NAWSA SUBJECT FILE Oberlin College A History of Oberlin College FROM ITS FOUNDATION THROUGH THE CIVIL WAR By Professor Robert S. Fletcher IN TWO VOLUMES THE MEETING HOUSE (First Church) AS IT APPEARS TODAY Summer Arrangement of Mail Coaches from Elyria. DAILY. The Mail will leave this place, daily, for Detroit and Cleveland, as follows:— For CLEVELAND, - at 6 o'clock, A. M. For DETROIT, - - - at 10 o'clock, A. M. Passengers conveyed in Post Coaches Three Times a Week. The Mail Stage will leave Elyria— For OBERLIN, at 1 o'clock, P. M., on TUESDAYS, THURSDAYS, and SATURDAYS. For seats, apply at the Stage Office. East end of Broad street. Extras furnished on short notice, and on roasonable terms. All baggage at the risk of the owners. A. BEEBE, Proprietor. Elyria, May 23, 1837. 48 The coach is waiting. The fare from anywhere in 1943 to the old Oberlin of 1833 to 1866 is only five dollars, via the two volume HISTORY OF OBERLIN COLLEGE From Its Foundation Through the Civil War. An exciting journey. Scenery over 150 illustrations. "Oberlin is the nursery of just such men as John Brown and his followers. With arithmetic is taught the computation of number of slaves and their value per head; with geography, territorial lines and those localities of slave territory supposed to be favorable to emancipation; with history, the chronicles of the peculiar institution; and with ethics and philosophy, the higher law, and resistance to Federal enactments. Hence the graduates of Oberlin are Masters of Art in abolitionism, and with the acquirement of their degrees, are prepared to go a degree or two further, if occasion requires. Here is where the younger Browns obtain their conscientiousness in ultraisms, taught from their cradle up, so that while they rob slaveholders of their property, or commit murder for the cause of freedom, they imagine that they are doing God service." The Pennsylvania (Philadelphia), quoted in the Oberlin Evangelist, December 7, 1859. OUT OF JAIL! THE RESCUERS Are coming TO-NIGHT! At a public Meeting at the Mayor's Office it was voted that the citizens, en masse, turn out to meet them at the CARS, and escort them to the Church for Public Reception. The undersigned were appointed a Committee of Arrangements: H. L. HENRY, A. N. BEECHER, W. P. HARRIS, J. M. ELLIS, E. R. STILES. The committee appointed Father Keep for President of the Meeting at the church, and Pret. J. M. Ellis, Marshall. All the citizens are invited to meet the Rescuers at the Depot at half-past seven. The procession will form after the Band in the following order: The Mayor and Council; The Fire Department in Uniform; The Rescuers; The Citizens. Let there be a grand gathering! Oberlin, July 6. By order of the Committee of Arrangements. HANDBILL CALLING FOR A MASS MEETING TO CELEBRATE RELEASE OF WELLINGTON RESCUERS TABLE OF CONTENTS BOOK ONE: THE SHADOW OF A MAN YANKEE INVASION A GRAND SCHEME APPARITION ON THE MOHAWK OBERLIN COLONY THE ROCHESTER REVIVAL OBERLIN INSTITUTE FINNEY ON BROADWAY IMMEDIATE EMANCIPATION THE MANUAL LABOR SCHOOLS THE TEST OF ACADEMIC FREEDOM CINCINNATI THE GUARANTEE OF ACADEMIC FREEDOM JOHN JAY SHIPHERD BOOM TIMES AT OBERLIN ELYRIA NEW LEADERS FOR OLD BOOK TWO: OBERLINISM GOD'S COLLEGE THE WHOLE MAN HOTBED OF ABOLITIONISM JOINT EDUCATION OF THE SEXES TOWARD AN ANTI-SLAVERY CHURCH FREE SOIL AND THE UNDERGROUND THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST WAR HIGHER LAW FEMALE REFORMERS THE PROPAGANDA "PHYSIOLOGICAL REFORM" BOOK THREE: THE STRUGGLE FOR EXISTENCE THE DEVIL AND THE WORLD MAHAN OBERLINIZING ENGLAND HARD TIMES AND THE ENDOWMENT BOOK FOUR: LEARNING AND LABOR THE STUDENTS—PIOUS AND PRUDENT In Loco Parentis THE STUDENTS—THE OPPRESSED RACE THE COLLEGIATE DEPARTMENT GOING WEST TO COLLEGE FROM PREP TO THEOLOG OBERLIN VILLAGE EARLY TO BED VILLAGE SOCIETY LITERARY SOCIETIES "PLAIN & HOLESOME" MUSIC IN OBERLIN THE STUDENT BUDGET "DIVERTING INFLUENCES" MANUAL AND DOMESTIC LABOR COMMENCEMENT THE COLLEGE FARM BOOK FIVE: WAR AND TRANSITION COMPANY C FIGHT FOR FREEDOM FULFILLMENT AND CONFORMITY EVEN a hasty analysis of the itinerary, such as may be made from the Table of Contents, gives the expectant traveller a pre-view of the interesting regions through which his coach will pass. One catches glimpses of a noble landscape, where the mountains are "heights of moral elevation," and the plains are green pastures of faith. Here the fibre of American life was spun strong and tough and resilient, to withstand the strains of such days as these. In incident, anecdote, and quotation, men and women live again whose thoughts and actions made Oberlin unique among the colleges of America. But this is not only the story of Oberlin. It is the story of America, working out its spiritual, economic, and political character by the vigorous application of original and independent minds to the raw materials of a social and physical wilderness. And the story is told in simple, direct, human terms, alive with the authentic sparkle of native wit and humor, after the recipe of all good history. Brothers in the monastic Colleges we pity you, but we think there is hope, if not for you, for your successors. The day of deliverance dawns. . . . Women are to be educated because we choose civilization rather than barbarism. . . . It is our happy experience, of a quarter of a century's growth, that it is better for both sexes to travel together along the paths of science. Womanhood becomes more beautiful, and manhood more strong and elevated, as they are brought out side by side in harmonious contrast. The principle, that it is not good for man or woman to be alone, is older than any monastic seminary of learning. Separate from each other, the sexes cannot be educated in the best and highest sense. . . . We read in the signs of the times, that in the next age the maiden shall, with her brother, con the classic page, and with him woo the muses in their sacred haunts. Be cheered by this promise of better things; God's plan as shown by the common nature, the likeness of himself which has impressed on man and woman, must succeed. God meant the joint education of the sexes. So it shall be. Our grandchildren will wonder why it was not always so." An anonymous Oberlin undergraduate in the University Quarterly, II, 372-2 (October 1860). OBERLIN "FEMALE" STUDENTS OF THE FIFTIES U. S. Signal Corps FORT STEVENS WHERE THE OBERLIN STUDENTS DEFENDED WASHINGTON "Oberlin commenst this war. Oberlin wuz the prime cause uv all the trubble. What wuz the beginnin uv it? Our Suthrin brethrin wantid the territories—Oberlin objectid. They wantid Kansas fer ther blessid instooshn—Oberlin again objecks. They sent colonies with muskits and sich, to hold the terrytory—Oberlin sent 2 thowsand armed with Bibles and Sharp's rifles—two instooshns Dimokrasy cood never never stand afore—and druv em out. They wantid Brechinridge fer President. Oberlin refused, and elektid Linkin. . . . "Oberlin won't submit. We might 2-day hev peese ef Oberlin wood say to Linkin, 'Resine!' and to Geff David, 'Come up higher!' When I say Oberlin understand it ez figgerative fer the entire ablishn party, uv wich Oberlin is the fountinhed. There's wher the trubble is. Our Suthern brethren wuz reasonable. So long az the Dimokrasy controld things, and they got all they wanted, they wur peeceable. Oberlin ariz— the Dimokrasy wuz beet down, and they riz up agin it." PETROLEUM V. NASBY [David Ross Locke], The Struggles (Social, Financial and Political) of Petroleum V. Nasby (Boston-c. 1872), 44-46. A Human, Brilliant, Fascinating History of Oberlin MAKE SURE OF YOUR SET . . . ORDER TODAY! TWO VOLUMES $5 00 Per Set A HISTORY OF OBERLIN COLLEGE FROM ITS FOUNDATION THROUGH THE CIVIL WAR" comprises approximately 1,000 pages in two volumes, bound in Bancroft linen-finish book cloth, stamped in genuine gold, the heads stained rust color. Design, printing, and binding by The Lakeside Press, Chicago, under the supervision of William A. Kittredge. Page size: 6 x 9 1/8 inches. More than 150 illustrations. Carefully footnoted and completely indexed. Much of the material presented is new and important, having been drawn from contemporary diaries, journals, letters, account books, and similar sources. This comprehensive work was made possible first through a generous grant to the College by Mr. R. T. Miller Jr., and second by the long scholarly research and able authorship of Professor Robert S. Fletcher. The enclosed envelope and order blank is for your convenience in ordering from Donald M. Love, Secretary. OBERLIN COLLEGE OBERLIN, OHIO 36 NEWSWEEK (N. C.) Citizen, The Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution, The Nashville (Tenn.) Banner, The Greensboro (N. C.) Record, The Columbia (S. C.) State, and The Roanoke (Va.) Times. In some of these it is called "This Morning"; in others, "This Afternoon." The column's popularity is no accident. While Graves doesn't truckle to local prejudice, he knows how to buoy up Southern pride. He invariably leads off with a quotation of verse; then about half his space is devoted to the industry, literature, landscape, or other features of the country below the Mason-Dixon line. Another quarter consists of notes on the locality in which each paper is printed. The last fourth comprises Graves' observations on the news of the day. He champions better housing and educational facilities for poor whites and Negroes, supports farm-tenancy legislation, and—to the irritation of many Birmingham business friends—backs most New Deal measures. Graves has also pained a number of railroad executives; he hammered away at discriminatory freight rates until Southern Governors called a conference to fight the roads' practice. Pet hates include the Klan, lynching, mob rule, and various forms of sectional bigotism. His views often do not coincide with those of the paper which prints his stuff, but because he is a personal columnist he is allowed to sound off. The fact that he is good-natured, even when critical, helps to soothe editorial sensibilities. In his lighter moments Graves delights in little tricks which help get the column talked about, such as introducing the term "Birmians" to replace "Birminghamians." He starts small controversies like the one over the grammatical status of the word ain't"; and before syndication complicated matters he used to play on local rivalries. Graves also realizes that people like to see their names in print. He often describes as enlightened leaders men whose reputation hardly justifies that characterization; privately he offers the excuse that the parties so named tend to live up to their fictional distinction and become better citizens from then on. Since starting his weekday column, Graves has never failed to turn it out. Even his 1931 honeymoon with the former Rose Duncan Smith failed to interrupt it. What the new Mrs. Graves said when he set up his portable typewriter hasn't been recorded, but she's used to it now. In addition to batting out the column, Graves delivers scores of lectures each year, makes frequent radio talks, writes occasional magazine articles, and serves The New York Times as Birmingham correspondent. In his spare time he plays tennis. Tall, lean, and growing bald, he can still wield a racket with much of the skill that won him the Middle Atlantic States championship in 1924. He has given up smoking but like a good Southerner he knows—and drinks—the best whiskies. Wide World Reno didn't make Nan Macy single again LAW Reno Annulment Last week in Ventura, Superior Court Judge Edward Henderson threw a Californian monkey wrench into the divorce mill which brings Reno $3,000,000 a year —mostly from out-of-Staters. Involved were William Hunsaker Brill, wealthy Los Angeles sportsman, and Nan Brooks Macy Brill, New York heiress, who eloped to Yuma, Ariz., last March 29, separated next day, and began a five-month battle of recriminations and affidavits. Seeking an annulment, Brill testified he had been drinking and remembered no wedding. Judge Henderson granted the annulment, but on other grounds—Mrs. Brill's 1934 Reno divorce from George Macy. The divorce was illegal, the judge ruled, because her residence in Nevada was "purely simulated" and established "for the sole purpose of obtaining a divorce." Therefore she was still Mrs. macy and couldn't marry Brill. Hauptmann Echo "And so crazier and crazier grows the Hauptmann affair—more and more desperate . . . became New Jersey's Governor to justify his official blundering and save his tottering political reputation." Thus in March, 1936, Boake Carter lambasted Gov. Harold G. Hoffman, who had given Bruno Hauptmann a last-minute reprieve and summoned special investigators to prove his belief that Hauptmann had accomplices in the kidnaping of Charles A. Lindbergh Jr. Four months later Hoffman selected this statement from Carter's news Broadcasts as proof that he had been "greatly injured in his reputation, good name, fame, integrity . . . caused to suffer scorn and ridicule." In the New Jersey Supreme Court he filed a $100,000 damage suit against Carter, four sponsors, and three broadcasting companies. Last week Hoffman dropped his complaint and exchanged friendly letters with the radio commentator. Hoffman: "I know that you disagree with me . . . and you certainly have the right to express publicly that disagreement." Carter: "I do not question the sincerity of your purposes in seeking, as a responsible public official . . . ultimate solution of the Lindbergh case." Year Book Gustavus F. Swift, president of the Chicago meat-packing firm, last week signed a $3,500 personal check to rid himself and his company of a stockholder's complaint. Robert C. Kewley, an attorney who owns 160 shares in Swift & Co., had filed a Superior Court suit charging the directos with misusing corporate funds by buying $3,500 worth of Democratic campaign books, and with violating the Corrupt Practices Act by paying more than the books' actual value. The company insisted it had made the purchase "in the best interest of the corporation and its shareholders." Soon after President Swift's check had persuaded Kewley to withdraw his action, the attorney brought an identical suit—for $500—against the International Gustavus Swift's check soothed a Swift stockholder William Wrigley Jr. Co., chewing-gum manufacturers. Cure In Milan, Italy, Count Stefano Barbiano sued the makers of a patent throat medicine for 300,000 lire ($15,795). The preparation not only cured his throat, the Count said, but also destroyed his taste for smoking, which was essential to his good health. Co-ed Centennial Oberlin's early co-eds (on the left) stuck to their books. Save for daily chapel, their 1937 successors (right) behave differently. They mingle freely with men, have a half-hour daily evening 'prom', and play basketball. (Copy of Programme) $350 Reward Ran away from the subscriber, &c. James K. Polk "I had much rather be an English pauper than an American slave." Celebration by the Disfranchised Americans of Oberlin, Ohio First of August, 1846 William H. Day, Northampton, Mass., President. David Scales, Lexington, Ky., V.P. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Order of Exercises Music Prayer Music 1. Freedom's Dawn.-An Oration. Allen M. Bland, Charleston, S.C. 2. The Duty of American Women relative to American Slavery.- An Essay. Miss Emeline M. Crooker, Troy, N.Y. 3. Emancipation in the West Indies -- Slavery in the United States. - An Oration. Samuel Gray, Columbia, Tenn. Music 4. Liberty and Slavery contrasted.-An Oration. Fielding Smithea, Philadelphia, Pa. 5. Ought these things so to be? - An Essay. Miss Mary H. Crabb, Oberlin. 6. The Bondman's Appeal,- An Oration. Theodore A. Walker, Petersburg, Va. Music 7. Results of Emancipation.- An Oration. Charles M. Wilson, Cincinnati. 8. Why do we rejoice to day?- An Essay. Miss Lucy Stone, West Brookfield, Mass. 9. Human Brotherhood.- An Oration. James Monroe, Canterbury, Ct. Music WHY DO EWE REJOICE TODAY? (Lucy Stone's first public speech, made at the Celebration of "The Disfranchised Americans of Oberlin, Ohio" on the anniversary of West Indian Emancipation, August 1, 1846) We rejoice today, not simply because the Genius of Freedom is now presiding and scattering blessings where eight years ago the Demon of Slavery brooded, nor merely that where ignorance and heathenism then prevailed, the light of science and Christianity is now dawning,- nor yet because today is the anniversary of the moral and political birthday of eight hundred thousand human beings;- but we rejoice in the greater fact that, in one of the largest and most influential kingdoms of the world, a public sentiment exists which frees the slave and lets the oppressed go free; which practically recognizes the equal brotherhood and inalienable rights of man. Not that every heart does not thrill with deep emotion, and leap for very gladness, in view of the long-lost rights restored,- of family ties renewed- of the rich though wrecked heart's wealth returned, and of the blessings that cluster around the improved condition of the slave that was, of the man that is,. He who does not rejoice with exceeding great joy, on account of these things, has no right to claim kindred with humanity. But we rejoice more in the grander fact, because its influence, not confined to the British West India Island, will have a lasting influence in behalf of universal freedom. The doom of slavery everywhere, is sealed, in the public sentiment which caused England to reach out her hand over the broad Atlantic and lift up from his deep degradation, and make conscious of his manhood, the bondsman pining there. The influence of that event will be wide as the world, and longer than the stream of time. Like light radiating from a common center, it will move onward and onward, dispelling on every hand the darkness and mist of apprehension,until the glad sunlight of freedom shall find access to every heart. By it the moral pulse, corrected, will send its healthful throbbings through society's whole frame, until the fearful paralysis which now so fatally benumbs all its powers shall be removed, and then the true friends of God and man, with steady hand, and clear moral vision, may apply themselves, sure of success, to the execution of their holy purpose in behalf of human freedom. A rectified public sentiment has always been, and must ever be, the sovereign remedy for existing evil. It matters not though the strong arm of the law may be around systems of wrong, nor though they may be as hoary with age as with guilt, Let but the indignant frown of a virtuous public be concentrated upon them, and they must inevitably perish. Thus have false systems of religion been destroyed. Thus was the monster of Intemperance crushed, and thus will the foul spirit of slavery, with its long train of worshippers, be banished. The scroll of history is full of facts which reveal the omnipotence of public opinion. It has but to speak, and it is done. It has but to stretch out its sceptre, and unnumbered millions bow before it. Is there notoccasion, then, for us to rejoice today, when the lessons of the past,the spirit of the age, and the signs of the times give promise that this power is coming into the great moral battlefield on the side of Right? Though the warriors are now comparatively few, though alone in the contest, they need not be dismayed, for truth and justice are on their side, and around them, unseen by mortal eyes, are "chariots of fire, and horsemen of fire", led on by Him who has said that "the battle is not to the strong." James Russell Lowell has beautifully and truly said that "Mankind is one in spirit" -that "Whether conscious or unconscious,yet Humanity's vast frame, Through its ocean-sundered fibers, feels the gush of joy or shame. In the pain or loss of one race, all the rest have equal claim." Such being the case, when an event like that which we today celebrate occurs,- when a nation dehumanized, stands up on Humanity's broad platform,- a new bond of common interests, and common hopes, unites them to us. Instead of ranking with "four-footed beasts and creeping things", they may now claim God as their father, and man, made only a "little lower than the angels",as an equal brother,-and feel that his gain or loss is theirs. Instead of seeing in the graves the last home and resting-place, alike of themselves and the beasts that perish, they may look forward to an endless existence, and to an inheritance in the world where man cannot be made a brute. If we except the scene of Cavalry, the event which brought redemption to a world, what other can compare with that which, eight years ago, at the still hour of midnight, released from the thralldom of man, eight hundred thousand human beings! Then, indeed, no earthquake trembled underneath,- no temple veil was rent,- no dead issued from their graves,- but slavery's dark pall was torn in twain, and the great soul of man from its moral charnel-house arose, and mingled its loud "amens" with God's approving voice, which was heard in the deep rolling thunder, echoing from island to island. Contrast with this event the wars for the extent of territory, the struggles for political preferment, the freedom at the point of the sword, and found wading through seas of blood,- with what ineffable loathing do we contemplate them! Well may those for whom so great a boon was so peacefully obtained send up their long loud shout of joy today. No wonder that the fires of freedom there burn brighter and more unquenchably. No wonder that the slave upon our Southern border is animated with the living spirit of liberty. The ocean, indeed, surges wildly between him and the islands of the free,- but in its deep roar he hears the knell of slavery, and nerves his soul to bear boldly up, yet a little longer. While we mingle our heartfelt rejoicings with the bond and the free, to whom this day is one of no ordinary interest, we will also units with this our thanksgiving and praise to him through whom we are enabled to celebrate so glorious an event. With theirs, we will unite our supplications before the throne of the Eternal, that from our own slavery-cursed country -5- the chain may be broken,- that every trammel to body, or mind, the wide world over, may be sundered, and that the time may soon come when the grand chorus which today swells up so freely from the islands of the ocean, may find a response in every heart. Is it not fitting that here too, while our hearts are encouraged, and our hands strengthened, we should pledge