Swarthmore College Alumni Bulletin 1948-10-01

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OCTOBER 1948

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ALUM NI DAY
An unsettled, threatening morning turned to bright
skies and happy reunions for the many Swarthmoreans
who returned to the campus on Alumni Day last June.
The oldest alumnus present was 92-year-old Samuel J.
Seaman ’78, shown at the right with President Nason.
Beloved Caroline Lukens ’98, was presented with
a bound volume listing the names of alums who con­
tributed to the fund started in her honor by Bertha
White Nason ’26. The fund, which so far totals $6,371.50
will be used to establish a Caroline Lukens Room in the
new women’s dormitory.
Eight other members of Miss Lukens’ class cele­
brated their 50th reunion. Among them was Ida Palmer
Stabler whose daughter, Eleanor Stabler Clarke T8 at­
tended her 30th reunion, and son Charles N. Stabler
’23, his 25th.
T. Janney Brown ’88 and his wife, Elsie Palmer
Brown ’88 found 19 members of their family on the
campus that day. The record reunion class was 1928
with 130 members present.

President N ason and Sam uel J. Seam an ’78

HOMECOMING DAY
HOM ECOM ING DAY this year is October 30,
practically a Hallow’een Homecoming. Reserve that
date on your calendar now. Plan to join your classmates
and friends for a gala autumn reunion on the campus.
HERE’S THE P R O G R A M
1:30 P.M.-—Ursinus Soccer Game
2:30 P.M.— Franklin and Marshall Football Game
2:45 P.M.—Cross Country Meet with F. & M.
Tea in the Bond after the Game
6:30 P.M.—Dinner in the College Dining Room
8:00 P.M.—'The Little Theatre Group presents Maxwell
Anderson’s “Winterset” in Clothier
After the Play, the Alumni Hallowe’en Dance

Homecoming week-end this year will be especially
significant. In an earnest effort to know the college

better and to be more effective as your representatives,
the members of the Alumni Council are planning to
visit here, as guests of the College, from Thursday
through Homecoming Day. It will involve visiting
classes and seminars and informal discussions with
students and members of the faculty. Brief summaries
of their visit will be made at the tea on Saturday after­
noon. Continued annually, these visits will be a big
step toward keeping the college and its alumni in close
rapport.
Write to Kathryn Bassett, Alumni Office, for your
Homecoming tickets. At the give-away price of $1.50
your ticket will cover dinner plus the football game and
admission to WINTERSET.
You just can’t afford to miss this 1948 Hallow’een
Homecoming.
Jack B. Thompson ’27, Chairman

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Scott Barrett Lilly ........................
Fraser Reports on Germany.........
Swarthmore Club of Philadelphia
A New Year B e g in s.................
Alumni on the Move .................
F acuity on the Move ....................

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New Faculty . *.............................. 8
N ecrology......................................... 9
1948-49 Alumni Council ............... 9
Fall Athletic Schedule ................. 10
Class Notes ..................................10-38
Campaign R e p o r t....................39 & 40

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SCOTT BARRETT LILLY
By Samuel T. Carpenter, Chairman Dept. Civil Eng., Swarthmore College
NE of Professor Scott
B. Lilly’s favorite
statements was “it is better
for a man to wear out than
to rust out”. This was cer­
tainly true of Professor
Lilly himself. He died
August 19, 1948, at the
age of 63, having worked
much of the spring se­
mester. He is survived by
his wife Jean M. Lilly,
a son, Scott Barrett, Jr.,
a daughter, Mary Alice,
and a granddaughter, Les­
lie.
Professor Lilly gradu­
ated from Michigan State
College in 1907 and re­
ceived his professional
Civil Engineering degree from Cornell University in
1909. He taught at Cornell from 1907 to 1910 and at
Swarthmore College from 1910 to 1917. After an interim
of twelve years in industry as a consulting engineer and
a sales engineer, he returned to Swarthmore as Profes­
sor of Civil Engineering, and had served as Chairman
of the Division of Engineering since 1936. He was the
first recipient of the Henry C. and J. Archer Turner En­
gineering Professorship. He was a registered professional
engineer and a member of numerous engineering and
educational societies.
Nationally known as a civil engineer and as an en­
gineering educator, Professor Lilly worked primarily
towards one goal, namely, the improvement of the en­
gineering profession through education and scientific
research. His accomplishments were notably rewarded.
He served as a Director of the American Society of
Civil Engineers from 1942 to 1944 and had just been
nominated as a Vice-President of that Society. He was
Chairman of the Committee on Professional Training
of the Engineers Council for Professional Development.
He collaborated with Dr. John Miller on the textbook
“Analytic Mechanics”, and was co-author of the book
“Teacher Training For Industry”.
Professor Lilly was a master of the teaching tech­
niques, and the inspirational influence of his teaching
and his capacity for leadership has done much to make
engineering at Swarthmore nationally recognized. He
worked with students as men, and succeeded in teach­
ing them the rewards of intellectual honesty and re­
sponsible citizenship. He had patience'1as a teacher,
counseling those who were doing poorly and inspiring
all to do their best; and his advice was sought by the
alumni long after graduation. His teaching was alive

