S P A R T AN A L U M NI M A G A Z I N E * PERIODICAI OCT^l953 AUGUST'' 1, T ^ t t r0 0^ ***«*» STATE, BEAL BOTANIC GARDENS M I C H I C AN STATE C O L L E GE APPROACHING REALITY: An initial appropriation of $1,000,000 has been earmarked for Michigan State's long- awaited and urgently needed new library by the Michigan Legislature, with construction to begin when the money is officially made available. The library will be the largest in America yet built on the "divisional reading room" principle. This means the breaking up of the "conventional" library into large subject reading rooms with thousands of volumes on open shelves. Under this plan, 15,000 M.S.C. students can be served without the "bottleneck" problem in present library facilities. The new $4,000,000 building is to contain space for one million volumes, more than 100 faculty rooms for research, 200 cubicles for graduate students and a specially-equipped reading room for blind students. State Appropriates $16,054,928 for MSC By JAMES H. DENISON for A budget of $16,054,928 the operation of Michigan State College for the 1953-54 year was approved by the State Board of Agriculture at its June meeting. This compares with a budget of $14,579,850 for the 1952-53 fiscal year, and reflects higher costs, modest salary and wage adjustments, and preparation for an anticipated increase in enrollment to approximately 15,000 students. Increase of $1,081,268 The Legislature appropriated $12,276,- 082 for College operations, with $11,- 846,282 allocated to normal items, and $429,800 to wage and salary adjustments in line with pay increases ordered for State employees under the Civil Service system. The State Board of Agriculture had appropriation of $13,375,250 for the year, an increase of $2,180,268 over the $11,194,982 appropri ated for the support of the College in 1952-53. The sum finally appropriated represented an increase of $1,081,268. requested an For Extension, Research Appropriations for the Agricultural Experiment Station totaled $1,167,547 compared with the $1,020,420 made avail able in 1952-53, and the $1,675,604 re Station's quested. The Experiment budget for the new year calls for a total expenditure of $1,351,325, compared with $1,204,198 in the year just ended. The Cooperative Extension Service was granted appropriations of $1,382,208 for the new fiscal year, compared with $1,145,834 last fiscal year. The Exten sion Service budget calls for the expendi ture of $2,300,790 for the 1953-54 fiscal year, compared with $2,011,827 the pre vious year. In addition, the Legislature appropri ated $255,000 for Hope-Flannagen re gional research projects in the Experi ment Station and the Extension Service. Dream Approaches Reality A long-time dream is approaching reality as the result of legislative action. Persuaded in part by the importunities of large numbers of students, the law makers approved an appropriation of $1,000,000 towards the construction of the general library for which there has been an embarrassing need for so long. The decision was hedged about with two provisions which dampened jubilation somewhat, however. For one, the Legis lature decreed that the total cost of the library should not exceed $4,000,000, whereas building on existing plans would cost approximately $5,437,343; for an other, the appropriation is contingent upon the money being available in the State treasury. But planning is going ahead on the assumption that the funds will be avail able, as seems likely, and that construc tion will begin within the current fiscal year. The architect is revising plans to bring total cost within the limits estab lished by the Legislature, and officials have been assured that a reasonably adequate structure can be provided. Another Project Started The Legislature gave a start to another project in which there is great public interest and for which there is a great need—an Animal Industries Building to serve as a home for the dairy, animal husbandry and poultry husbandry depart ments. The Governor had recommended an appropriation of $750,000 to start construction, but the Legislature balked. It did, however, appropriate $300,000 for sheep and cattle barns to replace those which must be moved from the site of the proposed Animal Industries Building. This appropriation, too, is contingent upon availability of funds. There was one other appropriation for capital improvements—$70,000 for a fire proof structure in which to store valuable foundation seed stock. THE RECORD J O HN C, L E O N A R D, '48, Editor Vol. 58—No. 5 DON H. E L L I S, '53, Editorial Assistant STARR H. KEESLER, '41, Director of Alumni Relations; GLADYS FRANKS, '27, Recorder; FRED W. STABLEY, Sports Editor; TED EMERY, Assistant Sports Editor: JOHN MCGOFF, '50, Assistant Director of Alumni Relations; MADISON KUHN and JOSEPH G. DUNCAN, Historians; EARL C. RICHARDSON, Agricultural Editor; BARBARA BROWN, Artist; W. LOWELL TREASTER, Director of Informa tion Services. Campus photos this issue by EVERETT HUBY, ROBERT B. BROWN, and WALTER E. THURN. Member of the American Alumni Council, THE RECORD is published seven times a year by THE DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION SERVICES, Michigan State College. Entered as second class matter at East Lansing, Michigan, under the Act of Congress, August 24, 1912. August I, 1953 A L V IE L. S M I T H, Editorial Advisor Erickson Named to Head MSC's Newest School Michigan State College's dean of the Basic College, Dr. Clifford E. Erickson, has been appointed Dean of the School of Education. In his new capacity, the 45-year-old Erickson returns to his first love and principal specialty—teacher training, and now heads a school ranked first among Western Conference schools in the train ing of teachers. Continues With Basic College Dr. Erickson is continuing to serve the Basic College until a as dean of qualified successor is selected. to assume Originally scheduled the deanship of the School of Education was Dr. Lee M. Thurston, former state super intendent of public instruction. He re quested to be relieved of these duties, however, to become director of the U. S. Office of Education. Eight Departments Dr. Erickson, whose appointment was effective July 1, becomes dean of a school containing eight separate departments devoted to teacher training—elementary education, secondary education, guidance and counselor training, educational ad ministration and supervision, higher edu cation, vocational education, and the de partments of physical education, health and recreation for men and women. Commenting He came to Michigan State in 1944 as professor of education, and a year later was named director of the Institute of Counseling, Testing and Guidance. In 1951 he became dean of the Basic College. appointment, President Hannah said, "It is with regret that we relinquish Dr. Thurston to this call to national service in a position of great importance. We know he will serve the nation as capably as he has served his state. the on "Michigan State College is fortunate its staff a man so well to have on . . On The Cover . Is a picture of one of M.S.C.'s oldest landmarks, and one which every alumnus remembers. Beal Botanic Gardens were started in 1877 by Dr. William James Beal, soon after he became a college staff member. Among the most beauti ful spots on the campus, the gar dens also have a functional value— study of Michigan plants. the This year, the gardens also played an important role in Alumni Day it, festivities. appears in "Days of Yore" on page 12 of this RECORD. Cover picture by Walter E. Thurm. Information about Wilson Directs MSC's Division of Business Dr. Kenneth Wilson has been appointed director of M.S.C.'s Division of Business and head of the Department of General Business. Director of the college's unique Curri culum in Food Distribution since 1950, he will be replaced in this capacity by Dr. Edward A. Brand. The cur riculum was the first such area of to be es study tablished an at American univer sity, and is spon sored by the Na tional Association of Food Chains. of Wilson D r. W i l s o n 's a p p o i n t m e nt as director the Division of Business was effective July 1. Included in the division are the depart ments of accounting, general business, business secretarial studies, the Bureau of Business Research and the Curriculum in Food Distribution. Dr. Wilson joined the faculty in Sep tember, 1948, after having served on the faculties of Iowa State College and the University of Iowa. education and NEWT DEAN: Michigan State's newest school, the School of Educa tion, got its first dean, Dr. Clifford E. Erickson, in June. to assume direction of equipped the School of Education. Dean Erickson brings to his new post an outstanding- record of 25 years in education. We are confident he will give the same able leadership to this highly important field of studies at Michigan State College." J e an Mathieson, '49, Sees, Learns Australia on a Fulbright Scholarship Two post-war schemes with the com mon aim of promoting friendship and goodwill among the world's nations have sent Jean Mathieson, '49, to Australia. Miss Mathieson, 25, a is undertaking an Fulbright extensive scholar, the contributions made by study of Australia to the Colombo Plan for assist ance to the undedeveloped countries of South East Asia, and of Australia's general economic relations with South East Asia. Learning the "Australian Way" Her researches have taken her to the University of Melbourne and the Aus tralian National University in Canberra. Beyond these, however, she has contrived to see more of Eastern Australia than many natives have seen in a lifetime. She has hitch-hiked with Australian girl stu dent companions for thousands of miles, has camped in country railway stations, slept in a vacant country bus, surfed on Queenland's beaches, and learned to hold her own in Australian slang. Miss Mathieson, a native Detroiter, became an advisor to foreign students at New York University after graduating from M.S.C. To obtain her Master's de gree from NYU, she decided to make the the Colombo Plan her theme, and Fulbright scholarship has given her the chance to spend a year in Australia. Under The Purpose of Fulbrights the Fulbright Program the U.S. government provides opportunities to for hundreds of American students study abroad each year. Like Miss Mathieson, several M.S.C. alumni and students win Fulbrights annually. Primary objec the Ful tive of bright program is to promote better understanding of the U.S. abroad, increase and mutual u n d e r standing between the people of the U.S. and the peo ple of other coun tries. to Mathieson Terms of the graduate student awards are: Grantees are expected to pursue study and research for approximately nine months. Grants are not generally renewable. American student grants usually round- trip transportation, tuition, maintenance allowance and a small sum for books. include A U G U ST 1, 1 9 53 . . .. 