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^'" OHIO ALUMNUS
VorcniLr— 1946
The Ohio Alumnus
^roin the C^dltor 6 cJDesh
pDipMhC As these words are written fairly
I niLnl/J definite election returns indicate that
Thomas J. Herbert will become the next governor
of Ohio, succeeding Frank J. Lausche.
Ohio University alumni have been pleased
with the sincere interest taken in higher educa-
tion by Governor Lausche, an interest that has
worked in equal fashion to the advantage of their
alma mater and to that of the other tax-supported
universities of the state.
No less a friend of higher education will be
the new governor, Mr. Herbert. Two sisters and
a niece of the governor-elect hold degrees from
Ohio University, while a second niece was in
attendance here for two years. It is not for a
minute expected that these ties will mean favored
treatment for Ohio University or that university
authorities will presume to ask for special con-
sideration on account of them. We may feel
assured, however, that a man who is college
trained, himself, and the members of whose
family have enjoyed state-provided educational
opportunities, will give a sympathetic hearing to
all reasonable requests that are directed to him by
the state universities.
niWp -Not W/iat You Give, But That YOU
'^' ' '- Give" is the slogan that appears at the
top of a printed appeal currently being made to
alumni for contributions to the Ohio University
Fund, Inc. After pointing out what the gifts will
mean and how the Fund directors will use them
the folder ends with the statement of a belief that
givers will experience a "real feeling of satis-
faction" out of helping to
create a "greater" Ohio Uni- =^^=:^=
versity. To all of which the
editor adds his personal
word of endorsement.
THE OHIO ALUMNUS
SHAME
In a general let-
ter sent out to
alumni last month over the
name of the Alumni Secre-
tary some of the things that
Ohio University is doing and
has done in behalf of war
veterans were mentioned.
Mentioned Vi'ith pride, inci-
dentally.
Imagine the secretary's
surprise, therefore, to receive
the following letter from an
alumna in the Eastern part
of the country. The lady
graduated quite a number of
years ago, and, from her at-
titude, it can easily be
guessed that she had no sons
0§cm\ Publication 0/
The Ohio University Alumni
Association
Clark E. Williams, '21, Editor
Published Monthly, October to June
inclusive
in the armed forces. The letter is reproduced in
its entirety.
Dear Sir:
1 have your letter of October 10th and 1 am
writing to say that it leaves me quite unmoved.
This hectic sending of a group of people to
college after a war means that a lot will ge give^i
an education at the expense of many li\e myself
who are already finding taxes unbearable, and
who will not be an asset to the country b:it
should be returning to farms and indiistrv.
There is one of these postwar educational
mills set up where I hear comments of fol\s who
can observe the students . They are vulgar, untidv
m their habits and insolent m their manners.
Until the colleges can prove they are turn-
ing out a fme charactered human product I am
not interested in a!di7-ig general appeals.
Very truly yours.
(J^ame withheld bv editor/'
As reported in previous issues of The
Alumnus the veteran -students are among the
finest of our campus citizens here at Ohio Uni-
versity. Official records show that the all-veteran
scholastic average last year was higher than the
all-university average, and members of the fac-
ulty have frequently declared that the veterans
are among their most courteous, cooperative, and
earnest students. From what we have read and
heard it would seem that the facts are the same
in colleges and universities generally. Sure, there
are a few loafers and ne'er-do-wells among the
veterans. But who can't re-
member classmates of prewar
days to whom the terms
could be applied with equal
validity.
COVER
Vo
L. XXV
November, 1946 No. 2
Fki
ERED as set
ond class matter. October 3. 1m:7.
at the Post
Dffice at Athens, Ohio, under the act
of March
, 1897.
An
NfAL Dues
lor membership in the Ohio Univer
sity Alumr
i Association are $2.50, of which
$1 ';0 IS
or a year's subscription to The
Ohio Alum
nus. Memberships are renewable on
October fir
t of each year.
ni.'
r.ONTlNUANC
E — If anv subscriber wishes his
Alumnus c
iscontinued at the expiration ol his
subscription
, notice to that effect should be sent
».ith the
'ubscription, or at its expir.ition
Otherwise
t is understood that a continuance is
desireJ.
RPA
iTiANCE should be madt by check 01 mi.mv
order pavs
ble to the order of the Ohm Uni
versitv AIu
m.-ii Association, and mailed to the
Associ.itioii
Box 285. Athens, Ohio.
To preserve for
years to come a
monument at Ohio Univer-
sity that ranks in sentimental
interest with the "McGuf-
fey Elms" approximately
$150,000 is now being spent
in a complete rehabihtation
and restoration of Cutler
Hall, the building pictured
on the front cover. For a
story on the restoration see
page 3.
The full-page picture in
the back of this issue is a
scene on the grounds of the
Athens State Hospital.
N (1 V I- M H E R , 1^46
(^utier IlKe
\toruii
eSloruuon
By Ralph Stone Smith
Director of Publicity. Ohio University
TF THE Rev. Dr. Manassch Cutler,
J- one of CA\\o University's founders,
eould return to the campus today he
would no doubt he pleased Vi'ith the
restoration, now under way, ot the
building named in his honor.
Cutler Hall, the oldest college edi-
fice in the Northwest Territory, will
be restored to its early American style
of architecture at a cost of $147,000,
more than eight tmies the original
cost of the building.
When It was built in 1816, the
whole structure cost but $17,806, and
Benjamin Corp of Marietta was paid
only six dollars for serving as assistant
architect.
The exterior of the 1. ^0-year-old
hall will be restored to its original
appearance and dimensions, as de-
signed in 1812 by General Rufus
Putnam, another of the college's
founders and a Revolutionary War
hero. Even the roof gable will be
lowered to its first position, having
been raised approximately three feet
when the building was remodeled in
1882.
Renovation of Cutler Hall, con-
demned ten years ago for classroom
use, has been planned for several
years. Legislation appropriating funds
for the project was passed during the
general assembly at Columbus in the
spring and the Civilian Production
Administration granted approval ot
the work in May.
The interior of the building will
be completely revamped, with re-
enforccd concrete floors replacing the
wooden ones, and new windows,
dtx)rs, and an elevator being added.
Up-to-date heating, lighting and
plumbing wnW be installed.
The plan for a university to be
built on land purchased in 1787 was
said to have been a favorite with
Dr. Cutler, and he prepared with
great care the charter which gave the
first-born college of the West its
start.
A physician and botanist as well as
a minister. Dr. Cutler was the first
person to examine the flora of New
England extensively, classifying over
.■^00 plants. In 1795 he was offered
a commission as judge of the Supreme
Court of the Ohio Territory, which
he declined.
President John C. Baker has indi-
cated that the two objectives in re-
modeling Cutler Hall are to restore it
as nearly as possible to its original
exterior appearance and to provide
offices for the president and adminis-
trative officers and several seminar
classrooms.
Administrative officers formerly lo-
cated in Cutler Hall have been forced
to vacate during the restoration per-
iod, expected to last well into the
1^^^
Cutler Hall (center) To Be Preserved as Educational Shrine
Manassch Cutler
spring. Dean of the College of Edu-
cation Evan R. Collins and Dean of
the College of Arts and Sciences and
Graduate College W. S. Gamerts-
felder now have their offices in the
basement of the Edwin Watts Chubb
Library.
Dean of the College of Fine Arts
Earl C. Seigfred has his quarters on
the me:-anine floor of Memorial
Auditorium, while Director of Din-
ing Halls Margaret K. Davis has been
assigned to the auditorium ticket
office. Associate Director of the Ohio
University Fund Harold E. Wise has
moved to the third fl(X>r of the Men's
Gymnasium. Director of Branches
Albert C. Gubitz has his office in
McGutfey Hall.
The remaining officers are housed
in the Student Center Building. They
include De.m of Men Maurel
Hunkins, Co-ordinator of Veterans
Afl^airs Victor Whitehouse, Director
of Publicity Ralph Stone Smith and
Bureau of Appointments Supervisor
Hinar A. Hansen.
In Its day Cutler Hall has provided
dormitory space for 100 students,
biology laboratories, classrooms, presi-
dents" offices, and a museum. The
Rev. William Holmes McGuffey,
author of the popular McGufl^ey
Readers and Spelling Books, had his
office in the building from 18J9 to
184? when he was president of Ohio
University.
From the 1820's until early in the
twentieth century, the Athenian and
Philomathean Literary Societies made
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The Ohio Alumnus
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GENER.\L DWIGHT DaVID EISEN-
HOWER received the American
Alumni Council's second annual
Award of Merit during an impressive
ceremony at Amherst College on
July 11.
The presentation of the award, an
illuminated scroll in a red morocco
cover, was made by Dr. J. Maryon
Saunders, president of the Council
and alumni secretary of the Univer-
sity of North Carolina.
President Saunders" address and
General Eisenhower's formal accept-
ance were both broadcast by the
National Broadcasting Company.
"Today is a happy occasion for the
American Alumni Council," Presi-
dent Saunders said. "In this national
organisation are some 500 alumni
association executives, alumni maga-
zine editors, and alumni fund
directors. We are gathered together
in time of peace to present an award
won in time of war.
"More than 18 months ago, the
colleges and universities of this
country were invited to make nomi-
nations for the Council's annual
Award of Merit. Announcement of
the award specified that the alumnus-
of-the-year must have achieved emi-
nence in his or her chosen field of
endeavor, must have made worthy
contribution beyond the demands of
his own profession, and must have
evidenced a concern for the spiritual
and moral welfare of his community.
"A year ago the recipient for 194i
was chosen. The actual ceremony of
presentation was delayed because the
man selected was then engaged in
operations overseas. He has graciously
and courteously come here today as
our guest, thus honoring by his pres-
ence the more than seven and a half
million living former students of
American colleges and universities.
"It is my privilege now, on behalf
of the American Alumni Council, to
present to General of the Armies
Dwight D. Eisenhower, graduate in
191 > of the United States Military
Academy, the American Alumni
Council Award of Merit."
Acceptance of Award
In his acceptance address. General
Eisenhower said, in part :
"There is for me an understandable
pride in the privilege of representing
before this distinguished body those
millions of fighting men to whom
your generous expressions really ap-
ply. Yet the services for which I am
being so signally commended by the
American Alumni Council involved
circumstances which we are determ-
ined shall never re-appear upon this
earth.
"Toil, sacrifice, and death had once
again to provide a shield for democ-
racy against the murderous assault of
dictatorships reaching for world do-
main. War, in unprecedented scope
and destructiveness, swept over great
portions of the earth's productive
centers, leaving in its wake broken
The American Alumni Council is made up
of alumni secretaries, magazine editors, and
fund directors of 364 American and Cana-
dian colleges and universities.
The 31st National Conference of the
A.A.C. was held at Amherst, Mass., July 10-
13. One of the highlights of the conference
was the presentation to General of the
Armies Dwight D. Eisenhower, Chief of Staff,
U. S. Army, of the Council's Award of Merit
for 1945 and his acceptance of it.
Shown in the picture of the presentation
(see opposite page) are one of the two
major generals who accompanied the army
head. General Eisenhower, President Saund-
ers, and Kenney L. Ford, alumni secretary at
Kansas State College.
General Eisenhower is the second recipient
of the Award of Merit. The 1944 award
went to Madame Chiang Kai-shek, a grad-
uate of Wclleslcy College. The presentation
was made in Chicago to Dr. Wei Tao-mlng,
Chinese ambassador to the United States,
and accepted by the Chinese first lady in a
response by shortwave from Chungking.
economies, governmental chaos, and
starving millions.
"Conflagration brings the need for
clearing away wreckage before con-
structive work can begin anew. Our
own country is now engaged in this
process both at home and abroad.
Here we are reconverting industry
from the demands of war to those of
peace . . . Abroad, we, with other
nations, arc engaged in rescuing the
persecuted, feeding the hungry, re-
establishing order and encouraging
peoples to adopt democratic process-
es ... I firmly believe that an in-
dispensable factor in the problem :s
an awareness by every American that
he, personally, and the democracy of
which he is a part, are living in a
decade of test before the world."
General Eisenhower called upon
the American people to understand
the necessity for a substantial Army
to perform the duties of occupation
in Germany and Japan. Nothing, he
said, would encourage recalcitrance
or open rebellion in occupied terri-
tories so much as an indication of
American weakness.
The General also emphasized the
importance of absorbing into the
country's productive life the millions
of men and women who served in
the armed forces.
"Just as the military developed the
leadership to utilize these qualities of
our youth in battle," he said, "so now
must you, and others like you, pro-
duce the pattern of leadership that
will best employ them in peace."
General Eisenhower said that it
was his firm conviction that peace and
tranquility could not come to one
nation unless it was achieved by all,
that every nation was neighbor to all
mankind. He said that we must not
only have teamwork at home, we
must have international teamwork.
Our nation, he said, is the greatest
product of democracy, and it must be
to all men "a shining example of
what democracy can accomplish — a
worthy champion of right and justice
and freedom throughout the world."
"Every cooperate effort in the com-
munity, the nation, the world," he
concluded, "demands sacrifice of some
sort from every individual. But
patriotism is the expression of the
will to sacrifice. In the school and
home and church, in every agency
concerned with the training of youth,
stress must be laid on the develop-
ment and amplification of this virtue,
so that cooperation, possible only
where a common bond unites men,
may become the watchword of our
social, economic and national life.
"Here is the great task for every
man who by training or occupation
finds himself in a position of leader-
ship. To help produce, foster, and
sustain this unity of purpose and
action — to promote clear understand-
ing of the relationships between this
domestic unity and the future peace
of the world — are, I submit, tasks
peculiarly appropriate to Alumni
N (1 \' h M H !•: R , 1 'M 6
THE EISENHOWER CITATION
This award is made liv (lie duly
constituted re[)resemation of more
than seven and a half miUuni gradu-
ates and former students of Ameri-
can iniii'<f«ities and colleges m
thankful dpprecmtioii for the noble
service he has so consf)icuoiisl\ rend-
ered to his country and to the liberty-
loving nations of the world bv lead-
ing the armies of free men to t'lctorv,
for emancipation of the enslaved; and
for the raising of a foundation upon
which nations may build an inter-
national instrument for the preserva-
tion of peace.
He has wielded his great authority
with Imnulitv; lie has demonstrated
his profound faith m democracy bv
the confidence which he has placed in
a free press; he has earned the admir-
ation of a gratefid nation through his
chivalrous spirit in accepting honor
solely as the representative of those
who fought luider his command.
We salute General Dwight David
Eisenhower as a victorious soldier; we
revere him as a truly great American.
Associations. As in all mass effort.-,
leadership is an essential ingredient;
leadership in all walks of life, in
every type of activity. No other is
better suited to its exacting and im-
portant requirements than the gradu-
ate of the American college. There
can be no worthier purpose nor any
more glowing reward than an entire
world — peaceful, tranquil, pros-
perous! The alternative will not v.ait,
the time to attack is now."
Informal Remarks
Following the reading of his tormal
acceptance. General Eisenhower de-
lighted his audience by putting down
the prepared address, grinning tl>
famous Eisenhower grin, and saying
"Now rd like to talk to von
people."
