I(ALAMAZOO
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Photo Album of Student Summer Abroad
KALAMA Z 0 0
A L u M N u s
OCTOBER, 1959
VOL. XXI
N 0. 4
CALENDAR
COVER
Th e snapshots of our students aboard w ere taken
by the faculty advisor to the Light Scholarship
group this past summer, Alfred DuBruck, member
of the foreign language department. On page 4 of
this issue appears an article written by Dr. Gunthe1·
Spaltmann, one of the professors under whom Kalamazoo College students studied at th e University of
Bonn in Germany, while engaged in foreign summer
study under the Light Scholarship Program.
Dec.
CONTENTS
The Ruml Plan
3
Berlin, Western Germany, and Western Europe
4
The Victor and the Spoils
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The Modern Hero in Popular Literature
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Another Generation
2
vVorld Affairs Lecture Series, 8:00 p.m., Stetson
Chapel. Speaker: Ian Ross MacFarlane, radioTV commentator. Topic: "The Next Crisis~'es t Africa"
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Basketball, Al~ion, there
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Basketball, Ferris Institute, here, 3:00 p.m.
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Carol Service, 8:00 p.m., Stetson Chapel
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Basketball, Alma, here, 8:00 p.m.
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Christmas vacation begins
Basketball, Hope, there
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Basketball, Ball State, there
1
Basketball tournament, Kalamazoo vs. Manchester and Kenyon vs. Albion at Albion
2
Basketball tournament, Kalamazoo vs. Kenyon
and Manchester vs. Albion, here
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4
Classes resume
Named Scholarships
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5
Basketball, Calvin, there
New Faculty
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8
Film, "All at Sea," 8:45 p.m., Upton 156
Kalamazoo, First with Mall
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Basketball, Adrian, here, 8:00p.m.
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Homecoming
New Crop Brings New Hope
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Quarterly Review
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Basketball, Hillsdale, there
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vVorld Affairs Lecture Series, Stetson Chapel,
8:00 p.m. Speaker: Alistair Cooke, moderator
for "Omnibus" and chief U. S. correspondent of
"The Manchester Guardian." Topic: "The
Pleasures and Pains of Anglo-American Understanding."
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Basketball, Olivet, here, 8:00 p.m.
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Recital of instrumental music by faculty artists,
Stetson Chapel, 4:00 p.m.
OFFICERS
Lois S. Harvey '29, President
Marshall H. Rutz '34, Vice President
Jane M. Rapley '37, Secretary
Executive Committee :?.fembers:
Douglas B. Braham '42
Charles E. Garrett '42
Garry E. Brown '5 1
\.erald A. Gilman '42
Gordon L. Dolbee '50
Richard A. Lemmer '41
Other Executive Board M embers:
Daniel M. Ryan '42, Alumni-Trustee
Dwight H. Rich '19, Alumni-Trustee
Margaret L. Machin '32. Alumni-Trustee
Kenneth H. Krum '45, K·Club President
Richard A. Walker '4 1, Kalamazoo President
Neil K. Plantefaber '47, Vice President
Betty S. Johnson '45, Secretary
Marilyn Hinkle '44, Editor, Alumni Secretary
Vespers, Stetson Chapel, 6:45 p.m. Speaker:
Dr. Woodrow Clark, First Baptist Church,
Royal Oak, Mich.
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Final Exams
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Basket ball, Lake Forest, there
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New Student Days
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The Rurnl Plan
By D R . W E I M E R K . H I C K S
NE OF THE :MOST controversial educational publications of the year is Beardsley Ruml' s Memo to
a College Tmstee. This small volume focused attention upon new techniques for the academic and
budgetary operations of institutions of higher learning. Coming at a time when our country is groping
for more effective methods of education, the book has
captured the fancy of the lay public but has been
received either neutrally or negatively by the academic world.
The Ruml Plan suggests a new division of the
operational budget, designed primarily to lift faculty
salaries. Parenthetically, even the most dedicated and
ivory-towered professor will applaud this objective,
for America's teachers have been the poor country
cousins of the professions. Beardsley Ruml's suggestions channel all charges for tuition - note I say
charges and not payments - solely to the support of
salaries. The plan requires that charges for board,
room and activities sustain themselves. Administrative salaries, maintenance expenses, auxiliary educational enterprises, etc. are financed from endowment
income and from yearly gifts to operations.
Advocates believe that the plan makes it far
easier to effect certain basic changes in an academic
institution, changes which must come in order that
higher education be prepared to combat the impending tidal wave of students soon to knock upon our
doors. Mr. Ruml proposes to reduce substantially
the number and variety of courses; to decrease the
semester hour load of students to save faculty time,
and to require more independent work by the undergraduate; and to decrease teaching loads by large lecture divisions in courses where class recitation is neither expected nor desired.
Now, obviously, such tradition-shattering proposals have been received in academic circles with a
feeling of mixed emotions. Anything which would
lift salary scales has necessarily to be scrutinized
carefully. But would these changes compromise the
fundamentals upon which American education has
been predicated?
The treatise also expresses a certain contempt for
collegiate efficiency which has not been applauded
among academicians. Consequently, much that Beardsley Rum] desires to accomplish has fallen on fallow
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ground. Last month's guest editorial in College and
University Business- a magazine championing the
pragmatic- concludes its analysis of Mr. Ruml's ideas
with this naive statement, "Most of us are convinced
that there is no clever or cost-less way to achieve the
prime goal of educational quality that is required to
meet the needs of our time."
To me this latter statement illustrates a type of
fuzzy thinking which can handicap higher education.
Obviously the H.uml Plan is not the panacea for all
our ills. Nor is it the answer to every college in the
nation. Yet careful study and application of its principals will demonstrate that there are advantages accruing from Beardsley Ruml's ideas which can increase academic efficiency, build sounder financial
foundations, and reward professors more adequately.
We at Kalamazoo know, for we have operated on a
modified Ruml Plan since 1953. We believe that our
adherence to the Plan is a major reason why our
salary scale has been lifted more than that of any coeducational college listed in the Chicago Tribune survey of the "ten best in the nation," with no apparent
loss in teaching efficiency.
What has the H.uml Plan accomplished at Kalamazoo? Most important of all, it has placed first
things first by giving budgetary priority to professors' salaries. Since the core of any academic institution is its faculty, the teaching st~ff has been given
primary consideration in the budget. Instead of determining salaries after the remainder of the budget
has been established, the Board of Trustees at Kalamazoo projects the desired salary levels and then e;tablishes tuition charges to meet the salary allotment.
Thus at Kalamazoo, or at any college having more
applicants than can be accommodated, there is little
danger of financial embarrassment through the Plan.
As a precaution against a sudden enrollment shift, our
College maintains a sizable reserve or contingency
fund. Through the Ruml Plan, neither administration nor Trustees can be tempted to balance the budget by a saving on faculty salaries. In addition, the
Plan places upon the development offices and the
Trustees the responsibility of securing adequate supplementary funds through endowment income and
operational gifts to support administrative and main(Continued on Page 13)
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Berlin,
Western Germany,
and Western Europe
HAVE BEEN ASKED to speak to you about Berlin and
Western Germany. I am sure that it is a great
honor for me, and I want to apologize for my bad
English. To explore the problems would be very
difficult even for somebody with better knowledge of
your language. But perhaps I have been chosen for
this task because the difficulty you will find in understanding me will only emphasize the difficulty of the
political situation. If you look at political meetings
you have very often the impression that nobody is
understanding anybody. And so I feel entitled to
speak to you.
When I arrived in New York some weeks ago, I
read a report on Berlin of the American writer with
the pure German name, Joseph Wechsberg. He tells
there the story of his first visit to Berlin after the war.
When he asked his friends about the fate of the city
and the people, he received the answer: "Aah, you
didn't miss anything really interesting." The Berliners
like the understatement, the so-called dry humor.
This summer, there was in one of the newspapers
in Berlin a cartoon, showing a tourist with a helmet
and a gas mask, crawling like a Red Indian along
the Kurfurstendamm, the large avenue which was
lined with cafe tables, where natives sat eating ice
cream and chatting.
But that doesn't mean that in spite of all their
mockery the people of Berlin are not aware of their
dangerous situation between East and West. They
have had their experiences, and just because they
know only too well what could and may happen, they
try to make the best of it.
Imagine a city like London partitioned by the
Thames, Paris halved along the Seine, or even New
York divided East and West of Broadway. Then
fence off one of the two sections, not only from the
other half, but also from all its surroundings on which
the population depends for its supplies, and you begin to approach the problem that is West Berlin.
Night after night, year after year, the milk wagons roll along the 100 miles of the Autobahn, the fast
motor road linking Berlin with its hinterland of the
West German Republic, to transport every drop of
milk required by the 2 and a half million inhabitants
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of the Island Berlin through the forbidden zone of
Soviet Germany. Every ton of coal and raw materials,
every pound of potatoes, vegetables and meat, every
ounce of sugar and butter, needed to heat, feed and
clothe its inhabitants, has to reach the Berlin outpost
by this expensive route, the railroad, or on the river
barges.
Not an egg, nor a shoe or a handkerchief comes
to West Berlin from its immediate neighborhood,
where all these goods are produced and from which it
once received most of its daily supplies. The power,
transport, and telephone systems for the two separated
parts of the town, planned and arranged for one unified community, have been split in two and reorganized on entirely different lines.
Across the middle of the same streets, across the
same underground tracks and train lines runs the Iron
Curtain, which separates the Eastern from the Western world, and which in Berlin has become more visible, and also more insane, than anywhere in the
world.
W
hen, during the Yalta Conference in 1945 the Allies agreed to make Berlin the seat of their joint
administration of occupied Germany, they did not
realize that they were creating a major political problem which, only a few years later, would lead them
By DR. GUNTHER SPALTMANN
Lecture opening the
World Affairs Series
on October 15
KALAMAZOO
COLLEGE
to the brink of war against one another. The common
danger had made the Allies forget their own differences, and perhaps they believed even that once the
German armies were beaten there would be an eternal
peace.
On May 2nd, 1945, after bloody last ditch fighting
around the Reichstag, the burned out former German
Parliament building, the Russian armies occupied the
whole of Berlin. The main forces of the Western
powers were by that time about 100 miles to the
west of the Elbe river, although their spearheads to
the north and south had penetrated into Germany
far east of Berlin, to the Baltic Sea over to the Czech
border. It has been a matter of argument among
political and military experts ever since, whether it
would have been better for the Western armies to
participate in the capture of Hitler's capital. I myself was at that time in the last German army, and I
know that even German generals hoped that the
American armies would advance into Berlin.
Later on, after the surrender of Germany, the
occupying troops of the Western powers came to
Berlin. They took over a city of dead, in which - almost a contradiction - over 3 million people were still
living. Most of the houses were in ruins, there was
hardly an unbroken window in the city. The water
supply system had broken down and typhus was raging. Public transportation was practically non-existent, except for short stretches of the flooded underground railway, where some tracks had already been
replaced. It seemed easier at that time to evacuate
the whole town and try to erect a better one somewhere else than to hope to rebuild this huge area of
devastation.
Two weeks after the first Western troops entered
Berlin, the heads of the Allied Governments, President
Truman, Churchill, and Stalin, met in the Western
Berlin suburb of Potsdam, to draft their ill-fated
agreement on the future Allied policy for the reconstruction of Germany. On the 30th of July, the three
victorious generals, Eisenhower, Montgomery, and
Zhukov, assembled for their first meeting. The building selected for this purpose was the former Kammergericht, one of the High Courts of Germany, in
which after the bombplot against Hitler in 1944 so
many of the German generals and politicians had
been sentenced to be hanged on butchers' hooks.
Berlin, in those first 18 months of occupation, became a city of the Black Market. German money was
worth hardly more than the paper on which it was
printed, even the purchase of the barest necessities
presented grave problems. An additional hardship
was the almost complete lack of fuel. Electricity and
gas were strictly rationed and often only supplied at
such odd hours as from 3:00 a.m. to 5:00 a.m. in the
morning. During the terrible winter of 1946-1947,
the last tree trunks of the Tiergarten, Berlin's Hyde
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DR.GUNTHERSPALTMANN
Dr. Spaltmann is teaching on the
Kalama:::;oo C allege campus this year as a
visiting lectureT. Kalamazoo College
students studying under the S. R. Light
Scholarship Program the past two summers
have taken courses from him at the
University of Bonn, and their enthusiam
initiated his coming to Kalamazoo. He
is teaching courses in German and a special
course in Aspects of European Civilization.
Dr. Spaltmann received his doctorate in 1939
front the University of Bonn. In addition to
teaching at the University, he has lectured
at the German Academy in Munich and the
German Scientific Institute in Bucharest.
He is a German author of note and has
translated some fifteen books.
Park, and of the green belt of the Grunewald, disappeared in the stoves of the desperate Berliners, together with complete libraries and valuable antique'
furniture. Many old and helpless people froze to
death.
It was in those days that the cigarette changed
from its original purpose to become the stabilizing
factor in the currency situation. Prices were based
on the cigarettes brought in by British and American
soldiers. The ordinary worker's weekly wages were
not worth 3 cigarettes.
For a girl to have a British or American boy
friend made all the difference to her family, and those
were pleasant days for British and American soldiers,
owners of cigarettes, of chocolates, sweets and coffee.
The Americans tackled the problems of the black
market in grand style, and the Germans, mainly (but
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not only) by necessity, became the real masters of
the market and produced particularly unpleasant
types of successful racketeers - today many of them
are industrialists or film-producers.
hen the cold war began, Berlin became its
battleground. One can almost say it started
there. Its immediate cause was, ironically enough,
the contest between the former Allies for the love of
their common nightmare, the German people. Still
about 70 million strong, efficient, tough and hardworking, with an amazing power of recovery, the German nation was a force of major importance in the
settlement of any future Allied differences.
