Swarthmore College Alumni Bulletin 1948-05-01

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ALUMNI - COMMENCEMENT
WEEK-END
June 4 — June 7 y 1 9 4 8

June 4—-Friday

2 :30 P.M.

Alumni G o lf Tournment
Rolling Green

8:00 P.M.
June 5—-Saturday

11:00 A .M .

Alumni Council Meeting
Alumni Association Meeting
Meeting House

1:00 P.M.
2 :0 0 P.M.

Parade o f Classes

2:15 P.M.

Program— Scott Auditorium

3:30 P.M.

Baseball Game

4 :3 0 P.M.

Alumni Tea— Parrish Hall

6 :30 P.M.

fD inners o f Reunion Classes

9 :00 P.M.

June 6 -—Sunday

Alumni Dance— Dining Rooms— Parrish Hall

10:00 P.M.

Alumni Sing— Front Steps o f Parrish

11:00 A .M .

Baccalaureate

8 :0 0 P.M.
June 7 -—Monday

* Alumni Luncheon— College Dining Room

11:00 A .M .

Phi Beta Kappa Lecture
Commencement

* Luncheon will be served in the College dining room at 1 :00 P.M. Please send paid
reservations in advance. Luncheon reservations may be picked up in Parrish Hall any
time before 1 :00 P.M . on June 5th or will be mailed when a self-addressed, stamped
envelope accompanies the reservation.
f l f you are a member o f one o f the Reunion classes please make your reservation for
the Reunion Dinner with your Class Reunion Chairman and not through the Alumni
Office.
Because o f overcrowded housing conditions, the number o f available College rooms is
limited. Paid reservations w ill be accepted in the order o f their receipt, and when our
capacity is reached any further applications will have to be returned. Housing reserva­
tions will not be accepted after June 1st.
Director’s Office (W est End — Parrish).

Reservations w ill be held in the House

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YOUR ALUMNI DAY

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T is difficult to imagine a Swarthmore tradition more generally appealing

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than the annual 'pilgrimage’ to the Campus on Alumni Day.

Officially

listed as the Saturday preceding Commencement, Alumni Day symbolizes an
occasion when former students return to familiar undergraduate haunts to
meet old friends, and to recapture some o f those interesting and carefree
days when a major responsibility was to arrive on time for an eight o ’clock class.
Saturday, June 5th, is the date this year and we suggest you mark your
calendars immediately. Already so many have indicated their intention o f coming that we are making plans to accommodate a record crowd. Our predicition is
that 25% o f the living Alumni will be on hand.
Swimming pools and tennis courts w ill be open and ready for those who
need mild exercise and recreation, otherwise not within their reach.

Faculty

J a c k T h o m p so n ’27

will be on campus and at home for those o f us who care to visit our favorite

Alumni Day Chairman

'profs’. M en’s Fraternity houses will hold open house. The village druggies

and other business shops are eagerly awaiting the visit o f old customers, while
Frank the barber has promised to be along the third baseYes indeed, this looks like an Alumni Day few will
line during the ball game.
want to miss. In addition to the regular class reunions a
Then there w ill be R uff, Ayme, Teddy Selmes and Mr.
Gresley who always look forward to seeing old friends.
Caroline Lukens, now in her 86th year, will serve as
official hostess and will baffle you once again with her

number o f non reunion classes, impatient with the 'five year
interval plan’, are arranging parties o f their own design.
Elsewhere in the Garnet Letter you will find a complete

phenomenal memory and warm you with her inimitable

program o f events. Send your reservations at once and
come prepared to make Saturday, June 5th, a huge success.

smile.

Remember, this is your Alumni Day.

A L U M N I G O LF T O U R N A M E N T
The 6th Annual Handicap Alumni G o lf Tourna­

Reunion Headquarters

Reunion Chairman
Samuel J. Seaman
Charles S. Pyle

1878

W est End Parlor

1883
1888

W est End Parlor

1893
1898

W est End Parlor
Somerville Parlor

whether you are interested in a buffet supper which
will be served after the match.

1903

Lodge 1

Competition will be for the President’s Trophy,

1908

Lodge 2 .

presented to the Alumni Association by Frank Aydelotte in 1939.

