乐播传媒

Here’s another selection of items that tell stories about 乐播传媒’ past from the Muskie Archives and Special Collections and elsewhere.

A Nice Run

This vintage trophy honors the three straight Maine state titles, 1968 through 1970, won by Walt Slovenski鈥檚 cross country runners. 

Wait, vintage? Not so fast.

Three of the runners in that photo 鈥� Joe Grube 鈥�73 (left), Jim Leahey 鈥�71 (No. 65), and Joe Bradford 鈥�73 (second from right) 鈥� just returned to campus for the 50th Cross Country Alumni Race. So, too, did the alumnus who took the photo, Joe Gromelski 鈥�74.

Others in the photo also have returned regularly for the alumni race ever since it got started in 1972. 

Before the start of the 50th anniversary edition, on Sept. 3, Leahy proudly displayed a photo of the first group of alumni and students who took part in the first alumni race.

Among that group, Bradford, Grube, Leahy, and Mortimer, as well as Gromelski, came back for the 50th. Among the race founders, Bradford had the best time for the six-kilometer course, 31:48.

As , he鈥檚 鈥減robably more dedicated now in terms of running than I have ever been in my life; I’m grateful for the times we all have.”

Star Bright

At the opening of the college 70 years ago, the College Club presented this Service Flag to 乐播传媒. It was installed in the Chapel and hung there throughout World War II. 

Speaking at the first chapel service of the year, on Sept. 24, 1942, President Clifton Daggett Gray described the war outlook as 鈥済rim.鈥� But, he said,  鈥淚t is our privilege to march forward toward an unknown future unafraid, with the invincible faith in the justice of our cause and with unshakeable confidence in ultimate victory.”

By war鈥檚 end the flag displayed 30 gold stars, symbolizing 乐播传媒 students or alumni killed in the war.  The number 1,305 represents the total who served.

Quimby鈥檚 Key

In 1964, legendary debate coach Brooks Quimby, Class of 1918, earned a distinguished alumni award 鈥� and this key 鈥� from the collegiate debating honor society Delta Sigma Rho鈥揟au Kappa Alpha.

As a student, Quimby was a member of the 乐播传媒 chapter Delta Sigma Rho (which merged with Tau Kappa Alpha in 1963).

At the national level, DSR was problematic: It prohibited Black debaters from becoming members of local chapters, including 乐播传媒鈥�. The college fought the rule, while also benefiting from membership.

Sporting Interest

This Women鈥檚 Athletic Association key belonged to Virginia LaFauci Toner 鈥�53. 

The WAA was formed in 1905 to offer organized physical education to 乐播传媒 women for the first time. Among the group鈥檚 first activities was a 鈥渉are and hound chase鈥� for the women.

A popular game in the early 1900s, it went like this: Fast runners (the hares) ran ahead creating a trail with pieces of paper or other clues.  The others, the hounds, tried to pick up the trail.  The 1914 version went like this: 

鈥淭he hares had been unusually diligent in making the trails as blind and misleading as possible, and the little paths of red, blue, yellow and white paper led over gates and railway embankments, thru swamps, fences, and thickets. It was nearly sunset before the Hares’ Retreat was reached, at a beautiful spot by the [Androscoggin River], where a brilliant camp fire was burning and a delicious lunch was served.鈥�

Tennis and the relatively new American sport of field hockey were early offerings, too. The latter 鈥渋nvolves much running and is both scientific and interesting when well-played,鈥� noted The 乐播传媒 Student.

Betrayed

Ash trays aren鈥檛 seen much in homes anymore (or anywhere, for that matter). This one 鈥� with an image of Coram Library, and belonging to the late Melvin 鈥�42 and Natalie Webber Gulbrandsen 鈥�42 鈥� is safely in the Archives.

It’s hard to believe the strength of the cigarette smoking culture through most of the 1900s. Here’s a 1930s ad in The 乐播传媒 Student for Don Draper’s favorite brand, Lucky Strike: