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WHITTIER COLLEGE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
OFFICERS
Eugene M. Marrs '50, Whittier,
President;
Dr. John D.
Kegler '38, Palos Verdes Estates,
President-elect;
Thomas
V.
Deihl '47, Whittier,
Immediate Past President;
and
Kenneth L. Ball '34, Whittier,
Past President.
MEMBERS AT LARGE
Stanley C. Alexander '48, Santa Ana; Ray S. Dezember
'53, Bakersfield; Stephen A. Gardner '40, Los Angeles;
Wayne L. Harvey '60, Whittier; and Russell P. Vincent
'40, Whittier.
CLASS REPRESENTATIVES
Judith Ann Shuler '64, Santa Ana; Kenneth Hunt '65,
Downey; Gregory Hardy '66, Torrance.
COMMISSION CHAIRMEN
Wayne Harvey 60, Whittier,
Alumni Fund;
Mrs. Alan C.
Davidson '63, Whittier and Mrs. George Marich '63, La
Puente,
Activities Co-Chairmen;
Stephen A. Gardner '40,
Los Angeles,
Publications;
Donald C. Bishop' 61, Hacienda
Heights,
Student Alumni Relations;
Dean E. Triggs '33,
Ventura, Education.
ASSOCIATES PRESIDENT
Vincent Sinatra '33, Glendale.
CLUB PRESIDENTS
Dr. Robert Thompson '43, Whittier,
1195 Club;
Mrs.
Anthony Pierno
'54, Whittier,.
Cap and Gown Alumnae;
Alice C.Lembke'40, South Pasadena,
Broadoaks Alumnae.
SOCIETY PRESIDENTS
Mrs. John Baker '57, Whittier,
Athenians;
Mrs. Ronald
Rogers '57, La Habra,
Ionians;
Mrs. Hollis Griffen '60,
Costa Mesa,
Metaphonians;
Mrs. Kendall Bowlin '55,
Whittier,
Palmers;
Mrs. Lela Martin '64, Whittier,
Thai-ians;
John W. Brink '56, Whittier,
Franklins;
Stuart
Gothold '56, Whittier,
Lancers;
Elwyn B. Dyer '50, Los
Alamitos,
Orthogonians;
Robert Davis '62, Los Angeles,
William Penns;
and Jack W. Baker '59, San Gabriel,
Sachsens.
EX-OFFICIO
Dr. Paul S. Smith, President,
Whittier College;
Buck
Ferguson '67, President,
Associated Students;
Dr. Robert
W.
O'Brien,. and Dr. W. Roy Newsom '34,
Faculty
Rep-resentatives.
ALUMNI REPRESENTATIVE TO THE
ATHLETIC BOARD OF CONTROL
Eugene M. Marrs '50, Whittier.
THE ROCK STAFF
Darrell W. Ryan,
Editor;
Richard Cheatham '68,
Sports
Editor;
and Bob Bates,
Graphics Designer.
Member: American Alumni Council
American College Public Relations Association
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President's Message
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Who is Whittier College? Part III
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Alumni Award Winners
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Alumni Day and Commencement
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Sports Round-up
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Poets Promenade
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WHITTIER COLLEGE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
Whittier College, Whittier, California 90602 / OXbow 3-0771 /Extension 221
July, 1967
Dear Fellow Alumnus:
I would like to take a few minutes today to discuss some of the things
that the Alumni Association has done this year, as well as what we
plan to do in the future.
We started last year's administration with a new alumni director, and,
I might add, an alumni president who wasn't too familiar with alumni
work. However, I am happy to state that the transition has been a
smooth one.
We have had additional board meetings this year which we used as
"brainstorming sessions." Through these extra meetings we have
encouraged a master plan of development for our Alumni Association.
It gives me a great deal of pleasure to note that alumni giving is well
ahead of last year and we have had increased community exposure
largely through the efforts of Dr. Bob Thompson and the 1195 Club.
We have enjoyed receiving your many compliments on the contents and
attractive covers of The Rock and we can look forward to a stimulating
series entitled "Whittier College Contributes" next year.
Our future plans include an orientation retreat by the board of directors
and officers of the Association. We plan to become better acquainted
with our responsibilities as alumni and formulate future plans.
The Association can look forward to a most successful year under the
leadership of John Kegler '38 judging from his enthusiasm past and
pre sent.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of the board members,
commission chairmen and officers for their invaluable help in making
this year productive and enjoyable.
Sincerely yours,
Eugene M. Marrs 1 50
President
WHO
Is
WHITTIER
EGLLEGE?
The opportunity to expound on the nature of the
modern undergraduate is a risky invitation to give
to a college professor. Although each instructor has
his own ideas, it is a precarious undertaking to
identify the real differences between Whittier
stu-dents then and now.
Today is a time of authentic revolution in
stu-dent mores and morals - a fact sometimes equally
unacceptable to parents, teachers and alumni.
Whether we recognize it or not, the students of the
late
1960's
are NOT quite the same as those of an
earlier era. To be sure students on the Poet
cam-pus seem to exhibit a minimum of the outward
symbols of the revolt - the beards and sandals,
the marijuana and L.S.D., the sex-without-love, the
sit-ins, the teach-ins, the love-ins, and the general
stance of alienation. There are those in the
Whit-tier family who are able to make themselves
be-lieve that our little microcosm is unchanging in a
changing world. They believe that our students
somehow have escaped the revolution of our time.
This new revolution of the younger generation is
not the indifference of the early
1950's
nor the
alienation of ten years ago nor even the traditional
and stylized deviant behavior characteristic of some
individuals in all former student generations. The
overt symbols are the outward expression of a new
and exciting generation of students unwilling and
unable to accept the values and the standards of an
older generation. Critics refer to this new ethos
which perplexes and worries parents, teachers and
administrators alike as the 'Hang Loose Ethic.'
It is a response to a credibility gap between the
professed Judeo-Christian democratic
pronounce-ments of our generation and our actual societal
behavior in the family, in the marketplace, in race
relations, and in the Vietnam involvement. The
new ethos goes far beyond that of our day which
logically raised questions about the gulf between
professed beliefs and real behavior. The Hang
Loose Ethic challenges the traditional assumptions
and things once taken for granted, and clearly
affirmed even by undergraduates in revolt, are no
longer accepted. The new approach is 'hanging a
bit loose' from the American traditions. To not
grasp this difference is to miss the fundamental
na-ture and challenge of the Hang Loose Ethic.
Important changes in the Whittier College
stu-dent body have occurred since the time two-thirds
of its members were from the local community and
less than one in four lived in college dormitories.
Today
15%
are from the local high school district,
another 40% from other communities in Southern
California; while 20% are from elsewhere in the
state, 20% are from other states, and more that
five percent are from other countries. Seven
stu-dents in ten now live in college operated
dormi-tories. Statistics reveal that Republicans outnumber
Democrats 2 to 1 (as they did twenty years ago),
and Moslems outnumber Quakers (as they did not
twenty years ago).
Have these changes made Whittier a
cosmopoli-tan student body reflecting the changing world and
the affluent society? My own perspective,
broad-ened during the past six years by two European
university assignments (Exeter and Copenhagen)
and summer session stints at two American
uni-versities (New Hampshire and Hawaii), leads me
to the conclusion that our students have not wholly
escaped the revolution of our time.