3 Headliners Work of Two Alumni Gains Top Recognition Among Spartan alumni headliners this structural month are an author and enginner. The author is Alma Routsong Brodie, '49, whose book "The Gradual Joy," will this month by Houghton be published Mifflin Co. is Her s t o ry young about a couple m a r r i ed t h r o u gh going the college on of G . I. B i ll Rights, is centered the trailer village of a state university. Her novel also the appeared June July and issues of Wom and in in Routsong an's Home Companion magazine. The structural engineer is Raymond F. Giffels, '15, of the architect-engineering firm of Giffels & Valet, Inc., L. Rosetti. The firm, subject of an article appear ing in the May 23 issue of "Business Week" magazine, is the largest of De troit's architect-engineering firms. Combining the functions of the pro duction engineer, construction engineer and architect, GVR develops both the process layout of a company and then designs the building around it. The company was formed in 1925. GVR employs 1,100, and is designing about $410,000,000 worth of construction. New Business Publication The Bureau of Business Research has begun publication of a new booklet titled "Business Topics" which will be issued five times a year, according to Dr. David J. Luck, bureau director. Purpose of "Business Topics" is three fold: dissemination of business research and information on the campus; the re lease of significant statements of Michi gan business authorities and M.S.C. faculty members; and to widen the pres tige of the college's fast growing Division of Business. Dr. Luck points out that eventually all M.S.C. business alumni will receive initial copies of the booklet, but that it will take some time to reach all of them because so many have graduated in recent years. He suggests that business alumni interested in receiving "Business Topics" immediately, write the Bureau requesting that their names be put on the current mailing list. 4 . . . . T HE R E C O RD THE JUDGES: This quintette of famous names in the music world have been selected as judges of the college's Centennial Music Contest which offers alumni a chance to give their alma mater new songs and marches in return for $1,000 in cash prizes. Left to right are Arthur Fiedler, conductor of the Boston "Pops" Orchestra; Paul Lavalle, conductor of the Band of America; famed tenor James Melton; Fred Waring; and Henry Weber, musical director of WGN, Chicago Centennial Contest is Bringing New Music to Michigan State Campus is More music for Michigan State already the in evidence as entries college's Centennial Music Contest have already started coming into the M.S.C. Fund Office. in The contest to all Spartan is open alumni, students, faculty and friends and will continue until Jan. 1, 1954, accord ing to William L. Davidson, fund director. Prizes totaling $1,000 will be awarded and winning compositions will be fea tured during M.S.C.'s centennial observ ance in 1955. Winners will be announced before June 1, 1954. Five Judges Judging compositions will be five top music personalities—tenor James Mel ton; Arthur Fiedler, conductor of the Boston "Pops" orchestra; Paul Lavalle, conductor of the Band of America; Fred Waring, director of the Waring glee club and orchestra; and Henry Weber, musical director of radio station WGN, Chicago. Prize money will be awarded in two divisions, "songs" and "marches." The cash awards include: $200, first prize; $150, second prize; $100, third prize, and honorable mention awards of $25 each. Contest's Purpose "Purpose of the contest," Davidson explains, "is to bring out adidtional music and to improve the quality and quantity of music about Michigan State College." Engineering Library Mrs. Katherine L. McKee, widow of the late Senator Frank E. McKee, Muske gon, has given M.S.C. $4,500 to establish an engineering library in memory of her husband. The money represents the balance of Sen. McKee's senatorial salary. Each volume purchased for the McKee Library will contain the late senator's personal bookplate. It is estimated that the library will eventually contain about 450 books. Each song or march entry should consist of a melody line or a simple piano lyrics, written score legibly in ink. together with Entries and requests for additional information about the contest should be addressed to: Michigan State College Centennial Music Contest, Post Office Box 552, East Lansing, Michigan. College Scientists Study Flint Tornado Factors A scientific study of the human element in the tornado which struck Flint, Mich., June 8 has been undertaken by two public service agencies of Michigan State College. The project will mark the first time a major disaster in America has been the s u b j e ct of comprehensive re search, according to R. L. Gorden, from the Nation al Opinion Re search C e n t e r, Chicago. in Loomis Study of human behavior the tornado w h i ch took more than 100 lives and in jured o v er 500 persons will have two objectives, accord ing to Dr. Charles P. Loomis, director of M.S.C.'s Social Research Service. These are: "the advancement of scientific knowledge about human behavior under catastrophic conditions and reconstruc tion of an accurate picture of the work of people and organizations in alleviating the tornado's effect." The study is being conducted by the Social Research Service under the spon sorship of the M.S.C. Continuing Educa tion Service. Press Box Report on SPARTAN SPORTS By FRED STABLEY and TED EMERY Council Appointments to New appointments the Michigan State Athletic Council as well as a new faculty the Western Conference have been announced by President John A. Hannah. representative to .396 in the regular season after a dismal .154 mark on the southern tour. Picked as the top pitcher on the squad, with win-losses and earned run average considered, was Ernest (Bud) Erickson, White Plains, N. Y., who was one of the top hurlers in the Big Ten in 1953 with a 1.42 earned run average. the most Jack Risch, Milwaukee junior, was voted improved player by Spartan coaches and the freshman men tors picked Ray Collard, a Flint fresh man. Batboy Tom Cole of East Lansing was presented with a Spartan cap for his work this year. The 1954 Spartan captain was an nounced, with leader, Bob this year's Dilday, calling up his successor Jack Zeitler, Spartan from Buffalo, N. Y. sacker third Replacing retiring Dean Lloyd C. Em mons for a one-year term on the athletic governing board is Dr. Edgar L. Harden, Dean of the Con tinuing Education S e r v i c e. D e an Harden also was appointed Michi gan State's Big Ten faculty rep resentative, a po f o r m e r ly sition held by D e an Emmons. King D r. H a r o ld Tukey, head of the Department of Horticulture, was named by Dr. Hannah to replace registrar Robert S. Linton on the athletic council for a two-year term. Taking over as chairman of the athletic council, a post formerly held by Dean Emmons, is Dean of Students Tom King. King has been a member of the athletic governing board for several years. Elected vice chairman of the council was Arthur F. Brandstatter, head of the police administration department. Alum ni Director Starr Keesler was re-elected secretary. Dean Harden becomes the second man to hold the important job of faculty rep resentative in the Western Conference. The post came into being in 1949 when Michigan State was admitted to Big Ten membership and had been held by Dean Emmons since that time. Dean Harden came to Michigan State in 1946 as an associate professor in the Institute of Counseling, Testing and the Guidance. He became director of Continuing Education Service in 1950 and was elevated to a deanship July 1. A fine athlete at Iowa State Teachers College, he was a four-year man in base ball and good enough to bat .444 in his senior year, earning him a chance at a professional contract with the St. Louis Cards—but he in turned education instead. to a career COUNCIL MEMBERS: Recently appointed to serve on M.S.C.'s Ath letic Council were Dean Edgar L. Harden (left) and Dr. Harold B. Tukey. Baseball Awards A team picnic featuring player awards concluded the 1953 season for the Michi gan State baseball team on June 6. Wayne Lawrie, Spartan second base man and one of four seniors on the squad, received the "Most Valuable Play er—Offensive" award—a gold watch con tributed by Coach Kobs. The batting- championship went to a first baseman for the second straight year, Chuck Mathews, Rosebush sophomore, gaining the trophy with a .326 mark. He batted Spring Sports Final Spring sports teams at Michigan State rang up a very good record of 38 wins, 23 losses and one tie in four major sports. Tennis, with a perfect season of ten wins and no losses and a second place finish in the Big Ten, led the parade, while track, with a 2-1 dual meet record and third spot in the conference, was close behind. Baseball, which had a very poor spring trip record of 1-8 could do no better than 11-17 for the season and a seventh spot in league play. Golf came through with a 5-5-1 record during the spring cam paign, but fell to tenth in the Western Conference annual golf tournament. In three years of Western Conference competition, the Spartan tennis team now has one championship and two second place finishes to show for its efforts. HEAVY HITTERS: The day before Alumni Day this group of alumni proved they still knew their way around Old College Field. Managed by George Rutenbar, '49, they gained a 12-5 victory over the varsity in the annual Alumni- Varsity baseball game. Pictured with Coach John Kobs are (left to right) Darrell Lindley, Harry Simcox, '51, Jack Cawood, '49, Roger Howard, Rutenbar, Frank Bagdon, '50, Kobs, Edward "Bud" Erickson, '48, and Rex Carrow. A U G U ST 1, 1 9 53 . . .. 