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C O LG A TI*

JANUARY, 1958

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COLGATE
T H E O FFICER S:

Stephen Thrall ’22 , President

Ralph M. Horton ’24, Vice-President

Philip J. Meany T 3 , Vice-President

G. Dewey Hynes ’25, Vice-President

W illiam A. Kern ’27, Vice-President

O FFIC IA L P U B L IC A T IO N O F CO LG A TE
U N IV E R S IT Y

Ernest F. Staub ’27, Vice-President

Everett D. Barnes ’ 22 , Treasurer

Carlton" O. M iller T 4 , Executive Secretary

W illiam H . Turner, Jr. ’50, Assistant Secretary

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Edward N . Mayer ’28, Chairman

Martin Matheson T 7

G. Alan Chidsey ’21

Roy W . Tillotson ’28

Nathan A. Tufts, Jr. ’32
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Robert K. Otterbourg ’51

Donald Frick ’43
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W . Stanley Holt ’ 52

T H E E D ITO R IA L BO A RD :

Carlton O. Miller T 4 , Editor

Reed Alvord '31, Managing Editor

C O R PO R A TIO N

H A M IL T O N , N E W Y O R K

THE
T H E P U B LIC A T IO N C O M M IT TEE:

ALUM NI

CONTENTS

In the Right Direction

Sputniks vs Wheelbarrows, by Maurice Hindus 15

School Teacher on a Volcano, by Jack Moyer ’52

Trustee Profile:

Paradox:

Cole-Rogers Dinner, by Watson Fenimore ’31

Research in a Cow Barn

William M. Parke ’00

Over Goal But Under Needs

W alter D . Splain ’49, Sports

Howard D. W illiam s ’30

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Stanley E. Smith ’49

Bruce G. Holran ’ 56

W illiam H. Turner, Jr. ’50

T H E COVER

Take a closer look at our cover picture and see if you didn’t miss the
elaborate scroll-work framing East
and W est Halls. The whole scene
depicts a segment cut from a dollar
bill issued by a Hamilton bank after
it had failed just one hundred years
ago. It was sent by Samuel Douglas
as an undergraduate of the Class of
1858 to the young lady who became
his wife and the mother of the late
George W . Douglas ’88. D r. Douglas
gave the photograph to the Archives
in 1936. Whereabouts of the original is unknown.

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Open for Business (the New Upperclass Houses)

Student Activities, by Lloyd Huntley ’24

Ivy Applauds Policy

Colgate Away From Home, 18 — Remember W h en !, 18 — Colgate
Congratulates, 19 — AM A Appoints, 21 — Still in the Black, 21 —
N o Fleas on M e!, 21 — T 3 Memorial to Bob Ingraham, 21 —
Sports, 22 — Maroon Citation, 24 — Flashes by Classes, 25 —
Vital Statistics, 30.

M EM BER OF T H E A M ERICA N A LU M N I CO U NCIL

Colgate A lumni N ews is published six times a year: October,
December, January, March, May and June. Entered as second class matter
at the Hamilton, N . Y ., post office December 19, 1911, under Act
of Congress of March 7, 1879. Subscription price, $ 2 .5 0 ; 50c per issue.

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In the Right Direction
of athletic policy which President
Case, with the approval of the Athletic Council,
made at the recent Block "C ” Dinner and which we
squeezed into the December issue at the eleventh hour,
is susceptible of somewhat further elaboration. This
is particularly true in view of a rather widely-published
Associated Press dispatch, appearing shortly after the
dinner, which attributed to the Secretary of the Univer
sity the statement that "Colgate is not interested in join
ing the Ivy League” which, needless to say, he did not
make. Aside from correcting a wholly deliberate mis
representation, the statement itself, however deceptively
simple and apparently repetitive, deserves a closer look.
In essence, the President has said that Colgate will
continue to welcome games with Ivy League opponents
—not alone in football but in all sports; that it will
continue to honor its traditional commitment with Syra
cuse, and that in completing its schedule our competi
tion must show academic and athletic standards similar
to our own. As for joining an eastern conference of
"independents” : N o!
Since Colgate has, for years, been adhering to the
Ivy League code, this statement makes it crystal clear
that from now on — meaning as soon as any currently
active commitments for the future expire — we propose
to confine our scheduling — Syracuse aside — to teams
which do likewise. Whatever may be said in favor of
athletic scholarships or spring practice, the facts are
that the code strictly forbids them, and our boys should
not be asked — Syracuse aside once again — to step out
of their "league” primarily in the interests of the gate.
Obviously, this poses a financial problem for our
intercollegiate athletic program. Aware that under this
policy there can be no more Illinois "gates”, for ex
ample, the President has proposed and the Board of
Trustees has approved the setting up of a reserve from
the net profits of successful years to help tide us over

he sta tem en t

the lean ones. This means that the University, which
already includes within its instructional budget the sal
aries of the Physical Education and Athletic staffs, will
be quite satisfied if the intercollegiate sports program
over the years is self-supporting. This, indeed, would
be no mean achievement, as those familiar with com
parable situations can testify.
Now for a word about Bill Orange. If it is cer
tainly true that the student body’s enthusiasm for this
game has diminished since the day when winning it was
the only really important consideration in an under
graduate’s life, it still has a strong hold on the minds
and spirits of most students and a vast majority of the
Alumni. It is equally true that Syracuse has made no
secret of its dalliance with Big Time football. But
there has never been any question of our players’ will
ingness to tackle a "big-time” opponent, and to ask
them to face up to this kind of an assignment once in
a nine-game schedule is not, we believe, demanding too
much to preserve a long and honored tradition. Indeed,
we would be surprised if, given the kind of schedule
now contemplated, Colgate did not "point” for this
game, as it always used to do, and come up in the future
with its fair share of upsets at Archbold Stadium. This,
too, has a long tradition to support it.
It might be well to remind those who are not
familiar with the accepted practice of scheduling games,
that it is invariably done on a three-year advance ar
rangement. This will explain why such formidable
opponents as Army and Holy Cross are on our 1958
schedule, and why you may possibly find a similar
combination on the schedule for the year following.
There ought to be no doubt, however, of the direc
tion in which Colgate proposes to move, and we have
no doubt, either, that having already met with Trustee
and Faculty approval it will be applauded vigorously by
the Alumni.

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Written especially fo r the NEWS
by M A U R IC E H IN D U S ’ 15
R ussia

which

has

amazed

the world with her

sputniks still has not discovered the wheel-barrow for

her cow-barns.

The Russia which has built in Moscow the

most beautiful, most comfortable and lowest-fared subway in
the world, still doesn’t manufacture sharp-edged safety razor
blades.

T he Russia which in the newly-built Moscow Univer

Photo by Editta Sherman

sity boasts the most modern and most grandiose educational
plant of its kind in the world, still neglects to install mail

only necessary to record the chief assumption or prediction of

boxes on the ground floor of the towering apartment houses

communist theory: namely, that the man-hour output in every

that are displacing some of her dreariest slums, and Russian

field of industrial and agricultural production is destined to

mail carriers, at least one-fourth of whom are middle-aged

be higher under communism than under capitalism, however

women, must climb up and down stairs all their working day

advanced as in America.

long to deliver mail to each individual tenant.
The Russia which manufactures atomic and hydrogen bombs

that if communism fails in this test, it has no future.

and has built the first atom-powered surface ship in the world,

Russia lags far behind America in this one supreme assump

has had to turn to an Italian tailor to dress up stocky and

tion of communist philosophy.

paunchy

the Russian industrial worker is only one-third as productive

Nikita

Khrushtshev

fashionable

western-style

clothes.
I could cite other endless instances of the great paradox

Lenin was honest enough to admit

Y e t to this day and despite all her astounding achievements,
To the best of my knowledge

as the American factory worker.
is even more pronounced.

The disparity in agriculture

One American farm worker feeds

in the Soviet scheme of things: a drive for the big and spectac

abundantly sixteen fellow-citizens and even then America is

ular achievement and an indifference to the little things that

burdened with big surpluses not only in cereals but in fruits,

afford convenience and comfort to people.
Dictators in Russia come and go. They will continue to

in meats, in dairy products.

come and go for years and years ahead.

vegetables as potatoes, cabbage and cucumbers, there is always

I cannot foresee the

One Russian farm worker feeds

only six fellow-citizens and save for cereals, such common

day when Russia will be ruled by a western-style parliamentary

a shortage of everything, particularly of fruits, meats and dairy

democracy.

products.

But whoever the Soviet dictator — Lenin, Stalin,

Khrushtshev — he is obsessed with a compulsion to outdo

Since Russia cannot compete with America in living stan

America in anything big rather than to bring American living

dards, she has through the years been striving to outdo America

standards to anybody in the country.
Let there be no mistake about one thing: if international

time the new subway was opened, and at every turn Russians,

in whichever endeavor she could.

I was in Moscow at the

communism is a spectre that haunts capitalist America, Am er

especially communists, took comfort in the fact that at least

ican capitalism is a spectre that haunts communist Russia even

they had achieved something that out-Americanized America.

The reason is simple: American capitalism is a living

So obsessed was Stalin with a passion for Russian supremacy

denial of all the basic tenets of communism as conceived by

that during the last years of his life he amused the world

Karl M arx over a century ago or as expounded by Khrushtshev

with his loud boasts that the most important discoveries and

more.

to-day.

It would require a lengthy book to demonstrate the

validity of this declaration.

For purposes of this article it is

inventions known to man have come not from America or any
western country but from Russia, though the non-Russian
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names of these discoveries and inventions betrayed their nonRussian origin.
But Russia’s sputniks are nothing to laugh at.
intercontinental missiles.

N or are her

A t last Russia has something stu

pendous and thrilling to boast about.

A t last she has out-

rivalled America in America’s long-held supremacy in science
and technology.

At last it is not Russia that is shouting "we

Poland flamed into rebellion.

In Hungary Khrushtshev used

guns to smother the rebellion.

In Poland, he dared not pick

up Gomulka’s challenge to fight it out with guns.

Instead, he

bowed to Gomulka and agreed to allow Poland a measure of
internal freedom that Stalin or M olotov never would have
tolerated.
N or is the situation inside Russia free from actual and

must catch up and surpass America,” but it is America that is

potential perturbations.

shouting "we must catch up and surpass Russia in sputniks, in

himself of such titans of the revolution as Molotov, Kagan-

intercontinental missiles, in scientific education, in everything

ovitch, Malenkov and of such popular figures on the Soviet

that the laboratory may conjure forth and the factory can put

scene as Marshal Zhukov, he has made plenty of enemies.

together.”

Khrushtshev knows that by ridding

He still has to maneuver shrewdly and skillfully to keep him
self in power.

Neither he nor anybody else can foretell when

the Kremlin will again be embroiled in a fight for leader

Soviet P restige U p

ship.

One of the weakest links in the Soviet dictatorship is the

absence of a stable legal mechanism by which men rise to
These American shouts are sweet music to the ears of the
Kremlin leaders, the sweetest they have ever heard. Manifestly,
Russian superiority in artificial moons and intercontinental
missiles

has

bolstered

Russian

nationalist

sentiment,

has

power. Conspiracy and intrigue are still the most dependable
weapons of rivalry and conquest.
Above all, Russia is no longer the land she had been in
Czarist days.

She is no longer a nation overwhelmingly of

heightened communist morale and has lifted enormously Soviet

muzhiks, who do not shave, who believe in house goblins, who

prestige all over the world, more particularly in the non

cannot read and write.

communist countries of Asia and Africa.

daily shave, they have long ago scrubbed off their beards.

Intoxicated with their triumph over America, the Kremlin

If Russians have not yet taken to the

Rare, very rare, is the Russian who either out of tradition,

leaders are certain to become bolder and tougher in their deal

whim or taste bothers to grow a beard.

ings with the western world.

lief and the dread of spirits.

They are the most power

Gone also is the be

Children no longer believe in

conscious leaders in all human history, and they will exploit

the Evil One as I did when I was a child in a Russian village.

their newly-won scientific advantage with all the audacity and

Superstition is no longer the curse of the Russian countryside.

guile they can muster.

They will yield nothing they have al

ready won either by force of arms or by subversion.

It would

Likewise, rare is the man and woman in the remotest cor
ners of the land who is illiterate.

be futile to expect them to allow free elections in East Germany

Indeed, Russia is now one

(Continued on page 2 0 )

or to get out of the Middle East or to agree to disarmament
proposals which America would favor.
But they do not want war and will not deliberately provoke
it. If war comes it will be only through a miscalculation on

About the Author

their part, as in the instance of the Korean war, when America
was so seriously disarmed that Stalin was convinced America
wouldn’t come to the aid of South Korea.

The Russians in my

judgment are honest when they say they want co-existence with
America.

But they want it on their own terms which are cer

tain to be stiffer now than in the days before the sputniks.

orn in

R ussia and an annual visitor to his native

land until he became persona non grata to the

Communist regime, Maurice Hindus — author, lecturer
and correspondent — is still considered one of the best
informed men on the U. S. S. R. Though entering Col
gate "conditionally” because he lacked entrance credits,
he was graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1915 and received
his master’s the following year. During his undergrad

F ear P revents R ebellion
Actually, Russia needs some form of co-existence to set her
own house in order.

The Soviet empire is riven with conflict,

uate years he lived and worked with a farm family on
the Hubbardsville road, rising at 5 a. m. to milk the cows

even though fear of the Soviet armies holds down open rebel

and walking to the campus and back each day. The SAL

lion.

said of him, "T he man with the problems of the world

I know of not a single Soviet satellite, not even docile

and obeisant Czechoslovakia,

that does not resent Soviet

to solve and only a lifetime in which to solve them.”

domination and that would in the event of war stay loyal to

Among his score or more of books and novels are,

Russia.

"Humanity Uprooted,” "T o Sing with the Angels” and

Khrushtshev, who is a much shrewder and more

flexible man than Stalin was, knows too well that it is only his

a splendid story of his early up-State life,

military might that is holding the Soviet empire together.

W orlds.”

"Green

threatened to fall apart in October, 1956, when Hungary and
FO R

J A N U A R Y ,

1 9 5 8

H ere’s a vocation to stump the What’s My Line panel

his is a little note to inform you of

our water comes from the clouds, and we

my no longer new address. I am

have huge tanks to collect all the rain we

teaching English in three junior high

can.

schools and a high school on the tiny

(and, unfortunately, a lot of typhoons).

Fortunately we get a lot of rain

Japanese island of Miyake Jima, in the

Electricity is a luxury, and we only get it

Izu Island chain. My new address is as

from 6 p. m. to 11 p. m. ( 5 :3 0 p. m. in

follows:

the w inter).

Hot water and plumbing

Jack T . Moyer ’52

are of course out of the question.

11 Oaza Tsubota

water must be heated over a fire.

All

Miyake Mura

these minor difficulties in everyday liv

Due to

Miyake Jima

ing, Japanese people consider the island

Tokyo-to, Japan

primitive and to use a translation of their
word, inconvenient.

As you can see by the address, my is
land is under the administration of Tokyo,
'though it is more than 1 0 0 miles south
in the heart of the Japan Current, far out

As a result, the press

made a big thing of my coming here, with
From

article in a Japanese
describing Moyer's work

magazine

several

newspaper

articles,

features in

four magazines, movie newsreels, and I
even had a television guest appearance.

of sight of the main islands of Japan. The
island is an active volcano which last

fund givers more than my desires to be

( I ’ve enclosed one of the magazines).

erupted in 194 0 .

The population is in

come an anthropologist, and I have just

I ’m very happy that the publicity has all

the vicinity of 7 0 0 0 ; practically all the is

learned that I am to receive a grant to

been left behind after nearly four months

landers making their living (or a good

conduct ornithological research on all the

out here, and by now I ’m well into the

per cent of it) by harvesting tengusa, a

Izus (some 10 islands).

living routine, and accepted as an Ameri

sea weed from which agar-agar is pro
duced.

Fishing and farming and the pro

As for my life here, it is as completely
Japanese as it is possible to be.

I live in
I

can teacher here, not the curiosity I was
at first.
It was another Colgate man who was

duction of charcoal and camellia oil are

a tiny three-room shack, by myself.

the other major occupations of the island

live on tatami mats (straw m a ts ), sleep on

responsible for getting me this job.

ers.

I came here to do research on the

the floor in a futon (Japanese bedding),

have wanted to come out here and do this

community life of these people, and to

eat a strictly Japanese rice-fish diet (and

since 1953, but foreigners cannot land

use my spare time to continue ornith

have gained, believe it or not, 15 pounds,

jobs in Japanese public schools very easily.

ological research I began here in 1 9 5 2 -5 4

so I’m not the same skinny Moyer that

(T h e great majority of foreign teachers in

left C o lg ate), and get my only heat from

Japan teach in private schools.) It was

ing out, my four years as a medical ornith

a charcoal fire.