ourselves anew, each to the other, and all to God, that, esteeming no toil too arduous, or danger too perilous, we will labor to introduce a correct public sentiment on the great question of human rights? And that we will do it as the instrumentality by which the day of jbilee for the slave shall be hastened, and that we will not abate one jot or tittle from our efforts so long as one fetter remains unbroken? (Lucy Stone) The Liberator - June 25, 1852 - p 102 Prof. Fairchild - Correction West Brookfield, June 22, 1852 Friend Garrison: - Will you please give the accompanying letter from Prof. Fairchild, of Oberlin, a place in the Liberator? It is due to him, and to the truth. The statements, which I am glad his is able to so fully disprove, were made to me by a theological student of Oberlin, in whose veracity I have the fullest confidence; but who, it seems, had been misinformed, or had misunderstood the facts. Prof. Fairchild thinks I should have inquired of him as to the truth of such a "slander", before I made it public. The event shows that it would have been better; though, from the character of my informant, I believe it, just as I should if the same statement had been made to me by Prof. Fairchild himself, relative to another. Up to that time, I had had great respect for him, and heard the statement sadly, feeling that we all need to pray, "Lead us not into temptation," - for 'Earth's best Find but in flight their safety." It was not from "ill will" toward Prof. Fairchild, for I have none; nor from a desire to injure the institution with which he is connected, for I have no such desire; nor did "the excitement of the moment betray me into a mistake." The whole subject, relative to Oberlin was incidental; growing out of the infamous letter of President Mahan, that appeared in the Glasgow Examiner. What I said was designed as proof added to that which undeniably exists, that it is not without reason that the agents of the Anti-Slavery Society find fault with the church of Oberlin. I am glad that the fact I stated is not a fact, as well for the sake of Oberlin, as for the slave's sake; for Oberlin has now, more than it can ever answer to the slave, in its fellowship of those who fellowship slaveholders. Yours, for truth and justice, Lucy Stone. Oberlin, June 15, 1852 My Friend, Miss Stone: It was with surprise and sorrow that I read, in a recent number of the Liberator, a charge brought against me, by Mr. May, on your authority and in your behalf. You seem grieved that such a thing should be true of any one connected with Oberlin. You will, therefore, be relieved when I tell you, that, notwithstanding your "perfectly good authority," the statement is utterly false. But let me ask, Miss Stone, whether, considering the relation we have sustained to each other, I had not a right to expect that you would communicate with me, in reference to such a slander, before you took the responsibility of publicly proclaiming it. Fidelity to truth might require of you the exposure of such a sin, but certainly, not until you had used the most simple and direct means of ascertaining the facts. You and I have differed in opinion on some questions, but I was not before aware that we had doubted each others integrity. An idle rumor, however plausible, would not justify either of us in assuming that the other has a hypocrite. "Suspicion is a bad counsellor; the wisdom of charity is better." The facts so strangely perverted are these. By the laws of Louisiana, half of my father-in-law's estate was divided among six children; the other half went to the widow. The division could be effected only by a public sale of the property. We directed our attorney, there, to bid off at the sale a young slave, if my wife's share should be sufficient, and forward him to Ohio at our expense. My wife's share amounted to $425. Of this sum, $350 were paid for a young girl, between five and six years old, and the balance, $75, saved to pay for her transportation to this place, and for her support and education after she reached us. You can judge, yourself, whether it was more than adequate. Beyond this, we have not received one farthing from the estate, and have no claim upon it. The "two colored women" that fell to my wife never had an existence. My first house was built by myself, - by money which my own father gave me. The second "larger and better one," as you are pleased to call it, was obtained in exchange for this, and by money which I saved myself on a salary of $400 per year, without doing injustice to anyone and, as I hope, without meanness. Mr. Foote's suggestion, in reference to "contributions of students", was a misapprehension of his, though kindly meant. No such contributions were ever made to me personally. A society of students and alumni made contributions to the college, for the payment of my yearly salary. Every dollar of their contributions was credited to the college. The facts as above stated, are known to all my friends, and could be substantiated, if necessary, in any court of justice. I have done nothing in the case to conceal - nothing to publish. The most I could do was to be just - less than this I did not think that any one acquainted with me would suspect me of doing. The Anti-Slavery Standard, by a blunder of Edmund Quincy, ("d.y.") makes Prof. Hudson the guilty one. You certainly will acquit him. This misrepresentation tion does not affect me personally, because I have no public representation to sustain, and at home, justice will be done me. It affects more, and was apparently designed to affect, the school with which I am connected. You can decide for yourself, whether a correction is due from you. I have written to Mr. May. Perhaps he will make the proper correction. I did not then think of writing to you; but on further consideration it seemed to me right that you should be informed of the facts. It would have been more agreeable to me to give the facts in answer to an inquiry from yourself. Beyond these explanations to yourself and Mr. May, I shall not probably make any effort at correction. I have not been able to believe that you were influenced by any feelings of ill-will toward me. The excitement of the moment betrayed you into a mistake, which you would not justify upon more mature reflections. Sincerely your friend, J.H. Fairchild. The Liberator - June 25, 1852. p. 102 Clean Hands. It is with great satisfaction we publish the following letters, fully exculpating Prof. Fairchild, of Oberlin, from a serious charge incidentally brought against him at the late New England A.S. Convention, during a discussion relating almost exclusively to Pres. Mahan - a serious charge, we repeat, but not in popular estimation, not according to the recognized standard of piety in the American Church, (for inheriting, holding, breeding, buying and selling the children of God, as property, is not deemed a criminal act either by that body or the public at large,) but only in the judgment of such as believe no man was ever created to be the property of another, and that slaveholding is a heinous sin against God. As the injustice done, in this instance, to Prof. Fairchild, was without design or malice, so is the very first opportunity improved to make reparation. All such mistakes are much to be regretted, while their correction is ever an occasion of unalloyed satisfaction to every upright heart. The spirit exhibited by Prof. F., in his letter to Miss Stone, is without the slightest taint of bitterness, and worthy both of praise and imitation. We are sure that the Anti-Slavery Standard, Pennsylvania Freeman, and Ohio Bugle, will cheerfully allow his statements (so honorable to Mrs. F. and to himself,) touching the slave property inherited by her, a place in their columns. (Ed. Lib.) March 31, 1847 Edward Henry writes: "What a different fellow I am now to what I was at one time in Oberlin — i.e. when I was a good boy. Ah! Lucy, I'm afraid I have seen too much of the world to do me any good. I wish I could see you, but I can't now — perhaps never shall." Letter from some Oberlin girl after Mamma left. (undated) "The President sends his love to Miss Stone. Told me over twice to give his love when I wrote next.... Pres. says that implies that she is so. He says get there if she is not and stay there." 3 Monadnock St. Upham's Corner Boston, Mass. Nov. 13, 1926 Mrs. Frances J. Hosford, 170 Woodland Ave. Oberlin, O. My dear Mrs. Hosford: Please forgive my delay in answering yours of Oct. 17, I wanted to write at some length, & I have been desperately busy. Please also excuse pencil. I have overtaxed my eyes, & can write more easily this way. My parents were 2 married May 1, 1855, by the Rev. (afterwards Colonel) Thomas Wentworth Higginson, at her father's farmhouse, near West Brookfield, Mass. [*The account of it that you read was no doubt quoted from the letters & diaries of Col. Higginson, published by Houghton Mifflin Co. of Boston in 1921. He gives a delightful description of the wedding.8} The Woman's Journal of Boston (founded in 1870) was consolidated with two other woman suffrage papers in 1917, to form the Woman Citizen of New York. My mother was appointed to write an essay to be read at Commencement, but was told that one of the professors would have to read 3 it for her, as it would be contrary to Scripture for her to read it herself on that occasion. Rather than not read it herself, she declined to write it. So much is authentic. I do not know with certainty that she was chosen to do it on account of her scholarship. But, as only a few of the students could be placed on the program, and as the college authorities must have used some principle of selection, we have supposed she was chosen because they 4 thought she could do it well. Long after my mother's death, the Rev. Antoinette Brown Blackwell told me a curious thing about this, which illustrates the queer vagaries of anti-woman prejudice. Lucy Stone and Antoinette Brown (as she then was), were both appointed to write essays for Commencement; and while Lucy was forbidden to read hers herself, Antoinette was allowed to do so without the slightest objection. The reason was that Lucy 5 had taken the regular classical course, and Antoinette what was called the Ladies' Literary course. The courses were largely the same; the students who had taken the two had their graduation in the same auditorium, before practically the same audience, and on successive days. But when the regular classical students graduated, the persons on the platform were almost all men; while when the students in the Ladies' Literary course graduated, the persons in 6 the platform were practically all women, except the President of the college. Therefore, it was thought permissible for Antoinette to read her essay, but not for Lucy! If you are at all familiar with the early history of the woman movement, you will recall that it was not considered very shocking for a woman to speak before other women, but for her to speak before men was held to be flying in the face of Providence, nature & propriety. Had not St. Paul 7 said, "Let your women keep silence in the churches," and "I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man"? I wish I could send you the Woman's Journal's account of my mother's life, published when she passed away, & afterwards printed as a pamphlet, but the edition has been long exhausted. I am afraid I cannot refer you to any good source. My mother was very modest, & had a morbid horror of blowing her own trumpet. When 8 she used to be asked to furnish particulars about herself to be used in various books of "Famous Women," she refused, almost with indignation. And her authentic biography, long in preparation, is not out yet - the more shame to me. How soon do you have to have this material? I will try to write you out an outline of her life. Mrs. Antoinette Brown Blackwell left five daughters who lived to grow up: 9 Mrs. Florence Blackwell Mayhew (widow of E. Elliott Mayhew) is Superintendent of the Sunday School & the chief pillar of the Methodist church - the only church in the little village of Chilmark, Martha's Vineyard, Mass. - very public spirited, & active in the Grange, the public library, the Ladies' Aid, & all sorts of things. The second daughter, Edith Blackwell, graduated in medicine & practiced, but died some years ago. The third daughter, Grace, has 10 lost her mind. The fourth, R. Agnes Blackwell Jones (Mrs. S.T. Jones, 50 Floyd Road, Montclair, New Jersey), has been very active in the Unitarian Church, reads papers before women's clubs, & does various good works. She is an artist, & has two sons & a daughter. The youngest, Ethel Blackwell Robinson (Mrs. Alfred Brookes Robinson) of 9 Glenwood Road, Upper Montclair, N.J., has also been active in 11 church work, was President for repeated terms of the Women's (Unitarian) Alliance of New York State, is the author of several books, an acceptable public speaker, much in demand, & has three sons & a daughter. She (Mrs. Robinson) graduated with distinction from the Mass. Institute of Technology as a girl, later took her medical degree from the Women's Medical College of the New York Infirmary, 12 but gave up medicine for matrimony. The Blackwells had nothing to do with the Phila. Medical College for Women, but Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell - my father's elder sister, the first woman to take a medical degree (at the Medical College of Geneva, N. Y., in 1849), with her younger sister Dr. Emily Blackwell & Dr. Marie 13 Zakrzewska, started the New York Infirmary for Women and Children in 1857, [*(for about 50 years it was the only place in N.Y., except one small homeopathic hospital, where poor women could be treated by physicians of their own sex.)*] and later the Doctors Blackwell were instrumental in starting the Women's Medical College of the N.Y. Infirmary, of which Dr. Emily was Dean for many years. Under another cover I am sending you a copy of "Pioneer Work," by Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, for the Oberlin College library. You will find a lot of information there. Rev. Antoinette Brown Blackwell's daughter, 14 Mrs. Jones, might be willing to trust with the MS of her mother's life, for which the daughter's have not yet been able to find a publisher. It is largely an autobiography, & contains much about Oberlin. Both my mother & my aunt always retained a warm affection for Oberlin. As for myself, I was born in Orange, N.J., Sept. 14, 1857. The only romantic event in my life happened before I was old enough to remember it. When I was a few months old my mother 15 let her household goods be seized & sold for taxes, & the family tradition is that one of the articles taken was my cradle; & she wrote a protest against taxation with out representation with me on her knee. I graduated from Boston University in 1881, & began at once to help my parents (who were editing the Woman's Journal) with the paper, & with the suffrage work; & as they grew older I helped more & more. After 16 their death I edited the paper for years. I have held all sorts of offices in the Mass. & the New England Woman Suffrage Associations, was Secretary of the National American Woman Suffrage Assn for nearly 20 years, was Associate Nat. Sup't of Franchise in the W.C.T.U. under Rev. Anna Shaw, was President at one time of the Mass. Association of Collegiate Alumnae; wrote innumerable suffrage tracts & leaflets; 17 brought out a book of translations of "Armenian Poems" that went through three editions, & one of "Songs of Russia", & have an unpublished one of translations of Spanish American poems; was Sec. of the Friends of Armenia & Friends of Russian Freedom, etc. Am now Hon. Pres. of the Mass. League of Women Voters. But this is much 18 more than you will need about me. I can send you a lot of interesting stuff about my mother, with a little more time; & I do beg you will let me see the MS of your article before it comes out, so as to correct any errors. Yours sincerely, Alice Stone Blackwell. I will send you a couple of sketches of myself, but would infinitely rather send one of my mother if we only had it. 3 Monadnock St. Upham's Corner, Boston, Mass Nov. 26, 1926. My dear Mrs. Hosford: This seems to be the first moment I have had to sit down and write you the promised outline of my mother's life. I hope it is not too late. Lucy Stone was born on a farm near West Brookfield, Mass., Aug. 13, 1818, daughter of Frances and Hannah (Matthews) Stone. She was an uncommonly bright and vigorous child, and remarkably courageous, a good student in school and a hard worker on the farm. She often drove the cows by starlight, before sunrise, when the dew on the grass was so cold that she would stop on a stone & curl one little bare foot up against 2 the other leg to warm it. She early became indignant at the way she saw her mother and other women treated by their husbands and by the laws, (over) & she made up her mind that those laws must be changed. One day, while still a child, reading the Bible, with the big book lying on her short legs, she came across the text, "Thy desire shall be unto thy husband & he shall rule over thee." At first she wanted to die. Then she made up her mind to go to college, study Greek & Hebrew; read the Bible in the original, & satisfy herself whether such texts were correctly translated. Her brothers went to college, but when she expressed her intention to go, her father said to his wife, in good faith, "Is the child crazy?" My mother was never willing to have her father blamed. She said he was no worse than others. All the men believed they had a divine right to rule over their wives. He was a man of great force & energy, but my private opinion is that he was a good deal of a domestic despot. His wife was an excellent Christian woman, who believed it her duty to submit. 3 She picked berries and chest nuts, & sold them to buy books. For years she studied and taught alternately, teaching for a while & accumulating a little money, & then using it to study further. She began teaching, I believe, at about 16, and got $1.25 a week & "boarded around." She soon became known as a successful teacher. She was even thought competent to teach the "winter term", which was usually considered beyond a woman's capacity, as then the big boys were released from farm work & were able to attend. She was once asked to teach the winter term at Paxton, Mass., where the school had been broken up by the big boys throwing the master out of the window 4 head first into a deep snow drift. She soon had this difficult school in perfect order, & the big boys who had made the trouble became her most devoted lieutenants; but she was given only a fraction of the salary paid to her unsuccessful predecessor (over). At the low wages then paid to women, it took her nine years to earn the money to carry her out to Oberlin, then the only college that admitted women. Crossing Lake Erie, she could not pay for a berth, & had to spend the night on some grain sacks on deck, amid horses & freight, with a few other women who, like herself, could only pay for a "deck passage". At Oberlin she earned her way through For a time she attended Mt. Holyoke Seminary. Most of the students kept mite boxes for foreign missions. Instead, she kept one for the Antislavery Society, with a picture on it of a bound Negro, & the words, "Am I not a man & a brother?" She took an antislavery paper, & after reading it she used to put it in the library of the seminary. She was suspected of being the person who did it, & when asked, she admitted it. Mary Lyon talked to her very seriously & said, "You must remember that the slavery question is a very grave question, & one on which the best people are divided." 5 partly by teaching in the long vacations, partly by doing house work in the Ladies' Boarding Hall at three cents an hour. The college furnished board to the students at a dollar a week, but she could not afford even this small sum, & most of the time boarded herself in her own room at a cost of about 50 cents a week. Yet she kept well & happy, did well in her studies, & found time also for good works. She mended the clothes of the poor students, both white & colored. Oberlin was a station on the Underground Railroad. Many colored people remained there; & some philanthropic persons started a school for them, & invited her to teach it. 6 But the colored men, densely ignorant & fresh from slavery, felt it beneath their dignity to be taught by a woman. The committee did not tell her this, but took her to the class & introduced her as their teacher, thinking they would not like to object in her presence. But a murmur went around, & a tall man, very black, stood up & said he had nothing against Miss Stone personally, but he must say he did not think it was proper for men to be taught by a woman. However, she persuaded them that it would be for their advantage to learn from anyone who 7 could teach them to read, & her black pupils soon became as much attached to her as her white pupils had been. The Ladies' Boarding Hall took fire during her temporary absence from town, & she was told on her return that a whole string of colored men had arrived on the scene one after another, all bent upon saving her effects, & each of them demanding breathlessly, "Where is Miss Stone's trunk?" She and one young man were the only "Garrisonian 8 abolitionists" in the college, though there were lots of abolitionists. She made her first public speech during her college course. The colored people got up a celebration of the anniversary of West Indian emancipation, & asked her to speak, along, with the President of Oberlin, some of the professors & others. She made her speech & thought nothing of it. But next day she was called before the "Ladies' Board." This was made up mostly of the professors' wives, & was supposed to have an eye to the manners & morals of the 9 girl students. She was rebuked for so outraging propriety & St. Paul as to make a public speech. The president's wife said to her, "Did you not feel yourself very much out of place on the platform among all those men? Were you not embarrassed & frightened?" She answered, "My, no, Mrs. [Malian?]. Those men were President Malian & the professors, whom I meet every day in the class room. I was not afraid of them at all!" She was allowed to go, with an admonition. 