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A Joyous Holiday Season
The 1965
Homecoming Queen
and her Court
THIS ISSUE BRINGS our holiday greeting, extended as well
by the five charming students in the photo above.
As Homecoming brings together the student body and
the alumni of past generations, much of the content
of this issue cites the present college scene, along
with a vast number of alumni news notes which
indicates the very fine response given to the card
request for zip codes.
Miss Ginnie Good, senior from Bethesda, Md., daughter
of alumnus Dr. Walter Good '37 and Mrs. Good,
appears first on the left, followed by Miss Nancy Lamb,
Monroe, Mich., senior; Queen Marilyn Coffing, senior
from Pontiac; Miss Jamie Hall, sophomore from
Algoma, Wise.; and Miss Ruth Ryan, Grinnell, Iowa,
also a sophomore.
Homecoming effort!
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VOL. :XXVII
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November, 1965
No.4
CONTENTS
Homecoming, registration, Alan
Schneider, tennis, football- Kalamazoo Gazette; alumni parents,
James Farley, Esther Peterson, Mrs. Komine- Douglas Lyttle;
new library, classes of 1935, 1945, 1955, and 1960 - Joe Schiavone; Alumni Council, classes of 1930, 1940, and 1950 - AI
Williams.
PICTURE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:
The Concerned Student
by President Weimer K. Hicks
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The Freshman Class·
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the Man
by James A. Farley
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The Place of Love in American Letters
by Dr. Walter W. Waring, Professor of English
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MARILYN IDNKLE,
'44, Editor
Richard A. Lemmer '41, President; Maynard
M. Conrad '36, Vice-President; Marian Hall Starbuck '45, Secretary. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEMBERS: Robert Aldrich '33; Lucille Hallock Brenner '29; Charles E. Garrett, Jr., '42; Jane Sidnam Heath '37; Susan Ralston Louis '53, Richard Meyerson '49,
Edward P. Thompson '43; Marilyn Sharp Wetherbee '46. OTHER
EXECUTIVE BOARD MEMBERS: Lois Stutzman Harvey '29, AlumniTrustee; Robert E. Heerens '38, Alumni-Trustee; Burton L. Baker '33, Alumni-Trustee; David Markusse '57, K-Club President;
Kenneth Krum '45, Kalamazoo President; Samuel Folz '47, VicePresident; Mary Ethel Rockwell Skinner '44, Secretary.
ALUMNI OFFICERS:
Quarterly Review
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Sports
by Dick Kishpaugh
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Class News
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The New Year and the Concerned Student
by President Weimer K. Hicks
has gone by since Kalamazoo
opened its 133rd year. It has been an interesting month;
by and large, a typical month. Like the majority of
Octobers, life on campus has been quiescent. Each new
freshman class, invariably thrilled by the collegiate
experience, brings a refreshing enthusiasm to the
campus. The arrival of the new matriculants also seems
to bring forth the best of leadership from the upperclassmen. A dedication to academic pursuits likewise
tends to permeate the fall season. This fall the esprit
de corps on the quad was further enhanced by the
exploits of our football team, which carried a four-game
winning streak into the all-important Homecoming
battle. Thus we approach the middle of the fall quarter
with a feeling of satisfaction, notwithstanding the
subsequent defeats at Angell Field.
As I view the campus scene, I see a continuation of
one change which has gripped college youth, all over
the nation. In recent years a profound metamorphosis
has taken place in student attitudes and actions. A
decade ago we of the faculty and administration
worried about campus apathy. The students of the '50's
were dubbed the silent and the beat generation. They
seemed interested primarily in their own sphere, their
little microcosm. The majority wanted only to gain
preparation for a good job so they could live in
suburbia happily ever after.
Today students have changed and these recent
graduates have likewise changed. Students are concerned about issues which should have troubled college
generations of an earlier vintage. They are bothered
about our adult failures to find the answer to equality
among men. They have interest in other nations and
cultures and desire to know them. They worry about the
under-privileged, the hungry and the needy. They
protest against our failure to find an answer to war.
And you and I must sympathize with and commend
them for their concerns. And even more significantly,
they are doing more than merely voicing their
objections. Some have become activists about those
concepts in which they believe.
This change, this awakening began to manifest itself
three or four years ago. Today it is still on the
increase. Now what has brought about this change in
the minds of students? I attribute the change primarily
to the influences resulting from Sputnik. When the
Russians placed a satellite in orbit, America became
alarmed. We were losing, we feared, our powers of
creativity. We no longer out-ran the rest of the world
in our ingenuity. Where were our scientists? What
had happened to our inventive bent? And finally, what
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could we do to increase the flow of creative minds
which had made America the most resourceful people
of history?
So we set out to alter our educational techniques.
Overnight we discarded progressive education with its
"keep-'em-happy" and "peas-in-a-pod" philosophies.
We urged students to be different. We sought the
uncommon man. We ferreted out the genius, the merit
scholar. We stepped up academic work at all levels.
In short, we played down the importance of life
adjustment and emphasized individuality. We urged
self-expression and freedom for youth.
And what has been the result? Today we are
educating students who are far more willing to translate
their beliefs into action. In some areas, the ideas and
activity may follow a pattern with which we disagree,
and we feel as if we have a tiger by the tail. But I for
one believe that the good far outweighs the bad. And
our challenge becomes that of guiding the movement
in directions which will bring optimum values.
I contend that student thinking seems to be taking on
a new and important quality which will make its
impact even more effective. In the earlier years of the
'60's it was strongly associated with Bohemian
tendencies. One had little difficulty in identifying the
exponents by dress and appearance. Consequently,
the movement assumed qualities which were distasteful
to many. Year by year the Beatnik influences
permeated more of our campuses, until they all but
dominated at certain of the institutions of strong
intellectual bent. Today there seems to be a changing
pattern. Uniqueness of appearance, after all, is only
a novelty. Even more it is at the periphery. The
movement per se is at the core. Why distract from
the effectiveness of the message by extraneous
associations which bring negative responses. Accordingly, the concerned students seem to be discarding the
qualities which have only clouded the issues.
Individuality without purpose is on the wane.
And what of Kalamazoo? For a college of intellectual
tradition, we have not been as in£ltrated by the
Bohemian-type influences as many institutions, though
they have been and are with us. Today there seems
to be evidence on our quadrangle, and at other schools
of similar purposes, that a more thoughtful group of
students are taking the lead. Actually, the new
awakening has been obvious at Kalamazoo for four
years. It has expressed itself locally in our response to
the service quarter, in the sizeable number joining the
Peace Corps, in our voluntary tutoring program of
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Among alumni parents of freshmen are Dr. and Mrs.
Forrest Strome (Edith Hoven) of the cklss of 1945, from
Pittsford, N.Y. They are shown with freshman son, David,
and daughter, Carol, chatting with Mrs. Weimer K. Hicks
at the reception for new students.
Registration for a record freshman cklss
The Freshman Class
the freshman class counts for 365 ( 206 men
and 159 women) of the total enrollment of 1140.
According to James Mandrell, admissions director, this
number was selected from 1317 applicants. Last
year, 349 freshmen were chosen from 989 applicants.
The class, representing 253 high schools in 32 states,
includes six National Merit Scholars and one of the 120
Presidential Scholars named by President Johnson.
Fifty per cent of the freshmen attended schools outside
of Michigan.
Ninety-four per cent of this year's freshman class
ranked in the top third, 62 per cent in the top tenth, and
41 per cent in the top twentieth (or top five per cent)
of their high school graduating classes. There are 203
freshmen who held leadership positions during their
high school careers - offices in student councils, state
organizations, honor societies, and the like.
In terms of scholarship assistance, this year's
freshmen will receive a total of $179,685. This includes
$105,965 awarded to 145 freshmen either through or
by the College; $48,598 from the State of Michigan
Competitive Scholarship Program; and $26,120 from
various Foundations and organizations. In addition to
scholarships, campus employment and College loans
bring the total scholarship and financial assistance to
freshmen to $244,625.
Meanwhile, of the total1140 students enrolled this
year - the largest student body in the history of
Kalamazoo College - 179 juniors are at 16 schools in
11 foreign countries for their credit-earning study
during the fall and winter quarters, and more than 90
seniors are currently engaged in off-campus
independent study.
THIS YEAR,
Others pictured on opening day included Mr. and Mrs.
Joseph Schnebelt (Betty ]ames '45) of Dexter, Mich., with
daughter, Susan; Kris Wedge, Hopewell, N. ]., daughter
of Dr. '43 and Mrs. Bryant Wedge (Dorrie Reed '42);
her cousin, Mike Reed, also a freshman, son of Mr. '43 and
Mrs. Arthur Reed (Helen Gklser '46) of South Bend, Ind.
Discussing a mutual interest - tennis - are freshman
Sharon Nash, her mother, Mary Pratt Nash '46 of
Excelsior, Minn., and Dr. John Moore of the
philosophy department.
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FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT, THE MAN
Postmaster General during the first
two Roosevelt terms, and currently Chairman of the
Board of the Coca-Cola Export Corporation, delivered
this final paper on August 5 to conclude the
"Roosevelt Era" lecture series, commemorating the
twentieth anniversary of President Roosevelt's death.
The 1965-66 series is presenting "The Vatican Council:
Four Views." It is being sponsored by a grant
from the Sperry and Hutchinson Foundation.
JAMES A. FARLEY,
THE MAN" is a difficult assignment, because it
is not easy to separate a man from his accomplishments. The personality of President Roosevelt is
reflected in his first two administrations more than in
his last two. In the last two, the compulsions of war
and of failing health assailed him. In his first two
administrations, he had much more freedom of action.
A man may be judged in considerable part by
whom he admires. President Franklin Delano
Roosevelt had a tremendous admiration for his
namesake predecessor, President Theodore Roosevelt.
I do not presume to say that he patterned himself
after the late President Theodore Roosevelt because he
had a unique personality of his own. But in many
ways they were alike. Both had tremendous physical
vitality. Both had suffered physical ailments - the
overcoming of which required the full use of their
native physical endowment. Both succeeded - itself an
indication of will power and character. But I think
that their zest for life transcended even this. There was
a love of life, its problems and its contests which
"F. D. R. -
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By James A. Farley
made our many years together a daily joy.
Parenthetically, it was only at the end of our long
association that the feeling of playing on a great team
together departed. And such severance took place on
a basis of principle, not of personality, over the
question of a third term.
We were both Upstaters- Democrats in Republican
strongholds. He was from Hyde Park in Dutchess
County on the east bank of the Hudson - and I was
from Grassy Point in Rockland County, about forty
miles down the river on the opposite side. His
animation and independence showed early. He fought
the Republican machine and won in Dutchess. He
fought the Democratic State organization then
controlled by Tammany Hall and prevented the
election of their choice - William F. Sheehan of
Buffalo -known as "Blue-eyed Billy" Sheehan, for the
United States Senate. In those days United States
Senators from New York State were elected by the
State Legislature.
He had a tremendous advantage. At all times,
politics was the means of the expression of his views
and his personality. It was never a means of
his livelihood.
Endowed as was President Theodore Roosevelt with
the necessities of life, he approached public service
as a duty of a man of preferred position. I call the
manifestations of this unshakable confidence. It has
been called "the consciousness of effortless superiority"
and even "arrogance" by his detractors. I do not hold
with them. I believe he was gifted with a sense of
destiny and of leadership, which stood him and the
nation in good stead in hours of grave crisis.
Part of this confidence and part of this physical health
resulted in a continuing atmosphere of almost
boisterous good-humor. As we planned the 1932
campaign, our relationship reminded me much of my
baseball days at Grassy Point - where I was born and
raised. We were both in the best of health - and I
say this despite the Governor's polio handicap- and
in good spirits; we both loved the game, and as
teammates, if I may so, we had a fine
personal relationship.
So much has been written of our split, that it has been
overlooked that men must be very close indeed to
have a split become first page news. I think I knew
F. D. R. as well as any man and better than most,
because in the formative period particularly, Louis
Howe and I were the only ones other than Mrs.
Roosevelt to whom he could possibly have opened
his heart.
In his heart, he was a deeply good man. Superficially
gay, he was really quite religious. He paid much
attention to his trusteeship of St. James Church in Hyde
Park, even when under the heavy burden of the War.
His mind was extraordinarily quick. He instantly
grasped the full implication of a political situation,
moving instinctively, and much in the manner of a
professional baseball player - shifting with the
different batters.
Now, of course, depending on what side you are on,
the adjectives vary. If you are for a fellow, you call
him nimble and adroit. Your opponent, however, calls
him unstable and mercurial. Mr. Roosevelt has been
called both, but the point I am making is that both are
describing the same qualities; and, no matter how
you add them up, they come out with the same
answer - that he was exceptionally canny and
knowledgeable, and had political savvy in the highest
degree.
Whtt were his objectives? I think to live in history as
a great President. He wanted to equal or surpass
President Theodore Roosevelt and his old chief,
President Woodrow Wilson, as a progressive. In this
particular I think he took great heed of President
Wilson's political defeat on the League of Nations. He
was much more compromising than Mr. Wilson. Mr.
Wilson never really interested himself in the lower
echelons of politics, and really knew nothing about
them. F. D. R. did and understood them much better,
in fact as well as any man I have ever known. This
did not prevent him, however, from committing his
most disastrous political blunder - the attack on the
Supreme Court. But, it did enable him to govern New
York State during the Seabury Investigation of the
late Mayor James J. Walker's Administration, without
assisting Judge Seabury in the least and without
favoring the Democratic organization at all. Both sides
assailed him. Both called him the man on the flying
trapeze, but neither sensed that he enjoyed that role
very much.
His sense that his place in history depended on what
he did for the common man was called demagoguery
by his opponents. I just won't accept this at all. I sat
in those early cabinet meetings, and I can tell you there
was no time for demagoguery. The hour was too late
and the days too full of anxiety for any thought other
than the welfare of our country. The banks had been
closed and reopened, but they were shaky. Millions
were jobless and millions were hungry. Those pieces of
legislation pounded out in the forge of imminent
national failure were entrusted in a large measure to me
-operating as Chairman of the Democratic National
Committee- to effectuate on the Hill. Many men took
part in their formation - and it is significant as the
late Speaker Sam Rayburn of Texas pointed out, that
of the 100 odd basic acts - such as labor legislation,
banking reforms, securities regulation, social security
and many others - not one has been repealed and all
have been augmented by both parties in succeeding
sessions of the Congress. Accordingly, it is unkind,
unfair and untrue to call Mr. Roosevelt a demagogue
on this score.
To be sure, he loved the approval of the people
and the lionization. by his huge following. But who
doesn't? Loving applause and rabble rousing are two
different things. There are two factors which
prevented F. D. R. from becoming a rabble rouser.
First, and you may believe this or not, he was deeply
conservative. He hated to spend public money
unnecessarily, and he dreamed of the day he could
balance the budget.
I shall always remember an evening I spent with him
after dinner in the White House as he was going over
with me matters on which of necessity required his
approval. I shall never forget when he said if the price
of cotton which I think was then six cents a pound in
the market could be raised to ten or eleven cents, and •
corn and wheat could be raised from the price offered
in the Kansas City markets, comparable with the
increase on cotton - and if it were possible to increase
the national income from approximately, as I recall
it, fifty-seven to sixty billion dollars at that time - to
approximately seventy-five billion dollars, we would
be able to balance the budget - which if my memory
serves me correctly - was approximately seven
billion dollars.
The public needs and the necessity of spending held
his mind; but close to his heart was the idea of
stopping federal spending as quickly as he could. At
the slightest rise in the economic health of the country,
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he would stop spending. In fact, he stopped spending
so abruptly in 1937 that it brought about a recession.
Perhaps nothing illustrates how conservative he was at
heart more than the discovery that the ex-President
of the New York Stock Exchange, Richard Whitney,
was an embezzzler. Had F. D. R. been a demagogue,
he would have gone to the country screaming "I told
you so," and demanded fuller powers. He could have
gotten them too. But he did nothing of the kind.
Perhaps it is an index to F. D. R. the man that tears
came to his eyes. "I can't believe that Dick would do
such a thing," he said and added "Poor Groton!" They
had been schoolmates there.
One of his great qualities was to tum reverses into a
joke. Thus, when he lost the PURGE elections,
defeating only one opponent, the Chairman of the
Rules Committee, John O'Connor of New York, he
laughed off his defeat with the marvelous wisecrack "It was a bad season, but we won the Yale Game."
Another time, when his Executive Secretary, the very
able James Rowe, urged him to take an action to
which he was opposed - according to Jim Rowe, the
President said: "Jim, you've made a forceful argument,
but by accident we're not going to do it."
"By accident?" asked Rowe. "What accident?"
"The accident that the People of the United States
elected me President instead of you," F. D. R. laughed.
I have told you that he was a man who could throw
off a jibe, but there was one which cut him deeply.
