Swarthmore College Alumni Bulletin 1950-10-01

The Garnet Letter

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Homecoming
November 11
(See Back Cover)

BUILDING PROGRAM ADVANCES
The ideas of many Swarthmore
women are taking shape on the draw­
ing boards of Sydney Martin and
Associates of Philadelphia, who are
preparing working drawings for the
new women’s dormitory.
The Board of Managers had orig­
inally hoped to obtain financing for
the new dormitory in time to start
construction this past summer. The
national emergency, however, has
dictated a change in timing; but the
plans for the dormitory are being
completed so that there will be no
delay on that score when the oppor­
tune moment comes.
Costs Have Risen

The cost of dormitories has in­
creased enormously in recent years.
With traditional buildings costing an
astronomical figure per cubic foot,
much thought has been given to the
minimum size for each student room.
Last year a “mock up” model of such
a room was built inside one of the
high ceiling rooms of Parrish Hall.
Many undergraduate women visited
this room, some lived in it. They
made many useful suggestions. Floor
area and ceiling height were studied
in order to design the minimum room
which would be comfortable, attract­
ive, and meet the needs of the present
undergraduates.
These studies confirmed the archi­
tects’ statement that large window
areas make small rooms “feel” larger
than they would with traditional
small window design. The new dorm­
itory will have large windows, the
outside being of stone and glass. The
building will be fireproof throughout.
Designed to accommodate 120 girls,
one-third of the rooms will be doubles
and two-thirds singles. They will be
arranged in social units of 20 girls
each.

PROPOSED WOMEN’S DORM. A scale model c>f the future women’s dormitory, constructed by
Sydney Martin and Associates of Philadelphia, The w ay is being cleared for construction of
this building and the proposed science building by work on the new athletic field, shown below,
The dormitory and science building will occupy part of the present baseball and football fields.

The Board Committee on the Wo­
men’s Dormitory is headed by Robert
E. Lamb ’03, and includes Boyd T.
Barnard T7, Mary Lippincott Griscom ’01, Barclay White ’06, Philip
T. Sharpies TO, Eleanor Stabler

Clarke ’18, Ruth Potter Ashton and
Anna Engle Taylor ’25. Contribu­
tions to this long-needed building
continue to be welcome. The funds
so far donated are considerably less
than the anticipated cost.

Site Debated

Much discussion was given by the
Board to site, and it was finally de­
cided to locate the new building, with
its new architectural design, on the
present baseball field. There it will
harmonize with the new science
building, which is planned for the
north end of the football field.

PROGRESS ON ATHLETIC FIELD. This photograph shows the late summer status of preparations for
Swarthmore’s new athletic center, scheduled for use in 1951-52. In the foreground is the future
playing area, once the site of a dump, already levelled off for planting and construction. At the
rear is the south side of the Lamb-Miller Field House.

The Garnet Letter

SWARTHMORE IN A CHANGING WORLD
T he Alumni Day A ddress o f
T hom as B. M cC abe }15
Chairman o f the Board o f G overnors
F ederal R eserve S ystem
This day is our day. All of the other
days of the year belong to the college
but this one is exclusively ours.
To the casual bystander this cele­
bration, with its parade and stunts,
must seem fantastic. To the cynic we
must appear as simple sentimental­
ists. But to us it is all a very real re­
living of a rich past—a past that be­
comes increasingly treasured as time
speeds by.
The occasion is of special signifi­
cance to those who have traveled the
longest distances and made the great­
est sacrifices to get here. For all of
us it is a holiday—a time when we
can renew old friendships,- revive old
memories, dream old dreams, and re­
capture the adventurous spirit of our
youth.

appreciate the obstacles that would
have to be overcome in the long,
hard road that we and other nations
would have to travel to attain the
goal.
I recall also another incident on this
stage when, as an undergraduate, I
was asked to speak to a group of vis­
itors invited here by the Society of
Friends. That speech was delivered
with all the sincerity and enthusiasm
of youth but some of my finest phrases
came home to mock me a couple of
years later when we entered the war.
The decade prior to 1915 was a stir-

Swarthmore Influences

Perhaps some of us have a curiosity
in coming back because there is a
certain sense of satisfaction in seeing
how much older our contemporaries
have become than we. A glimpse of
the undergraduates, however, is posi­
tively depressing because they get
younger and younger with each suc­
cessive reunion. My class undoubt­
edly must have seemed very young to
the alumni when they gathered here
in 1915 in the old amphitheater with
its memorable wooden stage and
benches to see us graduate. Ours was
the largest class in the history of
Swarthmore up to that time. William
Howard Taft was our Commence­
ment speaker, and I recall the hectic
time Dr. Alleman had in finding a
chair in the vicinity of Philadelphia
large enough to accommodate Mr.
Taft’s huge frame. It was a fright­
fully warm day and the perspiration
ran down the ex-President’s face in
rivulets.
The subject of his address was “The
Church, Civilization, and War.” He
made a magnificent appeal for the
creation of a league of nations. He
met the next day in Independence
Hall with a group to consider the
plans for such a league. Taft was a
realist, but probably even he did not
October 1950

Thomas B. McCabe

ring era in which youth, especially
Swarthmore’s youth, was in the midst
of an idealistic ferment which left few
of us untouched. The most callous
student could scarcely get through
college, and certainly not through
Swarthmore, without being moved by
basic religious influences and the in­
sistent demands for social, political,
and economic reforms.
Wilson and Others

Who of us can ever forget the stir­
ring words of Woodrow Wilson,
spoken here in my senior year, when
he said, “I cannot admit that a man
establishes his right to call himself a
college graduate by showing me his
diploma. The only way he can prove
it is by showing that his eyes are lifted
to some{horizon which other men less
instructed than he have not been
privileged to see. Unless he carries
freight of the spirit he has not been

bred where spirits are bred. . . .”
Mitchell Palmer, Governor Sproul
and other leaders were frequent vis­
itors to the campus. I will never for­
get Mitchell Palmer’s admonition to
make our dreams come true or the
fiery words of the great evangelist,
Billy Sunday, when he spoke to us in
Collection in February 1915.
When I hear alumni refer glowingly
to the conservative faculties of the
good old days in contrast to the radi­
cals on university faculties today, my
mind goes back to the Swarthmore
faculty of my time—to such contro­
versial figures as Scott Nearing, Dr.
Brooks, or Ducky Holmes. They in­
curred indignation of parents and
alumni far more actively than any­
thing we hear today.
Our youth coincided with the de­
velopment of the progressive move­
ment in politics. The influence of
Teddy Roosevelt as President and his
Bull Moose party in the election of
1912 was everywhere. Woodrow Wil­
son became President while we were
in college. The women’s suffrage
movement was then in full sway and
classes in political science throughout
the land were studying the many
burning questions of the day, includ­
ing the Initiative and Referendum,
the direct election of Senators, the
new Federal Reserve Act, the Income
Tax Law which was enacted in 1913,
and public control of national re­
sources.
Outbreak of War

