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Maine Alumnus, Volume 38, Number 3, December 1956 Maine Alumnus, Volume 38, Number 3, December 1956

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UNIVERSITY OF MAINE FOUNDATION

Officers

R. H. Fogler. President J C McGinn Tieasuiei C E Crossland Secietaiv

Members

S. C Brown, S W. Collins, D P Corbett, R H Foglei, J F Giant, R N Haskell Di A A Hauck F W Hussey, C. M Hutchins, B F Keith, T N Mangan, J L Ober, F P Picti A B Richardson. H I Shaw J E. Totman, G. P. Webber, T N. Weeks and P. R White.

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ALUMNUSVOLUME 38, NUMBER 3

CONTENTS

7 56th Homecoming

7 Theta Chi Fire

8 Newspaper Day

8 Black Begr Awards

9 Athletics

12 Local Associations

13 Indian Folklore by Nicolas Smith ’50

COVERAbout 350 alumni enjoyed the lobster stew and the program which paid tribute to

Ted Curtis ’23 at the Homecoming Luncheon. Nov. 3 The large caricature labeled "Our Ted” which hung over the head table was the work of Hairy J. Greaver. instructor in art.

EditorAssociate Editor Class Notes Editor

STAFF

DONALD V. TAVERNER ’43 WALTER P. SCHURMAN, JR. ’52 MARGARET M. MOLLISON ’50

GENERAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

OfficersThomas G. Mangan T6, president; Henry T Carey ’22. vice president; Edwin H.

Bates ’37, clerk; George F. Dow ’27. treasurer, Donald V. Taverner ’43, executive secretary; Margaret M. Mollison ’50, assistant secretary.

Alumni CouncilWinifred (Coburn) Anderson ’35. Lewis O. Barrows ’16, Frank C. Brown ’30,

Clifton E. Chandler T3, Norris C. Clements ’25, Arthur T. Forrestall ’33, John F. Grant ’48, Emilie (Kntter) Josselyn ’21, Alfred B. Lingley ’20, George E. Lord ’24, Clifford G. McIntire ’30, Alvin S. McNeilly ’44, Robert W. Nelson ’45, Albert S. Noyes ’24, Barbara (Lancaster) Raymond '37, Winona (Cole) Sawyer 43, Stanwood R. Searles 34, Ermo H. Scott ’31, Lucy (Farrington) Sheive ’27, Edward C. Sherry ’38, Sherman K. Smith ’41, William W. Treat ’40, Thomas N Weeks T6.

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Miss Jessie L. Fraser ’31, Raymond H. Fogler ’15Published monthly from October to June inclusive, by the University of Maine General Alumni

Association Business office. The Maine Alumnus. University of Maine. Orono, Maine Subscription price, $3 00 per year, included in annual alumni dues of $5 00. Member* American Alumni Council Entered as second class matter at the Post Office at Orono, Maine, under act of March 3, 1870

Last spring, the Maine Department of Industry and Commerce made some surveys among Maine college graduates

relative to returning to Maine to live and work. The surveys turned up some very interesting statistics.

It seems the D.I.C. was constantly running into the argument that Maine had no trained technical workers when they were trying to sell industries the idea of moving t® Maine.

On the face of it, that argument seemed to hold water. The Department decided to see if something could be done to punch some leaks in the argument.

With the help of the alumni office, they sent questionaires to about 2,000 U. of M. College of Technology graduates working outside of Maine. The basic question asked was, “Would you prefer to work and live in Maine if comparable employment oppor­tunities could be found?”

At last report, the Department had re­ceived 772 replies from the 2,000 ques­tionaires, a response of 39 percent. Of the 772 replies, 636 or 82 percent indicated a desire to return to Maine. Many of these replies were accompanied by enthusiastic comments such as “One of Maine’s most ex­tensive products is homesick engineers,” “Many of us in this area would take a finan­cial loss to get back to God’s country,” “At the drop of a hat,” “I am an expatriate who often longs for the forests and the lakes, the hills and the seas, and that certain way of life which is Maine’s alone ”

A breakdown shows the depth of this ready-made pool of industry’s shortest com­modity—trained and experienced engineers: 246 mechanical engineers, 122 chemical en­gineers, 120 electrical engineers, 73 civil engineers, 56 engineering physicists, 16 gen­eral engineers, 3 miscellaneous. The average age of these engineers is 33, an attractive age to industry.

Eighteen other graduates in non-engineer­ing majors wrote voluntarily to have their name and experience placed on the list.

Although the survey was conducted pri­marily to interest industry in moving to Maine, the list has been made available to 30 Maine firms who expressed an interest.

Since a high percentage of College of Technology graduates were Maine natives to begin with it would seem natural that quite a few of them would welcome a chance to move back to Maine. D l.C. officials were pleasantly surprised when the survey turned up so many.

Subsequent surveys of Colby and Bowdoin giaduates produced 238 affirmative replies from 1700 Colby questionaires and 432 affiimative replies from 4275 Bowdoin ques­tionaires.

When you move back home, be sure to drop around to the alumni office for a visit.

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THE UNIVERSITY56th Homecomingo

A 33-year record of service to athletics in Maine, New England, and the nation was recognized Nov. 3 at the annual Homecom­ing Luncheon when the General Alumni As­sociation paid tribute to Theodore S “Ted” Curtis ’23.

Now in his 26th year as faculty manager of athletics and coach of the ski team, Ted was honored for his cheerful and diligent participation through the years in endeavors over and above the call of duty and for his long and distinguished service to both the University and athletics in general a

President Arthur A. Hauck reviewed Ted’s career and rendered personal thanks from the University. Milford “Mike” Cohen ’41, a former track man and current volunteer track official, represented the alumni and pointed out some of the many ways Ted has served the students and alumni.

Another highlight of the luncheon was the presentation of the 1956 Black Bear Awards to Curtis, Irving Pierce, University account­ant; and Thomas N. Weeks T6.

Thomas G. Mangan ’16, president of the General Alumni Association, presided at the luncheon, introduced the speakers, and presented the awards.

Doris White ’58, Bath, provided organ music during the luncheon.

Following the luncheon, which was held in Memorial Gymnasium and was attended by about 350, Homecoming alumni joined the crowd of 7,700 at Alumni Field to watch Maine defeat Colby 26-7.

The 56th Homecoming week end opened with the traditional march across campus led by the University Band at 630 Friday evening. A “Beat Colby” rally in the Gym was followed by songs around the outdoor bonfire.

At a stag dance in the Gym, following the rally, Jo-Ann Bagley ’60, Beverly, Mass., was crowned the University’s first “Football Queen” She was selected by an applause meter after the four candidates had pre­sented campaign skits and entertainment at the rally. Other candidates were Debbie Arnold '60 (Cedric L. ’32), Swampscott, Mass.; Sandra Branson ’60, South Windham; and Cleta Waldron ’60, Poland.

Other events of Friday evening were an open house in Memorial Union and the Maine Masque’s presentation of Mary Chase’s “Bernardine.”

Saturday morning for the early birds the freshman women defeated the sophomore women in field hockey 6-1, and the under­grads took the measure of the alumnae 2-0.

Later in the morning there were coffees for the various colleges offering alumni a chance to visit old faculty friends.

The judging committee selected the fol­lowing as G.A.A. Silver Plate Award win­ners in the 1956 Homecoming decoration contest. Phi Kappa Sigma in the fraternity division, Corbett Hall in the men’s dormi­tory division; and Chadbourne Hall in the women’s dormitory division.

Following the football game, there was an After-the-Game-Get-Together in Me­morial Gymnasium, the annual fraternity reunions, and the final performance of “Bernardine.”

For the fifth consecutive year, Francis S. “Nick” McGuire ’31 served as chairman of the Homecoming committee which planned and arranged the weekend activities.

Committee members were Professor Mari­on Rogers ’30, Kenneth Fobes ’49, Theodore Curtis ’23, Nelson Jones, William Wells ’31, Professor Winston Pullen '41, Professor Vin­cent A. Hartgen, Philip J. Brockway ’31, Howard A. Keyo, Donald V Taverner ’43,

Velma Oliver ’25, Professor Matthew Mc- Neary ’41 A, Margaret Mollison ’50, and two students, Herbert E. Elliott ’57, South Port­land, and Jane E. Barker ’57, Gray.

Theta Chi FireThe 50-year-old Theta Chi house was

completely destroyed by fire on the morning of Nov. 15. All 33 members and 20 pledges escaped the conflagration uninjured, but most of the furnishings and the occupants’ personal belongings were lost.

The damage was estimated at about $100,000. The house was insured for $45,000.

The fire was discovered by members at 3:35 a.m. Nearly all the occupants were awake as the pledges were being put through the traditional initiation week hazing.

Thought to have started from faulty wir­ing in the basement, the fire spread so rapid­ly that some of the occupants were forced to escape from second and third floor windows.

University and Orono firemen battled the blaze for more than three hours finally getting it under control at 7 a.m.

Members of Beta Theta Pi and Sigma Nu fraternities, located on either side of Theta Chi, stood watch on the roofs of their houses to put out any sparks that might have spread the fire.

The Theta Chis will be housed temporari­ly in an unoccupied North Dormitory. The fraternity began a campaign for funds several weeks before the fire to build a new house. The burned house was built in 1905. It was the first Theta Chi chapter house in the country, though Maine’s Gamma chapter was the third gioup to be organized.

Help for the Theta Chis began materializ­

Ted Curtis *23 responds to the tributes paid him at the Homecoming Luncheon. Others at the head table (1. to r.) *r®. S. “Nick” McGuire *31, Homecoming Committee chairman; Arthur G. Eustis, vice president of Colby College, Pres. A. Hauck; Thomas G. Mangan *16, president of the General Alumni Association; Curtis; Milford Mike Cohen 41, and Do V. Taverner *43, alumni secretary.

7DECEMBER, 1956

ing almost immediately. The Univeisity agreed to provide a North Dormitory rent fiee. The Red Cross gave each $40 to buy clothes, and an Old Town store offered them a discount on clothing. The University Store Company will replace lost textbooks free. Those who needed further help found it forthcoming fiom the President’s Student Aid Fund. The Good Will Fund also volun­teered financial aid to those who needed it.

Newspaper DayC M “Lairy” Flint ’28, formeily techni­

cal and research director for the American Newspapei Publisheis’ Association, was the keynote speaker at Maine Newspaper Day, an annual tnbutc to the State's pi ess at the University

He spoke to about 100 publishers, editors,

and newsmen at the opening luncheon on “The Future of Newspapers in America.”

Mr. Flint directed many AN PA reseaich and development activities from 1949 to 1954 He has had wide experience in the field of newspaper planning and efficiency. Since 1954. as a consultant with Charles T. Main, Inc, of Boston, he has been identified with several newspaper planning programs.

He told the Maine newsmen that the

Curtis ’23, Weeks ’16, Pierce Awarded Black Bears

Thomas G. Mangan ’16, president of the General Alumni Association, presented the 1956 Black Bear Awards at the Homecoming Luncheon on Nov. 3. He introduced the ceremonies by saying, “In 1950, the General Alumni Association established the Black Bear Awards, to be awarded each Homecoming in ‘recognition and appreciation of outstanding service in promoting University spirit.’ It gives me great pleasure to present, at this time, the 1956 Black Bear Awards.” He then read the following citations:

Your 1956 Black Bear Award Selection Committee has voted a Black Bear Award to a graduate of the University’s College of Law.

Our Award recipient has been a devoted supporter of the University for many years, and has expressed his interest in a variety of ways. Always a key leader in the Northern Kennebec Alumni Association, he was re­cently among those responsible for the re­vitalization of this alumni group.

As Representative of the College of Law on the Alumni Council since 1940, he is a valued member whose willingness to serve on all committees to which appointed has greatly aided the programs of the University and the General Alumni Association

His legal assistance to the Alumni Coun­cil, without compensation, on many matters, over many years, has further enabled the Alumni Association to expand and better

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its services to both the University and the alumni body.

It is with great pride that I present a 1956 Black Bear Award to THOMAS N. WEEKS, Class of 1916, Waterville, Maine.

I believe that the Selection Committee’s choice for our third 1956 Black Bear Award will meet with your immediate approval

An alumnus of the University, he has served Maine diligently as a staff member since 1930 Not only has his conscientious performance of his duties on this campus brought him the respect and appreciation of the University family, but this same spirit and ability carried into the wider circle of intercollegiate athletics have brought recog­nition and prestige to him and to the Uni­versity of Maine

Our faculty manager of athletics for over twenty five years, he has also served as Coach of Winter Sports. His success in this field was recognized in the establishment of the “Ted Curtis Trophy” foi the winnci of the Annual State Intercollegiate Ski Meet.

His ability has been also lecogmzcd by the New England Conference on Intercol­legiate Athletics on several occasions He has been elected to important offices in this and other eastcin collegiate athletic groups

I speak for the thousands of Maine alumni in saying, “Thank You” to a man who draws no limits as to time of day in cariying out his many duties, and in presenting a 1956 Black Bear Award to THEODORE S “TED” CURTIS, Class of 1923, Orono, Maine.

Although the recipient of our Black Bear Award is not an alumnus of the University, 1 am sure you will all agree that he is a Maine man “through and through.”

Without his willing and able guidance, many an alumni class here represented would have left the University with a poor excuse for a class “Prism.”

Since he joined the staff at Maine in 1921, the financial success of many a Maine fra­ternity house was due. in large measure, to the willing helpfulness of this unselfish person Through his financial counseling, many a fraternity and other campus organi­zation treasurer has been able to convert red ink to black

It is doubtful that any other faculty or staff mcmbci has served as advisor to as many classes and campus organizations as has our Award recipient. He holds honorary membeiships in several alumni classes He and his wife can often be seen as guests of honoi at class reunion dinners.

Satui day aftei noons, duiing the track sea­sons, find our Award Recipient on the field serving as a volunteer track official.

1 am sure that jou all agree no one is more worthy of a 1956 Black Bear Award than IRVING PIERCE, University Account­ant, of Old Town, Maine.

8 THE MAINE ALUMNUS

future of newspapers is excellent, that radio and television have not hurt that futuie as many had predicted. Instead, the two new media have stimulated more people to read newspapers and to demand better coverage of the world news.

The leason for the demise of many papeis m recent years, he said, was not the competi­tion of radio and television, but the failure of publishers to take steps to offset lising production costs. He cited the many new processes developed by ANPA and other research organizations to cut production costs.

Other highlights of the program included David Brickman, publisher of the Medford (Mass.) Mercury, reporting on the work of a Massachusetts Freedom of Information committee of which he is chairman; a panel discussion between two city managers and two newsmen on the problems and responsi­bilities of reporting city government news; and a report of two Maine editors who re­cently studied racial problems in Mississippi as guests of that state.

Panelists were Donald J. Waring ’50, city manager of Brewer; Lloyd Allen, city man­ager of Rockland; Louis Moore, reporter for the Portland Press Herald, and Henry Gosselin, editor of the Skowhegan Inde­pendent Reporter.

Editors who reported on Mississippi weie Albert A. Rowbotham, Rumford Falls Times; and Sidney Cullen, Rockland Courier-Gazette.

Phi Eta Marks 50thAbout 250 attended the banquet marking

the golden anniversary of the founding of Phi Eta Kappa fraternity at the University.

Speakers at the banquet held in Stodder Hall on Nov 3 were Eail Adams ’57, piesident of the house, Rev Carl Garland ’07, representing charter members, Robcit Worthing ’58, piesident of Interfiaternity Council; President Arthur A. Hauck; John Stewart ’27, dean of men, Donald V Tavei- ner ’43, alumni secretary, William Earle ’57, who recalled Phi Eta achievements, and James Totman ’16, representing Phi Eta alumni.

Phi Eta Kappa is the only local fraternity now active at the University.

Student LifeIrrespective of football weekends, class

elections, Homecoming, and Farmers Fair and Calico Ball, the things that normally occupy the student at this time of year, there has been an unusually large amount of interest in politics generated in this national election year.

Probably the one act that will be longest remembered was The Maine Campus’ edi­torial in the Oct. 25 issue in support of President Eisenhower for reelection. Writ­ten by Editor-in-Chief John A. Littlefield ’56, Portland, the editorial caused an im­mediate uproar on campus and off.

As the Campus reported the following week, “... before the ink was dry on the edition, the chairman of the Young Demo­crats Club, Joseph A. Plamondon (’57, Orono), had issued a statement saying ‘It is the club’s conviction that Littlefield over­stepped his bounds by taking it upon himself to expiess an opinion as that of many when actually he only expressed his own. No student poll has been taken on campus.’ ”

The Politics and International Relations club had alieady bought a full page of the Homecoming edition of the Campus in which both the Young Republican Club and the Democrats club would have equal space to express their views. Plamondon said further that “Littlefield went ahead and used student activity fees to pay for ad­ditional Republican space.”

The issue was picked up by Maine news­papers and carried around the country on the Associated Press wire.

The main issue was whether or not a stu­dent newspaper supported in part by manda­tory student subscriptions (each student pays $2 per year on his term bill) has the right to express a partisan political viewpoint Brooks Hamilton, head of the Department of Journalism, and faculty advisor to the Campus, defended the editor’s right to

Athletics

The yeai 1956 undoubtedly will go into the annals of University of Maine football as the season that two touch­

downs cost the Black Bears two champion­ships. Fourteen points in the right places would have brought both the Yankee Con­ference Bean Pot and the Governor Bar­rows Tiophy to Oiono.

Coach Harold Westerman logged an­other successful season bringing his head coaching record to 29 wins, 10 losses, and three tics, certainly one of the best records in New England. The team won five games while losing only two, a successful season in anyone’s book. The team outscored seven opponents 162-60. Yet, to many observers the team reached its greatest heights in defeat.

The Black Bears lost only two games, but they were key games and cost the Pale Blue two championships. Each of the games was lost by six points. Another touchdown and extra point in each contest would have given Maine a triumphant and undefeated season.

Yet, everyone who was privileged to watch the Maine eleven lose those two thrillers on successive Saturdays to Connecticut and Bates will say that they never saw two better football games.

Maine received the opening kickoff at

espouse a candidate in a letter to the editor the following week saying “... that they have the perfect right to back a candidate on the editorial page, while giving fair play to the news on the news pages.” The Cam­pus derives 30 to 40 per cent of its income from its subscriptions. The rest comes from paid advertising. Editors of the state’s news­papers on campus for Newspaper Day gen­erally supported the Campus editor. Some editors called it “courageous.” Others stated “Now you have a newspaper,” and “It’s an editors prerogative.”

The Politics and International Relations club has been especially active in this politi­cal year. As mentioned above the members bought space in The Campus to stimulate interest in the presidential election. In the week before the national election the club brought a Democrat and a Republican from the state level to the campus to present the respective party messages. And the day be­fore the national election, the club spon- rored a presidential election on campus. Eisenhower-Nixon won over Stevenson- Kefauver by 1247 to 314. The Campus was quick to point out that “Eisenhower’s ‘vic­tory’ at the University seemed to quench arguments that a Campus editorial backing Ike did not reflect the opinion of a majority of spidents at the University.”

Stoirs and marched 58 yards to a touch­down Fullback Vern Moulton, Bridgton, almost broke away for the touchdown on the kickoff runback but was forced out of fbounds by the last UConn defender. Fifteen plays later Ray Hostetter, Osterville, Mass., scored, and Cal Bickford, Lisbon Falls, place kicked the extra point to give Maine a 7 0. The touchdown march was sparked by two pass completions from Ken Parady, Great Works, to Thurlow Cooper, Augusta, for 12 and 13 yards.

A Maine fumble on their own 34 was all the break Connecticut needed to score the first of two touchdowns. The attempted placement missed, and Maine still led 7-6.

