Oberlin Review (Oberlin, Ohio), 1957-06-10

              Commencement Issue 10c fA Hsv TVv Commencement Z572 LME 85 OBERLIN OHIO MONDAY JUNE 10 1957 NUMBER 58 I Asks for G Foreign Policy owies rustees App rove 7Year Build Ian Includes Science feng Music Construction of a science building an addition toSoronia Brooks Hall Auditorium a new Conservatory of Mus j tvt TIpnrv Churchill Kini Memorial Buildinf for thp tlllU m 1 J J o canities and social sciences is scheduled as the first phase a new sevenyear building program approved Saturday by Board ot irusiees In addition the fiveyear of the old Sec Church now used as a zoology iui rMnrv demolition of Sturges and abandonment ofWestit Hall an announcement today ddcnt Stevenson revealed that Trustees have authorized an mediate goahead on the first e of the program In the hope it can be completed by Au 1962 The cost of this phase stimatcd at 5500000 Thetosevenyear construction and icrnization program will cost estimated 10000000 Financing Plans he Trustees hope to finance the enyear program with new tal gilts resulting from a step up development program To end they authorized theexon of the Colleges present eloDment department and the ne of a new College adminis ve officer to head it Tofacilirapid construction work the tees are prepared to use cap funds of the College as they I be needed to initiate the pro m The program results from rec mendations based on a six nth study of the Collegesfurs physical needs made by Mr iglas Orr former president of American Institute of Archi s and currently employed as rsultmg architect by several tern schools LongRange Concept ommenting on the newprom Assistant to the President C wrt Keesey said The import thing is that it is a master plan ressinL a total rnnrpnt nf hnild placement for the longrange ire The following steps arinved in the first nhase l Cnn iction of a new science building me chemistry botany and zo y dapartments on Lorain reet between Woodland Avenue l the Severance ChemicalLaratory The latter will be reno ied Addition to Hall Construction of an addition Hall Auditorium for the use of speech dcDartment and the fmolition of that deoartments Nnt Quarters Sturm Hall Llt in 1884 5 Construction of a newConrvatory of Music on the present Continued on p 8 col 3 fAllied Diplomacy Seeks Europe Outside Soviet sphere By CAROLYN EPSTEIN and DAVID MATHIASEN The main goal of both the tfopean nations and the aited States is to get Rus OUt of Fnrnno fhpctpr Wes sairl last niohl in an Rrview with the Review former ambassador to Mia is here as commence Nnt speaker goal has led the United tw to cooperate with European entries in foi Hned While Russia has consist Ftlv atlartl 1J iiyicu iq negouaie wuiiu lems directly with the United with the aim of turning the I U Him twn cnknoa Infill fc United States foreign policy lj avuiuea wus course ui lion nraje European lnterrUon t v icii uiafc uic vmveu s snouid encourage European uon He saw Integration as DeSt Cn1it 1 r I U r since united Europe would Vldp a f popes citizens Such a Europe e rnntr i i icuaea wouia proviae an Buildings initial phase of the program Marion Sims Leaves Faculty Marion L Sims professor of singing in the Conservatory of Music will retire on Aug 31 She joined the faculty in 193G Professor Sims plans to travel She was graduated from the Troy Conservatory of Music and studied in New York City with Frederick E Bristol and May LairdBrown Before coming to the Conserva tory Miss Sims taught singing and worked as an accompanist and coach to professional singers in New York Two of Miss Sims former pu oils at the Conservatory Helena Strassburger Boatwright 39 and Margaret Tobias 44 have made professional careers of singing and have been heard a number of times in solo work here Alumni Vote Elects McSweeney Teare Members of the AlumniAssociation elected Elsworth Mc Sweenev 34 president of the As sociation at their Annual Meeting held at the Alumni LuncheonSaturday Mrs Wallace G Teare 28 was chosen vicepresident and Raymond G Hengst 20 treasurer They will serve for threeyear terms They will succeed President Philip P Gott 15 VicePresident Mrs Spartoco DiBiasio 40 and Treasurer Walter H Richards 37 The Alumni also approved an amendment to the Regulations of the Association It applies to Ar ticle VI on Class Organization and provides that beginning with grad uation each class shall elect a pres ident and secretary amended from vicepresident to serve until the first reunion at which time new elections are held The amendment contains a new section providing that all classes which have held their fiftiethreunion shall be members of the HalfCentury Council and shall be invited to hold subsequentreunions with other classes In this group atmosphere of vigor and confi dence He pointed to tne recenuy npontintpd Common Market among six European countries as an encouraging trend toward in tegration Mr Bowles felt that Britain should work towards further Inte gration with European countries He saw no reason why existing re lations with the Commonwealtn Nations would be Impaired Dy such a policy Armaments Expensive Turning to the defense ofEurope Mr Bowles felt that thereRritish move to deemphasize conventional armaments In favor of atomic weapons was not a move toward isolation from Europe but rather a move forced by the need for economy All nations hepointed out are finding it expensive to maintain both conventional and otnmln