All of these proposals had been de­
signed to redress the balance between
what was termed the rights of the
people on the one hand, and the
power of concentrated wealth on the
other. Not only were these questions
debated actively in the classes of Dr.
Brooks, Dr. Robinson, and others, as
well as in intercollegiate debates, but
more importantly they were the sub­
ject of intense discussion all over the
campus.
In those formative years, we also
saw the birth of dynamic ideas in the
business world—the concepts of scien­
tific management and mass produc­
tion which promised to make feasible
the twin goals of high wages to the
worker and low prices to the con­
sumer. No one then dreamed the
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NEWS ON THE CAMPUS
REED PROFESSOR HERE

Dr. Robert A. Rosenbaum, profes­
sor of mathematics at Reed College
of Portland, Ore., is teaching at
Swarthmore this year. Rosenbaum
comes to Swarthmore on an exchange
which takes Philip Carruth of the col­
lege faculty to Reed. The switch is
part of a national exchange plan
sponsored by Wellesley College and
designed to give educators in mathe­
matics a broader teaching experience.
Rosenbaum has been at Reed since
1940, except for three years in the
U. S. Navy. His background includes
an A.B. and Ph.D. from Yale Uni­
versity and graduate work at St.
John’s College, Cambridge, England.
He recently carried out a research
project in pure mathematics under
auspices of a grant from the Research
Foundation.
IRON PILLARS

Parrish Hall underwent a consider­
able facelifting this summer. College
officials, investigating discolorations
on the surface of the familiar white
pillars, discovered to their astonish­
ment that the pillars were of cast
iron and the stains were actually rust.
Came the contractors, and there fol­
lowed a sanding, rustproofing and re­
painting.
Inside the venerable main build­
ing, Swarthmoreans are having
trouble finding things these days. A
general reshuffle of offices, necessi­
tated by the installation of vice-presi­
dents Shane and Cratsley, produced
no little confusion at first. Readjust­
ment is taking place, however, and
even creatures of habit (meaning
everyone) are beginning to get the
new idea.
NEW APPOINTMENTS

Two new assistant professors of po­
litical science have joined the faculty
this fall. John I. Michaels, Jr., comes
to Swarthmore from the Russian In­
stitute of Columbia University, where
he has been working for his doctor’s
degree. Mr. Michaels is on joint ap­
pointment with Bryn Mawr and
Haverford and will teach courses in
Soviet economics and politics at all
three institutions. A graduate of the
University of Wichita and Ohio State
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Robert A. Rosenbaum

University, he taught at the latter
school during 1946-48.
The appointment of Murray S.
Stedman, Jr., was announced in the
last issue of the G arnet L etter. The
former Brown University professor
will teach courses in Modern Party
Politics and American Political
Thought, plus a seminar in Politics
and Legislation.
Clair Wilcox, chairman of the eco­
nomics department, announces the
appointment of Joseph D. Conard as
assistant professor of economics. Mr.
Conard is a graduate of the Univer­
sity of California, where he has been
teaching recently. A member of the
Society of Friends, he has been active
in the work of the Friends Service

Committee. During World War II he
worked under the direction of Presi­
dent Nason in the relocation of Jap­
anese students. Conard will teach
courses and seminars in Economic
Theory and International Economics.
Also added to the faculty are five
instructors, a lecturer and four re­
search assistants. One instructor is a
returnee—Elisa Asensio, instructor in
romance languages, returns to that de­
partment after an absence of one year.
Both of Swarthmore’s new vicepresidential appointees have under­
taken -academic duties. Joseph B.
Shane is serving as professor of edu­
cation in addition to his duties as ad­
ministrator of alumni affairs, fund­
raising and public relations; and Ed­
ward K. Cratsley, vice-president in
charge of internal finance, has also
been named professor of economics.
STUDENTS HONORED

Barbara Wolff ’52 of Flushing,
N. Y., was selected for special research
training during the summer at the
Roscoe B. Jackson Memorial Labora­
tory at Bar Harbor, Me. Miss Wolff
was chosen competitively from appli­
cants throughout the nation on the
basis of her work in the sciences at
Swarthmore last year.
Barbara’s classmate Priscilla Wash­
burn, Open Scholar from Watertown,
Mass., was the winner of one of 41
scholarships to the Harvard Summer
School awarded this spring.

TEST AT BEARDSLEY. High­
w ay officials viewing a test
of a girder used in high­
w a y construction at the
Beardsley Hall laboratory.
The girder is being com­
pressed and twisted in the
300-ton testing machine
used by the college. The
test is part of a project
sponsored by the Bureau
of Public Roads and the
Pennsylvania
Department
of Highways and carried
out by the civil engineering
departments of Lehigh Uni­
versity and Swarthmore.
Left to right are W illiam
Eney, Lehigh; Neil Van
Eenam, Bureau of Public
Roads; F. K. Chang, De­
partment
of
Highways;
Gerald Kubo, New York
University; Samuel T. Car­
penter, Swarthmore Col­
lege.

The Garnet Letter

FOREVER
By M ary A nn A s h ’51
“Efficiency and economy” have rap­
idly become bywords in everything
from automobile production to bed­
making. Even Swarthmore’s WSGA
(still meaning Womens’ Student Gov­
ernment Association), that stalwart
guardian of female student manners
and morals, has yielded to the times;
the great legacy of do’s and don’ts
once inherited by young ladies of fhe
freshman class has mysteriously
shrunk. One sometimes wonders what
happened to the rule, “All young
women must come into the building

for them has passed. After all, why
shouldn’t a young lady play tennis
with a young gentleman without a
chaperon?
The March Down Magill

This “paring away,” however, has
been very gradual. For example, take
the southern boundary to which the
gentle sex might walk with their
beaux. It fairly inched its way down
Magill. According to the early stu­
dent handbooks, it was “the first
group of stairs on the asphaltum,”
later the second set, and finally “the
line between the library and the sun­
dial.” The last change seemed barely
more than a grammatical advantage,
but every little bit counted. After that
WSGA must have decided that the
situation was too difficult to handle,
for shortly afterward it gave up set­
ting any boundary at all.
On the other side of Parrish, how­
ever, WSGA was still supervising the
size of walking parties in Crum. In
1913 the minimum was three. By
1920 the girls were either stronger or
the danger from falling leaves had
decreased, for WSGA contented itself
with merely advising against solitary
nature hikes. Indeed, the temper of
the times changed drastically in two
years on this matter: the handbook
issued in 1922 stated plainly in the
“do’s and don’ts” section, “Do take
cross country tramps.”

as freshmen were informed that
“Swarthmore girls are not in the habit
of cheering at athletic contests.”
That Which Endurefh