Dr. Kazutaka W atanabe (W atty to Col-

ologist with the U . S. Army has impressed

to the nature of the volcanic soil.

while in the armed forces.

As it is turn

W ater is a problem, due
All

( Continued on page 1 0 )

School Teacher on an Active Volcano

TRUSTEE PROFILE

William M Parke 90 0 , active alumnus of
distinguished Class of 1 9 0 0 served a traditional “ 1 3 99
years as Board president

W illiam M . P arke ’0 0 was

that when he did speak he not only had

elected President of the Board of

something to say, but said it effectively

Trustees in 1935 to succeed James C. Col

enough to become Kingsford Declamation

h en

gate, he was only the third alumnus in

Speaker in his junior year and a member

ninety years to occupy this distinguished

of Phi Beta Kappa as a senior.

position.

It was a foregone conclusion

because it was written by his good friend

that some member of the brilliant class of

and classmate, the then Editor-in-chief,

1900 would one day be selected for this

Harry Emerson Fosdick.

honor, and it was even less surprising that
this

quiet,

dignified,

capable

Second,

N o class that ever graduated from Col

lawyer

gate can match the record of 1900 for

should be entrusted with the responsi

the proportion of its members who sub

bility.

sequently achieved positions of promi

in law which he has since achieved.

nence and distinction in business and pro

has practiced continuously in N ew Y ork

graduate at Colgate, which he entered as

fessional

City since his admission to the Bar in

a freshman in 1 896 following his gradua

none, ever will,

In the days when he was an under

life.

And

for

that matter,
only

1902, and is presently senior partner of

tion from the Academy, it was the custom

twenty-nine in that graduating group as

the firm of Chadbourne, Parke, W hite-

for the yearbook — still called the SAL

opposed to more than ten times as many

side, W o lff and Brophy.

M AG UN D I — to publish humorous bio

today.

also senior warden of Grace Episcopal

graphical

Parke and Dr. Fosdick, were a member of

sketches

each

graduating

senior.

for

there were

Among them, in addition to Mr.

M r. Parke is

Church in Brooklyn Heights.

the Rockefeller Institute whose researches

Although he retired as President of

"B ill,” the editor wrote of their Busi

more than halved the pneumonia death

the Board in 1948, he has remained a

ness Manager, "has a frank, open face

rate; the first Deputy Superintendent of

member of both the Executive and F i

which is, however, generally closed.

Public Instruction of Pennsylvania; the

nance Committees, and is the senior alum

never speaks any language but English,

director of the estate tax division of the

and rarely speaks th at; in fact this Parke

Bureau of Internal Revenue, the Principal

nus in years of service on the Board. He
was awarded the honorary degree of D oc

is so reserved that he might be called a

of the Yonkers High School.
It was in this top notch calibre of com

tor of Laws at Colgate in 1937, and pre

reservation.”

sented the Alumni Award for Distin

It is doubtful that M r. Parke ever re

petition that M r. Parke spent his under

guished Service to Colgate in 1939. H e is

sented this caricature in the least degree,

graduate life and it undoubtedly helped

a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon and

first because he demonstrated conclusively

equip him for the highly-successful career

Phi Beta Kappa.

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LANS FOR THE NEW SlGMA CHI HOUSE to be

erected on the campus facing Hamilton Street

south of the President’s barn are complete and will go
out for bids this month. Construction will begin as
soon as satisfactory mortgage financing can be ar
ranged. It was the Sigma Chis who pioneered the
telephone campaign, which has since proved so suc
cessful in the University’s Development program, and
which raised $ 1 2 0 ,0 0 0 from 246 members of the
fraternity. Sigma Chi deserves great credit for its suc
cess in the face of tight money and top construction
costs without interfering with the University’s own
capital campaign.
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Paradox:
Over Goal But
Under Needs

t the end of business on Decem

ber 31, 1957, $ 3 ,5 5 9 ,4 0 2 had been

pledged to the Development Fund. 5 ,6 6 8
alumni —

5 2 % of all on record at the

Photos by Peter Slackpole — Courtesy LIFE (c ) 1957 Time, Inc.

campaign opening in 1955 — had sub
scribed $ 1 ,7 7 2 ,0 1 7 . The balance, $ 1 ,7 8 7 ,385

had been pledged by 123 8

non

alumni donors. $ 2 ,2 7 4 ,1 1 0 , or 6 4 %

the total, has been paid.
During 1957 the Development Fund
increased $ 1 ,2 0 6 ,6 8 1 and in addition the
University received $ 1 7 1 ,2 3 5 in new gifts
and grants designated for other purposes.
Although the original campaign goal
has been over-subscribed by $ 2 5 9 ,4 0 2 , the
table below

shows

that $ 5 5 0 ,0 0 0

BARNSTORMING
The November 18 issue of LIFE devoted its
education page to the seventeen college pres
idents who had just "barnstormed" a half dozen
upstate cities in search of funds for the Empire
State Foundation. The above photos were taken
by the celebrated Peter Stackpole, who accom
panied the group. At top, Presidents Delo and
Case try out their arguments on the President
and Executive Vice-President — W illiam A. Kern
'27 — of Rochester Telephone Company. At right,
a rare instance of Prexy caught napping in the
plane.

ditional is required to achieve the four
campaign objectives. Very substantial in

velopment Fund, will make to the mid

creases in building costs above the original
estimates made in 1955 ($ 5 3 0 ,0 0 0 to the

winter meeting of the Trustees.
A new record for cash additions to

Library and $ 1 5 0 ,0 0 0 to the Reid A th

the assets of the University in a single

letic Center)

"over

year was established in 1957. Payments

subscription” to the faculty salaries fund

on account of old and new gifts totaled
$ 1 ,7 6 0 ,8 2 8 including final installments

and the $ 1 2 0 ,4 0 5

account for the gap between the original
and the revised goals.
These facts are included in a report

on the Ford Foundation grants announced

Every effort will be made to secure

in 1955. $ 1 ,1 8 9 ,8 9 3 was credited to the

the amount required to assure the suc

which Clarence J. Myers ’20 and W ellin g

Development Fund and $ 5 7 0 ,9 3 5 to other

cess of the Development Fund Campaign

ton Powell ’21, Co-Chairmen of the De-

University accounts.

before the next Reunion— June 14, 1958.

Sources

U se

G ifts

Gifts

D evelopment F und

A s of D ecember 31, 1957

Alumni
5349
25
40
254

Alumni ............................. $ 1 ,3 9 4 ,9 6 7 .
216,559.
Trustees ..........................
Faculty .............................
15,255
Parents .............................
145,236

Unrestricted .................
Library ...........................

>,180,000

$2,000,000

1,772,017

836,341

5668

Athletic Center ..........

700,000

184,879

464,633

Faculty Salaries f

620,405

600,000

64,090

4 6 6 ,6 6 6

7,698

1,108,103

$,559,402

Non-Alumni
Trustees .......................... $
Faculty .............................
Parents .............................
Corporations ...................
Foundations ...................
Friends .............................
Student Groups .........

L,787,385.

1238
6906

319,703.
29,472.
242,822.
101,104.
475,517.
6 1 2,478.
6,289.

Grand Total

.$3,559,402.

Revised
Goals

...

Operating Expenses
Special Designations

Designated
By Donors

Still
Needed

Total *
Available

$ 1 ,8 45,989
$

180,000
235,367

133,334

548,701

$ 1 ,1 6 3 ,6 5 9 ; the Athletic
To the Library —
* Possible allocations from unrestricted fund:
$ 4 02,576. Total — $ 1 ,8 4 5 ,9 8 9 . Final allocations
Center — $ 2 7 9 ,7 5 4 ; Operating Expenses
will be made by the Board of Trustees.
f Designated gifts to this fund exceed the original goal of $500 ,0 0 0 by $ 1 2 0 ,4 0 5 .

uests of honor at a testimonial

dinner given by Colgate alumni of

the W ashington and nearby Maryland and
Virginia areas in November were former
Representative W . Sterling Cole ’25, who
has served in the House of Representa
tives for nearly a quarter of a century as
a Congressman from New Y ork State,
and W illiam P. Rogers ’34.

Mr. Cole is the first Director General
of the International Atomic Energy
Agency, with headquarters in Vienna, and
Mr. Rogers is the newly-appointed At
torney General of the United States.
The

dinner,

held

W ashington’s

I. to r., D. S. Thrall '22, A. H. Kiplinger, H. L. Stevenson '21, W. S. Cole '25, President Case,
W. P. Rogers '34, P. J. Stevenson '14. Standing, Dr. A. S. Adams H'55

noted Cosmos Club, was one of the most
successful events in the history of W ash
ington area alumni activities.

More than

80 guests, including important figures
from the Colgate campus, other educa
tional' leaders

and men

prominent in

Washington city and governmental life,
attended.
Heading

the

delegation

from

the

Cole-Rogers Dinner

Eighty Alumni guests join in tribute at
Washington’s Cosmos Club
by W A T S O N FEN IM O RE ’31

Associate Editor, Changing Times

campus was Dr. Everett Case, President
of the University, and Howard L. Jones

Eisenhower

Vice-President

of a Colgate alumnus who has spent

’39, director of the Colgate Development

Nixon, and were read to the guests by

most of his career in public service and

Fund.

and

from

Other guests included Dr. Arthur

Horace L. Stevenson ’21, President of the

who is now, in his new post, entering the

Adams H ’55, President of the American

Washington alumni group, who presided.

larger sphere of service to mankind on an

Council on Education; D. Stephen Thrall

In introducing Mr. Rogers, Dr. Case

’22, President of the Colgate Alumni

pointed out that the Attorney General is

H e noted that both men were gradu

Corporation, and Austin H. Kiplinger,

the first Colgate man to become a member

ated from the University during the long

executive director of the Kiplinger W ash

of the Cabinet since the late Charles

tenure of President Emeritus Cutten and

ington Letter and publisher of Changing

international level.

Evans Hughes, the distinguished former

expressed regret that he was unable to

Times, the Kiplinger Magazine.

Secretary of State, who spent his first two

attend the testimonial dinner to his two

Letters expressing regret at inability to
attend were received from the White
House on behalf of President Dwight D.

years at Colgate before transferring to

former students because of illness.

Brown, where he took his degree.
H e introduced Mr. Cole as an example

M r. Rogers, in recalling some of his
experiences at Colgate, declared that he
was deeply indebted to the University for
the start of his career and revealed that

Photos by Buckingham Studios, Inc.

'The Thirteen" with Messrs. Cole, Case and Rogers

he had been the recipient at Colgate of
a scholarship "without which I might
not have been able to receive an educa
tion.”
In his post as Attorney General, he
said, he hoped to be able to speed up the
administration
courts.

justice

Federal

He criticized as unnecessary and

unjust the long delays that frequently are
encountered in law suits, declaring that in
many instances a verdict in favor of one
or another litigant is of little help if years
have been taken in reaching it.
(Continued on page 2 0 )

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LIFE

IN SU R A N C E

SPR IN GF IELD,

x ^ flu tu C li
COMPANY

MASSAC HU SETT S

T h e Policyholders’ Company

f
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Team of scientists
seeking the secrets of
the colors of life

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Dr. George G. Kleinspehn was graduated from Colgate summa cum laude with
high honors in Chemistry in February,
1944. H e subsequently took his A.M. and
Ph.D. degrees at Johns Hopkins. During the war he was head o f the analytical
laboratory at Oak Ridge, working on the
atomic bomb.

N a crowded c o w barn in Antrim,
New Hampshire, — where once the

greatest chemical considerations were how

only.

There they glow in a brilliant red

as beacons making it possible to detect
malignant tissue.

same problem from their diverse frames
of reference.

They discussed the great

advantage of locating such a team in a

much butt erf at was being produced and

The two men collaborate closely with

what the best fly spray mixture was —

medical doctors and as an example pro

conducive to pure research.

today chemical research of the most ad-

vide compounds for a staff of medical

they talked the better the idea sounded

vanced nature is being conducted.
The work of the Monadnock Research

men at the clinical center o f the National
Institute of Health at Bethesda, Mary

and they decided to actually begin work
on the project.

)

colony where there would be the seclusion
The more

Institute, under the direction of D r. W in

land.

This particular group is studying

The trend in research centers of late

slow

has been to move to suburban areas, but
set somewhat of a first in coming to rural

Caughey,

University

New

George

the effect of porphyrins on animals and
human cancer patients.

Kleinspehn ’45, deals with a highly spec

The story of why a modern chemical

They seek

laboratory came to a deserted farm in

New Hampshire.

the secrets of the colors of life — the red

New Hampshire began in conversations

phase of the venture had been successful

pigment of blood called hemin and the

between Dr. Caughey and D r. Kleinspehn

Dr. Caughey and D r. Kleinspehn both

green of the plant world called chloro

at Johns Hopkins a few years ago.

replied, "definitely.”

Hampshire graduate,

and

D r.

ialized area of basic research.

phyll.
,

Both

the Monadnock Institute appears to have
W hen asked if that

It is this "red” which carries

were intensely interested in the same basic

oxygen through the body and the "green”

chemical fields of research and both felt

Currently

that transforms the light of the sun to

they were on the brow of a scientific vista

food energy. Hemin and chlorophyll to

that could never be covered successfully

$12,000 annually from the National Can
cer Institute and approximately $50,000

the scientist are but two of many sub
stances that fall into the category called

by one man — or by chemists alone.
They envisioned a team approach that

National Service Center.

porphyrins (p o refrin z ).

would bring in scientists from not only

laboratory is pure research in that no com

chemistry, but physics, medicine and other

mercial problems are solved for individual
firms for pay.

These porphyrins are found through
ly

out the plant and animal kingdoms.

For

instance the "red” is not only in blood,

fields all focusing their efforts on the

Money for the work comes from grants.
the

institute

receives

about

a year from the Cancer Chemotherapy
W ork at the

but also found in oil deposits beneath the
earth.

The same thing that makes blood

have always been deeply appreciative of the scholarship assistance the

red and carries minute quantities of oxy-

University

gen to the tissues of the body also is

Roberts and other members of the chemistry staff for a good solid foundation

believed to give crude oil an adhesive

in chemistry, which they somehow managed to give us at a time (1 9 4 1 -4 4 )

quality that hinders pumping it from the
ground.

when the war and accelerated course work made teaching a doubly arduous task.

Other porphyrins have a fluorescent
quality and in the body they find their
way to cancer cells — and cancer cells

a finer and more enthusiastic teacher.”— From Dr. Kleinspehn’s letter o f De-^

j
(

FO R

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1 9 5 8

generously

provided . . .

especially

grateful

Dr.

Most of all I recall the superb teaching of 'Chet’ Roberts.. I have yet to encounter

cember 11 to the Editor.

School Teacher . . .
(Continued from page 4 )
gate m en) who did the amazing amount
of string-pulling and wading through red
tape to get the authorities to allow me to
teach here.
Aside from my personal research, I ’m

first base on a teachers’ baseball team in
a league that consists of five teams from
various occupations (government office,
radio relay station, etc.). I’m also coach
ing the Tsubota school baseball team.

that has never even shown an American

I think the above account of what I ’m

movie. (Despite its isolation from Ameri

doing will show you that, 'though I am

cans, this island’s residents are friends of

away from the semi-Western atmosphere.
I would take great pride in being guide
and host to any Colgate men who might
desire to see how people live on an island

completely isolated from my way of life

America, more so, in fact, than any group

I teach in

( I ’m the only foreigner on the island ex

of Japanese I’ve been acquainted with.

each school (in each village) on a dif

cept for about ten K oreans), I am far

Part of this may be due to their complete

ferent day, have one class a week at the

from discouraged or lonesome.

I ’m hav

lack of contact with the more unpleasant

night high school (plus regular day high

ing a whale of a time, and wouldn’t trade

aspects of the occupation, i.e. prostitution,

school classes), and I have an adult class

this experience for anything.

very busy with my teaching.

once a week.

In addition I am playing

(I occasion

black-markets, etc., however, the fact that

ally have a tremendous craving for a dish

the U.S. Air Force Air Rescue Service has

of chocolate ice cream, however.) I ex

(since M arch) sent helicopters out here

pect to be here until the summer vacation

under dangerous conditions twice to save

of 1958, when I ’ll return to the U.S. for

the lives of people who would not have

graduate studies, probably at the Univer

lived to wait for the next boat has cer

sity of Michigan.

tainly played its part in the pro-American

I might add that for one who likes
fishing, this place is a paradise.