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and full of challenge, and
the creative aspect of his
instruction has had farreaching effects. The stu­
dents loved him and af­
fectionately called him
“Doc”. Their problems
were “Doc’s” problems,
none being too small for
him to give his best coun­
sel.
His work on our cam­
pus and his loyalty to
Swarthmore will be long
remembered. He was in­
terested in the good
things in education, and
he spoke with fervor and
strong conviction. He be­
lieved in research as the
stone to sharpen the teacher’s mind, and was largely
instrumental in securing the facilities in Engineering,
particularly the new Structures Laboratory, for carry­
ing out research of national interest.
Industry recognized Professor Lilly’s leadership and
he served as consultant to the Baldwin Locomotive Com­
pany as well as to the Sun Shipbuilding and Dry Dock
Company on personnel problems and the training of su­
pervisors. He served as a labor arbitrator during the
war without remuneration. He was not an “Ivory
Towerist” in any sense of the word, but an advocate of
public service and the dealing with reality.
He was deeply religious but did not press his re­
ligious convictions upon others: instead, he set an
example for them to follow. His religious philosophy
rested upon the eventual attainment of the brotherhood
of man through tolerance and unselfish service to
others—a simple philosophy and one which his per­
sonality effectively conveyed to his colleagues and stu­
dents. He was an active member of the Episcopal
Church in Swarthmore, serving on the Vestry for many
years, part of the time as Secretary, and later as Senior
Warden.
Words are inadequate to describe Professor Lilly’s
personality and his spontaneous enthusiasm for ideas.
Few men could grasp the significance of an idea more
quickly. He could detect pretense immediately, and
he always preferred men who spoke in simple language.
A man of action, who fought untiringly for the things
he believed were right, he had no patience with inde­
cision.
It is our hope that the mold from which Professor
Lilly was cast will not be lost. He played the game of
life to win, with faith in the future.

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FRASER REPORTS ON GERMANY
N the autumn of 1946 I went
to Germany to be Chief of the
Public Finance Branch of the mili­
tary government in WuerttembergBaden, with headquarters in the im­
portant industrial city of Stuttgart.
For administrative reasons the Unit­
ed States military government
joined these two formerly indepen­
dent states, but as one of the head
German finance officials remarked
to me, the unity of the two is largely
a fiction, and not likely to survive
our occupation. A strong separatist
movement exists particularly in
Baden, the smaller of the two. As
a result there are really two separate
administrations, one in Stuttgart and
one in Karlsruhe, thus complicating
a situation which was already diffi­
cult.
It was the duty of my branch to
advise and supervise the finance min­
istry and the offices under its con­
trol. Our first finance minister, ap­
pointed before the democratic con­
stitution became operative, was an
able banker with a thorough knowl­
edge of and an interest in finance.
He did an excellent job and was al­
ways cooperative. Our second fi­
nance minister was a politician of
the boss Hague type, whom we had
to overrule frequently. In the sum­
mer of 1947 he got himself elected
to the bizonal council, which meets
at Frankfurt, and this made it diffi­
cult to get in touch with him when
important decisions had to be made.
Not until General Clay ordered such
Germans to choose and hold one
job only did he settle down in Stutt­
gart.

regulating prices with strict govern­
ment control. This caused black and
grey markets to flourish. In Ger­
many, a barter market is referred to
as a grey market. We all hope that
the currency reform instituted in
June for the western zones will cor­
rect this situation.
In January of this year I left the
finance division and went into the
education division as acting chief of
the higher education branch. Un­
willing to leave Suttgart, and eager
to study the operation of German
universities, I was glad to get this
opportunity in education.

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Started Democratic Procedures

I visited nearly all the local fi­
nance offices in WuerttembergBaden to discuss their problems with
the resident director and his staff,
making it a point to ask their sug­
gestions regarding budget appropri­
ations and tax changes. This demo­
cratic procedure was very well re­
ceived by the German officials, who
were quite surprised, as finance min­
isters usually do not consult them,
but issue orders which must be car­
ried out in true Teutonic style.

Experience Rewarding
Herbert F. Fraser

In Germany I was fortunate
enough to have my car and was able
to drive some 22,000 miles through
Europe. This gave me an excellent
view of conditions. Until one goes
to Germany he cannot fully realize
the extent of the wreckage and im­
poverishment of these once great
and beautiful cities. By the end of
the war the German economy had
pretty well broken down. The Ger­
mans tried to prevent inflation by

My experience in Germany will
be unforgetable; the work was in­
teresting, impressive, and instruct­
ive, but headaches and frustrations
were frequent, as was to be ex­
pected. Conscious of pressing and
unsolved problems, one returns with
a redeeming sense of humility. I
appreciate greatly these two years
leave of absence given me, and trust
that it will enrich my teaching. I
am glad to be back, and more than
ever, feel the enchantment of
Swarthmore.

