1971 Summer Towers

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OTTERBEIN COLLEGE • WESTERVILLE, OHIO

SUMMER 1971

In Spring on Campus . . .

UPPER LEFT: The traditional May Pole Dance was held this year on the north patio of the Campus Center. UPPER RIGHT: Chris Chatlain, 1971 May Queen. RIGHT: Debbie Evans, Miss T&C. LOWER RIGHT: “Moe” Agler pre­ sented Otterbein’s top sports awards to Dave Kellett (left) and Jim Augspurger (right). Both 1971 graduates, Kellett was presented with the Augspurger-Ballenger Award, and Augsurger received the Norris-Elliott Award.

OWER LEFT: The Otterbein Cardinal baseball team wound up the Spring with a 13-7 overall record, winning their last six games. Pitcher Garry Curts, freshman shown here, had a 4-1 record and a .462 batting average. LEFT: The interior of the new library takes shape as work progresses toward completion in late summer.

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otteRBein toweps Volume 44

Summer, 1971

Number 4

EDITOR

Evelyn Edwards Bale, ’30

CONTENTS

EDITOR PRO-TEM

Sarah Rose Skaates, ’56 Commencement......................................................................................

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Alumni Day.............................................................................................

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Meet Your Alumni President.............................................................

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Class Reunion Photos.........................................................................

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Alumni Association Taps Feelings of Young Alumni .................

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Cardinal Bibs Welcome Otterbein Babies .....................................

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Second Begley Award Given Roy Bowen..........................................

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Turner Appreciation Dinner .............................................................

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Otterbein Retirees Saluted..................................................................

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Presidents’ Day......................................................................................

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Dr. Hancock Writes New College History.......................................

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Published quarterly by the Alumni Council in the interest of alumni and friends. Second class postage paid at Westerville, Ohio 43081.

ALUMNI COUNCIL

President Alan E. Norris, ’57

President-Elect (To serve 1972-73) Craig Gifford, ’57

Past President Robert L. Corbin, ’49

Hannah Lambert Mayne Portrait ...................................................

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Alumni News..........................................................................................

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Vice President

Lost Alumni.............................................................................................

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Rita Zimmerman Gorsuch, ’61

Sabbatical Takes Curt Tong to Philippines.....................................

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Secretary

Orville Freeman’s Talk.........................................................................

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Martha Troop Miles, ’49

Military

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Flashes

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Advanced Degrees.................................................................................

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Marriages, Births, Deaths..................................................................

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Bulletin Board........................................................................................

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Memhers-at-Large Carol Simmons Shackson, ’63 Norman H. Dohn, ’43 Diane Weaston Birchbichler, ’66 Edward G. Case, ’63 William A. Barr, ’46 William N. Freeman, ’57 Sarah Rose Skaates, ’56

Alumni Trustees

The Cover The end of thirteen years in the often hot and prickly seat of a college president came to a fitting end as Dr. Lynn W. Turner, Presi­ dent of Otterbein College, addressed the members of the Class of 1971. As all Commencements are, Otterbein's 124th was both an end and a beginning for the graduates; on June 6 this was also true for the speaker.

In his address, Dr. Turner challenged the graduates to write by their deeds the Commencement message for the Class of 2001.

TOWERS presumes to offer much the same challenge to Dr. Turner.

Let your retirement. Dr. Turner, be neither sterile nor cluttered with the trash of needless frustrations and might-have-beens. Let it be a retirement TO more than a retirement FROM. And so use your days and years that 2001 A.D. will be for you, too, part of a rich and meaningful period of life. God Bless.

Donald R. Martin, ’37 Harold Augspurger, ’41 Harold L. Boda, ’25 Edwin L. Roush, ’47 L. William Steck, ’37 Paul G. Craig. ’50 Herman F. Lehman, ’22 H. William Troop, Jr., ’50

Faculty Representatives Sylvia Phillips Vance, ’47 Franklin M. Young, ’26

Acting Executive Secretary Chester Turner, ’43

Ex-Officio College treasurer and presidents of Alumni Clubs

Dr. Turner Gives Options For Commencement^ 2001 AD. "You have the privilege of seeing the dawn of the Twenty-First Cen­ tury,’’ Dr. Lynn W. Turner told the 1971 Otterbein College graduating class on Sunday, June 6.

In a speech considerably shortened from its original form "because Bish­ op Ensley said this morning at Bac­ calaureate much of what I had planned to say this afternoon,’’ Dr. Turner challenged the 306 graduates to write the Commencement condition for their own sons and daughters in the future class of 2001.

Dr. Turner described two projected Commencements for the coming gen­ eration—one totally anarchial, the other sterile and state-controlled. In the first, there was no Otterbein Col­ lege. What was left had been renamed "Freedom Hall,’’ after student vote in 1986 had eliminated the name "Ot­ terbein’’ as too much of a reminder of the institutional church. Religious cell groups and drug-induced sensitivity sessions replaced education, home economics, business administration, history and government, religion and philosophy. A shoddy campus, chaos and a drug-created limbo were fore­ seen.

"Let me explain,’’ Dr. Turner said, "this is not my prediction of what things will be like, but a picture of the way they will be if certain tenden­

cies in our society today are allowed to develop unchecked. It would be the ultimate realization of the Conscious­ ness III level in Green America.’’

In the president’s second option for Commencement 2001, the campus had become "Campus 0070’’ with everything functional, uniform, clean —and state-controlled. Careers were chosen by computer at age 10 and the Viet Nam War had now killed a million young Americans.

"Mankind has always been fasci­ nated by the future," Dr. Turner ob­ served, "but he’s never been very practical about it. For the most part, we allow things to change us, rather than exert ourselves to control things and direct change. We are great at inventing new machines, but very poor at foreseeing what the machines are going to do to us.

"I am too much of an optimist to be a successful Jeremiah, and too much of a realist to believe in Uto­ pias. I have enough faith in you to be confident that neither of my dire alternatives for 2001 A.D. will come to pass, but not quite enough assur­ ance to be certain about what kind of future you will create.

"You will write the Commencement address of 2001 A.D., not in perish­ able words, but in irrevocable action."

facing PAGE: Graduates pause for a moment on the steps of Cowan Hall before the Proces­ sional. ABOVE: Recipients of honorary degrees were (I. to r.) Dr. J. Barkley Rosser, Dr. James V. Miller and Dr. Hubert M. James. TOP RIGHT: Bishop F. Gerald Ensley, who delivered the Baccalaureate sermon, and Commencement speaker Dr. Lynn W. Turner. RIGHT: Ronald White and William Fridley saw Commencement end their 16-year status as classmates. The 1971 graduates have been friends and classmates since the first day of first grade.

Three Honorary Degrees Awarded Otterbein College awarded three honorary degrees at its 124th com­ mencement exercises Sunday, June 6.

Dr. Hubert M. James, Professor of Physics at Purdue University was awarded a Doctor of Science degree.

He holds degrees from RandolphMacon College and Harvard Univers­ ity, where he was a Research Fellow for two years. Dr. James was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1939 and from 1941 through 1946 was associ­ ated with the M.l.T. Radiation Labora­ tory. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, a member of numer­ ous professional societies and the co­ author of “Theory of Servomechan­ isms.” He has also authored more than 60 papers in various fields of physics.

Receiving an honorary Doctor of Laws was Dr. James V. Miller, Presi­ dent of Pacific University, Forest Grove, Oregon. From 1964-1970 Dr. Miller was Vice President of Aca­ demic Affairs at Otterbein. Previous to that he was chairman of philosophy and religion at Bates College in Lewis­ ton, Maine. Dr. Miller holds degrees from Indiana Central College and

Boston College where he earned a Ph.D. in 1955. While at Otterbein he was instrumental in establishing the College’s 3/3 academic calendar and curriculum and the new governance program.

An honorary Doctor of Science was awarded to Dr. J. Barkley Rosser, Di­ rector of the Mathematics Research Center, University of Wisconsin. Dr. Rosser holds degrees from the Uni­ versity of Florida and Harvard Uni­ versity and has taught at UCLA and Cornell, as well as the University of Wisconsin, where he is now a Profes­ sor of Mathematics. He began work­ ing with the government in missile and rocketry fields in 1939.

Dr. Rosser was awarded a Certifi­ cate of Commendation from the Sec­ retary of the Navy in 1960 for his help in developing the Polaris missile and a Presidential Certificate of Merit in 1948 for his WW II work in weaponry. He has also been involved in the U. S. space program since 1955 and has authored or co-authored six books in the fields of mathe­ matics, logic and computers.

Commencements are detailed in the size of the graduating classes, the speakers* words of advice, and the recognition given to persons of impor­ tance. But to the individual graduate.

Commencement is a personal thing compounded of perspiration trickling under the traditional academic robe, the pride of parents and friends, the sometimes nervous uncertainty of fu­ ture employment.

Commencement is being the third generation to graduate from the same school, getting married a week early in order to graduate with a new name, getting a degree after years of parttime study or after returning to school when the family is grown. Commence­ ment can be the merest beginning to a suceession of degrees and academic work, or a Whew!—I-made-it—thankheavens-Vm-done experience.

To many who are testing the old orders in terms of relevance and a less structured life style. Commencement can be a classic of ritual tedium. To others who are dizzied by the cyelonic wmds of change. Commencement can be a reassuring landmark of stability.

Whatever the individual*s personal feeling. Commencement remains a pencil mark on the wall of our years, marking a point of growth somewhere between learning to read and learning to be wise.

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Mpmbers

Members

of the Class of '66 catch up on the news of the past five years.

Good Turn-Out For Alumni Luncheon In his remarks to the nearly 500 alumni and friends gathered in the Campus Center Dining Room for the Alumni Day Luncheon, out-going Otterbein President Lynn W. Turner re­ called, “On our first Alumni Day together in old Barlow Hall back in 1958, you were all sweltering and sitting on each other’s laps. Now you’re in a much larger dining hall, with air conditioning to keep you from sweltering, but you’re still sitting on each other’s laps!’’

The attendance record for a re­ union class was set by the Class of 1961, dubbed “the swingers’’ by in­ coming Alumni President Alan E. Norris. Nearly 60 persons, including spouses, had been counted the night before at the luau for the ’61 Class.

The classes of 1951, 1926 and 1921 also showed a strong attendance with 29, 26, and 24 members present, re­ spectively.

While the largest number of alumni returned from relatively close areas, at least four came long distances.

Earl Ford, ’22, and Joseph Henry, ’26, came across country from Cal­ ifornia, while Milton Czatt, ’16, and Carroll Widdoes, ’26, came north from Florida.

Highlight of the afternoon for the Golden Anniversary class was the presentation of Honor Year certifi­ cates, delivered with the inimitable style and wit of their own class mem­ ber, J. Ruskin Howe.

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Honorary Alumnus Awards were received by Tom and Donna Kerr, Myrtle Grimes (Mrs. Mack) and Mildred and Keith Crane.

Following the luncheon was an out­ door concert by the Symphony of Winds (concert band). The events of the day were concluded with the Cen­ turion Club dinner.

Alumni Awards Given; New Officers Announced Dr. Verda Evans, '28, Cleveland, was presented the Distinguished Alumnus Award by the Otterbein Alumni Association at Alumni Day festivities on campus June 5. The award was presented by classmate and fellow Otterbein trustee. Miss Mary B. Thomas.

Dr. Evans is a member of the col­ lege Board of Trustees and presently serves in the Cleveland Public Schools as Director of the EnglishLanguage Arts program.

An additional Distinguished Alum­ nus Award was presented by Alumni President Robert Corbin to President and Mrs. Lynn W. Turner. The Turners are Honorary Alumni, Class of 1958.

Honorary Alumnus Awards were presented to Keith and Mildred Crane, and Mrytle Grimes. Keith Crane has been at the college since 1947 in the Chemistry Department while his wife, Mildred, has been head nurse in the campus Health Center for the same period.

Myrtle Grimes, Columbus, is the widow of Alumni Association past president. Mack A. Grimes. Their two daughters are graduates of Otterbein.

Otterbein President-Elect Thomas J. Kerr IV and his wife Donna, were also presented Honorary Alumni status.

Distinguished Alumnus Awards were given to Vera and Lynn Turner, H'58, and to Verda Evans, '28.

President-Elect Thomas J. Charles Nunemaker, '26.

Kerr talks with

Otterbein Alumni Association offi­ cers for the 1971-72 term were also announced. They are: Alan Norris, ’57, Westerville, president; Rita Gorsuch, ’61, Westerville, vice-president; Martha Troop Miles, ’49, Westerville, secretary. Three council-at-large seats went to William A. Barr, ’46, Dr. Wil­ liam N. Freeman, ’57, and Sarah Rose Skaates, '56, all of Westerville.

Meet

Tour Alumni President

Alan E. Norris

The 1971-72 President of the Otterbein Alumni Asso­ ciation is a third generation alumnus who has lived all of his life within sound of the college bell. His parents, wife, a brother, and a sister-in-law are all graduates of Otterbein as well as assorted cousins and more distant relatives.