I per

I would appreciate hearing news from

sonally prefer spear fishing to any other

the Chenango Valley.

kind, and these crystal clear waters were

that Colgate has entered the college base

made for it.

ball vs. M ajor League fight.

Unfortunately, however,

there are no facilities for re-filling an

I’m glad to hear
It is really

great to receive news from Colgate, since

aqualung, so one’s spear-fishing abilities

it helps keep me in touch with a very

depend upon one’s ability to hold his

good way of life which seems so very far
away to me now. (D on’t try to read any

breath.
Probably within the next year a hand
ful of Colgate men will pass through
Japan.

I would welcome any and all to

spend a couple of days out here.

The is

land can be reached by boat from Tokyo
(a 14-hour trip ), and the boat stays two
days before it goes back.
"Having a w hale of a time . . .

feeling that exists.)

thing like homesickness into this.
isn’t what I ’m driving at.

That

I couldn’t get

homesick with something new and in
teresting happening every mom ent.)
Anyway, let me hear from you.

gards to all at Colgate!

Most service

As always,

J ack M oyer

men in the Far East never really can get

I wouldn't trade these experiences for anything, except, perhaps, a dish of chocolate ice cream.'

C O L G A T E

A L U M N I

NE WS

She helps people find the products and services they want. Mrs. Vonna Lou Shelton, telephone representative
in Minneapolis, Minn., checks the advertisem*nts that business men have placed in the classified directory.
PHOTOGRAPHS BY ANSEL ADAMS

This telephone girl is a big help to businesses
When you think of a telephone wo
man you probably think of the opera
tor. But there are many other women
at the telephone company who do
important jobs for you. And they,
too, have the “Voice with a Smile.”
For example, Vonna Lou Shelton
handles a very necessary service in
the business man’s world. She is one
of many women throughout the coun
try who help different concerns plan
and place their advertising in tele
phone directory Yellow Pages.
Friendliness, good judgment, and
follow-through have won for Mrs.
Shelton the confidence of business
men who appreciate quick, competent
service and painstaking efficiency.

Vonna Lou’s life is filled with peo
ple. Among her principal off-the-job
interests are her husband and Sun
day School class.
She’s a program chairman of a
missionary society. Sparks many a
fund-raising campaign. Goes to col
lege to study piano and takes lessons
to improve her golf.

She has a loyal following in the "younger
set." Mrs. S helton h as a w ay with the
children o f th e n eig h borh ood w hich in
sp ires a fa ith fu l atten dan ce at h er class
in Sunday School.

Like so many folks in the tele
phone company, Mrs. Shelton has
made a lot of friends—on her own,
and on the j ob.
“I don’t know of any other work,”
she says, “that would bring me so
close to all my neighbors. Our cus
tomers get to think of us as their per
sonal representatives. I like that a lot.”

W orking together to bring p eop le together . . . B E L L

TELEPH ON E

SY STEM

Maroon M E M O S
A gift of nine paintings has been received by the College
from Ira Gershwin, who attained fame as the writer of lyrics
for music written by his brother George. Included in his
gift are works of several prominent artists.
*

Echoes From the Past (With a Familiar
Ring to Them ). . . or Where Have I Heard
This Before ?”
*

"It will soon be time to begin work upon the golf links,

Miss H elen Amberg, manager o f the Campus Store, will
becom e president o f the National Association o f College Stores
at the organization’s national convention in Los Angeles in
April. In the o ffice o f vice-president, which she presently
holds, she has attended the mid-winter board meeting in New
Orleans, La., the southwestern regional meeting in San
Antonio, Texas, and the southeastern regional meeting in
Atlanta, Ga.

which it is rumored are to be an attraction on the campus
this spring.”
sis

"The Dartmouth makes this announcement-. 'Madison Uni
versity to have a new library’ . .
Ibid October 20, 1888

" I t is thought to be a discreditable state o f affairs that

the pay of professors should be insufficient to permit them to

A grant of $ 2 ,3 0 0 has been awarded the Department of
Chemistry by Socony-Mobiloil Co. for an infra-red spectropho

enjoy a social life commensurate with their position and
influence . . . ”

come from that company.
*

fo r some years.

in Earlville a "brittle-star,” an extinct marine animal dating
back three hundred fifty million years, one of two ever found

"W e hope the authorities have instructed the architect to
make ample provision in some one of the new buildings for a
convenient assembly hall.”
sf.

S*S

Elmira College recently sent its President, Dean and six
faculty members to Hamilton to discuss Colgate’s program o f
general education with members o f our faculty.
*

Spencer A . Brown, formerly with the Associated Colleges
at Claremont, California, has been appointed Assistant Catalog

G eorge Soule, form er editor o f "N ew Republic,” has been
appointed to teach economics fo r the next semester to fill
the vacancy created by the death o f Professor William Kessler
late in the summer. H e will be a fu ll professor.
*

sis

s|£

"T h ere is but one subject upon which the Faculty and
is the use of the marking system . . .”
He

Ibid May 31, 1884

"Sometimes the 'wanderlust? seizes upon a man and he
would rather be in any place than Hamilton, N. Y .”
Ibid February 11, 1908
He

s|c

Madisonensis have up to this time failed to agree, and that

Librarian.
*

Ibid April 5, 1884
s|»

”Someone has suggested that Madison ought to have a
Chair o f G ood Manners. T he suggestion is not without point.”
Ibid December 1, 1888

in this region.

"Cornell has won one football game this season, and was
very near winning another.”
Ibid December 15, 1888

Robert Linsley, Instructor in Geology, recently discovered

R.
Chester Roberts, Director o f the Division o f the Natural
Sciences and Mathematics, has been named Chairman o f Madi
son County Selective Service Board 52 on which he has served

Ibid May 23, 1898

tometer to be used in analysis of chemicals. The department
has also received $ 2 ,5 0 0 from duPont, the fourth such gift to

Madisonensis for March 14, 1898

"T here is, perhaps, no serious fault more common among
college men than cribbing . . .

It is disgraceful to admit

that college men will resort to this polite lying . . . and
attempt to deceive themselves by cloaking this vice in college
slang . . . ”

Ibid March 2, 1889
Hs

C O L G A T E

A L U M N I

N E W S

The lounge in Kendrick House

he n ew upperclass residence hall,

which opened on schedule for
dormitory purposes when college con

vened last fall, but whose dining facilities
were not available until October because
of delays in the delivery of kitchen equip
ment, is now in full swing as these pic
tures indicate. Each of the three units has
its own dining hall and lounge, accom
modations for sixty students and comfort
able living quarters for a resident hostess.
Designed by McKim, Mead and W hite,
the building was erected on the site of
Eaton Hall with funds provided by a
government loan of $ 7 9 0 ,0 0 0

through

the Housing and Home Finance Agency.

Two of Eaton's “ galley slaves'

From left to right: Dodge, Eaton and Kendrick Houses

Open for Business
The dining hall in Kendrick House

Outside the cloistered
confines of the classroom
Lloyd and Kathryn Huntley
preside over the busy world
of extracurricular activities

STUDENT ACTIVITIES
By L L O Y D L. H U N T L E Y ’24 Director

This is not our policy at Colgate.

few days after the Rally in the

Valley in June 1947 — an event

True,

our admissions office sets high

active

participation

significant

school and community affairs.”

which many of you may recall with some

academic standards for applicants. But it

This statement is the keystone of our

nostalgia —

President Case offered me

goes far beyond that and in a statement

college thinking and to those of us whose

the post of Director of Student Activities.

published in the catalogue sets forth this

responsibility it is to administer the ex

Early that fall I started on the job, set

policy, which should interest every alum

tracurricular activities, whether athletic or

ting up offices in the James C. Colgate

nus, as follows:

non-athletic, it is the very essence of what

"T h e College believes that its prov

Student Union. Since then both Kathryn,

makes Colgate what it is today.

who is my secretary and

ince is the whole man and that the stu

The scope of Colgate’s non-athletic

and I have enjoyed doing

dent’s over-all development is its true

activities program is broad and compre

work which we find interesting, exciting

objective and concern. In the competitive

hensive. Under the general supervision of

and rewarding.
Recently it has become something of

selection of freshman candidates, evidence

the Director of Student Activities and the

of scholastic attainment is the most im

Council on Student Activities, some fifty

a vogue in certain academic circles to

portant single factor, but it is not the

organizations

play down the role of extracurricular, or

sole consideration. Consequently, evidence

There are nine major activities, seven

my wife, —
assistant —

comprise

this

program.

as some on the faculty and staff at Col

supporting the intellectual development

musical organizations, four divisions of

gate like to call them, "extra-classroom”

of each candidate is substantially weighted

student publications, three divisions of

activities in the overall college program,

responsible

student government, two honorary service

and to place the emphasis on pure scholar

citizenship and leadership, physical vigor

societies, three religious clubs, several rec

ship.

and effective personality as demonstrated

reational clubs, seven honorary fratern-

evidence

character,

C O L G A T E

A L U M N I

N E W S

ities, as well as scholastic fraternities, de
partmental clubs and sectional clubs.
Truly, there is no lack of opportunity
for the

student to participate

in the

activities which stimulate his interest.
It is possible in this article to give
you only a thumbnail sketch of the entire
plan.

However,

I will

try briefly to

acquaint you with the workings of our
activities, how they are organized and the
part played by the Director.

To give all the details which come
within his orbit is obviously not possible
in this article. However, here is a general
statement o f the range of his job.
a) To undertake general supervision
of the non-athletic extracurricular activi
ties and organizations not administered
by academic departments; and to promote
their interests in harmony with the educa
tional aims of Colgate.
b) To coordinate such activities into
the framework of the Council on Student
Activities, giving particular attention to
their business methods and to exercise the
executive power to carry out the decisions
of the Council.
c) To interpret to the students Col
gate tradition, encourage and foster the
growth of new organizations as might
prove worthwhile — such as the Campus
Fund Drive and others.
d) To work closely with the Deans of
the College and all concerned on all
problems affecting student activities and
organizations.
Early in 1948, with the encourage
ment and help

Dean Kallgren,

Council on Student Activities was formed
to have general oversight of all recognized
non-athletic activities; operating in much
the same manner as the Athletic Council.
While it is not the wish of the Council
to impose unduly strict controls, for the
good of all concerned it lays down cer
tain fundamental rules and sees to it that
they are adhered to.

The Council requires that all organiza
tions using the name of Colgate or repre
senting the College in any way whatever
receive official recognition from the
Council. It also requires that all organ
izations be registered with the Director
°f Student Activities and submit to him
FO R

J A N U A R Y ,

1 9 5 8

a complete roster of their officers and

a splendid job in bringing to its listeners

Campus Fund Drive, the most important

members, together with a written state

some fine programs. Its news coverage

task of the members of Maroon Key. Its

ment setting forth the purpose of the

ranges from the campus to national and

purpose is to raise money for various ap-

organization and a copy of its constitution.

world wide scope. It has an arrangement

proved worthy causes, and its success has

j'
j

with the British Broadcasting Corpora

been such that I have received inquiries

fund

tion to use its fine transcriptions. It re

from other colleges, asking just how we

granted by the University. Any recognized

ceives special taped programs put out by

do it. I believe the answer is basically the

organization may petition for a grant

Westinghouse

and

generosity of the students and the effi

from this fund but must submit a full

Voices.” It regularly presents the Boston

financial statement in detail and a com

Symphony and the Metropolitan Opera.

cient way they conduct their Campaign.
The Drive is scheduled carefully to

plete

This

The Council exercises direct super
vision

over

the

student

activity

known

"Books

Colgate”

avoid conflicts with other major events

which the funds are to be used. All funds

featured Handel’s "M essiah” and "Christ

and is staged immediately after the Christ-

granted are subject to the control of the

mas Around The W o rld .” The University

mas holidays. The post of chairman is a

faculty advisor or the Director of Student

Church services are broadcast each Sun

high honor and under him Maroon Key

Activities and a detailed accounting of

day and from time to time a "M onitor”

members serve as captains, solicitors, co-

how they were spent must be submitted

type show called

which em

ordinators and publicity experts. Prom

before the end of the current academic

braces the Colgate and Hamilton Com

inent students from every living unit are

munity, is aired.
W R C U features on-the-spot broadcasts

co-workers.

explanation

the

purpose

for

year.

of
W R C U — Radio Colgate

year

its

"Christmas

off-campus

games

and,

FOCUS,

football

and

occasion,

basketball

concerts.

Its

studios are located in the Spear House
The alumnus of pre-W orld W a r II

and are equipped, in addition to acous

vintage would find most of the campus

tical ceilings, with a complete linkage of
intercommunication and monitoring sys

organizations of his day still alive and
functioning vigorously, and more about

tems.

that later. He would also find some new
and interesting ones such as W R C U ,
R A D IO CO LG A TE, which has expanded

C ampus F und D rive

\
.

T w elve Charities B en efit
This year the target of the Drive is
$ 7 ,7 7 7

and donations will be made to

twelve

different

charities.

For

several

years the students have made an annual

gift of $ 1 ,0 0 0 to the Hamilton Commu-

nity Memorial Hospital. Cooperating with

[

the University and the fraternities, the

Drive donates sufficient money to bring

Operating with the latest in modern pro

year. Among the beneficiaries receiving

fessional broadcasting equipment, W R C U

students that in the main the construction

aid are W orld University Service, Re-

uses the carrier current method to bring

of the studio, the transmitters and much

cordings for the Blind, the Hamilton

its programs to the Colgate campus and

of the other equipment has been done by
them at a comparatively modest outlay

Community

Chest,

the

American

Red

of funds.
Perhaps one of the finest projects

G IV E F R E E L Y ,

the Rural Radio Network, W R C U does

undertaken by our students is the annual

Since it was first sponsored by Maroon

It's hard to keep your mind on the music when Elmira comes to town for

Cross and many others.
The Drive’s slogan: G IV E ONCE,

Broadcasting System and an affiliate of

Intercollegiate

[

It is a credit to the ingenuity of our

the

six foreign students to Colgate for one

tremendously since its inception in 1951.

the Hamilton area.
A member of

is taken for granted,

joint Christmas concert

Key in 1947, more than $ 6 6 ,6 0 0

has

been raised. The percentage of the student
population contributing is usually close to
ninety-six. President Case, in a letter to a
previous

chairman,

stated,

"Evidently

Colgate men feel more than lip service is
needed if good will is to be made effective
in our time. Incentive of this Drive re
flects the Colgate spirit at its best.”
In

fifteen short years the Colgate

T H IR T E E N has gained a reputation from
Los Angeles to New Y ork to Jamaica,
B. W . I., as "A m erica’s unique singing
group.” As most alumni know, it derives
its

name

from

our thirteen tradition.

Actually the T H IR T E E N has a member
ship of about twenty-five men which it
needs to meet the tremendous off-campus
demand for engagements. There is keen
competition among the best singers in

Tow on Trainer slope — the hitchhiker's friend

college to be selected to the group and
auditions

are

held

twice

yearly.

The

officers, comprising a leader, an assistant
leader, a business manager and treasurer,
are elected before the annual Parents’
Weekend concert.
From 1953 through 1957 more than
four hundred fifty concerts were given in
high schools, colleges, civic clubs, alumni
clubs, church groups and, last year at
Carnegie Hall. The group has sung on
several major television and radio net
works and it has been estimated that they
have been seen or heard by more than
2 5 ,0 0 0 ,0 0 0 people. The boys are con
sidered one of the finest recruiting forces
for the College.
Following their spring trip in 1957
on which they appeared at Pocono Manor
Even the Outing Club needs some promotion

Inn, the Marlborough-Blenheim Hotel in
Atlantic City and the Cavalier Club m
Virginia Beach, the T H IR T E E N pressed
its newest 12" LP

album produced by

Recorded Publications and processed by
RCA-Victor. Many believe it to be one
of the finest records made by a collegiate
singing group. Incidentally, the organiza
tion receives no financial aid from the
College —

the sole source of revenue

comes from the concerts it gives.

Mr. Huntley will tell about other principal
student activities in a second installment to
appear in the March issue of the A LU M N I
NEW S.

