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TAM ES A . PERKINS,
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o f the College, was selected
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Committee on Public Rela­
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charge o f the developmen­
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years.
J im c o m e s f r o m a
Swarthmore family. He was
a member o f the famous
class o f 1934. His wife,
Jean Bredin, 1936, is a
niece of Fred Price, 1905,
J ames A. P erkins , ’34
the godfather o f the Ben­
jamin W est Society. Jim ’s
brother, Courty Perkins, was graduated in 19 3 5 and Jean s
brother, Steve Bredin, in 1944. The Perkins’ two daughters
are entered for the classes o f 58 and 60 and their son, John,
w ill be graduated in ’62. A ll o f these Swarthmoreans are
members o f the Society o f Friends.
As an undergraduate Jim played baseball, tennis, and soccer

and served on various student activities committees. He wasl
graduated with High Honors in the Division of Social Sciencesj
with a major in economics and a minor in political science and,
philosophy.
From Swarthmore Jim went to Princeton where he took hisj
Master’s Degree in 19 3 6 and his Doctorate in 1937 with a
dissertation on "Congressional Investigating Committees. J
W ith the completion of his graduate work, he became an,
instructor in the Department o f Politics at Princeton and inf
1940 was made Assistant Professor of Public Affairs and
Assistant Director of the School o f Public and International
Affairs.
In June, 19 4 1, Dr. Perkins joined the staff o f the Office of
Price Administration where he served for some time as Prictj
Executive o f the Paper Branch. In this position he succeed^
in winning the respect o f the paper industry while keeping!’
tight rein on prices. From OPA, he transferred to the Foreigj
Economic Administration in October, 1943, serving first as
Assistant to the Deputy Administrator, then as Assistant tij
the Administrator, and since A p ril 1945 as Deputy Direct«
of the Enemy Branch. His w ork in planning and organizing
the Government’s economic program for Germany has taka

A HISTORY OF SWARTHMORE IN THE WAR
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F W E are to fight a major war every twenty-five years,^ we
need a handbook on the conduct o f colleges in war-time.
It w ill be invaluable to future administrators, to Board mem­
bers, faculty, Alumni, and students. Such handbooks are on
their way. They w ill show us how all colleges may become
rapidly interchangeable parts of an efficient national educa­
tional system. They w ill replace our chaos with a unity and
purpose that we may not entirely like.
These guides to .the future w ill be more reliable if they are
based on an accurate history o f what really happened. If col­
leges have distinctive histories there may seem to be some
value in variety. As we cannot now tell what w ill seem most
significant in years to come, we should record as completely
as possible all that we did.
The one historical landmark we now have is the honor roll
o f our dead. W h at of the living ? How many boys entered the
armed services or the CPS camps ? How did they feel about it
as they left, how did they acquit themselves, how did they
feel and what did they do when they came back, and what
did the College do for them?
W as the College able to make any contribution to future
peace? ¿ i d it support any distinctly Quaker projects? W as its
greatest contribution to peace in the direction o f winning the
war ?
W h at did the Faculty members do ? The Alumni ? O f what
use was their special training?
W h at o f those who stayed on the campus and taught the
year round? W as acceleration worthwhile?
How did a Quaker college decide to become a training
school for the N avy? W as it effective at this? W ou ld it do it

