corwin '25 originated the idea for the broadcast, ar-
ranged for the facilities, outlined the script.

The half-hour program consisted of an interview by
President Baker with half a dozen Alumni: R. W.
Harvey '15, Shorty Berman '20, Jack Lacey '25,
Lucy Grunwaldt '30; George Pease '35, and John
Osmun '40.

The program was a good one, the idea was unique,
and Corwin familiar as he is with radio technique —
ably carried it out.

Daniel P. Cole '72, who attended the Alumni Day
exercises as representative of the oldest returning class,
wrote afterwards to President Baker to give his im-
pressions. Mr. Cole spoke of the 1925 broadcast as
one which he greatly enjoyed. And about which, he
said, he had heard many favorable comments. Con-
gratulations to Corwin and to 1925!

At the senior Class Night exercises on June 10,
Myron Hager, president of the class, handed down
to Clement Burr of Easthampton, president of the
junior class, two traditions. One was for the keep-
ing alive of the musical interest which has pervaded
the student body during the past two years (see
page 7 : the other was for 100 membership of the
senior class in the- Associate Alumni.

Burr accepted the carrying out of both traditions.
He --aid that he felt, heartily, that his class should
become 100. affiliated with the Associate Alumni;
that he would recommend the action to his class-
mates.

The Annual Alumni Luncheon was an excellent one.
The food was fine, and was provided in abundance.
now abundant can be proved by Tub Dewing 's 20
tWO redheaded sons, aged eight and ten. The ice cream
al the meal was placed on the tables on great platters
and there was more than enough for everybody. So
much SO that, after three helpings apiece, the two young
■ v hone/His could only sit and wistfully watch
what ice cream remained on the philter slowly melt
away. They simply - ouldn't eat any more.

President Baker gave an excellent talk following
the luncheon. He spoke about how appreciative he
was of alumni interest in college affairs, how pleased
he was with the work of the Associate Alumni in
bringing about the building of the new dormitories
on campus. He urged Alumni to come back to
campus often, to come and visit with him in his
office in South College.

Preceding President Baker's talk the Statesmen,
the quartet of the men's glee club, sang. They did
a good job; they forced Fred Griggs '13 to "take a
bow" before they sang Fred's "When Twilight
Shadows Deepen."

Class reunions were well attended. This was fun
for all concerned except the harassed reunion chairmen
who at the last moment were forced, in several cases, to
persuade hotel keepers who served the class banquets to
increase the number of plates to be provided.

According to figures at the registration desk, 50'r of
the members of 1891 and of 1910 registered. John B.
Minor '73 of New Britain, Conn., the last living
graduate of his class, registered on June 8 '73 ac-
cordingly was 100', present.

At the Alumni Meeting on the morning of June 8,
Bill Doran '15 was made an honorary life member of
the Associate Alumni in recognition of his nine years
of able effort as secretary of the Association. Bill
had resigned from his secretarial duties a year ago.

The Associate Alumni provided a silver cup and
three ribbons as prizes at the 19th Annual R.O.T.C.
Horse Show held on Friday, June 7. These prizes
were awarded to junior cadets in a jumping class.
The winners were: 1st, Robert Tillson of Cochituate;
2nd, John Haskell of Arlington: and 3rd, Howie
King of Millville.

The alumni parade which Alumni Marshal Herm
Magnuson '30 led to the ball game was a long one.
In the parade was a mule-drawn station hack of
about the vintage of '95 and which was featured in
the line of march by the class of '95. The 40-year
class, 1900, decked its members in an odd assort-
ment of historical hats reminiscent of days gone by.

The classes of 1915 and 1925 each sported a type of
Frank Buck helmet. The 1915 class also carried
canes, although declaring and proving by their
action that the canes were no more necessary in
llicir case than they would have been for 1925.

The cornerstone exercises at the new dormitory were
most impressive. Dave Butlrick '17, former president
of the Associate Alumni and former Trustee of the
College, named the new building Lewis Hall in honor
lo the memory of Edward Morgan Lewis, former presi-
dent of the College.

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OBITUARY

Harold L. Frost '95

At commencement time members of the class of
'95 arrived on campus for their 45th reunion; but
with the first hand shake came the sad news that
Harold Frost had joined the ranks of our departed
classmates. A few of us had known that he was in
the hospital, but his death came as a great shock to
us all.

Members of the class, as students, were soon to
build up a warm friendship with Harold Frost. He
was a most likeable companion, sincere, earnest and
interested. In College he was a member of Phi
Sigma Kappa.

After being graduated he immediately began ex-
perimental work on the gypsy moth, under the
direction of Professor C. H. Fernald, then entomolo-
gist to the State Board of Agriculture. Frost left
the State service to organize a line of work of his
own concerned primarily with the care and pro-
tection of shade trees. This work developed into a
diversified business which eventually included the
moving and planting of trees, the sale of spray
machinery, insecticides and various types of tools
and equipment used in connection with the care of
trees. Frost bought and operated large areas of
land in Canada devoted to the growing of wheat,
in Massachusetts for orchards and in Florida for
citrus fruits. In tree surgery work he was associated
with Edward W. Higgins w'14.

During the World War he served overseas with
the Red Cross, with the rank of lieutenant.

He had been active for years in the town affairs of
Arlington, had served on many town committees
and as town meeting member. He was the president
of Sachem Council of Boy Scouts and one of the
organizers. He was director of the Menotomy
Trust Company and a trustee of the Andover-
Newton Theological School. For twenty-eight years,
prior to 1938, he had been a trustee of the College.

He is survived by his widow, two sons, Edmund
'31, and Freeman, and a daughter.

Harold Frost was 64 years old at the time of his
death on May 31; he was one of the younger men of
our class and to those of us who are left it seemed
that death had come too soon. The class of '95 will
cherish the memory of Harold Frost; he was a man
of whom we are proud.

Wright A. Root '95

'37 Harry Koch to Miss Janet Collingwood,
June 15, 1940, at Greenfield, Mass.

'39 Miss Elizabeth Jasper to David M. Belcher,
May 25, 1940, at Springfield, Mass.

MARRIAGES

'34 Edward H. Harvey to Miss Ruth Nicewanger,
June 15, 1940, at Columbus, Ohio.

'34 Miss Ruth Pushee to Robert M. Hood,
May 31, 1940, at North Amherst, Mass.

'35 George Congdon to Miss Myra Halpin,
April 12, 1940, at Millis, Mass.

'35 Philip C. Stone to Miss Ruth E. Slabaugh,
June 15, 1940, at Chicago, Illinois.

BIRTHS

'31 A son, Frank Jordan, to Mr. and Mrs. Abel
Cutting (Gertrude Mead '31), April 28, 1940, at
South Sudbury, Mass.

'26 A daughter, Helen Dale, to Mr. and Mrs.
Royal Potter, March 8, 1940, at Westerly, R. I.

'37 A son, David Jr., to Mr. and Mrs. David
Peterson, February 8, 1940, at Springfield, Mass.

1939 CLASS NOTES

David Goldberg is stock clerk at the Prophylactic
Brush Company in Florence, Mass.

Donald Fowell is an attendant at the Veteran's
Hospital in Leeds, Mass.

Donald Lawson is in sales promotion work for
the Dean Dairy, 5 Beaver Street, Waltham, Mass.

Courtney Stetson is in the accounting depart-
ment of the General Electric Company, Schenectady,
New York.

Stanley Wi£gin is herdsman at the farm at the
Hospital Cottages, Baldwinsville, Mass.

Francis Smith lives at 52 Robbins Road, Arling-
ton. He has been doing manuscript revision work
for a doctor who is writing a text book on human
parasitology. Smith says the plot in the book is
somewhat thin but that the characters are well drawn.

Bill Cox is salesman for the B. F. Goodrich Com-
pany, Montello Street, Brockton, Mass.

Frederick Goode is surveyor with the U. S. Army
engineers and is working out of Penacook, N. H.

Larry Johnson is a junior accountant with the
Hazen Paper Company, Holyoke, Mass.

Henry Salinela is a clerk in the Eastern Co-
operative Wholesale at 135 Kent Avenue, Brooklyn,
N. Y.

Joe Paul is a junior engineer draftsman for the
Tennessee Valley Authority in Knoxville, Tenn.

Seaton Mendall is a special agent for the U. S.
D. A., Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine
at the New York State Agricultural Experiment
Station in Geneva. He is also attending Cornell
University, doing graduate work in economic ento-
mology.

Larry Pickard is farming at Robin Farm in
Belchertown, Mass.

John Pratt, Jr. is a teaching fellow and graduate
student in the zoology department at North Carolina
State College, Raleigh. He says that Dr. Theodore
Mitchell '18, professor of zoology at North Carolina,
is a fine man to work with.

Robert Muller is with Lazard Freres Investment
House, 120 Broadway, New York City.

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WITH THE ALUMMAE

Bv Mary E. M. Garvey '19
and Leonta Horrigan '36

The Alumnae Tea again was a center of interest
for women graduates who came back to College for
the Alumni Day program on June 8.

The Tea was in charge of Ethel IJlatchford
Purnell '34, who was assisted by Ruth Todt
Gates '37, Barbara Gerrard Olbrych "34, and
Leonta Horrigan '3(5.

Miss Skinner, Miss Hamlin and Mary Garvey
*19 poured.

Early in May a letter was sent to all Alumnae of
the College from Marjorie Monk Burhank '31.
president of the Worcester Alumnae Club. The
letter pointed out the desirability of a loan fund for
girls at the College, this fund to be used for emergency
loans to senior women students.

The Boston and Worcester Alumnae Clubs have
been actively engaged in establishing the fund; they
have felt, however, that more Alumnae would like to
share in the work and so sent out this letter, explain-
ing the idea, and suggesting that all Alumnae take
part.

Included in the letter was a ballot on which
Alumnae might vote for the election of a committee
to administer this Alumnae Student Loan Fund.
Elected were Zoe Ilickiiey White '32 (to serve for
three years); Betty Wheeler Frigard '31 lor two
yearsi; and Evelyn Mallory Allen '36 lor one year).

Elizabeth Gaskell '38 has a secretarial position
with the Latrobe Steel Company in Hartford, Conn.

Marjorie Harris '3!t has accepted a position as
teacher of home economics in the lirattleboro, Vt.,
High School.

LOUIE LYONS '18 SPEAKS AT

ACADEMICS BREAKFAST

Rose Ash '37 is doing secretarial work with the
Ni'w York City Tuberculosis and Health Association.

Bertha Boron '39 is studying at Yale University.

I'hila Vaill *39 has been admit lid as a student
technician at the Worcester, Mass., City Hospital
and will enter the hospital on October I.

Angela Filios '37 is with the U. S. Bureau of the
Census in Washington, D. C.

Mildred Czajkowski '39 is assistant to I he he.nl
of the home economic, work at the Sleighton Farm
School, Darling, Pa.

Knlli Wood '37 provided and made up boutoil
meres which were beside the places of everyone who
attended the Springfield Alumni Luncheon in May 21.

Carol Julian '39 and Virginia I'li-hee '39 have
been taking courses at the Northampton Commercial
College.

Louie Lyons '18, Nieman curator at Harvard and
member of the staff of the Boston Globe, was guest
speaker at the annual Academics Breakfast on
Sunday, June 10. Louie gave a fine talk. He de-
scribed, in most interesting fashion, the purpose of
the Nieman Fellowships and of the place which the
Nieman Fellows have taken in the life at Harvard.

Louie succeeded Archibald MacLeish as curator;
he told many an interesting anecdote about Mac-
Leish and about the top-notch newspaper men who
have come to Harvard during the past two years as
Nieman Fellows.

Professor Frank A. Waugh presided at the break-
fast and introduced President Baker who extended
the greetings of the College to the Alumni and
friends present, spoke of the place which under-
graduate extracurricular activity can hold in post-
graduate life. Dean Machmer, chairman of the
Academic Activities Board, presented honorary
academics medals to Walter R. Clarke '10, William
I. Goodwin '18, Earle Sumner Draper '15.

The medal recipients were introduced, respectively,
by Lawrence S. Dickinson '10, Marshall O. Lanphear
'18, Professor Arthur K. Harrison.

In awarding the medals Dean Machmer gave the
following citations:

Walter Clarke, of the class of 1910, when you were
a student here there were no such things as Academic
award*. In the more wholesome meaning of the phrase
you worked for art's sake. And you were laying foun-
dations in music, publications and dramatics for the
thirty years of notable achievement which were ahead.
Your own share was in publications. As an editor of
The Signal and editor-in-chief of The Index you made
a contribution both marked and characteristic. In
recognition of that contribution the Academics Board
at this time asks you to accept this token of attainment.

William I. Goodwin, of the class of 1918, your
loyalty as an undergraduate was deep in its sincerity
and varied in its expression. You were an important
member of the football team, but you also contributed to
our aesthetic life as a member of the orchestra and
mandolin clubs. The esteem in which you were held
found expression in your membership in both the
Senate and Adelphia. Later for four years you were
'■■n ini . ■■/ tin- Academic Activities Hoard and carried
the laborious responsibility of oar financial records.
That senile in particular has never received proper-
recognition; we therefore al this time present to you this
small token of our gratitude.

Earle Sumner Draper, of the twenty-fwe year
class, as an undergraduate you were a worthy repre-
sentative of Academic Activities, partly by virtue of
your membership on The Signal editorial board for
three years, and partly by virtue of your interest in
debating and declamation. But it is rather your con-
tribution as an Alumnus with which we are concerned
today -■ a contribution of the type which Academics
In, Ids supreme. Four inches are required in Who's Who
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ATHLETICS

CREW PLAQUE PRESENTED AT
VARSITY BREAKFAST

Baseball

From the standpoint of games won and lost, the
1940 baseball season can hardly be called successful
to a supporter of the Statesmen.

But the gallant pitching of Carl Twyble '40 of
Gilbertville (who, so far as our memory serves,
either started or else was relief pitcher in every
game) will go down in the records as an outstanding
contribution to Massachusetts State baseball.

And Captain Warren Tappin, Jr. '40 of Winchen-
don will be remembered as a corking good leader,
and as one of the ablest fielders and batters ever to
play with the Statesmen. Tappin's hitting for the
season was better than .400.

The season's scores:

Statesmen Opp.
Apr. 19 Univ. of Connecticut, there 11 6

26 Bowdoin, here 2 3

27 Williams, there 0 11
May 1 Amherst, there 5 7

7 Univ. of Connecticut, here 3 2

11 Tufts, there 3 4

15 Wesleyan, there (13 innings) 4 5

18 U. of New Hampshire, here 2 5

22 Lowell Tech, there 9 2
30 Springfield, here 1 2

June 8 Amherst, here 0 7

Track

The spring track team won from Trinity at Hart-
ford on May 3, 83-43; lost to Tufts at Medford,
46i-88i| on May 10, and to Connecticut, here, 55 \-
79 J on May 14.

In the Trinity meet Captain Bob Joyce '40 of
Florence won the 120-yard high hurdle race in 15.4
seconds, bettering his own previous mark and setting
a new Massachusetts State record.

In the same meet Ed O'Connor '41 of Holyoke
(captain elect) ran the 100 in 10 seconds, a new
State record.

Indoors, during the winter season, O'Connor beat
Jack Dobbie's previous record in the 300 with a
time of 34.4 seconds and Warren Tappin '40 bettered
Glenn Shaw's ('35) broad jump record with a jump
of 22 feet, 4 inches.

1940 Football Schedule

Sept. 28 Springfield, here

Oct. 5 Univ. of Connecticut, there

12 Norwich, there

19 Rhode Island State, here
26 Worcester Tech, here

Nov. 2 Amherst, there

12 Coast Guard, there (night game)

16 R. P. I., there

23 Tufts, there

'26 Dr. John B. Temple of Shelburne Falls is
associate medical examiner of the Western Franklin
(Mass.) district.

'28 Walter Howland operates the Red Barn
Poultry Farm in Norfolk, Conn.

At the varsity breakfast, on June 10, Pop Clark
'87 made the presentation of a memorial plaque, to
be hung in the trophy room in the Physical Education
Building, in recognition of the college crew which in
1871 won the historic race on the Connecticut river.

Eddie Burke '10, president of the Varsity Club,
presented medals to last winter's undefeated swim-
ming team. And Joe Roger's swimmers paid their
respects to the coach by presenting Joe with an
album of twelve victrola records — twenty-four hot,
jumping-jive numbers.

Professor Grant Snyder presented a cup, in memory
of Paul Putnam '38, to Bob Foley '40 of Turners
Falls recognized as the most valuable player on the
tennis team.

The track plaque was presented to Ed O'Connor
'41 of Holyoke, and the Thompson baseball trophy
to Carl Twyble '40 of Gilbertville. Twyble is now
with the Springfield, Mass., Eastern League baseball
team.

For the first time the Varsity Club presented an
honorary alumni award — to an Alumnus who has
made an outstanding contribution of service in the
field of athletics, physical education, recreation. The
award was made, in absentia, to Michael F. Ahearn
'05, the distinguished director of athletics at Kansas
State College. Dr. Frank A. Waugh spoke in appre-
ciation of Ahearn's work.

President Baker spoke, extended the greetings of
the College to the group, welcomed the guests to the
breakfast.

1916 NOTES

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1927, he became associated with the Massachusetts
Rating and Inspection Bureau in Boston, where he
has continued ever since.

Dutch lives in Wakefield where he raises fruits,
poultry and prize winning dogs. One of his dogs has
been for two years the smartest and "best in show"
in Brookline's snappy exhibition. Dutch has two
fine sons, Lewis and Walter, and we predict that in
years soon to come the "Schl otter beck tradition"
will be revived in State athletics.

Dutch has ever been a loyal and interested Alum-
nus. He initiated and has sponsored the monthly
meetings of the 1916 group which have been held in
Boston during the past four years. He has been an
active member and officer of the Boston Alumni Club.
We of 1916 look up to him for his fine example of
cheerfulness, initiative, and loyalty.

'20 Tub Dewing is chairman of the tournament
committee and member of the board of directors of
the Grand View County Club in West Boylston,
Mass.

The golf tournaments opened late in April and
will continue through November 1. Each weekend
more people have been playing golf at the club —
evidence of the activity of the tournament chairman.

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BOSTON ALUMNI

ACADEMICS

By John McGuckian '31

Karl Tomfohrde *30 has a position as
assistant planning engineer with the New Jersey
State Planning Board in Trenton. His address is
Glen Caim Arms Apartment, 301 West State Street,
Trenton, N. J., Apartment D-10.

Louis Libby '33 is chemist with the Lever Brothers
Company, soap manufacturers.

Henry AValkor 34 is the newly appointed place-
mi nt officer for Wentworth Institute.

William Schlacfer '3,'> who is employed by the
U. S. Rubber Company, has recently been trans-
ferred to the Detroit office.

Bay Smith '2(> is employed in the office of Fletcher
Steele, well known landscape architect of Boston.
Ray lives in Melrose.

I)i<U Fraser '31 is in the landscape designing and
contracting business. His address is 3 Murray Road.
Framingham, Mass. He had a garden exhibit at the
spring Boston Flower Show, and won a gold medal.

A. Richard Daniels '31 is an installation super-
visor for the Minneapolis Honeywell Regulator
Company, 797 Beacon Street, Boston.

Hill Bower '3."> has charge of grounds at Radcliffe
College in Cambridge.

Charles Fowler '3."> is with the Employers Lia-
bility Assurance Corporation. Ltd., 110 Milk Street,
Boston.

Allan Furbur '33 is teaching chemistry and
physics at the Mechanic Arts High School. Boston

George Hart well '35, who received his M.L.A.

I degree from Harvard last June, is landscape archi-
tect with the Pitman Studio, 1384 Massachusetts
Avenue, Cambridge.

Arthur I .ciuli t on '21 is associate professor of
graphics in the engineering school at Tufts.

Parker Ryan '28 is plant superintendent for the
United Farmers Creamery in Charlestown. He is
living at 19 Newland Road, Arlington.

Index

The Index office in Memorial Hall was full of
hustle and bustle throughout most of the past
college year. Edith (Mickey! Clark '40 of Sunder-
land, first co-ed to be editor-in-chief of the yearbook,
had her staff stepping at top speed gathering and
assembling material for the 1940 Index.

Then, on May 1, the new book made its appear-
ance— and Mickey was as happy a lass as we've
seen around Memorial Hall for some time. Not only
was the 1940 Index most attractive in format and
composition, but it had appeared on campus, ready
for distribution, on a dead line set months before
by its energetic editor-in-chief.

"Heartbreak House"

Annah Flynn '36 teaches at the Erie, Pa., Day
School, and this summer is to open her own play-
ground school in Erie, on the day school grounds.
Between the close of the school and the opening of
her summer session Annah came back to campus to
visit with friends and to help with Alumni Day
registration. On the evening of June 8 she watched
the Roister Doister production of George Bernard
Shaw's "Heartbreak House." And she gave us some
notes on what she saw.

She felt that the Roister Doisters performed the
comedy expertly; that the effectiveness with which
the undergraduate actors handled the subtleties of
dialogue, the Shavian wit and repartee, reflected the
able direction of their coach, Professor Frank Prentice
Rand.

Annah particularly liked the performances of
Albert Sullivan '40 of South Hadley, president of the
Roister Doisters. who played the petulant old sea
captain; of Helen Janis '42 of Millers Falls; of
Marion Nagelfichmid) '42 of Pittsfield; and of Erma
Alvord '40 of Turners Falls who climaxed four years
Roister Doister successes with the outstanding per-
formance of the evening as the haughty and indomi-
table Lady Utterwood.

It all made for another pleasant, and enjoyable
reunion with the Roister Doisters so said Miss
Flynn.

Music at the Fair

On Friday afternoon, May 17, the men's and
women's glee clubs (sixty voices i under direction of
Doric Alviani, gave a concert at the New York
World's Fair. That evening, the college choir sang
in the Fair's Temple of Religion. This marked the
second visit of the musical groups to the Fair within
two years.

Bertram Holland '2!> is a teacher in the Brook-
line High School.

I>r. Gene Guralnich '33 is surgical house officer
at the Boston City Hospital

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'38 Harold Hemond has an article in School
Review (University of Chicago Press) for June; it is
a report of extra-curricular — before school — reading
of newspapers which Hemond has been encouraging
among students in the Amherst Junior High School.

Library

State College

MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

Seventy-First Commencement, June 6, 7, 8, 9, 1941

25TH REUNION

1916

Lewis Schlottcrbeck

1 Vernon Street
Wakefield, Mass.

30TII REUNION

1911

Fred McLaughlin

Amherst, Mass.
Headquarters, Paige Lab.

15TH REUNION

1926

Alton Gustafson

Main Street
Williaimtown, Mass.

ALUMNI DAY PROGRAM

(Continued from Page 3)

Mrs. Lewis was guest of the Associate Alumni at the
Alumni Luncheon and at the cornerstone exercises
which followed.

Other speakers at the dormitory exercises included
those men whose pictures appear on the cover of this
Bulletin. Alden Brett '12 presided.

After the seniors all had received their diplomas
at the graduation exercises on June 10, and had
changed the tassels on their mortar board caps from
right to left, President Baker introduced Al Smith
'22 and called Myron Hager, president of the senior
class, to the platform. There, Smith spoke to Hager
of the appreciation of the Associate Alumni for the
confidence which the senior class had demonstrated
in the work of the organization by voting to join the
Association 100?. He presented Hager with a scroll
inscribed as follows:

To the Class of 1940
Massachusetts State College,

First graduating class to enroll 100? in the
Alumni Association, this testimonial is inscribed
by the Associate Alumni of Massachusetts State
College as an expression of appreciation of the
confidence you have in our work and of the
support you are giving our efforts.

Alden C. Brett '12, President
Albert W. Smith '22, Vice-President
June 10, 1940

In 1902, Warren Elmer Hinds '99 received, in ento-
mology, the first Ph.D. to be granted by Massachusetts
State College.

When Ashley Gurney '33 received his doctor of
philosophy degree in entomology on June 10, the
doctor's hood with which he was invested was the one
which Dr. Hinds had worn 38 years before. Mrs.

LOUIE LYONS '18 SPEAKS

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in America to designate the more important instancss
of landscape architecture which your creative imagina-
tion has given to the South. The American Society of
Landscape Architects has elected you a fellow and an
officer. You have helped to make this land of ours a
more beautiful place in which to live. We therefore
honor ourselves in presenting to you this Academics
Medal.

Francis M. Andrews, Jr. '16 was elected president
of the Club for next year, Zoe Hickney White '32,
vice-president, and George E. Emery '24, secretary-
treasurer.

'35 Frederick Andrews recently was appointed
assistant professor of animal husbandry of Purdue
University. His work will deal with various phases
of physiology, and he will cooperate with the de-
partments of animal husbandry, dairy, poultry, and
veterinary science at the University.

'35 Julius Novick is doing chemical research for
General Foods in Hobo ken, N. J.

'35 Phil Stone is at the University of Missouri,
in the entomology department. He received his
Ph.D. from the University of Illinois in June.

'36 Terry Adams is teaching in the Athol, Mass.,
High School.

'37 Emil Marciniak is a lab assistant with A. G.
Spalding Bros, in Chicopee, Mass.

'37 John Zukel is doing grasshopper control work
for the North Dakota State College department of
entomology.

Hinds had presented the hood to Gurney in token of
his outstanding work in entomology, and in memory
of her late husband.

THE ALUMNI
BULLETIN

FRESHMAN RIVER

MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

AMHERST, MASSACHUSETTS

ol. XXIII, No. 1

October, 1940

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN
MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

George E. Emery '24, Editor

OFFICERS OF ASSOCIATE ALUMNI OF
MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

President, Alden C. Brett '12 of Belmont
Vice-President, Albert W. Smith '22 of Springfield
Secretary, Marshall O. Lanphear ' 18 of Amherst
Treasurer, Clark L. Thayer ' 13 of Amherst
Executive Secretary, George E. Emery '24 of Amherst

BOARD OF DIRECTORS
to 1941

Richard J. Davis '28 of Boston

Thomas P. Dooley '13 of West Roxbury

George W. Edman '21 of Pittsfield

Ralph F. Taber '16 of West Newton
to 1942
Erford W. Poole '96 of New Bedford

David P. Rossiter '37 of Maiden

Zoe Hickney White '32 of Worcester

Alfred E. Wilkins '15 of Wakefield
to 1943
Harry Dunlap Brown '14 of Billerica

William L. Doran '15 of Amherst

Mary E. M. Garvey '19 of Amherst

Lawrence L. Jones '26 of North Beverly
to 1944
Donald C. Dcuglass '21 of Belmont

Norman D. Hilyard '23 of Springfield

John W. McGuckian '31 of West Roxbury
Arthur D. Tilton '18 of Woburn

The Alumni Bulletin is sent ten times each year to all members
of the Associate Alumni. Memberships are: Annual $3.00, Sustain-
ing $10.00.

Cover picture — Bridge across Freshman River in
South Amherst. At this point on the road from Amherst
to Holyoke the freshmen, "in the old days," would doff
or don their "pea green" hats, depending on whether they
they were travelling north or south. Freshman rules
now make no mention of the Freshman River boundary.
— Photo by May Turner '08

LARGEST FRESHMAN CLASS
ENROLLS

One hundred forty-seven girls, two hundred forty-
two boys enrolled in the class of 1944, making the
freshman group the largest yet to enter Massachu-
setts State. Lewis Hall will accommodate one
hundred fifty-five freshman boys, forty-five will be
housed in Thatcher, and the others will either
room in town or else commute.

North College serves, temporarily, as a dormitory
for girls (shades of Kongo, mass action, and the
rugged days "of yore"). The girls will leave North
College, however, when the second semester opens
in February, and at which time the new women's
dormitory will be ready for them.

'20 Dr. J. R. Sanborn of the New York Agricul-
tural Experiment Station in Geneva, has an article
in the August 1940 trade publication called Fiber
Container on the "Microbiological Content of Paper-
board Used in Packaging of Foods."

PAST AND PRESENT
OF THE CLASS OF

1914

By Henry Clay '14

Lester Needham of Springfield has spent most of
his time, since leaving College, with trees and shrubs.
Beginning in June, 1914, he went to work in the
nursery business. He was connected with several
firms until, in 1923, he blossomed out as owner and
president of Farr Nurseries in Wyomissing, Pa.
For the past seven years he has been landscape
architect and nurseryman with Adams Nursery, Inc.,
Springfield, Mass. That Lester's professional quali-
fications and abilities have been widely recognized is
evidenced by the fact that he has been president of
the Pennsylvania Nurserymen's Association, presi-
dent of the Eastern Nurserymen's Association, and
secretary of the New England Nurserymen's Associ-
ation.

Lester has served on the Board of Directors of the
Associate Alumni for the past four years.

He has a son in the freshman class at College this
fall, and a married daughter. Thanks to the latter,
Les has become the first grandfather in the class of
1914, a fact which he rates as a high distinction.

Joe Sherman has made good use, since graduation,
of the baseball pitching ability which gave him the
title of "Smoky Joe" while he was on campus. For
most of the time from 1915-1924 he played league
ball, with the Philadelphia Americans, Baltimore,
and other teams. He coached baseball teams from
1927-1931.

In 1931 he took a master of education degree from
Harvard, and has taught science, mathematics, and
vocational agriculture at the Westerly (R. I.) High
School ever since. In his spare time he has operated
a farm.

Those who have attended recent gatherings of the
class at the College will remember Joe's attractive
daughters: Natalie who recently was graduated from
the school of design at Jackson College, and Jean
who is now studying violin at Oberlin.

Francis Small leads a double life. He is an
inspector for the Massachusetts Department of
Agriculture and, also, proprietor of the Bayberry
Candle Place and Gift Shop at North Truro, Mass.
Smally makes bayberry candles and beach plum
jelly and sells these products and all sorts of gifts
during the summer season. Since graduation in
1914 Francis has been with the Portland Cement
Association, employed in dairy work at Michigan
State College, and with the Massachusetts Depart-
ment of Agriculture. He spent two years in the
army — during which time he became sergeant.

He has a daughter at Northfield (Mass.) Seminary,
and a twelve-years-old son.

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EARLE DRAPER '15 APPOINTED TO
HOUSING ADMINISTRATION

SCHOLARSHIPS MADE AVAILABLE
FROM LOTTA CRABTREE FUND

Earle Sumner Draper '15 was appointed, on June
24, to the post of assistant administrator in charge

of research
and analytical
studies of the
Federal Hous-
ing Adminis-
tration.

Mr. Draper
has made an
enviable repu-
tation in the
field of land-
scaping and
land planning,
and took over
his new duties
after having
served for sev-
eral years as
director of land
planning and
housing for the
Tennessee Val-
ley Authority.
Of late his
work with the
FHA has been
in great part concerned with defense housing.

EARLE SUMNER DRAPER IS

RALPH WATTS '07 RE-ELECTED
HISTORIAN

At the national conclave of Phi Sigma Kappa,
held in Boston in August, Ralph J. Watts '07 was
re-elected historian of the fraternity. He was also
elected to the office of director-at-large. Delegates
to the conclave stopped in Amherst on August L2
where, at North College, within which building the
fraternity was conceived, they held commemorative
exercises. Mr. Watts gave the principal address.
Francis Pray '31 was chairman of the Amherst
committee.

A total of $7,400 in scholarships for students in
the four undergraduate classes in College and for
two Alumni enrolled in the graduate school at the
College was made available this fall by the Trustees
of the Lotta Crabtree Fund.

Each of the two Alumni will receive $500, and
$1,600 will be available for students in each of the
four undergraduate classes. A list of the recipients
of these scholarships will appear in the Bulletin next
month.

A committee appointed by the Directors of the
Associate Alumni discussed the desirability of such
scholarships with the Lotta Trustees last year, and
the Trustees have been greatly interested and most
cooperative in providing the scholarship funds.

The college committee which chooses recipients is
composed of Dean William L. Machmer, chairman,
R. A. VanMeter, Victor A. Rice, Miss Edna Skinner,
A. Vincent Osmun '03, M. O. Lanphear '18, Robert
D. Hawley '18, and, appointed by the Associate
Alumni. George Edman '21 and Starr M. King '21.

ALUMNI TEACH VOCATIONAL
AGRICULTURE

Jack Sturtevant '36 has recently been appointed
instructor in agriculture in the new department at
the Middleboro (Mass. High School. Harold Nelson
'33 will teach agriculture in Weymouth, Mass.,
replacing Sturtevant. Lew Norwood '40 has been
appointed assistant instructor in vegetable gardening
at the Norfolk County (Mass.) Agricultural School.

Charlie Oliver '25, formerly an instructor in voca-
tional agriculture, has returned to the Dartmouth
(Mass. i High School as principal.

Leo Fay '39 has taken over a new position as
teacher of agriculture and related subjects at the
Bristol County Agricultural School. Robert Kennedy
'40 has been assigned as apprentice teacher at Smith's
Vocational School in Northampton. Burton Gregg
'40 is to be an apprentice teacher at the Essex County
Agricultural School for the coming year.

LEWIS MALL (LEFT!— NEW ALUMNI DORMITORY. AND THATCHER HALL

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MARRIAGES

'27 Arthur V. Buckley to Miss Marguerite Stack,
July 20, 1940, at Needham, Mass.

'27 Richard C. Foley to Miss Mary Probyn,
June 29, 1940, at New York City.

'30 Miss Mariam Loud to Robert L. Wilbur,
August 15, 1940, at Lebanon, Pa.

'31 John Burnham to Miss Marjorie Wheeler,
July 22, 1940, at Shelburne Falls, Mass.

'31 Miss Mary M. Marshall to Frank J. Coughlin,
July 1, 1940, at Springfield, Mass.

'31 Norman Myrick to Miss Margaret Eaton,
August 17, 1940, at Rumford, Maine.

'31 F. Kinsley Whittum to Miss Clarice Meacham,
July 26, 1940, at Springfield, Mass.

'33 and w'34 Miss Agnes Garity to Dr. Robert
W. Hornbaker, August 24, 1940, at Amherst, Mass.

'34 Frederick G. Clark to Miss Helen Gould,
June 26, 1940, at Shelburne Falls, Mass.

'34 Charles H. Dunphy to Miss Virginia E.
Cooney, January 15, 1940, at Missoula, Montana

'34 Dr. Harry Pyenson to Miss Rose Kaplovitz,
October 22, 1939, at Boston, Mass.

'34 Howard Sievers to Miss Evelyn MacKenzie,
June 22, 1940, at Portland, Maine.

'35 Miss Florence Fay to George Mitchell,
August 31, 1940, at Goshen, Mass.

'35 Robert F. Libbey to Miss Dorothea M.
Dwinnell, June 26, 1937, at Westboro, Mass.

'35 George R. Pease to Miss Virginia Cochrane,
July 6, 1940, at Wollaston, Mass.

'35 Willard Senecal to Miss Theresa Kmit,
July 21, 1940, at Haydenville, Mass.

'35 Dr. Donald M. Stewart to Miss Mary P.
Brown, July 5, 1940, at Berlin, Mass.

'36 and '3C Miss Marion Bullard to Ralph T.
Adams, July 13, 1940, at New Salem, Mass.

'36 D. Newton Glick to Miss Roberta E. Bourne,
August 13, 1940, at Amherst, Mass.

'36 Clarence A. Packard to Miss Elizabeth Banta,
June 22, 1940, at Amherst, Mass.

'36 Miss Francene Smith to George B. Burnett,
Jr., June 29, 1940, at Princeton, Mass.

'36 Charles Thayer to Miss Jane Fenner, July 13,
1940, at Ithaca, N. Y.

'37 Louis E. Cosmos to Miss Anita Griffith,
September 6, 1940, at South Carver, Mass.

'37 Miss Barbara Keck to Henry Smith, August
25, 1939, at Boylston, Mass.

'37 Joseph Kennedy to Miss Audrey Jewett,
July 6, 1940, at Miami, Florida.

'37 and '38 William Leighton, Jr. to Miss Phyllis
Nelson, July 6, 1940, at Arlington, Mass.

'37 Raymond Minzner to Miss Gertrude Gebe-
lein, August 20, 1940, at Lawrence, Mass.

'37 Lee W. Rice to Miss June L. Brindley, Sep-
tember 6, 1940, at North Wilbraham, Mass.

'37 George Richason to Miss Frances Lipinski,
August 17, 1940, at Millers Falls, Mass.

'38 Miss Ruth L. Bixby to William J. MacQuillan,
Jr., August 13, 1940, at East Northfield, Mass.

'38 Stanley A. Flower to Miss Eleanor Morin,
August 19, 1940, at Amherst, Mass.

'38 Miss Gertrude Hadro to Leonard R. Parkin-
son, Jr., July 14, 1940, at Amherst, Mass.

'38 Elmer R. Lombard to Miss Lois Hayes,
July 20, 1940, at Ashby, Mass.

'38 Rodger C. Smith to Miss Muriel C. Boettcher,
August 31, 1940, at South Hadley, Mass.

'38 Miss Phyllis Snow to Rev. Frederick W. Vaill,
September 7, 1940, at Boston, Mass.

'38 Miss Barbara J. Strode to Donald M. Fergu-
son, August 10, 1940, at Marblehead, Mass.

'38 Miss Ruth E. Wood to Miller S. Pflager,
August 31, 1940, at Springfield, Mass.

w'38 Sabin Filipkowski to Miss Sophie Jeka-
nowski, August 18, 1940, at Hadley, Mass.

'39 and '39 Arthur C. Avery to Miss Ethel
Meurer, August 24, 1940, at Springfield, Mass.

'39 Miss Marion Glynn to Nathan Rudnick,
July 17, 1940, at Wollaston, Mass.

'39 Robert W. Packard to Miss Jane E. Wasson,
August 3, 1940, at Buffalo, N. Y.

'39 and '39 Franklin W. Southwick to Miss Rita
Anderson, August 31, 1940, at Easthampton, Mass.

w'39 Robert S. Allen to Miss Helen L. Arkoette,
August 10, 1940, at Washington, Mass.

'40 and '40 Wilfred M. Winter to Miss Virginia
Gale, September 7, 1940, at Boxford, Mass.

'40 and '43 D. Arthur Copson to Miss Jean Mac-
Donald Elder, August 26, 1940, at Orleans, Mass.

BIRTHS

'19 and '22 A son, Stephen Ralph to Mr. and
Mrs. Ralph T. Howe (Ruth Hurder), July 26, 1940,
at Concord, Mass.

'26 A daughter, Constance to Mr. and Mrs.
Ronald A. Jack, September 3, 1940, at Quincy, Mass.

'28 and '38 A daughter, Naomi Jean to Mr. and
Mrs. Maxwell H. Goldberg (Shirley Bliss), July 31,
1940, at Northampton, Mass.

'29 A son, Jonathan Gilbert to Mr. and Mrs.
Alden P. Tuttle, August 23, 1940, at Northampton,
Mass.

'31 A daughter, Martina Marie to Mr. and Mrs.
Ermanno A. Basilio (Iris De Falco '31), July 18,
1940, at Rochester, N. Y.

'31 A daughter, Patricia Alice to Mr. and Mrs.
Wilbur Buck, August 15, 1940, at Northampton,
Mass.

'33 A daughter, Susanna Mary to Mr. and Mrs.
Walter Kulash, August 14, 1940, at Northampton,
Mass.

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THE ALUMNI BULLETIN

WITH THE ALUM MAE

By Mary E. Garvey '19
and Leonta Horrigan '36

Notes on the activities of the class of '40:

Mildred Bak is an assistant in the Franklin
County (Mass.) Extension Service.

Anna Banns is teaching home economics in
Sanderson Academy. Ashfield, Mass.

Beryl Barton also has a home economics teaching
position, at Craftsbury, Vt.

Mary Bates has a position with the home service
department of the Pittsfield Electric Company,
Pittsfield, Mass.

Kathleen Cooper is taking an institutional ad-
ministration course at the University of Washington,
in Seattle.

Anne Dec is a pupil dietitian at St. Mary's
Hospital, Detroit, Mich.

Katherine Doran is teaching home economics in
Windsor, Vt.

Laura Kverson is also teaching home economics,
at Middletown Springs, Vt.

M.-irjorie Irwin has a graduate assistantship in
the psychology department at the College.

Alberta Johnson is teaching home economics in
Topsfield, Mass.

Margery Johnson is a secretary for the Audubon
Society in Boston, Mass.

Virginia Little is a telephone representative in
Lawrence, Mass.

Nancy Lnce is teaching home economics at Rock-
land, Mass.

Carolyn Monk is studying at the Yale School of
Nursing.

Dorothy Morley is teaching home economics at
Pembroke College, Providence, R. I.

Virginia Pease is part-time secretary to Ray
Stannard Baker, brother of President Baker and
famous under the pen name of David Grayson.

Mia Beinap is studying at Simmons Library
School, Boston, Mass.

BERTHS

'34 A daughter, Margery Louise to Mr. and Mrs.
Charles E. Coombs, February 1, 1940, at Buffalo, N.Y.

'34 A son. Vernon Kenneth. Jr. to Mr. and Mrs.
Vernon Watson, June 17, 1940, at Canojahoric. N.Y.

'37 A daughter, Ruth Esther to Mr. and Mrs.
Norman Butterfield, March 6, 1940, at Lafayette,
Indiana.

'38 A son. f'arl Frederick to Mr. and Mrs. Carl
8. Gerlach Frances Morley '38'. July 12, 1940, at
Fast Lansing. Mil h

'38 A daughter, Virginia to Mr. and Mrs. Clifford
Curtis, July 30, 1940, at Boston, Mass.

NATHANIEL BOWDITCH HONORED
AT DINNER

Nathaniel I. Bowditch was honored at a birth-
day dinner at the Lord Jeffery Inn on July 26
at which the guests included Governor Saltonstall,

NATHANIEL BOWDITCH
FORTY -FOUR YEARS A TRUSTEE

President Baker and more than one hundred leaders
in Massachusetts agriculture, business, and civic
affairs.

It was Mr. Bowditch's seventy-fifth birthday party;
it was also a party to honor his service as dean of
State College trustees throughout the United States.
For forty-four years Mr. Bowditch has been a
Trustee of Massachusetts State College.

Among the several speakers, Governor Saltonstall
told the guests that "Nat Bowditch was a friend of
my grandfather, of my father, and a very dear friend
of mind. We honor him tonight as a Trustee of the
State College, civil servant, leader in Massachusetts
agriculture, and patron of 4-H clubs."

President Baker said, "Mr. Bowditch has been
concerned nul only with service to the great agricul-
tural industry of the commonwealth, but his heart
has gone out to boys and girls from the rural sections
who have been brought into 4-H clubs work, to the
older boys and girls who have been coming to the
College in increasing numbers through the years that
they might have a satisfactory educational experience.

"And so to recognize such a life and such a service
as our honored guest has rendered his State and the
nation we gather in what we think of as a family
dinner and to express our deep personal feelings and
our heartfelt appreciation of gnat services rendered."

'15 Dr. E. E. Stanford has written another hook,
"Man and the Living World." The book is published
by The MacMillan Company.

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ATHLETICS

Football

Soon after the football squad arrived back on
campus on September 9 for pre-season training, the
sign "Closed Practice" appeared at the gate to
Alumni Field. And there the sign
has stayed — meaning just exactly
what it says. No admittance.

The team is definitely developing
"under wraps," and there is excited
campus discussion of the new
secret weapon of attack or de-
fense (or both) which is expected
to materialize when the club swings
into action against Springfield Col-
lege on September 28.

Reports of the progress being
made by the squad of more than
40 players include the interesting
observation of Pop Clark '87,
veteran follower of our football
fortunes. Pop thinks he has never
seen so impressive a Mass. State
line as the one now practicing
behind the barred gates of Alumni
Field.

Captain Ralph Simmons '41 of
Pittsfield, 230-pound guard, says
that things are fine with his team,
that the players' morale and spirit
is high.

Benny Freitas '42, halfback, of
Fairhaven, a stellar backfield per-
former last year until injuries laid
him low, bears out the captain's
statement. Freitas declares that he can see no
reason why the Statesmen shouldn't win every game
this fall.

(Schedule of games on page 8)

Archery

William Tell, Robin Hood, and all the merry men
(and maids) would have been truly in their glory
could they have been on Alumni Field from August
5 through 10. Sixty-three targets were lined across

the field, and under each of sixty-three gay-colored
umbrellas at the ends of lanes leading from the
targets were groups of expert archers, men and
women, who morning and afternoon for six days let
go with flight after flight of arrows at the bulls-eyes.
It was the 16th annual target meeting of the

LARRY BRIGGS '27. FRED STONE. MRS. STONE

National Archery Association of the U. S. Larry
Briggs '27, president of the Association, had made all
the arrangments for the campus accommodation of
the 120 women and 150 men archers who had come
from all over the U.S. to take part in the meet, and
Briggs had done a great job. The meet was generally
considered one of the finest in the society's history.
A new men's champ was crowned, Russ Hooger-
hyde of Illinois. And a new women's champ, Ann
(Continued on Page 8)

MEN'S SECTION MOVES UP TO SCORE TARGETS. NATIONAL ARCHERY TOURNAMENT ON ALUMNI FIELD.

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WITH 4

BOSTON ALUMNI

SUMMER MEETINGS OF ALUMNI

By John McGuckian '31

The second annual outing of the Massachusetts
State College Alumni Club of Boston was held in
Milton on August 17 and was a great success. About
seventy Alumni, wives, and youngsters were present.
There was a Softball game between the single and
married men which the single men won 17 to 16.
There were games and races for the children as well
as for the Alumni.

Because the group ate so heartily of the refresh-
ments sandwiches, milk, punch, fruit, and "Regis"
ice cream —the scheduled rope pull had to be called
off.

The first regular monthly meeting of the club will
be held on October 17 at 8 p.m. at the University
Club in Boston. This will be football night in Host mi
and everyone, including sons of Alumni and pro-
spective students, is welcome.

FRED A. SMITH '93 RETIRES FROM
ESSEX COUNTY SCHOOL

On August 31, Fred A. Smith '93 retired from his
position as Director of tin- Essex County Dnnvcrs,
Mass. Agricultural School. He had been director
since the opening of the school in May, 191.3. Trus-
tees accepted the resignation "with deep regret."

After being graduated from the College, Mr. Smith
engaged in vegetable gardening and floriculture with
In- father in Lynn. He was superintendent of parks
in Hopedale, Mass., and later was associated with
Manning Brothers in developing the Lynn park
system. From 1905 to 1913 he was superintendent of
the Rice Estate in [pswich. Governor Foss in 1913
appointed him to the Board of Trustees of the I
County Agricultural School, from which Board Mr.
Smith resigned to be appointed first director of the
school on May 1, 1913. He had served continuously
for twenty-seven years.

In commenting, editorially, the Danvers, Mass.,
Herald of -June 20, said, "The School has grown
steadily, healthily, under the careful planning and
guidance of Fred Smith who has been its only director.
Director Smith, in these twenty-seven years, has
shown executive ability, vision and singleness of pur-
pose. He has a keen understanding and desire to
offer opportunities to youth. Essex County will miss
Fred. The School lias been part and parcel of the
rs of his life."

On June 20, and on September 10, the Berkshire
County (Mass.) Alumni Club held meetings on the
summit of Mt. Grylock and at the Berkshire Garden
Center in Stockbridge. At the June meeting, which
was in charge of George Edman '21, president of the
club, President and Mrs. Baker and Trustee David J.
Malcolm and Mrs. Malcolm were guests of the
group. Dr. Baker was the principal speaker.

It was reported that the Berkshire Loan Fund for
students at the College was progressing.

George Haylon '39 arranged the September meet-
ing to which prospective freshmen as well as Alumni
and undergraduates were invited.

A group of fifty heard Marshall Lanphear '18,
registrar and alumni secretary, tell about the new
alumni dormitories and about college activity.

At this latter meeting John Consolati '35 was
elected president of the Berkshire Alumni Club,
succeeding Edman. Bill Davis '35 was elected vice-
president, succeeding John B. Hull '93 of Great
Barrington. Dr. Laurence W. Spooner '30 was re-
elected treasurer and Mrs. Spooner (Gertrude Pierce
'31 1 was re-elected secretary.

On August 29, Conrad Hemond, Jr. '38 and
Harold Hemond '38 entertained a group of Alumni,
undergraduates, and prospective freshmen at a hot
dog roast at the Hemond home in Holyoke. Fifty
people attended, and had a fine time.

Guests from the College were Professor Fred
Ellert '30 and Red Emery '24.

Early in June, Dick Holden '17 of West Lafayette,
Indiana, representative of the American Guernsey
Cattle Club, and Freddie Andrews '35, who had gone
to Purdue University to do work in animal hus-
bandry, met and decided that a Massachusetts State
get-together might well be arranged during the
meetings of the American Dairy Science Association
which were to be held at Purdue. Holden and
Andrews went ahead with plans and a most enjoy-
able breakfast meeting, on June 27. was the result.
Present were J. A. McLean, former head of the
animal husbandry department at the College,
Professor and Mrs. Schuyler M. Salisbury, formerly
of the animal husbandry department. Extension
Professor and Mrs. Clifford J. FawcetL from the
College, Professors Merrill J. Mack and Harry
Lindquist '22 of the dairy department at the College,
Stan Freeman '22 of the Charles M. Cox Grain
Company in Boston, Dr. and Mrs. Harry Pyenson
'34 of Delavan, Wisconsin, Norman Butterfield '37
of the department of agricultural chemistry at
Purdue, David L. Johnson '36 of the horticulture
department at Purdue, Mr. and Mrs. Andrews and
Mr. and Mrs. Holden.

Professor Albert I. Mann '26 of the dairy depart-
ment at the University of Connecticut and Professor
William Mueller of the dairy department at the
College were presenf for the meetings but unable to
attend t he breakfast.

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Library
State

College

'35 Charlie Hutchinson is treasurer of the Pioneer

Valley Laundry, 137 Main Street,

Springfield, Mass.

This new and progressive laundry

which provides a

number of outstanding features

or its patrons is

keeping Charlie right on the jump.

FALL ATHLETIC SCHEDULES

CROSS COUNTRY

FOOTRALL

SOCCER

Oct. 12 Northeastern there 2:00

Sep. 28 Springfield here 2:00

Sep. 28 Rensselaer there 2:00

19 M.I.T. here 2:30

Oct. 5 Conn. Univ. there 2:00

Oct. 5 Dartmouth here 2:00

26 W.P.I, here 2:30

12 Norwich there 2:00

12 Conn. Univ. there 1:00

31 Springfield there 3:30

19 R. I. State here 2:00

19 Harvard Univ. there

Nov. 5 Conn. Valley Meet at

26 W.P.I, here 2:00

26 Trinity here 1:00

Middletown 3:30

Nov. 2 Amherst there 2:00

Nov. 1 Amherst here 3:00

11 N. E. Intercollegiates at

12*Coast Guard there 8:00

9 Fitchburg here 2:00

Boston 1:45

16 Rensselaer there 2:00

15 Trinity here 3:30

23 Tufts there 2:00

Captain, Frank M. Simons '41

Mgr., Umberto P. Motroni '41

Capt., William W. Kimball '42

*Night game

Coach, Lawrence E. Briggs '27

Manager, David Skolnick '41
Coach, Llewellyn L. Derby

Captain, Ralph Simmons '41

Mgr., Richard H. Lester '41

Coach, Elbert F. Caraway

Line Coach, John Janusas

ALUMNI SUMMER MEETINGS

{Continued from Page 7)
On July 17, a group of Alumni interested particu-
larly in the agricultural progress being made at the
College, met for an interesting discussion with
President Hugh P. Baker in Concord, Mass. Presi-
dent Baker told of developments on campus and of
the progress which Massachusetts State is making
in providing satisfactory educational experience for
the sons and daughters of citizens in the State.
Among the Alumni present were: Fred Nickles '10,
Raymond L. Whitney '11, Harvey D. Crosby '05,
Albert R. Stiles '17, Hans Rorstrom '17, Harold N.
Caldwell '16, Warren D. Whitcomb '17, Ralph
Gaskell '13, Louis Eisenhauer '13, Eric N. Boland
'12, Sherman C. Frost '24, Trescott T. Abele '23,
Wesley Thayer '18, Paul W. Rhoades '15, Carleton
M. Stearns '17, Albert R. Jenks '11, James Leland
'22, Harry Dunlap Brown '14, George C. Howe '18,
Raymond L. Clapp '16, Dan O'Brien '14, Herbert
A. Brown '13, George E. Erickson '19, Edwin Warren
'22, and Allister MacDougall '13.

Will be held throughout the country
late in October. Watch the mails for
notice of the meeting nearest you.
Then plan to attend. You'll have a
good time.

ARCHERY TOURNEY

(Continued from Page 6)
Weber of New Jersey. Fred Stone, the esteemed
actor and athlete, chatted with and congratulated
both. Mr. Stone was playing at the summer theatre
in Amherst during the week of the meet and, one
afternoon, together with Mrs. Stone was the de-
lighted guest of the archers.

The Alumni Field activity represented only a part
of the archery program. Out back of the Physical
Education Building, on the women's athletic field,
the U. S. National Junior shoot was in progress for
five days. At the finish of this tournament for
youngsters the team champions were four lads from
Kid Gore's ('13) Camp Najerog. Jerry Stedman,
son of Ralph Stedman '20 of Wilbraham, was a
member of the team. Larry Briggs was the coach.

'13 Fred Griggs was executive chairman of the
Governor's Day program at the Eastern States
Exposition in Springfield.

'15 Vincent Sauchelli has been in South America
on a business trip since June. He is now in Sao
Paulo, Brazil, and will go from there to Argentina.

'36 Carleton Finkelstein is still in the Lewisburg
(Penn.) Penitentiary — but as a employee, not as a
guest. He is doing criminal identification work and
maintaining records on every inmate of the institu-
tion. Fink writes that two Mass. State Alumni have
recently joined the Lewisburg group. They are Ken
Chapman '32 and his wife, Joan Wilcox '34. Ken is
Dr. Kenneth Chapman, Assistant Surgeon, U. S.
Public Health Service.

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AMHERST, MASSACHUSETTS

'ol. XXIII, No. 2

November, 1940

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN
MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

George E. Emery '24, Editor

OFFICERS OF ASSOCIATE ALUMNI OF
MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

President, Alden C. Brett '12 of Belmont
Vice-President. Albert W. Smith '22 of Springfield
Secretary, Marshall O. Lanphear '18 of Amherst
Treasurer, Clark L. Thayer '13 of Amherst
Executive Secretary, George E. Emery '24 of Amherst

BOARD OF DIRECTORS
to 1941

Richard J. Davis '28 of Boston

Thomas P. Dooley '13 of West Roxbury

George W. Edman '21 of Pittsfield

Ralph F. Taber '16 of West Newton
to 1942
Erford W. Poole '96 of New Bedford

David P. Rossiter '37 of Maiden

Zoe Hickney White '32 of Worcester

Alfred E. Wilkins '15 of Wakefield
to 1943
Harry Dunlap Brown '14 of Billerica

William L. Doran '15 of Amherst

Mary E. M. Garvey '19 of Amherst

Lawrence L. Jones '26 of North Beverly
to 1944
Donald C. Dcuglass '21 of Belmont

Norman D. Hilyard '23 of Fpringfield

John W. McGuckian '31 of West Roxbury
Arthur D. Tilton '18 of Woburn

The Alumni Bulletin is sent ten times each year to all members
of the Associate Alumni. Memberships are: Annual $3.00, Sustain-
ing $10.00.

Cover pictures — photographs by Francis Pray '31 of
the Selective Service Registration which took place in
Memorial Hall on October 16. Two hundred and
eighty-four students {college undergraduates, students in
the Stockbridge School, graduate students) were regis-
tered.

Marshall Lanphear '18, registrar of the College, was
chief registrar in charge. In the lower picture, with a
student, Lanphear is filling out a questionnaire blank.

COLLEGE MAKES FINANCIAL
RETURN TO STATE

In President Baker's annual report for the last
college fiscal year an interesting tabulation of figures
indicated that Massachusetts State College had re-
turned to the Commonwealth, during the year, more
than one-third of the State-appropriated operating
cost. State appropriations of $1,212,700 were made
available for the operation of the College and the
work of the experiment station, extension service,
and control service. During the year, $437,840.55
was received by the College through student fees,
through sale of products, fees from control service,
from the boarding hall; and this sum returned by
law to the treasurer of the Commonwealth.

Newspapers throughout the State commented on
the careful and efficient management of the College
which had resulted in the return to the State of
such a large proportion of money appropriated.

PAST AND PRESENT
OF THE CLASS OF

1914

By Henry Clay '14

Harry Le Vine has been hard at work since
graduation steadily building up a good business in
Boston. For the last 19 years he has been owner of
Fredley's, an exclusive women's wear shop on Boyl-
ston Street, Boston, with branches in Wellesley and
Providence. Harry was married in 1930, and the
Le Vines have one child, a boy of four.

Johnny Oertel's retiring nature, as recalled by
his friends in College, must have evaporated during
the intervening years for he is now reported to be
one of the shining stars among the salesmen of the
Corn Products Sales Company.

He has been with this firm ever since graduation,
except for three years when he was with the Massa-
chusetts Agricultural Experiment Station, and for a
brief period in the Army. Johnny, who was married
in 1921, has made his home in Cleveland since 1920.

Emory B. Hebard has a farm in Colrain, Mass.
where, since 1924, he has been maintaining a herd of
registered Ayrshires. Before he took over his own
farm he was manager of the Ashfield Creamery.

As community committeeman for the A. A. A.
Emory finds that checking projects carried out by
farmers in his section is a big chore.

He has a son of 18 who is growing up in the dairy
business, and three younger daughters coming along
in school.

A list of the recent activities of Hoyt Lucas,
Oradell, N. J., is indicative of the many problems
which are involved in making candy on a large scale.

Hoyt is superintendent of the icing department of
the Loose Wiles Biscuit Company, candy division,
Long Island City, N. Y., and sees to it that 150
employees turn out five million pounds of marsh-
mallow and iced goods annually. Studies of sugar
"strength," and of improving "shelf life" are mixed
with cost accounting and changes in manufacturing
methods.

Hoyt's background includes the direction of the
technical service of a large candy firm, technical
studies with a number of candy and ice cream con-
cerns, production managing for dairy plants, and
the inspection of dairy and other food products
at Birmingham, Alabama.

His title of Major in the Chemical Warfare Service,
U. S. Army, Reserve, stems from a period in this
same service during the World War.

A son of twenty is now with the Hartford Fire
Insurance Co. in New York City and a daughter,
seventeen, is in high school. Both youngsters have
carried on the Lucas tradition for athletic prowess.
(Continued on Page 7)

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IN MEMORIAL HALL

October, /<?/-/. The view from the open field just
south of the Chapel is at its best. In every direction
— out across the college pond, over the valley floor
to Warner and then on to the foothills of the Berk-
shires, down to the Holyoke Range — everywhere
nature is a riot of fall color. The captain has just
ordered "at ease" for the company of freshmen
drilling on that field. They have not executed squads
right very well and are to be taken to task. Freshmen
such as Tom Carter, Don Edes, and Ham Foster
are not much interested in drill anyway. The thought
of actual war has not entered their minds. But
they do like the view — and the "at ease."

How fortunate that those boys could not see
into the near future! By autumn, 1918, Lieu-
tenant Thomas Carter had received a French
Citation for bravery, also the American Dis-
tinguished Service Cross, and had been killed
in action rear La Tuilerie Farm, France. His
classmate. Lieutenant Donald Edes, had been
mortally wounded at Gressaire Wood. Hamil-
ton Foster, now captain, had been killed in the
battle of the Argonne and had been awarded
posthumously the Distinguished Service Cross
and the Italian Cross of Merit.

By June. 1921. the Alumni are dedicating,
on the very spot where those boys were drilling
that October afternoon, a Memorial Hall
erected in honor of their war dead who "ven-
tured far to preserve the liberties of mankind."
Dean Lewis is saying, "Henceforth there will be
a sepulchre in our garden. Every good garden
has a sepulchre in the center of it. God has
so willed." And. standing before the building,
we look up to read from its eastern facade, "We
will keep faith with you who lie asleep."

October, /<//". Once more nature is putting
on her fall pageant. The view is much like the
one which a company of young freshmen saw
that other October day in 1914. True, the trees are
a little larger. Here and there is a new building. It
is the same old Holyoke Range and Warner though,
and nature is as lavish as ever with her color. No
company of freshmen snaps to attention at a cap-
tain's call, however. Instead there is a Memorial
Hall yes, and more, a line of college students filing
up its steps. They are registering in the alcove on the
second floor, so close to the eastern windows that
tiny can almost reach out and touch the words
inscribed above: St. Mihiel, Aisne Marne, Argonne.
They are registering under the regulations of the
■ ive Training and Service Act of 1940. They are
.us nf those who were drilling there that October
day in 1914. They have come to "keep faith with
you who lie asleep."

M.O.L.

Jim Moran is first lieutenant with the U. S.
Marine Corps Flying Service and an instructor in
instrument flying. He is stationed at Pensacola, Fla.

JOHN B. HULL '91, TRUSTEES,
APPOINTED TO COMMITTEE

On the committee recently named by Governor
Leverett Saltonstall to direct and coordinate defense
activities throughout the State are John B. Hull '91
of Great Barrington, and former Governor Joseph B.
Ely and John W. Haigis, Trustees of the College.

The committee's work will be primarily non-
military; it will support the military authorities in
such ways as may require civilian cooperation,
according to Governor Saltonstall's statement.

MEMORIAL HALL

Pray

'00 James E. Halligan has compiled the "Analysis
of Louisiana Crude Oils" for the department of
conservation of the State of Louisiana. His findings
were published in September.

w'16 Donald Dinsmore is now finishing his 12th
year as civil engineer on the Quabbin Reservoir
project in Enfield, Mass., a division of the Metro-
politan District Water Supply Commission.

'18 Paul Hunnewell has been manager of the
Goleta (California) Lemon Association since the
organization was started in 1935. He has been in the
lemon business, in California, for the past 20 years.

He was recently elected president of the Goleta
Rotary Club, of which he is charter member (with a
perfect attendance record) and of which he had been
secretary. A recent publication of the club credits
Hunnewell with probably having given more actual
hours of work to the club than any other member
since its origin.

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OBITUARIES

Edwin F. Bristol w'80
Edwin F. Bristol died at his home in Claremont,
N. H., on September 9, 1940. He was 83 years of age.

Melvin Graves

Melvin Graves, for 42 years chief of the Amherst
Police Department, died at his home in Amherst on
October 16 after an illness of several weeks. He was
79 years old.

He was born in Leverett, and had made his home
in Amherst for 50 years. For 18 of the 42 years
during which he served the town as chief of police
he was the only member of the department. He was
retired in April, 1936.

The selectmen of Amherst spoke of Chief Graves
as follows: "The old town meeting days and all
they meant to older people of Amherst have passed
with all their virtue and individuality. Today we
hear of the passing of Melvin L. Graves, who served
the town nearly half a century. His sturdy qualities
and rugged personality endeared him to all. He too,
became an institution, a part of the town to towns-
people and students alike. Thus do we, the people
of Amherst, miss and pay respect to you, Chief
Graves, and offer our heartfelt sympathies to your
loyal wife in her time of great sorrow and loss."

MARRIAGES

'30 Ralph Gunn to Miss Esme Patterson, Sep-
tember 18, 1940, at Houston, Texas.

'31 Miss Marjorie Clarkson to Roger Hamilton,
October 5, 1940, at Worcester, Mass.

'31 John Paul Costello to Miss Lucy Iacovelli,
July 13, 1940, at Milford, Mass.

'31 Miss Mary Marshall to Francis Coughlin,
July 1, 1940, at Belchertown, Mass.

'33 Miss Sylvia Wilson to Guy Cummings, June
26, 1940, at Ware, Mass.

'34 Russell Snow to Miss Ethel Bruins, October
5, 1940, at Rutland, Vt.

'35 Miss Madeline Ashley to William Belanick,
July 6, 1940, at Greenfield, Mass.

'35 Maurice Shapiro to Miss Beatrice Schultz,
September 15, 1940, at North Adams, Mass.

'35 and '36 Charles Elliott to Miss Betsy Worden,
January 20, 1940, at Springfield, Mass.

'36 George H. Allen to Miss Virginia Russell,
September 7, 1940, at Forest Hills, N. Y.

'36 Miss Marion Jones to Robert D. Gourlie,
October 9, 1940, at Thompsonville, Conn.

'36 Miss Marjorie Whitney to Richard Thomp-
son, October 5, 1940, at Westminster, Mass.

'37 and '36 Robert Bieber to Miss Mary Cawley,
September 28, 1940, at Winthrop, Mass.

'37 Miss Barbara Gordon to James Whitney,
June 29, 1940, at Springfield, Mass.

'37 Prescott Richards to Miss Helen Codet,
October 12, 1940, at Manhasset, Mass.

'38 Edwin Bieniek to Miss Wanda Swartz,
September 17, 1940, at Holyoke, Mass.

'38 and '38 Robert MacCurdy to Miss Sylvia
Randall, September 14, 1940, at Granby, Mass.

'39 Charles Rodda, Jr. to Miss Eleanor Bullock,
October 12, 1940, at Springfield, Mass.

'39 Arthur Broadfoot to Miss Emily Ranney,
September 14, 1940, at Amherst, Mass.

w'39 and w'39 Carl Patterson to Miss Alida
Wattles, September 28, 1940, at Montague, Mass.

BIRTHS

'25 A daughter, Susan, to Mr. and Mrs. Lewis H.
Keith, September 20, 1940, at Melrose Highlands,
Mass.

'25 A daughter, Eleanor Mary, to Mr. and Mrs.
Andrew Love, September 26, 1940, at Worcester,
Mass.

'33 A daughter, Ann Marie, to Mr. and Mrs.
Cloyes T. Gleason, June 29, 1940, at Lowell, Mass.

'35 A son, David, to Mr. and Mrs. Roger Warner
(Dorothy Cook '35), April 22, 1940, at Boston, Mass.

'35 A son, Richard, to Mr. and Mrs. William
Macomber, Jr. (Ruth Pelissier '35), July 2, 1940, at
Newport, R. I.

'35 and '35 A daughter, Judith Ann, to Mr. and
Mrs. Leslie Kimball (Harriet Roper), October 14,
1940, at Springfield, Mass.

'36 A daughter, Margaret Ellen, to Mr. and Mrs.
W. Roderic Bliss, September 25, 1940, at Washing-
ton, D. C.

'36 A son, Thomas Francis III, to Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas F. Cordis (Marie Dow '36), October 2,
1940, at Springfield, Mass.

'30 Sid Vaughan has been an assistant agricul-
tural agent with the Worcester County Extension
Service since 1939, and has been proving an excep-
tionally valuable man in the service.

He was born in Chicago in 1908, was graduated
from the Attleboro (Mass.) High School in 1924 and
entered the College that fall. He left College to
work for two years, and returned to receive his
degree with the class of 1930. He majored in po-
mology. As an undergraduate he was a member of
the college band, orchestra, a recipient of the gold
academics medal.

From 1930 to 1931 he was connected with State
agricultural survey and inspection work, and from
1931 to 1932 was employed by the A. & P. Fruit
Produce Warehouse in Providence, R. I.

He was orchard manager of the Orkil Farms in
Simsbury, Conn., from 1932 to 1933, and the next
four years was manager of Apple Acres Farm in
Pepperell. He was Worcester County agricultural
conservation agent from 1937 to 1939.

Sid is married to Margaret Ohlwiler '32. They
have two children, Marjorie Jean, seven, and Herbert,
three and one-half years of age.

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN

WITH THE ALUMMAE

By Mary E. Garvey '19
and Leonta Horrigan '36

The Alumnae column is fortunate this year in
having Marion Gallagher '42, Evra Ward '42,
Rosalie Beaubien '41, and Dorothy Adelson '42 as
correspondents from Alpha Lambda Mu, Lambda
Delta Mu, Phi Zeta, and Sigma Iota sororities, re-
spectively. These girls will be contributing many of
the items appearing in the Bulletin from now on.
The editors would like to say "Thank you" — for
themselves, and for all column readers.

More news notes of the class of 1940:

Erma Alvord has a position in Wilson's Depart-
ment Store in Greenfield, Mass.

Millicent Carpenter is a service agent for the
New England Telephone and Telegraph Company
in Worcester, Mass.

Margaret Firth is attending the Simmons School
of Library Science in Boston, Mass.

Barbara Farnsworth is a commercial demon-
strator for the home service department of the
Worcester Gas Light Company, Worcester, Mass.

Thelma Glazier is studying hospital dietitian
work at the Western Reserve Hospital, Cleveland,
Ohio.

Evelyn Gould is with the Liberty Mutual Life
Insurance Company, Boston, Mass.

Olive Jackson
is teaching mathe-
matics and gener-
al science at the
MacDuffie School
for Girls, Spring-
field, Mass.

Eleanor Jewell
is a commercial
demonstrator for
the home service
department of the
Worcester Gas
Light Company,
Worcester, Mass.

Rosa KuliU is
a graduate assist-
ant in the chem-
i>iry department
nl Smith College,
Northampton.

Roma Levy has
a position at the
Taunton, Mass.,
Hospital.

Katherine Rice is a telephone representative in
Springfield, Mass.

Dorothy Bourke is a graduate assistant in the
bacteriology department at the College.

Marjorie Shaw is teaching home economics in
Milton, Vt.

Beatrice Wood is teaching home economics in
Southboro, Mass.

Barbara Little is a laboratory technician at the
Cooley Dickinson Hospital, Northampton, Mass.

Irma Malm has a temporary clerical position
with the State Mutual Life Insurance Company in
Worcester, Mass.

Helen Marshall is a graduate assistant in the
geology department at the College.

Dorothea Smalley is a student aide at the
Worcester Girls' Trade School.

'19 Julian Rea is doing agricultural missionary
work in Kambini, Portuguese East Africa.

'21 Gid Mackintosh is furniture manufacturers'
representative in High Point, N. C. Gid, who was
an outstanding center on State College football
teams, continues his interest in athletics as a foot-
ball official in the Southern Conference. His offici-
ating schedule includes 12 conference games this fall
and almost as many more high school and prep school
games.

'24 Will Whitney is now in Chatham, Va., where
he is employed in the tobacco research laboratory of
the Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station.

—I'holo by
Grant I',. Snyder

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ATHLETICS

Football

Beginning with the long afternoon's scrimmage
with Williams at Williamstown on September 21,
injuries and tough luck of one kind or another seem
to have been travelling along hand in hand with the
Statesmen. It has been no simple problem for the
coaches to switch players here and there in the
line-up in order to bolster those positions on the
team made vacant through injury losses.

A bright spot in the season so far has been the
showing made by sophomores: quarterback Mattie
Ryan of Springfield; halfback Gil Santin of Beverly;
and Bill Mann, 200-pound tackle from Pittsfield.
John McDonough of Boston, guard, and Stan Salwak,
halfback, of Orange are other topnotch sophomores
doing a good job on the club.

The scores to date: September 28, Springfield 13,
State 6; October 5, Connecticut (there) 13, State 0;
October 12, Norwich (there) 24, State 0. Remaining
games: October 19, Rhode Island here; October 26,
Worcester Tech here; November 2, Amherst there;
November 12, Coast Guard there (at night); No-
vember 16, Rensselaer there; November 23, Tufts
there.

At the Pond

College had hardly opened when the freshmen
exuberantly conducted the sophomores on a trip
into and through the college pond, in the annual
60-man rope pull.

Sophomores took revenge, however, on October 5,
at a newly-instituted class fracas also held at the
pond. Supervised freshmen and sophomore boxing
and wrestling matches were held on the shore; and
no one got very wet. But when 10 freshmen and
10 sophomores were paired off one-by-one on a
five-foot-square platform in the middle of the pond,
many a good loud splash resulted. The lads on the
platform were given one minute per pair to discover
which could toss the other into the water. The
sophomores won; and it was an amusing sight, or so
the spectators thought.

One student put it neatly. "We just stood a
freshman and a sophomore on that platform," he
said, "and then let nature take its course." The
picture shows the course.

Freshman Hats

On the evening of October 14, a crowd of Amherst
College freshmen took a trip to the State campus
which trip turned out, finally, to be more eventful
than these frosh possibly could have expected. The
Collegian wrote about the exercises pretty much as
follows.

Hats off to "Dean" Burns! State and Amherst
freshmen found the "Dean" possessed of a cool head
on Monday evening. Then, a word from Burns
(who is as much a part of college life in Amherst as
football and fraternities) dispelled what promised to
be a riot of fourth-alarm proportions.

INTO THE BRINK

-Pray

BURNS — HE ADVOCATED PEACE

—Vondell

Start of "hell week" at Amherst College found a
group of freshmen headed for the State campus on a
hat forage. An hour later found the Amherst boys
enjoying (?) a brisk dip in the college pond, and an
army of State freshmen headed for the ivied walls
near Amherst center.

The Amherst College invaders had planned to split
forces, draw the State freshmen from Lewis and
Thatcher Halls, raid the dormitories, emerge
with hats. However, the dormitories were
tipped off by phone from fraternity row, and
planned a water carnival as reception enter-
tainment.

Following this rout, retaliation was started
by the Massachusetts State freshmen who
marched up town singing and shouting. Battle
lines were soon drawn up on the Amherst
common. Fist fights had broken out when the
police arrived. {Continued on Page 8)

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WITH jL* THE

BOSTON ALUMNI

ACADEMICS

By John McGuckian\"Zl

It was a good program which the Boston Club
presented on October 17, Football Night, at the
University Club; but miserable weather tended to
keep the attendance from being as large as had been
anticipated.

President Ducky Swan '27 presided at the brief
business meeting at which a committee was appointed
to make plans for an evening gathering on Novem-
ber 22.

Starr King '21 then introduced the main program
of the evening — a discussion of football.

Curry Hicks, coach Eb Caraway, assistant coach
John Janusas all were the speakers. Caraway gave a
complete description of the personnel of the team.
Professor Rollin Barrett showed some excellent
colored movies which he had taken of campus scenes
and of the recent football game between Massachu-
setts State and the University of Connecticut.

It was a late hour before the meeting broke up.

'20 Bob Fuller is salesman for the Standard Cap
and Seal Corp. of Chicago. 111. Bob's home is at
3 Sheldon Street, Haverhill, Mass.

'26 Larry Jones is chairman of the region one
winter front program committee for the Boy Scouts
of America. The committee's work has to do with
skiing and winter camping programs.

'28 Hartwell Roper has plenty to keep him busy
in Kirkwood. Pa.: namely, the operation of Syca-
more Farm, the supervision of soil conservation work
in the Kirkwood district, presidency of the Lan-
caster Guernsey cattle club.

'30 Karl Tomfohrde is planning engineer with
the New Jersey State Planning Board, Trenton.

'35 Howard Dobbie is a junior engineer at
Balboa Heights, Gatun, Panama Canal Zone.

Sulo Tani is doing recreational planning
work lor the State Planning and Development Com-
mission. Concord, N. H.

'36 Dean Glick is an instructor in landscape
architecture at the University of Georgia, Athens, Ga.

'36 Robert Logan is chemist with the B. F. Good-
rii I] Rubber Company in Akron, Ohio.

'38 Harold Hemond is teaching science and coach-
ing the student band at Wilbraham Academy, Wil-
braham, Mass.

'39 Milton Auerbach is in his second year at the
rrl Dental School.

Roister Doisters

Ninety-five students took part in the try-outs for
the Roister Doisters' winter play, Sutton Vane's
speculative and stirring drama, Outward Bound.

The cast, as selected by Director Frank Prentice
Rand and the student officers includes: George P.
Hoxie, Jr. '41 of Northampton, Robert S. Ewing '42
of Easthampton, Mason Gentry '43 of Turners Falls,
Edward C. Manix '43 of South Deerfield, Marion
Nagelschmidt '42 and Meriel Van Buren '42 of
Pittsfield, Agnes Goldberg '43 of Cambridge, Wesley
Aykroyd '41 of Worcester, and Robert L. Wroe '44
of Whitman.

The first performance of the play will be given on
campus on December 14. Two later presentations
have been scheduled, and quite possibly there may
be others.

There is also to be a student-written and directed
musical re%Tje entitled Starch and Studs, which is now
booked for presentation on March 1.

At commencement time, the Roister Doisters will
present William Saroyan's prize-winning success of
last season, The Time of Your Life.

CLASS OF 1914

(Continued from Page 2)

Fri-d ltfiid spent his first year out of College at
the Harvard Graduate School. He then went to
work for the United States Department of Agriculture
where his duties with the bureau of markets took
him widely over the country.

Fred liked (and still likes) California; and in 1918
In- Ih-i ;mn- chief of the bureau ol fruit and vegetable
standardization for the California Department of
Agriculture at Sacramento. In 1923 he moved from
the State Capitol Building to the office of the Cali-
fornia Fruit Exchange in the same city, where he
was manager of the standardization and advertising
departments for 17 years. He became assistant
manager of the Exchange this year.

Freddy is always ready to talk about his daughter
Barbara, a sophomore at the University of Oregon;
Doris, a 1940 Oregon graduate, who was married
last summer; and 12-year old Robert. Mrs. Read
came easl with her husband for the 1939 reunion of
our class, and will be pleasantly remembered by
those who were present.

Harry Nisscn is listed in Who's Who in America
for his outstanding work in physical education. For
eleven years he was president of the widely-known
Posse-Nissen School of Physical Education in Boston.
He is now owner and director of the Hillsboro Camp
for Girls, Hillsboro, N. H.

The Massachusetts State Society of Physical Edu-
cation elected him president in 1934.

In 1916 he was married to Jane Churchill; and the
Nissens have three girls who now are in college, and
another daughter, aged seven.

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'16 Harold Mostrom has been appointed director
of the Essex County (Mass.) Agricultural School,
succeeding Fred A. Smith '93, who recently retired
from the position.

jibrarv

State College

FALL ALUMNI NIGHT MEETING

ESSEX COUNTY (MASS.) ALUMNI CLUB

Wheeler's Restaurant, Andover Pike, Danvers, November 15, at 6.30 p.m.

Whitey Lanphear '18, Alden Brett '12 will be guests

OPPORTUNITIES LISTED BY
PLACEMENT OFFICE

Emory Grayson '17, director of the placement
service at the College, learns from time to time of
business opportunities in which he feels Alumni
might well be interested.

Following are excerpts from two recent letters to
the placement office describing such opportunities.

Alumni interested in these or in any others which
might come, in the future, to Grayson's attention
should get in touch with the placement office, South
College.

"I have recently been informed that a fine retail
business is for sale in the eastern part of the state.
At present I am not at liberty to give the name and
address of the person who wishes to sell, but if you
should happen to learn of anyone who would be
interested in such a proposition, I would appreciate
it very much if you would have such a person get
in touch with me.

"For your own information, I am glad to pass on
to you this statement from the owner: 'The right
person who has $3500 in cash to invest can have this
business with lease requiring the payment of $55
rental per month for' a term of months to be agreed
upon; or the whole property can be bought outright
for $9500 on which latter approximately $3500 can
be on mortgage. The investment is a safe one'."

"I am looking for a thoroughly honest and am-
bitious young man who would be interested in taking

over a farm of some two hundred acres at , N.Y.

He would be provided with a house to live in, fire-
wood (for his cutting) for his own needs, and some
odds and ends of farm machinery. In return I should
expect him to keep the place in order, do such chores
as were required when the owner was in residence
(perhaps a dozen week-ends a year and a month in
summer), and perhaps ultimately to operate the
place on a profit-sharing basis.

"The farm at present is in good condition. The
present farmer started from scratch and has saved

FRESHMAN HATS

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But it was the appearance of "Dean" Burns which
broke the tension, and led to the dispersal of forces.
The "Dean's" eloquence would have done justice to
Demosthenes. He urged the boys to forget their
animosities, to cease hostilities, to return to their
respective dorms. Freshmen from both colleges
cheered and obeyed the "Dean."

It is the general feeling of upperclassmen of both
Mass. State and Amherst that these freshmen clashes
are unfortunate. Intercollegiate relations in Amherst
have usually been of the best.

Town rivalry in athletics has always been high,
although it is sad but true, from the State stand-
point, that Amherst had little trouble last year, for
example, in winning all five contests in football,
baseball, and basketball.

At all of these intercollegiate contests and at many
other collegiate events as well, the familiar figure of
"Dean" Burns is interposed. "Official doorman" at
Sarris Brothers restaurant, dancer petit at basketball
games, speaker — yes, orator — at almost any and
every occasion, "Dean" Burns occupies, truly, a place
in the affections of the students of both colleges.
r

'23 Huck Sargent is manager of the apple packing
and storage warehouses for the Tonasket United
Growers, Inc., Tonasket, Wash.

'32 Leonard Salter is with the U. S. Bureau of
Agricultural Economics in Upper Darby, Pa.

enough to buy a place of his own. I am convinced
that there is an opportunity for an ambitious man
to make a good living, but I am not interested in
considering candidates unless they are thoroughly
reliable.

"I may add that the farm is equipped with a large
barn for cattle, that the neighborhood is an excellent
one, and that the schools in the district, if the man
is married and has children, are unusually good."

FALL ALUMNI NIGHT MEETING — CHICAGO ALUMNI CLUB

Chicago Athletic Club, 12 S. Michigan Ave., November 12, at 6.30 p.m.

President Baker, Director Sievers, Bill Munson '05 will be guests

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BULLETIN

RST. IN THE KITCHEN

FHEN, OUT IN THE RAIN

MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE
AMHERST, MASSACHUSETTS

'ol. XXIII, No. 3

December, 1940

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN
MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

George E. Emery '24, Editor
Published monthly at Amherst, Mass. (except August and
September) by the Associate Alumni of Massachusetts State College.
Entered as second class matter. March 17, 1920, at the Postofnce
at Amherst, Mass., under the Acts of March 3, 1879.

OFFICERS OF ASSOCIATE ALUMNI OF
MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

President. Alden C. Brett '12 of Belmont
Vice-President. Albert W. Smith '22 of Springfield
Secretary, Marshall O. Lanphear '18 of Amherst
Treasurer, Clark L. Thayer '13 of Amherst
Executive Secretary, George E. Emery "24 of Amherst

BOARD OF DIRECTORS
to 1941

Richard J. Davis '28 of Boston

Thomas P. Dooley '13 of West Roxbury

George W. Edman '21 of Pittsfield

Ralph F. Taber '16 of West Newton
to 1942
Erford W. Poole '96 of New Bedford

David P. Rossiter '37 of Maiden

Zoe Hicknev White '32 of Worcester

Alfred E. Wilkins '15 of Wakefield
to 1943
Harry Dunlap Brown '14 of Billerica

William L. Doran '15 of Amherst

Mary E. M. Garvey '19 of Amherst

Lawrence L. Jones '26 of North Beverly

to 1944

Donald C. Dcuglass '21 of Belmont

Norman D. Hilyard '23 of Springfield

John W. McGuckian '31 of West Roxbury
Arthur D. Tilton '18 of Woburn

The Alumni Bulletin is sent ten times each year to all members
of the Associate Alumni. Memberships are: Annual $3.00, Sustain-
ing $10.00.

Cover pictures — Group at cornerstone ceremony at
new women's dormitory, November 2, 1940.

Front row [left to right): state representative Albert
Bergeron; President Hugh P. Baker; Evelyn Bergstrom
'41, of Pittsfield, president of the W.S.G.A., (Evelyn
holds the copper box which was placed in the corner-
stone) ; Miss Edna Skinner, Dean of Women; Eleanor
Bateman '23; Donald P. Allan '40, of Fitchburg,
president of the Student Senate.

Back row (left to right): James W. Burke, Secretary
of the College; Trustee Fred D. Griggs '13; Alden C
Brett '12, president of the Associate Alumni.

Lower picture — Miss Bergstrom puts some mortar
in place, preparatory to the placing of the cornerstone,
while Mr. Bergeron shields the young lady from the
elements. Alden Brett, in the foreground, apparently
is enjoying the ceremony. Bud Ross '17, architect for
the new building, looks on from the background .

Both photographs by Fran Pray '31.

w'76 Edward S. Ellis, who was 84 on January 30,
this year, is living in South Miami, Florida; address,
Box 481. Mr. Ellis, who is a lawyer, was for 18
years special justice of the 1st Barnstable (Mass.)
District Court until, in 1925, he resigned to become
a citizen of Miami. He still spends his summers at
Monument Beach, Bourne, Mass.

'95 E. A. White, professor emeritus of horticul-
ture at Cornell University, was a recent campus
visitor. He had returned to the U. S. shortly before,
from a trip to Japan, the Philippines, East Indies,
India, Australia, and New Zealand.

PAST AND PRESENT
OF THE CLASS OF

1914

By Henry Clay '14

Stan Freeborn's life since graduation has been
largely tied up with the University of California,
except for a year which Stan spent in Europe and
the Near East and another year at the College, dur-
ing which he finished up his work for a Ph.D. Stan
married a graduate of the University of California
back in 1917; and Stanley Junior, who was gradu-
ated last June at California, was a member of the
varsity crew which set the course record at Pough-
keepsie, N. Y., on June 9, 1939. The Freeborns
have a daughter still in high school.

Stan's present titles have a somewhat dignified
sound to them; he is assistant dean, College of Agri-
culture, University of California; assistant director
of the California Agricultural Experiment Station;
professor of entomology. But we can imagine that,
in spite of the dignity, Stan's terpsichorean abilities,
so apparent while he was an undergraduate, are still
evident on various occasions in Berkeley.

Harold Morrison is another Berkeley, California,
resident whose active career has seen his home shifted
several times from the East Coast to the West, and
back and forth. Harold early held such varied
positions as bridge building engineer in Montana
and officer of the Federal Reserve Bank in Boston.
His work as advertising manager for a San Francisco
newspaper was followed by sales work in the East.

Morrison is now vice-president of E. E. Webster,
Inc. of Berkeley: and he manages properties pur-
chased by this insurance and real estate firm. Harold
says that his experience indicates that every college
should require a course in finance and banking of all
its undergraduates.

Frank Clegg has forty acres under intensive culti-
vation as a market garden in Seekonk, Mass. Al-
ready he grows twenty different vegetables and (with
apologies to the Buick ad) when better vegetables
are grown Frank will grow them.

Apparently Clegg's idea that the farm is a good
place on which to live meets with the approval of his
family for Frank Junior, a senior at Rhode Island
State, is majoring in agriculture.

A daughter, Elizabeth, teaches English and physi-
cal education at the Seekonk Junior High School.

Colonel Horace T. Aplington, former commandant
of the R.O.T.C. unit at the College, is justifiably
proud that of the eight cavalrymen who were ap-
pointed to the regular army from Thomason Act
duty, four were from the Massachusetts State unit.
These four are: George C. Benjamin '39, Alfred W.
Bruneau '37, Emerson Grant '39, and Clifford
Lippincott '39.

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PETER CASCIO '21 IS PRESIDENT
OF CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

STUDENTS RECEIVE SCHOLARSHIPS
FROM LOTTA CRABTREE FUND

On October 23, Peter J. Cascio '21 was unanimous-
ly elected president of the Chamber of Commerce of
West Hartford, Conn. Election was held at the
annual dinner meeting of the Chamber at the Rock-
ledge Country Club.

PETER CASCIO '21

Cascio is the proprietor of a progressive and thriv-
ing landscape contracting business in West
Hartford and also of the well-known Fernhill Nursery
in West Hartford.

His election as head of the Chamber of Commerce
was a well deserved recognition and a wise choice on
the part of West Hartford business men.

Cascio is president of the National Landscape
Nurserymen's Association, recording secretary of the
Connecticut Horticultural Society, and vice-president
of the Reserve Officers Association. After being
graduated from the College in 1921 he took courses
in horticultural subjects at the University of South-
ern California and at Cornell.

'16 Ralph Estes is landscape architect in the
office of the district engineer. Farm Security Ad-
ministration, Montgomery, Alabama. He writes.
"Am up to my ears designing and superintending
construction of Florida migratory labor camps
(Grapes of Wrath)."

'16 Frank Haskell of Spartanburg, S. C, will
report for one year of active duty at Tullahoma,
Term., as major, infantry, U. S. Army.

At the last meeting of the Alumni Directors, an-
nouncement was made of the award of scholarships
to a number of undergraduates, these scholarships
made available through the fine cooperation of the
trustees of the Lotta Crabtree Fund with an Alumni
Committee.

Freshmen will be awarded scholarships at the
beginning of the second semester in February. The
scholarships to upperclassmen were awarded at the
opening of College and will be for the full college
year. Sixteen hundred dollars was made available
for members of each of the four classes.

Students in the graduate school, Gordon Thomas
'40 of Brockton, and Mike Neznayko '40 of Hadley,
each received a scholarship of $503 from the fund.

Undergraduates who received the awards are as
follows:

Seniors Francis S. Bagge of Hyde Park, Norman
J. Beckett of Somerville, Edward Broderick of Willi-
mansett, Fred Gordon of Wilbraham, Woodrow R.
Jacobson of Ivoryton, Conn., Jean Puffer of Foxboro,
Chester C. Putney of Orleans, Vt., Stanley C. Reed
of Brockton, Kenneth F. Waltermire of Springfield,

Juniors Paul J. Adams, Jr. of Feeding Hill?,
Preston J. Burnham of Lynn, James G. Bullock of
Arlington, Philip A. Cochran of Somerville, Allen
Cowan of Pittsfield, George W. Gaumond of Wor-
cester, Bradford M. Greene of Springfield, Joseph T.
Jodka of Lawrence, Maurice W. Leland of Natick,
Walter Melnick of South Deerfield, William Rabin-
ovitz of Roxbury, Elliot V. Schubert of Methuen,
Richard R. Smith of Southwick, Carl P. Werms of
Worcester.

Sophomores Thaddeus V. Bokina of Hatfield,
Stanley W. Bubriski of Housatonic, Clinton T.
Cheever of Oakdale, George Entwistle of Boston,
Gordon Field of West Barnstable, Robert A. Fitz-
patrick of Medford. Christos E. Gianarakos of
Lowell, Walter A. Glista of Bridgewater, Nathan
Golick of Dorchester, George G. Gyrisko of Hadley,
Victor A. Leonowicz of Whitman, William C. Mann
of Pittsfield, David H. Marsden of Taunton, Bour-
card Nesin of Westfield, Ralph E. Southwick of
Leicester. Paul K. Turner of Dalton.

Among the items of business which were con-
sidered by the Alumni Directors at their last meet-
ing in Amherst was the question of university status
for Massachusetts State College.

In October, 1937, a report was presented to the
Directors by a committee composed of Ralph Taber
'16 chairman, Alden C. Brett '12 and Joseph H.
Forest '28 which dealt, in part, with factors relating
to university status.

At commencement, in June 1939, President Hugh
!'. Baker recommended that a University of Massa-
chusetts be established on the campus of the College.

An Alumni Committee is making further study,
by vole of I he- Directors, of the university matter.

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OBITUARIES

John W. Brainerd w'71

John W. Brainerd w'71 died in Palmer, Mass., on
October 3, 1940. If he had lived one day more he
would have been 90 years old; he was, at the time of
his death, one of the oldest Alumni of the College.
Fayette D. Couden '04

Lieutenant Colonel Fayette D. Couden '04 died on
December 19, 1939, at Seattle, Washington. He was
fifty years of age.

He was born in Madrid, New York, but grew up in
Washington, D. C. After being graduated from the
College in 1904 he returned to Washington and took
his law degree at George Washington University.

After receiving his law degree in 1906, Couden
entered practice in Seattle. In 1910 he became
deputy King County prosecutor. The following year
he moved to South Bend, Washington, but returned
to Seattle in 1917 where he remained until his death.

Couden was a member of the American, Washing-
ton State, and Seattle Bar Associations. He was an
active and enthusiastic member of the National
Guard for more than twenty years. He became a
captain in this organization in 1921, was promoted
to major, and in 1939 was made Lieutenant Colonel
of the 24th Cavalry Division of the Guard.

Couden was always interested in his fraternity,
Phi Sigma Kappa, and was continuously active in its
behalf. At a Founders' Day program of the fra-
ternity this spring it was said of Couden, "Dick
was the true living spirit of Phi Sigma Kappa."

MARRIAGES

'31 Miss Winifred L. Chenoweth to Parker E.
Harris, October 19, 1940, at North Amherst, Mass.

w'31 Stearns N. Belden to Miss Clarice E. Sloan,
October 23, 1940, at Topeka, Kansas.

'34 Miss Laura E. Adams to William S. Duncan,
Jr., October 19, 1940, at Athol, Mass.

'34 Gerald Bowler to Miss Rita C. Burke,
October 28, 1940, at West Springfield, Mass.

'36 and '36 Charles Moran to Miss Marion
Paulding, September 7, 1940, at Bryantville, Mass.

'37 Alfred Bruneau to Miss Gertrude Slocum,
July 29, 1940, at Fort Meade, South Dakota.

'37 Murray George to Miss Elizabeth Cousins,
November 17, 1940, at Conway, Mass.

'38 and '40 Robert C. Dewey to Miss Elizabeth
M. Howe, September 28, 1940, at Pittsfield, Mass.

BIRTHS

'22 A daughter, Susan Thayer, to Mr. and Mrs.
Hobart W. Spring, September 21, 1940, at Tyngs-
borough, Mass.

'29 and '32 A son, James Charles, to Mr. and
Mrs. Laurence Carruth (Wynne Caird), June 20,
1939, at Geneva, N. Y.

'30 A daughter, Sarah Jane, to Mr. and Mrs.
Paul E. Dion (Alice Gaumond), July 11, 1940, at
Southbridge, Mass.

'30 A daughter, Karen May, to Mr. and Mrs. G-l
Dean Swift, November 9, 1940, at Rochester, N. Y.

'33 A daughter, Sarah Elizabeth, to Mr. and
Mrs. Lawrence Southwick, November 9, 1940, at I
Northampton, Mass.

'35 and '35 A daughter, Sally Gray, to Mr. and
Mrs. Ralph Schreiter (Rosamond Shattuck), October
19, 1940, at Walpole, Mass.

'37 and '36 A daughter, Carol, to Mr. and Mrs.
W. Squier Munson (Dolly Lesquier), November 4,
1940, at Norwood, Mass.

'37 A daughter, Marcia Ann, to Mr. and Mrs.
William Moss, October 23, 1940, at Mattapoisett,
Mass.

CORNERSTONE PROGRAM

On Saturday, November 2, the cornerstone of the
new women's dormitory, now being built by the
Associate Alumni, was put in place with all appro-
priate ceremony.

It rained, and how it rained; and so the brief but
impressive exercises were held in the kitchen of the
new building — except, of course, for the actual
placing of the stone.

Alden Brett '12, president of the Associate Alumni,
acted as chairman of the program and introduced I
President Hugh P. Baker, Fred Griggs '13, Trustee
of the College, Eleanor Bateman '23, a member of
the Alumni Dormitory Corporation, Edna L. Skinner,
Dean of Women, Evelyn Bergstrom '41 of Pittsfield,
president of the Women's Student Government
Association, Don Allan '41 of Fitchburg, president
of the Student Senate, and State Representative
Albert Bergeron.

The program in the kitchen was concluded with
singing by the Statettes, a quartet of women stu-
dents; and the entire group present joined with these
girls to sing the Alma Mater.

Then, everyone went outside to help put the
cornerstone in place.

The copper box which was placed in the corner-
stone had been crammed jammed full of interesting
documents which told of the development of women's
education at the College. Miss Skinner and a com-
mittee of co-eds had assembled the material.

Don Allan '41 made an interesting comment in his
brief talk at the exercises. Don said it was apparent,
of course, that the landscape around the new dormi-
tory would be later changed rather markedly from
the rough confusion of construction which was then
apparent. He said he believed, however, that one of
the most apparent changes would be a new and
well-worn path leading from fraternity row up to
this new dormitory for women.

'23 Melvin Borgeson is landscape architect with
U. S. Regional Office 1, Richmond, Va.

'28 Dutchie Barnard is newly-appointed lecturer
in English at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
He likes the job and the university.

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WITH THE ALUMMAE

By Mary E. Garvey '19
and Leonta Horrigan '36

Dorothy Masters '36 has a position as a home
service worker for the Western Massachusetts Elec-
tric Company in Greenfield, Mass.

Frances M'entworth '36 is now secretary to the
headmistress of Wykeham Rise School, Washington,
Conn.

Ruth E. Wood '37, now Mrs. Thomas Mayer, Jr.,
is making her home at 581 Pleasant Street, Holyoke.

Eleanor Fahey '38 is a secretary with the Dow
Chemical Company in New York.

Ann Gilbert '38 is now a clinic executive at the
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Mass.

Betty Slreeter '38 has a new position with the
Aetna Life Insurance Company at Hartford, Conn.

Eva Eluridtje '39 has a position in the Harvard
Law Library.

Bettina Hall '39 is instructor in biology at La-
Salle Junior College.

Louise Bowman '40 is attending Bryant and
Str.itton Business College.

Anne Corcoran '40 is teaching home economics
in the Barnstable, Mass., high school.

Ida Davis '10 is now assistant county 4-H club
agent in Essex County, with headquarters at the
Agricultural School, Hathorne, Mass.

Irma Malm '10 has a position in an insur-
ance office in Worcester, Mass.

Patricia Bobbins '10 is a social service
interne at the Foxboro State Hospital.

Kuth Parrish '29, who is with the Shell Oil Co.
in Palo Alto, Cal., recently wrote of a visit she had
with her classmate Stan Bailey. Ruth said, "I
called on Stan in Davis (Calif.) and met his wife
and little daughter. We talked about the College
and our college friends, and Stan got out the 1929
Index and we went down the list from Adams to
Zielinski. I had been to our tenth reunion but Stan
has kept in touch with more Alumni, so altogether
it was quite a gab fest. This was the first time I had
seen him since graduation, though both of us have
been in California since 1929."

Alma Boyden '37 is teacher of dance at Sweet
Briar College, Sweet Briar, Va.

Barbara Gordon Whitney '37 is visitor for the
West Springfield, Mass., board of public welfare.
Her husband, Joseph Whitney '35, has been ordered
to Fort Knox, Ky., for a year's extended duty in the
Armored Force School.

Caroline Rogers '37 is teaching in the Center
School, Medway, Mass.

Elinor Ball "38 is assistant dietitian at the Boston
State Hospital, Dorchester Centre, Mass.

I- i In I Seal '38 is assistant dietitian at St. John's
Riverside Hospital, Yonkers, N. Y.

On October 21 the Essex County (Mass.) Alumnae
met at the home of Mrs. Stanley Bennett (Ainiee
Geigcr) '24 in Danvers. A letter from Miss Skinner
was read, which told about the new women's dormi-
tory and about the progress of the Alumnae Loan
Fund. Games were played, and refreshments were
served. Present, in addition to the hostess, were
Mary Ingraham Jones '27, Alma Bevington '37,
Edna Sprague Harney '38, Betsy Olscn, Doris
Dyer, Mary Rogosa and Rita Buckley, all '39,
Margaret Firth, Virginia Little and Alberta
Johnson, ill ' 10.

Margaret Vannafa '10 is attending Bay
Path Business Institute in Springfield, Mass.

Cornelia Church '28 is a student at the
University of Wisconsin School of Library
Science. She is on leave of absence from the
Worcester, Mass., public library.

AN ORIENTAL MOTIF WAS USED AS THE CENTRAL THEME
FOR THE ANNUAL HORTICULTURAL SHOW. STAGED IN THE
PHYSICAL EDUCATION BUILDING ON NOVEMBER I 2 AND
3. MORE THAN 15 500 PEOPLE SAW THE SHOW WHICH. AS
USUAL. WAS EXCELLENT.

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ATHLETICS

Football

The Rhode Island game proved as interesting and
colorful a contest as any which has been played on
Alumni Field in the last two years.

The teams moved back and forth, up and down
the gridiron, without either being able to produce a
score — until just about a minute before the end of
the first half. Then big Joe Larkin '41, tackle, of
Watertown, dropped back out of the line and kicked
a beautiful 25-yard field goal from a difficult angle.
The half ended with the Statesmen out in front, 3-0.

Mattie Ryan '43 of Springfield, scrappy, cocky
quarterback, caught a Worcester Tech punt on the
Worcester 40-yard line in the game on October 26th
and ran for a touchdown. He got some good blocking
along the way. Benny Freitas bowled over the goal
line later in the game, carrying two of Tech's tacklers
with him for the second State touchdown.

The Amherst game was played on Pratt Field in a
downpour of rain and on a field which was literally
three and four inches deep with water in many places.

Outstanding in the game was the spirit shown by
the two clubs. Time after time an Amherst player
would help a Statesman up out of the mud and water,
and vice versa, following a scrimmage. But these
gestures were completely forgotten just as soon as
the two teams lined up again and each went at the
other hammer and tongs.

The scores to date: September 28, Springfield 13,
State 6; October 5, Connecticut (there) 13, State 0;
October 12, Norwich (there) 24, State 0; October 19,
Rhode Island 9, State 3; October 26, Worcester
Tech 6, State 12; November 2, Amherst (there) 14,
State 0; November 12, Coast Guard (there) 19,
State 6; November 16, Rensselaer (there) 25, State 0.

Soccer

Tough breaks kept a good soccer team from finish-
ing with a percentage of at least .500 in the New
England League for the first time since the game has
been a varsity sport at the College. The final figures
were .400.

For instance, Connecticut tied the Statesmen in
the last few minutes of the game at Storrs, as did
also Dartmouth on Alumni Field. Overtime periods
failed to break these ties. Coach Larry Briggs '27
felt that his front line of players was as capable and
smooth a unit as he has coached during the past ten
years. And Briggs was highly appreciative of the
leadership displayed by Frank Simons '41 of Stone-
ham, captain. Simons made a good captain, and he
had a mark to shoot at — following such crackerjack
leaders as Bud Rodda '39 and Vin Couper '38.

Seniors who will be graduated from the club in-
clude, besides Simons, Clem Burr of Easthampton,
Vernon Smith of North Brookfield, Sol Klaman of
Dorchester, and Woodrow Jacobson of Ivoryton,
Connecticut.

The season's scores:

Statesmen

Opp.

Sept. 28

Rensselaer, there

Oct. 5

Dartmouth, here

Connecticut, there

Harvard, there

Trinity, here

Nov. 1

Amherst, here

Fitchburg, here

ALUMNI MEET IN SPRINGFIELD

Forty- three Alumni came together for a most
enjoyable luncheon meeting at the Hotel Sheraton
in Springfield, Mass., on October 24.

Curry Hicks was guest of the group and gave an
interesting outline of the organization of the physical
education, student health, and athletic departments
at the College.

On the committee in charge of the event were
Lucy Kingston '36, Ken Ross '37, Charlie Hutchin-
son '35, Dallas L. Sharp, Jr. '27, Ralph Stedman '20,
Al Smith '22, Nancy Russell '34, Kathryn Spaight
Moore '38, Inza Boies Hilyard '23, Mary Boucher
'37, and Lucy Grunwaldt '30.

A most attractive printed program of the meeting
was provided by F. Kinsley Whittum '31, who
operates the up-and-coming John E. Stewart Print-
ing Company in Springfield.

Other reunions of Alumni have been taking place
throughout the country since early November; and
accounts of these gatherings will appear in
forthcoming issues of the Bulletin.

'17 Everett L. Upson is now Lieutenant Colonel
Upson and is stationed at headquarters, 2nd Corps
Area, Governor's Island, New York.

'18 Gyp Goodwin is supervising agricultural edu-
cation in Indian schools throughout the United
States. Gyp lives at 1726 16th St., N., in Arlington,
Virginia. He writes that A. C. Monahan '00 is
doing a fine job in co-ordinating Indian service
activities in Oklahoma, Kansas, Mississippi, and
Texas.

'22 Otto Degener of Mokuleia, Oahu, P. I.,
author of Flora Hawaiiensis, a manual classifying
plants not previously listed, was recently chosen as
botanist of the Archbold expedition, scheduled to
start from Fiji on October 29. Degener will collect
botanical specimens for the Arnold Arboretum, the
National Museum at Washington, D. C, and the
New York Botanical Garden, of which he is a fellow.
The expedition is to visit New Caledonia, Santa Cruz,
New Hebrides, Ellis, Gilbert, Ocean, Naru, and
Solomon islands.

'28 Rocky Smith, who is chemist with the
Hawaiian Sugar Planters Experiment Station in
Honolulu has been visiting the "mainland" on a
three months vacation.

'28 Warren Tufts is supervisor of farm debt
adjustment, U.S.D.A., Brockton, Mass.

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN

WITH i

BOSTON ALUMNI

By John McGuckian '31

Draper Hall, on campus, was the scene of a pleas-
ant gathering on October 26th when the Boston
Alumni Club sponsored an informal testimonial
dinner to Curry Hicks in
recognition of Curry's out-
standing service to the Col-
lege during the past thirty
years.

President Ducky Swan '27
of the Boston Club presided
and introduced Phil Whit-
more '15 as toastmaster.

Phil paid tribute to Curry's
fine leadership in physical
education and his stewardship
of athletics at the College,
and then introduced the
Alumni, faculty, and friends,
who. each, spoke briefly of
their happy associations with
Mr. Hicks. Among the
speakers were President Hugh
P. Baker, Al Smith '22, vice-
president of the Associate
Alumni, Professor Frank A.
Waugh, Professor Arthur K.
Harrison, Dean Machmer.
Pop Clark w'87. Director
Fred J. Sievers, Coach Eb
Caraway, and Professor
George VanBibber, director
of athletics at the University
of Connecticut.

Curry received a stack of
letters and telegrams from his friends and colleagues
throughout the country including word from his
classmate C. P. Steimle at the Michigan State
Normal College (where Steimle is now registrar .
and Lloyd Olds, track coach, and Elton Rynearson,
football coach at the Normal College, both of whom
were students of Curry's when Professor Hicks was
a member of the physical education department
there.

furry was presented with the football which had
been used in the game between Worcester Tech and
the Statesmen that afternoon which game the
men won ,12 and 6. The players all autographed
the ball; and Curry plans to place the souvenir in
the trophy room of the Physical Education Building.

It was a pleasant evening, a nice party.

A ROISTER DOISTER
PRESENTATION

Sutton Vane's
OUTWARD BOUND

Bowker Auditorium
:00 p.m., Saturday, December 14
Tickets at the door

CURRY HICKS

'25 Walter Whittum is
doing sales work in South
America, with headquarters
at present at Casilla 536,
Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Walter writes, "Learn about
South America. Have the
school children do so, too.
Then we'll have no South
American problem."

'27 Tiff Williams, super-
intendent of Mt. Greenwood
Cemetery in Chicago, recent-
ly visited friends and relatives
in New England. He re-
turned to Chicago in time to
vote and to attend the Chi-
cago Alumni meeting.

'31 Joe Gula is doing a
fine job as faculty director
of athletics at the Palmer,
Mass., high school. A recent
article in the Springfield
Union spoke highly of Joe's
activities in promoting the
athletic program at the
Palmer school.

'33 George Aldrich is
teaching math in the Whit-
man, Mass., high school.
'37 Anthony Ferrucci is with the Shell Oil Co.,
in Wood River, Illinois. He owns a sailboat on the
Mississippi; and he invites Alumni to join him in a
sail if and when they may be in Wood River.

'37 Al Gricius, lieutenant, 1st Armored Regiment,
Fort Knox, Kentucky, and in command of a tank
unit, recently wrote to name the State Alumni who
are on duty at the Fort. Gricius sent us these names:
Les Goodall '32, Chick Cutter '37, Norm Linden '38,
John Serex '40, George Tobey '40, Ken Hughes '40,
Gerald Dailey '40, John Wood '36, Art Avery '39,
Mill Mrown '35, Harold Miner '33, Red Lincoln '36,
Pop Carr '38, Sam Townsley '38, Vin Gilbert '34, and
Bob Morrison '38.

'37 Clif Symancyk is in the U. S. Engineer's
Office, Huntington, Mass.

Photo by Coffin

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN

'95 After 30 years of service to the Federal
Government, George A. Billings was retired on
August 1st from the Department of Agriculture where
he was an agricultural economist. He will continue
to reside, for the present, at 3100 South Dakota
Avenue, N. E., in Washington.

Library

State College

Yesterdays at Massachusetts State College

By PROFESSOR FRANK PRENTICE RAND

and published by the Associate Alumni

is still an ideal Christmas gift from or to an Alumnus of Mass. State.

A copy of this fine book will be mailed anywhere, postpaid, upon
receipt of $2.00 by the Alumni Office, Memorial Hall.

'34 Ed Harvey is instructor in the food industries
department at the Oregon State College, Corvallis.

'35 Robert Abbott is interne at the Cambridge,
Mass., City Hospital.

'35 Curtis Clark is a lawyer with Hoguet, Neary,
and Campbell, 90 Broad Street, New York City.

'35 Myron Davis is assistant professor in the
department of horticulture at the University of
Georgia, Athens, Ga.

'35 Al Hovey is a ranger with the U. S. Forest
Service and is now stationed at DuNoir, Wyo.

'35 Ted Leary has received his M.D. from George
Washington University and is now interne at Gal-
linger Hospital, Washington, D. C.

'35 Carrol Thayer is teaching mathematics in
Moorestown, N. J.

'35 Ben Wihry is doing graduate work in land-
scape at the College.

'36 Dan Balavich is correction officer at the
West Concord (Mass.) reformatory. Dan lives at
26 Harkaway Road, North Andover, Mass.

'36 Roderic Bliss is radio engineer in the Naval
Research Laboratory, Anacostia Station, Washing-
ton, D. C. He so continues in the work which started
with his founding of the Radio Club while an under-
graduate in College.

'36 John Flynn is sub-master in the Dover School,
Dover, Mass.

'36 John Franco is medical interne at St. Francis
Hospital, Hartford, Conn.

'36 David Johnson is assistant chemist in the
department of agricultural chemistry at Purdue
University where he is doing special vitamin research.

'36 Emil Koenig who graduated with honors
from Tufts Medical School last June is now interne
at the Rhode Island State Hospital in Providence.

'38 Robert Alcorn is civil engineer at Blackwater
Dam in Webster, N. H.

'38 Royal Allaire received his M.S. degree from
Notre Dame University last June, and is now in-
structor in physics at St. Bede College, Peru, 111.

'38 Philip B. Chase is a student at the Yale
Medical School, New Haven.

'38 Leon Cone is teacher of science and coach of
basketball and baseball at the Rutland (Mass.) High
School.

'38 Grant Edson is with the U. S. Engineer's
Office in Jacksonville, Florida.

'38 Ken Farrell is food technologist with the
Beech-nut Packing Co., Canajoharie, N. Y.

'38 Bob Lyons is in the operating department of
American Airlines, Buffalo Airport, Buffalo, N. Y.

'38 Bob Morrison is second lieutenant, U. S.
Armored Force, 1st Armored Regiment, Fort Knox,
Kentucky.

'38 Walter Whitney is teller in the Conway,
Mass., National Bank.

'38 Carl Wildner has been graduated from the
course of instruction in special aerial navigation and
meteorological training given by Pan American Air-
ways at Miami.

'39 Fred Estabrook is a student at the Thayer
School of Engineering, Hanover, N. H.

'39 David Goldberg is doing graduate work at
the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

'39 Louis Kertzman is dairy laboratory tech-
nician with the Vermont Dairy Co., Bradford, Vt.

'39 Tom Lyman is with the National Broadcast-
ing Company, Radio City, N. Y.

'39 Emery Moore is traveling and collecting
plants in Mexico. He expects to return to the
United States in January.

THE ANNUAL MILITARY BALL— Drill Hall—Friday, December 6th—
dancing 9 to 2 — Harold Scollin '41 of Quincy, chairman — Hal Mc-
Intyre's famous orchestra. Tickets may be had at the door, and are
$3.50 per couple. Alumni are cordially invited.

THE ALUMNI
BULLETIN

AT THE COLLEGE POND

MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

AMHERST, MASSACHUSETTS

/ol. XXIII, No. 4

January, 1941

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN
MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

George E. Emery '24, Editor
Published monthly at Amherst, Mass. (except August and
September) by the Associate Alumni of Massachusetts State College.
Entered as second class matter, March 17, 1920, at the Postofnce
at Amherst, Mass., under the Acts of March 3, 1879.

OFFICERS OF ASSOCIATE ALUMNI OF
MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

BOARD OF DIRECTORS
to 1941

Richard J. Davis '28 of Boston

Thomas P. Dooley '13 of West Roxbury

George W. Edman '21 of Pittsfield

Ralph F. Taber '16 of West Newton
to 1942
Erford W. Poole '96 of New Bedford

David P. Rossiter '37 of Maiden

Zoe Hickney White '32 of Worcester

Alfred E. Wilkins '15 of Wakefield
to 1943
Harry Dunlap Brown '14 of Billerica

William L. Doran '15 of Amherst

Mary E. M. Garvey '19 of Amherst

Lawrence L. Jones '26 of North Beverly
to 1944
Donald C. Dcuglass '21 of Belmont

Norman D. Hilyard '23 of Springfield

John W. McGuckian '31 of West Roxbury
Arthur D. Tilton 'IS of Woburn

The Alumni Bulletin is sent ten times each year to all members
of the Associate Alumni. Memberships are: Annual $3.00. Sustain-
ing $10.00.

^\}t Reason's (&xttihx#%

Cover picture — At the College Pond. Miss Edith
Vondell, daughter of Professor and Mrs. John Vondell,
has her skates adjusted by young Philip Hasbrouck,
grandson of the late Philip Bevier Hasbrouck, registrar
of the College from 1905 to 1923.

— Photo by John Vondell

ALUMNI ELECTED TO LEGISLATURE

Class of I940

George Barrus '03 of Lithia and William O. Taft
'06 of Sterling were elected, in November, to the
Massachusetts Legislature.

'03 Dr. Henry J. Franklin is the author of a
bulletin, recently published, on cranberry growing
in Massachusetts.

'06 S. S. Rogers, of the California State Depart-
ment of Agriculture, was a speaker in Boston re
cently at the 22nd annual convention of the
National Association of Marketing Officials.

'24 Art Pierce is superintendent of schools in
Eangor, Maine.

'15 Hastings Bartley is entomologist with the
U.S.D.A. at 144 Moody Street, Waltham, Mass.

'16 John Murphy has recently been appointed
assistant manager of sales, in the Baltimore district,
for the Bethlehem Steel Company.

Jerry Talbot is salesman for the Checkerboard
Feed Store in Manchester, Conn.

Warren Tappin is teaching and coaching in the
Groton, Mass., high school and also working for his
master of education degree at Boston University.
He lives at 906 Beacon Street, Boston.

Francis Win£ is teaching science in the Barre,
Mass., high school.

Lt. Al Irzyk is with the 3rd Cavalry at Fort
Myer, Va. Al had been at Fort Ethan Allen and at
the Cavalry School, Fort Riley, Kansas, before being
ordered to Virginia.

John Jakobek is doing graduate work at the
College.

George Cnrran is working for his M. A. in
American history at the University of Iowa, Iowa
City.

Frank Dalton is with the Boston and Maine
Railroad engineering department. His address is
241 High Street, Greenfield.

George G. Davenport, Jr. is a dairy farmer and
lives in Mendon, Mass.

John O'Neill is teaching in the evening division
of the Holyoke, Mass., high school.

John Osmun is working for an M.A. in biology at
Amherst College.

Ralph Palumbo is doing graduate work in plant
science at Cornell University. Ralph was pleased to
find Franklin Southwick '39 and Rita Anderson
Southwick '39 when he arrived in Ithaca. South-
wick is a graduate assistant in pomology at Cornell.

Ken Pike is doing nature education work for the
Massachusetts Audubon Society, 66 Newbury St.,
Boston.

George Pitts is second lieutenant with the Third
Cavalry, now stationed at Fort Myer.

Diek Pliehta is inspector for the War Department
and is working in Waterbury, Conn., with the
American Brass Company, Hartford Ordnance
District.

Charlie Powers is with the food department of
the A. R. Parker Company, East Bridgewater, Mass.
Charlie is living in Braintree.

John Powers has a fellowship with the department
of horticultural manufactures at the College.

Rf>bert Rodman is a student at the Massachusetts
School of Optometry.

James Anderson is a graduate assistant in
chemistry at the University of Connecticut, Storrs.

John W. Swenson is second lieutenant with the
Division Headquarters Company, U. S. Army,
Fort Knox, Kentucky.

Roy Taylor is inspector with the Greenfield,
Mass., Tap and Die Corporation.

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN

Directors of Associate Alumni Recommend University Name for the College

In October, 1937, the Alumni Directors heard the report of an Alumni Committee in which university
status for Massachusetts State College was recommended. The Directors have since given further thought to the
university matter and, on December 18, 1940, presented their recommendation to the College Trustees that
the name of the College be changed to that of University. Ralph Taber '16, chairman, represented the Alumni
Committee at this meeting. Previous to the meeting, the following letter was sent to all Trustees of the College.

November 27, 1940
To the Trustees of Massachusetts State College,

Gentlemen:

As you undoubtedly know, the organized alumni of the College have for some time
been considering the desirability of changing the status of the College to that of a State
University. These discussions came to a head at the last meeting of the Board of Directors
of the Associate Alumni, when it was unanimously voted to recommend to the Trustees of
the College that they take seasonable action to file a bill at the coming session of the
Legislature to make effectual such a change.

I am giving you briefly in the following letter some of the arguments which were given
weight by the Alumni Directors in the deliberations which preceded their vote:

1. During the past few years there have been several attempts by existing or pro-
posed organizations other than Massachusetts State College to appropriate the name
"University of Massachusetts" or "Massachusetts State University." This name should be
used to designate the senior, state-supported institution, qualified by the grade and charac-
ter of its instruction to use the name "University," and should not be available for use by others.

2. Massachusetts State College as it is constituted today is, in effect, a university, and
it should be known and conducted as such. Its divisions are, in fact, schools, and no radical
change in organization or increase in expense should result from a change in name.

3. The setting-off of various schools under a university type of operation should in-
crease the efficiency and guarantee the integrity of each. This should be particularly true
of the School of Agriculture. You may have heard complaints in recent years from the
older Alumni that the Department of Agriculture at the College seems to be losing its
identity and that instruction in this branch of science is apparently being neglected. Al-
though investigation will reveal the fact that such is not the case, it is difficult to show
convincing proof due to the merging of the activities of this department with those of others.
The establishment of a School of Agriculture within the State University would set off the
activities of this division and would bring them into focus for friendly or critical observation.

4. We believe that the Commonwealth has a duty to maintain a state university pro-
viding higher education in its several branches at low cost, especially for the benefit of the
sons and daughters of those of our citizens who cannot afford to pay the tuition rates de-
manded by other institutions. We would call to your attention the fact that the tuition
rates at engineering schools giving instruction of collegiate grade, such as Massachusetts
Institute of Technology and Worcester Polytechnic Institute, are very much in excess of
those at Massachusetts State College, and that many students are barred from continuing
their studies in this essential field for this reason.

5. The states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Connecticut have found that
to serve the educational needs of their citizens adequately, they must have State Univer-
sities. It is our opinion that the needs of Massachusetts are not greatly different from theirs,
and that we should follow their lead in this respect without further delay.

6. We are informed from authoritative sources that Massachusetts State College is
better equipped today to assume university status than were the Colleges of Maine, New
Hampshire, or Connecticut, when they became universities.

7. The change in name alone will add to the prestige of graduates and students. This
should not be denied them when we have, in fact, a University today.

It is our considered opinion that immediate action should be taken. Due to the fact
that we now have biennial sessions of the Legislature, lack of such action will mean a post-
ponement for at least two years. This we believe is unnecessary and undesirable.

We recommend, therefore, that the Trustees take whatever action is necessary to frame
and file with the coming session of the General Court a bill changing the name of Massa-
chusetts State College to Massachusetts State University.

A. C. Brett, President
Associate Alumni of Massachusetts State College

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THE ALUMNI BULLETIN

Alumni Sons and Daughters

First row (left to right) : Ruth Baker '43
of Hanson [Warren Baker '14); Cynthia
Leete '44 of Briarcliff Manor, N. Y.
i Richard Leete '14); Harriet Tarbell '42
of Brimfield ("Monroe Tarbell '14); Rosa-
lind Goodhue '43 of Ipswich ("Joseph B.
Lindsey '83, grandfather); Daphne Miller
'43 of Bayside, Long Island, N. Y.
iDanforth Miller '08 1; Ruth Barrus '41
of Lithia (George Barrus '03): Elizabeth
Cobb '42 and Mary Cobb '42 of Chicopee
Falls [twin daughters of Joseph Cobb '13);
Rita Moseley '42 of Agawam (Louis
Moseley '06 1 ; Marion Thomson '42 of
Monterey (Jared Thomson '09 1; Margaret
Marsh '42 of North Hatfield 'Herbert Marsh '15 ;
Marjorie Cushman '43 of Holyoke (Ralph Cushman
'87, grandfather!.

Second row (left to right
Northampton i Edward Gare
'43 of Sunderland (Theoren
Archibald '41 of Watertown

Luther Gare '43 of
'15); Edward Warner
Warner '08); Priscilla
Herbert Archibald '15);

Five students who were unable to be present for the large group
picture: (left to right) John Bennett '43 of Quincy (John Bennett
'15); Barbara Thayer '44 of Groton (Weston Thayer '18)
Jeannette Williams '42 of Springfield (Silas Williams '12)
Fletcher Prouty '41 of Springfield (L. Fletcher Prouty sp'll)
John Hutchings '43 of South Amherst ( Herbert Hutchings '13) .

mouth (Frank Webster '17); John Gardner '42 of
Pittsburgh, Pa. (John Gardner '05); Henry Martin
'43 of Amherst (Henry Martin '03); Allister Mac-
Dougall '42 of Concord (Allister MacDougall '13);
James Walker '41 of Pelham (Charles Walker '13);
Clement Burr '41 of Easthampton (Frederick Burr '12) .

Dorothy Grayson '42 of Amherst (Emory Grayson '17);
Margaret Everson '41 of North Amherst 'John
Everson '10); Marjolaine Keough '44 of Holyoke
■William Slattery '71, grandfather); Elizabeth Tilton
'44 of Woburn (Arthur Tilton '18); Norma Gibson
'43 of Greenfield 'Lester Gibson '12); Lois Chase '44
of West Yarmouth (Alexander Chase '15 1; Mary
Martin '44 of Amherst (Henry Martin '03); James
Dellea '43 of Great Harrington (John Dellea '02 1;
George Caldwell '44 of Littleton Harold Caldwell '16).

Third row (left to right ; William Serex '43 of
Amherst Paul Serex '13); Fred McLaughlin '43 of
Amherst Frederick McLaughlin '11); William Need-
ham '44 of Springfield 'Lester Needham '11 ; Paul
Turner '43 of East Bridgewater (Edward Turner '10);
Stewart Allen '44 of Manhasset, N. Y. (Francis Allen
'15 . James Dayton, Jr. '44 of Amherst (James
Dayton '13); Talcott Rdminster '42 of East Free-
town (Albert Edminster '13>; John Marsh '42 of
Danvers < Jasper Marsh '95); Charles Warner '44 of
Sunderland (Raymond Warner '11 ; Richard Smith
II of Bergenfield, N. J. (Dr. Clarence Smith '11);
Henry Ritter '44 of Hardwick 'Ernest Ritter '18).

Fourth Row (left In right-. Frederick Murr, Jr. '43
ol Easthampton Frederick Burr '12); George Mc-
Laughlin '12 of Amherst (Frederick McLaughlin '11);
C. Vernon Cole '44 of North Amherst Frederick Cole
'20 and Olive Carroll Cole '19); Klmer Warner '44 of
Sunderland 'Roger Warner '12); Donald Walker '44
of Pelham Charles Walker '13 ; John Gould '41 of
Hadley 'Charles Gould '16 ; Charles Courchene '43
of Springfield Alicide Courchene *16); Edwin Keough

tl of Holyoke 'William Slattery '71, grandfather :
Wilfred Hathaway '41 of Taunton Wilfred Hathawa

1') . Clinton Goodwin. Jr. 11 of Haverhill [Clinton
Gooilwin '16k Dobson Webster It of South Wey-

* Deceased

LANDSCAPE ALUMNI MEET

The fourth annual conference of Alumni in land-
scape architecture work was held on campus on
December 13 and 14. As is always the case, the
conference was interesting and pleasant from a social
standpoint as well as valuable professionally.

The keynote of the meetings was the activity of
the American Society of Landscape Architects in
national defense.

Speakers included Professor Arthur K. Harrison,
Professor Raymond H. Otto '26, Charles Bartlett
Cox '30, Leo Novick "26, Joe Cormier '26, Professor
Waugh. Stephen Hamblin '12, Professor L. L.
Klundell, Professor Arnold M. Davis '30, Edward
Packard '35, Thomas Desmond (landscape architect
of Simsbury, Conn., and "adopted" alumnus), Pro-
fessor Kugene Martini, and President Hugh P. Baker,
who extended greetings.

Those who registered were: Roger Alton '34, John
Aston- '32, Russell Barnes '27, Edgar Beaumont '38,
Arthur Bird '24G, Arthur V. Buckley '27, George
Chesley '27G. W. Thayer Chase '33G, Francis
Cormier '26, W. Palmer Day '30, Arnold Davis '30,
Daniel J. Foley '35, Al Forhush '38, Anthony Gagli-
arducci '30, Linus A. Gavin '26, Mark Gordon '40,
Stephen F. Hamblin '12. Steve Hamilton w'31,
Harold A. Haskins '21, Charles R. Herbert '34, Adin
Hixon '36, Franklin Hopkins '40, John Lawrence '31,
Milford Lawrence '17, Mrs. Bertha Lord '40G, Mrs.
Miriam Loud Wilbur '30, Carleton Macmackin '34,
George A. Mallei '13, Lester W. Needham '14, Fred
Nisbel '34, Leo Novick '26, Edward L. Packard '35,
Joseph Paul '39, William A. Scot! '35, Milton F.
Sherman '15, Benjamin I. Wiliry '35, Edward B.
Willard '39, Edmund G. Wilcox '30 and George A.
Varwood '26.

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN

OBITUARIES

ATHLETICS

William II. Craighead '06

William H. Craighead '06 died on November 17,
1940 in Bowling Green, Va., after an illness of seven
days, following a heart attack. He had been en-
gaged in agricultural teaching and county agent
work among the Negroes in the south ever since he
was graduated from the College. He is survived by
his widow and son.

In College Craighead played varsity football for
four years and in 1905 was captain. He was vice-
president of his class for two years and active in the
College Y.M.C.A.

Craighead was well liked by all his classmates and
his college contemporaries.

Edwin F. Gaskill '06

Frank Eugene Thurston '08

News of the death of Frank Eugene Thurston '08,
who died at Troy, N. Y., on July 17, 1940, has only
recently been received at the College.

Thurston, who was nicknamed Spud and Jake
when he was in College, was handicapped physically
by an injured leg; but this injury never limited him
in courage or spirit.

After being graduated he secured employment on
a Cuban sugar plantation and rose rapidly to an
important executive position with the Cuban-
Canadian Sugar Company at Oriente.

The depression of 1929 brought an end to many of
these big enterprises, and Frank returned to the
States to start anew. Of late years he had been
connected with the Farm Security Administration.
Thurston's native home was Worcester, Mass. His
fraternity was Phi Sigma Kappa.

Ronald H. Verbeck
Secretary, Class of 1908

MARRIAGES

'28 and '30 Ian O. Denton to Miss Priscilla G.
Wood, December 8, 1940, at West Bridgewater, Mass.

'35 Leonard W. Parker to Miss Eleanore Jessen,
November 29, 1940, at Manchester, Conn.

'37 John P. Brooks to Miss Eleanor E. Hemphill,
October 12, 1940, at Holliston, Mass.

'37 Miss Dorothy I. Brown to Wendell O.
Harding, December 21, 1940, at Feeding Hills, Mass.

'37 and '37 L. Everett Roberts to Miss Sarah C.
Wilcox, November 9, 1940, at Hudson, Mass.

'39 Edward L. Morin to Miss Dolores M. Arnade,
November 28, 1940, at Vineland, N. J.

'39 Miss Bernice Taylor to James R. Martin, Jr.,
July 14, 1940, at Belchertown, Mass.

'40 James W. Malcolm to Miss Esther Partridge,
November 28, 1940, at Holyoke, Mass.

'35 George Pease is chemist at the Springfield,
Mass., Armory.

Football

The final game on the 1940 schedule was played
with Tufts in Medford on November 23. Tufts won,
19-6, but not without expending considerable effort
to keep such energetic Statesmen as Matty Ryan
'43, Gil Santin '43, Benny Freitas '42, and others in
check.

Johnny Brady '42 of Greenfield, who distinguished
himself all season at center, was elected captain of
the team for 1941 at the conclusion of the season.

Eb Caraway resigned, as coach, early in December.

Cross Country

Coach L. L. Derby's cross country team won five
of six dual meets — five straight after losing the
opening race on October 12 to Northeastern.

In the Connecticut Valley meet on November 5,
the Statesmen came in third, after Connecticut and
Springfield; and ahead of Wesleyan, Coast Guard,
Amherst, and Trinity. This meet was scored, in
part, as a dual meet with Amherst. The score was
18-38 in favor of State. After the season had ended
the members of the team banded together and
bought gold track shoes (watch charms) which they
presented to Dick Hay ward of Taunton and Captain
Chet Putney of Orleans, Vt., the two seniors on the
club. This gesture was indicative, Coach Derby
thinks, of the fine spirit of unity and cooperation
which characterized the work of his runners all
season.

The season's scores (low score wins) :

Mass. State Opp.

Oct. 12 Northeastern, there 38 17

19 M.I.T., here 23 33

26 Worcester Tech, here 18 43

31 Springfield, there 26 29

Nov. 5 Conn. Valley Meet at

Middletown 3rd of 7

11 N. E. Intercollegiates at

Boston 8th of 14

15 Trinity, here 15 46

Basketball

The basketball club has played three games,
winning from Hamilton, and losing to Trinity and
to Clark. Clark is coached by Sergie Bernard '30.

'37 Ken Ross is now lieutenant, in the office of
the Hartford Ordnance District, which is in charge
of army procurement of all arms and munitions in
Massachusetts and Connecticut. Major Silas Wil-
liams '12 is in the Springfield office of the District.

'38 Albert Farnsworth is a teacher of science in
the agricultural department at the Worcester, Mass.,
North high school.

'38 Conrad Hemond has been given leave of
absence from his work as an engineer in Holyoke and
is at the Springfield, Mass., Armory as junior in-
spector of ordnance material for the War Department.

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WITH THE ALUM MAE

By Mary E. Garvey '19
and Leonta Horrigan '36

The following program for the Boston Alumnae
Club has recently been announced.

January 14, Tuesday at 7.45 p.m. Program meeting.
Movies of home economics department and recent
campus scenes in color. Hostess: Elsie N. Bike
'26. 752 Franklin Street, Melrose Highlands, Mass.

February 19, Wednesday at 7.45 p.m. Business
meeting. Hostess: Nicky Hovey Crowell '35,
president, 66 Elm Street, Belmont, Mass.

March 18, Tuesday at 7.45 p.m. Program meeting.
Better brush demonstration. Hostess: Patsy Mc-
Mahon '37, 128 Hemenway Street, Boston, Mass.

April 14, Monday at 7.45 p.m. Election of officers.
Hostess: Jessie Kinsman Gieringer '38, 29 Perrin
Street, West Roxbury, Mass.

May 21, Wednesday at 5.30 p.m. Picnic supper.
Hostess: Almeda Walker '27, 2036 Washington
Street, Braintree, Mass.

For further information regarding the meetings or
for transportation. Alumnae should write Nicky
CrowelJ, 66 Elm Street, Belmont.

Margaret McMahon *.'{.'$ is bacteriologist at
Parmelee pneumonia laboratory, Emergency Hospi-
tal. Washington, D. C.

ACADEMICS

l>r. (ir.-i<-«- Tiffany '34 has located her office at
34 DeLoss Street, Framingham, Mass.

Madelyn Ashley Belanick *:{.■> is keeping house
in Moodus. Conn.

Continued on Page 8)

BIRTHS

MO and '33 A daughter, .Judith Anne, to Mr. and
Mrs. Herman U. Goodell (Irene E. Armstrong1,
November 16, 1940, at Northampton, Mass.

'30 A daughter, Karen Mary, to Mr. and Mrs.
(J. Dean Swift, November 9, 1940. at Rochester, N.Y.

'31 A daughter, Mary Ellen, to Mr. and Mrs.
Alan W. Chadwick, December 6, 1940, at Baldwins-
ville, Mass.

'34 A daughter, Elizabeth Claire, to Mr. and
Mrs. George H. Bigelow, December 1, 1940, at
Falmouth, M

'34 A daughter, Nancy Margaret, to Mr. and
Mrs. Robert A. Purnell Ethel Blatchford), Decem-
ber I. 1940, at Northampton, Mass.

'35 and '36 A daughter, Carol Judith, to Mr. and
Mrs. Robert J. Allen lEvelyn Mallory), December
21, 1910, at Worcester, Mass.

'•. son, James Dickinson, to Mr. and
Mrs. James F. Culler Muriel E. fain . November
1940, at Fort Knox, Kentucky.

Roister Doisters

On December 14, the Roister Doisters presented
Sutton Vane's "Outward Bound" before an appreci-
ative audience in Bowker Auditorium.

The Collegian review of the play called both the
acting and the presentation "top notch."

Marion Nagelschmidt '42 of Pittsfield carried out
the "show must go on" tradition when she "escaped"
(as the Collegian expressed it) from the Infirmary
barely in time to play one of the leading parts in
the December 14th performance.

"Outward Bound" will be staged again on March
5 and May 3.

The Roister Doisters have an ambitious season
ahead of them. In addition to the two forthcoming
presentations of "Outward Bound," the dramatic
group is to present Eugene O'Neill's "Beyond the
Horizon" (O'NeiU's first Pulitzer prize) on February
11th.

On March 1st, under auspices of the Social Union,
they will present an original musical revue called
"Starch and Studs."

The revue is being written and directed by three
seniors: Pete Barreca of Pittsfield, Bob Breglio of
Chicopee, and Bob McCartney of Salem.

The Commencement play, on June 7th, will be
William Saroyan's "The Time of Your Life," which
last season was awarded the Critic's Circle plaque
and also the Pulitzer prize.

George Hoxie '41 of Northampton, is president of
the Roister Doisters. Sumner Kaplan '41 of Brook-
line is manager. Professor Frank Prentice Rand is
director.

Music

The musical groups have had a busy fall schedule.
There was an excellent band concert in Bowker on
December 16th and the band performed also al the
home football games and at the November 23rd
game with Tufts in Medford.

The combined musical clubs, directed by Doric
Alviani and Fred Meyers, gave a Christmas concert
in Bowker on December 19th. The entire student
body joined with the clubs to sing Christmas carols.

On December 15th the choir, augmented by mem-
bers of the student body, and a brass quartet, broad-
cast Christmas carols from campus. The microphone
was set up on the lawn (covered with snow) between
the Old Chapel and Memorial Hall. This broadcast
was brought to a close with music played on the
college chime.

'17 Warren Whitcomb is the author of a recent
bulletin on the control of mealybugs in greenhouses.

'26 James Bower, Jr. was recently named princi-
pal of the Lawrence junior high school in Holyoke,
Mass.

'34 Dr. Milton Kibbe is now associated in neuro-
psychiatry and neuro-surgery with Dr. Thomas Fitch
at 916 Park Avenue, Plainfield, N. J.

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'19 Cy Tirrell, who is professor of animal hus-
bandry and head of the department at the Univer-
sity of New Hampshire, is now at the College on a
visiting instructorship for the current year.

brary

State College

~l€i/fl_ | 4 '*B likllfll "■ I* The College Store has prepared a most attractive

1941 calendar consisting of twelve separate sheets
on each of which appears (in addition to the calendar for a particular month) a pen and
ink sketch by Professor Frank A. Waugh.

The sketches are expertly done, and two or three of them are of scenes familiar to
Alumni. Mostly, the pictures are of trees.

An introductory page to the calendar contains a portrait sketch of Dr. Waugh done
by James Robertson of the landscape department and a brief outline of Professor Waugh's
work at the College. The outline concludes with this statement about Mr. Waugh's most
recent artistic work. "His particular interest of recent years has been the graphic arts,
especially line drawings in various media including etching. Complete knowledge of the
form and significant characteristic of trees, his favorite subject, has made these studies
particularly outstanding."

The calendar will be mailed postpaid, for 50 cents, by the College Store, North
College. Orders also will be accepted through the Alumni Office, Memorial Hall.

ALUMNAE NOTES

Dorothy Bartlett '35 is junior bacteriologist at
the Westfield, Mass., State Sanatorium.

Gracie Goulart '35 is now Mrs. Willis L. Nopper
and living at Springton Manor, Springton and
Garrett Roads, Upper Darby, Pa.

Irene Govoni '35 has a position as laboratory
technician in New London, Conn.

Alma Merry '35 is teaching second grade at the
Country Day School in Greenwich, Conn.

Violet Koskela '35 is head dietitian at the Boston,
Mass., State Hospital. She recently completed a
5000 mile trip during which she flew for 1000 miles.
She likes flying.

Elsie Niekerson Bike '26, Zoe Hickney White
'32, and Evelyn Davis Kennedy '28 have been
appointed a special alumnae committee to work with
the Trustees of the College and the Women's Ad-
visory Council in an effort to secure a home economics
building for the College. The Alumni Directors con-
sider the project for this building to be one which is
most worthwhile, and give it their enthusiastic
support.

WINTER ATHLETIC SCHEDULES

BASKETBALL

TRACK

SWIMMING

Dec. 10

Trinity there 8:30

Jan. 25 K. of C. Meet, Boston,

Dec. 19

W.P.I, there 8:00

Hamilton there 8:00

8:00

Jan. 11

Williams here 3:00

Clark here 8:00

Feb. 8 B.A.A. Meet, Boston,

Conn. Univ. there 8:00

Jan. 8

Springfield there 8:15

8:00

Feb. 8

Wesleyan here 3:00

Amherst here 8:00

15 Conn. Univ. here 7:30

Coast Guard here 3:00

Williams there

21 Springfield and Wor-

Mar. 1

Union here 3:00

Wesleyan here 8:00

cester Tech, here,

Boston U. and M.I.T.

Feb. 5

Rhode Island there 8:00

7:30

at Cambridge 8:00

Middlebury there 8:00

28 Northeastern U., here,

Bowdoin there 3:00

Tufts there 8:00

7:30

14-15

N.E.I.S.A. Meet at

Conn. Univ. here 8:00

Mar. 1 Worcester Tech and

M.I.T. 2:00 and 8:00;

Boston Univ. there 8:00

Tufts, Medford, 2:00

2:00

Coast Guard here 8:00

Co-Captains

Mar. 1

W.P.I, there 8:15

Capt., J. Edward O'Connor '41

Robert E. Hall '41

Captain, William T. Walsh '41

Mgr., H. Westcott Shaw '42

Howard J. McCallum '41

Mgr.,

Ronald M. Streeter '41

Coach, Llewellyn L. Derby

Mgr.,

Allan R. Bardwell '41

Coach, Louis J. Bush '34

Coach,

Joseph R. Rogers, Jr.

THE ALUMNI
BULLETIN

MOUNT TOBY

MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

AMHERST, MASSACHUSETTS

VoL XXIII, No. 5

February, 1941

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN
MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

George E. Emery '24, Editor
Published monthly at Amherst, Mass. (except August and
September) by the Associate Alumni of Massachusetts State College.
Entered as second class matter, March 17, 1920, at the Postoffice
at Amherst, Mass., under the Acts of March 3, 1879.

OFFICERS OF ASSOCIATE ALUMNI OF
MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

BOARD OF DIRECTORS
to 1941

Richard J. Davis '28 of Boston

Thomas P. Dooley '13 of West Roxbury

George W. Edman '21 of Pittsfield

Ralph F. Taber '16 of West Newton
to 1942
Erford W. Poole '96 of New Bedford

David P, Rossiter '37 of Maiden

Zoe Hickney White '32 of Worcester

Alfred E. Wilkins '15 of Wakefield
to 1943
Harry Dunlap Brown '14 of Billerica

William L. Doran '15 of Amherst

Mary E. M. Garvey '19 of Amherst

Lawrence L. Jones '26 of North Beverly
to 1944
Donald C. Dcuglass '21 of Belmont

Norman D. Hilyard '23 of Springfield

John W. McGuckian '31 of West Roxbury
Arthur D. Tilton '18 of Woburn

The Alumni Bulletin is sent ten times each year to all members
of the Associate Alumni. Memberships are: Annual $3.00. Sustain-
ing S10.00.

Cover Picture — Mt. Toby. A view of the eastern
slope of the mountain on which is located the college
demonstration forest. On the southern slope of Toby the
students hold their carnival downhill ski races. Winter
Carnival is scheduled for February 14 and 15.

— Photo by Grant B. Snyder

'00 Dr. Austin W. Morrill of Glendale, Cal.,
operates the California Biological Service. He re-
cently represented Massachusetts State at dedicatory
exercises at Hancock Hall, the new research unit at
the University of California.

'08 Professor Arthur J. Farley of Rutgers is
secretary of the New Jersey State Horticultural
Society.

'16 Dutch Schlotterbeck has written to tell us of
an enjoyable 1916 reunion when Duke Curran of
Chicago spent the recent holidays in Massachusetts.
Curran, Gioiosa, Walker, Hager, Andersen, and
Schlotterbeck, all of '16, and Bud Ross '17 met and
swapped reminiscences.

C. W. Moses '16 came to Boston to take charge of
an exhibit of his American Electric Incubator Com-
pany at the poultry show and met with Andrews,
Gioiosa, Taber, Walker, Perry, and Schlotterbeck at
various times.

Publication of this month's Bulletin was held up for
a few days so that a statement might appear, herein, of
the action of the College Trustees with regard to Uni-
versity of Massachusetts. See page 3.

Class of I940

Art Copson is doing claims work, investigation
and adjustment, for the American Mutual Liability
Insurance Company, 1015 Elm St., Manchester, N.H.

Charlie McLaughlin is a graduate student at
the College

Robert Chapman is assistant physicist, doing
research work for the American Cyanamid Corpora-
tion, Bound Brook, N. J.

Isadore Cohen is a dental student at Harvard
Dental School.

Sidney Abrahams is doing graduate work in
bacteriology at the College.

Howard Hoxie is graduate assistant in chemistry
at Tufts College.

George Flanagan is a psychiatric aide at the
Hartford, Conn., Retreat.

LIrban Fleming is chemist for the City of Holyoke,
Mass., Gas and Electric Department.

David Sawyer is a graduate student at Springfield,
Mass., College and is also doing field work in group
administration.

Norman Schoonmaker is teaching in the Orange,
Mass., High School.

Everett Shapiro is a student at Harvard Dental
School.

Donald Shaw is doing graduate work in the
School of Arts and Sciences at Harvard.

Bob Sheldon is assistant chemist for the Spring-
field Aluminum and Bronze Company.

Don Shepardson is doing experimental work in
a tool factory in Athol.

Bill Shepardson is a graduate assistant in the
chemistry department at the College.

Willard Foster is a second lieutenant in the
Cavalry Reserve and is stationed with a machine gun
troop, 3rd Cavalry, Fort Myer, Va. Bill thinks it's
the "best life in the world" — according to a note we
just had from him.

Charles Gleason is a trainee with Wellington
Sears and Company, 65 Worth Street, New York
City.

Dick Glendon is doing graduate work in history
at Harvard.

Burton Gregg is an apprentice teacher of voca-
tional agriculture at the Essex County Agricultural
School in Hathorne.

Myron Hager is teaching and coaching at Sander-
son Academy in Ashfield, Mass.

Malcolm Harding is in the testing bureau of the
Great Northern Paper Company, Millinocket, Maine.

Ralph Hill is with Lamont-Corliss and Company,
60 Hudson Street, New York City.

Franklin Hopkins is doing landscape work in
Bristol, Conn.

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Alumni File Bill Asking "University of Massachusetts'1 Name

Trustees Endorse Alumni Action

An Act Changing the name of the Massachusetts
State College to University of Massachusetts, and such
further legislation relative thereto as the general court
may deem expedient and proper.

Section 1. The name of Massachusetts State College,
located at Amherst, Massachusetts, is hereby changed
to University of Massachusetts.

Section 2. When used in any statute, ordinance, by-
law, rule or regulation, the phrase "Massachusetts
State College" or any words connoting the same, shall
mean the University of Alassachusetts, unless a con-
trary intent clearly appears.

This bill (H956) above was filed early in January
with the Massachusetts Legislature by Representative
W. A. Brown of Abington in behalf of the Associate
Alumni. Alumni whose signatures appeared as pe-
titioners were Ralph F. Taber '16. William V. Hayden
'13, Joseph H. Forest '28, and Alden C. Brett 12.

The alumni committee appointed by order of the
Directors of the Associate Alumni to draw up and
introduce the bill, consists of Ralph F. Taber '16,
chairman, Joseph H. Forest '28, Dennis M. Crowley
'29. John W. McGuckian '31, Allister F. Mac-
Dougall '13, Erford W. Poole '96, and Alden C.
Brett '12. ex-officio.

In December. 1940, Chairman Taber appeared
before a meeting of the College Trustee Board, pre-
sented the Associate Alumni reasons for wishing to
change the name of the College to University of
Massachusetts, and bespoke the support and co-
operation of the Trustees.

A Trustee committee, then appointed, and com-
posed of Dr. Clifford C. Hubbard, Mrs. Elizabeth
McNamara, and Philip F. Whit more '15, was dele-
gated to study, in detail, the matter ol the present
desirability of the change.

This committee reported back to the lull Board of
Trustees on January 23id. After hearing its com-
mittee, the Trustees voted to endorse the alumni bill
providing for the change of name of the College to
"University of Massachusetts."

The alumni petition is a simple one. It seeks
merely thai the present organization of educational

facilities at the College, now on a par with work in
other well-known land grant universities, be recog-
nized in Massachusetts as similar facilities li i e In en
recognized in other states, and, therefore. 1 li.it the
College be named the University of Massachusi II

The proposition on which the Associate Alumni has
based its recommendation and subsequent action is
as foil'

1. The name, University of Massachusetts
should be used to designate the senior, state
supported institution of higher learning, qualified

by the grade and character of its instruction to
assume the name University.

2. Massachusetts State College, as it is con-
stituted today, is in effect a university. It should
be known, by name, as such. The 250 young
men and women who are graduated each year
from Massachusetts State have earned the right
to the prestige which a degree from the Univer-
sity of Massachusetts would carry.

Massachusetts State College has a graduate school
and an undergraduate school. The undergraduate
school is divided into five separate divisions of in-
struction which grant the degrees of Bachelor of
Science, Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Landscape
.Architecture and Bachelor of Vocational Agriculture.
Degrees of Master of Science and Doctor of Philoso-
phy are awarded by the graduate school.

The undergraduate divisions are, in fact, schools —
such as those which are a part of any university.
They include agriculture and horticulture, physical
and biological sciences, horns economics, liberal arts,
and physical education. No radical change in the
organization of these undergraduate divisions, or
schools, need result from a change in name of the
College to University of Massachusetts.

A careful study of the situation has shown that,
over a period of years, the Trustees of the College
have found it wise and expedient to set up the edu-
cational facilities of the College into this group of
separate and distinct divisions of instruction which
correspond virtually to the schools or colleges of a
university. This arrangement of scholastic work was
made without any conscious attempt on the part of
the Trustees to build a university; it cams naturally
as a result of the Trustees' wish to meet, most effec-
tively and efficiently, the educational needs of the
youth of the State as these needs developed and be-
came apparent.

By law. the College Trustees have ample authority
to operate the College as they see fit and proper —to
organize the scholastic work, for example, into dis-
tinct divisions. They apparently have authority to
operate the College as a university, but not author-
ity to bestow I he name.

Massachusetts is one of only three states in the
Union without a state-supported university. Each
of the territories of Alaska, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, the
Phillipines, lias its university controlled and sup-
ported by the Territorial Government.

University status is. very apparently, the natural
and logical destiny of the land grant college. For
example, in Maine, New Hampshire and Connecticut,
it has been deemed wise to re-name the three state
colleges as the I Universities of those respective states.
(Continued on Page 5)

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OBITUARIES

F. A. Johnston '08

Frederick Andrew Johnston '08, a native of West-
ford, Mass., and connected with the Foreign Plant
Quarantine, U.S.D.A., since 1926, died suddenly in
Mayaguez, Puerto Rico on January 22, 1941. In
College he was a member of the class football and
baseball teams and played varsity guard on the 1906
football team. This team, and he, are remembered
by the unusual schedule against Holy Cross, Brown,
Harvard and Dartmouth on successive Saturdays.
Johnston was a member of the first Massachusetts
team ever to play against Harvard in the stadium.

He was a biology major and following graduation
became the author of a number of bulletins on
entomology. His fraternity was Alpha Sigma Phi.

He is survived by his widow and a son and a
daughter.

Fred is remembered by all as a jolly friend and
classmate.

Roland H. Verbeck
Secretary, Class of 1908

Ralph II. Armstrong w'll

Ralph H. Armstrong w'll died at his home in
Holyoke, Mass., on January 10. He was 51 years old.

After attending the College he studied at Biltmore
Forestry School, continued his study for a year in
Europe.

He served with the army in 1916 on the Mexican
border and in 1918 in Europe. After the war he
entered the insurance business. He was engaged in
this work in Holyoke from 1921 until the time of
his death.

Edward Forster Ingraham '25

The first break in the ranks of the class of 1925
occurred on December 23, 1940, with the accidental
death of Edward Forster Ingraham in Millis.

We, who knew Ingraham as Eddie and who were
privileged to spend four years on campus with him,
admired him for his rugged honesty, his quiet humor;
we never ceased to marvel at his great physical
strength. As a member of the college senate in his
senior year, Ed carried on his work with dignity,
with credit to his class, the college, and himself.

Born in Millis in 1902, he returned there after
graduation to operate his own farm. In 1926 he
married Marion Slack, a classmate, who survives him.
They had two sons and a daughter. Ed took an
active part in the civic affairs in Millis and was held
in high esteem in the community. He was a member
of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity.

We, his classmates, pledge to keep his high ideals
and character a goal toward which we strive.

Lewis H. Keith '25

Michael Fenton

Michael Fenton, former janitor of French and
Wilder Halls, and the friend of hundreds of Alumni,
died at his home in Amherst on January 4th. He was
76 years old.

Mike was retired in 1935 after 43 years of service
to the College. At the time of his retirement, Presi-
dent Baker said, "For the College, its Trustees,
faculty and students, I am happy to pay tribute to
Michael Fenton. Mike has made a very definite
place for himself in the life of the College and will be
remembered for many years by the generations of
students who have daily seen him at his work." Mr.
Fenton is survived by his widow, by two sons, John,
who is a member of the class of 1924, and James,
now living in Springfield.

Mrs. John E. Tuttle

Mrs. John E. Tuttle died at her home in Oxford,
Mass., on December 5th. She was the daughter of
the late Levi Stockbridge, president of Massachusetts
State College in 1876, 1880, and 1881.

Dr. Ralph E. Smith '94 has written in appreciation
of William Craighead '06, notice of whose recent
death appeared in the last Bulletin. Smith said, "I
knew Craighead well as a student during his college
days. He played varsity football for four years and
in 1905 was captain. This was unusual for a southern
Negro in a small college attended almost exclusively
by whites. In this extraordinary position of promin-
ence for himself and his race Craighead was modest,
unassuming, self-respecting, and dignified. In all his
four years in College and in the difficult position of
football captain never did he, so far as I know, by
word or action give anyone reason to feel toward
him anything but genuine respect and friendship. I
just want to leave upon the record that Bill Craighead
was a man of whom his race (or any other race)
might well be proud."

MARRIAGES

'35 Edward Packard to Miss Dorothy Seddon,
January 18, 1941, at Holyoke, Mass.

'36 and '35 Royal Tanner to Miss Ruth A.
Markley, October 31, 1940, at Greenfield, Mass.

'37 Leroy Blackmer to Miss Helen Abbott,
September 7, 1940, at Portland, Maine.

'37 Leo V. Crowley to Miss Mary Griffin, De-
cember 28, 1940, at Springfield, Mass.

'38 Miss Kathryn Hill to Walter H. Walkup,
January 18, 1941, at West Springfield, Mass.

BIRTHS

'27 A daughter, Carolyn Ruth, to Mr. and Mrs.
Earl F. Williams, December 8, 1940, at Chicago, 111.

'29 and '32 A daughter, Susan Wynne, to Mr.
and Mrs. Laurence Carruth (Wynne Caird), Decem-
ber 22, 1940, at Geneva, N. Y.

'31 A son, Edmund Locke, Jr. to Mr. and Mrs.
Edmund L. Frost, March 4, 1940, at Arlington, Mass.

'34 and '34 A son, David Barrett, to Mr. and
Mrs. Alvan S. Ryan (Pauline Hillberg), January 10,
1941, at Iowa City, Iowa.

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN

WITH THE ALUMNAE

by Maiy E. Garvey '19
and Leonta Horrigan '36

An energetic committee of Alumnae is currently
working in behalf of bill S326 now before the Legis-
lature which asks for an appropriation for a home
economics building on campus. On the committee
are Evelyn Davis Kennedy '26, Zoe Hickney
White '32, and Elsie Nickerson Bike '26.

Justina Crosby '39 has been appointed home
management supervisor in the Amherst office of the
Farm Security Administration, U.S. DA.

Marjorie Damon '39 is teaching English in the
Williamsburg, Mass., High School.

Louisa Towne *3S is teaching home economics in
the Danbury, Conn., High School.

Phyllis Gleason *37 is nutritionist at the Judson
Health Center, 237 Thompson St., New York City.

Lillian Mann '3S is dietitian at the Mount Sinai
Hospital, Philadelphia.

Clare Bosworth *36 who was graduated last June
from the Boston City Hospital, is surgical supervisor
in the Maine General Hospital in Portland.

Olive Norwood 39 is instructor and sales girl for
the Singer Sewing Machine Company in West Hart-
ford. Conn. She lives at 38 South Quaker Lane in
West Hartford

Aliuecl.i Walker '27 is dean of girls and teacher
of biology .it the Bridgewater, Mass.. High School.

Sally Bradley Lusk '31 is back in the United
States having spent some time in India. She is
teaching in the high sehool at Norwalk, California.
and lives at 522 North Bright Ave., Whittier, Cal.

Elinor Stone I'ullertoii '37 is secretary to the
head of the bond department of Loomis-Sayles and
Company, 140 Federal Street. Huston.

Phyllis MacDonnld '39 is assistant county club
agent in the Worcester County (Mass. Kxtension
ice.

Bather Bloom '38 is nutritionist with the Chicago

Relief Association, 6455 State Street, Chicago, III.

Elizabeth Howe Dewey MO is doing clerical and
in work for Fraser, florist, in Wellesley, Mass.

Priseilla Oertel '10 has a position in the South
Hanson, Mass., post office.

ALUMNI ASK FOR "UNIVERSITY
OF MASSACHUSETTS"

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Massachusetts State College is the oldest of the
land grant colleges in the country.

Its standards are of the highest. (Massachusetts
State is the only New England land grant college
which is a member of the New England College
Entrance Certificate Board.)

The time has come to recognize, through the proper
name, the position which Massachusetts State
College has assumed in the educational program of
the Commonwealth and the Nation.

The Springfield Union, commenting editorially on
the alumni bill to change the name of the College,
said:

"Massachusetts State is a public institution
and one that appears to have attained the right
to honorable designation as a public university,
the final goal of steady and healthy growth. It
is no mushroom springing from artificial soil. . . .
By diversified courses it has earned the title of
university and might as well have it, if it wants
it."

ALUMNI ATTEND
UNION AGRICULTURAL MEETINGS

Marjorie Smith '10 is attending civil service
business and commercial sehool in Springfield. Mass.

Some 150 Alumni were present at the 23rd Annual
Union Agricultural Meetings, sponsored by the
Massachusetts Department of Agriculture and State
Agricultural Organizations, in Worcester, on January
8, 9 and 10.

On the committees in general charge of the meet-
ings were Earle S. Carpenter '24, secretary, William
R. Cole '02, Julius Kroeck '22, Andrew Love '25,
Joseph H. Putnam '94, Arthur Howard '18, and
Paul W. Dempsey '17.

Alumni who appeared in the several programs were
Dr. Maurice A. Blake '04, Warren Whitcomb '17,
W. R. Cole '02, Sumner Parker '04, Herbert Jenkins
'34, Herbert Brown '13, Charles Harris '30, Dr.
Frank Shaw '31, Julius Kroeck '22, and Loring V.
TirreL '19.

A room was set aside in the Worcester Munici-
pal Auditorium, where the meetings were held, as
alumni headquarters. And the room proved highly
popular.

President Hugh P. Baker visited there with
Alumni, as did also Trustee Clifford C. Hubbard.

A committee of Worcester Alumnae served refresh-
ments, cakes and cookies and eighty cups of coffee,
to Alumni and their friends. On the alumnae com-
mittee were Margaret Ohlwiler Vaughan '32, Zoe
Hickney White '32, Marjorie Monk Burbank '31,
and Mabelle Field Ricker '31.

'35 Dr. Bernard Doyle has opened an office for
the general practice of medicine at 59 Union Street,
Easthampton.

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ATHLETICS

Basketball

The first semester basketball games have been
played — seven of them — and the Statesmen have won
from Amherst, Williams, and Hamilton, lost to
Trinity, Clark, Springfield, and Wesleyan.

Coach Louis Bush '34 has a group of energetic
sophomores working for him and these lads have
been of no inconsiderable help in bolstering the ranks
of the veteran players.

The student body likes this basketball club, and
so do others who have been watching. The rafters
in the physical education building cage literally ring
with the highly vocal support which the team receives.

Incidentally, no one could have remained quiet at
the Amherst game, anyway — which the Statesmen
won from their local rivals during the last five
seconds of play.

Coach Bush is a second lieutenant in the U. S.
Army Reserves; and as we go to press Louie is in
receipt of orders to report for active duty on Febru-
ary 11th. It is hoped that the defense authorities
may allow him to continue on campus until the con-
clusion of the basketball season.

Scores to date: Statesmen Opp-

Dec. 10 Trinity, there 53 54

14 Hamilton, there 41 34
19 Clark, here 42 61

Jan. 8 Springfield, there 37 44

11 Amherst, here 37 36

15 Williams, there 48 34

18 Wesleyan, here 41 45
Remaining games:

Feb. 5 Rhode Island, there
8 Middlebury, there

14 Tufts, there

19 Connecticut University, here
21 Boston University, there

28 Coast Guard, here
Mar. 1 Worcester Tech, there

Swimming

Joe Rogers' swimmers have taken part in two
meets — winning from Worcester Tech, 55-20 in
Worcester on December 19th and losing to Williams,
here, 25-50 on January 11th. Connecticut University
cancelled the meet originally scheduled for Storrs
on January 14th — flu.

Remaining meets:
Feb. 8 Wesleyan, here

15 Coast Guard, here
Mar. 1 Union, here

7 Boston Univ. & M.I.T., Cambridge

8 Bowdoin, there

14-15 N.E.I.S.A. Meet at M.I.T.

Track

The relay team was declared the loser, on a foul,
in a heart-breaking race with Worcester Tech at the
K. of C. Meet in Boston on January 25th.

The Statesmen had been acclaimed the winners,
had been congratulated by the committee, and had

been presented with medals in token of their having
won the race when, lo and behold, over the loud
speaker came the announcement that a foul had been
committed and Massachusetts State had lost.
Remaining meets:

Feb. 8
15
21
26

Mar. 1

B.A.A. Meet, there
Connecticut University, here
Springfield and Worcester Tech, here
Northeastern University, here
Worcester Tech and Tufts, Medford

Football

Walter Hargesheimer, a graduate of the University
of Minnesota, will be head coach of varsity football
at Massachusetts State beginning next fall.

Hargesheimer is 28 years old; he holds a bachelor
of science and master of education degree from
Minnesota, and has been coaching ever since gradu-
ation— at Laverne, Minn., High School, at Oberlin
College (where for three years he coached the back-
field), and at Highland Park High School near
Chicago, Illinois, where he is at present. Harge-
sheimer visited the campus on January 24 and 25,
when he received his new appointment.

He will return for three weeks, in April, to conduct
spring practice sessions which, from all report, will
be of a rugged nature.

Johnny Janusas, Boston College graduate and
football star who was assistant coach last fall, will
be Hargesheimer's assistant.

Hargesheimer played on Bernie Bierman's famous
unbeaten Minnesota team in 1933 — when he was a
senior. He had been a regular backfield man during
the previous season. His position was that of block-
ing back, and his job was to clear the way for the
celebrated Pug Lund and the other superb Minnesota
ball carriers.

Line coach at Amherst College is Milt Bruhn,
who played guard on the unbeaten Minnesota team
in 1933, and Bruhn took his friend Hargesheimer
down to Springfield, while Walter was in town, to
meet Springfield sports reporters. According to the
Springfield Republican, next day, Hargesheimer
would appear to have what it takes.

'94 Joe Putnam was honored at a meeting at
Mount Hermon School at Northfield, Mass., on
January 2nd when Franklin County farmers gave a
testimonial dinner in celebration of his 25 years
service as a county agent.

Joe holds the rank of the longest service of all
county agents in New England; and those with whom
he has come in contact feel full appreciation for his
energetic, effective work.

Before coming to Greenfield in 1916 he had ex-
tensive farm experience in Connecticut, New Jersey,
and Long Island. He is recognized as an authority
on the cultivated blueberry and has done a great
deal of work in developing this fruit.

'13 Kid Gore was recently presented with a silver
beaver award, the highest honor to be presented by
the Boy Scouts of America, at the annual dinner
meeting of the Hampshire-Franklin Council, B.S.A.

;

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WITH 4j

BOSTON ALUMNI

ACADEMICS

Bv John McGuckian '31

Dennis Crowley '29 acted as chairman, on
January 15, at one of the most interesting and best-
attended Boston Alumni meetings which has been
held during the past few years. The topic of dis-
cussion was the change of name of the College to
the University of Massachusetts; and Ralph Taber
'16, chairman of the Alumni University Committee,
gave an excellent presentation of the subject.

Eleanor l$at email '23 showed a reel of moving
pictures which illustrated the handicap under which
home economics work is carried out on campus be-
cause of the lack of a central building devoted to this
subject, and told about alumni interest in the bill
now before the Legislature providing for a home
economics building.

ALUMNI MEETINGS

Following are accounts of some of the meetings of
Alumni which have been held throughout the country,
beginning last fall.