He prefaced his informal remarks
by saying that the funny thing about
a war is that after it is won it looks
so easy.
He explained th.it it isn't reason
able to criticize a military leader long
after a battle has been won or lost
The factors which must be considered
by a military commander in making
grave and immediate decisions on the
field of battle cannot possibly be
weighed with the proper perspective
after the war is over. Many of the
fac*'irs which seem obvious even to
the 'ayman are based on informatitm
not available to a military leader
when his vital decision must be made.
He illustrated his point with Gen-
eral Robert E. Lee's decision which
brought about Pickett's charge in the
Battle of Gettysburg — a military ca-
t.istrophe which has never been justi-
fied by students of military strategy,
and yet. General Lee is recognized
by all military authorities as one of
the world's greatest generals.
General Eisenhower talked about
his ideas of the purposes of educa-
tion— saying, in part, that although
it has been proved on dramatic
occasions like Pearl Harbor that the
American people can be united by
fear and anger, they need to be edu-
cated for unity resulting from more
constructive promptings than fear.
He urged colleges in America to
sponsor the study of other govern-
ments so that we can supplant fear
with understanding. By acquainting
its students with the workings of
other governments and other nations,
knowledge will be substituted for
fear and suspicion. This, he said,
would be a gigantic step toward the
alxilition of wa.T. He asserted that,
regardless of whether nuclear fission
weapons and bacteriological warfare
would be used, the world cannot
stand another war.
General Eisenhower asked his aud-
ience if there were any questions.
President Saunders responded by ask-
ing the General to give some of the
background information regarding the
events which led up to his momentous
decision to initiate the Normand\- in-
vasion.
General Ike replied that it was
often the apparently minor decisions
of war that were hardest to make.
He said that actually the decision to
cross the Channel was easy because
most of the important factors were
known. He pointed out that the
North African invasion contained the
greater number of unknown factors
and was, therefore, the most haz-
ardous undertaking of the war.
The General credited two Scotch
meteorologists with really making the
grave decision which was to send our
armies into France. These men, he
said, kept the expedition from head-
ing into a spell of terrible weather
even though the skies over England
were sunny. Later, they gave the
go-ahead signal in almost stormy
weather because they had spotted in
the area of the Azores the promise of
thirty-six hours of clearness. General
Eisenhower said that German meteor-
ologists had missed the "good spot" in
the Azores and had informed the
German high command that no im-
mediate invasion could be expected
after June 4.
Tells Story On Self
To A. AC. officers at the speakers
table the famous general, with typical
self-effacement and evident glee, told
this story.
At the Abilene, Kansas, Victory
Celebration, given shortly after his
triumphant return from Europe, he
had the great pleasure of seeing his
mother as well as his four successful
brothers. At the reception a reporter
made this somewhat trite remark to
Mother Eisenhower: "Well, Mrs.
Eisenhower, aren't you proud of your
son^" And she replied: "Which
one? "
President Saunders
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WHEN an appropriation made
by the Campus Affairs Com-
mittee for the "Migration Day" trip
of the Ohio University Band to Dela-
ware on November 2 proved to be in-
adequate for meals for the 127 bands-
men (see cut), band officers initiated
a drive to secure the needed funds.
An appeal to Athens alumni, mer-
chants, and organizations soon netted
enough to cover the likely deficit. Just
how much the band con-
tributed to the Bobcats'
smashing 49-7 victory ov-
er Wesleyan's "Battling
Bishops" cannot be esti-
mated, but the fact that
the players tooted and
thumped on full stomachs
undoubtedly means that
there was extra vim, vigor.
and inspiration in their
music. The picture of the
band w-as taken during the
Ohio - Muskingum game
when the crowd in the
East Stand of Ohio Stad-
ium was a bit sparse.
OHIO UNIVERSITY
women not affiliated
with Greek-letter sororities now have
an organization of their own — the
Womens Independent Association.
The aims of the new organization are
to promote the general welfare and
well being of independent women on
the campus and to provide an ade-
quate recreational, social and educa-
tional program. President of the
W.I.A. is Rosanne Talley, Chilli-
cothe. a senior, while Mrs. Henri S.
Rigo (Dorothy McClure, "42),
dietitian at the Men's Dorm, is
adviser for the organization. An ac-
tive independent men's association
has existed for many years. It is
headed this year by Nicholas Alex-
ander, Jersey City, N. J.
MISS CoNST.-\NCE H.^RRY, assistant
mistress at the Pokesdown
County Primary School, Bourne-
mouth, England, has exchanged places
this year with Miss Helen Evans,
assistant professor of education and
supervising critic of the second grade
in the University Elementary School.
Miss Evans is one of 7> American
teachers now in England as represen-
tatives of the United States
teacher exchange program.
ON OCTOBER 2.^ tne Civilian
Pr
the Civili,
Production Administration an-
in)unced approval of Ohio Univers-
ity's application to erect the first unit
of an Engineering Science Building to
provide urgently needed educational
facilities for veterans. The new unit,
and subsequently the completed build
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Iowa and president of the Society for
General Semantics, who discussed
"The Semantic Approach to Stutter-
ing." Dr. Johnson is also editor of
the journal of Speech Disorders, pub-
lication of the American Speech Cor-
rection Association. Other speakers
included Dr. John Black of Kenyon
College; Dr. Ruth Beckey Irwin, sup-
ervisor of speech and hearing therapy
with the State Department of Educa-
tion, Columbus, and a
former member of the
Ohio University faculty;
and Dr. D. W. Morris,
head of the speech clinic
at Ohio State University.
Dr. Elizabeth Andersch,
assistant professor of
speech, and A. C. LaFol-
lette. instructor in dra-
matic art and speech, both
of Ohio University, were
program chairman and
hospitality chairman, re-
spectively.
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Ohio's 127-Piece Band in Familiar Formation
ing, will be located on the north side
of President Street near the South
Bridge and will he an addition to the
rapidly developing "science center"
on President Street. The building will
be three stories in height and it is
estimated that the initial unit will
cost approximately $21.%000.
MONICA RowE of Stewart Town,
Trelawney, Jamaica, entered
Ohio University this fall as a junior
in pre-medics. Her father and mother,
the former, rector of the Anglican
Episcopal Church in Stewart Town,
accompanied Miss Rowe to Athens
and have now returned to their home
in the British West Indies. Miss
Rowe's brother is in England study-
ing to be a barrister.
APPROXIMATELY 100 teachers
attended the first annual fall
conference of the Ohio Association
of Speech and Hearing Therapy held
at Ohio University on October 19.
Headlining the list of speakers was
Dr. Wendell Johnson, director of the
speech clinic at the University of
T
HERE
IS nothing
wrong with Ohio
schools that money can't
cure," Walton B. Bliss,
executive secretary of the Ohio Edu-
cation Association, told 2,000 South-
eastern Ohio Education Association
members at their annual fall meeting
in Alumni Memorial Auditorium on
October 2i. He pointed out that
^i.OOO teachers in Ohio are still op-
erating on certificates and that their
failure to secure degrees is attribut-
able to low salaries. The average sal-
ary for grade school teachers in 11
southeastern Ohio counties is $1300
per year, and the average for high
schixil teachers, $1770. Dean Emeri-
tus Thomas C. McCracken was presi-
dent of the S.O.E.A. and presided
over the opening session. The new
president is N. B. Potts, assistant
superintendent of the Scioto County
schools. W. A. Smith, '29, superin-
tendent of the Pomeroy schools, was
elected vice president and George
E. Carr, "20, Logan school superin-
tendent, was re-elected secretary-
treasurer.
TN ADDRESSING the annual con-
-*- vehtion of the Ohio Congress of
Parents and Teachers held in Co-
N 1 1 \- i: M H E R , 1^46
lumhvis ill September, Dean Ev>in R.
Collins ot the College ot' Edueation
Jeelared that "the basic skills and
knowledge the armed forces seek are
best taught in our schools," and that
edue.ition is .m alternative to peace-
time military conscription. Admitting
that there arc certain "deficiencies"
in the public school program which
the services have pointed out. Dean
Collins urged social and financial sup-
port to remedy them. Physical fit-
ness, basic technical knowledge and
skills, adaptibility to group living, and
orientation in world citiiCnship are
four of the main objectives the armed
forces have sought for the year of
inilit.iry training, the Ohio dean ex-
plained. "We believe training and
education in each of these fields can
better be given in schools than in the
services, and we think that this educa-
tion is the proper business of any
school to give to its students,"' Dean
Collins emphasized.
PLANS HAVE been completed for
the reorganization of the Pershing
Rifles, national honorary society for
ROTC cadets taking the basic course.
The local organization became in-
active during the war. "The Rifles"
organization w-as founded in 1894 at
the University of Nebraska by Lieut.
John J. Pershing, who later became
commander of the AEF of World
War L
OHIO L'NIVERSITYS veterans
have their targets fi.xed and their
eyes glued to them. In other words
they know why they came to the
campus and what they want out of
their stay here. A survey recently
completed by Veterans Co-ord:nator
Victor Whitehouse reveals that six
out of seven of the 3112 former
service men have definite educational
and vocati(;nal objectives. This is all
the more remarkable because nearly
two-thirds of them are freshmen. A
spot check of the 2477 non-veteran
students showed that less than three
out of four in that group had chosen
a career. The figures include both the
on-campus enrollment and the stu-
dents in the three branches. More
than half, 17i2, of the Ohio Uni-
versity veterans saw combat duty. Of
the total number of service men, 1212
were in the Army, 1082 in the Navy,
Sfn in the Army Air Corps, 12.> in
the Marine Corps, and .^4 in the
Coast Guard. The women veterans
include 1^- WAVE'S and 6 WAC's.
FOLLOWING months of agitation
for changes in the plan of student
government on the campus the Stu-
dent Council has adopted an amend-
ment to its constitution providing for
the election of the council president
and vice president. The Student
Council is composed of representa-
tives of the major student organiza-
tions of the campus, among them,
Women's League, Men's Union,
Panhellenic Council, Interfraternity
Council, Women's Recreation Associ-
ation. YWCA, Varsity O, Veterans
Club, Independents' Association, and
Campus Religious Council. At pres-
ent the president of the Women's
League serves as chairman the first
semester and the president of the
Men's Union Planning Board serves
as chairman the second semester ot
each year. The council operates un-
der a constitution of its own which
has been approved by the Campus
Affairs Committee. It has the dele-
gated authority to consider, promote,
and put into effect all projects which
pertain to student activities at the
Student Center and on the campus-
at-large.
Applications for the Student
Council presidency will be received
in the offices of the dean ot men and
the dean of women until November
8. Candidates must be juniors, have
a 2.0 scholastic average, and have
shown leadership qualities in campus
activities. A nominating board of
three faculty members, three senior
men, and three senior women will
weigh the merits of the candidates
and announce the list of those eligible
to run for the office. The nominat-
ing board is made up of the follow-
ing: Dr. James R. Patrick, Prof. C.
N. Mackinnon, and Dr. Eileen Phil-
lips (faculty representatives): and
Ollie Tedrow, Betty Smart, Mary
Lou Hagerman, Desmond Cook,
Robert Regula, and William Benson
(senior representatives).
BASKETBALL GAMES and oth-
er important events taking place
in the Men's Gym will soon be car-
ried over Ohio University's Radio
Station WOUB to all of the uni-
versity dormitories and later to the
temporary housing quarters for vet-
erans on the lower campus. A new
feature of the radio station is the
early morning "Wake-Up Show"
from 7:.^0 to 8:.iO a.m. The show
includes a five-minute newscast at
eight o'clock. About every three min-
utes, the time of day is given, along
with interesting sidelights on Athens
and Ohio University. The "comics"
are also dramatized during the show.
Head Coach Don Ptdc
Sht) and His 1946 Varsity Gfidiron Squad
The Ohio Alumnus
yykioan Ueiu \Jf ^experiences Jjn
^taiu and i^eceipt of cJJecoration
ON THE second of July I was
awarded the Commenda. a rather
high Itahan decoration, which is he-
stowed hy the King on Italians and
foreigners who are considered as
benefactors of the Italian nation. I
believe that the head of the Cara-
binieri (Italian Military Police) here
at Pisa, a friend of mine, was largely
responsible in my receiving the award.
He knew my deep interest in the
culture, especially the ancient culture,
of this country and my good will to-
wards the citizens in whatever part
of Italy I have been stationed. My
case could have been documented, had
he known, with the record of assist-
ance I had given the Royal Family
when the Italian and Swiss border
was closed and it was necessary for
some members of the family to pass
from Montreu.x in Switzerland, where
they had found refuge during the
War, into Italy, or vice versa, from
Italy into Switzerland. I had also
facilitated the passage of relief sup-
plies into Italy from charitable organi-
zations in Switzerland, when a strict,
hidebound interpretation of the regu-
lations of border control could have
excluded this relief for the starving
people of Milan.
It may seem a little strange that I
received this award after the abdica-
tion of the King. This is the way it
happened. The request for the con-
Hugh H. Davis, '32, who^"^ connection with
the Army's Counter Intelligence Corps in
Pisa. Italy, has recently been changed from
a military to a civilian status, has written
interestingly to home folks of his exper-
iences in the Italian city. Excerpts from one
of his letters are here reproduced.
Before entering the Army Mr. Davis had
been an instructor in classical languages at
Ohio University and he had taught in the
department of classics at the University of
Cincinnati. War services prevented comple-
tion of work for a Ph. D. degree at the lat-
ter institution.
ferring of the honor upon me was
made some weeks before the election,
but the papers were held up by reason
of the necessary approval of Allied
Force Headquarters which must ap-
prove such an honor before it can be
conferred on an American citizen.
When said approval was granted,
the Ministry of the Royal Family sent
the decoration to Pisa and I received
it from the hands of an ofEcial of the
Ministry at Pisa and in the presence
of the Colonel of the Carahinieri.
My decoration was probably one of
the last granted by the King before
he left Italy. Now that the monarchy
was voted out there will be no more
avi'ards of this type, but those who
already possess them are free to wear
them and use the title Commendatore.
It is the third grade in the knighthood
instituted by the King of Italy in
1868.
With regard to the King's abdica-
tion, it must be remembered that the
votes for the Republic were very,
very few more than those for the
Monarchy. (In fact, some authorities
even maintain that the Monarchy had
more votes.) The fact remains that
the votes were about evenly divided.
Many persons, who originally were in
favor of a Republic, went over to the
side of the Monarchy thinking the
Monarchy the best guarantee for a
stable government here in Italy. Un-
doubtedly, the House of Savoy made
many mistakes, but it was the old
King who finally forced Mussolini to
resign as head of the government.
Then, too, the new King, Umberto II,
had shown himself a good ruler both
as Lieutenant-General of the Realm
and as King for the short period after
abdication of his father and before
the elections. Umberto II is said to
have been anti-fascist during the time
Mussolini was at the head of the
government.
The Sunday before last I partici-
pated in the inauguration of the Ex-
position of the Pisan Sculpture of the
14th Century. Pisa was the cradle of
Italian art, being famous long before
the Renaissance began at Florence.
