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THE'
OCTOBER'
1940
INDIANA NDIANA
ALUMNI MAGAZINE Vol. 3
No.1
News
University Since Jun e
Alumni Notes by Classes
Alumni Club News
By J ames D. Thompson , '42 1:3
By Hilda Henwood , '32 20
_____ ____ _______ ___ _ __ . _ _____ __ 31
Features
Wendell Willkie
___ _ By Nathan Kaplan , '40
03
Paul V. McNutt
_ __ __ By Robert E. Allen
3
Examining . . . LU. Business School
Guid o Stempel
By Chauncey Sanders 10
By Dr. Frank Beck, '95 1<)
Featured on the front cover of this
issue is the first LU. alumnus ever to be
nominated for the Presidency of the
u.S.-Wendell Willkie. Nate Kaplan
has written the story of Willkie and his
rapid rise in the political world. Also
a story on Paul V. McNutt and his part
in the Democratic conventi on at Chi
cago by Robert E. Allen is included in
this issue. See editorial "Co ncernin g
Politics" on page 32.
Next month we are planning a com
posite story on all LU. Alumni who
are candida tes for office on b oth tickets
in the November election.
Sports
Hustlin g H oosiers
16
Alumni in the Sports World
13
Indiana University Alumni Association PrcJident.
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CA~PREU_.
I.LD ·30. Fori Wayne Departments
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Sec retary, MRS. ETHEl.
H oosier Authors
I n closing . . . Editorials
Book Reviews
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STDU1E L,
Car~'
'19, AM '::4 , Indi anapo lil T reo.mrer, WARD C. DIDDl.E, '16, D1 oomiog lo n
EXECUTIVE COUNCIL
Staff: GEORGE F. HEIGH WAY, LLB' 22, editor; ANDREW G. OLOFSON, AB'39,
managing editor ; 1vy L. CHAMNESS, AB'06, AM'28, associate editor.
Editorial Board: E. Ross BARTLEY, '14; WARD G. BIDDLE, AB'16; MRS.
ALTA BRUNT SEM BOWER, AB'Ol; JOHN E. STEMPEL, AB'23.
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DEAN
DENTON
MR' ,
J,
OLIVE
'II. Cos ben
'07, Columbia City
LEW" , '14. Indi aDapo Ji,
DA"NII AR T,
DLOOM,
DELDON
1939-42
E. AI..U:N, '16. AM '24, Soulb Bend
0". BERT E. ELLIS, '19, MO'21, Indiaoapolil
JUDGE CURTI! C. SnAKE, LLO']O, lodianapolie
FRANK
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LEMlIlE:L A. PITTENGER, '0 7. AM'OS, Muncie
']2, LLB '22. JD'23, Chicago
'26. Elkhart
OR , E. S, CILCIIIU5T. Sc hool or Dentistry Alumni
Juu:,S BREWER. '31. A M ·33. School of Music Alumni
WALTER
E.
THEANO",
L. S.
AJI:~STRO:"G.
Hoosier Authors
Sky Defense
Dive Bomber. By ROBERT A. WINSTON, AB·
'35, Ensign, U.S.N.R. Illu s trat ed by Walt er
(New York: Holiday Honse.
1939. Pp. 191. Illustrat ed. $2.00.)
1. Dothard.
Robert A. Winston's Dive Bomber h ecomes
a hook of particular significance al a time
"'he n, forcibly impressed by the military
importance o f well·trained, modern, and ade·
quale air forces, allention naturally Iurns to
Ollr own side of Ihe Atlantic and our own
de fenses.
We immediat ely examine th e
strength of our naval air force, th e eyes
and spearheau of ollr welJ·known first lin e
of defense. Is it adeqllal e? Is its eq uip·
ment modern and equal to th e tasks it is
lik e ly 10 be called upon 10 perform? And
most important of all, since no machine is
bell er than the man who opera tes it, how
about it s personnel? Does it consist of se·
lec ted quali fied men? Are they well and
Ihoroughly trained , tou ghen ed, morall ed, and
ski lled in Iheir profession, abreast of and
familiar with Ihe latest developments and
tactics of aerial warfare? Are th ey likely
10 be able to cope successf ully with future
con tin genc ies and fast developing tact ical
s itu atio ns which are yet 10 arise and accord·
ingly are not now included in th e course of
Iraining? Are our naval pilots men of Inlua·
live, enterprise, and valor, capable of doing
I heir jobs?
En sign Winston demonstrates cl ear fore·
s ight in anticipaling these questions in th e
minds of layme n and answering th em in an
enlerta inin g manner. He tak es th e read e r
Ihrough the various rigorous ph!lses of se·
lec li on, elimination, and IraIlllng of th e
flying cade t, introduces him 10 barra ck room
life at th e training stations and to th e lighter
socia l life 01 the corps.
Th e book bas caught the unqu enchable
op irit of young avialors through the long
lough lour from the elimination base to war
ga lll es and maneuvers with the fl eet. It
deli cately breathes th e fra ternity of patient
concern when the return of a fellow ·trainee's
s hip is delayed , and appropriately reminds
one Ihat calastrophes are proporlionateiy
rare. The long tour through classroom and
ground·sc hool rudiments 10 combatant flying
seems perfec tly compensated by th e laller
Ihrill of doing a job well in Ih e exciting
fl ashes of split·second accompli shm ent. Work,
peril, a nd sweet triumph foll ow swift ly chap·
ler upon chapter in Win slon's inilllitabl e
easy styl e.
Th e compelling inleresl of Dive Bomber
is evidenced hy the mild and amusing CI)I'
barrasslll ent it ca used Ihi s reviewer for sev·
e ral wee ks. In a moment of kindly aba nd on
he le nt Ye Ed's volume of Dive ROil/bel'
to a plebe in Ihe New York S ia le M ~ r c hant
i'I'J ari ne AcadelllY, Ihen li ghlly illieresied in
naval av ialion. For some we eks i t was Ill('
book of the moment for Ih e cadet co rp "
Ihrea te ning laslingly to cliver l cade ls from
Ihe sea 10 the air. passing mysl erious[y from
hand to hand Ihrollgh Ihe corps, being r ead
Indiana Alumni Magazine
clandestinely post·taps and pre·reveille or from
behind Standard Seamanship or Rowditch duro
ing studv period s, always a pace or two
ahead of th e one·man cade t detail directed
to retriev e it-whil s t Ye Ed was clamoring
for "copy."
The glossary of terms, diagl'ams and tahles
o[ Service and manufacture r's identifications
in the appe ndix whet the layman 's interest
in the s hips a nd flyin g.
Dive Bom.ber is an eyewitness, first·hand,
participator 's accoun t present ed in Winston 's
compelling, easy mann er, interspersed wilh
his personal exper ien ces and aneedotes de·
lightfully told. His lim ely co mprehensive ;;ur·
vev of modern co mbatanl aerial training is
E"xtremeiy int eresting reading.
GEOHG£ W. R. HU GHES, AB'13, LLB'14.
Fort Schuyler, N.Y.
Indiana Glass",are! For Librarians [I nion Lisl 0/ Serials in Indiana .Libraries. Compiled and edi ted by Fava E. Goan, as·
,islant reference librar ian, Indiana U niver·
sill'. Indian a Unio n Lisl Commillee, La·
fayelle, Indiana, 1940. (Lithoprinted by
Edwards Brothers, Inc., Ann Arbor, 1l'Iichi·
gan. Pp. 680. $5. [Twilltex]' $6.25.)
This uni on list cO IHains th e holdings of 16
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serial was defin ed as a ' publication not is·
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reg ular o r stat ed period s of less than :.)
year, And inc luC\illg articl es o n various sub·
jects.' This automati cally ruled ont annuals.
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manacs, gifL books.
Many titles th a t do not nalurally fall with·
in Ihis definiti on nre inclnded because of
Iheir inlrin sie value. The Union List of
Serials in Indiana LiIJraries has made ihe
word " serial" more elastic to include many
publication s for coll eges and universities wilh·
in the State. Publi calions of a local illteresl
other than the publicalions of colleges and
uni ve rsiti es have likew ise been incorporated.
By actual co unt th ere are 11 ,907 lities, w ith
full bibliographical data, in as far as it
was possibl e to ob lain Ih e informalion. This
gives to Ih e scholars of th e SLate a valuable
reference tool to loca te gaps in the serials
of Iheir own librari es as well as to find
others not among IJleir own holdings.
Six hundred and sixty.two of the ilems are
publications that have bee n published in In·
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lion , if not during ils entire e xislence.
In thi s dHY o f union li sl activiLies it is
sca rcely n ecessa ry to ennumerale th e val uabl e
co·operati ve sl'rv ices I.hal a work of this
kind does afford Ih e schola rs of the S tate.
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weakness of col lec tion s Hnd serves as a
c1earing·hou se for tran,;ferring duplicate pub·
lications aud pla cin g Ih em where they are
mosl need ed.
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A First Book
Hannah Courageous. By Mrs. LAURA LONG,
'14, of Columbus, Ind. Illustrated by Ed
ward Caswell.
(New York: Longmans,
Green and Company. 1939. Pp. 246.
Illustrated. $2.)
Other days and other ways seem very real
to us in this appealing juvenile by Mrs.
Laura Mooney Long of Columbus, Indiana,
about a lovable Quaker girl. Well know n as
a contributor to Child Life and kindred pub·
lications, Hannah Courageous is Mrs. Long's
first book.
Hannah Nicholson grew up in southern
I ndiana when the sin of human bondage
weighed heavily on the consciences of all
who dwelt in littl e White River community.
Like high lights among grayed half-tones,
thrilling episodes of the Underground Rail
road stand out in the succession of homely
scenes and incidents which make up the daily
lives of these somberly clad, high-minded
folk.
In spite of a training which banned all
worldliness, Hannah retained a normal girl's
love of adornment and excitement. A friend
ship with a young lady of fa shion from Louis
ville, with whom her Quaker brother fell in
love, broadened her horizon .
But it was H an nah's talent for drawing like
nesses of her family and friends which fi
nally enabled her to escape to the fuller
life of which she dreamed. "As if the devil
himself had pushed thy finers, " stern Aunt
Margaret and others had often said. But,
when one-third of White River community
started to Kansas, to help that troubled terri
tory "come in free," what a comfort to have
likenesses to keep! In the end, we rejoice
with Hannah when the editor of a Washing
ton newspa per feels that her cartoons depict
ing the evils of slavery can aid the abolition
cause.
LOUI SE EMBREE, AB'Il.
Princeton, Ind.
A Good Siart
Two Solitndes. By MARTHA ELLEN WRIGHT
(Mrs. MONROE SHAKESPEARE), AB'32, of
Kalamazoo, Mich. (Philadelphia: The Penn
Publishing Company. 1940. Pp. 306. $2.)
MARTHA ELLEN WRIGHT is to be congratu
lated upon th e publication of her first book,
Two Solitudes. The jacket says, "Two Soli
ludes is a skillful and sensitive portrayal of
an unusual love." It is more than that. It
might well be called a "Young Girl Looks at
Life," for through the pages of this liyjng
and breathing romance there is also an honesty
in conviction, a sur,eness of the path, and a
young girl's determination to face life.
Alix Cunningham has an awareness that
is perhaps typical of no other generation so
much as it is of the present one that weathered
an eco nomic depression and its ensuing dis
couragemen ts. The world is not all moonl ight
and roses coupled with easy living for h er.
She is willing to sacrifice and suffer for her
love, and is also willing to wait until the
r eal thing comes along even if the real
thing isn't tinseled with comfort and wealth.
Two Solitudes is a good book, honestly
written , carefully plotted, and well balanced.
Doubless it will draw a big reading pub
lic. But I.he book itself is more important
than its reading publi c for it holds the promise
of better things to come. It shows that thi s
new wri ter has developed power over both
characters and situations. One has the feel·
ing that no matter in what medium Martha
Ellen Wright chooses to tell a good story she
will have success, whether it be light romance
or a more serious form of literature.
Alix Cunningham is a lovely young girl
struggling to grow up, struggling to fi ght
free from a domineering and unsympathetic
mother. As chief character, she carries the
story with si mple dignity and touching appeal.
Miss Wright's two men of the story seem
("q ually as real. Mart Cunningham fits the
romantic picture exactly and David Bellaire,
who is an undergraduate at Northwestern.
might have come directly from Mi ss Wright's
own Indiana.
Mrs. Cunningham tri ed to buttress her
dwindling fortune with the only resource
she had, two beautiful and marriageable
daughters. When she read in the newspapers
that her late husband's dashing nephcw had
returned ill from an expedition into the
jungles of South America and was con
val escing in a West coast hospital, she sent
for him to come to her immediately for hi s
recuperation . Since he was orphaned and had
no claim upon any family, he chose to accept
the cordial-so unding invitation. He knew,
though, that Eloise Cunningham was not
given to unselfish generosity.
"What a satisfactory hu sba nd he will make
for either of the two girls," thought Mrs.
Cunningham. However, when Alix fall s in
love with him and prepares to jilt her wealthy
college friend , Mrs. Cunningham shows her
claws, especially after she discovered that
the
South
American
adventurer
had
sq uandered his fortu ne on the fruitless ex
pedition. That any young girl, in h er right
mind, would choose a sickly man, nea rin g
his thirt ies, with a scarred face rather than
a weal! hy football hero is more than Mrs.
Cunningham co uld believe. Th e story holds
your interest to the end of the last paragraph.
P erhaps Two Solitudes will lead the way to
the establishment of a second era of Hoos ier
dominance in the field of the romanti c novel.
What other st ate has a better right in that
field than one that produced Charles Major,
George Barr McCutcheon, and Booth Tarking
ton? Don 't be surprised if Miss Wright in
the next few years authors the great Amer
ican novel.
FRANK A. WHIT E, AB'23.
Indianapolis.
First National Bank of Bloomington Indiana University's Bank Since 1871 Member of Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. The October 1940
INDIANA ALUMNI MAGAZINE
Volume 3
October, 1940
Number 1
Mr. and Mrs. Willkie ride in triumph as thousands cheer at Elwood.
Wendell Willl{ie Is First I.U. Alumnus
To Be Nominated for U. S. Presidency
Started Surprising People Back in the Days When He Was an Undergraduate at I.U.-Latest Surprise Is Being Nominated by the Republican Party By Nathan Kaplan, '40
Two
years ago , at the Foundation Da y banquet in In- '
dianapolis, Dr. WILLIAM LOWE BRYAN, AB'84, AM'86,
Hon LLD'37, gazed down from his septuagenarian vantage
of wisdom and experience and appraised WENDELL WILLKIE,
AB'13, LLB'16, Hon LLD'38, in these words:
"Wendell Willkie reminds me of Theodore Roosevelt.
He looks like that Roosevelt. He has the same stocky,
powerful body. He has the same masterful intelligence,
which is at the same time masterful will. We are very
proud of our boys who run and win along with the best
in the world. How proud we are of our men like Willkie,
who can stand up and fight along with or against the
strongest. Roosevelt, the First, would have taken Willkie
to his heart. When Roosevelt, the Second, meets Willkie,
he knows that he has met a man.
"Moreover-you may not know this-as often with a
great fighter, this realist is also at heart an idealist."
Two months ago, at Elwood, 235,000 persons endorsed
Dr. Bryan's appraisal as Wendell Willkie became the first
Indiana University graduate ever to accept the nomina·
tion for the Presidency of the United States.
This was the man, a realist because he is a fighter , an
idealist because he fights for ideals, who had been the
laughing, shouting, roaring radical of the J.U. campus In
.,
oJ
1& rso 1u ti 0 U
i, !t I'BP(II,Il, Thai at this our first meeting
of the Bq;.rd of Trustees of Indiana University since
the nomination of WENDEll 1. WalKIE, A.B. 1913,
L1.B 1916, honorary LLD 1938, as a candidate for
the
Presidency of the United States, we record our pro
fOWld pleasure, satisfaction, and pride in this great and
unique dislincrion which has come ro one of our mose
esrcemed, respected, and beloved alumni.
Jll1a I. 1,4(1
...0-1-0'''", J.bluwl
The I.U. Board oj Trustees tooli: pride in the achieve
ment oj the Jirst I.U. alumnus ever to be nominated Jor the
Presidency oj the U.s. and passed this resolution at its
Jirst meeting Jollowing the Philadelphia cOl/vention.
his undergraduate days. This was the man to whom no
authority was justified , then or now, if it trampled on the
merest rights of its constituents. This was the man who
at 20 had championed his beliefs in the face of odds and
gods and who at 48 is the same fighter he was at 20, his
exuberance tempered with experience, his fervency tempered
with knowledge, but his idealism neither tempered nor tam
pered with.
The Elwood acceptance was the culmination for Wendell
Willkie of a rare feat. He had ridden the preca rious surf
board of big business on a tidal crest of public opinion
from TVA to a Presidential nomination. He had done it
with his hair in his eyes, a grin on his face, and his right
hand waving at the spectators. When he stepped off hi.,
frail craft to trek inland on his campaign, he still had his
equilibrium and his breath.
WilIkie's University reputation grew out of his frequent
battles with the University administration. WilIkie's na
tional reputation stemmed from a battle with a national ad:
mInIstration. For while the Willkie phenomenon, as it
has been called, has been 48 years in the growing, it be
gan, insofar as its public aspects are concerned, in 1937,
when Willkie fought TVA from the Tennessee valley to
the national treasury.
The TVA fight was a no-decision contest, but it brought
the case of the private utilities before the public. Told by
Wall Street business associates to "pipe down" rather than
arouse New Deal reprisals against business in general,
Wilikie only yelled louder, pointed out that with TVA's
privileges in the Tennessee valley, his Commonwealth and
Southern subsidiary in that district could market power
35 percent cheaper than TVA was doing. Court fights
and Congressional investigations brought national impor
tance to the squabble. In luly, 1939, David Eli Lilienthal,
also a Hoosier and head of the Tennessee Valley Author
ity, handed Wendell Willkie a check for $78,600,000 and
private utilities ceased to exist ill the Tennessee valley.
But Willkie had gained sympathy and stature, though
Commonwealth and Southern had sold its holdings. His
remark on taking the check did nothing to hurt his case:
"This is a lot of money," he told Lilienthal, "for a
couple of Hoosiers to be kicking around."
This same Willkie and his college cronies once had fought
the constitution of the Indiana Union, because the Union
Board was self-perpetuating and not selected by democratic
methods. Then he had put up an unauthorized and un
recognized opposition slate and stumped the campus until
a committee was named, consisting of the late Professor
Amos Hershey, PAUL HARMON, AB'14, AM'15, PhD'20,
now professor of physiology at l.U., and Willkie himself,
to modify the Union constitution. The committee's modi
fi cations were not accepted, but eventually the Union con
stitution was revised to permit a more democrati c selec
tions of board members.
In July, 1939, the United States was beginning to antici
pate the next year's Presidential election. The "third term"
question was young enough to be a mystery. But more of
a mystery was who the Republicans could nominate to give
the New Deal a race. There didn't seem to be an outstand
ing jockey in the Republican stable to ride the elephant.
Into this incipient quandary suddenly flashed the name
WilIkie. TV A had strengthened him. He was accepted
now as America's number one business man. His integrity
was unquestioned. His crusading spirit had ca ught the
public, which loves a fighter, just as years before it had
caught the campus, which also loves a fighter. Color? The
man was trimmed in neon. And from somewhere rose a
cry . . . "why not WiIlkie?"
