Swarthmore College Alumni Bulletin 1947-05-01

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SWARTHMORE ENTERTAINS A MODEL
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE UNITED NATIONS;
W A R T H M O R E was host for three days during spring
vacation to some 150 students from 41 colleges and uni­
versities in the Middle Atlantic region. The occasion was
the annual M G A U N . For the uninitiated, that ^ means
"M odel General Assembly of the United Nations, spon­
sored for the last twenty years by the American Association
for the United Nations.

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Swarthmore’s role was to provide the setting, the accom­
modations and the "Secretariat.” The local arrangements
even included good spring weather.
As Professor Bryce \K^ood, M G A U N s faculty adviser,
told the delegates at the first session, the conference "ought
to be 'model’ both in the diminutive and the normative
sense.” W hile there is some debate as to whether the con­
clusions reached in the final "Commission” reports actually
did set an example for the Lake Success personnel, the con­
ference definitely was a "m odel” one in the diminutive
sense. Like their counterparts at Flushing Meadow, the
delegates frequently managed to get bogged down in pro­
cedural difficulties such as amending amendments and dis­
cussing the question of whether or not to discuss the
question.
The principal work of the conference was done in "com ­
mission.” Each college represented one country in the
United Nations and sent four delegates, one for each of
the four commissions, Political and Security; Economic and
Financial; Social, Humanitarian and Cultural; and Atomic
Energy. Early in the winter the agenda for each commission
was sent to the member-colleges so that the students could
study the general problems for debate, and particularly the
attitude of their country toward those problems.
Despite the procedural difficulties and the bloc-forming
tactics of countries like Haverford’s Polish delegation, stu­
dent majorities adopted at the plenary session on Saturday
afternoon, the following recommendations: ( 1 ) That the
member nations establish a treaty for international control
and development of atomic energy, with provisions for free
inspection of all atomic plants and the destruction of atomic
weapons after the control system begins working; ( 2 ) That
the members conclude a treaty of disarmament; ( 3 ) That
the United Nations adopt a uniform system of citizenship
for refugees; ( 4 ) That the United Nations amend Article
39 of the Charter so as to include a detailed definition of
"aggression” ; ( 5 ) That the reconstruction of devastated
areas be promoted by economic assistance through the U N .
A t the opening session on April 3rd, a group of the
delegates presented a condensed dramatization of the U N
Security Council’s famed Iranian dispute. The eleven "m em ­
bers” of the Council spoke from the scripts prepared in the
New Y ork office of the American Association for the
United Nations. It is expected that these scripts— condensa­
tions from the official U N documents of the Iranian dispute
— will be reprinted and circulated by the Association for
the use of other colleges in similar conferences.
A t a banquet held in the college dining room on Friday
night, prior to the informal dance, the students heard

"M r . G r o m y k o ” stalks out of Security Council
speeches by Dr. Arnold W olfers, professor of international |
relations at Yale, and Mr. Olav Paus-Grunt, director of the ^
Education Services Division of the U N Secretariat. President |
John W . Nason introduced the speakers.
Dr. W olfers told the delegates, "T he United States can­
not scrap its atomic bombs and plants until reliable inter­
national control is established. To make that control re­
liable, the U N must do three things: outlaw dangerous I
atomic activities; set up an international inspection system; j
and make sure that illegal uses of atomic energy are de­
tected soon enough to permit defensive action by the lawabiding states.” The speaker gave his listeners something
important, if complicated, to think about when he declared
that the current American insistence on the right of a
majority in the U N Security Council to punish nations
which violate atomic agreements is "not only futile, but
harmful.”
Technical advisor to the conferees was Dr. Walter A.
Chudson of the Department of Economic Affairs in the
U N Secretariat. In his critique of the conference, delivered
at the final session Saturday afternoon, he commended the
students for the "high quality and sustained effort shown
in the meetings.”
So ended the 20th in a series of intercollegiate confer­
ences which began after the last world war as a mo e
League of Nations. W h at was accomplished ? Probably most
of the specific knowledge had been acquired by the dele­
gates before they arrived. Once on the scene of battle, how­
ever, the students were bound to discover something about
filibustering, log-rolling and the genuine day-to-day diffi­
culties that plague the conduct of diplomacy in a world ot
unbridled sovereignty.
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Perhaps, as W illiam Zinsser commented in the New’York

