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February, 1952
Volume XVI

Number 3

The Garnet Letter
Volume XVI

No. 3
FEBRUARY 1952

BULLETIN

NEWS OF SWARTHMORE CLUBS
Philadelphia
ALUMNI DINNER TO HEAR BOB KINTNER ’31

Published by the Alumni Office of Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pa.
EDITORS

Joseph B. Shane ’ 25, vice-president; Kath­
ryn Bassett ’ 35, alumni office; George A.
Test ’49, publicity director.
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OFFICERS

William F. Lee ’ 33, president; Herbert L.
Brown T6, vice-president for men; Virginia
Brown Greer ’ 26, vice-president for wom en;
Inez Coulter Russell ’ 25, secretary.
ADVISORY BOARD

Robert H. Wilson ’ 31, chairman; Robert
J. Cadigan ’ 34, Morris M. Lee, Jr. ’ 29,
Isabel Logan Lyon ’42, Frederick C. Selby
’44.
ALUMNI MANAGERS

Margaret Ball Dellmuth ’ 33, Caroline
Biddle Malin ’ 28, Richard H. McFeely ’ 27,
Amos J. Peaslee ’07, Ellen Fernon Reisner
’ 31, Gertrude W ood Thatcher T4, Jack B.
Thompson ’ 27, William H. Ward ’ 15.

THE ALUMNI FUND
HALF-W AY TO GOAL
The Alumni Fund is now half-way
to its goal of $90,000 with $46,309.37
in the till as we go to press. Thanks
to the headlong rush that started the
drive this year the Fund Office re­
ports that it is still well ahead of the
campaign of the same time last year,
$14,162 ahead in fact.
The half-way point has been
reached through the generosity of
1915 donors who have given to the
Fund so far. This is 620 more than
at the same time last year. Approxi­
mately 400 of the total donors this
year did not give last year, and about
one-third of the new donors had
never given to any Alumni Fund
before.

Non-Alumni Parents’ Fund
This fund for scholarships has al­
ready exceeded last year’s total drive
of $10,504 by receiving $11,712 in the
first three months alone. Last year it
took 166 donors; this year, 107 to set
the new record.

FOR YOUR SPRING CALENDAR:
Somerville D a y - -A p r il 5
Parents Day
—- Mav 3
Alumni Day
—-J u n e 7

BOARD

Robert E. Kintner

The President of the American Broadcasting Company,
Robert E. Kintner ’ 31, will be the speaker at the 64th
Annual Club Dinner, February 16, 6 :3 0 in the College
Dining Room.
Bob became the head of the network two years ago and
is the youngest president of a major broadcasting system in
the country. As a writer and correspondent before World
War II, Bob covered Washington for the New York HeraldTribune and was later co-author with Stewart Alsop of a
nationally syndicated column. Service with the army won
Bob the rank of lieutenant-colonel and a Legion of Merit.
He will speak on “ Freedoms in Radio and Television.”

ALUMNAE DINNER FEATURES MUSIC PROGRAM
Kay Coles 32, and Sally Stabler ’ 22 and their autoharps will be the feature
attraction at the annual alumnae dinner February 16 in Bond Memorial. The
dinner will start at 6:3 0, and the price for tickets is $2.50.
Following the meetings all the alumni are invited to attend the SwarthmoreHaverford basketball game in the Lamb-Miller Field House. This game is in­
cluded in the price of tickets for both the alumni and alumnae dinners.

Luncheon— March 18, 12:15— University Club

New York
Barnard College Forum, Feb. 16— W aldorf Astoria, 12:45
The Modern School: Evolution or Revolution?” College alumnae, husbands
and friends invited.
Luncheon— M arch 4, 12:20 Zeta Psi Fraternity, 31 E. 39th St.