And yet, as he faces the challenge of leading the or­ ganization, Alan E. Norris, ’57, finds himself less con­ cerned with the strictly traditional aspects of alumnihood which might be expected from his own history, as with the forward-looking viewpoint of the newest alumni.

“I am excited about the possibilities inherent in the Young Alumni Advisory Committee which got started under Bob Corbin’s leadership this past year,” Mr. Norris told TOWERS. ”1 think it is important for the Alumni As­ sociation to know the needs and desires of all members, and while the communication has been pretty good with those of us who have been out of school longer than ten or fifteen years, it has not been so well established with the most recent graduates.”

Mr. Norris is well experienced in developing and main­ taining a feel for the various segments of a constituency.

In 1970 he was re-elected State Representative from the 59th House District of Ohio. During his third term of office he is serving as chairman of the Joint Committee on Domestic Relations Law Reform and of the Criminal Law Section of the House Judiciary Committee. He is Vice

Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, a member of the State Government Committee and Criminal Code Revision Committee.

He is the 1967 recipient of the Westerville Jaycees “Outstanding Young Man Award,” an honorary Kentucky Colonel, and the author of a variety of articles on legal topics. He is listed in Who’s Who in American Politics.

A practicing attorney in Westerville with fellow alumni Roy Metz and Francis “Red” Bailey, both ’43, Mr. Norris has been active in the local Kiwanis Club of which he is a charter member. Masonic bodies and Church of the Master United Methodist Church. A former member of the Otterbein Alumni Council before being elected Alumni As­ sociation Vice-President in 1969, he has also maintained an active interest in the Pi Kappa Phi Alumni Association of which he is a past president.

Mr. Norris is married to the former Nancy Myers, '61, who is the 1971-72 president of the Westerville Otterbein Women’s Club and is Publicity Director for the Otterbein Theater. The Norrises have two children; Tom, 7, and Tracy, 4. Their home at58W. College Ave. provided rooms for many former Otterbein students during the years Alan’s grandmother, Maude W. Norris (Mrs. E. J.), M’17, lived there as a widow.

To Alumni President Norris, wishes for a successful term.

TOWERS offers

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CLASS OF 1901__Dr. Frank Oldt returned for his seventieth anniversary. He lives in Flint, Mich., and returned to campus with his daughter, Margaret E. Old't, '36.

CLASS OF 1906__Ethel Miller Schleppi graduated from Otterbein sixty-five years ago. She lives in Westerville and was accompanied to the Alumni Day Luncheon by her daughters Mildred Schleppi and Helen Schleppi Smith, Sp. '67.

CLASS OF 1911 —1st row: Sarah Dick Funk, Chloe Z. Niswonger, Goldie McFarland Clark. 2nd row: B. F. Richer, Glen C. Arnold.

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ANNIVERSARY YEAR — 1st row: Lera Waters Wallace, Neva Priest Boyles, Esther Harley PhillippL Florence Rose Goodman ®*3dys Yokum Gillogly, Ida Marie Spelling Neeley, Murle McElwee Sanders. 2nd row: Marvel E. Sebert, Sanders Hooper Schutz, Margaret Pifer, Violet Patterson Wagoner, Helen Campbell, Lois Bickelhaupt, Albert M banders. 3rd row: Wib Wagoner, Vaughn Bancroft, Gebrge Whit4, Lloyd Harmon, Donald C. Bay, Lyman S. Hert, J. Ruskin Howe.

Helen E. Palmer, Agnes Buchert Hoover, Viola Priest Menke, Hattie Clark Zepp, Betty Marsh Walter, Edythe hy D Catherine j^arst ^yers, Zora Youmans, Florence Rauch Hudock. 2nd row: William C. Myers, Lester B. Cox, Harold H. Hetzler, Walter yy.

Roy p. Miller, Earl R. Hoover, Paul B. Upson, Don Phillips, Franklin Young, Carroll Widdoes, Vera Wright Spessard. 3rd row: Carl B. Eschbach, Nel Wilburg, Charles F. Nunemaker, Joseph B. Henry, D. Ruskin Hoover, N. Hale Richter.

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CLASS OF 1931__1st row: Margaret Anderson Telian, Mary Hummell Rainier, Nola Samson King, Dorothy Schrader Norris, Ethel Shelly Steinmetz, Margaret Miller Peters, Olive Shisler Samuel, Martha Evans Nielsen. 2nd row: Edward Ricketts, Francis Bundy, Walter R. Shelley, Paul T. Hughes, Roger T. Moore, Mary Carter Cochran, Helen Mathias Berry, Maxine Ebersole Coppess, Isabella King, Horace P.' White, Clare Nutt.

CLASS OF 1936 1st row: Wahnita Strahm Airhart, Margaret E. Oldt, Beatrice Drummond, Marjorie Bowser Goddard, Kathryn Moore Hohn, Ella Smith Toedtman, Sarah Wagner Saltz, Evelyn Nichols Tryon. 2nd row: Raymond M. Lilly, Morris E. Allton, E. J. Booth, John Evers’ole, Tom E. Brady.

CLASS OF 1941 — 1st row: Kathleen Bright, Virginia Jeremiah Garcia, Jean Plott Robinson, Rita Kohlepp Hanawalt, Mary Dixon Schear, Betty Haverstock Schiering. 2nd row: Dwight Spessard, Paul W. Kirk, Milford E. Ater, Frank VanSickle, Harold F. Augspurger, John D. Stone, Fred J. Nicolle, Elmer Schear.

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„ . .^i-ASS OF 1946 — 1st row: Jim Sheridan, Jeannette Pugh Gardner, Pat Nutt Shuter, Carol Clark Alkire, Janet Louise Roberts, Helen Hebbeler Evans, Irene Parker Gillespie. 2nd row: Carl R. Robinson, William A. Barr, Richard Welsh, Evalou Stauffer Middaugh, Jo Case Thomas, Marian Henderson MacKenzie.

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Yohn, Janet Sprout Craig, Glenna Keenev Long, Ruth Anne Smith Moore. Claire Kerr Lortz, Vance, Jean Share Sherriff, Anita Ranck Morris. 2nd row: Priscilla Warner Berry, David Yohn, Warren Dale Girton, Jim Morgan, Paul F. Moore, Ross Crutchfield, Miriam Wetzel Ridinger. Marty Weller Shand. 3rd row: ^^ulton. Herb Lohr, Ray Heckman, Glenn A. Waggaman, Donald E. Bloomster, Jim Yost, Donald

I? Lou Stine Wagner, Gail Bunch Arledge, Sarah Rose Skaates, Marilyn Hert Spires, Mary Jo Hoyer RnMih Harsh, Mary Wagner Myers, Lou Ann Riseling. 2nd row: Kay Loutsenhizer Swigart, Curt Tong, Dave Warner. R. John Rough, W. O. Anderson, I. J. Bence, James K. Wagner, Betty Pooler Driever.

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CLASS OF 1961 — 1st row: Kathy KrumhansI Heidelberg, Joyce Strickler Miller, Alberta Wiseman, Myra Kilgore Wetzel, Nerita Darling Brant, Judy Graham Gebhart, Phyllis Jenkins Heitz, Carol Thompson, Beth Hanning Sherman. 2nd row: Connie Thordsen, Kay Decker Durig, Sue Fish Gatton, Nancy Myers Norris, Nancy Jones Smith, Rita Zimmerman Gorsuch, Paula Schreiner Knotts, Judie Nosker Croghan, Sara Elberfeld Deever, Connie Bielstein Bonnell, Bernard Campbell. 3rd row: Tom Price, Thomas Phillips, Richard C. Spicer, Richard L. Rufener, Walter E. Schatz, Richard Kissling, Richard Gorsuch, Roger Brant, Tom Croghan, Daniel Deever, James Shackson, Ronald Ritchie.

CLASS OF 1966—1st row: Wilma Woodworth, Jo Stuckman, Bonnie Reams Paul, Susan Klenk Creamer, Suellen Cochrane Wassem, Barbara Bojanowski Mat^cik, Ruth Barnes Wilson, Joann Bell Kaiser. 2nd row: Steve Moeller, Mike Cochran, David Orbin, Stephen Bretz, Richard Petersen, Linda Zimmers Keller, Lenore Brobst Lutz, Sharon Kite Plank.

New Trustees Elected From Faculty, Students Dr. Elizabeth O’Bear, Professor of German and Chairman of the Depart­ ment of Foreign Languages, and Miss Christine Lee Chatlain, ’72, were elected this spring to three-year terms as faculty and student members, re­ spectively, of the Otterbein College Board of Trustees.

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Dr. O’Bear has been at Otterbein since 1960. She holds two degrees from Oberlin College and a Ph.D. from the Ohio State University.

Miss Chatlain was crowned May Queen just one month prior to her election as Student Trustee. She is a member of Sigma Alpha Tau soror­ ity, Cap and Dagger, the Otterbein speech team, the AFROTC Angel Flight, and has been active in the Campus Crusade for Christ. The

speech and theater major was chosen departmental representative to the College Senate.

Also named a trustee at faculty elections in April was Dr. Marilyn Day, Asst. Professor and Chairman of the Women’s Phys. Ed. Depart­ ment. Dr. Day filled the unexpired term through June 30 of Dr. Roy Turley who resigned the post to be­ come Vice President of Academic Af­ fairs.

Alumni Association Taps Feelings Of Young Alumni How do the younger members of the Otterbein Alumni Association feel about the association itself, their role in it, and the communications media from the college to alumni?

get-togethers, perhaps before and/or after athletic, theatre of cultural events on campus, however, have been under consideration by the Y.A.A.C.

This is a question which has been asked by succeeding Alumni Presi­ dents for the past few years. The per­ centage of alumni who have been out of college for five years or less is a growingly impressive one, and some figures indicate that those who have graduated within the past two decades comprise a heavy majority of the total membership.

An alumnus of '67 wrote that the kind of reporting from campus which held the greatest interest for him was that which reflected the work of faculty members to make their work “relevant” and alive for students, as well as to ways the faculty members themselves chose to grow profes­ sionally and personally.

“What this means for people In our position,” Alumni Past President Robert Corbin told Alumni Council members last year, “is that we have to find out what being an alumnus of Otterbein means to the graduates of the sixties and seventies, find out what needs and interests they may have which the Alumni Association can meet, and then plan accordingly.”

In addition to random and informal samplings of opinion from alumni of ten years or less, Mr. Corbin author­ ized the formation of an informal Young Alumni Advisory Committee to do additional thinking on the subject, with recommendations to be pre­ sented to the Alumni Council at their October 2 meeting on campus.

Comments and opinions collected from individuals and from the Initial meeting of the Young Alumni Advisory Committee indicate a range of interest and degree of desired involvement.

At one end of a scale would be the encouragement to have separate and special groups and/or programs ex­ clusively for the most recent gradu­ ates, while at the other end would be concern for a splintered association, with the same problems as at present merely postponed another five years.

One '64 graduate summed up her reaction to alumni groups of any kind with, “Who needs them? We (she and her husband, '63) will always support Otterbein, be Interested in what's hap­ pening on campus and to other alumni but to form a group just so you can have a meeting every now and then is a waste of time.”

Meetings of small groups of recent grads, students, and faculty in the form of receptions, dinners and other

The possibility of a four page tab­ loid size newspaper to be produced under the supervision of young alumni is being weighed by the Y.A.A.C. The paper would include contributions from young alums, faculty and stu­ dents, with news oriented toward campus affairs and items of current interest, as opposed to the alumni news orientation of TOWERS. Another '64 grad commented on the present campus-alumni communi­ cation media, “I suppose the kinds of happenings that make TOWERS worth­ while are the constructive, challeng­ ing, growing, changing situations it reports, both on campus and with the alumni. Somehow it always gives me a lift to know there are exciting things going on, even if we don't happen to be in the center of them!”

Also in recent years the thinking of those involved in alumni work has come back more and more often to the concept of continuing education for alumni. A Continuing Education Workshop sponsored by the Alumni Association in October, 1968, drew a modest attendance but much en­ thusiasm from those present.

“This is the best thing Otterbein has done in years,” was the reaction of a '65 member. The concept of con­ tinuing education has been thought about from a variety of angles—from adding a new dimension to TOWERS to sponsoring a week or week-end brush-up-on-your-education session on campus for alumni and families.

1971 Alumni President Alan Nor­ ris and the sub-committee of the Y.A.A.C. will continue to research opinions and reflect on their applica­ tion during the summer.

“Our work will have the best possi­ ble results, and those best serving all

alumni, only if we are informed about alumni thinking,” Mr. Norris has said.

“Not only do we welcome and Invite comments from all sides, we’ll be tickled to death to get them. And now is the time to get opinions stated, not after decisions have been made and action taken.”

Alumni—recent or not-so-recent— with opinions and suggestions about any phase of the Alumni Association operation may write Mr. Norris either in care of the Alumni Office, or at his home, 58 W. College Ave., Westerville, Ohio 43081.

Alumni Council Hears Progress Reports May 15 The Alumni Council met May 15 with thirty-three in attendance to hear reports on the activities of the campus, the Board of Trustees, and the Alumni Association.