A typical barometer of Fund giving

COLGATE A way
From HOME
BUENOS AIRES
The Colgate Alumni Club of Buenos Aires
was established at a formal luncheon meeting
held in the Alvear Palace Hotel on August
28, 1957. Edwards Galpin ’39 was chairman
during the business meeting and, there being
no votes to the contrary, was unanimously ac
claimed as President, Vice-President, Secretary
and Treasurer of the newly-formed club. Jim
Dickinson ’39 represented the College and re
ported the latest developments on the campus.
Ed, the only alumnus in Argentina, has been
with Dupont in Latin America since gradua
tion and is now manager of the operations
in Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and Chile.
He lives with his wife and three completely
bilingual children in the suburbs of Buenos
Aires.
Meetings of this newest district club will
be held whenever Colgate men visit Buenos
Aires and call upon him. As long as he
holds the presidency he guarantees alumni at
tendance of one hundred percent at all club
meetings.

the luncheon program, an informal reception
was held in the co*cktail lounge of the Cleve
land Athletic Club.
Just a reminder that we would like to see
you all at the regular monthly luncheon meet
ings, which are held at the Mid-Day Club in
the Union Commerce Building in Cleveland,
on the first Friday of each month.
A sa V oak ’35

N E W YO RK C IT Y CLUB
On Wednesday, December 18, we pre
sented a concert by the Colgate " 1 3 ” in the
Butler Room of the Columbia University Club.
As usual, this singing aggregation put on a
highly entertaining show and all those who
were able to attend enjoyed themselves im
mensely.

J oel P arker ’54

Plans are now shaping up for our annual
meeting to be held on Thursday, January 30.
Our guest speaker will be D r. Ray W ilson,
chairman of the History Department and D i
rector of Colgate’s Annual Foreign Policy Con
ference. W e will also be favored with an
appearance of the Colgate “ 13” who plan to
be in town during their mid-year vacation.
W hen all arrangements are finalized, a notice
will be sent to Chicago area Alumni advis
ing the time and place.
In the meantime,
mark this date down on your calendar for a
highly entertaining evening.
G eorge B ailey '34

CLEVELAND
The Cleveland Alumni Club had the pleas
ure of a visit from D r. Albert Parry, professor
of Russian language and civilization, on Friday
and Saturday, November 15 and 16. An ex
tremely interesting speaker with an excellent
sense of humor, his appearance was most time
ly since, last July, D r. Parry predicted that
Russia would launch a space satellite by late
September.
On November 15, D r. Parry appeared on a
television program over station W E W S and
on November 16 spoke at our luncheon at
the Cleveland City Club. One hour of his
talk was carried by radio station W G A R . A fter

January, 1958
Brooklyn - Mon., 20
Fred Rice, Speaker
Bergen County - W ed ., 22 Fred Rice, Speaker
Long Island - Thurs., 23
Fred Rice, Speaker
Newark; Athletic Club 1 1 :4 5 A.M . Thurs., 23
Fred Rice, Speaker
Detroit - Tues., 28
Ray W ilson, Speaker
Grand Rapids - W ed., 29 Ray W ilson, Speaker
Chicago - Thurs., 30
Ray W ilson, Speaker

February
W hite Plains - Sat., 15
The
Philadelphia - Tues., 18
Baltimore - W ed., 19
Norfolk - Thurs., 20

" 1 3 ” Concert
Gene Adams,
Gene Adams,
Gene Adams,

- Dance
Speaker
Speaker
Speaker

March
Buffalo - Tues., 4 Jack Rourke, Bob Dewey ’45
Toledo - W ed ., 5 Jack Rourke, Bob Dewey ’45
Cleveland-Thur., 6 Jack Rourke, Bob Dewey ’45

Remember When!

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

CHICAGO

T E N T A T IV E SC H E D U L E O F
A N N U A L M E E T IN G S
O F D IS T R IC T C L U B S

Colgate men, with their wives and friends,
gathered at the Harvard Club in Los Angeles
on November 16 to hear a direct football
broadcast from Archbold Stadium in Syracuse.
The excellent commentary, done by Lew W alsh
of radio station W R U N in Utica, made the
contest come alive quite vividly even though
we were almost three thousand miles away.
During the half-time ceremony, many repre
sentatives of the University faculty and staff
spoke to us and several of the undergradu- I
ates from the California area also said “H ello .” '
Although the outcome of the game was not
what we had hoped for, it was a morning that
was enjoyed by everyone. W e plan to hold a
similar party next year as we have for the
last ten or more.
W e were pleased to honor Andy and Mary
K err once again at the University Club in
Los Angeles on December 30. Several of the
local area undergraduates were present to hear
Andy recall a variety of incidents pertaining
to his many years at Colgate.

G eorge M unger , J r . ’44

illiam

Stringer ' s

( ’3 1 )

story about the demise of the

Ontario and W estern Railroad, which ap
peared in the October Alumni News,

brought forth many a nostalgic letter
from those who remember when.

The

erratic schedule of this road, once the
bane of all students who depended upon
its rattling coaches for transportation, is
now food for many a happy memory.
Henry Irving Baker ’0 9 has sent us the
following tale regarding uses of the "Old
and W eary” tracks.
"O n a Saturday afternoon in 1906, I
ran fourth at a triangular meet in Utica
with Hamilton and RPI.

A fter the meet,

which I am pleased to report Colgate won,
a large body of us marched down Genesee
Street singing and cheering.

A cross-

grained cop, who must have had some

SYRACUSE

affiliation with RPI or Hamilton, told us

Our annual pre-freshman tunk was held,
as in past years, at the University Club on
December 14. Bill Griffith ’33 and Bob H ow
ard ’49 from our Admissions Office were on
hand and spoke briefly to the more than 90
prospective students and their parents who at
tended. Slides of the campus were also shown
and several of the present undergraduates an
swered questions.

Avery I. Sinclair ’25

to cease blocking traffic, such as it was in
those days, and stop making such a racket.
Red Shekerjian (Brigadier General Haig
Shekerjian, R et.) and I were just young
and foolish enough to use this challenge
as a basis to shout even louder than be
fore and the inevitable consequence was,

COLGATE

ALUMNI

NEWS

j* of course, an escorted trip to the city
* courthouse.

W e were all headed for the

1 6:08, the last train to Hamilton until the
Cannonball which was scheduled for an
!

11:15 departure.

Sensing that a judiciary

injustice was about to be perpetrated upon

j* two Colgate men, a large group of stu-

COLGATE
Congratulates

| dents accompanied us to court where a
[ young city judge, who better understood
I the exuberance of youth incited by an

ROY D. WOOSTER ’21

athletic triumph than did the officer, disI charged us.

Apparently the O & W had

| elected to make an earlier than usual de
parture that night, probably in an effort

. . . an executive of the Borden Company for thirty-four
years, upon his election as executive vice-president. He
has been a trustee of the University since 1949.

( to reach its southern terminal not more
| than three hours late, so Red and I found
ourselves with Coach Sweetland eating a
I late supper and waiting for the appointed
[ departure time of the Cannonball.
again

the

O&W

showed

its

superior

! ability in outwitting potential passengers
f by not running the Cannonball that night,

I so we had no alternative but to stay at a
I hotel which took almost every available
j dime in our pockets.
r
"The next morning we scraped up
I enough money to take the old trolley to
Clinton and at the end of the line hitched
up our trousers and started the long walk
down the O&W track toward Hamilton,
j Now walking on a road is one thing, but
jv stepping on the railroad ties, where from
; one tie to the next is a short step and from
| one tie to the second is a long step, is
[ something else again. Red was not in
| training for long-distance running and it
[ bore hardest on him. There were two
I* suitcases between the three of us, the
coach taking one and I the other, while
[ Red, with his flaming hair, wrapped himj self in a violently colored dressing gown
[ to ward o ff the cold air.
'For seven hours we pounded down
| those tracks in almost utter solitude,
breaking the silence only occasionally to
| berate the dispatcher of 'Old and Weary’s’
| trains. Once at a grade crossing a surI prised farmer driving his horse looked at
I us in astonishment for we must indeed
ft have been a sight.
|

" 'To drink all life’s quintessence in
an hour,
Give me the days when I was
twenty-one.’ ”

FO R

JANUARY,

1958

H. GUYFORD STEVER ’38

Once

. . . professor of aeronautics and associate dean ot engineering at M .I.T.,
formerly chief scientist of the Air Force, upon his appointment as head of a
new fifteen-member Special Committee on Space Technology.

EDWARD N. M AYER , JR. ’28
. . . formerly president of James Gray, Inc., upon his
appointment as executive vice-president of Communica
tions Counselors, Inc., an affiliate of McCann-Erickson,
Inc.

WILLIAM K. KERR ’39
. . . on becoming a senior partner in the firm of Fish, Richardson and Neave
of New York City. He joined the firm in 1947 after graduating from
Harvard Law School.

KENN ETH J. OSGOOD ’39
. . . who has just been made vice-president of Chicopee
Mills of the Chicopee Sales Corporation of New York.
He has been sales manager since 1945.

DAVID A. BUCK ’41
. . . upon his promotion by IBM to be manager of the State and Local
Governments Special Department, with headquarters in New York City. He
joined the Company in Chicago in 1946 and has been its sales representative
in Springfield, 111., since 1954.
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Sputniks vs Wheelbarrow

them to disregard the flavor of the meat they eat.

(Continued from page 3 )
of the most highly literate countries in the world, and the
people love books.
we do.

Russians read Mark Twain as much as

They read Fenimore Cooper and Jack London in

finitely more than we do, and Dickens has his largest read
ing public in Russia.

I doubt that the British read Shakespeare

as much as do Russians, and I know that Shakespeare is per

So the anti-humanistic Kremlin is ruling a people who are
becoming increasingly humanistic in their thinking and in
creasingly restive under the anti-humanistic regime that rules
them.

N or do I know of any people except perhaps the

Persians who love poetry more than do Russians.

I have at

tended readings of poetry in some of the most far away Rus
sian villages, and though the programs were long, lasting
from two to three hours, people stayed to the end.

Elocution

ists are among the most highly paid entertainers in the Soviet
Union.
Then, of course, Russians read their own old great writers,
Tolstoy, Turgenev, Pushkin, Gogol, Czekhov and, now that

bears the title N ot by Bread Alone.
Russians and more especially university students are be
ginning to ask questions that embarrass and exasperate the
Kremlin leaders.

Indeed, the great

A fter the October revolts in Hungary and

Poland, university students all over the country openly re
pudiated the official explanation of the cause and the nature
of these revolts.

They fired such searching and angry ques

tions at their professors and political mentors that hundreds of
them were expelled with the so-called volchy billet — wolf's
certificate — which bars them forever from all higher in
stitutions of learning in the country.
For the present, Khrushtshev has silenced the voice of in

Stalin is no longer alive, also Dostoyevsky, the most turbulent
spiritual voice in all Russian literature.

It is highly significant that a recent novel, written by

Vladimir Dudintsev, which has created a sensation in Russia

formed in Russian theatres more than in those of any other
country.

It just can

not be done, for the one is inseparable from the other.

quiry and protest in the universities and everywhere else.

classical literature of the world, Oriental and Occidental, in

dictator of the country he had reason to do so.

Russian translation, but without deletions, though not without

gary and Poland university students were leaders in the anti-

politically-pious introductions, is available to the book-hungry
Russian public.

N o country in the world publishes so many

millions and millions of copies of the world’s classics as does
Russia and they are sold as fast as they appear in book shops.
T o me this has always been one of the most hopeful omens
in Soviet civilization.

In both Hun

Russian and anti-Kremlin rebellion, and Khrushtshev obviously
perceived the danger of permitting Russian students to get out
of control.
extinguished.

It would be like letting a prairie fire go un
W ere the students or anybody else to stir a re

bellion in the country, Khrushtshev would of course smother

It exposes the Russian mind to the

humanism of the western world, as reflected in classical lit
erature, the very humanism that the Soviet press and Soviet

it in blood even as he smothered the Hungarian revolt in
blood.

That is why I do not believe that a revolution is

either imminent or possible or even probable in Russia.

But

Y e t I cannot escape the conclusion, that whoever the Krem

there is nothing the Kremlin can do to conjure away the im

lin dictator, sooner or later he will find himself under com

pact of this humanism on the mind of the Russian reader.

pulsion to yield however cautiously and grudgingly to the

oratory violently denounces as the foe of communism.

rouses ideas and sentiments that conflict with the demands and

humanistic longings of the people.

the disciplines of so all-embracing a dictatorship as the Soviet.

Meanwhile, because of the sputniks, we must prepare our

For Khrushtshev or anybody else to tell Russians to disregard

selves for tense and perilous tilts with the Kremlin in the arena

the humanism of the classical literature they read, is like telling

of international power-politics.

Cole-Rogers Dinner
(Continued from page 7 )

M r. Cole cited a number of fond per

Other speakers included M r. Thrall,

M r. Cole said that in accepting the job

sonal recollections of his student days and

who expressed the pride of the Alumni

of International Atomic Energy director

paid tribute to the Stevenson family of

Corporation in the achievements of Mr.

he was accepting a challenge to blaze new

W ashington for their loyalty to Colgate

Rogers and M r. Cole, and Perry Steven

paths leading to the use of atomic energy

and activity in alumni work over the

for peacetime pursuits on an international

years.

son, who introduced D r. Case.
Throughout the dinner, guests were

scale.
S.

He mentioned the late Rev. Hugh

Stevenson,

former

pastor

the

entertained by the Colgate Thirteen.
group,

The

making its first appearance in

Wesley Reynolds ’34, a classmate ofBethany Baptist Church in the Capital,
Mr. Rogers’ at Colgate, presented the A t and a graduate of the Class of ’01, and
torney General with a volume of congrat the latter’s sons, Horace L. Stevenson, and

W ashington, was enthusiastically received.

ulatory letters written by local alumni and

Perry Stevenson T 6, for many years an

singing of the Colgate Marching Song as

headed by a letter from D r. Case.

led by its composer F. Morse Hubbard

One high point of the evening was the

official in the Department of Commerce

similar volume was presented to M r. Cole

and president of the W ashington Alumni

’05, now a resident of the Washington

by W . Raymond Crosier ’41.

group on several occasions.

area.

C O L G A T E

A L U M N I

NE WS

AM A Appoints

$ 2 ,7 3 1 ,5 66, together with net reserve de
duction adjustments of $ 5 ,9 8 8 .9 9 , per
mitted

increase

unappropriated

h e appointm en t of Joseph Huther

current surplus of $ 3 1 ,0 5 9 . This brought

’29 as Hamilton area public rela
tions director of the American Manage

the current unappropriated fund surplus

ment Association has been announced by

al institutions and unlike business firms,

to $ 1 0 7 ,6 6 8 . Colgate, like most education

’13 Memorial to
Bob Ingraham

embers

the

C lass

1913

have already subscribed upwards

Lawrence A. Appley, president. He is

does not maintain reserves for deprecia

currently health and physical education

tion or replacement of its buildings. In

director of the Public Schools of Auburn

$ 7 5 0 to publish a new Colgate songbook

view of this, and the uncertainties of the

and director of municipal recreation for

as a memorial to their classmate, Robert

times, the University’s current fund sur
plus is exceedingly small.

G. Ingraham. The last edition, published

Gifts and Grants received during the

tion of which Bob was chairman, has been

The Hamilton public relations assign

year on capital accounts totaled $ 1 ,6 0 0 ,-

out of print for nearly a decade. This

ment will include responsibility for AM A

0 0 0 ; the grand total of gifts received for

Fund will be turned over to the Alumni

community relations in the area and for

all purposes was $ 1 ,8 8 2 ,6 1 5 , an all-time

Corporation which will publish the book.

the City of Auburn. He will assume his
new duties late in June.

of $ 4 0 0 to a "working capital fund” of

by a committee of the Alumni Corpora

the development o f recreation programs

record for Colgate. These totals include

It has agreed that any excess of income

and facilities

$ 8 7 8 ,2 9 8 , payments on account of pledges

which may accrue will be added to the

to the Development Fund made during
the year.

Robert

One detail included in the Treasurer’s
report is of special interest to many alum

family, many of them in lieu of flowers.

ni. Since July 1, 1954, the operating in

music at Colgate both as an undergraduate

for

AMA’s annual
Colgate.

executives
summer

attending

program

Still in the Black
Treasurer’s Report shows
income above expenses fo r
fourth consecutive year
n a report to the Board of Trustees

of Colgate University, John W . S.

Littlefield ’22, Treasurer of the Univer
sity, revealed that the fiscal year ending
on June 30, 1957, was the fourth con
secutive year completed with net income

Ingraham
from

Memorial
friends

Fund
of the

Bob has been an outstanding leader of

come and expense of the Athletic Council

and an alumnus and has been President

have been combined with those of the

of his class ever since its graduation. This

University.

project is being directed by the secretary

vances to the Council totaled $ 7 8 ,7 0 4 .

1956,

unliquidated

of the class, Robert W . Moore, Jr., Park

During the fiscal years, 1955-57 inclusive,

Square Bldg., Boston
elected in 1913.

these advances have been completely re
paid from the net operating gains of the

created by gifts

16,

Mass.,

also

Council and the University has established

Anyone who would like to join the
class in assuring the success of this

a modest deferred maintenance reserve

appropriate and useful memorial to Bob

for repairing the Council’s facilities.