Herald Tribune, the greatest value of the conference will
come about when and if the delegates carry these lessons
back to their own colleges and communities. Thus they may
help to spread an intelligent concern for what happens a
the Long Island lake which is wistfully called "Success.

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A W O RD ABOUT ALUMNI DAY!
On Saturday, June 14th, there will be fourteen classes returning to the
Swarthmore campus for their stated reunions. Likewise, hundreds of
others will be on hand to take part in Alumni Day activities.
Y our alumni committee, well-steeped in the traditions of Swarthmore
class reunions, is making a minimum of plans. It is the chairman’s twentieth
reunion, and if he didn t have this job to do, he would prefer to have a
minimum of planning done for him.
The big boot most of us get from a reunion is being able to return
and be foot-loose to wander here and there around Parrish Hall and the
campus, greeting old friends and classmates.

J a c k T h o m p s o n ’27

Alumni Day Chairman

There will be the traditional luncheon, of course, on the front campus,
under the elms. And it is difficult to resist herding the classes into line
for the march in front of Parrish. There will be npn-reunioneers on
hand, and they will want the opportunity to see each reunion class in
a body.

The 1946 innovation of marching into the lovely Scott
Outdoor Auditorium has been hailed as a success. This
year we shall do it again, with some sparkling variations,
once the classes are in place in the amphitheatre.
So with this brief pre-view of Alumni Day, 1947, we
sign off with the hope that it will be another glorious
June Day, such as only the Swarthmore Campus offers to
nostalgic alums bent on recapturing memories and reliving
undergraduate days.

ALUMNI DAY
Saturday, June 14, 1947
Program
11:00 A.M.
Alumni Association Meeting— Meeting House
1:00 P.M.
Alumni Lunch— Front Campus
2:00 P.M.
Parade of Classes
2:15 P.M.
Program— Scott Auditorium
3:30 P.M.
Baseball Game with Penn A.C.
4 :3 0 P.M.
Alumni Tea— Parrish Hall
6:30 P.M.
Reunion Dinners
9:00 P.M.
Alumni Dance— Dining Rooms— Parrish Hall
10:00 P.M.
Alumni Sing— Front Steps of Parrish

REUNION C LA SSES
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Alumni Golf Tournament
In connection with our Alumni Day program there
will be a revival of the Handicap Golf Tournament
to be held at the Rolling Green Golf Club, Friday,
June 13th, at 2 :3 0 P.M .
Russell W hite ’22 is Chairman of the Committee
on arrangements and Alumni who are interested in
entering this tournament should communicate with
him at Bent Road and Twyckenham Road, Bowling
Green, Media, Pa. The winner of this tournament will
have his name inscribed on the President’s trophy
which was presented to the Alumni Association by
Frank Aydelotte in 1939.
The winners of this trophy to date are:
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John P. Skinner '31

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S. John Pyle ’32

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Russell W hite ’22

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Mace Gowing ’36

RESERVATION INSTRUCTIONS ON LAST PAGE

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THE W ILLIAM J. COOPER
HIS is a report to Swarth-

there have been minor changes in policy as the committee

more’s alumni about the

personnel rotates. But for the most part, the plans outlined

activities and accomplishments

in those first few years have been followed quite consistently,

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Foundation. For in its found­
ing in 1924, Mr. Cooper pro­
vided Swarthmore with one
of its most valuable assets.
W ithout it, the Swarthmore
community would have been
deprived of concerts by Marian
Anderson,
M il o P e r k in s
"M anagem ent Series” Speaker

Joseph

Szigeti,

The Foundation funds have been divided into two parts,
W ith one portion, the committee has sponsored a general
Cooper Foundation program, of interest to the whole com­
munity. Frequently this has been called the Cooper Lecture­
ship, and has brought to the campus a renowned scholar to
deliver a series of four or five lectures of major academic
importance, lectures which have subsequently been pub­
lished in book form.

