Rollins Alumni Record December 1967

Rollins CollegeRollins Scholarship Online Winter 1967 Rollins Alumni Record, December 1967 Rollins College Office of Marketing and Communications Follow this and additional works at: htt

Rollins College

Rollins Scholarship Online

Winter 1967

Rollins Alumni Record, December 1967

Rollins College Office of Marketing and Communications

Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarship.rollins.edu/magazine

This Magazine is brought to you for free and open access by the Marketing and Communications at Rollins Scholarship Online It has been accepted for inclusion in Rollins Magazine by an authorized administrator of Rollins Scholarship Online For more information, please contact rwalton@rollins.edu.

Recommended Citation

Rollins College Office of Marketing and Communications, "Rollins Alumni Record, December 1967" (1967) Rollins Magazine Paper

228.

http://scholarship.rollins.edu/magazine/228

RECORD a m m i

*t*\ r*

DECEMBER/1967

I -< < *-*

Religion on Campus — story on page 4

h

Dear Rollins Alumni:

Just the other day I had luncheon with one of our fellow Alumni, and, after reminiscing at length of our undergraduate years, our conver- sation turned to a more current topic, the 1968 Annual Alumni Reunion We considered: why are reunions important? and why should each Alumnus return to Rollins in '68?

We agreed that reunions are really more than just seeing old friends, and going to picnics, cocktail parties, dinners, and dances Along with all the festivities, this is a time for admin- istrators and other College personnel responsi- ble to be given the chance to thank us in person for what we have done for Rollins, as well as

an opportunity for us to see where our efforts and contributions have gone This is also a time for Alumni to see first hand what really needs

to be done in order to make Rollins a strong, versatile, front-runner in the education world

Rollins is currently going through the throes

of an academic and physical face lifting, as are hundreds of other institutions across the coun- try And a part of this change has become the responsibility of us Alumni In particular, we have undertaken to build the Enyart-Alumni Field House As you know from previous REC- ORDS and other Alumni mailings, the Field House has finally taken form and is currently

under construction But this is only the be- ginning There are many future requirements which need to be accomplished, and in the plans will become the responsibility of the Alumni Therefore, the chance to meet again in '68 pro- vides a first-hand opportunity to see and discuss these requirements, and to decide how we are going to accomplish them

The specifics for returning are based upon the simple fact that Rollins is the educational insti- tution from which we received our education and where we enjoyed social and academic cam- pus events We each have our own particular reasons for remembering our undergraduate days We remember those who made it possible for us to attend Rollins and to benefit from the education offered Some of these people are still on campus and provide yet another reason why you should come to Reunion They are still interested in us and would like to swap ex- periences and ideas

It occurs to me that maybe I am not qualified

to be a Pied Piper calling everyone back to the fold But we owe it to ourselves to return again, and to contribute continually one way or an- other to the betterment of our Alma Mater By returning on April 26 and 27, 1968, you can judge for yourself, and discover if what I said

is true If you disagree, tell me when you are here See you at Reunion!

Pied Pipingly,

Doug Kerr '66

jtrt*-

ROLLINS COLLEGE

ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS

Robert F Stonerock '41

President

Ben Aycrigg '49

First Vice President

Charles Rice MBA '64

Second Vice President

Elfreda W Ramsey '35

Secretary

Don W Tauscher '55

Treasurer

F Whitner Chase '62

Frances D Divine '39

Sara H Howden '35

C Douglas Kerr '66

Kenneth F Peloquin '54

J Sands Showalter '38

John Sorensen, Jr '40

Jane W Thompson '33

Louise M Yergey '53

George C Young '38

ALUMNI TRUSTEES

Herbert W Hoover, Jr '41

June Reinhold Myers '41

John G McKay '37

EDITORIAL STAFF

Walter M Hundley

Director of Alumni Affairs

Editor

Loison P Tingley

Assistant to the Director

Ben Aycrigg

Alumni Consultant

Suzanne S White

Class News Editor

Member: American Alumni Council

Editorial Office and Alumni Office

Alumni House, Rollins College,

Telephone (305) 646-2266

Winter Park, Florida 32789

The ALUMNI RECORD is published

by Rollins College Alumni Associa-

tion, Winter Park, Florida, five times

per year, and is distributed exclu-

sively to graduates and former

students of Rollins College This

issue is Volume 44, Number 3 Sec-

ond-class postage paid at Winter

Park, Florida 32789

RECORD

DECEMBER/1967

in this issue

Religion on Campus

College sets the big question — what does the student believe and why? A thoughtful article