Ingraham may send a check drawn to the

Treasurer John W . S. Littlefield will

order of the Alumni Corporation indicat

be glad to send a copy of this report to
any alumnus desiring it.

ing that it is a gift to the Ingraham
Memorial Songbook Fund.

"somewhat above estimates” and with the
University’s plant and resources substan
tially increased.

No Fleas on Me!

Mr. Littlefield stated that total income
from current use during the year was

@ For a chap who maintains that "start

of 200 a year.

$2,756,636, 4 2 .4 per cent of which was

ing your own business isn’t as much fun

seven months in business, they had gross

By the end of their first

derived from Tuition and Fees, 2 9 .4 8 per

as it seems to be” and who advises the

ed $ 1 5 0 ,0 0 0 ; the next year it was $ 2 5 0 ,-

cent from Auxiliary Activities, 12.8 per

little man with a new product to "sell it

000.

cent from Funded or Endowment Income,

to somebody else,” Alex MarElia ’49 not

ucts, such as a parasite killer, and a lano

and 8.73 per cent from Gifts and Grants

only appears to be enjoying himself huge

lin foam shampoo, sales are expected to

for current use. Summer projects and sun

ly, but is well on his way to becoming

reach about $1 million this year.

dry income accounted for the remaining
6.55 per cent.

wealthy by not taking his own advice.
An article in the June issue of Chemi

Thanks to a number of new prod

Primarily responsible for their success
has been promotion and packaging.

Alex

Academic salaries, wages and retire

cal W eek describes in detail how Alex

ment expense totaled $ 1 ,0 8 9 ,7 3 9 .5 2 , two-

and a former advertising client bought the

been too long underrated and that glam

thirds of total educational expense and

rights to a dog collar guaranteed to keep

orizing its products will greatly boost its

do per cent o f total of all expenses.

the animal flea-free which the inventor

gross sales. His firm is Guardian Indus
tries, Inc., the Bronx.

Total expenses and appropriations of

pOR

J A N U A R Y ,

1958

was having a hard time selling at the rate

believes that the pet supply business has

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ivy Applauds Policy
Case statement given favorable reception
by League presidents
°O n D ecem ber 3 President Case released to the press a state
ment of the University’s Athletic Policy which was squeezed
into the last form of the December N E W S then on the press.
Inasmuch as some of the interpretations of this policy have
been inaccurate and misleading, and one of the wire services
misquoted an officer of the University to the effect that
"Colgate does not want to join the Ivy League, we are re
printing it.
This statement, approved by the Athletic Council and the
Board of Trustees, was made to answer the questions of many
undergraduates, faculty members and alumni regarding the
wisdom of Colgate continuing to meet, particularly in football,
teams which constantly heavily out-man the Red Raiders and
which enjoy certain advantages, including spring practice,
which the Ivy Code, which Colgate observes, denies its players.

P olicy Statem en t
"E ver since th e adoption of the so-called Ivy Code,
Colgate has voluntarily adhered to all of its major pro
visions. W e shall continue to do so. For this reason and
many others, Colgate welcomes all invitations to schedule
games with Ivy League members. Indeed, it is our hope
that the number of such games, in football and in other
sports, may increase to the maximum consistent with the
prior obligations of League members toward each other.
"In Syracuse, Colgate recognizes a traditional, if formid
able, rival, and so regards the Syracuse game as a fixture.
For 'the rest, having first honored all existing commit
ments, Colgate will schedule only such other teams as
represent institutions with academic and athletic standards
similar to its own.
"O nce and for all this, statement of policy, which has
the full support of the Athletic Council and Board of
Trustees, should make it clear that Colgate has no interest
whatever in becoming a party to the proposed Big Eleven
or any similar conference of eastern "independents’.”
F avorable R eception
The reception of the foregoing statement, particularly
among Ivy League officials, has been heart-warming to many
followers of Colgate football. W e are taking the liberty of
quoting excerpts from several letters to President Case which
indicate the high regard Colgate enjoys among its opponents.
Dr. G. P. Harnwell, President of Pennsylvania, in his
letter dated December 6, said, " W e at Pennsylvania are de
lighted to know that the general policies of the Ivy Group
have your approval and we hope that this will lead to many
friendly and enjoyable opportunities for athletic competition.
" I know that it is the hope of the other members of the
Ivy Group as well that these principles will eventually be very
broadly accepted and that we will find ourselves in the
company of many congenial institutions.”
Columbia University’s President, Grayson Kirk, said,
"Thank you for sending me a copy of your statement. . . .As
these things are sometimes distorted in the reporting, I am
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Robert Conklin, '58 Red Raider Captain

glad to have a copy of the original text which should certainly
serve to clarify Colgate’s position.
D r. John S. Dickey of Dartmouth wrote on December 9, I
share your hope that the relations of our two institutions will
always remain close in all things. ’ President Barnaby C.
Keeney of Brown University said, "Congratulations on your
statement, which just came. I am delighted that Colgate is
going to follow the plan for athletics which you describe,
Y our team played much better last Thursday than the score
would indicate.”
President A. W hitney Griswold of Y ale University wrote:
"Thank you very much for the copy of your statement of
Colgate’s athletic policy. I’m very glad to have it.”
Dr. Robert F. Goheen told President Case personally at a
recent meeting of the Board of Trustees of Princeton that he
enthusiastically approved his Statement of Policy.
Lending weight to the letter from President Harnwell of
Pennsylvania, Director of Athletics Jeremiah Ford II, in a
friendly letter to Eppie Barnes, concluded with, "I am well
aware of the ways in which the Press can distort perfectly
innocent statements. I can assure you that everyone here at
Pennsylvania, including our President, understands the pur
pose of President Case’s release.”
Editorial comment among some of the East’s leading sports
writers has been equally favorable. Space does not permit re
printing excerpts of a number of columns but in general,
thinking members of the Press applauded Colgate’s support of
its long-standing rivalry with Syracuse and its firm intent
to schedule those schools which have similar aims and ideals,
scholastic and athletic.
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A L U M N I

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Honors All Round

•B ob Co n klin , a standout guard for the past two seasons,
was elected captain of the 1958 Red Raiders at a meeting fol
lowing the close of the 1957 campaign. A junior from Utica,
Bob succeeds Ralph Antone, a fellow Utican, and with Phil
Bisselle of New Hartford, who is the basketball captain, gives
that area of upstate New York one of the strongest delegations
of athletic leaders ever enjoyed by any area at Colgate.
Conklin was one of four men — the others were Jerry
Lockwood, Ray Harding and Ted Boccuzzi — who started all
nine games this year. Despite injuries which hampered him in
the Yale, Army, Syracuse and Brown games, Bob was regarded
by opponents as one of the most valuable men in the Colgate
lineup.
Year-end honors piled up for Antone, A1 Jamison, Lockwood, Boccuzzi and Harding despite the team’s overall record.
Antone was placed on the ECA C all-major team and received
honorable mention on several other "dream” teams. Jamison,
who was the club’s high scorer, finished sixth in the country
and first in the East in pass receiving, was named to the
second unit on the A P and U P all-East teams and was accorded
honorable mention for their all-America teams along with
Boccuzzi, Antone and Lockwood. Harding wound up four
teenth nationally and fourth in the East in passing.
A singular honor went to Fred Rice, who was listed among
a group of five coaches who had done the "most with the
material at hand.”
That honor was generally felt by most experts to be a wellearned one for the young coach in his first year at the reins.
In fact, at least one highly-regarded observer speculated on
ertainly
Fred’s qualifications as a dark-horse candidate for "Coach of
>er 9, I r the Y ear” during the action-packed first half of the Syracuse
>ns will . game.
Despite the final score of that traditional battle with the
laby C. 1
Orange, Colgate came o ff the field to unstinted admiration.
Dn your
ilgate is 1 As a scout from a rival school phrased it, "Y o u had the best
lescribe. i first team on the field here today. Now if you can get some
depth to give your key men a breather once in awhile, you’ll
ie score
be right up there again.”
Unfortunately, that failed to hold true for the Brown
j wrote:
game, although all expectations in practice pointed to a major
nent of
effort. The players worked their hardest during the drills
preceding the Thanksgiving Day game but when the action
ally at a
finally got underway, Brown had all the answers.
that he
W ith only nine seniors lost as plans get underway for
iwell of | next year, Rice should have a much more experienced team
II, in a j than he had this past season. Several fine prospects also have
emerged from the freshman team — prospects which should
am well
perfectly I provide some of the much-needed depth.
Jack Call, one of Colgate’s best halfbacks since the days
here at I
of Alan Egler ’51, was guest of honor at a sports banquet in
the purhis home town of Cortland early in January marking the suc
lg sports 1 cessful close o f his first season in professional football. Sports
fans from the Central New York area joined with Sleepy Jim
srmit re
Crowley, all-time N otre Dame great, in paying tribute to Jack
general,
for his fine work as a back for the Baltimore Colts of the
ipport of
National Football League. Jack was one of a crop of rookies
ai intent
d ideals, I who kept the Colts in contention for their division title for
almost the entire season.
JEWS

FOR

J A N U A R Y ,

1958

orapvehcm gi tja u t d is tin g u is h e d cAnevr o f
serv ice to C olgate in 1920 as f i r s t presid ent
of* th e C o lg a te U n iv ersity A lu m ni A th le tic
Council, and closing i t in 1957 a fter nine gears as president
o f th e
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Colgate University Athletic Council
th e in te rv e n in g th ir t y - s e v e n g e a r s s t a n d a s a *
m a tc h le s s co n trib u tio n to w ard th e A d v an cem en t-^
o f th e U n iv e r s ity 's a t h l e t ic p ro g ra m .

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he ro ste r o f th o se m ho a t v a rio u s periods h av e'
served w ith you during the nearly tour decade«r
is a n illustrious one; m any, now gone, have established*
p erm an en t and. conspicuous places o f t h e ir oa»n ine>
o u r a ff e c tio n ;
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h o se o f a s s t i ll p re se n t w ill alw ay s c h e ris h a
g ra te fu l re m e m b ranee, o f o u r a s s o c ia tio n ..
w it h y o u a n d o f y o a r c o n s t m e t iv e a c h ie v e m e n ts fo r t h e C ollege we. all lov

T Ad.ints
Altbrd E. AJt*m
Qsc&fc C. Anderspr*.
H erm an T ft, Aode
Everett D. B arn es
W ums J , Bmqrham
C lin ton W Blum e

P Fowler
Ii.” fckuood G ates
jWill d m H. G cyer Charles E.Gkndenwty
Edward W Goode
William f .Gotti d

fr a n k O 'H ern

Joh n F Omi -

W illiam b 1. Parke
P h ilo W P a rk e r
Jo h n H, R athh onc
Mei bourne S R ead
R a lp h MJbfejrtrm,
W illiam Ä. Reid
George f BonaCker -Chari»» T Htibbcil Norman. R S. Rttssel 1
Ernest R. B rÀ t» , J f . U i . - n i C M . j u ' f . Js Jo h n H ,S h erid an
Joseph. W! Bmefcs
Joseph Hnfeher
; W a ite r F S p e n ce r
Raymond Brook» G. Detoetj H q « »
David D. Srnuse.ll
Allan M .€ a rtte r
Dosmki £ Irtmn - Ih - t t v 1”1'»sii.vati
Frockrkrk H. Jones Ciarenec H-Tliarber
E verett R Case
W alter C. Cràmp
Jo h n À CaHey
David B-W rist
George 13- C u ttoa
I H arold.O W hitnal!
Gckoard J L a ter
W. TKomajs Dodge
À sa K. Leonard
j R-asuk M W ilia m s :
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Daniel J. iw tm arm J situ \ v
!C h arles fv.W ilson
D. Arthur Inruvcrd. : Rok-n W- Moore
j Ellery C Huntington

•A t the trustee dinner in October, at which members of
the Athletic Council were in attendance, W illiam S. Murray
TO was presented with the handsomely engrossed scroll illus
trated above and a beautifully engraved sterling silver cigar
humidor filled with his favorite brand. He had resigned from
the Board in June after thirty-one years’ service and was
elected a Trustee Emeritus. He was succeeded by Ernest R.
Braun ’21 as Chairman of the Athletic Council.

Mayor’s Appointee
•Mayor W agner of N ew Y ork City appointed a commit
tee recently to recommend ways and means to bring a national
league team to New York City. Among those named is Clinton
W . Blume ’22, President of Clinton W . Blume Co. The other
members are James A. Farley, Barney Gimbel and W illiam
Shea.
Clint, one of the great Maroon pitchers, played professional
ball with the New York Gaints before going into the real
estate business in New York.
23

Sports Roundup
•W ins over B rown and Florida Southern highlighted an
otherwise grim opening month for the basketball team which
ran into the troubles predicted for it because of general lack
of height.

W alt Runge '06 received aw ard from Steve Thrall '22 as Bill Murray '10,
Ernie Braun '21 and "K ail" '17 stand by

Maroon Citation
•W alter R unge ’06, whom the late George Trevor called
"perhaps the greatest back Colgate ever had,” was honored be
tween the halves of the Colgate-Rutgers game at Homecoming
with a Maroon Citation read by Dean Kallgren ’ 17 and
presented by D. Stephen Thrall ’22, president of the Alumni
Corporation.
W hen he graduated in 1906, after majoring in chemistry
under Dr. MacGregory, with Phi Beta Kappa honors and
varsity letters in four major sports, W a lt had won fame as one
of Colgate’s greatest athletes. In the intervening years he has
had an equally distinguished career as a chemist in this country
and in Europe.
A fter receiving his Ph.D . in chemistry from the University
of Goettingen in Germany in 1909, W a lt taught chemistry at
the University of Colorado for a year. In 191 0 he joined the
E. I. du Pont de Nemours Powder Company as a research
chemist. H e has been associated with, and held offices in, a
number of companies including the International Coal Pro
ducts Corporation, of which he was Vice-President; Sasson and
Company of Holland, President, and The International Com
bustion Engineering Corporation of New Y ork. In 194 9 he
became President of Light W orks Products, Inc., importers and
exporters of chemicals.
Space does not permit a recital of his exploits on the
track, the basketball court, the diamond and the gridiron.
Runge and the late Frank Riley Castleman ’0 6 are names link
ed together in the annals of the early years of Colgate football.
Trevor said of them, "a sprinter and hurdler, Castleman made
the headlines as one of the fastest on the gridiron in those
days while Runge was equally well-known as an offensive
blocker who time and again could take out two and three
defensive players and still stay ahead of the ball . . . and for
his strong 'stone’ wall defensive play.”
The citation read in part:
"Fifty-five years have passed since you made the first of
a long series of noteworthy contributions to Colgate. As an
undergraduate, you set a pace which few, if any, have equalled
and none has surpassed. M ajoring in chemistry, you won four
major sports letters, captained two varsity teams in your senior
year and made Phi Beta Kappa. . .

The Red Raiders dropped eight of their first 10 games
but salvaged a measure of pride by winding up in third place
in the Holy Cross Invitational Tournament by upending
Brown.
Captain Phil Bisselle and Russ Brummer, the only experi
enced men on the team, led the scoring pace throughout the
month with the former’s 33 points against Brown the high in
that department. The youngsters making up the remainder of
the team have shown good progress, according to Coach
Howie Hartman, but there still is no solution in sight to the
height problem.
Matters went rapidly from bad to worse even before the
season started when Sophom*ore Jim Elson, figured to handle
the rebounding chores, left college after the Thanksgiving
holidays. Hartman prevailed on A1 Jamison to try his hand
in the pivot slot but a recurring ankle injury and overall in
experience forced Jamison to return to the sidelines after two
games.
W ith no one left to plug the gap, Hartman had to rely on
his team’s speed and shooting accuracy to try to overcome the
lack of an inside attack. In most games, the Raiders played
inspired ball for the first three quarters but went down repeat
edly when the hot pace sapped their reserve.
In other arenas, Mark Randall’s swimmers took up where
they left o ff a year ago and looked even more impressive, if
that is possible, in downing their first three opponents before
the onset of the holidays. Buffalo and Lehigh proved no match
for the Maroon swimmers while Cornell, always a tough nut
to crack, was a 4 4 -4 2 victim in the Colgate pool. Randall
looks for even more impressive work from Co-Captains Pill
Caprio and Bill Myers and from Sophom*ore Mike W olk.
Harvey Potter’s wrestlers took their first match of the
year, knocking off Union with ease, but then ran into difficul
ties and lost to Cortland and Eastern Champion Penn State.
Pete Newell and Skip Schult have dominated the scene to date
while the lighter classes, especially in the weights from 123
pounds to 147, have been unable to hold their own.
Jack W arner’s runners will open their season in February.