Through my eiforts the American
Consul from Florence graced the
occasion with his presence and prom-
ised to see that the Exposition should
receive adequate publicity in the
U.S.A. The Exposition is a very
important event in the world of art
as well as a symbol of the initiative
of the people here to rebuild and
commence life anew after the fearful
Hugh H. Davis
destruction this city received during
the War (after several disastrous air
raids, both Allied and German. The
front was here for a period of 4'i
days) .
The building that houses the Expo-
sition IS a very ancient one that has
been rehabilitated in the last several
months, and is ideal for the exhibiting
of the works of art, which fortunately
were removed to a safe place during
the War. They now make a tri-
umphal entry as it were, once again
into the city that gave them birth. I
had a place of honor among the civic
and military authorities in the front
row of seats facing the speakers.
Among the personages I met that
day was the venerable Archbishop of
Pisa, who IS almost 80 years old. He
is especially beloved by the people
for the reason that he alone remained
with them in the city when the
Fascist authorities deserted their posts
of duty when the air raids were
worst and conflicting armies were
closing in on the city. After the
ceremonies I was one of a very lim-
ited group of persons present at a
dinner given by the Director of the
Monuments and Works of Art in
this part of Italy. In the interval
after the ceremonies and before the
dinner, I invited the consul to rest
awhile at our house. He willingly
accepted the invitation. He told us
of some rather interesting adventures
that befell him before and during the
war here in Italy. The consul is a
Kansan, and at one time was a pro-
fessor of economics at the University
of Wichita.
November, 1946
flew ly/nlid ^y^dded ^o i\. Ly. U. C
THE WAR DEl'ARTMENT h.i>
,ipprt>vcd the expansion of O\\\o
University"* ROTC by the addition
of Air Corps and Quartermaster
Corps eourses.
The two-year elementary and two-
year advaneed programs were started
this fall, supplementins; the pre-
viously titfered Infantry training.
Students were permitted to elect
work in any of the three branches of
the service, limited only by quotas.
The Air Corps led with .'^5 advanced
student enrollees, followed by the In-
fantry with 19 cadets and nine in
the Quartermaster Corps.
Appro.ximately 29.i freshmen are
taking the elementary course, re-
quired in cases of no previou? mili-
tary training.
Upon graduation and ctimpletion
of the advanced course, students will
be commissioned as Army Reserve
second lieutenants if 21 years of age.
World War II veterans were al-
lowed to enroll in the advanced work
if they had had at least one year of
<ictive duty. Ex-servicemen with six
months of service were permitted to
enter the second year of elementary
study. Regular college credit is be-
ing granted.
Advanced students are paid a sub-
sistence allowance of approximately
S20 a month. All ROTC students
are furnished unitorms which need
he worn only at drill and special
events, said Col. Ray E. Cavenee,
USA, professor of military science
and tactics.
Cadets will get work in their
specialised fields at summer camps of
six to eight weeks duration at the end
of the first year of advanced study.
The ROTC unit, always graded
"excellent" in the 12 years it has
been en the Ohio University campus,
has enrolled World War II veterans
ever since the war was over, provfng
that not all ex-servicemen are "fed
up" with the Army. In fact, all of
the 65 advanced students are veterans.
With the expansion of the ROTC.
additional officer and non-commis-
sioned personnel were assigned to
duty here. Col. Cavenee now has
three officers and five enlisted men on
duty in the university's military de-
partment and is expecting three more
officers and four enlisted men.
Officers currently assigned are
Capt. Mark Treat, Air Corps; Capt.
John E. Lynch, Infantry; and Eirst
L:eut. J;imes Skinner, Quartermaster
Corps. Non-commissioned officers in-
clude Master Sergeant Francis M.
Petro, Infantry; Master Sergeant Wil
Hawkins, Quartermaster Corps; and
Technical Sergeants A. G. McMil-
lon, Harold Dutton. and Varney W.
Kelly, Air Corps.
Shown in the picture are : (seated
left to right) Capt. Treat, Col. Cav-
enee, and Capt. Lynch; (standing)
Lieut. Skinner.
Subjects offered to advanced In-
fantry students include courses in
communications, gunnery, motors and
transportation, tactics, the military
team and troop movements.
Special Air ROTC subjects which
may be taught in the second year ad-
vanced course are aircraft mainten-
ance, armament, weather and com-
munications, administration, statistical
control, supply and transportation.
Work in the College of Commerce
will be given students in the Quarter-
mastar Corps. Subjects include ad-
ministration of civilian personnel,
classification i)f supplies, station and
depot supply, and property and ac-
countability.
Orientation flying will be offered
to Air ROTC students who can
qualify in their senior year. After
commissioning as ground officers they
will be given a high priority, if so
desired, to go to an Army flying
school to earn a pair of silver wings.
President John C. Baker, highly
pleased that the War Department
had seen fit to expand Ohio Uni-
versity's ROTC, said he thought "the
main objective of this far-reaching
program is to provide the Army with
a steady flow of college trained offi'
cers. It is my understanding that
future AAF reserve officers and a
large portion of its regulars are ex-
pected to come from this program."'
Col. Cavenee, who on June 22 re-
lieved Maj. Raymond Lee as PMStrT,
is a veteran of .>0 years service in
the Regular Army. During World
War II he served as commander of
the 136th Infantry Regiment in the
South Pacific, seeing service on New
Guinea, and in the West Indies and
the Philippines.
Added in July was Capt. John E.
Lynch, a graduate of Indiana Uni-
versity, where he was commissioned a
second lieutenant in the Army Re-
serve. He went on active duty in
July. 1940. From Jan., 1942, to Aug.,
194^. Capt. Lynch served overseas in
England, Icehmd, Ireland, France,
Germany and the Rhineland with the
10th Infantry, 2nd Battalion.
Most recent additions to the staff
C Com. lilted on f>age 19)
Colonel Cavenee (center seated) and Three Officers of ROTC Staff
10
The Ohio Alumnus
L^utler hCeAtoration
(Continued from page 3 )
their headquarters in the structure,
which was first known as the College
Edifice, then the Center College, be-
cause it was, and still is, located in
the center of the campus.
Not only was Cutler Hall the first
college building in the Northwest
Territory, but Ohio University was
also the first land-grant college in the
United States, and the first institution
for higher learning in all that part ot
North America from Pennsylvania to
the Pacific Ocean and from the Ohio
River to the Arctic Ocean.
General Putnam, a man who never
went to college, nor even to school,
was responsible for these "firsts." One
of the first men in the United States
to urge Congress to set aside lands
for the support of education, he was
foremost in the movement at the end
of the Revolutionary War to have the
vast tracts of the public domain
surveyed and settled.
The result was the Ordinance ot
1787, in which Congress provided for
the township system of survey .uid
the granting of land for the purpose
of education. In 1787 the Ohio
Company of Associates, organized by
Putnam, was ready to purchase land.
A proposition for the purchase of
land made by General Samuel H.
Parsons was referred to a committee
of five members of Congress, which
recommended that four townships of
land be set aside for the University.
When Manasseh Cutler followed
General Parsons as agent of the Ohio
Company of Associates in 1787 he
succeeded in making a contract with
Congress for the purchase of a large
tract of land in what is now South-
eastern Ohio.
In this contract as authorized on
July 27, 1787. Congress reserved two
complete townships of land for the
purpose of a University to be located
in the center of the purchase.
But It was not until 179i that
Putnam, with his surveying crew,
rowed down the Ohio and up the
Hocking River and located the Uni-
versity townships, 8 and 9, in range
14. Late in 1799 he laid out the town
of Athens and the campus for the
University.
Interested in having a model
charter, Putnam consulted Cutler,
who replied that there was no college
charter in America suitable for the
University. He made several recom-
mendations, however, including the
suggestion of "American University"
for the name of the college.
The General Assembly of the
Northwest Territory passed an act on
Jan. 9, 1802, incorporating many of
Cutler's suggestions, but named the
school the "American Western Uni-
versity." Little was done under the
act, for Ohio soon afterwards became
a state, and, on Feb. 18, 1804, the
General Assembly passed a law gen-
erally considered the charter of Ohio
University and changing the name of
the institution to "Ohio University."
General Rufus Putnam
In .1 report of Nov. 16, ISSi,
President Charles W. Super, for
whom a building on the Ohio Uni-
versity campus also was named,
wnjte: "The record shows that in
the space of 70 years, that is, from
181.=) to 188^, the trustees conferred
489 regular and 75 honorary degrees.
That of B.A. was conferred 280
times; of B.S., 65 times; of B.Ph,,
five times; and of A.M., 2J9 times.
The honorary degree of A.M. was
conferred 45 times, that of D.D. 16
times, and that of LL.D. seven times."
Thus not only would General
Putnam (who hoped some day to see
the university enroll as many as 500
students) be pleased with the restor-
ation of the College Edifice when it
is completed, but he would be even
more pleased with the remarkable
record of growth made by Ohio Uni-
versity. For, from an opening-day
student body of three men, the col-
lege has grown until its enrollment
this fall is nearly 5,800.
— 'Alumni KJroupi Schedule
ll'leetincjs ^n rJLocul -^reui
The Ohio University Women's
Club of Youngstown opened a four-
function program for 1946-47 with a
picnic, Sept. 28, at Homestead Park.
On Nov. 9 the members of this group
will meet for a dessert bridge.
Capt. Nick Lalich, '38, former
O.S.S. agent in Central Europe, was
the speaker at a meeting of the Cleve-
land Bobcat Club (men) held Oct.
15 at the Carter Hotel. Football
movies wound up the program.
President Baker of Ohio Uni-
versity will be the guest speaker at a
combined dinner meeting of the Ohio
University Mothers' Club and the
Bobcat Club, Nov. 14, at Hotel
Cleveland.
An All-Ohio U. Christmas Dance
will be held, Dec. 21, at Cleveland's
University Club on Euclid Avenue
under the sponsorship of the Bobcat
Club. All students, alumni, and
friends are invited to attend what
will be a gala affair. More informa-
tion anon.
Tentative plans have been report-
ed for an alumni get-together in
Cincinnati on either Nov. 2.^ (date of
the Xavier-Ohio football game) or
the following day, Nov. 24. The
Queen City organization is headed by
WilHam L. Kircher, '.i6.
^irSl f- o.'ilwar -J^omeconuna
fUjraws rJLciriiesl \^rowa C-i'f/-
Highly successful in every respect
but one — the outcome of the football
game — was Ohio University's 1946
Homecoming Day observed on Oc-
tober 26.
The game attendance of well over
12,000 persons was an all-time high,
while longtime observers of the local
scene were unanimous in their belief
that there had never been such a
crowd on Court Street as greeted the
Saturday morning Float Parade.
Led by the Ohio University Band
and participated in, also, by the Ath-
ens High School Band, the entries of
18 campus organizations — mostly fra-
ternities and sororities — made up the
longest and probably best parade in
Homecoming history.
In the women's division the float
entered by Phi Sigma Sigma was
awarded the silver trophy as the most
outstanding. Alpha Phi Delta's float
fContmucd on page \9 )
N (1 \' i: M B E R , 1 <) 4 6
^he (l3ooccit S^povts r^c
NINETEEN years ago Ohio Uni-
versity's Homecoming was mar-
red hy a 28-0 trouncing at the hands
of the Wittenberg Lutherans.
Ever since 1927 the Bobcats had
been able to preserve their record ot
winning all Homecoming games -that
IS, until they met Miami University
Oct, 26.
That Saturday afternoon the span
was broken when the Redskins de-
feated Ohio U. by 23-14 at Ohio
Stadium, playing before a record-
breaking crowd of 12,2.>6 students.
alumni, and fans.
It was the second loss in a row for
Coach Don C. Peden's pigskin pro-
teges as the University of Cincinnati
had won the week before by 19-0.
However, the Bobcats had opened
their iOth football season by taking
three in a row. winning from Mur-
ray. Ky., State 27-7, downing West-
ern Michigan College 2i-7 at Kala-
mazoo, and easily taking the measure
of Muskingum College by .^8-0.
Four games remained. Ohio Wes-
leyan was to be met at Delaware
Nov. 2, Baldwin-Wallace College was
to play at Athens Nov. 9. The
University of Dayton was set to in-
vade the Bobcats" lair on Nov. 16
GAME STATISTICS
FIRST DOWNS Ohio U. Mian-
Total 12 16
Scrimmage 10 16
Passing 2 5
Penalties 0 I
SCRIMMAGE
Yards gained 201 236
Yaids lost 8 27
Net gain 193 209
PASSES
Attempted 8 14
Completed 4 6
Intercepted by I I
Yards gained passing 58 122
Yards gained runbacic in-
tercepted passes 5 17
KICKS
Number of kickoffs 3 5
Number of punts 5 2
Average of punts (from
scrimmage) 35 40
Punts blocked by 0 I
Yards a I kicks run back t,
FUMBLES
Number 2 3
Opponents fumbles re-
covered .2 2
PENALTIES
Number 4 6
Yards penalized 30 40
euiew
for a Dad's Day fray. The Ohio U.
eleven's last game of the season was
scheduled with Xavier University in
Cincinnati on Nov. 2.V
Miami, rated as the favorite by
most sports writers, entered the fray
with a slight disadvantage as to
games won and lost in the long
series. Since 1908 the traditional
rivals had tangled 22 times, the
Bt)bcats winning 12 games and losing
10.
But the Redskins, with a smooth
running ground attack interspersed
with a barrage of aerials, had to come
from behind to win in the last
quarter. Miami scored two touch-
downs and a field goal in the final
period after Ohio U. led at the half
by 14-6.
Dick Hodona, hard-charging Cleve-
land fullback, scored Ohio's first
touchdown midway in the second
quarter, plunging over left tackle
from the 2 - yard line. The TD
culmin;ited a 6^ - yard drive. Ed
Sudnick, another Cleveland back,
came in to placekick the extra point.
Score: Ohio U. 7, Miami 0.
Miami then put the ball in play on
Its own .i7 after receiving the kickoff.
On the first play from scrimmage.
Quarterback Jack Robinson passed to
Halfback Paul Shoults for a touch-
down. The aerial and run were good
for 6.1 yards. Tom Cole's attempted
placement was blocked. Score: Ohio
U. 7. Miami 6.
Quarterback King Brady ot
Yakima. Wash., who had sparked the
Bobcats all season, made his team's
second touchdown when he went
around right end, cut to his left, and
went over standing up from 27 yards
out. Sudnick's kick was good. Score;
Ohm 14. Miami 6.
The third period was scoreless, al-
though Ohio carried to Miami's 7-
yard stripe only to lose the ball on
downs. fj
Early in the fourth quarter. End
Hal Paul of the Oxford eleven jjlbck-
ed Brady's punt and recovered it on
the Ohio ■«9.'>. Robiiigon set up a
touchdown ny passing 17 yards to
Halfback Ara Parseghian which put
the ball on the i-yard line. Fullback
Wayne Gibson plunged over. Colo's
kick was good. Score: Ohio 14,
Miami l."^.
