1950s – News

Audio slide show: Jennifer Flanagan ’12 is Grace Hoylard in ‘Bus Stop’

�ֲ��ý Magazine — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 19:07:29 +0000

As a component of her senior thesis in acting, Jennifer Flanagan '12 was Grace Hoylard in the �ֲ��ý production of Bus Stop. Photograph by Michael Reidy.

Jennifer Flanagan ’12 of Sherborn, Mass., discusses her role as Grace Hoylard in the �ֲ��ý theater production of Bus Stop by William Inge. The performance was a component of Flanagan’s senior thesis in acting.

Lecture by Nishani Frazier marks Freedom Rides anniversary

�ֲ��ý News — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 20:03:13 +0000

In observance of Black History Month and the 50th anniversary of the 1961 Freedom Riders protest, a historian from Ohio’s Miami University reviews the history, impacts and continuing relevance of this galvanizing episode in the civil rights movement at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 17, in the Benjamin Mays Center at �ֲ��ý College, 95 Russell St.

Sponsored by the Office of Intercultural Education at �ֲ��ý, Nishani Frazier’s talk, titled On the March, is open to the public at no cost. For more information, please call 207-786-8376.

Frazier, assistant professor of history at Miami, is an authority on the African American experience. She will examine the story of the Freedom Riders, their importance to American history and their current relevance in the face of efforts to retreat politically, culturally and socially from the advances of the civil rights movement.

Beginning in May 1961, the Freedom Rides were an effort to shatter segregationist resistance to laws mandating equal access to public facilities for all people. Involving up to 450 civil rights activists over five months, the Riders made repeated trips into the South on the Greyhound and Trailways bus lines, forging ahead despite the savage violence, at the hands of law enforcement officers and the Ku Klux Klan among others, that awaited them.

This chapter in the civil rights movement heightened national attention to the cause, brought in many new activists and compelled the federal government to begin enforcing its equal access legislation.

Frazier received her doctorate from Columbia University in 2008. Prior to teaching at Miami, she held the positions of associate curator of African American history at Western Reserve Historical Society; assistant to the director of the Martin Luther King Jr. Archives at the Martin Luther King Center for Nonviolent Social Change; and personal assistant to John Hope Franklin during his tenure as chair of the Presidential Advisory Board during the Clinton administration’s “One America in the 21st Century” initiative.

With Manning Marable as lead editor, Frazier was a co-author with John McMillian of the book Freedom on My Mind: The Columbia Documentary History of the African American Experience (Columbia University Press, 2003). Her current manuscript in progress, “Haramabee Nation: Cleveland, CORE and Rise of Black Power,” examines the philosophical evolution of the Congress of Racial Equality regarding the black power movement.

'Destroy what destroys us,' says Service of Worship speaker

�ֲ��ý News — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 21:36:21 +0000

“It’s been a long, a long time coming, but I know a change is gonna come.” The hopeful words of the Sam Cooke song sung by soloist Megan Guynes ’11 made a fitting opening for the Jan. 16 Memorial Service of Worship that began Martin Luther King Jr. Day observances at �ֲ��ý.

The centerpiece was the Rev. James Lawson’s sermon. Lawson was an important advocate for nonviolent activism during the civil rights movement, and was instrumental to the founding of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in 1960.

A personal friend of King’s, Lawson told the �ֲ��ý audience how King had first encouraged him to move down South and continue his work at the heart of the emerging civil rights movement. Lawson praised King’s work as “breaking down barriers of fear, silence, racism and sexism, and lifting up a new era.”

Lawson also emphasized that the campaign goes on. “I want you to understand that to celebrate Martin Luther King’s life is to celebrate a movement made up of hundreds of thousands of people,” Lawson told his attentive audience.

Pointing to the many issues of violence, fear and injustice that our nation continues to struggle with, he said, “We, the American people, have not permitted the slogan ‘equality, liberty and justice for all’ to be the slogan of our land.”

He urged, “Destroy what destroys us, and replace it with instruments that allow human creativity and joy.”

Taking place in the �ֲ��ý Chapel, the service was attended by 175 or so members of the �ֲ��ý and Lewiston-Auburn communities. The audience was also treated to inspirational readings from students and faculty, music provided by �ֲ��ý ensembles the Crosstones and the Gospelaires, and a dance performance by �ֲ��ý’ liturgical dance troupe, Justified.