With less than a minute remaining in the first half, Connecticut pulled a surprise play that caught the Maine defense off balance and resulted in the winning touchdown for Connecticut. Halfback Lenny King, one of New England’s leading runners, suddenly turned passer and tossed a pass to the other halfback, Gene Green. Green made a sen­sational catch and raced 30 yards to score. The placement was good and that ended the scoring for the day.

Throughout the second half, the out- manned Maine defense put on a thrilling show of stubbornness and kept the powerful

9DECEMBER, 1956

UConns from scoring again. But Connecti­cut was able to control the ball much of the second half and, although they couldn’t score, they likewise kept Maine from getting a threat organized.

The following week the battered Bears entertained Bates at Orono in the opening game of the State Series. The Maine-Bates contest turned out to be even more thrilling than the Connecticut game.

The 1956 Maine-Bates game certainly was one of the greatest games these two teams ever played, and this series goes back to 1893. Just about everything that could hap­pen did happen. There were sensational runs, fine passing, brilliant catches, tough breaks, and thrilling hard-fought football right down to the gun in both halves.

Maine scored first in the first quarter on a spectacular 19-yaid end run by Ray Hos­tetter. He shook off four tacklers and ap­peared to be stopped twice but continued on to score.

Bates came roaring back and scored less than three minutes later with the Bobcats’ outstanding Bob Martin crossing the goal.

The Black Bears came light back with their second score about a minute later. A 52-yard pass play covered most of the dis­tance. Co-captain Pete Kosty, Pawtucket, R I., tossed the pass to co-captain Thurlow Cooper who took it on the Bates 30 and carried to the 3-yard line where he was stopped by a shoestring tackle fiom behind Hostetter carried for the touchdown, and the placement was missed.

Maine’s 13-7 lead lasted until the final period when Bates released a two-touchdown barrage that wrecked the Black Bears' hopes of repeating as State Series champions foi the fourth straight year.

Bates end Brian Flynn blocked an at­tempted punt by Ken Paiady, the only blocked kick against Maine all year, and Bates recovered on the Maine 18. In six plays they tied the score when Martin smashed over from the 1-yard line

With the outcome of the game riding on his placement attempt, Martin booted the ball toward the uprights The ball struck the left side post above the crossbai and dropped back onto the playing field leaving the score tied at 13-13

That stroke of tough luck appeared only to whet the Bobcats’ appetite for another touchdown. Maine moved the ball back to the Bates 38 where they lost possession. Bates moved back to their own 49, then the irrepressible Bob Martin broke through the Maine defense on a 51-yard scoring jaunt to move the score to 19-13.

Then came the stirring bid for victory by the Black Bears that kept 6,900 screaming spectators on their feet right to the end of the game.

Maine got the kickoff back to the 35 yard line. There were two minutes and 47 sec­onds left to play. Maine’s able quarterback, Ken Parady, took to the air in a desperate attempt to erase the Bates margin. He com­

pleted five consecutive passes as the clock ground relentlessly toward the big zero. Maine ends were trying to run out of bounds after each catch to stop the clock, but the Bates defenders were stopping them before they could reach the sidelines. Maine players were pleading for a timeout after each play, but they had used their allotted five timeouts, and the timekeeper refused another.

Parady got his sixth play going just in time. The second hand hit the zero as he faded back looking for a pass receiver. The Bates defenders had every eligible re­ceiver covered. Parady elected to run the 15-yards to the goal line. He was hit on the three-yard line by Phil Carletti and Bill Heidel. One of them stopped him. The other pushed him back as he fell toward the goal. His forward progress was stopped within one yard of the goal It was that close. Time was gone, and Bates was the winner 19-13.

The following week Colby, the Home- coming opponent, stopped Maine’s first two drives with goal line stands inside the 5- yard line, but the Mules couldn’t contain the Bears much after that.

Maine punched out two touchdowns in the second period and two more in the third and coasted to a 26-7 victory. Two long runs highlighted the game. Maine's second touchdown came aftei the Black Beais had recovered a fumble on the Maine 34. Sophomoie Bobby Bowei, Biewer, took off on a snaky trip down the sideline that covered 66 yards to the goal 1 he Colby score came late in the game when Jug Mer­riman took a Maine punt on the Maine 49 yard line and raced all the way to a touch­down

Maine s varsity cross country team won its second consecutive New England championship on Nov. 12 by a 1-point margin over Connecticut. Members of the fitlT. nT|P°W>« r ) ar® KarJ Kraske ’57, Rumford; Phil Emery ’57, Fair- Nowi. A*Ck La"r 58’ 5reW<TVDani Rearick ’58’ Cranford, N. J.; Dale Bessey ’59, Wnnd (1becond roy) Coach Ed Styrna; Joel Stinson ’57, Houlton; DonaldVkood 59, Mapleton; Carl MacDonald ’59, Masardis; and John Lane ’58, Bangor.

The following week Maine traveled to Brunswick to meet the winless Bowdoin Polar Bears in the finale. There was little doubt right from the beginning as to which team would win, but the game provided some sparkling football that kept the specta­tors interested throughout.

Maine scored within four minutes on a 66-yard drive from the opening kickoff. With Hostetter, Moulton, and sophomore John Theriault, Waterville, rolling up the yardage, the Black Bears moved to the Bowdoin 22. From there a Parady to Cooper pass was good for the touchdown.

Seven minutes later Maine had its second touchdown after taking over on the Bowdoin 39 following a short Bowdoin kick. Hostet­ter reeled off 23 yards to set up the score and then punched over from the three. Theriault made it 13-0 from placement. That ended the first period scoring. There was no scoring in the second period.

Maine's third touchdown came in the opening minutes of the second half on a 71- yard drive The drive was sparked by a 32-yaid off-tackle sprint by Theriault who was stopped at the Bowdoin 25 on a last ditch tackle by Matt Levine, Bowdoin’s outstanding end Maine then unveiled its secret weapon, 210-pound Thurlow Cooper, on an end-around play This was a sur­prise play Maine used several times during the State Senes On this play Cooper swings fiom his right end spot around through the backfield taking a handoff from the quarter­back and sets sail around Maine’s left end On this occasion the play was good for 13 yaids Cooper caught his second touch­down pass of the afternoon a few plays later on a toss from Ken Parady. Theriault’s placement gave Maine a 20 0 halftime lead.

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FALL SPORTS RESULTSVarsity Football ( 5-2 )

40 Rhode Island 714 Vermont 029 New Hampshire 7

7 Connecticut 1313 Bates 1926 Colby 733 Bowdoin 7Freshman Football (1-2)

Bridgton (cancelled)33 Colby Frosh 13

6 Maine Maritime 270 M.C.I. 28

Varsity Cross Country (4-1)17 Springfield 4419 New Hampshire 3820 Vermont 38

Yankee Conf. 2ndNew England 1st

Freshman Cross Country (7-1)21 Bangor High 3422 PCHS & Lee Ac. 34 Lee *

67 PCHS19 Old Town High 3724 Pemetic & 61

Nasson 8717 Rockland High 4224 Waterville High 3325 M.C.I. 31

New England 2nd

Maine scored again shortly after the sec­ond half got started. Hostetter started the drive on a run from the Maine 14 to the 43. He then broke away on a beautiful touch­down run, but a clipping penalty nullified the touchdown and placed the ball on the Bowdoin 30. Two plays later Hostetter broke off tackle and with some really fancy running went all the way. Again Theriault’s placement was good to make it 27-0.

Things had hardly quieted down before the Bears were on the march again Bobby Bower ripped off a 41-yard gain to the Bowdoin 33. Then senior John Edgar, An­dover, N. H., turned in the most startling run of the day to score. He carried on a sweep around left end, made the turn, was faced with several Bowdoin tacklers, shook off two of them, got a good block, reversed the field racing for the right sideline, was again apparently trapped, shook off another tackler, got a good block, and took off back across the field for the left coffin corner. He scored standing up after cover­ing at least twice the 33-yard distance from scrimmage line to goal. Theriault missed the placement and Maine scoring ended at 33 points.

Bowdoin’s touchdown came in the third period on a 74-yard march climaxed by a beautiful Stover to Levine pass play that covered the last 38 yards. Maine won 33-7, and the 1956 season was history.

Coach Ed Styrna, who succeeded Chet Jenkins as head man in track and cross

country, came to Maine in rather an un­enviable position. Chet Jenkins had won

both the Yankee Conference and New Eng­land cross country titles in his last year. But the three veteran runners who paced the team to the double championship had graduated, Paul Fiilotte, Stan Furrow, and Paul Hanson.

Styrna was faced with the job of defend­ing the two titles with only the second half of last year’s team coming back. However, the task didn’t seem impossible to the young New Hampshire graduate. He had seniors Phil Emery, Fairfield, and Karl Kraske, Rumford; juniors Dan Kearick, Cranford, N. J., and Dick Law, Brewer, and two promising sophomores Dale Bessey, North Anson, and Carl MacDonald-, Ma- sardis.

The Pale Blue harriers romped over Springfield 17-44, New Hampshire 19-38, and Vermont 20-38 in dual meets. They then traveled to Storrs, Conn., to defend their Yankee Conference championship. Connecticut, paced by their undefeated ace Lew Steiglitz, whipped the Maine team soundly. Scores in the meet were Connecti­cut 35, Maine 56, Massachusetts 74, Rhode Island 88, New Hampshire 103, and Ver­mont 107.

Before the New England championship the following week, Coach Styrna said that his team could still win despite Connecticut and Providence College but only if each runner came up with his best performance of the year. The Bears came up with those top performances to nip Connecticut by one point and retain their New England crown. Senior Phil Emery had just enough kick to catch two Connecticut runneis at the finish line. His 20th position gave Maine the title with 56 points to Connecticut’s 57.

Connecticut’s Steiglitz was first. Dan Rearick was fouith, Dick Law seventh, and Dale Bessey eighth.

The Maine freshman football team, coached by Sam Sezak ’31, won one and lost two in an abbreviated schedule. The open­ing game with Bridgton Academy was can­celled at the request of the opponents. The following week the frosh traveled to Water­ville and outplayed the Colby freshmen 33-13. Maine Maritime Academy and un­defeated, untied, unscored upon M.C.I. proved too strong and the frosh went down to defeat 6-27 and 0-28, respectively. M.C.l.’s triumphant team is coached by Dave Wiggin ’54. His assistant is Rod Cyr ’56. Both are former Maine gridders.

Coach Styrna’s freshman cross country team swept through a seven meet schedule undefeated. The first year men finished third in the New England freshman run be­hind Northeastern and Brown. Maine’s Bill Daly, North Leeds, finished second. The team has been paced all fall by Daly, Pres­cott Cheney, New Harbor, and Stan Weeks, Wells. These three give promise of more than filling the shoes of Emery and Kraske who will graduate from the varsity. Coach Styrna’s New England champions should be even stronger next year.

WINTER SPORTS SCHEDULES

Varsity BasketballDec. 5 Bowdoin, away

8 Vermont, home11 Colby, away15 Bates, home

Jan. 5 Northeastern, home9 Colby, home

12 Bates, away16 Bowdoin, home (4 p.m.)19 Brandeis, home30 Connecticut, away31 Rhode Island, away

Feb. 6 New Hampshire, away9 Connecticut, home

15 New Hampshire, home19 Bates, home21 Rhode Island, home23 Bowdoin, away27 Colby, away

Mar. 1 Northeastern, away2 Massachusetts, away

Freshman BasketballDec. 8 Maine Maritime, home

15 New Brunswick, homeJan. 5 John Bapst High, home

9 Ricker College, home16 Wash. State Teachers, home19 Intramural team, home

Feb. 9 Rockland High, home15 Brewer High, home19 M.C.I., home21 Higgins Classical, home23 Bowdoin Frosh, away26 Husson College, home

Varsity Indoor TrackDec. 8 Freshman-Sophomore, homeJan. 5 Bates, home

12 Yankee Conf. & K.C., Bostoi19 Intramurals, home

Feb. 9 New Hampshire, home16 Connecticut, away23 Bowdoin, away

Mar. 2 Northeastern, home

Freshman Indoor TrackDec. 8 Freshman-Sophomore, homeJan. 5 Bates J.V., home

12 South Portland, home19 Intramurals, home

Feb. 9 Deering High, home16 Portland High, home

Dec. 15-16

29-30

Jan. 11-1219-20

Feb. 2-3

8-915-16

Mar.22-2310

Varsity Winter Sports Pre-season Cross Country & Jump, Franconia, N. H. Intercollegiate Invitational, Lyndonville, Vt. New Brunswick, pending Dartmouth Relay & Jump, Hanover, N. H. Eastern Intercollegiate, Lyndonville, Vt. Colby Carnival, Waterville Maine Intercollegiate, site pending U. of Maine Carnival, Orono Golden Ski Races, Dedham, Me.

11DECEMBER, 1956

Local Associationsl

Lewiston-Auburn AlumnaeOn October 17 the Lewiston-Auburn

Alumnae met at the home of Margaret (Watson) Savignano ’48 in Auburn.

Guest speaker at this meeting was Mrs. Jean Mair of Auburn who spoke on “Graph­ology” and who analyzed the handwriting of several of the attending alumnae.

Albany, New York, Area AlumniIn October the alumni of the Albany,

Troy and Schenectady area met with Dean Mark Shibles of the University’s School of Education as guest speaker.

Dean Shibles addressed the attending alumni on developments on the campus and the role the School of Education is playing in these critical days for education.

Northern Penobscot AlumniAt the October 23 meeting of the North­

ern Penobscot Alumni, as reported in the October issue of the Alumnus, the follow­ing officers were elected: Don Bail ’44, president; Hastings Bartley, Jr. ’47, vice president; and Bea (Bryenton) Heal ’29, secretary-treasurer.

The newly reorganized Northern Penob­scot Alumni are planning an active season for the group.

Portland AlumnaeThe Stevens Avenue Congregational

Church was the site of a Portland Chapter of University of Maine Women meeting on November 1.

Following the business meeting, H. Frank Catir, Director of the Portland Lyric Theatre Concert Group entertained the alumnae with selections from “H.M.S. Pinafore.”

The business meeting was conducted by Winifred (Ramsdell) Macfarlan ’51, presi­dent. The program was arranged by Doro­thy McCann ’52, program chairman.

Bangor AlumnaeOn November 5 the Eastern Association

of University of Maine Women met at the Bangor Grange Hall.

Guest speaker at this meeting was Dr. Robert York, professor of history at the University, who spoke on “Where to Go and What to Do in Maine.”

During the business meeting, conducted by Joan (Ambrose) Shaw ’47, Margaret M. Mollison ’50, assistant alumni secretary, re­ported that the silver service which the group recently presented to the Memorial Union on campus was now beautifully engraved.

Boston AlumniThe Boston Alumni held a Sports Dinner

in Cambridge on November 7 with Dr. Rome Rankin, director of athletics at the University, and Don Taverner ’43, alumni secretary, as guests and speakers.

Dr. Rankin spoke to the group on the athletic program and philosophy at the

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University, and Mr. Taverner spoke on the anticipated increase in enrollment expected at Maine in the next decade.

Kenneth V. Hight ’27, Boston Alumni president, presided at the dinner and served as toastmaster.

Southern Kennebec AlumniOn November 8, the Southern Kennebec

Alumni met in Augusta for a Sports Night arranged by the group’s president, Robert McLeary ’42.

Guest at this enjoyable affair was Don Taverner ’43, University alumni secretary, who showed a film of the 1956 Maine-New Hampshire Game and discussed the athletic program at Maine.

At the business meeting, plans for future meetings of the group were made and at­tendance at Southern Kennebec Alumni monthly luncheons urged.

Portland AlumniThe Portland Alumni held another suc­

cessful annual “Pre-Bowdoin Game Victory Dance” at the Eastland Hotel on November 9.

Nat Gold’s orchestra played for the large attendance of Maine alumni and guests. Many alumni in the area for the Bowdoin

Regularly Scheduled MeetingsWeekly—

Portland AlumniFriday NoonCommodore Restaurant Casco Bank Bldg.Boston AlumniCity Club, Thompsons SpaFriday NoonWashington, D. C., AlumniThursday, 12:30 P.M.Lotus Club14th St. at New York Ave.

Monthly------Chicago AlumniCarson’s Men’s GrilleFirst Thursday of month NoonMaine Club of Auburn-LewistonThird Thursday of monthAmerican Legion HomeAuburn, 6:30 P.M.Augusta-Hallowell AlumniFirst Friday of monthPioneer House, AugustaNoon

Philadelphia AlumniLast Thursday of monthLeeds Restaurant, 121 So. Broad St., Noon

game the next day attended and enjoyed the dancing and social occasion.

Arrangements for this successful alumni social event were made under the leader­ship of retiring president, William Mann ’49; and newly elected president, Earl White ’44.

North Shore (Mass.) AlumniAttorney James T. Connolly, Jr., was the

speaker at a November 14 meeting of the North Shore Alumni in Beverly.

Mr. Connolly discussed with the attending alumni the facts on law that every citizen should know.

Harold Hamilton ’30, North Shore Alum­ni president, presided at the meeting.

Boston AlumnaeThe fall meeting of the Boston Alumnae

was held on November 15 in Stoneham, Mass., at the home of M. Eleanor Jackson ’20, president, who conducted the business meeting; it was voted to have a spring pic­nic. Agnes Walsh ’41 gave a very interest­ing report on her 1956 summer tour of Europe which was illustrated with colored slides; the program was arranged by Mary- Hale (Sutton) Furnam ’38. Margaret M. Mollison ’50, assistant alumni secretary, of­ficially thanked the group for the lovely silver catering tray which they presented to the Memorial Union Building on campus.

Chicago AlumniDr. Garland Russell, professor of educa­

tion, was the guest and speaker of the Chica­go Alumni at a November 16 meeting.

Dr. Russell, currently on a tour of the country, discussed recent and anticipated developments at the University.

Arrangements for this mid-western meet­ing were made by Harry Hartman ’28 and George Garland ’45, president and secretary of the group.

Northern Connecticut AlumniMembers and guests of the Northern

Connecticut Alumni Association held a pic­nic get-together before the Maine-Connecti­cut Game in Storrs on October 20.

Following a box lunch, the group attended the game together. Arrangements for this gathering were made by Elmer G. Horton ’29, president of the group.

Maine Club of Auburn-LewistonThe Maine Club of Auburn-Lewiston

elected new officers at their October 18 meeting.

Elected president of the group was Harold L. Redding ’18. Other officers, as elected, are: John McCobb ’25, vice president; Charles Cushman ’31, secretary; and Rich­ard Hayes ’38, treasurer.

New York AlumniThe Annual Sports Dinner of the New

York Alumni Association was held in New York City on November 30.

Guests from Orono to this highly enjoy­able event were Harold S. Westerman, head coach of football, and Don Taverner ’43, alumni secretary. Coach Westerman dis-

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cussed the 1956 Maine football season and showed a high-light film of the 1956 games.

A social houi was enjoyed, and an in­fos mal “question and answer” period was held.

Alumni Secretaiy Don Taverner ieviewed recent developments at the University and briefly discussed the problems to be raised by the anticipated increase in enrollment ex­pected within the decade.

Ariangements for this delightful alumni affair were made under the leadership of New York Alumni president Arthur Conner ’29.

St. Petersburg, Florida, AlumniLuncheon meetings will be held during

1956-57 at the Pennsylvania Hotel, 12:30 on the following Saturdays:

Alumni HistorianRecords Indian Lore

'Sj Nicholas N. Smith ’51

The Maine Indians present a fascinat­ing past to the historian I began to read about the Indians casually in the

winter of 1951 and became so interested in them that I visited the Penobscots the following summei and questioned several about their colorful past. Since that time I have been a frequent visitor to their reser­vation as well as to those of the Passama- quoddy.

I found that Indians very often appeal quiet and uninteresting when in a group, however, frequently this changes when they are alone, and they are eager to share a volume of stored information Therefoie. I have been able to record much of the fad­ing folklore of this colorful group, so that it will not be lost to posteiity.

I am impressed by the numerous tales in which the apparent happiness of the Indians of the past is prominent. This contrasts with the way of life of the present redmen living in Maine. My discovering this con­trast led me to write Penobscot Traditions which is about the inhabitants of Maine before European contacts with them I show the redman as monarch of the forests in a land of hard work and plenty—a time when man was a master of conservation methods The various rituals and cere­monies had the purpose of controlling and restricting what might have otherwise been an uninhibited people. Frequently, contem­poraries think of the ancient rites as just being so much hocus-pocus.

Since 1951 I have written several articles showing how customs and ceremonies have

Decembei 15—January 12—Februaiy 16 —March 16—April 13.

All alumni and their guests are invited. Phone O. W Mountfort ’12, president, for details.

Philadelphia AlumniArea and visiting alumni are invited to

attend monthly luncheons to be held at noon of the last Thursday of each month, Leeds Restaurant, 121 South Broad Street.

Contact Edmund N. Woodsum, Yarnall, Biddle & Co., 1528 Walnut Street, Penny­packer 5-0300. Watch also for notices of key evening meetings.

Baltimore-Washington, D. C.- Philadelphia Alumni Groups

Watch for notices of near-future meetings. They are being planned.

changed with the times and under European influences Probably the most colorful of these ceremonies is the Election Dance that is held once every two years at the inaugu­ration of a newly elected chief Now the Indians use the teim goveinor to coirespond to the highest political position in Maine.

1 he elections and inaugurations are pur­posely held at different times at the vanous reseivations which enables visitors from the othei tubes to vote and to pay their lespects to the new chief The Indian Agent now opens the polls and has to remain for the full period of voting. Since he cannot be at more than one reservation at a time, this old custom is convenient for him.

Besides a governor, a lieutenant governor and legislative representative are elected. The governor appoints councilmen who ad­vise the headman.

The inauguration procedure is to have the goveinor sworn in followed by his speech and speeches by the members of his council during the afternoon All of the people dress in their best clothes for the big occasion.

It is the evening event which both young and old really eagerly await. This is the Election Dance put on by those elected and appointed. It begins with dances of old, the tom tom and rattle setting the pace for the various steps. The first dances are to put everyone into a jovial mood The dance leader is in full charge and picks appropri­ate selections for the occasion. Usually the fiist dance is the Snake Dance which is a good one to start the evening since many people can participate, and it is enjoyed by

all Indians. In former times each visiting tribe was greeted with a dance.

The more serious part of the evening celebration comes later. One member of the tribe dances and sings a greeting to the new governor and It. governor. The chief answers the greeting by thanking the people and hoping that the people are having a good time. After the formal part of the ceremony is over the social dances continue, and the modern type of square or round dances may be added.

The officers who have been installed on the reservation have little actual power or few duties. They can go to the State Legis­lature and advise on bills which concern Indians specifically, but they have no vote concerning the proposed laws.

Although the Indians have been voting for their tribal officers about a hundred years under a two party system, the chiefs have quite consistently been members of one family.

As in most parts of the United States and Canada, the Maine Indians are on the increase. A 1796 census found 250 Indians residing in Old Town. Now there are over 600 In 1822 the Indian population at Pleasant Point was listed as 379. Now there are about 400 on that reserve and another 200 at Peter Dana’s Point. Although land had been set aside for the Indians at Prince­ton, it was not until about 1850 that a Pleas­ant Point Indian went to the Princeton area to settle, and this was the beginning of an Indian village on the lakes of the Princeton region. Land had been set aside in the area for the Indians because of their aid to the colonists during the Revolutionary War.

A story that is still passed down by the Indians of their valor during this period follows. One of the Passamaquoddy boys saw a long boat coming up the river (which river I am not ceitain). An officer dressed in red was standing in the stern. The boy thought that the red jacket would make an excellent target, although it was a good distance away Muskets were uncommon and ammunition scarce among the Indians; however, the boy decided to shoot the officer. Some of the older men advised the boy not to waste his ammunition on the far off tai get, but the boy, being determined, shot and killed the British officer. The boat retieated down the river As a result the lad was acclaimed a hero by the tribe and later became a chief.

The census shows that there is an increase in the children born on the reservations of Maine. Since it is inevitable that these youth will become influential in the bring­ing up of more children, I believe that something should be done to instill in the youth a pride and useful feeling that is necessary to make good citizens. The res­ervation has been their way of life and is what they look to and like. They can look back with pride upon many generations of ancestors that have lived there and have been buried there. They should be able also to look to the future with a pride in themselves.

DECEMBER, 1956 13

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Do You Have Any of These Names in Your Address Book?

If you know any leads to the address or locations of any of these alumni, please write: Directory Clerk, 44 Library, Univer­sity of Maine, Orono, Maine. (The frater­nity membership appears in parentheses after the name; the word (Law) after a name indicates that alumnus took the law course.)

1912Mr. Rufus A. HallRev. Willis C. Hamilton Mr. Arthur A. Hammond (srA) Mr. Leonard R. Hartill Mr. Arthur G. Hayes Mr. William E. Hebard Mr. Eugene A. Hofstedt (Law) Mr. George T. Holbrook Mr. Edmund J. Long (Law) Mr. Charles A. P. Maguire (OX) Mr. Daniel G. McEachern Mr. George A. Middlemas (SAE) Mr. William J. Mills Mr. Patrick H. Murphy Mr. William H. Nason Mr. Arthur L. Oliver Mr. William Osborne, Jr. Miss Mary L. Palladino Mr. Robert C. H. Reid («MIK) Mrs. Chellis V. Smith (Bernice M. Rich) (AOII) Mr. Percy F. Ridlon Mr. Dana Ch. Sanborn Mr. Wellington O. Sawyer Mr. Ralph H. Small (OX)

Mr. Bernard P. Smith (Law)Mr. Drew D. Stark (SAE)Mr. Charles E. Sullivan (SAE)Mr. Kleber C. TaylorMr. Willard A. WallaceMr. Dana P. Washburn (BOn)Mr. Wilfred A. WatermanMr. Walter S. WhitneyMr. George N. Worden (ATA)

1913Mr. Bernard A. Ahrens (OX)Mr. Zaheeyel N. BarakatMr. John W. BarfordMr. Maurice L. Blanchard (ATA)Mr. Philip W. BrownMr. Albert R. BurpeeMr. John W. Carey (Ben)Mr. Yih Cuing Chien (Law)Mr. Joseph V. Connolly (Law)Mr. Irving B. Cushing (KS)Mr. Max V. Doten (Law)Mr. Edward F. DowdMr. Horace E. Eaton (Law)Mr. Nathaniel S. FairbrotherMr. Daniel T. FinkbeinerMr. Thomas J. Ford (Law)Mr. William H. Garvin (Law)Mr. Fred G. GoodwinMr. Truman L. HamlinMr. Royden H. HarrimanMr. Daniel M. Harrington (OX)Mr. Frank A. HayesMr. Stephen B. Hurd (ATA)Mr. Linwood H. Johnson (SAE)Mr. Guy S. Johnson (<HIK)

Mr. Alden W. Kingsbury (<I>KS)Mr. Carroll M. Knight (<HIK)Mr. Ralph M. LadnerMr. Simon J. Levi (Law)Mrs. E. A. Lindquest (<I>M) Mae E. CrossmanMr. Harold G. MacDougalMr. Enoch A. MarkhamMr. Frank G. MatthewsMr. Lawrence O. MerrillMr. Leppien W. MorseMr. Edward F. NewportMr. Carle P. PaysonMr. Stuart D. PlantMr. James B. Ross (Law)Mrs. J. W. Gates(Nellie J. Ryder) (Law)Mr. Gilbert G. SanbornMr. George A. ScottMr. Howell C. Short (OX)Mr. Arthur F. SmithMr. Everett A. Snow (SAE)Mr. Frank F. Spencer (SX)Mr. Willis E. SullivanMr. Fred H. SwaseyMiss Julia J. TibbettsMr. Charles W. UnderhillMiss Mary WellsMr. Edward G. WestonMr. Thomas H. WilliamsMr. Roscoe A. WingMr. Charles E. WoodMr. Philip F. WoodmanMr. Maen C. WuMr. Ralph E. Young

Notes from

NECROLOGY1881

ALICE RING DUNN. Mrs. Charles J. Dunn, widow of the late Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Maine and former treasurer of the Uni­versity of Maine, died on October 13, 1956, in Orono. She was one of the ten women to receive a degree from the Maine State College in the 1880’s and at the time of her death was the oldest living alumna of the University. Mrs. Dunn was a founding member of the local chapter of the D.A.R. Survivors include two daughters—Barbara (Dunn ’20) Hitchner and Lillian (Dunn ’22) Sayford, two grandchildren, and two great grandchildren.

1896LAWRENCE HALL DUNN. Lawrence H. Dunn

died on June 2, 1942, at Elkin Park, Pa , while on his way north from Florida. His widow resides at the Eastland Hotel in Portland.

1897GEORGE ERNEST KNIGHTS. George E.

Knights, former state senator, trial justice, and country editor, died on October 9, 1956, at his home in East Waterboro. He was a trial justice for 38 years; for four years was editor of the York County Pioneer and had been a contributor to Maine dailies and to the old New York Sun.

1903NATHAN AJALON CHASE. On September 9,

1956, Nathan A. Chase of Ilion, N. Y., died. He was reared from Remington Arms Co., Inc., as chief chemist and metallurgist in 1943, after being as­sociated with them since 1906. Mr. Chase was a 50-year member of the American Chemical So­ciety. He was a participant m the Spanish Ameri­can War. His fraternity membership was Phi Kappa Sigma.

the Classes1909

ROY EDWARD MANN. The Alumni Office has been informed that Roy E Mann died in So. Wind­ham m December of 1948. He was formerly a druggist in Portland.

1910STEWART FRANCIS BERRY. The Alumni Of­

fice has been informed of the death of Stewart F. Berry as having occurred on November 4, 1947. He was formerly associated with the J. A. Bird Company of Boston. Mr. Berry was a member of Sigma Chi Fraternity.

1911FRANK T. POWERS. Maine law circles lost a

colorful attorney when Frank T. Powers of Lewis­ton died on October 17, 1956. Mr. Powers was county attorney for 6 years and also served as city solicitor and a member of the county draft board. A native of Prince Edward Island, Canada, he was admitted to the bar some 27 years ago. He was active in the Knights of Columbus, Elks, and the Grange. Survivors include four sons—three are lawyers and one is: Robert ’51 a law partner of his father.

1912HARRY ALONZO THOMPSON. Harry A.

Thompson of No. Conway, N. H., died on October 4, 1955. He was a lawyer in the partnership, Thompson & Rayno of No. Conway. His law de­gree was from the University.

1920GLENN ELDRED EDGERLY. A Hallowell

building contractor, Glenn E. Edgerly died unex­pectedly on September 21, 1956, while working on a building project m Augusta. A native of Dover, he had been a builder most of his life. Survivors include his wife, a son, three brothers, and three sisters.

1921JOSEPH AARON KEMLER. Word has reached

the Alumni Office that Joseph A. Kemler of New­ton, Mass., died on August 6, 1942. His widow sur­vives.

1927SERENA WOOD HUSSEY. Mrs. Frank W.

Hussey of Presque Isle died on October 18, 1956. A native of Bangor, she had lived in Presque Isle for the past 29 years; her husband is a trustee of the University of Maine. Mrs Hussey organized the first P T.A. in Aroostook County and was first president of the Gouldville P.T.A. Survivors in­clude her husband, Frank ’25, three sons, Charles ’55 and Gorham '54, a daughter, and two sisters. Mrs. Hussey was a member of Alpha Omicron Pi Sorority.

1929KENNETH OTTO ANDERSON. The Alumni

Office has been informed of the death of Kenneth O. Anderson as having occurred on September 20,1956. A native of Weston, he had served as a mail clerk in Portland and was currently a farmer in North Amity Mr. Anderson was a member of Phi Kappa Sigma Fraternity.

1950PAUL JOSEPH DOBOSZ On September 8,

1956, Dr. Paul J. Dobosz was killed in an auto­mobile accident A native of Livermore Falls he studied medicine at the University of Rochester and had started to practice in Auburn, Mich., on June 11, 1956. During W.W. II he served m the U. S. Army. Survivors include his wife, a daughter, a son, and a sister, Shirley (Dobosz ’48) Lewia.

GEORCE EDWARD JENKINS. On August 13, 1956, George E. Jenkins died tn the Bar Harbor Hospital. A. native of Northeast Harbor, he had taught at St. Andrews School in West Barrington, R. I. He was a graduate of Washington State Normal School before entering the University. Dur­ing W W. II he had an outstanding war record and held the rank of major m the U. S. Army.

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SENIOR ALUMNI

1889 George G Freeman, a retired lawyer, living m Cherryfield, was reported as

being in bed lor a year, he’ll be 89 in January of1957. Our best wishes go out to Mr. Freeman forthe birthday occasion.

1895 Mary (Cowan) Hayes is with her daugh­ter in Evanston, Illinois, at 2923 Lincoln

St. Although Mrs. Hayes broke her hip in 1950, she is reported to be in very good health now.

Gustavus G. Atwood of West Wareham, Mass. (R.F D. Box 74) has passed his 85th birthday on March 11, 1956. He says, “have no news except what I read m the Alumnus ”

1897 At 3133 Conn. Ave., N.W ,8, D. C , we find Arthur S.

tired from active duty with the rank Here’s a brief sketch of his locations from West Point in 1899, retired from in 1939, recalled in 1940, retired with physical dis­ability in 1942, lived in San Francisco from 1942- 1947, in ton, D.damaged adequate

Washington Cowan, re- of colonel, “graduated active duty

New Jersey from 1947-1949, in Washing- C , since 1949. Activities limited by a heart, but books, T-V, and radio provide entertainment, am still a baseball fan.”

1 QQO Dr. A D T Libby of 274 So. Burnett I OzO St^f East Orange, N J , was one of the

Senior Alumni at the 1956 Homecoming, he was the initiator of the group song fest at the Alumni Open House in the main lounge of the Memorial Union Building on Friday evening, November X

1900 Ernest E Hobson of 11 Brown St, Jus­tice of the District Court of Eastern

Hampden, Mass , will observe his 56th anniversary of being admitted to the Kennebec County Bar, Augusta Judge Hobson completed his law course at the University and after receiving his degree set­tled in Palmer He also will observe his 56th an­niversary as a member of the Mass bar.

1901 Emily (Hamlin) 16th, Manhattan,

band, Joseph F ’07, is Chemistry at Kansas State

Merrill lives at 318 NKansas, where her hus- m the department of Agricultural College in

ManhattanFred L Martin of Littleton, N H , and 44 Went

worth St , Bridgeport 6, Conn , was among the many alumni returning for Homecoming events on campus in early November

Senior Alumni President A of 360 No Fullerton Ave , Upper

E1902Montclair, ticipate m

this has been habitual with forty years, but only since found his vacation period

summer there One day in Mrs. Davis, and the Silvers

Your SilverN J , was on campus to visit and par- the Homecoming festivities, he and Mrs

Silver have summered at their camp on Bustins Island in Casco Bay, Mrs. Silver for over retirement has Arthur could span the entire July G. H. Davis ’01, participated in a very enjoyable get-together of Maine people at the summer house of Professor and Mrs. W. E Barrows ’02 on Little Sebago Lake. In August this same group met at the Davis cot­tage on Bailey Island.

1 00^1 Hcrbcrl Gregory of 527-4th Ave N.W , I z U4 Largo, Fla , writes, “Mrs Gregory and I are now living in Florida We were very much pleased to meet John Quimby ’04 and his wife at a University of St Petersburg

Dinner inMaine Alumni Association last winter

4 QAT Mr Ernest L. DinsmoreI zU J 231 Woodford St , Portland 5

Well, winter is on the way anJ with it come a few items from our classmates

Mary (Williams) Griffin heads the fist She lives at 82 James St , Bangor, in the same neighborhood where she has spent most of her life It is only a stone’s throw from “Hod” Hilton’s home They have a chat now and then and reminisce no doubt about the old days when we were on campus to­gether Mrs Griffin lives alone, but is surrounded by many loyal friends, and life goes on in the usual way

We were sorry to learn that “Hod” was hospital­ized during the summer In June he went to the Deaconess Hospital in Boston for a diabetic con­dition As he said he came home minus fifteen pounds and a big toe, and with a pocketful of new diabetic pills. The latter didn’t work out just right so he went to the Eastern Maine General Hospital for further treatment He is back home now and doing well He gets out to his camp sev­eral times each week, but did not stay there during the summer. His big job now is bringing up a Beagle pup with a “supersonic temperament ” This, however, is nothing new to “Hod.” He has had

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one pup after another to train for sixty odd years.He reports that he saw Ralph Alton last summer

at a Rotary Club meeting in Bangor. Ralph was recently remarried His first wife died some time ago.

Our deepest sympathy goes out to Arthur S. Chalmers His wife, Marion L. Chalmers, died recently after a long illness at her home in Bangor.

Charles L. Foubert has recently returned home from Perry Point Veteran’s Hospital, Md , where he underwent surgery. His classmates will be glad to know that he is now well on the road to re­covery

Samuel B Lincoln, 69 Putnam Park, Greenwich, Conn , is completing fifty years with the Lockwood Green Engravers He was president of the com­pany from 1948 to 1954 At the present time he is chairman of the board Sam is building a sum­mer home on Cape Cod, Mass

Roy E Taylor, with Mrs Taylor, visited Maine in August to attend the Taylor family reunion. I here were 59 memberes of the family present. His brother and five sisters were present, making the family attendance complete.

1906 Mr. Earle R Richards11 Parent St., So. Berwick

A recent call on Gerry L Brooks in Bethel foundhim just newly settled in very comfortable roomy

A typical room in Oak Hall in 1904. The occupants are (1. to r.) Carlton H. Macomber ’08, William W. B. Alexan­der ’07, and Arthur R. Lord ’07. This is one of series taken by Mr. Alexander and presented recently to the Alumni Association. Could those be “pinups” at the top of the photo?

quarters on Main St. nearly opposite the Post Of­fice. He explained that whereas he had fully ex­pected to join us for our 50th he had become swamped with unexpected court cases which de­manded his full and complete attention. He hopes to be able soon to look up Moses H. Harris in E. Douglass, Mass., who was one of his close friends in Law School days.

An interesting letter from “Date” Edwards ex­pressed his regrets at not being able to be in two places at the same time, while we enjoyed our Re­union which coincided with commencement at Cornell University Medical College. The latter part of June “Date” spent two weeks with friends on Lake Winnipesaukee, then for a time at the old home place in Otisfield, Me, followed by a visit to Toronto, Can., where he reminisced with Guy Bennett. After a visit in upper New York State about mid August he hopped a plane to Los Angeles where he visited a number of Cornell graduates serving in their internships, and was taken for many rides in that area in addition to a trip into Mexico.

George Wilson was unexpectedly found at his home, 1228 Forest Ave., Portland, recently under orders from his doctor to take more time for rest. This reduction in his activity in the management of River Basin Farms Inc. has to be taken up by his son, Adam W. Wilson ’38, president of the com­pany.

While writing tins with bright sunny weather for so many days m early November it seems a far cry from Christmas which will soon be upon us when you read this My wish extended to all of you is for a happy peaceful Holiday Season.

BY CLASSES1 QA7 Mr. Karl MacDonaldI 7 V / 27 Nelson Ave , Wellsville, N. Y.

A Merry Christmas to you all. A nice Christmas present to your secretary would be to send in your long delayed biography. Time is getting short!

Gorden L. Wildes has changed his street address to 466 Alpine St., Pasadena, Calif. We hope “Stub” takes to heart the heading of this column.

The Bangor Daily News, Oct. 11, 1956, under “50 years ago,” had the following “The senior class of 1907 at the U. of M has elected the fol­lowing officers Porter L Swift, Norway, president, Benjamin F. Williams, North Islesboro, vice presi­dent, Edith M Tate, East Corinth, secretary.” All arc alive and we hope to sec them next June.

Terchak F Bye, 32 Belmeade Rd , Portland, due to ill health, was obliged to sell his business in 1944 and retire After a number of years, his health improved and he became affiliated with the Casco Bank & Trust Company. Said he took a new lease on life and enjoys his work. He has two married daughters and two sons. One graduated from Bowdoin and the other from Maine m ’51. He has seven grandchildren.

Harry P. Eveleth, 1421 26th Ave, South, St. Petersburg, Fla , is celebrating, with a few friends, his 25th wedding anniversary at the Lakewood Country Club on Dec. 7.

Lowell J Reed retired last June from the presi­dency of the Johns Hopkins University. He had served it for nearly a life time as department head, dean, school director, and vice president. After he retired in 1953, he was asked to take the office of president and has now retired for a second time. We trust that “Mouser” and “Mollie” are now enjoying their country home in Shelbourne, N H. We hope to see them at our 50th anniversary re­union next June.

Caleb E. S. Burns and wife spent most of the summer in Africa. They left May 6 and flew to the mainland, then down the west coast to Panama, and then to Peru. At the Cabo Blanco Fishing Club, Peru, he caught a 570 pound marlin. Then flew over the Andes to Rio where they took a steamer to Cape Town, Africa, and a 4000 mile trip to Victoria Falls. They returned via Egypt, Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal, and home to Lihue, Kanai, T. H., via New York, Vancouver, and Seat­tle. We hope their next trip will include the cam­pus at Orono in the early part of June 1957.

4 00 Q Mr. James A. GannettI z vO 166 Main St., Orono

Will Cobb was honored by the Bangor Theologi­cal Seminary on October 23 when President Fred­erick W Whittaker awarded citations to nine men and one woman from the New England area for their constructive Christian work and participa­tion in church and civic affairs. The occasion was the Special Convocation of the Seminary when the announcement of plans for the expansion of the facilities of the Seminary was made public. Dr. Whittaker’s citation read as follows: “William

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Alfred Cobb is a Christian layman whose life has been interwoven with the history ot the First Church of Belfast, for many years He serves the church as senior deacon and participates with keen interest and concern in its program of worship and work He is moderator of the Waldo Association of Con- gregational-Christian Churches and Ministers, a di­rector of the Congregational-Christian Conference ol Maine, and a past director of the Laymen’s Fellow­ship By profession a civil engineer, now retired, Mr Cobb is a distinguished citizen of his commun­ity He is president of the Belfast and Mooschcad Railroad, a charter member and past president ot the Belfast Rotary Club He is President of the Waldo County General Hospital and co-chairman of its Fund-Raising and Building Committee Mr Cobb graduated from the University of Maine in 1908 with the degree of Bachelor ol Science in Civil Engineering ”

Arthur Becdlc writes from 2843 LangJon Farm Rd , Cincinnati 13, Ohio, “I can t attempt to look forward two years and make a date for anything, even a class reunion, although at present see nothing prohibitive of being there, and it would be a joyous thing to do Will do my best to plan for it, which is all I can say now ” Good enough, Arthur We will count on you Arthur’s letter continues “1 became a manufacturers’ representative in 1917, and in 1946 turned the works over to my eldest son Think I have been in the office about three times since then, and have had a fine ten-ycar loaf However, have been busier than when working, if anything, there is an abundance of hobbies one can take on. One of the easiest is the reduction of informative books to condensed notes, can do it anywhere in any weather Then I like to go to New York or New Orleans and find myself a freighter going somewhere and take trips here and there On a freighter you right away get acquainted with the captain and officers, and have the run of the ship, this led to navigation, so now 1 carry charts and a sextant and follow the ships progress, as well as get some idea of the business end of what the ship is doing This in turn leads to as­tronomy, for navigation is done mostly by stars now, more so than with the sun By and by the stars get to be like old friends, come spring and in addition to familiar growing things the old familiar summer stars begin to show up with the planets merrily wandering amongst them and always lhe moon slithering around and doing everything in a lunar month that the sun does in a year Even went to see the big 200 inch telescope at Mount Palomar, it photographs things a billion light years away, in fact they rarely look throuh it anyway, but use it as a big camera When a terrestrial w inder lust occurs, it is kind of nice to crank up the car and just prowl I hope this finds vou well and happy ”

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Chief Justice FellowsRaymond Fellows ’08, who recently

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Chief Justice Fellows retired in Sep­tember as he approached the manda­tory retirement age of 72, but the recent appointment to head the gov­ernment survey and the establishment of quarters for the practice of law in the offices of his son Frank G. Fellows ’37 indicate an active “retirement.

Chief Justice Fellows received the B.A. degree in 1908, attended the Uni­versity of Maine Law School in 1908- 09, received the M.A. degree in 1925, and was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree in 1946.

He was admitted to the Maine Bar in 1909. He practiced law with his father in Bangor from 1910 to 1920 and with his brother, the late I . S. Congressman Frank Fellows *12, from 1920 to 1939. lie served as Attorney General of Maine from 1925 to 1929.

He was appointed associate justice of Maine’s Superior Court in 1939 and was promoted to the Supreme Court in 1946. He was naine< I chief justice in April 1954.

1909

One of the most satisfying interests is the Univer­sity of Maine and its Class of 1909 Between times, Fred and Florence travel as far and as long as the purse permits No living children or grandchildren arc regretfully reported Health is good and out­look optimistic

“The only excuse for this last item is the shy and retiring people of our class who withhold items about themselves and families Shall we say ‘the punishment fits lhe crin c'* * * * 9 * * * * * * 16 So please do give your ‘old reporter' a lift, all of you and please, won't you do it now9’’

Earle Vickery served on the Pittsfield town committee this fall for the Annual Salvation ArmyCampaign for Human Needs .md Welfare Services

Mr Fred D Knight9 Westmoreland DriveW Hartford 7, Conn

Bernard A Chandler passed away suddenly Mav 28 1956 at his home in Westmoreland Hills MdIn recent scars as an avocation he enjoyed workme with bees a sizable blueberry plantation and a thriving holly nursery (S^c November Necrology for full writcup)

Just is a space filler, your reporter •Reports’ with ipology an item about your reporter " It is brief but has the virtue of authenticity“After 45 years in and about the electric utility

business which took him to Texas Louisiana, Washington (State), and various parts of New England mostly Boston and Hartford, he retired in March 1954 The so-called ‘leisure time’ which one is supposed to capture in retirement has been found completely illusory He is busy some 12 to16 hours each day with small allairs which arc sometimes important to others, but mostly to him­self Strangely enough, he enjoys this new status hugely, probably because the pressures of active business are ofT and he can view li c with a de (ached but exciting and interesting perspective Retirement was planned for some years in advance so that this new life should not hang the albatross of idleness about his neck ‘What does he do9* you ask Well, follow him around for a few days and see for yourself His church gives him both work and pleasure with an extra dividend of Spiritual stimulus Often vou will see him run­ning around with a camera or tw'o about his neck still a rank amateur, but having fun trying In summer, his hands are well calloused from gar­dening (flowers only) A year-around hobby is cabinet working, slow but absorbing Birds and all things out-of-doors have been a lifelong interest and have supplied untold hours of fascinating pleas­ure, golf, at one time ier> important, has gone with the wind because of physical limitations, fishing in the remote places of Maine and Canada is still a great delight Membership on the Admissions Committee of ASME (National) takes quite a bit of time and maintains old contacts The same may be said of trusteeships on two small school boards

“Allie” Rogers writes that he still holds forth at the sams old stand lie and his wi e, Emmeline, live at 17 Ingraham Rd Wellesley Hills, Mass ‘Allie” has represented Allen. Sherman, HofT Com­

pany a leading manu icturcr of ash and dust dis­posal systems, for 31 years The Rogerses have ortcn considered moving back to the Maine Coast, but find it di licult to leave pleasant Wellesley and their many lricnds there, also they arc near their one daughter Marguerite '49, and her family Her husband is Walter Anderson ’51 There arc three grandchildren aged six, four, and seven months

Warren A (Nick) Carter retired recently after many years with Bausch & Lomb He has returned to his native Nobleboro to live “Nick’s” time is spent enjoying lhe Maine Coast scenery, making some photographs, and catching up on deferred reading, also, to quote him, “Trying to get the old place fixed up ” “Nick’s” health is excellent

1916 Mrs Evelyn W Harmon (Evelyn Winship) Livermore Falls

During this past wcckcn I I had the pleasure of amending my fir>t Maine Homecoming II was quite an experience an J I enjoyed every minute of it I was very pro id of oar cla>s of 1916 Our class­mate Tom (Thomas G ) Mangan presided over the Alumni-Facultv Luncheon and diJ a very good job of keeping things moving Every one was eager tc be through in line for the football game In his usual pleasing manner he presented the Black Be ir Aw irds Among the recipients 1 was verv much thrillc I to find our classmate Tom ( I h >mas N ) Weeks of \\ iterville who has been a devoted and lov 11 Alumnus I was delighted to sec I verett ManshclJ and his wife and chat for a minute or two with them I was told that ‘Jim (James 1 ) Iolmm Jack (John T) Leeeoek, wife an I sw an 1 lewis Krigcr were present bit was net fortunate eno igh to see them

I received a very fine letter from Everett G Him of I rov N \ last Mav As it has not been printed before bee li’Sv of lack of space 1 am going to induce it th s . omh as I know vou will all be glad to hear from him

I verett wro’e th it he thought that I must have forgot’en th it I hid wrtten him several years ago an 1 hid alrea iv written him up in the l/n n/mv I hadn t forgotten but I have g^nc through the list of class members a number of times Manv have answcic 1 with verv interesting letters Now 1 am trving to build up i correspondence among the dif ferent members ot the cl iss in order to keep our co’umn going So if vou receive a request for news anJ hive already written nc a good letter about voursclf sometime in the past please sit right down ind write me a nice letter about something vou have

done recently It mav be a pleasant trip vou have taken within i vc ir or so a new grandchild some soci il or civic activitv or sone hobby in which you are much interested Now to go back to Everett— he has a fifth grandchild born to one of his two daughters both of whom live in Wellesley, Mass He writes that on account of ‘ Father Time this is his final vear of work and since thev may iivvcr icel like splurging again he and his wife are taking a trip to South America and a two weeks Caribbean Cruise It was so good to hear from this classmate

1 Q 1 0 Mr Weston S EvansI z I O 8 Kell St OronoAlbert W Wun.’erlv better known as ‘Spin”

along with Carl Brugge was seen in a huddle at Homecoming on Nov 3 It was suspected that plans were being formulate I for that fortieth re­union which will be upon us soon

A recent news item from West Springfield savs that George B Sullivans last son David B en­tered Worcester Polytechnic Institute last fall This soun *s simple but means the last of six sons and three caughters three of whom have attended the University of Maine an J two graduated It is for families such as this that lhe University is planning for expansion Sully was around al Homecoming an I we hope- to hear more of him later

Don Libbv savs ‘I'm gainfully employed, moder­ately successful, happv enufT well as can be ex­pected and in a moo I to retire promptly in just five years to Limerick Me , to be lhe Country S iUire, be buried and forgotten ” After raising

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two children and having a good flock of grand­children started this seems to be a justifiable ambi­tion

A recent note from Henry Hooper says he has spent all these years in and around Orono, working at the P C F Company in Great Works

A letter from Win ‘ Taxi” Dennett tells us about his doings in the past 40 years, most of which he has spent al Hopedale High School in Mass. He has two children. Winburn A , Jr , who graduated from the Massachusetts Maritime Academy and daughter Marilyn, Maine ’51 He sent a long list of civic offices which he has held through the years but cannot be enumerated here He has been principal of the School for 35 years and hopes to make it 40

“Vic” Cram says he has spent 26 years with the Great Northern Paper Company in Millinocket, Me., and is due to retire ne't year Vic, like most of us, has two children with the usual crop of grandchildren coming along

Tom Borjesson, after trying teaching for 10 years, has settled down on a farm in Richmond. Me On D/c 22, 1945, he married Margaret E Mersereau Tom and his wife are both very active in lo ’ge and church work.

Let’s have more news from more people. Write, phone, or see us.

1 07 A Miss M. Eleanor Jackson| zZU Suite 1230 Chamber of Commerce Bldg 80 Federal St., Boston 10, Mass.

Frank, son of Dot (Williams) Donovan and the late Frank ’19, entered Goddard College, Vt., this fall Her daughter, Jean, is in her second yeai^at Colby Jr., New London, N. H Dot lives on Pleasant St., in Norwell, Mass

One Sabbath in August, had dinner with Lucy Kilby *21 at Carver, Mass. Gertrude Peabody and Dot ( Jercier) Furbish ’17 were in the party GcrtruJe told us Clarissa Farrar and her sister Frances *25 were buying a home in Conn

The Portland Tel of September 16, gives us the news that Verne Beverly is retiring November 30th from the position of County Agent for Aroostook County A native of Calais, Verne taught vocation­al agriculture al Patten Academy from 1920 to 1923 at which time he joined the Extension Service In 1954 Verne was honored by the U S Department of Agriculture They conferred on him the Superior Service award and was cited for “leading Aroostook County farmers in outstan ingly successful programs of potato improvement, soil building, and crop di­versification ” Verne is a member of Epsilon Sigma Phi, honorary Extension fraternity and past presi­dent of the Presque Isle Rotary Club

The University has sent a press release about Harry Watson It will be more impressive to give you the release—“Orono, Me, Sept 11, Professor Harry D Watson, *20. head of the department of mechanical engineering at the University of Maine, has returned from a meeting of the National Coun­cil of Engineering Examiners al Los Angeles, Calif Professor Watson is a member of the National Com­mittee of the Bureau of Engineering Registration and is a member of the Stale of Maine Board of Registration for Professional Engineers, which he represented at the California meeting ”

We certainly have some outstanding people in our class and are all interested in learning of the honors conferred or won, but wc are just as in­terested m the things you and your family are doing, so when your turn comes send us the news of you and yours The Season’s Greetings to you all

come lo Maine summers as they own a farm m Locke's Mills

Don Hathorn is the owner of the Hathorn Auto Supply Co. in Bangor His son-in-law is in busi­ness with him which gives Don more time for his two hobbies—his cottage at Lucerne and his “ham” radio.

1 077 MrS* Albert LibbyI z ZZ (Minnie Norell)55 Bayview Ave., So. Portland

Season’s Greetings!What is Mary's secret for retaining her youthful

appearance1 * * * * * * * 9 No trouble identifying Mary (Thorpe) Duffy who writes that she plans to attend reunion nc t June She is instructor of chemistry at Ml Ida College, Newton, Mass, combining it with homemaking Her daughter, Francis Ploussard, lives in St Louis, Mo , with her husband, a pedia­trician, and their three year old daughter. Mary enjoys hand sewing of all kinds and especially the art of doll dressing

1 09 1 Mrs. Charles McDonaldI zZ I (Dorothy Smith)R F D. 1, Carmel

Had I realized in June the difficulty of collecting news items, I woulJ have been more curious and taken more notes As it is I am depending on my memory and some information in letters sent lo the reunion committee Next month I shall start al the beginning of the alphabet and work my way through to the bitter end So if I give with some misinformation, set me straight If you are bud­bling with information, sen I it along I will use it even if you are in the Zs and I am only up to C

According to information from Ross Barber, Erl­ing Heistad, athletic coach at Lebanon (N H ) H S , is a “specialist in skiing, an authority on layout of courses and jumps and has developed talent which ultimately represented the U S on Olympic teams ”

From Paul Armstrong's letter I judge that he served with the Chemical Fngineers in World War II, retired from the Penn Slate Dept of Health in19^2, and is now a consulting engineer“Pat” Hussey is pioprielor of the Tim Pond

Camps in Eustis I have heard many things about the camps and many fish stories

Dorothy (Hanington) Le^row lives in Sandy Hook, Conn Carl is Supl of Schools in Newtown and Dot is doing pail time work in the Rehabilita­tion Dept of the Fairfiel I Stale Hospital They

Max Weisman’s letter says that he is a patent lawyer in Washington, D C His daughter, Harriet Sinod, is married to a dentist, and son Fred is an aeronautical engineer with TWA in Kansas City, Mo

Dr. Don Daniels is giving up his practice of many years m Portland to serve on the staff at Togus Vcteians Hospital, attending the medical needs of the patients in the neuro-psychiatnc sec­tion. His daughter, Judy, is now a very enthusiastic freshman at the University. The Daniels (Helene Douglas ’25) plan lo live in Augusta as soon as housing can be arranged.

Ellon Feeney, town manager of Stonington, and wife were guests of honor recently at a farewell parly at the home of selectman and Mrs Maurice Biggone. He has taken over the duties of town manager at Lisbon Falls

Charles Wood, teacher at Houlton High 28 years, was in the news this month. The modernistic school was constructed in the middle of a potato field which makes it convenient to put theory into practice. The school potato crop yielded about 1,000 barrels of high quality Kennebec and Russett Bur­bank seed slock These will be marketed and the profit used to support farm operation He also moved a greenhouse from a defunct Houlton air base to the grounds where his boys experiment with different products, but produce only tomatoes and geraniums in quantity He rounds out his farm course by leaching welding and skills vital to keeping farm machinery in repair—a most interest­ing and rewarding occupation.

Walter Frawley has moved to 241 Silver Rd , Bangor

1923 Mrs Norman E Torrey (Tom Gould)9 Poplar St , Bangor

Heartiest congratulations to our classmate, Ted Curtis, on being so impressively honored at the recent Homecoming You’ll read with pride the full account elsewhere in this issue and I’m sure

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Harriet (Weatherbee) True and her husband Sterling can be reached at Winter Haven, Fla, General Delivery, where they plan to spend the winter

j Q7/I Mrs. Clarence C. LittleI 7Z4 (Beatrice Johnson)

Box 558, Bar HarborDear Classmates

The most photogenic news of our class this month is embodied in the Hazen Ayer twins, Cynthia and Catherine, who are enrolled in the freshman class at the University. Of all the Ayer honors, these are the greatest so congratulations to our classmate “Hot” and his wife.

Thomas J Carlin has just been appointed superin­tendent of Eastern’s new kraft mill now under con­struction at Lincoln. He is married to the former Rosemary Curran and they have two sons and two daughters

Howard Bowen was recently named a National Director of the National Parent Teacher, the official maazine of the PT.A.

Harold L Durgin, executive vice president and chief engineer for the Central Vermont Public Ser­vice Corporation, has been appointed head of the Rutland Community Chest’s annual fund drive. (Thanks to Anne Thurston Henderson ’25 for this news item )

Dr. Little and I wish to extend the heartiest of good wishes for Christmas and the new year to all class members.

Mrs. Merrill Henderson(Anne Thurston) Quechee, Vt. to the Alumni Office weI greatly appreciated our response last

1925can still appearThanks

in print, month, this month it is a different situation.

At the annual meeting of New England Home Demonstration Agents’ Association, held recently at Intervale, N. H , Doris (Ladd) Dow was elected to the office of President. Doris is serving as as­sistant Home Demonstration Agent in Androscog­gin, Sagadahoc, and Oxford counties.