10 The young men had to hold debates, as part of their work in rhetoric. The girls were required to attend, in order to help form an audience for the young men, but were not allowed to take part in the debates. Lucy Stone was intending to lecture, & her friend Antoinette Brown to preach, & they wanted practice, so they petitioned to be allowed to debate. The professor in that department was a man of liberal views, & consented. 11 Tradition says the debate was a brilliant one; but immediately the Ladies' Board got busy, St Paul was invoked, & they were told it must never happen again. An old colored woman in Oberlin owned a small house. My mother persuaded her to lend the use of her parlor for debates. She & Antoinette Brown & a few others organized the first debating society ever formed by college girls. They would gather, coming one or two at a time, so as not to 12 attract attention, & then would debate all sorts of high subjects. Sometimes in summer they met in the woods. She graduated in 1847. I have told you about the graduating essay. But when Oberlin celebrated its semi-centennial, nearly 50 years later, she was invited to be one of the speakers. So the world moves. She always retained a great affection for Oberlin. I hope to send you an account of her later life & work in a day or two, but must break off now. Yours sincerely, Alice Stone Blackwell. I am sending you, probably, much more than you can use; but you can make your own selections from it. 3 Monadnock St. Upham's Corner, Boston, Mass. Nov. 27, 1926. My dear Mrs. Hosford: 170 Woodland Ave. Oberlin, Ohio. I continue the account of my mother. She graduated from Oberlin in 1847, and gave her first woman's rights lecture in the same year, from the pulpit of her brother's church in Gardner, Mass. Soon after, she was engaged to lecture regularly for the Antislavery Society. She mixed a great deal of woman's rights with her antislavery lectures. One night, after her heart had been particularly stirred on the woman question, she put into her lecture so much about woman's rights that the agent of the Antislavery Society felt obliged to 2 tell her that, on the antislavery platform, it would not do. She answered, "I know it, but I could not help it. I was a woman before I was an abolitionist, and I must speak for the women." She resigned her position as lecturer for the Antislavery Society, intending to devote herself wholly to woman's rights. But they were very unwilling to give her up, as she had been one of their best speakers; and it was finally arranged that she should speak for them Saturday evenings and Sundays - times regarding as too sacred for any church or hall to be opened for a woman's rights meeting - and during the rest of the week she should lecture for woman's rights on her own responsibility. 3 Her adventures during the next few years would fill a volume. No Suffrage Association was organized until long after this time. She had no cooperation and no backing, and started out absolutely alone. She put up the posters for her own meetings, with a little package of tacks and a stone picked up from the street. Sometimes the boys followed her, hooting and preparing to tear the posters down. Then she would stop and call the boys around her, and hold a preliminary meeting in the street, until she had won them all over and persuaded them to let her posters alone. Once in winter a pane of glass was removed from the window behind the speaker's stand, a hose was put through, and she was suddenly deluged with ice- cold water while she was speaking. 4 She put on a shawl and continued her lecture. Once a hymn-book was hurled at her head with such violence that she was almost stunned. Pepper was burned, & all sorts of devices used, to break up the meetings, but generally in vain. She travelled over a large part of the United States. In most of the towns where she lectured, no woman had ever spoken in public before, and curiosity drew immense audiences. The speaker was a great surprise to them. They expected to see a tall, [gaunt, angular woman, with masculine manners and a] unwomanly Amazon, with a strident voice, scolding at the men. Instead, they found a small, gentle, unassuming woman, with a winning presence, and the sweetest and most musical voice ever possessed by a public speaker. She was a little, simple country girl, but she had a wonder- 5 ful eloquence. Her intense earnestness, added to a singular personal magnetism and an utter forgetfulness of self, swayed those great audiences as the wind bends a field of grass. Mobs would listen to her when they howled down every other speaker. At an antislavery meeting held in a grove, in the open air, a platform had been erected for the speakers, & a crowd gathered, but a crowd so ugly and menacing, so evidently meaning mischief, that the speakers one by one came down from the stand and slipped away, until only Lucy Stone and Stephen Foster were left. Those two never feared the face of men. She said, "You had better run, Stephen; they are coming!" He answered, "But who will take care of you?" At that 6 moment the mob made a rush for the platform, and a big man sprang up on it, grasping a club. She turned to him with out hesitation, and said "This gentleman will take care of me". It touched his feelings, and he declared he would. He tucked her under one arm, and, holding his club in the other hand, marched her out through the crowd, who were roughly handling Mr. Foster & such of the other speakers as they had been able to catch. On the way she talked to him, and he finally mounted her on a stump and stood by her with his club while she addressed the mob. She made them so ashamed of themselves that they not only 7 desisted from further violence, but took up a collection of $20 to pay Mr. Foster for his coat, which they had torn in two from top to bottom. At first she would not charge any admission fee at her lectures. She was afraid it might keep someone away, and she was anxious to have everybody hear and be converted. She economised in every way. When she stayed in Boston, she used to put up at a lodging house where they have her meals for twelve and a half cents and lodging for six and a quarter cents, on condition of her sleeping in the garret with the daughters of the house, three in a bed. Once when she was in great need of a new cloak she came to Salem, Mass., where she was to 8 lecture, and found that the Hutchinson family of singers were to give a concert the same evening. They proposed to her to unite the entertainments and divide the proceeds. She consented, and bought a cloak with the money. She was also in want of other clothing. Her friends assured her that the audiences would be just as large despite an admission fee. She tried it, and finding that the audiences continued to be as large as the halls would hold, she continued to charge a door fee, and was no longer reduced to such straits. (over) On May 1, 1855, she was married to Henry B. Blackwell, a young hardware merchant of Cincinnati, O., a strong woman's rights man & abolitionist. A reward of $10,000 had been offered for She headed the call for the first National Woman's Rights Convention, held in Worcester, Mass., in 1850: and for many years it was generally she who arranged the National Conventions, and superintended the publishing of the annual report. 9 his head, at a great public meeting in Memphis, Tenn., because of the active part he had taken in the rescue of a young slave girl. In 1853 he had attended a hearing at the State House in Boston, when Lucy Stone, Wendell Phillips and others spoke in behalf of a woman suffrage petition headed by Louisa Alcott's mother; and he had made up his mind then to marry her if he could. She had meant never to marry, but to devote herself wholly to her work. But he promised to devote himself to the same work, and persuaded her that together they could do more for it than she could alone. If ever a promise was loyally kept, that one was. At the time of their marriage, they issued a joint protest against the inequalities of the law which gave the husband the control of his wife's 10 property person and children. This protest was widely published & much discussed, & helped to get the laws amended. She regarded the loss of a wife's name at marriage as the symbol of the loss of her individuality. Eminent lawyers, including Hon. Salmon P. Chas, who was afterwards Chief Justice of the United States, told her there was no law requiring a wife to take her husband's name; it was only a custom. Accordingly, with her husband's full approval, she kept her own name, & was known as Mrs. (not Miss) Lucy Stone. She signed her legal documents "Lucy Stone, wife of Henry B. Blackwell." She helped to organize the American Equal Rights Association in 1866, the New England Woman Suffrage Association in 1868, and the American Woman Suffrage 11 Association in 1869. In all these she was usually chairman of the executive committee. Occasionally she was drafted for the presidency, but she always craved, not the post of prominence, but the post of work. When the National American Woman Suffrage Association was formed in 1889, she was again chairman of the executive committee. Mr. Blackwell was a man of high talents, an able writer and fine speaker. He and she made a great team. They lectured throughout the country, helped to organize the Suffrage Associations of Massachusetts and many other States, addressed legislatures, held meetings far and wide, took part in suffrage campaigns when amendments to State constitutions were submitted to the voters, worked for and secured many changes in the laws, and together did an incalculable amount of work for equal rights. Most of the money with which 12 the Woman's Journal was started in Boston in 1870 was raised by her efforts. It had an unusually long life for a reform paper - 47 1/2 years - and never once missed its weekly issue, not even when the printing office was burned. During all that time it was, as Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt has truly said, "the voice of the woman movement". Mary A. Livermore was the editor for the first two years with Julia Ward. Howe, Lucy Stone, William Lloyd Garrison and Col. T.W. Higginson as contribution editors. Then Mrs. Stone and Mr. Blackwell became the editors and carried on the paper as long as they lived, with many illustrious coadjutors. They were assisted in later years by their daughter, who continued to edit it till in 1917 it was consolidated 13 with two other suffrage papers to form the Woman Citizen. Lucy Stone has been called "the morning star of the woman's rights movement". Susan B. Anthony said it was reading the report of one of Lucy Stone's speeches that converted her to woman suffrage. Although so gentle, [in her manners], she was one of the few persons born without fear. She told me once that in all the mobs and tumults of the antislavery time, she never was conscious of a quickened heartbeat. Her husband called her "the gentlest and most heroic of women." She was a loving wife, a devoted mother, and an admirable housekeeper, after the old New England fashion. She passed away Oct. 18, 1923, dying as calmly and courageously as she had 14 lived. Her last words to her daughter were, "Make the world better." A prominent man said that her funeral was less like a funeral than like a coronation. And a life-long opponent said that up to that time the death of now woman in America had ever called out so wide-spread an expression of affection and esteem. This is a great deal more than you can possibly use, but I never know when to stop, in telling about my mother. But here is one 15 characteristic incident. Use it or not as you think fit. She joined the Congregational Church of West Brookfield when a girl in her teens. She did not know that women church members did not vote on church affairs. In some church meeting a show of hands was called for, & she held hers up with the rest. The minister said to 16 the man who was counting the votes, "Don't you count her." "Isn't she a member?" asked the man. He answered, "Yes, but she is not a voting member!" in a tone of scorn that touched her to the quick. A vote was taken six times, & every time she held up her hand. She held it up again when she told me the story, on her 17 death bed. By that time, women were voting in most of the churches; & she said what a change it was since "that one uncounted hand" was the only visible protest against the subjection of women in church & State. In those days the churches were rent over the slavery 18 question, & she & a number of other members were dropped from the West Brookfield church for siding with an antislavery deacon. She never went back. In her later life she was a Unitarian. You might return to me the 19 part of this account that you do not use. It may save me having to write it out again for somebody else. Yours sincerely, Alice Stone Blackwell. Please send me a copy of the Oberlin magazine with your article. OLD-TIME COLLEGE CURRICULUM FOUND Centennial of College Education for Women- Oberlin Led Innovation. Nineteen thirty-three is the hundredth anniversary of higher education for women in the United States, says a bulletin from the Office of Education, Department of the Interior. "Just 100 years ago Oberlin College was established," points out the Federal Office of Education in a review of a century of progress in college education for women, in School Life, official monthly journal. The Announcement of the opening of the college stated: "A hearty welcome should be accorded to women and manual labor should play a part." Oberlin is the oldest coeducational college in the United States, although during its first four years it was coeducational only in the preparatory department. "Four women had sufficiently prepared to enter college work by 1837, and were graduated in 1842." the review continues. "By 1890 one out of every three college students was a woman, and the total enrolment of all college students was 156,756. By 1930 there were seven times as many college students, about 1,085,000. Nearly one- half of all students in the colleges now are women." While only four women received degrees in 1837, colleges and universities gave degrees to 47,544 women in one recent year. Coeducation as an experiment proved successful. Horace Mann applied the policy on the founding of Antioch College in 1852. State universities soon followed suit partly because of the great need for women teachers due to the fact that the Civil War drew the men into military service. The results of this experiment at Oberlin, Ohio, 100 years ago are revealed in the figures for 1,490 institutions of higher education gathered by the Federal Office of Education. Of this number 1,008 are coeducational, 227 admit only men and 225 admit only women. "Coeducational Oberlin antedated the first colleges established exclusively for women," the report reveals. "Seminaries and high schools had not generally prepared women students for colleges and financial supporters for proposed women's colleges were few. "In the South the Georgia Female College (now Wesleyan College) opened in 1839 with a student body of ninety women, many of whom had taken work in the leading seminaries and academies of the South and graduated the first class in 1840. Three years later the college was accepted by the Georgia Conference of the Methodist Church and its name was changed to Wesleyan Female College. The catalogue states: 'Wesleyan is the pioneer college for women. It has the distinction of being the first chartered college for women in the world to confer a degree upon a woman.' "In the North, Elmira Female College (now Elmira College) was opened in 1855 at Elmira, N. Y. The catalogue states 'Elmira is the oldest college for women in America, having been the first to confer degrees for courses equivalent to those offered in colleges for men.' "After the Civil War new colleges for women were established; coeducation became the rule in the mid-West and West. Advantages of higher education were extended to women generally when Vassar (1865), Smith (1875), Wellesley (1875), Mount Holyoke (1837), Bryn Mawr (1885), Mills (1871), Wells (1870), Goucher (1888) and other women's colleges were established. The passing of 'female' and 'ladies' our of college names began fifty years ago." In conclusion, the bulletin gives some idea of what was expected of the young girl who went to college 100 years ago from the Oberlin catalogue for 1835: "Young ladies of good minds, unblemished morals and respectable attainments are received into this department and placed under the superintendance of a judicious lady whose duty it is to correct their habits and mold the female character. They board at the public table and perform the labor of the steward's department, together with the washing, ironing and much of the sewing for the students. They attend recitations with young gentlemen in all the departments. Their rooms are entirely separate from those of the other sex, and no calls or visits in their respective apartments are at all permitted." All students were required to work three hours daily. Board was $1 per week for the men and 75 cents per week for the women, since the women received only 3 cents per hour where the men received 5 cents per hour for their work. THE OBERLIN ALUMNI BULLETIN VOLUME 5-NUMBER 1 A Report from the Campus to 28,000 Alumni FOURTH QUARTER, 1947 1,254 Men, 964 Women Enrolled The total Oberlin enrollment for the first semester of the 1947-48 college year is 2,218, of whom 1,675 are in the college, 450 in the conservatory, and 93 in the theological school. Men outnumber the women 1,254 to 995. More than 100 of the men of the college and conservatory are married, as are a majority of the men in the graduate school. The number of different foreign countries represented in the student body is getting back to its pre-war size and ranges alphabetically from Argentina to Turkey. Many of the students from foreign lands, of course, are Americans whose homes are abroad because their parents are in business there or are teachers, or missionaries, or employed in the foreign service of their country. There are, however, about 31 foreign-born students who are classed as "non-quota immigrants," true sons and daughters of the countries from which they come and to which they plan to return. China sends the most, but Siam, Korea, India, Norway. France, Czechoslovakia, Switzerland and England are represented, too. ELECTED BY ALUMNI TO BOARD OF TRUSTEES Victor Obenhaus As this bulletin goes to press, the college secretary's office has just announced that Victor Obenhaus, '25, associate professor of social ethics at Chicago Theological Seminary, University of Chicago, has been elected a member of the Board of Trustees of Oberlin College by vote of the alumni. He will serve a six-year term beginning January 1, 1948, succeeding Cleaveland R. Cross, '03. Several Faculty Men Overseas; Others Have Just Returned A number of faculty members teaching this semester have had recent experiences in other parts of the world. Professor R. A. Jelliffe taught during the spring semester in China; Professor W. M. Horton spent the summer and part of the last spring in Europe, for the most part in Switzerland; Professor F. W. Buckler spent the summer in England. Miss Ellen Johnson is back after a year in the Scandinavian countries where she studied and travelled on a Scandinavian- American Fellowship grant. Professor A. E. Nilsson of the economics department spent most of the summer in the Scandinavian countries, with several weeks in Germany; Professor Paul P. Rogers and Mrs. Rogers (Dorothy Shaw, '47) spent the summer in Mexico. Miss Inda Howland and Miss Dorothy Daub also went to Mexico for their vacation. Now outside the United States are Roger Shaw of the education department, who is serving as specialist in higher education with the U. S. Occupation Government in Munich; Professor Emeritus Oscar Jaszi in Hungary, Harold B. Bryson in France, and Clarence Hamilton in Mexico. Mr. Bryson is studying in Paris. Dr. Jaszi is in Europe under the auspices of the Science Research Council and the American Philosophical Society. Gathering Facts for New Alumni Catalogue Is Big Task; Grads Urged to Cooperate 800 Page Book Will Be Artist's Sketch Shows Plan of Men's New Athletic Center AN ATHLETIC FIELD HOUSE- the desire and dream of generations of Oberlin Students, and particularly of the men in the physical education department- is soon to become a reality! Pictured above is an architect's drawing of the Field House to be erected at the varsity athletic field this fall and winter. Ground already has been broken, the concrete footings have been laid and materials for the upper part of the building are arriving from Virginia. 