Among those items noted and dis­ cussed were: 1) The tour of alumni groups made by Dr. and Mrs. Turner; 2) The 125th Anniversary celebra­ tion and campaign; 3) The Senior Luau sponsored by the Alumni Association and held suc­ cessfully in February; 4) The Board of Trustee’s report of no deficit spending for the past fifteen months, and of a contract with a food catering service to handle college food preparation next year; 5) Announcement of October 28, 1971, as Presidents’ Day, at which time President-Elect Thomas J. Kerr will be installed and the 125th Anni­ versary officially begun; 6) Reports by alumni representa­ tives to the Personnel Committee, the Curriculum Committee and the Ad­ ministrative Council of the college; 7) Reports from local alumni groups; 8) Findings of the sub-committee of an informal Young Alumni Com­ mittee and subsequent formation of a “Young Alumni Advisory Commit­ tee.”

In other action, the revision of the constitution articles dealing with alumni members of the Board of Trustees were approved in order to bring the constitution in line with the present formation of the Board.

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English Prof, is Editor Of “Little” Magazine Dr. William T. Hamilton, Chairman of the Department of English, now carries the additional title of Fiction Editor for his off-campus work with the “little” magazine SNOWY EGRET. According to Dr. Hamilton, SNOWY EGRET is devoted to the “literary aspects of natural history,” and has been published for a number of years

by Humphrey Olsen of Williamsburg, Ky.

Jim and Meg Million, 'x66 and ’x70, and their "Million Dollar Baby," Michael Emerson, show off one of the "I’m a little Cardinal from Otterbein” bibs sent by the Alumni Office to proud parents of future Otterbein students.

Cardinal Bibs Welcome Otterbein Babies New arrivals to Otterbein families are now being welcomed with a very practical reminder of their parents’ college affiliation. Since last April, each baby whose birth and/or adop­ tion has been reported to the Alumni Office has been sent an official Ot­ terbein College bib.

As parents who have used the bibs so far have found out, the terry cloth accessory not only does a good job of soaking up spills and dribbles, but does a subtle bit of advertising along the way.

During the first year of Operation Bibs, from April 4, 1970, to April 19 of this year, the baby gifts were

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sent to 54 boys and 55 girls. The 109 bibs travelled to homes as close as Westerville and as far as West Germany and England. The bulk of them, 72, went to Ohio babies, with Michigan and Pennsylvania holding second place with four each. Two bibs apiece were sent to Colorado, Florida, Nebraska, New York, Texas and Wisconsin. One bib went to each of fourteen other states, including Alaska and Hawaii.

Parents who would like extra bibs without adding to their existing fam­ ilies, or alumni who would like to use them for gifts, may find additional Otterbein bibs stocked by the college Bookstore.

Dr. Hamilton’s interest in the mag­ azine began when he got in touch with Mr. Olsen concerning Dr. Hamilton’s doctoral dissertation at the University of Minnesota, a selected edition of the work of Alexander Wilson (17661813), an early American poet and naturalist. Mr. Olsen has studied Wilson extensively, and their mutual interests led him to invite Dr. Hamil­ ton to assume the fiction editorship of the magazine.

The Otterbein professor told TOW­ ERS, “Since early adolescence I have had a strong amateur interest in nat­ ural history, and Wilson (and SNOWY EGRET) have permitted me to com­ bine this interest with my profes­ sional interests in literature.”

As editor. Dr. Hamilton is in­ terested in identifying and publishing good modern fiction which involves the broad theme of man in nature.

“Since at least the time of James Fenimore Cooper,” he notes, “this has been a major concern of Ameri­ can literature, and as the wilderness becomes sorely diminished in our time, there seems to be a new in­ terest in the subject.”

Dr. Hamilton’s editorial office is at his home, 204 W. Main St., Wester­ ville, Ohio.

Second Begley Award Given Roy Bowen and assistant instructor (1946-49) and as a visiting assistant professor (1948-58) while simultaneously serv­ ing as managing director of the Co­ lumbus Players Club.

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Dr. Bowen is a member of the Na­ tional Theatre Conference, the Ameri­ can Educational Theatre Association and the Ohio Community Theatre As­ sociation, of which he was a founder and past president. He has done much of the organizational work for the American Playwrights Theatre and is currently its secretary-treas­ urer. Based at Ohio State, the Ameri­ can Playwrights Theatre was formed In December, 1963, to bring first-run plays to non-commercial stages throughout the United States.

Dr. Roy H. Bowen

He has directed over 100 plays In Columbus, many of them using casts drawn both from the university and the community. He has written several articles which have appeared in professional journals and is cur­ rently working on a book on theater appreciation.

Dr. Roy H. Bowen, ’33, is the sec­ ond recipient of the annually awarded Ed Begley Memorial Drama Award.

Otterbein Graduates Signed For W.S.U.’s Acting Program Two recent Otterbein College grad­ uates have been accepted for Wayne State University's Program in Acting, one of the most prestigious In the country. Michael Hartman, ’70, and Dennis Romer, ’71, will begin the two year course leading to a Master of Arts degree in Theatre this Sep­ tember.

The Wayne State graduate pro­ gram is professionally oriented and combines course work with participa­ tion in a “rolling” repertory theatre specializing in classical productions.

Six to seven productions are mounted annually and afford each Acting Pro­ gram participant one-hundred-fifty to one-hundred-sixty stage appearances in nine months time, providing an un­ paralleled arena for students like Mr. Hartman and Mr. Romer who hope for a career in professional theatre, but also have the option of returning to educational theatre or teaching once they complete their studies.

Founded by the Los Angeles Otterbein Alumni Club with the advice and consent of the Theater Department, the Begley Award is given to an Otterbein graduate who has distin­ guished himself in theater. The first recipient of the award was Dr. Jack Wright, currently Assistant Director of Theatre at the University of Texas, who had appeared with the late actor in his guest star appearance in the Otterbein production of “J. B.”

Walter (Jack) N. White, x’55. Is Administrator of the Nursing Pavilion of Shell Point Village in Fort Myers, Fla. The 180-bed nursing home is part of a Christian retirement village owned and operated by The Christian and Missionary Alliance Church.

Dr. Bowen is a highly logical choice for the 1971 Begley Award since, in addition to his work as Professor of Speech and Director of Theater at Ohio State' University, he will guest direct the Fall Homecoming produc­ tion of the Otterbein Theatre.

After leaving Otterbein, Mr. White transferred to the University of Vir­ ginia where he received his BA with a major in psychology. Masters de­ gree work in hospital administration was completed at the Medical College of Virginia.

Mr. Hartman is originally from Dayton, while Mr. Romer came to Ot­ terbein from Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Both credit the Otterbein College Theatre Department under the direc­ tion of Dr. Charles Dodrill with their interest in professional theatre and the excellence of undergraduate training and experience that secured them their positions at Wayne State next fall.

An Associate Professor on a full­ time basis at Ohio State since 1958, Dr. Bowen was named Director of Theatre in 1960. Prior to his full­ time work at 0. S. U., Dr. Bowen had served as a graduate assistant

Mr. White's professional life has all been in Virginia, up to his present position, where he served as adminis­ trator of several community hospitals and one hospital specializing in the care of crippled children.

During the summer Mr. Romer is participating in his third season with the Otterbein Summer Theatre, and Mr. Hartman has been acting with the Weathervane Playhouse in New­ ark.

Jack White Is Administrator Of Florida Nursing Home

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Turner Appreciation Dinner

A check for $5000 Is presented to Dr. Lynn W. Turner on behalf of alumni and friends by J. Ralph Riley, Chairman of the Presidential Recognition Committee.

On the evening of May 16, Dr. Lynn W. and Vera Turner were paid tribute by the college community through spoken word, song, film, and tangible gifts.

During the administration of its seventeenth president, Otterbein College has accomplished a remarkable growth both of physical facilities and in academics. "The Turner Years," 1958-71, have seen five men's housing units built and two women’s dormitories. Such major campus buildings as the Campus Center, Science Center, Hirsch Health Center and Library have been constructed during this time, as well as two Maintenance Building additions, and the present remodeling of the Central Cooling and Heating Plant.

The Three-three Plan with its required sabbatical leave every seventh term has won respect in the academic world as the Governance Plan is doing in other areas.

At the Appreciation Dinner honoring the Turners, these facts were allowed to speak for themselves as guests watched the audio-visual reminiscences prepared by Ross Fleming, Director of the Learning Resource Center.

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Brief tributes in Pres. Turner's behalf were offered by representatives of the various constituencies of the col­ lege. Perhaps W. Edward Vaughn, College Senator and Student Trustee, best summed up the speakers’ feelings when he referred to King Arthur’s speech in "Camelot" comparing mankind to the many drops of water which form a stream. "Those drops . . . some do sparkle. They do sparkle,” he quoted, concluding with the wish that the sparkle of the Turners continue into the retirement years.

Closing the evening’s program was J. Ralph Riley, Chairman of the Recognition Committee and member of the Board of Trustees. Mr. Riley presented the Turners with personal mementos, then handed over a check for $5000, which had been contributed by alumni and friends. In addition, money has been donated to the new library in the Turners’ name and a plaque so stating will be placed in the building.

Vocal selections by the A Cappella Choir under the di­ rection of Roger McMurrin concluded the evening.

Letter Thanks, Tells Future Plans The following is an open letter from Dr. Turner to the college community as a whole. It is included in its entirety in TOWERS at his request.

Mrs. Turner and I have searched our combined vocabu­ laries to find the proper words to express our feelings about the reception and dinner held in our honor Sunday, May 16, but we find them inadequate. I suppose that as long as we are human we yearn to be appreciated, even

One of the several per­ sonal gifts received by Pres, and Mrs. Turner at the May 16 dinner in their honor was this caricature by Ohio artist Leland S. McCelland.

Summer Theatre Led By Dodrill, Guest Director Three guest directors joined Dr. Charles Dodrill for the 1971 Otter­ bein Summer Theatre. Dr. Robert Crosby, Chairman of the Department of Speech and Theatre at Ohio Wes­ leyan University, with well-known Ot­ terbein treatre majors, Dennis Romer and Ed Vaughn, each directed one production, completing the four-man directing staff.

The opening and closing produc­ tions of the Otterbein Summer Theatre were directed by Dr. Dodrill. They were “Charley's Aunt’’ on two suc­ cessive weekends, June 17-19 and June 24-26; and “The Male Animal,” July 20-24.

though we realize in our own judgments that we fall far short of what we ought to be. So for all the kind words and generous gifts and even for the exaggerated tributes —we are grateful.

To our friends among the students, faculty, trustees, alumni, colleagues and associates who contributed to the more than generous gifts of money and of other things and who came in person to wish us well, and especially to the members of the Otterbein Women’s Club, the A Cappella Choir, the dining room staff, the speakers, the Campus Club and the Committee in Charge we want to express our inexpressible gratitude. You have filled our last days at Otterbein with long-to-be-cherished memories.

So many of you have indicated an interest in our future plans that I will try to outline them here. I will leave the President’s office on June 30, but remain on the campus until August 31 to tie up loose ends, clean out files, and attend conferences. We will then move to 211 West Semi­ nary Street, Bloomington, Illinois, — the house in which Vera spent most of her girlhood and where her mother now lives. I will resume the historical research and writing which I laid aside thirteen years ago when I came to Otterbein. We will do as much traveling as energy and money permit—a trip to the Orient and the Near East is most immediately on our minds. We will be back on the campus for Presidents’ Day in October, and many other times — Deo volente! To all of you who have made our thirteen years in Westerville so memorable, we say a fond farewell.

LYNN W. TURNER

Ed Vaughn, who directed the winter season production of “The Chalk Garden” for the Otterbein Col­ lege Theatre, was responsible for the second show on the summer agenda, “A Shot In The Dark,” produced June 29-July 3.

In addition to the four show di­ rectors, Professor Fred Thayer was again working backstage as Designer and Technical Director for the five shows.

“All My Sons,” the award-winning Arthur Miller drama, was directed by Dennis Romer July 6-10. Mr. Romer plans a career in professional theatre.

Both he and Mr. Vaughn graduated in June from Otterbein and doubled as members of the Summer Theatre act­ ing company.

Dr. Crosby, who returned for a second season of guest directing with the Otterbein Summer Theatre, was responsible for “Misalliance,” July 13-17. During the 1970 season, he directed a production of “The Miser.”

Ed Vaughn gets lots of attention from Chris Chatlain and Stephanie Lewis in this scene from “Charley’s Aunt,” first offering for the 1971 season of Otterbein Summer Theatre.

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Otterbein Retirees Saluted

James K. Ray

Three members of the Otterbein College faculty retired at the end of the academic year in June. They are: Nell Pagean, Professor of Education; James K. Ray, Associate Professor of English; Franklin M. Young, Assistant Professor of Education.

Dr. Pagean’s retirement comes after twenty-three years in the Otter­ bein classroom. Her teaching ex­ perience at the Westerville college, however, represents exactly half her total teaching career which includes service in elementary and secondary classrooms, in guidance work, and in five institutions of higher education.