Least of all the Russians succeeded. They might
have met with more affection from German hearts,
had their deeds been more in line with their declarations. But when they behaved exactly as Hitler's
propaganda-chief Goebbels had predicted they would,
they lost every hope of gaining the friendship of the
German people.
In October, 1946, the population of Berlin under
Allied decree and supervision, went to the polls to
elect their new City Assembly, which was to be their
Government. As the Eastern and the Western Allies were no longer impartial, but hoped for the victories of certain parties, Four-power supervision
teams were set up in all the sectors of Berlin. The
result of the election was a severe blow to Russian
hopes and prestige. The political scene in the following year, 1947, was dominated by the controversy
over the office of Oberburgermeister, the head of the
Berlin Government. After a short interlude there
came the great time of Ernst Reuter, who had been in
his youth a convinced Communist and therefore knew
the tactics and the intentions of Moscow. He had
been trained in Moscow and Lenin himself had pointed him out as one of the future leaders of \VorldCommunism. But now he was on the other side.
On the 20th of March, the Russian Commander
Marshal Sokolovsky and all the members of his staff
walked out of the Allied Control Council, thus marking the end of combined Four-power control over
Germany and the city of Berlin. On the 29th of June,
one day before the Western Allies officially announced
the introduction of the new stablized Deutsche Mark,
the Russians made it known that all road traffic into
Berlin would be stopped.
There can be little doubt that Stalin, who seems
to have been personally responsible for the new tough
Soviet policy, hoped that the blockade would force
the Western Allies out of Berlin. Thus the hole in
the Iron Curtain would have been closed, effecting
not only a considerable stabilization of the Russians
hold on their zone of occupation, but also a loss of
prestige for the West. But General Clay, who was
beginning to like Germans, built up the famous air-
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lift. After eleven months the blockade was lifted,
;:,nd the danger of another world war had receded.
After that, Western Berlin made a remarkable
recovery, thanks to the effect of the currency reform,
Marshall Aid, contributions from Western Germany
and, last but not least, the stubbornness of the people.
Now downtown Berlin is one great building site.
Along the Kurfurstendamm and around the Zoo Railroad Station, all is organized confusion. A new Subway line and a couple of underground highways are
being pushed through to completion. "It's a good
idea to build now, while we still have time and
money," say the skeptical people. After the Ultimatum, they are building even more feverishly. The
Telefunken Company erects a 21 story building. Axel
Springer, the chief of the famous Bild-Zeitung, circulation more than 3 million and, as we like to say,
containing worse reading than any other newspaper in
the world, has already put out a sum of 8 or 9 million
dollars for his new printing house - he himself being
of Hamburg.
And always there is something going on in Berlin- Festivals, Congresses and so forth. And though
they are very skeptical about the future, there is no
sign of a refugee mentality.
And Western Germany is trying to help on a
larger scale even than before. Not only the government, but the industrialists, too. The President of
the Federation of German Industries in Cologne said,
"Berlin is an outpost of the Federal Republic. If the
outpost falls, we all go down sooner or later."
In the Federal Republic, the political recovery
has been burdened with the heavy mortgage of the
division of Germany, and its industrial potential is
disorganized due to war destruction and dismantling.
And, last but not least, it was occupied entirely by
foreign forces when a freely elected German parliament held its first meeting in Bonn.
t the time of its foundation in 1949, it was not at
all a matter of course that the Federal Republic
would consolidate its democratic order. On the oontrary: not only most foreign observers but also many
Germans had serious doubts regarding this possibility.
Very important it seemed to be that there is a law,
stating that all incitement to national, racial or religious hatred will be punished. After the war, the
Communists did not do better than the rightest extremists in trying to rewin their traditional influence
in Germany. One should not forget that after the
first World War, Germany was the European county
with the strongest Communist Mass Organization and
the country which, in the opinion of Lenin and his
followers, offered the best chance for the Communist
Revolution. "He who has Germany, has the whole of
Europe."
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KALAMAZOO
COLLEGE
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is best known to most historians
as the man who stated the principle that long
governed American party politics: "to the victor belong the spoils of the enemy." Ever since Marcy asserted this principle, in 1832, the custom whereby a
successful candidate in an election contest rewards
his supporters with appointive public offices has been
called the "spoils system." Of course Marcy did not
originate the spoils system, for it was practiced even
in ancient times. He did formulate its basic idea
frankly and succinctly. However, lvor D. Spencer
has demonstrated that Marcy was much more than
the author of a famous plu·ase. He served three terms
as governor of the state of ew York, was secretary
of war in the cabinet of President Polk and Secretary
of State under President Buchanan, besides holding a
variety of other offices. One of these was United
States senator from New York. It was during his brief
tenure in the Senate (he didn't really like the job at
all) that he coined the phrase which has ever since
been associated with his name.
Marcy was no cheap politician. He was a party
man from first to last, because he discerned that in
American public life the only way to be effective is
through party loyalty. He had a mind of his own, and
he was very influential within the Democratic Party,
but he was not one to sulk or revolt if the party did
not accept his ideas. He was always at his party's
beck and call, but it would be quite unfair to say that
he never thought for himself at all.
Spencer devotes the major portion of this volume
to Marcy's career as secretary of state. And he proves
that this New Yorker was both an indefatigable worker and a skillful diplomat, and also that his judgment
has stood the test of time. He had to work under a
president, Franklin D. Pierce, who was at best, a
mediocrity.
He was handicapped by the incompetents whom
Pierce selected to represent the United States abroad.
In spite of this, Marcy made a brilliant record. The
Gadsden Treaty, by which the United States obtained
ILLIAM L. MARCY
The Victor
and the Spoils
As reviewed by Willis F. Dunbar '24
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DR. IVOR D. SPENCER
HEAD OF TI-lE HISTORY DEPARTMENT
From Brown University Press
a book on William L. Marcy
by Dr. Ivor D. Spencer
a large grant of land from Mexico to facilitate the
building of a transcontinental railroad by the southern route; a treaty with Great Britain settling the longstanding fisheries problem; adroit handling of the
three American diplomats who joined in the famous
Ostend Manifesto which stated that the United States
should buy Cuba from Spain if Spain would sell, and
otherwise seize it- these are a few of Marcy's
achievements. Spen cer's volume sheds much new
light on American diplomacy in the 1850's.
An immense amount of research went into the
preparation of this volume, and it will long remain
the definitive life of Marcy. The author's style i~t
factual , but he is neither flamboyant nor dull. The
reader does not put down the book feeling that he
really knows Marcy very well as a man; but he certainly knows thoroughly the record of the man's:
career. Spencer does not dodge the responsibility of
appraisal and judgment in summing up Marcy's public life. The balance between criticism and eulogy is
excellent.
Historians will be quoting Spencer's biography
for many years to come. Based as it is on solid research and the extensive study of primary sources, it
will be referred to and used long after flashier and
more popular books of our time are forgotten. The
typography of the book is excellent, but the publishers
could have given it a more attractive format.
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The
Modern Hero
In
Popular Literature
Continuation of series;
in the last issuethe western hero
By DR. WALTER W. WARING
the hero of the westeiU
drama holds no charm for a large portion of our
society. Professing total displeasure in the tendency
of television programming, many Americans find their
hero best represented by other media: the cinema, the
periodical, or the popular novel. But, if television
provides a hero for millions of our population, the
press and cinema provide another to suit the taste of
hundreds of thousands.
Though superficially more individualistic and undeniably more sophisticated than his brother in the
western story, the popular hero of cinema and press
professes characteristics no less revealing of our society. At the risk of offending those who are accustomed to the term in a more limited and historical
context, we shall call him the transcendental hero.
The transcendental hero has forebearers in literary history nearly as illustrious as those of the hero
of westerns, but to find them we turn from Homer and
Sophocles to Marlowe, Shakespeare, and Byron. Faustus, the hero of Marlowe's well-known drama, illustrates this hero's central characteristics. Prepossessing neither in his appearance nor in his actions, his
chief claims upon the reader are his intellectual
powers and his spiritual vigor. In such possession of
these attributes, he attempts the citadel of the angels,
but suceeds only in jading mind and body. In spite
of his more obvious failure, whether or not his actions have destroyed the human spirit remains in
some doubt. Sitting in judgment upon friends and
kin, Hamlet, a blood brother of Faustus, also plays at
being god. Though more circumspect in his actions,
he is potentially as guilty as Faustus. Yet, when
Horatio speaks, "Now cracks a noble heart. Good
night, sweet prince, and flights of angels sing thee to
thy rest!" the issue is equally in doubt. In Manfred, Byron's hero speaks what seems to be the fundamental faith of the transcendental hero,
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"Must crimes be punish'd but by other crimes,
And greater criminals?- Back to thy hell!
Thou hast no power upon me, that I feel;
Thou never shalt possess me, that I know:
What I have done is done; I bear within
A torture which could nothing gain from thine:
The mind which is immortal makes itself
Requital for its good or evil thoughts Is its own origin of ill and end And its own place and time-its innate sense, .. -.
Thou didst not tempt me, and thou couldst not
tempt me;
I have not been thy dupe, nor am thy prey But was my own destroyer, and will be
My own hereafter.- Back, ye baffled fiends!
The hand of death is on me- but not yours!"
N SPITE OF HIS POPULARITY,
The hero of popular modern fiction is measured
by this faith. Whatever his face, his talents, his actions, he evokes the deep-seated desires of humanity
at the expense of any or all ethical considerations. He
seems to reason that self-fulfillment, whatever its cost
in personal pain or public shame, is the goal of 1mman life. The convictions of the transcendental hero
stem from a belief that the human spirit is the measure of man and that any action taken in its interest is
justifiable.
That the human spirit is inviolate may not always
appear to be the dramatic center in the struggle of his
hero; yet an inspection of popular fiction of the last
one hundred years seems to support our notion. David Copperfield, to cite a nineteenth century example,
encounters risks that are not so dangerous to life and
limb as they are to the fulfillment of his human potentials. Thus, despite the attractive qualities of both
Dora, the child-wife, and Stem-forth, the prepossessing
villian, both must give way to Copperfield's development. Abner Snopes in William Faulkner's Bam
Buming, destroys the property of his creditor~ to
preserve his last ray of human dignity. The fastidious
hero of Lolita parades his shame throughout the United States, but the damage he does to life and social
order is carefully balanced against the demands of his
spirit. Once again the final issue remains in doubt.
And, though the example is in strange contrast with
Manfred, who among us cannot pity and fear the
grandiose perversities of Thurber's Walter Mitty?
The significance this hero has for critics of contemporary culture is not difficult to discover. Those
who turn from the specious morality of the hero of
western stories to the transcendental hero of press and
screen eventually wonder whether the concomitant
loss of societal standards is worth the equivalent gain
of individual integrity.
KALAMAZOO
COLLEGE
Another
Generation
New first and second generation students at Kalamazoo College this year number 24. Above, in front of a familiar Bowen
Hall window, four of the freshmen are shown looking over
earlier Boiling Pots for student pictures of their parents. From
the left, Philip 0. Presley, son of the Reverend Oran Presley
'40, Margate City, N. ].; Douglas E. Blagdon, son of Charles
A. Blagdon '33, Kalamazoo; Kay A . Jennings, daughter of
Barbara McKinstry Jennings '38, Paw Paw, and grand daughter
of Mr. '15 and Mrs. Mark S. McKinstry (Bee Blinston '16); and
Thomas S. Loupe, son of Dr. George E. Loupee '30, Dowagiac.
Unable ao be present faT this picture was Bethany S. Vercoe,
daughter of Philip H . Vercoe '24.
In the composite, starting from the top, left to right, are
David H. Anderson, son of Mr . '33 and Mrs. Donald T. Anderson (Ruth Schlobohm '36), Kalamazoo, and grandson of Harley
T. Anderson '06; Mary Alice Ayers, daughter of Dr. John C.
Ayers '34, Dexter; Richard N. Doyle, son of Dr. '23 and Mrs.
FTed M. Doyle (Wilma VanderVelde '24), Kalamazoo; Jeffery
B. Aldrich, son of MT. '33 and Mrs. Robert H. Aldrich (Virginia
Kibler '35), Parchment; Anne E. Howlett, daughter of Mr. '29
and Mrs. Thomas D. Howlett (LeAnna Gang '27), Gregory;
Charles D. ·wood, son of Mr. '40 and MTs. G. Daniel Wood
(Helen French '43), Highland Park; Robett K. Morgan, grandson of Ernest Morgan '08; Gayle A. Mitchell, daughter of Neva
Hirleman Mitchell '27, Hila, Hawaii; Stephen A . Ferrara, son
of V. Peter FeTrara '34, Elmhurst, Ill.; E. John Graichen, son
of LaVange Pearson Leete '27, Fremont; Mary E. Dykhouse,
daughter of Phyllis Sergeant Dykhouse '33, Kalamazoo; Leo B.
Rasmussen, son of Leo B. Rasmussen '35, Vicksburg; Douglas
A. Long, son of MT. '34 and Mrs. Delbert D. Long (Doris
Webster '33), Big Rapids; Alan Strong, son of Dr. Laurence E.
Stmng '36, Richmond, Ind.; Nancy S. Tabor, daughter of
Evelyn Pinel Tabor '26, Middleville; Fred C. Kolloff, son of
Dr. Harold G. Kolloff '33, Kalamazoo; Georgia L. Irvine,
daughter of Elizabeth M.oo·re Irvine '29, Kalamazoo; and Robert
Hayne, son of Don Hayne '32, Ann Arbor, grand son of Dr.
'99 and Mrs. Coe Hayne (Ethel Shandrew '06).
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The College is grateful to alumni
and friends who have made the
following scholarships possible.
The list indicates the name of the
scholarship and the student
recipients for the current year.