O U T ST A N D IN G P R O G R A M S PLANNED BY SW A R T H M O R E CLUB
OF PHILADELPHIA
This year, under the enthusiastic leadership of Larry Worstall ’24, the
Swarthmore Club of Philadelphia has planned a series of monthly luncheons
which, it is predicted, will break all past attendance records.
Philadelphia Swarthmoreans will want to reserve these dates now. The
place is the University Club, 16th & Locust Streets, Philadelphia. Luncheons
will begin at 12:30 sharp and will adjourn promptly at 1:45. The price will
be $1.75.
Here are the programs:
OCTOBER 19— E . H. T a y l o r , Political Analyst for Curtis Publishing
Company.
NOVEMBER 16— Joint meeting with Haverford. G il b e r t F. W h i t e ,
President of Haverford, and P r e s i d e n t N a s o n of Swarthmore along
with their athletic coaches.
JANUARY 18— R o b e r t L. J o h n s o n , President o f Temple University.
FEBRUARY 26—Annual banquet at the college at 6:00 p.m. Swarthmore-Haverford basketball game. News of an outstanding national
figure as speaker will be released later.
MARCH 15— W il l ia m L. B a t t , President of SKF Industries, Inc.
APRIL 1 9 - ||A l f r e d H. W il l ia m s , President of Federal Reserve Bank of
Philadelphia.

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A NEW YEAR BEGINS
Students
Swarthmore’s dormitories and
classrooms are full again this year.
When the semester opened on Sep­
tember 20 about 1032 students
crowded into the Hall Gym to reg­
ister. Of this number, 115 were
freshmen men and 104 freshmen
women. As was true last year, the
crowding is in the upper classes, not
among the freshmen, for 218 is a
normal-sized entering class. Then,
too, there are 32 transfers and 18
“old students” who had dropped out
of college and returned this year to
continue their education.
Winning top Academic Honors in
the freshmen class are Open Schol­
ars Laura Maurer, Rockville Cen­
ter, L. L Vivianne Thimann, Buck­
ingham School, Pricilla Washburn
of the Cambridge School, James
Beshers, Plainfield, N. J., Donald
C. Carroll, Westtown, Richard W.
Hall, Baltimore, Avery Harrington,
Jr., Drexel Hill, and Richard Wilmott of George School.
When Jim Beshers won his schol­
arship this year, he and his brother
Dan, of the class of ’48, became
Swarthmore’s first Open Scholar
brothers.

Around Cam pus
On campus it was a nice quiet
summer—as it should be. Little
time, however, was wasted by the
efficient staffs of Superintendent
Simpson and House Director Stilz.
Alums returning for Homecoming
Day will find that the Asphaltum
is no longer the Asphaltum, strictly
speaking. When the long-delayed re­
surfacing job was done early in Sep­
tember, Magill was covered with a
bituminous product known as amisite. It is a great improvement over
the ruts in “old” Magill.
The faculty housing problem has
continued to be a difficult one. This
summer the college was able to pur­
chase the Garrett Apartments on
North Chester Road at the corner
of Elm Avenue. It contains seven
apartments, most of which should
be ready for occupancy by Febru-

Dick Hall, a product of Mount
Harmon School, Mass., graduated
cum laude, served as president of his
class, and, in addition, played varsity
football, basketball, and baseball.
From Penn Charter comes Avery
Harrington who took top honors in
his class, edited the school magazine
and won letters in soccer and track.
He is the son of Swarthmore alum­
nus, A. D. Harrington ’22.
Another member of the freshman
class is Barbara Wolff of Forest Hills,

L. I., winner of the nation-wide
Westinghouse Science Talent Search.
Open Scholar Laura Maurer, took
second place in the same contest.
Added to Swarthmore’s roster of
foreign students are Manila-bred
Frank Bennett, Wai-Yue Chang of
Hong-Kong, Albert Diaz of San
Joaquin, Colombia (a Westtown
graduate), Carl Kleiber of Argen­
tina, Herman Roether and Harold
Schmitz of Germany and Laurie
Seaman of Australia, son of Wm.
Laurie Seaman T5.

ary. A small house is also being con­
structed for John C. Wister, Di­
rector of the Scott Foundation, on
the grounds of 735 Harvard Ave­
nue (known to some generations as
Thomas House).
In order to make mosquito con­
trol more effective along the banks
of the Crum, the college bought a
fogging machine—to be used as well
for spraying DDT just before pub­
lic occasions in the Amphitheatre.
Down in Mary Lyon, additional
space has been rented to the Penn
State Center—specifically the first
floor of Building No. 3 and Build­
ing No. 5.
By encroaching on the lawns near
Beardsley and the Hall Gym, muchneeded parking space for 40 cars
has been added.
A complete fire-alarm system has
been installed in Palmer and Pittenger.

As usual a great deal of painting
and papering has been going on.
Mary Lyon and the barn have new
coats of paint on the outside. For a
pleasant variation, wall paper has
been put in a good many of the
rooms in Parrish and Pittenger.
Miss Stilz reports that furniture
prices are impossibly high. Instead
of buying new equipment this sum­
mer there has been much sanding
down of desks and bureaus, staining,
and repainting, so that everything
looks fresh if not new. She gave one
concrete example of the kind of in­
flation which faces the college. The
durable aluminum chairs found to be
most satisfactory in Commons cost
$44 two years ago. This year, when
they can be found, they cost $57.18.
Picture frames and plaques have
been polished and refurbished too.
Swarthmore, in short, is ready for a
very good year.