Dr. Pagean holds membership in at least half a dozen professional or­ ganizations, has served as Chapter and State Chairman of Professional Affairs for Delta Kappa Gamma, and is listed in “Who's Who in American Education," Spring-1961.

Professor Ray shares the longevity record of this year's faculty retirees, having come to the Otterbein campus in 1948. Before coming to Otterbein, Prof. Ray had taught in both the Portsmouth and Lucasville, Ohio, high schools, at Clemson College and the Portsmouth Branch of Ohio Uni­ versity.

A member of the National Council of Teachers of English and of the

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Franklin M. Young

College English Association of Ohio, Prof. Ray is the author of “Proverbs and Proverbial Allusions in the Works of Christopher Marlowe on Planting Flowers and Spading" in the OTTER­ BEIN MISCELLANY for May, 1970, and of WILLIAM J. FLAGG: HIS LIFE AND WORKS, in progress.

He has also been a popular speaker through the Public Relations Office with his witty approach to “A Conducted Tour Through Thurber Land," and “The King's English Ain't What It Used To Be." For Franklin M. Young, '26, this year's retirement is actually his sec­ ond. Eight years ago he retired from a public school career spanning thirty-seven years, all but three of which were spent in the schools of Miamisburg, Ohio. In 1963 he came back to his alma mater to assume a position within the Education De­ partment.

Prof. Young holds membership in the American Association of School Administrators, Association for Stu­ dent Teaching, National Education Association, and Ohio Education As­ sociation. He is past president of the Western Ohio Superintendents' and Principals' Round Table. He was a member of the Ohio High School

Nell H. Pagean

Athletic Association (SW District) for eleven years, ten of which he was secretary-treasurer. He is a past pres­ ident and member of the State Board of Control for the same organization.

Prof. Young is married and the father of Beverly Anne Young Long (Mrs. James), '54, and the grand­ father of three.

In other retirements from the campus, nearly one hundred years of combined service are represented by five employees of the college.

Albert “Tink" Sanders began work in 1947 as Supt. of Maintenance and retires with the title of Head Elec­ trician. “Tink" was made an Honor­ ary Alumnus in 1970 by the Otter­ bein College Alumni Association.

Another employee fondly remem­ bered by former students is Mrs. Chloie Ballard of the cooking staff.

Mrs. Ballard retires after twenty-two years In the Otterbein kitchens.

Two other food service employees are Mrs. Lydia Mikesell and Mrs. Marybelle Schneider, with eighteen and fifteen years experience at Otter­ bein, respectively. Concluding the list of retirees is George Wise, Head Fireman at the Heating Plant since he came to Otterbein in 1959.

Presidents’ Day — Insfallafion For The Future; Recognition Of The Past

Thursday, October 28, 1971, has been declared Presi­ dents’ Day at Otterbein College. The special event will have a three-fold purpose: to officially install Thomas Jefferson Kerr IV as eighteenth president of Otterbein College, to recognize the contributions of growth and leadership of Otterbein’s presidents from the first. Rev. William Davis, to the present, and to help launch the celebration of the 125th Anniversary Year.

The installation of Dr. Kerr as president marks a new approach to the transfer of presidential leadership from one person to another. The lavish pomp and ceremony of collegiate inaugurals in the past is out of keeping with the current life style which values inner truth more than ex­ ternal display. In planning the events of Presidents' Day, committee members were ever mindful of Dr. Kerr’s re­ quest for simplicity as well as for his historian’s respect for Otterbein’s past.

Featured speaker during the installation program will be Dr. Emerson C. Shuck, ’38, President of Eastern Washing­ ton State College at Cheney, Washington, and formerly Vice President for Academic Affairs at Ohio Wesleyan University.

Dr. Shuck is a prolific writer and speaker on educa­ tional subjects with a growing number of regional and national associations on his list of audiences. He has nearly fifty published articles and speeches to his credit.

In service to Otterbein College, Dr. Shuck can count more than a decade as an alumni member of the Board of Trustees where he served many years on the Com­ mittee on Education and Administration. In this capacity, he worked hard with the faculty and administration for earlier curriculum changes and in the development of the 3/3 Plan.

In addition to the presidency of Eastern Washington State, one of five major state institutions of higher educa­ tion in the state. Dr. Shuck is a member of more than a half dozen professional associations, and holds the honor­ ary Litt. D. degree which his alma mater bestowed in 1963. He is married to the former Sarah Beidleman, ’38; two of their four children are also Otterbein graduates: Sarah Kathryn Demchak (Mrs. David), ’64, and Mary Malinda Bertram (Mrs. David), x’65.

Otterbein College Is lucky to have five living past presi­ dents, each of whom will be recognized during the Presi­ dents’ Day ceremonies.

Leading the parade according to chronology of term of office will be John Ruskin Howe, ’21, B.D., Ph.D., D.D., whose leadership from 1939-45 carried Otterbein during the World War II years when the campus was nearly stripped of its male population.

Royal F. Martin, ’14, B.P.E., B.A., M.Ed., L.L.D., held the post of Interim President in 1945. Dr. Martin’s Otter­ bein career began in 1913 before his graduation and con­ tinued with only a couple of years’ interruption to his retirement In 1958.

J. Gordon Howard, ’22, B.A., B.D., M.A., D.D., was head of the “Otterbein family’’ for twelve years, 1945-47. The presidential home occupied by the Howards was named “Howard House’’ in his honor when he left the campus to become a Bishop in the Evangelical United Brethren (now United Methodist) Church.

Floyd J. Vance, ’16, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., L.L.D., added the office of Interim President during 1957-58 to his list of college responsibilities which included that of treasurer, director of admissions (twice), and registrar.

Lynn W. Turner, H’58, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., L.L.D., has seen in his 1958-71 tenure the greatest growth in all di­ rections as well as the longest term of any living presi­ dent.

At TOWERS presstime, details of the Presidents’ Day program were not entirely complete. The tentative plan­ ning, however, will follow this schedule: Program of In­ stallation and Recognition—3:30 p.m., Cowan Hall; Re­ ception for all honorees and guests—5-6:30 p.m.. Cam­ pus Center; Dinner—6:30-7:45 p.m.. Campus Center; Program by Sierra Leone National Dance Company (an Artist Series event)—8 p.m., Cowan Hall.

The committee planning the Presidents’ Day activities is composed of Dr. Harold Hancock, Chm.; Tom Clark, Director of Public Relations; John Becker, Librarian; Sylvia Phillips Vance, faculty; Nancy Myers Norris, alumna and president of the Westerville Otterbein Women’s Club; Rev. Chester Turner, Asst. Director of Development (Church Relations); Dr. Lyle Barkhymer, faculty; Daniel Jarlenksi, Tony del Valle and Ginny Paine, students.

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Dr. Hancock Writes Nev/ College History As part of the celebration of the 125th anniversary of the founding of Otterbein College, Dr. Harold Han­ cock has written a new history. The volume of over 200 pages includes 60 pages of pictures and stresses the period since 1930 when the last college history was written by Dr. Willard Bartlett. The 125th Anni­ versary Committee asked Dr. Han­ cock to write THE HISTORY OF OT­ TERBEIN COLLEGE to honor the col­ lege’s birthday.

The first chapter deals with the Otterbein heritage and summarizes the history of the first seventy-five years. Subsequent chapters evaluate the contributions of recent presi­ dents, describe student life and activi­ ties, present brief histories of depart­ ments and comment on the future of the institution.

More than 100 pictures illustrate the history of the college, including everything from photographs of Otterbein’s past to the present. In addi-. tion to pictures of Philip William Ot­ terbein and President Lewis Davis, pictures are included of Otterbein’s new president, his new residence and the uncompleted new library. Col­ lective pictures of the faculty In 1933 and of 1950 appear, as well as of the

Wendell Smith Retires From Bees to Oratory Wendell P. Smith, x’34, of Sunbury, Ohio, has been elected to mem­ bership in the Board of Governors of the International Platform Associa­ tion in recognition of his interest in oratory and the power of the spoken word.

He retired on January 1, 1971 as supervisor of Apiary Inspectors with the Ohio Department of Agriculture, having served in that capacity since 1952.

He served as Secretary-Treasurer of the Ohio State Beekeeper's Asso­ ciation for 10 years and is a member of the Licking County Beekeepers As­ sociation, American Beekeepers Fed­ eration, American Honey Producers Ass’n and the Eastern Apicultural So­ ciety.

Mr.

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is

listed among the

faculty today. Other pictures present scenes of campus social life and or­ ganizations. On the inside cover is a campus map, and in the back is a collage of newspaper headlines on governance.

Josten’s/American Yearbook Com­ pany of Cincinnati is the publisher of the 6" X 9" volume. Its local rep­ resentative is Carl Vorpe, ’51. The volume will be available this Fall in both a paperback edition at a cost of $3.64, and with a hard cover at $5.72. Both prices include tax. The tear-out form on the inside back cover of TOWERS may be used for advance orders.

Dr. Hancock has been a mem­ ber of the faculty since 1944 and is Chairman of the Department of His­ tory and Government. He writes fre­ quently on Delaware history. He has been active in developing the 3/3 plan and campus governance. He is a college trustee.

Dr. Hancock will be available in the College Bookstore at Fall Home­ coming to autograph copies of THE HISTORY OF OTTERBEIN COLLEGE.

Who’s Who in Volume VI of the Dic­ tionary of International Biography published in London, England. A Cer­ tificate of Merit was awarded to Mr. Smith on July 30, 1969, for Distin­ guished Service To Others. He has also been listed in Who’s Who in the Methodist Church and in American Beekeeping.

For more than 50 years, Mr. Smith had worked for the Boy Scouts of America. He served in many capaci­ ties of leadership. He organized and served as Cubmaster of the first Cub Pack in Central Ohio. He also organ­ ized and served as Skipper of the first Sea Scout Ship in Central Ohio.

In 1934, he was given the Award of the Silver Beaver for Outstanding and Distinguished Service to Boyhood. He also holds the Scoutmaster’s Key Award.

Otterbein College Receives $5000 Kellogg Grant The W. K. Kellogg Foundation has provided a $5000 grant to Otterbein College for their Environmental Studies programs. The fund will be used for materials to be added to the common course, “Dynamics of the Ecosystem,’’ offered to Otterbein students by the Life and Earth Science Department, and in other re­ lated areas.

The course, which emphasizes the inter-relationships between the organ­ ism and its physical environment, be­ came a required science course at Ot­ terbein last year.

Dr. Robert E. Kinsinger, Kellogg Foundation vice president, explained that the grant to Otterbein is one of approximately 300 similar grants be­ ing made to small private liberal arts colleges throughout the United States as part of the Foundation’s continu­ ing program of support for activities aimed at finding solutions to environ­ mental problems throughout the na­ tion.

A special committee of Otterbein professors and administrators was established to study the needs of the College, and submit a proposal to Kellogg. Members of the committee are: Dr. Keith Miller, Dr. Robert Place, Dr. Albert Lovejoy, Dr. John Laubach, Dr. Jerry Hopfengardner, John Ward, Norman Chaney and John Becker, with students Richard Mayhew and Cheryl Hanla. Others, active with the committee were Dr. George Phinney, and Elwyn Williams, Otterbein vice president for Develop­ ment.

L. W. Norris Serves Humanities In Washington, D. C. Post At the end of last summer. Dr. Louis W. Norris, ’28, retired from the presidency of Albion College.

A White House appointment to the National Council on the Humanities resulted in the Norrises moving to Washington, D. C., where he is pres­ ently serving as a Program Officer with the National Endowment for the Humanities. In this capacity, Dr. Norris is supervising grants to col­ leges and universities to support the humanities.

An article by Dr. Norris will soon appear in EDUCATIONAL RECORD.

mother. Horace L., ’13, prospered in real estate and the automobile busi­ ness, having handled sales of the first Fordson tractors. Mary Helen, M'17, married Walter E. Roush, '15; both are now deceased.

Dwight C. Mayne, x'22, is a chem­ ical engineer in Ontario, Calif., who worked on the metal which was ulti­ mately used in John Glenn’s space capsule. His daughters are Jean Mayne Fulton, '41, and Henrietta Mayne Hobbs, '44. Daniel Ira, x’20, now deceased, was chief patent counsel for Eastman Kodak. John C. Jr., '23, and Anne P. Wilson Mayne, x'24, are serving a Presbyterian pastorate from their home in Arling­ ton, Va.

Shown with the newly presented portrait of Hannah Lambert Mayne after unveiling ceremonies in Mayne Hall are President Lynn W. Turner, John S. and Anna Wilson Mayne, and Roger Mayne.

Portrait of Hannah Lambert Mayne Is Presented to Mayne Hall At ceremonies held May 17 in the lounge of Mayne Hall, a portrait of the late Hannah Lambert Mayne, in whose memory Mayne Hall was named, was unveiled.