The cry, however, was threatened with infantici de. There
"Standing room only!" was the order oj the day duril1g
the convention at Philadelphia when Wendell W illkie held
press conJerences at which he answered all questions and
pulled no punches-to the delight oj the newsmen.
The October 1940
were innumerable reasons "why not Willkie." First of all,
be had been a Democrat and admitted having cast his
vote for Roosevelt and contributed to the Democratic cam
paign fund in 1932. Furthermore, although he stood
at the top of the business world, " Big business" was a
stigmatized class when associated with politics. And of
all big businesses in which to be engaged, publi c utilities,
which had acquired a poor reputation during the depres
sion, undoubtedly was the worst, from the standpoint of a
possible Presidential candidacy.
But had not this same Willkie, when new to the I ndi
ana campus, aligned himself with the unorganized, the
underdogs, the stigmatized barbarians? Had he not, ill
his first major political test, split the ranks of the or
ganized and elected his friend, Paul Harmon, president of
the sophomore class? What mattered class or position as
long as he could fight?
Columnists and commentators took up the Willkie cry
from coast to coast, but in the same breaths listed the rea
sons why Willkie had no chance. Raymond Moley dubbed
it "a study in irony."
"But," said Moley, "for some curious reason, after
the professional politicians heave the last shovelful of con
versational sad on Willkie's chances, they still cannot leav~
him for dead."
Inadvertently, the commentators were taking the Willkie
case to the public, just as Willkie had taken the utilities
case to the public. Individually, with no concerted effort
and little ulterior motive except to point out the irony of
the situation, they boosted "the man as the finest candi
date available, then listed the overwhelming odds against
him. Writers and radio men alike sang the same lyrics to
the Willkie tune. The public, which had accepted the tune,
tired of the lyrics, and the Willkie boom was born.
The passing of time, the Gallup poll and the Republican
convention proved the power of the public. The WiIlkie
boom grew with each day, the Gallup poll measured its
growth, the convention proved it had reached maturity.
H ere is the house at 523 E. Third Street where the Jour
Willkies lived together at I.U. Julia kept house for her
three brothers--Fred, Bob and Wen-and presided as
hostess at the mallY informal discussions that were so
popular.
Indiana Alumni itIagazine
Like his boyhood idol, Theodore Roosevelt, Willkie is
a proliJic reader. Starting early in liJe with his Jather's
6 ,OOO-volume librar)" he has kept up his reading ever since,
biographies alld historical-economic books being his main
reading diet. He also has written many articles Jor maga
zines al/d has had several book reviews accepted by top
1I0tch publications.
The Republican convention at Philadelphia was typical
until Willkie began to move. He had no lieutenants. He
had no party boss henchmen. He had no trades to make
and no axes to grind. He visited the delegates personally,
talked with them, argued with them, sold them. Opponents
yelped at these unfair tactics and put the man down as
mad. But the gallery chanted "We want Willkie!" The
wires buzzed "We want Willkie!" The mails carried "We
wa nt Willkie!"
There is no stopping a tidal wave at its crest. Willkie
was nominated on the sixth ballot.
Those who know their University history remember
smilingly another politica l convention in which Willkie was
a figure . In 1912 he was chosen to stage a mock Democratic
convention on the campus. These conventions, in days be
fore radio , were events of importance. Delegates to rep
resent all states were selected, speakers were lined up , a date
was set. The date turned out to be the elate of a play-aU
Purdue-Indiana baseball game for the Conference cham
pionship. Delegates and speakers disappeared into a special
train and headed for Lafayette. The convention never met.
The tidal wave rolled on from Philadelphia into Elwood,
carrying 235,000 persons with it. It was the largest such
gathering ever seen in this co untry. His family, his towns
people, his LU. classmates and thousands upon thousands
who had no claim of kinship or comradeship were there
to hear the first important message of a new-born idol.
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A member of the board of directors of the Indiana Uni
versity Foundation, Willkie is shown above conferring with
the other directors at a meeting in Indianapolis last year.
Left to right, they are, Uz illclV/urtrie, Ward G. Biddle, Ora
L. Wildermuth, President H. B Wells, J. Dwight Peterson,
George Heighway, President Emeritus William Lowe
Bryan, Hugh McK. Landon and Willkie.
Mingling with the weaving thousands that threaded and
cross-threaded Elwood were proud members of Indiana
University's alumni and undergraduates. Not only was
it a great day for Wendell Willkie, but it was a great day
for his Alma Mater. From President Emeritus to mere
freshman, the University was ~here to greet a favorite son .
Dr. Bryan was to give the invocation , at Willkie's request.
The "Marching Hundred ," I.U.'s nationally known march
ing band, was to lead the Willkie caravan from the high
school to Callaway park . Congressman CHARLES A. HAL
LECK, AB'22 , who made the nominating speech for Willkie
at Philadelphia , made the introuductory speech here.
Praying first for "this distracted world," then for "our
land," Dr. Bryan concluded:
"We pray for this man, upon whom has fallen so great
a responsibility-this man whom so many now wish and
will to have the place of leadership once held by Wash
ington-Jefferson-Lincoln. These makers and guardians
of our republic will be at his side for inspiration and coun
sel, and along with them a multitude of their comrades
known men, unknown men who wrought and fought with
them for human freedom. Also about him wiII be a multi
tude of living men ready if need be to make the last fight
as their fathers made the first fight for a place on earth
where men may be safe and free. "
They were not stooges, that Elwood audience. They were
not strictly partisan. All over town , as 3 o'clock approached,;
there was a feeling of challenge, an air of "let's hear what
he's got to say." In the downtown section, as the figure of
the day was introduced , a listener epitomized the majority
viewpoint of the crowd: "Now," he said, "we'll hear if he's
worth all this."
And a mile away in Callaway park, a serious, subdued
Wendell Willkie adjusted his glasses, mopped his perspiring
brow, gazed out over seemingly limitless humanity and
spoke these words:
" We are here today to represent a sacred cause- the
preservation of American democracy. . . . Obviously, 1 can
not lead this cause alone. I need the help of every Amer
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During his days at I.U., Willkie was a member of the
Extension Debaters of 1916 who, under the direction of the
Extension Division, participated in a series of public dis
cussions in various towns throughout the State. W illkie
is second from the right in the bottom row.
His fellow debaters, who held a reunion on the date of
the Elwood notification, are: (left to right )
Bottom row-Ralph Thompson, Harlan Yenlte, George
F. Dickman, Willkie and Ivan D. Carson.
Second row-Ralph Kurtz, Basil Walters , Alvin E. Con·
don, George Omacht and Ervin I . Weil.
Third row-James M. Cowall , Harry P. Schultz, Guy
Cook, Gail H. Beamer, Kenyon Stevenson.
Top row-Herman 1'. Briscoe, Back Berman, R. Harris
McGuire (deceased) , Emmet Sears and Edward E. Huff
man.
jcan-Republican, Democrat or Independent-Jew, Catho
lic, or Protestant-people of every color, race or creed."
Thus spoke a man who believes every word he says, who
says every word he believes, a man uncowed by class, sect
or mode of authority , a man who, as outstanding student
of his graduating law school class, delivered a Commence
ment oration branding the Law school faculty hopeless
conservatives and urging "much-needed" reforms.
Even without the fertilization of national fame, Willkie
eventually would have flowered into campus tradition. The
seeds he sowed while in Bloomington are of the kind that
inevitably grow into legend.
Let DONALD 1. SMITH, '19, of Montclair, N. J., one of
Willkie at New York's Radio City Music Hall To See.
The October 1940
Robert P. Lang and L. E . Sellers, both of South Bend,
and George H enler of Bloomington get together at the class
of '13 reunion at Elwood to talk over old times.
Maurice Bluhm, who roomed with Willkie here at /.U.,
also was present at the '13-ers reunion at Elwood and is
shown above chatting with his classmates.
the first to board the Willkie·for-president bandwagon, tell
of the advent of the I5·year·old Wendell on the campus:
"When Wi1lkie first hit the Indiana campus he was a rip
roaring individualist. He was tall and thin and slightly
stooped. His black hair grew long and unruly.
"He didn' t want a fraternity at first. He started to or·
ganize the unorganized, the non-fraternity men, and be·
fore we knew it his independents controlled the University's
student elections."
That was typical. Wherever an argument, a politica l
fracas or a division of opinion on any subject existed, Will·
kie surveyed the field and jumped in on the weaker side.
There was inevitably more fight that way.
Willkie's campus years are notable, too, for the growth
of debate and his participation in that activity. He was a
member of the Extension Debaters in 1916 and toured the
State with that group, gaining valuable experience in publi c
discussion. Eighteen members of the Extension Debaters
squad of 1916 held a reunion in connection with the EI ·
wood notifica tion . Meeting in Indianapolis for breakfas t
on Aug. 17, the group motored to Elwood and had a box
lunch before going out to Callaway Park. That evening
the whole group had a reunion banquet in the Marott Hotel.
Harry P. Shults and Guy Cook were the only two living
members of the group pictured on page 6 who were unable
to attend. James Engles, who was not in the photograph ,
attended the reunion, arranged by Ralph Thompson.
. . . Himself in Olle of the "Illformation Please" films.
The class of '13 also staged a reunion at Elwood and
were seated together in a special section for the speech.
Willkie's classmates who registered were: Wayne Hamil
ton , Edgar R. Curry, Glen W. Warner, O. W. Nichols, D. C.
McIntosh , C. W. Gates, Stanley Sowder, Theodore G. Mc·
Kesson, M. E. Murphy, Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Hamilton ,
Mr. and Mrs. George Henley , Mabel Erwin Davis, Bernice
Ireland Greger, Mrs. Chester A. Evans, Alcyn Manor Gill.
Daniel Lawrence Bock, Charles E. Cook, Charles H. Skin·
ner, George C. Ranck, Walter A. Zaugg, Floyd R. Neff, Mer
ritt V. Kroft, William Ray Allen, Guy Peters, Mrs. Margaret
Benckart Furst, Mr. and Mrs. Heber P. Walker, Mr. and
Mrs. Henry C. Cleveland, Rollo K. Mosher, Bertha :May
Thornburgh, Mary Nash Hatfield, Raymond Cox, H. Lewis
Mauzy, Frank Davidson, Robert P . Lang, O. B. Carmichael,
Donald S. Dixon, George A. Schilling, George W. Goble,
Albert 1. Wedeking, Ada Burk Bing, Curtis Cleveland,
Florence Mellett Scott, Edith Paddock, Ardys Chenoweth
Stull, Louise Keller Beaton, Clay A. Phillips, Mrs. Ruby
Rutledge Hall , Mrs. Roy Deckard, W. O. Grimes, M. M.
Shoemaker, Dr. Chester Stayton, L. E. Sellers, M. L. Bluhm,
Dr. Willard E. Givens, Cornelia Ogle Zahn , E. N. Crum
and Anna B. Harmon.
At one time four of the Willkie family, Wendell, his sis
ter JULIA, AB'09, and his brothers FRED, AB'12, and BOB,
AB'09, lived in the same house, a wooden building at Third
street and Indiana avenue now occupied by Professor K. P.
Williams of the Mathematics department. This place be·
came a sort of blast fumace where all speeches and argu
ments of the liberal and radical campus element were
tempered.
"You brought your ideas there," says Professor Harmon ,
" and if they stood up under the beating the Willkies gave
them you knew they were sound."
Aft~r graduation from Law school , Willkie went into
practice at Elwood. The war interrupted this, and he went
into the service, becoming a lieutenant of field artillery.
While he was in training at Camp Knox, Ky., he and
EDITH WILK, ' 12, who had been librarian at Elwood, were
married. Mrs. Willkie, too, had attended the University
at the same time, but she and Wendell never had met on
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Paul McNutt~ the Sensation Of the Chicago Convention Prolonged and Unexpected Demonstration for I.U.
Alumnus Was the Highlight of the
Democratic Convention
By Rohert E. Barton Allen
"III the first place . .."
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LDTlMERS in the political world could not promise
much excitement for the 1940 Democratic convention
III Chicago. It would be "Cut 'n dried," the y said . The
Presid ent would be re·nominated for a third term ; his every
wish would be observed in the platform which would fol·
low closel y the seven-year New Deal ideol ogy ; and that
would be all there was to it.
Of co urse there was always the remote possibility that
the President mi ght refuse " to run" or "to be drafted";
but it was not likely. The inner circle had made it pretty
definite. Itwas 1I0t worth a hot trip to the Windy City
and the buffeting of a conventi on crowd if yo u were hunt
ing excitement.
Yet some 40,000 delegates, observers, political hangers·on ,
and mildly curious jammed the great convention hall at
one time or another to see the show. At times the great
hall was more than half·empty. At other times meetings
were dismissed as soon as they were called. The manage
ment was finding it difficult to keep the convention going
until the Chicago h otels, taxicabs, and restaurants had
recovered the amoullt of their generous gift to the con
venti on fund.
At last a ripple of drama and suspense ran through the
del egations. The President had made arrangements for a
well·chosen spokesman to carry his decision to the dele
gates. The hall was crowded. Senator Barkley, badly abus·
in g the King's English in which the note was couched and
for which the President is so justly famous, conveyed the
idea that Mr. Roosevelt would prefer to leave the White"
H ouse for the simple and priv ate life of Hyde Park. But
the gate was left wide aj ar. It was definite now that the
President would be re-n ominated. Man y delegates and
spectators left for their down-town hotels where more excite·
ment might be found. Many others left for home. The
demonstrations for the third·time nominee were genuin e ;
the y were for th e man that the convention, by and large,
wanted as its standard·bearer. They were not the wild
emotional outbursts characteristic of Democratic conven
ti ons. The results had been too long expected, too long
taken for granted.
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With the big show over, th e convention tightened its
belt and prepared for the side show , which this time mi ght
be the more spec tacular . It was generally felt that the se
lecti on of the vice·presidential nominee would be a wide
open fi ght, the sort of thing which ha s made the Democr atic
conventi ons famous and h as kept the democrac y m
Democ ratic. Various candidates looked sharply to their
fences. I t was agreed in the hotels and the lobbies that the
men to watch were Justice William O. Douglas, Senator
Barkley of Kentuck y, Sen ator Bankhead of Ala bama , Sena
tor Byrnes of South Carolina , Senator Lucas of Illin ois,
Governor Stark of Missouri , Representative Rayburn of
Texas, Secretary of Agriculture Wallace of I owa, and So·
cial Security Administrator PAUL V. McNUTT, AB'13, Hon
LLD'33, of Indiana. The bo ys who pulled your sleev e
in the lobby to whisper they "had just found out" told you
that it would be William O. Dougl as.
Nominations for the vice·presidency were to take place
at the Friday evening session. The ba rs were down. The
President had accepted the third·term draft. His gracious
wife was on her way to speak to the conventi on. Every man
wh o had been born with the desire to be vice·president
was now on his own. Greatest activity was seen about the
Alabama headquarters and the palati al suite of the Indiana
delegation in the Stevens Hotel. It was rumored that Harry
Hopkins was workin g quietly but effectively-no one was
sure quite for whom.
During the afternoon lull, delegates and observers milled
about in the hotels and on the streets. They went fr om
one candidate's headquarters to an other. Almost without
exception the headquarters were ordinar y hotel suites with
a secretary at the door. Unless your face or name were
known to this Cerberus, you were not admitted. The can
didate was out. She did not kn ow when he would return.
She would be glad to take your n ame.
But there was one ex cepti on to this rule. It was the
Indiana Headquarters in the Boulevard Room of th e
Stevens Hotel. There were no d oors to close. The g reat
archwa ys were wide, gaily decorated, inviting. Members
of the Indiana Committee met you , welcomed you, asked
The October 1940
Always active in I.U. alumni affairs, McNutt has been th e main speaker a·t mal/.y banquets. Above he is shown at the
speakers' table at the alumni meeting held ill St. Louis last sprin g. At his left is President Emeritus William Lowe Bryan.
what the y might do for you. Great pictures of Paul Mc
Nutt smiled down upon you. A string ensemble made up of
neat, snappily dressed college boys played popular tune5.
As a college professor and two Indiana Un iversity mem
bers of the Jackson club appeared in the door, the ensemble
left off in the middle of the "Beer Barrel Polka" to play
"Indiana, Our Indiana." The three or four hundred visi
tors in the room, many graduates of the University, ap
plauded the song. There was a spirit here in the Indian a
headquarters of cheerfulness, of optimism, of business
efficiency. People liked to congregate here. One co uld
overhear a Texas drawl say, "This is the way a co nvention
ought to be run." A Boston broad-"A" replied, "This hea d
quarters is the only efficient thing I have seen at the con
vention." That was the general reaction.
Suddenly there was a roar of applause. Every one stood
on tiptoe. McNutt with a small group of advisers swept
through the lobby. He was bowing and waving. He seemed
satisfied. Then the news began to leak out. Arizona dele
gates had come over to urge Indiana to take Arizona's
place on the roll call so that McNutt might be nominated
early. Only Alabama's Bankhead would precede him . Then
there had been a meeting of eleven of the Western States
in which two-thirds or more of their votes h ad been pledged
to the Administrator. Oklahoma and sever al E astern States
had promised their entire delegati on. The ski es were bright
in the Boulevard Room of the Stevens Hotel at three o'clock
on Friday afternoon .
Then came the rains . There were telephone calls fr om
the White House . The President had "picked" his runnin g
mate_ The vice-presidency was not to be a wide open fight.
Mr. Rooseevlt was said to have made Wallace's selecti on
the condition of hi s own acceptance. A hush fell over the
Boulevard Room . The news went slowly, even tearfull y
around. " Paul could ha ve had it, too," was heard on all
hands. "We won't give in like that," sa id others. "We'll
fight it out on the co nve nti on floor. " But soon th e word
came from McNutt him self. "Call it off boys. Let's be good
soldiers and support the President. He is my co mmander
in-chief." Most of the Indiana backers left the hotel, th e
convention, and even Chicago. They went so rrowfully and
angrily home. " It might have been! " Those who remained
went half-heartedl y to the conventi on hall to hear the Sec
retary of Ag riculture nomina ted . McNutt's name had been
withdrawn; it would not be placed before the assembly.
When the roll call bega n, the name of Senator William
Bankhead was first to be pla ced in nomination. Even be
fore the speaker had closed his address the Alabama dele
ga tes, foll owed by most of their brethren south of the
Maso n-Dix on Line, were sweeping into the aisle. A sense
of drama began to be felt. Was the solid South in revolt
against the President's wishes? The demonstrations con
tinued for 20 minutes. The Bankhead group represented a
powerful minority. Were all of these delegates 5upporting
Bankhead, or were they protesting Wallace, was asked up
and down in th e galleries.
The secon ding speeches droned on. The delegates and
galleries smoked, buzzed, and drank thousands of bottles
of pop. Everyone was bored. It was a set show and not a
very excltll1g one. Convention leaders were trying des
perately to hurry the nomination through before the large
anti-Wallace block could gain further power. And then
Delaware gave way to Oklahoma. A vigorous young man
by the name of Don Wells, speaker of the H ouse of Okl a
homa, fairly bounced to the microphone. There was de
cisi on and command in his actions and his voice. An imm e
diate hush fell in the hall. "The man I am about to nomi
nate is not the choice of the professional politicians"
but he was drowned out by the roar of approval fr om the
floor and galleries. "My candidate is the ch oic e of the
rank and file of the American people"-and again hi s
voice was lost in the roar of approval. At this time few
people in the hall knew whom Speaker Wells was about to
nominate; but the y did approve hi s statements. "My man
is Paul V. McNutt. . . ."