"Colgate and your fellow alumni are proud of the great
record you made in your chosen profession. . . The many
recognitions of the noteworthy contributions you have re
ceived from your fellow scientists in this country and in Europe
have reflected great credit on your Alma Mater. . .
"This award is a testament by your College and your fel
low alumni to their affection and high regard for you person
ally and to their deep appreciation for all you have done
for, and meant to, Colgate.”
W alter is now retired and lives with his wife in Flushing,
Long Island.

This story was prepared for the December NEWS. The
editors regret it was temporarily ”lost in the shu ffle” when
making up that number.
C O L G A T E

A L U M N I

N E W S

Flashes
K endall P. Smith
119 N . Main St.
Perry, N . Y .
Next Reunion — June '62

C arleton C. M urdock

Classes
C harles E. G lendening
Ayer Bldg., Washington Sq.
Philadelphia 6, Pa.
Next Reunion — June '61

Now living in Denver, Colo., at 619 Grant
St., J ohn K. Markwick is floor manager for
Kendrick Bellamy Co., office, stationery and
engineering supplies.

319 W ait Ave.
Ithaca, N . Y .
Next Reunion — June '62

A tribute to D r . E verett D udley P lass,
whose "Completed Career” appeared in the
January ’57 issue of the Alumni News, was
published in the Summer ’57 Medical Bulletin
of the State University of Iowa. W ritten by
Dr. W illis E. Brown, former member of the
medical staff at SUI, for presentation at the
annual spring meeting of the American
Gynecological Society, the tribute, which out
lines his many contributions to the medical
profession in general and to the Society and
SUI in particular, says that "his native in
telligence, analytical mind and tremendous
drive carried both him and the University to
national and international prominence . . . . It
is difficult to appraise the tremendous good
which Doctor Plass exerted on obstetrics and
gynecology, not only in his own state but
throughout this country and abroad.”

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

D onald S. T aylor
Brunswick Rd.
Troy, N . Y .
Next Reunion — June '59

Ira D. F letcher is the owner and manager
of the Paragon Oil Products Co. in Toledo,
Ohio.

Lt . Col . H erbert E wald

cinnati, Ohio, and chairman of the radio-TV
department of the Council of Churches of
Greater Cincinnati, who received an award for
outstanding service in the religious radio-TV
field from the American Baptist Church, has
also been honored by Station W C P O -T V of
Cincinnati.
He and Mrs. W heaton were
cited as two who had brought honor to the
city and their names were inscribed on the
program’s role of honor.

P errine G. Rockafellow
Hamilton, N . Y .
Next Reunion — June '59

An engineer in electronics for Servo
mechanisms, Inc., in Hawthorne, Calif., Roger
S. E stey resides at 2812 Palos Verdes D r. W .,
Palos Verdes Estates.

B rainard F. G ibbons is a legal trust repre
sentative for the Old Colony Trust Co. of
Boston, and lives at 11 U . S. Bates Rd.,
Hingham.
G ary and L aV erne Riggs are in Europe on
a winter holiday trip which will include visits
to Rome, Nice, Monte Carlo and Paris.
Broker and owner of the real estate firm
Business and Income Properties, Sarasota, Fla.,
H arold M. Salmon resides on Route 1,
Sarasota.

Hdqrts., 1405th A .B .W .
Scott A. F. B., 111.
Next Reunion — June '61

For reasons of health, E dward B. Caulkins
has resigned his position with the United
States Chamber of Commerce and has moved
to Gulfport, Fla., where he lives at 5821 19th
Ave. S.

A very I. Sinclair
167 Clifton PI.
Syracuse 6, N . Y .
Next Reunion — June '59

Grace Watkins Frank, wife of C urtiss E.
F rank , died on November 12 in Chicago.
Surviving also are a son, Curtiss, 21, and a
daughter, Anne, 26.

H erschel L. M osier
103 Liberty Ave.
New Rochelle, N . Y .

O rrin G. J udd
Next Reunion — June '60

Retired from the ministry, the Rev. A lbert
F. M e C lements is living at 4014-31 St. S.
in St. Petersburg, Fla.

E dmund H. W alker
W aterville, N . Y .

Next Reunion — June '58

J. E arl B rennan retired from active serv
ice December 1. His advertising agency was
merged recently with the Darwin H . Clark
Co., with offices in Houston and Los Angeles,
and Earl was made chairman of the board.
Earl writes that "this will give me a
little time to do a few things I have been
wanting to do and some time to see the
world.”
He hopes any of his classmates
will give him a ring when in Houston.

FOR

J A N U A R Y ,

1 9 5 8

Next Reunion — June '63

The Rev. A lfred F. M errill , administra
tive secretary in the public relations department
of the American Baptist and the W om an’s
American Baptist Foreign Mission Societies,
participated this fall in a two-month conference
sponsored by the two groups. Those attending,
including mission secretaries, national rep
resentatives in Baptist churches overseas and
officials of the Foreign Societies, met to con
sider all phases of administering missions work
abroad. Mr. Merrill has been in missions work
since 1928, before his return to the States in
1956, as mission secretary in Assam, India. The
Rev. Edwin E rickson ’27 also attended this
conference.

W illiam J. E verts
Hamilton, N. Y .
Next Reunion — June '59

The Rev. Lawrence A. W heaton , pastor
of the Hyde Park Baptist Church of Cin

275 Clinton Ave.
Brooklyn 17, N . Y .
Next Reunion — June '62

The 30th reunion ended in a deficit, but
dues are coming in from those who received
the class booklet, and should permit payment
of all bills.
"D iz” H oitsma, president of Aluminum
Container Corp., has sales rights for the
W estern Hemisphere for aluminum cylinders
for liquid petroleum gas.

J ohn Gillen is on a European tour, which
started at Glasgow in September and had
worked south to Naples by early December.
Robert L. Smith , Steubenville, Ohio, is
among those nominated by their respective col
leges for the 1957 Sports Illustrated Silver
Anniversary All-America. The unique roster
honors the 25 senior collegiate football lettermen of 25 years ago who have accomplished
most in the intervening years. Bob is today
a successful attorney despite a heart attack in
1954 which almost ended his career, and is
also active in civic and Boy Scout affairs.

E ddie T ryon has received press comment
for his record with Hobart’s football team.
This year’s 6-0 record, curtailed by two can
cellations because of flu, makes his 12-year
record 52-29-4. His senior quarterback is a
Little All-American and on the Dean’s List.
W illiam A. K ern
10 Franklin St.
Rochester 4, N . Y .
Next Reunion — June '62

The Rev. E dwin E rickson, American Bap
tist mission secretary for South India, partici
pated this fall in a two-month conference spon
sored by the American Baptist and the
W om an’s American Baptist Foreign Mission
Societies. Those attending, including mission
secretaries, national representatives in Baptist
churches overseas and officials of the Foreign
Societies, met to consider all phases of admin
istering missions work abroad. Mr. Erickson
was scheduled to return to India in January.
Colgate was well represented in this confer
ence; the Rev. A lfred F. M errill ’22 also
attended.

G. W endell K ellogg
N at’l Council of Churches
297 Fourth Ave.
New Y ork 10, N . Y .
Next Reunion — June '60

J erome W ayland -Smith has been re-elect
ed to serve his fifth term as Chairman of the
Sherrill Board of W ater Commissioners.

N athan A. T ufts , J r .
B. B. D . & O ., Inc.
383 Madison Ave.
N ew Y o rk 17, N . Y .
Next Reunion — June '63

Travelers

Insurance

Co.

has

sides at 247 W . Lake Shore D r., Barrington,

111 .
Bart A mendola
3921 River Rd.
Reading, Pa.
Next Reunion — June '60

A manufacturer’s representative of builders’
hardware for B. L. Rosenthal, Inc., in Manhasset, H ugh D ouglas, J r . resides at 288
Rushmore Ave., Carle Place, L. I.
Living at 931 Chestnut St., W ilm ette, 111.,

A ngus J. Ray is president of the Angus J. Ray
Publishing Co. of Chicago.

Richard V . M ansell
870 Carroll St.
Brooklyn 15, N . Y .
Next Reunion — June '61

E dward E. E vans is sales manager for Pro
tective Papers, Inc., of Union, 111. He lives
at 140 Hickory D r., Carpentersville.
An account executive with the T V advertis
ing firm of Fuller, Smith and Ross in New
Y o rk City, E verett T . Gammon lives on N .
Rohallion D r., Rumson, N . J.

K irby P eake
122 E. 42nd St.
New Y o rk 17, N . Y .
Next Reunion — June '58

Robert J ohnston is the owner of Johnston
Associates in W est Hartford, Conn., distrib
utors of material handling equipment.
Dana O. Mozley
2025 Broadway
New Y o rk 23, N . Y .

appointed

W alter E. M allory , J r . office manager of
the Boston branch. H e joined the company in
1932 and has most recently been office man
ager at Buffalo.

A lbert L. L awrence
246 N . Main St.
Herkimer, N . Y .
Next Reunion — June '58

An economist for the Federal Reserve Board
in Washington, D. C., Carl T . A rlt , Jr. re
sides at 1200 S. Court House Rd., Arlington.
General secretary of the Carroll County
Y M C A in N orth Conway, N . H ., G. L atimer
H annum resides on Mechanic St.
Living in W aym art, Pa., P eter P. K aldes is
associated with L. M. Berry and Co. in H arris
burg, Pa., as an advertising salesman for the
yellow pages of the telephone directory.
Oldsmobile Division of General Motors has
transferred H arvie L. W aite to Dallas, Texas,
where he is regional manager. H e resides at
76 0 6 Midbury D r.
Bell and Howell, Chicago, 111., manufacturer
of precision optical instruments, has elected
F letcher C. W aller vice-president. H e re

Next Reunion — June '58

Brig. Gen. W illiam K . M artin is Flight
Commander at Plattsburgh A ir Force Base,
which recently conducted a 10,42 5-mile non
stop flight in less than a day. Refueling in air,
the six B -52 jet bombers participating flew
from Homestead A ir Force Base, Fla., swooped
over Buenos Aires, Argentina, in observance of
Argentina’s Aviation W eek and returned to
Plattsburgh in less than 22 hours.

J ames P. M e C ormick is manager of electri
cal engineering for General Electric Co. in
Pittsfield, Mass. H e resides at 87 Donna Ave.
J. P rice P helps is working for CurtissW righ t Corp. in Carlstadt, N . J., as sales
engineer. H e resides on Cliff Trail, Fayson
Lakes, Butler.

J ames F. M artin
8726 Constance Lane
Brentwood Village
Cincinnati, Ohio
Next Reunion — June '58

Dear Classmates:
The questionnaires you are returning are
of great value to your Reunion Committee
in planning the type of weekend wanted by

the majority. Comments indicate a desire for
an inexpensive reunion fee, simple arrange
ments, with emphasis upon renewing old
friendships and de-emphasis upon frills. Your
Committeee will try to satisfy everyone and
invitations will be sent out by February 15.
In the meantime, drop a line with your
latest doings for this column.
D ave T hurber is a practicing physician
with home base at 80 Reservoir Rd. in Roch
ester. N ow in his eighth year as a teacher of
Romance Languages at George Washington
University, J im Robb has just received his
Ph.D .
degree
from
Catholic
University.
C harlie Owens is supervising-principal of the
Northville (N ew Y o rk ) Central School. He
lives in Northville with his wife, the former
Barbara Hull of Unadilla; daughter Carol
and son Charles. N ow a sales representative
for Mohawk Containers, J ohn "T hat Man’'
Murch lives in his usual sedate manner at
184 Golf Avenue, Pittsford, where his con
templative cogitations are interrupted only be
cause of living with ten dogs, seven cats, four
daughters, one wife. F reddy M artin is now
director of the Business Research Projects of
the Graduate Business Program of X avier Uni
versity in Cincinnati, Ohio. He finds the work
very challenging and reports that he and his
family like the Ohio Valley very much— second
only to the Chenango Valley. G eorge L inton
has left Manhattan Shirt to become sales rep
resentative for Jantzen Swimwear in the Bos
ton area.
George, who takes his responsi
bilities as an alumnus seriously, has three sons
and lives on Prospect St., Marshfield Hills,
Mass. H arry Schnabel is assistant general
manager of the South-Central Home Office
of Prudential Insurance Co. in Jacksonville,
Fla. Harry writes: "W ou ld be pleased to have
any of the fellows who come to Florida this
winter stop in to see me, either at the office
in Jacksonville, or at my home at 189 San
Juan D r., Ponte Vedra.
More Flashes in the next issue. Please send
me the details of what you are doing. And
plan on the weekend of June 13 and 14
for our reunion with the Classes of 1937 and
1938.
Yours in Colgate,

J im D ickinson
Reunion Chairman

L loyd G. Scoville is vice-president and
general manager of the M iller M otor Car Corp.
in Binghamton and resides at 23 Pension Rd.
C larence H . Stacy was recently ordained
to the Sacred Order of Deacons in the Episco
pal Church of the Good Shepherd in Berke
ley, Calif. H e had been in business for
several years before studying for the ministry.

C harles J . H ug he s
Madison, N . Y .
Next Reunion — June '61

L yon D. E vans, who has been, since 1947,
technical director of the W indow and Curtain
W all Division of the Reynolds Metals Co.,
Fabricating Division, Louisville, Ky., will now
be located at the Hopes W indow Co. in
Jamestown. H e will be general manager of
the newly-formed Aluminum Division which
will be engaged in the fabrication and sale
of architectural aluminum work.

i
I

G aston E. B lom
158 Pine Ridge Rd.
W aban, Mass.

G eorge A. W illiams, J r . is branch man
ager of General Controls Co. in Detroit, Mich.
He resides at 1731 Waverly, Ann Arbor.

J ohn R. Shults , J r . is vice-president of
Canfield Supply Co., wholesale distributors of
plumbingj electric and heating supplies, in
Kingston. H e resides at 20 President’s PI.

Next Reunion — June '61

Scrivener and Rice, Inc., advertising agency
of Rochester, has named Stuart J. Rice , J r .
| vice-president and secretary.

W illiam E. T urner is assistant manager of
radio station W T T B , Vero Beach, Fla., and
lives at 1385 13th Ave.
J ohn C. Craig
Bank of America
P. O. Box 3965
Beirut, Lebanon
Next Reunion — June '61

Still living on his farm in S. Hero, Vt.,

J ohn M. B uermann has sold his dairy herd
and is now employed by the State of Vermont
Highway Department as geologist.
Lt. Cdr. H enry O. C utler , USN, is sta
tioned with the Bureau of Aeronautics of the
Navy Department in Jacksonville, Fla. He re
sides at 2620 St. John’s Ave.
Fireman’s Fund Insurance Co. has appointed
Elmer F. H einlein a casualty special agent
in its Buffalo office.

[
P. F rank L ake is Assistant Secretary of the
i State of Texas and is living at 3303 Cherry
Tree Circle, Austin.
R ichard F. C leary
26 D eHart Rd.
Maplewood, N . J.
Next Reunion — June '59

Sales manager of the home heating and
I cooling firm of Mayo and Lytle, Inc., of
[ Metuchen, N . J., Paul E. F erguson lives at
P 35 Rayle Court.
;
National Distillers Products Co. of New
I York City has appointed Braddock Greene
[ assistant director of advertising. He lives with
his wife and two children at 10 Colonial Ave.,
. Larchmont.
Sunkist

Growers

has

recently

appointed

Allen Mather as legal counsel on the head| quarters staff in Los Angeles. Since 1953 he
has been executive secretary of the Agricul
tural Council of California.

Edward C. Shefler is working for Hamil
ton Standard Co. in W indsor Locks, Conn., on
the production of aircraft products, and resides
j on Canton Rd. in Simsbury.
A representative in textile sales for E. I.
du Pont in W ilmington, Del., A lden R.
Taylor, J r . lives at 1226 Heather Lane,
Carrcroft.

Randall W . B aer
Route 2, Box 260C
Wayzata, Minn.
Next Reunion — June '62

Still with Denver Chicago Trucking Co.,
Inc., Bob B auroth has returned to a former
habitat, Louisville, Ky., as general sales man
ager of a subsidiary company, the Eck Miller
Transfer Co.
A field underwriter for Monarch Life In
surance Co., J ohn M. W alker is associated
with the R. K. Lindop Agency in New York
City. He resides at 24 Edward Court, New
Providence, N . J.

7910 W . 26th St.
North Riverside, 111.
Next Reunion — June '59

Next Reunion — June '59

Recently promoted to a management posi
tion with International Harvester in Portland,
Ore., W illiam B yers still lives on Mercer
Island, Lake Washington, and commutes to
Portland.

