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�THE LINK. The Wagner College Alumni News
Vol. I
No. 1
OCTOBER, 1948
Published in October, December, March, and May by the Wagner College Alumni,
Association, W agner College, Staten Island 1, New York.
ALFRED ] . KRAHM ER '27, Alumni Secretary, Editor
LOIS
DICKERT '46, Assistant Editor
An 'nt.·oductioll
This issue introduces something new to Wagner alumni, their own quarterly
alumni magazine . We hope you like it. It isn't entirely as we would like it to be, but
we'll keep trying to make it a magazine Wagner alumni will look forward to and read
eagerly. Help us in this effort with your suggestions and criticisms.
Help us , too , with
news items, latest addresses, etc . The Link is intended to be what its name implies the link between Alma Mater and her alumni.
The Cove.· pictu,·e
The picture on the cover was taken during the thrilling 13-13 tie with Hofstra
October 2.
The player with the anguished expression is Jay Quintana (16) who scored
both touchdowns with runs of 44 and 29 yards and kicked the t ying extra point . Carrying
the ball is Chris Kartalis, quarterback. The player in the sitting position is Jim Gilmartin, pass catching end.
In the background is part of the crowd of three thousand who
saw the game.
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�~~RIOD ICAL ~
A ill mni Loyal t)' Fu nd Goal
~t't at
82;;00
W a!.: ner :ll umn i have undertaken to
raise S~ ')0(1 In 1948 -49. Thi s goa l
was ser b\- rhe :llumni themselves at a
busin ess ;lleer in.!.: held on the Hill ,
Fri day. Onober I . Eig ht hundred dol lars wi ll be used to pay for twO
schola rship,: one thousand dollars w ill
be g iwn to the coll ege endowment
fun d: se\-en hundred do ll a rs w ill be
used for .llumni office expense, 111 clu d ing rhe ( o,r of T he Lillk.
One of rhe scho larshi ps prov ided for
in thi s 1:0al \\·.IS yoted ar the annual
meer in.!.:' la.;r .Iu ne. It was g iven rh e
name ··.A lu mni Memor ial Schola rship"
at the Onober meeti ng, and was set
as ide :IS :1 me morial to W ag ne r men
losf in rhe Second World War. This
schol a rshi p i, no w held by Mi ss M a r.
ga ret Raulter of Bridgepo rt, Conn ., an
exception.ll ,;rudent who would not
have been .lbl e to artend W agner bLlt
for th is ,choIMsh ip.
Th e Onober meeting also ap proved
a recom menLlar io n thar the holder of
this scho larship be pe rmi tted to keep
it dur in.!.: her college ca ree r, provided
she co nrinu es ro meer t he standards of
the fa cul n co mmirree on scholarship .
Al so appro\·c·J was rhe enl arge ment of
the alu mni t-xe( urive committee to in ·
clude th e (\\ ' 0 immediare past pres·
idents. rhe .llumni sec retary, and the
cha irman or rhe Trustees Commi rtee
on A lu mn i I nrerests
Honored .tr rhe meering were past
p res idents 01' rhe Associati on- Geo rge
Aus, Joe flor ren. Con ni e Reisch, H enry
Endress. Joe: e l\dey. Ca rl Slitter, and
W es ley R o~ler. The first three were
unabl e to bc: present, but a releg ram
from Reisch was read and Flotten
'phoned hi , [epers.
Pres idenr Ltnl.!sam rold alumni of
rhe la!esr Lb' e l ~ p ments on the Hill ,
and Alum ni Secrerary Krahmer spoke
ex r after H omeof the year', plans .
comin.!.: wi ll be ,t J an uary meeting with
Branch Ri cke\. Brook lyn Do dger pres·
ident. as expeCted speaker.
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ApiJoi nted by Presi dent Bock to the
Board of Trad itions were Bob Olwig
. 3 5 and Roy Curter '4 1. Bock also
aug mented the A lumni Associarion
executi ve commirtee, as voted by th e
October 1 meeting, by appo inting Dr.
W es ley Rog Ier '34 and the Rev. Ca rl
Sur:e r ' 29, rh e twO immediare pa~t
p res idents, t he Rev. Joseph F lotten
' 26, cha i rman of the Trustees Commit.
tee on Alumni Inte rests, and AI
Krahme r '27, General Alumni Secre·
ta ry.
Dr . Su rter also rep resents rh e alu m·
ni on the Co llege Council , with Dr.
C ha rl es Accettol a ' 36, our other rep·
resentative on rhe Boa rd of Athl etic
Control.
A i llmni Mf'f' t in P hi lade lphi a
O(, tolle r 11
A hig hl y success ful Alumni dinn er
meet ing was held in Philadelphi a on
Monday evening, O ctobe r 1 1. O ne
hund red and th irty-two persons were
presenr, a number w hich inclu ded sixty·
seven members o f the Wag ner choi r
enrourage. Thanks to Gus W eber '28,
arrange menrs had been made with the
Central YMCA to take ca re of the
d inne r, whi ch had, necessa ril y, to be
over ea rl y to enab le the choir to sing
at T own H all , Phil ade lphi a, at 7 :1 5.
H eld in connection w ith the bi en·
n ial convention of th e U nited Luthetan
C hurch in Ameri ca, the di nner meeting broughr rogethe r alumn i from th e
Phil ade lphia area, as \ovell as alumni
fro m d istant pa rts of the coun t ry who
were de legates ro the conventio n.
A lu mni from Texas, Nebraska. N ew
Je rsey, V irg ini a, New York, M assa.
chu serts, and P ennsy lva ni a were pres ·
ent, including The Rev. H . E. W ahr·
ma n '94 and Dr. George Drach '94 .
Three sho rt speeches by Dr. Lang·
sam, W all y Bock, and A I Krahmer and
mus ic by the choir made up the brief
program. This is but the first of a
se ri es o f regional alumni gatherings
p lann ed fo r the coming yea r.
The La tch is Off!
The :\ew Alumni Officp rs
Elecred l'rc:s ident of the Alumni
Associati on .It irs annu al meeting last
Jun e was the Rey. Wa lte r Bock '38.
Or her office rs eleCted were Ch ris
H o lmstru p . .'>9. Yice·pres ident ; Vi rginia
Mackoy T ramman '40, secretary; and
the Re\,. H erman Meye r ' 11 , treasurer.
EleCted ro rhe Co ll ege Council was Joe
Cawley . .'>~. \\'ith Dr. Frederic Sutter
'94 elected ro the Board of Athletic
Control.
W ant to get your name in Th e
Li/7k? Ir's easy. Just drop in at the
Alum n i Office (Room 7, Admini stra·
tion Bu il d ing ) and say hello. W e
want alumn i to get th e habit of stup·
ping in to see the Alumni Secretary.
September v isitors were Joe Eisenburg '48, G eo rge Tamke '48, Frank
Betancourt '4 1, Connie Reisch ' 20,
Bob Olwig '35, Dr. Frederic Slitter
'94, Dr. H enry D icke rt '09, John
Kl ahn '32, Lilli an Intemann , RN' 47,
and T ex K ern ' 24
N o velliber 6
I s Il o IIU~4~O .lI ill g
November 6 has been selected as
A lumni H omecoming D ay thi s season.
The featu red footba ll ga me wiII be
aga insr SusCJ uehanna, always a g reat
team to watc h with its P aul and Alon·
zo Stagg razz le· dazz le. The W agner
Seahawks are also something to see
thi s yea r, a ll o f whi ch indicates !tn
inte resting, exc iting ga me.
Th e game beg in s at two o'clock.
The W ag ne r band, resp lendent in beau.
t iful new un iforms , wi II be on hand to
p rov ide gobs o f fo otball sp irit. Be·
tween rhe ha lves we hope to introduce
the members of the first W ag ner foot·
ba ll tea m. After th e ga me. rh e an nex
ro the Guil·den wi ll be open for a lumni ( you ca n get your supper there,
too ) . The frate rniri es and sororities
a re planning enterta inment for thei r
a lum ni members; in rhe evening will
be the annu al H omecomi ng Dance.
W e a re look ing fo r a big tu rnout !
Staten Island alumni are be ing urged
to invite out·of.towne rs to stay over·
nig ht in the ir homes. W e' re sorry we
can't offer overni g ht accommodations
on the campus thi s year, but there
ought to be enoug h Staten Island
a lu mni homes to take ca re of those
who come.
Eve ry a lu mnus ought to make a
special effo rr to be he re. The ve ry
name " H omecomi ng " suggests a ret urn
to a place of cherish ed memories and
o ld friends. Sure, the old homestead
has changed a bit s in ce the time some
of us we re here, bur it's still the same
o ld Alma M ate r with its " one frat ernal
spirit. its sweet matern a l reig n ." Come
and see for yourself, November 6.
Alum ni on th e Hill
A \Xfag ner alumni chap ter could be
sta rted on the campus any day. No
fewer tha n fourteen alumni are now
working on the Hill in adm ini strative
o r fac ulty posts. The Rev. H arold
H aas '39 is lecturer in Socio logy, M a r·
g ue rite H ess '43 is Registrar, Director
of Admissions, and Directo r of the
Even ing Sess ion , Trygve Jensen' 43 is
Inst ru ctor in Chem istry, Edythe K er·
shaw '44, Instructor in Bacteriology.
Chap lain of the coll ege and Associate
Professor of Relig ious Studi es is Paul
J . Kirsch '33 . Back on the campus
aga in is Milton H . K leintop '23, asso·
ciate professor of Eng li sh.
THE L I :\K
WAGNER COLLEGE LfuRARY
Sia len Island. New York
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Susette M eye r '41 is Inst ructo r in
Biology and Nursing. Ian M o rrison
'4H is the new Assistant to the D ea n .
Robert Olwig '35, nig ht ed itor of the
Staten Island Arll'allce, is a lecturer in
Jo urn a lism. The Rev. Theodore Palleske '98 is teac hing German, while
Herb Sutter ' 3 1 is Professor of Physical
Education a nu Di recto r of Athletics.
Ca rl Sutter . 29 has tak en over an evening sess io n class in Religion.
Freu
Wi llecke '4 0 is Assistant Professor of
German , a nu then, of co urse, there a re
Loi s Di cke rt '46 and Al Krah mer '2 7
in the pub licity anu a lumni offices.
MEET THE NEW ALUMNI
STAFF
It's <l New Deal in the Alumni Office this fall. Fred Willeck e '40 has
re linqui shed hi s duties as General
Alumni Se: retary to do what h e's been
want ing to do for a long t ime- teach
German on a full -time basis - and he
now holus an assista nt professorship.
It took cwo to repl ace Fred. Step up
and meet them!
Al Krahmer ' 27 IS th e new A lu mni
Secretary. Grauuateu In 1927, AI
came back in 192 9 for hi s B.A. degree,
got his M.A . in Eng lish li terature from
Columbi a in 1930, and was gradu ated
from Me. Ai ry Seminary in 1933.
Ordained in 1934 he served as pastor
of two Long Isl anu churches, and was
pres ident of the Long Island Confere nce for two years. Married in 1934
to Ros ine Ludwig, h e has two daughters, Judy, Wagner ' 57, and Carolyn,
class of 1964 . He is partial to th e
Brooklyn Dodgers a nd enthusi as ti c
abo ut his n ew job. H e insists that in
a lumni work he be ca IJed "A I."
Ba lanc ing o ld -timer A I IS Lois
Di ckert '46, who acts as ass istan t to
Krah me r in both his jobs as Director
of Publicity and Alumni Secretary.
Lois was Director of Publicity at Hartwick Coll eg e in Oneonta, N. Y., a nd
assistant editor of T be Lutheran.
Pl easant, capab le, and enthusiastic, she
is a real adu iti on to the alumni office.
Stop in and meet them both. Room
7 of the Ad Build ing is the p lace.
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W AGNE H ~ANS IN EUJUWE
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ho pe to have A l Krahme r o rga nize a lumni chapte rs in those a reas
where there are a cons ide rab le numCer of Wag ner a lumni ," says Wagner's
Prcs iUent Walter Lang sam. Taki ng
him at his word, we a re look ing up
Atlami c flight sched ul es, for there are,
or have been, man y \Vagnerians 111
Europe thi s year.
Martin Dietr ich ' 32 is the European
re prc-se:1tative of the U.S.A. Committee of the Lutheran World Federation
w ith heau ~lLlarters in Geneva, Switzerland. Carl Yaeg er '46 is Lu [heran
\Vorlu Re lief Co mmissioner with
CRALOG in the British zone of Germany . J ohn Bauchmann ' 23 has just
sa il ed for Germa ny to act in a similar
ca pacity in the A meri can zone of Germany.
D r. Fre t~eri c k Reissi<i '1 7, execut ive
~ecrerary of the Wasll ing ton (D.C.)
FeJe rati :J:1 of Chu rches, was in Europ e fr om January until late Septem '2e r as Pu b!ic Relations officer of the
W o rld Co unc il of C hurches, first in
G eneva, an d late r at its g reat convent;O,'1 in AI;lste rda m, .the Nethe rl ands.
O :.e of the deleg ates to the World
Co un cil Assem b ly in Amscerdam was
o ur o wn " Prof" Stoughton. Prof was
one of t1~ e s ;: eak~r s in a broadcast ftom
Amst ~ ru am heard in America ove r both
t'-lB C anJ ABC networks on Sunuay,
Se 'xembe r 5. Touring in Europe thi s
su mmer anu a visitor at the Amsterdam
Ass::mb ly was Joe Flatten' 26. Joe hau
h is [ro ubl es in Paris with the Ftench
taxi drivers.
Also in Europe was G us Weber ' 2H,
di rector of re lig ious st udi es at The
Hill School , Pottstown, Pa . Gus (we
ju st ca n 't call him " Dr." Weber, as
we s!lou lu) was th e leader of a g ro u p
of ten boys who spent three months in
Europe as part of the Experime nt-in Living prog ram. One month the gro up
I iveJ in a camp at the Un iversity o f
Muni ch, working with native students
in th e co nstru ction of a permanent dorm ito ry. For anorh er month the gro u p
SDli t up and lived with German
L milies.
Ali Sha w '46 is at medica l schoo l
in \'V'allasey, Cheshire, Eng land , and
just a mo nth ag o Frederick Teahan '42
sai led for I reland to co ntinue stud y for
hi s d octorate in Eng li sh lite rature.
T eaha n, w ho h as a lso done graduate
wo rk at Columbia, will write a thesis
on literary activ ities In Augustan
Dublin.
L: t1l e r Kirsch . 3~ has JUSt retur!led
from Finland where he has been do ing
rel ief wo rk for the Ameri ca n friends
Se rvice Committee. Two more alumni
a re in Denmark - Aa ~ e Ch ri stensen '4 ,~
a:1u Cl aus Fog '48, anJ Pastor W.
\Yle idha us . I I is ministe r of a church
in H amburg , Ge rmany.
So if you ring [h e Alumni otfice and
ask fo r Al Kra hme r, yo u may hear Lois
Dickert tell you, "He's not .in. H e's
\[1
[ mope orga ni zing the Wagner
.d u m n i chapter there." Note to Dr.
L: I1'.!~a m: " How about a trip to Bou lder ,~ Co lorado, to orga ni ze Johnny
Futchs ajk. "
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Hu:s U ff
OeiXl!'\mt'n~
,xle tip our hats in g rarituu e to
Frank
'4 1 and Georg e Tamke '48
who c:r e:lll1td u p the appropr iate name
of Tb e L llk for this maga zin e and w ho
des i!Sned its cO'Je r . . to Gus Weber
' ?i:l, w ho willing ly acce pted the tough
~s s i t; nn~e n : of find ing an inexpe nsive
place fo r the a lumni to eat" in Philly
0;1 O ctober I I , and. what's more,
b unu one
to the nu rsin g chapter
of t he alumni anu its chairman, L illi an
ht ::m:.:n n, RN '47, for .In act ive progra m and for rea l co-ope ratio n with
th e alu!-:l !1i office . . . to Joe Cawley ' 35
who is rou nding up a ll hi s classmates
fo r th e H omecoming game . to Co nnie Re:sc h '2 0 for his fin e te legram read
a! th :: O ctocer l meeting .. . to Austin
Bo:d l . 3 l and E rni e M eye r' .) 2, both
cf W ~:O:-!l dro\'e ove r from long Island
for the Panz ~ r an d H ofstra games . . .
to H t co r Quinta na '4 0 w ho co ntinues
to uo h i ~ best to stee r prospective stude nts to Wagner . .. to H e rman Meyer
. J 1 fo r doing a fin e year in and yea r
a Lit job as alumn i treasure r.
and to
Fr ~ d Wi llecke '40,
form e r alumni
'secretary for g iving so much t ime to
help the new a lumni offict ,!!et starred .
i3 :: ta il : :) ~lrt
A ne',,, euition, the s ixth , of Dr.
Wa li:e r C. Langsa m's book , T he W orld
Sill ce 19 14, has just bee n iss ued by the
Macz:1 i1!a n Company. Recent book revie ws from his pen have been :t rev iew
o f T hree Treatises of Marrin Luther in
rIle L:llhe rall Chllrrh Qllurlerly, a revie\\' of Political }-['1I1d book of Ihe
Ii,:/ o rld by Walter H. Mallory in
Po/ilia d Sriellre QlI{Hter/J . anu a revie w of Frederi c L Paxson's Post- IVa?"
Y eaI"J . N ormalcy, 19l 8-2 .) in the Septe mcer issue of th e A /llials of the
Alllerirall Academyof Political Science.
WAGNER
COLLEGE
�THE QUARTER..CENTURY
fJY I, oi.~ K. D ick er t
H <:: I, d m am ic. influenti al, stimulating, belo\';J - and unforgettabl e . This
monrh marks t he beg inning of his
[went\·- iifth year of service to W agner
Col kp<::. rht long esr pe ri od of se rvi ce
of any f~rbenr faculty m em ber. Dur ing
rh ar rim e ht h as m ade his prese nce
felr, in Lla ,~ , o ut of it. a mo ng th e
faculC\', .\, .\ member of rhe Wag ner
fam i I;'. H t i, rhe k in d of pe rso n you
rememt>u it \ ' OU have bee n tou ch ed
by tht tl r<:: o f hi s pe rso n a li ty at a ll.
He is Dr , Fausr C harl es D eW a lsh .
Dr . D t \X/a lsh came to W agne r in
Sepre lll b t r of 1924 . Hi s continued
service he rt makes him a strong link
w ith rh e r ase. p laces hin~ at a va ntage
poilll iro m whi ch h e ca n cl ea rl y view
rh e ,t:ro\\'[h a nd cha nge of W ag ne r
rhrough out rhe yea rs . Few p eople can
rake rht q ua rte r-century look ae Wag ner. like rurni n.c round ar th e top of
a mo um.lI n ro watch th e sh ado ws and
li g ht. (olo r a nd darkn ess chase one
anorh er .\( ross th e plain.
H e (.\ mt to W ag ne r as professor of
Greek . Th tn. when the retire mem of
Dr. G to r!:!t H aas left th e mod e rn lang uage cltra rrmem h eadl ess, h e w as ap poimeJ co fill th at vacate d pos ition.
His qll.l liiications were remarkably satisfactory. Born of a n Iri sh-Am e ri ca n
farh e r .1;ld Parisia n moth e r, he ca m e to
this count f'.' eq uipped with a broad
academi c rra ining from the W ettin e r
Gy mn as IU m. Dresden, Germany, the
U ni ve rs ity of P ari s, a nd the University
of Floren ct. In Ame ri ca he atrend ed
the Uni \,trs in' of Rocheste r, where h e
rece ived his B.A. de,g ree in twO yea rs.
Hi s Ph .D. rhesis was publi sh e d by the
Unive rsity of Co lumbia Press in 19 10,
the year i'n \\'hi ch h e ea rn ed t he degree
at Co lu mb ia . Before coming to W agner, he \\'a, on th e faculty of t he Univers i : ~' 01' Arizona, Washing ton State
Co ll e~e . .lnd t he Co ll ege o f the C ity
of N e\\' York. and for s ix years before
h is a rri\'ai here. he w as Ling ui stic Expe rt ot rht T exas Company in N ew
York. H t I;ad not been id le in prepararion .
As r. t'\\ ' h ead of t he d epa rtment of
mode rn
l.l ng uages, Dr.
DeWa lsh
rau~ ht 't \'e n ' co n ceivab le modern lanf.ll ~~e." _ 01' o nl y was h e head of the
de 'Jar:l1ltne. ht lI'as th e d epa rtment.
In a fe\\ Yea rs. however, h e was joined
by Dr. H .tn s H aag, w ho h as been his
cI : sc co lleague for the past 15 years.
T H E LINK
Today the faculty o f th e mod e rn lang u age dep a rtment numbe rs seven.
Thinking back, Dr. D eWal sh vivid ly recalls " th e o ld d ays," when th e re
we re on ly twenry -three col lege stucents, t he hig h sc hoo l was in North
Ha ll , th e re was no Ad Building and
classes were h e ld in C un a rd H a ll , t h e
p rese nt C un a rd socia l room was used
for a ch ape l, and so on a nd on. Admi rredl y, things have cha nged.
Th e srud ents, w ho w e re at one time
a lmost exclusive ly ministeria l, h ave
n ot' changed as noti ceab ly. Familiar
ral es such as thi s sp ring readily to th e
minds of any who have ever known
college life. The good doctor, digging
back into his me mory, ca me up with
rhis littl e anecdore.
H e had drive n his v e ry first automobil e to a soc ial in C un a rd H a ll one
evening and had pa rk ed the car just
outs ide the building. " Wh en it was
rime to go h o me," he re lated, " I helped
m y wife into rh e auto, the n climbed
into th e driv e r's sear. I sta rted the
moto r, th e whee ls spun round - but
nothing h ap pen ed . W e didn 't move
an inch . So I climbed our again, did
som e investiga ring, and soon discovered
that th e who le auto h ad been jack ed
up. Th en I rea li zed I ha d an a udIe nce. I looked arou n d. The w indows of Cunard we re a live with g rinning fa ces. " And hi s eyes tw inkled
wi th rekindl ed a musem ent.
Students a re a mong Dr. D eW alsh 's
favo rite peopl e; he h as a lways made it
a special p'o int to know th em persona ll y. " Wh atever success m ay be mine,"
he sa id , " I ca n att ribure to my perso na l re lationship with my students.
My time has a lways bee n p laced at
the ir dis posa l, unstinting ly. I like to
know my students ourside of cl ass, to
g reet th em on th e ca m pus, to re lax
with t h em ." Tn class, it is his chi ef
des i re to teac h his stu dents to think.
His lecrures a re stimul ating and
thought-provoking, whateve r the subject matte r may conce rn , and hi s delig htful , outgo ing personality enliven s
and enli g hten s rh em. Classes w ith
Dr. D eWalsh rema in long in th e m emory.
"Stude nts a re th e keenest judges of
teache rs ," h e a dmits, " Our li ves a re
in co nstant dange r. W e n eve r know
wh en they may go to the d ea n with
Dr. FAUST CHAR Lt:S DeWALS H
co mpl a ints abou t us . It's our business
to k eep th em interesred and g aining in
knowl edge."
Dr. D eW a lsh is eage r to take part
in e ve rything th at g oes on at school
a nd h as b ee n p retty success ful in doing
so. Eve r si nce his third year at W agn e r, h e h as been sec retary of the faculty, With eac h new presid ent, h e respectfully res ig ned an d each tim e was
re -e lected . H e h as long held th e position of mars h a ll at co mmen ce ment
exe rcises, but th e official ritl e has only
rece ntl y been bes towed. H e is an honora ry me mbe r of the Alph a Sig ma Phi,
frat e rnity o n the hi ll , enjoying the
close contact with stud ents which his
membership affords. Several tim es h e
h as b een cha i rman of th e coll ege cou n c il , a poli cy g roup co mposed of representatives o f th e admi.ni stration , faculty,
stud e nts and a lumni.
Hi s specia l pets, ho wever, are the
D eutsc he r V e re in a n d D eutsch er Kre is.
No W ag n e r stud ent could disassoc iate
th e name of Dr. D eW a lsh from those
Aourishing societies. H e founded the
D eursch e r V e re in even b efo re he entered t h e mod e rn lang u age departme nt, th e idea h avi ng ge rminated
wh e n a small g toup of three or four,
includ ing D ea n- Emeritus Willi am ludw ig a nd Dr. Theodore P a l lesk e, ca me
rogeth e r to sing G e rm an songs and tell
German sro ries, Then the g roup beg a n to g row in numbe rs and interest.
Today it is one of t he most popular
men's orga nizations on the campus.
\'V' he n the g irls ca m e, they wanted
to Join too. So rhey approach ecl D r.
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�DeW alsh on the subj ect. Hi s answer
was brief an d to the po in t. " Nothing
doi ng," he told them. Then hi s hea rt
soft ened somewhat. " Bu t I'll tell you
wha: I Il'iLl do. I' ll help yo u fo rm an
o rga ni zation of your ow n. " That was
rhe beg inning of the Deutscher Kreis.
Both gro ups have sepa rate m ee t'~n gs,
joining fo rces fo r such affa irs as dances
and the annu al W ein achsfest, o r G erman Christmas pa rty, which holds a
secure and ho no red place in Wagne r
trad iti o n.
Dr. D eW alsh, when 9 uest ioned, was
ar fi rst somewhat rese rved ifl h is observati ons co nce rning the invas io n of
wome n on the W ag ner campus in
1933. The half dozen o r so g irl s who
we re first to come we re " most conspi cuo us. "
" A great change came ove r the cam pus," he mused. "M en used to come
to class in va rying stages of dress and
un dress, sometimes not h aving shaved
fo r a week, informall y d ressed, wea ring sli ppers. " Th e chanze was sudden and obvious. T he pro fess or smil ed
and tugged at one end of hi s bo w ti e.
"They pa id attenti on," he sa id, clea ring his throat, "to - ah - certain exte rnaliti es."
Thoug h it seemed strange at f irst to
see g irls o n t he W agne r campus as stu dents, everyo ne eventuall y got used to
the idea and even, most likely, began
to enj oy the pros pect. Dr. DeW alsh
well remembers, however, a chape l
address of Dr. Clarence C. Sto ug hton,
recent pres id ent, in which he wa rned
students th at the co ll ege, as a co-edu cational insti tuti on, was not a " matri monial agency."
" Sometimes, thoug h," observed the
doctor, " it seemed as thoug h it was.
But that's good ." Acco rding to Dr.
DeW alsh 's viewpo int, matches made
between two peopl e attending th e same
coll ege are often very fine because o f
the resultant simil arity in backg round ,
ideas, training, a nd environment.
Dr. DeW alsh's roots a te firm in
W ag ner soil , and in 25 yea rs he is
still as hea rty and fo rceful as ever. O n
his part, D r. DeW alsh cla·ims a deep
affect ion fo r the things of W agner. In
his own words : " I hate to think of the
time I would have to be elsewhere."
W e do, too.
- - -In a forthcoming issue Gunnar
Knudsen '28 will offer a profil e of
former D ea n Ludwig .
Even befo re the 1949 Loyalty Fund
appeal has begun $23 5 in cash and an
addi tional 115 has been received by
the Alumni offi ce. All alumni will be
asked ro g ive soon .
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Alumni Heprese nt Wag ner at
Inaugu rations
W ag ner alumni are oft en ca ll ed upon
to rep resent their Alma M ate r at the
inaug uratio ns of co ll ege pres idents.
LaMa r ] . Smith '47 represented W agne r at the inaug urati on of the pres ident
of T oledo Uni ve rsity last M ay. The
Rev. H a rold H aas '39 rep resented us
at Drew U ni ve rsity o n Octobe r 16; the
Rev. Frederi ck R. Ludwig '29 at
Lu ther Co ll ege, Deco rah, Iowa, on
Octobe r 16; the Rev. Alfred Schroede r
'3B at H oba rt and William Smi t h Co lleges o n October 23, and Dr. Frederick
Reissig '17 was our rep resentative at
Hood Co ll ege o n Ocrobe r 2 l. When
Ge neral D wig ht Eisenhowe r was in stall ed as pres ident of Columbia U ni ve rsity on October 12, Dean Jo hn R.
Bacher was present fro m W ag ner College, since Dr. Langsam was in Phil adelph ia at the time.
With the advent of an aug mented
publici t , staff at W ag ner, the li st of
W ag ner periodi ca ls grows. H encefo rth , th ere wi II be ten issues a yea r
of the If(/tl,S'lIe l' Colle<~e Bullelill mail ed
to all fri ends of W ag ner, incl uding h er
alumni . T he Link. t he new alu mni
magaz ine, w ill go out to alumn i in the
mo nths of October, December, March,
and May. A Gu il d news lette r will be
sent to members of the W ag ner College G uilds live times a year. W e
shall avo id duplication of news matte r,
and are wo rking hard to bring our
mail in g li sts up to da:e.
Hel'e and The re
H eading three of the six Conferences
of t he Un ited Lu theran Synod of N ew
Yo rk are W ag ne r alumni . Albert
Schilke '27 is p res ide nt of the N ew
Eng land Conference, Willi am T . H eil
' 29 of the Long Island Conference,
and Dr. Jo hn Strodel of the W estern
Co nference ... Four alumni a re teaching at Publi c School 18, W est N ew
Brig hto n, S. I. T hey are All an Miller '33, Fred N elli s '40, W erner John son '41, and Stanl ey Stillwell '47 . . .
Responsibl e for all that fin e coverage
of W ag ne r football on the air and in
t he press is Lester Trautman '4 1, of
t he Staten Island A dva nce, in charge
of all spo rts publicity . . . T wo of the
fo ur offi ce rs of the Phil adelphia Semina ry Alumni Association a re President
G ustave Huf '24 and Alfred J. Krahme r '27, Secretary ... Im po rtant members of the staff of the past summer's
successful leade rship school at Pinecrest Dun es, Long Island, we re W alter
Bock '38, H atold Haas '39, Alfred
Beck '38, and Evelyn Johnson H aas '42 .
The L uy r..Jly Fund
Other co lumns of T ht' Lillk bring
news of th e 1948-49 Alu mni Loyalty
Fund, about wh ich all alumni w ill
soon be hea ring more. Ma rj o rie Ri eb
Se~; ui ne '40, was the first to contri bu:e to the new dri ve when she handed
an unso licited g ift to the Alumni secreta ry.
T he 1947-48 Fund c.lIne to a close
with 209 contri buto rs g i\'ing 51367.
Contribu tions not p rev ious ly acknowledged in the co lumns of the old Bull etin came fro m Theodore H offmeister
'95, H enry C. W asm und '9'5, A rnol d
F. Kell er ' 10, Willi am R. Meyer ' 10,
Franz A . Posse lt ' II , H erbert Siegner
' 14, Jo hn M. St rode l '22. Frank G ollnick ' 30, W erne r Ebe rbach ',,)0, George
V . Bul in ' 30, T helma Bi ele Corey ' 37,
Frank Te ll efsen ' 37, Bern ard Blomquist '37, Ernest P. Ri ners hausen ' 37,
Cla ra Shake Ritte rshausen ..')8, Geo rge
Maye r ' 38, Ed ward J. Jones' 38. leno re
A . Bajda '39.
Also Jack Cooper '-10 . Art hur Hergen han '-10, Mild red Messenbrink '40,
Robert Schneck '40. Ruth Go rman
Schneck '4 0, l ester Sih'erma n '4 0,
Osca r Bakke '4 1, H erbert G ibney '4 1,
T homas D . Sea rl '4 l , W e rner Johnson '4 1, Muri el Chri sti an To hll so n '42,
Caro l Brack Feuerfeil :-1:2. Si mone
Stankovitch Sm ith '42. G race W ilso n
Sto ller '42, W aldema r Hinrz '42, Doris
L. Dossin '43, William J . Hammann
'43, H oward A. Lenh ardt '-n, J ulius
J. Schl ae r '43, Reinho ld W eber '43,
l o is Reisch W eber '4 3, P;lll l A. Qualben '44, Rosema ry Tru empy '--I-i, Gilmour L. W ag le '44. ,E lsie Flo r '45,
Jo hn M entha '46, Jeanette Cuthbe rt'46,
Joseph A. Fe rnandes ' -i7. Do ris l arsen
Mims '47, Co nrad Reisc h '-17. Yol an
R. G uttman '48, and Miss ;,{a ry Burr,
D ean of the W ag ne r School of Nursing, '4 8 ho norary.
Nute tu ASP "I t'n
The Staten Isl and Alumni Council
of Al pha Sig ma Phi holds a dinner
meeting on the fourth F riday of each
month at K a rl's Ol d Ra\'en Restaurant,
Broadway at 29th St. , New Yo rk. Dinne r is at 6: 30 p. m.. with meeting
fo ll owing. The first meet ing of the
year was September 24. Geo rge Tamke
'48, secretary of the Cou ncil , would
like to hea r from Alpha alumni in the
metropolitan area. Hi s address is
35 11 Pal isade Avenue, LT nion City,
N. J.
W AGNER
COLLEGE
�A BACKWARD GLANCE
by Al Krahmer
Wagner fomball began on Saturday
afternoon, October I , 1927, at Farmingdale, Long Island. W e lost to N ew
York Aggies -14-6 . Wag ne r's onl y
score came whe n Gus Ki efer '29 intercepted a pass and ran 4 5 ya rds for a
wuchdown. Gus goes down in hi swry, therefore, as the man who scored
W;gner's first football points.
To Ca rl Prater ' 3 1, now pastor of a
church in Buffalo, goes th e distinction
of being the playet who scored the
touc hdown that won Wagner's first
footba ll victo ry. Prater, who played
center, recovered a blocked punt for
the winni ng score. T hat was on November 5, 192 7, aga inst C.C.N.Y.
The other games that year were
losses to Cooper Un ion 24 -7 on October 15 in the first ga me eve r pl ayed
on the Wagner field, and a 6-0 loss to
Brooklyn Co ll ege. It was a humble
beginning . There was no regular coach.
Three men took turns in h andling the
sguad- Babe Korff, a loca l semi-pro;
Dr. Rando lph Faries, English professor on the Hill ; and finally, Vic
Hansen of the professional Stapes.
There were twenty-one men on the
squad. If yo u came out for fomball ,
you were on the team.
One can't say toO much for rhe courage and school spirit of those twentyone men. One of them said to me recentl y, "W e must have been crazy. "
But it took that kind of youthfu l ad venru resome s pi ri t to get football
started at W ag ner, and these men had
what ir takes.
We hope to have them all back for
the Homecoming ga me on N ovember
6, We hope to have their manager
back, too. H e was H atold Sticht '3 1,
now a pastor in Brookl yn, H arold 's
enthusiasm and energy had much to
do with getting football started on the
Hill.
Members of the fi rst football team
we re Bob H eydenre ich '3 2, Les Sawyer
'33, Ted Hoffmeister '30, Bill Heil
'29, Elmore Hoppe ' 29, Tom Carey
'32, Bill Voss '30, George Bulin '30,
Jerry Knudsen '28, Bi ll K aiser, Austin
Bosch '31, Dick K aminska '3 0, CuI
Sutter '29, Ernie Meyer '32, Sam Anderson, Dick K ern '3 0, Carl Prater '3 1,
Frank Gollnick (capt, ) ' 30, Gus Weber '28, H erb Sutter '3 1, and Gus
Kiefer '29.
THE LINK
Since that beginning, Wagner has
played seventeen seasons of football.
During that rime we have won 35
games, lost 62, and tied 8. Brooklyn
Co ll ege has been played more often
than any other school. This yea r' s
game with o ur neighbors across the
Na rrows will be the tenth, w ith Brooklyn holding a 6- 3 edge. Panzer has
been played nine times, with our open ing day vicro ry in 1948 bei ng Wagner's fifth straigth, giving us a 5-4
edge in that series. With H artwick
we stand 3 and 1, with one tie.
Things we remember as we g lance
back over the yea rs- that 7 -0 win over
L.I.U, played in a dense fog, when
Tommy Carey sk irted end for the wi nning touchdown ... the year (1 932 )
when we were ul1tlefeated an d un sco red upon for the first four games.
. , . Herb Sutte r's 85-yard kickoff retu rn in our first game against Susquehanna in 1930 .. . the years 1939-41
when , in three seasons, we won 13,
lost 4, tied 1 .. Skip Schipani' s all
around play in those winning yea rs.
. the block by H erb Scheinberg that
enab led Bobby Power to run sixty
yards in the mud against Upsala in
East Orange in 1932 .
Things we t ry to forget -- some of
the bad beati ngs we took: Massachusetts State ( 76-0, 193 1) , Union (5 3-0,
1929), St. Law rence (82-0, 1936),
Kings Point (60-0, 1946 ) . . . the
yea rs 1932-38 when we went ten games
without victory, beat St. Francis 6-0
(1 934 ) and then we nt seventeen more
games without a win until we beat
Panze r in 1938 .
Names we re member- Gus Weber,
Johnn y Siciari, Coach Ray Kirchmyer,
Phil Massa, Mike Perfect, Bill Wiley,
Bob Burton, Stan Rycyk, Roy Comeforo, Jim LaH art, Bob White, and a
host of others.
We salute all the men who h ave
won the " W " for W ag ner on the football field whether on winning teams
o r on some of our losers. Often it
ta kes more sp irit to keep plugging under adverse conditions (and adverse is
a mild word for the cond itions under
which some of the boys had to play )
than to play for a winner.
At any rate, we think Wagner footba ll is on the way up, We are getting
a fine schedu le each yea r, thaoks to
M h le:i: Director H erb SUITe r. We
have a fine cOlch in Jim Lee H owell
fo r at least three more years. The materia l is better, and even though next
fall the freshman rul e wi ll have to be
observed, the Sea hawks are definitely
on the upgrade.
Bl ock "W" C1uh
Lots of things are new on the Hill,
old-t imer, and one of the new things
is rhe Block " W" Clu b, made up of
W ag ner lettermen past and present.
O ne of their projects is the publication of the prog rams fo r footba ll and
basketba ll this yea r.
The big project of the fa ll is a dinner on Friday evening, November 5,
for a ll who have won the "W " in any
sport, the night before the Homecoming game. Sure, we know that pitch ing arm isn 't what it used to be, and
that, with all that \Vei~ht, you couldn 't
last five minu tes on the basketball
court, and that one cackle wou ld lay
you up for a month, but come on up
the Hill November 5 and join your
fellow " W " winners. You can te ll us
a ll about yo ur feats of the past. We
wo n' t ask yo u to prove it~
In vitations with the time, place,
and cost are being sent out by the
Block " W " Club, but if you doo't get
one and should be there. call the alumni office and we'll hel p you out.
Dr. Lee Y . Davidheise r, Professor
of Chemistry at W agne r since 1924,
was married in the Parish House of
Trinity Lutheran Church, Stapl eton, to
Miss Dag ny Anderson of Jamestown,
N. Y. , on Saturday, October 2. Miss
Anderson is a former Wagner librarIan ,
Dr. Natale Colosi , professor of Bacteriology and Publi c H ea lth at W agner
and a member of the Interstate Sanitation Comm ission, is editor of a new
magazine called Germs. The first issue will be out soon. Its articles range
from the causes of cancer to ga rbage
dumping.
Tickets for the Homecoming Day
dance November 6 are reasonably
priced- only $1.20 a couple, including the tax. Plan to be present for the
game and to stay over for the dance.
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�in community affairs , he is also a
ALl'MNI NEWS BRIEF'S
member of the Youth Commission
UHJ5- The Re v. Dr. Henry C. Wasand president of the Corinth Men 's
mund, hono r ary member of the
F ellowsh ip .
Boar d of Tru st ees and long its viceThe Rev. Ma r ti n O. Dietrich was
pres ident, celebrated fifty years in
awa rded the S.T.M. degree by Phil th e mini stry las t Jun e at special
adel phia Lutheran Seminary on
ce re monies in h is church, Trinity,
Ma y 20. (For other news of DieMiddle Village, Long Island. Dr.
tri ch see Wag nerians in Europe,
Was mund al so announced hi s r e page 1).
t ireme nt . H e has bee n a ppointed
p as tor eme]'i t u s . a nd hi s son, Paul 1!)38- Lee Landis was marri ed t o
Lt. J osephine S capparrotti. a flight
'23, named as hi s s uccessor.
nurse
with th e Ail' Tr ansport Com1fl27·- W agneJ· a lumni were s hock ed
m a nd of t}~ e U .S.A .F., on June 5.
to l2ar n of th e death of The Rev.
L a ndi s is city e dito r of th e Staten
T heodore J. Erd mann on Au g ust 5.
I s land Adva nce. His 'wife took
Erdma nn wa s past or of St. Johns
s peci a lized courses at W a gne r in
ehurch, J er se y City. H e lea ves a
1939.
wife and two daughte r s .
Joseph Crecca has establi sh ed a law
Ifl2!I- The Re\,. Norman S utterlin deoffice in the St. George Theatre
serted th e ranks of bache lorhood on
building
. St. George, Staten Island .
Ap ril 3rd las t. H e married Beatrice
1!)39- John F. Devlin is president of
Lyon of Brooklyn, and, with hi s
th e Staten Is land Poetry Society.
bride, mO\'ecl to Connecti cut on June
At a r ecent meeting Johnny read a
1 to become pastor of St. Pauls,
poem
wl'itten by himself which had
Torring ton .
won the Edwin Markham Memorial
] !J31-The Rev. Harold W. Sticht has
Contest award. The poem is entitr esig ned a s pas tor of St. Pauls
led "Reunion."
c hurch, Brooklyn, after a ministry
1940-Sidney J. Meacham was gradof fo urtee n years, to accept a call
uated from Columbia University
from Evangelical Lutheran church,
School of Law on June 1. He is
Raym ertown.
r esiding in Manchester Center, Vt.,
The Re\,. John Sjauken has a ccepted
wh er e he is a ssociated with a law
a call t o St. Johns and St. Peters
firm.
Luth e]'an church, Syracuse. Sjau- 1941- Roy Cutter is a recent beneken has been doin g g raduate work
dict. He was married to Doris
at IDl'ew "Cniversity.
Combs, of Staten I sland, on June
I fl33-The Rev. Paul Arno ld has r e19.
signed as pas tor of St. Pauls chur ch,
1942-Harry Horga n is a bio-chl' mist
Uti ca , to accept a call to Epiphany
with the Mer ck Institute of TheraLutheran church, Brooklyn.
p euti c Research, Rahway, N . ,T.
1~} 35-Norman Freilich, D.D.S., was
T he Rev. Leonard IOeman has been
nam ed prog ram chairman of the
called as pastor of Grace Lutheran
Staten I sland Lions Club.
church, Forest Hills, L. 1. He has
The Re\,. William J. Villa ume is a
been pastor in Altamont, N. Y.
proud f a th er . Jean E lizabeth Vilsince 1945.
laum e was born on July 17. Bill is
Doris Norton, R.N., was married to
h ead of the survey departm ent
William L. Stanley, J r ., on June 6.
of the Yfa ssachusetts Council of
Sh e is a f ormer Navy nurse
Churches.
1043-Jose j)h P e ros i r eceived his
193 7- C:lare nce W. Wasmund has been
D.D. S. degree f rom N YU la st
a ppointed opt h a lmolog ist at Intersprin g .
s tate Clinic. Redwing, Minn. H e
Tr ygve J e nsen was a warded the
complet ed hi s interns hip at the
degr ee of M.A . in educational p syL ong I sla nd Coll eg e Hos ptal last
ch ology at the U niversity of Min s p:'·in g .
n es ota.
Bruce Carney re ceived hi s M.D.
E rma H inman was married to Fred
degr ee f],om N.Y. U . la st spring. He
H . Colvin on July 10. H er father,
is int erning at Bellevue Hospital ,
Dr. Willis Hinman, of the Wag ner
New York .
f aculty, perfor m ed th e cer emony.
1932-Harry F. Gi bbs has been elected
T he Rev. William J. Hammann wa s
comma nd e, of th e Horace D. Washinstalled a s pastor of St. Thomas
b urn post , American Legion, in
Luthera n church, Jamaica, on SepC orinth, J\' . Y . Harry is a ssis tant
t ember 26. The R ev. William Heil
manager of the Corinth E.lectric
'29 . president of th e Long Island
Li g ht and Power Company. Active
Conference, officiated.
Hammann
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has been serving Holy Communion
chu),ch, Utica, f or th e two years.
The Rev. Emil Hein is pas to)' of St.
Jo h ns Lutheran church , Ancram:
N. Y.
The Rev. an d Mrs. Reinhold Weber
a nnoun ce th e birth of a son , Mark
Ran d311 , on Sept. 2:'l. Both p ar ents
are membe'r s of th e class of '43, the
m oth er being th e f orm er Lois
Re isch . Th e Weber s live in Ind ia na , Pa. , where he is pastor of
t he Gr ove Cha p el P ari sh .
1044-T he Re v. T heodore C. Herrman !1 has r eturned t o t he N avy a R
a cha pla in. H e is st a tion ed at th e
N orfolk Naval Base.
Walter Haus heel', M. D.. \\' a ~ marri ed to Lucill e Cros s on Jun e 24.
E ve lyn E llis was married to Kenneth Drescher thi s s pring. Her
hu sband is an Epi scopal divinity
s tudent.
A ug ust C. Druble rece ived th e M.S.
degree at Carnegie Tech last spring.
H e begins work with the Newport
Industries Corp ., P ensacola, Fla.
thi s fall.
Bradford O. Smith was awarded a
diploma in optometry by Columbia
University on June 1.
1929- The Rev. Carl S utter has been
appointed chairman of the Comh:;y
committee of th e Protestant Council of N ew York, Staten I sland divis ion.
1945-Ray mond W . Lawrence was
awarded the M.D. de g ree by New
York Medical Colleg e, Flower-Fifth
Avenue Hospital, New York, on
Jun e 9. H e will interne at t he N ewpo]'t (R. 1.) Naval Hospital.
Willia m Fuhlbr uck, J 1'.. having
g raduated fr om the Philadelphia
Se minary . was ordained by the
U n it ed Lutheran Synod of New
Yor k in Jun e. Hi s fir st charge is
Good Shepherd church , Bayside
W est, Long I sland. Mrs. Fuhlbruck
is th e form er E la ine Hoebel.
\'!'a lte r Kortrey is no\\' pastor of
Glori a Dei Luthe·r an Church, New
Hyde P a rk, Long I sla nd. H e, to o,
\·.'a s g r aduated from t he Phila delphi a Seminar y in May.
1046-Gra::e Moerlins was mal'l'i ed to
Merrill C. Horine '48 on September
24.
Gloria F e menella was a wa rded a
mast er s degree in mathe matics by
Colu mbia U nivers it y on June 1.
Born t o Mr. and Mrs. W illiam W.
Halle, a da ug hter, Patri cia Hamilton, on May 29. Mrs . Halle is the
form er Ruth Hamilton.
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IfJ17- Willi a m He nn essy, J r.,wa s marri ed to Eileen Stafford on J u ne 5
on Staten I sland . He is employed
by the A merican Can Co . in Brooklyn.
Rober t :-;(" hw a r z was awarded the
M.A. degTee in soc ial s t udies by t h e
NYU School of Education in June.
Fred Vollw ei le l' and P h y llis S utcli ffe, both ' of the class of 1947,
were man' ied at Trinity church,
Stapleton, Jun e 27. They are living in Conco rd , S. L
Sa mue l John ~j on was married to
Ruth E. Helll"iqu es in Washin gto n,
D. C. on May 2f!.
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1!:l48- E lis h a Da r son was appointed
d irector of at hl etics at th e Staten
Island Day School. "Iggy" coached
Wagner 's jayvee basketba ll la st
seaso n. wh ile ear nin g his M. A. at
Co lumbia.
E li as Be rn s te in \\'as cited by the
U.S . .·\rmy for outstanding \'ol untary war sel'vice to t he paraplegic
patients of Halloran General Hospital. Th e eeremony took place at
Governors I sland on September 8.
Bern stei n is a lso cha irman of the
Staten I sland War Memorial Association. A re<':ol'll of hi s voice p leading for s up port of t hi s project has
been heard in the S . 1. ferry terminal fOI ' se \'eral weeks.
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Georg'e Ta mke has fini shed hi . 'w ork
for the YI. A . at Columbia Teachers
Co llege . The deg ree will be awarded
in Novembel'.
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Yola n Gutt man has received a scholarsh i p from the United States Public Health Service for advanced
s tudy in ps ychiatri c nUl'sing at t h e
Cathol ic Univers ity of America,
Was hin gton, D .C.
Norm a n J ohns on and Alke T regde,
N'4 7 were malTi ed June 12.
Rube r t i-I. :-;a lveso n was married to
A li ce ]~ !lutsen on June 12.
Buell Dav is was manied to Rose
F a ncuillo N ,
N ieves I{ ibes was married to Robert
C. Dole on .-\ ug ust 21.
Ade le Tru e was marr ied to Donald
Stoughton in Jersey City on Sep tember 18. Donald is th e son of
our former pres ide nt, Prof. Stoughton.
La ro y Dietrich and E liza beth Hinte rm eiste r were married June 12.
'Dietl'ich is now a grad uate studen t
at the U niversity of Wisconsin ,
wh ile his wife h as a pOSition at Wisco nsin State Hospital.
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W H~ I N G ALUMNA E NEWS
The Nursing chapter of the Wagner
,-\ Iumni Association will ho ld its first
fall m eet ing in the Nursing Arts
Laboratory on th e Hill Octuber 26.
Li lli an Intemann '47 is pres ident of
the chapter .
Isa be lle Ma io rano '48 was married
un Sep te mc el' 4 to Dr. Juan Loredo
at Sea View chapel. Mrs. Loredo, who
has bee!l assistant night upel'Visor at
:'tate n Island .Hospital, will join her
11l!sba nd in Puerto Ri co in the near
future. The Loredos will make their
permanent hom e in Mexico.
Hetty Hondesoll ''/ 7 was manied to
Edwa rd Gardner at Great Neck, L . 1.,
on Septembe r 18. S he and her husband are living in Boston. where Mr.
Gardner is doing graduate work at
M.LT .
A Iso rnan ied on Se ptember 18 was
Hope M ira lles ·4 G. She is now Mrs.
~~ enr y Reeves of N ew York City.
Othe r recent br ides are Dorot h y Ke m IJe r t '48 who married Ru ssell Fisher
of Jersey City; Jea n Garths ide ' 48
who becam e Mrs . Jam es Sackel last
May. H er hu sband is a m e mber of
th e cla ss of 1950 at Wagner; and Ita
Gri ntuc h '47, who mani ed Max Bonfeld on April 16, J948 in New York
City.
J uli e H a n igan '47 married Robert
K Casey in onkers, N . Y., Febnlary
7. Mrs . Ca sey has recently accepted
a Public Heal th Nursing position at
Rouses Point, . Y. R ita McGiv ney '47
is now Mrs. Paul J. K en nedy. and r e siding in Wi lliamsville. New York.
E ileen Jackm a n '47 man ied James
O'Leary last January. Her husband,
a m e mbe r of the Bos ton police fo r ce.
is a brot hel' of Mar y O'Lea r y '47.
Two engagements have been announced , that of Ag nes Thoms on '47
to John Piscopo, and that of F r a nces
Mic helsen ' 48 to Charles Wirth of
Canandaigua, N. Y . Miss Thomson is
at Marine Hos pital, Staten I slan d,
N. Y . Her fian ce is brothel' to Re na
Piscop o '47.
Twen ty-seven nurs ing alu mnae are
now studying for the ir bach elor's degree at Wagner this fa ll. Madeli n e
Reimers '47 is the Wagner campus
nurse, ass isting the Health Director.
Mrs. Cogswel l. Ri ta F la n agan '47
(BS '48), who was campus nurse last
year, is doing graduate work at Duke
Univers ity.
Claire E ile nbe r ger '46 (B.S. '48)
was recently appointed Nursing Office Ass istant at Staten Island Hos-
pital. Ma ri e P a lmier './7 ha s been
nam ed Assistant Head Nurse on Norton (Pediatrics ) Ward , whi le Ru t h
T e lle fse n '48 has been made a ss istant
Head Nurse on Bechte l (Women 's
Medical an d S urgical Ward.
Ot her a lumnae wo rkin g at Staten
Is land Hos pita l are He rtha Wa lbe r t
'47 . Gwy n Oav ies '48, Eve ly n Lindfors
'48, Ly nn Caro Ma r k>; '48 . and Oo rot hy Gi th ons '48 in the operating room;
Hele n Eva ns '48. Ma ry Bogden './8,
Oo ri s \{uhd e '48, J oan na l1 a ddio '48,
Du ri " Co ulso n '48, Cla ire Mee ha n '48,
Maria na Tay lor '48 , Shi r ley ConOIJaste
'48. Te resa l-1 oc hstrasse r '48, and
Gladys Wic hm a nn '4 7 on medicine and
s urgery; Doro t h y Mille r '4 i , Ph yllis
I{eche l I{usso '47 , Fr an ces Miche lson
'48, I{ hod a Go n za lez Fa bregas '47, an d
Lill:an I n te ma n n ''/7 on obstet ri cs;
E ls ie Ch a nce llor '47, Barba r a Hoga n
'·17, and Ru t h G~ee n woo d './7 on pediatrics . Iv y Vu rtu e Lu tes '·Ii is in the
e mel'l!.· ency room .
At Sea View Hosp ital are W in if r ed
Find ise n '47, I{huda Lee Davidson '47,
Sa n ta Pater no "17. S h irley Ho·t how
'-17, a ndWi n if red La nn ~~ 11 '48. Cla ire
Mi n tzer '4 7 and ]{osa nn Ha yden are
at Bell ev ue Hos p ital a s ward in str uctors. Mary Ce rbo ne '48. M ild red A n de rso n '48, E di t h He nk a '48, E dn a
Gia ma nco '48, Gina E n g l e~; te in '48,
and T heodora Hug hes ·.t(l a rt> at Creer!moor Hospital.
Rosa lie Gree ne '48, Cla ire Pe rl stein
'48, and J a ne A a l,re nes are working
at Ha ll oran Veteran s .-\dm inistration
Hosp ital. Re na Pi sco po './7 has been
work ing with t h e Am erican R ed Cros s
in No r th Ca ro lin a, where the infantile
para lys is
e pidemic e;c ists. He lene
N ickle '46 has a pos ition in Panama.
Es th e r P atte rs on '48 will leave soo n
for duty at Canandaigua ( r. Y.) Vete ran s Admin istration HospiLal. A nn
:\T o ra n Posey '48, now at the Kingsbridge V.A. Hospital, plans to join h er
hu sband who is st udying- in China .
As a final item , we have one more
bride to report- Wini f red DeNyse ' 47
who became Mrs. Edward Mue ll er on
Jun e 26.
A IUlllni are invited ro Jrop in at the
Co ll ege Book Srore the ne xt time they
are on the Hi II. A vai/able t here are
W ag ne r pennants, statuettes, stickers,
T-shirts, etc.
The alumni secretary's chi ldren are
enthusiast ic about the Book Srore
srock.
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TO MEET
Alumni of rh e Hudson V alley di srr ict, N ew Yo rk. will meet at the home
of H enry Kn aust. W ag ner trusree, Fri day evening, N o\"ember 1 2. in Coxsacki e, N. Y.
Frank Go ll n ick . 30 is in charge of
th e arrangemenrs, and those in the
a rea who can co me should g et in tou ch
with him soon.
Dr. anu Mrs. Lang sam, who ate
moto ring to O neonta for the H artwick
ga me. will be our g uests.
D o yo u like the Link ? Your suppo rt of t he Loya lty Fund will help to
make its p ublicari on possible. A little
help in securin,g adve rti sing for th e
back page \\ill a lso be appreciated .
Eig ht W a,g ner alumni serve their
Alma Mater as membe rs of the Board
of Trustees. T hey a re Dr. Frederi c
Sutter '94. recentl y e lected president
for the thirty- first consecutive term ;
Dr. H enry B. Dickert '09, vice-president ; The Re\". Conrad Reisch '20,
secretary.
Others a rc The Rev. John Bauchmann ' 2 3. Th e Re\·. Joseph Flotten
'29, Dr. Gco r,l!e R. Tamke ' 18, and
our own alumni nomin ees, The R ev.
Alfred Beck '31' and Donald Race '30 .
Alumni who h,lVe been compiaining
rh at p resent dar W agner students lack
school spirir can set rh eir minds ar
rest. The class of '52, newest on the
Hill , showed plenty of real sp irit during Freshmen W eek.
This week. held from O ctobe r 1822, featured basketball an d softba ll
contests bet\\'een the classes, and cul min ated in the aq uati c Tug -of-war and
rh e Fl ag Rush on Frid ay afte rnoon.
Competition in all th ese events was
spirited and exciting. and in good
order.
" .But the frosh showed their rea l spirir
in ll nschedul ed events. W ednesday
nig ht the sophomore boys had rounded
up all rh e fr eshmen boys and taken
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them our to se renade rh e g i r1s on the
campus. Thursday nig ht the g irl s had
planned to do the same, but when the
fr eshmen g irls showed up in the din ing hall dressed up in comic costumes
read y fo r the evening se renade, rhe
dining toom rul es abour ptoper dress
were enfo rced and they were sent back
to their do rmitory rooms and made to
co nform wirh dining room rul es before
they we re se rv ed.
H e re's w here the fr osh showed rh eir
splflr. As a protest aga inst the rul es
which fo rbid thi s painl ess and informal haz ing , all fr es hmen boys appea red
o n th e ca mpus next morning with their
shirrs turned around and simil ar form s
of info rmal, humo rous dress. Th e
frosh g irl s, mea nwhil e, made rh e beds
for rh e upper cl ass g irl s voluntaril y.
The cl ass o f '52, in effect, was telling
the ca mpus. " W e wa nt to be hazed."
The rea l drive fo r rhe 1949 Alumni
Loyalry Fund doesn' r beg in untiT Nov.
embe r 1, bu t we can' t h elp relling you
that contributions to the Fund h ave
a lready been mad e by Marjori e Ri eb
Seguine '40, W alter Bock '38, Susetre
M eyer '4 1, Theodo re E. Pall eske '98,
Dr. Geo rge R. T amke ' 18 , The H o n.
Ell sworth Buck, Dr. and Mrs . Lang ·
sam, Joseph Flotten ' 29, Donald H.
Race '3D, Lester Trau tman '40, Virg inia M ackoy Trautman '40, H enry
Endress '38, Bob Olwig ' 35, and Al
Krahmer ' 27 .
Pl edges toward fu ture payments are
also in ftom D ea n M a ry Burr, Paul J.
Kirsch ' 33, H erb Sutter '3 1, Evel yn
J ohnson H aas '42. H aro ld H aas '39,
M arg uerite H ess '43, Frederi ck H .
Will ecke '40, and Lois Di ckert '46.
W e hope soon to have region al
a lumni meerings in Rochester, Buffalo,
and in N ew Eng land. All we need is
a loyal alumnus in these a reas to make
the arrangements- as Gus W eber did
in Phil adelphia, and Frank Gollni ck
in the Hudson Valley. Any volun ·
teers ? And are there an y other districts to be heard ftom?
The absence of stories about the cur·
rent footba ll scores and rhe basketball
schedul e is du e to the facr rh at all of
yOLl al so receive rhe monthl y Wag ner
Co ll ege Bullerin , in whi ch such irems
are repo rted. W e are t rying ro avoid
duplica tion in the rhree publications
medi a o f rh e co ll ege, the monthly Bulletin, the quarterl y Alumni Link, and
a bi- mo nthly G uild N ews·Lerter.
Did you lik e the ptofil e on Dr. DeW a lsh? Ler us hear from you with
sugges ti ons abo ut fuw re subj ects of
these arri cles. W e hope to offer such
profil es on o ld and new fi g ures on th e
ca mpus, bu t we will be g uided by your
wishes.
It is our hope, also. to have some
irem of pasr sports hi story reporfe'd in
each issue. A his to ry o f basketba ll
and a story on W agner's famous
coaches a re being planned for later
issues .
A movi e of ca mpus life is being
p repa red by the coll ege. The action
will rake four students, two boys and
rwo g irls, two o f them do rm stud ents,
rh e orh e r two Islande rs, and rake them
rhro ug h all the norma l activities of
co ll ege life on rh e Hill.
Nicho las A. Moss . Ass istant Pro.
fesso r o f Eng l ish, wiII be rh e narrator.
T he Rev. Paul Di eckm an, Administ rarive Ass isrant, is in charge of rh e
publication.
An apo logy to th e a lumni - your
Alumni Secreta ry p romised a specia l
rese rved section for you at rh e home
foorba ll contesrs. Ir jusr has n'r been
poss ible ro kee p our promise, bur I
kno w rh at no a lumnus o r alumna has
bee n wi thout a sear at any of the
games . W e hope someday to get to
rh e po int where we have to limit th e
sa le of rickets, bu t up ro now rhis has
not been necessa ry. Come and we'll
find room for you . The ave rage crowd
ar the g ames has been between 2500
and 30 00, wi :h sea ts fo r Jll(\re Ihan
300 0 an ihhl f' .
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UBLICATION OF THE
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�THE LINK. The Wagner College Alumni News
Vol. I
No.2
DECEMBER, 1948
Published in October, December, March, and May by the Wagner College Alumni
Association, Wagner College, Staten Island 1, New York.
ALFRED ]. KRAHMER ' 27, Alumni Secretary, Editor
LOIS
DICKERT' 46, Assistant Editor
\Ve're Learning
When Lois Dickert and I took over as Alumni Secretaries, neither of us had any experience in
the field. We have had to learn as we go along, and we've learned plenty. One thing we know
now is that we need help, and we're finding that such help is available if we know enough to ask
for it.
Our experience with the Homecoming Day program, for example, taught us that there
must be a committee of alumni to plan and operate such events. We know now that we need key
alumni in regional areas to keep the association program moving and to promote its Loyalty Fund.
We've discovered that we can't put out THE LINK without the co-operation of alumni willing to write for it, and that we need an advertising manager.
Every alumnus who has been asked to help has been most gracious. This issue of THE LI K
contains articles by Ian Morrison, Les Trautman, Dr. Langsam, Old Grad and Walter Reichelt.
Roy Cutter volunteered an ad, as did the College Book Store. Such co-operation is heart-warming.
We still don't know all the alumni and can, therefore, ask only a limited number for assistance. All of which is an invitation to you. Want to write for THE LINK? get us an ad or two?
write a few news items? organize a regional chapter? solicit a few classmates for gifts to the Loyalty Fund? Let us hear from you. Call Alumni office, GIbraltar 7-7880, or write.
It works the other way, too. Can we serve you in any way? You'll find us most ready to do
what we can.
AL
KRAHMER,
General Alm1'lni Secy.
The Cover Picture
The Christmas motif on the cover (and we're still hoping you get this before Christmas) is
furnished by the annual Weihnachtsfest of the Deutscher Verein, held last December. Holding
Santa Claus' whip is, of course, Dr. F. C. DeWalsh, head of the German department and moving
force behind the Deutscher Verein. The young lady is Marguerite Sprenger '51) of Poughkeepsie,
while Santa himself is played by Dan Brush '50, of Brooklyn.
�WHAT CAN THE "MATER" BE ?
For the second time a move has been instigated on the campus to make "Beautiful Upon
a Hill" the Alma Mater of Wagner College. In January of 1947 the question was referred to
the Board of Trustees, who rejected the proposed change, stating that "after due consideration
the Board confirms for the time being the song 'We Stand United' as the official Alma Mater."
In a straw poll (the only kind we put faith in these days) conducted recently by the "Wagnerian"
among 215 students, 83( ~ were in favor of the change. Now we want to know how the alumni
feel. After all it's YOllY Alma Mater too. Here are opposing viewpoints expressed by two alumni.
What do yOIl think?
The Alma Mater
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Beautiful Upon A Hill
Beautiful upon a hill
Looking out to the sea,
There our thought are turning still
To hours we spent with thee.
We love thee, Alma Mater,
Our praise to thee we sing,
For Wagner will forever be
Deep in our memory.
\Ve stand lmited through and through
Our Alma Mater's chosen few,
To sound her praises hand in hand,
In joyful tongue throughout the land;
Our hearts and minds in steadfast hope,
All foes in vain with us would cope
As conqueror triumphantly
We march to victory.
CHORUS
We love thy laurel, Wagner:
\Ve love thy growing fame
Thy one fraternal spirit,
Thy sweet maternal reign;
We love thee, Alma Mater,
And ever will be true
To thee; thrice hail to Wagner
And to her chosen few.
-FREDERICK MELVILLE
By
an
-FRANK BETANCOURT
'18
OLD GRAD
Many of our decisions are motivated by sheer sentiment.