At the mention of McN utt's name pandemonium broke
loose. Oklahoma 's delegates were in the aisle; California
and Texas were following ; Connecticut was out, then P enn
sylvania, Ohio , New York , Colorad o. Indian a's delegates,
under strong instructions fr om their chief, sa t ti ght until
19 other states were in the aisle. 21,000 people were in the
9
ExaBlining:
Training for Business
At Indiana University
Fastest-Growing School in Indiana University Now
Housed in New Building-97 Per Cent of
1940 Graduates Find Jobs
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HERE are doubtless some academic
people who think that it is no part
of the true function of a college or uni
versity to provide for its students
courses in business. There are als0
some businessmen who sincerely believe
that a college education is neither im
portant nor desirable for one who ex
pects to enter the field of business.
Fortunately, I think, people of both
types are becoming more and more
rare. If business in the future operates
more successfully, solves its problems
more efficiently, than it has in the past,
the improvement will be due in part, at
least, to the fact that the average busi
ness man will be better educated than
his predecessor; and part of that better
education will have been provided by
our colleges and universities.
Other things being equal, the col
lege-trained man will be a better man
in business, just as in teaching, or the
law, or the ministry , or any other oc-
By Chauncey Sanders
Tenth ,:n Il series 0/ articles on d,:j jeren!
deparlmellts 0/ JIldiana U Iliversity.
Dean Arthur Weimer.
cupation one cares to mention.
At Indiana University we have for
many years believed in educating young
men and young women for those occu
pations that are commonly lumped to
gether as "business." As long ago as
1902 there was a two-year commercial
course; in 1919 provision was made for
a four-year course in commerce. In
1920 there was established a School
of Commerce and Finance, the name
of which changed, in 1933, to the
School of Business Administration, and
in 1938, to the School of Business.
When Dean Arthur Weimer came last
year to head the School of Business, he
found a school that had grown and
thrived under the leadership of Deans
William A. Rawles and Herman B Wells
and Acting Dean C. W. Barker. Indeed ,
it had already outgrown its quarters,
a building erected in 1923; fortunately ,
a new building was provided for and,
completed during the past summer, is
now in use.
The new building-- officially named
the Business and Economics Building,
since it is shared by the School of
Business and the Department of Eco
nomics-contains 27 classrooms. Some
of these are small seminar rooms, de
signed to fit the needs of classes with
12-15 students; others are lecture rooms
seating as many as 435 persons.
In addition to the classrooms, there
are more than 30 offices, a number
sufficient to provide adequate work
space for instructors and graduate as
sistants. Two statistical laboratories are
equipped with modern machines to meet
the needs of both beginning and ad
vanced students. Other statistical ma
chines, housed in a room on the first
floor of the building, are available for
use by the entire faculty of the Ulliver
sity. Two classrooms are especially
equipped to handle the work in secre
tarial training. A student lounge on
the first floor is available for general
use by the student body and for meet
ings of student organizations.
The most delightful room in the en
lire building is the new library reading
room, which seats 200 students and
provides highly desirable study and
reading facilities. Two rooms, the
Rawles Memorial Room, which adjoins
the main readin g room of the library ,
and the facultv reading room are not
yet equipped.
Beaut£ful new home of School of Business at l.U.
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The October 1940
The School of Business is fortunate
indeed in havin g such a physical plant
as this new building; much more im
portant and more fortunate is the fact
that it also has the men to make the
best possible lise of that building_ Dean
Weimer , who has the AB degree from
Beloit College and the AM alld PhD de
g rees from the U nivers ity of Chicago,
came to Jndiana after experience with
lhe Federal H ousing Administration
and teaching at Georgia Tech_ In such
time as his man y oth er duties allow
him, he keeps up his research activity.
Other members of the faculty of the
School of Busi ness and the Depart
Inent of Econ omics also maintain re
search interests in addition to lheir
other work. Among these are some
who have co ntributed to the growth
of the School througho ut a number
of years. Special mention should be
made of Dr. James E. Moffat, Profes
sors A. L. Pri ckett, C. W. Barker,
George W. Starr, Haro ld Lusk, Mark
Mills, and R. M. Mikesell.
In more recent years a number of
new faculty members have been added
to the staff, many of whom are rapid
ly achieving national prominence. No
table among these are Dr. Harry C.
Sauvain, Dr. N. L. Silverstein. Dr.
George W. Steiner and Professo;· Ed
ward E. Edwards in finance; Dr. Al
bert Haring, Dr. M. L. Anshell, and Dr.
J. E. Gates in marketin g; Dr. I. W.
AIm, Dr. Robert E. Walden, and Pro
fessors D. Lyle Dieterle, Geoffrey
Carmichael and Stanley Pressler in a~
co unting; Dr. J . Edward H edges and
Dr. Alfred Manes in insurance; and
The late Dean William A. Rawles
was dealt from 1920 to 1933 .
R esearch students conferring with Dean Weimer ill one of the seminar rooms.
Dr. Carroll L. Christianson and Profes
sors Cleveland and ·MacIntyre III
Economics.
An adequate program of training for
modern business requires more, how
ever , than teachin g and research ac
tiviti es on the part of the faculty . Con
siderable emphasis has been thrown in
recent years upon student guidance and
upon the placing of graduates in de
sirable positions. Student guidance in
the Indian a University School of Busi
ness has been developed largely through
the efforts of Mr. Richard C. Murra y,
Assistant to Dean Weimer;
also
involved is a far-reaching facult y ad
visory system .
The placement activities of the School
have been carried on since the fall of
1939 by Professor John F. Mee, Direc
tor of the Personnel and Placement Bu
reau and Assistant Professor of Man
agement. The efficiency of the Place
ment Burea u is demonstrated by the
fact that more than 97% of the grad
uates of th e 1940 class were placed in
desirable positions within three months
after graduation . Also, so me 50 alumni
from as far back as 1920 were placed
cluring the past academic year.
The developm en t of the guidance
program began in 1937 with the crea
tion of the office of assistant to the
dean; the holder of the new position
was to be charged with the responsibil
it)' of providin g individual guidance
for freshman and sophomore students.
I n addition a fa cult y member in each
field of co ncentrati on was selected to
serve as the advisor Jor junior and
senior students in hi s fi eld.
During the past two years additional
student personnel service has been de
veloped to help the student discover his
major abilities and aptitudes, to ac·
quaint him with the various vocation",
and to enable him to ch oose intelli ge nt
ly his vocational field. Guidance serv
ices are at the same time to help the
student in attainin g hi s maximum effec
liv eness in the University by clarifying
his objectives, improvin g his study
methods, planning his course of study,
and developing ill him th ose qualities
of character and personality essen tial
to s uccess in business .
Upon entering the University each
freshman is assigned to a faculty ad
viser under the direction of the Univer
sity Student Guidance Divisi on. Each
President Herman B Wells was d ealt
from 19.33 to 1937.
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Dean Weimer inspecting one of the
Thomas Hart Benton murals in the
lecture auditorium of the new building.
adviser has under his direction a small
group of students with whom he be
comes well acquainted. All of these
students are encouraged to consult their
adviser about scholastic or personal
problems, and about anything else they
please. As long as the student main
tains satisfactory work in his courses
such conferences are voluntary; but
he is required to confer with his ad
viser whenever his work in any of his
courses falls below passing. Such con
ferences frequently locate the cause
of the failure and enable the student to
repair the mischief in time to achieve
a passing grade for the semester.
Accumulative reco rds of significant
academic and personal information
concerning each student are maintained
in the School of Business beginning
with his enrollment in the University
and continuing down to and beyond
his graduation. These records are avail
able to guidance officers and counsel
lors at all times. The information con
cerning a student which is accumulated
during his undergraduate years enables
the placement director to advise the
student concerning a vocation and also
to furnish perhaps vitally significant
information to prospective employers.
It occurs to me now that I have said
a good deal about how the School of
Business fun ctions without much elll
phasis thus far 011 what the School is
trying to do and why. The statement
drawn up by the faculty of the School
of Business last spring for inclusion
in the current University Catalogue tells
the story better than J can:
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"The dynamic economic changes of
recent decades have placed a heavy
responsibility on those who direct and
operate the manifold activities of the
business world. To help in carrying
these responsibilities, business has made
steadily increasing demands for well
trained young peop:e, and university
education for I::usiness has expanded
to fulfill these needs. The rapidity of
such expansion is illustrated by the
tripling of the number of students en
rolled in the Indiana University School
of Business in less than a decade.
"The increasing extent to which busi
ness executives look to Indiana Univer
sity for well-trained young men and
women demonstrates the effectiveness
of the University's program designed to
equip students for active participation
in the business world. Such training is
not a substitute for actual business ex
perience; it is intended rather to pro
vide the equipment with which experi
ence in business can be converted rapid
ly and effectively into useful abilities.
"The major teaching objective of the
Indiana University School of Business
is the training of students for effec
tive participation in business activities
and for responsible membership in the
modern communities of which they will
become a part.
"Such a program requires, first of
all, a mastery of basic business tech
niques and methods. It calls for profi
ciency in analytical skills as well as
for the development of those personal
qualities essential to business success
and leadership. Finally , and of no less
importance, It IS necessary for the stu
dent to acquire an understanding of
the relationship of business to other
aspects of modern life and to equip
himself for responsible functioning in
the role of citizenship.
"Certain kinds of business activities
are technical and professional in char
acter, while others are more general.
The program of the School of Business
has been developed so as to meet the
requirements of both kinds of activities.
Thus the student is able either to fol
low a specialized and professional
course of study or to acquire a general
knowledge of business methods and
principles. These specialized phases of
business activity now represent the most
challenging and at the same time the
most rapidly growing of all the profes
sIons.
"Approximately one-half of the
typical four-year course of study in the
School consists of work pertaining di
rectly to the general field of business
Professor George Starr, director oj
the bureau of business research.
and to the student's special field of
concentration. The other half is com
posed of general cultural studies-liter
ary, scientific , historical and social.
C;aduate study is concerned chiefly
with specialized professional training.
"The fr eshman and sophomore years
are devoted mainly to basi c cultural,
technical , and scientific co urses such
as English , accounting, economi cs, so
ciology, government, geography, and
psychology , which are considered of
fUIldamental importance to all persons
entering business. During the junior
and senior years, students continue into
the more specialized professional work.
"Junior courses in marketing, money
and banking, corporation finance , sta
tistics, and business law are required
of all students. The wide variety of
other advanced courses offered allows
the student to specialize in a single
field , such as banking and finance, ac
merchandising,
co unting,
statIstIcs,
mallagement, insurance, real estate and
land economics, public business ad
ministration, secretarial training, com
mercial teaching or other branches. A
student who does not wish to specialize
may work out a more general program
of study with his adviser.
"Professiollal business training, like
other professional training, must pro
vide for a careful selection of those
young men and women who have the
necessary attributes of ability and per
sonality, and who have demonstrated
their ability to carry forward work
of a high quality. Ordinarily this se
lection is undertaken at the beginning
T he October 1940
University Since June RESHMEN entering the University
this fall found a more complete
program of student gUldance, four
!lew dormito:'ies and more adequate
classroom facilities than enjoyed bv
previous new students.
Not only did they find these physical
evidences of the Greater LU. movement,
but they also found a student body that
Look just pride in the advances made.
The student guidance program, su
pervised by Dr. Herman T. Briscoe,
aims to speed the adjustment of the
new students to the campus. The fresh
men were encouraged to "feel at home"
here and were assured of advice and
assistance in their academic work.
F
From Freshman to Senior
In Three Days Time!
From freshman to senior in three
days! That's the record of Walter West,
26-year-old pianist who entered the
School of Music last month.
Walter West , '41.
Condensed from The Indiana Daily Student By James D. Thompsoll, '42 After three days on the campus, West
had passed examinations covering
freshman,
sophomore
and
junior
courses, and was ready to tackle his
senior year.
The New Haven, Conn., musician at
tended high school for two years, then
studied music for three and gave con
certs for another. He expects to re
ceive the BM degree in Oct., 1941.
surroundings, because 19 departments
and divisiol1s were occupying larger
quarters.
The opening of new Swain Hall,
which houses the departments of as
tronomy, math ematics and physics, and
of the Business and Economics build
ing, paved the way for many depart
ments whi ch formerly occupied tem
porary structures to be moved into
permanent headq uarters.
Four new dormitories, two each for
men and co-eds, were opened, easing
the housing problem . Only unit on
the University's current building pro
gram yet to be completed is the Music
Hall-Auditorium , which is expected to
be ready for use by January .
Students Give Thanks
For Thanksgiving
Already students are thanks-giving
over a scheduled four-day Thanksgiving
vacation, from Nov. 20 to 25, that will
enable them to eat their turkey and
trimmings at home this year.
When President Roosevelt changed
the date of Thanksgiving last year,
events already scheduled prohibited
more than a one-day holiday, but the
Board of Trustees restored the vaca
tion to its former length this fall.
With the Indiana-Purdue football
game set for Nov. 23, rooters will trek
from home, rather than from the cam
pus, to witness the classic at Lafayette.
More "New Blood"
Added to Faculty
Nation's Best Driver
Enrolls
at I.U.
Nine new fa culty members with pro
fessorial ranking have been added to
the LU. teaching staff this year.
The new faculty members are: Major
Howard F. K. Cahill, assistant profes
sor of military science and tactics:
Harry G_ Day, assistant professor of
chemistry; James E. Gates, acting as
sistant p'rofessor of business; Miss Ora
Hyde, assistant professor of music;
J . Edward Hedges, assistant professor
of insurance; Edwin Kime, professor
of anatomy; Leland McLung, assistant
professor of bacteriology; Francis E.
Mcintyre, assistant professor of eco
nomics, and Raymond E. Zirkle, profes
sor of botany_
Scores of other appointments affected
every department of the university.
Gene Kenard, winner of a $5,000
scholarship which was the first prize in
the national driving contest sponsored
Gene Kenard, '44.
Nineteen Divisions Enjoy
More Space, New Facilities
When the faculty rolled its sleeves
up and set to work Sept. 16, they did
so in more convenient and adequate
Indiana Alumni Il'lngazine
1.'3 b), the Ford Motor Company at the
New York World 's Fair, selected Indi·
ana University above all other univer·
sities in the United States for his col·
legiate tra ll1111g.
The Evansville youth took driving
lessons in Bosse High School and won
over 47 other state winners at New
York. He plans to major in geology
at LU.
Students Escape Draft
Until Next June
J.U. men students co llectively sighed
with relief when the Conscription act,
passed Sept. 16, included a clause de·
ferring military service of college stu·
dents until the end of the 1940·41
school year.
The bill requires that more than
1,600 students and fa culty member;;
between the ages of 21 and 35 register
Oct. 16, but provisions have been made
for them, if drafted, to postpone servo
ice until school ends next Jun e.
War to be Discllssed
by Paris Correspondent
Students will hear a first·hand de·
scription of World War II when Ken·
neth T. Downs, manager of the Paris
bureau of Jnternational News service,
speaks here Oct. 2, under the sponsor·
ship of the Department of Journalism.
New Men Students Attend
Annual Welcome Banquet
Prominent Speakers
on Convo Schedule
The 1940·41 Convocation series
off to a flying start last month
promises to maintain the pace with
prominent personages scheduled
speak here during October.
Gubernatorial candidates Glen
lis, LLB'25, and Lt. Gov. Henry Schrick·
er will be this month's first speakers ,
followed by artist·author
Rockwell
Kent, Luther Evans of the Library of
Congress, and Josephine Roche, pres i·
dent of the National Consumers'
League.
Professor Fowler Harper of the
School of Law, rece ntly returned after
a year as general co unsel to the Fed·
eral Security Administration in Wash·
ington, D.C. , and Col. Thomas Tchou ,
former private secretary to Chiang Kai·
shek, spoke to capacity audiences in
September.
got
and
fiv e
to
Hil·
Gathered for the fourth annual Fresh·
man Welcome Banquet, sponsored on
Sept. 23 by the Indiana Men's Union,
new men students celebrated their en·
trance into the University.
W. Glenn Thompson, AB'22, deliv·
ered the keynote address of the eve·
New men students entering the University this fall were officially welcomed into
1.U. life at the fourth annual welcoming banquet sponsored by the Indiana Union
on S ept. 23 in Alumni Hall. Friendliness was the keynote of the evening's program.
ning entitled " Indiana University and
What it Offers Lo Freshmen."
Campus personalities who addressed
th e group were Dr. Herman T. Briscoe,
AB'17, AM '23, PhD'24, dean of fac·
ulties; William Lowe Bryan, president
emeritus of the University; Coach A.
N. (Bo) McMillin , and J. E. Patrick,
'30, director of the Indiana Men'3
Union. Marvin Miller, '41, Union board
member, was toastmaster.
McNutt, Norman Thomas
On Open Forum Schedule
Taking advantage of campai gn year,
the Jndiana Men's Union outlined an
Open Forum program designed to edu·
cate students on the value and use of
their voting privileges.
As this Magazine goes to press, final
details have not been announced, but
Norman Thomas, once again nominee
for presidency on the Socialist ticket,
will speak here Oct. 16, and definite
assurance has been given that Paul V.
McNutt, '13, Hon LLD'33 , and one
speaker from the Republican head·
quarters will speak here before the eleo:: ·
tion in November.
Fath er William C. Kernan , news
commentator, opened the series on
Sept. 26 with a discussion on " The At·
tack of Isms on American Democracy."
University Theatre
Faces Busy Month
A busy month is scheduled for Uni·
versity Theatre casts, with tw o plays
to be presented during the first half
of October.
Nota Scholl and George Strother,
both PG, will play the leading roles in
" Outward Bound," scheduled for Oct.
9 and 10, and at press time, tryouts
were being held to select a cast for
" What a Life," to run Oct. 1.3·15.
Other plays to be produced during
the year include " Ah, Wilderness,"
" Family POltrait," the " Jordan River
Revue," and two scripts to he an·
nounced later.
Students Spent $643.22
.Each Last Year
One yea r's s(;hooling at Indiana Uni·
versity costs $643 .22, according to a
composite average, based on a survey
by Miss Mary Crawford of the De·
partment of Economics, for the 1939·40
5(; hool year.
This was an increase of $23 .85, for
th e average stud ent, over the figure for
1938·39, which Miss Crawford at·
tributed to "an increase in funds that
th e student had to spend rather than
14
The October 1940
to ani ncrease III costs."
Co·ed expenses averaged $63.67 high.
er than men's; organized students spent
from $210 to $293 more than inde·
pendent men and women. One of every
three persons included in the survey
earned at least part of his expenses.
Summer Session Students
Enjoy Activities
Summer Session students found a
full program of activities scheduled for
their education and diversion during
their nine·week stay on the camp liS.
In addition to four productions bv
the new Summer Stock Theatre, con·
certs, lectures, exhibits, dances and
tours of local industries and near·by
State parks gave the students relaxa·
tioll and entertainment throughout.
Because the majority of activitie~
were included in tuition fees, every stu·
dent was able to participate freely in
the program. Each student also reo
ceived a copy of the Indiana Summer
Student , a twi ce·a·week summer edition
of the Indiana Daily Student.