100 Feet x 175 Feet The 100x 175 foot structure, to be built from material in a former Navy drill hall located at Camp Peary, near Williamsburg, Virginia, will be set atop a five-foot concrete wall, giving a 22 foot clearance from beam to floor and a seating capacity of 1800, or more if needed. The Field House will be joined to the stadium at the south approach by a facade, as shown above, behind which will be a brick building containing ticket booths, rooms for officials and a passage-way to shower and locker room facilities in the newly- enlarged dressing rooms which were built under the stadium this past summer. Has Been Greatly Needed This Field House will provide greatly needed facilities for the conduct of the physical education and athletic program and will fill a long-felt need of the College. It will not of itself provide all of the facilities, such as swimming pool, handball and squash courts, needed to give Oberlin a complete indoor athletic plant, and the brick building connecting it to the Stadium, is a gift to the College by the government, through the Federal Works Administration. The cost of constructing the building is borne by the government and the College on the basis of a contractual agreement. It is expected that alumni and friends of the College will provide the necessary funds for the college's share of the cost of the erection of the Field House, but in order that construction on it may start immediately, the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees has voted to approve the underwriting of the project to the extent of its construction cost. The Field House is expected to be completed by February 1, 1948, and will be ready for use by spring sports teams. [...]eign countries represented in the student body is getting back to its pre-war size and ranges alphabetically from Argentina to Turkey. Many of the students from foreign lands, of course, are Americans whose homes are abroad because their parents are in business there or are teachers, or missionaries, or employed in the foreign service of their country. There are, however, about 31 foreign-born students who are classed as "non-quota immigrants," true sons and daughters of the countries from which they come and to which they plan to return. China sends the most, but Siam, Korea, India, Norway, France, Czechoslovakia, Switzerland and England are represented, too. Victor Obenhaus As this Bulletin goes to press, the college secretary's office has just announced that Victor Obenhaus, '25, associate professor of social ethics at Chicago Theological Seminary, University of Chicago, has been elected a member of the Board of Trustees of Oberlin College by vote of the alumni. He will serve a six-year term beginning January 1, 1948, succeeding Cleaveland R. Cross, '03. [...]vian countries, with several weeks in Germany; Professor Paul P. Rogers and Mrs. Rogers (Dorothy Shaw, '47) spent the summer in Mexico. Miss Inda Howland and Miss Dorothy Daub also went to Mexico for their vacation. Now outside the United States are Roger Shaw of the education department, who in serving as specialist in higher education with the U. S. Occupation Government in Munich; Professor-Emeritus Oscar Jaszi in Hungary, Harold B. Bryson in France, and Clarence Hamilton in Mexico. Mr. Bryson is studying in Paris. Dr. Jaszi is in Europe under the auspices of the Science Research Council and the American Philosophical Society. Gathering Facts for New Alumni Catalogue Is Big Task; Grads Urged to Cooperate 800 Page Book Will Be Similar to 1936 Catalogue; Return Questionnaires John E. ("Mr. Jack) Wirkler, editor of the 1948 "Alumni Catalogue," is hoping that the book will be ready for distribution by Commencement. It will be the first alumni catalogue published since 1936. Work on it is progressing handsomely and would be well under control if more graduates would fill out their questionnaires and return them promptly. Some classes have done very well indeed but others are lagging. The Alumni Catalogue office is located in the old physics laboratory in the basement of Peters Hall. Long tables with various filing and indexing arrangements, a desk for Mr. Jack's assistant, and other aids to the compilation of a good catalogue occupy the room. The new catalogue will follow in general the plan of the 1936 catalogue, but there will be approximately 800 pages instead of the 648 pages of its predecessor. Certain parts of the introductory section in the '36 caatalogue will be omitted from the coming publication, saving about sixty pages. It is necessary to cut as much as possible in order to hold the book to a reasonable size since the greatly increased number of names would naturally add greatly to the length of the book. There will be a complete list of teaching and administrative staff, a total of 2,400 names, an increase of 800 over the '36 book. There will probably be a list of all trustees and presidents. The section devoted to alumni, in the strict sence of persons . . . PLEASE . . . Return Your Questionnaire IMMEDIATELY who have received degrees, will have three listings. In the first all graduates will be listed by classes. There will be some 16,500 names here. The second listing will be a geographical index and will have only 12,500 entries, approximately, since only living graduates will be included in it. The third, and longest listing, will be the alphabetical index. Its 24,000 some entries are necessary because married women will be entered twice, by their maiden names and by their married names. Mr. Jack said that the first replies to the questionnaires began to come by September 15 and that by October 15 4,000 had been received. That is only a third of the questionnaires mailed and represents too slow a response. Any alumni who have mislaid their alumni catalogue questionnaire should make a good resolution to get off the November follow-up by return mail! [near Williams]burg], Virginia, will be set atop a five-foot concrete wall, giving a 22 foot clearance from beam to floor and a seating capacity of 1800, or more if needed. The Field House will be joined got he stadium at the south approach by a facade, as shown above, behind which will be a brick building containing ticket booths, rooms for officials and a passage-way to shower and locker room facilities in the newly-enlarged dressing rooms which were built under the stadium this past summer. Has Been Greatly Needed This Field House will provide greatly needed facilities for the conduct of the physical education and athletic program and will fill a long-felt need of the College. It will not of itself provide all of the facilities, such as swimming pool, handball and squash courts, needed to give Oberlin a complete indoor athletic plant, but it will meet the most pressing needs in a thoroughly satisfactory manner. Removable Floor for Basketball During the winter season a basketball floor 60 x 100, built in sections for easy handling, will be installed in the building. The floor will be surrounded by bleachers of sufficient capacity to accommodate all of the spectators who wish to see the game. At present only slightly over half the student body and faculty can be accommodated in Warner gymnasium. The bleachers will be so arranged as to permit the building of a running track around the inside of the building and banked at the corners. The basketball floor will be removed from the building at conclusion of the basketball season making the entire clay floor area available for all spring and fall sports. Government Shares Cost The entire building, exclusive of the brick and glass south wall and the brick building connecting it to the Stadium, is a gift to the College b y the government, through the Federal Works Administration. The cost of constructing the building is borne by the government and the College on the basis of a contractual agreement. It is expected that alumni and friends of the College will provide the necessary funds for the college's share of the cost of the erection of the Field House, but in order that construction on it may start immediately, the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees has voted to approve the underwriting of the project to the extent of its construction cost. The Field House is expected to be completed by February 1, 1948, and will be ready for use by spring sports teams. ON YOUR RADIO The Ohio Story PROGRAM for Monday, November 24th 6:30 p.m. (E.S.T.) "Under the Oberlin Elm" By Frank Seidel To be broadcast over the following Ohio radio stations: Akron, WHKK; Cleveland, WTAM; Canton, WHBC; Columbus, WBNS; Dayton, WHIO; Marietta, WMOA; Steubenville, WSTV; Toledo, WSPD; Youngstown; WKBN; Zanesville, WHIZ. Two OBERLIN ALUMNI BULLETIN Fourth Quarter, 1947 THE OBERLIN ALUMNI BULLETIN Published Quarterly by Oberlin College CHARLES A. MOSHER, '28, Editor ELLA C PARMENTER, '15, Associate Editor Entered as mail of the second class at the post office, Oberlin, Ohio, under the act of August 24, 1912 FOURTH QUARTER, 1947 Oberlin College Administrative Officers WILLIAM EDWARDS STEVENSON, President Harold S. Wood, Vice President Donald M. Love, Secretary William P. Davis, Treasurer Carl F. Wittke, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Thomas W. Graham, Dean of the Graduate School of Theology Frank H. Shaw, Director of the Conservatory of Music William H. Seaman, Director of Admissions and the Bureau of Appointments Thomas E. Harris, Executive Secretary of the Alumni Association President Asks Students to Recognize Propaganda Cites This As an "Era of Creation," No Time to Be Disheartened Addressing the first general assembly of the Oberlin College year, on Monday, Sept. 22, President W. E. Stevenson welcomed the students by expressing his wish for their satisfaction and success at Oberlin. He continued (in part) as follows: "We of the faculty and administration are here for one purpose only—to give you the very best education possible. We hope that objective will be attained by every one of you. Confusion Will Remain "But don't think for a minute that when you have an Oberlin education—and the same would be true of any college education —that all clouds of confusion and uncertainty will scatter and disappear, and that a clear-cut answer to life's enigmas will be plainly disclosed . . . We do not covet for you a blissful ignorance; rather we call you to a fuller education, knowing that the better it is, the more numerous and puzzling will be the difficulties which press upon you for solution . . . "Each of you is a vital part of that continuing process of improvement. The better your mind is trained the greater the capacity you will acquire, not only to recognize problems, but also to deal effectively with them. That is the important point. Uneducated people may not discern or comprehend as many problems as their more intelligent brothers and sisters, but, on the other hand, uneducated people find it difficult to solve correctly even the perplexing situations of which they are aware. ". . . you must train yourselves that if Mr. Vishinsky's charges were true hundreds of war veterans would not be on this campus today, but would still be under arms? Not Disheartened "It is reasonable to suppose that on many occasions throughout the course of history the human actors then passing across the stage were sincerely convinced that their particular world was more chaotic than any before, and that their civilization was facing imminent destruction. And certainly we have ample cause for discouragement, and even disillusionment, today . . . "There are many, for example, who are discouraged because the United Nations Organization is not already an unqualified success. They had hoped for One World by now, and permanent tranquility and peace. In the next breath they bemoan the fact that One World is breaking up into two parts, forgetting that, as yet, there never has been anything approaching one world which could break up. It is only in our generation that a political organization embracing all the nations of the world, has been attempted. Thus this is an age of creation—the very early beginnings of the stupendous undertaking to unite all mankind . . . Can we impatiently expect to realize, in two years time, the idealistic aspirations of men of good will for many centuries? No, please don't be disheartened by the failure of your elders and forebears to solve everything quickly and once for all. The world needs your youthful idealism, and your hopeful exuberance. The Spirit of Oberlin "Since I came to Oberlin a year ago, I have been much impressed by the wide variety of extracurricular activities which ple, and how to understand them. Unless you succeed in being hermits, or possibly lighthouse keepers, you will have social and community responsibilities to face all through your lives. If you can manage to avoid difficulties with human beings you will largely succeed in avoiding all difficulties. Urges Chapel Attendance "Before closing, I wish to stress the importance of the assemblies, held here in Finney Chapel on Tuesdays and Thursdays of each week. They are the few occasions, amidst the distractions of the busy college year, when all of us, who are the members of the College, can unite for a few moments in a common purpose and sense the full implications of why we are here and what the College means. "Oberlin College is a totality which is greater than the sum of all of the parts which compromise the diverse absorptions and aspects of the college life. I CURRENT TRENDS IN STUDY OF SOCIOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY DISCUSSED BY THREE NEW MEMBERS OF OBERLIN DEPARTMENT George E. Simpson Richard R. Myers Milton Yinger Heading the department of sociology and anthropology is Professor George E. Simpson, who came to Oberlin this fall from Pennsylvania State College, where he was also head of the department. With him in the department, and also new to the Oberlin faculty, are Associate Professors Richard R. Myers, who comes to the department with eight years of experience teaching at the University of Michigan and Michigan State College, and Milton Yinger, who comes from Ohio Wesleyan, where he taught for six years. In discussing their program, the new faculty members point out that sociology is not social work, nor the study of social pathology, nor is it social reform. Sociology provides a scientific analysis of human society—its structure, institutions, functions, and change, and of personality as formed in society. Anthropology includes the study of the evolution of man, the classification of living races, the culture of early men, and the social organization and institutions of non-literate peoples. Emphasize Scientific Skills In keeping with current trends in the fields of sociology and anthropology, the Oberlin department is emphasizing strongly the development of scientific skills and orientation. This is not in contrast to the interest in "social problems" which was an earlier emphasis of sociology, but is an attempt to inform the study of social problems with the best possible scientific knowledge. Sociology and cultural anthropology consider society as a functioning whole, and thus provide a framework for evaluating particular social problems. They contribute to the reduction of the student's provincialism and his ethnocentrism, and they help him to understand his own social situations. Sociological and anthropological knowledge is used in many ways by governmental, industrial, education and welfare agencies. In recent years many sociologists and anthropologists have themselves served in administrative, advisory, and research capacities with numerous public and private agencies. Sociology and anthropology, together with related fields, are designed to contribute to the understanding of human relations. Through teaching and research, particularly in the areas of the family, race, population, industry, the community and personality development, the members of the department of sociology and anthropology at Oberlin hope to render a significant service to society. The Department Members A few additional items about these faculty members will be of interest. (For detailed introduction to these members, see Second Quarter Bulletin, page 14.) Professor Simpson's interests sional journals in the fields of social problems theory, urban ecology, and industrial relations. A recent article, "Applied Anthropology," dealt with the delineation and analysis of the rural urban fringe area. He plans to follow up the preliminary work he did in Mexico last summer on a project dealing with the industrialization of peasant people. At present he is servicing in an advisory capacity to the Chief Scientific Adviser's Division of the British Ministry of Works which is collecting information and working out personnel programs among skilled workers in the British building trades. The writer's research findings for Detroit, Chicago and other labor areas are being used for comparative purposes. Professor Myers is collaborating with Dr. Walter Firey of the University of Texas in a book on the sociology of occupations, a rapidly expanding area of sociological interest and investigation. Professor Myers' chief interests, professionally, are industrial sociology, urban sociology, criminology, and social problems. Professor Yinger's chief interests are sociological and social psychological theory, research methods, race relations, economic and political institutions. His own research revolves around the study of power—an attempt to define who, in any given social structure, makes the key decisions and what the basis of their authority is. He has recently published a volume relating to that theme, entitled Religion in the Struggle for Power. He is the author of two chapters in a work on social theory, now in press. The book is An Introduction to the History of Sociology, edited by H. E. Barnes. Professor Yinger's chapters deal with "The Systematic Sociology of Wiese," and "The Sociology of Religion of Troeltsch." appear, and that a clear-cut answer to life's enigmas will be plainly disclosed. . . We do not covet for you a blissful ignorance; rather we call you to a fuller education, knowing that the better it is, the more numerous and puzzling will be the difficulties which press upon you for solution . . . "Each of you is a vital part of that continuing process of improvement. The better your mind is trained the greater the capacity you will acquire, not only to recognize problems, but also to deal effectively with them. That is the important point. Uneducated people may not discern or comprehend as many problems as their more intelligent brothers and sisters, but, on the other hand, uneducated people find it difficult to solve correctly even the perplexing situations of which they are aware. ". . . you must train yourselves to ferret out the essential facts. You must learn to distinguish facts from propaganda. You must learn to overcome prejudices. Vishinsky's Propaganda "Last Thursday at a session of the General Assembly of the United Nations, Mr. Vishinsky, representing the Soviet Union, took occasion to excoriate very bitterly nearly every phase of United States foreign policy. He accused us of seeking war as part of a plan for world domination. Uninformed or uneducated people might be impressed by Mr. Vishinsky's charges. But the logic of the situation would convince an intelligent person that Mr. Vishinsky's speech must be written off as unmitigated propaganda, because no nation would be so foolish as to seek war⁠—as claimed by the Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister⁠—when it had just completed what is probably the fastest and most comprehensive demobilization program in the history of the world. Can there be any doubt next breath they bemoan the fact that One World is breaking up into two parts, forgetting that, as yet, there never has been anything approaching one world which could break up. It is only in our generation that a political organization, embracing all the nations of the world, has been attempted. Thus this is an age of creation⁠—the very early beginnings of the stupendous undertaking to unite all mankind . . . Can we impatiently expect to realize, in two years time, the idealistic aspirations of men of good will for many centuries? No, please don't be disheartened by the failure of your elders and forebears to solve everything quickly and once for all. The world needs your youthful idealism, and your hopeful exuberance. The Spirit of Oberlin "Since I came to Oberlin a year ago, I have been much impressed by the wide variety of extracurricular activities which flourish here. From football to archery, from 'bull sessions' to debating, from campus politics to mock conventions, from group functions to 'dating,' from purely social occasions to the more serious ones, you are afforded the widest choice of interesting absorptions. ". . . I believe Oberlin has a spirit of its own⁠—a soul, if you like. It is something peculiar to Oberlin, a tradition of actual democracy, a sense of public service, a social consciousness, a feeling of brotherhood which defies exact definition or explanation, and⁠—like Oxford or Cambridge⁠— cannot be attributed to any one particular element or factor. ". . . I urge every one of you to participate in college life so that you can experience and attain all that Oberlin can mean to you. And don't underestimate the importance of learning, through as much practical experience as possible, how to get along with all sorts of people them. Unless you succeed in being hermits, or possibly lighthouse keepers, you will have social and community responsibilities to face all through your lives. If you can manage to avoid difficulties with human beings you will largely succeed in avoiding all difficulties. Urges Chapel Attendance "Before closing, I wish to stress the importance of the assemblies, held here in Finney Chapel on Tuesdays and Thursdays of each week. They are the few occasions, amidst the distractions of the busy college year, when all of us, who are the members of the College, can unite for a few moments in a common purpose and sense the full implications of why we are here and what the College means. "Oberlin College is a totality which is greater than the sum of all of the parts which comprise the diverse absorptions and aspects of the college life. I believe that, entirely apart from the informative or inspirational benefits which are gained from the assemblies, there is great value in the mere fact of our meeting together. "I wish to place particular emphasis on the Thursday assemblies, which are chapel services of a non-sectarian religious nature. The founders of the College believed that knowledge, without faith in God and respectful worship of God, is insufficient for the full life. In other words, fully developed and responsive hearts are needed with which to apply the facts which are being learned and to motivate the intellects which are being trained. I believe that spiritual growth will be gained by participation in these weekly chapel services and I hope that a large number will attend them. "If our lives are to be purposeful and socially effective in these times of crisis and stress, we need a resurgence of faith in God and in the principles of Christianity." Sociological and anthropological knowledge is used in many ways by governmental, industrial, educational and welfare agencies. In recent years many sociologists and anthropologists have themselves served in administrative, advisory, and research capacities with numerous public and private agencies. Sociology and anthropology, together with related fields, are designed to contribute to the understanding of human relations. Through teaching and research, particularly in the areas of the family, race, population, industry, the community, and personality development, the members of the department of sociology and anthropology at Oberlin hope to render a significant service to society. The Department Members A few additional items about these faculty members will be of interest. (For detailed introduction to these members, see Second Quarter Bulletin, page 14.) Professor Simpson's interests are race relations, cultural anthropology, family relations, social structure and culture contact, especially in the Caribbean area. He is a member of the council of the American Folklore Society; a former president of the Philadelphia Anthropological