We are often incompetent to view situations impartially,
however objective we may try to be. Our reasoning is
swayed by our emotions. This is especially true when one
tries to express an opinion about a song that has lived in
the heart and mind over a period of years. So it is that this
old grad is impotent to do anything to prevent his being
swept along on a flood tide of sentiment as he testifies to
his attachment for the traditional "Alma Mater." Is it
good music? Is it good poetry? Let others decide these
minor issues. It really doesn't make much difference to
one who has sung the song again and again and associates
every thought, every note with friends and experiences and
memories which grew during the happy years at Wagner.
He was there when the song was born. It sprang from
the heart of the small student body of some fifty men and
boys who knew every nook and cranny of the old school
and were steeped in the rich traditions of the past.
"Happy" Melville '18, now deceased, a versatile student
and an accomplished musician, was its author. He found
the music in a collection of German war songs of that
era. Was it 1917? Or was it 1918? Again, what difference does it make? He chose a song called "Nun Steige
Deutsche Adler" whose music seemed to speak of valor,
heroism, victory and triumph and set his words to its
trident chords and that little student body sang it with
enthusiasni, for it gave expression to the dreams and hopes
and aspirations of all who loved Wagner. This song was
not written to cheer a football team on to victory. In those
days there were no athletics. It was written to inspire a
(Conti1111ed on jJage four)
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I favor changing the Alma Mater to "Beautiful Upon
a Hill." "We Stand United" can be sung about any school
by any group, while Frank Betancourt's song possesses a
distinctive quality which is peculiar to Wagner, and only
Wagner. His lyrics have the power to evoke memories of
the "hill" which are cherished by all. The glorious isolation of the College within the very boundaries of the
world's largest and most crowded city is surely unique.
The sun shines brighter, fogs hover more persistently, the
winds are more urgent, and the view is more majestic and
beautiful than anywhere else within Father Knickerbocker's town.
The graduate of an earlier day than myself may believe
that if too mllch of the old tradition is shed, he will not
feel in harmony with Wagner during his annual pilgrimage to Grymes Hil!. But he must remember that the College, once a small institute, hiding behind a venerable
apple tree on a drow y Rochester street, is today a progressive and steadily growing choo!. Even the more recent
graduates are pleasantly surprised to note the constructive
spirit which is prevalent about those sprawling acres. Expansive parking lots are bursting with cars, brand new
roads and walks divide the grounds into multiferous patterns, shrubs and flowers have lost the appearance of untended wildness, while classrooms have shed the dull colors
of the past.
This grand new Wagner spmt, which is bringing the
College to the attention of many new friends, must be
assisted onward by the guiding hands of the Alumni Association. We must not restrain the growth of our alma
mater by insisting that olltmoded traditions or songs be
perpetua ted!
WALTER
E.
REICHE LT
'48
The Staten Island chapter of the Wagner College Guild
is soliciting magazine subscriptions. Available at the regular subscription price, the Guild receives a commission for
each subscription. If you'd like to help by having the Guild
take care of your magazine renewals, write Mrs. Gladys
Berglund, 19 Hillcrest Court, Staten Island 5. (That's
Mr. Jack Berglund '35.)
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whole generation to work with undying zeal for the development of a
greater Wagner, dedicated to the lofty
ideals of its founders. The student
body was small. The alumni group
was small. Our beloved school faced
an uncertain future in an unfriendly
environment, and yet we cheered ourselves onward as we sang the old song:
"We stand united
we few
who
will dare to sing the prai es of our
Alma Mater throughout the land.
Every foe will be vanqui hed and
there will be a glorious victory when
Wagner will rise to new and greater
heights and the dreams long dreamed
will come true."
Looking back over the years since
the song was written, one is surprised
to see how adequately the words match
the achievements of our college. The
love and devotion of her graduates has
endured. We have marched to victory,
the victory of a greater Wagner. The
onward march continues and the end
is not yet in sight. We still need a
fighting and a daring spirit. The student body and the alumni must still
be animated by a desire to carry Wagner onward to greater heights than it
has known before. That spirit can be
engendered by the song that has cheered
and encouraged the past generation.
The spirit expressed in the words of
this ong will live in the heart and will
be counted among the intangibles
which belong to a college education.
Do you blame me if I say: "Let's
keep this song." Let's learn to sing it
with our hearts as well as with our
lips. Let it echo around the world
wherever Wagner's sons and daughters live. Let it be the wings whereon
the fame of Wagner is proclaimed to
the world. Every life will be enriched
as the heart and the spirit sing: "We
love thee Alma Mater and ever will be
true to thee. Thrice hail to Wagner
and to her chosen few."
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Hudson V a lley
Organ iz a tion
The Wagner Club of the Hudson
Valley was organized at a dinner meeting on
ovember 12 at the Catskill
Country Club, with Henry Knaust,
Sr., Wagner trustee, as host. Frank
Gollnick '30 was elected president of
the club, with AI Me sersmith '44 as
secretary. It is planned to hold two
meetings a year.
Twenty-three persons attended the
organization dinner. They were the
John Klahns, Al and Kay Messersmith, the Herb Gibneys, the David
Gaises, the Frank Gollnicks, Mr. and
Mrs. Knaust, Dr. and Mrs. Langsam,
Pastor and Mrs. Pfeil and Barney.
Alumni Secretary AI Krahmer and his
wife were on hand, as were Wagner
trustee Joe Flotten and his wife, and
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Vas 01 of St.
Albans, L. 1. The latter two couples
were on their way to Oneonta for the
Hartwick game.
Dr. Langsam spoke on the latest developments at the college. Krahmer
spoke on alumni plans. Flotten was induced to speak on his European travels,
and there were also brief messages
from our hosts, Mr. and Mrs. Knaust,
and a gracious little speech from Mrs.
Langsam, who, on being asked how
she got her driver's license, responded
with a fine statement on what a wonderful place Wagner is. (Ed. notewe still don't know about that license.)
The enthusiasm displayed by these
Hudson Valley alumni, who voted to
include all friends of Wagner in their
informal club, was encouraging. To
this group goes the distinction of being the first regional chapter of the
alumni association to be formally organized .
Surveys of our geographical spread
indicate that other areas which ought
to be organized are Staten Island
(346), Long Island (63), Brooklyn
(45), Manhattan and Bronx (42),
orthern New Jersey (70), Buffalo
and vicinity (26), Connecticut (30),
and the Rochester area (1 8), the
number in parentheses being the number of alumni residents in the area .
By the time thi issue of THE LINK
reaches you, a meeting of ew England alumni will have taken place in
Boston in December. Bill Villaume
'35 is the volunteer who made the
arrangements, with Lorraine Turcotte
'47 doing what she could from up in
Maine. Letters from these two came
in the same mail and prompted our
making Boston the next port of call
for Dr. Langsam and your Alumni
Secretary.
Block HW" Din n er
The first dinner of the Block "w"
Club, held in Cunard Hall the night
before the Homecoming game, was a
big success. Sixty letter men, past and
present, were there and word was recei vcd from many others who regretted that di tance made it impossible
for them to attend.
At the head table were former
coaches Ray Kirchmeyer, Jim Collins,
Chief Barclay and Joe Grosjean, present coaches Jim Lee Howell and Frank
Reagan, President Walter C. Langsam,
Dean John R. Bacher, Athletic Director Herbert Sutter, and Toastmaster
Art Smith. All these special guests
were awarded honorary membership
in the Block "w" Club and presented
with "w" pins.
The only speech of the evening was
made by Jim Collins, now principal of
P. S. 14, Stapleton, who reminisced
about the basketball seasons he and
Bill Keegan coached at Wagner.
Amusing stories about a game with
LIU and about Bob Sheie, as well as a
serious message about the tolerance
and good spirit found on the Wagner
campus, made his audience hang on
every word Jim said .
Alumni Block "w" wearers present
at the dinner included Ernie Meyer
'32, Al Corbin '35, Joe Cawley '35,
Trygve Jen en '43, Archie DeLuca
'44, Randolph Johnson '42, Paul
Kirsch '33, Phil Laub '48, John Siclari '32, Bill Wiley '42, Mattie Moccia '41, AI Krahmer '27, Carl Sutter
'29, Stan Stillwell '47, Les Trautman
'40, George Schipani '43, Bob Sheie
'37, Mike Rapp '34, Bernard Blomquist '37, and Dave Sweet '45.
It is regretted that some letter
winners were missed because the earlier records of athletic history are very
sketchy. An attempt is being made to
bring the record up to date and we
appeal to letter men who were missed
with invitations to write in and tell
us about it. Address the alumni secretary and tell the year and in what
sport your "w" was awarded. Wilson
(Lefty) Gearhart '49, current basketball star, is president of the club and
is making plans for greater alumni
participation in the management of
the club.
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HOMO MULTA.R-UM LITERARUM
By
As I sat at his desk, attempting to
make him talk about himself, I
thought of that day almost three
years before, when as a veteran returning from the wars I first entered
one of his History classes. Leaning
over a table in the front of the room
was a tall, galllt, Lincolnish appearIng man _ .. a man having the distinctive stoop of the scholar _ a man
hesitant in his approach to a subject
a man forever adjusting his glasses
and interpolating his lectures with,
"yes indeedy," "most interesting,"
and, "the basees for this study"etc. In the months and courses to follow I discovered many comparisons
between Francis F. Wayland and Abraham Lincoln. I discovered that the
distinctive stoop was most certainly
acquired in scholarly pursuits, that
the hesitant approach was not caused
by doubt or lack of knowledge but by
a constant striving to keep objective,
to impart a full measure to the partakers. In my few years at Wagner I
sat at the feet of teachers who were
perhaps, more interesting, flashier,
more effusive and voluble but not
many who were as prepared, as painstakingly correct with facts and material, or as courteous to rash and unthinking students as was Dr. Wayland.
To the student not familiar with his
methods or his classroom. technique, it
seems that " the good Doctor" (as he
is commonly known to various and
sundry alumni), is bound and tied
to the notes in front of him, but the
same student is often surprised by the
vast wealth of knowledge that the
Professor has at his fingertips. His
notes serve a good purpose, for his
course is clearly charted, and without
such a guide the well of knowledge
would overflow leaving the students
floundering in the vast river of material that every now and then seeps
through to the thirsty minds.
Dr. Wayland, as head of the Department of History and Political Science, has much more to do than prepare lectures. As of this date the Department consists of at least six members, a far cry from the day in 1944
when Dr. Wayland entered the Wagner family to bolster the department
which then consisted of one. Wagner
College has grown since then, and
with that growth Wayland has seen
the growth of intellectual yearnIng
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'48
among the students. Professor Wayland expresses the opinion that so
many of the men who in the recent
past were fighting for their country
and their lives are now really anxious
to discover actually why they were
fighting and what they were fighting.
Many, appreciating for the first tim.e
all that this country has to offer,
want to learn more about their native land and how it got to be what
it is today. Thus the classes in History and Political Science are filled
to overflowing and the discussions are
enlivened by men who "have been
there." Today when some isolated geographical region is mentioned in a
class in Western Civilization, it is not
unlikely that some meek freshman will
claim first hand knowledge of the
place in question. Keeps a teacher on
his toes .. yes indeedy.
Professor Wayland is well equipped
to cope with the problems of the small
liberal arts college. As an undergraduate he attended Bridgewater College
in Bridgewater, Virginia. He can sympathize with the campus "big-wheel"
who is always late for class and who
uses all his "cuts" because of "very
important Student Association business," or, "the Wagnerian had to go
to the printer," because at one time
in his college career Wayland was
President of the Student Government
Association of Bridgewater College
and was also editor of its campus
newspaper. Not being satisfied with
these duties he managed the varsity
basketball team and also became an
intercollegiate debater. During- his college career he was awarded several
prizes for essays he had written, one
of which was entitled. The Shenandoah
Valle~)I in American Literature.
Receiving his Master's degree in
History from the University of Virginia in 1931, Wayland displayed his
versatility by accepting a position as
teacher of Mathematics and French
in a high school in Front Royal, Va.
In the Fall of 1933 he entered the
University of Pennsylvania and enrolled for his doctorate. Not being
satisfied with just one job he soon became an Assistant Instructor of History at the University, and to add to
the work load he commenced drying
dishes, etc., for the woman he married in 1935.
Receiving his Ph.D. in 1938, he
moved across Philadelphia to the faculty of Drexel Institute of Technology, and then in 1939, heeding the
words of Horace Greeley, he joined
the faculty of McPherson College,
Kansas, as Professor of History. The
year 1944 saw Dr. Wayland established as Associate Professor of History at Wagner College, and in 1948
he became Chairman of the Department.
Dr. Wayland, enjoying the atmosphere of this Island community, purchased a home on a site that overlooks the Manhattan skyline, and on
many a summer afternoon he can be
found tilling the sloping side of his
garden in the hope that his homegrown vegetables will compare favorably with those of the Shenandoah
Valley, which harbours his homestead.
Professor Wayland seems to fill the
bill for a "typical college professor,"
at least from the layman's point of
view. A man of learning, whose whole
life has been that of a scholar, who
looks like a scholar, acts like a scholar,
and is a scholar. A family man, concerned with raising two lively children in this uncertain world, he has
time to consider the problems of the
many students who seek his advice.
A man, proud to see his former students becoming teachers, college professors, and graduate students. A man,
cultured , shy, and perhaps just a little
absent-minded at times working on
THE book. A man who, to use his
favorite expression, is "crackerjack."
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�H omecomin g Review
You should have been here! Or
were you? Homecoming Day ( 0vember 6) was all we could ask. The
weather was beautiful-crisp, sunny,
sparkling. The game-well, it was a
thriller. Once over the hump of the
first half, our team surged forward to
a 19-7 victory over Susquehanna, its
first win in five meetings with the
Pennsylvania university and the Crusaders worst defeat of the year. The
largest crowd of the season-more
than 3,600-were on hand to witness the duel.
There was plenty to see at halftime
too. Seven members of Wagner's first
football team in 1927 were introduced. They were Herb Sutter '31,
Carl Sutter '29, Tom Carey '32, Ernie
Meyer '32, Gus Kiefer '29, Gus Weber
'26 and Bill
iebank '31. Herb remembered when he played against
Susquehanna and ran 85 yards for a
TD against them . Amos Alonzo Stagg,
Sr., the grand old man of football,
now with his son as coach of the
Susquehanna team, was given a fine
ovation by the crowd when he was
introduced.
The band gave a splendid account
of itself between the halves, turning
in a performance to make your heart
throb. Many alumni saw them for the
first time, handsome in their natty
green and white uniforms. Ably
guided by Henry Jackson, drum major, they drilled and formed an impressive "W". Enhancing the scene
were the cheerleaders, who marched
with the band, then held up cards
rea din g "Homecoming," "Hello,
Grads," and "Welcome." Very nice,
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indeed. (See picture at bottom of
page.)
Fraternities and sororities had arranged off-hill dinners for their alumni brothers and sisters, while other
alumni got together in Cunard. (Ed.
note: What do you think of that
set-up? Let us know.)
A crowd of over 400 students,
alumni and facu lty members came
out for the dance, the music for
which was provided by the School
Dance Orchestra. In point of numbers
and spirit, the dance was a succcess,
but we promise an even better one
next year.
As an Alumni Department, this
was our first Homecoming Day. We
want to make succeeding ones better. You can help us. Please feel free
to make with the ideas, suggestions,
criticisms and comments. We're open
to them.
From One Who Was There
In our last issue, we listed those
who had represented Wagner at ina ugural ceremonies for presidents of
other colleges. The Rev. Alfred
Schroeder '38, pastor of Christ Lutheran Church in Rochester, was one
of those representatives, and from him
we have an eye-wiLness account of
the experience. He says:
"It was certainly a thrilling privilege to represent Wagner College at
the inauguration of Dr. Allan Willard
Brown as President of Hobart and
William Smith Colleges on Saturday,
October 23. The entire program was
so very well planned and executed,
and the number of representatives
from the various institutions of learning and learned societies seemed to
me to be exceptionally large and colorful. Hobart and William Smith Colleges did everything to make their
visitors' stay a memorable one (in
spite of the fact that Hobart lost the
football game to Union College in
the afternoon) .. One little touch of
color was in that colorful inaugural
procession which made a Wagner College graduate glow with pride. In that
procession Dean Harry J. Carman,
of Columbia College, Columbia University, wore the Doctor's hood bearing the colors of Wagner College. It
was Dean Carman who gave the Induction Address in which he ably
championed the cause of liberal education and was later honored with
another degree from Hobart College.
I want to express my thanks to
Wagner College for this privilege
The day was far from happy, from
standpoint of weather or score, but
it was good to see so many alumni in
the stands at Oneonta for the Hartwick game. In between the wind and
the rain, we spotted Ed Bosch '22,
Kay Messersmith '45, Al Messersmith
'44, Harry Gibbs '32, Barney Pfeil
'48, Ernie Meyer '32, Carl Sutter '29,
Joe F lotten '26, Herb Sutter '31, Les
and Virginia Trautman '40, Paul
Reisch '44, Dave Jensen '42, Lois
Dickert '46, Al Krahmer '27, and of
course, Dr. and Mrs. Walter C. Langsam.
D o You Know?
Maybe you do. We hope so, anyway.
For the records, we'd like to know
the origin of Wagner's colors. They're
beautiful, of course, but why green
and white? Can you tell us?
WAGNER COLLEGE
�THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE
Wagner College as an in titution is
built upon four great pillars. These
pillars are the Church, the student
body, the teaching and administrative staffs, and the alumni. If Wagner is to make its greatest possible
contribution to our Christian civilization, then these sustaining pillars
must be of equal strength, each providing as much support as does its
neighbor. Let only one of the e pillars be weaker than the rest, and the
whole structure becomes endangered.
Currently the Church is giving
Wagner more direct support than at
any previous time in our history. The
, student body is stronger than ever before and is generally imbued with a
wonderful college spirit. Of our faculty we are proud, and some of our
departments compare favorably with
those of the best small, liberal arts
colleges in the country. Our alumni
are being welded into a splendid corps
of supporters-interested, proud, loyal, and helpful.
Wagner need have no fear of the
future, only optimistic hope. Our pillars are firm and strong. They are
linked for even greater strength by a
spiritual bond which is peculiarly
Wagnerian, a bond which embraces
all who have contact with our Alma
Mater. So may it ever be, to the greater
glory of the Father of Mankind.
W ALTER
CONSUELO LA
GSAM.
Dorothy Githens '48 was married
to William Trost, Jr. of Hammond,
Ind., on October 24. The newlyweds
are living on Staten Island.
The Nursing Alumnae chapter
meets every thl'ee months-in September, December, March and June.
Informal round table di~cussions about
nursing problems are featured at the
meetings. Don't miss these meetings.
190a-Dr. OUo Schrieber has resigned
as pastor of St. Pauls, Kingston to
accept a call to Calvary Lutheran
Church, J ersey City.
1921-The Wagner College Library
has just received a copy of "God's
Unlimited Forgiveness," which is
Unit 1 in Audio-Visual Studies in
the Life and Teachings of Jesus by
Dr. Harry J. Kreider, pastor of St.
James Lutheran Church, Ozone
Park.
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Dr. Langsam is here lecturing before the Troop Informar:on School,
Embarkation, Brooklyn.
1949 Alumni Loyalty Fund
Like almost everything else your
new alumni office staff has worked on,
the appeal for the 1948-49 Loyalty
Fund was late in reaching you. Printing delays have given the Alumni Secretary grey hair. By the time this issue
of THE LINK reaches you, however,
the first letter will be in your hands.
We are hoping for a splendid, early
response.
We have reversed the process this
year. Instead of raising the Fund and
then voting on what should be done
with it, we have set a goal for ourselves at the beginning of the year.
It is a goal considerably higher than
in any other previous year, but it is
certainly not unattainable. Twentyfive hundred dollars from more than
a thousand alumni! It seems almost
too small.
Before the real campaign began,
the alumni on the Board of Trustees,
the faculty and the officers of the Association were asked to start the ball
rolling. Response from 31 in this group
has brought us $313 in cash, with an
additional $145 in pledges. \Ve gratefully acknowledge contributions and
pledges from the following alumni:
Theodore E. Palleske
.. '98
Dr. George R. Tamke . .. .. ..... '18
Conrad Reisch
Milton Kleintop
Joseph Flotten
Al Krahmer
Arlll)' Pbotogrllpb)
ew York Porr of
'20
'23
'26
'27
Gunnar Knudsen
'28
Donald Race
'3 ()
Herb Sutter
'31
Paul Kirsch
'33
Syl vester Bader
. '35
Bob Olwig .... ... .
'35
Walter Bock
'38
'38
Henry Endress
'39
Harold Haas
Chris Holmstrup
'39
'39
Eleanor Jensen Willecke
Marjorie Rieb Seguine
'40
Lester Trautman
'40
'40
Virginia Mackoy Trautman
Fred Willecke
'40
In memory of Lt. Orlando Buck
Roy Cutter
'4f
Dorothee Heins Holmstrup
' 41
Susette Meyer
' 41
Evelyn Johnson Haas
'42
M argueri te Hess
'41
Trygyve Jensen ....
'43
Dr. and Mrs. Langsam
hon-'45
Lois Dickert . . ..
. ... '46
Dean Mary Burr
.. hon-'48
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�AL UMNI NEWS BRIEFS
1930-The Rev. Austin Bosch is the
author of an article which appeared
in the
ovember 3 issue of "The
Lutheran." It is entitled "Now This
Woman Can See." In the same issue
appeared an article by Paul W.
Dieckman, administrative assistant
at Wagner.
The Rev. William J. Voss has accepted a call to First Redeemer
Lutheran Church, Buffalo. He resigned as pastor of Holy Cross
Church, Farnham, on December 1.
1931-The Hey. Albert P. Stauderman
is editor of the Intermediate-Senior
lessons of the Augsbu!"g Sunday
School Lesson Series for the first
half of 1949. The series is based on
the life of Christ.
1936-The Rev. Gunther StilJIJich was
the officiating clergyman at the
funeral of stage and screen star,
Elissa Landi oe October 23. Pastor
Stippich had also officiated at Miss
Landi's marriage to Curtis Thomas,
and baptized her daughter, Caroline.
Arthur Friedel is purchasing agent
for Rich Department Stores in Atlanta, Ga., one of the largest department stores in the country. He
is active in the Junior Chamber of
Commerce and is chairman of the
drive to raise funds for toys for
poor children for Christmas. He is
also active in the local Community
Chest Drive and in the B'nai Brith,
America's oldest and largest Jewish service organization.
1!l37-The first educational unit of
Zion Lutheran Church, Ridgefield,
N. J., was dedicated Sunday afternoon, December 5. The Rev. G. E.
Alberti is pastor.
1939-Siegfried Dietrich, the dentist
member of the Dietrich family
(three other alumni brothers are
ministers) has moved from Upper
Darby, Pa. , to Honeybrook, Pa.
The Rev. Harold Haas, of Linden, N. J., has accepted a call to
become pastor of St. Johns Lutheran Church, Jersey City.
1940-Peggy Bambach Buck was married to William Reynolds in Paris
on October 19. She and her husband
expect to return to America in
December.
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church was formed by the merger
of St. Matthews, of which Sheldon
has been pastor since 1943, and Emmanuel, served until this spring by
The Rev. Norman E. Sutterlin '29.
Arnold J. Cerasola, M.D. has opened
an office for the general practice of
medicine at 1604 Williamsbridge
Road, New York. He lives in Mount
Vernon.
The Rev. Everett Jensen has
re::!ently landed in the Hawaiian
Islands where he will do work for
the Board of American Missions.
Mrs. Jensen is Beatrice Werner '41.
1942-The Rey. Walter Morten has
left the naval chaplaincy to accept
a call to Zion Lutheran Church,
Long Valley, N. J.
1943-Shari Eleanor Lewis was born
November 11. Her mother is Florence Jicha '43. The Lewis' have a
two and a half year old son.
1944- Ruth Eidt is teaching in Farmingdale, Long Island.
Bradford O. Smith has opened an
office for the general practice of
optometry on Staten Island.
The Rev. Frank Flisser has resigned
as pastor of First Evangelical Lutheran Church, Perth Amboy, to accept a call to Christ Church, Trenton, . J.
The Rev. James E. Morecraft is assistant pastor of Memorial Lutheran Church, Harrisburg, Pa.
The Rev. Eugene Roth has received
a call from the Board of Foreign
Missions of the United Lutheran
Church to go to Japan as a missionary. He will begin language studies
at Yale on February 1. In order to
take up this new work, he has resigned his pastorate of St. Johns
Lutheran Church, Potter, N. Y.
1945-Mrs. Adah Scheehl Vosburgh is
the proud mother of Amy Rosemary, born August 1 in Cooperstown. The Vosburghs live in Fort
Plain.
Dorothy Kuusela was married to
John J. Tanant, editor, on Staten
Island, November 7. We would like
their new addl'ess.
Dr. Sidney Leeds is practicing dentistry in Manhattan.
1946-John Mentha was married to
Gerda Pahnke '45 on Thanksgiving
Day in Trinity Church, Stapleton.
1947-Margaret Kilthau is teaching
school in Bethpage, Long Island.
The Rey. Edward A. Sheldon
was installed as pastor of St. Matthew-Emmanuel Lutheran Church,
Brooklyn, on November 28. This
LaMar J. Smith has become proprietor of the famed restaurant,
"The Log Cabin," in West Palm
Beach, Fla.
Ba m Rei sc h is a part time
teacher of trigonometry in a San
Francisco high school. Meanwhile,
he continues his law studies at the
University of San Francisco.
1948-Robert Salvesen is studying for
his master's degree at Buffalo University.
Arthur Krida is teaching history
and English at Greer School, Hope
Farm, Dutchess County, N. Y.
Gladys Lammond was married to
Gerard Hill on November 27 at
Staten Island.
Alphon~e
J, Innacone has been
awarded a New York state war
service scholarship, which he will
use to enter a professional school.
The scholarship was won m competitive examination at Cooper
Union last August.
NURSING ALUMNAE
NEWS
FRIEDA STOERZINGER,
Re/lorter
Eileen Jackman O'Leary '48 becnme the mother of a baby boy on
October 28 in Cambridge, Mass,
Baby James weighed 8 Ibs., 9%,
ounces. The doctor says that papa will
pull through.
Another new mother is Elizabeth
Longair Rose '47, whose son was born
on Staten Island in October.
Estelle Sussman '46 (Frenchie),
formerly an air line stewardess on a
flight between Ireland and Egypt, was
married to a Mr. Schwarzfeld and is
now living in Tel Aviv, Palestine.
Ann Gaines '48 has recently returned to Elizabeth, New Jersey from
McGuire Veterans Hospital in Richmond, Va. She expects to add the title
of Mrs. to her R.N. before the ew
Year rolls around.
It is said that the walls of a cel'tain house on Grand Avenue were resounding recently with merriment occasioned by a house warming given
by Rhoda Lee Davidson '47 and Sylvia Goldberg '48, who have just moved
from Sea View Hospital to 42 Grand
Avenue. Their friends are invited to
drop in and see them some time.
Nursing alumnae are proud of the
fact that their president, Lillian Intemann, now an evening session candidate for the B.S. degree, was one
of twelve Wagner students chosen
for recognition in the 1949 edition of
Who's Who Among Students in American Colleges and Universities.
WAGNER COLLEGE
�STAR I)UST
By
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LES TRAUTMAN
'40
Many of the great coaches Trautman writes of are pictured above. Taken at the Bleck "W" dinner, left to right you see Ra)' Kirchmeyer, Joe
Grosjean, Frank Reagan, Jim Lee 1 lowell, Jim Collins, Dr. Langsam, Art Smith, Chief Barclay, Herb Sutter, and Dean John R. Bacher.
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If any Wagner coaches, past or present, are ever heard humming, "Give
me ten men who are stout-hearted
men," you'll have to excu e them. In
the quarter-century or so of athletics
atop Grymes Hill, they've had to field
teams-even in football-with that
many or less. But all the coaches, or
players for that matter, are like old
grads at Homecoming Day; they "remember the time
"with fondness.
Won and lost record through the
years have too often made for dismal
reading, but always a tremendous
spirit existed, the kind that brought
out players even when they had to
buy their own equipment.
Athletics at Wagner are still young
in comparison with those at other
colleges, but Wagner has had its share
of outstanding coaches, some of whom
came for nothing (or just about) in
those early days, for the Green and
White's stout-hearted teams.
One of the earlist coaches at Wagner was Elmer Ripley, who is still
termed "Staten Island's most prominent professional basketball player"
and who is coach at Georgetown.
Old-timers will remember him as a
rugged player who starred with the
Original Celtics and shone in the old
New York-Penn State League and
with the Washington Palace Club and
Fort Wayne.
Basketball also drew Jack Morris,
who is now dean of boys at Curtis
High School on Staten Island, and
that seemingly inseparable pair-Jimmy Collins and Bill Keegan . Jimmy
and Bill are both in the New York
City school system now, Jimmy as
elementary school principal and Rich-
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mond Borough recreation center director and Bill as a physical education instructor in Far Rockaway, L. 1.
Who can fail to recall hoW' Jimmy inaugurated the pivot shot while he was
a student at St. John's University?
The story behind that is that Collins,
while a boy, had watched "Dutch"
Dehnert of the Original Celtics maneuver in the pivot-always passing,
never shooting. And when Jim started
shooting in college, he shot-just about
every existing scoring record to
pieces. Bill, meanwhile, was gaining a
reputation at Manhattan College.
Track has brought Abel Kiviat, the
great Olympic miler; Clarence "Chief"
Barcley, the now-retired businessman,
of whom it is said that "a race on
Staten Island wouldn't be official unless he were the starter"; Dr. Lee Y.
Davidheiser, head of the chemistry
department, who, too, volunteered
many an hour, and John "Bun" Barbes, the lean and lanky incumbent.
For the pre-war alumni, the name
of Ray Kirchmeyer is usually associated with football. A former great
back at Columbia, Ray was the first
coach in 1928 and except for three
years in the 1930's (when Frank
Spotts, the ex-Muhlenberg star tackle
took over) he served through 1946.
An All-American was succeeded
by an All-American when Jim Lee
Howell, the Arkansas and ew York
Football Giants great end, was signed
in 1947. He brought with him Ken
"Kayo" Lunday, of the Giants, last
year and two more All-Americans,
Frank Reagan (Penn) and Jim White
(Notre Dame) from the Giants this
year.
Kirchmeyer and Howell, incidentally, have something else in common.
They both developed excellent "second-half" teams, in 1928 and 1948.
In baseball, there has been Kirchmeyer, as well as in basketball; Joe
Grosjean, who was going places in
professional baseball until a broken
ankle stopped him while he was with
Jersey City and who is now director
of Staten Island Catholic Youth Organization center, and Herb Sutter.
Herb Sutter has played a real role in
Wagner sports, as a three-letter student and now as director of athletics
and coach of basketball and baseball.
Herb may not be able to out-race his
players today, but he wouldn't be far
behind
not for 30 yards anyway!
There are a lot of names there,
names that have meaning to sportslovers whether they are Wagner rooters or not. And if one questions the
former coaches today, their answers
will show that they have not forgotten the old school ties.
They have a lot to remember, of
teams that made poor seasons great
ones by routing stronger opponents,
of players wanting to go back into
games despite injured legs that were
later discovered to be broken, of
players who played without fanfare
and then became heroes during the
war (the late Jimmy Robb, for one)
and of college shenanigans-like the
basketball manager who wanted to
arm student police for a game crowd..
with chalk-filled socks.
'"
We said athletics at Wagner are
still young, but no longer do all the
players who go out for a team make
the squad. That's a trend at least.
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�through Greece, she visited the Excavation House at Corinth in the interests of her archeological training.
It wa in Athens that atalie met "a
perfectly charming young Englishman" (her mother's words), Arthur
John Sel tnan, whom she married last
July. ow they are living in Cyprus,
Egypt, where Seltnan is on a special
mission for the British Foreign Office.
Wagner students sometimes do fascinating thing
And here's another. Two of the
coaches, Herb Sutter and "Bun" Barbes, learned their sports at Wagner.
"Bun" can remember his days as a
raw-boned freshman, learning how to
take his position in the line. As for
Herb, he's still a mighty mite.
Just in case you missed some of the
scores, here is the final Wagner football record for 1948. \Ve beat Panzer
14-12, Ursinus 23-6, Susquehanna 197, tied Hofstra 13 -13 and City College 19-19, and lost to Upsala 12-7,
Brooklyn 20-0, and Hartwick 25-12 .
ext year's schedule calls for home
games against Moravian, Panzer, Hartwick, Upsala, City College, and one
other school, and games at Ursinus,
Hofstra, and Susquehanna.
Incidentally, Harry Pfunke wrote
to say that our football history in the
October LINK was wrong in listing
1927 as the first season. Harry is correct in pointing out that an unrecognized team operated in 1926, but your
Alumni Secretary is a law-abiding
soul. He dated his football hi tory
from the first official college team.
The Grymes Hill Steamrollers of
1926 who represented the college unofficially in games against Port Richmond (we won 14-7) and Augustinian Academy (we were "overwhelmingly defeated" says the Kallista, listing no score) were Ted Hoffmeister,
Malcolm Jacks0n, Bob Heydenreich,
Carl Prasse, Bill Heil, Bill Haegert,
Harry pfunke, Paul Clemen, Dick
Kaminska, Ted Erdman, Elmore
Hoppe, Carl Prater, Dick Kern, Frank
Gollnick, Ernie Meyer, and Al Schilke.
George Dunekack was manager.
Welcome
\Ve turned the emoclew tam right
side up for our alumni friends who
came to visit us in room 7, Ad Building. They were Margaret Kilthau '47,
Roy Cutter '41, Harold (Bunny)
Haa '39, Carl Sutter '29, 0 car Bakke
'41, and Remi Baechtold '48.
Margaret's teaching at Bethpage,
L. 1., Roy is in the real estate and insurance business on Staten Island,
Pastor Haas and Pastor Carl both
teach at \Vagner besides handling
their ministerial duties, Oscar is with
the Bureau of Standards in Washington, D. C., and Remi sails this month
for his home in Switzerland-at least
for a while.
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Lost A lumni
Student Spirit
The handsome brute in the picture
met an early, tragic end when he was
cremated at the pep rally preceding
the Susq uehanna-Wagner game. He
put in a sudden, mysterious appearance in the late morning of the day
of his death and sat, subdued and
humble, in front of the auditorium
doors. That evening, at seven, Wagner
students showed up, sang and cheered
in the auditorium, then snake-danced
to South Hall. There the ill-fated spy
met death in a huge bonfire, around
which his captors sang and warwhooped. All of which turned out to
be symbolic of the next day's game
Wagnerians Get Around
It's a long way from Staten Island
to Egypt by way of Sweden. But
atalie Runyon, formerly an evening
sessions studen tat Wagner College,
has traveled the road-and part of it
on bicycle! While she was a WAC
stationed at Halloran Hospital, atalie took advantage of night classes at
Wagner. Then came the opportunity
of a GI scholarship, which sent atalie to the University of Stockholm in
J~nuar)', 1947, in the first contingent
of GI's to be sent abroad as students.
For six months she studied at the University, then pent the summer bicycling through Finland, Holland,
France,
orway, and Denmark.
When the GI's returned to the
University in the fall, they learned
tha t all studying wa to be done in
Swedish. But the language proved to
be so difficult for the "foreigners"
that only 4 or 5 of the original 75
remained. Natalie, meanwhile, had applied to the American School in Athens, and there she studied archeology
and architecture. While traveling
The Alumni office is doing its best
to keep an up-to-date file of alumni
addresses, but it is not an easy task.
Alumni move and forget to tell us.
Alumnae marry and fail to notify us
of their change in name, etc. On the
chance tha t some of you who read
THE LI K may be able to give us
late addresses, we are listing the names
of some of our "lost" alumni. If you
can "find" any of them for us, please
notify the Alumni office:
Dr. Kenneth Axelsen
'43
..... . .
. . '45
George Bain
Hazel Baron
'42
Donald (Cohen) Carter
. '38
Ethel Carter
.. '45
E. Chapman
'42
iels Christensen
'23
George Christopher
'36
Benjamin Cohen
'35
George Cordner
. . . . . . . '35
Chas. DeGroat
. '38
George Dunekack
'30
Clifford Flanders
'33
Ernest Graewe
. .. .. '40
Edwin Gunderson ....... .
. '36
Richard Hope
'40
R. Hutton
'41
Richard Kaminska
'30
Arthur Klein
'36
Dorothy Knight Brown
'46
Abraham Kobren
'37
John (Strimer) Kotteman
'36
Joseph LaGambina
. . . . .. . . '32
Thomas Levy
'39
Robert Lewin
'36
John McDermott
'39
Catherine
ewton McDermott
'39
Virginia Marble Magill
'44
Andrew Mahler
........
. . '25
George Miller
'33
J. E. Petersen
'32
George Rapport
'39
Charles Graham-Rogers
'33
William Salinger
'45
Louis Schenck
'32
Louis Schmidtkonz
'14
Eleanore Schmidt Schweppe
'41
Robert Swartwout.
'35
Ferdinand Weidner . .. . .. . . . . '34
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�THE LINK. The Wagner College Alumni News
Vol. I
No.1
MARCH,1949
Published in October, December, March, and May by the Wagner College Alumni
Association, Wagner College, Staten Island 1, New York.
J.
ALFRED
KRAHMER '27, Alumni Secretary, Editor
LOIS
DICKERT '46, Assistant Editor
THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
WALTER BOCK '38 ............... _........................................... President
CHRISTIAN HOLMSTRUP '39 ............... _...... _....... Vice·President
VIRGINIA MACKOY TRAUTMANN '40 ........... _....... Secretary
HERMAN MEYER 'II ... _...... _...................... _................... Treasurer
Members of the Executive Committee
Carl J. Sutter '29
Joseph B. Flotten '2 6
Wesley RogIer '34
Alfred J. Krahmer '27
Alumni Trustees of the College
Alfred L. Beck '38
D onald H . Race '30
Alumni Members. Board of Athletic Control
Frederic Sutter '94
Charles Accewla '36
Alumni Members. College Council
Josephy Cawley '35
Werner Johnson' 41
Alumni Members. Board of Traditions
Robert Olwig '35
Roy Cutter '4 1
ALUMNI
CHAPTERS
Nursing Alumnae
Hudson Valley (NY)
Miss Lillian Intemann, N47 ............................................ President
Miss Elsie Chancellor, N47 ............................................ Secretary
Frank Gollnick '30 ............... _........................................... President
Alvin Messersmith '44 .................................................... Secretary
Northern New England
William J. Vallaume '35 ................ ................................ President
Miss Lorraine Turcotte '48 ...., ....................................... Secretary
Rochester
Alfred 1. Beck '38, convener
Meeting March 4
Brooklyn
Long Island
Edward Sheldon '40 and Philip Anstedt '39, conveners
Meeting March 11
Walter Konrey '45, convener
Meeting March 25
Washington, D. C.
Westchester (NY)
Charles Hellriegel '38, convener
Carl Strobel '25, convener
Albany District (NY)
Buffalo (NY)
Jack Cooper '4 1 and Fred Posselt '38, conveners
Ernest C. French '31, convener
Connecticut
Philadelphia
Robert Heydenreich '32, convener
Gunther Stippich '36, convener
Northern New Jersey
California
David Smith '41, convener
Howard Lenhard '43, convener
Manhattan-Bronx
Staten Island
Walter Bock '38, convener
Joseph Cawley '35 and Henry Endress '38, (lln\"t:nc:rs
THE
COVER
PICTURE
The young lady on the cover is the 1949 Prom Queen. Chosen by student body votes from six
candidates nominated by the senior class, the winner did not know until eleven o'clock on the night
of the Junior Prom that she was the winner. Her name? Elinor Rosenfeld of Staten Island. She is
being crowned by President Langsam.
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�Alumni Prexy's Corner
I appreciate
'come into your
counesj' of THE
you briefly abour
ation.
Come On In!
this opporrunity ro
homes through the
LINK and talk with
your Alumni Associ -
The Alumni office welcomes visitors, those who want us to do something for them, and those who just
drop in to say "hello." In the past few
months we've had the chance to greet
Art Smith, Doris Cottrell Brockman,
Bill Monge, Roy Curter, Leonard Klemann, Herman Meyer, the Rev. WillIam Meyer, Eileen Jackman O'Leary,
Ted Denton, Bill Clause, Ernie Meyer,
Norman Johnson and hi wife, Alice
Tredge Johnson. Norman is at Brown
University on one of the twO graduate scholarships offered Wagner seniors each year.
I want co thank each and every onl
of you for the fine supporr you have
given Wagner in the past years. It i
by your efforts that we of the Association are able co <10 more and more fm
the co llege "beautiful upon the hill."
The efforrs of Al Krahmer, our
Alumni ecretary, are already bearing
fruit and we are expanding more and
more. Yet much work remains which
only you and I can do and which cannot be assigned ro anyone person. We
need an Association that is ever increasing in strength and fervor for
the work of promoting the college.
Each one of us has his or her part in
this undertaking.
All of us can easily speak about
Wagner to friends who have children
of college age, we can tell abom Wagner in the community in which we
live, we can help organize alumni
chapters in our rowns or cities, and
we can support Wagner with our financial gifts. We have this year the
largest budget ever. We need it to do
something constructive for our Alm,1
Mater. We are trying ro raise $2,500
and each one of us should assume a
share of that amount. Let it not be
said that year after year only the
" chosen few" have contributed, bur
let us all give something and we will
be war over the . top.
What your Alumni Association can
do depends solely on YOu. We can
be strong and aggressive or we can be
weak and ineffective. It is up ro you,
by your support, to determine the true
calibre of the organization. Let us
rally ro the support of Wagner sincerely, steadfastly, and fervently. "This
one thing" we must continue ro do.
Walter Bock '38
Have You Wagneriana in
Your Home?
The Wagner Library is making a
real effort ro collect and systematize
hisrorical material abour the college.
Needed in this effort are back issues
of the U" aglleriall, pictures of past
events, old athletic programs, and
whatever else of this kind you may
have. Clean out that attic and send
any old Wagner historical items you
may find.
THE LINK
Themailbaghasbeenfull. too.although we'd like to have a lot more
(Ph oto-Affiliated Photo-Collu'ay)
responses to our Loyalty Fund appeal.
John Bauchmann writes regularly from
Germany. Rmh O'Hare wrote in to
A Word About Policy
Because some of our alumni of order a Wagner ring. Adelheid Baum
earlier days have returned to Wagner wrote in ro ask for classmates' addressfor degrees in later years, it has be- es. Eugene Roth, Carl Sheie, Howard
come necessary ro determine in which Lenhardt, and Siegwalt Palleske told
class they should be listed. Our present us about what they're doing. Ellen
policy is to list a man in the class of Klitgaard's "hello" was welcome.
the earlier year. For example, if a Changes of address came in (and how
member of the class of 1910 of pro- we appreciate this courtesy) from Ray
seminary days rerurns to the Hill and Brown, Walter and Barbara (Walters)
receives a degree in 1949, we shall Boecher, Gottfried Alberti, Frank
continue to list him with his original
Herr, Harold and Evelyn (Johnson)
classmates, unless otherwise directed by
Haas. Henry Endress and Mrs. Paul
the alumnus himself.
Arnold sent us addresses of lost alumWe have a similar listing for gradni. Al Beck and Joe Blum sent us aruates of the nursing school who later
ticles for THE LINK that we're saving
receive degrees. Because the nurses
for
the next issue. Mike Rosenblatt
form a separate chapter and because
their Loyalty Fund gifts must be kept and Ed Sheldon asked for information
separate, a nursing alumria is listed in about basketball games.
Reading the mail is a pleasant part
the year in which she finished nursing school. For example-Jane Jones of our job. Keep it coming. We
finishes nursing school with an R.N. haven 't acknowledged mail from those
in 1947. Later she finishes her degree who sent us articles for the current iscourse with the class of 1948. We list sue. You'll see their names elsewhere.
her as N47 and keep her in the nurs- The point is we like ro get mail. It
ing school chonological list.
helps us to get acquainted with you
We have also embarked on a policv and to find how the alumni office can
of including all former srudents of the serve you best.
college (those who left before finishing their course ) and of the old WagSomething new has been attempted
ner Prep in all alumni mailings. Our in this issue of THE LINK-the Relist of such names and addresses is la- member When Dept. We are digging
mentably short and your help in com- into our files to bring you pictures of
pleting it is requested.
the past. Your reactions will be appreciated. We want ro hear from you
anyway about what sorts of pictures
Interested in having the Wagner al- and articles you'd like. Your editors
umni sponsor a lecture-concert series spend a lot of time trying ro think of
on the Hill? Some of the Staten Island what you would like ro see and read.
alumni have suggested this idea. Let's Your suggestions would be most helphear your reaction!
ful.
ALUMNI PRESIDENT
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�Here's How It Happened
He Couldn't Stay Away
Dr. Henry Freimuth '99 and the
Rev. O. E. Braune '00 both wrote in
to tell us of the origin of the Wagner
colors of green and white. It happened
back in 1897 or 1898 and the occasion was a decision to create a Wagner
pin. Various designs were presented
and the one which was chosen by the
student body included the colors of
green and white. The green is meant
to symbolize Life, the white Purity and
Truth.
Dr. Clarence C. Stoughton, Wagner president from 1935-45, proved
that his real love is education by accepting the presidency of Wittenberg
College, Sprmgfield, Ohio, effective
September l. Wittenberg is the largest
of the thirteen colleges of the United
Lutheran Church in America.
When "Prof." resigned as \Y/ agner's
president in 1945 to become Srewardship Secretary of the UL.C.A., there
were many who said he wouldn't be
able to stay away from the educational
held for very long. Now they know
how right they were. The Wagner alumni unite in wishing Prof. well in
his new work, but we wonder about
that "small, but good college" line.
After all, Wittenberg has thirceen hundred students.
Wagner enrollment figures, as of
October 1, 1948, show 767 men and
232 women in the day session, with
435 (359 men, 76 women) in the
evening session and 27 in the Halloran
Hospital Extension division for a toral
registration of 1461.
Sixty-two students were admitted in
the February registration, including
girls from Bntish Guina and TransJordan. About fifty students finished
their work and will return in June to
receive their degre,es.
Alumni are reminded that they have
the privilege of borrowing books from
the college library. The alumni office
can furnish a list of the latest acquisitions to those who request it.
We Want To know All
About You!
A request comes into the alumni
office asking how many alumni arc
teaching. Another asks about the political activities of Wagner alumni. We
are asked how many alumni serve as.
trustees or directors of public institutions or schools. These questions and
others like them ofte:1 come to us from
agencies which rate colleges, and we
ought to know the answers.
Sometimes we clo. Afore often we
don't, or we hazard a guess. It is important that we be able to answer accurately and well, and the only way
we can is with your help. Enclosed
in this issue of THE LINK is a Biographical Blank. Please answer its.
questions accurately and carefully, and
m:til it to the alumni office. We'll be
very grateful.
We shall also use the information
in the compilation of a forchcoming
volume, Who's Who AII/ong Wagller
A/filII/Ii, which will be just as inclusive
as you permit it to be. Don't let modesty bother you too much. Tell us all
about yoursel f and soon;
.'
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(Photo-Herbert E. HeU 'itl)
Chester Sellitto (13) takes a foul shot in the wheelchair game against the Halloran Hospital paraplegics on January 28.
Wagner suffered the same fate as Columbia, NYU and all otheJ college teams who have played a wheelchair game. \'{fe lost, 44-19.
4
WAGNER COLLEGE
�,.
I REMEMBER LUDDIE
By GUNNAR KNUDSEN '28
--
We loved his shoes! When Gabriel
announces the coming of the Lord, he
will do no more effective job than
did Dean William Ludwig's shoes for
him. They were his avalll garde.
squeaking a warning of his advance.
If all did not become serene and studious at the first squeak, it was pure
Ignorance on the student' part.
The Lord and Professor Ludwig!
There was a Jovian aspect about the
man none could escape. We lived under his judgment, were the recipients
of hi love, the objects of his justice.
The psalmist knew whereof he spoke'
"Thy thunder rolled and resounded.
lightning lit up the world, earth shook
and ,vas confounded , as thou didst
tread ... "
With Prof. Ludwig we had a great
sense of living under judgment. Indeed, the feeling was inevitable in
those regimented days at Wagner.
There was crime and there was punishment. The crime possibilities were
many: being our of a room during
evening study hours, not reporting at
morning study hours, not having beds
made in time, and other sundry offenses. The punishment was K.P.a reliable source of wood supply for
professorial fireplaces .
There were, of course, other punishments. We remember once having
been reported (always tantamount to
conviction) and ordered to report on
Saturday afternoon to Prof. Ludwig.
Here is an apocryphal transcript of
the conversation.
Prof. Ludwig: Humph, Mr. Knudsen, you are reporting for K.P.
I: Yes, sir!
Prof. Ludwig: And now
must
find something for you to do.
l: Yes, sir!
P.L.: You do not know too much
about Martin Lurher:;
I:
0, sir !
P.L.: Do you not believe you should
know more?
I: Yes, sir I
P.L.: We have a good library, and
in it are some volumes dealing with
Martin Lurher. There is also an encyclopedia there. It has something in it
about Luther. You cou ld learn more
there.
I: Yes, sir l
P.L.: I "'ould then suggest for your
K. P. that you go to the library, read
r.bout Lurher, and bring me a short
THE LINK
side of his nose, crossing the bridge,
and descending to the first knuckle
down the west side of the facial topography in question. There it would rest,
and logic became effectively clear to us
all. The gesture was a signal for rapt
attention.
Hi connections with Wagner spanned three generations. Beginning in
Rochester in September of 1907, he
survived the shift to Staten Island, the
second generation, and the expansion
of Wagner when he became dean and
finally moved into retirement. Dean
Ludwig had come to Wagner from the
pastorate, following his graduation
from Mr. Airy Seminary.
biography - say about twO thousand
words.
l: Yes, sir!
We hope the kind reader has noted
the brilliance of the conversational exchange. That was the pattern of the
normal neophyte's conversation with
the learned professor. "Let your conversation be 'yea, yea' and 'nay, nay.' "
The importance of this form of conversation, although not recommended
for general social use, can be understood only in this light. It was an
escape. Through the medium of conversation, one-sided though it may
have been, the blow was softened.
Thus justice and love were mingled ;
judgment was executed and one':;
knowledge of Martin Luther enhanced.
The characteristics of the man were
many. We remember one that, for
some, defied imitation. The corpulent
in the student body never could imitate it, only the thin or wiry variety
of student could. The good professor
had a habit of comfortably seating
himself in his chair, crossing his knees,
and then winding his free foot abour
the calf of his other leg. As an afterthought, the reason for this pose may
have been that in thus curting off circulation to the extremities, more blood
was pumped to the brain. Whatever
it was, Prof. Ludwig's statue, whenever it graces the campus of Wagner,
should be struck in this form.
This scholar from the University of
Berne, Switzerland, also anempted to
lead us through the mazes of logic.
'when a fine point was to be made, it
was always accompanied by the sliding of a large fore-finger up the east
Kindly, stern humor, thundering
temper - the shaggy, large form of
Dean Ludwig was Wagner. He pur hi,
heart and his great Ii fe into it, from
the first day to the very last-and still
holds it in precious memory in his
beloved Rochester.
How true this is can be gathered
from the writings of his own pen.
"Graduation! It means to a teacher almost as much as to parents the weddll1g of their children. They rejoice
and at the same time feel sad at their
departure. They cannot but ask themselves whether the children will make
good or whether they might not have
done more for them, given them more
attention, a better education and ,\
sounder moral and physical training."
It was in this last that Dean Ludwig shone-the giving of a sound
moral education. There lay his great
strength and his value for each of us .
We said that we loved his shoes; but
as lime has gone on, we have come
to love him who wore the shoes.
Some years ago the Wagner faculty
established a fund called the Stoughton
Student Loan Fund, named for former
president Clarence Stoughton and Mrs.
Stoughton. This fund is available as
a source of loans to Wagner students,
without interesr. A faculty comm inee,
headed by Dr. Ida Everson, is endeavoring to increase the amount of the
fund and would welcome alumni support. If you would like to contribute
to this Loan Fund, write to Dr. Everson at the college.
5
�From Way Down East
Operation Endowment
In England the "old school tie" is
an article of apparel, but in this country it's a state of mind, a deepdown feeling, a love for school that
links generations of alumni tOgether.
This school spirit was especially
evident in the case of the thirteen
Wagnerians who met tOgether in Boston on December 17, 1948, to organize
the Wagner College Club of Northern
New England. Though the Hudson
Valley Club was the first to organize,
it certainly couldn't have been ahead
of New England in enthusiasm.
Some of those present had at first
hesitated to come because they were
afraid that none of their classmates
would be there, but everyone soon
discovered that when a group of Wagner people get tOgether there are no
strangers among them.
Thanks to Bill Villaume '35, we
were able to meet in the Boston City
Club for the dinner and had the use of
a club room for our informal meeting
afterward.
It seemed especially good to be able
to get tOgether with some friends and
JUSt "talk Wagner" for awhile. Very
little acrual business was concluded
during this first meeting except to elect
Bill Villaume as president of the Club
and to make some plans for furure
meetings. (Ed . note- Lorraine Turcotte was elected secretary.)
Dr. and Mrs. Langsam and AI
Krahmer were kind enough to make
the long trip from New Yotk to be
with us, and their reception, though
not large in numbers, when measured
in terms of enthusiasm and genuine
welcome was large indeed. We were
very much interested in the first-hand
news from " the Hill," and in the longrange plans being made for the furure
of Wagner.
Alumni who are not within easy
traveling distance of Staten Island
have always felt rather cut off from
alumni activities. But if other sectional
Wagner clubs have half the feeling of
Wagner spirit that ours has shown, all
far-flung alumni will surely feel that
they are taking a real part in Wagner
alumni affairs.
- Lorraine Turcotte '48
On the basis of careful calculation,
we estimate that it costs $610 per
year to provide instruction for a reg·
ular full-time student at \'V'agner College. In addition, the College is making available $20,000 annually by way
of outright scholarship help-not
counting permanent loans to preministerial students nor self-help opportunities for other srudents. On a
pro rata basis, this sum represents an
average of $21 per student. The cost
per student to the College, therefore,
is $610 plus $21 or $631 per academic year.
The tuition charge, on the other
hand, is only $400 per year. Or, if
the comprehensive fee of $50 be added, $450 per year. The annual deficit
therefore amounts to $181 per student. Obviously the resulting deficit
must be made up somehow, else the
College would soon be bankrupt. The
extra sources of income include current gifts, alumni donations, Church
contributions, bequests, income from
the Evening Session and Summer Session which have a relatively low over·
head cost, and interest on the endow·
ment.
In the case of some colleges, particularly those with an endowment of
$10,000,000 or more, the return on
investments goes a long way tOward
paying the difference between cost per
student and tuition per student. Even
these colleges now feel the "pinch" of
increased costs and lessened interest or
dividend rates. How much heavier is
the burden on a college, such as Wagner, whose tOtal endowment fund is
$420,000! (Wittenberg'S endowment
is five times this sum, Muhlenberg'S
about three times, and that of Carthage approximately d 0 ubi e this
amount. )
The income from our endowment
for the year ending June 30, 1948,
was $16,640-a tribute to the financial skill of those entrusted with the
task of investing the moneys of the
College. And yet, the annual income
from our endowment was $3360 less
than the money given out by the Col·
lege in scholarships alone. Or, put
another way, the income from endowmtnt, if pro-rated, averaged only $17
per student per year while scholarships averaged $21 per student. Put
still differently, the income from endowment represented a sum insufficient to pay the salaries of even four
full professors among the seventy of-
In forthcoming issues we shall offer a three-part history of Wagner's
early days by AI Beck, a story on Wagner's music in the early. forties by Joe
Blum, "Wagner Debating" by Bruce
l.arney, and other artIcles. ext issue
out about May 12-made possible by
your support of the Loyalty Fund.
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ficers who comprise our faculty and
administrative staff.
Let us, finally, make one more comparison. The endowment per student
at Amherst College is approximately
$25,000; at Bowdoin, $14,000; at
Lafayette, $5000; at Lehigh, S.fOOO;
and at Wagner-$440! Verily, this
disparity must be corrected if Wagner
is to keep a high place among our
country's colleges.
If the figures cited have any eloquence, then they surely have called
attention to the crying need for more
endowment for Wagner. \'V'ill the alumni and alumnae respond to this
calion their loyalty? I know they will.
And that is why we foresee for our
beloved alma mater a glowing future
as one of the strong small co lleges in
America.
-Walter Consuelo Langsam
Meet Margaret Rauffer! Margaret is
a Wagner fresh!nan, holder of the first
Alumni Scholarship awarded laSt fa ll.
Margaret was graduated from Bridgeport (Conn.) Central High with honors last June and has continued her
fine work on the Hill. At the end of
the first semester her name "a on the
Dean's List.
Your gifts to the 1948 Loplt,. Fund
made it possible for the AlumnI Association to offer this scholar~hip. Your
continued and increasing support will
make it possible for other !lne young
people like Miss Rauffer [0 ;mmd
Wagner.
Two new alumni chapters lame into
being this month. The Rochester group
was organized March 4, Brooklyn club
on March 11. Urge the convener of
your group to get things starred.
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�Half Way Ther e!
At thi5 writing (Feb. 18) the annual Alumni Loplty Fund is about at
the half way mark. $1156 in cash has
been received, with an additional $211
pledged. We gr,uefully acknowledge
response from the following alumni.
They are listed by classes and the numeral in parenthesis denotes the number of living members of the class:1886 ( 1) Herman C. A. Meyer
1889 (2)
1890 (3)
1892 (3) Oscar Krauch
1893 (3) J. Christian Krahme.r
1894 (5) William Betz
1895 (3)
1896 (1)
1897 (5)
1898 (3) Theodore E. Palleske
1899 (3)
1900 (3 )
1902 (4) Walter C. G. Veit
1903 (4)
1904 (2) Emil W. Weber
1905 (2) Hugo Perdelwitz
1906 (1)
1907 (2)
1908 (3) Henry C. Meyer
1909 (2) Henry B. Dicken
1910 (2)
1911 (7) E. A. Sievert
1913
(2)
1914
1915
(8)
1916
1917
1918
1919
1920
1921
1922
1923
(2)
(2)
1924
1925
1926
(3)
1927
(8)
1928
(8)
(3)
(5)
Heinrich A. Kropp
Clarence L. Braun
Frederick E. Reissig
George R. Tamke
(3)
(2)
(5)
Conrad R. Reisch (pledge)
Gustav K. Huf
(3)
(6)
(5)
(6)
1929 ( 10)
1930 ( 13)
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Herman A. Meyer
W. R. Meyer
Robert H. Ischinger
1931 ( 19)
19,,2 (18)
1933 (12)
19,,1 (16)
19,5 (21)
1936 (32)
John F. Bauchmann
Milton T. Kleintop
Fred W. Kern
George Aus (pledge)
Joseph B. Flotten
Theodore G. Tappert
John \Vf. Kern
Alfred J. Krahmer
Gunnar Knudsen
Siegwalt Palleske (pledge)
Frederick R. Ludwig
Howard A. Kuhnle
Donald H. Race
Frank L. Gollnick
Werner Eberbach
Edwin C. Tappert
Nathaniel Kern
William J. Voss
Austin L. Bosch
Ernest C. French
Herberr E. Sutter
Robert A. Heydenreich
Ernest A. Meyer
Edwin J. Grubb (pledge)
Paul J. Kirsch (pledge)
Edwin H. Smith
Michael . Rapp
Robert A. Olwig
}'lvester Bader
Arch B. Tripier
William J. Villaume
Hcinrich Suhr
Waddie R. Procci
Justus W. Ahrend
Charles N. Acccwia
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Thelma Biele Corey
Bernard Blomquist
1938 (38) Alfred L. Beck (pledge)
Henry Endres
Walter E. Bock
1939 (40) HarolJ Haas (pleJge)
Chris Holmstrup
Paul Carney
1940 (54) Fred'k H. Willecke (pledge)
Noel H. Dahlander (pledge)
Lillian P. Taylor (pledge)
Lloyd F. Rice (pledge)
Adelheid Baum
Margaret Mayer Sheldon
Edward A. Sheldon
Arnold J. Cerasoli
Eleanor M Dossin
Marjorie Rieb Seguine
Carolyn Meyer
Lester Trautmann
Virginia M-ackoy Tr~utmann
1941 (57) Louis C. Suessman
Dorothy Behrens Carney
Frances Wightman Pritchett
Arthur R. Smith
Dorothee Heins Holrnst rup
Roy Cutter
Susette Meyer
1942 (58) Joseph DiCosmo
Ruth Haas Roeper
Wilbur H. Sterner
Stanley Rycyk, Jr.
1943 (64) Marguerite Hess (pledge)
Richard H. Weiskotten
Julius J. Schlaer
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Gloria Rappold GreenIng
Mary Manning Sterner
Alvin F. Messersmith
Lenore Carney Taylor
James H. LaHart
J. Trygve Jensen
1944 (52) Matthew Thies (pledge)
Grace P. Dahlander (pledge)
Paul Reisch
Arthur H. Pelltz
Theodore C. Herrmann
Gertrude H. Hustedt
Paul Alberti
Jean Krumpe
Mildred Ernst
1945 (47) Catherine Yarger Messersmi th
Dorothy Mohlenhoff
Walter H. Kortrey
Louise E. Christiansen
Evelyn E. Schaefer
Arthur E. Baron
1946 (45) Lois K. Dickert
Andrew J. Giorlando
Violet Dittmer Geffken
19·17 (52) Norman H. Fowler (pledge)
Robert H. Armstrong (pledge)
Claude F. GeJken
Marjorie L. Hartung
1948 (104) alvawre D'Adamo
Hildegard Viohl
Charles C. Dinkel
Norman Johnson
Walter E. Reichelt
Honorary Alumni
Walter C. Langsam
Mrs. Walter C. Langsam
Dean Mary Burr
In memory of
First Lr. Orlando J. Buck
Former studcnts
Eleanor J. Wtllecke (pledge)
Alfred B. Robens
Evelyn Johnson Haas (pledge)
)\ursing alumnae (163)
Jean Oedcr LaHart
Marie Palmier
1937 (31 )
Alicc Tregde J oh:15, n
Mary 0' Leary
Dorothy Gross Albcrt i
Anita C. Russo
Jeanne E. Pollak
Jane Aagenas
Theresa Ho: hstrassc,
Betty B. Sei fman (pkJge)
Verona L. Miller
Mary Carney
Elsie Ch:lncellor
Frieda Stoerzinger
Alice Patterson
Claire D. Perlstein
Y olan R Guttman
Claire Eilenberger
Gloria Gilmour Di:k
Audrey Goewey
Miriam Herron
Dolores Miralles Len:u
Rhoda Lee Davidson
It Takes a Lot of Help
President Walter Bock of the Alumni Association has appointed a special
committee to work with the AlumnI
Secretary in arranging this year's Alumni Day program. (Alumni Day
is June 3; Commencement June -f).
Jack Berglund is to be chairman, with
Rolf Danielson, Art Smith, Phil
Laub, Lillian Intemann, Naomi Stoyer
Monge, Ruth Forster Rogier, Stanley
Stillwell, and Leonard Klemann as his
assistants.
A nominating committee has also
been appol11ted with George Tamke.
Jr., as chairman, and Fred Willecke,
Iggy Darson, Edith Daniels Raisch,
Ruth Haa Roeper, and Don Race as
its members. Borh committee chairmen
and the Alumni Secretary ,,,ould welcome ideas from any of the alumni.
Got an idea on any of these matters?
Mail them in!
A Low Bow of Thanks
We bow low in gratirude to Al
Beck, Wally Bock, Lorraine Turcotte,
Jerry Knudsen, and Dr. Langsam for
contributing articles to THE LI:\,K; to
Henry Endress, Carl Futchs, Mrs. Paul
Arnold, W. E. Howell, Dr. Ralph
Deal, Joe Blum, Dr. Henry Dickert,
Marguerite Hess, Mrs. Herb uner
and Bunny Barbes for helping r<:duc.:
the number of missing persons by furnishing assistance in procuring new
addresses; to Pastor O. E. Br,lLIne and
Dr. Henry Freimuth for furni -hing information on the origin of \\',lgner's
colors; to the alumni listed as (011\'<:n ers and chapter. preSidents for their
fine help in organizing dupter meet·
ings; and to all alumni who ha\'e responded to the 19-49 Loyairy Fund.
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�Alumni News Briefs
1904-Dr. Hugo Wendel, professor of
history at Long Island University,
died on January 16 at his home in
Radburn, N. J. He received the Litt.
