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Inaugural-Homecoming
Issue
The Cover Picture
Dr. John Scott Everton, newly inaugurated president of Kalamazoo
College, is the subject for the cover
this month. Coming to Kalamazoo
from Grinnell College where he
served as Dean of the Chapel and
professor of philosophy and religion, Dr. Everton energetically has
begun his new duties. From January to June, he commuted from
Grinnell to Kalamazoo, spending
one week per month on the the Kalamazoo campus to become acquainted with the college, faculty, and
students. In June he and Mrs. Everton and family moved to the president's home on the campus.
Now heading the oldest college
in Michigan, he is the youngest college president in the state. He is 41
years of age. He is the eleventh
president in the 117 years of the
college's history. His formal induction to the presidency took place
in Stetson Chapel, Friday, October
7. An account of the inaugural
will be found elsewhere in this issue.
New Appointments
to Staff Announced
Further staff appointments announced by President Everton at the
opening faculty conference included the following: Mrs. M. D.
Mordhorst, Council Bluffs, Iowa,
has been named director of Lovell
Street Annex of the girls' dormitory.
She will serve also as head housekeeper for the college. Robert
Newland and Walter Johnson, both
of Kalamazoo and both 1949 graduates of the college, will serve as
assistants in the department of economics and business administration.
Miss Marilyn Hinkle, St. Joseph,
Michigan, a 1944 graduate of the
college, formerly secretary in the
public relations office, has been
named assistant in public relations.
Miss Jacqueline Buck, Birmingham,
Michigan, a 1948 graduate, has
been named assistant director of
admissions. Mrs. Joseph Payson,
Kalamazoo, has been named executive secretary in the president's
office.
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ALUMNUS
KALAMAZOO COLLEGE
ALUMNUS
Number 3
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October, 1949
Volume VIII
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R. Lloyd Pobst, Editor
Edward]. Lauth '32, Associate Editor
Sports editor, Frederick W. Winkler, Jr., '51
Editorial assistant, Phyllis A. Casey '51
Published Bi-Monthly by the Kalamazoo College Alumni Association and
Kalamazoo College.
President of the Kalamazoo College Alumni Association:
H. Colin Hackney '30,
MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN ALUMNI COUNCIL
K College Now
Heard on Air-ways
A series of radio programs featuring Kalamazoo College faculty
members and students currently is
being broadcast by radio station
WKZO, Kalamazoo. The programs
are heard at 1:45 to 2:00 each
Wednesday afternoon.
A report of current campus news
given by the editor of the INDEX
opens the weekly program. The
"record of the week" for K-College
students follows. The central part
of the program is an interview with
a faculty member by Dr. Willis
Dunbar, director of public affairs
for WKZO. The final portion of
the program is an interview with
the "Student of the Week" selected
by the Student Senate.
President John Scott Everton was
the faculty guest on the first broadcast. Dean Everett R. Shober appeared on the second program.
Dr. and Mrs. Simpson
Return from Europe
Dr. and Mrs. Milton Simpson
have returned from their European
trip. Arriving at New York on the
Mauretania on Sept. 23, they went
to Pittsburgh, Pa., to visit with
daughter Dorothy '36 (Mrs. John
A. Palmer) and family. Mrs. Simp-
son remained in Pittsburgh for a
longer visit while Dr. Simpson returned to Kalamazoo. The Simpsons had sailed from Montreal on
the Empress of France, July 15. Dr.
Simpson reports that he and Mrs.
Simpson had a very active and
eventful visit in England, and also
visited Scotland and spent a few
days in Paris. They visited the historic shrines of the Shakespeare
country, cathedrals, art galleries,
museums, and universities. Some of
Dr. Simpson's most interesting remarks stem from his conversations
with the English people of all
walks of life.
Letters to the Editor
Dear Sir,
In the last issue (August, 1949)
an item appeared regarding W. C.
Buchanan's son and W. C. Buchanan as of the class of 1915. Now
I de n y the allegation (class • of
1915) and defy the allegator. My
class was 1914. I neither want to
insult the class of 1915 nor deny
the class of 1914. It might be
the class of 1914 would be delighted to be rid of me but I know very
well that the class of 1915 would
never accept me. So the records
should be correctly cleared ere I be
classless. However, it really makes
no great difference what year one
(Contimud
011
page 6)
Entered as second class maUer January 18, 1940 at the Post Office at Kalamazoo
~ichigan, under the act of March 3, 1879. Published bimonthly, six times yearl;
1n October, December, February, April, Jun~, and August. Subscription rate:
One dollar per year.
Alumni Meetings
During the course of the yrar, President John Scott Everton is very hopeful
that it may be possible to visit a large
1mmber of our alumni groups and to
bring before them some of the concems
for the program of the College. Plans
are already underway for some of the
meetings-Chicago, Indianapolis, Ann
Arbor, Flint, Grand Rapids, Southwestem Michigan, South Bend, Philadelphia,
Washington, New York, Boston, and
Rochester.
It will be the policy of the College
to send annually some member of the
College staff to meet with each of the
organized alumni groups across the country for the purpose of giving a sense of
closer relationship to the College. In
addition to this annual meeti11g, it is
hoped that the various groups may find
opportunity and occasion to meet at frequent intervals and to have some quite
definite project to draw the group together with a common purpose and with
the common desire to serve more intensiL•ely the needs of the College.
As Dr. Everton undertakes his responsibilities as President of Kalamazoo College, he is keenly interested in making
) '011, the alumni, a t•ital part of the total
collrge life.
Kalamazoo College
Featured by N.Y.C.
Travelers on the New York Central Railroad System have been noting a fine presentation of Kalamazoo College on the covers of the
dining car menu folders currently
being used. The cover presents an
excellent reproduction of an original pen and ink drawing of Stetson Chapel by Vernon Howe Bailey. The back cover presents a picture of the entrance of Minnie
Mandelle Library as viewed from
Stetson Chapel tower, and a picture
of R. E. Olds Science Hall. A short
descriptive statement of the college
and the chorus of "All Hail to Kazoo" are given with the pictures on
the back cover. This feature presentation of Kalamazoo College is by
courtesy of the New York Central.
Reference is made to the fact that
the Michigan Central of the N.Y.C.
system passes through the college
campus.
"These Things Greatly Matter"
Topic of Chapel Address
"These Things Greatly Matter"
was the title of the Alumni Chapel
Service talk given Saturday morning, Oct. 8, by the Reverend Stanley
Buck '32, pastor of the First Methodist Church of Battle Creek, Michigan. Those fortunate enough to be
present at the service in Stetson
Chapel were deeply appreciative of
Mr. Buck's remarks.
Using a quotation from Henry
Van Dyke, the speaker said, "'Four
things a man must learn to do if he
would make his record true. To
think without confusion clearly; to
love one's fellowmen sincerely; to
act from honest motives purely; to
trust in God and heaven securely.'"
" . . . Our age needs thinkers,"
Mr. Buck continued, "But it is hard
work to think. That's why there is
so little thinking done. As Sir Joshua Reynolds said: There is no expedient. to which a man will not resort in order to avoid the real labor
of thinking.' Maybe it is true that
only about 5 percent of the people
really think. Charles F. Kettering
made this statement, 'You can send
messages around the world in one
seventh of a second, yet it may take
years to force a simple idea through
a quarter inch of human skull.'
Why? Because some minds are like
concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.
" . . . I believe that Kalamazoo
gave me great thoughts. That she
taught me how, so far as I had the
capacity, to think without confusion.
Probably the thought she gave me
had already been thought thousands
of times. But to make such thoughts
truly ours, we must think them over
again honestly, until they take root
in our experiences. God has given
us minds to use. Our world problems might be easily settled if men
were only willing to think."
The importance of learning to
live with others was stressed by the
speaker. "To do this without hypocrisy, he will need to have a profound respect, a high regard, and an
ethical love for other people. I like
to believe that Kalamazoo College
gave me a fine appreciation of human beings. Love is one of the qualities which destiny distingUJishes
man from the beast. It is the power
that can save our day."
A formula for action was given
in five words, "Do that which is
honest." II Cor. 8.21. Again the
speaker paid tribute to his alma
mater, "Honesty is the virtue which
makes moral action moral. Kalamazoo College because of its relation
to the church, its traditions, its careful selection of faculty, its emphasis
upon character, and morality, instills in its graduates moral virtues
which makes life worthwhile and
satisfying."
The Reverend Buck referred also
to his experiences at Garrett Biblical
Institute, where he received his B.D.
degree in 1936. He also has attended
the Iliff School of Theology at Denver, Colorado. At Kalamazoo College he was a member of the debate
teams, chaplain of the Philos, member of the Index staff, and participated in track, band, and orchestra.
Taking part in the chapel service
were Dr. Everton, Mr Pickhardt,
Betty Baker LeRoy '43, soloist; Mr.
Henry Overley, and the College
Singers.
Scholarship Awarded
The Chicago Alumni Club scholarship has been awarded to Harold
Martinek, son of Mr. and Mrs. Otto
Martinek, 5301 S. La Grange Road,
LaGrange, Illinois, it is announced
by Dean and Registrar Everett R.
Shober. Mr. Martinek is a graduate
of Lyons Township High School and
Lyons Township Junior College. He
plans to major in physics.
REPRESENTS K COLLEGE
Mr. Albert T. Huizinga '19, vicepresident and treasurer of the National Supply Co., Pittsburgh, Pa.,
represented Kalamazoo College at
the inauguration of Will W. Orr as
President of Westminster College,
New Wilmington, Pa., on October 14.
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ALUMNUS
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HOMECOMING
INAUGURAL
IN PICTURES
Pictures on the opposite page are
identified as follows:
I. Dr. Samuel N. Stevens, President
of Grinnell College, who gave the
charge to the new president; Dr. John
Scott Everton; and Dr. Kenneth I.
Brown, president of Denison University, who gave the address.
2. Group gathered in Dr. Everton's
office just prior to the Procession: Dr.
Stevens, Dr. Alexander G. Ruthven,
president of the University of Michigan; Dr. Paul V . Sangren, president of
Western Michigan College of Education; Dr. Everton; Dr. George McMorrow, delegate of Nazareth College,
Kalamazoo; Dr. Brown, and Mr.
George K. Ferguson, chairman of the
board of trustees.
3. Dr. Ruthven and Dr. Everton at
the luncheon for delegates. Dr. Ruthven brought greetings from institutions of higher education in Michigan.
4. The interior of the chapel at the
beginning of the inauguration service.
S. The Academic Procession. Delegates marched from Tredway Gymnasium to Stetson Chapel.
6. The speakers' table at the Homecoming Banquet, Saturday night, Oct.
8, in Welles, shown from left to right:
Mr. H. Colin Hackney, Dr. and Mrs.
John Scott Everton, Mr. and Mrs.
Edwin G. Gemrich, Mr. and Mrs. Leroy D. Stinebower, Mr. and Mrs.
Lloyd Grow, and Dr. and Mrs. Paul
G. Schrier. Trustees Fred Pinkham
and Dr. Maynard Owen Williams, and
Dr. Arnold Mulder, chairman of the
department of English, may be found
in the foreground of the picture.
7. The College Singers, and Mr. Henry Overley, front row, right, made an
outstanding contribution to the inauguration service and the alumni chapel
service. This is their first group picture of the new academic year. It was
t.aken on the steps of Stetson Chapel
directly after the in!luguration.
8. Part of the band, spectators, and
college students at the pep rally and
bonfire at Angell Field, Friday ni~ht.
9. The new memorial gate to Angell
Field.
-Pictures No. I, 7, and 9 by Schiavone
Studio; No. 3, 6, and 8 by William
Baldauf; and No. 2, 4, and S by the
Kalamazoo Gazette.
Dr. John Scott Everton
Inaugurated as President
•
IS
The inauguration of Dr. John Scott Everton as the eleventh president
of Kalamazoo College in its 116 years of history was held in Stetson Chapel,
Friday, October 7, at 10:00 a.m. Preceding the simple but impressive services, the academic procession to the chapel took place. Official delegates of
179 colleges, universities, and religious and educational institutions participated. Included in the delegates were 23 college presidents.
Dr. Everton was inducted by Mr. George K. Ferguson, chairman of
the board of trustees of the college. Dr. Samuel N. Stevens, president of
Grinnell College, close friend and
afternoon, of course, was the Homementor of Dr. Everton, gave the
coming football game with Hillscharge. Dr. Kenneth I. Brown,
dale at Angell Field.
president of Denison University,
The concluding events of the
gave the address. His topic was,
three-day
program were the faculty
"Can A College Be Christian?"
music recital in Stetson Chapel,
In his response, Dr. Everton
Sunday at 4:00, and the communipledged his administration to the
ty reception for President and Mrs.
ideals of Christian Education. "It
Everton
in Hoben Hall lounge
was Allan Hoben, president of this
from 5:00 to 7:00.
At the Homecoming Banquet,
The text of the addresses at the inMr. Leroy Stinebower '26, deputy
auguration of Dr. John Scott Everton
representative of the United States
will be rejJOrted in the Kalamazoo
in the social and economic council
College Bulletin to be mailed in the
near future to all members of the colof the United Nations, spoke of
lege family. For that reason, the
ALUMNUS is not reporting the addresse5 in this issue, but is giving a
pictorial and geueral news account of
the Iuaugural Homecoming.
college more than two decades ago,
who left the ideal of a fellowship
in learning to guide and inspire future generations of students and
members of the college family. To
this fellowship, with its attendant
joy of purposeful living, Kalamazoo
College has welcomed succeeding
generations of students. I know
that together we may deepen and
enrich this ideal," Dr. Everton
stated in conclusion of his response.
A reception for delegates and
the delegates' luncheon followed
the inauguration. Friday night
marked the opening of activities for
Homecoming. Students of the college paraded downtown, and burned a huge bonfire at Angell Field.
Saturday's events included
Alumni Chapel, luncheons for men
at the Harris Hotel, and for the
women at the Kalamazoo Country
Club; the Homecoming Banquet in
Welles Hall at 6:00, and the
Homecoming Dance in Tredway
Gymnasium. The big event of the
(Continued on page 7)
New Memorial Gate
Erected At Field
Alumni and friends of the college
who have been able to attend the
college's football games at Angell
Field this fall have noted an impressive addition to the field. The new
memorial gate to the field is nearly finished and has been in use.
The ticket booths, built as an integral part of the gate, have greatly
facilitated the selling of tickets,
thus adding to the comfort and
convenience of those attending the
games.
The gate is a further gift of Mr.
William R. Angell, Detroit, a
member of the college board of
trustees. Construction work is by
Miller-Davis Company of Kalamazoo. The company is responsible
also for the design.
The gate, arch, and ticket booths
have been completed. Surfacing of
the road area is in process. Sidewalks to the stands will be built.
Appropriate plaques will be placed
on both sides of the gate, facing
the highway. The area around the
gate will be landscaped.
ALUMNUS
Page 5
BIRTH STATISTICS
REVEALED IN SURVEY
1885
Ellen M. Carman Sondricker, Rochester,
N. Y., recalls that in her time a co-ed was
called "a soulfu l sou l from Kalamazoo."