That came at a time when he was convinced that the
country had to prepare for war. Taking the cue from
his agricultural plan of reducing crops by a third, the
President's foreign policy was described on the
Senate floor as a plan to plow under every third
American boy. That hurt, hurt deeply, so deeply that
it was weeks before he rallied enough to be very
angry about it.
He liked nothing better than new ideas and
interesting people and he especially liked to talk to
them over a cocktail at day's end. He fancied himself
as a great cocktail mixer, with few equals in martinis,
and without parallel in old-fashioneds.
He was deeply aware of the prerogatives of the
Presidency. He insisted that the great respect for the
office be observed because none respected it more
than he. Thus, he was annoyed when an autograph
seeker presumed to go upstairs in the White House to
get it. He refused and ordered him expelled.
Although his life had been attempted in Miami, it
affected him little. He was a fatalist about that, and
as I have previously said, he was deeply religious. He
often said, "If they want you, they'll get you, and there
isn't anything you can do about it." In fact, it was the
cabinet which intervened to put more protection
around him. The Attorney General, Robert H. Jackson,
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was summoned to the White House one midnight,
and found only one old guard between Pennsylvania
Avenue and the Lincoln Room. He protested stn;mgly
and after that Mr. Roosevelt consented to more security
measures.
He, of course, loved the Navy, because of his
boyhood sailing days. He also, of course, had been
assistant Secretary of the Navy under President Wilson,
a job also held at one time by President Theodore
Roosevelt. With his admirals he was in especially close
contact. He could take criticizing of his other
departments very well, but those attacking the Navy
were on thin ice. He would shut off those critics with a
single sentence, "What do they know about
battleships?"
His Administration has been described as the greatest
royal court since Louis XIV. There is a certain
element of truth about this. While the President was
bold in imagination, swift in execution, and
highly knowledgeable about government finance,
administration was not one of his strong points. He was
little less than grand in his delegation pf authority;
he was magnificent in backing up the men he
appointed, but unfortunately he often appointed two
departments with sweeping powers to do the same job.
This resulted in terrible departmental fights, which
F. D. R. dearly loved. Since both sides bitterly
complained to him, he kept himself, at least, fully
informed.
His method of reaching policy decisions in those
early days is worthy of note. I have for it the greatest
admiration. He would invite all points of view to the
White House for dinner, or immediately thereafter. He
would introduce the subject for discussion, and then
listen to all sides. Sometimes after eleven o'clock he
would turn to Miss LeHand and say, "Missy, I think this
is the best we can do." He would then and there
dictate his ideas in a memorandum. All had had their
say, and all had a precise idea of what the President
wanted. Thereafter, very frequently, he would delegate
the job to two competing departments, and the fur
would start to fly.
Nor did his idea of administration stop there. His
kitchen cabinet often had more access than the regular
cabinet. Hopkins and Corcoran were his principal
lieutenants after the death of Louis Howe and to the
annoyance of many department heads their word was
law more often than not. It is in pattern that these two
men also ended up at loggerheads as did many of
his department heads.
This dislike of ordinary channels led him to value
new faces and new ideas. In that respect, he was very
typical of the age in which he was educated. He had
a little knowledge of nearly everything. He was an avid
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The Place of Love in An1erican Letters
by Dr. Walter W. Waring, Professor of English
that American writing is deficient in any
important respect is not popular among American
readers; yet a review of American literature reveals few
examples of stories or poems devoted expressly to
love. American writers have written works of enduring
merit in every literary classification, but instead of a
Romeo and Juliet, a Wuthering Heights, or even a
Green Mansions, we have The Scarlet Letter and The
American Tragedy.
A great many American writers seem to regard love
as a product of achievement in activities unrelated to
love. Almost to a man, Puritans see love as a by-product
of the love of God. James Fenimore Cooper regards
it as a reward for honest merit on the fort<st trail or in
conflict with the Indians. Love comes to the heroes of
the novels of Zane Grey and Owen Wister because of
their stem and arbitrary administration of frontier
justice, but its arrival softens their lives and makes them
like other men. For many writers, love is a means to
an end. Theodore Dreiser uses love as a way to achieve
social prestige. F. Scott Fitzgerald sees love as a
dream of beauty.
Love is a real option for Hemingway's heroes only
during the confusion of war when social mores are
in abeyance. In the writings of William Faulkner, love
is morbidly self-destructive as in the case of the
Compsons or "A Rose for Emily." In By Love
Possessed, James Gould Cozzens sees love as a daemon
that controls all action. Love is frankly psychological
in the work of J.D. Salinger, Truman Capote, and
Tennessee Williams. It is physical in the writing of
James Jones and Henry Miller. Saul Bellow's Seize the
Day presents love as ineffable yearning and frustration.
Thus, treatment of love varies from the crude and
violent to the otiose and mawkish. If American letters
can be taken as an index to the state of love in our
country, we are guilty of almost any practice charged
against us.
THE NOTION
We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw, Alas.
However, no writer is bound to present the sociological
in his works and, even if he does write realistically
about politics, economics, or war, he is not thereby
required to write realistically about love. Lines from
two love poems suggest approaches to love that may
account for its treatment in American literature. In his
poem "To Lucasta, Going to the Wars," Richard
Lovelace writes, "I could not love thee, Dear, so much,
I Loved I not honor more." Nearly one hundred and
fifty years later Robert Bums wrote, "0 My Love's like
a red, red rose I That's newly sprung in June. I 0
My Love's like the melody I That's sweetly played in
tune." Lovelace, the earlier poet, expresses the nature
of his feelings for his beloved by referring to a value
system that does not necessarily embrace love, but
nevertheless controls the behavior of the lover when
he loves. The value system referred to by Lovelace is an
external one, a code of life accepted by men of his
class during the time he wrote. Bums, on the other
hand, expresses his feelings for his beloved in terms
that refer to personally experienced sensations which
are not necessarily relevant to a larger community.
With such observations in mind, we can more readily
see how works of American literature are related to
the literature of love. The value system of Deerslayer,
who excels in hunting and fighting, has a well
developed code of conduct in which women are
respected and protected, but not cherished. The man
w.hose values command him to be always a hunter
cannot be a lover. Love in The Scarlet Letter is
subordinate to Puritan morality. Any violation of
Puritan conduct renders love outlawed. On the other
hand, the love of the Compsons in Faulkner's The
Sound and the Fury is oriented to personal experience
which is in conflict with the code maintained by
them. The only possible result is tragic. The
sensationally oriented love of the characters created
by Tennessee Williams is so demanding that any
familiar social code is disdained. External values are
non-existent for the lovers until the senses are numb.
The values of the social order take over then with
devastating effect.
Few works of American literature are categorically
about love because no distinctly American tradition
of love exists. Many works treat love as an element
related to other values, both objective and personal.
The best love stories in American literature are about
something else.
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Quarterly Review
The new Kalamazoo College library will be named The Upjohn
Library in honor of the Upjohn family and The Upjohn
Company, as a tribute to their continuing deep interest in the
welfare of this institution. Excavating for the $1 .8 million
structure has begun, on the corner of Thompson and Academy
Streets, and the building which will house 250,000 volumes and
provide study space for 700 students, will be completed by
early spring of 1967.
A successful summer Festival Playhouse, a New York Company's
presentation of Goethe's "Iphigania in Tauris," a day's visit
by director Alan Schneider, and a fall season now underway
review the last few months' events of the drama department. The
photograph above shows Mr. Schneider, director of a dozen
Broadway plays including "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?",
and Mrs. N elda Balch, Kalamazoo College drama director,
in informal discussion with students.
with twelve new members of the staff.
They include Dr. Herbert Bogart, assistant professor of
English, coming from the University of California,
Davis; Dr. Stillman Bradfield, associate professor of
Anthropology, who has done extensive field research in
Peru, and who most recently taught at Pennsylvania
State College; Danford Byrens, instructor of organ, who
has had wide experience as organist and choir
director in Ohio, New York, and Michigan; Jean Pierre
Fichou, visiting lecturer in French, who previously
taught at Winchester College, England, the Lycee de
Lisieux, and the Universite de Caen; Dr. Anne
Helgesen, associate professor of French, a native of
Belfast, Ireland, educated in England and France; Dr.
Stanley Rajnak, assistant professor of mathematics,
recent graduate with honors from the University
of California; David Rockhold, instructor of religion
and director of student religious activities, a Danforth
Fellow on the Kalamazoo College campus, 1963-64,
a graduate of Princeton and an ordained Presbyterian
minister; Dr. Howard Roerecke, assistant professor
of English, from Pennsylvania State University; Dr.
Philip S. Thomas, associate professor and chairman of
economics, a graduate of the University of Michigan,
former research advisor and chief of the international
economics section of the Pakistan Institute of
Development Economics, most recently professor at
Grinnell College; John Wolf, instructor of Spanish,
educated in New York, Mexico, and Japan, former
teacher at the University of Kansas; Miss Marcia Wood,
1955 graduate of Kalamazoo College, assistant
professor of art, further study at the Courtauld Institute
of Art, the University of London, and Harvard
University; and Mrs. Lola Packer who is the house
director of DeWaters Hall and is in charge of the social
calendar. David Evans, who expects to receive the
Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin this winter, will
join the faculty on January 1 as instructor in biology.
FALL OPENED
lO
will leave for Bonn,
Germany, the latter part of January, for a three-week
stay. Dr. Hicks has been invited by the German
government as one of three American university
presidents to engage in a tour of German universities.
Mrs. Hicks will be the guest of the University of Bonn,
one of the Kalamazoo College foreign study centers.
Before returning home, Dr. and Mrs. Hicks plan to
visit the Kalamazoo centers in France.
DR. AND MRS. WEIMER K. HICKS
have been given new duties.
Dr. Wen Chao Chen has been appointed director of
academic services with the major responsibility of
administering the senior thesis program. He will
continue as College librarian and professor of political
science. Dr. Edward Moritz has been named chairman
of the College history department. He succeeds Dr.
I vor Spencer who has relinquished his administrative
post to devote more time to teaching and research.
Dr. Moritz has been a member of the history
department since 1955. Dr. Berne Jacobs has been
THREE FACULTY MEMBERS
The Faculty Women's Club opened its year featuring Mrs.
Esther Peterson as speaker. Mrs. Peterson, Special Assistant to
the President for Consumer Goods, is pictured (far right) with
Mrs. Allen V. Buskirk, president of the Faculty Women's Club
(left); Mrs. Richard G. Hudson, president of the Women's
Council; and Mrs. Sherrill Cleland, wife of the Dean of
Academic Affairs. Mrs. Cleland is program chairman
for the year.
August 8 saw Bob Lutz of Los Angeles win the National Junior
Championship from Steve Avoyer of San Diego on the Stowe
Stadium courts. In the same tournament, Zan Guerry of
Lookout Mountain, Tenn., won the Boy's Championship,
defeating Mike Estep of Dallas. This was the fiftieth anniversary
for this national tournament, and for the last twenty-three
years it has been held at Kalamazoo College. The popularity of
these matches drew as many as 1800 spectators at a given time.
appointed director of institutional research and will
help the College evaluate the effectiveness of its various
academic programs. He will continue to teach
in the department of psychology .
Association. Beginning on Monday evening, January 10,
Dr. Walter Waring, professor of English and regular
contributor to this magazine, will begin the first of five
sessions on Shakespeare. Anyone planning to enroll
may do so by contacting the Public Relations Office.
JR., paper executive and philanthropist,
died suddenly on a golf course in Montreal on August
29. He was head of the Calder Foundation which
provided the funds for the building of Calder Fieldhouse and, most recently, contributed another $85,000
for its enlargement. Mr. Calder's father, Louis Calder,
Sr., board chairman of Perkins-Goodwin Co. of New
York and founder of the Foundation, died in 1963.
LOUIS CALDER,
is top producer of Woodrow
Wilson Fellows among Michigan's private colleges,
according to a report by the Woodrow Wilson National
Fellowship Foundation. Since 1945, a total of 25
Kalamazoo graduates have been named Fellows, one
of the top academic honors awarded in the United
States and Canada. Kalamazoo's total is exceeded only
by the University of Michigan, Michigan State
University, and Wayne State University. Of the 25
Kalamazoo winners, nine currently are holding
academic appointments throughout the nation and
_another 12 are still in graduate schools.
KALAMAZOO COLLEGE
assistant professor of biology, is
completing a seminar for alumni and friends on
"Modern Biology and Man." There are twenty enrolled
in this fall seminar, sponsored by the Alumni
DR. SAMUEL TOWNSEND,
ON OCTOBER 6, President Hicks and Miss Marilyn Hinkle
met with alumni in Washington, D.C. Fifty-eight
persons attended the dinner at the Sheraton-Carlton
Hotel. On November 30, Miss Hinkle will leave for the
west coast, and meetings have been scheduled for
Houston, Albuquerque, Tucson, San Diego, Los
Angeles, San Francisco, and Denver.
members of the Alumni
Executive Board will be considering candidates for
alumni-trustee. If you have names to submit to them as
the slate is prepared, please inform the Public
Relations Office or Dr. Richard Lemmel", alumni
president. Mrs. H. Loree Harvey, one of the three
alumni presently serving in this capacity, has been
named to the Trustees' Bequest Committee, and a
Bequest Planning Council is now being set up through
the Alumni Council.
AFTER THE FIRST OF THE YEAR,
AS THE Alumnus GOES TO PREss, records indicate that
the Annual Fund has now reached $81,125 toward the
$160,000 goal. The Ford Challenge Program has
attained a total of $4,704,000 toward the $5,500,000
goal, leaving a balance to be raised in this remaining
year of $796,000.
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Sports
by Dick Kishpaugh
1965 football team :finished its
season with a 5-3 record, marking the fourth
consecutive winning season for the Hornet gridders.
Coach Rolla Anderson's crew :finished in a tie for second
place in the MIAA, sharing that spot with Hope
College. Albion won the league title, with the key
victory by the Britons being a 12-7 decision
over Kalamazoo.
In non-league games, the Hornets stopped Lake
Forest, 20-10, and Earlham, 16-0, while losing to
Franklin by a 7-0 score. The Earlham victory was
particularly notable, since it marked the :6rst time in
41 games that the Indiana team has been shut out.
In the league, the Hornets downed Olivet, 13-6;
Adrian, 18-8; and Alma, 14-3. As mentioned previously,
Albion scored a 12-7 victory over the Hornets to win
the title; that game was Kalamazoo's 1965 Homecoming
contest, and the old grads saw Kalamazoo lead for
more than a half before :finally falling to the powerful
Albion club. The other league loss wa8 by a 34-0 score
to Hope, the only time all season that the Hornet
defense was ineffective. Albion was the only team other
than Hope to score as many as two touchdowns on
the Hornets.
In cross country, Coach Swede Thomas had many
injury problems, and the Hornets wound up tied for
sixth place with Alma. The Hornets won over Alma and
over Grand Valley State in dual meets, however.
The football team members named Dan Austin and
George Lindenberg as 1966 co-captains. Both have
been regulars on the Hornet team since the start of
their freshman seasons, and both will be seniors next
fall. Austin is a center from Galesburg, while
Lindenberg is a guard from Dowagiac. This marked
the :6rst time in several seasons that two linemen had
been elected as co-captains. It also marked the second
captaincy for the Lindenberg family- George's
KALAMAZOO COLLEGE'S
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brother, Jon, was captain of the 1962 MIAA
championship Hornet basketball team.
Mike Lumkoski, junior fullback from Sturgis, was
named to two honors for the 1965 football season, being
named as Most Valuable as well as Most Improved.
Tom McArthur, junior tackle from Clawson, won the
Gas Can award for his contributions to squad morale.
In cross country, Craig Van Voorhees, a freshman
from Fennville, was named Most Valuable. VanVoorhees, placed seventh in the MIAA meet and was
named to the All-MIAA team. Tom Leenheer, a
freshman from Youngstown, Ohio, was named as Most
Improved on the cross country team, while Walt
Herscher, a junior from Cassopolis, was named as 1965
captain. The cross country team elected its captain
for the current season at the end of the season.
an alumnae team played the
varsity team in women's :6eld hockey to a 1-1 tie.
Alumnae returning for the game included, Ruth Archer,
Dearborn; Sue Hammer, Oberlin, Ohio; Anne Croster,
Lakewood, Ohio; Sue Martin, Schenectady, N. Y.;
Elaine Goff Hutchcraft, Ann Arbor; Judy Sterling,
Interlochen; Carol Kratt Skillman, Clarkston; Adrierlne
Hartl Alexander, Urbana, Ill.; and Gretchen
VanderLinde, Oberlin. The following day, the
Kalamazoo varsity team was host to the Great BritainIreland touring hockey team when it won over Ann
Arbor 4-0. Four of the Kalamazoo varsity players were
selected for Michigan College Association teams to
play at the sectional in Cleveland on November 13
and 14. They were Mary Westerville, Kalamazoo, who
made the fust team; Sue Budlong, Riverside, R.I.;
Agnes Kammerer, Cornwell Heights, Pa.; and Nancy
Reitz, Pittsford, N. Y. Miss Tish Loveless is
currently president of the Michigan College Field
Hockey Association.