5 AFFAIRS OF STATE By DON ELLIS, '53 in planning appropriate state recognition during the Centennial year. Picture Hunt Michigan State Centennial officials are on a picture hunt. in view of This is nothing new to alumni, par ticularly the concentrated efforts of Dr. Madison Kuhn, college his torian, who has been collecting old M.S.C. pictures for the past five or six years. But the approach of the Centennial year has given new emphasis this project, says Dr. Kuhn, a member of the All-College Centennial Committee. to "Although alumni have contributed hundreds of old pictures in the past, we still have some big gaps in the college's pictorial history. Greatest need is for informal and action pictures, showing students as they lived, worked and played in by-gone years." Student editors of the Wolverine, col lege yearbook, have joined hands with the Centennial Committee in its picture- collecting drive. Many of the pictures will be used in the 1955 Wolverine, which will devote a significant portion of its pages to the first 100 years of M.S.C. Says Dr. Kuhn, "Valuable historical pictures in your photo albums will be seen by only a few. If you give them to the college, you will not only be helping us fill these 'gaps,' but you will be letting thousands of people enjoy the 'grand old days of M.S.C " like to keep The college would the pictures in its permanent historical files, but if you so specify, they will be copied and the originals returned. Send your pictures to: Dr. Madison Kuhn, College including as much Historian, M.S.C. identification as possible. with $100 scholarships for their academic achievement. Miss Wells maintained a 3.94 grade average and Mitchell a 3.91 average. Tops is 4.0. leading These were some of the spring high to Commencement Day, lights which, contrary to past years, wasn't once threatened by rain. The sun shone throughout the entire ceremony which was attended by an estimated 16,000 people. Of the total degrees conferred, 2,600 were bachelor and 399 advanced degrees. Including these degrees, M.S.C. has granted a total of 40,461 in its history. further Commencement-Alumni to Day pictures and information pages 8 and 9 of this RECORD. turn For State Committee The Michigan state legislature has approved the formation of a special com mittee to cooperate with the College's 1955 Centennial observance. The resolution, introduced by Senator Harry Hittle (R—Lansing), established the committee, consisting of three Senate and three House members. Committee members will consult with representtives of agriculture, education, business, conservation, health and wel fare, labor, public safety, military, the Historical commission and other groups Student Affairs Another academic year has ended, and 2,299 seniors have entered professional life and become alumni as the result of 95th annual commencement ceremonies held in June. In the month preceding graduation day, students succeeded in cramming a great deal of activity into a small period of time. Here is some of that activity: During Alumni Day-Commencement week-end, Water Carnival honors were awarded to Sigma Kappa and Kappa Sigma's "Body by Fisher" float which took grand prize over 32 other entries. the spring Psi Upsilon walked off for the fifth straight year with APO Fraternity Sing honors. Sec ond place went to Delta Chi, while Theta Chi won third place honors. First place in the annual Sorority Sing was won by Gamma Phi Beta, while Alpha Gamma Delta took second place, and Delta Gam ma third. Earlier in Students did a lot of electing before spring term ended. Ferris Hallmark, caught the eye of the student body in all-college elections, won every district and piled up a 3-1 majority over his opponent to become senior class presi dent. Junior Roger Abdella and sopho more Jack Strasser were elected presi dents of their respective classes for the next year. New student government is David the next year president for Hyman, Buffalo, N. Y., junior. The college's 43rd Another important spring event was the awarding of 413 commissions to ROTC cadets by the U.S. Army and Air Force. Second lieutenant commissions in the army went to 293 cadets, and air force reserve commissions were awarded to 120 candidates. More than 500 parents and friends of the new officers reviewed this final military ceremony of the year. annual Senior Swingout saw 690 seniors don their caps and gowns for the first time to take part in the traditional parade around Circle Drive and ceremony at Fairchild Theater. At this meeting seniors elected their class officers who will serve for their first five years in alumni ranks. Their picture appears on page 11 of this RECORD issue. Honored during the eve ning as outstanding members of the Class of '53 were Nancy Ann Wells, Walled Lake, and Daniel W. Mitchell, Lansing. Pres. Hannah presented each 6 . . . . T HE R E C O RD EDITORS FOR FALL: With her State News staff is Patricia Yaroch (seated), the first woman editor of the campus daily to be appointed since 1946. Her staff (left to right): Marilyn Hollis, advertising director; Bill McGraw, editorial assistant; Phil Gunby, managing editor; and Jack Kole, sports editor. New Kind of Art Welding torches, hacksaws and solder ing irons are the tools of a young campus artist who is gaining stature in the U.S. as a sculptor in metal. Putting aside paint brush and canvas two years ago, art instructor Lindsey Decker to the creation of art from odds and ends of steel, copper, bronze and iron. turned Since then, he has completed more than 30 pieces of metallic sculpture and his work has been displayed in many of the nation's major art centers. according Yet more to important, Decker, is that he has sold some of his to buy an pieces which enabled him actylene expensive and other torch metal-working tools. Tools are practically his only expense, says Decker. He visits the wrecking yards and metal shops to find his raw materials—ranging a piece of wrecked farm machinery to a fire hose nozzle or a broken spring. from The 30-year-old artist describes his work as "direct metal sculpture" to dis tinguish it from the process of casting in molten metal. His process less expensive than casting. is A relatively new development in art expression, its advantages include more flexibility and plasticity than sculpturing in stone or wood. "Metal," Decker says, "can be melted and fused, or hammered and forged into any shape." Though much of his work appears "abstract" to the layman, Decker says many of his sculptured figures reflect religious themes and plant and animal life. Gifts and Grants Michigan State College has received gifts and grants totaling $171,173.12. Largest of these was from the Detroit office— Milk Market Administrator's $51,000 for a four-year research pro gram on potential areas from which milk may be drawn in the Detroit area. A second grant of $12,000 came from the operations research office of Johns Hopkins University re search in the Far East requested by the U.S. Army. The Wright Air Develop ment Center, Dayton, Ohio, also desig nated $10,650 for a study of fungi that attack cotton fabric and cordage. for classified Spartan Plates Spartan license plates are on the market. The Varsity Club is selling them to publicize M.S.C. the nation. throughout The same size as regular plates, and lettered "Michigan State Spartans" in white on green backgrounds, the licenses may be obtained two dollars by for writing any Spartan varsity athlete in care of Jenison Fieldhouse, M.S.C. TORCH REPLACES BRUSH: Art instructor Lindsey Decker has hung up his brush and canvas for an acetylene torch and the creation of metal sculpture. Here he puts the finishing touches on his newest work, "Southwest No. 3." Faculty Spotlight leave saw a Spring, 1938 disappointed, dejected man the Free City of Danzig. He was Dr. Hans Leonhardt, the outstanding maritime lawyer and civic leader of Danzig. He left because he knew the city would not long remain free the oppression of Hitler's forces. from An active leader in the opposition of national socialism, he also knew that his life hung in the balance. May, 1938 was particularly bitter for Dr. Leonhardt, because as legal con sultant for the democratic party he had the events watched almost helplessly between 1933 and 1938 that led to the nazification of Danzig. As an honorary secretary of the Danzig League of Nations Union, Dr. Leonhardt also had watched this last great symbol of de mocracy crumble in the confusion and fifth-column. turmoil of the Nazi party's Escaping Danzig, Dr. Leonhardt came to America and lectured extensively be fore universities, colleges, clubs and forums on his experiences under Nazi rule, and on the world menace of Naziism. He made a special study of world affairs at the University of Chicago, where he received a doctorate degree in the field of international relations. He became an instructor of history and political science at Michigan State in 1942 and for several years narrated radio programs on WKAR. Dr. Leonhardt has authored several outstanding books—"Why Die for Dan zig?" and "One World or Two?" Both received wide acclaim. teacher He was named by the faculty as the outstanding the School of Business and Public Service, and was a runner-up in 1953 all-college Distin guished Teacher honors. in Faculty Affairs Dr. Harrison R. Hunt, retiring head of the Department of Zoology, has been named recipient of the college's Emeritus Professor's Research Award of the M.S.C. Fund. The $500 award was presented at a luncheon in the Michigan State Union, by William L. Davidson, '13, fund director. ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^^ Dr. Hunt, who i n v e s t i g a t i o ns into these areas. Hunt Also honored at the luncheon were 10 retiring faculty members who have "made outstanding contributions to the development of Michigan State College." These men were presented gold "Master S" keys. Keys went to retired Dr. Wilbur O. Hedrick; Professors Arthur J. Clark and Charles S. Dunford; Deans Henry B. Dirks, Ralph C. Huston, Lloyd C. Emmons, Stanley E. Crowe and Ernst A. Bessey; and retiring Dean Ernest L. Anthony and Dr. Hunt. These awards were made following a sampling of alumni opinion relative to the college teachers and administrators who have contributed most to M.S.C.'s to national prominence. Previous rise "Master S" keys have gone to the late President Robert S. Shaw and President John A. Hannah. Another high honor was bestowed upon Pres. Hannah at Michigan College of Mining and Technology commencement ceremonies held in late May. Dr. Hannah, who delivered the commencement ad dress, received an honorary Doctor of Science degree for his "life of devotion to the causes of education, the science of agriculture, and the promotion of inter national understanding." Two other faculty members were in the news. Miss Florence Kempf, head of the Department of Nursing Education, has been elected president of the Michi gan State Nurses Association. She will be chief executive of the 7,000-member organization for a two-year term. A name familiar to every alumnus and student of Michigan State has left his campus post to study and enter private practice. He is Dr. Charles F. Holland, director of the Student Health Service since 1939. Granted a six-month leave, he plans to take post-graduate work in anesthesia, then establish a practice in that specialty. A U G U ST 1, 1 9 53 . . .. 