7952 COO PER LECTURE SERIES ANNOUNCED
President Truman’s controversial Point Four program comes under discussion
in “ American Aid to Underdeveloped Areas,” a series of six free lectures sponsored
by the William J. Cooper Foundation on the college campus. The lectures by
prominent men in public affairs will be given on Sundays in the Meeting House.
The opening lecture on February 3, 1952 by JAMES P. W ARBU RG, a
former banker and writer on foreign economic questions, was entitled “ United
States and the Underdeveloped Areas.”
February 10, “ A Near East View of the American Program.” GEORGE HAK IM ,
Lebanese Counselor in Washington and spokesman at the U.N.
February 17, “ American Foreign Policy and the Underdeveloped Areas.” HENRY
F. G RAD Y , former U. S. Ambassador to Iran, Greece and India.
February 24, “ Project Report from India.” ALBERT M AYER, an architect and
town planning expert who has just returned from India.
March 2, “ Puerto R ico: An Example of Cooperation Between Public and Private
Capital.” BEARDSLEY R U M L , financial and economic expert, former
chairman of the Federal Reserve Board of New York.
March 9, “ The Economics of Development.” Professor JACOB VIN ER, Professor
of International Economics at Princeton University.

MEET THE FACULTY
Wed., Mar. 19, 6 :4 5 — College Dining Room. Special Dinner, $1.00.
This is the third in a series of meetings sponsored by the Public Relations
Committee to keep alumni and parents of the college informed about “ How, Why
and What We Are Teaching— Political Science at Swarthmore Today.”
Bring your friends and relatives for a good dinner and a chance to meet
Professors Pennock, Mangone, Michaels, Stedman, Ylvisaker and Jacobs.

WANTED: STORIES FOR HISTORY OF SWARTHMORE ATHLETICS
One of the latest ideas of college vice-president Joe Shane is a history of
Swarthmore athletics. Not a formal, score by score history, but a history full of
anecdotes and recollections that will make it a living tribute to all wearers of the
Garnet.
In order to get it started Samuel “ D oc” Palmer and “ Ruff” Herndon, two
of the oldest of the oldtimers on campus, are now hard at work setting down all
that they can remember about men’s athletics at Swarthmore. Virginia “ Dinny”
Rath, director of women’s athletics, is doing the same for the distaff side. T o tell
the full story the G a r n e t L e t t e r and Joe Shane invite all alumni, athletes and
non-athletes, men and women alike, to send to the college all material and infor­
mation that would be useful in compiling such a history.

SCOTT FOUNDATION ON WFIL-TV SERIES— April 2, 11:30-12:00 P.M.

SWARTHMORE SCHOLARSHIPS

ONE OUT OF EVERY FOUR . . . .
President John W. Nason reviews the entire question of scholarships and
financial aid to college students in his Annual Report for 1951, which has just
been published and mailed to all alumni.
One out of every four students at Swarthmore receives a Scholarship award
of some kind. The total grants amount to $101,000 this year— and a substan­
tial portion of the money comes from the gifts of Alumni.
The G a r n e t L e t t e r thought it would help alumni to understand and
appreciate the scholarship situation to tell the individual stories of some
typical students who are receiving scholarships at Swarthmore this year. Here
are the case histories of three members of the Class o f 1955. None would be in
college today without scholarship help.
The first story begins with a boy in
high school in Thiensville, near M il­
waukee, Wisconsin. He was a member
of the swimming team and the ski
team. He wrote for the school paper,
and in his spare time worked as a
sports reporter, covering school events
for the Milwaukee Journal. A topgrade student, he was elected pres­
ident of the senior class.
He wanted very much to go on to
college and his qualifications were
such as to make him a.very desirable
applicant for any educational institu­
tion. But he could not go to college
without financial help. He is the old­
est son in a family of five children,
whose parents came to this country
from Germany in 1938. The family
lived comfortably, but there was no
possibility of paying $1400 a year for
four years to send him to Swarthmore
or to any other college.
Because of his qualifications, he
was offered scholarships by several
colleges, including three large Eastern
universities. But he wanted to come
to Swarthmore.