ON HOMECOMING MORNING,
Class News
CLASS OF 1896
ADA DAVIDSON passed away on September 4 in Arlington,
Va. She received a bachelor of music degree in 1909 from
Chicago Musical College and had been a church organist and
given private music lessons. Among the survivors is a
son, Edward.
CLASS OF 1900
Mrs. Leita G. Kersten and EDWARD J. WOODHAMS were
married on October 2 in Bethlehem Baptist Church of
Kalamazoo.
CLASS OF 1903
HUBERT s. UPJOHN passed away on March 19 in Carmel,
California. Mr. Upjohn served as a teacher in several schools
until 1916 when he became director of visual education for
Los Angeles County. From 1928 until1931 he was Los Angeles
County Superintendent of Schools, and he served as
Superintendent of Schools at Long Beach from 1931 to 1935
when he retired due to ill health. He had been listed in
"Who's Who in America." Among his survivors are his wife,
a son, and a daughter.
CLASS OF 1904
ERNEST c. STOLL passed away on September 9 in Kalamazoo
following a lingering illness. During World War I, he worked
in the federal food administration program, and after the war,
he set up the first State Employment Service Office in
Kalamazoo. He then joined KVP Sutherland Paper Co. and was
divisional sales manager at the time of his retirement in 1955.
He is survived by his wife, a son, and two granddaughters.
GRACE CALKINS MORSE passed away on October 29 in
Birmingham, Mich. Among the survivors are her husband,
THE REVEREND CHARLES G. MORSE '04, a SOn, CHARLES L. '38,
a daughter, MARJORIE '27, a granddaughter, JOAN WOOD-MORSE
ROGIN '53, and a grandson, CHARLES '66.
CLASS OF 1907
MR. AND MRS. BERNARD F. HEMP (ALEXANDRINE
LATOURETTE) celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in
late October. They live in Berkeley, Calif.
CLASS OF 1908
MARIAN E. DANIELLS, assistant professor of mathematics at
Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa, was invited to be a guest of
honor at the 50th anniversary dinner of the Mathematical
Association of America at Cornell University in August.
CLASS OF 1909
CHARLES H. WALTER passed away on September 20 in
Whitewater, \Vise. He was retired, having spent 40 years in
education and 7 years in banking. He was head of the science
department at Mary Bradford High School in Kenosha, Wise.,
when he retired from teaching. Mr. Walter received his M.A.
Degree in 1926 from the University of Chicago. Among the
survivors is his son, Charles H. Walter, Jr., '44.
ANNA PUFFER LENDERINK was presented a red rose citation
by the Kalamazoo Rotary Club "for unselfish community
service." From the time of World War I on, she has provided
many free meals for servicemen, college students, etc. Most
recently she has been visiting patients at Kalamazoo State
Hospital.
CLASS OF 1911
RUTH COOLEY BIGELOW served as director of a conference
for girls attending or entering college sponsored by the Episcopal
Diocese of Western Michigan during August in Holland, Mich.
A lecturer and discussion leader for PTA's, youth and family
conferences, women's clubs and college classes, Mrs. Bigelow
taught "Family Living" at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church,
Miami, Fla., in 1962 and 1963. Last year, she directed
the education program at Calvary Episcopal Church,
Richmond, Texas.
ALMA E. KURTZ died on September 3 in a Howell, Mich.,
hospital after a long illness. She graduated from Baptist
Missionary Training School in 1912 and served as a home
missionary among foreign speaking people in Detroit; Weirton,
W.Va.; New Haven, Conn.; and Providence, R.I. She was a
resident of Fowlerville, Mich., at the time of her death. Among
the survivors are a sister-in-law, Mildred Powell Kurtz '08, a
cousin, Dr. Charles J. Kurtz '94, and several nieces and nephews.
CLASS OF 1912
DR. SAMUEL J. LEWIS of Kalamazoo is director of postgraduate orthodontics at St. Louis University and is a visiting
lecturer at Emory University Department of Orthodontics
since his retirement from practice.
ALICE DEN ADEL VANDERVEEN passed away On July 30 in
Kalamazoo. She served as principal of Galesburg, Mich., High
School for a time, and was associated with her husband for
many years in VanderVeen Cold Storage Co., Martin, Mich.
Among the survivors are a daughter, June VanderVeen Drier
'41, and a son, Paul.
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CLASS OF
1913
THE REVEREND AND MRS. CLINTON SKINNER ( IRENE HICKEY
'14) celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on August 15.
He is a retired minister, and they are living in Ames, New York.
Mrs. Virginia Lienert BanLoan and DR. LEROY J. BUTTOLPH
were married on October 28 in Cliffside Park, N. J.
CLASS OF
1914
'15)
are living in Washington, D. C., temporarily, while he is
working with the office of the Secretary of Defense.
NELLIE RELLER BARLOW passed away in Three Rivers, Mich.,
during August. She received a M.S. Degree in mathematics
from the University of Chicago in 1915 and taught school in
vVisconsin, Indiana, Connecticut, New Jersey, and Michigan.
MR. AND MRS. S. PAUL SHACKLETON (MILDRED WELSH
CLASS OF
1915
NELLIE RANK HARVEY passed away on September 28 in
Richland, Mich. She was the widow of Harry Harvey '16 and is
survived by a daughter, Mary Louise Harvey 'Williams '49.
DONNA VANVRANKEN CARTER died on August 14 in Orlando,
Fla. She was a realtor in Orlando for 30 years. She is survived
by her husband, a son and a daughter, her mother, and a brother
and a sister.
CLASS OF
w. ELLWOOD retired as medical librarian at Borgess
Hospital in Kalamazoo in July. As Chairman of the Comstock
Township Library Board, she is writing a history of the library.
LISLE K. MACKAY retired as principal of Chadsey High
School in Detroit on June 30.
HAROLD B. WILCOX has retired after serving forty-two years ·
in the Ferndale, Mich., Public School System. In 1944, he was
named director of adult education, a position he held at the time
of his retirement. He and his wife spent the month of June
touring western Europe with their son, who is stationed in
Germany with the U.S. Army, and his wife. Mr. Wilcox served
as a Ferndale city commissioner from 1935 to 1943, is a past
president of the Ferndale Education Association, and the State
Association of Public School Adult Education.
CLASS OF
1916
HOSMER w. STONE writes he is "emeritus at UCLA, but not
retired." He has a place to work on chemistry projects and a
research grant and two part-time assistants. He is also helping
foreign teaching assistants with their pronunciation of
English words.
CLASS OF
retired from the TVA on August 31.
He resides in Sheffield, Ala.
GLADYS HAYES TURK retired in June after 30 years in the
teaching profession. She has been with the Union School District
of Jackson, Mich., for most of that time.
passed away at his summer home at
Gull Lake on July 13. Mr. Hickmott was Deputy County
Treasurer of Kalamazoo County until his retirement in 1961. He
is survived by his wife, Evelyn; two sons, Robert '47, and
Thomas; a daughter, Susan; two brothers, John '17, and W.
Arthur '21; and a sister, Mrs. Mary Shields.
LOURINE POLASKY retired last fall as Clerical Processing
Supervisor of the Federal Housing Administration. She was with
the Detroit office for twenty-seven years.
1919
DR. MURRAY J. RICE retired as professor of chemistry in the
College of Ceramics of Alfred University. He has been a
member of their faculty for thirty-eight years. An honorary
degree of Doctor of Science was conferred upon Dr. Rice at the
Alfred University Charter Day Convocation on October 7.
WILLIS D. BURDICK is owner and manager of Peter Pan Plaza
Children's Shopping Center in Tucson, Ariz.
DR. DWIGHT H. RICH has been named moderator of the
Michigan Conference of Congregational Christian Churches for
1966. THE REVEREND LEONARD H. MAUNDER, his roommate at
"K," was named associate moderator of the Conference.
CLASS OF
is listed in the 1966-67
edition of "Who's Who of American Women" published by A.
N. Marquis.
1921
J. WILCOX is now minister of the
Methodist Church in Stevensville, Montana.
THE REVEREND MONROE
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was recently elected by the Executive
Committee of the National Council of Teachers of English, as
the director of its Commission on the English Language. He
served as editor of "Teaching English as a Second Language,"
published in August 1 by McGraw-Hill Book Co. This is a
collection of 50 articles, written by leading linguists in Britain
and the United States, on the theories and techniques of
teaching English to speakers of other languages.
CLASS OF
1925
is director of Thompson Home, a home
for retired business and professional women, in Detroit.
WILFRED F. CLAPP retired from the Michigan Department of
Public Instruction last December. He was awarded an
honorary LL.D. degree by Eastern Michigan University this
summer.
JULIA M. BARBER
CLASS OF 1926
w. w. PENNELS recently retired after thirty-five years as
vice-president of Royal Typewriter Co. in New York City. He
resides in Greenwich, Conn.
CLASS OF
1927
retired as administrative assistant at
the University of Michigan on April!. She had been employed
by the University since 1932.
DR. E. DUANE SAYLES is chairman of the Science Division
at Eastern Baptist College, St. Davids, Pa.
LULA MATHEWS IDLE
1920
GERALDINE HAMILTON CROCKER, M.D.,
CLASS OF
1924
DR. HAROLD B. ALLEN
1917
DE GARMO HICKMOTT
CLASS OF
1923
DR. EARL H. BROWN
CLASS OF
CLASS OF
1922
MAUDE
CLASS OF
1928
c. HACKNEY was given the Silver Beaver award in
scouting. He is vice-president in charge of scouting for Portage
Trails Council in the Ann Arbor, Mich., area. His wife, the
former MILDRED GANG, received her Master of Arts Degree
in library science from the University of Michigan in August.
She is school librarian at Burns Park Elementary
School in Ann Arbor.
DONALD
The Homecoming reunion of the class of 1930 on October 23 included, front row, left to right, Clark MacKenzie, longtime friend of
the College; Mrs. Anws Bogart, Jackson; Anna Brandenburg Chatterton, St. Clair Shores; Mrs. Ray Allen, Lawrence; Aileen l!empy
Swoap, Kalamazoo; Constance Palmer DeCair, Kalamazoo; Marguerite Larsen McQueen, Lake Bluff, Ill.; Mary Jane Ross, Kalamazoo;
Margaret MacKenzie, Southfield; Elizabeth Pasco Smith, Lima, Ohio; Mrs. Milton Simpson, and Dr. ]ustill Bacon. Standing, David
Byers, East Grand Rapids; Ray Allen, Lawrence; Devon McQueen, Lake Bluff, lll.; Amos Bogart, Jackson; Mrs. L. ]. Hemmes;
Bert Cooper, Kalamazoo; Mrs. David Byers, East Grand Rapids; Mrs. Chester Bernard, Kalamazoo; Dr. L. ]. Hemmes; Howard Otis,
Charlevoix; Charlotte Bacon Cooper, Kalamazoo; Mrs. Howard Otis, Charlevoix; Mary Johnson Simmons, Plymouth; Theodore DeC air,
Kalamazoo; Clara Heiney Buckley, Kalamazoo; Mrs. Laurence Cook, Bay City; Orlo Swoap, Kalamazoo; Florentin Schuster,
Ann Arbor; Laurence Cook, Bay City; Mrs. Florentin Schuster, Ann Arbor; Mrs. William Hathaway, Parchment; Dr. Harold Machin,
Kalamazoo; \Villiam Hathaway, Parchment; Margaret Lawler Machin, Kalamazoo; ]ames Buckley, Kalamazoo; Mrs. Thomas
Pollard, Jackson; RoseMary Shields Fitzpatrick, Kalamazoo; and Thomas Pollard, Jackson.
CLASS OF
1929
is administrative assistant in charge of
personnel and purchasing for the American Legion
Rehabilitation Hospital in Battle Creek, Mich. They are planning
a multi-million dollar expansion of the hospital.
DR. CHARLES D. BOCK attended the International
Astronautical Congress in Athens, Greece, in September. He is
a staff scientist with the Arma Division of American Bosch
Arma Corp. in Garden City, N. Y.
J. ELLIOTT FINLAY is editor of youth publications, division
of Christian Education, for the United Church of Christ.
DR. LOUIS LEVIN is head of the Office of Program
Development and Analysis of the National Science Foundation
in Washington, D. C.
BRYCE A. BECKER
CLASS OF
1930
attended the Second International
Conference on Protozoology in London during August. He is
research director in parasitology for the U.S. Department
of Agriculture in Auburn, Ala.
ROSE MARY SHIELDS FITZPATRICK received her M.A. Degree
in librarianship from Western Michigan University in June
and is employed part-time in the children's department of the
Kalamazoo Public Library.
DR. DALE A. PORTER
CLASS OF
1931
w. SABROSKY was awarded a Distinguished Service
Award by Kansas State University on September 30. He is a
research entomologist in the insect identification and parasite
introduction research branch of the Entomology Research
Division, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of
Agriculture. He is a world authority on the taxonomy of the
higher Diptera (an order of insects) and problems associated
with zoological nomenclature and bibliography.
HELEN HEYWOOD KLING received a M.S. Degree in education
from Indiana University this year. She teaches at Long Beach
School in Michigan City, Ind.
ANN DUNNING MORROW writes a column on education,
"Room 19," which appears in many Michigan newspapers. She is
a teacher and counselor at Pontiac, Mich., Northern
High School.
GEORGE H. TRAVIS has moved to Plainwell, Mich., where
he operates Farrs News Agency.
CURTIS
CLASS OF
1932
is chairman of the Council of
Clinical Cardiology of the American Heart Association. He is a
cardiologist in Milwaukee, Wis.
DR. FRANCIS F. ROSENBAUM
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The I935 dinner group included, front rotc, left to right, Constance Crose Cutting, Ann Arbor; Elinore Rapley Reed, Chicago;
Mrs. Harold Kriekard, Neenah, \Vise.; Ruth Demme Hayes, Lansing; ~Irs. Ted Conger, Kalamazoo; ~Irs. Homer Elwell, Richland;
Mrs. Leo Rasmussen, Vicksburg; Mrs. fohn Ocen, Ovid; Mrs. ]ames Gribble, Hermanscille; Mrs. Burton Baker, Ann Arbor; Mrs. Robert
Finlay, Sturgis; Mrs. Leslie Greene, Clarkston; and Nita Starke Gelow, Ft. ·wayne, Ind. Back row, Susan Reed, Chicago; Richard
Cutting, Ann Arbor; Harold Kriekard, Neenah, Wise.; Allen Hayes, Lansing; Katharin den Bleyker, East Lansing; Ted Conger,
Kalamazoo; Homer Elwell, Richland; Leo Rasmussen, Vicksburg; John Oven, Ovzd; ]ames Gribble, Hermanwille; Burton Baker,
Ann Arbor; Robert Finlay, Sturgis; Leslie Greene, Clarkston; Lavern Gelow, Ft. Wayne, Ind.; and Ruth (Loebe) and Ted Thomas,
Battle Creek.
A dinner at the Kalamazoo Country Club marked the 25th reunion of the class of I940. Front row, left to right, Agatha Whitcomb
Raseman, Kalamazoo; Mrs. Robert Watson, Kalamazoo; Bernadette Weber Hagerty, Kalamazoo; Lois Ingersoll VanKeuren, Hudson,
Ohio; Mrs. David Fry; Ruth Cary Geary, Midland; Patricia Braddock Ezo, Tawas City; fane Merson Moore, ·wooster, Ohio;
Virginia Walton Waters, Saginaw; and Evelyn Lee McLean, Pontiac. Back row, Mrs. Howard and Bowen Howard, Kalamazoo;
Edgar Raseman, Kalamazoo; Robert ~'atson, Kalamazoo; Donald Hagerty, Kalamazoo; Paul VanKeuren, Hudson, Ohio; David Fry,
Berkley; ]ames Gary, Midland; Steve Ezo, Tawas City; Lansford Moore, Wooster, Ohio; Paul Burlington, Gridley, Calif.; Spencer
Waters, Saginaw; Dorwld McLean, Pontiac; Paul Richter, Hartford; and Alice (Penn) and Larry Kurth, Benton Harbor.