A few minutes later Miami got
Assistant Coach Frank J. Szalay
possession of the ball on its own 44
after returning a punt. Two running
plays and a pass put the ball on the
Ohio 7-yard line. A second pass was
incomplete. Cole then dropped back
to the 14-yard marker and place
kicked a field goal. Score: Miami
16, Ohio 14.
Ohio U.'s first fumble of the game
occurred late in the final stanza and
led to Miami's third and last TD.
Brady, attempting to pass while be-
ing rushed on his own goal line,
fumbled and Paul recovered inches
behind the goal line stripe. The Bob-
cats had been put in a hole by a
I > -yard penalty which set them back
to their own 7. Cole kicked the
e.xtra point. Score: Miami 23, Ohio
U. 14.
THE University of Cincinnati
erased the Bobcats from the ranks
of the four undefeated state elevens
by downing them 19-0 at Nippert
Stadium under the lights Oct. 19. The
game, the Bearcats" Homecoming
fray, was the roughest of the season
and caused injuries to Quarterback
Brady early in the first period. Chns
Stefan of Dayton took over the signal
calling and was a standout for Ohio
University.
Scoring in every quarter, Ohio
University easily trounced Mus-
kingum College at Athens Oct. 12 by
.■^S-O. The game was played on a
soggy field. The Bobcats outplayed
the Muskics in every department of
the game, piling up 1 ^ first downs
and .>72 yards net from scrimmage.
The burly Bobcats were t(x> much
for the Western Michigan Broncos,
12
The Ohio Alumnus
downing them without strain by 2'i-7. ^=
Eleven thousand fans saw the game
Oct. 5 at Waldo Stadium. I
J^asheleers Ljet L'inaer I'i/aif 7
10
DESPITE the toughest schedule :n 14
many seasons, Ohio University's I ^
1946-47 basketball team "should win ^'
most of its games."
Known throughout the Middle ^
West for consistently putting strong 1 1
cage teams on the floor, Coach W. J. I ^
(Dutch) Trautu'ein says the Bobcats '^
will have a ""good team and we should 21
have a good year." However, he 24
hedged that statement a bit by add-
ing that the going would be tougher 1
this year as Ohio U. opens collegiate ^
athletic competition in the new Mid- ^
American Athletic Conference. i^
The veteran mentor has scheduled 1 7
2 J games, including a round robin }}
with loop members. They are the 28
always-tough Butler University, the
University of Cincinnati, Western 3
Reserve University, and Wayne Uni-
versity. ^^
In addition he has slated frays
with the powerful University of
Kentucky and with two of Ohio's
best college quintets, Akron Uni-
University and Bowling Green Uni-
versity.
The Green and White won 1 "^
games in 20 starts last season, run-
ning up 1086 points against 924.
Sparked by Bob "Fiss" Miller, sen-
sational forward who played his final
game last spring, the Bobcats scored
an average of 54 points
per game.
Plugging the hole left
by Miller is one of Coach
Trautwein's headaches as
he lays plans for the com-
ing campaign. Termed
one of Ohio U.'s all-time
great forwards. Miller re-
turned to the squad after
serving in the Army, hav-
ing been a member of the
outstanding 1941 team
that lost to Long Island
University in the finals of
the National Invitational
Tournament at Madison
Square Garden.
Trautwein, in his eighth
year as head coach of the
Bobcats, has eight letter-
men around which to
build a winning quintet.
From a turnout of nearly
200 candidates, the squad
was pruned to 30 men the
OHIO UNIVERSITy'S
946-47 BASKETBALL SCHEDULE
DECEMBER
Wayne at Detroit
Marietta at Athens
Western Reserve at Athens
Dayton at Dayton
Akron at Akron
JANUARY
Kentucky at Lexington
Xavicr at Athens
Wayne at Athens
Morris Harvey at Portsmouth
Cincinnati at Cincinnati
Miami at Oxford
Ohio Wesleyan at Delaware
Bowling Green at Athens
FEBRUARY
Butler at Indianapolis
Louisville at Chillicothe
Cincinnati at Athens
Marietta at Marietta
Miami at Athens
Xavier at Cincinnati
Dayton at Athens
Ohio Wesleyan at Athens
Western Reserve at Cleveland
MARCH
Butler at Athens
third week in October. At the con-
clusion of the football season, several
pigskin luggers will join the squad.
Kermit Blosser and Jim Snyder, assist-
ant football and basketball coaches,
launched practice sessions with
"Dutch" in charge.
Kenny Walters of New Lexington,
a senior and high point man last year
with 25S counters, heads the con-
tingent of lettermen. He plays for-
and Backs Hodc
Men] and Brady
ward and is expected to lead the
scoring attack again.
Ralph Sayre, flashy forward from
New Haven, W. Va., who was slow
rounding into shape last year, will be
trying for his old position again when
he hangs up his moleskins.
Another good cageman seeking a
starting berth is Russ Gregg of Ash-
ville. A sophomore, he played for-
ward and guard last year as a fresh-
man.
Bill Dickey, six-foot-three and a
half inch center from Lancaster, is
out for the pivot spot again. He is a
neat ball handler.
Bruce Moorehead of Bremen, who
lettered in 194.V44 at forward, has
returned to school and is slated to
take to the hardwood when the foot-
ball season is over.
Bob Brandle is a senior from Chilli-
cothe who played a steady game at
guard last year and is out for his
third cage letter at that post.
Harry Lamb, Lancaster sophomore,
is seeking to hold down a guard po-
sition. He played in a number of
games last spring.
Harry Gordon of Cleveland, who
lettered in 1941-42, has returned af-
ter a hitch for his Uncle Sam and is
out for forward or guard.
Perhaps the most highly touted
newcomer to the squad is Dick
Schrieder, an all-Ohio high school
selection in 1941-42 from Glenford.
He has been in service for three years
and is trying for a berth at forward.
The tallest candidate for center is
Paul Whyte of Nelson-
ville who stands 6-4. He
is likely to give Dickey
plenty of competition for
the pivot position.
Gene Williams, tall,
lanky lad from Ports-
mouth, is another fresh-
man candidate for center.
He sparked his high school
team in the Southeastern
District Tourney here last
spring.
Charley Drumm of Ak-
ron, halfback on the foot-
ball squad, has signified
his intention of going out
for basketball. He played
three years on an Akron
high quintet.
The Bobcat coach, one
of Wittenberg College's
greatest athletes, came to
Ohio in 1928 as assistant
coach. He was named
I Continued on page 22}
November, 1946
— ^euclxlna ^tciff ^ywaavnented —
INCOMPLETE in the October
Alumnus was the repwrt of new
members added to the Ohio Uni-
versity teaching statf this fall to help
meet the instructional crisis brought
on by the record enrollment.
Listed last month v^'cre all nev*.'
persons with the rank of instructor
and above. Reported at this time are
the acting instructors, visiting lectur-
ers, graduate assistants and fellows.
There are 2^ new acting instruct-
ors. These persons, with their highest
degrees, the names of the schools
from which the degrees were received,
and their departments at Ohio Uni-
versity are indicated in the following
paragraphs. Ohio University gradu-
ates are designated by the one word.
"Ohio."
DONALD W. KRIMEL
Donald W. Krimel. d Wisconsin newspap-
erman, has been appointed to an instructor-
ship in the School of Journalism. Mr. Krimel.
formerly a sports writer for the Wisconsin
State Journal at Madison and editor of the
Independent at Elkhorn Wise, will t-ach
courses in reporting, public relations, and
radio journalism. He is a graduate of North-
ern lllmo.s Stat- T-ach-rs r^"--- n-K-'i,
III., and earned a master's degree in the
philosophy of journalism at the University
of Wisconsin.
Chcmistr) tjii.iiii.- T AnJcr.^nn.
AB, Fairmont State Teachers. Math-
ematics— Charles D. Armstrong, AB,
Fairmont State Teachers: Irvin P.
Badger, BS, Cincinnati: Robert O.
Bishop, BS, Wisconsin Central State
Teachers: Mrs. Louise Matthews,
AB. Ohu): Mrs. Neva Duff Johnson.
AB, Ohio: Silas S. Anderson, MS,
St. Bonaventure: and Richard D.
Crumley, BSEd., Ohio. Romance
Languages Mrs. Rita Lane Stormes,
AB.^ Ohio.
English-Adelaide Thein. PhD.
Michigan: Esther Hand. AM, Ohio:
Virginia Knecht, AM, Ohio: Lucille
Knutson, AM, Washington State:
Dorothy Jefferson, AM, Middlebury:
Mrs. Irma G. LaFollette, AB, Mis-
soun: Mrs. Frances Morton O'Neill,
AM. Ohio: Mrs. Alice Donley De-
Mell, AB. Ohio: Mrs. Edna Payne
Caskey, AB, Baylor: C. Mane Wells.
AM, Ohio State: Mrs. Elsa Bernds
Shipman, AM, Ohio: Mrs. Ruth S.
Martino, AB. Carleton. Miss Jeffer-
son received her baccalaureate degree
at Ohio University.
Russian and German — Mrs. Tekia
M. Hammer, AM, Munich. Elec-
trical Engineering — Sol Matt, BSEE,
Ohio. Psycholog>' — Arthur W. Sher-
man, Jr.. AM. Indiana. Mr. Sherman,
who received his AB degree at Ohio
University, is also serving as voca-
tional appraiser in the University
Testing and Counseling Service.
Mrs. Gerda Peterich has been
named visiting lecturer in photog-
raphy, and Gertrude Reinbold, AM
(Columbia), visiting lecturer in dra-
matic art and speech. A native of
Germany, Mrs. Peterich studied for
her profession in Berlin and is a
former staff photographer for Darxce
magazine, an American publication.
Anothei addition to the staff of
the English department is Mrs.
Trudie Kissner Bullard (Ohio), who
is a part-time assistant. Graduate
assistants m this department are Nora
Magid (McGill), Naomi Richey
(Ohio), Elizabeth Krecker (Ohio),
Cathie Ann Green (Duke), and
Helen Smith (Ohio).
Other graduate assistants and their
departments are: Music — John Z.
Withum (Ohio), and R. M. Rice
(Ohio) . Dramatic Art and Speech —
Lorraine Nevue (Ohio State). Mrs.
Nancy Wood Fisher (Ohio). Mrs.
Sheila Graham Morrison (Ohio) , and
Mrs. Jams Ptxile Bra;ee (Ohio).
Sociology — Mrs. Grace Powers
Madan (Ohio), and Mrs. Eve Mocek
JOHN ROOD
John Rood, a nationally known sculptor
and resident artist at the University of Min-
nesota for the past two years, has come to
the Ohio University campus as artist-in-resi-
dence. Wood carving is the field of Mr.
Rood's greatest interest, although he stud-
ied music in Pans for two years and has
painted since the age of 16. His sculptured
figures have appeared in some of the coun-
try's leading galleries and exhibitions. He
is the husband of the former Mary Frances
Lawhead, '26.
(State Teachers College, Clarion,
Pa).
Personal Relations — Edna G. El-
more (Northwestern), and Emil C.
Beck (Indiana). Elementary Educa-
tion— Ruth Meadows (Youngstown).
Home Economics — IsaKrlle Bcattie
(Seton Hill), Sarah Bennett (Fenn),
Betty Ann Blakley (Miami), Mrs.
Jacqueline McCalla Bowen (Ohio),
and Helen Wasson (Asbury). His-
tory— George S. Tout (Ohio). Com-
merce— Morton C. Grossman (State
Teachers College, Indiana, Pa.).
The four new technical assistants
are Wilfred R. Konneker (Ohio),
physics: Mrs. Jane Cross Hilty
(Ohio), anatomy and physioK>gy;
Irene Evans (Ohio), bacteriology:
and John S. Barney (Ohio), botany.
14
The Ohio Alumnus
^J^ere una ^here ^>^mona the ^>^ti
f
umni
1853
It is not K^nerally known that one of
Ohio University's most distinguished and
scholarly graduates of the mid-19th cen-
tury was a colored man, Joseph Carter
CoRBiN, A.M. "56. Mr. Corbin was born
in Chillicothe in 1838, came to Ohio
University in 1850 at the age of 17, and
three years later received the A.B. degree.
In later years the Ph.D. degree was con-
ferred upon him by a Baptist college in
the South. After graduation he taught
school in Louisville, Ky. During the Civil
War he edited and published The Colored
Citizen in Cincinnati. At the end of the
war he went to Arkansas where he was
elected state superintendent of public in-
struction. At the conclusion of his term
of office he moved to Missouri where he
taught for two years m Lincoln Institute
in Jefferson City. Returning to Arkansas
he accepted the presidency of Branch
Normal College which he headed for 30
years. He read Greek, Latin, German.
French, Spanish, and Hebrew fluently.
and as a scholar in mathematics con-
tributed to leading mathematical journals.
He served as president of the State Color-
ed Teachers' Association, and one o. h s
fellow educators, a white man, compared
him favorably with Horace Mann, the
great New England educator. He was
described in a Bulletin of the U. S. Bu-
reau of Education as one of the greatest
colored men of his state as well as one of
the leading educators. In a day when
freemasonry was widely practiced by mem-
bers of the colored race. Dr. Corbin was
a 33rd degree Mason, a grand commander
of Knights Templar, a grand master of
Arkansas Masons, and was for 26 years
secretary of the grand lodge in his state.
He died Jan 9, 1911, in Pine Bluff.
1870
One of the very real pleasures in the
life of an alumni secretary is to meet the
sons and daughters of alumni when they
come to the campus following in the foot-
steps of their mothers and dads. This year
the number of these "legacies" has in-
creased to an all-time high. An effort will
be made at an early date to secure a
group picture of these sons and daughters.
Although they are not "second genera-
tion students," Patricia and Jean Brown,
twins from Cincinnati, came to the
Alumni Office the other day bearing a
note of introduction from their neighbor
and very good friend. Dr. Philip Zen-
NER, Ohio University's oldest living
alumnus. Included in Dr. Zenner's note
was the information that the attractive
young ladies are great-great grand nieces
of John Brown, the hero of Harper's
Ferry. Although he graduated from Ohio
University more than 76 years ago and is
now past 94 years of age, Dr. Zenner, a
physician and neurologist, goes daily to
his office in downtown Cincinnati where
he meets some of his old friends and
patients.
1897
It is an unusual week that does not
bring an invitation to Ohio University to
send an official representative to an inaug-
uration, a centennial celebration, or some
other special event at an American col-
lege or university. Since college presidents
are frequently too busy to accept these
invitations personally and travel funds are
too limited to permit of visitations to dis-
tant points, alumni in the vicinities of the
inviting schools are sometmes asked to
represent their universities. On October 17
Prof. John H. Atkinson (see picture),
Ames, Iowa, represented his alma mater
at the centennial celebration held by
Grinnell College at Grinnell. Iowa. Prof.