Summer Stock Theatre
I s Big Success
Enthusiastic audiences acclaimed the
first LU. Summer Stock Theatre that
staged four plays here on the campus
Ihis summer. The program was so well
received that plans are being made to
make it an ann ual feature.
Maryel Patrick Crowned
Summer Prom Queen
Foremost social event of the Sum·
lIIer Session was the first Summer Prom,
when 130 couples danced under the
stars and a soft July moon on the
terrace of the Union Building.
Twice·crowned Arbutus Be aut y
Queen , Maryel Patrick, BPSM'40, added
to her list of triumphs the title of Sum·
mer Prom Queen-the first in history.
She also appeared on the cover of the
May issue of the Alrunni Magazine.
I.U. Educated 16,910
During 1939-40 Year
A total of 16,910 different persons
furthered their education through the
University during the 1939-40 aca·
demic year which ended Aug. 24 with
the closing of the Summer Session.
Of that number, 8,168 were enrolled
in residence work on the Bloomington
or IIId ianapolis campi; 8,742 others
took correspondence or part time work
at Extension centers.
One of the most popular of the 43 I .U. exhibits in the University Building at
the Indiana State Fair this fall was the alumni exhibit which featured a limestone
tribute to classmates, Wendell W illkie and Paul V. McNutt, and an attractive lay·
out on the Magazine and the Alumni Association. More than 100,000 persons saw
the exhibits.
Conventions Bring 10,000
To Campus During Year
Reflectin g the University's growing
importance as a convention center,
more than a dozen conferences held
here during the summer drew 2,000
men and women from Indiana and sur·
rounding states.
Leaders from every field of endeavor,
8,700 strong, attended conventions on
the campus during the first two se
mesters of the 1939-40 year, to brin g
the total attendance figure for the en
tire year well above the 10,000 mark.
The summer conferences ranged i:1
types all the way from a Life Offi cers
I nvestment Seminar to one for School
Physicians, and included a WPA con
vention which ran for three weeks.
Plans Being Made
For Homecoming
As the Magazine went to press plans
were being made for the Homecoming
program on Oct. 18-19 in connection
with the Iowa-Indiana football game.
As in past. years the Powwow will
be held on Friday ni ght, an alumni
luncheon in Alumni Hall before the
game and an "open house" for alumni
will be held in the lounges in the Union
Building after the game.
The Band Benefit ball and special
decorations for Homeco ming will be
added features of the program that an
nually draws thousands of alumni back
to I.u.
Sigma Delta Chi
Starts Loan Fund
The creation of a loan fund for j our
nalism students was announced by the
University chapter of Sigma Delta Chi,
national professional journalism fra
ternity , late in September.
The journalism fraternit y also is
working on plans for the creation of a
Don Mellett Memorial Fellowship Fund
in honor of the late Don Mellett, '13,
one of the great martyrs of American
journalism who was murdered in 1926
by Canton, Ohio, gangsters who did not
approve of Mellett's "clean up" edi
torial campaign. The fellowships would
provide graduate study in the Depart
ment of Journalism, one of the few
departments in the University that has
110 fellowships at the present time.
15
The Hustling Hoosiers •
Uncertainty Shrouds I.U. Football Hopes This Year As Both Squad and Schedule Will Be Tougher Than in '39 •
PORTSWRlTERS in the Midwest
are now engaged in a j ournalistic
debate on the question: " Is I n
diana a definite threat for the West
ern Conference championship?" The
dehate has been going on ever since
Bo called the boys out for practice on
Sept- 10. The decision will be ren
dered in ei ght weekly installments, the
first on Oct- .5 when J.U. plays host to
Texas.
Each side has four majol points in
its argument on the question; both
sides seem to have logical grounds for
th eir contentions, but in football logic
doesn ' t seem to mean very much.
S
22 Veterans
Are On Hand
The affirmative leads off hy proudly
pointing to the 22 veterans Bo has on
hand around which to build his team .
Sixteen of these men are seniors with
two years of Big Ten experience under
their belts.
Football:
Oct.
S-Texa s
12-Nebrask a
19-1owa (Homecoming)
26-- No rl hwestern
Nov. 2-0hio Slate .... ... . 9-Michigan Stal e
16--W iscomill
23-Pnrdue
here
there
here
ther e
there
here
there
th ere
men who were able to win only three
out of ten Conference games in the pa5t
two seasons.
What reason is there to believe that
they will accomplish this year what
they were unable to do in the past? so
reasons the negative.
Speedy Sophomores
Bolster Hopes
I n addition to the veterans, the af
firmative
points out, there is a new
OCI. S-P urdu!'
Ih ere
crop of speedy sophomores to give the
.... here
19-10wa
2S-Michigan Slate
.... ..... .. ...... here
missing zip to the Hoosier attack.
there
No v. 2·- 0hio Sta te
Earl Dolaway, Bob White, Patsy
9-Bi g Ten Meet
...... ... At Purdue 16 or 18--NCAA ... ..... At Michigan State
Ronzone and Dale Swihart are the first
25- Natinnal AAU
At Detroit
year men who have b een looking good
in early practice sessions.
Cross-Country:
Same Key Men Back
As in '38 and '39
Team Lacks .4 Proved
Triple-Threat Back
The negative scornfully points out
that these veterans-the ke y men in the
"s uccess plans of '40"-are the same
The scoffers continue their running
down of Indiana's chances by pointing
out that there is 110 tried and proved
triple-threat back on J.V. squad.
Hursh can pass and kick, McGuire
can pass alJd run , Brooks and Tofil can
run, but none has shown the ability to
run, pass and kick effectively against
Bi g Nine competition.
Perhaps one of the sophomores
might develop into a triple-threater ,
but the non-believers point out that few
sophomores star under Ho's system.
Hursh , Dolaway, i\llcGuire-Plellty of Kick!
Bo Has Plenty
Of Material
Again the wishful thinkers turn to
the size of the Hoosier squad, which Bv
calls the best-rounded squad he has
had since coming to l.V.
Annually weak in man-power, In
diana has men in sufficient numbers
this year so that suitable reserves might
be developed for emergency use.
16
The October 1940
Lots of Quantity, Not Much Quality Indiana has a lot of men, moa ns the nega tive's rebuttal , but it does not have a lot of good men. They point out that on th e eve of the opening ga me there are still three or four men battling for the starting backfield positions, with no four backs show ing a decided superior
ity. Too, they point out, the slowness of the Indiana secondary defense has not been speeded up , unless J.U. fate is to be in sophomore hand s. Schedule Calls For Less Travelling Last year Indiana's team spent more time on trains than the average pull
man porter, but this year Bo's boys have a break in the schedule. The long
est trip is 730 miles-to Nebraska. Three games-with Texas, Iowa and
Spanky Gahm, senior center, bragged about his conditioning this summer-golf·
Michigan State-will be played at home
Gene White and Cobb Lewis give him the razz as he drives a neat piece of ozone.
and four other games-with Northwest
ern , Ohio State, Wisconsin and Purdue seniors gone) have 13 lettermen on
Injuries Ham per
- all are short trips. hand plus the greatest sophomores in
Early Practice
history.
Injuries, not the kind that bench a
Less Distance,
man for the season but rather the kind
But Faster!
Only Time Will Tell
that keep him from rounding into shape,
Indiana ma y not have to travel as
have hit hard at Indiana this year.
What Score Will Be far for its 1940 games, co ncludes the
One veteran, Eddie Herbert, has been
Frankly , we don ' t know what to tell
negative, but they will have to travel
a lot faster if the Hoosiers are to win you about football prospects. It may lost for the season because of a torn
be a great year and then again it may ca rtila ge in his knee. He plans to with
many of those tough eight games.
draw from school and return next year
not
be so great.
With the exception of Purdue, all of
Indiana's opponents escaped with lit
But in any case, Indiana will have a and play with the '41 team.
Tuffy Brooks, Cobb Lewis, Hal
tle or no loss of veterans by gradua hustling, battling eleven that will push
tion , and even the Boilermakers (26 all eight teams to the limit.
Hursh and Gene White all were out of
The same men who gave Indiana a successful cross-country season last fall are back for action again this year. Lef"
to right : Bob Barter, Del Persillger, Gerry Daniels, Ed Hedges , Campbell Kalle, Wayne Tolliver, Vernoll Broertjes alld
{I eryl McKibbon . The harriers open their season at Purdue on Oct. S.
1
17
uniform with bruises when Bo sent his
charges through thei r last scrimmage
game on Sept. 23 in Mem orial Stadium.
All but Brooks should be ready for the
opening game against Texa s, and Tuffy
probably will be ready by the Iowa
game.
Without Crain,
Texas Wins, 39-7
.lack (Rabbit ) Crain, sensational
broken ·field runner of the Texas Long.
horns, was hurt in the opening game
(Igainst Colorado, but his mates rolled
up a 39·7 score against the champions
of the Big Seven Conference.
Crain hurt his hip, but is expected
to be ready to play against Indiana on
Ocl. 5. Evidently there is more to the
Texas attack than Crain, for th e Long·
horns gained 539 yards without him.
Cross-Country
Prospects Bright
Partially eclipsed in cross·co untry last
yenr by great teams from Wisconsin
and Mi chigan State, Indian a should
once more reign supreme in the hill and
dale sport for the 12th time in the last
13 years. Over the past twelve years,
Indiana has won 52 out of 56 dual
meets and lost the Big Ten title to Wis
consin last year for the first time since
1923.
Reasons for optimism at LU. are
seven veterans returning-the sam e men
who ran last year-and a good crop of
sophomores_ Several of the veterans
have shown marked improvement since
last fall , notably Kane and Tolliver.
Michigan State, NCAA champs, and
Wisconsin, Big Ten title-holders, both
suffered losses by graduation.
~ Living
Fred Cornell, First 1. U. Quarterback,
Still Active and Interested in Sports
By H. O. Slechan, '01
Were an "i ntelligence test" instituted
on the Indiana Campus today and the
question asked: "Who was Indiana's
first great quarterback?" it is doubt
ful if many could name him, so fragile
is the fle~ting thing called fame.
That distinction belongs to Fred D.
Cornell, '90, a hale and hearty young
ster in his mid-seventies, now living in
retirement in Los Angeles. It was ill
1387 that he blazed the way for th e
Johnny Fosters, "Co tton" Berndts,
Chuck' Bennetts, Vernon Huffmans,
Corby Davises and the rest of the val
iant Hoosier crew that have since won
renown on the gridiron.
In the decade before the turn of the
century , Fred Cornell was also an out
standing baseball player. Those wer~
the days when they played "big league"
ball on the LU. campus. Cornell was
the star pitcher of the team. In fact
he was so good that he was induced
to complete his education at Ithaca
(N .Y. ) where Cornell University-the
same as his own name--is located, that
he might fling the rawhide for the Em
pire State college "champs."
As Fred Cornell explains, it was no
discredit in those days for an athlete
to have his legitimate expenses defrayed
by the school-if he was a bonafide
student. And he still believes that it
is all right and the means for helping
a lot of youngsters get a higher edu
cation. But he wants it understood
that he does not approve of hirin g
up to a promise they made each other 20 years ago, the five regulars oj
Indiana's 1920 basketball team got together with their families for a reunion this
summer. Left to right, Arlo Byrum, executive secretary of the University Y.M.C.A.,
Cleveland; A. L. Phillips , basketball coach at Ball State; Everett S. Dean, basket
ball coach at Stanford University; Urban Ieffries, superintendent of schools at
Charleston, Ill., and Heber Williams, Indianapolis businessman.
Comell being interviewed by Stechan
(right) at Los Angeles .
athletes simply for their athletic
prowess. He feels that a system could
be worked out by colleges today, whi ch
would be an advantage all around, if
honestly and fairly administered.
On finishing up at Cornell, Fred
responded to the call of the West and
loca ted in Omaha, Nebraska, where he
was employed for many years by the
Southern Pacific Railway . Masonry
was his avocation and he finally de
voted himself to fraternal work, moving
to Lincoln. There he was recorder of
the Shrine Temple and finally elected
to the 33rd Degree-the highest honor
ill Masonry for hi s outstanding
Masonic work.
Several years ago, Fred Cornell came
to Los Angeles on a visit and decided
to remain here. The years have not
obsessed him in any way. "I'm not
living in the past," he says. He takes
a deep interest in everything that's
going on and refuses to see mulli-grubs
ill the future. While making no pre
tensions to being a prophet, Cornell
believes the future will take care of
itse lf. " Meanwhile, I'm having the time
of my life, right now," says Indiana's
first great quarterback and his beam
ing smile and good-nature prove it.
Read About Bo in
Ladies' Home Journal
4
The Bo McMilJins
to be the sub
ject of the "Ho w Amenca Lives" series
in the November iss ue of the Ladies'
Home Ioumal.
18
T he October 1940
Guido Stempel Is Retired,
But As Active As Ever
Professor Emeritus of Comparative Philology for 44 Years, This Youthful Veteran I(eeps Working for the Fun of It HEN is a professor "emeritus" and when is he only "retired"? That, ] felt, was first to be learned if I would write of the men and wom
ell who, after years of service to ]n
diana University, now are listed in LU. Catalog under "Emeritus Officers and Professors_" F or an answer to this question to whom would it be more natural to go than to Guido Hermann Stempel, AM
'11 , 44 years a teacher of English and comparative philology at LU. and now a member of the class of '38- retired. H e was found in his study: that study in his home on Park Street at First with the spacious yard and colorful flower garden, which for almost half a century has been the mecca of the inquiring stu
dent. ]n this study, with word-books to the right of him , word-books to the left of him, this kindly , erudite philolo
gist offered to illuminate the words for which I sought a fine distinc ti on_ " Emeritus," said Professor Stempel, "is from the root emereo and expresses merit or approbation." "A Roman root? " I inquired. " Yes," he returned, "it was a name applied to a Roman soldi er who had served his time and was honorably dis
charged. " "Would it not be interesting to trace this word, emereo, through Latin litera
ture and learn if there was any cere
mony attending an act so significant to the soldier as that of retiring from ac
tive service?" ] asked Mr. Stempel. "It surely would be," he repli ed and promised to " run down" this word to its complete m eaning. The chore in exploring this word, Professor Stempel, always a creative scholar, would take in his stride, for he is now in the center of what seems to the uninitiated a staggering task-that of bringing a standard, popular diction
ary of a few years ago up-to-date; a W
.
1ndiana Alumni iUagazine
By Dr. Frank O. Beck, '95
First in a sef':es 0/ articles on retired mem
bers oj I.U. jocallY.
E. and E. St/Ldio.
Guido H. Stempel
the Word W orlcer
mISSIOn he has from a publishing com
pany of New York and Chi cago.
Then, for an arousing and most edify
ing half hour, he pulled from his mental
index new words illustrating the
romantic task in which he was engaged_
"S tumpy," he said, " is a very old
word well on its way back into popular
use. It mea ns money, the wherewithal;
as, we wo uld have a new ca r if we had
the stumpy."
"What about the word, blitzkrieg?"
I asked . "Is not that a new word?"
''It is," explained Professor Stempel,
"that word, born to the German lan
guage, is today rather common in many
vocabularies, although it might be said
to be scarcely more than three years
old."
"Ah, of the '37 vintage! So we have
come to date our words, too! " ] co n
cluded.
"Yes," he agreed , "along with dated
coffee, dated bread and other dated
things, we now date our words_ Such
words as ground-school, baby-farm and
many others have their dates rather
definitely fixed_"
Then we talke-d of hyphenated words .
the many new uses of the word per
sonal£zed, the arresting new words in
Conrad Richter's The Trees, and then
regretfully I shifted the conversation
from words to deeds.
"A ny secon d interest?" said Profes
sor Stempel, echoing my question be
fore telling of his column of word stud
ies contributed periodically to various
newspapers and of his weekly column
in the Bloomington Star 011 music and
musica l programs of the University and
cOJllmunity. This he considers his
hobby, but these columns reveal him
not only a true lover of music but also
as a keen music critic.
He plays "skat," I know, and mem
bers of the small coterie with whom he
plays, I understand , are unanimousl)'
of the opinion that he is by no means
a weak opponent.
"His -family? " you wonder.
There are yet two Stempels in the 1940
Catalog of the University. -Myrtle Em
mert Stempel, AB'02, AM'15, teaches
comparative philology with the en
thusiasm that has dominated her long
years of teaching and th e son , John
Emmert Stempel, AB'23, returned two
years ago to his alma mater to head the
department of journalism. Then there
is Guido, Jr., AM'27, AM'28, PhD'34,
who teaches at Carnegie Tech .
So in Professor Stempel's schedule
are stuely and writing and games and
autoing to odd and distant points and
ea ting at unus ual and bizarre places
and hospitality, but somehow in his
study you get the impression that all
these, barring his family, are "boon
doggling" compared to work with
words. And if he made words as in
teresting to his students as he did to
me that hour it was really a most stupid
student who would wish "to take it on
the lam. "
] n partin g, ] asked this consideratG
and scholarly emeritus professor if T
might tell his students and friends about
him and his present work.
" To be sure," was his reply. "Tell
them that with me it is, ' the mo re time,
the less leisH re.' "
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Alumni N flies•••
Around The News World With I.U. Alumni
1869
SA MUEL E. MAHAN, AB, wh o had bee n th e
old est living graduate of I.U., di ed at St.
P a ul , Minn. on Sept. 20 at th e age of 94.
Before co ming to LU. for hi s coll egiate train·
i ng, Mr. Mahan had enlisted in th e Civil War
wh en he was 17 years old. H e had lived in
SI. Pa ul for 1he past 46 years, an d was a past
vreside nt of th e J.U. Alumni club in th e twin
c iti es.
Compiled by . . . . . . Hilda Henwood, '32 1874
1876
1881
I.U. lost a fam ous son in the death of
JOHN T. THOMPSON, '81, LLD hon'22, retired
brigadier·general of the U.s.A., at his home
in Creat Neck, N.Y., on June 21. Burial
was at West Point, in recog niti on of hi s servo
ice to hi s co untry, for whid. in 1919 the War
Depar1ment awa rd ed hi m the di stingui shed
service medal for "exce pti onall y meritori ous
a nd conspi cnous service as chi ef of th e small
a rm s divi sion () f th e offi ce of th e cbief of
ordnance, in whi ch capac ity he was charged
with the design a nd prod uction of all small
arms and ammuniti on th ereby supplied to
the U.s. Army, whi ch result s he achieved
with such signal success that serviceable
rifles and ampl e amm uniti on therefor were
at all times avail a ble for all troops ready
10 receive and nse Ih em.'· Retired in 1914,
he was recal led to service during jhe World
War, and it was durin g thi s period th a t he
in vent ed th e T hompson sub·machin e gun a nd
redesigned th e Briti sh Enfi eld rifl e to make
it kn own as th e best rifl e ill th e world. Ge ll '
eral Th()mpsoll came to th e University with
20
1888
J OSEP H H EN RY HOWARD, AB , A M'90, former
professo r of LB tin in Ihe Univ ersity of So uth
Da kota, is now living in Spokane, W a~ h . ,
where a so n resides.
1889
j\·lrs. iVIARG.\RET DODDS Rose, BS, wid ow of
TH EO DOHE F. ROSE, BS'75, !.U. tru stee for
several years and donor of the Memorial
Well ·House and also the Rose Cup , given each
yea r to th e class having the largest percen·
tage of it s members back for Co mm encement,
died on SeVI. 19. She was th e gran dd a ughter
of Presid ent Andrew Wyli e, wh ose portrait
she prese nt ed to th e Uni versity in 1908. For
ma ny yea rs she and her hu sband we re among
th e cultural and social leade rs of Muncie.
