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·- --- - ·---- . ,_ - - . -· .--- -· - --···-·· The . DICKINSON ALUMNUS ~ A PHOENIX IN MY YOUTH
THE
DICKINSON
ALUMNUS
Vol. 46, No. 3, r969
HONORARY EDITOR
IN MEMORIAM
Dean Hoffman, '02
EDITOR
Vincent J. Schafmeister, Jr., '49
ALUMNI PUBLICATIONS
COMMITTEE
Walter E. Beach, '56, Chairman
Robert G. Crist, '47
David McGahey, '60
Whitfield J .. Bell, Jr., '35
Barbara A. Buechner, '63
M. Charles Seller, '55
William A. Jordan, II, '5 I
The Dickinson Alumnus published by
Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa. 17or3
each September, December, Febru-
ary and May. Second class postage
paid at Carlisle, Pa. I 7013.
Cover:
Phoenix - - - an ancient Egyptian
bird. It was consumed in fire by its
own act but rose in youthful fresh-
ness from the ashes.
In This Issue:
A Phoenix in My Youth
Page 1
Splendor in the Sky
Page 8
College Enriched by Potamkin
Art Collection
Page 10
Around the Campus
Page 12
Personal Mention
Page 13
Dickinson Annual Giving Report
Page 19
Obituaries
Page 52
Unique Vietnam Roles for Two
Dickinsonians
Page 54
Where There's A Will, There's
A Way
Page 55
Home Coming
Back Cover
"We Got Whupped!" education as the preparation for their the other hand, among the very last to
esoteric, not to say occult, minorities. lay aside the old requirements.
Was it Faulkner who, when asked Calculus and Greek: these were the two
why there are so many more great intellectual initiation ceremonies that Late in the forties, though, the in-
novelists in the South than in the North, the aspiring minister or doctor had to evitable happened, the Latin require-
answered with no hesitation," 'Cause we pass through in order to gain access to ment was dropped. This must have
got whupped !"? If I had to give one his profession. Something had to serve seemed to many alumni and some pro-
reason for the rise of interest in classical as a weedout course, and these rigors fessors, not all of them classicists, a
languages and literature at Dickinson or served as well as any. shameful break with a century and a
any other college, I should say the same half of tradition. I am afraid that it was
thing. Today, just as in the Renaissance, actually a long overdue change and one
wherever the classics are alive and vigor- not at all to be regretted, least of all by
ous, it is probably because they got IT isNOT too much to say that the today's classics professor. After a gen-
whupped and neglected and rediscovered single greatest boon to classical studies eration of defensive warfare, classicists,
by someone still able to be excited about is their relief from duty, in the years if not the classics, were tired. Probably
them. after World War I, as the flunk-out both deserved a rest; in any case, both
course for the professions. I suspect the got it.
same might be said for the calculus.
Today only medicine is a competitive
WHEN, on the other hand, Latin enough profession to need a weedout
and Greek studies ruled as monarchs of
the humanities, their scholarship became
course on the undergraduate level. This
distasteful but necessary job has been, JUST as they had done for a millen-
on most campuses, dropped into two nium in the monasteries of Europe, the
more and more haughty, ever and ever
unwilling laps: Elementary Biology and Greek and Latin classics sat on the
more picayune, and deader by the
Analytical or Organic Chemistry. Let shelves of college libraries, waiting to be
decade. Pick up any school Latin text
both fields be forewarned, by the field rediscovered. The experience was not a
from the old days, and what do you find?
that did the dirty work for so long, that new one for them. Yet, despite it all,
Scrawled inside the cover is always that
they have taken on the most stultifying Ovid was still the same Ovid who had
inevitable scrap of doggerel about
and thankless job in higher education. inspired the Canterbury Tales, and Plautus
Latin, the dead tongue, that killed the
was none other than the idol of the young
Romans "and now it's killing me."
playwright who started a career with
These verses were not, however, written As we all know, Dickinson at her
The Comedy of Errors. Freud was still in-
in the fifties or even, in general, the foundation partook of some of the revo-
comprehensible without Plato, and Berg-
forties; they came rather from the text- lutionary and frontier spirit. Still, like
son without the butchered but haunting
books of the Class of 1910. For by the her godfather, John Dickinson, she did
fragments of Heraclitus.
1930's on most campuses the classics, not rock the boat just for any pleasant
with a little help from Dewey-eyed edu- dizzying sensation that rocking might
Inspiration: that was the mysterious
cationists, had succeeded in killing not give. Anyway, her foundation as a col-
power that the classics had always
only the students but themselves. In lege came between the American revo-
possessed, the ability to breathe into a
many ways it was a consummation de- lution, with its chiefly political effects on
man talents that had never been there.
voutly to be wished. the world, and the French one, where
before. They had not long been dropped
the real intellectual changes begin. The
from the curriculum when there were
In their day, of course, the classics two outstanding professors in the original
murmurings that inspiration was gone,
were the symbol of the esotericism of the staff of five were Charles Nisbet, the
too, from literature in particular but
liberal arts. The idea of liberal arts grew theologian, and James Ross, the classical
from education in general. Those
up, let us never forget, in the late Roman philologist; both were classicists of the
rumblings are not all passed today.
Empire when the liberi, the free, were a famous Scottish school. The classics
When the late Col. William Ganoe, '02,
minority. The revolutions of the Eight- were the core of the original Dickinso.n
left his estate for the propagation of in-
eenth Century threatened the minority College curriculum, and no one was to
spiring teaching at Dickinson College,
nature of the free-you remember the question seriously their place for a cen-
he must have been thinking of the
little colonial girl with her cow, "Free- tury to come.
teachers of his own youth, men like
'n'-Equal"-but they never threatened Mervin Filler, who had recently left the
the minority quality of the educated. For Dickinson seems from the first to Preparatory School to begin his long
As the American frontier progressed and have been. unabashedly forward-looking career with the College. At the same
finally closed, all Americans were able in developing the sciences, liberal in her time, consciously or not, Col. Ganoe was
to enjoy free land, then paychecks, then theology, and bold in espousing the thinking of the seche and somber field
a home of one's own, the rather circular social sciences. Yet in the humanities- that Dr. Filler professed. The oldtimers
marks of freedom. But a college educa- which she always regarded as central to thought, I am sure, that anyone who
tion was neither desired by all nor education - conservatism reigned could make Latin and Greek live must
legislated for all. Even after the land- throughout the Nineteenth Century. have the powers of a warlock. That is
grant bills threatened to send every Defying Alexander Pope two ways, just where they were wrong. The magic
Free-'n'-Equal cow to college, it was Dickinson was both among the first by is all in the texts and the inspiration
the professions that held out for a liberal whom new subjects were tried and, on comes from the words. Then, as now,
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The Grammar The Grandeur
That Was Rome That Was Rome
A SIIORT, PLAIN, COMPREIIENSIVE, PRACTICAL
LATIN GRAMMAR,
COMPRISING
ALL THE RULES AND OBSERVATIONS
NEC~SSAHY TO
AN ACCURATE KNOWLEDGE
OF
THE LATIN CLASSICS,
llAVING
THE SIGNS OF QUANTITY AFFIXED
TO CERTAIN SYLLABLES,
TO SHOW THEIR RIGHT PRONUNCIATION.