— Gabrielle Otto ’11

Scene Again: Pirates at Popham Beach

�ֲ��ý Magazine — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 18:00:49 +0000

With finals looming the next day, the �ֲ��ý Outing Club clambake at Popham Beach on May 24, 1953, offered one last chance for some sun, fun, and suds.

From left, Katie Day Chase ’53, Lenny Chase ’53, Bill Laird ’54, John Sturgis ’53, and Barbara Earl Sturgis ’53 at Popham Beach on May 24, 1953. (Photograph by Carolann McKesson Laird ’54.)

This was a day after conclusion, and the striped shirts worn by Lenny Chase ’53, at left, and Bill Laird ’54, leaning against John Sturgis ’53, reflect the pirate-themed campaign of Lev “Jolly Roger” Campbell ’55 (Chase’s bandana was also part of the getup).

The “pirates” had won the campus vote over the campaign run by “Captain Walt” Reuling ’54 that evoked Show Boat.

The ’53 clambake was true to its name: Unlike later iterations, lobster wasn’t on the BOC menu, just clams and burgers, and Lenny was in charge of the clams. A clambake neophyte, he bought bushels and bushels, “and cleaned them in the dorm shower,” recalls Katie Day Chase ’53, at left, who would marry Lenny a few weeks later. “People raved about them!”

“We drank whatever was cold and available!”

The suds being swilled in this photo are Ruppert Knickerbocker and Krueger Extra Light Cream Ale. The �ֲ��ý boys could have been sipping other popular beers of the era, such as Narragansett or Ballantine or Genesee. “We drank whatever was cold and available!” says Laird.

While on-campus drinking was a no-no in the 1950s, “off-campus was different,” says Laird, who recalls the “user-friendly” establishments downtown that served under-21 �ֲ��ýies.

There was Steckino’s on Lisbon Street and, of course, the Blue Goose, where Laird recalls a post-library ritual of dimeys (dime draft beer), fried-egg sandwiches, and boxing on TV.

The �ֲ��ý friends drove to Popham that day in Lenny’s 1940 Olds, named Betsy. In fact, the �ֲ��ýies who traveled in Betsy that day paired off in marriage. Besides Lenny and Katie, Bill Laird married Carolann McKesson Laird ’54, who shot this photo; and John Sturgis married Barbara Earl Sturgis ’53, seen at right in the photo.

The BOC clambake did seem to be date-driven in the 1950s. Clambake chairman Frederick Russell ’53 told the Student that he hoped groups of students would come to Popham and that the event was “not only for couples.”

Perhaps the many and sturdy �ֲ��ý marriages like these helped give rise to the myth of the �ֲ��ý marriage “statistic” — see our story on that topic and our story about what’s happened to the sandy expanse of Popham Beach since the 1950s. — HJB

Video: Dean Emeritus Milt Lindholm '35 remembered

Jay Burns — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 15:23:06 +0000

Those who gathered at the �ֲ��ý Chapel on March 21 to honor the memory of Dean Emeritus of Admissions Milton L. Lindholm ’35 heard remembrances from people who knew Milt as a father, mentor, admissions dean and friend: Karl Lindholm, Edmund Wilson ’62, William Hiss ’66 and Peter Gomes ’65.

Lindholm, who was recalled as a dean who could see students’ potential even before they could themselves, died on Feb. 27 at the age of 98; his . Readers can view the program for the memorial service here.

Four videos:

Karl Lindholm remembers his father, Milt Lindholm ’35

Karl Lindholm is Milt Lindholm’s son. He is assistant professor of American studies and dean of Cook Commons at Middlebury College.

Edmund Wilson ’62 remembers Milt Lindholm ’35

Ed Wilson ’62 served as Lindholm’s assistant in the 1960s. He is the associate dean emeritus of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, and a �ֲ��ý Trustee.

William Hiss ’66 remembers Milt Lindholm ’35

Bill Hiss ’66 is the executive director for international advancement and a lecturer in Asian studies at �ֲ��ý. He led the �ֲ��ý admissions office for 22 years.

Peter Gomes ’65 remembers Milt Lindholm ’35

Peter Gomes ’65 is Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister in The Memorial Church, Harvard University.