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An open house for the class of 1945 at the Charles Starbuck home during Homecoming week end brought together the following class
members and friends. Left photo, first row, left to right, Marian Hall Starbuck, Kalamazoo; Helen Gl.aser Reed, South Bend, Ind.;
Marion Johnstone Schmiege, Kalamazoo; Jerry Richardson Tarr, Grarul Haven; Dorothy Conner Christensen, Paw Paw; Shirley Stevens
Otis, Birmingham; Edith Hoven Strome, Pittsford, N. Y.; Laurene "Wheeler Adams, Kalamazoo. Back row, Charles Starbuck,
Kalamazoo; Fred \Valker, Cleveland, Ohio; Merrill Brink, Kalamazoo; Gordon Kriekard, Kalamazoo; Richard Tedrou;, Kalamazoo;
Neil Plantefaber, Kalamazoo; Forrest Strome, Pittsford, N.Y.; Robert Todd, Ionia; Cecil Dam, Hinsdale, Ill. Second photo, first row,
left to right, Ann Tompkins Krum, Schoolcraft; Dorine Ketchum Tedrow, Kalamazoo; Rita Metzger Plantefaber, Kalamazoo;
Marilee Thorpe Dam, Hinsdale, Ill.; Elizabeth Kriekard, Kalamazoo; Frances Brink, Kalamazoo; Betty lleystek Thompson,
Kalamazoo; Marilyn Todd, Ionia. Back rou;, Ken Kntm, Schoolcraft, :\!ich.; Edu;ard Thompson, Kalamazoo; John Adams, Kalamazoo;
Ralph Tarr, Grand Haven; George Otis, Birmingham; Art Reed, South Herul, Ind.; and Frank Schmiege, Kalamazoo. Also present, but
not in the picture, were Ward and Helen McCartney, Kalamazoo, and Joe and Monica DeAgostino, Allen Park, Mich.
At the 1950 reunion were, in front, left to right, Lester Svendson, Palatine, Ill.; Kenneth Youngs, Kalamazoo; Val Jablonski, Kal.amazoo;
Mrs. Hector Grant, \Varren; Fred Bergman, Kalamazoo. Seated in the front row, Mrs. Albert Vits, Manitowoc, Wise.; Mrs. Lester
Svendson, Palatine, Ill.; Marilyn Brattstrom Brennan, Dolton, Ill.; Mary Joslin Discher, Rochester, N.Y.; Mrs. John Kokinakes, Ann
Arbor; Mrs. Donald Overbeek, Scotts; Mrs. Maurice Townsend, Jackson; Dona \Veidman Barnes, Kalamazoo; Mrs. Donald Pollie, Flint;
Mrs. Robert Burchfield, Flint; Joan Robinson Bergman, Kalamazoo; Mrs. H. Fl.agg Baum, Evanston, Ill.; Marguerite Lamb Laansma,
Flint; Bette Wall Simonton, Northfield, Ill.; and Mrs. Donald Gulp, Kalamazoo. Second row, Albert Vits, Manitowac,
Wise.; Nancy Graf Stanski, Kalamazoo; Mrs. Edward Glaser, South Bend, Ind.; Joseph DeAgostino, Allen Park; Charles Stanski,
Kalamazoo; Mrs. Joseph DeAgostino, Allen Park; Mrs. Earl King, Granger, Ind.; John Kokinakes, Ann Arbor; Don Overbeek, Scotts;
Hector Grant, Warren; Maurice Townserul, Jackson; Charles Barnes, Kalamazoo; Lee Koopsen, Kalamazoo; Jack Porter, Grosse Pointe
Woods; Robert Burchfield, Flint; H. Flagg Baum, Evanston, Ill.; John Laansma, Flint; Gerard Brennan, Dolton, Ill.; John Overley,
Newport, Tenn.; Donald Pollie, Flint; Robert Simanton, Northfield, Ill.; Wendell Discher, Rochester, N.Y.; Italo Candoli, Highland
Park, Ill.; and Donald Gulp, Kalamazoo. Standing in back are Edward Glaser, South Bend, Ind.; Earl King, Granger, Ind.;
Ralph Beebe, Richland; and Howard Southworth, Paris, Mich.
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DR. STANLEY M. BUCK is district superintendent of the
Albion-Lansing District of the Methodist Church in Michigan.
LOUIS B. NICHOLS was a recipient of an Alumni Achievement
Award at the Centennial Convocation of the George
Washington University Law School on October 12.
FRANCES BALDWIN passed away on July 8 in Madison, Wis.
She had served for nearly 10 years as director of Family
Service of Madison and was a case work supervisor for several
years prior to becoming director.
NEWELL D. BURT passed away suddenly on August 25 in
Paw Paw, Mich. He had served as superintendent of schools
in several Michigan school systems and was assistant
superintendent of Berrien County Schools at the time of his
death. Among the survivors are his wife, a son and a daughter.
CLASS OF
1933
DR. WINTHROP S. HUDSON is the author of a book, "Religion
in America," published by Charles Scribner & Sons on
November 30.
DR. w. FAY LUDER, professor of chemistry at Northeastern
University in Boston, has published a novel, "One Pearl of
Great Price," as well as articles and books in the field of
chemistry. He expects his new book, "A New Approach to Sex,"
to be published in the spring.
THEONE TYRRELL HUGHES received her Master's Degree from
Western Michigan University in June and is now employed
as an instructor in English at Western.
TRINA WIDMEYER PIGOTT received a M.A. Degree in
Guidance from Western Michigan University in July.
WALTER E. SCOTT received a M.S. Degree in political science
from the University of Wisconsin. He is Assistant to the
Director of the Wisconsin Conservation Department and is
president of "Friends of the Library- the University of
Wisconsin." As immediate past-president of the Wisconsin
Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters, he is serving as chairman
of the committee for their Centennial Celebration in 1970.
ROBERT H. ALDRICH was elected vice-mayor of Parchment,
Mich., on November 2. He served as mayor of Parchment in
1957 and has also served as president of the Parchment
Board of Education.
CLASS OF
1934
THE REVEREND HAROLD E. HAMMER is chaplain of the
Fairport Baptist Home in Fairport, N. Y., and is also serving
in a part-time position as chaplain at the
V.A. Hospital in Canandaigua, N. Y.
HAROLD s. RENNE, special projects manager of Bell
Telephone Laboratories in New York City, is preparing a history
of science and technology at Bell Telephone Labs since its
founding in 1925. Mr. Renne represented Kalamazoo College
at the installation of Richard J. Stonesifer as Dean of the
College of Liberal Arts at Drew University on October 12.
RICHARD B. SCHOPBACH is assistant professor of German
at Upper Iowa University in Fayette, Iowa.
DR. PRESTON c. HAMMER has accepted the position of head
of the computer sciences department at Pennsylvania
State University.
CLARE P. VERWEST passed away suddenly on September 9
in Glendale, Calif. He was sales supervisor for McKessonRobbins Chemical Division in Los Angeles. He is survived by
his wife, a son, and three daughters.
DR. JOHN E. RANSOM represented Kalamazoo College at the
inauguration of Richard C. Gilman as president of Occidental
College in Los Angeles on October 25.
CLASS OF 1935
WILBUR J. HALL is the rehabilitation supervisor for the
State of California. He resides in Inglewood.
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CLASS OF 1936
DR. JOHN N. COOPER has returned to the U.S. Naval
Postgraduate School as professor of physics after having spent
a year's sabbatical leave abroad. He spent six months in
research at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich,
Switzerland, and then he and his wife, the forn1er ELAINE
NORTON, traveled around the world on the return trip
to California.
DR. LAURENCE E. STRONG is co-author of a paperback book
entitled "Chemical Energy" which was published in August
as a part of a series called "Selected Topics in Modern
Chemistry." He is head of the chemistry department at Earlham
College. He is also one of the developers of a new approach
to high school chemistry courses known as Chemical Bond
Approach. The course is organized around the key idea that
atoms are held together by forces to produce compounds. He is
now spending a year in Bangkok, Thailand, as a senior expert
in chemistry under an appointment by the United Nations
Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. He will work
in the guidance of basic research and development of
chemistry teaching methods and materials as a part of
UNESCO's pilot project in chemistry teaching in Asia.
DR. LEO B. RASMUSSEN filled in for a vacationing mission
doctor at Ryder Memorial Hospital in Humacao, Puerto Rico,
during September. He is a fellow of the International
Academy of Proctology and is serving as president of the
organization for 1965-66.
DR. CHARLES RANDELL has been elected president of a new
organization, College Professors of Science of the Middle
West. He is chairman of the department of physics
at Ohio University.
DR. CARL B. TAYLOR (M.A.) was elected president of the
West Virginia Council of the White House Conference on
Children and Youth in June. He is professor of family relations
at West Virginia University in Morgantown.
HENRY B. BROWN died suddenly at his home in Kalamazoo
on November 2. He was co-partner in the Premier Printing
Co. of Plainwell. While a student at Kalamazoo College, he was
MIAA golf champion for three years and set a league record
with a 65. He won his first all-city championship in Kalamazoo
when he was 17 and won the all-city champion titles for a
total of ten years. Survivors include his wife, a son and a
daughter, his mother, and two sisters.
GLENNs. ALLEN, JR., has been named budget director and
administrative assistant to the governor of Michigan. He will
be in charge of writing the state budget, keeping track of
legislation as it progresses through the state legislature, and
coordinating the 140-plus state boards, commissions and agencies
that are being regrouped into nineteen principal departments.
He has been state controller since 1963.
CLASS OF 1937
DR. JOHN P. LAMBOOY represented Kalamazoo College at the
inauguration of Leland E. Traywick as president of the
University of Omaha on October 15. He is professor of
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biochemistry at the University of Nebraska College of Medicine.
SOPHIA ZMUDA BACON visited HEIHACHI KOMINE '34 while
on a visit to Tokyo last summer with her husband and daughter.
DR. WALTER o. HAAS, JR., was the Kalamazoo College
representative at the inauguration of Harold C. Martin as
president of Union College and chancellor of Union University
on October 2.
NOBLE s. FIELD is president of Muebles Field S. de R.L. de
C.V. in San Luis Potosi, Mexico. They manufacture living
room furniture. He is planning to open a new factory in Spain.
He is also owner of Field Furniture Co., Patton Furniture
Co., and L & F Floor Covering in San Marcos, Texas.
DR. JOHN c. FINERTY has been named dean of the Louisiana
State University School of Medicine and will assume his duties
there early next year. He is presently associate dean of the
University of Miami School of Medicine.
CLASS OF
1938
assumed the position of director of
material control at Calumet & Hecla, Inc., Calumet, Mich., on
February 1.
DR. ROBERT E. HEERENS is listed in the current edition of
"Who's Who in the Midwest." He is a physician and surgeon in
Rockford, Ill.
DR. ARTHUR H. WHITELEY was the Kalamazoo College
representative at the inauguration of The Very Reverend John
A. Fitterer, S.J., as president of Seattle University on October 13.
JOHN B. SOMERS and his wife, the former BARBARA GLEASON
'40, own a garden center and plant nursery, Palm Gardens
of Sarasota, Inc., in Sarasota, Fla
KENNETH F. FARLEY
CLASS OF
1939
senior physicist at the research and
development center of the General Electric Co. in Schenectady,
N. Y., is also adjunct professor of nuclear science and
engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy and
has published several papers recently.
DR. T. THOMAS WYLIE ( Hon.), who recently retired as
pastor of the First Baptist Church in Kalamazoo after 30 years
of service to that church, is presently interim pastor of the
Temple Baptist Church in Minneapolis. In January, he will
become one of fifteen regional directors assigned to various
cities for a new $20 million denominational capital fund drive
for home and foreign missions.
DR. LOUIS c. KUITERT, professor of entomology at the
University of Florida, recently completed a term of office as
president of the Florida Chapter of Sigma Xi, national honorary
sGientific society.
DR. GEORGE c. BALDWIN,
CLASS OF
1940
is a pathologist in Cainsville,
Fla. She has co-authored with her husband three Journal
articles and a chapter in each of two books this year, on
statistical methods in quality control in clinical laboratories.
DR. JACK v. PIERCE participated in the International
Symposium on Hypotensive Peptides in. Florence, Italy, during
October. He is a chemist with the National Institute
of Health in Bethesda, Md.
DONALD HETZLER is managing Aloha Kai, a resort
on Siesta Isles, Sarasota, Fla.
WILLIAM F. SORENSEN, JR., was recently elected secretary of
International Petroleum Company in Coral Gables, Fla. Before
joining the company in 1956 as compensation and benefits
administrator in Peru, he was in the U.S. government service
for fifteen years holding personnel management and directive
positions in several agencies. In 1962, he transferred from Peru
to Coral Gables as compensation advisor with the employee
relations department.
DR. MARGARET W AID HOFFMAN
CLASS OF
1941
has assumed the position of central
region sales manager of the Frederick Post Co. He and his wife,
the former MARGARET BENEDICT, and family reside in
Northbrook, Ill.
GRACE M. BRISBANE is Bible teacher for the Danville, Va.,
Council of Week-Day Religious Education. Her previous
parish gave her a trip to Hong Kong, Japan, and Alaska.
G. DUDLEY CUTLER
CLASS OF
and her husband are owners and
managers of Sno Bel ski lodge on Mt. Snow in Wilmington,
Vermont. They also have a riding stable and are breeding
Arabian horses.
LEVERNE c. LEROY is teaching in the mathematics
department of the Job Corps at Western Michigan University.
CONSTANCE PECK REPS and family are spending the
academic year in the Hague, Netherlands, on her husband's
sabbatical from Cornell University. He has a Fulbright Research
grant, to study the Netherlands country people and their
language.
DR. JOHN E. SARNO, JR., has been appointed assistant
professor and director of the outpatient service at the Institute
of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at New York
University Medical Center.
c. CONRAD BROWNE is executive vice-president of the
Highlander Research and Education Center in Knoxville, Tenn.
They had 1,500 pupils enrolled in summer voter education
workshops this year.
CLASS OF
1942
RICHARD R. BUCKNELL is serving as Rotary International
District Governor of 636 Michigan, including 49 cities. He is
vice-president of Sturgis Insurance Agency, Sturgis, Mich.
1944
has been promoted to librarian with the
rank of instructor at the University of Minnesota Library. Her
husband is associate head of the Department of Civil
Engineering at the University.
BARBARA WOOD KOHLENSTEIN is assisting her husband in
the operating of the food and beverage department at the
new Holiday Inn in Michigan City, Ind. They reside in New
Buffalo, Mich., and operate the Golden Door there.
DR. HARLAN E. TIEFENTHAL received a Master of Business
Administration Degree from the University of Illinois in
September. He is a chemist with Armour Industrial Chemical
Co. and resides in Western Springs, Ill.
MARY DUKE HANLEY
CLASS OF
1945
is Director of YOuth Work
and Camping for the New York State Baptist Convention and
resides in Syracuse, N. Y.
LOIS SIKKEMA MEAD teaches charcoal drawing, watercolor
painting, ceramics, and children's craft classes at the Midland,
Mich., Community Center.
MERRILL J. BRINK has retired from the Navy and is now
quality control engineer at National Water Lift Co.
in Kalamazoo.
BRUCE H. coOKE became rector of Calvary Episcopal
Church in Columbia, Mo., on September 1.
THE REVEREND KENNETH E. HARDY
CLASS OF
1946
s. PRICE is director of remedial services
at the Michigan Reformatory in Ionia, Mich.
PEGGY BEBOUT HYMANS has organized a multi-aged Girl
Scout Troop for girls from disadvantaged homes in Mountain
View, Calif.
CAROL ROTTlER GOODSPEED and Henry F. Banzhaf were
married on August 6 in Milwaukee, Wis.
NORMA SEAGLY GATES has opened a gift shop, "The Velvet
Touch," in Deerfield, Ill.
THE REVEREND CHARLES R. WOODSON has written "The
Church Marches On," a new junior high church school course
for the American Baptist Convention. One of his sermons,
"Anyone for Calvary?" was published in "Pulpit Digest" in
April. He is the senior minister at the South Wayne Baptist
Church in Ft. Wayne, Ind.
DR. MONROE
CLASS OF
CLASS OF
1943
JEAN cox WARNER
1947
writes that she and her husband,
Dean '49, Eric '42 and Patricia Miller Pratt '47, and Norman
and Marge LePage Rabbers '47 and their eleven children
all camped at Bridgman, Mich., over the Labor Day week end.
This was the group's fifth annual camping trip.
JANE RICHARDSON MORGAN
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MR. AND MRS. CHARLES BEIGHTLER (PATRICIA THOMPSON)
announce the birth of their fifth child on July 23 in Austin, Texas.
DR. F. ALLAN DUNCAN was elected to a three-year term
as trustee of the Indiana State Dental Association.
CONSTANCE NEWCOMER GRIFFITH is serving as president of
the Eau Claire, Wis., AAUW, and as president of the Eau
Claire Medical Auxiliary.
WILLIAM JOHN UPJOHN, Kalamazoo advertising agency
head, has been appointed as a member of the Michigan Tourist
Council.
CLASS OF
1948
WILLIAM F. DANIELSON, director of personnel for the city
of Berkeley, Calif., was elected 1st vice-president, Western
Region, of the Public Personnel Association at an April meeting
in Honolulu.
JANE KELLER sOURIS is apart-time law student at Detroit
College of Law. Her husband is a Justice on the Michigan
Supreme Court.
DR. ROBERT STOWE was re-elected president of the
Ludington, Mich., Area School District Board of Education.
He is employed by Dow Chemical Co. in Ludington.
JACQUELINE BUCK MALLINSON has co-authored a new
elementary science textbook series with her husband. It was
published by Silver Burdett Co., a subsidiary of Time, Inc.