WITH AN
ALPHABETICAL VOCABULARY.
THE NINTH EDITION, REVISED AND IMPROVED.
BY JAMES ROSS, LL.D.
PROFESSOR OF THE LATIN AND GREEK LANGUAGES,
NORTH FOUl\TH STREET, PHILADELPHIA.
Jqilalle lpqia:
THOMAS DESILVEH, JuN. No. 247, MARKET-STREET.
1829.
James Ross, first professor of Latin at Dickinson, won national stature by writing a usable school grammar. Today students study some of their
grammar within walking distance of the famous lupa in the Capitoline Museum, with the grandeur that was Rome surrounding them. Many Dickin-
son freshmen come in as veterans of high school Latin trips to Rome.
if the teacher will only keep his mouth nothing yet produced in the rest of the ology is Greek mythology, as French
shut and defer to Vergil and Euripides, world can replace the European intel- poets keep reminding us; European lit-
he has it made. This allows for the in- lectual tradition, be it African strong erature (and this includes American
spiration that the classics have shown in man, Asian guru or East Slavic enter- literature) is classical literature, by the
more generations than English and Rus- priser. Not every member of the college testimony of Ezra Pound, Robert Frost,
sian and French literature, all piled to- faculty holds with this rather Victorian Eliot and Housman, Robert Lowell and
gether, have existed. To me it is the point of view, but we believe that even W. H. Auden, to take only the leaders of
outstanding mystery of humane educa- our own century's unhappy history our own vernacular. Every major poet
tion, the phoenix of my now-departed leaves a burden of proof on the anti- ·in our tongue during this century has ex-
youth. European. We further believe (and here pressed his debt to classical literature.
our company becomes smaller still) that
[Author's note: This paragraph was the core and carrier of that tradition is One unpublished statement of it
written before I faced the shock of being still the classical languages .. These alone comes from Dickinson College lore.
the first recipient of the Ganoe award. speak to all European peoples, whether When Frost came to the campus in the
The thrill of it has not blinded me to the
_fact that the prize really goes, jointly, to
Vergil and Plato or Euripides. I accept "How are Things Going with Latin"
it, humbly and gratefully, in their name.]
their native tongue be Romance, Ger- spring of 1959 to receive the first Dickin-
manic or modern Greek; whether they son College Arts Award, Professor
The Classics Department at Dickinson live in Denmark or Montevideo, in Schiffman met him in Philadelphia.
is dedicated to the proposition that Chicago or Rumania. European myth- This most American of Poets asked
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seriously about the state of intellectual Studies. At any rate, though, it's grated urban system that tied together
things at the College, and Joe Schiffman different. the Mediterranean world and created
told him about successful graduate stu- the European civilization to which we,
dents in English and creative works on Was difference all that mattered to the second great urban ethos, are heir.
the campus. After a polite period of these students and their followers in Race, as we know the problem, was not
listening, Frost finally broke in, "Really, the sixties? Were the classics just a one of the chief questions of the time;
I don't give a damn about all this; what stuffier version of pot, a traditionalist there was nothing in the human physi-
I wanted to know is: how are things answer to yoga? Or were Latin and ognomy that could set up between men
going with Latin?" It was another re- Greek, omen absit, something even less a barrier at the first glance. At the same
minder that Horace and Catullus stand respectable: part of the decade's search time, there was one tremendous barrier
behind his poems of deepest New Eng- for relevance, that word that by 1970 that Rome besieged for just the length
land gray, that here is another Yankee brings a retch from every educator? of time we have mentioned and to
who is straight from Olympus. Sheepishly, I admit that it was, indeed, which after three centuries, she lost.
the relevance of Rome that appealed to This was the difference of language be-
If the report on Latin at Dickinson these young people. If that is a taint, tween the East and the West.
was not too hopeful in 1959, it was only again I say that it's a new one.
two years later that the mood began to In the first years of the Christian era
change. Then my colleague, Stanley the ring of the Greek tongue, with its
Nodder, Jr., came to the College at just
the same time as an energetic group of
students who had the radical idea that
WHAT has been the problem of the
sixties for America? It takes no sophisti-
vestiges of oldtime pitch accent, must
have set off the Latin speaker just as
quickly as the pigmentation of a face
they might like to major in Latin, the cation to answer that one in 1969: it is can today. St. Paul is more convicted
subject that had meant most to them in making disparate groups live together than convincing when he insists that
high school. They were a pioneering in the city. Let us not forget, however, there is no difference between the Jew
crew, starting with Joan Taussig Lowell that it was the undergraduates of the and the Greek; in any case, he had not
'63 and Pete Frese '64, then the power- sixties that helped us define this problem; learned this idea from either of these
ful crowd of '65: Barbara Fenn Leslie, the alumni mentioned above did their great traditions but from the Romans
Andy Hecker, Pat Miller Gable, Ann share in the early years of the decade. who made his world gospel possible.
Smith Snyder and Joyce Wise Shapiro. They stopped to realize that there was Rome's great contribution to history
These alumni, more than anyone else, one civilization and only one that faced was not a Wehrmacht or even a system of
are responsible for the Latin phoenix at and solved this same problem in the past. slick civil service publicans, but an
Dickinson. Some of the readers of this That is the Roman Empire. For three educational system that allowed Latin
article may feel that, of all the changes hundred and fifty years, just about the and Greek to maintain their individual-
in the College during the sixties, the least length of white habitation on the Ameri- ity, while forcing them to get along
desirable· is the rebirth of Classical can continent, Rome operated an inte- together.
Prof. Robert Sider talks over student progress with
Chris Werner, '69, assistant in Intermediate Latin.