A so n, FREIlERtcK DODDS ROSE, AM'28, presi.
dent of th e Me rcha nt s Trust Company in
Mun cie, snrvives.
Many alumni jumped into th e spotli ght be·
ca use of former associati ons with WENDELl.
L. WILLKIE, AB'13, LLB'1 6, a nd a mong these
is CHARLES T. CAHI'ENTER, AB, to wh om credit
was given for pla cin g his home to wn , Coff ey·
vill e, Kan. , on th e na ti onal politi cal map as
one of the Willki e speakin g pl aces. Willkie
got a job as schoo l teacher at Co ffey vill e in
1913 through th e effort s of Mr. Ca rpent er, a
member of t he school board . A form er bank er,
Nl r. Carp enter is still act ive a t 81 in hi s own
sa vin gs and loan a ssoc iatio n.
•••By Classes
Albert H. Yode r, AB'93 , former president
0/ Vin ce nn es University and nationally known
WERST(;R V. MOFFETT, AB, wh ose legal
ca reer began and ended in Bloom field, di ed
at th e Indi a napoli s Meth odi st Hospital on
J I.Il y 25. He wa s born near Spe ncer on a farm
where lea rns cha nged for th e T erre H a ute·
Bloomington stage coaches. In th e yea r a ft er
grad uati on, he married cl assmate ELLA RY AN,
AB, continu ed teaching school, a nd in 1894 reo
ce ived th e LLB from the Uni versit y of Mi chi·
gan . For more than 17 years he was a memo
be r of the Bloomfield school boa rd .
R OWARD L. WII"ON, AB, A\\1'9 1, died at
hi s h ome in Bloomington, Calif., fr om a
hearl allack on July 14. After leav in g J.U .,
Mr. Wil so n continued hi s edu cati on a t H ar·
va rd and Co rn ell and for 30 yea rs ' vas ac tive
in the edu ca tional world as p resident of th e
R iver Falls S tat e Normal in Wi sconsin and
as teacher in so uth ern Cal iforni a secondary
schools until hi s retirement in 1926 to de·
vote hi s time to hi s ora nge grove. Alth ough
he was 76 years old, he had remai ned aC li ve
in thi s work to within an hour of his death.
child psychologist , di ed at Seattle, Wash ., on
Sept. 22. Hi s widow , the former Sllsan N .
Griggs, A 8 '93, sllrvives.
hi s parents when hi s fath er, Col onel J am es
Th ompson, was made professor of milita ry
science a nd ci" il engin eerin g. Th e son, fol·
lowin g in hi s fa th er's steps, went 0 11 to West
P oin t, se rved as ca pta in in the S pa nish·Amer·
ica n War, and wa s then tran sferred to t he
ordn ance department.
Burial serv ices were held in Bloom in gton
on Aug. 13 for Mrs. Charles Harri s ( MARY
MC CALLA, BLl , a granddaughter of I.U .'s
fir st president , Andrew Wylie. She and Pro·
fesso r Em eritu s RAHRlS , AB'79, LLD hon'29,
were li vin g in Clevela ud at Ih e tim e of her
dea th .
P erh a pB the last o f those who ent ered Ihe
Uni versit y from tlt e old Monroe Co unty Fe·
ma le Semin ary, Mr s. Roe L. Winslow
(FnANcEs PER RI;>IG) di ed on Se pt. 8 a t Ih e
home of her da ught er, Mrs. THA NA WINSLOW
Wyli e, AB' ll , of Bloomington. Mrs. Winslow
was a nati ve of Monroe County and a memo
ber of one o f il s pioneer famili es.
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1884
A loa n fund bequest of $20,000 in memory
of H ARR Y B. BURNET, BL, a nd P ERCY B.
BURNET, BL, A M'87, was a vailabJ e to stu dents
thi s fa ll. The memorial fund was esta blished
by th e Ja te Mrs. H. B. Burnet (MAnY QU ICK
BURNET, Al\! hon'33), lea der in promotin g
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Cit y & State
T he October 1940
Dr. Ernest H. Lindley-A Great Leader in a Great Work! On Aug. 21, the radio operator on the
S. S. "Asama Maru" flash e d this me3sage
to Bloomington from mid·Pac ifi c: "His JOIl[·
ney ended peacefully thi s morning. Burial
Ht sea ."
Thus came the word o f th e passing of one
of the great college presid ent s wh o graduated
from Indiana Univer sity. ERN EST HIRAM~
LUIDLEY , AB '93, AM'94, Han LLD'22, chan
cellor emeritu s of th e Univer sity o f Kan sas,
had s uccumbed to an a llack o f pl e urisy
which cut short hi s world tour in Japan a
mo nth earlier.
With his wife, the fonn er ELiSAllETH KID·
PER, AB'93, Dr. Lindl ey left in October, 1939,
for a world cruise shortly aft er he had re
tirpd as chancpllor at Kansas.
Be fore he was stricke n with his fatal ill
ness, Dr. Lindley had plann ed to r e turn to
Kansas to teach a course in philo so phy ther e.
Although he was an ardent tarpon fi sher
man , he once sai d, "There is one thing I'd
rather do than fish for tarpo n. And that is
tea ch. It still is st imulatin g a s champagne to
deal with young minds eager to know about
li vi ng."
Throu~hout th e bll'3Y years of hi s life wh en
he wa s in turn student, in structor, h ea d of
t he de partment of philosophy at I.U.; pres i.
dent of the University of Idaho, and chancel
lor of th e University of Kan sas, he was al·
1890
JOHN A. MILLER, AB, LLD hon'28, Swarth
more Coll ege professor emeritu s, has present ed
to th e University a portrait o f hi s late wife,
Mrs. FRANCES MOIlGAN Swain Miller, '83.
The picture is to be hun g in the Student
Building, funds for which Mrs. Miller as the
wife of President Swain helped to obtain.
1892
With services dating back to 1901 at Ohio
State Univ ersity, JAMES E. HAGERTY, AB, reo
tired with the emeritus rank from ac tive
duty on Sept. 1. Joining the Ohio S tat e
faculty as assistant professor of economi cs
a nd sociology, he later se rved a s ac tin g
head of that department. Since 1904 h e
held a full profes~orship, wa s dean of th e
commerce coll ege for 10 years, establi sh ed
and direct ed the sc hool of social admini stra ·
tion, and after 1932 was professor of soc ial
admini stration .
1893
For th e first time since 1904, ADDISON
LUTHER FULWIDER, AB, AM'OS, did not reo
turn thi s fall to hi s po st as principal of the
Freeport (}I\') high school. Instead he will
spend th e year in eithe r Arizona or California
to d e vot e hi s time to writing, an a cti vity
whi c h already ha s contributed a county his·
tory , a monograph o f the Lincoln-Douglas de·
bate in Freeport , and numerous articles on
Illinoi s and American hi story. The retired
tea cher is a past president of a division in
the Illin oi s education association, of the
Freeport chapter of the Rotary Club, and a
memb er of the library board.
o ffi c ial leading cItizen. The acade mi c hOllors
that hav e co rne to him, the places of g reat
respon s ibility in his profession to whi ch h e
ha s bee n ch ose n, have reflect ed lu ster upon
Kan sas.
" H e has don e hi s work as admini strative
hea d of th e IInivers it y witLI ta c t and pe r ·
spi ca ci ty . H e ha s rai sed th e a cad e mi c stand·
Hrd s of the IInive rsity in kee ping w ith th ~
fo rward mov cmf'nt of the times. He ha s h een,
throll g h th e pa ss ing of governors and se na·
tors and co ngressmen, our perman e nt c 1I1·
tural spok esman-a tower of light on Moullt
Oread. "
ways one "of those rare educators whose
presence on th e campu s <:on tr ibut ed far more
th an sc holarl y a ll a inm ent s and teac hing abil·
ity."
RICk of the mat eri al facts of any career
lies the real sig;nifi ca nce of a man's life,
and of Dr. Lindley at h is r etirement, Kansas
editor William All en Whit e wrote:
"Mr. Lindley has been more than the head
of the state univ ersi ty . H e has been our
Chief palaeoutolog ist for the Geology Sur
vey , Ottawa , Canada, from 1912 until hi s re
tirement in 1938, EDWARD M . KINDLE, AB ,
LLD hon '39, died on Aug. 29. His ou tsta nd
ing career began with an in s tructorship in
geology at 1.U. in 1893·94, a nd progressed
throngh memb ership in th e Cornell expedi
tion to Greenland to assistant geologist in
the Indiana Geologi ca l Survey, th en assistant
geolog;ist in the U. S. Geo logica l Survey, and
in later years he wa s a sp ec ial l ec t urer in
geology at the Univer si ty of London and
president of the Palaeontolo gical Society of
America.
1895
CLAliDE BRANT, AB , who had re tired from
hi s de ntal practice in Fort Sco tt , Kan ., a nd
r eturn ed to Bloomington a yea r ago, died on
Sept. 16. The body was crema ted, and the
ashes returned to the grave of hi s wife in
Fort SCOll, where Dr. Brant had spent his
entire dental career of 37 years. Hi s office
eq uipm ent was donated to th e FOri Sco tt
dental soc iety fo;' use in a clinic, which
wa s es tabli shed this year.
1898
Veteran a ll or ney ELl P . MYERS, AB,
LLB'99, who practiced in Elwood for 40 years,
di ed on Jun e 4. I-Je had been d e pl/t y prosec u·
tor for six years, city attorney for three, ann
president o f the Madison County Bar Asso·
c iation. The widow and a dau ght er survive.
1899
The old clic he, "a small worlel," wa s ap·
propriate in So uth America, WAYNE HANSO N,
Pres id ent Emeritus WILLtAM LOWE BHY,\ N
stresse d th e "qualit ies, wisdom, int eg rity,
energ y, and th e co urage which mad e hi m cle·
fend a t eve ry ri sk to himself th e cau ses and
perso ns tha t. were hi s respo nsibi liti es. Hi s
unexcelled virtues and graces made him be·
lo ved b y thol/ sands."
Dr. Lindl ey ne ver lost contact with l.U .
Ac tive in r eorgani zin g the Alumni Assoc ia·
t.ion in 19J.3, he served as Alumni Coun cil or
until he urged that his name be withdrawn
and " th e privilege passed on to other alllmni."
Mrs. Lindl ey arrived in San Franci sco on
Aug. 30 and was met by her two sons, ERNEST
K. LtNOlt:;Y, '20, and Dr. Stanley Lindl ey o f
F ergu s F a ll s, Minn.
AB, fOllnel wh e n h e s topped thi s s ummer in
Lima , wh ere, as he la te r related in the in·
dianapolis Slar, " I so ught Ollt the director
of the ce ns ll s. . . . As I sat at dinner with
Dr. Arca Parro I asked him where he wa s
educated . 'After San Marcos,' he answered
quietly, 'I went to Indiana University.' My
hand shot ou t : ' Hail to old 1.U.' The do c·
tor's eyes glis tened as he talked of student
days, and of the kindnesses he had received .
'One day,' he sa id , 'I was in line at the stu
dent cafet eria . An elderly gentleman was
ahead of me-very co urteou s. He ask ed
abollt me and my work . 'And, who are you?'
I sa id , finall y. " My nam e is Bryan," he said
simpl y: " I am th e president." '1 shall never
forget him ,' Dr. Parro added." In Y.M.C.A.
work si nce he wa s presid ent of the I.U . or
ganization in 1896, Mr. Han so n is now reo
tired as a foreign secretary and i s devoting;
his time to writin g ancl lecturing.
1901
Throwing an optmustlc oplllio n in the face
of the predicted cata strophe whi ch "type and
printer's ink, as well as the l egion of radio
commentators, shri e k at us breathl essly morn
ing, noon, and night," HAf'lS O. STECHAN,
Los Angeles, in Indianapolis Star features reo
call s that " only a cent ury ·and·a·quart er ago
thi s very summer, Napol eon
. . wa s onc~
more footloose . . . . Million s fear we are stand
ing on the brink of a universa l crack up, rig;ht
now. Nevertheless it wOllld seem that thp
situation in the 19th century's first quarter
was fraught with possibiliti es relatively mor~
ominolls than the present predi cament. For
all its briefness, the period wa s one of far
grea ter menace and un certa int y than the
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.II Friend Worth Cultivating In fire insurance business ever since he
left the University, Wickliffe P. Ray, '05, is
president of W. P. Ray and Company, Inc.,
155 EasL MarkeL, Indianapolis. lVlrs. Ray
was Jessie Simmons, '00.
G
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Acting on his physician's advice, the Rev.
WILLIAM T. ARNOLD has annonnced his re
tirement from Ihe Methodist ministry. His
41 years as pastor ended aL Garrett, where he
went three years ago from Marion afLer serv
ing aL Kokomo, Muncie, Bluff Lon, and Logans
port. In the North Indiana conference he
had been dean of the EpworLh ForesL In
stitute, chairman of the board of examiners,
a member of the board of sLewards, and dele
gaLe to the general conference three Limes.
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world is experiencing at presenL, becanse of
the lack of snch faciliLies of speedy com
municaLion and prompL informaLion as now
prevail."
Walter H. Crim, AB'02
Wins Amos Award
1902
1903
LEWIS M. TERMAN, AB and AM, LLD
hon'29, psychology head at Leland Stanford,
"made" a recent "The Debnnker," syndicaLed
feaLure. A co-worker with Prof. Terman "on
the most extensive study of great geniuses
ever underLaken, says that these rare people
are not queer, morbid, or eccentric. A total
of 301 of the greatest geniuses in history were
raLed on 67 different traits, snch as persist
ence, comage, physical stamina, and general
mental balance. The results showed the
geniuses to be considerably superior to the
average of people in general on these per
sonality traits. The conclusion was: 'On the
average, geniuses are probably the most
normal persons in the whole human race.'''
Roy E. ROUDEIlUSH, AB, a University visi·
tor this summer, is associate professor of
mechanical engineering in the Iowa State
College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts.
1904
ORVILLE 1.. MORROW, of Fortville, former
teacher, insurance man, and banker, died on
July 18 in the Indianapolis Methodist Hos
pital. After teaching for a short while, he
organized a bank in Fortville which he served
as cashier until he took up insurance busi·
ness. He was secretary of the Fortville Build
ing and Loan Association.
1905
News comes of the marriage of LEONA 1..
Tl'RNER. AB, to Lloyd Nichols, of Phoenix,
Ariz. Formerly associated with the Christian
Science publishing house in Boston and with
organization headquarters in Washington.
D.C., she had been living more recently in
Tucson, Ariz. No details of the marriage
were learned.
Back home in Bloomington "to do a great
many Lhings I always have wanted to do bUI
never have had time to do" is OSCAR H. WIL'
LlAMS, AB, PhD'23, dean emeritus of the
College of Liberal Arts, Kent State Univer
sity, who retired this summer from his work
as fnll·time professor of economics. Engaged
in edncaLional work for 47 years, he plans to
continue research in educational, social, and
political problems, especially in Soulh Amer
ica and in Mexico.
To a shelf already crammed with cups allli
trophies signifying journalistic achievement,
W ~LTER H. CRIM, AB'02, editor and publisher
of Ihe Salem Republican-Leader, in June
added the coveted Amos Award, presented La
him nnanimollsly at the National Editorial
Association convenlion for oULstanding serv
ice to the N.E.A.
For eight years Mr. Crim has been one of
the "official family" of the N.E.A.-as a mem
ber of the board of directors, Lreasurer for
three years, and vice·presidenl last year. Per
sonal and business reasons forced his "re
linquishing the honor of election 10 the presi
dency of the N.E.A., "hich tradition decreed
would come to him at Lhis year's convention"
(excerpt from Amos Award citation). How
ever, he did serve last year as acting presi
dent during the illness of the president.
As a sophomore at l.U. in 1899, lVIr. Crim
was editor of the Indiana Student when it be
came a daily. On occasion of Indiana's fin;t
football victory over Illinois, he, with William
A. Patton and Clande Malloll, issued an
"extra" ediLion of the Student in red ink.
Not until 1928 did Mr. Crim enter the pub
lishing business. At Ihat time he purchased
the Salem Republican·ff7 eekly, which in the
last len years has been cited 16 times ill
State and national contests.
]'I'[ r. Crim is a member of the LU. chapter
of Sigma Della Chi, national professional
journalistic fraLernity, and is past president
of the Indiana Weekly Press Associalion and
Republican Editorial Association of Indi·
ana. Erstwhile presidenl of the Alumni As
sociation in 1919, 1936 and J937, as well 'IS
presidenL of Ihe Alumni Council during 1934.
3:;, Mr. Crilll is now an Alumni District COlin·
cilor.
GWRCf. E. THER, AB, head of the depart
ment of English in Milwaukee State Teachers
College, died at his home OIl July 24. He
was an
"r'
man and in undergraduate day.s
was a member of Irack and baskelball teams,
Tndependenl
Literary
Sociely,
Mermaid.
Y.M.C.A. cabinet, and president of the
Prohibilion Club. For a short lime after
The October 1940
I
Dr. U. G.
Weathel·ly~ AM~11
When Professor Emeritus U.
C. Weatherly, AM'll, died on
J Illy 18, Pre sid ent Em eritu s Wil
liam Lowe Bryan paid him the
following tribute:
"P rofessor Weath e rly was one
of th e most di stinguish ed mem
bers o f the fa c ult y o f Indiana
University within the past 50
years. Hi s eminent scholarship
was recognized by his me mber
ship in the most exclusive so
cieties of his profession and by
the un an imous concurrence of
his colleagues. He was an inspir
ing tea cher wh ose influence has
gone out throughOl1 t the world
through successive generations
of hi s students.
"He exerted profound influ
e nce upon legi sla ti on relating to
criminal s and paupers a nd also
through direct co ncern with th e
admini stration of charity at
home.
"He was a man of deep co n
victi on on politi ca l and socia l
qu estions, and though h e avoided
publi ci ty h e did not h esi tate to
make hi s convictions known and
effective. Besid es his life as a
sc hola r, teacher and influential
citizen, Dr. Wea th erly had most
interesting avoca ti ons .
"Dr. Weatherly was a lover of
poetry. H e read with ardent in
terest th e best of th e current poets as well as
those who have a place in the history of
literature. . . . .
"I mllst not. fail to recall that this scholar
and lover of poetry was also a lover of sport,
especially o f baseball. At certain periods,
he had th e rare oppo rtunity of sitting on th e
players' bench at the side of a team of great
gradua tin g he s tay ed on at the University to
teach English. The widow , form erl y ELlZA
IlET H SM ITH, ' 10, two sons, and a daughter
surv ive.
1906
HOWARO C. HILL, AB, head of th e depart
men t o f social science at the University of
Chicago high school since 1917 and professor
in th e university since 1924, died on June
25 after a brain operation. When he l eft
th e campus, where he had been a member
of th e band and the orchestra, manager of
the Glee Cl ub, on the staffs of the Dail)' Stu
dent and the Arbutus, winner of th e Foster
history prize, president of the Chess Club, he
beg an hi s teachin g career. From the Brazil
high sc hool he wen t to th e Milwaukee S tate
Normal and from th e re to C hi cago_ He was
president of the National Co un ci l for Social
Studies at one time and anthor of books, texts,
and articles in his field.