Society; a Fellow of the American Anthropological Association; post-doctoral Fellow, Social Science Research Council, 1936-37; co-director, Institute of Race Relations, 1936; guest lecturer, West Indies Social Welfare Training Course, Kingston, Jamaica, November, 1946. Professor Simpson's publications include: Workbook in Sociology (with C. H. Schettler); The Negro in the Philadelphia Press; articles in sociological and anthropological journals on Negro-white relations; classification of newspaper content, criminology, Haitian peasant life, etc. He is now completing a monograph on Haitian peasant life. Professor Myers has written a number of articles in the professional interests, professionally, are industrial sociology, urban sociology, criminology, and social problems. Professor Yinger's chief interests are sociological and social psychological theory, research methods, race relations, economic and political institutions. His own research revolves around the study of power⁠—an attempt to define who, in any given social structure, makes the key decisions and what the basis of their authority is. He has recently published a volume relating to that theme, entitled Religion in the Struggle for Power. He is the author of two chapters in a work on social theory, now in press. The book is An Introduction to the History of Sociology, edited by H. E. Barnes. Professor Yinger's chapters deal with "The Systematic Sociology of Wiese," and "The Sociology of Religion of Troeltsch." Installing New Plaza Pavement Before Finney Chapel Marchers in academic processions in recent years have had to watch their steps somewhat because the old pavement of the Chapel Plaza was so broken by winter's frosts and the rains of many seasons. The cracked and broken pavement is now being replaced with new stones of a different type and in a different pattern. This was one of the major repair jobs begun during the past summer. The new pavement will be firmly based on a foundation of stone and concrete slab, so that it should be immune to weather ravages. Work is not yet completed as we go to press, but it is said that the principal part of the pavement will be a blue stone of a non-slippery quality, from quarries near Philadelphia. Each piece was cut in advance to fit its particular niche in the whole design and numbered for the guidance of workmen. Fourth Quarter, 1947 OBERLIN ALUMNI BULLETIN Three Students Give Republican Convention Big Vote Favor G.O.P. Over 4 Other Suggestions By vote of the students, the 1948 Mock Convention will be Republican. In an election held by the student body to determine the political character of the Convention, the G.O.P. received 1010 votes, 63 per cent of the total votes cast. The Democratic supporters cast 71 votes, those who favored a "Multi-partisan" Convention, 454; Non-partisan 52, Socialist, 1. James Clark, of Cleveland Heights, Ohio, chairman, believes the coming convention will be not only one of the most realistic but the most exciting in the long history of this Oberlin institution. There have been twenty-one previous Oberlin Mock Conventions, nineteen of them Republican. Oberlin candidates have won national elections nine times since the first convention choice of Abraham Lincoln in 1860. Trustees Appropriate $2,500 The college trustees appropriated $2,500 for pre-convention symposiums, such as those of the 1944 Nonpartisan Convention. These will bring leading authorities in various fields to fields to give talks and take part in discussions on major national issues. The student Forum Board plans a series of conferences on the British crisis, Russia, the Marshall Plan and the United Nations which will tie in with the Republican Mock Convention Symposiums. These conferences, too, will be addressed by men and women who are particularly well informed in the subject under discussion. Other Officers Secretary of the convention is David Cronon, a senior from Cleveland Heights. John Arbour, a senior form Worcester, Massachusetts, has been appointed treasurer; David Fowler, present editor of the Review, a senior from West Barrington, Rhode Island, will be the public relations chairman. He will be assisted by Wilson Bent, a senior from Kenilworth, Illinois, and James Sunshine of Cleveland Heights. NEW APPOINTMENT CALENDAR CONTAINS A CAMPUS SCENE FOR EVERY WEEK OF 1948 NEW "SNACK BAR" QUICKLY BECOMES POPULAR SPOT ON CAMPUS Only a very inadequate impression of the attractiveness and spaciousness of the students' new Snack Bar room in the Men's Building can be gained from the above picture. Already the most popular spot on campus, it is thronged with patrons day and night! Members of the College Prudential Committee gave the Snack Bark a pre-opening test. At the right in the picture is Miss Mary Van Allen, manager. Seated at the counter (left to right) are W. H. Seaman. director of admissions; J. C. Kennedy, assistant director of the Conservatory; President William E. Stevenson; Dean T. W. Graham of the seminary; L. S. Ries, superintendent of buildings and grounds; Athletic Director J. H. Nichols, Treasurer W. P. Davis. Standing in the background are Dean of Men E. F. Bosworth and Secretary Donald M. Love. The new snack bar which opened in Rec Hall on October 2 is a lively institution. Its patrons consume daily an average of 175 hamburgers and cheeseburgers, 250 milk shakes, innumerable sundaes and sodas, 75 ice cream bars, gallons and gallons of coffee, dozens of doughnuts, mountains of toast, and vast quantities of cokes. Miss Mary Van Allen is dietitian for both the snack bar and the cafeteria. There are 65 student workers under her direction, working in different shifts through seven days a week. Ask Trustees For Modern Housing Alumni Board Designates New Dorms for Women As 1948 Fund Goal Highlighting the actions taken by the Alumni Board at its annual meeting in Oberlin on November 1 and 2, was the adoption of a resolution recommending that the Oberlin College Board of Trustees undertake an integrated dormitory building program to provide adequate, modern housing for all Oberlin students. To implement this recommendation, the Board designated the objective of the 1948 Alumni Fund to be dormitories for women. Appoint Norman Shaw Norman R. Shaw, '26, managing editor of the Cleveland Press, was appointed by the Board to serve as chairman of the 1948 Alumni Fund. Mr. Shaw succeeds Walter K. Bailey, '19, who headed the successful funds of the past three years. Other important actions of the Board were: Request President's Report The adoption of a resolution requesting the President of the College to prepare an annual report about the college to be distributed to all graduates and interested non-graduates. Trustee Nominations Procedure The re-affirmation of its request made in 1946 to the Board of Trustees of the College for a change in the by-laws of the College to empower the Alumni Board with the right to nominate all candidates for the annual Alumni Trustee election. A committee of six, composed of the chairmen and vice-chairmen of the Class President's and the Alumni Club Councils and the past chairmen of these councils, was appointed to establish a procedure for gathering suggestions for the alumni body for Alumni Trustee candidates. Bailey Chairmans Committee Walter K. Bailey, '19, is chairman of a new committee of 11 alumni to work with President Stevenson in aid to the college. Magazine Free to $25 Donors The establishment of the policy of sending the Alumni Magazine free to all donors to the Alumni Fund who makes gifts of $25 or more. New Subscription Rates The establishment of a new multiple-year subscription rate for the Alumni Magazine. The new rate, effective December 1 is: one year $3, two years $5, three years $7; for each graduating class (in year of graduation only) one year $2, two years a senior from Worcester, Massachusetts, has been appointed treasurer; David Fowler, present editor of the Review, a senior from West Barrington, Rhode Island, will be the public relations chairman. He will be assisted by Wilson Bent, a senior from Kenilworth, Illinois, and James Sunshine of Cleveland Heights. New Appointment Calendar Contains A Campus Scene For Every Week of 1948 Fifty-five interesting and beautiful, nostalgia-creating pictures of the Oberlin College campus are contained in the college's new Appointment Calendar for 1948, now on sale in Oberlin's bookstores and the Oberlin College secretary's office. The calendar is recommended as a Christmas gift for anyone interested in Oberlin. Pictured above is a typical two-page spread in the booklet, which has a plastic ring binding so that it lays flat whenever opened. The week shown is October 17-23, 1948, with memo space for each day in the week on the right-hand page. There is a similar page for every week in the year. The left-hand pages all contain Oberlin scenes appropriate to the season of the year. In that pictured above are weather-beaten Peters Hall, good and grey, with the fall shadows of barren elms, the students hurrying between classes, the inevitable bicycles, and Finney Chapel in the distance. The calendar is priced at $1.00. (Mail orders, $1.10.) The enthusiasm which has greeted this new calendar ensures the continuation of its publication each year. Members of the College Prudential Committee gave the Snack Bar a pre-opening test. At the right in the picture is Miss Mary Van Allen, manager. Seated at the counter (left to right) are W. H. Seaman, director of admissions; J. C. Kennedy, assistant director of the Conservatory; President William E. Stevenson; Dean T. W. Graham of the seminary; L. S. Ries, superintendent of buildings and grounds; Athletic Director J. H. Nichols, Treasurer W. P. Davis. Standing in the background are Dean of Men E. F. Bosworth and Secretary Donald M. Love. The new snack bar which opened in Rec Hall on October 2 is a lively institution. Its patrons consume daily an average of 175 hamburgers and cheeseburgers, 250 milk shakes, innumerable sundaes and sodas, 75 ice cream bars, gallons and gallons of coffee, dozens of doughnuts, mountains of toast, and vast quantities of cokes. Miss Mary Van Allen is dietitian for both the snack bar and the cafeteria. There are 65 student workers under her direction, working in different shifts through seven days a week. The Review has said of it that the snack bar's coffee is the "best in town," the quality of the milkshakes "commendable," and "we really needed this place." Snack bar hours are 8:30 to 11:45 a. m., 2:30 to 6:00, and 7:00 to 11:40 p. m., Monday through Saturday, and 4 to 6 p. m. and 7 to 11:40 p. m. Sundays. The snack bar was built during the summer, one feature of the general remodeling, repairing and redecorating that went on. It is located in that area at the east end of the Men's Building basement once occupied by the ping pong tables. Booths constructed in a scalloped pattern are built along the south and east walls. The 32-foot snack bar is on the west side of the room. There are stainless steel tubular tables and chairs, finished in red leather to harmonize with the furniture in the adjoining lounge. Green leather covers the stools at the counter. A committee of six, composed of the chairmen and vice-chairmen of the Class Presidents' and the Alumni Club Councils and the past chairmen of these councils, was appointed to establish a procedure for gathering suggestions from the alumni body for Alumni Trustee candidates. Bailey Chairmans Committee Walker K. Bailey, '19, is chairman of a new committee of 11 alumni to work with President Stevenson in aid to the college. Magazine Free to $25 Donors The establishment of the policy of sending the Alumni Magazine free to all donors to the Alumni Fund who makes gifts of $25 or more. New Subscription Rates The establishment of a new multiple-year subscription rate for the Alumni Magazine. The new rate, effective December 1 is: on year $3, two years $5, three years $7; for each graduating class (in year of graduation only) one year $2, two years $3.50, three years $5. Large Group Present Present for the meetings were 23 of the 30 members of the Alumni Board. Alumni President Robert D. Fisher, '26, financial vice-president of the University of Southern California, was chairman of the meetings. In addition to the members of the Board, two representatives of the College Administration, Vice-President Harold S. Wood and Admissions Director William H. Seaman, and two members of the faculty, Assistant Professor of Economics Carl T. Arlt, and Associate Professor of German John W. Kurtz, were present at all meetings. President and Mrs. Stevenson were guests of the Board at dinner Saturday evening and participated in an informal discussion of matters of interest to the college and alumni. See Pages 6 and 7 For Reports of Important Club and Presidents Council Meetings Four OBERLIN ALUMNI BULLETIN Fourth Quarter, 1947 New Trends in Enrollment Revealed by Seaman NOTE⁠—Reprinted here (in part) is the talk to new students given by William H. Seaman, director of admissions and of the Bureau of Appointments, in Finney Chapel on September 18, at the beginning of the orientation period. WELCOME TO the new members of the Oberlin family⁠—to the class of '51 and to the new members of '50, '49, and '48 . . . Welcome to John Abma, to Dorothy Zuris, and to everyone of the 598 of you who stand alphabetically between. Welcome to the eight Johnsons, who, believe it or not, come almost exclusively from New England and the east⁠—not from Minnesota! Welcome to the seven Smiths, none of whom, so far as I know, is related to the famous bearded Cough Drop kings. Welcome to the four Thompsons; and to the many whose names appear in trio on the new student list (though in no case are they related)⁠—the Browns, the Clarks (Howard's is spelled with an e), the Davises, the Emerys, the Hansons, and the Nichols; not to neglect the four Gunthers, three of whom represent the first set of triplets in Oberlin history (the photogenic Anne, Joan, and Priscilla Gunther of Peterboro, New Hampshire). Mary Gunther, who is no relation, but is equally photogenic, hails from New York state. Fortunately for you men, who might otherwise find yourselves dating the wrong girl, they have resolved to live their individual and separate lives in four different residence halls. Truly International Group Welcome to Larry Kim, who leaped the almost insurmountable hurdles of the Korean occupation, to land in Oberlin last week; to Dorothee Leppman, who comes to us from Oxford, England, after extended previous residence and study in France and Iran; to Armando Ballotta, who flew from Buenos Aires a few weeks ago, a gentleman and a scholar in his own right, but who justly has an additional claim to fame as half-brother to the recently-pictured Argentine quintuplets; to David Clark, son of a British foreign official, who completed his secondary education in the unwelcome quarters of a Japanese internment camp in Shantung. These few names are selected to symbolize our welcome to each of you, whether you come from abroad (from China, England, India, Turkey, Switzerland, France, Norway or Argentina) or from some one of the 40 states, the District of Columbia, or Hawaii, which are all represented in this truly national and international class. . . . our happy dilemma⁠—and yours⁠—is now to begin to attach names to faces, and, better TRIPLET SISTERS ARE OBERLIN FRESHMEN Though, at their own request, they are "living their own lives" at three different Oberlin dormitories, the identical triplet daughters of Mrs. John Gunther of Hancock, New Hampshire, already have their freshman classmates and their professors somewhat confused as to which is which! Graduates last June, from Kendall Hall School, Peterboro, New Hampshire, Anne is living at Fairchild, Joan at Elmwood, and Priscilla at Churchill. They are enrolled in the College of Arts and Sciences. better or for worse," this is your College. For that reason, as well as for many others, we⁠—all of us, students, faculty, alumni⁠— shall consolidate ranks to make Oberlin a better college; indeed, if we can, a best college. "Why Are You Here?" And now that we have established your firm connection with the Oberlin enterprise, let me ask you what may prove to be an embarrassing question⁠—Why are you here? Some of you are here because your parents sent you; others because you couldn't resist Uncle Sam's tempting offer of a free education with most of the trimmings. Could it be that some of you came in order to be college-bred, on the assumption that higher education is a four-year loaf? If so, meet me back of the Chapel right after this assembly so I can share with you some of the facts of college life before it is too late. To be perfectly frank, let us say that possibly a few of the fair sex may have come to look over the happy hunting grounds ⁠—and what a sturdy lot of male animals there are! And to reverse the field, perhaps there is some lonely male who is aware that, though marriages may be made in heaven, co-educational colleges are handy instruments of divine revelation. Many of you have come to hew a straight path to some chosen profession and are here with intense seriousness about this college business. And to be perfectly fair, let us say that most of you, including the many [?]tions, is as much of a menace to world peace as any country in the world. We are only gradually learning that this is one world. when the American economy crashed in 1929, we set in motion the machinery of world wide depression which spawned Hitler and Mussolini and gave birth to World War II. It must not happen again. The Liberal Education Do these facts give special point and meaning to your education? Does this take liberal education out of the realm of comfortable speculation and leisurely cultivation of your own cultural gardens? You have a lot at stake in this enterprise. Does it concern you that the public often reveals its taste in reading, art, movies and the theatre at an escapist, if not a moronic level? That millions of us are so resourceless in our use of leisure time that we are victims of mass spectatoritis? That we have learned so little about how to produce stable and integrated families that divorce occurs in one out of every three marriages? Does it concern you that we have learned so few of the secrets of relaxed and sound personal living that diseases of hypertension are among the deadliest in our society, that our institutions for mental diseases are inadequate to carry the staggering load? Does it open perspective on the meaning of your college education to know that most people are deeply confused and uninformed on the important issues which confront them at the ballot box? That in our social and personal living most of those you will follow your life long, and when you develop hobby interests in classroom and out, you are equipping yourself to live fully and meaningfully. When you study psychology in the classroom and practice it on your campus mates in the give and take of college life, you are learning to live comfortably and with poise yourself, and to live happily and effectively with other people. When you take up mathematics and the sciences, you are learning desperately important disciplines of straight thinking and of reasoning from undisputed fact. And when you study philosophy and religion, or draw upon the resources of the religious chapels in this room, or take part in the many activities of the Y's and the local churches, you are achieving a deep and meaningful sense of your relationship to the ultimate realities. Will that do for an education? Is it worth it? "Introductions" . . . In the few minutes that remain I am going to restrict my remarks to an informal chat with you about yourselves⁠—to introduce you to yourselves. Yours is the largest entering group in Oberlin's history and could have been many times larger had not the College determined Two of the Many New Students from Abroad DAVID CLARK . . . at 17 is a veteran of five and a half years in Japanese internment camps in China; his father, an Australian, is in the British consular service. to call a halt in the interest of preserving the high quality of education with which the name Oberlin has come to be associated. The 407 freshman and the 55 transfer students in the College of Arts and Sciences and the 139 students in the Conservatory of Music constitute the survival of the fittest in the fiercest war of un-natural selection within the memory of man. If there is any member of this group, or indeed of the 1500 who failed to secure admission, who was not a personal friend of a U.S. senator, a prospective donor, members of the board of trustees, an Oberlin professor, or President and Mrs. Stevenson, that fact has escaped my attention. The possibilities of either graft or serious bodily injury have been well nigh unlimited. The insurance rates for admissions officers have been mounting steadily. 