The student assistant takes full charge of grammar
review, freeing class time for reading and explanation
of Cicero's essays. In this case, conversation runs some-
times to Oxford, since Prof. Sider is a Rhodes Scholar
and Chris was Dickinson's 1969 candidate for the
Rhodes.
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If you want a symbol of the greatness by every undergraduate, every cinzen, studied there in 1913-14. Meanwhile, a
of Rome, forget Cecil B. DeMille and today: how do you tell when that one similar graduate program had come to
look at a scrap of papyrus found in clear call for a return to battle has come? be offered in Rome at the American
Egypt a generation ago. It is a school-boy Aeneas figures it out only through the Academy; the latter, however, was not
trot, a word-for-word translation of hell of a college education and a mystic limited to classical studies but had as
Vergil's Aeneid into Greek, just like the vision of future history, gained from well a School of Fine Arts, with work in
interlinears that many of you readers "incubating" at the site of Rome itself. architecture, painting, sculpture, land-
left in Carlisle's second-hand book shops Certainly the dilemma, if not always scape architecture and musical composi-
at the end of your B.A. Latin require- Vergil's answer, is easy to sell to under- tion. Thus the leaders in Latin philology
ment. These unhappy Greek kids from graduates who are facing it themselves. have always had the healthy presence of
the rich farmland of the Fa yum had just
the finest young creative artists; at the
as much trouble with Latin syntax as Not all of our studies are so paradoxi- same time, many of the most vital move-
you did, and no Ph.B. to turn to as a cal or so abstract. The study of the ments in the fine arts during the last
final recourse! But they had to face it, classics has spread with the current ac- twenty years have been moulded in
for their fathers had asked Rome to make ceptance of travel and study abroad as a buildings shared by students of Tacitus
the world peaceful. The Roman magister, way of life. Modern Italy and Greece and the Ara Pacis, During the spring
not the legionary or the tax-collector, have always added to the appeal of the of 1969 Professor Posey of Dickinson's
made the Empire work, for he made it classics. If Chaucer and Byron and music department was in residence at the
civilized. The school-boy had to learn Goethe, or, in a different mood, Lord School of Fine Arts of the American
enough Latin to read Vergil's Aeneid, the Elgin and George Dennis, had never Academy in Rome.
imperial Bible. One of the first literary visited the Mediterranean, the history
figures he met was the new world citizen, of the classical tradition would have been
Aeneas; one of the first lines he trans- very different. It was no accident that
lated had to do with building a city: the classics lasted with more vigor GRADUATES of the Academy, teaching
dum conderel urbem, through the depression in the wealthy at colleges across the land, have for a
eastern colleges, home of the Grand long time coveted for their undergraduate
AT DICKINSON we teach a Latin course
as nearly as possible like that of our
Tour mentality, than in the Mid- and
Far West, land of the American touring
car, and of the slogans "See America
students the same experience they en-
joyed only on the graduate level. About
1965 their dreams began to come true
anonymous Egyptian-Greek school-boy. First" and just plain "America First." in the founding of the Intercollegiate
Vergil is the center of our program and These slogans were not good for the Center for Classical Studies in Rome.
Aeneas, the unheroic hero, its ideal. study of the classics. Today, however, Here Latin majors can study, within
Here was a man whose adult life had Stanford and Lake Forest and Sweet sight of the Tiber, under professors from
been lived through a war that alternated Briar have wrested from their north- their own and similar American college
between hot and cold, as the epic tra- eastern sisters the lead in international departments. The instruction and stand-
dition pictured it. All he had ever known education. These colleges are producing ards are American, creating no language
was a defensive struggle to preserve the a generation of students that actually or scholarly barriers; but the setting is as
great civilization of Troy; this was the look down their Sorbonne-trained noses authentically Roman as that of the
life-work of his generation. After ten at the Grand Tour boys from the East, Academy itself. Dickinson joined the
years, however, he had to face the ap- who tried to see it all in a summer. The Center in the second year of its operation
palling fact that many of the dead had junior year abroad has certainly in- and has sent two Latin majors to it.
died in vain, that Troy could not be creased American interest in the Bronze Both have received scholarship help from
saved by arms. Taking a commonplace Age and Etruscology. Dickinson students the Center to make Rome study possible.
icon of his time, Vergil makes it univer- living within walking distance of the John Skilton ('68) took one term of his
sal. Aeneas, fleeing from the burning Villanovan Museum in Bologna are in senior year at the ICCS; this fall Sue
Troy with his father and penates (house- danger of getting hooked on Iron Age Rosenfeld ('70) is spending her second
hold gods) on his shoulder, his son archaeology, though, so far as I know, semester in Rome, coming back then to
Ascanius trotting at his side: this be- they have so far resisted it. complete the final semester of her grad-
comes the symbol of all of us who have a uation year. Here they have had, in
remnant of a world to preserve for the Actually, classical philology and an- addition to the matchless surroundings
future. The awful lesson that Aeneas cient history have been the pioneer fields of Rome, the benefit of superior pro-
has to learn is that old-time heroism that for study abroad. That magnificent fessors from Agnes Scott and Oberlin
dies merely for the cause is not enough, brahmin, Charles Eliot Norton, was the Colleges, the Universities of California
that it is only in the sacrifice of one's own first man to conceive of taking American and Michigan. We hope that many more
self-realization that the race can go on. education to Europe instead of sending students will enjoy this privilege in the
At the same time, Vergil is no party- American students off for a European future.
line pacifist; even after his education, education. He had already spearheaded
symbolized by a descent into hell, the foundation of the Archaeological One other boon to Latin and Greek
Aeneas is dragged back into battle and Institute of America when he conceived studies in the sixties has been this
made to fight one last time, just to wipe in 1882 ofan American School in Athens, College's movements toward Independ-
out vestiges of a false ideology. The the first such project in the country's ent Studies and honors programs. Noth-
final question, and the thorniest, in the history. The School was a generation ing in six years of teaching classics here
second half of the Aeneid is the one faced old when Dickinson's Herbert Wing, Jr., has been more pleasurable than directing
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seniors honors research. Every student answer would reflect neither our phil- The other question our majors have
who received major honors in the de- osophy nor the facts. We do have a line to answer hebdomadally (unless they
partment has been a joy, but I might be of outstanding, yes, really great, young give up, as one has while working in
allowed to single out a few of the papers alumni. There are Student Senate public relations this summer, and pre-
for special mention. For originality of officers, a president and a secretary in the tend to be English majors) is, "What are
conclusion, Pat Miller Gable '65 takes group; and hats of various colors, leaning you going to do with your Latin?" (The
first place. She proved successfully that chiefly toward the blue. Three Sophis- italics are decidedly those of the speaker.)