On October 31st, Professor Frank Prentice Rand
and Done Alviani, instructor in music, met with
nearly one hundred Alumni at a dinner party of the
New York City Alumni Club at the Hotel Victoria
in New York.

Professor Rand, who is general manager of Aca-
demic Activities, gave an interesting account of I In-
history of musical activity on campus and then
introduced Alviani, teacher of music and coach of
the glee clubs and orchestra. Doric sang and led
the group in singing.

In writing about the meeting, secretary Bus Le-
Clair '34 said, "Mr. Rand gave a splendid account
of musical activity and of Alviani's present con-
nection with it. Then Alviani went ahead and did
even more than Professor Rand had told us we could
expect he certainly can sing and get other people
to -ing with him."

Trustee Nathaniel Rowditch was guest of honor at
the meeting of Middlesex County Alumni Club in
Littleton. Mass., on Saturday, November 16th. Mr.
Bowditch was presented to tin- group by David
Hun rick '17. former president of the Associate
Alumni and former Tru-i.-e. Mr. Bowditch gave a
finr talk and discussed with Alumni the change of
name ol the College to University of Massachusetts.

After the supper, George Bricksotl '19, directed
game- and |;,., I Knierv '21 told, in outline, about
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Pinafore

The combined musical groups under the direction
of Doric Alviani will present Gilbert and Sullivan's
"H.M.S. Pinafore" in Stockbridge Hall on March 27,
28 and 29. Performances will start at 8:15 p.m.

The production will have a cast of about fifty
and an orchestra of fifteen. There will be original
scenery and costumes. The cast is as follows:
Lord Admiral, Sir Joseph Porter

William Clark '43 of Lawrence
Captain Corcoran

Kenneth Collard '43 of Belchertown
Ralph Rackstraw John Gould '41 of Hadley

Dick Deadeye Robert McCartney '41 of Salem

Boatswain Tracy Slack '41 of North Amherst

Boatswain's Mate

Wendall Washburn '41 of Plainville
Josephine Betty Moulton '42 of Worcester

Buttercup Gladys Archibald '41 of Amherst

Cousin Hebe Rita Moseley '42 of Agawam

Collegian

Ken Howland '41 of South Duxbury completed his
year as editor-in-chief of the Collegian on January
13th (and a good editor he was' and was succeeded
by Bill Dwyer '42 of Holyoke.

The Collegian wishes to call alumni attention to
the fact that subscriptions to the paper are $2.00 a
year; that the Board is anxious to have a large list
of alumni readers.

Checks or money orders for subscriptions should
be made out to the Massachusetts Collegian and sent
to the Collegian Office, Memorial Hall.

'08 J. R. Parker was elected president of the
American Association of Economic Entomologists,
for 1941, at the annual meeting of the Association
held in Philadelphia. Pa., in December, 1940.

'2:1 Dr. Roger B. Friend, state entomologist and
chief of the department of entomology in Connecti-
cut, has been appointed assistant director of the
Connecticut Experiment Station.

'30 Floyd Brackley, coach of the Stafford Springs,
Conn., high school football team, was recently
honored at a testimonial banquet in recognition of
the completion of the most successful football season
in the school's history.

'36 Bob Hutt has a nursery and landscape busi-
ness which he started in 1936 in Glastonbury, Conn.
The nursery has developed to about five acres in
size; the landscape business is on a general scale
and carried on in Hart lord and surrounding towns.

M.I.T. is offering a number of special courses
under the engineering defense training program; and
wishes to call this to the attention of any young
Alumni, with necessary ground work in physics and
mathematics, who would be interested in taking this

work. Application should he made to R. M. Kimball.
assistant director of admission.

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'33 Bertram Goodell is forester with the Inter-
mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station,
Ogden, Utah.

'37 Norman Butterfield has recently left the
horticulture department at Purdue to go to Rhode
Island State College, Kingston.

orary

State College

fraternity Banquets

Are Being Scheduled For
SATURDAY, MARCH 22

Plan — now — to come back. Write your fraternity officers — tell them

to expect you.

On the afternoon of March 22nd there will be special exercises at
Lewis Hall and at the New Women's Dormitory.

ALUMNI MEETINGS

(Continued from Page 2 )
some of the work of the Associate Alumni.

Dave Rossiter '37, president of the Middlesex
County group, presided.

New officers elected for next year: Alan Flynn
'26, president; Eleanor Fillmore '36, secretary; and
Gordon Hunter '29 and Ruth Hurder Howe '22,
executive committee.

Mary Rogosa '39, newly-elected secretary of the Essex
County Alumni Club, has reported on the annual
banquet of the group as follows.

The annual banquet of the Essex County Alumni
Club took place November 15th at the Wheeler
House in Danvers. A congenial group of close to
one hundred greeted old friends, made new ones,
sat down with classmates and contemporaries for a
delicious dinner.

Larry Jones '26, toastmaster, did an excellent job
in introducing the various speakers. Whitey Lan-
phear '18, the principal speaker, kept the group
highly entertained throughout his fine talk.

Al Smith '22, vice-president of the Associate
Alumni, spoke about the organization's work, and
his talk served as a great stimulus to all present,
especially the younger Alumni, to help in the alumni
activities: Colored movies were shown of campus

scenes; and Mrs. Harold Mostrom played for the
group singing.

Harold Thurlow '26 was elected president for next
year and Cal Cartwright '27, vice-president.

Congratulations should be extended to Mary Jones
'27 for her splendid work in arranging the party.'
Mary displayed an amazing memory for names and
faces when, during the meeting, she stood and intro-
duced each person present to the whole group. Mary
even knew the classes.

Walter Mack '17 who sponsored a meeting of
Alumni in the Chicago area on November 12th,
reported that this had been by far the best and most
interesting meeting — by common agreement of those
present — which the Chicago Club has yet arranged.

The meeting was held at the Chicago Athletic
Club. President Hugh P. Baker was guest of honor.

Among those present were Dr. William E. Totting-
ham '03, of the University of Wisconsin, Al Gower
'31, and Charlie SanClemente '37, from Michigan
State College, Larry Bevan '13, director of the New
Jersey Extension Service at Rutgers.

'37 Dave Rossiter has been appointed chief pro-
bation officer at the Maiden, Mass., court. He is |
26 years old and believed to be the youngest man in i
the State to hold this responsible position.

SEVENTY-FIRST COMMENCEMENT
June 6, 7, 8, 9, 1941

ALUMNI DAY, SATURDAY, JUNE 7

30th Reunion
CLASS OF 1911

25th Reunion
1916

10th Reunion
CLASS OF 1931

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BULLETIN

MANTLE OF TRADITION

MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE
AMHERST, MASSACHUSETTS

oL XXIII, No. 6

March, 1941

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN
MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

George E. Emery '24, Editor
Published monthly at Amherst, Mass. (except August and
September) by the Associate Alumni of Massachusetts State College.
Entered as second class matter, March 17, 1920, at the Postoffice
at Amherst, Mass., under the Acts of March 3, 1879.

OFFICERS OF ASSOCIATE ALUMNI OF
MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

BOARD OF DIRECTORS
to 1941

Richard J. Davis '28 of Boston

Thomas P. Dooley '13 of West Roxbury

George W. Edman '21 of Pittsfield

Ralph F. Taber "16 of West Newton
to 1942
Erford W. Poole '96 of New Bedford

David P. Rossiter '37 of Maiden

Zoe Hickney White '32 of Worcester

Alfred E. Wilkins '15 of Wakefield
to 1943
Harry Dunlap Brown '14 of Billerica

William L. Doran '15 of Amherst

Mary E. M. Garvey '19 of Amherst

Lawrence L. Jones '26 of North Beverly
to 1944
Donald C Dcuglass '21 of Belmont

Norman D. Hilyard '23 of Springfield

John W. McGuckian '31 of West Roxbury
Arthur D. Tilton 'IS of Woburn

The Alumni Bulletin is sent ten times each year to all members
of the Associate Alumni. Memberships are: Annual $3.00, Sustain-
ing $10.00.

Cover picture — Clement. Burr, president of the class
of 1941, receives the mantle of tradition from Myron
Hager, president of the class of 1940, at the Class Night
exercises in Bowker Auditorium on June 9, 1940.

Mary Doyle '40 (who gave the class ode) adjusts the
mantle. Kay Leete '40 (who gave the ivy oration) looks on.

The tradition which 1940 passed on to 1941 was for
100'.' membership in the Associate Alumni.

In accepting the mantle, President Burr said that he
approved the membership tradition, that he would be
glad to pass it on to his class. The class later approved.
See page 3.

'13 Marshall Headle was called "tops among
(airplane) test pilots; a man like a bird, seeming
more at home in the air than on the ground" in an
interesting note in the March issue of the Ladies
Home Journal.

'15 Raymond Griggs is controller of Bullocks-
Wilshire Store in Los Angeles, Cal. He has been five
years in California and says he can readily under-
stand why Californians are such boosters for their
State, that it just can not be surpassed. And so, he
says, "As a new booster, I'm boosting."

'15 Donald Williams is a lawyer and has an
office at 2 Lafayette Street, New York City.

'17 Lincoln Kelsey is professor in the Extension
Service at Cornell University. He has charge of
Farm and Home Week, and expects an attendance
of 15,000 people at the meetings this summer.

Harold Griffin, James Buckley, Robert Dunn,
and Franklin Davis are second lieutenants with the
Third Cavalry at Fort Myer, Virginia.

Francis Saunders is a quality control chemist
with the Blue Channel Corp. in Port Royal, S. C.
He says it was like a reunion when he arrived ini
Port Royal since Waiter Zajchowski '39 andi
Frank Yourga '39 were also there — both with the
Blue Channel Corp., canning Harris American Crab-
meat. All three claim that this sea food is good for
anything or everything that ails you.

Eugene Sullivan is a standards checker with
Swift and Company in Jersey City, N. J.

Leo Santucci is a graduate assistant in physical
education at the College.

Richard Jaquith is a graduate assistant in
chemistry at the College.

Robert Kennedy is apprentice teacher in agri-
culture at Smith's Agricultural School in North-
ampton.

Roger Lindsey is doing graduate work at the
College.

Gerald McAndrew is production chemist with
the Calco Division of the American Cyanamid and
Chemical Corporation and lives at 519 Winsor Ave..
Bound Brook, N. J.

ALUMNI MEETINGS

This is a continuation of the account of alumni
meetings which have been held throughout the country
inning last fall.

Pat Holbrook '25 arranged a meeting of Phila-
delphia Alumni on December 10th. Ralph Taber '16,
former president of the Associate Alumni, was guest.

There was a dinner at the Moravian Inn and,
after that, the group withdrew to Holbrook's office
in the Public Ledger Building where there was an
informal discussion of college and alumni affairs.

Taber, who is chairman of the alumni committee
in charge of the legislative bill providing for the
change of name of the College to University of
Massachusetts, gave the group an outline of the
study which the alumni officers had made in con-
nection with the desirability of the new name. It
was the unanimous opinion of the Philadelphia group
that the change was desirable and should be made.

Then, colored movies of student activities on
campus were shown to the great pleasure of the
group.

Holbrook wrote that the meeting was very enjoy-
able— a great success.

Leone Smith '14 of Pittsford, Vt., recently wrote
about the recording of the glee club and the talk by
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UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS
BILL IS HEARD BY COMMITTEE

On Tuesday. February 11th. Ralph Taber '16,
who is chairman of the alumni committee sponsoring
the bill to change the name of the College to the
University of Massachusetts, appeared before the
legislative committee on agriculture in Boston with
regard to the bill.

Mr. Taber introduced Dr. Clifford C. Hubbard, a
Trustee of the College, who spoke in behalf of the
bill. Dr. Hubbard declared that he had studied the
matter of University name carefully and completely,
at the request of the Trustees of the College, and
that he was convinced the change of name should be
made. He said that the College is in fact a Univer-
sity now: that breadth of curriculum makes it in-
consistent to call Massachusetts State a college any
longer.

He emphasized the advantages which would accrue
from the change; he said the change was desirable in
order to maintain the prestige of Massachusetts in
the educational world.

In reply to a question by a member of the legis-
lative committee. Dr. Hubbard said that the change
in name would not, in itself, add to the expense of
operating the College: that expenditure of State
funds for the College and the control of expansion
rests with the Legislature.

Representative Lawrence Law of Holyoke filed a
request with the committee, representing Alumni of
the College in the Holyoke area, that the change of
name be granted.

Mr. Taber then presented Mr. Howard S. Russell,
a former trustee of the College and now secretary of
the Massachusetts Farm Bureau Federation. Mr.
Russell urged the change of name, pointing out that
it would tend to be to the advantage of the division
of agriculture and would help assure the maintenance
of high standaids in the teaching of agriculture

CLASS OF 1941 JOINS ASSOCIATE
ALUMNI

Dr. Homer J. Wheeler '83. distinguished agricul-
tural scientist, former director of the Rhode [aland
rimenl Station, and recently-retired chief agron-
omist of the American Agricultural Chemical Com-
pany, wrote to the Alumni Office on February 1 1th
concerning the change of name as follows: "Am glad
e the move to make the College the University
of Massachusetts. Brett's committee made a fine
report on the proposition."

'16 I.eon Whitney ol Orange. Conn., received his
doetor ol veterinary medicine degree from Alabama
technic Institute last year.
'11 George Thompson is landscape architei
doing park work lor the United States Government
in Winamac, I ndiana

Allan Heath i- district superintendent ol
lis in Woodstock, Vt., and, this year, is presi-
dent ot the Vermont State Superintendents A
ation.

John Whittier is with the Boston Edison Co.

At the close of the first semester of the college
year Clement Burr (son of Frederick Burr '12),
president of the senior class, and other officers of the
class called their classmates together in a special
meeting to explain the desirability of 10CK member-
ship of 1941 in the Associate Alumni.

At the class night exercises last June (see cover
picture) the class of 1940 had handed on to 1941 the
tradition of 100r, membership which 1940 had pre-
viously voted to establish. President Burr accepted
this tradition, agreed to bring it to the attention of
his classmates for their approval.

At their meeting, last semester, members of 1941
agreed with Burr that the class should indeed carry
on the worthy tradition, and in so doing help, as in
no other way possible, to promote the welfare of the
College. Accordingly, the treasurer of the College
was authorized to collect membership fees from each
member of 1941; the Alumni Office will provide
special membership cards for each member of the
class.

Learning of the action which 1941 had taken,
Alden C. Brett '12. president of the Associate Alumni,
wrote as follows to Clement Burr:
My dear Mr. Burr:

As president of the Associate Alumni, I want
to express to you and to your class the appreci-
ation of the Association that you have followed
the tradition of 100', membership which was
started by the class of 1940.

No other instrumentality can be as effective
in building a strong institution and in keeping it
so, as the organized alumni.

The Associate Alumni also have a feeling of
gratification in the fact that the members of the
senior class in this way have expressed their
approval of the work which has already been
done.

Will you please convey to the members of the
class our sincere thanks and the hope that many
of you will find the opportunity to be active in
the affairs of the Association during the coming
yea rs .

Cordially yours,

A. C. Brett, Presidi nt

'24 Russell Noyes has recently been appointed
acting chairman "f the department of Knglish at
Indiana University, in Bloomington.

"■',] Eddie White of Worcester, Mass., recently
went on an extended hunting trip through the south-
west. On his way home. Ed and his friends drove
from Tulsa. Oklahoma to Worcester (163f> miles in
46 hours. Zoe Hickney (Mrs. While says thai the
quail which her hush and brought home lasted fine.

'32 Murray Hicks is having much success as

ol the New Lebanon, N. Y., High School

basket hall learn. The leam recently went into first

place in the Columbia County League, has won len

of its twelve game-

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OBITUARIES

Irving W. Davis '11

Irving W. Davis died on September 5, 1939, in
Salem, Mass., following an operation. He was born
in Lowell, November 19, 1889. He had taught
science at Middlebury College, was with the Marines
during the World War, and, later, was associated
with the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Sta-
tion in New Haven. For the past seventeen years
he had been a salesman for Putnam and ^Company,
a Hartford brokerage firm.

The Windham County (Conn.) Transcript said of
him, "Invariably cheerful and endowed with a large
share of good old New England common sense, his
very presence was an inspiration ... he was always
ready to lend his personality and his abilities to the
accomplishment of a worthy cause . . . his memory
will long remain with those who were so fortunate
as to call him their friend."

Walter E. Dodge '16

Reginald Hart '16 has written to Charlie Gould:
"Wally Dodge is no more. He passed away in June,
1939, at the Veterans Hospital in Atlanta. He left a
widow (nee Nell Kuhl) whom he married some five
or six years ago here in Miami. They had a place
out west of the town where they raised rabbits and
fruits. Wally did some really fine work as landscape
supervisor with the National Parks, especially with
the layouts at Greynolds Park and Matheson
Hammock.

"He and Nell had been out to the house to visit
one Sunday in April, 1939. He complained of a pain
in his chest that afternoon. Two months later he

was dead of cancer of the chest. He was buried in
the veterans cemetery at Marietta, Ga., just outside
of Atlanta."

MARRIAGES

'33 John Crowell to Miss Ruth De Gelleke,
February 8, 1941, at Stamford, Conn.

'34 Edwin Steffek to Miss Elizabeth Esdale,
February 14, 1941, at Arlington, Mass.

'37 and '41 Frederick Whittemore to Miss Char-
lotte Donahue, February 1, 1941, in New York City.

'38 and '40 Harry Blaisdell to Miss Evelyn Gould,
February 1, 1941, at Walpole, Mass.

'38 Norman Clark to Miss Elvena Stanwood,
March 30, 1940, at Lynn, Mass.

'38 Miss Marion Shaw to William D. Hackett,
December 28, 1940, at Belchertown, Mass.

'39 Richard Powers to Miss Katherine Pratt,
February 8, 1941, at Shelburne Falls, Mass.

Although dates for the sixth annual Winter Carnival
were set only after due consultation with astrologers,
weather prophets, and officials of government
weather bureaus, the weekend of February 14 and 15
— which was Carnival Weekend — proved so unsea-
sonably warm that the students barely had time to
mold some unusually attractive sculptures out of
snow and have the various figures judged before the
snow and ice melted out of all shape and proportion.
Alpha Gamma Rho won the competition for the
snow sculpturing with a well executed tableau called
"High on a Windy Hill."

The College Trustee Board meeting in the Executive Chambers, by invitation of Governor Saltonstall, in the State
House in Boston on January 23rd. Front row (left to right): Clifford C. Hubbard, David J. Malcolm, Governor
Leverett Saltonstall (president of the Board), Nathaniel I. Bowditch (vice-president), Walter F. Downey (Com-
missioner of Education), President Hugh P. Baker. Back row (left to right): Robert D. Hawley '18 (treasurer),
William C. Monahan, Frederick D. Griggs '13, Harry Dunlap Brown '14, Philip F. Whitmore '15, William Casey
(Commissioner of Agriculture) , James W.Burke (secretary).

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WITH THE ALUMMAE

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by Maiy E. Garvey '19
and Leonta Horrigan '36

Helen Downing '37 is teaching music and work-
ing in the Holyoke schools; she also frequently
appears publicly as a piano soloist and with instru-
mental groups.

CO-EDS MOVE INTO BUTTERFIELD
HOUSE

CO-EDS EXAMINE CONSTRUCTION WORK AT NEW
DORMITORY LEFT TO RIGHT: MARJORIE ALDRICH
■43 OF SPRINGFIELD, GLADYS FISH 41 OF PITTSF1ELD.
MARION AVERY '42 OF POCASSET.

Priscilla Bradford ".i~ is now traveling through
the middle west as educational lecturer for Lever
Brothers Company of Cambridge, Mass.
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Friday, February 7th, was moving day — the day
when co-eds moved from temporary quarters in
North College and throughout the town into their
brand new dormitory, built by the Associate Alumni,
up on the Clark estate, on the east ridge of the
campus.

The new dormitory is called Kenyon L. Butterfield
House, in' honor of the late president of the College.
It was under Dr. Butterfield's leadership that work
in home economics and other courses particularly re-
lating to the education of young women were de-
veloped at the College. It was during his admini-
stration (1906 to 1923) that the first woman was
graduated, and that a sound foundation was laid for
the establishment of those courses which now attract
more than 400 young women to the four under-
graduate classes.

On February 7th it rained, it was cold and miser-
able. But the co-eds who moved into Butterfield
House soon forgot the unpleasant weather.

Speaking about their new dormitory, Kay Tully
'41 of Southbridge who is house chairman said, "We
think it's wonderful, that's all." "Real beds!" is an
exclamation still resounding through the corridors,
Kay says. "The girls really do appreciate the com-
fortable maple beds with which each dormitory room
is provided. Each girl also has a maple desk, dresser,
and a comfortable chair which harmonizes nicely with
the pastel green and yellow walls. Each has an
ample closet in her room, too," Kay told us.

"But," Miss Tully continued, "the recreation
room on the main floor is perhaps the girls' favorite
room. It is furnished with red, yellow, green and
blue modernistic chairs and little tables, plaid cotton
drapes, and a victrola. It is a gathering place where
everyone may lounge and play and dance and smoke.

"And one of the great advantages is the dining
room downstairs where breakfast and lunch are
cafeteria style and the evening meal is served by
girls who act as waitresses. The co-eds love their
new dormitory: they only hope it's not a dream."

^>S

VIEW OF THE WEST ELEVATION OF KENYON L.
BUTTERFIELD HOUSE — NEW DORMITORY FOR
WOMEN BUILT BY THE ASSOCIATE ALUMNI.
THIS NEW BUILDING IS PERHAPS THE MOST IM-
POSING STRUCTURE ON CAMPUS. IT COMMANDS
A MAGNIFICENT VIEW OF THE CONNECTICUT
VALLEY. THE BERKSHIRES ANO PELHAM HILLS,
THE HOLYOKE RANGE.

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ATHLETICS

Basketball

Coach Louis Bush reported for active duty with
the U. S. Army on February 11 — and the last game
at which he directed the team was with Middlebury
on February 8th. Louie's boys won the game, 40-33.
]t was a nice farewell present.

Freddy Ellert '30 has now taken over the duties
of coaching the club. Fred was captain of basketball
during both his junior and senior years in College
and, when he was a senior, he acted also as floor
coach of the team. After graduation he became
instructor in German at the College; he also handled
the basketball squad for several seasons, and with
real success.

Remaining games:
Feb. 19 Connecticut University, here
21 Boston University, there
28 Coast Guard, here
Mar. 1 Worcester Tech, there

Swimming

Since we last reported in these columns the swim-
mers have won two more meets in the college pool:
from Wesleyan on February 8th, 44-31; and from
Coast Guard on February 15, 47-28.

Remaining meets:
Mar. 1 Union, here

7 Boston U. and M.I.T., Cambridge

8 Bowdoin, there

14-15 N.E.I.S.A. Meet at M.I.T.

Track

The relay team won from Colby and lost to
Worcester Tech in a triangular race at the B.A.A.
meet in Boston on February 8th. Then, on February
15th, in the cage, the track team won from the
University of Connecticut, 53-28.

Remaining meets:
Feb. 21 Springfield and Worcester Tech, here

26 Northeastern University, here
Mar. 1 Worcester Tech and Tufts, Medford

The Boston Traveler recently had many nice things
to say about Harold Poole '21, whom the paper
called "Greater Boston's number one hockey en-
thusiast." It was a long and interesting article.

The Melrose High School hockey team which
Harold coaches has just won the Greater Boston
League championship for the sixth time in twelve
years.

The Traveler article spoke of Poolie's undergradu-
ate hockey exploits when he was playing for the
College along with Hubba Collins '22 and Doc
Gordon '23.

Doc is now hockey coach at Stoneham, Mass.,
High School and, according to the paper, Doc's
team has long been Poolie's greatest rival.

PAST AND PRESENT
OF THE CLASS OF

1914

By Henry Clay '14

Bennett Porter has been a Ph.D. since 1921, but
to his friends he will never be anything but "Ben."
One of the ent boys in College, Ben entered the
Bureau of Entomology in Uncle Sam's Department
of Agriculture in 1917, being located for several
years at Wallingford, Conn., and at Vincennes, Ind.,
but, since 1928 at Washington, D. C, where he is
assistant division leader, fruit insect investigations.
This job gives Ben a chance to travel around the
country occasionally, in important fruit growing
areas.

In 1916 Beatrice Hibbard of North Hadley became
Mrs. Porter. With their two girls and a boy, the
Porters live in Takoma Park, just outside Washington.

Dan O'Brien was evidently intended by Dame
Nature to be a teacher. After specializing in peda-
gogy at the College he taught vocational agriculture
at Clinton, Mass., High and Leominster High, be-
coming assistant director of the manual arts depart-
ment of the Boston Public Schools in 1917. He has
also had supervision of vocational agricultural edu-
cation and school gardening in the Boston Public
Schools.

As a side line Dan studied law and secured his
LL.B. at Suffolk University Law School in 1924. A
master's degree from Harvard is his latest acquisition.
Married in 1916 to Mary Burke of Wayland, Dan
and his wife live in Waltham.

Sam Clark is one of the genuine "dirt farmers" of
the class. With Charles Huntington '16, under the
name "Huntington Brothers," he farms nearly 200
acres of shade tobacco, besides growing 25 acres of
hybrid seed corn for the seed.

Sam taught in high school, and was with the
Worcester County Farm Bureau for a few years.
He came out of the World War a first lieutenant in
the army. At Windsor, Conn., Clark has held what
he modestly calls "various town and other offices."
Married in 1918, the Clarks have a daughter gradu-
ating this year from Wellesley and a son just gradu-
ated from Loomis Institute.

In a recent article about Medford, Mass., the
Eoston Herald had this to say about Hubba Collins

'22: "Herbert L. (Hubba) Collins, headmaster at
the Hobbs Junior High School .... (was) .... a
famous football star at Arlington High School and
Massachusetts State College where he was also
baseball pitcher and hockey captain. He coached at
Natick and Beverly before becoming faculty manager
and physical education director at Medford. He
always has emphasized character-building rather
than 'win-at-any-price'."

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ALUMNI SUPPORT BILL FOR HOME
ECONOMICS BUILDING

Appearing before the legislative committee on
agriculture in Boston on February 11th, Alumni
represented themselves as favoring the bill provid-
ing for the erection of a home economics building on
campus.

Evelyn Davis Kennedy '26 told about present in-
adequacies in the handling of the work of the home
economics division due to lack of centralized facilities.

Willard A. Munson '05, director of the Extension
Service, further explained these handicaps — due to
the present scattered housing of the home economics
work.

William V. Hayden '13, representing the Directors
of the Associate Alumni, recorded the alumni organ-
ization in favor of the bill.

Others who spoke in behalf of the bill to provide
the home economics building were Trustee David J.
Malcolm, Miss Edna Skinner, dean of women, L.
Francis Kennedy '24 and Mrs Elizabeth McNamara
and Mr. Nathaniel Bowditch, Trustees of the College.

HERBERT MARX '25 MEETS WITH
CHEMISTRY STUDENTS

Herbert J. Marx '25 went to work for Proctor and
Gamble as a chemist immediately upon graduating
from the College. For two years he was associated
with the firm's home plant in Cincinnati where he
specialized in the chemistry of oils. He was then
moved to different plants in various parts of this
country and Canada Staten Island, Portsmouth.
Va., Hamilton. Ontario, and Dallas, Texas.

In 1937 he was transferred to Manila to take
charge of a plant handling oil. The Phillipines are
near the sources of palm oil and coconut oil and also
near the large oriental markets.

Marx was in Amherst last summer, visited the
campus where, as an undergraduate, he was captain
of the football team I, and talked to the major students
in the chemistry department. He told the students
of his work in the Phillipines, described the products
of his plant, one of which products, margarine, has a
large sale. Butter does not keep well in the Phillipine
country, consequently margarine is a staple product.
It is colored, flavored, and vitamins arc added, and
the product. Marx assured his listeners, is better
than any local butter could be. The students were
much interested in what Marx had to say.

C. A. Peters '97

ACADEMICS

Vernon Mudgett of Lancaster, Mass., was
recently appointed by Governor Sallonslall to the
advisory board of the Mil.- Department of Agricul-
ture

'■',] Walter Bonney, who for ten years has been
on the staff of the Springfield, Mass., Republican
(or the |,,-i few years as aviation and political news
editor has recently resigned this position to take up
new work in Buffalo, N. Y.. as assistant director
of public relations for the Bell Aircraft Company.

Roister Doisters

As an "extra added attraction," so to speak, in
their season's program, the Roister Doisters pre-
sented Eugene O'Neill's prize Pulitzer play, "Beyond
the Horizon" in Bowker Auditorium on February 11.

In reviewing the play, the Collegian especially
commended the work of Muriel Barbour '44 of
Roslindale, Donald Wood '43 of Holyoke, David
Burbank '42 of Worcester and Helen Fitch '41 of
Pittsfield.

WATER COLOR

BY D NEWTON

GLICK '36

Musie

On three successive evenings, March 27, 28 and 29,
at 8:15, the combined musical clubs will present
Gilbert and Sullivan's "H.M.S. Pinafore" in Bowker
Auditorium.

This will mark the sixth annual Gilbert and
Sullivan production on campus.

The Men's Glee Club is engaged in the busiest
season in its history. There have been concerts in
Ware, on campus, and in Stockbridge, Mass.

Concerts have been scheduled for February 24th
in Turners Falls, February 28th Athol, March 7th
Westfield, March 12th Social Union (on campus),
March 13th Taunton, March 14th Westport, March
15th North Attleboro, April 18th a joint concert
with Amherst College, April 27th Springfield.

Alumni living near the several towns where the
Club is making off-campus appearances would do
well to make it a point to hear the group.

'34 Arthur Green is meteorologist sergeant with
the United States Army and is at present stationed
at Camp Edwards in Falmouth, Mass. Last summer
he took a 12,000 mile trip through the northwest.
Before joining the army he was agent for the Sure
Tone Hearing Aid made by Nathan Nichols '34.

'38 Ed Beaumont, beautifully tanned from a
recent sojourn on the Southern California sea coast,
stopped in at the Alumni Office on his way back
from California to Simsbury, Conn., where he works
for Thomas Desmond, landscape architect.

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'39 Ossie Villaume, agricultural instructor at the
Brattleboro, Vt., high school had an article on the
survey method of teaching in a recent issue of the
publication of the Vermont Association of Agricul-
tural Teachers.

Library

State College

fraternity Banquets

Are Being Scheduled For
SATURDAY, MARCH 22

Plan

now

to come back. Write your fraternity officers
to expect you.

tell them

On the afternoon of March 22nd there will be special exercises at
Lewis Hall and at Kenyon L. Butterfield House.

ALUMNI MEETINGS

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President Baker which was made especially for
alumni meetings. Leone said, "The recording was
fine and we all enjoyed it. It is a splendid idea —
and thanks."

Huck Love '25 has written about the meeting of
Worcester County Alumni which was held at Horti-
cultural Hall in Worcester on November 20th. "The
party was a great success. Clark Thayer did a fine
job with his talk about events on campus — we were
all greatly pleased. The attendance of more than
fifty was very pleasing, also. After the speaking and
refreshments we danced to victrola music."

New officers of the Worcester Club are: president,
Edward Soulliere '36; vice-presidents, Sid Vaughan
'30 and Frank Burbank '30; secretary-treasurer,
Barbara Farnsworth '40.

'15 Gerald E. (Gibby) Perry is now with the
Riehle Agency of the Equitable Life Assurance
Society at 225 West 34th Street, New York, N. Y.

'25 Shorty Bray is in the right of way department
of the Rock Island Railway. His office is in Chicago.

'36 Sidney Williams is attached to the weather
bureau as assistant observor and is stationed at
Nantucket. He began his duties December 1st.

'38 Philip B. Anderson, who has been teaching
school in Worthington, Mass., has joined the army.
He will be stationed first in Albany, Georgia, then
at Randolph Field, Texas.

'39 Bob Cain is to report for active duty with
the U. S. Army for a year tour of active duty. He
will be stationed at Fort Benning, Ga.

ALUMNAE NOTES

(Continued from Page 5)

Roberta Walkey '38 is teaching home economics
in the East Bridgewater, Mass., high school.

Constance Fortin !39 is teaching English in the
Ludlow, Mass., high school.

Julia Lynch '39 is teaching at the Idaho State
School for the Blind, Gooding, Idaho.

Phyllis MacDonald '39 has resigned her teaching
position at Hopkins Academy, Hadley, Mass., to
become assistant county club agent at Worcester,
Mass.

Dorothy Nichols '39 has a position in the book-
keeping department of the First National Bank in
Westfield, Mass.

Nancy Parks '39 is research chemist with the
Dewey and Almy Chemical Co., Cambridge, Mass.

'16 Tyler Rogers has gone to Newark, Ohio, to
be technical director for the Owens-Corning Fiberglas
Corporation.

'16 Sax Clark is with the U. S. Surplus Market-
ing Administration, 1014 Fifth St., N.W., Washing-
ton, D. C.

'26 Dune Hollingworth is chemist and research
director of the panelyte division of the St. Regis
Paper Co., Trenton, N. J.

'26 Bill Budge is a poultry and dairy farmer in
Westford, Mass.

'34 W. Snowden Thomas is agricultural econo-
mist with the Connecticut Flood Control Survey,
191 Main Street, Greenfield, Mass.

'37 Roy Blackmer is assistant in physics at
Brown University, Providence, R. I.

ALUMNI DAY, SATURDAY, JUNE 7

THE ALUMNI
BULLETIN

ANTING DOGS

MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE
AMHERST, MASSACHUSETTS

oL XXIII, No. 7

April, 1941

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN
MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

George E. Emery '24, Editor
Published monthly at Amherst, Mass. (except August and
September) by the Associate Alumni of Massachusetts State College.
Entered as second class matter, March 17, 1920, at the Postoffice
at Amherst. Mass., under the Acts of March 3, 1879.

OFFICERS OF ASSOCIATE ALUMNI OF
MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

President. Alden C. Brett '12 of Belmont
Vice-President. Albert W. Smith '22 of Springfield
Secretary, Marshall O. Lanphear '18 of Amherst
Treasurer. Clark L. Thayer '13 of Amherst
Executive Secretary, George E. Emery '24 of Amherst

BOARD OF DIRECTORS
to 1941

Richard J. Davis '28 of Portland, Maine

Thomas P. Dooley '13 of West Roxbury

George W. Edman '21 of Pittsfield

Ralph F. Taber '16 of West Newton
to 1942
Erford W. Poole '96 of New Bedford

David P. Rossiter '37 of Maiden

Zoe Hickney White '32 of Worcester

Alfred E. Wilkins '15 of Wakefield
to 1943
Harry Dunlap Brown '14 of Billerica

William L. Doran '15 of Amherst

Mary E. M. Garvey '19 of Amherst

Lawrence L. Jones '26 of North Beverly
to 1944
Donald C. Dcuglass '21 of Belmont

Norman D. Hilyard '23 of Springfield

John W. McGuckian '31 of West Roxbury
Arthur D. Tilton '18 of Woburn

The Alumni Bulletin is sent ten times each year to all members
of the Associate Alumni. Memberships are: Annual S3. 00, Sustain-
ing $10.00.

Cover picture — A tempera painting of hunting dogs
by Jack Murray '14 which appeared in the annual
"Family Art Show" in Memorial Hall during the
month of March.

Mr. Murray is one of the country's foremost painters
of animals — the cover on this Bulletin and the cover of
the March 8th issue of the Saturday Evening Post are
striking examples of his fine work.

FRESHMEN RECEIVE SCHOLARSHIPS
FROM LOTTA CRABTREE FUND

At the beginning of the second semester the follow-
ing freshmen were awarded scholarships made avail-
able from the Lotta Crabtree Fund.

Arvid W. Anderson of West Springfield

David W. Anderson of Worcester

Frederick V. Brutcher of Mansfield

Horace C. Burrington of Charlemont

Norman W. Desrosier of Athol

Edwin J. Fedeli of Worcester

Frank M. Fuller of Springfield

John F. Hughes of Cambridge

Robert W. Jones of Caryville

David H. Kaplan of Roxbury

Aarne Karvonen of Shirley

Fayette Mascho of Westhampton

Edna A. McNamara of Brookfield

Edward J. Rabaioli of Medway

Charles J. Rogers of Medway

Harold Walba of Dorchester

PAST AND PRESENT
OF THE CLASS OF

1914

By Henry Clay '14

Harold Eldridge is living in the same town where
he and his wife were born — Wareham, Mass. Both
he and his wife enter fully into the many and varied
activities of the town.

Harold has been with the American Agricultural
Chemical Company continuously since 1914 with the
exception of the years 1917 to 1919. Then, he was an
ensign in the U. S. Navy. He commanded a sub-
marine chaser, and spent the last five months of the
war in command of a group of three such vessels.

Harold writes, "Am thoroughly happy; the older
we get the more we realize that this can be the
greatest blessing of all." It would seem like sound
philosophy.

Louis Webster, now director of the division of
markets of the Massachusetts Department of Agri-
culture, has had his name in trade papers frequently
of late as a member of the New England State
Potato Marketing Committee, working on a mer-
chandizing drive to move the large 1940 crop of
New England white potatoes. The youngest mem-
ber of the class, Louis still seemed hardly dry behind
the ears when he received his diploma in 1914. But
he learned fast. A member of the Massachusetts
Legislature in 1929-32, he was instrumental in
furthering legislation helpful to the College. Such
titles as Chairman of the Republican Town Com-
mittee; Director, Massachusetts Farm Bureau Feder-
ation; Director, Massachusetts Fruit Growers' Asso-
ciation; and Director, Worcester Production Credit
Association, came to him strictly on merit and meant
an endless amount of work.

Married in 1925, Web has a boy and a girl who go
to school in Blackstone, where the family fruit farm
receives absent treatment much of the time while
Louis is at the State House in Boston or galivanting
around the country, attending conventions or other
meetings.

UNIVERSITY BILL REFERRED TO
EDUCATION COMMITTEE

The bill (H956) which was filed with the Massa-
chusetts Legislature by the Associate Alumni pro-
viding for the change of name of the College to
University of Massachusetts was heard before the
Legislative Committee on Agriculture on February 11.

Subsequently, the Committee on Agriculture re-
ported their approval of the proposed change of
name and the bill was referred back to the House.
From there the bill was referred to the Legislative
Committee on Education.

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ALUMNI MEETINGS

'FAMILY ART SHOW"

This is the conclusion of an account of alumni meet-
ings which were held throughout the country beginning
last fall and continuing through the winter.

The Washington, D. C. Alumni Club held a dinner
party on February 26th at which thirty-six Alumni,
Alumnae, wives, and friends were present and at
which President Hugh P. Baker was the guest of
honor. The general consensus of opinion was that
this was one of the most interesting and successful
meetings which the Washington Club has held.

After the meal President Baker gave a complete
resume of the developments which have taken place
at the College during the two years which have
elapsed since his last meeting with the Washington
group. Following his talk President Baker answered
numerous questions with regard to affairs on campus
and there was a general discussion.

The Washington Club has held monthly meetings
during the past year — and plans to continue these
interesting events throughout 1941.

Irene Bartlett '29 has been unanimously reelected
as secretary of the Washington group. Irene has
worked effectively and efficiently as secretary of the
group for the past few years.

Charles A. iBusi LeClair '34, secretary of the New
York Alumni Club, has been ordered to active duty
with the Army and has reported to Brookley Field
in Mobile, Alabama. Succeeding him as secretary-
treasurer is Paul F. Frese '28. Other officers of the
New York Club are: Stuart Smith '22, president.
Dean Baker '13 and Polly Spiewak '31, vice-presi-
dents: choragus. Ted Law '36: assistant choragus
Jack Quinn '28. The board of governors includes
the following: to 1941, Walter Morse '95, L. G.
Schermerhorn '10, to 1942, Sidney Haskell '04,
Francis Cormier '26: to 1943, O. B. Briggs '09,
Walter Baker '32; to 1944, Mrs. Armond Arnurius
(Evelyn Sandstrom) '30, Leo LeClair '39.

San Joaquin Valley Alumni met on December 19th
(Continued on Page 8 1

The eighth annual Family Art Show consisting of
the work of Alumni, students, faculty, and faculty
wives, was hung in Memorial Hall by Professor
Waugh during the month of March.

Dr. Waugh was especially pleased with this year's
show. In his "studio talk" in which he described the
exhibition he said that several people had called the
display the best of all to date; he said that he was
proud and gratified to have had part in arranging it.

The exhibitors were as follows (abbreviations stand
for: F, faculty; FW, faculty wife; FF, formerly on
the faculty; G, graduate student).
A. Rodger Chamberlain '27, one ink and two

tempera drawings.
Raymond II. Otto '26 F, water color and pencil

sketches.
R. D. Carpenter '40 G, two water colors.
James Robertson, Jr. F. water color, pen and ink,

oil, and pastel works.
Mrs. George E. Emery FW, three water colors.
Charlie Herbert '34, two water colors.
Mrs. Harvey Sweetman FW, water color.
Kenneth Waltermire '41, two pastels, two water

colors.
Frank Baiige *41, two water colors.
Carl Gerlach '37 G, oil painting.
Fred Waugh '22, oil painting.
Jack Murray '14, three tempera paintings.
T. 1$. Slaek '41, a copper candle stick.
Orton Clark 'OS F, two wood carvings.
Francis I). Albert! "2S>. two sculptures and a pencil

drawing.
Bradford Greene '42, pencil sketch.
Dorothy Waugh sp 17, two book illustrations in

black and white.
Warren Maek FF, wood cut.
A. M. Forbnsh '38, pen and ink sketch and

water color.
Harry Eraser '2I>, two pencil sketches.
Dr. Frank A. Waugh, two etchings.
Eugene Martini E, pen drawing and a water color.
Mrs. James Fuller FW, two transparent oils.
Stephen Hamilton '31, two transparent oils.

JOINT LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE VISITS CAMPUS ON MARCH 13TH

Front row 'left to right': Dean Machmer, Rep. John A. Sullivan ( West field ) , Rep. Everett. Stone (Auburn),
Sen. Thomas H. Johnston (Clinton), Sen. George W. Stanton [Fitchburg), Rep. C. B. Brown (Brimfield).

Second row Jefl to right): Rep.
Fred B. Dole iShelburne>, Rep.
Charles E. Shepard (Warren* , Rep.
James P. McAndrews (Adams i),
Rep. Peter F. Fitzgerald (Blackstone),
Rep. Avery W. Steele (Hoxboro),
President Baker.

Third rnu- left to right : Rep.
George I.. Harms '03 (Goshen), Court
Officer O' Neil, Rep. W. M. Hyde
of Ware guest , Rep. William 0.
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OBITUARIES

Levi R. Taft '82

Levi R. Taft '82 was born in Mendon, Mass.,
August 22, 1859, and died in Petoskey, Michigan,
on February 12, 1941.

After being graduated from the College he taught
horticulture on campus for three years. He then
went to the University of Missouri to continue his
studies in zoology and to be assistant professor of
horticulture. From 1888 to 1902 he was professor of
horticulture at Michigan State College. He resigned
to become superintendent of the State Farmers'
Institute and state inspector of orchards and nur-
series. At the same time he acted as consulting
horticulturist for the State Experiment Station.

In 1910 he organized and became president of the
Eveline Fruit and Land Company, north of East
Jordan, with large acreages of apples and cherries.

In 1904 he was chairman of the horticultural jury
at the St. Louis Exposition. He was a member of
the executive committee of the Michigan Horticul-
tural Society and treasurer of the American Pomo-
logical Society. France awarded him the croix
d'ofncer du merite horticole. One of the outstanding
results of his connection with experimental horti-
culture was his development of sprays and fungicides
to cure injurious orchard diseases. A plaque placed
near the horticultural building on the Michigan
State campus on Farmers' Day in 1935 commemo-
rates his achievement as a pioneer and investigator.

He wrote several books on horticulture and con-
tributed frequently to the American Florist Magazine.
He is the author of Greenhouse Management and
Greenhouse Construction, both of which have been
used as authoritative source books.

He is survived by two sons and four daughters.

David Goodale '82

U. Luther Shimcr '88

B. Luther Shimer '88 died at his home in Bethle-
hem, Pa., of heart trouble on February 4, 1941. He
was 74 years old.

He had been an outstanding citizen of Bethlehem
where he was born and where, after being graduated
from the College, he established himself in farming
and the raising of pure blooded cattle. He was
prominent in many agricultural societies.

Of late years he had given up farming to engage
in the real estate business.

He is survived by his wife, three daughters, two
sons, two sisters, two brothers and four grand-
children.

While in College, Shimer was prominent in ath-
letics, especially football, and in military affairs.

As an Alumnus he attended all of his class reunions.
Though not at all well, he was present for the 50th
reunion in 1938 when the class returned 100', strong.

Luther Shimer will be missed by his classmates,
his family and all who were privileged to come in
contact with him. His spirit, his influence, and his
memory will remain.

Herbert C. Bliss, Sec., '88

Thomas II. Jones '08

In the sudden death of Thomas Henry Jones on
February 22, 1941, at Morristown, N. J., the class
of 1908 is saddened by the second break in its ranks
within a month.

Appointed to the Bureau of Entomology, U.S. DA.,
in 1909, Tom Jones had served in the truck crops
division until he joined the Puerto Rico Sugar Plant-
ers Association. Later he rejoined the Bureau of
Entomology from 1914-20. The period of 1920-24
found him employed as entomologist for the Louisiana
Agricultural Experiment Station at Baton Rouge.
He again entered government service at Melrose
Highlands, Mass., to carry on important work with
gypsy moth parasites, 1924-1935, when he was
assigned to research problems on the Dutch Elm
disease. His position was that of senior entomologist
of the division of forest insect investigations, Bureau
of Entomology and Plant Quarantine.

Tom was always a loyal and devoted Alumnus,
cherishing the friendships and influences of college
days. Reunions he never missed.

He was married in 1929 to Katherine H. Alyward.
His wife, his mother, and a brother survive him.

He was a member of Q.T.V. fraternity and of Phi
Kappa Phi. He belonged to the Association of Eco-
nomic Entomologists and the Entomological Society
of America. His contributions to the economic
entomology of truck crops in the Southern United
States, based as they were on his practical knowledge
and tropical experiences, were accurate and sound.

R. H. Verbeck '08
J. A.Hyslop '08

MARRIAGES

'30 Anthony Gagliarducci to Miss LaSalle Jodice,
February 22, 1941, at Somerville, Mass.

w'34 Dr. A. W. Newton to Miss Marie Benson,
March 8, 1941, at Cincinnati, Ohio.

'35 Richard Hubbard to Miss Jessie Wright,
December 17, 1938, at East Greenwich, R. I.

'35 Lt. Albert Landis to Miss Ethel Goldberg,
February 9, 1941, at Northampton, Mass.

'36 Miss Louise Govone to John E. O'Toole,
April 15, 1939, at Sandwich, Mass.

'37 and '37 Robert Fisher to Miss Ruth Kinsman,
February 21, 1941, at Roxbury, Mass.

'37 Kirtley Judd to Miss Bernice Beauregard,
March 8, 1941, at Hamden, Conn.

'38 and '39 Henry Elkind, Jr. to Miss A. Fern
Kaplinsky, February 2, 1941, at Holyoke, Mass.

'38 Robert Perkins to Miss Jean Whitney,
February 22, 1941, at Worcester, Mass.

'39 Miss Beryl Briggs to Walter Bezanson, June
15, 1940, at Ashburnham, Mass.

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WITH THE ALUMMAE

by Mary E. Garvey '19
and Leonta Horrigan '36

Dr. Majel Mat-Masters '26 has left the home
economics department at the University of Illinois
where she was engaged in working on the microscopy
of starches. She was appointed, last fall, to the
Northern Regional Laboratory of the U.S.D.A. at
Peoria, 111. She is doing much the same kind of
work which she was doing at the University. She
was one of the first four chosen for the permanent
staff.

Miriam Loud Wilbur '30, who has been doing
landscape and nursery work with the Weston
Nurseries for several years moved with her husband,
also a landscape architect, to Ridgefield, Conn, on
March 1 where they will exercise their professional
abilities on a wider scale. Miriam is secretary of the
Massachusetts Landscape Architects Association.

Angela Filios '37 is doing clerical work in the
Bureau of Census, Washington. D. C.

Helen Streeler *:{"> is working with her mother
as New England representative for W. Colston
Leigh, Inc., top-notch lecture bureau of New York
City. Helen lives in Springfield. Mass., .it 30 Ken-
wen id Terrace.

A supper meeting of the Hampshire County
Alumnae Club was held at the Stockbridge House
on Tuesday, March 4. The group included Miss
Skinner and Miss Hamlin; Olive Carroll Cole '19,
Mary Garvey '19, Jane Pollard Con- '22, Ruth
Putnam Snyder '26. Edith Bertensbaw Aldrich '29.
Virginia Reed Britl '33, Mary Tomlinson Brown

i I lei i . Wheeler Frigard '34, Alice Dwight Kucinski

5 Ruth Reed Pray '36, Mabelle Booth '39. Justina
Crosby '39, Marion Gunness '39. Shirley Nestle '39,
Elizabeth Warner '39. Shirley Bliss Goldberg '38,
and Virginia I'ease '40.

The following officers were elected for the coming
year: president, Mary Garvey '19; vice-president,
Mary Tomlinson Brown '34; secretary-treasurer.
Ruth Putnam Snyder '26.

Following the short business meeting the Alumnae
ed Butterfield House, the women's dormitory
which was opened for occupancy at the beginning of
this semester. After being shown I he comfortable
and attractive sleeping and study rooms provided for
the girls, the fine recreation and dining rooms and
the many necessities and luxuries included in the
building, all wenl away wishing that they might
return for a while as undergraduate -

Donald Novelli is a graduate assistant in bac-
teriology at Rutgers University, New Brunswick,

N. J.

Vernon Ferwerda is doing graduate work at the
College.

Maynard Moseley is a graduate assistant and
instructor in botany at the University of Illinois,
Urbana.

Paul Morieee is doing work for an advanced
landscape degree at the College.

Earl Bowen is instructor in math and assistant
track coach at Northeastern University in Boston.

Wimpy Blauer is with the Liberty Mutual In-
surance Company, 175 Berkeley Street, Boston.

Geori-e Atwater is a research technician with the
Foster Machine Company in Westfield.

Hiebard Blake is doing graduate work at Boston
University.

Geoffrey Bcames is doing work in horticulture.
He lives in Falmouth, Mass. He plans to do gradu-
ate work for an M.A. next year.

Robert Fa Ion is with the Dean Dairy in Waltham.

Lawrence Freeman has been steadily at work,
since graduation, as slock controller with the Ameri-
can Optical Company in Southbridge, Mass.

diet Tiberii is aviation cadet at the U. S. Naval
Air Station. Pensacola, Florida.

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minus

nv go to press the Legislative Committee on Agri-
has reported favorably on the home
building.

'30 A son. Cordon A., to Mr. and Mrs. Edward
Benoit, February 25. 1940, at Washington, D. C.

'31 A daughter. Nancy Lou, to Mr. and Mrs.
Ralph Kneeland. .Jr., August 14, 1940, at Washing-
Ion. I). C.

'31 A son. William I... to Dr. and Mrs. William
Freeman Ocrtrude LeClair), February 1, 1941, at
Worcester, Mass.

'33 A daughter. Sandra Lee, to Mr. and Mrs.
George E. Hodsdon, January 25, 1941, at Washing-
ton, D. C.

'31 A son. Charles Henry, to Mr. and Mrs.
Charles H. Dunphy, November 11. 1940, at Wash-
ington, D. C.

A daughter, Carolyn Needham, to Mr. and
Mrs Douglas Adams, March 10, 1941, at Portland,
Maine.

'38 A son, Robert, Jr., to Mr. and Mrs. Robert
It Buzzee, February 25, 1941, it Northampton,
'■.Li

'39 A son, David Bruce, to Mr. and Mrs. David
Belcher Elizabeth Jasper), February 26, 1941, at
Manchester, Conn.

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ATHLETICS

JOE JODKA '42 OF LAWRENCE. NATIONAL
JUNIOR 220 YARD BREAST-STROKE CHAMP

Swimming

Paced by co-captains Bob Hall '41 of Upton and
Howie McCallum '41 of Northampton, with Joe
Jodka '42 of Lawrence picking up championships all
along the line, and with Win Avery '42 of Shrewsbury
setting a new Massachusetts State record in the
50-yard free style, the varsity swimmers have just
completed a season in which they won six meets,
lost two. They won from Worcester Tech, Wesleyan,

Coast Guard,
THE CHAMPION Union, Con-

necticut, Bos-
ton University
and M.I.T. (in
a triangular
meet) , lost to
Williams and
Bowdoin.

In the N. E.
Intercollegia t e
Swimming As-
sociation meet
at M.I.T. on
March 14 and
15 they picked
up 15 points,
placed sixth of
twelve teams.
Joe Jodka
swam cham-
pionship races
with amazing regularity. He won the State A.A.U.
220 breast stroke championship, the New England
championship, the New England Intercollegiate
Swimming Association championship and the Nation-
al Junior championship, one after the other; and he
set new records in swimming each.

"There's no secret to it, though," says Coach Joe
Rogers, "Jodka just works. He's not like some of
these other monkeys who sit on the edge of the pool
and talk an awful workout. Jodka gets in there and
swims. That's all. He's a better than 85 student,
too. And he's working his way through College."

Coach Rogers is taking Jodka to the National
Senior A.A.U. championships at the University of
Michigan on April 4 and 5 and to the National
Collegiate championships at East Lansing on March
28 and 29.

Basketball

This year's basketball season can be accurately
described as a "preparatory" year.

The club was made up in large part of sophomores,
and won 5 of the 14 games.

Ted Bokina '43 of Hatfield was high scorer. Other
sophomores who stood out as potentially able players
were Ed Podolak of Easthampton, Stan Bubriski of
Housatonic, Tom Kelley of Lynn, and Dick Maloy
of Pittsfield.

Scores, not previously recorded in the Bulletin:

Statesmen Opp.
Feb. 14 Tufts, there 32 36

Feb. 19 Connecticut, here

21 Boston University, there

28 Coast Guard, here

Mar. 1 Worcester Tech, there

Basketball Tournament

The 14th Annual Western Massachusetts Small
High School Basketball Tournament was held in the
cage of the Physical Education Building for the entire
week of March 3rd. Larry Briggs '27 was manager,
and Kid Gore '13, chairman of the high school com-
mittee in charge.

Alumni who were coaches of competing teams were
Bob Moriarty '28 of Monson, Fes Amsden w'26 of
New Salem, Myron Hager '40 of Sanderson Academy,
Fred Riel '38 of Deerfield, Rollie Reed '28 of East-
hampton and Leon Stanne '31 of Hadley. In the
final games, on March 8th, Moriarty, Reed and
Stanne coached three of the four competing teams.
Rollie Reed's Easthampton club won the tournament
championship.

In connection with the tournament there was a
reunion of Alumni who had played basketball at the
College: Em Grayson '17, Ray Parkhurst '19, Hank
Gowdy '22, Larry Jones '26, and Red Ball '21 were
among those present.

STUDENTS WERE PLEASED TO SEE AND HEAR JIM THORPE
("GREATEST ATHLETE IN THE WORLD") AT AND AFTER CON-
VOCATION ON MARCH 13 WHEN THORPE WAS GUEST SPEAKER

Track

The indoor track team completed one of its most
successful winter seasons in several years on March 1.

The Statesmen recorded victories over Connecticut,
over Springfield and Worcester Tech (in a triangular
meet), lost to Tufts and won from W.P.I, in a second
triangular meet, and lost a dual meet to North-
eastern.

Bill Wall '42 of Northampton broke the high jump
record which had been held by Wally Green '38 with
a jump of 5' 10f". Alan Bell '43 of Webster broke
the broad jump record of Warren Tappin '40 with a
new mark of 22' 4h". Brad Greene '42 of Springfield
won the "600" twice, took places in the high hurdles,
high and broad jumps.

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ALUMNI DAY TO BE SATURDAY,
JUNE 7

'AMHERST AS POETRY"

Commencement class reunions, scheduled for

Saturday, June 7th, will bring a large group of

Alumni back to the campus if present interest of

class officers and reunion committees is any indi-
cation.

The following classes are scheduled for runions.

1886 D. F. Carpenter, Charles W. Clapp, William
A. Eaton, Kingsbury Sanborn, George S. Stone.

1891 John B. Hull and Walter C. Paige look for-
ward to a 100 return of their classmates.

1896 Asa Kinney, secretary.

1901 James H. Chickering, secretary; Clarence E.
Gordon.

1906 Richard Wellington, secretary; Edwin F.
Gaskell.

1911 Leonard M. Johnson, secretary; Fred Mc-
Laughlin.

1916 Dutch Schlotterbeck is chairman of a large
and active committee which for several
months has been making plans for the 1916
25th reunion.

1921 Don Douglass, secretary; Starr M. King.

1926 Al and Maude (Bosworthi Gustafson will
work out plans.

1931 Norm Myrick is acting as local chairman, in
Amherst, for 1931's 10th reunion.

19:56 John W. Stewart, Jr., president; Leonta
Horrigan, Peg (Hutchinson i Allen and Fran
(Driscolli Maclinn will make some of the local
arrangements.

19:5* Babe Brown, president; Fred Sievers.

1910 Myron Hager, president.

1941 INDEX

Busy as beavers, the hoard of editors of the 19-11
Index have been hard at work all year preparing i
book which they feel will stand out as a most attrac-
tive pictorial and statistical record of the college year.

A number of pages are being devoted to the
activity oi the Associate Alumni.

The editors think that Alumni may well be inter-
ested in owning copies of the book and probably
the editors are right. Orders may he -'-nl to Lawrence
S. Dickinson. Stockbridge Hall. Amherst, Mass.. who
is faculty business manager. The price of the book
50, and the date of publication is May 1st.

A few weeks ago Max Goldberg '28, assistant pro-
fessor of English at the College, was guest lecturer
before a class in English at Amherst. His presenta-
tion struck such a responsive note that Max was
persuaded to allow the lecture to be put into print;
'Amherst As Poetry" is now on sale by the Newell
Press, in Amherst, at 65c per copy.

The following appreciation of the book was pre-
pared for the Alumni Bulletin.

"It is a pleasant thing to realize that Amherst's
lovers and visitors have available such an attractive
and revealing souvenir as Dr. Goldberg's "Amherst
As Poetry." Here, in thirty-odd pages of prose,
studded with quotations from the Amherst poets,
the author has identified that aspect of Amherst
which is poetic experience for all of us, and overt
poetry for those who are poets. The prevailing note
is struck and the angle set on the first page of the
book, where a State College Alumnus tries to tell
the author what it is that drives him back to Amherst.
Lovers of Amherst meet that young man's feeling in
complete recognition. It is in their own hearts and
in the poems of the town's poets.

"It is that feeling -in its nature, in the setting
thai provokes it, in its various kinds and degrees of
articulation that is at once the text and the gracious
spirit of Dr. Goldberg's book. It confers its own
quality on the writing and the form: the contours
are those of regional piety, and the movement has
thai peculiar grace.

"Il was inevitable that sooner or later there should
be a thoughtful recognition of the phenomenon that
present-day Ambers! is, in two particulars: in the
act i ve i (feci ion inspired in the hearts of her sons and
lovers, and in the presence of so many practising
poets in contemporary residence. Dr. Goldberg's
sensitive and penetrative book is I he kind of recog-
nition that Amherst's lovers would wish her to have.

"The author has been generous to the Amherst
poets. Their poems are quoted .is ottering, in more
illuminating finality, the expression toward which his
prose is moving. But to a reader, the spirit informing
the |>n>se is so of a kind with that of the poems, and
moves at such a reselling intensity, thai the feeling
is of media very like, one to the other, and very
happily fused.

"The poets quoted or carried in allusion are those
thai Amhersl readers have encountered, on campus
; ■ r rr I in library: Frank Prentice Rand. Robert Frost,
Robert Francis, Shirley Alberta Bliss, Emily Dickin-
son, tleorgc Meason Whicher, John Theobald, David

Morion. Tacy Stokes Paxton."

I". Joe Murray is treasurer of the Holyoke
Ma Housing Authority. This is a responsible

po ition inasmuch as the Holyoke housing projects

are well underway and independent of the defense
program.

'21 C. H. Anderson is division traffic engineer
with the New England Telephone and Telegraph

Company, Portland, Maine,

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'28 Dick Davis has been made manager of the
Portland, Maine, exchange of the New England
Telephone and Telegraph Company. Dick previously
had been manager of the Scollay Square exchange in
Boston.

Library

State College

SPRING ATHLETIC SCHEDULES

TRACK

BASEBALL

Track

Apr.

26 Boston Univ., there

Apr. 19

Connecticut, there

Captain, J. Edward O'Connor '41

May

3 Trinity, here
10 Tufts, here

Union, here

Manager, H. Westcott Shaw '42
Coach, Llewellyn L. Derby

13 Connecticut, there

Bowdoin, here

17 Eastern Intercollegiates

Lowell Textile, here

Worcester

Amherst, there

Baseball

23-24 New Englands,

May 3

Trinity, here

Co-Captains

Cambridge

Connecticut, here

Stanley A. Jackimczyk '41
Henry M. Parzych '41

TENNIS

Tufts, here

Manager, Harold P. Golan '42

Apr.

26 Vermont, here

Williams, there

Coach, Francis J. Riel '39

May

3 Connecticut, there

New Hampshire, there

7 Trinity, here
10 W.P.I. , here

Wesleyan, here

Tennis

17 Clark, there

W.P.I., there

Captain, Edward E. Anderson '41

21 Springfield, here

Springfield, there

Mgr., John U. Shepardson '42

24 Tufts, here

June 7

Amherst, here

Supervisor, Sidney W. Kauffman

ALUMNI MEETINGS

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at the home of Perez Simmons '16 for dinner and a
social evening.

Alumni present were Dwight Barnes '16, Norman
Ingham '05, and Fred L. Greene '94.

Simmons had visited campus last summer and was
able, consequently, to give his friends a first-hand
account of changes and developments which have
been taking place.

The group also heard a victrola recording (made
especially for alumni meetings) of music by the men's
glee club and of an excellent talk by President Baker.
Simmons said the recording made a fine contribution
to the program.

Harlan Worthley '18 writes from State College,
Pa., "Through the good work of Mr. and Mrs. Cy
French '38 (Mrs. French was Doris Jenkins '38)
thirty-one out of a possible forty Alumni attended a
dinner at the Penn State Hotel on the evening of
November 20th. It was a most enjoyable meeting
and the victrola record of singing by the glee club
and the talk by President Baker added considerable
interest. President Baker's talk seemed to fit the
occasion perfectly, sounding as if he were right here
talking intimately with us. It was a great pleasure
to have the Hills' (Charles C. Hill '14) from Carlisle
and the Sims' (James S. Sims '27) from Altoona
with us. We propose to continue the type of meet-
ing held this year."

CLASS OF 1940

(Continued from Page 5)

Franklin Hopkins recently visited the Alumni
Office. He was on his way to Illinois to report for
active duty with the Army Air Corps in which
service he had enlisted after giving up his position
as landscape man and horticulturist in Bristol, Conn.

Jerry Talbot, who has been doing sales work in
Connecticut, recently reported for duty with the
United States Army. He is at Fort Riley, Kansas.

Winslow Ryan is second lieutenant with the
Second Cavalry in the Camp Funston Area, Fort
Riley, Kansas.

Dave Tappun has completed both primary and
secondary courses in the C.A.A. and is now taking
an instructor apprentice course at the Barnes Air-
port in Westfield, Mass.

Clark Thayer '13 and Arnold Davis '30 drove out
to Geneva, N. Y. for the meeting of the Central New
York Alumni Club, held at the Geneva Country
Club, on November 9th.

Ellsworth Wheeler '26 and Laurence Carruth '29
made arrangements for the dinner and party.

Professor Thayer gave an excellent talk telling
about developments on campus; and Professor
Edward A. White '95, retired head of the department
of floriculture at Cornell, spoke on his recent trip to
Hawaii and the Far East.

It was generally agreed that the well-attended
gathering was one of the most interesting ever held
by the Central New York Club.

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/ol. XX 1 1 J, No. 8

May, 1941

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN
MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

George E. Emery '24, Editor
Published monthly at Amherst, Mass. (except August and
September) by the Associate Alumni of Massachusetts State College.
Entered as second class matter, March 17, 1920, at the Postofnce
at Amherst, Mass., under the Acts of March 3, 1879.

OFFICERS OF ASSOCIATE ALUMNI OF
MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

President, Alden C. Brett '12 of Belmont
Vice-President, Albert W. Smith '22 of Springfield
Secretary , Marshall O. Lanphear '18 of Amherst
Treasurer, Clark L. Thayer '13 of Amherst
Executive Secretary, George E. Emery '24 of Amherst

BOARD OF DIRECTORS
to 1941

Richard J. Davis '28 of Portland, Maine

Thomas P. Dooley '13 of West Roxbury

George W. Edman '21 of Pittsfield

Ralph F. Taber '16 of West Newton
to 1942
Erford W. Poole '96 of New Bedford

David P. Rossiter '37 of Maiden

Zoe Hickney White '32 of Worcester

Alfred E. Wilkins '15 of Wakefield
to 1943
Harry Dunlap Brown '14 of Billerica

William L. Doran '15 of Amherst

Mary E. M. Garvey '19 of Amherst

Lawrence L. Jones '26 of North Beverly
to 1944
Donald C. Dcuglass '21 of Belmont

Norman D. Hilyard '23 of Springfield

John W. McGuckian '31 of West Roxbury
Arthur D. Tilton '18 of Woburn

The Alumni Bulletin is sent ten times each year to all members
of the Associate Alumni. Memberships are: Annual S3. 00, Sustain-
ing $10.00.

Cover picture — the Massachusetts State women's
swimming team, national intercollegiate champions
(see page 6). Left to right: Barbara Burke '43 of
Forestdale, Martha Hall '42 of Worcester, Mabel
Arnold '44 of Northampton, Barbara Cramer '42 of
Amherst, Mary Haughey '44 of Pittsfield, Ruth
Howarth '44 of Hopedale, Dorothy Leonard '44 of
Worcester.

SEVENTY-FIRST COMMENCEMENT
PROGRAM ARRANGED

O. F. COOLEY '02 TELLS OF
HIGHEST BRIDGE

Orrin F. Cooley '02 is county road commissioner
for Los Angeles County, California. In an interesting
article in the Los Angeles Times for March 16th,
Mr. Cooley told about a new bridge, just built —
Los Angeles' highest.

The bridge has been built as part of the new
Angeles Forest Highway which has been constructed
over a distance of 24 miles in the mountains above
LaCrescenta.

It is expected that the new highway will be opened
about July 1st, when Los Angeles and foothill cities
are planning to join with surrounding communities
in a huge jubilee celebration.

'11 Bernhard Ostrolenk, economist of New York
City, is the author of an interesting statistical
summary in the Business Bulletin called Psychologi-
cal Poverty Since 1929.

'25 Gil Haeussler is entomologist with the U. S.
D. A. in Charlottesville, Va.

Saturday, June 7th, will be Alumni Day at the
seventy-first commencement exercises at the College;
and the day will be pack-jammed full of interesting
events. Other days of the commencement weekend
also will hold particular interest for Alumni this year.
Following is the outline of the program for June 6, 7,
8, and 9.

Friday, Juno 6

1:00 p.m. Annual Spring Horse Show, Riding Park.
8:00 p.m. Flint Oratorical Contest, Memorial Hall.

Saturday, June 7
Alumni Day

Roister Doister Breakfast, Draper Hall.
Annual Meeting, Associate Alumni,
Memorial Hall.

Semi-Annual Meeting of the Board of
Trustees, President's Office.
Alumni Luncheon.

Varsity Baseball Game with Amherst,
Alumni Field. Following game — half
hour concert on chime.
Alumnae Tea, Butterfield House.
Fraternity and Class Reunions as ar-
ranged by organizations.
Roister Doister play, "George Washing-
ton Slept Here."

8:30 a.m.
10:00 a.m.

10:00 a.m.

12:00 m.
3:30 p.m.

4:00 p.m.
6:00 p.m.

9:00 p.m.

Sunday, June 8
Baccalaureate Sunday

9:00 a.m. Academics and Varsity Club Breakfast
Meetings, Draper Hall.
11:00 a.m. Fraternity and Class Reunions as ar-
ranged by organizations.
12:30 p.m. Adelphia Dinner — 25th Anniversary,
Lord Jeff Inn.

3:00 p.m. President's Reception, Rhododendron
Garden (inside house if raining).

5:30 p.m. Baccalaureate Exercises, Physical Edu-
cation Building. Address by Will H.
Houghton, D.D., President, Moody Bible
Institute, Chicago.

8:00 p.m. Concert on the College Chime.

8:30 p.m. Senior Class Night Exercises, Bowker
Auditorium.

9:45 p.m. Reception by Associate Alumni to Seniors
and their guests, Memorial Hall.

Monday, June 9
Commencement

10:00 a.m. Graduation Exercises, Physical Edu-
cation Building. Address by Honorable
David I. Walsh, LL.D., United States
Senator from Massachusetts.
9:00 p.m. Sophomore-Senior Hop, Drill Hall.

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PLAQUES ARE PLACED IN NEW
DORMITORIES

JAMES NICHOLSON '16 IS
CONVOCATION SPEAKER

On March 22nd, the day of fraternity reunions and
initiation banquets, the College unveiled two bronze
plaques, one each in Lewis Hall and Butterfield House,
in recognition of the work of the Association Alumni
in providing these two fine buildings.

Exercises were held at Lewis Hall, and open house
was held at Butterfield, where tea was served and
groups of Alumni were conducted on an inspection
tour of the building by the girls who are living in
the dorm.

At the exercises in Lewis Hall, President Baker
introduced Trustee Clifford C. Hubbard who spoke
briefly in appreciation of the work of the Associate
Alumni.

Alden Brett '12 then unveiled the plaque. The
tablet is inscribed with the name of the building,
the statement that the dormitory was provided
through the efforts of the Associate Alumni, and with
the names of the building corporation: Alden C.
Brett '12, Eleanor Bateman '23. Richard J. Davis
'28, Harry Dunlap Brown '14, Ralph F. Taber '16.
William V. Hayden '13. David H. Buttrick '17,
Louis W. Ross '17.

In his response to Trustee Hubbard's remarks
Mr. Brett spoke as follows.

I know that I speak for all of those whose
names you have recorded here when I say that
we feel very deeply the honor you have accorded
us.

It is certainly a distinction 1 had no idea I
should ever achieve: although, having known
some of these others during their college days.
I am not surprised to see their names written in
bronze. Chance plays its part in many of the
distinctions which come to men: and I have a
guilty feeling, as though I were taking some-
thing that does not belong to me, because I
know this plaque could read very truthfully:
"We hereby express our appreciation to
a group of average Alumni. Names do not
matter, because the spirit which led to this
accomplishment is the spirit which lives in
the heart of every loyal son of 'Did Massa-
chusetts'."

I know of no group in whirli there exists so
great a degree of loyalty as in our Alumni.

To me loyalty is an inexplicable thing

loyalty to country, tn family, to friends, loyalty
to college.

Psychologists may agree, in a matter-of-fact
way, that the scientific basis for loyalty is easily
understood. They may say that it grows simply
out of the desire, perhaps, for self protection,
which is the strongest desire of man. Thus tin-
group is the protective unit; and the individual,
to endure, must support the group To me that
i- not i satisfying answer.

I have the feeling that beyond I In- limits of
our sphere of knowledge there is i cheme of
things which I can not comprehend. I am

Seldom if ever has a student body at the College
expressed itself with as much enthusiasm following a
convocation talk as on April 3rd when Jimmy
Nicholson '16 spoke to the students. At the con-
clusion of his talk Nicholson was twice forced to bow
in acknowledgement of the sincere applause of the
audience.

Nicholson is assistant to the chairman of the
American National Red Cross; he told the students
of his experiences during nearly a year in Germany,
France, Italy—from a trip to which countries, as a
delegate of the Red Cross, he had recentlv returned.

Since returning to the United States Nicholson
has made another trip, by plane, to South America,
where he visited every capitol of every country.
Although he did not tell the students, he was deco-
rated by the Chilean government following his work
as delegate to the Pan American Red Cross Con-
ference held in Santiago, Chile, last December. On
his last South American trip he was appointed an
honorary member of the Brazilian Red Cross.

Early last year Nicholson received a decoration
from the Bulgarian government, in recognition of
assistance granted the Bulgarian Junior Red Cross,
in its work for tubercular children, by the American
Junior Red Cross.

HACK AGAIN!!
AND IN SPANISH SOMBREROS!!
CLASS OF 1926 lVI'II REUNION

puzzled with the reasons for this and that. I
only know that when I give to others some of
the good that has come to me I have a feeling
of satisfaction which nothing can remove. This
feeling may be the clue which will lead us to at
least ,i partial answrt In those things which we
can not understand. 1 do know that we get our
truest enjoyment out of helping others. These
are the things which are truly worth while

So 1 believe it is with this group. In the
satisfaction of a job well done we already have
had our reward.

And so we thank you. But we want you to
think of our small group as only a part of a
larger whole made up of students, faculty,
Trustees, Alumni, and numberless friends of the
College, each of whom contributed his share.
You are all members of this group; and, through
us, you pay tribute to yourself.

It is my sincere desire that this spirit of
loyalty which you honor today shall continue
to grow and fruit in ever larger achievements in
the years to come to the end that with your help
our College may grow to full stature in its field
of service.

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OBITUARIES

Dr. Franklin L,. Warren '95

Dr. Franklin L. Warren '95 died on February 11.
1941, in Bridgewater, Mass.

Dr. Warren had long been considered one of the
best physicians in Bridgewater where he had prac-
tised for many years. He was loved and respected
by his townspeople.

He attended the 45th reunion of his class on
campus last June and was, at that time, in good
health and spirits. His death came as a great shock
to his classmates.

Raymond J. Fiske '10

Raymond J. Fiske '10 died at his home in Lunen-
burg, Mass., on January 31st. He was 52 years old;
he had been in poor health for some time.

Mr. Fiske had been a resident of Lunenburg for
more than twenty years where he was a well known
fruit grower. He had been active in the civic and
political affairs of his town: he had been a member
and chairman of the board of selectmen, of the town
finance board, and of the town zoning committee.
He was a member of the Massachusetts Fruit Growers
Association. His wife and two brothers and two
sisters survive him.

Richard Rittinger '24

Richard Bittinger '24 died at his home in Dighton,
Mass., on March 23. He was 39 years old.

He was born in Plymouth, Mass., and, after being
graduated from the Plymouth High School, he en-
tered Dartmouth College, later transfering to Mass.
State.

After graduation he taught science at the Sudbury,
Mass., High School and for the past three years he
had been head of the science department and teacher
at the Bristol County Agricultural School in Segre-
ganset, Mass. The tribute paid to his memory by
the student body and faculty of the Bristol school
was of significance and assurance that, though
Bittinger's work had but just begun, his pattern and
standard of high attainment would long continue.

A friend of Bittinger's, in Sudbury, has written,
"He was a genial and kindly man ... he held the
admiration and affection of his students . . . his
sudden death will be grievously felt by many."

MARRIAGES

w'27 Miss Rebecca Field to Frederic E. Jones,
March 20, 1941, in New York City.

'32 Stuart D. Edmond to Miss Arlene H. Mc-
Master, March 22, 1941, at Eliot, Maine.

'32 Robert C. Tetro to Miss Alice L. Bright,
April 19, 1941, at Washington, D. C.

'36 John W. Stewart, Jr. to Miss Janice Howe,
January 25, 1941, at Leominster, Mass.

'38 Charles Elliott to Miss Evella E. Clark,
August 9, 1940, at Ancon, Canal Zone.

'38 Miss Virginia M. Fagan to Roy A. Call,
April 19, 1941, at Holyoke, Mass.

'39 Miss Marion K. Stomberg to Edward H-
Haczela, June 15, 1940, at South Vernon, Vt.

BIRTHS

'31 and '34 A daughter, Margaret Curtis, to Mr.
and Mrs. Alfred Brown (Mary A. Tomlinson '34),
April 12, 1941, at Northampton, Mass.

'36 Twin daughters, Sandra and Susan, to Mr.
and Mrs. Arnold J. Bullock (G. Virginia Smith),
February 24, 1941, at Boston, Mass.

'15 Earle Draper has recently been made presi-
dent of the American Institute of Planners, an
organization composed of architects, engineers, land-
scape architects, economists, and other specialists
interested professionally in the field of regional, city
and community planning.

'22 Matt Murdock is a salesman in eastern
Pennsylvania for the Smith-Lee Company of Oneida,
N. Y.

'25 A picture of the sugar house on the farm of
Champ Grover '25 in Bernardston, Mass., was used
on the cover of the April, 1936, Alumni Bulletin. The
picture was later reproduced in a booklet distributed
by the New England Council, and appeared again in
the New York Sunday Times of February 23, 1941.

'31 Connie Gilgut is doing research in plant
pathology at the Waltham, Mass., Field Station.

'34 Ed Harvey is an instructor in the food in-
dustries department at Oregon State College, Cor-
vallis, and is in charge of the food industries labora-
tory at Astoria, Oregon.

'34 Al Ryan, who is teaching English at the
University of Iowa, will teach a graduate course in
Newman this summer at Notre Dame University in
South Bend, Indiana.

'35 Bob Hunter is teaching and coaching at the
high school in Poultney, Vt.

'35 Sidney Salamoff is a dentist with offices at
375 Harvard Street, Brookline, Mass.

'36 Dr. Arnold Briere received his M.D. degree
from Tufts Medical School last June and is now
interne at the Lynn, Mass., Hospital.

'36 Samuel Neuman is connected with the school
department of Juncos, Puerto Rico, where he is field
supervisor of English.

'39 Johnny Bemben is salesman with the Coca
Cola Company, 125 Armory Street, Springfield, Mass.

'39 Joe Paul has resigned from his work with the
TVA to take a position in the engineering depart-
ment of the Curtiss- Wright Aeroplane Corporation
in Buffalo, N. Y.

'39 Charlie Rodda is in the research laboratory
of the General Ice Cream Corporation in Schenectady,
N. Y.

'39 Edmund Wilcox has received an aviation
scholarship and is studying aeronautical engineering
at M.I.T.

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN

WITH THE ALUMMAE

by Mary E. Garvey '19
and Leonta Horrigan '36

Eloise Kellogg '35 is laboratory and X-ray
technician in the Milford, Mass., Hospital.

Mary Coonoy '36 is house instructor at the Kurn
Hattin Homes in Westminster, Vt.

Barbara Baggs '37 is a graduate nurse and is
located in New York City at 1320 York Avenue.

ALUMNI TAKE PART IN BOSTON
FLOWER SHOW

THE MANSION — WATER COLOR BY REBECCA FIELO W 27 WHICH

WAS ON DISPLAY IN MEMORIAL HALL IN THE "FAMILY ART

SHOW IN MARCH

Sally Hopkins '37 lias recently taken a position
in the upholstery department of Lord & Taylor's.
New York.

I iliili Whitmore "37 is a nurse, she lives at 405
South Eighth Street, Minneapolis, Minn.

Prances Stepath '37 has a position with llovey's
Department Store, Boston, Mass.

Esther Bloom '3S is a nutritionist with tin-
Chicago Relief Association.

Alioeila Howard *3S is teaching physical educa-
iion at Wykeham Rise School in Washington, Conn.

Betty Streeter '3s is now dietitian in one of the
cafeterias of the Pratt and Whitney Corporation.
West Hartford, Conn.

Bertha Boron '39 i- teaching in the -Junior High
School. South Deerfield, Mass.

Pauline Brissel '39 has a posit ion in the treasurer's
office at Smith College, Northampton Mas

Winifred Dixon '39 is head of the dining room
and infirmary at the Stevens Home lor Boys,

Wilmn Poerster '39 i- doing social service work
tor the Independence Hospital. Independence Iowa.

Ed Steffek '34, who is associate editor of Horticul-
ture, the magazine of the Massachusetts Horticultural
Society, has provided us with a list of Alumni who
took part in the 1941 Spring Flower Show of the
Massachusetts Horticultural Society in Boston in
March. George Graves '23 is, like Steffek, an editor
of Horticulture, and, also, was busy at the show.

Among the judges of the show were Paul Frese '28,
editor of Flower Grower magazine, Ormond Hamilton
w'32 of Worcester, and Clark L. Thayer '13, head of
the department of floriculture at the College.

Students of Thomas P. Dooley '13 at the Jamaica
Plain, Mass., High School, won a silver medal and a
special prize for a backyard or budget garden, show-
ing how vegetables may be handled. Dooley is head
of the agricultural department at the Jamaica Plain
High School and a member of the Children's Gardens
Committee of the Massachusetts Horticultural
Society. Assisting Dooley in horticultural work at
the Jamaica Plain High School are Dennis Crowley
'29, John McGuckian '31, Ducky Swan '27, and
Henry Wendler sp'18.

Dick Fraser '31 who is a landscape architect in
Southboro, Mass.. won first prize and a gold medal
for an elaborate outdoor shelter and barbecue fire-
place complete with a table set for a meal in a
garden.

Other Alumni who were prize winners at the show
are Harold Stevenson '24 of the Bay State Nurseries
in North Abington; Harold Thurlow '26 of the Cherry-
Hill Nurseries in West Newbury; and H. Linwood
White 'tl!i of the Kssex County Agricultural School.

Alumni in attendance at trade exhibit, booths
were Fred Nishet '34, and James Valentine '35.

'16 Leon F. Whitney of Orange, Conn., has re-
cently passed the Connecticut and New York state
examinations which grant him license to practice
veterinary medicine in those states. His animal
hospital is now nearing completion, adjoining his
well-known kennels from which have come some of
the world's most famous bloodhounds.

'21 Orrin Davis recently has been appointed
principal of the Winthrop, Mass., high school.

'38 Harry l.elgrade is leaching in the Knglish
department at the College taking the place of Cal
Hannum '36 who has reported for duty with I he-
ll. S. Army.

1919 INFORMAL REUNION l!>l!l

SATURDAY, JUNE 7 Til

Headquarters, Memorial Hall

fiunnar E. Kriekson

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN

ATHLETICS

Reunion

When Curry Hicks, swimming coach Joe Rogers,
and Joe Jodka '42 (national junior 220 yard breast
stroke champion) of Lawrence went to the national
championship swimming meet at East Lansing, Mich.,
on March 28th they were met by a group of Alumni.

Al Gower '31, who is in the chemical engineering
department at Michigan State, learned that Rogers,
Hicks, and Jodka would be in town and rounded up
a group of Alumni for a little supper party. Present
in addition to Gower were James Halligan '03,
Charlie San Clemente '37, Carl Gerlach G, and
Charles Barr '29. Carrick Wildon '16 of the floricul-
ture department at Michigan State was unable to be
present but sent a fine floral center piece for the
table. Gower wrote that everyone had a fine time
at the reunion; and Hicks, Rogers, and Jodka said
the same on their return to campus.

Incidentally, Jodka took third in the national
senior 220 yard breast stroke championship, finishing
only a bodv length behind Skinner, the Michigan
star, and less than that behind Parke of Princeton
who was second. Which represented some right
smart swimming.

Baseball

Coach Frannie Riel '38 and his baseball-playing
Statesmen have opened their season — it was on the
19th of April at Storrs, Conn. — by winning from the
University of Connecticut, 6-4. The Statesmen came
from behind in the last two innings to mark up this
initial victory — and they won by playing some good
baseball. Captain Hank Parzych '41 of Greenfield
did well at bat and Benny Freitas '42 of Fairhaven
started off the ninth inning rally, as a pinch hitter,
with a clean single. Sophomore Herb Gross of
Maiden pitched for the Statesmen and pitched well.
Coach Riel is going to have to develop other
pitchers, to relieve Gross, as the season progresses;
but if he can fine one or two lads who can throw as
well as Herb and if, meanwhile, he can keep the
Statesmen hitting as they did at Storrs, Alumni
should see some good ball games up to and including
the event on Alumni Field on Saturday, June 7th.
Remaining games:
April 22 Union, here

24 Bowdoin, here
26 Lowell Textile, here
30 Amherst, there
May 3 Trinity, here

6 Connecticut, here
10 Tufts, here
13 Williams, there
17 New Hampshire, there
21 Wesley an, here
24 W.P.I. , there
30 Springfield, there
June 7 Amherst, here

Football

Coach Walter Hargesheimer and his assistant,
Johnny Janusus, conducted spring practice on

Alumni Field during the last three weeks in April.
Although both wished that candidates for the squad
might have been more numerous, some good hard
licks were put in at fundamentals and scrimmage
on new plays.

Champions

The Massachusetts State College women's swim-
ming team (see cover picture) has won the National
Intercollegiate Telegraphic Swimming Meet for
Women. Fifty-three colleges competed, and results
were tabulated and announced on March 15th.

Events included in the meet were 40 and 100 yard
free style, back stroke, and breast stroke races, and
two relays, the 100 yard free style and the 75 yard
medley.

In winning the meet these swimming Statettes
broke five national records, the first time any college
has ever broken five records in one year.

Dotty Leonard '44 of Worcester broke records in
the 40 yard back stioke and in the 100 yard breast
stroke. Ruth Howarth '44 of Hopedale broke
records in the 100 yard back stroke and 100 yard
breast stroke.

The medley relay team of Leonard, Howarth, and
Mabel Arnold '44 of Northampton broke the record
in that event. The free style team of Howarth,
Arnold, Leonard, and Mary Haughey '44 of Pittsfield |
broke the 100 yard free style relay record. Pretty
good.

In the national meet the swimmers in first five
places were those of Massachusetts State, University
of Pennsylvania, University of Oregon, Northwestern
University and University of California in Los
Angeles.

In the Eastern regional event the first five were
Massachusetts State, University of Pennsylvania,
Skidmore, Vassar, and Swarthmore.

Massachusetts State will be Eastern sponsor next
year.

In Buffalo, N. Y., in March, at the Women's
National A.A.U. meet, Dotty Leonard won the 220
yard free style championship, and was voted the
best individual performer at the meet. She won more
points than any other competitor. All of which is
nice going — and no mistake.

'18 Paul Hunnewell recently sent us a note which
we were very pleased to get and which said, in part,
"Being 3000 miles away from Amherst I always look
forward to receiving the Alumni Bulletin; it is like
meeting a friend who has news from other friends."
Paul is manager of the Goleta Lemon Association in
Santa Barbara, California.

CLASS OF 1911 — ALL OUT!!
30TH REUNION

Headquarters — Paige Laboratory

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN

WITH 4

BOSTON ALUMNI

ACADEMICS

By John McGuckian '31

On Wednesday, March 19th, a very interesting
meeting of the Boston Alumni Club was held at the
University Club. Roger Johnson, statistician for the
New England Council, spoke on "New England's
Part in Defense." There was also a review of swim-
ming at the College by Jim Hodder '37 who was co-
captain of the team in 1937. Earl Bowen '40, who is
teaching at Northeastern and assisting with the
track team, talked about track at the College.

The annual banquet reunion of the Boston Alumni
Club will be held at Seiler's Ten Acres in Wayland
on the evening of April 26th. Alden Brett '12 will
preside. The meeting is planned as a social affair
with no formal speaking program.

WORCESTER ALl MM MEETING

Sixty Alumni, Alumnae, and friends gathered for a
dinner party on April 9th in Worcester.

Sid Vaughan '30 presided. He introduced Marshall
Lanphear '18, registrar of the College, who told about
the activity of the Associate Alumni in behalf of the
change of name of the College to University of
Massachusetts and about the efforts of the Associ-
ation which had resulted in the erection of the two
fine new dormitories.

Huck Love '25 and Albert Farnsworth '38 operated
the movie projector and showed three reels of campus
scenes two of the reels were of the work of the
military department and one was of the home
economics department. Barbara Farnsworth '40
commented on the home economics scenes.

It was an interesting and pleasant evening; every-
body had a good time and all look forward to the
n<xi meeting of the Worcester Alumni Club.

'39 Charlie Christie is control chemist with the
E. I. DuPont de Nemours Company, at the new
Charlestown, Indiana plant. The plant is govern-
ment owned but is operated by DuPont: it covers
nini- square miles of what were corn fields before last
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Pinafore

In reviewing the performance which the combined
musical clubs gave of Gilbert and Sullivan's "H.M.S.
Pinafore," the Springfield Union called the presen-
tation rollicking and high spirited. The review con-
tinued, "Last year the musical clubs put on a fine
performance of the 'Gondoliers' but the performance
(of Pinafore) reached an even higher level. ... It is
pleasant to realize that in these days young men and
women are still willing to go through the grind and
countless rehearsals to provide such a fine perform-
ance and keep alive the Gilbert and Sullivan tra-
dition."

Kenneth Collard '43 of Belchertown, Gladys
Archibald '41 of Amherst, John Gould '41 of Hadley,
and William Clark '43 of Lawrence gave excellent
individual performances.

Doric Alviani, instructor in music, directed.

The show was presented on three successive
evenings in March, to capacity houses.

Commencement Play

In view of the fact that the William Saroyan play,
"The Time of Your Life," which the Roister Doisters
had scheduled for Commencement is not to be avail-
able for little theatre production this spring, they
have substituted another Broadway smash hit,
"George Washington Slept Here," a farce comedy by
George Kaufman and Moss Hart, which ran on
Broadway for most of the winter. The story has to
do with a man who has a yen for the country, who
purchases a derelict colonial farmhouse, and pro-
ceeds to experience all of the inevitable disillusion-
ment pertaining thereto. It is very good fun with a
strain of light satire running through it.

The play has been cast as follows:
Mr. Kimber Lawrence Newcomb of Norwell

Newton Fuller Wesley Aykroyd of Worcester

Annabelle Fuller Marian Nagelschmidt of Pittsfield
Meriel VanBuren of Pittsfield
Robert Wroe of Foxboro
Marie Kelleher of Sandwich
Helen Fitch of Pittsfield
George Langton of Arlington
Lurane Wells of Orleans
Shirley Grosbeck of Lawrence
Joseph Bornstein of Milton
George Hoxie of Northampton
Hob Ewing of Fasfhampton
Gordon Smith of Salem
I tnrothy Grayson of Amherst
Beverly Bigwood of Athol
David Burbank of Worcester
It is expected that the play will be in shape to use
on High School Day, the 3rd of May, but it is in-
tended primarily for Commencement. Professor
James Robertson is making the set and Professor
Rand will direct.

'26 Stanley Burt was recently appointed assistant
agricultural agent for Franklin County, Mass.

Madge Fuller
Steve Eldridge

Katie

Mrs. Douglas
Clayton Evans
Rena Leslie
Hester

Raymond
Uncle Stanley
Leggett F raser
Tommy Hugh
Sue Harrington
Miss Wilcox
Mr. Prescott

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN

'13 Albert Edminster of East Freetown recently
entertained a number of Alumni, members of Alpha
Gamma Rho fraternity at his home, and an Alumni
Chapter of the Society was established. Bill Smith
'33 is secretary-treasurer.

Library

State College

SEVENTY- FIRST COMMENCEMENT SSS

FRIDAY, SATURDAY, SUNDAY, AND MONDAY
JUNE 6, 7, 8, AND 9

SATURDAY, JUNE 7, IS ALUMNI DAY

1886 Fifty-five Year Class. William H. Atkins, David E. Carpenter, Charles W.
Clapp, William A. Eaton, Kingsbury Sanborn, George S. Stone.

1891 F'fty Year Class. John B. Hull, Great Barrington, Mass. Walter C. Paige,
2911 6th Avenue, North, St. Petersburg, Florida.

1896 Forty-five Year Class. Asa S. Kinney, secretary, 70 Woodbridge Street,
South Hadley, Mass.

1901 Forty Year Class. Dr. Clarence E. Gordon, Amherst, Mass. James H.
Chickering, secretary, Dover, Mass.

1906 Thirty-five Year Class. Richard Wellington, secretary, N. Y. Agricultural
Experiment Station, Geneva, N. Y. Edwin F. Gaskill, Amherst, Mass.

1911 Thirty Year Class. Leonard M. Johnson, secretary, 9 Wooster Heights,
P. O. Box 583, Danbury, Conn. Frederick A. McLaughlin, Amherst, Mass.

1916 Twenty-five Year Class. Lewis Schlotterbeck, 1 Vernon Street, Wakefield,
Mass.

1921 Twenty Year Class. Donald C. Douglass, secretary, 12 George Street, Bel-
mont, Mass.

1926 Fifteen Year Class. Alton H. Gustafson, 186 Main Street, Williamstown,
Mass.

1931 T°n Year Class. Norman Myrick, Amherst, Mass.

1936 Five Year Class. Leonta Horrigan, Frances Driscoll Maclinn, Amherst, Mass.
Margaret Hutchinson Allen, Box 64, Montgomery Center, Vermont.

1938 Three Year Class. Frederick J. Sievers, Amherst, Mass.

1940 First Year Class. Myron Hager, Sanderson Academy, Ashfield, Mass.

ALUMNI DAY, SATURDAY, JUNE 7

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MILITARY SCIENCE AND TACTICS

v'oL XXIII, ,No. 9

MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE
AMHERST, MASSACHUSETTS

June, 1941

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN
MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

George E. Emery '24, Editor
Published monthly at Amherst, Mass. (except August and
September) by the Associate Alumni of Massachusetts State College.
Entered as second class matter, March 17, 1920, at the Postoffice
at Amherst, Mass., under the Acts of March 3, 1879.

OFFICERS OF ASSOCIATE ALUMNI OF
MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

President, Alden C. Brett '12 of Belmont
Vice-President. Albert W. Smith '22 of Springfield
Secretary. Marshall 0. Lanphear '18 of Amherst
Treasurer. Clark L. Thayer '13 of Amherst
Executive Secretary, George E. Emery '24 of Amherst

BOARD OF DIRECTORS
to 1941

Richard J. Davis '28 of Portland, Maine

Thomas P. Dooley '13 of West Roxbury

George W. Edman '21 of Pittsfield

Ralph F. Taber '16 of West Newton
to 1942
Erford W. Poole '96 of New Bedford

David P. Rossiter '37 of Maiden

Zoe Hickney White '32 of Worcester

Alfred E. Wilkins '15 of Wakefield
to 1943
Harry Dunlap Brown '14 of Billerica

William L. Doran '15 of Amherst

Mary E. M. Garvey '19 of Amherst

Lawrence L. Jones '26 of North Beverly
to 1944
Donald C. Dcuglass 21 of Belmont

Norman D. Hilyard '23 of Springf.eld

John W. McGuckian 31 of West Roxbury
Arthur D. Tilton '\a of Woburn

The Alumni Bulletin is sent ten times each year to all members
of the Associate Alumni. Memberships are: Annual S3. 00, Sustain-
ing J10.00.

Cover picture — Frank Robert Lee Daley, Jr. '40 was
cadet major in the R.O.T.C. at the College during his
senior year, and in charge of a squadron. To emphasize
the desirability of neatness and precision in drill to the
students in his command he drew cartoon sketches from
time to time and posted these on the Drill Hall bulletin
board. Some of these sketches are reproduced on the
cover of this Bulletin and others, some of which represent
incidents on overnight marches, appear throughout the
Bulletin.

Incidentally, Daley's graphic suggestions with regard
to drill regulations proved effective. His squadron was a
good one.

Alumni who returned to campus on High School
Day were Sidney Greenberg '40, Tom Dooley '13,
Veasy Peirce '25, John Dellea '02, Belding Jackson
'22, George Peck '19, Louis Moseley '06, Elizabeth
Love '28, Myron Hager '40, and Brooks Jakeman
'20 of Larchmont, N. Y., whose older son is entering
the College in the fall.

PAST AND PRESENT
OF THE CLASS OF

1914

For two weeks in May a series of remarkable
paintings of game birds done by Lemuel Palmer sp'16
were on display in Memorial Hall. Outstanding in
these pictures is the marvelously fine detail.

Pages 6 and 7 of this Bulletin have been provided
by the Department of Athletics, pages 8 and 9 by the
Academic Activities Board.

By Henry Clay '14

Leone Smith (or L. Ernest to distinguish him
from L. Edgar Smith) is busy preparing Camp
Sangamon, Pittsford, Vt., for its 21st year as a home
camp for boys. "The Camp with the Pioneer Spirit,"
its prospectus says, and some '14-ers know from the
experience of their own boys that it is a fine place
for them to spend the summer. The Camp mother
is Mrs. Smith, a Bridgewater Normal graduate. Son
David, a senior at Middlebury College this year, is
on the cross country team and band; James, who
graduated in June at Middlebury, was carillioneur
of the college chime and won a music scholarship in
organ; Lawrence and Jean are still in Pittsford
schools.

Leone has made a career of working with boys, in
Connecticut and Vermont, and so effectively that for
two years, at the request of the Governor of Vermont,
he was superintendent of the Vergennes Industrial
School for Boys. He has not only been a local leader
in boys' club work but also active in Farm Bureau,
Chamber of Commerce and Rotary organizations.
He has also written for The Camping Magazine. But
Camp Sangamon is closest to the heart of our perma-
nent class secretary.

Leslie Anderson is a market gardener on a large
scale at Concord, where he not only keeps eight men
occupied on the farm but 25 more at the market at
which farm produce is sold. Having an acre under
glass was a contributing reason for heavy losses from
the 1938 hurricane that caused so much damage in
New England.

A daughter, Pauline, is at Stoneleigh College, Rye,
N. H., and William Wheeler and David are at
Concord High School. William, named for a great
uncle who was a graduate of the first class at the
College, is prominent on the track and football
teams. With such titles as past commander of the
American Legion Post and past president of the
Concord Rotary Club, it is clear that Andy is a
leader in the home town.

Arthur Taylor is another '14 boy who thinks the
Connecticut Valley a good place to farm. He is
running the home farm at Feeding Hills, Mass.,
growing tobacco and producing milk. The Grange,
Republican Town Committee, Town Conservation
Committee, and the Connecticut Valley Pioneer
Association for the promotion of natural valley ad-
vantages and for advertising the possibility of
attracting visitors to the Connecticut Valley, also
share his time.

Married for 25 years, the Taylors have a daughter,
Ruth, who is a graduate nurse and a son, Richard,
who graduated from Stockbridge School and works
on the home farm.

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THE ALUMNI BULLETIN

ALUMNI DAY PROGRAM, JUNE 7TH, TO RE PACKED WITH INTEREST

Alumni who return to campus for the reunion
festivities on June 7th — and there will be a good
crowd of these Alumni if present indications are any
criterion — are going to have a full and busy day.
And an interesting one.

To the Roister Doisters will fall the distinction of
opening and closing the formal program — with the
breakfast party in Draper Hall at 8:30 in the morn-
ing and with the Kaufman-Hart comedy hit, "George
Washington Slept Here," in Bowker Auditorium at
9:00 in the evening. Alumni Roister Doisters are in-
vited to the breakfast; everybody is invited to the play.

Alumni classes may reserve blocks of seats for the
play in Bowker Auditorium by writing to the Alumni
Office; and the reservations will be held, intact, until
noon of the 7th. Individual tickets for the play will
be on sale in the main lounge of Memorial Hall. The
play has already been presented, on High School
Day, and with great success— it is amusing and full
of laughs. Nobody dies, or even threatens to -not
even the Japanese beetles which have a prominent
part in the proceedings.

At 10 o'clock on Alumni Day the annual meeting
of the Associate Alumni will be held in Memorial
Hall. There will be an election of officers and de-
tailed reports of one of the busiest years which the
Association has ever experienced.

DANIEL WILL ARD BECOMES
RAILROAD CHAIRMAN

Early in May, Daniel Willard '82 resigned his
presidency of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad to
assume the chairmanship of the road. As president
of the Baltimore & Ohio he became known through-
out the country as a sympathetic friend of labor. At
a dinner in 1931 his employees gave him a degree:
"Doctor of Humanity in the University of Life and
Labor."

'17 Al Spaulding is the author of an article called
"Insurance as a Career" which appeared in a recently
printed booklet called "Your Career" and containing
24 articles on 24 different professions, industries, and
businesses.

'21 Harland Gaskill is store manager for W. T.
Grant. 1667 Main Street, Dallas, Texas.

'22 Earle S. Leonard is manager of the Western
Auto Supply Company Store, 906 Broadway, Buffalo,
New York.

Bob Martin is chief of the division of in-
dustrial economy. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic
Commerce, Washington, D. C.

'25 Buddy Frost is in the Park Planning Division
of the National Park Service, Department of Interior,
Washington, D. C.

'25 George Hanscomb is captain in the Air Corps,
1 ~ Army. He is on active duty, and stationed at
I J-ill Field, Florida.

Following the meeting will come the Alumni
Luncheon in the Drill Hall. Hicks, of Lynn, has been
re-engaged as caterer — which will be good news to
all those who remember the super-excellent meal
which was served last year. President Baker and the
Trustees of the College will be guests at the luncheon.
There will be speeches, and cheers, and music. And
then, the diners will adjourn for further festivities
including the parade which Alumni Marshal Alan
Chadwick '31 will direct and lead to the varsity
baseball game with Amherst.

The Alumnae Tea will be at 4:00 in Butterfield
House, the fine new dormitory for women recently
erected by the Associate Alumni. No returning
Alumna will want to miss seeing Butterfield House —
nor any Alumnus for that matter.

At 6 o'clock will come the class reunion suppers —
always a high point in the reunion activities. And
then, as a finale, the Roister Doister play.

Alumni registration headquarters are in Memorial
Hall and all Alumni are urged to register at these
central headquarters immediately upon arrival in
Amherst -even though their class headquarters, as
such, may be in other buildings.

Alumni Day, June 7th, will be a lot of fun. We'll
be looking for you!!

The new $250,000 building for the Division of
Forestry and Lake States Forest Experiment Station
was named in honor of the late Professor Samuel B.
Green ('79 1 , first head of the division of forestry at
the University of Minnesota. It is a four-story
structure and one of the most modern in the nation.
It is equipped with special research laboratories, a
greenhouse, and an auditorium seating 370 persons.
The Minnesota Division of Forestry is one of the
oldest in the nation; the late Professor Green taught
courses as early as 1896. President's Report, Uni-
versity of Minnesota.

'13 Stuart Moir is forester for the Western Pine
Association, 510 Yeon Building, Portland, Oregon.

^OAD ^ALT

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN

OBITUARY

Miss Helen Knowlton

The sudden death of Miss Helen Knowlton on
May 11th is cause of sincere sorrow. In the past
seventeen years she has served as assistant professor
of home economics at the College and later associate
professor. She was graduated from Mount Holyoke
and received her Master of Arts degree at Columbia
University. Before coming to Massachusetts, she
taught at Cornell and at the University of New
Hampshire.

Contacts with home economics Alumnae and
friends during the past years have brought the query,
"How is Miss Knowlton? Give her my love."
Many Alumnae who knew her will regret her passing.

The beginning of Miss Knowlton's period of service
at the College was co-incidental with the recognition
of home economics as a major field of study at the
State College. Therefore, the teaching of foods and
nutrition has reflected her progressive ideas, her
theories, and her vision. Her keen and appreciative
mind combined with her love of her subject, made her
an exceptional teacher who realized that her best work
lived in the spirit of her students. She was surrounded
with a kind of serenity which gave courage and confi-
dence to her associates. Her sense of responsibility
was unwavering and she always stood by.

Miss Knowlton will be remembered by those who
knew her not only for her distinguished service as a
teacher but for her rarely beautiful character, and
her lovable personality. Her life was rich in friend-
ships from every walk of life, for she loved people
and had a real gift for friendship. Her sincerity, her
thoughtful interest for others, her understanding
sympathy and rare humor endeared her both to
students and colleagues, and reached to many in the
church and the community.

To many of the faculty, students, and Alumni of
Massachusetts State College the passing of Miss
Knowlton seems like the loss of an old friend after
long years of delightful, helpful companionship. Her
life will go on in the widely scattered lives which
touched hers and into which she put so much of
strength and inspiration and beauty.

E. L. S.

MARRIAGES

w'29 Lawrence Comins to Miss Bessie Smith,
May 10, 1941, at East Longmeadow, Mass.

'33 Miss Janice Munson to Theodore Smith,
April 26, 1941, at Amherst, Mass.

'35 Ronald C. Malloch to Miss Donna Davis,
May 3, 1941, at Florence, Mass.

w'35 John Colman to Miss Susan Smith, April 5,
1941, at Binghamton, N. Y.

'36 Miss Lucy Kingston to Everett McCue,
April 26, 1941, at Springfield, Mass.

'36 Samuel Neuman to Miss Lillian Grossman,
March 29, 1941, at Boston, Mass,

'38 Miss Jessie Chase to Alonzo Lowell, January
19, 1940, at Bath, Maine.

'39 Philips Luce to Miss Helene Gridley, May 3,
1941, at Framingham, Mass.

'39 and '39 Walter Zajchowski to Miss Mildred
Cajkowski, May 3, 1941, at Hadley, Mass.

'40 Tracy Page to Miss Ruth Huntress, May 3,
1941, at Springfield, Mass.

'40 Miss Jacqueline Stewart to Lieutenant Wilson
Hawkins, April 15, 1941, at Fort Riley, Kansas.

'41 and w'42 Kenneth Howland to Miss Louise
Olson, May 13, 1941, at Amherst, Mass.

BIRTHS

'25 A son, Donald Edward, to Mr. and Mrs.
Garabed Mouradian, March 25, 1941, at Somerville,
Mass.

'32 A daughter, Anne Cargill, to Mr. and Mrs.
Eben Holder, May 3, 1941, at Belmont, Mass.

'34 A son, George Raymond, to Mr. and Mrs.
Leon Nettleton (Edith Smith '34), April 22, 1941, at
Dansville, N. Y.

'39 A son, William, Jr., to Mr. and Mrs. William
Cox, March 26, 1941, at Providence, R. I.

'15 Ralph MacNeil is a chemist with the New
York City department of health, 125 Worth Street.

'20 Robert Derick is a landscape architect with
the National Parks Service in Raleigh, N. C.

'27 Samuel Cutler is captain in the U. S. Air
Corps — he has been stationed at Langley Field and
Westover and is now to be detailed to the Bangor,
Maine, Air Base.

ALUMNI MEET IN SPRINGFIELD

Conrad Hemond, Jr. '38 presided at a joint meet-
ing of the Springfield and Holyoke Alumni groups at
the Edelweiss Chalet in Springfield on May 6th.

Charlie Hutchinson '35 officially represented the
Springfield group in the absence of Ken Ross '37 who,
with Hemond, arranged the details for the dinner
party.

President Baker was guest of honor of the group;
Bob Hawley '18, treasurer of the College, was the
principal speaker. Professor Rollin Barrett showed
four reels of interesting campus movies including new
colored pictures of the work of the military depart-
ment.

Fletcher Prouty '41, son of L. Fletcher Prouty
sp'll, and soloist with the college glee clubs, sang
several numbers and led the Alumni in group singing.

After the formal program and dinner there was
dancing to music by an orchestra of Wilbraham
Academy students who came over to Springfield with
their teacher and coach, Harold Hemond '38.

Eighty-one Alumni and friends were present in-
cluding Daniel P. Cole '72, a member of the oldest
alumni class.

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN

WITH THE ALUMMAE

by Mary E. Garuey '19
and Leonta Horrigan '36

A meeting of New York Alumnae was held on
April 23rd at the home of the chairman, Polly
Spiewak '31. Among those present, besides Polly,
were Rose Ash '37, Marjorie Van Vranken '28,
Gcraldinc Bradley '39, Barbara Davis '36.
Evelyn Sandstrom Arnurins '30, Priscilla Taylor
Page '39, and Phoebe Hall '28.

Polly gave a brief resume of the history of the
club and suggested that new officers be elected.
Barbara Davis. 200 East 26th Street, was chosen
chairman and Rose Ash, New York City Tuberculosis
and Health Association, secretary-treasurer.

Plans for future meetings of the group were dis-
cussed.

The Alumnae Tea will be held on June 7th, at
four o'clock, in Butterfield House. Alumnae, and
Alumni, are invited.

On April 21st, Alumnae in Essex County met at
the home of Alice Bevington "37 in Lawrence.
Present, besides Alice, were Peg Firth '40, Id:i
Davis '40, Bobbie Geiger Bennett "21, Margery
Johnson '40, and Mary Rogosa '39.

Professor Rollin Barrett, who was in the vicinity
at the time, came with his moving picture machine
and showed the movie of campus life made fifteen
years ago by the Roister Doisters and also the brand
new colored film of home economics work.

Winifred Dixon '39 is supervisor of the dining
room and infirmary at the Stevens Home for Boys
in Swansea.

Catherine I tc '10 is receptionist in a dental

office in Ossining, N. Y.

Phila Vail] '39 is student laboratory technician at
the Worcester City Hospital.

Doris Dyer '39 is a social worker with the Massa-
chusetts Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children.
43 Mt. Vernon St rent. Boston.

Lois Fun '37 is curator of children's work in the
Worcester Museum of Natural History.

Kutb Kodis ':5s is laboratory technician at the
Springfield. Mass.. Hospital.

Carol Millard "38 18 secretary-hostess with B.
Altman and Company. - i * 1 1 > Street and 5th Avenue,
New York City.

Brma Carl '31 is a teacher at the American Insti-
tute for Girls in Smyrna.

Dorothy Rourke "10 has recently been appointed
laboratory technician at the Hospital Cottages for
Children in Baldwinville.

Gladys Simmons "34 is teacher in the Junior
High School at Lanesboro.

Ralph Palumbo has received a scholarship in
plant pathology in the graduate school at Cornell
University, Ithaca, N. Y.

Paul Ferriter is a chemist with the duPont
Company in Charlestown, Ind.

Wilfred Winter is a lieutenant in the U. S. Army
and is stationed at the Henry Barracks, Cayey,
Puerto Rico.

Dean Terry is a testing engineer with United
Aircraft. He lives at 17 Church Street, Palmer.

Julian Zabierek is in the inventory department
of Canada Dry Ginger Ale. Boston.

Arthur Howe is a graduate assistant in bacteri-
ology and working for an advanced degree at the
University of New Hampshire.

Robert Creswell is doing sales work with the
Wirthmore Retail Stores in Greenfield, Mass.

Kodney Turner is at Tufts Medical School.

Matthew Tuttle is engineering draftsman at the
Navy Yard in Boston. He lives at 18 Beckert Ave.,
Revere.

Glenn Boyd is a chemist with the Campbell Soup
Company in Mexico, N. Y.

John Kilios is a special student at M.I.T. where
he is in the training bureau working on mechanical
and production engineering.

Martti Suomi is representative for the Eastern
States Farmers Exchange in Fitch burg, Mass.

Robert Moshcr is a graduate student at the
Institute of Paper Chemistry at Lawrence College,
Appleton, Wisconsin.

Dominic Nictupski, whose home is in Ludlow,
Mass.. is doing work in ice cream production.

Homer Stranger is doing dairy work in Keene,
N. H.

Flora Manwell '30 is in Istanbul, Turkey, (she
went by way of San Francisco and India), where
she is teaching nursing at the American Hospital.

Martha Kaplinshy *3S, Jeanettc Herman '39

and Florence Goldberg '39 arc affiliated with the
Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, Mass.

Frieda Hall '40 is now attending Bryant and
St rat I on Business College in Boston, after a vacation
in I he sout li.

Madcl'm ('base '30 is a junior clerk in the Massa-
chusetts State Employment Service, Boston.

Emily Mealy '37 is a public health nurse with the
Visiting Nurse Association of Pawtucket, R. I. She
was graduated from the Massachusetts General
Hospital.

Marjorie Smith '40 has taken a position with
the Springfield Safe Deposit and Trust Company in
Springfield, Mass.

1935

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Wesleyan

Worcester Tech

Connecticut

Williams

Trinity

Captain,

Bill Tirrell '35

1936

The Statesmen 31

Wesleyan 46

Worcester Tech 25

Connecticut 28

Williams 28

Coast Guard 26

Trinity 42

Captain, Cummings Lothrop '36

1937

The Statesmen 50

Wesleyan 27

Worcester Tech 15

Coast Guard 25

Trinity 33

Williams 45

Connecticut 22

Captains

Jim Cutter '37,

Jim Hodder '37

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Such

"Pick it up. Pick it up.' ouch were th
tions which emanated from the swimmjn °
when Joe Rogers first took charge of swirnrni
the College in May of 1931. Such is still the fainj
cry arising night and day from the north end of
physical education building, whenever the swim
practice.

These words of encouragement from Coach Rn
have spurred State swimming teams to the envia
record of 34 wins out of 43 dual meets since swimi
was first recognized as a varsity sport in 1935,
record included an undefeated season in 1940
string of eleven straight victories from 1939 to
These words have provided the incentive for
development of such individual stars as Bill Tin
'35, captain of State's first swimming team in 19,
Merrill Welcker '35, who was the first State swimi
to gain ail-American recognition; Jim Cutter
who compiled a brilliant record in dual meets 1
won New England Intercollegiate free style
pionships in 1936 and 1937, bringing himself
American honors; Jim Hodder '37, who could
swim as a freshman and who became a top
breaststroker, winning a New England crown in
specialty in 1937 and also gaining all-Americ
honors; Dean Rounds, star backstroker of the ell
of 1939: Andy Anderson '39. who learned all

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1940 UNDEFEATED

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Connecticut

Wesleyan

Coast Guard

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George Pitts

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Roy Morse '40

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while in College and became a consistent
free style events; Bob Hall '41 who, as
says, "could just about paddle around"
he came to State, but worked hard enough to
' me a g00^ sprint man; Joe Jodka '42, captain-
It for next year, who has not yet completed a
lliant collegiate career which has brought him
erous pool records in the breaststroke, the New
uland 200-yard record in his specialty of 2 minutes
a seconds, a third place in the stiff competition
the Nationals this year, and ail-American dis-
and many other boys who have worked
to help build up the record accomplished by
swimming teams.
Men questioned concerning the prospects for
;t year, Coach Rogers, who loses six seniors from
year's squad, was anything but optimistic about
earn record; but he waxed enthusiastic concerning
freshman prospect. Bud Hall of Worcester, who
holds the pool record for the 50-yard free
le with a time of 23.7 seconds. This is equal to
New England record for the event. With many
ahear': before the beginning of the next
iming schedule, we feel that Joe Rogers will get
boys to "pick it up" sufficiently again to give
ite a good swimming team and to add to the
eady large record of wins.

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1938

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Boston Univ.

Worcester Tech

Williams

Wesleyan

Coast Guard

Connecticut

Captain, Dean Rounds '38

1939

The Statesmen 21

Williams

Worcester Tech

Connecticut

Wesleyan

Coast Guard

Boston Univ.

Captains

H. G. Anderson

'39, Herb Howes

'39

1941

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Worcester Tech

Williams

Connecticut

Wesleyan

Coast Guard

Union

M.I.T.

Boston Univ.

Captains

Bob Hall '41,

Howie McCallum

'41

ACADEMICS

NEWCOMB 43, MARION NAGELSCHMIDT 42, AND AYKROYD 4I

in
"GEORGE WASHINGTON SLEPT HERE"

A rollicking Hart-Kautman farce only recently released from Broadway.
"A huge success" — Massachusetts Collegian
"A campus hit" — Springfield Republican

The Roister Doisters will repeat their presentation of this hilarious play

at Commencement.

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THE ACADEMICS BOARD

from left to right:

Lawrence Dickinson, Business Manager

Robert Nottenberg, Collegian Manager

Frank Prentice Rami, General Manager

Albert Eldridge, winner of Conspicuous Service Trophy, Band

Harry Guck, Chairman of Token Committee

l-h\\i\ Ki\<., co-winner of Managers' Prize, Sinfonietta

Dean MaCHMER, Chairman

Sumner Kaplan, manager Roister Doisters

Barbara Critchett, manager (iirls' Glee Club

George H vmel, co-winner <>t Managers' Prize, Index

George Emery, Secretary

These pictures are from the i v-4- ' Index

M !", Donahi e, editor Collegian Quarterly

Peter Barre< , 1940 winner Conspicuous
Service Trophy

mi Goding, chairman Faculty Music
Committee

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ATHLETICS

Baseball

A lack of experienced pitchers has handicapped
the Statesmen in their baseball campaign this spring;
the club has won from the University of Connecticut
twice, from Union, and lost to Bowdoin, Lowell
Textile, Amherst, Trinity, Tufts, Williams, and New
Hampshire.

Remaining games are those to be played with
Wesleyan, Worcester Tech and Springfield, and the
commencement return engagement with Amherst on
June 7th.

VARSITY CLUB
BREAKFAST

Draper Hall, June 8, 9 o'clock

'16 T. Carlton Upham is the author of "Total
Democracy" recently published by Carlyle House,
535 Fifth Avenue, New York. The publisher says,
"This is a book for the layman ... by a layman.
T. Carlton Upham is not a professor of constitutional
law, or a sociologist, or a professional politician. He
is a thinking individual who has devoted years to a
consideration of our way of life and the document on
which it is based — our Constitution."

Dr. Charles J. Rohr, professor of political economy
at the College says of "Total Democracy," "It is a
daring book — one which will make people ponder
the present Constitution and reflect on the social
maladjustments which may have arisen under it."

You OueHT To l<JJow

The 7(if-k is carried like tV/s

fOoof-'

CLASS OF 1914

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Charles Hill was one of the ent. boys and has
for years been in charge of Uncle Sam's field labora-
tory at Carlisle, Pa., for the Bureau of Entomology
and Plant Quarantine. He has kept the typewriter
busy writing articles and bulletins of an entomologi-
cal nature. Evidently he stands high in the esti-
mation of other ent. men in the State, for in 1933
Charles was president of the Entomological Society
of Pennsylvania.

Hill early sought the license bureau, being married
'way back in September 1914. Karolyn, a daughter
of 23, is an artist of ability, and has received di-
plomas from several art schools of note.

ujvj can b E £■ wbw.

.Joe Strange Ellis (or Josephine if one must be
formal) has combined home and career activities
most effectively. Following a period of teaching
nature study and looking after the campus at Keene
Normal School in New Hampshire, came a year or
two of lecturing on Home Grounds and Civic Im-
provement "up and down the State of Indiana."
Marriage to Ben Ellis '13 didn't stop the lecturing,
which continued in Connecticut, but after a few
years a couple of youngsters circumscribed the possi-
ble travel radius and landscape gardening faded into
a hobby.

After twenty years in Connecticut, Joe is back on
the paternal farm in Marshfield, Mass., raising the
best varieties of apples, pears and cranberries. Son
David, a boy of 17, already shows artistic ability,
and 11 -year-old Caroline is interested in music.

'36 Royal Tanner is a lieutenant with the 3rd
Signal Training Battalion at Fort Monmouth, N. J.

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN

WITH |

BOSTON ALUMNI

ACADEMICS

By John McGuckian '31

The Massachusetts State College Club of Boston
held a most successful reunion and dance at Seller's
Ten Acres in Wayland on Saturday, April 26th.
There was a fine dinner, and dancing to the famous
Billy Johnson orchestra.

Fred Swan '27, president of the Boston Club, gave
a few words of greeting to the Alumni and friends
present and introduced Alden Brett '12 as toast-
master. Trustees Harry Brown and Bill Monahan
each spoke briefly. Frank Andersen '16 contributed
to the occasion by offering several stories — all of
which had first passed a board of censors composed
of Bill Hayden '13, Bud Ross '17, and Ducky
Kennedy "24.

Alden Brett spoke for the Associate Alumni and
told of the progress being made in the project of the
alumni organization to change the name of the
College to University of Massachusetts. He told of
the action which the Alumni Building Corporation
was taking to disseminate information, throughout
the State, with regard to the alumni self-liquidating
dormitory project.

'38 George Niden has been drafted into the army
and is at present a member of Company I). 101st
Infantry, at Camp Edwards.

J7 Bob McAllister is consulting chemist for
Arthur D. Little, Inc.. Cambridge.

'38 Kenneth Benson is a food chemist. He lives
at .112 Washington Street, Winchester, Mass.

'18 Elwyn Cotton is manager of the Bliss Dairy
Farm in Attleboro.

'37 Lt. Al Gricius stopped in at the alumni office
the other day. Al was on his way to Pine Camp,
N. Y. transferred from Fort Knox, Kentucky .
where he will be with the r>th Armored Regiment.

Convocation

At the academics insignia convocation on May 15th
Professor Waugh was the guest speaker. Professor
Frank Prentice Rand, director of Academic Activities,
was in charge of the program.

The conspicuous service trophy was awarded to
Albert Eldridge '42 of Somerville for his work in the
organization of an intercollegiate band festival held
this spring on campus. The manager's prize was
divided between George Hamel '41 of Worcester,
manager of the Index, and Edwin King '41 of Melrose,
manager of the Sinfonietta. Kenneth Howland '41
of South Duxbury, Chet Kuralowicz '41 of Williman-
sett, and Fletcher Prouty '41 of Springfield received
gold medals with diamond chips — the highest medal
award which Academics presents — for their work on
the Collegian, Index, and glee club, respectively.

1941 Index

The 1941 Index is out, and it is a beauty. Especially
noteworthy is the attractive arrangement of excep-
tionally good photographs of campus scenes and
informal student groups. Editor Kuralowicz and his
assistants did a fine job.

Roister Doisters

On High School Day, May 3rd, the Roister Doisters
gave a first-class performance of the play which they
will present on the evening of Alumni Day, June
7th the Kaufman and Hart comedy, "George
Washington Slept Here."

Wes Aykroyd '41 of Worcester and Marion Nagel-
schmidt '42 of Pittsfield played the principal parts
with great conviction. The Collegian called the pro-
duction a lively one, a huge success. Alumni will see
a good show during the commencement weekend.

Debating

The debating team, coached by Professor Prince,
has engaged in debates during the winter and spring
season with Amherst. American International College,
Boston University. Drexel, Kcnssalaer, and on the
"Sunt hern" trip, with Upsala, Rider, Drexel, and
Western Maryland.

Regular weekly sessions were held with Professor
Prince and extensive preparation was given to the
work for the several debates. Those taking part in
the "Southern" trip were Herbert Weiner '42 of
M niapan, president: Francis Shea '42 of Florence,
manager; Robert O'Shea '44 of Northampton, and
Gould Ketchen '42 of Belchertown.

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BREAKFAST

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THE ALUMNI BULLETIN

'03 W. E. Tottingham, professor of chemistry at
the University of Wisconsin, recently wrote with
regard to the work of the Associate Alumni in its
effort to change the name of the College to Univer-
sity of Massachusetts. He said, "My respects to
those who labor on this development."

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Alumni Day, Saturday, June 7th

Alumni Meeting — Alumni Luncheon — Parade — Ball Game
Roister Doister Play — Alumnae Tea — Class Suppers

REGISTRATION HEADQUARTERS, MEMORIAL HALL

'05 A. D. Taylor has been appointed chief of the
site planning unit in the technical planning group of
the War Department where he oversees the work of
a band of patriots, some of them architects, some
landscape architects, some engineers, probably some
political appointees. In a letter to Dr. Waugh he
says, "This work includes collaboration in the
selection of sites for cantonments and other defense
projects, planning and development of sites, camou-
flage in connection with vegetation and site planning,
recreational areas for cantonments, planting, maps
and surveys for all defense projects areas. Sixteen
hours is my minimum day. This morning I started
at 5:45 and it is now 11:30 p.m. They gave me
fifteen minutes for lunch."

'18 Foster Baker is a printer with the Keller
Printing Company in New York City. He lives at
83-14 266th Street, Floral Park, N. Y.

'23 Lewis Dickinson is chief chemist with the
U. S. Rubber Company in Bristol, R. I.

'25 Leo Duffy teaches science in the Philip
Schuyler High School in Albany, N. Y.

'29 Andy Coukos is teacher of agriculture and
industrial arts at the Riverhead, Long Island, High
School.

'29 Charles Smith is with the Federal Intermedi-
ate Credit Bank, 310 State Street, Springfield, Mass.

'31 Harry Hanks is with the Chase National
Bank, 20 Pine Street, New York City.

'34 Page Hiland is a lieutenant with the Armored
Force Replacement Center at Fort Knox, Ky. At
Fort Knox, Page writes, are also Bill Brown '35, Les
Goodall '32, Johnnie Wood '36, Lou Willard '36,
Ookie Miner '33, and John Chadwick '29.

'36 Lynn Glazier is dairy consultant with the
Pfaudler Company, Rochester, N. Y.

'38 Ken Nolan has recently been engaged by the
research division of the American Cyanamid Com-
pany at Stamford, Conn. His work will deal with
special problems in plant pest control.

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THE ALUMNI
BULLETIN

WHITMORE'S LANDING.

MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE
AMHERST, MASSACHUSETTS

Vol. XXIII, No. 10

July, 1941

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN
MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

George E. Emery '24, Editor
Published monthly at Amherst, Mass. (except August and
September) by the Associate Alumni of Massachusetts State College.
Entered as second class matter, March 17, 192CX at the Postoffice
at Amherst, Mass., under the Acts of March 3, 1879.

OFFICERS OF ASSOCIATE ALUMNI OF
MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

President, Albert W. Smith '22 of Springfield
Vice-President, William V. Hayden '12 of Newton Center
Secretary, Marshall O. Lanphear '18 of Amherst
Treasurer, Clark L. Thayer '13 of Amherst
Executive Secretary, George E. Emery '24 of Amherst

BOARD OF DIRECTORS
to 1942

Erford W. Poole '96 of New Bedford

David P. Rossiter '37 of Hillsgrove, R. I.

Zoe Hickney White '32 of Worcester

Alfred E. Wilkins '15 of Wakefield
to 1943
Harry Dunlap Brown '14, ex-officio, of Billerica
William L. Doran '15 of Amherst

Mary E. M. Garvey '19 of Amherst
Lawrence L. Jones '26 of North Beverly

Edward J. Gare, Jr. '15 of Northampton
to 1944
Donald C. Douglass '21 of Belmont

Norman D. Hilyard '23 of Springfield

John W. McGuckian '31 of Roslindale

Arthur D. Tilton 'IS of Woburn
to 1945
Alden C. Brett '12, ex-o^icio, of Belmont

Alan W. Chadwick '31 of Baldwinsville

Evelyn Davis Kennedy '26 of Belmont
Starr M. King '21 of Beverly

Lewis Schlotterbeck '16 of Wakefield

The Alumni Bulletin is sent ten times each year to all members
of the Associate Alumni. Memberships are: Annual S3. 00, Sustain-
ing S10.00.

Cover picture — Whitmore's landing in Sunderland ;
a view of the Connecticut River across the road from the
home of Phil Whitmore '15.

The sail boats in the picture are owned by a group of
sea scouts from Sunderland and Montague, whose
skipper (which corresponds to troop leader in a boy
scout group) is Steve Richardson '18. Steve has been
active in scouting for many years.

For the past few years Steve has devoted much time to
the development of the Montague sea scout ship (as this
group of sea scouts is known). Each boy has built his
own boat, an excellent sailing craft. The boys do much
of their sailing on the Connecticut River but each year
take their boats on trailers to some point on the ocean
for a "long cruise" of about ten days. They have made
their camps in successive years on Long Island Sound,
on an island off Salem, Mass., and, last year, on Casco
Bay in Maine. The boats are seaworthy and two men
can sleep comfortably in one of them.

The Montague sea scout ship has recently been named
Flag Ship for their area, which is recognition that they
are ranked highest in New England.

—Photo by Grant B. Snyder

'24 John Read is professor of science at the
Rhode Island State College of Education at Provi-
dence.

'37 Charles Appel and his twin brother John have
received M.D. degrees from Jefferson Medical College
in Philadelphia.

ACADEMICS BREAKFAST

Frank Anderson '16, president of the Academic
Activities Alumni Club presided at an enjoyable
commencement reunion breakfast on Sunday morn-
ing, June 8th.

Frank and President Baker spoke briefly about
academic activities; Dean Machmer, chairman of the
Academics Board, presented honorary medals to
Jack Murray '14, T. Carlton Upham '16, and Jimmy
Nicholson '16.

In making his presentations, Dean Machmer spoke
as follows.

John K. Murray, professionally known as "Jack,"
your Alma Mater welcomes you back to her elm-shaded
campus after over a quarter of a century. During this
period you have won high distinction in a field which
our Academics Board claims as part of its domain, —
the field of art. Your colorful representations have
often graced the walls of our Memorial Hall in con-
nection with our annual "Family Shows." As an
illustrator you have been especially notable in the por-
trayal of animal life, frequently against a realistic
background. We like to think that you gained some-
thing of your interest in, and knowledge of, both your
medium and your subject matter from the days you spent
at this College. Therefore the Academic Activities Board
confers upon you its token of cultural achievement —
this honorary medal.

Thomas Carlton Upham, class of '16, your post-
graduate career in the field of dramatic art has brought
honor both to yourself and to your College. The per-
sistence with which you have stuck to your objective, in
spite of difficulties and disappointments, commands our
special admiration. As author of the play "Lost Boy,'
the only play by a graduate of this College to achieve
the distinction of a professional production on Broad-
way, you are indeed outstanding. As student and
teacher of the art of the theatre, in this and other ac-
credited institutions of learning, you have made a
worthy contribution. As director of the Cape May
summer theatre you are maintaining a noble tradition
in the field of dramatic entertainment. As author of
such a book as "Total Democracy" you are reaffirming
the great principle, so eloquently enunciated by Archi-
bald MacLeish, that the artist should be also a citizen.
For these and kindred services to the world of our day,
the Academic Activities Board is proud to present to
you this symbol of its regard.

James T. Nicholson, class of '16, as a student at this
College you were indefagitable in promoting the twin
media of cultural self-expression — music and drama.
Your fine voice was a constant joy upon the concert
platform. Your administrative initiative was one of the
seven wonders of your undergraduate world. That you
would continue to be an active agent in later years we
had no doubt. We were not surprised, therefore, when
we learned of your contributions to music, churchly and
otherwise, in Washington and other cities. But it has
been your leadership in the vast and humane program
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COMMENCEMENT PROGRAM ATTRACTS LARGE ALUMNI CROWD

Class of 1891 Returns for Reunion 100 Percent Strong

President Haxvey Shores, Secretary John Hull, and
"reunion booster" Walter Paige were happy men on
Alumni Day, June 7th. Every living graduate of
their class, 1891, had returned for the 50th reunion
and, for good measure, three members of the class
who did not graduate.

In addition to the officers, those who returned were:
Aldice Eames, Dr. E. Porter Felt, Henry Field,
Willard Gay, Henry Howard, Charles Johnson,
Murray Ruggles, Arthur Sawyer, Allan Belden.
Alfred Davenport, and Henry Hull.

Speakers at the luncheon were President Hugh P.
Baker, Mrs. Elizabeth McNamara, a Trustee of the
College, and Walter C. Paige '91.

President Baker gave an interesting account of
college affairs and bespoke the active support of
Alumni for Massachusetts State College. Mrs.
McNamara gave what she called "the viewpoint of
a woman" on the Trustee Board. Walter Paige told
about the undergraduate activities of his class and
of the great interest 1891 has had in the College.

At the annual alumni meeting on the morning of
June 7th, Albert W. Smith '22, of Springfield, was
elected president of the
Associate Alumni. Bill
Hayden '13, of Newton,
was elected vice-presi-
dent. Clark Thayer '13
and Whitey Lanphear
'18 were re-elected as
treasurer and secretary,
respectively.

Candies and tobacco, cigars and cigarettes, were
distributed at the luncheon with the compliments of
the College Store.

\ MEMORABLE EVENT AT THE
I. WALSH TO THE CLASS of

It was voted, at the
meeting, that retiring
presidents of the Asso-
ciation should become
directors, ex-officio. for
four years. New direc-
tors who were then
elected are: Alan W.
Chadwick '31, Evelyn
Davis Kennedy '26,
Starr M. King '21,
Edward J. Gare '15, and Lewis Schlotterbeck '16.

Alden Brett '12 will be a member of the Board of
Directors, ex-officio until 1945; Harry Brown '14 an
ex-officio member until 1943.

At the annual horse show conducted by the Mili-
tary Department, on June 6th. the Associate Alumni
awarded a cup to the winner of the junior jumping
contest. Jeanne Phillips, vice-president of the class
of 1941, presented the cup in behalf of the Associate
Alumni to Richard Knight '42 of Melrose, the winner.

Judges at the horse show included Lt. William R.
Muller '35, 2nd Lt. Frank R. L. Daley '40, and 2nd
Lt. Arthur E. Sullivan '40.

graduation exercises « is the address of senator david
1941. senator Walsh's earnest remarks made a deep
mpression upon his listeners.

A feature of the Alumni Luncheon was the singing
of three groups -the original Statesmen (Milton
Auerbach '39, Stuart Hubbard '42, Myron Hager
'40. and John Osmun "40); the Statettes (Betty
Moulton '42, Marguerite Berthiaume '42, Gladys
Archibald '41, and Margaret Stanton '43); the
Statesmen iWendell Washburn '41, Stuart Hubbard
'42, Fred McGurl '41, and John Gould '41). Each
quartet sang two songs except the original States-
men who were forced to respond to tremendous
applause with an encore. At the conclusion of the
luncheon the eleven young Alumni and undergradu-
ates joined to sing "Dear Old Massachusetts." Then,
Johnny Osmun led in the singing of the Alma Mater.

Alumni of the older classes returned to campus in
good nurnlnr for the reunion festivities. Among
those whom President Smith introduced at the
Alumni Luncheon were Daniel P. Cole '72, John R.
Minor '73, H. E. B. Waldron '79, and three members
of the class of 1886. David Carpenter. Charles Clapp.
and George S. Stone who returned to campus for
pieir 55th reunion.

Charlie Could announced at the conclusion of the
luncheon that the class of 1916 had a program
arranged to take place at the physical education
building. Alumni moved over to that building in a
body and were very pleased at what they then saw
and heard. (See page 6.)

The classes of 1921 and 1916 seemed to dominate the
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OBITUARIES

Dr. GoorAo E. Stone '88

Dr. George E. Stone '86, distinguished Alumnus
and starred man of science, died on May 28, 1941.
He had been ill for several months.

In its issue of June 9th, Time magazine spoke of
Dr. Stone as follows.
"Friend of Trees

"George Edward Stone, the best friend U. S. trees
ever had, died last week, aged 80, in Amherst, Mass.
His were the scientific discoveries which lie behind
the modern craft of tree surgery. In a number of
patent fights, when professional tree surgeons claimed
exclusive rights to tricks of their trade, Stone proved
that he had long before anticipated them.

"When Stone was an undergraduate at Massa-
chusetts Agricultural College, botanists were obsessed
with taxonomy — classification of plants. But to
Stone a tree was not a specimen but a dynamic
organism influenced by a complex of environmental
factors. In those days linesmen were stringing new
telephone and power wires along U. S. streets, hack-
ing mortal wounds in trees and often electrocuting
them with leaky wires. New-laid gas pipes, too,
were spreading out, poisoning roots along many a
shady avenue. And several plagues of insect pests,
chiefly in Massachusetts, quickened interest in
guarding the health of trees.

"After getting a Leipzig Ph.D., Stone returned to
Massachusetts Agricultural College and began to
teach a generation of botanists new conceptions of
plant disease and care. He helped to found Massa-
chusetts' system of tree wardens, went about the
U. S. diagnosing tree ailments, usually at a glance,
and advising communities how to preserve their
leanness from gas, electricity, insects, fungi, etc. A
good hand with chisel and trowel, Stone devised
methods of repairing trees. His teachings stimulated
a host of tree surgeons and researchers, who learned
to treat trees as living things.

"Recent news in the craft of tree surgery: The
bleeding canker disease, which appeared in New
England ten years ago and makes trees ooze from
small fissures, is now being treated by injections like
those given to man and animals. A small hole is
bored into the trunk, a rubber hose inserted and
connected with a slow-seeping bottle of organic
chemicals.

"Some plant injuries blamed on insects, drought,
sun scorch, etc., have recently been traced by Stone's
successors at Massachusetts State College to sulfur-
dioxide leaks from household refrigerators and large
refrigerating plants."

Harold P. Crosby '09

Harold Parsons Crosby '09 died at Hartford,
Conn, on May 14, 1941. He was 53 years old.
Death was due to a heart attack.

His classmates will always remember Cros for his
pleasant disposition, his enthusiasm, his spirit of
fairness. As an undergraduate he was a prominent

member of class and varsity football teams and an
outstanding member of the track team. He was an
able musician and could play almost any instrument.
I remember a football trip when a German band was
traveling in our coach and Cros insisted on playing
every instrument in the band.

After graduation he was principal and superin-
tendent of schools at Newbury, Hyde Park, and
Williamstown, Vt., and at Guilford and Stonington,
Conn. Since 1932 he had been at the Hartford,
Conn., high school where he taught biology and
geology. At each of these schools he served as foot-
ball coach and also coached soccer and track.

He was president of the Minerological Club of
Hartford, president of the Men's Teachers' Associ-
ation, member of the Hartford Teachers' Council,
and for many years a member of the Hartford
Athletic Council.

He was fond of hunting, fishing, and mountain
climbing, and had gathered a fine collection of
mineral specimens. His strength and his interest in
his profession are shown by the fact that during 30
years of teaching he never missed a day except to
attend his son's graduation at Yale in 1939. Cros
was married in 1915; he is survived by his widow and
his son.

S. S. Crossman, Secretary, 1909

MARRIAGES

'30 Miss Lucy Grunwaldt to Robert Alderman,
June 14, 1941, at Springfield, Mass.

w'34 Miner S. Howes to Miss Bernice Newton,
June 14, 1941, at Burlington, Vt.

'36 Kenneth Newman to Miss Frances Jones,
December 28, 1940, at Napoleon, Ohio.

'37 Miss Helen Downing to Robert Ezold, May
26, 1941, at Holyoke, Mass.

'38 Miss Dorothy Wilson to David Houston,
August 24, 1940, at Holyoke, Mass.

'39 and '40 Harvey Barke to Miss Virginia Pease,
May 24, 1941, at Amherst, Mass.

'39 Miss Beatrice Davenport to Harlan Wood,
Jr., May 30, 1941, at Mendon, Mass.

'39 David Johnson to Miss Winifred Powers,
June 14, 1941, at West Springfield, Mass.

'39 and '38 Douglas Milne to Miss Barbara
Miller, May 30, 1941, at Springfield. Mass.

'40 Leo Santucci to Miss Gloria Ryan, June 7,
1941, at Palmer, Mass.

'40 and '41 Eric Stahlberg, Jr. to Miss Flora
Lucchesi, June 23, 1941, at Holyoke, Mass.

'40 and '41 Lieut. Gordon Thomas to Miss
Eleanor Birchard, June 16, 1941, at Memphis, Tenn.

'41 Richard Curtis to Miss Mildred McClellan,
June 9, 1941, at Amherst, Mass.

'41 Kenneth Waltermire to Miss Marion Wess-
man, June 14, 1941, at Bernardston, Mass.

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WITH THE ALUMMAE

by Mary E. Garvey '19
and Leonta Horrigan '36

Edwina Lawrcnoc '32 is girl scout executive in
New Britain, Conn. She lives at 37 South High St.

Dorothy Bartlett '33 is junior bacteriologist at
the Westfield, Mass., State Sanatorium.

Charlotte Sleep '35 is technician at the Burbank
Hospital in Fitch burg.

Elizabeth Clapp '39 is assistant dietitian at
Columbia Hospital in Wilkinsburg, Pa.

Elizabeth Eaton '39 is to teach stenographic
subjects in the Edgewood Rhode Island Secretarial
School.

Mary Esson '39 is assistant dietitian at the Salem,
Mass.. Hospital.

Sylvia Goldman '39 is laboratory X-ray tech-
nician at the Webster, Mass., District Hospital.

Belva Sinclair *39 has taken a secretarial position
in the office of the Connecticut General Life Insurance
Company in Hartford.

Kathleen Cooper '40 has completed her training
course in dietetics at the University of Washington
and has accepted a position as manager of commons
at the College of Puget Sound. Tacoma, Wash.

WALKER FAMILY REUNION AT
COMMENCEMENT

At the request of President Baker. Mary Doyle
'40. represented Massachusetts State College at the
inauguration of President Virgil Hancher at Iowa
State University on May 24.

Knth I'arrish '29 also represented the College at
the 50th anniversary celebration of the establish-
ment of Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif,
on June 20th.

The annual Alumnae Tea was held on the after-
noon of June 7th in Butterfield House. Mrs. Kenyon
L. Butterfield was an honored guest.

Lambda Delta Mu sorority has "gone national."
The sorority is now a chapter of Chi Omega. Cere-
monies and the induction banquet were held on
June 6th.

The College News Service, directed by Francis
Pray '31, recently sent out an interesting item about
Mrs. William Walker, as follows. "Mrs. William H.
Walker of Monson holds some kind of a record for
faithfulness in attending the college graduation exer-
cises of her relatives who have attended Massachu-
setts State College.

"In 1882, nearly sixty years ago, she attended the
graduation exercises of her brother Charles D.
Hillman '82, now of California.

THE WALKER FAMI1.V I'HOTOCRA I'H ED AT COMMENCEMENT

TIME. LEFT I" RIOHT: DONALD B. WALKER '44, CHARLES D.

WALKER '13, MRS. WILLIAM WALKER, JAMES W. WALKER '4I,

AND JAMES 11. WALKER '07

"In 1907 she applauded a son, James H. Walker,
now city forester of Newark, N. Y., as he received
his sheepskin.

"Six years later, in 1913. she was back at the
college to witness the graduation of another son,
Charles D. Walker, now of Pelham.

"Next Monday. Mrs. Walker will be back again to
see her grandson, James D. Walker get his degree
of bachelor of science.

"Then she will watch the progress of another
grandson. Donald B. Walker, now a freshman, who
will be graduated in 1944. Mrs. Walker will be
t here."

BIRTHS

'32 A son, John Warner, to Mr. and Mrs. John
B. Killeen, May 15, 1941, at Cambridge, Mass.

'35 A daughter, Patricia Silver, to Mr. and Mrs.
Walter Johnson, May 21, 1941, at Northampton,
Mass.

'36 and '37 A daughter. Hildreth Ann, to Mr.
and Mrs. Herbert W. Ferguson Dorothy Lannon),
Jum- 17. 1941, at Holyoke, Mass.

'38 A daughter, Esther Belle, to Mr. and Mrs.
Gene Lowell Jessie Chase), August 14, 1940, at
Bath, Maine.

ACADEMICS BREAKFAST

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of the American Red Cross in which we have taken the
greatest pride. Now, upon the twenty-fifth anniversary
of your class, we ask you to accept, as indicative of our
admiration and regard, this Academics medal.

Recipients of the medals were presented, respec-
tively, by Dr. Frank A. Waugh, Dr. Maxwell Gold-
berg '28, and Charlie Gould '16.

Alden Brett '12 was elected president of the
Alumni Academics Club for next year.

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ATHLETICS

Special Program

For several months prior to June 1941 the
class of 1916 planned an extra special program in
connection with its 25th anniversary celebration.
The class had long been aware of the fine work which
Curry Hicks had done in raising funds, from Alumni
and friends of the College, for an adequate building
for the college work in physical education and ath-
letics. And they had long been aware of the fine job
that Curry has been doing as head of the physical
education division. In the course of their frequent
meetings at Freddie Gioiosa's store in Boston, mem-
bers of the class conceived the idea that the physical
education building should be named in honor of

LEFT TO RIGHT: AL SMITH 22, PHIL WHITMORE If,
E. M. WHITCOMB, CURRY HICKS, RALPH TABER 'l6 AT
THE ALUMNI DAY EXERCISES AT THE PHYSICAL EDU-
CATION BUILDING

Curry Hicks — in partial recognition, at least, of all
that Curry has done for the College and physical
education. The group secured the hearty approval
of their classmates, the Trustees of the College, and
the Board of Directors of the Associate Alumni and,
on June 7th, unveiled a plaque which reads as follows:

Curry S. Hicks
Physical Education Building

Named in honor of Curry Starr Hicks

who through years of unselfish service

made this building possible

Dedicated by the Board of Trustees
and the Associate Alumni, A. D. 1941

This tablet is the gift of the class of 1916

Ralph Taber '16 made the presentation for his
class. Phil Whitmore '15 responded for the College
Trustees. Al Smith '22 unveiled the plaque.

Both Taber and Whitmore in their brief talks told
about the contribution which Hicks had made at the
College in the past, of his present outstanding
leadership in the physical education profession, and
of the fact that they expected him to continue his
good work at the College for a long time to come.

An interested spectator at the dedication cere-
mony was Ernest M. Whitcomb of Amherst, a long-
time friend of Curry's and a man much interested in
the College. Mr. Whitcomb and all others present
agreed that Alumni, and the College, had bestowed
deserved recognition for Hicks' very real service.

Baseball

Coach Frannie Riel '39 and his boys had a lot of
fun — by their own statement — on the baseball
diamond this spring, even though not many games
were won. By them. It was a lack of seasoned and
experienced pitchers which slowed up the team; but
next year should be better.

Scores, since the last Bulletin: Statesmen Opp.

May 21 Wesleyan, here 1 2

24 W.P.I., there 8 14

30 Springfield, there 3 5

June 7 Amherst, here 2 7

Tennis

Although Captain Eddie Anderson '41 and mem-
bers of his tennis team worked hard all season they
found themselves outclassed in every match and were
unable to win any of the four matches played.

The season's scores: Statesmen Opp.

Apr. 26 University of Vermont, here 0 9

May 3 Connecticut Univ., there 2 7

7 Trinity, here 0 9

21 Springfield, here 0 9

Track

Captain Ed O'Connor '41 and his trackmen suc-
ceeded in winning only one of four dual meets this
spring; but the Statesmen picked up 5§ points in the
Eastern Intercollegiates and broke two Massachusetts
State records of considerable standing.

The record in the mile, set by Newell Schappelle
'28 in 1927, was broken by Chet Putney '41 of
Orleans, Vt., and Benny Freitas '42 of Fairhaven,
who alternated his spring exercising between the
track team and the baseball club, broke the shot put
record held by Clif Foskett '32 and made that year.

Bill Wall '42 of Northampton, captain-elect, is a
high jumper and hurdler. There are several pretty
good prospects for Bill's team in the freshman class
and Coach Derby is not too pessimistic about next
year's results.

The season's scores: Statesmen Opp.

Apr. 26 Boston University, there 55 80

May 3 Trinity, here 68 58

10 Tufts, here 46i 88 f

13 Connecticut Univ., there 29J 105f

17 Eastern Intercollegiates, Worcester 5i pts.

'34 Franklin Burr has assumed the post of con-
servation agent in Franklin County, Mass.

'34 Don Durell who has been teaching landscape
architecture at the University of Kansas, expects to
do graduate work at Massachusetts State next year.

'35 Bob Koch has taken a new job in the regional
office of the AAA in Washington. He will live at
320 Long Branch Parkway, Tacoma Park, Md.

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GRADUATION EXERCISES

ACADEMICS

At the graduation exercises on Monday morning,
June 9th. 202 members of the class of 1941 received
the Bachelor of Science degree, 63 the Bachelor of Arts.

The College granted also 4 degrees of Bachelor of
Landscape Architecture, 62 Master of Science, and
7 Doctor of Philosophy.

Alumni who received the Ph.D. were Frederick
Whittemore, Jr. '37, and Albert Gower '31. Alumni
receiving the B.L.A. were Alfred Forbush '38, and
Benjamin Wihry '35.

Alumni receiving masters degrees were: Rexford
H. Avery '38, Ruth Avery '35, Daniel Balavich '36,
James Blackburn '35, Louis Bush '34, Donald
Cadigan '39, Wellington Cassidy '39, Henry Couper
'38, Frederick Dickens '38, Richard Elliott '39,
Vernon Ferwerda '40. Lynn Glazier '36, Lewis Glow
'39. William Goodwin '18, John Jakobek '40, Eleanor
Julian '38, Mary Kane '29, Katherine Kerivan '39,
Parker Lichtenstein '39. Roy Morse '40, Irvin
Douglas Reade, Jr. '39, Francis Riel '39, Leo San-
tucci '40, Robert Swanson '39, and Loring Tirrell '19.

VARSITY CIA 1$ BREAKFAST

Red Darling '16 presided and Ed Perry '16 was
toastmaster at the 21st Annual Varsity Club Break-
fast on June 8th.

President Baker extended greetings of the College
to the club.

Dean Machmer presented the Minkstein Memorial
Award for scholarship, athletic ability, and citizen-
ship to Joe Jodka '42 of Lawrence, captain-elect of
the swimming team. Chet Putney '41 of Orleans,
Vt., was awarded the track plaque and Eddie Ander-
son '41 of Middletown the Paul S. Putnam tennis
trophy. Mattie Ryan '43 of Springfield received the
E. Joseph Thompson baseball award.

The Varsity Club alumni plaque was awarded to
Sumner A. i Dolly I Dole '15.

Al Smith '22 was elected president of the club for
next year and Red Ball '21, secretary-treasurer.

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THE ORIGIN A -IKS WHO SANG TOOETHER ONCE IGAIN

AT mC Mi MM LUNCHEON '•-. I ' '. I- "ill, UN m RIGHT:

HILTON Ki UHHH '39, VII ART HI BBARU '42, MYRON HAOER

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Records

On May 15th, 60 members of the Men's and
Women's Glee Clubs under the direction of Doric
Alviani made a series of victrola records of the
college songs at RCA- Victor studios in New York
City. The venture was a great success. The record-
ings are excellent, both technically and artistically.

On the three double-faced records are these songs:
Twilight Shadows, Jolly Students, Dear Old Massa-
chusetts, Alma Mater, Fight Song, Evening Hymn,
Victory March, Senior Song, Listen to the Lambs
Whiffenpoof Song, It's Me, O Lord.

The records were played for Alumni who returned
to campus at commencement time, and placed on

MEMBERS OF THE OLEE CLUBS IN THE RCA-V1CTOR RECORDING

STUDIO PRACTICING \ NUMBER WITH FLETCHER PROUTY '41.

NOTE HOW THE GIRLS HAVE KICKED OFF THEIR SHOES!

sale. The price of the three records, six sides, in an
album, is $2.50. They may be ordered through
Lawrence S. Dickinson '10, business manager of
Academics, or through the Alumni Office. The
records are not to be sold commercially, but only
through the college offices. Any Alumnus will be
pleased to own them.

Bolster Bolsters

The Roister Doiaters gave a finished performance of
the Kaufman and Hart "George Washington Slept
Here" before an appreciative audience of Alumni and
friends on the evening of June 7th. In a sense, the
production was an historic one it marked the las!
performance, for a time at least, of a full year of
undergraduate dramatics. The Roister Doisters have
voted not to present a fall or winter play next year
.1- li.-m hi-i-n ilic- custom for m good man} years pasl

More or less because of this fact, the department
of languages and literature will give a course in
dramatic production next year in which there will be
instruction and practice in casting, acting, directing,
make-up. lighting, design, scenery construction, and
the like. This "workshop" course will be under the
direction of Professors Rand and Robertson.

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'27 James B. Reed, who received his M.S. and
Ph.D. from the University of Illinois and who has
been assistant professor of chemistry at the Univer-
sity of Idaho, is now chemist in the War Department
in Philadelphia. He lives at 188 West Godfrey Ave.

FALL ATHLETIC SCHEDULES

Oct.

Nov

CROSS COUNTRY

11 Tufts, here
18 M.I.T., there
25 W.P.I. , there
30 Springfield, here
4 Conn. Valley at New
London
10 N. Englands at Boston
14 Trinity, there

Captain, William W. Kimball '42

Mgr., George W. Litchfield '42

Coach, L. I-. Derbv

FOOTBALL

Sep. 27 Springfield, there

Oct. 4 Connecticut, here

11 Norwich, here

18 Rhode Island, there

25 W.P.I. , there

Nov. 1 Amherst, here

8 Brooklyn College, there

15 Tufts, here

Captain, John E. Brady '42

Manager, Saul M. Glick '42

Coach, Walter G. Hargesheimer

Assistant, John Janusas

Sep.
Oct.

Nov

SOCCER

27 R.P.I., here

4 Connecticut, here
11 Dartmouth, there
18 Coast Guard, here
25 Trinity, there
31 Amherst, there

7 Fitchburg Teachers
College, there

Captain, Carl L. Erickson '42

Manager, Joseph W. McLeod '43

Coach, Lawrence E. Briggs '27

COMMENCEMENT PROGRAM

{Continued from Page 3)
Alumni Parade which Marshal Al Chadwick '31 led to
Alumni Field. 1916 had two old automobiles (vintage
of about 1901) in the line of march and Red Darling
and others, in costume, created a lot of fun with these
embellishments.

No sooner had the parade reached the diamond
than six members of 1921, still spry and nimble,
took the field and engaged in baseball practice. Phil
Newell was catcher. John Brigham, Don Lent, Jerry
McCarthy, and Bucky Davis made up a pretty
trick and fancy infield. Starr King all but wore
himself out batting the ball to this gang.

held an informal reception for seniors and their guests
in Memorial Hall.

Alumni President Al Smith welcomed the seniors
into the Associate Alumni in a brief address following
the presentation of diplomas at the graduation exer-
cises on June 9th. Smith expressed the appreciation
of the Association for the action of the class of 1941
in supporting the alumni work. The class had joined
the Associate Alumni one hundred percent.

Just before the start of the game the fine new
backstop which 1916 had helped provide for the
department of athletics was dedicated in the name
of Edward King who died August 7, 1938. Ed was
an outstanding ball player as an undergraduate and
made a fine record in the major leagues as an
Alumnus.

At the senior class night exercises on June 8th
Clem Burr, president of the class, handed on to Bill
Dwyer, president of the class of 1942, the tradition
of 100 % membership in the Associate Alumni. Burr's
address to his classmates, and delivered especially for
the class of '42, asked for the development and
maintenance of a spirit of friendliness on campus —
among students, faculty, and Alumni. Burr said
that the continuance of the alumni membership
tradition would help keep alive campus friendliness
during post graduate years.

After the class night exercises the Associate Alumni

Dean Joseph L. Hills at the University of Vermont
recently wrote to President Baker, as follows, about
the "60th Reunion" of 1881. "You may be inter-
ested to know that of the graduates of sixty years
ago four are living. Frank Fairfield is in Clearwater,
Florida. He was present ten years ago for our re-
union. Another, Charles E. Young, an invalid con-
fined to the house, is living in Cincinnati, Ohio. The
other two graduates are E. B. Rawson of Media, Pa.
and the writer. Being in Philadelphia a little over
two weeks ago 1 went out to Media and Rawson
and I had our 60th class reunion then and there.
He is in good health, as is the writer."

'37 Frederic Goodhue has received his M.D. from
Tufts and will intern at the Hackensack, N. J.,
hospital beginning July 1st.

'38 Bob Buzzee is student engineer in the plastics
division of the General Electric Company in Pittsfield.

'39 Don Fowell is a student in the College of
Medicine at the University of Vermont.

'39 Herbie Glick, who has received his master's
degree in business administration from Harvard, is
personnel director for the Hotel Statler in Cleveland.

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BULLETIN

FALL SCENE

MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE
AMHERST, MASSACHUSETTS

U XXIV, No. 1

October, 1941

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN
MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

George E. Emery '24, Editor

Published monthly at Amherst. Mass. (except August and
September) by the Associate Alumni of Massachusetts State College.
Entered as second class matter, March 17, 1920, at the Postofhce
at Amherst, Mass., under the Acts of March 3, 1879.

OFFICERS OF ASSOCIATE ALUMNI OF
MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

President, Albert W. Smith '22 of Springfield
Vice-President, William V. Hayden '13 of Newton Center
Secretary, Marshall O. Lanphear '18 of Amherst
Treasurer, Clark L. Thayer ']3 of Amherst
Executive Secretary, George E. Emery '24 of Amherst

BOARD OF DIRECTORS
to 1942

Erford W. Poole '96 of New Bedford

David P. Rossiter '37 of Hillsgrove. R. I.

Zoe Hickney White "32 of Worcester

Alfred E. Wilkins "15 of Wakefield
to 1943
Harry Dunlap Brown "14, ex-officio, of Billerica
William L. Doran '15 of Amherst

Mary E. M. Garvey '19 of Amherst
Lawrence L. Jones '26 of North Beverly

Edward J. Gare, Jr. '15 of Northampton
to 1944
Donald C. Douglass "21 of Belmont

Norman D. Hilyard '23 of Springfield

John W. McGuckian '31 of Roslindale

Arthur D. Tilton 'IS of Woburn
to 1945
Alden C. Brett '12, ex-officio, of Belmont

Alan W. Chadwick '31 of Baldwinsville

Evelyn Davis Kennedy '26 of Belmont
Starr M. King '21 of Beverly

Lewis Schlotterbeck '16 of Wakefield

The Alumni Bulletin is sent ten times each year to all members
of the Associate Alumni. Memberships are: Annual $3.00, Sustain-
ing $10.00.

Cover picture — Grant Snyder snapped this photo-
graph in North Amherst recently when his little
daughter Catherine was showing him something about
the height of the corn. Catherine's mother is Ruth
Putnam Snyder '26.

COLLEGE REOPENS

Freshman Week started on Monday, September 15,
and opening convocation for all students was held in
the afternoon of Wednesday, the 17th.

About 150 girls and 230 boys have registered with
the class of 1945. The entire student body will total
about 1200 when the final figures are available.

The freshmen appear to be taking a lively interest
in things. For example, a group of freshmen boys
sat in the warm sun on the lawn west of Memorial
Hall one afternoon during Freshman Week and in
unison shouted "Jump, jump," whenever freshmen
girls approached the 9's in the numerals on the walk.
The girls jumped; and, according to the reliable in-
formation from the sophomore class, the freshmen
boys will jump too. Freshman Week officially comes
to a close with the 60-man freshman-sophomore rope
pull across the pond on Saturday afternoon, the 20th.

NICHOLSON '16 GOES TO RUSSIA

James T. Nicholson '16, assistant to Chairman
Norman H. Davis of the American Red Cross, has
left Washington to go with a group of Red Cross
officials as Delegate to Russia.

Nicholson was a delegate to Europe from October
1939 to April 1940. He surveyed relief needs in all
of the belligerent nations on the continent and set
up Red Cross relief in Poland. He also served for
some months as liaison with the International Red
Cross Committee and the League of Red Cross
Societies in Geneva. He has been a member of the
National Red Cross staff for more than twenty years.

The group with which Mr. Nicholson is travelling
to Russia will make a survey of the medical and
other relief needs in that country.

An informal alumni reunion took place one day last
summer at Kid Gore's Camp Najerog in Wilmington,
Vt. Present were Clark Thayer '13, Jim Dayton '13,
Warren Baker '14, Major Dan Curran '12, and Pete
Cascio '21.

Sons of Alumni at the camp were Eric and Peter
Gustafson (Maude and Al Gustafson '26); Joe,
Lucian and Peter Cascio (Pete Cascio '21); Ted
Farwell (Ted Farwell '27); Bob Baker (W. S. Baker
'14); Jim Curran (Dan Curran '12); Walter Macone
(Joe Macone '13); Peter Gore (Jane and Harold M.
Gore '22 and '13).

Al Gustafson '26 was on the camp staff as were
also the sons of Jim Dayton, Clark Thayer and
Harold Gore.

'39 Lt. Lewis Glow has been appointed instructor
in chemistry at Norwich University, Northfield, Vt.

'39 Roger Decker has received his M.S. from
Iowa State and has been appointed to the depart-
ment of chemistry at Cornell College, Mount Vernon,
Iowa.

COLLEGE BARN BURNS

On July 11 fire caused an estimated damage of
over $25,000 when a spark from an electrical hoist
ignited hay in the main storage barn at the college
farm.

The fire spread quickly through the 70 tons of hay
and 15 tons of grain stored in the barn and the
flames roared more than 150 feet above the roof.

The Amherst fire department, augmented by
apparatus sent from Northampton, worked effec-
tively to prevent the fire from spreading and causing
greater damage.

The barn was erected in 1910 and was of wood and
concrete construction. Request has been made to
the Legislature for repair of the damage.

'91 Dr. E. Porter Felt of the Bartlett Tree Re-
search Laboratories has taken a "census" of insects
flying a thousand feet above New York City in order
to secure data for the U.S.D.A. on the distribution
of insect pests.

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CHAIRMAN TABER REPORTS ON
UNIVERSITY BILL

ALUMNI IN UNIFORM

Last fall the Directors of the Associate Alumni
voted to recommend to the College Trustees that the
name of Massachusetts State College be changed to
University of Massachusetts. The Directors took
this action because they felt the curriculum of
the College warranted, and the best interests of the
College demanded, that the name be so changed.
They based their action on the result of their study
of problems in connection with the granting of the
A.B. degree and partly in consequence of later care-
ful investigation.

Upon receiving the alumni recommendation the
Trustees appointed a committee headed by Dr.
Clifford C. Hubbard of Wheaton College which com-
mittee, after considerable study, rendered a report.
On the basis of this report the Trustees voted that
the University name be sought at the 1940-41 session
of the General Court.

A bill was prepared and presented. The bill was
referred to the Legislative Committee on Agriculture
before which committee a hearing was held. Repre-
sentatives of the Associate Alumni appeared in behalf
of the bill; and Trustee Hubbard made an excellent
presentation, for the Trustees, of the arguments in
favor of the University name. Mr. Howard S. Russell,
former Trustee and now secretary of the Farm Bureau,
appeared to present his organization's favorable vote
for the change. The State Grange recorded its
favorable vote.

The Committee on Agriculture reported the bill
back favorably to the floor of the House, in spite of
adverse criticism made by the State Taxpayers
Association. When the bill was reported to the
House, however. Representative Clampit of Spring-
field, chairman of the Committee on Education, de-
manded that the bill be referred to his committee on
the grounds that it was an educational measure and
that there were three other bills before his committee
petitioning for the creation of a state university.
From the start Mr. Clampit took the position that
the name of Massachusetts State College should not
be changed until the State was ready to grant large
appropriations which he felt would be necessary in
order to make the College a University in a "real
Bense." He did however express his belief that the
name University of Massachusetts should not be
given to any other institution than Massachusetts
State College, and expiessed his willingness to intro-
duce a bill, provided one could be legally drawn up,
which would reserve the university r.ime for Massa-
chusetts State.

The Alumni Committee took the position, as has
been frequently expressed in these columns, that the
College is now a University in a "real sense," more
mplete as to curriculum than several other New
England State Colleges when these institutions were
given university n;tme by their respective legislatures.
The Alumni also took a very definite position to the
effect that a large overnight addition to plant and
personnel was undesirable in every respect.

'41

Alumni of the College in considerable number are
serving with the country's armed forces.