by the Dean of the Chapel, Dr Theodore S Darrah 4

Alumni Clubs

News and pictures from around the country 6

Rollins Receives $250,000 Gift

Largest ever from an Alumnus 7

A Graduate Looks Back at his College

An Alumnus Speaks

" men's and women's inclinations, dreams, plans, and anticipations about their future are usually pretty amorphous until they begin to experience the subtle pressures and competitions, the challenges and doubts, the security and fears of their college

years." The case for the small liberal arts college

by Ambassador Olcott H Deming '35

News of the Classes

8

10

ABOUT THE COVER: Certainly one of the most

outstanding and most photographed structures

on the Rollins College campus is the very beau- tiful Knowles Memorial Chapel Although Rollins

is non-sectarian, the College has maintained a

heritage of ideals from its founding under the auspices of the Congregational Churches At

Rollins the teaching responsibility of its religious

program is shared between the courses in the

College and the services in the Chapel The

worshipping and serving responsibilities are ful-

filled by the program of the Knowles Memorial

Chapel Reprints of this dramatic photograph

in full color and suitable for framing will be

available through the Rollins College Alumni As-

sociation should sufficient interest be expressed

by Alumni, undergraduates, and friends of the

College

*4%

N

if •>•.-<

.!.i-a- '■

The first problem a freshman faces when he gets to college is what shall he unpack The high school class ring or the athletic sweater which meant so much a few months ago now feel out of place In the great big grown-up critical world of the campus they appear to be kid stuff, and don't belong—and so the freshman hes- itates to unpack them Literally and figuratively a lot of things have come from home — values, practices, beliefs, attitudes which once seemed so certain and secure

— and now the freshman wonders

if he should take them out or just store them under the bed And one of "these things" is religion The college freshman is aware from the day he sets foot on cam- pus that he has left home and is now a member of a society in which he is exposed to very rigor- ous and searching criteria The exposure is in the classroom, to

be sure, but it is also in the dorm and in social groups It is made

up of the questions students ask one another

The college years should be, and are, years of critical examination This doesn't mean that all ques- tions will be answered But it does mean that the student should know what the questions are and what the process is; and he should know when he really does know, and when he is making assump- tions he should be conscious that

Rollins College is non-sectarian, but has maintained a heritage of ideals from its founding under the auspi ces of the Congregational Churches

A religious program has three re- sponsibilities: (1) teaching, (2) worshipping, and (3) serving At Rollins the teaching responsibility

is shared between the courses in the College and the services in the Chapel The other responsibilities are fulfilled by the program of the Knowles Memorial Chapel This program of religion on campus is directed by the Dean of the Chapel,

Dr Theodore S Darrah

— Rollins College Bulletin 1967-68

;

I

he is making assumptions and not

fooling himself or anyone else

College may be a rather unset-

tling experience The more bland-

ly one has accepted his home and

upbringing the more disturbed he

may expect to be On the other

hand, should a student critically

and honestly examine the heritage

in which he has been raised and

then decide to own it, he will find

tremendous reinforcement from

such an experience, and his

growth in self-confidence will en-

hance the power and poise of his

life Some experience like this is

expected for the very simple rea-

son that one of the things that a

college does, and particularly a

Liberal Arts college, is to train and

shape our critical faculties and

enlarge our vision and areas of

concern

This doesn't imply that students

are going to lose their faith, or

have lost it Instead, they find

their faith put into a new context

College students are forever ask-

ing one another to justify what-

ever they believe or do This

includes most areas of life and

thought, and particularly the re-

ligious This is part of the prob-

lem, but the other part is more dis-

turbing because it is novel At

home the student went to church

or temple — perhaps with his par-

ents — and many have belonged

to religious youth groups It was

the thing to do and received the

support of family and friends In-

stead of being questioned or ex-

amined, it was encouraged But

college sets the big question —

what do you believe and why? —

and most students are ill prepared

to deal with it intellectually or

emotionally

There is a corollary to all that

has been said and it is this: col-

lege life is sort of lived in public

It is more difficult to keep your

private life private For instance,

it was easier for the student to get

down on his knees and say his

prayers in the sanctity of his bed-

room back home than to pray in

a dorm or in the presence of a

roommate This means that the religious life in terms of practices and tenets is in for a rigorous examination in college life — and one from which it cannot hide