The last echoes of the twilight bell
have faded off into Crum, and the
black serge bloomer is departed lo,
these many years. But if today’s
Swarthmorette caVorts no more in
orange tie, she may yet hearken to the
voice of sentiment, 1913 version: ‘ ‘It
is a sentiment that after 10 p.m.
young men say good-night at the door
of Parrish Hall.”
This sentiment, in company with

Orange Ties

Time . . .

when the twilight bell rings.” (In
fact, what happened to the twilight
bell?) Or the dictum that “skating
and coasting at night is absolutely
forbidden, either with college or out­
side men.” Perhaps, during a series
of mild winters, it was forgotten.
Be that as it may, the old rules are
definitely gone and with them the
chaperons’ lists, the outdoor social
hour and the College Equal Suffrage
League. The 1950 WSGA rule book,
in comparison with its 1900 counter­
part, might raise rumors of a serious
paper shortage. However, the out­
moded rules would have no more
place on campus today than would
the Equal Suffrage League; the need
October 1950

In the year 1920, the following
item appeared as part of the an­
nouncement of the Department of
Physical Education for Women: “Our
outfit for gym consists of black serge
bloomers, all white middies, high
white sneakers, orange ties. Our
swimming costume consists of black
grey woolen Annette Kellerman or
California Beach Suit.” Little imagin­
ation is required to recreate the Kel­
lerman streamliner, and in the face
of the Bikini, we are tempted to nos­
talgia. But why, w hy the orange ties?
It is not social customs and costume
alone that have undergone a meta­
morphosis. It would seem that girls’
very means of self-expression have
been altered through the years. To­
day’s battery of pert cheerleaders, for
example, must be a jolt to members
of the classes of 1916 and 1917, who

. . . marches on

the underlying ideals of all WSGA
rules, bids fair to survive the Atomic
Age.
For after all, the changes we have
traced are changes in the icing, not
the cake. WSGA is forever and inalterably WSGA, and we who make
up that venerable but friendly body
today are not so “different” as we—
and alumnae—sometimes think. If
we have not inherited from our pre­
decessors the habit of silence at foot­
ball games, it is to be hoped that we
are the recipients of something more
important. Call it friendliness and
good sense. Call it Swarthmore.
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ALUMNI IN THE NEVIS
LEADER IN JAPAN

Yoko Matsuoka ’39, who returned
to Swarthmore for graduate work last
year after having spent the war and
early postwar years in Japan, will
enter the Fletcher School of Law and
Diplomacy this fall. Newspapermen in

Japan. It was in her work as an in­
terpreter that she met and worked
with American writers.
She expects to return to Japan next
year to put her graduate studies at
Swarthmore and Fletcher to work in
meeting Japan’s recovery problems.
HALLOWELL e l e c t e d

H. Thomas Hallowell, Jr., ’29, vicepresident and general manager of
Standard Pressed Steel of Jenkintown,
Pa., has been named to the Board
of Trustees of the Pennsylvania State
College. Trustee elections were held
in early June. Mr. Hallowell be­
comes one of 21 elected trustees on a
board of 32.
Mr. Hallowell was elected to the
board by agricultural and industrial
societies. His career has given him a
wide background in cost and produc­
tion control and in selection and
training of employees. A member of
the Society of Friends, he lives in
Jenkintown.
FAIRY STORY LADY
YOKO MATSUOKA ’39

Japan rated Mrs. Matsuoka as one
of the ten most prominent woinen
there, when in 1946 she was a leader
in the drive for independence and
equality for her countrywomen.
The daughter of a leading Jap­
anese editor, Yoko came to the Uni­
ted States in 1932. Her father had
received an education in this country
and wanted her to have the same ad­
vantage. She attended Shaker Heights
(Ohio) High School and later
Swarthmore, returning to Japan in
1939.
After the war, she worked in co­
operation with visiting Americans in
breaking up the traditional vassalage
of Japanese women. Edgar Snow of
the Saturday E vening Post, Darrell
Berrigan of the New York Post and
Laura Lou Brookman of Ladies*
H om e Jou rn al, helped in her efforts
at reeducation and publicized her
work in this country. Miss Brookman
is sponsoring her current stay in the
United States.
Mrs. Matsuoka was dean of women
at a girls’ junior college during most
of the war. In 1946, she became the
interpreter for the Japanese chief of
police at Hanamaki in northern
4

Helen Becker ’44 has earned her­
self the title of the “Fairy Story Lady”
in postwar Europe. Every Sunday at
10:45 a.m. youngsters in the Euro­
pean Command area of the U. S.
Army rush for the family radio to hear
Miss Becker narrate fairy tales for a
15 minute period.
A special services librarian attached
to the Munich Military Post, Miss
Becker records her broadcasts in ad­
vance of the “on the air” time. She
usually spends two mornings a month
cutting transcriptions, in which she
uses a piano as background. Response
to these airings has been enthusiastic,
and Miss Becker has now narrated
over 50 fairyland adventures for her
devoted audience.

that “. . . none could suggest that the
University, under his leadership, had
not marched steadily forward.”
The editorial specifically cited Val­
entine’s establishment of an Honors
Division for exceptional students at
Rochester and his stand against ath­
letic subsidization. “His accomplish­
ments,” it said, “will stand for many
a year.”
After leaving Rochester, Valentine
spent the summer on vacation in
Maine.
MILLER CITED

Harry L. Miller ’ l l , president of
the Chester, Pa., Dairy Supply Com­
pany, was honored at a September
meeting of the Chester and Delaware
County Chamber of Commerce for
his year of work on the Small Busi­
ness Advisory Committee of the U. S.
Department of Commerce.
Mr. Miller does not talk much
about his own achievements, so it was
only recently that it was learned he
had been a member of the Committee
for four years, attending Washington
meetings at his own expense. The
Committee’s work has centered
around improved methods of procure-

PAPER SALUTES VALENTINE

Tribute was paid to the work of
Alan Valentine ’21 as president of the
University of Rochester on the occa­
sion of his retirement, June 30. An
editorial in the Rochester D em ocrat
& C hronicle declared that “Intelli­
gently, courageously, in the manner of
a lover of truth, a hater of thoughtcontrol, he pressed for quality educa­
tion.”
Outlining the difficulties that he
faced during his administration, the
D em ocrat & C hronicle concluded

HARRY L. MILLER ’l l

ment by government agencies and tax
problems of the small businessman.
Speaking of the 24-man Commit­
tee, Miller said, “We have better than
80 per cent attendance at our meet­
ings and feel that we have accom­
plished much of value to small busi­
ness and its millions of employees.”
The Garnet Letter