Whittier students have always reflected some of
the societal transition occurring elsewhere within
their peer group. A careful reading of Charles
Cooper's history of the college gives support to this
view. When 'existentialism' was the key word to
describe the now students at the beginning of this
decade, the Poet campus was not without its small
minority of examples. The majority of our
under-graduates, however, had deep concerns for the
world (Peace Corps, Civil Rights, American Friends
Service Committee) or ambitions to prepare
them-selves for full participation in the
status-occupa-tional world (The Establishment).
Today the in system for explaining the
'happen-ings' on the college and university campuses is one
featured in mass circulation publications. This new
ethic is generally considered by social critics and
sociologists to include the following aspects: 1) a
certain quality of irreverence for the established
order, 2) humanism, 3) the virtue of spontaneity,
4) the value of the pursuit of new experience for its
own sake (existentialism revised?),
5)
the place of
tolerance of many points of view, and
6)
the
impor-tance of equality.
A survey of Poet freshmen conducted in the
Spring of
1967
by graduate student, John Wathen
gives some clues as to their reaction to the Hang
Loose syndrome. Three students out of five agreed
with the irreverent aspect of the new ethos,
al-though approximately half of these students
modi-fied it with distinctly Christian beliefs. The
major-ity
(77%)
of the freshmen agreed with the
human-ism aspect though it too was qualified by liberal
religious ideas. Pursuit
ofexperience was supported
by a majority (63%),
while not unexpectedly a
minority (41%) identified spontaneity as being a
highly valued trait. A strong majority (64%)
agreed that tolerance was important in judging the
behavior and position of others. Equality likewise
was rated as important by a majority (61%). In
general it can be said that Whittier students accept
the ethic of their generation as qualified by liberal
Christian idealism. Tolerance and equality have
long been considered values in Friends' educational
institutions.
A study conducted by the Sociology Department
reveals something of the degree of concern and
diversity of opinion regarding aspects of equality
in race relations. Students were asked on the first
day of class in September, 1965 to answer three
questions. What happened in Watts?, Why?, and
Could it have been prevented? Some students
viewed the problem in terms of the inviolability of
authority with an emphasis upon the material
results and the social conflict being the work of
deviant groups and external forces. For these
stu-dents education was clearly the panacea. For others
the happening was the responsibility of all citizens,
with the focus upon the need to understand the
feelings of the people of Watts and to consider
poverty as the destroyer of human dignity. For
these students the answer lay in changing the
roles and attitudes of the white citizens and called
for 'action and less research.' Between those accept-
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ing one of the two opposing ideologies was an
ambivalent group which was unable to accept either
extreme position with any sense of conviction.
While differences in defining the situation were
great, none of the 248 students in the sample
(including some from overseas) were indifferent to
the issues.
When asked specific questions regarding behavior
of their peers, the majority of the freshmen felt
that a student seen cheating was morally wrong
(70%), and 72% believed that sexual intercourse
prior to marriage was a matter of individual
respon-sibility. No questions were asked about the use of
L.S.D., but the drug scene, so publicized by today's
media, is probably not a major influence on the
local campus.
In fact, Whittier students are not unlike their
peer generations elsewhere. They have their own
ideas about race relations, ethics, family life,
Viet-nam and other issues. Sometimes these ideas are
largely the reflection (either negatively or posi-
tively) of their parents; sometimes they are the
result of deep soul-searching. They clearly want to
manage their lives without interference from
any-one, particularly parents and teachers, and at the
same time they seek contact, if not guidance, from
those in an older generation. Some would like to
radically change the curriculum; many question its
relevance to present day conditions. Others would
like to rearrange the grading system and devise
some method of effectively evaluating the faculty.
A general disaffection with educational offerings is
more widely expressed by Poet undergraduates
than most faculty members care to admit. Students
wish to share in the shaping of their own education.
Clearly a majority would like to see modifications
which would lead to greater student participation.
All would like to have a conviction that they are
being 'listened to.'
Although the day of the Civil Rights Movement
is over, Whittier students are deeply concerned
with the issues of the day and have a commitment
to share. Conservative campus traditions do remain,
but an awakening to issues has begun. More than
two hundred Poet students have tutored younger
pupils in the local community, in Watts and
else-where, and some have participated in picketing,
anti-Vietnam peace marches, and pray-ins. Above
all, there is an awareness that the world they are
entering is a different one from that of the past.
It is a difficult task to identify the real
differ-ences between Whittier students then and now.
When we consider our majors, our advisees and
our friends in the student body, we are struck by
the impressive similarities between then and now.
Those not in such favored categories, do seem
somehow different. In general, I would have to
conclude that Whittier students are aware of the
dimensions of the revolution of our time, and have
reacted in a surprisingly constrained manner.
About the Author: Dr. Robert W. O'Brien, Chairman of
the Department of Sociology and Anthropology (Director of Whittier College in Copenhagen, 1964-65) has been at Whittier College since 1954, coming from Ohio Wesleyan University. He received his A.B. degree with honors in Sociology from Pomona College, his M.A. at Oberlin Col-lege, and his Ph.D. from the University of Washington. He has also studied at the University of Michigan, the Univer-sity of Virginia and Harvard.
Editor's Note: This is the final article in the series "Who
is Whittier College." Look for the new series to start in September, entitled, "Whittier College Contributes."
Roy Newsom '34 (right), presents the 1967 Shirley Mealer Service Award to Ken Ball '34.
Ken Ball '34 (left), presents the 1967 Achievement Award to George Parker '40 as Mrs. Parker looks on.
ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
George C. Parker, recipient of the Alumni
Achievement Award, is the center of a phenomenal
success story in Californias' San Joaquin Valley.
The independent national bank which he heads, is
the Community National Bank. Founded in 1952,
there are now three branches in Fresno County and
twelve in Kern County, including California's first
mobile bank at Lake Isabella. Mr. Parker is a
graduate of Harvard University's Seminar for
Sen-ior Bank Officers, has served on the boards of
direc-tors of the Independent Bankers Association and
the California Bankers Association. He is a past
president of the Kern County Board of Trade,
Kern County Safety Council and the Buttonwillow
Chamber of Commerce, as well as serving as
chair-man of the Kern County Heart Association fund
drive. After graduation at Whittier in 1940, Parker
began his banking career with the Jones County
State Bank in Murdo, South Dakota. Parker's
career was interrupted by service in Africa during
World War II as a Warrant Officer with the 10th
Field Artillery Battalion. He organized and is chief
executive officer of the Installment Life Insurance
and Disability Protection Company of Phoenix,
Arizona.
SHIRLEY MEALER SERVICE AWARD
The recipient of the Shirley Mealer Alumni
Service Award, Kenneth Ball, is a native of Iowa
and received his high school education at Bell High
School. He has served the community of Whittier
as well as his Alma Mater in many capacities. A
member of the Board of Directors of Presbyterian
Intercommunity Hospital and the Men's Advisory
Committee of the League of Women Voters, he is
also a member of the Whittier College Associates
Board, and past president of the Whittier College
Alumni Association.