again? How did the Navy profit by general education, an
how was general education served by the Navy ?
How fared freedom o f thought and speech? D id toleran<
disappear? Did the College reflect marked differences l
national temper in the two w ars? How was the influence 0
the College spread abroad in the w orld ? W h at foreign sti
dents came to our doors, and .what foreign lands were visite
by our boys and girls ? W h at veterans returned to SwarthmorJ
W h at was the quality o f Swarthmore education during tlj
w ar? W h at happened to honors w ork? Did it come to sea
more, or less important? W h at vision of the future did tij
Faculty have? W h at policies of admission did the post-wf
years produce? W h at significant ideas were championed? Di
the College emerge stronger or weaker?
No one w ill ever be able to give the final answers to a
these questions, but material should be collected, analyze
synthesized, and published. Too little is known of the pa
played by the College in the last war.
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Much o f significance has already appeared in the G arni
L ette r . The class secretaries have been invaluable, and the
have had excellent support. A ll who read this are invited I
send in a record o f their own connection with the war, aloe
with references to the work o f any other Swarthmoreans, an
a statement o f any reflections and attitudes that help tojH
terpret the times. They are also asked to suggest any id|
that would aid the historians in their work. A false mode*
w ill only prevent completeness. This w ill have to be a wide
cooperative venture, and the plans w ill grow with the
terial. Address the Editor o f the G a r n e t L ette r , Swarthmi
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The new Vice-President is well equipped, by virtue of his
long association with Swarthmore, his academic training, his
experience in administration and negotiation with business and
agencies o f Government, for the work which he is about to
undertake in promoting the interests o f the College in the
coming years.
Also there are two changes o f unusual importance in the
administrative staff o f the college. On July 1st Charles G.
Thatcher 12 became Comptroller and Business Manager in
succession to Nicholas O. Pittenger, who has held the office
for twenty-two years. "Mr. Pitt’s” inimitable and extraordinarily successful methods o f conducting the business affairs
of the college have recently been described in T he G a r n e t
Letter. Here it is enough merely to mention his shrewd management o f investments and expenditures and his homely wisdom in dealing with people, especially with the undergraduates
whose interests have always been uppermost in his mind.
Charles Thatcher returns to Swarthmore after a three-year
leave o f absence as Director o f Training for the Dravo Cor­
poration o f W ilm ington, Delaware. In this capacity he planned
and supervised a program which fitted several thousand war
workers and foremen fo r new jobs.
It would be hard to find anyone more thoroughly familiar
with the many-sided life o f the college than the new Comptrailer. He is a son o f the late Mary Hibbard Thatcher ’74,
long a member o f the Board o f Managers. As an undergraduate he played class football, managed the lacrosse team,
and served on Student Government during his senior year.
He is a member o f Phi Sigma Kappa, Book and Key, and
Sigma Tau. A fter graduation he continued his engineering
studies at Cornell and Johns Hopkins. He was instructor in
mechanical engineering at Cornell from 1 9 1 4 to 19 16 , and
during the first W o rld W a r served on the engineering staff o f
a naval aircraft factory in Philadelphia. He returned in 19 18
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Swarthmore, becoming Assistant Professor in
1920 and Associate Professor in 1927. For three years he
served as Graduate Manager of Athletics, and from 1927 to
1936 he was chairman of* the Division o f Engineering. Sandw*ched in between these activities in the college were periods
of practical engineering experience with such firms as the

Charles G. T hatcher , ’12

S usan P. C obbs

General Electric Company, The Westinghouse Electric and
Manufacturing Company, and other corporations. Thus he
Drings to his new position not only an intimate knowledge o f
Swarthmore but also a wide and varied background o f training
and experience.
The other major change is that which has been brought
about by the resignation o f Dean Frances Blanshard after
twenty years o f service to the college. Her calm, friendly, and
efficient conduct o f affairs in the Dean’s office has won her
the admiration and esteem o f everyone. She and her husband,
Brand Blanshard, who recently became Professor o f Philosophy
in Yale University, leave vacancies at Swarthmore which np
one can quite fill.
Just before Commencement in June the Board o f Managers
elected Miss Susan P. Cobbs as Mrs. Blanshard’s successor.
Miss Cobbs is a southerner who graduated from RandolphMacon W om an’s College in 1927. She holds an M .A. from
New Y ork University and a Ph.D. in classics from the U ni­
versity o f Chicago. She has taught at two southern high schools
and a southern private school. During the thirties she was a
member o f the classics department o f Randolph-Macon. In
19 4 0 she taught at the Shipley School at Bryn M awr, but not
wishing to remain in secondary education, she went the fo llo w ­
ing year to Agnes Scott College, where she became professor
o f classical literature and chairman o f the department. It is
from this position that she comes to Swarthmore as Dean.
A fter a vacation spent in her favorite sport o f mountain
climbing in the Adirondacks she w ill take office on Sep­
tember 1st.
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Miss Cobbs w ill be assisted by Miss Alice Moran as asso­
ciate dean. A graduate o f Purdue University with an M .A
from Radcliffe, Miss Moran has been on the administrative
staff o f Bennington College and o f Radcliffe, and “has been
secretary to the chairman o f the Graduate School at Harvard
and secretary in the new veteran s office o f that university.
Dr. John Moore, already a member o f our faculty, w ill be
Associate Dean o f Men. A graduate o f Park College, Dr.
Moore holds a B.D. degree from Union Theological Seminary,
an M .A. from Harvard, and a Ph.D. from Columbia. Before
coming to Swarthmore in 1943, Dr. Moore taught Philosophy
for ten years at Hamilton College. In addition to his work
in the Dean’s office, he w ill be director o f the National Coun­
cil on Religion in Higher Education.