She conducted a workshop in elementary science for teachers
and supervisors of Riverside County in San Bernardino,
Calif., during October. She is also serving as consultant to the
Elementary Science Curriculum Committee in Kankakee, Ill.
Mrs. Mallinson is assistant professor, science division, and
associate director of the In-Service Institute for Teachers of
Junior High Science at Western Michigan University.
JANE PROUT BOLENBAUGH is serving as secretary for the
Board of Directors of the Girl Scout Council of St. Croix Valley,
Inc., Forest Lake, Minn.
ROBERT c. RUSSELL has formed a company, Agri-Technical
Associates, which is engaged in development and manufacture
of specialized agricultural research equipment. He is also
doing research work in chemical weed control at the University
of California. He and his wife have a son, John Carlton,
born on July 26, 1964.
RUSSELL A. STRONG is currently serving as chairman of the
public relations committee of the American Association of
Colleges for Teachers Education. He is University Editor at
Michigan State University.
CLASS OF
1949
CAROL CORSON KENYON resides in Anchorage, Alaska, where
her husband is administrative assistant of Chugach National
Forest for the U.S. Forest Service.
LARRY F. HANSEN, a general contractor in Wheaton, Ill., is
president of the Wheaton Community Association, president
of the Elmhurst Ski Club, and past commander of the VFW
Post 2164 in Wheaton.
KENDRITH M. ROWLAND has been named an assistant
professor of industrial administration at the University of Illinois
in Urbana. He is a candidate for a doctorate in business
administration from Indiana University.
DR. RICHARD H. CARRINGTON was promoted to assistant
professor of speech at the University of Wisconsin Center
System. He completed the requirements for his Ph.D. in October,
1964, and it was granted in January.
HAROLD v. ROHM, JR., passed away suddenly at his home in
Pleasant Ridge, Mich., on August 27. He was self-employed
as a furniture manufacturer's representative. Surviving are his
wife, a son and a daughter, his parents and a brother.
CAROLYN BURNS BURKE is a nursery school teacher in
Buffalo, N. Y., which is a part of the government poverty
program for pre-school education.
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Heading the Kalamazoo City Commission as the result of a
record vote on November 2 are Margaret Lawler Machin '32
and Dr. Raymond L. Hightower, head of the College
sociology department. Dr. Hightower was returned for a
second term as Mayor, and Mrs. Machin, as the new
Vice-Mayor, is the first woman ever elected to that office
in Kalamazoo.
BETTY COLVIN SULFRIDGE is serving as president of the St.
Clair Shores, Mich., Branch of AAUW, and secretary of the
Macomb County Chapter of the Michigan Society of Mental
Health. She is a school psychologist and diagnostician for the
East Detroit Public Schools.
WARREN F. DAVID will be listed in the new edition of "Who's
Who in the Midwest." In September he moved to Bryn Athyn,
Pa., where he is a computer programmer for Burroughs Corp.
JACK F. HART was one of thirty-five chosen from 1,000
applicants for a N.E.D.A. scholarship this summer. He spent
six weeks at Michigan State University studying
American history.
KATHRYN RICE HIGGINS is a psychologist with King County
Juvenile Court in Mercer Island, Wash.
CLASS OF
1950
JOHN G. BUNGERT is president of Industrials, Inc., a newly
formed materials handling sales and service agency serving
North Florida and Southern Georgia. He resides in
Jacksonville, Fla.
JOE DEAGOSTINO, supervisor of men's probation for
Recorder's Court in Detroit, has been elected president
of Michigan Corrections Assoc.
MR. AND MRS. RODERICK L. HILL announce the birth of their
fourth child, Mark Andrew, on July 23- his father's
birthday - in Kalamazoo.
WALTER E. HOWARD was transferred to Indianapolis, Ind.,
as office manager and supervising casualty underwriter for
Crum & Forster Group of Insurance Companies.
BARBARA SMITH FOX and family have moved to Cleveland
where she is teaching fifth grade. Her husband has completed
work on his Ph.D. Degree at the University of Wisconsin
and is assistant professor of education at Western Reserve
University.
JAMES L. VINCENT is a counselor at Lake Park High School
in Medinah, Ill., and has been appointed director of student
accounting, responsible for establishing the master schedule,
student information files, etc., through the use of I.B.M.
equipment.
BOB CULP, sports inforn1ation director for Western Michigan
University, was re-elected secretary-treasurer of the College
Office Sports Information Directors Association.
DONALD E. OVERBEEK received a Bachelor of Laws Degree
from the University of Michigan at the end of its summer term.
Miss Helen Eleades and THOMAS MAGAS were married on
September 26 in Assumption Greek Orthodox Church in Flint,
Mich. Tom is president of State Rexal Drugs, Inc.
DR. DONALD H. VAN HORN is an assistant professor of ecology
at the University of Colorado in Boulder. He has done
research in mountain animal ecology.
HAROLD w. FULLER attended a National Science Foundation
Institute in physics at the University of Vermont
during the summer.
ZDZISLAw s. OBARA is Director of Research for
Dicks-Armstrong-Pontius, Inc., in Xenia, Ohio.
H. FLAGG BAUM, a stock broker and partner in Wayne
Hummer & Co., Chicago, writes, "It might be interesting
to anyone active in tennis that one of our senior partners, George
E. Barnes, was formerly the President of U.S. Lawn Tennis
Association and has been to Kalamazoo many times. Also, one
of our salesmen is Charles Hare, former British tennis
champion. His wife, Ruth Mary Hare (formerly Ruth
Hardwick), is also a former British tennis champion and they
both visited the tennis games at 'K' recently."
ROBERT M. PITKETHLY is assistant merchandise manager at
Martins in Brooklyn, N. Y., and resides in Forest Hills.
DR. WESLEY L. ARCHER has been promoted from research
chemist to senior research chemist in the Chemical Research
Department of the Dow Chemical Company in Midland, Mich.
CLASS OF
1951
LUCIA CRANE CHRISTMAN writes that SOn, John, was born
last November to join sisters, Sarah, age 10, and Elisabeth, age 5.
DR. AND MRS. JAMES CORFIELD (JANE ELLENBURG) announce
the birth of a son, Craig Allen, on August 8 in Los Altos, Calif.
MR. AND MRS. JOSEPH PANNY (MARIAN HELLMAN) are the
parents of a daughter, Joanne Marie, born on March 26 in
South Holland, Ill. They also have two boys, Michael, age 3, and
David, age 6.
DR. ROBERT H. HOPKINS is an assistant professor of English
at the University of California in Davis.
MARY OSBORNE GINDEN and family reside in Atlanta, Ga.
Her second daughter, Kathryn Ann, was born on August 13.
JOHN L. URBANK, an interior designer with Louis S. Urbank
Co., Inc., in Detroit, is a member of the board of directors of
the Michigan Chapter of the American Institute of
Interior Designers.
GLENN L. WERNER, systems manager of the export division,
Clark Equipment Co. in Battle Creek, received a Master of
Business Administration Degree from Western Michigan
University in August. He and his wife have three children Peter, age 14, Therese, age 13, and Heidi, age 10.
WILLIAM H. WHEELER is an assistant professor in the TV,
radio, and film department of Stephens College, Columbia, Mo.
FREDERICK W. WINKLER has started his OWn business as a
building contractor in Kent, Wash., along with being a co-pilot
with United Air Lines. He is chairman of a building
committee planning a $350,000 church school-fellowship hall
addition to the Des Moines, Wash., Methodist Church.
DR. ROBERT BINHAMMER represented Kalamazoo College at
the inauguratiaon of Phillip R. Shriver as president of Miami
University on October 14. Bob is assistant professor in the
department of anatomy at the University of Cincinnati School of
Medicine.
TOM TAFT and DICK KLEIN '53 both graduated from the
Graduate School of Banking at the University of Wisconsin in
August. They have had three years of resident attendance and
extension work involving problems in all phases of banking. Tom
is with the First National Bank of Monroe, Mich., and Dick is
vice-president of the First National Bank and Trust Co.
of Kalamazoo.
CLASS OF 1952
HUGH L. DILL, JR., was appointed assistant superintendent
of schools in Bristol, Conn., in June.
MR. AND MRS. JOHN TANNER (SHIRLEY EDISON) announce
the birth of their third child, John Charles, on March 6
in Big Rapids, Mich.
KATHLEEN FLEMMING HIMES has two children- Robert
Edward, age 3~, and Sandra Jean, born in June. The family
resides in West Redding, Conn.
JOHN H. FONNER is a vocal music teacher at the Houston
School in El Paso, Texas. He is also minister of music at the First
Church of the Nazarene in El Paso.
RONALD L. HARVEY, life underwriter for Equitable of Iowa
in Kalamazoo, was recently awarded Chartered Life
Underwriter designation.
MR. AND MRS. WILLARD R. HESS (DONNA BRENNER '55)
announce the birth of a daughter, Nancy Beth, on July 24 in
Kalamazoo. They have two other children - Mark, age 8,
and Mary Ellen, age 6.
ROBERT B. KETCHAM, minister of Greece Baptist Church,
Rochester, N. Y., directed a camp for underprivileged children
for New York State Council of Churches. The camp was
coeducational, interracial, and interdenominational.
MR. AND MRS. JOSEPH MELICK (ALICE MAES) announce the
birth of a daughter, Sarah Mary, on June 27 in Montclair,
N. J. Their first child, Sylvia Alice, was born on March 11, 1964.
SUE NORRIS DUFOUR writes they have a newly adopted
daughter, Jennett Ann, 10 months old, in addition to 2 boys, age
9 and 12. The family lives in Elkhart, Ind.
TOM c. WILLSON is assistant to the president of the Red
Barn System, Inc., in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.
CLASS OF 1953
MR. AND MRS. JAMES DE FREEUW (RUTH BffiO) announce
the birth of their sixth child and third daughter, Catherine,
on February 15 in South Bend, Ind.
MR. AND MRS. GRAHAM B. ARLITZ (NANCY CRISSMAN) are
the parents of three boys and two girls. Thomas Scott was
born on October 4 in Upper Saddle River, N. J.
LOU ELLEN CROTHERS CRAWFORD is writing a book on the
history of the Glen Canyon portion of the Colorado River.
MR. AND MRS. ROBERT LINSNER (SHEILA DENISON) adopted
a baby girl on January 15. She celebrated her first birthday
on October 31. They reside in Wyoming, Mich.
DR. AND MRS. EDWIN L. MAURER announce the birth of a
son, Timothy Louis, on April 30 in Libertyville, Ill.
PATRICIA MORGAN RIORDAN writes, "A son was born in
January bringing the total number of children to five- two
boys, three girls." The Riordans live in San Rafael, Calif.
ROBERT F. TOPEL is a plant chemist with Hardy Salt Co. in
Manistee, Mich. He and his wife have five children four girls and a boy.
JAMES E. STEFOFF and family are living in Brussels, Belgium
on a three-year assignment, where he is European manager
of systems and data processing for Clark Equipment Co.
ESSELL BLANKSON was a member of a nine-week study tour
on Decentralization for Development, organized by the
International Union of Local Authorities which visited Britain,
Sweden, and Germany.
RICHARD A. ENSLEN has joined the Peace Corps as an
administrator. He and his wife and five children have left
Kalamazoo for Washington, D. C., where he is in a training
course before the family is sent to a Latin American country.
He has practiced law in Kalamazoo since 1958.
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CLASS OF
1954
TODD P. GRAHAM, an instructor in the Earth, Space and
Graphic Sciences at the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, has
been promoted to Major.
DR. LOUIS F. BRAKEMAN spent the summer as an associate
director of the Regional Council Center for International
Students in Pittsburgh. He is a member of the faculty of
the department of government at Denison University,
Granville, Ohio.
EUGENE E. CORTRIGHT is foreign affairs advisor for
Socony Mobil Oil Company, Inc., in New York City.
JEAN CLAPP SMITH is attending Iliff School of Theology
in Denver for a Master's Degree in Religious Education.
RICHARD FLEMING, who teaches biology at Olivet College, is
working part-time on his Ph.D. in entomology at Michigan
State University. He and his wife have five children, having
a new son, Thomas Mansfield.
JAMES AND GLORIA (GOULD) HAGADONE have three adopted
children - Todd, age 8, Terry, age 6, and Sally, age 2. They
reside in Burlington, Vt., where Jim is district manager for
Saga Food Service.
HERBERT A. GRENCH, a physicist for Lockheed Missiles and
Space Co. in Palo Alto, Calif., has been appointed to the City of
Palo Alto Planning Commission and is president of the
Santa Clara Valley Audubon Society.
WILLIAM A. RICHFIELD is president of Hi Continental Corp.
in Lafayette, Calif. He and Miss Mary Ellen McCarthy were
married on November 28, 1964, in San Diego.
DR. AND MRS. EUGENE T. KARNAFEL announce the birth of
their fourth child and third daughter, Stephanie Elaine, on
June 15 in Madison, Ind.
KENNETH E. KLINE is industrial arts teacher at Woodrow
Wilson Junior High School in Middletown, Conn.
PETER B. LENOX is employed in computer systems design at
Eastman Kodak Co. in Rochester, N. Y. He and his wife and
four children - Susan, age 9, David, age 6, Donald, age 3, and
Karen, age 2, live in Fairport, N. Y.
ALEATHE LEONARD STORM and her husband Carl have three
children - Jill, age 5, Joy, age 3lf, and Billy, age llf.
They reside in Kalamazoo.
THE REVEREND C. H. LOUCKS, D.D. (Ron.) has retired from
the Ann Arbor Council of Churches and is working as a
special representative for Ministers and Missionaries Benefit
Board of the American Baptist Convention.
DR. DONALD G. MCINTYRE, a dentist in Detroit, is presidentelect of the Civitan Club of Detroit and contributing editor
for the Detroit District Dental Society Bulletin.
BOB MIYAGAWA is attending the Naval War College in
Newport, R. 1., and is also working on a Master's D egree
in International Relations.
vmGINIA o'BRIEN, chief ticket agent for Lake Central
Airlines in Indianapolis, took an around-the-world tour in March
of 1964, and spent this past August in El Paso, T exas, and
Juarez, Mexico.
CAROL POSTULA DAWES received her Ph.D. D egree from the
University of Michigan and is now employed as a clinical
psychologist at Children's Psychiatric Hospital at the University.
MR. AND MRS. MAYNARD L. YOUNGS (RAYMA RAY) announce
the birth of a son, Andrew Ray, in April in Milwaukee, Wis.
They have two other children, Ralph Alan, 7lf, and Jackie Ann, 5.
DR. WILLIAM R. ROGERS, JR., received his Ph.D. from the
University of Chicago and is professor of psychology and a
religion psychotherapist at Earlham College in Richmond, Ind.
The photograph of the class of 1955 is not easily identified, but the following alumni were present. Perhaps you can pick out some
of them! - Barbara McCabe Fowler and Jim, Flint; Sally Seifert Styers and Steve, Hoffman Estates, Ill.; Mary Lou Schofield Smith
and Tom, Flint; Pat Greenwood Stein and Gerry, Mishawaka, Ind.; Bob Luse, Puerto Rico; Julia Dean Kellar and Phil, Hobart, Ind.;
Evelyn Smith, Kalamazoo; Art Hill and his wife, Farmington; Tom Gilman and his wife, Trenton; Donna Houghtby Haymans and
Bob, Birmingham; Martha Hoard Smith and Fred, Netp Brighton, Minn .; Rolla and Pat Anderson; Jack Bowen and his wife,
Kalamazoo; Bill Howlett and his wife, Flint; Sally Horn Dobbertien, Battle Creek; Connie Wilson McGuineas and Rog, Southfield;
Ken Moshier and his wife, Kalamazoo; Judy Robertson Neihoff and her husband, Detroit; Chuck Morello and his wife, Kokomo,
Ind.; Mary McDonald Kugler and her husband, Benton Harbor; Ruth Chamberlain Gallagher and Bob, Royal Oak; Bob Cramp and
his wife, Wan·en; Dan McFadden and his wife, Battle Creek; Fred Sauer and his wife, Kalamazoo; and Marcia Wood, Kalamazoo.
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THEODORE L. TIFF ANY is an Assistant to the Provost of
Teachers College at Columbia University and is working on an
advanced degree in student personnel administration.
SUE STAPLETON BAMBACHT is treasurer of Woodland Girl
Scout Council, whose jurisdiction covers a seven-county area in
central Wisconsin. She and Jim have a son, Donald, who is
a year old.
ALLEN D. TUCKER has opened his own law office
in Birmingham, Mich.
MR. AND MRS. JOHN C. CARPENTER (SUE VANHOUTEN)
announce the birth of a son, Peter Andrew, on September 2 in
Rochester, N.Y.
KIPP vooRHEES ALDAG is home and hospital bound teacher
for the Rockford, Ill., public schools.
CLASS OF 1955
DONALD H. DAYTON is teaching English and speech in the
Richland, Mich., Junior High School.
MR. AND MRS. RALPH GUERNSEY (KATHLEEN LATHERS)
announce the birth of a son, Robert Brian, on August 11
in Hyattsville, Md.