SCHOLARSHIPS
SCHOLARSHIPS IN SPECIAL FIELDS
Band Scholarship
Ronald Hooker, Grand Rapids
Raymond Comeau, Three Rivers
Chester A. Bernard
James Smith, Bay City
Joan Parker, Gary, Ind.
Y. J. Beimer
Richard Hudson, Muskegon
Harry G. Burns Memorial
Kendall Brooks
Jane Ayers, Dexter
Eva Eicher, Kalamazoo
Judith Katz, Muskegon
David Larson, Westfield, N.J.
Clarage Foundation-Science Clifford Harwood, Marshall
James eujahr, Kalamazoo
David Wrend, Dearborn
William Hoffman, Alto
Dow Chemical Company
John Keana, Benton Harbor
Robert Kelly, St. Joseph
Robert MacDonald, Traverse City
Gas Dealers
Robert Hoard, Galesburg
Loren Campbell, Cadillac
General Motors
Barbara Lape, Grand Rapids
Gordon Radwan, Ferndale
John Thompson, South Bend, Ind.
Thomas Warke, Hudsonville
H. Colin Hackney
Robert Morgan, Kalamazoo
James Saylor, Ft. Wayne, Ind.
John Wesley Hornbeck
H. Clair Jackson Memorial
Ellen Welles, Kalamazoo
The Light Scholarship
Virginia Phillips, San Francisco
Clark MacKenzie
Robert Miles, Jacksonville, Fla.
Music-Competitive
Lynn Larkin, St. Joseph
Ransom Fidelity
Mary Ulander, Cadillac
Science-Competitive
Douglas Blagdon, Kalamazoo
Edward Chad Gray, Climax
Charles Hornbeck, Naperville, Ind.
Paul Livingston, Shelby
Emma W. Sharp
Margery Hayes, \Vorchester, Mass.
Standard Oil Foundation
John Falk, Ypsilanti
Allen B. Stowe
Jack Hulst, Holland
The Tennis Scholarship
Robert Morgan, Kalamazoo
Upjohn ScholarshipsJon Lindenberg, Sister Lakes
Chemistry
Charles Lines, Kalamazoo
Julian Schreur, Kalamazoo
Robert Stephens, Kalamazoo
Paul Trehearne, Sturgis
John Beukema, Howe, Ind.
Upjohn ational Merit
Stuart McConnell, Jackson
Winifred Dewing Wallace Patricia Bartlett, Grand Rapids
David Brown, Otsego
Susan Schroeder, Kalamazoo
ALUMNI SCHOLARSHIPS
Kenneth Elzinga, Kalamazoo
Miscellaneous
Robert Hayne, Williamston
Kay Ann Jennings, Paw Paw
Alan Strong, Richmond, Ind.
Charles B. Wood, Highland Park
William Russey, Baltimore, Md.
Baltimore
Karen Moore, Natick, Mass.
Boston
Adrienne Hartl, Chicago, Ill.
Chicago
Janet Grimm, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Pittsburgh
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AREA SCHOLARSHIPS
Consumers Power Company Robert Johnston, Kalamazoo
Mauri Monihan, Grand Rapids
Dale Mead, Dearborn
Detroit Edison Company
Farmers Insurance
Vi'endell Peterson, Muskegon
David Bellingham, Plainwell
Joseph W. Hicks
Star Schultheiss Jarvis, Plainwell
Kalamazoo Area
Elizabeth Hayne Babcock, Williamston
Richard Burnham, Parchment
Gertrude DeHoog, Kalamazoo
Mary Ellen Steketee Fischer, Holland
James Hunter, Kalamazoo
James Iovino, Providence, R.I.
Jeffery Keiser, Three Rivers
Patricia Kooi, Kalamazoo
Donald Kreling, Kalamazoo
William Orr, Parchment
James Siwik, Kalamazoo
Edwin J. Stager, Galesburg
Ronald Stoutmeyer, Kalamazoo
Phillip Steffey, Kalamazoo
Robert vVendzel, Kalamazoo
Wendel Wickland, Muskegon
Foreign Student
Maung Tha Din, Rangoon, Burma
Laszlo Engleman, Budapest, Hungary
Sachiko Kpbayachi, Tokyo, Japan
Kalamazoo Motor Freight Agents
Richard Ray, Jackson
Ojars Smits, Kalamazoo
H. H. LaTourette
Anne E. Struhsaker, Lansing
Lela Davis, Vicksburg
Lee Paper Company
Jean Lawrence, Vicksburg
Gloria Rink, Grand Rapids
Michigan Consolidated Cas
Wei Liang, Hong Kong
Preston Parish
John Howell, Lansing
Emma 0. Reed
John Mason, Stockbridge
Thuridur Jonsdottir, Iceland
H.otary Club
Russell Scheib, Richland
Sutherland Paper Company
CHURCH SCHOLAH.SHIPS
American Baptist Bd. of Ed. Lillie Adams, Billings, Mont.
LaH.ay Denzer, Minnesota City, Minn.
Clifford Harwood, Marshall
John Howell, Lansing
David Larson, Westfield, N.J.
James Marlett, Greenwood, Ind.
Maurie Monihan, Grand Rapids
Linda Monti, Oil City, Pa.
Philip Presley, Margate, N.J.
Baptist Scholarships
Meredith Clark, H.idgewood, N.J.
Jeanne Hand, Detroit
Margery Hayes, Worchester, Mass.
Stephen Lipman, Ilean, N.Y.
Donna Looney, Pittsburgh, Pa.
James Marlett, Greenwood, Ind.
Janice Smith, Olean, N.Y.
Gary Wood, Penfield, N.Y.
Ministers' Scholarships
John Grandin, Suncook, N.H.
John Lake, Haddonfield, N.J.
KALAMAZOO
COLLEGE
C. Van Husen
Huth Seifert, Battle Creek
Peter Wolcott, Brooklyn, N.Y.
John Grandin, Suncook, N. H.
Gary Harris, Rochester, N.Y.
ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIPS
Raymond Blackwell, Lincoln Park
Jessie Hoyt Ames
Bonnie Bradford, \Vatervliet
Axtell Fund
Linda Anderson, Muskegon
Edward E. Chapple Fund
Carol Dennis, Zanesville, Ohio
David Anderson, Kalamazoo
Ainsworth Clark Fund
Joeine Dipple, Kalamazoo
Sarah A. DeWaters Fund
Alexander Dodds Fund
Edite Balks, Battle Creek
Linda Hunter, Hammond, Ind.
Ralph Saylor, Ft. Wayne, Ind.
Kathryn Evatt, Ferndal e
Eldred Memorial
Dan Zanotti, Manistee
Harmon Everett Memorial
David Mayers, St. Johns
Charles Bursey, Mus~<egon
Horace J., Lizzie P. Fuller
John i\1. , Louisa C. Gregory Joanne Bakule, Berwyn, Jll.
Hobert Kitchel, Okemos
Thomas T. Leete, Jr., Fund
Hosemary Luther,
Mr. and Mrs. Floyd H. Olmsted
Muskegon
Harold W. Pomeroy
James Lindberg, Grand H.apids
Michael Swenson , Muskegon
Carl A. Soule Fund
Huth Swift Memorial Fund
Jean ette \Vhite, \Varren
Donald Schneider, Muskegon
Lewis A. Taft Fund
John Adams, Three Hivers
Charles Willard
Linda Brenneman, Lima, Ohio
Student Ai(l Fund
Susan Calkins, Holland
Hoger Creel, Jasper, Ala.
Terence Eads, Ft. \Vayne, Incl.
William Japinga, Holland
Linda Montie, Oil City. Pa.
1\larilyn Szpiech , Cary, Ind.
Jan is Ducmanis, Kc1lamazoo
Latvian Scholarships
Atis Crinhergs , Kalamazoo
Girts K:mg1rs, Kalamazoo
Mara Kaugars , Kalamazoo
Maruta Vigants, Kahma zoo
Maija Zadins, Kalamazoo
Anita Zeltins , Kalamazoo
OTHEH. SCHOLAHSHIPS
Ford Foundation Fund
Thomas Krause, Linc1ln Park
K:1lamazoo National Sch olarships
Mary Anderson ,
Intprnational Falls, Minn.
I .a Hay DenzE'r, Minnpsota City, Minn .
Rarhara FriesP, Southbridge, Mass.
I .awn•nce lnderbitzen, Muskeg: m
James Saylor, Ft. \Vayn e, Tnd.
\Villiam Vincent, Kalama ~oo
Kalamazoo Science Foundation
Terrell Blodgett,
Kalamazoo
Elizabeth Johnston, Muskeg Jn
National Merit Scholarships
Donna Looney,
Pittsburg~1, Pa.
Alexander McKay, Ann Arbor
Kurt Mikan, Muskegon
Nancy Tomlinson, Churchville, Pa.
Hichard Mathews, Dearborn
Adrienn e Hartl. Chicago, Ill.
C. M. Pullman Fund
\<\Tilliam Zuspan , Chicago, Ill.
Jonathan Ford, Benton Harbor
Tiscornia Foundation
Richard Schultz. Kalamazoo
Whirlpool Ccrporation
Grace Hayes, Little Hock, Ark.
\Vomen's Council
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TTAfiOLD TT. KUHLMAN
JTamld IT. Kul1!man has IJ I'I' n appointed director of admissions
and com es to K•dama;::.oo from his position as reg istrar at
Colorado Woman's College. H e has served as president of
th e Colorado-vVyoming Association of Collegiate R egistrars
and Admissions Office rs. For several yea rs h e was director
of Filmn er Christian College in the Philippines. li e is a 193R
gmduate of the Univ ersity of Redlal1fll· and has o Tl .D. from
th e Berkeley Tlaptist Divinity School.
Heman H ernandez, head of the modPm language d epartm ent
at the National University and professo r of Spanish at the University of the Andes, Bogota, ColomlJia, is at th e College this
year to teach courses in Spa11i.s11 conversation and co mposition
and in Spanish-American literature. li e has studied at tlw
!J niversidad Pedagogica in Bogota, from which he was graduated in . 1941 , th e University of Michigan, La Sorhone in
Paris, and Columhia University. Mr. Kuhlman and Mr. H ernandez are joined hy Dr. Gunther Spaltmann (page 4) as th e
three new full-tim e m emhers of th e staff this year .
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ALUMNI VISITING KALAMAZOO since
August would find a new and different downtown area! The city
now boasts the first permanent
mall in the country, and its initial
stages have converted the two
blocks of Burdick Street, from
South Street to Water Street, into
an attractive park, complete with
lawn, flowers and shrubs- fountain, stage and playground. This
treatment of the heart of the business section has allowed shoppers
pleasant hours, free from vehicle
traffic and confusion.
"The people walk slower and
spend more time shopping," states
Elton W. Ham executive director
of the Downtown Kalamazoo Association. He said that the volume
of retail sales for September was
up 25 7o over the normal volume.
The mall has also stimulated
storefront remodeling and interior
improvement, hiking property evaluations and hence potential property tax collections. Mr. Ham, head
of the political science department
at Kalamazoo College, was a driving force behind the movement
for the mall.
The present stage of development is only the beginning of a
twenty-year plan to provide an
auto-free central business district.
Meanwhile, Kalamazoo and its
new mall have become a mecca
for city planners, municipal officials, merchants and civic leaders
from all over the nation.
A view of the mall.
Elton Ham, Exec. Director,
Downtown Kalamazoo Assn.
Burdick Street, formerly.
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tenance programs. On this campus, at least, the plan
has succeeded financially.
Again, our stedfast adherence to the Ruml idea
has led to increased academic efficiency. Course proliferation - even empire building - is the enigma of
administrative life on many campuses. Tragically,
too, some administrators seem even oblivious to this
weakness. Last spring I visited one of America's most
respected small colleges in which the President proudly stated that every one of his professors was given
permission to teach his specialty, regardless of the
need for or value of the course. What an endictment
against both administrative control and academic
efficiency! That college, I might add, even with a
wealthy constituency, high charges, and mediocre
salaries, is having to exact questionable economics to
end each year in the black.
By departmental study and reorganization, Kalamazoo has reduced its course offerings nearly 20 %
even though enrollment has increased 80%. Both
faculty and administration recognize that the larger
the faculty-student ratio, the smaller the individual
remuneration to the professor. Thus departments are
encouraged to develop an efficient course sequence.
They can see added advantages in combining courses
where unification can be accomplished without educational handicap. Professors have come to rc :::o;;nize
that empire building within any department will ultimately be financed by the individual professor. Thus
major decisions for dep.trtmental enlarge1~1 :: nts can
be more freely undertaken by the academic de~:a who
can control objectively the entire program.
None would deny that there are dangers implicit
in the Ruml Plan which can weaken the intrinsic
structure of an institution. A college is not a factory.
It deals with men rather than machines. We cannot
treat the human mind as an inanimate object. Consequently, the type of automation characterizing a
manufacturing enterprise has little to offer higher education. At the same tim e, the small college may well
be riding to death the horse of its differences. We
have insisted so vigorously that education is a professor on one end of the log and a student on the other
that many have come to believe that no education accrues unless it is individualized. I would ask, "Cannot a stimulating professor in a lecture course speak
as effectively to 250 as to 25?" Yet there are still
some colleges which insist that no class, regardless of
the pedagogical techniques, should enroll more than
the previously-mentioned 25.
In like manner, must it always be necessary that
each class convene the identical number of hours per
week as the total semester hours assigned to the
course? Has not our insistence on this technicality
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recitation type of teaching? Education is ;m individual matter. The teacher can only expose, challenge,
stimulate. The student himself must seek and find.
By our persistent emphasis upon the class period, we
have destroyed individual initiative which should
characterize the learning situation. While there is
danger in the "do-it-yourself" concept which the Ruml
Plan espouses, with intelligent direction this danger
can be turned to advantage.