gram. He decided then he wanted to
come here. When he got back to Mil­
waukee he became even more con­
vinced after talking with two Wis­
consin Swarthmoreans and friends of
the family, Ernst Epstein ’49 and his
brother, Wolfgang, then a senior here.
He filed his application for Swarth­
more— came to the campus for his
interview during Christmas vacation,
1950— and then applied for financial
help in the form of a scholarship.
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Our second case was a senior at the
Helen Bush School, a private institu­
tion on the other side of the country
in Seattle, Washington. She was an
excellent student, with unusual musi­

cal talents. She was one of the com ­
posers of a short opera based on the
story of The Little Prince — she
studied music and composition out­
side o f school — but she was also
active in school activities and was
editor of the student paper.
As the youngest in a family of three
children supported solely by the
mother, there were no funds for her
education, but she had won a scholar­
ship in the Bush School, so she de­
cided to apply for admission to col­
lege and for a scholarship.
One large woman’s institution here
in the East actually granted her a
scholarship if she would enter there.
She, however, preferred Swarthmore,
partly because of its academic repu­
tation and partly because of its near­
ness to Philadelphia as a center of
musical culture. So she, too, filed her
application for admission and for
financial help.
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Meanwhile, near Chicago, Illinois,
a third student was attending Lyons
Township High School, where he was
both a star athlete and a star scholar.
Continued on back cover

Works in Quaker Camp
He had first become interested in
Swarthmore in the summer o f 1949
when he had a summer job in a
Quaker work camp in Darby. He had
gone to the camp at the suggestion of
Eleanor Stabler Clarke, Swarthmore
T8, who is Assistant Secretary of the
American Friends Service Committee,
a member of the Board o f Managers,
and a friend of the boy’ s family.
One of the camp’ s activities was a
trip to Swarthmore and a tour of the
campus.
In the summer of 1950, working as
a counsellor at a camp in Vermont,
he met two Swarthmore College stutents, Jim Schwartz, then a senior,
and Ann Buel, then a junior, who
were also counsellors at the camp.
They told him all about Swarthmore
and especially about the honors pro­

Februray, 1952

OPEN SCHOLARS, 1951— Extracurricular activities loom large in the daily life
>f most Swarthmore students and it is especially true for the eight Open scholars pictured
tbove. Paul James, Jr., left, on the arm of the sofa, son of Paul James 29 of Philadeljhia was on the varsity football team and is now playing JV basketball. Martin David,
>f Ann Arbor, Michigan, behind him, is active in SN, the college radio station, and is
ilso the college representative to the International House.
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William Yag, of Chicago, standing rear, recently served as the chairman lor the
•olleee campaign of “ Clothes for Korea.” Seated in the rear, with only his head showing,
s Anthony Mason of Baltimore. Tony is one of the News Bureaus photographers.
Standing in the right rear is Michael Dukakis of Chestnut Hill, Mass. Mike was a
nember of the cross-country team last fall. He performs with the orchestra and also plays
vith the JV basketball team.
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The young lady seated on the sofa, left, is Jane Boetcher of Baltimore. Jane is
jroeramming with SN and is a member of the chorus. Next to her on the sofa is Sarah
Hurtis from Seattle, Wash., who plays in the college orchestra. On the arm, is Lee
Campbell of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Lee devotes most of her extra time to programming for
5N. For a full description of the high school backgrounds of these students, see the
■Vtnhpr C a r n e t L e t t e r .

1

BOARD MEMBERS RETIRE
Tw o of the many former students
who have served on Swarthmore’s
Board of Managers, Lydia Foulke
Taylor ’05 and Edith Wilson Jackson
’00, now become emeritae members
after nearly 45 years o f combined
service. Mrs. Jackson was elected to
the Board in 1921 when the Board
was still chaired by Wilson M. Powell,
Jr. Mrs. Taylor joined the Board the
following year.