D. degree from Wagner in 1948.
1920-The Rev. Herman Reissig is now
with the Council for Social Action in
New York.
1925-Andrew .tah ler, Ph. D., is back
at hi post as professor of English
at Mary Baldwin College, Staunton,
Va. Andy's friends will be delighted
to hear of his marriage to Miss Elizabeth Lambert, which took place
Tovember 6, 1947.
1927-The January issue of The Lutheran carried a big story about
the building plans of Christ Church,
Ridgefield Park, N. J. Howard Winkelman is the pastor.
1Q28-Siegwalt Palleske, Ph. D., is associate professor of Modern Languages at Denver University, teaching French language and literature.
He is also presid(;nt of the Colorado
Congress of Foreign Language
Teachers; founder and past president
of the Colorado-Wyoming chapter of
the American Association of Teachers of French; and founder and twice
chairman of the Franco-German relations discussion group of the Modern Languages Association.
Palleske is working on An Anthology of French l'ie1Us of Germany and
German l'ie1Us of Fra?1ce, and is
slated to contribute to the Bibliography of French Literature, a seven
volume work to be published by
Syracuse University Press. He is
listed in "Who's Who in the West."
The Rev. Frank Herr has moved from
Williamstown, N. J., to become pastor of the Lutheran church at
Gouldsboro, Pa.
1929-The Rev. Walter Huthman died
January 24. Wally had been forced
to retire from the ministry last year
because of illness.
1931-The Rev. Franklin P. Smith assumed the pastorate of St. James
Church, Garretsen A venue, Brooklyn,
in January. Smitty had been pastor
in Sayre, Pa . An article from his pen
on "Sources and Results of Augustine's Conception of Evil" appeared
in a recent issue of the Crozer Quarterly.
The Rev. Harold Sticht's installation
at Raymertown, N. Y., had a real
Wagner flavor. Participants included
the Rev. John Klahn '32 and the
Rev. Alvin Messersmith '43.
1933-The Rev. Paul Arnold was presented with a new car after only two
months as pastor of Epiphany
Church, Brooklyn.
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Clifford Flanders is teaching chemistry at the University of West Virginia (Agricultural and Experimental station) in Morgantown, W. Va.
He is the father of four children-3
girls and a boy.
1934-Ed Smith has recently been
made controller of William R. Warner, a pharmaceutical firm and of its
subsidiary, Richard Hudnut, manufacturer of cosmetic .
The Rev. George Cordner is Protestant chaplain at Toledo State Hospital, Toledo, Ohio.
Lou Feist has been elected master of
TompkinR Lodge, F. and A. M., Stapleton.
The Rev. Erwin Gietz has resigned
the pastorate of St. Pauls, Bayonne,
N. J., to accept a call to St. Pauls,
Kingston, N. Y. Wagner now has
three G-men in Kingston, Frank Gollnick, '30, Daye Gai~e '35, and Gietz.
1937-The Rev. Gottfried Alberti will
become pastor of St. Pauls, Linden,
N. J., on March 1. Alberti has been
pastor in Ridgefield,
J., for the
past 8 years.
1937-Dr. Bruce Carney, interne at
Bellevue Hospital, Manhattan, was
featured in a picture story, "Ambulance Internes Ride Again," in the
New York Star Sunday Picture News
of January 2. Three pictures of Bruce
appear, including one titled "Rest At
Last." Bruce's opinions of ambulance
duty were quoted at length.
Dr. Manuel Bergnes and his wife,
Muriel Ahl'end Bergnes '38 have
moved from Staten Island to Norristown, Pa. Bergnes is pathologist at
the Phoenixville (Pa.) Hospital.
Dr. Bernard Blomquist is the proud
father of Karen Louise, born January 5.
1938-Donald Lathrope is teaching sociology at Westminster (Pa.) College. He and Bill Villaume '35 met
recently in Chicago at the American
Sociological Society. Mrs. Lathrope
is Mary Frost '39. A new member of
the Lathrope family, a girl, arrived
last summer.
Naval Chaplain Oscar Weber is now
stationed at the Naval Hospital in
Portsmouth , Va. Oscar had been at
sea on the U.S.S. Wright.
1939-Hope Coons Morrison is a psychiatric worker at Creedmoor (L. I.)
State Hospital.
John McDermott is teaching Business Administration at Manhattan
College, while studying for his doctorate at N.Y.U. John and his wife,
the former Catherine Newton, had
been mistakenly included in our lost
persons list. A phone call to the
alumni secretary brought the good
news that all mail had been reaching
them regularly.
Luther Kirsch is teaching English
and coaching basketball at East
Rockaway (L. I.) High School.
Dr. Paul Carney and his wife, the
former Dorothy Behrens '41, proudly
announced the addition of a new
daughter to the family, born Dec. 19.
The Carneys are living in State College, Pa., while Paul continues his
studies at Penn State.
1940-Bob White. football star of those
three great years back when, was
married to Miss Shirley Dunne of
Staten Island on Dec. 26 . Bob is Lt.
Commander White, attached to the
U.S. Naval Reserve Training Station
in Minneapolis.
The alumni office received a copy of
a very attractive booklet, i sued in
connection with the 60th anniversary
of Trinity Lutheran Church, Steelton, Pa. Gerhard (Gerry) Dietrich is
the pastor and editor of the booklet.
The Rev. Arthur Hergenhan and his
wife, the former Mildred Messenbrink, are now residents of Oswego,
N. Y. Art resigned his church in Merrick, L. I., to become pastor of St.
Pauls church, Oswego.
1941-The Rev. Jack Cooper has been
installed as pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, Watervliet, N. Y.
Jack ig only recently back from Edinburgh where he received the degree
of Th. D. at the university there.
Hans Neuberg's engagement to Miss
Birgit Aron of New York has been
announced. Hans is studying at Columbia College of Physicians and
Surgeons.
The Rev. Carl Sheie is a Home Mission pastor in Long Beach, California. His church hopes soon to dedicate the first unit of its building
program in the spring. Carl is enthusia tic about California, where he
can enjoy sunshine (that's what he
says) and yet travel no more than a
hundred miles for fine skiing. His
letter included a plug for the skis
made by T. Sheie of S. I.
1942- The Harold Ham mond (she's
the former Helen Stegman) announce
the alTival of Ru ssell James, born
Feb. 9. The baby is named for the
late Ru ssell Hammond '3 ,who was
killed in an auto accident a year ago.
Harold Hammond is teaching history
at L.I.U. and working for his Ph.D.
He is working on the life and times
of Charles Patrick Daly, distinguished jurist, author, wit, and politician of the late 19th century.
WAGNER COLLEGE
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The Bill Monges are back on the
Wagner campus after two years in
Haiti. Bill intends to study for a
Master's degree in Business Admini tration at N.Y.U. Meanwhile he is
taking refresher courses in the same
department at Wagner. He and his
w ife, the former ' oami Stover '46,
are living in Dean Bacher's home at
the gateway of the campus. For news
of aomi, see the Nursing Alumnae
briefs.
Joe Blum, whose Green Wave March
was composed in 1941 and used by
Wagner musical organizations, has
rewritten the words so that it is now
the "Seahawk Fight Song." We hope
to have the song u ed for the 1949
football season. Joe is a bakery supply sale man, working out of Boston .
When The Rev. Leonard Klemann
was in ta iled as pastor of Grace
Church, For est Hills, the Rev.
Herbert Gibney '41 was one of the
preachers. The Rev. William Hei! '29,
president of the Long I sland Conference, wa the installing official.
The Rev. Walter 10rten was installed as pa tor of Zion Church,
Long Valley, N. J., on January 16.
The Rev. Albert Stauderman participated in the service. The Mortens
(she was Dorothy Deal '43) are
parents of a daughter, born January 6.
1943-It's a girl at the home of the
Rev. and Mrs . Emil Hein of Ancram,
N. Y., born in December. Emil is pastor of St. Johns church in Ancram.
David Paul Lenhardt was born July
6. The proud father is The Rev. Howani Lenhardt, pastor in Altadena,
California. The Lenhardts and the
Bammy Reischs (she was Cathie
Clement.) got together for a little
Wagner reunion at New Years time.
1943-Dr. Erwin ~olte is now at the
Dearborn (Mich.) V.A. Hospital.
Mrs. olte is Lillian Glock '43.
1944-The Rev. and Mrs. (Caroline
Muller 'tt) Fred Reissig proudly announce the arrival of their second
son, born January 25. They live in
Germantown, N. Y.
Irving Jensen, now studying at Biblical Seminary, New York, is writing
a thesis on Edwin Markham's philosophy and making extensive use of
the Markham Library at Wagner in
the process.
The Rev. and Mrs. Edward Wiediger
are the parents of a daughter, their
first child, born in December. The
Wiedigers have only recently moved
from Jeffersonville, N. Y., to West
Sand Lake, N. Y. Dr. Arnold Keller
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'10 and the Rev. Alvin lessers mith
'43 were the installation preachers.
H)45-Inger Wa lloe (Mrs. Whitney)
announces the an-ivaI of Carlton
Rodney Whitney, born Dec. 10.
T he Rev. Walter Kortrey and Elsie
Flor were married on January 16.
They are living in New Hyde Park,
L. I., where Walter is pastor of Gloria
Dei church.
The Rev. Bernardino dell'Osso was
recently installed as assistant pastor
of Trinity church, Lansdale, Pa. Pastor of the Lansdale church is the
Rev. 'V. Paul Reumann '13.
1946-The Rev. Donald Bautz, Executive Secretary of the Washington
(D . C.) Lutheran Inner Mission Society, r epresented Wagner at t he inauguration of Dr. Martin David J enkins as president of Morgan State
College, Baltimore, Md., on Dec. 17.
Alma Leigh is recreational director
at Leake and Watts School, Yonkers,
N. Y. She i stud ying for the M.S. in
medical social resear ch at Columbia.
1947-Mark Carney has et up a photographic tudio in Union City, N. J .
A son was born to Diana Mars h (Mrs.
Holland) on December 15.
1948-Doris Cottrell, last year's Prom
Queen, took part in the coronation
festivities in this year's Prom on
F ebruary 12. Doris, who is Mrs. Don
Brockman '51 since last June, lives in
Veteran's Village on the campus and
i taking a course or two in Education just to keep herself busy.
Hildegard Viohl's engagement to
Frederick Walker of Brooklyn was
announced by her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Martin Viohl, managers of the
Guil-Den.
George Tamke is working for the
New City Press in Union City, N. J.
Lorraine Turcotte is working with
General Motors Acceptance Corporation in Portland, Me.
FORMER STUDENTS
John Kinsella, now studying at
Brooklyn Law School, is engaged to
Miss Agnes Geigerich.
William Beyhl, now a city fireman,
is enaged to Miss Jeanine Caspari of
Pleasant Plains.
John Garretson, last year's star third
baseman, has been signed by the Boston
Braves and will go to pring training
soon with their Malwaukee farm team.
Robert Mulholland, sophomore at
New York Medical College, will marry
Miss Mary McDermott of Staten Island
in July.
Gilmour 'Vagle was married to Miss
Helen-Marie Beckvar of Staten Island
on January 14. The Wagles are living
in Summit, N. J. He is a member of the
medical research staff of Ciba Pharmaceutical Products in Summi t.
Capt. N. J. Makinson is with Moffat
and Schwab, Staten Island, sel ling marine insurance.
The engagement of Jeanne Bachman
to RobertJ. Geiger has been announced .
Eleanor I{ing (Mrs. Verk uil) is now
living in Ojai, Cal.
Nursing Alumnae Notes
Frieda Stoerzinger, Reporter
Rita Flannigan '48 became :\lr5. Lawrence Brett at a ceremony in the Duke
Univer ity Chapel on December 17.
Mrs . Brett is teaching Nur ing Arts at
Duke, Durham, . C.
Betty Bondeson Gardner '.J 7 works
for the Cambridge (Mass.) Public
Health Service.
There are rumors that Lillian Intemann '48 is planning a May wedding to
R oy Arneson. June Barnard '48 is now
Mrs. Arnold Dillman and live in Holcomb, N. Y. Ann Gaines '48 was married to Leslie McLanning in Richmond,
Va. The newlyweds are living in Elizabeth, N. J., w here the bride is doing
industrial nursing.
Elsie Chancellor '47 and Eileen Jackman O'Leary '48 are back on the Wagner campus to complete studies for
their degrees . 1ary Alice Hill '47,
Helen Sup '48 and Florence Hardie '48
are working at the U.S. Marine Hospital, Staten Island. Flo and Helen are
attending evening classes at \Vagner.
Jane Philips '17 married Samuel Appel, December 27. He is a student at the
North American Baptist Seminary,
Rochester, N. Y. She will work at Genesee Hospital in Rochester. Other hrides
are Edna Giamanc() ualdel' 'I". :\Iarie
Fusco :\1etallo '16, Rose Smith Stahl
',16, Lilyan Bennet :\luh'aney '16. (An
aside from the Alumni Secretary: if
you want to get married, girls, go to
the Wagner Nur8ing School.)
Alice Tregde Johnson' 17 i~ working
at Roger Williams Hospital, Providence, R. 1., while her husband studies
at Brown University. ~aomi Stover
Monge '.J6 is back at Staten I;;land Hospital after two years in Haiti. he and
h er husband are living on the Wagner
campus.
Four Nursing Alumnae, now on the
campus for degrees, made the Dean's
List for excellent scholarship in the
winter semester. They are Florence
Hardie, Mary Kalanz, Frieda Stoerzinge r, and Verona Miller.
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�On Agai n, Off Again
Why alumni secretaries get grey
hair was never more clearly demonsrrated that in the anempt to organize at Staten Island alumni chapter in January. Believing that a speci,d
drawing card would help to bring out
a large number of alumni, it was arranged that Major General \xrilli~m
Dono\'an, former direcror ('f OSS,
would speak.
Notices went our co all metropoli.
tan alumni (we wanced to swell the.
crowd) im iting them to a meeting on
January 28. A second postcard notice
was mailed rhe Monda~' rrior to tilt:
meeting. W/e had hopes of a finc
uowd.
Then the blow fell. General Donovan 's secretary called the college saying that the General had to go to
Greece on the morning of the 28th
and could not come co Wagner. President Langsam and the Alumni Secretary wenc into a huddle. What to do?
Shall an attempt be made to get a substiture? Should the meeting be held
without the advertised speaker? An
hour's discussion followed.
The decision was that since no adeguate substitute could be hastily secured and that since it was unfair to
promise and not produce, the meeting would be called off. Cards went
out cancelling the affair.
Meanwhile the Alpha Sigma Phi
A lumni Council had changed its usual
fourth Friday plans to attend the meeting on the Hill. A phone call co George
Tamke fixed that, even though a further complication was added when the
Alpha boys decided to attend the
Wagner-Halloran Hospital game instead. Schedules had listed the game
for Curtis gymn, bur actually it was
played at Halloran.
Of course, the post office added to
the confusion by not delivering the
cancellation card to Dave Smith and
a fe'W mhers, but what really made the
Alumni Secretary a candidate for the
Psychopathic ward was a call from
General Donovan on Thursday morning that his trip was postponed a fe\\
days. Did we still want him? We did,
but decided we couldn't possibly renmify all concerned.
The net result of it all is that the
Alumni Secretary has decided to a k
Henry Endress and Joe Cawley to organize the Staten Island chapter. Good
luck to them!
We had bener luck in Long Island.
Alumni out that way (including
Queens) will meet at Niederstein's in
Lynbrook on Friday evening, March
25. Walter Konrey, the new bridegroom, will act as convener and toastmaster.
D etails of the Alumni Day program are still undetermined, but we
fee l sure that the classes of 1944,
1939, 1934, and all other five year
classes wi ll want to get cogether for
REMEMBER WHEN?
Ha.rold . Haas, Luther Kirsch, and Luther Freimuth made the papers with this picture
of a 11lId,wII1ter sWIm at MIdland Beach.
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reunions. If some encerpnsll1g member of any five year class would like
to act as the organizc:r of his class,
the alumni office offers full-cooperation. We'll mimeo and mailleners for
you, furnish address lisls and do whatever else we can to help these clas
reunions along. (N.B.-If we don't
hear from volunteers soon, we're gomg co ask individuals direcrly).
...
Reaction Nil
The alumni office was surprised at
the lack of response to our guest ion
about the Alma Mater. The final score
of our responses was 1-0 in favor of
"We Stand United." Is it possible that
it doesn't make any difference? If so,
"Beautiful Upon a Hill" will win by
default. Surely we don't have to put
a coupon on the page for you to clip
and mark! Let's hear from you .
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Our "Missing Persons"
After our list of lost alumni was
published in December, the co-operation offered by many of you reduced
the number considerably. The following still can't be located. The address
beneath the name is that from which
their mail was returned. Can you help
us restore the lost to the found? If so,
please notify the Alumni office.
Edwin Saul '42
Louise Niclas Saul '43
4.14 West 120th St., N. Y. 27
Muriel Schweer Wood,
46
15 \Yest 76th St., N. Y. 23
Estelle Sussman Schwarzfeld, ::N46
5.10 E"t 90th St., N. Y.
Yincent Peterson '37
69 Drake .\ve., S. I. 2
Earle Rohill~on '48
J 0 Chataqua, Boulder, Col.
Theodore Krupa '47
.5i Henderson A,·e., S. 1. 1
LO\1i~ Ualmer '38
24 ~ran"in Lane. Xew Br\1n~wick, N.
Jo,"ph Fabregas '41
1 Ouer Lane. S. T.
Y alentille Connolly '44
"" :lfohile A \'~., S. 1.
John F . .\leKay, Jr. '41
22.' Yi etory HI ",I., S. T. 1
\,ir~inia !lIarble Magill '44
Bihlical Seminary. N. Y.
{;('or~e Rapport '39
3 5 \\'(" ~ t 20th ~t., flayonnc, N. J.
P. 'suko\"ich '42
11l'y<i(,11 Chemical. Princeton, '1\. J.
n(llwrt .s\\"0l rt\\"Ollt •J 5
33 2 Richmond AYc .. S. 1. 2
(; {'O . Graham ·Rog-ers '33
3P-l- S Kinforshridc:e Aye .. N. Y.
\I, ,. EI,'anor Schmidt Schweppe '41
Ion S. na rke 51.. Milledge\'ille, Ga.
t~ l'o r~e B ain '3 9
11". 1 naron '4J
' h lIattield PI., S. T. 2
E thcl Ca rter '45
:\i\ .. Christiellsen '23
Ih. C eoq.!c Christopher '36
4 1>5 nennett A\'e., S. T. 10
Benj a min Cohen '35
115 Lathrope A,'c., S. r.
('has. DeGroat '38
\\'a,hin!'ton, D. C.
I~ . 1lutto11 '41
..? (l<) Lin'rmore AYe., S. I. 2
Hi l'hard Kaminq;ka '30
)[ ()llror . ~[ich .
.\rthur Klein '3 6
1iP Kin gsley ..:\\"(~ ., S. r.
Th CJ~ . Lcy)" 'J9
i6 9 n'way. Ra:y onne, X. ].
,,"m. Salinger '45
45 East 49th St .. . ' . y ,
T. ,\"'.,' Smith '.1 1
'J J 2 Ila\Tn .,,"c., X. Y. 32
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THE LINK. The Wagner College Alumni News
Vol. I
MAY,
Published
In
No ~
19~9
October, December, March, and May by the Wagner College Alumni
Association, Wagner College, Staten Island 1, New York.
ALFRED }. KRAHMER '27, Alumni Secretary, Editor
LOIS
DICKERT' 46, Assistant Editor
THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
W ALTER BOCK 38 ............................................................ President
CHRISTIAN HOLMSTRUP '39 ..............._...... _....... Vice·President
VIRGINIA MACKOY TRAUTMANN '40 .................... Secrelary
H ERMAN MEYER
'11 ........................................................
Treasurer
Members of the Executive Committee
Carl J . Sutler . 29
Joseph B. FloHen '26
Wesley RogIer ' 34
Alfred J . Krahmer '2Alumni Trustees of the College
Alfred L. Beck ' J8
Donald H . Race '30
Alumlli Members, Board of Athletic Control
Frederic SUtler '94
Charles AccelOla '36
Alumni Members, ColleCJe Council
Jostphy Cawley '35
Werner Johnson ' 41
Alumni Members, Board of Traditions
Robert Olwig '35
Roy CUller '4 1
ALUMNI
CHAPTERS
Nursing Alumnae
Hudson Valley (NY)
Miss Lilhan Intemann, N47
t\hss Elsi~ Chancellor, !':47
President
President
Secretary
Frank Gollnick ' 30
Alvin ~Jessersmith '44
President
Secretary
Fred Grunst '19
Nieves Ribes Dole '48
President
Secretary
Walter Kortrey '45
Elaine Hoebel Fuhlbruck '45
Secretar>"
Northern New England
William
J,
Villaume '35
Rochester
......................................... ..... .
Miss Lorraine Turcott e '48
President
Secretary
Brooklyn
Long Island
Philip Anstedt '39
Adelheid Baum '40
Washington, D. C,
Westchester (NY)
Charles He-llriegel '38, convener
Carl Strobel '25, convener
~Ieeting ~Iay 27
Albany District (NY)
Buffalo (NY)
Jack Cooper '41 and Fred Posselt '38, conveners
Ernest C. French '31, convener
Connecticut
Philadelphia
Robert Ileydcnrcl ch '32, convener
Gunther Stippich ' 36, convener
~Ieeting ~Iay 2
Northern New Jersey
California
David Smi th ' 41, convener
Howard Lenhardt '43, convener
Manhattan-Bronx
President
Secretary
Staten Island
Walter Bock '38, convener
Les Trautmann '40
Lila Thompson Barbes '41
THE
This i~sue' s cover shows Coach
the most Valuable Player trophy
Athletic Conference Tournament
lost to Albright (tourney winner)
tion round for third place.
COVER
President
Secretary
PICTURE
Herb Succer and Wagner basketball center, Jim Gilmartin, with
Jim won by his play in the ~1iddle Atlantic States Collegiate
in Philadelphia. Wagner beat Dickinson in the opening round,
in the semi-finals, and beat Lebanon Valley in the consola-
�COMMENCEMENT AND ALUMNI HOMECOMING
1949
Sunday, May 29
10:30 a.m.- Baccalaureate Service, College Chapel. Sermon by Dr. Henry B. Dickert of
Pittsfield, Mass., vice-president of the Board of Trustees.
Friday, 1une 3
5:00 p. m.- Alumni registration begins (Ad Building). Registration continues until Saturday
noon, the desk following the activities.
6:30 p.m.- Alumni Dinner and Class Reunions, Cunard. Main speaker, Prof. George Giesemann of the History Department. Presentation of "Fifty Year Alumnus" Awards.
9:00 p.m.- Alumni Commencement Homecoming Dance. Sponsored by the Inter-fraternity
Council.
Saturda y, June 4
8:00 a.m.- Breakfast, Cunard Hall.
9:00 a.m.- "Memories"- A class in German I taught by Dr. Faust Charles DeWalsh.
10:00 a.m.- Softball - Faculty vs. Alumni.
Movies and Slides- "Campus Life in the Old Days". (Biology Lab)
11:30 a.m.- Annual Business Meeting of Alumni Association. Luncheon.
3:00 p.m.- Annual Commencement Exercises.
Alma Mater Bids Her Sons and Daughters Welcome!
by lack Berglund '35, chairman Alumni Day Committee
Overnight lodging in the dorms will be provided for
those who reserve beds in advance.
Saturday morning's festivities start with breakfast
in Cunard at 8:00 (maybe you can eat on the new glass
enclosed porch), followed by a class with Dr. DeWalsh
in the Ad Building at nine. The good Herr Doktor
hasn't told the committee what the subject will be,
but we'll guarantee a good one with at least one
"famulus" (De Walshian for "Sto,o ge") in the classroom.
Alumni Day is scheduled for Friday and Saturday,
June 3 and 4. Mark those dates on your calendar now,
and plan to be present. A full program has been planned
and we're sure you won't want to miss any part of it.
Would you like to try living in a dormitory once
more? Maybe even attend a class? Display your prowess on the athletic field? or the dance floor? You'll
do all that and more and the amazing part of it is that
a COMBINA nON TICKET for all events including a
dance, three meals, and lodging will cost only five
dollars ($5.00). Where else would you find such a
bargain?
The registration desk will open at five on Friday
afternoon and will remain open until one on Saturday
afternoon. Here you will register, rece ive your identification tag, tickets for those parts of the program you
can take 'in (meal tickets and dance tickets may be
purchased separately), cast your ballot for officers if
you haven't mailed it in. In other words, registration
is going to relieve you of all the chores involved (and
your money) and leave you free for a weekend of fun.
Why not come early so that you will have time to
look over the campus? If you haven't visited the Hill
in recent years you are in for surprises. Dinner will be
served at 6:30 p.m. in Cunard. There will be no
business and just one speech. A special feature will
be the awarding of "Fifty Year Alumnus" keys to
twenty eight graduates of fifty years or more. This
will mark the beginning of an annllill recognition of
golden anniversary alumni.
At three we will all attend the annual Commencement exercises at Sutter Oval. We'll be able to see the
colorful academic procession, and be thrilled by the
size of the graduating class. Eight honorary degrees
will be awarded and two Distinguished Citizen Awards.
It will be something to see and to make us all recall
the day we walked up for the diploma.
At nine on Friday we will join the Senior class in
the annual Commencement E:ve dance which is sponsored by the Inter-fraternity Council of the college.
Altogether it will be a memorable week-end and we
want to see many alulPni back. You'll find Alma I\.Jater
will offer you a warm welcome.
The traditional Faculty-Alumni softball game is
scheduled for ten, and Herb Sutter is looking for recruits for both teams. There are rumors that the girls
will be allowed to play this year. F or those not athletica lly inclined (in case of rain, for all) Dr. Deal
will show some interesting pictures of "Campus Life
in the Old Days" in the Biology Lab. Included in this
show will be the old movie, " Campus Life Around the
Clock", made in the late thirties.
At eleven thirty the annual business meeting will
be held in connection with luncheon at Cunard .
Business will be streamlined (all reports mimeographed,
but not read) but not steam-rollered. The new budget
w ill be voted upon, announcement made of the balloting for officers.
�Fifty year alumni to be recognized this year include
1l.G.A. Meyer '86, Ernest Bachmann '89,
Ernest
Ileyd '89, Lewis liap '90, John Weyl '90, Conrad
Zamke '90, George Drach '92, Oscar Krauch '92,
/Jenry Erbes '93, Christian Krahmer ' 93, William
Betz '94, Carl Betz '94, Reinhold Schmidt ' 94, Frederic
Sutter'94, George Blaesi '95, Theodore 110 ffmeis ter'95,
Loyaity Fund Over $1800.00
As this issue of The Link goes
to press, the Alumni Loyalty Fund
stands at $1848 cash, with an acfditional $183 pledged . This means
that we have a little less than seven
hundred dollars to go to realize our
1949 goal. Reach it we must. We
have enough to pay for the two
scholarships and the contribution to
the college Enqowment Fund. We
must now make an effort to pay our
share of the alumni office expense.
We gratefully acknowledge the response of the following alumni.
They are listed by classes and the
number in parenthesis denotes the
number of living members of the
class:--Herman C.A. Meyer
1890
1892
1893
1894
(1)
(2)
(2)
(3)
(3)
(3)
(5)
1895
(3)
1896
1897
(1)
(5 )
1898
1899
1900
1902
1903
(3)
(3)
(4) Walter C.G. Veit
(4)
1886
1889
1904
1905
Ernest F. Bachmann
1927
(8) John W. Kern
1928
(8)
1929 (10)
1930 (13)
1931 (19)
1932 (18)
1933 (12)
1934 (16)
1935 (21)
Oscar Krauch
J. Christian Krahmer
William Betz
H.E.C. Wahrmann
Frederic Sutter
Theodore Hoffmeister
F. Arnold Bavendam
Gottlieb Betz
(3) Theodore E. Palleske
Yost Brandt
(2) Emil W. Weber
(2) Hugo Perdelwitz
Charles W. Kosbab
1906
1907
1908
1909
1910
1911
(1)
(2)
(3) Henry C. Meyer
(2) Henry B. Dickert
(2)
(7) E .A. Sievert
1913
(2) W.R. Meyer
1914
1915
(8)
(3) Heinrich A. Kropp
1916
1917
1918
(2)
(2) Frederick E. Reissig
(5) George R. Tamke
1919
1920
1921
(3)
(2) Conrad R. Reisch (pledge)
(5) Gustav K. Huf
1922
1923
(3)
(6) John F. Bauchmann
1924
1925
1926
(3) Fred W. Kern
(5) George Aus (pledge)
(6) Joseph B. Flotten
1936 (32)
1937 (31)
1938 (38)
1939 (40)
Herman A, Meyer
Robert H. Ischinger
Albert F. Kosbab
v.. Paul Heumann
Clarence L. Braun
Herbert A. Bosch
Harry J. Kreider
Milton T. Kleintop
Theodore G. Tappert
henry Wasmund '95, Charles Valentine '96, F. A. Bavendam '97, Gottlieb Betz '97, Philip Kirchner '97,
Ernest Neudoe rffer '97, William Trebe rt '97, George
Ilartwig '98, Theodore Palleske '98, Theodore Posselt '98, Ifenry Freimuth '99, Carl Ziegelbrier '99, and
Carl Intemann '99. All are clergymen except William
and Gottlie b B etz.
1940 (54)
Alfred J. Krahmer
Albert P. Schilke
Karl Schild
Gunnar Knudsen
Siegwalt Palleske (pledge)
Gustave W. Weber
Frederick R. Ludwig
Howard A. Kuhnle
Carl J. Sutter
August Kiefer
Donald H. Race
Frank L. Gollnick
Werner Eberbach .
Edwin C. Tappert
Nathaniel Kern
William J. Voss
Elmore O. Hoppe
George V. Bulin
Austin L. Bosch
Ernest C. French
Herbert E. Sutter
Robert A. Heydenreich
Ernest A. Meyer
Edwin J. Grubb
John Klahn
Paul J. Kirsch
Edwin H. Smith
Michael S. Rapp
J. Avery Smith
Robert A. Olwig
Sylvester Bader
Arch B. TripIer
William J . Villaume
Heinrich Suhr
Mabel Spitzer
John H. Berglund
Waddie R. Procci
Justus W. Ahrend
Charles N. Accetola
nolf Danielson
Frederick Nissen
Arthur Friedel
Thelma Biele Corey
Bernard Blomquist
George E. Dietrich
Bruce H. Carney
Alfred L. Beck (pledge)
Henry Endress
Walter E. Bock
Harold Hornberger
Fred Riebesell
Harold Haas (pledge)
Chris Holmstrup
Paul Carney
Siegfried Dietrich
Luther Kirsch
Lenore Bajda
Eleanor Jensen Willecke
Olive Schroder Anderson
Fred'k H. Willecke
Noel H. Dahlander (pledge)
Lloyd F. Rice (pledge)
Adelheid Baum
Margaret Mayer Sheldon
Edward A. Sheldon
Arnold J . Cerasoli
Eleanor M. Dossin
Marjorie Rieb Seguine
Carolyn Meyer
Lester Trautmann
Virginia Mackoy Trautmann
Lillian Pottberg Taylor
Jack Cooper
Russell Macdonald
Glorya Muller Stevenson
Donald M. Borth
Mildred Heppner Hoehn
Robert Schneck
Ruth Gorman Schneck
Everett Jensen
1941 (57) Louis C. Suessman
Dorothy Behrens Carney
Frances Wightman Pritchett
Arthur R. Smith
Dorothee Heins Holmstrup
Roy Cutter
Susette Meyer
Beatrice Werner Jensen
Marie J. Norris
1942 (58) Joseph DiCosmo
Ruth Haas Roeper
Wilbur H. Sterner
Stanley Rycyk, Jr.
Marie Krumpe Borth
Martin O.F. Schroeder
Ruth Kriby Schroeder
F. William Monge
Evelyn Johnson Haas (pledge)
Norma L. Arndt
1943 (64) Marguerite Hess (pledge)
Richard H. Weiskotten
Julius J. Schlaer
Gloria Rappold Greening
Mary Manning Sterner
Alvin F. Messersmith
Lenore Carney Taylor
James H. LaBart
J. Trygve Jensen
Walter Boecher, Jr.
Kenneth Axelsen
1944 (52) Matthew Thies (pledge)
Grace P. Dahlander (pledge)
Paul Reisch
Arthur H. Pentz
Theodore C. Herrmann
Gertrude H. Hustedt
Paul Alberti
Jean Krumpe
Mildred Ernst
Dorothy Krauss Myers
Cornelia Borgemeister
Edward Wiedlger
Alfred Roberts
Barbara Walters Boecher
Eleanor Ayoub
1945 (47) Catherine Yarger Messersmith
Dorothy Mohlenhoff
Walter H. Kortrey
Louise E. Christiansen
Evelyn E. Schaefer
Arthur E. Baron
Lillian Ayoub
William Fuhlbruck
Virginia Gibbs Hubbel
Elsie Flor Kortrey
Bernardino Dell'Osso
Elaine Boebel Fuhlbruck
1946 (45) Lois K. Dickert
Andrew J . Giorlando
Violet Dittmer Geffken
Carl F. Yaeger
Adeline Ripken Pfeil
Alma Leigh
Ellen Klitgaard
Phillip Spillane
1947 (52) Norman H. Fowler (pledge)
Robert H. Amlstrong(pledge)
L:latide F. Geffken
.
Marjorie L. Hartung
Lamar J. Smith
Florence Welkowitz
Max Alfert
Arthur Krida
1948 (104) Salvatore D'Adamo
Hildegard Viohl
Charles C. Dinkel
Norman Johnson
Walter E. Reichelt
George Tamke (pledge)
Gloria Aprile
Bernard Pfeil
�Honorary Alumni
Walter C. Langsam
Mrs. Walter C . Langsam
Dean Mary Burr
Paul A. Kirsch
William P. Stackel
In memory of
First Lt. Orlando J. Buck
Nursing Alumnae (163)
Jane Aag!nas
Mary Bogdan
Mary Carney
Elsie Chancellor
Rhoda Lee Davidson
Claire Eilenberger
Gloria Gilmour Dick
Yolan Guttman
Constance Garside
Audrey Goewey
Dorothy Gross Alberti
Clara Hausler
Miriam Herron
Theresa Hochstrasser
Verona Miller
Dolores Miralles Lenzer
Mary O'Leary
Jean Oeder LaHart
Marie Palmier
Claire D. Perlstein
Rena Piscopo
Alice Patterson
Jeanne Pollak
Anita Russo
Betty Seifm an
Naomi Stover Monge
Frieda Stoerzinger
Alice Tregde Johnson
Ruth Tellefsen
WINDJAMMING AT WAGNER
by Bruce H. Carney M. D. '3 7
The history of Wagner football
which recently appeared in "The
Link" brought to mind a much less
strenuous and much less publicized
Wagner intercollegiate activity that
well deserves some mention. Of all
the forms of competition Wagner
teams have entered against other
colleges, the one almost consistently producing a winning season is
varsity debating.
Our various varsity athletic squads
have had their ups and downs, the
latter being much too frequent. While
highly successful teams have come
along once in awhile in every activity, the least muscular of all varsity
teams, debate, is far and away the
most successful. During the golden
period of Wagner debating, the remarkable record of ten straight winning seasons was hung up, several
of the teams going through the ir
schedules unbeaten.
In view of the vast ignorance that
exists about debating, a brief digress ion on the techniques is in order.
A timely, controversial subject is
selected yearly by the large Eastern
debate fraternity; team managers
usually specify this topic when
schedules are drawn up. A team of
men, two or three, debate one side
of the Guestion against a similar
team on the other side. Mode of de-
bate includes presentation of the
topic in a series of speeches, alternating between the two teams, with
shorter rebuttal speeches in like
fashion after the topic has been presented by both sides.
If the debate is to a decision, local Citizens (usually attorneys,
teachers, or clergymen) are asked
to judge the winner. If the debate
is not to be judged, the audience
claps mildly , the opposing debaters
tell polite lies to each other, and
everybody goes home . No decision.
Wagner teams have always talked
on weighty matters , such as war
debt cancellation, NRA, arms limitation, city manager systems, the
closed shop, government ownership
of railroads, and once, in the more
liberal thirties, ventured to argue
that capitalism is a basically unsound economy.
Though the history of Wagner debate has some large gaps here and
there, it seems that varsity debate
started in 1922 . A s might be expected from a group of pre-ministerial students, there was always a
great deal of oratory at the school,
interclass debates being common
even before intercollegiate debate.
In 1922, with Erwin Popke as president and Prof. Stoughton as advisor,
Wagner's twenty-five students organized a Debate Club and sent two
teams to debate Upsala, with unrecorded results.
The Kallista records interclass
debating for several years, but not
until 1927-28 does varsity debating
again appear. Under Prof. Haymaker,
of the English department, and Dr.
Davidheiser, of Chemistry, a Debate Council was formed. A debate
against City Colle ge was los t.
A gap exists in the record here,
but in 1930-31 five debates were
held, against NYU, Upsala, Susquehanna, Ursinus and St.Thomas,
one v ictory and one no-dec is ion be ing the only recorded results.
This was the beginning of the
remarkable ten-year record, with
the high point in 1939-40, when
Wagner teams entered twenty-one
debates . During this ten-year period
varsity debaters took over the rostrum for 129 debates, winning at
least 63, losing 20, the rest being
no-decision or with unrecorded results. The year of 1939-40 marked
the end of decision debates for the
time being. Judges suddenly and inexplicably went out of fashion .
During this shining ten-year period, there were at least five radio
appearances, and Wagner team..;
traveled as far afield as southern
V irginia. Some twenty college s
were met, including Fordham, Gettysburg, Moravian, Lebanon Valley,
Brooklyn, Villanova and even Bryn
Mawr, in addition to those mentioned
elsewhere.
The record against
Muhlenberg is the only so-so one,
and although Dr. Davidheiser preferred towin from NYU, most of the
debaters enjoyed victories over
Muhlenberg.
"Davy's" method of coaching
was simple and direct. Each team
always had one veteran as an anchorman, each speech had to dovetail with the others, each man had
The debating team of 1935-36.
Standing -- lIerbert Loddigs
and Thelma lliele Corey. Seated -- Donald Lathrope, Dr. Davidheiser, Bruce Carney.
�to write his own outline and deve lop his own speech. A 11 of this
resulted in a W'agner team with a
welded argument, without duplications and contradictions in the
whole, and still possessing the
spontaneity that comes when one is
delivering his own words, not parroting someone else. "Davy's" fee
was two yearly victories over NYU.
Usually he was paid.
Winning combinations included
the full round tones of Nonr Ross
and Al Corbin, the earnest pleadings of Don Borth, Roy Holmstrup,
and Sid Meachem, the cynical dissents of the late Gordon Lathrope
and his brother, Don, and the rostrum acrobatics of the two Carneys,
Paul and your author, among many
others. The co-ed invasion began
in 1935 with Thelma Biele Corey
and culminated in a full-fledged
women's team under Dot lleins
Holmstrup in 1939. Many debaters
were also prominent in drarr.atics,
athletics, and campus politics.
Every college activity has its
humor, and debate was no exception. Wagner debaters recall how
Everett Jackson lost his overcoat
at Rutgers, when parties unknown
tied it to the window-shade pull
and dangled it out of the window of
the auditori..lm. Or the time we lost
at Muhlenberg by a 2-1 vote, only
to learn later that the deciding judge
was the mother of the ~luhlenberg
team captain. Wasn't funny then.
Then there was the night your
author was caught behind the Juniata girls' dormitory by a carr.pus
cop, and just made it to his room.
Or the bitter cold afternoon the
Randolph-Macon Team arrived from
V irginia, two of them in a rumbleseat. llaving misjudged Jew York
\Yeather, they had no hats, coats or
gloves, and we were forced to w~rm
therr. up in the R&H grill, gomg
through a nice chunk of the debate
team appropriation in the process.
\X' e won that night. Easily.
Now after a lapse during war
ye(1rs,' Wagner debaters are again
talking and again winning. The
season just past has been a very
successful one. \'(' e wish them luck
next year and years after . They
carry the we ight of a fine tradition
at \X'agner.
By Joe /jlum '42
at the edge of the stage in his bare
feet picking his toe-nails one minute, and plucking olives from the
speaker's table the next. \\:'ell---all good things must come to an
end, and it was a good thing this
did.
Dr. Hans Haag was then called in
"to clean up the situation," and he
did just that---- he organized a college orchestra. A very fine violinist in his own right, Dr. Haag
devoted many hours at his Ie is ure
time promoting the cause of music
at Wagner. Before very long his
group of about 25 pieces was familiar to all at various functions on
the Hill. The "musical pot" at
Wagner was fairly boiling now, and
out of all the hard work and interest
came a very fine Knabe Concert
Grand Piano and a Public Address
system. Attendance at orchestrafeatured chapel services ranked
second only to the periodic chapel
visits of the incomparable Judge
Fredrick Hackenburg. ~jany of the
\\:'agner musicians, including Bob
Schwarz, Fred Vollweiler, and Ken
Kerwin, formed the nucleus of a
Kiwanis-sponsored group which is
now known as the Staten Island
Civic Symphony Orchestra.
Editorial Note - We COUldn't find a
picture of the lillI-billies to go with
Joe Blum's article. Our readers will
have to be content with this shot of
Joe College fiddling at SOUUl Hall.
Time - circa 1930.
A bout ten years ago \'('agner College was fortunate in having several
talented instrurr.entalists on campus. To mention a few: Arnie Cerasoli- a successful ~Iajor Bowes
contestant;
Phil Luther; Stan
Rycyk; Johnny Devlin-the school's
finest Jug Player; and Beth Albertlittle sister of the group.
They
called themse Ives the
Grymes Hillbillies, and to hear
them-- they were justly named. Ten
strong, the unit toured the ~Ietro
politan church circle, spreading joy
at socials, entertainments, or any
where they were invited. Their
corny jokes and tunes were well
received wherever they travelled,
and only on one occasion was a
complaint received to the effect
that the show didn't rightly belong
in the church circle. I think that
the attractive little lady who registered the complaint was in the
right-- after all, it wasn't the most
pleasant sight to see Devlin sitti ng
A very fine String Quartette cons isting of Dr. Haag, Fred Vo11weiler, Harry Horgen, and yours
truly functioned along with the orchestra. The Qu~rrtette presented
many recitals both on the Hill and
off until disbanded by graduation
While I am on the subject of
musical development at Wagner, it
would be unfair in the face of the
present 60-piece band not to mention that in 1941 a 15-piece ChUNIFORMED band performed at
several football games . I think
they played the National Anthem
before the game, between halves
and after each touchdown. They
had no other music.
Those who remember the smaller
enrollment at the school during the
years 1938 to 1942 can well a ppreciate the contribution of literally
a handful of students towards musIc
at \X'ag ner. Today we have not only
a fine choir and an eC!ually fine
band but a full-fledged ~Iusic Department.
In the past ten years, much has
been done to further the cause of
music. It is hoped that this progress will continue.
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�WAGNER COLLEGE
and HOW IT GREW
by ALFRED BECK '38
Durmg the summer months of 1883,
the Rev. Alexander Richter, pastor
of Zion Lutheran Church, Rochester,
often drove out to the neighboring
v iUage of Pittsford to see his older
' COlleague, Pastor George H. Gomph,
D.D., then pastor of St. Paul's
Lutheran Church in Pitts ford. *
Their visits generapy took place
in the parsonage ', which was loca ted
opposite the church, but on days
when the weather was too warm to
sit indoors, they sat out on the
la wn in the s hade of an a pple tree. **
~
One of the favorite topics of discussion at such times was the acute
need of pastors able to preach competently in the German language.
Because of large Ge'r man immigration waves, every church in the
New York Ministerium (with the exception of the Church of the Reformation, Rochester: Holy Trinity,
New York; Holy Trinity, Buffalo;
and the Church of the Redeemer,
Utica) conducted services regularly in the German language and
therefore needed German-speaking
pastors.
Richter recalled that in his seminary class of '13, only three had
been native-born Germans, the rest
being able to speak the language
of that country with but modest
ability. The problem which worried
both Richter and IGomph became
the subject of a paper which Richter
wrote in August of the same year.
He called it: "From What Sources
Shall We Draw our German Preachers?"
The year before, on the floor of
the Ministerium meeting of 1882,
held at Zion Lutheran Church,
Rochester, the Rev. J .H. Baden of
Brooklyn, New York, placed the
blame for this condition not upon
the seminaries but upon the preparatory schools. In his report for
the Board of Directors of the Lutheran Theological Seminary at
Philadelphia, he said that although
many students in the seminary
claimed to be able to preach in
German, few were proficient enough
in their mastery of the language to
docommendable work. The trouble,
in his opinion, rested upon the
preparatory schools. It can scarcely be expected of the seminary, he
a rgued , to teach grammar and parts
of speech.
Alexander Richter was concerned
because of the large numbers of
Germans coming into the country
from abroad. He also feared that
the lack of sufficient German-s peaking pastors in the New York Ministerium would leave those congregations with vacant pulpits an
easy prey for capable Germans peaking pastors from other re ligious bodies.
Richter and Gomph agreed with
the Brooklyn pastor that the solution was to be found in the establishment of a preparatory school,
or academy, patterned after the
highly successful German gymnasium. To be sure, in 1871 a group
of men in New York City had tried
tofill this need fora German preparatory school by establishing the
St.Matthew's Academy, but before
(Please turn to page 12)
* Pastor Richter,
who was born in Germ~
ny, was a young man. He had been in the
ministry five years. Pastor Gomph had
been in the ministry fourteen years.
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The parsonage belonged t o Is as tor
Gomph and still stands. It now belongs
to one of his grandchildren. The present
parsonage stands across the street, next
the church. The original apple tree,
under whose branches the res olve wa s
made to establish a school, no longer
stands. Another tree of the same kind,
however, has been p lanted and grows in7 )
almost the same spot.
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Wagner's Nine Stages 5- Run Rally
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A LARCHMONT SKIPPER RECEIVING PRIZE IN BAHAMAS
SEAHAWKS TOPPLE
BEAVER SQUAD, 8-4
Wagner Collects 10 Hita Off 4
C. C. N. Y. Pitchers to Gain
First Victory of Season
MARITIME ACADEMY
Turns Back Queens, 7-3, as
Vanderzee Stars-Iona, Army
and St. Peter's Triumph
A. five-run rallY In the eighth
inning enabled Wagner College to
overcome C. C. N. Y., 8 to 4, hot
Wagner Field, Grymes Hill, Staten
leland, yesterday. The victory was
the first of the season for the Seahawks against three losses.
The Beavers were leading, 4 to 3,
when the victors staged their big
drive. Jack Eagleton and Peewee
Rees, ,the first two batters for
Wagner, walked. Emil Cenci's bunt
was handled by the pitcher, who
thref to third. Reisman let the
Pat O'Gorrnan, center, gettin(t the Santa Maria trophy from. 8ir William Mllrphy, Bahamian Govball get away from him and John ernor. fol' winning the IntpI'national St~r Cla~s 8pring ehampio.,ships at Na~.all. Lookin-g on i. Boh
Vicker, running for Eagleton, and
I,evin, who Railed with O'Gorman.
Rees scored.
Buck Hall singled Cenci home
and Mike Petrosa was passed. Bill
Thompson forced Petrosa at second, Hall taking third on the play.
Hall scored on a wild pitch, and
Thompson, who had taken third on
the play, made a clean steal of
home shortly afterward.
Nelderhauser Is Stranded
N.Y. Yacht Club Expects Large
George Niederhauser tripled, but
was left on third as the inning Entry in 466.Mile Race From
en<l.ed.
Newport to Annapolis
The Beavers scored 8. run in the
first, but the Seahaytks came back
with four straight hits, good for
By JAMES ROBBINS
two rouns, in their half of the
Conditions for the Newport to
frame to take the lead, 2-1. City Annl!.polis race. which will be the
went scorlesB in the second, but longest ocean contest on the AtlanAUGUSTA, Ga., Aprilll-Those
p e
yes- who have be.en searching for a new
P icked up two runs in the third. t·IC thOIS year, were comp ltd
Wagner tied the count at 3-all in terday by the New York Yacht
If
the
the bottom half of the inning, then Club, which will hold the event in go ing star to take the place left stories
put the game on ice with its rally cooperation with the Naval Acad- vacant by the convalescing Ben around his
in the eighth.
emy Yacht Squadron and the Hogan, found instead, in the win- baCkground.
The Seahawks combed four Lav- Annapolis Yacht Club. The dis- ner of the Masters Tournament, a garded as one
ender pitchers for ten hits, while tance is- 4.66 miles and the start veteran, Sam Snead.
for the P. G.
City was being held ~o three.
will be off Newport on June 18.
Just ten years ago Snead was mond next
The box score:
Inquiries received from yachts- dubbed one of the game's hard luck States Open at
CITY COLLEGE
WEGNER
men, who may enter from any players when he finished with an June.
Hyman . S'L ~fthoPJ'~'o Rees. cr .. ~~·l. 'oPf·~·eo recognized
club, make it seem 8 at the par 5 last hole in the 1939
Snead finished
rf'~:~'~~" ;i~·.1 y~ l ~ ~ ri':!ii. "Ib .::J ] ~~ 101 g ~ lil{ely that the event may eclipse United States open championship year, fifteen
Mad.len",( I 0 0 0 0 Q Quolb,n. ,r,o 0 3 U 0 0 in number of entries any other at Spring Mill ~nd finished two Claude Harmon,
l~;~!~o'ft'~~~ i ~ gJ J f~~g~~~. 1~::~ t ~ 83~ ocean one in the past. One of the strokes back of the three players) best showing in
Masten; was
JI.,owl".lb 2 0 0 4 0 0 Proto. "b ... . ~ 0 0 u " " races to Bermuda before the last Byron Nelson, Craig Wood and I'n 1939. when he was second to
Yakaburhi.cC l 0 0 0 0 0 :o-iie'h'er. :!b.3 0 1 1 :! 0
t
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Denny
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irst at 284.
J'ust two under h '
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Inotead of two classes under the
More recentlv., Snead had a
IS VIC onous ag. ,
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gregate of yesterday.
t<~;::~~ . ::~ ~ ~ ~ °oi !~~~\~~on '::~ ~ g~ ~ ~ cruising rule of measurement there c ance m t e
open a St. LouBo"nth.1. • 0 0 0 0 0 0 dOI,k" ... 0 1 n 0 0 0 are to be three. The first class will is when he failed to hole a putt
•
'V.nd"du. I 0 0 0 0 0 Wachsmuch.~~~ be for yachts rating forty feet and of some thIrty inches to contmue
Dahlbender WeIghs Job Here
Tot,l ..... 314 3:~ 18 To\'I. ... 36 S 10 ~113 6 more, the second those thirty-four the play-off for the crown against
Although negotiations are ~till l'
:::~~:~ i~~ ~~~~~i'inI7;(~~urth
up to forty feet and the third those Lew Worsham. Short putts have tmder way, it is likely that the
~~~::'1./oEO~I~',~:;kln;n'IW~~h.
under thirty-four feet. They )'I'ilI plagued him constantly, while .his metropolitan district may h'ive
c. r ~ Y .......... , .•. 102 000 J 0 0-4 be lettered A, B, and C. all to com- smooth swmg and long hlttmg GE'ne Dahlbender of Atlanta, a. an
"T';!:\.;~'h.\t':':i"0;;~il;;i .. 2;h:ee.~.~.ohi~!N~~ pete as one for the Blue Water powers have made him one of the assistant pro within a few ct • .ys .
• "h.user. Stol.n bam- Hym.n. Relsm.n. Ma'· Bowl of the Naval Academy Yacht favontes to see In actIOn. wher- Dahlbender, who was semi-fin~list
~~1tl~:sel~. ~~ar~~~~;;-~~f ~~lre~~~~lg3,5'R!:~7~ra~ ~: Squadron, on time allowance~ for i ever toul'namen,ts are staged. And in t~e 1948 national amateur. has
I!"'''' n.. t- Ry ~I.n·· ~n. ~ . . R"~;ck 2. Wach.· size All must be at least th.ll'tY-1 he has won hiS full measure of recp.lved an offer of a post. at the I,
~I~~~ ~Rirr~~~(':~~('~~r~~)~l~l~e~!in~ Il1I;~~?l-;)~t~; five' feet over-all length and not honors ovP~', the years. including Winged Foot Golf Club, Man'~ ro-1i
.l.aronsen (Cenci), Time or :;: ame-3 :10.
mor~ tb3D spyeptv-thrpp fp.pt
thn 1946 Brltl~h Open !tnd the 1942 nl-",.k y,rh","p Ha rmnJ'1 i<: nrn Tf i ~1
CONDITIONS LISTED Snead, Gaining Top Golli
FOR OCEAN CONTEST A Threat for BO
Former IHard Luc
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fhe Eighth Inning to Upset City College
TROT STARS AWAIT
BIG STAKE EVENTS
But Hal11bletonian Favorites,
Miss Tilly, Bangaway Not
to Meat Until Aug. 10
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Miss Tilly and Bangaway. wtntpr
book co-favorites fOl' the Hambletoman, won't meet until the $67.000
trottmg clas~ic 15 staged at Good
Time track in Goshen, N. Y., on
Aug. 10.
List~ of nominations to Grand
Circuit stakes disclosed yesterday
that Miss Tilly and Bangaway are
named to 3-year·old stake& worth
$61,000 - but never in the same
race.
Miss Ti1Jy, owned by C. W. Phellis
of Greenwich, Conn ., and Bangaway, from the Toledo, Ohio, stable
of C. M. Saunders, wt're quoted
equally at 3 to 1 In the official
early line.
Bangaway is scheduled to open
his season in the $8,000 Matron
Stakes ,}.une 3 at Fairmount Park,
CollinSVille, Ill. Miss Tilly is being
pointed for
1919 debut in the
$13,000
Club Trotting
Oaks
Historic track,
Sports of the aJtmtl1
By ARTHUR DALEY
The Strange Case of Bobby Brown
HEN Bobby Brown reached hie tlfUl
birthday, his father gave'him the present
of a baseball bat. Tht'n he .pent the
next dozen years in teaching the boy how to
nst' it. The father was an excellent teacher
And the son was 8n extraordinarily apt pupil.
Fifteen of the sixteen major league teams entered
the auction for the services of Golden Boyonly the Red Sox; failed to bid for him-and the
Yankees won out with a bonus offer of ,35,000.
But now that the Bronx Bombers haVe the
young man they are baffled as to what to do
with him. No one ever qUestioned his hitting
ability. For two straight seasons this handsome
six-footer has tOUChed the .300 mark and he
undoubtedly will get better with ~teadler work.
Howevet, he does furnish a most perplexing
problem. A. one cynic remarked, "His father
ta.ught him how to hit but he forgot to teach
him how to field."
Oddly enough, the advance report. on him had
labeled him a gOod fielder when he patrolled the
shortstop territory for Newark before he joined
the Yankees. "That's wrong," he protested In
his customary frank and forthright manner. "It
thp truth must be told, I'm a lousy fielder."
Bobby chuckled as he said it. "The only way
I can make this team iR with my bat," h. added
with a grin. Being one of the most Intelligent
young men eVt'r to entH the big leagues, the
24-year-old Brown has Ia.bort'd hard to overcome
his deficiencies with his glove.
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Severe Handicap
Whitt. has hindered hill devt'lopment mOlt i.
the fact that he never was able to settl. down
at a.ny one spot.
H. h81 been tried at third.
He
hl\~ had a taste at spcond IUld fleetlnf tryouts
at fir~t and in the outfield. It now would appear
all though Casey Stengel hu definitely given
him the third-base assignment, presumably on
front office urging.
The average baH player usually i. helpless
whE'n it comes to dictating his will on the powersthat-be. But the personable Bobby is no average
baH player. He has a weapon such as practically
no other athlete ever had. Some tim. next year
Golden Boy will be graduated from the Tulane
Medical School as a fuH-fledged doctor. He wiH
be able to KO through his internship just as he
went through medical school Which is between
seasons. But if Dr. Brown ever were unhappy
abou t the baseball phase of hll twin careers,
he would merely turn his back on the diamond
and devote his entire time to medicine. Therefore, everyone In the Yankee organization is extremely anxious to keep him happy.
'All hilS filled In tor long stretches at short.
Circuit also announced
that· large fields of Hambletonlan
candidates ha"e been nominated to
the two maJor tune-up cont ests
iJefore the Goshen classic. In the
PrevIew Trot at Old Orchard
Beach, tWE'nty of the twenty-six
nominet's are .e ligible for the
Hambletonian. In addition to Miss
Till,v, they include Guy Ambassador, Atomic Maid.
Martha
Dole, Crossbow, Corona Hanovt'r
and Scotch Pal - none listed worse
than 8 to 1 in the winter book.
Fourteen of twenty-eight trotters nominatE'd for the Volomite at
Roosevelt Raceway Aug. 5 a r.
Hambletonian
("sndidat('s.
Six
horses-Atomic Maid, Scotch Pa.l.
Fibber. Volofield, Mighty Phyllis,
and Major Camp-wpre nllmed for
both of the final Wllrm-up contests.
HARBERT OUT OF TOURNEY
Cavalier Golf Entry Undergoes
Operation-Hamilton Named
Someone Capitulated
Before spring training got under way Bobby
was a stubborn holdout. The guess here is that
the front office capitulated rather than risk losmg not only a '35,000 investment but a Bolid
.300 hitter. Not many ball players have an alternative career to add to their arguments in a
battle over salary. Sometimes one of them will
threaten to settle down on his farm and make
more money than basebaH can offer. That's
pure hogwash in almost every instance.
One ot the few times such a thzeat ever worked
.am.
w .. when HI Myel'8 of th" Dodgens returned a oontract IUUIlped to Charlie Ebbet.. h that
mail came an unsicned contraot from Zach
Wheat. J:bbet. was In.tantly alarmed at the
prospect of having two regular outtleldel'8 holdIn, out on him together. He wu also very mueh
Impressed by the letter-head on Myers' ItatlOnery which bore the !lamboyant prlnte4
"Myers' Stock Farm."
What Ebbets never knew wu that lit bad
had the letter-head designed for ju.t luch ...
occasloll In .plte of the tact that hi• •Iaborate
holding. consl.ted of one hors., one cow and a
couple of ohlckens. Ebbets grew panicky and
wrote Myers that he'd visit him In pel'lOft to
discuss term., that being a page he borrowed
from John McGraw'. book. Once Myers reoeivM
the letter, It wu his tum to rrow panlck,.
W'Oro..
Just a Showoff
The Dodeer bolll arrived on .che4ul. and his
outfielder .howed him around hi •• paclou. . .tate.
Herd. of fat cattl. grazed contently 1ft the aort!!.
pataure. In another puture dozen. of hON..
romped In ,ay abandon. It wu obvlou. evell to
Ebbet.' unschooled eye that here w .. a man of
SUbstance and that MyeN' Stock Farm w.. a
thriving buslnesl. So he gave him the ral.e anel
departed. Thereupon HI tolled far Into the nleht
returnln, every horle and cow to each friendly
neighbor who had come to hil r8lcue 1ft time of
dilltreu.
But there II no pretenae to Bobby Brown. . .
hal had to learn hi. medlcin. the haN way.
Not only has he been forced to .tageer hiI
semesterl so that it will take him twice .. lo~
to get his degree .. the ordinary .tudllllt b\It
he studi.. his medical tom.. every nlfht ttu..
ing the leuon and spend. his momln,. III ~
pital. for observation work.
As much al he love. baseball-Aaron Jtolti!tson once told him. "You're the only ball play...
who Is in the busine •• ju.t for the tun at It"he doesn't love it enou,h to lit on the baaell
and walt for occasional pinch-hltttn, ahonL
Unless he becomes a regular. he'. .. Uk. ..
not to nail up hi. Ihln,le and devote . . h'time to medicine.
Damoeles Sword
The lpector of Bobby'. Y. D. decree ~
like a sword of Damoc1el ov.r the heacla of tho
Yankee authoritle,. He i. liabl. to quit *hit
game a.t any time and not make full UII. of tho
decade or
he ordinarily would have left u
a ball player. That's why other team. are r..
luctant to trade for him even though they aopmally would jump at the chance of .nlistlnl' the
aid of his booming bat. It'l quit. polilbl. that
he'd have been a regUlar long afO It it hadn't
been for the fact that Billy Johnlon w .. vyiftl'
tor the same position on the team.
Now Stengel II trying to convert Bill, the
BuH into a tlrst baseman In order tit make room
tor the sweet-hittting medico at third. Brewn
already has improved in the field .. a r ..ult
oC steady employment and he haa been the leading Yankee manufacturer of base hit. this 8P~.
As long aa he ill in there every day, h.·1l be
happy and content with l:IasebaH. But if he ....
has to lit It out-weH, he'd rather lit 1. lli.
medical office.
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TALBERT IS VICTOR
IN FLORIDA TENNIS WOOD, FIELD AND STREAM
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By RAYlIlOND R. CAMP
�STATE- N' ISLAND" N. Y., WEDNE SL
Other Schools to Contrary,
Goldfish Off Wagner ~Ienu
TJw lJlode---But Not at Wagner
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Wagner College sludents
swallow gold fish, garter snake£,
frogs, mice or men to win glory
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?
for thell alma maler, The answer
that rang across Grymes Hill yesterday was an E'mphatic and unanimous "NO!" when more than 200
of the college men and LO-eds hrld
a student body meeting- and amid
cheel's passed a I'Psolution , against
the recent academic ragc for goldfish-eating,
SimuJlan~ou..;;ty,
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This sort of thing is absolutely OUT at Wagner College as the college dietician, Miss Grace Amson, right,
indic<ttcs to co·ed Glorya. Muller, who seems re<tdy to
select a nice supper from a goldfish bowl. The Wagner
student body and dietician have voted a unanimous ban
against the latest college craze of eating goldfish.
REMEMBER
WHEN?
Wagner's President, Dr. Walter C.
Langsam, will teach in the summer
session of the University of Colorado, Boulder, from June 20 to July
22, and from July 25 to August 26.
He will offer a course on "Europe
since 1914" using as a text his
own book, The World since 1914,
the sixth edition of which was recently published by Macmillan. Dr.
Langsam will also offer a seminar
on "The Paris Peace Conference"
at the Colorado school. Mrs. Langsam and the two boys will accompany him . The trip will be made by
car.
, A PRIL 5, 1939
1Vli~s
Grace Am-
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sweeping the country. It is old
<luff, waler under the hI')(lge, sl
Wagner. It was done by Wagncl
stUdents in 193..1 and again last year,
' More Civilized Way'
"''{agner student s still swallow
fj,h, nice big ones like mackerel and
perch, fried deliciously and prepared wilh a pinch of salt and a
.squeeze of lemon, FIsh taste bl'tler
thi, way and , frankly, it is a more
ci\'ilized way of eating,
"\"'c belie,'c that it iR no morp
news for man to bite fish than fish
to bile man, \Ve look to the day
when men and fish can li,'e tog-ethcr in peace and not eat one another,
In this world there is room for
bolh-if fish slay in fishbowls and
men sta,v out of 'em.
Seconds A r e ]\I any
"We look to our college prpsidenl
anrl prole;sors for leadership an~
inspiration, We resoivp not to
harm onc s('ale on a goldfish', hpad
unlil they do. Vve belip\i~ th.' ,
gold fish is one thing profes~or 5
won't swallow,"
Innumerable seconds to Ihe resolution were heard amid cheers of
the studenls,
The rererenre to the stunt as
"old stuff" at Wagner was made in
connection with the' aclion of Bell
ulric-h, WilD as a Wagner sluclenl
in 1933, enlertaincd fellow-"ZlInch
Brothel'S" in the dornlitory a~ iI
ti>h-patN. for th" sum of $:i, The
son or 10 Bayvicw pla ce, \Vard l1ill.
Wagner College diclician, expressed
he,' horror of the wholesale devouring of goldfish on ('ollege campus('s
by banning all diets of fish in the
Wagner dining hall ,for two ,,'pc].;s,
"It's awfUl," Miss Amson upclared,
"Fish is very heallhy food, but not
goldfish !"
P r ofs M ust Set Pa,'"
In a resolution I'idiculing the
present intercollegiale compelition,
thc "'-agncr students declared the y
would not consume goldfish unless
I heir professo rs did-but "wc beIjen~' a goldfish is one thing professors won't swallo-w " \,,,'as the "Zunc-Il Brot hprs" was a group of
an~\\'e-r.