Mrs. Trygve HeistadI ZZ0 (Shirley Roberts)

11 Third Ave., AugustaHi’

Looked for you all at Homecoming A fine day— a great crowd—a chance to greet old friends

Paul Atwood is associated with Prentiss Carlisle

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Co. Inc., as architect engineer This company is in Bangor and he makes his home in Brewer. Paul is past president of the Maine Association of En­gineers, a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and is affiliated with Trade groups and Societies He has two sons, one a graduate of U of M , the other a senior in high school.

Rose Adams is teaching English at Loomis School in Windsor, Conn She writes that she is the only female member of the faculty. During the summer she teaches at Camp Wasookeag, Dexter

Arthur (Bruce) Brewster is an Insurance Agent with Newcombe & Wutering, 430 Park Square Bldg., Boston, Mass. They represent the Federal Life Casualty Co He has one son Richard who has recently returned from Korea, where he served with the Marines “Bruce” lives with his wife, of 27 years, in Millis, Mass.

H. L “Pat” Ballou—Ex-1916—a graduate of ’26 with a master’s degree in ’28—lives in Worcester, Mass. He is now retired, has one child and six grandchildren “Pat” is busy with G O.C. and as secretary of P of H. #53.

Carleton H Bunker lives in Westfield, N. J. He is president of Diamond Expansol Balt Co of Gar­wood, N J He has three daughters, Betty at Uni­versity of N. H., Barbara, Westfield High School, and Sally in Junior High.

Had a nice note from Frances (Fran) Brewer recently. She is doing a man sized job in establish­ing a new department at St Lukes Hospital in New York City, where she is supervisor of Nursing Sup­plies She wishes to be remembered to her class­mates and may be reached at 419 W. 114th St, St. Lukes Hosp., New York City.

Diong Diek (Dick) Uong is vice president, Engi­neering & Research of the Fitchburg Paper Co, Fitchburg, Mass He is also a director of the Uni­versity of Maine Pulp & Paper Foundation He has recently established a loan fund in the Pulp & Paper Foundation designed to aid foreign students and will be known as The D D. Uong Foreign Scholarship Loan Fund. He and his wife, Lilly, have five daughters from the ages 7-16.

IQ 7 7 Mrs Robert ThaxterI /Z / (Edith O’Connor)

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Will look forwardto seeing you soon and often.

George J. Sanker Manager Crown Hotel

(Winslow) Merrill of 18 Portland St , Fryeburg Daphne is currently president of the New Hamp­shire Classical Association, secretary for the Coun­ty Sectional Civil Defense Organization of Oxford County, State Parliamentarian for the Maine Fed­eration of Business and Professional Women’s Clubs, and on the Committee on Inquiry for the Maine Writers Research Club She is teaching languages at Kennett High School in Conway, N H Certainly you must do a lot of traveling in connec­tion with the many civic responsibilities which you have Let us hear from you again soon and if you run into other classmates m your travels urge them to write news to us, too.

^Mrs William B. Ledger(Emma Thompson)75 Woodmont St , Portland 4

Come to Portland and visit our new Woodfords church. “Fred” (Rev. Frederick H ) Thompson will be so glad to sec you and there are so many “Maine” people at either (9 or 11) service Of course not all ’28ers To just go in is uplifting, but attend a service and you’ll realize why so many attend from near and far.

A very welcome new address Dr Ardron B. Lewis, The Council on Economic & Cultural Af­fairs, Inc., 6^0 Fifth Ave., New York 20, N. Y.

Erdine (Bessie) DollofT was elected president of the Orono-Old Town Branch of University Women. How I’d love to drop in on a meeting some day’

Dr. Martling B Jones, M D., Toilsome Ave , Norwalk, Conn , was kind enough to take time out from his general practice to answer one of my cards He has two sons one in the army, the other too little yet

Harvey A Allen lives at 50 Central St , Gardiner, and has had a jewelry store there for 20 years He has been married 12 years, but they have no chil­dren At present Haney is the Most Illustrious Grand Master of the Grand Council of Mason in Maine Wow’“Dave” (David H ) Stevens, our state Highway

Commission Chairman, is on the Soil Conservation CommiVee Poor Dave is in a tight spot as to Colby and the new highway, but uc all feel sure he’ll do all he can not to spoil their years of efforts to be in a desirable location“Fred” M Dodge, 80 Webster Park, West New­

ton, Mass , works for the engineering firm of Met­calf & Eddy in Boston, Mass They have a son Fred, Jr , a junior at Northeastern Univ Fred Sr has the most interesting hobbies repairing and re- finishing antiques, gardening, and the manufacture of unusual lamps

1930 Mrs. Ernest J. Pero(Jeanette Roney)11 West End Ave , Westboro, Mass

Merry Christmas:On these busy days before the election, it hardly

seems possible that you will be reading this in the midst of the Christmas rush.

I had begun to feel that all my friends had for­gotten me, when I received two newsy letters which will put some meat in this column

The first was from our reelected Congressman, Cliff McIntire, who deserves the acclaim of all of us for his splendid record. The second was a letter from Royal Roulston who got his M A from Maine in ’31 and now lives at 66 Highland A\e , Salem, N H. His older boy, Donald, is a second year student at U S Coast Guard Academy, New Lon­don, Conn His daughter, Patricia, is a freshman at Swarthmore College in Penna Royal is a Com­mander of the U S Coast Guard Auxiliary. He has a cabin cruiser which the whole family enjoys around Hampton and hopes to take the boat to Florida again this winter. It was nice to hear from him after a too long silence and get caught up on his family.

From the Alumni Office came a letter from Col. Elmer (Bud) Higgins with his new address—J-3, Div. Hq. F E C , APO. 500, San Francisco, Calif. He and his wife (Dorothy Sullivan, Bates ’32) and their eleven year old son, John Thomas, are now living in Tokyo. Bud is a colonel in the Signal Corps. The whole family motored from Seattle to Portland, Me., and back this past summer before leaving by boat for the Far East Bud was in Seattle three years as Comptroller, Alaska Com­munications System. He will continue his com­munications work in Japan.

Ralph Corbett, Extension Dairyman of the Uni­versity, has announced the winners of the Maine Green Pastures Contest. Ralph was chairman of the New England Judging Committee.

Ellen Mullaney of Bangor has been appointed chairman of the Penobscot Chapter of the Gover­nor’s Highway Safety Committee. She is executive secretary of the Governor’s Committee on Highway Safety, a past president of the Bangor Business and

Agricultural AttacheDr. Paul J. Findlen ’31 has been ap­

pointed by the U. S. Department of Agriculture as assistant agricultural attache in Rome, Italy.

Since 1952 he has been research di­rector for the New York State Joint Legislative Committee on Imitation Milk Products and Problems.

lie received the Ph.D. degree from Cornell University in 1937. Subse­quently, he was a U. S. Department of Agriculture fruit and vegetable market­ing economist.

lie has been a member of four for­eign missions. In 1947 he was a mem­ber of a 10-man mission which studied problems in the rehabilitation of Po­land’s agricultural industries. He was in Ireland in 1949 as economic advisor to the chief of the ECA mission. In 1951-52 he was responsible for both the agricultural and administrative phases of the Point 4 program in Jordan. In 1955 he made a study in Western Europe of the utilization of a commercial paper package.

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Professional Women’s Club, second vice president of the Maine Federation of Business and Profes­sional Women’s Clubs, executive secretary of the Maine Association of Student Councils, and a teacher at the Garland Street Junior High School.

Thelma (Shea) Lapworth is coach of the girls field hockey team at Hopedale (Mass ) High School. By reports in the newspaper, the team is doing all right, too Hope I shall get to see her some day

Barbara Higgins, Extension Family Economics Specialist at the University of Massachusetts, has recently written an article on fire insurance which has been published by the Extension Service.

I’m sorry we had to miss a recent meeting of the Worcester County Maine Alumni, but our class was well represented by Mr. and Mrs. How­ard Donald of Upton, and Mr and Mrs. Bob Scott of Northboro. I’ll try desperately to make the next meeting for I enjoy seeing you all.

I am also looking forward to your Christmas notes1 QO 1 Mrs. Sam SezakI zD I (Efhel Thomas)

4 Gilbert St., OronoMary (Carter) Stiles is honored in a featured

article in the June 21, 1956, issue of the Christian Advocate, the official organ of the Methodist Church Under the heading “Church School is

Exciting,” the article states “A Maine mother of four uses imagination, ingenuity, and love to bring Jesus Christ and the Bible into the lives of grow­ing boys and girls ” Mary at present is superinten­dent of the junior department at Woodfords Con­gregational Church in Portland, but this article is a summary of her great service over the years in all phases of Sunday School work. Reading of her fascinating experiences with youth and of her great success in her methods of creating and holding interest of her young pupils is like a visit into the church school with Mary herself. Bill comes in for his share of commendation for he “baby-sat and cooked the family dinner while she taught other people’s offsprings. She calls his home support and encouragement essential to her church-school success.” Mary says part of her reward “for week after week, to read, study, and plan, and every Sunday to travel six miles to expose herself to the rigors of trying to improve other people’s children is in seeing her own four children taking responsi­bility in church school work. Also I like boys and girls ” On that, we wholeheartedly agree, Mary! Of the four children, William Calvin Stiles is now a member of the Freshman class at the University and played on the Frosh football team this fall. Margaret Alice is scheduled to become a Maine freshman next year, she is now in her senior year at Deering High School. David Carter and Grace Marie, fourteen and nine respectively, make up the very busy Stiles family. Their home is at 390 Sum­mit St , Portland.

Football is in the air everywhere and especially in Atlanta, Ga , where Eleanor Thompson keeps *us in touch with the fortunes of Georgia Tech Soon after returning to Georgia from our 25th Reunion, Eleanor met quite by chance Herbert Elmer Galli- son Herbert is manager of the Industrial Mixer Section of Worthington Corporation, Plainfield Di­vision, PlainfiJd, N J

Leu is Parlin of the Maine Soil Consersation Ser­vice has been named Chairman for Maine of the group which will be making a soil and water in­ventory of this state

Medley Ray is now living at 1 Adam St , Port Washington, L I , N Y Medley is assistant super­intendent in the Power Dept of the New York Transit Authority at 850 12th A\e , N Y 19, N Y

Willard Farris has recently been elected as \ice- chairman of the Cincinnati Section of the American

Institute of Electrical Engineers for 1956-57. Wil­lard is living at 111 Farragut Rd., Cincinnati, Ohio.

From Waterbury, Conn , comes the following write-up. “Donald B. Henderson of 18 Ronald Dr. has been announced as one of two Southern New England Telephone Co employees scheduled for promotion July 1, when the company’s two present divisions will be increased to four. At this time he will become division construction superintendent with offices in New Haven Mr. Henderson joined the telephone company in 1937 as an engineer’s as­sistant in the plant department in Hartford. In 1942 he was advanced to engineer and from 1943 to 1945 worked at the Bell Telephone laboratories in New Jersey on a special project. In 1948 he was transferred to New Britain and in 1951 became supervising engineer for the Hartford district. A year later he returned to New Britain in the same capacity. He was named district plant engineer in Waterbury in 1955.” The members of ’31 had an opportunity to congratulate Don in person on his new appointment at our reunion dinner.

A recent clipping from the Portland paper states that “Stuart C. Chaplin announced that he was re­signing as headmaster of Berwick Academy. He said that he had accepted an appointment as math­ematician at the Kittery Naval Yard. He had held the position as head of the state’s oldest academy for the past six years ”

1932 Miss Angela Miniutti7 Catell St , Apt. 5, Bangor

Mr and Mrs Gerald L Kinney were guests of honor at a surprise party at their home at 21 French St , Bangor, in September of this year on the occasion of their 25th wedding anniversary. Congratulations to you both and may this prepare you well for that important silver anniversary at Orono in June 1957'

Congratulations to Dr. and Mrs James C Bates of Eastport on the arrival of a daughter on Octo­ber 5, 1956

Congratulations arc in order, too, for Ronald E Young on lus recent promotion to vice president, secretary, and treasurer of Hartford Fire Insurance Co Who else, but someone from the illustrious class ot ’32, could assume the responsibility of so many duties Ronald, who has been associated with the Haitford Fire Insurance Co since 1936, was elected an assistant secretary in 1950 and secretary

in 1953. He was elected, in February 1955, as sec­retary of Hartford Accident. He became a special agent in New Jersey in 1938 after working m several Home Office departments. Following five years service with the Army during World War II, he rejoined the Home Office staff.

Francis McCabe of Augusta, former chief of Maine State Police, will return to the elementary school in Litchfield as principal and sixth grade teacher.

From Harry Paul of Boston comes news of one of the “lost” of ’32. He reports that John P. Jasioms is living at 43 Pine St., Belmont, Mass. Thanks for the news, Harry.

From the Alumni Office comes a new address for Lt. Col. Fernaid S. Bagley. It is: QRTS30-Apt. 2, Fort Eustis, Va. I am not sure I have deciphered the first part of the address correctly, so if mail addressed to him is returned, you can check on this with his mother, Mrs. J. F. Bagley, whose ad­dress is: 28 Weston St., Augusta.

Among the new teachers hired for the year at the high school in Bloomfield, Conn., is Mrs. Clarine (Coffin) Grenfell. Clarine, who will teach English, has taught seven years at Woodbury High School, the last two as head of the English Depart­ment.

1933 Mrs Winthrop Libby (Betty Tryon) 14 Spencer St., Orono

Orono is a nice place to live at such times as Homecoming We had good weather this year for a change The fraternity houses and dorms did a fine job with Homecoming displays, the game was in our favor, and we all had a fine time.

I sat in front of Sam and Mrs Caldcrwood at thegame, but couldn’t pry one news item from him Sam’s son, 1 believe, is in business with him now

At the Phi Eta Kappa 50th Anniversary celebra­tion I chatted briefly with Louise (Hill) Robbins and Mrs Madison (Gid) Haskell The Haskells live in Lee anJ operate a store there. Louise and Win ’32 Robbins arc frequent visitors to the University and it is always nice to see them. Also at Phi Eta Kappa from ’33 although I didn’t see them were Phil Gregory who is a physician at Boothbay Har­bor and Horace Gould who is a dentist at Ellsworth

Lucille Nason, director of the four counties Tu­berculosis Association, presided at the home and off the job safety discuss’ons at the 29th Maine

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State Safety Conference at York Harbor Lucille lives at 99 Camden St in Rockland

Frank Lawler has been named Superintendent of Schools at Westminster Fran came from East­port and receive J his B S at Maine 1 he Lawlers have two sons Dale, 20, is at O C S al Ft Ben­ning Ga, and James, 13, entered high school this fall

Carl W. Pickering is the new head of adult edu­cation in Greenwich, Conn He was formerly in the same capacity at Middletown After receiving his bachelor’s anJ master’s degrees at Maine, Carl did additional work at Wesleyan and the Univer­sity of Conn The Pickerins have four children

Roderic MacLcan is now at the Mare Island Shipyard, Vallejo, Calif

Kitty B Sansom who is now Mrs William F Mc- Garr gives her address as PO Box 226, Sta A-18, Boston, Mass

The Holiday Season is with us so soon, may you have all the season’s cheer You will be interested in the last report from our treasurer, Ed Giddings, which shows $670 in our Class Reunion Account We have a long way to go Have you sent in your U. S Bond9 It would be a fine Christmas gesture to the Class and Ed’s address is 28 College Hgts. in Orono.4 Al J Miss Claire SandersI ✓ 34 12316 Main St , Orono

Miss Marion Martin, commissioner of Labor and Industry in Maine and vice president of Women’s Activities, National Safety Council, was chosen as a judge for the Carol Lane Traffic Safety Awards These awards, through a grant by the Shell Oil Co , went to individuals and groups who conducted the best traffic safety programs at the community or state level

Lloyd W Burr is serving as program co-chairman of the Maine Section of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers The first fall meeting was a dinner meeting at the Worcester House in Hallo­well with a talk on the St Lawrence Seaway De­velopment by Richard E Moran of Uhl Hall and Rich, Boston, engineers on the project

Malcolm Noyes of Franklin was recently elected president of the Maine Christmas free Association Malcolm has been growing highgrade Christmas trees by improved practices for several years and sells graded trees

Another honor has come to Donald Corbett He has been appointed to the U of M Board of I rus- tees to succeed Raymond W Davis Saw Don and Frankie at Homecoming Luncheon an I Hankie tells me their daughter is a freshman at Manhattanv illc College, New York State where she will probably major in Mathematics

Here’s an item 1 missed last spring Roscoe Cuoz/o was selected as a winner in a nationwide W in-A-'I rio rabbit contest, sponsored bv a grain company in St Louis, Mo Roscoe is a member of the Eastern Maine Rabbit Breeder s Association an I served as its first president lie is also a member of American Rabbit Breeder s Assoc the Rex Breeders Club and the British Breeders Assoc

1935 Mrs Thomas McGuire(Agnes Crowley)21 Widgeon Way, Greenwich, Conn

Congratulations to Phyl (Johnson) Wa Isworth and Wadie on their new son Charles Kirbv born on August 18lh The Wadsworths had three daugh­ters as vou may remember

Until 1 read in Necrology about Don Murphy, I hadn’t heard about his death The news came as a shock, as it must have to all of you Our most sincere sympathy goes to Don’s family Those of us who knew Don well will always cherish a certain sparkling conversational wit that was his alone

Dud Merrill and Eleanor have Maine in their blood, Dud writes They spend their summers on their island near Christmas Cove Until July Elanor and Dud were living in Upton, Mass , but then they transferred to Skyline Farm, Northwood Center, R F D Barnstead, N H , where Dud opened a Claims Office for the Utica Mutual Insurance Company Dud is an insurance adjustor

Had a nice newsy letter from Sam Reese Good to hear from you, Sam after these many years Sam is with the Atlas Powder Company in Chat­tanooga, Tenn , as an agronomist Sam and Eleanor like the South and plan to stay there However, they do plan to be at our 25th’ Sam has one daugh­ter, Jill, and she is married So Sam is anticipating being a grandfather soon Since 1935, Sam spent a little time as junior forester for the Conservation Department of New York, then he served in the South Pacific with the Seabecs during the war. Sam took his master’s at Yale, but gave up the idea of teaching in favor of the business world While Sam was in Delaware with the Chrysler Corp , he met Sid Briscoe and John Quinn John is Park Supt of Wilmington.