Records in the Alumni Office list the following:
'38 Flying Cadet Philip B. Anderson, Scott Field,

111.
'39 Lt. Arthur Avery, Cav. Res., Fort Knox, Ky.
'38 2nd Lt. Wil-
liam Avery,

Cavalry Res.,

Armd. Force,

Fort Benning

Ga.

2nd Lt. Al-
bert W.Ayk-

royd, Cav.

Res., Third

Cav., Fort

Myer, Va.

Flying Cadet

Warren S.

Baker, Jr..

Co. C, Cadet

Detachment,

Randolph

Field, Texas

Lt. Isadore

Barr, Cav.

Res., Arm'd

Force, Fort

Benning, Ga.
w'3] Pvt. (ieoriio

A. Barrus, Headquarters and Service Co.,

16th Medical Regiment, Fort Devens, Mass.
(Continued on Page 6)

'38

'37

LT. ALBERT J. GRICR'S 37 OF THE
FOl-RTH ARMORED BRICADE AT PINE
CAMP, N. V. AL IS DRESSED IN A
TANK OUTFIT — COMBAT SUIT, CAS
MASK, PISTOL, FIELD GLASSES,
CRASH HELMET, OVERSHOES, MAP
CASE AND CLOVES

The specter and bogey of possible larger financial
demands upon the Commonwealth if the College
were to be given the name of University was held up
by the Taxpayers Association; and this, coupled with
the traditional attitude of the Ways and Means
Committee toward the College, proved sufficient to
counteract, in Boston, the presentation made by
Alumni and Trustees in favor of the change. The
bill was killed in the Committee on Education.

A great deal of hard work was done by the Alumni
Committee: we hope thai this work may prove helpful in
the future. It is my judgment, and I know that this is
shared by other members of the Alumni Committee,
that progress can br made only when ki-y members of
the General Court and particularly members of the
Committee on Ways and Means take a more sympathetic
altitude toward the needs of the College onrl toward its
proper position in the educational program of the
Com man wealth .

Ralph F. Taber 'lfS
Chairman, Alumni University Committee

The Committee: Joseph H. Forest '28, Dennis M.
Crowley '29, John W. McGuckian '31, Allister F.
MacDougall '13, Erford W. Poole '96, Alden C.
Brett '12.

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OBITUARIES

Dr. George E. Stone '86

Dr. George E. Stone '86, died on May 28, 1941, at
the age of eighty. Several Alumni have since com-
mented, in notes to the Alumni Office, about this
distinguished man of science.

Dr. Stone will always be remembered as one of the
leading botanists of his period. His original studies
were largely in the fields of plant physiology and
pathology. Shade tree diseases received much of his
attention and he became the leading authority on
the poisonous effect of illuminating gas on trees. His

DR. STONE

OIL PORTRAIT BY HANS MEYER

studies on the effect of light on the growth of plants
under glass contributed greatly to the use of larger-
sized glass in greenhouse construction.

As one of Dr. Stone's students I recall how he
encouraged us to make the most of our opportunities.
He directed us to the sources of useful material for
study and helped us to understand his conception of
the care of plants and the control of their diseases.

Many men prominent in scientific circles received
their early training in Dr. Stone's classes at the
College.

Willard A. Munson '05
Director, Extension Service
Massachusetts State College

the effects of gas and electricity and possibilities of
cavity work, which started me in tree work. He was
a pioneer in developing modern tree care on a pro-
fessional basis.

F. A.Bartlett '05

President, Bartlett Tree Expert

Company, Stamford, Conn.

I was a member of Dr. Stone's first class for senior
students and was also his first assistant in teaching
and experiment station work after he came back
from Germany in 1893. My connection as his
assistant continued for nine years, from 1894 to 1903.

Since 1903 I have travelled far and seen many men
and institutions but my association with that small
College and a man like Stone planted something
down deep in me which will always be there.

Dr. Stone was so utterly human, unaffected, and
realistic; yet generous, sympathetic and understand-
ing to the core.

I look again at his picture and say, "Goodby, old
friend. Godspeed and farewell."

Dr. Ralph E. Smith '94
University of California
Berkeley, California

I remember Dr. Stone as an inspiring teacher
keenly interested in plant life and its problems. It
was his investigations of tree problems, especially

Alexander G. Crawford w'20->22

Alexander G. Crawford died at Windsor Locks,
Conn., of a heart attack, on July 26, 1941. He was
46 years old.

In the fall of 1916 Alec registered with the class of
1920; when the U. S. entered the war he enlisted in
the Army and served nearly two years in France. He
returned to the campus in the fall of 1919 with the
class of 1922.

He was well known and well liked by all his college
contemporaries. His was a familiar figure on the
ball field near South College where he umpired the
twilight league games.

He was a conscientious student, and his classmates
remember him for his willingness to help others with
difficult classroom assignments and preparation for
exams. His room was always a gathering place for
study and discussion.

He served as class treasurer for one year and was
elected by his classmates to give the campus oration
at Commencement.

After graduation Alec taught for a short time at
Essex County Agricultural School. He then joined
the staff of the "400" Company as a salesman, and
later went with the Creamery Package Company to
sell dairy machinery and supplies in Connecticut.
He later became plant manager for Daly's dairy in
Wallingford, Conn.; and in 1937 was appointed dairy
inspector for the State of Connecticut. He was con-
nected with the inspection work at the time of his
death.

Alec will be missed by his classmates, his relatives,
and his many friends in the dairy industry. He is
survived by his mother, a sister, and three brothers.
Harry G. Lindquist w'20-'22
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MARRIAGES

'29 Francis J. Crowley to Miss Anna D. O'Dea,
June 28, 1941, at Northampton, Mass.

'32 Vincent Gagliarducci to Miss Domenica M.
Cortese, July 26, 1941, at Corona, Long Island.

'33 Lt. John M. Fowler to Miss Louise A. Joy,
July 10, 1941, at El Centro, Calif.

'33 Miss Agnes McMahon to Dr. Vito Cangemi,
April 6, 1940, at Summit, N. J.

'33 Edmond D. Nash to Miss Evelyn A. Vigneault,
May 31, 1941, at Williamstown, Mass.

'34 Dr. Roger G. Bates to Miss Jo Jones, Sep-
tember 9. 1941, at Takoma Park, Md.

w'34 Thomas W. Barms to Miss Ruth E. Newell,
June 27, 1941, at Goshen, Mass.

'35 Howard E. Pease to Miss Helen R. Danahy,
July 10, 1941, at Fort Edward, N. Y.

'35 and '35 Lt. Benjamin J. Wihry to Miss Edna
Thornton. August 2, 1941, at Worcester, Mass.

'36 and '36 Myles G. Boyan to Miss Marguerite
R. LeDuc, June 28, 1941, at Ware, Mass.

'36 Bernard J. Kelleher to Miss Rosemary Young-
July 12, 1941, at New Lebanon, N. Y.

'37 Nathan M. Berman to Miss Arline Clements.
August 17, 1941. at Boston, Mass.

'37 Lt. Albert Gricius to Miss Jennie Lou Nail,
June 24, 1941, at Fort Knox, Ky.

'37 Charles H. Meyers to Miss Marion E.
Primeau, June 14, 1941. at Greenfield, Mass.

*37 Carl P. Swanson to Miss Dorothy J. Noggle.
June 14, 1941, at Dayton. Ohio.

'38 Davis W. Beaumont to Miss Rose Burns-
July 15, 1941, at Chickasha, Okla.

'38 Frederick L. Dickens to Miss Ethel A. Mc-
Faul, August 15, 1941, at Easthampton, Mass.

'38 Miss Frances P. Filipkowski to Alexander E.
Celatka, June 28, 1941, at South Deerfield, Mass.

'38 Samuel Golub to Miss Faye Goldstein, June
29, 1941, at Boston, Mass.

'38 Miss Elaine H. Milkey to Erwin G. Gregory,
September 6, 1941. at Turners Falls, Mass.

'38 and '38 Jack T. Slocomb to Miss Evelyn
Parker. September 17. 1940, at Fort Kent, Maine.

'38 Lt. Floyd W. Townsley to Miss Jane Mueller.
May 3, 1941 in New York City.

'39 Lt. Robert E. Cain to Miss Leonora P.
Bernaby, July 10, 1941, at Northampton, Mass.

'39 Miss Margery E. Damon to David B. Thorns,
Jr.. August 23, 1941, at Haydenville, Mass.

'39 Richard A. Giles to Miss Klizabeth Van
Maren, Jun.- 21, 1941, at Traverse City, Mich.

'39 and w'39 Miss Marjorie Litchfield to Gordon
K. Najar, August 3, 1941. at Stanford Univ., Calif.

'39 Miss Phyllis MacDonald to John P. Howe,
Augu^i 3, I'M I. .ii Amherst, Mass.

'39 Joseph Paul to Miss Omia Reece, July 10,
1941, at Knoxville, Tenn.

'39 and '39 Francis J. Riel to Miss Katherine E.
Kerivan, June 21, 1941, at Newton Upper Falls,
Mass.

'39 and '41 Morrill T. Vittum to Miss Winifred
Giles, September 2, 1941, at Cummington, Mass.

'40 Miss Myra C. Graves to Proctor Houle,
August 16, 1941, at Sunderland, Mass.

'40 Malcom B. Harding, Jr. to Miss Louise W.
Glaze, June 26, 1941, at Westfield, Mass.

'40 Lt. Winslow E. Ryan to Miss Ellen M.
Farrell, July 7, 1941, at Adams, Mass.

'40 Everett R. Spencer, Jr. to Miss Ruth M.
Wood, August 4, 1941, at Springfield, Mass.

BIRTHS

'24 A daughter, Elise, to Mr. and Mrs. George
E. Emery, August 15, 1941, at Northampton, Mass.

'30 A son, John Patrick, to Mr. and Mrs. John
Joy, August 19, 1941, at Los Angeles, Calif.

'30 A son. Bruce Duncan, to Mr. and Mrs.
Donald Simonds (Beryl Morsei, July 8, 1941, at
Worcester, Mass.

'31 A son, Ronald Souren, to Mr. and Mrs.
Souren M. Tashjian, January 8, 1941, at Somerville,
Mass.

'31 A son, F. Kinsley. II, to Mr. and Mrs. F.
Kinsley Whittum, August 28, 1941, at Springfield,
Mass.

'32 A daughter, Nona Ann. to Mr. and Mrs.
Lewis Long (Stina Berggren), August 14, 1941, at
Worcester, Mass.

'32 A daughter, Linda Anne, to Mr. and Mrs.
John J. Foley, June 12, 1941, at Grand Rapids, Mich.

'32 A son, Donald, to Dr. and Mrs. Robert C.
Gunness, August 18, 1941. at Chicago, 111.

'34 A daughter. Ann Gail, to Dr. and Mrs. Harry
Pyenson, August 2, 1941, at Woodstock, III.

'38 A son, George Francis, III, to Mr. and Mrs.
George F. Cramer, Jr. Elizabeth Barton), August
25, 1941, at Fairhaven, Mass.

'27 Richard C. Foley, assistant professor of
animal husbandry at the College, is coach of the
meats judging team which won first place in the
intercollegiate contest at the Eastern States Expo-
sition on September 15th.

Members of Foley's team, all seniors, were Russell
rlibbard of North Hadley, William Cowan of Pitts-
field, Carl Erickson of Attleboro and Robert Walker
"I Winthrop.

Pennsylvania State College was second, the Uni-
virsily of Maine, third, in the contest.

'27 Vic Verity is in charge of vegetable shortening
plants for Proctor & Gamble in Macon, Ga. and
Jackson, Miss. Vic recently took a trip to Florida
and while there visited with Chick Deuel '24 and
Doug Barnes '25. Chick is in the insurance business
in St. Petersburg. Doug is superintendent of Dade
County Parks.

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ALUMNI IN UNIFORM 38

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'41 2nd Lt. Cortland A. Bassett, Cav. Res., Third '27

Cavalry, Fort Myer, Va.
'39 2nd Lt. George C. Benjamin, Fort Myer, Va. '37
'12 Lt. Col. William R. Bent, Infantry, 9th Div.,

Fort Bragg, N. C. '40

'37 Lt. Robert A. Bieber, Cav. Res., Armored

Force, Fort Benning, Ga. '40

'39 2nd Lt. George II. Bisehoff , Edgewood Arsenal,

Edgewood, Md. '35

'39 Corp. Lawrence Bixby, Regimental HQ Bat- '40

tery, 172nd Field Art., Camp Blanding, Fla.
'37 Ensign Richard O. Bohm, U.S.S. Augusta, w'92

%Postmaster, N. Y.
'41 2nd Lt. Ernest A. Bolt, Jr., Cav. Res., Second '40

Cavalry Division, Fort Riley, Kans.
'41 Flying Cadet John Brack, Naval Air Station, '17

Cadet Barracks No. 3, Jacksonville, Fla.
'41 2nd Lt. George W. Bragdon, Cav. Res., '36

Second Cavalry Division, Fort Filey, Kans.
'41 2nd Lt. Edward Broderick, Cav. Res., 9th '36

Reconnaissance Troop, Fort Bragg, N. C.
'35 Lt. William Brown, Cav. Res., 1st Armored '40

Regiment, Fort Knox, Ky.
'37 Lt. Alfred W. Bruneau, 4th Cavalry, Fort '34

Meade, S. D.
'40 2nd Lt. James B. Buckley, Cav. Res., Troop '40

A, 3rd Cavalry, Fort Myer, Va.
'36 Lt. Frederick K. Bull. Cav. Res., G. H. Q. Air '41

Force, MacDill Field, Tampa, Fla.
'41 2nd Lt. Clement Burr, Cav. Res., 8th Recon- '39

naissance Troop, Fort Jackson, S. C.
'34 Lt. Louis Bush, Cav. Res., Armored Force, '40

Fort Benning, Ga.
'39 2nd Lt. Donald W. Cadigan, Cav. Res., Army '33

Base Headquarters, Boston, Mass.
'39 2nd Lt. Robert E. Cain, Cav. Res., 32nd '34

Armored Regiment, Camp Polk, La.
'18 Major Franklin II. Canlett, 9th Field Artillery '34

Fort Lewis, Wash.
'33 Lt. Costas L. Caraganis, Cav. Res., 84th '36

Reconnaissance Battalion, 4th Armored Div.,

Pine Camp, N. Y.
'38 2nd Lt. Frank F. Carr, Cav. Res., 13th Armored '32

Division, Fort Knox, Ky.
'29 Lt. John S. Chadwick, Cav. Res., 1st Armored '41

Regiment, Fort Knox, Ky.
'32 Lt. Howard A. Cheney, 1st Bombing Squadron, '41

Trinidad, British West Indies.
'34 Dr. Wallace Chesbro, Cav., Co. B, 1st Medical '39

Battalion, F.M.F., Parris Island, S. C.
'41 2nd Lt. William S. Coffey, Cav. Res., 3rd '34

Cavalry, Fort Myer, Va.
'39 Flying Cadet Robert S. Cole, Air Corps Train- '36

ing Detachment, Curtiss Airport, Glenview, 111.
'32 Lt. Philip J. Connell, Cav. Res., Armored '37

Force, Fort Benning, Ga.
'41 2nd Lt. Richard G. Crerie, Cav. Res., Combat '40

Group, 4th Armored Div., Pine Camp, N. Y.
'40 Sgt. Robert M. Creswell, 37th Armored Regi- w'32

ment, (L), Pine Camp, N. Y.
'12 Major Daniel J. Curran, Advance Co. 5, 1st '41

Training Battalion, Fort Benning, Ga.

2nd Lt. Clifford A. Curtis, Cav. Res., Brigade

Headquarters Company, Fort Knox, Ky.
Captain Samuel Cutler, U. S. Army Air Corps,

Bangor, Maine.
Lt. James F. Cutter, Cav. Res., 4th Battalion,

Pine Camp, N. Y.
2nd Lt. Gerald M. Dailey, Cav. Res., 1st

Armored Regiment, Fort Knox, Ky.
2nd Lt. Frank R. L. Daley, Jr., Cav. Res.,

Camp Edwards, Mass.
Pvt. Charles II. Daniels, Camp Meade, Md.
Pvt. G. Godfrey Davenport, Jr., Company C,

101st Q.M. Regiment, Camp Edwards, Mass.

Col. Royal P. Davidson, Northwestern Mili-
tary and Naval Academy, Lake Geneva, Wis.
2nd Lt. Franklin M. Davis, Cav. Res., Fort

Myer, Va.
Lt. Col. James II. Day, 1249 Ash Street,

Winnetka, 111.
Pvt. Ralph W. Dimock, 3rd Armored Division,

67th Infantry, Camp Beauregard, La.
Pvt. Malcolm Dunbar, Battery B, 11th Coast

Artillery, Fort Wright, N. Y.
2nd Lt. Robert L. Dunn, Cav. Res., Apt. 11,

Building 50, Fort Myer, Va.
Lt. Charles II. Dunphy, Cav. Res., Office,

Quartermaster Corps, Washington, D. C.
Sgt. George F. Flanagan, Battery F, 8th

Coast Artillery, Fort McKinley, Maine
2nd Lt. Arthur J. Foley, 111, Cav. Res., 8th

Reconnaissance Troop, Fort Jackson, S. C.
2nd Lt. Ralph L. Foster, 3rd Cavalry, Fort

Myer, Va.
2nd Lt. Willard O. Foster, Cav. Res., Fort

Myer, Va.
Lt. John M. Fowler, Cav. Res., 11th Cavalry

Unit, Philippine Islands
Pvt. Alexander II. Freeman, Battery F., 67th

Coast Artillery, (A. A.), Fort Bragg, N. C.
Lt. Vincent C. Gilbert, Cav. Res., 4th Recon-
naissance Battalion, Pine Camp, N. Y.
Pvt. David S. Goldman, 218th Field Artillery,

Battery D, %Army Postoffice 41, Tacoma,

Wash.
Lt. Leslie D. Goodall, Cav. Res., 1st Recon-
naissance Battalion, Fort Knox, Ky.
2nd Lt. Clinton F. Goodwin, Jr., Cav. Res.,

3rd Cavalry, Fort Myer, Va.
Pvt. John D. Gould, Battery C, 11th Battalion,

Bldg. 1420, Coast Artillery, Fort Eustis, Va.
Lt. Emerson W. Grant, 3rd Armored Division,

Camp Polk, La.
Sgt. Arthur Green, Hdq. Bldg., 208th Coast

Artillery, (A. A.), Camp Edwards, Mass.
Ensign Frank Greenwood, U.S.S. Erie, Balboa,

Canal Zone
Lt. Albert Gricius, 4th Armored Regiment,

Pine Camp, N. Y.
2nd Lt. Harold E. Griffin, Cav. Res., 3rd

Cavalry, Fort Myer, Va.

Pvt. Nathan S. Hale, Battery D, 102nd

Field Artillery, Camp Edwards, Mass.
2nd Lt. Robert E. Hall, Cav. Res., 2nd Cavalry

Division, Fort Riley, Kans.

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'41

'36

'25

'16

w"41

•39

'41

'17

'38

'34

'40

w'30

'38

•40

w"16

'36

'37

'11

'40

"28

'34

'41

'24

'36

'39

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■35

'38

2nd Lt. George F. Hamel, Cav. Res., 3rd '34
Cavalry, Fort Myer, Va.

Lt. Calvin S. Ilannum, 68th Armored Regt. '36
(L), 2nd Armored Force, Fort Benning, Ga.

Captain George W. Hanscomb, U. S. Air '38
Corps, MacDill Field, Tampa, Fla.

Major Frank Haskell, Infantry Headquarters, '39
Camp Peay, Tullahoma, Tenn.

2nd Lt. John W. HaskeU, Cav. Res., 2nd '41
Cavalry Division, Fort Riley, Kans.

2nd Lt. Frank C. Healy, Cav. Res., Fort '35
Meade, S. D.

2nd Lt. William A. Hendrickson, Cav. Res.,
3rd Cavalry, Fort Myer, Va. "39

Lt. Col. C. II. Henry, Quartermaster Replace-
ment Center, Camp Lee, Va. '34

2nd Lt. Edward W. Higgins, Air Reserve,
Mitchell Field, Long Island, N. Y.

Lt. Page L. Hiland, Cav. Res., Company B, '41
3rd Battalion, Armored Force Replacement
Center, Fort Knox. Ky. w'17

Lt. Descom D. Hoagland, Bangor Air Base,
Bangor, Maine '33

Dr. Archie A. Hoffman, Station Hospital,
Westover Field, Chicopee Falls, Mass. '40

2nd Lt. Frederick K. Hughes, Cav. Res. ,1st
Armored Regiment iLi, Fort Knox. Ky. '33

Captain Howard W. Hunter, Cav. Res.,
57th Cavalry Reserve. Fort Munroe, Va. '32

Pvt. Benjamin G. Ilurwiteh, Headquarters
Group. Fort Devens, Mass. *35

2nd Lt Alhin F. Irxyk, 3rd Cavalry, Fort
Myer, Va. '35

Lt. Col. W. W. Jenna. 27th Infantry, Scho-
field Barracks, Territory of Hawaii '35

Lt. Si uart F. .Jills. m. 7th Field Artillery
Observation Battalion. Fort Wragg, N. C. '37

Lt. Harry A. Johnson, Cav. Res., Armored
Force, Fort Benning. Ga. w'34

2nd Lt. Parker Jones, Cav. Res., 6th Company,
Mechanized Cavalry, Fort Oglethorpe, Ga. '38

Corp. Robert Joyce, 25th Air Base Squadron,
Westover Field, Chicopee Falls, Mass. '37

Captain. Robert J. Karrer, Cav. Res., Post
Adjutant. Fort Ethan Allen. Vt. '36

Dr. Milton II. Kililiee, Cav., Medical Corps.
Station Hospital. Fori Benning, Ga. '37

2nd Lt. Howard F. King. Cav. Res., 3rd
Cavalry, Fort Myer, Va. '40

Captain K. II. King, Cav. Res., 33rd Armored
Regiment, 3rd Armored Div., Camp Polk, La. '39

Lt. David Klickstein, Dental Corps, 187th
Field Artillery. Fort Ethan Allen, Vt. '41

Pvt. Josepb II. Kra-iioff, Medical Corps,
Fort Devens, Mass. '16

2nd Lt. Stanley J. Kmwka. Air Corps, West-
over Field, Chicopee Palls, M *39
Pvt. Chester Kuralowicz, Company D, 4th
Medical Training Battalion, 1308th Service
Unit, Camp Lee, Va. w'06

Lt. Albert Landis, Cav. Res., Fort Knox, Ky.

Bnrign John l.avraka*. U.S.S. Illinois '40

Flying Cadet Donald S. Lawson, Scott Field,
111.

Lt. Charles A. LeClair, Cav. Res., Brookley

Field, Mobile, Ala.
Lt. Robert B. Lincoln, Cav. Res., Fort Knox,

Ky.
Lt. Norman Linden, Cav. Res., 37th Armored

Regiment (L), Pine Camp, N. Y.
2nd Lt. Clifford E. Lippincott, 9th Cavalry,

Fort Riley, Kans.
Pvt. Jason II. Lotow, Company B., 36th Inf.

Training Battalion, Camp Croft, S. C.
Lt. Bertram Lubin, Cav., Dental Corps, 2nd

Armored Division, 68th Armored Regiment,

Fort Benning, Ga.
Flying Cadet Thomas G. Lyman, Gunter

Field, Ala.
Pvt. James MacKimmie, Company F, 104th

Infantry, No. 723, Army Postoffice 26, Camp

Edwards, Mass.
Pvt. Dana Malins, Coast Artillery, Fort Rod-
man, New Bedford, Mass.

Lt. Col. M'arran II. McNaught, Field Artil-
lery Organized Reserve. Milwaukee, Wis.
Lt. Joseph L. Marchclcwicz, Cav. Res.,

Bangor Air Base, Bangor, Maine
2nd Lt. John E. Merrill, Cav. Res., 3rd Caval-
ry, Fort Myer, Va.
Lt. Harold E. Miner, Jr., Cav. Res., 13th

Armored Regiment. Fort Knox, Ky.
Lt. Ernest W. Mitchell. Cav. Res., 32nd

Armored Regiment (LI, Camp Beauregard, La.
Lt. James F. Moran. U. S. Marine Corps

Flying Service, Pensacola, Fla.
2nd Lt. Robert K. Morrison, Cav. Res., 1st

Armored Regiment (Ll, Fort Knox, Ky.
Lt. William R. Muller, Cav. Res., Westover

Field. Chicopee Falls, Mass.
Flying Cadet Elliott II. Newcomb, Naval Air

Station. Pensacola. Fla.

Dr. Aaron M'. Newton, Medical Corps, Fort

Benning, Ga.
Pvt, George Niden, Company D, 101st ln-

t .■ tit r v. Camp Edwards, Mass.
Lt. Anthony J. Nogclo, R.O.T.C, Massachu-

setts State College, Amherst, Mass.
Lt. Howard Parker, Cav. Res., Headquarters

C.A.S.C., Camp Edwards, Mass.
I.t. David A. Peterson, Cav. Res., Head-
quarters, Army Base, New Orleans, La.
2nd Lt. George Pitts, Cav. Res., 3rd Cavalry,

Fort Myer, Va.
2nd Lt. Stanley Poilolak, Air Corps, Maxwell

field, Montgomery, Ala.
2nd Lt. Fletcher Prouty, Jr., Cav. Res., 37th

Armored Division (L), Pine Camp, N. Y.
Lt. Col. Stanley M. Prouty. 25th Infantry,

Fort Huachuca, Ariz.
Pvt. Frederick Purnell, Headquarters De-
tachment, 2nd Battalion, 104th Infantry,

Camp Edwards, Mass.

Major Arthur A. Haricot, Marine Barracks,

Quantico, Va.
Flying Cadet Lawrence Reagan, Naval Air

Corps, Jacksonville, Fla.

in In- i iinlinut'tl next month)

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WITH THE ALUMMAE

by Mary E. Garvey '19
and Leonta Horrigan '36

The Worcester Alumnae Club had a tea on Sep-
tember 13th for the new freshman girls who are
coming to the College from Worcester. Upperclass
girls who live in Worcester also attended.

The tea was held at the home of Marjorie Monk
Burbank '31, president of the Worcester Alumnae
Club.

Those present included Margaret Ohlweiler
Vaughan '32, Elizabeth Love '28, Gladys Sivert
'29, Zoe Hickney White '32, Cora Jean Dyer '31,
Mary Jane Jones '41, Jean Puffer '41, Eleanor
Jewell '40, Dorothy Morley '40, Betty Moulton
'42, Margaret Stanton '43, Eleanor Cushman
'44, Marion Whitcomb '44, Mary Judge '42,
Phyllis Mclnerny '42, Lillian Martin '42, Martha
Hall '42, Marion Cook '42, Olive Tracy '43,
Betty Bushnell '43, and Thelma Medine, Lillian
Luksis, Marjorie Cole, Dorothee Beech, Mar-
jorie Aubertin, Barbara Collins, Nancy Doolittle,
Ellen Kane, Thelma Cohen, Golda Edinbug,
prospective members of 1945.

Jane Schopfer '38 has given up her teaching
position in Duxbury and will be in Concord, Mass.,
this year.

Dorothy Morley '40 is teaching home economics
in Pembroke, Mass.

Marie Bradshaw '40 received her master's degree
at Clark University this year.

Virginia Pushee '39 has a position at the Hillyer
Art Gallery at Smith College.

Victoria Matuszko '40 has taken a position in
the office of Hamilton Standard Propellers in East
Hartford, Conn.

Ilelene Pelissier '40 has accepted a civil service
position with the War Department in Washington.

Nancy Luce '40 has been appointed assistant
county club agent in the Extension Service in
Worcester.

Lambda Delta Mu sorority became a chapter of
Chi Omega early in June, at ceremonies at the Lambda
Delta Mu chapter house at the College. Chi Omega
is the first national sorority to become established
at Massachusetts State.

A number of copies of the July Alumni Bulletin
were printed, and mailed, with the incorrect state-
ment that another local sorority had become the
chapter of Chi Omega. Correction was made in the
remaining Bulletins.

OBITUARIES

(Continued from Page 4)
William II. Boaz vv'18

William Henry Boaz w'18, prominent fruit grower
and apple broker, World War veteran, and director
of the Virginia State Horticultural Society in 1929-
1930, died at Charlottesville, Va. on June 3, 1941.
He is survived by his wife and three daughters.

Mr. Boaz was one of the outstanding fruit men in
Virginia; he will be greatly missed by a wide circle
of associates and friends.

Philip Burgun '39

Philip Burgun '39 was instantly killed in an auto-
mobile accident in Norwood, Mass. on August 16,
1941.

Phil was born in New York City, but had lived
most of his life in Canton, Mass.

He worked his way through College, was an honor
student, and president of his fraternity, Sigma Phi
Epsilon. After being graduated he had been credit
man for Household Finance and had lately accepted
a position in the sales department of Kellogg Products.

Phil is survived by his mother, a sister, and a
younger brother. His father died during his junior
year at College. Phil Burgun's death will be greatly
felt by his family, his friends, his College, and his
fraternity.

David Johnson '39

George L. Farley

George L. Farley, 68, 4-H Club Leader of Massa-
chusetts and a pioneer in 4-H work in the nation,
died on September 10, 1941, after a short illness. Mr.
Farley came to the College in 1916 as state club
leader. At that time he had one assistant and one
county club agent on his staff. Today there are five
assistants and 28 club agents. In 1916, total enroll-
ment of 4-H members was only a few hundred; today
over 20,000 boys and girls are members of the 4-H
organization in Massachusetts.

In speaking of Mr. Farley's services as 4-H Leader
in Massachusetts, President Hugh P. Baker said:
"I am proud to have known 'Uncle' George Farley
during the last years of his magnificent work for
young people of Massachusetts. Probably no man in
this State has counted so many young men and
women among his friends, has guided them, taught
them, served them as has Mr. Farley. He was a
great man and a great leader of youth. His work
will live long in the hearts of those he has served."

Willard A. Munson '05, director of the extension
service at Massachusetts State College, said: "Uncle
George Farley's leadership has had a most whole-
some effect upon the young people of Massachusetts.
The thousands and thousands of young people who
came in contact with him over the years will carry
his teachings through their lives and to their children.
Thus his work will contribute to the welfare and good
citizenship of future generations. No greater tribute
could a man have than that. His was a dynamic
leadership. He had the cooperation of all persons
interested in the welfare of young people."

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BEEF STEW — TEN CENTS

AWARDS ARE MADE OF CRABTREE
SCHOLARSHIPS

James E. (Buck) Deady w'12 left College before
receiving his degree and went into the restaurant
business downtown. He worked first in Thurber's
Lunchroom which was located on South Pleasant
Street in the place now occupied by Russell's pack-
age store.

Then, on April 1, 1912, he entered partnership with
Eugene Metcalf and opened the Columbia Cafe on
North Pleasant Street, where Harry Gaudette now
has a clothing and candy store. A year or two later
Buck and Metcalf dissolved partnership. Metcalf
went into the bowling alley business; Buck stayed
with the restaurant. Literally hundreds of Alumni
have eaten at Buck's restaurant; scores of Alumni
have earned their board, while in College, working
for him.

In 1920 Deady closed the Columbia Cafe and
bought a lunch cart which he installed in the alley
back of the Amherst House. He opened this new
place of business in December of that year and re-
mained at that location until July, 1927, when he
moved his cart north on Pleasant Street to a location
next to Gould's Jewelry Store. This became Deady's
Diner No. 1 in 1930 when Buck bought a second
lunch cart next to the former Kappa Sigma house
and opened it up as Diner No. 2.

On July 9, 1941, Buck sold out both lunch carts
and retired from the business which had established
him as a well known figure in Amherst and a friend
of countless graduates of the College.

A specialty of the Columbia Cafe mote the sign in
the picture i and of Diners No. 1 and 2 was Deady's
famous beef stew. "We used to sell from ten to
fifteen gallons of it a day," says Buck. "And people
sure did like it. Why, I've had Alumni come back
actually from all over the world and ask for some of
our beef stew. Said they had never tasted any so
good. We used to get ten cents for it back in the
Columbia Cafe. It's thirty cents now."

Dean Machmer has announced the following
awards, to upper classmen, of scholarships from the
Lotta Crabtree Fund for the college year 1941-1942.
Freshman awards will be made just previous to the
beginning of the second semester.
Class of 1942

Milford Atwood, Holyoke; John Brotz, Chelms-
ford; James Bullock, Arlington; Virginia Couture,
Becket; Allen Cowan, Pittsfield; Carl Erickson,
Attleboro; Fred Filios, Woronoco; Bradford Greene,
Springfield; Bernard Hershberg, Medford; Joseph
Jodka, Lawrence; Vincent LaFleur, Marlboro; Raino
Lanson, Worcester; John Lucey, Pittsfield; Harold
McLean, East Boston; Helen Watt, Holyoke; Paul
White, Somerville.

Class of 1943

Frances Albrecht, Somerville; Gerald Anderson,
Springfield; Nicholas Caraganis, Dracut; Clinton
Cheever, Worcester; Gordon Field, West Barnstable;
Robert Fitzpatrick, Medford; Evelyn Gagnon, North
Attleboro; Christos Gianarakos, Lowell; Walter
Glista, Bridgewater; Nathan Golick, Dorchester;
Elinor Koonz, Greenfield; Victor Leonowicz, Whit-
man; William MacConnell, Westboro; Boucard Nesin,
Westfield; Ralph Southwick, Worcester; Wallace
Turner, Dalton.

Class of 1944

Alexander Amell, North Adams; Robert Burke,
Westfield; Horace Burrington, Charlemont; Richard
Damon, Lowell: Charles Dunham, Winthrop; Edwin
Fedeli, Worcester; George Flessas, Brookline; Frank
Fuller, Springfield; Miss Artemis Georges, New
Bedford; John Hughes, Cambridge; David Kaplan,
Roxbury; Joseph Kivlin, Readville; Merton Lee,
Conway; Robert Monroe, Weymouth; Fred Nahil,
Lawrence; Edward Rabaioli, Medway.

BUCK, AND THE COLUMBIA CAFE FEBRl'AKY 12, I9I3

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ATHLETICS

Football

On Monday, September 8th, Coach Walter Harge-
sheimer led the nucleus of his 1941 squad out onto
Alumni Field and went to work in earnest with the
boys. And they went to work with him.

Gil Santin '43 of Beverly is doing some hard
running in his position at left halfback. Benny
Freitas '42 of Fairhaven and Jim Bullock '42 of
Arlington are showing a lot of drive at fullback.
Joe Masi of Franklin, sophomore quarterback, is
proving especially good on defense. Ed Fedeli '44 of
Worcester and Stanley Salwak '43 of Orange are

COACH HARGESHEIMER

CAPTAIN BRADY

Assisting Hargesheimer was Adam Cameron, new
line coach, Frannie Riel '39, newly appointed fresh-
man coach, and Red Ball '21. Coach Cameron,
former star center at Springfield College and more
lately assistant coach at Bates, is taking the place of
Johnny Janusas who recently accepted the position
of head coach at Marianapolis College in Connecticut.

After ten days of practice, two sessions daily,
Coach Hargesheimer said that he thought satisfactory
progress was being made, although the small size of
his squad (an even thirty men) slows up the work.
Lack of replacements is going to be a serious prob-
lem. However, barring injury, Hargesheimer looks
forward to his lads turning in a creditable perform-
ance throughout the season.

PUSHEE, SANTIN, MCDONOUGH

alternating at right halfback position. John Mc-
Donough '43 of Dorchester, Andy Colella '44 of
Rumford, R. I. and Red Warner '43 of Sunderland
are working for first string guard positions. Carl
Werme '42 of Worcester, George Pushee '44 of North
Amherst and Dick Norton '44 of Norwood are at
tackle; Paul Dwyer '42 of Winthrop, George Kimball
'42 of Amherst and Charles Dunham '44 of Winthrop
are at end.

The centers are Rus Clark '43 of Worcester and
Captain Johnny Brady '42 of Greenfield.

'30 Bob Labarge is electrical appliance service-
man for the Lacroix Electric Co., 106 Federal Street,
Greenfield, Mass. Bob's hobby is figure skating; he
has given a number of exhibitions on the college pond.

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LARRY AND MILDRED RRIGGS '27
AND '32, RED BALL '21 VISIT ALUMNI

PROFESSOR CHENOWETH RETIRES

During the past summer Larry and Mildred Twiss
Briggs '27 and '32, and Red Ball '21, made an eleven
weeks' tour of the United States, visiting Mexico on
the South and Canada on the North. They journeyed
approximately 20,000 miles and their itinerary in-
cluded sixteen national parks, eight national monu-
ments, Indian reservations and national forests.

On their trip they visited with several Alumni
about whom they speak as follows.

Gyp Goodwin 'IS and Mrs. Goodwin in Wash-
ington, D. C. We had the pleasure of celebrating
their twentieth wedding anniversary with them. Gyp,
who is in charge of educational programs in the de-
partment of Indian Affairs, gave us excellent ideas
relative to Indian schools and reservations to see on
our trip West.

Connie Wirth '23. We had lunch with Connie in
Washington. He is supervisor of recreation and land
planning for the National Park Service and he gave
us most helpful information relative to national
parks and monuments to see on our journey West.
His suggestions had a great deal to do with the en-
joyment of our trip.

Fred and Margaret Baker "2(> and "2(> and
Sum and .Mrs. Snow '3.>. We spent two pleasant
days in and around Albuquerque, N. M. With the
Bakers we visited the San Dia and Santa Fe Forests.
We also got together with Sammy Snow '35 and his
wife. Both Fred and Sam are working with the
United States Forest Service and enjoy their work.

l>r. Mary Foley '24. We had a brief but pleasant
visit with Mary Foley '24 who is teaching economics
at Dominican College, San Rafael, Calif. Mary ex-
tended a cordial invitation to all Alumni to visit her
whenever near San Rafael. Mary is well liked on
the college campus and in the classroom.

Dr. Stanley Freeborn '11. University <>! Cali-
fornia. While at the University we stopped in to
see Stan who is dean of men but he was away on
vacation at that time.

Ken Salman '24. University of California.
Ken is in entomological work with headquarters at
the University, and recently has acquired a ranch
about 120 miles from Berkeley. Ken wants to be
remembered to all of the gang.

Harry Johnson Bp'23, Dynes, California.
Harry has probably acquired the most complete
Water lily and cactus gardens in (he United Slates.
He is active in educational fields and greatly inter
ested in horticultural problems.

Justin Ilemenway 'Hi. We stopped at the
Customs at Loredo, Texas to inquire about Justin
Hemenway who is on duty at the border, but we
were unable to locate him in the short time we
were there.

William I. nee "2(1, Wenatchee, Washington.
Bill is with a power company in Wenatchee and
interested in the agricultural development of that
area. He told us that linck Sariient '23 has a fine
family and owns a farm nearby.

Walter W. Chenoweth, head of the department of
horticultural manufactures, retired on the 30th of
June. That was a state law, and, of course, quite
arbitrary. It seemed a bit harsh. Nevertheless, if
considered from another point of view, everyone will
agree that Professor Chenoweth abundantly earned
his years of leisure and freedom. Nobody ever
worked harder or more conscientiously for the
Commonwealth than he.

Professor Chenoweth came to the College in 1912
to be chief assistant to Professor Sears, then head of
the pomology department. His services in the field
of pomology were outstanding for, both by natural
gifts and specialized training, he was a highly com-
petent teacher.

Even before Professor Chenoweth's arrival on
campus a new department had been projected to
deal with the manufacture and merchandizing of
fruit and vegetable products. The new assistant in
pomology took a lively interest in these plans and
early organized a class. The work was a marked
success from the start. Eventually, a special build-
ing was planned and with the enthusiastic support
of President Butterfield, and in spite of discourage-
ments, the present laboratory was built.

Through Professor Chenoweth's leadership the work
was rapidly expanded. New courses were built up.
Professor Cole came to spread the extension work
through the State. Dr. Fellers led off with varied
and important research. Graduate studies were ex-
panded. The work in manufacturing and in food
technology has appealed to serious students, and the
demand for well trained men in these lines has
accentuated this appeal.

Professor Chenoweth was born in Jamesport, Mo.,
May 30, 1871. He attended the local public schools,
Valparaiso University (where he received the A.B.
degree in 1903), Kirksville Normal School, the Uni-
versity of Missouri. Thus, he brought to Massachu-
setts State College an unusually broad training,
fortified by high ideals and a personal character
that has been a constant inspiration both to his
students and to his associates on the faculty.

He is a member of the honorary societies of Sigma
Xi, Alpha Zeta, and Phi Kappa Phi.

Professor Chenoweth married Lela Cullar in 1905.
They have two children, Howard, a food technician
in New York and Winifred Harris, of Bristol, Conn.

It is Professor Chenoweth's present plan to spend
a year in California for recreation and the improve-
ment of his and Mrs. Chenoweth's health. After
that he will return to his home in North Amherst.
Thus he will still be in contact with this College and
we will all expect to enjoy his help and his comrade-
ship lor many years to come. — F. A. W.

K. N. Dolman '22. South Haven, Michigan.

He has a fruit farm and maintains a gasoline delivery
service in addition. He and his wife and son and
daughter are gifted musically and entertained us in
great style.

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President Hugh P. Baker acted as host to Governor
William H. Wills of Vermont at the Governors' Day
program at the Eastern States Exposition in Spring-
field on September 14 and 15.

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Oct.

Nov

CROSS COUNTRY

11 Tufts, here
18 M.I.T., there
25 W.P.I. , there
30 Springfield, here
4 Conn. Valley at New
London
10 N. Englands at Boston
14 Trinity, there

FOOTBALL

SOCCER

Sep.

27 Springfield, there

Sep.

27 R.P.I., here

Oct.

4 Connecticut, here

Oct.

4 Connecticut, here

11 Norwich, here

11 Dartmouth, there

18 Rhode Island, there

18 Coast Guard, here

25 W.P.I. , there

25 Trinity, there

Nov

1 Amherst, here

31 Amherst, there

8 Brooklyn College, there

Nov

. 7 Fitchburg Teachers

15 Tufts, here

College, there

Captain, John E. Brady '42
Captain, William W. Kimball '42 Manager, Saul M. Glick '42
Mgr., George W. Litchfield '42 Coach, Walter G. Hargesheimer
Coach, L. L. Derby Assistant, Adam Cameron

Captain, Carl L. Erickson '42

Manager, Joseph W. McLeod '43

Coach, Lawrence E. Briggs '27

'13 Marshall Headle, chief test pilot of Lockheed
Aircraft Corp. of Burbank, Calif., found his picture
in the papers and magazines frequently during the
sunnier in connection with scientific findings about
nicotine in cigarettes. Incidentally, the cigarette ads
carried quite a good deal of interesting information
about Headle and his work. For instance, the fact
that he has test flown 300 different planes, that he
dives new planes from 35,000 feet up, lands the
plane from this height in a matter of seconds.

'13 Clark L. Thayer, head of the department of
floriculture at the College, has been pleased to
announce the receipt of a graduate fellowship,
amounting to $500, provided by the Foundation for
Floriculture of the Society of American Florists.

The Foundation provides fellowships also at
Cornell, University of Illinois, Iowa State, Purdue,
and Ohio State.

'24 Dr. Nandor Porges is a bacteriologist in the
Southern Regional Research Laboratory of the
U.S.D.A., New Orleans, La. He is working with
sweet potato products with particular regard to the
production of starch.

In Colliers Magazine, of July 5, 1941, in an article
telling about the manufacture of products from
vegetable matter, Dr. Porges' work with bacteria is
detailed in interesting fashion.

'24 Ken Loring is with the Ross Roy Advertising
Agency in Detroit.

'30 Dr. Cecil Wadleigh has left the faculty of the
University of Arkansas and accepted an appointment
to the position of senior physiologist in charge of
plant physiological investigations at the U. S. Re-
gional Salinity Laboratory in Riverside, Calif. The
duties of the position involve supervising a compre-
hensive study of plant responses to the various types
of salinity conditions occurring in the eleven western
states.

'33 Bill Smith has resigned as teacher of agricul-
ture in the Westport, Mass., high school and has
become manager of the Fall River Milk Producers'
Association. Harold Wood '34 will take over the
agricultural work at Westport.

'35 Dr. Bernard J. Doyle will be director of
student health at the College this year, succeeding
Dr. Ernest J. Radcliffe. Doyle received his M.D.
from Tufts in 1939 and served his internship at
Mercy Hospital in Springfield. More recently he has
been assistant physician at the Hampshire County
Sanatorium, in addition to carrying on a private
practice in Easthampton.

'36 Norvin Laubenstein is manager of the F. W.
Woolworth store in Biddeford, Maine.

mum j] j mm

meetings will be held throughout the
U. S. this fall. Central New York Alumni have tentatively set
November 1st as their meeting date. Watch the mails for the
announcement of the meeting nearest you.

THE ALUMNI
BULLETIN

THE WITCH S BIRD

MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE
AMHERST, MASSACHUSETTS

'ol. XXIV, No. 2

November, 1941

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN
MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

George E. Emery '24, Editor
Published monthly at Amherst, Mass. (except August and
September) by the Associate Alumni of Massachusetts State College.
Entered as second class matter. March 17, 1920, at the Postoffice
at Amherst. Mass., under the Acts of March 3. 1879.

OFFICERS OF ASSOCIATE ALUMNI OF
MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE
President, Albert W. Smith '22 of Springfield
Vice-President, William V. Hayden '13 of Newton Center
Secretary, Marshall O. Lanphear 'IS of Amherst
Treasurer, Clark L. Thayer "13 of Amherst
Executive Secretary, George E. Emery '24 of Amherst

BOARD OF DIRECTORS
to 1942

Erford W. Poole "96 of New Bedford

David P. Rossiter '37 of Hillsgrove. R. I.

Zoe Hickney White '32 of Worcester

Alfred E. Wilkins "15 of Wakefield
to 1943
Harry Dunlap Brown '14, ex-officio, of Billerica
William L. Doran '15 of Amherst

Mary E. M. Garvey '19 of Amherst
Lawrence L. Jones '26 of North Beverly

Edward J. Gare, Jr. '15 of Northampton
to 1944
Donald C. Douglass '21 of Belmont

Norman D. Hilyard '23 of Springfield

John W. McGuckian '31 of Roslindale

Arthur D. Tilton 'IS of Woburn
to 1945
Alden C. Brett '12, ex-officio, of Belmont

Alan W. Chadwick '31 of Baldwinsville

Evelyn Davis Kennedy '26 of Belmont
Starr M. King '21 of Beverly

Lewis Schlotterbeck '16 of Wakefield

The Alumni Bulletin is sent ten times each year to all members
of the Associate Alumni. Memberships are: Annual S3. 00. Sustain-
ing $10.00.

Cover picture— "The Witch's Bird/' symbolic (we
think) of the Hallowe'en season.

The photograph was taken by Bob Coffin; the bird is
his pet crow, Jimmy. Bob likes this picture because, he
said, he likes the crow; "He's a great boy, an interest-
ing and intelligent bird."

Below, is a photograph of Mr. Coffin (whose pictures
frequently have appeared on the Bulletin covers) and
Jimmy — this photograph taken by Don Lacroix '22.

PAST AND PRESENT
OF THE CLASS OF

1914

By Henry Clay '14

Leon Ed£ar Smith (one of the two "L. E. Smiths"
of lively memory back in 1911 at the class banquet),
is, of all things, a funeral director, and a successful
one. One can hardly imagine Leon with the heavily
professional attitude and conversation of a funeral
home attendant, but he might surprise us, and any-
way, his work as treasurer of Short & Williamson,
with branch funeral homes in Allston and Belmont,
and as supervisor of a staff of a dozen men and
women, takes most of his time. Leon graduated to
caskets after a 10-year undergraduate course as
manager of both sales and service departments of
the Ford motor agency at Newton, Mass.

With Mrs. Smith (married November 24, 1915),
L. Edgar lives at 58 Oakland Avenue, Auburndale,
Mass.

Son Alan had a varied college life at Massachusetts
State, University of Illinois, and University of
Alabama, but left before graduation to become a
funeral director with his dad's firm. Before this
fully materialized, the draft came along, so Alan
enlisted in the U.S.N.R., took the midshipman's
course at Northwestern, was graduated as an ensign,
married, and is now education officer on a destroyer
tender with the Pacific fleet.

A daughter, Marion, died in July, 1940, at the
age of 20.

Golf keeps the ageing muscles supple from spring
to fall, and Leon plays in the low eighties. Bowling,
ping pong, club and Masonic work aid in occupying
his hours in cooler weather.

Earl Ingham is living refutation of the old saw
that "a prophet is not without honor save in his
own country." Earl went back to the home town of
Granby as a farmer, after graduation, and definitely
has made good. Earl has been a member of the
school committee, town assessor, town selectman,
and town moderator for a number of years. When a
good chairman of a committee to draft the town by-
laws was needed Earl was called on. Sort of sounds
like the town big shot! Two girls and a boy aid in
keeping the home place active.

Rod Harris, another one of the boys who went
back to the farm, is raising tobacco and other crops
in Wethersfield, Conn. Masonic activities keep much
of his spare time occupied.

Soon after Ruth Staye, Smith '17, received her
diploma, she and Rod decided that two could farm
as cheaply as one. A daughter, Nancy, is a junior at
Smith, and a son, Gordon, is a junior at Wethersfield
High School.

Dick Leete is one of the relatively few '14 gradu-
ates whose children have gone back to the College.
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ALUMNI DIRECTORS MEET

ALUMNI IN UNIFORM

On Friday, October 3, the Alumni Directors met
in Draper Hall to hear the report of the alumni
committee on university name and to discuss possible
future alumni action. President Baker and College
Treasurer Bob Hawley '18 were invited to the meet-
ing by the Directors.

Ralph Taber '16, chairman of the Alumni com-
mittee which worked toward university name for the
College, reported in detail on the activity of his
group. He told of the fine cooperation which Alumni
throughout the State gave to his committee, and of
the experiences encountered in connection with this
alumni effort to bring about passage of the bill
which would have provided the name University of
Massachusetts.

There was a full discussion, after which it was
voted that the alumni committee consider, further,
the position which the College holds in the educa-
tional program of the Commonwealth.

ALUMNI .MEETINGS SOI EDI LEI)

Fall Alumni Meetings have been scheduled for
Worcester on October 24th; Sudbury Middlesex
County) on November 13; Springfield on October
30; Essex County (Mass. I on November 7; Geneva,
N. Y., November 1.

Tentative arrangements for other meetings in
various parts of the United States are being made
and announcement of these gatherings of Alumni
will be sent to all Alumni in the various centers.

Campus movies and RCA-Victor recordings by the
glee clubs of the college songs are to be sent to
alumni gatherings this fall.

1911 NOTES

This is especially noteworthy since Dick has been
living outside the borders of the old Bay State, at
Briarcliff Manor, N. Y.

Coing into the lumber business almost immediately
after doffing his cap and gown in 1911, since 1931 he
has been associated with his brother in the retail
lumber and building material business at Ossining,
N. V.. on the banks of the Hudson. And apparently
Ossining, with its 15,000 people, has considerable
business activity apart from that of "The Big House."

Married in 1917 to Dorothy Martin (Wellesley '15 .
Dick and his wife have given three hostages to
fortune. Catherine graduated from Massachusetts
State in 1940 and is now doing secretarial work in
ing. Cynthia is a sophomore at the College;
and Anne is resting up from last June's high school
graduation.

Already the vision of the 1944 reunion is to the
fore, for Dick writes, "I shall be looking forward to
our :)0th reunion and the opportunity again to grasp
your hand and those of all the rest."

The following listing of Alumni, now serving with
the country's armed forces, which supplements the
list published last month, represents latest infor-
mation recorded in the Alumni Office. Doubtless
the list is not complete. Alumni other than those
named may be in the service; but information has
not yet been received about them at the Alumni
Office.

What additions do you know of which should be
made to the following list? And what corrections of
address? Information will be gratefully received.

'36 Lt. Randolph Barrows, Cav. Res., 1225 S.U.
S.C., Fort Hancock, N. J.

'33 Captain Benjamin D. Betts, Cav. Res., 3rd
Cavalry, Fort Myer, Va.

'38 Lt. William Eaton, Cav. Res., Fort Knox, Ky.

'32 Lt. Georije M. Flood, Cav. Res., Fort Knox,
Ky.

'37 Lt. Philip D. Layton, Construction Quarter-
master, Zone 7, Omaha, Nebr.

'35 Lt. Everett Mai-Question, Cav. Res., West-
over Field, Chicopee Falls, Mass.

'35 Lt. Ronald C. Malloch, Windsor Locks Army
Air Base, Windsor Locks, Conn.

'40 2nd Lt. Charles A. Powers, Jr., Cav. Res.,
81 A. R., 5th Armored Div., Fort Knox, Ky.

'40 2nd Lt. Edi>ar Slater, Windsor Locks Army
Air Base, Windsor Locks, Conn.

'37 Corp. Robert Spiller, Jr., A.F.R.T.C, Fort
Knox, Ky.

'34 Lt. Henry Walker, Windsor Locks Army Air
Base, Windsor Locks, Conn.

'40 Pvt. Robert Wetherbec, Military Police, Fort

I )r\ ens, Mass.

'28 Capt. Edwin S. White, Air Corps, Mitchell
Field, Long Island, N. Y.

(October list, continued)
'39 Ensign Harold l>. Rose, Malaria Survey Unit,

Marine Barracks, New River, N. C.
'37 Lt. Kenwood Boss, Cav. Res., War Dept.,

Hartford Sub-Office, Hartford, Conn.
'37 Pvt. David P. Rossitcr, 152d Observation

Squadron, Air Corps, Fort Devens, Mass.
'40 2nd Lt. Winslow K. Ryan, Cav. Res., 2nd

Cavalry, Fort Riley, Kans.
'41 2nd Lt. Ilanssen Schenker, Cav. Res., 3rd

Cavalry, Fort Myer, Va.
'41 2nd Lt., Harold V. Scollin, Jr., Cav. Res., 6th

Co., Mech. Cavalry, Fort Oglethorpe, Ga.
'40 2nd I.l. Kvi Sebolz, Cav. Res., Fort Knox, Ky.
'34 Lt. Harold Sebiniiaii, Cav. Res., 13th Arm'd

Regiment, Fort Knox, Ky.
11 2nd Lt. Frank M. Simons, Jr., Cav. Res., 2nd

Cavalry Division, Fori Riley, Kans.
w'll 2nd Lt. Paul I.. Sko£sbcrg, Cav. Res., 1st

Reconnaissance Troop, Fort Devens, Mass.
'39 2nd Lt. Raymond I':. Smart, Jr., Cav. Res.,

Cavalry Repl'ment Center, Fort Riley, Kans.
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OBITUARIES

George S. Stone '86

The thinning ranks of older graduates were further
reduced by the death on September 22, 1941, of
George S. Stone '86 at Otter River, Mass.

Stone entered the College in September 1883. He
was an outstanding student and was advanced to
the class of 1886, with which group he finished his
course in three years. He won scholastic honors
throughout his course and at graduation.

He was a strong man on the football team, and
was prominent in other extra-curricular activities.
He was a member of D.G.K. fraternity.

After graduation Stone returned to his home
village of Otter River in the town of Templeton and
spent his whole life in or near that place. For a
number of years he was engaged in dairy farming
and later became treasurer of the Templeton Savings
Bank of Baldwinville for 16 years.

A list of his various forms of public service testi-
fies to his high value as a citizen. In the course of
years he was town moderator, tax collector, assessor,
and school committee member. He was also a mem-
ber of the General Court of Massachusetts.

There remains of his immediate family and de-
scendants, his wife, two sons, three daughters, and
six grandchildren. Two brothers and a sister also
survive him.

D. F. Carpenter '86

Paul E. Alger '09

Paul Edgar Alger died suddenly of a heart attack
on August 26, 1941, in a hotel at Whitingham, Vt.
He was born August 16, 1887, in Somerville, Mass.

After being graduated from the College he fol-
lowed agriculture for several years, as superintendent
and manager of tobacco plantations in Connecticut
and in Massachusetts. In 1917 he took up county
agent work at Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket.
He came to Greenfield, Mass., in 1919 as assistant
county agent of the Franklin County Extension
Service. He interested himself particularly in 4-H
Club work.

He was a leader in his profession and under his
direction the 4-H membership grew from 250 to
nearly 1200. His outstanding accomplishment was
the establishment of the Franklin County Extension
Service camp on Catamount Hill in Colrain, Mass.
He resigned from this work on March 1, 1937.

Since then he had been a salesman for "Green
Milk" and a representative for the Elmore Feed Co.

He is survived by his widow and four grown
daughters of Greenfield, Mass., and a sister at
Reading, Mass.

S. S. Crossman '09

engineering department of the Federal Mutual
Liability Insurance Company — later a part of the
Lumberman's Mutual. At the time of his death he
was director of safety of the southeastern department
of the company, with headquarters in Atlanta.

He is survived by his wife and a son, Robert, now
a senior at Emory University in Atlanta.

A letter from Mrs. Reese, dated September 25th,
says that at present she is living at 22 Denton Ter.,
Roslindale, Mass. She writes, "Harry was so inter-
ested always to hear about his former college friends.
College was very dear to him."

Harold J. Clay '14

MARRIAGES

Harry L. Reese w'14

Harry L. Reese w'14 died on February 19, 1941.

After leaving College he was employed by the
Boston & Albany Railroad, then by newspapers in
Missouri and Arkansas and finally with the safety

'21 Richard A. Waite to Miss Janet Fish, July
12, 1941, at Windsor, Conn.

'28 J. Warren Tufts to Miss Martha W. Deane,
September 13, 1941, at Middleboro, Mass.

'29 Miss Faith Packard to Angelo B. Pedotti,
September 20, 1941, at Dalton, Mass.

'34 Miss Flory Costa to George Grover, June 25,
1940, at Agawam, Mass.

'34 Miss Alice Gunn to Robert A. Campbell,
September 20, 1941, at Turners Falls, Mass.

'34 Raymond Royal to Miss Jeanette Lepine,
June 28, 1941, at North Adams, Mass.

'34 W. Snowdon Thomas to Miss Henrietta R.
Sutherland, May 29, 1941, at South Middleboro,
Mass.

'37 and '39 Donald K. Tucker to Miss Mabelle
Booth, June 24, 1941, at Foxboro, Mass.

'39 and '41 Paul Haynes to Miss Elizabeth Crafts,
September 20, 1941, at Northampton, Mass.

'39 Gerhard Wilke to Miss Eleanor Weber,
October 9, 1941, at Holyoke, Mass.

'40 Paul Ferriter to Miss Kathryn Carney,
October 11, 1941, at Westfield, Mass.

'40 Miss Katherine Rice to Gilbert Garland,
October 11, 1941, at Somers, Conn.

'40 and '40 Richard S. Warner to Miss Priscilla
Jacobs, June 23, 1941, at Concord, Mass.

'40 Marciene Whitcomb to Miss Bessie Sawyer,
October 11, 1941, at South Hadley Falls, Mass.

'41 Miss Regina G. Krawiec to Stefan Bryla,
August 31, 1940, at Bath, Maine.

'41 Miss Christine Wheeler to Charles Peters,
October 11, 1941, at Worcester, Mass.

'41 and w'42 Miss Dorothy E. Wright to Philip
A. Trufant, October 10, 1941, at Abington, Mass.

'96 H. T. Edwards, who is now in charge of
investigations of all fiber crops other than cotton,
has recently returned to Washington from a 16,000
mile trip through Mexico and Central America. In-
vitations were received by the Department of Agri-
culture from the governments of Mexico and Hon-
duras for the detail of specialists to make economic
agricultural surveys in these two countries.

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WITH THE ALUMMAE

by Mary E. Garvey '19

The Boston Alumnae Club has planned an inter-
esting schedule of regular monthly meetings which
are to be held at the Women's Educational and
Industrial Union in Boston.

Miss Sybil Holmes was guest of the Alumnae and
speaker of the evening at the meeting held on Wed-
nesday, October 1st. Miss Holmes is former State
Senator and a member of the Massachusetts and
Norfolk County Bar Associations. She has attended
the Women's Civilian Defense School and is a mem-
ber of the speakers' bureau. Her talk, "Civilian
Defense — What Women Can Do," was illuminating
and interesting, and pointed out ways in which the
Alumnae could participate in civilian defense pro-
grams.

The Boston Alumnae plan a desert bridge for
October 25. for the benefit of the Student Loan Fund.

On November 5 the Alumnae will see a movie
called. "America Learns to Fly." The coming year
promises to be a successful and interesting one for
Alumnae in the Boston area.

Marion Gunness '39 is microbiologist doing
vitamin work for Merck & Co., Rahway, N. J.

Helen Downing Ezold *37 is teaching piano in
Holyoke, Mass. Helen's orchestra recently played
on campus for the freshman reception.

Marguerite LeDuc Boylan \'5li is doing steno-
graphic work in Washington. D. C. Her home is at
206 Betsy Ross Building. Beverly Plaza Gardens,
Alexandria, Va.

BERTHS

'28 A son, Charles Richardson, to Mr. and Mrs.
Charles R. Gray Julia Lawrence "28i. September 24,
1941, at Port Chester, N. Y.

'30 and '29 A son. Perry Scott, to Mr. and Mrs.
Frank T. White Ruth Faulk '29>, July 31, 1941. at
Brockton, Mass.

'31 A daughter. Ann Frances, to Mr. and Mrs.
Francis C'oughlin. Jr. (Mary Marshal] '33 . Sep-
1 '.) 1 1 . .it Ware, Mass.

'33 and '36 A daughter, Anne Prances, to Mr.
and Mrs. Walter Maclinn (Frances Driscoll '36 .
October 8, 1941. at Northampton, Mass.

A son. Randall Knight, to Mr. and Mrs.
Randall Cole, August 19, 1941. at Ithaca, N. Y.
:i t A son, James Gordon, to Mr. and Mrs.
rt Magay, September 17, 1941, at Worcester,
Mass

'36 and '36 A daughter. Rachel Eden, to Mr
and Mrs. Elmer Allen i Margaret Hutchinson),
September 25, 1941, at Fall River, Mass.

ind '37 A daughter. Elizabeth Ruth, to Mr.
and Mrs. Ralph Gates Ruth Todl . July 30, 1941,
at Northampton, Mass.

Barbara Miller Milne '38 is living at 120 North
Oraton Parkway, East Orange, N. J.

Elizabeth Low Lothrop '36 has been living with
her husband, Cummings Lothrop '36, and their two
daughters, Kit, age 3, and Ann, age 1, in a trailer
in Maine in the summer and in Florida in the winter.
Her husband sells spray material for Rohm & Haas.
Elizabeth likes this travel arrangement.

Priscilla Taylor Pajje '39 is cost estimator with
the Union Bag & Paper Corporation, 233 Broadway,
New York Citv.

Alumnae in the class of 1941 are occupied, as
follows, according to latest information in the
Alumni Office.

Annotta Ball, student dietitian at Beth Israel
Hospital, 71 Fenwood Road, Boston.

Priscilla Archibald, at Grover Cronin's Specialty
Shop in Waltham.

Helen Fitch, student at Clarke School for the
deaf in Northampton.

Winifred Giles Vittuxn, living at 223 Pierce St.,
West Lafayette, Ind.

Jean Taylor, underwriter for the John Hancock
Insurance Co., 197 Clarendon Street, Boston.

Marion Tolman, dietitian-interne at Henry Ford
Hospital, Detroit, Mich.

Harriet Wheatlcy, county home demonstration
agent in Montpelier, Vt.

Ilelene Alie:irn. laboratory technician at the
U. S. Marine Hospital, Brighton.

Mary Jones, student technician at the Worcester
City Hospital.

Priscilla Lane, teaching French, English, and
home economics in the Junior High School at Pitts-
burg, N. H.

Marguerite Brielman, studying veterinary medi-
cine at the University of Pennsylvania.

Nellie Wozniak, with radio station WHYN
in South Hadley Falls.

Matilda Sohon. medical technician at the Law-
rence General Hospital.

Iternire Shaw, leaching in Belchertown.

Dorothy Long, working in the statistical depart-
ment. Kodak Park. Rochester, N. Y.

Evelyn Bergstrom, doing educational work for
the Massachusetts Audubon Society, 66 Newbury
Street, Boston.

Irene Johnston, a student at Northampton
Commercial College.

l>oris Gichlcr, with Massachusetts Mutual Life
Insurance Company, Springfield.

Virginia Richardson, teaching in the Browne
Junior High School, Maiden.

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ALUMNI IN UNIFORM

(Continued from Page 3)

w'17 Navy Commander Hayden II. Smith, U.S.S.

Argonne, %Postmaster, San Pedro, Calif.
'39 Pvt. Howard N. Steff, Company A, 101st

Engineers Battalion, Army Postoffice 26, Camp

Edwards, Mass.
'39 2nd Lt. Edward F. Stoddard, Air Corps Re-
serve, Mitchell Field, Long Island, N. Y.
'40 2nd Lt. Arthur Sullivan, Manchester Air

Base, Manchester, N. H.
'40 2nd Lt. John W. Swenson, Cav. Res., Division

Headquarters Company, Fort Knox, Ky.
w'17 Lt. Col. Francis Swett, C.A.E., R.O.T.C,

University of California, Berkeley, Calif.
'30 Lt. Jesse A. Taft, Cav. Res., Quartermasters

Department, Fort Devens, Mass.
'36 Lt. Royal K. Tanner, Cav. Res., Company D,

3rd Signal Training Battalion, Fort Mon-
mouth, N. J.
'40 2nd Lt. Gordon F. Thomas, Cav. Res., 83rd

Reconnaissance Bat., Fort Beauregard, La.
'40 Flying Cadet Chester H. Tiberii, Bldg. 602,

U. S. Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Fla.
'41 2nd Lt. Robert C. Tillson, Cav. Res., 3rd

Cavalry, Fort Myer, Va.
'36 Lt. Adolph E. Tohaz, Cav. Res., Hd. Third

Corps Area, Baltimore, Md.
'40 2nd Lt. George Tobey, Cav. Res., 35th Arm'd

Regiment, Pine Camp, N. Y.
'38 Lt. Floyd W. Townsley, Cav. Res., 37th

Armored Regiment, Pine Camp, N. Y.
'26 Captain Edwin L. Tucker, MacDill Field,

Tampa, Fla.
'26 Captain Charles E. Turner, Air Corps Re-
serve, Air Base, Manchester, N. H.
'17 Lt. Col. Everett L. Upson, (Inf.) Inspector

General's Department, 2nd Corps Area,

Governor's Island, N. Y.
'37 Flying Cadet Donald E. Weaver, Maxwell

Field, Montgomery, Ala.
'40 2nd Lt. II. Dexter Wetherell, Cav. Res., 11th

Cavalry, Seeley, Calif.
'38 Flying Cadet James F. Wheeler, U. S. Naval

Training Station, San Diego, Calif.
'35 2nd Lt. Joseph Whitney, Cav. Res., Armored

Force, Fort Knox, Ky.
'35 Lt. Rcnjamin J. Wihry, Cav. Res., Office of

Zone Construction Quartermaster, Army Base,

Boston, Mass.
'38 Lt. Carl R. Wildner, 37th Bombing Squadron,

Pendleton Air Base, Oreg.
'39 Pvt. Edward R. Willard, Headquarters Service

Company, 101st Engineers, 26th Division,

Camp Edwards, Mass.
'36 Lt. Luther L. Willard, Cav. Res., Fort Knox,

Ky.
'12 Major Silas Williams, Cav. Res., Ordnance

District, Hartford, Conn.
'40 2nd Lt. Wilfred M. Winter, Cav. Res., Henry

Barracks, Cayey, Puerto Rico
'36 Lt. John L. Wood, Cav. Res., 1st Reconnais-
sance Battalion, Fort Knox, Ky.

'39 Pvt. Stanley F. Zclazo, Anti Tank Company,
104 Inf., 26th Div., Camp Edwards, Mass.

Dr. Ernest J. Radcliffe, head of the student health
department at the College, is captain in the air
service. He has been at the Bangor, Maine, Air
Base, and at Windsor Locks, Conn., lately has been
ordered to Randolph Field, Texas.

Lt. Rob Hall '41, of Troop G, 14th Cavalry, at
Fort Riley, has written to tell of the maneuvers in
which he took part in Texas, Arkansas, and Louisi-
ana. He found "plenty of chiggers, ticks, and free
range hogs that go poking under your bedroll at
night"; but he liked New Orleans.

Dave Rossiter '37, who is with the 152nd Obser-
vation Squadron, Air Corps, at Fort Devens, Mass.,
says that he has become a gunner in a plane — that
two fellows sit up front and drive the plane while
he, Dave, sits back-to-them in the rear and watches
where they have gone.

Writing from Devens, Dave said, "Dr. Radcliffe,
captain to me, came in here the other day in a big
bomber from Windsor Locks. He brought a fellow
up on a stretcher to go over to the base hospital."

AGRICULTURE SEMINAR

The 4th Alumni Seminar in agriculture and horti-
culture is to be held at the College on November 14
and 15. In the past, these seminar programs have
been planned for Alumni who majored in the division
of agriculture ; this year programs of interest are also
being arranged for those Alumni who majored in the
various departments of horticulture.

There will be departmental programs in animal
husbandry, dairy, floriculture, olericulture, orna-
mental horticulture, pomology, and poultry. In
addition, there will be general sessions of interest to
all on Friday afternoon and on Saturday morning.

On Friday there will be a supper in Draper, fol-
lowed by a social evening in Memorial Hall — with
movies, cards, and bowling.

The programs are planned not only to provide
opportunity for the discussion of latest developments
in the agricultural industry; they also offer the
opportunity for social reunion.

Complete programs may be obtained by writing
to Roy E. Mosher, Stockbridge Hall at the College.

Alumni scheduled to appear on the programs in-
clude Joseph H. Putnam '94, C. H. Parsons '27,
R. C. Foley '27, Clark L. Thayer '13, Francis Hines
'31, Raymond Parkhurst '19, Ernest Parmenter '15,
W. S. Baker '14, Locke James '24, F. E. Cole '20,
Sumner R. Parker '04, Harry Lindquist '22, Carlton
Stearns '17, George Cotton '22, Paul Dempsey '17.

sp'll Fletcher Prouty has been appointed assist-
ant superintendent of parks in Springfield. Mr.
Prouty will carry on this work in addition to his
duties as city forester.

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HARLAN HOWARD '37 OPERATES
FOOD RESEARCH LABORATORY

E. A.

WHITE '95 TRAVELS IN
THE ORIENT

Dale Carnegie ("how to win friends and influence
people") devoted his syndicated newspaper column
of August 2nd to an account of the work of Harlan
Howard '37. Howard established a food research
laboratory in Amherst in 1940 and has developed
this laboratory into a thriving enterprise. Mr.
Carnegie predicted that Howard should go far in
the business of food technology.

HOWARD — IN HIS LABORATORY

As an undergraduate at the College, Howard
majored in bacteriology and in 1938 took his master's
degree in food technology with minor work in
chemistry. He continued at the College the follow-
ing year to make additional studies of vitamins with
Dr. Carl Fellers.

In 1939 and 1940 he did public health work in the
city of Brockton. He had always been interested in
problems relating to food purity, manufacturing, and
preservation, and in April, 1940. decided to establish
his own laboratory, in Amherst, to carry on his food
research and quality control work, especially with
milk.

He has gradually added to the technical and
equipment facilities in bis laboratory until now
Howard Laboratories are able to take care of virtu-
ally any problem in connection with food technology.

A thesis on "New Uses for Cocoa and Cocoa
Bean Products" was submitted, under the title
"Hidden Gold," in a contest arranged in 1938 by
the New York Cocoa Exchange. The thesis dealt
with vitamin I) in chocolate.

"Hidden Gold" was co-winner of the contest and
later published in excerpt form, or in full, in 55
newspapers and food journals in the United States,
Germany, and in England. A Swiss chocolate con
Bern was so impressed lhat ii wrote to the Howard
Laboratories in Amherst for further information with
regard to vitamins in chocolate.

Professor E. A. White '95, now in Ithaca, N. Y.,
is the author of an extended, illustrated, and inter-
esting article on orchids and orchid collecting which
was published in a recent number of the Phi Kappa
Phi Journal. Professor White, now retired from his
position as head of the department of floriculture at
Cornell University, has been traveling extensively in
Central America and in Asia collecting and studying
orchids, and is considered one of the leading American
authorities in this field.

Professor White recently replied as follows to a
note from the Alumni Office asking for information
about his travels. He wrote, "I returned to Honolulu
last December with my daughter Barbara who went
out to take a position as technician in physical
therapy at Queen's Hospital. I had an apartment
at Waikiki Beach and spent my time writing and
studying the various orchid collections -when I was
not sunning at the beach.

"Honolulu has more collections of orchids than
any city of its size in the world. These are not the
'rich man's flower,' for anyone can grow them easily
out-of-doors. Last year I gave a course of lectures
in the department of adult education at the Univer-
sity of Hawaii and the registration, 230, was higher
than in any course previously given. Where on the
mainland would you find 230 people in one city
sufficiently interested in orchids to attend a series of
seven lectures about these plants'.'

"Later I flew to the islands of Hawaii, Maui, and
Kavai for lectures.

"After leaving the Islands last year I went to
Japan, the Phillipines, Macassa, Bali, Java, Singa-
pore, Thailand, French Indo China, Penang in
Malaya, then to Rangoon in Burma.

"I went up the Burma Road to the rail head at
Lashio; then I was a month on mule back going
down the newly-opened mountain trail in the Wa
states along the China-Burma border, crossing the
Salween River on the trip to Keng-Fung, Burma.

"Returning to Rangoon I flew to Calcutta, India,
then went about 500 miles north to Darjeeling in the
Himalaya Mountains. Returning to Calcutta I flew
to Singapore, then returned to the Slates, by Aus-
tralia, New Zealand, the Fiji and Hawaiian islands.
Of course, the urge for the trip was orchids.

"If my daughter remains in Honolulu I expect to
rel in ii in I In- late fall."

A new rubber tile floor has been installed in the
first floor lounge and corriders of Memorial Hall.
Professor Waugh chose the color scheme (two shades
of brown and selected I he pattern. The new floor
adds inestimably to the attractiveness of the Hall.

Soon after Buck Deady's Diner No. 2 had been
remodeled and re-opened lor business under new
management this fall fire broke out in the building
in the middle of night, completely gutted the new
restaurant.

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SALOME SASTRE '96 VISITS CAMPUS

Salome Sastre '96 who came to the College from
Mexico and who ever since graduation in '96 has
been back in that country, returned to the campus
for the first time in 45 years in October. Mr. Sastre,
his wife and daughter, were making an extended tour
of the U.S.,
during the
course of
which Mr.
Sastre was
visiting his
college class
mates and
contempo-
raries in
various
parts of the
country.

He prom-
ises to send
us a detail-
ed account
of his trip,
for the

Bulletin, as soon as he can prepare the article after
his return to his home in Mexico City.

ALUMNAE NOTES

(Continued from Page 5)
Lorraine Noyes '36, who is technician at the
Emma Pendleton Bradley Home in East Providence,
R. I., is author of an article on acetone in the April
issue of the Journal of Laboratories and Clinical
Medicine.

Evelyn
Parker
S 1 o comb
'38 is living
in Cumber-
land, Md.,
R.F.D. 4.

REUNION IN GOESSMANN LABORATORY —
EDWARD B. HOLLAND

;HARLES A. PETERS '97, SALOME SASTRE
> AND PHILIP H. SMITH '97

Winifred
Dixon '39

has a posi-
tion at the
Kurn Hat-
tin School
in Saxtons
River, Vt.

Fern Kaplinsky '39 has a secretarial position
with a real estate company in Brookline Mass.

'10 W. Arthur Cloues is now living in Belfast,
Maine, where he recently was appointed city clerk
and city auditor.

'11 Raymond G. Smith is plant quarantine in-
spector for the U.S.D.A. in Norfolk, Va.

'14 Harold J. Clay, associate marketing specialist
of the U.S.D.A., is the author of a 124-page bulletin
on "Marketing Peanuts and Peanut Products."

'16 Frank Scheufele is assistant superintendent
of grounds at Wellesley College.

'17 Leland Graham is general manager for
Southern States Cooperative in Richmond, Va.

'17 Lewis Buckman, M.D., of Wilkes Barre, Pa.,
is president-elect of the medical society of the State
of Pennsylvania.

'18 John Maginnis has been elected commander
of the General Charles Devens Post of the American
Legion in Worcester.

'18 Louie Lyons is on the staff of the Boston
Globe and curator of Nieman fellowships at Harvard.
Louie's son, Richard, is a junior at Wesleyan and on
the honor roll; his daughter, Margaret, is president
of the student council at the junior high school in
Reading.

'20 George Smith manages a wholesale ice cream
business at 2262 Washington St., Newton Lower Falls.

'20 Malcolm Chase is general manager of the
Keene Ice Cream Company, Bangor, Maine.

'21 George Edman, managing editor of the
Berkshire Eagle (Pittsfield, Mass.) appeared on a
recent "The Peoples Platform" program over WABC,
a weekly Columbia feature.

'22 Ray Vinten writes that his banjo will still
play "Where Does the Wind Come From." Ray is
field supervisor for the National Park Service. He is
building a park for Doug Barnes '25 (Dade County
superintendent of parks) south of Miami. Ray feels
that the undergraduate training which he and other
landscape students received from Professor Waugh
and Professor Harrison has been of inestimable value.

'24 Alfred F. Gay is principal and teacher of
mathematics at the Nantucket, Mass., high school.

'24 James H. (Doc) Gadsby is field supervisor for
the National Park Service with headquarters at 614
Atlanta National Building, Atlanta, Ga.

'24 Howard H. Davis is manager of retail food
stores in Portland, Maine. His address is 585
Congress Street.

'27 Don Savage of Upland, Calif., and Mrs.
Savage visited on campus early in September. Don
was on an extended trip inspecting citrus fruit, upon
its arrival from the West Coast. While Savage was
on campus, Larry Rhoades, Dick Foley, Bob Ames,
and Hap Parsons, all '27, and their wives had a
reunion party in Amherst with Mr. and Mrs. Savage.

'28 Ellsworth Barnard is chairman of the English
department at Alfred University in Alfred, N. Y.
Dutchy finds his new job very pleasant and thinks
Alfred is a first-rate small college.

'28 and '38 Walter R. Smith and R. I. Bray are
authors of an article in the September number of
Industrial and Engineering Chemistry describing sur-
face area and properties of carbon blacks. Both men
are with the Cabot Company in Boston.

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DR. FELT '91 CATCHES
"HIGH FLIES"

GEORGE CHURCH '25 STUDIES
NATIVE GRASSES

In the last issue of the Bulletin note was made of
recent work of Dr. E. Porter Felt '91 in taking a
"census" of insects flying high above New York City.

In its issue of October 4th, the New Yorker maga-
zine commented at more length on Dr. Felt's activi-
ties, which comment we herewith reprint by per-
mission.

Three-twenty p.m. last Wednesday found us
emerging onto the Empire State Building ob-
servatory platform, eighty-six floors aloft, ac-
companying Dr. E. Porter Felt, a gentleman of
seventy-three, New York State Entomologist
from 1898 to 1928, and a pioneer in the study of
the wind drift of insects at high altitudes. Since
last June, Dr. Felt has been occasionally taking
off time from his present job as director of the
Bartlett Tree Research Laboratories at Stam-
ford, Conn., to collect insects at the 1000-foot
level of the observatory, and we had made ar-
rangements to be on his next trip. For the ex-
pedition, Dr. Felt's costume was a blue suit,
wing collar, and black bow tie; we wore a simple
tweed suit with three pencils in the breast
pocket. As the two of us made our way among
the sightseers enjoying the view, Dr. Felt sur-
prised several of them by whipping out a glass
tube. He uncorked this and placed it over a
slender insect resting on a window pane on the
tower's north side. "An ichneumonid," said
Dr. Felt. (We subsequently verified this and
other spellings.) "The fumes of this hydrocyan-
ide tube will soon overcome him." He was
right. The ichneumonid shortly keeled over into
the tube. "Just think, honey, we'll be out of
town in four hours," said a lady next to us, to a
gentleman next to her. Being on the tower in
the interests of science, neither Dr. Felt nor we
paid the slightest attention to this or other such
idle remarks. What we were doing may con-
tribute to the perfection of a method to cope
with devastating insects that travel to virgin
inns on high winds. The cotton moth has been
known to sail 1500 miles this way. It's amazing.
If the indifferent public could only realize!

In a jiffy, Dr. Felt picked up the carcass of a
ground beetle from a crack in the tile floor.
With wing cases of Mediterranean blue, it v.
beautiful even in death. "One of our most re-
spected insects i t'Tror to tent caterpillars,"
said Dr. Felt, putting the beetle into the tul>"
with the drugged ichneumonid. On the east
t'-rrace. Dr. Felt, whose eye for insects matches
a robin's, found a gossamer creature resting on
a window of the resturant. "Lacewing fly," he
said, "parent of the voracious aphis lion."

Or. Fill continued, keeping what we can well
call constantly on the alert, and by the time we
had completed two rounds of the gallery he had
twelve bugs in his tube, including a polistes, or
paper wasp, a grasshopper, a midge, a house fly,

An article in a recent Providence, R. I., Sunday
Journal told in detail about some of the work of
Professor George L. Church '25 of the botany de-
partment at Brown University. Church had just
returned from a sabbatical leave of six months during
which time he conducted studies of grasses in the
far West.

He brought back more than 75 different species of
grasses and nearly 550 other types of plants for
Brown University's herbarium.

The article concluded with the statement that
Church rues the fact that there are few amateur
botanists these days. Church thinks that the auto-
mobile has helped bring about the decline of botany
as a hobby, but feels that interest in plants and
plant collections may be stimulated through such
collections as the herbarium at Brown.

'30 Herbert Allen is with the editorial depart-
ment of the Boston Herald.

'32 Stuart Edmond is in radio service work in
Dover, N. H.

'33 Parker Sisson is salesman for the Lynn, Mass.,
Gas and Electric Company.

'33 Tom Oliver is chemical engineer wtih Lever
Brothers in Cambridge, Mass.

'34 James Flynn is chemist at Firestone Rubber
Company in Fall River.

a lady beetle, a fruit fly, a willow-leaf beetle, a
blue pine borer, a second ichneumonid of a
different type, and two clover weevils. The
grasshopper was practically identical with the
variety that laid waste the land in the great
grasshopper plague of Kansas sixty years ago.
The least distance any of the insects could have
come is thirty miles.

We told Dr. Felt we were surprised at the
ease with which he did his collecting. He
assured us that we had seen little, relating that
when he was State Entomologist he had found
over a thousand species of insects during one
summer in the roof gutters of the State Edu-
cation Building in Albany, 125 feet above the
street. He had no doubt that he could do as
well on the Empire State Building if he collected
daily. He captured an assassin bug from a
coping, and we both walked into the building
and into the center of a group of sightseers
waiting for the elevator, who looked at us
strangely and silently. On the way down, Dr.
Felt told us that this frequently happens to him.
Once lie was going through the railroad station
in Utica when he saw on the floor a number of
very rare and tiny ants. He got down and picked
these up with a wet forefinger. Mrs. Felt, who
was with him, said he made a spectacle of him-
self. "In the life of an entomologist," said Dr.
Felt, "that's a necessary evil."

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ATHLETICS

Football

Scores to date: Mass. State

Sept. 27 Springfield, there 7

Oct. 4 Connecticut Univ., here 8

11 Norwich Univ., here 0

Opp.

The Springfield Sunday Union and Republican has
commented on Massachusetts State football games
this fall in part as follows.

After the game with Springfield, on September 27,
the newspaper told of the Statesmen "showing the
right sort of spirit at all times."

About the University of Connecticut game, the
paper mentioned the "scrapping Massachusetts State
gridiron stalwarts" and said that the "State attack
looked much better and the defense showed a big im-
provement" over the technique exhibited in the first
game.

Following the Norwich game the newspaper noted
that the Statesmen's fans "had much to cheer about"
and continued that "the charges of Coach Walter
Hargesheimer put up a game exhibition although
subjected to rough handling and much physical punish-
ment by the winners.

"The highly heralded Norwich attack failed to
materialize with any degree of consistency while the
star of the visiting brigade, Walter Domina . . . was
allowed few liberties by the alert defensive play of the
Statesmen."

Outstanding in the Springfield game was the
manner in which, up until the final gun was fired,
the Statesmen pressed in their effort once more to
cross the goal line and break the 7-7 tie. In the
final few minutes of play both Springfield and State
threw forward pass after forward pass and both the
home cheering section and the large delegation of
rooters which attended the game from the State
campus were kept on their feet continuously.

Playing his first varsity football for Massachusetts
State, at Springfield, was Robert Engelhard '44 of
Pearl City, Hawaii.

Engelhard came to the "Mainland" after confer-
ences with Paul Larsen '13, Reyer VanZwaluwenburg
'13, David Larsen '08, and Ralph Borden '13, all of
whom are in Hawaii.

Engelhard is interested in Hawaiian agriculture
and learned through these loyal Alumni that the
ideal college in which to receive undergraduate
training in the subject is Massachusetts State.

Engelhard played football for three years at his
high school (Punahou Academy) in Hawaii, and in
the three games this fall has given a sterling account
of himself at right tackle for the Statesmen.

Determined to break into the win column, follow-
ing their tie game with Springfield, the Statesmen
early took the initiative against the University of
Connecticut team on October 4th and earned a well-
deserved 8-6 victory.

Red Warner '43 of Sunderland (son of Theo
Warner '08) distinguished himself at guard in this
Connecticut game.

The Norwich game, on October 11, was not ten
minutes old when the Statesmen were trailing the
favored Horsemen from Vermont by 13 points.
Through the simple, and legal, expedient of ball
stealing Norwich took two State fumbles inside the
30-yard line and converted both into touchdowns.
Norwich power asserted itself in driving the ball over
the goal line for both of these scores. And Norwich
has plenty of power. Ringling Brothers have ex-
hibited giants smaller than any of three or four of
the Norwich first string players, and to the complete •
satisfaction of the public. Or so we're told.

The last Norwich score came in the last minute of
play. The Statesmen had the ball on about their
own 30-yard line and threw a long forward pass —
which was intercepted by Norwich near midfield and
run back to the 2-yard line where John McDonough
'43 of Dorchester brought down the ball carrier. On
the next play Norwich scored.

Coach Hargesheimer's comment on this play,
following the game, was about as follows: "Why, if
our guys want to take such a chance as that, in a i
dangerous position, and it goes against them, that
can't be helped. They could have frozen onto the
ball and just stayed in there and taken a 13-0 licking
but, instead, they did what they could to score six
points, and maybe more. That's all right with me."

Remaining games:
Oct. 18 Rhode Island, there

25 Worcester Tech, there
Nov. 1 Amherst, here
8 Brooklyn, there
Tufts, here

Soccer

Scores to date:
Sep. 27 Rensselaer, there
Oct. 4 Connecticut Univ., here
11 Dartmouth, there

Remaining games:
Oct. 18 Coast Guard, here

25 Trinity, there

31 Amherst, there
Nov. 7 Fitchburg, there

Statesmen

Opp.

Robert S. Fay, Jr. of Monson — son of
Robert Fay '13 — has recently been awarded
the W.P.I. Yankee Ingenuity Scholarship of
$500.00 for perfection of a coal elevator to feed
his family's steam boiler stoker. Fay made the
machine from old farm equipment and used an
idle gasoline motored lawn mower for power.
He has entered the freshman class at Worcester
Tech to study mechanical engineering.

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ACADEMICS

Collegian

Professor Rollin Barrett teaches farm management
at the College and is also chairman of the college
committee on visual education. As such. Rollin has
taken many movies of campus scenes and activity —
some of which pictures have been shown before
alumni gatherings.

Characteristic of Professor Barrett is his friendly,
cooperative spirit. This spirit was recognized by the
editorial board of the Collegian in their issue of
Octobei 16th in an editorial which we are pleased
herewith to reprint.

Last Saturday during the Norwich-State game
when the wind was really frosty, Professor
Rollin H. Barrett stood on his little tower over
the press box taking pictures of the game. These
pictures are used each week by Coach Walter
Hargesheimer to diagnose the team's difficulties.
Taking these pictures is no little task and the
Collegian takes this opportunity to call attention
to the work Professor Barrett is doing.

Photography, although not a recent discovery,
has achieved its greatest peak in the past few
years, and the college has taken advantage of
the opportunities photography can offer. Pro-
fessor Barrett has been a pioneer in recording
college history and in preserving the outstanding
events in a class's years here.

In addition to his work as college photographer.
Professor Barrett has done yeoman service with
the public address system. Particularly during
the rally season he has been always ready to
set up the amplifying system for use any time.
We write this tribute, not only in recognition
of work done, but more in recognition of the
unselfish, jovial, and cooperative way the
service is rendered.

PROFESSOR BARRETT — ABOVE THE BALCONY

Boston Aliiiinei Club

FALL FOOTBALL MEETING
AND SMOKER

Friday Evening, November 28th

A social hour — beginning at 5:30-
followed by a meal, and the evening's
informal program which will start at
7 o'clock.

On the program: Ralph Taber '16;
Coach Walter G. Hargesheimer; movies
of highlights in the season's football
games: new colored pictures and a
graphic account of the R.O.T.C. work
at the College.

If your work prevents your being present at
5:30. or for the meal, be sure to drop in at 7:00
for the talks and movies.

Watch the mails for further announce-
ments .■iml details.

Ducky Swan '27
President, Boston Alumni Club

John McGuckian '31, Secretary

'34 Herbert Jenkins is director of laboratories for
New England Dairies. Inc., 22 Washington Street,
Somerville, Mass.

'35 William Schlaefer is accountant with the
I miid States Rubber Company, 1230 Sixth Avenue,
New York City.

Walter Stepat is doing time-study work with
Proctor and Gamble Company in Quincy, Mass.

'3") Paul Wood is salesman for (lie Cherry Burrell
Corp. in Syracuse, N. Y.

'36 James Davidson is landscape architect at the
Bay State Nurseries in North Abington, Mass.

'36 Kenneth Newman is doing research for
Owens-Illinois Glass Company, Toledo, Ohio.

'■';•', Charles Thayer is doing airplane engine
testing for Pratt & Whitney. He lives at 403 West
Center Street, Manchester, Conn.

16 Charles Glynne is an instructor al Admiral
Billard Academy, New London, Conn.

'39 Francis Warren is textile chemist (dyestuffs)
with Ciba Co., Inc., 627 Greenwich St., New York
City.

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'10 Dr. Sumner C. Brooks, professor of zoology
at the University of California in Berkeley, has been
made a trustee of the Marine Biological Laboratory
at Woods Hole, Mass.

Library

State College

Almiiiii Seminar

in Agriculture and Horticulture

under auspices of

Divisions of Agriculture and Horticulture at the College
NOVEMBER 14 AND 15

For all Alumni interested in current problems and developments
in agriculture and horticulture

'32 Victor Pineo is doing radio service work in
Amherst.

'36 Chester Gates is in the insurance business in
Springfield, Mass.

'37 Leo Lipman is in the ice cream business in
Torrington, Conn.

'37 Haskell Tubiash is bio-chemist at the Pond-
ville State Hospital, Wrentham, Mass.

'37 and '37 Dr. Charles Appel is interne at
Jefferson Hospital in Philadelphia; his brother, Dr.
John Appel, is interne at the Philadelphia General
Hospital.

'37 Norman Sheffield is in the hotel business and
was at the Quinox House in Manchester, Vt. this
summer. He has been in Florida in the winter and
in New England in the summer for the past four
years.

'37 Milton Silverman is a chemist with the
Franklin Serum Co., Amarillo, Texas.

'38 Philip Smardon is landscape architect for
Gardenside Nurseries, Shelburne, Vt.

'38 Alfred Forbush is in the office of Frederick
A. Davis, Jr., landscape architect, 104 Audubon St.,
New Haven, Conn.

'38 Bill Harrison is office manager for the C. W.
Dillon Chrysler-Plymouth agency in Lawrence, Mass.

'38 Kenneth Farrell is chief chemist for Sardik
Food Products Corp., 409 East 47th Street, New
York, N. Y.

'38 Warren Bray has been appointed instructor
of business administration at Kents Hill Junior
College, Kents Hill, Maine.

'39 Herbie Glick is personnel manager at the
Hotel Statler in Cleveland.

'39 Douglas Milne is a laboratory technician with
the National Union Radio Corp., in Newark, N. J.

'39 Robert Swanson is at George Washington
University taking work for a Ph.D. in bacteriology.

'39 Edward Malkin is specialist for the Agricul-
tural Marketing Service, 300 Terminal Building,
Rochester, N. Y.

'39 Louis Kertzman is dairy bacteriologist in
Waterbury, Conn.

'40 Vernon Ferwerda is a freshman counsellor
at Syracuse University.

'40 Henry Schreiber is graduate assistant in the
history department at the College of Liberal Arts at
Boston University.

'40 Homer Stranger is process man in the R. F.
Worden ice cream plant in Waterbury, Conn.

'40 George Curran of Northampton has enlisted
in the U. S. Naval Reserve.

Undergraduate Enrollment

1940 - 1941

1941-

1942

Class

Men Women Total

Class Men

Women

Total

1941

171 95 266

1942 169

266

1942

191 100 291

1943 174

269

1943

218 109 327

1944 236

109

345

1944

250 127 377

1945 231

149

380

Special

Special 3

833 431 1264

813

450

1263

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BULLETIN

JOEL E. GOLDTHWAIT 85. M D.

MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE
AMHERST, MASSACHUSETTS

\fol. XXIV, No. 3

December, 1941

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN
MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

George E. Emery '24, Editor
Published monthly at Amherst, Mass. (except August and
September) by the Associate Alumni of Massachusetts State College,
Entered as second class matter. March 17, 1920, at the Postoffice
at Amherst, Mass., under the Acts of March 3, 1879.

OFFICERS OF ASSOCIATE ALUMNI OF
MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

President, Albert W. Smith '22 of Springfield
Vice-President, William V. Hayden '13 of Newton Center
Secretary, Marshall O. Lanphear '18 of Amherst
Treasurer, Clark L. Thayer '13 of Amherst
Executive Secretary, George E. Emery '24 of Amherst
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
to 1942
Erford W. Poole '96 of New Bedford

David P. Rossiter '37 of Hillsgrove, R. I.

Zoe Hickney White '32 of Worcester

Alfred E. Wilkins '15 of Wakefield
to 1943
Harry Dunlap Brown '14, ex-otficio, of Billerica
William L. Doran '15 of Amherst

Mary E. M. Garvey '19 of Amherst
Lawrence L. Jones '26 of North Beverly

Edward J. Gare, Jr. '15 of Northampton
to 1944
Donald C. Douglass '21 of Belmont

Norman D. Hilyard '23 of Springfield

John W. McGuckian '31 of Roslindale

Arthur D. Tilton '18 of Woburn
to 1945
Alden C. Brett '12, ex-officio, of Belmont

Alan W. Chadwick '31 of Baldwinsville

Evelyn Davis Kennedy '26 of Belmont
Starr M. King '21 of Beverly

Lewis Schlotterbeck '16 of Wakefield

The Alumni Bulletin is sent ten times each year to all members
of the Associate Alumni. Memberships are: Annual S3. 00, Sustain-
ing 810.00.

Cover picture — Joel E. Goldthwait '85, M.D., of
Medfield, Mass., a distinguished "pioneer" Alumnus
in medicine, about whom "Who's Who in America"
speaks in part as follows: S.B. Massachusetts State
College 1885; M.D. Harvard 1890, and since in
practice at Boston; served as House Surgeon, Boston
Children's and Boston City Hospitals. Was formerly
Chief of Orthopedic Service, Massachusetts General

Hospital, Carney Hospital; mem. Staff Boston
Children's Hospital; formerly assistant in orthopedic
surgery Harvard Medical School; now instructor in
orthopedic surgery, graduate school of same. Ex-
president American Orthopedic Association; Fellow
American College of Surgeons; member British Ortho-
pedic Association; A.M. A., Massachusetts Medical
Society. Author of numerous monographs; frequent
contributor on orthopedic surgery. Colonel, Medical
Corps, serving two years with A.E.F.; now Brigadier
General, Medical Reserve Corps. Awarded D.S.M.

( U. S.) ; Companion St. Michael and St. George (Ureal
Britain) .

'31 Francis Pray is chairman of a newly-formed
Educational Radio Council composed of representa-
tives of Mt. Holyoke, Smith, Amherst, Springfield,
and Massachusetts State colleges.

The council will sponsor programs over radio
stations WSPR, WHAI, and WHYN, drawing
jointly upon resources of the member colleges for
material.

'37 Ed Thacker has been made instructor in
chemistry at Pennsylvania State College.

PAST AND PRESENT
OF THE CLASS OF

1914

By Henry Clay '14

Carl Allen, now at 10,643 Longwood Drive,
Chicago, and general manager of the Chicago plant
of the Stauffer Chemical Company, is in the midst
of getting out materials for defense activities. Pre-
viously he was in charge of the company's plant in
Westchester County, New York. His history before
that includes a couple of years with the A.E.F. in
France and Belgium.

Like many other families, the children loom large
in the lives of Carl and his wife (Ruth Holley, of
Winnipeg). There are three of them. Carl H. is a
junior at the University of Delaware, majoring in
foreign service work and active in college publica-
tions. Nancy is a senior in high school, and Donald
a sophomore.

Their recent move to Chicago was chiefly regretted
because of the added distance from the summer home
of the Aliens in New Hampshire. Carl's story of the
log cabin, facing a beautiful lake, is enthusiastic
enough to make it easy to understand their willing-
ness to drive a thousand miles to reach it.

Leland Taylor, now bearing the sonorous title of
Professor of Zoology, is rounding out nearly twenty
years of teaching at West Virginia University,
Morgantown. The subjects he has taught, including
invertebrate zoology, animal ecology, microtechnique
and limnology, sound rather fearsome to one who
never became overly enthused over Dr. Gordon's
embalmed pets. Regarding his interest in wasps,
Leland says "I think I can safely say that I am the
foremost authority on wasps in West Virginia, since
so far as I know there is no one else interested in them."
With typical Taylorian humor he also recounts his
prowess on "a modern replica of an ancient musical
instrument, the recorder," which so far is not heard
outside the bosom of the family.

Although his own progress in music is minimized,
Leland says his son Jerome, now 15 and a junior in
high school, plays "a mean flute" in the high school
band. Cynthia, 11, and in the seventh grade, plays
the piano. "When we are all practicing," he says,
"we can probably be heard all over town. My wife
accompanies us by closing all doors and windows."

The proper handle for the professor is Doctor of
Science, garnered from Bussey Institute, Harvard, in
1922, following a Master of Science degree in 1919.
It's hard to imagine the professorial brow furrowed
with stern reproof for a student whose knowledge of
salamanders is hazy, but the title of full professor
would not be bestowed by West Virginia University
unless Leland had been making the grade in good
style.

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ALUMNI CLUBS MEET

ALUMNI IN UNIFORM

Pleasant and well-attended meetings of local
alumni groups have been held, widely, this fall.
Additional meetings are now scheduled for later in
the year, and plans are being made for still others.

Early in October, President Baker attended exer-
cises in New Burnswick, N. J. in observance of the
175th anniversary of the granting of the charter to
Queens College, now Rutgers University; Dr. Baker
was the official delegate representing the Association
of Land Grant Colleges and Universities.

Dr. and Mrs. Baker were guests, at that time, at an
informal dinner arranged by Alumni in New York
City. Present were: Lyman G. Schermerhorn "10.
Walter C. Baker -32. Edward V. Law "36. Orwell B.
Briggs '09. Dr. Charles H. Higgins '94, and Paul F.
Frese '28.

Eddie Soulliere '36, Sid Vaughan '30, Frank
Burbank '30. and Barbara Farnsworth '40 arranged
an alumni dinner meeting in Worcester on October
24th. the night before the Massachusetts State-
Worcester Tech football game.

Some 45 Alumni attended the dinner and heard
Coach Walter Hargesheimer tell of the work of his
football club and saw moving pictures oi two of the
games already played.

Dr. C. T. Smith '18 presided at the piano and led
the group in singing. It was a good party and
Worcester Alumni look forward to another gathering
later in the year.

Charlie Hutchinson '35 was I ter at a

meeting of Springfield-Holyoke Alumni at the Hotel
Sheraton in Springfield on ( Ictober 301 b.

Al Smith '22. president of the Associate Alumni,
outlined 1 1 1 • - aims ol i h> ■ Association in behalf oi the
College. Coach Hargesheimer spoke about t". >< » 1 1 ..- 1 1 1
and showed movies of his team in action. Fred
Griggs '13 played tin' piano and led the group in
singing the Alma Mater. Recorded music l>> the
College Glee Clubs was played during the dinner.

Fifty-four attended the dinner party and thorough-
ly enjoyed the evening.

Stuart Smith '22 president of the New York
Alumni Club, presided at the annual dinner meeting
of that group on November 6th. Some 70 Alumni
attended.

Bill Doran '15, former secretary "t the Associate
Alumni and member "l the Hoard oi Directors, was
the Bpeaker of the evening. Bill's address was most
enthusiastically received.

Doric Alviani entertained with songs, and led t h--

group in singing.

Lester Bishop '42 talked about event* on campus,
and told about undergraduate interest in Massachu
State. The advantages of the College had been
called to B ittention four years before liv 1 1 n ■

.Wv. York Alumni group.

■ '/ on Pagr 1 2

In addition to the 184 Alumni whose names have
been listed in the October and November Bulletins
as being with the United States armed forces, the
following additions, and corrections of address, have
been received by the Alumni Office.

What further additions or corrections can you
provide. The Alumni Office will appreciate all help
and information in keeping its list of men in the
service up-to-date.

'40 Pvt. Sidney Abrahams. 54th Medical Bat.,
Company B, A.P.O. 306, Fort Bragg, N. C.

'29 Pvt. Chcsley L. Black, Company E, 182nd
Infantry, Camp Edwards, Mass.

'32 Dr. William B. Coon, Medical Corps, Army
Medical Center, Washirgton. D. C.

'17 Lt. Col. James II. Day, Inspector General's
Dept., Headquarters 6th Corps Area, P. O.
Building. Winnetka. 111.

'41 Pvt. Franklin Drew, Flight C, 303 School
Squadron, U. S. Army Air Corps, Keesler
Field. Biloxi, Miss.

'38 2nd Lt. Robert S. Fcinberg, 67th Quarter-
master Co., Camp Shelby, Miss.

'18 Col. George L. Goodridge, Chief of Staff,
26th Division. Camp Edwards, Mass.

'40 Pvt. Myron D. Ilagcr, Company A. 1st Medi-
cal Training Battalion, Camp Lee, Va.

'16 Major Frank Haskell. Camp Forrest Exchange,
Camp Forrest, Term.

'38 Lt. Frank C. llealy. Academic Division, Fort
Riley, Kansas.

'37 IM Walter .1- Dodder, Battery B, 11th Coast
Artillery, Fort II. G. Wright, New York.

w'll Pvt. Chester Kuralowicz, Station Hospital,
Indiantown (lap. Pa.

'33 Captain Daniel .1. I.rary.

Riley, K i
':; I 1 -t l.t . Ambrose
Camp Lee. Va.
IM. Leo Pollin, 104th Infantry, Medical De-
tachment. A.P.O. 26, Camp Edwards, Mass.
:!2 l.t Robert C. Roffcy, Cav. Res.. 33rd Arm'd
Regiment, 3rd Armored Div., Camp Polk, La.
I>r. Ilymun Sharff, Dental Corps. Dispensary
\ Fort I '» lining- t '.a.

':;i Donald Smith. American Ambulance Service,

en route to the Near Bast .
l.t. Stephen I. Silverman. Navigation In

structor, Mather Field, Sacramento, Calif.
'38 Ensign .lames F. Wheeler, 12th Nasal Dis-

I i.t Headquarters, San Francisco, Calif.

G Captain George <". Crook-. Chemical Warfare

School. Edward Arsenal, Md.

loth Cavalry, Fort
McGuckinn, Cav. Res.,

.lames Wheeler '38 enlisted in 1938 in the Navj

anil served three year.-, with the Pacific Meet, lie was

• nt from Honolulu to the Midshipman School in

Chicago early this year and was commissioned an

Ensign on September 12th. He is now on duty with
the 12th Naval District, San Francisco.
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OBITUARIES

Dr. John N. Summers '07

Dr. John N. Summers '07, distinguished entomolo-
gist, died at Greenfield, Mass., on October 18, of
heart failure. He was born in Brockton, Mass., on
January 28, 1884, and entered Massachusetts State
from the local high school. He became active at once
in student affairs; he served as class treasurer and
secretary, cadet adjutant, and played tackle on the
varsity football team. He joined C.S.C., now Alpha
Sigma Phi, in his freshman year.

Majoring in entomology, he continued at the
College as instructor in that subject and as assistant
at the Experiment Station, receiving the degree of
Ph.D. from his Alma Mater in 1911. From then
until his death he was connected with the Bureau of
Entomology and Plant Quarantine of the U. S. D. A.,
except from May 1918 to August 1919 when he was
in France as a first lieutenant in the Tank Corps of
the U. S. Army.

His investigation of parasites of the gypsy and
browntail moths took him to Europe in 1914 and to
Japan in 1922 and 1923.

Dr. Summers belonged to the American Association
of Economic Entomologists and the Entomological
Society of America. He was a member of Holy
Trinity Church at Greenfield, and past president of
the Holy Name Society. He was a director in the
Trinity Players. He was intensely interested in the
Boy Scout movement, the American Legion, and the
40 and 8 Club. He leaves a widow, the former
Theresa N. Sheeran, and a son, John, Jr., a senior at
Greenfield High School. A writer in the 1907 Index
properly called John a "bold warrior": — he was a
valiant soldier in the fight for righteousness.

Clinton King '07

Dr. Herbert M. Emery '20

Dr. Herbert M. Emery '20, assistant professor of
zoology and geology at Rhode Island State College,
died in Wakefield, R. I., on November 2, after an
illness of nearly two weeks. He was 44 years old.

He had been a member of the Rhode Island State
College faculty since 1926. He had been an instructor
in botany at Massachusetts State in 1920-21 and an
instructor in zoology and geology at the University
of New Hampshire from 1921-26. He had also been
associated with the geology department at Cornell
University, doing geological research in Pennsylvania.

He received his M.S. from Massachusetts State in
1928, his MA. from Brown University in 1939, and
his Ph.D. in 1940 from the McKinley-Roosevelt
Graduate School in Chicago. He was a member of
Phi Mu Delta, Fhi Sigma, honorary science society,
and of Masonic bodies.

He is survived by a brother, a niece and a nephew.

The Rhode Island State College student newspaper
of November 6 spoke of Dr. Emery as a studious,
scholarly gentleman whose memory will live long in
the hearts of friends, faculty, and membcis of the
student body.

Harry G. Lindquist w'20-22

MARRIAGES

w'26 William Wagnet to Miss Alberta March,
October 25, 1941, at Turners Falls, Mass.

'29 Miss Gladys Sivert to William Clave, October
25, 1941, at Worcester, Mass.

'33 Ashley Gurney to Miss Ruth Peters,
November 4, 1941, at Williamsville, N. Y.

'35 Miss Ellen Connery to William McGrath, Jr.,
October 18, 1941, at Easthampton, Mass.

'36 and '36 Dr. Theodore Leary to Miss Mary
Horgan, August 30, 1941, at Beverly, Mass.

'37 Myron Widland to Miss Harriet Tillman,
November 2, 1941, at Springfield, Mass.

'38 Lt. William Eaton to Miss Jean Virgo, Sep-
tember 26, 1941, at Watertown, Mass.

w'39 Miss Bertha Randall to Ensign William
Hardy, October 24, 1941, at Norfolk, Va.

'40 Miss Frieda Hall to Thomas J. Demars,
September 20, 1941, at Braintree, Mass.

'40 Miss Olive Jackson to Arthur Dobles, June
21, 1941, at Monson, Mass.

BIRTHS

'31 A son, William Tucker, to Mr. and Mrs.
Roger Hamilton (Margery Clarkson '31), July 29,
1941, at Worcester, Mass.

'33 A daughter, Susan Doran, to Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Minarik, September 15, 1941, at Beaumont,
Texas.

'34 and w'36 A daughter, Barbara Joan, to Mr.
and Mrs. Chester Brown (Ernestine Browning w'36),
October 12, 1941, at Floyd, Va.

'35 A daughter, Pamela, to Mr. and Mrs. E.
Lawrence Packard, October 22, 1941, at Holyoke,
Mass.

'36 and '34 A daughter, Stephanie Anne, to Mr.
and Mrs. Edward V. Law (Catherine Ellis '34),
September 12, 1941, in New York City.

'94 Linus Bacon, who is in the insurance business
in Spencer, Mass., attended the insurance school held
on the campus last June. While in Amherst Mr.
Bacon called upon Mrs. James B. Paige, whose late
husband was one of Bacon's teachers. Mr. Bacon
was an interested auditor on October 29th in Spring-
field, when President Baker addressed a meeting of
the Massachusetts Association of Insurance Agents.

'22 Harry Lindquist was teacher-coach (with
Merrill Mack) of the dairy products judging team
from the College which took part in the intercollegiate
contests at meetings and exhibits of the Dairy In-
dustries Supply Association and American Dairy
Science Association at Toronto on October 20.
Twenty-two colleges participated, and Lindquist's
team (composed of three seniors, Phil Cochran of
Somerville, William Rabinovitz of Roxbury, and
Saul Glick of Roxbury) placed fourth in the judging
of all products.

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WITH THE ALUMNAE

Rita Buckley '39 is teaching home economics at
Hyannis, Mass.

by Mary E. Garvey '19

Alumnae should find the following information from
Miss Hamlin's office interesting. Among the 450
women who enrolled at the College in September,
major interests are divided as follows: agriculture 4;
horticulture 8, home economics 167, physical and
biological sciences 107, liberal arts 158, and recrea-
tional planning 6. A total of 756 women have been
graduated from Massachusetts State College. One
hundred twenty six of the 357 women graduated
during the past five years are now engaged in paid
positions in fields helpful to the
defense program. These posi-
tions are distributed among vari-
ous fields as ( 1 1 occupations re-
lating to health such as hospital
laboratory technicians, industrial
bacteriologists, hospital dietetics,
45: (2) teaching home economics,
49: (3 1 occupations related to
foods, as experimental foods,
commercial demonstration, 14;
4 miscellaneous occupations
including defense housing work,
civil service, social service work,
recreation work, 18. Several of
our Alumnae are volunteer work-
ers in the defense program.

Tina Crosby

Amherst.

'39 is engaged in extension work in

Marjorio Esson '39 and Elizabeth Olson '39

are working at the Salem Hospital; Marjorie as
dietitian and Elizabeth as laboratory technician.

Jeanette Herman '39 is working for her master's
degree in public health at Massachusetts Institute
of Technology.

Lorraine Creesy w'40 has a position as teacher
in a nursery school headed by Dr. Arnold Gazelle
of the Clinic for Child Develop-
ment at Yale University.

Anne Corcoran '40 is teach-
ing in Scituate, Mass.

Essex County Alumnae hr ve
scheduled a meeting of the jrroup
on December 3 with Edna
Spraiine Barney '38 as ho::tess.

BETTY MOULTON 42 OF WORCESTER.
RECIPIENT OF A $50.00 SCHOLARSHIP
FROM THE CLASS OF 1930. BETTY
IS A MAJOR IN LANGUAGES AND LITERA-
TURE. A MEMBER OF THE WOMEN'S GLEE
CLUB. OF THE STATETTES. SIGMA BETA
CHI. AND ISOGON. HONORARY SOCIETY

Helen Allis Mania! tv '30 is a receptionist at
the Franklin County Hospital in Greenfield, Mass.

Elizabeth Baker *36 is teaching at Saxtons River,
Vermont.

Mary Caw ley Biclicr *3(i is seeing the country via
army life. She is now at Fort Bennirg. Ga., where
her husband, Lieut. Bob Bieber '37. is with the
Armored Force.

Janina Czaikownki '36 is dietitian at the North-
field Hotel, Northfield, Mass.

Barbara Davis "Mi is secretary in the field depart-
ment of the National Recreation Associati'n Her
address is 21 East 14th Street. Apt. 35D, New York
City.

Mildred Klevl.i '30 was recently made head
dietitian at Nassau Hospital, Mineola, l.ong Island.

Virginia Stratton '36 i- district agent for the
Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Children.

Helen Downing Ezold '37 and her husband find
themselves busily occupied with about one hundred
music pupils in Holyoke, Mass.

The following members of the
class of 1941 are in teaching
positions. Gladys Archibald
at Arms Academy in Shelburne
Falls. Mass.; Virginia Rich-
ardson in Maiden, Mass.;
Patience Sanderson in George-
town, Mass.

Cynthia Bailey '41 has a
position as technician at the
Cooley Dickinson Hospital in
Northampton, Mass.

Ilnili Barrus '41 is in ex-
tension work in Connecticut.

Elizabeth Bascomb '41 is
employed as a psychiatric aide
at the Hartford Retreat in
Hartford, Conn.
'1 1 is attending Northampton
Commercial College.

Ann Cooncy '11 is working in the food laboratory
of the General Foods Corporation in New York City.
Barbara Critchctl '11 is taking a graduate course
in psychology at the College.

Mareelle (irise '11 is working with the personnel
of the New England Telephone & Telegraph Com-
pany in Springfield, Mass.

Mariiarel Robinson "41 is assistant home demon-
stration agent in Greenfield, Mass.

Bcttv Brown

A news item in a recent issue of the Springfield,
M i I 'mifii announced the appointment of Bertha
I. oli.n/ '41 as recreation director of the Springfield
Girls' Club. The Springfield Club is a very active
and progressive group. Its program includes cooking
and sewing classes, music classes, gym and swimming
es, the regular social club activities and a news-
paper club whose members publish a paper once a
month. While in College. Bertha was active in
dramatics, sports, newspaper work and the glee club.
In her new position she will have charge of sports,
games and social programs.

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ALUMNI IN PUBLIC HEALTH WORK

Alumni of the College in impressive number are
engaged in public health work - as physicians,
dentists, bacteriologists, directors of city and state
health services, technicians, nurses, superintendents
of hospitals.

Because the list of Alumni so occupied is exten-
sive, it is impossible to print biographic data about
all, at this time, in the Bulletin. However, a record
of Alumni in public health work is of interest to all
Alumni; the roster of Alumni who are physicians
follows.
Theodore S. Bacon '94, M.D., 69 Maple Street,

Springfield, Mass.
Horace M. Baker '12, M.D., Baker Sanatorium,

Lumberton, N. C.
Philip W. Baker '27, M.D., Church Street, High

Bridge, N. J.
Edward W. Barrett '87, M.D., 104 Salem Street,

Medford, Mass.
Carl A. Bergan '30, M.D., Chester, Mass.
George A. Bourgeois '34, M.D. Margaret Hague

Maternity Hospital, Jersey City, N. J.
Walter A. Bray '28, M.D., Bridge Street, North

Stratford, N. H.
Liwis T. Buckmnn '17, M.D., 26 W. River Street,

Wilkes Barre, Pa.
Ysidro II. Canto '00, M.D., Cansaheab, Yucatan,

Mexico.
William E- Cary w'10, M.D., 5552 Kenwood Ave.,

Chicago, III.
Kenneth A. Chapman '32, M.D., U. S. Peniten-
tiary, Lewisburg, Pa.
Wallace Chesbro '34, M.D., Company R, 1st Medi-
cal Battalion, F.M.F., Parris Island, S. C.
Samuel A. Cohen w'15, M.D., 156 West 86th St.,

New York, N. Y.
William B. Cocn '32, M.D., Medical Corps, Army,

Medical Center, Washington, D. C.
Joseph B. Collins w'04, M.D., 187 Main Street,

Northampton, Mass.
John A. Cutter '82, M.D., 40 Perry Street, New

York, N. Y.
Frank Davenport '21, M.D., Averill Park, N. Y.
Donald Davidson '20, M.D., 437 South 46th St.,

Philadelphia, Pa.
Bernard Doyle '35, M.D., 59 Union Street, East-

hampton, Mass.
Florence A. Duckering '34, M.D., 4238 Washing-
ton Street, Roslindale, Mass.
Francis G. Edwards '17, M.D., Waldport, Ore.
John E. Franco '36, M.D., St. Francis Hospital,

Hartford, Conn.
Joel E. Goldthwaii '85, M.D., Rocky Woods

House, Medfield, Mass.
Charles A. Goodrich '93, M.D., 61 North Beacon

Street, Hartford, Conn.
Arthur M. Greenwood, FG, M.D., 416 Marl-
borough Street, Boston, Mass.
Patrick Griswold '24, M.D., New York City.
Eugene A. Guralnick '33, M.D., Surgical House

Officer, Boston City Hospital, Boston, Mass.
Sheridan C. Heighway w'80, M.D., Murphy, N.C.

Donald II. Ha-selhuhn '36, M.D., St. Luke's

Hospital, New Bedford, Mass.
1st Lt. Archie A. Hoffman '34, M.D., U. S. Army

Medical Corps, Station Hospital, Westover Field,

Chicopee Falls, Mass.
Glover E. Howe '13, M.D., 179 Allyn Street,

Hartford, Conn.
Roswell E. Hubbard w'13, M.D., Waterford, Maine
Thomas J. Kennedy w'15, M.D., 3809 Georgia

Avenue, N.W., Washington, D. C.
1st Lt. Milton II. Kibbe '34, M.D., Medical Corps,

Station Hospital, Ft. Benning, Ga.
Walter B. Lancaster FG, M.D., 520 Common-
wealth Avenue, Boston, Mass.
Clifford S. Lancey w'17, M.D., 14 Main Street,

Gardner, Mass.
Morris B. Landers '00, M.D., 950 David Whitney

Building, Detroit, Mich.
Nils P. Larsen '13, M.D., Queen's Hospital, 235

South Beretania Street, Honolulu, T. H.
Charles T. Leslie '01, M.D., 18 Bank Row, Pitts-
field, Mass.
Gustaf E. Lindskog '23, M.D., New Haven Hospi-
tal, New Haven, Conn.
Fred Mather '17, M.D., 431 75th Street, Brooklyn,

N. Y.
John G. McCrimmon FG, M.D., Henry Ford

Hospital, Detroit, Mich.
Carl O. Nelson '24, M.D., Main St., Medway, Mass.
John P. Nickerson '98, M.D., 6 Main St., West

Harwich, Mass.
Henry Nigro '22, M.D., 16 Pleasant St., Revere,

Mass.
Robert L. Pollard '32, M.D., St. Mary's Hospital,

Waterbury, Conn.
Raymond A. Quigley '04, M.D., Quigley Clinic,

Everett, Wash.
M:ijor Howard S. Reid sp '24, M.D., 26th Division,

Camp Edwards, Mass.
Harland L. Richardson w'03, M.D., 355 Broadway,

Somerville, Mass.
Waldo W. Bobbins w'18, M.D., 1697 Cambridge

Street, Cambridge, Mass.
Harold F. Rowley '25, M.D., Harwichport, Mass.
J. Newton Shirley w'14, M.D., 98 Nichols Avenue,

Watertown, Mass.
Carleton T. Smith '18, M.D., 14 Oberlin Street,

Worcester, Mass.
Raymond II. Spooner '26, M.D., 2 Orchard Place,

East Douglas, Mass.
Frank L. Springer '32, M.D., 35 Lakehill Avenue,

Arlington, Mass.
Francis G. Stan.ey '00, M.D., 242 Cabot National

Bank Building, Beverly, Mass.
Dona.d Stewart '35, M.D., Burbank Hospital,

Fitchburg, Mass.
Lee C. Stillings w'90, M.D., Alstead, N. H.
Charles N. Sullivan '26, M.D., Highland Street,

Otisville, N. Y.
Roscoc W. Swan '79, M.D., 4 Harvard Street,

Worcester, Mass.
Frederick L. Taylor '90, M.D., Taylor's Private

Hospital, Roxbury, Mass.

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John B. Temple '26. M.D., 11 Main Street, Shel-

burne Falls, Mass.
Grace E. Tiffany '34, M.D., 34 De Loss Street,

Framingham, Mass.
Harold V. M. Waite '33, M.D., Taylor Hospital,

Ridley Park, Pa.
Lewell S. Walker. Jr. w'29, M.D., Main Street,

Middlebury, Vt.
Lulu H. Warner '32, M.D., Belchertown State

School, Belchertown. Mass.
Luther Whitman sp'16, M.D., 203 Bridge Street,

Northampton. Mass.
Louis E. Wolfson w'18, M.D., 520 Beacon Street,

Boston, Mass.
Edward R. Wyman '34. M.D., 244 Main Street,

Great Barrington, Mass.
John B. Zielinski. Jr. '29. M.D.. X-ray Specialist,

Truesdale Hospital. Fall River, Mass.
Joseph F. Zielinski '34, M.D., Holyoke Hospital,

Holyoke, Mass.
Frederick F. Zwisler '25, M.D.. 12 Main Street,

Sheldon. Vt.

Any information which may amplify or correct the
records in the Alumni Office will be gratefully recciccd.
The listing of Alumni engaged in public health work
will be continued next month.

£li)SS Ur' J£J4J

Recommended reading, which tells at length of
the work of an Alumnus in public health, is the
article called "Death in a Hard Shell." in the Novem-
ber 15th issue of the Saturday Ecening Post.

This long article recounts in interesting fashion the
outstanding work of Dr. Ralph R. Parker '12 of the
l S. Public Health Seivice in Hamilton. Montana.
Dr. Parker directs a staff of 114 men and women in
research on Rocky Mountain spotted fever.

Associated with Dr. Parker is Dr. Robert A
Cooley '95, state entomologist of Montana.

The Saturday Post speaks of Dr. Parker as a man
whose "fortitude . . . has helped him face, almost
every day for twenty-five years, the risk ol infection
and possible death and who has kept a dangerous
research work going despite the loss of one staff
member after another."

'is John Maginnis, of Worcester, is newly-
appointed commander of the General Charles
Devens Legion Post and, also, president of
the Worcester Rotary Club, junior vice com-
mander-in-chief Military Order of the World
War, vice president of the I'niversiiy ('lob ol
Worcester. John is manager of the oil depart-
ment of the Claflin-Sumncr Coal Company,
and writes, "I thought this would be a good
to take on these little extra duties. In

Mr. .John Lev King care of the coal

ness while Mr, Harold [ekes is arranging
things very nicely lor me in the oil end. All
of which practically gives me a sabbatical year
Irorn bt

Don Allan is in the machine tool industry with
the Fitchburg, Mass., Engineering Corporation.

Tom Andrews is graduate assistant in biology at
Williams College.

Gabriel Auerbach is doing graduate work in food
technology at M.I.T.

George August is a student at the Dental School
at University of Pittsburgh.

Robert Babbitt is in the South with the Wood-
lands division of the West Virginia Pulp and Paper
Company. He thinks that there is no place like the
Connecticut Valley of Massachusetts.

Francis Baiige lives at 1487 River Street, in
Hyde Park, Mass. and has been doing landscape
work for Marsden & Son.

Allan Bard-well is chemist with the General
Chemical Company. 1050 South Park Avenue,
Buffalo, N. Y.

Norman Beckett is working for the soil conser-
vation service mapping soils and erosion in various
locations in the Eastern United States.

John Bourne is growing cranberries at Buzzards
Bay, Mass.

I!'n li m.I Curtis is managing the Curtis Orchards
in Marlboro, Mass.

George Krikson is a graduate student in the
School of Arts and Sciences at Harvard.

George Fotos is in Boston, doing aptitude testing
lor I he Human Engineering Laboratory.

Elliot Joscphson is in the dental school at
Temple I 'niversit y,

Richard Haywood, at last report, was awaiting
assignment for training in the Army Air Corps.

Sunnier Kaplan is student at the Harvard Law
School.

Dana Keil is with Vought-Sikorsky Aircraft in

St rat lord. Conn.

Saul Klaman has a graduate assistantship in
economics al Michigan Stale College.

Merlon l.iimleii has a graduate fellowship in
food technology at M.I.T.

Edwin Lavitt is farming in Rockville, Conn.

Die It Lester is insurance underwriter with the
Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company. Hart-
ford, Conn.

John Maniv is in I raining in steel work with I In-
\merican Steel & Wire Company, Worcester, Mass.

Howard M < ( a 1 1 n in is gardner in (he Piltsfield,

' i ( lemetery.

Irvine. Meyer is studying dentistry al Tufts.

John Nye is control chemist with the General
Chemical Company, Edgewater, N.J.

Art bur I'ava is doing graduate work al Cornell.

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ALUMNI ATTEND AGRICULTURE
SEMINAR

The fourth biennial seminar in agriculture was
held on campus on November 14th and 15th with
programs relating to horticulture included this year
in the seminar for the first time.

The program was an excellent one and proved a
definite contribution by the college departments for
Alumni engaged in the agricultural industry. The
occasion was notable, also, as a pleasant alumni
reunion.

President Baker welcomed the Alumni to the
College and to the several departmental programs.

Alumni on the committee of arrangements were
Raymond T. Parkhurst '19, chairman, and Clarence
Parsons '27, Harry Lindquist '22, Lawrence Dickin-
son '10, and Clark Thayer '13.

Alumni who presented papers or led discussions
were Louis Webster '14, F. E. Cole '20, Sumner
Parker '04, W. R. Cole '02, Joseph Putnam '94, C.
H. Parsons '27, R. C. Foley '27, Raymond T. Park-
hurst '19, E. B. Parmenter '15, Warren S. Baker '14,
Locke James '24, W. C. Sanctuary '12, Harry Lind-
quist '22, Karol Kucinski '34, J. K. Shaw G'll, O. C.
Roberts '18, Lawrence Southwick '33, Clark Thayer
'13, George Cotton '22, and Paul Dempsey '17.

In addition to these Alumni, those who registered
were:

Stephen Adams '29, ice cream plant manager, 42
Sugden Street, Bergenfield, N. J.

James W. Alger '21, serviceman, Wirthmore Feeds,
Charles M. Cox Co., Boston, Mass.

Robert J. Allen '35, Jr., florist, 2 Woods Avenue,
Worcester, Mass.

Harvey E. Barke '39, plant hybridizer, Arnold-
Fisher Co., Woburn, Mass.

Wilmer D. Barrett '34, laboratory technician,
Whiting Co., Boston, Mass.

Herbert F. Bartlett '26, fruit grower, poultryman,
vocational agricultural instructor, Drury Street,
West Springfield, Mass.

John 1). Birchard w'17, salesman, 27 Lester Street,
Springfield, Mass.

J. Hapgood Brooks, III '31, florist, Worcester,
Mass.

William F. Buek '31, county administration assist-
ant, AAA, Amherst, Mass.

Calton O. Cartwright '27, assistant county agent
and agricultural instructor, Danvers, Mass.

Raymond K. Clapp '12, vice director of extension,
Storrs, Conn.

Clarence F. Clark '22, farmer, Sunderland, Mass.

Roger C. Coombs '21, fruit grower, Henniker, N.H.

Ernest K. Davis '37, Hillcrest Dairy, Worcester,
Mass.

Albert F. Edminster '13, Eastern States Farmers'
Exchange, East Freetown, Mass.

Richard E. Field '22, dairyman, Conway, Mass.

Marion Wells Gerrish '19, newspaper correspond-
ent, Hampden, Mass.

Ralph J. Henry '34, salesman, 873 Chestnut Street,
North Ar.dover, Mass.

Charles W. Harris '30, county agent, 45 First Street,

Taunton, Mass.
Gordon K. Hurd '21, visitor, Children's Aid Ass'n,

41 Mt. Vernon Street, Boston, Mass.
Richard R. Lambert '21, fruit grower, Sterling

Junction, Mass.
Allen S. Leland '24, county agent, 37 Revell Ave.,

Northampton, Mass.
Andrew W. Love '25, agricultural teacher, Worcester

North High School, Worcester, Mass.
Roger K. Leavitt '35, florist, 262 Old Conn. Path,

Framingham, Mass.
Vernon D. Mudgett '23, farmer, Sterling Junction,

Mass.
Richard II. Merritt '32, herd manager, Simsbury,

Conn.
Russell E. MacCleery '34, public relations, Nation-
al Highway Users Conference, Tilton, N. H.
Norman II. MacAfee '24, production manager,

White Bros. Milk, Quincy, Mass.
Albert I. Mann '26, associate professor dairy in-
dustry, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Conn.
Enos J. Montague '15, farmer, Dreamont Farm,

Amherst, Mass.
Harold R. Nelson '35, instructor in horticulture,

Norfolk County Agricultural School, Weymouth,

Mass.
Roy E. Norcross '26, county agricultural agent, 56

Carew Road, Hamden, Conn.
Leslie II. Norton '14, poultry farmer, R.F.D. 1,

Middleton, Mass.
Albert Parsons '03, farmer, North Amherst, Mass.
Lee W. Rice, Jr. '37, Wilbraham, Mass.
Stanley C. Reed '41, herdsman, 78 Winthrop Street,

Brockton, Mass.
Ernest Ritter '18, H. F. cooperative exchange,

Hardwick, Mass.
Frank A. Skogsberg '30, county agricultural agent,

26 Jason Street, Pittsfield, Mass.
Charles J. Smith, Jr. '28, banking, Monson Road,

North Wilbraham, Mass.
George II. Soule '41, reporter for Springfield Union,

32 Ashmont Street, Springfield, Mass.
Carlton M. Stearns '17, teaching at Essex County

Agricultural School, 6 Warren St., Danvers, Mass.
Edwin F. Steffek '34, horticulturist and journalist,

Massachusetts Horticultural Society, Boston, Mass.
Ralph F. Sturtevant '33, county agent, 34 Harland

Place, Norwich, Conn.
Arthur W. Taylor '14, farmer, 544 South Westfield

Street, Feeding Hills, Mass.
George E. Taylor '92, Harkness Road, Amherst,

Mass.
Weston C. Thayer '18, farm manager, Groton,

Mass.
II. Sidney Vaughan '30, assistant county agent,

81 Downing Street, Worcester, Mass.
Priscilla Jacobs Warner '40, Fuller Rd., Chicopee

Falls, Mass.
Stanley Wiggin '39, cow tester, Fairfield County,

Box 9, Danbury, Conn.
II. Linwood White '09, instructor in floriculture,

Essex County Agricultural School, Hathorne, Mass.

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ANNUAL HORTICULTURE SHOW DRAWS LARGE CROWD

The Annual Horticulture Show, held on campus
November 7, 8, 9, was viewed by 17,112 spectators,
the largest group to see this show, except one, in its
33 vear history.

Clark Thayer '13. head of the department of
floriculture at the College, was faculty chairman in
charge. The student executive chairman was Vincent
Erikson '-12 of Northampton.

The show was Victorian in motif emphasizing
spaciousness, color, balanced design, and geometric
flower plot arrangements. Lacking only were an iron
stag, an iron do?, and a little blackamoor supporting
a hitching post. Hut tl e big iron urns and fountain
were prominent.

James Robertson. -Ir. of the department of land-
scape architecture drew up the design for the entire

show.

Along the walls of the physical education building,
in which the show was held, and surrounding the
central feature were exhibits by students and by
departments in the division of horticulture.

A student exhibit which won a prize in the Victor-
ian class was a corner of a Victorian parlor arranged
by Frances Albrecht '43 of Somerville, Mary Bowler
'43 of Westfield, Celeste Dubord '43 of New Bedford
and Dobson Webster '44 of South Weymouth (see
picture).

The department of horticultural manufactures
arranged ;i country store exhibit sec picture) com-
plete even in the Hies on I he cheese .mil the sawdust
box near the slm ,

A VIEW OF THE CENTRAL FEATURE OF THE HORTICULTURAL SHOW. SHOWING VICTORIAN GARDEN.

AND TWO HUGE CORNUCOPIAS OF VEGETABLES

TEN-FOOT-HIGH SHIELD,

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ATHLETICS

Football

Scores:

Statesmen

Opp.

Oct. 18

Rhode Island, there

Worcester, there

Nov. 1

Amherst, here

Brooklyn, there

Tufts, here

Until the Rhode Island State game was about three
minutes old the Statesmen had come through ihe season
— against Springfield, Connecticut, Norwich — with only
minor bruises and superficial injuries. What happened
at Rhode Island was something else again; six backs
and two starting linemen were hurt and on the bench
for the remainder of the afternoon before the game was
twenty minutes old.

Halfback Gil Santin's ankle was so badly sprained
in this game thai Gil did no more punting all season.
Kicking was thereafter done by Captain John Brady
who dropped back from center when a kick was called
(Santin would then pass the ball back) or by halfback
John Seery '42 of Brookfield.

The Statesmen's score against Rhode Island came
in the last five minutes of play — a forward pass from
quarterback Matty Ryan '43 of Springfield to
Bernard Forest '44 of Arlington. (Forest is brother
of Joe Forest '28 and Herbie '32.) "The kids were
in there scrapping," Coach Hargesheimer said.

With a shifted lineup, due to the Rhode Island in-
juries, the Statesmen played alert ball to win from
Worcester Tech on October 25th. First long runs of the
season were made in this game — by Seery, Stan Salwak
'43 of Orange, and Ed Larkin '43 (brother of Joe Larkin
'41) of Watertown.

The Amherst game was played on a muddy field
and in a downpour of rain. Amherst's star backs,
Mulroy and Blood, proved good mudders, while the
Statesmen were unable to show the necessary speed
to take advantage of two or three scoring oppor-
tunities.

After supper, following the game with Brooklyn,
Coach Hargesheimer gave his players an "evening
off" — to look over the bright lights of Broadway. The
boys made a bee-line from their hotel to Times Square,
then paused to read the news notes, in lights, which
appear in a continuous moving strip around the Times
Building.

When football scores were displayed the Statesmen
got a big kick out of seeing Mass. State 33, Brooklyn 19
spelled out electrically high above Broadway.

In brief summary, the Statesmen won three games,
tied one, lost four, scored 93 points to their opponents
120.

Soccer

The season's scores:
Sep. 27 Rensselaer, here
Connecticut, here
Dartmouth, there
Coast Guard, there
Trinity, there
Amherst, there
Fitchburg, there

Oct.

Nov.

Statesmen
2
1
0
6
2
2
3

Opp.
0
3
5
1
0
2
0

Coach Lawrence Briggs '27 regards the '41 soccer
season a good one, and the '41 team a good club.
The Statesmen won four games, tied one, lost two.
Teamwork was outstanding.

Captain Carl Erickson '42 of Attleboro was injured
at Dartmouth and did not get into uniform again until
the last game of the season. But he appeared at every
practice session, and helped appreciably in keeping the
morale of his team at high level.

Among outstanding seniors on the club were Red
Mullany of Hatfield, who received the distinction
of having two defensive players assigned to cover him
in the Amherst game; Gibby Arnold of Southwick
whose effort, spirit, and will-to-win contributed
greatly to the team's success; and Spencer Potter of
Norfolk, Conn., whose playing was consistently
brilliant. Briggs says he never saw an opposing
halfback all season whom he would have traded —
even if he could — for Potter.

Five junior and four sophomore lettermen are a
nucleus for next year's team.

Cross Country

Captain Bill Kimball '42 of Amherst and his cross
country runners have the feeling that had not two
dual meets been cancelled this fall the final statistical
record would show two more wins for State. As it
was, the Statesmen won one dual meet, were just
nosed out in two others.

Oct.

Tufts brought a good ball club to Alumni Field on
November 15th, and went home after earning a one-
touchdown-margin win from the Statesmen.

Fullback Benny Freitas '42 of Fairhaven scored
for State when he grabbed a loose ball and raced 86 Nov
yards for a touchdown. He then kicked the point.

Outstanding was the running of Brad Greene '41 I
of Springfield and Russ McDonald '43 of Wheel-
wright.

The work of two sophomores, Earle Newton of i
Melrose and George Caldwell (son of Harold Caldwell 1
'16) of Littleton, gives Coach Derby encouragement
as he thinks of next season.

The season's scores: (low score wins)

Statesmen Opp.
18 M.I.T., there 31 24

25 Worcester, there 27 29

30 Springfield, here 27 25

4 Conn. Valley Meet, New London 3rd of 5
10 New England Meet, Boston 10th of 14

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ACADEMICS

Roister Doisters

Professor Frank Prentice Rand, general manager
of Academic Activities and coach of the Roister
Doisters, recently wrote to alumni members of the
dramatic society describing current undergraduate
work and telling something about the achievements
of Alumni who are still active in dramatic endeavor.
Mr. Rand's letter is of interest to Alumni other than
those who participated in undergraduate dramatics,
and we herewith print portions of it.

Last year the Society presented three major
plays. This year we are reducing the number to
one, but there is being offered for the first time a
course in dramatic production conducted by Pro-
fessor Robertson and myself, and we have seven-
teen students doing a pretty thorough piece of
work in that class. Each of them has made a
scenic model, has built and painted a flat, has had
three or four hours of practice in make-up, and
now they are turning their attention to the prob-
lems of casting and direction. It is the present
plan that the Bay State Revue shall be an inter-
class competition in the production of one-act
plays, the directors of which would presumably
have completed the workshop course. In the
second semester, we shall work up a play for use
during the spring and at Commencement.

I wish that you might have been present last
Friday evening (October 24 1 for the presentation
by the Chekhov players of Shakespeare's Twelfth
Night. The production, albeit rather more farcical
than the lines of the play would suggest, was none
the less a very effective entertainment and at the
end of the performance the students not only
applauded but cheered. There were literally those
who stood up for Shakespeare lor I wo hours and a
half. Some of you will recall the Ben Greet pro-
duction of the same play in Bowker Auditorium
under the inspiration of Professor Patterson, and
some of the rest of you will remember when we
rollicked through the play in the livestock arena
with Max Goldberg "28. Miriam Huss Williamson
'29. and Kenneth Bartlelt '28 as the leads.

There are some of you who have been doing very
interesting things along dramatic lines as Alumni.
In the field of composition Marian Maschin '39,
who was last year a graduate student at Frederick
Koch's famous school of the University of North
Carolina, wrote a couple of one-act plays which
were honored by public presentation in the spring.
During Farm and Home Week last summer there
were presented, as usual, the three outstand
plays to be submitted in a Massachusetts play-
writing contest conducted by our extension service,
one hi them was a play called Ebb Tide by
Norman Myrick '31. A year or two ago there was
a student presentation of a play written by Dr.
Goldberg for another purpose and called Truth
Will Out. 1 suppose thai our most distinguished

contribution in terms of play writing is still Carlton
Upham's ('16) Lost Boy which had a presentation
on Broadway a number of years ago.

Carl Upham, by the way, has been for the last
two or three years director of the Cape Theatre, a
summer playhouse located at Cape May, N. J.
Among the plays presented at the Cape Theatre
this last season was a new one by William Saroyan.
This last summer there was also another State
College summer theatre, the Rangeley Lakes Play
House at Oquossoc, Maine. This project was
organized and directed by Carl Friedan w'41, and
as one of his troupe there was George Hoxie '41,
who, among other parts, played the lead in Night
Must Fall.

In the field of pictures our most active Alumnus
is probably Jack Smith '19 who has been variously
associated with Hollywood all of the time since his
graduation.

Quite a number of State College graduates have
been active in radio work, many of them of course
in connection with agricultural programs. Emil
Corwin '25, however, has been an important mem-
ber of the publicity department of NBC with
headquarters at Radio City for a number of years.
John Hoar '38 is a full time radio announcer at
Station WIS at Columbia, S. C, and Helen Janis
w'42, (Jo Janis professionally) has been recently
cast as an ingenue in All in the Family, a serial
about to be broadcast over WEAF. John Hayes
'41 won a very fine scholarship for radio training
at Cincinnati.

Among recent graduates who have been doing
something along dramatic lines, mention should be
made of Ivan Cousins '39 and Betty Eaton '39,
In >t Ii ill whom have had a year of special training
in New York City. Betty's work is primarily in
the dance. Then there is Beryl Briggs Bezanson
'39 whose participation in the dramatic program
at the Breadloaf School of English last summer
was. according to one of my friends who was a
member of the staff, the outstanding feature of the
e\ ening.

Those ol sou who remember Professor Patterson
Pal's English will be interested in this bit from
a letter from Bill Robertson '29 now chairman of
the department of English at State Teacher's
College in Wesl Virginia: "President Marsh of the
Concord Teachers College studied under Patterson
at Morgantown. For years he bragged to me about
his 'wonderful teacher of Shakespeare' until at last
upon comparing notes 1 found that the 'wonderful
teacher' of English was my Patterson at Massa-

■ Is Slate."
I like to think of you all as maintaining in some
measure your dramatic interests. I hope that you
can occasionally see a good production in the
theatre proper as distinguished from the movies,
mi. I whenever you yourself do something interest-
ing along dramatic lines, I wish that you would
drop me a line.

My best wishes for the coming season.

F /'. Ii.

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'13 and '15 Fred Griggs and Phil Whitmore,
trustees of the College, attended meetings of the
Association of Governing Boards of State Universities
and Allied Institutions in Laramie, Wyoming, October
16-18. Fred is secretary of the association, Phil was
delegate from Massachusetts State.

Library

State College

As a Christmas Gift, we surest

"Yesterdays at Massachusetts State College"

The "excellent", "exciting" history of the College
By Professor Frank Prentice Rand

Published by the Associate Alumni. Price $2.00, postpaid.
Order from the Alumni Office.

ALUMNI CLUBS MEET

{Continued from Page 3)

The New York Club plans, definitely, to guide other
prospective students to the College and plans also to
organize a committee to help in orienting Alumni who
come to New York City to live and work.

Movies of early season football games were shown,
and Alumni were urged to watch the team in action
against Brooklyn College on November 8th. Many
Alumni did go to the game, and were pleased they did.

Ninety Alumni gathered at Longfellow's Wayside
Inn in Sudbury, Mass., for the annual fall dinner of
the Middlesex County Alumni Club on November
13th. Alan Flynn '26, president of the group, and
an active committee arranged a fine evening.

There was an excellent meal, a conducted tour of
the historic Inn, and then Alumni gathered in the
long ballroom upstairs to see movies of the campus
and of football games and to hear Coach Hargesheimer
tell about football and about prospects for the game
with Tufts which was to be played two days later.

Don Tiffany '31 played the piano during the
evening and George Erickson '19 led the singing.

The club voted to extend greetings and best wishes
to Trustee Nathaniel Bowditch of Framingham who
is recovering from a recent illness but who was un-
able to attend the meeting.

Officers of the Middlesex County Club for next
year are: Clyde Christman '13, president; Virginia
Pease Barke '40, secretary; Nathan Gillette '18,
Richard Curtis '41, Fran Warren '26, executive
committee.

Dean Machmer and Bill Munson '05 were guests
from the College at a meeting of Alumni at the
Chicago Athletic Club on November 10th. The Dean
has since reported that he never attended a more en-
joyable alumni gathering.

Walter Mack '17 arranged the party and was
greatly pleased to announce that 34 Alumni and
friends were in attendance, the largest gathering of
Alumni yet to be held in Chicago.

ALUMNI IN UNIFORM

(Continued from Page 3)
Sid Abrahams '40 has been on maneuvers in
North Carolina. He writes that it is rather pleasant
to converse with soft spoken Southerners, but that
to understand what a group of these men may be
saying is a good deal like trying to translate French.

Fletcher Prouty, Jr. '41, who is at Pine Camp,
N. Y., writes, "After four years on horseback at
State we have all (there are several State men at
Pine Camp) ended up in the cockpit of a tank — and
you should try it. We have a busy time here. This
is a hard-working new post, and the armored force
knows how to keep everyone on his toes. Conse-
quently, there is no 'morale' problem at Pine Camp."

Captain Daniel J. Leary '33 has been at Fort
Riley, Kans., and on maneuvers in Louisiana since
January. He says that these maneuvers have got
him (and presumably his colleagues) in tiptop physi-
cal shape. Dan has been active in Reserve Officers'
training ever since he was graduated, and has met
quite a few graduates of the College on his several
tours of duty. He writes, "The Military Department
at the College has been doing a fine job for a long
time, because I have heard nothing but excellent
report on State graduates who are in the service."

'12 Alden Brett, treasurer of the Hood Rubber
Company m Watertown, Mass., is with OPM in
Washington.

'22 Belding Jackson, who teaches English at the
high school of Commerce in Springfield, Mass., was
chairman of the committee for Springfield's observ-
ance of American Education week, November 9
through 16.

'28 Wellington Kennedy has established his own
nursery and landscape business at Greenwich, Conn.,
as successor to Sunridge Nurseries with which Ken-
nedy had been previously connected.

'39 Ray Parmenter received the A.M. degree in
English from Brown University this fall.

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BULLETIN

RHODODENDRON GARDEN

MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

AMHERST, MASSACHUSETTS

/ol. XXIV, No. 4

January, 1942

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THE ALUMNI BULLETIN
MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

George E. Emery '24, Editor
Published monthly at Amherst. Mass. (except August and
September) by the Associate Alumni of Massachusetts State College.
Entered as second class matter, March 17. 1920. at the Postoffice
at Amherst, Mass.. under the Acts of March 3, 1879.

OFFICERS OF ASSOCIATE ALUMNI OF
MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

President, Albert W. Smith '22 of Springfield
Vice-President, William V. Hayden "13 of Newton Center
Secretary, Marshall O. Lanphear 'IS of Amherst
Treasurer, Clark L. Thayer '13 of Amherst
Executive Secretary, George E. Emery '24 of Amherst

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

to 1942

Erford W. Poole '96 of New Bedford

David P. Rossiter '37 of Hillsgrove, R. I.

Zoe Hickney White '32 of Worcester

Alfred E. Wilkins '15 of Wakefield

to 1943

Harry Dunlap Brown '14. ex-officio, of Billerica
William L. Doran '1.5 of Amherst

Mary E. M. Garvey '19 of Amherst
Lawrence L. Jones '26 of North Beverly

Edward J. Gare, Jr. '15 of Northampton

to 1944

Donald C. Douglass '21 of Belmont

Norman D. Hilyard '23 of Springfield

John W. McGuckian '31 of Roslindale

Arthur D. Tilton 'IS of Woburn

to 1945

Alden C. Brett '12, ex-officio, of Belmont

Alan W. Chadwick '31 of Baldwinsville

Evelyn Davis Kennedy '26 of Belmont
Starr M. King '21 of Beverly

Lewis Schlotterbeck '16 of Wakefield

The Alumni Bulletin is sent ten times each year to all members
of the Associate Alumni. Memberships are: Annual S3. 00, Sustain-
ing SI 0.00.

Cover picture — Rhododendron Garden in winter.
The young lady is Miss Betsy Tilton '44 of Woburn,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Tilton '18.

— Photo by Grant B. Snyder

%\\t Reason's Okeethuts

The Associate Alumni expresses its
thanks to Alumni for their wholehearted sup-
port and for their interest in the efforts of the
Association in behalf of Massachusetts State
College during the past year.

w'21 Mark Galusha of Williamstown was recently
appointed Massachusetts Commissioner of Agricul-
ture by Governor Leverett Saltonstall.

Galusha attended Massachusetts State for a year
before leaving to serve in the army during the last
World War After the war he entered West Point,
where he was graduated in 1923. He continued in
the army, the coast artillery, until 1927. He has
been a successful farmer in Williamstown since that
time.

He was appointed state director of livestock
disease control by Governor Saltonstall in 1939,
later was appointed a secretary to the Governor.

PAST AND PRESENT
OF THE CLASS OF

1914

By Henry Clay '14

Ned Edwards has become an outstanding figure
in the wholesale food business in Boston. For
example, he has developed the apple juice industry
for Massachusetts and has made it possible for a
Massachusetts plant to produce over 300,000 cans of
apple juice this year. This stems from his work as a
food broker or manufacturer's representative in the
New England states, under the name of Edwards-
Golden Company, Inc., Boston. The firm has a force
of salesmen travelling all over New England on
various lines of grocery products. Formerly he was
president of a firm in Boston manufacturing food
products; and in 1934 was president of the National
Preservers' Association.

Ned is a "grandpap," as his daughter June, a
nurse, was married in 1938 to a Bowdoin graduate,
and has a daughter aged two, named Lynne. Son
Ted, now 17, will graduate in June from Cambridge
High and Latin and expects to enter Massachusetts
State in the fall. Ted has summered for 11 years at
Camp Sangamon, Vt., with Leone E. Smith '14, and
last year was in charge of its poultry department.

Ned emerged from the War a captain in the
Quartermaster Corps, and has been active in the
American Legion and the "40 and 8." He is past
commander of Crosscup-Pishon Post No. 281 and
past chef de gare, Suffolk Voiture 543, Boston.

The call of distant lands seems to have come to
the Edwardian ear. Anyway, for the past two years
Ned has been studying Spanish, and he visited
Panama, Haiti and Cuba during the past year.

A busy individual right now in Massachusetts
horticulture at the business end is Peverill O.
Peterson, chief inspector of fruits and vegetables in
Massachusetts .

After graduation Pete took a swing to the West
Coast and returned to Concord to raise strawberries
and aspaiagus. He was a leader in asparagus grow-
ing, and was one of the founders and at one time
president of the Middlesex Asparagus Growers Co-
operative.

On his farm in Concord he has seven acres given
over to asparagus. He raises some 20,000 baskets of
strawberries yearly, as well as apples and corn.

Pete saw extensive service in World War #1,
being in charge of transportation in an army unit in
France for several months before and after the
armistice. He has retained his interest in military
affairs and is at present active in the Home Guard.

For a number of years he has inspected apples for
the Massachusetts Department of Agriculture and
has been successful in gaining the confidence of every
member of the trade from the smallest producer to
the largest dealer. He has had charge of all grading
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SPECIAL CONVOCATION

ALUMNI IN UNIFORM

On December 7th there was, naturally enough, a
perceptible restlessness among the undergraduates.
Generally speaking the boys were eager, anxious, to
spit on their hands, grab a rifle, and set out hot-
foot for Tokyo.

On December 9th a special convocation of men
students was called, at which President Baker, Dean
Lanphear, and Registrar Lanphear '18 outlined very
sanely and sensibly what seemed to be the proper
course of action for the men to take.

In an excellent talk President Baker pointed out
that the most valuable and worthwhile job that the
students could do, both for themselves and for the
service of their country at that time, was to apply
themselves diligently to their books, to continue to
prepare themselves efficiently and effectively in their
several chosen fields of study until such time as
they might be called to service in our country's
armed forces or until their college work might be
completed. He continued that he could only say
Godspeed if a student felt compelled to withdraw
from college in order to enlist; but, he advised, it
seemed most desirable that, until such time as an
official call might come, students apply themselves
day by day to their prescribed college work.

The Dean assured the students that all steps
would be taken to "protect" undei graduate credits
if and when it became necessary for a student to
withdraw from College before the completion of an
entire semester's work.

Whitey Lanphear spoke of experiences during his
student days, compared these to present events: and
the convocation adjourned.

As this issue of the Bulletin goes to press President
Baker and Dean Machmer are in attendance at a
meeting of the Association of American Colleges in
Baltimore, at which general policies of colleges .ill
over the country will be discussed in the light of the
present emergency.

Consideration already has been given as to whether
Massachusetts State should shorten the semesters of
the 1941-42 college year and whether the College
should operate on a 12-month teaching schedule.
Decision will he made early in the new year, and the
information will be conveyed to Alumni.

L914

of government surplus purchases in Massachusetts
and is now working on produce for army camps for
a total camp population of over 50,000.

Pete is known throughout New England as the
man who can spot an apple maggot at forty paces.

Oh yes, Pete was married in 1919 and has a son
Richard who has an enviable record at Lowell Textile
School, and a daughter Elizabeth who entered
Simmons College this fall

Louis Webster '14

Here, continued, is a listing of Alumni now serving
with the United States armed forces.

Alumni named below are those about whom in-
formation has reached the Alumni Office since the
last (December) Bulletin listing. Included are the
names of some Alumni (officers*) who have received
promotions in rank since their names were last
carried in this column.

The Alumni Office is extremely anxious to keep its
list of men in the service up-to-date and accurate.
Any information which will amplify or correct the
records will be gratefully received.

'37 Lt. Isadore Barr, Motorized Cavalry, Fort

Benning, Ga..
'35 Pvt. Vernon A. V. Bell, Hdq. Detachment, 1st

Squadron, 104th Cavalry, Indiantown Gap, Pa.
'41 Pvt. Richard Bornson, 80th Quartermaster

Training Regiment, Camp Lee, Va.
'39 Stanley Bcttoney, Officers' Training School,

Fort Sill, Okla.
'41 Lt. George W. Brajjdon, Troop B, 14th Cav.,

Tucson, Okla.
'36 Lt. Frederick K. Bull, Air Corps, Drew Field,

Base Hdqrs., Tampa, Fla.
'29 Lt. Emory Burgess, Medical Corps, Camp

Chadbourne, La.
'39 Lt. Donald W. Cadijian, Hdq. Squadron, 25th

Bomb. Gp (Hi, Borinquen Field, Puerto Rico.
'29 Capt. John S. Chadwick, 1st Armored Rgt.,

Fort Knox, Ky.
'37 Lt. Lcroy F. Clark, Jr., 4th Cavalary, Fort

Meade, S.D.
'41 Pvt. John 1'. Criiniiiins, Company C, 1st

Medical Battalion, 1308th Service Unit, Med.

Replacement Training Center, Camp Lee, Va.
'39 Student Ensign Ivan R. Cousins, U.S.N.R.,

Midshipmen's School, 111 E. Pearson Street,

Room 714, Chicago. 111.
'25 Capt. Lcland L. Currier, Field Artillery, CO.,

F.A.S., Det. C, Fort Sill, Okla.
'39 Ensign Frederick Estabrook, U.S.N.R., Naval

Air Base, Tongue Point. Ore.
'37 Corp. Robert B. Fisher, 66th Engineers Co.

(topographical i. Fort Jackson, S.C.
'40 Pvt. Burton W. (irciiii. Replacement Center,

Co. C, 4th Battalion, Fort Monmouth. N. J.
'41 2nd Lt . John Haskell, Squadron 5, Pilot Train-
ing Center, (Air Crewi. Kelly Field, San

Antonio, Texas.
'37 Ensign Robert I*. HoldWorth, Jr., U.S.N. R.,

Navy Medical Center, Washington, D. C.
'40 Lt. Franklin A. Hopkins, Officers' Division,

Dept. of Communications, Scott Field, 111.
'37 Pvt. Forrest I). II art in. 208th Coast Artillery

and Antiaircraft, Battery F, Camp Edwards

Mass.
'36 Lt. Calvin S. II annum. Classification Officer,

2nd Motorized Army Division, Headquarters,

Fort Benning, Ga.

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MARRIAGES

'94 Dr. Charles H. Higgins to Mrs. Mary Whiting
Piertsz, December 28, 1941, at Springfield, Mass.

'30 William J. O'Leary to Miss Eleanor J. Burns,
November 22, 1941, at Stamford, Conn.

w'30 Gordon W. Gordon, Jr. to Miss Barbara
Thompson, December 30, 1941, at Springfield, Mass.

'32 Lieut. Philip J. Connell to Miss Ruth Walsh,
December 27, 1941, at Springfield, Mass.

'36 Miss Lorraine F. Noyes to Holden S. Nichol-
son, December 6, 1941, at Windsor. Conn.

'37 Miss Joy Moore to Mr. Edward Sabatini,
December 29, 1939, at Leeds, Mass.

'38 Dean Rounds to Miss Mary Doore, October
31, 1941, at Shreveport, La.

'39 Charles E. Lehr to Miss Mary A. Reilly,
December 27, 1941, at Springfield, Mass.

'39 and '41 Second Lieut. Thomas G. Lyman to
Miss E. Priscilla Badger, December 8, 1941, at
Norwood, Mass.

'39 Henry Wojtasiewicz to Miss Rose Mary
Bowen, September 1, 1941, at Chicopee, Mass.

'40 Miss Mary E. Bates to John W. Meehan,
November 22, 1941, at Pittsfield, Mass.

'40 Second Lieut. Frank R. L. Daley, Jr. to Miss
Constance Chaffee, December 21, 1941, at South
Hadley, Mass.

'40 and '40 Lester L. Phillips to Miss Elizabeth
V. Abrams, November 28, 1941, at Springfield, Mass.

'40 Nathan L. Wilansky to Miss Henrietta Cohen,
December 25, 1941, at Springfield, Mass.

RIRTHS

'29 A son, Perry Mark Edward, to Mr. and Mrs.
Mark Aldrich (Edith Bertenshaw '29), October 16,
1941, at Northampton, Mass.

'29 A son, Timothy Francis, to Mr. and Mrs.
Dennis M. Crowley, November 27, 1941, at West
Roxbury, Mass.

'34 and '35 A son, Karol Paul, to Mr. and Mrs.
Karol J. Kucinski (Alice I. D wight), October 30,
1941, at Northampton, Mass.

'35 A daughter, Janice, to Mr. and Mrs. John
Moulton, November 23, 1941, at Lafayette, R. I.

'37 A son, Richard Wilmot, to Mr. and Mrs.
John P. Brooks, July 23, 1941, at Framingham, Mass.

'37 and '37 A daughter, Eveline, to Mr. and Mrs.
Edward Sabatini (Joy Moore), August 2, 1941, at
Boston, Mass.

'38 and '38 A daughter, Judith Elizabeth, to Mr.
and Mrs. Cyrus E. French (Doris W. Jenkins),
August 14, 1941, at Bellefonte, Pa.

'32 Leonard Salter is assistant professor of agri-
cultural economics at the University of Wisconsin,
Madison.

'12 Alden Brett, who is with OPM in Washington,
has hopes of meeting with other Alumni in Washing-
ton but he yet hasn't had opportunity because, he
says, "at OPM they work us from dawn till uncon-
scious." According to a recent note from Henry
Clay '14 there are other departments, too, in Wash-
ington which are putting in a little extra time. Henry
is in the market news department of the Bureau of
Agricultural Economics, and more than a little mid-
night oil is being burned in those offices.

'22 Frederick V. Waugh, Ph.D., has been ap-
pointed assistant director of marketing of the U. S.
D. A. in Washington, D. C. He will be associated
directly with Roy F. Hendrickson, director of the
Surplus Marketing Administration.

During recent years Dr. Waugh has been chief of
the division of marketing and transporation research
at the Bureau of Agricultural Economics. Before
that, he served in various marketing and research
positions, including two years as director of markets
for Massachusetts, two years as marketing economist
of the Connecticut Extension Service, and three
years with the New Jersey state division of markets.
He has made comprehensive studies of a wide variety
of marketing problems, and has helped develop
several programs for improving the distribution of
farm products.

Some of the programs which Dr. Waugh has
helped work out are the Stamp Plan and several
other means of making surplus foods and clothing
available to low-income families, the elimination of
interstate trade barriers, and the modernization of
city produce markets. He has also helped work out
department policies in such fields as grades and
standards and the regulation of futures trading.

'26 and '26 Fred and Margaret Baker, who are
located in Albuquerque, N. M. where Fred is with
the United States Forest Service, came to New
England in November and visited with friends, rela-
tives, and classmates. They got to Amherst just in
time to see the last half of the Mass. State vs. Tufts
football game.

At a meeting of the Amherst Camera Club, Fred
showed some of his beautiful colored pictures of
New Mexico and Arizona landscape.

'31 and '32 Ray Allen and Francis Hines, both
'31, and Curtis Keyes '32 attended the floriculture
meetings at the recent agricultural seminar on
campus.

Hines, who is in the florist business in Arlington,
led a discussion on the problems of the commercial
florist.

President Baker has recently accepted appoint-
ment as member of a special committee on public
domain policies set up by the United States Chamber
of Commerce.

Dr. Baker had previously served on the National
Forestry Policy Committee of the Chamber. For
two years, 1928-30, he was manager of the trade
association department of that organization.

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WITH THE ALUM MAE

by Mary E. Garvey '19

At a recent meeting, attended by fifteen members,
the Alumnae of Alpha Lambda Mu sorority con-
sidered a program for the unification of their organi-
zation. Marion E. Smith '35 was elected president
protem. Madelin Chase '36 was elected to take
charge of the Boston group and
Margaret Everson '41 of the
Pittsfield group. Under this new
plan, members of individual
classes will continue to be united
through the medium of their
round robin letters and, in ad-
dition, regional groups of mem-
bers of the sorority will be given
an opportunity for contact
through group meetings. The
plan was enthusiastically re-
ceived by those present and
plans are to be formulated for
another get-together in the early
spring.

at the Belchertown State School, Belchertown, Mass.

Helen M. Smith '41 is a student at the Simmons
Library School.

Elizabeth Hager '36 is teaching home economics
in Poultney, Vt.

Winifred Dixon '39 is em-
ployed as filing clerk at the
Greenfield Tap & Die Corpora-
tion in Greenfield, Mass.

Marjorie Litchfield '39 (Mrs.
Gordon E. Najan is living at
2525 Durant Avenue. Berkeley,
Calif.

Katherine O'Brien '36 (Mrs. William Esselen)
has returned to Amherst to live.
Her husband, Bill Esselen '34,
has been appointed assistant
research professor of horticul-
tural manufactures at the
College.

Maj el MacMasters B.S. '26,
Ph.D. '34 is associate chemist
with the starch and dextrose
division of the United States
Department of Agriculture. She
is located at the Northern
Regional Laboratory at Peoria,
Illinois. Her address is 313
North Elmwood Ave., Peoria.

Mildred Thomas '41 is

assistant to the director of the
girls' division of the New
England Kurn Hattin School
in Saxtons River, Vt.

Bernicc Shaw "41 is a teach-
er in the grade schools in
Belchertown.

Ei in. i Alvord '10 is employed
as buyer in Wilson's department
store in Greenfield, Mass. Edith
Clark '40 is employed in the
same store.

Mia Reinap MO is librarian
at the Harvard University Mu-
seum of Comparative Zoology.

Shirley Burgess '11 (Mrs.

Walter Irvine, Jr.) is a volunteer

teacher of sewing at the Springfield Girls' Club

MARY JEAN CARPENTER 43 Of GREENFIELD,
EXAMINES THE BLOSSOM 01 v CENTURY
PLAN! VGAVE ATROV1RENS) l\ DURFEE

RANGE. THIS PARTICULAR PLAN! WAS \
GIFT TO THE COLLEGE IS I'/.iC, ONE OF A
$3COO COLLECTION >>i PLANTS PRESENTED TO
THE COLLEGE BY HARVARD AT THAT TIME.
SO FAR AS Is KNOWN, DECEMBER I (74! MARKED
THE FIRST TIME I'HIs PLANT HAD BLOSSOMED.
THE YELLOWISH GREEN FLOWERS REMAINED
'i\ THE PLANT FOR IBOUT A WEEK. WHEN-
NEXT THE PLANT WILL BLOOM Is I'ROBLE-

I.; IT MIGHT BE IN :c, 50, OK EVEN
75 YEARS. CENTURY PLANTS ARE SOT AL-
TOGETHER ARBITRARY ABOUT AN EXACT IOO

YEARS BETWEEN BLOSSOMINGS.