Mrs. Taylor

Mrs. Jackson

Both have served the college long
and faithfully and their many con­
nections with it have taken varied
forms. Mrs. Taylor, the widow of
J. Hibberd Taylor ’03, will be re­
membered by her classmates as the
president of the Somerville Literary
Society, when it was the leading
feminine organization on the campus,
and as an outstanding orator and de­
bater. Although Mrs. Jackson stayed
at Swarthmore only one year herself,
all four of her daughters, Ruth Jackson Boone ’ 30, Caroline Jackson
Rushmore ’ 31, Edith Jackson Walter
’ 33, and Elizabeth Jackson Kamp ’ 37,
graduated from the college:
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Herman Hoopes, a member of ’ 74,
the second class to graduate from the
college, was the first alumnus to be
elected to membership. Although he
received a degree in Chemical Engi­
neering his life’s work was in the field
of insurance. The Fidelity and D e­
posit Company of Philadelphia elected
him to the general managership of
the local office.
In 1894, twenty-five years after the
college opened its doors, there were
only seven alumni of the college on
the Board. Twenty-five years later
(1919) more than half its members
had graduated from the college. T o ­
day alumni members dominate the
board, all but four o f the governing
group being Swarthmoreans. This
quartet of non-Swarthmoreans is com ­
posed of the former president o f the
college, Dr. Frank Aydelotte, Ruth
Potter Ashton, Nicholas Kelley and
Hadassah M oore Leeds.

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This preponderance of alumni on
the Board is more than coincidence.
It reflects for one thing the reciprocal
interest of the alumni in the college
and of the college in its alumni. But
it is perhaps so obvious that the job
of a college is to produce alumni that
the deliberate recognition of the
group as a significant source of opin­
ion and the desire to give it a voice
on the Board has been o f compara­
tively recent vintage.
It began in a small way in 1922
when in the minutes of the Board’s
Executive Committee one finds the
spare kind o f note that marks all the
Board minutes to the effect that the
President of the Alumni Association
was - invited to sit with the Board.
This was Percival Parrish and al­
though he was by no means the first
alumnus on the Board, it marked the
first overt recognition by that group
of a potential body o f sentiment and
the need to integrate it into the col­
lege community.

Alumni Body Doubles
In the fifteen years that followed
this first tentative step, the number of
•graduates of Swarthmore doubled
and became more widely scattered
throughout the United States and for­
eign countries than had formerly been
the case. During the 30’s it was seen
that new machinery was needed to
keep them informed about the Col­
lege and to enable them to take part
in an orderly and democratic-manner
in the formulation of college policies.
In 1935 a Joint Committee on
College-Alumni Relations was formed
to consider the new conditions and
to recommend action concerning
them. Its Chairman was Henry C.
Turner ’ 93. Also from the Board were
Robert E. Lamb ’03 and Edward M.
Bassett ’05. The faculty was repre­
sented by Dean Everett Hunt, Clair
W ilcox and Patrick M alin; the
alumni by Raymond K. Denworth
’ l l , Frank H. Griffin TO and Walter
W. Timmis T7. Comptroller N. O.
Pittenger also attended its meetings.

McCabe First Alumni Manager
One of the many recommendations
by this committee (the founding of
the G a r n e t L e t t e r was another)
was made to the nominating com ­
mittee of the Board on the1 problem
of filling vacancies in that body. In
1938 upon a suggestion by Alumni
Association President Richard W.

Slocum ’ 22, the newly founded
Alumni Council (another recom­
mendation o f the Joint Committee)
was used as a means to determine
fitting candidates to fill one annual
vacancy on the Board. Thomas B.
M cCabe T 5 became the first “ alumni
manager” to be elected by this
method.
The G a r n e t L e t t e r was moved
to say at that time that this would
not only give “ additional valuable
viewpoint to the Board, but also in­
crease the consciousness of participa­
tion by the alumni in the administra­
tion of the affairs o f the college, and
greatly strengthen the Alumni Asso­
ciation itself through the addition of
an important responsibility.”
Actually only one other alumnus,
Edward P. Palmer ’06 in 1940, be­
came a manager in the same way.
For in 1941 the first direct election
o f an alumnus to the Board o f Man­
agers took place. This was Hilda Lang
Denworth T7 who was also the first
woman to become an “ alumni man­
ager,” although that title was not the
official one at the time.