S he is co-author of a book, "Chi ldren's
Meetings, and How to Conduct Them."
1896
H.
Clair
Jackson,
is a member
Trustees.
of
the
Kalamazoo
college's
atto rn ey,
Board
of
1897
Dr. Harold L. Axtell, is a Professor
Emeritus of the University of Idaho. He
lives in Moscow, Idaho.
1899
The Reverend Coe Hayne, St. Joseph,
Michigan, is the retired Secretary of Literature, American Baptist Home l\1:ission
Society.
He is the author of some 20
books.
Mrs. Hayne is the former Ethel
Shandrew '06.
1900
Edward J. Woodhams, retired, is a Kalamazoo resident.
The Reverend Henry Sidney Bullock, who
has retired from the ministry after 40
years of se rvice, resides in Kalamazoo.
Mrs. Bullock, the former Annete Lewis,
s tudied music at K·College.
1901
The Reve rend Harry H. Treat, re tired
n1issionary pas t or, is li v in g in
Adrian,
Michigan.
The Reverend tRoy E. Cody, ~linneapolis,
~finn., is secretary of the Northwest Bap·
tist H ome Society.
190Z
Mary Eldred Willison ex'02 resides in
Altadena, Ca lifornia. Mona Mace Cash is
a San Benito, Texas, housewife.
Jessie
Webster Coe Brown, ex'02, Mobile, Alabama,
has retired from the educational field. He
forme rl y was superinte nd ent of schools at
Co lon, and Cassopoli s, Michigan, and teacher
of mathematics in Murphy Hi g h School,
Mobile. Mrs. Brown is the former Alict!
Marion Hall '02. The Reverend Ambrose M.
Bailey, Seatt le, Washington, who retired
from the ministry in 1948, now serves the
First Baptist Church of Seattle as a supply
pastor.
1903
Frank Golden ex '03 is living near 1\Ialone,
Wisconsin. "My stay in Kazoo has benefited me in many ways," he writes. Hubert
S. Up john, retired school supe rinte ndent,
writes from Carmel, California, uThe Co l·
lege has made amazing and gratifying
progress withou t losing its fine qualities as
one of the sma llest but better collegiate in·
s tituti ons of th e nation."
Frances Larned Johnson is a Colorado
Springs, Colorado, housewife. She had been
a high school teacher for 30 years, 28 years
being in the Kalamazoo, Michigan, school
sys tem. Joanna Longley, Kalamazoo, retired
from the Kalamazoo Central Hi gh School
faculty in 1933 after 30 years of teaching.
1904
Ada Hoebeke, fo rm e rl y on the facu lty of
Kalam azoo Central Hi gh School, and of
Western Michigan College, is a Kalamazoo
resident. Ray A. Palmer and Mrs. Palmer
(Elizabeth llf. DeYoe '04) reside in Birmingham, Michigan, where Mr. Palmer is a
real estate broker.
(Continued on page 9)
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ALUMNUS
Does an A.B. mean "abolish
babies?" A survey of the size of
families of 27,354 graduates from
176 colleges just completed by the
Population Reference Bureau of
Washington, D. C. indicates that
America's best educated groups are
not having enough babies to replace themselves. Of the graduates
of the class of 1924, who will celebrate their 25th reunion this year,
the women have failed to replace
themselves by 40% and the men
by 16%.
This fourth annual survey of the
Bureau shows that 96 % of the men
graduates have been married, compared to only 73% of the women.
Furthermore, 81 % of the men's
marriages were fertile compared to
77 % for the women.
Of equal interest, the Bureau
discovered that graduates from coeducational and western colleges
produced t h e largest families.
Among the 101 groups that reached the national average, 89 %
were from co-ed schools. Of the
16 men's and the 2 women's colleges attaining the average necessary for replacement, all but two
are in the west and far west.
The Bureau's survey of the class
of 1924, whose graduates have
been out of college long enough to
have completed their families, reveals that the deficit of college
graduates' children is nation-wide.
Men graduates of the class of 1924
from 106 colleges averaged one and
three-quarters ( 1.77) children,
while women graduates from 112
colleges made an even poorer showing with about one and one-fottrth
( 1.26) children. Figures of the
1940 Census disclosed that non-college women of the same approximate age averaged 2.45 children,
and that women with no more than
four years of schooling averaged
4.33 children.
Men appear to outdo the women
among the Kalamazoo College
graduates that were canvassed by
the survey. 89 percent of the men
graduates of the class of 1924 replied, all were married, and they
averaged 2.06 children. Among
th~ women from the same class, 83
Letters
(Continued from page 2)
was graduated f r o m Kalamazoo
College; the important item is one
has been graduated from Kalamazoo College. As a matter of fact,
I started with the class of 1913.
With such monumental intellects
in the class as George K. Ferguson
(I never knew what the K. was
for), Mary Monroe Warner, Murl
Hart, etc., "Tuffy" Williams advised
me to drop out a year and perhaps
I'd be able to make it with the
class of 1914. I did-by the grace
of God, the patience of the members of the class of 1914 and the
deep understanding of an outstanding faculty.
Forty years ago this fall I played
my first college football game at
Albion. Remember Mumford,
"Eck" Biss, Norton, "Pig" Windoes, Courter, Earl McNeil, La
Tourette, Telfer, "Curley" Williams, "Misery" Post--quite a football team in any man's league.
W. C. Buchanan
Class 1914
(Editor's note: The records show
clearly that Mr. Buchanan is a
member of the class of 1914. Our
apologies for the unsuccessful attempt to transfer his allegiance.)
REQUEST
The young people's group at my
church, the Third Presbyterian, is
having a series of discussion which
will include "Science and Religion."
It occurred to me that Dr. Hornbeck's article by that title, in one of
last year's "Alumnus" issues, would
be very pertinent. Having moved
recently, I have lost my copy, I
would appreciate your sending me
either a reprint or a copy of the
"Alumnus,''- if available. .
Touring across the northern part
of the country this summer, through
(Continued on page 10)
percent reported marriage, and they
averaged 1.47 children.
From the class of 1939, only 76
percent of the men replied, and 94
percent of them were married, reporting 1.50 children per married
graduate. For the women, 79 percent of the married graduates replied, and averaged 1.33 children
per married graduate.
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SPEAKING OF
ARNOLD MULDER
We are told that organs of the
body that are left unused will eventually atrophy and disappear. The
vermiform appendix is supposed to
have been a functioning organ in
the early history of the human race;
because it went into disuse it is
said to have degenerated into a
mere nuisance; presumably it will
become extinct in another hundred
thousand or million years.
Is there a possibility of the atrophy of a spiritual quality of the
mind, the disappearance of an aesthetic taste for instance? If all the
world's education should become
purely utilitarian, such as a good
many very serious people often advocate, would the capacity for the
enjoyment of poetry and music, of
beauty in general, e v e n t u a 11 y
atrophy in the human mind?
Such a result is at least conceivable through a long evolutionary
period. But is it possible or likely
within a single lifetime? If a man
with capacities for aesthetic enjoyment should give himself exclusively to, say, business or pure science,
would he finally lose his taste for
the fine arts?
Charles Darwin asserted rather
positively that something of that
kind had happened to him. He confessed it to his sorrow, but he was
convinced that a kind of spiritual
atrophy had taken place within his
mind. The other day I came across
the famous and r a t h e r familiar
paragraph in his "Autobiography"
in which he makes the assertion.
Since many may not be familiar
with the passage, I gtve it herewith:
"Up to the age of thirty, or beyond it, poetry of many kinds, such
as the works of Milton, Gray,
Byron, Wordsworth, Coleridge, and
Shelley, gave me great pleasure,
and even as a schoolboy I took
intense delight in Shakespeare, especially in the historical plays. I
have also said that formerly pictures
gave me considerable, and music
very great delight. But now for
many years I cannot endure to read
a line of poetry; I have tried lately
to read Shakespeare, and found
it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me. I have also almost lost
my taste for pictures or music.
Music generally sets me thinking
too energetically on what I have
been at work on, instead of giving
me pleasure. I retain some taste for
fine scenery, but it does not cause
me the exquisite delight which it
formerly did."
That statement is quite unequivocal. In view of the fact that Darwin
was one of the most honest men of
the nineteenth century, or for that
matter of any century, we can only
accept the assertion at face value.
Darwin was wholly incapable of
saying something for the sake of
romanticizing himself.
If he said he had lost the taste
for the various arts, we may take
for granted that he was at least convinced that he had lost it. He was
sorry for the fact, and he was looking at himself with the objectivity
of a scientist when he was saying
it. He referred to it as "this curious
and lamentable loss of the higher
aesthetic tastes."
Darwin described his loss as
"atrophy," a term that the dictionary defines as "a wasting away of
the body or a part of it, or checked
growth of a part or organ, on
account of lack of food or imperfect
nourishment."
Darwin seems to have thought
of it as an actual wasting away of
a part or area of his brain because
he had not fed that area properly;
he had not fed the capacity for
poetry with the reading of poetry,
the capacity for the enjoyment of
music with listening to music. The
context of the passage gives the
impression that Darwin did not
use the term "atrophy" as an analogy; he did not intend that the word
should be enclosed in quotation
marks.
Darwin was one of the most influential men of the nineteenth century; his "Origin of Species" caused
a revolution in human thinking.
Perhaps the price he paid for it in
the loss of personal enjoyment was
justified. It is doubtful that the
goals for which many other men
make a similar sacrifice are worth
the price.
Ina uguration
(Continued from page 5)
some of the less publicized aspects
of "Negotiations by Conference."
The language difficulties and the
ever present problems of sovereignty were cited by the speaker as being of great influence on international negotiations.
Dr. Allen B. Stowe was general
chairman of the inaugural committee. Dr. Thomas Walton and Miss
Virginia Earl were marshals for the
procession. H. Colin Hackney,
president of the Kalamazoo College
Alumni Association, was chariman
for the Homecoming activities. Mr.
Henry Overley was in charge of the
music. Mr. and Mrs. Donald
Doubleday were co-chairmen for
the community reception committee.
The various chairmen had the willing and capable assistance of many;
the weather man co-operated wonderfully well; and the week-end was
a memorable one for all who attended.
BEQUEST TO COLLEGE
The late Mrs. ]. A. Pitkin of Kalamazoo, Michigan, has left a bequest of $2,000 to Kalamazoo College, it was learned upon the reading of her will.
Alma Pearl Hendrickson ex '49
has a position with the University
of Rochester library.
ALUMNUS
Page 7
Chicago Alumni
Hold Annual Tea
Approximately 50 persons attended the Kalamazoo College Tea
held at the home of Dr. and Mrs.
Carl Chatters of Ch:cago on Sunday afternoon, August 28. Guests
were alumni and students of the
college in the Chicago area. Ainsworth W. Clark '99 and Mrs. Clark,
and Dr. Everton were among those
present. Dr. Chatters '19, and Mr.
College Singers to Give
Opera, "The Bartered Bride"
Clark are members of the college's
Board of Trustees. Miss Marcia
Bach '44, president of the Chicago
Alumni Club, assisted. The tea is an
annual affair at which the alumni
honor the new students of the Chicago area.
Homecoming Queen and Court
Bedrich Smetana's 'The Bartered
Bride" will be presented by the
College Singers at the Central High
School auditorium on Jan. 14,
1950. The opera will be directed
by Mr. Overley.
Miss Eleanor Baum, of the drama department; Miss Barbara Hopkins, of the physical education department; and Mr. Michael Waskowsky, of the art department will
assist in the production. Mrs. Henry
Overley will be in charge of the
principal roles, and Mr. Marvin Feman will direct the orchestra. The
opera will be a joint enterprise of
the different departments of the college.
The College Singers have the
largest membership in the history
of the organization. Although there
is only room for 65 to 70 members
in the choir loft, 83 students have
been accepted. It is the plan of Mr.
Henry Overley, director of the music department, to appoint fifty or
more regular members, and the
others will be divid':d into two
groups which will alternate in the
Chapel performances.
"The Winslow Boy"
to be Given Nov. 18 & 19
She was crowned during the half
time ceremonies of the game.
The fall production of the College Players will be "The Winslow
Boy," a recent broadway sucfess by
Terrence Rattigan. The play will
be given on Nov. 18 and 19 in
Bowen Auditorium. The College
players have maintained a tradition
of staging a new type production
each year. "The Winslow Boy" is
no exception; it is to be staged in
arena style.
Members of the Queen's court,
also elected by the men of the college, were: Miss Inez Willson,
sophomore from Muskegon Heights;
Miss Joyce Pelto, junior from Battle
Creek; and two freshman girls from
Chicago, Miss Joan Holly and Miss
Ruth Jennings.
The cast selected by Miss Eleanor
Baum, director, includes Maurice
Alberda, Helen Keating, Clayton
Campbell, Elizabeth Osborn, Paul
Winans, Dorothy McCarthy, Rosemarie Brandt, Robert Culp, Douglas Rosenber~er, Dick Means and
Robert Roderihiser.
From left to right:
Joan Holley, Ruth Jennings, Lynette Minzey,
Queen; Joyce Pelto, and Inez Willson.
Miss Lynette Minzey, Kalamazoo
College senior from Three Rivers,
Michigan, was elected Homecoming
Queen by the men of the college at
the election held Sept. 30. As
Homecoming Queen, she presided
over the Homecoming Dance held
in Tredway Gymnasium, Saturday
evening, and the last half of the
football game with Hillsdale at
Angell Field, Saturday afternoon.
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ALUMNUS
the
Homecoming
SECOND GENERATION STUDENTS
News Notes
(Continued from page 6)
1905
Edith Harvey Marvin reside s in Indian -'
apo li s, Indiana. Margaret Morgan, Braden ·
ton, Florida, is a retired missionary of the
Methodist church. Xenia Mason is assistant
librarian of the Lenawee County Library,
Adrian, Mich. Dr. Mark F. Sanborn, Ber wyn, Ill., has been serving the Foster Park
Baptist Church, Ch icago, as Interim Pastor.
1906
New Second and Third Generation Students:
From left to right, Front row: Helen Biscomb, Joyce Rickman, Zelda Zook, Nancy
Crissman, and Lou EUen Crothers.
Second row: Richard G . Staebler, Maurice Pelto, William G. Mergard, Douglas E. Wendzel, and E. Holt Babbitt.
Third row: Harold Reverski, Winfield Pardee, John Archbold, and Svenn Lindskold.
Fourth row: Charles Van Zoeren, John D. Doyle, Richard Means, Richard P...ueller, Dnd
Edward Yaple.
Not p ict ured : Alberta Brown, Charles R. Daugherty, John E. DeVos, Nancy Murch, and
Susan Ralston.
The total number of new students registered at Kalamazoo College this fall is 224, plus six former K College students who have
returned, it is announced by the Admissions office of the college. Total
enrollment is 635, it is announced
by the registrar's office. This nears
the enrollment record mark of 667,
set in 1947, and the 666 of last
fall.
The new freshman class numbers
174. Transfer students with upperclass standing number 44. Six special students are enrolled. The new
students are from 13 states and two
foreign countries. The freshmen include five Valedictorians and seven
Salutatorians. Thirty-four percent of
the group are from the top ten percent of their high school graduating class; a total of fifty-three percent are from the upper twentyfive percent of their high school
classes. The transfer students come
from 38 different colleges, umversities, or junior colleges.