7 t7H,S&4> Styyeat 7flee6e*tct . ceremonies. The close of another college year came to Michigan State June 6-7 with Alumni Day-Commencement Pic tured here are highlights of the week end: COMMENCEMENT 1. Presented Alumni Awards for Dis tinguished Service by Pres. Hannah and Alumni Director Starr Keesler were (left to right) Walter L. Mallmann, '18, Verne L. Ketchum, '12, Charles D. Curtiss, '11, and James S. Holden, '93. 2. With Commencement speaker Dr. Frederick L. Hovde, president of Purdue University, and Pres. Hannah are honor ary degree recipients right) '14, honorary Doctor of Ernest Hart, (left to Agriculture, Drs. Hovde and Hannah, Dean Lloyd C. Emmons, honorary Doctor '21, of Laws, and William J. Clench, honorary Doctor of Science. ^ 3. Graduating seniors enter Macklin Field staduim. 4. A portion of the 2,299 graduates and estimated 16,000 spectators who took part in Commencement. 5. Dr. Hovde tells graduates to "seek,'' as university students, to understand the meaning of it at all times, and give it to others as you would have it yourself." freedom, protect A L U M NI DAY 6. The Class of 1928 celebrates its 25th anniversary. 7. Patriarch's welcome to their num-. ber the Class of '03. 8. Oldest grads at Alumni Day wer« '4 to right) Leslie Buell, (left '83, and Edwin Brown, w'78, pictured here with Pres. Hannah. 9. The Union Ballroom, another lunch eon center for visiting alumni. 10. Alumni register. 11. The Class of 35th anniversary, N a te Fry Trio. '18, celebrating is serenaded by itr the «^ 12. Youngest anniversary class was the Class of '48. 13. Dr. Frederick L. Marriott, organist of the Rockefeller Chapel, University o f^ Chicago, gave the dedication recital in the Memorial Chapel of the Mourer or gan, a gift of Lansing insurance e x e c u tive O. W. Mourer. ;y 1 f • PQHHBHBI V ' ** s*?SMfr^ 1 #™ . -^ft* # * >• * ».- 1 T ' , | W " 4 'i * j if i • * ;• i iiliiSiS /** t » \ n **** MMMJ ^VV^ ^ SL JR WjLVkt .^,- iM^^.. ^w ,-- u I fl Bfc* Bk fl •• JL ^P COVERING THE CLUBS By JOHN McGOFF, '50 Saginaw Activates Saginaw got off to a big start this June, after almost a year of inactivity. Well over 200 alumni and friends of the college turned out for a barbecue held at the Saginaw Fairgrounds. Biggie Munn, who has coached Michi gan State into collegiate gridiron promi nence, including a national championship last fall, and four of his assistants, Earl Edwards, Steve Sebo, Danny Devine and Don Mason were guests of the club. Jimmy Krohn, '48, newly elected presi dent of the M.S.C. club, inti-oduced Munn, his assistants and other guests. Munn presented a highly entertaining and im promptu talk regarding his experiences as a coach at Michigan State. The club has an ambitious program planned for the coming year. On Sept. 22, alumni will gather for a Fall round up dinner; Oct. 7, a meeting with football movies; Oct. 20, a dinner meeting; Nov. 7, an excursion to the M.S.C.-Ohio State game; Nov. 17, a joint meeting with University of Michigan alumni. A membership campaign has been under way under the tutelage of Harry Lawford, '33. It is hoped that at least CO per cent of the alumni living in the county will be enlisted as members of the club. The years 1953-54 will be big ones for the Saginaw County Alumni Club. Alumnae Groups Meet Alumnae groups in Michigan and else where in the country have been active with club elections and final meetings until Fall. At Jackson, alumnae met for a potluck dinner and election of officers. Mrs. Amy Maloney, '28, club president, intro duced the featured speaker of the eve ning, Dr. Leo Haak, of the Department of Effective Living. At the conclusion of Dr. Haak's talk, the club elected the following to office: Mrs. William Layhe, '39, president; Mrs. Michael Pawlick, '43, vice-president; Mrs. Giles Cornell, '38, '40, secretary; Mrs. treasurer. Joseph Steele, At Flint, Genesee alumnae elected new officers for the coming year. Elected were: Muriel Young, '47, president; Mrs. 10 . . . . T HE R E C O RD SAMPLING THE MENU: Dawn Miseyko of Saginaw and head foot ball coach Biggie Munn try out the food served up by Saginaw alumni at their annual Barbecue. News of the Saginaw Club this leads off month's "Covering the Clubs." Homer Sessions, '48, vice-president; Mrs. Dallas Young, secretary; Mrs. '43, Charles Ash, '48, treasurer. After a lengthy list of successful pro grams, the Buffalo Alumnae Club has completed its first year as an organized group. The group has had a broad and this first year, which varied program has touched upon the interests of most club members. At the club's June meeting, the follow ing officers were elected: Catherine Lamb, '49, '47, president; Barbara Osborne, vice-president; Magdalene Olson, '32, sec retary; Margaret Teemley, '46, treasurer. In early May, Kent County alumnae held a luncheon at the Pantlind Hotel in Grand Rapids. Some 60 members at tended the meeting. The new club presi dent, Mrs. William Kemppainen, '44, was introduced by outgoing president, Mrs. Richard Brown, '46. Featured speaker at the luncheon was Dr. Donald Watson, who spoke on "Horticultural Therapy." Elsewhere in Michigan An unusual type of program was held at Port Huron in early May. Almost 80 alumni and friends of the college turned out to meet and hear four foreign stu dents conducting a panel discussion on topic, "One World." Mrs. Louise the Carpenter, assistant foreign student ad visor at Michigan State, served as mod erator of the panel. Alumni were given an opportunity to question the panel on various subjects their own countries and their attitudes toward the from United States. Representatives India, Nigeria, Egypt and Iran served as members of the panel. regarding Oakland County had one of the biggest turn outs of the year at its May meeting. More than 120 Spartan boosters met for a beefsteak dinner at the Pontiac Hotel in Pontiac. Doug Weaver, a member of the 1952 national championship Spartan football team, served as toastmaster. Doug intro duced special guests and the club's new president, Curt Patton, '38. After a short business meeting, the featured speaker, Dr. Armand Hunter, head of Television Development, spoke on Its the Future." "Television subject, and the South Haven was location of Allegan-Van Buren's last alumni meet ing. One hundred members were on hand for a dinner-dance, and to hear Starr Keesler, '41, alumni director, talk on the latest happenings at M.S.C. The campus film, "Widening Circle," was also shown. Branch County held its first high school night for students planning to attend M.S.C. in the Fall. Nearly every school in the county was represented by scholar ship winners or future M.S.C. students. J. Robert Stewart, director of scholar ships, gave an informal talk to the group on their futures at Michigan State. Dean Lloyd C. Emmons spoke to the Genesee County Alumni Club at a June meeting. Dean Emmons' talk concerned the recent probation of Michigan State by the Big Ten. Phil Munson, '48, club president, announced future plans of the club. Mrs. Louise Carpenter and a foreign student panel visited Cass City to enter tain Tuscola County alumni in late May. Some 35 alumni and friends attended the meeting held at the Cass City High School. Prior to the meeting, the stu dents were given a dinner in their honor, by local alumni. The annual Spring stag of the Michi gan State College Kent County Alumni Club was held in late May at the Green Ridge Country Club. The event was high lighted by golf contests and a dinner. Chairman of the stag committee was Maury Caldwell, '42. A few days prior to the golf outing, the Kent County club welcomed 25 schol arship and honor award winners at a luncheon given in their honor. The lunch eon was held at the Peninsular Club in Grand Rapids. "Our tri-county alumni club (Charle voix-Cheboygan-Emmet) had its best meeting in quite some time," said Jim '17, club president. After- Thompson, dinner speaker at the meeting was Dr. Karl Wright, faculty member of the Department of Agricultural Economics. Dr. Wright gave a slide story talk on his one-year visit to Great Britain. The annual Spring banquet of the Bay County Alumni Club was attended by some 90 members. Alumni club presi dent, Henry Rexer, '40, was toastmaster. the Wenonah Hotel in Bay City, heard Dr. Edgar Harden, Dean of Continuing Edu role of higher the cation, education. Those attending the banquet at talk on Special guests of the club were Senator Frank Heath of the Michigan legislature and Dean of Students Tom King. At their Spring meeting, alumni of Iosco County elected the following club members to office: Dr. Ted Cavell, '39, president; Harold Hammond, vice-presi dent; Mrs. Herb Hertzler, secretary; Robert Glancy, '51, treasurer. Dickinson County alumni met at Saw yer Lake 4-H camp for their mid-June meeting. Forty members attended the picnic and farewell party for Mr. and Mrs. Henry Mattson. Mr. Mattson, for mer club secretary, has been appointed principal of Mendon High School at Mendon, Michigan. Out-of-State Clubs A pot-luck dinner and square dance was held at the Izaak Walton League Hall in South Bend, Indiana, in early May. Sixty-five members attended. Duke Fleming, w'50, club president, announced the new officers at the May meeting. Elected were: Robert Russell, '18, president; Robert Allwardt, '48, vice- president; Marilyn Fodor, '48, secretary; OFFICERS OF NEWEST ALUMNI CLASS: Elected at Senior Swingout ceremonies in May, these four will serve as officers of the Class of '53 for the next five years. Pictured here with Alumni Relations Director Starr H. Keesler, '41, they are (left to r i g h t ): Walker Mayhew, president; John Wilson, vice- president; Joan McMahon, secretary; and Mark Ford, treasurer. Peg Hayes, '50, treasurer. Pete Newell and John Benington, Michigan State's basketball coaches, at tended a recent meeting of the Indian apolis, Indiana club. Bob Kershaw, '42, club president, an nounced plans for a picnic to be held in late August, and a luncheon meeting at Lafayette, Ind., at noon on the day of the Purdue-Michigan State game. Starr Keesler, alumni director, made a swing through five mid-west and west ern cities in mid-May, visiting alumni clubs in Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Dallas, Denver and Kansas City. At Milwaukee, club members elected the following to office: H. Dale Cook, '31, president; J. Walton, vice-president; Jim Trebilcock, '39, Delores Harins, secre tary; Mrs. Marvin Osborne, '42, treasurer. Minneapolis alumni re-organized and made plans for Summer and Fall meet ings. Some 20 alumni braved a steady down pour of rain to attend the Dallas meeting. Club members voted to charge dues to club members and to send a news letter of alumni happenings to all Michi gan State graduates and former students living in Texas. Denver and Kansas City held elections of officers. At Denver, Bill Peek, '48, was elected president. Other officers elected were: Dick Muller, vice-president; Paul Jamieson, '18, secretary; Wayne Bennett, '30, treasurer. Five members of the Kansas City club were elected to the board of directors. They are: Bob Toll, '49, Mark Samll, '22, Justin Cash, '25, Mrs. Justin Cash, '25, Paul Rich, '42, and Albert Jewell, '15. Approximately 55 alumni turned out for an organizational meeting at Rock- ford, Illinois in mid-June. John McGoff, '50, assistant director of alumni relations talked to the group on recent campus '17, Alumni happenings. Sheldon Lee, the mid- Advisory Council member of western district, spoke briefly the new group concerning their responsibili ties as an alumni club. to At Albuquerque, New Mexico some 40 alumni and friends attended a family picnic held in the beautiful Sandia Moun tains east of the city. A U G U ST 1, 1 9 53 . . .. 