In Claremont, N H , are Malcolm and Elizabeth

Carr and Suzanne, 7, and Jackie, 4 Malcolm is superintendent of a woolen mill and active in the city council and Methodist Church Golf seems to be Ralph's favorite pastime4 QQZ Mrs Edwin P Webster, JrI z<50 (Phvllis Hamilton)

258 Norway Rd , BangorAt present writing wc have attended one football

game, the Bates-Ma nc, which was a heartbreaker, but still the mod exciting State Scries game in years’ 1 he first two pcop’c wc saw (and incidental­ly the only ’36ers) were our President and Veep, Sealey and Higgins Homecoming is to-day, and we arc not going, so someone will have to write and give me the details on that Wc do hope to sec a lot of you at Brunswick on the 10th however

John Sealey forwar ’cd a note from Fred Winch, Jr , who said that at the time of reunion he was in Libya, No Africa, but is now back in the States in the Conservation Dept of Cornell University, Ithaca, N Y

Tom Hill js professor of accounting at M I T He is married and has one b^y and one girl Last win ter he received a nine months fellowship at Leeds University His address is 57 Yale St , Winches­ter, Mass

Al Verrill is Quality Control Engineer for G E at Limerick

Alvin (Bus) Heald is now resident engineer at Dow Air Force Base He was here for dinner one evening and it sure was great to see him again He and Roselle are looking for a house for themselves and four boys, Tommy, 14, Donny. 10, Robby, 8, and Timmy, 4 Until they find an address. Bus may be reached at Corps of Engineers Dow Air Force Base, Bangor

David Pierce, principal of Eliot High School since 1952, has been named Eliot’s outstanding citizen of the year for his service to the youth of the com­munity The Pierces have two children and live in Woo dawn Acres, Eliot, Me

George A Clarke is married has four children, and is employed by the Chemical Cyanamid Co of Stamford Conn He lives at 3 Fairview Ave, Nor­walk Conn

Henry I ittlc was married to Miss Janet Ross on Oct 6th Their address is 44 Mount Vernon St Boston Mass

Ch tries Dexter who has been associated with the Cochrane Steam Specialty Co of Mass, has joined the Boston office of the Warren Steam Pump Co is sales enignecr He has three children and lives at 3 Penis Drive Islington, Mass

And wc wind up the Column with news of the Webslers Eddie, who for the past ten years has been chief engineer for Eaton W Tarbell anJ As sociatcs has become a member of the firm of Crowell, I ancastcr and Higgins Bangor Architects

Mrs Gordon Raymond(Barb Lancaster)37 Glenwood Ave , PortlandHomecoming has become history and it

1937Another

surclv w is a grand one’ (for the information of those who missed it’) Strangely enough the weather­man treated us to three good davs but I failed to sec any classmates around except Red Bates and Norm Carlisle (the latter across the stand) Oh yes guess Lib (Storv) Hoyt was around since she called at Hcnnv (Cliff) Woodbury’s while Gordon and I were visiting the new girls’ dorm, Stodder Hall where Gordons niece lives That Hall would cer­tainly make you wish vou were back in college— better see it sometime’ Henny says Lib is teaching school—more power to you Lib’ Tell us more about it sometime

Let any others who were present send me a personal objection—might be good news’

Augusta's city election comes up in December It looks like a contested campaign for mayor To dale Richard Bralev, city government member, has announced he will seek the GOP nomination All our best wishes to you, Dick, for success in this campaign for mayor

We are happy to locate Victor Louis Mutty from our “lost ’ files Victor now lives at 123 Pine Street Quincy Mass He is manager of the Sporting Goods cepartmenl of Crandall-Hicks Co 910 Com monwealth Ave , Boston, Mass

Have a very Merry Christmas and Holiday Sea­son! Send me a card with a note, would you please?

1938 Mr Robert L Fuller47 Andrews Ave , Falmouth Foreside

Here it is Tuesday evening Nov 6 (Election Day you know) even for some of you “down- belowers ” Usually I wait until the deadline (the Sth) but I’ve got to have something to do between election results

The following is a letter I received from Gil Brown

Il look this form of yours to break my silence which started back in June 1938 I look forward to

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the arrival of the Alumnus and inwardly wonder why more people don’t send in class news I must have plenty of company On June 30th next I will have completed 15 years service with the General Electric al the New England District office—Apparatus Mar­keting Div Boston, the last 11 of which have been in engineering service At present I have the title of “Service Engineer” which is a cover up for my real job which is the adjusting of complaints I sure wish the telephone had never been invented some­times’ There is not much idle time in that depart­ment I’m glad I didn’t overwork while at U. of M. or else I would have used up all my energy which I need now. If you see Johnny Haggctt you might tell him that I was pacing myself for the great world, which at that time was ahead of us At the risk of losing my class membership, I must report that my son, Gil, Jr, is studying trumpet privately in Boston. He can really make it talk and hopes to play professionally His brother, Ron­nie, is a freshman at the College of Music, Boston Univ He is equally proficient on the trombone and is studying to become a school music super­visor B U is the place to do that. Bob, I might say that I think about Maine a lot more than most people realize—the boys in the freshman dorm, fraternity brothers, fellow bandsmen, faculty, and all others I met I am always happy to hear of any success which they attain Finally, I never expect to be in such a friendly place as the Campus with its famous “Hello.”

And here also is an old letter from Jim Stanley Hung onto it to use when I finally got down to “bed-rock” and that is where I am »

Jim statesBob, I’m afraid I can’t help you very much with

your column but I’m going to list a few people who might—

Harold McKeen, 463 Woods St , Wardsworth, Ohio, who is leaving this weekend for a tour of South America

Norman Ness, 91 Bcnnoch Road, Orono, must have some information for you

Frank Tapley, coaching at Easton High School. His boy is a better ball player than Frank

Frank Turner, 703 Hammond St , Bangor, associ­ated with Fred W. Hassen & Son.

Ben Vmer, 66 Vernon St , Bangor, treasurer of Viner’s Music Co.

George Calderwood, M D., San Rafael, Califor­nia, married (Patricia Bell of Brewer) is at the Kai­ser Foundation Hospital, San Francisco. Four children.

Hope to see a few new faces Friday night at our Victory Dance and Saturday at the Bowdoin Game.

How about a few news notes and some photos Remember, “this is your column’” and I’m only the poor sap whom Gowell and Sherry railroaded in!

1939 Mrs. Hazen W Danforth, Jr.(Laura Chute)188 Wilson St., Brewer

Hi everybody—Sure would appreciate a little “News” from you guys and gals My only con­tribution so far comes from Charlotte (Hennessey) Card, who tells me that she and Linwood recently saw ‘Bob’ Cail. Here is what he is doing and does it ever sound interesting ‘Bob* is Licensee Co­ordinator for Hamilton Standard Division, United Aircraft Cooperation He recently flew to London and Paris to visit Ratier-Tigeac in Paris, and De- Haviland Propellers Ltd. in London who are li­censees of Hamilton Standard His regular duties involve traveling all over the country to attend coordination meetings with members of the Aircraft Industries equipment Rita have Princeton

Eva Chase who is now Mrs Albert Comber lives at 50 Middle Harbor Rd. Lindfield, Sidney, N S.W Australia Eva has three children, Geraldine, Cath­erine, and Constance She and two of the children have been in the States for a visit

Brian Pendleton’s present address is 710 West End Ave , New York 15, N Y

‘Phil’ Craig’s address is 8080 AVDBMD APO 43, San Francisco, Calif.

Assn, made up of all the major aircraft suppliers in the U S ‘Bob’ and his wife recently moved into a new home at 167 St in Manchester, Conn

Margaret Pierce is now Mrs Carleton G. Skinner Carleton and Margaret live at 21 Bradlee Rd , Med­ford 55, Mass She is Branch Librarian at the Medford Public Library

In the last issue we gave you the wrong address for John Perry It should be Charleston, West Virginia

10/10 Mrs Artemus WeatherbeeI /^v (Pauline Jcllison)

9302 Second Ave , Silver Spring, Md.Herbert M Heughan of 2313 Charlotte St ,

Greensboro, N C , has recently represented Presi­dent Hauck at the inauguration of Dr Willa B

Player as president of the Agricultural and Techni­cal College of North Carolina in Greensboro Her­bert is a professor of mathematics at this college, he received his B S Degree from Hampton Insti­tute in 1942 Quoting from his letter. “Although most of lhe delegates to the ceremony were more experienced m the fields of education and held higher degrees, none were prouder than I as I attempted to represent my favorite University. Thank you so much for the opportunity ”

1941 Mrs Constance Leger (Connie Philbrook) Philbrook Farm Inn, Shelburne, N. H.

A super Homecoming was had by all. Maddie (Smart) Beardsell, Helen Philbrook ’39, and I journeyed over together and we sure were busy taking in everything—the Alumni-Faculty coffee, the Alumni Luncheon at which Milford Cohen did our class proud by giving one of the speeches hon­oring Ted Curtis ’23, and the big and out but bee

get-together at the we talked so fast had to sweep us Saw lots of people

(Christie) Weather-

eym after the game, where furiously that they nearly

so that they could clean up few from our classand Hartley Banton were

Alicetwo who were there—

also Becky (Hill) Talbot.A long letter from Mary (Parkhurst) Lancaster

'43 She and Lank live at 1401 N. Illinois St., Arlington 5, Va , with their two children, H C Jr , age 7, and Betsey, age 4 Lank is at the Pentagon, Hqs USAF, Plans Section.

Hilda (Rowe) Marvin has checked in from her summer travels abroad—“We had a marvelous crossing and then an exciting week of sightseeing from Liverpool to Arms, Germany. This was where we got our first look at our new boat She was just beautiful and to say we were thrilled is putting it mildly We started our cruise here—went forth into the Baltic—up the east coast of Sweden to the island of Gotland, back through Sweden via the Gota Canal which goes right across Sweden, down the Kattegat to Denmark and back to Germany. We flew home, and the boat followed aboard a freighter to New York. That is the summer in a very small thumbnail. We actually cruised about 1100 miles over there and found every bit of it exciting The people everywhere were just wonder­ful—if they didn’t speak English (and believe me, everybody over there doesn’t) they either found someone who did, or outdid us in good old sign language ”

Congratulations to Betty (Mack) Silvestro on the birth of Elizabeth Jane on Sept. 14 She and Clem live at 1313 Jewel Court, Madison, Wis

Agnes Ann Walsh was one of 16 women in this country and Canada to be awarded a scholarship to the American Academy of Rome, and was the only recipient in New England While there she studied the civilization of Rome from the days of the Republic to the reign of Constantine You should be back by now, Aggie, and we would all enjoy hearing about the trip

We have 62 people in our “lost” department of our class and I think that it behooves us to track them down Two of our newly found are Joshua Black Montgomery, 10 Coleman Court, Rt. 7, Greenville, S C , and Lt. Comdr Hugh F. Lusk, American Consulate General, 67 Avenue de France, Antwerp, Belgium.

One of the nice things about the Inn business is having friends drop in. Eleanor (Gleason ’42) and Howard McAllister were here recently as were Warren Randall ’42 and his sister, Esther ’44.

Why don’t more of 5011 follow suit?

1942 Mrs Barbara Cuctara (Barbara Savage)10 Charles St , Orono

The following address changes have come to us from the Alumni Office. Parker W Small now lives at 67 Beverly Rd , Massapequa, N Y , where he is teaching in the Massaqua High School.

Jean (Goodwin) Fenlason lives at 109 Cypress Ave , North Liverton, R I.

Nathan G Hodgkins is aboard the USS. Haw­kins, c/o F P O New York, N Y

Victor E Lcvene is living at 5417 Westbourne Dr , Richmond 26, Va He is a USDA Processed Food Inspector and has as lus business address 1200 E Main St , Richmond, Va

Dr John E Burke has come to Bangor to prac­tice medicine having served his surgical residency at St Elizabeth’s Hospital in Youngstown, Ohio. Previous to that, John was in the Army Medical Corps for two years after preparing in medicine at Temple University John’s family consists of his wife, the former Irene Cyr of Bangor, Patricia 5, Constance 4, and John 1. The Burkes live at 353 State St , and John’s office is at 268 State St. John

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is also attending at the Infirmary at the Universiy. We wish him good luck in his practice'

Bill Gilman is reported as having led the United States seven man team to a commanding lead at the halfway mark in the 36-hole International Blind Golf Championships played in London, Ontario, this past summer. Bill scored 48-52 for an even 100 on the first half of the tournament play

As a result of an inaccuracy in my reporting concerning Bill Irvine’s recent change in location and position, I received a good letter from Bill with the exact facts concerning his new job, and a bonus of news about the Irvine family in general. Watch me that I don’t use this ruse of vague in­formation to stir some of you to hasten in cor­recting me, as the benefit is in my favor with more news for the column. Truly, I am sorry, Bill, and thank you for your letter from which 1 quote “Greetings from a classmate who has returned to the New England fold The area for which I am responsible comprises five towns of Hampton, Leb­anon, Scotland, Sprague, and Willington (Conn) My office is located in the early childhood educa­tion building of the State Teachers College in Wil­limantic. Rural Superintendents in this state are employees of the state and they are housed in state buildings. My central staff includes an elementary supervisor and my secretary. Each of the towns have their own principals

“We are living in Storrs, Conn., on R R 2 Our house is located on Route 195 about three miles south of the University of Connecticut campus This Saturday it is our hope that we will see many familiar ‘Maine’ faces. It was my prmlege fifteen years ago this fall along with the beloved ‘Ed’ Barrows and nine stalwart sophomores to have shared in a 14-13 victory over Connecticut.

“Our family now includes our ten year old daughter Elizabeth, seven year old Virginia, and Margaret 41/’ Martha (Allen 44) and I enjoy being back in New England and we are very hopeful of making my 15th reunion come June 1957 ” The address for Bill’s office is State of Connecticut, Bu­reau of Rural Services, PO Box 186, Willimantic, Conn Bill, we wish you good luck in your work

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The weather is getting cold, and now is an ideal time for you to curl up in a warm corner and write a little summary of your recent activities for the class column. I was very pleased to receive several letters during the past few weeks One came from Captain Murray Bowden, who now has eleven years of service in the army, including a tour in Korea, from which he returned in Oct , 1955. He is now assigned to the Department of the Army Personnel Management Team (Northeastern Area), P O Box 1715, Baltimore 3, Md. He works under the Adju­tant General, conducting personnel surveys through­out the First and Second Army Areas He visits almost all army posts from Ft. Eustis, Va., to Ft. Devens, Mass Murray is married to a “Southern Belle” from Mississippi. His wife’s name is Elaine, and they have two sons, Ray, 2 years, and Robert, 3 weeks old The family lives at 4215 Parkton St., Baltimore 29, Md

Another letter comes from Preston Rand, who reports having run into Chester Cram recently Chet is Assistant United States Disnct Attorney in Portland He is to be found at the Federal Court House, from where Preston’s letter was written Chet studied at Georgetown University after his period of war service.

Emily (Oakes) Golden lives at 90 Chase St , So Portland, and is a registered nurse at the Medical Center She is a widow with three daughters, age 7, 8, and 9 respectively

Willa (Dudley) McKnight lives at 9655 Reseda Blvd , Northridge, Calif

Major Stephen Leon Robbins is an instructor with the 8277 AU ROTC, University of Hawaii, Hono­lulu T H He was expected for a visit last Jul) either at his home on Locke Rd , Hampton, N H., or at his father’s place, “Robbins Rest,” 11 Lose Lane, Kittery, Maine.

This seems to be the month for news from the armed forces Captain Lowell E Ward, 44th Fight­er Bomber Squadron, APO 239, Box 5, San Fran­cisco. Calif, completed a two-year tour of the Philippines and Okinawa in August

Our class president, Bert Pratt, got his name and picture in the paper in October for winning a get- out-the-vote slogan contest sponsored by Parade mgazine Parade is dislrubuled wcckl) as part of the Portland Sunda\ Teleram Bert’s slogan was “A 100% American town is a 100% voting town.” The American Heritage Foundation awarded Bert a certificate of merit As you probably remember, Bert has been at Maine Central Institute for five years He teaches history, government, and social problems, has coached a succession of champion­ship basketball teams, and for two years has been Dean of Boys

The Maine section of the American Institute of E’ectrical Engineers held a special technical meet­ing on Sept 10 at Cony High School Chairman of the group for 1956-57 is Howard Crosb), who is teaching at the U. of M

Mrs Charles Cook(Margaret McCurdy)48 Penobscot St , Bangor

Sylvia (Smith) Horwitz has moved to 1534 Union St , Schenectady, N Y.

J E. Colcord is teaching civil engineering at the University of Washington He wrote that he saw Joe Dondis occasionally, who is working in con­struction out of Anchorage, Alaska Also sees the Carleton Smiths ’50ers, who are in Shelton, Wash­ington Smitty teaches school there.

1944

Jack ’42 and Muriel (Medina) Houghton are living at 6 Meadow Lane, Fort Kent They have three daughters, Nancy, 11, Judith Ellen, 9, and Andrea, 5 Jack is a member of the Fort Kent Town Council and a director of the Chamber of Commerce Besides being active in civic affairs, Jack is a busy potato grower and shipper, in the farm machinery business, and part owner of a starch factory.

Robert M Grover has been appointed to the position of County Agricultural Agent with the Middlesex County Extension Service. Robert is a native of York, Me He graduated from the Uni­versity of Vermont majoring in farm management. For eight years he was County Agricultural Agent in Somerset County and for the past two has been supervisor of a hatchery and supply flocks for hatching eggs in Skowhegan. He is married to Avis Anderson, a former Home Demonstration Agent. Avis graduated in home economics from the University The Grovers have two children, Marilyn, 6, and Richard, 3.

Bob Brundage writes that he is calling square

dances full time now and has just returned from the National Square Dance Convention m San Diego. According to a news clipping from the Vermont Journal, Bob was master of ceremonies for the seventh annual Vermont Country Dance Festival. Bob is currently president of the Con­necticut Square Dance Callers and Teachers Asso­ciation and member of the board of directors of the New England Folk Festival Association. He started his career in “calling” at the age of 10 and called his first Saturday night dance when he was 16 and also called at the University.

Ben Curtis, Jr, has been appointed supervisor for the Farmer’s Home Administration. He has been associated with the FHA since 1950. The Curtises and their two sons live in Orono.

1945 Mrs H William Bradley (Carolyn Chaplin)398 Brooks Street, Westbrook

Winter is well on its way and we have our eyes peeled for a nicely shaped Christmas Tree each time were near the woods—one of the many nice things about moving back to Maine we find.

I noticed in the Portland paper recently that Dr Carleton B Ring had joined the staff of the Port­land Veterinary Hospital I called Carl to find out about his family and here’s the scoop—He married the former Barbara Peters of Arlington, Mass Barb is a graduate of B U They have two young­sters—little Cheryl, 2I/2, and David, 4’/2 They had just moved into their new home at 38 Bartley Ave , Portland—moving here from Sanford Carl also said he has a couple of U of M neighbors, Allan Johnson and Carlton Wing

Also a new address for Al Littlefield a dentist now, so—Dr A F Littlefield, Jr , Box 260, RFD 5, Portland

A note from Orono tells us Bob Emerson was chairman of the YMCA Committee Finance Cam­paign this fall

Last Friday I had a pleasant surprise when Dick Danforth popped in He’s a sales representative for The Murray Machinery Company in Augusta He and Bev bought a home in Winthrop on 6 Central St Their offspring consist of Kathy 7, Mike 4, Peter 2, and Johnny 1 Dick has promised to bring Bev down shopping some Friday and then they’ll come here to dinner

A wonderful letter came from Norma (Hoyle) Conners She and Jim ‘49 have been married for S years They live b> the sea m Cushing which she considers a “year ‘round vacation home ” Norma is teaching French for the 8th year at Rockland High School and loves every minute of it Jim is principal at the Cushing Consolidated School and teaches the 6th, 7th, and 8th grades So nice to get all >our good news, Norma Wish more of our friends would let us know their whereabouts and their activities—How about it9

Wc seem to keep busy here at Prides’ Corner Linda, our 9 year old, is in the fourth grade this year, in Blue Birds, Junior Choir, and takes both piano and clarinet lessons, Cindy is just aching to start school next fall Bill and I recently bought a lot on a small lake in Sebago and arc busy weekends clearing it off Evenings we’re getting started on finishing the upstairs—do drop in—with a hammer anytime!

A new address for Barbara (Smiley) Healy—1411 South Parlon St , Santa Ana, Calif Her husband is stationed near Tokyo in The Marine Corps and expects to be home for Christmas

An article in the Sperry Engineering Review for May and June tells of Leroy Darling. He helped prepare the paper “Cast Resin Embedments in the Electronics Industry” and delivered same before the Eastern New England section of the Society of Plastics Engineers at Waltham, Mass , on May 17

Mert ’44 and Jo (Clark) Meloon moved into their new home on Lancaster Ave in Lunenburg, Mass , last Nov Jo writes that Marie (Bennett) Richards and Dave have a lovely home there Marie has a nickname—“Ginger ” They have three children, David, Nancy and Kathy Jo, Marie, and Barb (Potts ’47) Smith are involved in a communit) kindergarten so they see each other often Some of the other Maine folks that the Mcloons sec or hope to soon, are Frank ’43 and Jane (Rand ’43) Pendleton, Bob ’44 and Arline (Hulbert *46) Smith, Deep and Polly (Spear *46) Bardsley and Bob and Arlene (Beaumont) Anderson Thanks so much for the letter, Jo

Until next month—I’ll be watching the mailbox faithfully—don’t disappoint me

mMiss Judith H. Fielder529 Oak St , Syracuse 3, N. Y.