Robert Hatch, icon of �ֲ��ý athletics, passes away at age 85

Jay Burns — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:56:15 +0000

Bob Hatch, who became director of athletics in 1974, speaks with Bryant Gumbel ‘70, then an LA-based NBC sports reporter, for a 1977 �ֲ��ý Magazine story on Bobcat athletics. Talking about the need for excellent facilities, Hatch said, “Looking down the road, I think people are going to be as fussy picking a college as they are picking a new suit or automobile. They are going to shop ”

At a 2005 football game at Garcelon Field, Bob Hatch (right) enjoys the company of, from left, Dean Emeritus of Admissions Milt Lindholm ’35, Brian Flynn ’57, Paul Planchon ’66 and Chick Leahey ’52, former longtime baseball coach.

Bob Hatch and Jim Murphy ‘69, who played quarterback, show off Murphy’s football jersey, retired on Nov. 20, 1968. Murphy is the current women’s soccer and basketball coach. Photo courtesy �ֲ��ý College Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library.

Bob Hatch coaches the Bobcat football team, circa 1967. Hatch served as head football coach from 1952 to 1972 before becoming athletics director.

Bob Hatch in 1977.

• Click the thumbnails above to view the slide show

Professor Emeritus of Physical Education Robert W. Hatch, an icon of �ֲ��ý athletics whose contributions encompassed innovation and opportunity, died Feb. 13, 2010. He was 85.

View reporter Dan Hartill’s story about Hatch in the
View �ֲ��ý story about Hatch and the 1956 Maine State Series football champions
View published after his retirement in 1991
View �ֲ��ý tribute to Hatch on his induction to the Scholar-Athlete Society in 2005
Visiting hours: Feb. 19, 4-8 p.m., Fortin Funeral Home, Auburn; memorial service: Fortin Funeral Home, Feb. 20, 11 a.m., with a reception in New Commons afterward.
Friends are sharing their memories

Appointed instructor in physical education and freshman football coach in 1949, Hatch’s head coaching assignments included varsity baseball (1951-53) and football (1952-72) as well as golf. He became assistant director of athletics in 1959 and succeeded Lloyd Lux as director in 1974, serving until 1991.

Considered an innovator as a coach, Hatch once deployed an unusual spread formation in football versus the much larger University of Maine team in 1961, stunning the undefeated Black Bears with a 15-15 tie.

In 1955, he wrote a suggesting that traditional RBI statistics could be misleading and urging greater use of on-base percentage, twin notions that are central to the modern “sabermetric” approach to evaluating baseball talent developed by Bill James and others in the 1980s.

“There was no bravado. He thought of it as just the right thing to do.”

As director of athletics, he oversaw the creation of a women’s varsity athletic program in the 1970s. “At a time when few schools were doing anything, he created opportunities for women athletes,” sad his immediate �ֲ��ý successor, Suzanne Coffey, to the Sun Journal. “There was no bravado. He thought of it as just the right thing to do.” Coffey is now AD at Amherst.

Kevin McHugh, Coffey’s successor as director of athletics at �ֲ��ý, says that Hatch’s “right thing” ethos endures at �ֲ��ý today. “The current �ֲ��ý athletics program reflects Bob’s idea of quality: good people who care about the institution and its student-athletes. Aside from wins and losses, there’s a social conscience and education-centered philosophy here. To me, that came down from Bob.”

Remembering Bob Hatch: 1991 �ֲ��ý Magazine story at his retirement

Jay Burns — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 19:30:41 +0000

Below are edited excerpts from an article on Bob Hatch originally published in the Fall 1991 issue of �ֲ��ý Magazine and written by Ron Meldrum. .

In four decades at �ֲ��ý, Director of Athletics Robert Hatch, who retired in June, has seen many changes. But he considers the gains made by women to be the most gratifying. When he came to �ֲ��ý in 1949, Chase Hall was considered an all-male building and female students had to eat in Rand. Women could not use Alumni Gymnasium, and their athletic facilities were separate and frequently inferior to those for men.

Since then, restrictive rules and regulations have been lifted, and the athletic programs for men and women have been fully integrated. “The women’s progress has been astounding,” Hatch said. “It was very smooth, and I think it was handled with even-handedness.”