Alexander Kipnis, the Buda­

The first Cooper lectureship was presented in 1928 by

pest String Quartet and the

A. D. Lindsay, Master of Balliol College, Oxford, who

Don Cossack Chorus. Because

delivered four lectures on 'The Essentials of Democracy.

of it, Swarthmore’s academic life has been enriched by the

Later published by the Oxford University Press, the volume

presence of men like Albert Einstein, Felix Frankfurter,

has become an important part of the bibliography for politi­

Robert Frost, Eduard Benes, W alter Damrosch and James

cal theory. During his four weeks at Swarthmore, Mr.
Lindsay took an active part in the teaching of social sciences,

Rowland Angell.

meeting with classes and seminars, talking informally with
It was on Founder’s Day in 192 4 that President Aydelotte
announced to the assembled faculty and alumni the gift of

various student groups.

$ 1 0 0 ,0 0 0 to Swarthmore by M r. Cooper. According to the

This carried out one of M r. Aydelotte’s most cherished

terms of the bequest, the invested income from that sum

plans for the Cooper Foundation. He felt strongly that a

was to be used "in bringing to the college from time to

small college needed the invigorating influence of many

time eminent citizens of this and other countries who are

outside people who by their presence on the campus would

leaders

sciences,

bring fresh ideas and experience. By introducing an au­

learned professions and business, in order that the faculty,

thority from another university, frequently from Europe,

students and the college community may be broadened by a

who lived in close contact with both faculty and students

closer acquaintance with matters of world interest.” The

over a period of weeks, a completely new viewpoint was

Honorable H . A. L. Fisher, former minister of education

presented. The faculty were reinvigorated in their own

in

statesmanship,

education,

the arts,

in Great Britain, then warden of New College, Oxford,

research while the students caught something of the en­

and a distinguished historian, made the first address that

thusiasm and drive of a really great scholar. In fact, through

very day. Since then more than 6 0 0 events have been spon­

the generosity of Mr. Cooper, such lectures as these became

sored either by the Cooper Foundation alone, or jointly

an integral part of the Swarthmore system of education.

with another one of the college departments. All sorts and

The next Cooper Lectureship was presented by Walton

conditions of men in every area of human knowledge have

H . Hamilton of Yale in 1931, followed in 1932 by John

discussed their work or demonstrated their artistic talent

Livingston Lowes of Cambridge whose series on "Geoffrey

to the Swarthmore College community.

Chaucer and the Development of his Genius” was a major

The administration of the Cooper Foundation funds has

contribution to the literature in that field. Wherever pos­

been in the hands of a faculty committee of eight, headed
by a hard-working chairman, who, before his term of service

sible, the Cooper lectures have been scattered among various
college departments in order to give each the inspiration

is up, has learned all the delicacies and difficulties of the

and benefit of such a scholar. Herman W eyl, the mathema­

lecture management business. Phil Hicks of the English

tician, August Krogh, the physiologist, and Sir Arthur
Salter, the international economist were Foundation lec­

department was chairman for the first seven years, followed
in turn by Arnold Dresden, Everett Hunt, Harold Speight,