Mr. Ball is president of Quaker Maid Dairy in
Whittier, chairman of the Dairy Council of
Cali-fornia, a director in Quaker City Federal Savings
and Loan Association, past president of the
Whit-tier Area Chamber of Commerce, recently Master
of the Greenleaf Masonic Lodge No. 670. He and
Mrs. Ball were 1966 Mardi Gras King and Queen
at the Whittier Guild of Children's Hospital
an-nual event, and Mr. Ball recently received the
Achievement Award from the American Dairy
Association. Other positions of responsibility
in-clude chairman of the Board of Directors of the
National Bank of Whittier, president of the
Whit-tier Finance Corporation, and chairman of the
Pioneer District Boy Scouts of America.
Classes of the 1960's
Gene Marrs '50 turns over the gavel
of the presidency to John Kegler '38.
Golden Anniversary Club
Kenneth L. Ball received the Shirley Mealer
Alumni Service Award for dedicated service to
Whittier College over a period of 35 years, at the
Annual Alumni Luncheon in the Campus Inn June
10.
George C. Parker was given the Whittier College
Alumni Achievement Award, presented to an
out-standing alumnus in the fields of natural and
physi-cal sciences, humanities, social sciences or
educa-tion.
More than 3,000 seniors, faculty, alumni and
friends of the college heard Dr. Corey's address in
Harris Amphitheatre where the first use of
sev-eral new rows of seats - gift of the class of 1967
- comfortably increased seating space.
Senior class president, Robert Parke, delivered
the charge to the graduates. Previously on June 4,
they had heard his father, the Reverend John H.
Parke, rector of the Episcopal Parish of St.
Barna-bas on the Desert, Scottsdale, Arizona, give the
64th Baccalaureate sermon. The Reverend Herbert
B. Bauck, United Church of Christ, Seattle, whose
daughter Judith Ann graduated, and the Reverend
Cyrus B. McCown, East Whittier United
Presby-terian Church, whose daughter Mary graduated,
participated in the commencement exercises.
Events of Alumni Day included reunion brunches
for 10 classes, induction of the class of 1917 into
the Golden Anniversary Club, and special
recog-nition of the classes of 1907 and 1912, celebrating
their 55th and 60th anniversaries.
The Whittier College Alumni Association
mem-bers - 500 strong at the luncheon - welcomed
their officers for 1967-1968 as they were inducted
by outgoing president, Eugene M. Marrs '50.
Three outstanding California leaders - all of
whom graduated from Whittier College and have
made notable contributions of service to their Alma
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Mater - were honored at the 64th Commence-
ment and Alumni Day on June 10.
They are Dr. Arthur F. Corey, class of 1924,
nationally and internationally honored educator
and retiring State Executive Secretary of the
Cali-fornia Teachers Association—the 64th
Commence-ment speaker; Kenneth L. Ball, class of 1934,
out-standing City of Whittier businessman and civic
leader; and George C. Parker, class of 1940,
finan-cier and civic leader of Bakersfield, chairman of the
Board of Community National Bank of Kern and
Fresno Counties.
Dr. Arthur F. Corey, delivering the commence-
ment address at the close of his distinguished
twen-ty years of service as head of the largest
profes-sional teachers organization in the world, was
hon-ored in 1962 by his Alma Mater with an honorary
Doctor of Laws Degree. A member of the Board
of Trustees of Whittier College, Dr. Corey earned
his Ed.D. at USC and has honorary degrees from
the University of the Pacific and La Verne
Col-lege. An educational consultant in many states in
this country, as well as in foreign countries - a
work Dr. Corey will continue after his retirement
from the CTA - Dr. Corey is recognized for his
life insistence that teaching in America be made a
pre-eminent profession.
Dr. Corey observed his own 43rd anniversary of
graduating in greeting 459 graduates in the class
who received their diplomas in Harris
Amphi-theatre. Among these June, Summer and February
graduates were 383 receiving the A.B., 50 the
M.Ed., 12 the M.A., 9 the M.A.T.. and 5 the M.S.
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New Alumni Association president is Dr. John
Kegler '38, principal of San Pedro Adult School
since 1958; vice president is Stephen A. Gardner
'40, public relations director of Meals for Millions
Foundation in Santa Monica; and new Alumni
Board members are Jack Mele '43, assistant
prin-cipal for business and activities of Whittier High
School, and Arthur T. Hobson '43, assistant
super-intendent, educational services, Whittier Union
High School District.
Alumni tours of the campus June 10, included
viewing of the new Bonnie Bell Wardman Library
and the Whittier College Science Building, the
latter now more than one-half completed.
Jane Burbank of Lone Pine, Calif. was the 1967
winner of the college's top award for outstanding
contribution during four years, receiving the Walter
F. Dexter Award at Awards Convocation May 16.
Lew Jones, the record-breaking track star, a
resident of the City of Whittier, received the
Athlete of the Year Award at the same convocation.
President of AWS, Miss Burbank is a history
major, a Thalian, was active as a SoSeSo, Junior
Sponsor, Senior Counselor, and was named AWS
Woman of the Year. Jones, history major and ODK
member, was listed in Who's Who in American
Col-leges and Universities.
Other award winners this year were: Robert
Parke, Hamilton Watch Award, for outstanding
achievement of a science major in humanities, so-
cial sciences and campus activities. Mr. Parke, with
a 4.0 grade point average for four years at Whittier
College, was senior class president, member of
ODK, Wm. Penn society, and A Cappella choir.
Two awards for outstanding achievement in home
economics went to Mary Helen Pitts and Jeanne
McGuchin Carey. The Psychology department's
William James Award went to James Brown. Politi-
cal Science and International Relations Depart-
ment awards went to: William A. Wardlaw, a
jun-ior, a Summer Congressional Internship, to work
and study this summer with Congressman Chet
Holifield; Pi Sigma Alpha Award, to the
outstand-ing senior majoroutstand-ing in the field, to Daniel Farkas;
the Richard M. Nixon Scholarship, awarded by the
Whittier Area Republican Women's Club, to a
junior majoring in political science, to Jack Swick-
ard; the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes
Foundation Undergraduate Tuition Scholarship for
social science major, awarded to political science
majors Mary Bruss and Richard Lombardi.
Associated Men's Students named Mike Pirot,
convocations chairman for the past two years, AMS
Man of the Year.
Among other recent outstanding Whittier
Col-lege student awards were those to junior David
Smith Jr. of Tujunga, winner of second place at
the National Organ Playing Competition at the
University of California at Santa Barbara in April.
Smith also won the Hunter Mead Memorial
Schol-arship in an organ contest sponsored annually by
the Pasadena chapter of the American Guild of
Organists. Smith is a student of Robert Prichard,
organ professor at Whittier.
SUPORTS INHIN11=111D
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Although individuals sparkled repeatedly, it was
not an exceptional year for Whittier's spring sports.
With the exception of tennis, Poet teams
experi-enced a frustrating and heartbreaking season. This
is not to say that Whittier fielded poor teams; on
the contrary, they were quite good. But because of
injuries to key players and the continual poor
weather, Whittier's athletes fell short of their
pre-season hopes.
The Poet baseball team was all smiles at the
outset of the season. With the entire starting
lineup, save one, returning to the SCIAC
cham-pionship school, who could help but be optimistic
toward the chances for a repeat performance. There
existed only one question to be answered - "could
the pitching hold up?" The starting line-up missed
only one man and that was ace lefthander Gary
Jones, now in the New York Yankee Organization.
Jones had been the key to Whittier's success last
year and his shoes had to be filled this season if
the Poets were to take the crown.