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PARD LARKIN HEADS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
T ITS annual spring meeting held on June 23, 19 4 5, the
Alum ni Council o f Swarthmore College elected the officers
o f the Alumni Association for the year beginning July 1, 1945.

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Charles P. Larkin, Jr., ’21, was elected President. Pard has
been so active in Delaware County and Alum ni affairs that he
needs little introduction to any o f us. During his years «at
Swarthmore he captained the football team for two seasons,
played varsity basketball and baseball, and presided over
M en’s Student Government. His ability and leadership have
been recognized by his fellow students and workers ever
since his college days. A t Penn Law School he was President
o f his class the first year. Pard coached football, basketball
and baseball for Chester High School for seven years, and
basketball fo r Swarthmore College for another seven. He has
been Assistant Trust Officer o f the Chester Cambridge Bank
and Trust Company, Assistant District Attorney, on the Legal
Staff o f General Steel Castings Corporation and is now
practicing law in Chester, Pa.
For that city he has served on the school board, the
Y.M .C .A ., Boy Scouts, and numerous other civic groups, in­
cluding the Chester Community Fund which he chairmanned

Pete married Lily Tily, ’29, better known as "Sis,” and they,
with Sally and Jill, live in Cynwyd.
The W om en’s Vice-President for 19 4 5-4 6 is Barbara Pear-;
son Lange, ’31. Barbara served for three years as Secretary inj
the Alumni Office at College, where for a time she was also
Vocational Advisor fo r W omen. But those who do not identify
her in such capacities may recall her father, Paul M. Pearson.
Professor o f Public Speaking for many years, or her two*
brothers, Drew, T 9 and Leon, ’20.
The Langes (Gordon is a graduate o f Colgate) now
number five and live in Swarthmore where Barbara has been
active in the Home and School Association. Before returning!
here in 1940, they lived in California where "Bobby” added
to her role o f housewife and mother that o f teacher of Speed,
(Scripps C ollege), acting (at the Pasadena Playhouse), and
secretary (in San Francisco).
The Association’s new Secretary

is Cornelia Chapman:

Pittenger, ’26. A fte r her college graduation Cornie studied
at Business School, returned to Swarthmore in the Stenograph!
Bureau and in 19 2 8 assured the College and her friends that
she’d stay close to the halls of Parrish by marrying Nicholas

for three years.
Pard married M arjorie Kistler, ’21, and they live with
their children, John and Dorothea, in W allingford.

O. Pittenger, Comptroller. She and Pitt, John, 15, and Jane,
12, have lived fo r the last ten years in Pitt Hall, a men's
dormitory, where they have won their way to the hearts olj

Pierce L. Richards, Jr., ’27, the newly elected Vice-President
for Men also needs little introduction. The football fans in
his college era w ill always remember him. The members o f the
Swarthmore Club o f Philadelphia elected him President in
1939, and he has served in the same capacity fo r the Kappa
Sigma Alumni Association o f District II. Pete is a Depart­
ment Manager at Strawbridge and Clothier in Philadelphia
where he irons out all the problems o f the Merchandising and
House Furnishing Department. He is active in the Associated
Merchandising Corporation o f New York, and a member o f

the students by good sound advice, their warm hospitality, andj

the Philadelphia Country Club.

as Secretary w ill guarantee her return, if only at intervals.