Here at Kalamazoo we are still exploring. Many
of the basic tenets proposed by Mr. Ruml remain under surveillance. Our faculty load stands at 12-13
hours per week, a far cry from the nine which he
champions. We have held stedfast to the traditional
semester hour schedule, though the faculty and its
sub- committees are scrutinizing the Ruml suggestion
and comparable proposals with great care.
We cannot ascertain the road ahead. We can
recognize only that the road will be more crowded
with students and our responsibilities will be greater
than at any time in history. We are detennined,
therefore, that we will continue to take a long and
thorough look at the educational pattern we espouse,
hoping that through diligent study we may evolve
new techniques and methods which will find Kalamazoo College prepared to serve its students with
greater efficiency.
The official enmllment a~ K:damazoo
College this fall is 681 stud:mts.
Th ere are 68 students, an all-time high,
enmlled in Russian language courses.
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Vick Kishpaugh who handles sports
publicity for the College and who i,y a
regular contribut01· to the "Alumnus," has
publiJhed a reco·rd book covering Michigan high school basketball tournament
statistics fmm 1917 to 1959. Gathering'
sports statistics is a long-time hobby
with Dick who is supervisor of systems
and procedures at KVP Company.
Carolyn Fox, daughter of Mr. '27 and
Mrs. Gould Fox, has been apnointed to
the College faculty to teach modern
dance.
Nearly 150 alumni in Kalamazoo are
busily engaged in the personal solitication for the Twentieth Annual Fund.
Leaders for the Fund include Mark
Zarbock '49, general chairman; Robert
Boudeman '40, chairman of advanced
gifts; and Marian Hall Starbuck '45 and
Donald Kent '49, co-chairmen of th 3
general and alumni division.
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The Hu111 ecoming Queen is crowned!
Left to right, Judith Pavia, Racine, Wis. ;
Gail Chisholm, Kalamazoo;
Queen Beverly Castle, Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.;
Student Senate President, Robert MacDonald,
Traverse City;
jane A yers, Dexter, Mich.;
and Margaret \Veid, Ann Arbor.
Snapped as Alumni Council members gathered fur
semi-annual meeting. Left, Dorothy Matthews Deehr
'32, Manistee; and Mr. '52 and Mrs. Tom Willson,
Evanston, Ill. , and the Sherwood display. Middle
photograph, Mr. '48 and Mrs. Ted TrofJ (Connie Newlcmcl '53), Benton Harbor; Dr. Richard Walker '41 ,
Kalamazoo; and Ernest Bergan '47, South Bend, Ind.
They are pres•dents of the alumni clubs of Southwestern Michigan, Kalamazoo, and South Bend, respectively. They are viewing the campus display of the
Euros which won the first prize for the women's entries. Right, Freel Windoes '11, Evanston, Ill., and
football captain of his day; and the Reverend Stewart
Crandell '03, Battle Creek, take a look at the Century
Forum display which captured first place for men.
G
janet Grimm leads a "Brek-ki-ki-kex"
at the bonfire-pep rally which
touched off the Homecoming week end.
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Nevertheless, all the fears have been greatly exaggerated: Democracy showed this time that it could
take roots in Germany. The conditions have changed
and also the reactions of the citizens to conditions.
Looking at it realistically, among these conditions
one should mention first of all the economic development of the Federal Republic. For one thing is certain: if the new state had not succeeded in mastering
the tremendous economic problems, it would never
have managed to get consolidated. The "German
Economic Miracle," the astounding recovery and rise
in production, is also a political factor of great importance. Of course, a sound economy alone does
not guarantee sound politics. But it helps. And the
new democracy showed its worth also in the more
specific, political sphere. Principally this refers to
the fact that - quite in contrast to the situation in the
era of the Weimar Republic after the first World
V/ar- it has been possible to establish more stable
governments. For exactly ten years now, the same
man has been in charge of the conduct of the states'
business - a record for Europe, if a few small states
are not considered. There is no doubt that Federal
Chancellor Adenauer partly owes this extraordinary
stability of his Cabinets to his outstanding personality
and his political successes. Under his leadership the
Federal Republic has overcome the consequences of
the collapse and regained a respected international
position.
In the Atlantic Alliance it has found a firm backing. The stability is also based on objective factors
so that I don't think democracy would be in danger
when there will be another Chancellor.
Since 1949, the two big parties, Adenauer's CDU,
and the Socialdemocrats, have often clashed with
great sharpness over issues of German domestic and
foreign policies. But both parties, unreservedly, adhere to the existing political system. In the first German Republic all forces loyal to the state were constantly forced to agree to compromises, to accept
responsibility for measures they could really not defend. Their voters therefore turned easily to those
exh·emist groups that did not need to worry about
any responsibility. Dislike of the government coalition easily changed into hostility to the state under
such circumstances. Today, such dissatisfaction can
find an outlet democratically by turning to an opposition which also belongs to the forces loyally supporting the state. This means that in the present German system there is something that never existed in
the Weimar Republic, namely a democratic alternative to the government policy.
The geographical situation of Germany and, even
more, Germany's development since the end of the
war are most probably responsible for the political
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controversies and excite passionate anQ. apparently
endless discussions concerning the international position of the country. Germany has always been situated at the crossroads of Europe between East and
West. But the dangers inherent in this central position naturally become more felt and more pressing
when East and West not only confront each other as
two political blocks, but also as groups representative
of two different social systems. The problem has become truly inescapable since this opposition has torn
Germany itself apart and since the issue of German
reunification, the central issue of any German politics,
is inseparably interrelated with the East-West conflict.
he policy adopted by Adenauer and his government is based on the thesis that German reunification should not be purchased at the price of giving
up the security of the Federal Republic and the
friendship to the Western forces. For a future allGerman Parliament they thus also demand freedom
of decision on whether it would favor membership in
an international defense alliance similar to the North
Atlantic Treaty or whether it would prefer a natural
status. This policy is to date supported also by the
Western Allies, and Germany hopes that the new
peace-action of Khruschev will not induce essential
changes in the mind of the West.
East Berlin, with the assistance of Moscow, demands as a prerequisite even for negotiations on a
confederation between the two German states, that
the Federal Republic withdraw from the orth Atlantic Treaty Organization, thus terminating the
Western Alliance. As a matter of course the government must resist any such proposal, all the more as it
would not even consider an advance renunciation of
its alliance policy a fair price to be paid for reunification. But even the Social Democrats, who originally
opposed the Federal Republic's entrance into NATO,
reject up to now the demand that ties with the West
be sacrificed without obtaining any real concessions
in exchange. It is true that, in contrast to the Government, the Social Democrats are ready to keep Germany out of all military blocs if in the matter the consent of the Soviet Union to "reunification in freedom"
can be obtained.
At this point we come back to the Berlin question. When in November, 1958, the Soviet Government demanded in a dictatorial manner that all Western forces be withdrawn from Berlin, there seemed
to be a new danger. The ultimate object is nothing
else but the attempt of the Kremlin to get the "German issue" off the agenda of international negotiations once and forever, and with the actual division
of Germany to fix the outcome of the war.
Government and opposition regard the Soviet
proposal- to make a "free city" Berlin- as unacceptable. And they agree that the Western forces should
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by all means remain stationed in Berlin until the German issue is definitely settled. And this is not only
because they see the danger for Berlin being in the
communist area and for the western part of Germany,
but also because they think that it is a point of vital
importance for the Western forces, too.
h e question of the foundation and further development of democracy in Germany is being discussed time and again by those who realize how much
depends on it. The answer, whether one is a pessimist or an optimist, and when understandable resentments are pushed into the background, depends on
the standards by which the present conditions are examined. The friend of Germany in the "old," the
"classic democracies," ought to look into the past,
particularly when judgi..'1g some recent events. They
ought to bear in mind that the delay in the unification of Germany in the first half of the 19th century,
caused by a variety of reasons did not permit strong
democratic impulses and forces, especially in South
and West Germany, to develop freely. The empire
of Wilhelm II, engineered by Bismarck's personality
in 1870, brought about national unity from above, but
it blocked the positive democratic interests of the
workers' movement which were apparent, for example, in England and Scandinavia and hindered the
integration of wide democratic levels in the bourgeoisie up to the collapse resulting from vVorld War I.
If one wishes to judge present conditions, one
must also remember that the start of democracy was
burdened twice, not only by the terrible heritage of
lost wars and chaos, but by the collapse in 1918 of
an outdated absolutist regime and in 1945 of a totalitarian Hitlerite dictatorship. These collapses were
chiefly due to outside influences. It would be completely wrong to regard, as many Germans do, the
twelve fateful years of Nazi tyranny as an historical
"slip" - as some kind of an episode without prerequisites and without a multitude of psychological and
political consequences which still are a heavy burden
and must be overcome by the Germans themselves.
Something shall be said here in regard to these
consequences. The question might be put to what
extent are people in Germany ready, willing and able
to overcome within themselves the recent terrible past
and to protect their young democracy against a relapse. One may assume that for the most part the
older generation no longer has the strength to do it.
Therefore, the question has greatest relevancy for the
generation now reaching maturity.
As long as reunification with the Soviet-Zone is
not possible on a firm ground of a democratic order,
the future depends on the fact that all levels of the
population in the Federal Republic will offer active
and positive resistance against the constant efforts of
the Soviets and their helpers to undermine democracy,
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as was done after 1918, to weaken it. However, such
resistance can be successful only in a democracy - in
a democracy in which the people have learned the
lessons of the past. This, in particular, is what German history has taught us.
For a number of years, the economic, social and
political climate in the Federal Republic has been
managed by stable, favorable business conditions. To
date, this has been an important factor in preventing
the Communists as well as old and new Nazis, rightist
radical organizations and anti-democratic groups of
all kinds from winning and significant influence. The
present situation is in sharp contrast to that which
existed in the so-called Weimar Republic, 1918 to
19.33. However, nobody can say what would happen
if serious economic crises should develop - crises such
as those before 1933 which provided the soil for the
arch enemies of democracy.
t becomes clear that the future of Germany is at
the crossroads. The governors of Moscow in Eastern Germany, in order to detract attention from their
methods of dictatorship and lawlessness, refer time
and again to a new wave of Anti-Semitism in the
Federal Republic. However, these incidents should
not be disregarded; many good democrats in the
Federal Republic are also shocked by them. But this
seems to be like a backride of another development.
The discussions in youth groups among students,
in cultural circles and also in the labor unions continue, and actions are taken. For a number of years
pilgrimages of many thousands of pupils, young laborers, have been staged at the memorial site for
those murdered by the Nazis at Bergen-Belsen.
For many thousands of young Germans, Anne
Frank, the Jewish girl who perished in the concentration camp, has become a symbol and an object of
veneration. Her "Diary," notes covering her life and
her dying, became a big success in Germany, something never considered possible.
Positive unrest, a growing will to learn from the
past, are noticeable anywhere. The consequence of
this development has been that now much more attention is paid to specific events than in former days,
and more determined action is taken against antidemocratic activities. What was hardly noticed before, is no longer treated with silence and this fact,
gratifying in itself, tends to paint a false picture of
growing dangers against democracy in Germany.
What has been lying under the surface before is now
coming to the surface and can be eliminated. This
evolution should be known outside Germany, too, so
that an objective picture can be drawn and communist propaganda will not be successful.
Democracy has grown slowly everywhere. Perhaps the roots are not yet deep enough in Germany.
However, we have good reason for hope.
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T7 ALA:MAzoo's
FOOTBALL SITUATION as this issue of
_l~the magazine is printed shows definite improve-
ment over the winless 1958 season.
Though the record shows only one victory in the first five games of
the season, the Hornets at least can count that one
victory as an upgrading from 1958. And, the pros·p ects for victory in at least one or two of the final
three games look bright.
Other than in terms of victory and defeat, the
Hornet gridiron situation has progressed in that the
team has put on fine exhibitions of both offensive and
defensive football, and in general has looked sharper
than at any time a year ago. By way of explanation,
the Hornets have two complete backfield units, giving
them more backfield depth than in any of several recent years. As a result, the running and passing statistics show that Kalamazoo gained more yardage in
the first four games this fall than in the entire 1958
season. To put it another way, Kalamazoo has looked
very good even though losing four times.
The most important point in this entire situation
is that this year's backfield group contains the finest
group of freshmen seen here in several years. In fact,
the only upperclassman on the group of eight regulars
was Bob Miles, senior fullback and co-captain, and
since he has now been lost for the remainder of the
season with an ankle injury, the freshmen will carry
the entire load.
The Hornets were defeated by a very good Wabash team, 27-6, before scoring a 28-0 triumph over
Olivet. Albion posted a 33-13 victory over Kalamazoo,
Alma was a winner by a 21-6 count, and Hope's
powerhouse scored a 41-6 victory.
Remaining games at press time include contests
against Ferris, Adrian , and Hillsdale.
Coach Rolla Anderson has been stressing the
"positive approach" to football after the reversals of
1958, and if the freshman group continues to improve
as it has this fall, the Hornets may be on their way
back to title contention.
In cross-country, Coach Swede Thomas has assembled a nn e aggregation , one which would probably he capable of winning the MIAA title in almost
every other season. For 1959, however, Calvin has
a team which is far and above the usual small-college
calibre, and the Knights appear to be overwhelming
title favorites. Calvin scored a 19-37 victory over
Kalamazoo in a dual meet, and if the rest of the season runs tru e to form , Calvin and Kalamazoo should
finish 1-2 over the rest of the league.
Thomas suffered one severe reversal when captain-el ect Roger Creel was permanently sidelined with
an injury even before the season opened. The harriers , however, have a better-than-average freshman
crop, and, like the football situation, the future prospects will be bright if the yearling crop continues to
improve.