LUDLOW MUSICAL DIRECTOR

Ben Ludlow ’32, who is now mus­
ical director of CBS’ comedy partici­
pation program “Hit the Jackpot,”
will be remembered by Swarthmore
contemporaries as manager of the
college Glee Club and director of the
campus dance band. Ben, the son of
a prominent Philadelphia attorney,
began college as a pre-legal student,
but soon was much too involved in
musical activities to have time for the
law. He became a music major and
took his degree in that department.
After graduation, he organized a
dance band which played on cruise
ships touring most of the Western
Hemisphere. But in 1934 the per­
formance of his Christmas C horale,
a symphonic tone poem, by Leopold
Stokowski and the Philadelphia Or­
chestra, encouraged him to turn to
composition and arrangement. The
following year he began to work as
a free lance arranger for CBS and
three years later joined the staff there.
His arrangements have been used
by most of the nation’s top vocalists,
as well as by such conductors as Paul
Whiteman and Benny Goodman. His
Christmas Fantasy, based on 16th
century French chorales, was con­
ducted by Carl Kruger with the De­
troit Symphony in 1947. He has
worked on such CBS shows as “Co­
lumbia Workshop,” “Great Moments
in Music” and “Stage Door Can­
teen.”
Ben was married in 1935 to the
former Ann E. Miller. The couple
live at Locust Valley, L. I., and have
two sons.
SWARTHMORE JOINS WOMEN’S
PLACEMENT BUREAU

Swarthmore has joined a group of
colleges, who in cooperation with
New York City employers have
opened the Women’s Placement Bu­
reau, Inc., 541 Madison Avenue,
New York 22, N. Y. This is a free
service to Swarthmore women grad­
uates. For an appointment call Miss
Alice King, the Executive Director,
at Plaza 8-2153.
The bureau will register, refer and
place applicants who are alumnae of
member colleges; canvass business
firms and professional organizations
for job openings; explore fields of em­
ployment for older women, and act
as the New York office for college
placement bureaus.
Vocational guidance at the College
October 1950

is under the direction of Barbara Colbron, Associate Dean of Women and
Gilmore Stott, Assistant Dean of Men.
Both offices work very closely with
the Alumni Office in arranging inter­
views with prospective employers for
members of the senior class and
Alumni.
THE 1950 HAMBURG SHOW

Close to one hundred and fifty
students are working hard to make
the 1950 Hamburg Show the biggest
single event of the college year.
The Lost Generation of 1927 and
the town of Ambourg, Europe, pro­
vide the setting for this year’s tradi­
tional Hamburg Show. An American
student tries to win the Burgomeister’s
daughter, but finds that she is already
betrothed to a legendary devil.
The show is written by Rusty
Smith ’52, Little Theatre Club head
and “Slats” of last year’s show and
scored by John McIntyre ’51, mu­
sical director for the third time.
CLASS OF 1954

Two hundred and thirty-four fresh­
men entered Swarthmore College this
fall, 126 men and 108 women. Of the
men sixty-five received their secon­
dary schooling in public schools, fiftyseven in independent schools and four
came from foreign countries. Fiftynine women entered from public
schools and forty-nine from inde­
pendent schools. Of the forty-nine,
four came from foreign countries.
Thirty-one states and five foreign
countries are represented, six in the
Middle Atlantic Group, four from
New England, eight in the Middle
West, three in the Far West, and ten
in the South. Foreign countries rep­
resented are England, Mexico, Nigeria
Brazil and Japan.
The women scholarship winners
are: White Open Scholarships—
Gloria Chomiak, Alberta, Canada;
Sara Andrews, Canastota, New York
and Lisa Steiner, New York. One
of the above won the “Voice of
Democracy” contest last year, an­
other was one of the finalists in the
Westinghouse “Search for Talent
Contest.” The Alumnae Scholarship
is held by Elizabeth Soyars, Hopkins­
ville, Kentucky, who is the daughter
of William O. Soyars T4. Frances
Leland, Evanston, Illinois won the
Chi Omega Scholarship and Mary
Freeman, Washington, D. C. the
Kappa Alpha Theta Scholarship.

The men scholarship winners are:
White Open Scholarships—Michael
Ira Freilich, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Eric
Gillett, Hudson, Ohio; John S.
Hathcock, Jr., American Zone, Ger­
many; Saul Sternberg, New York
City and Peter Van Pelt, Worthing­
ton, Ohio. One of the above is also
a finalist in the Westinghouse Con­
test. The Baker Scholarships are held
by Clement A. E. Hastie, Takoma
Park, Md.; Frank S. Irish, Wellesley,
Mass.; John H. Jacobson, Jr., New
Paltz, N. Y .; Richard H. Morrow,
Arlington Heights, 111.; and Frank
A. Oski, Philadelphia. Robert Ray­
mond Weiss, Philadelphia holds the
Serrill Scholarship and Orville R.
Wright, Jr., son of Orville Wright ’30
is the holder of the T. H. Dudley
Perkins Scholarship.
Children of Alumni in the Class are:

Shirley Bliss, Ernest M. Bliss ’22;
Bonnie Brown, Jan et Y oung ’21 and
B oyd J. Brown ’21; Marjorie Gatchell, Earle G atchell T4; Edith Hay,
Alice Casey ’30 and G eorge A. Hay
’28; Frances Lemke, Frank H. Lemke
’22; Sara Jane Richards, Lily Tily
’29 and P eirce L. R ichards ’27;
Helene Smith, Joh n C. Smith ’22;
Elizabeth Soyars, William O. Soyars
T4; Marlee Turner, Virginia M elick
’27 and H. C handlee T urner, Jr. ’23;
Jeannetta White, M iriam Nickel ’31
and Josiah W hite, IV ’29; Mary
White, Joh n J. W hite, Jr. ’21; Dor­
othy Young, D orothy T roy Y oung
’26; Jared L. Darlington, M arie B en­
der ’ l l (d ecea sed ) and Charles J.
D arlington T5; David S. Dennison,
David M. D ennison ’21; William R.
Ferrell, Agnes G owing F errell ’25;
Christopher M. Kennedy, Louise
M erritt K en n ed y ’26; Charles L.
Loucks, M ary Sw isher Loucks ’15;
Charles J. Mears, K atherine R eed
M ears ’27 and Charles E. M ears ’28;
Albert W. Metcalfe, Anna R. Wil­
liams ’27 and Orrick M etca lfe ’26;
Orville Wright, Jr., O rville W right
’30.
Transfer Students

Twenty-two men and ten women
entered college with advanced stand­
ing. Of these one man and one
woman are children of alumni—
Gloria Swope is the daughter of John
H. Swope ’26 and Stephen S. Wolff’s
father, Nigel Wolff was a Special
student. Three of the male transfers
come from Austria, Germany, and
Indonesia.
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BOOKS
GODDARD’S LAST WORK