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ALUM NI ON THE MOVE
Bronk, President of Hopkins

On July 28, Swarthmore’s D et­
W. Bronk was named president
of Johns Hopkins University, a fit­
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chief of the Division of Aviation
Medicine, Committee on Medical
Research of the Office of Scientific
Research and Development. In 1946
he was given an Award for Excep­
tional Civilian Service.
In reporting his Hopkins appoint­
ment, TIM E said, “When Johns
Hopkins asked M .I.T.’s Karl Comp­
ton to submit a list of candidates,
he sent back only one name—
Bronk’s.”
Det and Helen Bronk and their
three children, John, Adrian and
Mitchell, will move to Baltimore
from their Media farm about
January 1.

the G arnet L etter . This degree
was conferred in recognition of Mr.
Griffin’s outstanding work in the
field of chemical engineering.
Thomas B. McCabe '15
T homas B. M cC abe, newly ap­
pointed Chairman of the Federal
Reserve Board, received an honor­
ary degree of Doctor of Laws from
Drexel on June 14. Eight days later,
Trinity College in Hartford, Con­
necticut, presented him with an­
other honorary degree of Doctor of
Laws. This was his third such hon­
or, for Swarthmore conferred an
LL.D. upon him in June, 1947.
James M. Michener ’29

Alan Valentine '21

Dr. Detlev W . Bronk ’20

stature as a scientist, scholar and
administrator.
Since graduation in 1920, Det’s
biography has been something like
this: married classmate Helen Ram­
sey, 1921; M.S. 1922 and Ph.D.
1926 from the University of Michi­
gan; 1926-1929 at Swarthmore as
assistant, associate and full professor
of biophysics and from ’27-’29 as
dean of men; 1929, in England as
National Research Council fellow;
1930 to the present, professor of
bio-physics and director of the John­
son foundation for Medical Physics
at the University of Pennsylvania.
In 1937, he was given an honorary
degree by Swarthmore.
Although permanently based at
Penn for the last 18 years, Det has
been guest lecturer at many other
colleges and medical schools, has
edited several professional journals,
and has served as an active mem­
ber of innumerable committees and
associations. During the war he was
coordinator of research of the Air
Surgeons Office, and since 1944

Swarthmore’s other university
president, A lan V alentine ’21, has
been granted a leave of absence for
one year from the University of
Rochester to serve under Paul Hoff­
man as Chief of the Economic Co­
operation Administration to the
Netherlands.
Like Det Bronk, Alan went on to
graduate work, first at Penn and
then at Cambridge as a Rhodes
scholar, returning to Swarthmore in
’28 as associate professor of English
and dean of men.
Leaving Swarthmore in 1932,
Alan went to Yale as professor,
master of Pierson College and chair­
man of its board of admissions. He
was appointed president of the
University of Rochester in 1935.
Since that time he has been granted
honorary degrees from eleven col­
leges, including Swarthmore, and
has served on numerous civic and
educational projects.
He married Lucia Norton in
1928 and has three children.
Frank H. Griffin '10

On December 16, 1947, F rank
H. G riffin received an honorary
degree of Doctor of Engineering
from the Drexel Institute of Tech­
nology, not previously reported in

Our Pulitzer Prize winner, J ames
M. M ichener , was reported very
much surprised to learn that his first
piece of fiction, “Tales of the South
Pacific,” had captured the honors
in that field for 1948.
He must have been equally sur­
prised and pleased not long ago
when Broadway’s top musical com­
edy team, Rodgers and Hammerstein, proposed making it into a
musical play. This production is ex­
pected to open toward the end of
the year with Ezio Pinza and Mary
Martin sinking' the leads. In answer­
ing Alumni Office inquiry, Jim con­
fessed: “I know even less about
it than you do. In such transactions
Rodgers and Hammerstein buy the
story, not the author.”
He is now finishing up a new
novel, “The Homeward Journey,'’
which will be published early in
1949.
Richard C. Bond '31
R ichard C. B ond , better known
as Woody, was recently elected
Vice-President of the John Wanamaker store in Philadelphia. He will
also serve as the store’s general
merchandise manager, a newly
created position in the administra­
tion of Wanamakers.
Woody, a native Philadelphian,
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FACULTY ON THE MOVE
merchandise manager of Marshall
Fields in Chicago to return to this
city.
Rolf Valtin ’48

Rolf V altin , captain of Swarthmore’s 1948 soccer squad, won a
position on the United States
Olympic soccer team, which made
an unsuccessful bid for international
honors in the recent Olympic
Games in London. He was the only
college player on the team and
achieved this distinction in spite of a
cracked leg bone incurred in a base­
ball game against Army just one
month before the final Olympic
trials.
Aside from this distinctive honor,
Rolf piled up an outstanding record
in college. He won varsity letters
in baseball, basketball, and soccer.
This year he was named on the first
team of the All American soccer
squad after two previous seasons on
the second team. Rolf was a major
in economics, a member of the Stu­
dent Council, Book and Key and
Phi Kappa Psi. He was awarded
the Ivy Medal at Commencement
in June 1948.
Rolf is engaged to Nancy Eberle
’47, daughter of Charles A. Eberle
T2 and Anna Oppenlander Eberle
T3.
Zara Shakow
Zara S hakow , co-winner of the
1948 Joshua Lippincott Memorial
Fellowship, has been accepted for
advanced study in modern history
at St. Anne’s Society, Oxford Uni­
versity, Oxford, England. Accord­
ing to reports, modern history at St.
Anne’s means “from the beginning
to 1914.”
Aged nineteen, Zara graduated
with highest honors in political
science and was elected to Phi Beta
Kappa. On campus she was past
president of the Race Relations
Club and was active in student in­
ternational relations work.