Ovid's 'Fasti, always considered un- ters in seven years are, we admit, our Now, personally, I agree with my col-
finished because it deals with six months pride and joy, backed by numerous league who tells his students, "A liberal
out of a Roman twelve-month year, is Phi Beta Kappa laureates. Our majors- education is intended to unfit you for
instead a complete work, with a unity please try to conceal· your shock-have life!" Still, I can tell you what our
based on Roman liturgy rather than won letters in football, basketball, and majors in recent years have done after
time-reckoning. Steve Felsher this year baseball; and half the candidates for graduation, ignoring those who are in
wrote a study of Theophrastus that, for Homecoming Queen one year were either graduate school and still have to face
breadth of scholarship and mastery of majors or minors in Latin. (So far as gen- the critic's question themselves.
bibliography, stands up to anything in der goes among our majors, the men out-
English on the subject. The palm for number the women by just a little.) Ed
intellectual maturity goes to Ed Phillips Phillips '67 is one of Dickinson's Wood-
'67 and his essay on the Platonic tradi-
tion through Cicero, Vergil, St. Augus-
row Wilson winners; and Steve Felsher
this spring was named to the first class of
W HAVE not produced as many Latin
teachers as we might have hoped to
tine, Ficino and Spenser. Ed is back at Watson Foundation Traveling Fellows, help meet the shortages in that field.
his alma mater this year, teaching a for a year of travel and study in Greece. At the same time, it is gratifying to see
seminar on the ancient city, that grows In each of the last five years there has that three or four teachers have come
partly out of this study. For sheer bril- been a Latin major elected to Omicron from the ranks of those who took Latin
liance of reasoning, though, we shall Delta Kappa, the national leadership just for enjoyment's sake. One young
always remember Doris Detweiler Orms- honor society. man is still enjoying his Latin, with a
by's '66 work on Cicero's Timaeus; no
. vengeance. During spring vacation his
wonder her Latin instructor wanted to
senior year he went for an interview at
marry her, and did.
the Buffalo Seminary; it was only ten
"TATZ..
rr . G d'
no, in vr
o s ivame .... )"
AT THE same time, there are La tin and
Greek majors with very short subtitles
minutes before the interview with the
headmaster that he realized, from a year-
book on the coffee table, that it was a
under their pictures in the Microcosm. In
It was in the laundromat, one day last young lady's seminary. He got the job
other words we have leaders and fol-
spring, that my wife met the wife of a and, as the school's only bachelor teacher,
lowers and a fairly impressive line of those
department chairman from a nearby is the center of some interest there.
independent souls who incline to neither
college. They began one of those chats
category. Their real unity is their in-
about wifely woes and found that theirs Many of the recent graduates are not,
terest in the classics.
matched surprisingly well. The reason, of course, "doing" anything with their
it turned out, was that both were mar- Latin. They are in or through top-flight
ried to professors. The other lady con- Religiously, our students come from professional schools-law, medicine,
fessed that her husband headed an almost every faith represented on the drama, social work; they are selling
English department, but she was still not campus. I admit, though, that in this jewelry and bringing up babies; they are
prepared to learn that my wife was respect Dickinson has never quite been serving their country in posts of author-
married to a Latin professor. Her re- able to live up to my favorite under- ity in Germany and Viet Nam. They are
action was quick and to the point: "Who graduate seminar at Penn. There were doing the same things that majors in
in God's Name, studies Latin these six in the seminar that year: an agnostic, Political Science, Physics and English
days?" a Presbyterian, a Reformed Jew, an are doing, probably no better and no
ex-Franciscan, a Swedenborgian and a worse. Sometimes they write home from
A good question, and one in the mind Mormon-probably as ecumenical a the service for their college Vergil texts,
of anyone who has read along this far. class as any in the history of Latin teach- much as the Alsops used to .read Xeno-
I shall try to answer it (avoiding the ing. (I mention this to combat the idea, phon when out on some journalistic
expletive) in terms of, "Who majors in shared unfortunately by the Pennsylvania assignment; sometimes, on the other
Latin these days?" Including the Class State Legislature, that somehow Latin is hand, they contribute these same texts
of '71, that would be almost fifty Dickin- a denominational language.) Our ecu- to the sidewalk sales. But, almost to a
sonians in the last seven years; we aver- menicity is milder but real. The three man, they meet others who admit that
age a little better than a half-dozen honors majors this year represent the they, too, have majored in the classics,
majors per class. three great faiths of our country. A and they find a bond that transcends
Benedictine-trained Catholic from Wash- generation gaps, divisions of creed and
ington, D.C., a Jew from Bronx Science differences of calling. What are they
IT WOULD be easy to say that the leaders
of the campus study Latin and smugly
High School, and a Methodist pre-
theolog from a public high school in
Iowa: each found in Latin or Greek an
doing with Latin and Greek? I guess
they are enjoying whatever inspiration
they offered and, sometimes at least,
let it go at that. Happily, though, that intellectual equivalent for his faith. talking about them. Occasionally, I
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• . and Long Live the Spirit of James Ross"
meet them trying to bring back a phrase which we rise. Each of the three mem- Institute to the current ones in lndic
from Juvenal or an image from Proper- bers of the department gave up some and German studies, where on-the-spot
tius or a concept from the Euthyphro. other field to take part in the rebirth. education puts time and space back
(Now how did those triangles work?) Prof. Nodder came from history and together again.
This, it seems to me, would have been New Testament studies; Prof. Robert
enough to satisfySocrates or Cicero, who Sider, the only undergraduate classics When some new whupping seems im-
attempted to establish for all time man major of the three, had taken an doctor- minent, I think of the Pittsburgh high
as the discussinganimal.. It would have ate in patristics at Oxford; and your school teacher who stood up in one of
satisfied the founding fathers of Dickin- writer began his career teaching English the mournful hand-wringing sessionsthat
son College,who, beside being embattled and science. We have, in other words, Latin teachers are heir to. This teacher
farmers, literally talked a new nation reversed the trend of a generation ago, gave a shrug and declared, "I don't
into existence. And it satisfies this one when classicists were secretly taking bother worrying about people who want
professorof the classicstoday. law degrees for that day when their sub- to get rid of Latin. They've been work-
jects would be taught no more. We have ing at it for a thousand years and
been lucky and our students have been haven't succeeded yet!"