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New Crop
Brings
New Hope
By DICK KISHPAUGH
Interception for " K" at th r>
Ilom ecoming gam e with Alma.
Th e trvo 11 arn ets are fr eshman
memlJers of th e team- No rman Young
(No. 22) and Sandy Ma cKay (No . .'3.'5) .
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·T AZOO
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Quarterly Revi e w
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
On October 3, Mr. and Mrs. Gil Robinsou (.Jewel
Starkweather '41) were hosts in th eir Pasadena home
to alumni from Southern California. The affair was
a barbecue steak and swim party, and much fun was
had by all. Elected to succeed Charles Krill '39 as
club presiden t was Jewel Starkweather, and she will
be assisted by Margaret Hootman Marsh '41 in the
role of secretary.
ROCHESTER , NEW YORK
Mr. '42 and Mrs. Robert Barrows opened their home
to alwnni on Sunday afternoon, October 18. The
purpose of the gathering was to meet informally with
Dr. Hicks who was in Roch ester that clay. The alumni had also arranged for seven prospective students
and their parents to meet with Dr. Hicks at the
hom e of Dr. vVilbur E. Saunders, president of Colgate-Rochester Divinity School, between th e hour>
of 8:00p.m. and 11:00 p.m. On September 20, the
Roch ester alumni held a pot-luck picnic at Seneca
Park, hosted by Dr. '48 and Mrs. Leon Taylor.
DENVER, COLORADO
On November 15, Dr. Mildred Doster '30 is opening
her home to almnni to meet the new director of admissions, Harold KuhLn an. The affair will begin at
7:30 p.m. -727 Birch St., Denver.
HOCKFORD, ILLINOIS
Dr. '38 and Mrs. Robert Heerens, 1910 Bradley H.d. ,
are opening their hom e at 3:30p.m. on November 15
to prospective students and parents from th e Rockford area. Present for th e occasion will be Stuart
Simpson, assistant to th e president, and Miss Sally
Needham, admissions counsellor.
ANN
ARBOR
Dr. '34 and 1rs. John Ayers , 8120 Huron St. , Dexter,
are hosting an alumni get-together on Sunday afternoon, November 15, at 3:00p.m . in th eir home. The
program arranged for the afternoon will include talks
and colored slides by two of the Kalamazoo College
students who have spent summers abroad under the
S. R. Light Scholarship program - Mary Hanson ,
Flossmoor, Ill., and John Falk, Ypsilanti.
SOUTH BEND, GRAND RAPIDS
These two clubs are announcing th e election of new
officers. For South Bend, Ernie Bergan '47 is th e
newly elected president, along with Jim Tuma '42
as vice presid ent and Mary Stover Mallory '46 as
secretary-treasurer. Walter Yoder '44 is th e new
head of the Grand Rapids Club, with David Byers '30
as vice president and Kathleen Smith '29 as secretarytreasurer.
SOUTHWESTERN MICHIGAN
The alumni of Southwestern Michigan have been invited to the home of Dr. '42 and Mrs. Frank Howard, 680 Pipestone St., Ben ton Harbor, for Sunday
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afternouu, November 22. The alfair will begin at
3:00 p .m. , and prospective high school students will
be guests. A program will be presented by some of
the College students who spent the summer abroad
under th e S. R. Light Scholarship Program. Ted
Troff '48 is president of th e club.
The yellow questionnaire cards
arrive daily . . . If your notes
do not appear in this issue, we
have saved them for next time.
Keep the yellow cards coming!
CLASS OF 1895
EHWIN B. TAFT, Canandaigua, N.Y., wrote the following in a letter to WILLIAM OLDFIELD of Kalamazoo: "In college you will remember in our freshman
class, th en 16, that only six of us graduated in
1895. Later Hafer joined us, John Smith graduated
in 1894, and Hall and Jackson finished in the following year, 1896. Some others went to other colleges
or universities, while still others evidently ended
their schooling at the end of their freshman year.
Of th e original 16, do you know of any except yourself and Hoebeke and I who are still living? A few
years ago I got Margaret St. John Christianson's
address from th e President of Sioux Falls College.
At that time she was living with one of her sons
somewhere in Mexico. The College, according to
reports I get, is a much larger institution than it was
in our clay there. I am under the in1prcssion that
non e of the old .3 buildings of our time is still standing, but a number of new buildings are now on th e
campus. Even at the tim e of my last visit in Kalamazoo, over 20 years ago, th ere had been a mm1ber
of changes. We can certainly be glad of the splendid
growth of th e school and trust that it may continue."
CLASS OF 1900
Bmon: MooRE died on October 10 in Galesburg,
Mich. A resident of Augusta, Mich., for the past
seven years, Miss Moore had been a teacher in
Kalam azoo and served as director of th e Kalamazo"o
Public Museum for several years.
CLASS OF 1901
CHAHLES McHARNEss died on August 16 in Alhambra, Calif. The Reverend Mr. McHarness graduated
from Newton Theological Institute in 1904 and had
served pastorates in Michigan, Iowa, Nevada, Idaho,
Montana, and Washington. Mr. McHarness had resided at the Atherton Baptist Home in Alhambra,
Calif., for a year previous to his death. He is smvivecl by his wife and three sons.
CLASS OF 1902
ALICE TAFT AsHLEY died in Phoenix, Ariz., on October 22, after a two-year illness. She is survived by
her brother, the Reverend Erwin B. Taft '95, and a
son. ALANSON WATSON BHOWN died suddenly On
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July 19 at his holllc in National City, Calif. He had
been pastor of the First Baptist Church of ational
City from 1930 until his retirement in 1949. He
had also served churches in Marshall, Mich., Covina
and Sacramento, Calif. In 1937, as a member of
the local chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution, he conceived the idea of an annual day of
recognition for persons who become U. S. Citizens
by naturalization or on their 21st birthday anniversaries. Later, the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaimed the third Sunday of May as "I Am
an American Day." In 1949, the national executive
committee of the SAR officially recognized Dr. Brown
as originator of the idea. Dr. Brown, the late Edwin
Pierce '02, the late Charles Simpson '02, and Stewart
Crandell '03, were the organizing members of the
Century Forum in 1900. He is survived by his wife,
a son, and two daughters.
CLASS OF 1905
SIDNEY D. STRONG and his wife, the fanner ALICE
VINCENT '07, celebrated their golden wedding anniversary on August 19. They were married on August 19, 1909, and reside in Plymouth, Mich. From
Mr. Strong who is class agent for the classes of 19041906: "We had a nice card from Xenia Mason who
is county librarian in Adrian, Michigan. I know she
keeps in rather close touch with the college. And
we received three letters. Stella Fisher Burgess
lives in Pilgrim Place, 'A Community of Retired
Christian vVorkers' in Claremont, Calif. She wrote
about her life there and about her elder son who
is labor attache in the U. S. Embassy in New Delhi,
India, and who has recently received the State Department's award for distinguished service. Maud
Chesney Hexroth from Flint told of her pleasure in
following the college life through the Alumnus. Margaret Morgan, now living in the hospital section of a
church home in Pasadena, Calif., told of the high
positions held by some of the girl s from the schools
she and her older sister, Mabel '01, taught in while
missionaries in India. She also commented on the
fact that many college people of our clay could not
now get into present day schools because of stricter
entrance requirements!"
CLASS OF 1908
VERNOR C. FJNcu, emeritus professor of geography
at the University of Wisconsin and former chairman
of the department, died on October 23 in Madison,
vVis., after a long illness. Dr. Finch was a specialist
in economic geography and the author of several
well-known books in the field. He went to Madison
in 1921 as an assistant instructor in geography at
the University and rose to chairman of the department of geography when it was created in 1928. He
was chairman until 1945 and con tinu ed teaching until
1954 when he retired because of poor health. In
1948, Dr. Finch received the Helen Culver Gold
Medal of the Geographical Society of Chicago for
distinguished contributions in the field of economic
geograph y. He is survived by his wife, the former
Louise Lassfolk '08, and two sons.
CLASS OF 1911
ANITA J . WALKER, CLARISSA ALEXANDER MORSE, LILLIAN KROGEN WALCOTT, and MAIBELLE GEIGER were
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together at Mrs. Morse's home in Adrian, Mich., this
summer. Miss 'Valker writes, "We get together
every swnmer, keep pretty much in touch with the
other members of 1911, and all are looking forward
to our Golden Anniversary in 1961." (FRED WIN- ·
DOEs, 1911 class agent, has already done some thinking about th e 50th reunion!)
CLASS OF 1918
JoHN EDWARD ERRATT died on April 8, 1959, in New
York City. JosEPHINE SHARP AMUNDSEN died in East
Lansing, Mich., on June 23.
CLASS OF 1919
ALFRED C. E:~<-IERSON, retired architect, runs a sevenweek sw11mer camp afloat on a ship he keeps in Florida. Last summer's enrollment was fifty boys, ages
12 to 16, selected out of 680 applications. Guest
counsellor was West Point's Peter Dawkins. "It's
the only camp of its kind in the world," states Mr.
Emerson, the squadron commander, who organized
the group three years ago. Mrs. Emerson is the
former GERALDINE BAKER '24.
CLASS OF 1921
HAHRY C. J. LENNOX is superintendent of schools
in Seligman, Arizona. He received his master's degree in 1950 from Arizona State College. JosEPH
MrsHICA is a teacher in Calumet, Mich., High School.
'VILLIAM H. NELSON, Chicago, is sales manager of
H. Kohnstamm Co., manufacturers of pigments, food
colors, and cosmetic colors.
CLASS OF 1923
M. GENE BLACK is chief of the department of anesthesiology at Holyoke, Mass., Hospital. He is chairman of the Blue Shield Professional Service Committee of the Hampden District Medical Society and
a member of the Executive Committee of All Saints
Episcopal Mission in South Hadley, Mass. E. SEATON
CARNEY is a professor at Montclair State College,
Montclair, N.J. JAMES F. DuNCAN is teaching at
Wisconsin State College, Oshkosh, Wis. FRANCES
KLYVER BLAKE is head of the English department of
Franklin, Ind., High School and her husband is head
of the history department of Franklin College. HELEN
HouGH DELAND's husband's new book, "American
Traveler's Companion," has just been published. It
is a word and phrase book in English, Spanish, Portugese, French and German. He is professor of
Spanish and Portugese at Florida State University.
CLASS OF 1925
LAURENCE H. HOLLANDEH became president of Lees
Junior College, Jackson, Ky., in July.
CLASS OF 1926
LEHOY SnNEBOWEH has been named Executive Assistant to the Chairman of the Board of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey. He was formerly
an assistant vice president. EDWIN G. GEMHICH has
been named by the Michigan Social Welfare Commission to £ll an unexpired term on the Kalamazoo
KALAMAZOO
COLLEGE
County Welfare Board. SHmLEY PAYNE Low is
supervisor of hostess training for Colonial vVilliamsburg, Va. She has escorted Lord Mountbatten, Duncan Sands, Ezra Bensen, the King of Belgium, the
King of Morocco, and the King of Jordan, among
other notables, on the tour of Williamsburg.
CLASS OF 1928
B. VERNON REED represented Kalamazoo College at
the One Hundredth Anniversary Academic Convocation of the Cooper Union for the Advancement of
Science and Art, New York City, on November 2.
HARRY 0. VooRHEES died on April 1 in Fort Worth,
Texas, where he had resided for seven years. He
was employed as an industrial engineer for Montgomery Ward & Co. Mr. Voorhees had previously
been employed as an industrial engineer by the Dow
Chemical Co., the Baldwin Rubber Co., and the B. F.
Goodrich Co. He is survived by his wife, his mother,
two daughters- Patricia of the class of 1952, and
Priscilla - and a son, Steven. RuTH BocKELMAN
RoBINSON is librarian at Lhe Coopersville, Mich., High
School and her husband is superintendent of schools.
She received her master's of library science degree
from the University of Michigan in 1956. FRANCES
CLARK is to be the "master class teacher" for the
Florida State Music Teachers' Convention at Daytona Beach in November.
CLASS OF 1929
RoYCE H. GLEZEN died in July in Detroit. He was
vice president and general sales manager for the
Automotive Rubber Company, Inc., Detroit, at the
time of his death. He had also served as an executive assistant in the development of new plants
and new markets for the company. He is survived
by his wife, Lhe former Helen Stone '28, two sons and
a daughter.
CLASS OF 1932
SHERMAN Cor-IJNGS is sanitarian of the Lowndes
County Health Department in Valdosta, Georgia.
MAiw ELIZABETH DuNN EDWARDS is the Executive
Secretary of the Michigan Children's Aid Society in
Traverse City, Mich. ANTHONY SHEMIOT is confined
to the Veterans Administration Hospital in Iron
Mountain, Mich., with multiple sclerosis, and visits
or letters from friends would he most welcome.
CLASS OF 1933
LAiuw E. BALCH is midwestern territory representative with Coleman Instruments, Inc., and his wife,
the former Ruth Banks '33, is fifth grade teacher at
the Lafayette School in Benton Harbor, Mich. RoY
G. KLEPSER is associate professor of thoracic surgery
at Georgetown University Medical School. A baby
daughter, Judy Kay, was born to the Klepsers on
March 25, 1959. BLANCHE PmcE BURGESS, who is
elementary art supervisor for the Sturgis, Mich ..
Public Schools, received her master's degree in the
teaching of art from Western Michigan University in
July. She exhibited a water color at the Michigan
Artists Show at the Detroit Art Institute last spring.
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CLASS OF 1934
RuTH HuiZINGA vVEBB is working as a· "lay reader"
-correcting papers for an English teacher at Mumford High School in Detroit.