Wanderlust seized much of Swarthmore’s faculty this summer. They
scattered far and wide on all sorts
of projects and have returned re­
freshed, reinvigorated, and re-en­
thused.
The Alumni Office’s own Carl
D ellmuth is the farthest from
home, having sailed from San Fran­
cisco July 7th with Peggy, Nancy
and Terry for a well-earned leave
of absence in Australia. This is
Carl’s first sabbatical in ten years
although he spent a few months in
Germany as a civilian consultant for
the Army in 1945.
His wartime friendship with one
of the Australian officers here dur­
ing an Allied Officers Weekend re­
sulted in his trip “down under” last
summer. After the initial success of
his introduction of Australian Rules
Football here at Swarthmore, Carl
decided to spend a whole year get­
ting better acquainted with the
game and with Australia itself. We
hope to have first-hand news of the
Dellmuth family for the next
G arnet L etter. Holding down
Carl’s duties on the home front,
meanwhile, are K en A llebagh ’47,
in the Alumni Office and Bill Stet­
son ’33, in the Athletic Director’s
chair
On the other side of the globe
were our “European” faculty—■
Wolfgang Kohler, Richard Crutch­
field, Alfred Swan, Robert Ackart,
Larry Lafore, Paul Beik, Monique
Bilbault Hovey, Jeptha Carrell and
Wolfgang Stolper.
D r. Kohler spent the early part

of the summer in Edinburgh at the
international congress of psychol­
ogists, and during the remaining
time visited in Belgium and Sweden
M rs. Kohler devoted her sum­
mer to the American Friends Service
Committee in Germany.
T he C rutchfields spent the
summer as guides for World Study
Tours, of Columbia University.
Their group was one particularly
interested in psychology and they
visited the International Congress
on Psychology in Edinburgh and the

Dr. W olfgang Kohler

Congress on Mental Health in Lon­
don. During the intervals they took
numerous side-trips to places like
Prague, Switzerland, France and
Holland.
A lfred and Jane Ballard Swan
set off for Europe right after the
close of college and have spent con­
siderable time in England, France
and Italy.
R obert A ckart of the English
department spent six weeks studying
drama at Oxford, finishing up his
summer at the Stratford-on-Avon
Shakespeare Festival and in Paris.
L arry L afore and Paul Beik of
the history department have been in
Paris, Mr. Beik starting his year’s
Guggenheim fellowship and Mr. La­
fore working at the American Em­
bassy.
M onique Bilbault , French in­
structor and director of French
House, flew home to Paris for her
wedding to A llan H ovey ’47, on
July 10th.
A ssistant
rell was one

D ean J eptha C ar­

of the Swarthmoreans
at the wedding, an event which he
sandwiched into his six weeks’ fly­
ing trip which included London,
Nuremberg, Stuttgart, P r a g u e ,
Rome, Geneva, Paris, Normandy,
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NEW FACULTY
With the re-opening of college on
September 20, Swarthmore wel­
comed seventeen new members of
the faculty. Eight assistant profes­
sors, five instructors and four lec­
turers and assistants have been
added to the teaching staff.
H ilde C o h n , assistant professor
of German, came to Swarthmore via
Heidelberg and Bryn Mawr. She
completed work for her Ph.D. at
Heidelberg in 1933 and came to
Bryn Mawr in 1937, after an inter­
lude of teaching at a school for Ger­
man refugees at Florence. E dward
F eh nel of the chemistry department
did both undergraduate and gradu­
ate work at Lehigh and recently
completed a program of post-doc­
toral research at Pennsylvania. A l­
bert K och , civil engineering, is a
specialist in hydraulics. He studied
at Armour Tech and California
Tech, taught at the New Mexico
School of Mines, and has done pri­

vate engineering research. Roy Linsenmeyer, another addition to civil
engineering, studied and taught at
Pittsburgh and has done commer­
cial work.
H elen F. N orth , who came to
Swarthmore’s classics department
from Rosary College of Lake Forest,
111., is a graduate of Cornell. She
has held a Mary Isabel Sibley Fel­
lowship of the Phi Beta Kappa
Foundation. A part-time appoint­
ment as assistant professor of mathe­
matics has been given to A lice T.
S chafer , who holds a Ph.D. in
mathematics from the Univ,ersity of
Chicago. She taught previously at
Connecticut College, at the Univer­
sity of Michigan and at the New
Jersey College for Women. W illis
D. W eatherford, Ph.D., Harvard,
’48, came to the economics depart­
ment on a one-year appointment to
substitute for F rank C. Pierson ,
who is doing research at U.C.L.A.