Greetings’The freshest news I have to pass along this month

is regarding the arrival on October 13 of Victoria

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Joanne to Chuck and Joanne (Springer) Perry, 172 Main St , Orono I’m looking forward to having her as a new ncxtdoor neighbor when I’m visiting at home in Orono.

Malcolm H Miner, with his wife and 10-year-old twin daughters, Linda Ann and Donna Lynn, recent­ly left Oakland, Calif, for Anchorage, Alaska, where he assumed his duties as rector of All Saints Episcopal Church

My own travels have pul me into fairly recent contact with a few ’46ers. Mary (Spangler) and Bob (’49) Eddy arc within easy driving distance of Syracuse and periodic visits with them provide occasional exposure to that good old Maine accent which is so welcome to the ear Bob is serving his last year as a resident at the Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital in Cooperstown, N Y , and Spankv’s energies are well accounted for in their household of four children—Jonny, almost 7, Christy, 4, Robby, 3, and Tommy, 4 months

Other nearby neighbors are Harriet (Steinmetz) and Hal Fray and their three nice children, Susan, John and David Hal was recently installed as minister of the Plymouth Congregational Church in Utica, N. Y , after having served there the preced­ing two years as assistant minister

I had a good visit in August with Rusty Chute in Osterville, Mass , where she has been resting up at home following a period in a sanitorium for a tuberculosis infection. She looked just like her old self meeting me at the station with her brother’s Volkswagen, and we got well caught up on things in general She expects to get back to work at the New England Deaconess Hospital in Boston ejn September and we should be having a new address for her soon In the meantime she can be addressed Rosanra Chute, s3 Pine Lane, Osterville

A slight detour off Route 1 en route to Maine for vacation took me to Wcnham, Mass , a lovely New England town, where Mary (Libby) and Dick Dresser now live They have a wonderful old home with furniture (except for the kitchen’) to match, and a big yard well suited to the requirements of young Tom, Pete and Jane—and the dog’ Skiing is still a big interest in the lives of the Dresser family

Well, I hope that some of this information is news to some of you We have more to pass along in the next few issues, but I would still like to hear from the rest of you Why not jot down a few per­tinent tidbits and send them off9 And it would be even better to get firsthand accounts from any of you whose travels bring you through Syracuse. I’m listed in the telephone book and the company op­erators know how to reach me in the Personnel Office at General Electric, so 1*11 hope to hear from you.

1947 Mrs. Philip Shaw (Joan Ambrose) 19 Russell St , Bangor Mrs Walter Brooks(Peg Spaulding)212 French St , Bangor

A Merry Christmas and Happy all.

New Year to you

We have just a short column again this month, but we do hope that some of you will send us some of your news during the Christmas holidays

We have word that Gladys Friedlcr is now at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston as a labora­tory technician.

Here is a new address for Mr and Mrs Verdell Thompson (Dorothy Ward) It is 22 Quaker Road, Bristol, Conn Verdell is the Pentecostal minister there and they have two nice boys

Major and Mrs Meade Klemme (Bonny Cratty) and son Michael are now living at 3214 South 40th Street, Omaha, Nebraska Meade is in the Air Corps

Barbara Marsanskis, B J Banton, and I ventured up to Homecoming, November third We saw lots of people and familiar faces, but where were you9

1948 Mrs William G. Ramsay(Jessie Cowie)1605 Armstrong Ave , Staunton, Va

Marjorie Carter has recently been appointed new Home Service Director by the Penobscot County Chapter of the American Red Cross On 24 hour service, it is Marjorie’s job to help families of men and women in the armed forces, veterans, and their families meet personal and family problems For the past eight years she has done case work in the Division of Public Assistance Her address is 46 Madison St , Bangor

Robert E Phelps has been nameJ an instructor in psychology at the U of M Bob received his M A. degree in clinical psychology from the State University of Iowa He has worked as a psycholo­gist for the Division of Mental Health in Augusta

Neal B Kelley has joined the sales staff of Maine Potato Growers, Inc He will handle grain sales and distribution, and will also work on potato sales

during the active winter months. Neal was formerly employed by MPG in the Warehouse and Potato Sales Depts from 1948 to 1954 In 1954 he be­came associated with American National Foods in Boston He is married and has two children Neal has been on our “lost” list for some time so I was glad to locate him

Priscilla Do ge, who for the past five years has been librarian at Dow Air Force Base in Bangor, has entered Columbia University where she will take advanceJ work in library science working toward her master’s degree

Barbara and Wallace Barrows are parents of a second son, Scott Elliott, born October 5, 1956. Their address is 42 Highland Ave., Winchest A, Mass

Clara and Peter We ge are now living at 197 Pleasant Ave , Portland Peter has been named manager of the commercial risks dept of Liberty Mutual Insurance Company’s Portland office The newly created c ept , which specializes in serving small businesses, will cover the entire state of Maine Peter had been a sales representative in the home office in Boston

William Deering, who is on the staff of the Ban­gor State Hospital, is teaching a class in psychology at the “Y” School at the Bangor YWCA. His ad­dress is So. Orrington, Me.

When you are addressing those Christmas cards, how about sending one along to the Ramsays— including, of course, a note about yourselves. A happ> holiday season to you all.

1949 Mrs Hastings N Bartley, Jr.(Jayne Hanson)1 Grove St , Millinocket

I was so sorry not to be on hand for Home- coming week end to see all the loyal alums return­ing and especially to get some new scoops on our classmales From all reports from those who went it was a wonderful time and grand Maine spirit still prevails Us B’s were thrashing thru the puckerbrush in search of those elusive four footed critters with while tails.

The Red Cross drive in New Haven this year found a *49er as one of its vice chairmen . Lee Clifford Lee is the traffic engineer for So. New England Telephone Co. and lives in Orange, Conn

This year finds Robert Marshall teaching social studies and assisting m coaching football in Brock­ton, Mass

Rev Henry Wyman has recently accepted a call to preach at the North Olmstead Congregational Church in Ohio Previously Henry was minister in Columbia, Conn

Harry Bell was recently named Ass*l County Agent for Cumberland County Before this appointment Harry served 6 years for the Extension Service in Aroostook on dairy production. Harry is married to the former Janet Bull and they have two young daughters.

Robert Gilchrist is leaching mathematics in the Junior-Senior High School in Southbury, Conn. He is married and has two sons Bob taught before in Bangor and Waldborn and spent 14 months teach­ing science and mathematics in India

The Paul Ford family has taken residence this fall in St Albans, Vi , where Paul will teach Latin and creative writing Paul is married to Joan Smith of Bangor and they have two daughters, Nancy Jo and Sally I hope your students will appreciate your humor as much as your classmales did, Paul.

Carl Brennen is having a wonderful trip for himself louring hospitals in Europe and Scandi­navian countries Carl is a member of the faculty of Johns Hopkins Medical Center

The guidance circclor in the Waterville Junior and Senior High School is Earl Coates

The appointment of George Harris as manager of sales for General Electric’s light military elec­tronic equipment was recently announced.

Larry VanPeursem is now the varsity tennis coach al the U of M He succeeds Dr. Garland Russell Larry is an insurance agent and is living at 64 Chamberlain St , Brewer

We are very sorry to report that Jack Zollo was in an automobile accident in October suffering severe lacerations, fractured leg and jaw. We all remember Jack as a terrific football player and all combine in wishing him a speedy recovery Jack is the superintendent of the Rumford Falls Power Co and is also a Slate Jaycee official.

Sumner Shafmasler passed his bar examination this fall in Florida and will practice there. Sumner graduated from the B U Law School and was ad­mitted to the Penobscot County Bar Assoc in 1951 He is married to Marcia Gass of Bangor.

Don Hobbs has resigned as Town Manager of Bar Harbor to lake a position with the Fred C. Lyman Co , a real estate and insurance firm in Bar Harbor.

Pratt and Whitney has recently promoted Donald While to the position of Experimental Engineering Supervisor in their plant in Hartford.

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That’s all for this month, folks... Do put my name on your Xmas card list and add a note telling what you are up to these days The very merriest of Christmases to you all and a most prosperous New Year.

ATA Mr. Richard R. Daws| /3U 24 Pleasant Street, MiloWell, here we go for another round with Christ­

mas practically around the corner. I suppose all ’50ers are checking over the Xmas Club and pre­paring to dig in and dig out. Get so it’s dangerous to shoo with the youngsters in the stores these days. Have to watch my conversation as well as I am the Town “Santa ” Have just finished admiring the family deer that I surprised this morning Prob­ably be better to say that we were both surprised. Am glad that is over; now I can sleep in the morn­ing for a change The wife says that anybody who runs around the woods at the crack of dawn is a bit cracked themselves. Thinking back on the frozen stumps that I have been sitting on, I would be inclined to agree with her

Got a letter from John Bache Wng who writes that Paul Dobosz who recently obtained his M D. was killed recently while on his way to visit a patient. He leaves a wife and two children under five. Paul was well liked and known by many in the ’49, ’50, and ’51 classes. I certainly feel pretty bad about this as I know all will when they read this. (See Necrology section for full write-up.) John also writes that Roy Thayer has completed a lab course in a General Hospital but has now moved to Florida. Lt. Chap “Red” Norton and “Betty” are living at Choctawhatchee Wells Trailer Court in Newton, Ala. John m writing of himself says that he and Jean with Eric Jon (7 lbs 2 oz.) have been living in Florida where he has been studying for his Master’s in Entomology. John is now finishing up in a U. S Dept, graduate course at N Y.C and his address is 641 Washington St , Rm 844, New York 14, N Y.

Bob and Lynn (Boyer) Bcyenberg arc living at 205 Garden Rd , Towson, Md , and have two children, William Hugh and Merrillee, 5 and 28 months respectively Bet they lost hope of seeing that item as I had of ever finding it again. Am I forgiven, folks9

Got a nice letter from George ’50 and Norma (Moores ’52) Gray who write that they arc living at 138 Fordham Rd in Colonia, N. J They en­closed a picture of their two girls, CinJy and Sue Looked so cute I hated to turn it over to the Class files. Hope to have class pictures printed up soon and will try to get it in

Speaking of youngsters there is another boy for Stan and Elaine (Lockhart) Brown Stephen Lock­hart arrived last August 29th The Browns’ address is 410 California Ave, Reno, Nevada

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Looking over the clippings we note:Keith L. Day has been named project manager of

a $1,600,000 Pike in Richmond, Va He is em­ployed by the Winkelman Carolina Company of Gre:nsobro, N. C.

Lewis Berce has been appointed as the new county 4-H Club agent m Washington County, Maine.

Leonard Minsky has become engaged to Renee Michelson of Worcester, Mass Leonard is now general manager of the Superior Paper Company in Bangor.

Nicholas N. Smith has become engaged to Edyth Kummerie of Seminary Hill, Carmel, N. Y Nicho­las is presently teaching at the Anderson School in Staatsburg, N. Y.

Bristol B. Crocker is engaged to Marilyn Thomas of Wilton, N. H. Bristol is employed by the Sentry Company of Foxboro, Mass.

Leonard W. Smith has become engaged to Con­stance Hewitt of Verona Heights. Leonard is as­sociated in business with his father.

Newton Graham is engaged to Susan Cleaves of Harvard, Mass. A Sept, wedding is planned.

Well, that finishes that By the time you read this, the snow will be flying up here and hunting season will be over. If any of you folks arc up this way, try to drop or shovel in and I will shovel out to meet you. Keep the news flowing in and those letters have been swell, so send some more.

1951 Miss Mary-Ellen Michaud Apt. P-1, University Gardens Newark, Delaware

Christmas is right around the comer—so—a very Merry’ Christmas to you all. Now to get to the news.

Malcolm Chadbourne is teaching English in the Hudson, Mass high school Mr and Mrs Chad- bourne are the proud parents of 4 children

Ethel V Bickford was elected to teach in the science department at Taunton High School, Taun­ton, Mass She has had 3 years as substitute teacher in Maine hieh schools

Mrs Inez Roberts is now teaching Grade 3 at the Webster School. Orono

Justin Hinds is taking a course at Georgia Tech After completion of the course he will join his wife, Robin, and Thomas in Key Largo, Fla , where he is employed by Southern Bell Telephone Company

William H. Annis has become a teacher of agri­culture at Colebrook, N H He has had a tour of duty in the U S Army and has been working with public school pupils and veterans in agricul­ture

Harold Stevens has assumed the duties of principal of the Belgrade High School He has been princi­pal for a year at the Belgrade Lakes School and has also taught social studies at Belgrade last year

The stork has visited Jean and Art Dentremont in East Millinocket on June 23, 1955 (Anne Fran­ces) and again on September 27 1956 (Mary Lu­cille) Art is employed as a Chemical Engineer by the Great Northern Paper Company They are building a new home and plan to be in it by No- v ember

Herb Griffin is now a Resident Engineer in Maine- New Hampshire for the Bailey Meter Company. His work has taken him to Cleveland, New' York, Boston, and now Augusta where he hopes he is settled He, Audrey, and the two boys. Dale and Wayne, are now waiting for their new home to be finished at 8 6th Avenue

And now to see how busy Cupid has been dur­ing the summer.

Phyllis Atwood became engaged to Reginald Barrows (Bowdoin ’47). Phyllis is employed at the Brunswick Publishing Company.

Miss Jean Frellick and Dodd Roberts were mar­ried in Brocton, Mass in June Mrs Roberts just finished work on her master’s degree at the U. of M. this summer, and Dodd is starting on his doctorate at the University of Missouri this fall

Jacqueline Macfarlan became Mrs. William Wil­kins in June Mr Wilkins is employed m the en­gineering department of the Sheraton Corporation of America in Boston.

Miss Joanne Kestle married Peter Tandy Mrs. Tandy is a graduate of the Newton-Wellesley Hos­pital School of Medical Technology.

Miss Jean Moran of Manhasset, N Y , married Francis Lynch in August.

Jeanette Haley became Mrs William Reynolds (Northeastern ’48) in June The Reynolds will live in Baltimore, Md , where Mr Reynolds has ac­cepted a position with the Factory Mutual Insurance Co

Miss Audrey Hill married William Kennison in July They will have their home at 3924 Albany St , Schenectady, N Y. Bill is with General Electric at the Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory.

Miss Dorothy McCann59 Fessenden St , Portland

Merry Xmas and make your New Year’s Resolu­tion to send me a long newsy letter.

Here is news of two “county” ’52ers who are now in the Mr. and Mrs status

Mary Clifford of Old Town became the bride of Paul R Belyea of Caribou on Sept. 1 at the St. Joseph’s Church in Old Town; a reception was he’d at the Birchmcrc Inn in Milford. They are at home at 32 College Ave , Orono, while Paul is a graduate student in the department of agronomy.

Carolyn A Harmon (one of the twins) of Wash­burn was married to Salvatore L. Coco of Lawrence, Mass, on August 18 at the St. Mary’s Church in Presque Isle. Carolyn was recently graduated from the St. Mary’s Hospital and the Mayo Clinic of Nutrition in Rochester, Minn They will be living at 13 Broad St., North Attleboro, Mass., while Salvatore attends Boston College Graduate School of Education

j AC9 Miss Helen Strong| / 3 J 362 Winthrop, Toledo 10, OhioHa J a nice long letter from Joyce (Dobson)

Cook from way out Oklahoma way. Joyce anJ her husband, Marx, have been out west for a year and a half where Mark has been in the service. They have a daughter, Anne Kathleen, who will be a year old on Dec 26.

Joyce sent a’ong some addresses and says if no one has moved within the last 2 months they are correct

Claire Filhclaz, 95 Summer St , Lewiston Claire is a service representative for New England Tel & Tel

Lida (Maxim) Muench, 396 Carroll Park E, Apt 2, Long Beach 14, Calif The Muenchs have a baby boy, George

Gordon and Mary (Field) Gwinn, 309 Logan St , Ackley, Iowa Mary is employed in the testing kitchen of Better Homes and Gardens and Gordan attends college

Joan (Thomas) Rooinson, 35 Ruby Dr , Ash­bourne Hills, Claymont, Dcla

Nanc) (Chandler) Whitby and son Teddy are al 253 Ohio St , Bangor, while Ted is on a naval cruise

Bill and Joyce (JaAson) Daily and their 2 sons, Michael and David, live at 10 Waverly Ave , Pitts­field

Marilyn Williams, 4141 Ocean Dr., Oxnard, Calif. Marilyn is leaching in the high school there

Phil and Marie (Oakman) Lord, 12 Seward Ave , Endicott, N Y Phil is employed by IBM

Joan Reifel, 11 Neighbors Lane, Wallham 54, Mass Joan is employed by an insurance company in Wallham

Kathleen Milchcli, 439 Farmington Ave , Hart­ford, Conn. Kathy is employeJ by Conn. General Life Insurance Co“Beck” and Phyllis (Noyes) Beekman, 4342 Sierra

Ave , Norco, Calif. Beck graduated from Boston Lmv School of Medicine and is spending his first year as a naval doctor.

Bud and Mavorite (McLellan) Hansen will be back in the State of Maine by the time this issue of the Alumni magazine is published Bud will be a stuuent at the Univ, of Maine

Oh yes, I nearly forgot Joyce Cook’s address— which is—540 E Ercoupe Dr , Midwest City 10, O.vla Thank you Joyce for that w’onderful letter

On Sept 22 Paul Geennick took as his bride Marjorie Bartlett Evans al Auusta, Ga Paul is now employed as a research representative by lhe General Tel Co His address is 1419Vi Virginia St , Lafayet, Indiana

Earl and Jo Hutchinson and their children Butch, Mue, anJ Pamela reside at 2203 Guilford Rd , Hyattsville, Md Earl has recently been promoted to Chief of lhe Electrical and Electronic Branch, Product Engineering Div. of lhe Naval Ordnance Laboratory, White Oak, Md.

Ray Robbins is working for Stromberg Carlson in Rochester, N Y

Walt and Jean Howard are living at Green Lake

1954Hi and

to write

Mrs Robert L Weatherbee(Martha Wyman)200 Larkin St , BangorSurprise’ I thought that Bob was going the column this month, but since our

daughter Susan arrived early (October 25), he decided there was plenty of time for me to write it

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Here are several belated announcements that should have been in long ago, but were cut at the printers due to lack of space

Births Second Lt and Mrs. D Neil Rideout have a son, Scott William, born March 5 at the U S Army Hospital at Fort Benning ... A son also was born on March 23 to Neil and Valerie (Bicterman) Murphy. Their address is 24 Bobrich Drive, Rochester 10, N. Y. . . . Mary (Moore) Smith is the mother of a son, Douglas Nelson, Jr , born February 4 The Smiths are residing in Ellsworth. . . Hubert and Claire (Lynch) Madden are the proud parents of Michael John, born on Sept 28, 1956 They reside at 882 Liston St, Lewis­ton

Elwyn *53 and Katherine (Allen) Grover have a new address 731A N 47 St , Milwaukee 8, Wis.

Another new address J Arthur Cloutier, Jr, 1117 64 St., Sacramento 19, Calif.

Mary “Mac” MacKinnon is working in the Health and Welfare Department division of Child Welfare in Brewer. Her address is 599 Main St., Bangor.