nrmflmflTlta avuiiwv Th Soviet Union shares this problem he said Internaleconomic pressures may force defense cuts in that country also Reexamine Defense Policy With new methods of defense constantly being Innovated Mr vW mrr 1 WS4 DOROTHY M BELL CLARENCE B H1LBERRY CHESTER BOWLES Wayne Suite U pliolo IP rhn I pi r mm t l l At ix Z l LLIJ X 1 i iL2 RALPH KIRKPATRICK EDWIN O REISCHAUER CHARLES D SHERMAN Stevenson Presents 7 Honorary Degrees By JEAN ANGLE President Stevenson awarded honorary degrees ofDoctor of Laws to Drs Dorothy M Bell Chester Bowles Clarence B Hilberry and Charles D Sherman the honorary degree of Doctor of Music to Ralph Kirkpatrick the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters to Edwin O Reischauer and the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity to Theodore O Wedel Miss Bell Dr Hilberry Dr rteiscnauer of the College Tn nrpsentine Miss Bell Erwin N Griswold 25 College trustee and dean of Harvard Law School said that her influence in strengthening the status and standards of junior colleges has been effective far beyond her own institution Miss Bell is president of Bradford Junior College atrustee of the International College at Beirut Lebanon and has been president of the AmericanAssociation of Junior Colleges Domes Bowles felt that defense policy constantly needs reexaminauon THoa that made security a lew years ago might not do so in the future he pointed oui Mr Bowles denied that there wo q a rnnflict between realism and idealism in foreign policy hp said that while military pre paredness was Important ideas aim vital and can become a major force in world politics The oro Incpnnrabie irom eacii other in formulating foreign poll ir hp said He stressed that military defense Continued on p 8 col 1 On the Inside Editorial columns Page 2 Review of the year Page 3 Features education Page 4 Sports Pages 5 6 List of graduates Page 7 Undergraduate news Page 8 anu ui Mr Bowles was presented by Prof Ben Lewis who said that as ambassador to India Mr Bowles maHp an inde able impression ior good upon the new India and upon ij0n4mBriran relations ProT fessor Lewis said that Mr Bowles sympathetic understanding has opened the hearts oi men aim interest and insignt nave opencu their minds Prnf Andrew Bongiorno intro hcpH Dr Hilberry president of Wayne State University in Detroit Professor Bongiorno saia inai as an administrator Dr Hilberry has inct thp counsel and Inspira tion of the scholar and exempli fies by deed and word thatxnowioHctp Is a nower capable of foster ing the humanity in man in a city whose lathes and dynamos pro claim without respite tw Rnhert W Tufts 40 Intro duced Mr Sherman advisor to the Liberian government on nnanciai and economic policy ana iormei representative of Liberia to the United Nations and we xjjjianAfrican Conference inBandung Indonesia Men like Mr Sherman Professor Tufts said are needed to build bridges of world understanding in this age when science has endowed us withpower beyond our wisdom Prof Fenner Douglass inintroducing Mr Kirkpatrick praised him as Americas foremost concert harpsichordist an authority on Scarlatti and a great Hp Is one of the most active forces in the stylistic trend rH pvaluation of musical works in the light of new and onptratins studies of the past Dr Reischauer was presented by Prof Robert S Fletcher who said that hp was the top student in his first College class thirty years ago ovt Rpntember Dr Reischauer teaches Far Eastern languages and history at Harvard University nas corvpd in Army Intelligence and in the State Department and is the a y REV THEODORE O WEDEL Prof Grover Gets 24th Alumni Medal For Notable Work Frederick O Grover emeritus professor of botany received the twentyfourth Alumni MeaaioainrHav nnon at the Alumni Lunch pnn in Jones Field House Alumni president Philip P Gott 15 made the presentation Professor Grover who was a member of the College faculty from 1898 until 1933 encouraged his students to do research and to nnhlish their findings He was rat ed one of the best trainers ofprofessional botanists by graduate schools He set ud most of the College herbarium and still works on itoccasionally He also contributed orpativ to the botanical library e Prnfocmr rirnvPT was one oi tne founders of the Alumni Magazine and the Alumni Association The Alumni Medal Is awarded anmiaiiv Viv the Alumni Associa tion for notable service to the Col lpcfp Alumni suggest candidates and a special committee maKes ine final choice anthnr nf several books on US Japanese relations He spoke here earlier this year Prof Walter Horton introduced nr Wedel 14 Canon of Washing ton Cathedral Professor Horton Hpsrrihpd Dr Wedel as instru mental in revolutionizing the Viahits nf hundreds of humdrum preachers polishing the skills of good preachers and perceptibly raising the level oi preacning in the whole denomination ing Program States Nation Needs ClearlyDefined Goals By CAROLINE COWMAN The foundations of peace can be successfully laid only as we recapture the vision of Jefferson Lincoln and Wilson and apply it in practical terms to our present day world Our difficulties lie not with the alleged inadequacy of democratic procedures but with the hesitancy of democratic leadership In these words Chester Bowles former Connecticut governor and exambassador to India told a commencement audience this morning that our College Grants 433 Decrees On Hall Plaza The College awarded 