B ill E ckhof has recently been promoted to
State Editor of the Knickerbocker News in A l
bany.
An attorney with the law firm of M iller and
Schroeder in Washington, D. C., J ohn B.
K eu kel resides in Riverdale, Md., at 5425
55th PI.

T homas H ogan, IV
1407 33rd St. N .W .
Washington 7, D . C.
Next Reunion — June '62

The Rev. A ndrew C. Davison has become
pastor of the Central Baptist Church in
Providence, R. I., succeeding the Rev. G erald
W atkins ’21. He is living at 540 Lloyd Ave.,
Providence.

F rank A. H emenway is product manager
for Seabrook Farms Co. in Bridgeton, N . J.,
and is living on R. D. 1, Elmer.

Young and Rubicam has transferred G ale
H. T erry to San Francisco, where his responsibilites center largely around a number
of the Kaiser Companies currently sponsoring
"Maverick’' on A BC-TV .
He lives in Palo
Alto with his wife and two small daughters.
Bill T aylor ’50 is also in the office with
him.

F rederick H. D unlap
University of Buffalo
Buffalo, N . Y .

K arl D. Morrison writes that he is in
Marine Corps intermediate level schooling for
officers at Quantico, Va., and now has three
children.
Vice-president of the Trans-Atlantic Animal
By-Products Corp. of New Y ork City, Roy G.
N ewmann resides at 7 Pasture Lane, Darien,
Conn.

Next Reunion — June '60

Robert E. Cochran has been appointed
assistant to the executive vice-president of
Food Machinery and Chemical Corp. of New
York City. He is living at 44 Stanford D r.,
Hazlet, N . J.
Convair has employed C harles B. Cox as
a flight test engineer in Fort W orth, Texas.
He is living at 3929 Linden Ave.

L ester W . Rice
954 Davis Ave.
Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio
Next Reunion — June '62

An admissions counselor at Park College,
Parkville, Mo., J ohn E. H artwig is living
at 7919 W . 54th Terr., Merriam, Kan.

CAMP

Engaged in the practice of medicine in
Clifton, N . J., D r. Richard S. F adil lives
and has his office at 45 Sisco PI.

J ohn H. J ordan is director of athletics and
coach of football at W alpole High School,

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Indian lore and campcraft.
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catalog; state age and special interests.

Living in Gales Ferry, Conn., L ionel W .
Taylor is a project engineer for the Electric
Boat Division of the General Dynamics Corp.
in Groton, Conn.

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BARR C. M ORRIS ’50, Director. 5 Ten Eyck Ave., Albany, N. Y.
27

W alpole, Mass. H e lives at 327 Coney St., E.
W alpole.
Advertising manager for Bristol-Myers Co.,
drug manufacturer, in N ew Y ork City, John
P. K ennedy resides on Continental Rd., T u x
edo Park.
An attorney in the law office of W illiam
Scott, 2nd in W hite Plains, J ames M. Scott
resides at 19 S. Stone Ave., Elmsford.
Appointed marketing manager, plastering
materials, mid-continent region of U . S.
Gypsum Co., L. C. V arian will have head
quarters in the Chicago office. He had formerly
been an area products salesman in the Okla
homa City district.

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E. V irgil Conway
20 Exchange PI.
N ew Y ork 5, N . Y .
Next Reunion — June '61

R ussell T. B lackwood, iii is assistant
professor of philosophy and religion at H am
ilton College in Clinton, and lives at 114
Campus Rd.
Capt. G oode R. C heatham , J r . is a phy
sician in the U SA F and is stationed in the
hospital at Holloman A FB, N . M.
An auditor in the military electronics
division of General Electric Co. in Utica,
B ruce J. Robinson resides at 37 Tamarack
D r., N ew Hartford.
The Bell Telephone Co. of Pennsylvania has
transferred D onald Smith , J r . to Carnegie,
Pa., as business office manager. H e resides
in Pittsburgh at 442 Sulgrave Rd.

B ruce E rgood, a student at Y ale Divinity
School, writes that while he was recently hos
pitalized with a crushed foot, it was B ernie
Siegel ’53, interning at Y ale Medical School,
who dressed his wounds daily. Bruce is living
at 410 Canner St., New Haven.
Assistant manager of Stouffer’s Restaurant
at 666 Fifth Ave., New Y o rk City, A lvah H.
L eeds, Jr. resides at 29 Shonnard PL, Yonkers.

L ee R. M e N air brings us up to date on
his activities.
The father of two boys, he
graduated 13th in his class last June from
the University of W ashington School of Law
and in July took the State Bar Exam. N ow
engaged in the practice of law at 2703 Smith
Tower, Seattle, W ash., he and his family live
in a newly purchased home at 1013 E. 126
St.
Lee says he saw B ill Byers ’49 last
summer at Lake Washington.
After two years of factory training in con
nection with the manufacture of its products,
Robert D. M illington has been appointed
N ew England sales representative for Beaverite
Products, Inc., and Glenfield Plastic, Inc., an
associate company. His headquarters is in
W orcester, Mass., where he resides at 197 S.
Flagg St.
Employed by IBM , P ier W . P ierce has been
promoted to Manager of Program Budgets in
the Company’s research finance and pro
cedures Department at Poughkeepsie. He re
sides, with Mrs. Pierce and their one child, at
41 Downs St.

J ohn R. T en n ey of 360A Hackett Blvd.,
Albany, is practicing law as assistant attorney
general of N ew Y o rk State.
A fter a year at Hofstra
M. B. A. degree, D onald
working for IBM as a data
in the Garden City office.
W . Cabot Ave., Westbury.

working toward an
W . T hiede is now
processing salesman
He is living at 59

the Local Finance Co. in Tampa, Fla., and is
living at 47 Sandpiper Rd.

9 2 9 S. Division St.
Ann Arbor, Mich.

Next Reunion — June '63

D aniel F. B arker is a student at the H ar

Next Reunion — June '62

vard Graduate School of Business Administra
tion.

Living in a most remote spot of Colorado—Durango— with his wife and two children,
B ill Ayton writes he has met B en tley
H amilton ’40 who also lives there. Bill is in
charge of development of one of Carter O il’s
tracts along the San Juan River, and still flies
jets out of Denver NAS as a "week-end re
servist.”

Transferred to a Minnesota territory by East
man Kodak Co., T heodore L. Co le , J r . is
living at 3921 Van Dyke St., W hite Bear Lake.

Barbara, (C a lif.) Orchestra, a voluntaiy proj
ect for qualified and interested musicians of
the community.

Traffic manager for Boice Manufacturing Co.
in Hyde Park, C hris H . T omasides is living
at 7 Calmer PI.

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W illiam M. B ranch
282 Graemere
Northfield, 111.
Next Reunion — June '60

Released

from

the

U SA F

September,

W illiam D. Baker is currently enrolled at
the University of California Law School in
Berkeley, Calif.

Robert A. B arrett is a
in the post-graduate school
Eastern European Studies at
London. His address there is
Baron’s Court.

student this year
of Russian and
the University of
19 Palliser Court,

Employed by McCann-Erickson, New York
City, as a time buyer for the Esso account,
Richard L. B ranigan makes his home at 301
E. 53rd St.

Living at 2201 S. Knoll Rd., Arlington,
E. C ole is a student in mechanical
engineering at George W ashington University.

T homas

T homas G. A rmstrong

Recently released from Army service, J an
T oon D e J ong is the conductor of the Santa

V ail M. T aylor is a marketing trainee with
General Electric Co. Vail writes that he is
assigned a new marketing problem every two
months and so is constantly on the move.

Craig Canner is a salesman for the Hack
ensack Bolt and N ut Co. and lives at 333 Shea
D r., N ew Milford, N . J.

A rthur W . Cooper

After four years of high school teaching,
Robert F. B riesmeister is now working to
ward a Ph. D . degree in English at the U ni
versity of Utah and is also teaching on an
assistant basis in the freshman English program.

Connecticut General Life Insurance Co. has
appointed T homas S. Smith head of group
pension operations in Baltimore. He is living
in Towson at 8305 Alston Rd.

Robert L. B rown , J r . is program assistant
for the Ulster County T B and Health Assoc.,
Kingston. H e lives at 9 Janet St.

D onald C. W endell is credit manager for

Vick Chemical Co.
122 E. 42nd St.
New Y ork 17, N . Y .

B ernard Siegel is an intern in surgery at
Grace New Haven Hospital in New Haven,
Conn. He resides at 19 Cherry Hill Circle,
Branford.

The State Bank of Albany has employed
F olger P. G ifford as a trainee. H e is living
at 1150 Phoenix Ave.

E. T erry D urant is a law student at the
University of Virginia in Charlottesville and
resides at 1824 Edgewood Lane.

Robert W . G ordon is a student at W est
ern Reserve University. H e resides at 2867
Fontenay Rd., Shaker Heights, Ohio.
A cost trainee in the comptroller’s division
of Procter and Gamble, Staten Island, W il
liam A. P age lives at 16 Lockwood PL, Staten
IslandU . S. Rubber Co. has employed J ohn B.
H e is living at 4207
Elbertson St., Elmhurst.

A project engineer for the Container Corpora
tion of America in Brewton, Ala., W illiam D.
M ajor is living at 505 Belleville Ave.

P arker as a trainee.

Employed by Gulf Oil Co. of Syracuse as a
salesman, J ames L. M unro is living at 104
Parkway D r., Camillus.

Under the Special Acceleration Training
Program of the Bank of America, M ichael E.
M e Cormick is receiving training in the
Southern California area.

Bell Aircraft Corp. of Buffalo has employed

Brownie A. P alka as an engineer in elec
tronic computing.

General

-Electric

Co.

has

transferred

C larence A. Renouard to New Y ork City,

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where he is a specialist in public issues
analysis. H e is living at 148-09 Northern Blvd.,
Flushing.

Law degree on A loysio "A l” D e M oraes on
December 14.

A sales representative for Red Star Express
Lines, L. J ohn Roosa, J r . has been trans
ferred to Auburn.

The Prudential Insurance Co. has employed
F orman, J r . as an agent in
Beacon, where he resides at Belle-Ford Manor.

Security Mutual Life Insurance Co. has em
ployed Lt. J ohn W . Spalik , J r . in Binghamton. He resides at 510 Grand Ave., Johnson
City.

C onrad C. K ohlheyer , who has recently
become a salesman for the W right Line Co.,
Elizabeth, N. J., is living at 39 W ard Park,
Grand Island.

Boro Hall Lumber Co. of Brooklyn has recently named Lt. J ohn G. Sussek, J r., 459
Primrose Ave., Oradell, N . J., manager.

Robert A. K ordish has been employed by

Lt. H enry A. U nger is stationed with the
M.A.A.G. Army Sec. (M ed .) in Taiwan,
Formosa.

Robert J. V ecellio has enrolled in the
June ’58 class of the American Institute for
Foreign Trade in Phoenix, Ariz., specializing
in Latin America.

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

T homas L.

Eastman Kodak
Rochester.

Co.

Kodak

Park

Personnel assistant with the M. W . Kellogg
Co. in New York City, K eith L ittlefield ,
J r . and his wife are living at 163-15 35th
Ave., Flushing.

Charles A. Smith is presently employed by
the Connecticut General Life Insurance Co. in
Hartford, Conn.
Marshall B. W althour has left Public
Relations Research, Inc., to take a sales position
with the Pittsburgh office of Procter and
Gamble.

Robert L indberg
80 Beekman Rd.
Summit, N . J.
Next Reunion — June '63

E dward M. C urtis and M. D avid P ost
are in the Marine Corps, Ed at Quantico, Va.,
and Dave at Triangle, Va.
A salesman for the Hallman Central Chev
rolet Co. of Rochester, D avid M. H allman
is living at 289 Hollywood Ave. Dave ex
pects to be married in February.
Enrolled at the University of Pittsburgh
Law School, J. E dward M itinger, J r . has the
distinction of being the only man living in
the new girls’ dormitory. His wife is the
head resident for 100 undergraduate women
students and Ed upon occasion is called upon
to act as "house-dad.”
C. N orman N oble has received a promo
tion from the Boeing Airplane Co. to buyer
of special test equipment in Seattle, W ash.
Norm, who expects to be married in late Jan
uary, is presently living at 13045 Pacific S.
in Seattle.

Next Reunion — June '60

American
The National Faculty of Law of the U ni
versity of Brazil conferred the Bachelor of

Cyanamid

Co.

has

employed

Roger B. C lark as a salesman in Cincinnati,
Ohio, where he resides at 3796 Homewood Rd.

Richard G. W alker is working for Mont
gomery W ard in Terre Haute, Ind., where he
resides at 453 N . 6% St.

1956

Down the A isle
Miss Josephine Edmonds Case, daughter of
President and Mrs. Everett Case, was married
on December 29 in Van Hornesville to Mr.
Nathaniel Schnurman, son of M r. and Mrs.
Simon Schnurman of East Orange, N . J. The
ceremony was performed in the Universalist
Church, where her parents had been married,
by the Reverend D r. Paul F. Swarthout ’21,
pastor of the First Baptist Church of Hamilton.

1937
J ohn D . Q uackenbos and Anne Margaret
W illiam son on November 16 in W aban, Mass.
John is with the General Radio Co. of Cam
bridge.

1938

F illmore V. H all and Judith A. Metzger
on October 18 in Pittsford. The bride is a
graduate of Cazenovia Junior College and be
fore her marriage was assistant fashion coordi
nator at B. Forman and Co., Rochester. They
are living at Laredo, Texas, A FB, where the
groom is stationed.

E ric E. H euermann ’52, W alter S. H olt
’52 and W illiam L. Smith ’52, as ushers. The
bride was graduated from Havergal College
School, Toronto, Ontario, and Middlebury Col
lege, where she was a member of Delta Delta
Delta sorority. She is a member of the New
burgh Junior League and at present is a sub
urban assistant buyer for B. Altman and Co.
John has served three years in the Navy and is
now in his final year at Columbia Law School.

1957

C harles R. von Maur and Nancy Frank
in Moline, 111., in October.
The bride, a
Finch College graduate, is a member of the
Junior Board of the Davenport (Io w a) Visiting
Nurse Association. Charles, after serving two
years in the Army and attending the State
University of Iowa graduate school, is now as
sociated with Petersen-Harned von Maur D e
partment Store in Davenport.
The couple
lives on Devil’s Glen Rd., Bettendorf.

H enry E. B reed , Jr. and Helen J. Illick,
in Syracuse on November 23.
The bride,
whose father is dean emeritus of the State
University College of Forestry at Syracuse
University, is a Syracuse graduate and holds a
master of science degree from that institution
and a doctor’s degree from Cornell, where
she has been a member of the faculty. The
groom, who did graduate work at Harvard, is
presently a; member of the faculty at RPI. H e
also serves as a consultant to the Gage Lab
oratories of the U . S. Government.

1953
Received in the Alumni Office on December
20, an announcement of the marriage of
J ack J. Schramm and June M cHale at the
American Consulate-General in Tangier, M o
rocco, N orth Africa, on Last February 12,
and solemnized on December 1 in St. Louis,
Mo. Jack penned the following note on the
announcement: "N o t exactly what I was plan
ning on, but June, formerly of New Y o rk City,
and I are infinitely happy. So, the trip abroad
was a success in every way.”

1943
G eorge E. M. Stum pp and Ruth Barbara
Marz on October 19 in Elizabeth, N . J.

1947
F rank M usiello and Janette Davis in O c
tober. Janette, singer with the Arthur God
frey Show for 12 years, is also producer of
the "T alent Scouts” program.
Frank has
been with Godfrey since 1950 and is presently
assistant director of the Godfrey T V produc
tions.

Recent Arrivals
1941
To B ayard "B ud ” and Suzanne H errick,
a third child, Henry C. Ill, on August 17,
"almost in the midst of moving to Cleveland,
Ohio.” The Herricks now live at 3312 Chadbourne Rd., Cleveland.

1950
To H oward E., J r . and P at Brown , a son,
Craig Cameron, on October 5 in Rochester.
Howard is pastor of the First Presbyterian
Church of Lima, where they reside at 49 W.
Main St.

To D avid L. and M arilyn B usfield , their
third child, a son, Dale Gibson, on November
13. Dave is employed by Hardware Mutuals in
Boston, and resides at 11 Pine Knoll Rd.,
Lexington, Mass.

J ames W . C heatham and Joanne Dorothy
Arvidson in the Bronx in October. D r. G oode
R. C heatham ’51 was best man for his broth
er. Joanne is associated with Fawcett Publica
tions in New Y ork City and Jim is with the
Hanover Bank.

To Robert W . and J anet L egro, a son,
Richard Scott, on November 6. Janet and Bob
plan to make Dick’s application at once for
admission with the Class of 1 9 7 8 !