Weatherford was formerly with the
American Friends Service Commit­
tee in North Africa.
G eorge C. B eebe, B.S., Swarth­
more ’46, is a new instructor in civil
engineering. C arol F. Creedon, a
former instructor at Vassar and a
graduate of California, joined the
psychology staff. A rleigh P. H ess,
instructor in marketing at the Whar­
ton School, teaches economics parttime. H edley H. R h y s , new ap­
pointee in fine arts, attended Har­
vard on a teaching fellowship and
holds an M.A. from that university.
F elix G ilbert, associate professor
of history at Bryn Mawr and E.
Gordon Keith, associate professor of
finance at Wharton School, are lec­
turing at Swarthmore on a parttime basis. Mr. Gilbert is a special­
ist in modern German history. New
assistants are J anet Scantlebury
in women’s physical education and
Sara M. S mith in astronomy.

Faculty on t h e M ove, Continued
W olfgang Stolper and his fam­
ily returned just before the opening
of school from his year in Switzer­
land on a Guggenheim fellowship.
He was preceded earlier in the
summer by H erbert F raser and his
family returning from a two-year
sojourn in Germany. (See page 4)
Friends of the S elmes will be
glad to know that they went home
to England this summer for the first
time since the war.
College superintendent A ndrew
Simpson has been granted a year’s
leave of absence, part of which he
will spend installing power plant
equipment in Mexico, Central Amer­
ica and Columbia. He and his wife
sailed early in September.
The bleak United States outpost
at Point Barrow, Alaska, found a
number of Swarthmore faculty
members continuing the work of the
biological experiment station set up
by D r . L aurence I rving a year
ago. Dr. Irving, Per Scholander ,
H arald E riksen , and R eidar
W ennesland are there for another
vear. O tto H ebel went up again
this summer, and D r . N eal W eber,

Swarthmore’s exploring zoologist
who returned only this spring from
a trip into the heart of Africa, was
lured into the Arctic climate for a
month also.
D r . R obert K. E nders spent his
summer as director of the biological
experiment station in the new Jackson Hole Wildlife Park, Jackson,
Wyoming. The Jackson Hole Pre­
serve, dedicated this summer, in­
cludes 33,000 acres dedicated to
the exhibition of native Western
animals in their natural habitat, and
to the furthering of conservation and
biological field studies. With Dr.
Enders was D r . N orman M ein koth , also of our zoology depart­
ment.
L eslie L ipson of the political
science department spent much *of
the summer in Canada. He deliv­
ered a paper before the Canadian
Political Science Association in Van­
couver, and then stayed for several
weeks in Toronto studying Canadian
government. His colleague, Bryce
W ood, taught summer school at the
University of Washington.

G eorge C uttino , returned in
June, from his year in England and
France on a Guggenheim fellowship.
This summer he was at the Com­
mand and General Staff College in
Fort Leavenworth, Kansas as one
of forty-seven reserve officers called
back to active duty for a short pe­
riod of time to take part in the Re­
serve Officer Research Program
there. The officers, all college faculty
members in civilian life, are working
on projects in psychology, historv,
civil engineering and other fields. It
is hoped that their work may im­
prove teaching in the staff college
and create a pool of reserve instruc­
tors for an emergency.
E dith P hilips and L eon W encelius of the French department
devoted a good portion of their sum­
mer to the new Colby-Swarthmore
Summer School of Languages. The
project, started this summer on the
Colby campus, received an en­
thusiastic write-up by William G.
Avirett on the NEW YORK HER­
ALD TRIBUNE education page for
August 22.

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Robert Walker, Former
Board Member, Dies
Robert H unt W alker ’02, mem­
ber of the Board of Managers of
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A L U M N I A SSO C IA T IO N OFFICERS 1948-49
President, Peirce L. Richards, Jr. ’27 ............... 621 Oxford Circle, Cynwyd,
Vice-President for Men, Jack B. Thompson ’27
507 Harvard Avenue, Swarthmore,
Vice-President for Women, Elizabeth Carver Preston ’34
18 West Street, Media,
Secretary, Cornelia Chapman Pittinger ’2 6 ..................... .......... Nottingham,

Pa.
Pa.
Pa.
Pa.

A LU M N I REPRESENTATIVES TO THE BO ARD OF M A N A G E R S
Eleanor Runk Reppert T9 ................................746 Limekiln Pike, Glenside, Pa.
Nora R. Booth ’32 A.F.S.C., Commonwealth Bldg., 12th & Chestnut Sts., Phila.
Edmund G. Robinson ’05 ...........909 Nottingham Road, Wilmington 56, Del.
Raymond K. Denworth ’l l ..................... ...3 0 1 Elm Avenue, Swarthmore, Pa.