CHARLES J. MORELLO is sales and merchandise manager in
a new J. C. Penney store located in the Kokomo, Ind., mall
shopping center.
suSAN PffiNIE MILLAR of Flushing, Mich., attended Frances
Clark's Summer Study Course for piano teachers in Chicago
during August. She has four children; Peter Alexander, the
youngest, was born on September 16, 1964.
JEAN ROGERS MORGAN is assistant director of nursing service
at the Central Wisconsin Colony and Training School in
Madison, Wis. She has two children - Roger, age 3, and Heidi,
born on January 22.
MR. AND MRS. FREDERICK A. SAUER, JR., announce the birth
of their third child, Mark Frederick, on July 1 in Kalamazoo.
DR. CHARLES L. SEIFERT is in an urology residency training
program at the U.S. Air Force Hospital in San Antonio, Texas.
DONALD SHEETS is a reporter and photographer for the
Fullerton, Calif., Daily News Tribune.
TOM SMITH is president of the Flint Tennis Commission
for the second year. JIM FOWLER '57 is director of the program
and LES DODSON '58 is an instructor. Tom and Les won the
1965 Flint Doubles Championship.
EVELYN J. SMITH is a medical technologist at Bronson
Methodist Hospital in Kalamazoo.
MARY STEINER HARGREAVES writes from Mill Valley, Calif.,
that her husband, Bill, has a research ward in Langley Porter
Clinic in San Francisco, where he is setting up computerized
measures of depressive and schizophrenic behavior and ward
milieu. They have three children - David, age 8, Mike,
age 5, and Kim, age 3.
CLASS OF 1956
MR. AND MRS. WILLIAM G. YATES (MARGERY CORDES)
announce the birth of a daughter, Mary Elizabeth, on December
28, 1964, in Kalamazoo. They have two other childrenKathy, age 7, and Dick, age 4~.
MARYLYN ECK MORRELL received a Master of Arts Degree
from Western Michigan University in July and is now an
instructor of psychology at Western.
JOHN c. FRUEH is treasurer and controller at A. 0. Smith
International, S.A., overseas manufacturing and marketing
subsidiary of A. 0. Smith Corp. in Milwaukee.
ISABELLE JOHNSTON SMITH and family are nOW residing in
Birmingham, Mich., where her husband is business editor of the
"Detroit Free Press." They have three children- Geoffrey
Paul, age 2*, Erin, age 5*, and Shannon, age
JO ANNE KELLER DE VRIES is attending graduate school at
Columbia University on a Public Health Service Traineeship.
ROGER M. MC GUINEAS is sales manager of Ambrose
Associates, a commercial art studio, in Detroit. He and his wife,
the former CONSTANCE WILSON '53, have a daughter,
Cynthia, age 6.
n.
RAYMOND P. NIEDZIELSKI is assistant manager of the First
National Bank and Trust Company's Martin, Mich., office.
ROBERT L. THOMASON is vice-president of Decision Control,
Inc., an electronics firm in Orange, Calif.
CHARLES TUCKER has an advertising agency, Charles Tucker
Associates, Inc., with offices in Philadelphia and New York
City. He is married and has two children- Wayne Ira,
age 4, and Lisa Michelle, age 2.
MR. AND MRS. GERALD F. WEBSTER announce the birth of a
daughter, Victoria Anne, on July 26 in Grosse Pointe, Mich.
DR. RICHARD 1. BROWN is now a member of the faculty of
the physics department of the State University of New York
at Albany.
CLASS OF 1957
ROBERT c. CRISSMAN, assistant cashier in the personal loan
department of the First National Bank and Trust Co. in
Kalamazoo, is presently enrolled in a three-year program in the
School of Consumer Banking at the University of Virginia.
R. PAUL ECK is a lawyer with Swift & Co. in Chicago. His
wife sings in lyric opera and they have one daughter,
Lauren, age 2J~.
DR. JAMES B. LA ROY is a partner in the Glyer Medical
Group in general practice in Mountain View, Calif. Upon
leaving the service in July, he received a Strategic Air Command
Certificate of Appreciation for outstanding service as a
USAF physician.
ANNE MC CAIN is a magazine indexer for the National
Geographic Society in Washington, D. C.
JUDY MITCHELL JOHNSON is attending Michigan State
University part-time, working on her Bachelor's Degree in
education. Her husband teaches in the music department at the
University. They have two daughters - Karen, age 6,
and Nancy, age 2.
Miss Ruth Curd and KENNETH A. MOSIER were married
on February 19 in Kalamazoo.
EARL R. SHAFFER is librarian at Hunter College of the City
University of New York.
DR. AND MRS. JOHN T. KENNEDY (SUE SHANKS) announce the
birth of a son, John Thomas III, on June 19 in Brunswick, Maine.
THOMAS H. SLOTTERBECK was recently appointed sales
managers of Desks Inc. in Chicago. He was married
on July 20, 1963.
MARYANN TER BURGH JONES is teaching French at Rudyard,
Mich., High School. She is also teaching a class in elementary
French for all S.A.C. crew members at Michigan Tech and has
pioneered a program of French in elementary schools for
Rudyard Township.
NEAL N. J. BOND passed away of an apparent heart attack
on July 11 in Dallas, Texas. He was sales representative in
the Dallas area for the Shakespeare Co. Among the survivors
are his wife and three children, and his parents.
CLASS OF 1958
MR. AND MRS. ELMO E. ERICKSON (NANCY ANDERSON)
announce the birth of a daughter, Darcy, on March 9 in
Minneapolis, Minn. They also have a son, Jeff, age 3*.
JOHN H. BECKER is office administrative supervisor for
Statistical Tabulating Corp. in Chicago.
PHILIP w. BLAISDELL was elected president of the San Jacinto,
Calif., Chamber of Commerce in June. He is vice-president
and general manager of Avi on Coach Corp. of California.
DANA BRANTON and Daniel R. Gannon were married on
June 26. They are both elementary teachers in Corfu, N.Y.
MARTHA BRADEN JONES and her husband, Sanford, played
for a youth concert in Kalamazoo on October 9 and presented
a concert at Kalamazoo College on October 10. The duo-pianists
operate a private elementary school in Annandale, Va.
THOMAS H. VAUGHN is manager of the adjustment
department at the Michigan National Bank in Lansing. He
and his wife, the former MERRYLYN CIGARD, have two childrenStephen Thomas, age 4, and Karen Michelle, age 1*.
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DR. N. WARN COURTNEY is a radiologist at University
Hospital at the University of Michigan. He and his wife, the.
former JEAN HILTON, have a daughter, Catherine Jean,
born on August 5, 1964.
ELLIS w. CUTLER has been promoted to supervisor of the
traffic manifesting and billing section for the Paper Division
of KVP Sutherland Paper Co. in Kalamazoo. He and his wife
have two children, age 6 and 2.
JOHN M. FROYD is assistant director and program director of
Methodist Youthville, Inc., in Newton, Kansas. He and his
wife, the former HELEN PETRICK '57, have two childrenErik Lee, age 2Jf, and Lisa Ann, age 1.
GEORGE s. HAYNE has finished the requirements for his Ph.D.
Degree in Physics, and he is teaching in the physics
department of Duke University in Durham, N. C.
RUTH A. KNOLL was initiated into Delta Kappa Gamma,
international honor society for women educators. Ruth teaches
choral music at Hartford, Wis., High School.
DONALD J. MANNING is comptroller of North Central
College in Naperville, Ill.
MR. AND MRS. FRANKLIN L. MESSANY announce the birth
of their fourth child, Karen Ann, on June 18 in Kirksville, Mo.
He will receive his Doctor of Osteopathy Degree on May 23
from Kirksville College of Osteopathy and Surgery.
DR. AND MRS. KURT KAUFMAN (JOAN WHITE) announce the
birth of a daughter, Cynthia Marie, on July 2 in Kalamazoo.
DANIEL A. MOROZOWSKI has received his M.A. in education
from Indiana University and is an administrative assistant
in the South Bend, Ind., School System. He was married to
Miss Donna Froh in 1964.
JUDITH SWEITZER LARSON is a teacher trainer in the adult
literacy program in Benton Harbor, Mich., and is a member of
the Board of Directors of the local League of Women Voters.
JOHN A. LEAMAN received a Master's Degree in the teaching
of music from Western Michigan University in July.
DANIEL s. METZGER received his Ph.D. Degree from Ohio
State University in August.
CLASS OF
1959
is chairman of the political science
department of Alma College.
KAREN ATKINSON CISKE is attending the University of
Minnesota to obtain a M.S. Degree in medical and
surgical nursing.
KENNETH H. AXTELL, administrator of Bedford County
Memoral Hospital in Bedford, Va., was recently named to
represent hospitals on the Governor's Committee on
Preparedness Planning. He is a member of the American College
of Hospital Administrators.
JOHN J. AGRIA
MR. AND MRS. NORMAN L. MARCUS (LA VON BENNETT)
announce the birth of a son, Eric Lee, on April 12
in Riverdale, Ill.
MR. '58 AND MRS. RICHARD C. EHRLE (INGRID BROWN) are the
parents of a daughter, Kara Jeanne, born on June 24 in Detroit.
CAPT. WILLIAM J. BURROWS is stationed in Quantico, Va.,
with the Marine Corps Air Squadron No. 1, the group which
transports dignitaries around the Washington, D. C., area.
He was stationed with the Marine Expeditionary Forces in
South Viet Nam for nine months last year and was awarded the
Distinguished Flying Cross and four Air Medals. He also
received a special award from the Viet Namese government,
the Cross of Valor with Bronze Star. He is married and has two
children, Thomas, age 4, and Tamera Kay, age 2.
THE REVEREND JON M. CLAPP is minister of Lola Valley
Methodist Church in Detroit. He formerly served as associate
minister at Nardin Park Methodist Church in Detroit.
MISS GRETCHEN F ALK and Peter A. Maren were married in
June. Gretchen received her Ph.D. in biology from Northwestern University in 1964 and taught at Mt. Holyoke College
last year. She is now residing in Rockford, Ill.
BRUCE D. HARRINGTON received his Bachelor's Degree in
mathematics from UCLA in August. He is an assistant supervisor
at Douglas Aircraft Corp.
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MR. AND MRS. GEORGE BRUDA (CAROL HOOVER) announce
the birth of a daughter, Nancy Lynn, on July 14 in Kalamazoo.
PETER LILLYA received his Ph.D. from Harvard University
in 1964 and is now assistant professor of chemistry at the
University of Massachusetts in Amherst.
MR. AND MRS. RICHARD MILLER announce the birth of a
daughter, Janet Marie, on March 5 in St. Joseph, Mich. He is a
process engineer at Modern Plastics Corporation.
JERRY c. PACKER is an accountant at the American National
Bank and is working on his Master's Degree in business
administration at Western Michigan University. He and his wife
have two children, Pam, age 4Jf, and Bruce, age 2Jf.
MARY PIXLEY received a state provisional elementary
certificate from Western Michigan University in July. She is
teaching in Fennville, Mich.
Miss Susan Neisuler and GERALD c. ROTHMAN were married
on August 22 in Schenectady, N. Y. Gerald is a psychiatric
social worker at the Stockton, Calif., Bureau of Social Work.
MR. AND GERALD K. SCHRAM announce the birth of a
daughter, Jennifer Louise, on April 30 in Warren, Mich. He is
a public accountant with Schmelz and Rieck, CPA's in Detroit.
MR. AND MRS. JACK ANDERSON (ALICE TURFLER) announce
the birth of a daughter, Susie, in April in Lakeville, Ind. They
have an older daughter, Jan, born in February, 1964.
MR. AND MRS. ANDREW KEREK (YVONNE RICHARDSON) are
the parents of a son, Michael Andrew, born on July 7
in Hamilton, Ohio.
THE REVEREND AND MRS. DANIEL A. KELIN (RUTH JOHNSON
'60) announce the birth of a daughter, Amanda Selma,
on September 25, in DeWitt, Mich.
CLASS OF
1960
has moved to San Diego, Calif., where he
is teaching and coaching football. He and his wife have two
children- Wendy, age 5, and Mike, age 3.
MR. AND MRS. ROY P. CARLSON (SANDRA FROST '62)
announce the birth of a daughter, Barbara Lynne, on June 26
in Hastings, Mich.
SUSAN EICHELBERG GLENDENING and her husband are
touring the Orient this winter. He plans to take a residency in
radiology at the University of Michigan beginning in
July of 1966.
MR. AND MRS. ROBERT F. HAIDUK announce the birth of a
daughter, Cynthia Kathleen, on August 5 in Kalamazoo.
GERRY G. HARSCH is a community planner and landscape
architect with Carroll V. Hill & Associates in Columbus, Ohio.
LT. DAVID G. JACOBS is a missile comptroller at Clark Air
Force Base, Philippines.
DR. AND MRS. GIRTS KAUGARS announce the birth of a son,
Ansis, on January 18 in Newark, Delaware. Girts is a chemist
with E. I. Du Pont de Nemours & Co.
THOMAS K. KREILICK is assistant product manager,
casseroles and textured protein foods, grocery products division,
of General Mills, Inc., in Minneapolis.
PATRICIA MARTIN ANDERSON lives On the Standing Rock
Sioux Indian Reservation in Fort Yates, North Dakota, where
her husband is a dental officer in the Indian Division of
U.S. Public Health Service.
MR. AND MRS. RICHARD SCHULTZ (JANE PRESSEL) are living
in North Bend, Ore., where Dick is a process engineer for
Menasha Corp. and Jane is teaching French and Spanish.
Miss Nancy Fouts and THOMAS H. ROBESON were married on
June 12 in New Washington, Ind. Tom is state supervisor of
special education in Kentucky.
LAWRENCE G. SULLIVAN is a senior in aeronautical
engineering at Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College
in Stillwater, Okla. He is a member of the Air Force R.O.T.C.
MR. AND MRS. JAMES MCCABE (JUDITH PAVIA) announce the
birth of their third son, Stephen. Jim has received an
assistantship and is working on his doctorate in economics at the
University of Missouri.
PAUL F. ASBURY
The Homecoming reunion of the class of 1960 included, seated in front, Mrs. Rodney Wilson, Kalamazoo; Susan Kessler Rank,
Kalamazoo; Mrs. Alfred Gemrich, Kalamazoo; Eleanore Helfen Miller, El Paso, Texas; Ca1'0l Long Harsch, Columbus, Ohio; Mrs.
John Robertson, Kalamazoo. Standing, Roy and Sandra Frost Carlson, Hastings; Rodney Wilson, Kalamazoo; Patricia Wentworth,
Grand Rapids; Alfred Gemrich, Kalamazoo; Bruce Rank, Kalamazoo; Gary Miller, El Paso, Texas; John and Nancy Blnckwood Kless,
Cleveland, Ohio; Gerry Harsch, Columbus, Ohio; and John Robertson, Kalnmazoo. Also on the campus for Homecoming were
Regan Smith, Battle Creek; Bob Johnson, Chicago; Doug Mackinder, Marshall; Jerry Aftowski, Marshall; and Van Adams Harden,
Muskegon.
WILLIAM A. VINCENT has been appointed instructor of
humanities at Michigan State University. He has been an
assistant instructor at Southern Connecticut State College since
receiving his M.A. Degree from Yale University in 1962.
GAIL WRUBLE BERRY recently completed her internship at
Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn, and she is now a resident in
psychiatry at the Metropolitan Hospital Center in Manhattan.
MANFRED E. SCHUBERT received his Ph.D. from Stanford
University and is now an assistant professor in the Department
of Germanics, Rice University, Houston, Texas.
CLASS OF
1961
MR. AND MRS. DUNCAN S. ACKLEY (DOROTHY WENDT
'60)
announce the birth of their second child, Scott McKenzie, on
August 10 in Battle Creek. He is a claims representative with the
Social Security Administration.
JOYCE CORYELL is serving as a teacher in Tokyo with the
Prince of Peace Corps of the Lutheran Church. She has served
as a deaconess of the Lutheran Church in Brooklyn, and
two years as secretary for the Lutheran Human Relations
Association at Valparaiso, Indiana.
EVA MAE EICHER expects to receive her Ph.D. Degree in
biology from the University of Rochester, early in 1966. She
plans to take a post doctoral position for the summer at the
Jackson Laboratories in Bar Harbor, Maine, and then post
doctorate work at the Max-Plunck Institute in
Tublingen, Germany.
JEANNE GRANGER SLUMKOSKIE writes that she now has two
children- Michael Joseph, age 2, and Monica Jeanne,
10 months.
Miss Barbara Fischer and JULIAN J . SCHREUR announced
their engagement on August 23. Julian is working towards
a Ph.D. in astronomy from the University of Arizona and is
instructor of astronomy at Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass.
ASA B. PIERATT received a Master of Arts Degree in library
science from the University of Michigan in August.
ROBERT E. HADER is an attorney with the firm of Neale
and Steeh in Mt. Clemens, Mich. HUGH NEALE '19 and his wife,
the former NELLIE CLARK '21 are both alumni of
Kalamazoo College.