CONCLUSION lucky; both are grateful to the genera-
tions that took it on the chin. Dorothy Sayers puts it even better in
If we have had a renaissance of the The Mind of the Maker:
classicsat Dickinson, and "renaissance" We do not fail to remember Pharaoh's
It is the business of educa-
is an awfully big word to live up to, it is cows in our planning for the future.
tion to wait upon Pentecost
only because we first got whupped, by There probably never have been in his-
. . . But Pentecost will hap-
the sciences, Iater by the social studies, tory any seven fat years that could not
pen, whether within or with-
finally by what seemed like more mod- have been swallowed up by seven lean
out official education.
ern humanities. None of us in the de- ones to follow. At the very best, plateaus
partment is, fortunately, old enough that will occur. All the same we are full of
he had to live through that whupping. hopes and unfulfilled plans. One of the So be it, and long live the spirit of James
If ours is to be a phoenix generation, we
Ross.
latter may come to fruition next summer
should do well not to forget the fires from in the addition of a Dickinson Classical PHILIP N. LOCKHART
About the Author Yale. Before coming to Dickinson,
he was Assistant Professor of Clas-
"Literally hundreds of his former sical Studies at his alma mater. In
and present colleagues and students 1965 he was elected to chair The De-
attest to the excellence of his teach- partment of Classical Languages.
ing. He has a unique ability to com- His promotion to the rank of Profes-
municate with students and to stimu- sor came in 1968, the same year his
late thought." colleagues elected him to the esteemed
Such an accolade, freely and often position of Secretary of Faculty. In
heard on the Dickinson Campus June 1969, members of the senior
characterizes the author, Philip class voted him the "most inspir-
North Lockhart, who joined the ational teacher" and presented him
Department of Classical Languages with the College's first Ganoe Award.
as Associate Professor in 1963. Even Frequently recognized for contri-
the student course guide gives a rating butions off campus, Lockhart has
of excellent, not only to the course de- served as President of the Philadel-
scribed-Roman Historians-but also phia Classical Society and has headed For the 1969 /70 academic year,
to its professor, a dual kudos seldom the Pennsylvania State Association of Lockhart has been named Visiting
bestowed. Classical Teachers. He is also a Professor of Classical Studies at Ohio
Dr. Lockhart did his undergradu- member of the Executive Committee State University in Columbus. He
ate work .at the University of Penn- of the Classical Association of the will return to Carlisle in September
sylvania and-continued his education Atlantic States. Lockhart has pub- 1970 with his wife and two children,
in the Classics at North Carolina and lished widely, again with distinction. Bruce, 9, and Betsy, 7.
7Hawkins, Gerald S., Splendor in the Sky. Revised. Harper
Read under the full pressure of its time in Washington. A scientist who but vulnerable theory of epicycles to
implications, Gerald S. Hawkins' Splen- seems to feel comfortable with outsize explain the movements of sun, stars, and
dor in the Sky (Harpers, $8.95), repub- mysteries (our galaxy, he tells us, con- the five visible planets. It wasn't until
lished this spring in a revised edition, is tains a billion stars), Dr. Hawkins-or so the Renaissance, and the emergence of
a humbling book. Our guess is that the one would suppose-remains undis- men like Copernicus, Kepler, Tycho
College's new dean, who at this writing mayed. Not for well over a century have Brahe, and Newton, that science began
has made only two official appearances Aristotle and the Bible had the power of the painful process of redistributing the
on campus-one to introduce Linus slowing down the pace of scientific dis- heavenly bodies and properly explaining
Pauling, winner of Dickinson's eighteenth covery. Like our planet's population, their behavior.
Priestley award in science, the other to science's growth seems, not merely That reshuffling, as we know now,
address members of the local chapter geometric, but exponential. The fact was indeed a "trepidation of the spheres."
of the American Association of Univer- that after only eight years of silence Dr. It literally moved the earth. And man,
sity Professors-had no special intention Hawkins has sought renewal of his who in the view of some historians had
of leaving in the reader's mind a deposit stellar history is .one more evidence of sometimes tended to confuse himself with
of philosophic reflections. Nevertheless, science's continuum.
God, yielded his position of centrality,
that is the effect, on one reader at least, What we have here in this contribution in which all things revolved about him
of his reborn volume. to the Hawkins canon is a deliberately in a perpetual dance of deference, to one
Dr. Hawkins is a man of fertile scholar- middle-brow (the most difficult of all of marginal mediocrity. Astronomers
ship. Research astronomer at the Smith- tones to achieve) review of man's mis- know now, says Dean Hawkins, that the
sonian Astrophysical Observatory and calculations and discoveries in astronomy. earth is in the fringes of the Milky Way,
until this summer chairman of Boston We see him as a somewhat gifted animal man's special parcel of astral territory,
University's department of astronomy, creeping about a planet which circles a and that it is only one of the planets,
he has published the better part of a mediocre star. The mediocre star is our whose number may run into the billions,
hundred papers and, since its original sun. Since pre-Babylonian days, star- where some form of intelligent life prob-
publication in 1961, followed Splendor in gazers have been curious about the ably exists. Such life, if only in the form
the Sky with five other volumes, of which heaven's and have been searching out the of "a brain floating around on a stalk,"
the best known is Stonehenge Decoded, a enigma of their astral environment. But is presumably often superior to ours. No
Book-of-the-Month Club selection. In like primitive medicine men, who cast longer do we inhabit a Dantesque uni-
its present version, Splendor benefits from out devils to get rid of malaria, the night- verse, with neatly topographic heavens
additions and revisions spliced in to in- watchers, except for some brilliant spec- and hells, a universe in which man is the
clude commentary on astronomical dis- ulators - Aristotle and Pythagoras, tender preoccupation of his creator. Far
coveries and theories-the current spec- among others, thought the world was from that, Dr. Hawkins' Babylon-to-
ulations on the nature of pulsars, for in- round-created "sciences" consistent redshift odyssey (the redshift being an
stance-talked up over the last decade. within themselves but grotesquely at optical betrayal of our supposedly ex-
And alike all scientific publications these variance with the laws of physics. panding universe) reveals man as an un-
last few years, it already begins to lose Ptolemy, the Alexandrian astronomer resting detective, the possessor of an
some of its lustre, for since its second and geographer who flourished in the intelligence which seeks solutions as
coming the pulsar question has been re- second century of our era, assumed that naturally as a plant turns to the sun, a
opened, and revised, at one more asso- the sun traveled around the earth, and creature who for centuries has made
ciation meeting of the astronomers, this on that assumption built an elaborate more wrong guesses than right and now
8Born in England, Gerald S. Hawkins obtained a Ph.D. and D.Sc.
from Manchester University, where he studied with Sir Bernard
Lovell at Jodrell Bank. He was Professor and Chairman of the As-
tronomy Department at Boston University and Director of the Ob-
servatory. He is now Dean of Dickinson College and a research
astronomer at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. Dr.