11 FOR HIGH SCHOLARSHIP: Tops in scholarship among Michigan State students from Chicago this year was Miss Janeen Anderson who for her achieve ment won the Chicago Alumni Club's Senior Award for 1953. Miss Anderson (second from left) is pictured here admiring her award, a wristwatch. With her are (left to right): Sheldon Lee, '17, secretary of the Chicago club; Fred Trezise, '16, president; and Mrs. Glenna Telder, '52, winner of last year's award. Days of Yore By MADISON KUHN and JOSEPH G. DUNCAN Ceremonies during the past Alumni Day in the Beal-Garfield Botanic Gardens paid homage to a man well known in the history of Michigan State College— Dr. William James Beal. The dedication of a bronze plaque honored Dr. Beal for hi? work in the 'seventies which laid the foundation for present-day hybrid corn. Among those who spoke were Prof. Perry G. Holden, '89, and Dr. W. O. Hedrick, '91, both of whom are former students of Dr. Beal, and Prof. Jackson E. Towne, librarian. Dr. Kenyon T. Payne, head of the farm crops department, presided, and William L. Davidson, '13, chairman of the M.S.C. Fund, introduced the speakers. The Fund provided the finances for the starting of the Michigan State College Corn Founda tion which sponsored the Beal marker. The Foundation was formed to pre serve the history and tell the story cf corn in the development of civiliza tion. A part of the Foundation's work will include the establishment of a library and museum specializing in In addition, the material on corn. Foundation plans to erect plaques, similar to the one honoring Dr. Beal, at other places in the nation where corn developments have helped to make historv. Prof. Holden's collection (Above) One of the best-remembered photographs of Dr. Beal. (Center) The bronze plaque, located in the northwest portion of the Beal Garden. (Below, left) Prof. Holden, examining some ears of present-day hybrid corn such as has resulted from Dr. Beal's pioneer re search. of writings, talks, and voluminous corre spondence constitute the first major addition to the Foundation's library on corn. A pioneer plant scientist and professor of botany from 1870 to 1910, Dr. Beal was the first person to successfully cross-fertilize corn varieties to increase yields through hybrid vigor. Hybrid corns, as farmers know them today, resulted from work pyramided upon his early experiments. The Beal Garden was started by him in 1873 and is one of the oldest botanic gardens in continuous existence in North America. Dr. Beal also is remembered for the estab lishment in 1896 of the Pinetum, which also bears his name, and for the beginning of Norway spruce plantations in northern Michigan in 1888. (A recent picture of the Beal Garden appears on the cover of this issue of the RECORD.) Dr. Beal's daughter, Jessie (Beal) Baker, '90, lives in Amherst, Mass. She is the widow of Ray Stannard Baker, '89. (Below, left) An early picture of the garden, with its founder in an informal pose. (Below, right) Dr. Beal with two of his botanical colleagues, B. O. Longyear, '03, and C. F. Wheeler, '91. New* 4Ml •^ ' ^ B^ >teow THESE ALUMNI By GLADYS M. FRANKS, '27 P / t t f i r t P r l lC Patriarchs who registered on attended J r U i r i U r C I lS Alumni Day and the annual dinner given by the college honoring those who had been graduated 50 or more years ago were: Edwin Brown, ' 7 8; Leslie Buell, '88; '83; Charles Hays, and Edward David Anderson, Perry Holden, '92; Lyman Pagelsen, and Katherine Cook Briggs, Albert Chase, and Lucy Clute Woodworth, ' 9 3; W. A. Hamilton, '94; Charles Alvord, William Ansorge, Harry '89; Clarence Hathaway, '86; Charles Redman, Baker, Frank Johnson, Samuel Laitner, Arthur '95; Zachary MacKinnon, and Howard Smith, Veldhuis and George Williams, '96 ; Cass Laitner, Alembert Pond, and Roy Robb, '97; Oliver Austin and Edmund Calkins, Johnson, Thaddeus Libbey, and Robert Swift, '99; Coral Havens, Grace Lundy Drolett, Arthur Lyons, and '00; Mark Ireland, Mary Kramer Clare Parker, Grammel, Newell McCune, Grace Melton Green, Frank Mitchell, Roy Norton, Fred Radford, Floyd Smith, and Charles Strobel, '01. From last year's ' 9 8; Charles <5=% NECROLOGY <5=S GEORGE SANFORD JENKS, w'90, engaged in mill and office work with steel companies many years and former manager of the American Sheet and Tin Plate Company in Pittsburgh, died Oct. 31, 1952, in Tryon, N. C, where he had made his home since retiring from the Pittsburgh concern. DENNIS G. MILLER, w'91, founder and presi dent of Miller Dairy Farms Inc., died at his home in Eaton Rapids, June 4. Widely known for his philanthropic and civic efforts, Mr. Miller started his ice cream and dairy business in Eaton Rapids in 1896, after a brief career as a teacher. His firm owned 15,000 acres in farms, one of the largest land holdings in Michigan. He employed 250 persons and had stores in Michigan and In to independent dealer outlets. diana, He is survived by a daughter, Rhea, and son, George F., '17. in addition HARRY MILO GOSS, '93, a Y.M.C.A. secretary for many years, serving in many communities and during both world wars, died in Norman, Okla., Nov. 17. WENDELL PADDOCK, '93, emeritus professor of horticulture at Ohio State University, died in Columbus Feb. 19. After serving as assistant horticulturist at New York Experiment Station in Geneva, N. Y., and receiving his M.S. from in 1898, he joined the horticulture staff Cornell at Colorado Agricultural College. He there in 1909 to head the horticulture department at Ohio State University, and held this position until his retirement in 1937. He was a charter member of the American Society of Horticultural Science for and a member of the American Association the Advancement of Science. He originated the Columbus Rose Show when he was president of the Columbus Horticultural Society, an office he held for 17 years. He is survived by his son and two daughters. left HERBERT SAWYER PUTNEY, w'01, died Nov. 3, 1952, in Topeka, Kansas, where he was president of the Road Supply and Metal Company for 25 years. His two sons and a daughter survive. MARY KNAGGS STONE, '01, wife of the late Allan H. Stone, '99, died in Sanford, Fla., last Aug. 11. Her daughter, Elizabeth Carol, and son James Allan, both '30, survive. EMORY WESLEY TAPPAN, a civil engineer and surveyor '11, since 1928 in Lansing, died local hospital May 27. Before coming in a to Lansing he had been engaged in general engineer ing and construction in Detroit and was formerly with the Michigan Central Railroad. Mrs. Tappan RALPH BURTON, w'12, president of one of firms, died Detroit's oldest abstract and June 5. The Burton firm was founded in 1868, and Mr. Burton, who lived at 6325 Sheringham, Birmingham, was vice president for 12 years, becoming president about a year ago. title FRANK HARWOOD McDERMID, '12, grower of apples and other tree fruits near Battle Creek, Mich., for over 40 years, died at his home June 4. He was prominent in Farm Bureau organizations, among them the Battle Creek Farm Bureau which he served as president last six years. He was moderator of the Bouton school for 20 years, township justice of for the Marshall Farm 35 years, and secretary of is sur Bureau Oil Company for 18 years. He vived by his wife and six children, including Mrs. John C. Baker '40, and Charles M., '52. (Betty J e a n ), short course in Pennfield the peace the CARL JOHN SEIDEL, '17, veteran of World War I and for many years engaged in a creamery in Bay City, Mich., died January 25. business JOHN SHELDON THOLE, *28, former govern ment forester, Davey Tree surgeon, and more recently with the Michigan Shade Tree Company and the Home Telephone Company of Grass Lake, Mich., died March 31, in Marshall, Mich. His mother, Mrs. Athol Case of R. 4, Albion, survives. BERNARD NORTH WILLIAMSON, w*30, in Morenci, judge former attorney and probate Mich., died last Aug. 10. JAMES ARTHUR AMSDEN, '39, veteran of World War II and partner in the law firm of Hittle and Amsden, Lansing, was killed May 15 in an automobile accident near Cadillac, Mich. A graduate of Harvard Law School, Mr. Amsden began his law practice in Lansing in 1947, and the partnership with Sen. Harry F. Hittle was formed in November of 1950. He also was associated with the state legislature, serving as senate law clerk for two years and then as chief of the research division of the legislative service bureau, a post he held at the time of his death. He is survived I. Walker Bush, freshman '02 patriarchs were Winfred Armstrong, Clarence Christopher, Theodore Miller, Floyd Owen, Alice Wilson Robb, and Wallace Wonders. From the golden anniversary class of 1903 were: William Armstrong, Bessie Buskirk Baker, Willard Brown, Joseph Chamberlain, Theron Chase, Raymond Clark, Elon Conklin, C. Lyle Demorest, Carl Ely, William Hallack, H. Ray Kingsley, James Moore, Owen Nacker, Frank Nickle, Horace Norton, Hettie Wright Phillips, G. Austin Rea, Ray Thomas, Edna Smith Tuller, Burr Wheeler, and Mabel Bristol Yoder. . . Harry E. Wagar and his wife celebrated their golden wedding anniversary last Nov. 12 in Edmore, Mich., lifelong home of Mr. Wagar. judge of Their son, Guy E. Wagar Montcalm County, and their grandson, Jack Edgar Wagar, was graduated from Michigan State J u ne 7. He received his commission May 26 on old grandfather College Field, field his the Harry drilled on as a member of the college band 50 years ago. (Mich.) same