JAMES w. IOVINO is attending Andover-Newton
Theological School and is serving as minister of the
First Baptist Church of Candia, N.H.
Miss Denyse Turcotte and ROBERT A. JOHANSEN were
married in May in Quebec City, Canada. He is a Lt. J. G.,
Multi-engine Anti-submarine Plane Commander deployed
aboard carrier USS Lake Champlain.
ROBERT v. JOHNSON is an associate with the law firm of
McDermott, Will & Emery in Chicago.
JOHN A. LAKE is associate minister of the Tabernacle
Baptist Church in Utica, N.Y. He was married to Miss Sally
Reaser in 1962 and they have one child, Sara Elizabeth,
born in April, 1964.
MR. AND MRS. GERALD GARY announce the birth of a
daughter, Sandra Lynn, on June 21 in Detroit.
ORRIN c. SHANE is a graduate assistant at Case Institute of
Technology in Cleveland and is engaged in archaeological
field research in northern Ohio.
DAVID G. HOPKINS, JR., received a M.D. Degree from the
University of Michigan in June. He and his wife, Sandra, and
daughter, Marcena, are living in Grand Rapids, Mich., where he
is serving an internship at Blodgett Memorial Hospital. In
July, they will move to New York City where he will enter
residency training at Columbia University.
MR. AND MRS. GERALD F. TOMPKINS (MARY JANE VARGO '62)
announce the birth of a son, Christopher John, on July 12 in
Kalamazoo. Gerald is senior probation officer for Kalamazoo
County Juvenile Court.
ANITA ZELTINS received a Master of Fine Arts Degree from
Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, N.Y., and is now employed as
an assistant instructor there.
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JOHN F. w. KEANA received his Ph.D. Degree from
Stanford University in chemistry. The title of his thesis was
"The Total Synthesis of Progesterone, Colesterol and Closely
Related Natural Products." He has accepted a position as
assistant professor in the department of chemistry at the
University of Oregon in Eugene.
MR. AND MRS. JON LABAHN announce the birth of their
second daughter, Stacey Patricia, in Beaver Dam,
Wise., on October 7.
JOHN AND DONNA (HAGUE '62) DONAVAN visited the campus
this summer. John is stationed at Malmstrom Air Force Base
in Montana, with Minute Man Missiles. Donna received her
Master's Degree in education with a major in art from
Eastern Washington State College in August.
GILBERT T. ROGERS received his Master's Degree in
guidance from Western Michigan University in July. He is a
counselor at Rich East High School in Park Forest, Ill.
P. PETER SCHMIDT, JR., has received a Master of Arts Degree
from Wake Forest College in Winston-Salem, N.C. He is
now a research assistant in the chemistry department at the
University of Michigan.
CLASS OF
1962
is an instructor of biology at
Kellogg Community College in Battle Creek, Mich.
JOYCE 1. BUXTON is working toward a certificate in
occupational therapy at Western Michigan University. In
January, she will begin nine months of clinical training at Hines
Veteran's Hospital in Chicago.
MISS AUDREY JOHNSON and Jerry Harrison were married on
September 3 in the Church of the Brethren, Kalamazoo.
JUDITH DEKEMA GILES is teaching Spanish at Grosse Pointe,
Mich., High School after teaching at Warren, Mich.
for three years.
MR. AND MRS. DOUGLAS FIERO announce the birth of their
second son, Steven Christopher, on October 11 in Ann Arbor.
Doug has a teaching fellowship in English at the
University of Michigan.
CHARLES T. GLATT received his M.A. Degree in psychology
at Michigan State University this summer and is now working
toward his Ph.D.
DAVID L. HAWKINS is an electrical engineer with
Consolidated Edison Co. of New York. He is a member of the
New York IEEE Educational Committee and present course
co-ordinator for a class in patent law.
LARRY D. HIMEBAUGH will be entering the Naval Dental
Corps in the spring of 1966 upon receiving his degree from
the University of Detroit.
SUZANNE HORISZNY HOWELL received a B.A. Degree from
UCLA in August. She and John '61 have two children- Steven,
age 3, and Eric, age 1~. John is a grad student in the
department of pharmacology at UCLA.
LINDA M. HUNTER has a nuclear science fellowship at
Florida State University where she is a graduate student.
WILLIAM G. KRUGGEL received his M.S. Degree in organic
chemistry from the University of Wyoming in August and is
continuing work there on his Ph.D. in biochemistry.
MR. AND MRS. SCOTT J. CLEVELAND announce the birth of a
daughter, Barbara Lee, on July 10 in Tampa, Fla. Scott is
a field work instructor in the Graduate School of Social Work
at Florida State University.
JON LINDENBERG has recently transferred from the West
Carrdllton, Ohio plant to the main office of Kimberly Clark Corp.
in Neenah, Wis., where he is an operations research scientist.
Jon received his Master's Degree in business administration
from the University of Dayton in August.
WENDELL A. PETERSON has begun work on his M.D. at
the University of Michigan Medical School.
Miss Carlene Jones and ROB_ERT F. RANDALL were married on
September 4 in Hope, Ill. Bob has a research assistantship
at the University of Illinois.
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RICHARD ROBYN is a professional golfer at Del Paso Country
Club in North Highlands, Calif. He is married and has
two sons- Jimmy, age 2, and Timmy, age 3.
WAYNE RYDBERG will receive his B.D. Degree from
Chicago Theological Seminary in January. His thesis topic is
"The Value of Religion in the Life of the Suicidal Psychiatric
Patient." His wife, the former JUDITH LYTTLE '64, is teaching
Spanish at the Faulkner School for Girls in Chicago.
MR. AND MRS. R. GERALD SAYLOR announce the birth of a
daughter, Jennifer Jill, in March in Durham, N.C. Gerald
expects to receive his Ph.D. in economics from Duke
University in June.
SHARON SMITH is a computer programmer at the General
Electric Space Sciences Laboratory in King of Prussia, Pa.
MARION BANISTER completed training as a Peace Corps
Volunteer at the University of Missouri and left for Peru
on September 23. She will work on community development
projects in a rural area of Peru.
MR. AND MRS. DAVID WREND (JUDITH GRUBB '63) announce
the birth of a daughter, Kelly Elizabeth, on July 6
in Evanston. Ill.
MISS c~ROL J. KRATT and David Skillman were married on
June 19 at the Calvary Lutheran Church in Clarkston, Mich.
Judy is continuing to teach physical education at
Waterford-Kettering High School, and David is chairman
of the mathematics department at Clarkston Senior High School.
JANE BELL is stationed at Kerugoya in Kenya, East Africa,
with the Peace Corps. She and her co-worker are in charge of a
girls' high school with seventy-two students and an
elementary school with an enrollment of seventy girls.
MR. AND MRS. JOSEPH TODEY (LINDA SAGER) announce the
birth of their first child, Brian Joseph, on June 21 in
Onaway, Mich.
JAMES STONE is in his second year of study at the
University of Detroit Dental School, and his wife, the former
REBECCA BOYD, is teaching high school biology in
Livonia, Mich.
CLASS OF
1963
BYRON E. ANDERSON received his M.S. Degree in biological
chemistry from the University of Michigan in August. He will
begin his doctoral studies in December at Johns Hopkins
University. He was married to Miss Jean Young in August, 1964.
REBECCA BAHLMAN HOLMES is a photographer and
museum technician at the Laboratory of Ethnic Arts and
Technology at UCLA. Her husband received his M.A. from the
Latin American Center at UCLA and is now working on his
Ph.D. in economics there.
JOHN c. BEUKEMA received his Master's Degree in
mathematics from Western Michigan University in June and
is now a graduate assistant in geography at Western.
MR. AND MRS. RICHARD TREMAYNE (JAYNE BLANDING)
announce the birth of their second daughter, Michelle Diane,
on July 13 in Flint, Mich.
MISS JUDITH CENTA and Stephen F. Meyer were married.on
August 21 in Wilmington, Del. Judy is teaching 3rd grade,
and Steve is attending Wharton School of Finance for his
Master's Degree in business administration.
MISS MEREDITH CLARK and Gordon J. Shelp were married on
June 19 in Ridgewood, N.J. Meredith is teenage program
director at the YWCA in Flint, Mich., and Gordon is an interior
designer with Rosenbury & Sons in Bay City.
Miss Marian Merly and RICHARD W. COMPANS were married
on September 3. Dick has a graduate fellowship at the
Rockefeller Institute in New York City.
WILLIAM s. DENNO received a M.S. Degree from the
University of Missouri in June. He is a resident assistant in the
physics department there and has been elected a member of
the honor society, Phi Kappa Phi.
CAROLINE GAY DEROOY writes from Mecosta, Mich., that
they have two girls, age 3, and age H, and that they have taken
them to Europe to see their grandparents.
Miss Carol Wilson and JOHN M. GRANDIN were married on
August 14 in Portland, Maine. John received his Master's
D egree in teaching from W esleyan University and is an
instructor in German at Union College in Schenectady, N. Y.
MR. AND MRS. CLIFFORD HARWOOD, JR., announce the birth of
a daughter, Karen Dawn, on August 29 in Kalamazoo. Clif
is a physicist and computer programmer at Clarage Fan Co.
VIRGINIA HESS BLACK expects to receive her M.A. Degree
in biological sciences from Sacramento State College in
January and will be working toward a Ph.D. in anatomy
at Stanford University.
DENNIS LAMB is studying for an advanced degree in
atmospheric physics at the University of Washington in Seattle.
JAMES B. LARSEN will receive a M.S. Degree in marine
biology from the University of Miami in January.
MR. AND MRS. ALLEN W. SCOTT (SUSAN HELGESON) announce
the birth of a daughter, Samantha Ann, on August 7 in
Monrovia, Liberia. They are serving with the Peace Corps
in Sierra L eone, W est Africa.
MISS KAY M. WEDGE and ROBERT A. BUSS were married on
August 21 in St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Kalamazoo. They will
reside in Evanston, Ill., where Bob is a senior at
Seabury-Western Theological Seminary.
WILLIAM A. CLAPP received a M.S. Degree in engineering
from the University of Michigan at the end of the summer term.
PHILIP B. ROSE received a M.A. Degree from the University
of Colorado at their summer commencement.
MR. AND MRS. TRACY A. NEWKIRK (JOAN RUSSELL) announce
the birth of a daughter, Laura Christine, on January 1
in Ann Arbor.
susAN H. MARTIN and Douglas H . Livingston announced
their engagement on October 16. They are planning a January 1st
wedding in Schenectedy, N. Y. Sue is a teacher at the
Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake High School, and her fiance is an
Air Officer Cadet with the U.S. Naval Reserve.
MR. AND MRS. PHILIP B. ROSE announce the birth of a
daughter, Susan Kathleen, on September 11 in Boulder, Colo.
Phil received his M.A. Degree in mathematics from the
University of Colorado in August and is a teaching associate in
math at the University.
BILL BENNETT is working at the American Baptist
Assembly in Green Lake, Wis. , and is finishing his degree at
Ripon College. His wife, the former JANICE SMITH, is teaching
first grade in Green Lake.
DOUGLAS LONG has been promoted from the rank of ensign
with the U.S. Navy to Lieutenant ( jg). He is a supply officer on
the destroyer U.S.S. Wedderburn, stationed at San Diego, Calif.
NEIL STEINHOFF is a senior medical student at the
University of Michigan Medical School. He and his wife
have one son, Scott.
ROBERT BRUCE TAYLOR, a graduate student at Johns Hopkins
University in Baltimore, writes that he is presently working
on the mode of action of Lincomycin, a new
Upjohn Co. antibiotic.
Susan Kenyon and JAMES TIMMONS were married on
August 7 in Huntington Woods, Mich. Jim is attending the
University of Detroit Dental School.
STEVENSON TURNER has entered the School of Social Work
at the University of Michigan to work on his Master's Degree.
CAROLYN E. WENDELKEN taught at Valley Winds Elementary
School in St. Louis, Mo., last year. The school, an experimental
elementary school, was featured, along with Carolyn, in the
June 19 issue of the "Saturday Evening Post." Carolyn is
attending the University of Chicago this year.
KAY M. WEDGE received her Master's Degree in
librarianship from Western Michigan University this summer.
PHILIP o. PRESLEY, an actuarial assistant at the American
Mutual Liability Insurance Co. in Wakefield, Mass., has been
named as Associate in the Casualty Actuarial Society.
LAWRENCE F. FISHER has been named assistant professor of
speech and drama at Indiana Central College in Indianapolis.
He taught at Culver-Stockton College in Canton, Mo., last year.
DONALD B. MEYER has completed a management training
program with North American Life Insurance Co. of Chicago.
He was married to Miss Arlene Rose Miller on July 25, 1964,
in Riverside, Ill.
CLASS OF 1964
Miss Judith Cenci and DAVID JONES announced their
engagement on July 16. Dave is an ensign in the U. S. Navy and
is stationed at China Lake, Calif.
MISS SUZANNE KIRK '67 and DAVID SHAUB were married On
August 7. Dave received his Master of Arts in Teaching Degree
from Northwestern University and is now teaching in
Lake Forest, Illinois.
MISS MARYLU SIMMONS '65 and DAVID W. ANDREWS
announced their engagement on October 20.
PATRICIA BARNEY POWELL taught at Western Reserve
University's demonstration school for the summer. She is a
French teacher at South High School in Cleveland, Ohio.
PENNY BRITTON taught in Project Headstart this summer in
Detroit. She is attending Michigan State University for an
elementary teaching certificate.
MISS GRETCHEN CASSEL and RICHARD EICK were married On
June 26 in the First Congregational Church, Wayne, Mich.
They spent the summer at Bethlehem Church on the near south
side of Chicago. Dick is now in his second year at Yale
Divinity School, and Gretchen is teaching social studies at a
junior high school in New Haven, Conn.
DA vm CLOWERS is an instructor of English at Drake
University in Des Moines, Iowa. He received his Master's Degree
from the University of Michigan in August.
Miss Renee Ryan and DONALD B. CRUIKSHANK, JR., were
married on June 29. He is attending grad school at the
University of Rochester.
ELAINE A. FISH is teaching a second grade class of Puerto
Rican children at Central School in Camden, N.J.
JIM HARKEMA is head football coach at Gull Lake High
School in Richland, Mich., and is teaching economics
and psychology.
MR. AND MRS. RONALD L. HOKANSON announce the birth of a
daughter, Heather Jean, on May 25 in Worcester, Mass.
MISS KAREN KASSNER and Richard P. Zappe were married
on June 16. Karen is teaching German and French at Oakland
Community College, Union Lake, Mich.
DAWN LARSON has started work on her Master's Degree
in English at the University of Michigan. She is a residence
advisor at Jordan Hall.
Miss Amanda Louise Trucks and DONALD J. MORRICE were
married on September 4 in Auburn, Ala. He is a graduate
assistant in the department of psychology at Indiana University,
working on a project involving special education for
culturally deprived children.
LUCINDA PAINE DELZER is a caseworker for Marion County
Public Welfare Dept., Salem, Oregon. Her husband, Donald, is
director of admissions for Mt. Angel College in Mt. Angel, Ore.
SUSAN SCHAFER PETERSON received a R.N. from Bronson
Hospital School of Nursing in July and is now working at the
Veteran's Hospital in Ann Arbor.
INGRID SANDECKI received a M.A. Degree in history from the
University of Michigan in May. She is now an instructor of
European history at Macomb County Community College
in Warren, Mich.
MISS GRACE M. SMITH and STEPHEN M. LIPMAN '63 were
married on June 5. Grace received her Master of Arts Degree in
teaching of elementary education from the University of
Rochester and is a first grade teacher in Rochester, N. Y.
Steve is a youth program aide at the Rochester YMCA.
PAMELA M. SMITH received a M.A. Degree from the
University of Chicago this summer. She has a teaching
assistantship at Indiana University.
JOAN M. VANDEUSEN spent the summer teaching English at
the Centro Colombo-Americana in Bogota, Colombia, and
traveling in Colombia and Ecuador. She has a teaching
assistantship at the University of Illinois Spanish Department.
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MR. AND MRS. CHARLES J. THOR (ANNETTE WELLINGTON)
announce the birth of a son, Kevin, on September 3 in
Kalamazoo. They have another son, Charles, Jr., age 1lf.
MR. AND MRS. HEINS I. PAPKE (UTE BELL) are the parents of
a daughter, Annette Jacqueline, who was born on December
19, 1964, in Cincinnati, Ohio.
JOSEPHINE A. LAWRENCE is teaching at Parklawn Elementary
School in Alexandria, Va.
JOHN OSBORN has accepted an assignment with the
Peace Corps to teach general science and English in the new
central-African state of Malawi.
susAN DILLER has enrolled in the Columbia University
Graduate School of Social Work. She spent the summer
traveling in Europe, after working in the Department of Health,
Education and Welfare in Washington, D. C., for the past year.