Hawkins is known for his many papers in scientific journals and
is the author of STONEHENGE DECODED .
•
and Row, 1969, 292 pp. A Review by Prof. A. N. Hartshorn.
trembles on the brink of a space age with and swollen with the illusion of godhead. literate, and entertammg corrective to
frightening statistics: a sun with internal He is a man, and that is all. the smog-bound parochialism of our
temperatures of 27 ,000,000 degrees Fahr- Yet despite this story-teller's ease-or overheated civilization, a civilization
enheit, a universe seeded with a billion perhaps because of it-Dr. Hawkins which sometimes finds New Yorkers
galaxies, stars so distant that it takes manages to pepper his chronicle with muttering their suspicion that milk
light, moving at a speed of 186,300 miles anecdotes, a few of them familiar, but comes from bottles and that descendants
per second, millions of years to reach us. all of them absorbing and, as our chrys- of the country's original settlers lie in
What makes Dean Hawkins' book a alid youth like to say these days, ambush behind the guard rails flanking
delight to read, and in its own way a "relevant." Sir Isaac Newton, who the hillier portions of Interstate 80. Con-
prophecy of his popular Stonehenge De- earned national respectability as Master servationists and ecologists scream with
coded, one of the decade's best mystery of the Mint, began his early school righteous but largely ineffectual indig-
yarns, is his ability to slide the reader years, we learn, in what could be called nation that man-most men, at any
over harsh conglomerates of fact and a blaze of failure; years later, at Cam- rate-have lost touch with nature, that
statistics with the apparent facility of a bridge, he adopted the unsettling habit they see themselves not as products of
space vehicle easing itself into orbit. of pre-reading all his texts and at times evolution but as creatures of technology,
Splendor in the Sky is addressed neither to all but pre-empting the authority of his existing on pollutants and psychiatry.
the professional astronomer (who na- professors. Sodom and Gomorrah were About that Dean Hawkins also has a fe1,V
turally knows all it contains) nor to the almost certainly destroyed by a meteor- words to say: had man been more en-
sensation-hunter, who clamors for enter- ite, possibly the same non-saline agency duringly engineered for stress and self-
tainment. It is addressed to that branch of demolition to overtake Lot's Jagging repair, he might have become a much
of our species called "the intelligent wife. Every hundred years one of these better biological specimen than he is.
layman," an increasingly populous en- iron projectiles, a meteorite weighing in As a surviving member of the animal
clave. In short, it is for you and me. at four tons, beds down on the earth, kingdom, he nevertheless has to get
It does not write down; it does not fog often dissolves as it strikes, the most along as best he can. The coal tar in his
the reader with jargon. It is written memorable of these impacts having oc- lungs and the nitrous oxide in his blood,
with a vigorous simplicity which man- curred in 1908 in Siberia. "The people if nothing else, should persuade him that
ages to say much in few words, and to within a radius of four hundred miles," he belongs to the earth, and had better
say it clearly, so that even those resistant calmly comments Dr. Hawkins, "saw look down as well as up. Up is the direc-
to science can understand. It omits
and heard a tremendous explosion. tion Dr. Hawkins has chosen. The effect
what the reader need not know, scrapes
Eye-witnesses spoke of a brilliant object of Splendor in the Sky is to nudge the
away the scientific fat from the bones of
moving overhead from the southeast, reader toward the same aspiring gesture.
essential knowledge. Its hero is man
dropping sparks and leaving behind a Standing as both proof and denial of
curious, believing, and skeptical. Its
plot is ironic: discovery leads to ignor- trail of smoke. As it hit the ground, the man's voyage toward knowledge and
ance, for the more we learn the more meteorite exploded with the violence of uncertainty, the book-as well as its one
mysteries we uncover. It is a success many hydrogen bombs, producing a mordant aphorism: "If a mistake is
story ending in optimistic failure: though pillar of fire and smoke ... " The possible, mankind will make it"-is one
science makes "progress," no scientist effects of the holocaust were felt seven we are glad to acquire, if only by aca-
today identifies himself with the Renais- hundred miles away. demic expropriation, as this summer we
sance Faust, greedy for all knowledge Dr. Hawkins' book is an informed, also acquire the man who wrote it.
9CHAGALL:
Worship of the Golden Calf.
College Enriched by Potamkin Art Collection
"Pat" Potamkin, as he is known to his The Miserere of Rouault is perhaps the
ART COLLECTIONS depend upon bene-
factors. Dickinson's art collection and
friends, among civic and philanthropic
activities, is a member of the Board of
greatest graphic work of this century.
Monumental in achievement the 58
benefactors are in large measure identical. Trustees of the Philadelphia Museum of original aquatints and etchings depict
Meyer P. Potamkin, prominent mem- Art serving on the American Art and the the ravages of war and the cruelty of
ber of the class of '32, is familiar to many Planning and Development Committees. society in juxtaposition to Christ's
alumni. In 1954 he and his wife, Vivian, Mrs. Potamkin is a member of the passion, in part the result of Rouault's
returning to the campus for a visit, pre- Women's Committee of the Philadelphia religious introspection. In them he lays
sented half a hundred or more contem- Museum of Art, serves as volunteer bare reality to reveal man's fundamental
porary lithographs and etchings to the hypocrisy. The rare Chagall volumes
chairman of the Art Sales and Rental
college. These have been used as class with their illustrative original etchings
Gallery at the Museum. She is also on
illustrations, been exhibited as a collec- represent that painter's "pictoral folk-
the American Art committee. She is a
tion and some, framed, are decorative
former Board member of the Philadel- lore" in his best style while the Verve
additions to administrative office walls,
phia Print Club. Their remarkable pri- volumes contain Chagall's colored lith-
and art for the President's House.