The late Dr. Goddard’s m agnum
opus, T he M ean in g o f S hakespeare, is
being prepared for publication by the
University of Chicago Press. We are
informed the book will be available in
April of next year. Those who have
studied under Dr. Goddard and those
who have known him just as a friend
will expect this book to be a combina­
tion of scholarship and deep human
appreciation, and they will not be
disappointed.
The traditional attitude of Shakes­
pearean scholarship has been, and
still is, that while Shakespeare no
doubt had his personal convictions,
we cannot tell what they were. It has
been said that it is impossible for us
to know what the greatest genius who
. wrote in the English language thought
of good and evil, of God and the
devil, of love and hate, and the other
great issues that have beset mankind
since the dawn of history.
Dr. Goddard believes this position
to be false. His book states that there
cannot be the slightest doubt about
the meaning of Shakespeare. He
analyzes each of Shakespeare’s plays
in the light of all the others and in
the light of the sonnets and longer
poems. And from this analysis emerges
Shakespeare’s world view, his care­
fully worked out system of values,
his deepest convictions on the great
problems of human life, his message
to his own and all ages.
The publishers are offering a spe­
cial pre-publication price to the stu­
dents and friends of Dr. Goddard and
to other Swarthmore alumni. In­
quiries should be addressed to: Mr.
Paul Corbett, The University of Chi­
cago Press, 5750 Ellis Avenue, Chi­
cago 37, 111.
NEW REFERENCE WORK

Amos J. Peaslee ’07 is the compiler
of a remarkable new, three-volume
reference work entitled C onstitutions
o f Nations (Rumford Press, Concord,
N. H. ) . For an estimate of this huge
work, the G arnet L etter turned to J.
Roland Pennock ’27, chairman of the
Department of Political Science.
Mr. Pennock writes: “Thanks to
Amos Peaslee, students and statesmen
all over the world have been provided
with the most complete, as well as
the most up-to-date compendium of
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constitutions available in any lan­
guage. Here they are, from Afghanis­
tan to Yugoslavia, the complete texts
of the constitutions or other funda­
mental instruments for 82 political
entities.
“They range in length from four
pages for Andorra to 69 pages for
Cuba and 74 for the present draft
constitution of India. In addition to
the full text, there is provided for
each constitution a summary accord­
ing to the following headings: inter­
national status; form of national gov­
ernment; source of sovereign power;
rights of the people; legislative de­
partment; executive department; ju ­
dicial department; area and popula­
tion. The third, volume contains a
series of comparative tables—one for
each of these headings—which greatly
enhances the value of this work.
“These volumes bear evidence on
every page of thorough and painstak­
ing editing. It may be safely pre­
dicted that they will constitute the
standard reference work of their kind
for many years to come.”
LEWIS WRITES OF GRANT

Captain Sam Grant, by the late
Lloyd Lewis T3, appeared late in
May and received a considerable
critical accolade. Mr. Lewis had
written one of a proposed three vol­
umes on Grant before his death; the
1950 publication by Little, Brown &
Co. comprises this completed volume,
and an effort is being made to pro­
duce the other two from the volum­
inous notes left by Lewis on his hero.
Lewis Gannett of the New York
H erald T ribune, reviewing Captairi
Sam Grant, wrote “I’ve read a lot of
biographies of Grant, but never a
book in which the man Grant seemed
to walk and breathe and move in
such three-dimensional color. As. you
read you understand why Lloyd Lewis
wrote in one of his letters that there
was no mystery about Grant. ‘The
whipping of the Secessionists was
simply a thing that interested him . . .
where he was interested, there he
could excel.’
“That was true of Lloyd Lewis, too.
And he was interested in Grant.”
ALSO BY ALUMNI

Elliot R. Alexander ’41, P rin ciples
o f I o n ic O rga n ic R eactions. A text-

SPORTS
FOOTBALL
Sat.,
Sat.,
Sat.,
Sat.,

Oct. 7—Washington College. ..Away
Oct. 14— Wagner College. .. .Home
Oct. 21-—Ursinus. ..................... Away
Oct. 28— Franklin and
Marshall ..........................
Home
Sat., Nov. 4—Johns Hopkins. . . . . . .Away
Sat., Nov. 11— *Drexel..................... Home
Sat., Nov. 18— Haverford................... Away
Captain: Robert C. Forrey
Manager: Wm. Saul
Head Coach: Lewis H. Elverson
Assistant Coaches:
Paul Stofko and Avery F. Blake
Faculty Representative: Paul N. Ylvisaker

SOCCER
Sat., Oct. 7— Alumni......................... Home
Wed., Oct. 11— Princeton................. Home
Sat., Oct. 14—Lafayette................... Home
Wed., Oct. 18— Pennsylvania............. Away
Sat., Oct. 21—Muhlenberg..............Away
Sat., Oct. 28— Ursinus....................... Home
Fri., Nov. 3— Lehigh......................... Away
Wed., Nov. 8-—N avy........................ Away
Sat., Nov. 11— *Ex-Captains........... Home
Fri., Nov. 17— Haverford................... Home
Captain: Ali AlYasir
Manager: Clinton G. Shafer
Head Coach: Robert H. Dunn
Faculty Representative:
Launce J. Flemister, Jr.

CROSS COUNTRY
Sat., Oct. 14— Lafayette...................Home
Sat., Oct. 21—D elaw are.................Away
Sat., Oct. 28— Franklin and
M arshall.......... ...........................Home
Wed., Nov. 1—L e h ig h ...,................ Away
Sat., Nov. 4—Johns Hopkins............Away
Fri., Nov. 10— M ASCAC.................. Away
Thurs., Nov. 16— Haverford............. Home
Captain: Ralph Cheyney
Manager: Stokes Gentry
Head Coach: James H. Miller
Faculty Representative: Dennison Bancroft
0 Homecoming Day.

book on a special phase of organic
chemistry.
Anna Pettit Broomell ’07, What Do
You Think? An anthology of folk
tales of ancient India, edited for
American students in grades 6-10.
Holley Cantine ex-’38, Prison Eti­
q u ette (with Dachine Rainer). A
compilation of writings by conscien­
tious objectors imprisoned during the
last war.
John W. Seybold ’36, T he Philadel­
phia P rinting Industry. A survey by
a former member of the Swarthmore
Department of Economics.
The Garnet Letter

SWARTHMORE CLUB
OF PHILADELPHIA
Tuesday luncheon meetings for the
Swarthmore Club of Philadelphia
have been arranged for the following
dates: October 17 (speaker, Byron
Saam, noted sportscaster), November
14 (week of the Haverford game),
January 16, February 20 and April 17.
The annual banquet has been
scheduled for Saturday, March 3,
the night of the college’s only home
basketball game with Haverford. The
dinner will be served in the college
dining hall.
As in previous years, the Tuesday
luncheons will be held at the Univer­
sity Club of Philadelphia at 12:15
p. m.
The club will have these officers
for 1950-51:
President:
Edward L. Noyes '31
23 S. Chester Rd.
Swarthmore, Pa.
V ice-P residen t:
Ellis B. Ridgway, Jr. ’34
Corn Exchange Bank
Philadelphia, Pa.
Secretary:
Richard A. Enion ’41
241 Haverford Ave.
Swarthmore, Pa.
Treasurer:
Robert H. Wilson ’31
603 Harvard Ave.
Swarthmore, Pa.
A ssistan t Treasurer:
Carl C. Colket ’38
8 Westwood Park Drive
Manoa, Havertown, Pa.