turers during the ’30 ’s. The Cooper Foundation speaker

John Nason, Roland Pennock, Charles Shaw, and for the

whose book has been most widely circulated is, without

last two years, Jim Perkins. As with all administration,

doubt, Clarence Streit. His proposals for "Union Now

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FOUNDATION, 1 92 4-1947
were presented in a series of five lectures in the Meeting
House in the winter of 1939, afterwards creating nation­
wide discussion.
In years when there has been no major lecture, the Cooper
committee usually presents a series of speakers and musicians
of general interest. In this category you find names like
Paul Van Zeeland, Jane Addams, Carl Sandburg, W ilfred
Grenfell, Thomas Mann, Harold J. Laski, Dorothy Canfield
Fisher, Robert A. Taft, Igor Sikorsky and Harold Urey.
It might be noted that for each big name on the record you
will find two other names in the files— men of equal com­
petence who would gladly have lectured at Swarthmore but
whose busy schedules did not jibe with open dates on the
Swarthmore calendar.
I mentioned earlier that Cooper Foundation funds were
divided into two parts. The remaining money is distributed
among various departments and student organizations so
that each specialized group may have a speaker qualified to
discuss their own particular interests. W hile the men in
this group, may not be nationally famous, they have had a
thorough knowledge of their own field and a catching en­
thusiasm. Thus the fine arts department has sponsored Jakob
Rosenberg and John Taylor A rm s; history and political
science students have heard W allace Notestein, Roscoe
Pound and William Hocking; while the English majors
could listen to authors like Norman Corwin, W . H. Auden
and Margaret Widdemer. It has meant a great deal to stu­
dent groups to have Cooper Foundation funds available.
A lack of practical experience is the greatest handicap to
the student idealist and the Cooper speakers have been the
best agency for filling in that gap.
In recent years there have been several significant trends
in the Cooper Foundation programs. In 1939 it was decided
to spend about $ 5 0 0 a year in bringing to Swarthmore some

Swarthmore s social life which is in pleasant contrast to
many other institutions.
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There has also been a marked increase in the number of
music and modern dance programs. In place of the two or
three musical events during a year recorded in the early
days, there are now six to ten. And for at least half a dozen
years, either Doris Humphrey and Charles W eidman or
Martha Graham have usually given a dance recital, very
well attended by the entire community.
The Cooper Foundation programs which Jim Perkins has
arranged this year have been splendid. In addition to the
usual departmental speakers there were two series. The
entire music program was devoted to a Beethoven cycle,
opened with a piano concert by Irma W olpe of our own
music department, and continued with concerts by the
Pasquier Trio, the Busch String Quartet, the Kroll String
Quartet, and a violin and piano concert by Temianka and
Shure. The major lecture series is being devoted to "The
Responsibilities of Business Management in Modern Times’’
in which Milo Perkins, Frank Abrams, chairman of the
board of Standard Oil, Gordon Clapp of T V A , Alexander
Heron of Crown Zellerbach Corporation, Paul Hoffman,
president of the Studebaker Corporation, and Robert Ses­
sions, of a Philadelphia marketing and management counsel
firm are participating. These lectures will be published col­
lectively and will form a much-needed analysis of the prob­
lems of management today.
There is one aspect of the Cooper Foundation which I
have failed to mention entirely. That is the effect of Swarth­
more upon the speakers. For the men who have visited the
college— either for one night or for a month— have all
gone away with renewed respect and interest in the Swarth­
more kind of education. The complimentary letters buried

of the better movies of this generation. It was argued that

in the Cooper files will make interesting reading for the

movies are one of the important art forms today, and a

future collectors of Swarthmoreana. The brothers Pasquier

medium which attracts more students than any other enter­

enjoyed their two-night stand so much that they stayed over

tainment. The films that have been shown on frequent

the week-end and were observed eating hot-dogs at the

Saturday nights ever since are not new by any means, but

basketball games. Two speakers, Philip Soupault and W . H.

they are good— often part of the film library of the Museum
of Modern Art. There has been a pretty good sample during
the past winter— Camille, Destry Rides Again, the old
silent Robin Hood with Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., How Green
Was My Valley, Harvest, and Alexander Nevsky. Like all
other Cooper Foundation programs, the movies are free to
the college community and the townspeople alike. And they
have probably done more to keep the student body on the
campus on Saturday night than anything else— a feature of

Auden, subsequently joined the faculty. But perhaps the
greatest compliment of all was paid by a dozen or so
Cooper lecturers who subsequently sent their children to
Swarthmore, so impressed were they by the kind of educa­
tion it provided— among them Dorothy Canfield Fisher,
Clarence Streit, Benjamin Gerig, Lewis Lorwin, Harold
Urey, Milo Perkins and Nora W ain.
W e hope that such reciprocal benefit will continue for
many years to come.