Atkinson, v^ho is a brother of Dean
Prof. John H. Atkinson
(Sll t:i.,s.- ,,( 1SM7 N,.ic.-i
Emeritus A. A. Atkinson, '91, Athens,
IS now retired from his teaching position
in the department of English at Iowa
State College. Other events of the re-
cent past and the Ohio University repre-
sentatives who attended them are: presi-
It is impossible to list all of the alumni
who returned on Homecoming Day, October
26. There was no central place for registra-
tion and reception^ a lack which it is hoped
will some day be remedied by a Student
Center Building.
From correspondence and personal obser-
vation, however, the Alumni Secretary knows
that there were very literally thousands of
grads and former students back for the day.
The official total of paid admissions at the
football game was 12,236, a figure never
before reached at Ohio Stadium.
Alumni are known to have been present
from such far-away states as Washington,
Oregon, California, New York, and Florida.
dential inauguration. Occidental College,
Los Angeles, Calif., Sept. 10, by Harold
J. Paul, "2.S, high school teacher, Pasa-
dena: .''Oth anniversary of the founding of
the State College for Women, Montevallo.
Ala., Oct. 12, by Charles N. Gaylord,
'30, assistant dean. College of Engineer
ing. University of Alabama: presidentia
inauguration. University of Utah, Oct. \b
by Robert P. Lowther, '21, field exam
iner, U. S. General Land Office, Salt Lake
City; presidential inauguration, Washing
ton and Jefferson University, Washington
Pa., Oct. 2.=!, by Dr. George W. Starch
ER, '26, acting dean of Ohio University
University College; and presidential inaug
uration, Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa.
Oct. 26, by Gilbert W. Beckley, '29
high school teacher. New Cumberland
Pa.
1904
Mrs. Janette Woodworth. 2 - yr.,
serves as clerk for the Railway Express
Agency in Athens, an agency headed by
her husband, Eugene E. Woodworth,
'04x. Mr. and Mrs. Woodworth are the
parents of Dr. Phillip J. Woodworth,
'31, a former army medico now re-estab-
lishing his practice m Athens.
1905
On November 11, Prof. Thomas N.
Hoover, and Mrs. Hoover (Ethel Arn-
old, "13x) will entertain at their home in
Athens in honor of the .'^Oth wedding
anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Charles C.
Millikan (Agnes Beck Millikan, '12,
2-yr.), who are also Athenians and par-
ents of Donald B. Millikan, '24. Mr.
Millikan, formerly a jeweler and opto-
metrist, IS now giving his entire time to
optometry. Prof. Hoover, oldest member
of the Ohio University faculty in point
of service, is head of the history depart-
ment and university historian.
1907
Mrs. Allie McGee Torrance, 2-yr.,
a Life Member of the Ohio University
Alumni Association, has been a teacher in
the Middletown schools since 1909 and
assistant principal of Sherman School
since 1928. In 1939 her husband, Alex
Torrance, died of a heart attack in Aber-
deen, Scotland, his boyhood home, while
he and Mrs. Torrance were visiting there.
The daughter, Nellie Torrance, "34.
also a Life Member of the Alumni /Associ-
ation, is assistant professor of dress de-
sign in Pratt Institute's School of Home
Economics in Brooklyn, N. Y.
1913
Another step in the rapid advancement
of DwiGHT A. Fawcett, 2-yr., in the
New York Central System has taken this
railroad man from Indianapolis, where he
was assistant general manager of the New
York Central System, to New York City
where he is now manager of freight trans-
portation for the system. He is the hus-
band of the former Hazel Winter, '16x.
The Sterling State Bank of Mt. Sterling
should be in excellent hands. Its president
IS Robert G. Webber: its vice president
is A. Ross Alkire, 'U, 2-yr., Ohio Uni-
versity trustee and Mt. Sterling lumber
dealer; while its assistant cashier is A.
Ross Alkire, Jr., '42. The cashier is
Mrs. Geneva Alkire, wife of the vice
president, and one of the directors is
November. 1946
15
Kathryn Wilson (Mrs. R. G.) Wchbcr.
1914
Dr. ST.\NLhY DoicAN. a proinineni
physician and surgical specialist of San
Jose, Calif., who suffered a .severe heart
attack earlier this year, has recovered
sufficiently to travel to his home near
Pennsville, Ohio, from which, after a
visit with home folks and Ohio University
friends in Athens, he and Mrs. Doufjan
(Nellf. Stokes, ■I6x) will K" "" t"
Florida for the winter. Dr. and Mrs.
Dougan arc traveling in a large aluminum
trailer, "a little three-room ht)mc on
wheels." A three-weeks" stop was made at
the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., on
the way East. Dr. Doujjan graduated from
the Stanford University Medical College
and practiced his profession in San Fran-
cisco before going to San Jose in 1926.
He and Mrs. Dougan enjoyed a six-
months' tour of the world in 1934-193.^.
The California surgeon is a licensed pilot,
flying his own plane for recreation, and
frequently engages in big game hunting in
western areas. He was an ace pitcher on
baseball teams of his varsity days and
following graduation spent one year with
the Cincinnati Reds and three years in
the Pacific Coast League.
1915
Emmett E. Roberts has been a mem-
ber of the faculty at Bethany College,
Bethany. W. Va., for the past 14 or more
years. He is now professor of journalism,
but has previously taught English and
public speaking. He was at one time
associated with Southwestern Louisiana
Institute, Lafayette, La.
1916
As auditor of student funds at Ohio
University, Gladys Howell, 2-yr. (sec
picture) is responsible for the accounting
systems and periodic auditings of the
funds of all extra-curricular activities and
most of the fraternity and sorority ac-
counts. Participation of social fraternities
and sororities in the Students" General
Fund audit system is optional, but all
other student organisations of an extra-
curricular nature must do business through
the fund. Miss Howell audited 131 ac-
counts last year in which the gross receipts
totaled more than $16.'>,000 and the dis-
bursements in excess of $137,000. The
system is based on a central or general
fund with which the individual organiza-
tions do business in much the same man-
ner that they would with a commercial
bank. The S. G. F. auditor is a sister of
Mrs. A. E. Livingston (Mabel Howell.
'11), Wayne, Pa., and a former account-
ant in the treasurer's office of the Pennsyl-
vania College for Women, in Pittsburgh.
1917
Augustus Reeves, a resident of Athens
since 1921, died Sept. 18 at the age of
81. He was the father of the late
WiLBiR D. Reeves and of Mrs. Olive
Reeves Gaithier, '13x, Cleveland. Mr.
Reeves and Mrs. Reeves, who preceded
him in death, were known to many Ohio
University students who roomed at their
home at 1 1 Pearl St.
Mrs. Malde Cryder Matthews, a
member of the Ohio University faculty
in the department of German from 1918
until her retirement in 1936, is living with
Mary Vi'ard, '2.^^, at her home at 267 E.
State St., Athens. Mrs. Matthews, widow
of the late Charles G. Matthews, '93,
M.S. '94. Ohio University librarian from
1897 to 192!i, is active in church and
women's club work in Athens. Miss
Ward is assistant professor of education
and supervising critic in the University
(Rufus Putnam) Elementary School.
1918
Mrs. Lillian Wanner Wagner, widow
of the late Dr. A. E. Wagner and
mother of four Ohio University gradu-
ates, died at her home in Athens early
last month following a prolonged illness.
Dr. Wagner was for 2.^ years professor
of education and a member of the Ex-
tension Division at Ohio University. Mrs.
Wagner's survivors include two daugh-
ters, Mrs. A. C. Told (Merle Wagner),
Kissimee, Fla.: Mrs. P. L. Jones (Mabel
Auditor Gladys Howell
Wai.ner, "23), Fostoria; two sons. Dr.
Robert \\'. Wagner, '34, Oberlin, and
Ralph S. Wagner, "36. Decatur. Ala.:
and a granddaughter, Barbara Jones,
who IS a freshman at Ohio University.
1919
One of the many .Alumni Office visitors
during the month of October was Mrs.
Frederica Kasler Bone of Winslow.
Ark. It was Mrs. Bone's first visit to the
campus in 20 years. She was accompanied
by her son, Robert, Jr., just out of the
Navy after six years, and another son.
Bill, as well as by her brother-in-law and
sister, Herman H. Dv Bois, '14. and
Mrs. Du Bois (Gretchen Kasler, '24),
of near Chillicothe. Mr. and Mrs. Du
Bois have a son enrolled at Ohio Uni-
versity. Mrs. Bone's hu.sband, Robert
S. Bone, '19, is district manager in several
southern states for the John Bean Manu-
facturing Co. of Lansing, Mich. The
company manufactures farm and horti-
cultural equipment.
1920
Something new has been added in the
way of banking service. In a printed
circular recently received from Dean B.
Coi'ELAND, a vice president and director
of the Butler County National Bank, But-
ler, Pa., the installation of a "drive-in"
teller window in his bank is described.
Patrons merely drive close to the window
and without leaving their cars hand their
deposits to the attendant through a slot.
Conversation may be had with the teller
by means of a two-way sound system.
1922
The Byron E. Whipples (he: '22: she:
(Flora Case), '17, 2-yr.) were Alumni
Office visitors on Sept. 19. They had
come from their home in Pasadena, Calif.,
to enter a daughter, Beverly, in their
alma mater. A son and war veteran, Bill,
may follow in the footsteps of his parents
and his sister next year.
1923
John M. "Swede" Middleton, ex, of
the insurance division of the Veterans Ad-
ministration in Columbus, recently paid
his first visit to Ohio University since
1922. The occasion was the Ohio U.-
Murray (Ky.) State College football game
in which his son participated as a member
of the visiting team. The father, who
served in the Army in both World Wars
I and II, played tackle for the Bobcats
back in 1920-1922.
Herbert W. Co.\. ex, Athens furni-
ture dealer and husband of the former
Thelma Miller, '21, 2-yr., has been
elected a district director of the Ohio
Retail Home Furnishings Association. Mr.
Cox will represent District 7, composed
if furniture dealers in 11 southeastern
Ohio counties.
1924
On page 14 (see Class of 1897 notes)
1- listed a number of recent special col-
lege or university events which have been
(tended by Ohio University alumni as
lepresentatives of their alma mater. Three
THore such events are thus far scheduled
tor November. These arc a presidential
inauguration at Sweet Briar College,
Sweet Briar, Va., Nov. 1, to be attended
by Mrs. Edward R. Harris (Mary
Peoples). Lynchburg, Va., a presidential
inauguration at the University of Rich-
mond (Va.), Nov. \>, at which Ohio's
representative will be Mrs. Olive David-
son Skinner, '37, reference librarian at
the University of Richmond Library and
wife of Dr. N. Wileord Skinner, '3.1,
profes.sor of German at the Richmond
school: and a presidential inauguration at
West Virginia Wesleyan College, Buck-
hannon, Nov. 16, to be attended by Dr.
James L. Hipp, '16, dean of students at
the inaugurating school.
1925
Helen Wisgerhof who became the wife
of Lawrence G. Worstell, Jr. (see
Marriages) on October ? is a graduate of
Cornell College, Mt. Vernon, Iowa. She
holds a master's degree from Western
Reserve University and was a member of
the W.R.U. teaching staff. She has also
done graduate work at Smith College and
Stanford University, and is a member of
Mortar Board and Phi Beta Kappa, honor
societies. Before accepting the position at
Western Reserve she was a district super-
visor of the Childrens Service Bureau, a
private welfare agency in Cleveland. The
groom, an Athens lawyer, is the son of
the late Jldce L. G. Worstell, '88, and
Mrs. Worstell (Lenore Michael. 89).
W. E. ""Bill"" Melvin is the "Melvin"
16
The Ohio Alumnus
of Melvin (f Dilleys' Auto Sales, a Pack-
ard and Willys agency in Ironton.
1926
LrciLLE DuFFEE, Latin and mathe-
matics teacher in Athens Junior High
School, was enrolled in the University
of Colorado for the 1946 summer session.
During the course of her stay she en-
joyed mountain climbing and horseback
riding as well as trips to various places
of interest, including Laramie and Chey-
enne, Wyo. In the latter city she at-
tended the annual rodeo, one of the
West's outstanding shows of its kind. She
also attended the summer opera at Cen-
tral City, an old ghost mining town. At
Laramie she was the guest of Dr. and
Mrs. C. D. Samford. Dr. Samford is a
former Athens High School teacher
now on the faculty of the University
of Wyoming.
1927
Gerard C. Powell, who with Mrs.
Powell (Eleanor Wernert, "27). has
been with a branch of the Goodyear
Tire and Rubber Co. in South America
for the past 16 years, is now residing in
Sao Paulo, Brazil. He first lived in
Argentina and later in Peru. For the
benefit of Ohioans who may be going
down South America way his address
is Companhia Goodyear do Brazl Pro-
ductos de Borracha, Caixa Postal 1424,
Sao Paulo, Brazil. Mr. Powell was
secretary - treasurer of the Goodyear
subsidiary in Lima, Peru, and it is
presumed that he holds a position of
equal or greater responsbiility in his
present location. The Powells have two
sons, Donald and Andy.
Dean F. Kittle, who left a teaching
position in South High School, Lima,
to accept a position as assistant foreman
of instruction in the small motors di-
vision of the Westinghouse Corporation
in Lima during the war years, is now
on the faculty of Ohio Northern Uni-
versity at Ada as an instructor in in-
dustrial arts. With Mrs. Kittle, the
former Lucille Wood, '26, he is still
maintaining his home at Cairo.
1928
Floyd E. Pierce has been chosen as
one of ten outstanding career engineers
in the Navy Engineering Material Division
to take a special training course at the
Naval Air Station, Alameda, Calif. Mr.
Pierce, a civilian, is chief inspector in the
Office of Inspector, Naval Material, USN.
at Cleveland.
Leah E. Cline, a former WAC lieu-
tenant who spent 20 months overseas, is
now supervisor of home economics in the
schools of Westwood, N. J. An Alumni
Office visitor on July 26, she is a sster
of William F. Cline. 'J3, South Charles-
ton, W. Va., who is an instructor in the
vocational division of the Kanawha
County schools.
W. Bennett Shimp, A.M. '36, k vo-
cational counselor in the Occupational
Opportunities Service at Ohio State Uni-
versity and a former violin instructor at
Ohio University, was a campus visitor on
October 4. He came especially to ad-
minister some musical aptitude test's to
students in the School of Music. These
tests, devised by Mr. Shimp, have met
with wide acceptance.
Dr. and Mrs. A. Gordon Nelson (M\R-
THA Whipple) were campus visitors early
this fall. Dr. Nelson is professor of edu-
cational and vocational guidance in the
School of Education at Cornell University,
Ithaca. N. Y.
1930
Attendants at the 19th biennial conven-
tion of Phi Mu sorority at picturesque
Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island in Mchi-
gan this summer got their money's worth
as far as thrills were concerned. Not only
were there the usual feature attract-ons of
a national conference, but during the stay
of the Greek letter women Metro-
Guldwyn-Mayer moved in to film "This
Mts. Lewis Hughes
(Sec Class of 1950 Notes)
Time For Keeps" with Esther Williams,
Johnny Johnston, Laur'tz Mclchicr. and
Jimmy Durante. In addition, there were
the famous Port Huron-Mackinac Island
sailboat races. One of the convent on
delegates was Mrs. Lewis Hughes (Leona
Hliches, see picture) of Cleveland, re-
tiring president of District V, a district
which embraces Ohio, Kentucky, and
Michigan. Mrs. Hughes is secretary-
treasurer of Hughes-Burnett, Inc., a large
Dodge-Plymouth agency of which her
husband is president. She has b;en active
in Ohio University alumni affairs in Cleve-
land as well as in civic and social activities.