1907
WALTER MYERS, LLB, erstwhile of Indian
apolis, is in Washington, D.C., these days as
I
fidence in a lon g record of distinguished serv
ice to the organization and to th e teaching
profession. President DuShane has been su
perintendent of Columbu s schools for the last 22 years and last year received an honorary
LLD from Wabash Coll ege.
News com~ s from Mrs. Asa A. Lee 1l'Iathews
(MARY VERA VAN BUSKIRK, AB) now at
Blacksbu rg, Va., where, she says, as well as
being a h ousewife, she is assistant in Ger
man at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute
thi s year. Mr. Mathe ws is a professor of
geology and her so n a so ph omore in the
In stitut e.
1909
As execu ti ve sec re ta ry o f th e Evaporated
Milk Association, FRANK E. RICE, AB, repre
sents evaporated milk manufacturers of th('
United States in trade promotion, research.
and leg islat ive work. His headquarters are
in Chicago at 307 North Michigan Ave.
Dr. U. G_ Weatherl),
players and shar in g to some extent their
profess ional interest and knowledge of the
great American game.
"Finally, I cberish the intimate friendship
of Dr. Weatherly as a priceless fOI·tune
throu gh th e years of our life together at
Indiana ."
the new fou rth assistant postmaster-general.
T hi s is not hi s first federal office, since in
1936 he was named chief co unsel to the
Senate co mmittee on campaign expendi tures.
The Indinnapolis Star of Aug. 8 used for
an editorial th e remarks of JESSE H. NEWLON,
AB, speaker before the Nati onal Education
Association: "The educator asserted that too
ma ny teac hers have been imputin g false, rna·
ter iali stic motives to war, tea ching 'senti·
mentally' about peace and picturing the
United States as ap isolated stronghold im
mune to ailments afflicting the rest of th e
world. One of the worst evils, Dr. N ewlon
declared, was the theory that this cOllnt ry is
self-su ffi cient and can safely ignore the co n·
fli cts ra ging abroad. The doctrine that \,'a r
never settles anything is also erron eous, the
ed uca tor insis ted."
1908
Ano th er honor brought to I .U. by it s alumni
is the election of DONALD DUSHANE as presi.
dent of the National Education Associa ti on.
The virtually unanimou s vote, said th e In
dianapolis Slar, was an expression of con
To his career full of versatile activities that
has in clud ed th e post of high commissioner
of th e Leagu e of Nati ons for German ref
ugees and now the presidency of the Brook
lyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, JAMES G.
M cDONALD, AB, AM'10, ha s added another
servi ce, membership in the New York City
board of education. The Indianapolis Star
throws a bouquet to him and hi s alma mater:
"The Got.ham appointment r e flect s credit
on Mr. McDonald's qualities of le adership
and also on the value of training he received
in th e state university at Bl oom ington. He
was not a leader in ca mpu s affairs, but was
inclined to co ncen trat e o n a heavy academic
course. He is another on the long li st of
produ cts of thi s state's hi gher educational in
stituti ons who have made a mark in the
schola s ti c world."
The Stnr may not know it, but Mr. Mr.
Donald early showed ability to handle a sit
uati on _ Tradition has it that one of his
professors, exaspe rat ed over trying to decipher
McDonald's exami nation papers, {inally wrotc
on one, "Please try to make your wntIllg
legible." McDonald, upon receiving the of
fending paper back, scanned the equally
difficult. writing of the professor and, ap
proaching the desk, asked, "What did you
wrile
here, Dr.- - ?"
LILLIAM B. MUELLEII , MD, on the
sta[f of the Indianapoli s Methodist
for the last eight years as ass istant
th esia, resigned to beco me head of
partm ent of anesthesia in the City
on Sep t. 1.
medical
Hos pital
in anes
the de
Hos pital
1910
LESTEIl C. GIFFORD, AB, is another alumn us
ri sing to prominence in the news world
from various chores on the Dnil)' StudP,ftl .
Now editor and publish er of th e Hickory
Daily Record, Hickory, N.C., he has been
made president of the N_C. Press Associa
tion.
Threp class members hav e died si ll ce the
la st iss ue of the Nlagnzine: F ERMEN L. PICK
nT, AB, AM'13, PhD'IS, dean o f th e grad
lOat e sc hool and head of the department o f
botany in Washington State Coll ege, Pullman;
FRED L. WILSO"l , Bloomington law yer; and
EMIL H. MA NGEl., AB, A i'v['29, principal of
th e U nion City high school. Mr. Pickett wa s
head of the botany department fol' 23 yeaH
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at Wa shingt o n S tate and in 1930 was made
dean of th O" gradua te school. Of a reliring di s·
posItIOn, Mr. Wil so n spenl a g rea l deal of
tim e on his hobby, craft work, whi ch was
given to children among wh om he had many
fri ends. i\Iangel played cen ler on the basket·
ball tea m while he was a lt e nJin g LU . Mrs.
Mang el was LENA WILSON, AB'30.
and daug ht er spe nt the summ er in th e moun·
lains along th e weste rn coast. Th e group, in ·
c1uding the chauffe ur and the nurse for Mr.
Carpe nter, invalid from a n ailment inc u r red
in th e World War, came fro m the Carpenter
home in Miami , Fla., and made h eadqu3fters
for a tim e at the Picken s farm near S pe ncer.
Mr. Ca rp ent e r was formO"rly a Brazil banker.
How comp li caled it is 10 make a U.S. flag,
Mrs. M Alty BH N Wright Thompson, AB, of
Green sb urg, desc ribes in an Indhwnp olis Sun·
do )' Star fea ture. The projeci was und e rtaken
yea rs ago when sh e was principal of ih ?
Elmira ( Ore.) high school during the Worl<l
War.
Charles N. fullZ, '03 , is vice·president 01
Ih e Union Trllst Compan)' in Indianap olis.
In addition to holding Ih is post for th e pasl
14 years, he also practices law.
Traveling in a Irail er de luxe, eq uipp ed
even to air co ndilioning, i'lrs . Jay V. Ca r·
penler (HAZEL PICKENS) wilh h er hu sband
At Ih e dedication of the new bui ld in gs for
the Unive rs it y of Colorado Ihi s summer Mrs.
Edward H . El li s (EDIT H HEN NEL, AB, AM·
'12), of Greybull, Wyo., represented Indi ana
University.
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1911
Brought inlo th e lim e li gh t rece ntly for a
sk etch in the Indianapolis News was Miller
H am ilton, LLB, and Mrs. Hamilton (E REMA
WILK, '15 ), o f Indianapolis, for Mrs. Miller
is the sister o f Mrs . Wend ell L. Willkie
(EDITH WILK, ' 12 ). Mr. Hamilt on, former
city editor of th e Sont" Bend News·Times an d
la ter in charge of publi cit y fo r the forestry
bureau o f the U.S . Departm e nt of Agricul ·
ture, Washington, D.C. , is now an executive
wi th the Ce ntral Advertising Agency.
Wh en th e Gree ns burg high sc hool opened
this falJ ALVA ]VlcGRAW dicl not re turn t o hi s
3 1·year·old post of manual trainin g and in·
dustrial arts teachi ng. Taking a rest becausp
o f as thmati c troubl e, he will continu e to live
in Greenshurg .
THE DRINK EVERYBODY KNOWS Whoever you are ...
whatever you do ... wher
ever you may be ... when
r ei urns, giving hj s occupa l.ion as wril er and
I.oca ti on at O maha . Neb. Mr. Ha r r iso n, last
repo rl ed in 1922, wa s th e n on th e Omnlw
Bee.
1913
Back in th e day s wh e n WENDELL L. WJLLKtE ,
A B. LLB'16, LLD hon'38, was a junior in
th e Elwood hi g h ,c hool, Mrs . ADA BUJlKE
Bing, AB, was hearing a lot abou t her future
cla ssmate fro m her lat e hu s band, then
Willki e's Engli sh teacher. M rs. Bing. now
Engl ish teacher in the Indianapoli s Emmerich
Manual Training High Sc hool, used these
le tter s to make a S lar fea ture story o f rem·
iniscences on Willki e's hi gh school days.
Sc ulptural carvings of WJLLKJE and PAUl.
V. M c NUTT, AB, LLD hon'33, in Indi a na
lim estone, formed th e central motif of all
LU. alu m ni e xhibit in the Universi ty build·
ing a t th e sta te fair this fall. Th e statuary
was a project of th e promoti o na l div ision of
Ihe Indi a na Lim estone In stitute.
The second edition of Biographical Direc·
tory 0/ Leaders ill Edu.c(t/.i on contain s the
name o f GILnEHT 1-1 . FErtN, AM, past or in
Ewing, Ky. The Rev. Mr. Fern also does
some work for th e Alfred Holbrook College ,
Manchester, Ohi o.
1914
The first person to rece ive a doctor's de ·
g ree in the LU. de partment o f English, L IL'
JAN B. BROWNFIELD, PhD , h as resigned h er
positi on as professor o f Engli sh lit e rature at
DePa uw University.
WALTER PIHCHARD, AB, AM'I S, and Mrs.
Prichard (NIARY WUBORN, AB'23) have ju st
built a n ew bri ck, two·st or y, American
colo nial ho use in C(1ll ege Town, s uburb o f
Ba ton Rouge, La. Mr. P ri cha rd is head o f
the department of hi sto ry in Lo ui siana Stat e
University and editor of th e Lou isiana His·
lorical Qnarlerlr.
An act empowerin g the U.S. Supre me Co urt
to regulate crim ina l procedure in th e federal
co urts ancl desc ribed by the Whit e Hou se
as "a far·rea chin g and imp ortant step in the
reform of the law " c ulmi nates two years' work
led by Professor JAMES J. ROOI NSON , AB, di·
rec to r o f th e Institute of C rimin a l Law Ad·
mini stration a t the Univers ity, in th e offices
of which much o f th e drafting of th e leg is·
lation wa s done . Pro fesso r Robinson ap·
peared before Congress io nal commitl ees sev·
eral times in the int erest of the act.
Suffering from a fractureJ hip and unabl e
to return thi s fall to her po st in the Bloom·
ington hi gh school, NELLIE M. CARIT HERS, AB,
is confined in St. Elizabeth 's H osp ital, Dan·
ville, Ill. Only a few years ago she s uf·
fered a s imila r accident a nd wa s for ced
to re main in a cast for a long tim e.
you think of refreshment
you welcome an ice-cold
Coca-Cola. For Cola-Cola
IS
1912
A "trace r" se nt ou t for IRWIN F. H ,IRRI SON
1915
pure refreshment-familiar to everybody
.. . and ice-cold Coca-Cola
IS
everywhere.
When 1945 co mes a round, John, son of
L,;STEII A. CORYA, AB, will be a freshman at
LU., r eports Mr. Co rya, of Scarsdal e, N. Y.,
whose dau g ht e r Jane is a so pho more in Sm it11
College.
"For fo ur years
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The October 1940
Sales manager for the Goodyear Tire and
Rubber Company in Tulsa, Okla., is LAVORY
D. CHAVENS. FRED WAITE ENGLE is agent in
Decatur, Ill., for the Great American Insur
ance Company.
"Mom, 1916
RODERT S. TELFER, AM, formerly of Am
herst, N.H., has purchased and is now in
charge of the former R. L. Cosier Company,
owned by Ilis cousin, Mrs. R. L. CosIer (ALlCE
H. ADAMS, AB'17), of Bloomington. Mr.
Telfer sold the fraternity dance program and
llovelty part of the business and will con
tinue binding as the principal business with
a limited amount of college text publishing.
C. Carroll OUo, '18, recenlly was appoinled
general agenl for the Detroit agency oj the
Matual Benejit Lije Insurance Company 0/
Newark, IV,/. In announcing the appoint
menl, Herbert C. Kenagy, superintendent oj
agenls jor Ihe coml)([ny, said, "Since illr. Olio
gradualed from Indiana University, he has
'aken nt leasl one Ilniversity course every
year. I know oj no one who is a more thorough
stur/ent, nol only oj lije insurrlnce, but 0/
business generally."
consumer education classes in the Los Angeles
city schools," Mrs. Albin E. Len (RUTH M.
MJLLER, AB), reports from Califomia.
CLIFF0l10 N. MILLS, AM, received the PhD
degree from the University of Wisconsin at
commencement exercises this year. Dr. Mills
teaches at IJIinois State Normal University,
Normal.
CHARLES HtRE, AB, AM'17, PhD'27, head
of the science department in Murray State
Teachers CoJlege in Kentucky, has been
elected president of the Kentllcky Academv
o[ Science.
Lours W. ARBUR"", AB, MS'31, left the su·
perintendency of the Cambridge City schools
to take a similar position in Albany this
year. Mr. Arburn was a graduate fellow in
education at the University for the school year
1932-193.3.
This year's president of the Indiana Bar
Association is Judge ROSCOE C. O'BYRNE, AB,
.lD'18, of Brookville.
Author of a 600-page textbook, Foods
and Nulrilion, to come off the press in Janu·
ary, ?lII-s. Brnce Silver (FERN T. POTTS)
leaches in the Lincoln Junior High School,
Albuquerque, N.M. Going to Albuquerque
in 1930, Mrs. Silver was a homemaker for
her two children and husband until he
"as killed in an automobile accident. Since
then she has taken a BS degree from the
University of New Mexico and an MS degree
from the University of Chicago.
VIRGIL L. EIKENBERRY, AM, superintendent
of the Vincennes schools and a major in the
reserve corps of the U.S.A., has been ap
pointed chairman of the CMTC committee
for the fi [t h corps area of the Reserve Of·
ficers Association. This area comprises In·
diana, West Virginia, Kentucky, and Ohio.
'\1r. Eikenberry has been chairman of the
Knox County CMTC for the last 15 years.
Granted a year's leave of absence, J OH N
W. MOHLAND, AB, AM and LLB"17, dean o[
tire Valparaiso University law school, will
sene as visiting professor of law at tile Uni
versity of Kentucky this year.
1917
In the sudden death of CLAlR H. SCOTT,
LLB, on Aug. 6 at Lake Geneva, Wis., the
University lost another of its outstanding
alumni. Scoll'S participation in affairs J.V.
began with his freshman year in 1912 and
continued throughout his life. President of
his junior class and a member of the track
and varsity football teams each year until
191.5, he later served as president of the "I"
Men's Association, chairman of the Alumni
Association's executive committee, alumni
councilor, president of the Chicago Alumni
Club, and a member of the University athletic
committee and the J.U. Foundation. In 1916
he was one of the University soldiers that
went to the Mexican border and a few years
later was a World War captain of Battery F,
150th field artillery, a Bloomington unit. Go
ing into business in Lincoln, Neb., with the
.Midwest Baking Company, he shortly after
moved to Chicago to JOIn an investment
securities firm. At the time of his death he
was in the brokerage business.
GEOIlGE H. BROWN, AB, Louisville, Ky.,
reports that his daughter, NELLIE V. BROWN,
AB'39, completed work for her AM degree
at LU. last summer. His son, Louis C. Brown,
is teaching in Louisville.
The sales manager in Indiana for. General
Mills, Inc., is Fred C. Wilson, former terri
tory-salesman for the International Harvester
Company and for Purina Mills. NIr. Wilson
is a 32d·degree Mason and Shriner.
His
headquarters are in tile Architects' Building,
Indianapolis.
Ross H. Garrigus is now editor of the
Vincennes Sun·Commercial. He was formerly
in newspaper work in Quincy, Mass.
1918
STELLA M. ROUSE, AB, was married duro
ing the summer to Roy O. Williams, graduate
of the Indiana State Teachers College; they
live in Chicago. Before her marriage .Mrs.
Williams was director of a dormitory at the
college, and both formerly taught in the
Bloomington high school.
GLEN H. HAYES, former clerk in a Bedford
stone mill, is a merchant ill Kemp, Ill.
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1919
National president for this year of Delta
Zt>ta, social sorority, is Mrs. Hubert Lundy
(GIIACE E. MASON, AB), of the Martinsvillt>
Road. Last year she was national vice·presi·
dpnl and IO years ago was nat ional delegate.
Mrs. HEDWIG G. LESEll, AB, AM'25, assistant
professor of German at LU., has been granted
a year's leave of absence to spend in work
with Dr. B. J. Vos at Tucson, Ariz., on pub·
lications which they are editing. Dr. Vos
was formerly head of th e LU. deparlment
o f German.
The arrival of Mary Elizabeth on July 14
and Ihe purchase of a hou se made a full
sum mer for CECIL C. CllAIG, AB , AM'22, and
Mrs. Craig (RUTH SWAN, AB'22, AM'23).
Mr. Craig is professor of mathematics in
the University of Michigan.
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President of Froehling and Robertson, Inc.,
in Richmond, Va., is GRANT JAY DURANT.
Lieutenant-Commander FIRMAN F. KNACH
EL, LLB, commanding officer of the 4th bat
talion, U.S. Naval Reserve, Indianapolis, was
in charge of the sub-chaser U. S. S YP 26
in recent maneuvers on Lake Michigan. Mr.
Knachel has been named special recruiting
officer in Indianapoli s.
(See pai'ie 20 for details)
• Our service rings the bell with
our satisfied customers. They get
what they want without endless
waiting.
• Our soda shop becomes more
popular each day. When you want
a "snack," come over and see us.
• Our locati on, right across In
diana Avenue from the Adminis
tration Building, makes us hand y,
so come and see us.
We Aim to Please.
The Philippine Islands will not be ready
for independence in 1946 in the opinion of
JOSE PIATOS, AB, professor of European his
tory in the Universi ty of the Philippines. Al
though the uneducated clamor for the inde
pendence promised them in 1946, he asserted
that a majority of the well-informed believe
that independence should not be granted until
t he country is better prepared to protect
itself. Piatos recently returned to LU. to do
advanced work in history. He was one of the
first to teach golf on the old course long
since converted into the site for the stadium
and parade grounds.
1921
ALIn:RT R. VAN CLEAVE, AB, head of the
department of education and psychology in
Piedmont College, Demorest, Ga., has been
elected dean of the college_
JAMES J. HAGAN, AB, of Oregon, III. , former
teacher and now lec turer before clubs and
schools, has been made admissions counselor
for Eureka College. He works during the
summer month s with the college public re
lations office, but through the winter will
continue his lectu re work. One of his most
popular programs is a natural color movie,
"O'er Lincoln Trails."
Mrs. LOTTI):; M. KIllllY, AB, LU.'s asso
ciate dean of wome n, is a new member of
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A member of the staff engaged in reo
search in tropical medicine for the Rocke
feller Foundation, New York City, is LOWELL
T. COGGESHALL, AB, AM '23, MD'28, who
previously was assistant professor of medi
cine in the University of Chicago_
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JOHN L. HUNTINGTON, AB, of Washington,
D.C., has been appointed to take charge
of what was the Federal Alcohol Administra
tion for which hc had been deputy adminis
trator. As head of the agency, now reorgan
ized under the name Basic Permit and Trade
Practice Divi sion, Huntington will have the
title of assistant deputy commissioner of the
Bureau of Internal Revenue_ Mrs. Hunting
ton was ZENA MAE DINEHART, AB'25.
Mrs. R. Alfred Wilcox (HELENE G. FISHEll,
AB) died on Sept. 8. Mrs. Wilcox had been
living in Indianapolis only for the past year,
having previously lived In Chicago and
Peoria, Ill.