C harles P. Larkin , Jr ., ’21

Barbara P earson Lange , ’31

friendly spirit. Now that Pitt has retired they have moved fit
their farm in Chester County. They w ill be missed by tk
community where Cornie was active in the Home and Schot
organization, the Alumnae Discussion Group, and the Swartl
more Cooperative. Her services w ill also be missed at tfe
College, where she has worked part-time occasionally duria
the last few years, helping the Deans’ Office and the Alum
Office when the snarls grew thick. W e ’re glad that her dutic

C ornelia C h apm an
Pittenger, ’26

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» AVERY BLAKE TO COACH FOOTBALL

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WARTHM ORE’S football team has been pounding the
gridiron in practice sine« July 16. The squad numbers
about 35 men this year, and it is being whipped into shape
by Avery Blake, ’28, Swarthmore’s newly appointed football
coach.

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Blake is no stranger to the Swarthmore campus, the squad,
or football. He came to College with a Dudley Perkins
Scholarship from Baltimore Polytechnic Institute in the fall
of 1924. In high school he was captain o f the lacrosse team
for two years, captain o f basketball, and an all Maryland High
School football player. In 19 3 1 Ave returned to Swarthmore
to coach lacrosse, and the follow ing year was made an instructor in the Department o f Physical Education, coach of
lacrosse and coach o f Junior-Varsity football. He has an
enviable record as lacrosse coach. The A ll American Team
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Alumni Councils For 1945-46
MEN
ZONE I
Harry L. Miller ’l l
Howard S. Turner ’33
William Poole ’30
Edwin A. Lucas T4
A. Thomas Hallowell ’37
Joseph B. Shane ’25
William H. Thatcher ’00
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which toured England in 19 3 7 was under his direction. He
has been on the Staff o f the North-South A ll Star Series since
19 4 1 and is known throughout the country as one o f the
foremost coaches in lacrosse. W ith his years o f football ex­
perience and his unusual success in the coaching field, Avery
Blake w ill make an able successor to Carl Dellmuth, ’31, the
retiring coach.

W O M EN
ZONE I
Lorraine Marshall Pyle ’34
Roselynd Atherholt Wood ’23
Virginia Brown Greer ’26
Sue Thomas Turner ’ 35
Mary Roberts Calhoun ’29
Cornelia Chapman Pittenger ’26
Helen Biddle Porter T9
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T. Gordon Lippincott ’31
Davis W . Shoemaker ’24
J. Stokes Carswell ’15