Katherine Callanan '41 is working at Danker's
florist shop in Albany, N. Y.

Kathleen Clare '11 is studying at the Yale
School of Nursing in New Haven. Conn.

Margaret Kvi-rsoii '41 is with the Spaulding
Gardens in Suffield, Conn.

Rebecca Lovell 'II is employed as canning officer

On November 5th the Boston
Alumnae met at the Women's
Educational and Industrial
Union to see an interesting pro-
gram of moving pictures. One,
called "America Learns to Fly,"
showed what the American Air
Force is doing. The second one
was concerned with British
Coastal Defenses.

Future meetings of the Boston
Alumnae include the following
programs.
January 7. "Give Them a Chance." Miss Eliza-
beth Bodie. A story of what is being done for re-
li.ilnlil.il inn nl women prisoners.

February 4. "Information Please." Intramural
competition!

March 4. "Spring Comes to Massachusetts State
College." Prof. Rollin Barrett. A new movie of the
College and some of its activities.

April 1. Annual business meeting. Most import-
ant. Do not miss it!

May 6. "Flower Festival in the Deep South."
Movies in technicolor.

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ALUMNI CLUBS MEET

This is a continuation of the article telling about
the meetings of local alumni groups which have been
held throughout the country during the past several
weeks.

Dr. Charles P. Alexander, head of the department
of entomology at the College, and Mrs. Alexander,
were guests of Central New York Alumni at a meet-
ing in Geneva, N. Y., on November 1st.

Ellsworth Wheeler '26, president of the Central
New York Club, wrote afterwards that he thought
the meeting was a fine one.

John Bellamy '76 of Syracuse represented the
oldest class in attendance. He presented what Wheeler
called "a couple of swell after-dinner stories."

Dr. Alexander told about events on campus and
showed movies of student activities. He also showed
colored slides and told about some of his and Mrs.
Alexander's travels in the West. Entomologists at
the meeting presented Alec with Audubon's bird
book, in appreciation of what Professor Alexander
"has done and is doing for all of us."

Officers of the Central New York Club for next
year are: Larry Carruth '29, secretary, and Ells-
worth Wheeler '26, president.

Alumni in attendance at the Geneva dinner party
included Mr. and Mrs. Laurence Carruth (Wynne
Caird '32), Frank Kokoski '22, Seaton Mendall '39,
Dr. J. Raymond Sanborn '20, George L. Slate '21,
Lewis Van Alstyne '18, Ellsworth Wheeler '26,
Raymond Allen '31, Doris Colgate '39, Joseph Evans
'28, Lincoln Kelsey '17, Harold Pratt '17, John Pratt
'39, Philip Readio '20, Thomas Johnson '41, Arthur
Pava '41, Professor Edward White '95, Wesley
Sawyer '18, Lynn Glazier '36, Evelyn Beaman (Mrs.
Lynn Glazier) '31, Fred Jones '30, I. Edward Malkin
'39, Clarence Packard '36, Harold Phelps '09, G.
Dean Swift '30, John Bellamy '76.

Harold (Tiny) Thurlow '26, president of the Essex
County (Mass.) Alumni Club, and his committee,
arranged a meeting for November 7th which Secre-
tary Mary Rogosa '39 said "went off with a bang;
a grand time was had by all."

After the dinner, President Thurlow welcomed the
group and introduced the guests of the evening, Dr.
and Mrs. Maxwell Goldberg '28 (Shirley Bliss '38)
and Mary E. Garvey '19.

Mary Ingraham Jones '27 again introduced each
Alumnus present, from his place at the table, to the
entire group, displaying her remarkable memory for
names, year of graduation, present occupations, and
even number of children.

Dr. Goldberg brought greetings from the College
and spoke informally about undergraduate partici-
pation in extra curricular activity. Mary Garvey,
of the Alumni Board of Directors, spoke about the
activity of the Associate Alumni in behalf of the
College and urged the wholehearted support of all
Alumni.

The new colored movie called "Spring Comes to

Massachusetts State College" was shown. Mrs.
Harold Mostrom played the piano for group singing.
Sammy Gordon '25 provided floral decorations for
the tables.

Newly elected officers of the Club are: Calton
Cartwright '27, president; Ralph Gaskill '13, vice-
president; Mary Rogosa '39, secretary.

The following were present: Henry Emerson '92
and Mrs. Emerson, Jasper Marsh '95 and Mrs.
Marsh, Harry Roper '96 and Mrs. Roper, Ralph
Gaskill '13 and Mrs. Gaskill, Harold Mostrom '16
and Mrs. Mostrom, Aimee Geiger Bennett '24,
Harold Thurlow '26 and Mrs. Thurlow, Calton
Cartwright '27 and Mrs. Cartwright, Mary Ingraham
Jones '27, Samuel Gordon '25, Philip Couhig '26 and
Mrs. Couhig, William Lister '34, William Kirby '34,
Mr. and Mrs. George Barney w'30 (Edna Sprague
'38), Thurl Brown w'34, Arnold Briere '36 and Mrs.
Briere, Laura Gordon Casalli '32, Elizabeth Olson
'39, Ida Davis '40, and Mary Rogosa '39.

On November 15th, C. H. (Tad) Griffin, M.D. '04
arranged a dinner meeting of Alumni in Southern
California, which was held at the Martha Washington
Cafe in Los Angeles. Major James A. Warren, U. S.
Army, retired, was present at the meeting and en-
joyed visiting with Alumni. For 17 years Major
Warren was attached to the R.O.T.C. department
at the College where he was instructor in equitation.

Following the dinner the group adjourned to the
home of Harold Record w'19 where they sang college
songs and "just visited." Dr. Griffin said he felt
sure that "all enjoyed themselves immensely."

Present at the meeting, in addition to Major
Warren and Dr. Griffin were: E. D. White '94, A. W.
Morrill '00 and Mrs. Morrill, L. N. Coleman w'09

NEW YORK ALUMNI CLUB DIN-
NER, HELD AT HOTEL VICTORIA,
NEW YORK CITY, ON NOVEMBER
6TH. AT THE HEAD TABLE, IN
THE CENTER, ARE DR. JOHN
ASHBURTON CUTTER '82, W. L.
DORAN '15, SPEAKER OF THE
EVENING, AND STUART V.
SMITH '22, PRESIDENT OF THE
CLUB.

NEW MEMBERS OF THE BOARD
OF DIRECTORS OF THE ALUMNI
CLUB OF NEW YORK, ELECTED
AT THE MEETING ON NOVEM-
BER 6, ARE: GERALDINE BRAD-
LEY '39, THOMAS HARROCKS 'l6
AND BERNARD H. SMITH '99.

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and Mrs. Coleman, E. F. Damon '10 and Mrs.
Damon, F. A. Prouty w'll, John Becker w'll, E. R.
Bartlett '15 and Mrs. Bartlett, G. W. Barton '18
and Mrs. Barton, A. J. Seavey w'18 and Mrs. Seavey,
H. J. Record w'19 and Mrs. Record, Harry Johnson
sp'23.

Dr. Griffin recently wrote to the Alumni Office
about California's reaction to warnings of danger
from air raids. He said the reaction was anything
but violent. "Here in Los Angeles we have had only
one real blackout," he wrote. "That was on the
night of December 10th, and coming so unexpectedly
it naturally caused some confusion, especially in
traffic, but no evidence of mass excitement was
apparent. For several days we received frequent
warnings by radio to be on the alert for blackout
signals.

"People generally considered this to be an entirely
justifiable precaution on the part of defense authori-
ties; but I think there were but few who were really
afraid that an attack was imminent. Up at San
Francisco things have been a little more strenuous
than they have down here, but if I know anything
about the people up there they have taken the
situation calmly enough."

On December 3rd Alumni in State College, Pa.,
gathered for a social evening at the home of Jerry
Stout FG. Cy and Doris Jenkins French '38 and
'38 made the arrangements for the evening; and
Doris wrote afterwards that everyone had a pleasant
evening. The group heard the recordings of college
songs made last spring by the combined glee clubs
and saw two excellent leels of colored movies of the
activity of the R.O.T.C. department at the College.

The following were in attendance: Dean and Mrs

S. W. Fletcher '96, Frank Fagan FG, Mr. and Mrs. H.
E. Hodgkiss '02, Dr. and Mrs. W. B. Mack G, Dr. and
Mrs. F. G. Merlde '14, Mr. and Mrs. G. J. Stout FG,
Dr. and Mrs. J. T. Sullivan '22, Dr. and Mrs. R. W.
Swift '18, Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Thacker '37 (Elthea
Thompson '38), Dr. and Mrs. H. M. Tietz '21, Mr.
and Mrs. E. I. Wilde '12, Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Sims w'17.

President Ducky Swan '27 of the Boston Alumni
Club and his executive committee arranged a corking
good alumni meeting at the Hotel Touraine, in
Boston, on November 28th. Curry Hicks, who was
a guest at the event, said afterwards that he had
never attended a more pleasant meeting with the
Boston group.

After dinner, and a social hour, President Swan
introduced Al Smith '22, president of the Associate
Alumni, who spoke briefly of the aims and policies
of the alumni organization.

Then Lieut. Anthony J. Nogelo '37, of the R. O.
T. C. unit at the College, showed movies of the
work of the student corps and gave a highly inter-
esting account of military training at the College.

The speaker of the evening, Coach Walter G.
Hargesheimer, was next introduced; and for an hour
and a half he held the undivided attention of the
group as he talked about football at the College and
showed movies of the season's games. The Alumni
gave him a hearty reception and were greatly inter-
ested in his presentation.

In attendance at the meeting were:

Gabriel 1. Auerbach '41, Elmer E. Barber '26,

Herbert R. Bond '19, John P. Brooks '37, Harry

Dunlap Brown '14, Thomas P. Dooley '13, Donald

C. Douglass '21, Albert F. Edminster '13. Edward C.

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ALUMNI IN PUBLIC HEALTH WORK

Continued, below, is a listing of Alumni engaged
in public health work. Following are the names of
Alumni, as listed in Alumni Office records, engaged
in the fields of bacteriology in its relation to public
health, and as technicians in hospitals and other
institutions.

Helen Alpcrin '41, bacteriologist, Beth Israel

Hospital, Boston, Mass.
Dorothy Bartlett '35, junior bacteriologist, West-
field State Sanitorium, Westfield, Mass.
Leslie D. Bent '22, dairy inspector, Department of

Health, 94 Valley Road, Montclair, N. J.
Laura Bingham '35, bacteriologist, Massachusetts

Department of Public Health, State House,

Boston, Mass.
Carl F. Clancy '33, bacteriologist, University of

Connecticut, Storrs.
Bobert Coleman '34, W. K. Kellogg Foundation,

Battle Creek, Mich.
Paul Corash '23, inspector of foods, Department of

Health, 505 Pearl Street, New York, N. Y.
Alcide Courchene '16, dairy farm inspector,

Division of Dairying, State House, Boston, Mass.
Darrell A. Dance '34, district health officer, State

Health Department, Mays Landing, N. J.
Bobert E. Evans '38, junior bacteriologist, Illinois

Department of Public Health, 1800 West Fillmore

Street, Chicago, 111.
Franklin II. Fiske '36, sanitarian, City Health

Department, City Hall Annex, Ann Arbor, Mich.
Ilillel Friedman '37, dairy inspector, Boston City

Health Department, City Hall, Boston, Mass.
Lynn Glazier '36, dairy consultant, Pfaulder Co.,

89 East Avenue, Rochester, N. Y.
Arthur J. Hillman w'09, inspector, Division of

Dairying, State House, Boston, Mass.
Louis Kertzman '39, dairy bacteriologist and farm

inspector, 85 S. Leonard Street, Waterbury, Conn.
William II. W. Komp w'15, U. S. Public Health

Service, Ancon, Panama, Canal Zone.
Harry O. Knight '09, inspector of milk, Room 5,

City Hall, Gardner, Mass.
Margaret McMahon '33, bacteriologist, Paimelee

Pneumonia Laboratory, Emergency Hospital,

Washington, D. C.
George D. Melican '15, inspector of milk, Room 6,

City Hall, Worcester, Mass.
Philip B. Miner '36, junior bacteriologist, Pondville

Cancer Hospital, Wrentham, Mass.
Elmer Morton w'19, dairy farm inspector, Division

of Dairying, State House, Boston, Mass.
David Moxon '25, health officer, Framingham, Mass.
Samuel Noyes '17, inspector of dairy products,

Room 136, Department of Agriculture, State

House, Boston, Mass.
Harlow Pendleton '15, dairy farm inspector,

Division of Dairying, State House, Boston, Mass.
Bobert Perriello '37, bacteriologist, milk inspector,

City Hall, Attleboro, Mass.

II. Margaret Perry '22 (Mrs. Lester H. Stimmel),

bacteriologist, Bang's disease eradication work,

Pathology Laboratory, Colorado State College,

Fort Collins, Colo.
Huntington Butan '30, milk inspector, Whiting

Milk Company, Boston, Mass.
Dr. J. B. Sanborn '20, bacteriologist, New York

Agriculture Experiment Station, Geneva, N. Y.
Sidney Shepard '33, milk inspector, Jefferson

County Board of Health, Birmingham, Ala.
Harold A. Sleeper '37, bacteriologist, Lawrence

Experiment Station, Lawrence, Mass.

PROFESSOR BRADLEY AND CHARLES MACCORMACK 42 OF WEST
MEDFORD IN THE BACTERIOLOGY LABORATORY, MARSHALL HALL

Francis Small '14, dairy farm inspector, Division
of Dairying, State House, Boston, Mass.

Kenneth Wheeler '32, Department of Public
Health, Hartford, Conn.

Alumni engaged in bacteriological work in com-
mercial laboratories will be listed in a later Bulletin.

Helene D. Ahearn '41, laboratory technician, U. S.
Marine Hospital, Brighton, Mass.

Cynthia Bailey '41, laboratory technician, Cooley
Dickinson Hospital, Northampton, Mass.

Cora G. Dyer '31, laboratory technician, pathology
laboratory, Worcester State Hospital, Worcester,
Mass.

Margaret Flynn '41, laboratory technician, Bur-
bank Hospital, Fitchburg, Mass.

Florence S. Goldberg '39, technician, secretary,
Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, Mass.

Sylvia Goldman '39, laboratory and X-ray tech-
nician, Webster District Hospital, Webster, Mass.

Mary J. Jones '41, student technician, Worcester
City Hospital, Worcester, Mass.

Eloise Kellogg '35, laboratory and X-ray technician,
Milford Hospital, Milford, Mass.

Kuth E. Kodis '38, laboratory technician, Spring-
field Hospital, Springfield, Mass.

Barbara Little '40, laboratory technician, Cooley
Dickinson Hospital, Northampton, Mass.

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Agnes MrMahon '33 (Mrs. Vito Cangemi), labora-
tory technician, Overlook Hospital, Summit, N. J.

Nellie Okolo '37, laboratory technician, Truesdale
Hospital, Fall River, Mass.

Elizabeth J. Olson '39, laboratory technician,
Salem Hospital, Salem, Mass.

Jean Puffer '41, student technician, pathology
laboratory, Worcester State Hospital, Worcester,
Mass.

Elizabeth Reed '32, laboratory technician, c o Dr.
R. L. Barnes, 683 E. Broad St., Columbus, Ohio.

Iona Mae Reynolds '41, laboratory technician. New
Britain General Hospital, New Britain, Conn.

Dorothy Rourke '40, laboratory technician, Hospi-
tal Cottages for Children, Baldwinsville, Mass.

Charlotte Sleep '35, technician, Burbank Hospital,
Fitchburg, Mass.

Matilda Sobon '41, laboratory technician, Lawrence
General Hospital, Lawrence, Mass.

Mary M. Sullivan '41, laboratory technician, Fair-
view Hospital, Great Barrington, Mass.

Phila Vaill '39, student laboratory technician,
Worcester City Hospital, Worcester, Mass.

Esther Wheeler *41, laboratory technician, Margaret
Pillsbury General Hospital, Concord, N. H.

The Alumni Office will be grateful for any information
which may amplify the above lists. Lists of Alumni in
public health work will be continued next month.

Paul J. Jakmauh, M.D., Massachusetts Commis-
sioner of Public Health, has written to Professor
Leon A. Bradley, head of the department of bacteri-
ology at the College, as follows:

"I am very much interested in the courses of
study being offered at Massachusetts State
College designed to give the student an oppor-
tunity to train as food and milk inspectors,
water and sewage treatment plant operators,
public health laboratory workers and agents for
municipal boards of health. The modern public
health program has become so diversified and
has made such rapid progress that it is only
through the provision of courses such as yours
that college graduates will be intelligently in-
formed so as to make the best use of public
health resources as a citizen and to be basically
equipped to seek work in that field if they choose
to do so.

"At this particular time when the demands of
national defense make it so important that pub-
lic health practices shall be adequate in all com-
munities, small and large, it is particularly fitting
that Massachusetts State College should in-
augurate courses which will tend to increase the
use of preventive medicine resources and pro-
vide personnel for agencies carrying on public
health programs."

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'25 Major George W. Hanscomb,* Air Corps,

Drew Field, Tampa, Fla.
w'42 Pvt. Robert W. Holbrook, 168th Station

Hospital, A.P.O. 810, c/o Postmaster, New

York City.
'41 Flying Cadet Richard R. Hayward, Parks Air

College, East St. Louis, Mo.
'40 Sgt. Robert Joyce,* 25th Air Base Squadron,

Westover Field, Chicopee Falls, Mass.
'38 Ensign John Lavrakas, U.S.N.R., Local De-
fense Force, Treasure Island, San Francisco,

Calif.
'37 2nd Lt. Philip D. Layton, Office of Construc-
tion Quartermaster, Camp Joseph T. Robin-
son, Ark.
'39 Pvt. Charles E. Lehr. 101st Quartermaster

Company, Camp Edwards, Mass.
'40 Flying Cadet Roger Lindsey, Meteorology

student at M.I.T., Cambridge, Mass.
'36 Lt. Francis A. Lord, Chief Signal Office,

Washington, D. C.
'41 Pvt. Jason Lotow, Company B, 71st Infantry

Fort Dix, N. J.
'39 2nd Lt. Thomas G. Lyman, Turner Field,

Albany, Ga.
'34 Capt. Ambrose McGuckian, * Quartermaster

Replacement Center, Camp Lee, Va.
w'25 Major G. Donald Meserve, 180th Field Art.,

A.P.O. 26, Camp Edwards, Mass.
w'40 Pvt. Ralph II. Reed, Barracks 130, 4th

School Squadron, Chanute Field, 111.
sp'24 Major Howard S. Reid, 101st Medical Rgt.,

26th Division. Camp Edwards, Mass.
'40 Lt. John P. Scrcx,* Cav. Res., Fort Knox, Ky.
'37 Flying Cadet Robert Spiller, Jr., Air Corps,

Replacement Center, Kelly Field, Texas.
'39 Lt. Edward J. Stoddard, 1st Bomber Sqd.,

A.P.O. 803. Waller Field, Trinidad, B.W.I.
'30 Lt. Jesse A. Taft, Company A, 84th Q. M.

Battalion, (L.M.), A.P.O. 306, Fort Ethan

Allen, Vt.
'40 Lt. Gerald Talbot, Snulhwest Airways, Inc.,

Phoenix, Ariz.
'36 Ll. A.lolpb E. Tokaz, Dale Mabry Field.

Tallahassee, Fla.
'26 Capt. Charles Turner. Drew Field, Base

I I . ■ . I < i r ( LJ .• 1 1 ■ I it- T.'i ni|):l . I'l.l

'36 Lt. George Vassos, M.D., Medical Division,
Fort Dix, N. J.

w'29 Lt. LewcU S. Walker, Jr., M.D., Company
D, 1st Medical Battalion, Fort Devens, Mass.

'39 Sgt. Edward It. Willard," Hdq. Service Co.,
101st Engineers, 26th Division, Camp Ed-
wards, Mass.

'32 Pvt. James I.. Wilson. Company A, 131st
Inl.intrv. ('.imp Edwards, Mass.

The Grange Grocery Store, established in Amherst
in 1877. and known to many Alumni, went out of
business in December.

Mary Itoyd Hanscomb

•20,
'25

wife of Major
George W. (Doc) Hanscomb '25, sent us an in-
teresting note the other day in which she said she
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ATHLETICS

Football

Sophomores, including several varsity players,
took the measure of the freshmen, 12 to 0, in the
annual interclass game on the morning of November
11th.

The frosh club left the field, after the encounter,
with fists clinched and jaws thrust forward, immedi-
ately posted a notice in the locker room, signed by
all of their gang, challenging the sophomores to a

CO-CAPTAINS ELECT: GIL SANTIN 43 OF BEVERLY, AND JOHN MCDONOUGH 4J OF DORCHESTER

Against Clark University's team, coached by
Serge Bernard '30, Frodyma and Tad Bokina '43 of
Hatfield (brother of Bucky Bokina '38) took the
lead in scoring what was definitely an upset, 48-41.
Bernard's crackerjack team had previously won
three straight games.

Against Trinity, the game played in the Curry S.
Hicks Physical Education Building on the night be-
fore students went home for the holidays, Bokina
and Frodyma again were stand-out players in pacing
the Statesmen to a 50-43 win.

Swimming

Led by Captain Joe
Jodka '42 of Lawrence,
and with sophomore Bud
Hall of Worcester winning
the 220 and 440 free
style events, Joe Rogers'
swimming team splashed
to a 57 -j— 17J victory over
Worcester Tech in a meet
on December 17th.

Captain Jodka, nation-
al junior champion in the
220 breast stroke, took
part, earlier, in an exhi-
bition meet at the Olney-
ville Boys' Club and won
from Skinner of Michi-
gan, the national senior
champion in the event.

return match to be played with regulation 15 minute
periods. The game just ended had been scheduled
for 10 minute quarters.

Freshman coach Frannie Riel '39 was pleased not
only with the way his boys had played, but with
their display of spirit. Coach Hargesheimer also was
pleased.

No one knows, exactly, what the situation with
regard to varsity football at the College in the fall
of '42 will be as this Bulletin goes to press. However,
President Baker and his college administrative
officials are giving careful thought to plans whereby
Massachusetts State may be of maximum assistance
to the nation during the war period; and it is ex-
pected that definite announcement of a College pro-
gram— including athletics — will be available for the
next issue of the Bulletin.

Basketball

Coach Walter Hargesheimer has worked largely on
fundamentals in his early practice sessions with the
basketball club. Captain Bobby Triggs '42 of
Springfield, and his colleagues have responded by
winning all of the three games played before the
Christmas holidays.

In their first game, against Hamilton, the States-
men came from behind in the last few minutes to
win, 48-45. Tom Kelly '43 of Springfield, Joe Hebert
'44 of Holyoke, and Mike Frodyma '42 of Holyoke
had important parts in this hair-raising victory.

Baseball

The State baseball schedule will be cut short in
the spring due to rearranged collegiate programs of
a number of colleges already scheduled as opponents.

Convocation

F. Elwood Allen '15, specialist in recreation of the
National Recreation Association, planner, designer,
and consultant, (father of Stewart Allen '44) was
speaker at the annual athletic insignia convocation
in Bowker Auditorium on December 11th. He gave
an excellent talk, in which he reiterated President
Baker's earlier advice to the students, suggested
that they apply themselves diligently to their studies
until such time as they might receive official call to
the armed forces of the nation. He pointed out that
lecreational exercise and athletics were valuable now
as never before.

The election of Gil Santin '43 of Beverly and John
McDonough '43 of Dorchester as co-captains of next
fall's football team was announced. Santin received
the Allen Leon Pond Memorial Award for excellence
in football.

Russ McDonald '43 of Wheelwright was also an-
nounced as the elected captain of cross country, and
Ed Podolak '43 of Easthampton as captain of soccer.

Spencer Potter '42 of Norfolk, Conn., received
recognition as an outstanding soccer player when he
was chosen on a mythical all New England team by
sports writers of the Boston Globe.

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BOSTON ALUMNI MEET

(Continued from Page 7)
Edwards '14, Arthur D. Tilton '18, Owen E. Folsom
'23, Joseph H. Forest '28, Edward L. Gallup '33,
Alfred A. Gioiosa '16, Sam J. Golub '38, Ralph W.
Harwood '18, William V. Hayden '13, Robert C.
Jackson '34. Lewis H. Keith '25, Albert C. Kelley
w'10. L. Francis Kennedy '24, Merton P. Lamden
"41. Louis H. Libby '35, Roger H. Lindsey '40.

Harold L. Morland '35, Garabed K. Mouradian
'25. Arthur M. McCarthy '19, Charles R. McGeoch
'25, Owen A. McNiff w'14, William B. Nutting '40,
Christopher Paul '41, Edgar A. Perry '16, Kenneth
V. Pike '40, Harold W. Poole '21, James W. Robert-
son '34, Dr. Sidney A. Salamoff '35, Lewis Schlotter-
beck '16. Edwin Steffek '34, Harry S. Stiles '21,
Dickran Tashjian '01, Hans L. Van Leer '32, Earl
M. White '26, Paul F. Whorf '15, Myer L. Weiner '35.

New officers of the Boston Alumni Club for 1941-
1942 were elected: president, Dennis M. Crowley
'29; vice-president, Joseph H. Forest '28: treasurer,
Garabed K. Mouradian '25: secretary, Edwin F.
Steffek '34. Executive committee: Raymond Jordan
'37, Lewis Schlotterbeck '16, Frederick W. Swan '27,
Donald C. Douglass '21, Louis Ross '17, Asa Kinney
'30, William V. Hayden '13. John W. McGuckian
'31, Lawrence Jones '26, Louis Libby '35, L. Francis
Kennedy '24, Justin McCarthy '21.

The Boston Club plans to make arrangements
whereby the college glee clubs may come to Boston
early in the spring for an evening's concert.

Coached by Professor Luther Banta, the poultry
judging team competed in the Eastern Intercollegiate
Contests at Rutgers on December 5th. and won third
place in competition with teams from ten other
colleges.

Members of the team were Samuel I'eskin '13 of
Boston, George Yale '43 of Roslindale. and Frank
Hardy '44 of Essex.

The livestock judging team, composed of lh

mkm Carl Erickson of Attleboro, Allen Cowan
of Pittsfield, Russell Hibbard of North Hadley,
Robert Walker of Winthrop, Benny Freitas of
Fairhaven. and John Brotz of Chelmsford and
accompanied by Victor A. Rice, head of the division
of agriculture, took part in the intercollegiate live-
stork judging contests in Chicago on November 29th,
On December 2nd members of the group took part
in the- meats judging contests.

Coached by Prof. Richard C. Foley '27, the meats
judging team took top honors at the intercollegiate
contests at the Eastern States Exposition in Spring-
field last September, and placed high in the Chicago
conti

'18 Steve Richardson received the silver beaver
award for "noteworthy service of exceptional charac-
ter"' at t he annual meeting of the I la mpsh ire- Frank I in
Boy Scout Council in Northampton on November 22.

ACADEMICS

Musical Clubs

The combined musical clubs presented their annual
concert on the Social Union Series in Stockbridge
Hall on December 16th.

The Stockbridge stage was extended out over
several rows of seats, especially for this presentation,
so that all of the musical groups — men's and women's
glee clubs, Sinfonietta, Statesmen, Statettes, the Bay
Statettes, and the Bay Staters were seated together
on the stage at all times during the evening.

Doric Alviani, coach of the musical clubs, acted as
master of ceremonies and was assisted by Margaret
Stanton '43 of Worcester. Bill Hathaway '41,
assistant in music, accompanied as did also Phyllis
Peterson '44 of Duxbury.

The program included the Hallelujah Chorus,
"Ballad for Americans," and a number of Christmas
carols in which the audience joined with the musical
groups.

A dimunitive printed program was distributed to
the audience (in recognition of paper shortage) and
carried the following suggestion:

In the interest of

Buy

DEFENSE SAVINGS
tyy STAMPS and BONDS

IS:

The annual Christmas concert by the college band
was presented in Bowker Auditorium on the evening
of December 17th before an enthusiastic audience.
Al Eldridge '42 of Somerville, and Coach Charles B.
Farnam directed.

The band was active all fall at the several loot ball
games played on Alumni Field, traveled to Worcester
Tech for the game on October 25th. On Sunday
afternoon. November 9th, the band turned out to
greet the victorious football team returning from the
game with Brooklyn.

Collegian

Bob Nottenburg '42 o\ Will ham. business manager
of the Collegian, and Stan Polchlopek '43 of Chicopee,
managing editor, were delegates to the Associated
Collegiate Press convention in St. Louis on Novem-
ber 20, 21, and 22.

The Collegian has a special subscription offer for
Alumni weekly issues of the college paper for the
remainder of the college year for 75 cents. Checks
or money orders should be sent to business manager,
Collegian Office, Memorial Hall.

An attractive 1942 Massachusetts State College
calendar including 13 new pictures of campus
scenes is on sale at the College Store and will be
sent, postpaid, to any address for 45 cents.

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'37 Bud Fisher completed his work foi the degree
of Doctor of Science in chemical engineering at
M.I.T. in August and is now with the Barrett Com-
pany in Philadelphia.

Libra, x-y

State College

WINTER ATHLETIC SCHEDULES

BASKETBALL

Dec. 12 Hamilton, here

15 Clark, there
18 Trinity, here

7 Springfield, here

10 Amherst, there

14 Williams, here

16 A.I.C., there
4 Rhode Island, here
6 Tufts, here

14 Coast Guard, there

18 Univ. of Conn., there

21 Wesley an, there

27 Boston Univ., here

28 W.P.I., there

Jan.

Feb.

WINTER TRACK

Jan. 31 K. of C. Meet, Boston
Feb. 14 B.A.A. Meet, Boston
19 Worcester Tech and
Springfield, here
Univ. of Connecticut,

here
Tufts and Worcester
Tech, here

SWIMMING

Dec.
Jan.

Feb.

Mar.

here

Captain, Robert X. Triggs '42
Mgr., Edward M. Rosemark '42
Coach, Walter G. Hargesheimer

Captain, William J. Wall '42

Manager, Eric L. Greenfield '42

Coach, Llewellyn L. Derby

Worcester Tech,
Williams, there
Univ. of Conn., here
Yale University, here
Wesleyan, there
Coast Guard, there
Bowdoin, here
M.I.T. and W.P.I. ,
at Cambridge
13-14 N.E.I.S.A. Meet
at Amherst

Captain, Joseph T. Jodka '42
Manager, A. Francis Shea '42
Coach, Joseph R. Rogers, Jr.

ALUMNI IN UNIFORM

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had to stop calling her husband "Doc" — it has to
be George these days. Mary explained it this way,
"'Doc' is too misleading in this business — the
medical officers are all 'Doc', of course — and I got
tired of explaining, 'Oh, that's just a college nick-
name.' So I tightened up my mind and memory,
and now I say George without a tremor. Surprising
by-product of a war, what!"

Islands for nearly two years, has been at Guam, and
at many of the other smaller islands of the South
Pacific.

About a year ago he met Morris Featherman '39
in Honolulu. Featherman had just received his com-
mission as ensign in the Naval Reserve and was en
route to duty; he became junior division officer
aboard the U.S.S. West Virginia. Another Alumnus
ensign whom Wheeler met in the West Coast was
John Lavrakas '38.

Lieut. Albert J. Gricius '37, who recently was
appointed aide to Brigadier General William M.
Grimes, commander of the 4th Armored Brigade,
had charge of the exhibition of the "steel cavalry"
at the National Horse Show, in Madison Square
Garden, November 5 to 12.

Eighty-three enlisted men, with Lieut. Gricius in
charge, assisted by a second lieutenant, demon-
strated units of motorized equipment such as is used
by the 4th Armored Division. The equipment in-
cluded 5 reconnaissance cars, 4 motorcycles, 4 half-
tracks (for personnel and armament), and one 37
mm. anti tank gun.

Lieut. Gricius and his men did a good job; their
exhibition was a focal point of much interest in
New York.

Second Lieut. Jesse A. Taft '30, who is with the
84th Q. M. Battalion, has written recently to Frank-
lin E. Heald, supervisor of agricultural education,
on campus. Before joining the army Taft was agri-
cultural instructor at Barnstable High School, and
a good deal of his army work corresponds to that
which he carried on as teacher of vocational agricul-
ture. He says, "My first job was to place a requi-
sition for $20,000 worth of parts which we antici-
pated would be needed in keeping 1500 trucks of
the 6th Army Corps rolling. . . . Somebody in the
country is doing an excellent job in vocational train-
ing in auto repair, electric and acetylene welding,
and so on, for we have 85 boys who are doing an
excellent job."

Ensign James Wheeler '38 is probably the most
widely-traveled man in his class. Since graduation
he has made five trips across country, has been up
and down the West Coast from Seattle to San Diego
innumerable times, has been based at the Hawaiian

Dr. E. J. Radcliffc, on leave of absence as director
of the department of student health at the College,
is serving as captain in the army medical corps,
attached to the air service. Dr. Radcliffe has re-
cently completed a tour of duty at Randolph Field
in Texas, and is now stationed at the Windsor
Locks, Conn. Air Base.

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BULLETIN

WINTER. NORTH AMHERST

MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE
AMHERST, MASSACHUSETTS

ol. XXIV, No. 5

February, 1942

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN
MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

George E. Emery '24, Editor
Published monthly at Amherst. Mass. (except August and
September) by the Associate Alumni of Massachusetts State College.
Entered as second class matter. March 17, 1920, at the Postoffice
at Amherst, Mass.. under the Acts of March 3, 1S79.

OFFICERS OF ASSOCIATE ALUMNI OF
MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

President, Albert W. Smith "22 of Springfield
Vice-President, William V. Hayden '13 of Newton Center
Secretary, Marshall O. Lanphear 'IS of Amherst
Treasurer, Clark L. Thayer '13 of Amherst
Executive Secretary, George E. Emery '2-4 of Amherst

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

to 1942

Erford W. Poole '96 of New Bedford

David Pa Rossiter "37 of Maiden

Zoe Hickney White '32 of Worcester

Alfred E. Wilkins '15 of Wakefield

to 1943

Harry Dunlap Brown '14, ex-officio, of Billerica
William L. Doran '15 of Amherst

Mary E. M. Garvey '19 of Amherst
Lawrence L. Jones '26 of North Beverly

Edward J. Gare, Jr. '15 of Northampton

to 1944

Donald C. Douglass '21 of Belmont

Norman D. Hilyard '23 of Springfield

John W. McGuckian '31 of Roslindale

Arthur D. Tilton 'IS of Woburn

to 1945

Alden C. Brett '12. ex-officio, of Belmont

Alan W. Chadwick '31 of Baldwinsville

Evelyn Davis Kennedy '26 of Belmont
Starr M. King '21 of Beverly

Lewis Schlotterbeck '16 of Wakefield

The Alumni Bulletin is sent ten times each year to all members
of the Associate Alumni. Memberships are: Annual S3. 00, Sustain-
ing S10.00.

Cover picture — A view southeast from a hill in North
Amherst, across the road from the Henri Haskins ('90)
farm.

— Photo by Robert L. Coffin

FRATERNITY BANQUETS
FEBRUARY 28

fiiflSS !)f JB4J

In order that Alumni may have opportunity to
gather on campus before Commencement, fraterni-
ties are once again scheduling their annual initiation
banquets simultaneously; the date set is Saturday,
February 28th.

On Saturday morning the teaching departments
on campus will hold open house and welcome re-
turning Alumni back to the classrooms and labora-
tory sections.

On the afternoon of the 28th there will be a tri-
angular track meet, on campus, between Tufts,
Worcester Tech, and State.

On Friday evening, the 27th, the basketball team
will engage B. U. in the cage and the swimmers take
on Bowdoin in the college pool.

These events, plus the banquets on Saturday
night, make for a full and interesting week-end for
those Alumni who can get back to the campus on
Friday.

Write to the president of your fraternity now; tell
him to save a bed for you on the 27th and 28th!!

John Retallick is accountant in the payroll office
of the General Electric Company in Pittsfield.

Kino J. Roffinoli is dairy herd improvement
association supervisor with headquarters in the
P. O. Building, Norwich, Conn.

Irving Seaver is in the milk business in Shrews-
bury, Mass.

David Skolnick is an apprentice teacher at
Smith's Agricultural School, in Northampton.

George Soule is a reporter for the Springfield,
Mass., Union.

Ronald Streeter is with the liability department
of the Hartford (Conn.) Indemnity Insurance Co.

James Walker is a construction engineer with the
H. P. Cummings Construction Co., in Ware, Mass.

Kenneth F. Waltermire is in the planning de-
partment of the Van Norman Machine Tool Co. in
Springfield, Mass.

Arthur Wannlund is production engineer with
the Raytheon Production Corporation, 55 Chapel
Street, Newton, Mass.

William Walsh is adjuster for the Associates
Discount Corporation, 293 Bridge Street, Spring-
field, Mass.

Wallace Wyman is junior engineer with the
Turner Construction Co., Bristol, R. I. His com-
pany is one of the largest contractors in the East.

Robert Siegel is with the soil conservation ser-
vice, U.S.D.A., in Livingston, Ala.

Robert Riseberg is employed in his father's
clothing store in Waltham, Mass.

Woodrow Jacobson is with the Greenfield, Mass.,
Tap & Die Corporation.

Elmer Smith is doing graduate work at the
College.

R. Alden It lodge U is claims adjuster with the
Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, 175 Berkeley
Street, Boston, Mass.

Edwin King is doing graduate work in ento-
mology at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacks-
burg, Va.

John Stewart is working on a research fellowship
in food technology at Oregon State College, Corvallis.

Walter Irvine, Jr. is with H. P. Hood & Sons in
Springfield, Mass. He lives at 264 Sumner Avenue.

Edward E. O'Connor is with the U. S. Engineers
at Port of Spain, Trinidad, British West Indies.

Norman Dondero is a graduate assistant in bac-
teriology at the University of Connecticut, Storrs.

Thomas Johnson is doing graduate work at
Cornell.

Joseph Meder is chemist at the cannery of the
American Stores Company in Hurlock, Md.

Bruno Pulnik has a fellowship at Ohio State
University, where he is studying for a master's degree
in floriculture.

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COLLEGE WAR EFFORT

ALUMNI IN UNIFORM

In order more effectively to meet demands of
State and Nation, and to be of maximum service
during the war emergency, the College has insti-
tuted an accelerated program of course work.

Decision was reached by President Baker, Dean
Machmer, and administrative officials following the
meetings of the Association of American Colleges in
Baltimore early in January. The President and Dean
attended the sessions, and upon their return to
campus submitted an outline of calendar revision to
the faculty and students.

The 1941-42 college semesters have been shortened,
and graduation exercises will be held on Sunday,
May 17th.

Finals for the first semester consisted of a series of
hour exams, and there was not the customary read-
ing period. The new semester will start immediately
following these exams, January 26th. and will con-
tinue without interruption, except for a vacation
period from April 2nd through the 8th, up to an
examination period which will also consist of hour
tests in the several courses, and which will be given
in the week immediately preceding the graduation
program.

In response to a questionnaire, some 300 students
indicated their wish to attend a summer session on
campus during which credits for an entire semester's
work may be obtained. Six hundred students indi-
cated interest in such a session and a desire to attend
if they could find it financially possible.

The exact dates for this new summer session have
not yet been determined, but the classes probably
will resume during the latter part of May or very
early in June, and will continue until the latter part
of August. College is now scheduled to reopen on
September 14th; but that date may be changed.

The College may accept new students, freshmen,
for the summer session, although this will depend
largely upon whether qualified applicants from high
schools present themselves in time to take advantage
of the summer courses.

The purpose of the accelerated program is two-fold.
First, it is intended to provide opportunity for under-
classmen who may be drafted into the armed forces
of the nation more nearly to complete their required
college work before they are selected for service. The
intent, further, is to make available trained men, and
women, at the earliest possible moment, for plai es
in industry, public health, and other fields closely
tied up with the country's war effort -

An alumni reunion program will be conducted on
May 16th and 17th; further notice regarding it
appears elsewhere in this Hulletin. Alumni Day is
Saturday, May 16th.

(Continued on Paw 7

Following is a continuation of the list of Alumni
now serving with the country's armed forces.

First, are additions to the list received by the
Alumni Office since the last Bulletin was published.

The second list is of new addresses.

The Alumni Office is making every effort to keep
its list of Alumni in service up-to-date and accurate,
and will welcome any information which Alumni and
others may provide.

'36 Lieut. James K. Clarke, Headquarters, Fort

Jay, Governors Island, N. Y.
'41 Aviation Cadet Herbert Colvn, Aero Tech,

Helena, Ark.
'40 Lieut. Frederick Cole, assistant post weather

officer and instructor of meteorology. School

of Navigation, Turner Field, Albany, Ga.
'39 Ensign Francis Fanning, USS Northampton
'36 Lieut. Chester M. Gates, 101st Cavalry, Fort

Devens, Mass.
'35 Pvt. Eben T. Hall, Company E, 169th Infantry,

Camp Blanding, Fla.
'36 Lieut. Donald Hasclhuhn, M.D., Medical

Corps, Air Base, Manchester, N. H.
'21 Major Starr M. Kinii. Shaw Field, Sumter, S.C.
'36 Lieut. Edward V. Law, Army Transport Service,

N.Y.P.E.. 1st Avenue and 58th Street,

Brooklyn, N. Y.
'14 Major Iloyt 1). Lucas, Chief, Engineering Div.

of the Technical Division, Edgewood Arsenal,

Md.
'27 Captain Harry C. Nottcbaert, 120th Observa-
tion Squadron. Higgs Field. Fort Bliss, Texas
'35 Corp. Julius Novick, 63rd Coast Artillery (AA),

Medical Det., APO 309, Fort Lewis, Wash.
'38 2nd Lt. Donald Oslcy, Hdqs. & Hdqs. Sqd..

Losey Field, Ponce, Puerto Rico
'39 2nd Lt. Everett Roberts, A-8, A.F.T.C., Fort

Knox, Ky.
w'37 Pvt. John Wcathcrby, Recruit Reception

Center, Fort Devens. Mass.

'38 2nd Lt Philip 15. Anderson, 27th Reconnais-
sance Sqd., Borinqucn Field, Puerto Rico

'41 2nd Lt. Clement Burr, Lodwick Aviation Mili-
tary Academy, Avon Park, Fla.

'40 2nd Lt. Raln-rl M. Creswell, 34th Armored
Regiment, Fort Knox, Ky.

'40 Flying Cadet <■- Godfrey Davenport, Jr.,
Parks Air College, East St. Louis, III

'41 Pvt. John I), Gould, Hdq. Battery, 1st Btn.,
Fort Constitution. Portsmouth, N. H.

'41 2nd Lt. George Daniel, Cavalry School. Fori
Riley, Kan.

( or, I inued on I'ax I I

AIIMM IIAV

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A Complete Reunion Program Is Planned Better Be Back !

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OBITUARIES

ALUMNI DAY PROGRAM
TO BE MAY 16

Richard M. Brown '34

Word was received on January 12, 1942, concern-
ing the death of Richard M. Brown of the class of
1934. This came as a great shock to his friends in
Amherst and to those who knew him in Pearl River.
He was ill but a short time.

While a student at Massachusetts State College,
he was interested in bacteriology and physiology and
became one of the most efficient students in sero-
logical technique and practice. Through this work
he was appointed to carry on this interest at the
Lederle Antitoxin Laboratories at Pearl River, New
York. Brown was associated with Dr. Norman J.
Pyle of the Lederle Laboratories for a long period of
time and carried on control studies and meritoriously
accomplished considerable research. This included
complement-fixation procedures for the virus of
canine distemper, a classification of Group G canine
strains of Streptococci, and the preparation of anti-
gens for the agglutination and lysis tests for Lepto-
spirosis.

Brown was a very likeable person and had a host
of friends here at Massachusetts State and among his
fellow workers and associates. During his college
days he was interested in athletics and was particu-
larly proficient as a swimmer, a member of the
varsity swimming team. His friends report that he
was fond of golf and motor boating; he was owner
of a motor yacht of considerable size.

He married Edna Ronner of Pearl River some five
years ago. They had no children. Besides his wife,
his parents and sisters survive him.

— G. E. Gage

Sergeant Jonathan Madden

Sergeant Jonathan Madden, 54, supply sergeant
at Westover Field, was instantly killed on January
10th when the automobile in which he was riding left
the road and hit a tree on Pleasant Street near the
Theta Chi house.

Sergeant Madden had been supply sergeant at the
College from 1930 until April 1941, when he accepted
the post at Westover. He had been in the Army
from 1904 until 1930 when he was retired from
active service.

He is survived by his widow, three sons, six
daughters, and several brothers and sisters.

MARRIAGES

'31 Russell D. Loar to Miss Marjorie Allison,
April 23, 1941, at Covina, Calif.

'37 Lieut. Isadore Barr to Miss Margaret Kessler,
October 19, 1941, at Bushkill, Pa.

'37 Lieut. Anthony J. Nogelo to Miss Lillian
Nowick, January 18, 1942, at Holliston, Mass.

'38 John Sherman Hoar to Miss Julia C. Warren,
December 27, 1941, at Sumter, S. C.

'39 James Graves to Miss Margaret Whalen,
December 27, 1941, at Greenfield, Mass.

w'39 William Kaynor to Miss Ruth Ball, Janu-
ary 17, 1942, in New„York City.

A complete alumni reunion program is being
arranged for May 16th — the new date just set for
Alumni Day in connection with the accelerated
college program.

The several reunion classes are planning activities,
and extensive arrangements are being made especially
by 1917 with a large committee at work on the event.
Graduation exercises for 1917 were much curtailed;
that war class looks forward to an exceptional return
of its members for a 25th reunion celebration.

The annual meeting of the Associate Alumni is
planned for the 16th; an alumni luncheon will also
be scheduled.

Curry Hicks is making every effort to arrange a i
varsity baseball game, although his present spring
schedule has been much curtailed and almost com-
pletely rearranged.

Class suppers will be held on the evening of the
16th; and at 9 o'clock that evening the Roister
Doisters will present their first and only play of the
season especially for Alumni and friends.

Varsity and Academics Breakfasts will be planned
for Sunday morning, the 17th.

The alumni reunion program promises to be full
of interest, the campus will be fresh and attractive
in the early spring, and Alumni are urged to make
their plans now to return to the College at that time.

DR. WAUGH HONORED

Dr. Frank A. Waugh, emeritus professor of land-
scape architecture at the College, is the recent re-
cipient of the George Robert White Gold Medal of
Honor of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society.

The medal is rarely given, and is generally con-
sidered to be the highest honor available in the field
of horticulture.

'40 Miss Irma Malm to Joseph L. Hasenfus,
December 31, 1941, at Worcester, Mass.

'40 and '41 Daniel E. Shepardson to Miss Esther
H. Wheeler, September 20, 1941, at Athol, Mass.

BIRTHS

'27 A daughter, Jane, to Mr. and Mrs. Emerson
Greenaway, January 3, 1942, at Worcester, Mass.

'30 A son, Bruce Duncan, to Mr. and Mrs.
Donald Simonds (Beryl Morse '30), July 8, 1941, at
LaPorte, Ind.

'38 A daughter, Jeanette Louise, to Mr. and Mrs.
Stanley Flower, December 12, 1941, at Northampton,
Mass.

'39 A son, William Everett, to Lieutenant and
Mrs. Everett Roberts, December 30, 1941, at
Chicago, 111.

'40 and 'w'43 A daughter, Anna Quincy, to Mr.
and Mrs. D. Arthur Copson (Jean Elder w'43),
January 11, 1942, at Cavendish, Vt.

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WITH THE ALUMMAE

By Mary E. Garvey '19

Zoe Hiekney White '32 and Marge Monk Bur-
bank '31, president of the Worcester Alumnae Club,
served refreshments in the Worcester Auditorium on
January 8th for Alumni who were attending the
annual Union Agricultural Meetings.

A special room for Alumni had been set aside in
the Auditorium by Mr. A. W. Lombard, manager of
the meetings, and many Alumni availed themselves
of the opportunity for a pleasant social hour. Presi-
dent and Mrs. Baker were present during the after-
noon to visit and chat with the many Alumni who
stopped by.

Catherine Birnie '37 is teller in the collection
and foreign exchange department of the Third
National Bank and Trust Company in Springfield.

Esther Dunphy "37 is teaching in the new Carew
Street School in South Hadley Falls.

Eleanor Fahey *38 is secretary to the assistant
sales manager of the Dorr Company, Inc.. 570 Lex-
ington Avenue, New York City.

Alberta Johnson "40 is teaching
5pringfield Junior High School.

in the West

Officers of the Massachusetts State College
Alumnae Club of Boston include the following:

President, Mrs. George E. Crowell i Mildred
Hovey '35): Vice-President, Mrs. Roger Warner
'Dorothy Cook '35); Treasurer. Evelyn Bergstrom
'41; Secretary, Eva Eldridge '39; Corresponding
Secretary, Doris Dyer '39.

Chairmen: Membership, Helena McMahon '37;
Program. An i Gilbert '38; Publicity. Margery

FRATERNITY

INITIATION

BANQUETS

Saturday, February 28th

Johnson '40; Ways and Means, Mrs. Eugene Gie-
ringer (Jessie Kinsman '38); Student Loan Com-
mittee Member, Eleanor Bateman '23.

Alumnae of Alpha Lambda Mu living in the
Boston area held a meeting on January 9th. The
Connecticut Valley group met on January 10th, at
supper at the Stockbridge House on campus. Dorothy
Kinsley '44 of Stoneham is alumnae secretary of the
sorority.

On January 17th a group of young State College
mermaids gave an exhibition of formation swimming
at the Whitins Community Association in Whitins-
ville, near Worcester, Mass. The girls were coached
by Miss Kathleen Callahan, instructor in physical
education at the College, and were Mary Haughey
'44 of Pittsfield. Mary Mann '43 of Dalton, Fran
Albrecht '43 of Somerville, Jeanne Linberg '45 of
Newtonville, Dotty Colburn '45 of West Springfield,
Ruth Howarth '44 of Hopedale, Millie Eyre '42 of
Northampton, Doris Sheldon '44 of West Spring-
field. Peggy Deane '44 of Whitinsville, Barbara
Cramer '42 of Amherst. Frances Gasson '43 of Athol
was student manager. So attractive was the exhi-
bition which the girls presented that they were asked
to come back and give another formation swimming
exhibition ;il the Worcester Hoys' Club on January
3 1 st . They accepted.

CO-EDS FORMATION

IN THE COLLEGE POOL

-1941 INDEX PHOTO

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ALUMNI IN PUBLIC HEALTH WORK

Following is a continuation of the listing of Alumni
engaged in public health work. The lists, below, are
of internes, medical students, and of practicing phy-
sicians— additions to the list which appeared in an
earlier Bulletin.

This listing of Alumni in public health work, as
dentists, nurses, as executives in charge of state and
municipal services, as dietitians, hospital superin-
tendents, commercial bacteriologists, and so on will
be continued in later issues of the Bulletin.

Any information which will amplify or correct our
records will be gratefully received by the Alumni
Office.

Crawford W. Adams '38, Boston City Hospital,

Boston, Mass.
Charles Appel '37, Jefferson Hospital, 10th and

Sanson Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
John Appel '37, Philadelphia General Hospital,

% Doctors' Residence, Philadelphia, Pa.
Alfred Basamania \37, Newton Hospital, Newton,

Mass.
Franklyn Berry '37, St. Luke's Hospital, New

Bedford, Mass.

Lynn Hospital, Lynn, Mass.
'37, Mercy Hospital, Spring-

Robert W. Gage '38, Harvard Medical School,

Cambridge, Mass.
Lane Giddings '39, Hahnemann Medical College,

Philadelphia, Pa.
Louis F. Johnson, Jr., '40, Tufts Medical College,

Boston, Mass.
Robert C. Turner '40, Tufts Medical College,

Boston, Mass.
Mert Wilson '39, University of Chicago Medical

School, Chicago, 111.
Douglas J. Wood '38, Tufts Medical College,

Boston, Mass.

'37, St. Vincent's Hospital,

Arnold C. Briere '36,
Raymond F. Conway

field, Mass.
Trento J. Domenici

Bridgeport, Conn.
Patrick J. Fitzgerald '36, Boston City Hospital,

Boston, Mass.
Frederick W. Goodhue '37, Hackensack Hospital,

Hackensack, N. J.
Lawrence II. Kyle '37, Meadowbrook Hospital,

Hempstead, N. Y.
Abraham Michaelson '36, Beth David Hospital,

161 E. 90th St., New York, N. Y.
David Mountain '34, Hartford Municipal Hospital,

Hartford, Conn.
John T. Taiiinski '37, St. Vincent Hospital, 73

Vernon St., Worcester, Mass.

Roger E. Allen '36, M.D., 653 Main Street, Shrews-
bury, Mass.

Sheldon Bliss '37, M.D., Assistant Plant Surgeon,
Bethlehem Steel Company, Quincy, Mass.

John A. Caswell '35, M.D., 130 Main Street,
Belfast, Maine

Eugene A. Guralnick '33, M.D., Resident Surgeon,
Boston City Hospital, Boston, Mass.

R. Harlow Ilermanson '35, M.D., Resident in
Radiology, Jewish Hospital of Brooklyn, 555
Prospect Place, Brooklyn, N. Y.

Emil J. Koenig '36, M.D., Rhode Island Hospital,
Providence, R. I.

Theodore M. Leary '35, M.D., Resident Surgeon,
Gallinger Municipal Hospital, Washington, D. C.

Walter S. Mozden '35, M.D., Assistant Surgeon,
U. S. Marine Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio

Robert Pollard '32, M.D., 164 Main Street, Water-
bury, Conn.

Captain George A. Vassos, Jr. '36, M.D., Medical
Field Service School, Carlisle Barracks, Carlisle,
Pa.

Donald E. Brown '39, Harvard Medical School,

Cambridge, Mass.
Herbert V. Burns '40, Tufts Medical College,

Boston, Mass.
Philip B. Chase '38, Yale Medical School, New

Haven, Conn.
William J. Collins '38, Tufts Medical College,

Boston, Mass.

SCENES IN THE ZOOLOGY (PRE-MED) LABORATORIES IN FERNALD HALL. AND A VIEW (ABOVE) OF A PORTION OF THE

PHYSIOLOGY LABORATORY. MARSHALL HALL

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Leverett S. Woodworth '23, M.D., Asst. Director,
Harper Hospital, Detroit, Mich.

Gilbert L. Woodside, Ph.D., assistant professor of
biology at the College, is student pre-medical advisor.
He speaks as follows of the pre-medical training at
the College.

"Students preparing for medicine or dentistry
at the College generally number between 12 and
16 in each graduating class. The number in the
entering classes expressing an interest in these
professions is always larger; but numerous cir-
cumstances cause certain of the students to
change their minds.

"While at College the pre-medical students
take a program of courses designed to fulfill the
requirements of any medical school in the
United States or Canada. These requirements
are remarkably similar and vary but little from
year to year.

"Student interest in the work is high. An
active pre-medical club holds several meetings
each year at which various aspects of medicine
and medical training are discussed. Speakers
are chiefly medical men, although instructors
from the campus sometime speak, and at least
once a year motion pictures of surgical opera-
tions are given. Members of the club sometime
go to neighboring hospitals to observe operations.

"During recent years students have been ad-
mitted from the College to Harvard. Johns Hop-
kins, Chicago, Yale, Tufts, B. U., Cornell,
Columbia, N. Y. U, Rochester, Syracuse, Duke,
Pittsburgh, Vermont, McGill, Jefferson, Penn-
sylvania, Washington, George Washington,
Hahnemann. Albany. Maryland, St. Louis, Long
Island. Buffalo, Temple, Virginia."

In the American School and University Yearbook
for 1940 there is a detailed treatment ol the design
and construction of new labotaiury tables for the
physiology department at the College by George
Edward Gage. Ph.D., professor of bacteriology and
physiology and head of the department of physiology.
The tables, pictured on the opposite page, were de-
signed by Professor Gage, whose instruction in
physiology plays an important part in the pre-medi-
cal course at the College.

Careful thought and planning was necessary in
arranging the laboratory tables and the equipment,
to accommodate the maximum number of students
and still allow free access to each table. As arranged
at present, the instructor can go directly to any
student to give necessary instruction or assistance.
The tables are located in the center of the room so
that they constitute an independent unit for instnii
tion of undergraduates. A secondare tables

along the wall accommodates graduate students
whose apparatus sometimes must remain in place for
several days. The construction of these new labora-
tory tables has brought the physiology laboratory
room to it-- highest theoretical efficiency.

COLLEGE WAR EFFORT

(Continued from Page 3)

In a recent statement to his Trustees, President
Baker outlined some of the significant contributions,
in addition to the program above, which the College
is making to the national war effort. Because of
the scientific and technical nature of much of its
work the College has been able to contribute to war
effort without major changes in its general objectives.
The College Defense Council, which has been study-
ing the place of the College in the national emergency
and making recommendation to the Administration
for the past several months, has lately recommended
that further study be made of the curriculum, im-
mediately, with the idea of further revising it, if
necessary, to the end that it may fit with even more
value into the war program.

The Extension Service has been active in an ex-
pansion of its established program. It has organized
a state nutrition committee to prepare nutrition
standards, to inform the public regarding them, and
has sponsored refresher courses for home economists.
It has organized county committees for the planning
of food conservation and has participated in a co-
operative campaign to better the nutritive habits of
defense and military units.

It has surveyed farm labor needs, grain storage
facilities, hay supplies, the availability of spray
materials. It has organized a state-wide program to
increase production of milk, eggs, pork, and has
organized a farm machinery repair program.

The Experiment Station is intensifying its efforts
in connection with the study of food problems. The
department of food technology has expanded study
of the preservation of nutritive value of foods, and
has cooperated in tests on emergency ration developed
by the U. S. Army. Its reports on research activities
on losses of vitamins and other vital factors in food
are being studied by the Surgeon General's office in
planning its program.

An energetic committee, headed by Kid Gore '13,
has drawn up an efficient air raid precaution and
emergency blackout plan which both students and

-i. ill have ,'icci'pti'd with complete cooperation.

In cooperation with the United States Office of

ilion. the department of engineering has been
offering refresher courses in engineering drawing,
tool engineering, elements of structures, and cost
accounting for industry. Knmllmenf in these courses
has been from the personnel of nearby industrial
plants.

Women students have taken voluntary courses in
Red Cross first aid. and plans are being made for an
advanced course leading to the Red Cross instructors'
certificate.

During the past three years 68 students have
passed flight training courses for I he Civilian Pilot
Training program as carried on by the College; and
other students are currently taking the training
course. A more detailed account of this student
pilot program will appear in a later issue of the

Bulletin.

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DEAN HILLS '81 RECEIVES
HONOR AWARD

JAMES NICHOLSON '16 NAMED
TO NEW RED CROSS POST

Dean J. L. Hills '81 of the College of Agriculture,
University of Vermont, received the American Farm
Bureau Federation's award for distinguished service
to agriculture at the annual banquet of the Federa-
tion in Chicago on December 10th.

The award was conferred at the same time upon
U. S. Senator Bankhead, of Alabama, and U. S.
Representative Cannon, of Missouri.

The award is conferred "in order that suitable
tribute might be paid to the men and women who
have given unselfishly of their time and effort to the
service of agriculture nationally."

Among the 23 persons who have received the
award since it was originated in 1928 are President
Roosevelt, Vice-President Wallace, former Governor
Frank O. Lowden of Illinois, U. S. Senator George
W. Norris, Dr. Harcourt A. Morgan, chairman of
the Tennessee Valley Authority.

The award was made to Dean Hills in recognition
of the service he has rendered to American agricul-
ture since 1882 when he became assistant chemist at
the Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station.
He is the oldest agricultural college dean and experi-
ment station director in the nation, both in age and
in years of service.

After serving as assistant chemist at the Massa-
chusetts and New Jersey Agricultural Experiment
Stations and as chemist for a phosphate-mining
company in South Carolina, Dean Hills came to the
University of Vermont during the blizzard of 1888
to become chief chemist for the Experiment Station.
He held this position until 1898, serving also from
1893 to 1912 as professor of agronomy at the Uni-
versity. He has been director of the Experiment
Station since 1893 and dean of the College of Agri-
culture since 1898.

Dean Hills has been the author or co-author of
more than 100 agricultural bulletins. He has edited
more than 450 publications of the Vermont Agricul-
tural Experiment Station. His writings and research
in animal nutrition and agronomy are widely quoted.

All but three of the hundreds of students who have
graduated from the College of Agriculture received
their degrees since he has been dean. Under his
leadership, the staff of the College of Agriculture,
including the Experiment Station and Extension
Service, has increased from five to 125. He has
given hundreds of talks on agriculture in Vermont
and nearby states. His support and influence was
instrumental in securing the introduction of agricul-
tural courses into Vermont high schools.

Dean Hills was born in Boston in 1861, and pre-
pared for College at Boston Latin School. He was
graduated from Massachusetts State in 1881, and
carried on graduate work at the College during the
next year.

He holds honorary doctor of science degrees from
Massachusetts State College and Rutgers Univer-
sity. He is past-president of the Association of Land-
Grant Colleges and Universities, and holds member-

A recent dispatch from the office of the American
Red Cross in Washington, D. C, tells of the appoint-
ment of James T. Nicholson '16, national director of
the American Junior Red Cross, as vice-chairman in
charge of Junior Red Cross.

The notice tells of some of Mr. Nicholson's more
recent work in part as follows.

"In 1939 he was named assistant to Chairman
Davis. In the latter capacity he was sent to Europe
following the outbreak of war in September 1939,
and in association with the late Ernest J. Swift
successfully negotiated with the German Govern-
ment for Red Cross distribution of relief to the
stricken Poles. After a six months tour of duty
which carried him into all of the then belligerent
nations, Mr. Nicholson returned.

"He made a second trip in the fall of 1941, flying
direct to London and to Moscow as delegate to
Russia, with an American Red Cross Commission.
Mr. Nicholson made the arduous trip with the re-
treating government of the U.S.S.R. to Kuibyshev,
when Moscow was threatened. In early December
he returned from Russia by bomber plane, having
made a complete round-the-world trip by airplane.
In Russia he implemented the agreements under
which American Red Cross medical relief is being
sent to war wounded and civilians.

"Despite his foreign assignments, Mr. Nicholson
created new programs for the American Junior Red
Cross, planned the division of membership and ac-
tivities of the junior group and greatly strengthened
the programs of participation by boys and girls in
Red Cross work."

Francis A. Bartlett '05, George Slate '21, and
Edwin Steffek '34 are recent contributors of interest-
ing articles to the garden section of the New York
Sunday Times.

'22 Frederick V. Waugh is now assistant ad-
ministrator of marketing, U.S.D.A., Washington,
D. C. A note from Ray Hendrickson, administrator
of marketing, says that Dr. Waugh will have general
responsibilities for research and program develop-
ment and will work toward a unified program ap-
proach to the broad problems of marketing.

'34 Chet French, who received his Ph.D. from
University of Missouri in 1940, is chemist with the
Mallinckrodt Chemical Works, St. Louis, Mo.

ship in several agricultural, academic, and scientific
organizations.

He is a fellow of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science, and a member of Kappa
Sigma, Phi Kappa Phi, and Alpha Zeta societies.
He is also a member of Epsilon Sigma Phi, honorary
extension fraternity, from which group he received a
certificate of recognition in 1940 in acknowledgment
of his outstanding achievements in the field of
agriculture.

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SALOME SASTRE '96 TELLS OF VISIT TO UNITED STATES

In 1892 Salome Sastre of Mexico entered the
College with the class of '96. Four years later he
was graduated and returned to Mexico. He was
there occupied in ranching and plantation enter-
prises for 45 years until in August of last year he
arranged his business ventures so that he, his wife,
and daughter, might make a tour of the United
States. During the course of the trip he visited the
campus, and also called upon many of his class-
mates, college contemporaries, and other friends.
Mr. Sastre has sent us a list of the Alumni with
whom he visited, and comment on his trip.

He said that he was "very grateful to Erford
Poole '96" whom he first met in New York and who
later "had us at his house several days: and Dr. I.
C. Poole '96 at whose house we stopped overnight."

"Walter L.
Morse '95 was
very kind to
call for us at
our hotel in
New York and
have us at his
house at Dobbs
Ferry on the
Hudson. In
company of
Mrs. Morse he
drove us up
the Hudson as
far as Peeks-
kill."

"Walter B.
Harper '96 at
Laurel. Miss.,
showed us the
plant where
he is working and dined with us at the hotel. Frank
Clapp '96 showed us all that was worth seeing in
Boston and vicinity. Frank P. Washburn '96 at
North Perry, Maine, drove us to the Canadian
border at Calais, explaining everything to us during
the day and night we spent at his home We visited
two days with Newton Shultia '96 at South Newbury.
N. H. and had the pleasure of meeting his son. Mark.
Mr. Asa Kinney '96, in company of hi- wife, was
very kind to show us through Mi. Holyoke College
where he had taught a good many ye

"People ■>! my time I was able to see while in
Amherst were Miss Ann Canavan who is now 83
old; I boarded at her house. Bill Casey was
the other one; he used to work with Mr. Paige at
hi- livery stable where we hired bis buggies with
Morgan horse to go to Hamp and elsewhere. After
an absence r>f 15 years 1 found both the town and
the College very much changed, much different from
our days."

These are the Alumni whom Mr. Sastre called
during his trip north, from August I )th to
December Ith.
Walter I!. Ilarpei "96, 82 ■ Fifth Ave . Laurel, Miss.

MISS CANAVAN

MR. CASEY

Harry T. Edwards '96, his apartment in Washing-
ton, D. C. Away in Honduras.
Herbert S. Fairbanks '95, 260 South Broad Street,

Philadelphia, Pa. Not there.
Walter L. Morse '95, Room 913, 466 Lexington

Avenue, New York City.
James L. Marshall '96, 99 Glenwood Road, Ridge-
wood, N. J.
E. W. Poole
'96. Room 4,
Chapman
Bldg., New
Bedford.
Mass.
F rank L.
Clapp '96.
195 Boston
Street, Dor-
Chester,
Mass.
John K. Perry
'93, 551 Boyl-
ston Street,
Boston. Mass.
Jasper Marsh
'95. 155 Cen-
ter Street.
D a n v e r s,
Mass.

II. II. Itoper ' 6. 96 County Road, Ipswich, Mass.
Frank I*. Washburn '96, Lewys Cove Farm,

North Perry, Maine
Newton Slmlti^ '96, South Newbury, N. H.
Mi-s Janet Marshall, Y.W.C.A., Lawrence, Mass.
I>r. I. C. Pool,- '96, 204 High St., Fall River, Mass.
Il.ill.-v M. Powlcr '94, 157 S. Main St., Mansfield,

Mass. Not at home.
II. W. Rnwson '96, State School, Wrentham, Mass.
John E. Gifford '94, at Sutton, Mass. Teacher,

North High School. Worcester.
W. L. Pentecost '96, Whitnej Street. Northboro.

Mass.
llnrrv Harlow '93, 1 77 Spring St .. Shrewsbury, Mass.
II. Ward Moore "96, 64 Amherst Street, Worcester,

Mass.
Linus Bacon '94, 36 Cherry St., Spencer, Mass.
Thomas Walsh '96, store in front of town hall,

Amherst, Mass.
Edward It. Holland '92, and Lawrence S. Dick-
inson "10. Mass. State College.
P. II. Smith '97. Exp. Station, Mass. Slate College.
('. A. Peters '97. 16 S. Sunset Ave., Amherst, Mass.
\-:i S. Kinney '96. 71 Woodbridge Street, South

Hadley, Mass.
Charles Crehore "9.">. Ill McKinstay Avenue,
Chicopee, Mass.

A. M. Kr: -r '96, 127 Massachusetts Avenue,

Springfield, Mass.
I>r. Theodore Bacon '91, 69 Maple St., Springfield,
Mass. Not at home.

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ATHLETICS

Swimming

"In my humble opinion — my humble opinion, you
understand — Yale has the best collegiate swimming
team in the United States," declared Coach Joe
Rogers recently, before the boys from New Haven
came up to swim his Statesmen in the pool of the
Curry S. Hicks physical education building on
January 16th. Mr. Rogers went on to say that he
would predict further that the Statesmen would
finish second to Yale.

Time will tell whether Joe was right in his first
observation. With regard to the second, Yale did
win from State, 46-29. But — the 29 points which
Rogers' swimmers scored represented the highest
total of points which, as we go to press, any swim-
ming team has scored this season against the power-
ful Yale team.

Seven hundred and fifty people packed and jammed
themselves around the edge of the State pool for the
Yale meet — the seating capacity actually is 420. The
meet was scheduled to start at 8 o'clock; at 6 o'clock
the students began to line up at the door of the pool.
At 7:30 the doors had to be closed, because there just
wasn't room for anyone else to get in.

Rogers made apology to Coach Bob Kiphuth of
Yale for the fact that so many enthusiastic spectators
had crowded into the area around the pool that there
would be no room for the swimmers to sit between
events of the meet. "That's all right, all right," re-
plied Kiphuth, "it's good for swimming." And when
the meet was over he told Joe that this was the best
and liveliest and most enthusiastic crowd that his
boys had swum for in a long time. "You have a
great spirit here," Kiphuth said.

Statesmen's captain, Joe Jodka '42, won the 200
yard breast stroke, and in so doing lowered the New
England record — again. He had set a record of
2:26.4 against Worcester Tech earlier this season;
his time in the Yale meet was 2:25.4, which, inci-
dentally, is five-tenths of a second lower than the
time established in the last national meet.

Bud Hall '44 of Worcester swam three 100's in
52.2, 52.9, and 52.6 during the course of the evening,
which represents not only speed, but stamina.

Yale's Cook, one of the nation's outstanding divers,
received a tremendous ovation when he won the
springboard diving event. Following Cook's per-
formance, and before the end of the meet, Joe Rogers
received more than a dozen requests, relayed to
him from the spectators, that Cook be asked to give
an exhibition at the close of the meet.

When the meet was over and Cook was told of
these requests he said sure he would give an exhibi-
tion; he jumped up onto the diving board and for
several minutes entertained the highly-pleased spec-
tators with a demonstration of his proficiency. He
got a bigger ovation, even, than he did during the
meet.

Cook said to Rogers, when the meet was over,
"You know I wouldn't have missed this for anything.
I had a swell time. I have two exams tomorrow

morning and I have to dive against Pennsylvania
tomorrow afternoon, but I sure am glad I came up
here."

The swimming meet with Williams at Williams-
town on January 10th was a thriller.

The score was 34-all as the two teams lined up
for the 400-yard free-style relay, the concluding
event. And the first two men on each of the two
four-man teams were even as they turned the race
over to the respective third men. Then, Win Avery
'42 ot Shrewsbury began to pull out in front and
turned over a lead to Bud Hall which the Williams
swimmer could not overcome. It was a hair-raising
finish, and the Statesmen were understandingly
jubilant.

Remaining meets:
Jan. 28 Connecticut, here
Wesleyan, there
Coast Guard, there
Bowdoin, here

M.I.T. and W.P.I. , Cambridge
N.E.I.S.A., Amherst

Feb.

Mar. 6

13-14

Basketball

Coach Walter Hargesheimer is pleased, naturally
enough, with the performance to date of Captain
Bobby Triggs and Bob's fellow players in winning
six out of seven basketball games. As the coach
points out, however, there is a tough second half of
the season yet to be played.

Ted Bokina '43 of Hatfield, tall, rangy center, is
leading scorer, with 106 points. The ability of Mike
Frodyma '42 of Holyoke to set up scoring oppor-
tunities for Bokina has been a contributing factor in
Ted's record to date.

Dick Maloy '43 of Pittsfield is proving a good floor
man, expert in playing the ball off the backboard.
Tom Kelly '43 of Springfield is showing a lot of
speed, and has improved fast during the season.

Ed Podolak '43 of Easthampton and Gil Santin
'43 of Beverly are two players whose work has been
outstanding defensively.

Scores to date:
Dec. 12 Hamilton, here

15 Clark, there
18 Trinity, here

Jan. 7 Springfield, here

10 Amherst, there

14 Williams, here

16 A. I. C, there

Remaining games:

Feb. 4 Rhode Island, here

6 Tufts, here

14 Coast Guard, there

18 Univ. of Connecticut, there

21 Wesleyan, there

27 Boston University, here

28 Worcester Tech, there

Statesmen

Opp.

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ALUMNI IN UNIFORM

(Continued from Page 3)
'41 2nd Lt. Carleton P. Jones, Jr., 113th Cavalry,

Camp Bowie, Brownwood, Texas
'41 2nd Lt. Frank M. Simons, Jr., Troop C, 14th

Cavalry. Tucson, Ariz.
'36 Captain George A. Vassos, Jr., M.D., Medical

Field Service School, Carlisle, Pa.

ACADEMICS

Major Iloyt D. Lucas '14, who served in the
Chemical Warfare Service from October 23, 1917 to
March 19, 1919, is now Chief of the Engineering
Division of the Technical Division at Edgewood
Arsenal, Md.

From April 1st to August 28th he served as CO.,
1st Chem. Co. (Service), Aviation, and assistant
chem. officer, 1st Air Force, Mitchell Field, N. Y.
On August 28th he assumed his present post.

He was Field Officer of the Day on December 7th,
which he characterizes as "the day the Japs signed
their death certificates at Pearl Harbor."

2nd Lt. P. B. Anderson '38 is stationed with the
27th Reconnaissance Squadron at Borinquen Field.
Puerto Rico. In a recent letter to the Alumni Office
he indicated that although he didn't have time for
much visiting he did occasionalK see I. nut. Kiltlie
Btoddard '39, and Lieut. Howard Cheney '32.

He also sees Lieut. Don Cadigan "M now and
then, and recently had a visit from Lieut. Don
(Me* -;{s.

Anderson says that he still finds considerable
diversion in the playing of cards learned at College)
when, he recalls. Kappa Sig and Alpha Sig used to
gi> to Phi Sig or vice versa to claim the intert'raternit y
red dog championship. He continues thai "in spite
of the recreation we don't have any difficulty in
finding plenty of work and manage to put in a full
Jay."

Jnd Lt. Frank Simons, Jr.. "11, who is with
Troop (', 14th Cavalry, Tucson, Arizona, told, in a
recent letter, about the camp in Arizona. He said,
"We're quartered in tents, at present, in a semi-
permanent set-up. Great weather here and plentj
ictus and jack rabbits. Amherst is still pretty
much OK."

2nd Lt. Don Cadigan ">'■• is post censor al his
station in Puerto Rico. He has been sending long
"bulletins" back to his former associate- on campus

and amusingly points out tliat he must, because of
his position, exercise remarkable restraint regarding
the content of his letters. He confines his "news" in
1 .- 1 r t; . - part to graphic and dramatic descriptions of
the Puerto Hi'.m -ky. and surf, and native populace
not any of which would be likely to be "of value
to the enemy."

Roister Doisters

The Roister Doisters will present their first and
only play of the season, for returning Alumni and
friends, in Bowker auditorium on the evening of
May 16th.

A play has not yet been chosen, but the group
doubtless will not attempt to "solve any mysteries,"
nor yet point any great moral. Rather, it is expected
that the commencement play will be light, gay, and
entertaining.

Musical Clubs

The Combined Musical Clubs will present Gilbert
and Sullivan's "Pirates of Penzance" on the evenings
of March 19, 20 and 21 in Bowker auditorium at 8:15.

Tickets may be had at the door, or advance reser-
vations may be made by writing to the Music De-
partment, Memorial Hall.

The Combined Clubs already have scheduled
appearances for February 9th at Shea's Theatre in
Turners Falls for the Turners Falls Women's Associ-
ation; on February 17th for the U. S. O. Club at
Fort Devens; on February 24th at Arms Academy
at Shelburne Falls, through an arrangement with
Gladys Archibald '41.

The musical groups further contemplate a concert
for the New York Alumni Club in New York during
the latter part of March, and for Boston Alumni, in
Boston, shortly alter Easter.

Collegian

Mill Dwyer '42 of Holyoke retired as editor-in-
chiei of the Collegian on January 13th after a year's
distinguished service.

Characteristic of the Collegian under Dwyer's
editorship has been its thorough covering of news
events, its thoughtful and sensible editorial program,
and its cooperative and understanding approach to

college problems.

Dwyer is to be congratulated for the intelligent.
mature, and dignified conduct he gave his paper.

Retiring with Dwyer was George Litchfield '42 of
Wli.ii.lv. sports editor. Litchfield followed the for-
tunes "l the Statesmen with i line- objectivity, com-
bined this with an interest ing. ent husia lie editorial

comment

Mob McCutcheon '42 of South Dcerfield, who also
completed his Colli'^inn work on the l'ith, became a
member of the Board in his freshman year, subse-
quently served as campus and associate editor

Slan Polchlopek '43 ol < hieopec is the new editor-
in-chief. David Mush 'It of Westfield and Fred
Rothery '44 of Springfield are the new managing
editors. Dorothy Dunklee '43 of Mrat I leboro, VI.
will be associate editor, Henry Marl in '43 of Amherst
and Ceorge Chornesky '44 of Lynn will be news
editors. Ted Shepardson '43 of Athol will be sports
editor.

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'35 Jim Gavagan is staff writer for U.P., 50 State
Street, Albany, N. Y.

'37 Carl Swanson, who received his Ph.D. from
Harvard last year, is assistant professor of botany
at Michigan State College, East Lansing.

Library

State College

SEVENTY-SECOND COMMENCEMENT — MAY 17TH

ALUMNI DAY IS SATURDAY, MAY 16th

Reunion Classes: 1882, 1887, 1892, 1897, 1902, 1907,

1912, 1917, 1922, 1927, 1932, 1937, 1939, 1941

Registration Headquarters, Memorial Hall
PLAN TO BE BACK — MAY 16TH

ALUMNI ATTEND AGRICULTURAL
MEETINGS

As usual, Alumni attended the Annual Union
Agricultural Meetings in Worcester, Mass., January
7, 8 and 9, in considerable number.

On the committee on arrangements were W. R.
Cole '02, Julius Kroeck '22, Andrew Love '25, and
Joseph H. Putnam '94. On the executive committee
were Mark H. Galusha w'21, Paul Dempsey '17,
Arthur M. Howard '18, Willard A. Munson '05, and
Stephen Richardson '18. Earle Carpenter '24 was
secretary.

Alumni who appeared on the several programs in-
cluded Warren D. Whitcomb '17, H. Sidney Vaughan
'30, Louis Webster '14, Osman Babson '30, Constan-
tine J. Gilgut '31, Emil Guba '19, Frank R. Shaw
'31, Henry J. Franklin '03, Paul W. Dempsey '17,
Loring V. Tirrell '19, Arthur Howard '18, C. H.
Gowdy '22, C. M. Wood '22, Richard Curtis '41,
Sylvia Winsor Moseley '36, John R. Farrar '34 and
Richard H. Sanford '21.

Arthur Howard '18, as president, conducted the
annual meetings of the Massachusetts Fruit Growers
Association. Fred C. Sears, professor of pomology,
emeritus, presided at one of the sessions.

DR. EDWARD B. HOLLAND '92
RETIRES FROM COLLEGE STAFF

Dr. Edward B. Holland '92 retired from the staff
of the Agricultural Experiment Station at the College
on January 13 when he reached the State mandatory
retirement age of seventy.

He was born in Amherst and educated in the
Amherst public schools. After being graduated from
the College he was appointed to the staff of the
Experiment Station as chemist, where he continued
for nearly fifty years. He is a member of the American
Chemical Society, Kappa Sigma, and a number of
Masonic orders.

He received his master of science degree from the
College in 1898, and the Ph.D. in 1915.

Dr. Holland has done significant work in the
analysis of organic compounds, and on the chemistry
of Paris green and other arsenates.

He was long active in Associate Alumni affairs, as
executive committee associate of the late Dr. James
B. Paige '82, secretary, and as auditor. He is secre-
tary-treasurer of the Frederick Cornelius Eldred
Memorial Fund, the income from which Fund
presently provides books and magazines on athletics
and physical education for the Eldred Library.

SASTRE '96 VISITS U. S.

{Continued from Page 9)

A. B. Cook '96, 518 Fern Street, West Hartford,

Conn. Not at home.
Dr. C. A. Goodrich '93, 61 North Beacon Street,

Hartford, Conn.
J. II. Putnam '94, 189 Silver St., Greenfield, Mass.
A. F. Burgess '95, 43 Congress Street, Greenfield,

Mass. Not at home.
R. II. Vaughan '96, on his farm, East Thetford, Vt.
II. P. Smead '94, Sunshine Shanty, Rochester, Vt.
S. F. Howard '94, Norwich Univ. Northfield, Vt.

E. A. White '95, 316 The Parkway, Ithaca, N. Y.
Not at home.

Miss Canavan still lives in the same house, on
Pleasant Street at the West end of Butterfield
Terrace, where Mr. Sastre and other students and
young faculty members boarded in the earlier
days of the College. Her father was Tom Canavan,
first janitor at the College. Bill Casey, long em-
ployed at Paige's Livery Stable, is now attendant at
Paige's Filling Station, on Pleasant Street, next to
the Post Office.

THE ALUMNI
BULLETIN

KEEP EM FLYING"

MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE
AMHERST, MASSACHUSETTS

\1. XXIV, No. 6

March, 1942

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN
MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

George E. Emery '24, Editor
Published monthly at Amherst, Mass. (except August and
September) by the Associate Alumni of Massachusetts State College.
Entered as second class matter. March 17. 1920. at the Postoffice
at Amherst, Mass., under the Acts of March 3, 1879.

OFFICERS OF ASSOCIATE ALUMNI OF
MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

President, Albert W. Smith '22 of Springfield
Vice-President, William V. Hayden '13 of Newton Center
Secretary, Marshall O. Lanphear '18 of Amherst
Treasurer, Clark L. Thayer '13 of Amherst
Executive Secretary, George E. Emery '24 of Amherst

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

to 1942

Erford W. Poole '96 of New Bedford

David P. Rossi ter '37 of Maiden

Zoe Hickney White '32 of Worcester

Alfred E. Wilkins '15 of Wakefield

to 1943

Harry Dunlap Brown '14, ex-officio. of Billerica
William L. Doran '15 of Amherst

Mary E. M. Garvey '19 of Amherst
Lawrence L. Jones '26 of North Beverly

Edward J. Gare. Jr. '15 of Northampton

to 1944

Donald C. Douglass '21 of Belmont

Norman D. Hilyard '23 of Springfield

John W. McGuckian '31 of Roslindale

Arthur D. Tilton 'IS of Woburn

to 1945

Alden C. Brett '12, ex-officio, of Belmont

Alan W. Chadwick '31 of Baldwinsville

Evelyn Davis Kennedy '26 of Belmont
Starr M. King '21 of Beverly

Lewis Schlotterbeck '16 of Wakefield

The Alumni Bulletin is sent ten times each year to all members
of the Associate Alumni. Memberships are: Annual S3. 00, Sustain-
ing $10.00.

Cover picture — " Keep 'em Flying" is the title Bob
Coffin has given to this picture which he took of his
young son. Aside from being a prize-winning print in
a recent Amherst Camera Club contest the picture
typifies, we think, America's interest in present-day
scientific accomplishment, It is notable that young men
eight or ten years older than Mr. Coffin's son readily
take to flying, and with as much enthusiasm as young-
sters display for model planes.

'13 Kid Gore did quite a little public speaking
early in December at various meetings: at the
banquet on December 1st for the Adams High School
football team — at the invitation of Franklin Farrell,
well-known football official (Curry Hicks and Coach
Walter Hargesheimer also attended the meeting);
at the Monson Rotary Club, on Skiing and National
Defense, at the invitation of Robert Fay '13; at the
annual meeting of the Berkshire Council, Boy Scouts
of America, on Scouting and Emergency Service, at
the request of George Edman '21.

'18 Birger L. Johnson, who is professor of chem-
istry at Montana State College in Bozeman, repre-
sented Massachusetts State at the inauguration of
Ernest Oscar Melby as president of Montana State
University at Missoula, on December 8th. Professor
Johnson is secretary of the North Central Province
of Phi Kappa Phi.

REGISTRATION IN MEMORIAL HALL

On October 16, 1940, 284 students registered for
selective service in Memorial Hall.

On February 15 and 16, 1942, further selective
service registration took place in Memorial Hall.
This time, faculty and townspeople who came within
the age limits, 20 to 45, as well as students, were
enrolled. Two hundred and eighty-four registered.

LOTTA SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS

Freshmen who received scholarships for the college
year 1941-42 from the Lotta Crabtree Fund are
these: Edward Bourdeau of Turners Falls, George
Chase of Foxboro, Alice Culbertson of South Natick,
Marguerite Jenks of Springfield, Robert Lynch of
Winthrop, Richard Saulnier of Saxonville, Donald
Stewart of West Boylston, Betty Washburn of
Montgomery, Edward Anderson of Scituate, Eliza-
beth Bates of Marblehead, James Bodurtha of South-
ampton, Dwight Bramble of Palmer, Dennison
Morey of West Cummington, Edward Gladding of
Millbury, Donald Newton of Northfield, David
Hunter of West Roxbury, Herman Lippa of Matta-
pan.

Alumni who received Lotta scholarships for gradu-
ate work at the College are Elmer W. Smith '41,
Sherman G. Davis '41, Hamilton Laudani '41.

'09 and '04 At the annual meeting of the Ameri-
can Society of Landscape Architects, John Noyes
was elected trustee of the Midwest region and John
W. Gregg for the Pacific region.

'13 George Zabriskie, 258 Riverside Drive, New
York City, is author of a recent "Letter to the
Editor" which appeared in the Springfield, Mass.,
Union and other papers, dealing with problems of
taxation, price control, and price stabilization.

w'21 Lafayette Robertson, Jr. is with the Union
Draw Steel Division of Republic Steel Corporation
in Hartford, Conn., engaged in defense work. He re-
cently sent us an interesting note in which he recalled
undergraduate adventures on campus, including the
time he and Pete Cascio '21 went fishing in Pelham
while in quarantine, theoretically, during the flu
epidemic. Robertson took his bachelor's degree at I
Penn. State; he received a B.Ed, from New Britain
Teachers College in 1938 and an M.A. from Hartford
Seminary Foundation in '39. He also attended i
Trinity College in Hartford. He writes that he has
never found a "democratic" attitude in the student
body so well expressed as at Massachusetts State.

'23 Howie Baker has recently taken charge of a i
new entomology laboratory for the U.S.D.A. in St.
Louis, Mo. The laboratory was opened for the study
of a new scale insect found for the first time in this
country about a year and a half ago in St. Louis.
Howie's new address is 73460 Burrwood Drive,
Normandy, Mo.

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C.P.T. COURSES AT THE COLLEGE

ALUMNI IN UNIFORM

The original stated purpose of Civilian Pilot Train-
ing was to stimulate commercial aviation, although
sponsors were farsighted enough, no doubt, to see
military advantages. The purpose of the training
courses is now definitely to aid in the war effort. The
course is of great value in locating good pilots and
establishing a reservoir of them. Both Army and
Navy recognize its worth, and give credit to civilian
pilot training students.

The course was first given at Massachusetts State
College in 1939-40. Sixty-eight trainees have since
successfully passed the course, including forty
Alumni and students.

The training course at the College is the elementary
one: seventy-two hours of ground school in meterol-
ogy, navigation, civil air regulations, and general
service of aircraft; and thirty-five hours of flight
training. It leads to a private pilot's license. There
are three further successively advanced courses lead-
ing to a commercial and flight instructor's rating.
Members of the faculty who handle the ground
school work are M. O. Lanphear '18, Dr. Allen E.
Andersen. Professor George A. Marston, Dr. William
H. Ross. Raymond A. Minzner '37, formerly of the
department of physics, also handled some of the
course work.

The actual flight training is carried on at the
Westfield Airport under the direction of the popular
Chuck O'Connor, manager of the field.

It is interesting to note the safety record; there
have been no accidents among Massachusetts State
trainees. Insurance, originally $14.00 is now $7.00.
This is not government insurance but is issued by
private insurance companies and the drop in premium
is definitely due to the good safety record of the
Civilian Pilot Training course.

As this issue of the Bulletin is printed the future of
this type of pilot training is uncertain at the College.
The Westfield Airport, earlier closed by government
order, has just reopened for pilot training.

Following is a list of Alumni and students who have
Successfully completed the elementary C.P.T. course
:it I he College.

Everett W. Barton '42, Edgar S. Heaumont '38>
landscape architect; Clement F. Burr '41, Lieutenant'
Army Air Corps; John W. Haskell II. Lieutenant,
Army Air < '. >r|.s ; Richard B. Hayward II. Flying
Cadet, Army Air Corps; Arthur F. Howe '40, teacher;
Roma 1). Levy '40, laboratory technician: Joseph
T. Miller II. laboratory technician; .John .1 Powers
'10. teaching fellow; Daniel E. Shepardson 10,
graduate student; Gerald L. Talbot '41, Lieutenant,
Army Air Corps; David S. Tappan '40, draftsman;
Chester II. Tiberii 'Hi, Ensign, Navy Air Corps.

Edmund (1. Wilcox '39, instructor, Army Air

Corps; TIlhIiI.ii- V. Bokina '43, Frederick A. Filios

I.: Robert A. Mungall w'43, Kdward M. Podolak

31 inley J. Podolak '39, Lieutenant. Army Air

Corps Louis I'. Ruder, Jr. '43, Edward W. Ashlej

'41, graduate student; Ellen 1'. Badger (Mrs. Thomas

in 11. housewife; Jean A. Davis '42. Kvr.n

The American Alumni Council News for February
1942, carried the following announcement relative to
soldier addresses.

"The War Department has asked all publishers
of periodicals, as a matter of policy, to refrain
from listing the names or numbers of the tactical
units or the addresses of men in the Army, be-
cause of the extensive movement of troops in
the past few weeks.

"In other words, alumni magazine publishers
are asked not to indicate in their class notes
where the men may be reached, particularly if
regiment or division is mentioned.

"The rule does not apply to newly enlisted
men at the replacement center but it does apply
after they join a regular command."

Accordingly, the Bulletin will henceforth print the
names of Alumni in the Service, together with latest
home addresses, only, for these men. Presumably
mail will be forwarded from these home addresses.

The Alumni Office will strive to maintain in its
own files, however, an accurate and complete set of
data regarding the men in the Service; and any in-
formation will be gratefully received.

Alumni who are new additions to the Service roster
since the last issue of the Bulletin.

'30 Lieut. Edward (i. Bcnoit, Air Corps, 71 Cochran

Street, Chicopee Falls. Mass.
'40 2nd Lt. John Blasko, Cavalry, 239 Sunset Ave.,

Amherst, Mass.
'41 Pvt. John Bourne, Field Artillery, Red Brook

Road, Buzzards Bay, Mass.
'40 2nd Lt. Glenn Boyd, Cavalry, Mexico, N. Y.
l Sgt, Ralph Bunk, Cavalry, 43 Sohier Road,

Beverly, Mass.
'35 Lieut. Curtis Clark, Cavalry, Exchange Street,

Mil lis, Mass.
'34 Pvt. Kendrick Cole. Cavalry, 349 Great Plain

Avenue, Needham. Mass.
'35 (Orp. Charles II. Daniels, Cavalry, 312 Porter

Street. Melrose, Mass.
'39 Lieut. Robert Cole, Air Corps, 20 High Street,

Westfield, Mass.
'39 2nd Lieut. Lloyd Copelnnd, Cavalry, 40

Kendrick Place, Amherst
'35 Roderick Cumming, Marines, 45 Pinehurst

Road, Bristol, Conn.

• ( 'ontinued on Page 1 2)

F. Horgan '43, Navy Air Corps; John Hutchings '43,
aircrafl factory employee.

Paul A. Johnson w'43, William A. Joyce '42,
George E, McLaughlin '42, John M. Storozuk '43,
Gordon F. Thomas '40, Lieutenant, Armored Div.;
Douglas 1. Allen w'43, Army Air Corps; Wilma
Fiske '12. Robert A. Rocheleau '43, Edward C.
Warner 13, Loren C. Wilder '43, Arthur S. Mar-
coullier '44, Donald B. Walker '44, Paul Cole '44,
Robert N. Ilol.-on '42, Walter M. Niles '44.

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN

OBITUARIES

Roscoe W. Swan '79, M.D.

Word has just reached the Alumni Office of the
death on October 13, 1940, of Roscoe W. Swan '79,
M.D.

Dr. Swan was born in Framingham, Mass., March
18, 1860. He attended the Framingham schools and
prepared for College at Chauncey Hall in Boston.
After being graduated from the College he took his
master's degree from Boston University and his M.D.
from Harvard in 1882. He then opened an office for
general practice of medicine in Worcester where he
continued for eight years. He then went abroad for
fourteen years, studying in Vienna, Paris, Berlin,
London, Edinburgh, and Dublin. When he returned
to this country he resumed practice in Worcester,
specializing in the diseases of stomach and intestine.
He was one of the first specialists in Worcester in
these diseases.

In later years he studied further in New York,
Baltimore, and again abroad. He went around the
world in 1910 and again in 1919.

He was twice married, the first time to Helen
Prentice. After she died he married Martha (Oak-
leigh) Swan in 1913; she survives him, as do two
adopted sons, Fred H. Bush of Mexico City and A.
Oakleigh Bush of Worcester.

Dr. Swan was a member of the Massachusetts
Medical Society, Worcester District Medical Society,
and was medical director of the Massachusetts Pro-
tective Association. He was a 32nd degree Mason.
In College he was a member of D.G.K. fraternity.

Wilfred C. Lightbody w'10

Wilfred C. Lightbody w'10 died at his home in
Westboro, Mass., on February 2, 1942. He was 53
years old, and was the retired manager of the Wor-
cester office of the Armour Company. He had lived
in Westboro for 17 years. He is survived by his wife,
a daughter, two sons, and two sisters.

Theodore Moreau '12

Theodore (Ted) Moreau '12, died at his home in
Wilmette, Illinois, January 22, after a long illness.

He was born February 25, 1890, in Turners Falls.
In College he majored in landscape architecture, and
was a prominent and useful member of the football
team. In large part he earned his own way through
college, and was a popular and exemplary student.
He married Ethel Slocum of Pawtucket, R. I. soon
after graduation and emigrated to Chicago where he
spent the remainder of his life. He was employed at
first by the American Park Builders, but, being a
good business head, soon set up for himself.

He specialized in the design and construction of
cemeteries and golf clubs, handling a number of im-
portant works in the middle west. When the fad for
"midget golf" swept the country, Ted took up the
construction of these miniature links and for a time
did a thriving business in that line. At this time he
built a miniature course for himself near the heart of

down-town Chicago which course he managed very
successfully as a private business venture for several
years.

He leaves his father, Theodore Moreau, Sr., age 85,
of Millers Falls, four sisters, a brother, his wife and
four children, three boys and a girl, also a host of
old college friends who will remember him kindly.
Ted was a friendly and kind-hearted business man
and always held out a helping hand to youngsters
making a start. In this way he gave assistance to a
number of State College graduates who tried their
luck in the middle west. Quite possibly his own
early struggles gave him some special sympathy for
beginners.

F. A. W.

Merrill J. Mack

Merrill J. Mack, professor of dairying at the
College and one of the country's leading dairy
scientists, died suddenly, on February 9, 1942, fol-
lowing an operation from which he apparently was
recovering satisfactorily. He was 39 years old.

He was a graduate of Pennsylvania State College
in 1923, and received his master's degree from the
University of Wisconsin in 1925. He became an in-
structor in dairying at the College that year and had
taught here continuously ever since.

In 1935 Professor Mack went to Sweden to assist
in the establishment of an ice cream factory in
Stockholm.

During the past year he edited and revised a book
on dairying with Professor Judkins. He had pub-
lished a number of technical bulletins.

He was a member of the American Dairy Science
Association, Sigma Xi, the American Public Health
Association, and Phi Kappa Phi. He was prominent
in Boy Scout work in Western Massachusetts.

He is survived by his wife and two young sons,
his mother, a sister, and two brothers.

Merrill Mack's death came as a great shock to his
host of friends among the Alumni and on the college
staff.

MARRIAGES

'28 Horace Brockway, Jr. to Miss Mildred Buell,
January 31, 1942, at Northampton, Mass.

'37 Walter Guralnick to Miss Elizabeth Marson,
January 1, 1942, at Chestnut Hill, Mass.

'37 Sergeant David P. Rossiter, Jr. to Miss Marie
Manser, February 14, 1942, at Maiden, Mass.

'37 Lieut. Donald Weaver to Miss Janet Water-
bury, September 27, 1941, at Montgomery, Ala.

w'37 Harold Ballway to Miss Eleanor Wheeler,
January 31, 1942, at Northampton, Mass.

'38 Lieut. Norman Linden to Miss Catherine
Carney, October 25, 1941, at Sharon, Mass.

'38 Private William Welcker to Miss Helen
Russell, February 14, 1942, at Holyoke, Mass.
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WITH THE ALUMNAE

By Mary E. Garvey '19

On February 11, Phi Zeta sorority celebrated their
tenth birthday. In a special issue of the Philum
which was dedicated to the occasion, the girls gave
the following information regarding the geographical
distribution of their alumnae members.

Alabama 1. California 1, Connecticut S, District
of Columbia 1. Florida 1, Georgia 1, Iowa 1, Kentucky

1. Louisiana 1, Maine 1, Maryland 1, Massachusetts
77. Michigan 1, Missouri 1,

New Hampshire 1. New Jersey

2. New York 9, Pennsylvania 3.
Texas 1. Vermont 3, Virginia 3.
and Washington 1.

Eunice Doerpholz "33 has a

position as chemist in the re-
search department of the Chico-
pee Manufacturing Company.

Nancy Russell '34 is with
the Massachusetts Mutual Life
Insurance Company in Spring-
field.

Marion Bulman Mac-
Lau&hlin w*33 is a department
head in K. H. Macy Company.
New York City.

Betsy Wordcn Elliott *36

has opened a gift shop in Lynn,
Mass.

In December, representatives of the Boston Club
took part in a radio quiz program in which they won
twenty dollars that was then added to the Alumnae
Student Loan Fund. Evelyn Bergstrom '41 and
Mrs. George Crowell (Nicky Hovey '35) were the
Alumnae on the radio program.

Esther Pratt

Life Insurance
Boston, Mass.

'40 is clerk with the John Hancock
Company, 197 Clarendon Street.

Mrs

THE CHAMPION

William R. Ilackett (Marion Shaw '38)

is doing missionary work with
her husband in Burma.

Lucy Kingston MrCuc

*3fi and her husband visited
Marie How Cordis "Mi at
lii ton B ich, Florida during
the Christmas holidays,

RoMC Elaine Again liar

Selioonni.il.er 'II i- living in
Amherst. Her husband is an

matii s it the < !olli

us FEBRUARY I4IH Kl IH HOWARTH 44 n|
HOP1 1 PART IS \ SEW I Si

, SWIMMINI

ISLAND, WHERI SHE U'is THE 3OO-VARD
EY HiK IVOMI s \sl>, 1 HERI 1 PON,
lAMI'lOS IN

instructor in mathe-

MARRIAGKS

{Continued from opposite page)
'39 and '42 Private Howard

Steff to Miss Nancy Alger, Jan.

17, 1942. at Middleboro, Mass.
'39 Miss Mary Lee West to

Edward Ferguson, January 24,

1942, at New Bedford, Mass.
'40 Lieut. John Blasko to

Miss Helen Janobich, May 29,

1941. at Portland, Maine.
'40 Miss Marjorie Shaw to

Homer E. Powell. January 24.

1942, at Belchertown, Mass.
' in Lieut. John Swenson to

Miss Dorothy Atwood, February
7. 1912. at Worcester, Mass.

'40 Lieut. George Tobey. Jr.
Id Miss Mary Smith, February
7. L942, at Richmond. Va.

w' 11 and ' 11 Lt. Paul Skogs-
berg to Miss Eleanor Curtis.
February 11, 1942. at Worcester,
Mass.

I I and ' 12 Corp. Robert L.

Jonef i" Miss Marion Nagel-

schmidt, November 9. 1941, at

Leverett, Mass.

11 and '43 Miss II Elizabeth Reynolds to Milton

Barnes, December J<>. 1941, al Springfield, Mass.

Jean Phillip.

Shreveport I i

'11 has a secretari in al

Rosalie Benubien II is teaching it tin- Hinsdale
Hil'Ii School in Hinsdale, N. II

Kn> Leete 'I" i- now working as secretary in the
offices of the American Armament Corporation,
-i |5th Street New Y..rk I'm

Margery Johnson '40, publicity chairman "I the

m Alumnae Club, has sent us a note about the

interesting January 7th meeting ol that gr> .n 1 1 Th<

er was \lr^ Edward Scott O'Keefe who talked

■bout work being done for rehabilitation of women

prisoni

BIRTHS

A daughter, Hannah, to Dr. and Mrs. Edward
Wyman, December 5, 1941, at Great Barrington,

A -mi. Duane Clinton, to Mr. and Mrs.
Duane F. Carlisle Elizabeth Dolliver '.'is . February
8, L942, at Arlington, Mass.

'38 and w'38 A daughter, Lee, to Mr. and Mrs.
Robei i C Perkins Jean Whitney w'38 . January
16. 19IL!. at Chicago, III.

ALUMNAE TEA

Saturday afternoon, May l6th, four o'clock

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ALUMNI IN PUBLIC HEALTH WORK

This continuation of a listing of Alumni engaged
in public health work includes those in "miscellan-
eous" public health (a group which includes, among
others, directors of State public health departments,
bacteriologists in commercial work, owners of com-
mercial laboratories, experts in the U. S. Public
Health Service), and dietitians in public and private
institutions.

Harold S. Adams '29, director, division of food and

sanitation, City Health Dept., 6th Avenue and

Begole Street, Flint, Mich.
Roland Becker '35, research assistant in anatomy,

Northwestern Univ. Medical School, Chicago, 111.
Thorne M. Carpenter '02, physiological chemist,

Carnegie Nutrition Laboratory, 29 Wila Street,

Boston, Mass.
Wellington E. Cassidy '39, bacteriologist, Mass.

Dept. of Public Health, Westfield, Mass.
Robert A. Cooley '95, U. S. Public Health Service,

Hamilton, Mont.
Ann W. Cooney '41, food technician, General Foods

Corporation, 250 Park Avenue, New York, N. Y.
Paul Corash '23, inspector of foods, Dept. of Health,

505 Pearl Street, New York, N. Y.
Darrell A. Dance '34, district health office, State

Health Dept., Mays Landing, N. J.
Franklin II. Fiskc 536, sanitarian, City Health

Dept., City Hall Annex, Ann Arbor, Mich.
James Gibbard, Jr. FG, Dept. of National Health.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Barbara Gordon (Mrs. Joseph Whitney) '37,

visitor, board of public health, Town Hall, West

Springfield, Mass.
C. II. Griffin '04, M.D., analytical technician and

owner, Griffin-Hasson Laboratories, 648-650 East

Twenty-first Street, Los Angeles, Calif.
Charles II. Hiijains '94, Lederle Laboratories,

Pearl River, N. Y.
Harlan A. Howard '37, owner of control laboratory,

750 Pleasant Street, Amherst, Mass.
William II. W. Komp w'15, U. S. Public Health

Service, Ancon, Panama, Canal Zone
Morris W. Lerner '37, bacteriologist, Applied Re-
search Laboratories, Dayton, N. J.
Conrad II. Lieber '16, bacteriologist, Difco Labora-
tories, 920 Henry Street, Detroit, Mich.
Harold G. Little '16, M.D., director of laboratories

and pathologist at Ohio Valley General Hospital,

Wheeling, W. Va.
Willard S. Little '13, engineer, Massachusetts

Dept. of Health, Boston, Mass.
David Moxon '25, health officer, Framingham,

Mass.
Ralph R. Parker "12, special expert, U. S. Public

Health Service, Hamilton, Mont.
Howard J. Shaughnessy '22, director, Illinois

Dept. of Public Health, 1800 West Fillmore Street,

Chicago, 1)1.
Hyman Steinhurst '41, sanitary engineering divi-
sion, State Dept. of Public Health, Boston, Mass.

Joseph Tosches '35, junior sanitary engineer,
Blackstone River Survey, Worcester, Mass.

Kenneth Wheeler '32, State Dept. of Health, Main
Street, Hartford, Conn.

John Yesair '19, research bacteriologist, National
Canners Association, 1739 H Street, N.W., Wash-
ington, D. C.

Elinor P. Ball '38, assistant dietitian, Boston State
Hospital, Dorchester, Mass.

Annetta II. Ball '41, student dietitian, Beth Israel
Hospital, Boston, Mass.

Esther Bloom '38, nutritionist, Chicago Relief Ad-
ministration, 6455 State Street, District No. 9,
Chicago, 111.

Joan R. Browning sp'19, dietitian, Katharine Gibbs
School, Boston, Mass.

Rita M. Buckley '39, dietitian, High School,
Quincy, Mass.

Hazel R. Chapin '40, student dietitian, Hahnemann
Hospital, Philadelphia, Pa.

Elizabeth M. Clapp '39, assistant dietitian, Colum-
bia Hospital, Wilkinsburg, Pa.

Kathleen Cooper 540, dietitian and manager,
Women's Residence Halls, College of Puget
Sound, Tacoma, Wash.

Ruth L. Crimmin '41, commercial dietitian, F. W.
Woolworth Co., Rutland, Vt.

Janina Czajkowski '36, dietitian, Northfield Inn,
East Northfield, Mass.

Antonia Dec '40, administrative dietitian, Newton
Hospital, Newton Lower Falls, Mass.

Marjorie II. Esson *39, assistant dietitian, Salem
Hospital, Salem, Mass.

Thelma Glazier '40, assistant dietitian, New Haven
Hospital, New Haven, Conn.

Phyllis Gleason '37, nutritionist, Judson Health
Center, 237 Thompson Street, New York, N. Y.

M. Frances Horgan (Mrs. Theodore Leary) !36,
nutritionist, District Chapter American Red Cross,
1730 E. Street, N.W., Washington, D. C.

Martha D. Kaplinsky '38, nutritionist and health
educator, Beth Israel Hospital, Food Clinic,
Boston, Mass.

Kathleen Kell '41, student dietitian, department of
dietetics, Michael Reese Hospital, Chicago, 111.

Mildred Kleyla '36, dietitian, Nassua Hospital,
Mineola, Long Island, N. Y.

Violet S. Koskela '35, head dietitian, Boston State
Hospital, Dorchester, Mass.

Susan G. Lake *32, dietitian, Northfield Inn, East
Northfield, Mass.

Helen Lubach '36, assistant administrative dieti-
tian, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston,
Mass.

Stella R. Maisner '41, student dietitian, Seton Hall,
St. Mary's Hospital, Detroit, Mich.

Lillian R. Mann '38, dietitian, Mount Sinai Hospi-
tal, Philadelphia, Pa.

Ethel Seal '38, assistant dietitian, St. John's River-
side Hospital, Yonkers, N. Y.

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GLASS flf \U\

SINGS AT WHITE HOUSE

Robert Rodrijjuez is an inspector in the gauge
department of the Greenfield, Mass., Tap and Die
Corporation.

Albert Yanow is a student at the Jewish Institute
of Religion in New York City.

M'allace Powers, Jr. is sales managing student
with the Norton Company, Machine Division, in
Worcester. Mass.

Don Simpson has left his work at the College
and is now studying at Hartford Seminary Founda-
tion. Hartford, Conn., a candidate for a B.D. degree.

Jam«-s Stewart is cashier-student with the
Equitable Life Assurance Society, 1601 Industrial
Trust Building, Providence, R. I.

Paul Prooopio is topographical draftsman with
Stone and Webster Corporation, 89 Franklin Street,
Boston.

Joseph Bart is teaching at the Bristol County
Agricultural School, Segreganset, Mass.

Pauline Spicwafc '31, dietitian, Christ Hospital.

Jersey City, N. J.
Mary Streeler '38, dietitian, Pratt & Whitney

Corporation cafeteria. West Hartford. Conn.
Marion K. Tolman Ml, student dietitian. Henry

Ford Hospital. Detroit. Mich.
Beatrice Wavier '37. dietitian, Beth Israel Hospital,

Boston, Mass.

Following are additional names of Alumni who are
physicians or engaged in the study of medicine.

Millard II. IS.. vn ion *:«.">, Tufts Medical College,

P.o. ion. Mass,

Max Dubin '35, University of Vermont. College of
Medicine. Burlington, Vt.

Moses Entin '.'57, Middlesex University, Waltham,
Mass.

Jackson A. Barton *36, interne, Los Angeles County
General Hospital, Los Angeles, Calif.

Kriinii l>. Hardy '37. interne, Worcester City
Hospital. Won est'

Samuel Klil.anolT ".'{7. interne, Mount Sinai Hospi-
tal. New York. N. Y.

Patrick .1. Fitzgerald '36, M I) resident in path-
ology, Mallory Institute of Pathology Boston City
Hospital. Boston Mi--

Waltcr S. Mu/iliii '35, M.D., assistant surgeon,
U. S. Public Health Service, U.S. Marin.- Hospital,
< 3e\ eland, ( Ihio.

The listing of Alumni in public health work will be
continued next month with the names of those who
are administrators of hospitals, nursee tides, dentists.

and dental student -

The Alumni Office wi'l be grateful lor any inlor-

mation which will amplify or correct the lists.

Ivan Minott, Jr. '37, known professionally as
Bob Houston, sang at the President's Birthday Ball
at the White House. Minott is vocalist with Johnnie
Long's orchestra which furnished the music. He sang
regularly over radio station WHAI in Greenfield
until about a year and a half ago when he joined
Long's orchestra.

ALUMNI DAY
SATURDAY, MAY 16th

Alumni Class Reunions

Luncheon. Class Banquets

Ball Game

Roister Doister Play-

Varsity and Academics Breakfasts

on Sunday, May 17th

J) o'clock

'30 Paul Stacy is doing landscape work in Chat-
tanooga, Tenn. ^26 James Building) as recreation
technician. He says that public recreation work has
a great future, that young landscape architects
should pay major attention to that phase of their
work.

'32 Jack Foley is merchandise manager for
Heipolsheimers at Grand Rapids, Mich.

'33 Edgar Sorton teaches music at West Virginia
Wesleyan College in Buckhannon, W. Va.

' ;i Russ MacCleery is New England representa-
tive for the National Highway Users Conference of
Washington, D. C. He lives in Tilton, N. H., where
about a year ago he purchased a 130-acre dairy farm.

'35 Ray Evans has just purchased "Rice's"
horticultural supply and flower store at 578 Main
Street, Stamford, Conn.

'37 Malcolm Butler is field examiner for the U. S.
Civil Service. His office is in the Federal Building,
Boston.

'37 Walter Simonsen is manager of the ice cream
department of Petersen Farms at West Hartford,
Conn.

' ;7 Henry Dihlmann who lives and teaches in
Shutesbury, Mass., occupies his spare time with work
as chairman of the board of selectmen, chairman of
the board of public welfare, director of the O.A.A.,
chairman of the civilian defense committee, and
president of the teachers' association.

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REPORT ON ALUMNI DORMITORIES

'EQUINE ERA"

Robert D. Hawley '18, treasurer of the College,
has prepared an interesting preliminary summary of
the financial report of the College for the year ending
November 30, 1941. This report, in full, together
with the report of the President and officers of ad-
ministration will be sent upon request to Alumni as
soon as it is published.

Included in this financial summary is a report on
the self-liquidating dormitories, Lewis Hall and
Butterfield House, for the period September 15, 1940
to November 30, 1941. It is as follows:

"Under the provisions of Chapter 388 of the Acts
of 1939 of the General Court, the Alumni of the
College organized the Massachusetts State College
Building Association for financing and constructing
dormitories at the College. This Association sold its
bonds in the total sum of $450,000 and used this
money for the construction of two dormitories, Lewis
Hall and Butterfield House. The former was com-
pleted in September 1940 and the latter in February
1941. Upon completion these buildings were leased
to the Trustees of the College for an annual rental of
$30,000, which covers interest charges and retires
the bonds in twenty years when the buildings become
the unencumbered property of the Commonwealth.
The College maintains and operates the buildings
under the terms of the lease.

Lewis Hall was first occupied by men students in
September 1940, so that this report covers a period of
fifteen months. Butterfield House was first occupied
by women students in February 1941 and is there-
fore represented in this report for a period of ten
months only. All annual charges and prepaid items
are prorated to the period covered.

Butterfield House includes kitchen and dining hall
facilities for 150 persons and these represent an in-
vestment by the building association of $60,698.72.
This boarding hall is operated as a department of
the main College Boarding Hall and the rental charge
is based upon a floor space rate and income differ-
ential. The entire boarding hall enterprise on the
campus is operated on a self-sustaining, non-profit
basis. In 1941 receipts exceeded expenses by $5,695.40
before this Butterfield House rent deduction.

This report shows that the operation of these two
dormitories during the period covered resulted in a
surplus of receipts over expenses of $4,684.97."

FIRST SUMMARY FINANCIAL REPORT
September 1940 to November 30, 1941
Income

Student Rentals $39,449.10

Conference and other guests 2,211.50

Boarding Hall Rent 4,501.15

Total

$46,161.75

Expenses

Salaries and Wages

$4,091.36

Heat, Water, Electricity

5,722.12

Supplies and Equipment

875.90

Repairs and Replacements

332.09

The following item appeared in the Northampton
news of the Springfield Union of February 18: "Long
missing from early morning sounds in Northampton,
the beat of horses' hooves will echo in some parts of
the city tomorrow morning when one local dairy will
mark a return to the equine era for milk deliveries.

"Because of tire rationing, the United Dairy, Inc.
has purchased one horse and a horse-drawn wagon
which will go into service on one of the company's
routes tomorrow. Replacement of other motorized
units by horses is expected in the near futirre."

Al Smith '22, manager of United Dairies, is the
man who bought the horse.

Six members of the college faculty are delivering a
series of lectures at Westover Field, Chicopee Falls,
in conjunction with the War Department's program
of instruction with regard to the international
situation.

Faculty lecturers are these: Theodore C. Caldwell,
assistant professor of history; C. Collis Lyle, Jr.,
instructor in languages and literature; Frederick S.
Troy, assistant professor of English; Harold W. Cary,
assistant professor of history; Charles J. Rohr,
assistant professor of political economy; and Philip
L. Gamble, assistant professor of economics.

'08 Herbert K. Hayes, Ph.D., chief of the agron-
omy division at the University of Minnesota, is on
leave of absence to spend six months in Chile, where
he is serving as research consultant on plant breeding
and the development of new and improved varieties
of grain.

'13 Dr. Nils P. Larsen, medical director of the
Queen's Hospital in Honolulu, recently entered the
New York Hospital, 525 East 68th Street, for obser-
vation and treatment. He and Mrs. Larsen got the
last boat out of Honolulu before December 7th.

'14 Lester Needham is secretary of the New
England Nurserymen's Association. The Association
held its thirty-first annual conference recently in
Boston. Lawrence Dickinson '10 was one of the
speakers.

Insurance

Bond interest and retirement

Miscellaneous

Total

421.06

30,000.00

34.25

$41,476.78

The Massachusetts State College Building
Association consists of Alden C. Brett '12, chairman;
David H. Buttrick '17, vice-chairman; Richard J.
Davis '28, treasurer; Ralph F. Taber '16, secretary;
Harry Dunlap Brown '14; Eleanor W. Bateman '23;
William V. Hayden '13; Louis W. Ross '17.

OPPOSITE PAGE A VIEW OF LEWIS HALL -

FROM A WINDOW IN THATCHER.

- LOOKING NORTH

lo.fi Index photo.

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ATHLETICS

Relay

The relay team won from Worcester Tech and
Colby in a triangular race on February 14th at the
B.AA. meet in Boston.

Members of the team were Charlie Warner '44
(son of Raymond Warner '14), Brad Greene '42 of
Springfield, John Powers '43 of Haverhill and Don
Parker '44 of West Roxbury.

The time of the Statesmen, 3:34.5, was the best
since the record set by the 1910 team and only two
seconds slower than the record which Lawrence
Dickinson '10 and his fellow runners established.

Bill Wall '42 of Northampton who was captain-
elect of winter track resigned the winter captaincy
in order to play basketball. He was succeeded by
Bill Joyce '42 of Florence, brother of former captain
Bob Joyce '40 who is now an army sergeant attached
to the Air Corps.

Remaining track meets:
Feb. 19 W.P.I, and Springfield, here
24 Connecticut, here
28 Tufts and W.P.I., here

Hockey

Early in the winter Curry Hicks and Lester
Needham '14 called upon Ernie Shore, manager of
the Springfield Indians professional hockey team,
to inquire about available coaches for the informal
hockey program at the College. Shore recommended
Tommie Filmore, a veteran professional player; and
Curry hired him. The hockey program was con-
cluded on February 14th, and Curry was loud in his
praise of the job which Filmore did in handling the
men, teaching, and arranging the schedule of games.

Fifteen students, including freshmen, reported
regularly for practice. They played seven matches,
were regretful that several games previously sched-
uled with Amherst College had to be cancelled. An
outdoor rink had been built at Amherst and an
earthen dam thrown across a stream to back up
water to flood a skating area. But a muskrat dug a
hole in the dam and let all the water out. Hockey
at Amherst was abandoned for the winter.

Basketball

The Statesmen dropped into a basketball slump
following the examination period at the end of the
first semester, and lost games to Rhode Island,
Tufts, Coast Guard, and the Univ. of Connecticut.

Against Connecticut, however, the team, although
losing, appeared to be getting a grip on itself; and
Coach Hargesheimer looks forward to the boys
giving a first-class account of themselves for the
remainder of the season.

The game with Rhode Island attracted the largest
crowd ever to witness an intercollegiate basketball
game on campus. Thirty-five hundred people packed
and jammed themselves into the cage to watch the
colorful Rhode Island team play the Statesmen. It
was a good game, too. Final score, Rhode Island 83,
Massachusetts State 68.

ABOUT WOMEN

According to Joseph R. Rogers, Jr.

The current, March, issue of Esquire magazine
carries results of an extensive poll of noted
Americans and sports authorities with regard
to pertinent questions about athletics.

One of the questions was, "Do you believe
that women athletes have less true sportsman-
ship than men?"

Esquire commented editorially that, "The
lads seemed to be afraid of making much
comment on this one." But not Mr. Joseph
Rogers, coach of swimming at the College,
whose practical and forthright reply was a
highlight of the Esquire article. Joe stated:

The only difference I have noticed in sports-
manship between men and women is that a
woman cannot accept defeat with a smile. Most
men, when defeated, smile and shake the hand of
their victor. Not the women: they are very apt
to give vent to their true feelings and refuse to
congratulate their victor. In this respect they are
not, in my mind, any less true sportsmen. They
are just less hypocritical. After all, the incentive
in competition is to win, not to lose. If you
have a so-called "good loser," you have only a
loser.

Remaining games:

Feb. 21 Wesley an, there

27 Boston University, here

28 Worcester Tech, there

Swimming

The Statesmen seem to break swimming records
just about every time they plop into a pool. For
example, on Friday, February 13, when they swam
the Coast Guard in New London, George Tilley '43
of Holyoke set a New England record in the back
stroke, Captain Joe Jodka bettered his own New
England record in the 200-yard breast stroke, and
the medley relay team of Tilley, Jodka, and Bud Hall
'44 of Worcester broke the 300-yard mark set in 1939
by Brown University. A later Bulletin will carry
more detail about the swimming Statesmen's suc-
cesses.

Meanwhile, since the last Bulletin was printed, the
State team has won from the University of Connec-
ticut, 53-22; from Wesleyan, 39-36; and from the
Coast Guard, 41-34.

On February 27th State swims Bowdoin in the
last dual meet of the season, in the college pool.

On March 6th the Statesmen will swim M.I.T. and
Worcester Tech at Cambridge, at 8 p.m. Boston
Alumni take note\

On March 13 and 14, State will enter men in the
New England meet to be held at Amherst College.

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BOSTON ALUMNI

ACADEMICS

The Boston Alumni Club is busily engaged with
plans for a concert by the Glee Clubs and a lecture
by Professor Frank Prentice Rand in Boston on the
evening of April 18th. The musical clubs have been
doing an outstanding piece of work this winter (see
next column' and the student group and Director
Doric Alviani look forward to their appearance be-
fore Boston Alumni as constituting a high point in
their busy season's schedule.

Boston Alumni will recall with pleasure the inter-
esting talk which Professor Rand gave before the
group several winters ago. and will be eager to hear
him speak on "Academic Grace Notes" on April 18th.

L. Francis Kennedy '24 is acting as general chair-
man of the alumni committee which is making ar-
rangements for the program.

Members of his committee, from whom tickets may
be secured, are as follows: Calton O. Cartwrighl '27,
11 Beacon Street, Danvers: Clyde E. Cristman '13,
75 Pleasant Street, Ashland: Mildred Hovey Crowell
'35, 58 Dalton Road. Belmont: Evelyn Davis Ken-
nedy '26. 7.3 Edgemoor Road, Belmont: Dennis M.
Crowley '29, 140 Manthorne Road, West Roxbury:
Joseph H. Forest '28, 116 Englewood Avenue. Bright-
on: C.arabed K. Mouradian '25. 95 Whittemore Ave.,
Cambridge; Edwin F. Steffek '34, 788 Massachusetts
Avenue, Arlington; Raymond B. Jordan '37. 21 Lan-
caster Avenue, Revere; Lewis Schlotterbeck 'Hi.
1 Vernon Street, Wakefield; Frederick W. Swan '27,
57 Aberdeen Road, Milton; Donald C. Douglass '21.
■orge Street, Belmont: Louis W. Ross 17, 206
Lincoln Street. Newton Highlands: Asa F. Kinney
'30. 116 Cross Street, Belmont; William Y. II;, di n
'13. 47 Old Farm Road, Newton Centre: John W.
McGuckian '31, 9 Hillview Avenue, Roslindale;
Lawrence L. Jones '26, 286 Dodge Street, North
rly; Louis H. Libby '35. Apt. 1. L5 Hemenway
Street. Boston: Justin J. McCarthy '21, <i!i School
Street . Arlington.

The concert-lecture will be held in I he American
Room of the Copley-Plaza Hotel, at 8 o'clock on the
evening of April 18th.

Al the meeting of the Massachusetts Milk In-
spector Association held at the Hotel Bancroft in
Worcester on January 7th, Professor Julius II
Prandsen, head of the department of dairying al the
College, was uuest of honor. He was presented with
a certificate of merit for his many years of service
and his contribution to the "ideals lor which ibis
• iation was founded

Musical Clubs

Senator and Mrs. James A. Gunn of Turners Falls
gave a reception for the musical club following the
concert for the Turners Falls Women's Association
on the evening of February 9th. It was a pleasant
occasion.

The concert was a great success; many Alumni
were in the audience. Joe Harlow '12 and Mrs.
Harlow were active in bringing the concert to the
attention of Franklin County Alumni. Joe com-
mented afterward that the students did a "fine job."
He added, "We all have a warm spot in our hearts
for the College up here in Franklin County."

On February 17th the Glee Clubs provided the
entertainment at the dedication program of the
Federal Community Recreation Building operated
by U.S.O. at Fort Devens.

Soldiers and civilians alike who heard the concert
were most enthusiastic. Particularly the soldiers.
Following the program they constituted themselves
an entertainment committee for the students, plied
the students, men and women, with ice cream soda
after ice cream soda, coke after coke, at the canteen
bar. all but carried the students on their shoulders
out to the waiting busses when it was time for the
clubs to return to Amherst.

Operetta

The musical clubs will present Gilbert and Sullivan's
"Pirates of Penzance" in Bowker Auditorium. 8:15
o'clock, on the evenings of March 20 and 21.

The production promises to be top-notch, and
Alumni who may he able to return to campus for a
performance will doubtless feel well repaid.

Tickets will be on sale at the door, or reservations
may be made by writing to the Music Department,
Memorial Hall.

Winter Carnival

Students collected snow from behind nearby snow
fences, and dumped it in the front yards of fraternity
houses in order to have enough material for the
annual snow sculpturing contest, an interesting
feature oi Winter Carnial on campus. The results
were creditable in view of conditions. Alpha Gamma
Rho won first place, with a well conceived tableau
called "Homage to King Winter."

Skating races, figure skating, and a hockey game
on the pond, swimming exhibitions in the pool and
boxing and wrestling in the cage were all a part of
the carnival program. Al the Ball on February 13,
Anita Marshall '43 of Holyoke was chosen queen

'16 William Brazil is with the Lake City Ord-
nance I'l.-mt in Independence. Mo.

'25 Roger Binni-r is growing citrus fruits in
( 'handler Heights, Ariz.

'26 Ted Grant is wiih the U.S.D.A. rubber plant

field station al Turrialha, Costa Rica.

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'33 Joseph Politella is professor of English and
literature at Northland College, Ashland, Wis.

'33 Freddie Taylor is instructor in botany in
Clemson College, South Carolina.

'32 Newell Clark is editor of Canning Age, 67
West 44th Street, New York City.

Library

State College

SEVENTY-SECOND COMMENCEMENT — MAY 17TH

ALUMNI DAY IS SATURDAY, MAY 16th

Reunion Classes: 1882, 1887, 1892, 1897, 1902, 1907,
1912, 1917, 1922, 1927, 1932, 1937, 1939,

1941

Registration Headquarters, Memorial Hall
PLAN TO BE BACK MAY 16TH

'38

ALUMNI IN UNIFOBM

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2nd Lieut. Henry Elkind, Quartermaster Corps,

9 Sewall Avenue, Brookline, Mass.
'39 Seaman Leo Fay, Navy, 28 Aldworth Street,

Boston, Mass.
'33 Lieut. Cloycs Gleason, Cavalry, 165 Warwick

Street, Lowell, Mass.
'18 William I. Goodwin, Training School, 1726

16th Street, North, Arlington, Va.
'33 Captain Eugene Guralniek, M.D., Medical

Corps, 108 Maple Street, Roxbury, Mass.
w'23 Lt. Col. Clarence Hayes, Infantry, 157 George

Street, Medford, Mass.
w'41 2nd Lieut. Richard Knight, Cavalry, 52 Elm

Street, Melrose, Mass.
'39 Ensign Clifton Morey, Navy, 17 Harriet Ave.,

Belmont, Mass.
w'19 Captain Elmer Morton, Quartermaster Corps,

Hotel Graemar, Shamokin, Pa.
'37 2nd Lieut. Walter Moseley, Cavalry, Acushnet

Station, New Bedford, Mass.
w'37 Lieut. Albert Novick, D.M.D., Medical Corps,

71 Elm Hill Avenue, Roxbury, Mass.
'40 Pvt. Daniel O'Connell, Jr., Coast Artillery,

47 Bardwell Street, South Hadley, Mass.
'33 Pvt. Townsend Powell, Quartermaster Corps,

Brookfield, Mass.
'41 Aviation Cadet Chester Putney, Air Corps,

R.F.D. 1, Orleans, Vt.
'38 Sgt. Wentworth Quast, Air Corps, 6 Concord

Street, Natick, Mass.
'38 Lieut. Dean Rounds, Air Corps, 12 Hanscom

Avenue, Reading, Mass.
'35 Lieut. Ralph Schreiter, Cavalry, 262 Main

Street, Walpole, Mass.
'40 Aviation Cadet Martti Suomi, Air Corps, Box

335, Wellfleet, Mass.
'37 Lieut. Robert W. Tborndike, Air Corps, 6

Strathmore Road, Lawrence, Mass.

'41 Pvt. William Warren, Field Artillery, 26 Park
Street, West Roxbury, Mass.

During the month of February a number of Re-
serve Officers received commissions in the Regular
Army. There were fifteen appointments from the
Cavalry, six in Ordnance. Of the fifteen cavalry men
to receive regular army commissions, six were Alumni.
Of the six appointments in Ordnance, one was that
of an Alumnus.

These are the Alumni who received regular army
appointments: Lieut. Frank Carr '38, Lieut. Frank
Healy '39, Lieut. Raymond Smart, Jr. '39, Lieut.
Frederic Hughes '40, Lieut. Willard Foster '40,
Lieut. Franklin Davis, Jr. '40, and Lieut. Ken-
wood Ross '37.

Captain Elmer J. Morton w'19 writes that his
son Elmer, Jr. is serving with an engineering regiment.

Lieut. Jack Haskell '41, who is training for the
Air Corps, writes that there is no truth to any rumor
that the Army isn't being exacting in its selection of
pilots. Prospective pilots are being "washed out"
just as fast these days as ever, if not faster, he says.
It takes only one slip, he writes, to send you on your
way.

Jack has had three supervised solos in an army
plane and has his clearance for unsupervised soloing.
The air traffic at his training center is terrific, he
says, and the traffic pattern very complicated. He
spent a good deal of his practice time in the air
dodging other planes — at upwards of 150 m.p.h.

Lt. Howard Cheney '32 is flying an army plane
as a regular officer in the Army of the United States.
He received his permanent commission in 1939. Ad-
mitting his prejudice, Howie says it is his firm con-
viction that the Air Corps is going to be the biggest
factor in breaking the hold that the Axis is attempt-
ing to secure upon the whole world.

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BULLETIN

EVENING. MANHATTAN

MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE
AMHERST, MASSACHUSETTS

ol. XXIV, No. 7

April, 1942

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN
MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

George E. Emery '24, Editor
Published monthly at Amherst, Mass. (except August and
September) by the Associate Alumni of Massachusetts State College.
Entered as second class matter, March 17, 1920, at the Postoffice
at Amherst, Mass., under the Acts of March 3, 1879.

OFFICERS OF ASSOCIATE ALUMNI OF
MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

President. Albert W. Smith '22 of Springfield

Vice- President, William V. Hayden '13 of Newton Center

Secretary, Marshall O. Lanphear '18 of Amherst

Treasurer, Clark L. Thayer '13 of Amherst

Executive Secretary, George E. Emery '24 of Amherst

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

to 1942

Erford W. Poole '96 of New Bedford

David P. Rossiter '37 of Maiden

Zoe Hickney White '32 of Worcester

Alfred E. Wilkins '15 of Wakefield

to 1943

Harry Dunlap Brown '14, ex-ojficio, of Billerica
William L. Doran '15 of Amherst

Mary E. M. Garvey '19 of Amherst
Lawrence L. Jones '26 of North Beverly

Edward J. Gare, Jr. '15 of Northampton

to 1944

Donald C. Douglass '21 of Belmont

Norman D. Hilyard '23 of Springfield

John W. McGuckian '31 of Roslindale

Arthur D. Tilton '18 of Woburn

to 1945

Alden C. Brett '12, ex-officio, of Belmont

Alan W. Chadwick '31 of Baldwinsville

Evelyn Davis Kennedy '26 of Belmont
Starr M. King '21 of Beverly

Lewis Schlotterbeck '16 of Wakefield

The Alumni Bulletin is sent ten times each year to all members
of the Associate Alumni. Memberships are: Annual S3. 00, Sustain-
ing $10.00.

Cover picture — "Evening, Manhattan" by Nils Paul
Larsen, M.D. '13. Dr. Larsen is medical director of the
Queen's Hospital in Honolulu. Since January he has
been a patient at the New York Hospital, and recently
was transferred to the Baker Memorial Hospital , Boston.

The etching on the cover of this Bulletin is one of
three by Dr. Larsen which appear in Professor Waugh's
Annual Family Art Show in Memorial Hall.

Dr. Larsen has had two etchings accepted for the
annual New York Show of the American Etchers'
Association.

PRESIDENT BAKER APPOINTED TO
C OF C COMMITTEE

FAMILY ART SHOW

President Baker recently was appointed to the
committee on public domain policy of the United
States Chamber of Commerce; and, late in February,
met with the committee in Denver, Colorado. At
this first meeting the group studied the national
victory effort as affected by problems relating to
lands of the public domain.

'41 George Soule has left the staff of the Spring-
field, Mass., Union and is now working for the War
Department in Washington. His address is Box 1502,
City P. O., Washington, D. C.

Early in February, Professor Waugh hung an
exhibit of 100 miniature prints in Memorial Hall.
It was a good show, and an interesting one. In it
were two or three examples of Professor Waugh's
own work. "But wait until next month," Dr. Waugh
said, and his eyes sparkled, "next month is the
Family Show." Each year Professor Waugh looks
forward eagerly to his "family exhibitions" of the
work of Alumni, faculty, students, faculty wives.
And so do many other people.

This year's show, on display during the month of
March, lived up to the reputation for high quality
established by its predecessors.

Exhibitors were these:

Nils P. Larsen '13, M.D., three etchings.

Clare Gunn F, watercolor, three pencil drawings,
and an oil painting.

Mrs. Henry T. Fernald FW, two watercolors.

Mrs. Harvey Sweetman FW, two watercolors.

W. D. Durell '34 G, two watercolors.

Carl S. Gerlaeh '31 G, pastel.

Richard Leonard G, two watercolors.

Warren IS. Mack FF, two woodcuts.

William Leong G, two watercolors, a crayon cari-
cature, and a charcoal portrait.

James Robertson F, one pen drawing and two
watercolors.

Jack Murray '14, two tempera paintings.

Lemuel Palmer sp'16, three pencil drawings in
color.

l>r. Frank A. Waugh F, etching.

Mrs. James Fuller FW, two watercolors.

Bradford Greene '42, pastel portrait.

Frank Prentice Rand F, two papier mache masks.

Mrs. George E. Emery FW, watercolor and a block
print.

Rebecca Field Jones '27, five watercolors.

Steve Hamilton '31, one watercolor and one trans-
parent oil.

Fda Roy G, two lithographic crayon drawings.

Mrs. Wallace Powers FW, two watercolors.

Raymond II. Otto '26 F, three pencil drawings.

Mrs. Carl Fellers FW, charcoal drawing.

Harry E. Fraser '26, two pencil drawings.

(Designations:
FW, faculty wife

F, faculty; FF, formerly faculty;

G, graduate student.)

'24 Robert H. Woodworth, who is professor of
biology at Bennington College, Vt., will head up
work in the intensive cultivation of 350 acres of farm
land upon the Bennington campus this year.

'27 Richard C. Foley, assistant professor of
animal husbandry at the College, has been appointed
official judge for the Ayrshire herd classification pro-
gram in New England, eastern New York, and
Pennsylvania. He will appraise Ayrshire cattle from
a type standpoint for the Ayrshire Breeders' Associ-
ation.

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COLLEGE WAR EFFORT

ALIMM IN UNIFORM

A physical fitness program has become an important
part of undergraduate curriculum for men in colleges
throughout the country. Spring football sessions,
for example, are given increased importance, as a
part of this program, at Harvard, Boston College,
Dartmouth, Brown, and other New England colleges.
Arthur Sampson, writing in the Boston Herald of
March 15, commented on this general program and
stated:

"Of course, the football sessions will be only a part
of the intensive program that most colleges are

planning to
sponsor be-
tween now and
May 1. Massa-
chusetts State,
for example,
has recently
come out with
an announce-
ment of its
spring physical
devel op men t
program and
it is a fair
sample of what
a majority of
colleges are
planning.

"Starting on
April 8, every
sophomore,
junior and
senior at State will be required to spend an hour and
a half, three days a week, in physical exercise. The
freshmen are already required to participate in .such
a program.

"These sessions will be held from 4:30 to 6 o'clock
and the entire group will be required to report first
for a ground drill much like the grass drills that
football squads take during the early days of t raining.
"At i In' completion of this drill, tin- Statesmen will
be permitted to elect one of six or seven sports in
Which to compete. In addition to football, there will
hi- Boccer, six-man football, cross-country and swim-
ming. All workouts will be carefully supervised b
members of the physical education department."

perating with the regular members of I lie

physical educational staff at the College in the

program are: Lieut. Anthony Nogelo
••'i7. Fred Ellerl '30, and E. E. Grayson 17.

Sponsored by F.S.A., United States Office of Kdu-
cation, a Key Center of Information and Training
has been established at the College. It is in charge
of Arnold Rhodes, instructor in forestry, who is
giving considerable time to management oi tin-
project

Purpo i tin Key Center is to organize and main-
tain a library of war information lor the counsel of

Continued on I'<in< i 2

F'LYIV [OHN J. BRACK 4I

Continued below is a further listing of Alumni,
word of whose assignment in Service has been re-
ceived since the last Bulletin was printed.

The War Department has made request that
alumni magazines use discretion in printing the
designations of tactical units to which Alumni are
attached, as well as the headquarters of these units.
If the unit is not stationed at, for instance, a point
of embarkation or if the movement of the unit is
confined to the continental United States, these
changes of address may be noted.

However, in
order to give
as full cooper-
ation as possi-
ble, the Alumni
Bulletin will
print only the
name and rank
of the Alum-
nus, in most
cases, together
with the man's
home mailing
address. Mail
addressed to
the Alumnus
at his home
will, of course,
be forwarded ;
or, mail ad-
dressed to him
in care of the
Alumni Office also will he forwarded.

The Alumni Office is making every efforl to keep
an accurate, up-to-date, and complete list of all
Alumni in the Service. Any help which you may
provide in connection with these records will he
much appreciated.

'37 2nd Lieut. Barbara lt.-iii-.is. Army Nurse, Fori
Adams, Newport, K. I.
II Pvt. I«. Aldin Blodgctt, Air Corps, 88 Lake-
side Street. Springfield, Mass.

'37 2nd Lieut. Louis A. Brenult, Jr., Cavalry, 180
Oxford Street, Auburn, Mass.

'38 2nd Lieut. Herbert Brown, Cavalry, 98 Main

Street . Ashland. Mass.

w'll Pvt. Alton B.Cole, Infantry, ">«H Main Street .

West Meilway, Mass.

'39 2nd Lieut. Doiuild C««lc>, Cavalry, 2-1 Col-
borne Road, Brighton, Mass.

'38 Lieut. Frank M. Cuahman, Quartermaster
Corps l Maple Parkway, Maiden, Mass.

"M Lieut. Ernest K. Davis, Cavalry, 61 Epworth
Street. Worcester, Mass.

'IS9 2nd Lieut, Everett Vf. Eldridgc, Jr., Ordnance,

3734 Appleton Street N.W.. Washington. D.C.
w'42 Pvt. I>jina Frondscn, Infantry, 179 Lincoln
Avenue, Amherst . .Mass.

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I MM I St WI.KY lio/.Kk '38

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MARRIAGES

'35 and '37 Chester E. Cross to Miss Shirley
Gale, June 28, 1941, at Boxford, Mass.

'35 Stanley S. Newcomb to Miss Miriam Nye,
September 27, 1941, at North Haven, Conn.

'37 Ensign Elliott Newcomb to Miss Rosemary
Hatchett, January 20, 1942, at Rusk, Texas.

'38 Edward W. Czelusniak to Miss Jean S.
Niedziela, February 17, 1942, at Northampton, Mass.

'38 Walter K. Mitchell, Jr. to Miss Elizabeth
Clark, March 6, 1942, at Waban, Mass.

'38 Kenneth Nolan to Miss Elizabeth W. Pickard,
February 14, 1942, at Newton Centre, Mass.

'40 Lieut. John P. Serex to Miss Elizabeth Taylor,
January 15, 1942, at Lexington, Ky.

'41 Miss M. Doris King to Edward H. Rollfs,
February 12, 1942, at Gardner, Mass.

'42 Miss Jean Davis to Ensign A. Donald Foster,
February 24, 1942, at Corpus Christi, Texas.

ALUMNI DAY PROGRAM

RIRTHS

'29 A daughter, Penelope Dawn, to Mr. and Mrs.
J. A. Clark (Carmeta Sargent '29), March 6, 1942,
at Clinton, Iowa.

'34 A son, Robert Loring, to Mr. and Mrs.
Russell Snow, January 28, 1942, at Yonkers, N. Y.

'37 A daughter, Patricia Mary, to Mr. and Mrs.
Leo Crowley, March 4, 1942, at Springfield, Mass.

'38 and '39 A son, Arthur Rollin, to Lieut, and
Mrs. Arthur Avery (Ethel Meurer '39), March 7,
1942, at Fort Knox, Ky.

'40 A daughter, Sara Louise, to Lieut, and Mrs.
William Hawkins (Jacqueline Stewart '40), February
9, 1942, at Fort Oglethorpe, Ga.

ALUMNI ARE OFFICERS OF
FRUIT GROWERS' ASSOCIATION

Several Alumni were elected to office, in January,
in the Massachusetts Fruit Growers' Association,
one of the outstanding organizations of its kind in
the country and one of the most active agricultural
groups in the State.

Louis Webster '14, of Blackstone, became vice-
president. George A. Drew '97, of Belmont, was
elected director for the Nashoba Fruit Producers'
Association.

Directors of the Association include: S. Lothrop
Davenport '08, North Grafton; Arthur M. Howard
'18, Pittsfield; Richard B. Lambert '21, Steiling
Junction; Andrew W. Love '25, Auburn; Willard A.
Munson '05, Amherst; Roger E. Peck w'19, Shel-
burne; and Herbert S. Vaughan '30, Worcester.

Out-of-state representatives are Albion B. Ricker
'28 of Turner, Maine, and Roger C. Coombs '21 of
Henniker, N. H.

Bill Cole '02 is secretary of the Association. Prof.
Ralph A. Van Meter, head of the division of horti-
culture at the College, was elected president.

The Alumni Day program on Saturday, May 16th,
has now been arranged as follows:

Registration, Memorial Hall. Every Alumnus
returning to campus is asked to register, immediately
after arriving at the College, at the headquarters in
Memorial Hall.

Annual Alumni Meeting, Auditorium, Memorial
Hall. 10:00 a.m. Election of officers.

Alumni Luncheon, Draper Hall, 12:00 noon.
Regular cafeteria service will be available for all
returning Alumni and families. Special tables, with
waiter service, will be provided for members of the
50-year class, 1892, and for older classes.

Band Concert, 2:30 p.m. on the lawn west of
Memorial Hall.

Alumni Parade, 3 o'clock, to the varsity baseball
game on Alumni Field, starting from Memorial Hall.

Alumnae Tea, 4 o'clock, Butterfield House.

Concert on the chime, immediately after the
baseball game.

Alumni class and fraternity reunions and
banquets, as arranged by the individual groups.
6:30 p.m.

Roister Doister comedy, "Torch Bearers,"
Bowker Auditorium, 9:00 p.m.

Academics and Varsity Breakfasts will be held in
Draper Hall on Sunday morning, May 17th; the
Varsity Breakfast at 8 o'clock, and the Academic
Breakfast at nine.

Plan now to be back on campus to meet your
friends and contemporaries on May 16thi

RASKETBALL TOURNAMENT

The Fifteenth Annual Small High School Basket-
ball Tournament was held on campus March 2 to 7.
The tournament is managed by Larry Briggs '27,
with a board of directors of six school principals and
four members of the college physical education de-
partment. In addition to Briggs, Kid Gore '13, Red
Ball '21 and Ralph Haskins '27 are members of the
board. Tournament trustees include Eddie Burke
'10, F. E. Williams '23 and L. W. Simmons '20.

At the annual conference of the tournament board
of directors, Phil Whitmore '15 was toastmaster.
President Baker welcomed the guests to the meeting.
Among well-known guests at the conference, out-
standing figures in basketball, were J. Franklin
Farrell, Oswald Tower, Alfred McCoy, Daniel J.
Kelly. Members of the 1917 and 1922 Massachu-
setts State teams were invited, and among those able
to be present were Al Smith '22, Em Grayson '17,
Bob Hawley '18, and Ray Parkhurst '19.

Alumni coaches whose teams were entered in the
1942 tournament were Leon Stanne '31, Freddie Riel
'38, Rollie Reed '28, and Joe Sheff '33.

Incidentally, Stanne's Hopkins Academy team was
champion this year in the Hampshire League, and
Rollie Reed's Easthampton club was co-champion
of the Valley Wheel.

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WITH THE ALUM MAE

By Mary E. Garvey '19

Elsie Nickerson Bike '26 is having a fine time,
and a busy one, on the farm which she and her
husband. Eddie Bike '24, are operating in North
Sutton, N. H. Elsie has organized a neighborhood
extension group which meets frequently at her
house. She helps her husband with a good deal of
the farm work, taking care of the chickens which
will be a specialty of the Bike farm.

Priseilla Oertel '40 is teaching home economics
in York Village, Maine.

Florence O'Neil '41 has taken a position with
the General Chemical Company in Buffalo. Her
address is 390 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo. ■■ H

Elizabeth Baker '36 is teaching home economics
in the Somers, Conn. High School.

The women swimmers seem to
have done well in defending their
National Championship (won last
year) in the intercollegiate tele-
graphic meets.

The girls have already won the
Eastern Regional Championship.
Skidmore was second, Vassar third,
the University of Connecticut
fourth, and Trenton State Teach-
ers College fifth.

On March 11th the swimmers
set a new 100-yard freestyle relay
record of 52.8. On the relay team
were Ruth Howarth '44 of Hope-
dale, Dot Colburn '45 of West
Springfield. Mary K. Haughey '44
of Pittsfield. and Martha Hall '42
of Worcester.

In this Eastern telegraphic meet
the swimming Statettes took six
first places. Dot Colburn won the
100-yard freestyle; Ruth Howarth
won the 100-yard breast stroke,
the 100-yard back stroke, and also
the 75-yard individual relay. The
100-yard relay and 75-yard medley
relay teams also placed first.

ALUMNA IN UNIFORM

Dorothy Doran Minarik '34 is now living at
501 Pierre St., Manhattan, Kansas.
Her husband is a 1st Lieutenant of
Cavalry.

Beatrice Wood '40 is working
in the gift shop of Denholm and
McKay Company, Worcester.

The Little International Live-
stock Show, an annual competitive
event sponsored by the division of
agriculture, was held on March 14
at Crinnell Arena. Gladys Scott
'45 of Ashfield won first prize in
the co-ed milking contest. Her
prize was a baby giant Panda doll.
James Ward '43 of Needham was
winner of the judging contest.

2ND LIE! rENANT BARBARA BACGS

J/>

t'lRVI' Ml MS \ Ml HE COM-

INED IN THE S X Ilos S I'ORCES,
IS AS ARMY SI RSK AT PORT ADAMS,
s EW PORT, R. I.

Alumni who took part in the
programs of the 9th Recreation
Conference held at the College
March 12 to 15 included: Ernest
Russell '16, Benton Cummings '33,
Kenneth Pike '40, Evelyn Berg-
strom '41, Sergeant Robert Joyce
'40, Lawrence Dickinson '10, Arn-
old Davis '31, Arthur Levine '35,
Charles McLaughlin '40, Lawrence
Briggs '27.

In a recent issue of the New York Times, the
science section carried an item to the effect that
Sarah E. Stewart (G), Ph.D. had developed an anti-
toxin which gives promise of being of considerable
help in World War II in preventing gas gangrene
which was such a problem in World War I.

I)r Stewart received her M.Sc. degree from
Massachusetts State College in 1930, where her
t lii-sis work dealing with serological methods for
detecting incipient decomposition in meat was done
under the direction of Dr. G. E. Gage. The Ph.D.
degree was conferred by the University of Chicago
in 1939. She is now with the National Institute of
Health in Washington, I) C. and has unquestion-
ably made a worthwhile contribution to the science
of medical bacteriology.

rViHcilln Wood Mrs. Ian Denton '30 n |

that >ln- anrl her husband have bought a poultry

tarm in Milford, Mass. HIM).. Milford The farm

res of land and a house v. it h t hirteen rooms.

'26 Dave Horner is with Westinghouse Electric
& Manufacturing Company in Bloomfield, N. J. He
lives at 90 Hillside Ave., Verona. He is advertising
and promotion manager for the company's "Ten-
deray" department.

'27 Earl (Tiffi Williams has recently been ap-
pointed superintendent of Mt. Greenwood Cemetery
in Chicago. In the middle west Earl is regarded as
one of the outstanding men in his profession.

'34 Babe Rigelow, who is landscape man for
Milford Lawrence '17 in Falmouth, was a recent
us visitor during a practice air raid alert. Babe
was much interested, especially since he is con-
nected with the civilian defense program in Falmouth.

Hal recently had occasion to fly across Long
Island. His plane passed directly over Bethpage
Park. Babe said that those four golf courses, spread
out below him, which bad been designed and built
by Joe Burbeck '24, certainly looked fine.

'35 Robert V. Murray is research representative
lor (In- National Can Corporation, Madison, Wis.

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ALUMNI IN UNIFORM

'30 Lieut. Herbert A. Goodell, Cavalry, R.F.D. 2,

Amherst, Mass.
'30 Lieut. Herman U. Goodell, Quartermaster

Corps, Pelham, Mass.
'36 2nd Lieut. William L. Goddard, Jr., Cavalry,

14 Mayhew Street, Hopkinton, Mass.
'40 Pvt. Mark Gordon, Field Artillery, Stony Hill

Road, Wilbraham, Mass.
'38 Pvt. Saul <i. Gruner, Medical Corps, 17 Pros-
pect Street, Pittsfield, Mass.
'35 2nd Lieut. Wendell K. Hovey, Cavalry, 50

Park Avenue, Wakefield, Mass.
'40 Aviation Cadet Howard M. Iloxic, Air Corps,

44 North Elm Street, Northampton, Mass.
'35 Pvt. Charles Hutchinson, Infantry, 84 River-
view Avenue, Longmeadow, Mass.
'37 2nd Lieut. Allan S. Ingalls, Cavalry, 5 Win-

throp Avenue, Methuen, Mass.
'38 Pvt. Ralph Ingram, Coast Artillery, 75 Queen

Street, Falmouth, Mass.
'39 2nd Lieut. Lawrence E. Johnson, Cavalry,

595 Dwight Street, Holyoke, Mass.
'41 Pvt. Paul Keller, Infantry, 257 Dickinson St.,

Springfield, Mass.
'36 Lieut. Richard T. Kennett, Cavalry, 14

Warren Street, West Medford, Mass.
'37 Lieut. Wendell Lapham, Cavalry, Concord

Street, Carlisle, Mass.
'36 Lieut. Norvin Laubenstein, Cavalry, 4 Maple

Court, Maynard, Mass.
'41 Cadet Edwin M. Lavitt, Coast Guard, 41 North

Park Street, Rockville, Conn.
'31 Lieut. John C. Lawrence, Cavalry, Barracks

Hill Road, Ridgefield, Conn.
'32 Lieut. Joseph E. Lepie, Cavalry, 228 Seaver

Street, Roxbury, Mass.
'35 Lieut. Lucicn B. Lillie, III, Cavalry, 193

Strathmore Road, Brighton, Mass.
'38 2nd Lieut. Robert S. Lyons, Cavalry, 20 Good-
rich Street, Springfield, Mass.
'33 Lieut. Walter Maclinn, Quartermaster Corps,

174 Allyn Street, Holyoke, Mass.
w'40 Pvt. John C. McCarthy, Infantry ,29 Arling-
ton Street, Worcester, Mass.
'33 Lieut. Charles Minarik, Cavalry, 501 Pierre

Street, Manhattan, Kansas.
'39 2nd Lieut. Robert II. Muller, Cavalry, 3 Birch

Road, Darien, Conn.
'34 Lieut. Cornelius O'Neil, Cavalry, 2 Warfield

Place, Northampton, Mass.
'36 2nd Lieut. Walter 1). Raleigh, Cavalry, 21

Boulevard Place, West Springfield, Mass.
'38 Pvt. Theodore Rice, Quartermaster Corps, 7

Harvard Street, Wellesley, Mass.
'38 2nd Lieut. William C. Riley, Cavalry, Elm

Street, Holyoke, Mass.
'41 Pvt. Itiiliii I IJ. Rischcrg, Quartermaster Corps,

90 Howard Street, Waltham, Mass.
'40 2nd Lieut. Warren R. Tappin, Jr., Cavalry,

133 Grove Street, Winchendon, Mass.
'19 Captain Loring V. Tirrell, Cavalry, The Maury

Hotel, 701 19th St., N.W., Washington, D. C.

'32 Lieut. John W. Tokaz, Cavalry, 385 High

Plain Street, Walpole, Mass.
'31 Lieut. Edwin T. White, Cavalry, 23 Princeton

Street, Worcester, Mass.
'37 Lieut. Frederick Whittemore, Sanitary Corps,

Bay Road, Canton, Mass.

Francis Pray '31, in charge of the College News
Service, recently released to newspapers the following
interesting item with regard to the college staff and
Camp Lee, Virginia.

"There seems to be a close connection between the
army Camp Lee in Virginia and staff members of the
Massachusetts State College library.

"Dr. Henry S. Green, librarian of the State
College from 1921 to 1923 was camp librarian at
Camp Lee during the first World War.

"The present State College librarian, Basil B.
Wood, was assistant librarian at Camp Lee during
the first World War.

"And now, to reverse the process, Herman U.
Goodell '30, library assistant at the State College
Library since 1930, has just received orders to re-
port to Camp Lee on March 17.

"Goodell, however, unlike his associates, will report
as a first lieutenant in the quartermaster corps, since
he has held a reserve officer's commission since gradu-
ation from the State College advanced R.O.T.C.
course in 1930."

Sgt. David I*. Rossiter, Jr. '37, Air Corps, is
looking forward to an appointment to the Officer
Candidate School to become an air corps ground
officer. Good luck to him.

Major William I. (Gyp) Goodwin '18, Intelli-
gence Service, sent us an interesting note recently in
which he said, "Have just finished the course at
Command and General Staff School where I enjoyed
being a classmate again of Colonel George L.
Goodridgc '18."

Flying Cadet John Brack '41 has been keeping
in close touch with college events since he has been
in the Service. He had looked forward to being able
to return for his class reunion on May 16th but
thinks, now, that it may be impossible.

It was pleasant to see 2nd Lieut. Rodger Lindsey
'40, weather officer attached to the Air Corps, when
he dropped in at the Alumni Office on a recent brief
leave from active duty.

Sgt. Alexander II. Freeman '34, who is with the
Coast Artillery, has written to say that he looks
forward to being on campus again for his tenth
reunion in '44, if not before.

Lieut. Charles Bartlett Cox '30 was in the thick

of activity in Honolulu on December 7th, but was

not hurt. Charlie's wife recently sent an interesting

letter to Professor Waugh in which she told about

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ALUMNI ENTOMOLOGISTS MEET
IN CALIFORNIA

Meetings of the American Association of Economic
Entomologists and of the Entomological Society of
America were held in San Francisco soon after the
Christmas holidays. As usual, a good number of
Alumni were in attendance. Stanley Freeborn '14,
research entomologist and assistant dean of the Uni-
versity of California at Berkeley, has written about
the meetings, as follows:

"The meetings at Christmas time were unusually
successful. . . The luncheon of Massachusetts State
Alumni was held on the 31st, with twenty persons
present. As usual, E. P. Felt '91 was the dean, with
Professor Ralph E. Smith '94, our professor of plant
pathology, runner-up. Our group also included, of
course, the president of the American Association of
Economic Entomologists, Dr. J. R. Parker '08; and
the general chairman of I he meetings Dr. Guy F.
MacLeod '20. Although I believe Ohio State had
two more alumni present at their luncheon meeting,
we, of course, had the cream of the attendance."

ALUMNI IN UNIFORM

action in Honolulu on "that eventful day of Decem-
ber 7th."

Among Alumni attending the r'ernald luncheon
were:

Stanley F. Bailey "29, Ph.D., assistant professor of
entomology at the Davis Branch of the University
of California.

K. A. Cooler '9.1, retired state entomologist of
Montana, now very active in public health service
on a study of Rocky Mountain and other t irks.

E. P. Felt *91, Ph.D., former state entomologist of
New York, now with the Bartlett Research Lab-
oratories, Stamford, Conn., as director and chief
entomologist .

A. J. l-'lelnii "l.">, vice-president of the California
Spray Chemical Company.

S. It. Freeborn Ml. assistant dean of the University
of California, Berkeley.

Thomas F. Kelley "38, completing work for the
doctor's degree m medical entomology at Univer-
sity <>l < California.

<iny F. Mncl.eo<l "20, Ph.D.. general chairman ol
the meetings, professor of entomology, University
of California.

.1. B. Parker '08, Ph.D., retiring president of the
American Association ol Economic Entomolog
in charge of the U. S Bureau "I Entomology and
Plant Quarantine Laboratory at Bozeman, Mont
grasshoppers and Mormon cricket

Bennett A. Porter 'II. Ph.D., senior entomolo
division ol fruit insect investigation! ol the I
Bureau ol Entomology and Plant Quarantine,
Washington, 1 1 I

Kenneth A. Salman "21. Ph.D., entomologist,
division ol forest insect investigations, U. S.
Bureau ol Entomology and Plant Quarantine
Berkeley, ' alif.

i * i ■ i i • i > C si,,!,,- •;{.",. ph I) a rist int tate ento
mologist ol Missouri.

Lett mgratulatiom were sent !>•, the group

Private Burton W. <ii-«-»iti MO, who is with the
Signal Corps, and whose home is in Montpelier, Vt.
was engaged to Miss Virginia Josephine Tucker of
West Hartford, Conn, prior to his induction into
Service.

Lt. Col. AV. W. .Iciina '10 has recently written to
comment on the number of Alumni of the College
who are serving with the country's armed forces.
Lt. Col. Jenna regarded the list an imposing one,
and, he continued. "But, as I recall it, the College
has done everything it has gone into in an outstand-
ing way. This was true when I was a student and,
apparently, is just as true today."

Lieut. Frank llenly "39, Cavalry, who was re-
cently appointed to the Regular Army, is teaching
motors in a Cavalry School. He writes thai he
enjoys receiving the Alumni Bulletin and letters
which come from the College telling about develop-
ments on campus. He says. "Most of the sports news
ol late has been pretty good, too. which pleases me
a great ileal."

Lieut, (ieoriie Iteii.iam in "'.i'.\ is at I ached to a

military unil designated by the figure "5". Benjamin

and his colleagues write il this way . . . "\/th".

'21 Harold Poole is coach of the Melrose High

School hockey team, last year Massachusetts cham-
pions. This year Poole', Irani won the New England
Inlersrholasl ir cba rnpionshi ps, on March 7th. Poolir
has been doing a corking good job as coach for
Melrose for a number of years; we're happy to extend
congratulations on bis most recent championship

achievement .

'22 Abraham Krasker is professor of education in
the Boston University School ol Ivlucation.

'28 Rollie Reed, who teaches and coaches Boccer,
basket ball, baseball at the East ham pi on High School
the ubjecl ol an interesting and highly compli

in. niarv biographic sketch in a recent issue of the

Springfield Sunday Republican.

'29 Stephen Adams is in the ice cream manu-
facturing business in Bergenfield, N. .1.

to Professor Henry T. Fernald at Winter Park. Fla.

Alumni who participated in the programs ol the

oi ieties were: J, R. Parker '08, Stanley Freeborn

'14, E. P. Fell '91, S. F. Bailey '29. Kenneth A.

Salman M I'harles |- . Dollrrllr '20, Philip C, Stone

3 M Dohanian w'13.

Professor Charles P. Alexander, head of the de

partmeni ol entomology at the College, was elected
president oi the Entomological Society of America
at i he ' California meet ings.

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ALUMNI IN PUBLIC HEALTH WORK

Modern Hospital magazine for February 1942
carried an extensive, well-illustrated article, 76 pages
long, which presented in complete detail a coordin-
ated study of the facilities of the Salem, Mass.,
Hospital. Oliver G. Pratt '18 is administrator of the
hospital. The presentation and description of the
activities and organization of his hospital, as out-
lined in the magazine, have received highly compli-
mentary no-
tices from hos-
pital adminis-
trators all over
the country.
Mr. Pratt is
much inter-
ested in the
coopera t i o n
which Massa-
chusetts State
provides in its
training of
technicians
and skilled
hospital per-
sonnel and in arranging "placement" training for
students in hospitals throughout New England. Mr.
Pratt, as president, addressed the Massachusetts
Hospital Association early in March, and, in the
course of his talk, declared: ''We must, as hospital
people, take a more active interest in our source of
supply of trained workers. Our State College and
other educational institutions are producing for us
technicians, dietitians, social workers, and many
others. We have collaborated with the State College
during the year as to orientation and training courses
for their students, and I have hopes that more definite
and specific plans may be developed for our mutual
welfare. If we are to get for our hospitals the type of
worker we desire, we must aid the institutions that
are producing them."

OLIVER G. PRATT JO
ADMINISTRATOR, SALEM, MASS., HOSPITAL

Herewith a further listing of Alumni in public
health work: hospital administrators, nurses, den-
tists, and dental students.

Hospital Administrators

Oliver G. Pratt '18, Salem Hospital, Salem, Mass.

William W. Colton w'08, special assistant, Massa-
chusetts Memorial Hospital, Boston, Mass.

Alan W. Chadwick '31, The Hospital Cottages for
Children, Baldwinville, Mass.

Nurses

2nd Lieut. Barbara Baggs '37, army reserve nurse,

Fort Adams, Newport, R. I.
Elizabeth C. Barry '31, public health nurse, 6

Lyman Terrace, Dorchester, Mass.
Lois A. Bliss w'29, night supervisor, New Haven

Hospital, New Haven, Conn.
Clare E. Bosworth '36, surgical supervisor, Maine

General Hospital, Portland, Maine
Geraldine Bradley '39, graduate nurse, 622 West

168th Street, New York, N. Y.
Kathleen J. Clare '41, student nurse, Yale School

of Nursing, New Haven, Conn.
Julia T. Graves '38, student nurse, Massachusetts

General Hospital, Boston, Mass.
Fanny Hagar '34, Clinton Hospital, Clinton, Mass.
Emily Ilealey '37, Visiting Nurse Association,

Pawtucket, R. I.
Fanny C. Knapp sp'18, night supervisor, Children's

Hospital, Boston, Mass.
Flora E. Manwell '30, teacher of nursing, American

Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey
Carolyn Monk '40, student nurse, Yale School of

Nursing, New Haven, Conn.
Eunice Kiehardson '39, student nurse, Johns

Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Md.
Edith Whitmore '37, 405 South Eighth Street,

Minneapolis, Minn.
J. May Wiggin '27, Connecticut State Farm,

Niantic, Conn.
Gladys Sawinski '37, apprentice aide, Hartford

Retreat, Hartford, Conn.