It means that we operate at low pressure We believe that reli- gious problems in the college years are largely private and personal problems In these years stud- ents need support and quiet talks

They need vesper services for their public confessions; Bible study for examining the basis of their faith; lots of time for medi- tation and discussion as each in his way searches and revises his religious heritage These are the years when music, and prayer, and faith—when beauty and goodness

— speak directly to our condition through symbols and forms; when the great beyond reaches to touch and to be touched, and we seek

an orientation that will find us in depths more eternal than the mor- tality in which we are immersed

It is for these reasons that the program of religion at Rollins aims not so much at building up reli- gion but bringing it out—from the bags, from under the bed

Religion

on Campus

by DEAN THEODORE S DARRAH

The Reverend Theodore S Darrah, Dean of the Knowles Memorial Chapel and profes- sor of religion at Rollins College, has been

a member of the Rollins faculty since 1947 His rapport with the Rollins students is evi- denced in their dedication of the 1958 TOMO- KAN: " To be strong, the strong must

serve You have served us in moments of despair, in moments of joy, in moments of daily living The Chapel the core

of our religious life where cherished words are reinterpreted through your spirit the after-chapel talks and your witty and telling phrases The Chapel Tower, where words of wisdom ring out weekly your friendship and your sharing of a sincere and gentle spirit In all these ways you show us that life has meaning for those who care to look for it."

Dean Darrah was born in Boston, Massa- chusetts, and was ordained a Congregational Minister in December of 1939 in Ellington, Connecticut He was graduated with a Bach- elor of Science degree from Harvard Univer- sity in 1936 and received the Bachelor of Sacred Theology degree from Harvard Divin- ity School in 1939 He served as President

of the National Association of College and University Chaplains from 1959 to 1960, is

a member of the Congregational Church, the Harvard Club of Central Florida, O.D.K., and Pi Gamma Mu He is listed in the Directory of American Scholars

His son, Jon, graduated from Rollins in the class of 1964 and spent two years with the Peace Corps in Malaysia He is now a Peace Corps Fellow stationed in Washington, D.C., for one year and will be reassigned to foreign service for three years after this

I

BREVARD COUNTY CLUB

President

Adele B Fort '56

Secretary-Treasurer

Jan Hunt Downs (Mrs Richard) '58

1203 Oxford Way, Cocoa, Florida

The Brevard County Club continues to be

one of the most active of all the clubs

A meeting was held in early December

in Titusville and another is planned for

January 13, 1968, at Cape Canaveral

The club is working on plans to take

several area high school students to the

Rollins campus for a tour

CENTRAL FLORIDA CLUB

President

G Thomas Wells '59 Secretary Jean Abendroth Dickson (Mrs John) '62

1730 Sunnyside Drive, Winter Park, Florida Following election of three new members

to the Board of Directors, Club officers

for 1967/68 were elected in October

They are: G Thomas Wells '59, presi-

dent; Scott Witherell '51, vice-president;