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1918

Lodges 5 and 6
Lodge 3 and 4

Alice Fricke Hoot

1923
1928

Bond Memorial

Samuel B. Gaumer
Jack Dutton

ment will be held at 2:30 P.M. on Friday, June 4th
at the R olling Green Country Club.
Entries should be sent immediately to Samuel C.
Eckard ’26,

Swarthmore

College.

Please indicate

Former winners o f the Trophy are:
1939

John P. Skinner ’ 31

1940

S. John Pyle ’32

1941

Russell W hite ’ 22

1942

Mace G ow ing ’ 36

1947

Isaac Darlington ’07

W est End Parlor

Alice Hall Paxson
Henry C. Turner
Edith Lamb Johnson
Betty Booth Lamb and
W m . E. Hannum

1933
1938

Somerville Gym
Palmer Lounge
Whittier House

1943
1946

Commons
Hall Gym

Leonard C. Ashton
Rudy Goehring

Hunter Corbett
Carl Colkett
Morris Bassett
Jill Staman Rowland

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FACULTY NOTES
Clair W ilcox, Professor o f

Former professor o f history,

Economics, arrived in Swarth-

Troyer S. Anderson, died on

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having

A pril 3rd in Swarthmore after

spent the entire winter in Cuba

an illness o f several months.

as acting head o f the United

Mr. Anderson taught at the

States delegation to the Ha­
vana Conference which wrote

College from 1928 to 1942.
During the war he was associ­

the Charter for the Interna­

ated with the historical branch

tional Trade Organization.

o f the W ar Department Gen­

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eral Staff, where from 1944 to

According to the lead editor­
ial in the N E W Y O R K TIMES

1946 he was assigned to the

for that date: "T h e Charter o f

Office o f the Undersecretary of

the International Trade Organi­

W ar, and in 1946 to the Secre­

zation, signed at Havana by representatives o f 53 nations,
is one o f those solid accomplishments which add to one’s

tary o f W ar as a special consultant. A t the time o f his
death, Mr. Anderson was professor o f history at Hunter

respect for human intelligence, patience and goodw ill’ ’ .

College in N ew York.
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Later on it states: "A gain and again the Havana Meeting
seemed about to wreck itself on quantitative restrictions—

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is expected to return to the

a term which became so familiar that it was soon abbrevi­
ated to "Q R ” . Acting Chairman Clair W ilcox o f the

Political Science Department next fall after a year’ s leave

United States delegation deserves high credit for the final

working

compromise, showing patience and skill o f the highest

Science section o f the Rockefeller Foundation.

order.

responsibility has been to approve foundation grants for

The result was that out o f fifty-six eligible dele­

gations, only three failed to sign . . . ”
Mr. W ilcox joined the State Department as Director o f

o f absence.

For the past year and a half he has been

under Joseph

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the Office o f International Trade Policy in June o f 1945,

J. D. McCrumm, Associate Professor o f Electrical Engi­

and in that capacity has been chief United States delegate

neering, is acting as a consultant to the Research Division

to the trade conferences in London, Geneva and Havana

o f the M oore School o f Electrical Engineering, University

during the past two years. He expects to "taper off” his
connection with the State Department this spring, and says

o f Pennsylvania. Recent activity was concerned with a
classified guided missile project for the Navy. A t present,

with some relief in his voice, "I have a teaching job at

Professor McCrumm is associated with the project for the

Swarthmore College next fall.

Y ou may quote me as

Burroughs A dding Machine Company, investigating the

saying that this place looks and feels and smells awfully

applicability o f new electronic computer techniques to busi­

good after being away for so long.”

ness machines and accounting procedures.

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Librarian Charles B. Shaw returned to Swarthmore on'

C. J. Garrahan, Assistant Professor o f Electrical Engineer­

A pril 2 after six months leave o f absence. Upon recom­

ing, is acting as Consultant and Technical Supervisor for

mendation o f the American Library Association, Mr. Shaw

the Differential Analyzer Project at the M oore School of
Electrical Engineering, University o f Pennsylvania. The

was sent to China under the auspices o f the United Board
for Christian Colleges in China. He inspected the library

differential analyzer is a large scale computing machine

resources o f the fifteen Christian colleges, appraised their

which the M oore School makes available to outside sponsors

war damage and made recommendations for their reference

for the solution o f problems in applied mathematics.

collections and personnel replacements. His report to the
United Board should be published shortly.