Elizabeth B. Oliver T3
Sarah Percy Rogers ’27
Holly Ross Draper ’37

ZONE III
T- Austin Stone TO
Thomas R. Taylor ’12

Janet M. Brown T9
Catherine W right Donnelly T 8

ZONE IV
Clement M. Biddle, Jr. ’31
James F. McCormack ’36

Barbara Batt Bond ’33
Catherine Bays Parrish ’36

ZONE V
Edwin A. Cottrell ’07

Miriam Booth Breckenridge ’38

ZONE III

ZONE IV

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Blake w ill be assisted by Lewis Kost, a graduate o f Carlisle
High School and Gettysburg College. Kost received his
master s degree from Temple in 1938. He has been a teacher
o f the Physical Sciences in the Norristown School District since
1928. His football playing experience began with four years
in high school and four years on the Gettysburg College team.
He has coached the Rittenhouse Junior High School team for
ten years, and served as line coach fo r the Norristown High
squad for seven years. Kost is a familiar figure in Suburban
Philadelphia athletic contests, for he has officiated in football
and basketball fo r the past 17 years.
Coach Blake reports that approximately h alf the 35 men out
for football are members o f last November’s squad, but only
four boys remain from the group that practiced a year ago.
The positions to be filled by new men are: fullback, center,
two guards, and one end. Despite the lack o f veteran material,
Coach Blake is hopeful that his men w ill show themselves to
good advantage in the short season which starts September 8.
The schedule, as arranged for this semester, is:
September 8
September 15
September 22
September 29
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SPILLER ACCEPTS PROFESSORSHIP AT PENN
N the early nineteen twenties
when too many Americans,
adopting the myth o f our w holly
materialistic culture, were dis­
c o u ra g e d an d b e c o m in g e x ­
patriates, a few who saw more
clearly were convinced that the
only sound basis for a truly
American culture was rooted in
America itself. For scholars this
meant a long and difficult struggle
to establish American studies on
a footing o f equal importance
with the purs.uk o f European lit­
Robert E. Spiller
erature and civilization. For suc­
cess it meant that these scholars
must be broad enough to claim fo r America a place in letters
and arts without being provincial or narrowly patriotic. By a
fortunate chance Swarthmore has had on its faculty for some
twenty years one o f the leaders o f this group o f scholars.
Inspired in his student days by one o f the first to have the
courage to devote all his energies to the study o f American
literature, Quinn o f Pennsylvania, Robert Spiller has established
a reputation as one of those to whom we owe the fact that the
study o f our own past and the critical evaluation o f our own
present is a respectable field, and recognized as such by the
august Modern Language Association. His scholarship and
enthusiasm for his field first won him the honor o f being
chosen to edit a literary history of the United States, soon to
be published. A nd now the opportunity to succeed his own
Professor Quinn has tempted him away from us. It is a per­
fectly rounded career fo r Robert Spiller, but a real loss to
Swarthmore.

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To us his career has meant much' more than the development
o f the field o f American literature. W e associate him with the
building up o f honors work and the new spirit with which
Aydelotte inspired Swarthmore. A rriving on the campus in
the same year with Mr. Aydelotte, although not appointed by
him, he immediately threw himself into the planning and
experimenting which grew into the honors system. He was
not only one of the home planners but made the new program
known through many published articles. But just as Mr. Spiller
has fought to keep American studies from becoming mum­

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ECENTLY the Alumni Association sent a gift of
Swarthmore Commemorative Plateware to Allan C.
Smithies, Captain of the S.S. Swarthmore Victory. A few
days ago we received this reply:
Dear Mr. Dellmuth:
I have just received your very w onderful g ift o f W ed g ­
wood china, twelve plates with scenes about the campus.
I wish that you would convey my sincere thanks to the
Alumni Association o f Swarthmore stating that these plates
w ill always be highly treasured by me and that they w ill

mified in the wrappings o f erudition, German style, so has he
been watchful to prevent the spirit o f system from deadening [
the honors program. W henever red tape or custom threatened
to freeze it he has always been one o f the first to suggest a :
fresh scrutiny o f its processes, to accept change or to restate
values which might be forgotten through habit. Nor has he j
been satisfied that the introduction o f honors work was suffi­
cient as a contribution to American education. His latest work '
for Swarthmore, which he is unfortunately leaving unfinished, |
has been as chairman o f the curriculum committee to lead the
faculty to reconsider its whole program.