Dentists

Harry B. Bernstein '34, 29 Gleason Street, Dor-
chester, Mass.

Walter 1. Boynton '92, 1570 Main Street, Spring-
field, Mass.

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Frederic W. Brown w'17, 453 Adams Street,

Quincy, Mass.
Thomas H. Charmbury w'98, 23 Broadway,

Hanover, Pa.
Howard S. Cohen w'37, 419 Boylston Street,

Boston, Mass.
Henry D. Epstein '35, 134 Pleasant Street, Brook-
line, Mass.
Linwood II. Farrington >v'25, 17 Rutland Street,

Lowell, Mass.
Arthur Gold '35, 4 Chestnut Street, Springfield.

Mass.
George Goldberg w'12, 453 Congress Street,

Portland. Maine

ITAL COTTAGES FOR CHILDREN", BALDWIN
ILAN W. CHADWICK '31, SUPER!

William G. (iriflm «'ll, 141 Bardwell Street,
Indian Orchard, Mass.

Robert Ilonihalicr w'31. 507 Main Street, Wor-
cester, Mass.

Lieut. David Klickstein '36, Army. 189 Essex
Street, Maiden, Mass.

[dent. Bertram Lubin '35. Army. 137 Sutherland
Road, Brighton. Mass.

Charles W. McConnell '7I>. 11 Brimmer Street
Boston. Mass.

Arllmr I.. Mile-. '89, 12 Magazine Street, Cam-
bridge, Mass.

Harry S. Saidel "17, Suite 712. Park Building, 570
Main Street, Worcester, Mass.

Sidney A. Salamofi "35. 375 Harvard Streel
Hrookline, Mass.

Arllmr .1. Sciivcy w'lS, !J.J7 South Bronsorj Avenue.
Los Angeles, Calif.

I.ieul. Ilymaii SbarIT '35. Army, 158 Bloomingdale
Street, Chelsea, Mass.

Karl 15. Zieliiutki w*28, 173 Hillside Avenue,
Holyoke, Mai

George S. August '41, Dental School, University

of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Charles Benea '37, Interne, Medical Center,

Jersey City, N. J.
Irving Binder '38, Tufts Dental School, Boston,

Mass.
Charles Branch '39, Tufts Dental School, Boston,

Mass.
John J. Byrnes '37, Northwestern University

Dental School, Chicago, 111.
Isadore Cohen '40, Harvard Dental School, Cam-
bridge, Mass.
James Dobby '37, Tufts Dental School, Boston,
Mass.

A b r a h a m
I Goldman
' '38, Tufts
[M e d i c a 1
[ School, Bos-
ton, Mass.

Walter Gur-
alnick '37,

Interne, Bos-
ton City Hos-
pital, Boston,
Mass.

T It o m a s
II e 11 n cs s y

'38, Harvard
Dental School
Cambridge,
Mass.
David Horn-
It a k c r '39,
Tufts Dental

VI 1.1. E, MASSACH 1 S I 1 1

School, Boston. Mass.
Henry lacovelli '37, Tufts Dental School, Boston,

Mass.
F.lliot II. Joscphson 'II, Temple University Dental

School. Philadelphia. Pa.
David Ka&an '41, Washington University School of

Dentistry, St. Louis, Mo.
John McN'ally '37, Harvard Dental School, Cam-
bridge, Mass.
Irving Meyer 11, Tufts Dental School, Boston,

Mass.
Everett Shapiro '10, Harvard Dental School,

Boston, Mass.
Jack Steinberg '39, Tufts Dental School, Boston,

Mass.
Jay II. Minn '39, Tufts Dental School, Boston,

Mass.

Deni al Si udentfl
Milton Auerbach

Cambridge, Mass.

•39, Harvard Dental School,

A recent A. P. dispatch tells of a Hawaiian hotanisl
who has sent a loose-leaf copy of his life work, "Flora
Hawaiiensis," to the public library of Mt. Airy. N.C.,
for safe keeping. The botanist, unnamed, is doubt-
less Otto Degener '22.

'20 Bill Bobertson is factory superintendent and
chemist for the Tru fruit Syrup Corporation, 656
Third Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y.

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ATHLETICS

Basketball

Victorious over Amherst, Williams, and Wesleyan,
the basketball team closed its season of 14 games
with 8 wins and 6 losses.

Ted Bokina '43 of Hatfield was high scorer, with
Mike Frodyma '42 of Holyoke runner-up. Tom
Kelly '43 of Springfield scored 20 points in the last
game of the season against Worcester Tech.

Collegian, comment on the season was: "Coach
Hargesheimer may well be proud of his players who
went through the season not always winning but at
least always fighting until the final gun." That
probably sums it up.

Scores since the last Bulletin:

Feb. 21 Wesleyan, there

27 Boston University, here

28 Worcester Tech, there

Statesmen
45
34
64

Opp.
39
36

Swimming

Next month these columns will contain a sum-
mary of records made and broken by the swimming
Statesmen — including the 100-yard freestyle mark of
Bud Hall '44 of Worcester, set at the Eastern Inter-
collegiates at Yale, and just one-tenth of a second under
Johnnie W 'eismuller' 's world record.

Beyond breaking records the Statesmen achieved
the distinction of scoring more points against the
national champion team, Yale (Joe Rogers was
right), than any other club to face the boys from
New Haven this year. Yale's team was one of the
greatest collections of swimmers ever assembled at
New Haven — according to Associated Press.

The season's scores:
Dec. 17 Worcester here
Jan. 10 Williams, there

16 Yale, here

28 Connecticut, here
Feb. 7 Wesleyan, there

13 Coast Guard, there

27 Bowdoin, here
Mar. 6 At Cambridge, Mass. State, 1st;
M.I.T., 2nd; W.P.I. , 3rd

13-14 N.E.I.S.A. Meet at Amherst,
3rd of 10

Track

Coach Derby's track team marked up
an impressive record during the winter
season, won a triangular meet, a dual
meet, placed second in a second triangu-
lar event. The relay team placed first
over Worcester Tech and Colby in a race
at the B.A.A. games in Boston on Febru-
ary 14th.

Bill Wall '42 of Northampton broke
the Massachusetts State record (his own)
in the high jump, at six feet.

Statesmen

Opp.

57*

17*

■e 53

ere 41

outstanding

Brad Greene '42 of Springfield did well in the
distance events, besides scoring points in the high
hurdles and jumps. A consistent point-getter was
Charlie Warner '44 (son of Raymond Warner '14) of
Sunderland. Fred Filios '42 (brother of John Filios
'40) of Westfield and Don Walker '44 (brother of
James Walker '41) of Pelham were
throughout the season.
The season's scores:
Feb. 14 B.A.A. Meet, Boston, Relay. State, 1st;
W.P.I. , 2nd; Colby, 3rd
W.P.I, and Springfield, here. State, 67;

Springfield, 25; W.P.I. , 18
Univ. of Connecticut, here. State, 51*;

Connecticut, 38*
Tufts and W.P.I., here. Tufts,
State 39*; W.P.I. , 22

48.!

Baseball

The spring schedule:

Apr.

May 2

there

here

18 Wesleyan, there
21 University of Connecticut,
23 Amherst, there
25 Trinity, there
28-29-30 Open
W.P.I. , here

University of Connecticut,
Open

Williams, there
Open

Coach Frannie Riel '39 and his boys will probably
engage service teams on the five open dates listed in
the above schedule.

Football

It is expected that sixty candidates will report to
Coach Hargesheimer for spring football practice. It
is to be hoped that as many will report next fall.

WINTER TRACK TEAM

back row (/eft to right): tolman, hood, Nichols, freeman, bornsteiI

MIDDLE ROW: COACH DERBY, CALDWELL, FROST, PARKER, WALKER, WARNER, GR I
FRONT ROW: ADAMS, FILIOS, JOYCE, GRAHAM, GREENE, POTTER.

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WITH

BOSTON ALUMNI

ACADEMICS

Dennis Crowley '29, president of the Boston
Alumni Club, and L. Francis Kennedy '24, general
chairman in charge for the Boston Club program on
the evening of April 18th, have organized promo-
tional affairs — publicity and ticket distribution —
to a degree which is bound to insure an exceptional
attendance.

From the standpoint of advance interest and co-
operation, the lecture-concert for Boston Alumni and
friends is already a success.

This April 18th program — at the Copley-Plaza
Hotel — will consist of a lecture, "Academic Grace
Notes," by Professor Frank Prentice Rand, and a
concert by the combined musical clubs.

Professor Rand has long been general manager and
guiding spirit of Academic Activities on campus; his
address will be one of interest to every Alumnus con-
cerned with the progress of artistic extra-curricular
activity at the College.

The musical part of the program will mark the
culmination of the glee club's busy and successful
season.

The Boston Alumni Club's April 18th meeting
will be. beyond doubt, the most pleasant and the
largest-attended gathering of Boston Alumni in
recent years.

President and Mrs. Baker and members of the
Board of Trustees of the College are the invited
guests of the Boston Alumni Club.

Additions to the committee on arrangements, since
the last announcement in the Bulletin, and from
whom tickets may be secured, include: .Man Flynn
»26, South Sudbury; Albert Cook '28, 75 Main Street,
Concord; Ruth Hurder Howe '22. Lowell Road,
H.F.I).. Concord; Herbert Brown '13, 120 Nashoba
Road, Concord: Peverill O. Petersen '14, Monument
Street, Concord; Allister MacDougall '13, 19 Everett
Street, Concord; Ida B. Davis '40, 14 Messervy
Street, Salem; Mary Rogosa '39, 33 Cherry Street,
Lynn; Vivian Henschel '41, 107 Mount fort Street,
Boston; Ann Gilbert '38, 48 Stone Road, Belmont;
Evelyn S. Bergstrom '41, Massachusetts Audubon
Society, 66 Newbury Street. Boston: .Jessie Kinsman
Gieringer '38, 29 Perrin Street, Roxbury; Alden C.
Bret! '12, 96 Fletcher Road, Belmont: James
Robertson '34, Summer Street, Cohasset; Charles
Bshbach '36, 44 Brookside Avenue, Winchester;
Harry Dunlap Brown '14, Wyman Road, Billerica;
Eleanor Bateman '23. Dept. of Agric, State House;
Thomas P. Dooley '13, 84 Martin Street, Weal
Roxbury; Edgar Perry '16, 16 Enmore Road, Melrose.

Tickets for the lecture-concert may also be had
from the Alumni Office.

The Torch Bearers

The Roister Doisters have chosen for their spring
play George Kelley's "Torch Bearers," one of the
lightest and gayest of farce-satires. It takes the
Little Theatre, with capital letters, for the proverbial
"ride," poking fun at all of us who have exposed our
ambitions and idiosyncrasies before the footlights.
In spite of the exaggerations there are in the play
good characterization and natural dialogue and
plenty of opportunities to display good stage tech-
nique. All in all it seems an admirable play for this
troublesome year of 1942.

The leading role, that of Mrs. Pampinelli, director,
will be taken by Marion Nagelschmidt Jones '42 of
Pittsfield, who scored such a decided success in
"George Washington Slept Here." The others in the
cast give promise of excellent support. Reunion
classes desiring seats in block should get into touch
with the Alumni Office or with John Shepardson,
Manager of Roister Doisters.

F. P. R.

One-Act Play Contest

The Roister Doisters this year tried out something
new - a student-directed one-act play contest. It
took place on March 13th.

The juniors, under the direction of Francis Ward
of Worcester, and using Stanley Houghton's comedy,
"The Dear Departed," were awarded the distinction
of superiority and the members of the cast, both on
and backstage, received copies of "American Folk
Plays" as souveniers. Professor Frank Prentice Rand
made the presentation.

The other plays were: Thornton Wilder's "Love
and How to Cure It," presented by the seniors under
the direction of Dave Burbank of Worcester; and
"Sham," presented by the sophomores under the
direction of Gordon Smith of Salem.

A large audience obviously enjoyed the program.
Incidentally, the whole program, including two com-
plete changes <>l set, was completed in an hour and
a half.

Glee Clubs

Al Smith '22 bought, outright, the performance of
Gilberl and Sullivan's "Pirates of Penzance" which
was to have been given on campus on Thursday,
March 19th - so that the glee clubs could appear
for him before a convention meeting of the New
England Dairymen's Association in Springfield.

Smith, who is manager of the United Dairy System
with headquarters in Springfield, was in charge of
arrangements for the entertainment program of (he
convention group. He told his committee about the
excellent college musical clubs, suggested that these
groups be engaged to furnish the entertainment.

The committee not only agreed with Smith that
the clubs should come to Springfield but, when it
was discovered that the students were to be other-
wise occupied, ordered that no obstacle stand in the
way of the glee club's appearance in Springfield,
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'28 C. C. (Sam) Rice is president of Sterling
Corporation, paper converters, and is also secretary
of and on the road for the Judd Paper Company of
Holyoke. Sam, his wife, and two-years-old son,
Jonathan, live in South Hadley.

Library

State College

SEVENTY-SECOND COMMENCEMENT — MAY 17TH
ALUMNI DAY IS SATURDAY, MAY 16th

Reunion Classes: 1882,

1912, 1917, 1922,

1887, 1892,
1927, 1932,

1897, 1902, 1907,
1937, 1939, 1941

Registration Headquarters, Memorial Hall
PLAN TO BE BACK — MAY 16TH

1882 GRADUATES PLAN REUNION
AT COLLEGE

Frederick G. May '82 of Groton; Mass. expects to
be present for the Alumni Day festivities on campus
on May 16th. A recent letter from Mr. May says:

"It is most certainly the intention of Mrs. May
and me to be present at the College on Alumni
Day, Saturday, May 16th, only ill health or some
unforeseen emergency forbidding our attendance.

"We have missed few of the 'Alumni Days' in
the past ten or twelve years; prior to this, duties
or absence from the State, has limited me to the
regular five-year reunions of the Class.

"This reunion, of course, is a 'great event' in
the lives of 'the men of eighty-two' and especially
for me, now in my eighty-second year of life."

John Ashburton Cutter, M.D. was visiting friends
in Chicopee recently and phoned to say that his
present plans would bring him to the College on
May 16th. He has since written, "Yes — hope to be
with you on Alumni Day."

Judge Nathaniel N. Jones, of Newburyport, writes,
"I shall endeavor to be present. You may expect
me, so far as I know now."

GLEE CLUBS

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Accordingly, the scheduled performance in Amherst
was bought out; and the students went down to
Springfield. They made a big hit.

The "Pirates" will be given on March 20th and
21st only.

COLLEGE WAR EFFORT

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speakers, writers, program chairmen, teachers, lib-
rarians, radio broadcasters and others; to plan and
operate leadership training institutes. There will be
approximately 140 Key Centers of information and
training throughout the country.

Members of the College staff now serving with the

country's armed forces or in war industry are as

follows:

E. J. Radeliffe, M.D., head of the department of
student health. Army Air Corps.

Calvin S. Ilimiuim \3fi, instructor in English.
Cavalry.

Carmelo Grimaldi, dining hall worker. Army.

J. Walter Hodder '37, resigned as laboratory assist.,
Waltham Field Station. Coast Artillery.

Peter Bemben, laboratory assistant, Waltham Field
Station. Navy.

John D. Swcnson, instructor in mathematics. War
industry.

Helen S. Mitchell, Ph.D., research professor of
nutrition, resigned. Nutrition work, F.S.A.

Clifford Bcnoit, janitor, Marshall Hall. War in-
dustry.

David Lauder, janitor, Clark Hall. War industry.

Walter Maelinn '33, assistant professor of horti-
cultural manufactures. Army.

Herman Goodell 430, library assistant. Army.

Sidney W. Kauffiiiaii, instructor in physical edu-
cation. Navy.

Albert II. Sayer, instructor in horticulture. Army.

Eugene Martini, instructor in landscape architec-
ture, resigned. Federal Housing Administration..

'31 Marc King is manager of the Montgomery
Ward store, Lewistown, Pa. Marc is married and
has three children, a boy and two girls.

'35 Sammy Snow is on a furlough from the U. S.
Forest Service for the duration and is teaching at the
College.

THE ALUMNI
BULLETIN

ALUMNI IN

THE NEWS

DEMPSEY 17. WEBSTER 14. McLAINE IO

MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

AMHERST, MASSACHUSETTS

/ol. XXIV, No. 8

May, 1942

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN
MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

George E. Emery '24, Editor
Published monthly at Amherst, Mass. (except August and
September) by the Associate Alumni of Massachusetts State College.
Entered as second class matter, March 17, 1920, at the Postoffice
at Amherst, Mass., under the Acts of March 3, 1879.

OFFICERS OF ASSOCIATE ALUMNI OF
MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

President, Albert W. Smith '22 of Springfield
Vice-President, William V. Hayden '13 of Newton Center
Secretary, Marshall O. Lanphear '18 of Amherst
Treasurer, Clark L. Thayer '13 of Amherst
Executive Secretary, George E. Emery '24 of Amherst

BOARD OF DIRECTORS
to 1942

Erford W. Poole '96 of New Bedford

David P. Rossiter '37 of Maiden

Zoe Hickney White '32 of Worcester

Alfred E. Wilkins "15 of Wakefield

to 1943

Harry Dunlap Brown '14, ex-officio, of Billerica
William L. Doran '15 of Amherst

Mary E. M. Garvey '19 of Amherst
Lawrence L. Jones '26 of North Beverly

Edward J. Gare, Jr. '15 of Northampton

to 1944

Donald C. Douglass '21 of Belmont

Norman D. Hilyard '23 of Springfield

John W. McGuckian '31 of Roslindale

Arthur D. Tilton '18 of Woburn

to 1945

Alden C. Brett "12, ex-officio, of Belmont

r'r. AlarivW! Chadwick '31 of Baldwinsville

Evelyn Davis Kennedy '26 of Belmont
Starr M. King '21 of Beverly

Lewis Schlotterbeck '16 of Wakefield

The Alumni Bulletin is sent ten times each year to all members
of the Associate Alumni. Memberships are: Annual $3.00, Sustain-
ing $10.00.

ALUMNI ON THE COVER

MARKSMEN !

If cadets in the R.O.T.C. unit at the College
haven't quite yet reached the markmanship pro-
ficiency of Annie Oakley, they certainly seem to be
approaching her high standard of skill.

An R.O.T.C. rifle team, composed of 15 men
(from all four classes) fired in 22 collegiate matches
during the winter, won 12. The team scored over
Norwich and the University of Georgia, the only two
colleges in the group, except State, with cavalry
R.O.T.C. units.

In the Hearst Trophy matches State entered two
five-man teams. One team placed 7th of 18 teams;
the other 11th of 18. In total score State was 4th
of the 11 competing colleges. Ninety students, from
all colleges, fired. Stanley Gizienski '43 of Hadley
placed 9th; M. A. Howe, Jr. '44 of Pittsfield was 13th.

In the First Corps Area matches the Massachusetts
State team was 4th of 10.

Lieut. Anthony J. Nogelo '37 is coach of the
team. Sergt. F. R. Glennon is assistant.

Pages 8 and 9 of this Bulletin have been provided
through the cooperation of the Joint Committee on
Intercollegiate Athletics.

Interesting items have come to the Alumni Office
with regard to the three Alumni whose pictures
appear on the cover of this Bulletin.

Paul W. Dempsey '17, assistant research professor
of horticulture at the College Field Station in Wal-
tham, is author of a recent book, "Grow Your Own
Vegetables," published by Houghton Mifflin. The
book was reviewed in the Boston Herald of April
6th with the following comment.

"Topping the list of best sellers in garden litera-
ture right now is this up-to-the-minute and authentic
book by one of the finest New England authorities
on vegetable growing. As one of the staff at the
Waltham Station, Professor Dempsey is consulted
by hundreds of people each year concerning the best
methods of treating their gardens.

"This skilled horticulturist suggests . . . standard
varieties of vegetables that he has found most
welcome in his own household ... he advises that
the home gardener should not neglect planting
flowers as well as vegetables. This book is one of
the real 'musts' for the Victory Gardener's library."

Louis A. Webster '14 of Blackstone has been ap-
pointed acting commissioner of agriculture of the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, to fill the vacancy
caused by the assignment of Mark H. Galusha w'21
to military service as major in the U. S. Army.

Mr. Webster takes the office of commissioner with
an unusually well-rounded background of practical
agriculture and administrative experience.

Since being graduated from the College he has
conducted his own farm in Blackstone and also
operated several other nearby farm properties.

He served in the Massachusetts Legislature from
1929-1932 as representative of the 7th Worcester
district.

In 1939 Mr. Webster was appointed director of the
division of markets of the Massachusetts Depart-
ment of Agriculture, and served in that capacity
until the time of his appointment as commissioner.

He was for many years a director of the Massa-
chusetts Farm Bureau Federation, and was elected
vice-president of the Massachusetts Fruit Growers
Association at the annual meeting last January. He
has also served on the board of directors of the
Worcester Production Credit Association.

For the past year he has been president of the
New England Association of Marketing Officials. He
is executive member of the National Association,
and also the Atlantic States branch. He is a member
of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society and of
the Boston Market Gardeners' Association.

His practical farm experience has covered all
branches of agriculture; he has a valuable first-hand
knowledge of the problems involved in both the
wholesale and retail distribution of farm products.
{Continued on opposite page)

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN

AIR HERO

ALUMNI IN UNIFORM

In newspapers throughout the country, on March
31st and April 1st, there appeared syndicated col-
umns by Ernie Pyle (Scripps-Howard) which told
in vivid fashion of the quiet heroism and devotion
to duty of Marshal Headle '13, chief test pilot for
Lockheed Aircraft Corporation.

Columnist Pyle's comment was this.

Cathedral City, Calif. — Not all of our air heroes
are in uniform over Australia or on the flying fields
of Britain. Some of them are sitting almost anony-
mously right here at home. Marshal Headle is one
of them.

Headle is chief test pilot of the Lockheed Aircraft
Corp. and one of the finest and most respected pilots
in the aviation woild. These next two columns tell
the strange story of what happened to him.

It all happened in less than 10 seconds. Headle
wasn't even in a plane. The accident got brief
notices in the Los Angeles newspapers, and then was
forgotten. But it took out of the air one of America's
most valuable fliers.

Marshal Headle is the quiet, human, serious type
of airman who does his job with intense thoroughness.
He has been with Lockheed for 13 years. He per-
sonally insisted on flying every new type of aircraft
first, even though some of them are tough to handle,
and even though Headle has capable younger pilots
under him.

And he was always experimenting. The experi-
ment that almost led to his death was brought about
by the great heights at which planes are flying in
this war.

We hear a lot about oxygen and so on, but the
plain truth is that a pilot is no good, even with
oxygen, when he gets above 35,000 feet. He just
doesn't do things right, that's all.

So Headle. for months, had been experimenting.
They have a pressure chamber at the Lockheed
factory, and Headle spent much time in there, using
himself as a guinea pig.

It came to its near-deadly climax last June. With-
out being too technical, here is what finally happened,
as nearly as I can reconstruct it:

Headle was in the chamber alone, while observers
stood outside watching through a thick glass window.
The observers had duplicate controls, outside, on
everything but the supply of oxygen. Headle con-
trolled that himself, from the inside.

Well, they slowly worked the pressure down until
they had Headle in the rarified atmosphere of 42,000
feet eight miles above the earth. All the way "up,"
he says now, he had given himself less oxygen than
he really should have had, trying to make the experi-
ment tough.

At 42,000 feet he felt himself getting very weak
and hazy. He was sitting on a stool. He remembers
reaching up toward the oxygen valve; he doesn't
remember ever touching it.

But those on the outside remember it well. For
they saw him reach up, turn the valve the wrong
[Continued on Page 5)

ALUMNI ON THE COVER

Leonard S. McLaine '10, chief of the bureau of
plant protection of the Canadian Department of
Agriculture, Ottawa, has been appointed acting
Dominion entomologist, and assumed his new duties
on February 14th.

On July 16th, by order of the Civil Service
Commission, he will become Dominion entomologist
and assistant director of Science Service.

A recent check of numbers of Alumni in uniform,
as recorded in the Alumni Office files, yields the
following statistics: Colonels, 3; Lieut. Colonels, 7;
Majors, 10; Captains, 21; 1st Lieutenants, 94; 2nd
Lieutenants, 87; Sergeants, 8; Corporals, 6; Privates,
57; Aviation Cadets, 18; Naval Cadets, 2; Petty
Officers, 1; Ensigns, 15; Marines, 1.

Following are the names of Alumni who have
entered the Service since the last issue of the Bulletin.
In compliance with War Department request the
home addresses, only, of these Alumni are here
printed. Mail
addressed t o
any of these
men at their
homes, or to
the Alumni
Office, will be
forwarded .

'35 2nd Lieut.
Robert J.
Allen, Jr.,

Cavalry, 256
E. Pleasant
St., Amherst,
Mass.
'40 Aviation
Cadet Geo.
L. Arwater,
Air Corps, 12
Hedges Ave.,
We st fie Id,
Mass.
'41 Aviation
Cadet Allan

K. Bardwcll, Air Corps, Charlesgate Hotel, 535
Beacon Street, Boston, Mass.
'25 Lieut. Adrian I). Barnes, Coast Artillery, 916

Marianna Avenue, Coral Gables, Fla.
'38 Pvt. Harry Belgrade, 10 Wilson Avenue,

Northampton, Mass.
'31 Lieut. Wilbur lluek, 16 Dickinson Street,

Amherst. Mass.
'35 2nd Lieut. Albert F. Burgess, Jr., Cavalry, 43

Congress Street, Greenfield, Mass.
'37 Robert Couhig, U. S. Army Engineer, 22 Giles

Avenue, Beverly, Mass.
'32 Lieut. Warren Fabyan, Cavalry, Tyngsboro,

Mass.
'33 Pvt. Edward G. Fawn-It, 334 Lincoln Avenue,

Amherst, Mass.
'38 Ensign William Ferguson, Supply Corps,

U.S.N. R., 7 Park Place, Ludlow, Mass.
'41 Pvt. George Fotos, 351 Main Street, Amherst,

Mass.
'38 2nd Lieut. Cyrus French, Cavalry, 620 Holmes

Street, State College, Pa.
'94 Lt. Col. S. Francis Howard, Chemical Warfare
Service, 58 Main Street, Northfield, Vt.
(Continued on Page 12)

CAPT. WARREN S. BAKER. JR.
U. S. ARMY AIR CORPS

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN

OBITUARY

WAR SERVICE ADVISORY BUREAU

Paul Francis Whorf '15

Paul Francis (Doc) Whorf died suddenly on Janu-
ary 13, 1942 of a heart attack.

He was born in Hyde Park, Mass., February 2,
1892. He prepared for college at Mechanic Arts
High School in Boston. In College he played football.
He became a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity.

After being graduated from the College, and until
1917, he was employed at his step-father's farm in
Caribou, Maine. He then enlisted in the army and,
until 1919, was stationed at the American Ordnance
Base Depot for France at Watervliet Arsenal, New
York.

For the past 23 years Doc had been associated
with the International Harvester Corporation where
he was held in high esteem.

In 1923 he was married to Miss Maude Dickinson
of Roxbury, Conn., who survives him together with
their children: George, 17; Priscilla, 16; Alison, 14;
and Christine, 11. He was devoted to his home and
family.

His genial disposition and happy smile won him a
host of friends everywhere who will long remember
their pleasant association with him. "For years
beyond our ken, the light he leaves behind him lies
upon the paths of men."

Burton A.Harris '13

MARRIAGES

'34 Arthur A. Green to Miss Dorothy May Field,
March 21, 1942, at Wethersfield, Conn.

'36 Miss Priscilla King to Dr. Francis D. Goddard,
November 9, 1940, at Melrose, Mass.

'36 Lieut. Norvin C. Laubenstein to Miss Dorothy
E. Landsdowne, March 1, 1942, at Waltham, Mass.

'38 and '39 Rexford H. Avery to Miss Elizabeth
R. Warner, April 18, 1942, at Sunderland, Mass.

'38 Edward H. Glass to Miss Nell W. Webb,
March 28, 1942, at Boydton, Va.

'38 Kenneth G. Nolan to Miss Elizabeth W.
Pickard, February 14, 1942, at Newton Center, Mass.

'39 Lieut. Edward F. Stoddard, Jr., to Miss
Esther G. Shaffer, March 20, 1942, at Coeur d'Alene,
Idaho.

'40 Richard H. Jaquith to Miss E. Louise Bottum,
April 4, 1942, at Northampton, Mass.

'41 Lieut. Edward Broderick to Miss Asta Bro-
beck, April 11, 1942, at Southern Pines, N. C.

'41 Miss Jean Tyler to Lyle M. Frazer, Novem-
ber 7, 1941, at West Newbury, Vt.

w'42 and '42 Harold B. White, Jr., to Miss
Thyrza S. Barton, April 5, 1942, at South Amherst,
Mass.

Recently established at the Harvard Club in
Boston, 374 Commonwealth Avenue, is a War
Service Advisory Bureau, the object of which is to
furnish information to all alumni regarding oppor-
tunities for service in the armed forces of the United
States and to receive applications for such service.
This work is undertaken with the approval and co-
operation of the commanding officers of the First
Corps Area and the First Naval District.

The Bureau is staffed voluntarily by representa-
tives of various New England colleges. Don Douglass
'21 is on duty at the Bureau headquarters on
Saturday mornings.

'08 Herbert K. Hayes, professor of plant genetics
at the University of Minnesota, is author of a new
book called "Methods of Plant Breeding."

'18 Flavel Gifford has been re-elected superin-
tendent of schools in Fairhaven, Mass. He received
his M.Ed, from Harvard in 1929.

'27 Eddie Connell, tree warden of Stamford,
Conn., has become something of a radio author.
Three of his half hour radio dramas have recently
been produced, with distinguished actors in the lead-
ing roles. One of his plays, based on Washington and
Valley Forge was broadcast on February 22nd. Ed
is collaborating on a four-act play to be given a try-
out this summer for fall Broadway production.

'39 Charlie Branch has recently been elected to
the Robert R. Andrews National Honorary Dental
Association because of high scholastic average during
his three years at Tufts Dental College. He has
enlisted as ensign in the Naval Reserve and on com-
pletion of his college course will receive commission
as lieutenant junior grade.

'41 Arthur Pava has been awarded a scholarship
in the graduate school at Cornell University.

BIRTHS

'27 A son, Edward Brian, to Mr. and Mrs.
Edward A. Connell, March 5, 1942 at Stamford,
Conn.

The summary of Academic Activity events on
pages 6 and 7 of this Bulletin was prepared by Prof.
Frank Prentice Rand, general manager of Academics.
The pages were provided by courtesy of the Aca-
demics Board.

'30 and '33 A son, Eben Daniel, to Mr. and
Mrs. Fred W. Jones (Marion Taylor '33), February
19, 1942, at Rochester, N. Y.

'33 A son, Peter Dean, to Mr. and Mrs. Dean
Asquith, March 29, 1942, at Northampton, Mass.

'34 A daughter, Anne Harvey, to Mr. and Mrs.
Edward W. Harvey, March 26, 1942, at Astoria,
Oregon.

'38 A daughter, Nancy Irene, to Mr. and Mrs.
Elmer Lombard, March 27, 1942, at Pittsfield, Mass.

'38 A daughter, Sandra Jean, to Mr. and Mrs.
Miller S. Pflager, March 29, 1942, at Waukegan, 111.

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN

WITH THE ALUMMAE

- ■ ■ ■■■■■■ <«ni»ai!UHHnHBi

By Mary E. Garvey '19

The Alumnae Club of Worcester (Betty Love '28,
treasurer) recently added $25 to the Alumnae Student
Loan Fund. The money was raised through sale of
bags of ribbon and on one food sale.

Katherlne Callanan '41 is working in Fraser's
Flower Shop in Wellesley. Her address is 8 Cross
Street, Wellesley.

Kathleen Tully '41 is now employed at Steiger's
in Holyoke where she writes fashion advertising,
newspaper and radio copy. Kay thinks her new job
is "wonderful." and is getting a lot of fun out of it.

Bernico Schubert '35 received her Ph.D. and
also was elected to Phi Beta Kappa at Radcliffe last
June. She is doing botanical research at Harvard.

Phyllis Tolman '41 is assistant home demonstra-
tion agent in the Hampshire County (Mass.) Exten-
sion Service.

The past year has been a pleasant and successful
one for the Boston Alumnae group. Regular meet-
ings have been held at the Women's Industrial Union
on Boylston Street; programs have been varied. The
Boston women have also been active in promoting
interest in the concert by the Glee Clubs and the
lecture by Professor Rand, to be held at the Copley
Plaza on April 18th.

On April 1st the following officers were elected for
the coming year: president, Dorothy Cook Warner
':!.■>: vice-president, Ann (iilbert \'{S; treasurer,
Evelyn Ber&srrom '41; secretary, Nancy Parks "?!(;
corresponding secretary, Janet Sargent ';$.>; mem-
bership chaiiman. Virginia Richardson '41; pub-
licity. Elizabeth Howe Dewey *40; program,
Helena Patsy McMahon M7; ways and means,
Helen Connolly Keefe ';{.">.

The new officers are now planning for another
year of interesting meetings.

CO-ED SWIMMERS AGAIN ARE NATIONAL

CHAMPIONS

For the second successive year the swimming
Statettes have been announced as champions in the
National Telegraphic Swimming Meets. The girls,
at numerous colleges, swim against time; and the
results are sent to a designated headquarters for
checking and compilation. Skidmore placed second
in the meet, Northwestern third.

In winning national honors the Statettes set a new
time of :44.5 in the 75-yard relay, breaking their old
record of :45.7. The 100-yard free-style relay team
also set a new record of :52.8, beating the record they
set last year.

Martha Hall '42 of Worcester, who swam one leg
in the 75 yard medley relay, is sister of Bud Hall '44,
outstanding star on the varsity swimming team (see
page 10).

AIR HERO

(Continued from Page 3)

way — shutting his oxygen completely off — and then
saw him topple off the stool!

It is hard for a layman to realize the terrible con-
sequences of that act. Nobody can live long without
oxygen. But, you might ask, why didn't they open
the door and drag him out?

They didn't, because that would have meant
instant death. You see, his system had been gradu-
ally worked up to a thin pressure of 42,000 feet — it
would have to be worked as gradually back down
again, over a period of half an hour or more, not to
affect him dangerously.

But he couldn't live that long without oxygen.
Fast and desperate thinking was in order for those
at the controls outside. They had to compromise on
the time element, and take a chance. They com-
promised on leaving him in there eight seconds.

They stood there, frantic with anxiety while the
eight seconds ticked off like eight hours. Then they
opened the door and carried Headle out — and to the
hospital.

Headle had "fallen" the equivalent of eight miles
in eight seconds — almost 3000 miles an hour! No
human ever before has gone through atmospheric
changes that fast, that far. No human can live
through such an experience.

But Headle did live through it. The accident
happened nine months ago and he is still alive, al-
though a semi-invalid. Eventually he will recover,
in an abbreviated way.

He probably can never fly again, even as a pas-
senger; his heart will never stand much physical
exertion; he never can take any "altitude" — he can't
even cross to the East Coast again unless he goes by
boat through Panama. He must always stay near
sea level.

When he began to get better his nerves were bad.
Any loud noise would throw him into a panic. They
moved him from the city to a hospital at Indio, out
on the desert, seeking absolute quiet for him. But
the passing trains drove him insane.

He started to go down again. By October he was
in a bad relapse; in some ways worse than at first.

So he rented a new California-type house on the
edge of this tiny village of Cathedral City, some six
miles east of Palm Springs. The quiet of the desert
is over this place and sudden noises are rare. Headle
has improved rapidly.

Tomorrow I'll tell you how this life-long airman,
now sentenced to the ground, has readjusted his life.

Cathedral City, Calif. - Marshal Headle, chief
test pilot of the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, had
never been an "indoors" man. Both his work and
his hobbies kept him in the open.

After his )L'. 000-foot "fall" in a pressure-chamber
experiment last June, he knew he was doomed to
many months of indoors quiet and solitude. He
knew he'd go crazy if he just let time lie on his
hands. So the first thing he did, as soon as he was
able, was to plan out his days so they would be fully
occupied.

It is working out well. He has not become bored
or impatient. I have just been to see him in his nice
rented house here on the desert, and except for a
constant twisting of the cords on his bathrobe he
seems perfectly calm and at ease. Yet a violent
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Frances Gasson '43 of Athol is manager of the
team. Kathleen Callahan, of the physical education
department, is coach. The girls worked hard in
preparation for their meet. They deserve hearty
congratulations on their success.

SEPTEMBER

17 First student sing under Doric Alviani

23 Collegian competition opens

30 Glee Club tryouts

30 Index competition opens

OCTOBER

1 Sinfonietta tryouts

2 Women's glee club tryouts
6 Index senior portraits begin

14 Debating Club meets

28 Collegian elects eleven new members

30 Castings for Pirates of Penzance (including Ken Collard,

Betty Moulton, and Gordon Smith)

31 Campus Varieties (George Langton, author)

NOVEMBER

6 Sinfonietta in convocation

6 Coach Dickinson publishes Academics statement for last

year: receipts $15,365.91; expenditures $14,163.03

14 Alpha Epsilon Pi wins Skit Contest

IB Sinfonietta in South Hadley

20 Nottenburg and Polchlopek represent Collegian at St.
Louis Associated Collegiate Press Convention

DECEMBER

7 War

11 Collegian Quarterly (Mary Donohue. editor)

16 Social Union Glee Club concert

17 Band concert (Charles Farnum, director)

Ac*a<l<Mii

13 Polchlopek become

29 "State Show"
started (Vond

5 Louis Lytton read

9 Sinfonietta in Tu

13 Alpha Gamma Rk

17 Glee Clubs sing

Camp Deveni

18 State- Yeshiva deb

19 Lambda Chi AM

25 State-New HamPs

26 Band in convo^1

If Xotes

im
y radio program

sculpture
ofU.S.O. building at

"I'.n]

contest

MARCH

13 Juniors win Roister Doister interclass one-act play
contest

16 Collegian banquet

18 Glee Clubs sing for New England Dairymen's Conven-
tion in Springfield

20 State-Boston University debate

20-21 Pirates of Penzance (1642 admissions)

26 Debating Club participates in New England Model

Congress

27 Glee Clubs sing for New York Alumni

APRIL

6 State-New York University debate

10 Band attends New England College Band Festival in
Boston

10 Charles Geer elected editor of Index

14 Sigma Iota wins intersorority declamation contest

14 Sigma Beta Chi wins the song contest

18 _ Glee Clubs sing for Boston Alumni

30 Insignia Convocation: David Morton guest speaker

Three diamond chip medals, fourteen gold medals,
twenty-one silver medals, $50 managers' prize

MAY

5 (?) Index for distribution iLois Doubleday, editor)
2 Roister Doisters present Torch-Bearers
2 Glee Clubs for Mothers' Day
16 Roister Doister Breakfast

16 Second presentation of Torch-Bearers

17 Academics Breakfast - Dr. Waugh presiding

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN

Basketball Anniversary

And Other Xotes

Guests of honor at the 22nd Annual Varsity Club
Breakfast which will be held on Sunday morning,
May 17, in Draper Hall at 8 o'clock will be the
members of the 1917 varsity basketball team.

The occasion will mark two important anniver-
saries. Fifty years ago the game of basketball was
invented by Dr. James Naismith and throughout the
past season the golden jubilee of the great indoor
court game has been observed. Hundreds of "Golden
Ball Games" have been played and the proceeds
turned over to the Naismith Memorial Committee
for the erection of a Temple of Basketball at Spring-
field College.

The second anniversary which will receive due
recognition is that of the 1917 quintet which returns
to the campus for reunion after twenty-five years.
The year 1917 is one of great import in Massachusetts
State basketball for at this time the hoop sport was
revived after going into the discard at the end of
the 1908 schedule. Basketball first appeared on the
campus in 1902 and a schedule of eight games was
played. Up through 1908 the game drifted along
with little student support and little coaching and
the athletic committee decided to drop the sport as
a varsity enterprise.

Harold M. (Kid) Gore '13, present head of the
department of physical education for men, who had
had charge of interclass basketball since his gradu-
ation and had tutored two freshman quintets to
interclass championships was given the varsity
coaching portfolio in 1917. Emory E. (Em) Grayson
'17, Mass. State's placement director, who had cap-
tained his freshman team and played both center and
forward for three years, was named leader of the new
varsity five, and Newell Moorehouse '17 prepared a
schedule of six games.

With a team consisting of Captain Em Grayson,
center; Art McCarthy '19 and Ras Pond '19, for-
wards; Forrest (Goo) Grayson '18 and Al Sedgwick
'18, guards, the Statesmen made their start in the
Drill Hall against Connecticut, and outpointed the
Nutmeggers, 33-12. Replacements during this tilt
included Charlie Henry '18 and Paul Squires '17,
forwards; Tom Gasser '19, Raymie Parkhurst '19 and
King Babbitt '18, guards.

There followed victories over Rhode Island State,
and New Hampshire on two occasions, while Williams
and Springfield both proved too difficult nuts to
crack, giving Coach Gore's first varsity quintet a
record of four wins against a pair of losses.

World War I soon came along to cause a temporary
halt in varsity athletics at Massachusetts State, but
the early twenties saw the College resuming its place
in sports along with other New England colleges. A
decade after this 1917 team played its first game,
Coach Gore was guiding the 1927 quintet through a
successful season which included eight victories as
against five losses.

This team was given the name of "Opportunists"
by a newspaper reporter and proceeded to live up to
its soubriquet. It was captained by Merrill Parten-
heimer '27 who performed at right guard, while the
other regular members of the outfit were Leslie
McEwen at left guard, Roland Reed at left forward,
Ray Griffin at right forward, and Howard Thomas,
center. Reed is a successful coach of basketball, as
well as soccer and baseball, at Easthampton High;
his team won the Small High School Basketball
Tourney at the College a year ago. Tom Kane,
Norm Nash and Larry Briggs served as replacements
for this club; the same Larry of course who now
serves as coach of varsity soccer at State and public
service recreation member of the physical education
department.

Although now devoting most of his time to direct-
ing physical education activities and teaching
"majors" in physical education and recreation, Kid
Gore still has a warm spot in his heart for the court
game. The first week in March witnessed the 15th
annual small high school basketball tournament in
the Physical Education Building cage. Each night
from Monday through Saturday thousands of West-
ern Massachusetts folks watched their favorite sons
compete. It is an affair that emphasizes winning —
but winning and also losing the right way. Player
and spectator alike are good sports, whatever the
outcome. Kid conceived the idea of this opportunity
for boys in the small schools way back in the Drill
Hall days of 1928 and it has blossomed into a real
Connecticut Valley institution each March.

L. L. Derby

22nd Annual Varsity Club Breakfast

DRAPER HALL, MAY 17, AT 8.00 A. M.

President, A. W. Smith 22; vice-presidents, Theodore Farwell '27 and A. W. Spaulding '17;

Secretary -Treasurer, Lorin E. Ball '21.

Executive Committee, to June 1942: S. S. Crossman '09, E. S. Carpenter '24, Ralph Sted-

man '20; to 1943: E. L. Bike '24, E. J. Burke '10, C. S. Hicks; to 1944: L. E.

Briggs '27. W. A. Munson '05, Maurice Suher '30.

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1917 BASKETBALL SQUAB

Back row {left to right): Gore '13 (coach), Parkhurst '19, Gasser '19, Henry '17, Hawley '18,

Babbitt '18, Moorehouse '17 (manager)

Middle row: Sedgwick '18, McCarthy '19, E. Grayson '17 (captain), Pond '19, F. Grayson '18

Front row: Squires '17, Irving '17

1917 SCORES

Mass. State
Mass. State
Mass. State
Williams
Mass. State
Springfield

33 Connecticut
31 Rhode Island
22 New Hampshire

34 Mass St. Mi-

27 New Hampshire

43 Mass. State

I 1
21
15
12
28

I!>

SCORES

Mass. State

Clark

Army

Mass. State

Boston Univ.

Mass. State

Northeastern

Maine

Mass. State

Williams

Mass. State

Trinity

Mass. State

W.P.I.

Wesleyan

Mass. State

New Hampshire

Mass. State

Middlebury

Mass. State

Vermont

Mass. State

Tufts

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ATHLETICS

Swimming

"It was the b i we ever had." Joe Rogers.

nrimmir; coach, is sure. "When the season started
I tne" some of the boys would do O.K.: but I
figured . . '- read Two records broken

as Statesmen lose after ei ery meet. Instead, we
won them all except that meet with Yale."

. . c '42 of Lawrence not

- • i ■ • ■ • ■ i -nmer but as a great captain and
leader. -Jodka is National Junior Champion in the
__ -reast stroke it ooold naturally have been his
inclination to better his records in this specie.:
every u »eet. ''Bat jroo know what he did." says
Ejogere "he took it easy in four meets, swam just
fast enough to win his own race, so as to save him-
self and come back in a later race to get the points
we needed to win that meet E . I times he did it,
, - ■ - eyai Bowdoin, and M.I.T.

Against Bowdoin and Ted be did it the hard

He climbed _'. rj breast stroke

- be roughest double

great eaptaii and a swell
kid."

H i regards Jodka ..ance through-

- ■ • . - is fully appre.^-.. e of the
■-" • r ■ - ■ Lutiber Grare J

i " " 'On, Bud Ha . " ." r r- '.■ -i":

IS -..' H •-.'. ake, Win Avery 42 of Shrewsbury,

and the tart. 'They did all right •. . betcbf boc

saj Joe Which is something of an understatement.

E d ' g 1 e list of records broken by the

swimming Statesmen during the 1941-42 season.

'. ■ -:a record means the Massachusetts
record "- . record represents top time in

mming took place.;

December IT, 1941 at State: re. Worcester Teen
e ;:> ' -. .<« o*a; Pod :54.0
__'. • e, HaO, College and Pool, 2:19.3

ares fcroke, Jodka, College, Pod, and
Znglam 1 2t

January ]0. 1942, at V* iJJiamstown; vs. WiJJiams

22'. • ' •:-■<. 2:: 9.0

: .
• - Gaw - ..'-. d ke Hall,

College, 3'A1 . . v.-jn the mi

January 10. 1 912 at State: vs. Yale

•: Johnson of Yale [National Chan p
P«tf, :S2j6

■ ■ ' . .-. ' . f P«3 s#d 2Ve»

Engkmt - 2oA

January 2%. 1912 at State: vs. Connecticut I'.
February 7. I9J2 at Middletovt n; vs. Wc-sleyan

Joe • g Gare A very, Hall,

February J 3, 1912 at Ni-w Widun : I -. Coast

(xoaid

300 medley relay, Tilley, Jodka, Hall, CoZfege, PooZ,

a7z<f JVezc England, 2:59.8
100 free style, HalL College, :53.8
150 backstroke, Tilley, College, New England, 1:42.0
200 breast stroke, Jodka, College, New England,

Pool, 2:23.8

February 27. 1942 at State; vs. Bowdoin

100 free style. Hall College, Pool, and New England,

:52.5
150 backstroke, Tilley, College, Pool, 1:45.0

March 6, 1942 at Cambridge; vs. M.I.T. and
W.P.I.

50 free style, HalL College and Pool, :23.8

March 13-14, 1942 at Amherst in the New Eng-
land Intercollegiate Championships

200 breast stroke, Jodka, Poo/ record, 2:29.2

300 medley relay, Tilley, Jodka, HalL College, 3:04.1

50 free style, HalL College, Pool, :23.6

March 20, 1942 at Yale in the Eastern Inter-
collegiate Swimming Championships

50 free style, HalL College and New England, :23.4
100 free style, HalL College, Pool, New England,

Eastern, and Eastern Championship Meet Record,

:51.1*
"National Intercollegiate Record. Best ever by

anyone in competition to that date. World's

record of :51.0 held by Johnnie Weissmuller;

March 27, 1942 at Harvard in the National
Intercollegiate Swimming Championships

50 free style, HalL Tied College and New England
Record, :23.4
. medley relay, Tilley, Jodka, Gare, College, 3:03.6

April 3-4. 1942 at Yale in the National A. A. U.
Swimming Championships

B medley relay, Tilley, Jodka, Hall, College, 3:02.0
220 free style, HalL College, New England Inter-

coUegiate, Neu England A. A. V '., 2:12.5
220 breast stroke, Jodka, College, New England

A.A.U., 2:41.7
150 backstroke, Tilley, College, 1:44.9

At the Eastern Intercollegiates at Yale, State was
gist!] of 33 teams.

At the National Intercollegiates at Harvard, State
was eighth of 41.

In the National A. A. U. Championships, thirty-
.oJJeges and clubs competed. Yale won. Mer-
cer:-;burg was second. Princeton and Massachusetts
~t%te tied for third.

96 Harry T. Edwards was the subject of an in-

jng article in the April issue of the Country

Centleman, telling about his direction of a program

• .'.irjg rope to equip naval ships. The article will

ear in full in the next issue of the Bulletin,

'27 It has been reported that Robert Burrell,
l.'.S.D.A. eatoa and for several years sta-

tioned at Yokohama, is at present held prisoner of
war by the Japs.

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ACADEMICS

Roister Pointers

To the Roister Doisters again falls the distinction
of officially opening and closing the Ahrmni Day
program. May 16th.

At S:30 o'clock on the morning of Alumni Day
the gTi-nnal Roister Doister breakfast will be held in
Draper Hall. This has always been a happy event,
and it is expected that a large group of Alumni
Roister Doisters will gather.

At 9 o'clock on the evening of the 16th the R::?:;:
B . ezers will present George Keiley's -The Porch
Bearers" for Alumni in Stockbridge Hall. This re-
feree-satire should prove ideal entertainment as the
closing feature of the Alumni Day program.

Blocks ot sears are being reserved for alumni re-
union classes, and individual Alumni re.-.; secure
their own sears, within these blocks, at the res -
tion headquarters m Memorial Hall up until noon
on Alumni Day.

Glee Clubs;

The New York Alumni Club sponsored a
by the g'.ee oiubs at the Hotel Roosevelt in New
City on March _7th. Artis . -

eveni was a great success.
\ tes have since come to the Alums oud

in their praise of the program which Doric A
and his singers presented.

1 am so happy we had the opportunity of hearing
them: they were good! The songs re difficult
so well done. The program was much differen:
the ordinal g .:b concert a very happy choice.

1 hope we will be on the glee club - gain next
-
We all thought the concert surpassed e\< •
high standard. 1 wouldn't have missed it
and hope there will be another before rone,
-JO
"1 feel 1 must write - did con-

cert given by the musical clubs at the Roosevelt. The
repertoire » - - interesting and well balanced as

any 1 can remember; the many evidences

and of mature hearing on the
group were impressive; and. finally, the students
d that they can really sing and that they

t. Doric Ahum has done a remarkable

Creating and developing a high type of intervsi. co-
operation, showmanship Much credit sfa
him." — Jack (,

1 am sure 1 e opinion ot" all '. BOSS

attended the concert the other evening when I say

that everyone enjoyed it immensely; we all hope
that the clubs can return to New \
We can double the alt."- I
I? S
Incidentally, the attendance, 116. represented the
up .<!' Alumni vet to gather for .in evening
■rk Cit>

was reee reravesT

UR HERO

lh- ::- -..;■.•" - .— : hhi

- ■■. eheck : ye r: rer- usness
afrer-ezrec. " his L\eeideni

Every — errzhrg Mr. Kee.hle calls r; The 1
plant — Lie reeles away — ;r-T tz se-e h: Thhrgs ars
getting along, hie doesn't worry :.":;t;: :he
his assistant pilots ere ehiTTrrers and thoroughly
erirre ; hzT t.; hikes :: keer rhs rhrcer — :he rie

He reads almost constantly. He says he reads a
lot :: trash. ;r>T to hrsars .=. 1 ersier. ajralrsT hrre-
dom. He reads Tie newspapers, bur -ever stens
the radio .

He's oecup rig-time"* .h --
sfons is figuring oat k : cat ng charts. He has

:e only Tear races in his life and d v
then, but he loves horse races and loves :e dope
rherz . ■ .-. :

He spends about three hours a re doping out
Tmers a: various Tracks and he sa e us a stage
is mighty higr eh he never pla. : > '

N . - * drops 1 on Sun .-. - .

..-• .-.::.. . - i - ? Lockheed

: see him. He - :hem. but

don't s ins

[fence in a while he takes a s
there arc -

In hie -

same as a hum. ng m - - merely

. - with no res «eu

of driving sends 1
- - -
»

oghs s his

- gas - s

s goo
but be says it's nos s

,-ne.
In his shocked

-
And it's very noises - . . ~

is necassa - r.er him.

For - raining p.. -

Thing

■er him.

talking - seems

He few in th - nd has been ::

hobh . specting -

but he jus

cert the singers attended a Krvd
visited th W

and saw the bright lights, then returned to the

3 -

Teachers I Athens. W. \

"29 teaches thes Mass

son's students
annual debating tournament in

Inter - - ...

in a pub - - -

Amherst und< - - uture K

Mrs. Lav.
rved refreshments for I

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'34 Frank Batstone is now landscape architect
with Maryland-National Capitol Park and Planning
Commission, with headquarters at Silver Springs,
Md. Frank is building a house in Garrett Park, Md.
He was formerly with the National Park Service.

Library-
State College

SEVENTY-SECOND COMMENCEMENT

MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE, MAY 16-17, 1942

ALUMNI DAY IS SATURDAY, MAY 16th

THE PROGRAM ON THE 16th: Roister Doister breakfast, Draper Hall, 8.30 a. m.;
annual alumni meeting, Memorial Hall, 10 a. m.; 12 noon, alumni luncheon, Draper
Hall, waiter service for members of 50-year and older classes, cafeteria service for all
others", concert by the college band, Memorial Hall, 2.30 p. m.; alumni parade, 3.00
p. m.; baseball game, 3.30 p. m.; alumnae tea, Butterfield House, 4.00 p. m.; concert
on chime, following ball game; 6.00 to 7.00 p. m., class reunion suppers; 9.00 p. m.,
Roister Doister play, "The Torch-Bearers," Bowker Auditorium.

SUNDAY, MAY 17th, Varsity Club breakfast in Draper Hall, 8.00 a. m.; Academics
breakfast in Draper, 9.00 a. m.

MONDAY, MAY 18th, Soph-Senior Hop, Drill Hall — to which the committee invites
Alumni. Subscription $4.75. Dancing 10 to 3.

Plan, now, to return to campus May 16th
Alumni Registration Headquarters are in Memorial Hall

ALUMNI IN UNIFORM

(Continued from Page 3)

'41 Pvt. Stanley A. Jackimczyk, Cavalry, 13 Oak
Street, Florence, Mass.

'39 Pvt. Edmund M. Keyes, Cavalry, South Valley
Road, Amherst, Mass.

'41 Cadet Richard Lester, Coast Guard, 9 High-
land Street, Ware, Mass.

'28 Robert A. Lincoln, U. S. Army Engineer, 1
Hillside Avenue, Great Neck, L. I.

'37 Ensign Joseph Nowakowski, Navy, 31 Frank-
lin Street, Easthampton, Mass.

'37 Pvt. George O'Rrien, Chemical Warfare, 148
Crescent Street, Northampton, Mass.

'41 Pvt. Frank Spencer, Cavalry, 439 Elm Street,
Northampton, Mass.

'38 Pvt. Frederick Sievers, Jr., 109 Fearing Street,
Amherst, Mass.

'35 Naval Aviation Cadet Willard Senecal, Village
Hill, Williamsburg, Mass.

w'28 Petty Officer George G. Wendell, U.S.N.R.,
Ogunquit, Maine

Charles H. Henry '17, who recently was pro-
moted to Colonel in the Quartermaster Corps, is in
command of a unit comprising 110 officers and 3400
men.

2nd Lieut. Howie King '41 stopped in at the
Alumni Office the other day while on a short fur-
lough. Curry Hicks also dropped in at about that
time and, when he left, shook hands with King,
wished him "best of luck." "Oh, don't worry," re-
plied Howie, "we'll do all right."

It was an amazing thing — hearing King say what
he did, and in the way he did, anyone could have
been right positive that the United States was going
to come out way on top in this war. Way on top,
and with no dilly dally.

Sgt. David P. Rossiter '37 has been accepted as
a student at the Officer Candidate School, Miami
Beach, Fla.

Those who have watched agile Louis Bush '34

caper and scamper around the football field, baseball
diamond, or baseball court, may find it difficult to
picture Lou in command of a group of heavy, lum-
bering, cumbersome armored tanks. But that is
exactly what Bushie is up to these days.

Names of his tanks are: Helen N. Bush (that's
Lou's wife's name) ; Hell mit Hitler, Hell on Wheels,
and Hellzapoppin.

'13 Harold Ryder is the new commander of the
Belchertown Post of the American Legion.

'38 Conrad Hemond, who is with the U. S.
Engineers at Westover Field, speaks as follows of a
special course in engineering which is being con-
ducted at Westover by Professor George Marston of
the College, "I don't know George's reaction to the
class but I do know the boys' reaction to him, and
it is just about tops."

THE ALUMNI

BULLETIN

BEFORE THE TRIP TO TOKYO

MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE
AMHERST, MASSACHUSETTS

Vol. XXIV, No. 9

June, 1942

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN
MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

George E. Emery '24, Editor
Published monthly at Amherst, Mass. (except August and
September) by the Associate Alumni of Massachusetts State College.
Entered as second class matter, March 17, 1920. at the Postoffice
at Amherst, Mass., under the Acts of March 3, 1879.

OFFICERS OF ASSOCIATE ALUMNI OF
MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

President, Albert W. Smith '22 of Springfield

Vice- President, William V. Hayden '13 of Newton Center

Secretary, Marshall O. Lanphear 'IS of Amherst

Treasurer, Clark L. Thayer '13 of Amherst

Executive Secretary, George E. Emery '24 of Amherst

BOARD OF DIRECTORS
to 1942

Erford W. Poole '96 of New Bedford

David P. Rossiter '37 of Maiden

Zoe Hickney White '32 of Worcester

Alfred E. Wilkins '15 of Wakefield

to 1943

Harry Dunlap Brown '14. ex-officio, of Billerica
William L. Doran '15 of Amherst

Mary E. M. Garvey '19 of Amherst
Lawrence L. Jones '26 of North Beverly

Edward J. Gare. Jr. '15 of Northampton

to 1944

Donald C. Douglass '21 of Belmont

Norman D. Hilyard '23 of Springfield

John W. McGuckian '31 of Roslindale

Arthur D. Tilton '18 of Woburn

to 1945

Alden C. Brett '12, ex-officio, of Belmont

Alan W. Chadwick '31 of Baldwinsville

Evelyn Davis Kennedy '26 of Belmont
Starr M. King '21 of Beveriy

Lewis Schlotterbeck '16 of Wakefield

The Alumni Bulletin is sent ten times each year to all members
of the Associate Alumni. Memberships are: Annual S3. 00, Sustain-
ing $10.00.

Renewal notice- *-ery - ber of the Associate Alumni receives
a statement, enclosed u a i ul>tin, when his membership expires.
Expiration is always 1 months Irom date when membership is re-
ceived by Alumni Office

PRESIDENT BAKER RECEIVES
LL.D. AT R. I. STATE

President Hugh P. Baker received the honorary
LL.D. from Rhode Island State College at exercises
celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of that College1
on May 23rd.

In reading the citation, President Carl P. Wood-
ward said,

Hugh Potter Baker. Native of Wisconsin, of a\
family which typifies the highest qualities of the Ameri-
can tradition; graduate of Michigan State College and
of Yale University; teacher of forestry, successively, at\
the state colleges of Iowa, Pennsylvania, andNew York;
member of the United States Forest Service; authority
on the care and uses of trees; vigorous exponent of\
conservation of natural resources; since 1933 president
of Massachusetts State College.

It is with genuine pleasure that we wilcome you, the
senior president of New England's Land Grant Colleges,
to our campus today. You brought to your present post
a rich experience as an educator and as a conservationist.
Your prophetic eye has sought new fields for educational
endeavor; your progressive and effective policies at the
college over which you preside have been translated into
an ever-growing service to your state. Under your
leadership, Massachusetts State Collage has advanced in
power and in prestige.

It is therefore a high privilege, on the authority of the
Board of Trustees, to admit you to the hor. ry fellow-
ship of Rhode Island Slut >lhgi, and to ;onjer upon
you the degree of Doctor of Laws.

Cover picture — Lieutenant Carl Richard Wildner
'38 (right) is congratulated, in November 1940, by
Captain Robert H. Fatt, Pan American' s chief pilot at
Miami, after he had completed a special course in
navigation and meteorology given by Pan American
Airways System.

Wildner was one of seventy-nine volunteers who took
part in Brigadier General Doolittle's bombing expedition
over Japan on April 18, 1942.

'81 and '95 Dean Joseph L. Hills of the College
of Agriculture at the University of Vermont and Dr.
Albert F. Burgess, U.S.D.A. entomologist of Green-
field, Mass., were recently elected to the Massachu-
setts State Chapter of Sigma Xi, honorary scientific
fraternity.

'12 James F. Martin has been appointed chief of
the division of plant disease control of the Bureau
of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, U.S.D.A., in
Washington, D. C Martin received his M.S. from
the College in 1914, his Ph.D. in 1915.

'27 Ralph Haskins, principal of the Amherst high
school, has resigned his position to become principal
of Brockton high school.

'37 Leroy Blackmer, Jr. received his Ph.D. in
physics at Brown University on May 18th.

WILLIAM H. CALDWELL '87 IS

AUTHOR OF "THE GUERNSEY"

Since 1893 William H. Caldwell '87 has been con-
tinuously associated with work for the American
Guernsey Cattle Club.

He was superintendent of Guernseys at the World's
Fair test in 1893; secretary-treasurer of the American
Guernsey Cattle Club, 1894-1923; vice-president,
1923-1941; secretary emeritus from 1941. He is the
author of the recently-printed book called "The
Guernsey" which is regarded as "the most complete
and important book yet published about the Guernsey
breed in America."

Victor A. Rice, professor of animal husbandry and
head of the division of agriculture at the College, is
author of the newly-revised, standard text called
"Breeding and Improvement of Farm Animals." The
book has been widely used as a text during the past
fifteen years; it is expected that in its revised form
it will receive even wider, more valuable use.

New chapters to the book have been contributed
by Frederick N. Andrews '35, assistant professor of
animal husbandry at Purdue University.

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ALUMNI RETURN TO CAMPUS FOR
CLASS REUNIONS

ALUMNI IN UNIFORM

Al Smith '22, of Springfield, was re-elected presi-
dent of the Associate Alumni at the annual Alumni
Day meeting on Saturday, May 16th. Bill Hayden
'13, Clark Thayer '13 and M. 0. Lanphear '18 were
re-elected vice-president, treasurer, and secretary,
respectively. New members of the Board of Directors,
elected to seive until June 1946, are Ethel Blatch-
ford Purnell '34 of Amherst, John Crosby '25 of
Arlington, H. Sidney Vaughan '30 of Worcester, and
Ralph S. Stedman '20 of Springfield.

Trustee Richard Saltonstall presented Nathaniel I.
Bowditch. vice-president of the College Board of
Trustees, for an honorary degree at the graduation
exercises on Sunday afternoon, May 17th.

President Hugh P. Baker read the citation, paying
tribute to Mr. Bowditch's forty-six years of service
to the College and the Commonwealth, and conferred
the degree of Doctor of Laws upon him.

The Roister Doisters entertained a large audience
of Alumni and friends with their presentation of
Geoige Kelly's "Torch Bearers" in Bowker Audi-
torium on Saturday evening as a conclusion to the
formal Alumni Day program.

The play moved smoothly, and kept the audience
laughing or chuckling throughout the evening.

The Associate Alumni sponsored a reception for
the youngest Alumni, their parents and guests, im-
mediately after the senior graduation exercises on
May 17th. Hosts and hostesses were: M. O. Lanphear
'18 and Mrs. Lanphear, G. E. Erickson '19 and Mrs.
Erickson, Mary Garvey '19, Maxwell Goldberg '28,
Evelyn Mallory Alk-n '::i>. Hans VanLeer '32, Mildred
Pierpont sp'24. Clark Thayer '13, Fred Kllert 'SO and
Mrs. Ellert, Red Emery '24 and Mrs. Emery.

Class reunions were well attended. The 1917 Re-
union Committee was especially pleased. The men
of '17 who. as seniors, literally only went through the
motions of a graduation program in order that they
might hurry away to war returned in good numbers,
in spite of another war, to celebrate their twenty-
fifth anniversary as an alumni class.

Dr. Milton Williams, secretary of the Class of
1892, proudly carried the alumni cup, for the largest
percentage of attendance, to the '92 class dinner in
Deerfield. Members of the fifty-year class who
attended the reunion were: W. I. Boynlon, Charles
Condit. H. B. Emerson, Arthur Faneuf, Judson Field,
Fdward B. Holland. •). I'.. Knight. Richard Lyman.
1- 11. Plumb, Klliot Rogers, George E. Taylor,
Milton H. Williams, G. B. Willard.

Daniel P. Cole 72 of Springfield and bis daughter
attended the Alumni Reunion program and, in 80
{Continued on Page 12)

Since the last issue of the Bulletin, word has been
received by the Alumni Office that Alumni, listed
below, have joined the U. S. Armed Forces.

Home addresses for these men, rather than mili-
tary, are listed in order to comply with War Depart-
ment requests that military information 'be not dis-
closed. Mail addressed to these men in care of the
Alumni Office will be forwarded, or if sent to the
home addresses.

'41 Pvt. Peter Barreea, Air Force, 89 Dalton Ave.,

Pittsfield, Mass.
'30 Aviation Cadet Reuben Call, Air Force, Col-
rain, Mass.
'39 Ensign Abraham Carp, Naval Reserve, 96 Elm

Hill Avenue, Boston, Mass.
'34 Lieut. Randall Cole, Military Police, 116 Oak

Avenue, Ithaca, N. Y.
'39 Pvt. Chester Conant, Medical Detachment,

3 Cherry Street, Springfield, Mass.
'38 Pvt. Leon Cone, 314 North Main Street,

North Brookfield, Mass.
w'32 Lieut. Frcdciick E. Cox, C.A.C., 7 Williams

Street, Burlington, Vt.
'32 Corp. William Davis, Air Force, 18 Harris

Street. Waltham, Mass.
'37 Pvt. Henry Dihlmann, Air Force, Shutesbury,

Mass.
w'36 Pvt. Melvin II. Frank, Cavalry, 69 Crawford

Street, Roxbury, Mass.
'33 Lieut. Ashley Gurncy, Cavalry, Cummington,

Mass.
'37 Recruit Merrill S. llobarl, Navy, 69 Park Drive

New Britain, Conn.
'32 Lieut. Eben Holder, Air Force, 253 Washington

Street, Belmont, Mass.
'39 Ensign Arthur M. Kaplan, Naval Reserve,

154 Shurtleff Street, Chelsea, Mass.
II Pvt. Sunnier /.. Kaplan, Engineering Corps,

47 Winchester Street, Brookline, Mass.
'34 Master Sergeant Kliot Landsman, Medical

Corps, 25 Leroy Street, Dorchester, Mass.
'29 Lieut. Kenneth F. McKittrick, Signal Corps,

1434 Saratoga Avenue, N.E., Apt. 662A,

Washington, D. C.
'41 Pvt. Umberto Motroni, Field Artillery, 62

Emerald Street, Boston, Mass.
'40 Ensign Ralph Palumbo, Naval Reserve, 312

Lancaster Street, Leominster, Mass.
11 Henry M. I'arzyc-h, Naval Reserve, 80 Devens

Street, Greenfield, Mass.
'32 Lieut. Alston Salisbury, Chemical Warfare,

13 Cherry Street, West field, Mass.
'33 Lieut. Seymour Scott, Cavalry, 189 Pond

Street, Sharon, Mass.
'41 Pvt. Samuel Shaw, Signal Corps, 88 Pearl

Street, Middleboro, Mass.
'34 Captain Albert Sherman, Cavalry, 87 Porter

Street , Maiden, Mass.
II Pvt. Ronald M. Strecter, Signal Corps, 126

Pearl Street, Holyoke, Mass.
(Continued on Page 6)

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OBITUARIES

Francis G. Stockbridac '92

Francis Granger Stockbridge died on April 16,
1942 in Dade City, Florida, after several months of
ill health.

He was born in Northfield, Mass., in 1871. After
being graduated from the College he was for many
years engaged in farming and in the teaching of
vocational agriculture. After retiring from active
work some 14 years ago Mr. Stockbridge and his
wife went to Dade City to live, where they became
prominently identified with the life of the community.

Mr. Stockbridge is survived by his wife, a daughter,
his mother, two sisters, and one brother.

Professor John A. McLean

Professor John A. McLean, for five years head of
the department of animal husbandry at the College,
died in Hollywood, California on April 28, 1942.

After leaving the College, Professor McLean be-
came associated with the Quaker Oats Company of
Chicago, serving with that organization for several
years until his retirement a year ago.

MARRIAGES

w'28 John Delaney to Miss Pearl C. Beauchamp,
May 20, 1942, at Holyoke, Mass.

'37 Miss Alma Boyden to Lieut. Gordon Dickin-
son Estabrook, December 27, 1941, at Langley Field
Chapel, Va.

'37 Miss Priscilla Bradford to Lieut. Paul R.
Spinney, November 29, 1941, at Somerville, Mass.

'37 Miss Lois Fun to W. J. O'Connor, Jr., De-
cember 30, 1941, at Worcester, Mass.

'38 Aviation Cadet Edgar S. Beaumont to Miss
Jane G. Curtiss, May 2, 1942, at Simsbury, Conn.

'38 Ensign William B. Ferguson to Miss Eunice
Bickford Munger, March 7, 1942, at Longmeadow,
Mass.

'38 and '39 Lieut. Leland W. Hooker to Miss
Frances Rathbone, May 10, 1942, at Haverhill, Mass.

'39 and '38 Lieut. Donald H. Cowles to Miss Lois
R. Macomber, April 25, 1942, at Fort Knox, Ky.

'39 Lee Shipman to Miss Myrtle Bruce, March 21,
1942, at New York City.

'39 Francis E. Smith to Miss Judith Lenzer,
September 26, 1941, at Long Beach, N. Y.

'40 and '41 Private Myron D. Hager to Miss
Gladys C. Archibald, May 22, 1942, at North
Amherst, Mass.

'40 and '40 Lieut. Franklin Hopkins to Miss
Thelma N. Glazier, April 8, 1942, at Norfolk, Va.

'40 and '40 John C. Jakobek to Miss Antonia S.
Dec, April 27, 1942, at Hadley, Mass.

'40 Roy E. Morse to Miss Elizabeth Bemholz,
November 23, 1941, at Corvallis, Oregon.

'40 Miss Esther Pratt to Carleton W. Nowell,
April 18, 1942, at Greenwood, Mass.

'41 Miss Elizabeth L. Mitchell to Arthur B.
Phinney, May 3, 1942, at Pittsfield, Mass.

'41 Stanley C. Reed to Miss Helen P. Doleva,
May 16, 1942, at Halifax, Mass.

'42 Russell E. Hibbard to Miss Patricia Newell,
May 9, 1942, at Amherst, Mass.

TESTIMONIAL DINNERS FOR
PROFESSORS HARRISON AND CANCE

On March 21st, in Northampton, Alumni, faculty,
and friends gathered at a testimonial dinner for
Professor Arthur K. Harrison who was retiring,
technically, from the staff of the department of
landscape architecture at the College after a dis-
tinguished service of thirty-one years.

Professor Harrison will continue with his teaching,
although he has reached the mandatory retirement
age, for the duration of the war emergency.

Dr. Frank A. Waugh officiated as toastmaster at
the dinner, and kept the evening lively with timely
stories and recollections. Professor Curry Hicks
spoke for the faculty and Joe Whitney '17 for the
Alumni; both gave excellent talks. President Baker
added his words of greeting to those assembled, and
to Professor Harrison.

Raymond H. Otto '26, head of the landscape
architecture department, officially presented a gift
to Professor Harrison.

The evening was concluded, memorably, by A. K.
himself whose talk, like his teaching, was an inspira-
tion to all present.

R.H.O.

On the evening of May 15th Dr. Alexander E.
Cance, head of the department of economics, was
guest of honor at a dinner in Amherst. Alumni who
had been his students, faculty and friends, attended.
Like Professor Harrison, Dr. Cance had reached the
mandatory retirement age; but he will continue for
the emergency as professor of economics. Professor
Harold Smart acted as toastmaster; and speakers
included President Baker, Dean Machmer, Professor
A. A. Mackimmie, and Willard A. Munson '05.

The after-dinner program was turned into a
"class." Dr. Cance was asked to pose questions to
Alumni present and to "pass" or "flunk" them on
their answers. First Alumnus to be called upon was
Hans Van Leer '32 who "passed" in fine style, and
the evening continued in most enjoyable fashion.

'36 Owen Trask has been appointed 4-H club
agent in Tolland County, Conn. His address is 15
Mountain Street, Rockville, Conn. While assistant
poultryman and garden specialist at the University
of Connecticut he wrote an extension bulletin called
"The Garden Primer," and also prepared a hand-
book for garden club leaders.

'38 Robert Gleason is chemist in the division of
occupational hygiene, Massachusetts Department of
Labor and Industries, 23 Joy Street, Boston. He
lives at 40 Hereford Street in Boston.

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ACADEMICS BREAKFAST

Four Alumni received honorary academics medals
at the annual Academics Breakfast in Draper Hall
on Sunday morning, May 17th.

They were Milford Lawrence '17, Frank B. Hills
'12, Arthur F. Williams '17, Howard Lawton Knight
'02. These men were presented, respectively, by
Richard W. Smith '17, Joseph B. Cobb '13, Louis
Warren Ross '17, and Frank Prentice Rand.

Dr. Frank A. Waugh presided at the Breakfast,
since Alden Brett '12, president-elect of the Academics
Club for the year 1941-42, was unable to come to
Amherst from Washington where he is deputy co-
ordinator for rubber of the WPB.

President Baker addressed the group, and ex-
tended greetings from the College.

When he made the medal awards, Dean Machmer
read the following citations.

Milford R. Lawrence, of the twenty-five year class,
in welcoming you back to Alma Mater we recall that
throughout your undergraduate years you maintained
an active and honorable interest in the organizations we
now call Aademics. For three years you were in the
glee club, indeed in the college quartet. For four years
you were on the Collegian. During your junior year
you helped to publish the Index. Your professional
contribution in the field of landscape architecture has
been along comparable and cultural lines. As a mem-
ber of the St. Barnabas Church Choir and vice-president
of the Cooperative Concert Association of Cape Cod you
have carried your college experience helpfully into the
outside world. The Academics Board, therefore, honors
itself in presenting to you its token of achievement —
this gold medal.

Frank It. Hills, of the class of 1912, you were a
charter member of the Roister Doisters and took part in
the first play to be presented by that organization, — an
organization which for more than thirty years has sought
to maintain and promote the traditions which you and
your fellow Thespians established. You were, more-
over, for four years a member of the college glee club,
and during your senior year you were its president.
We like to think that your experience along these lines
may have had something to do with your becoming
camp morale officer at Camp Lee during the first World
War. And so, belatedly but gratefully, we confer upon
you this medal. May it be a pleasant souvenir of your
college days and of this occasion, and remind you of
Alma Mater's continuing pride and good will.

Arthur F. Williams, of the twenty-five year class,
throughout your college course you also took an active
and distinguished part in those activities which have
since come to be known as Academics. As a member of
the now almost mythical mandolin club, and as general
manager of the Roister Doisters you were definitely
what we call a "medal man." Moreover in your pro-
fessional life you have continued to be a medal man.
As art director and designer for the highly regarded
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WITH THE ALUMMAE

by Mary E. Garvey '19

The Boston Alumnae Club recently added thirty-
five dollars to the Alumnae Loan Fund.

New officers of the Worcester Alumnae Club are:
president, Cora Jean Dyer "31, vice-president
Florence Benson Jewctt w'34, secretary, Barbara
Farnsworth '40, treasurer, Doris Whittle '29.

Anna Harrington '41 is a teacher at Long Lane
Farm, Middletown, Conn.

Beverley Snyder '41 is fountain manager at S. S.
Kresge Company's store in Springfield, Mass.

Mrs. Charles E. Peters (E. Christine Wheeler
'41) was on campus for commencement, having
travelled from Fort Bliss, Texas where her husband
is with the cavalry.

Friends of Marion Shaw Hackctt '38 rscanlly
received a letter from her which was dated Dejer^ber
8, 1941 and which supplied the information thst she
was living the life of a missionary's wife in Bur.-aa.

BIRTHS

'27 A daughter, Gail Lynn, to Mr. and Mrs.
Allan Snyder, November 14, 1940, at Worcester,
Mass.

'28 A daughter, Frances Pendleton, to Mr. and
Mrs. H. Malcolm Diesser, April 21, 1942, at Hpris-
dale, N. Y.

'30 and '32 A daughter, Carolyn Grace, to Mr.
and Mrs. H. Sidney Vaughan (Margaret Ohlwiler
'32), April 12, 1942, at Worcester, Mass.

'32 and '32 A son, Thomas Carey, to Mr. and
Mrs. Carey Howlett (Anna Parsons '32), May 5,
1942, at Northampton, Mass.

'33 A son, Robert Hobbs, to Mr. and Mrs.
Arthur E. Brown, April 16, 1942, at Boston, Mass.

'34 A son, Richard Howard, to Mr. and Mrs.
Howard Sievers, April 26, 1942, at Portland, Maine.

'34 A son, Scott Allen, to Mr. and Mrs. Vernon
K. Watson, May 16, 1942, at Canajoharie, N. Y.

'37 and '36 A son, Robert Anthony, Jr. to Lieut,
and Mrs. Robert A. Bieber (Mary Cawley '36),
April 21, 1942, at Fort Benning, Ga.

'37 A son, Nelson Arthur, to Mr. and Mrs. John
A. Tuttle, April 20, 1942, at Torrington, Conn.

'38 A daughter. Sheila, to Mr. and Mrs. James
Burke, May 6, 1942, at Northampton, Mass.

'38 and '39 A daughter, Nancy Ellis, to Mr. and
Mrs. Leland W. Hooker (Frances Rathbone '39),
March 30, 1942, at Haverhill, Mass.

'39 and '39 A daughter, Barbara Ann, to Mr. and
Mrs. I. Edward Malkin (Bernice Sedoff '39), April
14, 1942, at Rochester, N. Y.

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ALUMNI IN UNIFORM

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'37 Corp. Donald Thurlow, Infantry, 230 Conway

Street, Greenfield, Mass.
w'17 Captain Lee II. Tucker, Cavalry, 46 Mary

Street, Arlington, Mass.
'39 Pvt. Robert Ullman, Cavalry, 81 Harrison

Avenue, Northampton, Mass.
'41 2nd Lieut. Richard Vincent, Marine Corps,

Little River Street, Westfield, Mass.
'22 Lieut. Colonel Harold E. Wentsch, Air Force
'39 Pvt. Elliot Wilson, Air Force, 43 Summer St.,

Weymouth, Mass.
'37 Pvt. Karol Wisnieski, Veterinary Detachment,

Hillside Road, South Deerfield, Mass.

Members of the Class of 1942 who received com-
missions after completing the advanced R.O.T.C.
course at the College and who have been assigned
to active service are these:

2nd Lieut. Richard C. Andrew, 18 Plymouth

Avenue, Florence, Mass.
2nd Lieut. Mili'ord W. Atwood, 44 Florence Avenue,

Holyoke, Mass.
2nd Lieut. Winthrop R. Avery, 11 Loring Street,

Shrewsbury, Mass.
2nd Lieut. George N. Bennett, 39 Biidge Street,

South Hadley Falls, Mass.
2nd Lieut. Charles F. Rishop, 172 Pleasant Street,

East Walpole, Mass.
2nd Lieut. Daniel R. Carter, Jr., 244 Glen Road,

Wilmington, Mass.
2nd Lieut. John F. Conlcy, Jr., 126 Belmont Street,

Brockton, Mass.
2nd Lieut. Richard W. Cressy, 40 Stone Street,

Beverly, Mass.
2nd Lieut. Elwyn J. Donbleday, R.F.D. 2, Amherst,

Mass.

2nd Lieut. Axel V. Erikson, 94 Massasoit Street,

Northampton, Mass.
2nd Lieut. Fred C. Fosgate, 152 Central Street,

Hudson, Mass.
2nd Lieut. George W. Gaumond, 70 W. Boylston

Street, Worcester, Mass.
2nd Lieut. James W. Gilman, 57 Hollis Street,

East Pepperell, Mass.
2nd Lieut. Eric L. Greenfield, 117 Church Street,

Ware, Mass.
2nd Lieut. Ralph A. Hatch, Jr., 51 Centre Street,

Brookline, Mass.
2nd Lieut. Andrew E. Kennedy, 30 St. Jerome

Avenue, Holyoke, Mass.
2nd Lieut. George E. Kimball, 99 East Pleasant

Street, Amherst, Mass.
2nd Lieut. William W. Kimball, Jr., 99 East

Pleasant Street, Amherst, Mass.
2nd Lieut. Vincent A. Lafleur, 26 Williams Street,

Marlboro, Mass.
2nd Lieut. John P. Laliberte, 27 Lexington Avenue,

Holyoke, Mass.
2nd Lieut. George P. Langton, Jr., 25 Fuller Road,

Lexington, Mass.
2nd Lieut. Maurice W. Leland, 12 Fiske Street,

Natick, Mass.
2nd Lieut. Walter Melnick, Pine Nook, South

Deerfield, Mass.
2nd Lieut. Donald W. Mofiitt, 1 Franklin Court,

Northampton, Mass.
2nd Lieut. Richard II. Pierce, 37 Birchwood Avenue,

Longmeadow, Mass.
2nd Lieut. John U. Shepardson, 166 Allen Street,

Athol, Mass.
2nd Lieut. Chester C. Stone, 340 Pakachoag Street,

Auburn, Mass.
2nd Lieut. John J. Sullivan, 58 Bellingham Street,

Chelsea, Mass.

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The busiest airplane "spotters" in Amherst are former treasurer of the College, Fred C. Kenney and Fred C. Sears,

professor of pomology, emeritus. Here they are painting the new lookout headquarters, located on the farm of Enos

Montague '15. With them is John C. Graham, professor of poultry husbandry, emeritus, and former head of the

& V department at the

College. Following
his retirement in
1938, after twenty-
seven years service,
Professor Graham
and Mrs. Graham
travelled by auto-
mobile and trailer
all over the United
States. They re-
cently returned to
Amherst where
Professor Graham
joined his two
friends and former
colleagues in mak-
ing ready the new
airplane spotting
post. — Photo by
Don Lacroix '22

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CLASS OF 1942 JOINS THE
ASSOCIATE ALUMNI

Following the tradition of 100 '", membership in
the Associate Alumni established a few years ago,
the Class of 1942 joined the Association previous to
graduation and, at their class day exercises, handed
on the tradition to their succeeding class — through
Bob Fitzpatrick, president of 1943.

Permanent officers of the class of '42 are: president,
William J. Dwyer, Jr.; vice-president, Martha B.
Hall; secretary, Marion R. Avery; treasurer, Paul
J. Dwyer; sergeant-at-arms, Edmund F. Freitas;
captain, Carl P. Werme.

SENIOR GIFT

At the Senior Convocation on May 6th Phyllis
Mclnerny of Worcester presented the class gift to
the College. It was a bronze statuette, the sculptor's
original for a larger statue now in the conference
room of the Attorney General's Office at Washington,
D. C and the work of Sidney Waugh sp'24, dis-
tinguished sculptor, son of Dr. and Mrs. Frank A.

Outstanding are his designs for the decoration of
objects of art made in crystal by the Steuben glass
company, a number of examples of which are in the
Metropolitan,

SIONEV WAUGH SP'24 THE FRAME FOR THIS PORTRAIT
WAS CARVED BY PROFESSOR ORTON L CLARK 06

Waugh. The figure represents a colonial postman,
and is one of a series showing the growth of the
Federal Postal System.

Other of Sidney Waugh's works are to be seen in
the National Archives building, the Federal Reserve
building, the Postoffice building, and the Federal
Industries Board building in Washington; in the
alumnae building al Smith. He designed the Lamar
monument in Richmond, Texas, and did a heroic
group for the New York World's Fair.

His work is to be seen at the Metropolitan Museum
in New York, the Victoria and Albert Museum in
London, the Chicago An Museum, the Cleveland
Museum of line Arts, the Toledo Museum, and the
John Herron Institute.

and a special

exhibition o f

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New York

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World's Fair.

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While a stu-

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won the bronze

and silver med-

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annually by

the Paris Salon.

He was the

youngest

American ever

to be so hon-

ored. Upon his

return to

America he

was elected a

member of the

National Acad-

emy, of which

he was at that

1942 CLASS GIFT

time also the

the youngest member. He received the honorary MA.
from Amherst College in 1939.

ALUMNI RECEIVE DEGREES AT
( OM M KM KM KM EXERCISES

Fifty-eight members of the class of 1942 received
the Bachelor of Arts degree, 207 the Bachelor of
Science at the commencement exercises on May 17th.

Six received I lie degn I I'.aclielor of Vocational

Agriculture.

William Donald Durell '34 received the degree of
Master of Landscape Architect ure.

The following Alumni received the degree of
Master of Science: Edward E. Anderson '41. Law-
rence M. Bartlett '39, Albert C. Cook '28, Dennis
M. Crowley '29, Sherman G. Davis '41, Harvey
Fram '40, Robert P. Gleason '38, John Hall '40,
Henry S. Kushlan '37, Hamilton Laudani '41,
Charles L. McLaughlin '41, Wavland R. Porter w'17,
Charles F. Ross '25, Elmer W. Smith '41.

Walter M. Kulasfa '33, Edwin L. Moore '38, and
Frederick R. Theriault '38 received the degree of
Doctor of Philosophy.

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PROFESSOR RAND SPEAKS BEFORE
BOSTON ALUMNI

On April 18th, at the Copley Plaza Hotel in Boston,
Professor Frank Prentice Rand, head of the depart-
ment of languages and literature at the College, spoke
before a large and intent audience of Alumni and
Alumnae. His subject was 'Academic Grace Notes."
After the meeting Dennis Crowley '29, president of
the Boston Alumni Club, and others, declared that
every Alumnus who had not been privileged to hear
Mr. Rand should at least have opportunity to see
the talk in print. Herewith, accordingly, the text.

Send but a song oversea for us,
Heart of their hearts who are free,

Heart of their singer, to be for us
More than our singing can be;

Ours, in the tempest at error,

With no light but the twilight of terror;
Send us a song oversea.

That is England, calling Walt Whitman, in 1871.
And it is England, and modern civilization, calling
America to-day. And although, as we look out at
the grim and unfamiliar world into which we have
been so ruthlessly thrown, we feel that we must say
with the Israelitic exile of old, "How can I sing the
Lord's song in a strange land?", nevertheless and
notwithstanding, Hearts that are still Free, the song
must be sung.

Whenever we come together in this time of crisis
to consider what things are essential to national de-
fense, let it be written large into the record that if
the humane and spiritual values which find expression
in music and literature and art are indispensable in
time of peace, they are certainly indispensable now.

This is true if only in a crudely economic sense.
When your automobile is finally reduced to three
tires, you may still, if you will, ride forth proudly
with Childe Harold or the Canterbury Pilgrims.
When your last superfluous nickel has been invested
in perishable gunpowder, you may still hear, or at
least hum, the uplifting strains of Gounod's Ave
Maria. When the last masterpiece has been buried
underground in bombproof shelter, you may still see,
upon the walls of memory if not upon those of your
home, the familiar outlines of Murillo's incomparable
Madonnas. If you can no longer arrange with Mr.
Cook for a trip to Florence and Rome, you may still
read, or better re-read, or best of all read aloud,
Browning's illuminating Ring and the Book. If you
cannot see Mr. Maurice Evans in the role of Falstaff
or Hamlet, you may still wander at will through the
pages of Shakespeare's plays. Priceless and without
price these gracious amenities will still remain.

It must not be thought that such things are war-
time essentials merely as recreation. They are equally
important for us in line of duty. The master spirits
embalmed in words, in harmony, in color and line
are indeed our comrades still. They live for us, and
we live in them. And let it not be inferred that
these men achieved their lovely creations in the
safety and solitude of ivory towers. They, too, knew

what it was to live despeiate lives, "swept by con-
fused alarms of struggle and flight, where ignorant
armies clashed by night." Let me remind you that
Chaucer was once a prisoner-of-war, that Spenser's
castle was burnt almost over his head by foes Jin
Ireland, that Cervantes was thrice wounded injthe
battle of Lepanto, and that Lord Byron gave his life
for the freedom of Greece. Let me further remind
you that all three of Athens' great tragic poets —
Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides — were soldiers,
and one of them indeed a general. Let me remind
you that Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci were
officers in Ital-
ian wars, the
latter being
designated by
Cesare Borgia
as "my chief
war engineer";
that Cellini
turned from
the most deli-
cate of gold
work to super-
intend the de-
fenses of Rome;
that Dante was
a political exile
from his native
Florence. Let
me also men-
tion Milton,
Wordsworth,
Coleridge and

Whitman, all of whom composed their greatest
masteipieces in the shadow of war. And what should
be said of men of our own time, of Kreisler, and
Rimski-Korsakov, and Paderewski, of Rupert Brooke,
and Carl Sandburg, and Archibald MacLeish? These
men, all of them,

Heard, as we hear, the rumors and alarms
Of war at hand and danger pressing nigh.

And knew, as we know, that the message meant
The breaking off of ties, the loss of friends,

Death, like a miser getting in his rent,

And no new stones laid where the trackway ends.

Then sadly rose and left the well-loved Downs,
And so by ship to sea, and knew no more

The fields of home, the byres, the market towns,
Nor the dear outline of the English shore,

But knew the misery of the soaking trench,
The freezing in the rigging, the despair

In the revolting second of the wrench

When the blind soul is flung upon the air.

When I say that we need the stirring and steadying
comradeship of these men, I am not referring par-
ticularly to those of us who might be spoken of as
professionally aesthetic; I am referring quite as much
to those who are thought of as "men of action." Of
course no man dies merely for the sake of a book;
but men aplenty have died for the sake of ideas that
books express. No one enlists merely because of a

FRANK PRENTICE RAND

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song; albeit there are those who might never have
enlisted had it not been for a song. No one becomes
a martyr merely to a painted picture; but think of
those who have been literally martyrs in the name
of the greatly-painted Lord.

So I like to think of Wolfe, reciting Gray's Elegy
to the rhythm of muffled oars and saying to his
fellow generals that he would rather have written
that poem than to capture Quebec; of Lincoln quoting
for his Cabinet "Oh why should the spirit of mortal
be proud!", and of Marlboro saying that all he knew
of English history he had learned from Shakespeare's
plays; of Napoleon at a presentation of Haydn's
Creation, telling his wife of the killing of twenty of
his men en route to the opera house: "Josephine,
those rascals tried to kill me. Send for the score of
the music"; of Viscount Grey, England's minister of
foreign affairs in 1916, prefacing a conference with
our ambassador by putting into his hands a copy of
Wordsworth's poems, the same book, by the way,
that Woodrow Wilson used to carry in his pocket
when touring England; or romantic Lawrence whiling
away an Arabian night with a copy of Malory's
Morte a" Arthur; of Theodore Roosevelt taking time
out at the White House to discover and proclaim a
new and eventually a distinguished American poet;
of England's dynamic prime minister, Winston
Churchill, who points up his political speeches with
bits of poetry and whose "sweat, blood and tears"
came from a rather unfamiliar poem by Browning;
and of the doughboy in the late world war who,
according to Dr. Koch, kept his sanity under the
stress and strain of the trenches by virtue of two
lines from Shakespeare:

Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day
Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain rops.
And I think, too, of that last supper in an upper
chamber, of the Master and his disciples, of whom
it is said that before going out into the agony of
Gethsemane they "sang a hymn."

Comrades, sing a song tonight.
For the parting is with dawn.

If this is true of us. adult and fortified from other
days, what is to be said of our children, the boys and
girls from whom we have not been able to ward off
this colossal catastrophe? What are we doing to
prepare them for the inescapable war and the ulti-
mate peace? Shall we be satisfied to turn them over
to the top-sergeant for their spiritual discipline?

During the years to which we somewhat naively
refer as The Dark Ages, it was the Mother Church
which with her tender body guarded the flame of
faith and the glow of art. Now she has a somewhat
more specialized function: she is still custodian of
our faith, but it is we, the schools, who are now en-
trusted with the arts. Woe be to us if we fail that
truM! And of your Alma Mater let me say: We will
not fail. While we feature toughening training in
physical education, and streamline the course of
study, and adapt our scientific courses to military
and technical ends, we are also insuring those aca-
demic grace notes by which also mankind must hope
to live. As the libraries empty to fill the laboratories

and the laboratories to man the camps and factories,
men like Doric Alviani and Frank Waugh and Max
Goldberg still carry on. Do you remember Willard
Wattles and his lines about Amherst?
The little town of Amherst,
Set mid the Pelham hills
With four grey clocks to strike the hours,

And elms, and daffodils;
Within the town of Amherst

The air with sunshine fills.
And spring comes back to Amherst

To foot it on the green,
And many a lucent emerald
Upon her breast is seen;
She walks at dusk in Amherst,

Gypsy, but a queen.
And I have seen in Amherst

The lads stroll up and down,
Singing songs in Amherst,

That summer-girded town,
The full deep -throated choruses
Oblivion cannot drown.
The pipes of Pan. They could be heard, believe
me, above the tumult on the bloody and windy plains
of Troy. And so, dear friends, Hearts that are Free,
as we go out from this room into the blackout of a
new and bitter day, let us not, I beg of you, destroy
our pipes. Let us not neglect them or lay them
aside. Let us rather turn them into trumpets.
Every one said that it couldn't be done,

But he with a chuckle replied
That maybe it couldn't, but he wouldn't be one

To admit it until he had tried.
So he hurried right in, with a kind of a grin

On his face; if he worried he hid it;
And he started to sing as he tackled the thing
That couldn't be done. And he did it.

ACADEMICS BREAKFAST

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publishers. Little Brown and Company, as a member of
the American Institute of Graphic Arts and as vice-
president of the Boston Society of Printers, you con-
tinue to exemplify those gracious amenities for which
our Academics stand. We therefore beg you to accept
this medal as a token of your contribution and of our
regard.

Howard Lawton Knight, of the class of 1902, the
tradition which we term Academics may almost be said
to stem from you. It was you who converted the old
Aggie Life into The College Signal. It was you who
inspired an energetic, albeit a premature, movement to
liberalize the program of the college. It was you who
wrote the earliest and still one of the most popular of
our Alma Mater's songs. The torch which you lit has
burned variously but constantly stronger throughout
forty momentous years. The Academics Board is deeply
aware of your love and your service to this College, and
on this occasion, your fortieth reunion, it takes satis-
faction extraordinary in presenting to you our medal of
honor.

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ATHLETICS

VARSITY CLUB MEETING

Baseball

Lack of an adequate pitching staff hampered the
Statesmen in their early-season games; but Coach
Frannie Riel '39 worked effectively with his club and
the boys won five of their last seven games.

Captain Sparks '42, of Pittsfield, will be succeeded
next year by catcher Mattie Ryan '43 of Springfield
as leader of the Statesmen.

Forty-three lettermen and guests met for the
annual Varsity Breakfast in Draper Hall on May 17th.
A. W. Smith '22 presided. President Baker wel-
comed the group in behalf of the College.

Kid Gore '13 presented the following members of1
the 1917 basketball squad, present at the breakfast:
Captain Em Grayson '17, Ray Irving '17, Paul
Squires '17, Bob Hawley '18, and Ray Parkhurst '19.

Whatever else it
may have been, the
physical fitness
program conducted
for men students
at the College dur-
ing the last few
weeks of the se-
mester was cer-
tainly the most
colorful pageant
ever to be presented
on Alumni Field.
Five hundred stu-
dents took part in
the exercise pro-
gram three times a week, in staggered groups. On Wednesday all came together at once. To uniform these boys,
Curry Hicks drew upon a reserve supply of odd jerseys which he had picked up "for a song" on various occasions
in times past. The Wednesday color effect was nothing short of marvelous. The uniforms were of almost every
hue imaginable; here were some: crimson, maroon, canary yellow, orange, white, Kelly green, bright blue, baby blue,
black and yellow tiger stripe, magenta, port wine, navy blue, ripe plum, royal purple. If the boys had only worn
spangles on their shirts the picture would have made the Barnum and Bailey tournament seem drab by comparison.

The season's scores:
Apr. 18 Wesleyan, there

there

Statesmen

Opp.

21 U. of Connecticut,

23 Amherst, there

25 Trinity, there

28 Bradley Air Base, there

30 Westover Air Base, there

May 2 W.P.I. , here

5 U. of Connecticut, here

9 Westover Air Base, here

15 Williams, there

16 Bradley Air Base, here

Track

An unusual record was made by Charlie Warner
'44 (son of Raymond Warner '14 of Sunderland)
during the spring track season when he won approxi-
mately one-sixth of the points which the Statesmen
scored, in each of their three meets.

At the close of the season the Varsity Club plaque
was awarded to Brad Greene '42 of Springfield in
recognition of Greene's versatile performance as a
track man throughout the year. He was a good
cross country runner, he scored well with the winter
track team, and earned his share of points during
the spring season. Milton Barnes '44 of Springfield
was elected captain for next year.

Gore told many interesting stories of his experiences
as coach of this club and gave the players and Captain
Grayson credit for the good record which the team
had made.

The Varsity Alumni Award for outstanding service
in athletics, physical education, and recreation was
presented by Lawrence Jones '26 to Kid Gore. Jones
spoke briefly of Gore's contribution to the physical
education and athletic program of the College and
of his work with the Boy Scouts, the New England
Winter Sports Council and the Western Massachu-
setts Small High School Basketball Tournament.

Officers of the Varsity Club for next year, elected
at the meeting, are: President, Robert D. Hawley '18;
vice-presidents, M. E. Tumey '23 and Fred Griggs '13;
secretary-treasurer, L. E. Ball '21. Executive com-
mittee to 1945: Carlyle Gowdy '22, Robert Moriarty
'28, Walter J. Hodder '37.

The season's scores: Statesmen

Apr. 25 Boston U., here 94*

May 2 W.P.I, and U. of Con-
necticut, Worcester

9 Tufts, here 37|

Opponents
40*

42* W.P.I. 45
U. of Conn. 77 \

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BOSTON ALUMNI

The largest group of Alumni to come together in
Boston in more than fifteen years gathered at the
Copley Plaza on the evening of April 18th, to hear a
talk by Professor Frank Prentice Rand (see page 8)
and a concert by the combined Glee Clubs under
the direction of Doric Alviani. President Dennis
Crowley '29 of the Boston Alumni Club and his
energetic committee are to be congratulated.

When he had heard the Glee Clubs sing in New
York on March 27th, Joe Cormier '26 wrote to his
sister, who lives in Boston, and urged her to attend
the Boston concert. She did. Afterward Joe told us,
"She took three typewritten pages to tell me how
much she enjoyed the concert and Frank Rand's
talk. Since then I have seen Larry Jones '26 and he.
too, said the kids did very well. As you know, Larry
is an astute music critic: so I guess they did as well
as they did here."

On April 16th the Glee Clubs sang in a joint con-
cert with the American International College Glee
Clubs in the new Trade School theatre in Springfield.
Just about as the concert was over a trial blackout
was ordered in Springfield; and no one could leave
the theatre. Alviani's groups then gave an ex-
temporaneous concert. The Statettes sang, and the
Statesmen. The full chorus sang and then the audi-
ence was asked to join with the groups. Finally, the
lights went on.

Comment of Willard Clark, Springfield music critic,
was in part as follows:

"The State College singers made a particularly
handsome appearance, the girls wearing long black
skirts and white waists, the men in evening clothes.

"These singers have long been known for the
brilliant spontaneity of their performance and last
night was no exception. They gave a superb per-
formance of Robinson's 'Ballad for Americans' with
Doric Alviani singing the narrator with impressive
power and interpretation. . . . Any concert by these
singers would be incomplete without a group of songs
by the 'Statesmen.' The male quartet this year is
holding to the fine tradition of two or three years
ago and they gave much pleasure. There is inform-
ality and good humor in all they do."

In commenting on the blackout, Mr. Clark said,
"The visiting club put on an extemporaneous concert
all their own .... and 'The Star Spangled Banner,'
sung after the lights went on, was a thrilling finale."

COMBINED GLEE CLUBS

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'31 Francis C. Pray was elected editor of the
Publicity Digest of the American College Publicity
Association at recent meetings of the organization
in Columbus, Ohio.

Victor Re&tfdliMCjA

by the

MASSACHUSETTS STATE COMBINED GLEE CLUBS

may be had in an album of three records (six sides) for
$2.65, postpaid and insured. Order through the Alumni
Office, check payable to Academic Activities.

ALUMNI IN UNIFORM

(Continued from Page 6)
2nd Lieut. John J. Tewhill, Jr., 16 Center Street,

Northampton, Mass.
2nd Lieut. Edward 1). Tripp, 490 Chicopee Street,

Willimansett, Mass.
2nd Lieut. William J. Wall, Jr., 18 Adare Place,

Northampton, Mass.
2nd Lieut. Paul A. White, 23 Pearson Road,

SomerviUe, Mass.

LIEUTENANT CARL WILDNER '38
RECEIVES D. S. C.

For taking part in Brigadier General Jimmie
Doolittle's air raid over Japan on April 18th, Lieuten-
ant Carl Richard Wildner '38 has been awarded the
Distinguished Service Cross.

As a boy, in Amherst, Wildner lived with his
parents on Pleasant Street in the house where Pro-
fessor Hart previously had resided. Walter Brown,
janitor of South College, was a next door neighbor
and remembers how young Wildner would come home
from school uptown, and quickly get out into the
field near Butterfield Terrace to fly toy airplanes.

When Carl was 14 (in 1929) he asked Jimmie
Doolittle, the speed flyer, to give him an airplane
ride at a Springfield airport. Doolittle, who had been
a classmate of Carl's brother, Edwin, at M.I.T.,
granted the request and took Wildner for his first trip
into the air. Thirteen years after that flight Wildner
and Doolittle again were flying together — Doolittle
in command of the squadron, and Wildner a navigator
on a bomber — in the raid over Japan.

The Boston Traveler in headlining the story of
Wildner's part in the Tokyo raid said, "YOUNG-
STER RIDES WITH DOOLITTLE AGAIN —
AND HOW ! "

In College Wildner took the advanced R.O.T.C.
course, was much interested in mechanics and motors.
After being graduated he studied flying at Parks Air
College in Illinois, worked in the Pratt and Whitney
airplane factory in Hartford, afterward studied air
navigation.

Wildner's parents now live at Pomeroy Manor,
on Belchertown Road in Amherst, across the road
from the stone house where lives Jim Dayton '13,
a flyer in the last World War.

ALUMNI RETURN TO CAMPUS

(Continued from Page 3)
doing, represented the oldest living alumni class. It
has been a pleasure to be able to welcome Mr. Cole
back to the campus year after year at the time of
Commencement weekends.

The Class of 1882 celebrated its 60th Reunion
with the following members in attendance: David
Goodale, Louis Harris, Charles Hill, Nathaniel Jones,
Frederick May.

They were pleased to read this letter from Daniel
Willard, a member of the class, and which had come
earlier to the Alumni Office.

"Certainly I should enjoy very much spending a
day amid the memories of sixty years ago, but I am
afraid I will not be able to do so. This is not because
my health is bad but because I am obliged to be
rather careful to keep it from becoming bad. I
appreciate very much your writing me about the
matter.

"I suppose I must be one of a very small number
of living members of the Class of '82, and should any
of the members of the Class be present, I would be
glad if you would extend to them my congratulations
and best wishes for their continued good health."

The Class of 1887 held its 55th Reunion, and there
was a good attendance at the informal meeting of
the class and at the class dinner in Draper Hall.
Those who registered were: W. H. Caldwell, F. B.
Carpenter, Frank S. Clark, F. H. Fowler, J. C.
Osterhout, E. F. Richardson.

Other Alumni between the classes of '72 and '92
who registered at the alumni desk on May 16th were:
C. W. Clapp '86, D. F. Carpenter '86, F. O. Williams
'90.

NOTE: Lack of space has prevented the inclusion of
several items originally scheduled for this Bulletin;
these will be printed in future issues.

THE ALUMNI
BULLETIN

IN LIEU OF FOOTBALL

MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE
AMHERST, MASSACHUSETTS

Vol. XXIV, No. 10

July, 1942

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN
MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

George E. Emery '24, Editor
Published monthly at Amherst. Mass. (except August and
September) by the Associate Alumni of Massachusetts State College.
Entered as second class matter. March 17. 1920. at the Postoffice
at Amherst. Mass.. under the Acts of March 3. 1879.

OFFICERS OF ASSOCIATE ALUMNI OF
MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

President. Albert W. Smith '22 of Springfield
Vice-President, William V. Hay den '13 of Newton Center
Secretary, Marshall O. Lanphear '18 of Amherst
Treasurer, Clark L. Thayer '13 of Amherst
Executive Secretary, George E. Emery '24 of Amherst

BOARD OF DIRECTORS
to 1943

Harry Dunlap Brown *14. ex-officio, of Billerica
William L. Doran '15 of Amherst

Mary E. M. Garvey '19 of Amherst
Lawrence L. Jones '26 of North Beverly

Edward J. Gare. Jr. '15 of Northampton

to 1944
Donald C. Douglass '21 of Belmont

Norman D. Hilyard '23 of Springfield

John W. McGuckian '31 of Roslindale

Arthur D. Tilton 'IS of Woburn
to 1945
Alden C. Brett '12. ex-officio, of Belmont

Alan W. Chad wick '31 of Baldwinsville

Evelyn Davis Kenned v '26 of Belmont
Starr M. King '21 of Beverly

Lewis Schlotterbeck '16 of Wakefield
to 1946
Tohn S. Crosbv '25 of Arlington

Ethel Blatchford Purnell '34 of Amherst

Ralph S. Stedman '20 of Springfield

H. Sidney Yaughan '30 of Worcester

The Alumni Bulletin is sent ten times each year to all members
of the Associate Alumni. Memberships are: Annual $3.00, Sustain-
ing SI 0.00.

Renewal notice: Evf»ry member of the Associate Alumni receives
a statement, enclosed in a Bulletin, when his membership expires.
Expiration is always 12 months from date when membership is re-
ceived by Alumni Office

Cover Picture- — Gil Santin '43 of Beverly, Ensign
T. K. Cobb, John McDonough '43 of Dorchester.

PAST AND PRESENT
OF THE CLASS OF

1914

A letter, recently come to the Alumni Office, reads as
follows:

Boston, Mass.
Bear Sir:

"We are forwarding a print which may be of
interest to you.

"These boys, shown with me, were elected co-
captains of the Massachusetts State football team,
but have signified their intention to join the Naval
Aviation Cadets rather than go back to college.
Mr. McDonough has already been sworn in. They
will join the other fine men from your college who
are already associated with Naval Aviation. . . .
"This print was given to us by the Boston Post.
"The fact that I am an Amherst man does not
mean that I have been working with Coach Jordan
in this matter and I wish you the best of luck in
football this coming fall. Some of the Amherst men
are making the same move. . ."

Cordially yours,

T. K. Cobb,
Ensign, U. S. N. R.
Member.

'39 Royal Allaire, who received his M.S. at Notre
Dame in 1940, has become a member of the radi-
ation laboratory at M.I.T. He is doing research
work in connection with war problems.

By Henry Clay '14

Ray Walker (Raymond P.) , although a pomology
major in College, is one of several graduates who have
brought distinction to the class of 1914 in the field of
education. Since 1919 the boys and girls of the
Senior High School of Meriden, Conn., have had the
benefit of Ray's administrative ability as principal,
and the teachers have looked to him to lead them in
the labyrinths of pedagogical theories. Before this he
taught in the high schools of Taunton and Bridge-
port, and for four years was assistant principal of
the Bridgeport High School.

Graduate work at Yale and New York University
are also in the background. And Ray's confreres in
the teaching field must think well of him, for in 1924
he was initiated into Phi Delta Kappa, professional
journalistic fraternity.

A son, Philip, who was with Ray at the 1939 re-
union, is a senior at Worcester Tech. He completed
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DEAN JOSEPH L. HILLS '81 IS
HONORED BY R. I. STATE COLLEGE

On May 23rd, at exercises celebrating the fiftieth
anniversary of Rhode Island State College, Joseph
L. Hills '81, was awarded the honorary degree,
Doctor of Science. The citation was as follows:

Joseph Lawrence Hills: Graduate of Massachu-
setts State College and of Boston University, honorary
alumnus of Rutgers University; forty-four years dean
of the College of Agriculture of the University of
Vermont; forty-nine years director of its Agricultural
Experiment Station; veteran leader in the Association
of Land-Urant Colleges, twenty-three years its secretary-
treasurer, subsequently its president; scientist, educator,
philosopher.

Yours has been an extraordinary record of academic
service. Beginning your career as agricultural chemist
first in New Jersey and later in South Carolina, while
still a young man you were called to larger responsi-
bilities in the state of Justin S. Morrill. There you have
served long and well, and today you are the acknowledged
dean of deans of American agriculture. All these years
you have been the living exponent of the educational
philosophy of the Land-Grant Act. Your benign influ-
ence knows no state boundaries. As guiding genius of
the Association of Land-Grant Colleges for nearly a
uuarter century, your counsel has carried wide con-
viction, and has helped to shape the course of agricul-
tural education throughout the land.

For these reasons, and because of our high personal
esteem, we delight to do you honor. In testimony of
your distinguished leadership in American education,
the Board of Trustees has directed me to confer upon
you , honoris causa, the degree of Doctor of Science.

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ALUMNI DAY NOTES

ALUMNI IN UNIFORM

Four classes, 1932, 1937, 1939, and 1941 voted to
purchase war bonds with unexpended interest avail-
able from their respective class funds.

Bill Armstrong '99, superintendent of grounds,
had the campus looking fine and attractive. Nature
cooperated. Leaves and grass were fresh and green.
The lilacs in the garden north of the Stockbridge
House, the pink and white dogwood near French
Hall, and the azaleas in Professor Waugh's garden
were at the height of bloom.

Walter Johnson '35, manager of the College
Boarding Hall, served the Alumni Luncheon on
May 16th. Expiessions from the more than three
hundred Alumni who with their wives and families
had luncheon in Draper Hall were to the effect that
Johnson did a good job. The meal was excellent.

OPPOSITE. FOLLOWING THE PROMOTION OF MAJOR GENERAL
W. M. GRIMES, COMMANDING GENERAL OF THE EIGHTH ARMORED
DIVISION, FROM BRICADIER GENERAL, BRIGADIER GENERAL
THOMAS J. CAMP PINS A NEW COLLAR INSIGNIA BEARING TWO
STARS ON GENERAL GRIMES* AIDE, CAPTAIN ALBERT J. GRICIUS
" . PHOTOGRAPH FROM V. S. SIGNAL CORPS.

Ruth Scott '31 has written to Professor Rand to
say that the annual Roister Doister breakfast, which
was held this year on May 16th, creates "a welcom-
ing friendliness for the returning Alumni as no other
scheduled event does."

Members of the student band apparently had be
come so imbued with the spirit of speed-up through
their participation in the "accelerated" semester pro-
giam at the College during the past year that the
boys accelerated themselves right out of Amherst as
soon as their exams were over and did not wait to
play for the Alumni Parade to the varsity baseball
game.

The parade was not without "music." howevei, in
its progress to Alumni Field. Doric Alviani. John
Cadorette '45 of Plymouth, Henry Martin '43 of
Amherst, Bill Hathaway '41 and Red Emery '24
got hold of drums and cymbals and rattled away at
the head of the procession.

Dick Merritt '32 served as Alumni Marshal in
forming the parade.

Annah Flynn '36, assistant director and kinder-
garten teachei at the Erie. Pa., Day School, will
teach in the Demonstration School at the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill this summer.

Annah was student clerk in the Alumni Office
during her undergraduate days and helped with the
commencement alumni registration annually there-
after until this year, when the earlier graduation
date made it impossible for her to be in Amherst.

Mary Garvey '19 was chairman in charge of the
Alumnae Tea held at Butterfield House on the after-
noon of May 16th. As usual, the tea was a pleasant
interlude for Alumnae and their friends during the
busy and bustling Alumni Day program.

Additions to the list of Alumni serving in the
country's Armed Forces, as recently received by the
Alumni Office, follow.

Mail addressed to these men, either at the Alumni
Office or at the addresses below, will be forwarded.

'38 Lieut. Marshall B. Allen, Cavalry, Wheeler

Avenue. North Grafton, Mass.
'38 Pvt. Harry Belgrade, Medical Corps, 10 Wilson

Avenue, Northampton, Mass.

'38 Pvt. Charles W. Collins, Signal Corps, 27

Valley Street, Medford. Mass.
'39 Pvt. Paul Panning, Field Artillery, 31 State

Street, Milton, Mass.
'33 Corp. Edward <i. Fawcett, Cavalry, 334 Lincoln

Avenue, Amherst. Mass.
'23 Captain Melvin It. llallett, Armored Division,

458 Market Street, Rockland, Mass.
'40 Pvt. Thomas W. Herrick, Jr., Cavalry, Tre-

mont Street, Duxbury, Mass.
'37 Merrill Hobart, Coast Guard, West Side Y.M.

C.A., West 63rd Street, New York City.
w'42 Ensign Foster C. Kay, Naval Reserve, Valen-
cia Apts., Valencia St., St. Augustine, Fla.
'36 2nd Lieut. Lester Levine, Signal Corps, 128

Stanwood Street, Dorchester, Mass.
Continued on Page 4)

BULLETIN TO SERVICE MEN

The Alumni Directors recently made request that
the College regularly provide copies of the Alumni
Bulletin for all Alumni in the Service, and President
Baker who is much interested that the College keep
closely in touch with all its service men readily
granted the Directors' request. Accordingly, the
Bulletin will now go forward to all Alumni with the
country's Armed Forces.

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OBITUARIES

Charles Dexter Ilillman '82

Charles Dexter Hillman '82, affectionately known
as "Dad" by his many friends, died at the home of
his son, Fred, in Watsonville, California, on April
27, 1942. He was 81 years old.

He was born in Hardwick, Mass. He attended
"the little red schoolhouse" and Brimfield Academy
before entering the College. In 1882, after he was
graduated, he went to California and settled in
Fresno. He moved to Watsonville in 1901 where he
lived until the time of his death. Until a year ago
he was active in his work as a nurseryman.

He was prominent in affairs of the Red Men's
fiaternity and the Neighbors of Woodcraft. In
College he was a member of the Washington Irving
Literary Society, the Christian Union, and Phi
Sigma Kappa.

Mr. Hillman is survived by three sons, six grand-
children, a sister, and several nieces and nephews.
The nephews include James H. Walker '07, Charles
D. Walker '13, James D. Walker '41, and Donald
B. Walker '44.

George R. Potter '15

George R. Potter '15 died on May 30, 1942, at his
home in Ludlow Center, Mass., following an illness
of several weeks. He was 49 years old.

After being graduated from the College he took
over the operation of a large fruit and vegetable
farm in Ludlow, which enterprise he carried on until
the time of his death. For the past few years he had
been sales representative for the Eastern States
Farmers Exchange.

He was much interested in civic affairs of his town;
he was a member of the finance committee. He was
also a trustee of the Ludlow Savings Bank, and active
in the Ludlow Grange.

He is survived by his widow, a son, two daughters,
a brother, and two sisters.

MARRIAGES

'24 Joseph S. Reynolds to Miss Etta Lura Hadley,
June 12, 1942, at Granby, Conn.

'29 Miss Ruth Parrish to Richard Cross, May 24,
1942, at Palo Alto, Calif.

'34 and '36 Franklin G. Burr to Miss Harriett
K. Andrus, June 20, 1942, at Springfield, Mass.

'34 Lieut. Henry A. Walker to Miss Elizabeth
Witherell, June 6, 1942, at Taunton, Mass.

'36 Miss Elizabeth W. Hager to Rev. Olaf C.
Johnson, June 7, 1942, at Poultney, Vt.

'37 Thomas F. McMahon, Jr. to Miss Josephine
Cangemi, July 5, 1941, at Summit, N. J.

'38 Private Charles W. Collins to Miss Hope
Hathaway, May 13, 1942, at Guilford, Conn.

'38 and '39 Lieut. Leland W. Hooker to Miss
Frances Rathbone, May 10, 1941, at Haverhill, Mass.

'40 Earl K. Bowen to Miss Dorothy E. Holmes,
June 6, 1942, at West Springfield, Mass.

'40 Douglas H. Cowling to Miss Charlotte M.
King, June 1, 1942, at Concord, Mass.

'40 and '40 Ensign George M. Curran to Miss
Mary R. Doyle, May 14, 1942, at Iowa City, Iowa.

'40 Miss Eleanor F. Jewell to Robert F. Byrnes,
June 6, 1942, at Shrewsbury, Mass.

'40 Ensign Lawrence H. Reagan to Miss Mar-
garet McNally, February 2, 1942, at Jacksonville,
Florida.

'41 Miss Elizabeth B. Bascom to Richard Lovely,
May 23, 1942, at Ashfield, Mass.

'41 George C. Feiker to Miss Elizabeth Ross,
May 30, 1942, at Washington, D. C.

'41 and w'42 Miss Doris M. Johnson to Ensign
Foster C. Kay, May 23, 1942, at Springfield, Mass.

'41 Corporal William Warren to Miss Barbara
Aloisi, June 6, 1942, at Lawton, Okla.

'42 Miss Doris E. Angell to Richard H. Sharland,
June 14, 1942, at Westfield, Mass.

'42 David F. Burbank to Miss Jean O. Fuller, May
24, 1942, at Worcester, Mass.

'42 and w'41 Miss Lois Doubleday to Pvt. F. C.
Chester Kuralowicz, May 25, 1942, at Pelham, Mass.

'42 Miss Mary Anne Kozak to Lieut. John W.
Spakowski, May 30, 1942, at Montgomery, Ala.

BIRTHS

'30 A daughter, Martha Elaine, to Mr. and Mrs.
Richard H. Bond, Jr., January 5, 1942, at Camden,
Maine.

'33 A son, Walter, Jr., to Mr. and Mrs. Walter
M. Kulash, May 25, 1942, at Northampton, Mass.

'39 A son, David Michael, to Mr. and Mrs.
Joseph Paul, May 15, 1942, at Germantown, Pa.

'39 and '39 A son, David Franklin, to Mr. and
Mrs. Franklin Southwick (Rita Anderson '39),
January 21, 1941, at Ithaca, N. Y.

ALUMNI IN UNIFORM

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'38 Lieut. Robert D. MaeCurdy, Quartermaster

Corps, 214 Orchard Street, Watertown, Mass.
'36 Corp. John Murphy, Military Police, 86 Oak

Avenue, Belmont, Mass.
'41 Pvt. Albert S. Rouffa, Air Force, 5 Park Vale,

Brookline, Mass.
'40 Pvt. David Sawyer, Cavalry, 50 Lucerne Street,

Dorchester, Mass.
'35 Lieut. Willard H. Senecal, Naval Reserve,

Paracrest Farm, Williamsburg, Mass.
'38 Donald L. Silverman, Field Artillery, 9 Green-
way Court, Brookline, Mass.
'37 Lieut. Francis J. Thomas, Air Force, 168

Montague City Road, Turners Falls, Mass.
'40 Pvt. John F. Wolfe, Cavalry, 19 Jefferson

Road, Winchester, Mass.

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by Mary E. Garvey

Esther Cushman '05. who long had been affili-
ated with the Brown University Library, retired
fiom her work in Match of this year. She is living
at Canterbury, Conn. Her address is Box 193.

Sally Hopkins '37 is with the decorating depart-
ment of Lord & Taylor, 5th Ave., New York City.
She says, "You should see Broadway in the dim-out!"

Barbara Little '40 has a new position, in charge
of the laboratory at the Anna Jaques Hospital in
Newburyport.

Britain, Conn., Hospital; Mildred Culver, in a
nurse's training course at Johns Hopkins Hospital,
Baltimore, Md.; Rosalie DiChiara, a pupil labora-
tory technician at Mercy Hospital, Springfield;
Phyllis Drinkwater, pupil laboratory technician at
Taunton Hospital; Kathryn Duffy, in dietitian
training course at Woolworth's, Springfield; Ida
Fitzgerald, with the Joseph Seagram Company,
Baltimore, Md.; Margaret Gale, with the Aetna
Life Insurance Company, Hartford, Conn.; Dorothy
Grayson, with the Joseph Seagram Company,
Louisville, Ky.; Pauline Hale, teaching home
economics at Cabot, Vt.; Helen Harley, as assistant
dietitian at Russell Sage Hospital, Troy, N. Y.;
Ruth Helyar, recreational position at Brattleboro,
Vt.; Mrs. Gerda Horst, house instructor at Kurn

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DECORATIONS AT SOI'H-SENIOR
HOI' ON' MAY I 8TH INCLUDED
SOME TWENTY CARICATURES OF
FACULTY BV POL VAN CEEL,
WHO ALSO LIMNED ALUMNI
OFFICE CLERKS, MISS MARION
CRYBKO (LEFT) AND MI^s
GERTRl'DE KELLEY (RICH!

Sfr^

Betty Bascom Lovely '41 is to be principal of the
Shutesbury. Mass., Center School.

Miss Hamlin reports that members of the class of
1942 have taken positions as follows: Dorothea
Arwood, teaching English in the Agawam High
School: Marion Avery, assistant dietitian at Welles-
ley College; Marjorie Barrows, in the payroll de-
partment of the Joseph Seagram Company in Louis-
ville. Ky.; Barbara Bentley with . the Merriam
Publishing Company in Springfield: Marguerite
Berthiaume with the Signal Corps, Washington.
D. C Esther Brown with the Aetna Insurance
Company, Hartford. Conn.: Jean Carlisle as chem-
ist with Lever Brothers, Cambridge: Marie Chap-
man, training course with the Springfield, Mass.,
Ordnance Department: Frances Clark as home
demonstration agent, Windham County, Vt.; Mary
Cobb, teaching home economics in Montpelier, Vt.;
Elizabeth Coffin with the General Electric Com-
pany. Lynn; Marion Cook, pupil laboratory tech-
nician at the Worcester City Hospital; Virginia
Couture, pupil laboratory technician at New

Hattin Homes, Westminster, Vt.; Eleanor Johnson.
telephone representative, taking training in Pitts-
field; Marie Kelleher, chemist with the Charles M.
Cox Company, Boston; Frances happen, laboratory
technician at the Hospital Cottages, Baldwinsville;
Marjorie Merrill, dietitian at the Hospital Cottages
for Children. Baldwinsville; Bita Moseley, psychi-
atric aide, Haitford, Conn.. Retreat; Sally Nielsen,
horticulturist, Waltham Field Station; Dorothy
Plumb, 4-H county club agent, Chittendon County,
Vt.; Dorothy Prest, pupil laboratory technician at
Salem, Mass., Hospital: Martha Shirley, in the
claims department, Liberty Mutual Insurance Com-
pany, Boston: Abigail Stone, statistician in the
agricultural economics office at the College; Harriet
Tarbell, with the Massachusetts Mutual Insurance
Company, Springfield; Phyllis Tower, assistant
county club agent, Middlesex County, Mass.; Helen
Watt, chemist at the Springfield, Mass., Armory;
Anne White, laboratory technician at United
Dairies, Springfield; Jeanette Williams, pupil
dietitian at New Britain, Conn.; Phoebe Wbitte-
more, teaching home economics at Enosburg Falls,
Vermont.

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MRS.

FRANK A. WAUGH RECEIVES
HONORARY DEGREE

and I now present her to you in order that the degree
may be conferred."

On May 25th Alice Vail Waugh (Mrs. Frank A.
Waugh) received a unique honorary degree at Kansas
State College, on the occasion of the fiftieth reunion
of her class, at Manhattan.

The degree was Master of Family Life; and in
making the presentation, Dr. J. T. Willard, vice-
president of the college, spoke as follows: —

"On behalf of the college, it is my privilege to present
to you Mary Alice Vail Waugh, bachelor of science,
Kansas State College, class of 1892. Mrs. Waugh is
one of the alumnae of the college whose intuition,
intelligence, superior scholarship, application of science
and art, patience, vision, devotion and moral strength
have found expression in solving the manifold problems
of a modern artistic home, with results not measured by
monographs, dissertations or degrees, but by the creation
of sound bodies, sane minds, buoyant spirits, worthy
ambitions and wholesome characters in their children.

"For many years the home of Professor and Mrs.
Waugh and their six children has been recognized as
outstanding in all these respects. As the years roll
round, Mrs. Waugh' s success as measured by the
accomplishments of her sons and daughters becomes
constantly more and more evident.

"In recognition of this typical work and the dis-
tinguished success of Mrs. Waugh in bringing it to
fruition, it has been recommended that the degree Master
of Family Life be conferred upon her. This recommend-
ation has been approved by the state board of regents,

An interesting article in the Springfield, Mass.,
Republican of May 31st spoke at length of Mrs.
Waugh's accomplishments, and the accomplishments
of her husband and children. Following are excerpts.

Fifty-four years ago, when Alice Vail went to
Manhattan as a freshman, Frank Waugh was a
sophomore there — instructor, in fact, in freshman
surveying. His roommate, now a doctor in Kansas
City, says that from the time Alice Vail first appeared
in the surveying class Frank never had eyes for
anyone else.

Frank and Alice Waugh have now been married for
nearly half a century. Their happy married life togeth-
er, their six children, and eleven grandchildren, are
partial evidence on which Mrs. Waugh's degree was
based. The grandchildren are all in school or college.
The six children are well-known in professional fields.

Dan Waugh, the eldest son, is an officer of the
National City Bank in New York. He has been
manager at various times at each of the branches
which the bank formerly maintained at Tokyo,
Yokohama, Osaka, and Kobe, in Japan. He also
served in the branches at Manila, Bombay, Calcutta,
and London. Dan Waugh is one of the few people
in the United States with a reading knowledge of
Japanese. He has served as examiner in Japanese
for the American Embassy in Tokyo; he has trans-
lated classical and archaic Japanese poetry, some of
which translations have been published privately.

THE WAUGH FAMILY, I9O5; PROFESSOR WAUGH, MRS. WAUGH, DAN, FREDERICK, DOROTHY', ESTHER, ALBERT, SIDNEY

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Frederick Vail Waugh '22, the second son, is
assistant administrator of the agricultural marketing
administration of the U.S.D.A. in Washington. In
1932, when he was executive secretary of the New
England Research Council, Fred was appointed to
spend a year in Europe as fellow of the Social Science
Research Council to study application of statistical
methods to economic research. He has taught
economics at Brookings Institute, and at Cornell.

He originally conceived the idea of the food stamp
plan, has helped develop numerous marketing pro-
grams for the
U.S.D.A., and
has taken ac-
tive part in re-
cent agitation
against inter-
state trade
bairiers.

He served
with the Am-
herst Ambu-
lance Unit in
France during
the last World
War, was a-
warded the
Croix d e
Guerre.

Albert E.
Waugh '24, the
third brother,
is head of the
department of
economics at
mrs. i rank a. waugh the University

—Photo by .11 Waugh Si of Connecticut,
and is author
of two widely-used textbooks in the field of statistics.
He is widely known for his expertness in parliamen-
tary practice, and was recently appointed a member
of the special state commission to revise the election
laws of Connecticut.

Sidney B. Waugh sp'24, the youngest son, is one
of America's leading sculptors. His reliefs on the
planetarium in Pittsburgh and his monumental
figure of Labor in front of the Archives building in
Washington are among his important works. As
head designer for Steuben Glass, he has created
several crystal pieces now included in the Metro-
politan Museum, the Chicago Art- Institute, the
Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

Dorothy Waugh sp'17, one of the two daughters,
is on the faculty of the Parsons School of Design and
is director of public relations for the Montclair
library. She has done much writing, editing, and
design work for the National Park Service, has
written several books and many magazine and news-
paper articles, has illustrated a number of books,
and has been awarded honors in the field of typo-
graphy. (Some of her drawings have appeared in the
Alumni fiullrtin. For several years she served as
head of the children's book department of A. A.
Knopf. Inc.

Esther Waugh Gillette (wife of Nathan Gillette
'18), the other daughter, is following in her mother's
footsteps, raising a family; the oldest of her three
children is now a freshman at Pomona College,
California.
Mrs. Gillette
has served as
president of
her Garden
Club, and is
active in Par-
ent - Teacher
associa t i o n
work, and with
the Boy and
Girl Scouts.
She is a trained
dietitian, she
received high
honors in home
economics
while at col-
lege.

Frank A.
Waugh is the
holder of two
honorary doc-
tor's degrees
and the George
Robert White
Gold Medal,
the highest a-
ward for dis-
tinguished a-
chievement in
hort icul t ure.
For forty years
he served on

the staff at the College, as head of the division of
horticulture, and as professor of landscape architec-
ture and head of the department. He is the author
of some twenty books on horticulture and is currently
at work with Dan Foley '35 on a book about trees.
He is a skilled photographer, an able musician, and
an etcher whose work has been hung in galleries in
New York and Chicago.

If this sketch seems to stress largely the accom-
plishments of Alice Waugh's husband and children
it is because they have been her particularly absorb-
ing concern. The award made to her at Manhattan
was doubtless based in part on the stimulation and
encouragement which she gave to her husband and
to her children, organizing a home life which leavened
and broadened and motivated their lives and their
vision.

But Mrs. Waugh has by no means confined herself
to the day by day tasks of the homemaker. She has
been an active force in her community; president of
the Amherst Garden Club, of the Amherst Chapter
of D.A.R., of the Amherst Woman's Club, and of
many organizations within Amherst's First Congre-
gational Church. She is a member of the Amherst
Historical Society, the Amherst League of Nations
(Continued on Page 12)

STEl'BEN CLASS VASE, DESICNED BY

SIDNEY WAUGH, AND PRESENTED TO MRS.

WAUGH BY HER CHILDREN ON HER 70TH

BIRTHDAY

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THE CAVALRY — R.O.T.C. — AT
MASSACHUSETTS STATE

The May-June, 1942, issue of the Cavalry Journal
(editor of which is Colonel E. Miles Sumner, formerly
on the R.O.T.C. staff at the College) carried an ex-
tensive and interesting article about the R.O.T.C.
unit at Massachusetts State. The article was written
by Colonel Donald A. Young, professor of military
science and tactics, and told of the purpose and
history of military training at the College.

"From the beginning this instruction was intended
not only to train officers but also to strengthen the
defenses of the country by diffusing some knowledge
of military principles among educated men. That

military building. Here are kept such current peri-
odicals as the Cavalry Journal, Army and Navy
Journal, Leavenworth Military Review, and many
others; here, too, are books of military interest.
Articles which have timely bearing on topics being
studied are required reading. In addition, the vari-
ous materials distributed by the Cavalry School are
made available and constitute an important part of
the program of instruction. All seniors are required
to do extensive reading in the customs of the service
and the problems which confront the young officer.

"As for marksmanship, the record speaks for itself.
The indoor small-bore rifle gallery has been improved
and the marksmanship program expanded to insure
adequate training for all students. The College has

COLONEL DONALD A. VOLTNG (CENTER) AND HONORARY COLONEL ERMA ALVORD 4O INSPECT THE CADET REGIMENT

puipose was well realized when more than 1300
former students of Massachusetts State College saw
service in the first World War; of that number 446
were commissioned officers ... it is a record of which
the College is justly proud. Since the establishment
of the Cavalry R.O.T.C. Unit in 1920 a total of
about 8,500 students have been given military train-
ing. Of these over 400 have been commissioned in
the Cavalry Reserve. As we confront another crisis
in our history, the value to the nation of compulsory
military tiaining at Massachusetts State College is
again revealed.

"The R.O.T.C. staff at Massachusetts State con-
sists of four officers and seventeen enlisted men of
the regular army. (The officers: Colonel Young,
Major James R. Chambliss, Major Allen F. Rice,
and Captain Anthony J. Nogelo '37.)

"Instruction is conducted in accordance with the
standard plan promulgated by the War Department.
The program is divided into fall, winter, and spring
periods; the fall period is devoted to outdoor prac-
tical training, the winter period to indoor theoretical
training, and the spring period to more outdoor and
practical work.

"The advanced military classes are kept abreast
of the rapid changes in military organization and
operations by means of a private reading room in the

held the National Championship more than once in
the intercollegiate indoor matches held under the
supervision of the National Rifle Association. The
present student body is maintaining a high record.
A strong rifle team is now engaged in firing matches
with many competitors scattered throughout the
nation.

"The summer training given to the first-year ad-
vanced cadets is the highlight of their college military
training. The six weeks in the field aie filled with
intensive and practical instruction; during this time
a march of over four hundred miles to Fort Ethan
Allen and return is conducted. At the Fort the
cadets qualify on the range with the service rifle
and pistol, and receive training with machine guns
and other weapons. They also combine with the
Norwich Unit in tactical problems and exercises.
During the march to the Fort and return, the officers
in charge take full advantage of the rough terrain
and back country roads of Massachusetts and Ver-
mont to teach and practice, with problems and exer-
cises, the principles and technique of reconnaissance,
night marches, concealed bivouac, river crossings,
outposts. All this formal training is supplemented,
of course, by the more personal things which the
cadets as embryo cavalrymen must learn in the field.
At the end of six weeks of intensive field work, living

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with their horses and sleeping in pup tents, the cadets
return bronzed, hard as nails, filled with confidence
in themselves and their horses, wise in the ways of
horses and men; and another group of real cavalry-
men is born.

"The standard for selection for Advanced Course
training and commission is high at Massachusetts
State College. Selection is determined by competition,
and once accepted the cadet has to prove himself in
every way during the two years of basic training.
The competition is keen and hard; the men selected
are the fittest of the fit. Limitation of allotment this
year piecluded many fine men from selection to the
advanced course R.O.T.C. The Marine Coips and
the Navy are, however, selecting many of these men
for commission.

"The administration, the faculty, and the co-eds
are solidly behind the R.O.T.C. — a fact evidenced
by the support rendered and the hours allotted for
military training, which exceed the War Department
requirements by one hour per week. The co-eds, b>
their intense interest in the Corps of Cadets, are an
important encouragement to the R.O.T.C. Many of
the cadets owe their stripes and bars to the energetic
backing of their campus girl friends, who are not
adverse to telling them to go out and make good as
military men, or else! A co-ed honorary Cadet
Colonel is chosen each year by the Advanced Course
Cadets at a formal military ball; she is the envy of
the female college population.

"The declaration of War brought a new and more
serious realization to the R.O.T.C. Cadet of the
value of military training. It was at once realized
by the Corps of Cadets that their military training
was now an extremely grave and serious matter and
the reaction to the increased demands was immediate.
A new note of earnestness and appreciation towards
their training was at once evident. The College put
into effect under supervision of the Physical Edu-
cation Department an intensive body building pro-

gram of bodily contact and hardening exercises.
This was taken in stride by the Cadets, even though
it cut into their little free time and set their dinner
hour back. The indoor range increased in popularity;
spontaneous individual and squad competitions in
marksmanship developed. There were not enough
daylight hours available so voluntary evening ses-
sions were organized. There were more demands for
privilege riding. Even the horses appeared to feel

MACHINE GUN' INSPECTION AND FIRING

that something was developing when their work
houis and oats increased. Freshmen eyed the Cadet
Officers with greater respect, and polished their belts
with a bit more care. The first year Advanced
Course Cadets were bitterly disappointed when the
War Department announced the necessary suspension
of the summer field training. The class to a man
volunteered for a week of field training at their own
time and expense immediately following Commence-
ment. The spirit had always been present, but a
new urge had been added."

'42 James Gilman was an honor student in military
at the College. Sixty such students were named in
eleven New England colleges. Gilman was one of three
of these who, upon graduation, received a commission
in the regular army of the United States.

CADET OFFICERS TRAIN REMul M» IN RIDING PARK SOUTH OF PAIGE LARURA'l'oK V

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GOLF AT BETHPAGE

Golf was the subject of one of a recent series of
Associated Preps articles dealing with the effect of
the war on sports. Bethpage Park, at Farmingdale,
Long Island, was the golf course described in the
article which appeared in the Springfield Union of
June 9, as follows.

HARRY EDWARDS '96 CONSIDERED
AUTHORITY ON ROPE

At Bethpage Park, as at 5200 other golf clubs in
the United States, officials and employees are won-
dering what the war is going to do to them eventu-
ally, if not sooner.

They can't tell yet. They have their fingers
crossed and are eager to hear an optimistic word.
Business is off at Bethpage, close to the danger
point, since tires and gas were rationed, but some of
the fall-off might be attributable to a spell of un-
usually wet spring weather. A month of good weather
will tell the story for Bethpage and many another
club.

Bethpage, reputedly the largest public golf estab-
lishment in the world, with four championship
courses* and huge overhead expense, might typify
the hundreds of clubs whose members are entirely
dependent upon private transportation or taxis.

Practically all of Bethpage's guests — and there
have been as many as 1088 of them swarming over
its acres in a single day — drive to the course in
their own cars, from distances up to 30 and 40 miles.
Occasionally the train from New York City drops
off a few players here and they make the remaining
few miles by taxi. But even their number has fallen
off in recent weeks.

"Players who are used to coming out in their own
cars are not going to change to subways and trains
and bicycles," sadly observed Joe Burbeck, super-
intendent of Bethpage Park. "One fellow came over
on his bicycle, but he hasn't been back."

Burbeck hauled out attendance figures to point
the decline since gas and rubber became scarce. In
May, 1941, a total of 12,548 played the Bethpage
courses. In May, 1942, there were 7234 customers.

On the Sunday before gas rationing began on the
Eastern seaboard, 676 visited the club. The Sunday
after rationing began there were 202.

"We're reducing our expenses to the bone," Bur-
beck said. "Our maintenance staff has been cut
nearly in half and two courses are closed during the
week. But it is difficult to make any important re-
trenchment in a place of this size. Why, it costs
around $38,000 a year in taxes and interest just to
keep open."

While Bethpage is a state-owned park, he pointed
out, the golf club must be self-supporting. Presum-
ably it will be closed the day its income falls below
a certain point.

The operator of each truck and piece of machinery
at Bethpage is required to make out a new detailed
form each night showing how much gas he used and
why. There has yet been no rationing of fuel for
golf course equipment, and Bethpage is using power
mowers on its greens instead of trimming them by
hand.

A recent Country Gentleman article about Harry T.
Edwaids '96 is as follows.

"The old saying, 'Give a man enough rope and he
will hang himself,' doesn't hold good in the case of
Harry T. Edwards. By making himself probably
the world's leading expert on rope fibers, he has
become a very important person — particularly so
just now.

"The walls of Edwards' eight-by-ten room in the
big department of agriculture building are decorated
with hundreds of pieces of rope. His title is senior
technologist, but the world over he is known as an
abaca — manila, hemp and henequen fiber — expert.
He has spent forty years in a dozen countries learn-
ing about all there is concerning rope fibers.

"Edwards pioneered the development of rope hemp
in the Philippine Islands, building up a resource that
had been grown there for centuries without much
use. After fifteen years under his direction, the
islands were supplying 90^ of our rope.

"Now, with that source lost, he is aiding in the
development of rope material production in this
hemisphere. Rope has suddenly become a serious
farm and military problem, lifting Edwards into a
new prominence.

"He was born in Chesterfield, Mass., October 28,
1877, graduated from Massachusetts State College in
1896 and went to the Philippines in 1901 as a teacher.
Fourteen years later he became director of agricul-
ture for the islands. On his return to the States he
became a dollar-a-year collaborator with the bureau
of plant industry, than a staff employee a year later.

"Edwards hasn't given much thought to retiring,
life being too interesting. When he does retire it will
be to the farm on which he was born and now owns."

Labor is extremely scarce, greenskeepers and
caddies alike having flocked to nearby aircraft
factories. Players either have to share a caddy, at
best, or carry their own clubs. And, the thousands
of potential players in the airplane plants have
shown a disappointing lack of interest in the Beth-
page course.

"I'm afraid there's nothing to the idea that the
war workers need golf or some kind of sports to
relax them after hours," Burbeck sighed. "We're
getting a few of them but, mostly, I think they want
to rest after the hours they put in."

Usually at this time of year, Bethpage realizes a
comfortable lump sum on the sale of season tickets
at $60 a throw, but this windfall is missing this
spring. The players either are paying by the round
or buying monthly cards.

"Don't ask me when I'll be back," laughed a
player who had completed his round. "I've got a
guilty conscience about driving out here today."

"The Bethpage courses were designed, built, and are
now managed by Joe Burbeck '24.

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CARL E. F. GUTERMAN '25 TO
HEAD EXPERIMENT STATION

LYONS '18 TELLS OF INSTITUTE

On July 1, Carl E. F. Guterman '25 will become
director of research and director of the Cornell
University Agricultural Experiment Station.

He has been assistant director of the Experiment
Station; in his new position he will have general
administration of diversified research programs
serving the agricultural needs of all parts of the state.

After being
graduated from
the College in
1925, where he
majored in bot-
any, Guterman
went to Cor-
nell as an as-
sistant in the
department of
plant patholo-
gy. From 1927
to 1930 he was
a research fel-
low in plant
disease inves-
tigations sup-
ported by Cor-
nell, the Boyce
Thompson In-
stitute for
Plant Research
and the New
York Botani-
cal Garden. In
April, 1930, he received his Ph.D. from Cornell,
with plant pathology as his major study and minor
studies in plant physiology, floriculture, and orna-
mental horticulture. He engaged in research for
several years, but devoted some time also to exten-
sion activities in disease control of plants.

Guterman is recognized nationally for his contri-
bution to research, according to a recent statement
by Dean C. E. Ladd of the College of Agriculture
at Cornell; he is a member of the experiment station
committee on organization and policy of the Land-
Grant College Association of America.

CARL E. F. GITF.RMAX

The Associate Alumni presented a silver cup to the
winner of the junior jumping class in the annual
Military Department Horse Show held on the after-
noon of May 15th. Winner of the cup was Cadet F.
Huntington Burr of Easthampton, son of Frederick
H. Burr '12 and brother of Lieut. Clement Burr '41.
Winner of second prize was Cadet Frederick A. Mc-
Laughlin, .Jr. of Amherst, son of F. A. McLaughlin
'11. Third was Cadet Charles Ceer of Belchertown.

'37 Charles SanClemente received his Ph.D. in
bio-chemistry at Michigan State College in March
and is now at the Western Reserve Medical School,
Cleveland, Ohio, where he is ,i research chemist.

The Nieman Foundation for Journalism was es-
tablished at Harvard "to promote and elevate
standards of journalism in the United States and to
educate persons deemed especially qualified for
journalism." A Nieman Fellowship was and is an
eagerly sought honor.

Louis Lyons '18, feature writer for the Boston
Globe, was a Fellow during the first year the Fellow-
ships were available, in 1938. He later succeeded
Archibald MacLeish as Nieman curator. This year,
in May, the Foundation offered a two-week Institute
on War Problems for editors from about fifty papers.
Lyons organized and directed the program.

In reply to our request for information about the
Institute, Louis has written "They came from all
over — Seattle, Los Angeles, Dallas, Atlanta —
editors, managing editors, editorial writers, science
editors. We filled in the gaps of our staff resources
by inviting in outside experts. (Some of these were
Byron Price, director of censorship; General L. B.
Hershey, Selective Service director; Archibald Mac-
Leish, chief of the Office of Facts and Figures; Major
Alexander P. deSeversky; Hanson Baldwin; Waclaw
Lednicki; Ernest Hooton; Jerome Hunsaker, chair-
man. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics.)
We had good luck in the crowd who came, and I was
very proud of all the performances. It evidently was
highly successful.

"A good many of the editors have been writing
articles and columns ever since on the material they
got here. So far as I can find out, it was the first
enterprise of this sort ever attempted and from all
accounts it was useful. I am particularly interested
in the way it has demonstrated the utility of the re-
sources of a great university when applied to a
practical problem. I have a notion that the possi-
bilities in this direction have only been scratched
and that we are going to see a great deal more in the
way of enterprises to bring university resources to
bear upon all kinds of practical problems.

"It is within the scope of the Nieman Foundation
to bring the resources of Harvard University to the
service of newspapers. Until this Institute we had
operated only through the Nieman Fellowships, and
we just now have selected the fifth group of Nieman
Fellows for next year. This was the first time we
branched out beyond the Fellowships, and the idea
arose when we were considering the question of sus-
pending the Fellowships themselves for the duration
of the war and were looking for something in the way
of a short-term operation that might be useful."

As curator of the Nieman Fellowships, Lyons is
coordinator of the work of the Fellows each year,
directing their programs and being responsible to the
University for their work and relations at Harvard.
With and for the Fellows each year he explores the
resources of Harvard and organizes seminars and
tlinners to see that the Fellows make the contacts
they need each fall to develop their own programs.
This exploration, ovei lour years, gave him know-
ledge of the staff resources available for the War
Institute. Louis also has a full time job on the Globe.

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'40 and '41 John Osmun is doing malaria mos-
quito control work through the office of the Sanitary
Corps at Camp Gordon, Georgia. Elmer Smith is
engaged in similar work at Camp Gordon.

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C.M.T.C. work in 1940, however, and Uncle Sam
will no doubt see that he has a changing address after
graduation. A daughter, Helen Junior, after gradu-
ating from Wellesley in 1938 is working in Hartford.
Photography, stamps, printing and badminton
help to while away the occasional hours of leisure.

Nat Walker (Nathaniel Ks), though also a
pomology major, found fruit growing less entrancing
than shoes as a life work. For more than 25 years he
has been connected with shoe firms in Maine and
Massachusetts, and is now in the research depart-
ment of the United Shoe Machinery Corp., Boston.

There must be money in shoes. At least, there is
some of Nat's. For a year he and another fellow
tried to buck the larger firms with the output of the
Colcord Walker Shoe Co., of Haverhill. Says Nat,
"In one year and a quarter we were both picked clean.
Glad that I was not able to borrow any more than
I did."

Nat and Marguerite (Mrs. Nat, whom many of
the '14-ers know) celebrated their 20th anniversary
last July. N. Kennard Jr., now 18, has hopes of
being a marine engineer, probably in the Navy.
Ken is a drummer; and his sister, Joan, soon to be
in high school, is the family pianist.

Nat has been active in Masonic work being
master of his lodge in Auburn, Maine in 1933; and
active also in the American Legion (oh yes, he spent
nine months in France in the other war) ; while a
men's class in the Wakefield Congregational Church
looks to him for considerable leadership.

Arthur Brooks, one of the chemistry sharks in
College, has followed that line ever since graduation.
In fact, '14 men may recall that he was released in
February 1914 to go with Grasselli Chemical Co.,
which needed a man at once. And except for a short
period as chemist at the Mare Islar.d Navy Yard,
Art has been with Grasselli and their successors,
DuPont, ever since. Last April he received a 25-year
pin from the company.

MBS. WAUGH BECEIVES DEGBEE

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Club, and the Institute of American Geneology. She
has taken an interested part in town affairs and has
been an elected representative in Amherst's town
government ever since the adoption of the repre-
sentative system.

But her chief influence has certainly been in the
home, where she has been an unofficial "master of
family life" for almost half a century. She has
created in her immediate home circle, and in her
wider sphere of influence, a will among people to live
happily together. Mrs. Waugh's official recognition,
at Kansas in May, is simply public acknowledgement
of what many have long recognized.

Massachusetts State is proud and happy that this
recognition has come to Mrs. Frank A. Waugh.

Alumni who attended the May meeting of the
Massachusetts Veterinary Association at the College
were A. H. Russell '14 of Concord; Milton H. Wil-
liams '92 of Sunderland, E. E. Harvey '20 of Green-
field, and W. E. Merrill w'28 of Lowell.

As supervisor of sulphuric acid production at
DuPont's plant, Elizabeth, N. J., W. Arthur is
really serving in the rear trenches, as the acid has an
important part in making the ammunition that is
being produced in ever-increasing quantities.

Arthur and his wife, Martha, are another couple
who have joined the ranks of grandparents. Son
Winslow has a year-old daughter. Daughter Mildred
is also married. But with daughter Mary Lou only
seven, there is plenty of life still in the Brooks house-
hold.

An ardent trout fisherman, Art is looking forward
to surf-casting at Sea Girt, N. J., this summer. Here
he built a house last summer, from his own plans,
and did most of the work himself.

Arthur is one of many who have said how much
they enjoyed the 1939 reunion; and who are planning
on being back in 1949. Reunion Committee, be
prepared for a real crowd seven years from now!

THE ALUMNI
BULLETIN

MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE
AMHERST, MASSACHUSETTS

Vol. XXV, No. 1

October, 1942

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN
MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

George E. Emery '24, Editor
Published monthly at Amherst, Mass. (except August and
September) by the Associate Alumni of Massachusetts State College.
Entered as second class matter, March 17, 1920. at the Postofnce
at Amherst, Mass., under the Acts of March 3, 1879.

OFFICERS OF ASSOCIATE ALUMNI OF
MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

President, Albert W. Smith '22 of Springfield
Vice-President, William V. Haydcn '12 of Newton Center
Secretary, Marshall O. Lanphear 'IS of Amherst
Treasurer, Clark L. Thayer '13 of Amherst
Executive Secretary, George E. Emery '24 of Amherst

BOARD OF DIRECTORS
to 1943

Harry Dunlap Brown '14, ex-officio. of Billerica
William L. Doran '15 of Amherst

Mary E. M. Garvey '19 of Amherst

Lawrence L. Jones '26 of North Beverly

Edward J. Gare, Jr. '15 of Northampton
to 1944
Donald C. Douglass '21 of Belmont

Norman D. Hilyard '23 of Springfield

John W. McGuckian '31 of Roslindale

Arthur D. Tilton '\6 of Woburn
to 1945
Alden C. Brett '12, ex-officio, of Belmont

Alan W. Chadwick '31 of Baldwinsville

Evelyn Davis Kennedy '28 of Belmont
Starr M. King '21 of Beverly

Lewis Schlotterbeck '16 of Wakefield
to 1946
John S. Crosby '25 of Arlington

Ethel Blatchford Purnell '34 of Amherst

Ralph S. Stedman '20 of Springfield

H. Sidney Vaughan '30 of Worcester

The Alumni Bulletin is sent ten times each year to all members
of the Associate Alumni. Memberships are: Annual S3. 00, Sustain-
ing $10.00.

Cover Picture
page 12.

Alumni in Uniform. See caption on

PRESIDENT BAKER MEETS

WITH ALUMNI

On September 3rd President Baker met with
Alumni at a luncheon at the Statler Hotel in Buffalo.

Those present were Roger Chambers '18, Jack
Devine '29, Leon Fagerstrom '12, Joseph Evers '21.
and Harry Murray, Jr., '22.

It was a pleasant meeting, and the group was
much appreciative of the efforts of Walter Bonney
'31 who, although unable to be present, made ar-
rangements for the gathering.

'03 Albert Parsons discontinued delivery of milk
in Amherst on September 1st — after having com-
pleted 29 years as a producer-dealer in milk. Labor
difficulty, and the fact that Mr Parsons' selectman's
duties in Amherst take a great deal of his time,
caused him to make the decision. He will continue,
however, as a milk producer. When Mr. Parsons
began his milk route, licenses were not required but
since then, when some twenty years ago, licenses
became a legal necessity, he has held "No. 1" license
in Amherst.

'26 Larry Jones served as president of the first
community chest drive in Beverly, Mass., this sum-
mer. The drive was highly successful.

COLLEGE WAR EFFORT

As College re-opens with a freshman class of more
than 400 and with upperclasses somewhat depleted
(exact figures will be available in the next Bulletin),
President Hugh P. Baker announced that special new
courses, a continuation of the accelerated schedule,
and an expanded military and physical education
program would constitute a portion of the college
contribution, on campus, toward the war effort.

"Education as usual is out for the duration," he
said, "and Massachusetts State College is all out for
the war effort."

New courses in American democracy, engineering,
entomology, languages, and courses on the Far East
are examples of curriculum additions.

The summer semester which opened June 1 and
ended August 22, was, in the words of Dean W. L.
Machmer, a "very successful experience." More
than 225 students were enrolled; of this group, some
20% either completed all requirements for their col-
lege degrees or elss, if juniors, carried sufficient
course work so that they will now be graduated in
January. AH others are a full semester nearer grad-
uation. The session was characterized by the serious-
minded attitude of the students, who did better than
average work throughout the entire session.

Special 8-weeks courses in flight training, Civ-
ilian Pilot Training work under the Civilian Aero-
nautics Authority, were inaugurated in midsummer.
Forty selected students were enrolled, and received
basic ground-work instruction from members of
the college staff. The C.P.T. students lived in North
College — they have since been transferred to Thatcher
Hall so that North may again be available for under-
graduate girls — ate their meals in Draper Hall.
Their flight training was given at Westfield; a
special bus took the group back and forth daily.
One group of these students already has finished
its training and has been succeeded by a second.
It is contemplated that the work will be continued
indefinitely.

Four Civilian Defense courses in chemical decon-
tamination problems were conducted during the
summer. These were under joint auspices of the
College, the State Department of Public Health, the
State Committee on Public Safety, and the U. S.
Office of Education. Professor Leon A. Bradley,
head of the department of bacteriology, was in
charge. One hundred and seventy-two students were
enrolled and completed the required courses. These
men and women were a specially-selected group,
appointed by civilian defense organizations through-
out New England. Many of these students were
graduate chemists or bacteriologists; all are key
workers in civilian defense.

Among Alumni who attended the classes were
these:

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ALUMNI IN UNIFORM

SINCE JUNE 150 MORE

As this issue of the Alumni Bulletin goes to press
there are, as follow below, 150 additions (since June)
to the roster of Alumni in the country's Armed
Forces. The total number of Alumni now recorded
in the Forces is 573.

In order to cooperate fully with the wishes of the
Office of Director of Censorship, the home (resi-
dence) addresses only of these Alumni are given
here. Mail sent to them, either at these addresses,
or to the Alumni Office, will be forwarded.

The Alumni Office is making every attempt to
keep a complete and accurate record of Alumni in
their country's service. Any help which you can
give us in maintaining this record will be much ap-
preciated.

'36 Lieut. Roger E. Allen, Medical Corps, 653 Main
Street, Shrewsbury, Mass.

'37 Lieut. Charles Appel, Medical Corps, 42 Brook-
line Avenue, Holyoke, Mass.

'37 Lieut. John Appel, Medical Corps, 42 Brookline
Avenue, Holyoke, Mass.

'41 Apprentice Seaman Lillian A. Arslanian,
WAVES, 541 State Street, Springfield, Mass.

'38 BM 2-c Rexford Avery, Coast Guard, Main
Street, Sunderland, Mass.

'39 Aviation Cadet William Barrett, Air Force, 6
Orchard Street, Adams, Mass.

'42 Ensign Everett W. Barton, U.S.N.R., 1077 Mass-
achusetts Avenue, North Adams, Mass.

'40 Pvt. Geoffrey H. Beanies, Chemical Warfare,
Box 528, Falmouth, Mass.

'39 Corp. John Bern ben. Army, Hadley, Mass.

'42 Pvt. Jerome Biederman, Air Force, 957 Morton
Street, Mattapan, Mass.

'42 Ensign Frederick A. Binder, U.S.N.R., 17
Water Street, Shelburne, Falls, Mass.

'38 Aviation Cadet Carl J. Bokina. Air Force, 7
Prospect Street, Hatfield, Mass.

'31 Pvt. William E. Bosworth, Jr., Army, 372 Pleas-
ant Street, Westfield, Mass.

'40 Pvt. Richard N. Bowler. Air Force, 18 Sterling
St., Westfield, Mass.

'42 2nd Lieut. John E. Brady. Jr., Marine Corps,
237 Federal Street, Greenfield, Mass.

w'44 Sgt. Joseph Brauner. Cavalry, 151 Savoy
Street, Bridgeport, Conn.

'41 Ensign Robert Breglio, Navy, 136 Rimmon Ave-
nue, Chicopee, Mass.

■36 Pvt. Owen .1. Brennan, Jr., Cavalry, 6 Ruggles
Street. Wheelwright, Mass.

'Hi Pvt. Roger Broun. Jr., Army. 36 Outlook Drive,
Lexington, Mass.

w'42 Lieut. Chester H. Budz. Air Force, Meadow
Street, 1 1 • , Mass.

'89 l.ieut. Donald Calo, Chemical Warfare, 149-18
I Avenue, Flushing, L. I., X. Y.
5gt. Lester W. (lark. Air Force, 12 Main Street,
.Montague, Mass.

w'43 Pvt. William E. Clark, Air Force, 28 Jamaica

Street, Lawrence, Mass.
w'43 Lieut. Norman Cohen, Armored Force, 240

School Street, Somerville, Mass.
'35 Corp. Charles Daniels, Army, 100 Green Street,

Melrose, Mass.
w'44 Seaman 2-c James J. Dayton, Jr., Navy, Bel-

chertown Road, Amherst, Mass.

SOON AFTER ARMY
INDUCTION BENNY
FREITAS \l WAS
APPOINTED A
P H Y S ED 19-
STRUCTOR. HE

WRITES, "ALL
KIDDING ASIDE
i'm REALLY' GET-
ting into shape.
. . . expect i'll
have about iooo
soldiers in
front of my
stand this af-
ternoon." if
benny's TEACH-
INGS ARE AS IN-
SPIRING AS HIS
EXAMPLE, OTHER
SOLDIERS, TOO,
SHOULD BE "GET-
T I N G INTO

SHAPE."

w'45 Seaman 2-c Paul O. Dickinson, Jr., Navy, Rie-

gelsvile, Pa.
'21 Lieut. Donald Douglass, Air Force, 12 George

Street, Belmont, Mass.
'38 Pvt. John Dunlop, Signal Corps, 62 Grape Street,

Chicopee, Mass.
'40 P.F.C. Robert B. Eaton, Chemical Warfare, 173

Main Street, Waltham, Mass.
'42 Midshipman Albert C. Eldridge, U.S.N.R., 47

Highland Road, Somerville, Mass.
'30 Lieut, (j. g.) Davis H. Elliot, Navy, 431 Alliston

Ave., S. W., Roanoke, Virginia.
'38 Lieut. Charles E. Elliott, Sanitary Corps, 24

Whitney Avenue, Beverly, Mass.
'41 Pvt. Robert Ewing, Cavalry, 119 Main Street,

Easthampton, Mass.
'41 Pvt. Harold E. Forrest, Air Force, 186 Brattle

Street, Athol, Mass.
'26 Captain Harry Fraser, Air Force, 305 Prospect

Street, Norwood, Mass.
'42 Sgt. Edmund Freitas, Air Force, 121 Laurel

Street, Fairhaven, Mass.
'42 Pvt. Michael Frodyma, Military Police, 88 High

Street, Holyoke, Mass.
w'43 Lieut. Charles G. Fyfe, Armored Force, 22

Audubon Road, Worcester, Mass.
w'35 Pvt. Milo F. Galbraith, Infantry, 167 Silver

Street, Greenfield, Mass.

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OBITUARIES

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LIEUT. ROBERT S. COLE 39

Lieutenant Robert S. Cole '39

Lieut. Robert S. Cole '39 was killed on July 17,
1942, when his fighter plane crashed, near Tampa,
Florida, during a training flight from near-by Drew
Field.

Graduated from Westfield High School in 1935
Cole entered the College and subsequently enrolled
in the nature guide course conducted by Professor

William G. Vinal.
«»^ Dr. Vinal has

said, "Bob Cole,
by inheritance and
environment was
destined to be an
outdoor leader. He
received the Kit-
tridge scholarship
to attend College;
he gravitated nat-
turally to activity
with the Outing
Club.

"Bob Cole was
an all-round boy.
His life was a
living example of
the glory of a
clean spirit and a
quality of whole-
someness. There
was something rugged in his devotion to his physical
well being, and in his constant application to the job
at hand. His great interests in the outdoors did not
detract from his academic studies — in fact they
spurred him on in his intellectual pursuits. He won
honors in both fields.

"He enrolled in the advanced R.O.T.C. course. He
became a member of Alpha Gamma Rho fraternity.
"Upon graduation Bob quickly realized his ambi-
tion as a naturalist; he was appointed first nature
guide in a Massachusetts reservation — he was en-
gaged as guide at the Mt. Tom Reservation. Aaron
C. Bagg wrote: 'He has been just the one to start
the work off in the right manner. He has an attrac-
tive personality, I hear only high praise for him
and his faithful performance of his work.' "

In the fall of 1940 Cole was to have been employed
at the Northfield Inn as recreational director and ski
instructor. Instead, he joined the Air Corps. He was
later commissioned a second lieutenant, was made
a first lieutenant in June, 1942.

He is survived by his mother, Mrs. Katherine H.
Cole of Westfield, and a brother, Philip, now en-
rolled as a junior at the College.

Daniel Willard '82

Daniel Willard '82 died on July 6, 1942, at Union
Memorial Hospital in Baltimore. He was 81 years
old.

After being obliged to leave College in 1879 be-
cause of serious trouble with his eyes, Daniel

Willard went to work as a track laborer on the
Central Vermont Railroad. Thus began a career
which was to see him rise to the presidency of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad — a position he held
for three decades, the longest tenure of any presi-
dent in that railroad's 115-year history. Last year
he became first board chairman of the B. & 0.

Committal services were held on July 10th at
Hartland, Vermont, where Mr. Willard was born.

Among those besides members of the family who
attended the services were Joseph B. Eastman,
director of the Office of Defense Transportation;
Clyde B. Aitchison, Interstate Commerce Commission
chairman; Bernard M. Baruch, New York financier
who succeeded Mr. Willard as chairman of the War
Industries Board in the first World War; Walter S.
Gifford, American Telephone and Telegraph Com-
pany president; G. W. Bovenizer, member of the firm
of Kuhn Loeb & Co., New York; William M. Ver-
milye, vice president National City Company; Major
Jackson; Frank R. Kent; Dr. Isaiah Bowman, presi-
dent of the Johns Hopkins University; Carlyle Bar-
ton, who succeeded Mr. Willard as chairman of the
Johns Hopkins board of trustees; B. Howell Griswold,
member of the board.