Jean Dickson '62, secretary; and Thomas

Calhoun '58, treasurer Members of the

club filled the Annie Russell Theatre on

Wednesday evening, November 1, for

the annual theatre party, and enjoyed

the play, "A Funny Thing Happened on

the Way to the Forum." A committee

headed by Karl and Letty Rhoten Loh-

man '59 and '61, served refreshments

at the intermission in the Chapel garden

Special Chapel Services for the annual

Christmas program are being offered for

club members on Sunday, December 17

at 6:15 p.m

NEW YORK CLUB

Chairman

James L Levy '61

Secretary-Treasurer

Joan Pinherton '63

315 E 70th Street, New York, New York

An organizational meeting was held in

New York City on the evening of Octo-

ber 18 in the office of Jim Levy, and

was attended by fifteen Alumni and Walt

Hundley, Director of Alumni Affairs

Plans are underway to hold the first

meeting of the Club after the first of the

year There are over 750 Alumni within

a 75-mile radius of New York City mak-

ing this club the second largest of the

eight clubs now in existence An organ-

izing committee was appointed as fol-

lows: James Levy '61, chairman; Ralph

"Pete" Hall '64, vice-chairman; Dan Jack-

son '62, vice-chairman; and Joan Pink-

erton '63, secretary-treasurer

FLORIDA WEST COAST CLUB

President

James Bexley '58

Secretary-Treasurer

Ruth Smith Yadley (Mrs Jean) '46

76 Ladoga Avenue, Davis Island, Tampa, Florida

Over 350 invitations were mailed in early November to the- Tampa area Alumni, inviting them to a dinner meeting on Friday, November 17, at the University Club in Tampa The featured entertain- ment was the Rollins Singers, a student group of twelve choralists and three in- strumentalists, under the direction of Dr

Ward Woodbury The Rollins Singers,

Dr Woodbury and Alumni Director Walt Hundley and his wife were overnight guests of the club

OHIO CLUB

President Lloyd C Nelson '47 Secretary-Treasurer Louise Ryan Hopkins (Mrs Benjamin) '44

2935 Montgomery Road, Shaker Heights, Ohio The Ohio Club held a successful first meeting on Saturday, September 30, at the Ashland (Ohio) Country Club Alumni Jack and June Myers were co-hosts with club president Lloyd Nelson Approxi- mately fifty attended the luncheon and cocktail party afterward at the Myers' home, including ex-Cleveland pitching star Bob Feller and his wife, Dollie Win- trier Feller '40 President McKean made

an informal talk to the group, after which

he and Walt Hundley flew to Chicago for the meeting there the following day

The next meeting of the Ohio Club will take place in a different location to af- ford other Ohio Alumni the opportunity

to attend

The first photograph above shows Alumni Director Walt Hundley, Bob and Dollie Feller, and President McKean at the Myers' home In the lower photo Presi- dent McKean is shown addressing Rollins Alumni at the Ashland Country Club

The photographs in the right-hand column show President McKean talking with Alumni at the Seidel home near Chicago

CHICAGO AREA CLUB

President

Ralph Seidel '55

Secretary-Treasurer

Cyrene Palmisano Grierson (Mrs Ian) '55

445 Montrose, Elmhurst, Illinois

The re-activated Chicago Club held a successful meeting on Sunday, October

1, at the home of Mr and Mrs Ralph Seidel in Northbrook, Illinois, with Presi- dent McKean and Alumni Director Walt Hundley in attendance President Mc- Kean made an interesting informal talk

to the some fifty Alumni present, show- ing slides of the campus Another meet- ing will be planned for sometime after the first of the year, possibly involving student recruitment

1

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CLUB

President Fred Frederic '65 Secretary-Treasurer Roberta Marling Morris (Mrs Thomas) '58

5420 Bothwell Road, Tarzana, California The Southern California Club held its first meeting on Sunday, November 19,

at the home of Mr and Mrs Thomas Morris '58 and '59 in Tarzana, California

Slides of campus scenes were shown and a progress report on the new Enyart- Alumni Field House was made to those attending Over 190 invitations were sent to Alumni living in the area

1 1968 REUNION April 26-28 €X= M^X-,

CLASS PARTIES d

Friday - April 26 DINNER DANCE

Saturday - April U

i \*A\

ROLLINS Receives $250,000

Contribution

largest ever

by an Alumnus

Deeds to Winter Park property

valued at about $250,000 have

been given to Rollins College by

Raymond Greene, former Winter

Park mayor and 1923 graduate of

the college The gift is the larg-

est single contribution made to

Rollins by an Alumnus

Under conditions of the gift, an

endowment fund will be estab-

lished with the income devoted to

the support of the Raymond W

Greene Chair of Health and Physi-

cal Education

The new chair will be head-

quartered in the Enyart-Alumni

Field House, a $745,000 physical

education building which will be

completed on the Rollins campus

next June

Assets of the endowment fund

are comprised of income-produc-

ing real estate The college will

be responsible for keeping the

property rented and for invest-

ment of income

The purpose of the gift, accord-

ing to the donor, is to establish a

chair to be occupied by a "golden

personality" such as the late Dr

Hamilton Holt, former Rollins

president, might have envisioned

In making the presentation,

Greene said he also "recognizes

the fact that President and Mrs

McKean have accomplished more

for Rollins since 1951 than any

other administration in the history

of the institution."