Robert Hunt W alker ’02

1936, and emeritus member since
that time, died on July 1, 1948.
Born in Baltimore on October 23,
1882, Mr. Walker was the son of
Elisha Hunt Walker and Lucy
Cooper Walker. Besides his widow,
Amelia Himes Walker, Swarthmore
’02, he is survived by three children
and a younger brother.
During his undergraduate days,
Mr. Walker was a member of the
Delta Upsilon Fraternity and vicepresident of his class. He partici­
pated in many of the campus activi­
ties including the Joseph Leidy Sci­
entific Society and the track and
hockey teams. He was subsequently
elected permanent Class President.
After graduation in 1902 he en­
tered the office of his father, Walker
and Taylor, in Baltimore, General
Agents for the Provident and Life
Trust Company in the state of
Maryland. He later became a part­
ner in the firm and remained active
in this business until his health
failed.
Aside from serving on Swarthmore’s Board of Managers, Mr.
Walker was a past director of the
Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital
and the Central Savings Bank of
Baltimore. He was a member of the
Park Avenue Friends Meeting, Bal­
timore, and served as Treasurer of
the Baltimore Yearly Meeting.

A LU M N I COUNCIL
T erm
Expires
ZONE I
1949 Richard H. McFeely ’27
George School, Bucks County, Pa.
Donald K. Weltmer ’40
824 S. Church Street, R. D. No. 5, West Chester, Pa.
1950 Ellis B. Ridgeway, Jr. ’34
45 Green Valley Road, Wallingford, Pa.
Lewis M. Robbins ’40
60 Nevada Street, Haddonfield, N. J:
1951 *Amos Dotterer ’24
Brookside & Ivan Avenue, Wayne, Pa.
210 Rutgers Avenue, Swarthmore, Pa.
*John G. Moxey, Jr. ’35
316 Dickinson Avenue, Swarthmore, Pa.
*Ned B. Williams ’34
18 West Street, Media, Pa.
1949 Elizabeth Carver Preston ’34
Lois Thompson Thompson ’27 507 Harvard Avenue, Swarthmore, Pa
West Center Street, Shavertown, Pa.
1950 Mary Lois Broomell Eberle ’40
Martha Williams Bittle T3
125 Rutgers Avenue, Swarthmore, Pa.
1951 *Anne Philips Blake ’28, 215 North Road, Lindemere, Wilmington, Del.
*Robin Breuninger Lukens ’22
916 Strath Haven Avenue, Swarthmore, Pa.
*Edith Jackson Walter ’33
221 Benjamin West Avenue, Swarthmore, Pa.
1949
1950
1951
1949
1950
1951

ZONE II
Leon A. Rushmore, Jr. ’31
Roslyn Road, Roslyn, L. I., N. Y.
Norman G. Shidle T7
SAE Journal, 29 W. 39th Street, N. Y. 18, N. Y.
*William A. Boone ’30
190 Raymond Road, West Hartford 7, Conn.
Isabel Logan Lyon ’42
130 W. 12th Street, New York 4, N. Y.
Ruth Henderson McDowell ’36
19 Madison Avenue, Summit, N. J.
*Gertrude Bowers Burdsall ’28
Baldwin Hill Farm, R. F. D. No. 3, Great Barrington, Mass.
ZONE III
1 Whittier Place, Swarthmore, Pa.
Cardinal Point, Edgewater, Norfolk 8, Va.
208 Broxton Road, Baltimore 12, Md.
Locust Vale Farm, Towson 4, Md.

1949
1950
1949
1950

William C. Prentice ’37
Jesse G. Johnson ’20
Helen Shilcock Post ’36
Minnie Gould Beury T7

1949
1950
1949
1950

ZONE IV
Charles C. Price ’34
2613 E. Hastings Court, South Bend 17, Ind.
Edwin Scott Lutton ’32
5656 Ridge Avenue, Cincinnati 13, Ohio
Ann Davis Shullenberger ’41 555 E. 37th Street, Indianapolis 5, Ind.
Dorothy Rakestraw Gould ’41
16609 Chatfield Avenue, S. W., Cleveland 11, Ohio

ZONE V
1951 •Clark Kerr ’32
School of Business^ University of California, Berkeley 4, Calif.
1432 - 36th Avenue, Seattle, Wash.
1951 *Grace Biddle Schembs ’34
* Members elected, June, 1948.

FORMER PROFESSORS DEATHS REPORTED
D r. G eorge W. L ew is , professor
of | enginering at Swarthmore from
1910 to 1917, died on July 12 at the
age of 66. For the past thirty years
Dr. Lewis was one of the top gov­
ernment men in aviation research.

D r . C harles E. D olley, who

established one of America’s first bio­
chemical laboratories at Swarth­
more in 1866, died on July 10 at the
age of 92.

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SW A R T H M O R E COLLEGE C A M P A IG N

Sum m ary Report
1947 - 1948
1947 - 1948
Number of Donors
Amount Subscribed,
2226—Alumni ........................................................ $157,434.53
222—Other Friends of Sw arthm ore................ 177,888.97
848—Students .....................................................
2,736.65
Total 1947 - 1948

3296 ......................................................................... $338,060.15

Balance—as of 1st Annual Report—$1,059,008.86
Less Adjustments in Pledges . . . .
2,502.15

$1,056,506.71

TOTAL FUNDS SUBSCRIBED 1946 - 1948 ..................... $1,394,566.86
Restricted Funds—’46 - ’48 ............................................................... $748,230.82
Temporarily Unassigned—’46 - ’48 ................................................... 63,895.00
Unrestricted Funds—’46 - ’48 ........................................................... 582,441.04
TOTAL FUNDS SUBSCRIBED 1946 - 1948 ................................... $1,394,566.86