During the opening weeks of the season, Coach
Ralph Keegan's hurlers did indeed come through.
Gary McHatton, Jim Colborn, and Gary Skinner
repeatedly turned in fine performances which,
coupled with the Poets timely hitting, got Whittier
off to a glittering start.
With the outbreak of league play, all of
Whit-tier's hurlers were suffering from arm trouble of
some sort. This never, however, stopped the strong
Poet sluggers from pounding opposing pitchers.
Behind the sizzling bats of Jim Martin, Clint Albao,
and Bill Coffman, the locals seemed on their way
to a second title in as many years, despite the
make-shift, make-do pitching staff.
Pitching has been called ninety per cent of the
game and the Poets learned this the hard way.
Always dangerous at the plate previously, the
Poets eventually ran into a batting slump. What
made this especially trying for the locals was the
inability of their pitchers to bare down harder to
make up for the lack of hitting prowess. This came
at a crucial time: the doubleheader with
title-con-tender Redlands. The Bulldogs slashed three Poet
hurlers to sweep the twin bill and thwart Whittier's
rush to the crown.
The Poets were not down and out yet, however.
Facing nationally ranked Occidental, Whittier
trav-eled to meet the Tigers in an important three game
series. Oxy, with perhaps its finest team, edged the
Poets in the opener and seemingly nailed down its
claim of the championship. But then, Whittier rose
to its moment. Righthander Jim Colborn, still
showing signs of arm trouble, blanked the Tigers
2-0 in undoubtedly his best performance. Behind
Bill Coffman's three tremendous homeruns, the
Poets swept the third and final game of the series
to put themselves back into the thick of the
pen-nant race.
Down by one game in the standings, the Poets
battled the remainder of the season to win a shot
at the championship. It was a sad, even
heartbreak-ing day, however, when Occidental likewise swept
the rest of its games to take the league title. What
had begun as a season of great expectation for the
Poets ended with a high degree of success but at a
loss for the coveted first-place finish.
If inclement weather took its toll from Whittier
pitchers, it took a ransom from the Poet trackmen.
Forced to cancel practices time and time again, the
spikers often entered meets unprepared. While not
restricting the field events, the weather created
wet tracks continuously to frustrate Whittier's
run-ners. As the locals strength rested on the cinder
paths, rain washed away Whittier's hopes for a
successful season.
This is not to imply that fine individual
per-formances failed to materialize. Lew Jones,
Whit-tier's athlete of the year, broke a fifteen year record
in the 880 meters and sparked a mile relay team
that proved to be among the top in the state. In
addition, Jones tied Russ Bonham's school mile
record of 4:10.5 taking 5th place in the NAIA
Finals held at Sioux Falls on June 10th.
While Jones was busy scoring points in the
dis-tance competition, Rod Ferguson was blazing to
firsts in the 100-yard dash. A constant qualifier,
Ferguson repeatedly registered times near that of
his best - 9.4 seconds. Bob Hughes in the high
jump and Larry Nita in the javelin also established
themselves as formidable threats.
Unlike baseball where league competition was
sharp, track was dominated by one team: the
Tigers from Occidental. So powerful were they
that no team in the conference could pose a serious
challenge to them. In track, as in baseball, this
spring was the Spring of the Tiger.
Of all the spring sports, Whittier fans can look
to tennis with the most satisfaction. Never rated
before for really good tennis teams, Whittier this
year pulled a pleasant surprise. This spring
Whit-tier presented its finest team in some time. Only
national small college champion Redlands proved
more than a match for the Poet racketeers.
POET
PROM ENADE
Two Whittier Alumni Leaders at
Fourth Friends World Conference
Dr. Edwin B. Bronner, Whittier class of 1941,
and Dr. Charles W. Cooper, class of 1925e, were
leaders at the historic Fourth Friends World
Con-ference held July 24-August 3, 1967, at Guildford
College, Greensboro, North Carolina. The last such
meeting was held in London 15 years ago.
Bronner was chairman of the conference
com-mittee, the executive head of the conference, and
Cooper was chairman of the fine arts subcommittee.
Friends from nearly every country of the world sent
delegates to the meeting. Bronner is professor of
history and curator of the Quaker collection at
Haverford, and Cooper is author of Whittier:
Inde-pendent College in California, and
professor-at-large.
WC Seniors Sign Recording Contract
Donna Carson and Hedge Capers signed a seven
year contract with Capitol Records. Receiving
$1000 when they signed, their first album should be
out in two months. Following graduation they hit
the summer singing circuit.
Harold Jones Named President of
Whittier College Associates
Harold J. Jones, director of adult and
continua-tion educacontinua-tion, Montebello Unified School District,
is president of the Whittier College Associates for
1967-1968, it was announced by Vince Sinatra '33,
the outgoing president of the board of the group.
A 1932 graduate of Whittier College, where he
lettered in three sports, Jones has the master's
degree from USC. Jones was a U. S. Naval officer
in World War II. He has served as co-chairman,
USC alumni scholarship committee, and recently as
president of the Whittier College 1195 Club.
He is past president, Montebello Administrative
Council and of the Los Angeles County Adult
Education Administrators Association. He has also
been active in the California Teachers Association,
California Association of Adult Education
Admin-istrators, National Education Association, and
National Association of Public School Adult
Edu-cation. He is the producer of light operas of the
Montebello Light Opera Company.
Collegiate Choral Festival Hosted
By Whittier College
The 37th Annual Pacific Southwest
Intercolleg-iate Choral Festival was hosted by Whittier
Col-lege on April 29th.
The colleges had choral groups singing and
competed for ratings, according to Eugene Riddle,
director of the event. Pomona, Loyola, Occidental,
Chapman, Cal State Long Beach, Cal State Los
Angeles, California Lutheran, Cal Tech, Whittier
and USC were the participating schools.
Adjudicator was Dr. William Lemonds.
Class of '57 Celebrates
10th Reunion on Train
A charter train ride from Pico Rivera to San
Juan Capistrano highlighted the tenth reunion for
150 members of the class of '57 on June 10.
A train robbery and marching from the San Juan
Capistrano depot to the El Adobe Restaurant with
a mariachi band were other features.
Margaret Fuchs Mundt of Valparaiso, Indiana
won the prize for coming the farthest distance from
home. Others coming long distances were Calvin
Simon from Montana, Carol Draper Bell from El
Paso, Texas; Barbara Opdale from Sacramento,
Carol Yee Jeong from San Lorenzo, Lyn Kyte
Walter from San Jose, and John Avila from
Pacific Grove.
Serving on the planning committee under the
general chairmanship of William H. (Mo)
Maru-moto were Homan Moore, Lee Ann Hawley Baker,
Ed Dynkoop, Kathy Heacock Nighswonger, Paul
Downer, Carol Yee Jeong, Betty Ann Baptiste
May, and Ardis Owen Smith. Others were Carol
Brummel Skare, Mary Johnston Shackford, George
Sattler, Clifford Winchell, M.D., Carole Martin
Pickup, Mickey Winget, Arlene Votaw Davis, Julie
Smoyer Scharer, Janet Massie Hines, Robert Lowe,
Marilyn Stutzman Nighswonger, and Gary Caylor.
Still others were Barbara Ondrasik Grove, John
Renely, Mary Ball Rolfe, Evelyn Klees Byreans,
Lois Fitzgerald Ogle, Ellen Fisk Brauss, Virginia
Benson Bevilaqua, Jim Pierce, Cita Mills Young,
Marge Williams Swanson, and Bev Williams Ford.