In 1949, men’s sports and women’s sports — the programs, faculty and staff — were entirely separate. So separate were the sexes that staff from one athletic department often did not know many of the staff from the other, he said.

“There were eight male sports and about seven or eight women sports, totally separated,” Hatch said, “and now there are 27 sports and they are totally integrated.”

The separation came to an end when, in 1974, President Thomas Hedley Reynolds, under the impetus of Title IX, merged the women’s and men’s athletics programs into one department.

“There were eight male sports and about seven or eight women sports, totally separated,” Hatch said, “and now there are 27 sports and they are totally integrated.”

Hatch has seen many other changes during his years at �ֲ��ý as the College has grown. He has watched as new buildings and staff have been added, as well as new departments. But he stresses that although there have been many physical changes, the College’s philosophy has not changed. �ֲ��ý, he said, has always been ahead of its time in many areas.

“No fraternities — that was unique back in those days, ’49 and the early ’50s.” He added that only now are many colleges grabbing hold of this idea as they see the problems caused by fraternities on campuses. “Finally most of them are catching on that that’s the route to go.”

After the women’s progress, the biggest achievement Hatch has had a part of at �ֲ��ý has been the construction of Merrill Gymnasium. For years, the athletics facilities at the College were inadequate, so Hatch and other members of the department pushed for a new building.

“It was really in the works the year I was appointed [athletic director in 1974],” Hatch said. “It was finally completed in 1980, but we were working on it even before 1974. We had a committee that studied the building, which I was a part of in 1970-71.”

Hatch came to �ֲ��ý in 1949, giving up a potential professional football career. The �ֲ��ý job was more secure, he says, and he was looking for security for himself and his young family.

He and his family moved into the Sampsonville apartments — they were former army barracks — with other young faculty members. It was a bit of a shock at first, he said, since they had left a new house they had just built in Massachusetts, but they got used to it.

“As it turned out,” he said, “the living quarters were not luxurious by a long shot, but it was a nice community. �ֲ��ý students mixed with �ֲ��ý faculty, and most of the faculty were young and just out of the service like I was.”

But he’s not heading into retirement entirely without regret. He will miss the job he’s worked at for four decades, and the people he’s worked with.

“I’m going to miss the personal associations with my colleagues, both on-campus and off-campus, but mostly the association of the twenty-five to thirty people I work with right in my department. It’s a close-knit group.”

Calendar of events for 2010 �ֲ��ý Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Phyllis Graber Jensen — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 14:26:24 +0000

Sunday, Jan. 17
7 p.m.

Worship service: A sermon by Barbara D. Savage, Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought and Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania, highlights the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day Memorial Service of Worship. The service includes music by �ֲ��ý students. Sponsored by the Multifaith Chaplaincy.
�ֲ��ý College Chapel

8:30 p.m.
Reception: Meet Professor Savage (see preceding item)
Multicultural Center

Monday, Jan. 18 Martin Luther King Jr. Day

In observance of King Jr. Day, classes are canceled and special programming takes place throughout the day. (Please see Sunday, Jan. 17, for related events.) This year’s theme at �ֲ��ý is Faith and Ethics in the Public Sphere: What Is the Dream? For more information, call 207-786-6400.

9 a.m.
Reception: Meet the students from Morehouse and �ֲ��ý colleges and local high schools who will participate in the morning’s debate.
Benjamin Mays Center

9:30 a.m.
Oratorical event: Members of the Morehouse and �ֲ��ý debate teams and local high school orators will debate the resolution, “This house believes that religion is a necessary element of a just social change.”
Benjamin Mays Center

10:45 a.m.
Keynote address: Barbara D. Savage, Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought and Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania, and author of Your Spirits Walk Beside Us: The Politics of Black Religion (Harvard University Press, 2008), gives the keynote speech for �ֲ��ý’ Martin Luther King Jr. Day observances. Her talk is titled Benjamin Mays and the Politics of Black Religion in the Age of Desegregation.
Olin Arts Center

Noon until 5:30 p.m.
Video exhibition: curated by filmmaker Craig Saddlemire ’05. The making of video is the making of social identity – personal as well as collective. This video exhibit features work that tells a story about Maine people and/or was produced by Maine videomakers. In both cases, each video is made from one independent point-of-view, and serves to dialogue with the other videos about our individual and collective identities. They explore how identities are strengthened, segregated, imposed, exposed, or self-actualized. They also reveal how identity shapes relationships of power and equity. Through participating in free and independent media production, each video artist is helping to diversify and complicate the conventional identities that saturate “popular culture.”
Perry Atrium