is . • celebration * OA Getting " their golden into practice year were Robert next Baldwin, Cliff Brunger, George McMullen, George Martin, Grace Smith Button, Harry Walker, and Harry Williamson. for ' AC Sherwood Hinds and Paulina Raven **** Morse were the only representatives of the class to register on Alumni Day. by his wife, the former Adeline Mary Dunn, w'41, who was injured in the same accident, his parents, and a sister, Alice Amsden Iuele, '40. in St. WILLIAM ROBERT MARTIN, '39, operator of a service station and sporting goods store in West Branch, Mich., since 1944, died Joseph Hospital in Ann Arbor June 3. He was a member of the First Methodist Church of West Branch, F. & A. M. Lodge, and was well known throughout fishing northeastern Michigan as a hunting and enthusiast. He the former Kathryn Collick, two sons and a daughter, and his parents. survived by his wife, '40, is ALLEN JEROME RICHARDS, for Kaiser Frazer Corporation industrial and hygienist former research chemist for the Children's Fund of Michigan, died in Dearborn, Mich., March 3. He is survived by his wife and three children. '40, HUGO KARL VOLLATH, Inc., Leo Burnett Company killed in an automobile accident April 18. '51, copywriter for in Chicago, was HENRY F. BRAND, w'52, in whose memory "Sandy Brand Scholar- b e i ng died the 4-H Club s h i p" is at established, his home in Dearborn, Mich., May 20. He was a corporal in the U. S. Military Police having been inducted in February 1951 dur ing his third year at Michigan State. He is his parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. Farwell Brand, w'24, and a brother, James G. Brand, '52. survived by Brand in Lansing since 1941, died CLYDE B. DAKIN, manager of the Oldsmobile forge plant in a local hospital, May 4. Active in many civic and industrial projects and a loyal supporter of Michi gan State College, Mr. Dakin was named an honorary alumnus at the J u ne 1951 meeting of the Alumni Advisory Council. He is survived by three sisters. A son, Raymond his wife and Frederick, in World in action War II. '39, was killed A U G U ST 1, 1 9 53 . . . . 13 'rt.rt Regular year or not, *06 was back * *" for another big reunion with the follow ' It * ** C. H. Blades, W. W. Blue, Olin Dryer, and Elton Hill registered for the class in ing attendance: Hayes Adams, Howard Bucknell, Harold Childs, J. E. Fisk, Frank Grover, Gilbert and Mildred Matthews Hebblewhite, Frank Liverance Jr., Thomas Locke, John Poole, Ray Potts, L. M. Spencer, Mary Tingley, and W. E. Wilson. ' f l7 Edith Foster Lyons and Andrew Van- Halteren represented the class at Alumni "* Day festivities this year. *AQ ^^ It was "forty-five years out" for '08, and these alumni were on hand to cele brate the event: M. R. Allen, Phil Baker, Floyd Barden, Fannie Beal, Jesse Boyle, A. W. Brewster, James R. Campbell, Henry Conolly, M. T. Cooney, M. E. Hall, E. C. Krehl, C. E. Merwin, Mabel Mosher, H. H. Musselman, Frederick Nichols, Grace Owen Kantz, Mary Pratt Potts, A. E. Rigterink, E. J. Shassberger, L. R. Slote, G. S. Valentine, Eugene Wilcox, and W. E. Zimmer. ' AQ Ruth Foster Conolly, Charles Lindsay, C. L. Nash, Myrta Severance Barden, and "^ Ray Turner were on campus for alumni day June 6 and registered at the Union. . . . Ray Turner, of Evart, spending his retirement from boys' and girls' club work duties with the U. S. Department of Agriculture by taking part in virtually every club activity in Osceola County, has offered a scholarship to be awarded annually to a 4-H Club member from Osceola or the east half of Lake County. The selection will be made by a committee named by the chairman of the County 4-H Club Council according to the rules followed in judging candidates for national 4-H awards. The scholarship will apply toward either a regular four-year course or a regular short course at Michigan State. ' l rt Herbert W. Mills was the only class representative to register on Alumni Day. * " ' 11 A double quartet of registered at alumni headquarters June 6: Virgil * • Bogue, J. Ivan Clizbe, C. Dwight Curtiss, DeKoning, Winnie Felton Duthie, J. G. Hays, C. S. Langdon, and G. A. Sanford. 'Hers '1 rt Back on campus for Alumni Day this year were: Lee Ashley, F. L. and Lucile *• Hawkins Barrows, E. H. Gunnison, Helen Haight Kiefer, Earle Hotchin, Louise Norton Knecht, Lutie Robinson Gunson, Charles A. Stahl, and C. Earl Webb. ' l rt Nearly half a hundred '13ers were on ™" hand for the 40th anniversary celebra tion : Francis Andrews, W. B. Bailey, D. A. Brice, W. S. Cumming, Francis Crawford, C. Beattie Crawford, L. C. Carey, Jerry Cook, L. W. Dunn, Bill Davidson, Frank Ewing, Edward B. Gaffney, R. Earle Graves, Gladys Graham Blue, Howard Hewitt, Clara Jakway Culby, Paul Keiffer, R. F. Kroodsma, Earl Kiefer, R. E. Loree, Hazel Lamoreaux Lynch, W. A. McDonald, Morris Moore, Dan Mather, Emory Noe, Clinton Olney, I. T. Pickford, Arthur Runner, Art Sackrider, Donald Stone, J. S. Sibley, W. R. C. Smith, George W. Stege, Leroy Thompson, P. W. Wilhelm, Homer Ward, L. A. Wileden, Arthur Warner, William Wolf, Irving Woodin, Clara Waldron, Herman Waagbo, and A. F. Zickgraf. Joseph Wells, on Alumni Day. ' l rt On campus June 6 and registering at the Union were: Allen Barron, Howard *" Beatty, G. R. Bogan, Gerald Bos, Elizabeth Brown Pagelsen, Ruth Htird Snyder, Bob Linton, C. M. McCrary, and R. A. Runnells. . . . James Berry, Royal Bigelow, and Walter Rawson are busy with their retirement plans. Berry, who has been with the U. S. Department of Agriculture, lives at 85 Menlo Place, Berkeley, Calif. Bigelow, who has been teaching at Northwestern University in Evanston for 33 years, is moving to Northport, Mich., while Walter Rawson is devoting more time to his farm at Hillsdale where he has taught Smith-Hughes agriculture for 32 years. * * Day by Anne Carson, Lyman '1 fj The class was represented on Alumni and Dorothy Dorris Frimodig, Jacob Foess, Sheldon Lee, and Herbert Straight. 'I Q Answering the call to the 35th anni- * w versary reunion and registering at the Union were: Grace Andersen Brownrigg, Glen Blades, Eva Bouschor Cromley, Sherman Coryell, Dwight and Vera Foster Cavanagh, Bill Coulter, Mary Coughlin Christian, Merle Chubb Parks, Inez Cook Steele, R. S. and Iva Granger Clark, Ruth E. Cargo, W. R. Collinson, Aileen Carney Keller, Bill Donovan, Thomas and Iva Jensen Foster, Holmes Froelich, Marion Grettenberger Musselman, Alice Gunn Clemetsen, Cleo Gledhill Beck, Elmer Hint, Beulah Harris Klein, Gladys Harker Straight, Merritt Hall, Clement Johnson, Maurice and Marjorie Smith Jewett, Orva Kimble, E. D. Longnecker, Gladys Lasenby Montgomery, W. L. Mallmann, Blanche MacNaughton Reeves, Ann Macholl, T. J. Nicol, O. P. North, R. D. Perrine, Helen Pierce Bice, Ruth Paterson Miller, Calvin Overmyer, Leonard Plee, Clarissa Pike Lee, Mary Ray Tobey, Fanny Rogers Stewart, Joseph Ryan, Russell Simmons, Eileen Wilson Bogan, A. G. Weidemann, Hugh Williams, Carl Warren, Paul Woodworth, and Florence Yeiter Young. ' l rt Gordon and Lois McBride Callard, Helen Pauline Haynes •*• * Edmonds Coulter, Treleaven, Forrest Musselman, Gertrude New- brough Tincknell, and LeMoyne Snyder represented the class on Alumni Day, June 6. 'rtrt Back on campus for Alumni Day were the following members of the class: R. S. Clark, Sherman Coryell, Maurice Jewett, C. F. Meanwell, Russell Montgomery, Bertha Oechsle Hewitt, Carl Warren, and Bernita Weese Froelich. ' rt 1 Among the Alumni Day registrants were the following from the class: William Clench, Stanley Geisler, Ted Leach, Clayton Marshall, Frances Moak Scott, Winifred Smith Topping, Tom and Dorothy Cowin Steel, and William Arthur Tobey. 'rtrt Representing the class on Alumni Day this year were Margaret Bowerman Taylor, Raymond Clark, E. D. Clifford, James Crum, Claud Erickson, C. C. Higbie, Harold and Eileen Seble Koopman, F. Jay McNall, Paul V. Nelson, W. A. Parks, and Don Robinson. berger, Emmet Greenwood, Marguerite Gorman Cruise, David Gee, Mildred Grettenberger Buxton, E. B. Holden, L. I. Hughes, Waino Helli, George Irvine, William E. Jacobs, W. C. Johnson, C. E. Johnson. Majorgia Knowles Caldwell, R. J. Knight, J. Arthur Kloha, and Margaret Keller Robinson. More yet! Katherine Langley Marling, Morris Lamb, Luke Moore, Kendall Merlau, R. A. Mor rison, Russ O'Neil, Kenneth Ousterhout, George W. Olson, Howard Passage, W. H. Pangborn, Lester Perrine, Dorothy Pettit Reed, Walter Patenge, M. J. Quirk, Durward Robson, G. M. Reams, Eleanor Richey Cheney, C. E. Topping, Bill Taylor, Gus Thorpe, J. P. Truscott, Nathalia Irene Wilson Peattie, Phil Vasold Lautner, Weamer, Ralph Wright, and Marian Ward Clark. ' * JA Back on campus for Alumni Day this •" year were: Edna Bark Kloha, Elizabeth Bassingthwaighte Clifford, Max Cheney, Helen John Chinnick Daley, Mary Cook Marshall, English, Naomi Hensley Ousterhout, Alice Hitchcock Bradford, Paul Hartsuch, Mildred Kinney Hewett, Willard H. Smith, and Celia Williamson Crum. . . . Mrs. Luther Gant, the former Gladys Hoff, of 1020 N. Front St., Mar quette, Mich., was recently appointed second woman member of the city planning board. ' rt C • "* It was strictly a stag reunion for the this year with class following registering at the Union: Lyle Abel, Harold Gasser, Harold Lautner, Don Stark, Wayne Sutton, and R. H. Weine. the 'rtrt Representing the class on Alumni Day ^ •" were J. R. Burns, Geneva Church Newell, Marian Crosby Abel, Isabel Maynard Bauer, R. H. Morrish, Harold Rapson, Lorna Sutton Brockway, William G. Winemiller, Harry and Florence Pangborn Wakefield. 