TEAS FOR FRESHMEN
WOMEN
Somerville teas for the women of
the class of 1954 were held in four
eastern cities this year. In New York
City Elizabeth Jones Barnard ’20 and
Jane Totah ’50 were in charge of the
largest of these affairs, held Friday,
September 15, in the rooms of the
American Women’s Association at
the Hotel Barclay.
A Philadelphia tea, under the di­
rection of Esther Ridpath Delaplaine
’44, was held at the home of Barbara
Briggs Winde ’31, in Swarthmore.
Martha Wood Christian ’31 organ­
ized a tea for Boston area women at
her Framingham home. A Washing­
ton tea was staged by undergraduates
living in that area.
October 1950

Swarthmore in a Changing World
(C ontinued from P age 1)
extent to which the material standard of
living has been raised and human drudgery
eliminated by mechanization. Technological
advances have afforded us almost unlimited
opportunities similar to those afforded earlier
generations by westward expansion.
Our interests were focused primarily on
domestic problems. That preoccupation was
shattered by the outbreak of World War I
while we were in college. None of us could
foresee how this event would affect our lives
and the destiny of our nation.
You are all familiar with the much
quoted remark of Lord Morley’s that the
most important thing to know about a man
is the year of his birth. I think it could be
paraphrased to read that the most revealing
fact to know about a man is the period of
his education.
In retrospect, the Swarthmore of 1911-15
was a friendly, kindly place in which the
family spirit permeated the relationships of
students, faculty, and everyone connected
with the college. The scholarship require­
ments seemed adequate then. I admit now
they were not too exacting. We had ample
time for social and athletic pursuits as well
as other extracurricular activities. We made
good use of that spare time! Our social and
recreational activities were confined largely
to the campus, and there were few outside
diversions. There were no convenient movie
theaters, and transportation was limited to
the railroad or the short line, except in the
rare instances of an automobile.

From Swain to Aydelotte
All sorts of extracurricular activities
flourished. They included such robust diver­
sions as the Monks and Devils, the annual
Keg Rush, Sophomore-Freshmen fights, haz­
ing activities, and the water fights in Whar­
ton. On the more cultural side, there were
the Dean’s teas, sorority parties, Maypole
dances, and Greek plays.
We were in the beginning of a transition
stage in athletics. When I entered college,
many of our football players were receiving
alumni assistance or given college aid under
some guise. That did not seem to bother the
consciences of colleges generally in those
days, except in a minority of instances, be­
cause winning football teams were considered
necessary to the public relations program of
colleges and to the preservation of student
morale. I mention the athletic side because
it constituted the woof if not the warp of
college life at that time.
I think it can be said without emotional
bias that during our period, Swarthmore
was a charming, delightfully social and
friendly place to spend four years. The moral
standards of personal conduct, due to the re­
ligious influence of the Friends, were ex­
ceptionally high. The college romances that
blossomed into marriages, then as now, hold
an unusual record for happiness. Probably
no other characteristic of Swarthmore is
more significant.
There was a close and excellent relation­
ship between the students and faculty, and
to us the faculty heads were giants of in­
tellectual power and standing. Perhaps I
am prejudiced in saying that men like Mil­

ler, Trotter, Alleman, Goddard, Blessing,
Brooks, Hoadley, Hull, Robinson, Dennison,
Marriot, and women like Miss Bronk and
many others, could not, as a team, be sur­
passed in any other small college of our
time. I will never forget the friendliness
and inspiration of these people. They are my
unsung heroes and they, rather than any
other single remembrance of Swarthmore,
epitomize my love and devotion to this great
institution.
Since being graduated from Swarthmore,
I have made my home near the college and
I have had the rare privilege of close asso­
ciation with the Board of Managers, the
faculty, and the students. I have observed
at first hand the changes which have taken
place in the student body, in the curriculum,
in the faculty, and in the physical environ­
ment. I have seen the pendulum swing
from one extreme of leadership to another—
from the leadership of Joseph Swain to that
of Frank Aydelotte. Quite naturally, the
contrast between these two types of leader­
ship created controversies. I have always
been a prejudiced supporter of the Swain
regime, because it touched me in the most
formative years of my life. Upon Dr. Swain’s
retirement, the Board of Managers after ex­
haustive search selected Dr. Aydelotte as the
most outstanding man in the country to lead
Swarthmore along a new road in the field
of education. With the coming of Dr. Ay­
delotte, almost overnight Swarthmore be­
came a pioneer in modern methods of edu­
cation. In amazingly few years it rose to the
top rank, academically, among the colleges
in this country.

Experiment and Afterward
The transition from a small, cloistered,
parochial, and easy-going college to a mod­
ern center of study and culture was so swift
that it left many of the alumni bewildered
and gasping for breath. In short order this
little Quaker institution was headlined and
dramatized as one of the most interesting
educational institutions in the land. Other
colleges began earnestly to study its experi­
mental ventures. Credit must be given to
the Quaker overseers for supporting this de­
parture which they could not immediately
evaluate or explain. They believed in Frank
Aydelotte and gave him practically a free
hand to inaugurate and carry out his pro­
gram.
It was not until almost ten years, or about
to the midpoint of the Aydelotte regime, that
the friends and alumni of the college really
understood the program. The succeeding
years I like to think of as the beginning of
an era of goodwill, a period characterized by
increasing alumni appreciation and support.
When Dr. Aydelotte resigned after twenty
years of vigorous leadership, he took with
him the appreciative gratitude of the Board
of Managers and of the college for his out­
standing contributions.
The present administration, under the
wise leadership of John Nason, has preserved
the best of the Aydelotte regime and at the
same time has allowed the pendulum to
swing a little more toward center by a re­
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tions from the Swain regime. Dr. Nason
has added many new and desirable innova­
tions which have been received with acclaim
by the friends and supporters of the college.
Many elements enter into the present wellbalanced program. There is emphasis on a
strong faculty, on an admissions program
that has for its objective a well selected stu­
dent body, on cultivation of student-faculty
and alumni-college relationships, and on
adequate provision for vocational guidance
— all looking toward a well-rounded, liberal
education and spiritual development amid
the beautiful surroundings we see all about
us.
Under the present regime there has also
been particular stress on the opportunities
and responsibilities for public service. Many
members of the present faculty have dis­
tinguished themselves in Government. I was
never more proud of Swarthmore than in the
early days of the war when this Quaker in­
stitution, in spite of its traditional stand
against war, offered all of its facilities vol­
untarily to our government in time of need.
John Nason’s announcement of this decision
electrified the alumni at our annual dinner
in Philadelphia. It was so dramatic and
thrilling that he was applauded and cheered
for several minutes.