Art project: What’s on Your Green Conscience?
Presented by 2010 Eco Rep Team and Julie Rosenbach, sustainability coordinator. We all have behaviors that we know are not environmentally sustainable from long showers to driving and buying to eat habits. This art project is a chance to see what’s on others’ green consciences and express your own. Stop in to create an artwork (all supplies will be provided). Add it to the collective and leave it behind.
Perry Atrium and Pettengill 116

1 p.m. and throughout the afternoon
Workshops: In four concurrent sessions (times and rooms TBA), students, staff, guests and faculty lead readings, presentations and discussions on topics connected to the King Day theme. The afternoon includes a video exhibition in the Perry Atrium curated by filmmaker Craig Saddlemire ’05. For a complete schedule, call 207-786-6400.
Pettengill Hall

7:30 p.m.
Performance: �ֲ��ý students, commissioned to create cultural work for Martin Luther King Jr. Day, present music, dance and spoken word pieces. Performers include �ֲ��ý College Step Team; the Robinson Players, a campus theater group; the �ֲ��ý Gospelaires, a gospel choir; Justified; Hans Johnson and the Hybrid Sun; Lindsey Reuter; and Clyde Bango.
Olin Arts Concert Hall

Friday, Jan. 22 at 1:15 p.m. for one hour
Annual MLK Read-In: Faculty, staff and students will share a picture book with Martel School students in grades 4-6. Those interested in volunteering should e-mail contact Krystina Zaykowski (kzaykows@bates.edu). Transportation will be provided by the Harward Center for Community Partnerships.

Darcy York ’05 makes a present of �ֲ��ý’ past

�ֲ��ý News — Thu, 22 Jul 2004 13:47:53 +0000

As a history major, Darcy York ’05 will spend her senior year researching how the Romans viewed women who led peoples conquered by the empire, women such as Cleopatra.

But this summer York is engrossed in a much more recent chapter in history: the story of �ֲ��ý College as revealed by photographs from the college’s archives.

In a project titled A Visual History of �ֲ��ý College, York is bringing to light photos depicting life as it was lived decades ago at the 149-year-old institution. She’s mounting reproductions of the vintage images around campus in the places where they were taken.

“I really want the photos to go where you can stand and look at them, and then turn and see what the room looks like now,” explains York, of Harpswell, Maine.

With �ֲ��ý gearing up for its sesquicentennial next year, York designed the project to expose her fellow students to both the flavor of bygone �ֲ��ý and some of the college’s historic highlights.

“I feel that most students don’t know the history of the school,” she says. The �ֲ��ý advancement office hired her to execute the project, whose other aspects include the placement around campus of photos and biographies of notable �ֲ��ý people.

York is working with archival images that cover slightly more than a century of �ֲ��ý history starting in the early 1860s. They are sometimes touching, sometimes funny, always fascinating.

A 1922 photo shows pool players working their hard-boiled attitudes harder than their cues. A carefully posed image from 1948 shows students — some in beanies — bowling in the now-dismantled Chase Hall alley. In a 1959 scene (at right), students are having a lively meeting with a tweedy dean over sundaes in the Bobcat Den.

York will hang the photos in a variety of buildings: the Den and other Chase Hall locations; Hathorn Hall, the college’s first academic building; even the WRBC-FM studio on Frye Street, which she will decorate with photos taken circa 1950 in the original �ֲ��ý radio studio, in Chase. Several dorms will receive a poster compilation that shows them in old interior scenes.

York didn’t come to �ֲ��ý expecting to become a campus historian, but as early as her first year she was contemplating some kind of �ֲ��ý-historical project — originally a video, as a followup to work she did a high school student with Harpswell’s public-access television station.

With the sesquicentennial approaching, she says, it’s an ideal time to bolster a sense of �ֲ��ý history among students. “Most students don’t even know that the school was founded as a seminary in 1855 by Oren B. Cheney, and that Benjamin �ֲ��ý” — a Boston manufacturer and early benefactor — “actually had very little interaction with the school aside from a donation and his name.”