Dave Wiggin is starting his third year teaching and coaching at M C I This year Dave will also be boy’s dorm master of Weymouth Hall.

Eben W. Freeman is working in the research lab of the S D Warren Co in Westbrook

Mildred G Bean is a dietitian in the army medi­cal Specialists Corps stationed at Fort Devens, Mass.

Dave ’53 and Marion (Young) Hale, are living at 68 Washington St , Marblehead, Mass Marion is an engineering technician at the General Electee River Works in Lynn, Mass Dave is working in lamp development at Sylvania Electric Products in Salem.

Rosemary (Carlin) and Skip Hall stopped in on their way up to Homecoming They told us that Laurence an 1 Joan (Reed) Buttler have a baby girl, Donna, born July 13 The Buttlers are living at 9 Regatta Rd , North Weymouth, Mass

Mikl (McInnis) and EJ Lavoix also stopped by They are living in South Brooksville, Maine, now Ed is teaching at Stevens Academy in Blue Hill

Don Mavor was very much in evidence at Home- coming By the time you read this he will be some­where in Germany via the hospitality of Uncle Sam

I finally have Lawrence and Barbara (Wigger) Carville’s aJc’ress for you Chevas Rd , Avon, Conn

Frank ’51 an J Ruth (Bartlett) Butler have seen quite a few Alums around the Rochester area. Earlier this fall they had a picnic to welcome all the new Maine people to Rochester Among those who came were Norma (Jose) anJ Dick Griswal 1, Howard ’53 and Lyn (Love) Low, Neil and Valer.e Murphy, as well as many other alums from other c’asscs The Butlers were assisted in entertaining by their little son, Peter Any newcomers to Ro­chester be sure to stop in at 65 Heather Lane, for a Maine reunion

A note from Richard Leavitt tells me that he is row teaching at the Cardigan Mountain School in Canaan, N H He says that it is beautiful ski country anJ he is taking advantage of every free afternoon

Ambitious Patricia Adams is at the University of Vermont Med School studying to be a doctor She has three more years to go’

George Furbish recently was promoted to special­ist third class while serving with the 75th Antiair­craft Missile Battalion in Waldorf, Md

The Fort Devens Eleven had a former U of M star on its team this fall in the person of Vince Calenda

James Thompson has been named the new town manager of South Berwick

Another new town manager is Oakley Keith Porter who has been appointed to that position in Manchester, Vt

Lt Edwin Wheeler who is stationed with MATS at the Charleston A F B flying C-54’s and Super Constellations to Europe and South America, is residing at Sullivan’s Island, South Carolina. His address is just Box 277 and in case any Mainiacs are down that way he’d like to play Host and talk over ‘Ye Good Old Days at Maine ’ Ed saw Fred Breslin recently way up in Iceland Fred is an Ensign F B , stationed at Headquarters, Ice­landic Defense Force, APO 81, N Y., N. Y.Birth Announcements:

Second Lt and Mrs D Neil Rideout of Fort Benning, Ga , are the proud parents of a son, Scott William, born on March 5 at the U. S Army Hospital at Fort Benning

A son, Michael Joseph, was born on March 23 to Neil and Valerie (Bicterman) Murphy The Murphys* address is 24 Bobrich Drive, Rochester 10, N. Y.

Mary (Moore) Smith is also the mother of a son, Douglas Nelson Jr , who was born on Feb 4

The Smiths are residing in their own home in Ellsworth.

James H Thompson is an Organization and Methods Examiner in the Administrative Manage­ment Division, Bureau of Ships, Navy Dept., Wash­ington 25, D. C.

j Qrr Miss Hilda SterlingI 7 3 J 1003 North Ocean Ave

Seaside Park, N. J.And, how did you vote in the election?Why, I voted to write a letter to my class secre­

tary.You are a loyal alumnus! We need grads like

you!Yes, that’s right! After writing this column, I

find that my backlog of material is low, and I am asking YOU to help me gather some news for fu­ture issues Christmastime gives everyone the oppor­tunity to catch up with his correspondence, so I hope that I will be on your mailing list1 Triangle corners ...

Betty (Dysart) Osgood writes that she and Glenn welcomed Rebecca Ann on March 6. They will be in Ann Arbor, Mich , until June when Glenn finishes his engineering studies at the University of Michigan Their address is 1429 University Terrace, Ann Arbor.

Carol (Langlois) and Bruce Corwin are the proud parents of a little girl, Nancy Ann, born on May 22 The family is living in Bennington. Vt., where “Papa” Bruce is music supervisor m local schools.

Janet (Marston) and William Bodwell ’50 have named their daughter Karen Elizabeth. The baby was born on June 10. At last report, the Bodwells were living in Bath

Glenn Farnham Hunter was welcomed by Guy and Reta (Farnham) Hunter, Jr, in July Does anyone have their address9

Ellen (Simpson) and Fred Griffee ’56 announced that their son arrived on September 2 Fred, Ellen, and Stephen Fred reside at 46 North Main St., Milltown, N J

On October 26, a daughter was born to Nancy (Karakas) and Hale Reed ’54 The baby has been named Kimberly Nancy is living with her folks at 84 Gentian Ave , Providence, R I , until Hale returns from GermanyPeople and places •. •

Harva Young, 3237 P St , N W., Washington 7, D C

Willis S Reed, HN/USN, H Division, Medical Department, USS Howard W Gilmore (AS-16), c/o Fleet Post Office, New York, N Y.

Joanne Staples, 404 Farmington Ave., Apt B3, Hartford 5, Conn

Frances Lunt, 199 Penn Drive, West Hartford, Conn.

2nd Lt Joseph T Rigo, 04053076, Hq EASCOM, APO 301, c/o Postmaster, San Francisco, Calif.

Norma (Cumming) Russell, 119 Bay Rd, Hadley, Mass

Pfc Richard A Eustis, RA 11289271, H/S Co, 82d Recon Bn , APO 185, c/o Postmaster, New York, N Y

2nd Lt Joseph T Stockbridge, 04039632, 525th Enqr Co (DT), APO 288, c/o Postmaster, New York N Y

Pvt Donald Mavor, US 55 515 157, 4009 Stu. Enl Det , Fort Polk, La

2nd Lt Willard Butler, 201 North High St., Neosho, Mo.So they tell me ...

In August, Barbara Knox received her master’s degree in audiology lrom Boston University Barb, a speech and hearing therapist at the Worcester Hearing League, is living at 58 Cedar St , Worces­ter, Mass

Janet Pease has accepted a position with the Visiting Nurse Service in New York City After our freshman year, Jan transferred to Skidmore College, where she became a lull-fledged nurse on September 29 Her address is 209 East 16th St , New York 3, N Y

Ellen Dow writes that she is engaged to Robert NunvS of Marion, Mass Bob is in the U S Army, and Ellen has returned to her home at 86 Mechanic St , Dover-Foxcro t, after a year on Cape Cod

Mary Alice (Hastings) and Allen Bancroft ’54 sold their home in Shortsville, N. Y , and have re­turned to the Pine Tree State. Al is an agricultural engineer for Bernard Rincs ’45 in Westbrook. Their address is 30 Forest Park, Apt 2, Portland.

Neil St Lawrence is a special agent for the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company of Bos­ton, Mass “Bunk” serves Penobscot, Piscataquis, Waldo, Washington, and Hancock Counties lrom his office at 284 South Main St., Brewer Married to the former Dolores “Dee” Davis, he is the lather of a two-year old son

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SOUTH CAROLINAEveryone in South Carolina is kin to just about everyone else—and to hear tell, they’re all descendants of antebellum aristocracy But rich or poor, they’re a gracious people, and their state is the proudest in the Union'

THE MIDDLE EASTHere’s the feature that gives you all the little pieces in today’s big picture' What oil has done to the old theme of con­querors and chaos .. / why cynical poli­tics make the Arab world go round ... what the Arabs dislike most about Israel

and more'PEARL HARBOR. Here’s Dec. 7, 1941! You'll learn about the intricate plans and the sheer luck, the heroism and the ter­ror the bombs and the bungles that made Pearl Haibor a name to remember!PLUS: the woild’s mest famous cathe­dral, NOTRE DAME, MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA, the Olympic City, New York’s legal ST REGIS, and a special shopping section packed with gifts and gadgets so pci feet, you’ll want to give ’em to youiself.

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25DECEMBER, 1956

Stanley Milton has accepted a position with the Rumford Broadcasting Co., operator of Station WRUM, as news and sports broadcaster. Stan, lus wife, Sheila (Sorenson ’58), and daughter, Terri Lee, reside at 520 Kennebec St , Rumford

A card from Elizabeth (Pierce) Cross says that she and Ray are living at 4 Donna Ave, Hamil­ton, Ohio Ray is a sales engineer for a paper company, and Liz is teaching fourth grade in a local school.

Mary Bigelow has resumed her teaching duties at North Meanus School, Greenwich, Conn , where she has a first grade class Her address is 7 Bruce Park, Greenwich.

Frederick Maher, who was company commander of a military police battalion at Fort Bragg, N. C., terminated his tour of duty with the U. S Army in September. Teddy is teaching biology m the Hartford, Conn., school system.

I understand that Lorena (Alley) and Willard Kelley are teaching in Joncsport this year.

Marine second lieutenant Albert Daniels gradu­ated from the 26-week officers basic training course at Quantico, Va , on July 7 Bert has been trans­ferred to Camp Lejeune, N C.

Hugh Dougherty, who received his master of science degree in electrical engineering from Maine in June, has joined the technical staff of the New Jersey Bell Telephone Co laboratories at Whippany Hugh and his family reside at 34 Overlook Trail, Morris Plains, N. J

Omar Norton has reported for active duty with the U. S Army Last year, he was a teacher at Medway High School, where he also coached bas­ketball

Everett Bryant has accepted a position with a feed company in Portland Prior to this job, he was a poultry specialist for the Worcester County Ex­tension Service, Worcesctr, Mass

Returning from a scven-month tour of New Zea­land, Pauline Hilton is a 4-H Club agent-at-large with the Maine Agricultural Extension Sen ice Now, that she is home, Polly will lecture to farm groups throughout the state about her extended tour

Evelyn Stecenson ’56 and C Nicholas Carter were married on August 11 in the Methodist Church, South Orrington Evelyn has accepted a teaching position in Ayers, Mass, where the couple is living Nick is stationed at Fort Devens, Mass

St Charles Borromeo Church, Brunswick, was the scene of the marriage of Lorraine Bonang, Bruns­wick, and Adolphe Gingras on August 11 Lorraine is teaching at the Center School, North Haven, Conn , while “Doc” is a special agent for Royal- Liverpool Insurance Group, Hartford. They are residing m North Haven.

Another August 11 wedding in the First Con­gregational Church, South Portland, united Janet Bishop and Paul Butler Jan has a secretarial

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Roderic N. McKinney ’56, Edward P. Malloy ’55, and George O. Jones ‘55 (1. to r.) were among the 835 men who received commissions in the Navy when the 28th class of the Officer Candidate School at Newport, R. I., graduated in October. The OCS course lasted 17 weeks. They are now on active duty as Ensigns.

position with Pratt-Whitney Aircraft, and Paul has relumed to a position with the Connecticut Gen­eral Lite Insurance Co, Harford, Conn , after serving for six months in the U S Army Their address is 75 Plain Drive, East Hartford

Constance Lewis became Mrs William Calkin on August 19 in the Methodist Church, Dexter Connie and Bill arc living at 946 West Magnolia St , San Antonio, Texas, where Bill is serving with the U S Air Force at Lakeland Air Force Base

Marion Bugbec and Richard Batt, Livingston, N J , were married on August 21 in St Luke's Church Caribou Marion is teaching home eco­nomics in New Brunswick N J where Dick is enrolled at Rutgers University Their address is 85 Eastern Ave, New Brunswick

On August 25 Elizabeth Parker married Ensign han Enstrom Jr, Natick, Mass, in the Martha- Mars Chapel South Sudburv Mass Betsy and han are making their home in Newport, R I , where he is stationed with the U S Nav)

An August 26 wedding united Judith I eighton ’54 and J Roger Atwater 1 he wedding took place in Pinder Kascrne ChapJ Landshut. German) Jud) and Roger are residing in L indshut where he is stationed with the U S Arms

Laura Little and Christopher Moen Jr ‘58 were married in St Saviours Episcopal Church Bar Harbor, on September 1 Thev arc making their home at Drvden Terrace Apartments Orono

Jacqueline Irwin. Lubec became Mrs Philip Edgecomb on September 1 in the Christian Icmplc Church of Christ Lubec Thev arc residing in Brooks where Phil is vocational argiculturc in­structor at Morse Memorial High School

Another September 1 ceremony in the Reformed Baptist Church, Old Town united Wilma Monroe and Storer Emmett ’M 1 he Emmetts are living in Baltimore, Md where Storer is a student at Johns Hopkins Umvcrsitv School of Medicine He is preparing for medical missionarv work

lhe Bethan) Baptist Church Skowhegan was the scene ot the marriage of Doris Greenleaf and Toppan Kimball on September 8 The) are resid­ing in Woodbury N J , where loppan is stationed

Rhoda Wood ’56 became Mrs Eugene Frederick on September 15 lhe cercmon) was performed in St Margaret s Episcopal Church Belfast Rhoda has a position as Home Demonstration agent for the Haverhill Power and Light Co in Haverhill Mass while Gene is stationed at Tort Meade, Md with the U S Arm)

Mavis Ravenscroft Bangor, and Sumner Cahoon were married in the chapel at Dow Air Force Base- on September 22 Thev arc residing in Bel-Air, Md where Sumner is at the Arm) Chemical Center

A September 23 wedding in St Mar) s Catholic Church Fishkill, N Y united Barbara Allan, Beacon N Y and Roy Raymond Roy is serving in the U S Arm) He and his bride arc living in East Rutherford, N J

Merrv Christmas, everybody!

1956 Miss Jean Partridge Granite St , Millinocket

It was good to sec many of you Homecoming Weekend Guess we couldn’t have asked for a better game—and just think no rain for the first time in five years’

Let’s see now—I wonder if I can remember all the news I heard at Homecoming .

Congratulations arc in store for one of our “class couples,” Janice Lord and Don Mott, who were engaged last month

Still Students . . .Emery Howard is at Tufts Medical School in

Boston His address 211 Pasner Hall, 200 Harri­son Ave

At Georgetown Law School in Washington. I) C , we find Robert Quinn, whose address is 406 Haskell St , Silver Spring, Md

Alexandria “Sandy” King is in Boston at Kath­erine Gibbs Secretarial School

At thw University of Illinois is Cora Coggins, slaving tor Master’s Her address 106 North Busty, Urbana, Ill

Carol Loud is at Boston University and writes h r addr ss as being 215 New bur) St , Boston Mass P S Congrats on your scholarship. Squecky’

Fred L)on is at the Andover-Newton rheological Scminarv at Newton Center, Mass and is Director of Religious Education at the Union Congregational Church there Professions .. .

Dima Eslin and Bcttv Durling are living in a trai er while teaching home cc at Ft Fairfield

Working as a sales trainee for Monsanto Chemi­cal Co is Willard Bill Hammann whose adaress is Box 117 Harlan Court West, 5463 Delmar Bou- c ird St 1 ouis Missouri

Richard Wood is in the Nav) Air Force Mail wi 1 bw trans erred to him if addressed to 9 Maple St Port Washington N Y

Richard Dick ’ Clark is cmplovcd by Lumber­man s Mutual Casually Co and has rccentlv been transferred irom the Boston office as a special agent in Maine He is living at home .it 70 Cumberland St in Westbrock

Judv MaePherson is with the Y W C A in Paw­tucket R 1 as a Teenage Program director She liv s al 21 Nickerson St in Pawtucket

Ann I homas Barbara Graham, and Linda Black­wood are all rrudieal technicians at the New Eng­land Baptist Hospital in Boston

Carol (Brown) Marino is living in Brockport, N Y where sIk is teaching third grade Her husb md is attending Brockport State Teachers College

Robert Giguere is teaching and coaching at Jor­dan Grammar School in Lewiston

At 47 Isham St in Burlington, Vermont, one can find Jud) Pisetto preparing work lor her class ot livcl) kindergarteners '

Henry Beck is at Wethersfield High teaching sci­ence

Don Pendleton is now emplo)ed by the Boston Consolidated Gas Co He pians to enter Warton Graduate School in Penn m Feb His present address is 85 Park Drive, Apt 19, Boston

Jack Coffin is training with I B M and resides at 18 Crocker Ave , Johnson City, N Y The Lieutenants are wearing skirts!!

Congratulations to Alice Kelson and Mar> June Rcmro who have received commissions as 2nd Lieutenants in the Army They are both interning dietitians Their addresses

2 Lt Alice L Kelson R-2473, Box 49, Brooke Army Hosp B A M C , Ft Sam Houston, Texas.

2/Lt Mary June Renfro R-2754, Delano Hall, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, D C.

M J reminded me in her letter of the slogan. “Remember your friends in the service”—thought she’d want me to pass it on to you

Might Add . .. please remember your Alumni Sec- retar) with News. This is your column!

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There’s a new idea in gilts and it’s one of the best in a long, longO’ o

time It’s the idea of giving tele­phones for Christmas.

Few things aie so sine to he ap­preciated bv cveivbody For when you give someone an additional tele­phone you gi\c thiee of the greatest gifts of all —comfoit, convenience and security And “it’s fun to phone ”

So this year, make it something different and “give the gift you’d like to get.”

Save steps and work for Mother bv giving her an additional tele- phone for the kitchen or bedroom.

Help Dad avoid puffing up the staiis (they may be getting a little steeper, vou know) bv giving him a telephone in his woikshnp.

Rewaid the teen ageis who aie growing up so fast with a telephone for their very own. (That could be a bicak for you, too!)

Easy to do. The cost is modeiate. Thcic’s a choice of eight handsome colors. Ivory, beige, gicen, blue, led, yellow, biown and giay. lust call the Business Office of youi local Bell telephone company.

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REPRODUCTION FROM A COLOR PRINT FROM A SERIES LIFE IN EARLY PORTLAND COPYRIGHT 1949 THE CANAL NATIONAL BANK OF PORTLAND. MAINE

Household furnishingsThe interiors of houses in earliest Portland were somewhat dark and

gloomy affairs Window openings were few, if any, and during wintry or stormy weather were tightly shuttered At night the only light was fur­nished by home-made candles and the ever-present log fire Walls were merely roughly-adzed-out boards, sometimes covered with a mixture of clay and chopped straw Earthen floors tamped hard were usual, though some of the better homes had either puncheon or heavy sawn plank floors These latter were usually carefully sanded to smoothness

Furniture at first consisted solely of the single cupboard or chest brought by the family from England to hold clothing, stools, benches and tables were made by the settlers themselves There was little metal available, of course, so plows, shovels, rakes and almost all implements were carefully and pa­tiently fashioned by hand of the available variety of woods Churns, trays, firkins, tubs, tankards and trenchers were also of wood, often carved out

at night by the dim light of the fireside. The few pieces of this period that have survived show painstaking care in their nicely wrought, simple designs.

Pewter was scarce, and so precious to the family owning it that it was passed on in wills to the heirs, carefully and lengthily described, piece by piece. This is true also of the few cooking utensils owned by the earlier settlers. There was no glass and very little pottery. Sometimes native bog iron was used in fashioning cooking kettles, but wherever possible they were made of clay. However, clay at best had a short life over the open cooking fires, and the few iron pieces were treasured.

Ceorge Cleeves, Portland’s first mainland settler, in July, 1659, in one of the many legal proceedings he engaged in during his lifetime, filed a lengthy Bill of Complaint with the Court in which it is interesting to note that he was as much concerned over the alleged theft of his "brewing kittle and pott." as anything else.

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