Included are the freshmen and
transfer students in the group pictured above who are second and/
or third generation students at Kalamazoo College. They are the sons
or daughters, or grandchildren of
former Kalamazoo College students.
This group numbers 24, of which
19 were present for the above picture.
CHAPEL PICTURED
Stetson Chapel was included in a
montage on the back cover of the
Charlton College Songbooks, Inc.,
publication which appeared on
newsstands recently. The book cover pictured sixteen of the particullarly distinctive college buildings of
the nation. Included in the pages
of the magazine was K College's
pep song, "All Hail to Kazoo."
Ruth Wheaton Johnson, first director of
the Gaynor Club, is a Seattle, Washington
resident. This year's issue of th e Nationa l
Cyclopedia of American Biography wi ll con·
tain a full page portrait and biography of
Bernard L. Johnson, who died in December,
1947.
Elizabeth Farley Wisner is a Buchanan ,
Michigan, housewife. Lillian Ethelyn Gibson, Kalamazoo, retired from the Upjohn
Company , Kalamazoo, in 1945. "I am very
proud to be a graduate of Kalamazoo Col·
lege," she writes.
Harry G. Burns and
Mrs. Burns (Gertrude Taylor '07) are Kal·
amazoo residents. Mr. Burns , now retired.
fome rl y was head of the science department
of Marshall High School, Chicago.
Mrs.
Burns formerly was principal of the high
school at Cedar Springs, Mich. Dr. George
Wellman Hess is head of the mathematics
department of Howard College, Birmin~ham,
Alabama.
Florence Winslow, Kalamazoo, has retired
from the educational field.
For 20 years
s h e was Assistant Principal of the Kalamazoo Central High School. Dr. Forbes B.
Wiley and Mrs. Wiley (Ora Scott '06) re·
side in Granville, Ohio. Dr. Wiley is head
of the department of mathematics at Deni·
son Un iversity. Dr. Ralph B. Howard and
Mrs. Howard (Jessie Hayne '06) are Benton
Harbor, Michigan,
residents
where Dr.
Howard is engaged in the practice of
medicine.
1907
The Reverend Ralph V. Hinkle is Rector
of the Holy Faith Episcopal Church, Inglewood, California. William James Puffer and
Mrs. Puffer (Helen Sidnam ex'08)
are
raising c itru s fruits at Weslaco, Texas.
Mr. Puffer has retired from the educational
field , having served Michigan school systems. He formerly was principal of the
Dart School, Flint, Mich. , and then he·
came director of Junior High Schools, in
that city. Carey R. Johnson, Princeton, IJ.
linoi s, lawyer, is Master in Chancery, "Bur eau County, Illinois. Dr. John Earl Walker
is senior member of the law firm of Walker,
Rice, English & Grabber in Washington,
D. C. H e was Legislative Counsel, U. S.
Senate, in 1921 and 1922. Raymond F . Holden, formerly school principal in St. Louis,
Mo., is now retired. H~ lives in Defiance,
1\fissouri.
1908
Marian E. Daniels is assistant professor
of mathematics at Iowa State College, Ames,
Iowa. Dr. Vernor Clifford Finch and Mrs.
Finch (Louise Lassfolk '08) reside at Madi·
son, Wisconsin, where Dr. Finch is Professor of Geography at the Univers ity o'
Wisconsin.
1909
Hal Nathan Kinney is vice-president of the
First National Bank of Mountain View,
Oklahoma.
Ethel Maxson Carpenter is a
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ALUMNUS
Page 9
News Notes
(Co11timud from page Y)
Comstock, Michigau, housewill'. Camp C.
Thomas is head of the X-ray Department
of St. Ivlary's Hospital, Lewiston, Maine.
Mrs. Thomas is the former B. Pearl llorst
' 15. Margarget Thornton Kurz, Royal Oak ,
:M ichigan,
housewife, has continued her
interest in teaching. She is serving as a
tutor in mathematics at the present time.
Charles H. Walter is head of the science
department of Mary D. Bradford lligh
School, Kenosha, Wisconsin.
Mabel Barker Stoddard is a biology teacher at Central High School, Flint, Michigan.
She is co-author of "Discovery Problems
in Biology," published by College Entrance
Book Company. William
Paul Giese
is
superintendent of schools at Racine, Wiscousill. Harvey J. Bouck is a teacher of
Gcrmau at Central High Schoo l, Kalamazoo.
ALUMNARIES
1910
Mabel C. Barbee Williams is a Kalamawo
housewife. Lilian Earl resides iu Kalamazoo,
Michigan. Mabel E. Stanley is on the faculty of the Roosevelt Junior High School
in Kalamazoo.
Florence J . Lucasse is a
teacher of La tin at Ceu tral High School,
Fort Wayne, Indiana.
ELLA OSBORN ADAMS
1911
Millie Gibson Frost resides at Athens,
Michigau. Dr. Alfred Grant Walton is mini ·
ster of the Flatbush-Tompkius Congregational Church, Brooklyn N. Y.
Maibelle
Geiger is a teacher and cou u selor of girls
in th e Seuior Hi2'h School, HollatH.l, Michi ·
gan. Clarissa Alexander Morse is an Adriau,
J\1ichigau , housewife. 1Ruth Cooley Bigelow
is a Kalamazoo, housewife.
1912
Ruth M. Smith is a teacher at Hazel Park
High School, Hazel Park, Michigan. Charles
Louis Raseman is a Kalamazoo, Michigau,
merchant. Henry C. Hart is engaged in the
practice uf law in Graud Rapid.s, Michigau.
1913
Dr. Merrill C. Hart, director of research
at the Upjohn Co., Kalamazoo, and Mrs .
Hart have recently returned from a Euro·
}Jean trip. Lucile Lester Iddles is a Wayne,
Pa., housewife. Helen Crissman Thompson
resides in Syracuse, N. Y. Elsie D. Davis
is a junior high school teacher of mathematics at Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Roberta Williams Conrad '13 is a Upper
1\lontclair, New j ersey,
housewife.
Tht•
Reverend Clinton H. Skinner and Mrs. Skinner ( lrene Hickey '14) reside at Oswego,
New York, where Mr. Ski11ner is minister
of the North Scriba and Scriba Baptist
churches.
1914
Bessie Todd Rivenburg is a Clifford, Penn ·
sylvania, housewife.
Frank W. Clark is
chief chemist in the laboratories of the Consumers Power Co., Jackson , Michigan.
Edward G. Tanis ex'14 is superintendent
with Tanis & Son, Builders , Kalamazoo.
Mrs. Tanis is the former l:'earl Reedy ex'lJ.
Grace Bowen Evans is a pastor's wife
and homemaker at Cross Plains, Texas,
where her husband is minister of the First
Presbyterian Church.
Katherine S. Russell ex'l4 is a member of
the faculty of Central High School, Kalamazoo. Lurene Osborn Tuggs is a Grand
Rapids, Michigan, housewife. Earle W. McNeil is on the faculty of the Jackson, Michigan, high school. He is a teacher of math·
ematics and visiting teacher.
(Continued
I
Page 10
011
page 11 )
ALUMNUS
Ella Osborn Adams, graduate of
Kalamazoo College in the class of
1871, is the oldest living alumnus of
the college. Site is now ~~ years and
8 months of age; her birthday coming
on the 15th of February. The picture
used above was taken in September
of this year at her home in Santa
Monica, California. Her daughter,
May Adams. reports that her mother
does not like to write, because her
eyes are failing, but that her mind
and memory are considered remarkable for a person four months short of
the century mark. Mrs. Adams has
just completed a 35 page history of
her life, which soon will be available
in mimeographed form.
Her father, the Reverend David
Osborn, who came to Michigan to
teach and preach, spent the year 1857
in Kalamazoo living in a cottage on
the campus hill among the oak trees.
Three of his children graduated from
the college, and three others spent
some time here. Mrs. Adams' husband,
the Reverend H. E. Adams, studied at
Kalamazoo for four years, leaving to
go to the Baptist Theological Seminary at Chicago in 1870. Mrs. Adams
reports that even after all these years,
Kalamazoo College still holds fir>t
place in her heart.
Dean Everett R. Shober has been
named as courier in the state of
Michigan in the current stewardship program of the Northern Baptist Convention. His duties will
carry him to Baptist churches
throughout the state.
Letters
(Cunti11ued }rum jJti!I,C b)
Yellowstone Park, and down the
coast through Washington, Oregon
and California, I dropped in on
Ken ( '3 7) and Lurena Davis at
Portland, Ore. Ken received his
doctorate in physics at the University of Rochester last year and is
now very happily teaching same at
Reed College in Portland. They
have a husky one-year-old son,
Greg.
My sister, June, ex'41, moved
to North Hollywood in August with
h~ r husband, Ralph Snyder, and
their son, Bradley. Ralph announces on CBS from 5:25 to
7:30 a.m. daily- what lovely
hours! I visited them for five days,
seeing "La Traviata" at the Hollywood Bowl and the Annual Sheriff's
Rodeo at the Los Angeles Coliseum,
as well as swimming in the Pacific
at Beverly Hills beach and dining
luxuriously and exorbitantly.
I regret I shall be unable to attend the Inaugural and Homecoming festivities, but please extend my
greetings to my classmates and the
other guests.
Wm. H. Weber, '3)>
THE INDEPENDENT COLLEGE
With one agency-the United
States government-taking a fourth
of the country's normal earnings,
it is extremely essential that educational agencies, not under government control, should be available
to those who want them. It is
equally essential that such institutions be dedicated to an end equal
to that of nationalism or patriotIsm.
•
An independent college, devoted
to the Christian ideals which are
the basis of individual character
and national integrity, is such a
body within the framework of
Christian discipline and inspiration.
Such a college can then foster the
maximum of academic freedom and
scientific search for truth.
In my opinion, Kalamazoo College has proven its worth and its
trustworthiness under American
law and Divine guidance. Political
fashions, however changeable, can
never outlive the Christian dictum
-"The truth shall make you free."
Maynard Owen Williams.
News Notes
(Continued fro m page 1 U)
Judge 0 . Z . Ide ex' l4, Detroit, was host
to the Psysh (pronounced "fish") Club at
his Tecumseh, Ontario, cottage, on August
19. The club's informal membership is composed of former Kalamazoo men of the 19151916 era who went to Detroit uin search of
their fortunes."
Members are now scattered over a considerable portion of the nation, but they have been having annual reunions since 1946. Guests at the August
meeting included the following K-College
men: William C . Buchana n '14, East Lansing, Mich.; Henry C. H a rt ' 12, Grand Rapids,
:M ich . ; George K . Ferguson '14, Watervliet,
1\fich.; Clinton J. Case '13, Elmira, N. Y.;
Thomas L . Thomps on '13, Detroit, Mich.;
and R ic h a:·d H . Wolfe ' 12, Detroit. A con·
siderable number of other guests who were
Kalamazoo high school graduates were in
attendance.
ALUMNARIES
Church. Venna S c udder Christenson
Newagu, Michigan, housewife.
is
a
1918
The Reverend John Currey Walker has
accepted t he call to the First Congregational Ch u r c h, Toledo. He previously was
minister
at
the
Second
Congregational
Church, Waterbury, Conn. Leigh N. B it tin g er ex'l8 is di,·ector of the Cnicago Home
for Incurables. Dr. Avis H . Thomas ex'18
is head of the music department at Olivet
College, O livet, Michigan. Helen Huds on is
director of pub lic relations for the Pittsburgh, Pa., Y.W.C.A.
1919
Jennie L . Smith is a Kalamazoo, Michigau,
junior high school mathematics and English teacher. Margaret Martin Pearson is a
social worker for the Ingham County Bu·
rf'::tU of Social A id, Lansing, Michigan. Hu g h
H . Neale and Mrs. Neale (Nellie Clark '21)
res ide at Mt. Clemens, Mich. Mr. Neale is
an attorney.
19 15
1920
Ber nice Goodrich Gilber t is a Kalamazoo
housewife. Ethel A . Ca s e resides itt Batt le
Creek, Michigan. Dr. L a urence A. Chrouch
ex' lS is a Detroit physician .
Dr. Nathaniel J . Beaber is a Senior Fel·
low at the Mellon Insti tute. Pittsbursrh. Pa.
Joe Schensul is the owner and operator of
Schensul's Cafeteria in Kalamazoo. Priscilla Smith Hutton ex'20 is legal secretary for
her husband, a Bremerton, Washington, attorney. Her father, John E. Smith, was a
'94 graduate of the college. Dr. Frank E .
Greer is a Chicago physician and surgeou .
M rs. Greer is the former Edna Booth '22.
Cla rence L. Toonder ex'20 is a Det r o i t, Mich.,
consulting engineer. His firm is the C. L.
Toonder & Associates Company.
Forrest C. Strome is a teacher of mathematics and
treasurer at Central
High
School, Kala m azoo. Michigan.
Charles E.
Brake, Plymouth, Michigan, is Deputy Sup·
erintendent of Wayne County Schools. He
was president of the Michigan Education
Association for 1948-49. Mary Staley Brown
is a teacher of English and Latin at the
L awton, Michigan, H igh School.
1916
R a lph R a lston , member of the college
Uoard of trustees, has beeu 11amed to head
Kalamazoo's Community Chest drive for
the second consecutive year.
Charles S.
Campbell, treasurer of the board of trustees,
who headed the first Community Chest campaign, has been named honorary chairman.
Ralph is a Kalamazoo business man. Mrs.
Ralston is the former Ruth C. White '18.
M rs. Cha rlotte Wightma n Ireland is a
teacher of Business Education at Loda
Township High School, Loda, Illinois.
Francis C. Lewis is the publisher of the
weekly newspaper THE LAWTON LEADER,
in Lawton, Michigan.
Lucille Abbott Nobbs is assistant profes·
sor of Engl ish at Western Michigan College
of Education, Kalamazoo.
Lydia Buttolph Moy le is a Mattawan,
Michigan, homemaker.
The Reverend J .
Burt Bowman is executive secretary of t h e
Michigan Council of Churches.
E s th er D eWater Abbott is a Hollywood,
California, resident. Donald G. Little ex '16
is assistant engineering manager and consulting engineer for the electronics and
X-Ray division of the Westinghottse Eletric
Corp., Baltimore, Maryland.
Mrs. Little
(Gladys M. Vosburgh '16) was active in or·
ga11iz ing a Neighborhood Library Group for
the community in which they reside.
1917
D r. Orrin Edgar Powell lives in Richland,
"M ichigan.
John T . Hickmott, Kalamazoo,
Michigan, is an agent for the U. S. Internal
Revenue service. Mrs. Hickmott (Frances
Beerstecher '17) is a junior high school
teacher in the city school system.
P a ul R . Hootman is buyer of furn i ture for
the B & K stores, Peoria, Illinois. Mrs.
H o,.,tman is the former D oro thy B owe;,
ex'17.
Lorence B. Burdick is a member of the
city commission of Kalamazoo. He is also
vice-president and secretary of the Fidelity
Federal Savings and Loan Association.