By-Laws Amended 1946
This had to wait until 1946 when
the By-Laws of the Corporation were
changed. At this time, the previous
breakdown of thirty-two managers,
eight of which were elected every
four years, was eliminated.
In its
place the membership of the Board
was divided into three classes. There
are now eight “ life managers,” sixteen
“ term managers,” and eight “ alumni
managers.” Both the term and alumni
managers are elected for four year
terms, the latter nominated and
elected by the alumni body at large.
As in any democratic procedure, it is
the responsibility of the electorate to
exercise its right to vote if that right
is to have any point.
There are over 9,000 living Swarth­
moreans. It is rare if more than 1,000
exercise their right. The officers of
the Alumni Association and the mem­
bers o f the Alumni Council invite and
urge everyone to take a real interest
in these elections. Return each ballot
as you receive it. In this way the grow­
ing value and power of the Swarth­
more College alumni body can be­
come a real factor in the college’s
continued contribution to American
life and education.

Read the President’s Report
Februray, 1952

FRATERNITY QUESTION
DEBATED BY STUDENTS .
Another generation of undergrad­
uates at Swarthmore again is debating
whether fraternities serve a useful
purpose on the campus.
Last November the issue was raised
when a male student wrote a letter
to the Phoenix suggesting that the
existing five fraternities be abolished.
He accused the groups of racial and
religious 'discrimination and pointed
out the inequity of social facilities
on the campus. H e also cited the
fraternities for failure to keep college
rules and regulations.
A petition was circulated requesting
a referendum to determine the opinion
of the entire student body on the
subject. Both friends and foes of the
fraternity system signed, and well over
100 signatures were obtained— mak­
ing it mandatory under the constitu­
tion of the Student Council that the
referendum be held. A .vote is sched­
uled during February, with all stu­
dents, 475 men and 400 women,
having an opportunity to express
themselves for or against continuation
of the fraternities.

Phoenix on the Fence
Meanwhile, letters on both sides
have been appearing in the Phoenix
and a mass meeting to discuss the
fraternity question has been held.
The editors o f the Phoenix have taken
the position that although fraternities
have some bad features, they provide
important centers of social life on the
campus and should not be discon­
tinued unless something better can be
found to take their place. A re-evalua­
tion of the entire question is in order,
they feel.
President John W. Nason was asked
to attend the mass meeting and to
outline the views of the College
Administration on the subject. He
reminded students that the fraternity
question is one in which alumni as
well as undergraduates have an inter­
est. He also pointed out that the
student referendum— although valu­
able as an indication of campus
opinion— could not in itself result in
the abolition o f fraternities.
Only the fraternities themselves—
or the College Board o f Managers
could actually take action to change
the present system, President Nason
said.

The five fraternities active on the
campus— Delta Upsilon, Kappa Sig­
ma, Phi Delta Theta, Phi Kappa Psi,
and Phi Sigma Kappa (alphabetical
order)— have approximately 190 un­
dergraduate members. On the. other
hand, there are approximately 285
non-fraterrtity men in college.
There have been no women’s Greek
Letter Societies at Swarthmore since
1933 when they voted themselves out
o f existence.

Alumni Informed
In preparation for the coming
referendum, Student Council has been
consulting with representative stu­
dents and alumni from the fraternity
and non-fraternity groups in order to
work out a fair wording for the ballot.
Early in the controversy President
Nason, Vice-President Joseph B.
Shane and Dean Everett L. Hunt ar­
ranged a meeting with alumni repre­
sentatives of all the fraternities to
keep them informed of developments.
One of the results of this was forma­
tion of an Interfraternity Alumni
Council which has had several meet­
ings with the undergraduate Interfraternity Council.
Chairman of the Alumni fraternity
group is Raymond K. Denworth, of
the Class of 1911. A former member
of the Board of Managers, he is a
Philadelphia attorney and a member
of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity.