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30th Annual Bach Festival Held at Whittier
The 30th annual Whittier College Bach Festival
presented a series of six concerts in April.
The oldest continuous Bach Festival in the West,
the Whittier College music department's annual
event presented faculty, students and alumni
play-ing and splay-ingplay-ing the music of the renowned Johann
Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) noted musician and
the world's greatest composer for the organ.
Two alumni and three students were featured in
the first concert April 9. Stephen Gothold, a recent
graduate, directed the Whittier High School
Car-dinal Ensemble and Chamber Orchestra in the
can-tata, "God's Time is Best." The group of 26 voices
opened the 1967 festival.
Michele McCartney, talented freshman pianist
from Villa Park, played Three Preludes and Fugues
for Piano, followed by the Sonata in G Minor for
Flute and Piano, played by Patrice Kelly
Hambel-ton, flute, and Robert MacSparran, piano. Miss
Hambelton, class of 1954, and a student of Floyd
Stancliff of the Whittier music department, has
appeared in the Carmel Bach Festival and soloist
at the Cabrillo College Festival.
Whittier College Coed Chosen One of
"10 Best Dressed College Girls for 1967"
Leslie Stowell, a strawberry blonde senior
psy-chology major from Bethesda, Maryland has been
named one of the "10 Best Dressed College Girls
for 1967" by Glamour Magazine.
The ten college girls spent a week in New York
in May at the expense of the magazine. The week
included a round of parties and dinners with
celeb-rities, and photography sessions.
The contest, sponsored locally by the campus
newspaper, was headed by Sandy Davidson,
so-ciety editor. Miss Stowell was chosen by women's
organizations on campus.
Miss Stowell, who is 5' 9", took her high school
at Punahou in Honolulu, and at Bethesda-Chevy
Chase. In 1965 she was a Whittier Rose Float
prin-cess as well as a Whittier College homecoming
princess. She plans to go into educational
counsel-ing or advertiscounsel-ing after she graduates from
Whit-tier College next February. Her father and mother,
Mr. and Mrs. John H. Stowell, reside at 7205
Fair-fax Road, Bethesda, Maryland, and her father is a
research scientist in Asian affairs at American
Uni-versity.
Glamour will publish photos and stories on the
ten college girls in August.
Whittier College Associates
Have Outstanding Year
Climaxing an outstanding year of continued
growth, outgoing Whittier College Associates'
pres-ident, Vince Sinatra '33, held a final meeting with
the Board of Directors at the William Penn
Res-taurant. Sinatra announced that, with three months
Whittier College
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have contributed some $41,238.00 to the new
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the lobby. The Board of Directors has also
dis-cussed and made plans for some very exciting
projects next year to be announced soon.
Heading up the Board for 1967-68 will be,
presi-dent, Harold J. Jones '32, Director of the El Monte
Adult Education School and, vice-president, Alfred
Stoll '49, Real Estate Broker and Investor.
Darrell Ryan, representing the Alumni
Associa-tion presented Mr. Sinatra and the other outgoing
board members with handsome desk sets in sincere
appreciation for their efforts on behalf of the
Whit-tier College Associates.
The 3.4 million dollar science building under construction on the site of the old Hadley Field is shown now 550/. completed. The already beautiful structure is scheduled for completion in February, 1968.
The graduating class of 1917 celebrated their 50th consecu-tive reunion on Alumni Day, June 10, 1967. Left row— bottom to top: Olive Milhous Marshburn, Alice Armstrong, Verna McFadden Anderson, Claude 0. Sams, Earl Sharp-less. Right row—bottom to top: Oscar 0. Marshburn,
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FACULTY NOT
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Dr. Charles D. Montgomery, Dean of Students,
is the author with Dr. Thomas Metos, Bureau of
Educational Research, Arizona State University,
Tempe, of the Workbook The Free And The
Brave to accompany Henry C. Graff's textbook, of
the same name. Dr. Montgomery is under contract
to do a second workbook for Rand McNally, to
accompany the 11th grade American history text,
The Adventure of The American People, second
edition, to be published Dec. 1967.
Peggy Landtroop, instructor in physical
educa-tion, attended conventions of the American and
California Associations for Health, Physical
Edu-cation and Recreation this spring, was a member
of the Tennis-Badminton Guide committee, and
prepared an article on badminton for the 1968
Guide.
Mary L. Wise (A.B. Whittier 1959, M.A. 1966),
who has served as graduate assistant and instructor
in English at Whittier in 1959-1961 and 1966-1967,
received one of the highly competitive fellowships
for a full year of study at the National Defense
Education Act Counseling and Guidance Institute
at USC. She worked on a masters in psychology
with special services credential, and later on a
doc-torate in remedial reading. She is author with Anne
Upton of the remedial reading text, Literature and
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Language.
Darold R. Beckman, associate professor of
edu-cation, is the editor of the Newsletter of the newly
formed California Association of Professors in
Ele-mentary Education, and assisted in hosting a
con-ference of the southern region of the group on the
Whittier campus.
Dr. Irene Eher, assistant professor of history,
will give a paper entitled "Hu Shih and Chinese
History: The Problem Of Cheng-li Kuo-ku" at the
Modern China Section of the 27th International
Orientalist Congress meeting at Ann Arbor, Mich.,
August 13-19. She participated recently on a panel
for the Whittier Branch, League of Women Voters,
with the topic "Nineteenth and Twentieth Century
China And The West."
Robert H. Treser, associate professor and
chair-man of the department of speech and drama at
Whittier, was awarded his Ph.D. at Tulane
Uni-versity in New Orleans. His thesis subject was
"Houston's Alley Theatre." The title refers to one
of America's famous theatres, now being housed in
a new building at a cost of $3 million.
Dr. Lester Harris, professor of speech and
di-rector of the Speech and Hearing Clinic, helped to
organize the California Society of Speech
Patholo-gists and AudioloPatholo-gists in Private Practice, of which
he is a charter member and President Elect. He is
also the editor of the organization's newsletter.
They are registered with the state as a professional,
non-profit organization.
Gerry Paul, director of forensics, was selected
by the Pacific Southwest Collegiate Forensic
Asso-ciation to serve as event director in one of his
areas of specialty, Oral Interpretation, at the
1966-67 (Individual Events) Championships. 0.1. is the
largest event of the tournament with five divisions
and 250 entries representing 40 colleges and
uni-versities.
Rev. Dr. C. Milo Connick, professor of Religion
Religion, will have his biography appear in the
and chairman of the Department of Philosophy and
1967-68 edition of the Dictionary of International
Biography. The dictionary, published in London,
England, contains the record of contemporary
achievement of 7,000 distinguished world figures.
It is a standard reference book which circulates
widely in 94 countries, Rev. Connick explained.
Dr. Richard B. Harvey, associate professor of
political science, published an article in the
Cali-fornia Historical Society Quarterly for March. The
article, entitled "Governor Earl Warren of
Cali-fornia: A Study in 'Non-Partisan' Republican
Pol-itics," was 18 pages in length and a summary of a
larger work on Gov. Warren which Dr. Harvey
expected to publish in the near future.