1923
WENDELL H . STEPHENSON, AB, AM'24, pro
fessor of history at Loui siana State Uni
versity and editor of the Journal 0/ Southern
History, taught at Duke University last sum
mer, as he had the summer previous.
DAVID G. WYLlF:, AB, president of th e
Bloomington Limestone Company, is a new
member of the Bloomi ngton city school board_
Wylie is an active member of the Chamber
of Commerce and other civic enterprises.
Mrs. Leland McCool (MARY E. PAYNE, AB)
is in Boonville, where her husband is coach
in the high school. She resigned her post
in the Harrisburg (IlL) high school when
she was married this summer.
1924
Vi ce-preside nt and treasurer of the Central
Rubber and Supply Company in Indianapolis
is JAMES H _ RUDDELL, AB.
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LIFE G. B. Woodwar(l '21, Jeff Reed '24, C. M. While '29
Citizen's Trust Bldg.
Crawfordsville physician ROllLllT J. MILLIS,
MD, resigned his post as city heal th officer
to accept a place on t he board of school
trustees.
1922
1920
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the Business and Professional Women's
Club State committee on education.
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The October 1940
Stat e Ho spital
sician in the
feeble-mind ed.
and p sychiatry
c in e.
and prior to that senior phy
F ort Wayne School for the
He i s a ssociat e in neurology
at the I. U. Sch oo l o f Medi
THEODORE R. OANN, AB. JD'30, is th e re
el ec ted president of the J ewi sh Community
C f' nt t' r Association, a con s tituent age nc y
of th e Indianap oli s Community Fund and
the J ewi sh Federat ion.
LEBOY BAKER, LLB, in command of th e
Third Ball a lion, lSOth Field Artillery, has
b ee n promo ted from major to li e ute nant
colonel. H e practi ces law in Bloomington
and was form e rly prosecuting allorney.
Cath erine Feltu s, AB'36, ( Now Kay Craig
of the movies) is shown above with her uncle,
Paul L. Feltus, '21, U niuersit)' Trustee, when
she caine ba ck to Bloom,:ngton this summer
for the world premiere of her first important
picture. Hollywood columnists ha'ue noted
Mi ss Fellus " going pla ces" wilh Preston
Foster, another new movie star.
Mum KENNEY, AB, o n the ex ecutive s taff
o f Senat or SHERMAN MINTON, LLB'lS, ha s
been promo ted to capt ain of infantry, Reserve
Corps.
Al10rney in the adjudication division of the
Vete rans' Admini stration Facility, Dayton ,
Ohio, is LAWRE NCE R. MtCHE NER; ESTHER
HOUGWrO N is the owner of th e Fireside In·
dustri es Gift Shop in Peoria, Ill. ; and WIL'
LlAM D. AOAMS is a cl e rk in the .Modern
Sho e Store in Huntingto n.
1925
All electrical g un shoo tin g 1,000,000,000,
000,000 atomic buH ets a second is being used
by University of Illinois scienti sts to l earn
how t h e nucl e us or core of atoms is put to
ge ther. On e of the fa c ulty members at \Vork
in the resear ch is LELA ND J. HAWORTH, AB,
AII1'26, who j oin ed th e Illinois staff two years
a go , going from the JVla ssachllselLs In stitute
of T ec hnology. Mrs. Haworth \Va s BARBARA
MOTTIER, AB'23 .
JAcon J. SCHMIDT is general superint ende nt
of the fi eld departm e nt of th e East Ohi o
Gas Company in C leveland, Ohio.
Mrs.
Schmidt wa s CAROLINE HEYLMA NN, AB'24,
no w the mo th e r of three children.
1928
JOSEPH S. SKOOGA, BS, MD '30, superin
tend e nt o f the Mu scatatuck colony for th e
feeble-minded, Butl erville, has charge of on e
of the m ost modern and complete i nstitut ion s
o f its kind in this country, and he plans for
the colony to "take its place as one of the
for e most institutions for the care and train
ing of mental defectives." It is hi s hope
that the services of the in stitution will ex
tf'nd beyo nd th e care of isolated cases to
corrective measures in the commullity th a t
will prevent tile need of isolation. Dr. Skobba
wa s form e rly dini cal di rector o f C~ntral
Fro m the prolifi c typewrit er of free-lan cing
WILLIAM C. MILLER, form e r city editor of
the Bloominglon World, there continue s a
variety of interesting features in the Indi·
anapolis Su.nday Star: one on that seeming
ly endless source of human interest, WENOELL
L. WILLKtE, AB'13, LLB'16; one o n Lost
River [see '13 cla ss notes] ; th e 25 milli on dol
lar powder plant to be establish ed by On Ponts
at Charl estown ; "Million Dollar Torches,"
about th e gas wa ste in Illinoi s in whi c h
RALPH E SAREY, AB'22, AM '23, Stat e geologi st,
explains th e cause; and one on Bl oo mington 's
w ell-known " Chub" Hinkl e, who placed his
collection , containing "everything from a
pr ehi storic mammoth's tooth to Al Brady's
pant s," in a mu seum opened this summ er .
SYLVAN A. YAGER, MS, has b een made head
of the industrial arts department , Indiana
State T eac hers Coll ege. He had been criti c
teacher in t he department and i s a past presi
de nt of th e Indiana Indu strial Edu cation As
socia tion.
PAUL E. HAMILTON is dir ect or of mu sic in
th e W a rren Ce ntral High School, Indi a napo
lis. H e I S marri ed and ha s a three-year-old
son .
1929
Ripley 's "B elieve It or Not" on June 23
showed tile pi cture of a mailbox with the
in scription: " Golden Silv er Denti s t." Mr.
SIU'ER, DDS, pra cti ces in Indianapoli s, and
he liv es near the city.
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on June 2 Mi ss Mildred L. C rosby, of P onca
City, Okla. Both spe nt the summer at th e
Colorado S tate T ea ch er s Coll ege to work on
advanced degrees.
1930
Married on Jill y 6 wa s GRIFFITH BIWOK S
N IOLACK, AB, o n the edit orial staff o f th e
Indianapolis New s, a nd Miss Susan Elli ott
Hill, who auended Butler. They are at hom e
at 3836 Ce ntral Av e nu e.
WILLIAM E. CLAPH ,IM , BS, vi ce·president
o f Magazin es Associat es, Inc., of N e w York
C ity, and Mi ss Barbara Cole, of Windham,
Conn., a gra duat e of Pa cker Coll egiat e In
stitut e and a me mber of th e National S oc iety
of New Ellgland Women, were wed thi s
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J. Dwight Peterson, '19
Richard C. Lockton, '30
E. W. Barrett, '26
Noble 1. Biddinger, '33
C. W. Weathers, '17
M. F. Landgraf, '30
Frank J. Parmater, '38
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1932
Th e cla ss o [ '32 leads 0[[ wi th th ree birth s
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BERC , BS, a nd Mrs. Berg (K ,\THERt NE Y OUNC ,
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(M AHTHA T EMPLES), who call th eir s ix-month·
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M r. Beck (-"IAny SIE BENT HAL, BS), o[ Eva ns
ton , who h ave a Ri c ha rd A., Jr. , born on July
20.
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Th e Connecti c ut jV[ u tu al Li fe In s ura nce
Co mpa ny o n Aug. ]6 a nn ounced "w ith pl eas·
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A Todd re uni o n wa s held in N ew York
C ity thi s slimmer wh en th e res pec til'e p os i.
ti o~s of th e two bro th ers a nd sis ter brollght
th em together in th e big cit y: D£AN 1'000 ,
AB, sales manager uf George J\. H orm el and
Com pan y, Au s Lin, ?I·li nn . ; J OSEPH R. TODD ,
'28, mana ge r of publ ica ti o ns [or th e Service
E ng ra vin g Co mpa ny, D et roit ; a nd Mrs.
EvereLt B. Helm (MAR Y EllEN TODD, AB'34),
e mpluyed in th e edu cat iona l depa rtm ent of
Lh e Collimbi a Broa dcast ing Company.
Mrs. E LSA K U£HSTEI ' £R C urry, A B, privat e
secreta ry to the per son nel burea u h ead o[
Yal e U ni versit y, wa s mar ri ed on Sept. 7 to
Thorval Martin, o [ May svill e, Ky. , wh ere h e
has a posit ion with the Carn at io n Milk Com·
pan )'. H e is a g rad uat" uf Yal e .
1931
A 'WO-mile tre k o n foot [rom Pari s to
Bord ea ux with " homeless, [riendless, u n ·
directed m e n, wom en, and babies snffering
h unger, ra in, chi ll , bull ets, bombs, and fa
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Pari s cor res po nd e nt [o r th e N ews pa per En
terpri se A s~oc ia t io n aud the A cme Pi ct ure
Sy ndica te, describes f o r Lhe Bloomin.gton Star
o n whi c h he [orrne rl y work ed . Seeing th e r ea r
g uard wi th whi ch " I wa s fl eein g bombed
20 times, mac hin e-g unned s ix" and " fl o ppin g
in th e rai lb ed beLween th e car wheels ihu s
escaping fr agm ent s whi ch k ill ed and wounded
many" are amo ng sprc ific inc idents which
h e rela tes o[ hi s escape. S in ce cessation o[
fi g ht in g he ha s re tllrn ed 10 Pari s, and hi s
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Among summ er marriages: J AMES P . COO K,
J r. , A B, a nd M iss Frances Rul h Moody, But·
ler, a t hOlne a t 3620 Nor Lh Merid ia n, Indi a n
a poli s; TH1:CELEAH D. TALBEHT, GN, a nd Dr.
H. H. McC la na han , lec t urer in ph ysiology in
th e l.U . Sc hoo l o f De nL istry, I nd ianapoli s, a t
home at 3020 N orth Illin ois; CHAR LES L.
CARSON a n d .Mi ss Ina Corn ell, at h ome a t 344
Nor th Audu bon Roa d, Indi anapoli s; JOH N
L. DEVOSS, D ecatu r a ttorn ey a nd nom in ee
for Adam s Co unt y prusec uL o r, a nd Nli ss Bett y
Mac klin, in cha rge o[ the auto mo bil e Jice nse
burea u in Decatur; PAN SY MARIE Ft SHER,
AB, Leach er in th e Monnt Olympu s high
sc hool, a nd CL ARENCE BUECHELE, lVIS'35 , prin ·
cipa l o [ th e Win slo w high sc hool.
1933
Among earl y fall weddi ngs is tha t o f
H ERIl1:RT T . WAGi'lER , AB, MD'36, n ow direc
tor of th e S tu art C ircl e Hos pital, Ri chmond,
Va., a n d M iss R ebecca L ew is, of York, Pa.,
a g ra dua Le o f th e C urti s In stiLut e, Ph iladel
p hi a , and so lo harpis t with th e Indi a napolis
SYlnphonl' O rchestra.
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S ummer wed di n gs: VIUL ET E. NOHDllEHG,
AB, and J am es M. ?I'IcCree ry, se r vi ce man
with th e Po sta ge M e ter Company , at ho me a t
1814 North N ew J er scy, Indi a napoli s ; RUTH
S. HOACLlN, CN '3.3, ancl I-TARRY D. WELl. ER,
AB, AM '3S , a t hon le in Indianapoli s ; WILMA
The October 1940
TVIcCLI~TOCK,
AB, GN, forme r vIsIting nurse
for the Nlonroe County Public H ealth Nursing
Association, and ALMON HAIlMON , MS'36, at
home in Scollsburg; TAYLOR T. HOffAll, BS,
Seymour all orney, and Miss Fay e Louise
K oe hl e r, of Indianapolis ; WILLIAM A . CON·
NEIl, Columbus allorney, a nd Miss Mary Lou
Mannan, of Martin sville; H ELEN ELIZABETH
GORDIN a nd Harold Wakely Banks, gradu ate
of ' the Pee kskill Military Academy in New
York, at ho me in T erre Haute .
search assistant in tbe highway r esea rch
proj ec t at Purdu e; MAIlTH A A. BIlAND , BS,
science teac her in th e Calumet Town ship
schoo l, to Thoma s J . Conn or, a t hom e a t
646 Carolina Street , Gary; RUTH K. OTTEIl ,
G N, to CH ESTElt A. KOWALS, DDS'.38, of South
Be nd; COil NELIA A. YO UNG, A B, to Morris
Wood, of Gary.
One of th e o utstandin g glass coll ec tions
in th e Middle West is owned by Mrs. Rob e rI
Cook (SAltA L. JEWETT, AB ), Bloomin g ton ,
according to Ernest o Seymour, Spa nish Texan
and collec tor of ea rly American glass and
c hinaware.
Speaking before th e Mun cie
Lions, he sa id : " I hav e been associated with
collectors for 20 years and have seen many
int eresting assemblages o f ea rly Ameri cana,
but Mrs. Cook's is o ne of t.h e most complete
of it s kind." Seymo ur lectures over WLB C a nd
has invit ed Mrs. Cook to app ea r with him on
a program.
Births: Hu gh Willi am, a third ·wedding
anniversary gift , to Mrs. William M . Parker
(Loui se Wildman, BS), and Mr. Park e r, of
Hut c hin son, Kan .; Sally J oyce to Mrs. Irvin
Haley (BERNIcE GREENAWALT, AB), and Mr.
Haley, o f Barron Lake, Nil es , Mich _; ;) bo)'
on Sept. 20 to BA SIL ("Bill") COSTAS, AB,
and Mrs. Costas, of Indianapoli s.
1935
Ross F. LOCKHIDGE, AB, AM'39, ali-Univer
sity fell ow in Engli sh at L U. last year, will be
in Harva rd for th e c urrent year on a scholar
s hip, awarded him through work he has done
at l.U. and in the Sorbo nne. With Mrs. Loc k
ridge (VERNlO: B.~K EIl LOCKRIDGE, AB'38)
and their so n, Hugh Ern est, he will live in
th e Shaler Lane Apartme nt s in Cambridge.
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Coed marriages: BETTY ANNE BROWN, in
pl ays at th " University and th e Federal
Th " ater, Indianapoli s, and more r ecently in
radio work in Chicago, to Donald A. D owd,
of P e nn sylvani a and Ohio universiti es and
al so with NBC in Chicago, a t home in Wil
mett e, III.; MAllY ELOISE BAKER, BS, to Clar
ence Alb ert Newell , at home at 435 West
119th, N ew York City; RUTH E . MERIlIFIELD ,
AB, to W. IVlax Fost er, Northwestern Univer
si t.y, at home at 1129 North Alabama, Indi
anapolis; ELI NOll STIERS to Kenneth K. Pet ers,
at ho me in Indian a polis; GLENNA LEA BIlOWN,
BS, to Huley Dal e Hines, at ho me at 812 W est
Third , Bl oo mington.
" Ed " marriages:
WILLIAM CUIlTIS EwBANK, AB, g raduat ed now from the Harvard
business school, and Miss Maxin e Stuart
P e te rs, Butl er and Purdu e, at h o me in Wash
ingt on; BEN F. ROGEHS, AB, Eastern Air Lines
pilo t between Atlanta and points in T exas, and
Miss June Elizabe th Clark, Orchard Hill , Ga.,
stewardess for D elt a Air Lin es; WILLIAM H.
DENI STON, AB, LLB'37, and Mi ss Mary M c
Do ugle, S herwood Sc hool of Nlusic in Chi
cago , at home in Roch es ter; ROBERT A. E NG LE
BIlIGHT, BS, associated with th e American
Credit Corporation, Evan svill e, and Mi ss Edna
Bi scho ff , at home at 15 Dre ier Bouleva rd.
"Ed" and coed marriages: JOHN R ALPH
MAHTINDALE, AB, LLB'36, and Mary Rogers,
'28, Bl oo mington library a ssistant , at hom e
in lI'Iarcy Village, Indianapoli s; RUTH LA
MONTI: and CHAHLES L. WELKEIl, '40, in in
s urance work in Anderson.
Indiuna Alumni Magazine
1938
J. Thomas Buck, A B'39, former editor-in
chief of the Indiana Daily Student, recently
joined the slaff of th e Chicago Tribune. H e
has been working lor the Cily News Bureall
oj Chicago since taking his degre e.
1936
RE VA R. McMAHON, AB, clerk in th e L U .
comptroller's office, was marri ed to NELSON
G. GIlIL LS, BS'35, JO '37, LLM '4O, instruct or
in bu s in ess law, on Sept. 14. They have
go ne to N e w York City , where Mr. Grills has
a $1,500 scholarship in Columbia Un iversi t y_
Other c1a ~s ma rriages: HELEN M . ROOT,
AB , servi ce re prese ntative in th e commercial
departm e nt, Indi a na Bell Tel e phone Co m
pany, to Howard Booker McCilOrd, at home
at 7170 North P e nn sylvania, Indianapoli s;
FHEDF.IlICK B. HA NN A, AB, LLB'38, and Miss
C harlotte K esling, Ball S t.ate T eac hers Col
lege, at home in Logan spo rt; RALPH E. TIlIL
LEIl , AB, and Mi ss iViary Koe hler, Tudo r Hall ,
Gulf Park Coll ege and Butl e r; ELOI SE KUNz,
AB, to RALPH E. HIATT, AM'39, at hom e in
Richmo nd; JOHN M. STUIlDEVANT , AB, and
Mi ss Doro thy Loui se J o nes, East Texas State
Teachers and Mill <>aps colleges, at home at
1110 North J e fferson, Ja ckson, Mi ss.; JAMES
D. PEIRCE, AB, MD'4O , a nd Mi ss Ca roline
Coffin , DePallw and the U niversity o f Wis
consin, at home at 3272 Winthrop Ave nu e, In
dianapolis; JO SEP H W_ STATZ, BS, and Miss
Emiloui se Gerhard, D"Pauw.
Births:
Betty Claire to Mrs. J ohn Sem
bower (TH ELMA HOHLT, AB) and Mr. SEM
nO WEll, AB'34, pllbli c relations director of
Indiana Stat e T eachers College; James Eng
li sh to Mrs. Allen Laymon ( RUTH ENGLISH,
AB ) a nti the R e v. Mr. LAYMON, AB , Fort
Morgan, Colo.; Barry Edward to Mrs. Donald
E. iVliller (BF.ATIlI CE E. ROEHM, AB) and
Mr. MILLEIl, BS, C hi cago .
1937
Marriages: MAllY LO UISE SPENCER, AB, to
H a melle Swit zer, at home in M onti cell o; V1Il
GINJA ALLEN SAWYF:Il, AB, to William Henry
Rohr, Jr., Blltler, o f H o uston , T ex.; iVIAIlG UE
1l1T.!: MITCHELL, AB , fonner art supervisor in
Rochest e r sch ools, to Ro bert E. Frost, Purdue,
at bome in West Lafay etIe, wh e re h e is re
LU_ roman ces c ulminat ed in marriag e this
summe r for ANN CUTSHALL , AB, and JAMES
MELTON IVIENEfEE, '.39, Fort Wayne; Ell NEST
RAYMOND BEAVEn, BS , MD'4O, and FRA NCES
JEANNETTE CHAPMAN, '39, Indian apolis; MAllY
ALICE SHIVF:LY, BS, and JOHN LYNN HonSON,
BS , Palo Alto, Calif.; KATHEIlINE CHAIlLOTTE
WEI SS, BS, and DAVID F. STO NE, BS'37, MD
'39, 5345 Ea st Washington, Indianapo lis;
OLGA ALENE BOWMAN, GN, former nurse in
Indian a po lis Col ema n Hospit a l, and FRANK
LIN G. R UD OLPH, BS'37, MD'39, 51 Elizab eth ,
Hammon d; PATSY JA NE TIlUEBLO OD, AB, and
JOE D. BOIICHMAN, AB; LAWR ENCE O. Fllo
BERG, AB, I.U. tutor in English, and RUTH
LI NIJNEIl , '41 ; RICHAIlD F. DETAil, AB, and
SHIRLEY DUNTEN, '42, Lafayette_
1939
Set for early autumn is th e wedding o f
MMIiLOU THOMAS, BS , and LEWIS D. MASON ,
'37. Other I.V. roman ces that end ed in mar
riage this summer: GWENDOLYNE HILLI S, AB
and GN, and D ,INIEL D. STIVER, BS'34, ?vlD'36,
a ho use surgeon in the I .U. medical center,
at ho me in South Bend, wh e re he has opened
an offi ce; PEGGY JA NE CIlOSBY , AB , and A.