She adds, “Very few students know that we were the first coeducational school in New England or that we’ve always admitted African Americans.”

The seed of the project lay in the Short Term course “Introduction to Historical Methods,” required of all history majors and nicknamed “History Hell” due to its intensity. Examining old textile-mill payroll records as she researched child labor in Lewiston, York found herself hooked on the real-life stories that live between the lines of the documentary record.

In addition to the daily-life photos, York’s mining of �ֲ��ý history extends to a series of articles about college traditions she’s writing for The �ֲ��ý Student. Then there’s the so-called “�ֲ��ý greats” project, which involves mounting, in places where students are likely to examine them, images and short bios of such prominent �ֲ��ý people as the seven college presidents, legendary faculty (for example, “Uncle Johnny” Stanton, who taught Greek and rhetoric for more than 50 years) and graduates of distinction.

Those last will include people like Benjamin Mays ’20, who went on to mentor Martin Luther King Jr. and serve as president of Morehouse College; U.S. Sen. and Secretary of State Edmund Muskie ’36; and two “firsts” — Mary Mitchell, class of 1869, �ֲ��ý’ first female graduate, and Henry Chandler, class of 1874, the first African American graduate.

Through the photo project, York is challenging a longstanding aspect of the culture at �ֲ��ý, a college that tends to downplay its accomplishments even as it makes national best-college rankings with predictable regularity.

“At a lot of other schools, you walk on the campus and they really show off their history,” she says. “In �ֲ��ý’ time-honored tradition of modesty, the school doesn’t tend to glorify its past. But it’s time to start.”

Alumni honored at Reunion

�ֲ��ý News — Sat, 12 Jun 2004 15:37:04 +0000

Weston L. Bonney ’50, a distinguished banker, longtime college Trustee and a volunteer who has worked tirelessly in Maine and abroad to advance education, arts and commerce, received the Benjamin Elijah Mays Medal, the College’s highest alumni award, at the 136th Reunion Alumni Awards Ceremony on June 12.

The Mays Medal is awarded only on occasions when the College wishes to honor an alumnus or alumna who has made extraordinary contributions in the United States and the world at large. The award was established during the lifetime of Benjamin Mays ’20, a civil rights leader, mentor of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and former president of Morehouse College.

Weston Bonney entered �ֲ��ý as a married student in 1946 after serving in the U. S. Navy. He graduated cum laude with a degree in economics and soon thereafter embarked on a four-decades banking career that lasted until his retirement in 1991 as chairman and director of People’s Heritage Bank.

An active member of the �ֲ��ý community, Bonney is president of his class. He sponsored Career Discovery Interns, recruited students and served as president of the Alumni Council. A member of Reunion committees, a regional vice chair for the college’s third Capital Campaign and a member of the �ֲ��ý Fund Committee, Bonney served as a �ֲ��ý Trustee from 1971 until 1996. (His son Michael Bonney ’80 is currently a �ֲ��ý Trustee.)

Bonney’s service extends far beyond �ֲ��ý. A tireless promoter of economic development and small businesses in Maine, he has equal passion for the arts, especially music. He has championed improved health care and environmental causes locally and internationally, serving as a banking adviser in Eastern Europe after the dissolution of the former Soviet Union. In recent years, he has turned his energies toward improving the education of Maine’s children. A current member of the Maine State Board of Education, he has been the principal architect of the Essential Programs and Services formula that ensures Maine students receive the necessary funding to achieve the Maine Learning Results.

Roger C. Schmutz ’54 joined Bonney as a Reunion honoree when he received the Helen A. Papaioanou ’49 Distinguished Alumni Service Award. Presented to a graduate for extraordinary service to �ֲ��ý, the award honors the deep love for �ֲ��ý displayed by Dr. Papaioanou during her decades of service to the College and to the Board of Trustees from 1965-99.

Schmutz enjoyed a distinguished career in journalism, retiring in 1981 as group vice president for financial publishing at Standard & Poor’s Corporation. He served on the �ֲ��ý Board of Trustees for 31 years, including a stint as secretary of the corporation, and has worked on every �ֲ��ý capital campaign, advising three presidents along the way and mentoring several generations of �ֲ��ý trustees. His service to �ֲ��ý included club leadership, student recruitment and Reunion leadership.