In making the gift of the portrait to the women's residence hall and to Otterbein College, Rev. John C. Mayne spoke of the high values rep­ resented by Otterbein College, The Rev. Mr. Mayne’s mother, Hannah Lambert Mayne, was credited by her family with outstanding abil­ ity to create a great deal out of little.

Widowed just ten days before the birth of her youngest child, John C. Mayne, Mrs. Mayne successfully raised her family of five children on the $16 per month pension of a Presbyterian minister’s widow.

Mayne Hall was constructed in 1964 following the generous gift for that purpose of Horace Mayne, eldest of the five Mayne children. While his health did not permit him to attend the unveiling of his mother's portrait, Horace Mayne was represented at the ceremonies by his son, Roger.

Following the formal unveiling, the Rev. Mr. Mayne recalled for TOWERS

the long and extensive association of the Lambert and Mayne families with Otterbein College. JHannah Lambert, x’90, was one of six children who at­ tended Otterbein: W. 0. Lambert, '00, Elsie Lambert Reibel, '03, Caro­ line (Carrie) Lambert Charles, ‘01, D. Ira, '97, and Bertha Lambert Har­ ris, '26. Three children of W. 0.

Lambert graduated from Otterbein: Pauline Lambert Warfel, '23, Lucille Lambert Webner, '25, and Charles Lambert, '27. Representing the third generation in this line is Mary Sue Webner Smith, '58.

Another Lambert line extending to the third generation is that of Carrie Lambert Charles, whose sons Daniel, '32 and Phillip, '29 attended the col­ lege. Phillip Charles married Otterbeinite Dorothea Flickinger, x’32, and sent both their children, Richard, '57, and Mary Ann, '56, to their alma mater to in turn marry Astrida Salnais, '57, and Joseph W. Eschbach, '55.

Of the five children of Hannah Lambert and John C. Mayne, Sr., each has assumed a position to give credit to the upbringing by their

The Rev. Mr. Mayne noted that the above listing was not complete, and that family ties and connections in many directions extended beyond this accounting of those most directly re­ lated to the subject of the portrait just presented.

The painting of Hannah Lambert Mayne is now on display within the lounge of Mayne Hall.

Faith Stoughton Retires As Library Consultant Mrs. Faith Baker Stoughton, '29, Consultant in the Library Develop­ ment Division, retired from the State Library (Ohio) June 1. Her retire­ ment from the State Library staff marks more than 18 years of service at the Library and many more in Statewide library interests.

Mrs. Stoughton first served as bookmobile librarian for the Wayne County Public Library in Wooster after graduation from Western Reserve li­ brary school. Later she was head librarian of the Napoleon Public Library before she became chief Li­ brary Consultant for the State Li­ brary in 1953.

Countless librarians and trustees have relied on her knowledge, experi­ ence and judgment on Ohio tax and library laws. Her work with the Li­ brary’s scholarship program has brought many young persons into the library profession and, more im­ portant, her counsel has been of great value to young people moving ahead in the library profession.

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Roush Sporting Goods Center Completes Three-Part Complex A new concept of sporting goods merchandising is exemplified by the new Roush Sporting Goods Center, Westerville, which celebrated its grand opening in April. The Center contains twelve complete departments with the latest equipment and information about every popular sport from bowl­ ing to football, as well as trophies, supplies and sports apparel.

Heading the Sporting Goods Center is former Otterbein athlete Edwin "Dubbs” Roush, ’47, who left his high school coaching career in 1951 to open a small hardware store. The results of that early decision have made merchandising history.

That first store, Roush Hardware, was expanded into a retail outlet with more departments than most depart­ ment stores as it shifted location from downtown Westerville to the Wester­ ville Shopping Center. Roush Hard­ ware won for its owner considerable respect and recognition among cus­ tomers and businessmen alike for its modern and aggressive approach to merchandising.

The second venture was Roushonda, added behind the main store six years ago when Mr. Roush saw the future potential in Hondas and me­ chanical equipment, such as tractors and mowers. Roushonda maintains a large service division which draws customers from all parts of Central Ohio.

Roush Sporting Goods Center

Rev. App Takes New Post In Rocky Mt. Conference Donald B. App moved from The United Methodist Church in Torrington, Wyo., to Denver on May 1 to assume the post of Program Director of the Rocky Mountain Conference of the United Methodist Church.

Rev. App goes to his new responsi­ bility after working for two years with the Conference Committee on Long Range Planning to implement a new philosophy of the conference. This philosophy projects conference per­ sonnel working in more supportive re­ lations with the local churches of the conference.

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1971 Football Schedule Sept.

Sept.

Oct. Oct. Oct. Oct. Oct. Nov. Nov.

18—at Kenyon—2 p.m.

25—ASHLAND—8 p.m.

2—WITTENBERG—8 p.m.

9—at Mount Union—2 p.m.

16—at Hiram—2 p.m.

23—MARIETTA (HC)—2 p.m.

30—DEFIANCE—8 p.m.

6—at Denison—1:30 p.m.

13—CAPITAL—8 p.m.

1971 Cross Country Schedule Sept. 25—Relays at Ohio Wesleyan 11 a.m.

Oct. 2—at Wittenberg Oct. 5—MUSKINGUM Oct. 9—Hiram, Ohio Wesleyan and Oberlin at Oberlin Oct. 16—CAPITAL Oct. 19—Ohio Wesleyan and Denison at Denison Oct. 30—MARIETTA Nov. 6—Ohio Conference Meet at Wooster (Home meets at Indian Run Golf Course.)

Edwin L. “Dubbs” Roush

makes the third segment of this grow­ ing and future-minded business com­ plex.

Otterbein College recognized the expertise of Dubbs Roush when it elected him an alumni Trustee. His active interest in the college has been shown in his support of athletic and other programs. He is married to the former Mary Lou Harold, x’45. Their daughter, Wendy, is a 1971 graduate of the college.

To this end a Conference Council on Ministries has been planned. Ad­ ditional districts have been desig­ nated and new roles are anticipated for District Superintendents. They will now be members of the Conference Ministries St^ff. The Conference Pro­ gram Director will serve as Executive Officer of the Conference Council on Ministries and as chairman of the Conference Ministries Staff.

Rev. App notes that he and his wife enter this new job with the hope that conference structures can be more supportive of local churches as they seek to fulfill their missions.

Jack Hinton Prepares Radio Announcement Guide The CBS Radio Network released in April for the first time, a printed set of guidelines for public service announcements. In the past, public service organizations seeking free time on the network were given in­ structions verbally on how to submit this type of announcement.

According to the Advertising Coun­ cil, which schedules specific cam­ paigns for public service organiza­ tions on all networks, CBS Radio is now the only network to have such guidelines available in printed form.

Prepared by Jack Hinton, ’60, Di­ rector of Program Practices, and Naomi Andrews, Director, Advertis­ ing Operations, the CBS Radio guide­ lines set down the requirements in regard to length of spots, clearance procedures, audio quality, submission of copy and production techniques as well as a few “don’ts,” such as the use of sirens or other "alarming” sounds.

The guidelines are being sent to all public service organizations which are currently dealing with the CBS Radio Network as well as those which have submitted announcements in the past. The Advertising Council is also serving as a distribution point.

Putterbaugh Gets Grant As “Teacher-Principal”

Rev. Loyde Hartley

Lancaster (Pa.) Seminary Appoints Dr. Hartley The Boar(d of Trustees of the Lan­ caster (Pa.) Theological Seminary has confirmed the appointment of the Rev. Loyde H. Hartley, '62, Ph.D. as associate professor of religion and society. He will assume his duties in September, 1971.

Dr. Hartley is presently Thomas W. Bennett Associate Professor of sociology at Union College, Barbourville, Ky., where he has directed the re-establishment of a sociology de­ partment. He has also served as visit­ ing lecturer at Emory University, At­ lanta, Ga., and as associate director of the Hinton Rural Life Center, Hayesville, N.C. A native of Parkersburg, W. Va., Dr. Hartley received his Bachelor of Divinity from United Theological Seminary, Dayton, Ohio.

An ordained minister of the United Methodist Church, Dr. Hart­ ley has specialized in the study of Appalachia and the sociology of re­ ligion. He received his Doctor of Philosophy degree from Emory Uni­ versity, writing his dissertation on “Sectarianism and Social Participa­ tion in Appalachia.”

Dr. Hartley is a member of Society for the Scientific Study of ligion, the Southern Sociological ciety, the American Sociological sociation and Religious Research sociation.

the Re­ So­ As­ As­

The Martha Holden Jennings Foundation has awarded the Worth­ ington City Schools a $5,500.00 grant to develop an in-service teach­ er-principal training program for the 1971-72 school year. W. Eugene Put­ terbaugh, '52, currently principal at Worthington Estates, will be Worth­ ington's first “teaching principal” who, according to the provisions of the project, will return to the class­ room as a teacher for one year in order to gain a new awareness of the roles of principal, teacher, and stu­ dent.

The project will involve the em­ ployment of an additional elementary principal so that each year one prin­ cipal can assume the role of a class­ room teacher in a school other than his own. The “teaching principal” is to be employed at his regular prin­ cipal’s salary for a 10-month period.

He will teach in a regular team-teach­ ing situation during the school year and spend the additional four weeks In developing inservice programs for teachers.

The major purposes of the pro­ ject are for the “teaching principal” to: (1) demonstrate innovative pro­ grams, teaching skills, and tech­ niques; (2) serve as a model in using self-improvement methods; (3) de­ velop and implement effective means of individualizing instruction; (4) de­ velop empathy for the role of class­ room teacher; (5) identify problems in the teaching of the new curricula; (6) provide feedback to the other principals for inservice activities; and (7) interact on an “open” basis with the building principal so that maxi­ mum growth for both parties will take place.

The Martha Holden Jennings Foundation is a non-profit charitable Ohio Corporation organized to “pro­ vide greater recognition to the teach­ ing profession at the elementary and secondary levels and to encourage teachers to specialize in areas beyond the normal curriculum.”

When selected as the first prin­ cipal to take part in this project, Putterbaugh said, “I personally think it is a great honor to be in on the groundwork and I am really looking forward to putting into practice some of the things I have talked about. I feel it is a great honor to have been chosen.”

He has been with the Worthington schools since 1956, following experi­ ence in Upper Arlington as well as Sunbury, Ohio.

“I have never regretted going into teaching,” said Putterbaugh. “My only regret is that I have not stayed in teaching as such. I like the con­ tact with the children. I enjoy getting down on the floor and getting to know them.”

Lloyd L. Schiering

Republic Steel Names Elyria Superintendent Lloyd L. Schiering, '38 has been named superintendent of Republic Steel Corporation's Steel and Tubes Division Plant in Elyria, Ohio.

Mr. Schiering joined Republic in 1948 as assistant chief metallurgist at Steel and Tubes’ Cleveland Plant.

He was transferred to the Elyria plant in 1957 as general foreman of the rolling mill and was promoted to gen­ eral foreman of the plant in 1964.

He has been assistant superintendent of the plant since 1967.

Mr. Schiering studied metallurgy at Wayne University in Detroit. He is a member of the Elyria Chamber of Commerce and the Factory Managers Council and has been very active in 4-H Club Advisory Council at the county and state levels for 15 years.

Schiering and his wife, the former Betty Haverstock, x’41, have three children.

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Craig Gifford New Assistant Director For Ohio School Boards Association

Craig Gifford, '57, president of the Westerville Board of Education, has been named assistant director of the Ohio School Boards Association ef­ fective July 1.

Mr. Gifford, president of the West­ erville Board and a member for eight years, has for the past two years been public information director for the Columbus city schools. He has also served two years as negotiator for Westerville’s board.

Administrator and Coach Announces Retirement E. F. (Mac) McCarroll, ’25, who has served as a teacher and coach to Twin City children since 1925, will retire Aug. 1.

Dr. Fox, executive director of OSBA, said that the association is “particularly fortunate to be able to obtain the services of Mr. Gifford as he has had experience in many facets of education.”

Mr. Gifford has been a member of OSBA’s central region executive com­ mittee for four years and is immedi­ ate past president. He is currently a member of OSBA’s policy and pro­ gram committee and has just com­ pleted a term on the board of trus­ tees.

He has been a program participant at the annual conventions of OSBA and NSBA, and is a member of the National School Public Relations As­ sociation, Sigma Delta Chi Journalism honorary and vice president of the central Ohio chapter of the Public Relations Society of America. He is a graduate of Otterbein College and president elect of its alumni associa­ tion.

“The addition of Craig Gifford to our staff will provide our members with a man who has expertise in com­ munications, public relations and ne­ gotiations as well as a man who has seen problems both to small and large school districts as a board member and administrator,” stated Dr. Fox.

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Craig Gifford

In accepting the position, Mr. Gif­ ford said, “I am looking forward to my new responsibilities as one of the most difficult challenges I have ever faced. I accept the job with tremen­ dous enthusiasm and will execute the duties to the best of my ability.”

He is past recipient of Westerville Jaycees’ Outstanding Young Man of the Year award and is listed in “Out­ standing Young Men of America” 1967 and “Ohio Lives” 1968. He is past president of Westerville’s Rotary Club.