WALTER HAMILTON, Jr., BS'36, LLB'36, Bluff
to n att orney and W ells County proseclltor;
M ARTHA E. O'NEAL, GN, surgery nurse in the
Long Hospital, and WILLIAM VAN NESS, BS
'38, MD'40, intern in St. Vincent's Hos
pital, Indianapoli s; LOL ,' LENNOX, BS, and
HE NIlY AUGUST LOHSE, BS, both tea ch ers
in th e Indianapoli s schools ; B ETT Y AULT, AB,
and TH OMAS R. WATTS, BS.
Summ er weddings: MARTHA HESTEIl MULL,
AB, to Stephen Hill Gutting, Purdue, at hom~
in N ew York City; MELVA LOHIlIG , GN, to
Ha rry E. Spaulding, Butl e r student , at ho me
at 3360 Guil{o rd Avenue; LAFAYETTE DANE
BEAV ER, AB, distributor in Fort Wayn e for
the AluminulIl Cooking Utensil Company,
and Miss Linda Ri c hter, Luth er Institut e;
JE ,\N KEIlN OIJ LE, AB, to William Alexander
Rugg, of Boston, Unive rsity of N "w Hamp
shire, at hom e in Atkin so n, N_H. ; MALCOLM
HI CKS, BS, and Miss Marian Olson, o f Ham
mond, at hom e in Hamm ond , where he is
with the Inland S teel Compa ny; MARVI N R.
DAVIS , MD, and Miss Martha L o ui se Bani ster,
Ball S tat e Teachers College, former mu sic
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supervisor in the Vevay schools, at home in
Columbus; BllUCE H. MCCllACKEN, BS, and
Miss Mary DeMont, of Plymouth, at home in
Evansville; ROJlEHT E. SCULLY, BS, and Miss
Martha Gross, at home in Bloomington, 320
South Dunn, where he is a draftsman in a
stone mill; JOSEPH WATSON, BS, and Miss
Harriett Morris, Purdue, at home in Muncie;
JACK D. CARll, DDS, and Miss Marjory Louise
Hennis, Butler, at home in Indianapolis;
KENNETH M. SMAllTZ, AB, and Miss Tosca
Guerrini, of Indianapolis, at home in Speno
cer, where he is teaching.
Paul V. McNutt
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hall at the time. The roar of the galleries was
deafening. The enthusiasm of a major part
of the delegates on the floor was surprising
to the Administrator's friends and foes alike.
The band and the great organ used for whip
ping up party spirit remained strangely quiet.
Chairman Barkley tried to shut off the demon
stration. No one, except the radio audience,
heard him.
From a six·months' tour of South America,
including a trip np the Amazon, DONALD C.
HAllIlIS, BS, has returned to Connersville to
work for his father, according to JOHN HARRI·
~ON BHOWN, AB, of Indianapolis.
1940
ROBEIlT H. BOLLUM, BS, and NANCY MAY
FJELD, '43, were married at Brazil, Ind., on
Sept. 20. They are at home at 1413 E. Sunny
mede in South Bend where he is employed
by the Travellers' Insurance Company.
DAVID B. RICHAllDSON, AB, former editor
of the Indiana Daily Student, is now working
for the New York Herald-Tribune.
The School of Business announces new
placements: CRAIG WALLACE BILLMAN, BS,
auditor for the American Gas and Electric
Service Corporation in South Bend; JULIA E.
PECKINPAUGH, BS, secretary in the LU. Ex
tension Center, Indianapolis; WALTER FIlANK
SAGE, BS, accountant for the Allison Engineer
ing Company, Indianapolis; C. LAWIlENCE
TONEY, BS, accountant with the United Cities
Utilities Company, Chicago, Ill.
ANN FUHlIER, A B, has enrolled as :} resident
student in the Katharine Gibbs School in New
York City.
WILLIAM Voss, LLB, received the Phi Delta
Phi essay contest award of $200. JEAN Me
GIlEW, AB, received a $375 scholarship to the
University of Chicago law school.
CAIlMEN COOK, AB, came back to Bloom
ington this fall as Mrs. Robert E. Johnson.
J OH 1'501', author of the 1939 Indianapolis
Civic Theater prize-winning play, The Shel
tered, is in school to finish his senior work.
Wendell Willkic
the campus because, as she says:
"I was always going to parties, and Wen
dell never went to them."
A fter his return from France, Willkie took
a law position in Akron, Ohio, later becom
ing one of the attorneys for the Northern
Ohio Power and Light company.
That
was his introduction to the utilities business.
In 1929, when Commonwealth and Southern
was formed. he went to New York as its
counsel. He became president of Common
wealth and Southern in 1933, on the retire
ment of B. C. Cobb and held that position
uutil he accepted the nomination.
Both his parents were practicing a\lorneys.
Their home in Elwood resembled a town haJJ
gathering. Visitors and neighbors continually
dropped in for argument on current questions
and debate l'eigned supreme. Along with this
constant airing of ideas, a library reputed
to have contained more than 6,000 volumes
was at the disposal of the Willkie children.
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Bob Haak, '39, retired from professional
football this fall to open up a bowling alley
ill Bloomington and 10 assist Bo in coaching
the football team.
Legend has it that the senior Willkie awoke
his youngsters in the morning by shouting
quotations from Shakespeare up the stairs.
With such a background, it is no wonder
Willkie created such an astonishing impres
sion years later on the "Information Please"
radio program.
Besides the efforts of personal supporters
such as HALLECK, SMITH, WILLIS COVAL, 'OS,
ORLAND C. THOMPSON, '13, who stumped the
West organizing Willkie-for-president clubs,
three factors generally are credited with aiding
the Willkie boom. The first was his radio de
bate with Robert Jackson on the "Town Meet
ing" program. The second was his article in
Fortune magazine, "We, The People." The
third, heard by nearly six million persons,
was his appearance on "Information Please."
On that night, Jan. 6, 1938, Willkie captured
a sizable portion of the national imagination
with his totally unexpected fund of humor
and knowledge. A resume of part of the
program should give the idea:
CUFTON FADIMAN: Name the presidents
during whose administrations the following
expressions came into use. "Carpetbagger."
WILI.KIE: President Andrew Johnson.
FADIMAN: That's right, Mr. Willkie. What
did the term carpetbagger mean?
WILLKIE: It meant one who went South
during the Reconstruction period who took
along a carpetbag, which is a type of valise.
He traveled into the SOllth as a northerner
in order to obtain political power and advan
tages during the Reconstruction in the South.
Willkie also got the next one, which was
"farm bloc." Fadiman turned on him with
"you haven't been studying, have you?"
"I wish I could," was the answer.
The queries shifted to literature. "Give
three quotations containing reference to
April," said Fadiman_
"April showers bring May flowers," re
sponded Willkie.
"That's a simple one."
"That's the only kind I know."
In those words the directness and simplicity
of Wendell Willkie reached six million Amer
icans. And thus, direct and simple, stands
Wendell Willkie today, a man of whom his
University and his country are inordinately
proud, not because of any position he has
held or may hold, but becanse he is a real
man and has proved himself.
After 12 minutes of demonstration the smil
ing, white-haired Administrator came to the
platform to withdraw his name. The demon
>3tration continued unabated. He could not
make himself heard. "In the first place-,"
he shouted into the microphone. "No, no,"
yelled the crowd who already knew his inten
tion. The demonstration continued. "We
want McNutt; we want McNutt," screamed
the galleries with wilder rhythm than a cheer
leader can whip up at an Indiana-Purdue
game. Here was a revolt that the convention
managers had not anticipated. Neither had
Administrator McNutt_
"This is the most dramatic momeut in reo
cent political history," said the director of
the Institute of Politics at one of the major
universities to his companion. "You see be
fore you a man with the nomination for the
vice-presidency in his hand, if he will but
raise that hand." iVIcNutt raised his hand
but shook his head. "In the second place
t hen-" lIe tried again, but his voice was lost
in the chorus of "No! No!" The demonstra
tion by both delegates and galleries left doubt
in no one's mind that here was the man of
the hom, the Democratic Party's favorite son
at the moment. The Chicago Tribune re
marked dryly next morning: "McNutt could
have had the nomination by acclamation."
"It would be ungracious if I failed to give
some recogmtlOll to those who have sup
ported me," McNutt was saying to the radio
audience. Slowly the convention hall began
to grow quiet. "Our party stands on the
record of the past seven years. It goes to
the people under the leadership of the great
est peacetime President in the history of
the nation. . . . America needs strong, logical,
liberal, able leaders in the kind of a world
we are living in today. . .. Franklin Delano
Roosevelt is such a leader.
He is my
leader; and I am here to support his choice
for vice·presidency."
It would be both futile and unfair not to
report the dissatisfaction with which many
MeN utt backers greeted this decision. Manv
felt that the Security Administrator had
failed to seize power when it was literally
beating at his door. Others felt that he had
done the right, the sporting, "the good
soldier" thing. All agreed on certain issues;
that McN ult had the lion's share of the
ovations from both delegates and galleries
at the convention; that McNutt left the con
vention a far more powerful and a more ad
mired figure than when he entered it; that
regardless of which party wins in November,
here is a leader with a national backing that
the administration in power can not ignore.
As one who saw the proceedings of the 1940
Convention, there is no doubt in my mind
that iVIcNutt will be for the next four years
(FOR
alone
excepted)
the
Democrats'
Favorite Son.
The October 1940
Indianapolis alumni turned out
Indianapolis Alumni Hear
80 McMillin on '40 Hopes
INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 23-Bo McM illin ,
spea king at an alumni luncheon in the Co·
lumbia Club here today, explained the new
war cry of the LU. footb all team this year
"Make your own breaks! " The Grayin'
Colo~el said that he and hi s boys were tired
o f waiting for the "breaks of the game" to
come their way and were going out to make
their own.
A good crowd of Indianapolis alumni turned
out for the meeting whi ch opened the 1940·
41 program for the Capitol City organiza·
tion.
Admitting that. Indiana has a more power·
ful squad thi s fall, Bo also pointed out to
th e alumni present that the 1940 schedule
was a lot tougher than last year's.
A flip of the coin is the only way to decide
five of th e games, Bo explained, but he had
no high hopes for th e othe r three games
Ohio State, Nebraska and Northwestern . Bo
feels that th e Hoosiers have an eve n chance
with the others.
Bo co ncluded hi s remarks by sayi ng, "We
have a fine line this yea r. We have fine
backfield material. We mu st make the breaks
to win. The team ha s the fight and the
determination."
The other members of the LU. coaching
staff were i ntroduce d at th e mee ting which
was arranged under the direction of Harry
L. Gause , Indianapoli s club president.
Terre Haute Club
Also Football-Minded
TERRE HAUTE, Sept. 3-Football and
Indiana's 1940 prospects provided the theme
of the opening meeting of the Waba sh Valley
Alumni Club for th e 1940-41 year as Robert
Cook, new athletic publicity direc tor at LU.,
explained the outlook at an alumni banquet
here tonight.
Cook explained that although Bo McMillin
felt that he had hi s finest squad since com·
ing to LU. in 1934, still the sched ul e facing
th e Hustling Hoosiers also wa s the toughest
one arranged.
The meeting was arranged by C. A. Banks,
president of the club, with the assistance
of Tennyson Edwards and Robert McPeak.
Ln
full force to hear Bo McMillin outline Indiana's 1940 foolball prospects.
Wanted:
~Iore
News
,Vith the opening of anoth e r year of
activity for I.U. a.lumni clubs , th e e ditors
of th e Magazille once more ask 'l h e presi.
dents of the local alumni organizations
to appoint official correspondents Jor
their clubs and to send th e names to 1he
managing editor. Then we will be able
to carry regular reports on the aNivities
of each club.
Examining
of the Juni or yea r and is based upon th e
student 's reco rd during his fre shma n and
so phomore years."
Specifically, it may be added that a "COO
average in all of the student's University
work is required for entrance into th e junior
year and th e sa me average is required for
graduation.
It must not be thought, however, that
students in the School of Business have no
interests other than their courses. Every
student in the School is a member of the
Collegi a te Chamber of Commerce; the pur
pose of this organization is to furth er the
interest of the student., to promote co-opera
ti on all(i und erstanding between the students
a nd the faculty , a nd to foster activities which
will result in closer relations with the bu si
ness world. The activities of th e Chamber are
plann ed and directed by a board of directors,
whi ch is compo sed of elected represen tatives
of the various groups a nd organizations of
of the schooL Ed":ard L. Hutton, who grad
uated from th e School of Business last lun e,
is president of the National Association of
Collegiate Chambers of Commerce.
The national honorary frater nity, Beta
Gamma Sigma, is to the School of Business
what Phi Beta Kappa is to the College of
Arts and Sciences. Students in the upper len
per cent of th e senior class and those in the
upper two per cent of th e junior class are
eligible for elect ion to membership in th e
fraternity.
In order to strengthen the relationship be
tween the School o f Business and th e bu si
ness world of Indian a, 12 associate faculty
members were appointed during th e past
academic year. These men include leaders
in every major field of co mmercial and
industrial activity in the State: Paul N.
Bogart, president, Indiana Bankers' Associa
ti on; Fermor S. Cannon, president, Rail
road men 's Federal Savings and Loan Asso
ciation; Louis Ruth e nburg, president, Servel,
Inc.; James F. Carroll, president, Indiana Bell
Telephone Company; Charles B. Enlow,
president, National City Bank o f Evansville;
Ca rl F. Evel eigh, secretary of Eli Lilly and
Company; C. S. Fletcher, sales manager,
S tnd eba ker Corporation; Henry Holt, resi
dent partner of Thomson and McK innon;
F. C. Kroeger, manager, Allison En gineering
Company ; Earl Moore, general superint e ndent
of the Gary Works of th e Carnegie-Illinois
Steel Corporation; A. J. McAndless. presi ·
nent. Lincoln Na tional Life In sura nce Com
pany; and George S. Olive, presiden t, George
S. Olive Company.
Th ere are man y activities of the School
of Bllsiness that deserve more extensive men
tion than I ca n give th em here. For 15 years
the Bureall of Business Research, under the
direction of Professor George W. Starr, has
se rved the community, and, by means of its
monthly Indiana Bnsiness Re·view, ha s made
it s finding s available to the bll si ness world.
A more recent creation, the Investme nt Re
search Bureau lInder the nirection of Dr.
Harry C. Sallvain ha s been operating sin ce
1937; it, too, issues a monthly pnblication, the
I nveslmenl BulletLn.
The School of Business has been active
in fostering conferences of represe ntatives
of variolls kind s of business; during the
past yea r more than 1,000 persons all ended
such con ferences.
It is my impression that those in charge of
the Indian a U niversity School of Business are
flllly aliv e to their respon sibi liti es, are keenly
aware hoth of their opportunities and of their
obl igations. I believe that no part of Indi
ana University is doing a better job, both
in th e primary field of edu cation and in the
secondary field of service to the State, than
is being done by the School of Business.
Don't Forget Homecoming!
Oct. 18-19
Iowa vs. Indiana
Be There Whell I.he FUll Starts
:31
WITH the start of another University year we again ex
tend a personal invitation to you to take part in the
great alumni work of our Greater University. Thousands
of alumni are meeting regularly at alumni club meetings.
Worthwhile and interesting projects are be
ing undertaken by these clubs. Those now
You Are participating get a "big kick" out of their
Invited
actIvIty . You, too, can get the thrill of
sharing the satisfaction of helping our great
president, Herman B Wells, the Trustees, the faculty, and
our loyal alumni to achieve our immediate goal-to make
Indiana University not necessarily the biggest university
In the cou ntry , but the best!
ONE of the most encouraging of many encouraging de
velopments at Indiana University has been the progress
made in student guidance work. Dr. Herman T. Briscoe,
newly-appointed dean of fa culties, has developed consider
able attention to this vital problem and
with the aid of other faculty members has
Creating
set up an effective organization to help
'44 Alumni students. Among other things stressed in
the program is the vital process of making
good alumni of the students while they are still in college.
Professor Julian Scott Bryan, Counsellor of Students, in
remarks to the faculty advisers, had this to say: "Wher
ever you find a loyal and enthusiastic college alumnus, you
will, in all probability, dist:over that his loyalty is directly
attributable to deep affection for some old teacher. If you
don't believe this, take stock of the hundreds of endowed
chairs in the colleges and universities of this nation-
chairs established 'in loving memory of an old teacher.'
~! e need more strong, loyal alumni, but we cannot create
a loyal alumnus out of an undergraduate who is per
mitted from the day that he lands here as a scared, home
sit:k freshman, to live off in some little two-by-twice room
by himself, for four long years, unloved, unbefriended , and
uninvited! "
Also in his remarks, Professor Bryan commented on the
educational process by minimizing the importance of hav
in g students indefinitely retain factual details learned in
th ei r courses but rather he advised, "We should, however,
be deeply concerned that he develop valuable habits of
thought, t:apture high ideals, and acquire a high type of
self-reliance. These valuable traits cannot be captured if
he fails to do his academic work well!"
This whole student guidance program shows that the
University is not only interested in physical growth but
spiritual growth as well. It is a trend that will help build
the truly Great University.
THERE t:omes a time when dear and co ncIse definition
of policy becomes necessary. We are speaking out
now, not to defend or condone our position, but rather to
explain what we are attempting to do in an extremely un
usual circumstant:e. We have always felt,
and always will feel, that the value of the
Concerning l.U. Alumni Association and of the Univer
Politics
sity would be impaired seriously whenever
special favor is shown to either major
political party. We take pride in the fact that both Demo
crats and Republicans forget their political differences and
unite whenever the welfare of Indiana University is con
cerned . If you know your Indiana politics you can un
derstand our pride in this unique achievement of getting
non -pa rtisan response from some of the most partisan of
all political individuals-Hoosiers.
How~ver, for the first time in the history of the Uni
versity a graduate of LU. has been nominated for the
President:y of the United States by one of the major
parties. Also, another alumnus was one of the outstanding
cand idates for the nomination by the other party. As
alumni, both men are written up in this issue. We compli
ment both of these men on the distinction that their great
ability has won for them, but the Alumni Association re
affirms its established policy of refusing to support or op
pose the candidacy of any individual running for public
office. You personally are free to be just as actively
partisan as you care to be.
Laying aside all partisan considerations, all alumni of
Indiana University should be proud of Wendell L. Willkie
and Paul V. Mt:Nutt-the two most outstanding class
mates of any university ever to figure prominently in the
national political battle scene-two loyal friends of In
diana University.
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