Willis B . Burdick. K-tl amazoo, is president
of the Fidelity Federal Savings and Loan
Association. He is pres ident, a lso, of the
Kalamazoo Y.M.C.A . Amy F . S kinner is Ji.
brarian at the Charlotte High School, Punta
Gorda, Florida . Cla r a B elle Arthur Williams
has recently moved to Chicago. Her husband is minister of the Parkside Baptist
LORAN DAVID OSBORN
Dr. Loran David Osborn, sociologist, ed ucator, administrator, and editor, was a student in Kalamazoo from
1887 to 1889. He received hi s B.A. degree from the Universi ty of M ichiga n
111
1891; was a student at Newto n
Theological I nstitute in '9 1 a nd '92,
and received the Ph. D . degree f r om
the University of Chicago in 1900. His
wife, the former Rena Addie R ichards of Kalamazoo, was a stude nt h ere
at K College at the same time t h at
h e was.
Dr. Osborn, now re tir ed at hi s
Dowagiac, M ichigan, home, was or dained in the Baptist minist ry in 1894.
He was the second president of Des
Moines College in successio n to President Herbert Lee Stetson w ho had
come to Kalamazoo in 1900. Dr. Osborn later became professor of sociology at the Un ive r si ty of Redlands,
California, whe r e he established t h e
department of sociology. After reaching the retiremen t age a t the University, he became Director of the Education Department of th e American
Institute of Fami ly Relations w h ich
had been founded by Dr. Paul Popenoe, a position he occupied until the
present year when he became Director
Eme ri tus of the Departm ent.
He is the author of the book "The
Recovery and Restateme nt of the Gospel," and co-author of "The Community
and Society."
Just one more word about Dr. Osborn: he is the br other of Mrs. E lla
Osborn Adams, the "Alumnary" o n
the opposite page.
1921
Kenn e th C. ~ing is assistant to t he President, William Hart Adler, Inc., advertising
ar-Pncv. Chicago. Ruth Hudson Birdsell is
a Beloit, Wisconsin, resident. Evelyn Dre s sel Steidma nn is a Bowling Green, Ohio,
housewife. The Reverend Monroe James Wilcox, Sr., minister of the First Methodist
Chu r ch, Glendive, Montana, is completing his
25th year of service in Montana. Harold E .
Hawley i ~ d irector of speech activities at
F lint Central High School. He has coached
two state championship debate teams, and
two runner-up teams . Grace Petertyl Taylor
is a Spring Lake, M ichigan, housewi,e.
Glen C. Thompson is the head varsity football coach at Marmion Military Academy,
Aurora, Illinois. He saw service in World
War I and World War II, and at present
ho lds the rank of Lt. Colonel. Harry C. J .
L ennox is superintendent of the Seligman
Public Schools, Seligman, Arizona.
1922
Dr. Warren C. Johnson, chairman of the
department of chemistry at the University
of Chicago, is a frequent contributor to
scientific magazines.
He has written SO
articles on inorganic chemistry, and is the
author of two text books on qualitative
analysis. Harmon Everett and Mrs. Everett,
the former Helen Carey '22, reside near DeW itt, Michigan.
Lindsay E. Hobbs ex'22 is a fruit and
dairy farm owner in Burt, N. Y. Harold B .
Wilcox is director of adult education, Ferndale, Michigan.
Lester A . Graybiel is a
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News Notes
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Kalamazoo restaurant owner. He has recently moved into a new building. Mary
Huizinga Larson is a teacher at Cambridge,
Illin ois. Dr. Hugo A. Aach ex'22 is a Kal·
amazoo doctor of medicine.
Maude W. Ellwood is librarian of the
medical library, B orgess IIospital, Kalamazoo. George Walkotten is superintendent of
schools at Albion, Michigan. Mrs. Walkotten
is the former Vivian Yates ex'24. Edna Cole
Harper is an Ashlaad, Wisconsin, housewife.
Marion Graybiel Means is a Toledo. Ohio,
housewife. Emil M. Howe is sales director
for Waukesha Foundry Co., Waukesha, Wisconsin. Louise Every Crothers is a Royal
Oak, Michigan, housewife. Richard D. Cutting is with Argus, In c, Ann Arbor, ft.Iichigan.
1923
The four text-books pictured
a.bove for students of Spanish have
been published by Dr. Richard H.
Olmsted, professor of Spanish and
French at K-College. Motivated by a
desire to have simple text material
which would still retain the original
style of Spanish authors, Dr. Olmsted adapted and edited the mater
ial for Jorge Isaacs Maria and Abencerraje, both books being for the
Oxford Rapid-reading Spanish Texts
series. The books are for beginning
classes. They are written in easy
and simple style, and have limited
vocabularies.
Spanish Short Stories is a collection of thirty short stories in the
Spanish language. The stories have
been simplified, but have not been
"rewritten." Words not in the basic
vocabulary are listed at the end of
each story, and also at the end of
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ALUMNUS
the book. The book is intended for
intermediate students.
Written in collaboration with
Dr. Raymond L. Grismer, A Mexico Por Automovit is an original
work describing a family trip to
Mexico by automobile.
Not pictured above is Dr. Olmsted's scholarly and critical edition
of Velez de Guevara's comedy, Et
Conde don Pero Velez y don Sancho el Deseado, written in the early
seventeenth century. The text was
taken directlv from the original
manuscript in. Madrid.
William H. Culver '42 will practice law in Kalamazoo in a partnership with Eric Brown. Mr. Culver
graduated from the University of
Michigan Law School in June.
Hollis J. Rigterink is a Field Representative
of the State Department of Social \V elfare,
Lansing, Michigan. Arnold E. Turk ex'23,
Brooklyn, Mich., is a teacher in the Clark
Lake, Michigan. schoo l. Mrs. Turk is the
former Gladys Hayes '23. Harold C. Henshaw ex'23 is manager of the Michigan
Photo Shutter Company, Kalamazoo. Helen
Hough DeLand is professor of Spanish and
Portuguese at Florida State University, Tal·
lah assee, Florida.
Mabel Dunsmore Sutton ex'23 is a Bakersfield, California, housewife. Miles G. Stroup
is director of recreation for Morton Street
School, Newark, New Jersey. Dr. Carl Nor~
cross, Dobbs Ferry, N . Y., is a member of
the editorial board for The March of Time.
Marjorie Eldred Pitt is a Ferndale, Michigan, housewife. Dr. M. Gene Black ex'23 is
director of the Department of Anesthesiology, Holyoke Hospital, Holyoke, Massachusetts. Albert Van Zoeren is the prop·
rietor of the Alvan l\Iotor Freight Co.,
Kalamazoo.
Raymond H. Smith is a Birmingham ,
Michigan, realtor. Mrs. Smith is the former Cha rlotte Pinckney '20. Chas B. Stemfield ex'23 is a radio manufacturer's representative in Chicago. Frances Klyver Blake
ex'23 is a Franklin, Indiana, housewife. Her
husband is h ead of the history department
of Franklin College. Dr. James F. Duncan
'23 is Dean of Instruction and professor
of physics
at State Teachers
College,
Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Mrs. Duncan is the
former Gladys I. Killam '24. Dr. Duncan
was instructor in physics at Kalamazoo College in 1924 and 1925.
1924
Dorothy Louise Madden Bonneville is an
eleme ntary grade teacher for the Thorn·
apple· W. K. Kellogg School, Middlevill e,
Michigan. Helen M. Little is the owner of
The Little Shop for Teen-Age Apparel in
Kalamazoo. Noble D. Travis ex'2~ is Vice ·
President in charge of Public Relations and
Advertising for the Detroit Trust Company,
Detroit. Louise Stein Matulis is a Belle·
ville, Michigan, housewife. }-fer activities
since graduation have included being director of publicity for the U ni vers it y of
Michigan.
Ardell 0. Jacobs is production director at
the Kalamazoo Paper Co. Mrs. Jacobs is
the former Pauline F. Kurtz ' 24. Kenneth
W. Dean is a teacher and head of the history department at Fenger High School,
Chicago. Helen Ward Koontz, Orange, Connecticut, is secretary to the head of the
Continuity Dep~rtment, Columbia Broadcasting System, New York. Harold Byron
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K College Gridders
Win Opener
Kalamazoo College's football
team opened the 1949 season at
Angell Field with a 13-7 upset victory over DePauw University; but
then the Hornets lost two consecutive games to Wooster College of
Ohio, 20-26, and to Hillsdale in
Kalamazoo's Homecoming game,
0-28.
At full strength for the opener,
Coach Lloyd (Dob) Grow's team
unveiled a sharp passing attack to
defeat DePauw's favored Tigers. D ePauw won last year, 6-0, and went
on to share Indiana little All-State
honors.
Phillip Dillman, freshman from
Oak Park, Ill., electrified the crowd
in the second quarter with his brilliant passing. He climaxed a Kalamazoo drive by passing six yards
to end George Mason, La Grange,
Ill., for a touchdown to bring K
College to within one point of DePauw.
Five minutes later Dillman
passed twenty yards to halfback Vito Tutera, Saginaw, Mich., who outsped Tiger defensemen to score Kalamazoo's winning touchdown.
The following week, a g a i n s t
Wooster, the Hornets played one of
the best football games ever seen
on Angell Field's gridiron. Three
times the rangy Ohio team went into the lead, and three times the Hornets tied the score, only to fall before the powerful Wooster attack
late in the fourth quarter.
Ka 1am a zoo touchdowns were
scored by Stefoff, Mishawaka, Ind.,
Robert Simanton, Auburn, Ind., and
James Nawrot, South Bend, Ind.
Tackle Conrad Hinz, South Bend,
added two points aft€r touchdown
to the one he kicked against DePauw. In the wildest offensive battle seen since the war, Kalamazoo
made seventeen first downs and
Wooster twenty-four.
In the Homecoming contest with
Hillsdale, the Hornets were as ragged as they were brilliant in the first
two games. Two bad punts gave
the Bearcats a 14-0 halftime edge.
And in the third quarter, Bill Young,
(Contiuued on page 15 )
ALUMNARIES
LOUIS B. NICHOLS
Louis B. Nicho ls ex'32 is known to
his many friends as "Louie"' or as
"Big Nick." In his undergraduate
days at K he was an outstanding meinber of the Hornets' football team, and
he was active in many college affairs.
He completed his collegiate work at
George Washington University Law
School, where he graduated in June,
1934. After passi ng the bar exam in ation he entered th e se rvices of the
Federal Bureau of Inve s tigation,
Washington, D. C. Serving first in the
field as a special agent, he soon was
assigned as a supervisor. For the past
several years he has been servin g as
Assistant Director in the Bureau.
Kichols has returned to the college
campus a number of times. He was
the banquet speaker at the Dedication-Homecoming in 1946 when Ange ll
Field was dedicated.
Mrs. Nichols is the former Carroll
Stevens, a graduate of Women's College, Montevallo, A labama. John Edgar and Louis Stevens are the two
children of the Nichols family.
Mr. Nichol's chief, J. Edgar Hoover,
is an alumnus of Kalamazoo College,
having received an honorary degree at
Commencement in 1937.
ATTENDS DUKE CEREMONIES
Mr. Otis J. Bouwsma, who received his Master's degree from Kalamazoo College in 1947, was the official delegate of the college for the
installation of Arthur Hollis Edens
as President of Duke University,
Durham, North Carolina, Saturday,
October 22.
Cross Country Team
Prepares For Season
This fall's Hornet cross countty
team is being coached by Samuel
Brown, English professor and a former trackman at Indiana University.
Five lettermen are included in a
squad of fourteen out for the fall
sport. Previous monogram winners
are Fred Winkler, Plainwell, Mich.,
elected captain for the season; Hector Grant, Muskegon Heights, Mich.;
Donald Overbeek, Kalamazoo; Willman Zuhl, St. Joseph, Mich.; and
Robert Ketchem, Evanston, Ill.
New candidates include Thomas
Hastings, Darol Topp, John Stammen, Kryn Ihrman, louis Stolle and
Ralph Beebe, all of Kalamazoo;
Holt Babbitt, Adrian, Mich.; and
R o be r t Binhammer, Watertown,
Wise.
The Hornet thinclads will meet
the conference schools in meets paralleling t h e Kalamazoo football
schedule. Also scheduled are the
M.I.A.A. conference meet at Hope
College Nov. 15, and the NCAA
meet at Michigan State College,
Nov. 28.
Dr. Mildred Doster Virtue '30,
Iowa City, Iowa, is medical director
of District No. 7 for the Iowa State
H ealth Department.
Patricia Kennett Powers '46 is an
instructor in piano, theory, and music literature at the University of
Arkansas.
Don aid J. King
"Freed" By Reds
Donald J. King, '31, vice-president of the Northwest Airlines, has
been in the news during the first
part of October when he was held
by the Communists in Shanghai,
China. After he first had been
granted permission to leave late in
September, he ·was stopped virtually at the gang plank of his ship,
t h e American President lines'
General Gordon. Several weeks
later he was again permitted to
leave. He has now joined "his wife,
the former Ann Nichols '32, in
Hong Kong. They will return to
the U. S. via Manila and Tokio.
ALUMNUS
Page 13
News Notes
(Continued f rom page 12 )
Allen is Director of the Communica ti on Program, and Assistant Professor of English
at tne University of M inneso t a.
Dr. Gerald H . ,R igterink is a Ka lamazoo
physician and surgeon. Beatrice V. Brown
Markillie is a St. Petersburg, F lo ri da,
housewife and also an office manager. Dr.
K. Sausaman is pastJr of the Grace Community :Method ist Cnurch and director of
Crace Communi ty Cente r , Denver, Co lorado.
Paul J. Messany ex'23 is a foreman for th e
Sutne rl and P aper Company, Kala m azoo.
ALUMNARIES
1925
William E. Strong ex"25 is president ~ n d
general manager of the Strong D is tri bu t ing
Company, Saginaw. Clarence Pountain is a
maunfacturer's
agent,
Kalamazoo,
Mic h.
Pearle Ross Sowle is a science teac her in
the Woodruff School, Wyandotte, Michigan.
Fred W. Des Autels is a Detroit h ardwa r e
merchant. Mrs. Des Autels is t he former
Ai leen D. Radkey '25. M. Marguerite Hall
is an attendance teache r in D etroit. Margaret Williamson Crissman is a U ti ca, M ichi gan, housewife.
Robert E . Stein is vice-p r incipal of Chula
Vista Hi gh School, Sun n ys ide, Cali fornia.
Evelyn Phillips Bingham i s ass istan t d i rector in the Secre t ary of S t ate's office,
Lausing, M ichigan. Harold Emerson is a
chem ist for the Upjohn Compan y, Ka lamazoo. Harold D. Beadle i s v ice-pres iden t of
J)oran Chevrolet Co., I n c., Ypsi lant i, M ichiga n .
Frances Nicholson Fiuly ex'25 is
bookkeeper for the Cen t ra l Supply
Co.,
Clarksbu r g, W est Virgin ia.
1926
Edwin T. Hinga, P lainwe ll , M ichigan, is a
Ka lamazoo attorney .