Prior to joining the Columbus schools, Mr. Gifford was with Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus for two years in its public service depart­ ment. Earlier, he was associated with Scripps - Howard Newspapers, The Westerville Public Opinion and The Franklin Chronicle, of which he was editor and co-publisher from 195962.

He and his wife, Marty, ’64, have three children.

Mr. McCarroll joined Dennison public schools, Uhrichsville, Ohio, as a coach in 1925, was named principal in 1928 and became superintendent in 1937.

He has served as assistant super­ intendent of Claymont schools since the district was formed July 1, 1965.

He obtained his bachelor of science degree from Otterbein College in 1925. En route he dropped out of college one year to work and obtain enough money so that he could re­ turn to complete degree require­ ments. He has a Master’s degree from the University of Michigan where he attended law school two years.

In his first year with Dennison schools, Mr. McCarroll was head foot­ ball, basketball and baseball coach.

The following year Dennison dropped baseball in favor of track.

He continued to coach when he was named principal in 1928, serving in that capacity until being selected superintendent in 1937.

Although through the years Mc­ Carroll has continued in an adminis­ trative role, since 1928 he has at times been called “out of retirement” to handle the coaching responsibility for various Dennison athletic teams.

Preceding his stint in "Zorba," Mr. Duval had roles in two Rocke­ feller Productions, and in two OffOff Broadway plays. His collegiate experience includes three appear­ ances for Miami of Ohio University, two for Huron Playhouse, and six for Otterbein College, including the over­ seas touring troupe of “The Boy Friend."

Anderegg Advises for Oil Spill Clean-Up

John A. Duval

John Duval Finds Success In Professional Theatre He lists himself as ‘Type: Char­ acter; Height: 6T"; Weight: 250; Eyes: Blue; Hair: Brown; Member of Equity."

He is John Duval, '62, professional actor.

Well remembered by Otterbein Theatre patrons for his appearances here while a student, Mr. Duval taught high school speech and drama for a few years after his graduation. He returned to Otterbein for the 1969 season of Summer Theatre, and as the result of that experience and the encouragement of Dr. Charles Dodrill, and John Soliday, '62, also a member of the company that season, Mr. Duval decided to give the profes­ sional world of theater a try.

He shared the results of that de­ cision with current Otterbein theater students last Spring when he re­ turned to campus for a brief visit while touring with the national com­ pany of "Zorba” which was then play­ ing in Columbus. Mr. Duval stressed the practical aspects of the acting profession, emphasizing that acting is a business, does require work and a realistic approach. As a character actor, Mr. Duval has found steady em­ ployment, something he might have found more difficult if he had sought only leading roles.

Great Northern Oil employee Fred Anderegg, '40, played an important advisory role in the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport aviation fuel leakage which slickened the Min­ nesota and Mississippi Rivers earlier this year.

Upon St. Paul Mayor Charles Mc­ Carty's request, the Metropolitan Air­ ports Commission (MAC) authorized emergency measures to clean up the reported 150,000 gallons of spilled fuel. Representing Miss-ota Croix, oil control coordinating committee which develops inventories of materials, equipment and techniques for clean up of oil spills. Vice Chairman An­ deregg reviewed the situation and recommended to MAC the necessary clean up steps. He helped make avail­ able to MAC oil absorbent materials and contractors to complete the job.

F. G. Hester was the first chairman of Miss-ota Croix, organized one year ago by local petroleum people. In 1972 Anderegg will assume chairman duties.

Enar Anderson Heads Newly Formed Firm Enar L. Anderson, '52, has been appointed executive vice president and general manager of the newlyformed Park Financial Inc., a whollyowned subsidiary of Park Federal Sav­ ings & Loan Association, Columbus, it was announced by Jack W. Chilcote, president of both firms.

Mr. Anderson has 14 years' ex­ perience in mortgage banking and fi­ nancial analysis, Chilcote said, and will be responsible for providing the

community with a broader range of mortgage financing services in con­ ventional, FHA and VA financing of residential, commercial and multi­ family properties.

Park Federal Is the first savings and loan association in Central Ohio to establish a service corporation that will function as a mortgage banking firm, Chilcote said.

Mr. Anderson attended the North­ western School of Mortgage Banking, and is a past president of the Colum­ bus Mortgage Bankers Association.

M. Eugene Davis Earns Sacred Theology Degree M. Eugene Davis, '50, received the degree of Master in Sacred Theology from Andover Newton Theo­ logical School in Newton Centre, Massachusetts on May 24, 1971.

After serving eight years (1959-67) as director of The United Christian Fellowship (an ecumenical campus ministry) at Bowling Green State Uni­ versity, Mr. Davis was granted a sab­ batical leave of absence (1967-68) for graduate study. In the Fall of 1968 he accepted the call to become the minister of the United Church of Christ, Congregational in Burlington, Massachusetts in order to complete a degree program.

Since becoming a member of the Massachusetts Conference of the United Church of Christ in the Fall of 1969, Mr. Davis has served as cochairman of three "outreach work­ shops" in the Metropolitan Boston Association, was a member of a com­ mittee to plan a "day off" outing for ministers and their wives, and is cur­ rently a member of MBA Mission and Service Committee. At the 172nd An­ nual Session of the Massachusetts Conference he was elected to serve on the Council for the Laity. Mr. Davis was also invited to represent the Metropolitan Boston Association (one of five in the state) as a reactor to a major address on the subject, "The Health of the Churches," given by The Reverend Mr. Kenneth B. Smith of Chicago. He was asked to react to the issue, "The Crisis of Faith in Our Churches."

Eugene is married to the former Eleanor Tomb, '53. They are the par­ ents of four children.

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This is the Onyx Club as pictured In the 1922 SIBYL. Front row; Margaret Frazier Conley, Miss Robinson—sponsor, Ethel Ullrich Hitchcock, Hilda Gibson Stone. Second row: Pauline Lambert Warfel, Kathleen White Dimke, Marguerite Gould Barnhart. Top row: Lucille Lambert Webner, Ellen Jones.

Kappa Phi Omega Has Fiftieth Anniversary On October 23, Kappa Phi Omega Sorority will celebrate its fiftieth anni­ versary with a dinner at the Imperial House North.

The sorority was founded by a group of girls who had gone through West­ erville High School together. They entered Otterbein College in the fall of 1919 and continued their close friendship by forming a sorority. At that time these were secret organi­ zations at Otterbein. By the fall of 1921 they were recognized by the administration and this group became known as the Onyx Club. Greek names were frowned upon by the college but Onyx had one, Kappa Phi Omega.

Now, members are known as Kappas.

Charter members were Marguerite Gould Barnhard, Pauline Lambert Warfel, Ellen M. Jones, Margaret Frazier Conley, Kathleen White Dimke, Hilda Gibson Stone, all from Wester­ ville, and Ethel Ullrich Hitchcock from Dayton. Also from Westerville were the first pledges, Wray Richardson Mills, Lucille Lambert Webner and Mary Meyer. Later an older group of Otterbein women affiliated with the sorority of whom Maude Owings Evans and Ann Morris Bercaw are living. All the charter members are living with -the exception of Kathleen White Dimke and most plan to attend

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the anniversary dinner to be followed by the old style slumber party of their student days at Imperial House.

The Norris family is unique in hav­ ing four sisters, Margaret Norris Kemp, Bernice Norris Howard, Mar­ ianne Norris Temple and Virginia Norris Smith all members as well as a sister-in-law, Pauline Kelser Norris.

The sorority has had continuous existence on the campus since its founding. Next year the active mem­ bers will move into Moore House on West Home Street which will serve as their sorority home.

Lost Alumni The Alumni Records Office list many alumni as “lost." Following are the lost alumni from class years ending in two or seven. Won’t you check this list and notify Alumni Records if you know the whereabouts of anyone on it?

A’92—David Rothon A’02—James L. Sonner x'32—Miss Grace E. Collison x’32—William Zimmerman x'42—Mrs. R. W. Hursh (Betty Foster) x'42—Mrs. Fred H. Kipp (Elizabeth Mathias Hilliard) x’42—Mrs. Jack Morrison (Donna Kelly) x'42—Mr. William D. Noll x'42—Ray E. Scott

x'52—Mrs. Robert McCarty (Mary Vernon) Sp. '52—Miss Alice McKenzie x'52—Edwin J. Scarff x’52—Kenneth L. Williams '62—J. Morris Bailey x’62—Iqual Ben-Tahir x'62—James Brick x’62—Mrs. James L. Hartle (Linda Tischler) x’62—Miss Alice Clinton x’62—Jerry Demorest x’62—Miss Margaret Herdman '62—Otis F. Hicks, Jr. x'62—Francis J. Newman x’62—John Page '62—Julie Rosales x’62—Lt. jg E. M. Stockslager x’72—Daniel J. Doersam x’72—Martha Esswein x’72—Steven Paul Morrison x’72—Susan Diane Ulery (Diane England) A’07—Mrs. Thomas V. Coe (Patience Oldroyd) '37—Miss Evelyn W. Brehm x'37—Mr. Joseph Freese x'37—Rev. William Kuhen M'37—Mrs. Edward F. Rice (Elizabeth R. Brooks) '47—Mrs. Morris D. Bellware (Dorothy Henderson) '47—Miss Jaquelyn B. Harris '47—Mrs. A. R. Krantz, Jr. (Barbara S. Hoyt) x'47—Miss Doris J. Kramer x'47—Jack R. Lawson x'47—Mrs. Willis E. Walker (Effie L. Morton) x'57—Robert H. Bargleson x'57—Thomas L. Carlisle x’57—Mrs. Jack R. Davis (Suzanne Fadley) '57—Srs. P. A. DeSanchez '57—William L. Haller x'57—Mrs. John W. Johnson (Barbara L. McCune) '57—Mrs. J. G. Johnson (Patty Jacobs) '57—John William Magaw x'57—Rev. Granville Seward '67—Miss Carole D. Buchanan x'67—Mrs. Janet Trescott Catalena x'67—Richard J. Fisher x’67—Miss Kathy J. Gatts x’67—Edward J. Hara '67—Miss Annie E. Lefevre '67—James C. Lewis x’67—Barry H. Lubetz x’67—Dean E. Lund x’67—Miss Rhoda M. Perkins x’67—Miss Mary J. Powers '67—Joe C. Rice x'67—P. Harold Ross x'67—^William M. Shaffer '67—David E. Wetzel Sp. '67—Jerry Lee White

Sabbatical Takes Curt Tong To Philippines For Curtis W. Tong, '56, Associate Professor of Physical Education and Otterbein basketball coach, his sab­ batical leave during the Spring Term was a meaningful experience on two levels. From a professional point of view, the opportunity to conduct a three-week clinic in basketball theory, philosophy and technique at Silliman University in the Philippines was not only a challenge but necessitated close examination of his own thinking.

“The Filipinos know enough about basketball that they weren’t going to accept what I said just because I said it,’’ he said. “They always asked ‘Why?’ and this was very good.

Basketball is a big sport in the Philip­ pines, but by our standards of coach­ ing they are weak in fundamentals.’’

Dr. Tong noted that being able to work with a culture different from his own added greater depth to his under­ standing of people as well as sports and to his ability to handle them.

“People’s culture falls into sporting patterns all over the world,’’ he told TOWERS. “You can learn a great deal about people by watching how they play. The Filipinos, for instance, are very volatile people, and in basketball they dish it out furiously, but they can’t take it when it’s returned.’’

Dr. Tong cited his summer classes as benefiting already from some of the insights gained by his experience at Silliman. “Every day I see myself using something I brought back with me from the Silliman workshop,” he says. “It may be a technique of mak­ ing a point, or in recognizing more clearly how a particular individual ap­ proaches a sport.”

On a personal level, the trip to the Philippines enabled Dr. Tong to return to the place where he was born and where with his family he was held in Japanese internment centers during World War II. Dr. Tong’s father, former missionary Rev. Walter C. Tong, coach

accompanied the Otterbein to

the

Pacific

islands.

En

route they stayed with friends in Ja­ pan, people who had served as their guards during their imprisonment.

“By being able to stay In Japanese homes, as friends, we came so much closer to getting the feel of the country and the people than if I had simply gone there alone as a tourist,” Dr. Tong said.

Grinning that his father makes a wonderful travelling companion be­ cause “Dad knows so many people all over the world,” Dr. Tong related that the two of them had made stops in both Taiwan and Hong Kong before arriving in Manila.

Friends in both Manila and the Tongs’ former home in Davao were visited, along with memorial stops at cemeteries and to the dungeons where other friends had died.

“We found the old prison in Manila where we had been interned for a while,” Dr. Tong recalled, “but the city has grown up around it, and the building itself changed so much— it’s no longer a prison—that it was hard to see it as I remembered it.”

Rev. Tong returned to the United States and his work with the Church World Service Organization before his son was finished with his duties at Silliman.

Dr. Tong returned to Westerville by way of Saigon, Bankok, Katmandu, India, Jerusalem and London. “I was in Calcutta just long enough to be­ come concerned about the cholera epidemic,” he said. “The day I left, which was about a week after the epi­ demic started, they were estimating 5000 had died.”