vate collection is basically American ographs on the Bible. Of regional in-
This past spring the Potamkins asked
while: their collection of sculpture more terest is a primitive painting by Michael
if the College would be interested in a
supplemental gift. The answer, an fundamentally French is not exclusively Boyle, a hunting scene with Old West
enthusiastic affirmative, resulted in a so since one can also find, for example, reputedly in the background. Other
major addition to the collection, indeed a Henry Moore, Giacometti and three works by Boyle, a Carlisle plasterer of
one of handsome proportions. It in- carvings by Wilhelm Schimmel, the the 1830's, are at Lafayette College and
cludes Rouault's Miserere; Chagall's illus- American Folk Artist. Every major in the Nelson Rockefeller Collection.
trations for Gogol's Les Ames Morles; exhibition of an American Painter pre- The variety of the gifts presented by
signed aquatints, etchings, and litho- Mr. and Mrs. Potamkin make them as
dating World War II is likely to contain
graphs by such notable artists as Picasso, useful as they are valuable, as thought-
a canvas on Joan from the Potamkins.
Baskin, Braque, Kollwitz, Dali and fully assembled as they are an aesthetic
Many others have been reproduced in
others; contemporary sculpture, and art
Life and Time. Their generosity has ex- enrichment to the College. Such works
books and periodicals including Verve
tended to gifts made to Temple Univer- as these will further the humanistic
and Derrier le Miroir. In short, the gift
sity and the Pennsylvania Academy of aspirations Dickinson seeks for her
is a munificent one, to be known as
"the Meyer P. and Vivian Potamkin Fine Arts and the Philadelphia Museum students.
Collection." of Art. Milton E. Flower, Ph.D.
10'J)J~I~l\IJ~l\1~
J_,U illllU)Il\
ROUAULT: Miserere
"Who does not put on a false face
(from time to time)?"
ROUAULT: Miserere
"Wars which all mothers hate."
MIRO: Lithograph cover for
Derriere le M iroir
11_Aro't....1:£1.:d
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Ca.mp-u..s Three to be Elected Each Year;
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cently initiated a Dickinson College accepted by the committee from any member will be awarded an engraved
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for this honor. The committee consists the date of his graduation. be displayed in the lobby of Alumni
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rector of Alumni Affairs, Chairman, matriculated here for a minimum of
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12Ethel M. Young of St. Louis, The congregation of Ebene-
Missouri. zer United Methodist Church,
Lee 0. Richards, husband of
Persor:i..a.1 LOUISE SUMWALT RICH-
Havertown, dedicated a Chapel
on January 5 and named it the
ARDS, died in Clearwater, Rev. RICHARD H. JONES
Florida on June 29. Chapel in honor of their pastor.
~er:i..tior:i.. 1926
The Chapel has a seating capa-
city of 126.
Dr. Harry L Canon, son of
Rev. WALTER H. CANON, 1929
1907 Stearns spent four years as the is director of counseling ser- MARK N. BURKHART,
director of National Missions vices at the University of principal of the Carlisle Senior
Dr. L. GUY ROHRBAUGH Nebraska.
schools of the United Presby- High School, announced his
and Mrs. Ralph M. Mitchell, In November, Mrs. RUTH
terian Church. retirement effective August 4.
of Richmond, Virginia, were RIEGEL WOODS will retire
Professor STANLEY J. Principal of the high school for
married on April 12 in the Cor- from her position as director of
FOLMSBEE, professor of his- 29 years, he has been in public
son Chapel of the Allison nursing services, District of
tory at the University of Ten- education for 43 years, begin-
United Methodist Church. Dr. Columbia Red Cross.
nessee, is the co-author of a one ning as a rural teacher in 1923.
Rohrbaugh is professor emer- WILLIAM MAHONEY, of
volume Tennessee: A Short His- Prior to becoming assistant
itus of philosophy and religion. Carlisle, recently retired from
tory which is scheduled for pub- principal in 1938, he taught
The couple now reside at Carl- his job as manager of Joe's
lication this fall. It is a conden- mathematics and biology for
wyne Manor, Carlisle. Store.
sation and revision of a two eight years in the senior high
volume History of Tennessee 1927 school. He has served as presi-
1915
which was published in New dent of the Pennsylvania Prin-
LESTER S. HECHT, of York in 1960. Since his retirement from the cipals Association and chair-
active Methodist ministry last man of the secondary college
Wyndmoor, is the author of the
June, the Rev. EDGAR A. relations committee. He was
1969 supplement to his law 1924
book "Pennsylvania Municipal HENRY, D.D. is serving as a also a member of the advisory
Claims and Tax Liens," which The members of CLAIR B. full time supply pastor of the comtnittee of the National Asso-
has been published by Geo. T. MONG'S Sunday School Class Camp Curtin Memorial United ciation of School Principals and
Briel Co. The original book think so much of his teaching Methodist Church in Harris- District 3 Pennsylvania Inter-
that they have had 17 of his burg. scholastic Athletic Association.
was published in 1967.
lessons published in a book that On June 30, FRED J. Mrs. Grace Wiest McCoy,
came out in April. Entitled SCHMIDT, of Maplewood, mother of Mrs. ELIZABETH
1917
"Landmarks of Christian Liv- New Jersey, retired after 42 McCOY CR YER, died on
Bishop FRED P. CORSON, ing," the book illustrates what years service in teaching. February 23 in Harrisburg at
past president of the World Mr. Mong calls his "philo- In August, Dr. MARY the age of 91 years.
Methodist Council, was the sophical appraisal to Bible study BRIGHTBILL retired from the Since retiring from govern-
Commencement speaker at which demonstrates the prac- faculty of Millersville State ment service, Dr. VERNARD
Gwynedd-Mercy College on tical application of religious College. She plans to spend F. GROUP is serving as a part-
June 1. principles to daily living." much time traveling in Europe. time counseling psychologist
Following graduation from Her home address is 105 Kready at the College.