Dr. Hai Tai Kim, professor of philosophy,
par-ticipated in a "Philosophy, Science and Man"
ference June 15-16 as a seminar director. The
con-ference was held in Monterey.
Dr. J. Roy Compton, college physician, retired
this June. Dr. Compton came to Whittier College
in 1958 and had been previously engaged in
pri-vate medical practice in St. Louis, Mo. His M.D.
degree was earned at St. Louis College Physicians
and Surgeons, with post-graduate study at
Wash-ington University, St. Louis University and Mayo
Brothers Clinic in Rochester, Minn.
Dr. Iris M. Galindo, assistant professor of
Span-ish, recently attended the first reunion of the XIII
Congress of Ibero-American Literature, held at the
University of California, Los Angeles. The reunion
was held to commemorate the Ruben Dario
Cen-tennial Celebration. Dario is considered to be one
of the greatest poets of Latin America.
Dr. J. William Robinson, chairman and
profes-sor, department of political science and
interna-tional relations, promised to be busy for the next
several months, THE ROCK learned. Dr. Robinson
had two book reviews which appeared in The
Western Political Quarterly. In addition, he
at-tended the annual conventions of the Western
Political Science Association and International
Students Association in Arizona, March 16-18. Dr.
Robinson also attended the 45th annual session of
the Institute of World Affairs, March 26-28. He
was on the program, serving as chairman for a
day's program on "Legitimatization of Adopted
Models." Dr. Robinson represented Whittier
Col-lege as international organization and international
law specialists from around the country
partici-pated in the World Law Fund Evaluation Project
Conferences.
Dr. William C. Jones was awarded an honorary degree by Willamette University. As honorary Doctor of Laws, he is a former professor of busi-ness and public administration at Wil-lamette prior to serving as President of
Whittier College.
Lloyd Bambauer will retire from Portervjfle State
Hos-pital Service. He will move to his own home in that city and if possible continue his
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Mabel J. Hodson has taught
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the first grade for thirty years. The first ten years were taught in Southern Cal-ifornia and the last twenty years were taught in Turlock Elemen-tary Schools. She is living at Rogue Val-ley Manor, Medford, Oregon.Lois Belt Palmer is working on the local and national con-
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servation planning, AAUW, and National Retired Teach-ers Association. She and her husband, Ray, both enjoy following the careers of former students.Adelaide C. Ticknor is cur-
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will retire after twenty years as executive secretary of the California Teachers Associa-tion and a lifetime of devotion to the teaching profession. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Award from the California Association of Secondary School Administrators and special recog-nition for his work in the development of higher teacher standards throughout the U.S.
Althea Park Wingfield went
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back to school and passed her Real Estate examination.practice on a contractural basis. 15 Stan Rohrbough has retired as chair-man of the physical education depart-ment at Hollenbeck Jr. High, Los An-geles, in June, 1966. He had taught for 39'/2 years since graduation. His
teach-ing experience included some classroom teaching as well as attendance coordina-tor. He is enjoying golf now.
Walter Word has retired and is living at 911 S. McClelland, Santa Maria, California.
Marie Elizabeth Church was
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honored by the Delta Kappa Gamma Society of Oregon when they published a brief sketch of her life as a teacher in Oregon and the Orient. This was in-cluded in "Lamplighters: Leaders in Learning," Volume II.Wallace S. Wiggins has been
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Raymond Kridler has been named as the new Deputy Commissioner of the Cali-fornia Highway Patrol of Fresno. He will be in charge of field operation.
Irma. Meyer Hardenburgh became a grandmother last October. Her grandson is Edward Addison Hardenburgh III.
Edith Edgerley and her daughter, Shirley, are moving to Mission Viejo, California. Their new address is 25032 Spadra Lane, Mission Viejo, California. Ruth Domecq is teaching in a rural high school in Denair, California where they are preparing "packets" for a non-graded curriculum to begin next fall. She spends some of her free time rock hunting.
Attorney Prentiss Moore was appointed Judge of the Su-perior Court in Los Angeles County. Previously, he had served on the Superior Court bench in 1962 on an interim appointment. Marcella Kreizinger was awarded Hon-orary Life Membership in the PTA by Forward School in San Diego City, Cali-fornia. She plans to retire in June, 1967, after 35 years of teaching.
Jane Newcomer Gorrell taught kinder-garten in Pomona, California, for fifteen years. She has two daughters - one in junior college and one in high school.
Edward R. Miller is present-ly director of the Special Ed-ucational Services in Adult Education at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio. He is excited about the work-study program for young adults from abroad and feels they are unique in international educa-tion. He also serves as the vice-president of the Adult Education Association, USA.
Helen Kinnear Pash is teaching the first grade. She has lived in Alhambra, California for twenty-five years and has two children and three grandchildren.
Paul and Florence (Thill) Winget are planning a five-week trip to Eastern Can-ada and New England. Paul is a District Freight Agent for the A.T.&S.F. Railway Co.
Margaret Moote Smith and her hus-band, Graeme, are living in Vista, Cali-fornia. They have four children - the eldest received his Ph.D. and is head of the Department of Physical Science at Nevada Southern.
Mark Jacobs is a Physical Science In-structor at El Camino College in Tor-rance, California. His eldest daughter, Marcia, is a legal secretary for the Southern California Edison Company and his youngest daughter, Paula, will graduate from Whittier this June.
John Maxson is a customer service-man with the Southern California Edison Company. He plays with the Rio Hondo Symphony Orchestra, of which he has been a member for thirty-two years.
Josephine Dockstader is a substitute teacher for Whittier schools. She is a soloist at the Presbyterian Church in Pasadena and also sings with a Concert Trio.
Ralph H. Onizuka teaches 8th grade science at Samuel Wilder King
Inter-mediate School in Kaneohe, Hawaii. His two eldest sons are biology majors and his third son is in the 6th grade.
Wesley and Georgia (Follett) Walker have been doing some extensive travel-ing in Europe and the Caribbean. Geor-gia has also enjoyed dabbling in the artistic ventures of mosaics and flower arranging.
Marianna Mangrum Willis s the Chair-man of the Department of English at Glendora High School. She and her hus-band, Joe, have two children, Blythe and Christopher.
Ray Cook is chaplain for the U.S. Navy serving in administrative billets. He lived in Japan for five years. He be-came active in social welfare in Japan and was honored by the Japanese Gov-ernment with an award for distinguished service.
Harold "Bud" Jones is the Director of Adult and Continuation Education for the Montebello Unified School District. He enjoys wilderness camping on a piece of Siskiyou County in Northern California. Barbara Creager Prell was
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awarded an honorary life membership in the Southern California Public Personnel Association to commemorate completion of thirty years of service with the Los Angeles County Civil Service Commission.Kathleen Caldwell is presently teach-ing elementary school in the Santa Bar-bara District.
Ralph D. Rich is teaching math at San Fernando High School in Los Angeles, California.
William Olsen is still Char-man of the Mathematics De-partment at Pasadena City College. Last year he took a sabbatical with his wife and traveled from Egypt to England.
Madeline Aborn Paddock re-
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ton, is acting as consultant in ports that her husband, El-biology in the Indian Sum-mer Institutes sponsored by U.S. aid. He will travel to India and re- turn in June.Kenneth Richardson is now Assistant Superintendent for Instruction at Monrovia Uni-fied School District and his
wife, Shirley Vitt, is District Librarian at Lowell Joint School Dis-trict. Their son, Kent, is a graduate of UC Davis, and is in the secondary pro-gram at Whittier in Math. Kathy, their daughter, recently married and is at-tending Fullerton JC.