Other railroad executives attending included Roy
B. White, president of the B. & 0.; John J. Pelley,
president of the Association of American Railroads;
M. W. Clement, president of the Pennsylvania Rail-
road; W. J. Jenks, president of the Norfolk and
Western Railway; C. W. Brown, president of the
Western Maryland Railway; E. W. Scheer, president
of the Reading Railroad; R. W. Brown, president of
the Lehigh Valley Railroad, and Howard Bruce,
J. Hamilton Cheston, Robert Garrett, John R. Mor-
ron, Albert A. Sprague and John C. Traphagen,
members of the B. & 0. board.

Mr. Williard is survived by his wife and by four
grandchildren. One of two sons, Daniel Willard, Jr.
died in May, 1940, the other, Harold Willard, died in
1918. A grandson, DeVoe Willard, was graduated
from the College in 1938.

Gregory Casparian '82

Gregory Casparian '82 died at his home in
Forest Hills, New York, on July 15, 1942. He was
born in Ismet, Turkey, August, 1855 and came to
America at the age of 17. He became a citizen five
years later, and the following year entered the
College, through which he worked his way. After
being gi'aduated he entered the color engraving
business, in which profession he continued until
1930 when he retired because of failing eyesight.

He painted in oils, including a portrait of Henry
Ward Beecher who was minister of the Plymouth
church which Mr. and Mrs. Casparian attended. In
1906 he published a book, "An Anglo-American
Alliance — a Forecast of the Future".

He is survived by his daughter, Mrs. John Warner

Hall, and a grandson, now in the army, in Hawaii.

Mrs. Hall wrote, "Papa received a lovely letter from

Mr. Daniel Willard in January, 1941, recalling the

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Turkish smoking bottle papa had in his room in
College."

Mrs. William F. Robertson

Mrs. William F. Robertson died in Brooklyn, New
York, on May 2, 1942. She and her husband, William
F. Robertson '20, were active in campus life during
the four years, beginning in September 1923, when
Robertson was an instructor in horticultural manu-
factures at the College. Her many friends at the
College, and elsewhere, are grieved to learn of her
death.

Frank E. Chipman '82

Frank E. Chipman '82 died at his home in West
Somerville on June 1, 1942. He was 80 years old.

He had been president of the Boston Book Company
and for 35 years was editor and publisher of the
"Law Index".

He was a native of Beverly, and was a descendant
of Rev. John Hale Chipman, first minister of Beverly.

After attending the College he was admitted to
the Minnesota bar and practiced law in St. Paul
until 1893. He then entered the employ of the
Boston Book Company, publisher of law books, and
later became president of the firm.

He had supplied the law libraries of many Ameri-
can universities as well as state libraries, the Library
of Congress, and the state library of Mexico and
Cuba.

He is survived by four daughters, and two sons.

Frederick E. Brooks '88

Frederick E. Brooks '88 died at his home in Haver-
hill. Mass., on August 18, 1942. He was 79 years
old. Although he had not been strong for some
time, he had kept his usual cheerfulness and was
active until the end.

He was born in Bradford, Muss., and attended the
local schools before entering the College. He was
a man much liked by all of his classmates. He
attended class reunions regularly; he and his wife
were present at the 50th reunion of the class in
1938.

After being graduated from the College he entered
the shoe business in Haverhill, but soon established
himself in the laundry and supply business in Haver-
hill in which he engaged for the greater part of his
life. He also conducted an investment service, the
Massachusetts Investors Trust.

He is survived by his wife, a sister, a daughter,
two sons and three grandchildren who, with his
classmates, will miss him.

Herbert C. Bliss
Secretary, C!.i<s of '88

\rlhur \. Phelps '03

Arthur A. Phelps '03 died August 1, 1942, at his
home in Grafton, Mass.. where for many years he
had conducted a successful floricultural business. His
widow, two sons and a daughter survive him.

Mr. Phelps always maintained a keen and active
interest in his Alma Mater and missed no opportun-
ity to visit the campus, often coming especially to
acquaint himself with new scientific and practical

developments in his field of work. He was invari-
ably present at class reunions and was seldom absent
from a Commencement. He will be missed by his
many friends among the faculty and Alumni at the
College.

A. V. Osmun '03

Charles H. Fernald II '16

The death of Charles H. Fernald, II '16 on August
12, 1942, at the home of his parents, Dr. and Mrs.
H. T. Fernald at Winter Park, Florida, came as a
great shock to his classmates and friends.

After being graduated from Amherst High School
Charlie entered College with the class of '16 — with
which group he early became one of the most popu-
lar members. He was president of the class in his
freshman year. He was energetic, outstanding,
both as a student and an athlete. He made his
varsity letter in both baseball and hockey. He was
a member of Kappa Sigma fraternity.

After being graduated he entered Harvard and
received the M.B.A. degree in 1921. In 1922 he
married Miss Vesta Winn.

After leaving Harvard, Fernald specialized in
business administration, merchandising and selling;
he taught these subjects at the Universities of
North Carolina and Illinois. At the time of his
death he was professor of business administration
at the University of Arkansas.

His personality and ability were early recognized
in the field of business administration, and in 1926
he was elected vice president of the Advei"tising
Clubs of Illinois. He was author of "Salesmanship"
and "Modern Selling." The third edition of his
"Salesmanship" had been published only a month
before his death.

In the last World War he was an ensign in the
U. S. Naval Reserves.

Be is survived by his wife, two sons, his parents,
and two sisters.

Committal services were held August 15th at
Wildwood Cemetery in Amherst where the class of
1916 was represented by Linus H. Jones and Ernest
S. Russell.

C. II". Moses '16

COLLEGE WAR EFFORT

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Harlan A. Howard '37 of Amherst. Owner and di-
rector of Howard Laboratories.

C. T. Leslie, M. D., '01 of Pittsfield. Medical Division,
Mass. Com. on Public Safety.

Charles W. Manty '31 of Maynard. Teacher of biol-
ogy at Maynard Hi^h School.

Michael G. O'Connor G of Springfield. Milk inspec-
tor, City of Springfield.

Edward R. Wyman, M. D. '34 of Great Barrington.
Medical Division, Mass. Com. on Public Safety.

Emory H. Bartlett w'15 of Ware. Metropolitan Dis-
trict Water Supply Commission.

Robert W. Parsons w'13 of Marblehead. Medical
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MARRIAGES

'32 Lieut. John W. Tokaz to Miss Rita LeRoy,
March 3, 1942, at West Roxbury, Mass.

'34 Roland R. Cutler to Miss Elizabeth Harrison,
May 23, 1942, at South Sudbury, Mass.

'34 Stephen A. Lincoln to Miss Margaret DeVries,
June 20, 1942, at Shortsville, N. Y.

'35 Lieut. Vernon Bell to Miss Bee Scull, June
23, 1942, at Westmont, New Jersey.

'35 Dr. Bernard J. Doyle to Miss Margaret T.
Lovett, June 24, 1942, at Hatfield, Mass.

'35 Lieut. E. Theodore Hall to Miss Marjorie
Stow, June 27, 1942, at Cromwell, Conn.

'36 Spofford Whittaker to Miss Marjorie E.
Squires, April 11, 1942, at Sharon, Mass.

'37 Miss Mary E. Boucher to Albert J. Rosati,
August 17, 1942, at Easthampton, Mass.

'37 and '36 2nd Lieut. Karol S. Wisnieski to Miss
Apolonia J. Ziomek, August 2, 1942, at Hadley,
Mass.

'38 Kenneth Benson to Miss Betty Foos, August
15, 1942, at Sheboygan, Wisconsin.

'38 Albert A. Davidson to Miss Alma D.
Feinberg, June 21, 1942, at Springfield, Mass.

'38 Lieut. Philip H. Haskins to Miss Mary E.
Carmody, August 22, 1942, at Glens Falls, N. Y.

'38 2nd Lieut. Richard R. Irving to Miss Mary
Corintha Calderwood, July 4, 1942, at Johnston, N.Y.

'39 and '39 James Brann, Jr. to Miss Doris
Colgate, June 27, 1942, at Billerica, Mass.

'39 Lieut. Donald R. Calo to Miss Dorothy Mary
Jane Barmonde, August 1, 1942, at Flushing, N. Y.

'39 2nd Lieut. Everett W. Eldridge to Miss Ursyl
lone Forcum, September 18, 1942, at Wash. D. C.

'39 Lane Giddings to Miss Gladys E. Lestage,
September 5, 1942, at Lenox, Mass.

'39 Miss Bettina Hall to John W. Harrison, July
12, 1941, at Foxboro, Mass.

'39 William J. Hanigan, Jr. to Miss Eleanor
Davis, July 18, 1942, at Springfield, Mass.

'39 Miss Marjorie E. Harris to C. Edward
Stillman, December 27, 1941, at Leominster, Mass.

w'39 Ensign Albert F. Moorehead to Miss Marion
M. Howes, June 28, 1942 at Melrose, Mass.

'40 and '40 Lieut. George Atwater to Miss Al-
berta M. Johnson, April 26, 1942, at Southwick,
Mass.

'40 Lieut James B. Buckley, Jr., to Miss Jane A.
Alvey, August 15, 1942, at Fort Myer, Va.

'40 Miss Kathleen Cooper to Alston B. Voorhees,
Jr., June 23, 1942, at Detroit, Michigan.

'40 and '40 Lieut. Franklin M. Davis, Jr., to Miss
Erma Alvord, July 18, 1942, at Fort Benning, Ga.

'40 Richard K. Muller to Miss Lucille Deady, Sep-
tember 9, 1942, at Amherst, Mass.

'40 and '40 John V. Osmun to Miss Dorothy R.
Morley, July 11, 1942, at Auburn, Alabama.

'40 Miss Marjorie M. Smith to Lieut. Benton W.
Stewart, August 16, 1942, at Springfield, Mass.

'41 2nd Lieut. Ernest A. Bolt, Jr., to Miss Fran-
ces E. Palmer, August 22, 1942, at Worcester, Mass.

'41 and '40 Lieut. George Bragdon to Miss Mil-

dred M. Bak, July 8, 1942, at Fort Riley, Kansas.

'41 George Feiker to Miss Elizabeth Ross, June
30, 1942, at Washington, D. C.

'41 and '41 2nd Lieut. Richard B. Hay ward to
Miss Priscilla E. Lane, June 26, 1942, at Brockton,
Mass.

'41 and '40 2nd Lieut. Carleton P. Jones, Jr.,
to Miss Catherine M. Leete, July 4, 1942, at Camp
Bowie, Texas.

'41 2nd Lieut. John C. Morytko to Miss Jean

MILITARY WEDDING

MRS. EARLE W. KELLY, MATRON OF HONOR; LIEUT. FRANKLIN

M. DAVIS, JR. '4O; ERMA ALVORD (MRS. DAVIS) '4O; LIEUT.

ALBIN IRZYK '40, BEST MAN

Wanczyk, May 27, 1942, at Riverside, California.

'41 Irving W. Seaver to Miss Dorothy M. Jefts,
June 3, 1942, at Shrewsbury, Mass.

'41 George Soule to Miss Jean Millicent Conder,
June 24, 1942, at Washington, D. C.

w'41 James Y. Jamison to Miss Shirley M. Fox,
August 29, 1942, at Auburndale, Mass.

w'41 Horace B. Wildes to Miss Elizabeth Smith,
July 19, 1942, at New Salem, Mass.

'42 2nd Lieut. John E. Brady, Jr., to Miss Marion
E. Lockhart, August 29, 1942, at Baltimore, Mary-
land.

'42 2nd Lieut. Axel V. Erikson to Miss Marjorie
Noble, August 15, 1942, at Ft. Riley, Kansas.

'42 Miss Charlotte Gilchrest to D. Rodney Water-
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man, Jr., April 4. 1942, at Lunenburg, Mass.

'42 and '42 Robert N. Hobson to Miss Phyllis L.
Drinkwater, August 21, 1942, at Springfield, Mass.

'42 and '42 Raino Lanson to Miss Marion Galla-
gher, November 29, 1941, at Hinsdale, N. H.

'42 and '42 2nd Lieut. Maurice W. Leland to
Miss Esther M. Brown, September 5, 1942, at Fort
Riley, Kansas.

'42 Miss Harriett N. Sargent to Floyd L. Fitts,
May 23, 1942, at Brockton, Mass.

"42 2nd Lieut. George S. Sinnicks to Miss Eleanor
R. Macomber, April 18, 1942, at Westport, Mass.

'42 and '44 2nd Lieut. E. Donald Tripp to Miss
Janet E. Wheeler, August 12, 1942. New York. N. Y.

BIRTHS

'27 A son, Dennis, to Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Buck-
ley, June 26, 1942, at Ridgefield, Conn.

'31 A daughter, Jean Luise, to Mr. and Mrs.
Walter T. Bonney, April 23, 1942, at Buffalo, New
York.

'32 and '32 A son, Gilbert Y. Jr.. to Mr. and
Mrs. Gilbert Whitten (Celeste Fiore), June 21, 1942.
at Montclair. N. J.

'33 A son, John Robert II, to Mr. and Mrs. Rob-
ert Hanson, September 9, 1942, at Alexandria, Vir-
ginia.

'33 A son, Robert Ryan, to Major and Mrs. Daniel
J. Leary, August 12, 1942, at Kansas City, Missouri.

'34 A daughter, Margaret Ann, to Mr. and Mrs.
Russell Sturtevant, July 9, 1942, at Halifax. Mus<.

'35 and '36 A son, Frederick Martin, to Dr. and
Mis. Frederick N. Andrews, (Gertrude Martin),
June 30, 1942, at West Lafayette, Indiana.

'35 A son, Richard Gordon, to Dr. and Mrs. Vic-
tor Guzowski, July 5, 1942, at Springfield, Mass.

'35 A daughter. Bonnie Dee, to Mr. and Mrs.
Albert B. Ramsdell, Jr., July 7, 1912. at Hartford.
Conn.

'36 A son, Edward Philip, to Mr. and .Mis. Sam-
uel W. Neuman, June 29, 1912. at Rockville ('enter,
New York.

'36 A son, George Brinton, III, to Mr. and Mrs.
George B. Burnett, Jr. (Francene Smith '36), July 3,
1942, at Greenfield, Mass.

'::7 A son, Albert J. Jr.. to ('apt. and Mrs. Albert
J. Gricius, June 17, 1942, at Fort Knox, Kentucky.

'37 A daughter, Patricia Gaye, to Mr. and Mrs.
John F. Hanson, .Inly 28, 1942, at Medford, Mass.

':7 A son, John Langdon, to Mr. and Mrs. Pres-
cott L. Richards, August 26, 1942, at Linden, New
Jersey.

'38 A son, Norman Ellery, to Mr. ami Mrs. Nor-
man Clark, June 6, 1942, at Westfield, Ma

A daughter, Karen Margot, to Mr. and Mrs.
Bugen P. K. Gieringer (Jessie Kinsman '38), Sep-
tember «, 1942, at Cambridge, Ma

A son, Bruce Edward, to Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Rodda, Jr., June 21, 1942, at Schenectady, New York.

'40 A son John Richard, to Mr. and Mrs. Paul T.
Perriter, August 7, 1942, at Muskogee. Oklahoma.

COLLEGE WAR EFFORT

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Service, G. D. Searle and Co.

Arthur W. Taylor, '14 of Beveily. Head, science
department, Salem High School.

Frank A. Slesinski '38 of Burlington, Vt. College of
Medicine, Univ. of Vermont.

Elmer H. Allen '36 of Dighton. Instructor of related
sciences at Bristol Agric. School.

John I. Bennett '15 of Boston. Head, chemistry de-
partment. Medford High School.

Arthur L. Frellick '18 of West Bridgewater. Teacher
of science, Howard High School.

Albert P. Richards '36 of Duxbury. Ass't. to Dr.
Clapp. Wm. F. Clapp Laboratories.

John Calvi '36 of Athol. Teacher of science, Athol
High School.

Arthur L. Swift '22 of Amherst. Teacher of chem-
istry, Amherst High School.

Dr. George Edward Gage, head of the department
of physiology and professor of bacteriology and
physiology, was appointed to the organization com-
mittee of a Massachusetts Laboratory Technologists
Reserve Corps. The group of technologists is to be
composed approximately of 350 women, trained as
hospital technologists. Serving on the committee
are also Miss Ruth Thomas, assistant professor of
hygiene at Smith College, Dr. John A. Timm, direc-
tor of the Simmons School of General Science, and
Dr. D. A. Nickerson of the Salem, Mass., Hospital.
Janet Sargent '?5, who is engaged in technician work
in the office of a Brookline physician has written,
"I was much interested to read of Dr. Gage being
on the committee to organize the Corps. I never fully
appreciated what Dr. Cage had to offer in his courses
until I actually got into this technician work."

Additions to the list of members of the college
stall who have left the campus for the Armed Forces
or lor war industry ate these:
Kathleen Callahan, inst., phys ed. WAVES.
Richard M. Colwell, instructor in economics. Army.
Parry Dodds, inst., in agr. ec, Navy.
Edward H. Donnelly, tech. asst., Waltham. Army.
Carl R. Fellers, head, department of horticultural

manufactures. Army.
Ralph I,. France, asst. res. prof., bact. Army.
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'40 A daughter, Cynthia Jane, to Lieut, and Mrs.
John Serex, September Id, 1942, at Northampton,
Ma

'41 and w'42 A son, Richard Arthur, to Mr. and
Ml Kenneth A. Rowland (Louise Olson), June 6,
1942, at New Vorl; City.

'41 A daughter, Cynthia Constance, to Mr. and
Mrs. Robert A. Rodriguez, May 5, 1942, at Green-
field, Mass.

v. 'II A -on, Raymond Leo, to Mr. and Mrs. Rob-
ert Cashman, September 10, 1942, at Greenfield,

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a. Mclaughlin 'ii presides

AT ANALYSTS MEETING

Frederick A. McLaughlin '11 presided on July 28,
29, 30, and 31, at the annual meeting of the Asso-
ciation of Official Seed Analysts at the University
of Kentucky, Lexington. The association is a section
of the American Association for the Advancement
of Science; registration at the conference represented

23 states,
Canada, and
the District
of Columbia.
The Seed
Trade News,
speaking o f
the meetings,
told of Presi-
dent Mc-
L au g h 1 i n's
address to
the Associa-
tion — in his
remarks h e
stressed the
importance of
research, the
qualifications
o f analysts,
equipmentfor
laboratories,
the impor-
tance of
schools of in-
struction, and
field testing.
Professor McLaughlin was vice-president of the
Analysts Association in 1940-41, president 1941-42;
in 1942-43 he will be chairman of the program com-
mittee.

Mac has been engaged in botanical work since
he was graduated from the College; from 1911 to
1930 he was successively assistant, instructor, and
assistant professor in botany at the College. In 1930
he took over the work of the seed control laboratory,
as assistant research professor.

COLLEGE WAR EFFORT

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Emory E. Grayson '17, director of placement. Navy.

Robert P. Holdsworth, head, department of forestry.
Army.

Arthur S. Levine '35, assistant research nrofessor,
horticultural manufactures. Army.

Robert J. Markham, head attendant, Draper Hall.
Navy.

Carl Olson, Jr., research professor, veterinary sci-
ence. Army.

Raymond H. Otto '26, head, department of land-
scape architecture. Army.

Ernest M. Parrott, instructor in chemistry. Army.
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FREDERICK A. MCLAUGHLIN II

-Photo by Don Lacroix '22

ALUMNI IN UNIFORM

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w'32 Captain Philip Gallagher, Coast Artillery, 108

Fayer Weather Street, Cambridge, Mass.
w'44 Apprentice Seaman Francis J. Garrity, Navy,

18 Lakeway Drive, Pittsfield, Mass.
w'44 Aviation Cadet William Gere, Air Force, 8

Belmont Avenue, Northampton, Mass.
'29 2nd Lieut. Charles Gilford, Quarter-master Corps,

Sutton, Mass.
'39 Lieut. Robert B. Glass, Air Force, 92 Appleton

Street, Arlington, Mass.
'40 Pvt. Charles Gleason, Air Force, Broadway,

Hanover, Mass.
'40 Ensign William F. Goodwin, U.S.N.R., 15 Wheel-

ock Street, Winthrop, Mass.
'42 Midshipman Thomas Gordon, Jr., Navy, 55 New

South Street, Northampton, Mass.
'17 Lieut, (s. g.) Emory E. Grayson, Navy, 91 Cot-
tage Street, Amherst, Mass.
'42 2nd Lieut. Benjamin Hadley, Jr., Marine Corps,

Ledgelawn Avenue, Bar Harbor, Maine.
'41 Cadet Sergeant Robert F. Halloran, Air Force,

146 Federal Street, Northampton, Mass.
'40 Ensign Robert Hanley, Navy, 17 Bancroft Park,

Hopedale, Mass.
'38 Lieut. Philip Haskins, Engineer Corps, Berlin

Road, Williamstown, Mass.
'39 2nd Lieut. George J. Haylon, Army, 13 Broad

Street, Pittsfield, Mass.
'42 Pvt. Bernard J. Hershberg, 42 Bradshaw Street,

Medford, Mass.
w'43 2nd Lieut. Everett F. Horgan, Marine Corps,

28 Harriet Avenue, Belmont, Mass.
iv'41 Pvt. Russell Howard, Air Force, 827 North

Street, Pittsfield, Mass.
'36 Lieut. Robert F. Hutt, Armored Force, 2568

Main Street, Glastonbury, Conn.
'38 2nd Lieut. Richard Irving, Armored Force, 42

Summer Street, Methuen, Mass.
'34 Third Officer Harriette Jackson, WAAC, 31

High Street, Orange, Mass.
w'22 Pvt. Albert J. Jarvis, Engineer Corps, 445

Walnut Street, Brighton, Colorado.
'38 2nd Lieut. Herbert Johnson, Engineer Corps,

26 Metcalf Street, Roslindale, Mass.
'40 Pvt. Louis Johnson, Jr., Air Force, 7 Hillside

Court, Gloucester, Mass.
w'44 P.F.C. Frank Joyner, Air Force, Cummington,

Mass.
'40 Pvt. Robert Kennedy, Air Force, 16 Macomber

Avenue, North Dartmouth, Mass.
'38 Lieut. Richard C. King, Cavalry, 1706 N. Jeffer-
son Street, Junction City, Kansas.
w'43 Aviation Cadet Abraham Klaiman, U.S.N.R.,

314 Washington Street, Maiden, Mass.
w'42 Aviation Cadet Charles Knox, Air Force, 197

Gates Avenue, East Longmeadow, Mass.
'36 Pvt. Charles Krtil, Military Police, Little River

Street, Westfield, Mass.
w'36 2nd Lieut. George Laite, Air Force, 14 Carlton
Street, Salem, Mass.

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'37 Lieut. John E. Landers, Ordnance, 4 Federal
Court, Springfield, Mass.

'40 Aviation Cadet Everett Langworthy, Air Force,
22 Murray Place, West Springfield, Mass.

-41 Pvt. Hamilton Laudani, Medical Corps, 123 High
Street, Lawrence, Mass.

'22 Major Robert P. Lawrence, Army Veterinary
Det., 299 Bloomfield Avenue, Verona, N. J.

'41 Aviation Cadet T. Richard Leonard, Jr., Air
Force, Church Street, Raynham, Mass.

'35 Lieut. Arthur S. Levine, Sanitary Corps, 22 Nut-
ting Avenue, Amherst, Mass.

'42 P.F.C. Waldo C. Lincoln, Jr., Marine Corps, 121
Church Street. Ware. Mass.

'16 Lieut. Commander Harold G. Little, Navy Medi-
cal Corps, 5 Walnut Avenue, Wheeling, West
Virginia.

-42 Lewis R. Long Jr.. U.S.C.G.R., 62 Beechmont
Street, Worcester, Mass.

'36 Lieut. Thomas H. Lord, Sanitary Corps, 17 Wal-
nut Court, Arlington, Mass.

w'44 Aviation Cadet John Ludeman, Air Force,
Marysville, Texas.

'30 Ensign Herman Magnuson, Navy, 155 Bridge
Street, Manchester. Mass.

I '42 P.F.C. William Mahan, Marine Corps. Elm Court
Stockbridge, Mass.
w'44 Aviation Cadet Arthur Marcoullier, Air Force,
22 Tekoa Terrace, Westfiekl, Mass.
w'43 Aviation Cadet John McDonough, Navy, 54

k Leonard Street, Dorchester, Mass.

'38 Captain Donald S. McGowan. 320 Pleasant

Street, Holyoke, Mass.
'42 Pvt. William Mcintosh, Medical Corps, Box 475,

Amherst, Mass.
'40 P.F.C. Charles McLaughlin. Marine Corps. 14

Xutting Avenue, Amherst, Mass.
'-12 Aviation Cadet George E. McLaughlin. Navy,

14 Nutting Avenue, Amherst, Mass.
'42 Pvt. Harold H. McLean, Air Force, 155 Cowper

Street, East Boston, Mass.
w'39 Ensign Albert F. Moorehead, Naval Air Corps,

12 Glen Street, Melrose, Mass.
'42 P.F.C. David Morrill, Marine Corps, Prospect

Street, Rowley, Mass.
'12 Pvt. Freeman E. Morso, Air Force, Rhodes Ave-
nue. Lynn, Mass.
'41 Lieut. John ('. Morytko, Army, 9 Sibley Avenue,

Westfield, Mass.
'42 Ensign Kenneth M. Nagler. U.S.N.R., 577 Long-
meadow Street, Longmeadow, Mass.
12 CPO Carl Na-tri, Navy, 55 Maltby Place, New

Haven, Conn.
12 Pvt. Edward E. Oppenheim, Army, 388 Spring

Street, Brockton, Mass.
'26 Lieut. Raymond H. Otto, Engineer Corps, 254

Jackson Street, Lawrence, Mass.
w'12 Pvt. Peter Pacocha, Air Force, 56 Glendale

Street, Easthampton, Mass.
12 Ensign Stephen Papp, U.S.N.R., Box 21, North

Falmouth, Mass.
'40 Ensign Kichard J. Plichta, U.S.N.R., Strong

Street, Amherst, Mass.

'42 2nd Lieut. James N. Putnam, Marine Corps, 4

Larchmont Street, Danvers, Mass.
'38 Pvt. Maxwell Pyenson, Quartermaster Corps,

Otis, Mass.
'28 Lieut (s. g.) Roland Reed, U.S.N.R., School

Street, Easthampton, Mass.
'42 Pvt. Stephen H. Richards, Coast Artillery, 246

Bronxville Road, Bronxville, N. Y.
'40 Lieut. William Richards, Army, Davis Street,

Greenfield, Mass.
'35 Lieut. Harry Riseman, Air Force, Brooklyn

Conn.
w'43 Corp. Donald H. Rist, Army, 190A Merriam

Avenue, Leominster, Mass.
'42 Cadet Remigio S. Roda, Air Force, Charlesgate

Hotel, Boston, Mass.
'41 Pvt. Rino Roffinoli, Medical Corps, 97 South

Street, Williamstown, Mass.
'42 Pvt. I. J. Rogosa, Field Artillery, 33 Cherry

Street, Lynn, Mass.
w'43 Cadet Louis F. Ruder, Jr., Air Force, 64 Bel-
mont Avenue, Northampton, Mass.
'40 Ensign Alfred Rudge, Navy, 23 Adelle Circle,

Worcester, Mass.
'37 Ensign James M. Ryan, U.S.N.R., 687 Highland

Avenue, Needham Heights, Mass.
w'43 Aviation Cadet Patrick G. Santin, Navy, 382

Elliott Street, Beverly, Mass.
'35 2nd Lieut. Paul Schaffner, Army, 18 Gordon

Street, Hamden, Conn.
'39 Lieut. Vincent R. Schmidt, Army, 403 Laramie

Street, Manhattan, Kansas.
w'll Pvt. David Secor, Chemical Warfare, Main

Street, Wilbraham, Mass.
'42 Cadet Frederic Shackley, II, Air Force, 241

Washington Avenue, Winthrop, Mass.
w'22 Officer Candidate Beryl M. Simpson, WAAC,

■17 Farview Way, Amherst, Mass.
: i Lieut (j. g.) Donald H. Smith. U.S.N.R., Pleas-
ant Street, South Berlin, Mass.
'03 Captain Edward B. Snell, U. S. Engineers, 17

Lincoln Avenue, Elsmere, N. Y.
'36 Lieut. Edward J. Soulliere, Air Force, 190 May

Street, Worcester, Mass.
w'39 Lieut. George Spelman, Air Force, 284 North

Pleasant Street, Amherst, Mass.
'34 Pvt. Edwin StefTek, Infantry, 788 Massachusetts

Avenue, Arlington, Mass.
'42 Pvt. Howard Sunden, Air Force, 35 Upsala

Street, Worcester, Mass.
'42 P.F.C. Donald T. Thayer, Marine Corps, 618 Mill

Street, Worcester, Mass.
'41 Pvt. Raymond Thayer, Engineer Corps, 5817

London Road, Duluth, Minn.
'30 Lieut. Karl Tomfohrde, Air Force, 98 College

Street, South Hadley, Mass.
'38 2nd Lieut. Richard W. Towle, Cavalry, Joy Place,

Cohasset, Mass.
'42 Midshipman Robert Triggs, Navy, 22 Atwood

Place, Springfield, Mass.
'31 Seaman Frederick S. Troy, Merchant Marine,

33 Pine St., Arlington, Mass.
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ATHLETICS

Football

On Monday, September 21st, about 40 boys —
including freshmen — reported to Coach Walter G.
Hargesheimer, on Alumni Field, for the initial
session of the pre-season football practice. On Tues-
day, September 22nd, Coach Hargesheimer had the
boys scrimmaging — and they seemed to enjoy it.
Colonel Donald A. Young, commandant of the
R.O.T.C. unit at the College, was an interested spec-
tator at the Tuesday scrimmage and thought that
Hargesheimer was going to work with his boys with
as much directness as the Army would employ.
Colonel Young felt it was a good thing for the boys
to start in with the scrimmaging, and get tough
quick. The Army likes them tough.

The Statesmen are going to miss co-captains Gil
Santin '43 of Beverly and John McDonough '43 of
Dorchester — who may, according to a Navy press
release, play football for the Pre-ftight School at
Chapel Hill, N. C. Mac and Gil are naval aviation
cadets.

Hargesheimer believes that three or four of his
freshman candidates are going to be helpful on the
varsity; however, the only frosh who seems definitely
slated for a regular position, right now, is Isadore
Yergeau, husky tackle from Springfield.

Assisting Coach Hargesheimer this fall are Fran-
nie Riel '39 and Tommy Eck, line coach. Eck was
graduated from Colgate in 1938, played center on
the Colgate team. He comes to Massachusetts State
from Northampton where he has made an excellent
record with the high school team. In addition to
his coaching duties Eck will handle, for the duration,
some of the phys ed work formerly carried on by
Sid Kauffman, now in the Navy.

Although the Statesmen are fielding a less ex-
perienced team this fall, and one which will be 20
pounds per man lighter in the backfield, Harge-
sheimer looks for his backfield to be a speedy one,
and is much pleased, already, with the spirit which
the whole squad has been showing. The boys are
working hard and responding with zest to the in-
struction they are receiving. The coaches anticipate
better blocking and tackling this fall than has been
seen in some time.

The Statesmen will play their opening game, with
Connecticut on October 3, after only 16 practice ses-
sions— which, comparatively at least, is not much
practice. All of the clubs which the Statesmen are
to face will have had anywhere from 10 days to an
entire summer more of practice. The schedule:
Oct. 3 Connecticut, there

10 Vermont, there

17 Rhode Island, there

24 W. P. I., here

31 Amherst, there
Nov. 7 Clarkson, here

14 Tufts, there

Soccer

Oct. 3 Connecticut, there
9 Dartmouth, here
16 Coast Guard, there
21 Williams, here
24 Trinity, here
30 Amherst, here
Nov. 7 Harvard, here
Captain, Edward M. Podolak '43 of Easthampton
Manager, James M. Dellea '43 (son of John M. Dellea
'02) of Great Barrington.
Coach, Lawrence E. Briggs '27.

Cross Country

Oct. 17 M.I.T., here
24 W.P.I., here
29 Springfield, there
Nov. 3 Conn. Valley at Storrs

9 New England's at Boston
Captain, Russell J. McDonald '43 of Wheelwright
Manager, Melvin Small '43 of Somerville
Coach, Llewellyn L. Derby.

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'37 Captain Harvey G. Turner, Jr., Air Force, South

Main Street, Andover, Mass.
'40 Cadet Carl Twyble, Air Force, Gilbertville,

Mass.
'33 Pvt. Walter Utley, Army, Chesterfield, Mass.
'39 Ensign Osgood L. Villaume, U.S.N.R., 134 Pierce

Street, Maiden, Mass.
'39 Pvt. Walter T. Wakefield, Army, 9 Ball Street,

Worcester, Mass.
'41 Corp. Everett L. Warner, Chemical Warfare, 163

Northampton Road, Amherst, Mass.
w'43 Aviation Cadet Frank Waters, Air Force, 185

South Main Street, Orange, Mass.
sp'24 Lieut. Sidney B. Waugh, Air Force, 101 Park

Avenue, New York, N. Y.
'24 Captain H. Earle Weatherwax, Quartermaster

Corps, 515 Braxton Place, Alexandria, Va.
'42 Pvt. Carl P. Werme, Air Force, 36 Steele Street,

Worcester, Mass.
w'44 Lieut. Arthur White, Field Artillery, 17 Chad-
wick Street, Worcester, Mass.
w'42 Pvt. Harold B. White, Jr., Army, Pelham Road,

Pelham, Mass.
w'43 Aviation Cadet Loren Wilder, U.S.N.R., 298

Orange Street, Springfield, Mass.
'39 2nd Lieut. Edmund Wilcox, Engineer Corps,

Stockbridge, Mass.
w'43 Cadet Justin Winthrop, Air Force, 510 Eastern

Avenue, Lynn, Mass.
w'44 Aviation Cadet Donald G. Wood, Jr., U.S.N.R.,

143 Main Street, Shelburne Falls, Mass.
'31 Pvt. James Woods, Medical Corps, 9 Pond Court,

Leominster, Mass.
'30 Lieut, (j. g.) Albert P. Zuger, Navy, Box 516,

Yorktown, Va.

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JOE PUTNAM '94 RETIRES
AS COUNTY AGENT

More than 250 friends of Joseph Putnam '94,
veteran county agent, gathered at a dinner at
Deerfield Academy on June 25th to honor him before
his retirement, July 24th.

Headmaster Frank L. Boyden, of Deerfield, was
host; Phil Whitmore '15 of Sunderland was toast-
master. Fred B. Dole, president of the of the Frank-
lin County Agricultural Society, told of Mr. Put-
nam's long and distinguished record of service.

After being graduated from the College Joe
Putnam became superintendent of hoi'ticulture on
campus, then left to serve as manager of a farm
in Connecticut. He afterwards operated a farm in
Vermont and, in 1915, accepted a position with the
farm bureau in Greenfield which, in 1918, became
the Franklin County Extension Service.

His work as agricultural agent in Franklin County
has been instrumental in placing that area among
the top-ranking agricultural sections of New England.
He was active in obtaining rural electrification
programs during the past 20 years. Following the
the 1936 flood and the 1938 hurricane he spent much
time and successful effort in aiding those who
had lost land and buildings. Recently, and until
his retirement, he has been busy encouraging great-
est effort from all county farmers in a food for
victory program.

From 1927 to 1935 Mr. Putnam served on the
school committee in Greenfield. He has also been
a member of the Chamber of Commerce of that
town.

Four of Joe Putnam's six children came to Massa-
chusetts State: Ernest in the class of '23, Ruth
(now Mrs. Grant B. Snyder) '26, Richard who en-
tered with '35 but who finished his work at Spring-
field College, and Paul (who died in the fall follow-
ing his graduation) in the class of '38.

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Baxter Allen, janitor, Memorial Hall, resigned.
Navy.

Raymond Marsh, head cook, Draper Hall. Navy.

Clifford J. Benoit, janitor, Marshall Hall. War in-
dustry.

Harold Cushing, laboratory assistant, Waltham Field
Station. War industry.

Charles N". DuBois, instructor in English. Navy.

Evelyn [>. Ellms, M. D., assistant professor of hy-
giene. Red Cross.

Clare A. (iunn, instructor in landscape architecture.
Army.

C. Collis Lyle, Jr., instructor in German. War in-
dustry.

J. Harry Rich, assistant professor of forestry. War
industry.

Irwin Riedel, electrician. War industry.

Frederick S. Troy. '31 assistant professor of English.
Merchant Marine.

MacDOUGALL '13 TELLS OF
RADIO WORK

An interesting article by Charlie Eshbach '37,
agent of the New England Radio News Service, in
the Extension Service Review for July, 1942, described
extensive radio broadcasting of Allister MacDougall
'13. MacDougall is agricultural agent for the Middle-
sex County, Mass., Extension Service; he takes part
weekly in broadcasts conducted by both the agri-

ALLISTER F. MACDOUGALL IJ

cultural and homemaking agents in his organization.

In Eshbach's article MacDougall is quoted, "When
I say that radio is one of the most valuable means
of education we as extension people possess, the
statement is based on experience and broadcasting
almost from the very first development of the
medium.

"I am amazed at the number of city people who,
at heart, are interested in the country. So many
of them tell me that they listen to agricultural radio
programs, and if it happens that they know any of
our extension agents, personally, they listen particu-
larly to our programs. In this way, I am sure,
radio builds up a more sympathetic understanding
by city people of the problems of the country.

"Although we receive response from all the North-
eastern states and o:-casionaly from points much
farther away, there are many more than enough
responses from our own county to make the time
we spend on radio as valuable and as effective, in
our county, as any work we do.

"Radio broadcasting gives us a contact directly
into the homes. Farmers can sit in their own homes
and receive information from us. During peace
time this was extremely valuable; but now it is
essential. With tires becoming scarcer, with gaso-
line rationed, with farmers having more and more
work to accomplish with less and less labor avail-
able, we are probably going to have to use the radio
more than ever to reach the people with whom we
work and to give them the information essential for
their successful farm and home operation."

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Cover Picture — Alumni in Uniform. It will be
easier to identify these men if the Bulletin is opened
out fiat. Center figure, left, Lieut. Edwin T. White
'31. Right, Major Starr M. King '21. Rows, top to
bottom, left to right: 1st, Captain George A. Vassos
'36, Lieut. Richard B. Hayward '41, Sgt. Edmund F.
Freitas '42. 2nd, Lieut. John C. Lawrence '31, Captain Elmer J. Morton '19, Pvt. Stanley A. Jackimczyk '41,
Sgt. Edward Fawcett '33. 3rd, Pvt. Carl P. Werme '42, Lieut. Colonel Harold E. Wentsch '22, Lieut Frank C.
Healy '39, Lieut. Seymour Scott '33 (in good health, just resting.) 4th, Ensign Clifton W. Morey '39, Lieut.

Library

State College

Everett F. Horgan w'43, Lieut. George W. Bragdon '41. 5th, Pvt. John B. Bourne '41, Lieut. Robert J. Allen,
Jr. '35, Colonel G. Donald Meserve '25. 6th, Lieut. George J. Haylon '39, Lieut. John W. Tokaz '32, Corp.
Frederick J. Sievers, Jr. '38, Captain Lewell S. Walker, Jr. '29. 7th, Lieut. Lawrence H. Bixby '39, Sgt.
Franklin H. Drew '41, Lieut. Donald C. Douglass '21, Lieut. Philip D. Layton '37. 8th, Major Daniel J.
Leary '33, Colonel Charles H. Henry '17, Lieut. David P. Rossiter '37.

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MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE
AMHERST, MASSACHUSETTS

'ol. XXV, No. 2

November, 1942

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THE ALUMNI BULLETIN
MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

George E. Emery '24, Editor
Published monthly at Amherst, Mass. (except August and
September) by the Associate Alumni of Massachusetts State Col-
lege. Entered as second class matter, March 17, 1920, at the
Postoffice at Amherst, Mass., under the Acts of March 3, 1879.
OFFICERS OF ASSOCIATE ALUMNI OF
MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE
President, Albert W. Smith '22 of Springfield
Vice-President, William V. Hayden '13 of Newton Center
Secretary, Marshall O. Lanphear '18 of Amherst
Treasure,, Clark L. Thayer '13 of Amherst
Executive Secretary, George E. Emery '24 of Amherst
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
to 1943
Harry Dunlap Brown '14, ex-officio, of Billerica
William L. Doran '15 of Amherst

Mary E. M. Garvey '19 of Amherst

Lawrence L. Jones '26 of North Beverly

Edward J. Gare, Jr. '15 of Northampton
to 1944
Donald C. Douglass '21 of Belmont

Norman D. Hilyard '23 of Springfield

John W. McGuekian '31 of Roslindale

Arthur D. Tilton '18 of Woburn
to 1945
Alden C. Brett '12, ex-officio, of Belmont

Alan W. Chadwick '31 of Baldwinsville

Evelyn Davis Kennedy '26 of Belmont
Starr M. King '21 of Beverly

Lewis Schlotterbeck '18 of Wakefield
to 1946
John S. Crosby '25 of Arlington

Ethel Blatchford Purnell '34 of Amherst

Ralph S. Stedman '20 of Springfield

H. Sidney Vaughan '30 of Worcester

LOTTA CRABTREE SCHOLARSHIP
AWARDS

The Alumni Bulletin is sent ten times each year to all members
of the Associate Alumni. Memberships are: Annual $3.00, Sus-
taining S10.00.

Renewal notice: Every member of the Associate Alumni receives
a statement, enclosed in a Bul.etin, when his membership expires.
Expiration is always 12 months from date when membership is
received by Alumni Office.

Cover Picture — Colonel William S. Clark, third Presi-
dent of the College. His son, Atherton Clark '11 . Colonel
Clark's signature, under his picture, is a facsimile of an
original signature now in the office of Professor A. Vincent
Osmun '03 head of the department of botany at the College.

The picture of Colonel Clark is a reproduction by Bach-
rach. The picture of Atherton Clark is by Bolivar.

On pages 6 and 1 is an article about Atherton Clark and
his father.

Francis C. Pray '31, director of the College News
Service, has prepared a printed account of the
college war effort, in collaboration with Professor
Claude C. Neet, chairman of the College Defense
Council. The report is prefaced with a letter by
President Hugh P. Baker.

Printing of the report was under sponsorship of
the Associate Alumni.

'83 Dr. Homer J. Wheeler recently sent a letter,
dated May 1, 1877, and written by Dr. Charles A.
Goessmann, to President Baker for the College
memorabilia files. The letter was written by Dr.
Goessmann to Benjamin P. Ware, Esq., relative to
the use of bones and superphosphate as fertilizer
materials.

Dr. Wheeler recently retired as chief agronomist
of the American Agricultural Chemical Company.

He is living at 386 No. Pullerton Ave., Upper
Montclair, New Jersey.

Scholarships provided through the Lotta Crabtree
Estate are available annually to undergraduates in
the College who are specializing in agriculture or
horticulture or in the sciences related thereto. The
sum of $1600 is available to students in each of the
four undergraduate classes.

Awards of scholarships, as partially made for the
current academic year, are as follows :

Class of 1943: Frances Albrecht, Somerville;
Gerald Anderson, Barre, Vt.; Charles Blanchard,
No. Uxbridge; James Dellea, Alford; Robert Fitz-
patrick, Medford; Evelyn Gagnon, No. Attleboro;
Christos Gianarakos, Lowell; Nathan Golick, Dor-
chester; Elinor Koonz, Greenfield; Victor Leonowicz,
Whitman; Helen Navoy, Lawrence; Bernard Ristuc-
cia, West Newton; Stanley Salwak, Orange; Ralph
Southwick, Leicester; Elliot Schubert, Methuen;
Theodore Shepardson, Athol; Ellis Tallen, Mattapan;
Wallace Turner, Dalton.

Class of 1944: Alexander Amell, No. Adams;
Robert Burke, Woronoco; Horace Burrington, Char-
lemont; David Bush, Westfield; George Chornesky,
Lynn; Richard Damon, Lowell; Eleanor Dudley,
Northampton; Charles Dunham, Winthrop; Edwin
Fedeli, Worcester; George Flessas, Brookline; Mary
K. Haughey, Pittsfield; David Kaplan, Roxbury;
Stanley Kisiel, So. Hadley; W. Earle Newton, Mel-
rose; Algirdas Yurkstas, Bridge water.

Class of 1945: Thomas Army, Worcester; Dwight
Bramble, Palmer; Catherine Capen, Stoughton; M.
David Cooley, Springfield; Benjamin Crooker, Upton;
Donald Kinsman, Framingham; Virginia LaPlante
Williamstown; Richard Lundy, Springfield; John
Natti, Gloucester; Doris Roberts, Springfield; Dwight
Trubey, No. Chelmsford; Betty Washburn, Mont-
gomery.

Class of 1946: David L. Collier, Groton; John
Donovan, W. Springfield; Dorothy Hurlock, Marble-
head; Constance LaChance, Fall River; Paul Lane,
Mansfield; John Matthews, Woburn; Robert Ray-
mond, Auburn; Donald Rowley, Pittsfield.

Among the campers, last summer, at Camp Najer-
og, operated by Harold M. and Jane Pollard Gore
'13 and '22, in Wilmington, Vermont, were sons of
Peter Cascio '21, Ray Griffin '27, Larry Jones '26,
Ted Farwell '27, Charlie McGeoch '25, and C. D.
Blanchard '19, and grandsons of the late James H.
Morse '71.

When Amherst residents heard the fire alarm
rung in, from the box at the corner of Pleasant
and Phillips Street, on the night of September 28th
— just as College re-opened — they were, more or less
justified in believing that the students were simply
celebrating their return to College. As a matter of
fact, there actually was a fire — in the cellar of the
Sigma Phi Epsilon house where damage amounting
to about $200 was done before the fire department
got the blaze under control.

Any information which will tend to bring the
Alumni Office records of Alumni in the Service more
nearly up-to-date will be gratefully received. Won't
you please send us word of any Alumnus with the
U. S. Armed Forces — additions to the list, changes
in rank, any other information. Your help will be
appreciated.

Below are additions to the roster of Alumni in the
Service — additions to the list since the last Bulletin.

Mail sent to the home addresses, here given, or to
the Alumni Office, will be forwarded.

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ALUMNI IN UNIFORM — THE ROSTER GROWS

'40 Pvt. Mario P. Alfieri, Air Force, 60 Railroad

Street. Amherst, Mass.
w'43 Pvt. Barton Allen, Engineer Corps, West

Pelham, Mass.
w'44 Ships Cook 3-c Joseph M. Arnold, Navy, 10

Marble Street, Gloucester, Mass.
'38 Pvt. Edgar Beaumont, Air Force, 285 Amity

Street, Amherst, Mass.
'39 2nd Lieut. James G. Bennas, Air Force, 18

Dickinson Street, Amherst, Mass.
w'44 Pvt. Raoul F. Borgatti. Air Force, 75 High

Street, Bridgewater, Mass.
'38 Lieut. Frank Brox, Cavalry, 412 Broadway,

Dracut, Mass.
'21 Captain Peter J. Cascio, Engineer Corps, Box

72, West Hartford, Conn.
w'43 Corp. Robert H. Clorite, Engineer Corps, 133

Elsbree Street, Fall River, Mass.
*39 Ensign Joseph A. Doherty, U. S. N. R., 20

Warren Street, Revere, Mass.
'38 Staff Sergeant James A. Fleming, Air Force,

51 Bennet Avenue. Arlington, New Jersey.
"36 Major A. Hamilton Gardner, Jr.. Ordnance, 61

Marlboro Street, Belmont. Mass.
'42 Pvt. John J. Gardner. Jr., Marine Corps. 460

Hallock Street, Mt. Washington, Pittsburgh,

Pa.
II Pvt. Harry (iilman. Air Force, 18 Brainerd Road,

Allston, Mas
'■'■• _'nd Lieut. Abraham Goldman, Dental '

Devon Street, Dorchester, Mass.
'23 Lieut. Raymond Grayson, Air Force, Harwich

Port. .Mass.
::i S.K. 3-C Nathaniel I!. Hill. Navy. 27 N'ewell

Court, Amherst, Mass.
' ::; I.ieut. George E. Hodsdon, Air Force, 21-D

Parkway. Greenbelt, Maryland.
"86 I.ieut. < j.tr. ' Robert I'. Hunter, ('. S. N. R., 481

Lebanon i

Ernest \. Jaworski, Army, 73 North
mmer Street. Adams. Mass.
'■','• Hyron T. Johnson. Air Force, 9 Wooster Heights.

Danbury, Conn.
13 Major Albert J. Kelley. Army. 134 Greaton

d, Roxbury, M
'lo Pvt. Vasilis Lavrakas, Army, 59 Elton Avenue,

U'atertown, Mass.

w'43 Pvt. William B. Lecznar, Coast Artillery, 18

Royal Avenue, Holyoke, Mass.
'42 Midshipman Charles D. MacCormack, Jr., U.

S. N. R., 16 Gorham Road, West Medford,

Mass.
w'43 2nd Lieut. William C. Mann, U. S. M. C. R.,

19 Abbot Street, Pittsfield, Mass.
'41 Pvt. Robert McCartney, Signal Corps, 233 Lafa-
yette Street, Salem, Mass.
'41 Corp. Frederick McGurl, Army, 211 Hamilton

Street, Worcester, Mass.
'38 Pvt. Walter K. Mitchell, Jr., Army, 16 Miles

Road, Newton Highlands, Mass.
'42 Pvt. Arthur J. Monk, Air Force, 11 Rhinecliff

St., Arlington, Mass.
'39 Pvt. H. Emery Moore, Jr., Air Force, 46 Ash-
croft Road, Sharon, Mass.
'40 2nd Lieut. Paul Moriece, Engineer Corps, 394

Woodbridge Avenue, Buffalo, N. Y.
'42 Midshipman William J. Mosher, U. S. N. R., 6

School Street, Rye, New York.
w'45 Pfc. James H. Murphy, Army, 88 Bridge

Street, Northampton, Mass.
'32 2nd Lieut. Harmon O. Nelson, Jr., Army, 230

East 51st St., New York City.
'35 Allan J. O'Brien, Coast Guard, 124 South

Street, Northampton, Mass.
'30 Lieut, (j.g.) William J. O'Leary, Navy, Wood-
side Village, Stamford, Conn.
w'43 Pfc. Stanley Pacocha, Engineer Corps, 56

Glendale Street, Easthampton, Mass.
'30 Lieut, (s.g.) Arthur G. Pyle, U. S. N. R., 8

Glen Avenue, Sea Cliff, L. I., N. Y.
'28 CBM John Quinn, Coast Guard, 97 Willis

Street, New Bedford, Mass.
'41 Pvt. Anthony Rojko, Army, East Street, Hadley,

Mass.
'37 Lieut. Robert Ryer, Medical Corps, 1 Bridgman

Lane, South Hadley, Mass.
'in Ensign Henry M. Schreiber, U. S. N. R., 188

Grovers Avenue, Winthrop, Mass.
'40 Pvt. Homer L. Stranger, Air Force, Summer

Street, Kingston, Mass.
'28 Flight Instructor A. Richard Thompson, Air

Force, P. O. Box 462, Clewiston, Florida.
■11 Pharmacists Mate 3-c Raymond A. Weinhold,

Navy, 82 Birch Street, Worcester, Mass.
'18 Major Harlan X. Worthley, Army, 607 South

10th Street, Gadsden, Alabama.

Lieut. Chet Budz w'42 was co-pilot on a Flying
Fortress which, off Australia, fired more than 3000
rounds of ammunition in an hour to fight its way
out of what fen,,., | a sme trap — against 12 Jap Zero
planes. The Japs hit the Fortress with a number of
cannon shots as well as with more than 200 bullets
but the American plane shot down one Zero and
possibly others and landed safely at its home base.
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OBITUARIES

Thomas Francis Hunt '05

Thomas Francis Hunt '05 died in Berkeley, Cali-
fornia on September 27, 1942. It was with sadness
that his classmates learned of his death; all who
knew Tom knew him as a friend. He worked his way
through College, yet found time to be an outstanding
player on the Varsity baseball team. He was a mem-
ber of the College Shakespearean Club.

Tom went to Berkeley, California, in the fall of
1905 to work on the staff of the College of Agricul-
ture at the University, under Dr. Ralph E. Smith '94
of the division of plant pathology. In 1911 Hunt
transferred to the extension division, College of
Agriculture, and a few years later became assistant
professor. In 1918 he was made associate professor.

His work was chiefly with plant diseases, although
for about fifteen years he was in charge of the exten-
sion work in those counties in California not organ-
ized under the county agent plan.

He is survived by his wife and two sons, one of
whom is in engineering work; the other has just
received his wings at Corpus Christi Field, Texas
Tom and his wife were present for the 25th Reunion
of the class in Amherst, in 1930.

Walter B. Hatch '05
C. F. Elwood '04

Charles Irwin Hosmer '10

Charles Irwin Hosmer '10 died at his home in
Greenfield on September 1, 1942. He was 55 years old.

He prepared for College at Cushing Academy,
entered the University of Vermont, and transferred
to Massachusetts State as a junior, in the class of
1910. He majored in landscape architecture.

In College he was a member of C. S. C. fraternity.
He played fullback on the football team in 1908
and 1909, and was also a member of the varsity
baseball and basketball teams. He was a splendid
athlete and was admired as a high type of sportsman.

After being graduated he did some surveying and
engineering work; he later entered the contracting
business in Turners Falls. He soon transferred his
home and business to Greenfield, where he remained
in contracting work up to the time of his death.

Lawrence S. 'Dickinson '10

Elizabeth Loring '35

Elizabeth Loring '35 died on September 21, 1942,
at her home in Melrose Highlands. Death came sud-
denly, from a heart attack; it was a great shock to
her family and friends. In College, Betty majored
in social sciences; she was a member of the Y.W.C.A.
the outing club, and Sigma Beta Chi.

After being graduated she took a job giving intel-
ligence tests, first to pre-school children in Mel-
rose, later to grade pupils in Belmont. After that
:she worked at the Personal Book Shop in Boston.

For the past two years Betty had been very happy
in a position with the Massachusetts Audubon and
Wild Flower Societies. She gave lectures on wild
flowers in the schools near Boston and acted as a

junior organizer of flower clubs among the school
children. She carried her interest in this work outside
the scheduled hours, and had a wide circle of friends
who, like her, were fond of birds and flowers. How-
ever, she was never too absorbed in her work or
hobby to forget her college friends; she made far
more than the usual effort to keep up her contacts
with them. I know, for I was one of her friends.
She will be very much missed.

Janet C. Sargent '35

Mrs. Ashley C. LeDuc

Mrs. Viola Bryant LeDuc, wife of Ashley C. LeDuc
'15, died August 26, 1942 at St. Petersburg, Florida.
She is survived by her husband, a son and daughter
at home, and a son in the U. S. Army in England.

MARRIAGES

'29 Alexander C. Winton to Miss Anah C.
Wineberg, September 14, 1942, at Del Monte, Cali-
fornia.

'35 Miss Ellen Guion to Dudley Braithwaite,
June 21, 1941, at Newton, Mass.

'35 Lieut, (j.g.) Robert P. Hunter to Miss Janet
McCorkindale, October 17, 1942, at Springfield,
Mass.

'35 Miss Eloise B. Kellogg to Lawrence R.
Sherman, May 28, 1942, at Hopedale, Mass.

'37 Miss Emily M. Healey to PO 1-c William W.
Jordan, October 21, 1942, at Springfield, Mass.

'37 Miss Helen M. Warner to Niles A. Lacoss,
October 10, 1942, at Sunderland, Mass.

'38 Lieut. Frederick J. Sievers, Jr. to Miss
Carol Granger, October 3, 1942, at Bloomfield,
Conn.

'38 Miss Mary E. Streeter to Pfc. Sidney K.
Pierce, September 16, 1942, at Holyoke, Mass.

'39 Lieut. Donald Lawson to Miss Flora Low-
ersby, December 19, 1941, at Waltham, Mass.

'40 and '40 Lieut. G. Godfrey Davenport to Miss
Anne Corcoran, September 4, 1942, in New York
City.

'40 Sergeant Burton W. Gregg to Miss Virginia
J. Tucker, June 21, 1942, at Hartford, Conn.

'40 Francis R. Saunders to Miss Mary Lamb,
January 3, 1942, at Oshkosh, Wisconsin.

'40 and '39 Lieut. Gerald Talbot to Miss Shelagh
Crowley, January 10, 1942, at Fort Riley, Kansas.

'41 Lieut. A. Wesley Aykroyd to Miss Patricia
Semler, September 10, 1942, at Cuyahoga Falls,
Ohio.

'41 Ensign John Brack to Miss Rita MacDonald,
October 4, 1942, at Boston, Mass.

'41 Miss Ann W. Cooney to John A. Link, October
24, 1942, in New York City.

'41 and '41 Woodrow Jacobson to Miss Cynthia
Bailey, September 13, 1942, at Kingston, Mass.

'41 and '41 Dana Keil to Miss Betty Desmond,
October 17, 1942, at Simsbury, Conn.

'41 Lieut. L. Fletcher Prouty to Miss Betty
Ballinger, October 5, 1942, at Valdosta, Georgia.
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With %e Ql

umnae

By Mary E. Garvey '19

Connie Foley Putallaz "35 250 East 105th Street,
New York City, is president of the New York
Alumnae Group.

Both her husband and mine were promoted to first
lieutenants on February 1st. Who would ever have
believed a year ago that we would be spending- the
day together here!"

Florence A. Duckering '34, M. D., is physician at
the New York Hospital, 525 East 68th Street.

Mildred Thomas '41 is teaching home economics in
the Harwich, Mass., High School.

Margaret McMahon '33 is bacteriologist in the
office of the U. S. Public Health Service in San
Francisco. Her address is 401 Lake Street.

Phyllis Tolman '41

Conn., High School.

is teaching in the Danbury,

Katherine Doran '40 is teaching
and general science in the Bran-
ford, Conn., High School.

home economics

Monica Quill Cotter w'30 is with the personnel de-
partment of J. C. Penney Co., 330 West 44th Street,
New York City.

ALUMNA IN UNIFORM

Rose Plichta '41 is in the A. A. A.
Office in Amherst.

Barbara Butement '42 is with
the City Recreation Department,
917 North Eleventh Street, Mil-
waukee, Wisconsin.

Lulu H. Warner '32, M. D., has

opened an office for the general
practice of medicine at 242 Maple
Street, Holyoke.

Sigma Beta Chi was granted a
charter — to become Delta Mu
chapter of Kappa Kappa Gamma
— on June 30th. Representatives
of the national organization will
conduct the official installation on
campus some time during the
fall.

Margaret Clark '34 has entered
the Massachusetts General Hos-
pital in Boston to take the nurses'
training course.

Ruth Sargent '35 is a secretary
with Lybrand, Ross Bros. &
Montgomery, 80 Federal Street.
Boston.

Eleanor Ward '39 is doing so-
cial work in Ayer, Mass. Her
home is 162 Bowdoin Street,
Springfield.

Margaret Firth '10 is employed
as librarian for the Celanese Cor-
poration of America in Cumberland, Md. Her ad-
dress is 828 Greene Street. Rosa Kohl* '10. also with
the company, is working as a chemist.

LIF.I i . H IRRIETTE ;, WAAC

Helen Marshall 10 is a technician in the materials
testing laboratory of Pratt and Whitney, East Hart-
ford, Conn.

A letter, this summer, from
Mrs. George Burnett, Jr. (Fran-
cene Smith '36) said,

"Last summer — 1941 — my hus-
band and I spent two months
traveling about in Alaska and
the Yukon Territory. We went
north of the Arctic Circle, on the
Yukon river, and visited Dawson
and the famous Klondike. The
mountains and glaciers of coastal
Alaska held the greatest appeal
for us, however, and we were sorely tempted to set-
tle down somewhere among them. Nevertheless, we
found our way back to Deerfield; the war prevents
our returning for the present."

Dorothy Grayson '42 has become laboratory
manager for Joseph Seagram Company in Balti-
more, Maryland.

Ruth Pushee Hood '31 is living in Lancaster, Pa.,
lo. Lime Street. Her husband is with the Farm
iu; Ruth is a director of the Cooperative Groc-
ery Store.

Ethel Seal '38 is now head dietician at the New-
York Orthopedic Hospital, 420 East 59th Street.

Christine Peters Wheeler 'II is living at 1242
Butterfield Street, El Paso, Texas. She recently
wrote, "I was very much surprised last week to re-
ceive a telephone call from Mrs. Gordon Thomas
i Eleanor Birchard 'II), who was passing through
'aso because of her husband's change of station.

Katherine Callanan 'II is with the Boston Gear
Works, Quincy, Mass. She lives at 64 Elmlawn Road,.
Braintree.

Marearet Truran '39 is a stenographer in the
office of Judge Davis, 115 State Street, Springfield,
Mass.

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ATHERTON CLARK '77 TELLS OF EARLY DAYS ON CAMPUS

This brief biographic sketch of Atherton Clark '11, distin-
guished Alumnus and former president of the Associate
Alumni, was prepared especially for the Bulletin by Dennis
M. Crowley '29, president of the Boston Alumni Club.

The picture of Colonel William S. Clark which is spoken
of in the article is the picture reproduced on the cover of
this Bulletin.

Atherton Clark '77 lives at 231 Waverley Avenue
in Newton. It was my privilege recently to interview
this graduate of Massachusetts State College, whose
career holds especial interest for Alumni because he
is the son of the third president of the College,
Colonel William S. Clark. When first approached upon
the subject of an interview for the Bulletin, this
modest gentleman, whose youth was so closely inter-
woven with the early history of the College and
whose subsequent career is one to stir the admiration
of all Alumni, said he felt that his had been a
rather uneventful life. He thought it would lack in-
terest for the readers of the Bulletin. I persuaded him
that this last was a mistaken notion.

Tall and straight, Atherton Clark shows unusual
vigor for a man of eighty-three years; it is hard to
believe, now, that he weighed but ninety-six pounds
when he was graduated from the College. He re-
ceived his B. S. degree on June 18, 1877, his eigh-
teenth birthday.

When he was only fourteen he went down to
the College one day, from the Clark home on the
hill on the east side of campus, because his father
had said to him on the previous evening, "The en-
trance examination is being held tomorrow. You
should go down and try it." Atherton went down,
took the examination, and passed.

Colonel William S. Clark, graduated from Amherst
College in 1848, was positive about a great future
for the new College of which, in 1867; he had been
chosen president; and he had confidence, too, in the
value of training at this institution not only for his
son but for the sons of other citizens of the Com-
monwealth.

There were few students at the College in those
early days; there was little chance for collegiate
athletic competition on any large scale. Atherton
Clark's youth and slight physique would not permit
of his engaging actively in sports, but he did serve
at times in the capacity of score-keeper for the
baseball team. An historic trip to Easthampton by
the team and its young score-keeper remains vividly
in Mr. Clark's mind. After the contest he commiser-
ated with the college athletes who had batted in
this game, for the first time, against curve pitching.
Clark's colleagues had swung lustily, but there were
few hits — and no runs — obtained from the Williston
Academy lad who threw wide, baffling outcurves.

After the famous boat race in 1871 at Ingleside,
that gave the College its first firm standing in inter-
collegiate competition, Atherton rode with his father
on the wild drive back to Amherst which must have

established another record of the day. The enthusi-
astic Colonel was the first to shout the news of
victory for his College in the town of Amherst, and
got back with the news even before the telegraphed
report had reached the town. Mr. Clark recalls the
feeling of exaltation that the sensational victory
over Harvard and Brown gave to everybody con-
nected with the College. Atherton Clark always
refers to Alma Mater as "the College." Cne can't
help but feel that the expression carries over from
the period when "the College" was his father's
great and guiding interest.

Immediately after commencement in 1877, the
eighteen-years-old graduate went to California to
meet his father, who was then returning from
Japan. At an age when most young men are just
entering college, Atherton Clark proceeded to find
his life's work. The business of mining intrigued
him, and he planned to go to the West later to work
and study in the mines and make his career in
that work. But, until he was twenty-one, he re-
mained at his father's home near the campus and
assisted the Colonel in research, and by acting as
his secretary. He was actively engaged in reading
the pressure guages in the Colonel's renowned
work on the circulation of sap in trees, and in
watching the experiment on the celebrated squash
that lifted five thousand pounds.

One of the Colonel's interests was the devel-
opment of a sorghum industry in Massachusetts,
and to his son fell the task of operating the experi-
mental sorghum mill. In sugaring time the mill had
to be operated on a twenty-four hour basis, for the
cane was crushed and the sap boiled while frost was
imminent. Mr. Clark recalls that after about
twenty four hours continuous work getting the
equipment started he went home for a little sleep,
leaving his student helper in charge. During the
night the fires quickened, and the sorghum experi-
ment nearly came to an abrupt end. However, he
rushed back on the fire call, the "mill" was saved
and little damage done.

It was natural and fitting that Clark Hall, the
eventual quarters of the botany department at the
College, was named for Atherton Clark's father.

Mr. Clark says that it was the urging of his
brother-in-law, Frank Stearns, which determined
his final choice of a career. Mr. Stearns was the
eldest son of R. H. Stearns, the Boston merchant,
and was anxious that Atherton Clark join the
then expanding company; but he was not desirous of
giving up his plan for a mining career. He had spent
two years in California, Nevada and Arizona, but
returned to the East because of his father's failing
health. Somewhat later, however, Mr. Stearns
called him to Boston and offered him an opportunity
that he could not refuse. He remained with the R.
H. Stearns Company for fifty-seven years. He be-
came, successively, buyer, merchandise manager, and
vice-president of the company. In the course of his
work he made over fifty trips across the Atlantic

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and traveled widely throughout Europe. He regrets
that his annual buying excursions almost always
coincided with commencements at the College, so
that he was seldom able to meet with his friends of
college days.

Though he was born in Amherst and loves the
town, he knows few people there today. Fourteen
years ago, while serving as Trustee, he attended a
meeting at the College and stopped over-night at
the Hotel Perry. In the evening he strolled through
the changed streets of the town and did not meet
a person of his acquaintance. Then he realized how
long he had been away and how few of his old
friends remained in Amherst.

We talked of Clark's Hill and of my own time on
the campus, when Professor Charles Henry
Thompson took us up the hill on horticultural hikes
to study trees and shrubs remaining from the
original plantings. Mr. Clark failed in his efforts
to induce the Trustees of the College to buy the
Clark Estate — which, however, they later did, long
after the buildings were burned. He is pleased that
the new women's dormitory, Butterfield House, is
located on that beautiful spot.

We spoke of the hundreds of students who have
walked up the hill, through the years, for a soul-
inspiring view of the beautiful valley, and Mr.
Clark told me of the days when one could look out
over the Connecticut Valley from a veranda of the
house built by the Colonel in 1S70 and burned in
1889. The windstorms in the Valley could be viewed
from the Clark Hill, and Atherton once watched a
terrific cloud of dust roar down from Feerfield,
sweeping silt and shingles on its way. This was the
great wind that blew down the old bridge over
the Connecticut at Northampton.

Mr. Clark is interested in alumni affairs; he
followed, closely and sympathetically the building
of Memorial Hall as well as the work of the Alumni
Dormitory Committee to establish better housing
facilities for the students on campus. Activities of
the Boston Alumni Club receive his full support.

The Alumni Bulletin is always of interest to him,
and he was particularly pleased with the recent
article about the Waugh family. He remen
Professor Waugh pleasantly from the period when
he was a Trustee; he found especial enjoyment in
studying the 1905 picture of the Waugh children in
"steps-of-stairs" file. "In the Clark family we often
had just such groups", Mr. Clark said.

Frank Stearns was a lifelong friend and close
political advisor of Calvin Coolidge, and Atherton
Clark became well acquainted with the late President
of the United States. He feels, though, that his
chief relation to the Coolidge administration came
in the greater responsibility which he accepted in
the R. H. Stearns Company when Frank Stearns
went to live at the White House.

Near the close of his term as Governor of Massa-
chusetts, Calvin Coolidge called Atherton Clark
to the State House and informed him that he would
like to appoint him a Trustee of the College. Mr.
Clark accepted. He served on the Board from 1921

to 1929, and enjoyed his work with the college
officials and his fellow Trustees, declining re-ap-
pointment in order to make room for younger
Alumni.

We talked a bit of politics and of the emergence
of Atherton Clark's nephew, Foster Stearns (son of
Frank Stearns), as Congressman from New Hamp-
shire. Because I had recently read "Life and the
Law" by Professor Samuel Williston of the Harvard
Law School, we talked about the Williston family
history and the relation of the Clark family to the
founder of Williston Seminary, now Williston
Academy. Mr. Clark's mother and Professor Willis-
ton's father were born in the Hawaiian Islands, the
children of an early and prominent missionary
there. Brought to this country by their father
because of the lack of educational facilities in the
Islands they were adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Williston
of Easthampton. Atherton Clar': and Professor
Williston have been lifelong friends; they have
played many rounds of golf together in recent years.

On his desk Mr. Clark has an excellent picture
of his father, one which, he feels, clearly depicts the
resolute character of the Colonel. I wondered if
Mr. Clark remembered his father during Colonel
Clark's military days, and he told me that one of
his earliest recollections was that of seeing his
father home on furlough from the Civil War. Ather-
ton was playing on a rug before the fireplace in his
Grandfather Williston's home when he heard a step
and looked up to see his father in full uniform. That
memory of his father standing thus above him has
remained vividly in his mind through the long
years,

The Clarks have no children, although there was
a daughter who died in infamy. Mrs. Clark has
been a partial invalid for some years and Mr. Clark
gives much of his time to being her close companion.

As we parted at his door I told Mr. Clark of my
honest impression that his straight figure and vigor-
ous manner belied his years. He expressed gratitude
for the good health that he has long enjoyed and, on
my suggestion that longevity miirht be a family
characteristic, he said. "I believe that to be true.
There is a certain toughness in the strain."

VIC BUTTERFIELD IS ACTING
PRESIDENT AT WESLEYAN

Victor L. Butterfield has been named acting presi-
dent of Wesleyan University for th" college year.
He is the son of the late Kenyon L. Butterfield who.
from 1906 to 1923, was president of Massachusetts
State College,

Victor Butterfield was graduated from Cornell in
1927, has been at Wesleyan since 1935 as director
of admissions, dean of freshmen, and associate dean.
He is now succeeding President McConaughy who
has been given leave of absence to serve as presi-
dent of United China Relief.

It is understood that, questioned before the ap-
pointment, the Wesleyan faculty named Butterfield
as their choice for acting president.

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ALUMNI IN UNIFORM

(Continued from Page 3)
Sergeant Prank Spencer '41 is recreational direc-
tor in the 5th Special Service Unit at Fort Riley. In
College Spencer majored in physical education,
played on varsity baseball and basketball teams.

Major Albert J. Kelley '13, military drill instructor
at Roslindale and Hyde Park High Schools and
Washington Irving School in Boston, has been re-
called by the
army for ac-
tive duty. Ma-
jor Kelley had
also been drill
instructor at
Jamaica Plain
High School,
and at Robert
Gould Shaw
School in West
Roxbury. His
service in the
Boston public
schools dates
from 1922 and
his record is
cited as one of
the best in the
system. Major
Kelley was
given a fare-
well party and
testimonial by
the Hyde Park
army service.

In the annual high school cadet competitions, the
student regiments drilled by Major Kelley won their
first competitive victory in 1925, then began a win-
ning streak in 1928 which they have continued every
year since, with the exception of 1938. Major Kel-
ley's outstanding leadership has given the Hyde
Park school a record of 15 victories in the past 17
Boston schoolboy cadet street parades.

Major Kelley was overseas in the first World War;
he has since been serving as major in the army re-
serve.

MAJOR ALBERT J. KELLEY '13

School faculty before he left for

Lieut. David P. Rossiter '37 is on the training
staff at Jefferson Barracks, Mo. His job is to
"harden" men who have completed special technical
work and are then sent to Missouri to complete, their
training. Rossiter marches from 10 to 20 miles daily
with his men — and points out that he, himself, is
getting pretty well hardened.

Sergeant Franklin Drew '41 writes — in something
of understatement — from a northern outpost, "Busi-
ness has picked up quite a bit — I might say we have
had a little excitement during the past few months.
I think news reports will bear me out. But — the situ-
ation is well in hand. Who could field an aggregation
to compete with such as ours?"

GRAYSON'S WAR JOB

Those boys out at Great Lakes Naval Station who
are going to get Emory E. (Em) Grayson ('17)
of Massachusetts State College as a personnel work-
er there are getting a break. Em, so well remembered
by basketball fans for his great work with the
Easthampton champions of the Interstate league
of some 20 years ago, was an outstanding athlete
and a gentleman. He has done great work as director
of the Placement Service at Massachusetts State,
and mostly in years when placements were difficult
because of the depression. In the service he will be
a lieutenant, senior grade. But the rank doesn't
matter so much. The important thing is that Em
Grayson, the man, is going to serve Uncle Sam.
He will do a real job wherever the navy places him.
Editorial in the Hampshire Gazette
Northampton, September 16, 1942

Captain Willard Foster '40 and Captain George
Pitts '40 are aides to the General in command of
forces at their overseas station.

Private Charles Gleason '40, of the army air force,
reports from the. radio school at Sioux Falls, S. D.,
that the course is "plenty tough." He continues,
"Special privilege is granted to students who have
an average of over 85. Few men get this grade. I
felt proud of Massachusetts State in view of the
fact that all of our fellows here have a mark of
better than 85 and so have the special privilege. Not
being a student it is all right for me to say these
things." It should be said, further, that Private Carl
Werme '42, one of the students, has a better than 90
average.

Ace Thayer '42 who is in an officers' class with
the Marine Corps at Quantico writes, "This outfit
is plenty tough; we receive wonderful training and
have fine equipment."

Professor and Mrs. Loyal Payne last summer en-
tertained Alumni who were stationed at Fort Riley,
Kansas. Professor Payne was formerly on the staff
at the College, in the department of poultry hus-
bandry, and is now at Manhattan. Among those
present were: Lieut. George Bragdon '41 and Mrs.
Bragdon (Antonia Dec '40); Lieut William Kimball
'42 and Mrs. Kimball; Lieut. Ernest Davis '35 and
Mrs. Davis; Lieut. E. Theodore Hall '35; Lieut. Ed-
win T. White '31 and Mrs. White (Zoe Hickney '32);
and Michael F. Ahearn '04, head of the department
of physical education at Kansas State.

'19 Frederick Pierpont is doing rifle assembly
work at the Winchester Repeating Arms Company
in New Haven, Connecticut.

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CLASS NOTES

'95 Thomas P. Foley, 2137 North 17th Street,
Philadelphia, recently visited his classmate Wright
Root in Easthampton. He was accompanied hy Mrs.
Foley and two sons.

'12 Dr. D. Y. Lin of the Chinese Ministry of
Agriculture in Chungking is organizing an exten-
sive project to help unoccupied China grow more
food for its millions. The need for food in China
has been increased by the sixty million refugees
who fled inland as a result of the Japanese in-
vasion. A party of scientists from the Department
of Agriculture in Washington has left for China to
help Dr. Lin in his work.

'13 Gordon Ells, a member of the staff of the
U. S. High Commissioner in the Philippines, and
who was taken prisoner in Manilla last December, is
safe and well according to word received through
R. H. VanZwaluwenburg '13 of Honolulu — who had
received a note relative to Ells from Mr. Francis C.
Sayre, U. S. High Commissioner.

'14 Chester Bokelund is regional manager for
the United States News, 1501 Euclid Avenue, Cleve-
land. Ohio. He writes that he is working hard feel-
ing fine, and expects to be back for the 30th reunion
in 1944 — if trains are still running.

'14 Arthur Weigel is chief chemist of the Calif-
fornia Milling Corporation in Los Angeles.

'15 Philip A. Macy is research chemist for the
Waterbury, Conn., Paper Box Company.

The Advisory Committee of the State Department
of Agriculture recently paid a two-day visit to the
campus, and was entertained by the staff and mem-
bers of the divisions of agriculture and horticulture.
It was a pleasant occasion; and it is to be hoped that
the committee will make such a visit an annual
event. On the committee were Vernon Mudgett '2'\
and Louis Webster 'II. acting commissioner "i
agriculture.

A member of the committee f"i more than 10

is John Bursley of Barnstable, the father

of Allyn Bursley '11 and uncle of Harold Bursley '1".

'22 S. Frederick Calhoun is assistant treasurer
of the New England Trawler Equipment Company
'.f Chelsea, Mass. His company is engage! 100
percent in work for the navy.

I. eland Durkee is sales representative for
Prentice Hall. Inc., 222 Wesl Adams Street, Ch

'27 Lewis Blacl igned his position

ational agriculture at tin- Stow, Ma .,
iol and ha.^ returned to his farm at Wil-
liamsburg, Ma

R. Milton >now. Jr. is plant foreman for
the Producers Dail m in Nashua, N. H. II. •

has four children: Raymond. III. Nancy, Marion and
Sandra.

'29 Alex Winton is employed at the Kaiser Ship-
yards in California. His address is 144 Hagar Ave-
nue, Piedmont, Calif.

'30 Sergie Bernard, for the past four years
coach of basketball, baseball, and soccer at Clark
University in Worcester, has resigned to accept a
position as headmaster of the junior and senior high
schools in Pepperell, Mass. In 1939-40 Sergie
coached the best basketball team in Clark history,
13 wins, 2 losses.

'32 Joseph Jorczak has a new and interesting-
job as chemist in charge of tire development for
Thiokel Synthetic Corporation. 780 North Clinton
Avenue, Trenton, New Jersey.

'38 and '40 Freddie Riel has resigned as teacher-
coach at Deerfield high school to take a similar posi-
tion at Punchard high in Andover, Mass. He is
being succeeded by Francis Wing '40 who has been
teacher of mathematics and science at the Barre,
Mass., high school.

'41 J. Edward O'Connor is doing engineering-
work on the building of a new synthetic rubber plant
in Charleston, West Virginia. He had previously
spent 8 months in British Guinea with the U. S.
Engineers.

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ATHLETICS

Football

When the season opened there were three seniors
on the football squad of thirty players. Since the
opening game there have been two. At Connecticut,
on October 3, guard Red Warner of Sunderland
(son of Theo Warner '08) hurt his knee, and is out
of the picture for the rest of the year.

The remaining seniors are John Storozuk of Sun-
derland, guard, and Stan Salwak of Orange, half-
back. Storozuk was acting captain in the Worcester
Tech game. Salwak has been appointed acting cap-
tain for the Amherst game.

Coach Hargesheimer calls Salwak a "swell work-
er;" he regards Storozuk with equal admiration.

Among outstanding juniors on the squad are
these :

Don Campbell, halfback, of Springfield. Campbell
wears glasses when he plays — specially-fitted un-
breakable lenses which are held in place by a strip
of black rubber tape. This accouterment gives
Campbell the appearance, for all the world, of the
Phantom in the comic strips. And Campbell displays
phantom qualities, at that, in his open field running.
He is fast, shifty; it is difficult for opponents to lay
hand on him. He is perhaps the most graceful, most
smoothly co-ordinated halfback ever to play with the
Statesmen. Campbell is a transfer from Dartmouth,
and is playing his first intercollegiate football. He
played previously, for a year, when he was a junior
in high school.

Ed Fedeli of Worcester is fullback, and was acting
captain in the Rhode Island game. He is a good,
steady, sort of a player — and has shown marked im-
provement on defense throughout the season. He
weighs only 170 pounds and is not big enough to
crack a line as a fullback is customarily expected to
do. But Ed manages to sneak through the line from
time to time with considerable success.

Joe Masi of Franklin is quarterback. He was act-
ing captain at Vermont. He is not so big as a line-
backer needs to be, but he works hard and has
proven himself a valuable all-around man for the
team.

George Pushee of North Amherst (son of Profes-
sor George F. Pushee.) is showing lots of improve-
ment at tackle. He was acting captain in the open-
ing game with Connecticut.

Dick Norton of Norwood plays at guard. Harge-
sheimer says, "He's right in there — right at the
bottom of the pile, I mean, most of the time."

The sophomores boast the biggest man on the
squad, Warren Anderson of Worcester who plays at
center. Or, rather, who did play there up until the
Vermont game when he was hurt. He is not yet
back into shape. Anderson weights 197; without him,
the line averages about 175 pounds. Hargesheimer
looks for Anderson to make an outstanding record
as a football player.

Ed Bourdeau of Turners Falls has played some
good football at end; Dave Cooley of Springfield is

a good guard, and has played in several games.
Norm Regnier of Feeding Hills is what Harge-
sheimer calls a "jack-of-all-trades;" he plays at
either right or left guard or center.

Almon Ruggles of Brookfield is developing rapidly
at tackle. Bernie Stead of Lynn has been playing
regularly at end, and is a good hard worker. Ward
Shannon of Milton is the club's best forward passer
and also a good running back. He is just getting
back into the form he displayed as a freshman.

Of the freshmen who are playing regularly, Fran
Keough of Springfield is a left handed forward pass-
er, and has shown ability also as a pass receiver.

Isidore Yergeau of Chicopee is one of the hardest
working boys on the club; he has proved to be one
of the bulwarks of the line, playing at tackle.

Other freshmen who show considerable promise
are Robert Raymond of Auburn, end; Charles L'Es-
perance of South Hadley Falls, fullback; Bruce
Shufelt of Amherst, tackle; Roger Wellington of
Waltham, tackle.

In the game with Connecticut on October 3 the
Statesmen had experienced only ten days of practice,
were not too sure of assignments, nor in top physi-
cal condition. Since that time, however, Hargeshei-
mer says he can look for almost any one of fifteen
players to stay in a ball game, barring injury, for
pretty nearly sixty minutes.

Vermont, on October 10, threw two long foi-wards
for touchdowns — which won the game. The States-
men scored once, stopped the Vermont running at-
tack, gained enough ground for a couple of more
touchdowns of their own, which, however, did not
materialize.

The Rhode Island game, on Alumni Field, on Oc-
tober 17, was a cracker-jack. The Statesmen were in
a scoring position several times but lacked the
weight to pile through the heavy Rhode Island
line. A forward pass, attempted from about the 10,
was intercepted and run back 98 yards for a Rhode
Island touchdown. Don Campbell got loose on one
particular occasion and went streaking down the
field for what seemed sure to be a score — but the
play was called back when it was decided that Camp-
bell had stepped just outside of bounds along about
midfield.

The Statesmen experienced something of a let-
down in the Worcester Tech game on the 24th, but
showed enough flash, on occasion to come out ahead,
18-6. Shannon's and Campbell's running was out-
standing— as well as Campbell's punting, which has
been consistently good all year.

Hargesheimer regards his club as a good one. He
is greatly impressed with the spirit and energy that
his boys are showing. The Statesmen are handi-
capped through lack of weight — the backfield aver-
ages 155 pounds, the line 175 — and through lack of
experience. But the lads are giving a good account
of themselves, and are a great club to watch in
action.

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ROBERT FROST READS AT
SOCIAL UNION

PLANT FAMILY NAMED FOR
OTTO DEGENER '22

The 1942-43 Social Union series opened on Oc-
tober 17th when Robert Frost gave a lecture-reading
in Bowker Auditorium. The student-faculty audience
which filled the hall rose in a body when Mr. Frost
walked onto the stage, and applauded until long
after he had taken his seat. Afterward, after the
lecture, Mr. Frost commented to friends about
this reception by the students, and said, "It was
moving to have them care so much." Then he smiled
and added, "Perhaps it was a tribute to my gray
hair."

Mr. Frost was introduced by Professor Rand, who
spoke about the poet's former residence in Amherst,
and about his interest in the State College. After
the introduction Mr. Frost remarked that Professor
Rand had negelected to mention one of the reasons
for the interest. "I gave a son-in-law to this College,"
he said. The son-in-law is John P. Cone '32.

Mr. Frost read poems from his earlier books —
Mending Wall, Birches, Brown's Descent, Stopping
by Woods on a Snowy Evening — and mostly by re-
quest. His audience was raptly attentive.

With a group of friends after the reading, Mr.
Frost talked at length about the College, par-
ticularly about the late president, Edward Morgan
Lewis. Mr. Frost admired Lewis' ability as a base-
ball player ("Lefty" Lewis had been, at one time,
a star pitcher for the Boston Nationals) and appar-
ently he had been drawn to Lewis also because of
their common love for poetry. Frost recalled that
President Lewis had regarded the arts as much akin
to competitive athletics.

Edward Lewis' father had come to this country
from Wales when his son was a young boy, and
had settled, along with other Welshmen, in a small
Ohio town. Like his fellow countrymen he took part,
each year, in the Eisteddfod, a sort of Welsh picnic,
with contests in music, singing, and the composition
of original poems.

Mr. Frost told of young Lewis' experience at one
ese gatherings. After a visiting judge had
heard a reading of several poems, submitted by as
many competitors, he spoke to the audience about
the poems, told of the good qualities of each. At last
he named the poem he felt was best, and asked that
the winning author rise. The man stood up. "It was
my father." Lewis said.

Word has just been received of a unique botanical
distinction recently conferred upon Otto Degener
'22. Degener is now at the New York Botanical
Garden, but for many years he has resided in the
Hawaiian Islands where he has been busily engaged
in the preparation of his Flora Hawaiiensis.

In 1940-41 he was appointed botanist to the
Pacific cruise of the "Cheng Ho" sponsored by Mrs.
Anne Archbold. "The botanical collections were
made with the cooperation of the Arnold Arboretum
and the New York Botanical Garden. Mr. Degener
obtained about 2100 field numbers . . . The area
covered centered on the largest island, Yiti Levu,
where numerous regions near the coast were visited.
Mr. Degener also spent several weeks in the moun-
tains of Tholo North Province, and additional work
was done in the Savu Savu Bay region of Vanua
Levu."

Degener informs us by letter that he became ac-
quainted with a native Fijian chief who, learning
that his visitor had no children, saw to it that one
of his own numerous progeny became Degener's son
by adoption after the appropriate rites of kava-
drinking, and so on. So Degener now has a full
grown "son" of pure Fijian blood.

The report on the Degener plant collection has
just appeared in a monograph of 148 pages issued
by the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University.
( Smith. A. J. and collaborators. Fijian Plant Studies.
Sargentia: I, pp. 1-148. July 1942.) We discover
that some dozen plants new to science bear the
species name Degeneri.

Most remarkable, however, is a tree discovered on
Fiji and allied to the magnolias, which fails to fit
into any of the known plant families and has been
named of the new family Degener-

iaceae. The institution of a new family of angio-
sperms is a notable event and the Alumni should
feel highly gratified that one of its members has
been so signally honored.

R. E. T. '12

Walter Kulash who received his Ph. D.
at the College this year has been appointed instruc-
tor in zoology and entomology at the North Carolina
State College, in Raleigh.

ALTHon.H ROBERT FROST DENIES THAT HE USED
TO THINK THAT THF "GREAT AMERICAN EPIC"
Will BE WRITTEN ABOUT PROFESSIONAL BASE-
BALL. HE DOES ENJOY Till GAME AND LIKES TO
PLAY. THF PICTURE SHOWS HIM SET TO SWING-
AND WAS TAKEN LAST SUMMER AT THE BREAD
LOAF SCHOOL OF ENGLISH IN VERMONT

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library

According to word received from his sister, it is
assumed that Everett Richards '16 is interned
with other American civilians at Manilla. He had
been sales manager, there, for the Standard- Vacuum
Oil Company.

State College

MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE — STUDENT ENROLLMENT

September 1941

Class

Men

Women

Total

1942

169

266

1943

174

269

1944

236

109

345

1945

231

149

380

Special

813

450

1263

September 1942

Class

Men

Women

Total

1943

127

214

1944

180

272

1945

191

134

325

1946

266

160

426

Specials

772

476

1248

MARRIAGES

{Continued from Page 4)

'41 and '42 Lieut. Hanssen Schenker to Miss Sally
Nielsen, October 17, 1942, at Newton, Mass.

'42 Lieut. Winthrop B. Avery to Miss Evelyn
Phillips, October 1, 1942, at Stoughton, Mass.

'42 and '42 Lieut. George N. Bennett to Miss
JoAnn Waite, September 3, 1942, at Fort Riley,
Kansas.

'42 and w'43 Lieut. Charles F. Bishop to Miss
Betty Webster, September 19, 1942, at Aberdeen,
Maryland.

'42 Ensign Thomas P. Gordon, Jr., to Miss Ger-
trude R. Stevens, October 22, 1942, at Northampton,
Mass.

BIRTHS

'31 A son, Christopher Gibbs, to Mr. and Mrs.
Norman Myrick, September 25, 1942, at Northamp-
ton, Mass.

'32 and '33 A son, Alfred Ordway, to Mr. and
Mrs. Philip W. Warren (Alfreda Ordway '33), May
7, 1942, at Auburn, Mass.

'34 A son, Todd, to Mr. and Mrs. Richard I.
Miller (Shirley McCarthy '34), September 14,
1942, at Brockton, Mass.

'35 A son, Peter Magnus, to Mr. and Mrs. Wal-
ter Johnson, September 18, 1942, at Northampton,
Mass.

'37 A daughter, Eleanor Louise, to Mr. and Mrs.
William Lachman (Eleanor West '37), October 22,
1942, at Northampton, Mass.

'38 A son, Thomas Leonard, to Mr. and Mrs.
Leonard Parkinson (Gertrude Hadro '38), October
20, 1942, at Northampton, Mass.

'38 A son, Harry Clark, to Lieut, and Mrs.
Charles E. Elliott, August 24, 1942, at Ancon, Canal
Zone.

'38 A daughter, Janet Louise, to Mr. and
Mrs. Walter Walkup (Kathryn Hill '38), October
5, 1942, at Springfield, Mass.

ATHLETICS

Statesmen Opp.

Football

Scores to date :
Oct. 3 Univ. of Conn., there

10 Univ. of Vermont, there
17 Rhode Island State, here
24 Worcester Tech, here
Remaining games:
Oct. 31 Amherst, there

Nov. 7 Clarkson College of Technology, here
14 Tufts College, there

Soccer

Scores to date:
Oct. 3 Univ. of Conn., there
9 Dartmouth, here
16 U. S. Coast Guard, there
21 Williams College, here
24 Trinity College, here
Remaining games:
Oct. 30 Amherst, here
Nov. 7 Harvard, here

Cross Country

Scores to date:

Oct. 17 M. I. T., here (low score wins) 39

21 Amherst, here 28

24 W. P. I., here 29

29 Springfield, there 50

Statesmen

Opp

Statesmen Opp.
19
27
27
15

'38 Warren Bray has resigned his position as
head of the depai-tment of business administration
at Kents Hill Junior College in Maine and has
become instructor of business administration at
Tilton, N. H., Junior College.

'39 and '41 A son, Thomas Graves, Jr., to Lieut,
and Mrs. Thomas G. Lyman (E. Priscilla Badger
'41), October 19, 1942, at Northampton, Mass.

'40 and w'43 A son, Thomas, to Lieut, and Mrs.
Winslow E. Ryan (Eileen M. Farrell w'43), August
2, 1942, at Fort Riley, Kansas.

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BULLETIN

THE FINNEGAN TRIPLETS

MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE
AMHERST, MASSACHUSETTS

Vol. XXV, No. 3

December, 1942

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN
MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

George E. Emery '24, Editor
Published monthly at Amherst, Mass. (except August and
September) by the Associate Alumni of Massachusetts State Col-
lege. Entered as second class matter, March 17, 1920, at the
Postoffice at Amherst, Mass., under the Acts of March 3, 1879.
OFFICERS OF ASSOCIATE ALUMNI OF
MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE
President, Albert W. Smith '22 of Springfield
Vice-President, William V. Hayden '13 of Newton Center
Secretary, Marshall O. Lanphear '18 of Amherst
Treasurer, Clark L. Thayer '13 of Amherst
Executive Secretary, George E. Emery '24 of Amherst
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
to 1943
Harry Dunlap Brown '14, ex-officio, of Billerica
William L. Doran '15 of Amherst

Mary E. M. Garvey '19 of Amherst

Lawrence L. Jones '26 of North Beverly

Edward J. Gare. Jr. '15 of Northampton
to 1944
Donald C. Douglass '21 of Belmont

Norman D. Hilyard '23 of Springfield

John W. McGuckian '31 of Roslindale

Arthur D. Tilton '18 of Wobuin
to 1945
Alden C. Brett '12, ex-officio, of Belmont

Alan W. Chadwick '31 of Baldwinsville

Evelyn Davis Kennedy '26 of Belmont
Starr M. King '21 of Beverly

Lewis Schlotterbeck '16 of Wakefield
to 1946
John S. Crosby "25 of Arlington

Ethel Blatchford Purnell '34 of Amherst

Ralph S. Stedman '20 of Springfield

H. Sidney Vaughan '30 of Worcester

The Alumni Bulletin is sent ten times each year to all members
of the Associate Alumni. Memberships are: Annual $3.00, Sus-
taining $10.00.

Renewal notice : Every member of the Associate Alumni receives
a statement, enclosed in a Bulletin, when his membership expires.
Expiration is always 12 months from date when membership is
received by Alumni Office.

The

Associate Alumni

sends

(EIjrtBtmas (Srpfttnga

and cordial good wishes

to all

Massachusetts State Alumni

Cover Picture — The Finnegan triplets. These young-
sters, 13 months old when the picture was taken last
August, are the sons of Mr. and Mrs. John T. Finnegan
'12, of 23 Whittemore Street, West Roxbury, Mass. The
boys are, left to right, Richard, Paul, and Kevin. They are
shown with their nine Irish Setter pups, 6-weeks old. It has
been aptly said, "There's lots of fun due in this house-
hold now."

The triplets were born July 19, 1941. The boys weighed
an aggregate of a little more than 16 pounds at birth, and
two months later Richard and Paul each weighed 10
pounds, while Kevin, the lightweight, weighed 8 pounds,
1 ounces.

The Finnegan' s have three other children: Frank 15,
John T. Jr. 13, and Alice 5.

'42 Howard Laeey is food chemist with the
agricultural marketing administration of the U. S.
D. A. at Easton, Maryland.

WILLIAM H. CALDWELL '87 ELECTED
TO NEW HAMPSHIRE LEGISLATURE

Instead of going to St. Petersburg, Florida, this
winter as he has done for the past 19 years, William
H. Caldwell '87 will be at the Eagle Hotel in Con-
cord, N. H. He was recently elected representative
to the New Hampshire State Legislature — although
he says, "It is a late time in life to start a political
career." It is interesting that the name of Congress-
man Poster Stearns, nephew of Atherton Clark '77,
and representative to Congress from New Hampshire
appeared on the communication to New Hampshire
voters along with Mr. Caldwell's name.

Mr. Caldwell has just concluded a campaign which
raised $10,000 for the Peterboro, N. H. hospital — for
the third time in four years.

PRESIDENT BAKER APPOINTED
TO STATE COMMITTEE

Governor Saltonstall has recently appointed Pres-
ident Hugh P. Baker to be chairman of a State com-
mittee to conduct a promotional program for the
increase of home-grown food supplies. Efforts of the
committtee will be directed toward developing more
vegetable gardens for home use.

Williard A. Munson '05 will direct the work of
the committee on which Louis Webster '14, acting
commissioner of agriculture, and Harold Mostrom
'16, director of the Essex County Agricultural School,
will also serve.

'10 Josiah C. Folsom, economist for the U. S. D. A.
in Washington, was one of a committee of three
in charge of the compilation of an extensive (183
pages) study called "Backgrounds of the War Farm
Labor Problem." Folsom also was contributor. The
study should be of exceptional and immediate value
to those government officials now concerned with
man-power problems.

An interesting paragraph in the introduction to
the study is as follows.

"Agriculture is being called upon to break pro-
duction records in a wide variety of crops as its
share in the winning of the war. Much of this pro-
duction will have to come from large commercial
farms which are dependent on hired labor. To stabil-
ize the needed hired labor force may require positive
action based on knowledge of the farm labor situa-
tion over a period of years."

The statement was made in pre-man-power-com
mission days.

'39 John M. Balcolm has received his bachelor of
divinity degree from Episcopal Theological Seminary
at Harvard. He is now curate at Norwood and
Epiphany Church in Walpole, Mass.

'37 Charles Eshbach, U. S. D. A. radio edi-
tor, broadcasts daily, except Sunday, over radio
station WBZ, Boston.

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN

ALUMNI IN UNIFORM

NOW NUMBER 677

The names, following below, bring the total
number of Alumni in uniform to 677.

Home addresses, only, of these Alumni are listed;
but mail sent to those addresses, or to the Alumni
Office, will be forwarded promptly.

So that the Alumni Office can maintain a complete
and accurate record of Alumni serving with the
country's Forces we ask that you, please, send word
to us of any Alumni whom you may know to be in
uniform. Your help will be appreciated.

w"44 Pvt. Douglas I. Allen, Army, 16 Fairfield Ave-
nue, Holyoke, Mass.

Lieut. Robert L. Armstrong, Army, East Sand-
wich, Mass.

Aviation Cadet Edward W. Ashley, Navy, R. F.

D. No. 2, New Bedford, Mass.

Cpl. Leonard Bartlett, Jr.. Air Force, 27 Union
Street, East Walpole, Mass.

Pvt. Richard \V. Barton, Air Force, 269 Lincoln
Avenue, Amherst, Mass.

Lieut. Samuel C. Billings, Army, 10 Worcester
Street, Belmont, Mass.

Aviation Cadet Lester J. Bishop, Air Force, P.
O. Box 462, Huntington, N. Y.

Ensign Geraldine I. Bradley, Navy Nursing
Corps, 826 Main Street, Amherst, Mass.

Ensign James G. Bullock, U. S. N. R., 43 Everett
Street, Arlington, Mass.

Pfc. John Cadorette, Army, R. F. D., South
Pond Road, Plymouth, Mass.

Pvt. James \Y. Callahan, Army, R. F. D.,
Sunderland, Mass.

'38 Ensign Arthur D. Casey. Coast Guard, 114
School Street, Franklin, Mass.

'31 2nd Lieut. Alan \V. Chadwick, Army, 86 Gray
Street, Amherst, Mass.

'36 Ensign William \V. Chilson. U. S. N. R., 62
Centre Street, Brookline, Mass.

'40 Pvt. Carl P. Ciosek, Air Force, 17 Indian Park,
Chicopee, Mass.

w*43 Aviation Cadet Russell T. Clarke, Navy. 12
Tirrell Street, Worcester, Mass.

'40 Pfc. Douglas H. Cowling. Marine Corps, 2
Brooks Street, Maynard, Mass.

'15 Lieut. Sumner A. Dole. Coast Guard, 105 Athel-
stane Street, Newton Centre, Mass.

w'45 Aviation Cadet Robert H. Doolittle. Jr.. Navy,
Main Street. Williraham, Mass.

'. ; ; Pfc. Melville B. Eaton. Marine Corps, 114
Winsor Avenue, Watertown, Mass.

w'40 Pvt. Kichard B. Elberfeld, Army, 72 Trenton
Street, Fast Boston. Mass.

'30

'41

'31

'38

'30

'42

'39

'42

w'45

w'43

'38 Pvt. Robert E. Evans, Army, 21 Summer Street,
Northampton, Mass.

'42 Pvt. Fred A. Filios, Army, Bates Road, Worono-

co, Mass.
'26 Captain Carl A. Fraser, Army, Box 292, Main

Street, Barnstable, Mass.
'40 Aviation Cadet Lawrence J. Freeman, Air

Force, 17 Summer Street, Southbridge, Mass.
Hv'44 Aviation Cadet Wiliam E. Gere, Air Force, 8

Belmont Avenue, Northampton, Mass.
'39 Ensign Lewis L. Glow, U. S. N. R., Brookline

Street, East Pepperell, Mass.
'25 CM 3-c Samuel Gordon, Seabees, Essex Road,

Ipswich, Mass.
'38 Cadet Herbert M. Halpern, Chemical Warfare,

1774 Northampton Stret, Holyoke, Mass.

'35 CM 1-c George A. Hartwell, Seabees, 6624 N.

Campbell Avenue, Chicago, Illinois.
'42 Pvt. Bernard Hershberg, Army, 42 Bradshaw

Street, Medford, Mass.

40 Ensign Ralph Hill, Navy, 26 Summer Street,
Ipswich, Mass.

'42 Seaman 1-c Bertram R. Hyman, Navy, 44 Nor-
well Street, Dorchester, Mass.

'41 Aviation Cadet Woodrow Jacobson, Air Force,
Winthrop Avenue, Ivoryton, Conn.

'41 Pvt. Edwin King, Army, 9 Franklin Terrace,
Melrose, Mass.

'42 Aviation Cadet Haig Koobatian, Air Force, 2S
Hermitage Lane, Worcester, Mass.

'42 Cadet George W. Litchfield, Coast Guard,
Whately, Mass.

'41 Pvt. John Manix, Army, 62 Graves Street, South
Deerfield, Mass.

'42 Pvt. Harold E. Mosher, Army, Worcester Street,
Sterling, Mass.

w'28 Pvt. Chester L. Murray. Army, 133 West
Street, South Amherst, Mass.

'41 2nd Lieut. Alfred A. Prusick, Marine Corps, 10
Devens St., Greenfield, Mass.

'41 Aviation Cadet Bruno Pulnick, Navy, 76 Main
Street, Hopkinton, Mass.

'37 Ensign George Richason, U. S. N. R., River-
side, Turners Falls, Mass.

'34 Lieut. W. Lawrence Schenck, Army, 147 Sum-
mer Avenue, Springfield, Mass.

'40 Cpl. Donald H. Shaw, Army, 215 Washington
Street, Belmont, Mass.

'40 Tech. Sergeant Sidney C. Siegal, Army, 38 For-
rest Street, Winthrop, Mass.

'41 Pvt. Elmer Smith, Army, 18 West Center Street
Florence, Mass.

(Continued on Page 5)

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OBITUARIES

Norman Day Ingham '05

Norman Day Ingham '05 died in Fresno, California
on October 23, 1942 following a long illness. He was
58 years old. He had lived in Fresno County for 22
years.

In 1905 he was called to California by the Univer-
sity, at Berkeley, because of his knowledge of
eucalyptus trees. He spent eight years at the Univer-
sity as plant pathologist.

In 1928 he became manager and secretary of the
James Irrigation District in San Joaquin. He had
continued in this work until the time of his death.

During his college days he was a member of the
College Shakespearean Club.

He is survived by his widow, a daughter, a son,
his mother, a brother, and a sister.

Norman Ingham will be remembered by his class
and college associates for his friendly, congenial
personality, and for his ability to make and to keep
friends.

Willard A. Munson '05

Lester E. Gibson '12

Lester E. Gibson '12 died in Greenfield, Mass. on
November 14, 1942 after a long illness.

He was born in Melrose Highlands on February
24, 1889.

In College he was a member of Kappa Sigma. He
was well liked by his college companions, and his
classmates were pleased to see him again, on campus,
at the time of the 30th reunion last May.

After being graduated from the College he did
surveying work for the Great Northern Paper Com-
pany. In 1913 he was appointed to the U. S. D. A.
Bureau of Entomology in the division of gypsy moth
control. He went to Greenfield twelve years ago to
take an administrative post with the U. S. D. A.
office there. He was senior assistant in administra-
tion at the time of his death.

He is survived by his parents, his widow, and by
two daughters, Norma, a senior at the College, and
Ruth, of Greenfield.

Joseph A. Harlow '12

Lieutenant Samuel Adams w'34

Lieutenant Samuel Adams w'34, U. S. Navy, was
killed in action in the Pacific on June 4, 1942. He was
a flier, aboard the carrier Yorktown. In speaking of
the U. S. S. Yorktown, Life magazine recently told of
this ship's activity as a part of the most powerful
American striking force put together in the Pacific
since the war began. Life said, "During the night
of June 3-4 the Yorktown parted from the other
carriers. Again nobody slept. When General Quar-
ters sounded that morning Lieut. Sam Adams, who
was to be killed a day later in a suicidal dive-bomb-
ing of a Jap ship, put on his kakhi pants and flight

Sam Adams entered Massachusetts State with the
gear right over his sky-blue pajamas."

class of 1934, transferred, after his freshman year,
to Annapolis, where he was graduated.

Ellsworth Barnard '28, formerly assistant pro-
fessor of English at the College, said, "I remember
him because he was in my freshman English class —
a rather shy lad, with pink cheeks and blue eyes and
a nice smile. He was a first-rate student, too."

Harry L. Allen

Harry L. Allen died at his home in Amherst on
November 14, 1942. He had spent his entire life in
this town and had been employed for many years as
assistant at the Experiment Station at the College,
from which position he was retired four years ago.

William Henry Casey

Bill Casey died on November 16, 1942. He was 76
years old.

He came to Amherst in 1883 to be a hostler at
Stebbin's livery stable — which was located on Amity
Street, next to the schoolhouse. Three months later
Stebbins sold his business to Theodore L. Paige, and
for 43 years thereafter Bill worked at the stable,
first for Theodore Paige and later for Theodore's
son, Melrose. In 1926 the livery stable was closed
and Melrose Paige opened the filling station on
Pleasant Street. Bill was made manager. He so
continued for 10 years, then asked to be relieved of
the responsibility. "It all became too complicated
and scientific", he said. "It wasn't just greasing cars
any more. It was lubrication; and there were forty-
eleven different kinds of grease, and this, that, and
the other. Too complicated!" Bill quit being manager
but he stayed on as attendant, and he worked steadi-
ly at the station up until the short illness which
preceded his death.

Beginning at the livery stable and continuing at
the gas station, Bill Casey worked for 50 years, 7
days a week — without a day off. He just didn't
think of taking a holiday; he didn't want one. Work
was a pleasant habit with him.

It was inevitable that Bill should have become a
livery man. His father, Dan Casey, who came to this
country from the County Limmerick in Ireland in
1842, was a teamster. Bill inherited his father's
fondness for horses, and he learned from his father
how to handle them. In working with horses for
nearly 50 years Bill was never once stepped on,
kicked, or bitten.

Bill was the driver for many a celebrated visiting
personage during the time when he was livery man
at Paige's stable. It pleased him to recall those
days — when he would drive for Alexander Graham
Bell, Clara Louise Kellogg, John Kendrick Bangs,
Admiral Peary, Madame Schumann-Heink, General
Lew Wallace, the author of Ben Hur. Then, too, Bill
always drove the governors — Ben Butler, Curtis
Guild, David I. Walsh, and the others who came
regularly to attend the State College commencement
exercises. Bill wore a plug hat on such occasions.

Bill, himself, was a personage important to the
town of Amherst. Everybody knew him, and every-
body liked him.

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MARRIAGES

'36 Miss Christine Hakanson to Henry Bonacker,
November 22, 1941, at Worcester, Mass.

'37 Miss Katharine L. Machmer to Lieut. Philip
O. Carr, October 21, 1942, at Walterboro, S. C.

'37 Miss Bea-
trice Waxier to
Milton Polevsky,
December 7, 1941,
at Boston, Mass.

'38 and '41 Har-
old C. Hemond to
Miss Frances R.
Field, October 31,
1942, at Holyoke,
r.Iass.

w'38 Kenneth
Gunn to Miss
Margaret Peck-
ham, November
29, 1942, at Rus-
sell, Mass.

'39 Miss Doris

CAPTAIN AND MRS. HENRY WALKER
'34

— Photo taken by 7.oe Hickney White
'32 at the wedding on June 6, 1942.

ENSIGN AND MRS. |(jMN BRACK '41
— Photo taken at tin m ti-
ding on October •(. 1942

D. Dyer to Roger
A. Steward. May
28, 1942, at Mo-
bile, Ala.

'39 Miss Beth-
any P. Snow to C.
Branson Smith,
X o v e m b e r 14,
1942, at Dorches-
ter. Mass.

'40 and '41 En-
si g n William F.
Goodwin to Miss
Bertha Lobacz,
July 18, 1942. at
Portsmouth, Va.

'40 Charles F. Mansfield to Miss Mary K. Taun-
ton-, April 18, 1942 at Louisville, Kentucky

'41 Ensign Richard H. Lester to Miss Barbara
Preece, October 23, 1942, at Melrose, Mass.

'41 Miss Marion B. Millett to Winfield S. Booth
III, October 31, 1942, in New York City.

'41 Malcolm P. Trees to Miss Doris B. Graham,
December 5, 1941, at West Concord, Mass.

'42 and w'43 Miss Barbara Bentley to Lieut.
Donald Rist, October 30, 1942, at Columbus, Georgia.

BIRTHS

'2 1 A daughter, Nancy Jean, to Mr. and Mrs.
Earle S. Carpenter, October 28, 1942, at Northamp-
ton. Mass.

'30 A daughter, Denise Abbott, to Captain and
M ''harles B. Cox, October 31, 1942, at Norwood,
Mass.

A daughter, Carol Ruth, to Mr. and Mrs.

'41

'37
'40

ALUMNI IN UNIFORM

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Pvt. Fred Smith, Army, 375 Stanford Place,

Glen Ridge, N. J.
Pvt. Philip J. Spear, Army, Charlemont, Mass.

Cpl. Robert Staples, Army, C3 Olive Street,
Northampton, Mass.

'41 Pvt. Hyman J. Steinhurst, Army, 90 Green-
wood Street, Dorchester, Mass.

'31 Lieut, (j. g.) Herbert T. Stoddard, U. S. N. R.,
Cedar Lane, Cohasset, Mass.

'37 Sgt. Edward P. Swan, Army, 29 Phillips Street,
Amherst, Mass.

'32 George Sylvester, Army, 2 Bradford Street,
Glen Rock, N. J.

'35 Cpl. Wilbur Tirrell, Army, 167 Pleasant Street,
South Weymouth, Mass.

'39 Pvt. John V. Townsend, Jr., Air Force, Brock-
way Road, South Hadley, Mass.

'41 Malcolm P. Trees, Army, 14 Randall Road,
Maynard, Mass.

'33 Lieut. Stanley W. Tyler, Army, 5 Dana St.,
East Lynn, Mass.

'40 Aviation Cadet Nathan Wilansky, Air Force,
56 Belvidere Avenue, Holyoke, Mass.

w'41 Pvt. Walter A. Wileikis, Air Force, 91 Sum-
mer Street, North Amherst, Mass.

George Spellman '39, navigator aboard a Flying
Fortress, has been presented with the Air Medal for
Extraordinary Achievement by King George VI of
England. The King was among those who saw the
shell-pocked Fortress in which Spellman and his
companions returned from a bombing excursion over
France, and marvelled that the plane had come back

(continued on page 6)

Arthur E. Bearse, November 5, 1942, at Columbus,
Ohio.

'34 A daughter, Holly Alice, to Mr. and Mrs.
Charles R. Herbert, October 28, 1942, at Boston,
Mass.

'34 and '35 A daughter, Joanne Susan, to Mr. and
Mrs. Karol Kucinski (Alice Dwight '35), November
14, 1942, at Northampton, Mass.

'35 A daughter, Nancy Hobart, to Mr. and Mrs.
Lawrence M. Bullard, June 8, 1942 at New Rochelle,
N. Y.

'36 A son, William John, to Mr. and Mrs. Edmond
L. Cance, September 27, 1942, at Kalamazoo, Mich.

'36 A son, Arthur Newton, to Mr. and Mrs. Dean
N. Glick, November 18, 1942, at Knoxville, Tenn.

'37 A daughter, Ann Jane, to Lieut, (j. g.) and
Mrs. Robert P. Holdsworth, Jr., October 9, 1942, at
Newton, Mass.

'38 A daughter, Nancy Lynne, to Mr. and Mrs. B.
Lyman Gibbs, October 20, 1942, at Chicago, 111.

'38 A son, James Harding, to Mr. and Mrs. James
Lee, August 11, 1941, at Hudson, Mass.

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CHARLES MALLORY RETIRES AS
WATCHMAN

Charles H. Mallory retired on October 31, 1942
after 29 years of conscientious service as night
watchman on the east campus. Robert D. Hawley
'18, treasurer of the College and custodian of proper-
ty, s a i d, "He
has chased
many students
out of the or-
chards, not be-
cause he loved
the students
less, but be-
cause duty
meant more.
He put out
many incipient
fires which
might have
caused serious
losses.

"Not many
of us become
acquaint ed
with our night
watchmen, and
few appreciate
the importance
of their work
and responsibi-
1 i t i e s . 'Dick'
Mallory served
the College
long and well.
To him go the
best wishes of
many friends."
Mr. Mallory and his wife are living on East
Pleasant Street across from the Clark Estate hill.
They have five children. One of their daughters,
Evelyn, was graduated from the College in 1936 and
is man-ied to Lieut. Robert J. Allen, Jr., '35.

'94 Linus Bacon is in the insurance business, at
36 Cherry St., Spencer, Mass. He attended the
convention of the Massachusetts Association of
Insurance Agents in Worcester on October 21st and
writes that he was pleased there to meet his friend
and classmate, Fred G. Averill of the Boston Insur-
ance Company.

'13 Clark L. Thayer, head of the department of
floriculture at the College, has been appointed a
director of the New England Wild Flower Preser-
vation Society. The Society is organized under aus-
pices of the Garden Clubs of America and the
Massachusetts Horticultural Society. Stephen F.
Hamblin '12 is also a member of the Directors'
Board.

DICK MALLORY

— Photo by Frank A. W'augb

ALUMNI IN UNIFORM

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According to the Associated Press the mission on
which Spellman's plane was detailed provided a
"rousing story of eight scrapping Americans who
fought off thirty of the Germans' best planes, downed
four to eight of them, and brought their own Flying
Fortress home with a wing tip rolled up 'like a sar-
dine can', an engine dead, and rudder controls half
frozen.

"The Fortress had completed a bombing assign-
ment over Lillie, France, its fourth mission over the
Continent, and was headed home when a formation
of 30 Focke Wulf-190's jumped the flight, quickly
knocking this plane out of the bomber formation and
making it an especially attractive target.

" 'When they put a bullet through our No. 1 propel-
ler and knocked us out of formation I knew we were
in trouble,' said Lt. Robert L. Riordan, the pilot, of
Houston, Texas.

" 'And when they slammed two cannon shells into
our rudder control I told the boys to get ready to
bail out. We were lucky, I guess.'

"Staff Sergeant John T. DeJohn of Ansley, Ala.,
was banging away at the enemy from his tail gun-
ner's position when a German fighter put a 20-milli-
meter cannon shell 'right in his lap,' spraying steel
fragments down his left side and knocking out one of
his two guns.

"Despite his mutiple wounds, the rugged former
professional baseball player kept on firing his lone
gun for another 10 minutes and was credited with
one plane shot down.

"When DeJohn finally admitted that he was
wounded, Spellman went back to help. The young
officer dragged the wounded gunner into the radio
room, covered him with his own flying coat and
then, coatless and gloveless, fought with the tail
gun in 20-below cold until his hands were blue and
almost frozen.

" 'But you should have seen that gun barrel,' " said
the co-pilot Lt. Edward P. Malisewski of Grosse
Pointe, Mich. 'It got so hot it bent.'

"As the running fight went on, a cannon shell
blew a hole 'as big as a cabbage' in the fuselage
right beside the waist gunner, Staff Sergeant Anth-
ony L. Santore of Houston, Texas, and bullets cut
his ammunition belt, but he changed to a new one
just in time to knock down one of the fighters.

"All the time Riordan was nursing the Fortress
toward the chalk cliffs of England and after 25
minutes the Nazis gave up and veered off as they
saw Spitfires coming out to shepherd the wounded
ship home. The pilot set her down with hardly a
bump.

"Although she was holed from props to tail by
machine gun and cannon fire, DeJohn was the only
one of the crew injured."

In writing to his brother, A. F. (Skilly) Spellman '27
(Continued on Page 8)

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With, lite Cllumnae

Marion Tolman '41 is administrative dietitian at
the Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, R. I.

By Mary E. Garvey '19

Mildred Eyre '42 has joined the staff of medical
technicians at the Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospi-
tal, affiliated with the Dartmouth Medical School at
Hanover, N. H.

Marjorie Merrill '42 is dietitian at the Worcester,
Mass., Hahnemann Hospital.

Jean Puffer '41 has taken a position as labora-
tory technician at the Elizabeth Horton Memorial
Hospital in Middletown, N. Y.

Susan Micka '42 is teaching home economics at
the Frederic Duclos Barstow Memorial High School
in Rutland, Vt.

Frances Avella '42 is with the Aetna Life Insur-
ance Company, Hartford, Conn.

Phyllis Mclnerny '42 has joined the staff of the
Massachusetts Audubon Society
where she will assist in education
work, particularly in Essex Coun-
ty, Mass. While in College she
was secretary of her class, and
president of the Women's Athletic
Association. For two summers, she
was counselor at Life Camps, Inc.,
Sussex, N. J. where she also
helped direct waterfront activity.

Mary Berry '42 has a fellowship for graduate
work in the biology department at Amherst College.

ALUMNA IN UNIFORM

Isabel Fenton w'40, instructor
in pre-flight aeronautics in the
CPT program at the American
International College. Springfield,
has qualified as a commercial
pilot. She has completed 350
hours in the air, and is one of the
few commercial woman pilots in
the East.

Florence O'Neil '41 of Ludlow,
Mass., has gone to San Francisco
where she is to be employed as a
processed food inspector. She had
been employed, previously, as
chemist with the General Chemi-
cal Corporation at Buffalo, N. Y.

Margery Johnson '40, formerly
of the office staff of the Massa-
chusetts Audubon Society, has
joined the staff of the United
Fruit Company in New York
City.

Mary Donahue '42 has a fel-
lowship for graduate study at
Yale University.

Priscilla Durland '42 is with the
Employer's Mutual Insurance
Company in Boston.

Wilma Fiske '42 is teaching
science in the Orange, Mass., High
School.

Arlene Mothes '42 is a graduate
assistant in zoology at Mount
Holyoke College.

Elsie Mushovic '42 is a labora-
tory technician at the Westfield,
Mass., Sanatorium.

LIEUT, KF.KV1 M. SIMPSON '22, WAAC

Jam't Sargent '35 has become a member of the
Massachusetts Laboratory Technologists Reserve
Corps. Commenting on Miss Sargent's appointment,
Francis Morton, writing in the Boston Traveler, said,
"With a B. S. degree from Massachusetts State
College and an extra year of training in laboratory
techniques at Simmons, she is just the kind of a girl
for whom Dr. Branch (chairman of the Corps in the
Greater Boston Area and Director of Laboratories
at Massachusetts Memorial Mospitals) is looking."

Ellen Richardson '42 is with the
Aetna Casualty & Surety Company, Hartford, Conn.

Frances Staples '42 is 4-H Club Agent for Cale-
donia County, Vermont with headquarters at St.
Johnsbury,

Isabel Perkins Jolma '33 visited campus with her
brother, Bob Perkins '38, and attended the Mass-
achusetts State-Clarkson football game. Her hus-
band. Dr. K. K. Jolma, is an officer with the army
medical corps and serving overseas. Isabel is
living with her three children at 86 Jonathan Street,
Gardner, Mass.

Sylvia Wilson Oummings '33 who, since January
1938, had been county club agent in Hampshire
County with headquarters in Northampton has re-
signed her position as of September 15. She and
her husband, Guy Cummings, have left for Browns-
ville, Texas, where he has a position as service
engineer for the Sperry Gyroscope Company of
Brooklyn.

Katherine Callanan '41 is a defense machine
operator at the Boston Gear Works, Norfolk Downs.
She lives at 64 Elmlawn Road, Braintree, Mass.

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George
flying
gerous.
mother

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said that he really didn't regard this

and bombing business as particularly dan-

"But," he added, "try and tell that to my

"GOING STEADY WITH THE NAVY". KAPPA SIGMA EN-

TERTAINS A GROUP OF WAVES FROM SMITH COLLEGE AT A
HOUSEPARTY ON CAMPUS. IN THE FOREGROUND ARE MAJOR
AND MRS. CHAMBLISS AND COLONEL AND MRS. YOUNG OF
THE COLLEGE R. O. T. C. UNIT. MASSACHUSETTS STATE
STUDENTS HAVE BEEN GUESTS OF THE WAVES AT SEV-
ERAL FUNCTIONS IN NORTHAMPTION — AND THE WAVES
HAVE BEEN WELCOMED TO THE CAMPUS ON A NUMBER
OF WEEKENDS.

Lieut. Larry Schenck '34, who is attached to an
Army Armored Tank Division in Africa, has been
awarded the Silver Star for Gallantry according tc
recent newspaper dispatches.

Schenck was wounded in the leg and, at the base
hospital where he was taken for treatment, he was
visited by the officers of his platoon. One of these
men pinned the Star on him, and read the citation
which went with it.

In a letter to his wife Schenck said he couldn't
understand why he had been cited, that he didn't
feel he had done anything particularly valorous.

Schenck had been stationed in Northern Ireland,
with an American contingent, since May. From Ire-
land he embarked on the African operation.

has written, "It was easy to infer this, as I am
assistant post engineer. Although I had been in the
Infantry over 23 years I was assigned for active
duty on September 15th with the Transportation
Corps which is a new branch of the Army.

"I recently finished a six-weeks course in ti'ans-
portation at Officers Training School, Fort Slocum,
New York.

"They keep us pretty busy. I got back on a Mon-
day from Fort Slocum and found I was on a Court
Marshal Board for that afternoon, Officer of the Day
for Thanksgiving, in charge of inventory at the
main post exchange, garage, restaurant, and
clothing store on Friday, president of a Line of
Duty Board on Saturday, and on duty with our
office for Saturday and Sunday. I have no kick, how-
ever; I like to be busy."

UP THE SIDE. MEMBERS OF THE FRATERNITY COM-

MITTEE AND THEIR WAVES GET ABOARD S. S. KAPPA SIGMA
AT A PARTY ON NOVEMBER 7TH.

Lieut. Art Levine '35 of the Army Sanitary Corps
writes of his outfit at Fort Sam Houston in Texas,
"The unit is an excellent one. It is the first and only
independent laboratory not attached to any hospi-
tal. We'll be set up in one of the theaters of opera-
tion and will do necessary research and problem
work which may prove too much for the routine
laboratories to handle. Each of our officers is a
specialist in some field of science."

Captain Peter J. Cascio '21 is not with the Engi-
neer Corps as recently recorded in the Bulletin. Pete

Arthur Monk '42 is attending Air Force Mechan-
ics School at Lincoln, Nebraska. He writes "The
Army's plan, I guess, is to make a potential Eng-
lish instructor into an actual airplane mechanic.
Whether the Army succeeds is something for the
future to decide. At any rate, the experiment is
interesting."

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Robert H. Doolittle, Jr. w'45 has reported for pre-
fiight training at the Navy's school at Chapel Hill,
North Carolina. He is a cousin of General Jimmy
Doolittle and, according to the newspapers, spoke
like his famous cousin when he said, I want to get
in there and do some damage."

Jack Quinn '28, former dean of the Harrison, New
York, high school has been accumulating quite a
batch of initials to add after his name. After re-
ceiving his B. S. at the College he took an M. A. at
Columbia in English literature in 1933. He then re-
ceived a Ph. D. in the same subject from N. Y. U.
last spring. He has been qualified as A. B. (Able
Seaman — Merchant Service), and C. B. M. in the
Coast Guard Division of the Navy. He is now War-
rant Boatswain (W. B.) in the U. S. C. G.

When Lieut. Al Chadwick '31 recently reported
for duty at his military post one of the first things
he was told was to get a haircut. We saw Chadwick
just before he left for camp and it didn't seem to us
that his hair was very long — a little thin in spots,
perhaps, but not very long.

Lieut. Bob Feinburg '38, who played some good
soccer for Larry Briggs '27 on the varsity at State,
recently watched England and Scotland play soccer
at Wembley Stadium and he wrote to Briggs about
it. He was quite impressed. He also was impressed
by the fact that, "Spitfires flew low and high over-
head protecting the game. They are swell, graceful
planes."

Alumni

Office records show the

following distri-

bution of

Alumni in the various

branches of the

Service.

Army

556

Navy

Marines

Coast Guard

WAACS

WAVES

Seabees

Army Nui'sing Corps

Navy Nursing Corps

Merchant Marine

IT'S THE WAR. WHEN JOE HARLOW 12 ( PICTURED BELOW'), OF TURNERS FALLS, RECEIVED HIS O.D.T. CERTI-

FICATE FOR THE SMALL DELIVERY TRICK WHICH HE I'SES IN HIS FURNITURE BUSINESS HE DISCOVERED THAT,
"I WOULD BE ALLOWED I FS^ MILEAGE FOR THE TRICK THAN AN A BOOK GIVES ME ON MY PASSENGER CAR." SO JOE
DECIDED TO DO SOMETHING ABOI 1 IT, "NOT WANTING TO GO BACK TO HORSE AND BUGGY DAYS." HE DECLARED,
"l MADE A PUSHCART BIG ENOI GH TO TAKE CARE OF ALMOST ANYTHING I CARRY IN STOCK. I WILL MAKE MY TURNERS
PALLS DELIVFRIFS WITH IT JUST SO LONG AS I CAN STAY ON LEVEL GROUND. BUT I DON'T INTEND TO PUSH THE CART
:;TO THE HILL SECTION OF KiWN — MORE THAN ONE JACKAL IS NEEDED FOR THAT PULL."

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ATHLETICS

Football

Amherst rolled up a record score of 43-0 against
the Statesmen on Pratt Field on October 31 — while
the Statesmen, in their own right, rolled up a record
of underthrown forward passes. Amherst intercepted
three of these passes, ran each back for a touch-
down, intercepted another and carried it back to the
ten yard line.

Three Statesmen were throwing passes — a fresh-
man, a sophomore, and a junior. None of these men
had played intercollegiate football before this season.
All week, previous to the game, they had been coached
not to underthrow, warned time and again about the
danger therein. But, in the excitement and pressure
and heat of the game, inexperience told the story —
Mass. State forwards were thrown to Amherst re-
ceivers.

The Statesmen spotted Clarkson Tech nine points
during the first half of the game on Alumni Field
on November 7 — and the nine points looked pretty
big as the third period got underway. However, State
rallied and finished up in front, 13-9.

Tufts scored against State in the first period at
Medford on November 14. The final score was 7-0.
Tufts threats, after the score, were halted short of
touchdowns; and State had the ball within the
Tufts ten-yard line, first down, at least once. Again,
inexperience kept the Statesmen from pushing the
ball across. That's how Coach Hargesheimer explains
it. What Assistant Coach Tommy Eck says can not
be put into print.

There is considerable talk to the effect that there
may not be a great deal of intercollegiate competi-
tion in athletics next year. However, Coach Harge-
sheimer feels that if other colleges play football so
will Massachusetts State. And, he says "If we play,
we'll play better than we did this year."

Soccer

Coach Larry Briggs '27 thinks his soccer team did
all right. The club got off to a slow start, largely
due to the fact that Briggs was looking for re-
placements for three key players upon whom he had
counted and who did not return to College this fall.
When, finally, the team was properly realigned the
boys began to click and had a lot of fun. Captain
Ed Podolak '43 of Easthampton showed all-New
England form throughout the season and, in Briggs'
opinion, was State's best fullback since Ed's brother,
Stanley, was graduated in 1939.

Scores since the last Bulletin: Statesmen Opp.

Oct. 30 Amherst, here 0 4

Nov. 7 Harvard, here 2 2

14 Rensselaer, there 1 1

Cross Country

Although Coach L. L. Derby's cross country club
failed to win a dual meet, the runners placed second
in the Connecticut Valley Championships, losing to
Springfield and winning from Connecticut and Coast
Guard. They were 12th in the New England's. Derby
was much impressed with the work of Alec Camp-
bell '46 of Springfield who had never run any dis-
tance greater than a half mile previously, but who
did some outstanding work for State. George Cald-
well '44 of Littleton (son of Harold Caldwell '16)
improved steadily throughout the season.

WINTER SCHEDULES

Basketball

Dec. 16

Jan. 7

Feb. 5

Clark, here

Springfield, there

Williams, there

A. I. C, here

Wesle.yan, here

Rhode Island, there

Tufts, there

Amherst, here

Connecticut, here

Worcester Tech, here

Coast Guard Academy, here

Amherst, there
Captain, Thaddeus V. Bokina '43 of Hatfield
Manager, Arnold I. Blake '43 of Springfield
Coach, Walter G. Hargesheimer

Swimming

Dec. 15 Worcester Tech, there

Jan. 9 Williams, here

16 Connecticut, there
Feb. 6 Wesleyan, here

17 Yale, there
20 M. I. T., here

Mar. 6 Coast Guard Academy, here
Captain, George P. Tilley '43 of Holyoke
Manager, Willis E. Janes '43 of Worcester
Coach, Joseph R. Rogers, Jr.

Track

Jan. 30 K. of C. Meet at Boston

Feb. 6 Univ. of Conn, here

13 B. A. A. Meet, at Boston

20 Spfld. and Worcester Tech, here

27 Tufts and Wore. Tech. at Medford

Captain, Donald H. Parker '44 of West Roxbury

Manager, Harold J. Quinn '43 of Salem

Coach, Llewellyn L. Derby

'35 Larry Bullard has resigned his position as
science and vocational teacher at the New York
Institute for the Education of the Blind in New York
City and is now vocational agriculture teacher at
the Germantown, New York, high school.

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BOSTON ALUMNI SMOKER

ACADEMICS

Tradition was served in Boston on the evening of
November 13 when — in spite of dim-out, and gas and
tire rationing — Boston Alumni assembled for their
annual Tufts game smoker. There was a supper and
social hour at the Hotel Touraine, following which
the group assembled to see movies of the football
team in action taken by Professor Rollin Barrett,
and to hear about the club.

Dennis M. Crowley '29, president of the Boston
Alumni Club, presided and introduced football coach
Walter Hargesheimer and assistant coach Thomas
Eck. Walter gave a resume of the season's games
and explained highlights of the movies which Pro-
fessor Barrett showed.

Other speakers on the program were Red Emery
'24 who talked briefly about Alumni in the Armed
Forces, and Lieut. Sumner A. (Dolly) Dole '15.
former football coach and dean of men at the
University of Connecticut and now director of a
physical fitness program for the United States
Coast Guard in the New England area.

Among Alumni present at the smoker were
these: Bill Bullock '38. Paul Procopio Ml, Leon E.
Smith '14, Lieut. Raymond H. Otto '26. Andrew
C. Dalrymple '15, John W. McGuckian '31, Francis
M. Hines '31, Arthur M. McCarthy '19. William V.
Hayden '13, John T. Finnegan '12, Thomas P. Dooley
'13, Frank A. Anderson '16, John R. Kav '29, Gara-
bed K. Mouradian '25, Raymond B. Jordan '37, Wil-
fred G. Purdy '30, Walter H. Marx '28, Lieut. Charles
F. Appel, M. D. '37, Edward J. Donaghy '32, Parker
Ryan '28 and Lieut. Robert J. Allen, Jr. '35.

A recent note from Junior Programs, a non-profit
theatrical organization of which Katherine Cornell
is honorary chairman, speaks of George Hoxie '40
being featured in the group's latest play, currently
on tour.

The play is called "Doodle Dandy of the U. S. A."
and is described as a humorous explanation of the
"four freedoms." Music for the play was written
by Elie Siegmeister who, with his American ballad
singers, appeared on the Social Union program at
the College last year. Dances were arranged and
directed by Ted Shawn who, with his men dancers
has frequently appeared at the College.

In College, Hoxie was president of the Roister
Doisters and prominent in their presentations for
four years. He also appeared a number of times at
Smith College, with the Northampton Players.

He has appeared at the Amherst Drama Festival
at the Kirby Theater, with Kitty Carlisle Gloria
Stuart, Thornton Wilder and Frances Lederer and
has also appeared with the New London, Connecticut,
Players and at the Rangeley Lakes. Maine, Play-
house.

Hoxie left the Junior Program play in Milwaukee
before its tour of 150 cities was completed — in order
t'. report in Springfield for induction into the Army.

Collegian

David G. Bush '44 of Westfield, managing editor,
and Wendell E. Brown '43 of Amherst, business
manager of the Collegian, were delegates to the
annual convention of the Associated Collegiate Press
in Chicago on November 4, 5, and 6.

They were among 345 delegates who represented
150 colleges and universities from all over the
country. A keynote of the meeting was a discussion
of the problems of college newspapers in war time.

Index

Bob Keefe '44 of Wilbraham, business manager of
the 1943 Index, has introduced a new and interesting
scheme of advertising in preparing the 1943 year
book.

Keefe is offering a card-sized space advertisement
to Alumni engaged in business enterprise in a
special section of the book — and at a cost of $3.50,
which cost will also include a copy of the Index.
Since $3.50 is the price the students themselves pay
for the book, this offer would seem to be a business
bargain.

The Index Board has communicated with a number
of Alumni in business, presenting this opportunity
to them. Should any Alumnus in business not have
received a letter relative to the advertising section,
he is urged to get in touch with Robert Keefe,
Index Office, Memorial Hall.

Band

Women now play in the band. After all these
years! They apparently do pretty well. too. At least,
the band is a good one.

The band has played at all of the football games,,
and made the trip to Medford on November 14th to
add what it could to the Tufts-Mass. State foot-
ball game. The musicians found, upon arrival, how-
ever, that they could add very little. The day was
so cold that their instruments literally froze.

'38 Bob Perkins was a recent visitor in the
Alumni Office when he was in the East on business
for the American Walnut Manufacturing Association
of Chicago, of which organization he is assistant
secretary.

As a graduate student at Yale Forestry School
his principal study was wood technology and the
uses of wood. For the past two and a half years he has
been closely associated with the veneer and ply-
wood industry, where he is well known. He is consi-
dered one of the best-known men now engaged in
large scale adaptation of plywood to the aircraft
program, according to a statement in Aero Digest.

He is the author of a long and technical study of
Characteristics of Woods for Aircraft Structural
Plywoods in the Aero Digest for October, 1942.

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'22 John Lewis who is assistant superintendent
of the Oakwood, Ohio, schools was a recent campus
visitor. In addition to his administrative duties at
Oakwood, John teaches pre-flight courses at the
school. He is, himself, an aviation enthusiast.

Library

State College

Christmas Gilt ^uocedions

FROM OR FOR A MASSACHUSETTS STATE ALUMNUS

An album of 6 Victor recordings by the College Glee Clubs

postpaid . . . S2.65

"Yesterdays'" . . . the history of Massachusetts State by Frank Prentice Rand,
published by Associate Alumni . . . postpaid . . . $2.00

ORDER FROM ALUMNI OFFICE
CHECKS PAYABLE TO CLARK L. THAYER, TREASURER

'91 Walter C. Paige has recently been appointed
general secretary of "The Bible Foundation" with
headquarters at 156 Fifth Avenue, New York City.
Mr. Paige will continue to have his residence at
St. Petersburg, Florida, 2911 Sixth Avenue, N.

'13 Ralph J. Borden recently represented Massa-
chusetts State College, at the request of President
Baker, at inauguration exercise^ of Gregg M. Sin-
clair as president of the University of Hawaii.

Mr. Borden has written to President Baker, "The
exercises were interesting and impressive. The pro-
cession of high ranking territorial, Army, Navy and
city officials, University regents, official delegates,
faculty and students which marched into the beauti-
ful outdoor amphitheatre where the exercises were
held was exceedingly colorful. Addresses were point-
ed and meanful, and well delivered. An address by
Admiral Nimitz was exceptionally well received."

When Dean William L. Machmer attended the
meeting of the Association of Land Grant Colleges
in Chicago in October he had pleasant visits with
Lieut. Walter Maclinn '33, Ralph H. Bray '25, Larry
Bevan '13 and Carl E. F. Guterman '25.

'13 S. Miller Jordan of Los Mochis, Sinaloa,
Mexico, recently visited the campus when he came
to the States to enroll his son at Deerfield Academy.

'18 F. B. Sampson who is assistant regional
manager for the W. T. Grant Company and who is
located at Atlanta, Georgia, writes that he expects
to spend two or three days with Mickey Gaskill '21
when on a trip to Dallas, Texas, where Gaskill has
charge of the W. T. Grant store.

'21 Charles G. (Gid) Macintosh '21 of High Point,
N. C, is an accredited football official in the South
and had a full schedule of games this fall at which he
officiated. This was the schedule: Sept. 25 Mills
Home-Lexington High School; High Point College-
Milligan; Sept. 26 Virginia-Hampden Sidney; Oct. 3

William and Mary-V. P. I.; Oct. 10 Fordham-Univer-
sity of North Carolina; Oct 16 Furman-George
Washington; Oct. 24 V. P. I. -Washington and Lee;
Oct. 31 Washington and Lee-Richmond; Nov. 7
Clemson-George Washington; Nov. 14 V. M. I.-
William and Mary; Nov. 21 University of North
Carolina- Virginia. Cid will be remembered as a
top-notch center on the College team during his
undergraduate days.

'23 Doc Gordon is teacher-coach at the Stoneham,
Mass., high school. Doc recently received note in
Boston papers because he had his team, and the
cheering section, walk four miles to a local game,
and four miles home again — in recognition of the
campaign to save gasoline and rubber.

'23 Fred Sears of Worthington, Mass., county
agent in conservation, has recently appointed Lewie
Black '27 as an agent for the 1943 Massachusetts
Agricultural Conservation program. The program
is designed to promote the production of strategic
farm products.

'27 Richard C. Foley, assistant professor of
animal husbandry at the College, has recently classi-
fied registered Ayrshire herds (700 animals) at 26
eastern United States farms as a part of the Ayrshire
Breeders Association official type classification pro-
gram.

'35 Myron Davis is assistant marketing special-
ist for the U. S. Department of Agriculture. His
assignments take him all over the United States; he
has been in Maine since July. His address is R. D. 1,
Stafford Springs, Connecticut.

'39 and '40 Frank Kingsbury has been appointed
county club agent in Coos County, New Hampshire
and Arthur Howe instructor in bacteriology at the
University of New Hampshire. Both men were
appointed at a meeting of the University's Board
of Directors.

THE ALUMNI
BULLETIN

WINTER BEAUTY'

MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

AMHERST, MASSACHUSETTS

/ol. XXV, No. 4

January, 1943

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN
MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

George E. Emery '21. Editor
Published monthly at Amherst. Mass. (except August and
September.) by the Associate Alumni of Massachusetts State College.
Entered as second class matter, March 17, 1920, at the Postoffice
at Amherst, Mass., under the Acts of March 3, 1879.

OFFICERS OF ASSOCIATE ALUMNI OF
MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

President Albert W. Smith '22 of Springfield
Viee-I'rt'sia'cat, William V. Hayden '13 of Newton Center
Secretary, Marshall O. LanpheaT '18 of Amherst
Treasurer, Clark L. Thayer '13 of Amherst
Executive Secretary, George E. Emery '24 of Amherst

BOARD OF DIRECTORS
to 1943

Many Dimlap Brown '14, ex-offkla, of Billerica
William L. Doran '15 of Amherst

Mary E. M. Garvey '19 of Amherst
Lawrence L. Jones '26 of North Beverly

Edward J. Gare. Jr. '15 of Northampton

to 1944

Donald C. Douglass '21 of Belmont

Norman D. Hilyard '23 of Springfield

John W. McGuckian '31 of Roslindale

Arthur D. Tilton 'IS of Woburn
to 1945
Alden C. Brett '12, ex-otficio, of Belmont
Alan W. Chadwick '31 of Amherst

Evelyn Davis Kennedy '26 of Belmont
Starr M. King '21 of Beverly

Lewis Schlotterbeck '16 of Wakefield
to 1946
John S. Crosbv '25 of Arlington

Ethel Blat( hford Purnell '34 of Amherst

Ralph S. Stedman '20 of Springfield

H. Sidney Vaughan '30 of Worcester

The Alumni Bulletin is sent ten times each year to all members
of the Associate Alumni. Memberships are: Annual S3. 00, Sustain-
ing JU0.00.

Cover picture — a photograph, taken in North Amherst
by Grant B. Snyder and which he calls "Winter Beauty."

Professor Walter K. Harrison is acting head of the
department of landscape architecture at the College.
Professor Harrison was recently retired from the de-
partment, having reached the age when retirement
becomes mandatory by state law; but, for the dura-
tion, he will serve in the place of Raymond H. Otto
'26 who has left the College for the Army. Professor
Waugh, also retired, is, too, actively engaged in
teaching this year.

w'19 John Hayes is assistant chief draftsman for
the Draper Corporation in Hopedale, Mass.

'24 Wendell Sellers is senior entomologist at the
Imperial Institute of Entomology, Belleville, Ontario,
Canada.

'24 Eddie Bike, who owns and operates a farm
in North Sutton, N. H., is serving as vice-chairman
with the New Hampshire Recreational Council.

'26 Stanley Burt has succeeded Joseph H. Putnam
'94 as agricultural agent in Franklin County.

'26 Dave Horner has just recovered from an
11- weeks illness which included a major operation,
and is back on his feet and at work once more. Dave's
address is 56 Hamilton Road, Verona, N. J.

'28 Robert Owers has succeeded Gilbert Bristol
'38 as agricultural teacher at Sanderson Academy in
Ashfield. Bristol has taken a similar position at
Smith Academy in Hatfield.

LEGISLATORS VISIT CAMPUS

On December 17 President Baker, members of the
college staff, and trustees were hosts to members of
the Legislature who had been invited to visit the
College. Among the guests were Senators George W.
Stanton and Ralph V. Clampit and Representatives
Thomas B. Matthews, George L. Barrus '03, William
R. Barry, John R. Fausey, Thomas T. Gray, William
M. Hyde, Ralph Lerche, George W. Porter, Charles
E. Shepard, Vincent B. Dignam, Charles J. Campbell.

The group attended a convocation exercise, visited
physics and chemistry departments, were shown the
work in food technology and dairy industry.

At the luncheon, in Draper, Phil Whitmore '15
acted as toastmaster, and, after the meal, there was
an interesting, informal discussion, lasting over an
hour, in which the Legislators asked many questions
and expressed a great deal of interest in Massachusetts
State. It was a pleasant occasion.

GEORGE CAMPRELL '20 APPOINTED
TRAFFIC MANAGER

George Murray Campbell '20 was appointed
general freight traffic manager of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad on January 1, 1943.

He entered the traffic department of the Baltimore
and Ohio as a clerk in Baltimore in 1921. He was
promoted to be freight representative in the Balti-
more district and, in 1924, traffic industrial agent at
Pittsburg. In 1925 he became district freight repre-
sentative at Jacksonville, Fla.

His changes, following, have been: district freight
agent, Toledo, Ohio, 1929; northwestern freight
agent, Minneapolis, 1930; assistant general freight
agent, Washington, D. C, 1933; assistant coal traffic
manager, Baltimore, 1937; coal traffic manager, 1938.
He continued in this last position until his new
appointment as general freight traffic manager the
first of the year.

GRADUATION TO RE HELD
JANUARY 28

In brief ceremony at convocation on Thursday,
January 28, some thirty students who have taken
part in the accelerated program at the College will
receive their bachelor's degrees.

The complete program for the exercises of this
observance of mid-winter commencement have not
yet been completed; but the exercises, though brief,
will be interesting and impressive. Alumni are in-
vited to attend.

'29 Francis Alberti is principal engineering drafts-
man in the U. S. Engineers Office, Federal Building,
Jacksonville, Fla.

'30 Spencer Stanford is assistant professor of
chemistry at Union College, Schenectady, N. Y.

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ALUMNI IN UNIFORM — NOW LARGEST OCCUPATIONAL GROUP

More Alumni of Massachusetts State College are
engaged in fighting the war than are employed in
any other single activity.

The occupational compilation, below, was made
at the beginning of the new year, 1943, from records
in the Alumni Office for all Alumni, both graduates
and non-graduates, about whom there was infor-
mation.

The figures have changed, of course, even since
this count was made — due, largely, to additions to
the Service roster.

I. INDUSTRY

979

"Makers of tangible things"

A. Agriculture

775

Farming

423

General

247

Dairy

Market Gardener

Herdsman

Poultryman

Farm Superintendent and Foreman

Miscellaneous Farming

Agricultural Services

193

U. S. D. A.

State Agriculture

Extension Services

Miscellaneous Agricultural Services

(foreign agriculture, field agents)

Horticulture

159

Pomology

Floriculture

Nursery (arboriculture)

Gardening

Miscellaneous Horticulture

B. Forestry

C. M

anufacture

180

Contractors and Builders

Artisans and Laborers

Electricians

Carpenters

Miscellaneous Artisans

Manufacturers

Printing

Jewelry

Dairy Manufacturers

Fertilizer Manufacturers

Feed Manufacturers

Miscellaneous Manufacturing

II. TRANSPORTATION 97

"Those who face the fads of distance"

A. Railway 12

B. Air 11

C. Transmission 64
1. Telephone and Telegraph 27

: Radio 13

Power electricity, gas) 18

4. Water Systems 4

5. Miscellaneous Transmission 2
(Continued on Page 8)

Herewith are additions to the list of Massachusetts
State Alumni in uniform, since the last Bulletin was
printed.

The home, residence, addresses of these Alumni
appear, only. Mail sent to these addresses, or to the
Alumni Office, will be forwarded promptly.

Keeping our Service list accurate and up-to-date
involves a good deal of work. Won't you help — by
sending us word of any Alumnus whom you know to
be in uniform?

'41 Pfc. Robert T. Babbitt. Marines, 92 Wood-
lawn Avenue, Wellesley Hills, Mass.
'29 Lieut, (s.g.) Stanley F. Bailey, U.S.N.R., Box

263, Wood Street, Middleboro, Mass.
'33 Lieut. Wilfred II. Bedord, Army, 44 Bridge

Street, Monson, Mass.
'37 Lieut, (j.g.) Charles Benea, U.S.N.R., 11 Main

Street, North Plymouth, Mass.
'30 Lieut. Carl A. Bergan, Army, 75 Harrison

Avenue, Northampton, Mass.
'40 Aviation Cadet Deane A. Beytes, Army, 430

Court Street, Plymouth, Mass.
'38 Lieut. Irving Binder, Army, 188 Walnut Ave.,

Roxbury, Mass.
w'41 Pfc. Howard Briesmaster, Army, 180 Main

Street, East Northfield, Mass.
w'38 Lieut Warren E. Bryant, Air Force, Andover

Road, Billerica, Mass.
'37 Lieut. John .1. Byrnes, Army, 27 Polloch Ave.,

Pittsfield, Mass.
'35 Ensign Francis L. Cur on, U.S.N.R., 34 Francis

Street, North Adams, Mass.
'35 Lieut, (j.g.) John A. Caswell. U.S.N. R., 89

Congress Street, Milfcrd, Mass.
w'45 Pvt. Robert K. Chatel, Air Force, 23 Green

Avenue, Northampton, Mass.
'34 Pvt. Edmund .1. Clow, Army, 19 Myrtle

Street, Orange, Mass.
'29 Pvt. James II. Cunningham, Army, 88 South

Bayfield Road, North Quincy, Mass.
'21 Lieut, (j.g.) Orrin C. Davis, U.S.N.R., 108

Plummer Avenue, Winthrop. Mass.
w'44 A. S. Charles W. Dolby, Navy, 27 Humphrey

Street, Great Barrington, Mass.
'35 Lieut. Bernard J. Doyle, Army, 39 Summer

Street, Northampton, Mass.
'36 Ensign Paul J. Driscoll, U.S.N.R., 74 Sargent

Street, Winthrop, Mass.
'42 Pvt. William J. Dwyer. Jr., Army, 66 Nono-

tuck Street, Holyoke, Mass.
'39 2nd Lieut. Francis J. Farrcn, Army, 24 Albert

Street, Adams, Mass.
'32 Lieut. Clifford R. Foskett, Army, 50 Laurel

Street, East Weymouth, Mass.
'40 Aviation Cadet Bernard II. Fox, Air Force,

81 Mt. Vernon Street, Maiden, Mass.
w'40 Pvt. Paul Front, Army, 82 Fox Street,

Worcester, Mass.

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LIEUTENANT FRANK GREENWOOD '36

OBITUARIES

Lieut, (j.g.) Frank Greenwood '36

Memorial services were held at St. George's
Church in Methuen, Mass., on December 13, for
Lieut, (j.g.) Frank Greenwood '36, who was killed
by enemy action November 12, 1942. Lieut. Green-
wood was born in 1915, and attended public schools

in Methuen be-
fore entering the
College, where
he was gradu-
ated in 1936. In
College he had
been a member
of the Collegian
board, and for
three years he
was a member of
the track team.
He received his
varsity letter as
a sophomore.
After being
graduated he
was employed
with the U. S.
Forest Service
until August,
1940, when he entered active service in the Naval
Reserve.

In June, 1942, Frank was promoted to the rank of
lieutenant (j.g.) while stationed in the Canal Zone.
He met his death "somewhere in the Caribbean Sea."
Secretary Frank Knox wrote to Mr. and Mrs.
Harry Greenwood, Frank's parents, "Your son made
the supreme sacrifice in giving his life for his country,
and I desire to express to you my sincere sympathy
in your great sorrow. I trust that you may find
comfort in the thought that he died at his station of
duty . . . The Navy has lost a valuable officer."

Frederick D. Griggs '13

Frederick D. Griggs '13, a trustee of Massachusetts
State College since 1928, died December 22, 1942, in
Wesson Memorial Hospital, Springfield, Mass., after
an illness of six weeks. He was 52 years old.

For the last seven years he had been executive
secretary for the Springfield Taxpayers' Association,
and was particularly active, through that office, in
municipal affairs and in constructive efforts toward
improved government.

Fred had had a wide career in politics, public
service, education, and business, which included mem-
bership in the Massachusetts House of Representa-
tives, nomination as Republican candidate for
Congress, and long service as a college trustee. He
was born in Chicopee Falls on November 2, 1890,
was graduated from the Chicopee High School.
After being graduated from the College in 1913, he
entered the University of Missouri where, for a year,
he did graduate work in journalism. Upon returning
to Springfield he became assistant secretary of the

Hampden County Improvement League and made
many friends throughout the county. In 1917 he
went to Middlesex County (Mass.) to organize the
County Extension Service there. He later helped in
the organization of the Massachusetts Farm Bureau
Federation.

In 1925 he returned again to Springfield and was
elected to the Massachusetts Legislature from the
fourth Hampden district. He served two terms, and
enjoyed a position of influence as chairman of im-
portant committees and as a member of the informal
"speaker's cabinet."

Governor Fuller appointed Griggs a trustee of the
College in 1928, and Fred has been reappointed con-
tinuously since that time. He was an active, inter-
ested, and conscientious member of the Board. He
was a member of the Association of Governing Boards
of State Colleges and Universities, an organization of
State College trustees, and he served several years as
secretary-trea-
surer in charge
of program and
meetings. In
this connection
he made a
number of trips
across the
country during
the past few
years.

He is sur-
vived by his
wife, Gladys
( H i n kley )
Griggs, three
sisters and
three brothers,
among whom
is Raymond
Griggs '15 of
Los Angeles.

Those of us
who were class- Frederick d. griggs 'is

mates of Fred

Griggs at Mass. State can always remember him
as a natural leader, a man with a great variety of
interests. He was class president, high in the councils
of Phi Sigma Kappa and the College Senate, leader
of the band and of the Glee Club, member of the
college orchestra, a public speaker of great ability.

He was college reporter for the Springfield papers,
college postmaster — when the office was in a cubby-
hole on the first floor, East entry of North College,
head waiter at Draper Hall. He was a member of a
championship intercollegiate rifle team.

To those who attended College after 1913, Fred
Griggs will be remembered as the author and com-
poser of college songs — to this day sung on campus.
"When Twilight Shadows Deepen" is perhaps his
best known.

Fred wrote the song which won the interclass prize
for 1913 each year at Commencement, during all of
our four years in College. When a graduate student

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at Missouri he submitted another song which won a
contest at that university. Fred's presence will be
missed by everyone in the class — particularly in our
reunions yet to come. No one was more regulai
than he in attendance, no one more ready to do his
part to make each gathering of the class a success.

JosephB. Cobb '13

Raymond A. Weinhold m'43

Raymond Arnold Weinhold, P. M. 3/c U. S. N..
was killed when a truck in which he was riding as a
passenger collided with another truck on November
20, 1942, at Tuxedo, N. Y. He enlisted in the Navy
in June, 1942, and received his preliminary training
at the U. S. Naval Hospital at Chelsea. He later
served at the Brooklyn Naval Hospital and at the
time of his death was returning, from leave, to his
station at the Naval Convalescent Hospital, Harri-
man, N. Y.

Born in Worcester. September 11, 1921, he attended
school in Worcester and was graduated from Wor-
cester South High School in 1939. He entered
Massachusetts State College with the class of 1943.
While in College he was active in the orchestra and
had been elected to be manager of the Sinfonietta.
He was a member of Alpha Sigma Phi fraternity.

He is survived by his parents, a brother and a
sister.

//. G. Lindquist '22

MARRIAGES

'29 Taylor M. Mills to Miss Mary C. McDonald,
September 19. 1942. at Minneapolis. Minn.

'31 Miss Pauline Spiewak to Lieut. Theodore
Stonehill, December 23, 1942. at Drew Field. Fla.

'33 Major Costas L. Caraganis to Miss Jane Welt,
November 15, 1942. at Covington. Ky.

'35 Miss Ruth A. Avery to Francis J. Sullivan,
October 10, 1942. at Madison. Wis.

'38 Charles G. Edson to Miss Jeanette Skelkofaky,
August 10. 1942. at Jacksonville, Fla.

'38 Miss Martha D. Kaplinsky to Warrant
Officer Morris L. Ciarmise, December 6, 1942, at
Hoi yoke, Mass.

'38 Lieut. Richard C. King to Miss Ann Hitch-
cock, February 6, 1942, at Newtonville, Mass.

'39 Don i!H I-'. I'.niwn in Mi-s Kilee'n L.Courchene,
August 1 1942, at Lynnfield Center, Mass.

'39 Lieut, j.g. Frederick I). Estabrook to Miss
Olga Kent, November 9, 1942, at Tongue Point, Ore.

'39 Capt. Frank C. Healy to Miss Mary Moyni-
han. Januarv 7. 1943, at Holyoke, Mass.

'39 Miss Margaret Madden to Edwin Miller.
October 31, 1912. at Lawrence. Ml

Stanley II. Wiggin to Miss Barbara A.
Bradway, Deeemher 26, 1942, at Union, Conn.

'Id Ensign Vernon I. Ferwerda to Miss Martha
Morse December 3, L942, at Northampton, Mass.

'40 Lieut. Howard M. Hoxie to Miss Wilma J.
Liggett, November 30, 1942, at Northampton, Mass.

'40 Lieut. Robert A. Joyce to Miss Josephine
Hampel, December 10, 1942, at Miami Beach, Fla.

'40 and '40 Pfc. Charles L. McLaughlin to Miss
Marjorie B. Irwin, January 1. 1943, at Palmer, Mass.

'40 and '39 Ensign Carl F. Nelson, Jr. to Miss
Rita Buckley, October 28, 1942, at New York, N. Y.

'40 Lieut. Martti U. Suomi to Miss Claudine
Paylor, December 17, 1942, at Monroe, La.

'40 and '40 Francis Wing to Miss Louise Bow-
man, December 26, 1942, at Providence, R. I.

'41 and '42 Pvt. Robert J. McCartney to Miss
Norma L. Handforth, January 1, 1943, at Medway,
Mass.

'41 Lieut. Alfred A. Prusick to Miss Ellen J.
Davis, November 28, 1942, at Fredericksburg, Va.

'41 Wallace Wyman to Miss Lena M. Belgers,
December 26, 1942, at Saylesville, R. I.

w'41 Cpl. Walter C. Rockwood, Jr. to Miss
Mildred E. Smith, September 21, 1942, at Walpole,
Mass.

'42 and '42 Ensign Charles D. MacCormack to
Miss Marion R. Avery, December 4, 1942, at Med-
ford, Mass.

w'42 Lieut. Richard H. Pierce to Miss Constance
Bookman, December 12, 1942, at Kansas City, Mo.

RIRTHS

'27 and '32 A son, Lawrence Elliott. Jr., to Mr.
and Mrs. Lawrence E. Briggs (Mildred Twiss '32),
January 2, 1943, at Northampton, Mass.

'31 A son, Timothy Charles, to Mr. and Mrs.
Carl G. Holm, November 28, 1942, at Worcester,
Mass.

'33 A son, Gary Philip, to Mr. and Mrs. C. Philip
Stephan. December 24, 1942. at Brooklyn, N. Y.

'34 and w'34 A son, Joseph Warren, to Mr. and
Mrs. Warren H. Southworth i Ruth S. Redman w'34),
December 22, 1942, at Orange, N. J.

'35 A son, Peter David, to Lieut, and Mrs.
Arthur S. Levine, December 11, 1942, at North-
ampton, Mass.

'36 A daughter, Jane Stewart, to Pvl. and Mrs.
John W. Stewart. Jr., August 12. 1942, at Leominster,
Mass.

'37 A son, George Frederick, to Mr. and Mrs.
Gordon D. Estabrook Alma Boyden '37), November
1, 1942, at Harrisburg, Pa.

'39 A son, William Lloyd, to Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd
B. Copelund, November 1, 1942, at Fort Riley, Kan.

'39 and '39 A son. Brian Francis, to Mr. and
Mrs. Francis J. Riel Katherine E. Kerivani, Decem-
ber 10, 1942, at Northampton, Mass.

'40 A son. Kes in Robert, to Mr. and Mrs. John
R. O'Neill, November 1 1, 1942, at Holyoke, Mass.
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'38 Ensign Ann L. Gilbert, WAVES, 48 Stone

Road, Belmont, Mass.
w'45 Pvt. Frederick J. Gillis, Jr., Army, 324

Bellevue Street, West Roxbury, Mass.
'42 Aviation Cadet .Saul M. Glick, Air Force, 77

Walnut Park, Roxbury, Mass.
'30 Lieut, (j.g.) Robert G. Goodnow, U.S.N.R.,

102 Union Street, Natiek, Mass.
'35 Captain Julian P. Griffin, Army, 170 Berk-
shire Street, Indian Orchard, Mass.
'38 Pvt. Harold C. Hemond, Army, 59 Fairfield

Avenue, Holyoke, Mass.
w'31 Pvt. Sherman D. Hoover, Army, 3 Paine

Avenue, Auburn, R. I.
'41 Pvt. George P. Hoxie, Jr., Army, 31 Bridge

Street, Northampton, Mass.
'24 Major Edward A. Kane, Air Force, 7 Lewis

Street, Westfield, Mass.
'33 Lieut, (j.g.) G. Andrew Karlson, U.S.N.R., 147

Brattle Street, Worcester, Mass.
'37 Cadet Robert A. Keefe, Coast Guard, Franklin,

Mass.
'34 Ensign William E. Kirby, U.S.N.R., 98 River

Street, Lynn, Mass.
'36 Lieut. Irving Lipovsky, Army, 63 Church

Street, Springfield, Mass.
w'46 A. S. Clifford Martin, Navy, 86 North Street,

Pittsfield, Mass.
'40 Aviation Cadet Gerald E. McAndrew, Air

Force, Barre, Mass.
'41 Pvt. Howard J. McCallum, Army, 96 North

Street, Northampton, Mass.
'40 Ensign Carl F. Nelson, U.S.N. R., 586 West

Broadway, Gardner, Mass.
'40 Aviation Cadet Michael Ncznayko, Air Force,

Box 208, Amherst, Mass.
'40 Pvt. William B. Nutting, Army, Temple

Street, West Boylston, Mass.
'35 Lieut, (j.g.) Leonard W. Parker, U.S.N.R.,

Sunset Court, Amherst, Mass.
'41 Pvt. Arthur A. Pava, Air Force, 28 Somerset

Street, Springfield, Mass.
'30 Chaplain (Lieut.) William R. Phinney, Army,

Willimansett, Mass.
w'43 Pvt. Cornell. is W. Slack, Army, 117 Mon-
tague Road, North Amherst, Mass.
'41 Pvt. Tracy B. Slack, Jr., Army, 117 Montague

Road, North Amherst, Mass.
'42 Aviation Cadet Richard R. Smith, Air Force,

Vining Hill, Southwick, Mass.
'30 Lieut. Winthrop G. Smith, Army, 22 Mark

Lee Road, Needham Heights, Mass.
'42 Aviation Cadet Myron Solin, Air Force, 2039

Northampton Street, Holyoke, Mass.
'41 Pvt. George II. Soule, Army, 32 Ashmont

Street, Springfield, Mass.
'30 Lieut. Paul Stacy, Army, West Yarmouth,

Mass.
W'45 Pvt. William E. Stedler, Army, 305 Franklin

Street, Holyoke, Mass.

'39 Pvt. Courtney J. Stetson, Army, 43 Traverse

Street, Athol, Mass.
'36 Pvt. John W. Stewart, Army, 104 Walnut

Street, Leominster, Mass.
w'41 Lieut. Charles W. Styler, Air Force, 44

Quinaposet Street, Jefferson, Mass.
Lieut. William N. Sullivan, Army, 81 Exeter

Street, Lawrence, Mass.
Captain Peter II. Waeehter, Jr.,

Main Street, Walpole, Mass.
'31 2nd Lieut. Hardy L. W:?hlgr"n,

52 Clifton Park, Melrose, Mass.
w'43 Pvt. Francis Wa^cl, Air Force,

Street, Worcester, Mass.

'30

Army, 270

Air Force,

77 Birch

An interesting note recently appeared in the news-
papers relative to Lieutenant Don Osley '38, now
serving at a U. S. base in foreign parts. In a Service
newspaper clipping, recently received by Osley's
parents, appeared this item.

"After losing Major Merker, our C. O. of long
standing, Captain Payne csme in long enough for
the force to know that he was the new CO. before
he went to the States on leave. There was some
rumor of his beating a stork there, whatever that
means, but we'll put our planes against a stork any
day. Lieutenant Osley then took over the squadron,
giving another job to the busiest officer on the base,
perhaps the whole island. Here are some of the
titles he now holds. Squadron C. O., (and a fine
skipper, too), transportation officer, photo officer,
mess officer, athletic officer, supply officer and cus-
todian. There was something about chemical war-
fare that we were unable to run down."

Lieutenant Bob Allen '35 and your correspondent
shivered together at the Tufts Oval on the bitter
cold afternoon of November 14th, watching the
Tufts-Massachusetts State football game.

We have just had a card from Bob from New
Orleans — a picture of the Tulane Stadium, the
Sugar Bowl, telling of the New Year's game. Bob
wrote, "Wotta game, wotta finish, and what beauti-
ful weather. Some different from that afternoon in
Medford!"

Lieutenant Bun Doyle '35, formerly director of
the student health department at the College, is now
with the army medical corps and taking his training
at Miami Beach. He is quartered at the Roney-
Plaza Hotel — with five other young doctors in a
room which, Bun says, "in other times would bring
$35.00 a day." The Duchess of Windsor happens also
to be stopping at the Roney-Plaza, according to
Doyle, but hei quarters are the penthouse on the roof.