('ampus I'oocl fpllows, hpaderl b)' \'1Christian Holmstru)l, prpsirlcnt or ri"h, a 200-pounder who" as called
Alpha Kappa Pi r'ralern ilY "nd "Jdll~."
\'ice-president of the WagnPl' SI uA ~('a[' ago RIlOlIH'l" \'v"agnrr student Associa! iOIl, railed upon Il,p
secrptary. ]VIarion JcnsPll, to read drnl, noll' graduated. Edward \\'('1to the assembly an edilorial that ieI'. carfieri out the .saIne stunt 10
apppared Monday in The Advance l'aisf' mOIlf'Y 10 fel urn home for a
which suggested to \VagnE''' stu- vacation. 'Vellcr swallowp.d hi5 own
dents that they defend their colIpg'e's laurels in the fish-swallowing
till.
The reading was quirkly followed
by a resolution introduced by John
F . Devlin. It reads:
"We, the students ot Wagner ColIE-ge, have watched with little interest I he wholE'sale swallowing of
defenseless goldfish ill the new inter('ollegiate> competItion that i,
Thanks to Ted Denton and others
our listing of former students is increasing. 1419 copies of the March
Link were mailed out. We want to
add to our mailing list and ask for
your help. If you know of names
that should be included, lets hear
from you. As far as possible, we
are now listing former students
with the classes they belonged to
while at Wagner.
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We're sorry that the type carrying
the informat ion about the official
Wagner ring got "pied " in the Ma rc h
four goldfish bC'rorc an audiPJlre or
24, at ten cents PCI' person. Bf"cau::-of'
of the popularity of I he slunt, he
ga\'e two encores, finally clearing $8.
It was point('d out in a leI tel' I'Cr,,;\'ed yeslerday from anolher Wagnet' alumnlls that \Vellet'-conl ral'Y
to the present warnings of scient·
ists --still has no tapeworms,
Link.
The correct figures are
$13.42 for the pin, which is the
head of the ring (not the Ad Building shank) with chain and graduation year; $22.57 for the lightweight ring, and $26.23 for the
heavyweight.
The alumni office has received
several inquiries from alumni. For
any others who may be interested,
we will take orders if you send us
your name, year of graduation, ring
size, and the degree you received .
A five dollar deposit must accompany
every order.
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The Biographical Blanks, which
poured in so rapidly for a while, are
not coming in too regularly of late.
We have about 200 in of the 1419
mailed out. If you are one of those
from whom we have not heard, please
send it in soon. We need the information for various accreditation
groups, for the college placement
bureau, and for the publication of
our Alumni directory.
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We are working toward the elimination of duplicate mailings where
husband and wife are both alumni
and will soon have a system perfected. In March, however, we sent
it to both because of the Biographical Blank.
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Comments on the "Alrra ~!ater"
question continue to come in to the
alumni office. To date , most of
the letters favor the newer song,
"Beautiful Upon A Hill". Thelma
Biele Corey '37, one of the earliest
co-eds, is one who voices a sttong
plea for "We Stand United", but
hers was one of the few letters received on that side of the <;llestion.
Thelma feels that it is unfair to
older alumni to make the change.
F or her "We Stand United" is a
battle hymn, a standard, an inspiration. Writes Thelma, "I believe in
progress and am delighted that
Wagner has developed so tremendously in the past twelve years, but
to change the Alma Mater is going
too far and is entirely unnecessary.
There have been so many other
changes that the old song remains
as one of the strongest links I have
with the college. To change the
Alma Mater would definitely weaken
that link".
longer serves its purpose, she says.
Its words like "chosen few" just
have no meaning anymore. Even if
we are a chosen few, she writes,
it's bad taste to broadcast the tact.
"Let's face it", she writes,
"Songs, as other things, become
outmoded. They keep their places
in our hearts, but we should face
the fact that they may not always
fulfill the purpose for which they
were originally chosen. I'm sure
we all would like to keep WSU as a
Wagner song, but on listening to
BUH we find that it does interpret
the spirit that is Wagner, and no
other college, for all its graduates
and for the present 'chosen few' "
Alumni Office Visitors
Visitors to the alumni office in
the past two months included Peter
DiLeo '40, Donald Haher '48, ~!ax
Alfert '47, Gus Huf '21, Sydney
Meachem '40 and Noel Dahlander
'40. The mailbag brought us, besides Biographical blanks and Loyalty Fund contributions (how we
love those!), letters from Evelyn
Ohr Phelan '41, ~!artin Schroeder
'42, Ev Jensen '40, Prof. Stoughton,
Avery Smith '34, and Thelma Biele
Corey '3 7. Thanks to all of you.
Keep the mail coming and be sure
to stop tn when you are on the
Island.
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STILL LOST
Despite the co-operation of friends
and alumni who have helped reduce
the number of missing persons, we
still have a number of" lost alumni ",
some of whom have only recently
moved without giving us a change
of address. Can you help with any
of these? Your reward - a free subscription to The Link.
George Bain '39
Louis Balmer '38
Adelheid Baum '40, secretary of Hazel Baron '41
the new Brooklyn chapter, feels Rev. William Boehne '43
Carter '45
differently. Her choice is "Beauti- Ethel
Niels Christensen '23
ful Upon A Hi 11", although she Dr. George Christopher '36
wants it changed to "the" Hill. Benjamin Cohen '35
She prefers it to WSU because of its Valentine Connolly '44
Harry J. Dahl '39
greater aesthetic qualities and Joseph Fabregas '41
suitability. as an Alma Mater for
Raffaelo Francini '41
Ernest Graewe '40
Wagner. WSU could be the Alma
Mater for any school, BUH is dis- Rev. Edwin Gunderson '36
Douglas Hoverkamp '48
tinctly Wagnerian.
nichard Kaminska '30
Arthur Klein '36
Adelheid says she sympathizes Theodore Krupa '47
with the feelings of the earlier Rocco Latronica '41
graduates, but insists a call to arms Thomas Levy '39
McKay. Jr. '41
like WSU is no longer needed. It John
Heinz Mackensen '43
sounds to her more like a football Virginia Magill '44
song than an Alma Mater. WSU no Alexa,nder !\likhalevsky '43
Allan lI1iller '33
John E. Petersen '32
Vincent Peterson '37
Charles Graham Rogers '33
Eleanore Schmidt Sch\\eppe '41
Paul Sukovich '42
Robert Swartwout '35
Sheldon Taylor '48
F'rank Wagner '45
Robert White '40
CIlAPTEg IIAPPENINGS
Four new alumni chapters have
been organized since the last issue
of Th e Unk, and definite dates
have been set for three others. The
first to be organized was the Rochester chapter which met ~!arch 4
and elected Fred Grunst president
and Nieves Ribes Dole secretary.
This chapter will meet again April
29. There were about thirty present,
including former Dean Ludwig and
one time professor Elmer Suhr .
Brooklyn met ~Jarch 11. Phil Anstedt was elected president, Adel heid Baum secretary. Dean Bacher
spoke for the college. (This is the
only organization meeting Dr. Langsam has miss/d). On ~:arch 25
thirty six Long Island alumni assembled at Lynbrook to orp.anize.
\X/alter Kortrey was elected president,
Elaine Hoebel F uhlbruck
secretary. This group will meet
again May 20 to stir up enthusiasm
for alumni day.
The meeting of the Staten Island
Chapter was held on April 4 and
was attended by eighty four alumni.
Les Trautmann is president, Lila
Thompson Barbes secretary. An executive committe is being set -up
to plan a full program of activities.
Alumni Association President
Wally Bock was able to be at the
Brooklyn and Long Island meetings,
and, of course, your Alumni Secretary was there for all of them. On
the docket for May are meetings in
Philade lphia May 2, and in White
Plains, N.Y., ~1ay 27. In Washington on April 26 the alumni Secretary
expects to meet some of the alumni
at a dinner f or alumni of all Lutheran colleges. Out of the meeting we hope plans for the formation
of a Washington chapter will come.
It's getting late in the season,
and plans to organize Northern N ew
Jersey, Connecticut, ManhattanBronx, Albany, and Buffalo may
have to be put off until the first
thing in the fall. If possible, some
of these meetings will be held .in
May, so don't count them out yet.
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�Several of the re cent college
chapel speakers have been alumni.
Heard recently have been Dr. George
Tamke, Pastors Joe Flotten, Frank
Gollnick, Carl Sutter, and Matt
Thies.
(Cont'd. from page 7)
very long its connection with the
New York Ministerium had been
severed.
Now Richter decided to try again
to establish such a preparatory
school in the city of Rochester,
New York. V:'ith George H. Gomph
he set about getting the support of
other ministers and laymen .interested in the new undertaking .
Very little time was wasted, and
on October 15, 1883, a meeting of
the Rochester Lutheran Pastoral
Conference was ca lled for the purpose of organizing the school. The
roll call was read, the following
pastors present: Alexander Richter,
Zion Church; Charles S. Kohler,
Church of the Reformation; C.N.
Conrad of Concordia Church; George
H. Gomph of Pittsford, and Candidate George See 1.
The first decision reached at
this organizational meeting was
that "the members of the Conference
shall constitute the Board of Trustees. "
Mr. J .S. Margraender, a member
of Zion Church, was also elected
to the board. The first president,
Alexander Richter, was then elected
by the members of the Board. Dr.
Gomph was chosen as secretary.
J .S. Margraender was asked to
serve as treasurer. It became his
task carefully to husband the total
capital of the new institution
--$10.00. Candidate Seel was appointed to serve as the first housefather for the student body of s ixsince arrangements had been made
to hold the first class sessions in
the home of his father, Christian
Seel, an elder of Zion Church. Mr.
Seel's residence was a brick structure located at the intersection of
Jayand MagneStreets in Rochester.
After deciding to call the school
"The Rochester Lutheran Proseminary," the first meeting was adjourned with prayer. A new venture
in Christian Education was under
way.
(This is the first of three articles. The others will appear in
subsequent issues.)
ALUMNI NEWS BRIEFS
1895--0r. Henry Wasmund, retired pastor of Trinity church, lvliddle Village, and Mrs. Wasmund celebrated
their golden wedding anniver sary on
April 11. Back east fro!:'1 lled Wing,
Minn. to help them celebrate was
Dr. Clarence (Caddy) Wasmund '37.
1907--Albert lIellllkamp is principal of
Elmira (N.Y.) !<' ree Academy. During your alumni secretary's high
school days in Pittsford, N.Y., Mr.
Helmkamp was principal of Fittsford TIigl).
1917--Theodore Moldenke is pastor of
Eastminster Presbyterian church,
Detroit, Mich. Possessor of Th. B,
S.T.lvi., Th. D, M.A., and D.R.E.
degrees, he is also a licensed qualified psychologist.
1921--0r. Harry Kreider and his son,
Frank '50, are the subjects of a feature article in the latest issue of
Church Management. The article,
which tells of the visual education
program at St. James church, Ozone
Park, is titled "Father and Son Combination Pays Ofr' and is "'Titten by
the editor, William Leach. Gus Huf
was recently in Puerto Rico to help
with the celebration of the establishment of Lutheran missionary work
there. Gus, now pastor of the Ascension church, F hiladelphia, was
once a missionary in Puerto Rico.
1922--Elmer Suhr is assistant professor
of classics at the University of
Rochester.
1923--Paul Wasmund's two sons , Paul
and Dick, are now Wagner students .
Paul recently succeeded his father,
Dr. Henry C. Wasmund '95, as pastor
of Trinity church, Middle Village,
L.I.
1924--Fred Kern, Fremond (Neb.) pastor, was elected for a six year term
to the Parish and School Board of
the United Lutheran Church in America at the October convention of the
U.L.C.A. Tex's son, Gerard, is now
a Wagner student .
1927--!<'rom Vernon, Texas, comes a
copy of the Twenty-fifth anniversary
booklet of Peace Lutheran Church.
Jphn Kern is pastor and editor of the
book. Hans has been pastor of this
growing church since 1938. Karl
Schild is editor of the German church
paper, Kirchliches Monatsblatt, and
a member of the Mt.Airy Seminary
library staff. John Futchs is the
subject of a commendatory article in
March issue of Ecclesia Plantanda,
which relates how John took hold of
an almost hopeless situation at
Trinity Lutheran Church, Boulder,
Colorado, and made it a strong congregation. John served two years as
president of the Rocky Mountain
Synod.
1928--Gus Weber, who is basketball
coach as well as chaplam for The
Hill School, reports a great season
for his hoopsters, who won 12 and
lost 7. (How about steering a few of
those boys up the Hill, Gus?). Gus
will again take a group of prep school
students to Germany this summer.
Incidentally, Gus was one of the
Wagner rooters at the Philadelphia
Palestra for our games in the Middle
Atlantic States tournament. Frank
Herr has moved from Williamstown,
N.J. to Gouldsboro, Pa., where he
serves as pastor of a Lutheran
church. SiegwaIt PaUeske, German
professor at Denver University, represented Wagner at the inauguration
of the president of Colorado College
on May 6.
1929--Fred Ludwig is chairman of the
Northeast Iowa branch of the Lutheran Welfare Society, besides his
many duties as pastor of the Lutheran church in Postville, Iowa.
Norman Sutterlin has acquired a car
and is learning to drive. Norm is
pastor in Torrington, Conn. and expects other responsibilities in the
fall.
1930--Malcolm Jackson (ex), former ration executive and director of pul:r
lic relations for displaced persons
under UNNRA at Munich, has been
assigned to Palestine to administer
relief to distressed areas in that
country. In his new post, Jackson
will be working on the staff of the
American Friends Service Committee,
and will be attached to the Egyptian army as liaison officer in all
matters affecting refugees. Major
Sam Anderson (ex) is on his way to
Europe for Army duty. Mrs. Anderson
and the two children will join Sam
there soon.
1931--Bill Niebanck's second son,
Bruce Charles, was the first child
born in Union County, N.J_ in 1949.
(No prizes in this county!) Bill is
pastor of the Lutheran church in
Cranford, secretary of the Cranford
Clergy Council, and director of the
newly organized Kiwanis Club of
Cranford.
1932-Bob Heydenreich, Lutheran pastor in Waterbury (Conn.), is also
secretary of the New England Conference, and president of the \\-aterbury t.Jinisters Association.
We
heard indirectly (Prof. Stoughton)
that Jack Peterson is now director
of Community Chest activities in
Los Angeles. \Ye are trying to get
an address. Jack is one of our missing alumni. ArtllUr Posselt, Lutheran
pastor in Middletown, Conn., is also
president of the Northern Middlesex
Council of Churches. Herbert Straub
is a teacher of chemistry in Woodrow
"\ilson High, I\liddletown, Conn.,
meanwhile studying at Trinity college in Hartford.
1934--0ne of our lost alumni, J. Avery
Smith, has been found. He is office
nlanager for a Birdseye Poultry plant
in Pocomoke City, Md.
He has recently purchased an eight room house
and twenty two acres of farm land on
Maryland's Eastern shore, where he
raises chickens in his spare time.
The father of 3 boys and 2 girls, he
and Mrs. Sn~ ith expect No. 6 in August. (Eo. note- r.ly guess is that
Avery is the champion father of tne
alumni. Herman Korn, one time three
letter man at Wagner, is now a member of the New York City Fire department. t.larried, he has blo childdren.
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1935-Madison Esterly, a Staten Island
resident, is in government service,
occupied with the disposal of surplu5
aeronautical parts. Lloyd lJunsdorfer
became a proud father April 1. Arch
Tripier is a research engineer for
Batelle Memorial Institute, Columbus,
Ohio. It is an organization engaged
in industrial and scientific research.
1936--lJerbert Loddigs, former foreign
missionary in China, wa.:; guest
speaker at Covenant Church, Ridgewood on April 3. Covenant's pastors
are Sylvester Bader '35 and John
Rohrbaugh '46. Bob Boettger is now
Lutheran student pastor at Ohio State
University, Columbus. George Arthur
Willshaw (ex) is living at Round
Lake, N.Y. He is employed by the
government at the General Electric
plant in Schenectady, working on
atomic energy. After several years
on the Pacific Coast as executive of
the Portland (Ore.) Inner Mission
agency, Fred Nissen is back east as
pastor of Grace Lutheran Church,
Pittsburgh. Arthur Friedel, last reported in Atlanta, Ga., is back on
Staten Island. He is now store supply purchasing agent for Frederick
Atkins and Son (35 department stores),
performing centralized procurement,
market research, and standardization
of requirements for all stores. He
was formerly purchasing agent for
Rich's Dept. store at Atlanta and
for Trans World Airlines.
1937--Thelma Biele Corey, one of
Wagner's first boarding co-eds, is
the mother of four children, vicepresident of Danco Instruments, Inc.,
a Sunday school teacher, and an
active PTA member in Huntington,
L.I. She still finds time to write
nice letters to thE'! Alumni office.
Miriam Serrick McAllister IS now
studying at the Kent School of Social Work in Louisville, Kentucky.
Mim received an R.N. degree from
Johns Hopkins School of Nursing
w~y back in 1940.
Bruce Carney,
authorof that fine article on Wagner's
debaters in this issue, will be on
the house staff of Women's Hospital.
Detroit, Mich. after July 1. HE'! is
now at Bellevue Hospital, New York.
Clara Barker IJladky reports the arrival of her second daughter, born
January 10. She is mistress of a
poultry farm in Rockville, Conn.
lJarry Van Tassel (ex) is group foreman of Photographic Reproduction for
Republic Aviation, Farmingdale,
Long Island. Norman lJarris is a
salesma!1 for a plastic manufacturer
in stamford, Conn.
l !:1:ig--Albert Schoenbucher is completing his residency training in obstetrics and gynecology at Maryland
General Hospital, Baltimore. He is
a candidate for the degree of Master
of Medicine in these subjects at New
York Medical College, Flower and
Fifth Avenue Hospital.
He reentered the regular army on March 3,
vacating commission of Capt., M.C.,
as commanding officer of A company
(ambulance) of the 104th Medical
Battalion, Maryland National Guard.
He was commissioned Capt. M.C.
(RA) under the Army Civilian Res-
idency Training Program. He is the
father of twin daughters (born May,
1948) who are "more fun than a
three ring circus". He also has a
five year old son. Schoenbucher represented Waguer at the inaugural
of the president of Goucher College.
Theodore Marston is a grammar
school teacher in Warren, N.H. While
serving in the Army in England
(1943-46), he married Miss Gladys
Paine of England. George Mayer is
an accountant and auditor for Arthur
Young and Co., Certified Public Accountants. Mrs. Mayer is the former
Damaris Kohlenberger, ex-40. Fred
Riebesell is a teacher and guidance
director for Morrisville (NY) Central
School. Pete Dean is teaching social studies at P .S. 220, a junior
high school, in Brooklyn.
1939--AI Keyser is a director of Lutheran Charities, Queens County,
N.Y. So is Bill lJamman '43,
AI's church is in Franklin Square,
L.I., Bill is at St. Thomas, Jamaica.
Carlo Marrese is a Pet Milk Company
sales representative.
John and
Catherine Newton McDermott announce the arrival of their third
daughter on April 7, 1949. Olive
Schroder Anderson (ex) is a housewife and mother in Brooklyn. Her
son, James Nicholas Anderson, was
born September 24th last.
1940--Willard Grimes is working at
electronic engineering at the Johns
Hopkins University Applied Physics
Laboratory. He and wife, Frances
Murray '44 entertained the Alumni
Secretary for dinner during his stay
in Washington for tne American College Public Relations Association
convention. Eleanor Dossin is teaching at Jefferson Junior High School
in Meriden.. Conn. Marion Ohr is
librarian in the Royal Oak (Mich.)
Library. She received her Bachelor
of Library Science at Pratt in 1947.
Albert Accetola is back on Staten
Island practicing orthopedic surgery.
He had been instructor in orthopedics
at Marquette University School of
Medicine. Tex Schneck is waiting
naval orders that may bring him East
(he hopes). He and Mrs. Schneck
(Ruth Gorman '40) added a daughter
to their family November 28. Their
son was three on April 1. Tex is, of
course, Chaplain Robert Schneck,
USN, aboard the USS General Randall.
After a short taste of parish life in
Honolulu, while visiting Everett
Jensen, Tex says he'll take the
Navy any day. Mrs. Helen Maraldo
Adams is living in the Fox Hills
housing development. "The nicest
thing about it", she reports, His the
wonderful view of Cunard Hall". Her
husband, Ralph Adams, a former
Wagnerian, has received his LL. B.
from Brooklyn Law School and is
now a law clerk with C. Ernest Smith
on Staten Island. Their two and a
hiilf year old son is named tor Lt.
Walter Maraldo, former Wagner student, who was killed in Italy in
1944. Fred Ingebritsen is a sales
representative for Proctor and Gamble. Living in Linden, N.J., Fred is
married and has two daughters.
Sidney Meachem is engaged in law
practice in Manchester Center, Vt.
Everett Jensen and Tex (Navy
Chaplain) Schneck, also '40, had a
Wagner reunion in Honolulu in March.
Everett is a Missionary for the Board
of American Missions, and is working for his M.A. at the University of
Hawaii. Tex is chaplain aboard the
USS General Randall. Also included
in this Wagner reunion was Beatrice
Werner '41 (Mrs. Everett Jensen).
1941--Frances Wightman Pritchett, besides being a housewife, is organist
for the Niantic (Ill.) Christian Church.
William Howell is a chemist for
Standard Oil Development Co., Elizabeth, N.J. Articles written by him
have appeared recently in Society of
Automotive Engineers Journal, the
same society's Quarterly Transactions, and in the magazine, Industrial and Engineering Chemistry.
Herb Gibney, besides being pastor
in Saugerties, N.Y. (birthplace of
your alumni secretary), is also statistician for the Eastern Conference
of synod and chairman of the Conference committee on Stewardship.
Mrs. Ethel Nord Donchevich reports
that she is on private duty as a registered nurse, studying at NYU, and
taking care of a year and a half old
son. (Wonder what she does with
her spare time?) Marie Norris has
recently joined the New York City
Welfare Department as a social investigator. Hans Neuberg was married to Miss Birgit Aron of New York
on April 6. Hans is a student at the
College of Physicians and Surgeons,
Columbia University. Robert O'Connor is a student at Long Island
College of Medicine.
1942-Rosa Caruso returned last summer after two years in Italy to marry
Steven Roman and to live in New
Bedford, Mass. I suppose it could
be said that "Rosa stopped roamin'
in Rome to come home and be a
Roman". Carol Brack, who finished
her work at Macalester in 1942 after
two years at Wagner, was married to
Eugene Feuerpfeil in January, 1948.
She is now acting as bookkeeper for
her husband's tire and electric
business in Spooner,
Wisconsin.
Kenneth Kerwin, who received his
M.D. degree from Long Island College
of Medicine in 1945, is now working
for the M. Sc. degree in obstetrics
and gynecology at N.Y. Medical college. Bill Wiley is a salesman for
Breyer's Ice Cream Co. Bill's enga~ment to Miss Nonie Plaatje has
been announced. Wedding date- next
winter. James Teahan is general
manager of the Oxford Wood Products
Co. in West Paris, Me. Mrs. Teahan
is Theresa Caruso '43. Martin
Schroeder is an airway forecaster at
at La Guardia Field. Roland Lange
is living in Clifton, N.J. and is a
chemist for DuPont. Roland is a
Sunday school teacher in Clifton. The
superintendent of the school is ToOl
Carey '32. Dr. Mary Nutt Smith (ex ,
was the subject of a recent editori !:.l
in the Staten Island Advance, which
commented on her work as director
of a "doctormobile'\ a clinic on
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ment of the Interior in Washington,
wheels , in the backhills of Kentucky.
"Goethe Jahr" committee of the
D.C. Robert Schwarz is teaching in
Doris Norton Stanley (ex) is living
\\agner Deutscher Verein. The celethe New York city school system. Mrs.
in Gainesville, Fla. as a hou.>ewife
bration of this event will take place
and student at Florida University.
Schwarz is Gertrude Yuill '<16. Ralph
in October.
Eleanor Ayoub and
Magalee is finishing his second year
Doris finished up at Columbia with a
Lenore Carney Taylor '<13 are liat NYU School of Dentistry. He exB.S. in nursing. She served in the
brarians at St.George in the New York
Navy Nurses Corps for two years, as
pects to finish in 1951.
City library system. Other island
a New York State PSYChiatric nurse
librarians are Mary Manning Sterher 1947--Vincent Chiola and Donald Allen
'<18 are graduate students in the
for a year, and as assistant head
'<13 and Isabella Maiorano '<1<1: Ted
chemistry department of Texas Uninurse of the Payne Whitney Clinic,
Herrmann is father of a brand new
New York Hospital, for two years.
verSity. Frank Daly (ex) is now a
son, born February 9. Ted is a naval
law student at St.Johns UniverSity in
Herbert von der Osten (ex) is an
chaplain on the USS Cadmus, a reinspector and investigator for the
Brooklyn. Frank and his wife were
pair ship whose home port is Normortgage dept. of Richmond County
among those present in the Brooklyn
folk, Va. Laurent Clody (ex) was
Savings Bank. Staten Island.
alumni chapter meeting. Max Alfert
married to Miss April Bennette of
1943-Carl Koppenhaver is director of
is working for his Ph.D. in Zoology
Arcadia, Fla. April B. Barbara
Publicity for the United Lutheran
at Columbia. The M.A. degree was
Walters r.oecher lists her occupation
Church in America, and editor of its
granted him in 194B. Ira Wells is
as "wife, mother, homemaker, secy."
weekly Bulletin service. Louise
teaching history at Port Richmond
for "Boecher, Boecher, and Son".
Niclas Saul is head teacher at the
High School, Staten Island. Alma
The nature of the firm's business is
Emerson School, New York. She is
Leigh will work for the Staten Island
"raising future Wagnerians". Inthe author of an article which will
Tuberculosis and Health committee
cidentally, Walter Dean Boecher, Jr.,
appear in School Activities Magazine
for the next six months. Alma, who
was born January 22, 194B. Dorothy
this fall. Henry Cornish, pastor of
is a student at the New York School
Krauss Myers is now living in Waynesthe Lutheran church in Nanuet, N.Y.,
of Social Work, is preparing for
burg, Pa. RUOl Heckler is a social
is also chaplain of the Rockland
medical social work under a fellowworker for the Day Nursery AssociaCounty Volunteer Fireman's Assoship from the Wheatridge (Col.)
tion in Cleveland, Ohio.
ciation, and a driver for the Nanuet 1945--Dorothy Mohlenhoff is a histolFoundation.
Community Ambulance Corps. Harold
ogist at Roosevelt Hospital, New 194B--Hildegard Viohl is secretary to
Shahnazarian is a project engineer
the comptroller of the United Lutheran
York. Louise Christiansen is nurse
for the Standard Oil Development Co. ,
Church in America at the Church
and physical therapist for the Staten
Elizabeth, N.J. The birth of a
House, Madison Avenue, New York.
Island Visiting Nurse Association.
daughter was announced last August.
Arthur Krida is instructor of history
Virginia Hu~bell is a nursery school
and English at the GreerSchool, Hope
Dr. Walter Hausheer is a resident
teacher for the New York KinderphySician at Halloran VA Ho spit'al,
Farms, N. Y. He teaches the Bth, 9th,
garten Association while working for
Staten Island.
Mrs. Hausheer is
her M.A. at Columbia Teachers Coland 10th grades. Nieves Riebes Dole,
Lucile Cross, a former Wagnerian.
newly elected secretary of the Rolege. Evelyn Schaefer is a social
chester alumni chapter, is a laboratory
Don Winsor announces the arrival of
worker for the Lutheran Welfare Sotechnician at strong Memorial Hoshis first son, and second child. David
ciety of Minnesota, in Minneapolis.
Branan Winsor was born }<~ebruary 10.
pital, Rochester. She is engaged in
William Salinger is on leave of abatomic energy research in the field
Don is teaching in Gainesville, Fla.
sence from the U.S. Weather Bureau
of medicine. Meanwhile, husband
Melvin Weiss is practicing as an
to work for the Irish Government in
osteopathic physician in Brooklyn.
Robert Dole '<19 (he finished at Wagner
the Meteorological office at Dublin
in summer school) is a medical stuAirport. There are three alumni in
Vladimir lIibian has moved from
dent at the University of Rochester.
Skaneateles, N.Y. to become pastor
Dublin- Salinger, Ali Shaw '<16, and
Shirley Shannon Sandberg is teachof the St.Pauls Slovak congregation
Fred Teahan '<17. Bernardino Dell'
ing elementary school in Colonna,
in the Bronx. Walter Boecher is a
Os so , whose installation as asN.J. Her husband, Joseph Shannon,
busy man. He is CD-owner of "Eat'nsistant pastor in Lansdale, Pa. was
will receive his Wagner B.S. in June.
'Run" in Queens, a partner in the
reported in the March Link, is working
Klar Realty Company, and viceAlexander Collette is another of the
for an M.A. in Education at the
many alumni with Standard Oil. He is
president of the Charme Cosmetic
University of Pennsylvania. Ellen
a chemical analyst for S.O. DevelopCo., New York. John Klc is pastor
Klitgard is a statistician for Standard
ment Co., Linden, N.J. Gloria Aprile
of the Slovak Lutheran Church in
Oil Company in California. Warren
is teacher at Gramercy Park School.
Duquesne, Pa. There are two little
Raymaley and his wife, Doris Benson
Manhattan. Her engagement to G.M.
Klc children- four years and six
Raymaley '<1<1 announce the birth of a
Nicolais of Staten Island has been
months. Evelyn Albert is a Staff
daughter, born April 7. The baby is
announced.
(Cousin to Gaeta,o
Sgt. in the U.S. Marine Corps, stato be named Jill Florence.
Nicolais '4B). Dan Berger
is
tioned in Washington. Kenneth Axel- 1946-John Mentha is a chemist in the
medical research laboratory at Halchemist with a Brooklvn wine coroorasen, recently a Naval doctor at
Oscar
Stoughton
(ex)
is
partner
tion.
loran VA Hospital, Staten Island.
Quonset, R.I., is entering private
in the Rideau Lodge, Portland-onHis wi.{e, the former Gerda Pahnke
practice of medicine in Robert Lee,
the-Rideau, Ontario, Canada, serving
'<15, is a teacher in the New York
Texas. Ken will be superintendent
Canadian and American vacationists.
City school system. Adeline Ripken
of a new 12-bed hospital. Mrs. Axel(Special rates for alumni??) Claude
and Barney Pfeil '<18 were married
"pn is a former Wagnerian, Anne
Geffken is a chemist for J.M. Huber,
Fitzpatrick.
January 21. They are living in Al1944--August Drubel is a technical remaker of printing inks. He is also
bany, where Addie works for Dun and
presentative for Newport Industries,
studying at Brooklyn Poly graduate
Bradstreet and Barney is employed
engaged in naval stores production.
school. He and his wife, Violet Dittas a chemist for the New York State
His home is in Cincinnati. Paul
mer '<16, live in Levittown, L.I. Phil
Dept. of Health. Victoria Socci and
Michael DeLuca, also a former
Reisch wants us all to kno'o'; of the
Laub, the other half of that Willetts
Wagnerian, plan to marry in June.
birth of his son last October 25. Paul
and Laub battery, was married to
Florence Welkowitz is a laboratory
Miss Jean Bloomquist of Staten Island
is a Lutheran pastor in Canajoharie,
assistant at Sea View Hospital, S.I.
on April 16. Phil's at Columbia for
N. Y. Caspar Scheiper is working for
Carmelo Giorlando is now practicing
an M.A. at Columbia Teachers Colan M.A. in history. Donald Haher is
dentistry on the Island. Sam Johnat Clark University, Worcester, Mass.,
lege. He is doing student teaChing in
son, who received the degree of
German at Curtis. Caspar tells us
working for an M.A. Orville Larry
Master of Public Administration from
that there are only two student teachQuillen (ex) is a dental student at
NYU last spring, is now an adminers of German in the New York City
the University of Pennsylvania. He
istrative officer, with the Branch of
is married to nursing alumna, Carol
Scho ols. The other is Mrs. Erna
Game-fish and Hatcheries, Fish and
Gruneis Clauson '<19. Sheiper has
Heinbockel. Lorraine Turcotte was inWildlife Service of the U.S. Departjust been appointed chairman of the
jured in a ski-ing accident in February.
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home in Cape Elizabeth (Me.) until
August. Her address is 11 Farm
Hill Road. Doris Johnson is working for the Pioneer Ice Cream Division of Bordens, while studying both
voice and painting. Franklin Ward is
a student at New York Medical College. Robert Salvesen is a graduate
student at the univerSity of Buffalo.
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Johnson (she's
Felicia Caulfield (announce the birth
of a son.
1949-~loria Herrada is working as a
chemist with General Aniline and
Film Corp. Bob Carey and Dick
Paugh are working for Liberty Mutual
Insurance Co. Roy Debus is with
International
Business Machines
Corp. Earl Arnold is at Adelphi,
studying social work. The engagement of William Reitze to Miss
Virginia Laursten of Warren Township
(N.J.) was announced in February.
Martin .itatner is studying chiropody
at Ithaca. Romain Swedenberg is
pastor of Hoyt Ave. Congregational
Christian church, Staten Island, and
chairman of the Youth Action committee of the Staten Island Protestant
Council. Dirk Breymann, who finished in February, is now a student
at the Paradise Soaring School,
Phoenix, Arizona. Art Michel. who
finished in February, is now a social worker for the Lutheran Child
Welfare Association in J\lanhattan.
John Thomson is now working as a
statistician for Hecht Brothers, New
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York. Peter Nodyne entered the
Philadelphia Lutheran Theological
Seminary in February.
1950--Alfred Vondran (ex) is a patient
at the St. Albans (L.I.) Naval Hospital.
lATE NEWS
Mrs. Barbara Takach Quin became the
mother of a daughter, Kathleen, on
March 10. Mrs. Dorothy Danforth Kimmerer, last year's soloist for the Wagner
choir, is another new mother. Ophelia
(Penny) Spina and Red Thompson annOlUlced their engagement at Christmastime. Fred Vollweiler is attending the
Latin-America Institute, Park Avenue,
Manhattan, studying export-import trade.
Only college graduates are admitted to
the school.
NURSING ALUMNAE NOTES
The annual meeting of the Nursing
Alumnae chapter will be held in connection with the annual Alumni Day
festivities, June 3 and 4. For exact
time and place, see your alumni Weekend program.
The president of the Chapter, Lillian
Intemann, will receive her Mrs. on May
14 (she'll become Mrs. Roy Arneson)
and her B.S. on June 4. Agnes Thomson
also expects to be married soon. Wedding bells have already rung for Edwina
Findeison. She became Mrs. Charles
Johnson on January 28. Ingrid Aanansen
is now Mrs. Russell and living in Lancaster, Pa.
Staten Island 10
Mrs. Gloria Montrola GilIr.our reports
the arrival of a daughter, just two days
before Christmas. Hedwig Schwan is
studying at Northwestern school, Minneapolis, preparing for a missionary
career, while working part time at Estel
Hospital. Constance Garside is taking
a P .G. course in operating room technique at Post Graduate Hospital, Philadelphia.
Mrs. Muriel Schweer Wood is nurse
for a Group Health Association in
Washington, where her husband is :>
medical student. Carol Heinbocl " ,
Quillen is nursing at Philadelphik ,;
Pennsylvania Hospital. Virginia llloom
and Joanina Daddio are ,""orking at New
York Hospital. Muriel Padien is studying at Columbia. Shirley Brodsky is at
Jewish Hospital of Brooklyn, Rhoda
Davidson at Sea View, Staten Island.
Edna Giamanco Balder is nurse for
a Brooklyn nose, ear, and throat specialist. Audrey Goewey is studying at
Syracuse Hospital. Renee Hanf is at
Morrisiana Hospital. New York, Jeanne
Bennett at Presbyterian in the same
city, Gina Engelstein at Mt.Sinai, also
New York. Gina expects to visit her
father and brother in Palestine in September, and to be married in January.
Clara Hausler is one of four American
nurses on a displaced persons ship.
She has been in Genoa, Rio de Janeiro,
and Buenos Aires on Tecent trips, each
of which lasts about three months. She
is enthusiastic about her work.
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STATf:.I' ISLAN D, N. Y.
�THE LINK.
The Wagner College Alumni News
Vol. II
OCTOBER, 1949
No.1
Published in October, becember, March, and May by the Wagner College A lumni
Association, Staten Island 1, N. Y.
Alfred
J.
Krahmer '27, Alumni Secretary, Editor
Lois K. Dickert '46, Assistant Editor
THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
WALTER BOCK '38 ............ .. ........................ .. ................ President
CHRISTIAN HOLMSTRUP '39 ........................ Vice President
MARIE KRUMPE BORTH '42.......................
...Secretary
HERMAN MEYER '11 ........ .. .................................. .. ........ Treasurer
Members of the Executive Committee
Wesl.y RogIer '34
Carl J. Sutt.r '29
Donald H. Race '30
Alfr.d Krabmer '27
Alumni Trustees of the College
Donald H. Rac. '30
Alfr.d L. Beck '38
Alumni Members, Board of Athletic Control
Albert Accetola '41
Fr.derick Sutter '94
Alumni Members, College Council
J . Trygv. J.ns.n '43
Josepb Ca"ley '35
Alumni Members, Board of Traditions
Rob.rt Olwig '35
Roy Cutt.r '41
ALUMNI
CHAPTERS
Hudson Yalley (NY)
Nursing Alumnae
V.rona M ill.r ·49...................
.. ............................................... Pr.sident
Dorothy Miller N46 ....................... ... ............................. .. ..................... Secretary
Frank Gollnick ·30 ........ . ................................................. .. ................... Pr.sid.nt
......... Secretary
Alvin Messersmith '44 .... .. "
Northern New England
Rochesler
William Villaun,e ·35 ................................ ... .......................... ............ President
Fred Grunst ·19 ..................... ................ ................................................ Presid.nt
..... Secr.tary
Nieves Ribes Dole ·48 ........................ ... ............................... .
Lorraine Turcotte f48 .. ................... ................... ................................ ... Secretary
Brooklyn
Long Island
Philip Anst.dt ·39 ................................................................................. Pr.sid.nt
\Valter Kortr.y ·45 ............... ............ .. ... .................................................. Pr.sid.nt
Adelh.id Baum ·40 ............................................................................... Secr.tary
Elain. Hoebel Fublbruck ·45 .... ....... .. .... .... .. ... ..... .... ................ .... ......... Secr.tary
Westchesler (NY)
Philadelphia
Lloyd Ric. '40 ....... ...... ...... ................ ........................... ....... .................. Pr.sident
Gunth.r Stippich ·36 .............. ............ ............................................... ... .Pr.sid.nt
Mrs . Charl.s N.bauer ............................................................................ Secretary
Erma Rudloff Coutts ·39 ... .... ...... ........................... ........ ............. .. ......... Secr.tary
Slaten Island
Les Trautmann ·40 ..............................................................................Pr.sid.nt
Lila Thompson Barbes ·41 .................................................................... Secr.tary
THE
COVER
PICTURE
The picture on the cover of this issue of The Link was taken last year between the halves of the Homecoming
game against Susquehanna. It was only one of the stunts the band and cheerleaders showed us and is a
sample of what you will see when you come back for Homecomjng this year- ~ov. 12, vs. Hartwick.
2
WAGNER COLLEGE
�NOVEMBER
Fall Homecoming is scheduled for November 12 this year. A committee of the
Staten Island alumni chapter, headed by
Iggy Darson '48, will soon meet to plan
a full schedule of events for your visit to
the campus. As soon as plans are completed, you'll hear all about them. Meanwhile, reserve November 12 on your calendar.
We know this much- the football game
will be against Hartwick and is scheduled
for two o'clock. There will be a dance in
the auditorium at night. There will also
be other events which you'll hear of later,
but even if there were not, a visit to the
campus would be well worth your while.
The returning alumnus will be amazerl
at how beautifully the campus has been
landscaped. It has never looked finer.
There is the completely new West Campus
across Howard A venue to see with its
new Music Building and practice athletic
field. The Wagner band and the aheer
leaders have promised a new stunt or two
to entertain you between the halves. And
then there is always the thrill of meeting
old friends and classmates, of seeing
former teachers, and of just being back
"on the Hill." It's great to come back
and tell about what it was like in "my
day."
We'll be looking for a real turnout of
alumni. A registration desk will be set up
right inside the gate. Look for it and let
us know you ' came.
The conferring of honorary degrees at
the June Commencement brought six persons into honorary membership in the
Wagner Alumni Association. They are
Governor Luther W. Youngdahl of Minnesota; James M. -Talbot, vice-president
and director of S.S. White Dental Man·
ufacturing Co.; Edmund F. Wagner,
president of the General Realty and Utilities Corporation, Manhattan; Frank
Hamilton Bowles, director of the College
Entrance Examination Board; Rosalie
Edge, chairman of the Emergency Con·
servation Committee; and James Stokley,
science writer and lecturer, General Electric Laboratory. Honorary degrees were
also granted to two Wagner alumni,
George Aus '25 and Harry J. Krieder '21.
Miss Margaret Rauffer of Bridgeport,
Conn., winner of the first Alumni scholarship, finished her freshman year on the
Dean's List. Her scholarship has been
lenewed. Edwin .A. Rudinger of Richmond Hill, L.J., has been awarded the
second Alumni scholarship, which goes in·
to effect with the opening of the fall term.
THE
LINK
12
I S
HOMECOMING
ALUMNI VISITORS
The Alumni office welcomed visits from
several alumni in the summer months. Our
door is always open. Come in when you
are on the Hill. It was nice to say hello
to AI ('44) and Kay Messersmith '45,
Virginia Hubbel '45, Ed Bosch '22, Wa-;:ren Raymaley '45, Bam and Catherine
Reisch '47, Ray ('41) and Dorothy ('45)
Brown, Ralph Magalee '47, Evelyn Schaefer '45, Henry McKnight '26, Ken Hansen '49, Coline Innes '48, Hans Engel '48,
Bob Dole '49, and Nieves Ribes Dole '48.
The May issue of the Link published a
student body picture of the early Rochester days of Wagner College. It was ir.
our files, without date or identification.
Howard Kuhnle '29, with the assistance
cf Carl Betz '94, identified all but three
persons on the photo which (they say)
must have been taken in the fall of 1887
or the spring of 1889. The ladies were
Miss Louise Reiter, who taught English,
and Miss Eva Meyer, teacher of mathematics.
We could use a few more alumni with
the loyalty and spirit of Lamar Smith '47
who, for the second year supplemented his
original Loyalty Fund contribution so that
it would beat the highest gift. In 1949
this made Lamar's gift $110. How about
giving him some real competition in 1949so?
THOSE BIOGRAPHICAL
BLANKS!
The Alumni Office is not very happy
about the way those biographical blanks
are being returned. Not more than three
hundred are on file at present. If you
are one of those who has not sent his in,
won't you please do so at the earliest
possible moment?
Twice in the past six months opportunities have come to us to recommend Wagner alumni of experience in certain fields to
important posts. A search through our
meager files failed to turn up anyone who
would have met the qualifications for
these jobs (and they were both good
ones) . If you don't tell ~s what you have
done, we cannot help you as we would like.
We would also like to greet you on the
occasion of your birthday and of your
wedding anniversary. We want to keep
track of your graduate studies so that we
can answer the numerous requests for information on our alumni. The prestige
of our school suffers when we are not able
to comply with such requests readily. Besides all this, unless many more forms are
received, there doesn't seem to be much
chance of publishing that Alumni Who's
Who we have in mind.
Our thanks to those who have already
complied. To those who haven't, an urgent plea for an earl}!: reply. After all,
we supply the postage. All it takes from
you is a little time I
A new feature of Allmmi Day this year was the presentatioll of keys to ai1/1IIni graduated fifty years or more. Pictured here with PresidCllt Langsa1ll and AltWllli Secretary Krahmer are the "old grads" who were present to receive their hOllars j" person. Left to right- Dr. Ernest Bachmalln '89, The R ev. Charles Valelltine '96, Dr.
Henry Freimuth '99. Dr. Langsam, Dr. Theodore O. Posselt 'g8, Dr. HCllry Wasmund
'95, The Rev. Theodore Palleske 'g8, Krahmer, and Dr. Frederic Sutter '94·
3
�"Beautiful Upon a Hill" by Frank
Betancourt '41 became the official Alma
Mater of Wagner College by action of the
Board of Trustees at its June meeting.
Despite the efforts of The Link to stir up
some support for the old Alma Mater,
"vVe Stand United," only three alumni
wrote in favoring the retention of th;:
older number. Comments favoring the
retention of the new song outnumbered
those favoring WSU by a large margin.
The Long Island chapter of the' Alumni
Association voted in favor of BUH. So did
the Wagner Student Association. There's
only one thing for us old timers to do
now- let's get busy and learn the words
of "Beautiful Upon A Hill." Here they
are:"Beautiful upon a hill
Looking out ' to the sea,
There our thoughts are turning still
To hours we spent with thee.
We love thee, Alma Mater,
Our praise to thee we sing,
For Wagner will forever be
Deep in our memory."
CHAPTER DOINGS
Alumni chapter news is on the slim side
in the summer months, but here and there
are signs of life. The Staten Islam!
chapter held a picnic on the college campus on August 31. 'The Northern New
England group held an outing at Endicott
Junior college, Beverly, Mass. on September 10. Endicott's president is former
Wagnerian, George Bjerkoe.
Chapter organization meetings in Washington' D.C., and Buffalo, N.Y. are on
the docket for early fall, and we hope to
get something started in Conecticut and in
Northern New Jersey.
The Staten Isla,nd chapter is planning
a series of lectures for the general public
on October 3 and 17, November 7 and 21.
The first is to be a forum on building
and housing.
Five of the seven Conference presidents
in the United Lutheran Synod of New
York are Wagner alumni. The Rev.
William Heil 29 heads the Long Island
Conference, The Rev. Walter Bock '38
the New York Conference, and The Rev.
Herbert Hagenau '32 the New Jersey
Conference. President of the New England Conference is The Rev. Albert P.
Schilke '27, with his classmate, The Rev.
John A. Kirsch at'the head of the Western Conference.
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Chris Holmstrup '39 has been named
chairman of the 1949-50 Loyalty Fund
drive. You'll be hearing from him soon
as we hope to get everything started
earlier this year. The alumni are aiming
to raise $3,000 this year to be used as
follows: for three full tuition scholarships, $1200; contribution to the college
Endowmen1: Fund, $1000; toward Alumni
office expense and The Link, $800. If
every alumnus does his share, the goal
should be easily be oversubscribed.
ALUMNI NEWS BRIEFS
I890-Pastor and Mrs. LEWIS HAPP celebrated a golden wedding anniversary in
Florida in June. Pastor Happ is pastor emeritus of St. Pauls church, Rodney Street, Brooklyn.
I894-Dr. and Mrs. FREDERIC SUTTER celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary on Sept. 5. Dr. Sutter (or do we
have to identify him?) is pasto~ of
Trinity church, Staten Island, and president of the Wagner Board of Trustees.
I909-DR. , HENRY B. DICKERT, vice-president of the Wagner Board.of Trustees,
was honored by his parishioners on the
occasion of his twenty fifth anniversary
as pastor of Zion, Pittsfield, Mass. THE
REV. CARL PRATER '31, a "son" of the
congregation, took part in the celebration.
I9II-The sympathy of all Wagner alumni
is extended to TH£ REV. HERMAN
MEYER, who lost his wife by death on
August 13. Mrs. Meyer had been ill
for two years. Herman is treasurer of
the Alumni Association.
I9I8-EDGAR KRAUCH is a funeral director
in Williamsville, N.Y.
I92I-FOr the second time in recent months
(see the May issue of The Link) DR.
HARRY KREIDER'S audio-visual educa ..
tional program was the subject of a
magazine article. This time it was the
June issue of Christian Herald, the
article being titled "Radio Goes to Sunday School." Harry is also the author
of the recently published "Beginnings
of Lutheranism," issued in connection
with the anniversary celebration of the
United Lutheran Synod of New York.
THE REv. GUSTAVE HUF was honored
by his parishioners in Philadelphia on
the occasion of his twenty-fifth ordination anniversary June 5. On June 7 the
Hufs celebrated twent);, five years of
married life. Mrs. Huf is. the former
Julia Kirsch, daughter of Dr. John
Kirsch, former Wagner president.
1922-The hand of sympathy is extended
to THE REV. EDMUND BOSCH, whose
wife, Florence, died on May 14. Ed
has come back to New York from Utica
to become a Police Department Chaplain and executive secretary and national organizer for the St. George Association of the U.S.A. Ed, Jr. enters Wagner this fall.
1923-THE REV. JOHN BAUCHMANN is expected to return to his duties as pastor
of St. Jacobi Lutheran church, Brooklyn, early this fall. John has been on
leave of absence to act as Lutheran
World Relief Representative for CRALOG in the French zone of Germany.
1924-THE REV. CARL YEAGER, another
Lutheran World Relief representative
in Germany, is the author of an article,
"Refugees Must Live" in the July 27
issue of the Ltltheran.
I927-THE REV. JOHN FUTCHS has been
elected a member of the executive committee of the Rocky Mountai~ Synod of
the United Lutheran Church in America. John is pastor of Trinity church,
Boulder, Colorado. Among his summer parishioners were President and
Mrs. Langsam and family. John and
his wife have adopted a little Latvian
girl, six years of age.
1928-The work of THE REV. FRED REUSTLE at Van Wyck Congregational church
Richmond Hill (L.I.) is the subject of
favorable notice in an article in the July
issue of Woman's Home Companion.
"Y oung people are attracted," says the
writer who titles her article, "What
Are the Churches Coming to i," "to
the church which offers a really vital
social action program" and then proceeds to cite Fred's activities in the
labor conciliation lield and his fine 'program of social action for young people.
"Fourteen years ago," the author concludes, "When Mr. Reustle came to
Richmond Hill this church was weak,
rundown, divided. Today it has an active, vigorous, co-operating membership
which includes many younger men and
women of a type not always attracted
by the church."
I929- T HE REV. HOWARD KUHNLE has resigned as pastor of Transfiguration
church, .Rochester, to accept a call to
Redeemer church, Binghamton, New
York: THE REV. FRED LUDWIG was reelected vice-president of the Iowa
(Lutheran) Synod.
THE REV. NORMAN SUTTERLIN of Torrington, Conn. is a proud papa since
August 20. Norm's son Paul Norman,
""as inconsiderate enough to arrive two
weeks before the Sutterlin's Bh,te Cross
Hospital insurance became effective.
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THE NOT SO ABSENT MINDED PROFESSOR
by Coline Innes '48
fore coming to Wagner she taught at
Brooklyn College and at Hunter.
A professor's position entails a great
responsibility since he has a marked influence on the very personality of his
students. The ideal professor, therefore,
is one who is not only concerned wit:l
teaching facts, but one who aspires to ingrain in his proteges an appreciation for
his subject and a thirst for wider knowledge of all things. I can think of no
finer example of such a one than Dr. Id:t
Everson, whose sparkling eyes, rosy
cheeks, and engaging smile have endeareJ
her to those of us who know her.
How any human being can possibly be
so wide awake and apparently pleased
with the state of affairs in the world in
general at 8 o'clock in the morning always
was and always will be a mystery to me.
Yet even on the foulest winter morning
the tall wiry figure of Dr. Everson can be
seen scurrying down the corridor, a huge
dilapidated brown brief case under one
arm, a few thousand volumes of literature
in the other, eyes twinkling, and the corners of her mouth drawn up in a bright,
friendly smile. While a score or so of
lethargic individuals (there's no such
things as a student at 8 A.M.) drag themselves into the classroom, she busily engages herself unloading sheaves of paper
from her case, adj usts her chair to just
the right angle, sticks a pencil in her hair
over one ear, and settles down comfortably for the next hour's proceedings.
During the winter months headquarters
are established as near to the radiator as
one can possibly get without crawling up
on top of it. Here she huddles, clutching
her coat tightly around her, her right leg
wound three or four times around the left,
rubbing her hands vigorously, and frequently punctuating her speech with a
shiver. With the first sign of spring,
however, she becomes a sun worshipper,
migrating toward the windows to bask in
glorious rays of the welcome sunshine.
Summer, winter, fall or spring, this
lady has a tremendous capacity for enjoying life. Smiling seems to be as natural
to her as breathing. Teaching is not a
job to her, but rather a fascipating enterprise into which she puts her whole heart
and soul. Her literary interests are not
confined to the classroom and textbook,
but she made a number of trips and tours
to the very sources of English literature.
Last summer found her touring the British Isles, stopping off at such places as
Canterbury, the Churchyard which inspired Gray's Elegy, and Milton's home
near London. She even passed up ..
o'clock tea with the rest of the tourists in
Scotland to hike by herself to see the
bridge where Bobby Burns' legendary
Tam 0' Shanter's mare lost her tail.
This summer her itching foot took her
way up north to Alaska and the Yukon
\\ here she saw many fascinating places
and things.
Dr. Everson's extensive travels and
myriad interests bave provided her with a
wealth of colorful anecdotes with which
she livens the classroom and makes her
lectures exceptionally interesting. If we
could but dispense with examinations, I am
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sure that her classes would leave nothing
to be desired. But the gloomy day of exoms is hard to overlook, and it is when
confronted with one of this good doctor's
specialties that we begin to wish that we
had taken some easier course . . . . . like
Analytical Geometry or Physical Chemistry. An example of one of her simpler
exams might include such questions as:
I.
On whose tombstone does such and
such an epitaph appear?
2.
Quote the third line of the ninth
book of Paradise Lost.
In Dr. Everson's classes there is no
such thing as a lazy student. You either
work like mad or drop the course.
Lengthy oral reports, volumes of outside
reading, and frequent demands upon one's
creative ability keep one from wondering
what to do with one's spare time. And
if ever there was a professor who couldn't be fooled . . . . she was it. I can remember one fcllow in particular wh,)
came to Chaucer class totally unprepared
on various occasions, making all sorts of
attempts at bluffing his way through the
CrISIS. To the rest of us his performance
was nothing short of genius, but Dr.
Everson would inevitably smile her knowing smile and remark that he'd best do
his homework before coming to class 111
the future.
Born and raised on the sunny Isle of
Staten, Dr. Everson studied at what is
now the Staten Island Day School,
majored in English and received her
Bachelor's degree from Barnard. She
then delved into the realm of metaphysics
and received her Master's in Philosophy
from Columbia. After groping her way
through the deep, dark mysteries of life
she returned to her first love, Engish Literature, and in 1944 her biography of
George Henry Calvert secured for her
the title of Doctor of Philosophy. De -
The appointments to college posts announced in the Alumni News briefs Gwynne Swartz at Maryland, Roy Lindberg at Roanoke, Harold Hammond at
L. I. U., Jack Peterson at Occidental,
Arthur Collier to Wilson- prompts comment about the increasing number of Wagner alumni on college faculties. Off hand,
we think of Andrew Mahler at Mary
Baldwin, Siegwah Palleske at Denver
University, Don. .l.t Lathrope at Westminster, John McDermott at Manhattan,
Elmer Suhr at Rochester, Clifford Flanders at West Virginia, Michael Moore at
Muhlenberg, Gottlieb Betz at Columbia,
George Aus at Luther Seminary, and Ted
Tappert at Mt. Airy Seminary. There
must be others. Considering the fact that
prior to 1928 virtually every alumnns
cntered the ministry, we have a rather
creditable number of college teachers
among our graduates. Nor does this take
into consideration the nine alumni on our
own Wagncr faculty and the five in administrative posts.
Further articles on '''\IV agner College
and How It Grew" by Alfred Beck '38,
will appear in the December and March
issues of the Link. Our editorial policy is
that Alumni News Briefs take precedence
over other copy whel! we are presented
with space problems.
Where do Wagner alumni live? In 37
different states of the U.S.A., the District
of Columbia, and in 13 foreign countries.
The only states without Wagner alumni
are Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho,
Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota,
Oklahoma, Utah, Wyoming, and South
Carolina. 678 alumni, more than half,
live in New York State. 355 live on
Staten Island.
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THE
TOP!
It's past history now, of course, but it's news worth repeating- the Alumni Loyalty Fund went over the top
for the first time. On Alumni Day Treasurer Herman Meyer handed Pre ident Langsam a check for twentyfive hundred dollars. our goal for the year. Since then, contributions have come in to make the total achieved
$2638. To all alumni who responded Alma Mater offers her gratitude. A complete list of donors is published
helow by classes:1886
1889
1892
1893
1894
1895
1897
f898
1899
1900
1902
1903
1904
1905
1908
1909
1911
1913
1915
1917
1918
1920
1921
1922
1923
1924
1926
1927
1928
1929
1930
1931
1932
1933
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Herman C.A. Meyer
1934
Ernest F. Bachmann
Oscar Krauch
J. Christian Krahmer
H.E.C. Wahrmann
William Betz
Frederic Sutter
Carl Betz
Theodore Hoffmeister
Henry Wasmund
F. Arnold Bavendam
Gottlieb Betz
Philip Kirchner
Theodore E. Palleske
Henry C. Freimuth
Ed win Boettger
Walter C.G. Veit
Yost Brandt
Emil W. Weher
Hugo Perdelwitz
Charles Kosbab
Henry C. Meyer
Henry Dickert
E. A. Sievert
Herman A. Meyer
William R. Meyer
Robert H. Ischinger
Albert Kosbab
W. Paul Reumann
Heinrich Kropp
Clarence Braun
Frederick E. Reissig
Herbert A. Bosch
Edgar Krauch
George R. Tamke
Con rad R. Reisch
Gustav K. Huf·
Harry J. Kreider
Edmund A. Bosch
John F. Bauchmann
Milton T. Kleintop
Fred W. Kern
Theodore G. Tappert
Joseph B. Flotten
John W. Kern
Alfred J. Krahmer
Albert P. Schilke
Karl Schild
Gunnar Knudsen
Sigwalt Palleske
Gustave Weber
Frederick R. Ludwig
Norman E. Sutterlin
Carl J. Sutter
Howard A. Kuhnle
August Kiefer
Donald H. Race
Frank L. Gollnick
Werner Eberbach
Elmore O. Hoppe
Edwin C. Tappert
Nathaniel Kern
William J. Voss
George V. Bulin
Austin Bosch
Ernest French
Herbert Sutter
Robert A. Heydenreich
Ernest A. Meyer
Louis Schenck
Harold Reisch
John Klahn
Edwin J. Grubb
Alan. Miller
Paul J. Kirsch
1935
1936
1937
1938
1939
1940
Edwin H. Smith
Michael Rapp
Michael Mazzei
J. Avery Smith
Robert Olwig
Sylvester Bader
David Gaise
In ntemory of Harry Montgomery
John Gross
Arch B. TripIer. Jr.
Mabel Spitzer
Heinrich Suhr
William J. Villaume
John Berglund
Waddie R. Procci
Rolf Danielson
Frederick R. Nissen
Arthur D. Friedel
Paul RogIer
Justus W. Ahrend
Charles Accetola
Thelma Biele Corey
George E. Dietrick
Robert Sheie
Ernest Rittershausen
Frank Tellefsen
Godfrey Alberti
Bruce Carney
Bernard Blomquist
Harold Hornberge ...
Alfred Schroder
Clara Shake Rittershausen
Fred Riebesell
Henry Endress
Walter E. Bock
Alfred L. Beck
Ruth Davies Anstedt
Franklin J. Dean
William A. Little
Donald Lathrope
Harold Haas
Siegfried Dietrich
Luther Kirsch
Lenore Bajda
Chris Holmstrup
Mary Frost Lathrope
Albert Keyser
Norman A. Kraft
Philip Anstedt
Donald Campbell
Marion Jensen Tonnesen
Edwin Klare
Olive Schroder Anderson
Eleanor Jensen Willecke
Paul A. Kirsch
honorary
Paul Carney
two members who requested
that their names not be listed
John Barbes
Lila Thompson Barbes
Adelheid Baum
Jack Cooper
Russell MacDonald
Donald Borth
Margaret Mayer Sheldon
Edward A. Sheldon
Mildred Heppner Hoehn
Lloyd Rice
Arnold Cerasoli
Eleanor Dossin
Marjorie Rieb Seguine
Robert Schneck
Ruth Gorman Schueck
Everett Jensen
Fred Willecke
Lester Trautmann
1941
1942
1943
1944
1945
Virginia Mackoy Trautmann
Carolyn Meyer
Louis Suessmann
Roy Cutter
Oscar Bakke
Herbert Gibney
Dorothy Behrens Carney
Frances Wightman Pritchett
Beatrice Werner Jensen
Marie J. Norris
Ray Brown
Alf Danielson
In memory of Orlando J. Buck
Arthur Smith
Dorothee Heins Holmstrup
Susette Meyer
Joseph DiCosmo
Ruth Haas Roeper
Wilbur H. Sterner
Marie Krumpe Borth
Martin Schroeder
Ruth Kriby Schroeder
Evelyn Johnson Haas
Leonard Klemann
Stanley Ryck
Simone Stankovitch Smith
Virginia Clark Peel
Carol Brack Feuerpfeil
Gene Lucchesi
J. Michael Moore
F. William Monge
Norma Arndt
Richard Weiskotten
Walter Boecher. Jr.
Kenneth Axelsen
Doris Dossin
Jean Evans
Jean VanWinkle Danielson
Evelyn Albert
Henry Cornish
Merton Kleintop
Julius J. Schlaer
Gloria Rappold Greening
Mary Manning Sterner
Lenore Carney Taylor
James >La Hart
J. Trygve Jensen
Alvin Messersmith
Dorothy Krauss Myers
Cornelia Borgemeister
Eleanor Ayoub
Jean Krumpe
Edward Wiediger
Paul Reisch
Alfred Roberts
Arthur Pentz
Charlotte Tippens
Eugene Roth
Rosemary Truempy
Barbara Walters Boecher
Theodore C. Herrmann
. Gertrude H ustedt
Mildred Ernst
Paul Alberti
Catherine Yarger Messersmith
Dorothy Mohlenhoff
Lillian Ayoub
William Fuhlbruck
Virginia Hubbel
Walter Kortrey
Elsie Flor Kortrey
Louise Christiansen
Bernard Dell'Osso
Elaine Hoebel Fuhlbruck
Evelyn Schaefer
Arthur Baron
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Ruth Heckler
Phyllis Pete~son Kleintop
Dr. and Mrs . Langsam
honorary
Anne DeGroat
1946
Lois Dickert
Carl Yeager
Andrew Giorlando
Adeline Ripken Pfeil
Alma Leigh
Ellen Klitgaard
Violet Dittmer Geffken
Dorothy Knight Brown
Joan Mentha
1947
Florence Welkowitz
Max Alfert
Inger Walloe Whitney
Conrad Reisch
Ira Wells
Joseph Fernandes, Jr.
Lamar J. Smith
J ani th Olson
Claude Geffken
Marjorie Hartung
N orman Fowler
1948
George Tamke, Jr.
Gloria Aprile
Salva.tore D'Adamo
William Stackel honorary
Elias Bernstein
Hildegard Viohl
Dean Mary Burr
honorary
Bernhard Pfeil
Charles C. Dinkel
Norman Johnson
Walter Reichelt
Nieves Ribes Dole
Caspar Scheiper
1949
Mary Kehoe
Gloria Herrada
Robert W . Dole
Dan Berger
Doris Johnson
Philip Spillane
ALUMNI NEWS BRIEFS
I930-THE REV. NATHANIEL KERN (we
used to call him Dick when he captained
Wagner football), minister in Houston,
Texas, was director of Camp Capers,
Waring, Texas, this past summer. The
camp is a one week summer school operated by the Texas (Lutheran) Synod.
1931-THE REV. HAROLD STICHT has been
elected president of the Pittstown
(N.Y.) Sunday School Association.
Nine churches are members of the
group.
I93I-THE REV. WILLIAM HAEGERT celebrated his fifteenth ordination anniversary by clearing off the major part of
the indebtedness of his church St.
J olms, Lindenhurst, Long Island. THE
REV. ERNEST FRENCH is author of an
article in the July 27 Lutherall. Its
title is "Visitors Get Results," and it's
a story of a successful evangelism campaign. Ernie is planning to call together the alumni in Buffalo early this
fall for the formation of a new chapter.
THE REV. JOHN SJAUKEN is treasurer
of the Syracuse (NY) Ministerial Association. THE REV. JOHN KAERCHER
is pastor of St. Marks church, Scranton, Pa. John is also a member of the
editorial staff of Ulla Sallcta, Lutheran
liturgical magazine. The Kaercher
family includes three sons, ages 13, 9,
and 5.