FACULTY ADDS
NEW MEMBERS
Tw o recent Swarthmore graduates
and a former business man are among
the nine new teachers which joined
the faculty as full time members in
September.
Many are recent top
products of graduate schools around
the country although few are entirely
new to the business of teaching.
The former business man is Gerard
Mangone, new assistant professor of
political science, who comes to
Swarthmore from a position at Wes­
leyan University. A varied background
includes degrees from C.C.N.Y. and

Harvard, business experience before
the war with the U. S. Steel Export
Co. and The Prudential Playhouses,
a movie theatre chain in the East,
and service during the war with the
Signal Corps as Chief of Information
and Education in the Fifth Service
Command. He holds a reserve rank
of major.
At Harvard, Professor Mangone
won an award for the doctoral dissertation contributing the most to
world peace. It was published last
year under the title of The Idea and
Practice of World Government. A
History of International Organization
is scheduled for next June.
Among the new instructors is
Jeanne Theis ’46 who will be remem­
bered as the editor of the Phoenix
and a member of the Student Council.
Recently awarded an M A from Bryn
Mawr where she is still working on
her Ph.D., Jeanne is now instructing
in French.

History Gets Two
Tw o new instructors in the History
Department are John Teall of New
Haven, and Rush Welter, whose de­
grees are all from Harvard. Mr. Teall
is a Yale man who recently returned
from a year’s study in Europe where
he investigated Medieval History on
a Yale Scholarship. Mr. Welter is
carrying the ball in American History
in the absence of Professor James
Field, and writing a book, Democracy
and Education, to be published soon.
Kurt Bohnsack of Cleveland, in
Biology, Erna F. Schneider, who re­
cently received one of the two Ford
Foundation fellowships awarded to
Swarthmore College faculty members,
and Joanne Elliott, who has her ad­
vanced degrees from Cornell, are
among the other new instructors. Miss
Elliott, who is in the Mathematics
Department, is no newcomer to
Swarthmore,_having taught parttime
during the 1950-51 term.
In the Political Science Department
for the fall semester only was John
W. Chapman ’43. John now takes up
a two year contract at Smith College
which he said has “ overtones of
permanency.”
Working with Professor van de
Kamp is Robert Fleischer, new re­
search associate in astronomy. Mr.
Fleischer comes to Swarthmore from
Rennsselaer Institute where he was
assistant professor of physics.

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February, 1952

BAKER SCHOLARS, 1951 — The
president and the vice-president of the
freshman class and two classmates, all of
whom came to Swarthmore as a result of
a national plan in which this school par­
ticipates with eight other selected schools
and universities. These four have already
distinguished themselves as outstanding
members of the college community.
In the usual order, Henry Bode, of
Rumford, R. I., who is the VP. Hank
was first string tackle on the football team
and is now on the varsity wrestling team
in the 177 lbs. class. Next is Carl Fristrom, of Chicago, who is manager-elect of
the football team. Frank Sieverts, from
Wisconsin, next in line, is president of the
freshman class. William Bruce, of Glen
Head, N. Y., distinguished himself as
safety man on the 1951 Garnet football
team, and is now a member of the varsity
basketball team.
For the details on their high school back­
ground, see the October G a r n e t L e t t e r .

SCHOLARSHIPS . . .
Continued, from page 1

He was on the academic honor roll,
captain o f the basketball team and
member o f the student council. So far
as his college plans went, he ex­
pected to attend a large Eastern uni­
versity.
Then one day in March, 1951, a
group of Swarthmore Alumni who
live in Chicago area gave a dinner
for some of the outstanding high
school students of the community in
order to tell them about Swarthmore.
Clement M . Biddle, Jr., of the Class
of 1931, was the leader of the group,
and others included Frank Fetter ’ 20,
Jess Halsted T8, Spencer Keare ’ 25,
and Allin Pierce *19.
These alumni went to the principal
o f Lyons Township High and ob­
tained the names of some of its stu­
dents whom he would recommend for
college. The name o f the boy in our
third story was included with the
others.

Liked Alumni
He liked what he heard about
Swarthmore — and he says he liked
even better the kind of men he met
as representative Swarthmore gradu­
ates in the Chicago area. Then he
found out more about the college
from his uncle and aunt, Harry and
Katherine Price Olin, Swarthmore
graduates of 1919 and 1918 respec­
tively.