328 Men; 273 Women It is only fair to warn the stronger sex that the males outnumber the females in this group by 328 to 237, a ratio which will probably be true for the college as a whole. Get your "Wolf Book" early. The line forms on the right. Perhaps the most striking fact about last year's student group at Oberlin, and at most American colleges, was that the veteran's group comprised 70% of the male enrollment. There were more than 800 veterans on campus. While it will still be true that the majority of the men on campus for this coming year will still be veterans, it is evident that a sharp turn in the tide has come, for the veterans group comprises only 10% of the men in this new freshman class and only slightly more than half of the men transferring from other colleges. Perhaps as a consequence of the extraordinary pressure for admission to eastern colleges, perhaps partly as an evidence of the increasing interest in regional cross-fertilization in education, more than 25% of this new Oberlin group comes from private preparatory schools, mainly from the eastern seabord, in contrast to the customary 15%. While the predominant group at Oberlin is, and will doubtless remain, graduates of the strong public high schools, we heartily welcome this new interest of the private schools in mid-western colleges, the breaking of the provincial lock-step toward eastern colleges, and the chance which it affords for a thorough intermingling of the publicly and privately educated groups. Naturally, the present campus differs sharply from the pre-war campus in the matter of the age of students. While your group resembles the pre-war campus more nearly than last year's group (80% of you are the typical college entering age of 17 England, after extended previous residence and study in France and Iran; to Armando Ballotta, who flew from Buenos Aires a few weeks ago, a gentleman and a scholar in his own right, but who justly has an additional claim to frame as half-brother to the recently-pictured Argentine quintuplets; to David Clark, son of a British foreign official, who completed his secondary education in the unwelcome quarters of a Japanese internment camp in Shantung. These few names are selected to symbolize our welcome to each of you, whether you come from abroad (from China, England, India, Turkey, Switzerland, France, Norway or Argentina) or from some one of the 40 states, the District of Columbia, or Hawaii, which are all represented in this truly national and international class. . . . our happy dilemma⁠—and yours⁠—is now to begin to attach names to faces, and, better still, to come into fuller acquaintanceship and life-long friendship, with a group of such rich background and fine potentiality as yours. . . . your welcome and introduction will be made more complete as the 600 of you join the 1600 former students next Monday for the big year to come. And if we take the long look ahead, you are now, in a very real sense, joining the broader Oberlin family of 28,000 graduates and non-graduates to be found in every state in this country and in almost every country in the world. Whether you are in the large majority of this new entering group who will go through to the Oberlin degree, or whether you are in the minority, who for a variety of reasons, best known to you⁠—or perhaps to the faculty ⁠—may stop short of that goal, you are, and will remain, a real part of Oberlin. Once a member of the Oberlin family, always a member. In the words of the marriage ceremony, "for education with most of the trimmings. Could it be that some of you came in order to be college-bred, on the assumption that higher education is a four-year loaf? If so, meet me back of the Chapel right after this assembly so I can share with you some of the facts of college life before it is too late. To be perfectly frank, let us say that possibly a few of the fair sex may have come to look over the happy hunting grounds ⁠—and what a sturdy lot of male animals there are! And to reverse the field, perhaps there is some lonely male who is aware that, though marriages may be made in heaven, co-educational colleges are handy instruments of divine revelation. Many of you have come to hew a straight path to some chosen profession and are here with intense seriousness about this college business. And to be perfectly fair, let us say that most of you, including the many who are not yet ready to commit yourselves to study for a particular profession, are coming with equal seriousness in the high and justifiable hope that college will help you to live fully and honorably and wisely in this tormented world. A Deadly Serious Business Education today is a serious business⁠—deadly serious. Informed writers, not given to reckless statement, are proclaiming that we have not more than five to ten years in which to perfect a framework of world government or face the consequences of atomic and bacteriological warfare which will bring wholesale murder and the final ruin of the structure of life for both parties to the conflict and the millions who are sucked into the vortex. . . . Until we do solve the problem of high production and equitable distribution, America the land of the free, the champion of oppressed peoples, the defender of the rights of small na-[tions] cultural gardens: You have a lot at stake in this enterprise. Does it concern you that the public often reveals its taste in reading, art, movies and the theatre at an escapist, if not a moronic level? That millions of us are so resourceless in our use of leisure time that we are victims of mass spectatoritis? That we have learned so little about how to produce stable and integrated families that divorce occurs in one out of every three marriages? Does it concern you that we have learned so few of the secrets of relaxed and sound personal living that diseases of hypertension are among the deadliest in our society, that our institutions for mental diseases are inadequate to carry out staggering load? Does it open perspective on the meaning of your college education to know that most people are deeply confused and uninformed on the important issues which confront them at the ballot box? That in our social and personal living most of us have never dug down to the most basic facts and experiences and thus have no integrated social philosophy or philosophy of life? Of course it does. When you attend Oberlin's regular weekly assemblies and special post-war problems meetings, when you study the social sciences, take part in forum activities, write for the Review or read its ubiquitous columnists, when you indulge in some of the serious bull sessions you'll find around here or help raise the level of table conversation by battling around some of the more important contemporary social issues, you are equipping yourself to understand the society, national and international, in which you live and in which you must and will assume leadership. When you study art, literature, music, and language, or express yourself in these fields in some of the many available student activities, when you learn the rudiments of sports, particularly DAVID CLARK . . . at 17 is a veteran of five and a half years in Japanese internment camps in China; his father, an Australian, is in the British consular service. ARMANDO BALLOTTA . . . from Buenos Aires, Argentina, and an older step-brother of the famous Dilligenti quintuplets. Perhaps as a consequence of the extraordinary pressure for admission to eastern colleges, perhaps partly as an evidence of the increasing interest in regional cross-fertilization in education, more than 25% of this new Oberlin group comes from private preparatory schools, mainly from the eastern seaboard, in contrast to the customary 15%. While the predominant group at Oberlin is, and will doubtless remain, graduates of the strong public high schools, we heartily welcome this new interest of the private schools in mid-western colleges, the breaking of the provincial lock-step towards eastern colleges, and the chance which it affords for a thorough intermingling of the publicly and privately educated groups. Naturally, the present campus differs sharply from the pre-war campus in the matter of the age of students. While your group resembles the pre-war campus more nearly than last year's group (80% of you are the typical college entering age of 17 and 18), nevertheless your group ranges from seven 16-year-olds to a seasoned veteran of 27 years. Thirty-nine of you are 19 years of age, 33 are 20 and 36 over 20. The 16-year-olds may address the 27-year-old as uncle if they prefer, but I suspect that in the amalgam of the Oberlin democracy where, confronted with the tortures of the bluebook and the professorial inquisition, all men are brothers, we shall find these age distinctions fading. Concerning Group Prejudices We like to think of ourselves as a thoroughly democratic and widely representative group. It is true that so far as residence is concerned Oberlin has a student body truly national and international in character. True, there are among us children of mechanics and gas station attendants, as well as bank presidents and corporation executives. But on the whole you do represent (Continued on Page 5) Fourth Quarter, 1947 OBERLIN ALUMNI BULLETIN Five New Trends (Continued from Page 4) resent the favored economic classes, who are able to send their sons and daughters in great numbers to the tuition colleges. Your sympathy for the cause of the farmer and the laboring man must necessarily be second hand, for contrary to the occupational distribution in the country at large, only 8% of your parents belong strictly to the large farm and laboring groups. You come bearing with you the advantages and prejudices of the professional people⁠—teachers, doctors, lawyers, ministers (33% of you)⁠— and of the owner and executive groups in transportation, business, manufacturing, building construction, and the various public services (51% of you). Many are accustomed to the ways and tempo of the big city ⁠—for three-fifths of you come from the larger urban and suburban areas. And some of you may find momentary difficulty in the transition to life in a village of 4,000 where quiet reigns for blessed intervals and where the sidewalks are rolled up at 10 p.m. Then, too, one-fifth of you are shifting from high school classes numbering anywhere from 350 to 1,000 to a much smaller class. Don't make the mistake of underestimating Oberlin because it isn't quite as sizeable as the hometown high school. If the work is too easy, notify the dean and he'll arrange for special reading. Scholastic Competition Is Stiff So much has been said about scholastic competition at Oberlin, the facts about your high school and prep school records scarcely need underlining. In the College group, which is the only group whose scholastic standing I have yet computed, practically all of you stood among the better half of your graduating classes, 80% of you in the top quarter, and more than half of you in the upper 10% or better. Gone are the forgotten men from the lower two-thirds of the high school population beside whom you were shining luminaries, and who made the high school competition pleasant to behold. If these sobering facts make you resolve to improve each shining hour, you are well advised. If these facts also provide some of you with mild consolation after the mid-term grade reports, so be it. Not all of you can make A's and B's. The professors just won't hear to it. While you have carved out for yourselves a strong scholastic record, your abilities and interests range far beyond the classroom. So many of you have held prominent offices as presidents, editors, debate champs, sports captains, orchestra maestros and the like, one sometimes wonders which of you at Oberlin will be the buck privates in an army composed largely of generals. HEADS HOSPITAL BOARD Professor C. V. Newsom, head of the mathematics department has recently been appointed, by the Prudential Committee of Oberlin College, as chairman of the board of managers of Allen Hospital. He replaces Dr. R. W. Bradshaw, who is on a year's leave of absence from his position as chairman of the board and director of the hospital. New members of the board are Dr. Dudley B. Reed, who was recently named head of the college health service, Dr. A. C. Siddall of the medical staff, and Miss Katherine von Wenck, acting dean of women. Other members of the board, who represent both the college and the village are J. R. Haylor, William P. Davis, and Mrs. W. E. Stevenson. It was announced that the reorganization of the board is temporary, but Mr. Newsom emphasized that in spite of this, the members intend to study the hospital's needs in the community and work toward improvement. ACTING COLLEGE PHYSICIAN Dr. Dudley B. Reed of Oberlin, a graduate with the class of 1903, has been appointed acting college physician for one year, during the sabbatical leave of absence of Dr. Raymond W. Bradshaw, college physician and director of the Allen Hospital. Dr. Reed studied medicine at Columbia University and then taught in the physical education department of the University of Chicago where he was, for some years, director of the Student Health Service. Information Concerning New Members of College Faculty Information concerning the new members of the Oberlin College faculty, appointed recently, is listed as follows from the college's publicity bureau: Charles T. Murphy Associate Professor of Classics Mr. Murphy is an honors graduate of Harvard. He held the Charles Elliott Norton Fellowship at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, and also traveled in a number of European countries. He holds both his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard. His teaching experience includes positions at Harvard and, since 1940, at Princeton. He is co-author of two books with Professor Whitney J. Oates and has published several articles and some translations, and is a contributing editor of the Classical Weekly. Ransom R. Patrick Associate Professor of Fine Arts Mr. Patrick majored in art and philosophy at the University of Washington where he received his A.B. degree. He holds the degree of master of fine arts from Princeton University and has been doing his doctoral work Veteran of Polish Airforce Stefan Krayk Assistant Professor of Violin Mr. Krayk's elementary education was received in Poland. He later studied law for two years at the Sorbonne and was graduated from the Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris in 1935. He was a pupil of Carl Flesch for six years, acting as his assistant teacher for two and one-half years. For one year he taught at the Royal Academy of Music College, College of the City of New York and private teaching. He has been soloist at St. James Episcopal and Temple Emmanuel Church in New York, and has sung as soloist with choral organizations, in recitals, and in various operas at Julliard and Lake Chautauqua. Jack Radunsky Assistant Professor of Piano Mr. Radunsky was graduated from the University of Wisconsin with the A.B. degree, and received his musical education at the Chicago Musical College, the Julliard Graduate School, and Teachers College, Columbia University. He has studied with Alexander Raab, Lillian Powers, Percy Grainger, Ernest Hutcheson, theory with Rubin Goldmark and Bernard Wagenaar, laymen's music with Olga Samaroff-Stokowski, and has had work in conducting. Mr. Radunsky was coach and assistant conductor for three summers with the Chautauqua Opera Company at Chautauqua, N. Y., under Albert Stoessel. He served as pianist and manager on tour for Junior Programs, Inc., N. Y. C., for four seasons. Since June, 1943, he has been with the USO, most recently at Junction City, Kansas, as director of Wainwright USO. He has taught private classes and given individual instruction in piano. Bessie Stalnaker Morgan Ass't Professor, Physical Education Mrs. Morgan has her B.A. degree from Fairmont State College and is now a candidate for the M.A. degree at the University of Wisconsin. She has also studied at the University of Missouri. Her teaching experience covers about eight years in the schools of West Virginia, and she has been supervisor of physical education training in Marquette, Mich. During the past year, she has been an instructor at Ohio Wesleyan. Lawrence A. Wilson Ass't Professor, Romance Languages Mr. Wilson graduated magna cum laude from the University of Minnesota in 1935. He also received his M.A. and his Ph.D. degrees from the University of Minnesota. His teaching experience includes service at one of the Minnesota State Teachers Colleges and six years as instructor at the University of Minnesota. In addition to his teaching, Dr. Wilson has taken an active part in the student counselling program at Minnesota and in activities of the university broadcasting station. Mary Elizabeth Lasley Assistant Professor of Piano Miss Lasley has studied at Juilliard Institute of Musical Art, has a bachelor of science degree from Columbia University, and has studied privately with James Friskin and Joseph Lhevinne. Before coming to Oberlin MIss Lansley taught at the Manhattan School of Music, Foxcroft School, Barrington School, Juilliard, and did private teaching. Ralph Harold Turner Harriette V. Bartoo Instructor in Botany Mrs. Bartoo is a graduate of Hiram College and received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. She comes to Oberlin from the Williamsport-Dickinson Junior College in Pennsylvania, where she has taught for the past three years. Arnold Blackburn Instructor in Organ Mr. Blackburn, '41, holds a bachelor of music degree from Oberlin and a master of music from University of Michigan. For the past two years he has taught at Southwestern College in Winfield, Kansas. He has had six years' experience as organist and choir master in churches in Ann Arbor and Winfield. Thomas Cramer Instructor in Theory Mr. Cramer, '41, received the degree of Bachelor of School Music from Oberlin. He was put in charge of the band of the 13th Armored Division following attendance at Band Masters School, where he finished the course as a Warrant Officer. For the past year and a half he has been an assistant in theory and musicology at the University of Chicago. Irene Alma Moke Instructor in Geography Miss Moke has her bachelor of science degree from Ohio University and her A.M. and Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska. She has also done graduate work at Columbia and field research in New Mexico. Her teaching experience began with high school work in Ohio and includes three years as instructor at the University of Nebraska. During the past two years she has been employed as a regional specialist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture. William Arthur Turner Instructor in English W. A. Turner was graduated from Franklin College, Indiana, with high distinction, and has his Ph.D. from Ohio State University. His extra-curricular activities as an undergraduate included music, journalism, and forensics. His teaching experience covers a total of six years, three as fulltime instructor at Ohio State. Paulene Hadaway Instructor in German Miss Hadaway has her A.B. degree from the University of Georgia where she was graduated with Phi Beta Kappa honors. From 1934 to 1936 she was an exchange student at the University of Freiburg in Germany. She has also studied at Duke University and the University of Havana. She received her A.M. degree at the University of Wisconsin in 1943, and has completed nearly all her work for the doctor's degree at that university. Miss Hadaway's teaching experience includes six years at Chatham Hall and four years at Hollins College in Virginia. Marta Vinole y Cardozo Grad Assistant in Languages Gone are the forgotten men from the lower two-thirds of the high school population beside whom you were shining luminaries, and who made the high school competition pleasant to behold. If these sobering facts make you resolve to improve each shining hour, you are well advised. If these facts also provide some of you with mild consolation after the mid-term grade reports, so be it. Not all of you can make A's and B's. The professors just won't hear to it. While you have carved out for yourselves a strong scholastic record, your abilities and interests range far beyond the classroom. So many of you have held prominent offices as presidents, editors, debate champs, sports captains, orchestra maestros and the like, one sometimes wonders which of you at Oberlin will be the buck privates in an army composed largely of generals. "Could Run A Circus" One young man is typical of a great many others. Besides placing scholastically in the top three of his class, he served for three years on the school annual staff and as editor-in-chief his senior year, was speaker on an interschool panel discussion for two years, took the lead in a number of high school plays, sang in the school choral groups, made drawings for the year book and charts for his biology class, was class president in the freshman and senior years, won varsity letters in football, track and crosscountry, was the number one man of a gymnastic team, received the Rotary Club key for service to the school and high scholarship. Finding time hanging heavy on his hands, he took up aviation, was awarded a Flight Scholarship by the Civil Air Patrol and was leader of the Civil Air Patrol squadron in his home town before departure for military service in the Air Corps Charles T. Murphy Associate Professor of Classics Mr. Murphy is an honors graduate of Harvard. He held the Charles Elliott Norton Fellowship at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, and also traveled in a number of European countries. He holds both his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard. His teaching experience includes positions at Harvard and, since 1940, at Princeton. He is co-author of two books with Professor Whitney J. Oates and has published several articles and some translations, and is a contributing editor of the Classical Weekly. Ransom R. Patrick Associate Professor of Fine Arts Mr. Patrick majored in art and philosophy at the University of Washington where he received his A.B. degree. He holds the degree of master of fine arts from Princeton University and has been doing his doctoral work there. He has had extended experience in advertising art and painting. In 1937 and 1938, Mr. Patrick supervised the Federal Art Project in Seattle, Washington. A number of his water colors have been exhibited in the Allen Museum of Art. ___________ in the European theater. These, of course, were only his principal organizational activities, but on the side he took up microscopy, astronomy, photography, dancing, symphonies, collected invertebrate animals of which he made cultures for microscopic study, collected Indian relics, and read philosophy, besides holding jobs to earn his own clothing for the last five years. One of his teachers also reported that he had a particular flair for language study and learning Yogi muscle control. He is headed professionally for medicine and psychiatry, but from the foregoing I imagine that if times got bad, he could stop and run a circus any time. Stefan Krayk Assistant Professor of Violin Mr. Krayk's elementary education was received in Poland. He later studied law for two years at the Sorbonne and was graduated from the Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris in 1935. He was a pupil of Carl Flesch for six years, acting as his assistant teacher for two and one-half years. For one year he taught at the Royal Academy of Music in London. He has made concert appearances in recitals and with the major orchestras on the continent, and also lecture tours. In 1939, Mr. Krayk joined the Polish Air Force and transferred in England from the Polish Reserve into the U. S. Army, serving from 1943 to 1946. Upon discharge from the army in 1946, Mr. Krayk began teaching at the New School of Music in Philadelphia, and joined the Philadelphia Orchestra. Lloyd Linder Assistant Professor of Singing Mr. Linder, '37, holds the bachelor of arts