Walter B. Sturgis
ex'26 is h igh sc hool principa l a t 1\.i ongo,
Indiana. Dr. William A. Scott is engaged
in the p r ivate prac ti ce of psychiat r y in Ka lamazoo. Hi s par t ner is Dr. Edwin M. Williamson '33. Lucile Bullock Drusell is a
Charlotte, M ichigan, housew ife. F•·ieda A.
Hinrichs is head of the cata loging depart partmen t of t he M ichigan State Coll ege
Library. Winifred Merritt Bowman is a
Ka lamazoo homemaker.
Virginia Dickenson Allerton, is a Kala m azoo housew ife. Lois Carolyn Parks, M ia mi ,
Florida, is director of the Mental Healt h Society of Southeastern Florida. Dr. Irving E .
Cole£ ex'26 is a practicing physicia n i n Cor·
pus Ch ri st i, Texas. E. Burr Sherwood, county superin t endent of schools, S t amba u g h ,
l\Iichigan, was Democra t ic can didate for
Superintendent of P u blic I ns t ruct ion for the
state of Michigan in 1945 and again in 1949.
Robert T. Black is a p lant manager in
W ay n e, Pa. He has been wit h t he Kalamazoo Vege t ab le Parchment Company since
192i. Mrs. Black is the former Helen Going
'26. Pauline Byrd Taylor is a teac h er a t
the Lincoln School, Ka lamazoo.
She is
president of the Douglass Co m mun ity As·
sociation.
1927
Grace C. Beebe is librarian in the Detroit
L ibrary, Horace H . R ackham Educationa l
Memorial Library. Evelyn Moulthrop Chase
is an Ann Arbor, Michiga n , h ou sewife.
James H . McLaughlin is a pract icing attorney in Grand Rapids, Mich igan. H e was
Chief Enforcement A ttorney and Special
Tria l Attorney for the O P A
(Western
Michigan) 1942-1946. In his underg r adua t e
days he was editor of the Kalamazoo Col·
lege I NDEX for three years.
Robert W. Sodergren is in the planning section of the production office of the Upjo hn
ALUMNUS
LEROY B. STINEBOWER
Leroy D . Sti nebower '26, t he Homecoming Banquet speaker t hi s year ,
has bee n a member of t he Departme nt
of State since 1934. He h as had a
stri ng of t itles; si nce 1946 he has been
Special Ass istant to the Ass ista nt
Secr etary of St a te for Economic Affa irs a nd has a lso bee n Deputy
U nit ed States Rep r ese n tat ive in t he
Eco nomic a nd Social Co uncil of t he
U nit ed Na tio ns.
A la rge par t of hi s tim e sin ce 1943
h as bee n spe nt at inte rn at io nal meet ings a n d co nfe r ences-they run to
t hir ty or mor e. He has served i n var io us capacities suc h as advise r o n t h e
Amer ica n Delegatio n, A lter na te Dele gate, o n some occasions as Delega te,
a nd a few t imes as Head of the De lega tio n.
I n his undergr ad ua te days, h e served
as P r esident of t he Se nate, Ma nage r
of De bate, B usiness Ma nager of the
Boiling Pot, m em ber of t he I ndex
st aff, and coll ege deba te team m ember. He was o n th e sam e team w ith
E dwi n G. Gem rich '26, Kalamazoo a tt orney, w ho se r ve d as toas t maste r at
th e Hom ecoming Banquet.
Afte r rece iving his Maste r 's degree
fr om th e Un ivers ity of Chicago in
1927, M r. Stinebower becam e an inst r uctor, an d th en assis tant pr ofessor
of economi cs at A llegh eny College.
M rs. Stin e bowe r is th e fo rm er A li ce
M. Ha th away. T h e Sti nebowe r s have
two da ug ht ers, Carolyn a nd Kath ry n.
Robert Hickmott '47 received
his M.A. degree in physics from the
University of Illinois.
ALUMNUS WRITES
OF IMPRESSIONS
I find my affection and admiration for my alma mater growing,
rather than diminishing, with the
years, with repeated visits, and with
the accumulating evidence of the
solid worth in the life of our nation
and in the world's work. Proof of
her distinctive gifts to young people
and of their distinguished achievements, armed with those gifts, can
be found everywhere one turns.
That over the past quartercentury such achievements should
be particularly notable in the sciences, technologies, social services,
and education is due in part to
fine teachers and in pa rt to the
spirit of the times which has given
young people initial interests and
special incentives in those fields .
In the arts, where genuine creative talent is always a very rich article, and where there is much that
cannot in the customary sense be
taught, alumni achievements have
been naturally greater in the critical, analytical, and historical sides;
but I am confident that m the
genera tion ahead, if Kalamazoo
College continues to provide teachers of the high quality of Milton
Simpson in literature, drama, music,
and the fine arts, our alumni rolls
will come to bear names just as
distinguished in those fields as
they now do in the sciences.
(Con t inued on page 17)
Company, Kalamazoo. Henry F . Oggel a n d
Mrs. Oggel (Ruby He r bert '27, are K a lamazoo r esidents. Margaret A . Paterson Mcintyre is a R oches t er, N. Y., housewife. S .
Willet Osborne is Genera l Accounting Personne l Supervisor, Michigan Bell Telephoti.e
Co., Det roit. Alfred G. Amundsen i s superin tendent of schoo ls at Marlette, M ichigan.
Marjorie Volkers Largent res ides in Va n
Nuys, Ca lifornia . Winifred M. Johnson is
a case consultant for the Board of Education,
Philade lphia, Pa.
Helen Folsom
Cooper ex'27 is a docto r' s w ife in Madison,
Wisconsin. Dr. Philip A . Katzman is associate professor of biochem istry at St.
L ouis University, University City, M issouri. Joseph Allison Skeen, Park Hi ll s,
Kentucky, i s Dis t rict Service Enginee r for
Babcock, Wilcox Co., Cincinnati, Ohio. Mrs.
Skeen is t h e former E lizabeth Moore, '29.
Harry 0 . Voorhees ex'2:1 is an in dust ri a l
engineer for Montgomery W ard & Co., St.
P au l, M innesota. Gertrude Tousey Buswell
ass ists her husband in their Buswell Arlvertising Agency, Kalamazoo. Pearl Marie
Harris Fletcher is a teacher in Mendota
Elementa r y Schoo l, Mendota, Cali fo r nia.
(Continurd on paf{r 1 5)
DEATHS
.
HENRY MOORE BATES
Henry Moore Bates, Dean Emeritus and Professor Emeritus, Law
Schoo 1, University of Michiga~,
died on April 15 at Berkely, Cahfornia. Dr. Bates received the honorary degree of LL.D. from Kalamazoo College in 1925.
FANNIE A. SNOW
Mrs. Fannie A. Snow, aged 96,
a resident of Kalamazoo and vicinity until a few years ago, died at _the
home of her son in Colon, Mtehigan, Sept. 12. Mrs Snow, the former Fannie Deal, attended Kalamazoo College for a short time, seventy years ago. She is survived by her
daughter, Lulu Ailes, Kalamazoo;
a son, Allen D. Snow, Colon; a brother, W . H. Deal, Seattle, Washington; and a sister, Mrs. Eva Parmeley,
Kalamazoo.
MAUDE STRUBLE CALHOUN
Maude Struble Calhoun '02,
Lawndale (Los Angeles) , California,
passed away July 24. She is survived by her husband, Henry C.
Calhoun '00, of the home address;
two sons, Gerald of Los Angeles,
and Henry of Los Angeles; and one
daughter, Mrs. Dorothy J. Butts of
Oregon. Mrs. Calhoun formerly
was a teacher in Spokane, Washington, and Los Angeles, California.
She was a member of the Eurodelphian Society. Funeral services
were held from the Chapel of the
Chimes in Inglewood Park Cemetery.
EDITH THURSTON HICKMOTT
Mrs. Edith Thurston Hickmott
ex'91 died Sunday, October 2, at
the home of her daughter, Mrs.
Mary Shields, Sturgis, Michigan.
She was 82 years of age. Mrs. Hickmatt leaves three sons, John and
D eGarmo of Kalamazoo, and William Arthur of Mendon; one
daughter, a sister, Miss Grace Thurston, LaGrange, Ind., and seven
grandchildren.
The few brief words above leave
untold the real storv of an outstanding K College . family. Mrs.
Hickmott's mother was Sarah A.
Messer, a graduate of the class of
1863, who married Griffin D. G.
Thurston ex'64. The Civil War memorial plaque in Bowen Hall lists
the names of classmates of Mr. and
Mrs. Thurston. Their daughter,
Edith, was a member of the first
group of girls to live in Wheaton
Hall which had been built, brick
by b~ick, by the Baptist churches of
the state.
Her three sons all have attended
Kalamazoo College. John Thurston
Hickmott and DeGarmo Hickmott,
graduated in 1917. W. Arthur
Hickmott attended Kalamazoo College in 1918 and 1919, and then
went to the University of Michigan
for his degree. He married Helen
McHugh, K College graduate of
the class of 1916. His brother,
John, married Frances Beerstecher,
a graduate of the class of 1917.
DeGarmo Hickmott's son, Robert
L. Hickmott, received his degree
from K College in 1947. This
means that Robert L. Hickmott's
father, two uncles, two aunts,
grandmother, and great grandmother and great grandfather have been
part of Kalamazoo College for a
period of time extending from before the Civil War.
News Notes
(Co 11tinued from page 14)
Dr. Edmund H . Babbit, former minister of
the Damon Methodist Chu r ch of Kalamazoo,
has been named v ice president of Adrian
Co1l ege, Adrian, Michigan . He will be in
charge of finances. He comes to Adrian
from Chicago where he served as educational director for the Na t iona l Methodist
Boards of Hospitals and Homes. Gould Fox
is a Kalamazoo attorn ey.
Sylvester E. Brenner ex '28 a nd Mrs.
Brenner, the former DoHy Walker '3 1, are
Kalamazoo residents.. H. Gordon Hawkins,
supe rintendent of sch ools a t St. Cla ir Shore
for the past two years, has been named
superintendent at Deckerville, Mich.
He
will head a facu lty of 34 teachers. He h ad
been superintend ent at Hartford, Mich.,
before goin g to St. Clair. Marvin C. Volpe)
ex'28 is instructor in mathematics at Michigan State College. Donald C. Hackney is
a Dexter, Michigan, merchant. Mrs. Hack~
ney is the formtr Mildred Gang.
W. H. Van Daff is a buyer for the May
Co., Los Angeles, California. C. L. Williamson ex '28 is Personne l Director for the
l\fonroe Auto Equipment Co., Monroe, l\1ich·
igan. Frances G. McCarthy Wood is a li ·
brary assistant in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
1928
Edgar C. Schmalzriedt, Romeo, ~fich., is
a sa les executive for the J am Handy Cor·
FOOTBALL
(Continued from page 1J)
Hillsdale's three-time All-M I A A
halfback, broke loose for a 74-yard
touchdown run. The Bearcats scored
again in the fourth quarter to complete the rout.
The Hornet offense, weakened
with several regulars out with injuries, never functioned long enough
to drive for a touchdown. Kalamazoo out-passed the Hillsdale team
and ground out sixteen first downs
to the Dales' nine.
Kenneth Youngs, Kalamazoo,
the Hornets' All-M I A A halfback,
averaged 5.5 yards carrying the ball
against DePauw and appeared well
on his way to another good year.
However, injuries held him out of
the lineup completely in the next
two games. Simanton took over the
brunt of the rushing attack and
picked up 170 yards in the three
games for a 5-yard per try average.
His 79 yards against Hillsdale ranked him fourth in the MIAA for the
week in total offense.
Dillman connected on 17 of 36
passes in the initial three contests
to lead the passers. Dick Cain of
Kalamazoo clicked as a passer in the
Hillsdale game, and his 6 completions in ten attempts ranked him
first among the conference's passers.
Ends Mason and Milton Christen, South Bend, Ind., were the top
receivers with nine and seven passes
caught, respectively.
The Hornets will have no easy
time in the remainder of the schedule, facing Valparaiso University in
addition to the other four MIAA
colleges, but with key men returned
to the lineup, Kalamazoo still will
be an important factor in the conference title chase.
po ration. Arlene Black Bates is a Berkley,
Michigan, housewife. Mildred Moore Fitch
is a So uth Bend, Ind ana, housewife. Marjorie L. Bacon is sec retary in the Consumer
Education Office of the Agricultural Eco·
nomics Depart m ent of ~1ichigan S t a t e
Coll ege. Dr. Frank B . Smith is in the Technical Service and Development section of
the Dow Chemical Co., Midland, Michigan.
Winfield J. Hollander is Trust Officer of
the First National Bank and Tru st Com·
pany of Kalamazoo .. Mrs. Hollander is the
former Ard ith Buswell. John H. Carroll
ex'28 is a science teacher at the Pattengitl
(Continued o1t page 16 )
ALUMNUS
Page 15
New~
K COLLEGE DELEGATES
Notes
(Co 11 ti11ued fro m page 15)
Junior H igh School, Lansing, ~\1ichigan. Dr.
Julius T . W endzel has released for the W.
E. Upjohn Institute for Community Rc·
search
a
pamphl et
giv ing
i·nformation
gained by a " long, broad look" at the
11ation's economic history and trends that
history reveals. F indings o£ his study arc
given under the title, "Perspective for
Business Expansion." Dr . \.Yendzel is head
o£ the department of economics and busi·
uess administration at K college.
1929
V ernon L . Johns is commercial manager
of the Michigan Bell Telephone Company,
Detroit. M rs. Johns is the former Elizabeth
R. W y k kel '29. Lucille H a llock Brenner ex
'29 is hospital librarian for the Kalamazoo
Pub lic Library.
R a lph E . Race ex '2:J is a l\1ontrose, Michigan, funera l director. Mrs. R a ce is the
former F lossie Crook '27. Dr. Fra nk E .
T oond er is research supervisor for the VVyandotte Corp., Wyandotte, Mic:1igan. Cla rence S . Wis e ex '2J and l\1rs. Wis e (Lucy
~lerson
'27) reside in Allegan, :M ichigan.
Formerly regional sales manager for the
Krim-Ko Company of Chicago, Mr. VVise is
now an Allegan merchant.
Shir le y N . Cuthbert, Ka lamazoo, is a case
work supervisor for the Kalamazoo County
Bureau of Social Aid . Dr. Sivert N . Gla rum,
Wyncote, Pa., is research supervisor for the
Ciha Products Corp ., Kimbrrton, Pa. Elva
Stinson Greer is a Los Angeles, California,
housewife. Kathleen Collin s S mi th is a member of the facu lty at Ottawa Hills High
School, Grand Rapids, Michigan . Andrew
F . Murch and Mrs. Murch (Grace Hutchins
'27) reside in Paw Paw, ~1ichigan, where
he is president of the Paw Paw Grape
Juice Co.
1930
Cha rlotte Bacon Cooper is a Kalamazoo
housewife.