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AROUND THE COLLEGE
It has recently been an­
nounced by the Board of
Managers that President John
Nason will be on leave of ab­
sence from the College for the
Fall semester beginning Sep­
tember, 1947. M r. Nason ex­
pects to use his leave to
complete a book on the philos­
ophy of Leibniz, a project he
was forced to postpone when
he assumed his duties as
President of Swarthmore Col­
lege.
During M r. Nason’s ab­
sence James A. Perkins, ’34, Vice-President, will take over
the duties of the President’s office.
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On Saturday, January 25, 1947, Adolph E. Meier died
at his residence in Bryn Mawr. M r. Meier was at Swarth­
more College from September, 1932, to December, 1942.
During the last few years he was on the campus he served
as Assistant to the Dean of Men. M r. Meier was a veteran
of the second W orld W a r and at the time of his death was
employed as a chemist and geologist by the State Bureau
of Topographic and Geologic Survey.

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New Appointees beginning in fall of 1 9 4 7 :
Stephen E. W hicher, assistant professor of English; since
leaving the Navy, writing a book.
Robert C. Ackart, instructor in English; coming to
Swarthmore from Tufts College.
Dennison Bancroft, assistant professor of physics; coming
to Swarthmore from Princeton.
James A. Field, Jr., assistant professor of history; work­
ing on book The Japanese at Leyte Gulf: The Sho Operation
(due to appear this m o n th ).
Henry K . Heuser, assistant professor of economics; at
present with military government in Germany.
W m . E. Reaser, associate professor and head of depart­
ment of mechanical engineering; coming from Lafayette
College.
Monroe C. Beardsley, assistant professor of philosophy;
coming to Swarthmore from Y ale (married Elizabeth
Bobette Lane, ’3 5 ) .
Phyllis Ambler Brauner, assistant in chemistry; educated
at W heaton College, Wellesley College, and Purdue U ni­
versity, and has also taught at Purdue.
Edwin E. Aubrey, President of Crozer Theological Semi­
nary, as Lecturer will give one course in religion.
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Promotions effective 1 9 4 7 -4 8 :
Hermon Enos, Jr., assistant professor of chemistry.
Patrick Murphy Malin (returning from 6-year leave with
International Migration Service), full professorship of
economics.
Frank C. Pierson, associate professor of economics.
Samuel T . Carpenter, professor of civil engineering.