from the University of Akron and the bachelor of music from the Oberlin Conservatory, and has studied also at the Juilliard Graduate School and privately with Mrs. William Neidlinger and Eva Gautier. He has a master of music degree from Columbia University. Mr. Linder's teaching experience includes work at Mt. Union of Minnesota in 1935. He also received his M.A. and his Ph.D. degrees from the University of Minnesota. His teaching experience includes service at one of the Minnesota State Teachers colleges and six years as instructor at the University of Minnesota. In addition to his teaching, Dr. Wilson has taken an active part in the student counselling program at Minnesota and in activities of the university broadcasting station. Mary Elizabeth Lasley Assistant Professor of Piano Miss Lasley has studied at Juilliard Institute of Musical Art, has a bachelor of science degree from Columbia University, and has studied privately with James Friskin and Joseph Lhevinne. Before coming to Oberlin Miss Lasley taught at the Manhattan School of Music, Foxcroft School, Barrington School, Juilliard, and did private teaching. Ralph Harold Turner Assistant Professor of Psychology R. H. Turner comes to Oberlin from a position as a research fellow for the Upjohn Institute for Community Research at Kalamazoo, Michigan. An honors graduate of Ohio Wesleyan, where he also received his M.A. degree, Mr. Turner has done graduate work in psychology at Ohio State University. He has taught at both Ohio Wesleyan and Ohio State. At the latter institution he had special charge of remedial courses for several years. During the war he served as an aviation psychologist and did part-time work for the United States Employment Service. In 1942 he was awarded a national research council fellowship. William E. Kennick Instructor in Philosophy Mr. Kennick received his A.B. from Oberlin in 1945, with highest honors. He then went to Cornell University as a graduate fellow in philosophy. During the past year he has been in the U.S. Army. [in-]cluded music, journalism, and forensics. His teaching experience covers a total of six years, three as fulltime instructor at Ohio State. Paulene Hadaway Instructor in German Miss Hadaway has her A.B. degree from the University of Georgia where she was graduated with Phi Beta Kappa honors. From 1934 to 1936 she was an exchange student at the University of Freiburg in Germany. She has also studied at Duke University and the University of Havana. She received her A.M. degree at the University of Wisconsin in 1943, and has completed nearly all her work for the doctor's degree at that university. Miss Hadaway's teaching experience includes six years at Chatham Hall and four years at Hollins College in Virginia. Marta Vinole y Cardozo Grad Assistant in Languages Miss Vinole comes to Oberlin from Argentina, where she has been studying in the faculty of philosophy and humanities at the Cordoba University, following her graduation from the department of languages of that institution. French Exchange Student Francis-Gilbert Naves has been appointed to be French Exchange Student for 1947-48. He is the son of the late Raymond Naves, well-known Voltaire scholar, who was a professor at Toulouse. Mr. Naves has his bachelor's degree from Toulouse, and has studied one year in the Faculty of Law there. He was a member for several years of the French Underground. He plans to specialize in economics and to study American industrial methods. Pilar Mira Assistant in Romance Languages A native of Buenos Aires, Miss Mira will study in the Conservatory in addition to her teaching in the College. Six Oberlin Alumni Bulletin Fourth Quarter, 1947 Yeoman Grid Team Aims At .500 Mark The Oberlin Review's pre-season prophecy that "good games, rather than victories, will mark this year's schedule, with only a fair chance of breaking even in eight games," appears to be proving out for Oberlin's 1947 varsity football team. As this Bulletin goes to press the Yeoman grid record consists of two victories and three defeats in five hard fought battles, and with three more to go. Oberlin 25⁠—Allegheny 9 Scoring in every quarter, Oberlin opened its season with an impressive 25 to 9 victory over Allegheny. The 'Gators were a much improved ball club over the one which lost to the Yeomen, 62-0, a year ago. They had a new coach, were well drilled and pointed toward an upset. They rolled up 13 first downs to Oberlin's 8 but the Yeomen "had it" in the clutch. Addy Addison scored the season's first touchdown, and Dick Johnson went over for three more. Oberlin 7⁠—Washington 35 After battling the Washington University Bears on almost even terms the first two periods, the Yeomen succumbed to the more powerful invaders in the last half and lost their home opener, 35 to 7. The game, at least during the first 30 minutes, was not nearly as lopsided as the final score indicates. The Yeomen played inspired ball against their much heavier opponents. By the second half, Washington's tremendous weight advantage began to show, and the visitors has the scoring opportunities all to themselves. Despite the defeat, the Yeomen played a good brand of football. Bill Weaver at fullback averaged six yards whenever he carried the ball, and Johnson and Parks averaged about four. Oberlin 20⁠—Hamilton 7 Performing before a large homecoming day crowd, the Yeomen attack wheezed and coughed in the first quarter but went into high gear in the final three periods to down Hamilton's Continentals, 20 to 7. The Yeomen offensive began to roll in the second quarter and with four minutes left Breckenridge climaxed a 71-yard drive, skirting left end from the three to score. Addison's kick was good. Earlier in the period Weaver had gone over right tackle and streaked down the sideline 62 yards to cross the goal line but the play was nullified by a penalty for backfield in motion CUPS PRESENTED FOR BEST HOMECOMING DECORATIONS Carolyn Kirkham, senior from San Antonio, Texas, president of Webster Hall, received the silver cup presented to Webster as the most cleverly decorated dormitory at Homecoming. Francis E. Gray, '17, Hartford, Connecticut, president of the Alumni Club Council presented the cup. At the right is Tom Harris, '33, alumni secretary. FOOTBALL SCHEDULE O. Opp. Oct. 4 at Allegheny 25 9 11 Washington 7 35 18 Hamilton 20 7 25 at Denison 0 33 Nov. 1 at Wooster 7 20 8 at Wabash 15 Muskingum 22 Ohio Wesleyan ______________________________ Oberlin was on the march again at the end of the third period and an 88-yard drive was climaxed on the seventh play of the final quarter with Johnson over right tackle for the score. Addison again split the uprights. Hamilton drove from the next kickoff to their only score. A combination running and passing attack carried them to the Oberlin 16 where the Yeomen held for downs, but a 15-yard penalty moved the ball to the three from where they finally pushed it over in three rushes. Oberlin 0⁠—Denison 33 Oberlin dropped its second game, when over-powered by Denison University, 33 to 0, at Granville. It was the fifth straight victory for the Big Red which is gunning for its first undefeated season in 56 years of football. Much like the Washington game, Oberlin started out strong but were unable to maintain a sustained drive against the heavier and faster Big Red team. Oberlin outgained Denison in the opening quarter and trailed by only 7-0, but the Big Red turned on the power to tally two more touchdowns in each of the following two periods. Oberlin 7⁠—Wooster 20 Capitalizing on the breaks, Wooster handed the Yeomen Andrew Stofan (right), Oberlin photographer, won the Homecoming cup for the best decorated business establishment. It was presented by Robert Kroc, '29, Hempstead, New York, president of the Class Presidents' Council. CROSS COUNTRY SCHEDULE (Low Score Wins) O. Opp. Oct. 18 Slippery Rock 15 50 22 Baldwin-Wallace 24 35 25 at Denison 17 46 Nov. 1 at Wooster 21 36 5 at Case 30 27 15 Ohio Conference Run 20 Ohio Wesleyan SOCCER SCHEDULE O. Opp. Oct. 10 Slippery Rock 1 0 17 at Wheaton 4 6 Clubs Seek Effective Way To Assist the College Under the chairmanship of Francis E. Gray, '17, the Alumni Club Council met in Oberlin October 18-19 to exchange ideas for making club programs attractive and worthwhile and to consider how the clubs can assist in the work of the Alumni Association and the College. Representatives from 39 clubs, ranging geographically from Los Angeles to Boston and Winter Park, Florida, offered suggestions for bringing student speakers to the clubs to present their views of campus news, informal See Picture and Further Reports of Meetings, Page 7 get-togethers such as picnics which do not involve expensive dinners and after-dinner speeches, and meetings built around Oberlinians in the groups who can offer educational and entertaining programs. Vocational Guidance Plan After hearing the report of William G. Kearney, x'15, chairman of the Vocational Guidance Committee, which recommended that the College fully realize the importance of placement help and occupational information, and that more attention be paid to off-campus counseling, the representatives offered their assistance in giving vocational information to students and graduates in their respective areas and occupational fields. William H. Seaman, director of admissions and the Bureau of Appointments, described his plan for expanding vocational guidance services on the campus, which included: (1) additional time allotted by competent faculty members to a more personalized program of educational and vocational counseling; (2) a trained vocational counselor who would coordinate the faculty counselors and do testing and further guidance in addition; (3) a summer job placement service to encourage vacation work and assist in placement. Voting support of Mr. Seaman's plan and requesting the Alumni Board to pass the committee's report on to the proper College officials, the group placed themselves at Mr. Seaman's disposal as willing to aid in giving vocational information and helping students to find jobs. Nomination of Trustee Candidates Following discussion of the pros and cons of placing full responsibility for actual nomination of the alumni-elected trustees in the hands of the Alumni Board, the Council voted to endorse the Alumni Board committee's report that this be done. To Publicize College The clubs' place in the Alumni Fund campaigns was defined Elect Doerschuk At the final session John Doershuck, '33, president of the New York City club, was elected chairman of the Council for the coming year. Mrs. Peter B. Auerbach (Kathryn Skeel, x'43) of Columbus was elected vice-chairman to succeed Mrs. Ralph T. Hisey (Anne Billington, '22) of Cleveland. The chairman and vice-chairman of the Council are ex officio members of the Alumni Board. Those Who Attended Club presidents or their delegated representatives who attended the Alumni Club Council sessions in Oberlin October 18 and 19 were: Los Angeles, Vernon C. Robinson, '25; San Francisco, Allen Arnold, '44; Connecticut, Hartford, Francis E. Gray, '17, chairman; Connecticut, New Haven, George F. Mahl, '39; Washington, D. C., Mrs. Albert G. Sims (Ruth Leiserson, '40); Florida, Winter Park, Prof. W. J. Horner, '96. Chicago, M. Alice Ward, '15; Chicago Women, Mrs. Sidney Hull (Nina Smith, '09); Chicago Younger Club, Jacob H. Martin, '42; Illinois, North Shore Women, Mrs. Philip Gott (Ethel Hastings, x'19); Illinois, Oak Park Women, Marion Siler, '41. Baltimore, Major Roland V. Tiede, '33; Boston, William Mezger, '38; Massachusetts, Springfield, Mrs. Merton Cottrell (Ellen Birnie, '32); Detroit, Lawrence E. Good, '38; Michigan, Grand Rapids, Dorothy Blake, '11; Minnesota, Minneapolis & St. Paul, Harold L. Henderson, '14; Omaha, Fred Loomis, '96. New York, Binghamton, Arthur F. Baker, '11; Buffalo, Mary Miller, '47; New York, Ithaca, Carolyn MacDaniels, '47; New York City, John L. Doerschuk, '33, chairman-elect; New York City, Younger Club, Andre A. Emmerich, '44; New York, Rochester, Robert J. Porter, '40; New York, Syracuse, Margaret E. Ruby, '42; New York City, Women, Mrs. Donald Schnaidt (Kathryn Zinzow, '39). Akron, Dr. R. A. Briggs, '35; William G. Kearney, x'15; Akron Women, Mrs. W. H. Knowlton Canton, Mrs. Archie Rader (Delores Gintert, '31); Cleveland, Reginald W. Twiggs, '39; Cleveland Women, Mrs. Ralph Hisey (Anne Billington, '22), vice-chairman; Columbus Women, Kathryn Hopwood, '30; Mrs. Peter Auerbach (Kathryn Skeel, x'42), vice-chairman-elect; Columbus, Peter B. Auerbach, '42; Dayton, John F. Haines, '32; Toledo, Mrs. Robert Barber (Wrey Warner, '22); Youngstown Women, Mrs. Frank Tear (Marie Sol-[ler,] Oberlin 20⁠—Hamilton 7 Performing before a large homecoming day crowd, the Yeoman attack wheezed and coughed in the first quarter but went into high gear in the final three periods to down Hamilton's Continentals, 20 to 7. The Yeoman offensive began to roll in the second quarter and with four minutes left Breckenridge climaxed a 71-yard drive, skirting left end from the three to score. Addison's kick was good. Earlier in the period Weaver had gone over right tackle and streaked down the sideline 62 yards to cross the goal line but the play was nullified by a penalty for backfield in motion. In the third quarter, it was Johnson, Breckenridge and Weaver again on a 54-yard drive which was sparked by a 27-ward punt return by Johnson. Weaver went over right guard to score. Oberlin dropped its second game, when over-powered by Denison University, 33 to 0, at Granville. It was the fifth straight victory for the Big Red which is gunning for its first undefeated season in 56 years of football. Much like the Washington game, Oberlin started out strong but were unable to maintain a sustained drive against the heavier and faster Big Red team. Oberlin outgained Denison in the opening quarter and trailed by only 7-0, but the Big Red turned on the power to tally two more touchdowns in each of the following two periods. Oberlin 7⁠—Wooster 20 Capitalizing on the breaks, Wooster handed the Yeomen their third defeat, at Wooster, on November 1, 20 to 7, nearly evening up the all-time football record for the two schools. Oberlin has a one-game margin with 17 victories to 16. It was presented by Robert Kroc, '29, Hempstead, New York, president of the Class Presidents' Council. CROSS COUNTRY SCHEDULE (Low Score Wins) O. Opp. Oct. 18 Slippery Rock 15 50 22 Baldwin-Wallace 24 35 25 at Denison 17 46 Nov. 1 at Wooster 21 36 5 at Case 30 27 15 Ohio Conference Run 20 Ohio Wesleyan SOCCER SCHEDULE O. Opp. Oct. 10 Slippery Rock 1 0 17 at Wheaton 4 6 18 at Chicago 3 0 25 Kenyon 2 1 31 Allegheny 2 0 Nov. 8 Chicago 15 at Carnegie Tech 20 at Kenyon to encourage vacation work and assist in placement. Voting support of Mr. Seaman's plan and requesting the Alumni Board to pass the committee's report on the proper College officials, the group placed themselves at Mr. Seaman's disposal as willing to aid in giving vocational information and helping students to find jobs. Nomination of Trustee Candidates Following discussion of the pros and cons of placing full responsibility for actual nomination of the alumni-elected trustees in the hands of the Alumni Board, the Council voted to endorse the Alumni Board committee's report that this be done. To Publicize College The clubs' place in the Alumni Fund campaigns was defined by the Council as not one of active solicitation, but of publicizing the needs of the College and encouraging Oberlinians to participate in the Fund drives through their class agents. [Ro-]chester, Robert J. Porter, '40; New York, Syracuse, Margaret E. Ruby, '42; New York City, Women, Mrs. Donald Schnaidt (Kathryn Zinzow, '39). Akron, Dr. R. A. Briggs, '35; William G. Kearney, x'15; Akron Women, Mrs. W. H. Knowlton Canton, Mrs. Archie Rader (Delores Gintert, '31); Cleveland, Reginald W. Twiggs, '39; Cleveland Women, Mrs. Ralph Hisey (Anne Billington, '22), vice-chairman; Columbus Women, Kathryn Hopwood, '30; Mrs. Peter Auerbach (Kathryn Skeel, x'42), vice-chairman-elect; Columbus, Peter B. Auerbach, '42; Dayton, John F. Haines, '32; Toledo, Mrs. Robert Barber (Wrey Warner, '22); Youngstown Women, Mrs. Frank Tear (Marie Soller, '13). Pennsylvania, Erie, William Saint, '42; Philadelphia, John B. Owen, '30; Pittsburgh, Mrs. Roger Ingham (Sylvia Geegan, '39). RECENTLY ELECTED TO THREE-YEAR TERMS ON ALUMNI BOARD AS MEMBERS-AT-LARGE REPRESENTING DECADE GROUPS Richard H. Long, '06 . . . for Classes through '07 Margaret Bradshaw McGee, '10 . . . for Classes '08 through '17 George Whitfield Andrews, '21 . . . . for Classes '18 through '27 Magda von Wenck Biel, '30 . . . for Classes '28 through '37 Thomas L. Boardman, '39 . . . for Classes '38 through '47 Fourth Quarter, 1947 OBERLIN ALUMNI BULLETIN Seven MEMBERS OF TWO ALUMNI COUNCILS PICTURES ON STEPS OF SEVERANCE LABORATORY Pictured on the steps of Severance Chemical Laboratory are the members of the Class Presidents Council and Alumni Clubs Council during their meetings in Oberlin on October 18-19. Complete lists of those who attended are published elsewhere on this page and page six. Only last names and class designations are used for identification here: Top Row⁠—Clark, '05; Loomis, '96; Hull, '09; Dull, '03; Burroughs, '09; Robinson, '25; Stocker, '94; Schnaidt, '39; Roemer, '27; Clarke, '13; Hornbeck, '39; Baker, '10; Baker, '11; Mahl, '39; Bradley, '08. Fourth Row⁠—Bradley, '21; Hengst, '20; Ingham, '29; Tear, '11, Gladieux, '30; Barnard, '30; Biel, '31; Rinehart, '19; Wood, '23; Siler, '41; MacDaniels, '47; Purves, '42; Dutton, '93; Kinney, x'10. Third Row⁠—Davis, '15; Kelser, '22; Tear, '13; Tiede, '33; Hale, '33; Hale, '33; Doerschuk, '33; Peirce, '28; Gray, '17; Emery, '91; Vail, '16; Hisey, '22; Ward, '15; Barber, '22; Lyman, '07; Gott, '15; Mezger, '38; Gott, x'19. Second Row⁠—Cottrell, '32; Kilmer, '32; Shelton, '17; Vradenburg, '10; Rader, '31; Sanborn, '02; Lyon, '18; Kroc, '29; Emmerich, '44; Skinner, '46; Sims, '40; Auerbach, x'43; Auerbach, '42; Kellogg, '12; Kinney, '06. Front Row⁠—Bailey, '36; Twiggs, '39; Harris, '33; Piraino, '34; Saint, '42; Good, '38. Absent from the picture, though attending the meetings: Ralston, '92; Partridge, '95; Shaw, '97; Shaw, '98; Stocker, '99; Jewett, '00; Adams, '01; Brown, '04; Love, '14; Liggett, '24; Pearce, '25; Titus, '26; Holden, '35; Richards, '37; McGregor, '38; Arnold '40; Papworth, '41; Fishel, '43; Specht, '44; Reeve, '45; Duff, '46; Chantry, '47; Arnold, '44; Horner, '96; Martin, '42; Blake, '11; Henderson, '14; Porter, '40; Ruby, '42; Briggs, '35; Hopwood, '30; Haines, '32; Owen, '30. 39 Clubs and 57 Classes Represented Representatives of the 57 classes from 1891 through 1947 and officers from 39 alumni clubs convened in Oberlin October 18 and 19 for the third annual meetings of the Class-Presidents' Council and Alumni Club Council held in connection with the annual fall Homecoming. At the initial joint session of the two councils Saturday morning, President William E. Stevenson welcomed the members and commended the council meetings for the closer relationship and understanding between the College and its alumni which they stimulate. He invited alumni to submit their suggestions for the development and improvement of the College. Alumni Secretary Thomas E. Harris, '33 outlined the organization of the Alumni Association and described the duties of the councils. While the councils serve as advisory bodies to the Alumni Board, they are in effect also a sounding board for alumni opinion, both for the College and the Board of Trustees. Vice-president Harold S. Wood, '23, introduced Walter K. Bailey, '19, chairman of the 1945, 1946, and 1947 Alumni Funds. Mr. Bailey stressed the necessity of interesting a larger number of alumni in giving to the Fund if it is to progress to more significant support of the College. After individual sessions of each council, members attended the Oberlin-Hamilton Homecoming football game en masse to see Oberlin win, 20 to 7. President and Mrs. Stevenson were guests of the councils at dinner Saturday evening, when the president reported on activities and progress on the campus. A movie film in color, showing commencement and reunion pictures taken last June was shown. Business sessions of the councils followed the program. Final council business was completed in a Sunday morning sessions which adjourned in time for the members to attend church services. At a joint dinner, chairman Robert L. Kroc, '29, of the Class Presidents' Council and chairman Francis E. Gray, '17, of the Alumni Club Council, summarized the actions of their respective meetings to conclude the two-day program. Class presidents will report by letter to members of their classes. Club officers will report directly to their local groups at coming meetings. Members of the councils came from localities throughout the country, ranging from Boston to Los Angeles, and constituted the largest number to attend the sessions in the three years of the councils' existence. Representatives were guests of the College and the Alumni Association and were housed in the Oberlin Inn, the Theological Quadrangle, and in faculty homes. Meals were Council Urges New Dorms The Class Presidents' Council, with Robert L. Kroc, '29, as chairman, took the following actions at its third annual sessions held in Oberlin on Homecoming week end: Student Union Building After hearing a report of the improvements made by the College in recreational facilities in the basement of the Men's Building (including the recently-opened snack bar), the Council voted the approval of these changes and recommended continued action by the College to provide centralized offices for student organizations, additional dance floor areas for dormitory and club functions, and sufficient meeting rooms for student organizations. Dormitories Expressing deep concern over the need for new dormitories, the Council requested the Alumni Board to emphasize to the Board of Trustees the desirability of making an over-all survey of Oberlin's student housing needs. It strongly recommended that the Board of Trustees proceed immediately, either by borrowing money from institutional sources or otherwise, to meet these requirements in their entirety as an integrated building program. Alumni Fund Objective Reaffirming its conviction that Oberlin's greatest building need is dormitories, the Council recommended that the objective of the 1948 Alumni Fund be dormitories for women. Annual President's Report The Council recommended that the Alumni Board request the president of the College to make an annual report to all graduates and interested non-graduates. Class Organization The Council decided that [?] Newspaper Editor Appointed Alumni Fund Chairman Norman Shaw, '26, managing editor of the Cleveland Press, has accepted appointment by the Alumni Board to the important position of chairman of the 1948 Oberlin Alumni Fund, succeeding Walter K. Bailey, '19. An instructor in political science at Oberlin for one year, following his graduation with Phi Beta Kappa honors in 1926, Mr. Shaw went to the Press as a cub reporter in the fall of 1927 and only 15 years later became managing editor. Mr. and Mrs. Shaw (Lois M. Read, x'27) and their five children are residents of Rocky River, Ohio. _________________________________ the committee of the Alumni Board to study the alumni trustee election procedure, the council endorsed the recommendation of the committee that the Alumni Board should assume full power to nominate all candidates in the annual election of an alumni member to the College's Board of Trustees. Council were the following: 1891, Mrs. R. F. Emery (Alice Jones); 1892, Chester F. Ralston; 1893, C.F. Dutton; 1894, Charles L. Stocker; 1895, Ernest C. Partridge; 1896, Fred P. Loomis; 1897, Archer H. Shaw; 1898, Ira D. Shaw; 1899, E. A. Stocker. 