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As a teacher, Robert Spiller has inspired many young people
to go on in the field of scholarship, and to revolt against |
many o f the stultifying methods o f graduate schools. As I
adviser to students writing theses he has a particular gift which
must have had much unseen and unmeasurable influence in
form ing critics. It is the capacity to lead a student, once having j
chosen a subject which demanded critical as well as historical
acumen, to see his own problems and to work them out for j
himself. This would seem to be an understood process of the
teacher-critic, but as all o f us know who have been through'
the academic mill it is only too rare. W e can be sure that
theses in American literature at the University of Pennsylvania
w ill not be on the furniture in the novels o f X and w ill not;
mistake meticulousness for scholarship.
There seem to be periods in the lives of individuals and 1
institutions when everything happens at once. The year 1945
seems to be one o f those years for Swarthmore, when we are
losing many o f our leaders at once. The Blanshards, Pitt and
Spiller, all in one year w ill leave a large vacancy in our lives.
But if they have been good leaders, and we believe they have(>
and if Swarthmore is a healthy institution, as we believe it is,
we shall profit by their influence and renew ourselves because
o f it. That particular spirit which we should retain from the
influence o f Robert Spiller is never to be satisfied with pastj
achievement and never to feel that we have arrived. Fortu-;
nately for us, the Spillers w ill still remain members of the;
community, and although the end of our official connection isi
marked by these words, our personal connections need not be
changed. W e wish Robert Spiller good luck and satisfaction
in his new work, and hope he w ill always remain our neighbor!
and friend.
Edith P hilips

Professor of French.

also be put to good use. . . . W ill you alsof Convey our
thanks fo r the fine photographs o f the College that were
sent this vessel. Both photos repose on the walls o f the Din­
ing Salon and are admired by all who view them. Your
grounds and buildings are very beautiful and must be
revered by both the Alum ni and the students.
I am sorry that I cannot say these things to you in person
but, as you so kindly suggested in your letter, maybe we
can get together some day when I am in the East and have
a short chat.
Most sincerely yours,
A l l a n C. S mithies

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SWARTHMORE’S CASUALTIES
W O more o f Swarthmore’s alumni have given their lives
while in the service o f their country. Capt. Arturo Carlo
Felice Mathieu ’34 was killed in an automobile accident on
March 21 in Annemasse, France. A native son o f Muravera,
Sardinia, Mathieu, after, his graduation from Swarthmore, at­
tended the University o f Pennsylvania where he received the
M.A. degree. He was awarded a scholarship to study at Prince­
ton for his doctorate, and later, a Rockefeller grant to work
at the Princeton Listening Center as a Broadcast Analyst.
Because of his linguistic abilities he was called to Washington
in 1941 as a radio monitor for the Federal Communications
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year was sent overseas, where he worked as an intelligence
officer in the Office o f Strategic Services. During the last year
of th$ war he was assigned to many dangerous tasks. A t the
time of his death he was attached to the 7th Arm y in France.

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Pfc. W illiajn R. Gawthrop, Jr. ’4 6 was killed in action on
April 11 when his division, the Eighty-Ninth Infantry, drove
eastward eight miles into the country south o f Erfurt, Germany.
Bill, son o f Helen W ilson Gawthrop ’18 and the late W .
Ralph Gawthrop ’ 18, was born July 26, 1925. He came to
Swarthmore College from George School, where he was a
member of the varsity soccer team. Here his studies were inter­
rupted after one term by induction in the Army. Bill received
his basic training at Camp W alters, Mineral W ells, Texas, and
from there was transferred to Camp Butner, N. C. and
assigned to the 89th Division. Although he passed his tests
for officers training, he was ordered overseas in January, and,
after two months further training at Rouen, France, the 89th
was assigned to Patton’s 3rd Army.

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Just a word about the division at the time o f B ill’s death.

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W illiam R.
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W e were at that time Patton’s spearhead infantry division,
furthest east o f any U. S. infantry division, working with his
famous 4th Armored in the drive to bisect the German forces.
It was in Thuringia, somewhere south o f Gotha and Erfurt,
that the Germans began to make their last attempt to stem the
-surging rush o f our troops. Had they been successful, the war
would have been prolonged perhaps a month or even longer,
and thousands more would have died. In crushing their re­
sistance, inevitably good men fell, and it happened that your
son was among them. V ery little can be said to console you,
I know. But it is up to those o f us who are alive to strive for
the lasting peace which w ill make B ill’s death, and that of
thousands o f his buddies, a meaningful step toward that goal.
Only we can carry the ball— we, the living. A more tremendous
task in conception and execution the w orld has never seen.
God grant our statesmen wisdom, patience, and willingness
to sacrifice beyond anything yet demanded o f our national
leaders.”
B ill is buried at U. S. M ilitary Cemetery No. 1 at Eisenach,
Germany.