I932-JOHN PETERSON has been named to ·
the faculty of Occidental College, Los
Angeles. Jack will teach sociology.
THE REV. HAROLD REISCH, supt. of the
Chicago Social Missions Society spoke
at the spring meeting of the Chicago
Conference of the Illinois (Lutheran)
Synod.
I934-CARL VOIGES, last reported in Rye,
now -lives in East Chatham, N.Y. DR.
MIKE MAZZ.EI, Staten Island surgeon,
is quite a golfer. Mike was in the
finals for the Vice-President's Cup at
the Richmond County Country Club,
losing a thrilling extra hole match,
up.
I935-RoBERT (TOT) SWARTWOUT, long a
lost alumnus, has been located in Wallingford, Conn. THE REV. SYLVESTER
BADER is second vice-president of the
Ridgewood (Brooklyn) Kiwanis Club.
BOB OLWIG has been promoted to the
post of assistant city editor of the
Staten Island Advance. Bob had been
night editor for three years. THE REV.
MARTIN LEHFELDT spoke on the "Pro-
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Nursing Alumnae
Jane Aagenas
Betty Bondeson Gardner
Mary Bogdan
Mary Carney
Elsie Chancellor
Rhoda Davidson
Claire Eilenberger
Gloria Gilmour Dick
Yolan Guttman
Constance Garside
Audrey Goewy
Dorothy Gross Alberti
Theresa Hochstrasser
:M iriam Herron
Lillian Intemann Arnesen
Clara Hausler
Rita McGivney Kennedy
Dolores Miralles Lenzer
Verona Miller
Mary O'Leary
Jean Oeder LaHart
Jeanne Pollack
Alice Patterson
Clare Perlstein
Marie Palmier
Rena Piscopo
Madeline Reimers
Anita Russo
Betty Sei fman
Naomi Stover Monge
Marion Stover Books
Frieda Stoerzinger
Elaine Strongman Kesner
Alice Tregde Johnson
Ruth Tellefsen ,
Gladys Wichmann
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A highlight of the AlulImi Ballouet last hme. Treasurer Henl/all Afeycr is halldillg
Presidellt Walter Lallgsam a check for twmty {roe Illmdred dollars, the 1949 Alumlli
Loyalty FI/lld cOlltributioll. Over by the microphonc with that satisfied smile is Aht1l1IIi Pre'sidmt Walter Bock.
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�testant Hour" over WCAM, Camden,
N.J. in June.
1936-THE REV. GUNTHER STIPPICH, president of the Philadelphia Alumni chapter, has resigned as pastor of St. Michaels church, Philadelphia, to accept a
call to St. Johannes, Reading, Pa.,
effective Oct. I. Stippich made a flying
trip to Germany in April to visit his
father. ROBERT (Doc) LEWIN, a member of the New York police force is
taking evening session courses at Wagner. Doc has two children, a boy, 7,
and a girl, 4. JUSTUS AHREND is coowner of a furniture store in Oceanside,
California. His family includes a girl
of 8 and a three year old son. PAUL
ROGLER, high school teacher in Fairlawn, N.]., is an active member of
Good Shepherd church, Glen Rock. Boa
ARNOLD '44 is his pastor. Paul is a
Sunday school superintendent and
church councilman. Paul has a three
year old son and a daughter of five
months. PETE ELLSTAD is working
with the National Lutheran Council
Resettlement Service. At present he is
in New Yock but had been in Europe
previously.
1937-LuTHER PALLMEYER is a candidate
for the School Board of Huntington.
Long Island. We hear that DR. CLARENCE (CADDY ) WASMUND will set up
practice as an opthalmogist in Ridgewood (Brooklyn) this fall. Caddy has
been with the Interstate Clinic in Redwing, Minn. ERNEST RITTERHAUSEN
is a chemist with Socony Vacuum,
Brooklyn. He and his wife, the former
CLARA SHAKE, live in Hempstead, L.I.
They have two children - a girl (7) and
a boy (3). BRUCE CARNEY, now on the
staff of Women's Hospital, Detroit,
Mich., is making plans to marry Miss
Dot Morrison of North Carolina. EvERETT JACKSON '37 is to be his best man.
1938-HENRY ENDRESS has been elected
Stewardship Secretary of the United
Lutheran Church in America, succeeding PROF. STOUGHTON. Henry has been
Associate Secretary for some time. One
of his many duties is the preparation of
the movies for the Lutheran Laymen's
Movement. Henry's latest Hollywood
production, "Like a Mighty Army,"
will be issued in the fall. The story of
the making of this picture is the subject
of an article by Endress in the July 27
Luthercm. Henry will also supervise
the production of "The Difference," a
movie for use in the Christian Higher
Education Year Appeal of the United
Lutheran Church in America next
spring.
FRANKLIN (PETE) DEAN is planning to
marry Miss Ruth Thompson, of Staten
8
Island, in the fall. Pete teaches social
studies at John J. Pershing Junior
High, Brooklyn. DR. WILLiAM A.
LITTLE is neuro-psychiatrist for the
U.S. Navy Medical Corps, stationed at
the Naval Hospital in Jacksonville, Fla.
Little has two sons, 3 and I. THE REV.
W ALTER BOCK, alumni president, wrote
an article, "Mountain People are Faithful" for one of the summer issues of the
Lutheran. The story records Wally's
experiences as a leader in an evangelism
program in Virginia last spring. THE
REV. ALFRED SCHRODER has resigned as
pastor of Christ Church, Rochester, to
accept a call to St. Johns church, the
Bronx. FLORENCE GRUNOW GODE, housewife and mother of two, is organist for
Ascension church, Franklin Square.
L.I. AL KEYSER '39 is pastor. ED
JONES is with the Marine Corps in Barstow, Cal. When Ed was married in
Munich
(I947?) PAUL CARNEY '39
was his best man.
I939-DR. GWYNNE SWARTZ received his
Ph.D. degree from Yale last June.
Gwynne is now assistant professor of
physics at the University of Maryland.
Mrs. Swartz is the former HELEN
SANDBERG '42. Once lost, but now
found, is GEORGE BAIN, with a steel concern in Pittsburgh. PHILIP LUTHER
was married to Miss Lois Ford of Albany on May 21. Phil is soon to complete his work at Albany Medical College. MARY FROST LATHROPE is parttime children's librarian inYoungstown,
Ohio, besides caring for her two children, a six year old boy and a girl of
one. As previously reported, her husband, DONALD LATHROPE '38, is on the
faculty of Westminster College, Pennsylvania. ERMA RUDLOFF COUTTS, secretary of the Philadelphia Alumni
Chapter, is a technical assistant to the
patent attorney for Sharp and Dohne,
manufacturer of biologicals and pharmaceuticals.
DR. PAUL CARNEY writes in about the
news item in the March Link. We said
that Paul and his wife, the former
DOROTHY BEHRENS '41 announced the
arrival of a daughter. Paul writes, "It
was a boy, not a girl. He was born
Dec. 12, not the 19th. His father is
working, not continuing his studies at
Penn State. Otherwise the news item
was correct." Paul works in the morning at the Ellen H. Richards Institute,
doing research in human nutrition. His
afternoons are spent with the Penn
State College Health Service.
DR. NORMAN KRAFT left in August to
go to Egypt on appointment by the Foreign Mission Board of the United Presbyterian Church. Norman will be sta-
tioned at the American Mission Hospital, Assiut. He had been resident
surgeon at Wycoff Heights Hospital,
Brooklyn.
THE Roy HOLMSTRUPS (she's the former Joy Cashell '43) announce the arrival of a daug\1ter, Erika Joy born
August 23.
1940-As rumored in the May Link, Chaplain Robert (Tex) Schneck has been
transferred to the East. His new post
of duty is the Naval Hospital in Philadelphia. A change of address came in
for THE REV. JOHN KLC from Duquesne, Pa. to Yonkers, N. Y. THE
REV. GERHARD DIETRICH has resigned
his Steelton (Pa.) parish to go to
Europe for the National Lutheran
Council Resettlement work. His wife
(she's the former MARIE OHLSON '43)
and children are with him. It was a
second son for LILLIAN POTTBERG T AYLOR, born May 24. Her first son will
be three in October. Lillian is the wife
of the Rev. James Taylor of Bethpage,
L.I. LLOYD RICE, president of the
Westchester alumni chapter, is teacher
of social studies at the Quaker Ridge
school, Scarsdale, N.Y. LESTER and
VIRGINIA MACKOY TRAUTMANN announce the arrival of their first child,
Julia, born June 14. Les is president of
the Staten Island alumni chapter. DONALD BORTH has opened an office for the
practice of law in his Staten Island
home. He is also studying for a Master's degree in Taxation at NYU Law
School. FRED WILLECKE, assistant professor of German at Wagner, has been
named chairman of the publicity committee for the Staten Island Protestant
Council. LOIs DICKERT '46 is also a
member of the committee.
I941-RAY BROWN received his Ph.D. 1tI
chemistry from California Institute of
Technology in June. Mrs. Brown is
the former DOROTHY KNIGHT '46. THE
REV. LOUIS SUESSMAN, pastor of Our
Saviour church, Cresskill, N.J. is engaged to Miss Jean Kight of Rutherford, N.J. EVELYN OHR PHELAN asked
us to inform her friends of the arriv3l
of a son, born February 5. She told us
early enough for the May issue, but her
letter was mislaid. We offer our apologies. Evelyn lives in Seattle, Wash.,
OSCAR BAKKE is technical assistant
with the Civil Aeronautics Board in
Washington. Oscar's family includes
two children, 5 and 2. FAITH FROST
BEHRENS is the mother of a son, born
in August. Lost alumnus, JOE FABREGAS, has been located in Cassadaga, N.Y.
WAGNER COLLEGE
�I942-HAROLD HAMMOND has been appointed Administrative Assistant in
charge of the Evening Session at Long
Island University. He expects to complete his Ph.D. thesis at Columbia next
year. PHILIP MARRACINI m~(ried Miss
Nina Cecala of Staten Island in June.
Philip will finish his work at New
York Medical College in June. TED
GroSON is a television engineer with
Philco, in Philadelphia. Ted received
his M.S. at NYU in 1948. WILBUR
STERNER is assistant treasurer of the
Prudential Savings and Loan Association, Staten Island. Wilbur and his Wife.
the former MARY MANNING '43, won a
cup for waltzing at '" party for New
York City Librarians. SIMONE STANKOVITCH SMITH is a housewife and
mother in Niagara Falls. She has two
children - a girl (3) and a boy (I).
GENE LUCCHESI is a USAAF captain
with the Aeronautical Ch!lrt Service in
\Yashington. He is attending Maryland University to complete the studies
which were interrupted by the war.
EDITH RAYNER has been Mrs. Morrison
since January 30. She is assistant to
an average adjustor in San Francisco.
DR. MICHAEL 'MOORE has been granted
a two-year leave of absence from the
German faculty of Muhlenberg College
to work with displaced persons in Germany for the National Lutheran Council. THE REV. LEONARD KLEMANN became a father for the second time on
April 12. It was a girl, Alice Jeanne.
I943-It was a boy (their second) for
WALTER BOECHER and his wife, the former. BARBARA WALTERS '44 born June
28. THE REV. VLADIMIR HIBIAN has
been called to a church in the Bronx,
New York. Hibian is statistician of
the Slovak Zion (Lu~heran) Synod.
DORIS DOSSIN is secretary and assistant to the president of the Journal
Press, Meriden, Conn. SONYA STEVENS has completed three years at Fordham Law School and will finish next
spring. FAITH VIGURS GRANNIS, mother
of three children under five, is taKing
Wagner Evening Session courses and
is planning to teach.
-
I944-lRvING JENSEN received the S.T.B.
degree from Biblical Seminary, New
York, this June. His graduation thesis'
0(1 the philosophy of Edwin Markham
was prepared largely in the Markham
Library at Wagner. Irving now plans
to go to Japan as a missionary. EVELYN
ELLIS DRESCHER is now living in Manhattan where her husband, KENNETH
DRESCHER, former \Yagner student, is
studying for the Episcopal priesthood
at General Seminary. A. CHARLES
DRUBEL is engaged to marry Miss Pat-
THE
LINK
nCla Cramer of Staten Island. ISABEL
CA WLEY SILER is now living on Staten
Island. I t is a little late to report that
JEAN ~UMPE spent the summer of
1948 traveling with a summer stock
company, but we just heard about it
recently. THE REV. JAMES MORECRAFT
was installed a!!, pastor of St. Johns
church, Altamont, N.Y. on June 19.
THE REV. EUGENE ROTH was married
to Miss Maxine Halliwill of Buffalo on
May 28. He began language studies at
Yale in June in preparation for mission
work in Japan. Gene wants it known
that he will send mimeographed letters
sharing his experiences and impressions
as a missionary in Japan to any who
make request of him.
MARIE KLOSTERGARD (ex) was married
to Robert Copeland of Louisville, Ky.
on August 20.
I945-ARTHUR R. COLLIER has been appointed instructor in biology at Wilson
College, Chambersburg, Pa., effective
this fall. He has been a graduate assistant at Cornell, where he received the
M.S. degree in June. RUTH WITTHOFT
WILKINSON, former Wagnerian, is a
housewife with three children in Rensselaer, N.Y. She also attends her husband's hairdresser's school. THE REV.
BERNARDINO DELL'OSSO has resigned as
assistant pastor of Tripity church,
Lansdale, Pa. to become interim pastor
of Christ church, Flushing, N. Y.
Pastor Eugene Strebel of Christ
church is on a year leave of absence to
act as New York Synod director for
the Christian Higher Education year
Appeal. THE REv. FRED Boos has resigned as pastor of Our Saviour church,
Harmon, N.Y., to accept a call to Gethsemane church, Keyport, ·N.J. The
Boos family (she's the former Marcia
Martin '45) have been in their new parish since May.
I946-VICTORIA SOCCI and MICH4EL DELUCA were married June 4. MISS LuCILLE PETRY, who was the first woman
to receive an honorary . degree from
Wagner, has just been appointed as the
first woman assistant surgeon-general
of the U.S. Public Health Service.
OFELIA (PENNY) SPINA and FREDERICK
(RED) THOMSEN were married June 25.
I947-lRA WELLS married Miss Mildred
Katz of Staten Island on July 13. Ira
received his M.A. from NYU ~nd is
teacher of social studies at Port Richmond (SI.) High School. JOHN FosTER DULLES, who received an honorary
degree at the 1947 Commencement, was
appointed to the U.S. Senate to fill the
unexpired term of Senator Robert
Wagner of New York, who resigned
because of ill health. RALPH VOGEL,
who just received his M.A., has been
accepted as a Ph.D. candidate at the
University of Buffalo. Roy LINDBERG,
who received his M.A. at Columbia in
June, has been appointed assistant professor of philosophy and psychology at
Roanoke College, Salem, Va. ARTHUR
KRIDA was married to Miss Ma.ry
Sherman of Lakewood, Ohio, on August 29. A daughter was born to Mr.
and Mrs. DALTON LUNDE on April 19.
I948-FRANKLYN'W ARD is engaged to Miss
Ann Johnston of Staten Island. Ward
is a student at New York Medical Coll~e. KAy WALKER and former Wagnerian, BYRON GILLIKSEN, were married June 5. Gilliksen is a student at
Luther Seminary, St. Paul, Minn.
AGNES SUAREZ and JOSEPH ABISSI '49
were married June 5. CASPAR SCHEIPER
received his M.A. at Columbia in June.
WILLIAM BALKAN has recently been ordained and installed as pastor of St.
Johns church, 84th Street, Brooklyn.
Two other responsibilities are also his
twins, born last sprin/oj' CHARLES
DINKEL is a chemist with the Scripps
Institution of the University of California, doing oceanographic research.
CATHERINE LYNCH is a social investigator with the 1';ew York City Welfare
Dept. WALTEr' REICHELT received his
M.A. from Columbia in June. BOB
MULHOLLAND, New York Medical College junior, was married to 'Miss Mary
McDermott of Staten Island on July 9.
JAMES TYRER, former Wagnerian, nOW
an engineering student at Michigan, was
married to Miss Margaret Hunter of
St. Paul, Minn., on June 10. DORIS
JOHNSON h:ls been touring Europe 'this
summer. A daughter, Kathleen, was
born to EUGENE and FAY REIMAN
FERRETTI on May I. Fay attended
classes in summer session. DONALD
HAHER finished graduate work in international affairs at Clark University in
August. DR. WILLIAM STACKEL (hon)
is the author of an article, "Money
Magic," in the June 1949, issue of the
Rochester Institute of Technology
Alumni Mirror.
I949-TED COLLIER is at Kansas State for
graduate work, BILL MORRISON at
Adelphi, WESLEY GtIGEL at NYU. BOB
MCVICKER is working as a cost accountant for Mergenthaler Linotype in
Brooklyn. SHIRLEY RUBIN STEINMAN
is teaching sixth grade in a Yonkers
public school. NICHOLAS SPINELLI became the father of a daughter, Joyce,
on August 2. JOHNNY LEzINSKI is
studying at the Philadelphia College o{
Osteopathy. GLORIA HERRADA, Nicum
Prize winner at Connecticut, turned her
prize over to the Alumni Loyalty Fund.
ALFRED MALMQUIST is working in the
9
�laboratory of Ward Baking Company,
Brooklyn. ARTHUR LEWIS, former
Wagnerian: received his LL.B. from
Brooklyn Law School in June.
HELEN (JACKIE) HOHLEN is teaching
at P.S. 29, North Merrick, L.I. JOHN
IACOVELLO is working for an M.S. in
chemistry at V.P.I. ESTHER SAVACOOL
is a Tcen-age Program director for the
Allentown (Pa.) Y.W.C.A. ROBERT
WHITEHEAD is studying for an M.S. at
Teachers College, Columbia. ALFRED
IKEFUGI is a student at Albany (N.Y.)
Medical School. NELSON WOOD is at
North Carolina State as a graduate
fellow in chemistry. ANTHONY RopERTI is engaged to Miss Rose Paretti of
Staten Island. DANIEL TEITELBAUM
was married to Miss Diane Roland of
Staten Island on June 26. Dan is a
partner in the Ace Furniture Company,
Stapleton, S.I.
JOHN GUTTLER, JR. is working in the
credit department of Colgate-Palmolive
Peet, Jersey City. JAJlIES HUTCHINSON was married to Miss Jean-Betty
Singer of Brooklyn on June I!. RICHARD FORSTER and .PATRICIA DITTMAR
were married June 18. Dick is with
the Staten Island Advance news staff.
Baseball star, ED MENSING, is engaged
to Miss Anne Kneeshaw of Staten Island. EDWARD PELLICCIARO is studying
for a Master's degree at North Carolina
U. HAROLD KUEHNE is at Yale Divinity
School. J AMES STYLES was married to
Miss Regina Gavin of Jersey City in
June. "Spike" is studying at NYU
graduate school. MARTIN GoDGART is
teaching in Raritan Township School.
WILLIAM VOLPE (ex) was graduated
from Syracuse University and has been
appointed manager of a Drive-In
Theatre' at Newburg, N. Y.
GEORGE L. FRICK, JR. (ex) is a senior
at University Law School. He is dean
of the newly formed Benjamin Cardozo
Senate of Delta Theta Pi, legal fraternity. MARY KEHOE is teaching at P.S.
14, S.1. OLAF BREDHOLT is a chemist
with Colgate-Palmolive-Peet, J ersev
City. PATRICIA KRUMPE is a graduate
assistant in biology at Syracuse University. She was married to HENRY
SPEIGHT, former Wagnerian, on Sept. 3.
HARRY M;CCALLUM is a sales representative for Remington-Rand, New York.
DR. T. S. PAULUS (hon.) has been
elected president of Andhra Christian
College, Guntur, India, . CLIFFORD WOOD
is working as a chemist for the L.A.
Dreyfus Co. 111 Oak Tree, N.J.
CHARLES ROBERTS is partner and teacher in the Staten Island Music Center on
W right Street, Stapleton, S.l.
10
EGON WENDEL is teaching at the Union
Free School in Valley Stream, L.I.
EDNA SNYDER is teaching in Oroville,
Cal. RALPH BETANCOURT spent the
summer in Havana showing tourists
around for "Happy Joe's 100% Service
Tours." Ralph will work for an airline in the fall. ERIC SCHMIDLING IS
purser on an American Overseas Airline ship. He's been to Paris and to
Prague. KEN HANSEN is an associate
chemist with Colgate-Palmolive-Peet.
PHIL SHAW and JANE MERRICK '50
will be married on September 24.
GENE HUSTED is studying for a
Master's degree in speech and radio at
the University of Missouri. BETTY
JANE BARBOUR is an accountant with a
New York real estate firm. BILL BEVERIDGE was married to Miss Anne Aungier of Staten Island on June I!. He's
teaching in the New York City public
school system. DICK NYBRO is studying at Luther Seminary, St. Paul,
Minn. His engagement to Miss Sue
Andreasen of Staten Island has been
announced.
GoRDON SISSONS and BUELL DAVIS became fathers this summer. Gordon is
entering Teachers College, Columbia
University, for graduate study in the
fall. RUTH CARNEY is teaching in
Freeport, L.1. MARGARET CHRISTIE is
studying at Presbyterian School of
Nursing, Chicago.
PHILIP BRANNER is working as an accountant for Swedish-American Line,
New York. JAMES WHEELER (ex),
Brooklyn Law School senior, was married to Miss Grace Brill of Staten Island on August 14. BETTY GOESLE and
ART FINN '51 were married Sept. 10.
Betty is secretary to an attorney in
Manhattan. EDITH BAUER BUTTNER is
working with a New York law firm and
living in Ridgewood, N.J. TOM Russo
is at Fordham Law School. FRED
MORTENSEN was married to Miss Diana
Wind of Staten Island in June. He is
a New York Medical College student.
FRANCIS MALONE was married April
23. ARTHUP MONACO is doing graduate work at N.Y.U. School of Education. LAWRENCE KRUGER is working for
a Master's degree at Yale.
NURSING ALUMNAE-RuTH O'HARE '48
was married to Edward O'Loughlin of
Manhattan in July. DOROTHY GITHENS
(Mrs. William Trost) N47 is the
mother of a son born in the summer.
RITA MCGIVNEY N47 (Mrs. Paul Kennedy) is another new mother. Her
daughter was born July 25. FLORENCE
HARDIE '49 is nursing at Halloran Hospital, S.I.; HOPE MIRALLES REEVES '49
at French Hospital, New York. ELSIE
CHANCELLOR '49 spent the summer as
camp nurse at Camp Wilbur Herrlich,
Towncrs, N. Y. JOANINA DADDIO N48
was married to Warren Brandkamp,
Evening Session student, in August.
DORIS EKSTRAND N46 (Mrs. Lester
Taber) now has two daughters. The
second was born June 2. She is working at Richmond Memorial Hospital,
S.1. PHYLLIS DAVIDSON N47 was
married to Frank Van Wagner of
Wilkes Barre, Pa. on June 25. AILEEN
BARTOLOME '49 is engaged to Frank
Grigoletto of Brooklyn.
VERONA
MILLER '49, newly elected president of
the Nursing school alumnae chapter,
will study at Columbia on a two semester scholarship awarded by the New
York State Department of Health for
public health nursing study. ANNE
NOREN POSEY N48 is working at Kingsbridge V A Hospital, the Bronx. She
had hoped to join her husband, who
is teaching English in China, but the
Chinese crisis has delayed her plans.
DOLORES MIRALLES LENZER N47 writes
that her husband will transfer from
Champlain College to Wagner in the
fall. DORIS COULSON N48 is at Marine
Hospital, S.1. GLADYS WICHMAN N47
is studying in the Wagner Eveninl;
Session while working at Staten Island
Hospital. SANTA PATERNO '49 was
married to Dr. Frederick Mann of the
Bronx on July 30. They will live in
Jacksonville, Fla. DOROTHEA MORCH
N46 was married to Robert F. Mann
during the summer.
JANET JOHNSON LITTLE N46 is living
in Washington, D.C. She has a daughter, a year and a half old. ESTHER
LUFFMAN VAN CLEAVE N47 is w'orking
at Wellborn Baptist Hospital, Evansville, Ind. MARIANNA TAYLOR N48 is
specializing in neuro-psychiatric care of
veterans at the hospital in Canandaigua,
N.Y. JEAN JOHNSON ISEMANN N47 is
living in Rochester, N.Y. Her husband
is a student at the University in that
city.
Wagner High School alumni-ELLsWORTH MISSAL '26 is teaching at
Brooklyn College. His Ph.D: is from
Columbia. JO~N SCHMUCK '28 works
for the Dollar Savings Bank, New
York, and lives in Crestwood, N.Y.
PAUL SPRUNGER '31 is a staff nurse at
Bellevue Hospital. Manhattan.
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�THE LINK.
The Wagner College Alumni News
Vol. II
DECEMBER, 1949
NO. 2
Published in October, December, March, and May by the vVagner College Alumni
Association, Staten Island 1. N. Y.
Alfred ]. Krahmer '27, Alumni Secretary, Editor
Lois K. Dickert ·-i6, Assistant Editor
THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
............... President
WALTER BOCK '38
CHRISTIAN HOLMSTRUP '39 ........................ Vice President
.. Secretary
MARIE KRUMPE BORTH '42
HERMAN MEYER 'II ..................................................... Treasurer
Members of the Executive Committee
Carl J. Sutter '29
Wesley Rogier '34
Dona Id H. Race '30
Alfred Krahlller '27
Alumni Trustees of the College
Alfred L. Beck '38
Donald H. Race '30
Alumni Members, Board of Athletic Control
Albert Accetola '41
Frederick Sutter '94
Alumni Members, College Council
J. Trygve
Joseph Ca" ley '35
Jensen '43
Alumni Members, Board of Traditions
Robert Olwig '35
Roy Cutter '41
ALUMNI
CHAPTERS
Nursing Alumnae
Ve rona Miller
Hudson Valley (NY)
'49.....
. ...... President
Dorothy Miller N 16
.... Secretary
.... . .. ....... ...
Rochester
....................... President
............ Secretary
Lorraine Turcotte '48 ...
.'\' icvcs Ribes Dole '48 ...
. ........... Secretary
'40 ...
Mrs . Charles Nebauer. ....... .................................... .
............. Secretary
Elaine Hoebel Fuhlbruck '·15 .............................................. .
. ..... Secretary
.. President
Gunther Stippich '36 ...
. ....... Secretary
Erma Rudloff Coutts '39 ...
Staten Island
Western New York
....... President
Frank Kalmbach
Rita McGivney Kennedy N46
. .............. President.
'Valter Kortrey '45 ..
Philadelphia
................................ President
·40 ....
........................................... Sccretary
Long Island
...... President
Westchester (NY)
Lloyd Rice
...... Pres ident
Fred Grunst '19 ..
Brooklyn
Philip Anstedt '39 ..
Adelheid "Saum
...... Secretary
Alvin ?tiesse rsmith ·44 .....
Northern New England
William Villaume '35 ..
.................. President
Frank Gollnick '30 ...... .
............... Secretary
THE
COVER
Les Trautmann
'40 ..
Lila Thompson Barhes '-11 ..
................ President
............................................. Secretary
PICTURE
This month's Link cover shows the 1949 Seahawk football team, the group which
broke all existing offensive records in the 23 year football history of our school.
They
scored more points (254), won more games (7), and piled up the most yardage both passing
Their 7-1-1 record is the· best in our history also. The only blue note in
and running.
all this is that eighteen of the players are seniors.
PAGE
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WAGN E R
CO LLE G E
�OUR OWN "DA VIE"
-
In response to inquiries from older
alumni as to the origin of the nickname
"Seahawks," the Link herewith tells the
story as we got it from Ronald Reynier,
originator of the name. The name grew
out of a student body competition in the
fall of 1947. It was felt that the nicknames often in use, "The Green Wave"
and "The Hilltoppers," were not sufficiently distinctive.
Reynier was the winner of the contest
with his suggestion of "Seahawk." He
tells us, first of all, that there is no such
bird as a Seahawk. The origin of the
name dates back to the time of the great
Spanish Main. A small band of English
pirates, who operated in the Caribbean
Sea and attacked the large ships of the
Spanish, were given the nickname of Seahawks.
Taking Wagner's location, looking out
over the sea, and the small school playing
many large schools in sports, it seemed
that Wagner had a close analogy to the
original Seahawks. The name was submitted. The student body did the rest.
by Thelma Biele Corey, '37
To know Dr. Lee Y. Davidheiser at all
is a great honor. He is the kind of "big"
man you can sit and talk to or sit and
think with comfortably and without pretense. A man of infinite patience (alld
volatile temper), he has helped students
scholastically and personally on numberless occasions.
Besides being informative, his chemistry
lab. periods were fun and informal in
their own way. But woe to the careless
student! I particularly remember onc
fellow whose experiment blew up in
everybody's face. (I combed glass out of
my hair for weeks after.) There was no
serious damage, but "Davie" was distinctly irritated -- and rightly so. He knew
what damage we cOllld do, in our novitiate state.
A complete gentleman himself, "Davie"
was nevertheless much opposed to chivalrous tendencies which led the fellows to
write up co-eds' experiments for them.
Every "man" for himself was the chern.
lab. motto. As I remember "Davie," he
was a stickler for detail and chemistry was
an adventure.
As the first group of co-eds at Wagner,
we were looked on as visitors (and curiosities) and were treated with much respect. In the chern. lab. we didn't have
to do any of the dirty work; "Doc" always saw to it that the fellows did it for
us.
Dr. Davidheiser's special love was the
Debating Society. The first year I came
to Wagner, a request was sent out for
volunteers for the team, and since no
specification was made as to male or female members, I went to the first meeting
of the group. "Davie" doesn't floor easily,
but he was momentarily non-plussed to
see a cooed turn out for what had been, up
to then, strictly a male activity. He reo
covered very nicely, however, and soon
had me working along with the rest of
the group on various angles of good debating.
Just sketching in a background of vital
statistics, let me give you a small idea of
Dr. Davidheiser's wide experience. He
received his A.B. degree from U rsinus
College and his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins
University. He was a teacher and principal of a public school in Pennsylvania
from 1904-1916 (before and while a stndent at Ursinus) and an instructor at
Ursinus the following two years. (But
he roots for Wag!leT these days.) After
receiving his doctorate at Johns Hopkins,
he became an instructor for two years
and then went to Millersville State TeachTHE
LINK
WHERE DID THE NAME
SEAHAWK COME FROM?
ers' College for six years as a professor
of chemistry and head of the Science DelJartment. In 1928 he came to Wagner
and has served faithfully ever since.
When my family and I visited the
campus several years ago, Dr. Davidpeiser was one of the first to greet us.
He has an excellent memory for names
and faces. Ruth Davies Anstedt, with
whom I talked over this article, bears me
cut on this. And she tells me that when
she and Florence Grunow Gode were (In
campus they were so impressed by
"Davie" that they got up very early one
May 1 to hang a May Basket on hi,
door.
It hasn't been easy to write this, to put
into words the deep respect we all feel
for Dr. Davidheiser. One must know
him to love him and will love him more
knowing him better.
...............
The Wagner Alumni Association has
been accepted into membership in the
American Alumni Council.
*
*
* * *
The Link editors are not infallible (as
if you <;Iidn't know). Last month we
omitted the names of Fred and Marcia
Boos, Bill Niebanck, and Hope Behar
from the list of 1949 Loyalty Fund contributors. Our apologies are hereby
offered.
...............
... ............
WELCOME, SUMMER GRADSI
Forty students who finished their
studies during the summer session arc
now included in our Alumni Association,
even though they have to wait until the
June Commencement to receive their degrees.
We welcome Dominick Antonelli, Nicholas Baldassano, John Boeniger, Georl!c
Buese, Lester Carlisle, Barry Carmody,
Joanne Clason, Francis DeMarzio, Frank
Dermody, Curtis Geigel, Louis Gianvito,
Samuel Gibson, lise Heinrich, Thomas
Holleran, Theresa Hochstrasser, Barbara
Hogan, Carl Johnson, Julia Kneeshaw,
Rudolph Mikson, Edward Mulholland,
Frank and Janet McCormick.
Virginia Nelson, Mildred Neumann,
John Newman, Ralph Olsen, Gwyn Ree5,
A lice Patterson, Martin Ratner, Joseph
Romano, Jerry Rosenberg, William Rowen, Robert Schwarting, Joseph Shannon,
Alice Shetlock Reinbold, Robert Smith,
Stanley Terkelsen, Albert Timm, Walter
Smihula, and Edward Wholihan.
... ... ... ... ...
The Wagner library acknowledges the
donation of books by the following alumni
and former students- Paul Hoffman, Ted
Collier, Roy Cutter, Walter Barth, Robert
Schwarz, Marion Stover Books, and John
Bauchmann. Alumni are reminded that
the use of the library IS always open to
them.
...............
Word' has reached us of the death of
Dr. Emilie Meinhardt, former member of
the Modern Languages department. She
died August 26 at the Sunset Home for
the Aged, Quincy, Illinois.
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�THE GLORY THAT WAS GREASE-PAINT
by John Devlin, '39
At first, on recelvmg the request tr1
the mothballs from the top of my
memory and reminisce about Wagner dramatics from 1935 to 1939, I felt like someone left over from the days of Vitagraph
or D. W. Griffith. Just for a prompter, I
went to the Fibber McGee closet in the
house, and holding down the family skeleton with one knee, I grabbed an armful
of old Kallistas and playbills with the
other.
Out of a student (sic) body of about
two hundred, the dramatics society was
usually built around a nucleus of ten or
twelve genuinely interested people. Actors
were also stage-hands, make-up artists,
and advertising solicitors. Needless to
say, this arrange!llent produced some interesting effects that were not always
called for in the script.
One time John McDermott had a quick
change in "As You Like It." He came
off in a rush and in just as much of a
rush a couple of the rest of us squeezed
him into a borrowed pair of breeches and
ladies riding boots, and just in the nick of
time, with Mac's ample anatomy straining
at every seam, we pushed him back onstage to meet his cue. Then there was
the time Arthur Klein had an animated
speech as the pub-keeper in "A Bit 0'
Love" and had to wear a drooping mustache. During his big scene, because he
had used some spirit-gum that was old
and weak, his mustache fell off. With
the poise that was a necessary part of our
training, he turned his back to the audience and deliberately pasted it back on
again. When he turned around he had
the mustache on, but he looekd like a
Turk. It was upside down.
My own debut in Wagner dramatics
was literally earth-shaking. As Tam Jarland, the villian in "A Bit 0' Love," I was
to be thrown bodily through a saloon
window by an incensed minister (played
by Bob Boettger). To make things a
little easier, we placed a gym mat outside
the window. But Boettger's aim was bad.
Out of about eight tries between rehearsals and performances I hit the mat twice.
The other times I either overshot it,
undershot it, or caromed off the window
frame.
However, much of it was not ridiculous
and, although I may be biased, some of it
approached the sublime. There are some
plays and some performances that will be
remembered by those who saw them.
Such as Catherine Newton's tender and
touching interpretation of Bridget in
"Shadow and Substance," or her gentle
Mary in "Lazarus" (by Professor Palles~weep
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Grease Paint Glorifiers of '39 (or so)
Left to right top J ohll Devlill - J aIm KalllY - Dat'e Smith - Lu Kirsch. bottom
Roy Cutter - Eleanore Schmidt (Schweppe) - Lit Freillmth - Kay Newtoll
(McDermott) - Ev ICIISelt, squattillg (jlOII tell us) - 10hlllofcDermott.
ke). Or John McDermott's fiery and dynamic portrayal of the Irish school-teacher in "Shadow and Substance," and with
his varied talents, the broadly comic role
of the cockney lieutenant in "Journey's
End." The list is long because we were
fortunate in having such talented people.
But space is short, so I must settle for a
mere mention of some of my contemporaries - Eleanor Schmidt, Dagmar Aitchison, Everett Jensen, Tex Schneck, Al
Keyser, Willie Freimuth, Lu Kirsch, and
others who helped make it not only successful but
pleasant. To borrow a
thought from the late John Barrymore,
my only regret is that I could not sit out
in front and watch that group act.
We were aspiring. A list of some of
the playwrights we tried includes Galsworthy, Andreye\', Shakespeare, Dickens,
R. C. Sheriff, Paul Vincent Carroll.
We were ambitious. In the 1938 season
we did about eight plays, at least four of
which were full length.
We were sensitive to current trends and
produced some anti-war plays when things
were getting dark in Europe.
We were experimental. Shakespeare
in modern dress; "The Blue Willow
Plate," a chinese drama done in the authentic native style; "Lazarus," an origin-
al verse drama by Professor Palleske;
and other original things.
I mention these because it was a very
fond hope of some of us in those days
that Wagner College would one day have
an experimental theater that would be
famous. The physical equipment is there.
Perhaps we will see it yet.
Some of us who have gone before have
continued our interest in dramatics. John
Neher is writing radio scripts. Catherine
Newton was graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, but as
Mrs. John McDermott, her biggest role
to date is that of the mother of three
lovely girls. Of course, those who have
gone into the clergy are no doubt producing and directing plays in their various
parishes.
Me? My dramatics at the moment are
confined to enacting roles from fairy tales
for my children. And really, I've never
had such an appreciative audience. Why,
frequently I send them off to bed screaming.
The only other outlet I have is trying
to convince my wife that I was delayed
with the boys at the office. But somehow, no matter how I tum it on, she
keeps muttering something which sounds
strangely like, "Once a ham, always a
ham." Of course, I can't be sure,
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BRIEFS
~94-WILLlA~[
BETZ is the author of
an article. "The Teaching and Learning
Processes in Mathematics." Jlublish~d
in the January 1949 issue of THE
~fATHEMATlCS TE.\CHER. His
brother. THE REV. CARL BETZ,
was honored recently for fifty years
service as pastor of Bethlehem Lutheran church, Rochester.
19I5-THE REV. HEINRICH KROPP
is president of the General German Conference of the U.C.L.A. Its recent convention in Pastor Kropp's church in
Brooklyn was the occasion for quite .1
gathering of Wagner alumni. As Pastor Kropp puts it, '· ... at the Social
Evening the 'gemutliche Lieder' reminded one of the times at Wagner whtn
Professor C. F. \Y. Betz gave the
weekly 'Singstunde' ."
1918-The October Link listed EDGAR
KRA UCH as an undertaker. At the
\Vestern New York Alumni chapter
meeting we learned we were wrong.
K rauch is president of the Amherst
Memorial Co.
1925-DR. ANDREW J. MAHLER, professor of English at Mary Baldwin
College, was Wagner's official representative at the inauguration of A rthl ,
Hollis Edens as President of Duke University, Durham, N.C., October 21-22.
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19JI-THE REV. ERNEST C. FRE CH
was married to Miss Ottilie Baumgartel of Hartford. Conn. on Novell1b~r
12. He is pastor of Resurrection
Lutheran Church, Buffalo.
19J:z-JOHNNY SICLARI has been appointed assistant superintendent for the
Staten Island division of the Borden
Company.
19J5-It was another boy for the BOB
OLWIGS on September 15. Bob is
assistant city editor of the Staten Island
Advance. HENRY , TRAUTMANN
is another new father. It's a girl, born
October 20. JOHNNY GROSS was
presented with the National Quality
Award for 1948, a high honor for life
Insurance men.
19J6-THE REV. ROBERT BOETTGER represented Wagner at the inauguration of William Bay Irvine as president of Marietta College, Marietta.
Ohio. PAUL ROGLER is head of the
~rathematics department and treasurer
of the high school at Fairlawn, N.J.
His second child, a girl, was born May
21. JOHN F. BURKE is living a
double life in a sense- he is a New York
Fire Department lieutenant and a practicing attorney with the firm of Wilson,
Mangan. and Sweeney, Manhattan. He
is father of three girls, including a pair
of twins. FRANK KALMBACH operates the Lake Stamp Company in
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Angola. N.Y. A daughter, Carol Jean.
"as horn to MR. and 1IRS. ROLF
J) .\i';IELSON on October 2.
1937-DR. BRUCE CARNEY. now on the
staff of \Vomen's Hospital. Detroit was
married to Miss Dorothy L. Morrison
of Franklin. N.C. on September 4.
19J8-When THE
REV.
ALFRED
SCH RODER was installed as pastor
of St. Johns church, The Bronx. three
Wagner alumni participated in the
ceremony- HAROLD HAAS 'J9,
WALTER BOCK '38, and DR. A. C.
BLUNCK 'oS. THE REV. ERLING
NILSSEN (Swede. as we used to call
him) was elected vice-president of the
A tlantic Circuit of the Evangelical
Lutheran Church. He is pastor of the
Elm Street First Lutheran Church in
Portland, Me. DR. WILLIAM LITTLE is stationed at the National Medical Center in Bethesda, Md. PETE
DEAN and Miss Ruth Thompson of
Staten Island were married on November 12.
'9J9-THE REV. LUTHER FREIMUTH assumed the pastorate of St.
Pauls church, East Portchester. Conll.
on October I. He had been pastor in
Airmont, N.Y.
IQ40-MISS MARION OHR is now assistant librarian at Western College for
Women,
Oxford, Ohio. MIRIAM
SERRICK McALLISTER is heralding the arrival of a son. born Sep((:mber JO.
1941-FRANCIS BALDWIN, a chemist
with Standard Oil for twelve years, has
been granted a leave of absence to study
at the University of Notre Dame. THE
REV. LOUIS SUESSMAN of Cresskill, N.J. was married to Miss Jean
Kight on October 9. FRANCES
WIGHTMAN PRITCHETT reports
a visit frol11 the John Peels (she's the
former VIRGINIA CLARK '42) at
her home in Niantic. Ill. this summer.
THE REV. CARL SHEIE will dedicate
a new church and a new parsonage on
December 18. Locale- Long Beach,
Cal. DR. ALBERT ACCETTOLA is
announcing the arrival of Judith Ann,
born October 2J. DR. JOHN GOLLER rejoined the Navy on October 5
with the rank of captain, assigned as assistant to the district medical officer in
Manhattan.
1942-TED GIBSON was married to Miss
Lucille B. Crawford of Altadena, Cal.
on November 12. IRMA GRAMM
was married to Amedeo Presutti on
July 26. She is teaching in Belmont
(NY) Central School. DR MICHAEL MOORE, working for the
National Lutheran Council in Germany,
i~ stationed in Stuttgart.
1943-DR. JOAN EGBERT McGIVNEY
psychiatrist at Binghamton (NY)
State Hospital. \\ as killed in an auto
;tccident on October 21. TRYGVE
]ENSE ,as,istallt professor of chemistry at \Vagner, was married to Miss
!llarie Langager on September J. THE
WALTER BOECHERS (she's BARBAR .\ \VALTERS '44) announce the
arrival of another "future Wagnerian,"
Rubert. born June 28. \\. alter is now
with Mercer Hicks CUlloration, investIlll'nt securities. DR. ERWIN NOLTE
and his \\'iCe, LILLIAN GLOCK, ar~
also celebrating the arrival of a son,
born October 2J. Nolte is chief resident
in anesthesia at the V .A. Hospital in
Dearborn, Mich.
1944-NA VAL
CHAPLAIN THEODORE C. HERRMANN'S infant SOt!
was baptized July IS by THE REV.
BILL HAMMANN. HOPE BEHAR
has been appointed as a regular teacher
at P.S. 18, West New Brighton, S.L
WALTER GOURLAY is studying al
Harvard University Graduate School 0f
Arts and Sciences. THE REV. EUGENE ROTH is at Yale University
for language studies. He is preparing
for missionary work in Japan. DOROTHY KRAUSS MYERS wrote in
from Waynesburg, Pa. to announce the
arrival of a son, Paul Edward, bom
October 22. The engagement of THE
REV. PAUL QUALBEN to Miss
Ruth Arnesen of Brooklyn has been
announced. Paul, already a seminary
graduate, is now studying at the NYU
School of Medicine. ALFRED ROBERTS had a busy time of it last month,
covering the New Jer3ey gubernatorial
campaign for the Newark Star Ledger.
194s-Mark William Fuhlbruck came into
the world on June 14. His proud parents are BILL (THE REV. WILLIAM) and ELAI E (HOEBEL)
FUHLBRUCK. Nov. 1 marked the
arrival of a son to the HELMUT DIETRICHS. He's pastor in Lawrence,
Mass. She's the former DOTTY
KRAUS.
1946-ELLEN KLITGAARD spent two
weeks vacation in Honolulu this sum·
mer. She wrote in to say, "My address
is still the same, but sure would like ta
change it to Honolulu." BARNEY
PFEIL '48 and his wife, ADELINE
RIPKEN, are another couple announcing a blessed event. It was a boy,
Henry Walther, born September J. We
were sorry to learn of the death of
ROBERT A BARR, who died on September 19, and hasten to offer our sym·
pathy to her grieved parents.
1947-RALPH VOGEL, who received his
M.A. at the University of Buffalo last
spring, is now at Duke University for
graduate studies in bacteriology-mycology. MARJORIE HARTUNG and
JUNE REICH '48 enjoyed a two
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�weeks trip to Bermuda in September.
Honorary alumnus, DAVID L. TILLY, president of the New York DOCi;:
Co., died on October 18. He had been
singled out as one of Brooklyn's Distinguished Citizens. The award was
made posthumously.
1948-SALVATORE D'ADAMO has
been sighted by the Esso Standard Oil
Company for twenty years service. The
DONALD STOUGHTONS (she's
ADELE TRUE) are living in Spring field, Ohio. Donald is a student at
Hamma Divinity School. ROBERT
SALVESEN has been a graduate assistant at the University of Buffalo.
GLORIA APRILE was married to
Gaetano Nicolais on September 4.
RALPH ADAMS was admitted to the
bar in New York state on September
30. ELISHA (IGGY) DARSON'S
soccer teams at Staten Island Day
School are undefeated for the past twu
years.
1949-LOLA POWELL is doing graduate work at the University of Delaware
DONALD SPIRO and EVELYN
LINDFORS N48 have announced their
engagement. HAZEL McCALLA is
teaching at P.S. 39, Staten Island.
WALTER ERDMANN was married
to Miss Elizabeth Rossi of Lima, Peru
on September 3. He is clerking at
Bank of the Manhattan Company, New
York, while attending night school at
Fordham. BILL BEVERIDGE is
teaching fifth grade at P.S. 44, Staten
Island, and working for his M.A. at
N.Y.U. at night. JAMES BATTIN is
a chemist for the Schering (pharmaceutical) corporation at Unionville, N .].
HARRIET STEINBERG was married to Perry Grover, Evening Session
student, on June 12. MIKE CHIAPPERINO is working as a substitute
teacher at P.S. 45, Staten Island. His
engagement to Miss Beverly DeRogatIs
of Miami, Fla. was recently announced.
PHILIP BECKER is taking graduate
work at N.Y.U. JOHN CODOMO is
doing graduate work at V.P.I. RUTH
CARNEY is teaching second grade at
Southold, L.I. DICK BREYMAN is
promoting aeroplane trips for Air Travel, Inc., Manhattan. FLO KALLDIN
is working for Atlantic Mutual Insurance Co., also in Manhattan. JAMES
RAHMAN ' is doing graduate work at
Adelphi, while working part time as a
waiter. DICK DEBUS is studying at
the N.Y.U. School of Business Administration, meanwhile practicing administration practically as manager of the
Wagner Book Store. BILL MORRISON' S graduate study is at Hofstra,
not Adelphi as previously reported.
ROBERT RICE is with Home Insurance Co. as a business ad. trainee.
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JAMES KINSELLA, student at
Brooklyn Law School, married Miss
Agnes Geigerich on September ;,.
'9so-ED MULHOLLAND, who finished
this summer, was married to Miss
Katherine Kane on September 10.
ROBERT SCHWARTING is another
new bridegroom. He married Mis;;
Margarct Monck of Richmo}1d Hill,
L.I. on October I.
NURSING ALUMNAE-VERONA MILLER
'49N, LILLIAN INTEMANN ARKESEN '49N, and MARIE PALMIER
'49N attended the conventions of the
New York State League for Nursif'lg
Education and the New York State
Nurses Association at Buffalo, October
17-21. CONSTANCE LUCAA SAVAGE N46 reports the arrival of a
daughter, her second, on September 8.
Her Air Force husband is still stationed
ill this area. FLORENCE HARDIE
'49N is engaged to Ambrose Artaserse
of Jersey City. ISABELLE MAIORANO LOREDO N48 last reported in
Puerto Rico, is now living in Mexico
City with her doctor husband. THEODORE HUGHES N47 is now Mrs.
Teofil Meller and living in Bellerose,
L.I.
It was a girl for EILEEN JACKMAN
O'LEARY '49N, born October 14. The
baby's name is Karen Ann. EDA
AANONSEN N48 is an anesthesiologist at Staten Island Hospital. The
newest members of the nursing alumna~
family, who finished their work in September, are Virginia Christiana, Helen
Deuschle, IIse Heinrich, Virginia Nelson, Alice Shetlock Reinbold, Anne
Roberts Creveling, Paula Tuchner, anci
Eva Osofsky.
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CHAPTER DOINGS
The fall chapter activities got off to a
strong start with a fine organization meeting in Buffalo on October 13. Thanks to
the efficient planning of Ernie French, a
group of forty persons were present to
hear Dr. Walter C. Langsam tell of the
latest developments on the Hill. Frank
Kalmbach was elected president of the
group which will be known as the Western New York chapter, with Mrs. Rita
McGivncy Kennedy chosen secretary.
November 18 the Hudson Valley chapter met at the Catskill Country Club.
They heard Alumni Secretary AI Krahmer and saw "Beautiful upon a HlII," new
W agncr movie. A similar program was
presented in Boston for the Northern
New England chapter on December 2.
\Ve hope for organization meetings in
Jersey City, Connecticut, Washington
(D.C.), and Albany in the month of December.
The Nursing Alumnae met at the
college on November 1.5 to hear reports
of the International Council of Nursing,
and the Staten Island chapter has been
busy with a community service lecture
series. Whit Burnett, noted editor and
anthologist, was presented on November
7, with Dr. Luther \Voodward, psychol,}gist, writer, and radio commentator, offering a program on November 2I. This
chapter also held a card party on DecemI){'r 8.
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Early Loyalty Fund Returns
Early returns on the 1950 Loyalty Fund
campaign are very encouraging, says
Chris Holmstrup '39, chairman of this
year's drive. To date 94 alumni and former students have contributed $658 and
pledged $100 more. Holmstrup feels that
this is a fine start, but reminds all of the
alumni that we still have more than $2300
to go. He plans a follow-up soon.
The Hudson Valley chapter showed fin~
spirit by soliciting each of its members
~nd turning in "the first 100% return
from any chapter." Space limitations
prevent our listing the 1950 contributors
in this issue of The Link, but a complete
list will be included in a subsequent issue.
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Wagner alumni are going to see a lot of
these four initials during 19SO. They
stand for Christian Higher Education
Year, an appeal of the United Lutheran
Church in America for its colleges and
seminaries. The goal set is six million
dollars, and solicitation is to be made ir.
the synods and congregations of the
ULCA from January I to April 30, 1950.
The goal of the United Lutheran Synod
of New York is $750,000, of which
$350,00 is to go to Wagner. The college
authorities expect to use monies received
to help build the new girls dormitory.
Your A lma Mater needs your full support for CHEY. Amounts like these are
not raised unless there is full co-operation
and plenty of hard work. Alumni will
be called upon to act as speakers, committee chairmen, and, of course, donors.
Don't say anything but an emphatic "yes'
when you are called upon to serve.
The new dormitory will help to meet
one of the most pressing needs on the
campus. It is need that is genuine and
real. Even if enrollment drops this dormitory will be an absolute necessity. Help
Wagner achieve her goal. Speak up for
CHEY. Support CHEY. It must be a
success!
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How come?' Three alumni- Ernie
French, Pete Dean, and Ted Gibson- all
picked Homecoming Day, November 12.
for their wedding dates. Or doesn't a
mere husband have anything to do with
choosing the date?
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Nov. 22
Halloran Hospital
away
Dec. 13,
6:30
L.I.U.
away
Nov. 30
Football team
Nov. 30
Alumni
home
Dec. 17,
2:30
St. Josephs
home
Dec.
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St. Johns
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Jan.
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Jan.
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Brooklyn
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Feb.
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Cooper Union
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Dec.
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Stevens JV
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Dec.
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Dec. 23
Brooklyn Frosh
away
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Dec.
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St. Johns JV
away
4
Pratt JV
home
Dec.
14
Stevens
home
Feb.
7,
5 :30
Hunter
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Jan.
Dec.
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Baltimore
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Feb. II,
2 :30
Queens
home
Jan.
Dec. 23
Brooklyn
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Feb. 14,
4 :30
Rider
home
Queens JV
Albright JV
home
away
7
Upsala Frosh
home
away
Dec.
30
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Feb. 18,
2 :30
Adelphi
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°Jan.
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St. Johns
Pratt
Jan. 28
Feb.
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Feb. 20,
7 :30
C.C.N.Y.
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Feb.
Jan.
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Upsala
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Feb. 25,
2 :30
Panzer
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Feb.
6
Brooklyn Poly JV
Fordham Frosh
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Queens
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Mar.
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3 :00
Moravian
away
Feb.
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Moravian JV
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Albright
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Mar. 4,
2:00
Elizabethtown
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Feb.
11
Manhattan Frosh
away
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away
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Brooklyn Poly
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Feb.
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Hofstra Frosh
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Feb.
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Fordham
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Feb.
15
P.M.C. JV
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Moravian
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Feb.
18
St. Peters Frosh
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Mar.
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Adelph JV
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Mar.
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Kings Pt. JV
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Feb. 13
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Feb.
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Hofstra
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Penn Military
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Feb. 22
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Feb. 24
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Feb. 25
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The Wagner College Alumni News
Vol. II
NO.3
MARCH, 1950
P ublished in October, December,
~1arch,
and May by the Wagner College Alumni
Association, Staten Island I, N, Y.
Alfred ] . Krahmer '27, Alumni Secretary, Editor
Lois K. Dickert '~6, Assistant Editor
THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
W ALTER BOCK '38
CHRISTIAN HOU1STRUP '39
MARIE KRUMPE BORTH '42
HER~1AN MEYER 'II
President
\' ice President
Secretary
Treasurer
Member. of the Executlye Committee
Carl
J.
Wesley R ogier ' 34
Sutter '29
Donald H. Race '30
Alfred Krahmer '27
Alumni Tru.tee. of the College
Alfred L . Beck '38
Donald H. Race '30
Alumni Member., Board of Athletic Control
Fr~derick
Alb«t Accetola '41
Sutter '94
Alumni Member., College Council
Joseph CaVlley '35
Alumni Member., Board of Tradition •
Roy Cutter '41
. \1 Krahm r r '2 i
The Wagner Alumni c\ssociation is a mcmbl!r of the Amcrican ,\Iumni Council
ALUM N I
CHAPTERS
Nur.lng Alumnae
V erona
M iller
Hud.on Yalley (NY)
'49
Dorothy M iller N l6
President
Frank Gollnick '30
Secreta ry
AlvlIl Messersmith '44
PreSident
Secretary
Roche.ter _
Northern Ne. England
William Vi llaume '35
Pre~id e ll t
Fred Gruns t ' 19
Presidellt
Erling Nilssen '39
Secretary
"'Ieves Rlbes Dole '48 . .
Secretary
P h ili p Anstedt '39
President
Walte r Kortrey '45
President
Adelhe id Baum
Secretary
Elaine H oebel Fuhlhruck '·15
Secretary
P resident
Gunther Shppich '36
President
Secretary
Erma Rudloff COlltts '39
Secretary
Long 1.land
Brooklyn
'40
Philadelphia
We.tche.ter (NY)
Lloyd Rice
'40
Mrs. Cha rles Nebauer ..
Staten 1.land
We •• ern Ne. York
Frank Kalmbach ..... .
.. President
.. . .. Secretary
Ri ta M cGivney Kennedy N46
Lc ~
Trautmann
President
'40
Secretary
Lt]a Thulll\ISOn Ba rhes '4 I
Northern New Jersey
Col· mar·va (Washington, D.C.)
(harles Hellri "gal '3 8
President
I)ayid SmIth '4\
President
Willard Grime. ' 40 . ..
Secretary
\\"iIJian, Xi ebanck '3 1
Secretary
THE COVER PICTURE
Th e co ver s hows the artist's idea of wha t the int e rio r o f that n ew gym will look lik e ,
It's a dr e am
that will soon c ome tru e wi t h your he lp,
PA G E
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WAG NE R
CO LLEG E
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WE TAKE THEIR HANDS
by Evelyn E. Schafer, '45
One cold and blustery Minnesota day
(a rare thing) I brought little Kenneth.
age six, to our Children's Receiving
Home in St. Paul. He was a pugnacious
little fellow, but underneath his tough exterior crouched a hurt and bewildered
Kenneth -- the product of a broken home.
As we were approaching his new
"home," two dogs began to bark furiously
at us. Quickly Kenneth rushed to my
side. "What are they barkin' at us for?"
he demanded.
"Why, that's just their way of greeting
us," I ,assured him.
Somewhat mollified, he trudged on, but
kept close 'to me.
By the time we had 'reached the steps of
the Home, Kenneth had decided to stay
outside and play in the snow for awhile.
I had been inside for only a short time
when the doorbefl rang frantically. As I
opened the door, Kenneth stood before me,
every inch of him bristling indignation.
"I thought you said those dogs liked
me," he said accusingly. "They been
barkin' at me ever since I got here."
Quickly, I took his hand and said,
"Come on, let's go down together and
make friends with those dogs." With
slow steps we walked towards the menacing animals. Suddenly the bigger dog,
seeming to understand the little fellow's
fear, lowered his bark to a gentle growl
and advanced to meet us. Cautiously, my
little bully stretched out his hand and tentatively gave big Rover a gentle pat. The
cog, silent by now, began to wag his tail.
With shining eyes, Kenny looked up at
me. ,,( guess they like me after all."
What better way to illustrate my work 1
Taking youngsters who have been hurt
and frightened, we say' to them, "Yes, we
know you feel bitter and bewildered, but
there are people who like you, who want
to be your friends ." And just as I took
Kenny's hand in mine and helped him to
face the unknown, so we try to do with
all of them.
Believe it or not, I now claim a family
of thirty-two! (Ed. Note : This is Schaefer speaking!) I'm willing to wager
there isn't a Wagner alumnus who can
boast as large a number. Furthermore,
most of my children are emotionally dis ·
turbed. Many are the children of un..
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married parents; many come from broken
homes. Seldom do we work with real
orphans.
Several years ago many of these children were stamped, "UNSUITABLE
FOR ADOPTION," and left to fend for
themselves in temporary quarters. Within the past two years, however, the
Minnesota State Division of Social Welfare has urged that permanent plans be
made for all children, if humanly possible.
For some that means adoption, for others
long-time placement in one boarding
home.
\Vith some children it is a long and
weary struggle before we feel they are
ready to go to a new home. Let's take
one ot my eight-year-olds for example.
We'll call him Olaf. When I first knew
him, about a year ago, he was so upset
that he couldn't even go to school. The
last day he was in school, for instance.
he chased his sweet young teacher into the
principal's office and had to be forcibly
restrained from hitting her.
Before going on vacation this summer,
I had to spend some time preparing Olaf
for my absence. I explained that I would
only be visiting and that I would return.
We pored over several maps to find out
where the state of Connecticut was and
where I would be staying. One afternoon, this dyed-in-the-wool Minnesotan
looked up at me and queried, "Do they
speak the same language in Connecticut
that we do here?" He also wondered if
I'd bring back some Connecticut money 1
(I couldn't help thinking, through all this,
of college classmates' jibes about my home
state.)
Recently I had to miss an interview
with Olaf. Though I knew he was upset
about it, he was obviously determined, at
our next meeting, not to show his anger.
But at the last minute, he sauntered to the
play table and picked out a stuffed cat.
"This cat hates you," he said. "He'll chew
your arm to pieces." And he proceeded
to illustrate. After a time, I casually
suggested, "Perhaps the cat's angry because I didn't come to see him the other
day." A pause. Then Olaf, in his inimitably gruff voice, said, "Yeah, I was
kinda mad about that." And that wa~
all ..
After months of storm and stress you
can imagine my joy when I recently overheard Olaf explain to a new member of
my "family": "Oh, you'll like Miss Schaefer. She's rependable I"
Since I'm working for a Lutheran
agency -- the Lutheran Welfare Society of
Minnesota (I must get in a plug) -- we
are also doing work with children of Displaced Persons in cooperation with the
National Lutheran Council.
Last spring six of these children . arrived to make their homes in Minnesota.
They were all boys and ranged in age
from six to ten. Since they were part of
my case load, I was one of the group who
greeted them at the airport in Minneapolis. They were something to behold 1
All six were dressed alike in navy, pe~
jackets and everyone was carrying a littl~
overnight bag. They were tired and bewildered.
The children arrived about six in th~
evening and were quickly shepherded into
a small room , where several news reporters and photographers were waiting to
talk with them.
The poor youngsters could speak little
English, and more than once I regretted
my appallingly slim knowledge of German
which the good Dr. DeWalsh had so
patiently but futilely attempted to inj ect
into my brain. Be that as it may, the
Kinder were still mine to care for, whethwe shared a common language or not.
As the reporters gesticulated wildly to
the boys, the photographers set up their
machinery, and the youngsters were 'ar·
ranged in various poses. Meanwhile, we
grown-ups proceeded to act our , silliest,
trying to make the weary, lonely ones
laugh. Only sober ,faces gazed back at us.
Finally, one man r.emarked, "Come now,
smile. Aren't you happy to be in Ameri·
ca?" I turned away, feeling sick at heart,
a~ I thought, "Why should they be happy?
Have any of their past experiences given
them hope for happiness? Or do they
even know what it is ?"
That is another of our heavy responsibilities. We must make people aware of
this opportunity to serve, to take these
children into their homes and offer them
the love and security they have missed •
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�leaping up and down and shouting for
everybody to drink up and smile. As a
point of information, the Varsity Players'
present director, Nicholas A. Moss, has
switched to -- tea for prop beverages.
One of the most vivid situations to occur while I was on stage was when the
leading lady was about to sit down on a
sofa already occupied by a derby hat. It
was wonderful. to watch the change of
expression on her face when she and the
derby made contact.
'Mid the dust and gloom of backstage
there was always much activity. Everybody was not interested in acting, for
many enjoyed staging, set design, set
building, lighting, prompting, costuming,
or props. No matter how small or large
the effort, the expression of willingness
was always ther~. I wouldn't give up for
anything in the world my stage experience at ' il lagner.
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A LETTER TO THE EDITOR
A prodllctiol! af "Bio!)raPhy" (S. N. Behrmall). Left to right:
FlorellCe! Kalldin, Koge Lindcroth, Roy Mabrey, Ed Megeriall.
Frallk Kaiser,
A NEW GLORY
by Robert E. Carey, '49
It is with pardonable pride that I glance
back at the not too distant past. Bringing
back to life a dormant stage was no
slight task. By 1946, when our group
took over, there was nothing left of backstage life at 'Wagner but a glorious tradition. It is far from my intention to
disparage that tradition -- we are grateful
for it -- but it was a poor substitute in
'46 for an organized. functioning group.
Yesterday has gone the way of dusty
death, but there is now a revitalized Varsity Players group to carryon the fine
tradition handed down to us. Varsity
Players with the specified number of
points are now eligible to became members of a national honorary dramatics
fraternity, Alpha Psi Omega. The points
are awarded on the basis of individual
participation in the club's activities, and
a constitution has been drawn up to determine club policies.
I t was hard work to sweep away the
dust accumulation of about six years.
When re-organization came in 1946, a
stage committee was set up to drag in
volunteers to help with the dusting,
sweeping, and mopping backstage and
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somehow or other a group was always
there. B4t it was not all work.A radio
often blared in one corner of the stage
with the dance crowd gathered around it,
while the coffee and coke circle formed in
another corner. Others found alnusement
in balancing wet mops on the tips of their
index fingers. But the stage was cleaned.
Nothing can equal the experience of
walking out on that stage on opening
night. The glare of the lights stuns you
momentarily, the heat of the lamps makes
your head whirl. Then comes the test -your first line. You hear some vaguely
familiar words; you take a deep breath
and stammer an answer. You've done it I
Your first line is over with and the rest
comes easily. If it doesn't, you wander
over to the wings and gently tap the
prompter on the head with your foot.