CLASS OF 1935
LEONARD H. ELWELL represented Kalamazoo College
at the inauguration of Branford Price Miller as president of Portland State College in Portland, Oregon,
on October 18. KATHAHIN DENBLEYKER is assistant
professor of social work at the University of Utah,
Salt Lake City. She writes "After 23 years of practice I've moved into training. I'm enjoying it a lot
and am learning every day. Mother is with me in
Utah and we love the clin1ate and the country. Hope
to be home for my class reunion in June." JAMES
E. GRIBBLE is executive vice president and cashier of
the First National Bank of Hermansville, Mich. He
is also a licensed insurance agent for all forms of
insurance ELsm HEHBOLD FnoESCHNEH and her husband have returned from a 3-month study trip in nine
countries of Europe. Her husband, who is professor of Entomology and Zoology, was doing research
in museums and she did the illustrations for his research.
CLASS OF 1936
JosEPH S. NEWELL is principal of the high school in
Bryan, Ohio. PHISCILLA WILcox BoDEY lives in St.
Paul, Minn., where her husband is president of the
Grain Laboratory Equipment Company and is a
Brigadier General in the Minnesota National Guard.
CLASS OF 1937
LERA SEELEY CLAHK is financial secretary for the
Michigan Congregational Conference in East Lansing. She resides in Mason, Mich. HARRiET WINsLOW and Harry Bemis were married on September
10 in the First Presbyterian Church in Kalamazoo.
CLASS OF 1938
DoNALD NmBELINK, world renowned photographer
and lecturer for the Eastman Kodak Co., presented a
color slide program he made during the past summer, "Around the World in 80 Minutes," in Kala;
mazoo on October 28. The world premiere of the
show was presented before the annual convention of
the Photographic Society of America in Louisville,
Ky. HALPEHT JACOBS died suddenly on October 15.
He resided in Coloma, Mich., and was employed by
the A.A.A.
CLASS OF 1939
ROBEHT R. BuNTAINE is manufacturers' representative
for Atomasters-Buntaine Corporation in St. Louis,
Mo. PmsciLLA CnuM CoLT is residing in Dayton,
Ohio, where her husband is director of the Dayton
Art Museum. Srn EY S. HARRY is expected back in
the United States this fall after having been stationed
in the Azores and in Ankara, Turkey, with the Air
Force. During his time abroad, he has toured Europe and the Holy Land. JAMES B. ALLAN is an
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army chaplain station ed at Fort Lee, Va.
CHARLES
K. KRILL is chief engineer of th e com mercial division
of Librascope, Inc., in Burbank, Calif. JoHN L.
GRABBER is director of th e contracts and legal division of th e Martin Co., Orlando, Fla. FRED B. SPEYER
is supervisor of the engineering group at Bendix
Aviation Corp. in Kansas City, Mo.
CLASS OF 1940
RuTH SPENCER BYRNE has been living in Germany
since July of 1958. This year she has made trips to
Italy, France, and Holland. vVILSO! R. REED is an
officer at the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle
Barracks, Pa. LA WHENCE L. KunTH has been appointed as general manager of the sales operations
division at the Whirlpool Corp. in St. Joseph, Mich.
CLASS OF 1941
JAi\IES H. CLONEY is sales manager for Antara Chemicals. He resides in Millington, N.J. GEOHGE WILLIAMS, who is D ean at Robert Academy in Istanbul,
Turkey, and his wife, the form er MARY HosFORD '43,
visited the cam pus this summer. They mentioned
th at CoNSTANCE PECK REPS '43 and her husband,
and MR. '43 and Mns. BRYANT M. WEDGE (DoROTHY
REED '42) had visited th em in Istanbul during the
year. JoHN D . MONTGOMERY, who has been with the
Vietnam Advisory Group of Michigan State University for th e past two years, has been awarded a fellowship by the Council on Foreign Relations to write
a study of th e patterns of American for eign aid
policy in Southeast Asia . H e has spent two months
visiting Ban gkok, Rangoon, and Taipei on this project . His book, "Forced to be Free," has been published by The University of Chicago Press. MELINDA
JoHNSON CoNNELLY passed away on August 24 in
San Diego, Calif. , after a long illness. Among her
survivors is her mother, Ruth vVh eaton Johnson '06.
WINIFRED C. HuNTER has been appointed superintendent of divisions 4 and 7 of the Sutherland Paper
Co. in Kalamazoo. Since graduation from college,
he has been associated with th e New Haven Boarrl
and Carton Company in New H aven, Conn. MAnCARET HOOTMAN MAHSII writes "A month long auto
trip in September took the Marsh family from coast
to coast. Visited "K" alumnus, Dr. Charles vVitschonke '37, and family in Connecticut. Then stayed
with sister, Eleanor '45, and Robert '47 Dewey in
Garden Oity, Long bland. En route hom e, an
overnight visit with a form er Purdue colleague now
living in Ft. \Vayne, Incl., provided an un expected
chance to see her next door neighbor, Barbara Goodsell Clark '47 . . . Reached California, only to find
we' cl missed a visit from Helen Kostia '43 and Fred
'42 Pinkham." GEORGE ZEDNJCK is sales promotion
manager for th e Norge Sales Corp., Chicago.
CLASS OF 1942
GEonGE H . HALE is associa te professor of speech at
Hillsdale College. CARL R. SIMON is director of th e
Westminister Foundation, Inc., Synod of New England of the Presbyterian Church and is a staff member of th e Student Christian Movement in New England. H e represented Kalamazoo College at the inauguration of Asa Smalliclge Knowl es as president of
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Northeastern University in Boston, Mass., on September 8. DANIEL M. RYAN became editor of the
"Kalamazoo Gazette" on September l. H e has been
a member of the news and editorial staff since 1946
and associate editor since last spring. Mn. '42 and.
Mns. NEIL GLEASON (BAHBARA FERRIS '45) announce
the birth of a son, Thomas Patrick, on June 15 in
Kalamazoo. HETA PHILLIPS DouGLASS has completed
her 11th year of teaching in Day Schools on government reservations for the Bureau of Indian Affairs,
Department of th e Interior. Currently, she is teaching at Zia Pueblo, San Ysidro, N. M. She received
her master's degree from th e University of New
Mexico in Jun e. FRANK THOMPSON is employed as
a salesman by Marbon Chemical Co., vVashington,
W. Va. H e resides in Park Hidge, Ill.
CLASS OF 1943
ConDON B. MA c KENZIE, who lives in Cleveland,
Ohio, is the Ohio representative for th e Lincoln
automobile. vVILLIAM E. LINES is a pilot in the Air
Force and is living in Summerville, S. C. LA VERNE
LEROY is an elementary teacher at Kellogg Consolidated School in Hickory Corners, Mich. His wife,
BETTY BAKER '43, has been soloist at th e First Christian Science Church in Kalamazoo for eight years.
RrcHARD D. MrLES, who is a professor of American
history at vVayne State University in D etroit, has
received a Fulbright schol arship to teach and study
in India for a year. Dr. Miles left D etroit on July
29 and is teaching at the University of Madras in
Southeast India. His wife (DIONE FAYLING '43) and
seven children are joining him there this fall. They
plan a camping trip through Europe after their year
in India. vV AHREN OWENS is assistant to the director
of th e University of Michigan Library. JoHN K.
WALSH H '43, retired on September after many years
of service as editor of th e "Kalam azoo Gazette."
MARGARET BLYMEIR LEE is associate professor of education at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill .
CoNSTANCE PEcK HEPS writes "W e're back at Cornell
after a wonderful year's leave that took us to th e
University of California in Berkeley and then to
Europe. W e saw th e BHYANT WEDGES '43 (DoHOTHY
REED '42) in London and MAnY '43 and GEORGE
'41 vVJLLIAMS in Istanbul. \Ve made a thorough
study of Europe's zoos and parks with th e children
as well as of new polders in Holland and th e ancient
Acropolis in Greece.
CLASS OF 1944
GEORGE H. BouwMAN is an English teacher and elirector of a summer motion picture project at Horace
Mann School in Riverdale, New York City. NonMAN and WILMA FECHTER ERWAY were featured in
an article in the " vVisconsin State Journal" on September 20. The article concerns th eir unique glassblowing business in Oregon, Wisconsin. They manufacture laboratory glassware, used for specific purposes in chemical, medical, and other research. HusSELL BECKER represented Kalamazoo College at th e
inauguration of Karl Olsson as president of North
Park College and Theological Seminary in Chicago
on November 5. JoHN E. SAHNO is going back into
residency training in pediatrics in July of 1960 at
Clolmnbia Presbyterian's Babies Hospital in New
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York City. STUART M. WALLACE, who is pathologist
at St. Mary's Hospital in Port Arthur, Texas, is the
current president of the South Jefferson County
branch of the American Cancer Society. The Religious Counseling Center of which the REvEREND H.
vV ALTER YODEH is pastoral director moved into a
newly completed building on 40 acres of land north
of Grand Rapids. He now has three staff counselors
working with him.
CLASS OF 1945
ALBERT R. LEROY, who received a degree in electrical
engineering from Michigan State University, has
been employed by Bendix Corporation in South Bend
for five years . KENNETH E. HARDY is director of
Baptist youth work for the New York State Convention. A daughter, Meghan Heather, was born on
January 26 to MR. and Mns. DouGLAS M. GALBRAITH
(JACQUELINE WEBBER '45) in Orchard Lake, Mich.
KEN KnuM is the new president of the Alumni "K"
Club. LT. COMDR. '45 and MRs. MERRILL J. BRINK
announce the birth of a daughter, Leslie Ann, on
October 14 in Madison, \Vis. He was recently graduated from the University of vVisconsin where he
received an engineering degree. BETTE BROWN
BAH ES and her husband are both working toward
Ph.D's in zoology at the University of vVisconsin.
They wish to announce the birth of their third son,
Mark LaMonte, on July 17 in Madison, Wis. JoYcE
vVILLIAMS vVIESE received her master's degree in
education in guidance and counseling from Wayne
State University this summer. She is a teacher and
drama coach at Center Line High School and resides in Detroit with her husband and four children.
CLASS OF 1946
RICHARD W. HuGHES is an agency representative for
Edward Petry & Co., Inc., a national TV and radio
advertising agency, and is living in Atlanta, Ga.
DONALD THOMAS resides in Battle Creek, Mich., and
is employed by the Civil Defense. Mn. and Mns.
JOHN GLENDENNING ( MAHIL YN ROE '46) are the
parents of a daughter, Jane Ellen, born on July 9 in
Kalamazoo. ELIZABETH KooLS PAHKEH died of cancer in October of 1958. Mrs. Parker is survived by
her parents, her husband, and two sons. She resided in Lansing, Mich., at the tin1e of her death.
BnucE MASON is assistant sales director for David L.
Johnson, securities dealer, of Muskegon, Mich.
CLASS OF 1947
OTJs J. BouSMA, M '47, is an attorney in Cornelia,
Ga. KENNETH J. BoEKELOO has been appointed general commercial manager for Michigan Bell Telephone Co. RALPH and CYNTHIA EARL '44 KERMAN
and family have returned to Kalamazoo after a twoyear stay in Beirut, Lebanon, where Dr. Kerman
served in the physics department at the American
University of Beirut. Dr. Kerman has returned to
his position as head of tl1e physics department at
Kalamazoo College. RICHARD NYCUM is head basketball coach at Redford Union High School in Detroit.
DoNALD R. GtUFFlTH, who has his offices in Eau
Claire, Wis., was certified by the American Board of
Internal Medicine in April. Gus N. BmTSAS is a
salesman for Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance
Company and resides in Clarkston, Mich.
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CLASS OF 1948
Lms McPHEE WHtGHT is a speech teacher for the
Flint, Mich., Public Schools. THOMAS CLAUTEH and
his wife, the former EsTHER BISBEE '49, are residing
in Mt. Prospect, Ill. Tom is the industrial engineer
and production manager for the Pfaelzer Bros. Division of Armour and Co. GoRDON F. KunTz represented Kalamazoo College at the inauguration of
William Spencer Litterick as president of Keuka
College, Keuka Park, N.Y. RusSELL A. STRONG received a master of arts degree in social sciences from
Western Michigan University on July 30. He is
publicity director at the University. October 10
was the birth date of Todd William, son of Mn. '48
and Mns. GEOHGE H. HoPKINS, in Birmingham, Mich.
JACK RAGOTZY has been chosen to direct a new Katherine Morrill play, "And So, Farewell," due to open
on Broadway during December. Following "And So,
Farewell," he will direct Theodore Apstein's "Come
Share My House" for an off-Broadway opening in
January. In February, he is scheduled to do a new
play in Milwaukee, Wis., and in March he will do
two shows at the Margo Jones Theatre in Dallas.
JoAN BEARD BAILEY is teaching English at the
University of Illinois, Urbana, Ill. She is the mother
of Gwenyth Marie, who was born on February 13.
LoUISE L. Goss spent the summer on a lecture tour,
covering the 11 western states and northwest Canada,
presenting workshops to piano teachers on the
"Frances Clark Library for Piano Students." HoBERT
M. JoHNSTON is past vice president of the Indiana
Home Builders Association and national director of
the U. S. Junior Chamber of Commerce. He started
the first Jaycee sponsored science seminar program
for gifted high school students in the United States.
This year, the program was put on a state-wide basis
in Indiana and in 1960 they plan to make it a national program. THEODORE E. TROFF, attorney, was
recently appointed instructor of business law for
Michigan State University, Continuing Education
Center, Benton Harbor, Mich.
CLASS OF 1949
G. DEAN AREND received a secondary teaching certificate from Western Michigan University on July
30. WAYNE R. STONE is the chairman of tl1e blood
donm recruitment for the Kalamazoo Red Cross. He
is assistant to the vice president of industrial and
public relations at Fuller Manufacturing Co. in Kalamazoo. HILLYER H. STRATON H '49 had a new book-,
"A Guide to the Parables of Jesus," published by
Wm. E. Eerdmans during the summer. HrcHAHD H.