He had worked in Texas oil fields
and on a farm in order to get money
for college and he could expect some
help from his family. All he needed
now was a small grant which in its
way was just as crucial as the larger
sums needed by the other candidates.
He finally made up his mind to ap­
ply to Swarthmore — if a scholarship
could be obtained to help out the
family financial situation.
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All three of these names were high
on the list o f scholarship applications
when Swarthmore’s Admissions Com­
mittees gathered on the campus last
May to make final selections. These
Committees which also award all
scholarships are regularly headed bv
^he Deans Susan P. Cobbs and
Everett L. Hunt. The membership
changes from year to year, but at all
times it is made up of representatives
from many different departments.

Balloting Determines Winners
The usual procedure in picking
scholarship winners is for the Deans
of the college to select from among
all o f the applicants the outstanding
fifteen or twenty women ¿nd twentyfive or thirty men on the basis of their
College Board examination scores,
their high school scholastic records,
and their individual characteristics,
leadership and other qualities. Then
selected applicants are invited to the
campus for a week-end (unless dis­
tance makes that impossible) when
each member of the Committee has
a chance to meet each applicant in
person.
Then, after a preliminary discus­
sion, the scholarships are awarded by
a balloting procedure. First, each
member of the committee is asked to
vote for the three women and five
men regarded as most outstanding
among all the applicants. There is
sometimes a surprising amount of
agreement on the first ballot when
perhaps two girls and four boys may
be decided upon. The balloting is
continued until one other girl and
boy receive a majority of votes and
the Swarthmore Open and Baker
Scholars have been picked.
When the ballot for Open and
Baker Scholars was taken last May
one of our three cases had won an
Open and another had been awarded
a Baker Scholarship.

Grant on Need and Merit
The amount o f financial grant to
each Open and Baker Scholar de­
pends entirely upon the individual
family circumstances, but all candi­
dates may apply for the top scholar­

ships. In a case of Open Scholars,
where a winner is able to pay for his
education, the award is a nominal
$100. Where there is need, the Schol­
arship Committee can grant as much
as $1000 in the case of Open, and
$1200 in the Baker Scholarships. The
latter are for men who show promise
of becoming leaders and who other­
wise could not go to college.
After the Committees select the
Open and Baker Scholars each year,
it then proceeds to select winners
of the “ name” scholarships, such as
the Scott B. Lilly and the T. H.
Dudley Perkins awards, and the
scholarships given by various individ­
uals and organizations. Then come
financial grants out o f the regular
scholarship budget to help worthy ^
and deserving applicants who might
not otherwise be able to attend
Swarthmore.

Chicago Boy on Varsity Five
Among the other 245 students (in­
cluding upper classmen) who are
receiving scholarships at Swarthmore
this year is the third student, the
basketball player and honor student
from Illinois. He is doing well at
Swarthmore, too, and he is the only
freshman among the five starting reg­
ulars on the varsity basketball team.
Dean Everett L. Hunt and Dean
Susan P. Cobbs have asked the j
G a r n e t L e t t e r to say that recom­
mendations and suggestions from
Alumni are always welcome regard­
ing candidates for admission to the
college and for scholarships. Next
year, and every year, Swarthmore I
wants to have more students like the |
three whose stories are told here.

TWO
SONS OF ALUMNI
ON ALL-AMERICAN TEAMS
Tw o Swarthmore athletes, both
sons of Swarthmoreans, have recently
been honored by places on 1951 AllAmerican teams. George Place, Jr.,
son of George W. Place ’ 21, was
selected by soccer coaches and officials
to the inside right position on the
All-American Soccer Team. George
is currently the captain of the Swarth­
more basketball team.
The other All-American is Avery
“ Bunky” Blake, son of Avery ’ 28.
Bunky, who is captain-elect of the
1952 Garnet squad, made second
team All-American lacrosse team at
the midfield position. He is also co­
captain elect for the 1952 Swarthmore
football squad with Nick Cusano.