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T w o members o f the Economics Department w ill return
in the fall after an extended residence in Europe. Herbert
Fraser returns after serving in Germany for two years with

Patrick M . M alin’s return to the Economics Department
at Swarthmore after seven years absence, has meant a rush

the Office o f Military Government and W olfg an g Stopler is

o f speaking engagements for him.

completing his year o f study in Switzerland under the

He has addressed

Rotary Clubs, wom en’s clubs, business men’s associations,

auspices o f the Guggenheim Foundation.

college audiences and a number o f other organizations.

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MISS ABBY
A MONG

Friends

one

and had and did— or was going t o ! Commencement week­

hears this definition o f a

end in particular always brought a brilliant star perform ­
ance, with all the high lights.

Quaker— "O ne who goes
about doing g ood ” . A fine

O f course there are all the Friendly concerns:

old Friend has said that he
prefers

the

good

Race

Street, and the Swarthmore Meeting (quilting, clerking,
and affairs); the American Friends’ Service, too, and

which

takes the most going-about.

Pendle Hill. N ot to mention all things friendly: you will

Of our Abby Mary Hall

find a pleasant room at Miss Abby’s; you will secure a
maid through Miss A bby; when seemingly "there’s not a

Roberts this cannot be
said, at least after 1888
her g o i n g s - a b o u t w e r e

house in the boro” for forlorn new faculties, Miss Abby
and Chester will magically point the way. And if you

largely on the Swarthmore

would cross the threshhold o f the family entrance any

College Campus.

day, you must pick a path through barrel packings: this

In that

year her parents moved to

and that for the Schofield School, books for camps, gar­

Hedgley

ments for Relief. Miss Abby herself tells the story o f a

on

Swarthmore

Avenue just below the railroad. In 1890 they bought the

young man, a holiday guest one year, who had difficulty in

house on College Avenue in which she lived for fifty-eight

finding a place for his coat and hat amid this welter o f

years. She attended College and was graduated in 1890,

charitable barrels, to-be-rummaged clothing, and the gen­

one o f the early women members o f Phi Beta Kappa.
Following her graduation she taught two years at Friends’

eral busy disorder. Apologizing to him for the state o f
domestic chaos, she explained, "Thee knows how it is in

Academy, Locust Valley, L. I. and then went to Cornell

the holidays.”

and took another A.B. degree in Classics in 1893. After

fifteen years I ’ve been coming here, and it’s always like
this!” ”

nine years o f teaching at Friends’ Central she was back
on College Avenue and on the Campus as a teacher o f
Latin and Assistant Dean. By 1906 "Miss A bby” was Sec­
retary o f the Alumni Association, and for the next thirtythree years she was its center— the guide and friend.

As

Ethel Brewster wrote in her beautiful tribute in the
Garnet Letter o f May 1942.
"Legend has it that Chester Roberts, even before he
became superintendent, had met Abby Mary Hall through
a mutual friend, fate-directed. She was fetchingly dressed
for a game o f lawn-tennis.

At the very first glimpse— ut

"But Miss Abby,” her guest replied, "fo r

Almost to the end o f her busy life on March 10th it
was always like that. Only a few weeks before her illness
she supervised the sorting o f great piles o f magazines. In
her store-room a group o f Campus Club woman had found
lovely old dresses for a pageant o f early Swarthmore. Per­
haps the dress-coat which Henry Cadbury wore in Sweden
where he received the Nobel prize for the Friends came
from her store-rooms, too.
In that great old house on College Avenue foreign stu­
dents first lived in an American home; lonely boys found

vidit, ut periit! The meeting led some years later to the

her big high-ceilinged rooms all that grandmother’s rooms

happily inevitable consummation.

had been; alumni learned about the state o f the College as
they ate breakfast about her big dining room table; parents

Accordingly in 1908

Swarthmore alumni gladly added "Roberts,” but resolutely
refused to relinquish "Miss A bby.”