1931
Mrs. Sle Porterfied Ro.';ers will be
moving from Milledgeville, Ga., to Fort
Leavenworth, Kans., one of these days
soon. Her husband. Dr. H. H. Rogers,
was professor of physics at the State
College for Women in Milledgeville be-
fore entering military service. When last
reported he was a lieutenant colonel of
infantry in the Pacific area. He has now
been commissioned in the regular army
and assigned to the Kansas post. Col.
and Mrs. Rogers have two children, David
and Cornelia, 11 and 9, respectively.
When Dr. Carl O. Hanson, Ohio Uni-
versity's professor of banking and finance,
was in Duluth, Minn., early this fall and
in need of a nasal operation, he asked his
sister, a registered nurse, to recommend
the best nose and throat specialist in the
city. Her unhesitating suggestion was Dr.
Orien B. Patch. The Duluth specialist
and the local faculty man discovered their
mutual interest, Ohio University, during
the operation, which Dr. Hanson reports
was skillfully and successfully accomplished.
Koppers Stores, a division of Eastern
Gas and Fuel Associates at Huntington,
W. Va., Pittsburgh, Pa., Boston, Mass.,
and New York, N. Y., has announced
the appointment of a new furniture
buyer, Hugh P. Lynch, who resigned
as professor of business administration
at Marshall College in Huntington to
accept the new position. He became
associated with the West Virginia
school when a distributive education
program was instituted a year ago. Pre-
viously he had been a teacher-trainer in
business administration at the Univer-
sity of Pittsburgh, and at Temple Uni-
versity in Philadelphia. Durinc; the
past summer Mr. Lynch was an in-
structor at Colorado A. 6? M., Ft. Col-
lins, Colo. He spent some time with
the merchandising division of the Selby
Shoe Co. in Portsmouth. He is married
and has a son, Hugh, Jr.
1932
Mrs. William L. Halfaker (Beatrice
Hanson) is the wife of a Congre-
gational minister in M'nneapolis, Minn.
The Hanson's have tv,;o sons: Jimmy, 9.
and Alvin, 6.
1933
After extensive overseas war service
during which he was a port director
in Oran, Toulon, and Marseilles, and
participated in the invas'on of Southern
France, Henry "Hank" Corradini
has been appointed chief of the admin-
istrative section of the contact and
services division of the Veterans Ad-
minstration in Columbus. In this ca-
pacity he will formulate and direct the
program for recorf^s management and
analysis throughout the branch area.
Before entering the Navy he was associ-
ated with the Ohio State Relief Commis-
sion and the WPA in Ohio.
Clarence H. Jones, who, after 14
months of war service with the Merchant
Marines, returned to his position in Mead-
ville. Pa., as a sales representative of the
Buckeye Funeral Supply Co., has re-
signed that position to enter the shoe
business in Sarasota, Fla. Shoeman Jones
married a Meadville young lady just a
year ago this month.
1934
Josephine Steiner has left the States
to take up duties as superintendent of
nurses in a new 300-bed hospital on Lake
Maracaibo in Venezuela, South America.
The hospital, erected and furnished by
funds provided by the Rockefeller Found-
ation, is operated by the Venezuelan gov-
ernment. Miss Steiner received a master's
degree from the Yale University School of
Nursing. While working at the Yale Uni-
versity Hospital she enlisted in the Army
Nurse Corps and spent 40 months in
hospitals in New Zealand, Guadalcanal,
N O V F M U I R . 19 4 6
und Saipan. Alter returninj; from the
Pacific she aj;ain |oined the staff of the
Yale Hospital, hut resigned to accept the
position in South America. Miss Steiner
IS an aunt of Mrs. Marvin E. White (see
Marriages).
After 1 1 years of coaching in Ohio
high schools Kenneth P. Jones has de-
serted the field of education for a husi-
ness career. With his hrother-ui-law he
has recently opened the Athens Building
Materials Company on the Lower Plains
Road, near Athens. The new plant has a
capacity for turning out 200 cement
blocks per hour.
1935
The GUmsUr Press which suspended
publication in January, 1943, when its
editor and publisher, Alfred T. Craft,
went to war, has resumed publication
under new ownership and management.
Grace Leslie and Friend
(Stt Cl.issof W4; N,.tL-l
The publishing enterprise was established
in Glouster by Mr. Craft's father in
1896. After a period of salesmanship
training with the McBee Co. in Athens
""Al" has been assigned to the Detroit
office of the local company, a concern
which does an international business.
Dr. Robert S. Srigley, who served as
a surgeon in several army hospitals in the
U. S. and on a hospital ship in the
Pacific, receiving a special citation for his
work in neurosurgery, has established him-
self in Ardmore, Okla., where he is asso-
ciated with Dr. Walter Hardy in the
practice of surgery at the Hardy General
Hospital. Dr. Srigley is an Ohio Uni-
versity Phi Bete and a graduate of the
Harvard University Medical School.
WiLBiR E. Sc.h.\ffer is manager of
the personal loan department of the Piqua
National Bank if Trust Co. He held
positions with loan and savings companies
in Dayton and Piqua prior to service in
World War IL In 1937 he married
Dorothy Kershaw, a graduate of North-
western University.
1936
The Washington and Lee University
gridiron staff is headed by Arthi R E.
Lewis and has for its line coach Denver
D. Wood. "37. Lewis and Wood were
teammates and out.standing members of
Bobcat varsity squads. Head Coach Lewis
was selected for the Little All-America
team in 193.^ and played in the East-West
game in San Francisco on New Year's
Day. 1936. Entering professional foot-
ball after graduation he played with the
New York Giants in the National League
and later played and coached for the
Cleveland Rams in the same league. He
coached football for the Navy at its St.
Mary"s Pre-Flight School and was dis-
charged last year with the rank of lieu-
tenant commander. "Denny" Wood play-
ed on Ohio's Buckeye championship
eleven of 193.i and was with the co-
Buckeye championship Bobcats in 1936.
He played in the 1937 Ohio All-Star
game against the Cincinnati Bengals and
the 1938 All-Star game against the
Cleveland Rams. He has been
a successful high school
coach at Oak Hill, Ken-
ton, and Central High in
Columbus. A Navy man,
like his colleague, he served
on the football staff at the
Georgia Pre - Flight School.
Later, at the Naval Air
Training Station at Pcnsa-
cola, Fla., he was head scout
for the Navy gridiron team
and was in charge of French
and British cadets.
Mrs. Mary Jane Hitchcock,
housemother for the Ohio
University chapter of Alpha
Xi Delta sorority for the last
1 .'^ years, resigned her posi-
tion last June and is now •
making her home with Dean
of Women Irma E. Voigt at »■
3.S Park Place, Athens. Mrs.
Hitchc(jck is the mother of
Mrs. Leo M. Baker (M.^RTHA
Hitchcock), Marietta.
1937
Reii) A. Martin is head
of the Reid Martin Auto
Service in Jeffersontown, Ky. Mrs. Mar-
tin is the former Dorothy "Trossftt. "37.
Donald S. Shafer. M.Ed. "46, is
teaching and coaching at Nel.sonville High
School, his home school, this year. Before
his service in the Navy he had coached
in the high school at Coshocton and at
the Columbus Academy for Boys, a private
school.
Benjamin Franklin. IV, .^.M. '40,
and Mrs. Franklin (Vir(;inia Hoover.
"36), with their two sons, Ben and
Tommic, arc living in Springfield while
Mr. Franklin is continuing his studies
toward a doctorate at Ohio State Univer-
sity. He is a former in.structor in English
at Wittenberg College, Springfield, and at
the University of West Virginia at Morg-
antown.
1938
Edward B. \\'rii;ht. a former Navy
officer, one of whose last experiences in
the Pacific was the Okinawa typhoon a
year ago, has returned to his home in
Cleveland and is now district credit man
for Proctor 6^ Gamble in the Cleveland
office. Ed was one of the first Ohioans
to win a Varsity "O" in swimming.
Welcoming him back from the wars were
Mrs. Wright, the former Marian Tissot.
"37. and two children, Edward, Jr., almost
8, and Majorie, a little past 4.
Robert B. Miner, M.S. "40, who
was chairman of business organization
instruction in the Army's G.L University
on Okinawa, has been added to the
teaching staff of the College of Commerce
and Administration at Ohio State Univer-
sity.
A marriage not learned of until recently
is that of Ida Mae Rodenbeck. St.
Marys, to John O. Zecher, which was an
event of Jan. 14, iy4.'>. Mrs. Zecher is
now teaching in the Warren County
schools, while her husband is an artist-
photographer. The Zecher"s live at 762
S. Main., Franklin.
Mrs. James E. Kirby (Mary Palmer)
is now residing in Chicago. She was
married in Washington, D. C. late in
1943 and spent two years in Asuncion,
Mr. and Mrs. Edsar L Van Horn
Paraguay, where her husband, a Navy
man, was stationed at the U. S. Embassy,
1939
Capt. Walter E. Kinney is head
of the mu.sic department and bandmaster
at New York Military Academy, Corwall-
on-Hudson, N. Y.
Major James T. Passman is attached
to the consumer's goods section of the
Office of Military Goverment in Bavaria,
Germany.
Rlssell J. N. Dean, who has been
associated with the Veterans Adminis-
tration in Washington, D. C. since his
discharge from the Army, appeared on
a Mutual Broadcasting Company network
on October 13 in a program entitled ""The
Veterans Want To Know."" Mr. Dean
discussed some phases of his work which
IS concerened mainly with the physical
rehabilitation of ex-scrvicemcn.
Capt. Joe F. Qiisenberry is now
stationed at Ft. Benjamin Harrison, Ind.,
where he is serving as classification officer
of the psychiatric and sociological section
of the U. S. Di.sciplinary Barracks at the
post. Captain Quisenberry had overseas
service in Hawaii.
18
The Ohio Alumnus
1940
Roger J. Jones, Jr.. former Army flier,
for the past nine months a co-pilot with
Panagara, a Pan American Airways subsi-
diary in South America, has been returned
to the States where he will fly the Atlantic
as a co-pilot and third officer on a big
PAA ship. In South America he was
stationed for six months at Lima, Peru,
and for three months at Buenos Aires,
Argentina. His brother. Major John M.
Jones, '42x, is an instructor at Grenier
Field, near Manchester, N. H.
William J. Benkert is associated with
the production department of the Good-
year Tire y Rubber Co. in Akron,
Major James V. Galloway, who has
just returned from Germany where he
was with 3rd Army Headquarters, has
been assigned to the 2nd Armored Di-
vision at Camp Hood, Texas. The Ohioan,
an aide to Maj. Gen. George S. Patton
before the famed armored corps com-
mander left the States, was with General
Patton in the landing at Casablanca, and
remained with him until after Sicily was
taken. For some time he was stationed in
Heidelberg- as headquarters commandant
and executive officer of special troops of
the 3rd Army.
Mrs. Morris Gibby( Beatrice Morgan)
is a member of the staff of the rehabili-
tation y education division of the Regional
Office of the Veterans Administration in
Cleveland.
1941
Mrs. Jeanne Frost Roth and her
children, Frances Marie and Jon Allen,
are currently located at Mrs. Roths par-
ental home in Willard awaiting transpor-
tation to the Panama Canal Zone where
they hope soon to join their husband-
father. First Lieut. John Y. C. Roth,
"41x. Lieut. Roth is now at Howard Field,
the Caribbean Air Command fighter base.
The Ohioan completed pilot training and
received his commission just five days af-
ter Pearl Harbor Day in 1941. He at-
tained the rank of captain in the Pacific
area where he was awarded eight different
decorations. His new rank of first lieu-
tenant is in the Regular Army.
Myron D. Thompson, who is teaching
industrial arts in the high school at
Pleasantville, N. Y., is president this year
of the Pleasantville Teachers
Association and is vice com-
mander of his American Leg-
ion post as well as editor of
The S. O. S., the post's bi-
weekly bulletin. He is also
active in the local Lions
Club.
Mrs. Ronald H. Good
(Alberta Greenlees) is
living in Ravenswood,
W. Va., where her hus-
band is on the high school
faculty. Mrs. Good resigned
as home economics instructor
at Beverly, Ohio, when her
husband returned from India
early this year.
The Marcel Rodd Com-
pany of Hollywood and New
York has recently published
a volume of satirical drawings
by Jane Eakin of New York
City. The volume bears the
title, "I Do All The Work
Around Here," and has a
foreword by the well-known comedian,
Danny Kaye. Of the artist-cartoonist the
publisher writes: "Her pen-point is fine
and penetrates deeply. On the surface her
drawings are clever, but closer examina-
tion reveals a brilliant sense of social con-
sciousness and awareness of her neighbors
as she considers Love, Art, People, and
general Confusion. I Do All The Wor\
Around Here has whimsicality, cynicism,
gayety, and a little cruelty too. Above all,
it has wit and talent." Continuing, the
Josephine Steiner
(See Class of 1954 Notes)
publisher states that "Danny Kaye's poetic
foreword provides the perfect foil tur
Miss Eakin's sardonic humor. She, in
turn, insists that he is one of her car-
toons come to life. This Mr. Kaye vio-
lently denies, stating that 'ol human kind-
ness she has no milk." He claims he has
been heckled into hack-writing, but we
have an idea that he secretly enjoyed do-
ing it." Besides her work as an artist.
Miss Eakin is teaching in the New York
Fashion Institute. She is a lormer art
Richard Banks (extrenn
(See Chi
: right) and New Sporting Go
of 1943 NcteB)
instructor at Wooster College and has
taught in New Yorks' Museum of Modern
Art.
1942
Dr. J. A. Hess, professor of German at
Ohio University, received a card last June
from LiELT. Charles J. Roska post-
marked Nuernburg, Germany, on which
was the message "I am now in charge of
the medical care of the former Nazi
chiefs of state and find it very interest-
ing." Lieut. Roska graduated in medicine
from Western Reserve University in
1944. If still in Germany at this time it
can be assumed that his medical duties
have been somewhat lightened by recent
events.
William A. Mechem, a leading shoe
merchant and an active civic worker in
Athens, is president of the Athens Com-
munity Concert Association. The asso-
ciation has recently concluded a success-
ful membership campaign as a result of
which five, and possibly six, concerts will
be held this winter in Alumni Memorial
Auditorium. The numbers will include
James Melton, tenor; Nadine Conner, so-
prano: and the National Symphony Or-
chestra of Washington.
With merely a handful of players,
Fred A. Swearincen, just out of the
Navy Air Corps (with a brilliant record,
incidentally) and in his first year of
coaching, has seen The Plains High
School Indians win five contests in their
six-game schedule this fall.