In Jerusalem, he met his goal of seeing firsthand the birthplace of Christ and other sacred landmarks of Christianity, as well as sensing the evidence of war and Arab-lsraeli ten­ sion.

“The impact of my whole experi­ ence struck me the other day while I was playing tennis,” he said. “There I was on a nice comfortable tennis court with no real worries, and just the week before I’d been on the look­ out that someone didn’t toss a gre­ nade in the back of the jeep. You get a whole new perspective on life this way.”

Miss Anna Dell LaFever as she appeared in the 1924 SIBYL.

Memorial Gift Planned For Anna Dell LaFever A study carrel in the new library will be named in honor of Miss Anna Dell LaFever, ’92, upon the com­ pletion of a memorial gift pledged by friends.

Miss LaFever taught school for only a few years upon her graduation from Otterbein before her mother’s death prompted her to return to Westerville to live with her father. She became an Assistant Librarian at Otterbein in 1908 and remained in that position until her death of a heart ailment on February 6, 1934. Miss Tirza Barnes, '85, was the Otterbein librarian dur­ ing Miss LaFever’s employment there, retiring at about the time of Miss LaFever’s death in 1934.

A Westerville resident for most of her life, Miss LaFever’s family lived at one time in the home on N. State Rd. more recently remembered as the Rosselot farm.

In initiating the memorial gift in her name, friends have noted the very deep devotion and dedication to Otter­ bein College of Anna Dell LaFever.

The 1924 SIBYL indicates the regard in which others held her in these words: “With a smile and a nod Miss LaFever is always ready to be of any assistance to the students. Her per­ sonality invites confidence and com­ mands respect: her services are in­ valuable.”

Others who remember Miss La­ Fever and who wish to add to the me­ morial gift in her behalf may do so by contacting the Development Office.

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Orville Freeman Tells Campus Food for World Has Top Priority Former Secretary of Agriculture Orville L. Freeman cited the problem of feeding the world’s people as hav­ ing top priority in the list of world problems in an April 12 convocation speech at Otterbein College.

“The problem of Ecology is seri­ ous,” he told his youthful audience.

“It is serious not only in the United States, but in the world as well. In many instances we are pressing the finite limits, of food and fiber, and of the disposal of wastes.”

In the press conference preceeding his address to the students. Freeman talked about Earth Week. “The public should be informed,” he said, “in order that they may charge industry with the responsibility of finding solu­ tions. There must be public support if we are going to make the sacrifices and investments needed to correct the situation.”

Freeman, currently the President of Business International Corp., based in New York City, discussed air pol­ lution. “Living in New York, I am well aware of the fact that the atmos­ phere around our large cities, in fact, the large cities throughout the world, is both harmful and repressing.

“In your area, the pollution of Lake Erie is prominent. Lake Erie has, in effect, been fertilized until it is suf­ focating.”

In his speech, entitled “The Critical Triangle — Trade, Aid, and Invest­ ment,” Freeman said, “Ours is a dangerous time, but it’s also a prom­ ising time.”

“If we conceive of ourselves as primarily impotent, destructive and irrational, we’ll submit to an un­ chosen fate. If, on the other hand, we have confidence in the ability of man to do good, we may use our capacities to raise the quality of life.”

“In my judgment,” he continued, "much of the disillusion and nega­ tivism and the violence of our day is a reaction to the gap between the repeated promise of good things and the failure to perform.”

To the former Secretary under Kennedy and Johnson, the answer lies in internationalism of resource and product. “The only way to a safe and peaceful world is an open world, with ifree trade, free investments, free movement of free people and ideas and resources, plus aid from the

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wealthy one third to the depressed two thirds of the world.

“Internationalization of production has come about because it is ef­ fective. It works. And one of the ex­ citing things about the rapid emerg­ ence of multinational corporations on the world scene is that no one sat down and planned it. By definition, a multinational company is one that looks at the entire world as an area of operation, and acts that way.

“I have spent considerable time examining multinational corporations because they compose the greatest financial, technical, and managerial force in recorded history. The sales already exceed the gross national product of any country in the world, other than the United States. Collec­ tively, multinational corporations have the brains and muscle to save the world from self-destruction.”

Otterbein Alumni in Military Service '50 Lt. Colonel Richard A. Housum, '50, is currently Chief of the Fighter Tactics and Techniques Division of the Air Force's Tactical Air Command, Langley Air Force Base, Virginia.

Colonel Housum has flown 254 com­ bat missions in Korea and Vietnam as flight and squadron commanders, earn­ ing the Distinguished Flying Cross with twelve oak leaf clusters, the Combat Readiness Medal, and the United Na­ tions Service Medal. He is a charter member of the Korean Yalu River Team and Red River Rats in Vietnam.

Housum has piloted twelve military aircraft, including five jet fighters and two jet bombers. He has served as both pilot and academic instructor at various bases and authored or coau­ thored many Air Force publications, in­ cluding the McDonnell F-4 Phantom fighter manual. Prior to his present as­ signment, Colonel Housum was the Chief of the Twelfth Air Force's Jet Fighter Division.

Colonel and Mrs. Housum reside on the Langley base with their three sons and daughter. John Becker, '50, visited briefly with Colonel and Mrs. Housum while a guest of Otterbein's AFROTC group which was visiting Langley Air Force Base.

The captain is now at Phan Rang where he serves as chief of personnel affairs for the 35th Combat Support Group, a unit of the Pacific Air Forces, headquarters for air operations in Southeast Asia, the Far East and the Pacific area.

’66 U. S. Air Force Captain Timothy E. Kinnison has received his second through fifth awards of the Air Medal at Travis AFB, Calif.

Capt. Kinnison, an aerial tanker pilot, was cited for his outstanding air­ manship and courage on successful and important missions completed under hazardous conditions.

He is assigned to a Strategic Air Command.

unit of the

’65 Captain David R. Samson has re­ ceived the U. S. Air Force Commenda­ tion Medal at Phan Rang AB, Vietnam.

Captain Samson was decorated for meritorious service while assigned to the USAF Marksmanship School and the 3275th Technical School at Lackland AFB, Tex. He devised and initiated unique teaching techniques which bet­ ter utilized instructors and saved the USAF over $5,200 annually.

While serving as commander of the school, he organized and directed an outstanding international shooting train­ ing camp which resulted in placing three USAF members on the United States team that competed in the World Shooting Championships.

Kenneth H. Aldrich

’70 Army Private David C. Fensch re­ cently completed eight weeks of basic training at the U. S. Army Training Center, Armor, Ft. Knox, Ky. He received instruction in drill and ceremonies, weapons, map reading,

combat tactics, military courtesy, mili­ tary justice, first aid, and army history and traditions.

John C. Funk is stationed at Baumholder, Germany, with the U. S. Army.

plAshes pRom the classes

Lance W. Lord

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’47

In May, Perle Whitehead, SS’15, ad­ ded another talk to his list of more than 5000 when he addressed a Ladies Night program for the Industrial Management Club in Mansfield, Ohio.

After Mr. Whitehead's retirement in 1961 from the Boy Scouts of America, he has continued his service to boy­ hood in a volunteer capacity and main­ tained his contacts over the country via the speaking platform.

Virginia Timblin Banerjie (Mrs. Bani) has maintained her job as Child Wel­ fare Consultant for the Pennsylvania State Department of Welfare despite a move to Skillman, N. J.

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'68 U. S. Air Force First Lieutenants Lance W. Lord and Kenneth H. Aldrich were selected to participate in the Strategic Air Command (SAC) missile combat competition at Vandenberg AFB, Calif., April 20-28.

The missile launch officer and the missile maintenance officer in the 321st Strategic Missile Wing, Grand Forks AFB, N. D., competed with other top missilemen from SAC's six Minuteman and three Titan wings.

During the annual meet, combat crews matched their skills in elec­ tronic, computerized simulators which are virtually identical to operational launch control centers at SAC missile bases.

The competition was scored by elec­ tronic computation, with no actual mis­ sile launchings.

The purpose of the competition is to increase SAC’s ability to perform its mission of providing an effective nu­ clear deterrent force of long-range bombers and intercontinental ballistic missiles.

’69 U. S. Air Force Second Lieutenant Robert G. Dull is on duty at Cam Ranh Bay AB, Vietnam.

Lieutenant Dull, a weapons control­ ler, is assigned to a unit of the Pacific Air Forces, headquarters for air opera­ tions in Southeast Asia, the Far East and Pacific area.

Before his arrival in Southeast Asia, he served at Luke AFB, Ariz.

Merrill W. Mignery will retire as City Clerk of Georgetown (near Cincinnati) at the end of his current term. Mr. Mignery has served 23 consecutive years as City Clerk. A retired teacher, he taught four years at Mowrystown and 38 years in Georgetown. As a young man he was a widely known semi-pro baseball player and was a track star during his days at Otterbein.

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’50 Frank Truitt, head basketball coach at Kent State University was the guest speaker at the Cadiz High all sports banquet as well as at the Norwalk High basketball banquet.

’51 Maj. James E. Cloyd, an optometrist with the United States Air Force, ad­ dressed the USAFE Medical Conference last September on the subject “The Not-So-Secret Plans of an Eye Spy."

’52 Betty Lee Beyer Mayes (Mrs. Rob­ ert) and her husband are leading a grouD of Dayton tourists on a tour of Europe this summer. During the rest of the year, Mrs. Mayes teaches a fourth-fifth grade combination class.

Marian Kiess Albright (Mrs. Paul) re­ tired at the end of this school year from the Col. Crawford School District.

Mrs. Albright taught a total of 23 years at North Robinson High School where she herself had graduated. The Al­ brights live at Rt. 2, Bucyrus, Ohio.

Marian Jones Arthur has been work­ ing since January, 1970, on a parttime basis as Relief Head Resident at the Florence Crittenton Home in Co­ lumbus.

Rachel M. Brandt writes TOWERS that she has recently moved in the Ot­ terbein Home Apartments in Lebanon, Ohio, where many other college friends are living.

Robert E. Moore was the keynote speaker for the Butler County Safety Conference March 23 with his talk, “Set Your Goals for Safety." An em­ ployee of Armco Steel Corp. until 1966, Mr. Moore has since founded his own consulting firm. Success Motivation Inc., in Waco, Tex.

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’57

Ella May Reames, x’40, is teaching third grade and working on a science curriculum for the Fargo (N. Dak.), Public Schools.

June Courtright Stewart (Mrs. John) was honored by the Westerville Educa­ tion Association which named her Teacher of the Year on the junior high level.

’42 Betty Woodworth Clark had 21 paintings on display at Center Gallery in Parma, Ohio, during a multi-media show held during April.

’43 Dorothy ShiesI Good has just finished a year as president of the New Jersey Medical Technologists.

’53 Rev. John McRoberts is currently the pastor of the Greenville Evangelical United Methodist Church in Greenville, Ohio.

’54

Ruth Packer Bennett (Mrs. Gordon) writes that she is working in the Regis­ trar’s Office of Eastern Baptist College, St. Davids, where her husband teaches speech and drama.

’57 and ’59 Craig and Amy Brown South are augmenting Rev. South’s ministerial schedule with a variety of free lance writing projects. In their joint ventures, he does the photography while she handles the writing. On her own, Mrs. South is doing a weekly column on Battle Creek, Mich., history for the “Battle Creek Enquirer and News."

George E. Brown has been appointed controller for Investors Companies, Columbus. He previously was controller for Republic-Franklin Insurance Co.

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'58 R. J. Blinziey, Jr., has been ap­ pointed manager of marketing services for the health systems department of the Westinghouse Corp. in Pittsburgh.

In this position he will be responsible for managing all health systems de­ partment communications, for liaison with other corporation groups in the preparation and production of technical proposals, developing advertising and promotional programs to expand mar­ kets, and providing direct marketing administration functions.

'59 James E. Nuhfer is pastor of the Calvary United Methodist Church in Marion, Ohio, where he is^also a mem­ ber of the Board of Directors of the Marion YMCA and of the Town and Country Kiwanis as well as being Sec.Treas. of the Marion County Ministerial Association. He notes that he has writ­ ten several short poems this year, is preparing a camp deans' manual for district camps, and writes a regular article for the monthly church news letter.

Nancy Luck, x'59, has been elected president of the Southern Ohio-West Virginia Chapter of the National Society of Interior Designers, taking office in June. She works out of her own shop in Columbus.

Chaplain (Capt.) Bernard H. Lieving, Jr. writes that he has been as­ signed to a three year stay in Schwabach, Germany, which is 10 miles southwest of Nurnberg.

’60 Sandra Alexander Julian is teaching nursing at Oakland Community College in Oakland, Mich.

Bruce L. Keck is presently serving as the National Ocean Survey's repre­ sentative to the Navy's deep submerg­ ence program with Submarine Develop­ ment Group I in San Diego, Calif.

Byron Welch was featured April 28 as the Logan Elm (near Chillicothe, Ohio) Teacher of the Week. He teaches American and world history at the Logan Elm High School which is near the farm where he raises quarter horses.