Then someone comes over and offer.
you a drink. You hold the glass and sip
slowly because the script calls for an
empty glass. You ask yourself, "What
witch's brew is this?" Still you must
drink and smile as you do, even if it gives
you heartburn. I can still see Ronnie
Hammond, a past director of the group,
DEAR EDITOR:
Your little piece on the origin of the
nickname, "Seahawks," for Wagner teams
was interesting, but I beg to differ with
Ronald Reynier, whom you quote in your
December issue. Reynier may have bern
the originator of the sobriquet, but he
doesn't know whereof he speaks when he
says there is no such bird as a seahawk.
My authority? The Webster Unabridged Dictionary.
Reynier (I'm hedging now!) is partly
right. There is no bird called seahawk
(one word) but there is a bird called sea
haw k (two words). I t is described as a
skua (or skua gull) or jaeger. I gather
from the dictionary that it inhabits the
northern coasts of Europe.
And I'm afraid that Reynier, who liked
the analogy of the brave little English
"Seahawks" who attacked the mighty
ships of the Spanish main, won't like the
dictionary's definition of the jaeger:
"Any of several rapacious, gull-like
birds of the family Stercorariidae, . . .
called also skua. They are strong fiyers,
large and spirited, and noted for harassing
weaker birds until they drop or disgorge
their prey."
Now that doesn't sound like little Wagner!
Incidentally, the sea hawk is not to be
confused with the osprey, or fish hawk,
which is a nice critter which bothers
nothing but fish. The osprey has been
seen on Staten Island.
ROBERT A. OLWIG '33
(Editor's Note: Olwig illsists that he
really doesll't dislike the nickllallle,·"Seahawks," evell if it did supplallt the name,
"Hilltoppers," which Ire devised whm he
was a sports writer to take the place uf
"the Gree~1 Wave," tllhich he did 7Iot
like.)
WAGNER COLLEGE
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�AND HOW IT GREW
by Alfred Beck '38
(This is the second of three articles about
Wagner College and how it grew. At
the cnd of the last article, which appeared
in the May 1949 isme, the new school had
jllst beell located ill the hOllse of ChristiOlI
Seel, whose SOli was appointed as the first
hOllse/ather. )
It was an inauspicious beginning to say
the least. The board recognized the generosity of Mr. Christian Seel in offerinff
the use of his house without cost, but it
also recognized that such an arrangement
was neither permanent nor altogether
satisfactory. The board recognized the
fact that the expenses were exceedingly
small, yet they also realized that ten dollars was not much of a working capital.
The board was anxious to increase the
student body, but when applications arrived in November, they found that they
were not yet adequately equipped. Pastor
Berkemeier applied on behalf of a young
man of eighteen, who had recently come
from Germany without the means for an
education. Although he was considerably advanced in learning and brought
with him a confirmation certificate and
character references, the board felt that it
could not provide for the support of the
young man. So President Richter notified
Pastor Berkemeier that the yount' man
could not be received.
Meanwhile expenses were slowly beginning to mount. Six desks and chairs
were needed at once. A maid was ellgaged at two dollars per week; books,
carpets, and other necessities were purchased and the board faced the Christmas
holiday of the new institution with a
certain degree of consternation. Never.theless, 011 December 27 at seven o'clock
they met with the boys to celebrate
Christmas. After brief addresses by the
president and the housefather, each boy
was given a copy of Luther's Geistliche
Lieder, a box of candy and nuts, and two
oranges. Then the announcement was
made that a two weeks' vacation would
be given to the pupils beginning the following day.
As far as the board members were concerned, there was little time for a holiday.
Funds had to be raised at once. In addition to money received from St. Paul's
congregation, Pittsford, and promised
from another congregation, another plan
of securing funds was under way. One
hundred and fifty small savings banks
had been donated by Mr. John G. Wagner
of Zion Church, for the purpose of gathering contributions. These" were being
distributed to individuals and it was hoped
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that this would be an important source of
revenue.
At another meeting it was decided to
increase the number of trustees to thirteen, and a stipulation was included in the
motion that no two members of the same
family could be elected to serve on the
board at the same time.
Once the immediate problems of organization and finance were temporarily
taken care of, two more problems appeared" One was the question of securing a
permanent housefather, and the other was
the problem of securing a permanent location for the proseminary.
It seemed apparent that everyone was in
favor of securing a housefather at once.
It was agreed that the new housefather
should receive rent, wood fuel, and light
(kerosene) free. The salary was to be
six hundred dollars per year. In return
for this the housefather was expected to be
a combination of presiden"t, parent, and institutional caretaker.
One choice was the Rev. Snyder of
Canada. President Richter and Mr.
William Vicinlls, a new member of the
board, visited Pastor Snyder immediately,
and three days after their departure reported that the visit had been successful
and that he would come to Rochester to
take up his new duties as soon as he was
able to find a successor for his parish in
Canada.
But the problem of finding a new housefather was far from being settled. The
board saw that it would need someone to
fill the position until Pastor Snyder
would arrive. They telegraphed Pastor
Koennemann of New York City asking
him to become temporary housefather, and
he replied at once that he would accept.
The board's members, therefore, agreed
that he should be provided with room,
board, fuel, and laundry. In addition he
was to be paid three dollars a week. Mrs.
Emilie Fechner was also engaged as
housemother, and J. S. Margraender,
former treasurer, was added to the faculty.
Still the problem of securing a housefather was not settled, for although Pastor
Snyder sent a written acceptance to the
call on March 27, by June he had changed
his mind and asked to be released.
As though this were not enough, Pastor
Koennemann, who had recently come from
Germany, was not getting along so well
as housefather. His discipline with the
students was severe, and President Richter felt constrained to speak to him about
it. As this did not seem to help, thc
members of the board decided to send a
letter to Pastor Koennemann asking him
to be more humane in his treatment of the
students. But complaints kept coming in,
and finally it became necessary in August,
1884, to call another housefather. The
new housefather was the Rev. F. W.
Kaemmerer.
The other problem of locating the new
proseminary in a more permanent place
was somewhat easier to solve. After comparing a couple of possibilities, the
committee decided on a three-story house
with eleven rooms, which could be rented
for three hundred and sixty dollars a year.
It was further decided that if the weather
permitted, the date for moving the school's
equipment into the new quarters would be
Monday, March 24. Board Members
Bantleon and Karweick offered to furnish the wagons for the transportation of
the effects.
Thus the two problems were settled, but
the ever-recurring matter of finances
still faced the board. They decided,
therefore, that all Lutheran congregations in Rochester and community should
be asked by their pastors to make a special
offering for the new school. This bt:came the chief source of revenue until
the school became an institution of the
Ministerium and received funds from a
wider circle of contributors.
When the Ministerium met in First
Lutheran Church, Poughkeepsie, N. Y.,
June 19-24, 1884, the president presented
the matter of the proseminary before the
new members of the group. This was the
first time that the proseminary had been
brought to the attention of the members of
the N ew York Ministerium in convention
assembled, and the idea was a happy onc.
Pastor Richter told the story of the new
preparatory school and the result (not including the Rochester churches) was a
collection-of $784"00, Hereafter, a yearly
report was made at each meeting of the
Ministerium.
While problems of incorporating the
proseminary and insuring the property
were being disposed of, the same old problem of houscfather arose agaip. The new
housefather, F . W . Kaemmerer, began to
complain strongly about the inadequacy ot
of his salary. He declared that it was
impossible for him to engage a housekeeper on the present salary arrangement.
His complaint was heeded at once, and the
board agreed to pay for the services of a
housekeeper.- But this continued to be the
vexing problem that it always was. "It
is an evidence of God's wonderful mercy
that, in spite of this, he did not permit tIle
destruction of the institution," said
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�A MESSAGE FROM THE
ALUMNI PRESIDENT
This is a big year for Wagner! This
is the year we've been dreaming about
and waiting for. This is the year in
which we build our new gymnasium and
women's dormitory.
I say "we build," because every last
one of us'will have a part in the building.
We may not pound nails or saw wood or
mix: concrete, but what we can do is just
as important. We can, by our gifts, insure that S011leOlle will pound nails.
This initial step in the building program -- raising the necessary funds -will be taken in three directions at once.
(I) The United Lutheran Church has
chosen this year as Christian Higher Euucation Year (you've probably heard of it
-- CHEY). The money which is raisc(!
will be divided among all the colleges of
the United Lutheran Church, Wagner's
~hare will be used for building.
(2) The
Wagner College Building Fund. (3) The
Alumni Loyalty Fund.
If you are a member of the Lutheran
Church and are approached by the CHEY
campaigners, please give generously, re·
membering not only Wagner College but
the whole cause of Christian higher education. We cannot remain true Wagner
alumni and disregard the pleas of our
Church to aid its schools.
If you are not a member of the Lutheran Church, make a direct contribution to
the Wagner College Building Fund. Too
long have we just talked about building.
Now is the time to act!
Here is where the real sacrifice comes
in. While I have asked you to give ia
either of the two ways mentioned a.bove,
I am still going to ask that you continue
giving, even step up, your contributions to
the Alumni Loyalty Fund. We have
a growing Alumni Association; we must
have a growing Alumni Fund. There is
so much to be done! Through our own
fund, we alumni can make a very real
and specific contribution to Wagner's
growth.
Let's quit talking and act. Let's sho ....
by our contributions that we love Wagner.
Please: be generous, talk to your friends
of Wagn·!r's needs, contact other alumni.
You have never let us down before. Fer
the love of Wagner, don't let us down
no\\'.
REMEMBER THESE ---
CHRY
\V AGNER BUILDING FUND
ALUMNI LOYALTY FUND
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The New Girls' Dormitory
in the Girls' Dormitory
PLACEMENT SERVICE
The Wagner alumni program now h;1s
a new feature, a placement service for
seniors. Ernest Kiefer, Director of Placement Service, will be in the alumni office
and will work under the supervision of
the Alumni Secretary in the development
of his program. This is an important
new development at the college and deserves the full support of every alumnus.
If you know of job opportunities, think of
the Wagner Placement Service.
* * * * •
Johnny Devlin's article on "The Glory
that Was. Grease Paint" was universally
praised by Link readers. One alumnus
offered a valid criticism, however. He
points out that the article failS' to make
sufficient mention of one of the best actors
to tread the Wagner boards, Devlin himself.
WAGNER ALUMNI
SERVE CHEY
Twelve Wagner alumni are serving on
the committee of the United Lutheran
Synod of New York which is directing
the Christian Higher Education Year
Appeal:
The Rev. Frank L. Gollnick
The Rev. Wilmer Zuehlke
The Rev. Sylvester Bader
The Rev. J. George F. Blaesi, D.D.
The Rev. Joseph B. Flotten
The Rev. Edward A. Sheldon
* The Rev. Herbert Hrdlicka
The Rev. Fred Teicnmann
* The Rev. Harold Haas
The Rev. George R. Tamke, LL. D.
The Rev. Joseph Klahn
The Rev. Frederic Sutter, D.D.
* Conference Chairmen
WAGNER COLLEGE
�W AGNER'S NEWEST PLANS
GLANCIN' BACK
AND HOW IT GREW
Announcements came thick and fast
from the college Public Relations Office as
significant additions to the Wagner program were announced in the last month.
The most significant was the announce··
ment of a co-operative plan for students
of engineering and nursing between Wagner and Valparaiso (Ind) University.
Wagner's pre-engineering students may
receive degrees in civil, mechanical, or
electrical engineering by transferring to
Valparaiso for their junior and senior
years. Wagner in turn will accept prenur,ing students from the Indiana college
for completion of the nursing course and
of the ,vork for the B.S. degree. This
plan, which will begin to operate in the
fall, promises to be most helpful to those
students who have wanted engineering
courses at Wagner.
The second new development was the
announcement that Wagner will offer a
two year certificate course in general
sttldies, also beginning with the fall term.
This plan of study is offered to meet the
growing demand of students who want
college training but who lack time and
money for a full four year degree course.
Students in this course must meet the
same admission standards as any other
entering group, and are regular members
of the student association. At the end of
the two year course,' those who wish may
apply for transfer to the regular four
year program.
A third new program announced is th-::
certificate course in Business Practict:
which will be offered in the Evening Session, beginning with the fall term. This
plan offers alternate programs, one emphasizing accounting, the other secretarial
science. A high school diploma is ft!quired for admission, and a certificate ill
Business Practice is issued at the comple
tion of the work, which would normally
take two years of full academic study.
Les Trautmann '40 came across this
tidbit ' in a book on Howard A venue and
Serpentine Road written by Charles Gilbert Hine in 1914. It gives a glimpse of
what Cunard Hall used to be like and
reads thus:
"The Bellevue: Sir Edward Cunard, Jr.
married a granddaughter of Thomas
Addis Emmett; the latter purchased property in 1850 on this end of the hill from
John Mell and the same year sold a portion to Sir Edward, who erected the
present house. Presumably it was he who
adopted the name 'Bellevue.' Mr. Cunard was American manager of the
Cunard line and could readily see from
his home the vessels of his line pass in
and out.
"The next tenants were cousins of the
owner, Allen by name, two or three bachelor brothers. They gathered other disciples of S. Anthony about them and the
place for a time was known as the 'Bachelor's . Club' ! Either at this time or later
Sir Oliver Northcut was a tenant. In the
course of time the place fell into the hands
of Amzi Barber, of asphalt fame, and still
remains in the possession of his heirs."
(Of course, in time "the place fell into
the hands" of \Vagner -- more or less -and still remains in our possession.)
The book also gives a brief biography
of Gen. William G. Ward ... says he called
the place Oneata, "a Seminole word from
the Dry Tortugas by a friend of the
family," and which he translated to mean,
"Missed by the dawn." All of which is
just so much mumble-jumble from this
reader's (the assistant editor's) viewpoint.
Interesting, though ...what?
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Alumni President Wally Bock has appointed the Rev. Carl Sutter '29 chairman of the Nominating Committee and has
asked Jack Berglund '35 to act once more
as chairman of the Alumni Day Committee. A committee to study the constitution and to suggest revisions that would
bring it up to date was also named. Its
suggested revisions will be found in the
May issue of The Link along with the
nominees for office and the Alumni Day
program.
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Marie orris. '41 became a member of
\Vagner's staff on February I. She is to
be Recorder in the office of Registral
Marguerite Hess.
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"BEAUTIFUL UPON A HILL"
\Vagner's new film, "Beautiful upon a
Hill," was shown to the convention of
District II and III of the American College Public Relations Association at the
Hotel Traymore, Atlantic City, on January II. The presentation was marie
during a Forum on College Pictures,
over which Wagner's Public Relations
Director, Al Krahmer, presided, and during which the film "Princeton" was also
shown. BUAH was very well received
and inquiries from other colleges have
been many.
Al Krahmer also attended the District
II convention of the American Alumni
Council at Chalfonte-Haddon Hall, Atlantic City, from January 18-21. If any
new alumni activities and ideas are suddenly sprung upon you, you'll know where
he got them. The Wagner Alumni Association has been a member of the
American Alumni Council since last fall.
President Richter, writing about it four
years later.
Finally, a committee drew up what it
felt ought to be included in a housefather's
call. First of all, the housefather is to
teach and have financial supervision of
the school. He must be a Lutheran
pastor who is in accord with the doctrines
of the Ministerium. As the name implies,
he mllst be a father to the boys, watching
over their mental, physical, and spiritual
growth and well-being. He is to supervise the general life of the school and be
custodian of all the school's property. He
is responsible only to members of the
board and its president. Other requir.:!ments were also listed, but the above rule
indicates the position which the housefather held.
Early in December of 1884, a spechll
meeting was called and at this time David
Bantleon reported that the treasury, which
had contained $10.00 one year prior, now
had a balance of $1076.03 I
The first real constitution and by-laws
appeared in 1885. It was largely the
work of the president, and it reveals once
again his unusual grasp of the entire
situation and his gift for organization and
careful planning.
The constitution declares that the purpose of the proseminary is to train young
men for the Lutheran ministry among
German-speaking people. And since that
was the chief aim of the proseminary the
principal language used was German. All
the teachings of the classroom were to he
based upon the teachings of the Bible and
the confessions of the Lutheran Church.
On May 28, 1885, the constitution was
unanimously accepted. Then, to fulfill li
requirement of the constitution, President
Richter read the confession of Faith, and
each member of the board signified that
he was in accord with its teachings. Those
who signed the new constitution were:
Alexander Richter, president; J. G. Wagner, vice-president; David Bantleon,
treasurer; Robert Kuhn, secretary; F.
Schlegel; J. Margraender; ' and J. Christ.
One thousand copies of this document
were printed and then distributed to
pastors and interested laymen.
The new institution was taking its fir
steps alone.
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The decorations for last fall's Homecoming Day dance used up 2000 straight
pins, 1500 feet of wire, and 3000 feet cf
crepe paper. They required a lot of imagination and effort, too.
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�A TRIBUTE TO
JIMMY ROBB
At long last there is a memorial for the
late Jimmy Robb '35, Wagner athlete
killed in a plane accident· April 6, 1946,
after a distinguished career as a naval.
aviator. Jimmy was a member of the
famous football team of 1932 which still
holds the best defensive record of any
Vvagner eleven, yielding only 34 points in
6 games. He was also a member of the
basketball team which featured Tot
Swartwout, Doc Lewin, Bob Sheie, Abe
Kobren, and Eddie Leonard, and which
piled up victories under Coaches Jim
Collins and Bill Keegan.
Carl Langner was a team mate of
Robb's on the '32 football team. It has
bothered Carl for a long while that th ~ re
was no memorial for Jimmy, and he decided to do something about it. His action
took the form of donating a trophy to be
awarded the most valuable player in the
annual Homecoming game. The trophy
was presented to the school as a gift
from the 1932 team and several of them
were present to see Chester Sellitto win
the award for the first time.
A permanent trophy with Sellitto's name
engraved now sits in Athletic Director
Sutter's office, a smaller one is Sellitto's
permanent possession. At the Homecoming dance, Mrs. Elizabeth McManus,
Jimmy Robb's sister, made the presentation to Sellitto, while Harry Robb, a
brother, presented the larger trophy to
Bill Thompson, Student Association
president, who accepted for the school.
Our hat is off to Carl Langner for his
generosity and for his thoughtfulness.
Wagner is proud to perpetuate the memory of Jimmy Robb, one of her distinguished alumni.
A WINNING YEAR
The 1949-50 school year gives every
promise of being Wagner's most successful year in sports. Football is an old
story by now, but alumni -and studentJ
alike are still talking about the 7-1-1
record on the gridiron, and the hig-h
scoring records which were set. The
basketball team started off where the gridders finished, winning their first six
games. After an easy 68-34 win over
Cooper Union in a Greater New York
Conference game, the Hawks won thrte
games on a trip, beating Dickinson 44-3<),
Johns Hopkins 50-45, and Western Maryland 63-46. Back home again, Stevens
was beaten 64-49 and Baltimore 83-60.
Two Christmas vacation games in Brooklyn brought the winning streak to a close
as the Hawks lost to Brooklyn 71-51 anl'i
to St. Johns 70-52. The Brooklyn gam~
was a heartbreaker as Wagner led 41-38
with 14 minutes to play when Jim Gilmartin fouled out. Since then Pratt has
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been beaten 62-43 and Upsala 68-62 to
bring the pre-exam record to 8-2.
Wagner is a member of the Greater
New York Conference, with Hofstra,
Pratt, Queens, Adelphi, Brooklyn Poly,
Kings Point, and Cooper Union as the
other members. Our record at this writing is 2-0 in the Conference. The team's
leading scorer is Captain Jim Gilmartin,
with Ray Doody close behind him. Gilmartin, Blomquist, Quintana, and Doremus, four members of the starting five
are seniors, but Doody has another yeaI'
to go and Larry Sweeney, a promising
prospect, is a sophomore. Bob Bosley, a
freshman, looks like a real potential star.
Wagner is getting better schedules
every year. This year we play such
teams as St. Johns, Manhattan, Fordham,
Albright, Hamilton, St. Lawrence, Clarkson, and P.M.C., besides those already
mentioned. Most of them will be back
next year with Gettysburg and F. and M.
added. Football next season adds P.M.C.
and Swarthmore. Herb Sutter, Athletic
Director, is doing a fine job in this respect. Another feather in his cap is ollr
acceptance as a memb~r of the Metropoli·
tan Baseball Conference, starting in 1951.
This nine team league includes NYU,
Fordham, Manhattan, Brooklyn, CCNY,
St. Johns, Hofstra, and Kings Point.
Meanwhile, Wagner girls are doing
all right in basketball, too. They have
defeated LIU, Brooklyn, and Drew, losing
only to St. Josephs.
CHAPTER ACTIVITIES
Two new alumni chapters have been
organized since the last issue of The Link,
and a third will probably be a reality by
the time this one reaches you. On December 8 the alumni of t~e Washington
(D.C.) area met at the Hotel Twenty
Four Hundred to hear President Langsam address them on the latest ~vents at
the college. The touring Wagner basketball team were dinner guests. Charley
Hellriegel '38 was elected president of
the group, with Willard Grimes '40 secretary. A meeting in spring at which
"Beautiful upon a Hill" will be shown is
being planned.
On December 16 the Langsam-Krahmer
team (this time, supplemented by Alumni
President . Wally Bock) was in Jersey
City to organize the alumni of the Northern New Jersey section. Dave Smith '41
was elected president and Bill Niebanck
'3i secretary.
The alumni of Connecticut will organize
at a dinner meeting at the Hotel Elton,
W.aterbury, Conn., on Sunday evening
March 5. Dr. Langsam will be the main
speaker, with Alumni Secretary Al
Krahmer also present. This date coincides with a Sunday morning appointment
for Dr. Langsam at Bob Heydenreich's
church, First Lutheran. The President's
address of the day will be broadcast over
Station \VWCO at 11:00 a.m.
Meanwhile the Rochester chapter has
been busy sponsoring the Wagner Choir
concert in that city on January 29. Ian
Morrison, managing the choir, is enthusiastic over this group's co-operation and
hopes that every chapter will be a concertsponsor next year. The Long Island
chapter will meet at Niederstein's restaurant, Rockville Centre, on Friday evening,
February 17. Brooklyn plans .to welcome
the February graduates at an early meeting.
All chapter heads are reminded that the
alumni office is anxious to have a representative of the college meet with each
chapter once a year, and that the new
Wagner movie 'and football films are
available through the Alumni Se~retary.
Wagner's varsity sports teams went
from Sept. 25 to Dec. 23 without a defeat,
piling up seven football victories and a tie
and six basketball wins in the string. (See
Sports for full details).
ALUMNI LOYALTY FUND
Contributions to the Alumni Loyalty
Fund to date amount to $I,II3 in cash and
$95 more in pledges. Contributions to
date include Charles Accettola, Albert
Accettola, Dea~ Mary Burr, Ellsworth
Buck, Walter Bock, Sylvester Bader,
Thelma Biele Corey, Clarence Braun,
Elsie Ball, John Berglund, Philip Becker,
Walter Bielitz,. Bernard Bohrer, Shirley
Brodsky, Lenore Bajda, Donald Borth,
'Walter Boecher, Carl Betz, William Beveridge, Roy Cutter, Mary Carney, Bruce
Carney, Louise Christiansen, Jack Cooper,
Hope
Coons
Morrison,
Salvatore
D' Adamo, Joseph Di Cosmo, Robert Dole,
Helmut Dietrich, Henry Endress, Werner Eberbach, Joseph Flotten, Ernest
French, Edwin Grubb, Gloria Gilmour
Dick, Frank Gollnick, David Gaise,
Herbert Gibney, John Gross, Ted Gibson,
Florence Grunow Gode, Dorothee Heins
Holmstrup, Chris Holmstrup, Harold
Haas, Gustave Huf, Miriam Herron,
Gertrude Hustedt, Ruth Haas Roeper,
William Hammann, Harold Hornberger,
Louise Hartung, Harry Hustedt, Elmore
Hoppe, Emil Hein, Elise Hamilton, Robert Hoffman.
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Also Robert Ischinger, Evelyn Johnson
Haas, Eleanor Jensen Willecke, Eileen
Jackman O'Leary, Sam Johnson, Paul
J. Kirsch, Al Krahmer, Howard Kuhnle,
J. c. Krahmer, Heinrich Kropp, Oscar
Kral1ch, Ellen Klitgaard, Marie Krumpe
Borth, John Klahn, Harry J. Kreider,
Frank Kalmbach, Ruth Kriby Schroeder,
Dorothy Kraus Dietrich, Dr. and Mrs.
Langsam, James La Hart, William A.
Little, Howard Lel1Zer, Constance Lucaa
Savage, Ernest A. Meyer, Hermann Mey-
WAGNER COLLEGE
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�er, Dolore~ Miralles Lenzer, Virgini.l
Mackoy Trautmann, Mary Manning
Sterner, Hermann C. A. Meyer, Alvin
Messersmith, in memory of Harry Montgomery, Caroline Muller Reissig, Andrew Mahler, Albert Meurer, Marie Norris, Robert Olwig, Jean Oeder LaHart.·
Donald Race, Paul Reisch.
Also Michael Rapp, Alfred Roberts,
\Valter Reichelt, Paul Rogier, Eugene
Roth, Nieves Ribes Dole, Fred Reissig,
Ella Reiss, Julius Schlaer, Wilbur Sterner, E\'elyn Schaefer, Martin Schroeder,
William Stackel, Gwynne Swartz, Harriet
Steinberg Grover, Lester Trautmann, Edwin Tappert, Theodore Tappert, Matthew
Thies, Ruth Tellefsen, Hildegard Viohl,
Walter Veit, \Villiam Villaume, Herman
Vesper, Emil Weber, Frances Wightman
Pritchett, Henry Wasmund, Gustave
W cber, Florence Welkowitz, Barbara
Walters Boecher, Edmund Wagner,
Oscar \Verner, Catherine Yarger Messersmith, and Muriel Zoll Hustedt. Pledge'S
on hand arc from Ian Morrison, Herbert
Sutter, Patricia and Henry Speight, and
George Tamke.
ALUMNI NEWS BRIEFS
THE
1925-DR. GEORGE AUS was the Lutheran representative on a team of four
clergymen who went to Hawaii late in
January to conduct retreats for service
chaplains stationed there. They returned February 12.
1926-THE REV. JOHN BAUCHMANN is the author of "Tl1ey Still
Need Our Help," an article in the current issue of the ational Lutheran. John
has Just returned from a year's service
as CRALOG representative ' in Germany and the article deals with his experiences.
1928-DR. SIEGWALT O. PALLESKE
represented Wagner College at the inauguration in November of the new
chancellor of Denver University. 'At
the University Dr. Palleske is the SPOllsor of a newly organized International
Coordinating Council which, among
other things, will edit an international
monthly publication. THE REV.
FRANK HERR has taken a new parish in Lehighton, .penn. He was
£'mneriy at Gouldsboro. THE REV,
EDWIN GRUBB reports on the highly
successful evangelism program in his
church in the January issue of The
Lutheran. Ed is pastor of Redeemer
church, Jersey City.
1929-THE REV. CARL J. SUTTER is
Dean of an eleven week Labor School
operated by the Staten Island Division
of the Protestant Council.
1931-THE REV. ALBERT STAUDERMAN has reason to be proud. His
church, St. Paul's Lutheran Church of
Teaneck, N. J., was one of two Lutheran churches in Bergen County rated as
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superior on the basis of growth, membership and program.
1935-THE REV. WILLIAM VILLAUME addressed the Southeastern
Inter-Church Convocation on "Church
Planning and Adj ustment" in Atlanta,
Ga., on December 7. A member of
several important committees of the
Federal Council's Home Missions Council of North America and others, "Bill"
also finds time to instruct at the
Boston University School of Theology
RUDY BROSSMAN is now with the
Engine Builders Division of SoconyVacuum Oil Co. in Dayton, Ohio.
1936-THE REV. EDWIN GUNDERSEN has become pastor of Trinity
Lutheran Church in Flushing, LOl1ti
Island. THE REV. FREDERICk
NISSEN has left Pittsburgh fo serve
in Ruffsdale. Pa. He has two parishes;
St. Matthews. Hunkers, and ZiOll,
Rulfsda1c.
1938-HARRIET SHAPIRO was married on October 2S to Dr. Gyula Halberg. CHAPLAIN OSCAR WEB
ER has been transferred to the Naval
Training Station, Newport, Rhode
hland. W AL TER BOCK has been
elected Dean of the Luther League
Leadership School at Pinecrest Dunes,
Long Island, for the 1950 season. THE
REV. RALPH TELLEFSEN has
moved to West Hempstead, L. 1., where
he is pastor of Trinity Lutherat·,
Church.
REMEMBER
WHEN
The news release (written by Henry
Endress) which accompanied this picture
(taken by Justus Ahrend) read something like this;
" This is what milady will wear -- if
the sophomores of Wagner College, StatC/! Island, N .Y., get after them -- durillg
the period whell Ihe second-year mell alld
WOtnell allow tlicir i1llaginatiolls to nm
wild ill humiliating their academic illferiaI's. Burlesqllillg some of the latest styles
hI fe1l1illillc hats, H/ agllcr freshmall co-ed.f
are forced to march aroulld the college's
53-acre campus ill "hals" such as these.
A/iss Elsic JOllassm of Brook/YII, 011 tht!
left, is 'Wearillg a IiI' creation consisting
of her dallci11g slipper (sial' 5Y2), a bandana, a11d a nosegay of paper flowers.
Looki11g like a publicity stllllt for a food
market, the dcvaslatillgiy "cute" crow/I
all Miss Irllla Gramlll of. Williamsville,
N .Y., is constructed of a smalliampshade,
a cabbage leaf, a bUlich of carrots, a
kitchell f ork, and -- )'OU guessed it -- a
hot dog."
( This is of 1938 vintage.)
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1938-THE REV. HAROLD HORNBERGER has opened his parish 'house
as a schoolroom in which DP's in Red
Bank, N. J., can learn English. While
he does not teach the class himself, he
is the instigator of the proj ect.
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�1939-LUTHER KIRSCH is expanding
his talents. He directed the senior
play ("January Thaw") at East Rockaway High School and presented it
on December 10. "It was an artistic
and financial success 1" declares the di·
rector. He is also head coach of the
varsity basketball team at East Rockaway H. S.
194o-AI)ELHEID BAUM has been ap ·
pointed Assistant Periodicals Librarian
at Long Island University. EDWIN
GLASER has a thrilling job as a pilot
for the American Overseas Airlines .•
194I-RA YMOND A. BROWN, Ph.D.,
has acquired a U. S. Public Health
Fellowship in research chemistry. He
and his wife, DOROTHY KNIGHT
46 are living in California. SILAS
E. BERGSTAD represented Wagner
College on the occasion of the 75th
anniversary of St. Olaf College last
November. THE REV. JOHN COOPER is not only pastor of First Presbyterian Church, Watervliet, but he is
teaching a course in Philosophy of Re··
Iigion at Russell Sage College in nearby
Troy. MINNETTE L. WATERS is
now Mrs. George Kundtz and lives in
Cleveland, Ohio.
1942-PAUL SUKOVICH is attending
New York Medical College. Along
with the other "traitor's" BILL WILEY
was married on Homecoming Day, November 12. THE REV. WALDEMAR
HINTZ has resigned from the Division
of American Missions of the National
Lutheran Council to become a field
missionary for the Board of American
Missions. He is Qrganizing a congre·
gation in the lumbering town of
Willamina, Oregon. EDITH RAY·
NER MORISON announces the birth
of a son, Keith Rayner, in Oakland,
Calif., on December 24.
1943-Epiphany Lutheran
Church of
Laurelton, Queens·, celebrated its 19th
anniversary on January 8 by burning
mortgages on church and parsonage.
THE REV. RICHARD H. WEISKOTTEN is pastor. LENORE CARNEY TAYLOR is the mother of a new
son, Steven Richard, born on Novemher
19·
1944-MARY MARABITO writes that
she married Indiana University graduate Robert Pavis in 1945 and that they
now have two children. Mary spent
two years in the Cornell University
School of Nursing from which she
graduated in 1945. They are living on
Staten Island. THE REV. PAUL
QUALBEN, whose engagement was
announced in the last issue .of The Link,
was married on December 17. AGNES
DEMPSEY QUINLAN now has a
little girl whom. they have named Mary .
Agnes. THE REV. ALVIN MESPAGE
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SERSMITH has turned author, having
written and had published in the December 7 issue of The Lutheran an
article entitled "The Gospel for the
Bean Pickers." THE REV. PAUL
ALBERTI became pastor of Transfiguration Lutheran Church in Rochester
on. December 12. His wife is the form er DOTTY GROSS N46. THE REV.
MATTHEW THEIS is no longer at
Lancaster, Pa. He' has moved to Newark, N. J., to become pastor of St.
Stephen's Evangelical and Reformed
Church, as of January 4. ARTHUR
PENTZ visited Wagner recently hoping to recruit students for a reserve
troop carrier unit in which he has the
rank of captain. MILDRED ERNST,
who is in Guntur, South India, as a
missionary nurse, has become engaged
to a fellow-missionary. He is a Britisher serving the Methodist church.
1946-The ROBERT MESSINA'S are
parents of a boy born January 6.
JEANNETTE CUTHBERT BALAGURCHIK has moved from Florida to
N ~w York City.
1947-SAMUEL JOHNSON announces
the birth of his son, Stuart Lynn, on
September IS. THE REV. CHARLES
S. SCHMIDLING was installed as
pastor of St. Paul's Lutheran Church,
Bayonne, N. J., on November 13.
1948-"IGGY" DARSON is proud papa of
Glenn Thomas, born . December S.
GEORGE T AMKE is Publishing Ccmsultant and Designer with the Livingston Publishing Company in Narbeth,
Pa. ELSIE BALL has a new occupation : merchandising. She is with
Sibley, Lindsay and Curr of Rochester.
The latest: her engagement to Truman
G. Searle, Jr. has been announced. Mr.
and Mrs. WARREN SCHIELE announce the birth of a daughter on J anuary 18. DORIS COTTRELL BROCKMAN gave birth to a baby girl, Linda
Carol, on January 9. Her husband is
student Donald Brockman.
1949-EDW ARD PELLICCIARO repr~
sen ted Wagner at the inauguration of
Dr. Dennis Hargrove Cooke as president of High Point (N. C.) College.
PHYLLIS MacDONALD is working
as a commercial representative for the
New York Telephone Company, Brooklyn office. The engagement of VICTOR G. WIGHTMAN to Miss Ursula
.Mooz, a Wagner student, has been announced. Mr. and Mrs. RICHARD
DEBUS are happy about their new
baby, Sandra Jean, who was born 0'1
November 21. The former MIRIAM
SCHMIDLING is the baby'.s mother.
Another baby girl, Suzanne, was born
to the THEODORE ERIKSSON'S.
DANIEL ANTONELLI is working
for his M.A. degree in Educational and
Clinical Psychology at the N.Y.U.
School of Education. ROY DEBUS
has become engaged to Miss Constance
Bennett Lane of Hartsdale, N. Y.
WILLIAM REITZE and Marian Laustan were married December 3. THE
REV. ROMAIN SWEDEN BURG _.
a son, born December 7. Another son,
this one born to INGEBORc:; VONDRAN POST. He was born November 9. FRANK COLLURA is getting
a bang-up start on his singing career.
With the beginning of the new year he
is recording with Gold-tone Record Co
He is -also singing in N ew York clubs
and on WHOM, a New York City
radio ·station. He will begin further
studies soon at the Alriene School of
Dramatic Arts.
NURSING ALUMNAE-HELEN ELLIOT
HARWELL N46 is working at Rex
Hospital in Raleigh, N. C. Meanwhilt·,
her husband is working for his M.A. at
North Carolina State College, and when
he is through they will head for South
America, where Helen will continue her
nursing. 'CONST ANCE GARSIDE
N46 married Dr. William T. Price of
Philadelphia on December 18. They
are living in Dre~el Hill, Pa. HELENE
NICKLE N46 was married to John
Pawling February 10, 1949, in Caripito,
Venezuela. She is working for the
Standard Oil Company there. SANTA
PATERNO MANN N46 plans to
work in Jacksonville, Fla., where her
husbami is the anesthesiologist at the
Medical Center. JANE PHILLIPS
APPEL N47 has enrolled in Pennsylvania University as a candidate for
the Certificate in Public Health Nurseng. ELLA REISS N47 is engaged to
Fred Biangardi of Bay Shore. She is
now employed at the Southside Hospital
in Bay Shore. WINIFRED DENYSE MUELLER N47 is also the
mother of a girl, Nancy Louise, born
December 4, 1949 at Englewood, N. J..
Hospital. We were happy to hear
from PHYLLIS RECHEL RUSSO
N 48 that she is in her first home after
21 months of married life in one room-and pleased as punch about it. Their
home is on Staten Island. The marriage
of MURIEL A. PADIEN N48 to
Chauncey J. Haviland of Mamaroneck
took place on November II. They will
make their home in the Brortx. RENA
PISCOPO N48 is with the Veterans
Administration at Lyon, Colorado.
RUTH GREENWOOD N48 becan.e
the bride of Richard A. Koss, Wagner
pre-med student on J a11Uary 28. Florida
must have looked very ' attractive to
three Wagner nurses who have gone
down there to work -- temporarily they
say. The girls are ALICE P A TTERSON 49N, MADELINE REIMERS
49N, and BARBARA HOGAN soN.
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The Wagner College Alumni News
Vol. II
MAY, 1950
NO.4
Published in October, December, March, and May by the Wagner College Alumni
Association, Staten Island 1, N. Y.
Alfred
J.
Krahmer '27, Alumni Secretary, Editor
Lois K. Dickert
'~6,
Assistant Editor
THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
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WALTER BOCK '38 .............................................. President
CHRISTIAN HOLMSTRUP ·39 .. ..................... Vice President
MARIE KRUMPE BORTH .42 .................................... Secretary
HERMAN MEYER ·11 ..................................................... Treasurer
Member. of the Executive Committee
Wesley RogIer '34
Carl J . Sutter '29
Donald H. Race '30
Alfred Knhmer '27
Alumni Tru.tee. of the College
Alfred L. Beck '38
Donald H. Race '30
Alumni Member., Board of Athletl, Control
Frederick Sutter '94
Albert Accetola '41
Alumni Membe,., College Council
J. Trygve Jen.en '43
Joserh Ca" ley '35
Alumni Membe,., Board of Tradition.
Roy Cutter '41
Al Krahmer ''27
The Wagner Alumni AssocIation IS a member of the American Alumni Council
ALUMNI
CHAPTERS
Hu,.lng Alumnae
Hud.on Valley (NY)
.... ..... .. ......... President
Verona Miller '49 ...
Dorothy Miller N 16 ................................ .
Alvin Mcs'1ersmith "44 .
Pre.ident
Fr.d Grunst '19 ................................ ........ ................... ..
Secretary
:\ i.ves Ribe. Dole '48 ........
Roche.ter
.. ................ .
.. President
Secretary
Walt.r Kortr.y '45 .......... ..
Elaine Hotbe! Fuhlbruck '45 ... .... ......... .
....................... ..... .. President
Secretary
Philadelphia
We.tche.ter (NY)
Lloyd Rice '40 ...
President
..... ..... Secretary
Long 1.land
Brooklyn
Philir An.tedt '39 .....
Ad.lh.id Baum '~O
.......................... .President
Mrs. CharI.. Nebauer
... Secretary
Secretary
Northern New England
William Villaume '35 ...
Erling Nilssen '39 . "
President
Frank Gollnick '30 ................................... .
.. ................... Secr.tary
................ Prcsident
Gunth.r Stil'l'ich '36
Erma Rudloff Coutts '39 ... ..... ........... .
.......•...... ... Secretary
We.tern New York
Staten 1.land
Frank Kalmbach ........... .......
. ....... ......... Pr•• id.nt
Rita McGivn.y K.nnedy N 46 ........................ .. ............................. .. S.cr.tary
Lcs Trautn"ann ·40 ... ..... .... ........... ,.... .... ..... ... .··· ·· ·...... .... .. ............. ....... President
Lila Thomrson Barbes '41 ................................................................... Secretary
Northern New Je,.ey
Col-mllr-va (Wa.hlngton, D.C.)
Charles Hellriegal '38......
Willard Grimes '40 .. .. ................. .
.. ....... Pr •• ident
.. .............................................. .. Secr.tary
David Smith '4 1....
WiIIi.>m Niebanck '31 ............. .. ........ ..
... President
.................... S«r.tary
Connecticut
Robert H.yd.nreich ·32 .. ...................... .......................... .. .................... Presid.llt
EI.anor Dossin ............................................................. ........ ................. Secr.tary
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Traditional on the Wag1ter Campus is the allllual May Day, held this year on May 3. The cover picture shows the Maypole dance which was part of last year's celebration. Photo is by Herbert E. Hewitt.
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WAGNER COLLEGE
�ALUMNI
REUNION
PRO G RAM
Friday and Saturday - June 2 and 3, 1950
FRIDAY, JUNE 2, 1950
5:45 P.M. REGISTRATION DESK OPENS
Registration desk will be open from 5:45 to 10:00 P.M.
on Friday and from 9:00 A.M. to 1:00 P.M. on Saturday
6:45 P.M. ALUMNI REUNION DINNER
Rev. James link, speaker
8:45 P.M. BUSINESS MEETING
9:00 P.M. INTERFRATERNITY COUNCIL DANCE
9:30 P.M. "THE SECOND CUP OF COFFEE~' Social Rooms, Cunard Hall
Movies and Chatter
SATURDAY, JUNE 3, 1950
9:00 A.M. REGISTRATION DESK OPENS
9:30 A.M. "THE PROFESSOR AT THE BREAKFAST TABLE"
Room, Cunard Hall, Dr. Adolph Stern, speaker
11 :00 A.M. "TIME TO LOOK AROUND"
12:00 noon NURSING ALUMNAE CHAPTER LUNCHEON MEETING
INFORMAL LUNCHEON
FRATERNITY, SORORITY and CLASS LUNCHEONS
3:00 P.M.
COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES
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Foyer, Cunard Hall
Dining Room, Cunard Hall
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Cunard Hall
Ad Building
Foyer, Cunard Hall
Dining
- Campus
West Room, Cunard Hall
Dining Room, Cunard Hall
-Off the Hill
- Sutter Oval
ALUMNI REUNION
by Jack Berglund 'J5
Chairman
Here we are in the middle of spring I
We start day dreaming and those memorable days on the Hill pop into our minds.
Well, keep on dreaming, boys and girls - Alumni Reunion Weekend is just a few
weeks away and your committee has been
working up a Iii' ~Id program that we
know you won't \vant to miss.
We start off Friday evening, June 2nd,
at 6 :15 with an Aillmni Reunion Dilmer.
Professors Davidheiser, DeWalsh, and
Haag are going to be our special guests
so that we can wish them well on their
forthcoming retirements. The main spt.aker will be the Rev. J ames Link, local pastor, who has quite a reputation as an after
dinner speahr. Joe Flotten '26 will act
as M.e. and should have a lot of "good
ones" lined lip. Other highlights will include presentation of keys to 11/'0 50 year
alumni by Dr. Sutter and a factual report
on the Greater Wagner Campaign from
that famous member of the class of '45,
Dr. Walter Langsam. Incidentally, arrangements are being made so that five
year reunion classes ('45, '40, 'J5, 'Jo, etc.)
can sit together at reserved class tables.
A bllsillt!ss meeting is scheduled for
8 :45 p.m. Your executive committee is
planning to make it as shorl as possible
by sending you mimeographed reports and
outlines of the business in advance.
At 9:00 p.m. there will be a dalice in
the Ad Building sponsored by the Interfraternity Council. For those of you whom
Terpsichore has not endowed, "The Secolld Cup 0/ Coffee" will be served in the
social rooms in Cunard at 9 :Jo p.m. You
may lounge around and hash over your
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years on the Hill or relax and see some
Wagner football films plus "Beautiful
upon a Hill." The latter film is a terrific success and has even been televised.
You have heard of Breakfast with Jinx
and Tex, Dorothy and Dick, and other
radio notables. Well, Saturday morning,
June Jrd, don't miss "The Prp/essor at
the Break/ast Table." Meet us in Cunard
at 9 :Jo a.m. and we'll guarantee a good
breakfast pillS. The speaker will be our
own Dr. Adolph J. Stern, world traveler,
lecturer, and humorist . . Dr. Stern's dynamic personality and ready wit have
made him one of Wagner's most popular
professors. As a special attraction there
will be some special musical entertainment
under the direction of Dr. Sigvart Steen
of the music department.
Have you seen your new West Campus?
There will be time 10 look around before
lunch. Dormitories will be open for inspection if you want a peek at your old
room.
At noon there will be a Nursing Alumnae Chapler LuncheolL-Mceting in Cunard
and also fraternity, sorority and class reunion luncheons scheduled at local spots
off the hill. If you wish to stay on the
campus, the dining room in Cunard will
be open.
At J :OO p.m. the colorful academic
proc('ssion and commencement exercises
wil! be held on Sutter Oval. A fitting
climax to our program.
A r" !Jislralioll desk will be set up in the
foyer of Cunard Hall from 5 :45 to 10 :0"
p.m. on Friday and from 9 :00 a.m. to
T p.m. on Saturday. If you desire lodging for Friday night. arrangements can
be 'llacle a~ the dl'sk for a'dormltory room
Did I mention the tariff? Tickets for
all eVf;'nts will be on sale at the registration desk at the following rates :
$1.75
Annual Reunion Dinner
Dance
$ .75
Lodging
$1.00
Professor's Breakfast
$ .85
Luncheon·
$1.00
• Includes Nursing Alumnae Luncheon
and informal luncheon in Cunard
Dining Room. It aoes not include the
fraternity, sorority or class luncheons
held off the hill.
That's it! Mark the d"tes on your calendar NOW - June 2nd and Jrd. We'll
be looking for you I
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�WAGNER'S GRAND TOUR
by Ian Morrison '48
Capacity Crowd Attends Concert of
Wagner Choir. Wagner Choir Gives
Rare Musical Treat. Dr. Steen Shows
Amazing Ability in Wagner College Concert Here. Wagner Choir Heard in
Stirring Program.
These are typical of the headlines following in the wake of the Wagner Choir
as it traveled on its annual tour in J anuary and February of this year.
cert, the Syracuse fost Herald said, "A
stirring program ... the choir displayed
precision and complete control, often lacking in other well-directed groups . . .
Steen's ability as a director was clearly
seen last night." A few 'days earlier the
critics of the Newburgh News stated,
.. . . . a program sung with enthusiasm
and artistry ... choir excelled in shimmering pianissimos and organ-like crescendos
church in Newburgh, the tour at Niagara
Falls, Dr. Steen's solo in Meriden, Norm
Sutterlin's cut-ups in Torrington. These
and other episodes will long remain in
the minds of this group. In and out of
the bus, packing and unpacking, singing
and not singing, eating, sleeping, living in
different places every night, meeting more
people, talking Wagner - - no, not r6utine
- - just fun for all.
Lunch stop - Monticello
Robert Chamberlain, George Handley,
Paul Riss (hidden), Carolyn Reisch,
Gprard Kern.
There's Olle ill every crowd. Paul Riss
posing for CarolYI~ Reisch.
You don't want the names. It's 7 :30
a.m., leaving Meriden.
Twenty concerts in three states and
each one acclaimed by audiences and
critics alike - - quite a rc;cord, but an old
story to Dr. Sigvart Steen, who has been
directing choirs for more years than he
cares to make public. Gaining national
prominence as director of the Northland
(Wisconsin) College Choir, he was singularly honored during World War II by
being called to direct the famous Naval
Bluejackets Choirs at Great Lakes Naval
Training Station. A seasoned trouper
and an accomplished artist, Sig Steen is
the main reason that the Wagner Choir
has become "one of the finest choirs in the
East." Joining the Wagner faculty in
September, Steen succeeded, in just three
months, in accomplishing what at first
seemed an impossible task. Forty-three
young students, numbering few voice
students, stunned audiences with their
depth of feeling, discipline, and beauty of
ensemble.
The morning after the Syracuse con-
... ' this is already one of our finer choral
groups. The group showed a professional
quality that is rarely found outside such
veteran organizations as the Yale Glee
Club, the St. Olaf's Choir, and the Westminster Choir ... "
Next year's tour is now in the planning
and booking stage. Instead of this year's
forty voices, we shall have sixty, the tour
will be extended, and the audiences will
be larger.
It is a tribute to the choir personnel
that these, and other fine reviews, did
not instill the idea of perfection. Each
concert showed the choir new mistakes
and new horizons. Hard work and professional demeanor key-noted the tour,
but, as always, there was plenty of time
for good old-fashioned "horsing around."
The Placement Bureau is anxious to
hear of summer work opportunities for
students. If you know of any such work,
please tell the Placement office. I t5 director, Ernie Kiefer, would also be glad to
hear of full time openings for graduates.
Alumni are very important to the effectiveness of this work. Remember the
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Almost every day the students had a
few hours to themselves, and it was understood that all would be well as long as the
established timetable was adhered to - and it \vas I
As always, in an undertaking of this
type, there are highlights that will long
be remembered. For instance, the grand
first-night welcome in John Klahn's
Delta Nu, youngest fraternity on the
Hill, is the latest to organize its alumni.
It all took place at Clove Lakes Inn on
March 5. Officers elected were Dick
Paugh '49, president; Phil Laub '48, vicepresident; \Varren Schieb '48 secretarytreasurer.
WAGNER
COLLEGE
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�THE MIGHTY MITE
by AI Krahmer '27
Some call Herb Sutter the Mighty
Mite; others call him the Grey Eagle
(for the obvious reason that what hair he
has is grey) ; as a member of the faculty
he rates the title of Professor Sutter;
but almost everybody calls him just plain
Herb.
No matter what you choose to call him,
the fact is that Herb is doing a great job.
Wagner is growing up athletically and
the man responsible for most of that
growth sits in the tiny office alloted to the
athletic department. When we told Herb
we were going to do this story, he said,
"W rite it soon while I'm riding high."
He was referring, of course, to the fact
that his basketball Sea hawks had won 19
and lost 5, annexing the Greater New
York Conference title in the process.
Herb is a good coach and he has proved
it in both basketball and baseball, but we
have a feeling that his greatest contribution to Wagner is not as a coach, but as
Director of Athletics. When we said
Wagner was growing up athletically we
were not referring primarily to the fact
that we have had winning seasons for the
past
two
years
in
all
major
sports, but rather to the fact that we now
compete regularly with teams of recognized standing. No longer do we play
unknown schools, but colleges of fine reputation. What's more, we go into most
of these games with a fair chance of winning.
Herb is responsible for this athletic
growth, first through the fine contacts he
has developed. One of the less arduous
tasks that falls to the writer is to accompany Herb 'lCcasiooally to gatherings of
metropolitan
athletic directors and
writers. It is immediately evident that
Herb is well known and respccted by
these men. He's on a first name basis with
most of them. This is also true of the
Middle Atlantic States Collegiate Conference group (made up of many schools
with enrollment and athletic policies like
ours) .
Take a good look at Wagner schedules.
This year or next we meet teams like
Swarthmore, Johns Hopkins, Western
Maryland, Albright, Dickinson, Gettysburg, F. and M., St. Johns, Fordham, etc.
The fellow responsible for these fine
schedules is the Director of Athletics,
Herb Sutter.
W c've talked to representatives of these
("alleges. They are happy to play Wagner because they' like the way our players conduct themselves and the way Herb
Sutter does things. We are a respected
opponent, because they know that Herb
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plays square with the eligibility standards
of the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference, and makes sure that Wagner
athletics are always clean and above
board.
Another way Herb has helped Wagner
athletics grow up is through his persuasive
manner with local high school athletes.
Many of the fine players on our winning
teams this year are at Wagner because he
took an interest in them. How he persuaded some of them to come we'll never
know, because we know something of the
kind of "offers" these boys have had from
other schools.
Herb would be the first to admit that
he tries to get good athletes to come to
Wagner, but here, too, he plays the game
squarely and according to accepted codes.
We remember, for example, a letter he received last winter from a fine basketball
player in aNew England college. The
boy wantl"d to transfer, but Herb wanted
no part of the deal. He refused to risk
even a remote chance of an accusation of
"tampering."
It's hard to think of a time when Herb
was not on the Wagner campus. He attended the old Wagner High from 19231927, the college from 1927-1931. Except for a year at Columbia (M.A., 1932)
and five years in the New York City
school system, he's been at \Vagner ever
since. When he first came to the Hill in
1937, his was a part time job- to put
some order into the scheduling of games,
handled until then entirely by student
managers. In time he became instructor
in physical education, coach of basketball
and basehall (he even tutored the girls in
basketball for a while), and eventually
Professor of Physical Education, head of
the department, and Director of Athletics.
Herb entered Wagner High School the
~am( year the writer entered Wagner
College, .md we remember well his devolopn.ent as an athlete. A little fellow. it
took.. him a while to break into the varsity
line-up" but once he did, there was no
stopping him He quarterbacked the football team. played a forward in ba,ketball
anti second base on the baseball team. AI~
ways aggressive, he more than made up
for his lack of size and was never afraid
of running up against the big boys.
We remember some terrific beatings
Herb took in football during one of those
seasons when the line was below par and
the backfield needed armor. Smart and a
good passer, he was one of our better players. Against Susquehanna in '930, we
saw him go 8,5 yards with a kickoff behind
one of Ray Kirchmeyer's famed flying
wedges.
Herb Sutler
Now that Eddie Stanky is a New York
Giant (his favorite club), Herb won't
mind our saying that he is a Stanky
type basbeall player. Never a power
hitter, Herb drew a lot of walks, picked
up the extra base by alert base running,
performed smoothly in the field, and was
always the smart, take-charge type on the
field.
But if Herb was good in football and
baseball, he was great on the basketball
court. In high school, he was twice
chosen on the Island all-scholastic five.
In college ball, he was always a top scorer and briUiant floor man. In the one
year of the short-lived Metropolitan Conference, he was chosen on its all-star five.
Herb can still play a good game. as the
cocky members of the class of 1950 found
out this year. Herb was high man as the
Faculty beat the Seniors.
Sutter is a real veteran of the campus.
With the retirement of Professors Davidheiser and DeWalsh this spring, we can
think of only two members of the Wagner
family with longer service on the HillProfessors Hinman and Deal. Loyal to
his Alma Mater and serving her well,
Herb has done a ' grand job to help Wagner grow up.
He is not responsible for the next step
in that growth- the new gym, but he'll be
a happy man when it's finally a reality.
It will be heaven for him to be able to
have basketball practice everyday and not
have to leave Tuesdays and Thursdays for
the girls, or have to forego practice because of exams or registration, or the
many other activities which now jam the
auditorium schedule. And to be able to
play .the home games on the Hill. There'll
be no holding him.
(Continued on Page 14)
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�lave a Heart, Fellows!
One of the heaviest burdens with which the Public
Relations Office had to deal during the past fall, mentally if not physically, were the complaints of loyal and
enthusiastic, but un-understanding alumni, about the
"lack of publicity" on Union's undefeated football team.
From all quarters the complaints poured in, by letter
and verbally, and in one instance indirectly, via a
neighboring radio station. The situation finally reached
the point where the Director of Public Relations decided
to do something about it. This is it.
This is not going to be an excuse for what some believed to be the lack of. publicity, for no excuse is
needed, nor is any defense. The tremendous volume of
athletic pUblicity that went out from here during the
falI, under the able supervision of Bill Ketz, speaks for
itself. We did our part, but what happened between
Wells House and the published newspapers in which our
alumni didn't see glowing accounts of Union's victories?
That is the crux of the matter, and that calls for an
explanation of just what "news" is as published in the
newspapers. In reading this, remember that the Director of Public Relations, who is writing this article, is
not only a loyal" alumnus of Union himself, but is also
an experienced. newspaperman, with twenty years on
the New York Herald Tribune and five vears before
that on The Associated Press.
.
"News," to put it in the simplest terms, is anything
that is of interest to more than one person. But on
that basis, our daily newspapers would be huge bundles,
so some formula must be used to sift out the news that
will be of the greatest interest to the greatest number
of people. That formula can be stated most simply as
"reader interest."
In other words, when any editor of any newspaper
sits down at his desk each day, to deal with the vast
volume of copy which comes across that desk-and every
publication, even UmoN ALUMNUS, has far more than
it can print in each issue-the criterion that must be
applied to every piece of news is: "How many of my
readers will this interest?"
If an article is about taxation~r anything affecting
the pocketboo~r babies, or pets, or a great catastrophe, or (we are sorry to say it, but it's true) sex, or
a few other things of general interest, the chances are
that the editor wiII send it along as copy for his publication. It is a well-known fact in newspaper work that
most people are interested in those things.
But then comes the task for which the editor really
is paid, to sift out the remaining material and decide
what of it is of the greatest interest to most of his
readers, and that is where we come in, with our Union'
College sports copy.
In Schenectady, the sports editors of the papers have
no problem, for they know that a couple thousand of
their readers are Union alumni, plus families and
friends, and so everything we send out is published. In
Albany and other adjacent cities, the same is true to
only a slightly lesser extent. But then we come to New
York City and the metropolitan area, whence most of
last year's complaints came, and to cities more distant.
The New York Daily Ne'W8 has a circulation of around
3,000,000; The NIJ'W York Time. around 600,000; the
Herald Tribune around 300,000. The Alumni Office's
estimate of Union College alumni living within a thirtyfive-mile radius of Times Square is 1,800. And there is
. the reason for our problem, if not the answer to it.
Any editor worth his salt on a New York paper, even
if he knew of the number of Union alumni in the area,
which he probably doesn't, would put two and six together
and know that he didn't halle many readers among that
number-out of his total circulation.
The same ratio holds in the New York suburban area.
Take Newark, N. J., for instance. The Newark Evening
New8 bas a circulation of 286,000. Union has some 400
alumni living in its entire circulation area. Even if
they all read the Newark New" which they obviously do
not, how would the editor's formula of "reader interest"
work out? Not, we are sorry to say, too well.
But Union is not the only smalI college with the same
problem. A sports editor of the Herald Trib1me told
the writer that when a paragraph appears about Union,
the alumni of Hamilton, and Williams, and Wesleyan,
and Trinity, etc., etc., are hot on the trail, wanting to
know why their colleges didn't get a paragraph, too.
When they get in and Union doesn't, brother!
It all comes down to the fact that alumni who are
dentists, and plumbing contractors, and lawyers, and
world travelers, and what have you, should let the editors do their jobs, and hope that "reader interest" in
Union eventually will grow to the point where everything we do becomes front page news. Newspapermen
are not included in the above listing; they already kno.w
what the editors' headaches are. And they know, too,
that readers' complaints to the new'pape,., are read
carefully and do not go unheeded. A vociferous minority
often gets results. Meanwhile we sum it alI up in the
cartoon below:
AL.VMN,
-Because this article represl'1ltl'd so graphically the problems 'which cOIl/ront our Pllblic Relations office, we asked the Union
AlullInus /01' permission to reprint. It was readily granted mid we acknowledge our gratitude.
Let liS also remind you that the New York mortlillg papers are going to press earlier and earlier. Thr first edition 0/ the
Herald Tribune, for example, goes to press at 7 p.m., the City edition at 9 :50. Rarely 'Were our basketball gallles over be/ore
tell o'clock. Alia/ whicll aceolmts for the fact that some of you in J.Vestchester, Connecticut, New Jersej' alld elsewhere had
trouble keeping liP tt.ith tile filiI' record 0/ 0111' basketball team.
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WAGNER COLLEGE
�Ie
AND HOW IT GREW
by Al Beck
(This is tlte last of a series of three
articles concerning the early history of
Wagner College. Now backed by a
sturdy constitution, the brand-new instihdion 7{'aS "'Eady to settle down ttl the real
businesJ of edllcation. The early cotlCeptioll of student life and discipline may have
bl'en gay enough for stlldents of those
days, but it is the reserved opinion of
this rditor that recCllt Wagner graduates
il'Quld rather die.)
As far as the school life of a pupil at
the Lutheran Proseminary of Rochester
wa. c(n'cf'rned, it was a disciplined and
carefully regulated life.. At 6 a.m., a bell
,,·as rUllg and the stoldents arose. A half
hour later they were expected to attend
morning devotions, and at 7 o'clock,
breakfast· was served. Then the pupils
were given an hour and a half in which
they were to take care of their rooms and
prepare the day's lessons.
The hours of actual class-work were
from 9:00 to 12:00 and from 1:30 - 3 :30.
The rest of the day, save for two and a
half hours of recreation, the students
were expected to study and prepare the
r~xt day's assignment.
The student's rooms were assigned, they
were given certain seats at the table, they
arose when a teacher entered a room, and
they were not allowed to leave the grounds
without permission.
Experience must have been responsible
for the rule forbidding the use or possesion of gull-powder, fireworks, or guns in
the student quarters. Nor were the students allowed to frequent taverns, theaters,
or to play cards. No pupil was permitted to join a secret society or hold
membership in a college fraternity.
For the privilege of attending the
5chool, each student (excepting beneficiary
students or sons of Lutheran clergymen)
paid thirty-two dollars a year for tuition.
His board amounted to two dollars a
week, and for heat and sundries he was
charged an additional ten dollars per
annum.
and proceeded to the highest, or Prima,
form. All subjects were taught by Lutheran pastors of Rochester, the housefather,
and a special instructor.
Beginning May I, 1885, a two year
lease was taken on a large building on
Oregon Street, formerly occupied by the
Satterlee Collegiate Institute. It was
discovered that the entire property could
be purchased for $12,000 and a hope was
born that some day the proseminary
might own this choice property. To the
end it was decided to begin a fund which,
once it had reached $6,000, would be used
as the initial payment.
Meanwhile, dissatisfaction with the
housefather was growing. In April, he
announced to the members of the board of
trustees that he had received a call from
Bethlehem Lutheran Church, Penfield,
Monroe County, New York, which he
would accept if the school trustees would
give him leave to accept. His resignation
was accepted by the board with alacrity.
The secretary was instructed to write
that we "certainly have nothing against
his acceptance of a cal!." (April 9, 1885'Protokolle, Minutes of tile Board)
Twenty days later Housefather Kammerer
left.
Negotiations were begun at once to secure the services of Professor Paul Emil
Kellner, as the new housefathpr. The
major difficulty was that Professor Kellner was in Russia, and would have to be
brought to Rochester at the expense of
the proseminary. Still, the men felt certain that Kellner was the right person for
the position. After corresponding with
him at great length, they decided to send
him a call. As soon as he accepted it,
President RicHter sent him $2;)0 to cover
traveling expenses for himself, his wife,
and his child.
The final week of school before the
summer vacation of 1885 vIas a full one.
It included examinations, speeches by the
pupils, diploma awards, and a (lj~nic. On
the closing evening of the school term a
musicale was held. It rcst:mbled a large
family gathering, for students, professors
and their wives, and members of the board
were invited. Various members of the
school performed on musical instruments,
others sang, and at the conclusion of the
evening refreshments were served. Francis
Hoffman of Utica was the unofficial
guest of honor, for· he had received his
diploma and was the first student of the
school to complHe his work at the proseminary. By the first of June, all the
pupils· had packed their belongings and
departed for home and the summer vacation.
When the new housefather came toward
the end of the summer, he was entertained
at the home of John Wagner. Hhe he
stayed with his family until he .became·
orientated in the city. Unlike his predecessors, the new housefather was beloved
and respected by all. He was a wise administrator and a capable leader. More
than once President Richter was instructed by the board to commend Professor
Kellner for his efficient care of the school
funds and property.
The third school year of the Lutheran
proseminary of Rochester began on September I, 1885. The new board of trustees, elected on January 12, 1886, was important since it was this same board that
was to guide the school through its first
transition pcriod - - from proseminary to
college. Pastor Alexander Richter was
once again re-e1ected president. Mr. John
G. Wagner was elected vice-president,
Frederick Schlegel was made secretary,
and David Bantleon continued as treasurer.
(Co/lti/lued all Page 10)
The school year was divided into Fall,
Winter, and Spring terms. Vacations were
given at Christmas and Easter. The long
(or summer) vacation generally extended over two and a half months. School
was held five days a week, and twice a
year (at Christmas and June) a report
was made of the pupil's conduct, attention,
effort, and achievement. The discipline
as well as the plan of the proseminary
was patterned largely after the German
gymml'ium Six years of study were required before graduation. The pupil began with the lowest form, called Sexta,
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�THESE
ALUMNI
ARE
WORKERS
Marie Norris, Helen Wiig, Fred Nellis, Lillian Lynch, Edna Lawler Kuttruff, Fred Hurst, Donald and
Marie Borth, Jean Krumpe, Harold Matthius, Barbara Decker, Arthur Pentz, Louise Christiansen, Joe Ward.
Marilyn Romanelli, Robert Lindsay, Rosemary Truempy, Faith Vigurs Grannis, Jane Davies, Caspar Scheiper,
Richard Debus, Charles Smith, Roy Debus, Vincent Tomes, Frank McCormick, Joan Weyand, Vincent Chiola.