1900, Maurice Jewett; 1901, Earl Adams; 1902, Orville Sanborn; 1903, Charles E. Dull; 1904, George Reuben Brown; 1905, Harlow A. Clark; 1906, Roy H. Kinney; 1907, Carroll S. Lyman; 1908, Arthur Bradley; 1909, Ralph Burroghs. 1910, George Vradenburg; 1911, Frank W. Tear; 1912, J. Hall Kellogg; 1913, Claude E. Clarke; 1914, John W. Love; 1915, Philip P. Gott; 1916, Mrs. Robert Vail (Marie Rogers); 1917, Elbert M. Shelton; 1918, Charles Lyon; 1919, H. Wade Rinehart. 1920, Raymond G. Hengst; 1921, Dan T. Bradley; 1922, Philip L. Kelser; 1923, Harold S. Wood; 1924, James C. Liggett; 1925; Clarence Pearce; 1926, Paul M. Titus; 1927, James Roemer; 1928, Louis Peirce; 1929, Robert L. Kroc. 1930, Dudley Barnard; 1931, Wm. C. Biel; 1932, Robert Kilmer; 1933, W. Culver Hale; 1934, Anthony Piraino; 1935, James F. Holden; 1936, Allen Bailey; 1937, Walter Richards; 1938, Robert McGregor, 1939; [?] [?]rey. Representing the Alumni Board at the sessions were Bernard L. Gladieux, '30; Walter K. Bailey, '19; and Charles A. Mosher, '28. Also attending the meetings were Mrs. Thomas Farquhar (Katherine Kilmer, '19), vice-chairman of the Class Presidents' Council; Alumni Secretary Thomas E. Harris, '33; and Assistant Alumni Secretary Frances Skinner, '46. Deaths of Mrs. Lawrence and Mrs. Hatch Are Announced The August Alumni Magazine reported the deaths of two persons whose relation to Oberlin extended so far beyond their own class ties that they call for additional mention in the Alumni Bulletin. They were Mrs. G. A. (Carrie Memmott) Lawrence, '91, and Mrs. Ellen B. Hatch, '02. "Mother Lawrence," whose death occurred on July 11, had inspired and guided thousands of men and women students during her 27 years as director of Talcott Hall. Mrs. Hatch devoted nearly her entire career to Oberlin College. On the staff of the department of physical education for women from 1909, she became director followed the program. Final council business was completed in a Sunday morning session which adjourned in time for the members to attend church services. At a joint dinner, chairman Robert L. Kroc, '29, of the Class Presidents' Council and chairman Francis E. Gray, '17, of the Alumni Club Council, summarized the actions of their respective meetings to conclude the two-day program. Class presidents will report by letter to members of their classes. Club officers will report directly to their local groups at coming meetings. Member of the councils came from localities throughout the country, ranging from Boston to Los Angeles, and constituted the largest number to attend the sessions in the three years of the councils' existence. Representatives were guests of the College and the Alumni Association and were housed in the Oberlin Inn, the Theological Quadrangle, and in faculty homes. Meals were served in the refectory of the Theological Quadrangle. The value of having these representative alumni on the campus each fall to reflect alumni opinion on the College is considered very great by both college and alumni officials. Expressing deep concern over the need for new dormitories, the Council requested the Alumni Board to emphasize to the Board of Trustees the desirability of making an over-all survey of Oberlin's student housing needs. It strongly recommended that the Board of Trustees proceed immediately, either by borrowing money from institutional sources or otherwise, to meet these requirements in their entirety as an integrated building program. Alumni Fund Objective Reaffirming its conviction that Oberlin's greatest building need is dormitories, the Council recommended that the objective of the 1948 Alumni Fund be dormitories for women. Annual President's Report The Council recommended that the Alumni Board request the president of the College to make an annual report to all graduates and interested non-graduates. Class Organization The Council decided that each class should elect a president and vice-president, thereby providing a successor to a president who might default his office for any reason. Alumni Trustee Election Voting to reaffirm its action of 1946 approving the report of editor of the Cleveland Press, has accepted appointment by the Alumni Board to the important position of chairman of the 1948 Oberlin Alumni Fund, suceeding Walter K. Bailey, '19. An instructor in political science at Oberlin for one year, following his graduation with Phi Beta Kappa honors in 1926, Mr. Shaw went to the Press as a cub reporter in the fall of 1927 and only 15 years later became managing editor. Mr. and Mrs. Shaw (Lois M. Read, x'27) and their five children are residents of Rocky River, Ohio. the committee of the Alumni Board to study the alumni trustee election procedure, the council endorsed the recommendation of the committee that the Alumni Board should assume full power to nominate all candidates in the annual election of an alumni member to the College's Board of Trustees. Alumni Publications Commending the report of the Alumni Publications Committee regarding improvements suggested for the Alumni Magazine, the council voted its support to the committee's recommendations. Reunion Parades Based on class surveys which resulted in an overwhelming opposition to reinstating reunion parades, the council dropped this matter from further consideration. A campus sing was suggested for the Saturday night program of reunion activities. Elect Kellogg Chairman The class presidents elected J. Hall Kellogg, president of the Class of 1912 to succeed Robert L. Kroc as chairman of the council for the next year. Allen M. Bailey, president of the Class of 1936, became vice-chairman, replacing Mrs. Thomas Farquhar (Katherine Kilmer, '19). Those Who Attended Representing all classes from 1891 through 1947 at the recent meetings of the Class Presidents' Earl Adams; 1902, Orville Sanborn; 1903, Charles E. Dull; 1904, George Reuben Brown; 1905, Harlow A. Clark; 1906 Roy H. Kinney; 1907, Carroll S. Lyman; 1908, Arthur Bradley; 1909, Ralph Burroughs. 1910, George Vradenburg; 1911, Frank W. Tear; 1912, J. Hall Kellogg; 1913, Claude E. Clarke; 1914, John W. Love; 1915, Philip P. Gott; 1916, Mrs. Robert Vail (Marie Rogers); 1917, Elbert M. Shelton; 1918, Charles Lyon; 1919, H. Wade Rinehart. 1920, Raymond G. Hengst; 1921 Dan T. Bradley; 1922, Philip L. Kelser; 1923, Harold S. Wood; 1924, James C. Liggett; 1925, Clarence Pearce; 1926, Paul M. Titus; 1927, James Roemer; 1928, Louis Peirce; 1929, Robert L. Kroc. 1930, Dudley Barnard; 1931, Wm. C. Biel; 1932, Robert Kilmer; 1933 W. Culver Hale; 1934, Anthony Piraino; 1935, James F. Holden; 1936, Allen Bailey; 1937, Walter Richards; 1938, Robert McGregor; 1939, Mrs. John Hornbeck (Emily Aldrich). 1940, Paul Arnold; 1941, Mrs. Harold Papworth (Margaret Glider); 1942, John Purves; 1943, Leslie H. Fishel; 1944, Miss Muriel Specht; 1945, Mrs. Jay Reeve (Jane Woelfel); 1946, R. Wayne Duff; 1947, Jack Chant- Council; Alumni Secretary [Th???] as E. Harris, '33; and Assistant Alumni Secretary Frances Skinner, '46. Deaths of Mrs. Lawrence and Mrs. Hatch Are Announced The August Alumni Magazine reported the deaths of two persons whose relation to Oberlin extended so far beyond their own class ties that they call for additional mention in the Alumni Bulletin. They were Mrs. G. A. (Carrie Memmot) Lawrence, '91, and Mrs. Ellen B. Hatch, '02. "Mother Lawrence," whose death occurred on July 11, had inspired and guided thousands of men and women students during her 27 years as director of Talcott Hall. Mrs. Hatch devoted nearly her entire career to Oberlin College. On the staff of the department of physical education for women from 1909, she became director of recreation in 1920. She was a pioneer in the field of all- college recreation, since Oberlin was one of the first colleges to undertake such a program, and did an excellent job. The careers of both women were given in greater detail in the August Magazine. Alumni Club Meetings GRAND RAPIDS, November 13—Evening dinner meeting with Tom Harris, Alumni Secretary, and Oberlin movies of June Commencement and Reunions. President, Miss Dorothy Blake, '11, 320 College Ave., SE. NEW YORK, November 20—Movies and dancing, reports of delegates to Council meetings in Oberlin; Pilgrim Hall, Broadway Tabernacle, 211 W. 56th St. (near Broadway). President, John L. Doerschuk, '33, 58 Gard Ave., Bronxville. CLEVELAND JUNIOR WOMEN'S GROUP—November 22, place to be announced. For information consult Mrs. George W. Hoagland (Jeanette Gunn, '41), 2849 S. Moreland Blvd., 20. WASHINGTON, D. C., December 7—Teas in class groups: 1916 and before, at the home of Judge and Mrs. Henry W. Edgerton (Alice Durand '06); 1917-1936, at the home of Mr. '29, and Mrs. Merrill C. Gay (Dorothy Zannoth, '31); and 1937-1947, at the home of Mr., '38 and Mrs. William G. Smith (Jeanette Williams, '39). President, Bernard L. Gladieux, 4604 Brookview Drive, Washington 16. Ideal Christmas Gift For Any of Your Oberlin Friends A SUBSCRIPTION TO THE OBERLIN ALUMNI MAGAZINE SPECIAL CHRISTMAS GIFT OFFER One gift subscription (one year) $3.00 Two gift subscriptions (one year each) $5.00 Three gift subscriptions (one year each) $7.00 NOTE—The regular rates for an individual subscription are $3.00 for one year; $5.00 for two years; $7.00 for three years. Eight OBERLIN ALUMNI BULLETIN Fourth Quarter, 1947 BRONZE PLAQUE PRESENTED BY NAVY COMMENDS OBERLIN'S TRAINING OF V-12 UNIT THE PRESENTATION Rear Admiral H. T. Hipp, USN, presented the plaque to President Stevenson in a brief ceremony at the Homecoming game. Large Crowd Attends Fall Homecoming The sun burst through the clouds at noon to greet one of the largest Homecoming crowds in many years on October 18. Particularly well represented was the Class of 1947 - it seemed that at least half of the class must have returned! Not only was the crowd treated to an ideal October afternoon, but also to a good football game which saw the Yeomen recover from first period "fumbelitis" to score a 20 to 7 win over Hamilton. Navy Says "Well Done" Between the halves alumni witnessed the presentation of a plaque by Rear Admiral T. E. Hipp, chief of the Field Branch, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, Cleveland, on behalf of the Navy Department for Oberlin's services in the V-12 program during the war. Admiral Hipp extended the Navy's "well done." Following the presentation, President Stevenson welcomed the alumni, and Francis E. Gray, '17, and Robert L. Kroc, '29 presented the Alumni Association's C.B. Martin Dies; Scholar And Teacher Professor Emeritus Charles Beebe Martin died in Allen Hospital, Oberlin, on September 25, after years of failing health. Professor Martin, in his ninety-first year, was the oldest emeritus member of the Oberlin College faculty and the eighteenth oldest among the 11,750 living graduates of the college. At the time of his birthday anniversary last May, Donald M. Love wrote for the Oberlin News-Tribune the following expression of respect for one of the great personalities of the community and the college (reprinted in part): "Generations of students remember Mr. Martin's thorough scholarship, his trenchant wit, his discriminating taste in art and literature. In the 45 years of his active teaching career he revealed to his students the glory that was Greece and the grandeur that was Rome so vividly as to ennoble for them ever afterward the taste of daily life. His faculty colleagues honored and respected him as much for his fearless and independent Was One of Oberlin's Great Personalities Charles Beebe Martin, '76 attitude as for his scholarly work." The Charles Beebe Martin Lectureship was established in his honor at the time of his re- tremens in 1925, "to stimulate interest in the classics by bring- ing to Oberlin classical scholars of International fame for courses of lectures." Is Your Name Here? Will the following please notify the President's Office if not in military service, giving the date of discharge? And will those staying in regular military services, also please notify the President's Office? ...MEN... Pvt. H. John Adams James B. Alford, Jr., A/S Lt. (jg) Franklin W. Allie Stanley D. Anderson, A/S Comdr. Newell A. Atwood Captain Charles F. Bauhgman, Jr. Ensign Frank A. Beardsley, Jr. James M. Bodfish, A/S A/C Paul O.F. Bohlmann Lt. Lawrence A. Booker, Jr. Donald E. Braunlich, Ha 1/c John J. Brown, A/S Ensign Roger W. Brown Ensign Ellsworth V. Bryan Ray E. Budinger, A/S Homer S. Carpenter Harold J. Chisholm Capt. Tom V. Chloupek Robert S. Cohen, S 2/c Ensign Louis P. Dell, CEC Henry Wm. Dinkmeyer, Jr., S 1/C Pvt. Charles E. Dorais, Jr. Lt (jg) Charles C. Dugan A/C Calvin K. Dugas Pierre P. Long George A. Lowe, A/S Ensign Edmund Lukas Pvt. Henry B.G Lundberg, Jr. Lt. John D. Lyman, Jr. John F. McAvin Paul N. McFall, A/S Claude C. McKay Richard R. McLaughlin, A/S Glen T. Malmberg, A/S Robert J. Marimon, Jr. Ensign Robert A. Marmet Cloyce L. Mason, A/S Albert J. Masters, A/S T/5 Hubert J. Miller, Jr., A/S Raymond T. Miller, Jr., A/S Joseph H. Monast, Jr., PhM 3/c John D. Mooney, Jr., RM 3/c Dr. Douglas J. Moore Pvt.David F. Murnighan, Jr. Dan E. Myers, A/S A/C Edward G. Nagel Sgt. Harold W. Negus Jack E. Neibert, S 2/c Arthur R. Nelson, A/S Ensign Clifford E. Nilson Major Edwin O. Nilson Norman H. Nordby, A/S Pvt. John G. Nowak Pvt. Robert H. Smith Ensign Joseph S. Smooley M/Sgt. Robert V. Snyder A/C Kenneth A. Sorenson A/S George E. Sory Captain Leland P. Spore Pfc. Merritt P. Starr, Jr. Lt. Henry Charles Stoll Pfc. Paul J. Stueber, Jr. Willard G. Sueoka Ensign Kenneth O. Swanson New Officers Elected by 11 Classes Alumni classes which held regular reunions last June have elected, by mail ballot, new officers, as follows, from candidates nominated at reunions: 1897–Archer Shaw, president; Florence M. Fitch, vice-president. 1907– Carroll Lyman, president; Hiram Caldwell, executive vice-president; Mary Stone, Florence Jenney Hall, and Mabelle White Cleverdon, first, second, and third vice-presidents, respectively; and Iris Haverstack, secretary-treasurer. 1912–J. Hall Kellogg, president Frances Cochran MacDaniels, vice president. 1917–Elbert Shelton, president, and Helen Miller Neff, secretary. 1919 held a special election and named H. Wade Rinehart president and Alice Ralston Shreiner secretary. 1922–Philip Kelser, president; Dorothy Goetz Gearhart, secretary. 1930–Dudley Barnard, president; Magda Von Wenck Biel, secretary-treasurer. 1931–William Biel, president; Lucy Stratton Hawley, secretary. 1932–Robert Kilmer, president; Cyrus Giddings, vice-president. 1933–Culver Hale; president; Marjorie Meriam Herrick, secretary; Frank Percy, reunion officer. 1937–Walter Richards, president, Sherman Dye, vice-president. REUNION SCHEDULE JUNE, 1948 1888–60th Reunion 1893–55th Reunion 1898–50th Reunion 1903–45th Reunion 1908–40th Reunion 1913–35th Reunion 1918-30th Reunion 1923–25th Reunion 1926 1927 1928 1929 Dix Plan Reunion 1938–10th Reunion 1945 1946 1947 Dix Plan Reunion Rear Admiral H. T. Hipp, USN, presented the plaque to President Stevenson in a brief ceremony at the Homecoming game. Cost of Going To College Is Also Rising As the cost of living rises, so rises the cost of going to college. Board, room, and tuition rates have been climbing during the past few years, but have temporarily come to rest at these figures: The price of board in the college dining halls is $189.00 each semester. The rent for single and double rooms in college dormitories is $80 and for triple rooms, $70 per semester. Economy-minded men may live in the F. P. H. A. temporary housing unit, "Federal Hall," for $60 each semester. The tuition rate for the College of Arts and Sciences is $225 per semester, an increase of $25 over last year's rate. In the Conservatory of Music increased charges were authorized aggregating 37 per cent for the average student. These were the first tuition increases in the Conservatory since 1921. In the Graduate School of Theology tuition was instituted but also to a good football game which saw the Yeomen recover from first period "fumbelitis" to score a 20 to 7 win over Hamilton. Navy Says "Well Done" Between the halves alumni witnessed the presentation of a plaque by Read Admiral T. E. Hipp, chief of the Field Branch, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, Cleveland, on behalf of the Navy Department for Oberlin's services in the V-12 program during the war. Admiral Hipp extended the Navy's "well done." Following the presentation, President Stevenson welcomed the alumni, and Francis E. Gray, '17, and Robert L. Kroc, '29, presented the Alumni Association's trophies to the winners of the merchants' and dormitory decoration contents. Webster Hall captured the dormitory prize with Cranford and Noah as runnersup. Stofan's Studio won the merchants' cup for the second successive year. Reception in Burton Hall Immediately following the game, President and Mrs. Stevenson received hundreds of alumni in the lounge of Burton Hall, the new men's dormitory, built in part by the alumni gifts to the Alumni Fund. One wing of the dormitory held open house for alumni inspection. After the reception, the alumni joined the students in the recreation rooms in the Men's Building for refreshments and tea dancing and looked over the popular new snack bar. The Homecoming festivities were concluded with an all-college dance, held in Warner Gymnasium and well attended by alumni. For the first time; the rate was fixed at $150 for the year. Effort will be made to increase scholarship funds in order to help students for whom the higher board, room and tuition rates may be prohibitive. Ensign Frank A. Beardsley, Jr. James M. Bodfish, A/S A/C Paul O. F. Bohlmann Lt. Lawrence A. Booker, Jr. Donald E. Braunlich, Ha 1/c John J. Brown, A/S Ensign Roger W. Brown Ensign Ellsworth V. Bryan Ray E. Budinger, A/S Homer S. Carpenter Harold J. Chisholm Capt. Tom V. Chloupek Robert S. Cohen, S 2/c Ensign Louis P. Dell, CEC Henry Wm. Dinkmeyer, Jr., S 1/c Pvt. Charles E. Dorais, Jr. Lt. (jg) Charles C. Dugan A/C Calvin K. Dugas Lt. Robert L. Dunn Robert H. Eckford Lt. Thomas J. Fitzpatrick Lt. John H. Flora Robert R. Foster, A/S Louis W. Frazier, A/S Pfc. Verne S. George Frederick A. Giere, PhM 3/c Edward W. Gorsuch Pvt. Robert W. Hart Sgt. Walter F. Havens Michael J. Healy, A/S Charles W. Heck, S 1/c Lt. Curtis B. Heywood Lt. Charles V. High, III Pfc. George Robert Hoffman Hansford E. Hoskins, A/S Lt. Norman G. Hower Pfc. W. Stanley Huggett Lt. Edward Johnson Richard F. Johnson Pvt. David F. Johnston Frank R. Kane, A/S Pfc. Richard M. P. Keller James H. Kenney Lt. Claude W. Keys, A/C Ensign William H. Knapp A/C John L. Koepsell Robert R. Leavitt, A/S Ensign Arthur O. Lindblom, Jr. Pfc. Chester A. Liga Lawrence R. Litzinger, S 2/c Nick Daniel Long, A/S Glenn T. Malmberg, A/S Robert J. Marimon, Jr. Ensign Robert A. Marmet Cloyce L. Mason, A/S Albert J. Masters, A/S T/5 Hubert J. Miller Raymond T. Miller, Jr., A/S Joseph H. Monast, Jr. PhM 3/c John D. Mooney, Jr., RM 3/c Dr. Douglas J. Moore Pvt. David F. Murnighan, Jr. Dan E. Myers, A/S A/C Edward G. Nagel Sgt. Harold W. Negus Jack E. Neibert, S 2/c Arthur R. Nelson, A/S Ensign Clifford E. Nilson Major Edwin O. Niver Norman H. Nordby, A/S Pvt. John G. Nowak A/C William E. Nowers Pvt. Vincent J. Nye Richard C. Oldenburg, A/S Pfc. Robert E. Palmer Captain Frank C. Parker Pvt. Wallace M. Pattison Ensign Robert L. Payne Ralph A. Pochel, S 1/c C/M John C. Pollack Ensign Verne L. Pore Ensign Daniel Price Pfc. Virgil F. Pyles Pvt. Nicholas M. Quint, Jr. James H. Rayfield, A/S Terry E. Relihan, A/S Watson W. Rich, II Foster C. Richards Lt. Andrew M. Ritter Ensign Edward J. Roberts Raymond A. Rodeno, S 1/c Norris L. Roebuck, S 1/c Marvin Rosecan, A/S Pfc. Charles R. Ross Ensign Irvin J. Rudick Pfc. William R. Russell Emmert C. Schauer, Jr. Pvt. George W. Schlag Pvt. Bernard J. Schremser Rupert A. Schroeder, A/S Lt. Norman M. Schweikard Lt. James C. Scofield Ensign Richard G. Shannon Colonel Philip G. Shearman Harry Sisek, A/S Ensign Donald D. Skaar 1926 1927 Dix Plan 1928 Reunion 1929 1938-10th Reunion 1945 1946 Dix Plan 1947 Reunion Pvt. Robert H. Smith Ensign Joseph S. Smooley M/Sgt. Robert V. Snyder A/C Kenneth A. Sorenson A/S George E. Sory Captain Leland P. Spore Pfc. Merritt P. Starr, Jr. Lt. Henry Charles Stoll Pfc. Paul J. Stueber, Jr. Willard G. Sueoka Ensign Kenneth O. Swanson Charles C. Taylor, PhM 3/c Pvt. John W. Thomas Lt. Paul H. Thomas Lt. (jg) Guy A. Thorner Ernest R. Thurber, A/S Ensign Robert M. Trevillian Eugene R. Turner, A/S A/C Kenneth R. Unger Corp. Anthony J. Valentine Pvt. Richard J. Visin Lt. Carl E. Vogelsang Ensign Stanley J. Vogelsang, Jr. Lt. (jg) N. Warren Weldon, Jr. Corp. Robert N. Wellman John L. Westad, A/S James M. Witmore, A/S Lt. Robert C. Wilcox Rodney G. Williams, A/S Lt. Gerald S. Wilson Charles C. Wolfe Donald J. Wood, A/S Henderson W. Wright, A/S Pvt. Paul W. Wright Lt. I Carson Young Pfc. Robert F. Young Robert W. Young, A/S ... WOMEN... Lt. (jg) Elizabeth W. Anderson Lt. Dorothy E. Curtis Lt. (jg) Barbara Hastings Eleanor I. Lancendorfer Rm 3/c T/5 Corrie V. Matters Lt. Comdr. Inez G. Perry Lt. Clara Elizabeth Phillips Transcribed and reviewed by contributors participating in the By The People project at crowd.loc.gov.