'rtiy On campus June 6 and registering at the Union were Dorothy Dundas Peterson, •" Ted Foster, Gladys Franks, Dorothy Goodson, M. R. Graham, Aria Pangborn Rapson, Ferne Sutherland Munger, and Howard Turner. . . . The U. S. Depart ment of Agriculture's S e r v i ce Superior recently Award was to Dr. p r e s e n t ed •m- Harlow H. Hall of the Northern Region al Research Labora- a c e r e m (>ny held May in Washington, 19 D- C- Dr- Hali re~ ceived recognition for meritorious service in ^ ^ ^L ^k •*"fi?t*^^. J tplf& Hk> ' «l Hall connection with his accomplishment of national significance in develop ing and stimulating prompt adoption by com mercial companies of a microbiological method for producing vitamin B12, thereby helping relieve shortages of important growth-promoting vitamin in feeds, especially for poultry and swine. this 'rtrt A census of silver-colored badges revealed the following had attended the 25th anniversary reunion and registered at class headquarters in the Union : Gladys Rather Briggs, 'rtrt On hand to make sure '23 upheld its A. Ferris Bradley, Donna Bassett Wallace, Clyde '1 A Fourteen '14ers registered on Alumni tradition of fine reunions were the fol Beck, Jim Braybrook, Nathan and Thelma Bowes Day: Bessie Andrews Hays, Almira lowing to celebrate their 30th anniversary: Lester Ballbach, Doc Brown, Arthur Bersey, Victor Beal, Brimmer Digby, Blakeslee and Muriel Smith Allen, Hazen Atkins, Dorothea Atchison Nelson, Virginia Chase, Cleo Coles, Les Cornetet, Frances Crane, Ernestine Earl Webb, Ava Garner Landers, Mazie Gitchell, Ernest Hart, Dora Hollinger Boucvalt, Frances Kirk Patch, Jessie Maclnness Prevey, Charles Merwin, Loren Read, and Bertha VanOrden Baldwin. . . . U. C. Zeluff, who lives at 3500 Azelle, Tampa, Fla., has charge of the investigative unit of U.S. Customs in Cuba, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Nassau, Mexico, Yucatan, Georgia, Florida, North and South Carolina. R. F. Brevitz, Marie Bentley Higbie, Jacob Brady, Mildred Bentges Graff, Helen Bradford, Clyde Bohl, Hester Bradley, C. R. Clausen, A. A. Catlin, A. B. Cook Jr., Dwight Coulter, F. B. Crampton, Margaret Campbell Leach, Jessie Church Briggs, Cameron Carruthers, William Daley, Leona DeYoung MacLeod, Charles Davis, A. W. Emery, and Harold Every. And then there were R. W. Gerdel, Lucile Grover Hartsuch, J. C. Gretten Chambers Hewetson, Maurice Caldwell, Arthur Carls, Lois Duncan, Doretha Edmonds, Les Fouts, Leon Greene, Milton Grams, H. C. Griffeth, Larry Glerum, Geraldine Gillespie Ford, Pauline Gibson Holmes, Emma Hyde Walbridge, John and Irene Austin Hardesty, Keith Hunt, O. Z. Hood, Roberta Hartman Burns, and Beulah Isles Bock. Others were Gerry Knapp, Marguerite Kirker Throop, Isabel Laird Buchanan, Lucille Latson Proctor, 14 . .. . THE RECORD Lyle and Emily Loree Lyon, Bill Mann, Harold Marsh, Jim McElroy, Justin Munger, M. Eugene Malone, Margaret Matthews Hasselman, John and Marian Bennett Morrow, Walter and Frances Harvey Neller, Clark Pierce, Waldo and Mildred Parry Proctor, Hale Pearce, Flossie Patterson, Everett Perrin, Earl Pennington, Dorothy Robin son Ross, Anna Raftshol McCulloch, Elbie Sackett, and Gaylord Smith, Walter Studley, Robert Evelyn Wood Southworth. Still others were Majorie Sanford Curtis, Dorothy Shoesmith Pierce, William Spurrier, Edith Simanton Feather, Doro thy Stophlett, Harry Shipp, Margaret Sherburne, Esther Sanson Frank, Margaret Sawyer Turner, Elizabeth Taylor Underwood, Helen Topliff Cohn, Josephine Wise Laycock, Olive Wheeler Trail, F. Byron Wortman, Frank and Kathleen Fox Willis. for their into practice reunion next year were ' QQ Getting " ' *' big following registered at the Union on Alumni Day: R. S. Baker, C. F. Clark, Josephine Flinn Brown, J. A. Feather, Gaylord Ford, Jule MacMillan Grams, Dorothy Mulvena Bradley, Frances Pennington, Edwin and Irene Reuling. the ' Q rt Roma Hubbard Hallock, Louise Morse Hern, and D. A. Watkins registered for ^^ the class on Alumni Day, June 6. ' Ql "* The class was represented on Alumni Day by Lauren Brown, Alice Cutler Thorpe, Robert Guthrie, John Korney, Charlie Pierce, and Claude Pope. * "* ' QQ Allouez Ridley Guthrie, Madeline Thorn- ton Kownover, and Pauline Walker were the on campus Alumni Day and Union. in photography and some writing in San Francisco where he has studios at 629 Commercial St. His photography is mostly general magazine assign ments, picture stories, architectural and industrial. registered at lancing . Phil Palmer free is . . ' QQ Present and accounted for at the 20th Anniversary reunion were the following members of the class: Marvin Bogema, Rowland Blair, Bill Burgess, Dorothy Bersey, Morgan Carter, Jane Colvin Blagdon, Elva Covert Sawyer, Virginia Day Bufe, Ruth Fritsche Kellogg, Donald Fisk, Robert Gumaer, Christina Gunn, Grace Ingraham Conrad, W. G. Kirkpatrick, C. A. Langer, Ronald and Isabelle Poulson McDonald, Marie Miller Cole, Mary Pangborn, Nick Rajkovich, Wilma Sackett Dressel, Natalia Sutterby Dail, Janet Talmadge, George Thomas, Linn Towsley, A. Verne Willimson, John Wilde, Ruth Westveer . . . Walter Graham, and Cornelius Wagenvoord. G. Thompson the for Duo-Therm Division of Motor Wheel, covering the northwest central area from western Wisconsin Iowa. through Montana and He and his family make their home at 3611 Druid Lane, Wayzata, Minn. is district sales manager include south to ' Q^ Back on campus for Alumni Day v^ year were Claudine Burkhart Frisbie, Marian this Jackson, Fishbeck Dorothy Dewees Gillespie, Nate Fry, Mary Huston Gill, Maurine King Carter, LeRoy Kline, Donald Link, and Rex Norris. . . . Lyle Clark, who has been assistant super intendent of melting the Buick Motor for Division in foundry F l i n t, h as b e en named supervisor of the section at Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technol ogy in Chicago. . . . James C. Gates man- ages created Mercury sales department for the southern n e w l y- foundry G a t es t he region. Fomerly Lincoln-Mercury's field manager the Dallas sales district, he maintains head in in Atlanta, Ga., and coordinates sales quarters activities the Mercury car in connection with throughout the entire Southern area. all for engineer * QC *»*J the Trane Co. Paul DeKoning, J a ne O'Brien Long Ivan Ely, and Mary the registered . . . After 13 years with class on Alumni Day. the General American Aerocoach Co. in East Chicago, Ind., George A. Ellis has become controls application in for LaCrosse, Wis., where he and Mrs. Ellis and their three children live at 134 17th Place. The types of heating, Trane Co. manufactures ventilating, and air conditioning equipment and his work covers the design and specifications of controls for . . . Dr. Fred M. Murdock has been named executive vice-president of Anchor Serum Co., with offices in the Exchange Bldg., St. Joseph, Mo. With the company since 1941 he has been in charge of the research department. . Robert C. Herrick, . editorial writer for the Flint Journal was among 761 individuals, schools and organizations, sharing $100,000 in Freedoms Foundation national awards "for outstanding contributions to a better under life during standing of the American way of 1952." He received a second place award in the editorial category for his editorial of Oct. 12. layouts sold by the company. . ' QC **M following members of The class registered at alumni headquarters June 7: Frances Derbyshire Rajkovich, Vaughn Hill, Helen Lee Foster, Katherine McKee Anderson, Marjorie Olson Wilde, Blanche Ross Hayes, Francis Schell, K. L. Sutton, and Violet Thornton. the "• ' Q *7 Lois Smith Shipp and E. N. Hayes Jr. were the only members of the class to register at the Union on Alumni Day. . . . Jack the Parker Advertising Parker, president of the Agency, Saginaw, Mich., was a member of four-man American Broadcasting Company radio reporting team assigned to cover the coronation of Queen Elizabeth. ' QQ Believe it or not, Clarence Bohn was the only member of the class to register •^W for the 15th anniversary reunion, June 7. . . "• as head the Union. ' QQ Eugene Ciolek, William Findley, Lois Killham Cross, Helen Psik, and Allen Smith were on campus June 7 and registered at headquarters alumni in . Oren Frost has been assigned by J. Wal ter Thompson Com a rt pany director on the Pan American World Air ways Latin Division account and is located in Coral Gables, Fla., at 220 Miracle Mile. . . . Julius E. Skene, who has been chief sales for engineer American Wheelabra- tor & E q u i p m e nt Corp. in Mishawaka, Ind., has been advanced to manager of customer service. He makes his home in Mishawaka at 706 N. Mason St. Skene . . i A 1 * * following members of The the class registered at the Union June 6: Arlene Aurand Stoutenburg, John Burhans, Fred Colwell, Starr Keesler, Joyce McMillan Johnson, Robert Smith, and Raymond Vorce. . . . Marion Kasischke Zick, her husband Russell, and their three children arrived in Montevideo on Dec. 30 and are now settled in their home at Cremona 6615, Carrasco, Montevideo, Uruguay. Mr. Zick established and manages an office for Dow Chemical Inter-America Ltd., servicing Argentina, Chile, Peru, Ecuador, . Benjamin Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay. the class, Birdsall, who received his Ph.D. with has completed for W. R. Grace & Co. in New York. April 1 he accepted field party, Institute Inter-American Affairs, Division of Agri culture and Natural Reseources in Panama. This is the agricultural division of the Point IV pro gram the United States and Panama are cooperating. He may be the American Embassy, P. O. reached Box 2016, Balboa. . . . Mr. and Mrs. Joseph P. Sell announce the birth on March 11 of their fifth child, Jonathan. "Can anyone in the class of '41 top this ?" Joseph asks, and continues: "Am still with the architectural firm of Lovelace and Spill- man and reside at 1932 Kenmore Ave., Bethlehem, Pa." three years as agriculturist the position of chief of the governments of in which through ' Afi " *• The class was day represented at alumni festivities by A. Gordon Adams, Charles Maynard, Leland Merrill, Walter Mon tague, David Overholt, and Frank Peabody. . . . tide," write "We're happy as a clam at high Judge and Mrs. C. Richard Leavengood (Pauline Moeller) of 1000 Park St. North, St. Petersburg, Fla., and continue: "to announce the arrival of Richard Timothy on May 23. His brother and sisters, John, Diana, and Polly Anna, and his whole family find him to be highly satisfactory." . . Doris Sharpe Richardson and her husband, . who have been in Merced, Calif., have moved to 16 Langham Rd., Providence, R. to open a ceramics studio and leather work shop. I., where she hopes last five years teaching the for ~ ** the 10th came back 'AfX More than half a hundred of the class reunion and registered at the Union: Irene Adamson Stubbs, Howard Ashfal, Walter Adams, Phillip and Shirley Knowlton Althen, James Anderson, Jack Barnes, Virginia Benson Mezynski, Phyllis Barrows Telder, Derwood and Jane Ellen Henkel Boyd, Roger Blackwood, Louise Bombenek Sternberg, Cornell Beukema, Beatrice Culby Page-Wood, Marian Carr Vorce, Edwin and Helen Sayers Ciolek. Others were: Robert Dock, Anne Doyle Mansfield, Donald Doty, E. G. Downer, Claude Elmore, Mary Jane Ford, Peggy Green Harper, Louise Gorsline Bonner, Susanne Gage, Eleanor Gilmore Schmitt, Louise Goodell Wyant, Richard George, Frank Izzo, Albert Kage, Thelma Louden- beck Dunn, Helen Anita Lincoln, Joseph Lewis, Marjorie Mathews Larson, Sheldon Moyer, Donald MacKenzie, Evelyn McCormick, Frank Miller, John Meader, and Betty Newton Schultz. Oh, yes, and there was Howard Pomeroy, Russell Pickelmann, William Rathburg, Harry Rapp Jr., Marcia Rybarsyk Ryskamp, Margaret Shuttle- worth, Ann Stephenson Howie, Charles and Beryl Gaige Sherman, Kenneth B. Twiss, Clare Van- derwest, Paul Wileden, Marion Wilt Farber, Lloyd Wilson, and Betty Jane Youngman Overholt. the ' AO Among returning alumni June 7 were the class: following members of Ruth Bailey Martin, William G. Butt, Lloyd Champion, J a ne Freese Smith, Andrew Jackson, James Morse, Nanette Smith, Carolyn Thompson Campbell, Albert White, Pat Whitfield Germain, and Jean Wryatt Kelleher. tree . . . New street supervisor is Jerome A. Belleau in San Diego of 4581 Federal Blvd. A Lt. Col. in the Air Force Reserve, he has been with city since 1949. . . . James Jeffries manages a general merchandising in Pentwater, Mich., where he and Mrs. store their home. Jeries and their young son make 'A A O" campus for Alumni Day this year were Neva Ackerman Moyer, Betty Carew Rapp, Vina Davies Kage, Larry and Gloria MacNeven Frymire, Alice Schuster, and Betty Schwarz Barnes. . . . Capt. Lee Brink is stationed at Fort Richardson, Alaska, with the 26th Ord nance Service Company. Mrs. Brink (Ruth Sears, '43) and their two daughters joined him in March. ' ^C Barbara Lovejoy Smith, Arlene Marshall Hill, Frances Reid, and Mary Tobey Wilson registered at alumni headquarters on June 7. . . . Franklin Gregg Jr., certified public account- A U G U ST 1, 1 9 53 . . .. 