Donald Haher. David Boyd. Bob McVicker, Merrill and Grace Horine, John and Gerda Mentha, John Marcato
Glen McDonald, Phil Laub, Frank Chironna, Mike Ch 'apperino, Ralph Adams, Dave Sweet, Joe Tito.
IN THE G. W. C.*
Ken Salvesen, Ted Denton, Herb Flamm, Jr., Ruth Halle, Andrew and Felicia Caulfield Johnson.
Harvey Colquhon, Michael Chericola, Fred and Phyllis Vollweiler, Dino Efstation, Don Race, Bob Olwig.
Bill and Naomi Monge, Noela Cawley. Mike Horgan, Eleanor Ayoub, Edith GuertIer, Hope Behar, Eleanor
Knudsen, Agnes Dempsey Quinlan, Gloria Femmenela, Lillian Ayoub, Jack Berglund, Herbert Cochrane,
Leonard Hirschman, Clarence Faires, Carl Ludders. Eleanor and Fred \VilIecke, Marge Hartung, Frank
DeAngelis, Victoria Ialenti, Shirley Sandberg Shannon, Lena Cilenti.
THEY1RE CANVASSING
STATEN
ISLAND
Bm Gurka, Norman Schaefer, John Gross, Alfred and Jean Danielson', Eugene Scala, Les Trautmann,
Henry Trautmann, Erwin Endress, Henry Endress, Rocco Zaza, Norman Frielich, Dick and Pat Forster.
Virginia Clark Peel, Norma Brandkamp, Norman Esplin, Doris Clark, Bill Beveridge, Cornelia Borgemeister,
Lila Thompson Barbcs, Marjorie Rieb Seguine, Henry and Edith Raisch, Werner and Muriel Johnson, Donald and Doris Campbell, Harry Schell, George and Damaris Meyer, Virginia Beebe Sullivan, Roy Cutter, Joe
Crecca, John and Wanda Devlin, Lloyd Hunsdorfer, Rolf Danielson, Tony Scala, Gaetano Nicolais.
WHAT ARE
YOU
DOING?
Wilbur and Mary Sterner, Russel Jicha, Phil Branner, Sam Miller, Isabelle Maiorano,
Archie De'f:uca, Victoria Socci DeLuca, Larry Knudsen, Donald B~owne, Jasper Cusamano, Doris I"arsen
Mims, Elizabeth Whitney, Inger Walloe Whitney, Jantth Olsen, Jean Evans, Gloria McSorley, Virginia Nelson, Dorothy Gutekunst, Stan Stillwell, Flo Kalldm, Mike Nicolais, Joe Wheeler, Roy and Joy Holmstrup,
Bob Sheie, Bob and Gertrude Schwarz, Aristide Fiera nosca, 'W arren Jensen, George Guttier, Helen McNeal,
Alex Patterson, Ken Hansen, Ralph Olsen.
THIS IS THE ARMY of workers active in the Staten Island campaign. Many other alumni are busy
in their churches working for CHEY. No other actiVity has eyer aroused such whole-hearted alumni support
as has this great campaign for a greater Wagner.
The Wagner faculty has contributed more than $14,000. The Wagner students have pledged themselves
to raise $15,000. Everyone is working to make those "dream" buildings come true.
Roy Holmstrup said at a campaign dinner on March 31: "This is our job. Let's get busy and do it.
We can never fully repay Alma Mater, but we can do our best to try."
Is your gift in or on its way? Remember - -
THIS
IS
YOUR
JOB
TOOl
*GREATER WAGNER CAMPAIGN
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WAGNER
COLLEGE
�•
-
AN END
AND A BEGINNING
Still hale, Dr. DeWalsh will retire to
read and write. Having always been interested in comparative literature, he
wants to make use of his time for extensive reading as well as for writing in the
field of Germanics. "I am also going to
climb trees and tear down branches," he'
tells us, with a twinkle in his eye, "and
do a little painting on the side." He will
too! Dr. DeWalsh is not retiring - he's just getting started I
Dr. Davidheiser's future plans also include writing. His field - - American
poetry. Here is one chemistry professor
whose horizon is far from limited. He is,
and always has been, intensely interested
in literature. Without losing touch with
his profession altogether, Dr. Davidheiser
will probably do some part-time teaching
well(
Wagner will certainly miss these men
whose lives have become so integral a
part of Wagner's life. But we are grateful for all that they have given us and
wish them Godspeed in many rich and
happy years ahead.
as
Wishing each other well heiser; Dr. DeWalsh.
Dr. David-
Two faithful and well-beloved members
of the Wagner faculty will retire June 1:
They are Dr. F. Charles DeWalsh, chairman of the Modern Languages department,
and Dr. Lee Y. Davidheiser, chairman of
the Department of Chemistry. They are
to be honored at Commencement and at
KNOW WHERE THESE
the Alumni dinner. It is expected that
many of their former students will be
ALUMNI ARE?
present to show their esteem for these
Evelyn Albert '43, Louis Balmer '38,
veterans of the campus, both of whom
have contributed so much to make Wag- Hazel Baron '41, William Boehme '43,
Ethel Carter '45, Niels Christiansen -'23
'ner what it is, today.
Dr. George Christopher '36, Valentine
Somehow, it had never seemed quite
Connoly '44, Harry Dahl '39, Alice Dereal to think about a day when Dr. Delaney N46, Christine Dudde Smith '45,
Walsh and Dr. Davidheiser would no
Elc:anor Eichle Rea N46, Raffaelo Franlonger be at Wagner College. But incini '41, Donald Glen '42, Ernest Graewe
evitably the day has come, and with its
'40, 'Virginia Hubbell '45, R. Hutton '41,
coming two strong links in the long chain
Norman ('48) and Alice Tregde (N47)
of Wagner history will be missing.
Johnson, Richard Kaminska '30, Arthur
When these veteran professors ,retire in Klein '36, Theodore Krupa '47, Rocco LaJune, they will be awarded honorary de- tronica '41, .Thomas Levy '39, Clarence
grees at the commencement exercises in . McGovney '47, John McKay, Jr. '41,
special recognition of their faithful service Mackensen '43, Virginia Marble Magill
to the college. Dr. DeWalsh will receive '44, Alexander Mikhalevesky '43, Glorya
the degree of doctor of letters, and Dr. Muller Stevenson '40, Robert O'Keefe '49,
Davidheiser will be the recipient of the de- Vincent Peterson '37, George Rapport '39,
gree of doctor of science.
Arthur Renschler '39, Earle Robinson
I t is doubtful that there is even one '48, Charles Graham-Rogers '33, Eleanore
alumnus since ~he mid-1920's who does Schmidt Schweppe '41, Jean Stevens N47,
not remember these two men. Together Sheldon Taylor '48, Louis Tomforde '31,
they have given 48 years of teaching and Frank Wagner '45.
service to our Alma Mater, and they will
Your help in securing correct addresses
be remembered for countless years ahead. will be appreciated by the Alumni Office.
THE
LIN
WELCOME, NEW .AlUMNI
OHI OF
fH~
6j11 ... HOW
Sixty-nine more seniors finished their
academic course at Wagner in January
and have been officially members of the
Alumni Association since that date even
though their degrees will not actually be
. granted until the June Commencement.
Our newest members are Eric Sellars,
Ralph Barber, Roy Bredholt, Bernard
Costello, Thomas Darson, James Downing, Robert Farrell, Omar Gjerness, Ann
Humphrey, William Lexander, Frederick
Ohlsen, Louise Zarelli Banks, Barrie Baragiano, Horace Chrimubolo, Gerard Cicero, Edmond DeSantis, Frederick Heimrick, Frank Kaiser, Stanley Knull, Edward Megerian, Max Moretti, Donald
Muller, Vincent Tomes, Iris Vv'ilson, Melchior DiCarlo-Cottone, Harold Matthius,
John Start, Ruth Tellefsen, Frank Ballweg, George Breidenbach, Ray Brown,
Alyce Crocco, Eugene D'Alessandro,
Harold D,Groat, George Esposito, Mario
Esposito.
Louis Faber, William Ferren, Andrew
Ferretti, Josephine Gabriele, John Gardner,Robert Grillo, Paul Guertler, Herbert
Hewitt, Fred Hurst, Barney Jensen, Ida
Ketelsen, Bernice Kiefer, Jean Lawrie,
Ernest Lendzian, Richard Lindenberger,
Charles Mackay, William Mahoney, Ellen
Meyer, Philip Muirhead, Richard Rose,
Walter Sbarbaro t Paul Slivka, Charles
Smith, Walter Stiering, Andres Swanberg, Gordon Tellefsen, Warren Tompkins, Paula Tuckner, Frank Tynatishon,
Gilmour Wagle, Martin Weiss, Ray
Whalen, and Walter Wrede .
Quite a few of these alumni have already become active in their regional
chapters. Three of them .were present
when Brooklyn met on March 17, and one
of them, Bill Lexander, was elected secntary of the chapter. This is a spirit
which gladdens the heart of the Alumni
Secretary.
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K
(
�CHAPTER DOINGS
Walter Kortrey and Elaine Hoebel
F'uhlbruck were re-elected officers of the
Long Island alumni chapter at .. meeting
in Lynbrook on February 17. Alumni
Secretary Al Krahmer spoke and "Beautiful upon a Hill" was shown. Plans were
made for a future program of activities,
which include a meeting in the fall.
The Connecticut chapter was organized
at a dinner meeting in Waterbury on
March 5. Bob Heyrlenreich was elected
president, Eleanor Dossin secretary. Dinner speaker was President Walter C.
Langsam. Entertainment was furnished
by Norm Sutterlin and by the movie,
"Beautiful . . ."
The Brooklyn chapter held its annual
meeting on March 17. Its program was
identical with that of the Connecticut
group. Phil Anstedt was re-elected president and Bill Lexander was chosen secretary.' An executive committee was
chosen which met on April 28 to plan
future programs.
The Staten Island chapter has been too
busy working for the Greater Wagner
campaign to have any other meetings, but
its annual meeting will be held in June.
Meetings of the Westchester and Philadelphia chapters are on the schedule for
after Easter. The Col-mar-va group
(Columbia-Maryland-Virginia) met in
Riverdale, Md. on March 31. They, too,
saw "Beautiful upon a Hill."
"UNTO THE
NEXT GENERATION.. "
AND HOW IT GREW
Seven Wagner students are children of
alumni- Frank Kreider '50, son of Harry
Kreider '21; Gerard Kern '51, son of Fred
Kern '24; Paul '51and Dick Wa,mund '52,
sons of Paul Wasmund '23; Betty Huf
'53, daughter of Gus Huf '21; Carolyn
Reisch '53, whose father is Connie Reisch
'20; and Ed Bosch, Jr. '53, son of Ed
Bosch " 22.
For the Wasmunds and Bosch, this is
the third Wagner generation. Dr. Henry Wasmund '95 is grandfather to Dick
and Paul. Ed's grandfather was the late
Dr. Fred Bosch '92. Young- Bosch also
has two uncles- Herbert Bosch '18 and
Austin '31 in the alumni family, as well as
a cousin, Herbert, Jr. '47.
As for Gerry Kern, two of his uncles
are alumni- John Kern '27 and Nathaniel
'30. Violet Dittmer Geffken '46 is cousin
to the \Yasmund boys, and Carolyn
Reisch's brother, Bammy (Conral), was
a member of the class of 1947. There are
many other Reischs, too- Harold '32, Paul
'44, Lois (Mrs. Weber) '43, and Bob,
dass of 1950, but don't ask us what their
relationship to Carolyn is.
The subscription fund to purchase the
new property and building for th .. proseminary reached $5,700 by January 1.2,
1886. I t was decided at the meeting
where this report was made that the time
had come to purchase the property on th p
east side of Oregon Street for $1.2,«-""
It was agreed that J. G. Wagner take out
a mortgage on behalf of the board for
$6,000 to cover the amount which the subscription fund would not cover. This
was later changed to a $7,000 mortgage
extending over a period of 10 years with
semi-annual interest payments of 50/•.
• • • •
Jim Gilmartin and Jay Quintana, members of the victorious Seahawk basketball squad, were c1ec;ted by the players of
the Greater New York Conference to the
All-Conference first team. Bob Blomquist
made th.. second squad. The players at
St Lawrence chose Gilmartin on their allopponent first team, as did the Clarkson
squad. Clarkson also picked Ray Doody
on their second team.
ALMA MATER SALUTES.
The Rev. O. E. Braune, pastor of St.
Johns Lutheran Church, Newark, N. J.
and the Rev. Edwin H. Boettger, pastor
of Grace Lutheran Church, Buffalo, N. Y.
Th(y 2re the members of the class of 1900
whe. will be honored by Alma Mater on
Friday evening, June 2, at the annual
Alumni dinner. Dr. Frederic Sutter '91,
v~esidcnt of tht: Board of Trustees, will
present the Half-century Alumni awards
to them!
The class of 1900 originally numbered
five, the others being Fred'erick B. Clausen. Paul Kasten, and William Siebert.
J;ike their classmates, Pastor Braune and
Boettger, they entered the Lutheran ministry. Pastor Clausen was president of
Watertoo College, Ontario, Canada, at
the time of his death; Pastor Kasten
served a church in Nanuet, N. Y.; and
Pastor Siclx:rt a church in Newark, N. J.
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10
Our first Alumni Basketball Homecoming attracted a good crowd, netting
$157.70 for the Building Fund. The idea
was so hastily conceived that we had no
time to put on a show between the halves.
Next year it will be different.
Incidentally the Fall Homecoming committee will begin plannIng in May for
next ye;:.r's program. The date will be
Nov. 18, the game against Kings Point.
The program? Even better than last
year I
• • • •
One good way of keeping the Alumni
office informed is the way adopted by
Fred Kern and Dave Jensen, who send us
copies of their parish papers regularly.
If you are a pastor and publish such a
paper, put us on your mailing list. We
like to receive fraternity news sheets, too.
(Conti1lued from Page 7)
On June 8, 1886, the vice-president,
John G. ~Tagner, declared to the other
members of the board that he and his wife
had decided (if the members of the Board
of Trustees were in agreement) to pay
the entire purch;1se price for the proseminary property. The only stipulation that
he made was that this should be considered a memorial to his late son George,
who was to have entered the Lutheran
ministry.
The generous gift of Mr. Wagner and
his wife was accepted with the hearty
thanks of every member of the board. It
was further agreed, after some discussion,
to change the name of the institution to
W AGNER MEMORIAL LUTHERAN
COLLEGE
Thus the institution was placed upon a
more solid and secure basis because of the
gift of Mr. and Mrs. Wagner. It now
could boast of having its own property
and building. It now could spend money
for something other than building and
rent. And for the last time it was called
the Lutheran Proseminary of Rochester.
Pl.ANNING A CLASS REUNION?'
We hope that the five year classes
(1945,1940, etc. all the way back to 189-;)
are planning for class reunions during the
forthcoming Alumni \Yeek-end June 2-3.
Notify the Alumni office of y6ur plans
just as soon as possible and let us know
how we can help.
• • • •
• • • •
Alumni Secretary AI Krahmer is planning to attend the national convention of
the American Alumni Council in Boston
July 9-14. Sessions are to be held at the
School of Business Administration, Harvard University.
Herb Gibney is the latest to tell us of
an incident showing that people do see
those "\~' agner College" signs on your
cars. Herb and his wife met Staten Islanders in New Hampshire. Result- a
beautiful friendship, also a new plate lor
Herb who took occasion to remind us that
his old one was a bit rusty.
This year's Alumni Day committee is
headed by Jack Berglu.l(J '35. Otner
members- Les Trautmann '40, Rolf Danielson '36, Jean Van Winkle Danielson '43,
Lillian Intemann Arnesen '49N, Dick
Debus '49, and Phil Laub '48.
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WAGNER
COLLEGE
-
�ARE
YOU
WIT H
US?
$1,880 on April 12. That's how things stood with the Alumni Loyalty Fund when we went to press. That's better than la~t
year at this time, says Fund Chairman Chris Holmstrup, but it's still some distance from the $3,000 goal we hope to reach
by September I. Last year's $2,500 goal had been reached by Alumni Day, but this year we're straining beyond every previous
effort. We expect to work harder to reach this new goal. We know we can I If every body helps, even just a little ...
Average gift to date is $7.19. Gifts range from one dollar to one hundred dollars. The number of contributors heard
from is 261. Have we heard from you?
GOAL $3,000
3 scholarships
To College Endowment
Expenses
Link, postage,
Chapter meetings, etc.
$1,200.00
$1,000.00
800.00·
$3,000.00
t·) a token payment.
C0l'\TRIBUTORS TO DATE:
1886· H. C. A. Meyer
1892· Oscar Krauch
1894· Carl Belz
H. E. C. Wahrmann
1895· Theodore Hoffmeister
Henry C. Wasmund
1896· J. Christian Krahmer
1897- F. A. Bavendam
1899- Henry ' Freimuth
1900- O. E. Braune
1902- Walter Veit
1904- Emil Weber
Oscar Werner
1911- Herman Meyer
E. A. Sievert
1913- Nobert Ischinger
William Meyer
William Reumann
1914- Rudolph Krauch
1915· Clarence Braun
Heinrich Kropp
1916· Herman Vesper
1918- Bernhard Bohrer
1920- Herman Reissig
1921- Harry Kreider
Gustave Huf
1923· Milton Kleinlop
Albert Meurer
1924· Fred Kern
1925- Andrew Mahler
1926- Joseph Flotten
Theodore Tappert
1927- Al Krahmer
lohn Kern
1928- Edwin Grubb
Gustave Weber
1929· Howard Kuhnle
1930- Werner Eberbach
Frank Gollnick
I!:lmore Hoppe
Donald Race
~iii:~m TVo~~rt
1931- Ernest French
John Kaercher
1932· John Klahn
Ernest Meyer
Herbert Sutter
1933- Walter Bielitz
Paul J. Kirsch
All.n Miller
1934- Michael Rapp
~~a~kerka~~!~h
1935- Sylvester Bader
Jack Berglund
David Gaise
In memory of
Harry Montgomery
John Gross
Robert Olwig
Robert Swarthwout
William Villaume
Mabel Spitzer Sharon
1936- Charles Accetola
Rolf Danielson
Arthur Friedel
Fred Nissen
Paul RogIer
1937 Thelma Biele Corey
Bruce Carney
Robert Sheie
Frank Tellefsen
1938- Walter Bock
Henry Endress
Florence Grunow G'lde
Ruth Davies Anstedt
Harold Hornberger
William Little
Fred Riebesell
Alfred Schroeder
THE
LIN K
The Link alone costs more than a thousand dollars a year.
1939- Chris Holmstrup
Lenore Bajda
Philip Anstedt
Hope Coons Morrison
Elednor Jensen Willecke
Harold Baas
Paul A. Kirsch (hon,)
Luther Kirsch
Earl Kriby
John McDermott
Catherine Newton McDermott
Gwynne Swartz
19~ O· Oonald Borth
Jack Cooper
Adelheid Baum
Gerhard Dietrich
Peter DiLeo
Willard Grimes
Ruth Gorman Schneck
Mildred Hoeppner Hoehn
Arthur Hergenhan
Fred Ingebritsen
Virginia Mackoy Trautmann
RII.sell MacDonald
Mildred Messenbrink Hergenhan
Robert Sohneck
Les Trautmann
1941- Albert Accetola
Frank Betancourt
Oscar Bakke
Roy Cutter
Herbert Gibney
Dorothee Heins Holmstrup
Marie Norris
Ethel Nord Donchevich
Thomas Searl
Louis Suess man
Frances Wightman Pritchett
Herbert Wiese
1942· ~~~(ltci~;~osmo
Ruth H.as Roeper
Harry H ustedt
Jason Horn
David Jensen
Marie Krum!'e Borth
Ruth Kriby Schroeder
Evelvn John,on Haa~
J. Michael Moore
Marie Ohlson Dietrich
Conrad Schroeder
Wilbur Sterner
Martin Schroeder
Ml'riel Zoll Hustedt
1943- Walter Boecher
Lenore Carney Taylor
Eleanor Dossin
Jean Evans
Lillian Glock Nolte
Marguerite Hess
Frances Murray Grimes
William Hammann
Emil Hein
James LaHart
Marv Manning Sterner
Erwin Nolte
"1880
Joseph Perosi
Julius Schlaer
In memory of O. J . Buck
1944- Paul Alberti
Cornelia Borgemeister
Hope Behar
Gertrude Hustedt
Walter Hausheer
Lucille Cross Hausheer
{)an Krumpae
Ar:~h~fe~::~~it~Yers
Alfred Roberts
Caroline Muller Reissig
Paul Reisch
Eugene Roth
Marion Rappold Buchanan
~:~h!!is~ies
I!:dward Wiediger
Barbara Walters Boecher
1945· Louise Christiansen
Helmut Dietrich
Ruth Heckler
Oorothy Kraus Dietrich
Dr. and Mr•. Langsam (hon.)
Dorothy Mohlenhoff
Evelyn Schaefer
Catherine Yarger Messersmith
1946- Evelyn Bodien Hendricksen
Lois Dickert
Violet Dittmer Geffken
~n~~be~liW~ft~ey
1947- Norman Fowler
Dorothy Gutekunst
Marjorie Hartung
Sam thnson
~rtrenc~nd~~~kowitz
1948· Elsie Ball Searle
Shirley Brodsky
g~~j:rnb~tt;:iroBrockman
Salvatore D' Adamo
Fnink DeAngeli.
Laroy Dietrich
Arthur Fink
Claude Geffken
Byron Gilliksen
Oonald Haher
Gladys Lammond Hill
Walter McColl
Ian Morrison
Walter Reichelt
Nieves Ribe. Dole
Robert S::tlve!len
William Stackel (hOD.)
George Tamke
Hildegard Viohl
Kay Walker Gilliksen
1949- Olaf Bredholt
Philip Becker
William Beveridge
Robert Dole
Wilson Gearhart
Gloria Herrada
Elise Hamilton
Robert Hoffman
Mary Kehoe
Henry Speight
Patricia Krumpe Speight
Edward Pellicciaro
Harriet Steinberg Grover
James Sty les
Norman 'Schaefer
Esther Savacool
Marie Sheppard
John Thomson
Edmund Wagner (hon.)
Clifford Wood
Robert Whitehead
1950- Thoma. Guastavino
1951· Howard Lenzer
(C OlltillllCd
Oil
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Page II
�ALUMNI NEWS BRIEFS
1897
1937
We regret to announce the death of
the REV. F. ARNOLD BA VENDAM
who died February 14.
Having built it himself (with some help,
we assume) ROBERT SHEIE and his
family moved into their new house on
December I. It is located in Westerleigh, S. 1.
1911
On March I the REV. HERMAN
MEYER marked the anniversary of his
35th year serving the congregation of Immanuel Lutheran Church, New Springville, S. 1. THE REV. FRANZ A.
POSSELT, pastor of St. Peters Lutheran
Church, Allento~n, Pa., died suddenly on
Tuesday evening, April 4. He had been
ill about one day. Sympathy is extended
to his family, which includes a daughter,
ANITA POSSELT '48.
1920
St. Paul's Lutheran Parish House,
Bridgeport, Conn., was dedicated March
19 by the congregation of the REV.
CONRAD REISCH.
1927
AL KRAHMER is chairman of the
Music Committee of the Staten Island
Kiwanis Club. His job is to lead the
singing. (Members of the old "To the
Ladies" quartette, please note.)
1932
THE REV. HERBERT HAGENAU
has moved to Elizabeth, N. J ., where he
is pastor of St. Pauls Lutheran Church.
Herb, who is presidel'lt of the New Jersey
Conference; was formerly pastor in As·
bury Park.
1934
Two class members announce that their
families are growing. A son born August 9, was A VERY SM'ITH' S sixth child
(4 boys and 2 girls ) . DR. MICHAEL
RAPP is the father of a son born March
25·
1935
The REV. WILLIAM VILLAUME
is the author of "Church Planning and
Adjustment," published by the Committee
of Cooperative Field Research, New
York. HENRY TRAUTMANN was
recently elected president of the Annadale
(S. I.) Men's Civic Club. It is the second time he. was so chosen.
1936
ARTHUR FRIEDEL tells us that he
joined Frederick Atkins, Inc., a resident
buying office for 35 department stores, as
purchasing agent for the entire group in
:March, 1949.
Page 12
1938
MARY R. SHIMER, vocal music director at' Canajoharie central schools and
minister of music at St. Mark~ Lutheran
Church, has been selected as one of a
group of 40 persons who will attend the
special summer school in Switzerland in
charge of Dr. John Finley Williamson,
president of Westminster Choir College.
The group will leave by plane June 3 and
will be housed at Montreux on Lake
Geneva.
1939
LUTHER KIRSCH, who coaches basketball and teaches at East Rockaway
(LI) High School, reports progress for
his basketball squad. Last year they
went winless in 13 starts. This year the
record was 5 won, 8 lost. (Lu sent this
in himst'lf in response to a request for
Link items). CHRIS and DOTTY
HEINS HOLMSTRUP have joined the
ever-growing colony of Wagner alumni
in Radburn, N. J. They bought a new
home there in February. EARL J.
KRIBY has brought us up to date on
what he's been doing of late. For the
past three years: 1948, married Mary A.
Jodrey of Portland, Me., in July; 1949,
received the doctor of dental surgery degree from Georgetown University in
June ; 1950, had a son, Eric Douglas, on
January 27. JACK NEHER keeps busy
writing.
Station WNYC's Tuesday
evenillg program, "Hi, Neighbor," features his scripts, and he recently collaborated with Dallas Pratt, M. D., on a
Public Affairs Pamphlet (No. ISS) called
"Mental Health Is a Family Affair."
1940
THE REV. EDWARD SHELDON
has been called to the pastorate of Zion
Church, Rahway, N. J. He and his family moved on April I I. Mrs. Sheldon is
the former MARGARET MA YER.
GERHARD DIETRICH is working as
emigration consultant for the Lutheran
World Federation in behalf of refugees
of Esthonic German origin who are now
in Germany. His wife, the former
MAR[E OHLSEN, and 2 daughters are
with him. MICHAEL MOORE '42 is
working in the same office as resettlement officer and assistant. FREDERICK
M. INGEBRITSEN has bought a new
house in Rahway, N. J . PETER DILEO moved from Linden to Woodbridge,
N. J., recently. We just found out that
HOPE JUHL is now (and has been 'for
some time) Mrs. John J . Kennedy and
'lives in Old Greenwich, Conn. What's
more, she has a son, Michael John, born
July, 1946.
1941
ETHEL NORD DONCHEVICH
can't possibly have an idle moment with
this schedule. First of all, she now has a
second son, Peter Vincent, born January
9. Meanwhile, she is still doing part time
private nursing duty and is a full time
student at New York University School
of Nursing Education studying supervision.
-
1942
A daughter was born March 14 to Mr.
and Mrs. PAUL DUKESHIRE. Mama
is the former MABEL WOLF.
1943
KEN AXELSE~ has established a
private medical practice on Staten Island.
His wife is the form~r Anne Fitzpatrick.
GEORGE (SKIP) SCHIPANI now has
a master's degree. ERIC GROSSE has
moved to Cleveland Heights, Ohio, where
he is sales representative for National
Gypsum. His family is made up of a son
and two young daughters. It is a little
late to rt'port the birth of Steven Richard
Taylor, born Nov. 19. His mother is'
LENORE CARNEY TAYLOR.
1944
Walter Cross Hausheer arrived December 13. Proud father is DR. W ALTER HAUSHEER, medical resident at
the Halloran V A Hospital. The mother
is the former LUCILE CROSS. MARION RAPPOLD BUCHANAN has
much good news to report. First, the
usual, they have a son, born July 18,
named Breton John. Husband Bill is
coach of all sports in Florala, (Ala.)
High School and in appreciation of hIS
football team's record last season, the
tow!lspeople presented the Buchanalls
with a completely electric kitchen. Marion also writes about MARJORIE BRIDGES, who is now modelling in Hollywood
and will appear in the new Lana Turner
movie (title unknown). Also, she was
the focal point in a full-page ad in the
February issue of "Charm" magazine.
WAGNER
COLLEGE
-
�1945
FRANK P. DALY has been awarded
the L.L.B. degree from the School of Law,
St. John's University, January 1950. A
son, John OttO, was born to Mr. and Mrs.
JOHN MENTHA February 27.. Mrs.
Mentha is the former GERDA PAHNKE. ADA SCHEEHL VOSBURGH is
now living in Palatine Bridge, N. Y. Her
second daughter was born July 17.
1946
LILYAN BENNETT MULVANEY
'46N reports her new occupation as
"mama to a baby girl." Weare looking
forward to moving into our new home,"
she writes. "It should be completed by
July." It is with extreme regret that we
announce the tragic death of the parents
of ELLEN (BILLIE) KLITGAARD.
They were driving to join her in California when their station wagon collided with a bus in Texas. Billie is living
with her sister, Mrs. F. Baker, at 47
Sotelo Ave., San Francisco.
1947
ROY LINDBERG is teaching philosophy and psychology at Roanoke College.
VINCENT CHIOLA, having received
his M.S. in chemistry from Texas U., is
now working for General Aniline Corp.
RALPH MAGALEE spoke brieRy to
Lutheran Men of Queens at Holy Trinity
Lutheran Church, Bellerose, L. I., on the
same program with Dr. Langsam, February 20. They hope to give him a mobile
dental unit to take back to British Guiana
upon his graduation from N. Y. U.
Dental School in 1951. WILLIAM
(BUD) HENNESSY is proud papa of
Gail Ann who was born tm March 8.
NORMAN and ALICE TREGDE
(N47) JOHNSON, who are living in
Providence, R. 1., are parents of a daughter born March 26. NORMAN H.
FOWLER will be graduated from the
Philadelphia Seminary on May 18. He
has been called to St. Trinitatis Lutheran
Church l Jersey City. He expects to be
ordained by the United Lutheran Synod
of New York on June 7. He has been
acting as supply pastor for St. Johns
Hungarian-Wend Lutheran Church, Perth
Amboy, N. J.
1948
RUSSELL JICHA and SHIRLEY
JANE CONOPASK are married and
living on Staten Island. LA ROY S.
DIETRICH received his M. S. degree in bio-chemistry from the University
of \Visconsin in January 1950. He is
continuing his studies for the doctor's
degree in the same field. ARTHUR S.
FINK announces the birth of his
daughter, Louise Jean, on October 24,
1949. He is married to the former ElizTHE
LIN
K
abeth Ryder. BENJAMIN CERTO is
employed by the California Oil Company
as assistant supervisor of products, production, and quality control. ELISHA
(IGGY) DARSON had another fine
year as coach of the Staten Island Day
School basketball team. His club won
the Metropolitan Private Schools Championship and won 16 and lost 2 over the
season. It's a boy for the CLAUDE
GEFFKENS, just an hour or two before
April Fools Day. Mama is VIOLET
DITTMER
'46. BERTHA
W ALBERT '48 is resident head nurse at the
Moravian College for Women, Bethlehem,
Pa.
1949
JOSE MATOS, who will receive his
M.A. degree from Columbia in June, is
one of 48 accrpted for the School of
Tropical Medicine of the University of
Puerto Rico. He is one of four from the
United States; other ~hree from Columbia, Fordham, and the Citadel. ERIC
SCHMIDLING is now in the Bahamas
as station agent setting up stations for
Resort Airlines. WILLIAM SCHORKOPF reports, "Unfortunately, I am still
a student." He is studying at N.Y.U.
and is matriculated for the M.A. degree
in Education. MARGARET CHRISTIE
received her nursing cap at the Presbyterian Hospital School of Nursing in
Chicago recently. She is president of the
freshman class there. 1 he engagement
uf HAROLD GEORGE, Jr., to Margaret McCarthy has been announced. He
is employed by the Ocean Accident and
Guarafttee Co., N'ew York. ROBERT
WHITEHEAD, Jr., is a student at Columbia University. REM I BAECHTOLD is back in America for several
months. Employed as a Johns-Manville
distributor in Switzerland, he came to this
country to take a special training course
in J. M. methods and is working with
them in their Manhattan office. He will
sail for Switzerland in the middle of May.
TED DENTON, having finished at
Brooklyn Law School with the LL.B.
degree, is now associat~d with the law
firm oJ DeForest, Elder, and Mulreany.
FRANK TOMLINSON has joined the
technical staff of Esso's Bayway refinery
as a chemist. MARIE G. SHEPPARD
is working for an M.A. degree in administration in schools of nursing at the
N:,Y.U. School of Education. BARBARA
BRANN is office manager for SkyCoach, Inc., Manhattan. A son has been
born to Mr. a!ld Mrs. Richard Plata
(ELIZABETH THOMAS). CURTIS
GEIGEL is at the N.Y.U. graduate school
of mathematics earning his M.S. degree.
HELEN SUP '4?N is working at Halloran VA Hospital as a graduate student
at the Boston University College of Business A~ministration. GLORIA HER-
RADA is now living in Easton, Pa. Her
company (General Aniline Corp.) transferred her to their Easton division. RETTY BONDESEN GARDNER '49N is
living in Minneapoiis where her husband
is studying at the University of Minaesota. They have a daughter almost ten
months old. BILL SMITH and FRED
MORTENSEN are studying at New
York Medical College.
1950
WILLIAM LEXANDER married Lilian Walter January 28. STANLEY
KNULL and WALTER WREDE are
students at Mt, Aicy Lutheran Seminary
in Philadelphia. HOWARD GUHL commutes 800 miles each \\'eekend between
his studies at the Philadelphia Se~inary
and his pulpit appearances in Western
New York at Farnham and Silver Creek.
MA RY 1. COTE writes that she is principal of a four-room school in Webb,
Saskatchewan.
Nursing alumna AILEEN BARTOLOME is now Mrs.
Frank Grigoletto and she lives in Brooklyn. HERB HEWITT is working in the
Stewardship office of the United Lutheran Church in America. His boss is HENRY ENDRESS '38. LOU GIANVITO
is a student at New York Medical College.
Loyalty
Fund
Contributors
(COl/filii/cd from Page II)
Nt:RSING ALl'M!\AE
Eda Aanonsen N 48
Dean Mary Burr
Aileen Bartolome Grigoletto '49N
Lilyan Bennet Mulvaney '46l'i
Elsie Chancellor '49N
~fl~~ra CCi'i::,etu;< 15'ick
N 46
iJorothy Gross Alberti N46
Dorothy Githens Trost N48
Miriam Herron ~48
ThereC'a Hochstrasser N48
Clara Hausler N48
Eile~n Jackmar: O'Leary N49
Constance Lneaa Savage X4b
Dolores Miralles LellZer ~4i
"erena Miller N~9
Rita McGivney Kennedy N 46
Jeanette McLoughlin N47
Anne N oren Po~e I t\ 48
Jean Oecler La Hart N46
Rena Piscopo N 48
Santa Pitterno Mann '49N
E~ther Patterson N48
Elfie Reiss N 47
Frieda Stoer7itl~er '49N
Helen S'p '49:\
Ruth Tellefsen ;0./48
Hertha Walbert '48N
Glady. Wichmann '47N
Alumni often ask us why they receive
catalogues, notices of Pre-Freshman Day
and scholarship exams, and similar
notices. The answer is simple- we conceive of every alumnus as a field agent for
student recruitment. Everyone of you
ought to kno\\' someone who is thinking
about going to college.
• • •
•
The annual reunion of Sigma Delta Phi
was held on May 5 at the college. Walter
Bock '38 was the morning chapel speaker,
and a dinner was held at the Plaza Casino
with Charles Hellriegel '38 as toastmaster.
P'lge 13
�CONSTITUTION
REVISIONS
A special committee was appointed by
the executive committee of the Alumni
Association to study the constitution of
the Association. The result of their study
was the proposal of several revisions
which are to be submitted to the annual
meeting of the Association for vote.
Significant changes suggested are the
revision of Article IlIon Membership
which is changed to include all who have
attended Wagner at least one academic
year as members of the Association; a revision of Article IV which eliminates the
non-existent office of associate vice·
president, removed the restrictions on the
number of terms a president can hold
office (it's now two one-year terms) and
provides that the officers elected in June
take office· OR Sept. I following their
election; a change in Article IX which revises the nominating procedure. It proposes that only one name be nominated
for each office rather than two as at present. I t makes provisions for balloting
for mail and for additional nominations
from the floor, procedures which are now
common without constitutional sanction.
A final revision (of Articl~ XI) provides that constitutional amendments such
-as these must be presented to the members of the Association at least one
month in advance of the meeting at which
they are to be acted upon. The present
constitution simply says, "The constitution may be ame~ded by a two-thirds
vote of the members present at the annual
meeting."
The committee advances these reasons
for the proposed changes. The membership change simply makes constitutional
that which the alumni office has bew
doing in effect for years. Large numbers
of non-grads are now carried on our mailing list (there would be more if we could
find addresses). Associate vice-presidents are being discarded because the
presidents of the regional chapters now
perform the functions outlined for these
vice-presidents.
The lifting of the restrictions of two
years in the presidential office is suggested
because the expansion of alumni activities
has so enlarged the work of the alumni
president that he begins to be rea!ly effective only after being in office at least a
year. It takes· him that long to learn the
ropes. The lommittee feds that it is just
at the point of greatest efficiency that we
fay he's no longer eligible for office.
The suggestion that notninees for office
be limited to one grows out of the experience of the nominating committee. There
have hcen occasions when the committee
~ought for "str<iw men" when l.manimous
about a single candidate. On other occasions there has been ill feeling from conPage 14
tests. To prevent these eventualities, the
committee has proposed these revisions.
The important thing to remember is
that these are only proposals. The alumni
themselves in annual session June 2 will
make the ultimate decisions. No one
wants to foist these ideas upon the Association without "due process of law."
Come and cast your vote.
Remember, too, that these proposals
are the product of a committee study.
They do not necessarily represent the ideas
of the Alumni Secretary, although he was
a member of the committee. The other
members wc!re Don Race '30, Paul Kirsch
'33 and Wally Bock '38.
LATE
NEWS
ITEMS
Alyce H. Crocco '50 was married to
John Ferretti on Easter Day. The day
before saw the wedding of Ed Megerian
'50 and Gene Midgett, who is to be graduated in June.
The Staten Island Advance lists Melchior DiCarlo-Cottone '50 and Rosemary
Cavano, Eric Sellars '50 and Sonja
Matthews, Victor Wightman '49 and
Ursula Mooz '53 among the applicants for
marriage licenses, but no news of wedding
dates was available when we went to
press.
'0le have also heard that Omar
Gjerness '50 was married, but have no
details. Fred Hurst '50 is doing graduate work at Brooklyn College. Donald
Haher '48 leaves soon for the Philipines
for further graduate study. He already
has a Master's degree from Clark University.
Elsie Ball '48 became Mrs. Truman G.
Searle on April 10 at Christ Episcopal
Church on Staten Island.
Roy Lindberg '47 represented Wagner
at the inauguration of President Oberly of
Roanoke College on April 14. Roy is
member of the Roanoke faculty. Carroll
Dawson '40 is celebrating the arrival of
a brand new daughter, born April I I.
Dr. Walter Ruccius ' 14, pastor of Epiphany church, Hempstead, L. 1., resigned
his post after many years of service to
accept a call to Grace church, Santa Barbara, Cal. The Rev. Henry Cornish '43
will be nearer Alma Mater after May 15.
He leaves St. Pauls church, Nanuet, New
York, to come to Christ church, Great
Kills, Staten Island.
Add to the list of Loyalty Fund contrihutors- Susette Meyer '41 and George
Bulin '30. George also sent along a
gra'nd slogan which we plan to use at a
later date. George called his gift "my
mite toward a mightier 'Vagner."
The cover photo is by Herb Hewitt '50.
The pictures of Professors DeWalsh,
Davidheiser, apd Sutter are by Matt
Scaffa 'So; the cartoons by Don Brockman 'so, and the choir tour pictures by
George Handley '52.
THE MIGHTY MITE
(Colltill1ll'd from Page 5)
Herb has sensible ideas about Wagner's
athletic future. Madison Square Garden
and Bowl football games are not for us.
He plans to schedule good teams in our
own class and to try to build our teams
to meet that kind of program. The socalled "big time" is not in his milld.
Wagner's fine Conference membershipsth ~ Eastern Collegiate, the Middle Atlantic States, Metropolitan Basketball
Association, the greater New York Basketball ConfeI'Cnce and (next year) the
Metropolitan Baseball Conference these
bear witness to the effective job Herb
Sutter is doing. So are the fine schedules and the fine players that wear a
Sea hawk uniform.
A Mighty Mite indeed!
-
REMEMBER WHEN? An old Co/legr Day performallCl! circa I 921i.
On the platform (left to right) lohll [' utclls, J(/ck W(/gller, Bill Nieb(/ILCll,
Glts Weber, l.:r1'J' KlI1ldsl' II, alld Fred Llld1l'ig. Photo sllpplied l>y Mrs Carl
(A~'e HollhusclI) Fltlells.
WAGNER
COLLEGE
�OFFICIAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION BALLOT,
FOR PRESIDENT
o
o
o
o
o
o
Harold Haas '39
Chris Holmstrup '39
FOR VICE-PRESIDENT
Rolf Danielson '39
Luther Freimuth '39
FOR SECRETARY
o
o
o
o
o
Marie Krumpe Borth '42
Marie Norris '41
o
COLLEGE COUNCIL REPRESENTATIVE
o
o
o
1950
FOR TREASURER
Richard Debus '49
Herman A. Meyer '] 1
BOARD OF ATHLETIC CONTROL
Representativ~
Ph iii P Anstedt '39
Michael Mazzei '34
o
o
Dr. Frederic Sutter '94
If you are planning to attend the annual business meeting of the Alumni Association on June 2,
you may vote then. If you cannot attend, you may mail this ballot to the Alumni Office before June 1.
Blank spaces are for write-in votes. Check the box in front of your choice. Vote for one for each
office.
THE
WAGNER
VARSITY
COLLEGE
PLAYERS
present
GOOD THEA TRE
by
Christopher Morley
and
George Bernard Shaw's
ANDROCLES AND THE LION
8:30 P. M.
MARCH 11, 12, 13,
WAGNER AUDITORIUM
Directed by Nicholas Moss
Gibraltar 7-5289
THE
L.INK
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Mail and Phone Orders Filled
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The Wagner College Alumni News
VOL III
No. I
OCTOBER, I 9 5 0
Published
1ll
October, December, March and May by the Wagner College Alumni
Association, Staten Island 1, N. Y.
Alfred
J. Krahmer
'27, Alumni Secretary, Editor
Richard Forster '49, Assistant Editor
THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
CHRISTIAN HOLMSTRUP '39
FRANK KAISER '50
............. ..
MARIE KRUMPE BORTH '42
HERMAN MEYER '11
President
..... Vice-President
................. Secretary
............................. Treasurer
Members of the Executive Committee
DONALD H. RACE '30
ALFRED KRAHMER '27
WALTER BOCK '38
Alumni Trustees of the College
ALFRED L. BECK '38
DONALD H. RACE '30
Alumni Members, Board of Athletic Control
SAMUel WEENING '50
ALBERT ACCETOLA '41
Alumni Members, College Council
HENRY EILER '50
J. TRYGVE JENSEN '43
Alumni Members, Board of Traditions
GULBORG NILSEN SHEIE
ROY CUTTER '41
The Wagner Alumni Association is a member of the American Alumni Council
ALUMNI
Rochester
Nursing Alumnae
FRED GRUNST '19
NIEVES RIBES DOLE '48
President
Secretary
..................................................... President
............. Secretary
................ ...... ................... President
Secretary
Staten Island
WILBUR STERNER '42
lilA THOMPSON BARBES '41
ERNEST KIEFER '50
President
.. Secretary
.............. Treasurer
Northern New Jersey
DAVID SMITH '41
WILLIAM NIEBANCK '31
.............................................. President
Secretary
President
Secretary
WilliAM VlllAUME '35
ERLING NILSSEN '39 ....
Brooklyn
Philadelphia
GUNTHER STIPPICH '36 ..........................
ERMA RUDLOFF COUTTS '39
GLADYS WICHMAN ' SON
DOROTHY MillER N46
Northern New England
Long Island
WALTER KORTREY '45 ..... .
elAINE HOEBEl FUHLBRUCK '45 .
CHAPTERS
President
Secretary
Connecticut
ROBERT HEYDEN REICH '32 ............................................ ............................. President
elEANOR DOSSIN '40 ............................
Secretary
President
Secretary
PHILIP ANSTEDT '39
WILLIAM LEXANDER '50 .
Westchester (NY)
President
.. ... .... . Secretary
LLOYD RICE '40
MRS. CHARLES NEBAUER ................... .. .
Western New York
FRANK KALMBACH
RITA McGIVNEY KENNEDY N46 •... .
President
Secretary
Col-mar-va (Washington, D. C.)
CHARLES HElLRIEGEl '38
WILLARD GRIMES '40
.. President
........... Secretary
Hudson Valley (NY)
FRANK GOLLNICK '30 ....
ALVIN MESSERSMITH '44 .......................
President
.............................................. Secretary
THE COVER PICTURE
The flag rush is the culmination of the annual Freshman week.
The sophs won in 1949 when this shot was taken.
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WAGNER COllEGE
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�HOMECOMING 1950
November 17th - 18th
Friday, November 17th
8 p.m. - Coronation of the Homecoming Queen
9 p.m. - Football Pep Rally (West Campus)
Saturday, November 18th
1 p.m. - Homecoming Float Parade
2 p.m. - Football - Wagner vs. Ursinus
show between the halves by band and cheerleaders
8:30 p.m. - Dance (auditorium)
The Queen receives her cup
The Robb Memorial Trophy is awarded
Other Features To Be Announced.
Everyone of the four hundred alumni who "came
home" to Alma Mater last fall was enthusiastic about
the fine program. We're going to stick our necks way
out and say that this year Homecoming will be better
than ever.
We're sure of it for several reasons. last year's was
an experiment during the course of which we learned
many things. We found out how improvements could
be made in many areas.
Student representation is made up of two from each
fraternity and sorority plus a representative from the
Traditions Committee.
These committee members are going to do everything
they can to make it a memorable Homecoming. All you
have to do is come home.
We'll be seeing youl
Secondly, the planning began earlier this year.
Before school was out last spring, the Homecoming
committee was already organized and had made preliminary plans.
More than this, there will be more to see on the
campus than ever before. The construction work on
both new buildings will have progressed to the point
where there will be plenty to see.
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You won't want to miss any part of the program,
which will include the features that were so popular
last fall - a Homecoming Queen, a float parade, a big
dance, the awarding of the Robb Memorial Trophy to
the Most Valuable Player in the game, along with
other features still to be announced.
Jack Hoffman '52 is heading the committee of students, faculty, and alumni that are planning the weekend. The college administration has cooperated to the
extent of declQring November 17th a school holiday,
this to give everyone on the Hill a chance to prepare for
the Homecoming grads in fine style. Alma Mater will
spread out the red carpet to make you welcome.
let's see you on the 17th and 18thl
Alumni on the Homecoming committee include Wilson Gearhart '49, lois Dickert '46, Ernie Kiefer '50, and
AI Krahmer '27.
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�GREETINGS FROM THE ALUMNI PRESIDENT
Dear fellow alumni:
Greetings from your Executive Committee! As the fall season comes again and we see young people
all over the country returning to school, our thoughts turn to our Alma Mater and her year ahead.
We are watching with pride the progress of the new buildings and are looking forward to many happy
reunions both "on the Hill" and in our local chapters.
The success of the alumni program during the coming year will depend in a large measure on the loyalty
and support of all members. let us each do our share.
Sincerely yours,
Chris P. Holmstrup
Radburn, N. J.
President, Alumni Association
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE NOTES
Mrs. Marie Krumpe Borth, secretary of the Alumni
Association, has been forced to resign her post. She
has moved to Warrensburg, New York. Vice-president
Frank Kaiser, elected last spring, is waiting a call to
military service momentarily. All of which means that
there may have to be some changes made.
Meanwhile, Mrs. Gulborg Nilsen Sheie and Roy Cutter have accepted appointments as alumni members of
the Board of Traditions. Frank Kaiser was appointed
1951 loyalty Fund chairman. Donald Borth, Donald
Race, AI Krahmer, les Trautmann, and Helen Maraldo
Adams were appointed as a special committee to study
the present method of elections. The member at large
of the Executive Committee has not yet been elected.
LET'S CLEAN HOUSE
Wagner alumni must have - stored away in closets,
attics, and wherever else old souvenirs gather - many
items of historical interest that the college library would
like to have. Do you have old football programs, clippings, dance programs, copies of Wagner publications
among your memorabilia? If so, won't you send them
to the college so that our collection of Wagner historical
material can be supplemented?
Mrs. Sophie Shields, who is in charge of rounding
up such material, tells us that she is missing college catalogues for 1893-4, 1903-4 and 1920-21, and the High
School catalogue for 1930-31. She would also like to
have the Wagner Bulletin issues of May 1933; May
1936; Dec. 1937; Feb. 1938; Mar. 1941; Mar. 1944;
Dec. 1944 and Mar. 1949.
Also very welcome would be the old Wagnerian,
vol. 1, no. 1 and all issues under Volume 2, any issues
of the Hende-Vista, the Collegian, and the Owl. If you
can send any of the above, please mail them to Mrs.
Sophie Shields, care of the Wagner library.
AN ALUMNI CONGREGATION
When the Rev. Bob Arnold '44 and his wife, the
former Geraldine Kirsch '44 moved to Glen Rock, N. J.,
in 1946 to organize a lutheran congregation there, they
heard that there was one Wagnerian in the area. Now,
four years later, Bob reports the following alumni in
the vicinity - Mr. and Mrs. Robert Buttner (Edith Bauer),
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Mr. and Mrs. Paul Rogier (Edith Meisinger), Mr. and
Mrs. Kenneth Rogier (Ruth Forster), Mr. and Mrs. Paul
Dukeshire (Mabel Wolf), Mr. and Mrs. Howard Fensterer
(Ginny Costich), Mr. and Mrs. leonard Dobbin (Martha
Petersen), Mr. and Mrs. Chris Holmstrup (Dotty Heins),
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Holmstrup (Joy Cashell), Mr. and Mrs.
Edward Greening (Gloria Rappold), and Miss Norma
Arndt.
"It is of further interest," writes Bob, "that many of
the above have united with our baby congregation and
are proving themselves superb workers. Paul Rogier is
superintendent of the Sunday school and a member of
the Church Council. Edith Rogier is the aggressive president of our Nursery Mothers. Ken Rogier is doing an
admirable job on ·o ur Visitation-Evangelism committee.
Ruth Rogier is ably serving as one of our two choir
directors. Paul Dukeshire is the secretary of the Men's
Club, while Mabel is serving on the 'home front' since
the birth of their baby."
Bob also tells us that Cliff Simmons, a member of
his church's Building and Property committee, is one of
the engineers in charge of the foundation work on
Wagn-er's present building program, and that on Feb.
11th the Wagner choir will sing in the Glen Rock church.
WAGNER OVERSEAS
We all know Wagner's football team was good last
fall and that much was written about them in metropolitan papers. But did you know that pictures of our
team in action appeared in German newspapers and
magazines? It aTi came to our attention when Gerry
Dietrich '40 wrote to Bunny Barbes enclosing a picture
of the Wagner football players on the bench.
Gerry, who is working with the lutheran World
Federation in Stuttgart, Germany, had been shown the
picture by a German family who thought they recognized their missing son as one of the Wagner players.
The boy they pointed out was not their son (he was
Ralph Dimpel), but the episode got us interested.
Inquiry revealed that Julius Weitmann, a photographer for Hilfswerk, German Relief agency, had been
at the Wagner-Panzer game on November 19th and had
taken many shots of the game, the cheorleaders, and
the crowd. The pictures were part of a series to interpret
American life to the German people.
WAGNER COLLEGE
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IT HAPPENED LAST SPRING
The Alumni Day week-end is past history by now.
Its program was fine and the turnout of old grads very
encouraging. The Saturday morning feature, The Professor at the Breakfast Table, proved to be a particularly
happy addition to the program and bids fair to become
a traditional event. Professor Adolph Stern's excellent
talk and the relaxed, friendly atmosphere made it a
memorable morning.
A word of thanks is certainly due the fine committee which planned and managed a memorable weekend. Thanks to Chairman Jack Berglund '35, and to his
committee - ' Lillian Intemann Arneson '49N, Rolf Danielson '36, Jean Van Winkle Danielson '43, Les Trautmann '40, Phil Laub '48, and Dick Debus '49.
Elected to office at the annual business meeting were
Chris Holmstrup '39, president; Frank Kaiser '50, vicepresident; Marie Krumpe Borth '42, secretary; and the
Rev. Herman Meyer '11, treasurer. Chosen as alumni
representative to the Board of Athletic Control was Sam
Weening '50, and elected to the College Council was
Henry Eiler '50.
The alumni showed clearly that they were not in
favor of revising the constitution very much. A proposal
to remove the restriction on the number of terms an
alumni rresident can hold was defeated, although a
proposa to change the restriction from two consecutive
terms to "no more than four consecutive terms" was
adopted.
Proposals to change the nominating procedure so that
only one name would be presented for each vacancy
were decisively Deaten. The old practice of two names
for each vacancy remains in force. Changing the quorum
from "any number of voting members at a regularly
called meeting" to twenty-five members passed without opposition, as did a revision of the article on amending the constitution. The change calls for notice of proposed amendments to be mailed to all members at least
one month in advance of the meeting at which they are
to be considered.
Other changes adopted include a provision that the
Executive Committee be made up of the officers, the
General Alumni Secretary, the immediate past president,
the chairman of the Trustee committee on Alumni Interests and one other alumnus elected by the committee.
The nominating committee will henceforth be made up
of three members appointed by the president, and the
General Alumni Secretary.
COME ON IN I
In addition to the 340 men and women who have
become members of the alumni association through
graduation, Wagner alumni are pleased to welcome into
their ranks ten new honorary alumni.
Three of these men need no introduction to alumni;
they are old friends. At the annual alumni dinner
scrolls, in recognition of their service, were awarded to
Dr. F. Charles DeWalsh, Dr. Hans Haag, and Dr. Lee Y.
Davidheiser, and they were subsequently accepted into
membership in the Wagner College Alumni Association.
Other new members - men who received honorary
degrees at the June Commencement - are the Rev.
James K. Friedrich, president of Cathedral Films; the
Rev. Edmund A. Steimle, pastor for Lutheran students
in Greater Boston; the Rev. George R. F. Tamke, pastor
of St. John's Lutheran Church, Union City, New Jersey;
the Hon. Alfred E. Driscoll, Governor of the State of
New Jersey; Andrew G. Clauson, Jr., member of the
New York City Board of Education; and Dr. Joseph F.
Worthen, Staten Island physician.
Trygve Lie, Secretary General of the United Nations,
became an honorary member of the Wagner alumni
association when he was awarded the degree of doctor
of humane letters at a special convocation on June 26th,
1950.
We are proud and happy to count these distinguished men gmong our numbors.
WE HATE TO SEE YOU GO
The alumni office staff was cut by one-third on
September 24th when Lois Dickert '46, assistant to the
General Alumni Secretary since 1948, left to study full
time at Columbia University.
Lois has added much to the Alumni office in her
two years with us. Her never-failing good humor has
made it a pleasant place to work. Her writing ability
has been evident in many of the publications of the
office. Her loyalty to Alma Mater has been demonstrated in many ways.
It won't 'be the same without her, that's certain.
There won't be so many male alumni dropping into
the office. It will be quieter, too. We shall miss her
hearty, infectious laugh. Yes, things will be different,
but we wish her well at Columbia.
The debate on these revisions revealed n fine spirit
on the part of the alumni present. There was sharp
difference of opinion on many of the proposals, but the
debate was carried on at a very high level. It all disproved one fallacy, namely, that alumni who come back
don't care anything about the business meeting.
The Association adopted a Loyalty Fund goal for
1951 of $3,200 divided al follows:
For three Icholarships .......................... . $1,200
Payment on Building Fund
pledge of $6,000 ................................ . 1,000
1,000
Toward office expenle ................
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$3,200
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CHAPTER DOINGS
Studies made over the past five years by the Population Reference Bureau of Washington, D. c., indicate
that college men and women are having bigger families. Their surveys show that the birth rates have
increased without exception from the class of 1936 to
the class of 1940. Men graduates of the 1940 class,
at a tenth reunion could !Joast of families 37 per cent
larger than could their fellows of the class of 19j6 at
a similar point in their lives. With women graduates
Summer is usually a quiet time for alumni chapters,
but not for the aggressive Staten Island group. This
chapter, which had performed so nobly in the local
Building Fund drive and had foregone all other activity
to do that job well, has been busy making up for lost
time.
the increase is 21 per cent for 1940 over 1936.
How do Wagner grads stack up against their fellows? The class of 1925 is well above the average.
All five members of the class reported, all are married,
and between them they have 14 children, or 2.8 per
man. The average for 142 colleges is 1.81 child per
reporting grad.
The class of 1940 has not done so well. The national average of children per reporting grad (men) is
1.40. The average of our men of 1940 is 1.31. With
the girls of 1940 it's just about the same. The national
average per reporting grad is 1.15, for Wagner it's 1.04.
Utah seems to be the state for children. Brigham
Young University in that state leads the nation among
its 1940 women grads, and among its 1925 men, as
well as ranking second among 1940 men . The leader
among 1925 women is Utah State Agricultural College.
Just for the record, of the 14 girls, class of 1940,
who reported, ten are married, four are not. The ten
housewives report 13 children. There were 32 mole
grads in 1940. 19 reported, 15 married, 4 still bachelors. The 15 married men have fathered 38 children.
OUR THANKS
Left to right - Dr. Lee Y. Davidheiser, Dr. F. Charles
DeWalsh, Dr. Hans Haag and the Rev. Walter Bock,
former president of the Alumni Association.
(Scaffa)
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The first activity was a business meeting in June.
Bill Sterner '42 was elected president, lila Thompson
Barbes '41, secretary, and Ernie Kiefer '50, treasurer.
Out of that meeting came plans to organize a dramatics group on Staten Island, a sort of post-graduate
Varsity players. Any old thespians among the alumni
who are interested should get in touch with Johnny
Devlin.
Two other summer acttivities were a picnic on the
campus on July 22nd and a moonlight sail up the Hudson River on September 9th. A Halloween party is
scheduled for October 27th at the Melody Club. Tickets are now available in the Alumni office. Next event
will be a Bridge-Canasta Party November 30th.
The alumnae of the Nursing School met in connection with Commencement Homecoming. Gladys Wichman '50N was elected president, Mary O'leary '49N
vice-president, Dorothy Miller N46, secretary, and Madeline Reimers '49N, assistant secretary. Chosen as members of the planning committee were Elizabeth longair Rose N46, Marie Palmier '49N. Mary Bogdan N48,
and lillian Intemann Arneson '49N.
We haven't heard from any other chapters, but
Northern New England will meet in Boston on October
27th, and we hope for meetings of Western New York
in Buffalo, October 25th or 26th, and of Rochester on
October 23rd or 24th.
Fall meetings are due in Philadelphia, Northern New
Jersey, Westchester, and the Hudson Valley.
The fifty year alumni receive their keys from Board
President Frederick Sutter. Left to rightThe Rev. Edwin Boettger '00, Dr. Sutter '94, and the
Rev. O. E. Braune '00.
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WAGNER COLLEGE
�Final Returns on the Loyalty Fund
WITH SYMPATHY
The 1949-50 Alumni loyalty Fund drive failed to
reach its goal of $3,000. When Treasurer Herman Meyer
closed his books on September 1 st the total was $2,525.
He has turned over $2,500 to the college, which means
that we met our obligation of providing for three scholarships ($1,200), made. the first payment on our building Fund pledge of $6,000 ($1,000), but that we paid
only $300 on a promise of $800 toward the expenses
of the Alumni office.
Although Dr. Samuel Gring Hefelbower, professoremeritus of philosophy, had been absent from the Wagner campus for the past three years, news of his death
on September 12th was felt by the Wagner family as
a very real loss. There were many on campus who still
remembered the kind, slow-drawn voice, the nimble
mind, and the understanding professor who had taught
philosophy and awarded a lo-w-w A or hi-gh-gh B according to his judgement of their ability.
A member of the Wagner faculty from 1936-47,
"Heffie" was held in high and tender regard by his
students. His store of detailed knowledge never failed
to amaze them, and his over-all knowledge of the subject-matter always impressed them. More than that, they
liked him for himself.
Funeral services were held in Gettysburg, Penna.,
where Dr. Hefelbower was especially well known. It
was at Gettysburg College that he had done his undergraduate work, at Gettysburg Seminary that he prepared for the ministry; it was to Gettysburg College
that he returned in 1902 to become professor of German
and later, from 1904-10, served as its president. Before
coming to Wagner, he taught at Washburn College and
at Carthage College.
Dr. Hefelbower was born November 11 th, 1871. He
was residing in Chautauqua, N. Y., at the time of his
death, and is sO'rvived by his wife and a daughter, Mrs.
Edna Elizabeth Seebach.
The sympathy of all Wagner alumni who knew Dr.
Hefelbower is extended to his family at this time.
Naturally, we are disappointed, but we recognize
that this was an unusual year. Undoubtedly many
alumni have given generously to the Building Campaign
both locally and through their churches for CHEY. We
have no records of these contributions, but our guess
is that many alumni chose this year to give to the
capital campaign at the expense of the annual loyalty
drive.
Then, too, your loyalty Fund chairman, Chris Holmstrup, had to work "under wraps" all year. lest he endanger in any way the success of the building campaign,
he withheld much ammunition in the way of mail and
other follow-up. The alumni Executive Committee feels
that, in the light of the past year's conditions, Wagner's
alumni responded very well to the annual loyalty campaign.
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This year is another year, however. We must meet
$3,200 goal and we are confident that we will.
A few facts and figures:
Number of contributors
Amount contributed
Average contribution
Percent of alumni
contributi ng
1948
206
$1,378
$6.67
19%
1949
332
$2,638
$7.77
28%
1950
337
$2,525
$7.48
26%
There were 113 new contributors, and 118 1949
contributors who did not respond to the 1950 appeal.
ALUMNI NEWS BRIEFS
1894
Trinity lutheran Church, Staten Island raised $23,000
in the recent Christian Higher Education Year appeal.
This is three times its assigned quota. Pastors are
DR. FREDERICK SUTTER and the REV. CARL SUTTER '29.
1919
The REV. FREDERICK TEICHMAN is building a new
church in Hartford, Conn.
1920
The REV. CONRAD REISCH recently dedicated a new
parish house at Bridgeport, Conn.
1921
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St. James Church, Ozone Park, is sponsoring a ten
week Audio-Visual Workshop on Monday evenings this
fall. Director of the school and pastor of the church
is DR. HARRY J. KREIDER, who has achieved national
recognition for his work in this field.
1923
Name in the News
Trygve Lie, Secretary - General of the United Nations,
receives a degree and congrat,-!Iations from Dr. Frederick
Suffer, president of the College Board of Trustees
(Scaffa)
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After three years as lutheran World Relief Commissioner with CRALOG in the British zone of Germany, the
REV. CARL F. YAEGER has returned to the United States.
Before leaving his post, he was honored by officials of
the Evangelical Church and of Hilfswerk and was presented with the "Wichern Medal" as the 1st foreigner
to receive the highest award bestowed by the Evangelical Church in Germany. The medal was presented by
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Bishop Hanns Lilje on behalf of the Central Committee
of the Inner Mission.
1925
The REV. CHARLES MENGE is treasurer of the Buffalo
Lutheran Pastors Association. President of the group is
the REV. ERNEST FRENCH '3l.
1928
The REV. GUS WEBER has been appointed Director
of Human Relations with the Doehler - Jarvis Corp.,
which has its main office in Pottstown, Pa.
1931
The REV. ALBERT STAUDERMAN has been elected
president and the REV. HAROLD HAAS '39 secretary of
the No.;hern Conference of the Evangelical Lutheran
Synod of New Jersey. Officially organized last June,
the New Jersey Synod has voted to lend its support
to Wagner. After fifteen years in the ministry, Stauderman this June counted the 1200 members he has received, the 300th wedding he has performed, and the
SOOth child he has baptized.
The REV. JOHN KAERCHER has added another congregation (St. Paul's) to his parish In Scranton, Pa. He
is also chaplain of the Scranton Chapter, American
Guild of Organists.
1932
The REV. MARTIN DIETRICH is the author of "Bach
Straddles the Iron Curtain" in the July 26th issue of
the Lutheran.