"Ray", as he is commonly known

to his many friends, arrived in Win-

ter Park in 1913, and was met by

Dean Arthur D Enyart and Con-

rad Bucher '13, then assistant dean

He had been persuaded by Dean

Left to right, standing: Rollins President Hugh F McKean; Phillip Price, Rollins Comptroller; Raymond W Greene Jr • Raymond W Greene; and Richard Trismen, Rollins College attorney Seated; Webber B Haines, Mr Green's attorney' and John Tiedtke, Rollins Second Vice President and Treasurer

Enyart to come to Rollins as ath-

letic director and YMCA secretary while attending college After several years of service in the U.S

Navy, he graduated from Rollins

and entered the real estate busi- ness

Very active in civic and political

affairs, Greene served as mayor of

Winter Park from December 1952

to January 1958 He is a past pres-

ident of the Rollins College Alumni

Association, a former member of

the Rollins College Board of Trus-

tees and a charter member of the Winter Park Rotary Club

President Holt recognized Ray's long service to the community

and his college in 1949, when he

awarded him Rollins' highest rec- ognition, the Declaration of Honor

President McKean presented the

Dr Hamilton Holt medal to him in

1961

He is married to the former Wil-

helmina "Billie" Freeman '27, and

two of his children, Anne Greene

Key '51 and Raymond W Greene,

Jr '60 attended Rollins

Because of his enduring associ-

ation with Rollins and his numer-

ous friendships among her Alumni,

Ray has been asked by Warren

Hume to serve as the Class Agent

for the Pioneers, those Alumni who attended Rollins prior to 1926

BULLETIN

Greene received one of three C.H.I.E.F

(Champions of Higher Independent Education

in Florida) awards at a December 7 luncheon

in Lakeland sponsored by 13 private Florida colleges

Also honored at the luncheon, sponsored

by the Independent Colleges and Universities

of Florida, were George M Jenkins, President

of Publix Markets, and Dr Joseph A Boyd, President of Radiation, Inc

Dr David M Delo, President of the Univer- sity of Tampa and Chairman of the President's

Council of ICUF, said "We are happy to honor these distinguished citizens and business lead- ers for their many contributions to private higher education in Florida."

Hosts at the Lakeland luncheon were Flor- ida Institute of Technology in Melbourne, Florida Southern in Lakeland and Rollins

In addition to Rollins, FIT and Florida Southern, ICUF members include Barry Col- lege, Bethune-Cookman College, Biscayne College, Florida Memorial College, Florida Presbyterian College, Jacksonville University, Saint Leo College, Stetson, Miami and the University of Tampa

<

LU

Z

ID

_l

by OLCOTT H DEMING '35

Olcott H Deming speaks with knowl-

edge of his Alma Mater, having served

as a Trustee of the College since

February, 1945

He graduated from Rollins in 1935,

and is married to Louise Macpherson,

class of 1937 Their three children,

Rust '64, John '66 and Rosamund all

attended Rollins

Ambassador Deming has worked in

different phases of Government Serv-

ice since 1941, first as the Education

Program Officer, Coordinator Inter-

American Affairs in Washington; in

1948 he was appointed foreign service

officer and served in Bangkok, Siam

and Tokyo; in 1953 he was assigned

to the Bureau of U.N Affairs of the

Department of State

President Kennedy appointed

Alumnus Deming as Ambassador to

Uganda in January 1963, and after

serving in that capacity for nearly

four years he returned to the United

States to take up the post of Diplo-

mat in Residence at the University of

North Carolina in Chapel Hill He

presently is Coordinator, Foreign

Service Institute, National Interde-

partmental Seminar

The Director of Alumni Affairs asked me if I would write an article for the Alumni Record — "perhaps about your background as a Diplomat." I agreed

to do so This background starts inevitably with

my years as an undergraduate at Rollins

I say inevitably, because men's and women's inclinations, dreams, plans, and anticipations about their future are usually pretty amorphous until they begin to experience the subtle pressures and com- petitions, the challenges and doubts, the security and fears of their college years Perhaps as we enter our junior year, assuredly by the senior year, we have the first "intimations of mortality." Youth, we realize, will not go on forever, choices must be made, friendships must become firmer or loosen, the moth must emerge from the chrysalis and fly or flounder These are hard confrontations; not as hard as will come later, but hard enough