A Better World
As of today, Swarthmore’s educational
program is stronger than ever. The college
is in the vanguard of our country’s progres­
sive educational institutions. Our alumni
support, as evidenced by the annual gifts
program, is gratifyingly strong. The size and
quality of our faculty compares favorably
with any institution of its size. I can testify
from many personal contacts in my home
with present members of the student body
that it is one of the best in the history of
the college. The beauty of this campus is
acclaimed not only by the students, faculty,
and alumni, but by the ever-increasing num­
ber of visitors who make pilgrimages here
to see the arboretum and other places of
interest. As alumni coming back today to this
spot so close to our hearts, we have every
reason to be confident that Swarthmore can
meet the challenge of the emerging future.
In this crucial period of the world, neither
delightful conformity to a set pattern nor
distinguished intellectualism for its own sake
can save us from the catastrophe which
threatens us. The weakness of such conform­
ity is that it is a static thing which neither
pioneers nor achieves new heights. The dan­
ger of strict intellectualism is that it may
breed a form of social isolation from a world
filled with the very practical problems of
millions of ordinary human beings. These
problems in their broad aspects are eco­
nomic, social, political and êmotional with
intensely human implications. In a deeper
sense than most of us realize, or are willing
to acknowledge, there are moral problems.
Now, morality must not be confused with
sanctimony. Rather, it is a code of conduct
which should guide all human affairs.
Swarthmore is richly endowed with these
physical, social, intellectual and moral attri­
butes which may serve to make it the most

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dynamic institution of higher learning in
America. A college does not become dynamic
through sheer force of numbers. Rather,
it becomes dynamic because of the philos­
ophy of those who guide it. We must pre­
pare our young people to go forth into this
confusing world with humbleness of spirit,
openness of mind, and intense desire to make
the world a better place than they found it.
You will forgive me if the following quo­
tation has the earmarks of preaching. But I
give you these words because I believe them
with all my heart: “Said the cynic, T could
have made a better world than this.’ To
which the sage replied, ‘That is why God
put you here. Go do it.’ ”
If, as I suggested earlier, one of the most
revealing facts to know about a man is the
period in which he received his formative
training, then surely those who have been
in Swarthmore during the past few years
have a unique background of training and
experience. Consider that the vast majority
of our recent men students have had from
one to three years of military life before
coming here— a life full of responsibilities
which took many of them to the corners of
the world and through a series of maturing
and broadening experiences. We all have
had contact with these young people. Their
knowledge and perception of world affairs
and world problems is astounding. They
combine idealism with impatience for soft
thinking. Their educational experience at
Swarthmore has been added to their other
qualifications. Do not underestimate for a
moment their potential. It is impossible to
predict the extent of the contribution they
will make by the time they have reached the
average age of our group here today.

Brains and Government
They will revitalize for us, I am confi­
dent, one of the essential traditions of the
American heritage, namely, a love of adven­
ture and opportunity and a willingness to
incur risk in the pursuit of great aims. Part
of the worldwide trend toward dependence
on government instead of individual initia­
tive has its roots in a philosophy of security.
Our young people today know from their
own experience that overemphasis on secur­
ity is a false goal. There is no safe haven,
no bomb shelter, that can protect the in­
dividual from the major hazards that are
sweeping the world today. The only path
to survival lies in facing our difficulties and
dealing with them. This was the path our
forefathers took when they carved out of the
wilderness a civilization dedicated to free­
dom and liberty. This is the path our youth
have followed to preserve and defend those
freedoms. We need have little fear that they
will .try to escape their responsibilities by
seéking security through isolationism.
It is our problem to preserve for tomor­
row’s students as much as we can of this
flavor of world-consciousness that they have
contributed to campus life. The great un­
solved problem of our country is its role in
world affairs. The faculty and administra­
tion will bear the brunt of this task, but we
of the alumni will have to make it possible

to secure and hold a faculty of the requisite
quality.
I have lived for the greater part of the
past ten years in the midst of the Washing­
ton scene where it is alleged that sound
travels faster than light. I have watched
hundreds of men of all types come and go
in the supreme effort to solve the problems
of the moment. During the war period
miracles were performed by bringing to­
gether the best brains and ability of the
country in a united effort to attain victory.
Brains and ability are just as vitally needed
today to achieve and consolidate the peace.
Almost overnight we have been thrust into
the position of world leadership. We are
still handicapped by lack of experience and
by the long tradition of isolationism bred
into us for generations. The fear of European
involvements was expressed in Washington’s
Farewell Message, in the Monroe Doctrine,
and in our failure to join the League of
Nations. With such a heritage, we now face
the most complex problems—world problems
with which men of bigotry and little minds
are totally unable to cope. Domestically we
must maintain an economy strong enough to
meet our new obligations and to withstand
the global trend toward totalitarianism and
socialism. This trend, if allowed to become
rooted here, would destroy our liberties,
suppress free enterprise, and strike at the
heart of our Ameican way of life. Just as
we met the challenge of the war by com­
mandeering the best of our brains and abil­
ity, we must again utilize our best in a
united effort to meet the truly momentous
problems which face us at home and abroad.
We must not allow the worn out shibboleths
of petty politicians to color our decisions.
The times demand courageous leadership
and statesmanship of the highest quality in
government, in business, as well as in educa­
tion.
After the war, the departments of Gov­
ernment were depleted by the rapid exodus
of scores of our ablest men returning to
their normal pursuits. No one then envis­
ioned the reality of a cold war, the huge
volume of expenditures required on our part
to restore the ravaged economies of Western
Europe, or the resultant dangers of inflation
at home. We have faced a series of major
crises which we have been ill-equipped to
meet. In spite of urgent calls to men of
training and experience to take up again po­
sitions of responsibility in Government, all
too few have been willing to respond.
If I read the times aright, this era of
emergency will not soon end. If Swarth­
more is to fulfill its role it must give positive
encouragement to its graduates to participate
warmly, actively, and intelligently in the
Nation’s service.
This is not a new aspiration. It is one to
which we have long been dedicated. We
have only to look at the inscription on
Clothier. How truly prophetic was Woodrow Wilson, and how felicitous the choice
of the message to keep ever before our
eyes:
“You are here to enrich the world, and
you impoverish yourself if you forget
the errand.”