The team was in­

"Chester, w on’t thee?”

came to see their children at work and wished they too
could be -at Swarthmore. "Miss Abby” did not need to

Chester, has thee tried?” — "Thee tell them, Chester,”

go about; her world, which will not forget, came to her.

imitable:

"Chester, will thee?”

lightly carolled Miss Abby, and Chester would and could

The Friends Historical Library has a large collec­
tion o f old coins (value unknown) which it would
like to convert into cash. Is there among the alumni
a numismatist who could look over the \collection,
give the Librarian an idea o f its value, and advise

D . R. H.

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T H E 1949 H A L C Y O N
is now accepting subscriptions
$5.80 including postage

as to means o f disposing o f it to the best advantage?
If you can help, please get in touch with Frederick
B. Tolies, librarian.

W rite to Ted W right, Subscription Manager

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AN INVITATION!
f | ’H A T there exists today an opportunity for improving

reality or are a result o f mere misinformation. Frank dis-(

the understanding between the alumni and the students

cussion has served to minimize or dissolve a great many I

o f Swarthmore is frankly recognized by many o f the C ol­

prejudiced opinions or criticisms. In view o f the very real I

lege s present and past students. Most o f us know o f the

advances which appear to have been made through such

alumnus at one extreme v/ho thinks that every Swarthmore

opportunities for exchange o f ideas, the Student Council

student is a Communist, social misfit and an ivory-tower in­

is anxious to promote a larger number o f similar meetings

tellectual; or o f the student at the other extreme who feels

in which more alumni and members o f the student body!
will participate. The result has taken the form o f plans

that every alumnus is an archreactionary, socialite and
financier who, through the power o f the purse, is attempt-

for a series o f small student-alumni meetings to be held

ing to control every phase o f student life. Between these

Sunday afternoons follow ing dinner on the campus. It is
the hope o f the Student Council that such a program may

extremes are many students who sincerely resent what they
feel to be attempts by graduates to restore the campus life
o f the

bring about a more healthy and cooperative relationship
between graduates and undergraduates.

good old days,,’ and many alumni who are honestly

disturbed by what appear to them to be unfortunate trends

Those members o f the alumni body who are interested
in participating in this program should contact the Alumni

and tendencies in the life o f the student body.
In recent meetings with alumni living in the Swarthmore

Office. W e shall welcome any and all criticism and sug­

community the Student Council has found that these differ­

gestions pertaining to student life. Upon such honest
discussion the success o f the program depends.

ences either have been magnified out o f proportion to

The Student Council

FACULTY NOTES
On March 9th an honorary degree was conferred upon

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tation for his research work in physical and electro-}

Swarthmore s Dr. Creighton by Dalhousie University in

chemistry and is the author o f many scientific papers in

Nova Scotia.

these and other fields.

The citation for Dr. Creighton, head o f

Swarthmore’s Department o f Chemistry, was given as fo l­
lows by Dr. C. C. Coffin, Professor o f Chemistry, Dalhousie.
"I have the honor to present to you Henry Jermain

His interests have been broad

and certain o f his contributions to knowledge have had |
(and are still having) far-reaching industrial and
pharmacological applications. He is an active member
in many scientific societies among which I am proud to

Maude Creighton for the award o f an honorary degree.
Dr. Creighton, a native o f Dartmouth, graduated

include the Nova Scotian Institute o f Science.

from this University and obtained a Master’s Degree

been honored by the Franklin Institute with the Long-

in Chemistry back in those far-off days when the For­

streth Medal and the Potts G old M edal; by the National

rest Building was Dalhousie. He was awarded an 1851
Birmingham, where he received another Master’s degree,

Association o f Manufacturers with a Pioneer Award and
by the Electrochemical Society with the Acheson Gold
Medal and $1,000 prize.

then at Heidelberg, and finally at Zurich where he was
awarded the Degree o f Doctor o f Science.

o f Science and Education and because o f his proven

Exhibition Scholarship

and continued

his studies

at

"A fter these years abroad he returned to Dalhousie
and lectured for a year in Physical Chemistry. He then
joined the Chemistry Department o f Swarthmore College
in Pennsylvania.