’61 Bruce Hickin has recently been pro­ moted to Claims Supervisor for Social Security-Disability Determination for the State of Ohio. He has also been elected vice president of the Ohio Association of Disability Examiners for the coming year. Mr. Hickin and his wife, the for­ mer Catherine Hawken, live in Wester­ ville.

David G. Norris has accepted a twoyear assignment from IBM World Trade to work with their Large Sys­ tems Market Support Center in Rome.

’62 Sam Sidow has recently been pro­ moted to Michigan Claims Manager for Foremost Insurance Company. He and his family now reside in Grand Rapids, Mich.

Betty Monson Finken is teaching junior high home economics in Bryan (Ohio) City Schools.

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Barbara Bushong Horning is a free lance writer providing news coverage and feature articles for local news media. She provided some news her­ self earlier in the year when her fifth child was born at the right minute to become the Northfield, Mich., New Year's baby.

’64 Dr. Charles Harker Cook addressed the Class of 1971 of Oak Hill High School, Jackson, Ohio, in commence­ ment exercises there May 21. Dr. Cook is a 1968 graduate of the Ohio State University College of Medicine and is presently a resident surgeon at Uni­ versity Hospital in Columbus.

Ronald Meckfessel writes that since his release from the USAF in Septem­ ber, 1970, he has been working in bank-branch administration for the Marine Midland Bank of Rochester.

Susan Sain is now in San Juan, Puerto Rico, where she is working as a “tecnologa medica M" in the blood bank of the Puerto Rico Medical Center.

Gary and Mary Meek Delk are living in Habra, Calif., where he is assistant director of "The Young Americans.''

Both Mr. and Mrs. Delk work and tour with the singing group.

’65 Sarah Gauch Barker has returned to teaching third grade in Lewisburg, Ohio, after a two year absence.

Carol Darling Carter is teaching math at the Fayette County Branch of The Pennsylvania State University located in Uniontown, Pa. Marge Lloyd has completed one year as a graduate assistant in the reading center at Bowling Green State Uni­ versity. She describes the experience as "fantastic, hectic and hysterical, but worth it.''

’66 Betty Fitch is teaching math at Palm Beach Junior College in Lake Worth, Fla.

’67 James M. Weisz is at Albright Col­ lege where he will be promoted to In­ structor upon completion of his M.A. in German this summer.

Peter Bunce writes that he continues to find his work as an archivist at the Harry S. Truman Library both challeng­ ing and rewarding. He has been doing some historical writing and hopes to have an article published this Fall.

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Fritz Caudle has been selected by the Johnstown-Moriroe Local Board of Education (Licking County) as varsity football coach of the Johnstown-Monroe High School. For the past two years he has coached varsity baseball, junior high football and basketball along with his duties as a social studies teacher at Johnstown.

Douglas S. Corner has joined the staff of the American Chemical So­ ciety's Chemical Abstracts Service in Columbus. He will work as a program­ mer in systems development at CAS.

’70 Carol Anne Mathias Elliott (Mrs. Cecil L., '69) has been substitute teaching in the Westerville Schools this past year and plans to begin full time teaching this September.

Carl William and Linda Markeson Henry are living in Lebanon, Ohio. He is credit manager for a W. T. Grant store in Cincinnati and she is teaching home economics at Clinton Massie High schools.

William L. Klare, Jr., is now a sales manager for Ohio Bell where he heads the new Coin Sales Dept, for the western half of Ohio.

Donald W. Liming is teaching general and vocal music to seventh and eighth grades in the Steubenville, Ohio, public school.

Keith Wagner is now in Officers Candidate School for the U. S. Navy in Newport, R. I. until August.

James A. Blue has been named as­ sistant treasurer of Citizens Savings and Loan Co., Columbus. He had been with Citizens Federal Savings and Loan in Delaware, Ohio.

’71 Gerald Lang and Meredith Martin have been hired by the Springfield Local Board of Education. Mr. Lang will teach English at Ontario Junior High School, and Miss Meredith will teach art at the junior and senior high build­ ings.

Margaret Grimes and Bonnie Ross are rooming together while planning to teach for the Buckeye Central and Wynford Boards of Education, respec­ tively.

Michael Pratt is a promotion officer hired by the Family Courts Judge of Elyria, Ohio, in an effort to keep up with the increasing number of juvenile cases.

Ramona Strickling will be teaching music this year at Madison South Jun­ ior High School near Mansfield, Ohio.

’68 Greg Wince finished his first year as assistant basketball coach at Denison University with a 10-3 record. He is currently writing a graduate school thesis at Ohio University on "The Black Athlete in the Ohio Conference.”

Edna Hipsher Richards spent last year teaching seven classes at Ply­ mouth, Ohio, and serving as Junior Class advisor. This summer she is at­ tending the Ohio State University on a National Science Foundation Grant — the same program under which she attended Kent State University last summer.

Advanced Degrees Andover Newton School of Theology: M. Eugene Davis, '50, Master in Sacred Theology, May 24, 1971.

Boston University School of Theol­ ogy: James Recob, '50, Doctor of Theol­ ogy in Biblical Studies, May 23, 1971.

Bowling Green State University: Mrs. Jo A. Battles, '58, Ph. D. in Educational Administration.

Central Michigan University: James Danhoff, '65, Master of Arts in School Administration, summer 1970.

Michigan State University: Fredric Steck, '69, Master of Science in For­ estry, Dec. 12, 1970.

Michigan Technological University: Carol Darling Carter, '65, Master of Science in Mathematics, June, 1969.

New York University: Vivian Peter­ man Schmidt, '46, Master’s degree, June 5, 1971.

The Ohio State University: Douglas S. Corner, '69, Master of Science in Physical Chemistry, 1971.

University of Alabama: Betty Fitch, '66, Master of Arts in Mathematics, May, 1970.

West Virginia University: Doyle Stewart Blauch, '48, Ph. D. in Botany, August, 1970; Lt. David L. Geary, '69, Master of Science in Journalism, May, 1971, under the U. S. Air Force edu­ cational delay program; Lucy Schiffer Sutton, '63, Master of Arts, August, 1970.

State University of New York at Buf­ falo: Nancy Gallagher Henderson, Mas­ ter of Education in Music Education, May 28, 1971.

THE HISTORY OF OTTERBEIN COLLEGE by Harold Hancock Josten’s American Yearbook Company of Cincinnati 1971 Paperback $3.64

Births 1953—Rev. and Mrs. John McRoberts, a daughter, Jana Leigh, born February 26.

1958— Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Watkins (Amelia Hammond, x'58), a son, Douglas Michael, born August 18, 1970.

He joins Mark, 10, Kevin, 8Vp, and Donald, 3.

1959— Mr. and Mrs. Dale H. Craw­ ford, a son, Robert Alan, born April 23, 1970. He joins Lisa, 6, and David, 3.

1961- 63—Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. King (Mary Thompson), a daughter, Alyson Laddean, born February 15. She joins Clark, 6, and Timothy, 2.

1962— Mr. and Mrs. Maxin C. Weaver, a son, Kirk Edward, born De­ cember 22, 1970.

1962-64—Mr. and Mrs. John Naftzger (Sharon Minty), a son, Jeffrey Howell, born March 28. He joins John Christopher, 4.

1965—Mr. and Mrs. R. Paul Mc­ Farland (Evonne Potts, '65), a son, Jodie Paul, born January 16.

1965-68—Mr. and Mrs. Richard E. Reynolds, '65 and x’68, a daughter, Amanda Dawn, born April 15. She joins Chad, 2V^.

Mr. and Mrs. Greg Wince (Beverly A. Miller), '68 and '65, a son, Matthew, born January 30.

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Marriages I960—Shirley M. Hyatt and Bruce L. Keck, '60, January 1, in Seattle, Wash.

1967—Candice Jean Ramsay and James M. Weisz, '67, December 19, 1970, in Reading, Pa. 1969— Frances Guenther, '69, and Edward Garten, April 3, in Westerville.

1970— Nancy Scott, '70, and Robert Lewis, November 27, 1970, in Ada, Ohio.

Carol Wilcox, '70, and Larry Hare, in Palo Alto, Calif.

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orders.

1967— 68 — Mr. and Mrs. Brian J. Wood (Jerralyn Scott), a son, Brenden Scott, born March 31.

1968— Mr. and Mrs. Michael P. Wold (Linda Land, '68), a daughter, Julie Anne, born January 20.

1969— Mr. and Mrs. Keith Wagner (Barbara Chappell), a daughter, Wendy Lynn, born January 30, 1970.

Deaths 1901—Mrs. Emma Guitner Worman, widow of Eugene Worman, '07, died April 30 in Vienna, Va. She was a daughter of the late Professor John E. Guitner and sister of the late Professor Alma Guitner of Otterbein College.

1906—Word has been received of the death of Mrs. Estell A. Lilly, A'06, on December 12, 1970, In Columbus.

Miss Lydia Oehlschlegel, a resident of the Otterbein Home in Lebanon, Ohio, has been reported deceased.

1909—Mary Sechrist Fries died February 1 in Far Hills (Dayton) where she had lived for a number of years.

She was the widow of Vernon E. Fries,

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1911—Don C. Shumaker, formerly of Westerville, died April 5, in Springfield, Ohio. He is survived by his wife, Lillian Ressler Shumaker, '10, and by his son and daughter-in-law, John and Alice McCloy Shumaker, '37 and '38, of Colorado Springs.

1916—Word has been received of the death July 18, 1970, of Mrs. A. B. Holmes, A'16, of Osceola, Ind. Helen Moses died April 28 after a brief hospitalization. She had been a lifelong resident of Westerville where she had taught in the public schools for twenty-seven years.

TOWERS has been informed of the death of Mrs. Ruth Pletcher Prinkey of Venice, Florida, on January 30, 1970.

Clifford W. Schnake, first recreation director of Canton, Ohio, and a varsity athlete at Otterbein, died April 10 in his Canton home after a long illness.

After his retirement in 1963, Mr. Schnake was honored when the Canton Recreation Board named a softball field for him.

1918 — Minnie Catherine Dietz, x’18, died April 19 in Lakewood, Ohio, where she had made her home with a sister. Before her retirement she had worked for many years in the advertis­ ing department of The White Sewing Machine Co. 1921—Mark N. Funk of Harrisburg, Pa., has been reported deceased as of March 29.

1927—Freda Snyder Lehman (Mrs. John H.) died in May in Fort Wayne, Ind., where she and her husband had lived for a number of years.

1934—Word has been received of the death of Lawrence 0. Hotchkiss of Oil City, Pa., in March of this year.

1964—Nancy Dern Mathison (Mrs. Charles) died March 16 of acute Leu­ kemia. Her home was in Hilliard, Ohio.

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Otterbein Alumni Asked For O.P.I.A.G. Support

Bulletin boar6 ALUMNI COUNCIL MEETING—October 2, 12:00.

FALL HOMECOMING—October 23.

Phi Sigma Epsilon (Tau Delta alumni) luncheon, 11:30 a.m., Campus Center. Meeting immediately following.

Kappa Phi Omega Fiftieth Anniversary Dinner, Imperial House North, followed by “slumber party."

Football game with Marietta, 2 p.m.

PRESIDENT’S DAY—October 28.

PARENTS’ DAY—October 30; Cardinals vs. Defiance 8 p.m.

WATER COLOR PAINTINGS. Two paintings are available through the Alumni Office. A 16" x 20" water color print of Towers Hall, matted and ready for framing, may be purchased for $7.50. A similar print of the old McFadden Science building, size ll"xl4", will be sold for $4.50. Make checks payable to Otterbein College. These paintings are fine gifts for any occasion.

Dr. Robert Place, Assistant Pro­ fessor of Chemistry and co-chairman with Wavalene Kumler Tong, ’59, of the Westerville OPIAG (Ohio Public Interest Action Group — see Spring TOWERS p. 12), has asked TOWERS to announce that alumni and friends of Otterbein may participate in the work of OPIAG through the college based organization.

The basic thrust of OPIAG will be in fighting pollution at all levels, and doing it through effective and legal channels. Ohio is one of two test states chosen to pioneer the Public Interest Action promoted by Ralph Nader.

Dr. Place’s appeal reads in part: All we are asking for is Ohio money to hire Ohio people to solve Ohio's problems. All we are asking for is that you invest $10 in Ohio’s future, your future, and your children’s future. What will life be like in 20 years if we do not act now to clean up our environment? Population and industrialization are increasing rapidly and work must be done now to help you and your family achieve and main­ tain a quality environment in which to live and grow.

Please help yourself and all Ohio­ ans. Make your check payable to: Ohio Public Interest Action Group, Account No. 801-8-82154, Ohio Na­ tional Bank, 51 N. High St., Colum­ bus, Ohio 43216. Mark “For deposit only" and the money will be put in this OPIAG account.

For answers to questions or for further discussion on OPIAG and its work, interested persons may call or write either Dr. Place at his college address, or Mrs. Tong, c/o Wester­ ville High School, 303 S. Otterbein Ave., Westerville, Ohio 43081.