The Garnet Letter

REPORT ON ALUMNI MEETINGS
by Jack B. T hom pson ’27
President, Alumni Association
The 1950-51 annual alumni fund
quota, and the eligibility of alumninominated members of the board of
managers to a
successive term
of four years,
w ere d isc u s­
sions w hich
highlighted the
June meetings
of the Swarthmore College
Alumni Coun­
c i l a n d th e
Alumni
Associ­
Jack Thompson
ation.
With the four officers and 21
elected members of council present,
plus the president of the Swarthmore
corporation, Howard Cooper Johnson;
President John W. Nason; retiring
vice-president, James A. Perkins;
newly-appointed vice-president, Jo­
seph B. Shane, and four alumninominated members of the board of
managers attending, the meeting of
alumni council, Friday,'June 9, in the
managers’ room at Clothier was the
largest meeting of alumni council ever
held for discussion of alumni-college
problems.
Alumni Managers

The annual meeting of the Alumni
Association, of which all alumni and
former students are members, drew
more than 100 persons to the Meet­
ing House, Saturday, June 10, at
noon.
Eleanor Stabler Clarke, secretary of
the board of managers, moved that
consideration be given to changing
the by-laws of the association so that
alumni-nominated members of the
board could be reelected for a succes­
sive four-year term. Mrs. Clarke’s
motion was seconded by Josephine
Wilson T5.
Howard Cooper Johnson, president
of the corporation, endorsed the
Clarke motion, pointing out that it is
a distinct loss to the board when the
four-year term of a valuable alumninominated member ends, and that
member must step down.
Raymond K. Denworth, himself an
alumni-nominated member of the
board, said the provision restricting
October 1950

alumni-nominated members to one
four-year term on the board serves to
bring more members of the alumni
into work of the board.
“With only eight out of 8600
alumni involved at one time, there are
many new talents available,” Den­
worth said, in opposition to having
retrictions lifted on the four-year term
for alumni-nominated members of the
board.
Following a discussion from the
floor, members of the association at­
tending the annual meeting voted
against considering an amendment to
the by-laws to permit a successive
term for alumni-nominated members.
Fund Quota

The administration’s request for a
$90,000 alumni quota in 1950-51 was
presented to council by Ned Williams
’34 who said that the executive com­
mittee of council, of which he is a
member, felt the sum justifiable in
view of the fact that the college is
reducing its enrollment, with a loss of
$50,000 in income.
President Nason enlarged on the
need the college has for $90,000 from
the alumni in 1950-51, and retiring
vice-president Jim Perkins urged the
increased goal. Frank Jackson ’23,
Lewis Robbins ’40, Virginia Melick
Turner ’27, Jack B. Thompson ’27,
who surrendered the chair to VicePresident Martha W. Bittle T3, to
participate in the discussion, and Ellis
Bishop ’28, questioned the advisability
of raising the quota, although Bishop
admitted that the $90,000 appeared
necessary.
The $90,000 quota was approved
by a vote of the members of alumni
council, following the discussion.
Shane and Cratsley

Raymond Denworth ’ l l , presented
the report of the committee for select­
ing an alumni secretary, leading to
the selection of Joseph B. Shane ’25
as vice-president of the college in
charge of alumni affairs and public
relations and Edward Cratsley, comp­
troller of St. Lawrence University, as
vice-president in charge of internal
finance.
President Nason spoke with enthusi­
asm about the addition of both Shane
and Cratsley to the college staff, and
cited the fact that nine of the 12 per­

sons on the selection committee were
alumni of Swarthmore College.
Robin Breuninger Lukens ’22 re­
ported for the Nominating Commit­
tee, of which she is co-chairman with
Richard C. Bond ’31. All eight places
assigned to alumni nominees on the
board of managers have been filled,
and this committee selects candidates
for the vacancies, along with select­
ing candidates for officers and mem­
bers of the Alumni Council and
Association. William L. Cornog ’ 19;
Anne Philips Blake ’28, William A.
Boone ’30, and Grace Biddle Schembs
’34, are members of the Nominating
Committee.
Reporting for Norman Shidle T7,
chairman of the Vocational Com­
mittee of the Alumni Association, Ken
Allebach said active assistance had
been given to new graduates seeking
employment. Members of this com­
mittee are Isabel Logan Lyon ’42,
Ruth Henderson McDowell ’36, Peg
Newell ’45, and Leon Rushmore, Jr.
’31. Martha W. Bittle T3 reported on
Somerville Day and a resolution of
thanks was voted to Isaac Darlington
’07 for his work in heading the annual
alumni fund campaigns, and to Ken­
neth Allebach for his work as acting
alumni secretary.
Procedure Questioned

President Nason questioned the
procedure used in nominating three
alumni for vacancies on the board,
and having one eliminated by the
council before submitting two for gen­
eral balloting by alumni. The question
is to be discussed by the executive
committee of the council and a report
made to the full council and
association.
The following members were pres­
ent for the June 9 Alumni Council
meeting: Zone I: Ned B. Williams
’34, Frank H. Jackson ’23, William
F. Lee ’33, Robin Breuninger Lukens
’22, Edith Jackson Walter ’33, Esther
Ridpath Delaplaine ’44, Julia Young
Murray T7, Anna Roberts Brosius ’23,
Nancy Deane Passmore ’30; Zone II:
William A. Boone ’30, William R.
Cisney ’22, Ellis G. Bishop ’28, Ger­
trude Bowers Burdsall ’28. Virginia
Melick Turner ’27; Zone III: Henry
Lloyd Pike ’33, and Edna Shoemaker
Mallen ’28; Zone IV: Elizabeth
Clack McCaul ’29.

HOMECOMING DAY
November 11th, 1950
Program
9 a.m. -1 2 noon ENGINEERS’ OPEN HOUSE
(Also Friday evening, November 10th, 7-10 p.m.)
Engineering Alumni can make their Homecoming visit com­
plete by attending the Engineers’ Open House on Friday
evening and Saturday morning, November 10th and 11th.
Exhibits in Civil, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering
featuring new developments, will be open to the public.
11:00 a.m.
SOCCER GAME
Varsity vs. former Swarthmore Soccer Captains.
12:45 p.m.
LUNCHEON FOR SOCCER CAPTAINS
2:00 p.m.
FOOTBALL GAME
Swarthmore vs. Drexel
4:00 p.m.
ALUMNI TEA in Bond Memorial
6:30 p.m.

DINNER IN COLLEGE DINING ROOM
Although no special dinner is planned you are cordially invited
to eat in the college dining room. Time: 6:30 to 7 :00. Cost
90c. If you plan to eat here, please make reservations through
the Alumni Office.

7:45 p.m.

HAMBURG SHOW (Also Friday evening, November 10th).
For the convenience of the Alumni, the Hamburg Show is
given this year on Homecoming Day, a week prior to the
Haverford game. Tickets available at the door.
ALUMNI DANCE in Parrish

9:00 p.m.

Swarthmore - Haverford Football Game
Saturday, November 18, 1950
2:00 p.m. at Haverford
Ticket information: $2.40 including tax. Tickets may be obtained by
sending order, accompanied by check and self-addressed stamped envelope
to the Athletic Office, Swarthmore College. Checks should be made pay­
able to Swarthmore College. There will be a limited reserved section.