15 ant, has new offices 33-35 Goodspeed Bldg. in East Lansing at Suite fACi The class was represented on Alumni ** Day by Phyllis Boss Beukema, Jim Gardner, Barbara Gelow Willson, Barbara Hunter . Wendt, and Ruth Windleberger Knudson. Gerard and Elizabeth (Hammond, '48) Bos and their two sons live at Offenberglaan 1A, The Hague where he represents Weirton Steel Com pany's foreign sales department in Europe. . . . Clara Glidden and Alfred Slate were married May 9 and are making their home at 248 Wilbur St. S.E., Grand Rapids. . . '47 Alumni Day Registrations included the following members of the class: Barbara Gregory Houston, Virginia Hawkins Short, Doris Hutton Weidner, Jane Murray, Henry Paull Jr., Harold Rockwell, Herb Stoutenburg, Merrill and Virginia Moss Walker. . . . Mary Swengel Garcia gives her address as Apartado 74, Maracaibo, Venezuela, where she and her husband, Dr. Gustavo Garcia, and their two sons, make their home. . . . Fred Vinroot and Lee Warner Saunders their were married April 25, and are making home at 3913 Ash St., Charlotte, N. C, where he is program director for radio station WIST. *AQ ~ *J Present June 6 to give an accounting of their first five years out of college were: Harriet Adams Swanson, Joe Bogart, Don Bregger, Elizabeth Clifford Bowen, Gray Campbell Wagerson, M. Leonard D'Ooge, Carl Frans, Walter Geist, George Guerre, Virginia Gilhooley Merrill, Peg Hayes, Anne Hess Bolls, Charlotte Hess Jones, Kent Hoekzema, Bob Knudson, Daniel and Phyllis Lessens, David Lucas, Kathryn Long Wilson, Eldon Lawson, and Arlene Lundgren Arends. Also on hand were Bill Munro, Janet Moore Horn, Charles Martz, Nan VanDervoort Martin, Lorraine Mitchell Jentzen, Dave Miller, Charles Monahan, Marge Peters Latovick, Richard Rann, Helen Ringle Ditzhazy, Randall Robson, Dick Seebers, George Savage, Howard Short, Alice Springborg Sessions, Lyman Schafer, Elson and Helen Pecha Spangler, Neva Stevens Harden, Nan Steiger Harz, Mary Stewart Daniel, Paul Sonnega, Charles Strattard, Ruth Tukey, Bill VanVelzor, Anne Voorheis, Louise Whitcomb Stilwill, Edward and Joyce Coleman White. . . . Since graduation, Raymond Lee has been working with his father, running a refrigeration and air conditioning parts and equipment business in Detroit. He and Mrs. Lee and their three children . in Detroit at 13530 Woodmont Rd. live Gordon J. VanLaan and his wife have been appointed by the American Board of Commis sioners for Foreign Missions, Boston, as Congre gational Christian Agricultural missionaries in Angola, Africa. He has been working on his in horticulture at Washington State Col Ph.D. lege in Pullman, and plans to start for Africa next year. In the interim he will undergo mis sionary preparation and the study of techniques for helping underdeveloped peoples. . . 1208 S. Thomas St., Apt. 2, Arlington, Va., where both are employed with the Navy department. . . . Lucetta Johnson and her husband, William T. (Short course '49) and their two sons are living in Allegan, Mich., where she has a flower and gift shop. . . . Mr. and Mrs. Glenn R. Justema, of 129% N. Glenwood, Springfield, 111., announce the birth of their first child, Joyce Willene, Oct. 19. . . . Stanley and Dorothy (Jones, '47) Oviatt, of 3306 Roberts, Saginaw, announce the birth of their second son, Theodore Edward, Feb. 19. . . . Major Carl Roeser is on AFROTC duty at the University of California at Berkeley. . . . David Emery was born April 23 to Mr. and Mrs. Emory Carlson, 215 N. Seymour, Lansing. Mrs. Carlson is the former Ruth Smith. . . . Forrest Fynewever is patent engineer for Jervis Corporation of Grandville, Mich. O B •o C u o ' ^Q Forty-niners on hand for Alumni Day this year were: H. Owen Armitage, Grace Meyer Savage, Marcella Miller, E. L. Peterson, Homer Ses sions, C h a r l o t te Smith, James Smith, William Wendt, Mar vin Wilson, and Rob ert Wright. . . . Ford M. Bird Jr., who re ceived his M.S. in recreation at Indiana June University 1952, is supervisor of special activities in Ford Motor's recre ation section in Dear born, where he and son his wife Gary 2564 Casper St. and live at Bird in . ' C rt Class attendance on Alumni Day took *JVJ on near-reunion proportions what with all the following registrations: George Armitage, Harvey Bowen, Phyllis Dudley Geist, Jim Finucan, Phyllis Henshen Schafer, Maurice Hill, Richard Horn, Wallace Houk, Harold Karl, Ray Latovick, Charles Metzger, William Shanks, Joy Snyder, Nick Swanson, Richard Watt, Robert Weaver, and Howard Wilson. . Charles V. . Nystie Jr. has been appointed d i s t r i ct manager in the South Bend branch of the Studebaker Corpora tion. Since completing his training he has been with the Minne . . apolis branch. . DeWayne Spencer is with Universal C.I.T. in Saginaw, Mich., and was recently pro moted to the position of representa tive. Nystie sales their the birth of Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. Buck, of 9010 Matthew Ave. N.E., Albuquerque, N. Mex., announce son, Lawrence Richard, Jan. 31. . . . Capt. C. C. Fenton, Jr., who accepted a regular USMC commission after having been recalled to active duty, and his wife and two daughters are living at 7734 Doris Dr., Norfolk, Va. . . . Bruce Carleton, the .second son (Murphy. of Curtis and Patricia '47) Gould, is sales representative arrived March 1. Curtis for Narco business in the Fort Wayne forms area. . . . Gordon B. Hall Jr. lives at 110 East End Ave., Apt. 10-H, New York City, where he for Jam Handy handles Chevrolet's account organization in the northeastern United States. . . . Since receiving an MFA degree from the State University of Iowa in 1950, Robert Halm has been art instructor in junior college and senior high school in Fort Dodge, Iowa, where he lives . . . June Ssuma Hoffman at 1225 6th Ave. S. and her husband, James A., celebrated their first wedding anniversary April 12. They are living at . ' CI *** Back on campus June 6 and registering at Union Alumni headquarters were: Roger Bohl, James Card, Joseph DiBello, Delia Mae Hodges, Donald King, Robert Morgan, A. G. Musser, Rimmel Russell, F. B. Stahl, Dick Szepski, . Bruce and Alma . and Robert Wishart. the birth of (Routsong, '49) Brodie announce living their second daughter, Joyce. They are in Delton, Mich., where Dr. Brodie has his veter inary practice. . . . Donald E. Jankura, of the Hotel Fort Shelby in Detroit, has been awarded a check in the amount of $250 as the winner of a suggestion contest sponsored by the Albert Pick Hotels for all of their employees. Don's sugges tion was selected from those submitted by the 5,000 employees in the Pick Chain, employed in 26 hotels in 17 cities and covering 11 states. . . . Norman Levardson, who received his Ph.D. with the class, has won an American-Scandinavian Foundation fellowship for 1958-54. Dr. Levardsen has been an assistant professor on the botany staff at Northern Illinois State Teachers College . . in DeKalb. While in Norway he will study fresh water fisheries and conservation. . Herbert Ziegler writes from Schottenfeldgasse 85, Vienna in the fall of 7, Austria, that upon his return 1951, he reentered the Vienna Institute of Eco nomics and Business Administration and received his Ph.D. last December. He is now assistant to the general manager of Socony-Vacuum Petroleum Company in Vienna. He concludes : "I shall never forget the wonderful times I experienced in East the Lansing and occasion to meet. I wish I could visit M.S.C. some day again and watch one of those thrilling foot ball games." the charming people I had ' CO The class was represented on Alumni *•»*• Day by Robert Dustan, Harley Hecksel, Robert Metzger, Rees Smith, Gail Thomson, Mil dred Weil, and Richard Wild. . . in Bartlesville, Okla. Among those in the class now serving in the armed forces are Donald Bartz, J. P. Barzotte, Willard Cass Jr., George English, Paul Flynn, Donna Folkert, Otis French, Peter Greig, Stanley Grodski, Rowland Hanson, Thomas Hughes, Robert Kirkwood, Elwyn Kitchen, Frank Kunz, Edward Lord, Ralph Paschke, Frederick Ranney, Frank Rehanek, Clayton Roehl, Robert Sabolyk, Frank Topper, Dor, Vinkemulder, David Wasserman, Richard Wellfare, Henry Wholihan, and Francis Wolcott. . . . Robert Collins is sales representa tive for Burr Patterson & Auld of Ann Arbor. . . . Ray Cottrill Jr. is geologist for Cities Service Oil Co. . Raymond Fortune is a salesman for Cherry-Burrell Corp., 27 E. Fairfield Ave., St. Paul, Minn. . . . Robert J. Gorman and Marion Jean Cannon, '48, were married April 18. . . . Melvin Krugman is per sonnel examiner for Civil Service Commission in Detroit where he lives at 680 Merrick, Apt. 3B. . . . An army veteran now employed at AC Spark Plug in Flint has been named Genesee County's community ambassador to Yugoslavia! Sponsored by the Flint Junior Chamber of Commerce, William living with a J. Lawson will spend a month Yugoslav traveling family and another month through the country. . . . Robert C. Lemke is an engineer for Kold-Hold in Lansing where he lives at 2108 Clifton Ave. . . . Hugh Murphy is working for the New Jersey Zinc Company, and is located at 133 Goddard, Maryville, Tenn. . Amy Pettibone is examiner for the Corporation and Securities Commission and lives in East Lansing at 400 Gunson. . . ' CO Nancy Mooney was only one from the class to register on Alumni Day, June 6. • "•