Robert M. W alker, associate professor of fine arts.
F. B. Tolies, assistant professor of history and continuing
as librarian of Friends Historical Library.
R. B. Brandt, associate professor of philosophy.
Morgan Thomas, assistant professor of political science.
R. Crutchfiield, associate professor of psychology.
Vera French, assistant professor of psychology and
education!
James Sorber, associate professor of Romance languages.
Leaves of absence 1 9 4 7 -4 8 :
George Cuttino, assistant professor of history, Guggen­
heim Fellowship.
F . B. Manning, professor of history, 2nd semester only.
W inthrop R. W right, professor of physics, away full year.
Bryce W ood, assistant professor of political science, year.
Clair W ilcox, professor of economics, continuing leave.
Herbert Fraser, professor of economics, continuing leave.
W olfgang Stolper, assistant professor of economics, Gug­
genheim Fellow.
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Robert M. W alker, Chairman of the Fine Arts Depart­
ment and Curator of the Benjamin W est Society announces
that in November the Benjamin W est Society received a
gift of eight nineteenth century American paintings from
Frederic Newlin Price ’05. On March 20th the distinguished
American etcher, John Taylor Arms, gave the annual West
Society lecture.
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Professor Ethel H . Brewster, of the Department of
Classics, who has been on leave of absence during the
present academic year because of ill health, is much im­
proved, according to recent reports. She was in England
during the spring and summer of 194 6 studying the archaeo­
logical discoveries made in that country during the war
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Swarthmore Alumni may well take pride in the accom­
plishments of our men’s athletic teams during the current
academic year. According to a recent announcement by the
department, an unbroken record of victorious sports seasons
have been recorded by our football, soccer, cross country,
swimming, wrestling, and basketball teams. Special honors
have been conferred upon our soccer and basketball teams
who have been declared champions of the Middle States
Conference and Middle States Basketball League (Southern
Division) respectively.
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Two members of the Swarthmore faculty and one member
of the student body have just been announced as recipients
of Guggenhiem Fellowships.
Dr. Paul Beik, assistant professor of history, has as his
project a study of conflicting social philosophies in the
French Revolution. Professor Beik will not take advantage
of his award until 1 9 4 8 -’49.
Dr. W olfgang F. Stolper, assistant professor of econom­
ics, will make studies in the dynamic aspects of the theory
of international trade and problems of their statistical
measurement.
One unique feature o f this year’s Guggenhiem announce­
m ent is the selection of Alexander Peter Russo, a Swarth-

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more undergraduate. Normally these fellowships are granted
to graduate students, but Russo’s excellence in the field of
painting has entitled him to special consideration.
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Swarthmore has had its share of local interest in the re­
cently concluded 1947 Pepsi-Cola Contest. Clarkson Taylor
Palmer of Concordville, Pa., now a student at George
School, is one of the two winners from Pennsylvania. He is
a great nephew of Dr. Samuel C. Palmer ’95 and a grand­
son of Charles Palmer ’82.
Two faculty children, now at Swarthmore High School.
Duncan Graham Foster, Jr., and Andrea C. W ilcox, daugh­
ter of Florence and Clair W ilcox, ranked among the ten
Pennsylvania students receiving certificates of merit in the
contest.
John C. Pittenger of Nottingham, Pa., now at Phillips
Exeter Academy, also received a certificate of merit. Jack’s
father is of course Pitt, our beloved ex-comptroller and his
mother, Cornelia Chapman Pittenger, a member of the
Class of ’26.
For those not acquainted with them, the Pepsi-Cola
scholarships were established on a nation-wide basis in
1945 by the Pepsi-Cola Company as a public service. Candi­
dates are elected in their own high schools by their class­
mates as the students most likely to succeed. These boys
and girls then take an aptitude test posed by the College
Entrance Examination Board. Two winners from each state
are selected on the basis of their showing in the test. As
winners they are entitled to four years in any accredited col­
lege of their choice with all tuition and fees paid. In addi­
tion they are given $25 a month for expenses, and one
round-trip from home to college if the distance is greater
than 150 miles. Runners-up are given a Certificate of Merit
and a $50 prize.
Swarthmore is outstanding among the colleges in the
nation, for there are now enrolled seven winners and eight
runners-up of the 1945 and 1946 contests. Only Harvard,
M.I.T. and the University of Chicago rank ahead of Swarth­
more in the number of winners attending, and these insti­
tutions are obviously much greater in size.
"S w a r t h m o r e ’s P e p s i C o l a S c h o la r s ”