Phil Ockerman is leading a Mexican Caravan of one hun-dred high school youths to Guaymas, Mexico. This Good-will Project involves the par-ticipation of Guaymas High School stu-dents and Fremont High School stustu-dents in work projects.
Marjorie Davis Irmsher is teaching in Downey, California. She has two daugh-ters that are both training to be teach-ers.
Bruce Martin operates a dairy ranch in Fort Jones, California. He is acting President of the Seskiyoa Company Farm. Bureau.
Margaret Bennett Hughes has recent-ly returned to teaching the 3rd grade at Brightwood School, Alhambra. Her two sons are grown - Bob sells Real Estate in Montebello, California and Bill is in the Navy.
William H. Patterson was
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hired by General Electric to be Deputy General Manager for General Electrics Manned Spaced Systems Department. His new address is 919 Great Springs Rt., Brwyn Mawr, Pennsylvania.Nellie Bishop received a life member-ship in the Lincoln School PTA. She is also the director of a 150 voice 5th-6th grade chorus.
Dr. David Payne of Long Beach, Cal-ifornia has been appointed Lo the posi-tion of Medical Director and Director of
Medical Education at Pacific Hospital in Long Beach. He has served as a profes-sor of psychiatry at the University of California and California College of Med-icine and was a clinical instructor and associate professor of psychology at the College of Osteopaths, Physicians and Surgeons.
Jean Forbes Atkisson has
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been California Federation of Woman's Clubs' conservation chairman for the past four years. She is also state chair-the California education studyEthelyn Stuart Meyers has completed twenty-two years in the teaching profession. Most of this time was spent in Buena Park except for the last three years when she taught Special Education Classes in Calder Intermedi-ate School. Ethelyn is a member of the American Association on Mental De-ficiency.
Art Marshburn is chairman of the Physics Department at Santa Monica City College and Supt. of Church School of the First Presbyterian Church of San-ta Monica. His wife, Carol, is teaching 3rd grade at Welby Way School in the Los Angeles School District.
Dr. Paul Salmon has recently been appointed as Superintendent of Pasadena City Schools. He previously held the position as Superintendent in the Covina-Valley Unified District for 12 years. Dr.
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Salmon expressed his determination to
work on solving racial problems.
Walter T. Blume has been assigned to
the Tennessee State Department of
Pub-lie Health and heads a diabetes research
project there. He feels a great deal of
fac-tual information should be derived from
this study. His new residence is 104
Bev-erly Drive, Madison, Tennessee.
Sally Bullis Jones now lives
with her husband and family
on Nashon Island in Puget
Sound. Her oldest son, Dave,
is a junior at the University
of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington.
Steve is a freshman at Stanford
Univer-sity and her daughters are Carol, Sara,
and Evon Bruce.
Keitha Downs Wagner will have two
daughters attending Whittier College in
September. Lietta will be a junior and
Avalee a freshman.
Virginia Hill Richardson brought 17
years teaching experience with her when
she accepted a position as second grade
teacher with the Capistrano Unified
School District.
Frederic Errett is a faculty member of
the music department at Sacramento
State College. He also is the organist of
a large Presbyterian Church. He and his
wife, Helen, have two daughters, Midge
and Marilyn.
Charles Frederick Schermerhorn is an
executive at the Ocean Systems Division
of North American Aviation. He teaches
Oceanology at Los Alamitos Naval
Re-serve Station where he ranks as Captain.
Portia Perry is Director of Christian
Education at the Second Church in
New-ton, Massachusetts. Sailing has become
one of her recent hobbies.
Carroll and Virginia (Hill) Richardson
are about to take off for Odense,
Den-mark, where they will coordinate the first
Junior College Overseas Program in
Scandanavia. Thirty students will take a
three-week Seminar in Behavioral
Sci-ences.
Virginia Strong Wiley has three sons:
John is attending Colorado School of
Mines and Thomas and James are both
in high school. The Wiley's run a cattle
ranch near Reno and raise pure bred
Arabian horses, Australian Blues,
Chi-huahuas, Siamese cats and parakeets.
Dorothy Mitchell Stevens is president
of the Volunteer Auxiliary of Scenic
General Hospital and this involves much
of her spare time. She is now
vice-presi-dent of the Northern San Joaquin Valley
Hospital Auxiliary Area Council.
Dr. Perry Morrison is now a member
of the faculty of the Library School at
the University of Washington.
Dr. Russell Husted has
re-ported for duty with a Coast
Guard Reserve Unit. He will
help train hospital corpsmen
at Terminal Island.
Shirley Roberts Firestone is
presently teaching twenty
pi-ano students; and reports that
the need for such teachers is
so great, she could have 100
students without even advertising. Her
husband is a Dental Officer for the
Ma-rines at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.
Violet Ridgeway Chappelow has been
teaching in Pasadena, California, for 22
years. She teaches the 4th grade at
Long-fellow School.
Wanda Roberson Wolf is teaching
lit-erature and composition in the 11th and
12th grades at Ramona High School,
Riv-erside, California. Her husband, Erich,
is the district manager at Toledo Scales
in Riverside. Their three children, Anne,
Lynne, and Rick, all attend school.
Elizabeth Hoskins Vivian is continuing
to teach the second grade. Her older
daughter, Barbara, is on scholarship as a
junior at USC; son, Bob, is at San
Fran-cisco in advanced electronics with the
Navy; John and Bonnie are both in
jun-ior high school.
Cecilia Wikiund Snapp is
currently in her second year
as Coordinator of Oral
Edu-cation, Compton City Schools.
Harold H. Litten has been
named Director of Public
Re-lations and Advertising for
TRW Systems Group in
Re-dondo Beach. He formerly
served as director of public relations and
new project planning for R. A. Watt Inc.
Stanley Alexander has just released
the third edition of his appliance
man-ual. He is also working on the history of
the moving and storage industry.
Arlene and Norman Bird are in their
seventh year at the Mann Company.
Norman is Business Manager for the
College of Mann. Their daughter,
Don-na, is now in junior high, and Laurie
will be attending kindergarten next year.
James Lightner is Plant
Man-ager of the Modine Mfg.
Company in Ringwood, Ill.
His daughter, Ruth, will
at-tend Carthage College in
Kenosha, Wisconsin.
Barbara Marshall Gordon is winding
up eighteen years of teaching in Arcadia
by taking a years leave to get her M.A.
at Cal State. Her spare time activities
include raising and showing Arabian
horses.
Dr. Richard Mastain is still working
in Enugu, Nigeria where he is involved
with workshops and conferences in
French, Math, Science, and English. The
political situation there is still quite
un-settled but Dick and his wife, Mary,
re-port their situation to be safe.
Charles and Joy (Branstetter) Hall
moved to 13902 Kimberley Lane,
Hous-ton, Texas, last year when Charlie
be-came Personnel Director for the Houston
Oilers Football Club. They have two
daughters - Jennifer 15, and Catherine
17.
Dr. John Condon completed his
doc-torate at Stanford in '66 and is now
com-pleting his third year as Dean of
Insti-tutional Research and Planning at
Co-dine College in Arizona.