1920 George Washington University Avenue, Millersville 17551. HOWARD S. SPERING,
Law School, Mr. Mong became MERLE L. KEIM retired as attorney of Chevy Chase, Mary-
ALBERT E. WESTON, of
a bank official and later entered supervising principal of the land, is the author of an article
Glenside, retired as dean of the
the government consular ser- Annville-Cleona School Dis- published in the August 1968
Evening College, Philadelphia
vice. The seven years before trict, Lebanon County, on June issue of the American Bar Asso-
College of Textiles and Science
his retirement were spent as a 30 after serving that district for ciation Journal entitled, "How
last June with the rank of Dean
sales representative and public 18 years. He spent 42 years as to Make the Electoral College
Emeritus.
relations director for trucking an educator. Constitutionally Representa-
lines. He and his wife live at WILLIAM M. SHEAFFER tive." Cited as 54 A.B.A.J. 763,
1922
136 NE 46th Street, Miami, retired from his position with
Dr. CARLE B. SPOTTS, of Florida. Swift and Company after 34
Columbus, Ohio, retired in Since his retirement in 1967, years service.
Harry L. Stearns, '22
June from the English Depart- WILLIAM H. HOUSEMAN
ment at Ohio State University.
1928
is working part-time in Custo-
Dr. HARRY L. STEARNS, mer Relations of the Credit JOHN M. McHALE, of
of Englewood, New Jersey, is Bureau of Greater Houston. Harrisburg, retired in May
among 192 distinguished con- His home address is 4009 Par- after 34 years service with the
tributors to the fourth edition due, Houston, Texas 77005. Commonwealth of Pennsyl-
of the Encyclopediaof Educational Dr. PAUL R. BURK- vania. At the time of his retire-
Research, a project of the Ameri- HOLDER retired from Lamont ment, Mr. McHale was Deputy
can Educational Research Asso- Observatory of Columbia Uni- State Treasurer.
ciation, published by Mac- versity. He is now living at The Rev. RALPH S.
millan. Dr. Stearns is the La Parguera, Lajas, Puerto KROUSE of Clearfield, re-
author of an article titled Reli- Rico 00667. ports he became a grandfather
gion and Education. After his William A. Boag, Jr., son of in April when his daughter and
retirement as superintendent of Mrs. LULU TOBIAS BOAG, son-in-law announced the birth
Englewood schools in 1962, Dr. was married on June 21 to of their son.
13it has been reprinted m the 1931 counsel of American Brands,
Congressional Record three Inc. The two companies
CHARLES M. MOYER,
times. merged under the American
· M.D., of Laurel, has been
Mrs. MARY FINLEY CON- Brands name. Mr. Hetsko is a
elected president of the State
RAD teaches 12th grade Eng- Director of the United States
of Delaware Medical Society.
lish in the Cresson High School, Trademark Association.
ROBERT E. DAWSON, of
Penn Cambria School District. Robert Geyer, son of Mrs.
Scranton, was elected to mem-
Her husband, Hugh, is promi- ELIZABETH BASSETT
bership in the Pennsylvania
nent in sports and serves as a GEYER, received his M.A.T.
Society and is also a director of
member of the Eastern Inter- in June from Wesleyan College
the Scranton Chamber of Com-
collegiate Football Officials As- and is now teaching history at
merce.
sociation. The Conrads live at the Greenwich, Connecticut
Mrs. NANCY HORNER
199 George Street, Lilly. High School. Her daughter,
MACHTLEY of Altoona, re-
Nan, graduated cum laude in
ports that her son and daughter
1930 June from Gustavus Adolphus
are both attending Juniata Cyril F. Hetsko, '33
College.
FRANK A. SUFFOLETTA, College-David, a member of
of Midland, is solicitor for the the senior class, and Margaret,
1934
Borough of Midland, Munic- a member of the junior class.
ipal Authority of Midland, the Margaret will spend 1969 at Professor BENJAMIN D.
Midland Boro School District, Philipps University, Marburg, JAMES represented the College
the Dollar Savings and Loan Germany. at the inauguration of William
Association Midland Office, H. Duncan as president of
and Beaver Trust Company. 1932 Millersville State College in
He is an associate in the law Last June, GEORGE P. May.
firm of Suffoletta and Masters BEAR, of New Smyrna Beach, WILLIAM R. WOOD-
and a past president of the Florida, was awarded a master's WARD, attorney of Hawthorne,
Beaver County Bar Association. degree from Stetson University.· New Jersey, left Western Elec-
Dr. TOBIAS H. DUNKEL- He is a member of the faculty tric Company on June 6 after
BERGER has assumed the posi- at Sanford Naval Academy, working there 23 years, to be-
tion of Associate Dean of the where his son, Jeff, a graduate come general patent counsel
College of Arts and Sciences of Wesley, is also teaching. of Allied Chemical Corporation.
at the University of Pittsburgh. Since returning stateside,
In May, he served as the repre- LESTER M. BASLER is sta-
sentative of the College at the tioned at Langley Air Force
173rd Commencement and Base, Virginia. He had served
Ceremonies to inaugurate the as USAF Civilian Personnel
175th Anniversary Year of Officer at Peshawar, Pakistan
Pittsburgh Theological Sem- and Athens, Greece. Prior to
inary. that he had overseas tours in
On the anthology "Exploring Tokyo and in Fairbanks, Alaska.
Life through Literature," On July 1, WILLIAM J.
JACKIE CISNEY'S biography TAYLOR resigned as princi-
of Edward Steichen, "Steichen, pal at Barnesboro High School
Dissatisfied Genius," has been and Northern Cambria High Dale F. Shughart, '34 with wife Mary Ann, Dale, Jr., and Barbara
published. School. He received his high
William Collins, son of WAL- school principal certification
TER W. COLLINS, was the in 1945. He began his teaching
outstanding graduate in the ca~eer in 1934 as a chemistry
June class at Lakewood High and physics instructor and was
School, St. Petersburg, Florida. named principal of Barnesboro
He will begin his freshman High School in 1938, a position
year at the University of Florida. he held until Barnesboro be-
came a part of the Northern
KAY L. AMMON is a
Cambria jointure. Mr. Taylor
Program Development Officer
was named principal of North-
with the Agency for Inter-
ern Cambria in 1965, succeed-
national Development, Depart-
ing HUGO VIVADELLI, '33.
ment of State after serving with
A.I.D. as a training officer in
Bangkok, Thailand.
1933
Dr. PAUL D. LEEDY, pro- Colonel JOHN A. NOR-
fessor of education at American CROSS is a surgeon with the
University authored a new 22AF, USAF, stationed at Trav-
book, A Key to Better Reading, is Air Force Base, California.
which has been issued by Mc- CYRIL F. HETSKO, vice
Graw-Hill paperbacks. Dr. president and general counsel
Leedy is listed in Who's Who in of the American Tobacco Com-
Education and International Who's pany, has been elected senior
Who. vice president and general
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