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The Engineering Department announces that the new
addition to Beardsley is now complete. The 300-ton Bald­
win Southwark universal testing machine, which has been
on order for nearly two years, will be completely erected
and operating by Alumni Day. This new machine will
enable the College to take a significant part in new develop­
ments in the structural field.
Engineering graduates will soon receive invitations for a
dinner which will be sponsored by the Department Friday
evening, June 13th, at 6 :3 0 . This will be the first reunion
of Engineering Alumni since pre-war days.
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Ed Faulkner, Tennis Coach, has written a series of Tennis
articles which have appeared in the magazine 19 th Hole.
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Professor L. R. Shero, of the Department of Classics,
was elected a Director of the American Philological Asso­
ciation at its meeting in December; he was formerly (from
1939 to 1 9 4 4 ) Secretary-Treasurer of the Association, the
oldest learned society in its field in America. He is again
this year serving as one of the Examiners in Latin Reading
of the College Entrance Examination Board, and he will
present a paper on the pronunciation of ancient Greek at
the meeting of the Classical Association of the Atlantic
States in May.
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Robert H. Dunn is currently serving as Chairman of the
National Soccer Rules Committee.

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Bryce W ood, Assistant Professor of Political Science, has
been granted a leave of absence to serve as Assistant Direc­
tor of the Division of Social Science, Rockefeller Founda­
tion in charge of International Relations. The Director of
the Division is Joseph H. W illits ’l l .
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H. Jermain Creighton is The Electrochemical Society’s
representative on the Inter-Society Committee on A N a­
tional Science Foundation.

Front row, left to right: Glenna Bovee, S. Dakota; Nancy
Okasaki, Haw aii; Martha W ells, Michigan
Back row: Hugh Taylor, Colorado; W inifred W itcraft,
S. Dakota; Jerry Ravetz, Pennsylvania;
Jim Elliott, Washington.

Harold E. Stassen, former Governor of Minnesota
and currently a Republican presidential aspirant, will
deliver the Commencement address at 11 A .M ., M on­
day, June 16th, in the Scott Outdoor Auditorium.

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Alumni Day
Saturday, June 14, 1947
A W ord About Accommodations
Because of overcrowded housing conditions, the number of available College
rooms is limited. Paid reservations will be accepted in the order of their receipt,
and when our capacity is reached any further applications will have to be
returned. 'Housing reservations will not be accepted after J u n e 7th.
Luncheon will be served on the front campus at 1:00 P. M. Please send paid
reservations in advance.

If you are a member of one of the Reunion classes please make your reserva­
tion for the R eu n io n d in n er with your Class R eu n io n Chairm an and not
through the Alumni Office.
R eu n io n H eadquarters

West End Parlor
West End Parlor
West End Parlor
Somerville Parlor
Class Lodge (1949)
Class Lodge (1947)
Lodges 5 and 6
Class Lodge (1948)
Bond Memorial
Somerville Gym
Palmer Lounge
Whittier House
Commons
Hall Gym

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Charles Palmer
Harriet Cox McDowell
Ellen Atkinson Jenkins
Marshall Sullivan
Elliott Richardson
Frank D’Olier
Charles Thatcher
Wm. A. Clarke
Sproul Lewis
Pierce L. Richards, Jr.
Edmund Dawes
Edwin P. Rome
Walter T . Skallerup
Jake Earley
( t e a r o f f _h e r e )

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ALUM NI O F F IC E , SW A R TH M O R E C O L L E G E
1.

A lu m n i L u n c h e o n *
.............. R eserv atio n s @ $1.00 (p aym en t in a d v a n c e ) .......................$ ...........

2. H ou sin g^ (W o m e n in P a rrish —M en in W h a rto n )
F o r F rid a y ........................ S atu rd ay ......................... S unday.........................
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M yself

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H u sb an d o r wife

r i Sons, ages...................
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D au gh ters, ages...................

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O thers

T o ta l of...................................room s @

H o u sin g R eservation s
ca n n o t be
accep ted after
|im e 7th

$ 1 .5 0 p er person p e r n ig h t

(p aym en t in ad vance) ................................... ............................................... $ ...........
T o ta l check enclosed .................................................................$ ...........
# Luncheon reservations will be held in the A lum ni Office (Parrish 105).
f H ousing reservations w ill be held in H ouse D irecto r’s Office (W est E n d —Parrish).

Please make checks payable to Swarthmore College and send with reserva­
tions to the Alumni Office for the luncheon and housing.