Dr. Earl H. Stanley, who completed
his internship in a Springfield (Ohio)
hospital last July, is now on the medical
staff of the Veterans Administration Hos-
pital in Danville, 111. He is a graduate of
the University of Louisville Medical
School.
Lee Jackson is a first-year student at
the University of Rochester Medical
School this fall. She is one of a number
of Ohio U. pre-med grads currently en-
rolled or who have recently been in at-
tendance at this New York school. Others
there now are Robert E. Nye, Frank C.
Ml'Ldoon, and Arthur Sakamoto, all
three of the Class of 1943.
1943
Leslie, M.S. (see picture), a
former assistant dean of wo-
men and head of Howard
Hall at Ohio University, ac-
cepted a position this fall as
dean of women at Heidelberg
College, Tiffin, Ohio. Mis's
Leslie received her baccalau-
reate degree from Oberlin
College. She was active in
musical circles in Athens and
in the picture is seen accom-
panying one of "her girls"
in a Howard Hall song fcst.
Her master's thesis was based
upon a study of the growth
and development of the Wo-
men's League and the Men's
Union at Ohio University.
Helen Ruth Willis is
teaching social studies in the
Mountain View School, El
Monte, Calif., and residing
in Los Angeles.
Richard A. Reiter is en-
gaged in a pre-med course at
the University of Wichita
Grace
N () \' K M H E R . 1 'M 6
19
in Kansas. A war veteran, lie married a
Wichita girl in 1944 and is tlu- I'atlier i)l
a dauKhtcr. Jan. who was a year did last
month.
HeSTI R M H.\RTM.\N IS
rated in
Capt. and Mrs. Warren W. Coope
(Sec Marriages)
Ann Arbor, Mich., where she has just
entered upon a position as senior service
librarian at the University of Michigan.
An idea conceived while a student at
Ohio University and developed during his
service as an Army officer in the Pacific
has finally been realized in concrete form
by Richard P. B.\nks with the opening
of a new sporting goods store at 5 N.
Court St., Athens, on Sept. 18. The idea
was of a shop handling only sports goods
equipment for men. The extent of its
ultimate development is partially illus-
trated by the picture on page 18. Dick,
on the extreme right, is to be seen dis-
playing his wares to a customer. The in-
terested customer on the left is Franxis
B. Fuller. "58, local photographer. He
has been successful in obtaining an un-
usual number of hard-to-get items of mer-
chandise. The new businessman married
Sl'2annf. Danford, '42x, of Athens, )ust
before graduation in 1945, and is the son
of Mark Beat Banks who served as coach
and director of athletics at Ohio Univer-
sity from 1913 to 1918. The former ath-
letic director is now a real estate agent in
Oneonta, N. Y., where, as an avocation,
he coaches the football team of Harwick
College,
1944
RiTH Driscoll Hallman, with her
husband. Philip E. Hallman and their
daughter. Kathy Jo of New Concord,
were Ohio University visitors on October
1 2, coming especially for the Muskingum-
Ohio U. football game. Mr. Hallman.
former sports editor of the Athens Mes-
.sengfr. is now director of publicity at
Mu>kingum College.
Robert T. Wai.dbaler. ex last pre-
war president of Ohio University's Theta
(;hi chapter is now a traffic manager with
the Transcontinental c< Western Airline^.
He has an office in the airlines building
on 4 2nd Street in New York City.
Mrs. Charles J. Boocks (Thelma
Mowery) is teaching home economics in
Lihhy High School. Toledo. Her hus-
band is a veteran-student at the Univers-
ity of Toledo. Their marriage was report-
ed in the October Alumnus.
Dorothy Winters is holding a secre-
tarial po.sition with the General Electric
Co. in Boston. Mass.
Marjorie Ahlql'Ist is the advertising
production manager and copywriter for
the Home Store in Dayton.
Mrs. Thomas G. Andrian (Ri th Ann
Grover) who taught last year in the
high school at Alliance, is teaching this
year in the high school at Chauncey. She
and her husband, a veteran-student at
Ohio University, are living in Athens.
Elizabeth Behan is a teacher in East
High School, Erie, Pa.
Unintentional and most unfortunate
was the omission of the report last year
ot the birth of a daughter, Susan Kay, to
Alfred Ki enzli. ex, and Mrs. Kuenili
(Norma Gibbs. '43), 3446 E. .Mith St.,
Cleveland. Susan Kay arrived April 12,
194.^. Her daddy, a Marine Corps vet-
eran, is now in the advertising business in
Cleveland.
Mis. Raymond F. Balfour
1S« M.irriaj.iO
I94«
Doris Brown was one of M) students
in the United States to receive honorable
mention in the 1946 Junior Bazaar De-
sign Contest. She is now art editor of
Tile £ntfiu.sta.st, a publication of the big
Lazarus store in Columbus. Miss Brown
had her first training in art under the
guidance of Florence Hennis, '2.'', art
supervisor in the Marietta city schools.
Lois Haines is secretary to the director
of the School of Home Economics at
Ohio University, having succeeded Mary
Ann McKay, '41, who is now holding a
secretarial position at Ohio State Uni-
versity.
Jeanne Ridel, a journalism major, is
employed with the .State Automobile Mu-
tual Insurance Co. in Columbus as sec-
retary to the director of personnel and as
editor of the Pine Tree, the firm's month-
ly magazine.
Howard Pond, Jr., js teaching manual
art in the high school at Shadyside, near
Bellaire. He and Mrs. Pond have a one-
year-old son, Howard, III.
Vnib ^JJeJ to I^.O.D.C.
^Coiitimied Jrom page ') )
are Capt. Mark Treat, Air Corps, and
Lieut. James Skinner, Quartermaster
Corps.
Capt. Treat flew B-26's with the 70th
Bomb Squadron during the war, taking
part with his unit in the Battle of Mid-
way and the Battle of the Solomons. After
a short course at the Command and Gen-
eral Staff School, Ft. Leavenworth, he
went to Lowry Field as assistant director
of Training and Operations. From Akron,
he is a graduate of Kent State University.
With the Quartermaster Corps of the
20th Bomber Command, Lieut. Skinner
served in the CBI Theatre 32 months, re-
turning to the U. S. for advanced quarter-
master training. A graduate of Ohio
State University, Lieut. Skinner is from
Columbus.
_/irJf f-'^oilwar -J^omecominq
I Conunned \rom page l<))
was judged the winner in the men's di-
vision.
Only the fraternities participated in the
house decoration contest, with Theta Chi
receiving the judges' nod. Certainly not
to be dismissed without a second look,
however, was the Delta Tau Delta house
decoration.
Margaret Sinclair, Cleveland sophomore
and representative of Pi Beta Phi sorority,
was chosen Varsity "O" Homecoming
Queen to reign at the annual homecom-
ing dance Saturday night in the Men's
Gym
The massed Miami and Ohio bands
p.irticipated in the pre-gamc flag raising
ceremony. Between the halves President
John C. Baker greeted the "homecomers"
following a presentation by the Alumni
Secretary. The two bands shared the re-
mainder of the intermission executing a
number of clever formations and playing
their alma mater songs.
Several Homecoming Day pictures not
available for this issue will appear next
month.
20
The Ohio Alumnus
Mary Ann to Ray E. Keesev. "37, and
Mrs. Keesey (Gene Gordon, "37), 549
Oak St., Columbus. Mr. Keesey is teach-
ing part time in the speech department at
Ohio State University, while working for
a Ph.D. degree.
David Cameron to Robert L. Hart-
EORD, "36, and Mrs. Hartford, 1900
Inglewood Dr., Rocky River, June 7,
1946. Cammie's daddy is assistant man-
ager of research and promotion for the
Penton Publishing Company and secre-
tary of the Ohio University Bobcat Club
in Cleveland. Paternal grandparents: W.
A. HERTFORD, "13, 2-yr., and Mrs. Hart-
ford (Inez Logan, "I.^'x), Rocky River.
Betty Hartford, "40. is an aunt of the
new arrival.
Bonnie Jeanne to William F. Brown,
"41, and Mrs. Brown (Jeanne Wilson,
RriL
Cheryl Ann Brown
"41), :3148 Marion Rd., North Olmsted.
Sept. 3, 1946. Mr. Brown, a former Army
weather officer overseas, is now with the
flight advising section of the weather bu-
reau at the Cleveland Airport. The little
cutie pictured above is Cheryl Ann,
Bonnie Jeanne"s sister, who is now almost
three years of age.
Diane Louise to D. William Evans.
'40, and Mrs. Evans (Helen Tobey,"42),
96.^ Oxford Rd., Cleveland Heights, Sept.
l.'^, 1946. Mr. Evans is an engineer with
a Cleveland tool manufacturing concern.
Little Diane has about as many Oh'o Uni-
versity "connections"" as could be. To
name a few — her paternal grandparents
are Rhys D. Evans, "09, and Mrs. Evans
(Mary Chappelear, "09), Akron; two
of her uncles are Robert B. Evans. "34,
Toledo, and Edwin B. "Ted"" Evans,
"42x, Grass Valley, Calif.; while an aunt
is Marion Tobey, an Ohio University
junior. Her great grandfather, the late
Dafydd J. Evans, ""71, was for almost 50
years a member of the Ohio University
faculty.
Hal Hayes to Mr. and Mrs. Samuel R.
Ward (Helen Hayes, "38), 318 Elm St.,
Franklin, Sept. 30, 1946. Mr. Ward is
traffic manager of the Maxwell Paper Co.
Carol Ann to Capt. Harry W. Craig,
Jr., and Mrs. Craig, Sept. 29, 1946. Both
Captain and Mrs. Craig served overseas
during the war, the latter as an Army
nurse. They were married in Pisa, Italy.
Captain Craig is an officer in the AAF
currently stationed at Herlong, Calif.
TWINS— Carol Rose and Kathy Lee—
to Jerry L. Grubb, and Mrs. Grubb
(Susan Steffenhagen, "48x), Oct. 2,
1946. The father is a veteran-student at
Ohio University. Mrs. Grubb is at her
parental home in Sandusky.
TWINS — Diane and Diedre — to
Charles Hlber and Mrs. Hubcr, Vet-
erans Village, Athens, Oct. 2, 1946. Mr.
Huber is a veteran-student at Ohio Uni-
versity. The twins have a brother, Charles
Edward, 20 months old.
Joyce Lynn to Mr. and Mrs. John
Hetfken (Carolyn Guerra, "37), 16
Palmer St., Athens, Oct. 8, 1946. Mr.
Heffken is a pressman at The Athe^i.s
Me.s.senger.
James Richard, III, to Lieut. Comdr.
Richard Acomb, ■39x, and Mrs. Acomb
(Dorothy Schilling, '41), Oct. 10,
1946. Commander Acomb, a Navy den-
tist with overseas service and recently
stationed at San Diego, Calif., is now on
terminal leave. Mrs. Acomb and the baby
are at the former"s parental home, 249 E.
State St., Athens. Dr. Acomb expects
soon to establish himself in private prac-
tice in Mansfield.
Richard Lewis to William D. Hart-
man, "41, and Mrs. Hartman (Ruth
Lewis, "40, A.M. "41), 101. S Yale St., N.,
St. Petersburg, Fla., Oct. 10, 1946. Mr.
Hartman is engaged in real estate business
with his uncle.
Carl Huntington, III, to Carl H.
Beasley. Jr., "42x, and Mrs. Beasley,
Spring Grove, Pa., Oct. 19, 1946. Mr.
Beasley operates a Ford Agency in Spring
Grove.
Judith Lynn to Ray L. Wiley. "42, and
Mrs. Wiley, 86 S. Shafer St., Athens,
Oct. 7, 1946. Mr. Wiley is a U. S.
Employment Service auditor with head-
quarters in Athens.
Mary Anna to Joseph P. Lipka, "39,
and Mrs. Lipka, 1374 West Boulevard,
Cleveland 2, Oct. 19, 1946. Mr. Lipka is
an auditor in the Cleveland office of Ernst
y Ernst, an auditing and accounting firm
with offices throughout the country.
Linda Joyce to Mr. and Mrs. Earl S.
Lemmon, Jr. (Betty Anne Barr, "43),
1693 E. 90th St., Cleveland 6, Oct. .S,
1946.
Lawrence to William E. Burt, "36.
and Mrs. Burt, 2802 Linden Lane, Silver
Springs, Md., Apr. 20, 1946. Mr. Burt is
associated with the Washington office of
The McBee Co. An aunt: Margaret
Edith Burt, '40x, Athens.
James Richard to Mr. and Mrs. Paul R.
Sands (Lillian Cumley, "42), 444
Richland Ave., Athens, July 29, 1946.
Mr. Sands is employed at the Athens Post
Office. Mrs. Sands is a former member
of the Ohio University secretarial staff.
Susan Steele to Mr. and Mrs. George
D. Dibble (Mary Frances Gillocly,
'42x), 66 S. Grant St.. Columbus, Aug.
14, 1946. Mr. Dibble is a salesman for
the Mersman Table Co.
Arnold Jacob to Mr. and Mrs. Howard
Klingenberg (Laura McClain, "31, 2-
yr.). 38.i E. 11th Ave., Columbus, Sept.
18, 1946. Mr. Klingenberg is a stenog-
rapher m the engineering office of the
Jeffrey Mfg. Co. and is assistant concert-
master of the Columbus Concert Orchestra.
In reference to the picture of her son,
Bruce Cameron, who will soon be a year
old, Mrs. Kenneth Duncan (Katherine
Varner, "40, M.S. "42), U. S. Forest
Service, Box 14. Big Creek, Calif., com-
ments that "you can see how the climate
Bruce Cameron Duncan
'agrees' with him. The grass, however,
tickles his toes." The Duncans have re-
cently moved from North Fork to Big
Creeic, ".''0 miles higher in the Sierras."
Mrs. Duncan is a former dietitian at Ohio
University"s Boyd Hall. Her husband is
a forest ranger.
Victoria Lynn to Phil R. Swanson,
"46, and Mrs. Swanson (Virginia Stans-
BURY, "46), 93'/2 Mill St., Athens, Aug.
31, 1946. The father, a war veterans, is
a commercial artist. Aunt and uncle: Mrs.
Leo Townsend (Pauline Swanson, "39).
Hollywood, Calif., and the late John B.
"Jack" Swanson, "39, who lost his life
in World War II.
William Edward to Mr. and Mrs.
George R. Zarrett (Marian McClure.
"31, A.M. "37), 709 Sunset Dr., Lexing-
ton 19, Ky., June 11. 1946. Mr. Zarrett
is doing personnel work at the Army
Depot in Lexington.
Leslie Ruth to Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence
E. Cummins (Ruth Huggins, "37), 2616
Liberty St., Parkersburg, W. Va., Oct. 20,
1946. Mr. Cummins, a former member of
the West Virginia state legislature, is now
an assistant draftsman with the Parkers-
burg Rig y Reel Co.
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Kathleen Orr, "43 (picture later),
Athens, secretary to employment manager.