SWARTHMORE COMMEMORATIVE PLÄTEWÄRE

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A rturo Carlo Felice
Mathieu, ’34

LIMITED supply o f Commemorative Plateware is still
available. A n order sheet is attached for the use o f those
who wish to order plates or after dinner cups and saucers.
Of the plates, only the garnet remain, but the cup and
saucer sets can be had in either garnet or blue.

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PRICE LIST
Plates, After Dinner Cups and Saucers
$9.00 per half-dozen
$18.00 per dozen
$2.00 per plate or after dinner cup and saucer

ORDER SHEET
Please send me.............................. garnet Swarthmore College Com­
memorative plates.
. (If ordering less than six, designate the scenes you wish.
Parrish— Clothier— Worth— Martin— Library— Meeting House
Please send me.............................. { blue^ }
Commemorative after dinner cups and saucers.

Swarthmore College

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1945 ALUMNI FUND SETS NEW RECORDS
N

O ALUM N US o f the College can fail to take pride in
the results o f the 1945 Alum ni Fund Campaign. Despite
higher living costs, taxes and many other appeals for help,
dollar contributions this year passed the $22 ,0 0 0 mark and
totaled 2 5 % more than received in the best previous year.
Nearly 18 0 0 Alum ni and friends o f the College gave
generously to achieve this new record. This is 6 % more con­
tributors than gave in the best previous year.
Three classes reached the 10 0 % level in number o f con­
tributors. These classes are 1876, 19 2 0 and the group of

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1874
1875
1876
1877
1878
1879
1880
1881
1882
1883
1884
1885
1886
1887
1888
1889
1890
1891
1892
1893
1894
1895
1896
1897
1898
1899
1900
1901
1902
1903
1904
1905
1906
1907
1908
1909
1910
1911
1912
1913
1914
1915
1916
1917

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6
7
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9
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23
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28
32
31
33
43
46
46
41
43
32
44
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42
57
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21.43
227.00
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88.60
55.22
23.00
13.86
26.89
30.00
23.59
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20.53
17.79
12.56
34.22
13.05
41.94
12.87
14.00
20.19
15.70
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H oward S. T u r n e r ,

General Chairman.

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Chinese Naval Officers. W e are proud o f these classes, and
are particularly grateful to the Chinese Officers who chose ^
to express their affection for the College in this very tangible
and helpful manner.
The Committee thought you would be interested in examin-ing some o f the details of the Campaign results and havej
summarized these details for you in the table below.

25.00
36.50
49.50
132.88
60.00
25.00
150.00
1,135.00
' 125.00
1,329.00
1,491.00
230.00
97.00
242.00
60.00
259.50
193.00
410.50
249.00
113.00
547.50
261.00
1,090.50
193.00
336.00
424.00
361.00

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132
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1920
119
190
1921
182
1922
157
1923
170
1924
150
1925
177
1926
180
1927
176
1928
161
1929
151
1930
182
1931
1932
171
185
1933
194 .
1934
158
1935
166
1936
203
1937
216
1938
196
1939
228
1940
184
1941
187
1942
300
1943
234
1944
1945*
1946*
Special Stu­
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Prep, and
Friends
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Naval
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27
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22
28
29
26
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29
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39
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65
78
61
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71
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6.97
8.11

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6.46
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6.58
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337.00
465.50

Largest °fo Contributors: 1876, 1920, Chinese Naval UniJ
Most Contributors: 1920
Largest Total Amount Given: 1895
Largest Average Gift: 1892

* Undergraduate Classes
Total Alumni Contributions for Year ending June 30, 1945
Alumni Fund ................... , ................... $22,059.18
Other Gifts and Bequests . ...... .............. 43,274.00
$65,333.18