Marvin W. En gel,
Cleveland,
Ohio, is a supervisor in the production
con trol department of the Chase Brass &
Copper Co., Euclid, Oh io. M a r y E . Schmid t
T a pley is a teacher of biology and general
science at Romeo High School, Romeo,
Michigan .. Dr. Dona ld L a rs en , Kensington,
Maryland, is a senior biochemist at the
National Cancer In~titute, Bethesda, Maryland. Marg u erite Lar·sen McQueen , is a
Lake Bluff, Illinois, homemaker. Gordon E .
Hya tt ex'30 is manager of the Tri-County
Coca·Cola Bottling Company at Three Riv·
ers, Michigan.
Frederick J . Rogers ex'30 of the English
department of \ Vestern Michigan College
of Education is on two year leave for graduate study at the U. of M . Mrs . Rog ers is
the former Katharine Dukette '27. She is
a Teaching Fellow in the department of
Eng1ish, U. of M ichigan, on two years
leave from the English department of West·
ern State High School, Kalamazoo. Ezra
Merrill is director of sales research and
sales coordinator for H. P. Hood & Sons,
Boston, Mass. Anna H. Brandenbur g Cha tterton is a Whitehall, ~Iichigan, housewife.
L a urence H . Cook is executive secretary
of the ~Iutu3l Savings and Lo:!n Association
of Bay City, Michigan . Grant W . Johnston
ex'30 has a store in Galesburg, Mich., and
another in Lawton. Mrs. Joh ns ton is the
former Eleanor Jameson '28. M a ry J a n e
Ross is a member of the faculty at Vine
St. Junior High School. Kalamazoo. H elen
F enner Schuring is an Albion, Mich., housewife. Constance Palmer b eCa ir is a Kala-
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ALUMN U S
Dr. K enneth H. Sausaman '24
was the official representative of
K alamazoo College at the SeventyFifth Anniversary of the founding
of the Colorado School of Mines
Golden, Colorado, on Sept. 29, 30:
and Oct. 1. Dr. Sausaman is executive secretary of the Board of Education of the .Colorado Confe rence of
the Methodist Church, D enver.
Mr. Leland J. Kerman '16, Evanston, Illinois, will represent Kalamazco College at the inauguration
of Karl Richard J ohnson as the
third president of National College
of Education in Evanston, N ovember 4.
mazoo housewife. The Reverend Roy a l J .
G ib s on has been named to the Superintendency of the Central South Conference of
Congregational Christian Churches. His new
home and conference headquarters are in
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
1931
Thoma s A. Fox is head of the Labrl and
Carton Section of the Upjohn Company,
Kalamazoo. Howa rd A. F ros t is the assistant manager and as sis t a n t secretarytreasurer of the Hastings Manufacturing
Co., Hastings, ~Iich. Judge Ray mond Fox
ex'31 is Circuit Judge in the 9th Judical
Circuit, ~ I ichigan. He presides in the Circuit Court, Kalamazoo. Lyman E . Willia ms,
Glendale, California, is office manager of
the Los Angeles Branch of the Upjohn Co.
The Reverend Fred eric Groe t sema is m inister of the Newton Highlands Congregationa l Church, Newton ]-~ighlands, Mass.
Lloyd J a m e s M a rtin, Lawton, ~Iichigan, is
Michigan representative for the VVorld Book
Company.
He writes, "The College has
earned the respect, and merits the repu·
tation with which it is regarded by a large
host of friends. May she continue to strive
for excellence rather than size; to graduate
individuals whose minds are not only broadened but deepened." Fritz Wolff and Mrs.
W olff (Grace Richardson '32) reside in
\Vilmette, Illinois. lie is a staff violinist
for the Amerrican Broadcasting Co.
W illis D . P ease, Chicago, is vice-president
of 1\,..orman Barnes & Company. M a rjori e
Da vi s on Ericson is a Chicago housewife.
Mildred Every Ro gers ex '31 is a Tucson,
Arizona, housewife.
Sheldon Rupert is a
Paw ·Paw, l\Iich igan, attorney. Helen L .
V/arn er is chief librarian at Willard L ibrary,
Battle Creek,
Michigan . The
Reverend
B !"uce H . M asselink is minic;ter of the First
Congregational Church of Burlington, Iowa.
He is a member of the Boord of Trustees of
Grinnell College.
L eona rd R . Bradford and Mrs. Bradford
(Winifred DeYoung '31 and '32) live in Ar·
Engton, Mass ., where he is section manager in charge of mechanical design and
drafting for the Raytheon Mfg. Co., Waltham, :Mass. Vi ct or D. Knis s, Akron, Ohio,
is tire sales manager for the Firestone Tire
& Rubber Company. K a th a rine Louise S wift,
Arlington, Virginia, is a research analyst
for A.S .A., Dept. of the Army, Washington.
D.C. M aria n D . Schrie r is librarian at the
\ Vashington Square Branch Library, Ka lamazoo.
1932
N e w e I 1 D . Burt is superintendent of
schools at Byron Center, M ic h . The Reverend Rob ert Walton Bell is rector of the
Calvary Episcopal Church, Saginaw, ~Iichi­
gan. Dr. Marwin J . Mead is associate professor of physics at the University of Notre
Dame. The lma R emyns e Cloy d is a Kala·
mazoo housewife. Virg in ia R. V e ley Brown
is a senior technician in pathology at University Hospital, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
W esle y H . Brown, secretary and treasurer
of the Brown Ice and Coal Co. of St. Joseph,
Michigan, writes, "Kalamazoo College has
something in its "Fellowship in Learning"
of which it can be just ly proud." John J .
Ku ch and Mrs. Kuch (Josephine C. Read '35)
are Kalamazoo residents. H e is production
manager and secretary of the Sandusky
i\brasi ve Wheel Co.
Dr. Don W . Hayne is an assistant professor in Zoology at M ichigan State Coll ege.
The Reverend Harris J . Mowry, Jr., is rector of St. John's Episcopal Church, Worthington, Ohio. Elea nor Kirby Myers is an
Otsego, Michigan, housewife. L . R. Klose II
ex'32 is secretary-treasurer of the L. R.
Klose Electric Co. of Kalamazoo. Harris
H . Burnett is a specialty and confectionery
jobber in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.
1933
l sa P . Bu s house ex'33 is a claims examiner
with
the Michigan Unemp loyment
Commission, Batt)e Creek,
Mich . Trina
Widmey cr P iggott is a Three Rivers, Michigan, homemaker. The Reverend J. C. DeVrie s is minister of the First Presbyterian
Church, Lapeer, Michigan. R u t h
Bailey
Hug hes ex ' 33 is a
Brownsville, Texas,
homemaker. M a d eline Sprague Lang is a
Frankfort,
Kentucky,
housewife.
Wilma
W r ig ht L a rsson ex'33 is a Kalamazoo housewife. R a y G ibson is chief estimator for
the Michigan Steel Tube Products Co.,
Detroit.
Dr. Roy G . Klepser and Mrs. Klepser
(Ethe l Val lender ex'35) reside in Ar lington,
Va.
Dr. Klepser is a thoracic surgeon .
Ever e tt R . H a m es is ass istant sa les m anager of the Shakespeare Company, Kala·
mazoo. Jonathan Parson s is a research
physicist for the Edsel B. Ford Institute
for Medical Research, Detroit. Henry E .
Musselma n is general manager of the NuDesign~ Co .. Kalamazoo.
Ina W a rren W elmers is instf'lUctor in
mathematics, Univers i ty of Buffalo. MajQI"
Dorothy G . L ewis, Iron Mountain, Michigan, atte nded the second encampment of
the VVoman's Army Corps Reserve Tra ining
Camp at Camp Lee, Virginia,
recently.
Major Lewis served overseas in Japan as
District Communications Censo r of the
Civil Censorship Detach ment, Civil Intelligence Section, from November, 1945, to
April. 19~8. She h olds the Presidentia l Unit
Citation with three clusters. Major Lewis
received her discharge from the service in
June, 1948, at Stoneman, California.
1934
Doug la s J . Bullock is advertising manager for the THREE RIVERS COMMER·
CIAL, Three Rivers, Michigan.
For four
years he was editor of the Michigan Junior
Chamber of Commerce monthly NEWS RE·
VIEW. John R. Miles is the proprietor of
the John R. Miles Industrial Designs Com·
pany in Chicago. He former ly was designer
(Continued on page 17)
judgment and broad know ledge. In
such a fellowship everyone gains,
and even the least creative member
comes to possess, and in turn transmit, a respect for quality. Is this
not the true role of a liberal arts
college in a democracy ?
Marston Balch '23
News Notes
(Co ntinued from page 16)
MISS CLAIRE PARLER
Miss Claire Parler, Columbia,
South Carolina, a graduate of the
University of South Carolina, has
been named as a Danforth Graduate Fellow to Kalamazoo College
for the coming year, it is announced
by President Everton.
Under the program made possible by the Danforth Foundation,
Miss Parler is one of a number of
recent college graduates with a special interest in voluntary, student
Christian life who are awarded fellowships enabling them to spend a
year in residence in a college or university community. It is the purpose
of the Fellow to learn everything
possible about student religious life
and work, both through observation and active participation. The
Fellow's schedule and program are
planned in consultation with one
or more members of the facu lty
who serve as advisors.
Impressions
(Con tinued from pagP 14)
To attain this result, a Fellowship in Learning must do a difficult thing in a society of equals;
it must seek out and encourage the
tmusual, the specially gifted student,
it must foster an esteem for excellence, for the highest quality of
individual and group attainment,
in which the student will occasionally surpass the teacher in creative
insight and practical skill while
gaining from the teacher the indispensable complement of mature
at Bausch and Lomb Optical Company, Di·
rector of R esearch and Dev elopment, Argus
Co., Ann Arbor, :M ich. , designer for the
J:kndix Aviation
CorporatiOn,
and
vice·
president in charge of Engineering for the
Swain Nelson Co. lie holds more than a
dozen pat ents on devices h e has invented.
Dana J. Brandenburg is a language teacher
at the Cadillac, Michigan, high school.
William J. Persons, formerly in structor in
physics at K College and at W estern
Michigan College of Education, now is
head of his own firm in Kalamazoo. He is
engaged in the furnace business .
Ruth Huizinga Webb is a Detroit housewife. Grace Graham resides in Gary , Indiana. John E. Ransom is minister of education for the W estmi n ste r Presbyterian
Church, Portland, Oregon. Mrs. Ransom is
the former Grace Annable ex'36. Yeteve
.Rogers Falk i s secretary to the Food Editor
of the New York SUN. Margaret E. Boyden
Dimmick is a housewife in Winn , Maine.
She is the wife of a minister, the R eve r end
Arthur B. Dimmick.
IYlarshall H. Rutz, ]~ ::J.!am:J.Zoo . is superintendent of the parchment division, Kalamazoo Vegetable Parchment Co. He began
with the company as a chemist. Harold
S. Renne and Mrs. Renne (Jean Smith '37)
reside in Chicago. H e is Technical Editor
of the "Radio and Television News" and
"Radio-E lectronic Engineering." Ted Thomas is principal of th e Lakeview High
School, Batt le Creek, Michigan. Lucile Lotz
Vw. n Eck ex'3\ is a Kabm azoo housewife.
Mary E. Henderson Patten is a Wareham,
housewife. Miles H. Kent ex.J4 and
Mrs. Kent (Esther VandcrBrook '31) re·
side in Kalamazoo. Dr. Roger F . Varney,
Highland Park, N. J., is head of the Biological Control D ep;11 tment of E. H.. s ~1uib h
& Sons. Dr. Robert 0. Bock and Mrs. Bock
(Barbara Allen ex'37) live in Fort Collins,
Colo., where Dr. ~ock is Associate Professor
of Physics at Colorado A. & M. College.
~lass. ,
1935
Leslie F. Greene is s uperintendent of
schools at Comstock, Michigan. Harold E.
Kriekard is produc t ion planner fo r Kimberly-Clark Corp., N e en a h, Wisconsin.
Robert L. DeLeeuw, Concord, 1\.fass., is district sales m :mager for t e Liberty Mutual
Insurance Company. Dr. Theodore W. Conger '35 is head of the Nutrition Department
of the Upjohn Company, Ka lamazoo .
Marriages, Births
Mr. and M rs. William W. Thomas
'48, (Bet ty Kea tin g '48) a nn oun ce t he .
birth of a gir l, Greta Kathryn, July
27, 19-l9.
Mr. a nd "Mr s. William Glen '49
(Betty Leona rd ex'S l ) a nn ou nce the
birth of a son, Douglas James, September 3, 1949.
Mr. a nd Mrs. Robe rt J ohnson '47
(Betty Shayman '45) announce th e
birth of a daughter, Melissa Cat her ine,
Octo ber 2, 1949.
D r. a nd M rs. S. A. Maxfie ld (E ll en
Jane Ossward '-l3 ) a nn oun ce the birth
of a daughter in th e Osteopathic hospital, Muskego n, Septem ber 2-l.
A daughter, Janet E th yle, was born
t o Mr. a nd Mrs. Franklin Schmiege
(Ma ri on Johnstone '45 ) September 21,
in Bronson hospital , Kalamazoo.
M r. and 11rs. Eric Pratt '-l2 (Pat ri cia M ill er '47) announce the birth of
a son in Borgess hospital October 8.
l\.fr. and Nl"rs. Henry Va n Dyke ex'45
a nn ounce th e birth of a daughter, Rebecca Wynne, o n Jul y 14, 1949, at th e
U ni versi ty of M ichigan Maternity
Hospita l.
Mr. and M r s. Victo r So ukup ex'46
(S hirl ey \Vhite '45) announce the birth
of a daughter, Ann Elizabeth, o n
September 2-l, 1949.
Margaret Hootman , '4 1 was married
to Ha rold E. Marsh, Jr., in Jul y at
Peo ri a, Illinois.
A nn o un ceme nt h as been m ade of
the marriage of S uzanne Marie Miche n to vVa de Van Val ken burg, Jr.
'49 in the F irst Presbyterian Chur ch,
Kalamazoo, M ich igan.
Florence I. Waterman 'SO a nd No r man L. Ar mstr ong 'SO were married
September 2-l, 19-l9, in Stetson Chape l.
Ve rgie Lew is ex '49 a nd Robert
\ Veaver were m a rri ed A ugust 20 in
Ande r so n, Indiana.
Rut h Sax ex '51 and S herwin Lee
Blum were married August 28 in M ill burg, Michigan.
The ma rri age of Ralph H. Gi llam
'49 to Mary E li za beth Cooley was
solemnized September 11 in Howe ll ,
M ichigan.
Charlotte Hardy, Ann Arbor, Michigan,
is a supervising teacher for the first grade.
Dr. Kenneth A. Mantele is practicing medicine in Glendale, California. Richmond M.
Cooper is a position classifier, Social Security
Administration,
Baltimore,
Maryland . He pays high tribute to the memory
of Dr. Stetso n , Dr. Hob en, and Dr. Goodsell.
"The spirit of these men, in my estimation
Phylli s Jean Cary '48 and Geor ge
Hale Bart lett were married September
9 in the F irst Baptist Ch ur ch of Midland, Michigan.
(Con tinued on page 18)
(Continued on page 20 )
The engageme nt of Lynett e Minzey
'SO a nd J oh n Cassady h as been anno un ced.