The Standard RcKistcr Co. (Dayton), to
Carl T. Miller, Dayton, a war veteran and
printer, also with The Standard Rcj;istcr
Co., Nov. 2, 1946. At home: 412 Troy
St., Dayton. Mrs. Miller is a former
memher of the Alumni Office .statf at
Ohio University. One of her bridesmaids
was Phyllis Bean. 'Af'x. an Alumni
Office staff member and former collcat;ue
of the bride.
Hattie Lv Grones,"46 (picture later),
Athens to Charles O. Lintner. '4^.
Akron, with the McBee Co. (Cincin-
nati), Oct, .>, 1946. Mrs. Lintner is
the daughter of Mrs. Alberta Carr
Crones, "17x, and the late Dow S.
Crones, '16, former Ohio University
faculty member. The bride was given
in marriage by her brother. Major
Dow S. Crones, Jr.,"2 2x. Los Angelps.
Calif. A participant in World War II,
the groom was the first president ol the
Ohio University Veterans Club.
Lorene Wilson, "44. Pomeroy (see
picture on page 19), who attended the
Cincinnati Conservatory of Music fol-
lowing graduation from Ohio Uni-
versity, to Raymond F. Balfour, Skokie,
III., former A.S.T.P. cadet at Ohio
University and an ETO veteran, now
attending Ohio State University, Co-
lumbus, June 8, 1946. At home: .S90
Fairwood Ave., Columbus. Dolores
Shaveyco, '4.\ Cleveland, was the
bride's hostess at the wedding recep-
tion.
Betty Sle Arnold. "46. Parkers-
burg, W. Va., to Paul E. Winder.
'49x. Logan, a war veteran, now a
commercial artist (Greenwich, Conn.).
July 28, 1946. At home: Greenwich.
Conn. Mrs. Robert B. Hull (Eliza-
beth Allmon, "44), Akron, was the
bride's matron of honor.
Mary Gertrude Lott, '42 (see
picture on page 16), New Lexington,
teacher (Mansfield), to Edcar L. Van
Horn. '39, Bremen, teacher, Richland
County schools (Mansfield), Aug. 6.
1946. At home: 130 Western Ave.,
Mansfield.
Diane Sharfe,'46x, Newark, N, J.,
former WAC surgical technician, now
attending The New School of Social
Research, Dramatic Workshop (New
York City), to Edwin Nagel, '43.
Brooklyn, former Navy officer, now vice
president, lamco. Inc., an import and ex-
port concern doing business in South
America and China, Oct. 6, 1946. Fol-
lowing a honeymoon spent in Cuba the
Nagels are at home at Hotel Winslow,
New York City. Best man : Howard
Bralnstein, '43, Syracuse, N. Y.
Helen Ganz, '42, New York City,
society editor. The Dailv Argii.s (Mt.
Vernon, N. Y.), to Emanuel J. Spiro,
New Rochelle, N. Y., attorney (New
York City), May 19, 1946. The young
couple honeymooned in Mexico and is
now at home at Hotel Windermere, 666
West End Ave., New York City. The
wedding was attended by a large num-
ber of Ohioans.
Theresa Motto. '44 (picture later).
East Cleveland, teacher, to James Nema-
stil, M:ami, Fla., teacher (Cleveland),
June 1, 1946. At home: 1838 Farming-
ton Rd., East Cleveland. The bridal at-
tendants included Norma Li;ccioni, '4>.
Pittsburgh, and Mrs. Robert A. M;u:rcr
(Anna Lonchar, '44), Morgantown,
W. Va. Robert A. Maurer, '44x, was
an usher.
Joanne Leben, '46, Athens, chemist.
Mrs. Dale T. Millns
Mrs. Jane Kinnison Millns, '44, whose marriage to
Dr. Dale T. Millns was reported in the October
Alumnus, is a niece of Ohio's Governor-Elect Thom-
as J. Herbert. Dr. and Mrs. Millns arc residents of
Cleveland where the former is an interne at St.
Luke's Hospital.
B. F. Goodrich Co., Kent State University
(Kent), to Douglas J. Horlander, Owens-
boro, Ky., industrial construction super-
visor (Akron), Sept. 20, 1946. At home:
429 E. Summit St., Kent. Mrs. Horlander
is a sister of Dr. Girt Leben, '40, Mad-
ison, Wise. Kathleen Lavelle, an
Ohio Universty senior and a cousin of
Mrs. Horlander. was the bride's only
attendant.
Bettie Jelt. Knoxville. Tenn., secretary
to a Knoxville orthodontist, to Warren
W. Cooper, '43 (see picture on page 19).
Athens, a war veteran, June 12, 1946. At
home (temporarily): Athens. The groom
is the son of Dr. and Mrs. Clyde E.
Cooper, the former of the Oho Uni-
versity faculty, and a brother of Mrs. John
L. Pickens (Lorna Jane Cooper, '38),
Burlington, Vt.
Ann Dilley, '46, Athens, clerk. Vet-
erans Testing Bureau, Ohio University, to
Marvin E. White, Athens, war veteran
and Ohio University senior, Sept. 28,
1946. At home: 9.i'/2 University Ter-
race, Athens. Mrs. White is the daughter
of Dr. Frank B. Dilley, Ohio University's
director of admissions, and Mrs. Dilley.
The maid of honor, Helen White, and
one of the bridesmaids, Jane Lou Frame,
both of Athens, are Ohio University
students. Another bridesmaid was
Annabelle White, '46, also of Ath-
ens. The groom is a brother of Mrs.
Robert E. Apple (Jeannette White,
'42), Cleveland.
Helen Wisgerhof, Bay Village, assist-
ant professor. School of Applied Social
Sciences, Western Reserve University
(Cleveland), to Lawrence G. Wor-
stell, Jr., '2.3, Athens, attorney, Oct.
.3, 1956. At home: Northwood Dr.,
Athens.
Patricia Sherrard, '46, Athens,
secretary in the display advertising de-
partment. The Athens Messenger, to
Carl S. Peterson, North Canton, a
veteran-student at Ohio University,
Oct. 17, 1946. At home: 19>/2 W.
Carpenter St., Athens. Mrs. William
Jurkovic (Kathryn Sherrard, '42x),
Cincinnati, was her sister's matron of
honor.
Laverna Kern, '41, Chiliicothe,
secretary to the dean. Graduate College
and College of Arts and Sciences, Ohio
University, to Edward E. Blair. West-
on, W. Va., a recent Navy dischargee
now associated with his father in busi-
ness in Weston, Aug. 30, 1946. At
home: Weston, W. Va.
Gladys Kinneer, '36, Buchtel,
teacher ( Westerville), to Cicll Barn-
hard, Westerville, with the Cellar
Lumber Co., Sept. 21, 1946. At home:
72 E. Broadway, Westerville.
Betty Saylor. New Marshfield, book-
keeper, Athens National Bank (Ath-
ens), to Lee L. Enlow, '42, RFD 1,
Athens, farmer, Sept. 21, 1946. At
home: RFD 1, Athens.
Nancy Blrhans, '43, Hudson,
American Red Cross social worker
(Cleveland), to Roscoe J. Thcibert,
Jr., Hudson, a student at Amherst
College (Amherst, Mass.), Sept. 20, 1946.
At home: Amherst, Mass.
RlTH Brid(;es, '41. Coolville. to Owen
Carmichael, Athens, late of the Navy's
Seabces. Oct. 27, 1946. At home: Palmer
St., Athens.
CoRLENE M. Opp, "34, 2-yr., Chilii-
cothe, former teacher and lately a secre-
tary at Bliss Business College (Colum-
bus), to Louis K. Cohan, Chicago, 111.,
district manager. Continental Casualty In-
surance Co. (Toledo), June 28, 1946.
Gloria Givens, Jacksonville, Fla., to
LiEiT. (JG) Wade R. Squire, '43, Berea,
pilot. Naval Air Corps (Jacksonville),
M.ay, 1946. At home: 2383 Myra St.,
Jacksonville, Fla.
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Helene Malawski, Cleveland, to Stan-
ley Caruso, '38, Garfield Heights, teach-
er, Browncll Junior High School (Cleve-
land), Sept. 18, 1946. At home: 4121
E. 71st St., Cleveland.
Bf.tty Keesecker, "46, Greenville, to
Lieut. William F. Skidmore, Greenville,
criminal investigator. Army Air Corps
(Randolph Field, Texas), July 27, 1946.
At home: McQueeney, Texas. Among
Lieut, and Mrs. William F. Skidmore
the bride's attendants were her sister-in-
law, Jeannette Skidmore, ■48x, maid of
honor, and Betty Smart. Ohio Univers-
ity senior, bridesmaid. Karol Kreager,
"46, Chandlersville, was the organist.
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head coach in 1938. "Dutch" has made a
good record at Ohio University and is
liked and respected by his men.
The season opens Dec. 7 with Wayne
University at Detroit. Two games have
been carded at Ohio University branches.
Morris Harvey College will be met at
Portsmouth, and the University of Louis-
ville quintet will be played at Chillicothe.
Frank J. Szalay, '42 (see picture on
page 1 1 ) was added to the athletic staff
this fall as assistant coach of football and
head swimming coach. He played center
with the Bobcats during his three varsity
years and after entering the Navy's Pre-
Flight School at the University of Iowa
played under Coach Bernie Bierman of
Minnesota. His Ohio University class-
mate and brother, Lieut. Andrew T.
Szalay, a Navy fighter pilot, who was also
a former Bobcat grid star, was killed in
action in the South Pacific early in 1943.
c^Deutlti
W. H. Jewett, '3 3, age 74, died in
Sheltering Arms Hospital, Athens, Oct.
26, 1946, as a result of a heart attack
suffered four days previously. He was a
resident of Athens.
A native of Vinton County, he had
taught for 46 years in public schools in
Vinton, Morgan, Washington, and Hock-
ing counties before retiring in 1934.
Mr. Jewett is survived by his widow,
w;th whom he celebrated his ."iOth wedding
anniversary last December; a daughter,
Mrs. Clark E. Williams (Marie Jewett,
'22), Athens: a son, Joseph E. Jewett,
"18, Larchmont, N. Y.: and four grand-
children.
MAUD BINGHAM WEST
Mrs. Maud Bingham West, '00, 2-yr.,
wife of Thomas J. West, retired assistant
general passenger agent of the Baltimore
6? Ohio Railroad at Cincinnati, died Mar.
17, 1946, at her home in Walnut Hills,
Cincinnati, following a brief illness. She
had been a resident of Cincinnati since
1909.
Funeral services were conducted by the
Rev. Dr. Harry K. Eversull, former presi-
dent of Marietta College, but now min-
ister of one of Cincinnati's largest Pres-
byterian churches and secretary of the
Cincinnati Council of Churches. Inter-
ment was in Athens.
Mrs. West is survived by her husband
and a daughter.
LUCILLE BRUBAKER
Lucille Brubaker. '17, died at her
home near Milford Center, June 28, 194.'i.
A teacher in the Columbus schools for 16
years, Miss Brubaker secured a leave of
absence two years ago and had not return-
ed to the classroom. She received a master's
degree at Columbia University and had
pursued advanced work at the University
of California.
FRED F. KELLY
Fred F. Kelly, '12, 2-yr., former
Athens and Youngstown resident, died
suddenly April 17, 1946, in Indio, Calif.
He was .''.'5 years of age, and had resided
in Los Angeles for several years. At the
time of his death, Mr. Kelly was manager
of a date ranch.
EDWARD WESLEY EDWARDS
Edward W. Edwards, '17, former Gal-
lia County school superintendent, died at
his home in Rio Grande, May 9, 1946,
at the age of 72 years.
A native of Rio Grande, Mr. Edwards
followed a life long career of teaching.
He organized the high school at South
Webster, was a district superintendent of
the county schools and was county super-
intendent in 1921-1922 and from 1924 to
1933. Between the two tenures he was
connected with Rio Grande College.
ESTHER KIRKENDALL WHITE
Mrs, Edgar White (Esther "Franke"
Kirkendall, '88, 2-yr) died June 22,
1946, at her home in Boulder, Colo. Mrs.
White received her diploma in the first
The Ohio Alumnus
class to be graduated by Ohio University's
Normal Department.
She married the Rev. Edgar White of
Kent, Lydd, England, and after his early
death she again entered the profession of
teaching and for thirty years taught in the
public schools of Canyon City and Bould-
er, Colo., retiring in 1934, She is survived
by one daughter, Helen White, of New
York City.
Mrs. White was a sister of Mrs. A. W.
Campbell (Margaret Kirkendall, "83),
now 87 years of age, Ohio University's
oldest woman graduate, and a resident of
Boulder.
She was also a sister of Mrs. W. A.
Hunter (Ella Kirkendall, "86), Dallas,
Texas; C. R. S. Kirkendall, "83, Fruita,
Colo.; Fred E. C. Kirkendall. '93.
Zanesville: L. B. C. Kirkendall, '80, and
James A. Kirkendall, 86. The last two
are now dead.
WILLIAM LORING HALL
W. Loring Hall, '1.^, died unexpect-
edly in White Cross Hospital, Columbus,
Oct. 17, 1946, after an illness of several
weeks. His home was in Athens.
He was born in Portland, Meigs Coun-
ty, where he lived until coming to Ath-
ens in 1911. He was an assistant in Latin
at Ohio University from 1914 to 1917,
and instructor in Latin, 1917 to 1921.
For one year, 1921-22, he was assistant
professor of German. A master's degree
was awarded the deceased by Ohio State
University in 1916.
Mr. Hall was a representative of the
D. Appleton Book Company for several
years and had represented the McGraw-
Hill Book Company for the past 10 years.
EDITH BROHARD HAMER
Mrs. John T. Hamer (Edith Brohard,
'16, 2-yr.) died at her home in Athens,
Aug. 2.i, 1916, after an illness of several
months.
Prior to her retirement from profession-
al activities in 1932, Mrs. Hamer had
taught in Athens County schools and in
the junior high school at The Plains,
Among Mrs, Hamer's survivors are two
nieces and a nephew who have graduated
from Ohio University: Mrs, Lucille
FouT Long, '24, Lancaster; Mrs, Edith
FouT Bell, '27, Lancaster; and Smyth
Brohard, '36, Venice, Fla,
Mrs, Hamer was a native of Jackson
County and was buried at Wellston.
GEORGE CLAPPER GIBBONS
George C. Gibbons, '13x, .S7, execu-
tive vice president of the Texas Mid-
Continent Oil 6? Gas Association, died
June 13, 1946, in Dallas of complications
resulting from a throat ailment.
He was born near Zanesville and at-
tended Ohio University, later graduating
from Kansas State College in agriculture.
He became associate supervisor of the
agricultural experiment station at Fort
Hayes, Kans., and subsequently went to
Oklahoma A. S" M. College as state
agronomist.
In 1936 Mr. Gibbons joined the Texas
Mid-Continent organization as its execu-
tive vice president. During the war he
served the government as a $l-a-year-man,
winning citations from the War Produc-
tion Board and PIWC. He cooperated
with the Eighth Service Command in set-
ting up an air raid warning network in his
area, using oil company telephone facilities.
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