Private George Hoxie '41, who recently left the
cast of a Junior Program play, on tour, for induction
into the army, has written, "If I weren't in the
Army I would be making my first appearance in a
Broadway theatre right now. That show I was in
is having a two-week run in New York. Incidentally,
the Army seemed to think that the armored branch
would benefit most from_my experience as anactor.

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That's where they put me, and maybe they have
something there. People in show business tend to
develop a thick skin, which, after all, is an asset in
a tank."

Captain Ralph France G'29, formerly research
professor of bacteriology at the College, is now with
the aimy sanitary corps and stationed at a camp in
Texas.

Ralph recently was appointed Officer of the Day
and, conscientiously, decided to make an inspection
that night at about three o'clock. He wanted to see,
he wrote, if the guards knew how to challenge.

Quietly Ralph moved about the post and soon dis-
covered one of the guards snoozing peacefully inside
a small lighted building. Ralph made no noise;
instead, he hid himself about fifty yards away where
he could watch. In about 20 minutes the guard
appeared. As the man approached France's hiding
place Ralph suddenly jumped in front of him, and
startled the soldier — no little. At length the soldier
yelled, "Halt, who goes there!" Ralph replied, "The
Officer of the Day."

The soldier's next words should have been, "Ad-
vance to be recognized." But instead, after several
seconds of hesitation, the man said, "Come ye forth
to be known."

Captain France had a hard time containing him-
self— but succeeded: and later, he says, "I lit into
the whole bunch on the seriousness of guard duty."

Zoe Hickney White "32 is living in Manhattan,
Kansas, while her husband. Lieutenant Edwin T.
White '31 is in training a1 Fori Riley. Zoe recently
met Dorothy Doran Minarik '3 1 in Manhattan.
Dorothy's husband. Captain Charlie Minarik *33,
had recently been transfered to Riley.

Dot and Zoe arranged a Massachusetts State re-
union at the Minariks' house on December 27th. at
which quite a gang were present. "It was fun." Zoe
said, "and we wish we could do it more often."

Th0 t, beside the Whites and the Minariks

were: Lieut Cloyea T. Gleason '33, Lieut, and Mrs.
George W. Brafcdon '41 Mildred Bak '40),
Captain and Mrs. John W. Tokaz '32. Captain and
Mrs. John C. Lawrence 'SI, Lieut, and Mrs.
Lloyd B. Copeland :!'•». Lieut. Edward G. Fawcctl
■33, and Lieut. Robert II. Mallei '39.

Major D.miel J. I.eary '33 is attending the Staff
and Command School at Leavenworth. We have
been hearing thai the Bchool provided quite a
"workout." but I.eary lias supplied the I isf word on
ubject.
Hi wrote, "We're on a 12-hour week. Three h
. for eating. Three ho ■ for sleeping.

Tin- rest '.I llw time we work "

Alumni in the Service who. on furlough in Amh

iped in at the Alumni Office include these:
Howard Kin- II. Ensign John Brack II.

Lieut. Lawrence Bixby '39, Captain Calvin Han-
num '36, Lieut. Walter Molnick '42, Lieut. John
Blasko '40. Lieut. Hanssen Schenker '41, Captain
Frank Healy '39, Pfc. Chester Kuralowicz
w'41, Lieut, (j.g.1 Chester Tiberii '40, Ensign
Albert Eldridge '42, Lieut. Albert Burgess, Jr.
'35, Naval Aviation Cadet Patrick Santin w'43,
Lieut, (j.g.) Donald Smith '34, Lieut. Donald T.
Thayer '42, Lieut. Gerald Talbot '40, Lieut.
Clement Burr '41, Ensign George Litchfield '42,
Lieut. Stanley Jackimczyk '41, and Lieut. Robert
Allen '35.

Lieut. Robert Weatherbee '40 who is stationed
at Merced in California, recently met Lieut. Stanley
Zclazo '39 who, it developed, is stationed at the
same camp. Stan, who was a first-rate basketball
player at the College, is still playing — according to
Weatherbee's note. He is on the officers' team at
the camp.

Pfc. Roger Brown '40 speaks of his combat unit
as "really a rugged outfit, believe me."

Bill Chitson "36, who is an ensign in the Navy, has
written. "One of my ambitions is to catch up with
my sister, a second lieutenant in the Army Nursing
Corps, who has been stationed in Australia since
January last. We'll have a unique Army-Navy re-
union if we ever get together."

Lieut. William E. Bryant w 39 of the Army Air
Corps has been awarded the Silvei Star by General
Douglas MacArthur.

Lieut. Bryant left the College in his junior year
to become manager of a grain company in East-
hampton. He resigned from that position for service
with the Air Corps. He was subsequently reported
as missing in art inn and. indeed, had been lost in the
Bouthwest Pacific. Ten days after this report had
been sent to his parents in Billerica. they received a
second telegram saying that their son had been found.

Lieut. Choi liml/ w'42, pilot of a Flying Fortress,
who has been engaged in fights with the Japanese on

t than sixty missions, visited over Christmas at

his mother's home in Housatonic, Mass. Interviewed
by newspaper reporters. Hud/, told of one occasion
when he brought his bomber back riddled with 1500
bullet holes and !"> cannon shot holes, and with two
motors shut nut. "We had all we could do to get
in." he said, "and were plenty glad to get back to
land."

Captain Eddie Stoddard "39 is flying a Fortress
mering docks and olher objectives over Tunis
and Bizerte. Wis Gallagher, Association Press re-
porter, flew with the bombers on one mission which
knocked down at least ten German planes, and
called the engagement "one of the hottest air battles
oi i In- Nu.'i h African War."

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OCCUPxVTIONAL GROUP

Pharmacy

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Miscellaneous Healing (hospital

Miscellaneous Transportation

G.
H.

managers, nurses)

(travel bureau, busses)

Science

466

Engineering (civil, mechanical,

104

III. BUSINESS

877

electrical)

"The builders of trade"

2.
3.

Chemistry
Sugar Chemistry

165 .
1

Banking, Stocks, Bonds

Bacteriology

Insurance

109

Entomology

Real Estate

Statistics

Merchandizing

Economics

1. Department Store

Botany and Pathology

2. Chain Store

Miscellaneous Science (laboratory

3. General Merchandise

assistants)

(buyers, purchasing agents)

Research

Accounting

Welfare

Advertising

Social Work

Secretarial

Y.M.C.A. and Y.W.C.A.

Clerical (bookkeepers, stock clerks)

Miscellaneous Welfare

Sales (salesmen, sales promoters, sales

164

Library Work

managers)

Personnel (industrial organizer)

Automobile

Tree Surgery

Coal

Miscellaneous Professions (camps)

Lumber

M.
N.
O.

Brokerage

Oil

Business Administration

V. PERSONAL SERVICE

496

160

"Those who dispense the comforts of life"

1. Presidents of concerns

Hotel, Restaurant

2. Superintendents and managers

136

omemaking (housewives)

446

Miscellaneous Business

Dietitians and Matrons

Miscellaneous Personal Service (personal

B.
C.
D.
E.

IV. PROFESSIONS 1842
"Those who employ their own special talents"

A. Arts 194

1. Art (fine and applied, painting, 16 a

architecture")

2. Writing 4

3. Photography 6

4. Music 4

5. Landscape Architecture (including park 161

superintendents, golf, cemetery
superintendents)

6. Miscellaneous Arts (museums) 3

B . Entertainment 5

C. Religion 31

D. Education 795

1. Teaching 593

a. Schools (including coaches) 334

b. College (including coaches) 259

2. Administration 84

a. School 69

b. College 15

3. Students (graduate and professional 99

schools) I

4. Miscellaneous Education (directors of 19 II

vocational guidance) III

K. Publishing (newspaper, magazine, book) 45 IV

F. Healing 152 V

1. Medicine 77 VI

2. Veterinary Medicine 16 VII

3. Dentistry 20

servicers, supply officers)

VI. PUBLIC SERVICE

"Stewards of the social system"
Protection

1 . Police

2. Army, Navy, Marines, Coast Guard,
Merchant Marine, Seebees, Army
and Navy Nurses, WAAC, WAVES

3. Miscellaneous Protection
Revenue Service
Postal Service
Public Health
Miscellaneous Public Service (U. S. Bureau

of Census, Town Officers, Red Cross!

VII. RETIRED

"Those whose work is finished"

A. Retired

B. Permanently disabled or ill

SUMMARY

Industry 979

Transportation 97

Business 877

Professions 1842

Personal Service 496

Public Service 831

Retired 76

831

744

739

5198

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by MaryE.Garrey '19

Priscilla Bradford (Mrs. Paul R. Spinney) '37

is living in Lakeland, Fla., where her husband is
presently stationed as a lieutenant in the Army Air
Foice.

Florence M. O'Neil "41 is a chemist and at
present working in San Francisco. Her home address
in Massachusetts is 46 Howard Street, Ludlow.

Helen Rudman '33 is doing secretarial work in
the materials control laboratory of United Aircraft,
East Hartford, Conn. Her home is at 40 High Street,
Springfield, Mass.

Elizabeth Reed "32 is now laboratory technician
with Dr. Reginald Burbank, 6 East 78th Street, New
York City. She lives at 332 East 66th Street. She
had been engaged in laboratory work for seven years
in Columbus, Ohio before going to New York.

Stella MaLsner "41 is therapeutic dietitian at the
New Britain, Conn., General Hospital.

Evra Ward "42 is junior professional assistant in
the Signal Corps, 21 John Street, Red Bank, N. J.

Rebecca Lovell "41 is government food inspector
with Schuckl and Company. Sunnyvale. Calif. She
lives at 1135 Dean Avenue, San Jose.

Theodora Edson '38 is doing office work at the
Weymouth Hospital, South Weymouth. Mass.

Koma Levy MO. who is a medical technologist at
61 East 90th Street, New York City, is a member of
the Civil Air Patrol. Roma was the first girl to pass
the examination in ground work in the C.A.A. course
at the College.

Kathleen Callahan, formerly of the department
of physical education for women at the College, is
now with the WAVES and stationed at Madison,
Wis. One evening recently, on furlough from duty,
she was watching the show at the Latin Quarter in
Chicago when she saw, two tables from her, Lieut.
Walter Maclinn '33 and his wife, Fran Driscoll "3<>.
The show was temporarily forgotten in favor "I a
Mass. State reunion.

Alice Anderson '31 is a clerk for the Herald-
Traveler Corporation, 90 Mason Street. Huston.

Eunice Johnson '33 is a student medical tech-
nologist at the Worcester, Mass., City Hospital. She
had been doing graduate work in the department- nl
agricultural chemistry and animal husbandry at
Purdue until February ]">. working with Dr. Fred
Andrews '35.

ALDEN BRETT '12 APPOINTED TO
TRUSTEE BOARD

On January 7 it was announced that Governor
Leverett Saltonstall had appointed Alden C. Brett
'12 to the College Board of Trustees. Mr. Brett is a
past president of the Associate Alumni, and currently
a member of its Board of Directors. He has been
active in many projects of the Associate Alumni in
behalf of the College, notable among which was the
securing of legislative permission for the erection of
two self liquidating dormitories — Lewis Hall and
Butterfield House. Mr. Brett is treasurer of the
Hood Rubber Company in Watertown.

Governor Saltonstall reappointed Nathaniel I.
Bowditch, vice-president of the Board, and a trustee
of the College for many years. Frank L. Boyden,
headmaster of Deerfield Academy, distinguished
alumnus of Amherst College, was appointed to the
unexpired term made vacant through the death of
Fred Griggs '13.

ALUMNI SPEAK AT AGRICULTURAL
MEETINGS

Several Alumni were on the program of the 25th
Annual Union Agricultural meetings, held in Wor-
cester, Mass., on January 6 and 7.

Those on the program included Arnold M. Davis
"31. Paul W. Dempsey '18, Joseph H. Putnam '94,
Stephen M. Richardson '18, Philip F. Whitmore '15,
Sumner H. Parker 04, William R. Cole '02, Oliver
C. Roberts '18 and Herbert A. Brown '13.

Louis Webster '14, acting commissioner of agricul-
ture, was chairman of the executive committee in
charge. Earle S. Carpenter '24 was secretary.

BIRTHS

'Continued from Page 5)

'40 and '41 A son, Paul Randolph, to Mr. and
Mrs. Norman James Schoonmaker (Rose E. Agambar
'11 . December 9, 1942, at Northampton, Mass.

w'42 and w'43 A son, Stuart Crowell to Mr. and
Mrs. Edward Manix i Meriel Van Buren w'42),
November 17, 1942, at Detroit, Mich.

'31 Lawrence Jones is with the Federal Land Bank
in Springfield, Mass.

'32 George Smith has a farm in Chesterfield,
Mass.

'32 George Flood is assistant treasurer of the
Hoosac Savings Hank, North Adams, Mass.

'32 Azor Goodwin is a market gardener in
Marblehead, Mass.

'32 Frank Springer is a physician in Farmington,
Maine.

'32 Victor Pineo is a radio engineer with the
National Bureau of Standards in Washington, D. C.

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ATHLETICS

Basketball

Springfield College has had the Indian sign on the
Statesmen since 1935 — which was the last year,
until 1943, when State won from Springfield in
basketball.

On January 7 Captain Tad Bokina '43 of Hatfield,
and his club broke the Springfield record; State won,
53-51, and Bokina scored 28 of the Massachusetts
State points.

Previously, on December 16 and 22, State had won
from Clark University, 49-25, and from the Westovei
Air Base team, 77-29.

Coach Walter Hargesheimer is pleased; but he
looks forward with fingers crossed to the remaining
games on the schedule:

Jan. 13 Williams, there

15 American International College, here
28 Amherst, tthere

30 Wesleyan, here

Feb. 5 Rhode Island, there

6 Tufts, there

10 Amherst, here

16 University of Connecticut, here

19 Worcester Tech, here
24 Coast Guard, here

Swimming

Coach Joe Rogers celebrated his swimmers' win,
57-18, over Worcester Tech on December 15 by
going over to the Cooley Dickinson hospital in
Northampton soon afterwards for an appendectomy.
The operation was successful and, we hear, the con-
valescing Rogers has been quite the life of the party
at the hospital ever since. Joe didn't shave, for some
reason, from the time he entered the hospital until,
as we go to press, he is about ready to leave, a period
of some ten days. He is still recognizable, however.

Remaining meets:

Jan. 9 Williams, here

16 University of Connecticut, there

Feb. 17 Yale, there

20 M.I.T., here
Mar. 6 Coast Guard, here

Athletic Awards

Don Campbell '44 of Springfield, halfback on the
football team, received the Allen Leon Pond Memorial
Award at the Athletic Insignia Convocation. Stan
Salwak '43 of Orange received the William T. Evans
trophy, a memorial award established by the class
of 1942.

Salwak and John Storozuk '43 of Sunderland were
announced as elected co-captains of the 1942 team.
An acting captain was appointed before each game;
Stan and John will go down in the record as the
season's co-captains, successors to John McDonough
and Gil Santin who, before the season opened, en-
listed in the Navy Air Corps.

George Caldwell '44 of Littleton, son of Harold
Caldwell '16, was announced as captain-elect of
cross country.

Perhaps the happiest boy to receive an athletic
award at the convocation was Ray Hollis '44 of
Springfield. Ray was given his varsity "M" in
cross country.

When Hollis was eleven or twelve years old he was
hobbling around on a crutch and a cane, crippled for
life — most people thought, with infantile paralysis.
He was admitted to the Shriners Hospital in Spring-
field and, after a long period of treatment, became
able to walk without his cane. He continued to
exercise, to develop and strengthen his legs and, last
fall, made a record in collegiate cross country which
gave him his letter.

One of the first things Hollis did after receiving
his award was to go back down to Springfield, to the
Shrine Hospital, to point out to the kids there, the
patients, that they could have hope.

'30 Leon Stanne, teacher-coach at Hopkins
Academy in Hadley, was honored last June when the
annual yearbook of the school was dedicated to him.

The dedication said, in part, "His teaching in the
classroom and on the athletic field or court is marked
by thoroughness and soundness in fundamentals. . .
No high school or college coach in the western part
of the state is held in higher esteem than is Mr.
Stanne.

"By his own modest and gentlemanly behavior he
has emphasized the importance of respect for author-
ity and courtesy to opponents and to referees. Ex-
cellent conduct of boys is a Hopkins tradition which
Mr. Stanne has done much to uphold."

'37 John F. Hanson, teaching fellow in ento-
mology at the College, has been awarded a $100
research grant by Sigma Xi, honorary scientific
fraternity. Hanson is continuing work toward his
doctorate in entomology and will use the present
grant to publish results of his studies of insect
morphology.

Undergraduate members of Alpha Chapter
of Phi Sigma Kappa have sent a silver cup to
Pop Clark '87, engraved as follows —

Presented to Mr. and Mrs. Frank S. Clark

November 30, 1942

Alpha Chapter, Phi Sigma Kappa

Pop and Mrs. Clark were to have celebrated
their golden wedding anniversary at a recep-
tion at the fraternity house early in December;
but Pop was stricken with pneumonia and the
party was postponed.

We are happy to report that Pop is coming
along OK in what he says he hopes is "the
last scrap of this nature that comes my way."

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'DEAR FELLOW CITIZENS"

Under the above salutation, addressing residents
of Pittsford, Vt., Leone Smith '14 recently sent out
a letter, describing his qualifications for election as
representative to the Vermont Legislature.

"Most of you know me pretty well for I have lived
in Pittsford more than half of my life. But as I
shall not have opportunity to talk with each one of
you before election day, I am taking this way of
telling you some facts that you would like to consider
in choosing your Town Representative.

"I am fifty years of age, grew up and graduated
from high school in Leominster, Mass. I worked my
way through Massachusetts State College and gradu-
ated in 1914. After college, I was superintendent of
the Colchester, Conn., Boys* Club for two years and
came to Pittsford 26 years ago to supervise the local
Boys' Club and teach agriculture and shop work in
the schools.

"Mrs. Smith and I were married in 1916.

"In 1922 the old Doolin faim on Spruce Hill was
purchased and we started Camp Sangamon, a camp
where boys could learn to do useful things as well as
have fun. We have just completed our twenty-first
successful season. Over 1,200 different boys from all
over the country and a few from abroad have been
under our guidance during that period.

"We have learned to work in the interest of others
and believe that cooperation and teamwork will be
just as useful in the Legislature as at our camp.

"Perhaps the chief reason for our success with boys
is the fact that our own four children have been
growing up at the same time. Our oldest boy, James,
is a 2nd Lieutenant in the 4th Bomber Command.
San Francisco, and the second son. David, is a Navy
Ensign. We know that all of you are proud of these
boys and the others who have gone from Pittsford
to serve their country and pray, with us, for their
safe return.

"At the request of Governor Charles Smith, I
served two years as superintendent of the Weeks
School at Vergennes. I have been active in 4-H
work for twenty-five years and have been vice-presi-
dent of the Rutland County Farm Bureau. I was on
active duty with the Vermont State Guard last
winter. I served two years as town auditor and am
now in the fourth year as school director. With your
support, I hope to render further public service as
town representative.

"Pittsford is my home. Selling Piftsford's advan-
tages to other folks has been my business for more
than twenty years. I shall appreciate your confidence
in me if you vote for me and if I am elected to repre-
sent Pittsford, I promise you to do my best to do a
good job."

Leone was elected.

ACADEMICS

Musical Clubs

The combined Glee Clubs and Sinfonietta, under
the direction of Doric Alviani, presented Gilbeit and
Sullivan's "Yeomen of the Guard" on the evenings
of December 4 and 5 in Bowker Auditorium. The
Springfield Union said that the performance was
brilliantly done — "a unit of musical perfection and
delightful drama."

The leading roles were taken by Roger Biron '44
of North Adams, Ray Lynch '45 of Holyoke, Helen
Van Meter '43 of North Amherst, Leon Barron '44
of Salem, Beatrice Decatur '46 of Wayland, Kenneth
Collard '43 of Belchei town, Margaret Stanton '43 of
Worcester and John Foley '44 of Fall River.

Roister Doisters

The Roister Doisters sponsored the Social Union
program in Bowker on December 11. There was a
capacity audience.

The occasion was the interclass contest of student-
directed one-act plays. Marjorie Cushman of
Holyoke was director of the senior play, Lee Filios
of Westfield of the junior. Irene Strong of Chatham-
port directed the sophomore play, and George
Burgess of New Bedford the freshman.

Judges were Professors Prince and Fraker, and
Mrs. Carl Lutge — their choice of winner was the
freshman production.

Members of the winning cast were awarded copies
of Lillian Hellman's Plays, at the close of the pro-
gram. The presentation was made by Professor
Frank Prentice Rand. Lawrence Newcomb '43 of
Norwell is president of the Roister Doisters, Lurane
Wells '43 of Orleans is vice-president.

'32 Robert C. Tetro has been promoted to senior
agricultural economist in the Bureau of Agricultural
Economics, U.S.D.A., Washington, D. C.

'32 Murray Hicks, who teaches in the high school
at Lebanon Springs, N.Y., reports that there are five
boys and one girl in his family — and wonders if any-
one in '32 has "done better."

'34 Charles Herbert is a ship surveyor at the
Fore River shipyards in Quincy, Mass. His address
is 163 Standish Road, Squantum.

'35 James Blackburn is teaching science in the
high school at Ludlow, Mass.

'35 Emil Tramposch is proprietor of a nursery in
Southport, Conn.

'35 John Moulton is a civilian engineer at the
U. S. Naval Air Station, Quonset Point, R. I.

'36 Harold Midgley is with the State Mutual
Life Assurance Co., 1335 Statler Building, Boston.

'36 Jim Davidson is a civilian engineer doing
construction work for the George A. Fuller Company
at U. S. naval operating bases outside continental
United States.

'36 Dan Plastridge is a service man with the
Beacon Grain Store in Fall River, Mass.

'36 Arnold Shulkin is in the stationery and office
supply business. His address is 730 Winthrop Ave.,
Beachmont, Mass.

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Perez Simmons '16, A. J. Flebut '15, Guy MacLeod
'20, and Bennett Porter '14 recently had a pleasant
reunion meeting at Joe DiMaggio's Fish Grotto on
Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco.

brary

State College

Mid-tyUmteA Commencement. . . Thursday morning,
January 28, 1943, in Bowker Auditorium, at 11 o'clock.

"LAND ARMY" TO BE TRAINED
AT THE COLLEGE

In cooperation with the Farm Security Administra-
tion and the United States Employment Office, the
College has organized a series of specialized four-week
courses in various phases of agriculture to provide
training for men and women who will contribute to
the war effort through aid in the production of food.

Under the present plan the students will pay
transportation and subsistence at the College, but
these expenses will be refunded by the government
upon successful completion of the course. Roland H.
Verbeck '08, director of short courses at the College,
is in charge, on campus.

'36 Lewis Gillett is assistant manager of the
Public Loan Corporation of the Third National Bank
in Springfield.

'36 Morris Bernstein is a lawyer; his office is at
53 State Street, Boston.

'36 Arthur Putnam is an accountant with the
General Ice Cream Corporation in Schenectady, N.Y.

'36 Norman Sjogren is a research chemist for the
Union Oil Company in Wilmington, Calif.

'37 Walter Lewis is with the Farm Security
Administration in Lowell, Mass.

'37 John Talinski, M.D., is assistant resident in
surgery at the Presbyterian Hospital in New York
City.

'37 Milton Silverman is now with the department
of bio-chemistry at the University of Chicago.

'37 Myron Widland is doing dairy control work
in Danbury, Conn.

'38 Ken Farrell is associate marketing specialist
with the U.S.D.A. in Washington.

'38 Rodger Smith is with the Eastern States
Farmers' Exchange in West Springfield, Mass.

'38 William Bergman has taken a position with
the Tennessee Valley Authority in Florence, Ala.

'38 Albert Pollard is in soil survey work for the
U.S.D.A. in Jasper, Ala.

'39 Larry Pickard is farming in Slatersville
Springs, N. Y.

'39 James Graves is inspector for the Greenfield,
Mass., Tap & Die Corporation.

COLLEGE TO TRAIN WOMEN
ENGINEERING ASSISTANTS

Sponsored by the United States Office of Education,
a course of instruction for women engineering assist-
ants is to be established on campus. The course will
run for twelve weeks, opening February 1. The
curriculum will include mathematics, drawing, ap-
plied mechanics, materials and testing, machine shop
practice.

The purpose of the course is to train women to
serve as engineering assistants in industry, as a con-
tribution to the war effort.

There is a demand for women to assist in engineer-
ing work who, by training, can assume responsible
tasks beyond ordinary routine, or semi-skilled efforts.

The work for which the women will be trained is
that of draftsmen, inspectors, general assistants to
engineers in war industries manufacturing ordnance
supplies and equipment for the Armed Forces.

'39 Seaton Mendall is doing research in economic
entomology for the New York State Agricultural
Experiment Station at Geneva, and is also working
toward his Ph.D. at Cornell.

'40 G. David Novelli is doing research in chemo-
therapy with the Merck Institute for Therapeutic
Research, 26 Lawrence Street, Rahway, N. J.

'40 Sidney Spungin is an instrument mechanic
in the pyrometer section of the laboratory at the
Springfield, Mass., Armory.

'40 Richard Jaquith, who received his M.S. in
chemistry at the College last year, has been ap-
pointed to the teaching staff in chemistry at the
University of Connecticut.

'41 David Skolnick is teaching agriculture in
Jeffersonville, N. Y.

'41 Currie Downs is with the General Electric
Company in Lynn.

'41 John Hayes, Jr. is doing supervising work on
radio programs for Proctor and Gamble, Cincinnati,
Ohio. He writes that his company is radio's biggest
advertiser.

'41 James Kline is vitamin chemist for the
National Oil Products Company, Harrison, N. J.

'41 Bruno Pulnik received the master of science
degree at Ohio State University on December 18.

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BULLETIN

LEWIS AND THATCHER HALLE

)1. XXV, No. 5

MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

AMHERST, MASSACHUSETTS

February, 1943

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN
MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

George E. Emery '24. Editor
Published monthly at Amherst. Mass. (except August and
September) by the Associate Alumni of Massachusetts State College.
Entered as second class matter. March 17, 1920. at the Postoffice
at Amherst, Mass.. under the Acts of March 3, 1879.

OFFICERS OF ASSOCIATE ALUMNI OF
MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

President. Albert W. Smith '22 of Springfield
Vice-President. William V. Hayden '13 of Newton Center
Secretary, Marshall O. Lanphear 'IS of Amherst
Treasurer. Clark L. Thayer '13 of Amherst
Executive Secretary, George E. Emery '24 of Amherst

BOARD OF DIRECTORS
to 1943

Harry Dunlap Brown '14. ex-officin, of Billerica
William L. Doran '15 of Amherst

Mary E. M. Garvey '19 of Amherst
Lawrence L. Jones '26 of North Beverly

Edward J. Gare. Jr. '15 of Northampton
to 1944
Donald C. Douglass '21 of Belmont

Norman D. Hilyard '23 of Springfield

John W. McGuckian '31 of Roslindale

Arthur D. Tilton '18 of Woburn
to 1945
Alden C. Brett '12, ex-oficio. of Belmont
Alan W. Chadwick '31 of Amherst

Evelyn Davis Kennedy '26 of Belmont
Starr M. King '21 of Beverly

Lewis Schlotterbeck '16 of Wakefield
to 1946
John S. Crosby '25 of Arlington

Ethel Blatchford Purnell '34 of Amherst

Ralph S. Stedman '20 of Springfield

H. Sidney Vaughan '30 of Worcester

The Alumni Bulletin is sent ten times each year to all members
of the Associate Alumni. Memberships are: Annual S3. 00. Sustain-
ing SI 0.00.

Cover Picture — Lewis and Thatcher Halls (soon
to be occupied by army air corps cadets), photo-
graphed from near Stockbridge Road by Grant B.
Snyder.

AIR CADETS TO TRAIN AT COLLEGE

REPORT ON DORMITORIES

On Friday, February 19th, Springfield newspapers
printed an announcement by Governor Saltonstall to
the effect that army air corps cadets, numbering 500
to 1000, will be assigned to Massachusetts State Col-
lege for special training. About three weeks previous
to this, and at War Department request, college of-
ficials had filled out a questionnaire, describing facil-
ities at the College. Soon thereafter, army officers
visited the campus to inspect the facilities. Subse-
quently, newspapers carried the statement that air
corps cadets would be assigned to Massachusetts
State; but no definite statement was made by college
officials prior to Governor Saltonstall's announce-
ment.

An Enlisted Reserve Corps of 460 students at the
College, freshmen and upperclassmen, was carefully
selected last summer and fall. On February 22nd
the first group of these to leave the College, 132,
was called to Service.

Meanwhile, army air corps officers have estab-
lished headquarters on campus in Memorial Hall,
and are making plans for the reception of the air
corps cadets.

Robert D. Hawley '18, treasurer of the College,
recently printed a brief preliminary report of finan-
cial operations of the College for the year ended
November 30, 1942. Included was the following re-
port of the self-liquidating dormitories, Lewis Hall
and Butterfield House.

These two buildings were constructed by the
Alumni of the College under provisions of Chapter
388 of the Acts of 1939 of the General Court. This
enactment gave Alumni the permission to construct
and equip self-liquidating dormitories and commons
at the College. In September, 1940, Lewis Hall was
completed; Butterfield House was completed in
February, 1941.

Upon their completion these buildings were leased
to the Trustees of the College for an annual rental
of $30,000. This amount covers interest charges,
and retires the bonds which were sold by the Alumni
to finance the construction of the two buildings. In
20 years the bond issue will be retired, at which time
the dormitories will become the unencumbered prop-
erty of the Commonwealth. The College maintains
and operates the buildings under terms of the lease.

Income : 1941 1942

Student Rentals $39,449.10 $39,773.00

Summer Session and Misc. 2,211.50 4,730.00
Boarding Hall Rent 4,501.15 5,294.00

Total

$46,161.75

$49,797.00

Expenses :

Salaries and Wages

$ 4,091.36

$ 5,913.95

Heat, Water, Electricity

5,722.12

6,809.64

Supplies and Equipment

875.90

735.84

Repairs and Replacements

332.09

604.08

Insurance

421.06

468.67

Bond Interest and

Retirement

30,000.00

Miscellaneous

34.25

135.50

Total

$41,476.78

$44,667.68

Difference $ 4,684.97 $ 5,129.32

The Massachusetts State College Building Asso-
ciation, the Committee which represented the Asso-
ciate Alumni with regard to the dormitories, con-
sists of: Alden C. Brett, '12, chairman; Richard J.
Davis, '28, treasurer; Ralph F. Taber, '16, secretary;
Eleanor W. Bateman, '23, Harry Dunlap Brown, '14,
David H. Buttrick '17, William V. Hayden, '13, Louis
W. Ross, '17.

CARPENTER '02 HEADS LABORATORY

Thorne M. Carpenter '02, Ph.D., has recently been
appointed director of the Nutrition Laboratory of
the Carnegie Institution of Washington, 29 Vila
Street, Boston. He is engaged in war research as a
member of a section of the National Defense Re-
search Committee.

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MIDWINTER COMMENCEMENT

ALUMNI IN UNIFORM

The first midwinter commencement in the history
of the College took place on January 28th. In
Bowker Auditorium President Baker conferred the
bachelor of science degree upon 27 candidates, the
bachelor of arts upon eight, and the master of science
upon five. The students who received their degrees
were, for the most part, those who took part in the
accelerated program by attending last year's summer
semester.

There was an academic procession; the graduating
students, in cap and gown, marched into the audi-
torium in a procession led by senior marshals and
the officers of the class. At the simple graduation
ceremony Dean Machmer called the roll, each gradu-
ate received his diploma from the President.

The speaker at the exercises was Professor Peter
F. Drucker of Bennington College.

STUDENTS CLEAR B & M TRACKS

Early in the winter the local division engineer of
the Boston & Maine Railroad visited the campus for
the purpose of enlisting student aid — should it be
needed — to help clear B & M switches, terminals, and
tracks of snow which otherwise might impede move-
ment of war materials and troops. The request of
the railroad was referred to Bob Denis '44 of Spring-
field who was serving as head of a Student War
Council. Bob said the students would be ready.

Late in January the call came — in the course of a
growing blizzard. Twenty minutes after the call was
received fifty students were organized and sent to
Greenfield in busses which were provided for their
transportation. Twenty more left within the next
hour and a half; and seventy set out the following
morning to relieve the first shift. The students were
excused from classes.

They did a good job — and, despite the worst bliz-
zard of the winter, the Greenfield division of the
B & M was kept open for the trains.

In a letter to President Baker, afterwards, chief
engineer T. G. Sughrue wrote, "The very fine spirit
of cooperation shown by the student contingent from
Massachusetts State College represented a substan-
tial aid . . . the assistance was invaluable and most
patriotic ... On behalf of the railroad, permit me to
extend to you and, through you, to the students our
thanks and grateful appreciation."

DR. HIGGINS '94 RECEIVES SCROLL

Charles H. Higgins '94, D.V.S., director of profes-
sional services of Lederle Laboratories, has been
unanimously elected to honorary life membership in
the Veterinary Medical Association of New York
City. He was presented a scroll in token of services
rendered to the Association and the entire profession
of veterinary science.

Additions to the list of Alumni in the Service, as
recorded in the Alumni Office since the last Bulletin
was printed, appear below.

The home, residence, address of these men is given.
Mail sent to these addresses or to the Alumni Office
will be forwarded.

Won't you please help us to keep our Service list
up-to-date by telling us of any Alumnus whom you
may know to be in uniform.

'36 Ensign Ralph A. Arnold, U.S.N.R., 206 Maple
Street, Franklin, Mass.

w'43 Lieut. C. Winthrope Bailey, Army, 235 Wash-
ington Street, Maiden, Mass.

'41 Spec. 3/c Vincent J. Barnard, Coast Guard, 199
East Main Street, North Adams, Mass.

'41 Ensign Norman J. Beckett, U.S.N.R., 100
Jaques Street, Somerville, Mass.

w'31 Private Steams N. Belden, Army, 1612 Lake-
side Drive, Topeka, Kansas.

w'37 Lieut. Walter D. Bliss, U.S.N.R., R. F. D. #1,
Attleboro, Mass.

w'44 Private Warren J. Bodendorf, Army, Cabot
Road, Westfield, Mass.

'34 Lieut. George A. Bourgeois, Army, 1303 York
Avenue, Apt. 21, New York, N. Y.

w'44 Aviation Cadet John M. Browne, U.S.N.R., 94
Kemper Street, Wollaston, Mass.

'27 Lieut. Charles F. Clagg, Army, Box 35, Barns-
table, Mass.

'34 Cpl. Robert T. Coleman, Air Force, 258 Cham-
pion Street, Battle Creek, Michigan.

w'43 Private Roscoe W. Conklin, Army, Hancock,
Mass.

w'43 Private Stanley Cykowski, Army, 35 Maple
Street, Easthampton, Mass.

'37 Private Charles E. Eshbach, Army, 44 Brookside
Avenue, Winchester, Mass.

'40 Ensign Vernon Ferwerda, U.S.N.R., 8 Bancroft
Road, Northampton, Mass.

'40 Private John E. Filios, Air Force, Bates Road,
Woronoco, Mass.

w'44 Private Bernard A. Forest, Army, 12 Lewis
Avenue, Arlington, Mass.

'34 Lieut. Russell T. Gagnon, Army, 79 Middle
Street, Gloucester, Mass.

w'28 Ch. Spec. William F. Galvin, U.S.N.R., 34
Franklin Street, Greenfield, Mass.

w'43 Lieut. Mason Gentry, British Army, 20 Har-
bard Street, Fulham SW-6, London, England.

'39 Ensign John F. Glick, U.S.N.R., North Hadley
Road, Amherst, Mass.

'39 Pfc. David Goldberg, Army, 276 State Street,
Northampton, Mass.

'26 Lieut, (j.g.) Herbert Grayson, U.S.N.R., Walnut
Terrace, Holden, Mass.

'30 Lieut, (j.g.) Clarence E. Hammond, U.S.N.R.,
66 Hillcrest Road, Needham, Mass.

(Continued on Page 6)

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OBITUARIES

Lieut. Donald E. Weaver '37

Lieut. Donald E. Weaver '37 of the U. S. Army Air
Force was killed somewhere in North Africa on Jan-
uary 18, 1943. Lieut. Weaver was graduated from
Springfield (Mass.) Classical high school in 1932,
entered the College with the class of 1937. He
majored in economics. He was a member of Kappa
Sigma fraternity.

He took the C. A. A. training course at Springfield
Airport and Springfield College in 1940 and a year
later began training as an aviation cadet at the
Army Flying Field, Albany, Georgia. On September
26, 1941 he received his wings and a commission as
second lieutenant at Maxwell Field, Montgomery,
Alabama. The following day he was married to
Miss Janet A. Waterbury of Agawam.

He served several months at Army flying fields in
Michigan, South Carolina, ar.d New Hampsh're, until
last June when he went to North Ireland. A letter
last September, from Lieut. Gerald Dailey '40 to the
Alumni Office said, "Have seen quite a few of the
boys — met Buck Weaver, a lieutenant in the Air
Corps, here in North Ireland. Almost fell over when
I ran into him."

Lieut. Weaver is survived by his parents, his wife,
and a two-and-one-half months old daughter, Susan.

Myer L. Weiner '35

Myer L. Weiner '35, died March 14, 1942 in Rox-
bury, Mass., after a long and painful illness. He was
29 years old.

After being graduated from the College he attend-
ed Boston University School of Law and received his
LLB degree, cum laude, in June, 1939. In June, 1940,
he married Miss Ellen Miller of Dorchester.

At B. U., Weiner was a member of Tau Epsilon
Rho and Woolsack, honorary legal societies, and was
a contributor to and associate editor of the B. U.
Law Review.

Dean Elwood Hettrick said, "Mike was one of our
outstanding students; he had a keen analytical mind.
All of the teachers had great confidence in him and
in his legal abilities. I knew him because of the
assistance he had given me in preparing and briefing
cases, and feel very keenly that his death is a trag-
edy to all concerned."

David L. Arenberg '35

MARRIAGES

'34 Lieut. Robert C. Jackson to Miss Lou Dudley,
January 10, 1943, at Dallas, Texas.

'35 Sulo J. Tani to Miss Carol Kendall, Sept-
ember 19, 1942, at Concord, New Hampshire.

'36 Lieut. Emil J. Koenig, Jr. to Miss Evelyn
Stuart, May 30, 1942, at Holden, Mass.

'37 Lieut. John E. Landers to Miss Lilian C.
Curran, August 8, 1942, at Holyoke, Mass.

'37 Lieut. Robert L. Spiller, Jr., to Miss Sallie
M. Anthony, January 6, 1943, at Waco, Texas.

'39 Aviation Cadet William F. Barrett to Miss
Eleanor I. Kelleher, December 23, 1942, at Greenfield,
Mass.

'39 Lieut. Francis J. Farren to Miss Rita I.
Ethier, October 6, 1942, at North Adams, Mass.

'39 Miss Justine G. Martin to William L. Hench,
October 4, 1941, at Boston, Mass.

'40 Aviation Cadet Deane Beytes to Miss Beatrice
Peareault, December 26, 1942, at Waterbury, Conn.

'41 and '40 Lieut. Richard H. Knight to Miss
Barbara Little, January 4, 1943, at Santa Ana,
California.

'42 Lieut. Elwyn J. Doubleday to Miss Margaret
Webster, September 29, 1942, at Belchertown, Mass.

'42 and '42 Lieut. George P. Langton, Jr. to Miss
Alice Pederzani, September 3, 1942, at Fort Riley,
Kansas.

'42 Lieut. John U. Shepardson to Miss Camille J.
Comstock, December 24, 1942, at Fort Bliss, Texas.
w'43 Lieut. William Mann to Miss Barbara Hod-
skins, January 16, 1943, at Amherst, Mass.

BIRTHS

'33 A son, Edward Earle, to Mr. and Mrs. Law-
rence Southwick, January 13, 1943, at Northampton,
Mass.

'37 and '41 A daughter, Mary Baker, to Captain
and Mrs. Frederick W. Whittemore, Jr. (Charlotte
L. Donahue '41), January 18, 1943, at Augusta, Ga.

'38 and '39 A son, Douglas Alfred, to Mr. and
Mrs. Alfred S. Page (Priscilla Taylor '39), Decem-
ber 21, 1942, in New York City.

'40 A son, Leo Joseph, Jr., to Private and Mrs.
Leo J. Santucci, April 23, 1942, at Springfield, Mass.

'40 and '41 A son, John David, to Mr. and Mrs.
Daniel E. Shepardson (Esther Wheeler '41), Decem-
ber 15, 1942, at Kankakee, 111.

'22 Hobie Spring recently wrote, "We now have
an interesting 212 years old farm with 35 acres and
all the barns to go with it. Perhaps I'll end up farm-
ing after all." The address is R.F.D. 22, North Wil-
mington, Mass.

'26 Larry Jones was on the committee in Beverly,
Mass. which arranged the 5th Annual Boy Scout
Winter Carnival — conducted in keeping with the na-
tional "physical fitness" program.

w'97 Herbert C. Hunter who for more than 40
years has been with the U. S. Weather Bureau has
retired from active work because of poor health. He
writes that he is comfortable but that his strength
is slight. He is living at 35th Street and Old Domin-
ion Drive, Arlington, Va. His youngest son, Gilbert,
was inducted into the Navy last October.

'40 Julian Zabierek is now located at 239 Broad
Street, New London, Conn. He is a salesman for
Canada Dry Ginger Ale, Inc.

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN

TUITION AT THE COLLEGE

The Associate Alumni has sent a statement to all
Alumni living in Massachusetts relative to a pro-
posal to increase tuition rates at the College. Alum-
ni were urged to talk with their local senators and
representatives to the General Court, to explain the
function of the College to these Legislators, and to
urge that the opportunities provided by the College
be not denied to the great group of young men and
women in the State for whom, in effect, the College
was established.

Following are excerpts from the communication
sent to Alumni.

The Ways and Means Committee of the Legisla-
ture has recommend-
ed that the Trustees
of Massachusetts
State College act to
"increase the tuition
charges to an amount
comparable with
those charged by
other Massachusetts
colleges." This aver-
age at private col-
leges in Massachu-
setts is over $400.
The average rate of
a sample group of
private Massachu-
setts colleges as cited
by the Committee is
$300. No matter how
the recommendation
is interpreted, there
will be an increase
of our tuition rate
to approximately
$300 if the Com-
mittee recommenda-
tion is adopted. This would be a charge greater than
the annual net instruction cost per student to the
State which, according to a careful study based upon
the 1939 college budget, is only $274. Your Alumni
Association is definitely opposed to this recommenda-
tion to increase tuition, and solicits your aid in pre-
senting to the people of the Commonwealth its real
significance.

Great Personal Tragedy

The Ways and Means Committee report states that
"while we in no way wish to deprive any boy or girl
from receiving advanced education, we be'.ieve that
the tuition at the State College should be increased."
Such an increase, however, will do the very thing the
Committee expresses a wish not to do. It will defi-
nitely deny the opportunity for a college education to
many young men and women.

If the recommendation is adopted, it will be a
great personal tragedy for a large number of stu-
dents now in College and for those who would like

On January 21st the Cabinet at the College tendered a party for
President Hugh P. Baker in celebration of Dr. Baker's 65th birth-
day and in recognition of his having completed ten years of serv-
ice at the College. Members of the faculty and staff attended the
party in Memorial Hall and presented Dr. Baker with a gift. In
the picture, left to right, are Mrs. Philip F. Whitmore, Mrs. Baker,
President Baker, and Trustee Whitmore '15.

to come in future years, just as it would have been
for many Alumni.

The files of the college placement office show con-
clusively that a large number of our students come
from families of low income. Moreover, in most of
these families there are several children to educate.
For example, one of th.'s year's outstanding seniors
is one of nine children This student was obliged to
work and save a year before entering college and
then could do so only with scholarship aid or employ-
ment. The proposed tuition rate would have been
tragic in this case. College would have been impos-
sible. It would have been more than personal tragedy,
however, for it would have denied to the State and
the country the services of a capable and well trained

college graduate.

Such instances can
be multiplied many
times over. By sav-
ing before college
days, by summer
work, by loans,
scholarships, and
employment, by sac-
rifice on the part of
parents, children
from the great work-
ing class can finance
a college education
at the $100 tuition
rate. To add one or
two hundred dollars
more is to add the
straw that breaks
the camel's back. By
this margin does a
college education be-
come available or
not available to this
group of students —
a group from which
come many of our finest graduates.

Purpose of the College
The Morrill Act, under which Massachusetts State
was founded, was passed in 1862 during the Civil
War — a time of great national crisis. The object of
the College, and of all other Land Grant Colleges
pi-ovided by the Act, was "to promote liberal and
practical education of industrial classes in the sev-
eral pursuits and profess ons of life." Now, as in
18f>2, there is a great national crisis. The wise
provisions of the Morrill Act — which included com-
pulsory military training at all Land Grant Col-
leges— are bearing fruit. A great reserve officer
group, trained at state colleges and universities, was
available to the Army at the outbreak of the pres-
ent war.

The war emergency developed special and immedi-
ate needs for trained men and women — in chemistry
and engineering, in public health — medicine and den-
tistry, in the agricultural industry. Many graduates
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TUITION AT THE COLLEGE

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of Massachusetts State College are rendering valu-
able service in these and other critical industrial and
professional fields.

An Aristocracy or Democracy of Education?

The wisdom of the authors of the Morrill Act,
passed in the Civil War crisis, cannot be denied.
Surely now, in an even greater national emergency,
we cannot afford to repudiate a philosophy that has
borne such fruit.

To propose to increase our tuition to the average
of the privately endowed colleges is to challenge this
philosophy, however. Massachusetts State College
was founded to provide an opportunity for higher
education to those who otherwise, because of high
tuition rates, would have been denied such college
training. It was the opinion then and it is our
firm belief now that education is the foundation
of democracy, that education based upon the ability
to pay is undemocratic and leads directly to an aris-
tocracy of education. The proposed tuition increase
is a questionable means of raising revenue, for it is
likely to lead to a sharp decrease in enrollment and
a falling off of income. This is not the main issue,
however. The issue is this challenge to the democ-
racy of education.

Massachusetts Charges Are Already High

A study of tuition charges in other state-support-
ed colleges and universities show that in several no
tuition is charged. In others, the rate is low. Al-
ready the fees at Massachusetts State College aver-
age much higher than the average for this group of
colleges. The proposed increase would give us a tui-
tion charge higher than any other of the strictly
Land Grant Colleges.

Now it is proposed even further to withdraw sup-
port by requiring a drastic increase in tuition rates.
We, as Alumni, must vigorously protest any such
action.

Increasing Standards Versus Decreasing
Opportunity for Education

For several years there has been a definite trend
in Massachusetts to increase educational require-
ments for professional work. Leading hospitals now
want nurses to have some college training. Medi-
cine and dentistry before the present emergency were
stepping up their requirements. So marked has been
this trend in education that today a college degree
is somewhat comparable to the high school diploma
of fifty years ago, as a passport to a job. If the State
continues to increase educational requirements and
at the same time sets up barriers that prevent many
of the promising young people from the working
classes from getting that required education, then
Massachusetts is not only denying the Commonwealth
much potentially strong leadership but also encour-
aging unrest and dissatisfaction among a large group
of its citizens.

ALUMNI IN UNIFORM

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'38 Ensign William H. Harrison, U.S.N.R., 566

Haverhill Street, Lawrence, Mass.
'41 Private Wilfred B. Hathaway, Army, Somerset

Avenue, Segreganset, Mass.
'38 Private Saul Heller, Army, 5 Westminster Ter-
race, Boston, Mass.
w'37 Ensign Howard T. Jensen, U.S.N.R., 745 Main

Street, Shrewsbury, Mass.
w'44 Aviation Cadet Aarne O. Karvonen, Air Force,

Townsend Road, Shirley, Mass.
'42 Midshipman Marie B. Kelleher, WAVES, Sand-
wich, Mass.
w'46 A.S. Francis G. Keough, Navy, 107 Governor

Street, Springfield, Mass.
'36 Lieut. Emil J. Koenig, Jr., Army, North Main

Street, Jefferson, Mass.
w'45 Private Cyrus F. Maroney, Army, 20 Green

Avenue, Northampton, Mass.
'36 Lieut. Philip B. Miner, Army, 65 Columbus

Avenue, Holyoke, Mass.
w'44 Private Lewis B. Morton, Jr., Army, 250 Sand-
wich Street, Plymouth, Mass.
'31 Lieut, (j.g.) Norman Myrick, U.S.N.R., 38 Pine

Street, North Amherst, Mass.
w'43 Aviation Cadet Gregory H. Nazarian, Army,

30 Mishawum Road, Woburn, Mass.
w'44 Private William W. Needham, Army, 70 Hol-
land Avenue, Westfield, Mass.
'42 Aviation Cadet Howard L. Norwood, Jr., Air

Force, 148 Pearl Street, Holyoke, Mass.
'42 Midshipman Robert A. Nottenburg, U.S.N.R.,

132 Summer Street, Waltham, Mass.
w'45 Private Geoffrey E. Plunkett, Army, 40 Cedar

Street, Walpole, Mass.
w'45 Private Robert W. Pratt, Army, 245 North

Street, Dalton, Mass.
w'44 Private Irwin Promisel, Army, 322 Spruce

Street, Chelsea, Mass.
'42 Private Harris Pruss, Army, 36 Sagamore

Street, Lynn, Mass.
'39 Private Francis J. Riel, Army, 12 Fourth Street,

Turners Falls, Mass.
w'41 Cpl. Walter C. Rockwood, Jr., Marine Corps,

10 Ossipee Street, Walpole, Mass.
'42 Midshipman Eleanor M. Russell, WAVES, 280

Main Street, Easthampton, Mass.
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We are told that after the war will come "the cen-
tury of the common man". This, we are informed, is
what we are fighting for. We must remember, how-
ever, that the history of Massachusetts State College
shows a trend toward ever increasing tuition rates.
Now another increase is proposed. This tendency
must be stopped if, after the war, this common man
is to have his fair opportunity for an education.

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WITH THE ALUMNAE

by Mary E. Garvey '19

Margaret Marsh '42 who was photographic

editor for the 1942 Index — is now a photographer at
the Pratt and Whitney aircraft factory in East Long-
meadow. Her address is 593 Sumner Avenue,
Springfield. Margaret likes her work. Lois Double-
day Kuralowicz '42, who was editor of the Index for
which Margaret took so many pictures, is now living
in Amherst, while her husband is in the army.

The names of 185 Alumnae of the College have
been submitted by Miss Margaret Hamlin, placement
officer for women, to the Roster of Specialized and
Scientific Personnel now being kept in Washington.
The purpose of the Roster is to have immediately
available the names of women capable in available
lines of science in the event of pressing war needs
which can be met through these scientifically trained
college graduates.

The Curtiss-Wright Corporation has chosen eight
undergraduate women at the College for special posi-
tions as engineering cadettes, and for ten months
study at engineering colleges.

Upon completion of the engineering courses the
girls will be assigned to one of the Curtiss-Wright
plants where their work will include drafting and
design, stress analysis, experimental testing, mate-
rials, testing, lofting and template making, and tech-
nical analysis.

The girls were selected on the basis of their scho-
lastic records, and after personal interviews. They
are: Mary E. Martin '44 of Amherst, Annella P.
Card '45 of Holbrook, Helen E. Cromwell '45 of
Weymouth, Marcia Greene '44 of Springfield, Vir-
ginia L. Julian '45 of Amherst, Ruth C. Crosby '44
of Amherst, Phyllis Allen '45 of Holyoke, Margaret
M. Daylor '44 of Fall River. The first five girls will
attend Cornell, Miss Crosby and Miss Allen, Penn.
State, and Miss Daylor, Rensselaer Polytech.

Margery Johnson '40 is in the accounting depart-
ment of the Polaroid Corporation in Cambridge. Her
address is 98 Hemenway St., Apartment 3, Boston.

Laura Everson '40 has been elected teacher of
household arts at Hopkins Academy. Before going
to Hadley, Miss Everson was teaching in the high
school at Middletown Springs, Vermont.

Jean Brown, bachelor of science, 1943 — first girl to
receive her degree from Massachusetts State at a
midwinte.- commencement. Jean was president of
Sigma Beta Chi when, on December 12, 1942, that
sorority became a chapter of Kappa Kappa Gam-
ma.

Photo by John Vondell, A.P.S.A.

first assignment to duty since her training at North-
ampton and she writes that she finds the work very
interesting.

Miriam Miller '41 is employed by the Navy De-
partment in Washington. Her address is 1314 Co-
lumbia Road, North West.

Mrs. George Cramer, Jr. (Elizabeth Barton '38) is

living at Charter Oak Terrace, South Court, Hart-
ford, Connecticut. Her husband is employed at
Colts. George III is growing fast, his mother said,
and getting into everything.

•Catherine Doran '40 has been appointed an in-
structor in the home economics department at the
College.

Ensign Ann Gilbert '38, U.S.N.R.(w) is at the
Naval Air Station, Jacksonville, Florida. This is her

In spite of gasoline and tire rationing the Boston
Alumnae have held some interesting and well-at-
tended meetings during the winter at the Women's
Industrial and Educational Union.

On February 3 the speaker was Lieut. Parker of
the WAVES, in charge of enlistment for the First
Naval District. She gave a detailed account of qual-
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ALUMNI IN UNIFORM

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'40 Private Leo J. Santucci, Army, 56 Walnut

Street, Palmer, Mass.
'38 Midshipman Jane E. Schopfer, WAVES, 120

Hillcroft Avenue, Worcester, Mass.

Madame Chiang Kai-shek Dins the Chinese Flying
Cloud medal on Lieut. Carl Wildner '38, in recognition
oi Wildner's part in the Air Corps expedition over Tokio
last April. This picture was made irom a movie news
reel and was provided by Lieut. Wildner's mother.

'42 O.C. Edward F. Sparks, Air Force, 20 First
Street, Pittsfield, Mass.

'35 Ensign Kenneth A. Steadman, U.S.N.R., 23 Bar-
nard Road, Belmont, Mass.

'35 Lieut. Philip C. Stone, Army, 98 Maple Street,
Athol, Mass.

'37 Lieut. Edward J. Thacker, Army, 6 Hutchinson
Street, Winthrop, Mass.

'28 Lieut. George S. Tullock, U.S.N.R., 22 East Gar-
field Street, Merrick, New York

'33 Lieut. Harold M. Waite, Army, Clark Street,
Easthampton, Mass.

w'43 Cpl. Edward A. Watts, Army, 8 Somerset
Street, East Weymouth, Mass.

'37 Private Sidney Williams, Air Force, 120 Main
Street, Peabody, Mass.

'39 Cpl. Leonard C. Wirtanen, Army, 19 Pontiac
Road, Quincy, Mass.

'34 Lieut. Joseph F. Zillman, Army, 23 Angell
Street, Dorchester, Mass.

ing World War I. Soon Baxter was over in England;
we heard from him the other day. He enclosed a
clipping from The Stars and Stripes, the service
newspaper — an article telling that "Weather is the
Key to Bombing Raids." Baxter wrote, "You have
a scoop if this Lieut. Krowka who is mentioned in the
article is the commuter from Northampton who used
to be in Memorial Hall so much." We checked it up;
Lieut. Krowka (now captain) is our Alumnus, 1939.

Second Lieutenant Walter T. Miles '41 has been
awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross by Major
General J. H. Doolittle, in Africa. Miles' cross bore
an oak leaf cluster indicating additional honor. The
group with which Miles is serving has been engaged
in almost daily combat with the German Air Force
since the start of the African campaign.

Corporal Wilbur G. Tirrell '35, now in the Couth-
west Pacific area, has been awarded the Silver Str.r
for gallantry in action.

Second Lieutenant John Manix '41, who was re-
cently commissioned in the Corps of Engineers at
Fort Belvoir, Va., has written to President Baker of
"the military importance of the general engineering
course at State."

"I had the good fortune," he wrote, "of passing
all my subjects (at Belvoir) and graduating with a
high rating. This was not due to my ability as a
student but rather to my previous general engineer-
ing education.

"There were many civil and mechanized engineers
from various technical schools in the country who
found that their previous training was too special-
ized to assist them at Eelvoir. However, my training
in roads, bridges, water supply, shop work, motors,
and so on provided a superb background.

"I hope that everything possible is being done to
assist the engineering department at State, because
the Corps of Engineers is in need of trained men."

Captain James F. Cutter '37 has been appointed to
take the special officers training course at the Com-
mand and General Staff School, Fort Leavenworth,
Kansas. Also at Leavenworth is Captain Albert B.
Landis '35.

Lieut. Orrin C. (Bucky) Davis '21 is an instructor
in naval aviation. His son, Richard, is a naval air
cadet.

Baxter Allen, who for several years was janitor in
Memorial Hall, gave up his job last summer and
joined the U. S. Navy — in which he had served dur-

Captain Donald Cadigan '39 now in the Caribbean
area is active in the personnel and morale work in
that operational district. He has much to do with
the preparation of the soldier publications, Thunder-
bird and Tropical Rot, and helps plan broadcasts for
the soldiers in the Caribbean area. Don recently se-
cured a set of recordings by the Massachusetts State
Glee Clubs, to be used in that radio program which
will be a "Salute to the Men of Massachusetts."

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LIEUTENANT FRANK FANNING '39
TELLS OF EXPERIENCES

In a series of articles in the Boston Traveler, be-
ginning January 18, the experiences of Lieutenant
Francis T. Fanning '39, U.S.N.R., of Milton, who has
already taken part in seven major sea battles, were
recounted at length. Lieutenant Fanning, home on
leave, was interviewed by Bob Sibley, of the Trav-
eler. Following is the Traveler's account.

He was there when the U. S. Navy bombarded
Wotje Island to dust and splinters. He took part in
the revenge visit to Wake Island.

He was at Midway when the Yorktown was sunk;
in the Solomons engagement when the Wasp went
to the bottom; and he watched the Hornet, battered
into helplessness.

He saw action in the outstanding Naval victory
off Guadalcanal in November, and his battle expe-
riences in the Pacific were climaxed when the heavy
cruiser — the Northampton — was torpedoed under
him.

Didn't Get a Scratch

Mild-mannered, soft-spoken, modest Lieut. Francis
Thomas Fanning, U.S.N.R., of Milton, turret officer
on the late lamented and sunken Northampton, has
figured in seven major engagements in the Pacific,
and a number of other less important "fusses." It's
hard work to get him to talk about his experiences,
exciting as they were.

ALUMNI IN UNIFORM

Captain Wilfrid Winter '40 sent a novel Christmas
card which included a "page from my diary." The
page told how Winter had celebrated New Years,
1942, greasing trucks at an army school, then traced
his progress back and forth across the United States
— until finally he arrived for duty in the tropics.
Almost immediately upon arrival there he was sent
to the hospital where he remained for nearly two
months, for treatment of a spinal injury. Late in
May he was promoted to a first lieutenancy. Later
he was made post quartermaster and, in November,
promoted to captain. His address is A. P.O. 847, c/o
Postmaster, New York City.

Lieut. Charles Clagg '27 who has been officer in
charge of the manufacture of hydrogen gas for a
balloon barrage battalion was recently badly scalded
when he slipped into a 10-foot-deep tank of hot
acids.

Captain Edward W. Higgins, Jr. '38 of the army's
ferry command has recently made three world rec-
ord flights from the United States to Cairo, Pales-
tine, and India.

He helped in the unsuccessful attempt to tow the
helpless carrier Hornet to port off Santa Cruz,
and escaped death dozens of times — the last by
the slender margin of a pocket flashlight's tiny
beam.

He came through them all without a scratch.
His first taste of night action — and it was the first
battle for the rest of his shipmates, many of them

Daphne Miller '43, daughter of Danforth P.
Miller '08, who was elected queen at the Win-
ter Carnival Ball on January 29th. Daphne
was vice-president of Phi Zeta sorority which,
on February 13th, became a chapter of Kappa
Alpha Theta.

Photo by John Vondell, A.P.S.A.

youngsters — came when a Navy task force bombard-
ed Japanese installations at Wotje, in the Marshall
Islands.

From the East, the rising sun at their backs, came
the American ships.

Not Much Trouble

"Shore batteries were firing back at us," Lieut.
Fanning recalled, "but they didn't touch us. As tur-
ret officer, I was inside, but I had a good view
through a periscope, and the Japs were not much
trouble to us, although they came close at times.
"There wen various inviting targets there- —
good-sized targets. There were cargo ships in
the ha/rbor, and under our fire some sank, and
sotnt ircn tn ached to pre cent thou from sink-
ing. We left the place a mess.

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ATHLETICS

PHYSICAL FITNESS

Basketball

Scores to date: Statesmen Opp.

Dec. 16 Clark here 49 25

22 Westover, here 77 29

Jan. 7 Springfield, there 53 51

13 Williams, there 41 43

15 American International College,

here 60 48

28 Amherst, there 29 50

30 Wesleyan, here 34 38

Feb. 5 Rhode Island, there 78 121

6 Tufts, there 62 59

10 Amherst, here 36 41

Remaining games:
Feb. 16 Univ. of Conn., here

19 Worcester Tech, here

24 Coast Guard Academy, here
In their exuberance, following the win over Tufts,
several of the players so far forgot themselves as to
violate a number of training principles. Coach
Hargesheimer felt that he should allow the four of-
fenders, all first string players, to leave the squad.
And this he did.

The next game — with Amherst — was played by a
group of four substitutes, and one regular starting
player, Ray Kneeland '44 of Northampton. The
game proved the most spirited one of the season —
if not of several seasons. The lead sea-sawed back
and forth between the Amherst varsity and the new
edition of the Statesmen all through the evening.
The student body was wildly and noisily behind its
players.

Winter Track

Feb. 13 B.A.A. meet at Boston

Relay: State, 1st; Worcester Tech, 2nd; Colby 3rd.

Remaining meets:
Feb. 20 Worcester Tech, here

27 Tufts and Worcester Tech at Medford

Swimming

Scores to date : Statesmen Opp.

Dec. 15 Worcester Tech, there 57 18

Jan. 9 Williams, here 32 43

16 Univ. of Conn., there 42 24

Feb. 6 B. U., here 56 19

Remaining meets :
Feb. 17 Yale, there

20 M. I. T., here
Mar. 6 Coast Guard, here

Mel Taube, formerly varsity coach of fcotball,
basketball and baseball at the College and more re-
cently on the coaching staff at Purdue University,
has been commissioned a lieutenant in the U. S.
Navy and is stationed at the Pre-Flight School, at
Chapel Hill, N. C.

Last month Kid Gore '13, head of the department
of physical education for men, received a letter from
Lieut. Bob Joyce '40, who formerly was assistant
director in physical education and recreational work
at Westover Field, and is now at Grenier Field, Man-
chester, N. H.

Joyce said, "What are you doing at State in the
way of a required program for the men? Do you
have an obstacle course? Have you maintained tests
to see what improvement the men have shown? . . .
A prediction — after the war a compulsory program
of physical training in effect at all colleges . . . and
a great deal of time spent on the obstacle course.
Emphasis will be placed on producing men with
stamina and agility. This program, of course, will
be in addition to intramural sports and varsity
teams. They have a definite place for developing
team work, spirit, and cooperation."

Kid was happily able to reply that Joyce's ideas
had, indeed, been anticipated. Special physical edu-
cation work has been required of all men students
at the College — in a toughening course — since last
spring. The work has been developed greatly
through the fall and winter. The program now in-
cludes swimming, boxing and wrestling, conditioning
and obstacle work, and sports — for all men students
at the College, four hours a week.

Careful record is kept of improvement in tech-
niques and in strength; and students are given spe-
cial training in those particular fields where need
for further development is indicated.

Swimming requirements are such that every man
in College will be able to pass the Navy's minimum
requirements. As these minimum requirements are
met and passed, the student is then trained to pass
more rigid tests.

A "commando" course — technically called military
track or obstacle course — was installed in the cage
early in the winter. During the first semester the
freshmen, only, were required to race over the
course; it is now a required part of the training for
all students. Included, among the obstacles are
climbing ropes, scaling walls, troughs and tunnels to
race and crawl through travelling beams and lad-
ders, hurdles. Any boy who goes around this course
regularly (and under careful supervision) is going
to develop strength, stamina, toughness and agility.

When Frannie Riel '39, of the physical education
department, reported, as a private, to a training
center at Atlantic City he made a top-notch score
in the time trials over the obstacle-commando course
there — thanks, he said in a letter, to the fact he had
worked out previously over the course at the College.

In the newspapers, on February 14th, Ted Wie-
man, civilian adviser in physical education to the
War Department, outlined a training program for
the 150,000 soldier-students who are to be sent for
special training to some 200 colleges in the country.
These recommendations were a perfect parallel to
the program already underway at the College.

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HAROLD STAAB '13
HEADS SINGING SOCIETY

ACADEMICS

Collegian

"Harold B. Staab w'13 who after spending a year
at the College, completed his work at Lehigh in 1914,
has recently been elected to the national presidency
of the 'Society for the Preservation and Encourage-
ment of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America'."
An interesting article in The Unicorn of Theta Xi,
his fraternity, sums up his activities as follows:

"Staab, who has been in the automobile spring
business since 1917, is now eastern sales manager
of Wm. & Harvey Roland, Inc., of Philadelphia. His
offices are at 40 Roe Ave., Northampton, Mass.

"Staab's interest in music has been life-long. While
a youngster, he studied violin, harmony, music ap-
preciation and orchestration. He was soloist for the
musical clubs at Massachusetts State College the
year he spent there. At Lehigh he sang in the glee
club, minstrel show and quartets. He is proud of his
two songs that appear in the Lehigh song book.

"Staab was later violinist in the Musical Arts So-
ciety Orchestra in Springfield, Mass. His interest
in music has followed him consistently and culminat-
ed last June in his election to the presidency of this
(Barber Shop) society. He claims that his election
was not due to his singing ability, for he sings only
a mediocre baritone. Unquestionably, his election by
the National Board of Directors was due to his fac-
ulty of getting things done.

"Staab is a natural organizer and has been un-
usually active in various civic activities. He is a past
president of his Kiwanis Club. He is a lieutenant-
governor of the New England district of Kiwanis,
a bank director, a director of the National Youth
Council, and has several other similar non-salaried
jobs. In spite of these activities he has found time
to write innumerable articles on sales, advertising,
and service for house organs and magazines.

"Of all his outside activities, Staab says 'this Bar-
ber Shop Society is the King Pin. Hitting a dimin-
ished seventh on the nose in combination with other
spine tingling chords in a glorious Swipe at the
end of one of those good old songs is a thrill that
many men could enjoy if they would join this ven-
erable and worthy organization. What we need in this
great country of ours is not a good five cent cigar,
but some real old-fashioned barber shop harmony,
and lots of if."

'17 Walter Mack was seriously burned in a fire
at the Beverly Bowling Alleys in Chicago on Janu-
ary 6. Five persons lost their lives; and property
damage was estimated at 5250,000. Mack was in an
inside hallway at the alleys when an explosion blew
him 15 feet out of the building and half-way across
the adjacent Ashland Avenue. He was taken for
treatment to the Little Company of Mary Hospital.

With the issue of January 20th, Stan Polchlopek
'43 of Chicopee completed his term of office as editor
of the student paper, and Wendy Brown '43 of Am-
herst concluded his duties as business manager. They
were succeeded, respectively, by David Bush '44 of
Westfield and Richard March '44 of Medford.

Polchlopek was an editor who conducted his paper
"without fear or favor," and with a sense of news
value sharpened by his experience as student cor-
respondent for Springfield papers.

Stanley's editorial page made its points clearly —
and directly.

The page spoke of academics. "Response by the
audience to the Christmas concert presented by the
band is one of the few rewards which participants
in such activities receive. It was truly gratifying to
see the band called back for encore after encore."

Of rumors. "Leading magazines printed material
supplied to them by OWI which indicated that all
members of the Enlisted Reserve Corps would be
called for immediate active service . . . These releases
were poorly worded and created nothing but confu-
sion in the minds of those who read them ... It is
time that something was done on this campus to stop
the circulation of rumors."

Of athletics. "There is only one way to get gocd
athletic teams. That is to go after them."

FANNING'S EXPERIENCES

(Continued from Page 9)

II Stanley Reed is now located at Maple Tree
Farm, Plymouth Street, Halifax, Mass.

"The Navy's marksmanship was good. It was the
first engagement for everybody on the ship, but the
crew, beautifully trained, behaved like veterans. We
kopt coming in close, and finally got in very close,
knocking out the shore batteries. I could see hit after
hit from the guns in my turret, and from other guns.
"The task force was hardly touched — the only
damage I recall was when a Japanese plane, falling
in flames, struck the side of an American carrier,
starting a fire, and then slid off into the sea. The
fire was quickly controlled.

Attacked By Bombers
"Then as we turned away, the work of our guns
completed, we were bombed in a high-level attack by
twin-engined Jap bombers which had been sent from
some nearby base.

"Tin fir i run over us was by six m- seven i>lanes
nt possibly 6000 feet. We had no difficulty in
keeping clear of their bombs. Then two more
came over in a second attack, and there were
some close calls, but no damage done. They were
niter the carrier, but it was well maneuvered.
"Navy planes took part in our attack on Wotje, but
they went further inshore and their action was not
within my range of vision."

Episode No. 2 in the story of the Milton lieutenant
(Ciiiiliniii it mi I'nt/i 12)

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'37 Raymond Minzner is now at the Radiation
Laboratory at M. I. T., engaged in research work for
the war effort. After leaving the employment of the
College in August 1941 Minzner spent a year as in-
structor in physics at the University of Arizona.
From there he went to M. I. T.

Library

State College

C^lie (yombineo Ljlee Lslubs of

MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE will present a concert

for NEW YORK ALUMNI and FRIENDS

HOTEL ROOSEVELT, HENDRIK HUDSON ROOM

FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 12, 8:30 o'clock

FANNING'S EXPERIENCES

(Continued from Page 11)

is now naval history, too : the bombardment of Wake
Island, which gave the Japs something to remember
in addition to the U. S. Marines.

Getting Smarter
"It was about the same kind of an engagement
as that at Wotje," Fanning explained. "Identical
tactics, and the resistance about the same. We went
after shore batteries again, and our planes went in
with everything they had.

"We were getting a little smarter by that time,
and the Jap shore guns didn't come as close.
When their hits were near, the ship would make
the proper turn. There were no hits on our
craft. A couple of their planes came after us
with bombs, but they apparently had only a
few planes at Wake. We made the same kind
of a nighttime approach to be under cover of
darkness, and to attack shortly after sun-up."
The time was rapidly approaching when Lieut.
Fanning and his mates, now virtually seasoned, vet-
eran sea fighters, were to get into bigger things.
But they missed the Battle of the Coral Sea while
engaged in other missions, including the guarding
of a carrier while the flat-top's planes attacked an
island which was only about 1000 miles from Japan
proper.

First of the "big shows" for Fanning and his ship-
mates was Midway, a battle of planes against sur-
face ships, where neither fleet got within sight of
the other.

"We saw the Yorktown blazing before she went
down," Lieut. Fanning said. "We weren't screen-
ing the Yorktown, so actually we didn't fire a
a shot. There was plenty of shooting, but our
ship was busy doing something else.
"At Midway, we had the jump on the Japs beauti-
fully. The Navy and Marine pilots know they hit
four Japanese carriers, and since they have never
turned up anywhere since, they are considered defi-
nitely sunk.

Army Planes in Chase

"Planes were shuttling back and forth constantly,
reloading, refueling and going back after the Japs

ALUMNAE NOTES

(Continued from Page 7)

ifications necessary for enlistment, and told of the
work performed by the officers.

The speaker at the January meeting of the Club
talked in a somewhat different vein — she was the
manager of the Elizabeth Arden Beauty Salon in
Boston.

Helen Lubach '36 is in charge of the dietary de-
partment of Beth Israel Hospital, 330 Brookline
Avenue, Boston. Also at the hospital is Dorothy
Youland '41 who is is charge of food service on the
private floors. Dorothy has just completed her train-
ing at Mountefiore Hospital in New York City, and
is a member of the American Dietetic Association.

Annah Flynn '36 is teaching at Oak Lane Country
Day School in Philadelphia. Her address is 412
Valley Road, Oak Lane. She writes that she is work-
ing "harder than ever" but that she enjoys it all,
especially her teacher-training work at the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania. She is now preparing a rem-
edial reading course which she will give at the Uni-
versity Summer School.

Barbara Cramer '42 has received a scholarship in
aeronautical engineering at the Guggenheim School
of Aeronautics at New York University. The award
was made by the Vaugh-Sekorsky company of
Bridgeport, Connecticut.

some more. There were Army planes in that chase,

too."

Here the Army Air Forces had used the Martin
B-26 medium bomber as a torpedo plane for the
first time.

"In a battle of this type," the modest Lieut.
Fanning explained, "it's pretty hard to remem-
ber details afterward. It's a lot of confusion.
Several ships may be firing at one plane, and
several gunners may be sincerely convinced each
got the plane.
"Our ship left the Hawaii area shortly afterward,

and then we really got into things."
(To be continued)

THE ALUMNI
BULLETIN

TOWARD . . . — V

ol. XXV, No. 6

MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

AMHERST, MASSACHUSETTS

March, 1943

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN
MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

George E. Emery '24, Editor
Published monthly at Amherst. Mass. (except August and
September) by the Associate Alumni of Massachusetts State College.
Entered as second class matter, March 17, 1920, at the Postoffice
at Amherst, Mass., under the Acts of March 3, 1S79.

OFFICERS OF ASSOCIATE ALUMNI OF
MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

President, Albert W. Smith '22 of Springfield
Vice-President, William V. Hayden '13 of Newton Center
Secretary, Marshall O. Lanphear 'IS of Amherst
Treasurer, Clark L. Thayer '13 of Amherst
Executire .Secretary, George E. Emery '24 of Amherst

BOARD OF DIRECTORS
to 1943

Harry Dunlap Brown '14, ex-ojficio, of Billerica
William L. Doran '15 of Amherst

Mary E. M. Garvey '19 of Amherst
Lawrence L. Jones '26 of North Beverly

Edward J. Gare. Jr. '15 of Northampton
to 1944
Donald C. Douglass '21 of Belmont

Norman D. Hilvard '23 of Springfield

John W. McGuckian '31 of Roslindale

Arthur D. Tilton '18 of Woburn

to 1945

Alden C. Brett '12. ex-oficio, of Belmont
Alan W. Chadwick '31 of Amherst

Evelyn Davis Kennedy '26 of Belmont
Starr M. King '21 of Beverly

Lewis Schlotterbeck '16 of Wakefield
to 1946
John S. Crosbv '25 of Arlington

Ethel Blatchford Purnell '34 of Amherst

Ralph S. Stedman '20 of Springfield

H. Sidney Vaughan '30 of Worcester

The Alumni Bulletin is sent ten times each year to all members
of the Associate Alumni. Memberships are: Annual $3.00, Sustain-
ing SI 0.00.

Cover Picture — Alumni in Uniform. See page 12
for caption. Alumni Office records, as this Bulletin
goes to press, show that Bush, Serex, Winter, Prouty,
Schenck, Sullivan, Pitts and Spellman are serving
overseas.

Both Schenck and Spellman have been decorated
for valor in action. Schenck, wounded, lias recovered
from his injuries.

The picture of Lieut. Quinn shows him in Coast
Guard uniform, and was taken before he transferred
into the Navy.

'12 Edward Bodflsh, landscape architect and civil
engineer, is assistant regional site engineer with the
Federal Public Housing Authority in Cleveland,
Ohio. He designs and reviews plans for war housing-
projects in Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky and West Vir-
ginia.

'23 Trescott Abele is teacher, farmer and tax as-
sessor in Townsend Harbor, Mass.

'24 Pat Myrick is working on camouflage with
the U. S. Engineers in Boston. His home is at 503
Washington Street, Brookline.

'32 Bob Fletcher is with the Liberty Mutual In-
surance Company. His home is at 188 Highgate
Street, Needham, Mass.

'34 Alvan Ryan is a tester of naval ordnance
with the General Electric Company in Pittsfleld,
Mass.

COMMENCEMENT, MAY 22-23

The Alumni Day program, on Saturday, May 22nd,
will be somewhat streamlined. There will be the an-
nual meeting of the Associate Alumni, and election
of officers, in the auditorium of Memorial Hall at
10:00 o'clock. Whether there will be an Alumni
Luncheon will depend on what arrangements can be
made to use the dining room at Butterfield House.

In the afternoon, at 3:30, will be the Alumnae Tea
and a reception by the Associate Alumni for seniors
and their guests — always a pleasant event. In the
evening will come the annual Roister Doister play.

Alumni registration headquarters will be in the
lounge of Memorial Hall. Class reunions will be con-
ducted on a more or less informal basis. The class of
1918 is postponing its 25th until after the duration
— but promises that the celebration, when it does
take place, will be one worth waiting for. Herbert
C. Bliss '88 is making effort to bring together mem-
bers of his class for their 55th reunion.

Graduation exercises will be held on Sunday, May
23, at 10:00 o'clock in the Curry S. Hicks Physical
Educational Building. Governor Saltonstall will be
the principal speaker. Alumni are cordially invited
to attend these exercises, also to attend all events of
the Alumni Day Program.

AIR CORPS CADETS IN TRAINING

The student body extended a sincere welcome to
the Army Air Corps Cadets who reported for train-
ing at the College on February 28th with this edi-
torial in the Collegian.

"Members of the 58th College Training Detach-
ment of the Army Air Corps, we welcome you to
Massachusetts State College. We are glad to have
you with us.

"We hope that State will come to mean as much to
you as it means to us. Many of you are college men.
We would like to have Massachusetts State College
rank as high with you as your own Alma Mater does.
Let us hope that the khaki and 0. D. of our army
does not set any barrier between us Statesmen and
you Air Corps Cadets.

"We do not consider you as our guests, or ourselves
as your hosts. We are fellow students in the same
College preparing for the same ultimate objective —
preparing for victory."

The Cadets, now numbering 600, are quartered in
Lewis and Thatcher Halls. Massachusetts State stu-
dents moved from the dorms into the fraternities.
Draper Hall provides meals for the Cadets. Head-
quarters, for Captain Dewey Couri, in charge, and
his staff, are in Memorial Hall. Members of the col-
lege faculty are teaching the course work to the
Cadets.

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COLONEL YOUNG LEAVES

ALUMNI IN UNIFORM

Donald A. Young, Colonel, Cavalry, U. S. Army,
has been ordered to service away from the campus,
and has been succeeded by Horace T. Aplington, Col-
onel, U. S. Army, who formerly had been in charge
of the R.O.T.C. unit at the College. Colonel Young
addressed the following letter to the Cadet Corps, on
March 8th.

"After nearly four years of duty with Massachu-
setts State College as Professor of Military Science
and Tactics and Commandant of the Reserve Officers'
Training Corps I leave for other war duties of a dif-
ferent nature.

"To the Corps of Cadets, regret at leaving is tem-
pered with pride and appreciation for the manner in
which you have responded to the increased demands
of the accelerated military training program institut-
ed at the beginning of the emergency period. You
have maintained the high standards of military ef-
ficiency and hold the highest rating given by the War
Department. Your predecessors now holding com-
missions in all branches of the Army of the United
States have demonstrated, many in battle, that the
training in leadership and military science provided
by the War Department at Massachusetts State Col-
lege has returned untold dividends to the government,
themselves, and their College.

"It is with pride that I watch the military progress
of our graduates, many of whom, already in this war,
have brought glory to themselves and their Alma
Mater by their deeds and leadership.

"It is predicated that the current R.O.T.C. classes
will add to the glory and accomplishments of their
predecessors.

"I leave with a feeling of satisfaction that I have
helped contribute to the military success of those
graduates and to that of those Cadets about to enter
the Army of the United States.

"It has been one of the most pleasant and satis-
factory details of my Army Service.

"Goodbye and good luck."

'23 Donald B. Alexander has taken charge as
executive officer of the Connecticut State Parks.
This is one of the best organized and best developed
of all the state park systems in the U. S. Until he
resigned to take his present position Alexander had
been regional director for national parks, with head-
quarters in Omaha. He is generally regarded as one
of the outstanding park men in this country. (The
above was the last note about a graduate of the
College which Mr. Waugh sent to the Alumni Office.)

'38 Stanley Flower is agricultural editor for the
England Radio News Service, 408 Atlantic Ave-
nue, Boston.

'II Eddie Anderson is with the Federal Agricul-
tural Marketing Administration of the U.S.D.A. and
is located in California. He is an inspector of pro-
cessed and dried foods, all over California.

Lieut. Tom Lyman '39, Mrs.
Lyman (Priscilla Badger
'41), Tommy, Jr.

Additions to the roster of Alumni in Uniform,
since the last Bulletin, appear below.

Mail sent to these men and women, either at the ad-
dress below or to the Alumni Off.ce, will be forward-
ed promptly.

The Alumni Office will welcome any information
relative to additions to the list.
'43 Private Clinton W.
Allen, Army, 292
N. Pleasant St.,
Greenfield, Mass.
'42 A/C Gilbert S.
Arnold, Air Force,
Southwick, Mass.
'37 Lieut. Alfred W.
Basamania, Army,
60 Union Street,
Holyoke, Mass.
'43 Private William
A. Beers, Army,
66 Calumet Road,
Holyoke, Mass.
'36 Ensign Myles G.

Boylan, U.S.N.R., 74 Fitchburg Street, Water-
town, Mass.
w'34 Private Thurl D. Brown, Army, IB Franklin

Street, Danvers, Mass.
'31 A.S. Catherine A. Burnham, WAVES, Dragon

Brook Lodge, Shelburne, Mass.
'42 A/C Alan Collier, Air Force, 6 Glenville Ave-
nue, Allston, Mass.
'35 Captain George S. Congdon, Air Force, Ex-
change Street, Millis, Mass.
'37 Lieut. Raymond F. Conway, Army, 2068 North-
ampton Street, Holyoke, Mass.
'38 A.S. Stella I. Crowell, WAVES, Bernardston

Road, Greenfield, Mass.
'42 Pfc. Paul J. Dwyer, Army, 96 Loring Road,

Winthrop, Mass.
'29 Captain William G. Edson, Army, 26 Academy

Street, Braintree, Mass.
'38 Ensign Albert H. Farnsworth, U.S.N.R., 31

Chesterfield Road, Worcester, Mass.
'36 Lieut, (j.g.) Patrick J. Fitzgerald, U.S.N.R., 331

Primrose Street, Haverhill, Mass.
'27 Lieut. Richard C. Foley, U.S.N.R., 10 Morning

Street, Portland, Maine.
'37 Lieut. Murray W. George, Army, 74 South

Street, Wrentham, Mass.
'42 P.O. 3/c Ruth M. Helyar, WAVES, 201 Western

Avenue, Brattleboro, Vermont.
'37 Lieut. Kenneth R. Higgins, Army, 73 Moore

Street, Fall River, Mass.
'32 Pfc. John D. Hitchcock, Army, Cottage Street,

West Medway, Mass.
'31 Lieut. Arthur C. Johnson, Army, 127 Shelburne

Street, Greenfield, Mass.
'42 A/C William A. Joyce, Air Force, 291 Locust
Street, Florence, Mass.

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OBITUARIES

Frank A. Waugh

Frank A. Waugh, emeritus professor of landscape
architecture, died suddenly at the Bronjville, New
York, hospital on March 20, 194S. He was stricken
with pneumonia while visiting at the home of his
daughter. Mrs. Nathan Gillette. Readers of the
Alumni Bulletin will recall that in the July, 1942, is-
sue there appeared a biographic sketch of the Waugh
family. Professor Frank Prentice Rand prepared the
following appreciation of Dr. Waugh, which appeared
in the Collegian of March 2oth.

There will be no lack of memorials to the life and
genius of Frank A. Waugh. The Fine Arts Series,
which he originated and to which he was an annual
contributor as flutist and composer, is one. The Arts
Exhibits, in the current one of which his own etch-
ings are being shown, are another. His thirty-eight
titles in the Goodell Library are an impressive rec-
ord of authorship. The photographic files in both
the Library and Wilder Hall, assembled for us and
posterity, are a record of his art. Wilder Hall itself,
for years the headquarters of the Division of Horti-
culture and still those of the Department of Land-
scape Architecture, was built under his direction. The
beauty spots about the campus are in a very person-
al way among his memorials.

The Frank A. Waugh Foundation for the benefit
of needy students in landscape architecture is a token
of the esteem of scores, indeed hundreds, of our
graduates, some of them men of national distinction,
who received their professional inspiration and train-
ing in Wilder Hall. The portrait of Dr. Waugh in
the Kappa Sigma house calls to mind his long
service, both local and national, to that fraternity.
The cover of the calendar of the First Church of Am-
herst is a weekly reminder of the Waugh pew, crowd-
ed in days of old, and empty never. In Oregon there
is a famous scenic drive encircling Mount Hood, a
symbol of his many services to the Nation.

But the most proud, albeit poignant, memorial to
his rare personality is to be found in the hearts of
those who knew him, and responded, with various
success, to his optimistic appeal for a lovelier and
more Christian world.

Charles S. Graham '92

Charles S. Graham '92 died October 4, 1942 at Hol-
den, Mass. He was born in that town on March 5,
1870.

After being graduated from the College he was
manager, for nine years, of the Lyman School at
Westboro. In 1901 he purchased a large farm in
Holden and for several years carried on a general
farming business. He became prominent as a fruit
grower and won many prizes, with his fruit, at fairs
and exhibitions.

He was a member of the Massachusetts Farm Bu-
reau, the Massachusetts Fruit Growers Association,
president of the Holden Farmers Club, member of
the Worcester Horticultural Society, member of the

Holden Finance Committee, and a 50-year member
and past master of the Holden Grange.

He is survived by his wife, his son, and a grand-
son.

In College, Charles Graham was a member of the
Shakespearean Club, and was a varsity football play-
er for three years. He was universally liked by his
classmates and contemporaries, all of whom will
mourn his death.

H. B. Emerson '92

Francis W. Buell '15

Francis Weed Buell '15 died at his home in Clin-
ton, Connecticut, February 16, 1943, after a long
illness.

In College, Frank was a member of Q.T.V. and
Adelphia. He was editor of the college paper, and
prominent in many of the college and class activities.
He was an excellent student. He was well-
liked and respected by his classmates and by
the faculty; these feelings toward him are still
warm and real after 28 years.

After being graduated Frank entered the broker-
age business in New York. He was enthusiastic
about his work and his success in that field seemed
assured. He was suddenly stricken with sleeping
sickness, soon after entering business; the disease
eventually was to cause his death.

During all his years of illness Frank never gave
up hope that he might eventually recover; he never
lost his interest in nor his love for living. He
traveled extensively; his devoted sister Mary was
his constant companion. Frank never forgot his Col-
lege nor his classmates, and thrilled to return to
campus for the reunions of the class.

To those who were privileged to know Frank in-
timately the news of his death brought a deep sense
of sorrow. I am sure that every living classmate of
1915 extends to members of Frank's family sincere
sympathy in our mutual loss.

George D. Melican '15

Colonel Royal P. Davidson w'92
Colonel Royal P. Davidson w'92, president and
superintendent of the Northwestern Military and
Naval Academy, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, died at
his winter home in Avon Park in Florida on January
16, 1943. He was born in Somerville, New Jersey,
October 9, 1870.

After leaving the College, where he was a mem-
ber of D. G. K. Society, he entered the University
of Wisconsin. He became commandant of cadets at
Northwestern Military Academy in 1891, superin-
tendent in 1912. In 1915 he moved the Academy to
its present location in Wisconsin. He remained
active head of the School until June, 1942, when he
retired because of ill health.

Colonel Davidson was internationally famous as
the inventor of mechanized military units; and has
been credited as being the originator of such military
machines.

(Continued on Page 6)

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MARRIAGES

'23 Luther B. Arlington to Miss Linda E. Apple-
gate, May 9, 1942, at Metuchen, New Jersey.

'33 Capt. Seymour Scott to Miss Elaine Keller,
December 29, 1942, at Valentine, Nebraska.

'33 Lieut. Walter S. Utley to Miss Martha Buck-
ley, February 22, 1943, at Cambridge, Mass.

'35 and '34 Cpl. John H. McKelligott to Miss Nan-
cy E. Russell, February 6, 1943, at Springfield, Mass.

'36 Miss Clare Bosworth to Edward J. Bishop,
July 18, 1942, at Portland, Maine.

'36 and '38 Richard G. Riley to Miss Louisa E.
Towne, June 27, 1942, a1 Norfolk, Mass.

'37 and '37 Lieut. George E. O'Brien to Miss Es-
ther M. Dunphy, February 22, 1943, at South Had-
ley Falls, Mass.

'38 Miss Kathleen T. Curtin to Stuart L. Har-
rod, July 4, 1942, at Tyringham, Mass.

'38 Miss Barbara Phillips to George D. Kirkpat-
rick, August 15 ,1942, at Laconia, New Hampshire.

'39 Capt. George C. Benjamin to Miss Virginia
Z. Van Dyke, July 8, 1942, at Santa Barbara, Cali-
fornia.

'39 Lieut, (j.g.) Maurice Featherman to Miss
Selma H. Slesinger, January 31, 1943, at Brookline,
Mass.

'39 Miss Florence S. Goldberg to Lieut. Henry R.
Lever, February 2, 1943, at Bi-ookline, Mass.

"40 Cpl. Robert Staples to Miss Corinne Heaton,
January 30, 1943, at Watertown, S. C.

w*40 Lieut. John C. McCarthy to Miss Mary C.
Doyle, November 14, 1942, at Worcester, Mass.

'41 Gabriel I. Auerbach to Miss Connie Kaye,
October 25, 1942, in New York City.

'41 Lieut. Clement F. Burr to Lieut. Mary Pen-
der, A.X.C., February 19, l!>!-';. at Meridian, Missis-
sippi.

'11 and '42 Lieut, (j.g.) Andrew J. Reed, III, to
Miss Wilma Fiske. February 14, 1943, at Charles-
ton, S. C.

'41 and '41 Donald A. Simpson to Miss Elizabeth
W. Rrown. February 20. 1943, at Holyoke, Mass.

-ll Miss Harriet E. Wteatley to Heath K. Riggs,
February 6, 1943, at Montpelier, Vermont.

'42 and '43 Lieut. James W. Gilman to Miss Har-
riet P. Kelso, February" 27, 1943, at Chester, Mass.

'42 Miss R. Nancy Webber to Douglas Ross, Oc-
tober 18, 1942, at Bedford, Mass.

'42 and '42 Lieut. Paul A. White to Miss Anne
C. White, February 16, 1943, at Springfield, Mass.

w'42 Lieut. Charles H. Knox, Jr. to Miss Ruth
M. Kerns, February 18, 1943, at Miami, Florida.

w'4 5 A C Herbert Rumminger to Miss Martha
V. McCIellan, February 5, 1943, at San Antonio,
is.

BIRTHS

' :l A daughter, Patricia Anne, to Mr. and Mrs.
Constantine J. Gilgut, September 28, 1942, at Wal-
tham, Mass.

'33 A daughter, Mary Ellen, to Lieut, and Mrs.
Cloyes T. Gleason, February 27, 1943, at Fort Riley,
Kansas.

'33 and '33 A son, Richard, to Captain and Mrs.
Nathan S. Hale (Gertrude Barnes), September 15,

1942, at Abilene, Kansas.

'34 A daughter, Terry, to Mr. and Mrs. William
S. Duncan (Laura Adams '34), November 24, 1942,
in New York City.

'34 A son, Barry Ellsworth, to Mr. and Mrs.
Chester L. French, January 10, 1943, at Normandy,
Missouri.

'34 A son, Arthur Allerton, Jr., to Sgt. and Mrs.
Arthur A. Green, February 18, 1943, at Windsor,
Conn.

'34 and w'35 A daughter, Elizabeth Ann, to Mr.
and Mrs. Walter L. Papp (Helen Powers w'35), Sep-
tember 28, 1942, at Cotuit, Mass.

'34 Twins : a son, Robert Paul, and a daughter,
Elizabeth Louise, to Major and Mrs. Henry A. Walk-
er, March 15, 1943, at Washington, D. C.

'35 A daughter, Mary Ellen, to Mr. and Mrs. Wil-
liam H. McGrath (Ellen Connery '35), January 30,

1943, at Northampton, Mass.

'35 A son, William Joel, to Captain and Mrs. Al-
bert B. Landis, March 1, 1943, at Clarksville, Tennes-
see.

'35 A son, David Stedman, to Mr. and Mrs. Rich-
ard Hutchinson, (Elizabeth Perry '35), January 19,
1943, at Waltham, Mass.

'35 A son, John Wyman, to Mr. and Mrs. Philip
C. Stone, September 16, 1942, at Chicago, Illinois.

'35 and '35 A son, Thornton Jay, to Captain and
Mrs. Benjamin J. Wihry (Edna Thornton), March
17, 1943, at Worcester, Mass.

'36 A daughter, Janet Marion, to Mr. and Mrs.
Gordon H. Bishop, December 7, 1942, at Glastonbury,
Connecticut.

'36 A son, Myles Gerald, Jr., to Ensign and Mrs.
Myles G. Boylan, February 11, 1943, at Seattle,
Washington.

'::<; A daughter, Ellen, to Mr. and Mrs. Frederick
\V. Xoonan (Lois Crabtree '•"';), February 28, 1943,
at Vergennes, Vermont.

'38 A son, Robert I.. Jr., to .Mr. and Mrs. Robert
L. Smith (Lois V. Wood '::8), August 15, 1942, at
Evart, Michigan.

'39 A son, Edward Lawrence, Jr., to Mr. and
Mrs. Edward L. Morin, February 8, 1943, at Vine-
land, New Jersey.

'40 and '40 A daughter, Carole Elizabeth, to
Lieut, and Mrs. Franklin Hopkins (Thelma Glazier),
January 20, 1943, at West Point, New York.

'42 and w'42 A son, Harold Bancroft, III, to Cpl.
and Mrs. Harold B. White, Jr. (Thyrza Barton '42),
February 26, 1943, at Hartford, Conn.

'42 A daughter, Elizabeth Anne, to Lieut, and
Mrs. John W. Spakowski (Mary A. Kozak '42),
March 12, 1943, at Northampton, Mass.

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OBITUARIES

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His pleasant personality is well remembered by
his classmates at the College.

FANNING'S EXPERIENCES

Continued below is the Boston Traveler account of
some of the battle experiences of Lieutenant Francis
T. Fanning, '38, U. S. N. R. '

Thomas W. Bean w'09

Thomas W. Bean w'09 died at his home in Turners
Falls on February 11, 1943. He was 56 years old.

After leaving the College he had been employed
continuously by the Turners Falls Power and Elec-
tric Company as hydraulic engineer, except for 18
months when he served with the engineers in World
War I.

He earned distinction during the Connecticut River
floods of 1927, 1936, and 1938 when his work had to
do with control of the flood waters. It has been
said that he knew the Connecticut River better than
any man in New England.

He was a member of the Turners Falls Rotary
Club, a trustee of the public library, a Boy Scout
district official. In College he was a member of Al-
pha Sigma Phi.

He is survived by his wife, a son, and twin daugh-
ters.

Mrs. Annie R. Goodwin

Mrs. Annie R. (Ma) Goodwin died on February 15,
1943. She was 73 years old. For 28 years she con-
ducted the Colonial Inn at the south entrance to the
campus. She will be remembered pleasantly by many
Alumni.

'27 Tif Williams has become assistant manager
and secretary of the Clarendon Hills Cemetery of
Hinsdale, Illinois.

'27 Raphael Biron is doing insect control work
for the Tobacco By-Products and Chemical Corpora-
tion of Louisville, Kentucky. His home is at 4402
South LaFayette Street, Fort Wayne, Indiana.

'31 Don Tiffany, whose wife is Ruth Vogel '33, is
an electrician with the Westing-house Manufacturing
Company. The Tiffanys live at 49 Cameron Street,
Springfield, and have three daughters.

'32 Walter Baker is with the U. S. Public Health
Service, Health Service Building, Corpus Christi,
Texas. He has charge of an insect control program
surrounding the Naval Air Station.

'34 Ray Burke is in the blueprint and drafting
department of Pratt and Whitney Aircraft Corpora-
tion. He lives at 103 Fountain Street, Springfield.
He is married and has a daughter 3 years old.

'34 Darrell Dance is with the U. S. Public Health
Department in Washington, D. C. He is married;
his daughter, Priscilla Ann, was a year old on Feb-
ruary 1st.

'36 George Allen is research engineer of WOR,
New York City and chairman of the radio luncheon
for the American Marketing Association.

Torpedoes lashing through the water in every di-
rection. Japanese torpedo planes fanning out around
all points of the compass and coming in fast, drop-
ping their tin fish as they approached. Anti-aircraft
guns and all other available deck weapons thunder-
ing a deadly, inhospitable welcome.

Really Scared

This was the vivid picture painted by Lt. Francis
Thomas Fanning of Milton, turret officer aboard the
heavy cruiser Northampton, in describing the attack
which sealed the doom of the aircraft carrier Hornet
off Santa Cruz Oct. 26.

"I was really scared," Lt. Fanning, veteran of
seven major engagements in the Pacific and only
Greater Boston man on the Northampton when it
was sunk, admits frankly.

At the same time he disclosed there actually
ivere three separate attacks on the Hornet, and
that the Northampton was scarcely more than
1000 yards from the carrier when the second,
and most severe attack was made.
Fanning already had been at Wotje, Wake, Midway
and other points of contact with the enemy at the
time of the loss of the Hornet.

Wasp Is Hit

"We left the Hawaii area," he recounted, "and
hunted around on one thing or another, then went
down to the Solomons. I can't give the exact dates;
probably I shouldn't anyway. There was not much
for a while, and then the Wasp was hit. We were in
sight when that happened, but there isn't much I
can add to what has been said already. It was strict-
ly submarine stuff — no planes. Our task group was
ordered away from the area almost immediately.

"From that time on we were in and out of danger
spots, with a lot of carrier operations going on, but
we never fired a shot.

"The Northampton was part of the Hornet's
task force. When the first "wave of Jap dive
bombers came over, things were terrific. I ivas
•really scared, and I'm not fooling. The North-
ampton wasn't hit in this at all, but we had
several misses.

"The gunners on special ships were throwing ev-
erything they had into the air and, of course, some of
the Hornet's planes were up there in the scrap, too.
The Japs lost heavily. We knew there was a Jap
task force in the vicinity, and our part was to try
to prevent their landing further reinforcements on
Guadalcanal.

"Jap planes were shot down into the sea on all
sides during that fight, but the Japs had too
many planes. There was plenty of confusion as
to who was hitting what, too.

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Put Line Aboard

"When it was over, the Northampton moved in to
stand by — in fact a picture published a short time
ago, released by the Navy, shows the Northampton
standing by.

"We put a line on the carrier to tow her, and it
looked as though we had a good chance to save
the ship when the second tvave came over.
"At a distance, they showed up in formation, but
as they got nearer, they spread
out and came in for the attack
from all points. Torpedoes
were zipping through the
water in all directions.

"We were about 1000 yards
from the Hornet when this
started and we cut loose at
once. I think the Northamp-
ton broke all records for get-
ting up full steam to get away
from the center of all this.
One Jap plane, burning, just
missed the Hornet's bow.

All Alive Saved
/( was after this second at-
tack that the order to aban-
don ship was given on the
Hornet, and some excellent
ivork was done in picking up
survivors. All alive were
gotten off the can 11 /-.
"Then the third attack came
— dive bombers in shallow
dives, and scoring some addi-
tional hits. They did no
harm, because the Hornet had
been abandoned at that time,
and later on the Hornet was
sunk by our own craft to pre-
vent its falling into the hands of the enemy.

"This looked as though it would be the hottest
fight any of us would over see, but we didn't know
we were in for two battles of Guadalcanal right after
that.

"In both of thes< engagements we were with
other sh'ps, "ml hi, H, engagements were night
l,ni! They had " good deal t,, it,, with pre-
venting tin Japs from landing reinforcements
,1,1,1 supplies "n Guadalcanal.

"And in the second battle the Northampton went

down. I thought I was a goner, too. But an empty

shell container and a pocket flashlight saved my life

and the lives of two other? from the Northampton."

i To lie continued)

'21 George Edman has been elected chairman of
the Pittsfield, Mass., Home Garden Committee.

'36 David John.-on i.- assistant chemist at Wilson
Dam, Alabama. His address is 219 West Alabama,
Flounce, Ala.

WITH THE ALUMMAE

by Mary E. Garvey '19

Phyllis Gleason '37 is dietitian at the Elizabeth
Mason Infirmary at Smith College.

Florence Daub '43 is with the General Electric
Company. She lives at 121 Gilman Street, Bridge-
port, Conn.

Barbara Wainshel '43 is as-
sistant supervisor with the Lib-
erty Mutual Insurance Company
in Boston. She lives at 92 So.
Common Street, Lynn.

Molly Lewis '23 is a Guernsey
cattle breeder and is living in
Coxsackie, New York.

On March 3rd the Boston
Alumnae Club met at the Wom-
en's Industrial and Educational
Union in Boston. Miss Esther
Hill, assistant director of the
Division of Child Guardianship
of the Massachusetts Depart-
ment of Public Welfare, was the
speaker.

Evelyn Mallory Allen '36 is a

chemist engaged in war work at
the Prophylactic Brush Company
in Florence.

Ensign Lillian A. Arslanian '4

Ruthie Howarth '44 of Warren
Point, N. J., broke her own 100-
yard breast stroke record with a
time of one minute, 19.4 seconds
in the National Intercollegiate Telegraphic Swim-
mine: Meet for Women.

Ruth Lamon w'40 who, because of a critical ill-
ness, was forced to leave College before she com-
pleted her work, has kept closely in touch with
college and alumni affairs. She frequently contrib-
utes notes and news for the Bulletin and the Alumni
Office files.

Laura Bingham '35, of 118 Marlboro Street, is
corresponding secretary of the Boston Alumnae
Club.

Margery C. Mann '42 is living at 545 West 111
St., Apt. 3E, New York City. She is a claims ad-
juster with the Liberty Mutual Insurance Company.

Harriet Wheatley Riggs '41 is home demonstra-
tion agent in Chittenden County, Vermont. Her
address is 322 Pearl Street, Burlington, Vt.

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Pfc. Rowland Klaucke, Army, 613 Plantation

Street, Worcester, Mass.
Lieut. Maxwell I. Klayman, Army, 19 Cunning-
ham Street, Roxbury, Mass.
Private Richard B. Knowlton, Army, 60 Cedar

Street, Maiden, Mass.
Lieut. Lawrence H. Kyle, Army, Huntington,

Mass.
Seaman Thomas B. LeNoir, U.S.N.R., 790 Main

Street, Greenwood, Mass.
Lieut. Leo D. Lipman, Army, 38 Jefferson Ave-
nue, Springfield, Mass.
Lieut, (j.g. ) Robert H. Lorrey, U.S.N.R., Farrar

Road, Lincoln, Mass.
Cpl. John H. McKelligott, Army, 35 Park

Street, Palmer, Mass.
2nd Lieut. David E. Mildram, Army, 83 Green-
wood Avenue, Greenwood, Mass.
Sergeant David B. Pearlmutter, Army, 247

Campbell Avenue, Revere, Mass.
Ensign Robert D. Pearson, U.S.N.R., Briarcliff

Manor, New York
A/C Samuel B. Peskin, Air Force, 49 Coolidge

Street, Brookline, Mass.
Electrician's Mate 3/c Robert C. Rooney, U.S.

N.R., 31 Willow Street, Reading, Mass.
Lieut. Charles F. Ross, Army, 87 Summer

Street, Lee, Mass.
Private Melvin Small, Army, 84 Trull Street,

Somerville, Mass.
Ensign Everett R. Spencer, Jr., Coast Guard, 9

Barnes Avenue, White River Junction, Vt.
A.S. Inez E. Spofford, WAVES, 18 Winchester

Street, Haverhill, Mass.
Ensign Edmund Stawiecki, U.S.N. R., 5 Brandon

Road, Webster, Mass.
Ensign Harold F. Storey, Coast Guard, 199

Union Street, Millis, Mass.
Lieut. Alfred M. Swiren, Air Force, Leyfred

Terrace, Springfield, Mass.
Lieut. Haskell S. Tubiash, Army, 488 Blue Hill

Avenue, Dorchester, Mass.
Private Edward W. Watson, Army, Summer

Street, Plymouth, Mass.
Lieut. John W. Zukel, Army, 55 Fort Street,

Northampton, Mass.

Dr. Russell E. Smith '38 recently sent us a news-
paper clipping recounting some of the experiences
of Captain (now Major) Edward F. Stoddard '39.
Ed entered the Army Air Force five days after he
graduated from College; he trained in the South,
and was on active duty in Panama, the Caribbean,
and other areas of this continent before he went
overseas last July.

He has since been decorated for his work as
pilot of Flying Fortresses in raids on Nazi bases in
Continental Europe and in North Africa.

Last fall he was promoted to squadron command-
er. "I used to be a happy, carefree flight command-

er," Ed says, "now I am a wary squadron command-
er and I won't be able to fly much." Ed took all of
his combat flying in stride ; but when he was ap-
pointed, last winter, to escort three U. S. generals —
Spaatz, Eaker, and Longfellow — together with the
King of England — on a hangar inspection tour he
had butterflies for a minute.

Following the inspection Captain Stoddard was
among the group to dine with King George and the
American generals.

Captain George T. Pitts, Jr. '40 reports that
Captain Willard O. Foster '40 now has a parrot — -
and is teaching the bird tricks — already it knows
how to march like a soldier.

Ensign John F. (Herbie) GHck '39 sent us
jingle the other day — herewith reprinted.
The censor says I can't say much,
I can't talk of ships and ports and such;
I can't even say if we're having weather,
Or you'd try and piece two and two together.
Can't say just where I am or what,
Can't tell you why or if or but;
Can't say what is or what is not.
Can't tell you what I do or don't,
Or if I might or if I won't.
But I can say that I'm sure enjoying myself
And that soon, — we'll have the Japs and Hitler
on the shelf!

War correspondent Ernie Pyle sent the folloiving
interesting item from the Tunisian Front; it ap-
peared in the Boston Globe of February 2.1th.

Capt. Jed Dailey, ('40) of Sharon, Mass., got back
safely in his Jeep after the German break-through
out of Faid Pass. But he had a horrible time.

He was beating it to the rear across the desert,
along with the rest of the command post's personnel,
when suddenly he saw a Mark IV tank staring him
in the face not a hundred yards away.

The tank was stopped, the crew had the turret
door open, and a German was just standing there,
looking at Capt. Dailey as cold as ice. It was enough
to give you the creeps.

Jed swung the Jeep around — and there was an-
other Mark IV staring at him. He kept turning and
dodging, but everywhere he could go he would be
looking smack at the front end of a Mark IV. They
just seemed to appear from nowhere, and there they'd
be suddenly, until he felt like a mouse trying to get
out of a room full of silent cats.

Finally, Jed did the only thing left to do. He took
his heart in his hand and drove right between two
German tanks, with their crews sitting there at the
guns looking at him as he passed 50 yards away.

They didn't shoot, and he doesn't know to this day
why they didn't.

Then he stepped on that Jeep and went soaring
across the desert, flying over irrigation ditches you'd
normally cross in low gear. German artillery got
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after him. They dropped an 88 on his right, and then
one on his left, and then one in front of him. They
had him pocketed.

When artillery does that, the next shot always gets
you. But they never fired a fourth shell. He has
no idea why. It was just kind of like a miracle.

Things like that went on all afternoon. Finally it
got dark, and a sort of safety came. But it wasn't
complete safety, for German patrols were out scour-
ing the desert for stragglers.

Jed finally got away by driving the Jeep straight
up over the top of a mountain and down the other
side. He just missed driving over several sheer
cliffs. From now on he hates Germans.

The names of men in the group of 132 under-
graduates of the Enlisted Reserve Corps, ordered
to report for Service on March 1 and 2, appear
below.

Seniors: Gerald C. Anderson of Barre, Vermont,
Charles E. Blanchard of North Uxbridge, Robert L.
Hemond of Holyoke, David N. Holmes of West
Brookfield, Arnold I. Kaplinsky of Holyoke, Edward
P. Larkin of Watertown, Victor A. Leonowicz of
Whitman, Raymond S. Licht of Springfield, Henry
F. Martin of Amherst, Thomas F. Moriarty of Hol-
yoke, John H. Powell of Brookfield, John F. Powers,
Jr. of Haverhill, John H. Roch of North Adams, John
M. Storozuk of Sunderland, Charles L. Warner of
West Bridgewater.

Juniors: Roger C. Biron of North Adams, Donald
A. Campbell of Springfield, Robert E. Dillon of
Ware, Charles W. Dunham of Winthrop, Theodore
J. Golonka of Turners Falls, John F. Hughes of
Cambridge, Warren I. Johansson of Leominster,
James H. Keefe of Palmer, Charles R. Kelley of
Pittsfield, Raymond E. Malloy of Weston, Alfred P.
Muldoon of Quincy, Theodore Noke of Watertown,
Richard A. Norton of Norwood, Henry F. Ritter of
Hardwick, Frederick R. Tibbetts of Winchendon,
Wilder L. Weeks of Greenfield.

Sophomores: Thomas J. Army of Worcester,
Raymond H. Balise of Leeds, William G. Brady of
Wilbraham, Patrick J. Bresnahan of Holyoke, Daniel
F. Burgess of Brockton, M. David Cooley of Spring-
field, James M. Curran of Hoiyoke, George W. Doten
of Plymouth, Edmund Farinha of Fall River, John
J. Foley of Amesbury, Warren P. Gingras of Turn-
ers Falls, Kenneth D. Glancy of Chicopee, Samuel
Glass of Roxbury, Melvin N. Goldman of Lawrence,
Samuel K. Gove of Walpole, Herbert H. Gross of
Sharon, John E. Lambert of Amherst, Herman F.
Lippa of Mattapan, William E. Lucey of Springfieid,
Donald R. Lyman of Greenfield, Robert E. Lynch of
Winthrop, David W. Mathey of Melrose, Roger D.
McCutcheon of South Deerfield, Homer O. Mills, Jr.
of Wellesley, John A. Mullaly of Pittsfield.

Francis J. Murphy of Gardner, Arnold H. Murray,
Jr. of Brockton, William G. Phippen of Winchester,
Eli Reines of Boston, Thomas G. Reynolds of Turn-
ers Falls, Edward B. Risley of South Windsor,

Conn., Almon 0. Ruggles of Brookfield, John W.
Shannon of Milton, Roy E. Sievwright of Northamp-
ton, Bertram I. Sparr of Brookline, Robert S. Sted-
man of Holyoke, Edward R. Szetela of Holyoke,
George A. Washburn of Montgomery, Clifton M.
Waugh of New Braintree, Joseph Weretelnyk of
Watertown, George E. Yetman of South Weymouth.
Freshmen: Malcolm E. Baird of Worcester, Henry
W. Ballou of Holyoke, Elmer E. Barrows, Jr. of
Worcester, Robert E. Bertram of Salem, Robert
Bevins of Salem, Donald J. Brennan of Dalton,
Richard M. Brown of Swampscott, Thomas O.
Brown of Roxbury, David E. Burres of Springfield,
Norman T. Callahan of Greenfield, Allan C. Carp-
enter of Greenfield, William Cohen of Brookline,
Peter D. Cole of Hopkinton, Henry F. Colton, Jr. of
Longmeadow, Philip G. Deane of Greenfield, Joseph
A. DeCarlo of Springfield, Lincoln A. Divoll of
Worcester, Michael J. Donohue of Holyoke, Edwin

E. Drewniak of Chicopee, John A. Dunn of Boston,
Edward C. Edwards, Jr. of Cambridge.

Eugene M. Equi of Holyoke, Thomas W. Fox of
South Attleboro, Edward E. Fulton of Amherst,
John R. Garbutt, Jr. of Worcester, Gordon G. Geis
of Northampton, Robert D. Gordon of Brookline,
Harold M. Gore, Jr. of Amherst, William H. Hall of
Florence, Ralph S. Heard of Needham, William C.
Herrmann of Easthampton, Merle R. Ingraham of
Greenfield, Bernard S. Kaplan of Brookline, Michael

F. Kelly, Jr. of Holyoke, Roland J. Majeau of Wil-
limansett, Edwin L. Marvel of Millers Falls, John J.
Matthews of Medford, Raymond S. Moen of Mont-
erey, Christos C. Mpelkas of Lynn.

Eugene R. Murphy of Longmeadow, Myron M.
Muzyka of Hadley, Robert F. Noyes of Amesbury,
Howard Openshaw of Quincy, Harold J. Publicover
of Arlington, William E. Randall, Jr. of Roslindale,
George F. Robichaud of Greenfield, Donald E.
Rowley of Pittsfield, Everett D. Schubert of Methu-
en, Sheldon S. Simon of Roxbury, Howard B. Smith
of Easthampton, Waldo A. Stevens of Methuen,
William A. Stuart of Gloucester, Harry W. Thorne
of Saugus, Robert A. Tolman of Springfield, True
Tower of Abington, William D. Tunis of Easthamp-
ton, Philip A. Vondell of Amherst, John J. Walsh
of Holyoke, Roger R. Wellington of Waltham,
Charles M. Wright of Northampton.

Following the graduation of 35 students at the
College, on January 28th, in the first mid-winter
commencement, a freshman group of four girls and
fourteen boys was enrolled. This class has not yet
been officially named, either 1946 xk or 1947.

19X8

25 th
POSTPONED

^Reunion

"FOR THE DURATION"

Hut,

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ATHLETICS

ON THE BULLSEYE

Basketball

The Statesmen dropped the last three games of
the season: to Connecticut, 42-78, on February 16;
to W. P. I. 47-54, on February 19; to Coast Guard,
47-60 on February 24. The season's summary
showed five wins, eight losses.

Winter Track

Captain Don Parker '44 of West Roxbury set a
new Massachusetts State record in the 1000 yard
run, in the triangular meet with Tufts and W. P. I.,
of 2:20.4. The record had previously been held by
Mike Little '38 with a time of 2:26.2.

Charlie Warner '44 of Sunderland (son of Ray-
mond Warner '14) ran the 300 in 33.4 seconds in the
same meet. This was a new Massachusetts State
record — previously held by Ed O'Connor '41, whose
time was 34.4.

State won, 55-26, in a dual meet with Worcester
Tech on February 20; placed second to Tufts, and
ahead of Tech in the meet on February 27th.

Don Parker placed sixth in the 1000-yard run at
the K of C games at Madison Square Garden, New
York, on March 13th. Alec Campbell '46 of Spring-
field was sixth in his heat of the 1000-yard handicap
in a field of 40.

Swimming

Joe Rogers and his swimmers have finished their
season, winning from Worcester Tech, Connecticut,
B. U., M. I. T., and Coast Guard; losing to Yale and
Williams.

Bud Hall '44 of Worcester has won the 50 and
100-yard free styles at both New England and East-
ern Intercollegiate Meets. As the Bulletin goes to
press Rogers and Hall are on their way to Columbus,
Ohio, where Hall will compete in the National Inter-
colleaiates.

The spring athletic season will be informal. There
will be teams in both track and baseball; but games
or meets probably will not be arranged more than
two or three days in advance.

The Massachusetts State R.O.T.C. rifle team has
engaged in 30 matches during the past winter, has
won 23 and lost seven. The record is the best in col-
lege history.

Teams which won from the Statesmen were U. S.
Coast Guard, University of Maryland, Niagara, Vir-
ginia Collegiate Institute, Florida, M. I. T. and Ver-
mont.

Defeated by the Mass. State marksmen were : Yale,
Georgia Tech., Lehigh, Louisiana State University,
Gettysburg, University of Tennessee, Clarkson Tech.,
Norwich, New Hampshire, Coast Guard, Harvard,
Connecticut, Maine, Johns Hopkins, Lafayette,
N. Y. U., Univ. of Georgia, M. I. T., W. P. I., North-
eastern, Wentworth Institute, Brown, and Rhode Is-
land State.

In the Hearst Trophy matches the State No. 1
team was third of 11 in the First Service Command.
The No. 2 team was 8th of 11. Henry Drozdal '44
of South Hadley was second among individual high
men on 13 Hearst Trophy teams. Edwin Marvel '46
of Millers Falls stood 7th of 13 high individuals
among the No. 2 teams.

State placed third in the First Service Command
intercollegiate matches of 6 competing teams.

Lieut. Winslow Ryan '40 was the coach, assisted
by Technical Sergeant Frederick Glennon and Cpl.
Francis Gormley, both of the R.O.T.C. detachment.
The shooting was done in the new rifle range, located
near the cellar hole of the old chem lab. This wood-
en building, with special interior lighting for the
target work, was provided through State Emergency
Defense Funds and was built last fall by the college
maintenance department.

The Marksmen. Front row, left to right: Nello Fiorio '45
of Hyde Park, Henry E. Drozdal '44 of South Hadlev,
Gordon P. Trowbridge '44 of Northampton, Douglas A.
Kydd '46 of Lowell, Horatio W. Murdy '46 of North Dart-
mouth, Milton A. Howe, Jr. '45 of Pittsfield, Alexander R.
Amell '44 of North Adams. Second row, 1. to r.: Thomas
G. Reynolds '45 of Turners Falls, Edwin L. Marvel '46
of Millers Falls, Donald H. Parker '44 of West Roxbury,
David H. Marsden '43 of Taunton, Norman A. Vanasse
'44 of Northampton, Stanley F. Gizienski '43 of Hadley.

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WEBSTER '14 WORKS LIKE 10 MEN

ACADEMICS

Louis A. Webster '14 acting Commissioner of
Agriculture for Massachusetts, is the subject of an
interesting article in Fcod Marketing, a publication
of First National Stores. The article says in part —

Louie has done many things worthy of note, but
his outstanding contribution, in the opinion of this
chronicler, is packing more work and activity into
24 hours than any ten ordinary men. And it doesn't
seem to ruffle his disposition.

He was raised on a farm and grew up in the days
when the hours between sunrise and sunset were for
work. His knowledge of farming is rooted in farm-
ing. When he addresses himself to milk problems,
he is studying something in which he has had a
hand, feeding cattle and caring for them, milking
cows, taking milk to the creamery, peddling it from
door to door. When he meets with apple growers, he
is not only a public servant; he is an apple grower.

His graduation from Massachusetts State College
in 1914 signalized the restarting of a farm career,
with the tested knowledge of the school grafted in a
very vital way into practical experience.

Inevitably, he grew into leadership, for he has a
natural interest in and concern for people, a lively
sense of humor which he doesn't try to suppress, and
a gift for expressing his thoughts so that people un-
derstand what he is talking about.

'02 Ransom Morse has moved his business in
New York City to 115 Broadway. The reason for
the change is that a department of the Army is to
occupy most of the building, including the office
where he was formerly located. He said, "We were
all glad to cooperate, as the inconvenience to which
we were put seemed a very small contribution in
our great desire to aid in the tasks confronting our
government in winning the war."

'18 F. B. Sampson is now regional manager, in
Boston, for the W. T. Grant Company. Under his
supervision are 104 stores located in all six New
England States. His headquarters are at 45 Brom-
field Street, Boston, Mass.

w'lx Roger Weeks is with the Wareham Rolling
Mills, South Wareham, Mass. He says that the mills
are the second largest manufacturers of horse and
mule shoes in the U. S. and, "when buying horse-
shoes don't forget us."

'23 Gordon Tarr, who lives at 576 Phillips Ave-
nue, Glen Eilyn, Illinois, is assistant sales manager
in the Midwest Division for the Borden Company.

'23 Thomas Shea is chairman of the department
of science at the College of Mount Saint Vincent,
New York City.

'32 Herbert Bishop is automotive engineer with
the Socony-Vacuum Company, 692 Millbury Street,
Worcester.

Roister Doisters

For their first and only play of the season the
Roister Doisters will do a performance of Afton
Water on Saturday evening, May 8, in Bowker Audi-
torium. The play will be presented again on Satur-
day, May 22, for Alumni, seniors, and commencement
guests. Presumably, there may be another presenta-
tion for the Army Air Corps Cadets. Professor Frank
Prentice Rand is the director.

Afton Water is a modernization, with still a strong
dash of phantasy, of the Sleeping Beauty story,
written by William Saroyan and made available for
little theatre presentation under the auspices of the
National Theatre Conference prior to professional
appearance. There are comedy touches and a very
good variety in characterization, and the underlying
thought is not as cryptic as in many of Saroyan's
plays.

The cast:
Meg McKenna Agnes Goldberg '43 of Cambridge
Mary Marjorie Cushman '43 of Holyoke

Douglas Jack Sherman '44 of Sheffield

Willie Edward Daunais '45 of Adams

Old Jack Lawrence Newcomb '43 of Norwell

Jane Birnie Lurane Wells '43 of Orleans

Eve Shirley Spring '46 of North Agawam

Nick Lester Rich '43 of Newton Center

Polly Pigott Beverley Bigwood '43 of Athol
Dorothy Ruth Steele '46 of Norwood

Sally Pauline Willett '44 of Cheshire

Doctor Joseph Kunces '45 of Middleboro

Preacher Robert Young '45 of Worcester

Reporter Gordon Smith '44 of Salem

Man William Manchester '44 of Attleboro

Woman Jane Smith '43 of Watcrtown

Bill Eirnie Seymour Kaplan '46 of Springfield

Verdict Unanimous

The largest alumni group ever to assemble in
New York City, 166, came together for the concert
by the College Glee Clubs at the Hotel Roosevelt on
Friday evening, March 12th. After the concert,
George Zabriski '13, who has had wide experience
in choral singing, stated that he had never heard
finer choral work than that done by the Massachu-
setts State Clubs. 0. B. Briggs '09 declared the
verdict to be unanimous. Briggs was largely instru-
mental in arrangements for the concert and, like all
who attended, was delighted with the evening's pro-
gram.

Included in the repertoire of the musical groups
were American folk songs, old blues, Negro spirit-
uals, Bach's Chorale, the Brahms Lullabye, and Cor-
roboree. Virtually this same program has been pre-
sented twice on campus for the Army Air Corps
Cadets and once at the Jones Library for Amherst
townspeople. On Sunday, March 21st, the Women's
Glee Club sang the Faure Requiem with the Am-
herst College Glee Club.

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Cover Picture — Alumni in Uniform. If the Bul-
letin is opened out fiat, identification of the men will
be easier. Center figure, left page, Lieut. John P.
Serex '40 ; right, Capt. George T. Pitts, Jr. '40. 1st
row, top to bottom: Ensign Robert X. Triggs '42,
Maj. James F. Cutter '37, Lieut. Walter Melnick '42.
2nd: Capt. Louis J. Bush '34, Ensign Thomas P. Gordon, Jr. '42, Lieut. William N. Sullivan '30, Lieut. Jules
Novick '35. 3rd: Lieut. Emory E. Grayson '17, Capt. Walter A. Maclinn '33, Capt. Carl A. Fraser '26,
Lieut. Maurice J. Leland '42. 4th: Ensign William W. Chilson '36, Major Harry C. Nottebart '27, Cadet Ed-

bib rary

State College

ward W. Ashley '41. 5th: Major Harlan N. Worthley '18, Capt. Wilfred M. Winter '40, Cadet George E.
McLaughlin '42. 6th: Ensign William H. Harrison '38, Lieut. L. Fletcher Prouty, Jr. '41, Lieut. W. Law-
rence Schenck '34, Major Ernest W. Mitchell, Jr. '32. 7th: Lieut. James N. Putnam '42, Lieut, (j.g.) Robert
P. Hunter '35, Lieut. Cyrus E. French '38, Lieut. Charles W. Hutchinson '35. 8th: Lieut, (j.g.) John F.
Quinn '28, Lieut. George J. Spellman '39, Lieut. William S. Coffey '41.

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BULLETIN

"SIGNS OF SPRING"

MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

AMHERST, MASSACHUSETTS

'ol. XXV, No. 7

April, 1943

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN
MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

George E. Emery '24, Editor
Published monthly at Amherst. Mass, (except August and
September) by the Associate Alumni of Massachusetts State College.
Entered as second class matter, March 1/, 1920, at the Postoffice
at Amherst, Mass.. under the Acts of March 3. 1S79.

OFFICERS OF ASSOCIATE ALUMNI OF
MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

President, Albert W. Smith '22 of Springfield
Vice-President, William V. I-Tayden '13 of Newton Center
Secretary, Marshall O. Lanphear '18 of Amherst
Treasurer. Clark L. Thayer '13 of Amherst
Executive Secretary, George E. Emery '24 of Amherst

BOARD OF DIRECTORS
to 1943

Harry Dunlap Brown '14, ex-officin, of Billerica
William L. Doran '15 of Amherst

Mary E. M. Garvey '19 of Amherst
Lawrence L. Jones '26 of North Beverly

Edward J. Gare. Jr. '15 of Northampton
to 1944
Donald C. Douglass '21 of Belmont

Norman D. Hilyard '23 of Springfield

John W. McGuckian '31 of Roslindale

Arthur D. Tilton 'IS of Woburn
to 1945
Alden C. Brett '12, ex-officio, of Belmont
Alan W. Chadwick '31 of Amherst

Evelyn Davis Kennedy '26 of Belmont
Starr M. King '21 of Beverly

Lewis Schlotterbeck '16 of Wakefield
to 1946
John S. Crosbv "25 of Arlington

Ethel Blatchford Purnell '34 of Amherst

Ralph S. Stedman '20 of Springfield

H. Sidney Vaughan '30 of Worcester

The Alumni Bulletin is sent ten times each year to all members
of the Associate Alumni. Memberships are: Annual $3.00. Sustain-
ing $10.00.

Cover Picture — "Signs of Spring", a water color
by Professor James Robertson, Jr., of the depart-
ment of landscape architecture — painted with the
Alumni Bulletin in mind.

This picture was a part of the 1942 "Family Art
Show", the last such exhibition of the work of
Alumni, faculty, faculty wives, and students which
Mr. Waugh hung in Memorial Hall.

'18 Ernest Ritter of Hardwick is superintendent
of the Paige Agricultural Fund. From 1926 to 1942
he was chairman of the Springfield Sales Committee
of the New England Milk Producers Association. He
has been chairman of the Worcester County Agri-
cultural Conservation Program and active in Farm
Security work. He was chairman of the Hardwick
town library from 1926 to 1942.

'19 Bill Glavin is in Farm Security Administra-
tion work, with headquarters at 11 South Main
Street, Concord, New Hampshire. He received the
degree of Master of Education from the University
of New Hampshire last May.

There is an impressive list of Alumni contributors
to the February issue of the new garden magazine
called Home Garden. They are R. C. Allen '31, who
writes on roses, Arthur J. Farley '08, who writes on
fruits, and C. H. Connors, R. 0. Monosmith and F.
S. Batson, all of whom were students in the gradu-
ate school at the College.

'LESSON FROM HAWAII'

Under the above caption, Time magazine for
April 12 told of the work of Nils Paul Larsen '13,
M.D., medical director of Queens Hospital in Hono-
lulu— and whom Time called, characteristically,
"Hawaiian Swede."

Excerpts from the Time article are as follows:

Best health record in the world is that of the
87,000 workers on the plantations of the Hawaiian
Sugar Planters' Association. Their infant-mortality
rate, prime index of health status, was only 16 in-
fant deaths per 1,000 live births last year — enough
to make any health officer whistle. When the owners
began the medical program in 1929, the rate on a
typical plantation was 160.6 among half a dozen
nationalities: Filipinos, Japanese, a conglomerate of
Hawaiians, Chinese and Caucasians, a sprinkling of
Portuguese and Puerto Ricans.

Hawaiian Swede. The man back of this triumph
of paternalism over disease is big, redheaded, Swed-
ish-born Dr. Nils Paul Larsen, Medical Director of
Queens Hospital in Honolulu, allergist, artist, moun-
tain climber and deep-sea diver (until heart trouble
recently put a stop to it). Now 53, he went to
Hawaii in 1921 as head of the hospital, a j'ob he kept
until his retirement last year. In the '20's the high
infant-mortality rate on the plantations shocked him,
but he thought the plantations potentially "the finest
biological test tubes in the world." He talked the
Association directors into establishing a health re-
search center on Oahu in 1929.

Today each plantation either has its own hospital
or shares one with an adj"oining plantation: there
are 24 hospitals, with 45% more hospital beds per
capita than is necessary in the U. S. About 42
doctors — American, native, Chinese — care for the
workers on the 38 plantations. For all this the
owners spend $17.20 per capita a year, reap the
profit of their investment in better work by men
and women in the fields and mills. Cooperation of
the workers is close to perfect. Working for the
backers of the medical system they can be told what
to do. They conform. There is no slackness.

Dr. Larsen thinks they have proved that "intel-
ligent selfishness" pays. But in the plantation
doctors' own periodical, Plantation Health, he ex-
presses the fear that under postwar free trade these
standards could not economically be maintained. He
has an unusual solution : "If American agriculture
could insert (at a future conference table) at least
minimum requirements for a standard of health pro-
tection and security for agricultural workers, pro-
gress would be made .... Every commodity package
sold in the open markets of- the world must be
labeled : 'Produced under the international health
standards.' "

'33 James Bulman is a special agent with the
Federal Bureau of Investigation.

'35 Willard Boynton, who received his M.D. from
Tufts last June, is interning at the Lynn, Mass.,
Hospital.

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COMMENCEMENT, MAY 22-23

ALUMNI IN UNIFORM

Herbert C. Bliss, secretary of the class of 1888,
looks forward to the long-planned 55th Reunion of
his classmates on campus on Alumni Day, May 22nd.
The 55-year class may be the only one to hold a
formal reunion at commencement time.

Because of travel difficulty, because members are
in the Service or engaged in war work, most reunion
classes are deciding against formal gatherings this
year.

The "Postponed for the Duration" slogan of 1918
has been adopted by other classes who look forward,
however, to gala gatherings on campus after the war
is won. It is expected that some Alumni may find it
possible to return to campus in May and there will
be an interesting program for them. The main
lounge in Memorial Hall will be open, as usual, as
registration headquarters.

The Alumni Day program will include the Annual
Meeting of the Associate Alumni, in Memorial Hall ;
the Alumni Reception for Seniors and friends, in
Memorial Hall in the afternoon ; and the Alumnae
Tea.

At five in the evening there will be a concert on
the college chime.

President Baker's annual reception will be held
at 7:00 o'clock in the Rhododendron Garden — at
the President's house, should the weather be in-
clement. Alumni will be welcomed.

At nine in the evening — in Bowker Auditorium —
the Roister Doisters will present The Distaff Side.

Graduation exercises will be held in the cage of the
Curry S. Hicks Physical Education Building at ten
o'clock on Sunday morning, May 23rd. Governor
Leverett Saltonstall will be the Commencement
speaker; Alumni are cordially invited to the exer-
cises.

Members of the faculty and staff who have joined
the Armed Forces or entered war work since the last
listing in the Bulletin, are these:

Monroe E. Freeman, research professor of chem-
istry. Army

Dale H. Sieling, research professor of chemistry.
Army

Mrs. Mary B. McClelland, resident nurse. Army
Nurse Corps

Arnold D. Rhodes, instructor in forestry. Navy
H. Robert DeRose, assistant chemjst, control ser-
vice. Army

Francis J. Riel '39, instructor, phys. ed. Army
William Gurski, tractor driver, experiment station.
Army

John W. Spaven, extension editor. Navy
Kathleen J. MacDonald '34, clerk, liberal aits.
WAAC

R. C. Foley '27, assistant professor, animal hus-
bandry. Navy

Charles Schauwecker, janitor, Stockbridge Hali,
resigned. War work.

Following, below, are additions to the list of
Alumni in the Service since the last Bulletin was
printed.

Any information which you can provide in help-
ing to keep this list accurate, complete, and up-to-
date will be gratefully received by the Alumni
Office.

Mail sent to the addresses listed below, or to the
Alumni Office, will be forwarded.
'43 Midshipman Howard
T. Bangs, U.S.N.R.,
Box 84, No. Hat-
field, Mass.
w'44 Pvt. Leon O. Bar-
ron, Army, 16 Inter-
vale Street, Rox-
bury, Mass.
'37 Midshipman Ernest
Birdsall, U.S.N.R.,
22 Florence Street,
Andover, Mass.
w'44 Pvt. Joseph Born-
stein, Army, 24
Audubon Road, Mil-
ton, Mass.
'42 Cpl. David F. Bur-
bank, Army, 91
Brookline Street,
Worcester, Mass.
'43 Midshipman Murray
H. Casper, U.S.N.R.,

11 Morse Street,
Dorchester, Mass.
'43 Midshipman Robert A. Fitzpatrick, U.S.N.R., 30

Summer Street, Medford, Mass.
'43 Midshipman Robert Goldman, U.S.N.R., 103

Wallis Road, Brookline, Mass.
'41 Ensign Calvin H. Hood, Jr., U.S.N.R., Rockland

Heights, Northampton, Mass.
'43 Midshipman Thomas J. Kelly, U.S.N.R., 26

Dearborn Street, Springfield, Mass.
'39 Cpl. Louis Kertzman, Army, 10 Magnus Ave-
nue, Somerville, Mass.
'42 Ensign Howard R. Kirshen, U.S.N.R., 49 Almont

Street, Mattapan, Mass.
'43 Midshipman Albert J. Klubock, U.S.N.R., 46

Baremeadow Street, Methuen, Mass.
'43 Midshipman Theodore R. LeMaire, U.S.N.R.,

1470 Eastern Avenue, Maiden, Mass.
'40 Pvt. Roma D. Levy, Women's Marine Corps, 37

Springside Avenue, Pittsfield, Mass.
'42 Pvt. John P. Lucey, Army, 19 Underhill Place,

Pittsfield, Mass.
w'41 Sgt. Theodore C. McQueston, Army, West

Street, Hadley, Mass.
'43 Midshipman Irving S. Mendelson, U.S.N.R., 463

Crescent Street, Brockton, Mass.
'43 Pvt. Henry O. Miller, Army, 875 Washington

Street, Haverhill, Mass.

(Cohliiitn il mi I'ui/r 'J)

The Leary kids — David
and Daniel, and the
baby, Robert. Their fath-
er is Lieut. Col. Dan
Leary '33.

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OBITUARIES

Lieut. Mason M. Gentry w'43

Lieut. Mason MacCabe Gentry, w'43, of the
Hampshire Regiment, British Army, died in Eng-
land on March 22, 1943. He left College about a
year ago to return to his home in England for
military service.

In College he won the Flint Oratorical prize. Last
year, he appeared with the Roister Doisters. He
was a member of Alpha Gamma Rho.

He is survived by his parents, and by relatives in
Turners Falls and Albany, N. Y.

The Collegian said, "The many friends he has left
behind will always cherish the memory of one who
so unselfishly made the supreme sacrifice."

John F. Hunt '78

John Franklin Hunt '78 died at his home in New-
ton on March 14, 1943. He was born December 5,
1858 at East Douglas, Mass.

After being graduated from the College he be-
came a civil engineer in railroad work and spent
many years in Texas superintending railroad con-
struction.

He returned to Boston, to superintend the con-
struction of the first steel building in that city. He
remained superintendent of the building until he
retired about 10 years ago. His wife survives him.

Herbert D. Hemenway '95

Herbert Daniel Hemenway '95 died at his home
in Holden on February 15, 1943. He was 70 years
old. He is survived by his wife, two sons, a daughter
(Truth Hemenway Fowler w'28) and four grand-
sons. Mr. Hemenway had been landscape architect
at the U. S. Veterans Hospital at Rutland, Mass., for
20 years until his retirement on February 1, 1943.

In College he was a member of the Shakespearean
Club.

Herbert Hemenway was an active horticulturist
and lecturer throughout his post-graduate life. He
was a director of the Hartford, Connecticut, School
of Horticulture, 1900-1906; president of the North-
ampton, Mass., Playground Association, 1910-1913;
educational and publicity agent for the National
War Garden Commission, 1918-19. He was a mem-
ber of the Northampton City Council, 1911-1913.
He was a member of the Massachusetts Horticultural
Society, the National Association of Gardeners, the
American Academic Society, Fortuny's Readers and
Writers Club.

He was the author of several garden books and
nature leaflets. For a time he was better homes
lecturer of the extension department of the Chicago
Art Institute.

MARRIAGES

'35 Miss Ruth L. Lindquist to Lieut. Philip O.
Swanson, March 20, 1943, at Monroe, Louisiana.

'40 and '41 Ensign Donald S. Mayo to Miss
Priscilla B. Archibald, March 12, 1943, at Cam-
bridge, Mass.

'40 and '40 Robert I. Sheldon to Miss Reaetta
Barbara Farnsworth, April 10, 1943, at Worcester,
Mass.

w'41 Miss Constance M. Nestle to Dr. Donald
Bashaw, February 27, 1943, at Amhsrst, Mass.

'42 Miss Helen A. Watt to Ensign James Houli-
han, March 30, 1943, at South Bend, Indiana.

BIRTHS

'27 A daughter, Ann Theresa, to Mr. and Mrs.
Frank J. Boden, March 16, 1943, at Springfield,
Mass.

'29 A son, Peter Thomas, to Mr. and Mrs.
Robert T. Pullar (Elizabeth Lynch '29), April 7,
1943, in New York City.

'34 A son, Francis John, to Lieut, and Mr-s.
Cornelius F. O'Neil, March 7, 1943, at Northampton,
Mass.

'37 and '37 A son, William Scott, to Major and
Mrs. James F. Cutter (Muriel Cain), April 5, 1943,
at Leavenworth, Kansas.

'37 A son, Barry Collins, to Capt. and Mrs.
Allan S. Ingalls, February 23, 1943, at Fort Ben-
ning, Georgia.

'37 A son, Martin Anthony, to Major and Mrs.
Anthony J. Nogelo, April 2, 1943, at Framingham,
Mass.

'39 and '41 A son, Richard Alan, to Mr. and
Mrs. Paul H. Haynes (Elizabeth M. Crafts '41),
February 9, 1943, at Southbridge, Mass.

'39 A son, John Prentice, III, to Mr. and Mrs.
John Howe (Phyllis MacDonald '39), March 7, 1943,
at Humbolt, Tennessee.

'40 A daughter, Judith, to Capt. and Mrs. John
E. Blasko, March 14, 1943, at Fort Riley, Kansas.

'40 A son, Shaun Michael, to Mr. and Mrs.
Robert F. Byrnes (Eleanor F. Jewell '40), March
9, 1943, at Cambridge, Mass.

'41 A son, Richard Graham, Jr., to Lieut, and
Mrs. Richard G. Crerie, March 7, 1943, at Fort
Benning, Georgia.

'03 Henry J. Franklin, who received his Ph.D.
degree from the College in 1908, is in charge of the
Cranberry Field Station of the Massachusetts Agri-
cultural Experiment Station, East Wareham, Mass.

'10 Frank Haynes operates a fruit farm in Stur-
bridge, Mass.

'11 Henry Morse is chief chemist of the water-
proof footwear division of the Endicott Johnson
Corp., Johnson City, New York.

'15 Philip Macy is chemist for the Robeson
Process Company, Erie, Penn. He is a member of
the American Chemical Society and of the Ameri-
can Leather Chemist's Association. Two of his sons
are chemical engineers; his third son is a sophomore
at Clarkson Tech and studying chemical engineering.
Cape May County, New Jersey.

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FAMILY ART SHOW

In Memorial Hall, during the month of March, the
annual Family Art Show was on display. As in
years past, the exhibit was assembled by Professor
Frank A. Waugh, but the works were hung by
Professor James Robertson, Jr. Professor Waugh
had gone to New York, and he never saw the show
on display.

There was an interesting variety in the exhibi-
tion— the work of Alumni, faculty, faculty wives,
and students.

The exhibitors were these:

Warren Mack FF, two wood cuts.

Mrs. Harvey Sweetman FW, four water colors.

Mrs. Wallace Powers FW, two water colors.

Mrs. James Fuller FW, two water colors.

Mrs. George E. Emery FW, charcoal drawing.

Mrs. Henry T. Fernald FW, two water colors.

James Robertson, Jr., F, water color, and
pen and ink sketch.

Dr. Frank A. Waugh F, three etchings.

A. Roger Chamberlain '27, seven water colors,
chalk and pen and ink drawings.

John P. Cone '32, lithographic crayon drawing.

Francis Aiberti '29, two crayon drawings.

Rebecca Field Jones w'27, six water colors.

Steve Hamilton w'31, three transparent oils.

Carl Gerlach G'37, three water colors.
Pencil drawings, and water colors by Aileen
Perkins '44 of Acushnet, Thomas Kane '45 of Wor-
cester, John Powell '43 of Brookfield, Kasha Thayer
'44 of Amherst, Frances Albrecht '43 of Somerville,
Irene Strong '45 of Chathamport, Helen Navoy '43
of Lawrence, Bernard Willemain '44 of Holyoke,
and Dorothy Hatch '45 of Amherst.

(Designations are these: G, graduate student;
FW, faculty wife; FF, former faculty; F, faculty.)

Water color sketch by Rebecca Field Jones w'27

'39 George Pereira has received his D.D.S. degree
from New York University and has entered practice
with his father in Holyoke, pending the time he re-
ceives orders to report for duty with the Army.

WITH THE ALUMMAE

by Mary E. Garvey '19

Justine Martin Hench '39 is living in Washington,
D. C, 1511 Franklin Street, N. E., and working for
the OPA as commodity specialist in the standards
division. She writes, "Living in Washington is like
a Mass. State reunion: Sally Wilcox Roberts '37 and
her husband, Ev-'37, live and work here. Ruth
Blassberg '37 is with WPB ; Pat Morse '39 is clerical
supervisor for Liberty Mutual; Helene Pelissier '40
is with the War Department; Marjorie Smith Stew-
art '40, and her husband, Lieut. Stewart, live here;
at OPA I frequently see Elmer Hallowell '37, who
is an economist there ; and I have seen a number of
the boys in service who are stationed in or near
Washington. My husband is beginning to feel like
an Alumnus himself."

Cornelia Church '28 is a librarian, subject special-
ist in science and technology, at the Worcester Free
Public Library.

Florence Duckering '34, M.D., is a physician at
the New York Hospital, New York City.

Peg Hutchinson Allen '36 (wife of Elmer Allen
'36) visited the campus recently with her brother,
Lieut. Charles W. Hutchinson '35.

At a joint meeting of the Massachusetts State
Home Economics and the Connecticut Valley Home
Economics Association held at the Hotel Sheraton
in Springfield Katherine Doran '40 was elected
treasurer of the state association.

Helen Smith '41 is librarian at Mount Hermon.

Kay Tully '41 has been appointed assistant editor
in the College News Service. She will work under
the direction of Francis C. Pray '31 who is now
transferred to the army teaching program for the
major part of his time.

Dorothy Youland '41 has been appointed to the
staff of dietitians at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in
Boston.

Ensign Margaret Clifford G, the first Northamp-
ton girl to be inducted into the WAVES, has com-
pleted her indoctrination course at Smith College
and several months of service in the Midshipmen's
School in Northampton and is now located at Hunt-
er College in New York.

A check for twenty dollars was recently received
from Evelyn Bergstrom '41, treasurer of the Boston
Alumnae Club. This amount has been deposited to
the credit of the Alumnae Loan Fund.

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LOTTA CRABTREE,
A STORY OF HER LIFE

Coast", by Constance Rourke (Harcourt, Brace and
Co., 1928). The pictures of Lotta and her mother
are from illustrations in the same book.

Lotta Crabtree, distinguished comedienne, has
come to be the most liberal monetary benefactor of
Massachusetts State College. Through her will,
drawn up some months before she died in 1924, a
fund of nearly half a million dollars was estab-
lished, the income from which was to be loaned to
graduates of the College who wished "to follow
agricultural pursuits but are without means to enter
upon the same." The fund further provided scholar-
ships "to assist needy and meritorious students in
completing their courses of study at the College".

Many Alumni have been recipients of the agri-
cultural loans. Names of students who have been
awarded Lotta Crabtree scholarships have appeared
from time to time in the Alumni Bulletin. The
scholarships are administered through a committee
of which Dean W. L. Machmer is chairman. Alumni
appointee to the committee is Ernest Russell '16 of
Hadley.

Alumni on the committee which considers appli-
cations for agricultural loans are Lewis Schlotter-
beck '16, 1 Vernon Street, Wakefield, and Daniel
W. O'Brien '14, 64 Lawrence Street, Waltham. The
Trustees of the Lotta Crabtree Estate have appoint-
ed Philip F. Whitmore '15 of Sunderland as their
field representative in the management of loans.

In addition to the fund for Alumni and students
at the College, Miss Crabtree's will also set up a
fund for the benefit of soldiers, sailors, and women
in the service of the United States in World War I.
There is another which provides hospital beds and
medical aid for the indigent. There are funds for
the rehabilitation of discharged convicts, for the
distribution of gifts at Christmas to the poor and
needy, for the care and relief of dumb animals.

There are other funds relating directly to the the-
atrical profession: for assistance to needy and de-
serving actors and performers, for four scholarships
annually at the New England Conservatory of
Music, for assistance in the education of talented
young women in the theatrical profession.

In comment upon her agricultural fund, Miss
Crabtree stated in her will, "I believe it my duty to
attempt to aid in some of the great social and eco-
nomic questions of the times, and it is ray belief
that the best method to reduce the cost and expense
of living and to provide a generally more prosperous
and large employment for the people lies in the
intelligent and active promotion of agricultural
pursuits".

From her early days in California, apparently,
Lotta Crabtree had come to love animals, particu-
larly horses. Her agricultural fund for Alumni of
the College was no doubt established partly be-
cause she felt the educated and intelligent student
of agriculture was likely better to understand the
care and keeping of animals.

The following brief sketch of Lotta's career was
prepared from references in "Troupers of the Gold

Lotta Crabtree was born in New York City in
1847. She had no background of the stage. Her
father, John Crabtree, was a Lancashire English-
man who owned a small bookshop on Nassau Street.
Dickens, it is said, once stopped there. Her mother,
before the marriage, was Mary Ann Livesey, also
of Lancashire stock, and had been engaged with her
twin sister, Charlotte, and their mother in the opera-
tion of a profitable drapery business in the city.

In 1852 foot-loose John Crabtree sailed for Cali-
fornia in search of gold; but "He never got any", his
wife said, tersely, in after years. In 1853 his wife
and daughter followed him from New York to the
Coast. On arrival in San Francisco they learned
from English friends that Crabtree had gone up into
the Sierras and left no message for them.

San Francisco in the '50's was an exciting city,
gaudy, polyglot, unconventional. Liquor flowed,
without restraint ; gambling was rampant. Through-
out the city, and in the hills and mines, the theatre
flourished. Mrs. Crabtree felt a strong attraction
in all this strange flamboyance — although she never
did approve it. In contrast to it, she also sensed her
daughter's charm. Lotta was a handsome child —
with bright red hair and coal black eyes, so black
the pupils hardly showed. Strangers — in the street
— would stop to stare at Lotta, to smile, and reach
a hand out toward her.

Word came, in time, from Crabtree — a message to
his wife to join him, with their daughter, at Grass
Valley, a town midway in the hills up the Sacra-
mento River. He had opened a boarding house — his
wife was to help in its operation. Here, as in
San Francisco, Mrs. Crabtree found herself on a
fringe of theatrical life. There were travelling
troupes among the hills, and the miners gave many
shows of their own. She heard the news and gossip
of the theatre, and vainly tried to assume indiffer-
ence. She thought she should distrust all actors —
those vagabonds.

Lola Montez

Then to Grass Valley, and "trailing a cloud of
legendary wickedness," came Lola Montez, the act-
ress, and her new husband, Patrick Hull. Lola liked
the Valley and decided she would stay. She soon
separated from the bridegroom; and the town might
have been expected to express disapproval. But it
did not. In fact, the miners named the highest peak
in the nearby towering range Mount Lola. Montez
was beautiful, kind, and charming — her cottage be-
came a gathering place for the women of the neigh-
borhood, and for the children. Lotta Crabtree was
one of the children; and in the little girl Lola
seemed to take a special interest.

Montez had been born Eliza Gilbert in Ireland.
Word of her "notorious alliances" in Continental
Europe — where she had been known as the Limerick
Countess and the Countess of Landsfeldt — had pre-
ceded her to America; in New Orleans and other

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cities en route to San Francisco she had acquired an
enthusiastic public for her acting and dancing. One
of her most startling performances was the spider
dance, in which she shook India rubber spiders
from off her costume.

Dancing Lessons

Lotta Crabtree spent days on end at the Montez
house — where she learned to dance and sing. Lola
was the delighted teacher, Lotta a quick and eager
pupil. Wide-eyed, Lotta also watched Lola smoke.
Many strolling players — witty and even brilliant —
stopped at Lola's house. Visiting with them, Lotta,
a retiring child, lost much of her natural shyness.

Lola Montez and Lotta took long horseback rides
through the hills — Lotta either riding on the saddle
in front of Lola or else astride a small pony at
Lola's side. Montez was an expert horsewoman; it
may have been she who first instilled in Lotta Crab-
tree a love for horses. One day, on one of their rides,
the two came to Rough and Ready, a mining camp
in the hills. Stopping at the blacksmith shop, the
whimsical Lola stood the child upon an anvil,
clapped her hands and sang while Lotta danced be-
fore a small crowd of curious loungers. Thus did
Lotta Crabtree first appear publicly, as an enter-
tainer.

Before long, Lotta and her mother set out from
the Valley — further into the hills. John Crabtree
had heard there was a lode worth investigating at
Rabbit Creek; he gave up his boarding house and
took his family to new but hardly different surround-
ings.

Meanwhile, Lola Montez decided to go to Australia
with a theatrical company. (There was a rumor,
too, that she was to become Empress of a seceded
Empire of California — but that proved only rumor.)
On her way back to San Francisco Montez rode to
Rabbit Creek and asked Mrs. Crabtree if Lotta
might not go with her. Mrs. Crabtree said "No" —
emphatically. When at length Montez returned to
San Francisco from Australia she took a huge iron
house on a high hill and filled it with curios —
among them a collection of tropical birds of bright
plumage. She herself would walk the streets, a
great white cockatoo perched on her shoulder. The
Crabtrees were, by then, in San Francisco too —
Lotta singing and dancing in various halls through-
out the city. But Mrs. Crabtree hid her child from
Montez. Lotta never saw Lola again.

Career Begins

Although the stage in California in 1850 was a
"gusty affair," nevertheless, it did offer opportunity
for women — and, in its time, for child actresses.
Mrs. Crabtree perceived this. Even while her hus-
band was wandering fruitlessly through the hills
and mining country she must have decided to cap-
italize on Lotta's promising talent.

At Rabbit Creek Mrs. Crabtree met one Mart
Taylor, a tall handsome Italian who owned the
saloon and a log theatre, and who conducted a danc-
ing school for the few children in the locality.

Taylor gave Lotta dancing lessons and was much
impressed by the child's abilities.

Dr. D. G. (Yankee) Robinson, trouper, theatrical
manager, and former associate of Barnum, came to
Rabbit Creek shortly after the Crabtrees had arrived
— with a group of actors, intending to give a show.
He had heard of Lotta and was interested in taking
the child under his management, in presenting her,
first, right there in Rabbit Creek. But Taylor, who
appointed himself to conduct the business arrange-
ments for Mrs. Crabtree, could come to no agree-

Lotta — in the 70's

ment with Robinson, with the result that Robinson
decided to put on his show with his own small
daughter, Sue, as the featured star — and not in
Taylor's log theatre, either. Taylor and Mrs. Crab-
tree made up their minds, quickly, to stage a show
of their own — with Lotta — to be given on the same
night as Robinson's performance.

Public announcements were sent out, the log the-
atre was made ready. Mrs. Crabtree hurried to sew
together a costume for Lotta — green knee breeches,
a green tail coat, a green top hat. Taylor cut a
small oak shillelah, fashioned the child a pair of
brogans. Then, when all was ready, and the theatre
full of expectant miners, little Lotta took the stage —
a tiny, green-clad figure. She laughed, she sang, she
waved her stick and danced an Irish jig and reel.
After the performance the wildly-pleased miners,
threw gold and silver dollars onto the stage, pouches
of gold dust, a gold slug worth fifty dollars. This
was 1855; Lotta was hardly 8 years old. But the
scene was to be repeated many times. Lotta Crab-
tree's career had begun.

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Lotta's Talent

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Robinson moved on, but his path — as that of an
opposition manager — was to cross the Crabtrees' in
the future. There would be other opposition, too —
from actresses and from other troupes who would
attempt the type of fresh, spontaneous entertain-
ment which was Lotta's talent, who would present
plays from the same repertoire as the Crabtrees'.
But, through it all, Lotta Crabtree grew to perfect
a light comedy technique which eventually would

Mary Ann Crabtree — in the
become a tradition in the American theatre. Fifty
and sixty years after Lotta had established herself
as a theatrical luminary, young actresses, famous per-
sonalities of their day, would strive to emulate her
fresh, disarming gayety as a comedienne.

Had Mary Ann Crabtree allowed Robinson to be-
come Lotta's manager, she and her daughter might
well have found their way easier in their early
travels in California. Not accepting the experienced
Robinson's offer was one of the few occasions on
which Mrs. Crabtree's guess was not a shrewd one.
Perhaps Taylor influenced her unduly that time. At
any rate, she and Taylor decided to form their own
theatrical group and take it on the road. Lotta was
to be the star; Taylor would sing, dance, play mu-
sical instruments. There would also be another mu-
sician. Taylor disposed of his Rabbit Creek prop-
erties, bought equipment, pack mules and horses,
and the company set out.

Bullets Fly

The Crabtree-Taylor troupe traveled from mining
camp to camp over narrow, treacherous trails.
Mostly they moved at night, and Lotta would sleep
tied to the back of her mule. The safety ropes were
dispensed with if the company traveled by daylight,
because the little girl already was adept as a rider.

In the wild country which the troupe traversed there
was danger from unfriendly Indians, from land-
slides, from bandits and highwaymen ; there was also
an ever-present danger at the performances in the
camps. The miners were accustomed to present
many entertainments of their own, where they would
display their own histrionic talents for the benefit of
their companions. They were, accordingly, a critical
experienced audience. If when a professional actor
would appear in a mining camp, and the audience
did not care for his exhibition, it was not uncommon
for the miners to take potshots with their pistols
at the unfortunate performer. Lotta never suffered
such a reception but she and her mother on at least
one occasion lay flat on the floor of their hotel room
while bullets whizzed back and forth through the
canvas walls as a running fight among miners moved
in and out of the hotel.

Traveling through the night the company would
stop at daybreak, a mile or so from the camp at
which a performance was to be given. Here they
would rest and refresh themselves. Taylor would
then precede the group into town, beat a drum and
call attention to the performance which was to be
given that evening. The others would follow him
into town, and give the show.

The shows were presented anywhere, in any place
the miners were accustomed to assemble — in saloons,
stores, in tiny theatres. Likewise, when the troupers
moved on into San Francisco and other California
cities, Lotta would appear in the gambling halls, bar-
rooms and other places frequented by the citizens
and the always-present, visiting miners.

Mary Ann Crabtree was a curious paradox — grim,
determined, shrewd, thrifty, aloof from her daugh-
ter's enchanted audiences, always firmly businesslike
with managers under whose guidance Lotta later
appeared. Yet it was she — and she alone — who in-
fused the little girl with a sparkling, sprightly ani-
mation. Lotta perhaps never altogether lost her
natural reticence, and Mrs. Crabtree often spent the
hour just before performance time — especially in
Lotta's younger days — to coax the child into a
proper mood and spirit for her song and dance.

To New York

After each performance Mrs. Crabtree carefully
swept the stage for every bit of gold dust which had
been tossed at Lotta's feet by the miners. She would
search for and pick up every single gold nugget,
every bit of jewelry, every coin. By the time Lotta
was 10 years old, at least 12 gold watches had been
thrown from the audience to the stage as tokens of
admiration. When Lotta was 20 and had moved on,
inevitably, to New York and the big cities of the
East, she and her mother had accumulated a com-
fortable fortune. The fortune grew. Mrs. Crabtree
had noted in the new cities and towns where they
played, particularly in California, that development
was taking place in definite directions. Shrewdly
she bought land and real estate — which investments
proved in later days that her calculations had been
wisely made.

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Meanwhile, Lotta extended and diversified her abili-
ties; she increased her repertoire of songs, learned
new dances, practiced acrobatic tricks which she
added to her routines. She learned to play the ban-
jo. She put on black face (minstrelsy was popular
at the time) and cavorted about the stage like an un-
inhibited Topsy. When finally she began to appear
in the so-called "legitimate" drama (first in Petalu-
ma in 1856) she would interpolate her parts in the
plays — most of which plays were, later, written for
her — with bits of apparently extemporaneous foolery,
with sly "asides", with mischievous gestures and
original mannerisms. She was to become, essentially,
a vaudeville, a variety actress. Her characterizations
had about them a hoyden quality. She surprised and
excited audiences with her unpredictable humor as
well as delighted and impressed them with her ability
as a singer and dancer. She broke all rules for con-
duct on the stage in the '70's — vivacious comedy was
not, at that time, for women to portray.

Mazeppa

Lotta smoked — perhaps Adah Menken provided
that inspiration. Menken had come to San Fran-
cisco, like Montez, amid great clouds of legend, and
forthwith had taken the city by storm. Her most
sensational performance was in the title part of
Mazeppa. The play, which was written from the
poetry of Byron (whose daughter Lola Montez was
said to have been), comes to a climax when Mazeppa
is tied to the back of a wild horse and carried away,
presumably to death. Menken invested this part
with considerable sensationalism by being divested of
most of her clothing when she was tied to the back
of the charger. Some critics felt that by thus "in-
augurating the nude drama" she had "broken down
the last barrier of theatrical decency". Be that as it
may, Menken was an actress of no inconsiderable
ability and intelligence; she could and did command
the respect of audiences in whatever part she played.
She wras a striking figure — even in San Francisco —
and it is notable that the exotic Menken and the de-
mure 16-years-old Lotta should have become fast
friends. They had common interests. Both were
fond of horses. Both were expert riders. Together
they rode along the paths by the Seal Walk, went to
the races together. In the theatre Menken wore
trousers, played men's parts. So did Lotta. It was
an unusual departure in that day. Menken smoked,
both on and off the stage; it is probable that from
her example Lotta seized upon this particular bit of
then-theatricalism.

Soon after she was 17 Lotta Crabtree was touring
the big eastern cities, with few intervals between en-
gagements. Her admirers became legion. It was not
uncommon for a host of them to meet her train, to
unharness the horses from her carriage and then,
themselves, take the shafts and draw her triumphant-
ly through the streets. She was entertained like, and
by, visiting royalty. Her stature as an actress in-
creased until the supreme compliment was paid her
by E. A. Sothern, following a benefit performance she
played in Philadelphia with him and other notables

of the stage. "She made all the rest of us seem like
actors," Sothern said.

Lotta Crabtree retired from the stage in 1891. She
bought a house, with extensive grounds, in New Jer-
sey, and lived there with her mother for a number
of years. She had a large stable, and at least one of
her race horses was a famous prize winner of the
day.

Life in Boston

Her mother died in 1905. Her two brothers died;
one was lost at sea. Lotta went to live in Boston.
She spent a great deal of her time painting. She had
learned to paint in Paris on a brief trip to Europe
on which her mother had taken her years before. She
met with many friends. She was not alone in life,
but doubtless she was lonely. She had never mar-
ried. There had been reports, from time to time, of
romantic attachments — but apparently Lotta never
had the time for marriage. She had been too busy
in the theatre — rehearsing, playing, traveling. Per-
haps her mother, too, had discouraged the idea of a
husband for Lotta.

Lotta Crabtree had friends, but no real intimates.
Again, perhaps her career had interfered. At her
death, in 1924, she left a carefully-detailed will in
which she provided annunities for her few last living
relatives in England. The remaining bulk of her for-
tune— well earned through her great talent, and care-
fully preserved through her mother's foresight — was
left to strangers, to men and women whom Lotta had
never known, and to various charities in whose bene-
factions she had a genuine and natural interest. All
this seemed fitting. From strangers Lotta's wealth
had been received, and to strangers it was to be re-
turned.

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'40 Pvt. John R. O'Neill, Army, 193 Walnut Street,

Holyoke, Mass.
'43 Midshipman John Podmayer, U.S.N.R., West

Hatfield, Mass.
'36 Lieut. Harry D. Pratt, Army, 125 Hall Street,

North Adams, Mass.
'42 Pvt. Edward M. Rosemark, Army, 57 Supple

Road, Dorchester, Mass.
'41 Aux. Patience M. Sanderson, WAAC, 84 Hast-
ings Street, West Roxbury, Mass.
'43 Midshipman Harry W. Sloper, U.S.N.R., 51

Union Street, Pittsfield, Mass.
w'34 Lieut. Francis G. Trow, Army, Buckland,

Mass.
'43 Midshipman John H. Vondell, Jr., U.S.N.R., 80

Fearing Street, Amherst, Mass.
w'45 Pvt. Stanley E. Waskiewicz, Army, 16 Eames

Avenue, Amherst, Mass.

Lieutenant Colonel Silas Williams '12 has three
sons in the Armed Forces.

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ATHLETICS

Swimming

Ed (Bud) Hall '44 of Worcester (brother of
Martha Hall '42) is captain-elect of the swimming
team. A collection of Hall's medals, won at inter-
collegiate swimming meets, was recently put on
display in Goodell Library. There were 38 of
them — and they filled a good-sized case. These are
not all the medals Hall has won; but he couldn't
seem to find some of the others when Librarian
Wood was ready to make up the exhibition.

Coach Joe Rogers shares the opinion of another
nationally-known swimming coach to the effect that,
"Hall is the most amazing swimmer in the world."
"If we had another year", Joe thinks, "and could get
his tonsils out and get him back in shape he'd be the
fastest man in the country in the 100-yard free
style. Maybe he'd be the fastest right up through
the 500. It takes experience, though. It's experience
that made him a champion in the Ivy League this
year. There's no telling where he'd go another."
But Bud is a junior officer in the advanced ROTC
course, and may go into the Service at the end of
this college semester.

Hall was a double winner, in the 50 and 100-yard
free style at the Eastern Intercollegiate Meet at
Harvard on March 19 and 20 — against competition
from Columbia, Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Army,
Navy, Cornell, Penn and Dartmouth as well as
smaller colleges in the East.