Twenty-eight years after graduation, I look back with a special appreciation to the small liberal arts college in general, and to Rollins College in partic- ular, for the kind of environment in which I made

my own unique mistakes, shared a free associa- tion which, in retrospect, was really less free than wisely permissive; explored, in relative freedom from irretrievable consequences, the boundaries between reasonable ambition and demonstrated capacity; learned some of the limits of society's acceptance of individualism; and acquired knowl- edge and attitudes which, it turned out, were to serve me well in the rough and tumble of interna- tional affairs in subsequent years

In the generality it can be observed that a great virtue of a college education is that it permits the man or woman from 18 to 22 to develop mentally, emotionally, physically, and socially in an environ- ment at once of protection and stimulation, chal- lenge and discipline; in which the individual is encouraged to reach a resolution and definition of himself in relation to the kind of life he wants to lead, the kind of endeavor in which he hopes to succeed Very likely, America's pre-eminence as the leading world power, by almost any measure one wishes to choose, is due in considerable part

to the availability to so many for so long of the opportunity to learn and grow in a variety of such institutions across this land

Beyond this generality it is my conviction that the small, independent, liberal arts college is an indispensable seed bed for leadership in meeting America's growing national and international re-

back at his college

sponsibilities In support of this view, a study

carried out by the Council on Financial Aid to Ed-

ucation a few years ago revealed that leaders in

business, education and the professions, when look-

for people in middle life to take positions of major

responsibility in their organizations, found them

( most frequently among men and women who had

graduated from the small, liberal arts college The

Peace Corps, interestingly enough, has made the

same finding — that the freshly graduated, liberally

educated generalist with the B.A degree has the

best potential for meeting the requirements of

flexibility, sensitivity and conviction that will be

needed in their assignments abroad

Though it may seem a paradox, I believe the

small independent college can provide in four

years some unique benefits to their students that

the larger universities cannot The small college is

highly selective, on both a scholastic and personal

basis; the life is close and intimate; the President,

faculty and students share, to an extent impossible

in the larger community, a direct educational ex-

perience together The purpose of such education

is not alone the learning of facts and skills, impor-

tant as these are, but education of the whole man

and woman, education for life itself The small

college and the Liberal Arts curriculum undertake

to educate the universal man, the man for all sea-

sons, men and women knowledgeable about the

past, realistic about the present, and with convic-

tions about the future, their own and mankind's

Every graduate can recall individuals and events

that exercised determining influences on his later

life Certainly, in my own case, my interests in

international affairs were stimulated by President

Hamilton Holt, his strong belief in the League of

Nations and his conviction that the United States

was destined to play a major role in establishing

the rule of law among nations He epitomized,

perhaps, the "worldiness" of the American liberal

arts ethic, and he attracted faculty of similar broad

vision The Rollins Alumnus of yesterday, who

*^p<

i-\

has kept in touch with his Alma Mater, knows that those same qualities of humanism which sur- rounded him during his college years and sustained him in his maturity, are qualities which character- ize Rollins today For example, the Rollins stu-

dent who attends the new Crummer School of Business Administration will get, of course, a first- rate business education He will also, in the cor- ridors and classrooms, be exposed to works of art and an environment of taste and beauty which are subtle but powerful reminders that man does not live by bread alone and that the practical and the aesthetic are inseparable parts of the good and full life In the rough and competitive world ahead of him, the Rollins business school graduate is likely

to be a better executive and a wiser and more sensitive citizen because he lived and studied in an environment which dared to suggest the presence

of "sermons in stones and good in everything."

Clark Kerr, former President of the University

of California at Berkeley, has referred to the dy- namic surge in American higher education in the post-war years as "The Knowledge Industry." This industry is essential not only because America is great, but also to keep it great It is of the utmost importance that the independent liberal arts col- leges not only survive, but thrive in this new dyna- mism For they provide a breadth of education and an understanding of our democratic ethic that

is of vital importance, not only for our domestic well-being, but to the sensitive conduct of Ameri- ca's relations with and involvement in the affairs

of other countries

These are some of the homing thoughts, no doubt oversimplified and overgeneralized, of a dip- lomat who has returned to his native shores and looks back at his College

.- ,i