CAHRINGTON is an instructor in speech at the University of vVisconsin Extension Center in Racine, Wis.
FnANK E. STAGER drowned on May 13 in a boating
accident near his home in Bangor, Maine. He graduated from Kirksville, Mo., Medical College in June,
1953, and was an osteopathic physician in Bangor,
Maine, at tl1e time of his death. He is survived by
his parents, his wife, and four children. July 2 was
the birth date of Patricia Diane, daughter of Mn. '49
and Mns. DONALD G. BunNETT (KAREN CAHLYON
'46) in Royal Oak, Mich. They now have six children. THOMAS FnooM has been named sales manager
of the food packaging department at Sutherland Paper Company in Kalamazoo. He has been in Sutherland's sales organization since 1949. BAHBAHA BisHOP MonGAN is a medical technologist at Highland
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Park, Mich., General Hospital. Peter John, her third
child, was born on June 2. THE REvEREND '49 and
Mns. ALBEHT GnADY (CAROL PLETCHEH) are the parents of a daughter, Maureen, born on March 18 in
Sandwich, Ill. JoHN R. PowELL is district manager
of Hedisco, Inc., Detroit. PAUL H. ROBERTS writes,
"Having finished my residency training in pediatrics,
I entered private practice. While in practice, I acted
as pediatric consultant to E. R. Squibb & Sons in
New York. Offered a position as Associate Director
of Clinical Hesearch - I accepted - and then became
Director." He was on the campus for Homecoming.
MR. and MRs. STEPHEN J. SMITH (JoYCE HrcKMAN)
have returned to \Vashington, D. C., from several
weeks in Sweden where he participated in lectures
before the Fourth International Congress of Physicists
on Ionization Phenomena in Gases. The trip included
a week in England and Scotland and visits to laboratories on the continent.
CLASS OF 1950
VrnGINIA STICKAN received a M.A. degree from the
University of Michigan in June. She is teaching
foreign languages in Oak Park, Mich., this year.
GLEN HuLBERT is now pastor of a new modified
Gothic church at '[errillville, Ind., near Gary. AHTHUR D. SPENCE is a high school teacher in Hichmond Hill, Ontario, Canada. CHARLES LAVENE is
president of LaVene Equipment Co. in Kalamazoo.
vVALTER H. McCONNER is branch director of Boys'
Brotherhood Hepublic in Chicago. WILLIAM Bos,
head tennis coach at the Naval Academy in Annapolis,
Mel., directed the Mar·yland state Jaycee tennis
tournament at the Navy courts, and after a stop at
Kalamazoo College for the
ational Juniors' and
Boys' Tournament, he took the four winners to the
national Jaycee championships in Phoenix, Ariz.
HoBERT CuLP received merit citations for his work
in publicizing NCAA district four by the American
Association of College Baseball Coaches and for his
brochures and promotional work by the College
Sports Information Directors. He handles sports
publicity for Western Michigan University. RoDERICK HILL, a teacher at the Edison School in Kalamazoo and president of the Kalamazoo City Education
Association, is a member of a committee which is
studying revision of the science curriculum for the
elementary grades in the Kalamazoo Public School
System. His son, Scott Hoderick, was born on October
23 in Kalamazoo. CHANDLER MouLTON is employed
hy the General Acceptance Corp. and resides in Emmaus, Pa. MH. and MRs. JAMES L. STEWART are the
parents of a daughter, Nancy Laurie, born on October 11 in Kalamazoo. B. HoBERT CHAMBERLIN, who
has been serving as a sales supervisor in the Denver
Branch of the Upjohn Company, has been promoted
to Divisional Sales Manager of the Company's Portland Branch. DR. '50 and MRs. HoBERT GmsoN
(PHYLLIS CASEY '51) announce the birth of a daughter, Connie Sue, on July 22 in Downey, Calif. JEAN
BRoo was married on July 11 to James Hoos at the
Trinity Covenant Church in Oak Lawn, Ill. Attending the wedding were Marilyn Brattstrom Brennan
'50, who was a bridesmaid, Gerard Brennan '49,
Hichard '50 and Lorraine Glass '50 Slezak and Carol
Weigle Hoffman '50. MAUHTCE NELSON, who is manager of the elson Transfer Co. of Buchanan, Mich.,
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was elected to the Buchanan city commiSSiOn this
past spring. ZDZJSLAW J. OBARA is technical director
for Dicks-Armstrong-Pontius Corp., Xenia, Ohio. His
son, John Christopher, was born on May 28. ALBERT
L. VITs, Jn. is production schedule manager for the ·
Mirra Ahm1inum Co. in Manitowoc, Wis. He is
president of the Manitowoc Junior Chamber of Commerce.
CLASS OF 1951
DoNALD D. SocKJUDER is manager of the credit department of the First National Bank of Arizona in
Phoenix, Arizona. JoHN URBANK is a member of the
American Institute of Decorators. He is with the
Louis S. Urbank Co. in Detroit. GERALD M. ADRIANSON is in the real estate business in Port Charlotte,
Fla., with Mackie Co. HrcHARD DAM and Miss Lois
Heed Pape were married on June 28 in Holy Trinity
Lutheran Church, Hockville Centre, N.Y. MR. '51
and MRs. JAMES S. GILMORE, JR. are the parents of a
daughter, Huth Me air, born on October 9 in Kalamazoo. Jim has announced his resignation as vice
president, secretary and treasurer, of the Gilmore
Brothers Department Store in Kalamazoo to devote
his time to civic and charitable causes. HOBERT H.
HoPKINS is an instructor in English at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pa. JAMES D. CORFIELD is at
Heceiving Hospital, Detroit, taking a residency in
anesthestology. MARGHAHITA DAVIS FRANKLIN lives
in Lancaster, Pa., and has four boys and a girl.
Brian was born on June 12, 1959. MARY GRAHAM
TILEY is now living in Columbus, Ohio, with her husband, who has just received his M.A. degree in
Christian Education, and their three children, John,
age 7, Susan, age 5, and Anne, age 2. H. WILLIAM
IvEs is the father of two boys and two girls. Carolyn
was born on September 13. DoROTHY E. McCARTHY
has accepted the position of Program Advisor on the
Girl Scout National Staff for the Hegion III National
Branch Office. Hegion III includes the states of
Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, Virginia and the
District of Columbia, and her office is in Washington,
D. C. MR. '51 and MRs. J. V. VANCURA announce
the birth of t.~eir first child, Linda Lou, on September 14 in North Hiverside, Ill. FRED WINKLER, who
is a flight engineer for United Air Lines, Inc. residing
in Kent, \Vash., is vice president of the United Air
Lines Chapter of the Flight Engineers' International
Association, AFL-CIO. EuGENE Cmr.DHESS is production manager of Fibre Converters, Inc., in Three
RivNs, Mif'h.
CLASS OF 1952
DoNALD N. HoRNING is working on his Ph.D. at
Indiana University. ELLEN THOMPKINS HANICHEN
resides in Quincy, Mich., where her husband is principal of the high school. Dr. Hicks was the speaker
for their Commencement this year. ALICE MAES has
recently been promoted from systems service representative to systems representative for IBM, and is
currently installing the newest and largest commercial computer at Bell Telephone of Pennsylvania. She
resides in Philadelphia, Pa. JAMES W. VISSCHER is
in the Air Force and is living in Lincoln, Nebr.
Mn. and MRs. HoBERT A. HoDENHISER (JoAN STILES
KALAMAZOO
COLLEGE
'57) announce the birth of a daughter, Ellen Sue, on
August 6 in Kalamazoo. Bob, who has been a
clinical psychologist with the Kalamazoo Child Guidance Clinic for the past two years, has resigned and
resumed his studies toward a Ph.D. degree at the
University of Michigan. July 18 was the birth date
of Daniel James, son of MR. and MRs. ALAN R.
LINCOLN (HELEN BRINK '52) in Kalamazoo. DR. '52
and MRs. LEWIS A. CRAWFORD (LovELLEN CROTHERS '53) have moved to Colorado Springs, Colo.,
where he is now in private practice as a general
practitioner. LouEllen writes, "We bought a house
with a gorgeous view of Pikes Peak and the surrounding country. Our last two years on the Apache Reservation are memorable ones and are being missed."
CLASS OF 1953
NANCY CmssMAN AnLITZ and family have moved
into a new Cape Cod home which they built in Upper Saddle River, N.J. She has a daughter, Jennifer
Lynn, and a redl1eaded boy, Jeffery Graham, who
was born on April 17. WILLLIAM A. STHONG graduated as an electrical engineer from the University of
Michigan in 1958. He is now working and studying
at the Bell Telephone Lab. in Morristown, N.J.
JoAN FoLLETT DEHENGE is a clinical psychologist in
Roanoke, Va. JoHN E. DEVos is a civil engineer for
the Michigan State Highway Department. GEORGE
A. DA vrs is secretary and sales manager for the
A. G. Davis Gage and Engineering Co. He and his
wife, the former B..mBARA STEVENS '54, are living in
Grosse Pointe Woods, Mich. June 12 was the birth
date of Lyndall Gene, son of Mn. and Mns. LYNDALL
G. BEAMEH (CAnOL NIELSEN '53) in Oak Park, Ill.
Lours STOLLE is a social studies teacher and counselor
for the junior class at Monroe High School in Monroe, Mich. RoGEH PICKERING is studying at the Divinity School of the Protestant Episcopal Church in
Philadelphia, Pa. He plans to become a minister to
deaf people. He has a M.S. degree in chemistry
from the University of Chicago and was a candidate
for the Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania.
ELSIE ToMPKINS WooDFILL has recently moved to
Auburn, . Y., where her husband is assistant sales
manager of General Products Corp. They have two
children. RoBEHT 0. NEESER has the Robert 0 .
eeser Insurance Agency in South Bend, Ind. He
represents 6 Travelers Insurance Companies of Hartford, Conn. He is married and has two boys.
RoBERT A. LusE, who is a research chemist in the
Department of Soils and Plant Nutrition at the University of California, Berkeley, Calif., will receive his
Ph.D. degree from the University in January, 1960.
KARL T. KusKEVICS is pastor of St. John Lutheran
Church of Bluffs, Ill. A. DAviD PETRILL is head of
the English department at Lowell High School,
Lowell, Mich. MR. and MRS. EDWIN H. vVILDEH
( AINARA DANKERS '52) and their two daughters, ages
6 and 4, are living in Paris, Tenn., where is is assistant refuge manager of the Tennessee National Wildlife Refuge. He is soon to be transfered to a position as assistant refuge manager of the South Florida
Refuges which has headquarters near Ft. Lauderdale,
Fla. Ainara has been attending Murray State College, Murray, Ky., working for her teacher's certificate in speech and dramatics.
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CLASS OF 1954
THEODOHE L. TIFFANY has been named registrar at
Lincoln College, Lincoln, Ill. He is also teaching
philosophy and psychology. He received a M.A.
degree from the U nivcrsity of Illinois at the end of
their summer session. RICHARD B. CnAWFOHD received a doctor of philosophy degree in biochemistry
from the University of Rochester. He is instructor
of microbiology in the School of Dentistry and instructor of biochemistry in the School of Medicine at
the University of Pennsylvania. CoNRAD BERNYS is
a resident surgeon at Detroit Receiving Hospital.
GAIL SMITH is a civilian teacher at Kindley Air Force
Base, Bermuda. RoGER GILL is coaching at L'Anse
High School in Michigan's upper peninsula. JoHN F.
BROBST is sales manager for P. Leiner and Sons, Inc.,
of New York. He resides in St. Clair Shores, Mich.,
and has two children. FREDERICK \VICiiE received
his master's degree in journalism from Northwestern
University in 1958. He is a newswriter and analyst
for C.B.S. station WHAS in Louisville, Ky. RALPH
P. RAIFORD is living in Niles, Mich., and is employed
by the vVabash Railroad. A daughter, Maria Elena,
was born on July 15 to Mn. '54 and MRs. LAVER
MARIO in Kalamazoo. RicHARD D. CROOKS has accepted the position of Minister of Youth of East
Church (Congregational), Grand Rapids, Mich.
Since leaving Union Theological Seminary, Dick has
served as Minister of Christian Education at the First
Congregational Church of St. Joseph, Mich. He and
his wife, the former MARYLou HowELL '56, will
move to Grand Rapids by December l. Mn. '54 and
MRs. M. YAvuz CAKMAKCI are the parents of a son,
T. John, who was born on October l l in Kalamazoo.
EuGENE T. KAHNAFEL is resident physician at Larve
D. Carter Memorial Hospital, Indianapolis, Ind.
March 22 was the birth elate of Mary Ann Therese,
his first child. JAMES P. BAMBACHT has been promoted from research chemist to first research engineer
in the research department of NeKoosa-Edwards Paper Co. He and his wife, the former SuE STAPLETON
'54, reside in vVisconsin Rapids, vVis., where she is
executive director of the Mid-Wisconsin Girl Scout
Office. Sue is a member of the Board of Directors
of the Wisconsin Rapids Branch of the AAUW as
legislative chairman. JoHN '54 and JEANETTE MuELLER were married on August 22 in Niles, Ill. He is
an engineer at Western Electric Co., Inc. MR. '54
and Mns. KEITH WRIGHT announce the birth of a
son, James Allen, on January 26. This is their second
son. Robert Craig, aged 3, was born in Germany
while Mr. Wright was there serving in the Armed
Forces. He is now teaching in Livonia, Mich., and
will complete work on his master's degree in education administration next summer. KENNETH E. KLINE
was married to Nancy Mattoon in Windham, Conn.,
on June 20. They reside in West Willington, Conn.,
where he is a surveyor. Mn. and MRs. FRANKLIN J.