He is now Head o f that Department.

"H is career as a teacher has been outstanding and his

He has

Because o f his distinguished attainments in the fields
loyalty to Dalhousie University, may I ask you, Mr. j
President, in the name o f the Senate, to confer upon [
Professor Creighton the degree o f Doctor o f Laws I
'honorias causa’ .”
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influence has been felt far beyond the confines o f his
class-room. I need only mention that a text-book he has

Frank Pierson ’ 34 o f the Economics Department will

written has gone through many editions and is every­

begin a year’s leave o f absence in July during which

where regarded as one o f the best in its field.
"It is, however, as a research scientist that Dr. Creigh­
ton will be remembered. He has acquired a wide repu-

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time he will serve as Co-director o f Research, Institute of
Industrial Relations, and lecturer at the University of
California at Los Angeles.

D A Y , SA T U R D A Y , JUNE 5

SWARTHMORE COLLEGE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
P le a s e v o t e p r o m p t ly a n d r e tu r n B A L L O T to A lu m n i O ffic e n o t la te r th a n
Ju n e 7, 1947
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V O T E O N L Y F O R C A N D ID A T E S IN Y O U R Z O N E . If th e r e a r e n o v a c a n c ie s
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ZONE I CANDIDATES—VOTE FOR TWO

ZONE I CANDIDATES—VOTE FOR TWO

Pennsylvania, Delaware and New lersey
except the Counties mentioned in Zone II

Pennsylvania, Delaware and New Jersey
except the Counties mentioned in Zone II

□ MARTHA WILLIAMS BITTLE '13,
Swarthmore, Pa.
□ MARY LOIS BROOMELL EBERLE '40,
Philadelphia, Pa.
□ ALICE CASEY HAY '30,
Swarthmore, Pa.
□ LOUIS DAVIS MULLOY '24,
Media, Pa.

□ ELLIS B. RIDGWAY, JR. '34,
Wallingford, Pa.
□ LEWIS M. ROBBINS '40,
Riverton, N. J.
□ NORMAN H. WINDE '27,
Seaford, Del.
□ E. LAWRENCE WORSTALL '24,
Lansdowne, Pa.

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ZONE II CANDIDATES—VOTE FOR ONE

ZONE II CANDIDATES—VOTE FOR ONE

New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts,
Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine and the following
Counties of New lersey—
Bergen, Essex, Hudson, Middlesex, Monmouth, Morris,
Passaic, Somerset, Sussex and Union

New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts,
Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine and the following
Counties of New lersey—
Bergen, Essex, Hudson, Middlesex, Monmouth, Morris,
Passaic, Somerset, Sussex and Union

□ MARJORIE GRIFFIN APEL '44,
New York City
□ RUTH HENDERSON McDOWELL '36,
Summit, N. J.

□ JAMES L. CRIDER '33,
Darien, Conn.
□ NORMAN G. SHIDLE '17,
New York City

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ZONE m CANDIDATES—VOTE FOR ONE

ZONE III CANDIDATES—VOTE FOR ONE^

Alabama, Arkansas, District of Columbia, _Florida,
Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi,
North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina,
Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia

Alabama, Arkansas, District of Columbia, Florida,
Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi,
North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina,
Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia

□ MINNIE GOULD BEURY '17,
Towson 4, Md.
□ BETTY WALKER STRONG '39,
Tulsa, Okla.
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□ WILLIAM K. HOYT U2,
Winston-Salem, N. C.
□ JESSE G- JOHNSON '20,
Norfolk, Va.

ZONE IV CANDIDATES—VOTE FOR ONE

ZONE IV CANDIDATES—VOTE FOR ONE

Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota,
Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio,
South Dakota, Wisconsin

Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota,
Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio,
South Dakota, Wisconsin

□ LORRAINE PATTERSON BRADBURY '36,
Chicago, 111.
□ DOROTHY RAKESTRAW GOULD '41
Cleveland, Ohio

□ EDWIN SCOTT LUTTON '32,
Cincinnati, Ohio
□ JACOB SCHLESS '14,
Downers Groves, 111.

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