ALUMNUS
Page 17
News Notes
(Continued from page 17
imhued Kalamazoo College with the very
finest in liberal Christian
traditon," he
writes. Vi rg inia M . Kennedy Cornish gives as
her busi)less address the Cornish Photographic Studio, Chicago.
Dorothy Fulle r Kean, Ill is a Grand Rap·
ids housewife. Helen Hoeks tra Covell ex'lS
is a Kalamazoo housewife. Marg a r et Op ...
land Gibson is the personnel clerk for the
Chamber of Commerce at Wisconsin Dells,
Wisconsin. Fred A . W eiss is a history
instructor and athletic coach at Ho lland,
Michigan, high school. D r. Victor R . Ells,
. Norwich, N. Y., is a research chemist for
Norwich Pharmacal Co. and Eaton Labora·
tories, Inc., Norwich, N. Y. Jacqueline Ayling Racz is a Kalamazoo housewife.
Joh n I nglis is a proofreader at R. R. Donnelley & Sons, Chicago. ·H. M. Connahle ex'35
is sales representati ve of the Monroe Cal·
culating Machine Company. Charles A . Rid le y is Men's Counselor at Dearborn Junior College, Dearborn, Michigan. Homer M .
E lwell '35 is an employment supervisor at
the Upjohn Company, Kalamazoo. Catharine
V . Richards is executive director of the
Girl Scouts of Metropolitan Detroit area.
M a ry Consta nce Crose M a nwa r i ng is the
wife of a Detroit doctor.
1936
J a n e E as ton F owler ex'36 is a South Bend,
Indiana, housewife. J eanne T a n is Nadolny
is an Albuquerque, New Mexico, housewife.
C. B ern ice Ander son M a r s is a MinneapoJis, Minnesota, housewife. Carl W. Luder
is a St. Joseph, Missouri, insurance man.
R. C. Mowr y is a branch manager of tho
Western Adjustment Company, Lansing,
Michigan. Mrs. Mowry is the former Kathryn Farwell '39. Irene Seid Goldman is a
statistician for the U.S. Railroad Retirement
Board, Chicago. Frieda Op't Holt Voga n is
a CoJumbia, Missouri, housewife.
Dr. Maynard M . Conrad is a Kalamazoo
physician and surgeon. Jean Moor e Cha p ..
m a n is a BerkeJey, California, resident.
Glenn S. Allen, Jr., KaJamazoo attorney,
is vice-mayor of Kalamazoo. Edgar F. Raseman, Jr., is treasurer and traffic manager
of the N a tiona! Storage Co., Kalamazoo.
M rs. R aseman is the former Agatha I.
Whitcomb '40. Dorothy Simpso n Palmer is
a Pittsburgh, Pa., housewife. Newell S i nclair is in the grocery business at Climax,
~Iichigan.
M a ry Brumba u g h W eeks is a
Vicksburg, Michigan, hou,sewife.
1937
Dr. John C. F inerty is associate professor
of anatomy of Washington University ~Iedi­
cal School, St. Louis, Missouri. Angela Pat ..
ters on Richards ex'37 is a Niles, Michigan,
homemaker. Marian Randall Fullenwider is
a Detroit housewife. Jane Morris Schneide ..
wind is a secretary at the Heredity Clinic,
U . of M. Hospital, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
L a ura E . Ranny is a premium review clerk
for the Veteran's Administration, Piedmont ~
California. Lora Seeley Cla rk ex'J7 is a
M·ason , Michigan, housewife.
Robert H.
Powell is a Kalamazoo Life Underwriter.
Mrs. Powell i~ the former Geraldine Ter
Beck '39.
Lore tta Harrell Kolesar teaches at the
Oakwood School, Kalamazoo.
R ichar d M .
J a mes ex'37 is a claim manager for the
Wolverine Insurance Company. He lives at
Holt, Michigan. V i rginia P ieraon Kirk ex'37
is
a
Fairgrove.
Michigan,
homemaker.
G e nev ieve Tagg ett Raker is .a Flint, Michigan, housewife.
Georg e E . Finlay is a
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ALU MN US
ALUMNARIES
cil, Louisville, Kentucky. Dr. W a lter 0.
H a a s, Jr., is a research associate at KnoBs
Atomic Power Laboratory of the General
Electric Co., Schenectady, N. Y.
K enneth B . Hunt is a member of the faculty of the Lyons Township High Schoo l ·
and Junior CoJlege at La Grange, lllinois.
Ann Marie Gibson is Dean of Women a t
State Teachers" College, Fredonia, N. Y.
1938
DR. HAROLD W . BROWN
Dr. Harold W. Brown, Acting Director, School of Public Health, Columbia University, is a graduate of
Ka lamazoo College in the class of 1924.
Dr. Brown received his M.S. from
Kansas State College in 1925, and
then went on to earn three doctorate
degrees, an unusual accomplishment.
He received the degree Sc.D. from
Johns Hopk ins U ni ve rsity in 1928,
the M.D. degree from Vanderbilt Un iversity in 1933; and the Dr . P.H. degree from Harvard University, 1936.
He also atte nded the London School
of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in
1934 and 1935.
He has been Professor of Parasitology, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, since
1943, P rior pos ttwns include: Professor of Publ ic Health, University of
Nor th Caroli na, 1937-43; Assis tant
Dean, School of Public Health, University of
orth Carolina, 1937-40;
Dean, School of Public Health, University of North Caroli na, 1941-43; and
Professor of Public Health and P reventive Medicine, D uke Univers ity
Medical School, 1938-43.
Dr. Brown has published about 70
articles in the field of tropica l medicine and pa rasitology.
merchandise co-ordinator for SpiegeJ, Inc.,
Chicago.
Dr. Sidney Katz received his degree of
Ph .D. in chemistry from Michigan State
College in June. He has accepted a position
with the Carbon and Carbide Co., at Oak
Ridge, Tenn. B a rbara Veley Smith ex'37 is
assistant director of the Central Dairy Coun-
L e wis J . N eela nds is an engineer and
group leader for General Electric Co., Syra·
cuse, N. Y. John B. Somer s is owner o t
the Shaffer Nurseries, Clearwater, FJoridc..
Mrs. Some rs is the former Barbara Gleasor.a
ex'40.
M argar et Judd Collins ex'38 is a Chicago
housewife. Ruth Helen Gildersleeve N euhaus
is a Toledo, Ohio, housewife. Dr. Dona ld L .
D a vidson is a Bessemer, :M ichigan, physi·
cian and surgeon. Dona ld J{. Wyma n is advertising manager for Protection Products
Mfg. Co., Kalamazoo. Wilson G. Eby is a
Cassopolis, Michigan, attorney.
Dorothy Powell G inther is a Gorgas, AJabama, housewife. Dr. Robert E . Heer ens is
a Rockford, Illinois, physician and surgeon.
Ruth Schroeder Tompkins, director of public
relations for Kalamazoo Co llege 1942-1944, is
a Chicago housewife. Robert E . Johnson,
Tucson, Arizona, is chief probation officer
of Pima County, Arizona. Kar l W . Lambooy, Jr., is a salesman for Binney & Smith
Co.", Omaha, Nebraska. Willia m H arryman
Rapley and Mrs . .Ra pley (Jane Eleanor Meyer '37) reside in KaJamazoo. ~fr. Rap)ey is
Manager of the Kalamazoo Tackle Co.
1939
June Zickg raf Bullen ex'39 Jives in Mason,
Michigan. K e lton W . Huxford ex'39 is a
forester for the Coosa River Newsprint Company, Coosa Pines, Alabama. Da v id M e rrill
Kurtz is a technical training specialist for
the Veterans' Administration, Detroit. Mrs.
Kurtz is the former Evelyn Glass '40. The
Reverend Jamea B . Allan is minister of the
First
Congregational
Christian
Church,
Lynchburg, Va. Charle s K . Krill ex'39 is an
electrical engineer in Burbank, California.
John J . Braham, III, is sales manager for
Rutledge Paper Products, Inc., Cleve land.
Ohio. He lives at Orchard Park, N.Y.
Klair Hunte r B a tes is a Mattawan, Michigan, housewife. John L. G r abber, ArlingtOn, Va., is a Washington, D. C., attorney.
Mrs. Grabber is the former Esther Tyler '37.
Donald F . S impson is chief of the Administrative Analysis Section, U. S. Public
Health Service, Washington, D. C. Ruth
Krue&:"er Johnson ex'39 is a Melrose, Mas~.
housewife. Joseph J. Howard is sales representative for Doubleday Bros. & Co., Kal·
amazoo. Mrs. Howa rd is the fo rmer Madelon
MacDonald ex'42.
Culley L . Towne, Berkley, Michigan, is
Michigan representative of the Bright Star
Dattery Co. Wayne Va n Zandt is an in·
structor in a private school, the Detroit
University School. Sadie Sahler Smith is
chief psychiatric social worker for Dixon
State Hospita l, Dixon, Illinois.
Wilfred A . Shale is district traffic superintendent for the Michigan Bell Telephone
Company, Detroit. Gordon Smith is teacher
and coach at Napoleon High School, Napoleon, :M ichigan. Dorothy Young Cur rier
is an Ovid, Michigan, housewife. Dr. How·
ard E. Stafford is a Fenton, Michigan dentist. Robert H . Lynn, Fenton, Michigan, is a
sales engineer for the U. S. Rubber Company. D r . Louis C. Kuitert is assistant
entomoJogist in the department of Entom-
(Confinued on page 19)
Dr. Mulder Authors
Magazine Article
Dr. Arnold Mulder, Chairman of
the English department of Kalamazoo College, is the author of an
article in a recent issue of the
Knickerbocker Magazine, "Crusader
for H ealth." The article describes
the work of Dr. William DeKleine,
former Michigan commissioner of
health and originator of the blood
bank system for the armed services
during the second World war. Dr.
Mulder was at one time associated
with Dr. DeKleine in conducting
a statewide tuberculosis survey.
Represents K College
Fred 0 . Pinkham '42 represented
Kalamazoo College at the inauguration of John E w a r t W allace
Sterling as the fifth president of
Stanford University, California, on
October 7, 1949. Mr. Pinkham is
working for his doctorate at Stanford.
Miss Dorothy Coburn, class of '2 1
who formerly taught at Plainwell,
Michigan, represented the College
on September 22 at the installation
ceremonies of the Very Reverend
Juvenal Lalor, O.F.M., Ph.D., as the
twelfth president of Saint Bonaventure College, Olean, N ew York.
Miss Coburn now teaches in Olean
High School.
News Notes
(Contin ued from page 18)
o logy, Agricu ltura l Experimental Station,
University of F lorida. Gilbert L . Reed is
assistant director of the Chicago Home for
Incurables . Mrs. ~ eed is the former E linor
J. Rap ley '35.
Betty Ruth Clark Monaweck ex'39 is a
Battle Creek housewife. Carol Summers , Detroit, is on the faculty of the Woodworth
Jr. High School, Dearborn, Michigan. Robert
Gille spie is district consultant for the Children's Div ison, State Depart m ent of Social
Welfare, Lans ing, Michigan. Shirley Shale
P a lmer ex'39 is an Evansv ille, Indiana,
housewife. Dr. David C. Burnha m ex'39 is
a Detroit, l\1ichigan, surgeon. Mrs. Burnh a m is the former l\Iary l\Iargaret Axford
cx'39. Fred B. Speyer has recently been
appointed product deve lopment specialist in
the chemical department of General Mills
research organization .
For the last two
years he has been director of Consu lting
Research Assoc iates, Sa lem, Mass .
1940
Arthur N . R a nkin is
National Cash Register
g;nia. Ruth E . Spe ncer
assistant in the A.R.C.
a salesman for the
Co .. R ichmond, Vir·
is a n adm inistrative
Liaison Office, New
York Port of Embarkation, Brooklyn, N. Y.
D onald Worth is a member of the faculty
of L inco ln Junior High Schoo l, Kalamazoo.
Mrs . Worth is the former Nancy Nycum '42.
Joyce Garrett Ale xa nd e r ex'46 is a long
Beach, California, housewife.
Dr. tR. ussell
Thorn Snip is sen ior ass istant resident,
ophthalmologica l service, Wilmer Institute,
The Johns H opkins Hospital, Ba ltimore, Md.
Ralph Bowen Howa rd, Jr., is a chemist with
the Upjohn Company, Kalamazoo. Kivonao
Okami is a research ana lyst with the De·
partmen t of State, Washington, D . C. Mrs.
Oka mi is the former Elizabet h Louise liar·
ris, '41.
Dr. Eliza beth F . Tulle r is an Associate
Professor of Chemistry at Eastern New
Mexico Univers i ty. Evelyn Lee McLean is
a
teacher at \ .Yash ington Junior
High
School,
Pontiac,
Michigan.
Arthur .H.
Cla rke, Jr., ex'40 is a South IIaven, Michigan, real estate man.
Elizabe th C . Walke r
Laetz ex'40 is a St. Joseph, Mich i gan, homemaker. James A. Tolhuizen is a Kalamazoo
attorney.
1941
Rachel Williams Dorg an ex'41 is a Bayside,
N. Y., housew ife. Pris cilla Peck is the children's librarian in the Elkhart, Ind iana,
l ibrary . J a mes M. Young is an insurance
adjuster in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Mrs.
Young is the former Sara Wing '42. J a ne
Sweitzer Verdries is a Ka lamazoo h ou sewife.
Fred Ga rbre cht is a partner in a Grand
Rapids, :M ichigan, insurance agency. Melind a Johns on Gutt ex'41 is a Seattle, "\Vash·
ington, housewife. Myron G . Becker ex'41
is superintendent of the Arcad ia, l\I ichiga n ,
schools.
R ober t V . Wearne, Afton, Missouri, is the
area representative for a Grand Rapids,
J\1.ichigan, manufacturer.
Mrs. Wearne is
the former Margaret L. Stoddard ex'44.
Ellen E . Jone s Tha rp is an E ll icott City,
l\I aryland, homemaker. John D . Montgomery
is director of student activities and head of
the department of government at Babson
Institute o f Business Ad m inistration, Babson Park, Mass.
Forrest S . P earson is
secretary-manager of the Standard Sand
Company , Grand Haven, Michigan.
The Reverend Harold F . Blakely is serving
in B r own City, Michigan. James Southon
ex'41 is sales manager of the convert ing
papers division of the K.V.P. Co., Parch·
rnent, l\Iich. Gordon G. Boga rt, Jackson,
Niichigan, is a special agent for the New
York Life Insurance Co.
G eor g e Woods
Willia m s and Mrs. Willia ms (Mary E . IIos·
ford '43) have returned to Turkey to con·
tinue teaching in American-endowed schools .
J\Ir. Wi ll iams, who received his master's
degree from George VVashington University
in August, again is on the faculty of Robert College. i\Irs. Williams is teaching in
the near-by Istanbul woman's college. Richa rd How le tt is principal and coach at
Stockbridge, Michiga n , high school.