433 de grees today at its 124thcommencement held outdoors this year for the first time The ceremony took place on Hall Auditorium Plaza Dean of the College BlairStewart Dresented 312 Bachelor of Arts degrees to College graduates Dean Leonard A Stidley of theGraduate School of Theology awarded 43 degrees three Masters of Arts 34 Bachelor of Divinity and six Masters of Sacred Theology Seventveieht students received degrees from David R Robertson director of the Conservatory Bachelor of Music 40 Bachelor of Music Education 29 and Master of Arts nine The College and the Conservatory will each award three degrees in absentia Previously Held in Finney In the past commencement ex ercises have been held in Finney Charjel which seats only 1700 per sons The change to an outdoor spttine was made in answer to per sistent student demand for aprogram which would permit greater seatine and standing capacity Bv utilizing the Plaza side walks and the street in front of Hall Auditorium the Faculty rprpral Arrangements Committee for Commencement was able to make arrangements toaccommodate 3000 persons Request Outdoor Commencement Members of past senior classes had reauested an outdoor com mencement but these classes had applied to the Faculty Committee after definite plans for the indoor ceremony had already been de veloped This years action origin Continued on p 4 coL 4 Biblical TheologyNow Faces Revival Wedel By DAVID SIGMAN The thpnlnuv nf the Biblical revelation is seen again in the present revival of interest the Bible was written dramatneoiogy sioryuieoiogy me history of a people chosen for enduring a living encounter with deity stated Dr Theodore O Wedel 14 Canon of Wash ington Cathedral and Warden oi tne uouege oi rreacners ai thP Baccalaureate Service yesterday in Finney ChapeL His topic was The Drama we juvej Bv Tistine stoicism worship oi im personal ideals and belief in the drama of Biblical revelation as thrpp alternate designs of living Dr Wedel predicted that as sons and daughters of Oberlln tnedrama of Biblical revelation will re main in memory at least as an option which you will not be able to ignore Stole Philosophy Although he recognized the stoic philosophy as valuable and in our culture at least theInhpritor of much Christian grace he contended that the time will surely come when it will fail you ii a savins eosDel The worship of impersonal ideals will fail the believer in a similar way he argued because thpv will not city or save either They will not descend from their lonely dwelling place in some timeless stratosphere of eternity to die for sinners on a Cross Theological Revival He claimed that we are living in a day of theological revival on the academic scene Recent gen erations need not be blamed too severely for having been seduced failures in the allimportant field of international relations spring from our lack of consistent lead ership American administrators must begin to base their policies and the actions resulting from thesepolicies on a kind of realism which goes beyond the military thepolitical and the economic to the human An effective foreigrfpolicy will require a broad approach and a strong emphasis on people and ideals he asserted Need More Than Arms According to Mr Bowles the maintenance of our national secur ity depends on more than the strengthening of our military capacity A narrow reliance on military measures as the sole de fense against threats to oursecurity reflects only an outmodedisolationism International relations are the truly determining factor in the American future he stated Mr Bowles asserted that the United States has ignored theimDortance of these relations for more than a century He pointed out that when the United Mates was confronted with the military threat of World War I it attacked the job with dispatch and adedicated vigor But having disposed of the immediate problem the US soon sank back into complac ency he said Barrier Exists Commenting on the barrier which exists between the United States and many nonCommunist foreign nations Mr Bowles stat ed What people of Asia Africa Europe and South Americaexpect of us is no more and no less than a consistent practicalapplication to present day worldproblems of our deeprooted American concepts of freedom humandignity and economic growth According to Mr BowlesantiAmerican feeling abroad may be partially explained by the fact that Continued on p 4 col 2 in religion for what it was when as were many in my generation at least by a trust in ourselves as our own saviours in place of the awesome God of authentic Chris tian tradition he said He did not however wish for the Oberlln of today andtomorrow a return to the puritanorthodoxies and restraints of those early days The austere worthies who created the Oberlin of thenineteenth century were they to return and to see our relaxed common life he continued might be shocked for a time but might themselves soon come to enjoy the liberties in custom and academic freedom which are ours Utter a Warning Yet they might utter awarning also You may so they might tell us enjoy as we did not the privileges of a culture no longer requiring the discipline of apioneering era But woe unto you if you seek escape from the rule of the Author of liberty Himself He is still the Master Dramatistretaining His control over the final destiny of all the players to whom He gives the freedom of their little hour upon the stage of humanhistory