Thomas W. Hobbs has been
elected to the position of
Assistant Vice President of
Government Employees
In-surance Company. He
con-tinues as Vice President of Government
Employees Corporation and Government
Employees Financial Corporation. He
has been associated with the company
since May, 1952.
Lynn Benham is still residing in
Ta-coma, Washington. She is with the Girl
Scouts serving as Director of Program
Services which involves administrating
an established camp plus eleven day
camps.
A recent visitor to the campus was the
Reverend Robert A. Gruwell who has
served Presbyterian Churches in
Wash-ington and Idaho and now serves in
Hills-boro, Oregon as an organizing pastor for
a new church development.
Bill Hunt is now selling
Far-berware for the S.W. Farber
Company in New York. He
covers the area from Fresno
to the Oregon border. His
new address is 5325 Marconi, Apt. 59,
Carmichael, California.
Daniel C. Reyes has been named
exec-utive director of the Eastland
Commun-ity Action Council. In this appointment
he will oversee the administration of
community action programs in East Los
Angeles and Whittier districts.
George and Jeannette (Nelson) Thatch.
er are still living in East Whittier. George
is teaching in the Bell Gardens Jr. High
School music department and Jeannette
is teaching the 4th and 5th grades at
Orange Grove School in Whittier.
Robert Casjens is presently on
Sab-batical leave from Whittier Union High
School District and is a full-time student
at Claremont Graduate School.
Gale Brandon, Community Advocate
newspaper owner-publisher and Artesia
Chamber of Commerce president, has
been appointed to the California
Consti-tutional Revision Commission. This
com-mittee is currently studying the second
portion of the state constitution and will
make recommended changes to the
legis-lature. Gale is also a member of the
Artesia-Cerritos Lions Club and served
as president of that organization in
1957-1958.
Patricia Hayes Havens is still residing
in Simi Valley, California, where her
husband, Charles, is postmaster. Patricia
is currently president of the Woman's
Society of Christian Service at the Simi
Valley Community Methodist Church.
Lawrence Macaray is an art instructor
at El Camino College. He is an
accom-plished artist specializing in oils and
re-cently completed a one man show at
Bowers Museum in Santa Ana, Calif.
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New Torrance family YMCA
Joseph Wilcox, Jr. '50 was recently named "Man of the Year" of Tor-rance, California by the Torrance Press Herald. This honor resulted from Joe's devoted leadership at the Torrance Family YMCA where he has been director for the past eleven years. Here he has shared with lay-men in creating what the Wall Street Journal called "the world's finest lead-ership training building." The strange YMCA structure is a huge circle and encloses a giant amphitheatre and campfire circle and provides special-ized facilities for leadership training, inter-group councils, and discussion groups.
Joe has pioneered a series of pro-grams designed to enrich family life, and the Torrance YMCA now has family camps, family counseling, par-ent-child groups and, this last year, sensitivity training has been intro-duced on a large scale.
An exciting summer is in store for Joe and his wife, Mary Lou (Keen) x '50. They have been selected to lead a 7-week Exchange Tour to the Orient for the YMCA of Los Angeles. They, with 25 high school and college stu-dents will live with families in Japan and hope to climb Mt. Fujiyama (mountain climbing is a favorite sport of the Wilcox family).
The Wilcoxes live with their chil-dren, Susy 15 and Jeff 11, at 22624 Ellinworth Drive, Torrance.
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Elizabeth Langley is assis-tant professor of education at Northeastern Illinois Uni-versity. She is also a lecturer in the department of educa-tion at Loyola University and is work-ing on her doctoral dissertation (Ph.D.).
Rev. C. Morris Fisher is Director of
Finance and Field Service of the Board of Missions of the Southern California-Arizona Conference of the Methodist Church. His primary aim is to guide churches in the raising of funds for new buildings, debts and budgets.
Walt Bennett is a senior electronics engineer at Librascope in Burbank, Cali-fornia. He is also scoutmaster of Troop 543 which is planning a one-week hike this summer.
Ramona Sillars Hofmann is now liv-ing at 490 Miles Avenue, Santa Maria, California, with her family. Her hus-band, Jim, was transferred there to be area superintendent for Tidewater Oil Company.
Sue Richards Plucknett and her hus-band, Don, have completed six years on Kauai where Don is Superintendent of the Kauai Branch Agriculture Exp. Sta-tion of the University of Hawaii. In August, they will depart for a year's sab-batical in Egypt taking their three chil-dren with them.
Derris Barter is acting principal of the Bindlach American Elementary School in Germany. He extends an invi-tation to the members of the class to visit his home in Germany at their con-
venience. He lives at Bayreuth, Ger-many, the home of Richard Wagner.
Jack Mealer of Swain-Mealer, Inc. has been elected Executive Vice-President of Western States Advertising Agencies Association for '67-'68.
Carolyn Dodrill Williams has returned to the classroom as a part-time home economics teacher at Long Beach City College after ten years as a full-time homemaker. She and her hus-band, Jack, are the parents of Jeffrey, 9, and twins, Curtis and Kevin, 5.
Merrill Jessup has been elected chair-man of the Board of Trustees for Hill-crest Congregational Church in Whittier. He received an Outstanding Service Award, Administrative, from North Orange County YMCA and is presently on the Board of Directors for North Orange YMCA.
Joan Egeberg Hancock's son, William, will be one year old in July. The Han-cocks are presently residing at 1525 Bre-put Street, Palo Alto, California.
Ellen Giebler Benedict is presently re-siding at 8 Albert Court, Kensington Gere, London S.W. 7, England.
Shirley and John Byrne will be in the Washington D.C. area for a year while John is with the National Science Foun-dation as their Director of Oceanography, Earth. Sciences Section. They are enjoy-ing sight-seeenjoy-ing, concert-goenjoy-ing and many new friends.
Dan Keulen was a recipient of the Bellflower Councils' Parent Teacher As-sociation Honorary Life Membership. He has served on the local school board and also as president of the Bellflower Co-ordinating Council, president of the Par-amount-Bellflower Exchange Club and chairman of the March of Dimes. The Keulens have four teenage children.
Margaret McMillan Renda and her family have recently moved to Sacramento where her husband, Charles, is Re-gional Solicitor for the De-partment of the Interior. They have two boys - Greg, 31/2, and Jeff, 1'/2.
Warren C. Marsh, coordinator of mu-sic for the El Rancho Unified School District, was recently awarded the Val-ley Forge Teachers Medal by the Free-doms Foundation at Valley Forge. The award is given to teachers for outstand-ing contributions toward maintainoutstand-ing our American heritage.
Della Kelly Newton is presently teach-ing math at South Whittier Junior High School.
Orville Cope is a specialist in Latin American politics, especially concerning Chile, where he spent last summer doing research on the congressional elections. He is an assistant professor of political science at the University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Marvin Hoover will start his fourth year as Head Football Coach at Buena Park High School. He married Mary Nygard of Oregon State Uni-versity and they now have two boys Mark, 6, and Brent, 3. Their new resi-dence is 1928 Hamer Drive, Placentia, California.
Barbara G. Spaulding is on the staff (part-time) at Purdue University and is studying for a Ph.D. in college guid-ance.
Peggy Pezoldt Bowman has been a counselor at Arroyo High School for the past four years. She has a seven year old son, David.
Ron Hoar, music director at Arcadia High School, was recently chosen as the re