1942
Maria n P . J ohnson is a kindergarten teach·
er at the Lincoln School in Kalamazoo. G eor ge Hardin Hale is assistant professor of
elrama and speech at ll illsdale College. Ruth
Rasem a n Turner is a Grand Rapids, l\l ichifan, housewife. Arda le D e Voe Short is a
doctor's wife in Oshtemo, :Michigan. Cha rle s
E . G a rr e tt, Jr., is a partner in the Garrett
Insurance
Agency,
Kalamazoo.
Dorothy
H a rt Thomson is an Ames, Iowa, housewife.
Robert T . Anderson is an electronics engineer for Bell Aircraft Corp., ?\iagara Falls,
N.Y.
Frank G eerligs, South Bend, Tndiana, is
a chemist for the U. S. Rubber Company.
William H. Burke is an assistant in E n g~
lish, Hofstra College, and a grad uate stu·
dent
at
Co lumbia
Un i versity.
Kenneth
Wright is with the L. A. Wr igh t M o t or
Sales Co. in Jackson, Michi gan. Mrs. Wright
is the former Yvonne Gibson '43. Luel P. ·
Simmons, Jr., is Purchas ing Agent fo r Ingersoll Stee l D i v ision of Borg- Warner, I n c.
Mrs. Simmons is the former Maria n Wi lso n
'42. Virg inia Orr Barbour is a State College,
Pa., housewife.
Lewis R. Adams ex'42 is an expo r t packer
for the C h rys ler Corporation. Dr. Stuart
Wallace ex'42 graduated Ju ne 8th from Loy·
ola Medical School in Chicago. He is now in·
terning at the City of Detroi t Rece i v ing IIospital. Mrs. Wallace is t he former D orothy
Chisholm '46. Dr. Robert P. Larsen, D el·
aware, Ohio, is assistant professor in chemistry at Ohio Wesleya n University . Francis
C. Thompson is a Chicago sales d i rec t o r .
Mrs. Thompson is the former Evelyn Fixler '43. Hallie Joy Ferguson is a n u tri ti on
research ana lyst for the Upjoh n Co m pany,
Ka lamazoo. John W . Mitchell is pres ident
of an Automat ic Laundry Company, Ka lama·
zoo. The Reverend Carl R . Simon is the
minister of t h e G r ace P r esby t erian C hur c h,
:Mi l waukee, Wisconsin. Esther Gene Fenner ex'42 is a teacher at L i ma Hi gh School,
Lima, Peru, South America.
1943
Arthur L. Reed is on the facu lty of Uni·
versity High School, A n n Arbor, M ic h . Mrs.
Reed is the former Helen G laser '46. Robert A . Anderson, Evans t o n , I llinois, is a
resort and tr ave l adver t is ing sales m an for
t he Mi l wa u kee J ournal.
Ardith Boekeloo
Embs is a Kalamazoo housewife.
N. Baird McLain, Jr., is an ass istant in a
Kalamazoo
advert ising
agency.
Kathryn
Turner Wray is a Detroit housew ife. Frank
H. Lincoln, Jr., is a r esearc h ch em is t fo r
t he Upjohn Co. in Ka lamazoo.
James P . Kerchner '43 is co-manage r of
the Sturgis Lumber & S u pply Co., Sturgis,
M ichigan. Mrs. Kerchner is th e former
Barbara Bren nan ex'46. Charles F. Haner
is assistant professor of psychology a t Grinne ll College, Grinne 11, Iowa.
LaVerne C .
LeRoy, Jr., Augusta, Michigan, is a salesman for the l ngerso l Steel Divis ion of Borg
W arner, I n c. Mrs. LeRoy is the fo r mer
Betty Baker '43. Dr. John H . Koehneke is
a research chemist for the Upjohn Co. of
Kalamazoo . Mrs. Koehneke is the for m er
Dorothy Baird '45.
Dr. G eorge F . Dasher, Jr., r ece i ved h is
doctorate from the University of M ichigan
in August. H e has accepted a posi tion in
the research depa r tment of Proctor anc.l
Gamble . Mrs. Dasher is the fo r mer JoYce
Vander vVeele '43. Robert J. Rantz is a
dental student at the U. of Michigan. Mrs.
Rantz is the former Marjorie Crandell cx'44.
Elea nor Abel Owen ex'43 is an A t hens,
:Mich igan, housewife. Irene Gideon Poldernl a n is a Ka lamazoo h o u sewife. Joan Osborn
McDonald is a caseworker for the Bureau of
Social Aid at Benton Harbor, Michigan.
H enry Lewis Batts, Jr., is a Teaching Fel·
low in the department of Zoology a t t he
University of Nlich i gan. Mrs. Batts is the
former Jean l\lcColl '43.
1944
The Reverend Willia m H . Herman is the
m inister of the Pawtucket Baptist C h urc h ,
Edgewood, R. I.
The Reverend Russell
B e cker has assumed the position of Dean of
Students at the University of Chicago, i t
is announced by Cyril 0. Houle, dean . Mrs.
B ecker is the former Dorothy Kiefth '-H.
(Con tinued on page 20)
ALUMNUS
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News Notes
(Continued from page 19)
Allen E . Bell ex'44 is a South Bend, Indiana, automotive man. He is engaged in
car distribution. Marilyn Hinkle received
tne Master of Arts degree from the University of 1\1ichi gan. Caryl Broholm Browne
cx'44 is a Birmingham, Michigan housewife.
Marcia J . Bach is an ed itor in the Periodicals Department of the Commerce Clearing
House, C hi cago,
Harry Walter Yoder is pastor of the St.
Paul Congregationa l Ch ur ch in Chicago.
Verna Mae Steele Wendt cx'44 is a Niles,
l\Ii chigan, homemaker. Harlan E . Tiefenthal
is a graduate assistant in the Kedzie Chemistry Laboratory at Michigan State College.
Ardith Rowland Hanna is a Marshall, ~iichi­
gan editor's wife. Bernice Hall Ross ex'44
is a Lorain, Ohio, housewife.
Stephen F. Gibbens ha s been serv ing as a
research assistant in psychology at th e U.
of Ca lifor nia , Mary Duke Hanley is a Port
Hueneme, Ca liforn ia, housewife . Betty Jane
Shaw is sec r e tary to a Detroit neurosurgeon.
Frances Weigle is assistant personnel mana·
ger at the David C. Cook Publishing Co.,
.Elgi n , 111. Harold L . Edwards cx'44 is serv·
ing as an ensign in the Navy.
1945
Tne Reverend Kenneth English Hardy and
Mrs. Hardy (Dorothy Snider '44) reside in
Ctlurchv ill e , N. Y., where he is pastor o£
t.1e Ch ili Cente r B apt ist Churc h. Marilyn
Aurentz Morthorst ex'45 is a Fort W ayne,
Indiana, h o u sew ife. Richard D . Tedrow, Kal·
amazoo, is an attor n ey for th e Upjo:111 Co.
David W . Henthorn ex''-l5 is a spec tr oscopist
for the Vanadium Co rp oration of America,
Ches t er, Pa.
Mrs. Patrick Meyers is a
Grand Rapids, :l \li chigan, housewife . Joan
Frances Gall is director of English and
speech at W. K. K e llo gg Hi gh Sc h ool, Augusta, Michiga!'l.
Alice Webster Horton is a Atlt. Pleasant,
Nlichigan, housewife. Marion Johnston Schmiege is the wife of a Kalamazoo attorney.
Joyce Williams Wiese ex'45 is a Detroit
housewife. Philip E . Jakeway, Jr., ex'45 is a
sa lesman for Kalamazoo Vegetable Parchm ent Co. Henry Van Dyke ex'45 is a graduat'e assistant in the department of Zoology,
U niv e r sity of Mi c hi gan.
1946
H. Leon Taylor is a stude nt at the liast o n Un i vers it y School of Medicine. Eleanor
Brewer Kistler, Kal amazoo, is a case wo rk er
for the Family Service Cente r . Mary Pratt
Nash is an Indianapolis, Indiana, homem aker. Arlean Smith is sec r etary t o the
Dean at Teachers College, Co lumb ia Univer·
sity, New York City.
Lorraine Hyde Huston is a Dearborn,
l\1i ch iga n , housewife. Earl L . Risbridger is
a :Ka lamazoo serv ice station owner. Mrs.
Risbridger is the former Doris ]. Snel l ex'42.
Eleanore Lind Guthrie is a teacher at P o rtage, :l\l ich i ga n. Edna L. Shore ex'46 is em·
played in the offices of the Sut he rlan d Paper
Company, Kalamazoo. Marion N. Stutes is
a staff announcer at \ VFDF, Flint, :M ichigan.
Nadine Johnstone Peglar ex'46 is teaching
at Univers ity Cit y, Mo. Elizabeth Jo Goodsell is act i vities director for the Y VV CA,
South Bend, Indiana.
1947
Barbara Goodsell Clark is a graduate assistant in the departme nt of biology, Purdue
University, Lafayette, Indiana. Margery L.
Rabb ers is a work simpl ifi cation analyst at
Marshall Field & Company, C hi cago. Ralph
0. Kerman is a teaching assistant in the
physics department of the University of II·
linois. Mrs. Kerman is the former Cynthia
M. Earl '44. Joyce L. Greene Rabbers i s a
Three Rivers, :l \lichigan, housewife. Leonard N. Russell is a research assistant in
the department of physics, O hi o State University. Mrs. Russell is the former Lavon
VVoodward, '47.
Lewis E. Shiflea is a sa les correspond en t
for S utherland Paper Company, Kafamazoo.
Mrs. Shiflea is the former L ois Nave '47.
Frances 1Russell Medlin ex'47 is a Houston,
Texas, housewife. Beatrice Foster Blodgett
is a teacher at the l\1ilwood Sch ool, Kalama·
zoo. Sara Smith Mcindoe ex'47 is a VVes t
Lafayette, Indiana, housewife.
Gerald 0 .
Somers is assistant sa les manager at Lam booy Label & Wrapper Co., Kalamazoo.
Phyllis Prevost Gilker ex'47 is a Chicago
housewife. John Jefferies is a research bio logist at the Upj ohn Co., Kalamazoo. Barbara Ensing Ludington is a Detroit housewife. Alice Bell Brown is an Oak Park, ll·
linoi s, housewife .
1948
Marcia Ann Clemons MacCready is a
cou nt y office clerk in Jackson, Mich . Wilw
liam W. Thomas is a graduate assistant at
the University of Baffalo. Mrs. Thomas is
the former Elizabeth Keating '48.
Louise Lindsey Goss has a music scholar ship t o the University of :M ichigan. Durand
Ryrie Smith is a clerk supervisor for a
Kalamazoo food concern. Mrs. Smith is th e
former Margaret W es tl ake '47. Charles M.
Saridis is a chem ist for the Abbott Laboratories, Nor th C hi cago, Illi no is.
Jack Ragotzy returned t o Kal amazoo thi s
past s umm e r to direct the V illage !:>layers
once more. This yea r a number of UCLA
students j oined the gro up. Final play of
the season was Director Ragotzy's own play,
"Country 1\Iile'' which was written for h is
master's degree in theater from UCLA. This
fall Ragotzy begins work at New York U nivers it y on his doctorate. Peter H. Dyksterhouse is d irector of education and music
at Kalamazoo State H ospital. Janet Fleugel
Lagoni is a Kalamazoo housewife. Russell
A. Strong is sta te editor of the Kalamazoo
Gaze t te. Olive Austin Caldwell is a labora tory technician in th e p ubli c health labo ra·
tory, Kalamazoo. Joan V. Akerman is teaching at Oshkosh Hi g h School, Oshkosh, Wi sconsin . Bruce E. Corley ex'48, Jack so n ,
~fichigan,
is an export juni or executiv e.
Patricia A. Mcintyre is a medical student
at the School of Medicine, Johns H opkins
Un i versit y. Helen L. Clark Hajek ex'48 is
a Lansing, .Michigan, housewife. Robert G .
Reed is an insurance age nt in South B end,
Indiana. H is wife is the former Loraine
Kiefer '49.
1949
Robert D. Birkenmeyer is an Upjo hn
scho lar in chem ist r y at Kalamazoo. Mrs.
Birkenmeyer, the former Nlary Lou VVilh·
j e ltn '47, is a secretary in the registrar's
office of K Coll ege. The Reverend Stewart
Ross ha s been o rd a in ed priest at serv ice in
St . Mary's chape l, St. l\larks's cathed r a l in
Grand Rapid s. Marion E. Poller has been
awarded an assistantship in the department
of biology at the Universit y of \Vi sconsin.
She w ill be working on a research prob lem
pertaining to cancer cytology under the direction of Dr. H ans Ris. Dorothy Burgess
is teacher of music and Spanish at Fennville, ~I ich i gan, high school.
1950
Beverly Hollis ex'SO is an assistant departmental buyer at Gilmore Bros. store,
Ka lamazoo . Richard Leroy Boyd ex'SO ha s
a com mi ssion as a lieutenant in the U. S.
army.
Marriages, Births
(Co 11finued from pag e 17)
The engagement of Marily n Norman and James Van Giesen 'SO has
been announced.
Mr. '45 and Mrs. Richard Tedrow
(Dorine Ketchem ex'47) announce th e
birth of a son, James William; weight
6 pounds, 5)1:! oun ces on August 10,
1949.
The engagement of Leone Manders
ex '51 and David C. Cahill ex '51 was
announced August 17, 1949.
June VanderVeen Drier '41 and Edward Drier '41 a nnoun ce the birth of a
daughter in Benton Harbor Mercy
hospital August 13.
Ca rolyn Joy Walker ex 'SO and
Stanley R. Hyett '48 were married
July 30 in th e Jefferson Avenue Methodist Church at Detroit.
Mr. '48 and Mrs. Ru ssell Strong
announce th e bir th of a son, William,
on August 13 Ill Bronson Hospital,
Kalamazoo.
Frances L. Salter ex 'SO was married on September 5th to Francis G.
Maher in Bass River, Massach usetts.
Mr. '43 and Mrs. Jack Mitchell announce the birth of a son, John William, in Bronson Hosp ital on June 29.
Announcement has been made of
the marriage of Mary E. Van deLester '46 and Lester Olaf Sunderling
on September 2 in Stetson Chape l.
Mr. and Mrs. Roger A. Goodspeed
(Ca rol Rattier '46) announce th e birth
of a daughter, Carol Rattier, on August 6, 1949, in Ada, Michigan.
Nancy M. Vercoe 'SO and Rob ert
Cross 'SO were married on A ugust 30
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th e First Presbyterian church,
Flint, Michigan.
Margery Sebright '48 and Stephen
vV. Leavenworth ex '49 were marri ed
in th e Wayland Methodist ch ur ch an
August 28, 1949.
Joan Lauer '49 and Mark A. Zarbock '49 were married in th e Trinity
Lutheran Church Ill Kalamazoo on
September 3, 1949.
E linor Hoven '43 and John M. Basnett were married J un e 18, 1949 in
Detroit, Michigan.
The engage ment of Barbara ] ean
DeLong 'SO to Harold C. Johnso n '49
has been a nnounced.
Dorothy Hubbell '48 was married on
September 19, 1949, to Morr is E. Stimson in the chape l of St. Luke's ch urch,
Kalamazoo, Michigan.
T he e ngagement of Nancy BollandMo ritz 'SO to John Gospi ll '52 has
been announced.