At the National Meets, at Columbus, Ohio, on
March 26, he placed 4th in what, at a horse race,
would have been a photo-finish. "If he had been
more experienced, he would have been first," the
coach is sure.

At the New England meet, at Amherst, on March
12 and 13, Hall set championship records for the
New England's of 23.4 in the 50-yard free style and
of 52.2 in the 100.

George Tilley '43, of Holyoke, captain of the
swimming Statesmen took second in the backstroke
at the New England meet — no mean accomplish-
ment. Tilley earlier set a new Massachusetts State
pool and college record for the 150-yard backstroke
of 1:43, breaking his own college record of 1:44.9
and his pool record of 1:45, both of which times he
set last year.

The 400-yard relay team — composed of Luther
Gare '43 of Northampton (son of Ed Gare '15),
Max Niedjela '45 of Hadley, Tilley, and Hall — did
3:43.9 last winter, thereby breaking the previous
pool and college record of 3:45.7.

And speaking, again, of the backstroke, Joe
Rogers says, "Ruthie Howarth is one of the best
two or three backstrokers in the world — among the
women. She's also pretty swell at the free style and
the breast stroke." Ruth, who plans to finish her
undergraduate work during this coming summer
semester, looks forward to swimming in amateur
events in New Jersey — where her parents live —
next fall and winter. You might watch for her name
in the papers.

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Colonel Charles A. Romeyn, former commandant
of the R.O.T.C. unit at the College, is now located
in Washington, D. C, 2480-16th street N.W. Colonel
Romeyn recently wrote to the Alumni Office,
and sent "warmest regards to my old friends".

The War Department citation, when Lieutenant
Edward W. Higgins '38 (now captain) received the
Distinguished Flying Cross, read as follows:

For extraordinary achievement while participat-
ing in aerial flights from the United States to the-
aters of operation in Africa, India, and the Near
East, between July 21 and October 15, 1942. As
ferrying pilot, Lieutenant Higgins exhibited untiring
energy, initiative, meticulous care, and a high de-
gree of professional skill during the course of four
flights of aircraft to foreign bases. The four flights
represented total flying time of over 200 hours and
were completed without mishap despite the hazards
of long overwater travel and the lack of navigation
and weather aids in some areas of Africa and India.
One of the flights covered 11,748 miles and was
negotiated in an elapsed time of 67 hours and 35
minutes, a new record for delivery of aircraft over
such a great distance. By these flights, Lieutenant
Higgins established a high level of performance in
the delivery of combat airplanes to strategic war
areas, and his unwavering devotion to duty reflects
great credit upon the Army Air Forces.

'22 Edwin Burnham is an inspector with the
Hamilton Standard Propellors Company of Hart-
ford, Connecticut. His home address is R. F. D. 4,
East Hartford. He owns and operates a growing
general insurance agency.

'26 Alan Flynn is principal of the Sudbury, Mass.,
high school.

'28 Harold Clark is chemist with the Pineapple
Research Institute of Honolulu. Pineapples are one
of the staple fruits used in huge quantities for the
Armed Services.

'37 John F. Hanson, teaching fellow in entomol-
ogy at the College, has received the fellowship of
the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation for research
in entomology.

'39 Leo LeClair is now with the Office of War
Information. He expects soon to be sent overseas.
His address is 136 West 13th Street, New York City.

'36 John Danaczko is an instructor in explosives
at Purdue University and is attached to the Kings-
bury Arsenal at LaPorte, Indiana.

'40 James Sanderson is research chemist with
the American Cyanamid Company in Stamford,
Conn.

'40 Dick Muller is an engineer for Lockheed Air-
craft Corporation at Burbank, Calif. After being
graduated from the College he attended Thayer
School of Engineering at Dartmouth.

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FANNING'S EXPERIENCES

Concluded, here-, is the Boston Traveler's account
of the battle experiences of Lieutenant Francis T.
Fanning '39, U.S.N.R.

ACADEMICS

Ask Lt. Francis Thomas Fanning of Milton, turret
officer on the heavy cruiser Northampton, and a
survivor of her sinking and many other major en-
gagements in the Pacific, what he likes especially
about the Navy and he will list for you these items
in just about this order:

Flashlights, Too

The calm, dogged Navy fighting men who, al-
though they may have never been in contact with
the enemy before, are veterans from the time the
first shot is fired, and who never falter.

Hard-hitting, eight-inch Navy turret rifles. The

containers in which eight-inch shells are

shipped and stored.

Pocket flashlights.

All these figure as reasons why Fanning survived
engagement after engagement without a scratch,
and was able to get home on leave a short time ago,
a seasoned sea fighter at 28 years.

He had been at Wotje, Wake, Midway and the
Solomons, as well as other places which cannot be
mentioned for reasons of security, when he found
himself in the middle of a night battle off Guadal-
canal.

Shooting Starts

"We were with other ships off Guadalcanal," Fan-
ning said. "It was mid-November. We knew the
Japs would come down from the North and make a
try at landing more men and supplies in their at-
tempts to hold Guadalcanal positions.

"Pitch dark. Not a light showing anywhere.

And then the shooting started.

"I wish I could tell about it clearly, but it was just
noise and confusion from all sides. The Navy has
already made it clear how important that scrap was.
We claimed a Japanese battleship. Somewhere be-
tween 20,000 and 40,000 Japanese troops were
drowned when their transports were hit and went
down under our guns. The Jap fleet scattered and
disappeared in the night. The landing was pre-
vented."

Not many days later, the end came for the North-
ampton.

"We were in the same area," Fanning said. "The
Japs were out to try another landing on Guadal-
canal. We were set to intercept them, and met them
at night. Same racket; same confusion, but the
Navy said we sank nine Japanese ships.

"It was a small attack, and it started about 11

P.M. We were north of Guadalcanal in the

Savo Island ana. steaming along, when the

shooting started. We had gotten several salvos

off and »' /•• looking for further targets when

,r, ,ri n hit.

"Some thought it was one torpedo. I thought it
was two, the explosion was such a long, sustained
noise.

Roister Doisters

In these days of priorities, troop movements, and
surprise blackouts, changes and revisions of schedule
occur almost without warning, and over-night. No
different from the OPA, the Army, or the OCD are
the Roister Doisters, who, after having decided upon
Saroyan's Afton Water as the commencement play —
and having cast the play, changed their minds. The
play — now — for sure — will be The Distaff Side. We
hope you like it. The date — not changed — is Satur-
day evening, May 22nd.

"It's a funny thing about torpedoes at night.
You can see the wakes from the phosphorous
effect, but you can't see 'em soon enough to
dodge them, usually.

"Fire broke out immediately, and we in the rear
were cut off from the bridge and most of the rest of
the company. There were no communications, and
we couldn't get through.

"We tried to control the fire, but couldn't. Ready
ammunition on the topside kept exploding, which
didn't help any. Where we were, we started to
put men overboard at once. The fantail was
low, and most could jump. We loivered some
wounded on lines.

"At this time, there were no more shots in our
direction, and I believe it was because all the Jap-
anese craft were sunk. The marines said afterward
no landing was made, and the Navy reported we got
two large destroyers or cruisers, four other destroy-
ers, two transports and a supply ship.

"When I was sure everybody was off our part
of the ship, I jumped too. It was tough getting
around. The ship was listing, and the deck was
slippery with spilled oil. I could swim, and I
didn't have any life jacket. I thought I wouldn't
need one, but I found out differently.
"What saved me was a can — a container for an
eight-inch shell. The cover makes them water
tight, and the one that saved me saved two
others from the ship — Bill Williams, the chief
radio man, an old timer, and a young seaman
named Gookin. I had never known him before.
"We were floating, and there were still no lights,
but we knew we were drifting away. It was getting
to be a question of whether we'd ever be picked up
at all.

"Then I discovered both the men with me had
flashlights. For some reason, they were work-
ing. We didn't have anything to lose by show-
ing a light, so we did. And after what seemed
Kke many hours, but was probably not more
than two hours, a whale boat from a destroyer
spotted our light, came along, and picked us
up, and that's why I'm here."

"Going back to the South Pacific for more?" the
Milton lieutenant was asked.

"I sure hope so," was the response. "The water
is nice and warm down there."

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'32 Victor Pineo is with the National Bureau of
Standards in Washington, D. C.

'39 Frank Kingsbury is 4-H Club Agent in Coos
County, New Hampshire, with headquarters at Lan-
caster. He says, "My work is very pleasant up here
in the White Mountains — and they are white, too."

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GRADUATION—SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 23

The program and exercises will he interesting — Alumni are cordially invited to attend

SERVICE STATISTICS

As of April 1, 1943, records of Alumni in Uni-
form showed 983 men and women in the Service.
This number was divided into two groups. The first
included graduates and non-graduates in all classes
up to and including the class graduated in January,
1943. The second group is of students in the classes
of '43, '44, '45, and '46 who left College during the
past several months.

GROUP I

Army

Privates

Corporals

Sergeants

Second Lieutenants

First Lieutenants

Captains

Majors

Lieutenant Colonels

Colonels

WAACs

Aviation Cadets

Army Nurse Corps

98
35
22

218

Total

Enlisted Men

Ensigns

Lieutenants (junior

grade )

Lieutenants (senior

grade )

Lieutenant Commanders

Aviation Cadets

WAVES

Navy Nurse Corps

Total

arines

Privates

Corporals

Second Lieutenants

First Lieutenants

634

120

Coast Guard

Enlisted Men (students)

Ensigns

Lieutenants

Total
Seabees
Merchant Marine

Total

GROUP II

Army

Navy

Privates

Corporals

Sergeants

Second Lieutenants

Aviation Cadets

Total

Enlisted Men
Ensigns
Aviation Cadets

Total
;s

Privates
Second Lieutenants

Total

13
2
1

782

160
4
2
6

180

Grand Total

201
782

983

Total

Alumni in uniform who, on furlough, have called
recently in the Alumni Office are these:

Lieut. Richard Cressy '42, Seaman Fred S. Troy
'31, Lieut. Philip J. Spear '37, Pvt. Michael Frodyma
'42, Lieut. R. J. Roffinoli '41, Lieut. William S.
Coffey '41, Cpl. William E. Bosworth, Jr., '31, Lieut.
Robert Fisher '37, Cpl. Chester L. Murray w'28,
Lieut. Paul White '42, Lieut. Charles Hutchinson
'35, Aviation Cadet Richard Smith '42, Capt. Ray-
mond Smart '39, Lieut. Henry Riseman '35, Pvt.
Barton Allen w'43.

THE ALUMNI
BULLETIN

ANGLER

MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

AMHERST, MASSACHUSETTS

Vol. XXV, No. 8

May, 1943

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN
MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

George E. Emery '24, Editor
Published monthly at Amherst. Mass. (except August and
September) by the Associate Alumni of Massachusetts State College.
Entered as second class matter. March 17. 1920. at the Postofnce
at Amherst. Mass.. under the Acts of March 3. 1S79.

OFFICERS OF ASSOCIATE ALUMNI OF
MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

President. Albert W. Smith '22 of Springfield
Vice-President, William V. Hayden '13 of Newton Center
Secretary. Mar=hall O. Lanphear 'IS of Amherst
Treasurer. Clark L. Thayer '13 of Amherst
Executive Secretary. George E. Emery '24 of Amherst

BOARD OF DIRECTORS
to 1943

Harry Dunlap Brown '14, ex-officin, of Billerica
William L. Doran '15 of Amherst

Mary E. M. Garvey '19 of Amherst
Lawrence L. .Tones '26 of North Beverly

Edward J. Gare. Jr. '15 of Northampton
to 1944
Donald C. Douglass '21 of Belmont

Norman D. Hilyard '23 of Springfield

John W. McGuckian '31 of Roslindale

Arthur D. Tilton 'IS of Woburn
to 1945
Alden C. Brett '12. ex-offieio. of Belmont
Alan W. Chadwick '31 of Amherst

Evelyn Davis Kennedy '26 of Belmont
Starr M. King '21 of Beverly

Lewis Schlotterbeck '16 of Wakefield
to 1946
John S. Cro~bv '25 of Arlington

Ethel Blatchford Purnell '34 of Bridgeport

Ralph S. Stedman '20 of Springfield

H. Sidney Vaughan '30 of Worcester

The Alumni Bulletin is sent ten times each year to all members
of the Associate Alumni. Memberships are: Annual S3. 00. Sustain-
ing SI 0.00.

Cover picture — Larry Swift '22 tries a North Am-
herst trout brook.

— Photo by Don Lacroix '22

PRESIDENT BAKER ATTENDS
C. OF C. MEETING

MURRAY LINCOLN '14 IS DELEGATE
TO FOOD CONFERENCE

President Hugh P. Baker attended the meetings
of the United States Chamber of Commerce in New
York City the latter part of April. He is a member
of the special committee on Public Domain of that
body. Before coming to the College he was manager
of the Trade Association Department of the U. S.
Chamber of Commerce, from 1928-1930.

'11 Dr. Clarence A. (Skip) Smith is technical
director of the special products department of Stand-
ard Brands, Inc., 595 Madison Avenue, New York
City. 0. B. Briggs '09 is assistant manager of that
department; he is presently in California on a vaca-
tion.

'32 Hans VanLeer operates a market garden and
dairy farm in South Lincoln, Mass. He writes, "Here
we are busy trying to raise more crops with less help
— and the weather is not cooperating. I should like
to pick up another job now, but I am frozen to the
cows."

In the Boston Globe of May 9th, Louis Lyons '18
wrote about the appointment of Murray D. Lincoln
'14 to the International Food Conference. Excerpts
from the Lyons article are these.

America is to have a Lincoln at the International

Food Conference next week. A distant connection of

the emancipator, Murray D. Lincoln is only a quarter

inch shorter and has hands as large and as gangling

a form.

* * *

It is as a county agent (the first in Connecticut)
that Murray Lincoln has attained the distinction that
brings him to this world food conference, the only
non-governmental member of the five United States
delegates.

As a private citizen at the negotiations intended
to provide the world's people with food, Murray
Lincoln represents consumer as well as farmer, for
he has made his mark as a promoter of co-operatives,
for consumers as well as for farmers.

Long recognized as one of the leaders in the co-
operative movement in America, Murray Lincoln
built his first cooperative in Brockton, one of the
very first co-operative milk plants and to this day
one of the most successful. Curiously, Lincoln began
this cooperative effort as the loan agent of a bank —
the Plymouth County Trust Company — and it was
as a banker in Ohio that he later developed his
program.

He finally left a comfortable bank job to become
head of the Ohio State Farm Bureau. In that posi-
tion his service to the farmer in terms of low-rate
credit, automobile and fire insurance and fertilizer
and feed purchases became known far beyond the
boundary of Ohio.

He was a roommate (in College) of the present
Massachusetts Commissioner of Agriculture, Louis
A. Webster. These two, as seniors, organized a new
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CLASSES TO BUY WAR BONDS

In lieu of allocating a sum from their class funds
for reunion expenses, officers of four reunion classes
have felt it advisable, this year, to invest that money
in U. S. War Bonds. Members of the classes — 1933,
1938, 1940, and 1942 — have responded enthusiastic-
ally to the idea, in replies which have been coming
to the Alumni Office.

The class of 1928, also, is circularizing its mem-
bers— through secretary Eetty Morey Kay — relative
to the same plan.

Reunions at commencement time will be, for the
most part, informal; but the 55-year class, and the
50-year class each look forward to good representa-
tions on campus. Herbert C. Bliss is making ar-
rangements for 1888, and John R. Perry for 1893.

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COLLEGE WAR INFORMATION
SERVICE

ALUMNI IN UNIFORM

At the outbreak of the war the Federal Govern-
ment established War Information key centers at
designated colleges throughout the United States.
Massachusetts State College was one of the colleges
selected, and Professor Arnold Rhodes was here ap-
pointed director. Failure by the government to sup-
port the center and the resignation of Professor
Ehodes caused an early temporary abandonment of
the project.

The project was re-established by President Baker
in December, 1942, as a regular service of the Col-
lege; and he appointed Lawrence S. Dickinson '10,
assistant professor of agrostology, as the director.

The College War Information Center is now firmly
established on campus and is beginning to make its
influence felt about the State, supplementing the
work of the Extension Service by opening a new field
of service. Leaders, not lecturers, can be obtained
through the service for discussion meeting by any
organization or community group in the State. Dis-
cussion subjects range from taxes through raticning
and into the post-war problems.

On the campus, the service furnishes the geogra-
phy classes of the CoP.ege Training Detachment
( army air corps) with a weekly summary map of
world events, notes for the Extension Service publi-
cation "Program Hints", a regular sheet of its own
called Ration Tips, a clipping service, and notifica-
tion of releases regularly to the various departments.
Posters are also distributed. Students use the serv-
ice for required reference reading and many because
they personally want to know about the war in a
broad way.

Room 20, Stockbridge Hall, h s been arranged as
the information center, and there can be found back-
ground material for almost any subject pertinent to
the world situation. There is an unusual collection
of pamphlets and information issued by the allied
nations and countries in exile; copies of famous and
important speeches; a large globe and many maps,
and posters. Also, there are regular releases from
government offices, labor organizations, and the
many associations particularly interested in world
affairs. The information center is affiliated with a
film service association.

The College War Information Service will be espe-
cially glad to help Alumni who are arranging club
and association programs.

Gunnar Erickson '19, college business officer,
looked up from the quadruplicate forms he was sign-
ing— last December — as ciders for some of the spe-
cial material for the information center, and said,
"If Dickinson is going to take this over, he'll do a
good job." Erickson was right.

'39 Merton F. Wilson received his M.D. degree
from the University of Chicago in April. He will
intern at the Cincinnati, Ohio, General Hospital and
after a year there will be asigned to the Service.

Following, below, are additions to the service
roster since the last issue of the Alumni Bulletin.
Any information which will correct or amplify this
record will be gratefully received by the Alumni
Office.

Mail sent to these men, and women, at the ad-
dresses below, or to the Alumni Office, will be for-
warded promptly.

'42 2nd Lieut. Leslie R. Benemelis, Air Force, 236

Sargeant Street, Holyoke, Mass.
'36 Lieut. Arnold C. Briere, Army, 25 Franklin

Street, Lynn, Mass.
'40 Lieut. Morris H. Burakoff, Air Force, 16 Poplar

Street, Boston, Mass.
w'46 Private George E. Burgess, Jr., Army, 53

Willis Street, New Eedford, Mass.
'36 Lieut. Robert B. Clark, Air Force, 107 Billings

Street, Sharon, Mass.
w'46 Aviation Student Robert F. Crerie, Air Force,

58 Hadwen Road, Worcester, Mass.
\v'44 Aviation Student Frank A. Duston, Air Force,

26 Hazelwood Avenue, Longmeadow, Mass.
'38 Private Eleanor D. Fahey, Women's Marine

Corps, 133 Highland Avenue, Winthrop, Mass.
'36 Private Carleton F. Fenton, Army, 55 Centen-
nial Avenue, Revere, Mass.
w'45 Aviation Student Gordon Fisher, Jr., Aii-
Force, 58 Wyman Street, Woburn, Mass.
w'44 Aviation Student David M. Freedman, Aii-
Force, 91 Georgia Street, Roxbury, Mass.
'41 Private Stephen F. Gooch, Army, 405 Houghton

Street, Clarksburg, Mass.
'42 Cadet Dorothy A. Grayson, U.S.C.G.R. ( W) , 91

Cottage Street, Amherst, Mass.
'34 2nd Lieut. Fanny A. Hager, Army Nurse Corps,

Main Street, South Deerfield, Mass.
'37 Lieut, (jg) Erving D. Hardy,, U.S.N.R., 107

Brookline Street, Worcester, Mass.
w'45 Private Brooks R. Jakeman, Army, 81 Hickory

Grove Drive, Larchmont, New York.
'33 Auxiliary Eunice M. Johnson, WAAC, Reservoir

Street, Holden, Mass.
w'45 Aviation Student Ransford W. Kellogg, Air

Force, 30 Loomis Street, Westfield, Mass.
w'45 Aviation Student John W. Kelly, Air Force, 16

Dana Street, Northampton, Mass.
'35 Lieut, (jg) Leslie C. Kimball, U.S.N.R., West

Pelham, Mass.
w'45 Aviation Student William E. Litz, Jr., Air

Force, 38 State Street, Monson, Mass.
'40 Auxiliary Nancy E. Luce, WAAC, 39 Goodrich

Street, Fitchburg, Mass.
'34 Auxiliary Kathleen J. MacDonald, WAAC, 1

Union Street, Greenfield, Mass.
'25 Lieut. Charles R. McGeoch, Air Force, 155

Hawthorne Street, Maiden, Mass.
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OBITUARIES

David Oliver Nourse '83

From Mountainville, New York, has come word
of the death there on April 11, 1943, of David Oliver
Nourse. He was 81 years old. He and I were to-
gether in the Bolton, Mass. high school; he was my
chum during our four years in College. A better
chum no student ever had.

Upon his graduation he took a position at the just-
established Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment
Station. In 1884 he was engaged to be superintendent
of orchards for the Connecticut Valley Orchards
Company of Berlin, Conn., where he supervised the
setting out of 30,000 fruit trees. In 1886 he returned
to his home farm in Bolton, then, two years later,
accepted a position at the Agricultural Experiment
Station of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute at
Blacksburg, Va. From 1891 until 1906 he was pro-
fessor of agriculture at the Institute, also agricul-
turist of the Experiment Station and manager of the
college farm.

From 1907 until 1911 he was professor of animal
husbandry at Clemson College, S. C, and during the
winter of 1910-11 he assisted in the conduct of poul-
try feeding experiments of the Rhode Island Agri-
cultural Experiment Station. In the spring of 1910
he took over the management of his previously pur-
chased fruit farm near Newburgh, N. Y.

Professor Nourse developed and built up the agri-
cultural work at Blacksburg, placed the farm on a
paying basis. In 1893 he built a creamery from farm
profits, six years later he built and equipped one of
the best-planned college barns in the country. He
increased the number of pedigreed stock on the farm
— turning over to his successor ample herds of a
number of breeds. During his sixteen years in Vir-
ginia he published 21 bulletins of practical informa-
tion for farmers.

On July 29, 1930, the Polytechnic Institute,
through its Board of Visitors, and the faculty of the
School of Agriculture, "having observed the distin-
guished achievements of David Oliver Nourse", con-
ferred upon him a special "testimonial in recognition
of his meritorious services in promoting the develop-
ment of agriculture and the interests dependent
thereon." It was stated, "his invaluable and lasting
services to Virginia, his able, constructive work in
the development of scientific agriculture, and his
noble characteristics of a Christian gentleman, loyal
citizen, and earnest and efficient teacher make it
fitting that he should be honored with a certificate
of merit."

No mention of the life and work of David Nourse
would be complete without recognition of his able,
helpful, and cheerful wife. Two or three years after
her death her husband disposed of his farm and
moved to Mountainville.

Dr. Joseph B. Lindsey '83 called Nourse one of our
"most successful graduates engaged in agriculture."
I knew him for half a century; I believe that a man
with higher ideals and a kindlier spirit than David

Nourso could not be found. His many friendly deeds
and his spirit will long be remembered by those who
knew him best.

Homer J. Wheeler '83

Melvin H. Pingree '99

On March 23, 1943, in Baltimore, Maryland, Mel-
vin Pingree died suddenly after a brief illness of
coronary thrombosis.

He was born in Hiram, Maine, 71 years ago. He
came to Massachusetts as a young man, and entered
Massachusetts State College in 1895. During much
of his college career he was identified with the Ex-
periment Station, where he remained for a year or
two after graduation in 1899. Going from Amherst
to Pennsylvania State College, he taught chemistry
for a period and then, some 36 years ago, became
chemist at the American Agricultural Chemical
Company of Baltimore, in which position he contin-
ued to his death, serving his company with distinc-
tion over this long period.

Mr. Pingree will be missed by a large circle of
friends. He was of a particularly happy and friend-
ly disposition, of great enthusiasms and loyalties,
and possessing a keen sense of humor, which was
reflected in his relish of the sparkle of life.

He is survived by his widow, Anne, daughter of
Reverend J. V. Lintell of Amherst, whom he married
in 1901; also by a daughter, Hope (Mrs. Russell
Rieblich), of Ruxton, Maryland.

Mr. Pingree was long identified with the St. John's
Methodist Church of Luthervil'e, Maryland, which
he served as treasurer for the past 20 years. At the
funeral a previous pastor of the Church used as a
theme a quotation concerning Barnabas, to which his
classmates heartily subscribe, — "He was a good
man!"

Bernard H. Smith '99

Mrs. Lucia G. Church

Mrs. Lucia G. Church who ssrved Massachusetts
State College as secretary of the Experiment Station
continuously since 1911 died on April 24, 1943. Her
idealisms had a signi leant part in the development
of sound administrative s'andards for the entire re-
search program throughout her 32 years of employ-
ment. Her daily activities exemplified those quali-
ties of character which are difficult to define but
which play an important part in the success of any
venture where human re'ationships are concerned.

Her courage was well expressed in the sacrifices
made in providing her family with a delightful home
and all the opportunities that a good home should
supply. In industry and loyalty, she was never con-
fused and the requirements of her employment and
the interests of her associates always received first
consideration. Her honesty, in word and deed, set
a standard that might well have become the envy of
every member of the staff with whom she had official
contact.

She had interests in flowers and birds but these
were known only to her closest friends. She thor-
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THE ALUMNI BULLETIN

WITH THE ALUMMAE

by Mary E. Garvey '19

Margaret Robinson '41 is home economics exten-
sion representative in Pennsylvania. Her address is
1740 North Main Street, Scranton.

ALUMNA IN UNIFORM

Ensign Gerry Bradley '39, R.N.
Navy Nurse Corps

Sylvia Winsor
Moseley '36 is
living at the
farm at Acush-
net, Mass. Her
husband, Walt
Moseley '37, is
in the Army and
stationed, at
present, in
Georgia.
She writes, "We
now have two
children — a
daughter, Caro-
line, almost four
years old, and a
son, Walter
Winsor, born last
Christmas day.
What with the
farm and two
children I am
sligh tly busy."

Beryl M. Simpson w'22 has been promoted from
3rd to 2nd officer in the WAACs. She is stationed
at Camp Polk, Louisiana.

Helen Lubach '36, 11 Royal Road, Mattapan,
Mass., has written about a letter she received from
Janina Czajkowski '36, who said, "My assignment is
to manage a service club, cafeteria, and luncheon-
ette ... In addition to the usual duties of a dieti-
tian I have millions of others ... I have five
WAACS — army details — civilians and enlisted men
working for me." Janina is stationed at Fort
George G. Meade, Maryland.

Marion Hoye '41 is secretary of the Taunton,
Mass., Rationing Board. Her address is 39 Granite
Street, Taunton.

Ensign Gerry Bradley '39, of the Navy Nurse
Corps, called at the Alumni Office when she was
home in Amherst on a 48-hour leave from the U. S.
Naval Hospital at St. Albans, New York.

She said, "My psychology major has come in real
handy combined with my nursing education for I've
been teaching and supervising for five months in
the psychiatric wards. In three weeks I have to try

to get across to the corpsmen what it took me seven
years to absorb !"

Scuttlebutt has it that Gerry may soon be assigned
overseas — she hopes.

Harriette Jackson '34 was recruiting member of
the WAAC Caravan Show which appeared in
Springfield early in May.

Solveig Liljegren '38 is editorial assistant with
Houghton Mifflin Company, 2 Park Street, Boston.

Zoe Hickney White '32 is now in Honey Grove,
Texas; 805 West Market. She packed in a hurry
when her husband, Capt. Edwin T. White '31, was
ordered from Fort Riley to Texas.

ALUMNA IN UNIFORM

Polly Hillberg
Ryan '34 is em-
ployed in the
production de-
partment of one
of the naval
ordnance plants
of General Elec-
tric in Pittsfield,
Mass.

Irene Johnston

'41 is service
representative
for the New
England Tele-
phone Company.
Her address is
18 Main Street,
Easthampton.

Elizabeth
Brown Simpson
'41 is office
manager of the
Fruehauf Trail-
er Company,

East Hartford, Conn. Her husband, Donald Simp-
son '41, is studying for his Bachelor of Divinity de-
gree at the Hartford Seminary Foundation.

Ensign Stella Crowell '38, WAVES

Janice Munson Smith '33 called at the Alumni
Office recently when she visited her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Willard A. Munson '05, in Amherst.
Janice lives at Alden Park Manor, Apt. 503 A,
Germantown, Pennsylvania. She is secretary of her
class and made arrangements, when in Amherst,
whereby a notice would be sent to all her classmates
suggesting postponement of a 10th reunion until
"after the duration."

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ALUMNI ENGAGED IN
ENTOMOLOGICAL WORK

Dr. G. Chester Crctmpton
"Crampie"

Charles Henry Fernald, for whom the "ent build-
ing", headquarters for the department of entomol-
ogy at the College, was named, has been called the
father of economic entomology in this country.

In 1886 he came to the College when the depart-
ment of entomology was founded. In 1889 he was
placed in charge of a state-wide campaign against
injurious insect pests — when potential danger from
such pests began to be realized.

Ten years later a second
member was added to the
college entomology staff —
Henry T. Fernald, son of
the man who had developed
the department. Under di-
rection of Henry Fernald,
the work in entomology,
and the number of avail-
able courses, was greatly
expanded. Professor Fern-
ald, the elder, retired from
active work in 1910; he
died in Amherst on Febru-
ary 22, 1921. His achieve-
ments were honored on September 30, 1938 when a
bronze plaque was placed upon the south wing of
the old math building, where entomology was first
taught on the campus. Alumni, faculty, and friends,
gathered for the ceremony.

Dr. Henry T. Fernald is now retired, professor
emeritus of entomology, and is living with his wife
at Winter Park, Florida. He celebrated his 77th
birthday in April.

Dr. Charles P. Alexander (who came to the Col-
lege in 1922), present head of the department,
Dr. G. Chester Crampton (who came in 1911), and
a capable staff, are ably carrying on the work initi-
ated by the Fernalds — to the end that the American
Council on Education recognizes Massachusetts State
as one of the 14 U. S. colleges pre-eminent in the
teaching of entomology.

Following is a list of Alumni who majored in
entomology at the College and who are now em-
ployed in that field — or who, formerly so employed,
are now with the U. S. Armed Services, or who were
graduated from the department and immediately
entered the Service.

1891

E. Porter Felt, director and chief entomologist,
F. A. Bartlett Tree Research Laboratories, Stam-
ford, Conn.

1892

Jewell G. Knight, psychologist, Portland, Maine,
Induction and Recruiting Station.
1894

Charges P. Lounsbury, 795 Church Street East,
Pretoria, South Africa. (In 1927 retired as chief of
division of entomology, Dept. of Agriculture.)

Dr. Charles P.
Alexander — "Alex"

1895

Albert F. Burgess, B.E.P.Q., Division of Gypsy
and Brown-Tail Moths Control, U.S.D.A., Greenfield,
Mass.

Robert A. Cooley, U.S. Public Health Service,
Hamilton, Montana.
1899

William A. Hooker, Office of
Experiment Stations, U.S.D.A.,
Washington, D. C.
1900

Austin W. Morrill, president,
California Biological Service,
1612 West Glenoaks Blvd.,
Glendale, Calif.

1902

Harold E. Hodgkiss, professor,
department zoology and ento-
mology, Penn. State College,
State College, Pa.
1903

Henry J. Franklin, in charge,
Cranberry Field Station, Massachusetts Experiment
Station, East Wareham, Mass.

Winthrop V. Tower, Bayamon, Puerto Rico.
1904

Ernest A. Back, entomologist, Division of Insects
Affecting Man and Animals, B.E.P.Q., U.S.D.A.,
Washington, D. C.

1905

Francis A. Bartlett, president, F. A. Bartlett Tree
Expert Company, Stamford, Conn.
1906

G. Talbot French, state entomologist of Virginia,
Richmond, Va.

1908

James A. Hyslop,, principal entomologist in
charge, Division of Insect Pest Survey and Infor-
mation, B.E.P.Q., U.S.D.A., Washington, D. C.

John R. Parker, senior entomologist in charge,
Field Laboratory, B.E.P.Q., U.S.D.A., Bozeman,
Mont.

William S. Regan, California Spray Chemical
Company, Yakima, Wash.

William F. Turner, entomologist in charge, Peach
Insects Laboratory, Division of Fruit Insect Investi-
gation, B.E.P.Q., U.S.D.A., Chattanooga, Tenn.

Raymond D. Whitmarsh, Chippewa Lake, Ohio.
1909

Oscar C. Bartlett, state entomologist of Arizona,
Phoenix, Ariz.

Donald J. Caffrey, B.E.P.Q., U.S.D.A., Twin Falls,
Idaho (Temporary)

George M. Codding, vice-president, F. A. Bartlett
Tree Expert Company, Stamford, Conn.

Samuel S. Crossman, senior entomologist, Division
of Gypsy and Brown-tail Moths Control Laboratory,
B.E.P.Q., U.S.D.A., Greenfield, Mass.
1910

R. Harold Allen, director, Division of Plant Pest
Control, State House, Boston, Mass.

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Leonard S. McLaine, dominion entomologist, Dept.
of Agriculture, Ottawa, Canada.

Frank L. Thomas, state entomologist of Texas,
College Station, Texas.

1912

Merle R. Brown, State Plant Board, Gainesville,
Fla.

Albert W. Dodge Jr., New England Manager, F.
A. Bartlett Tree Expert Company, 795 Memorial
Drive, Cambridge, Mass.

James F. Martin, chief, Division of Plant Disease
Control, B.E.P.Q., U.S.D.A., Washington, D. C.

Ralph R. Parker, director, Rocky Mountain Lab-
oratory, U. S. Public Health Service, Box 368,
Hamilton, Mont.

Lawrence P. Rockwood, in charge, Field Labora-
tory, B.E.P.Q., U.S.D.A., Forest Grove, Oregon.

1913

Harry W. Allen, entomologist in charge, Field
Laboratory (Peach Insects), B.E.P.Q., U.S.D.A.,
Moorestown, N. J.

Oscar G. Anderson, Tobacco By-Products and
Chemical Corporation, Louisville, Ky.

George W. Barber, associate entomologist, Euro-
pean Corn Borer Laboratory, B.E.P.Q., U.S.D.A.,
New Haven, Conn.

Clyde M. Packard, principal entomologist in
charge, Division of Cereal and Forage Insects In-
vestigations, B.E.P.Q., U.S.D.A., Washington, D. C.

Reyer H. VanZwaluwenburg, Hawaiian Sugar
Planters' Association, Experiment Station, Honolulu,
T. H.

1914

Stanley B. Freeborn, Army.

Charles C. Hill, associate entomologist in charge,
Research Field Laboratory, B.E.P.Q., U.S.D.A., Car-
lisle, Pa.

Dettmar W. Jones, entomologist in charge, Field
Laboratory, B.E.P.Q., U.S.D.A., Onacock, Va.

Bennett A. Porter, senior entomologist, Division
of Fruit Insect Investigations, B.E.P.Q., U.S.D.A.,
Wa.-hington, D. C.

Leland H. Taylor, department of zoology, West
Virginia University, Morgantown, W. Va.

1915

Charles H. A'.den, entomologist, Georgia State
Plant Board, Cornelia, Ga.

Hastings N. Bartley, associate entomologist in
charge of moth and Japanese beetle quarantine in
New England states, Waltham, Mass.

Willard G. Bemis, plant quarantine inspector,
B.E.P.Q., U.S.D.A., 641 Washington Street, New
York City.

Gladstone H. Cale, American Bee Journal, Hamil-
ton, Illinois.

Alpha J. Flebut, California Spray Chemical Com-
pany, Berkeley, Calif.

Merton C. Lane, entomologist in charge of wire-
worm investigation, B.E.P.Q., U.S.D.A., Box 616,
Walla Walla, Wash.

i To I" continued tu xt month.)

LINCOLN IS DELEGATE

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fraternity chapter, Lambda Chi Alpha, whose whole
27 members used to congregate in their dormitory
room and listen to "Line" by the hour. Lincoln and
Webster, who were boarding themselves, borrowed
$300, and with it bought an $11,000 house for then-
new fraternity.

Lincoln played three years in the college band,
served two years on the Student Senate, was one of
the editors of his class yearbook, shot on the rifle
team and utilized his 6 feet 3% as a member of his
class six-man rope pull team and as class sergeant
at arms.

A Great Talker

A great talker from college days, when his room
was always full of the members of the fraternity
chapter he founded, Lincoln will be no silent member
of the food conference.

On the United States delegation Lincoln balances
the strong AAA representation. Marvin Jones,
chairman of the United States delegation, has strong
claim to having established the crop control system
in this country. Lincoln has never believed in the
economy of scarcity. He believes in a policy of
abundance, and he has broken with the Farm Bureau
Federation, of which he was a key member, over his
conviction that it doesn't make sense to kill little pigs
or plow under cotton.

* * *

Lincoln can be counted on to sound off eloquently
against any effort to control production and to
oppose any tariff or other artificial barriers to the

free movement of food from producer to consumer.

* * *

It was some years ago that farm leaders began
bringing Murray Lincoln to meet the U. S. Secretary
of Agriculture and then the President, to talk his
ideas. All these years he has never held any position
except that of head of the Ohio Farm Bureau. His
position there seems never to have been shaken by
his open opposition in recent years to AAA policies
of crop restriction or by his advocacy of the Farm
Security Administration, which serves the small
farmer and has won the hostility of big farming as
repi-esented generally by the Farm Bloc.
Appointment Surprise to Him

The appointment to the food conference delegation
was a complete surprise to Lincoln. "Hell, I'm
loquacious," is the way he accounts for it. But, he
adds "Possibly the President feels that abundance
and not our pre-war policy of scarcity is now the
answer to agricultural problems."

'24 Ducky Kennedy is now field representative
for Kiwanis International, covering the 48 states and
Canada. His headquarters are in Chicago. His wife,
Evelyn Davis Kennedy '26, will remain in Belmont,
Mass. with their three children for the time being.

'41 Wallace F. Powers, Jr. is industrial engineer
with the machine division of the Norton Company,
Worcester, Mass.

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ALUMNI IN UNIFORM

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'36 Lieut. Abraham T. Michaelson, Army, 97 Wal-
nut Avenue, Revere, Mass.
'37 Chaplain (Lieut, jg) George M. Milne, U.S.N.R.,

22 Myrtle Blvd., Larchmont, N. Y.
'23 Lieut. Robert D. Mohor, Army, 144 Clark

Street, Newton Center, Mass.
'42 Aviation Cadet Spencer R. Potter, U.S.N.R.,

Norfolk, Conn.
'41 Ensign Edward A. Richardson, U.S.C.G.R., 47

Highland Avenue, Ayer, Mass.
w'44 Pfc. Frederic A. Rothery, Air Force, 121

Bellevue Avenue, Springfield, Mass.
w'43 2nd Lieut. Alfred Rumminger, Air Force, 23

Center Street, Leeds, Mass.
w'45 Lieut. Fredrick S. Rutan, Jr., Air Force, 12

Stearns Road, Brookline, Mass.
w'44 Pfc. Richard N. Smith, Air Force, 82 North

Summit Street, Bergenfield, New Jersey.
'35 Captain Donald M. Stewart, Army, 63 Everett

Street, Arlington, Mass.
'33 Captain John C. Swartzwelder, Army, 16 Trin-
ity Avenue, East Lynn, Mass.
'32 Lieut, (jg) Robert C. Tetro, U.S.N.R., 3801 V

Street, S.E., Washington, D. C.
'41 Midshipman James D. Walker, U.S.N.R., Pelham

Hill, Amherst, Mass.
'40 Pfc. Richard S. Warner, Army, Fuller Road,

Chicopee Falls, Mass.
'42 Pfc. Henry L. Wyzan, Army, 19 Glines Avenue,

Milford, Mass.

In the Army Times of March 20, 1943, under the
date line of Camp Lee, Virginia, there appeared the
following biographic sketch of Colonel Charles H.
Henry '17, now commanding officer of the First
Training Brigade at Camp Lee.

Serving in four branches of the Army while he
followed the flag from the busy streets of Brussels,
Belgium, to the barren wastes of Siberia during his
26 years in uniform, Col. Charles H. Henry has
trained more Negro Quartermaster soldiers than any
man in the Army for the current war.

Colonel Henry is now commander of the 2nd
Quartermaster Training Brigade at Camp Lee, which
embraces the 9th and 11th Colored Regiments. As a
lieutenant colonel on Feb. 27, 1941, he assumed
command of the 9th Quartermaster Regiment a few
days after its activation in the newly opened camp.
With inexperienced selective service non-coms and
a few regular Army men, Colonel Henry soon built
what was said to be the largest regiment in the
Army.

The tall commander, standing over six feet in
height, was a familiar figure about the regimental
area, and by keeping close tab with his non-coms, he
managed to maintain high morale among his troops.
It was not unusual for a Quartermaster soldier,
when asked where he was from, to answer: "From
Colonel Henry's fighting 9th!"

When the two training regiments were organized
last July, Colonel Henry, after commanding the 9th
for 17 months, became the first commander of the
"Super Second Brigade."

He received his first test of the military at Pitts-
burgh Barracks where after a three months' course
he was transferred as a second lieutenant to the
Coast Artillery Corps.

Promoted to first lieutenant on Oct. 26, 1917, he
went to France with Training Camp in 1917 shortly
after graduating from Massachusetts State College,
where he was a star athlete. After graduating from
the Engineering School at Fort Belvoir, he was com-
missioned a second lieutenant of the engineers and
returned to his native Massachusetts to serve in
the 76th Division at Camp Devens. Then Lieutenant
Henry was again sent South, this time to Fort Mon-
roe the 45th Coast Artillery Regiment (155 mm.
guns).

He served as Director of Diplomatic Courier Of-
fice at the United States Embassy, Brussels, Bel-
gium. After the war he was sent to Paris and be-
came Traffic Military Police officer.

After returning home in November, 1919, he was
again assigned to foreign service and sent to the
Corrigedor Island which was to become famous in
World War II. Serving here as commandant of the
Coast Artillery Specialist School, he was charged
with the instruction of more than 500 non-commis-
sioned officers. He was transferred to the 27th In-
fantry and sent to Vladivostok, Siberia. Upon leav-
ing Russia he went to Schoffield Barracks, Hawaii,
where he was appointed Division Athletic officer,
Hawaiian Division.

Promoted to captain of infantry July 1, 1920, he
came back to the States and was assigned to the
17th Infantry at Fort Cook, Neb. Going South
again, he attended the Infantry School at Fort Ben-
ning, Ga., and upon graduating was assigned to the
Sixth Infantry at Jefferson Barracks, Mo.

In 1933 he was detailed to the Quartermaster
Corps. In this service he became president of the
Promotion Board of the Quartermaster Reserve
Officers in St. Louis and vicinity. Later he was
elected president of the Army and Navy Council in
the Missourian metropolis.

He attended and graduated from the Quarter-
master Subsistence School in Chicago, and was ap-
pointed Purchasing and Contract officer at the
Quartermaster Section of the St. Louis Medical
Depot.

He was promoted to the rank of major on Aug. 1,
1935. Later attended and graduated from the Quar-
termaster Corps of the Pennsylvania National
Guard, and executive officer under the then com-
mander, Maj. Gen. Edward Martin.

He received his promotion to lieutenant colonel in
the Quartermaster Corps on Aug. 18, 1940. After
crossing three-fourths of the globe he returned
South again in 1941 to train men who today keep 'em
rolling to our far flung battle lines of freedom.

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Captain Donald C. Douglass '21 was recently as-
signed as commandant of aviation cadets at the
Enid, Oklahoma, Army Flying School.

MARRIAGES

Gregory Nazarian w'43, who is studying advanced
navigation, as an aviation cadet at the University
of Miami, looks forward to the day when he can,
"get into a bomber and set a course for Tokio. The
ambition of most of the boys here."

Don Kinsman w'45 who is a private with the Ma-
rines has recently written to say, "A year ago today
I was playing ball with a freshman — today I am
'playing ball' with the Marine Corps. The Marines
are every bit of what is said of them — an efficient,
well-disciplined, hardy bunch of fighting men. I am
certainly proud to be numbered among these Leath-
ernecks. All the boys here at New River are anxious
to get at the Japs and mow 'em down."

Lieut. Owen Brennan, Jr., '36 has been stationed
at Camp Santa Anita in California — on the site of
the famous race track. He writes, "The bangtails
have now been replaced by the shavetails."

In its account of the German surrender in Tunisia,
the New York Times of May 11th said, "Major
Clifford Curtis ('38) of Auburndale, Mass., set out
with a German officer on the dangerous job of noti-
fying all the enemy units of the cessation of hos-
tilities. They had nothing from which to make a
white flag except a piece of old mattress and a tree
branch, which they placed at the front of their car.
At 11:40 a.m. the 'Cease fire' order was given."

The cavalry horses have been shipped away from
campus. Since 192(1 this complement of horses has
been maintained at the College in connection with
the training of cavalry officers in the R.O.T.C. — "a
humanizing factor in the military work," according
to Professor Rand's "Yesterdays." Now, it is expect-
ed that horses may never be reassigned to the Col-
lege R.O.T.C. detachment.

MRS. CHURCH

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oughly enjoyed studies in those fields of nature and
was sufficiently proficient in intimate knowledge to
develop the interests into a delightful hobby. Her
death will leave a great void among her associates
and it seems regrettable that she was denied the
opportunity to enjoy, at least in part, the plans she
had made for retirement.

She was married to Frederick R. Church on Aug-
ust 11, 1904; he died in 1910. She is survived by
three daughters: Cornelia Church '28, Mrs. Gertrude
C. Salter '"2 and Mrs. Marcia Bates; one grandson,
Leonard A. Salter, III; two sisters, five nephews and
nieces.

Fre'l ./. Sic vers

'33 William P. Hager to Miss Erma Blankenship,
April 3, 1943, at Fort Smith, Arkansas.

'34 Lieut. Wallace L. Chesbro, U.S.N., to Miss
Bertha M. Roberts, March 5, 1943, at San Diego,
California.

'34 Capt. Vincent C. Gilbert to Miss Elizabeth
Jane Hopper, April 17, 1943, at Louisville, Kentucky.

'36 Lieut. Abraham Michaelson to Miss Jean Ox-
wan, April 14, 1943, at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

'37 Ensign Merrill S. Hobart, U.S.C.G., to Miss
Winnifred P. Crocket, April 17, 1943, at Hartford,
Conn.

'39 Dr. Charles L. Branch to Miss Yvonne H.
Budar, April 17, 1943, at Springfield, Mass.

'41 and '41 Ensign Edward W. Ashley to Miss
Virginia M. Coates, April 18, 1943, at East Free-
town, Mass.

'42 Miss Norma L. Hedlund to Lieut. Charles M.
Johnson, April 10, 1943, at Pittsburg, California.

w'42 Sgt. Howard K. Hunter to Miss Bobby Jane
Haynes, March 7, 1943, at Lakeland, Florida.

BIRTHS

'17 A daughter, Mary Elizabeth, to Mr. and Mrs.
John B. Nelson, April 27, 1943, at Princeton, New
Jersey.

'31 A son, David Parker, to Capt. and Mrs. John
Lawrence, April 25, 1943 at Manhattan, Kansas.

'35 A son, Francis T. Ill, to Mr. and Mrs.
Francis T. Keefe (Helen Connolly '35), January 23,
1943, at Newton, Mass.

'35 A son, Francis Bernard, to Lieut, and Mrs.
Bernard J. Doyle, April 26, 1943, at Northampton,
Mass.

'37 A daughter, Sandra Louise, to Mr. and Mrs.
Raymond A. Minzner, January 14, 1943, at Law-
rence, Mass.

'37 and '38 A son, Richard Leighton, to L'eut. and
Mrs. Edward J. Thacker (Elthea Thompson '38),
July 28, 1942, at State College, Perm.

'38 A daughter, Martha Jane, to Mr. and Mrs.
William D. Hackett (Marion Shaw '38), April 23,
1943, at Littleton, N. H.

'40 and '41 A son, William Archibald, to Lieut.
and Mrs. Myron D. Hager (Gladys Archibald '41),
April 22, 1943, at Greenfield, Mass.

'40 A son, William Blake, Jr., to Mr. and Mrs.
William B. McCowan, July 4, 1942, at Shrewsbury,
Mass.

'40 A daughter, Nancy Emerson, to Mr. and Mrs.
Gilbert C. Garland (Kathei\ne Rice '40), March 25,
1943, at Montpelier, Vermont.

'42 A daughter, Carol, to Sgt. and Mrs. D. Rod-
ney Waterman, Jr. (Charlotte Gilchrist '42), Nov-
ember 20, 1942, at Ayer, Mass.

'42 A daughter, Barbara Marion, to Mr. and
Mrs. Russell Hibbard, April 12, 1943, at New Lon-
don, Conn.

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ATHLETICS

MOREY'S EXPERIENCES

Baseball

Mattie Ryan '43 of Springfield is captain of the
baseball club which so far has played three games
and looks forward to one or two others.

The formal spring athletic schedule was cancelled
earlier in the year ; Curry Hicks was able to schedule
two games with the Amherst Junior Varsity, one
with the Fort Devens team.

The Statesmen won both games from Amherst,
6 to 2 on April 29th and 9 to 3 on May 4th. It was
another thing again on May 8th when the Devens
team came to Alumni Field — a team made up of
former professional ball players, some of them big
leaguers. Devens won, 8 to 2, would have scored
more runs from their 18 hits had it not been for the
smart defensive play of Mattie and his pals.

Ray Kneeland '44 of Northampton has done most
of the pitching — although he never pitched college
ball before. Joe Segel '46 of Newton, a freshman,
has also pitched.

Herb Gill is succeeding Private Frannie Riel '39
as baseball coach. Gill has coached hockey and ten-
nis at Dartmouth and, during the past ten years,
coached baseball and served as a tennis professional.

Track

The varsity track team has engaged in two meets
against Amherst, on April 30th and May 2nd, and
has given a good account of itself even though losing
both meets 79-47 and 67-59.

Don Parker '44 of West Roxbury won the quarter
mile and the half mile run, and Charlie Warner '44
of Sunderland (son of Raymond Warner '14) won
the 100 yard dash.

Milton Barnes '44 of Springfield is captain of the
team. L. L. Derby is coach.

Lieut. Sidney Kauffman, formerly of the physical
education department at the College, is stationed at
the U. S. Naval Operating Base in Northern Ireland.
Baxter Allen, formerly janitor of Memorial Hall, is
also in the Navy — and met Kauffman in Ireland not
long ago.

Writing about it, Sid said, "One of the highlights
of my stay here thus far was having a member of a
crew slap me on the back and say, 'Hiya, Sid.' As
I turned around I could see the Amherst town hall,
the common, State, Memorial Hall, and all those im-
portant things I miss so much spread over the smil-
ing face of Baxter Allen."

Baxter, moving around, wrote recently from Eng-
land, "I've just read of Professor Waugh's death.
There's no point in my trying to tell you of the im-
measurable loss his death is to the College, but it
might interest you to know that partly due to my
contacts with him I've made it my business to see
every bit that these British Isles afford, that is with-
in traveling distance. I can't help but wonder how
many students of Mr. Waugh's, now in this part of
the world, have been similarly influenced."

In an article by Bob Sibley the Boston Traveler of
January 26, 1943 printed the following account of
some of the experiences — under fire — of Lieut. Clif-
ton W. Morey '39.

How the accuracy of Navy marksmen at Fedala
and Casablanca in French Morocco contrasted with
the gunnery of shore defenders under German of-
ficers was described here today by a Greater Boston
naval officer, on leave after two trips in convoy to
North Africa.

He is Lt. (s.g.) Clifton W. Morey of 17 Harriet
Avenue, Belmont, who was serving as communica-
tions officer on a Navy transport when the history-
making invasion force started to disembark on the
morning of Nov. 8 at several points along the North
African coast.

"Shore batteries opened up as our part of the con-
voy dropped anchor about two miles off Fedala and
the landing barges started for shore," Lt. Morey said.

"Navy craft returned the fire, and in time the
enemy guns were silenced. In the meantime, the shore
batteries were scoring almost no hits, and none at all
on the ships at anchor. The enemy was using trench
mortars in addition to cannon."

Later, when Lt. Morey went ashore at Casablanca,
a few miles southwest of Fedala, he was struck with
further evidence of Navy sharpshooting.

"The city itself was not hit," Lt. Morey explained.
"But the fire from the ships had made a mess out
of the harbor. Many ships had been shelled, and
docks and shore installations were badly damaged
by accurate fire which did net go beyond the water
front. In spite of the wreckage, the harbor is still
in usuable condition."

While shore gunners chalked up a p:or score at
Fedala, enemy submarines did better while trans-
ports were still being unloaded. On the third or
fourth day, just before nightfall, a sub got the trans-
port Hewes.

"A torpedo which was fired at the Hewes missed
the transport I was on by about 20 feet," Lt. Morey
reported. "Of course all ships were at anchor, so
there was no chance at maneuvering. Most of the
men and much of the supplies were ashore by this
time.

Ordered Out To Sea

"The next day when three more were torpedoed
nearby — the Bliss, Rutledge and Scott — all trans-
ports, our ship was ordered out to sea for a day, and
then put in at Casablanca the day after the city
capitulated.

Lt. Morey had the skin-tingling experience of see-
ing a Nazi submarine, on the surface, outlined in
the glare of a destroyer's searchlight during his sec-
ond trip back to the United States.

"There had been contacts with submarines at vari-
ous times, but while we sometimes could hear the
explosion of depth bombs, most of this action was at
a distance and out of sight," he said.

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MARY GRAVEY '19 ELECTED
CLUB PRESIDENT

ACADEMICS

For several years, now, Mary Garvey '19 has
recorded the Bulletin's news of our Alumnae. She
has kept us in touch with those who have hecome
housewives and those who have become WAVES;
she has followed the careers of dietitians, and teach-
ers, and fliers. And, always, she has kept herself
modestly in the background.

But, recently,
several local
newspapers fea-
tured Iter as
news, for she
had just been
selected, for the
second time, as
president of the
H a m p s h i r e
County Busi-
ness and Profes-
sional Women's
Club — a signal
honor, doubled!

Actually, of
course, Mary has
done many
things for the
College which
might have made
the headlines
before. But she
has done them
so quietly, so un-
obtrusively, that they have gene unheralded, though
not unnoticed or unappreciated. She has taught bac-
teriology successfully for twenty-two years. She has
kept professionally alert through advanced study,
and has nearly completed the work for her Doctor's
degree at the University of Chicago. She has served
capably on the Alumni Board of Directors and on
the Alumnae Loan Fund Committee. And all who
have attended Alumnae Teas on commencement
weekend know how graciously she has received
them; a few even guess how hard she has worked to
plan the pleasant sociability.

We are proud that she is an Alumna of Massa-
chusetts State, and glad that others share our regard
for her.

L.H.

Mary E. Garvey '19

'40 Robert Mosher is research chemist in the
plastics division of Monsanto Chemical Corporation ;
he lives at 2 Westfield Road, Holyoke, Mass. He re-
ceived his M.S. from the Institute of Paper Chemis-
try in June of last year.

'40 Robert Benemelis is chemist in the Naval Re-
search Laboratory, Washington, D. C. He lives at
129 Wilmington Place, S.E., in Washington.

Roister Doisters

The Roister Doisters presented John Van Druten's
The Distaff Side to an appreciative audience in
Bowker Auditorium on Saturday evening, May 8th.
Marjorie Cushman who played Mrs. Millward, the
character around whom much of the play revolves,
handled the part with commendable sympathy. Other
Roister Doisters who contributed in noteworthy
fashion were Agnes Goldberg, Ruth Margaret Steele,
Lurane Wells (vice president of the dramatic so-
ciety), and Lawrence Newcomb (president of the
Roister Doisters).

The play will be presented again for Alumni, and
for seniors and their families, in Bowker Auditorium
on Saturday evening, the 22nd.

The Cast:
Grandma Venables Shirley D. Spring '46

of North Agawam
Mrs. Millward Marjorie Cushman '43 of Holyoke
Rose Esther Jane Smith '43 of Watertown

Alex Millward Ruth M. Steele '46 of Norwood

Bliss Spicer Pauline V. Willett '44 of Cheshire

Mrs. Frobisher Lurane Wells '43 of Orleans

Roland Millward Robert L. Young '45 of Worcester
Toby Chegwidden Lawrence E. Newcomb, Jr. '43

of Norwell
Charles Hubbard John R. Sherman '44 of Sheffield
Mrs. Fletcher Agnes Goldberg '43 of Cambridge

Miss Venables Beverly A. Bigwood '43 of Athol

Christopher Venables Lester R. Rich '43

of Newton Center
Gilbert Baize Seymour Kaplan '46 of Springfield

The Production Staff:
Business Manager Robert F. Mount '45

of Longmeadow
Assistant Manager Walter R. Goehring '45

of Holyoke
Stage Manager Esther Jane Smith '43

of Watertown
Property Man Joseph C. Kunces '45 of Middleboro
Mistress of Wardrobe Ida C. Moggio '43

of Chicopee Falls
Electrician Everett R. Miller '45

of Northampton
Make-up Artist Anita J. Marshall '43 of Holyoke
Prompter and Understudy Ethel M. Libby '46

of Douglaston, N. Y.
Publicity Agent Irmarie Scheuneman '45

of Leominster
Scenic Artist James Robertson, Jr.

Director Frank Prentice Rand

Festival

The Fifth Annual Music Festival took as its
slogan "Music Maintains Morale", and was conduct-
ed on campus April 28, 29, 30, and May 1, under the
direction of Doric Alviani.

The opening evening's program was a community

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'21 Gid Mackintosh has sent us a note from High
Point, N. C: "Herbert H. Baxter w'18, a damyan-
kee, was elected mayor of Charlotte — the largest
city in North Carolina — on May 4th." Baxter is in
the lumber business in Charlotte.

Library

State College

Cffter (L-ke JJuratL

ion

'What reunions we'll have" — is the comment of almost everyone writing to class
secretaries, through the Alumni Office — commending the postponement of class gather-
ings, and urging the purchase of war bonds, now, with reunion funds.

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"On the second trip west, however, contact was
made and a destroyer got its searchlight on a sub
within our line of vision. Guns opened up on it, but
we did not see the result. We understood the tin can
got the sub with torpedoes."

Air support played an important part in protect-
ing the record-breaking convoy to Africa, Lt. Morey
said, with guardian fliers in the air not only while
the surface craft was near land, but also out in the
far reaches of the Atlantic. Army and Navy planes
worked together on this air protection, he reported.

Axis Planes Downed

"Enemy planes made it pretty hot for the landing
barges and the troops on shore for a while," the lieu-
tenant added, disclosing that he had witnessed bomb-
ing and strafing during the landing operations. "The
planes, which used several types of bombing tactics
— high level, medium level and dive-bombing — were
not very numerous, and many of them were shot
down. They did not bother the anchored transports
at all."

Lt. Morey, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harold C. Morey,
of Belmont, was commissioned in March, 1941. A
native of Belmont, he attended Belmont High School
and New Hampton Preparatory School, and was
graduated from Massachusetts State College in 1939
with an outstanding record in athletics : nine letters
and service as captain of football and hockey. For
a year he coached football, baseball, and hockey at
New Hampton.

'36 Jack Sturtevant, who teaches vocational agri-
culture at the Middleboro, Mass. high school, was
recently elected to the executive committee of the
State Association of Teachers of Vocational Agricul-
ture. At the annual busine:s meeting of the Asso-
ciation J. Andrew Karlson '33 and Edward J.
Donaghy '32 were recognized as having completed
ten years of service as teachers of vocational agricul-
ture. Thomas P. Dooley '13, head of the department
-at Jamaica Plain high school, was recognized as
entitled to wear the "25-year service" key. He was
appointed in the summer of 1918 and has been con-
tinuously in the same position.

'41 Henry Thornton is now on the staff of the
physical education department at the College.

ACADEMICS

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sing in which Massachusetts State students and
members of the 58th College Training Detachment
(army air force) all took part.

There was a "faculty recital" in the auditorium
of the Old Chapel the next night. At the student
recital in Butterfield House, next afternoon, there
appeared John Delevoryas '46, pianist, of Chicopee
Falls; Claire Healy '46, violinist, of Buzzards Bay;
and Leo Moreau '44 of Taunton and Robert Radway
'44 of Waterford, Conn., trumpeters.

The final evening's program was guest night; it
included the WAVES choir from Smith, and Mary
Becker, violinist.

Academics Party-
Students who had earned credit in Academic Ac-
tivities during the past year gathered for a party in
Memorial Hall on the evening of April 27th. Awards
and prizes were announced at the party — which took
the place of the customary insignia convocation. The
party was highly successful and, it is expected, may
become an annual event.

There was dancing— to the tunes of the 58th
C. T. D. jive band. There were refreshments, and
impromptu skits by members of the several academ-
ics organizations.

Lawrence Dickinson '10, Vernon Cole '43 (son of
Fred Cole '20 and Olive Carroll Cole '19) of Am-
herst, and Helen Van Meter '43 of Amherst were the
committee in charge.

Dean W. L. Machmer, chairman of the Academic
Activities Board, made the presentation of awards.
The manager's prize of fifty dollars was divided be-
tween Helen Van Meter '43, manager of the Wom-
en's Glee Club and Bob Keefe '43 of Wilbraham,
manager of the Index.

Gold diamond chip medals were awarded to Stan
Polchlopek '43 of Chicopee, former editor of the
Collegian; to Marge Stanton '43 of Worcester, mem-
ber of the Glee Club and Sinfonietta, and to Helen
Van Meter.

Gold and silver medals were awarded to forty
students.

'37 Sheldon Bliss, M.D., is physician in charge at
the Pratt and Whitney Aircraft Corporation Plant
in East Longmeadow, Mass.

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BULLETIN

AT COMMENCEMENT

MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

AMHERST, MASSACHUSETTS

Vol. XXV, No. 9

June, 1943

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN
MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE
George E. Emery '24, Editor
Published monthly at Amherst, Mass. (except August and
September) by the Associate Alumni of Massachusetts State Col-
lege. Entered as second class matter, March 17, 1920, at the Post-
office at Amherst, Mass., under the Acts of March 3, 1879.

OFFICERS OF ASSOCIATE ALUMNI OF
MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE
President, William V. Hayden "13 of Newton Center
Vice-President Ralph S. Stedman '20 of Springfield
Secretary, Marshall O. Lanphear '18 of Amherst
Treasurer, Clark L. Thayer '13 of Amherst
Executive Secretary, George E. Emery '24 of Amherst

BOARD OF DIRECTORS
to 1944
Capt. Donald C. Douglass '21 of Belmont

Norman D. Hilyard '23 of Springfield

John W. McGuckian '31 of Roslindale

Arthur D. Tilton '18 of Woburn
to 1945
Alden C. Brett '12, ex-officio, of Belmont

Lt. Alan W. Chadwick '31 of Amherst

Evelyn David Kennedy '26 of Belmont

Major Starr M. Kine '21 of Beverlv

Lewis Schlotterbeck '16 of Wakefield
to 1946
John S. Crosby '25 of Arlington

Ethel Blatchford Purnell '34 of Bridgeport, Conn.
Sterling Myrick '24 of Brookline

H. Sidney Vaughn '30 of Worcester
to 1947
Katherine O'Brien Esselen '36 of Amherst

Brooks F. Jakeman '20 of Larchmont, N. Y.
David M. Lipshires '18 of Northampton

Albert W. Smith '22, ex-officio, of Springfield
Louis A. Webster '14 of Blackstone

LINCOLN '14 URGES COOPERATIVES

The Alumni Bulletin is sent ten times each year to all members
of the Associate Alumni. Memberships are: Annual $3.00, Sus-
taining $10.00.

Renewal notice : Every member of the Associate Alumni receives
a statement, enclosed in a Bulletin, when his membership expires.
Expiration is always 12 months from date when membership is
received by Alumni Office.

Cover picture — President Hugh P. Baker, Governor
Saltonstall and recipients of honorary degrees,
on the steps of the Curry S. Hicks Physical Edu-
cation Building following the graduation exer-
cises on May 23rd.

Left to right: Leonard S. McLaine '10, Dominion
entomologist of Canada; Hon. Adelard Godbout
FG, Premier of Quebec; Governor Lever ett Salt-
onstall; Ralph R. Parker '12, Director of the
Rocky Mountain Laboratory of the U. S. Public
Health Service; Arthur K. Harrison, acting
head of the department of landscape architec-
ture at the College, President Baker.

Photo by Francis Pray '31

The picture of Dr. Charles A. Peters '97, on page
11, was taken by John H. Vondell, A.P.S.A., and has
been exhibited in 24 National Photographic Salons
from Boston to Tacoma, Washington, and from
Montreal to Baltimore, Maryland, and San Fran-
cisco, California.

In commenting editorially upon this picture,
Camera Craft magazine has said, "This portrait . . .
appears to us to be very expressive of the personality
of the subject. We see here the neat, precise, order-
ly-minded scientist; manually skilled in the handling
of delicate instruments, and endowed with the pa-
tience to carry out involved researches."

An Associated Press dispatch from the United
Nations Food Conference at Hot Springs, Va., told
of a special meeting of delegates which urged an
international organization of producer-marketing
cooperatives.

Murray D. Lincoln '14 was chairman of the spe-
cial meeting and predicted that the time would come
when "cooperatives in my country will trade direct-
ly with cooperatives in your country to make more
goods available to more people with less profits."

Lincoln further said he wanted it known that
"I'm still for private enterprise, because we who
believe in cooperating want competition, but we
don't want monopolies."

BLOOD DONATION

On May 11th a traveling Red Cross blood bank
visited the campus. A reception center was estab-
lished at the Kappa Sigma house; and the call for
blood received such generous response frcm faculty,
staff, and students, that many willing donors had to
be refused. There were 250 donors, 50 more than
the Red Cross staff had expected to receive.

SUMMER SESSION

Nearly 200 students have enrolled in the summer
semester at the College, which opened on June 7th
and which will continue through August 28th.

The purpose of the session is to afford opportu-
nity, for those desiring it, to accelerate their pro-
gram leading either to graduation or entrance to a
professional school. Freshmen are admitted.

Offering's in home economics are varied and in-
clusive. All courses carry college credit and call for
the same standard requirements demanded during
the regular college semester.

A student may complete approximately a full
semester's work during the summer session. Attend-
ance of State students is optional, however, and
those who are unable to attend will find all courses
available for them during the next college year.

The following statement relative to education at
Massachusetts State College during the war appeared
in the printed announcement of the summer session.
"The needs of our Armed Forces now greatly in-
crease the importance of acceleration (in educa-
tion). Because of education qualifications demand-
ed by the various branches of our Armed Forces
even a year or two of college work is important.
We therefore advise young men to enter college
even if they are uncertain as to the time they can
continue.

"We are convinced that women, too, need to pre-
pare themselves for some specific participation in
the war effort. Certainly there will be continued de-
mand for laboratory and engineering assistants,
dietitians, nutrition specialists, child specialists and
secretaries with advanced preparation."

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COMMENCEMENT, MAY 22-23

ALUMNI IN UNIFORM

"I consider this to be a distinct honor to my class,
1913, as well as to myself," said William V. Hayden
when it was announced at the Annual Alumni Meet-
ing on May 22nd that he was the newly-elected pres-
ident of the Associate Alumni. "With the support
and assistance of the Officers and Directors," he con-
tinued, "I shall do all in my power to carry on the
functions of this office to the end that the Associate
Alumni may continue to be of maximum benefit to
the College and to the Alumni."

Other officers elected on May 22nd were: Ralph
S. Stedman '20, vice president; M. O. Lanphear '18,
secretary; Clark L. Thayer '13, treasurer.

Elected to the Board of Directors to serve until
June 1, 1947 were Brooks F. Jakeman '20, Louis A.
Webster '14, Katherine O'Brien Esselen '36, and
David M. Lipshires '18. Sterling Myrick '24 was
elected to the Board to June 1946 to fill the unex-
pired term of Ralph Stedman '20.

A. F. Hayward '88 of Ashby, Mass., was the firat
Alumnus to register on campus for the Alumni Day
program. Other members of his class — the 55-ycar
group — who attended the class dinner on the evening
of May 22nd were Herbert C. Bliss, class secretary,
Lorenzo F. Kinney and Herbert R. Loomis.

Mr. Bliss stayed in Amherst until Monday the 24th
and called at the Alumni Office before he left to say
that he was very pleased and very happy about
events of the weekend. The 55-year reunion which
he had planned with his classmates had been a suc-
cessful event.

Members of the 50-year class who registered at
Memorial Hall before attending the class dinner at
the Lord Jeff were: Joseph Baker, Harry J. Harlow,
Frank H. Henderson, Edwin C. Howard, Franklin S.
Hoyt, John R. Perry, and Fred A. Smith.

The 1943 Class Day Exercises were held on the
morning of May 22nd in Bowker Auditorium. The
class had previously joined the Associate Alumni
loir, ami Midshipman Bob Fitzpatrick, class presi-
dent, back from Columbia University for the gradu-
ation exercises, passed on the tradition to Bob Denis
of Springfield, president of the class of 1944.

On the Class Day program were Agnes Goldberg,
campus oration; Edward Nebesky, hatchet oiation;
Lester Rich, pipe oration; Lawrence Newcomb, clasj
oiation; George Benoit, class ode; Mary Jean Carp-
enter, ivy oration.

Ivj planters were Mary Bowler and Frederick
McLaughlin, Jr., (son of Freder.ck A. McLaughlin

'in.

Class Day Committee included Mary Jean Carp-
enter, chairman, E. Jane Smith, Anita Marshall,
Stanley Polchlopek, James Dellea (son of John M.
Dellea '02) Theodore Shepardson, and Willis Jar.es.

Following, below, are additions to the roster of

Alumni in the Armed Forces.

Further additions to this list, the names of stu-
dents in the advanced ROTC course at the College

and students in the Enlisted Reserve who will join

the forces during the summer, will appear in subse-
quent issues of the Bulletin.

Mail sent to the addresses below, or to the Alumni

Office, will be forwarded.

'37 Private Nathan M. Berman, Army, 23 Goodale
Road, Mattapan, Mass.

'22 Lieut. Edmund T. Carey, U.S.N.R., 62 Kim-
berly Avenue, Springfield, Mass.

'42 A/C WilHam W. Case, Air Force, 26 Manitoba
Street, Springfield, Mass.

w'45 Private Robert G. Chandler, Army, Hildreth
Street, Westford, Mass.

w'45 Private George A. Chase, Army, 21 Rockhill
Street, Foxboro, Mass.

'28 Lieut. Albert C. Cook, Army, 29 Irving Street,
Waverly, Mass.

'37 2nd Lieut. Richard C. Desmond, Air Force, 12
Coolidge Road, East Lynn, Mass.

w'42 Lieut. Joseph Emery, Jr., Army, 163 Lime-
rock Street, Rockland, Maine.

w'45 Private Robert E. Fein, Army, 103 Shawmut
Street, Springfield, Mass.

'36 Lieut. Franklin H. Fiske, Army, 109 High
Street, Greenfield, Mass.

'14 Lieut. Colonel Stanley B. Freeborn, Army, 97
Tunnel Road, Eerkeley, Calif.

'23 Captain Bertram I. Gerry, Army, Box 28,
Wellesley Hills, Mass.

w'17 First Class Engineer Glenn C. Gillette, Mer-
chant Marine, Federal Street, Montague,
Mass.

'40 2nd Lieut. Richard R. Glendon, Army, 4 Ware
Road, Winchester, Mass.

w'43 A/C Walter A. Glista, U.S.N.R., 475 North
Street, Bridgewater, Mass.

'40 A.S. Malcolm B. Harding, Jr., U.S.N.R., 84
Court Street, Westfield, Mass.

'35 Lieut. Robert H. Hermanson, Army, 15 Es-
mond Street, Dorchester, Mass.

'15 Lieut. Colonel H. G. Hyde, Army, 467 Trum-
bull Avenue, S.E., Warren, Ohio

'14 Lieut. Loring H. Jacobs, U.S.N.R., Jacobs
Avenue, Assinippi P.O., Norwell, Mass.

w'44 Cpl. George R. Kaplan, Army, 142 Suther-
land Road, Erighton, Mass.

'38 Pfc. Bernard L. Kohn, Army, 116 Englewood
Avenue, Brighton, Mass.

w'44 Aviation Student Bertram Libon, Army, 60
Brunswick Street, Roxbury, Mass.

w'45 Private Raymond J. Lynch, Jr., Marines, 465
Pleasant Street, Holyoke, Mass.

'40 Ensign Donald J. Mahoney, U.S.N.R., 14 Mill-
er Avenue, Holyoke, Mass.

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OBITUARIES

Ira C. Greene '94

Ira Charles Greene '94 died suddenly of a heart
attack at his home in Fitchburg, Mass., on May 4,
1943. He was 75 years old. He was graduated from
the Fitchburg High School in 1888, entered College
with the class of '94. In College he was a member
of Q.T.V., director of the polo association, a member
of the football team.

After graduation he was long associated with his
father and, later, with his brother in the operation
of an ice and coal company in Leominster and
Fitchburg.

He became nationally known as a philatelist and
was long a member of the American Philatelic So-
ciety. He was a member of the Agassiz Club and
was well-known as an ornithologist. In the early
1900's he was State authority on birds.

Mr. Greene is survived by his wife, his brother,
three daughters, a son, and six grandchildren.

T. F. Keith '94

Edward Albert White '95

Edward Albert White '95, professor emeritus of
floriculture and ornamental horticulture at Cornell
University, died at the Ithaca, New York, Memorial
Hospital on May 13, 1943, after an illness of two
months. He was in his 71st year.

He was born in West Townsend, Mass., and re-
ceived his early education in public schools at West
Rindge, N. H., Ashby and Littleton, Mass. On June
30, 1903, he married Cora Crittenden, whose death in
1938 was a severe blow to him. He is survived by
two sons, a daughter, a brother, and a sister.

Almost all of his post-graduate life was devoted to
work in the field of floriculture. He engaged briefly
in commercial and maintenance work and then be-
came assistant horticulturist at Texas A. and M.
College. From there he went to the University of
Connecticut, in 1902, to become professor of botany
and forestry. In 1907 he was called back to his Alma
Mater to organize a department of floriculture under
Professor Frank A. Waugh. This was the first such
department in any college or state university in the
United States.

In 1913 he was called to Cornell by Dean Liberty
Hyde Bailey, to become head of the department of
floriculture. Professor White remained in this posi-
tion until he was retired in June, 1939 — when he was
honored with a testimonial dinner attended by many
prominent members of the horticultural trade and
by other friends who had been associated with him
either as teachers or students. He was presented
with a bound volume of hundreds of letters from
friends, and with other tokens of appreciation. Dean
Emeritus Bailey, chief speaker of the evening, paid
fine tribute to Professor White and his work.

Professor White is the author of numerous re-
ports and books, principally text books on floriculture
subjects. He was a member of Phi Kappa Phi, Pi
Alpha Xi, Kappa Sigma, the American Association

for the Advancement of Science. He was a fellow
of the Royal Horticultural Society of England, an
honorary member of the New York Florists' Club.
He received the gold medal of the Massachusetts
Horticultural Society for his outstanding work in the
field of floriculture in education.

During his later years he travelled extensively
throughout the world in search of orchids, and in
developing his hobby of orchid culture. His last trip,
which would have taken him around the world, was
cut short in Burma because of the war.

Professor White may well be called the "father
of floricultural education in the United States." Be-
cause of students who came to him from foreign
countries his influence eventually grew to be world-
wide.

Gentle and unassuming, his friendly personality
made him a host of friends.

Clark L. Thayer '13

Dr. I. Chester Poole '96

Dr. I. Chester Poole '96 died suddenly in Union
Hospital, Fall River, Mass., after a minor operation,
on April 23, 1943. He was in his 66th year. He is
survived by his widow, four children and nine grand-
children. He was a brother of Erford W. Poole '96
and Elmer M. Poole '03.

He was a member of Kappa Sigma fraternity,
various Masonic bodies in Fall River, Consistory
and Aleppo Temple of Boston, and professional
organizations.

After graduation in 1896, he was engaged in land-
scape gardening for several years. He later entered
the American School of Osteopathy in Kirksville,
Mo., from which he was graduated in 1904. He was
married immediately after graduation to Dr. Marg-
aret Matheson of Littleton, N. H., also a graduate
of the A. S. O., now well-known in the lecture field
and in civic organizations.

In the summer of 1904, Dr. Poole established an
office in Fall River, Mass. He became widely known
in southeastern Massachusetts as a successful prac-
titioner. His son was associated with him in his
work for several years previous to his death.

He will be remembered by those who knew him in
College as a student of high rank, whose genial dis-
position and strength of character merited affection
and respect. His busy and useful life was a fulfill-
ment of the promise of those early years at his Alma
Mater, and was marked by a deep affection for kin
and friends and a keen enjoyment of the great out-
of-doors.

Asa Kinney '96

Dr. Paul Serex '13

When Paul Serex, 1913, died on Sunday afternoon,
May 23rd, 1943, after a long illness, many groups,
both college and community, lost a real "back log."
The Associate Alumni in general and the Class of
1913 in particular lost a faithful member. The de-
partment of chemistry at his Alma Mater lost an
able teacher. The Boy Scouts of America, locally,

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councilwide, and nationally, lost an indefatigable
worker. His family lost a good father, husband, and
grandfather.

Paul Serex graduated from West Roxbury, Mass.,
High School and earned his way through State.
After graduation, he went to work for the college
chemistry department. He studied at the University
of Chicago; he received his Master's in 1916 and his
Ph.D. in 1923, both from Massachusetts State
College.

Long the efficient treasurer of the Connecticut
Valley Section of the American Chemical Society,
Paul published a number of papers in the Journal
of the American Chemical Society and other publica-
tions of industrial and engineering chemistry. As
associate professor of chemistry, his teaching during
the past thirty years has been typified by faithful-
ness, stability, common sense, and good judgment in
sizing up the students under him. Down through the
years he helped keep the chemistry department en
an even keel. He had an uncanny ability of knowing
a good chemist when he saw one, and his recom-
mendations were continually sought.

Dr. Serex had a long and outstanding record in
Scouting. For years he was a member and chairman
of a local troop committee. He was both District and
Scout Commissioner for the Hampshire-Franklin
Council, Boy Scouts of America, and represented the
local council on the National Council. A member of
the original Camp Site Development Committee, he
contributed tremendously to the new scout camp at
Chesterfield now enjoyed by hundreds of boys up
and down the valley. An ardent philatelist, he
served as merit badge counselor in stamp collecting
and started many a youngster on a worthwhile
hobby. Paul was a member of many stamp clubs in
western Massachusetts and a past president of the
Northampton-Amherst Stamp Club. The youth of
the Pioneer Valley has been enriched by Paul Serex's
unselfish and untiring efforts in their behalf.

Paul Serex lived in Amherst since his graduation,
and had a part in its community life. He was a
member of Phi Kappa Phi, Sigma Xi, Grace Episco-
pal Church, Pacific Lodge of Masons, and the Unity
Chapter O.E.S.

He had three fine sons. Two of them are gradu-
ates of Massachusetts State College: John, 1940, a
lieutenant with an armored division in Afiica, ar.d
William, who graduated this May, his father's
thirtieth anniversary. William and Paul, Junior, are
both Eagle Scouts.

To his many friends in Scouting Paul was a "Good
Scout". To his classmates in 1913, he was "the salt
of the earth"!

Class of 1913

1918. In September of that year his family moved
to Greenfield, Mass.

Dick entered the College in the fall of 1919 but
withdrew because of illness. He re-entered in 1920
as a member of the class of 1924.

Dick was admired and respected by his college
classmates. He was elected class secretary, vice
president, chairman of the Junior Banquet Com-
mittee, and chairman of the Commencement Com-
mittee. He was a member of the Index Board, of the
cross country team, and manager of varsity baseball.
He was a member of Phi Sigma Kappa and of
Adelphia.

In 1926 Dick accepted a position with the Federal
Reserve Bank in Los Angeles where he remained
eight years. His headquarters thereafter were suc-
cessively in Oakland, Washington, D. C, and Kansas
City.

Following an operation in August, 1942, Dick re-
turned to Greenfield to rest and convalesce. The
sudden death of his mother on March 17, 1943, was
a g'reat shock to him. During the last week in April
he went to the hospital; he died there on May 10,
1943. He is survived by his widow, the former Emily
Lyman of Greenfield, a daughter, and by his father,
Edgar Burr Smith, principal emeritus of the Green-
field High School.

Benjamin C. L. Sander '16

STATEMENT TO FACULTY

Richard Burr Smith '24
Richard Burr Smith '24 was born in Plainfield,
New Jersey, April 14, 1900. His family moved to
Brattleboro, Vermont, in 1905 and here Dick received
his elementary and secondary school training. He
was graduated from Brattleboro High School in

President Baker is zealous in his effort to keep
Trustees of the College fully acquainted with de-
velopments at the College. Important among current
developments is the work of faculty and staff in con-
nection with the education program for the Army
Air Corps Cadets in training at the College.

At their semi-annual meeting at the College on
May 22, the Trustees adopted the following state-
ment, to be transmitted to all members of the college
staff.

"The Trustees of Massachusetts State College
wish to express their appreciation to all members of
the College Staff for the splendid response which
they have made to the challenge of the war. Presi-
dent Baker has reported to the Board the fine spirit
in which instructors have taken up new assignments
in connection with the Army Air Forces Training
Program and how other members of the College Staff
have volunteered to assist the regular instructors.

"We wish to acknowledge our appreciation also
for the heavy responsibilities assumed and met by
the Extension Service and the Experiment Station.
We know that all departments of the College and all
employees have undertaken new and strenuous obli-
gations and that these obligations are being met in
an unusual spirit of cooperation and eagerness for
the opportunity to serve the war needs of our State
and our Nation.

"We are convinced that through the efforts of all
staff members Massachusetts State College is play-
ing a vital and effective role in World War II."

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Frederick H. Burr (son of Frederick H. Burr '12)
and C. Stanley Hood were marshals.

Permanent officers of the class of 1943 are: presi-
dent, Robert A. Fitzpatrick ; vice-president, Mary
Jean Carpenter; secretary, Blanche A. Gutfinski;
treasurer, David H. Marsden; sergeant-at-arms,
Russell J. McDonald; captain, C. Stanley Hood.

CLASS NOTES

ANCHORS AWEIGH. Members of the class of '43,
midshipmen at the Navy's Training School at Colum-
bia University, who returned to campus on May 23rd
to receive their degrees.

Front row, left to right: Irving S. Mendelson, Robert
A. Fitzpatrick, Harry W. Sloper, and John Podmayer.

Second row: John H. Vondell, Jr., Albert J. Klubock,
Theodore R. Lemaire, Thomas J. Kelly, and Robert I.
Goldman.

Midshipman Howard T. Bangs was unable to return
to campus because of illness.

Honorary degrees were awarded at the graduation
exercises on May 23rd to: Professor Arthur K. Har-
rison, Leonard S. McLaine '10, Ralph R. Parker '12,
and Adelard Godbout FG. The citation statements,
together with the introductory statements made by
the presentors, will appear in a future issue of the
Bulletin.

At the graduation exercises John Francis Hanson
'37 and Frank John Yourga '39 received the Doctor
of Philosophy degree.

Harvey Ellis Barke '39 and William Irving Mayo,
Jr. '17 received the Master of Science degree.

Bachelor of Arts degrees were awarded to 44, the
Bachelor of Science to 124, the Bachelor of Voca-
tional Agriculture to one. Diplomas honoris causa
were awarded to 15 members of the class of '43 who
were with the U. S. armed forces.

'13 Laurence Bevan, director of the New Jersey
Extension Service, is the author of the chapter on
Economics of Marketing in a new book, published by
Halcyon House, called a Practical Guide to Success-
ful Farming.

'13 George Mallett is chairman of the War
Gardens Committee in Bridgeport, Conn.

'17 John T. Dizer is probation officer for the
United States District Court of New Jersey, Cam-
den. He lives at 7 Hillside Avenue, Verona, New
Jersey.

'20 William Robertson is research associate and
manager of the canning factory at Michigan State
College, East Lansing. His son, Bill Jr., w'46 is at
aerial gunners school in Colorado.

'20 Ralph Stedman is vice president in charge
of sales promotion for Eaton-Pond Company, Inc.,
automatic machine products, 15 Park Street, Spring-
field, Mass.

'21 R. A. Mellen is chairman of the Bridgeport,
Conn., Salvage Committee, a member of the War
Garden Committee, and of the Defense Council Rec-
reation Committee.

'21 Phillip Robinson is grounds maintenance en-
gineer with Region II of the Federal Public Housing
Authority, 270 Broadway, New York City. His work
includes the solving of grounds maintenance prob-
lems for all public housing projects in New York,
New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.

'22 Henry Moseley is principal of the Gilbert
School, Winsted, Connecticut.

'24 Robert H. Woodworth, professor of biology
at Bennington College, Vermont, is in charge of the
farm work now being done by the girls at the
College.

'29 Roman Kreinbaum is staff engineer for Proc-
tor and Gamble. His address is 1491 Wittekind Ter-
race, Cincinnati, Ohio.

'30 Lieut, (jg) Bill O'Leary, U.S.N.R., recently
visited with Eddie Connell '27 in Stamford, Conn-
ecticut.

'33 Ben Cummings has recently been appointed a
recreation director by the City of Cincinnati, Ohio.
Ben's address is Public Recreation Commission, City
Hall, Cincinnati.

'34 Don Durell lives at 8241 Edwin Drive, Oak-
dale Farms, Norfolk, Va. He is an associate land-
scape architect with the district office of the U. S.
Engineers, and is doing camouflage work for the en-
gineers.

'35 Red Mulhall is in his sixth year as a sales-
man with the American Agricultural Chemical
Company. His home is in Ashland, Mass. Harold
Morse '14, Al LaPrise '28 and Raymond Rodger '17
are also with the company.

'40 David Copson is field representative for Birds
Eye Frosted Foods Sales Corporation. He is as;o-
ciated with Maine Canned Foods, Inc., Portland.

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MARRIAGES

'26 Stanley L. Burt to Miss Martha A. Cook,
May 15, 1943, at North Amherst, Mass.

'35 T/Sgt. Lester W. Clark to Miss Evelyn E.
Reeves, May 5, 1943, at Windsor, Ontario.

'37 Lieut. Haskell S. Tubiash to Miss Marian
Cohen, April 23, 1943, at Mattapan, Mass.

'38 Miss Virginia Pond to Franklin 0. Richard-
son, October 17, 1941, at Starke, Florida.

'38 Lieut. Philip A. Smardon, Jr. to Miss Louise
Peters, January 6, 1943, in New York City.

'39 Miss Grace B. Cooper to C. Victor Johnson,
September 20, 1941, at Stockbridge, Mass.

'39 and '42 Frank J. Yourga to Miss Jean B.
Carlisle, May 29, 1943, at Saugus, Mass.

'40 Ensign Leo G. Carroll to Miss Mary K. Han-
nah, December 18, 1941, at Jackson, Mississippi.

'40 Lieut. George F. Flanagan to Miss Dorothy
C. Clifford, May 1, 1943, at Northampton, Mass.

'40 Captain John E. Merrill, Jr. to Miss Jane
Richardson, April 11, 1942, at Fort Riley, Kanras.

'40 and '42 Lewis F. Norwood to Miss Ethel K.
Gassett, May 2, 1943, at Whitman, Mass.

'40 Captain George T. Pitts, Jr. to Miss Ruth M.
Dailey, May 22, 1943, at Fort Myer, Virginia.

'40 Lieut, (s.g.) Chester H. Tiberii to Miss Olga
DiFederico, January 9, 1943, at Southbridge, Mass.

w'41 Pfc. Walter A. Wileikis to Miss Virginia
Race, May 28, 1943, at Chicago, Illinois.

'42 Otto S. Nau, Jr. to Miss Ruth L. Pierce, May
30, 1943, at Montague, Mass.

'42 and \v'44 Ensign Eleanor M. Russell to
Thomas E. Batey, Jr., May 15, 1943, at Easthamp-
ton, Mass.

BIRTHS

'28 and '30 A son, Peter Ian, to Mr. and Mrs. Ian
O. Denton (Priscilla Wood '30), May 11, 194"., at
Milford, Mass.

'35 and '36 A daughter, Elizabeth Ann, to Dr.
and Mrs. Theodore M. Leary (M. Frances Horgan
•36), April 12, 1943, at Washington, D. C.

'36 A son, Douglas Winslow, to Mr. and Mrs.
George H. Allen, May 13, 1943, in New York City.

A daughter, Susan Elizabeth, to Lieut, and
Mrs. Paul R. Spinney (Priscilla Bradford '37),
April 29, 1943, at Lakeland, Florida.

'37 A son, John Henry, to Mr. and Mrs. William
Henry Moss, May 19, 1943, at Northampton, Mass.

'40 A son, John William, Jr., to Lieut, and Mrs.
John W. Meehan (Betty Bates '40), March 4, 194.;,
at Durham, North Carolina.

'40 and '40 A son, Jairus Charles, to Pfc. and
Mrs. Richard S. Warner (Priscilla Jacobs), August
16, 1942, at Chicopee Falls, Mass.

'40 A daughter, Joan, to Captain and Mrs. John
K. Merrill, Jr., January 15, L943, at LI Paso, Texas.

WITH THE ALUMMAE

by Mary E. Garvey '19

Dr. Marie Gutowska, from the University of War-
saw, Poland, is at Massachusetts State College as
assistant research professor in home economics in
the field of nutrition.

Dr. Gutowska recently accepted the invitation of
the Polish Ambassador to the United States to at-
tend the International Food Conference at Hot
Springs, Virginia — to be a member of the Polish
delegation and to serve as a consulting expert in
problems of nutrition.

Dorothy Waugh sp'17 is the author and illustrator
of Warm Earth, a new book for boys and girls just
issued by Oxford University Press.

A description of the book says in part, "Boys and
girls who plant their own gardens, or who watch
green things grow and blossom and die, will find
here a fascinating description of what goes on under
the surface of the warm earth."

In her introduction Miss Waugh writes, "Dr.
Arthur B. Beaumont, agronomist; Professor Orton
L. Clark and Dr. Linus H. Jones, botanists ; my
father, Dr. Frank A. Waugh, emeritus professor of
landscape architecture ; my mother, whose six sons
and daughters and eleven grandchildren consider her
an expert at interesting children ; and others amonj-
my family and friends, have been kind enough to
give this script the benefit of their interested and
critical attention. I am surely grateful."

Dr. Beaumont is extension soil conservationist at
the College. He is the father of Davis and Edgar
Beaumont, both '38, both now army lieutenants, and
of Helen Beaumont, a junior at the College.

Linus Jones '16 is assistant research professor of
botany at the College; Orton Clark '08 is associate
professor of botany.

Dorothy Morley Osmun '40 is artist and drafts-
man for the Station Hospital and Laboratory, Camp
Gordon, Georgia, where she has been employed dur-
ing the last year.

'40 and '39 A daughter, Elizabeth Agnes, to
Captain and Mrs. Gerald L. Talbot (Shelagh Crow-
ley '39), April 12, 1943, at Indio, California.

w'40 A daughter, Ethel Mary, to Private and
Mrs. John Van Der Wall (Dorothy B. Phipps w'40),
April 21, 1943, at Paterson, New Jersey.

w'41 and '42 A son, Michael, to Sergeant and
Mrs. Chester L. Kuralowicz (Lois Doubleday '42),
June 2, 1943, at Northampton, Mass.

'42 A son, Carl Cushing, to Lieut, and Mrs.
Chester C. Stone, December 19, 1942, at Worcester,
Mass.

w'42 A son, Joseph Emery III, to Lieut, and Mrs.
Joseph Emery, Jr., May 6, 1943, at El Paso, Texas.

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ALUMNI ENGAGED IN
ENTOMOLOGICAL WORK

Here, continued, is the listing of Alumni engaged
in entomological work which was begun in the May
issue of the Bulletin. The names, following, are of
Alumni who majored in entomology at the College
and who are now employed in that field — or who,
formerly so employed, are now with the U. S. Armed
Forces, or who were graduated from the department
of entomology and immediately entered the Service.

w-1915

William H. Komp, Box 1461, U.S. Public Health
Service, Ancon, Canal Zone.
1916

Dwight F. Barnes, entomologist, Dried Fruit In-
sects Laboratory, B.E.P.Q., U.S.D.A., Fresno, Calif.

Reginald Hart, State Plant Board, Miami, Fla.

Perez Simmons, entomologist in charge, Dried
Fruit Insects Laboratory, B.E.P.Q., U.S.D.A., Fres-
no, Calif.

Herbert H. Walkden, B.E.P.Q., U.S.D.A., Ames,
Iowa.

1917

Frank S. Chamberlain, B.E.P.Q., U.S.D.A., Or-
lando, Fla.

Herbert D. Smith, associate entomologist, Field
Laboratory, Division of Foreign Parasite Introduc-
tion, B.E.P.Q., U.S.D.A., Hoboken, N. J.

Warren D. Whitcomb, research professor, Massa-
chusetts Agricultural Experiment Station, Waltham,
Mass.

1918

Theodore B. Mitchell, department of zoology and
entomology, North Carolina State College, Raleigh,
N. C.

Lawrence H. Patch, associate entomologist, Corn
Hybrid Laboratory, Purdue Agricultural Experiment
Station, W. Lafayette, Ind.

Raymond A. St. George, Division of Forest Insect
Investigations, B.E.P.Q., U.S.D.A., Washington, D.C.

Lt. Col. Harlan N. Worthley, Army. 607 South
10th St., Gadsden, Ala.

1919
William A. Baker, senior entomologist in charge,
Insecticidal Control of European Corn Borer Lab-
oratory, B.E.P.Q., U.S.D.A., Toledo, Ohio.

Henry B. Peirson, state entomologist of Maine,
Augusta, Maine.

1920

Charles F. Doucette, in charge of Bulb Insects
Field Laboratory, B.E.P.Q., U.S.D.A., Sumner,
Washington.

Guy F. MacLeod, professor of entomology, depart-
ment of entomology and parasitology, University of
California, Berkeley, Calif.

Philip A. Readio, professor of economic entomol-
ogy, Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y.

1921
Harrison M. Tietz, associate professor of zoology,
Penn State College, State College, Pa.
1922
Stanley W. Bromley, entomologist, F. A. Bartlett
Tree Research Laboratory, Stamford, Conn.

1923

Howard Baker, in charge of Laboratory for Par-
latoria chinensis, U.S.D.A., St. Louis, Mo.

James A. Beal, professor of forest entomology,
Duke University, Durham, N. C.

Philip B. Dowden, associate entomologist, Forest-
tree Insects Field Laboratory, B.E.P.Q., U.S.D.A.,
New Haven, Conn.

Roger B. Friend, state entomologist of Connecti-
cut, New Haven, Conn.

1924

Wendell F. Sellers, Imperial Institute of Ento-
mology, Parasite Service, 228 Dundas Street, Belle-
ville, Ontario.

Harold H. Shepard, assistant professor, division
of entomology and zoology, University of Minnesota,
University Farm, St. Paul, Minn.

1925

Gilbert J. Haeussler, entomologist in charge, Field
Laboratory, B.E.P.Q., U.S.D.A., Charlottesville, Va.

Donald L. Parker, Forest Tree Insects, B.E.P.Q.,
U.S.D.A., Columbus, Ohio.

Xavier P. Peltier, B.E.P.Q., U.S.D.A., Nogales,
Ariz.

1926

Lieut. Henry H. Richardson, Army. Millis, Mass.

Ellsworth H. Whee'er, associate in research, Divi-
sion of entomology, N. Y. Agr. Exp. Station, Geneva,
N. Y.

1927

Raphael A. Biron, Tobacco By-Products & Chem-
ical Corporation, 4402 So. Lafayette Street, Fort
Wayne, Ind.

Robert W. Burrell, B.E.P.Q., U.S.D.A., Orlando,
Florida.

Clarence A. Crooks, U. S. Corn Borer Laboratory,
Toledo, Ohio.

Ezekiel Rivnay, Experiment Station, P.O. Box 15,
Rehoboth, Palestine.

1928

Kenneth A. Bartlett, director, Federal Experi-
ment Station, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico.

Alexander C. Hodson, assistant professor, depart-
ment of entomology and economic zoology, Univer-
sity of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minn.

Lieut. George S. Tulloch, U.S.N.R., 22 E. Garfield
St., Merrick, N. Y.

1929

Lieut. Stanley F. Bailey, U.S.N.R., Box 263, Wood
St., Middleboro, Mass.

Major Emory D. Burgess, Army. 410 So. Wash-
ington Ave., Moorestown, N. J.

(To be Continued)

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'33

'28

'24

'26

w'37

w'46

'38

'34

'35

w'42

'42

'37

'38

'32

'37

'31

'34

'32

'42

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A/C Robert A. Martin, Air Force, 37 Pleasure

Avenue, Pittsfield, Mass.
Lieut, (jg) Donald S. Mayo, U.S.N.R., 421

Hollis Street, Framingham, Mass.
Lieut. Dominic E. Nietupski, Army, Miller

Street, Ludlow, Mass.
Cpl. Joseph Politella, Army, 400 Hampshire

Street, Lawrence, Mass.
Lieut, (jg) Charles P. Preston, U.S.N.R., 718

E. Clinton Street, Huntsville, Ala.
Lieut. Leon A. Regan, Army, 18

Avenue, North Easton, Mass.

Lieut. Henry H. Richardson, Army,

Mass.

Chief Electrician's Mate Warren W.

U.S.N.R., Charlemont, Mass.

Private William F. Robertson, Jr., Army, 519

Forest Avenue, East Lansing, Mich.
Lieut. Charles Rosenbloom, Army, 145 Essex

Street, Holyoke, Mass.
Private Raymond Royal, Army, 41 Taft Street,

North Adams, Mass.
O.C. William A. Scott, Army, Cottage Grove

Road, Eloomfield, Conn.

Private H. Westcott Shaw, Army, 41 Inde-
pendence Street, Canton, Mass.
Private A. Francis Shea, Army, 102

Street, Florence, Mass.
Ensign Clifford E. Simmons, U.S.N.R.,

Noble Street, Westfleld, Mass.
Lieut. Fhilip A. Smardon, Jr., Army,

Pleasant Street, Portland, Maine
Lieut, (jg) Frank L. Springer, U.S.N.R.,

Lakehill Avenue, Arlington, Mass.
Lieut, (jg) Carl P. Swanson, U.S.N. R., 1435

Coventry Road, Dayton, Ohio
Private Robert B. Tucker, Army, 28 Oak

Street, Middleboro, Mass.
Lieut. Vernon K. Watson, Army, 23 East

Pleasant Street, Amherst, Mass.
Pfc. Frederick J. Welch, Army, 230 Green-
wood Street, Rockland, Mass.
Ensign Charles M. Woodcock, Jr., U.S.N.R.,

Silver Street, South Hadley, Mass.

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The following letter recently came to the Alumni
Office from Private Edward Szetela '45 at Crmp
Lee, Virginia.

"The .Mas-. State boys delegated me to inform
you of the recent meeting we had with Lieut. Col.
McGuckian '34. The Colonel very kindly invited all
the boys to spend Thursday evening at his home.
Jimmy Curran '44 got us together. Vic Leonowicz
'4:'. was unable to make it. There were eight of us
all together.

"I can't really tell you what a swell evening we
had. The Colonel, his charming wife, and even his
little son outdid themselves in making us feel right
at home. On the return to camp the fellows all re-
marked that it was the first time since our entry
into the Army that we had felt at home. Of course

we talked of everything. But our discussions always
centered on State — the Colonel telling us of the Col-
lege in his time and we in turn telling him of the
College of today. All in all it was the finest time
we've had since we left the campus.

"I want to let you know that practically all of us
have been accepted for A.S.T.P. Anderson '43,
Cohen '46, and Leonowicz '43 have been made act-
ing corporals. So the State boys are doing pretty
well."

Signed

Gerald Anderson '43, Nathan Berman '37,

W. Leon Weeks '44, James Curran '44,

Samuel Glass '45, William Lucey '45,

Edward Szetela '45, Merle Ingraham '46

A letter from Lieutenant
Maurice Featherman '30,
U.S.N.R., says, "Do you re-
member Captain Babe Brown
'38? I met him in San Fran-
cisco last January. It was
the second day I had been
back in the States — I had
been away almost two years
— and I bumped into him in
one of the Italian restaur-
ants down on Fisherman's
Pier. He was with his wife
and two years old daughter.
Our meeting was a coin-
cidence, because Babe's home
town is Ashland which is
only about four miles away
from Natick, my town."

Major George A. Vassos
'36, of the Army Medical
Corps, was pictured in the
New York Herald Tribune of
May 27th. Major Vassos, and
others, were standing with
soldiers, back from Tunisia,
at the Halloran General Hos-
pital on Staten Island. The
occasion was a review in hon-
or of the returning men.

B^^HOHnSM

MARY MARTIN

"You don't mind if I call yc
Doric" she beamed to Mr. Alviai
her accompanist pro tem, in Bowk
Auditorium on the evening of M'
23rd — ■ and the show was on. T)
celebrated star of stage, radio, ai
screen came to the College to sii
for the Army Air Corps Cadets; h
nephew is a member of the trainir
detachment. She made a hit.

Sergeant Edwin F. Steffek

'34 is the author of an in-
teresting, illustrated article
in the magazine published at
his post which described the
trees and other vegetation
typical of the region where
the post is located. One pur-
pose of the article was to ac-
quaint men from other sec-
tions of the country with

features of the landscape different from those to
which they had been accustomed.

(Continued on Page 10)

Lawrence Tibbett, whose step-sc
is a member of the training detac
ment, sang for the group in Bowk
on the evening of June 10th. He, tc
was heartily acclaimed.

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ATHLETICS

ALUMNAE NOTES

Baseball

Coach Herb Gill's Statesmen wound up their four-
game season in a way that would have done credit
to the Brooklyn Dodgers.

The game was with Springfield, one of the best
college baseball teams in the East this spring. When
the Springfield club came up to Alumni Field they
had won seven of their last eight games — ar.d won
their last four in a row — victorious over Brown,
Yale, Amherst and the pro Springfield Rifles. Coach
Gill started Ted Brutcher '44 of Mansfield as pitcher
for the Statesmen; he thought Brutcher's slow ball
might do pretty well. It did. Brutcher went the
distance — although he had never pitched a ball game
before in his life — and he shut out Springfield,
1 to 0.

The Statesmen scored in the first inning. Art
Irzyk '44 of Salem (brother of Captain Al Irzyk
'40) walked. He was sacrificed to second. He went
to third on an infield out. Then he raced home on a
fly into the outfield. The peg to the plate was per-
fect— thrown by Kalbaugh, who in Gill's opinion is
the best throwing outfielder in college baseball — but
Irzyk made a perfect slide and scored the only run
of the game.

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A letter from Justin Lee Altshuler '45 from the
Tufts Dental School says, "I have been reading the
list of those in the Service with an envious feeling
but at last I can write and ask to have my name
added.

"Together with other boys here at the Dental
School, I am to proceed to Devens to receive uniform
and so forth. We will continue to study dentistry
under a form of military regulation probably similar
to that for the cadets now at State."

The others at dental school: Raymond S. Licht
'43, Joseph V. Corriveau '45, Seymour Gold '44,
Stanley L. Wein '45, and David Cooley '45.

We have had an amusing V-mail letter from
Captain Cal Han. mm '36, overseas. Cal wrote:

"Have been getting the Alumni Bulletin regularly;
but I do not know the status of my dues. Probably
long over-due. Wish you would have one of the girls
in the office let me know so that I could send a money
order. I'm afraid if I tried to enclose currency in
this it would not be much good after the micro-film-
ing. Speaking of V-mail and its hazards, one of the
officers in the headquarters here wrote to his mother-
in-law and said he would be glad to buy her a pair
of African sandals if she would send him an outline
of her foot. You can imagine his chagrin when he
opened a micro-filmed letter with a two-inch sketch
on it."

(Continued on Page 12)

Betty Gaskill '38 is employed as a clerk in the
treasurer's office at the College.

Betsy Olson '39 and Marian Maschin '39 attended
events of the commencement weekend for the fourth
consecutive year. Betsy is laboratory technician at
the Salem, Mass., Hospital. Marian works in Hart-
ford, Connecticut.

Margaret Vannah '40 is a teacher at Mary Wells
High School in Southbridge, Mass. Her home ad-
dress is 7 Hampden Court, Monson.

Marjorie Cushman '43 has been appointed to the
Recreation Commission of the Chicago Park District.
Her assignment will be to provide programs for the
many children whose parents are employed in war
industry.

FRATERNITY LEASES

Negotiations are underway between Robert D.
Hawley '18, college treasurer, and members of the
college administration, and faculty and alumni rep-
resentatives of fraternities on campus whereby
fraternity houses may be leased to the College to
provide dormitory facilities for students entering
College in the fall.

Members of the Army Air Corps Cadet Detach-
ment are now quartered in Abigail Adams House,
as well as in Lewis and Thatcher Halls. Girls may
live in one or two of the leased fraternity houses,
beginning in the fall.

CLASS NOTES

'36 Walter Wainio is an instructor in physiology
at the Cornell University Medical College, 1300 York
Avenue, New York City. His requirements are near-
ly complete for his Ph.D. in physiology, and he ex-
pects to receive this degree in September from Cor-
nell.

'39 Milton Auerbach was graduated from Harv-
ard Dental School in May and will be assigned to
serve with the Medical Corps following an intern-
ship.

'39 Donald Brown has received his M.D., cum
laude, from Harvard Medical School. He is serving
an internship at General Hospital 1, Kansas City,
Missouri. He is married and living with his wife
at 2725 Campbell Street, Kansas City.

'42 Carl L. Erickson has been appointed farm
placement supervisor for Bristol County, Mass. One
of his duties will be to find farm jobs for men of
draft age in non-deferrable occupations, whose labor
skill cards show they have farm experience. Erick-
son will work with Charles W. Harris, Jr. '30, agri-
cultural agent for Bristol County.

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ACADEMICS

Index

The 194S Index was dedicated to Dr. Charles A.
Peters '97. For 32 years Dr. Peters has been profes-
sor of inorganic and soil chemistry at the College.
For nearly 10 years he served as alumni secretary.

Professor Frank Prentice Rand wrote, in appre-
ciation, "Unassuming but not timorous in judgment,
contemplative but with a clear and happy mind,
scholarly but not pedantic, aspiring but r.ever
aggressive, Dr. Peters is one whom men of this
College have cherished, for exactly fifty years, as
teacher, as colleague, as friend."

Other Alumni to whom the Index has been dedi-
cated are these: in 1942 to Dr. Maxwell H. Goldberg
'28; in 1938 to Professor Lawrence S. Dickinson '10;
in 1935 to Marshall O. Lanphear '18; in 1923 to Dr.
Ray E Torrey '12; in 1914 to Professor A. Vincent
Osmun '03; in 1912 to Dr. Clarence E. Gordon '01;
in 1903 to Professor Ralph E. Smith '94.

In 1902 the Index inscription was "To the Alumni
cf our beloved Alma Mater all that is of worth in
this volume is affectionately dedicated."

Collegian

Dave Bush '44, Collegian editor, said his fare-
wells, simply and impressively, in the issue of May
13th. Bush, a junior in the advanced ROTC course,
has left College with the other junior and senior of-
ficers for active service with the Army.

His editorial:

With Vol. 53, No. 28 a good many of our staff, and,
if we may speak for other Statesmen, say "farewell
to Bay State" — until victory. During the past se-
mester we have tried to publish a newspaper each
week that would hold the interest of faculty and
students alike. Undoubtedly at times we have fallen
short of our goal.

With each succeeding issue we have enjoyed our
work more and more. If we have fulfilled our duty
to our College in some small way and have in the
meantime enjoyed doing it, we feel we have done our
best for the Collegian, and the Collegian for us. We
have undoubtedly made certain people "growl" at us.
If that "growling" was justified — which was prob-
ably true in many cases — our mi;doings were unin-
tentional.

We, along with most of the male students at State,
are off to take up arms with those who have already
answered the call. State has meant a lot to us. It
will mean more to us after we have left — the campus
in the spring, the Old Chapel chime, the bull sessions
in the fraternity, fraternity life, our faculty friends.

We are leaving State proud of our College. Those
of us who have been unable to finish our education
will come back to State — back to the College we have
grown to love — after the Axis is defeated and the
United States and her Allies are again victorious.

Debating

Professor Walter E. Prince withdrew, this year,
after many years of service as coach of the debating

team. He was succeeded by Mr. Mark Rand of
Northampton.

Writing in the Collegian Max Goldberg '28 com-
mented as follows about Professor Prince.

Without in the least minimizing the skill of our
present coach, Mr. Mark S. Rand, whom I am happy
to call my colleague and friend, I wish to pay trib-
ute to a past coach of debate at this College. Often,
he had unpromising material. Often, when material

Dr. Charles A. Peters '97

was promising, general student support was small.
Yet, again and again, he took this raw and un-
skilled material, built up its morale, whipped it into
shape, and made it into an effective debating team.
I refer, of course, to Professor Prince. I have de-
bated against the products of other coaches. I have
judged numerous teams turned out by various
coaches. I have coached debaters myself. Yet I have
still to discover any valid reason for modifying, in
a downward direction, my high student estimate of
Professor Prince as a coach of debate. Matthew
Arnold once referred to Thomas Henry Huxley as a
"prince of debaters". That epithet might very ap-
propriately be applied to our recently retired coach.
He is not only a master debater himself, a battle-
scarred veteran of many a forensic fray; he also
has an enviable record of superior debaters developed
under his guidance, and of superior inter-collegiate
performance by his men.

'39 Lane Giddings received his M.D. on May 25th
from Hahnemann Medical College. He is in the
Medical Reserve and is now senior intern at Huron
Road Hospital in Cleveland.

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'26 Alton H. Gustafson, who is professor of
biology at Williams College, has supervision of the
academic work for the Navy's Training Detachment
stationed at Williams.

Library-
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Qfor C^lie Gflurnm JjuLLeUn

News and notes about alumni activity are always welcomed. Won't you
please drop us a line now and again - to let us know what's news with you.

A letter
12th, says,
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from Captain Lou Bush '34, dated May
"I have been fighting side by side with
ill Brown '35, Lieut. Johnny Wood '36,
Captain Ged Dailey '40, Lieut. Johnny Serex '40,
Lieut. Larry Schenck '34 and others. It has been
just like a State reunion in these parts of Africa."

In a letter to Kid Gore '13 Lou wrote as follows:
"Now that the censors have lifted their restrictions,
I can say that I've been from Casablanca to Tunis
and lucky to be in on the big show at Bizerte where
we are now enjoying the beaches off the blue Med-
iterranean. I joined this combat outfit at the ancient
Roman city of Tebessa and from there, started the
"Wasp Campaign" on the Ides of March that took
us to the capture of Gafsa and El Guettar. We made
our break thru at El Guettar and met the 8th Army
pushing up from the south. This made Rommel re-
treat to the north and we were not used again until
the push from Mateur, Terryville and Bizerte.

"It was indeed a sight to see the Axis troops being-
rushed to the prisoner of war camp by the truckload
in U. S. vehicles and in German driven trucks. All
along the battlefields were disabled German 88 mm
guns, tanks and all makes of vehicles. Staff cars
are now driven by our officers in a big turn over
and capture along the line.

"At the present time I am enjoying the rest and
recreational trips. We have a dandy field shower
set up by the engineers in Mateur and the ocean
for a beach at Bizerte.

"I've been to Carthage and saw a few ruins there
besides the military air points taken over by the
Allies. It seems great to forget about the Stukas
M-109 and 88's. As to the future, nobody knows,
but I hope that we start our offense rolling again."

Lieut. Henry H. Richardson '26, son of Evan

Richardson '87, is with the Army Sanitary Corps.
He received his master's and Ph.D. Degrees from
Iowa State College and had been employed by the
USDA, Division of Entomology.

Lieut. Richardson is married and has two sons.

Ensign William Mosher '42 is on active duty
aboard a U. S. destroyer — and has been busy in
what he regards as interesting but strenuous work.
He wears the "Atlantic Service Ribbon."

Aviation Cadet Carl Twyble '40, former pitcher
for the Washington Senators, was recently commis-
sioned a second lieutenant in the Army Air Forces.

Captain Tommy Lyman '39 has been awarded the
Air Medal for 200 hours as a pilot in antisubmarine
patrol.

His citation was as follows: "For extraordinary
achievement while participating in more than 200
hours of antisubmarine patrol. As a member of
combat crews, he displayed outstanding initiative,
resourcefulness and a high degree of skill under
many trying conditions, such as restricted visibility,
low ceilings and icy conditions encountered on the
large number of flights necessary to perform this
hazardous patrol of great responsibility. Possibility
of encountering enemy ships of fighter type or anti-
aircraft fire added to the hazard of these missions.
The outstanding service of Captain Lyman reflects
the highest credit on the military forces of the
United States."

Captain Ernie Bolt '41 has written to tell about
his cavalry unit becoming an armed detachment.
He says, "Now we're galvanized cavalry."

MILITARY NOTES

The lead article in the May-June issue of the
Cavalry Journal is "Jungle Fighting" by Captain
Willard O. Foster, Jr. '40, cavalry.

Editorial comment (the editor of the Journal is
Colonel Edwin Miles Sumner, formerly on the
R.O.T.C. staff at the College) says, "This article,
received by air mail from Guadalcanal, contains in-
valuable training data for every officer, non com-
missioned officer or private who may find himself
pitted against the Japs !"

Some of the topics covered by the article are:
jungle reconnaissance, use of weapons, care and
cleaning of weapons, snipers and sniping, ambushes,
and patience. Of the last, the author said, "Patience
is not only a virtue, it's the mother of all virtues in
this kind of job. A good hunter must have patience,
and in jungle combat the soldier is a 'hunter' in the
strictest sense of the word."

THE ALUMNI
BULLETIN

TOWARD

MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE

AMHERST, MASSACHUSETTS

Vol. XXV, No. 10

July, 1943

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN

OFFICERS OF ASSOCIATE ALUMNI OF
MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE
President, William V. Hayden '13 of Newton Center
Vice-President Ralph S. Stedman '20 of Springfield
Secretary, Marshall O. Lanphear '18 of Amherst
Treasurer, Clark L. Thayer '13 of Amherst
Executive Secretary, George E. Emery '24 of Amherst

BOARD OF DIRECTORS
to 1944
Capt. Donald C. Douglass '21 of Belmont

Norman D. Hilyard '23 of Springfield

John W. McGuckian '31 of Roslindale

Arthur D. Tilton '18 of Woburn
to 1945
Alden C. Brett '12, ex-officio, of Belmont

Lt. Alan W. Chadwick '31 of Amherst

Evelyn Davis Kennedy '26 of Belmont

Major Starr M. King '21 of Beverly

Lewis Schlotterbeck '16 of Wakefield
to 1946
John S. Crosby '25 of Arlington

Ethel Blatchford Purnell '34 of Bridgeport, Conn.
Sterling Myrick '24 of Brookline

H. Sidney Vaughn '30 of Worcester
to 1947
Katherine O'Brien Esselen '36 of Amherst

Brooks F. Jakeman '20 of Larchmont. N. Y.
David M. Lipshires 'IS of Northampton

Albert W. Smith '22, ex-offieio, of Sprinsfield
Louis A. Webster '14 of Blackst~ne

The Alumni Bulletin is sent ten times each year to all members
of the Associate Alumni. Memberships are : Annual $3.00, Sus-
taining $10.00.

Cover picture — Alumni in Uniform. Names of the
Alumni in this group appear on page 12. // the
Bulletin is opened out flat identification will be
made easier.

The young man in civilian clothes in the center of
the front cover is David Barrett Ryan, son of Al
Ryan '34 and Polly Hillberg Ryan '34. With David
is his uncle, Ensign James M. Ryan '37.

Private Gore w'46 is the son of Harold M. and
Jane Pollard Gore '13 and '22.

FOOD PRODUCTION - PRESERVATION

HORSES NAMED FOR STUDENTS

President Baker is chairman of a State committee,
appointed by Governor Saltonstall, to conduct a pro-
gram for the increase of home grown food supplies.
Willard Munson '05 is director of the work of the
committee.

Members of the college staff who for the past sev-
eral months have been giving lecture-demonstrations
throughout the State on food production and pres-
ervation include W. R. Cole '02, Clark L. Thayer '13,

A. M. Davis '31, Alden P. Tuttle !28, Church Hub-
bard, Thomas Sproston, Mrs. Harriet Haynes, Grant

B. Snyder and Ransom Packard.

Earle Carpenter '24, secretary of the Extension
Service at the College, has reported that in the seven
months just past his office has answered 64,0 "0 indi-
vidual requests for publications and leaflets dealing
with production and preservation of food. This fig-
ure is within 2500 of the requests for publications in
the previous 12 months period.

On May 7th the cavalry horses which had been
used by cadets in the College R.O.T.C. unit were
shipped to Front Royal, Virginia, for eventual as-
signment to active cavalry units. The advanced
R O.T.C. training at the College will be discontinued
for the duration; and cavalry horses may never be
re-assigned to the College.

Soon after Captain Dwight Hughes came to the
R.O.T.C. staff in 1923 the custom of r.aming some
of the horses for students in the advanced cource,
the military "majors," was inaugurated. A horse
was named for a student for no particular reason;
the christening just happened. There did seem to
be one qualifying rule, however. The name had to
be a short one — so that it could ea:ily be spelled out
on the name board over the horse's stall at the cav-
alry stables.

Technical Sergeant Frank Cronk has prepared,
for the Bulletin, the following list of 67 horses which
were at the College when orders came to ship the
mounts to Virginia. There were five other horses, in
addition to those listed, but these were new horses
and had not yet been given names.

Sergeant Cronk, Master Sergeant Roy Tanner, re-
tired, and Colonel Aplington provided the names of
students, now Alumni, for whom the horses were
named. Herewith the list: of the horses and of the
men — and women — for whom the animals were
named.

1. Jones Lieut. C. Parker Jones '41

2. Davis Capt. Franklin M. Davis, Jr. '40

3. Hughes Capt. Dwight Hughes, of the R.O.

T.C. staff from 1923 to '27 and
1931 to '35, is now a colonel and
has recently served with the mil-
itary detachment at the American
Embassy at the Court of St.
James.

4. Watkins Major Herbert E. Watkins, now

a colonel, was on the College R.O.
T.C. staff from 1932 to '36.

5. Wood Lieut. John L. Wood '36

6. Blake Major Norman P. Blake '38

7. Bruneau Captain Alfred W. Bruneau '37

9. Stuart This horse was named for Jeb

Stuart, famous Confederate lead-
er of cavalry.

10. Hiland Capt. Page L. Hiland '34

11. Hilda

12. Peterson Lieut. David A. Peterson '37

13. Aplington Colonel Horace T. Aplington was

commandant of the R.O T.C. unit
at the College from 1935 to 1939,
and now, retired, has returned to
succeed Colonel Donald A. Young.

14. Ceres Riding this horse, Sergeant Tan-

ner won many a ribbon and silver
trophy at horse shows in West-
ern Massachusetts, Connecticut,
and New York State.
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THE ALUMNI BULLETIN

COMMENCEMENT, MAY 22-23

ALUMNI IN UNIFORM

Governor Leverett Saltonstall delivered the com-
mencement address at the graduation exercises in
the Curry S. Hicks Physical Education Building on
Sunday morning, May 23. Following Governor Salt-
onstall's address, degrees were presented to members
of the class of 1943 and to Alumni and others who
had earned advanced degrees in the graduate school.
Honorary degrees were next presented.

The award of honorary degrees was an impres-
sive part of the commencement program. Presenta-
tion of recipients was by Philip F. Whitmore '15,
Trustee of the College; Dr. C. P. Alexander, head of
the department of entomology at the College; Dr.
Vlado A. Getting, Massachusetts Commissioner of
Public Health; and Governor Leverett Saltonstall.
President Baker conferred the degrees.

Mr. Whitmore said,

Mr. President: In the conferring of honorary de-
grees, it has been the privilege of Massachusetts
State College to award such honors to men of out-
standing ability and leadership. It is my privilege
today to present to you for special recognition an
individual whose background is one of genuine schol-
astic and intellectual attainments.

Born at a time when educational facilities were
meagre, his formal education was limited to a few
sessions in a one-room school house. Being of a
curious and studious nature, he amplified this school-
ing by searching for and finding answers from every
available source and especially from nature, from
which he gained a vast and accurate fund of infor-
mation of all growing things.

His searching mind carried him far beyond a
thorough knowledge of the local flora, to a profound
understanding of botany and the derivation of bo-
tanical nomenclature and also the Greek and Latin
languages.

This information, combined with an inborn sense
of order and planning ability, and with an achieved
knowledge of engineering, was to be used in his
chosen profession — landscape architecture, where he
helped plan and build many outstanding gardens and
parks.

Called from this field in 1911 to this College, he
has put all his great fund of information and un-
usual experience down through the years at the dis-
posal of a host of students. He has builded greater
than he knew by inspiring the men and women who
have passed through his classes to make their work
with the soil and with plants a labor of love. His
warmth of spirit and his understanding of people
has made him one of the most respected and beloved
teachers of his period at the College.

I present to you Professor Arthur Kenyon Har-
rison of the department of landscape architecture of
Massachusetts State College for special recognition.

(Continued on page 6)

The record in the Alumni Office now shows the
names of 1366 Alumni and Alumnae in various
branches of the U. S. Forces. Following are the
additions to the list (included in the above figure)
since the last Bulletin.

Mail sent to any of these men and women, either
at the addresses below or to the Alumni Office, will
be forwarded promptly.

'39 Ensign George W. Beckman, USNR, 43 Villa
Parkway, Springfield, Mass.

'38 Major Norman P. Blake, Army, 15 Wilson Ave-
nue, Maiden, Mass.

w'45 Aviation Cadet James N. Bodurtha, U.S.N.R.,
Southampton, Mass.

'38 Ensign Harold M. Broderick, USNR, 169 Irene
Street, Willimansett, Mass.

'39 A.S. Bertha B. Boron, WAVES, 14 Thayer
Street, South Deerfield, Mass.

'43 Pvt. Kenneth L. Collard, Army, Maple Street,
Eelchertown, Mass.

w'45 Pvt. Joseph V. Corriveau, Army, 124 West-
moreland Avenue, Longmeadow, Mass.

'38 Cpl. Vernon F. Coutu, Army, Erving, Mass.

w'41 Pvt. Varnum P. Curtis, Army, Box 261, Rut-
land, Mass.

'38 Pvt. Edward W. Czelusniak, Army, 69 Parsons
Street, Easthampton, Mass.

w'41 Lieut. Edward J. Flynn, Army, 71 Otis Ave-
nue, Dalton, Mass.

w'44 A.S. John F. Foley, USNR, 47 Greenlawn
Street, Fall River, Mass.

w'43 Pvt. George A. Goddu, Army, 363 Linden
Street, Holyoke, Mass.

'42 Pvt. Harold P. Golan, Army, 94 W. Selden
Street, Dorchester, Mass.

'35 Lieut, (jg) Arthur Gold, USNR, 75 Forest Park
Avenue, Springfield, Mass.

'40 Pvt. Sidney Greenberg, Army, 54 Jefferson Ave-
nue, Springfield, Mass.

'41 A.S. Anna E. Harrington, WAVES, 148 High
Street, Amherst, Mass.

w'42 Pvt. Melvin Hutner, Army, 120 Maplewood
Terrace, Springfield, Mass.

w'44 Ensign William Kablick, USNR, 48 Hockanum
Road, Northampton, Mass.

'37 Lieut, (jg) Samuel R. Klibanoff, USNR, 80
Melba Avenue, Springfield, Mass.

'43 Ensign Harold S. Lewis, USNR, 184 Edge Hill
Road, Milton, Mass.

w'40 Pvt. Sidney Lipshires, Army, 12 Fruit Street,
Northampton, Mass.

'43 Pvt. Rudolf E. Mathias, Army, 1 Myrtle Street,
Waltham, Mass.

'41 Pvt. Irving Meyer, Army, 16 Sheldon Street,
Springfield, Mass.

w'45 Aviation Cadet Horace N. Milliken, USNR, 87
West Street, Hyde Park, Mass.

w'43 Lieut. Dario Politella, Army, 400 Hampshire
Street, Lawrence, Mass.

(Continued on page 9)

THE ALUMNI BULLETIN

OBITUARIES

Arthur Richard Thompson '27

Arthur Riehard Thompson '27 was instantly
killed in an airplane crash on March 5, 1943 while
instructing a student of the R.A.F. at Clewiston,
Florida. He was 38 years old, and was serving as
civilian instructor for one of the British Flight
Training Schools in this country.

Dick came to the College from West Bridgewater.
He majored in agricultural education, and was a
member of Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity. We who
knew him recall his pleasant manner and his con-
tagious laugh. In a recent letter he wrote about his
activities since leaving College. "I worked for va-
rious five and ten cent stores in Portland, Maine,
and in New York State before joining the Standard
Oil Company of New Jersey in 1933. I worked for
that company for seven years. In 1933 I took out a
student pilot's permit and eventually secured a
private and commercial license. I used a small ship
which I bought for pleasure and business and trav-
elled for Standard Oil and could use the ship to good
advantage. When the war started there was a de-
mand for holders of commercial licenses, so I got
myself a rating and took this job as civilian in-
structor. We have to wear an R.A.F. approved
uniform, and are under contract for a year at a
time. I was married in 1935 to a New York girl;
Mildred and I have been very happy together."

Dick is survived by his wife, and by his mother,
Mrs. Fred A. Hill of Ludlow, Mass.

Dick's death brings sorrow to his classmates; but
we are proud to know that his death came while he
was doing his part to help bring the war to an end.

Earl F. Williams '27

CAHALANE '24 WRITES OF
ANIMAL LIFE

Robert S. Fay '13

Robert Sedgwick Fay '13, known to his many
friends in College as "Doc", died at his home in
Monson, Mass., on June 14, following a brief illness.
He was in his 53rd year.

Doc was born in Monson and educated in the local
schools and at Monson Academy before he came to
the College. He was active in the class activities of
1913, and a popular member of the class. He had
a keen sense of humor and a fund of anecdotes and
stories for all occasions. He was a member of Theta
Chi.

After being graduated he returned to Monson and
entered the Monson Savings Bank as teller. He be-
came treasurer of the bank in 1927, a position he
held at the time of his death.

He was a charter member of the Monson Rotary
Club, several times a member of the town school
committee, vice president of the library, and had
been active in local church and fraternal groups.

He was twice married. His first wife died in 1928.
In 1930 he married Miss Elizabeth Wight of Stur-
bridge. He is survived by his son, Robert, Jr., now
in the Army, by his father, and by his sister.

George A. Post '13

Victor H. Cahalane '24 is author of the new book,
"Meeting the Mammals", published on June 8 by
the MacMillan Company. The book, is illustrated
with drawings by Walter Weber. Cahalane is with
the U. S. Department of the Interior, in charge of
the section on National Park Wildlife. He is the
author of a number of articles in the Saturday
Evening Post, and other magazines, on animal life
in the National Parks, and of two articles in Na-
tional Geographic, "Deer of the World," and "Cats
of the World". His new book is here reviewed by his
former teacher in zoology at the College, Dr. Clar-
ence E. Gordon '01.

Many Alumni who were students at Massachusetts
State in the early twenties will remember Vic Caha-
lane. To some of these, but to many more of the
public at large, Cahalane is recognized today as an
ardent and accomplished student of wild animal life,
and as an authoritative writer in his field.

After graduation from the College Victor Caha-
lane studied at Yale (M. F., 1927) and at the Uni-
versity of Michigan. He gained experience first as
instructor in the Michigan School of Forestry and
Conservation and later as director of Cranbrook
Institute of Science, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. As
field naturalist of the Roosevelt Wildlife Forest Ex-
periment Station at Syracuse in 1925 and in his
capacity of deer investigator with the Michigan De-
partment of Conservation, 1929-31, he found the
field of his real interest. In 1934 he accepted the
position of wildlife technician with the National
Park Service, Department of the Interior.

It was my good fortune as a teacher to become
somewhat intimate with the Cahalane who attended
my classes. His interest at College in the broad
general field of biology was genuine and his attitude
toward the subject matter of the regular courses as
given in his day was more than tolerant; but one
could see that to him the purely systematic aspects
of zoology were only a discipline — a means of de-
velopment and preliminary training. There lurked
beneath a deep love of the out-of-doors and a keen
desire to know animals in the flesh and to study them
as living creatures.

It is not the intention to review the various steps,
obvious and otherwise, in Cahalane's career that
have led to his success. The attainment of his pres-
ent position and eminence is the natural culmina-
tion of the early urge which he experienced as a
student, and of the plan that unfolded as the years
marched on.

"Meeting the Mammals" is a sketch-book designed
not only through its fine illustrations, but particu-
larly through its splendid and accurate word pic-
tures, to bring one face-to-face with the subject of
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THE ALUMNI BULLETIN

MARRIAGES

'30 Miss Flora E. Manwell to John Stene, June
23, 1943, at Istanbul, Turkey.

w'30 Miss Monica Quill Cotter to Douglas A.
Fisher, May 29, 1943, in New York City.

'36 Miss Barbara B. Bradley to Ralph I. Rhoades,
Jr., June 26, 1943, at Southfield, Mass.

'36 Miss Barbara J. Davis to Lieut. Eugene I.
Johnson, June 17, 1943, at Lexington, Mass.

'37 Miss Nellie M. Okolo to Sergeant Charles
Foltz, June 7, 1943, at Hadley, Mass.

'37 Ensign Clifford E. Simmons, USNR, to Miss
Roselyn Jane Flock, June 12, 1943, at Williamsport,
Pennsylvania.

'39 Miss Pauline A. Brisset to Lieut. Edward L.
Sheehan, June 12, 1943, at Holyoke, Mass.

'39 Ensign John F. Click, USNR, to Ensign
Hazel Shakley, NNC, June 24, 1943, at Washington,
D. C.

'40 Captain Wilfrid M. Winter to Miss Carmen
Maria Oritz, May 22, 1943, at Santurce, Puerto Rico.

'41 Miss Ruth L. Crimmin to Francis E. Holden,
May 27, 1943, at Salina, Kansas.

'42 Lieut. Edward F. Sparks to Miss Mary J.
Keegan, June 26, 1943, at Pittsfield, Mass.

'42 and '43 Lieut, (jg) Everett W. Barton,
USNR, to Miss Dorothy B. Kinsley, May 29, 1943,
at Winchester, Mass.

'43 Miss Frances J. Albrecht to Alfred W. Nick-
erson, June 26, 1943, at Somerville, Mass.

BIRTHS

'36 A son, Theodore Stevens, to Mr. and Mrs. W.
Roderic Bliss, March 4, 1943, at Washington, D. C.

'38 A daughter, Caryn Heather, to Mr. and Mrs.
Mitchell I. Jackson, May 12, 1943, at Brighton, Mass.

'40 A son, Tracy, Jr., to Mr. and Mrs. Tracy 0.
Page, February 1, 1943, at Detroit, Mich.

'40 A son, Everett Royal, 3rd, to Ensign and
Mrs. Everett R. Spencer, Jr., May 20, 1943, at
Springfield, Mass.

'40 and 41 A son, Eric Stahlberg, 3rd, to Mr.
and Mrs. Eric Stahlberg, Jr. (Flora Lucchesi '41),
July 4, 1943, at Northampton, Mass.

each sketch. The appeal of the book is bound to be
strong among those who enjoy animals and love the
wild. While devoted in chief measure to descriptions
of the wild mammals as now found in our National
Parks the reader is not to assume that the book is
superficial. The volume may be described as written
in popular style but with strict adherance to scien-
tific accuracy. It is the kind of popular account that
is so much needed and everywhere welcomed. It re-
minds one of the writings of another and disting-
uished naturalist, the late Dr. William T. Hornaday,
than whom, I believe, there could be no one who
loved wild life more.

Mr. Cahalane and his artist, Mr. Weber, are indeed
to be congratulated. The publishers are entitled to
much praise for the format of the book.

WITH THE ALUMNAE

by Mary E. Garvey '19

Carolyn E. Monk '40 received her master of nurs-
ing degree at Yale University on June 6th. She is
staff nurse in the obstetrical department of the
Hartford, Connecticut, Hospital. Glover Howe '13,
M.D. is obstetrician at the hospital.

Marion Tolman '41 is therapeutic dietitian at the
New Britain, Conn., General Hospital.

Roberta Bradley '42 is assistant dietitian at St.
Vincent's Hospital, New York City.

Margaret Gale '42 has been accepted in the Ma-
rines and is awaiting assignment for her training.

Mary Donahue '42 received her M.A. at Yale on
June 6th.

Louise Heermance '42 is an engineering aide for
the U. S. Army Engineers. Her address is 9 Chest-
nut Street, Boston.

Frances Lappen '42 is with the Seal Test Company
in their Cambridge, Mass., laboratories.

Susan Micka '42 is assistant county club agent in
Franklin County, Mass. Her address is 23 Pleasant
Street, Greenfield.

Mary Bowler '43 is working for her master's de-
gree in floriculture at Wellesley College.

Norma Holmberg '43 is a laboratory technician at
the Mercy Hospital in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.

Rita Skiffington '43 is with the Massachusetts De-
partment of Public Health. Her headquarters are at
Fernald Hall, Massachusetts State College.

Ensign Kathleen Callahan, Waves, was married on
May 1st to Lieut. Carl B. Osborne, of the Navy, at
Virginia Beach. Kathleen was former instructor in
physical education for women at the College.

Women are filling the places of men in certain
positions on campus — and somewhat more than
adequately. Walter Johnson '35, manager of the
dining hall, has been using co-eds in the serving line
since last fall, and is delighted with their services.

Ed Gaskill '06, head of the Experiment Station
service, is in charge of a unit of 14 Smith College
girls who are working in the War Emergency Food
Program on the college farm, the experiment station
farm, with the poultry and vegetable gardening de-
partments, and who are helping with canning in
horticultural manufactures. The girls are doing a
fine job.

THE ALU.MXI BULLETIN

COMMENCEMENT, MAY 22-23

(Continued from page 3)

President Baker said,

Professor Harrison: Under our form of gov-
ernment, and because of our democratic ideals,
we are often almost careless in giving recog-
nition to meritorious service in the field of
education, in government, and in our profes-
sional life. It is particularly fitting, therefore,
that after many years of fine conscientious
service to his College and to his students that
we recognize on this day, Professor Arthur
Kenyon Harrison, acting head of the depart-
ment of landscape architecture. It gives me
particular personal pleasure, therefore, to have
a part in making Professor Harrison an hon-
orary Alumnus of the College, and I am delight-
ed to say to you, A.K., that by authority of the
Board of Trustees of Massachusetts State Col-
lege, acting under Charter granted by the Con-
gress of the United States and by the General
Court of the Commonwealth, I hereby confer
upon you the degree of Master of Landscape
Architecture, honoris causa, together with all
the rights, honors and privileges which apper-
tain to that degree here or elsewhere. In token
of this, I present you with this diploma and
invest you with the appropriate hood.

Dr. Alexander said,

Mr. President: I am privileged to present to you
for special honors and recognition a graduate of
this College whose accomplishments have earned for
him an honored place in the government of our
friendly neighbor, the Dominion of Canada — Mr.
Leonard Septimus McLaine.

Mr. McLaine spent the years 1906 to 1912 on this
campus, first as an undergraduate and later as a
graduate student in the department of entomology.
Since his return to Canada in 1913, he has success-
fully filled many important positions in the Domin-
ion, including Chief of the Division of Pests Sup-
pression, and Secretary of the Destructive Insect
and Pest Act Advisory Board.

By 1936, Mr. McLaine's reputation as a scientist,
scholar, and administrator was so outstanding that
he was elected president of the American Associa-
tion of Economic Entomology, the leading society in
applied entomology for the entire United States and
Canada. In 1942, he was called by his government
to the post of Dominion Entomologist, becoming the
fourth man to hold this important post since it was
established in 1884.

The war has added vastly to the duties of this
office. Increased demands for food, lumber, and
other commodities directly affected by insects, with
an accompanying shortage of manpower and mate-
rials have multiplied the challenge of the work. Mr.
McLaine is meeting this challenge efficiently and
ably — even as Canada as a whole is rising to the
challenge of war.

In recognition of his accomplishments and meri-
torious service, I present to you Mr. Leonard
Septimus McLaine.

President Baker said,

Mr. McLaine: In this time of world strug-
gle when as individuals we are drawn closer to
each other in a supreme effort to win the war,
it is important we recognize that communities
and states and nations are drawing closer to
each other that there may be better understand-
ing, finer friendship and mutual respect and re-
gard and loyalty. You are returning to this
beautiful campus as an honored Alumnus that
we may have the privilege of recognizing your
outstanding accomplishments of service over the
years, both to the country of your birth and to
your adopted country, our good neighbor,
Canada.

You have labored long and well and have
those greatest satisfactions that can come to
any of us, whatever our field of activity, and
that is a strong feeling that you are of service
to your fellow man. Your life here as a stu-
dent was satisfying to you and to your College.
Your accomplishments since leaving us are in-
creasingly satisfying to your Alma Mater. We
are glad you are back with us to refresh and
strengthen your love for this beautiful place
and your regard for the men who gave your
student life inspiration and leadership.

Leonard Septimus McLaine, fruitful laborer
in the vineyard, keen and aggressive scientist,
great contributor to better agriculture and bet-
ter rural living, loyal friend and Alumnus, by
authority of the Board of Trustees of Massa-
chusetts State College, I confer upon you the
degree of Doctor of Science, honoris causa, to-
gether with all the rights, honors and privileges
which appertain to that degree here or else-
where. In token of this, I present you with this
diploma and invest you with the appropriate
hood.

Dr. Getting said,

Mr. President: May I present to you and to the
Trustees of Massachusetts State College, Dr. Ralph
R. Parker, Director of the Rocky Mountain Labora-
tory of the United States Public Health Service.

Dr. Parker is a graduate of this College, having
taken his Bachelor of Science degree here in 1912,
and his Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1915. For
twenty-eight years he has been in charge of the con-
trol program for Rocky Mountain spotted fever with
headquarters at Hamilton, Montana. His brilliant
research has gained for him an international reputa-
tion in entomological investigation, and scientists
from India, Africa, New Zealand and other areas
travel to Hamilton, Montana, to study with Dr.
Parker.

In undertaking his duties in Montana, Dr. Parker
knew that his immediate predecessor had contracted
the Rocky Mountain spotted fever with fatal results,

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as had several other workers. Nevertheless, he ac-
cepted the assignment and since developed with Dr.
Spencer a vaccine which in ten years' use has proved
its value in saving human lives.

Other important scientific discoveries have fol-
lowed, as Dr. Parker has gradually broadened the
horizon of man's understanding of tick-borne dis-
eases. His researches on spotted fever and tularemia
have been cited as models to be followed by investi-
gators who study similar diseases in different parts
of the world.

For his unselfish and courageous devotion to a
humanitarian cause, for his sound intellectual and
scientific achievements, and for his contribution to
the advancement of public health, Dr. Parker is pre-
sented to you for special honors and recognition at
this Seventy-Third Commencement.

President Baker said,

Dr. Parker: After years of outstanding ser-
vice in your chosen field of entomology which
has caused you to become a great public servant
in the broader field of public health, you are
returning to this campus which was your home
for several years and which you will continue
to love throughout your years. We are happy,
more, we are honored to have you come back to
us today that we may recognize in this time of
national emergency the great contribution which
you are making to the better health, the better
living not only of the people of your home state
of Montana, but to the people of the country
as a whole.

We are not only proud of the service which
you have rendered in your chosen field, but we
are proud of you as an Alumnus and as a man.
Your life with us as a student was good and
the life which you have lived through the years
as a servant of the public has been good. It is
fitting that we should admire and respect and
honor you for the good life which you are living.

It is a great honor and a most satisfying ex-
perience for me to have part in this recognition
of your long and fruitful service as a man and
scientist.

Ralph Robinson Parker, conscientious scient-
ist, able leader in your field of activity, great
contributor to more healthful and satisfying liv-
ing by all of our people, loyal friend of the
College, by authority of the Board of Trustees
of Massachusetts State College, I confer upon
you the degree of Doctor of Laws, l<o»or
together with all the rights, honors and priv-
ileges which appertain to that degree here or
elsewhere. In token of this, I present you with
this diploma and invest you with the appropri-
ate hood.

Governor Leverett Saltonstall said,

Mr. President: It is both my honor and pleasure
to present to you for special recognition, at this
time, the Honorable J. Adelard Godbout, Premier of

Quebec. Mr. Godbout is not a stranger to this
campus. He pursued graduate study here not many
years ago. Since then, his whole record in public
service, first as a member of the Canadian Parlia-
ment, then as President of the Executive Council of
the Province of Quebec, later as Minister of Agri-
culture, and now as Premier, gives evidence of his
sincere belief that "the truth will make men free"
and that a properly educated population and cit-
izenry is a nation's most cherished possession.

Mr. Godbout has taken a leading part in every
movement to enlarge the opportunities for the
masses. His name is prominently identified with the
liberalization of education and with its extension to
everyone in the Province, with the promotion of co-
operative enterprise especially in the rural districts,
with the provisions for easier and less burdensome
farm credit, with the expansion of public health ser-
vice and with votes for women, to mention only a
few of his laudatory contributions to better govern-
ment. He has served well, and Massachusetts State
College and the Commonwealth which I represent
does itself a great honor at this time by calling back
one of her sons so that a consideration so richly de-
served and already long overdue may be bestowed.

President Baker said,

Premier Godbout: The greatest test of an
educated man is his ability and his desire to
serve his fellow men. You have met this test in
full and constant measure in the democratic
spirit with which you have sought and gained
for the people of your Province an enlarged pub-
lic health service, a workable credit system for
farm families, an efficient marketing service for
agricultural commodities, and above all the op-
portunity for education for all the people.

Your spirit of leadership, your understanding
of the people and of their needs, your boldness
of imagination and of achievement have earned
for you a high place in the government of our
good neighbor, Canada, and particularly the
Province of Quebec.

You have served well and we are proud that
a part of your student days were spent here en
this campus.

Joseph Adelard Godbout, Premier of Quebec,
friend of education, faithful servant of govern-
ment, aggressive leader for better agriculture
and rural living, by authority of the Board cf
Trustees of Massachusetts State College, I con-
fer upon you the degree of Doctor of Laws.
•i. together with all the rights, hon-
ors, and privileges which appertain to that de-
gree here or elsewhere. In token of this, I pre-
sent you with this diploma and invest you with
the appropriate hood.

Dr. Leonard S. McLaine '10 died of a heart attack
on July 20 at Lake Bernard, Quebec, Canada. His
wife, a daughter and two sons survive him.

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ALUMNI ENGAGED IN
ENTOMOLOGICAL WORK

Concluded, below, is the list of Alumni engaged
in entomological work: the names of Alumni who
majored in entomology at the College and who are
now employed in that work, who were formerly in
that work hut are now with the LT. S. Armed Forces,
or who were graduated from the department and
immediately entered the Service.

1929

Irene L. Bartlett, junior entomologist, Division of
Insect Identification. U. S. National Museum, Wash-
ington, D. C.

Laurence A. Carruth, New York Agricultural Ex-
periment Station, Geneva. N. Y.

Robley W. Nash, entomologist, Forest Service,
Augusta, Maine.

Russell R. Whitten, associate entomologist, re-
search in chemical control of forest insects, Mor-
ristown, N. J.

1930

Lieut. Robert L. Armstrong, Army. Box 99, Ja-
maica Plain, Mass.

Lieut. Samuel C. Billings, Army. 10 Worcester
Street, Belmont, Mass.

John W. Joy, Joy Termite Control Company, 6S31
Pacific Boulevard, Huntington Park, Calif.

Archie H. Madden, B.E.P.Q., U.S.D.A., Box 3391,
Orlando, Fla.

Donald F. Murphy, Rohm & Haas Company,
Bristol, Pa.

Lieut. William N. Sullivan, Jr., Army. SI Exeter
St., Lawrence, Mass.

1931

George W. Oliver, California Spray Chemical
Company, Elizabeth, N. J.

Louis Pyenson, State Institute of Applied Agri-
culture, Farmingdale, Long Island.

Frank R. Shaw, instructor, department of ento-
mology, Massachusetts State College.

Allen I. Warren, forest entomology, Yale Uni-
versity, New Haven, Conn.

Allen S. West, Jr., department of forestry. Uni-
versity of New Brunswick, Fredericton, N. B.,
Canada.

1932

Walter C. Baker, assistant entomologist, Health
Center Building, Corpus Christi, Texas.

Theodore C. Burns, research entomologist, Rohm
& Haas Company, Bristol, Pa.

Pfc. John D. Hitchcock, Army. Cottage St., West
Medway, Mass.

Henry H. True, Rohm & Haas Company, 1089
Cherry Street, Jacksonville, Fla.
1933

Dean Asquith, Rohm & Haas Company, P. O. Box
241, Overland Park, Kansas.

Capt. Ashley B. Gurney, Army. Cummington,
Mass.

Waller M. Kulash, instructor in entomology, Uni-
versity of North Carolina, Raleigh, N. C.

Waldo R. Russell, Cleveland Twist Drill Company
(war work), Cleveland, Ohio.

Capt. John C. Swartzwelder, Army. 16 Trinity
Ave., East Lynn, Mass.

1935

Lieut. Vernon A. Bell, Army. East Pleasant St.,
Amherst, Mass.

Lieut. Char'.es H. Daniels, Army. 100 Green St.,
Melrose, Mass.

Marion E. Smith, curator, department of entomol-
ogy, Massachusetts State College.

Lieut. Philip C. Sione, Army. 98 Maple St.,
Athol, Mass.

1936

Theodore Kerr, research entomologist, Naugatuck
Chemical Company, Naugatuck, Conn.

Cummings L. Lothrop, Rohm & Haas Company,
R.F.D., West Buxton, Maine.

Lieut. Harry D. Pratt, Army. 125 Hall St., North
Adams, Mass.

1937

John F. Hanson, graduate study related to war
work. 167 Lowell Ave., Newtonville, Mass.

Lieut, (j.g. 1 Robert P. Hoidsworth, Jr., Navy.
279 Amity St., Amherst, Mass.

Joseph G. Kennedy, mosquito control work, 4529
South West First St., Miami, Florida.

Lieut. Philip J. Spear, Army. Charlemont, Mass.

Capt. Frederick W. Whittemore, Jr., Army. Bay
Road, Canton, Mass.

Lieut. John W. Zukel, Army. 55 Fort St., North-
ampton, Mass.

1938

Lieut. Charles E. Elliott, Army. 24 Whitney Ave.,
Beverly, Mass.

Robert E. Evans, bacteriologist, U. S. Public
Health Service, Chicago, Illinois.

Edward H. Glass, Agricultural Experiment Sta-
tion, Blacksburg, Virginia.

Thomas F. Kelley, department of entomology,
University of California, Eerkeley, Calif.
1939

Lawrence M. Bartlett, Farm Bureau Office, Old
Court House Annex, Mineola, N. Y.

James L. Brann, Jr., Hudson Valley Fruit Insect
Investigations Laboratory, Cottage Road, Pough-
keepsie, N. Y.

Seaton C. Mendall, N. Y. Agricultural Experiment
Station, Geneva, N. Y.

Pvt. John J. Pratt, Jr., Army. 42 Stevens Lane,
Cohasset, Mass.

Lieut, (j.g.) Harold D. Rose, Navy. 26 Bailey
St., Medford, Mass.

Lieut. Howard N. Steff, Army. Old County Road,
North Dartmouth, Mass.

(Continued on opposite page)

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ALUMNI IN UNIFORM

(Continued from page 3)

'39 Pvt. John J. Pratt, Jr., Army, 42 Stevens Lane,
Cohasset, Mass.

'41 Pvt. David Skolnick, Army, 108 Brunswick
Street, Roxbury, Mass.

'38 Lieut, (jg) Harry M. Snyder, USNR, 80 Rich-
mond Road, Eelmont, Mass.

1940

Pvt. William B. Nutting, Army. Temple St., West
Boylston, Mass.

John V. Osmun, entomologist, Station Hospital
Laboratory, Camp Gordon, Ga.

Capt. George T. Pitts, Army. 5 Herrick St., Bev-
erly, Mass.

Cpl. Robert Staples, Army. 33 Olive St., North-
ampton, Mass.

1941

George E. Erikson, department of entomology,
Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.

Lieut. John D. Gou!d, Army. 21 Ardmore Ter-
race, Collingswood. N. J.

Lieut. Robert E. Hall, Army. 6 Rattle Snaks
Drive, Upton, Mass.

Pvt. Wilfred M. Hathaway, Army. Somerset Ave..
Segreganset, Mass.

A C Thomas W. Johnson, Army. Main St., Deer-
fieid, Mass.

Cpl. Edwin W. King, Army. 9 Franklin Terrace,
Melrose, Mass.

Cpl. Hamilton Laudani, Army. 123 High St.,
Lawrence, Mass.

Pvt. Arthur A. Pava, Army. 2> Somerset St.,
Springfield. Mi

John J. Prymak, entomological research, Yale
University, New Haven, Conn.

Lieut. Hanssen Schenker, Army. 44 Brookline
Ave., Holyoke, Mass.

Cpl. Elmer W. Smith, Army. 18 West Center St.,
Florence. Mass.

1942

Lieut. Benjamin L. Hadley, Jr., Marines. Ledge-
lawn Ave., Dar Harbor, Maine.

Pvt. Bernard J. Hershberg, Army. 42 Bradshaw

St, Medford. Mass.

Joseph F. Jodka, research assistant, department
of entomology, Cornell University. Ithaca. N. Y.

Lieut. Vincent A. Lafleur, Army. 26 William- -
Marlboro, M;.

Lieut. Maurice W. Leland, Army. 12 Fisk-
N'atick, M

Lieut. Harold H. McLean, Army. 155 Cowpe: 3
Boston, M

Freeman E. Morse, Army. Rhodes Ave.,
Lynn, Ms

:rn Robert X. Triggs, Navy. 22 Atwood Place,
Springfield. M

William J. Wall, Jr.. Army. 18 Adare
Place., Northampton, M

'41 Ensign Wiiliam T. Walsh, USNR, 249 Spring-
field Street, Feeding Hills, Mass.

'42 Pvt. Henry R. Wolf, Army, 64 Ormond Street,
Mattapan, Mass.

Lack of space prevents inclusion of a military list
originally scheduled for publication in this issue. I:
is a list of seniors, class of 1943, who were students
in the advanced R.O.T.C. course; -members of -
junior class, 1944, iyi the R.O.T.C: and members of
all four college classes who were enrolled in the En-
listed Reserve Corps and had not already been
called. All of this group were ordered to Service
early in June. The names will appear in the next
number of the Bulletin.

Lieut. Col. Ambrose T. McGuckian '34 has recent-
ly been appointed assistant director of supply train-
ing in Camp Lee's huge Quartermaster Replacement
Training Center.

Alumni in uniform who, on furlough, have called
recently at the Alumni Office include these: Lieut.
Donald H. Rist w'43, Pvt John M. Storozuk '43,
Lieut. Michael M. Frodyma '42, Capt. Walter A.
Maclinn "33, Lieut. Myron D. Hager '40, Pfc. Wil-
liam J. Dwyer '42, Ensign Geraldine I. Bradley '39
N.N.C.. Lieut, (sgl Chester H. Tiberii '40, Major
Anthony J. Nogelo '37, A S Joseph Bornstein w'44,
Lieut. John D. Gould '41, Sgt. John P. Crimmins '41,
Lieut. Coi. Costas L. Caraganis '33, Lieut. Alan W.
Chadwick '31, Pvt. Robert L. Himond '43, Lieut.
Lloyd B. Copeland '39, Lieut. Maurice W. Leland
'42, and Lieut. Frederick J. Sievers '38.

We've had a letter, recently, from Private Gordie
Smith '44, one of the Junior R.O.T.C. officers and a
member of the Enlisted Reserve at the College, who
was ordered to Fort Devens early in June. Gordie
wrote, "Approximately 150 from Massachu
State arrived at Fort Devens on June 9th, and two
complete barracks were given over to the-
men for quarters. We spent our first few day- in
getting uniforms, being interviewed and classified,
taking examinations, and in doing K.P. However,
with all this rush and confusion, there was still time
for laughter and many happy anecdotes of our days
on campus. In the early evening, after chow, we
would lie on our cots, in the barracks, and sing the
college songs. There was lots of harmony.

"Yesterday we said goodbye to SI of our gang
who left, by way of a grimy troop train, for places
unknown to ail of us. With others I stood alongside
that train, as it began to move away, and waved to
my friends, Johnny Giannotti, Red Warner, Gene
Wein, Stan Polchlopek, and the :

"As I walked back to the barracks, I suddenly
realized that one thing for which we Americans are
fighting is the preservation of a wholesome fra-
ternal spirit, the spirit which we have come to know
so well at State. That spirit will continue.

"All the boys send their best regar

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FOR THE MARKSMEN

Early in July the handsome Hearst Trophy plaque,
here pictured, was sent to the College, in recogni-
tion of the No. 1 Rifle Team placing third in ths
Hearst Trophy matches in the First Service Com-
mand. The three foot plaque now hangs in Colonel
Aplington's office in the Drill Hall, and five individu-
al medals, provided for the five boys on the team,
have been sent to the winners.

HORSES NAMED FOR STUDENTS

(Continued from page 2)

On the plate at the base of the plaque the engrav-
ing (indistinct in the picture) reads: Massachusetts
State College, Amherst, Massachusetts, Team No. 1.
H. E. Drozdal, D. A. Kydd, T. G. Reynolds, T. P.
Mitchell, N. F. Fiorio.

These boys are members of the classes of '44, '46,
'45, '46, and '45, respectively.

Lieut. Winslow Ryan '40 was coach of the team.

'17 Dick Holden, youngest member of his class,
has become a grandfather. A son was born to his
second daughter on June 5th.

Holden, who is with the American Guernsey Cattle
Club, recently had an enjoyable visit with Dick
Merritt '32 who manages an outstanding Guernsey
herd at Galena, Ohio.

'26 Herbert F. Bartlett is author of the article
"A Student Harvest-Work Program" in the June,
1943, issue of Agricultural Education Magazine.
Herb operates a farm and teaches vocational agri-
culture in the West Springfield, Mass., High School.

16. Allen

17. Cheney

18. Theis

19. Townsley

20. Kennett

21. Bush

22. Johnny Hyde

23. Marlene

24. Connie

25. Mickey

26. Lippincott

27. Briscoe

28. Clarke

29. Malloch

30. Helen

31. Bulman

32. J. K.

33. Julius

'30 Fred Ellert received his M.A. degree from
Amherst College in May.

34. Nogelo

35. Morrison

36. Foskett

37. Emma

38. Al Mann

39. Utah

40. Cutter

41. Lyons

42. Clark

43. Opal

44. Shaw

45. Dan

46. Foster

47. Cinci

48. Mollie

Lieut. Robert J. Allen, Jr. '35
Lt. Col. Howard A. Cheney '32
Capt. H. Jordan Theis is now
Colonel Theis. He was stationed
at the College 1939 to 1940.
Major Floyd W. Townsley '38
Capt. Richard T. Kennett '36. As
this Bulletin is printed Kennett
is ill in an army hospital on an
island in the South Pacific.
Capt. Louis J. Bush '34
John W. Hyde '25
This horse had especially nice
legs, and was named for a movie
queen likewise handsomely en-
dowed.

Capt. Clifford E. Lippincott '39
Major N. Butler Briscoe was com-
mandant of the college unit from
1925 to 1930. He is now a colonel.
Major James R. Clarke '36, son
of Walter R. Clarke '10.
Capt. Ronald C. Malloch '35.
Sergeant Tanner renamed this
horse Scrap Iron — said he was
that tough, that "he would kick,
strike, bite, everything else."

James C. Bulman '33

Julius was the name of a myth-
ical orderly; and it is thought
that Albert J. Gricius '37, now a
major, was largely responsible for
creating the character. At any
rate, the mythical Julius became
a byword among the advanced
military students at the College
in the late 30's; and Colonel Ap-
lington decided that a horse
should be named for him. Ac-
cordingly, Julius.
Major Anthony J. Nogelo '37
Major Robert K. Morrison '38
Lieut. Clifford R. Foskett '32

Albert I. Mann '26

Major James F. Cutter '37
Capt. Robert S. Lyons '38
Lieut. Leroy F. Clark, Jr. '37

Glenn F. Shaw '35

Major Ralph L. Foster '39

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49. Sumner

50.

Lapham

51.

Salter

52.

French

53.

Tanner

54.
55.

56.

57.

Kate

Ryan
Conner

58.

Ted Grant

59.

Tillson

60.

Kings Medal

61.

Benjamin

62.

Miss Johnson

63.

Pitts

64.

Aykroyd

65.

Tappin

66.

Burr

67.

Bolt

68.

Scoilin

69.

Daley

Captain Edwin Miles Sumner was
six years on the military staff at
the College, 1927 to 1933. While
on campus he composed the stir-
ring football song, "Fight, Massa-
chusetts." He is now a colonel
and editor of the Cavalry Jour-
nal, Washington, D. C.
Lieut. Wendell E. Lapham '37
Leonard A. Salter '32
Lieut. Cyrus E. French '38
This horse was named for Serg-
eant Eoy Tanner, expert horse-
man and instructor in horseman-
ship. Sergeant Tanner is now
retired from the Army, and is
employed by the College as mili-
tary property clerk.

Kate was named for Mrs. Kate
Linehan who operated a rooming
house on McClure Street where
many of the soldiers attached to
the cavalry unit lived.
Lieut. Winslow E. Ryan '40
Major Leo Conner was attached
to the College R.O.T.C. staff,
1935 to '39. He is now Colonel
Conner.

Theodore J. Grant '26
Lieut. Robert C. Tillson '11
This horse was a Thoroughbred,
a direct descendant of Man of
War.

Major George C. Benjamin '39
This horse was named for Alberta
Johnson '40, now the wife of
Lieut. George L. Atwater '40. She
was elected honorary colonel at
the military ball at the College
in 1939.

Capt. George T. Pitts, Jr. '40
Lieut. A. Wesley Aykroyd '41
Lieut. Warren R. Tappin, Jr. '40
Lieut. Clement F. Burr '41, son
of Frederick Burr '12
Capt. Ernest A. Bolt '41
Lieut. Harold V. Scoilin, Jr. '41
Lieut. Frank R. L. Daley, Jr. '40.
Daley is the cartoonist whose
drawings appeared in the Alumni
Bulletin for June 1941.

Other well-known horses, earlier shipped from the
college detachment or else destroyed, were Master-
piece, Day Break, Amherst, Sullivan (named for
Red Sullivan '26), Duchess, Buddy, and Bonnie.
Bonnie was destroyed in 1941, following the hike to
Ethan Allen. She was the horse ridden for 14 years
by Sergeant James A. Warren, R.O.T.C. instructor
in equitation. Ridden by Warren, Bonnie won near-
ly 100 trophies and cups at horse shows in New

England ar.d New York State. Jim Warren, now
retired as a major, reserve, is living at 1217 North
Hill Avenue in Pasadena, California. For the past
year he has been instructor for a cavalry unit of
the State (California) Military Forces, and enjoys
riding the fine jumpers in the regiment.

Major Warren wrote, in February, to the Alumni
Office, "It was a pleasure to receive the names of our
boys in active service. For those of us who were
closely associated with many of them during their
college years it is with a fee'ing cf pride and ad-
miration we see so many of them fulfilling one of
the highest duties of citizenship and upholding the
glorious tradition of Massachusetts State College.

"Please remember me kindly to all my old fiiends
at State."

KfifT '--'4 jif'T1 r

WrKL

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The commencement horse show, under the auspices
of the military department and managed by a cadet
committee, was always a colorful finale to the ROTC
year. Privately owned horses and expert riders from
Western Massachusetts and New York State partici-
pated in the show as well as the ROTC cadets with
the cavalry horses. Here, at the last of the ROTC
horse shows, in 1942, Frederick H. Burr, Jr. '43, son of
Fredeiick Burr. '12, receives the Associate Alumni cup
as winner in the junior jumping class.

Photo from 1943 Index

Buddy was the first cavalry horse, number one,
to come to the College in 1920; and he stayed here
until 1942 when he was destroyed.

In 1925 Sergeant Cronk ("the dismounted cavalry-
man") placed second in the troopers mount class at
the Eastern States Exposition, riding Buddy against
competition of the Army and Fort Myer horse show
teams.

Sergeant Tanner explains that Buddy finally
came to be known as "Co-eds Delight" — so many co-
eds rode him, and comfortably. "Just think of all the
girls who must have learned to ride on that horse,"
Sergeant Tanner reflects, "and they couldn't fall off.
If a girl would lose her balance and slip, slide to one
side, Buddy would shift his weight over under her
and make the girl catch her balance. She couldn't
fall."

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Cover — Alumni in Uniform. If the Bulletin is
opened out flat, identification will be easier. Center
figure, left page, Major Albin F. Irzyk '40 ; right,
Ensign James M. Ryan :37. 1st row, top to botlom:
Ensign John F. Glick '39, Lieut. Frank M. Cushman
'38, Capt. Randolph C. Barrows '36. 2nd : Lieut.
Donald G. Wood, Jr. w'43, Major Peter J. Cascio '21, Pvt. Harold M. Gore, Jr. w'46, Cpl. Chester L. Murray
w'28. 3rd: Lieut. Alan W. Chadwick '31, Lieut. Edmund M. Keyes '39, Ensign William Kablick w'44, Lieut.
Robert C. Jackson '34. 4th: Lieut. Donald H. Rist w'43, Lieut. Walter B. Moseley '37, N.A.C. Abraham

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Klaiman w'43. 5th: Capt. Raymond E. Smart, Jr. '39, Capt. Calvin S. Hannum '36, N.A.C. Francis H.
Weeks w'43. 6th: Ensign Vernon L. Ferwerda '40, Lieut. Donald Osley '38, Lieut, (j.g.) Harold D. Rose
'39, Capt. Hermon U. Goodell '30. 7th: Lt. Col. George W. Hanscomb '25, Lieut. Richard G. Crerie '41,
Capt. Harry E. Fraser '26, Ensign Harold S. Lewis '43. 8th: Lieut. Myron D. Hager '40, Lieut. Richard
W. Vincent '41, Lieut. Arthur S. Levine '35.

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