RECAPITULATION OF THE A L U M N I SUBSCRIPTIONS BY CLASS

Class

Percentage
of partici­
pation

Amount
of Sub­
scriptions

Class

Percentage
of partici­
pation

1876
1877
1878
1882
1883
1884
1885
1886
1887
1888
1889
1890
1891
1892
1893
1894
1895
1896
1897
1898

50%
25
33.3
20
15.7
11.1
42.8
41.6
41.1
45.8
30.7
47.6
39.3
38.2
32.3
33.3
35.4
38.6
34.2
41.8

$1.00
10.00
100.00
20.00
5.00
1.00
110.00
220.00
570.00
640.00
145.00
141.00
2,792.00
2,237.00
8,930.00
1,827.00
1,132.00
23,162.00
1,708.00
777.00

1899
1900
1901
1902
1903
1904
1905
1906
1907
1908
1909
1910
1911
1912
1913
1914
1915
1916
1917
1918

24.1
31.8
51
29.5
46
38.6
27.2
36
45.5
50.9
29.2
35.8
30.5
28.2
38.5
42.8'
41.8
36.5
29.3
38

Amount
of Sub­
scriptions
303.00
991.00
653.00
4,616.00
' 1,754.00
887.00
2,285.00
3,096.00
4,954.55
1,260.00
1,759.00
8,818.00
5,211.00
5,619.00
1,226.00
18,776.00
1,683.00
2,186.00
3,302.00
2,126.50

Class

Percentage
of partici­
pation

Amount
of Sub­
scriptions

1919
1920
1921
1922
1923
1924
1925
1926
1927
1928
1929
1930
1931
1932
1933
1934
1935
1936
1937
1938

29.6
29.1
24.7
20.6
23.4
22.2
22.7
23.4
27.4
36.2
30.5
37.3
28.5
34.3
22.1
29
26.5
27.8
30
32.7

1,691.72
767.00
1,027.50
1,082.50
1,779.00
1,341.95
1,580.50
1,256.00
917.00
2,033.50
1,636.50
2,912.87
1,401.00
1,062.50
2,063.88
1,392.00
918.46
778.50
1,842.75
1,094.25

Class

Percentage
of participation

Amount
of Sub­
scriptions

28
22.4
23
25.8
26.9
21.1
23.3
22.9
20
—
—
—
—
—
—

868.00
786.00
541.50
613.00
1,117.50
571.60
747.00
715.00
239.50
36.00

1939
1940
1941
1942
1943
1944
1945
1946
1947
Feb. ’48
Ex ’49
Ex ’50
Navy
Prep
Special
Caroline
Lukens
Fund
TOTAL

11.00

3.00
75.00
754.00
15.00

5,727.00
$157,434.53

Sum m ary Report of the Results of the Second
Year of Swarthmore College C am p aign

This is a report to the alumni of Swarthmore College on the
second year of our financial program. We have also included the
first year results to show how far we have come during the first
two years.
John S. Clement

While we failed to reach the quota which we set for the second
year operations, we feel that the results of what was accomplished during this period
are not truly reflected by the amount of money raised.
When we entered the second year of the campaign, we realized that a public
relations job had to be done in order to kindle the interest of many people who were
not only financially able to make substantial contributions but who had been out of
touch with the College for a good many years. The combined alumni-Board-faculty
committee under the chairmanship of Boyd T. Barnard went into action in Febru­
ary after the return of President John W. Nason and results did not begin to make
themselves felt until late in the spring of this year. We now have, however, a per­
manent organization on public relations which will keep the alumni and friends of
the College fully informed as to college policy, college activities, etc.
The first year of the campaign was devoted very largely to general solicitation.
From the very nature of things, the second year had to be devoted to the develop­
ment of ^specific projects. The two which received the most attention were those for
the girls’ dormitory under the leadership of Hilda Lang Denworth, and the develop­
ment of the Science Foundation project, the leadership of which is in the hands oi
Thomas H. Hall, Jr., James R. Frorer, Frank H. Griffin, Harry L. Miller, Edmund
Robinson, Philip T. Sharpies, and William H. Ward. The formation of the
Science Foundation Committee was not completed until the second year campaign
was oyer. The set-up of these two projects has required a great deal of time and
attention and the work of raising funds for them will be prosecuted energetically this
fall.
Plans for the coming year will be presented shortly to the Executive Committee
for its approval. The central feature will be the revival of the annual Alumni Fund
to bring in unrestricted funds necessary for the current operations of the College. In
addition, special committees on the science building and the women’s dormitory
will be operating in high gear and it may well be that other special committees will
be organized to raise endowment for scholarships and professorships.
This year campaign headquarters will return to Parrish Hall where the whole
program will receive the careful supervision of Vice-President Perkins. You may all
be sure that no effort will be spared to keep you informed of the emerging needs of
your College as well as the plans that are being evolved to meet these needs. In
short, your Excutive Committee is looking forward to a hard-working and suc­
cessful year.

General Chairman