Robert B. Crane , J r . and Nancy Johanna

To Louis, Jr. and Margret W ilcox, a
daughter, Karen Jane, in Ithaca. Louis is a
graduate student in the Department of Plant
Pathology at Cornell.

Borneman, in September in Overbrook, Pa.
Nancy attended Drexel Institute of Technology.
Bob is now with Station W C M C , W ildwood,
N . J.

1953

1955

1949
J ohn R. Sanders and Patricia Ann W ilkes
in October in Ashtabula, Ohio. The bride is
a graduate of the Ohio State University. The
couple lives in Ashtabula, where John is a
production engineer for Union Carbide and
Carbon Corp.

1952
J ohn P ow ell and Margaret L. Proper on
September

1954

W alter P. Reichert and Therese Louise
Carusone, in November in Glens Falls. W alt,
who is the son of W alter Reichert ’24, in
cluded classmates Russell P eter M adison
and Robert L indberg in the wedding party.
The bride is a graduate of the college of
New Rochelle. The couple resides in Norfolk,
V a., where W alt is stationed on the USS Des
Moines.

in Newburgh.

John, son of

W ellington P ow ell ’21, had his brother,
D onald P ow ell ’ 57 as best man, and H er
rington E. D rake , J r . '41, another brother;

1955
W illiam M. B eyea and Margaret Mary
Morrissey, in October in Mt. Kisco. The bride
is a graduate of Endicott Junior College in
Beverly, Mass. Bill is employed by Anderson
Clayton Cd., in New Y ork, and the couple
lives on Tripp St., Mt. Kisco.
H olmes B. Sw ez ey and Virginia Bryson,
on October 27 in Fairview, Mass. Holmes
has since entered the Army and is presently
stationed at Fort Benning, Ga., where he is a
court reporter in the Judge Advocate Court. He
and Virginia live at 165 Matheson Rd., Colum
bus, Ga.

To Lt. Ramsay and C hristel Lawson, a
son, Thomas Arthur, on November 13 *n
Jacksonville, Fla., where Ramsay is now
stationed. They live at 5059 French St.

1956
T o D avid A . and Mary H all , a daughter,
Tracey Graham, on September 11. She joins
Jeffrey David, 3. David is a divisional man
ager in the Sears Roebuck store in Jamestown.
They live at 7 W . Third St., Lakewood.
To Robert J. and K atherine V int , a son,
Thomas Arthur, on October 19 at Fort
Huachuca, Ariz.

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A rthur E. H arriman ’93
The Rev. Arthur E. Harriman, pastor
emeritus of the New Rochelle Baptist Church,
died on September 1 in New York City. He
was 87 years old.
Born in North Adams, Mass., D r. Harriman
entered Colgate in 1889 and was ordained in
1895. H e received his B.D . and S.T.M. degrees
from Newton Theological Seminary and was
awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of
Divinity by Middlebury.
He had pastorates in Colchester, Conn.,
Leominster and Lynn, Mass., and Middlebury,
Vt., before going to New Rochelle in 1923.
He is survived by a son, Prof. Philip L. H ar
riman ’ 17 of Lewisburg, Pa., and a daughter,
Mrs. W allace S. Peck of Caldwell, N . J. Dr.
Harriman was a Phi Psi.

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Fred Pratt Ernsberger, for fifty-five years a
photographer in Auburn, died on December 8
at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Howard G.
Gunsalus at W rightsville Beach, N . C. He
was 82 years old.
As an undergraduate, he was leader of
the Boys’ Club, a member of the Band, Chair
man of the Junior Prom Committee and a
member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity.
Following graduation he returned to Auburn to
become affiliated with his father in the pho
tography studio which he had established in
1865. Ed Stone, a life-long friend, spent a
month there before opening his own studio in
Hamilton in the fall of 1900.
Mr. Ernsberger was married in Hamilton in
1900 to the late Kathrine Stringer Ernsberger,
sister of W illiam H. ’05 and Robert S.
Stringer ’06.
A charter member both of the Auburn
Rotary Club and the Auburn Golf and Coun
try Club, he was also a member of Auburn
Lodge N o. 124 F.&A.M . and of the Second
Presbyterian Church.

J ohn W . L arkin ’03
lughter,
ie joins
il manlestown.

d.
I a son,
at Fort

Word reached the Alumni Office late in
November that Mr. Larkin died April 7, 1957.
Born in Syracuse in January 1881, he
came to Colgate from Solvay High School.
As an undergraduate he was a member of Phi
Kappa Psi and Theta N u Epsilon, the varsity
football and track teams. H e was also in his
senior year president of the Athletic Associa
tion.

F OR

JANUARY,

1958

Immediately following his graduation he
entered the employ of the Solvay Process
Company, which later became a division of
the Allied Chemical and Dye Corporation,
and for a great many years was the com
pany’s Plant Civil Engineer. He retired in
December, 1951.
He is survived by his wife, Mary O ’Brien
Larkin, and three daughters.

F rank F. Sutton ’07
Frank F. Sutton, Treasurer of Houghton
Mifflin Co. until his retirement in 1947, died
November 6 in Upland, Calif.
Born in Orange, Pa., in March 1882, he
came to Colgate from Keystone Academy. He
was a member of Delta Upsilon, the Chemi
cal Society and prior to his graduation was
elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
As an upperclassman, he taught in Colgate
Academy. After graduation he was vice-prin
cipal of the Gouverneur High School for two
years, a teacher at the Utica Free Academy
for one year and principal of the Glen Ridge,
N . J., High School for two years.
In the summer of 1912 he became associ
ated with Appleton, Inc., and in 1915 entered
the employ of the Houghton Mifflin Co. as a
salesman, advancing to the managership of
the New York office four years later. In 1941
he was appointed treasurer and elected a di
rector of the company, retiring in 1947.
Throughout his life, Frank was an active
and interested alumnus and a regular and
generous contributor to the Alumni Funds.
In 1951 he moved to California.
During
the last few months, being in ill health, he
has lived with his son, Robert W . ’42.

W illiam T homson T o
W illiam Thomson passed away November
14 in his home in Lakeland, Fla., where he
has lived since his retirement in 1952.
Born in Barrow in Furnice, England, in
September 1883, he prepared for college at
Colgate Academy. Following his graduation
he was a teacher and administrative officer
of high schools in New Y ork State for twenty
years including Newark, Woodhull, Addison,
Pulaski, Frankfort and principal of the Gram
mar School in Ilion. Ill health forced him
to give up his school work in 1929. He was
associated with the Bardeen School Supplies of
Syracuse from 1930 until his retirement.
He left to the University a set of stereopticon views of the campus and Hamilton. This

was one of the sets of such views of many
places he sold while a student in the Academy.
He is survived by his wife, Lillian McChesney Thomson; three sons, W illiam Turner ’37,
Norman McChesney and Robert Lallton, and
a daughter, Jean Elizabeth.

D avid J. B arry ’15
Funeral services for David J. Barry, who
died at the wheel of his car in Greenfield,
N . H ., while driving to Keene to attend a
meeting of a commission studying locations
for a State Park, were held at W ilton, N . H .,
on November 22. He was 65 years old. A
former state legislator, he operated a real
estate agency in W ilton. He is survived by
a sister and a brother.

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The Rev. Herman A. Whitehead, retired
Baptist minister, died last June 6.
Born in Addison in May, 1876, he attended
Colgate Theological Seminary as a special stu
dent. During his life he held pastorates in
several cities in Connecticut, Pennsylvania and
New Y ork; during W orld W a r I he served as
Religious W ork Director in Edgewood Arsenal
in Maryland, and during the three years before
his last illness he was a counsellor in the
Social Service Department of the Salvation
Army in New Haven.
H e is survived by his wife and son, the
Rev. Marshall J. Whitehead, minister of the
Pilgrim Congregational Church of New Haven,
Conn.

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’21

David H . Bodell, President of the brokerage
firm of Barnes, Bodell and Goodwin, Inc., of
New Haven, Conn., died October 27 in GraceNew Haven Community Hospital after a long
illness.
Born in Providence, R. I., in August, 1897,
he entered Colgate in 1917 from Cheshire
Academy, Cheshire, Conn. His college course
was interrupted by service in the Intelligence
Department of the U . S. Navy during W orld
W ar I. He subsequently had a long and suc
cessful career in the investment field, which
he entered in Rochester and continued later
in Providence before establishing his own firm
in New Haven.
At Colgate he was a member of Beta Theta
Pi social fraternity and captain of Varsity
Soccer.
He is survived by his wife, Margaret, of 594
Prospect St., New Haven; two sisters and
several nieces and nephews.

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Theodore Pellens died November 30 in
Phoenix, Ariz., where for the last few years
he had been Chief Economist for the Right-ofW ay Section of the Arizona Highway Depart
ment.
Born in May, 1899, he entered Colgate in
1919 from the Dickinson High School in New
Jersey. He left at the end of his sophom*ore
year and for a number of years thereafter was
in the real estate department of Childs Com
pany in New Y ork City. He took up residence

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in Arizona 13 years ago after serving in W orld
W a r II for two years. H e was first employed
by Phelps Dodge Corporation in Morenci and
later by the Arizona Title and Trust Co. in
Phoenix.
In Colgate he was a member of Phi Gamma
Delta social fraternity.
Surviving are his wife, Dorothy, of 1919 E.
Rovey Circle; a daughter, a sister and two
grandchildren.

H ogarth S. Sw eet ’23
Hogarth S. Sweet of Chappaqua, N ew Castle
Justice of the Peace, died October 14 in
Northern W estchester Hospital.
Born in Union Springs in March, 1900, he
entered Colgate from Mt. Vernon High School
in 1919. On the completion of his freshman
year he transferred to New Y o rk University
and received his LL.B. from N ew Y ork Law
School. H e was admitted to the bar in 1926
and was for many years a member of the law
firm of Y ard, Oettinger and Sweet in Pleasantville, N . J., and served as N ew Castle
Justice of the Peace for seven years. During
the Hoover campaign he became active in
Republican politics.
H e is survived by his wife, Ruth, of 9
Pinecliff Rd., Chappaqua; a daughter, two
grandchildren, a sister and a brother.

C arleton H. Shaver '24
Carleton H. Shaver, 58, died suddenly at his
home in Ypsilanti, Mich., on September 21.
Born in Buffalo, he entered Colgate from
Lafayette High School but transferred to the
University of Michigan at the end of his
freshman year. For the past 25 years he had
been employed by the D etroit Edison Com
pany. Surviving are his wife, Mary Brownell
Shaver, and a sister.

R oland C. C ardner ’29
Roland C. Cardner, 51, vice-president of the
First City National Bank of Houston, Texas,
died suddenly November 10.
Born in Granite City, 111., he entered Col
gate from Community High School in that
city. As an undergraduate, he was a member
of Phi Gamma Delta, Skull and Scroll Society
and was for four years a pitcher on the base
ball team, of which he was captain in his
senior year.
Following graduation, he was employed by
the Chase National Bank in N ew Y o rk City.
He was a specially trained investment securi
ties analyst, and prior to going to Houston in
1949, was Investment D irector in the Farmers
Bank in W ilm ington, Delaware, and the First
National Bank in Jersey City.
Surviving are his wife, Aileen Shaw Card
ner, W ellesley ’30, and two sons, Richard and
David, of 602 Saddlewood Lane, Houston, and
two brothers
Several of his business associates and friends,
knowing of his interest in Colgate, have sent
gifts in his memory requesting that they be
credited to the scholarship endowment funds
of the University.

J ohn H. H a w ley ’34
W ord of the death of John H . Hawley
reached the Alumni Office recently without
detailed information.
Born in Salamanca, he entered Colgate

from the Salamanca H igh School and at the
end of his sophom*ore year transferred to the
American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New
Y ork City.
H e was for seven years prior to the war
associated with the Eastman Kodak Company
and after his war service with Fashion Park,
Inc., men’s clothing manufacturers in Roch
ester.
During the war he served as a lieutenant
in the U SN R, was a member of a photographic
squad in Norfolk, V a., and later in the Photo
graphic Science Laboratory at the U . S. Naval
A ir Station in Anacostia.

Richard W . C lasson ’39
Richard W . Classon died at his home in St.
Albans on October 29. H e was 40 years old.
H e is survived by his wife and one daughter.

W illiam R. B owden ’54
W ord has been received of the death
of 2nd Lieut. W illiam R. Bowden, 25, when
his jet aircraft crashed during an operational
flight out of Newcastle A ir Force Base, Dela.,
on May 19.
Born in South Kingston, R. I., Bill entered
Colgate fiom the Millbrook School. H e trans
ferred to Brown in his sophom*ore year, where
he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon.
H e is survived by his mother and a sister.

D onald F ragano ’60
B ruce W illiams ’60
A tragic automobile accident near North
Norwich on January 11 took the lives of Bruce
K. W illiam s ’60 of Middleport and Donald J.
Fragano ’60 of Yonkers and injured Edward
L. Ludgate ’60 of Ithaca, whose condition has
been reported as satisfactory. All were Theta
Chis. The driver of the car, who was seriously
injured, is not a Colgate student.

J ames T heophilis
The orphan boy from Greece now rests in
Mt. Hope Cemetery, Yonkers. Jimmy Theophi
lis, 67, known affectionately to many gen
erations of Colgate men as "Sweetheart,” died
suddenly on New Y ear’s morning in New
Y ork City where he had been living for the
past ten years.
A warm, friendly and generous person who
made "T he Sugar Bow l” the favorite gather
ing place for both students and townspeople
from 1912 until he retired in 1947, Jimmy
greeted old and young, college president and
janitor alike as "Sweetheart.” An expert in hu
man relations long before the term was absorb
ed into professional jargon, the incalculable
num ber'of "on the house” sodas dispensed at
his hands established a reservoir of goodwill for
his business which never diminished so long
as he was behind the fountain. But beneath
the clowning was a serious individual who
made a habit of reading late into the night
after putting in a fourteen-hour day at the
store. Those closest to him said that he had
evolved a personal philosophy from his Greek
heritage which regarded it as a sacrilege not
to develop the mind.

Hamilton reciprocated his genial affection i
and many Colgate men will learn of his pass
ing with real legret.

J. L eslie F lower
J. Leslie Flower died at his home in
Hamilton on November 11 at the age of 75
after a long illness. Les, as he was known to
many generations of Colgate men, was a
tailor in the employ of Carl Baum prior to
his retirement in 1950. Born in East Mere
dith, he resided in Hamilton for more than
forty years. H e was a member of St. Thomas’
Episcopal Church and the Fountain Fire D e
partment of Hamilton.
Les and his wife, Grace, always enjoyed en
tertaining the many Colgate men who became
their friends in student days and who sought
them out when they visited Hamilton, particu
larly on Homecoming Days and during Reun
ions.
H e is survived by his wife, who continues
to live in their home on U tica Street; a
daughter, a brother, four grandchildren and
two great-grandchildren.

W illiam H enry M ooney
W illiam Henry Mooney, friend of many
generations of Colgate men, died in the Com
munity Memorial Hospital November 15. He
was stricken several days before with flu which
developed into pneumonia.
"Stub,” as he was affectionately known, was
born in Hamilton December 27, 1880, and
educated in the local school. A t the age of 18
he began his long career as a barber and eight
years later, in 1906, opened up his own shop
on Lebanon Street.
Literally thousands of Colgate men not only
patronized his barber shop but whiled away
many pleasant hours at the pool and billiard
tables in his back, room, a favorite rendezvous
particularly in the years before the automobile
changed the pattern of life on the campus. The i
friendships which Stub made have endured.
H e had an unusually retentive memory andl
gathered a great fund of information andyarns about these men which attracted them toj
his shop whenever they visited Hamilton. As
his older son, George, wrote shortly after his
father’s death, "in his latter years much of
his interest centered in Colgate alum ni.. . £
their location and progress------commencement
week represented for him mandatory office
hours in the shop in order to be on hand tc
greet each one.” In his younger years, Stub
was a great outdoors man and fished, hunted
and played golf with a great many of his
friends among the Alumni who derived as
much pleasure as Stub himself in reminiscing
and retelling yarns.
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Stub was a highly respected and responsible
citizen of the community. H e was a trustee of
St. Mary’s Catholic Church for many years!
the oldest living Deputy Sheriff in Madison
County and for many years served as a Republ
lican Committeeman. H e is survived by hijj
wife, the former Mary Brennan, whom h4
married in 1905, and two sons, George W J
of Hornell and Joseph M . of New Orleans, Lai IP
Mrs. Mooney, who has shared his life-long m
interest in the College and its students, has,
appreciated and found much comfort in the
many letters she has already received fronl
Colgate men. She continues to live, for th|
time being at least, in the apartment abovffi
the shop.

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