CAROL RENNE and John L. Mills were married on July 31.
Carol is teaching a first grade class in Grove City, Ohio.
SANDRA NORDIN is doing graduate study in anatomy at
the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
2ND LT. WILLIAM F. FETHKE has been graduated from the
training course for U.S. Air Force communications officers
at Keesler Air Force Base, Miss. He studied maintenance of radio,
teletype and cryptographic communications equipment and
has been assigned to a unit of the Pacific Air Forces in
the Philippines.
CLASS OF
1965
Miss Mary Ann Haveman and ROBERT w. WOODRUFF were
married at the Camp Daggett Chapel in Petoskey, Mich., on
July 24. Bob is employed by Peter Echrich and Sons, Inc.,
in Kalamazoo.
MISS KATHERINE JEAN DEPREE and GEORGE W. PILLING '63
announced their engagement on August 12. They are planning a
November 27 wedding. Kathy is employed by the department
of Vocational Rehabilitation for Jackson County, Mich., and
George is attending the University of Michigan Law School.
JACK N. BARKENBUS has been named one of four legislative
"interns" in the Michigan House of Representatives. He
will study government under a special program of the Ford
Foundation and the House. He will be assigned to active
committees of the House to work with committee chairmen and
members as part of the House of Representatives staff and
will attend weekly seminars given by the political science
departments of Wayne State University, Michigan State
University, and the University of Michigan.
MISS HELEN C. STRONG and JACK FOREMAN were married on
August 21 at Stout Memorial Meeting House, Earlham
College, Richmond, Ind. Jack is employed by the Coast and
Geodetic Survey on the U.S. Government's triangulation
program in Halifax, Nova Scotia. In this work, pictures of
satellites are taken against star backgrounds to determine
distances between points on the earth. He expects to be
restationed in northern Europe at the end of 1965 to work with
the world-wide triangulating network.
MISS MARY SUSAN ENGLEBREIT and Walter H. Summers
were married on August 28 in St. Charles Catholic Church,
Arlington, Va. Sue is employed by National Cash Register Co. in
Washington, D. C., and her husband is a police officer in
Arlington County, Va.
ELEANOR A. GRUBB received a Bachelor of Arts. Degree in
education from the University of Michigan in August.
RUTH ARCHER is a systems analyst with Michigan Bell
Telephone Co. in Detroit.
SANDRA BLAINE and JOHNS. BOLIN were married on June 19.
John is teaching at Lake Shore Junior High School in
St. Clair Shores, Mich.
BERTHA DO LEMAN is working for VISTA, doing community
organization and development work in a small Negro
community in Largo, Fla. She is also doing some adult
literacy work.
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MISS SUSAN M. GIBSON and Neale E. Rice were married On
August 22 in the First Congregational Church of St. Johns,
Mich. Susan is a graduate student at Boston University.
KATHLEEN KEENER is teaching Spanish and German at
Oakland Community College in Union Lake, Mich.
JOYCE MAST and Richard Boldrey were married on July 11.
Joyce is a social case worker for Cook County Public Aid
in Chicago.
KATHERINE T. MILLER and JOHN ALBERT LONG III were
married on August 14.
Miss Peggy Ryan and MICHAEL J. MORDEN were married on
June 12. Both of them are teaching in Ethiopia with
the Peace Corps.
Miss Rebecca Minarik and ROBERT T. SIBILSKY were
married on October 2. Bob is employed as a sales representative
with Flint Boxmakers, Inc., in Flint, Mich.
JUDITH A. SIMPSON received a Bachelor of Science Degree
with honors from Michigan State University in June and is now
a student medical technologist at Yale University and
the New Haven, Conn., Hospital.
Miss Janice L. Marklund and DOUGLAS K. STEVENSON were
married on September 4 in Flint, Mich. Doug is doing
graduate work at Kansas State University in Lawrence.
ANN M. STROIA and William E. Studwell were married on
August 28 and are now residing in Washington, D. C.
MISS ELLEN JEAN TAYLOR and DAVID P. FREYTAG '67 were
married on June 19 in Rochester, N.Y.
ROBERT w. VOKEY is attending graduate school at
Massachusetts University in Amherst.
JOHN w. WAITE is a research analyst in marketing with
National Casting Division of Midland-Ross Corp. in Cleveland,
and is attending \Vestern Reserve University night classes
working on his Master's Degree in business administration.
JUNE M. STEALY has completed training at the University of
Texas with the Peace Corps and is now teaching English in Iran.
BRUCE A. KETCHAM is employed as a standards analyst
assistant in the Systems and Standards Department of the
Chase Manhattan Bank in New York City.
MICHELE SCHMALZRIED has been named a Peace Corps
Volunteer, having completed 10 weeks of training at Roosevelt
University in Chicago, and is now teaching in Sierra Leone.
SARAH HANEY PUTERBAUGH has enrolled in the graduate
program of the School of Social Welfare at Florida State
University in Tallahassee. She has been awarded a study grant
from the National Institute of Mental Health.
KAY SEAMAN and E. TURNER LEWIS '63 were married on
August 27 at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Lansing, Mich. Kay
is teaching Spanish at Wheeling High School, Wheeling, Ill.,
and working on her Master's Degree at Northwestern, and
Turner is instructor of biology at Lake Forest Academy,
Lake Forest, Ill., and working on Doctor of
Veterinary Medicine Degree.
MISS MELINDA LOU RAY and TRUMAN BRUCE MARSH '64
were married on August 28 in South Bend, Ind. They reside in
Milwaukee, Wis., where he is manager of the
Rapid Delivery Co.
CLASS OF
1966
MISS SHARON D. SHORT and Thomas R. Hodgson announced
their engagement on August 3. No date has been announced
for the wedding.
MISS ANN BAXTER HARRISON and Nicholas R. Beller were
married on August 21 in the Chapel of the First Congregational
Church, Kalamazoo. They are both attending the University
of Florida in Gainesville.
MISS LEONA M. LOUSIN and David Mirza were married on
June 20 in Evanston, Ill. Leona graduated from North Park
College in June and is a 5th grade teacher at West Main School
in Kalamazoo. Mr. Mirza is teaching economics at
Kalamazoo College.
THE CONCERNED STUDENT
Continued from page 4
culturally-deprived children, and in interest in peace
marches and civil rights. I do not always agree with
the activist student, nor does the majority of our fa9ulty
or student body. None-the-less, we will fight for his
right to think and act as he believes as long as he acts
maturely and lawfully.
Our concept of academic freedom demands that we
give students the right to explore all thoughts and
theories and to speak regarding their concerns. But that
same academic freedom breaks down if they fail to
act responsibly, or when they become involved with
happenings which get beyond control. There is the rub
- there is the worry which gives personnel deans and
presidents gray hair. Action programs among youth
can be explosive. Mass psychology can take over groups
and play havoc with even the sanest of minds.
Tempers can fly and injury result. Thus the best laid
plans can go awry. Meanwhile, all should recognize
that the administration of a small college continues
to expect responsible action and does have to
hold students accountable.
Yes, the liberal arts tradition builds its educational
philosophy upon freedom. College should be a search
for truth, but when the search takes students into
areas of social action there are dangers. To venture
upon an activity which is laden with explosives in
an area which has no meeting of minds may well prove
an indiscretion. In the final analysis, the crux of the
matter is found in the full exploration of the avenues
of moral judgment within an issue and in the evaluation
of solutions directed toward responsible action.
The semi-annual meeting of the Kalamazoo College Alumni Council is held during Homecoming weekend, and attending this year,
were, front row, left to right, Marian Hall Starbuck '45, Lucille Hallock Brenner '29, Mary Ethel Rockwell Skinner '44, Agnes Grenell
Goss '12, Ruth Goss Ralston '17, all of Kalamazoo; Marlene Crandell Hathaway '58, Akron, Ohio; Louise Stein Matulis '24, Dearborn;
Lois Stutzman Harvey '29, Kalamazoo; Harriette Barton Connolly '37, Detroit; and Jane Sidnam Heath '37, Kalamazoo. Second
row, Ernest Bergan '47, South Bend, Ind.; Frank Heath '34, Kalamazoo; John Laansma '50, Flint; Eldred Townsend '28, Montague;
Alan Hutchcraft '63, Ann Arbor; Dennis Kelly '65, Big Rapids; Edward Thompson '43, Kalamazoo; Kenneth Krum '45, Schoolcraft;
Charles Garrett '42, Kalamazoo; Harold Beadle '25, Ypsilanti; Claude Cranston '16, Stockton, N.Y.; Leland Kerman '16, Hickory
Corners; Burton Baker '33, Ann Arbor; Richard Klein '53, Kalamazoo; Wendell Discher '49, Rochester, N.Y.; Richard Lemmer '41,
Kalamazoo; Lucile Owen Kerman '15, Hickory Corners; Richard Meyerson '49, Kalamazoo; Mary Joslin Discher '50, Rochester,
N. Y.; Maynard Conrad '36, Kalamazoo; Larry Balch '32, St. Joseph; and Marilyn Hinkle '44. On campus but not in the picture were
Nita Starke Gelow '33, Fort Wayne, Ind.; Al Grady '49, Sandwich, Ill.; Betty Libby Haas '41, Parchment; Ardith Boekeloo Embs
'43, Kalamazoo; and David Markusse '57, Kalamazoo.
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F.D.R., THE MAN
Continued from page 8
reader, with a great memory, and there was scarcely
a subject on which he could not contribute an anecdote
or an observation. This accounts in part for his great
personal charm. The experts of the country who had
spent lifetimes on a particular subject would find that
F. D. R. knew enough about it to grasp immediately
what they were talking about. This wide range of
interest, these smatterings, if you will, gave F. D. R. the
ability to be a great and sympathetic listener, without
which quality he could not have been the justly famous
conversationalist that he was.
If he had a single great love, I believe it was
American history. On this, he was an authority, as is
President Truman. For Mr. Roosevelt, it had the
excitement of contest. One could almost see him
visualizing himself on how he would have acted had he
been President at that time. He had a genuinely deep
affection for our country, regarding it as the greatest
romance of history. That spirit, I think, characterized
his Administrations while I was in the Cabinet. One
almost felt the warmth and keen interest of the
Administrations since George Washington, and here I
will say that, in my opinion, there has never been an
Administration - Republican or Democratic, without it.
The Cabinet and the President of the United States
are, in our history, majestic, and I never knew a man
holding such position who did not give the country the
best that was in him. I have no patience with those
cynics who believe that there is no such thing as
consecrated public service.
I have said that it is difficult to separate The Man
from The Work, and it is. But by their works shall ye
know them, and if this be the standard, F. D. R. stands
anchored in American history with the rest of our
greatest Presidents.
As for F. D. R. the Man, and myself, I have this to
say. Since it is fair to say that we parted on principle,
it also follows that we met on principle, the principle
of what was best for New York State and later the
Republic. For twelve full years, we saw the result of
our labors enacted into laws which still stand as the
laws of our country, laws which are now endorsed in
the platforms of both parties.
Further, the pattern of concern for our fellowAmericans has been elaborated to a principal and
permanent goal of the Nation.
None of these would have been possible without
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
And so, it is my absolute conviction that Franklin
Delano Roosevelt the Man - can safely rest his case
before God, the American people and history - on
the works and deeds of Franklin Delano Roosevelt,
the thirty-second President of the United States.
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Fron1 Tokyo
on November 7 were Mrs. Kobai
Naruse, left, president of the Chico School of floml
arrangement, and Mrs. Heihachi Komine, past
president of Ikebana International and wife of a
graduate of the class of 1934. Together with Mrs. Koei
Tomoda, they presented a delightful afternoon for
women associated with the College, at an occasion
arranged by the Women's Council. Following is a
message brought by Mrs. Komine from her husband1s
pen.
The name of our alma-mater - Kalamazoo College is
definitely unforgettable for me - just as my own
father's name. As one of the many graduates of this
distinguished education institute, I am proud of myself
in Tokyo.
Just a year before our commencement, from 1933 to
1934, Kalamazoo College had many special events for
its Centennial Anniversary. As years pass by, the sweet
memories of my college life have become the more
vivid to me. One morning, I stood on the platform in
Stetson Chapel for the chapel service, with the kind
CAMPus GUESTS
assistance of Professor Milton Simpson, Professor of
English and Public Speaking. I talked about the
wonderful social works of the late Dr. Toyohike
Kagama, Japanese evangelist, leader of Christian
movement.
I lived in the men's dormitory, called Williams Hall.
This old wooden building maintained the 18th
century atmosphere. Ninty-nine percent of the doors in
Wms. Hall were broken or out of order. Knocking
doors was too graceful among the dormitory boys, so
they kicked the doors. When one of the Williams Hall
dwellers was ready for a date, being all dressed up
in a snow white shirt and a neatly pressed suit and
stepped out of the front door, then suddenly from the
fourth story fire escape, one or two gallons of water
contained in a grocery store kraft paper bag would fall
on his head. Drenched from head to feet, he had to
go back to his room to change his entire clothing. "Who
did that?" he shouted furiously. But mysteriously
there was no answer admitting "I did it!" though there
were so many poker-faces here and there. Probably
this was a natural phenomenon of the season as "spring
shower"· only around the men's dormitory. I was
allowed by Dr. Willis Dunbar to sing as a member of
Kalamazoo College Men's Glee Club in spite of my
off-key voice. He was director of Kalamazoo College
Band and conductor of the Glee Club and Dean of
Men as well, professor of history at that time. One
evening Dr. Dunbar kindly invited me to his home for
dinner. Then I knew Mrs. Dunbar was an excellent
cook. I have never forgotten the delicious dinner,
and also the relaxed atmosphere of the Dunbars.
The more I study English, the more it becomes
diffcult for me. If you understand what I have written
in my awkward English, I owe much to the kind
instruction of the late Dr. Arnold Mulder, professor of
English Retoric and Journalism, author of "The
Kalamazoo College Story."
When I close my eyes, I can still see so vividly, like
color slides, inside of my eye lids the gentle slope from
Stetson Chapel down to Bowen Hall and on the
other side of the campus, Mandell Library, R. E. Olds
Science Hall. Mary Trowbridge House was girls'
dormitory. The dwellers of Williams Hall had to
commute a long way across the campus to this House
at least three times a day, regardless of rain or snow,
heat or cold, even on Sundays, not particularily for
meeting the girls but mainly to eat breakfast, lunch and
supper in its basement dining hall. The recollection
of Tredway Gymnasium is still clear to me, where
I used to give Japanese Judo lessons to some of my
friends every Wednesday afternoon.
All my memories of Kalamazoo College are growing
dearer to me as years go by. All of you students must
be proud of yourselves as the select students of this
exclusive educational institute. I sincerely wish you the
best of luck for your glorious future. And remember
that one of the old graduates from your college is in
Tokyo.
Heihachi Komine
Class of 1934
November 5, 1965
Tokyo, Japan
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OF EVENTS
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DECEMBER
1 Basketball with Manchester (here), 8:00 p.m.
2 Christmas program presented by the Music Department
featuring the choir, orchestra, and band, 8:00 p.m., Dalton Theatre
4 Christmas Carol Service, 8:00p.m., Stetson Chapel
Basketball at Olivet
5 Studio Theatre presents off broadway dramas, "It's Almost
Like Being ..."by Jean-Claude Van Itallie, and "Pompy,
for Short" by Wallace West and John Hilliard, 2:00p.m.,
Dalton Theatre
11 Basketball at Calvin, 3:00p.m.
End of fall quarter
13 Basketball at Detroit Tech
15 Basketball at Elmhurst
JANUARY
1 Basketball at Franklin
3 Classes begin for winter quarter
5 Basketball at Aquinas
8 Basketball at Albion
12 Basketball with Adrian (here), 8:00 p.m.
Wrestling at Adrian
15 Basketball at Alma
Wrestling at Manchester
18 Wrestling with Central Michigan JV (here)
19 Basketball with Hope (here), 8:00p.m.
22 Basketball with Lake Forest (here), 3:00p.m.
Wrestling with Concordia (here)
25 Basketball at University of Chicago
28-29 Faculty Reading Theatre presents "Mary Stuart" by Jean
Goldstone and John Reich, 8:00p.m., Dalton Theatre.
Wrestling- Kalamazoo Quadrangular (here)
FEBRUARY
1 Wrestling at Valparaiso
2 Basketball with Aquinas (here), 8:00 p.m.
5 Basketball at Hope
MIAA wrestling at Kalamazoo
9 Basketball with Calvin (here), 8:00p.m.
12 Basketball with Olivet (here), 3:00p.m.
Wrestling at Wabash, Quadrangular
19 Basketball with Albion (here), 3:00p.m.
Wrestling at Illinois State, Quadrangular
23 Basketball at Adrian
Wrestling with Adrian (here)
24,25,26 Drama Department presents "J. B." by Archibald MacLeish, 8:00p.m., Dalton Theatre
26 Basketball with Alma (here), 3:00p.m.
Wrestling with Ohio Wesleyan
February 27 - March 6 Bach Festival