VANDYKE (CATHERINE DEKONI 'G '54) announce the
birth of a daughter, Lynette Marie, in Grand Rapids
on September l. VIRGINIA O'BRIEN is a ticket agent
for Lake Central Airlines at Midway Airport in Chicago. JAcK PRicE is a first-year resident in obstetrics
and gynecology at Grace Hospital in Detroit. JAMES
S. \VILSON, who is an assistant professor in the biology department at Kansas State Teachers College,
Emporia, Kansas, will receive his Ph.D. degree from
the University of Michigan iri February, 1960. His
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wife is the former MARILYN EvERETT '56. CHAI~LES
JosEPH WILLL\MSON was admitted to the Michigan
Bar Association in December, 1958, and has joined
his father's law firm of vVilliamson and Sawyer in
Monroe, Mich. DIANE PHILLIPS YAEGER, who resides in Long Beach, Calif., has five children, the
youngest born on August 14. DoNALD G. MciNTYRE
served two years in the Army Dental Corps, stationed
in Ulm, Germany, and he is now associated with his
father in the general practice of dentistry in Detroit.
CARL KoENEN received his M.D. degree from Marquette University in June, 1958, interned at St.
Mary's Hospital in Milwaukee, Wis., and is now a
resident in pathology there. He and his wife, the
former SHillLEY lND '54, are the parents of Katherine
Louise, born on July 26.
CLASS OF 1955
ConDON E. NoBLE received a master of arts degree
in the teaching of science and mathematics from
Western Michigan University. EMERSON W. CAMPHELL received his B. S. in pharmacy in the summer
of 1958 from the University of Wisconsin. He is
now completing his pharmacy internship at the Madison, Wis., General Hospital. MARILYN SIMS REDFIELD is teaching remedial reading in the schools at
Deerfield, Ill. She was married to William H. Redfield on August l. THOMAS C. \VYLJE is a Christian
center worker at Brooks House in Hammond, Ind.
E. JEAN RoGERS is an Air Force nurse, stationed at
Elmendorf Air Force Base in Anchorage, Alaska.
RoBERT R. CASLER '55 and Patricia Jean Lynch were
married on August 29 in the East Main Methodist
Church, Kalamazoo. Their third son, Peter Johns,
was born on April 25 to Mn. '55 and MRs. ARLEIGH
H. DoDSON (MAntON JoHNS '55) in East Lansing,
Mich. MR. and MRs. CHARLES MoRELLO announce
the birth of Donald Scott on July 17. He is in the
management training program of the J. C. Penny
Company in Kokomo, Ind. THEHESE WYNN BEEHLER
had a son, Jeffery vVynn, on June 4 in Grand Hapids,
Mich. SHIBLEY KETCHEM, who is physical education
teacher and girls' swimming coach at Pompano Beach,
Fla., Junior High School, is planning a June wedding
to Joe Hodges. GENE R. WRTGHT has an assistantship in chemistry at Western Michigan University
where he is working on his master's degree. Donald
Matthew Wright was born on July 5. MAHSHALL H.
BRENNER is research assistant in the counseling center at Ohio State University and is working for a
Ph.D. in psychology. DoN G. DAvrs is an intern at
Bronson Methodist Hospital in Kalamazoo. He received his M.D. degree from the University of Michigan in June.
CLASS OF 1956
HERBERT A. LIPSCHITZ received a master of arts degree in secondary administration and supervision from
Western Michigan University. His son, Todd Steven,
was born on August 25. Lors FREY CRANE has been
named assistant librarian by Parke, Davis & Co. She
will assist in their research library in Ann Arbor
when their new research laboratories are completed
late this year. PATRICIA GREENWOOD STEIN is president of the Hed Wing, Minn., Branch of A.A.U.W.
Carrie Lynn was born on March 25. June 27 was
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the birth date of Thomas, son of Dn. '56 and MRs.
\VERNEH P. ScHMIDT, in Stadtlohm, Germany. JusTIN M. HUI-IGE was married to Elizabeth McHade on
September 12 in Los Angeles, Calif. MR. '56 and
MRs. MAx A. EvANS (DOROTHY CADIEUX '56) an:
nounce the birth of their second son, Mark Alan, on
July 11 in Pontiac, Mich.
CLASS OF 1957
JAJ\IES FoWLER was a winner of the men's doubles
title of the annual Northern Michigan Tennis Tournament at Petoskey. CAnY MonnrsoN is now living
in Galesburg, Mich., where he is the head basketball
coach at Galesburg-Augusta High School. ALAN J.
ScHHADER is in the Army, stationed at Ft. Leonard
Wood, Mo. Mn. and MRs. PAUL F. CoASH are the
parents of a daughter, Julia Elizabeth, born in Kalamazoo on August 5. St. Mary Catholic Church, St.
Clair, Mich., was the setting for the marriage of
Miss Joanne E. \Villiams and PHILIP E. VEENHUJS on
August 8. Mn. '57 and Mns. DAVID J. MAHKUSSE announce the birth of a daughter, Susan Kay, on September 2 in Kalamazoo. JuDITH MITCHELL JoHNSON
has a daughter, Karen Ann, born on June 29 in Lawrence, Kansas. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, who coached
Athens, Mich., High School to the Little C football
championship last fall, is assisting Rolla Anderson,
football coach at Kalamazoo College. He is working
toward his master's degree in administration. Mn.
'57 and Mns. GLEN BROWN (PATHICL\ CoRBY '55)
are the parents of a son, Steven Craig, born on June
22 in Kalamazoo. KAREN PETERSON is working for a
master's degree in counseling and guidance at the
University of Michigan under the provisions of the
National Defense Education Act. There are 40 students representing 27 states in the Guidance Institute
which will run the full academic year. She expects
to receive her M.A. in June and return to Springfield
High School, Battle Creek, Mich., as a teacher-counselor. MR. and Mns. THOMAS TIFT ( ANNELJECE
FREY '57) announce the birth of a daughter, Trudy
Thekla, on October 20 in Kalamazoo. DouGLAS RoSENBERGER is an assistant branch manager at the Detroit Bank and Trust Company. He and his wife,
the former ELIZABETH AsHDOLT '58, are the parents
of a daughter, Laura Sue, born on January 28.
JuDITH LrNDBEHG LARoY is teaching 7th and 8th
grade science in Skiles Junior High School, Evanston, Ill., and her husband, JIM '57, is working pn a
research project on capillary action at Northwestern
University, where he is a medical student. SAMUEL
L. HAHHINGTON is a sales representative of the American Brass Division, Anaconda Company, Detroit.
He has a daughter, Karen Michelle, born on January
18 in St. Clair Shores, Mich. HoBEHT D. JENKINS is
engaged to marry Miss Mary Jo Cowart on January
3, 1960. He is assistant personnel supervisor at
Monsanto Chemical Company, Kearny, N.J. MARGAHET Honn was married to Christopher J. Olsen on
June 13.
CLASS OF 1958
THOJ\IAS LETH is an organic chemist with Abbott
Laboratories in North Chicago. JAMES M. VANTAsSEL received a secondary teaching certificate from
Western Michigan University on July 30. JANE
KALAMAZOO
COLLEGE
C. PnESSEL is teaching French and art at the new
Parchment, Mich., Junior-Senior High School, which
opened this fall. LESLIE DoDSON won the men's
singles title in the Michigan Closed Tennis Tournament at Flint this smmner. LARRY WEISMAN has
finished his first year at the Kansas City College of
Osteopathy and Surgery. PATRICIA A. CooPER graduated from the Katharine Gibbs Secretarial School
in Boston and is now employed by Harvard University as a secretary in the division of engineering and
applied physics. MR. '58 and MRs. GEORGE PIXLEY
are the parents of a daughter, Rebecca Ray, born
on September 9 in Kalamazoo. Stetson Chapel was
the scene of the marriage of KATHLEEN MARIE MAHER and GEORGE S. HAYNE on July 11. SHIRLEY A.
LocKWOOD was married to Eugene R. Scholler on
August 15 in the Covenant Baptist Church, Detroit.
She is teaching a third grade class in Clarkston,
Mich., and her husband teaches art and English at
Clarkston High School. MR. and Mns. KENNETH D.
WILLIAMSON (RuTH SoLLITT '58) announce the birth
of a son, Kenneth Donald 'Williamson, III, on October 20 in LaGrange, Ill. CAnOL E. BEALL became
the bride of THOMAS D. LEni on July 5 in Stetson
Chapel. P. RICHARD TAYLOH is a store manager in
\Varwick, R. I., for the Pyrofax Gas Corporation.
Dick and LAURA HEINHICH '59 were married on J tme
27. JAMES 0. PHESTON is a buyer for Clark Equipment Co., Battle Creek. His son, Scott Edward, was
born on February 25. DAviD E. KIBBEY and MAHY
LEE JoHNSON '59 were married on September 4 in
South Haven, Mich. Dave is a teacher at Tappan
Junior High School, Detroit. SAM MERCANTINI is in
the Army and stationed at Ft. Leonard Wood, Mo.
ADELINE HuNT and Frank A. Roselli were married on
September 19 in St. Thomas Episcopal Church, Rochester, N.Y. CAHOLYN MAYNE McGuiRE received
hei· B.A. degree in social science from Michigan State
University in Jtme. She has one son, Barry Joseph,
who is 13 months old. DANIEL A. MoROZOWSKI is
a personnel specialist in the U. S. Army Hospital at
Ft. Leonard \Vood, Mo. He plans on teaching when
he is discharged from the Army. ERNESTINE Su
CHANG was married in June and is attending the
graduate school of social work at the University of
Pittsburgh. MR. '57 and Mns. DouGLAS J. STEWARD
announce the birth of a son, Ronald Neil, on August
12 in East Lansing, Mich. NANCY CLOMP and
THOMAS K. KnmucK '60 were married in the Emmanuel Lutheran Church, Rockford, Ill., on July 11.
CLASS OF 1959
DAviD SPIELER is attending the Boston University
School of Theology. He was married to Miss Helen
M. Rowe on June 13 in Kalamazoo. DAN GmsoN is
head baseball and assistant football and basketball
coach at Harbor Beach, Mich., High School. MARK
R. MILLSOM is a buyer trainee with Sterling Lindner
in Cleveland, Ohio. LLOYD H. STEPHENS is a fifth
year student at the Architecture and Design School
of the University of Michigan. ANTHONY LASCALA
and MoNICA DREES '61 were married on June 20 in
Old St. Mary Church, Rochester, N.Y. FnEDEHJCK
J. CAJSEH and M1ss PATJUCIA ANN MARTIN '60 announced their engagement on July 19. CAHOL E.
HoovEn and Michael E. Mosier were married on May
16 in St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Kalamazoo. A
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son, Robert Vivian, was born on Augu~t 27 to Mn.
'59 and Mns. DAviD HIGGS ( BAHBAHA BIRCHENOUGH
'60) in ewark,
. Y. David is attending Colgate
Rochester Divinity School and is assistant minister
of the First Presbyterian Church of Brockport, . Y.
RoGEH L. BOBERTZ and SALLY A. SMlTH '57 were
married on June 20 in the First Baptist Church, Flint
Mich. INGHID BnowN is teaching third grade at
Spring Valley School in the Kalamazoo Public School
system. Stetson Chapel was the scene of the marriage of Mrss ELIZABETH H. HAMES '60 and RrCHAHD
HEMWALL on August 16. DIANE DuGAS WORDEN
has received an instructorship in general biology laboratories at the University of Kansas, while doing
course work in the School of Education. Her husband, LEONARD '59, is a graduate student at the
University of Kansas. DAviD W. FISCHER and MAHY
ELLEN STEKETEE '61 were married on October 3 in
the Third Reformed Church, Holland, Mich. Dave
is an analyst in the engineering department of National vVaterlift Co., Kalamazoo. JUDiTH DuNHAM
and JuLIA HoLMES are both teaching in McKinley
school, Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. Judy is also organist
for the Central Methodist Church. WARREN ANDHEWS is a teacher at vVashington School, Kalamazoo.
RoBERT vV. STAHK is enrolled at the University of
Illinois where he is working toward a master's degree in the field of public administration. CARMEN
K. OLSON is employed in the commercial finance division of Morris Plan, Inc., in Indianapolis, Ind.
CLASS OF 1960
JoHN D. NISBET, Jn., and Lois M. Didier were married on August 8 in St. Augustine's Catholic Church,
Kalamazoo. Patricia Ann Schmidt and JACK DEKnEEK announced their engagement on September
25. They are planning a spring wedding.
CLASS OF 1961
Mrss MAHY Lors CooKSON was married to Heinrich
G. von Schreiner on August 1 in St. Monica Catholic
Church, Kalamazoo. ELEANOR A. TIFFANY is a personnel specialist in the U.S. Air Force. She is stationed at March Air Force Base, Moreno, Calif.
FREDRICK vV. vVARVEL and Mary Jean Granger were
married on September 12 in the First Congregational
Church, Allegan, Mich.
GENERAL ITEMS
MARY HoDGE ToDD, vice president of the Women's
Council at Kalamazoo College, died at her home in
Kalamazoo on August 8, following a lengthy illness.
She was active in Red Cross, hospital, educational,
church and community organizations, and was a lifelong resident of Kalamazoo. Mrs. Todd is survived
by her husband, ALBERT J. '03, two sons and three
daughters. MR. and Mns. CEOHGE AcKER are the
parents of a daughter, Sherry Lou, born on June 16
in Kalamazoo. Mr. Acker is the tennis coach at
Kalamazoo College. A daughter, Janet Helen, was
born on August 23 to Dn. and Mns. ALLEN V. Buskirk in Kalamazoo. Dr. Buskirk is professor of
physics at the College. DH. and Mns. WALTEH WAHJNG announce the birth of a daughter, Claire Joyce,
on October 6 in Kalamazoo. Dr. ·waring is head of
the English department at Kalamazoo College.
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