1934
The REV. RUDOLF F. LUDWIG has been recognized
for his faithful leadership in a recent issue of "Konnarock Echoes." He is chaplain and teacher of religion
at Konnarock (Va.) Lutheran Schools and pastor of the
Konnarock Lutheran Parish.
The REV. WILLIAM VILLAUME was elected to represent the Association of Council Secretaries on the Central Department of Research and Survey of the National
Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States
(to be constituted this fall as successor to several ecumenical agencies).
DR. MICHAEL RAPP has been designated as a diplomate of the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
1935
JACK BERGLUND was elected vice-chairman of the
Marine Gas Chemists Association at the national meeting in Atlantic City.
Another office-holder ... ARCH B. TRIPLER is serving
this- year as a member of the city council of Grandview
Heights, Ohio. Arch is a research engineer at Battelle
Memorial Institute.
1937
ROCCO ZASA has been elected president of the
Young Republican Club of Staten Island and appointed
field representative of the new state disability benefits
program of the New York State Workman's Compensation Board. He was a candidate for City Councilman
in last fall's election.
1938
WALLY lOCK, immediate past president of t1ae
Alumni Association, wasn't elected to anything but to
fall and break four ribs while visiting a sister college.
H. Is on the mend by now and being very careful
of hil faotlng - we hope.
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CAPT. ALBERT SCHOENBUCHER has spent the summer in Japan, returns September 25th.
HENRY ENDRESS, Stewardship sec ret a r y of the
United Lutheran Church in America, authored the article "Puerto Ricans Make Progress" in the Lutheran, issue
of July 19th.
1939
EDITH SANDBURG GOTT is teaching English at Port
Richmond High School.
1940
DONALD BORTH received the Master of Laws degree
in taxation at the N. Y. U. Law School in June.
1941
The REV. HERBERT GIBNEY has been called to Epiphany Lutheran Church, Hempstead, L. I. after a ministry of several years in Saugerties, N. Y.
1942
LT. MARTIN SCHRODER writes "1 am one of the first
alumni to be called back into the service". Martin, a
reserve officer, is doing aerological work with Navy
Weather Central, Washington, D. C.
ROBERT PETTIT
has set up a dental office in Rochester, N. Y.
BILL and NAOMI STOVER ('46N) Monge must have
left their hearts in Haiti. They're going back.
The REV. WALDEMAR HINTZ, having arrived in Honolulu April 13th, is now serving as board missionary of
the Lutheran Church of Pearl Harbor, which was organized by his brother-in-law, Everett Jensen ('.40), last
January. "We have a welcome mat out for any Wagner
alumni stopping in the Islands," says Wally. Also wants
to organize an alumni chapter out there.
GULBURG NILSEN §HEIE and ROY CUTTER ('41) have
been appointed to the college Board of Traditions as
the alumni representatives.
1943
The REV. HOWARD LENHART has left sunny Cal, ifornia where he was working for the Board of American Missions to become Field Missionary for the United
Lutheran Synod of New York. The REV. EMIL HEIN has
resipned his charge in Ancram, N. Y. to accept a call
to St. Matthews-Emmanuel church, Brooklyn.
EDNA WELLER is at the Philadelphia Episcopal Hospital where she teaches Operating Room technique.
MRS. LOUISE NICLAS SAUL is teaching in New Brunswick schools.
JOY CASH ELL HOLMSTRUP and ROY ('39) have
moved to Radburn, N. J., to join the ever - growing
Wagner group in that community.
1944
RUTH EIDT has spent the summer studying at Oxford
University. She sailed on the Georgie on June 23rd,
returned September 3rd. The trip is arranged by the
Institute of .Jnternational Education. Ruth teaches history at the Farmingdale (LI.) High School.
CHAPLAIN THEODORE HERMANN is now on board
the USS Cone and has recently been on the Mediterranean Seas.
The REV. EUGENE ROTH has not yet been able to
leave for Japan as a missionary. He is at present living
in Buffalo, N. Y., with his wife and baby girl.
1945
ELEANOR KNUDSIN, who is teaching at the Port
Richmond Day Nursery, is engaged to Edward Ferenczy.
Wedding date - October 7th.
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EVELYN SCHAEFER who has been with the lutheran
Welfare Society of Minnesota for several years, has
been assigned by the National lutheran Council Division
of Student Service to work with students at the University of Minnesota.
1946
REV. ALASTAIR SELLARS has been called as pastor
of the Sayville (U.) Congregational church. He earned
the B.D. degree at Yale Divinity School last June.
The REV. JOHN ROHRBAUGH has been called to
St. Paul's lutheran church, Nanuet, N. Y. He has been
an assistant pastor at Covenant church, Brooklyn.
1947
MAX ALFERT took his Ph.D. from Columbia University and will teach genetics at the University of Southern
California in the fall.
The REV. NORMAN FOWLER, having been ordained
at the June convention of the United lutheran Synod
of New York, now serves as pastor of St. Trinitatis
Church, Jersey City.
The REV. ROBERT ARMSTRONG was ordained by the
Pittsburgh Synod and has accepted the pastorate of
Grace lutheran Church, North Side, Pittsburgh, Pa.
(See Weddings)
CONRAD (BAM) REISCH has received the degree of
bachelor of laws at the University of San Francisco.
MARK CARNEY will be teaching sixth graders in
Berlin, N. Y., just outside of Troy.
1948
BERNARD WIEST has his M.A. from the Fordham
School of Social Service and now lives in Denver, Col.
The REV. WILLIAM LUGER is assistant pastor at Temple Church, Philadelphia.
The REV. CLARENCE WALSTAD, as president of the
lutheran Brethren Synod, has made a three month's
trip to Africa inspecting mission stations there.
IAN MORRISON, who is Dean of Men at Wagner,
received the M.A. degree in Political Science from Columbia University in June.
The REV. WILLIAM BALKAN has resigned the pastorate of St. John's lutheran Church, New Utrecht, B'klyn,
to enter the Army chaplaincy.
1949
DICK PAUGH and BOB McVICKER are both working
with the Stapleton Service laundry.
. DIRK KOLFF BREYMAN is employed by the TransCanada Air lines, Inc.
GORDON SISSONS received his M.A. degree in Educational Psychology from Columbia University this June.
RALPH BETANCOURT has returned from Havana and
is working with the Automobile Club of New York.
The REV. ROMAIN SWEDENBURG is president of the
Staten Island Protestant Council succeeding Dr. Walter
C. langsam.
PHILIP BECKER is engaged to E. Ruth McClure of
Scarborough, N. Y. He plans to enter Albany Medical
School in the fall.
ROBERT WHITEHEAD has received the M.A. degree
from Columbia Teachers College.
ROBERT CLEMENS is a sales representative for I.C.S.
in Scranton, Pa.
WILLIAM SWARTHOUT is teaching English in Colton
Union high school in Berkley, California.
THE LINK
1950
JOSEPHINE GABRIELE is employed at Yale University doing research in the histology laboratory.
ROBERT MULLER has earned a graduate assistanship
in biology at the University of Iowa. He is also engaged
to Miss Sylvia l. Aune, of Westerleigh.
HERBERT CURL has the same thing at Ohio State
University, where he studies at Franz Theological Institute of Hydrobiok>gy.
Students who received Wagner's first B. S. in Educaiton degree in June are going into teaching jobs in the
fall. JOSEPH BERMAN will teach at P.S. 30, Westerleigh,
S. I.; IRMA KUNNMANN at Underhill Avenue schoo"
Roosevelt, l. I.; ELEANOR MULLER and EDWIN BLAAUW
at Schubert school, Baldwin, l. I.; GEORGE NIEDER·
HAUSER at Valley Stream, l. I.; NORMAN SCHAEFER
at P.S. 29, Castleton Corners, S. I.; DOROTHY BORG·
STEDE and MARY PATRICIA PATTERSON at Elizabeth,
N. J., ELSIE SCHATZ at Methuen, Mass.
GWYN REES is the new assistant athletic director
at Adelphi Academy, Brooklyn.
KOGE L1NDEROTH, an exchange student from Sweden, is the first Wagner graduate to study at the Harvard University School of Business.
IRIS WILSON is doing free lance advertising copy
and research, meanwhile attending Columbia University
where she is majoring in business with a number of
courses in advertising.
JOEL COHEN, last year's Wagnerian editor, has been
accepted by the Columbia University School of Journalism, one of the country's finest.
GENE MIDGETT MEGERIAN is working at the St.
George library. Her husband, EDWARD MEGERIAN, is
doing work with incoming DP's for the National lutheran Council.
JOHN GARDNER is with the sales trainee program
of Swift & Co.
PETER WALZ is engaged to Grace Campbell of Great
Kills. He is studying ' at the Long Island College of
Medicine.
NICHOLAS FILIMON is also engaged - to Janice
Petersen-.
HAROLD KUEHNE and BRITTA WOODBURY became
engaged on Commencement Day and plan to be married on Thanksgiving Day. Terry will teach in East
Haven (Conn.) elementary school. Harold has been attending Yale University.
MARIO MERLINO' sailed August 9th for Italy, where
he will study medicine.
DOROTHY BORGSTEDE is engaged to Andrew Anderson. Dorothy will teach in Elizabeth, N. J ...
CURTIS GEIGEL -is working with the Armstrong Cork
Co., in Manhattqn.
ROBERT REISCH is working for the Division of Survey
and Research of the Board of American Missions. He
has surveyed several areas in Ohio and has moved on
j·o fields in Michigan.
RUDOLF BOSAKOWSKI is a student at Columbia University Teachers College. DICK DOREMUS is at Columbia
proper.
HENRY SHEPPARD has become a divinity student at
the lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia.
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IRMA KUNNMANN has spent the summer as a counsellor at Camp Yorkville on lake Tiorati near Bear Mt.
DONALD F. ATCHESON is a student at Moravian
Theological Seminary and is engaged to Joan leyck, of
Staten Island.
FRED HOLSTEN was employed as a bookkeeper for
the Home Indemnity Co. in New York City, then was recalled to active duty on Sept. 11 tho He is now a Sergeant 1st class.
LILLIAN OLSEN is a laboratory technician at Staten
Island Hospital.
HERBERT FRANKENBERG is at Syracuse University.
ANN CARLUCCI is a student at Princeton Theological
Seminary for the degree of Master of Religious Education.
JERRY ROSENBERG will enter Chi c ago Medical
School in the fall.
RICHARD ERICKSON is with the construction firm of
louis Robertson on Staten Island.
AL BELFATTO is a laboratory assistant in the science
department at New Dorp High School. He is also doing
graduate work at N.Y.U.
CHARLES BROWN is a salesman with Dun and Bradstreet, Inc.
MARY CERBONE is a nurse at Sea View Hospital,
Staten Island.
ALICE JENSEN writes that she is a Field Director for
the Elmira (N.Y.) Council of Girl Scouts.
FORMER STUDENTS
FINISHED CAREERS
Ralph Olsen '50 - lost in plane crash en route to
Minneapolis, June 25th.
Theodore Paret '50, in Middletown, N. Y., July 19th.
TheRev. Rudolph Krauch '14, pastor of Advent lutheran Church, Trenton, N. J., June 27th.
Dr. Theodore O. Posselt '98, for many years secretary of the college Board of Trustees, in Greenport,
Long Island, July 17th.
Dr. Samuel G. Hefelbower, professor emeritus, in
Chatauqua, N. Y., Sept. 12th.
George C. Lobkowicz, in Paris, France, August 23rd.
THEY REPRESENTED WAGNER
At the inauguration of Dr. Voigt Cromer as president
of lenoir-Rhyne College on April 18th, Rita Flanagan
Brett '48N. At the inauguration of Dr. Horace A. Hildreth as president of Bucknell University on April 25th,
Professor Milton Kleintop '23. At the inauguration of
Dr. John lowden Knight as president of Baldwin-Wallace University on May 12th, the Rev. John Schott '26.
At Roanoke College April 14th for the inauguration
of Dr. N. Sherman Oberly as president, Roy Lindberg '47;
at Marion College May 27th for the inauguration of
Dr. John Fray as president, the Rev. Rudolf Ludwig '34;
at Penn State Oct. 5th for the inauguration of Dr. Milton
Eisenhower as president, Dr. Paul Carney '39; at the
induction of Dr. Edward Knudten as president of the
Evangelical Lutheran Synod of New Jersey on September
24th, the Rev. Alfred J. Krahmer '27; at Lynchburg College for the inauguration of Dr. Orville Wake as president on April 25th, Dr. Andrew Mahler '25.
EDWARD LOUIS DENTON, JR. (Ted) is engaged to
Miss Barbara lussen of Brooklyn. Ted is an alumnus
of the Brooklyn law School, now with the New York
law firm of De Forest, Elder & Mulreany.
NURSING ALUMNAE
RITA Flanagan BRETT '48N represented Wagner at
the inauguration of Dr. Voigt Cromes as president of
Lenoir-Rhyne College. Rita writes that she is the mother
of a baby daughter. Linda, and that her husband is
Assistant Administrator at City Memorial Hospital, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
ELSIE CHANCELLOR '49N served for the second time
this summer as camp nurse at Camp Wilbur Herrlich.
During the winter season she is with the Children's
Hospital in Philadelphia.
BARBARA HOGAN 'SON is engaged to Irving Hoag.
After a fall wedding, the couple plans to live in North
Carolina.
ALICE PATTERSON 'SON is employed at Delaware
Hospital in Wilmington, Del., in the Children's Ward.
MILDRED ANDERSON 'SON is doing nursing with the
U. S. Public Health Service.
GINA ENGELSTEIN 'SON plans to work in a Children's
Immigrant Camp near Tel-Aviv in Israel.
ANNE ROBERTS CREVELING 'SON is working at St.
Vincent's Hospital.
DORIS McCULLOUGH '49N has married Henry T. Miller. She is a member of the nursing staff at Marine
Hospital on Staten Island.
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JOSEPH DiCOSMO '42 (who is a teacher at P.S. 30,
Westerleigh, S. I.) and Teresa Balbi, June 11th . . . .
ARSENE CIRIGNANO '43 (a chemist with Standard
Varnish Works) and Helen Snyder of Staten Islcmd,
April 29th . . . .
LOUIS CHRAMPANIS '44 and Mary Mondreas, June
4th . . . .
MILDRED ERNST '44 and the Rev. Donald Neville
Heap of England, April 12th in Kugler Hospital Chapel,
Guntur, India . • . .
JEANNE STOUGHTON '44 and Joseph Dagher of
Bucyrus, Ohio, June 12th . . . .
ELEANOR KNUDSEN '45 and Edward Ferenczy, October 7th . . . Eleanor teaches in the Port Richmond
Day Nursery . . .
JOHN BILLIS '47 and Audrey R. Schnurr, married
May 27th ....
THE REV .. ROBERT ARMSTRONG '47 and VIRGINIA
NELSON 'SON, June 18th, now living in Pittsburgh, Pa.,
where Bob has his first church ..••
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NICHOLAS BALDASSANO '50 and Frances Chiola
(sister of VINCENT CHIOLA '47), April 30th . . . .
HAROLD MATTHIUS '50 and Barbara Decker, May 6.
GASPARD DOLCIMASCOLO '50 and Clair McGrattan,
June 11th . . ..
LORRAINE TURCOTTE '47 and J. Edward Whalen
married April 22nd and living in Saco, Maine ...•
JOSEPH EISENBERG '48 and Jacqueline Goldberg,
June 15th . . . .
HILDEGARD VIOHL '48 and Frederick H. Walker of
Brooklyn, May 21 st . . . .
FRANKLIN P. WARD '48 and Ann Johnston, September 9th . . . .
JOSEPH NARDUCCI '49 and Josephine Teriaco, September 10th . . . .
NORMAN SCHAEFER '49 and JANITH OLSEN '48,
July 22nd . .. .
DONALD SPIRO '49 and EVELYN LINDFORS N48,
June 11th . . . .
PHILIP MANGINI '49 and Doris Brown, Apr. 29th ....
ROY DEBUS '49 and 'Constance Bennett Lane of Scarsdale, June 10th . . . .
RICHARD NYBRO '49 and Jennie Sue Andreasen,
June 3rd. Now living in St. Paul, Minn., where Dick is
attending Luther Theological Seminary . . . .
EDWARD MENSING '49 and Anne Kneeshaw, May
20th (Ed is employed as an accountant at the Recorr:ling
and Statistical Corp., Manhattan) . . . .
MARTIN EARL ARNOLD '49 and Margaret Clark, July
30th .. . In addition to studying at Adelphi's graduate
school, Earl is a probation officer in the Nassau County
Probation D'e partment . . . .
OMAR GJERNESS '50 and Joan Larsen, Dec. 17th .•..
ROBERT HINZ '50 and Margaret Schmidt, June 17th.
RUDOLPH J. MIKSON '50 and Rosemarie Falkner,
May 14th . . . .
IDA KETELSEN '50 and Ensign Gilbert Jacobsen of
Naval Air Station, Patuxent River, Md., June 17th . . . .
THEODORE DOWD '50 and Agatha Trafficant, June
14th ... .
HELEN NEVILLE '50 and WILLIAM KELLY, JR., '51
June 10th ....
MATT SCAFFA '50, co-captain of last year's football
team, and Irene Elwood, September 9th ....
ED McGOVERN '50 and Jennie Domek, Sept. 2nd .•..
ROGER DOWNING '50 and Arlen Cassade, of Kew
Gardens Hill, L. I., September 3rd. Roger is head of
physics dept. and football coach at St. Andrew's School,
West Barrington, R. I. . . •
BOB FARRELL '50 and Margaret Turner, September
9th. Bob is a member of the S.1. Advance editorial staff.
MIKE CHIAPPERINO '49 and Beverly DeRogatis, August 27th. Mike is teaching at P.S. 22, Staten Island ... .
DORIS McCULLOUGH '49N and Henry T. Miller . . . .
JOHN G. THOMPSON '49 and Elizabeth Lynch, August 12th . . . .
BARBARA KELLY and THOMAS CHRISTOPHER, August 9th . . ..
THOMAS FAWCETT, a New York City fireman, and
Betty Louise Stromberg , April 16th ....
MARIE WENDEL and Richard Engle, June 3rd ...•
ALBIN GOETZE and Dolores Dennis of Red Bank,
N. J., June 25th . . . .
SHIRLEY ALBERT KATZMAN '49N married on June
25th . . ..
THE LINK
HELEN SUP '49N, a nurse at Halloran Hospital, and
EARL PATTERSON (Wagner student), May 28th .•..
MARIJEAN WORLEY N50 and the REV. WILLIAM
LUGER '48, August 30th, the bride's father and brotherin-law officiating ....
BARBARA RUMPF '50 and JOHN FEHRINGER '50,
August 26th. Jack will attend Gettysb~rg Theological
Seminary, and Barbara plcms to teach in a Fairfield, Pa.,
grammar school.
BARBARA DOYLE and Raymond J. Memoly, Apr. 9th.
A son, to Dr. and Mrs. Frank Sportiello '32, June 21.
A son (third child), to the Rev. and Mrs. William
Villaume '35, April 15.
A daughter, Natalie Edna, to the Rev and Mrs. Waiter Bock '38, August 16.
Twin daughters (making their family five girls!), to
John and Catherine Newton McDermott '39.
A son, to Mr. and Mrs. Larry Knudsen '40, in July.
A daughter, Barbara Gail, to Werner '41 and Muriel
Christian Johnson '42, July 23.
A daughter, Naomi Ruth, to the Rev. and Mrs.
Eugene Roth '44.
A son, to Herman '43 and Ruth Tamke Fersh '46,
June 9.
A daughter, to Joseph '50 and Shirley Sandberg
Shannon '48, July 6.
A son, to Mr. and Mrs. Henry Seguine (Marjorie Rieb
'40), August 15.
A daughter (thlird child), to Dr. Paul '39 and Dorothy
Behrens Carney '41, August 31.
A son, to Ralph and Helen Maraldo Adams '40,
Sept. 22.
A daughter, Deborah Ann, to Merton '43 and Phyllis
Peterson Kleintop, Aug. 24.
A daughter, Jo Anne, to Phil and Jane Merrick Shaw,
Aug. 12.
A son, Douglas Eric, to Perry '50 and Harriet Steinberg Grover '49, May 11.
A daughter to Ken and Mrs. Salvesen '419, Sept. 12.
A son, Allan, to Mr. and Mrs. John Start '50.
A daughter, Kelley Ann, to Mr. and Mrs. George
Shaffer '50.
A daughter, to Mr. and Mrs. Harold DeGroat '50,
July 6.
A son, Edward Francis, to Mr. and Mrs. Edward
Mulholland '50, Ju'ly 7.
A daughter, Patricia Lucille, to Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Mulholland, May 29.
A daughter, Susan Kay, to Mrs. Martha Schaefer
Boyer, July 20.
Twin daughters, to Mr. and Mrs. Herb Scheinberg,
May 11.
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The Wagner College Alumni News
VOL III
DECEMBER, I 9 5 0
Published
10
No.2
October, December, March and May by the Wagner College Alumni
Association, Staten Island 1, N. Y.
Alfred
J.
Krahmer '27, Alumni Secretary, Editor
Richard Forster' 49, Assistant Editor
THE ALUMNI ASSOCiATION
CHRISTIAN HOlMSTRUP '39 .........................
President
FRANK KAISER '50 ............................................. Vice-President
ELIZABETH WHITNEY '46 .......................................... Secretary
HERMAN MEYER '11 .................................................. Treasurer
Members of the Executive Committee
DONALD H. RACE '30
ALFRED KRAHMER '27
WALTER BOCK '38
Alumni Trustees of the College
ALFRED L. BECK '38
DONALD H. RACE '30
Alumni Members, Board of Athletic Control
SAMUEL WEENING '50
ALBERT ACCETOLA ' .. ,
Alumni Members, College Council
HENRY EILER '50
J. TRYGVE JENSEN ' .. 3
Alumni Members, Board of Traditions
GULBORG NILSEN SHEIE
ROY CUTTER ' .. ,
The Wagner Alumni Association is a member of the American Alumni Council
ALUMNI
Nursing Alumnae
Rochester
FRED GRUNST "9
NIEVES RIBES DOLE ' ..8
President
........ Secretary
GUNTHER STIPPICH '36 ............
ERMA RUDLOFF COUTTS '39 ........
President
Secretary
Staten Island
WILBUR STERNER ' .. 2 ....
LILA THOMPSON BARBES ' .. ,
ERNEST KIEFER '50
President
Secretary
Treasurer
Northern New Jersey
President
Secretary
Connecticut
ROBERT HEYDEN REICH '32
ELEANOR DOSSIN '40
President
Secretary
WILLIAM VILLAUME '35
ELSIE SHATZ '50 ........
Brooklyn
Philadelphia
WILLIAM NIEBANCK '3'
GLADYS WICHMAN fiSHER 'SON ............................................................ President
DOROTHY MILLER BUTLER N ..6 .................................................................... Seustary
Northern New England
Long Island
WALTER KORTREY ' ..5
.... President
ELAINE HOE BEL FUHLBRUCK ' ..5 ................. ............................................ Secretary
DAVID SMITH ' .. ,
CHAPTERS
President
Secretary
PHILIP ANSTEDT '39
WILLIAM LEXANDER '50
Westchester (NY)
President
.. Secretary
LLOYD RICE '40
MRS. CHARLES NEBAUER .
Western New York
President
Secretary
FRANK KALMBACH
RITA McGIVNEY KENNEDY N46
Col-mar-va (Washington, D. C.)
CHARLES HELLRIEGEL '38
WILLARD GRIMES '40 ...
President
Secretary
Hudson Valley (NY)
President
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FRANK GOLLNICK '30
ALVIN MESSERSMITH ' ....
President
Secretary
THE COVER PICTURE
SANTA CLAUS IS ON HIS WAY TO THE ALUMNI OFFICE WITH A SACK FULL OF CHECKS FOR THE
LOYALITY FUND. ENOUGH SAID I
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Cartoonl in thil issus are by Don Brockman '50. Photol are by Matt
Scaffa '50, Marvin lepaw '52 and Weitzman's Photo Shop, Stapleton.
WAGNER COLLEGE
�~ Annual Loyalty Fund Drive Begins Jan. 1
Now is the time for all loyal alumni to be heard from.
Unlike other years when the annual Loyalty Fund appeal started in the early fall, you've heard nothing from
the alumni office about the Fund until now. But you're
going to hear about it now!
How often? Only once, if you respond to our first
appeal. When? shortly after Jan. 1.
We are hoping for an early, generous response. We
must have it if you want the full alumni program to continue. It takes money to publish The Link (almost $1000
a year), to promote the chapter program, and every
alumni mailing costs us $60 for postage alone. We've
pledged ourselves to pay $1000 toward this expense.
That's not all. The alumni voted last spring at the
annual meeting to contribute $6000 to the Building campaign to pay for the lobby of the new gymnasium. We
said we'd pay up our pledge in five years. Last year we
gave $1000, we promised another $1000 for 1951.
Three students are now attending Wagner, assisted
by alumni scholarships. We obligated ourselves to pay
the college $1200 in 1951 for these scholarships.
Now add it all up. $1200 for scholarships, $1000 for
our Building Fund pledge, $1000 as a token payment
toward alumni expense. It totals $3200, the budget
adopted by the annual meeting last spring.
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It sounds like a lot of money, doesn't it? But not
when you divide it among nearly 2000 alumni. The
trouble is, however, that not all alumni respond. Last
year, for example, we had the very respectable average
gift of $7.48 per contributor, the year before it was
$7.77.
There's nothing wrong with those figures. The
trouble lies is in the number that give. Last year it was
337, the year before 332. What we must do this year is
increase this total.
A STUDY IN CONTRASTS
Beloit College has compiled some interesting
figures on alumni giving for the period, July 1,
1948, through June 30, 1949, at the following coleges:
Beloit
Bates
Bowdoin
Carleton
DePauw
Dennison
Knox
Oberlin
Pomona
Wooster
Dartmouth
Princeton
WAGNER
Am'nt
$ 13,512
18,249
60,482
22,811
15,160
13,904
19,567
45,491
55,865
27,796
219,858
500,000
2,638
Givers
1,643
2,521
2,595
1,,203
2,395
1,384
1,989
3,067
2,768
2,827
7,696
11,200
332
Av. Gift
8.22
8.54
23.30
18.96
11.57
10.05
9.25
11.66
21.94
9.79
28.57
51.00
7.77
Clipped from the Augustana College Bulletin
The cartoon below is Cartoonist Don Brockman's idea
of how your Alumni Secretary would feel (up in the
c:.louds) if that bag of money the Santa on the cover is
bringing ever actually reached our office. We'd like to
see what it's like up in the stratosphere. Help ~s to realize that ambition.
If you do, you'll have the real satisfaction of knowing that you are doing your share in making Alma
Mater, move on and on in its triumphant progress.
The alumni are coming back in increasing numbers
to Homecoming and to Alumni Day; more and more of
you are attending chapter meetings in your area; you
write us nice letters about The LINK; you tell us you are
pleased to receive birthday greetings from the alumni
office. For all this we are happy, but our joy will not be
complete until that number of contributors grows much
much higher.
Alumni sometimes complain that the only time they
hear from the alumni office is when money is requested.
Of course, you know this isn't true if you stop to count
up the pieces of mail you actually receive (one alumnus
actually complained that he was getting everything except appeals for "dues") but think of it this way - if you
send a check of any amount the first time we ask, you'll
hear no more about money for another year. Try it and
see.
Frankly, we've just got to reach our gool this year,
and we intend to make an intensive campaign. Vicepresident Frank Kaiser, who is Fund chairman, is going
to keep after you until we hear. Why not respond early
and make it easier for everyone concerned?
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�An III Wind:
IT BLEW 'NO GOOD'
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By Richard Forster '49
All the excitement is over now, but the memory of
the Big Wind last month lingers on.
No student, faculty member or campus visitor has
yet forgotten the heavy damage caused by the hurricane
(a wind velocity of more than 7S miles per hour is a hurricane) which toppled the roof of Luther Hall, smashed
Cook Hall, a smaller building in the Veteran's Village,
and scarred Cunard Hall, the administration building
and several campus homes.
However, the deepest impression by the fury of the
elements probably was made upon the students who
temporarily were without quarters and the college officials whose job it was to be concerned with housing
them.
About 90 men students had to seek temporary shelter in the gymnasium, in campus homes and in other
dorms. The administration, of course, was and stilr is
concerned over the unestimated damage to property
and providing students with a place to stay.
Fortunately when the roof of Luther was swept off,
no one was injured.
The open air view over the wall and through
the roof of this room in Luther Hall graphically illustrates
the damage in almost every room of the second floor
of the dormitory.
The "neatness" of the lads in Luther was a big factor
in cutting down on damage to clothing. The Rev. Paul
W. Dieckman, vice-president, who organized the first
"rescue" party, pointed out that almost every man,
before he left for Thanksgiving vacation, took the trouble
to hang up his clothes in the closet.
That seldom repeated task made it easy for those
who had to move articles and carry them to the "bargain
basement" setup in the Co-Ed Lounge.
Speedy action on tlie part of the "rescue" squad and
the college administration helped keep confusion at a
minimum.
On Sunday 1 S faculty members and 30 students directed by Mr. Dieckman, worked on arranging beds in
the gym, moving clothes and clearing dangerous debris.
The workers were refreshed by free coffee in the Guilden.
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Cook Hall, which was knifed in half by the flying
roof from Luther, resembles a wartorn building. Notice
the daylight seeping through the middle of the structure.
The same afternoon, at a meeting presided over by
Dr. Walter C. Langsam, president, who returned from
an Atlantic City meeting, the situation was discussed
with architects and it was decided immediately to begin
repairs.
Work toward restoring normalcy was started Monday morning. The following day classes were again in
session and except for minor incidents, everything was
going smoothly.
The work on Cunard Hall was finished first. By Tuesday the roof had been repaired and all was well in this
historic building. Cook Hall was beyond repair and was
demolished, but Luther Hall was restored and was back
in full use before too many days.
Looking back on it all, there was more to it all than
heavy damage. What we remember most is the fine
spirit displayed by every member of the campus family.
We remember the good humor with which the boys
labeled their gymnasium quarters a "0. P. camp" and
the room in which their belongings were hung "the
Luther Hall Rummage sale".
Wagner spirit was put to a real test and it met the
challenge.
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A contrast between an invincible structure and a
storm casualty. Luther Hall, almost barren af its roof,
is uninhabitable, while the firm old ad building is OK.
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�WHERE'S THAT T-SHIRT
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The Knight of the locker room repairs an injured ankle.
by Les Trautmann '40
Doctor, lawyer, locker room chief - and "the meanest man iii) the world". Call Whitey anything you want.
He doesn't mind; he has been called worse. As a trainer
for the Seahawks, as the seldom-defeated guardian of
Wagner property, he has heard himself referred to in
dozens of different ways since he wandered on to the
campus a dozen years ago.
Nothing bothers Whitey, that is, until a T-shirt, a pair
of socks or some other equipment is unaccounted for to
his satisfaction. He considers it a personal affront if 25
T-shirts, for example, are distributed at the beginning
of practice and only 24 are returned.
This has led to some rather strained relations between Whitey and certain undergraduates, but the
wounds are healed over eventually. Says Whitey, "They
give me a hard time, some of the guys do, but they're
always pretty nice when they come back after graduation".
For more positive identification, this taskmaster is
the white-trousered figure who slouches across the football or baseball fields, or the gymnasium. He is also
known as Julius Horai, the son of a police captain, of 51
Mary Street, Concord, Staten Island.
Until a few years ago, he was known on the hill
only as Whitey. A basketball trip in 1945 brought out
some facts. Whitey, said Herb Sutter, had to bring him
a letter of permission from his father before he could go
along. That letter told Wagnerians Whitey's full name.
THE LINK
Now some students call him Julius and his family calls
him Whitey. That doesn't bother Whitey either.
Whitey was only nine when he arrived at Wagner
because "there was no other place to hang around". He
stayed around as general-purpose mascot, caught on in
an expenses - only proposition during the 1944-45
basketball season and went on the regular payroll a
year later. A typical day for him now starts at 7:30
A. M. and ends ten or twelve hours later. But it's not all
work. "Sometimes I bum around for an hour:' he says.
And this onetime campus wanderer now has 12 student
assistants in his domain.
Wagner is his college without a doubt. In fact, he
considers himself a perennial freshman because he appears in the frosh show every year, and an alumnus because he joins in the Homecoming Day rally and program. He likes college because he's "always with young
men . . . has a good time on trips . . . doesn't have to
ride on subways . .. has a good time on the trips".
Sports, in one form or another, are his life. Even he,
Whitey admits, finds himself hoarse at the end of an exciting game. He obviously gets a kick out of the cries of
"Hey, Whitey I" from the stands as he trudges along
("But I keep a stone wall when they do that").
But Whitey grows as cautious as he does while
guarding equipment when queried about the "best Wagner team". "Better not say," he advises, "some of the
fellows might get mad at me." He will admit, however,
that Jay Quintana is the most exciting Wagner football
player he's seen in action.
Apart from the games, Whitey's existence is work from taping ankles to operating the whirlpool bath, to
checking the equipment in and out each day . . . he's
proud of the checking system he and Lefty Gearhart
have worked out in the locker room .
Whitey, of course, is the best known for his dogged
tracking of missing articles. When a player fails to see
his view, he appeals to Judge Sutter for decision. And
Whitey and: "All right, where's that missing T-Shirt?"
(Continued on page 9)
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Hail, the Queen is coming I Seven-year-old Johnny Nikander
bears the crown for Queen Janie I in the coronation procession.
At the right, President Langsam crowns Janie Stowell, with the
assistance of Lois Vasoll, right, and Doris Heepe, her attendants.
Sending the coronation audience into hysterics is Whitey,
the mighty potentate, on his way to the throne to ask the Queen's
favor for the football to be used in the game. Before a blazing
I;,onflre, right, Jim Lee Howell says, "Our team will win".
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�And Presents a Royal Parade
Before the game Delta Nu's float, left, passes the reviewing
stand. Delta's creation was a first prize winner and Theta Pi
Epsilon, right, was second in the parade composed of nine floats,
the queen's car and the cheerleaders. A colorful sight for alumni .
....
Kappa Sigma Alpha's float, left, took third honors in the contest. In the picture on the right another phase of the Homecoming is under way as the band and cheerleaders entertain the
overflow crowd of 4,000 during the halftime.
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�And Enjoys a Victory Dance
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"WE'VE GOT A COLLEGE; WE'VE GOT A YELL; WE'VE GOT A TEAM THAT FIGHTS LIKE .•• SEAHAWKS I
Churning around right end, Bob (Wink) Winckler,
senior, is about to score the winning TO against the Mariners. The final score: 13-6. We won, Jim.
With a gracious smile, Janie accepts the Queen's
Cup, from Frank L. Kaiser, vice-president of the Alumni
Association. Note Kaiser's leer.
Ray Kirchmyer, former Wagner football, baseball
and basketball coach, presents the James Robb Memorial Trophy to Bill Roehrich, blocking halfback.
The climax of an exciting day. Queen Janie I dances
with her escort, Bill Brown, a member of the football
squad. Moments afterward the floor was jammed with
dancers ..
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MEET DICK FORSTER
Alumni Association President Chris Holmstrup underwent an operation at St. Josephs Hospital, Paterson,
N. J. on November 22. Chris is doing nicely, and after
a short stay in the hospital is recuperating at his home
in Radburn, N. J. Illness prior to the operation had
made it impossible for Chris to attend the Homecoming
festivities.
Meet Dick Forster '49
who joined the combination
Alumni-Public Relations Staff
on November 1. Dick had
been working on the editorial staff of The Staten Island
Advam:e for 18 months
when he resigned to come
back to Alma Mater.
At Wagner his responsibility will be largely in the
publicity field.
He will
handle the newspaper releases, edit the Wagner Bulletin, and assist in editing
The Link. AI Krahmer, Director of Public Relations and General Alumni Secretary,
will continue to devote his time to development of the
alumni program, general public relations, and student
recruitment.
Dick replaces lois Dickert '46 who resigned September 24 to pursue full time graduate study at Columbia.
A son, Robert George, to Mr. and Mrs. Henry Sheppard '50 June 6.
A son, Michael Francis, to Frank '49 and Renee Hanff
Varrone '50.
A daughter, Cathy Ellen to Horace '50 and Gertrude
Winckler Chirumbolo '45, Oct. 31.
A daughter, Christine, to Mr. and Mrs. Gerhard Hill
(Gladys Lammond '48), Sept. 29.
A daughter, Linda, to Dr. and Mrs. Melvin Weiss '43.
A daughter, Beverly, to Mr. and Mrs. Carl Pritchett
Jr. (Frances Wightman '41).
A son, Henry Morse II, to Henry and Patricia Krumpe
Speight '49, Oct. 30.
A son, Philip James, to Mr. and Mrs. John Darcy (Eda
Aanonsen '51).
Twin daughters, Deborah Ann and Diann':'! Elaine,
to Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Kesner (Elaine Strongman '48N).
A son, Bruce Allen, to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Schwarting '50, Sept. 24.
A son. Dennis Byron, to Donald '50 and Joan Wareham Drown.
WHAT HAPPENS AFTERWARD?
What did last year's seniors do after graduation?
The alumni office thought it would be a good idea to find
out, so we sent questionnaires to the 340 grads of last
spring. Two hundred and twenty-two responded and
here are the answers:
Sixty-one are continuing their studies on a full time
basis. Of this number eleven are in theological seminaries, two in law school, nine in medical school, one in
dental school, and one in a school of journalism.
One hundred and thirty-one are listed as employed
in the following categories: teaching, twenty-three; nursing, fourteen; biologists or chemists, twenty-four; business, 55; social work, four; civil service, five; religious
work, three; newspapers, three. Ten listed under business also are engaged in part time graduate study.
Fourteen are in the armed services, seven are housewives (only the wives not going to work are counted
here). Seven listed no present work. Two members of
the class are deceased, and there are one hundred eighteen who made no report.
This survey of the 1950 class accounts for the plethora of items about them in the News Briefs this issue. As
a matter of fact, we've got so many items on the last
class that some will have to be held for future issues.
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DR. THEODORE O. POSSELT, '98
Through lack of space and haste in preparation of
copy the editors of The Link failed to pay proper tribute
to the late Dr. Theodore O. Posselt, '98 whose death we
reported under "Finished Careers". All we said was:
"for many years secretary of 1he college board of trustees". (October Link)
It should also have been noted that he was secretary
of the Board for twenty-five years, that he was vice-president at the time of his retirement, and an honorary
member of the board at the time of his death. He also
was a trustee at the time the college was moved from
Rochester to Staten Island and was one .of the men who
sponsored the change in location.
We're grateful to the alumni who wrote in to call
this unintentional oversight to our attention.
Where's that T-shirt?
(Continued from page 5)
that relationship has led to more jibes than Whitey's reputed skill with the fairer sex. Whitey's skin is tough;
he almost likes to be called "the meanest man in the
world". But, he says, "I have no enemies".
Some biographical notes: Whitey, at twenty-one, is
the oldest of four children, two boys and two girls ...
He was in the seventh term at McKee High School when
he quit.
Style note: Whitey wears those white trousers in all
seasons "because I'm using medicines and stuff like that
and its cleaner".
Writer's note: Whitey watched me carefully as I
lifted my topcoat and hat from a stack of towels when
I left the dressing room.
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�ALUMNI NEWS BRIEFS
1904
Trin ity Luth eran Church, Pottsville, Pa. rededicated its church building
after a re novation and redecoration program. Dr . Emil Weber '04 is pastor.
191 4
Dr. Behrend Mehrtens ha . resigned as pastor of Trinity Lutheran
church, New Hav e n, Conn . ta accept a call from the United Lutheran
Church Board of American Missions as a Board missionary in the Southern part of the United States.
Bob Henkler '50 and Dorothy Boes, Oct. 7.
Barbara Hogan '50N and Ervin Hoag, Oct. 14.
Anders Swansberg '50 and Sophia Holak, Sept. 9.
Eugene Scala '49 and Betty Jones (Registrar's Office),
Aug. 3.
Winifred Lannan N48 and Edward ~. Lee, Sept. 14.
Anthony Roperti '49 and Rose Paretti, Oct. 22.
Nicholas J. Filimon '50 and Janice Peterson, in October.
Donald Costa '49 and Madeline Balzarini, Oct. 14.
Lamar Smith '46 and Jean D'Arcy, Oct. 21 .
Curtis Geigel'50 and Betty Eisinger '48, Oct. 21.
Edna Snyder '49 and Robert J. Clayton, Nov. 29.
Claire Meehan N48 and James Murphy Jr., Nov. 10.
Vincent Tomes '50 and Julia Fedirka '50 Nov. 18.
Robert Corring and Alice Fallucchi, Sept. 9.
June Reich '48 and Raymond Lisk, in October.
Florence Hardie '49N and Ambrose Artaserse, in
October.
Gladys Wichmann 'SON and Walter R. Fischer, Sept.
30.
SUMMER GRADS (Class of '51)
The Alumni Association ranks were augmented this
summer by 29 students who finished their degree in summer school and by five nursing school graduates. Although their degrees and diplomas are not granted until
next commencement, all are alumni as of now and we
welcome them, hoping that they will toke on active port
in all alumni activities.
August grads include Richard Boller and Robert Bogard (both cum laude), and Charles Allbee, Robert HansIy, Howard Jorgensen, John Kennedy, Leon Roy Mabrey,
George Oberle, Peter Sofia, Theodore Weiskotten, and
Carlo Wolff, all of whom will receive A. B. degrees in
June.
Those who will receive the B. S. are Eda Aanonsen
Darcy, George Beharry, John Byron, Charles Caressi, Carl
Cosh, John DeVivo, William Errington, George Henkel,
Colvin Johnson, Charles Keller, Carl Lorson, Irving Levine, Mary Ann Nelson, Harold Olsen, Claire Perlstein,
Rosario Perrone, Steve Protos, and Marijean Worley
Luger.
Seven girls completed the work for Nursing school
diplomas. They are Lucio Christian, Doris Johnston, Ruth
Munzer, Mary Ann Nelson, Margaret Pfeil, Lucille Rugferio, and Marijeon Worley Luger. Miss Nelson and Mrs.
Luger also are listed above with the degree candidates.
1 9 '1 9
Grace Lutheran Church recently dedicated a new $175,000 church
building . The Rev. Fredorick Teichmann '19 is pastor.
1925
Dr. George Aus was the preacher on the Columbia Broadcasting
System 's Church of the Air broadcast e>n Sunday morning, Dec. 17. In
the Easte rn time zone he wa s heard at 10 A. M.
1929
The Rev . Howard Kuhnle was Dean of a twelve wee k Lutheran Leadership Training School for the Triple Cities (Endicott - Johnson City Binghamton, N. Y.). The Rev. William Heil's congregation, Christ Luth eran Church, Little Neck, L. I. observed its 25th anniversary on Sept. 29
with a redecoration of the interior of the church . Christ Church reports
ga ins of 55 members a year in the past two years . The Rev. Carl Suttor
has been elected president of the Staten Island Kiwanis Club for 1951.
1930
Don Roce, co·owner (with his wife) and co·operotor of the St. George
Clinical Laboratory on Staten Island since 1934, has sold the business
and plans to move to Overall, Va. on April 1. Don is one of the alumni
representatives on the Board of Trustees and a member of the Alumni
Association Executive committee .
1 931
Trinity Lutheran Church, Maspeth , L. I., the Rev. Austin BOlCh, pastor,
laid the cornerstone for an $82,000 parish house last month . Becaus"
of a successful " 2 in 1" campaign for CHEY and the parish hou se, Trin ity expects to carry a mortgage of no more than $15,000.
1932
First Lutheran Churth , Waterbury, Conn ., the Rev. Rch ~ rt Heydenreich,
pastor, has sold its original church building in anticipation of the erection
of a new church in 1951 at a new location. A parsonage and a parish
house are already upon the new site . Heydenreich is president of the
Connecticut alumni chapter.
1935
Arch Tripier is listed in the current issue of Men of Science. Tripl.r
is a research engineer with the Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus, Ohio.
1938
Donald lath rope, assistant professor of sociology at Westminster
College for the past three years, has accepted a similar position at Bowl·
ing Green (0.) State University. He is a candidate for the Ph. D. degree
at Pittsburgh. Mrs. lathrope is the former Mary Frost '39.
1939
Dr. Paul Carney represented Wagner at the inauguration of Dr. Milton
Eisenhower as president of Pennsylvania Stat.. College. The Rev. Sam
Lewis has been called to active duty as an Army chaplain . He is at Fert
Devens, Mass.
1940
Donald Borth and his wife, Marie Krump. '42, have moved to Warrensburg, N. Y. Donald has accepted a position with a law firm there.
St. Pauls Lutheran Church of Honolulu, Hawaii, the Rev. Everett Jensen,
pastor, recently purchased a sizeable property and is planning to erect
a new chapel.
194 1
The Aif Danielson. have moved to Dallas, Texas, where Alf is mana·
ger of the long lines office of the Telephone company. Mrs. Danielson
the former Jean Van Winkle '43.
1942
A FINISHED CAREER
HERMAN KORN '34 a member of the New York
City Fire Department, on Nov. 25 in Staten Island,
N. Y., aged 39. Korn was a football, basketball
and baseball letterman at Wagner. He was a
member of Kappa Sigma Alpha Fraternity.
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The Rev. David Jensen is president of the Association of lutheran
Pastors of the Southern Tier (N. Y. S.). Dave's Church is Norwich, N. Y.
1944
The Rev. Alvin Messenmith has resigned as pastor of St. Jahns luth·
eran Church, Manorton, N. Y. to accept a call to Peace church, Rochester,
N. Y., effective January 1. Mrs. Messersmith is the former Kay Yarg.r '45.
The Rev . Gordon Hohl has been pastor of First Lutheran Church, Rockville,
Conn. since Oct. 15. His previous pastorate had been in Brewster, N. Y.
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ARMED SERVICES
Nov. 26 was the occasion of the dedication of a new church and parish house at Evangelical Lutheran Church, Lawrence, Mass. Pastor is
the Rev. Helmut Dietrich. Mistress of the parsonage is the former Darothy Kraus. '4S.
Cal Johnson, Army at Fort Dix, N. J .; O . John Reed, Navy, with the
Fleet Marine Force overseas; len Spalluto, Air Farce, at Lockland Field,
San Antonio, Texas; Dick Rose, Navy, first lieutenant on the U. S. S.
Libra; Warren Tompkins, Navy, at Tacoma, Washington; Sam Weening,
Navy; Art Woodstone, Army; Barry Carmody, enoign, Supply Corps,
USNR; Bob Hinz, Navy, Mt. Vernon, Washington; Nicholas Serke .. Army;
Samuel Gibson, Marineo, Camp Lejeune, N. C.; Fred Heimrich, Army Signal Corps, in Georgia; Carl Cash, Army.
1946
Grace Moerlins Horine of the Stapleton (51) branch staff was one of
nine members of the New York Library staff chosen as recipients of the
19S0 Louise Fisher Awards, which provides grants-in-aid for professional
training in library school. Grace studied at Pratt Institute for a while,
but found the combination af work and study too much for her health.
She is now working at the Todt Hill branch of the library.
1947
Conrad (Bam) Reisch is back on active duty in the Army. Norman
Johnson i. teaching mathematics at Worcester (Mass.) Poly. He and
~rs. Johnson (Alice Tregde N47) are living in Worcester. Bill Hennessy
has been accepted as a probationary fireman in New York City. Arthur
Collier is teaching and doing research in the Physiology department of
the University of Texas at Galveston. Bob Salvesen, having received his
M. A. from the University of Buffalo, is continuing his studies for the
doctorate in chemistry at Brooklyn Poly.
1948
Franklyn Ward, a third year student at New York Medical College,
was one of three Wagner alumni to win New York state war service
scholarships from the Staten Island district. The others were Ken Salvesen '49 studying at New York U. and Robert Braine '49, a student at
the New School of Social Research. Nieves Ribes Dole is the co-author
of "Hemolytic Effect of Radiation" published in the April, 1950, issue of
the Journal of Laboratory and Clinical Medicine. Phil Laub is teaching
history and English at New Dorp (SI) High School. Arthur Krider Jr. is
studying for his Master's degree at Trinity College, Hartford, Conn.
1949
Marie lola Powell, Graduate Scholarship winner, is continuing her
studies at the University of Delaware. Jimmy Styles is teaching at
Brooklyn Academy. Frank Varrone is assistant sales mgr. in a publishing
company, while also giving lessons in clarinet, saxaphane, and flute.
Ken lauceller is a flight purser for Eastern Airlines. Jim Hutchinson is
working with Lennox and Lennax, Staten Island accountants.
Martin Earl Amold is a Nassau County (l. I.) probation officer and
attending graduate school at Adelphi. Peter Berger is attending the
Philadelphia Lutheran Theological Seminary. Richard Debus is acting
Bursar at Wagner College. Bill Gurka is teaching at P. S. 18, Staten
Island., Norman Schaefer at P. S. 29, and Elinor Renfield at P. S. 30.
Anthony Roperti is doing graduate work at Fordham.
1950
STUDYING
Howard Kerstein, Teachers College, Columbia; Martin Ratner, physiotherapy at Ithaca College; Frank BaHweg, biology, N. Y. U.; Matt Scaffa,
education (practice teaching), Wagner; Charles Anderson, Stevens part
time); Henry Kircher, Bob Reisch, Walter Smihula, Robert Hansly, Lutheran Theological Seminary, Philadelphia; Fred Hurst, Columbia (part
time); Henry Reenstjerna, history, University of Pennsylvania.
Ed Hecklau, NYU-Bellevue Medical Center; Dot lembke, Katherine Gibbs
School; Ave Futch ... psychology, N. Y. U.; Dave Greer, Kenyon College;
Charles Chamberlain, education, N. Y. U.; Jean Bulger, Miller Business
School; lydia Peters, Oberlin (0.) Theological Seminary; Alexander
Graves, New York law School; Donald Tomsuden, Adelphi School of
Social Work; Chester Sellitto, N. Y. U. (part time).
Mary Carlucci, Hunter College; Thomas Darson, for a career as concert pianist; Richard McAllister, Brooklyn Poly (part time); Diana Nebauer
Tefft Business School; leif Nordberg, N. Y. U.; James J. Thompson, Teach:
ers College, Columbia; Iris Wilson, speech and dramatics, Columbia;
Donald Smoot, Ohio State; Thomas Walsh, St. Johns Law School; Gilbert
(Joy) Quintana, Teachers CoUege, Columbia; Allyn leidig, Columbia;
.Ken Oatjen, physical education, N. Y. U.; Santo Bevacqua, Georgetown
Dental School; Paul Slivka, University of Georgia; Vincent Tomes, N. Y. U.
(part timel; Warren Miller, New York School of Social Work; John Lewis,
bacteriology, Rutgers; ThomCK Holleran, elementary education, Teach.n
College, Columbia;
TEACHING
Mary Patricia Patterson, Elmora School, Elizabeth, N. J.; Vincent Tomes,
St. Charles Seminary, S. I.; Julia Fedirko Tom.s, St. Johns Villa Academy,
S. I.; John Eagleton, Nyack (N. Y.) Junior High School; Ch.ster Sellitto,
social studiies, McKee High School, Staten Island; Jacqueline Holt, Edwin
Markham Child Care Center, S. I.; Robert Waldstein P. S. 17, S. I.; Gwyn
Rees, assistant athletic direetor, Adelphi Academy, Brooklyn; Eric Sellan,
Curtis High School, S. I.
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WORKING
Walter Sbarbaro, adjuster, Hardware Mutual and Indemnity Insurance Company, Newark, N. J.; leonard Rakohky, junior chemist, Doughnut Corporation of America; Kenneth Hutton, chemists assistant, WarnerHudnut, New York; Gladys Ayoub, underwriter, Hartford Steamboilers
Insurance Co., New York; Edith Tanenbaum, social investigator, New
York city Department of Welfare.
Roy Bredholf, clerk, zone sales office, General Motors, Chevrolet divi·
sian, New York; Charles Anderson, chemist, Central laboratories, General Foods Corporation, Jersey City; Franklin Larson, Merck (North America), chemical exporters; William Drubel, assistant chemist, International
Paint Co., Union, N. J.; Margie Kraut, business representative, New York
Telephone Co.; Fred Hurst, Port of New York Authority; Rodney Clausen,
trainee, Sears-Roebuck, Morristown, N. J . (Rod and his wife, Erna
Gruneis '49 are living in Dover .
Bob Blomquist, biologist with Merck Chemical, Rahway, N. J.; Sister
Thelma Schade, parish worker, St. James Lutheran Church, Chicago;
Aaron Stern, salesman, G. K. Kinney Co. (shoes); Elenor Harsch, Hago
Products, Irvington, N. J.; Frank Silva, insurance department, Mack International Motor Truck Corp.; Howard Braren, bank trainee, New York
Trust Co.; Renee Richard, with Welcome Wagon, New York; Margaret
Pfeil, buyer, Henry's Cycle Shop, Schenectady, N. Y.
Ted Dowd, chemist, Gordon-Lacy Chemical Products Corp., Maspeth;
Charles Durkee, fire underwriter trainee, New York Underwriters; Ralph
McCarthy, advertising department, American Express Co.; Nicholas FiJiman, chemist, National Lead Co., South Amboy, N. J.; Alvin Krauss,
salesman, Miles Shoe Co.; George Colgan, chemist, Allied Chemical and
Dye Corp., Morristown, N. J.
William Dinsmore, statistician, Underwood Corp; Frances Gustavsen,
laboratory technician, Staten Island Hospital; Herman Witthaus, branch
office accountant, Link Radio Corp., New York; Roland l~itner, laboratory
technician, Wallerstein Ca., S. I.; George Shaffer, collector and investigator, Personal Finance Co., Tompkinsville, S. I.
Hugo Kamer, at Harder Hall, Sebring, Fla. He will begin studies for
the Episcopal ministry in September; Jim Gilmartin, Retail Credit Corp.,
Manhattan; Phil Burghart, medical detailer, E. L. Patch Co.; Richard McAllister, analytical chemist, Foster.Snell, Inc.; Bernice Kiefer, business
representative, New York Telephone Co., S. I.; Andrew MeNally, bacteriologist, New York City Dept. of Health; Edward McCarthy, laboratory
technician, California Refining Ca., New York; Charlotte Pedersen, secretary, engraving dept., New York Telephone Co., Brooklyn.
Carl Johnson, organic chemist, Lederle Laboratories; Walter Stiering,
Home Insurance Co., New York; John Start, U. S. Gypsum (quality control); Anders Swansberg, passenger traffic representative, American Export Lines; Gino Bessi, chemist, U. S. Gypsum; S. I.; William Mahoney,
insurance investigator, Fidelity and Casualty Co., N. Y.; Nicholas Baldassano, chemist, Delaware Chemical Co., S. I.; Josephine Manne Golab,
chemist, Ansbacher-Siegle, S. I.; Alyce Crocco Ferretti, medical technician,
Richmond Memorial Hospital, S. I.; Frank Creveling, New York Police
Dept.
NURSING SCHOOL ALUMNAE
Muriel Thompson Johnston N48 has applied to the Evangelical Alliance
Mission for service in Tibet. Estelle Sussman Shannon N46, after two
years in Palestine (which she has promised to tell us about in a future
issue), is now living with her husband and family in Queens Village, L. I.
Eva Osofsky 'SON is nursing at the Wilmington (Del.) VA Hospital . Helen
Deuschle 'SON i. at Horace Harding Hospital in Queens. Constance Savage lucaa '50N is temporarily in California. Her husband, an aerial
navigator, is leavin; soon for Japan.
Gladys Wimmann Fisch.r 'SON is a clinical instructor at Staten Island
Hospital. Claire Mintze, '48N is studying at Columbia University on a
$2000 scholarship from the United States Public Health Service for advanced study in psychiatric nursing. Theresa Hochstrasser Anderson 'SON
io nursing at the New Jersey Medical Center, Jersey City. Virginia Christiana 'SON is at lenox Hill Hospital.
Caps for Wagner College School of Nursing Graduates can be obtained from the college Bookstore at fifty cents each (buttons five cents).
Mail orders are accepted when accompanied by check to cover order
and COlt of mailing.
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,>AGNER COLLEGE
�THE LINK The Wagner College Alumni News
No.3
MARCH, 1951
VOL I 1 1
Publ ished
In
October, December, March and May by the Wagner College Alumni
Association , Staten Island 1, N. Y.
Alfred J. Krahmer '27, Alumni Secretary, Editor
Richard Forster '49, Assistant Editor
THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
CHRISTIAN HOLMSTRUP '39 .................................... President
FRANK KAISER '50 ................................................ Vice-President
ELIZABETH WHITNEY '46 .......................................... Secretary
HERMAN MEYER '11 ...................................................... Treasurer
Members of the Executive Committee
DONALD H. RACE ' 30. ALF RED KRAHMER '27 . WALTER BOCK ' 38.
CORNELIA BORGEMEISTER '44
Alumni Trustees of the College
ALFRED L. BECK ' 38
DONALD H. RACE ' 30
Alumni Members, Board of Athletic Control
FREDERIC SUTTER '94
ALBERT ACCETTOLA 4 1
Alumni Members, College Council
HEN RY EILER '5 0
J . TRYGVE JENSEN '43
Alumni Members, Board of Traditions
GULBORG
NILSON SHE IE
ROY CUTTER '41
The Wagner Alumn i Associat ion is a membe r of th e Amer ican Alumn i Counc il
ALUMNI
CHAPTERS
Rochester
FRED GRUNST · 19 _________________ ..... ______________________________ President
N IEVES R IBES DOLE •4 8__________________________________________ Secreta ry
Northern New England
WILL IAM V ILLAU M E •3 5________________________________________ President
ELSIE SCHATZ •50 ______________________ .... ________________________ Secretary
Lo·ng Island
WALTER KORTREY ·45 _____________ ,____________________________ President
ELAI NE HOE BEL FUHLBRUCK ·4 5 __________________________ Secretary
Brooklyn
PH ILI P ANSTEDT •3 9______________________________________________ President
WILLIAM LE XANDER ·50 ____________________________ .... ________ Secretary
Philadelphia
GUNTH ER ST IPP ICH •3 6 .... ______________________________________ President
ERMA RU DLOFF COUTTS •39 __________________________________ Secreta ry
Westchester (NY)
LLOYD RICE '40 ______________________________________________________ President
MRS. CHARLES NEBAUE R______ .... ______________________________ Secretary
Staten Island
Western New York
WI LBUR STE RN ER ·42 ____________________________________________ President
LILA THOMPSON BARBES ·41 ________________________________ Secretary
ERN EST KIEFER •50 .... ____________________________________________ Treasurer
FRAN K KALM BACH ________________________________________________ Pres ident
RITA McG IVNEY KEN NEDY N46 ____________________________ Secretary
Col-mar-va (Washington, D.C.)
Northern New Jersey
DAVI D SMITH ·4 1__________________________________________________ Pres ident
WI LLI AM N IEBANC K •3 1________________________________________ Secretary.
CHARLES HELLR IEGEL •3 8 ________________________ .... __________ President
WILLARD GR IMES ·40____________________________________________ Secretary
Connecticut
Hudson Valley (NY)
ROBERT HEYDENRE ICH •3 2 ____________ .... __________________ __ President
ELEANOR DOSS IN ' 40 ____________________________________________ __ Secretary
FRAN K GOLLN ICK •3 0 .. ________________________________ .... ______ President
AL V IN MESSERSM ITH ·44 ______________________________________ Secretary
Nursing Alumnae
GLADYS W ICHMAN FISHER ·SON __________________________ Pres ident
DOROTH Y M ILLER BUTLER N46 ______________________ .... __ Secretary
THE COVER PICTURE
By the time you receive this issue of the Link one of the eight Wagner seniors will have been selected Prom Queen. In the giamoroul
top row are Doris Heepe, Lenore Brody. Marcelle Moore. and Christine Thing. The lovely candidates in the bottom row are Joan O'Regan,
Kay Otten , Lois Vasoll and Gerd Eide. The cover photos and basketball picture are by John Padula. S. I. Advance staff photographer.
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WAGNER COLLEGE
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The President's Corner
Loyalty
The world situation,
which affects us all as individuals , affects also our Al ma mater. Our college is
affected in its enrollment,
through its participation in
civil-defense activities and
blood -ba nk contributions ,
in its acade mi c program
and offerings , in its building progress, and in a deep ening conviction that the
cause of Christian higher
edu cati on is now of even
greater import than at any
time in Wagner's history.
During the spring term, the enro lm e nt held up well.
Whereas an enrolment drop of 25 per cent from the
previous term is not uncommon in colleges throughout
the country, our own drop was less than 10 per cent.
What the situation will be in September we naturally
do not know ; the answer to that questi on rests largely
with Congress and the forthcoming military-se rvice
legislation.
Meanwhile , the faculty has approved an accelerated
program , wit h the introduction of a ful l Summer Term
in two six-weeks' sessions , beginning Jul y 2 , 1951.
By taking advantage of this arrangement , our men students should be able to co mplete a sizab le portion of
th eir college work before bei ng called to national duty .
Beyond that , as a further service to stud e nts , we a re
immediately introducing programs leading to the degrees of Bachel or of Religious Educati o n and Ma ster of
Arts. The graduate degree program should also be of
great interest to alumni .
Our two buildings in constructio n are gradually tak ing shape. They are more than one-third completed,
but delay in the delivery of steel and , mo re recently ,
bad weather, have slowed th e actual process of build ing . But now all our steel has been rolled and fabri cated, and progress sho uld proceed satisfactorily.
The administrative staff, faculty, and stude nts are
displaying an inspiring faith a nd spirit of coope ration .
It is wonderful to work with and among them . And
they deserve the fullest help of a ll alumni . How can
we help;l By doi ng some of these si mple things .
As alumni we can respo nd prom ptly and generously
to the Loyalty Fu nd. We ca n tal k about Wagner and
its work to all our fr iends and acquaintances . We can
appoint o ursel ves recruiters and strive to interest good
candidates so that they will appl y fo r admission to
Wagner. Few small co lleg es offer such wide programs
as does our college-programs leading to the AB .,
B.S. , B.S. in Ed., R.N , B.R.E., AA , AAS ., and M .A
degrees . Above all , we can include Wagner in our
prayers and ask God to continue t o bestow His blessing
on the institution which for 68 years , in good times
and bad , has str ive n to produce men and women of
h igh idea ls a nd firm faith .
On March 12, o ne month after the initial letter was
mailed , Alumni Loyalty Fund receipts were at the
$ 150 1 mark , representing gifts fro m 193 alumni . An
additional $ 105 in pledges has bee n received .
This is a splendid start-perhaps the best two
months in Alumni Fund history. There is , however,
still a long way to go to reach ou r $3 200 goal before
Se ptember 1.
Reach it we must. We 've obligated ou rselves (by
regular vote) to pay for three sch o larships ($ 1200) ,
to pay $1000 o n our pledge t o pay for the lobby of the
new gymnasium , and to pay $ 1000 toward alumni of fice expense . This la st item is one which needs your
special attention . The cost of printing The Link has
reached the point where we ma y have to cut the number
of issues per yea r unless we reach ou r Fund goal.
Class agents are now busy spurring their mates to
contribute. We ho pe you will respond early. Remember that every gift , be it large or small, will be a real
help.
Make your gift now! If you're broke , at least send
in one do llar to pay for Th e Link. If you can make it
more , that's all right, t oo I But let's hear from ALL
ou r alumni. Do your share l
The spirit show n by th ose alumni who accepted assignments as class agents has been heart-warming . One
of them, Ed Bosch '22, wrote a little poem as his message. All of them repo rt getting a real kick o ut of the
job and express su rprise at how simple it all was. (Most
agents were able to fini sh their assignments in less
than an hou r. It on ly took a sentence or two at the
bottom of a prepared letter) .
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-Walter C. Langsam , Hon . '45
THE LINK
ALUMN I : If you know of any prospectiv e college students , send
them to Wagner-your college-on May 12 which is PreFreshman Day.
WANTED: AUTHORS
T he Link needs help! To give you r magazine more
universal appeal its edi to rs are sending Wagner alumni
th is req uest for written material.
We prefer non -fiction a rt icles , immediately o r remotely connected with the college . If we receive good,
short fiction yarns we may make an exception.
Here's your chance t o be a Bob Considine or an
Ernest Hemi ng way. And we will give by- line credit to
all whose material is accepted fo r publication.
Depending upon the success of the Loyalty Fund
campaign , the next Link will appear in Ma y. We 'd like
material to be submitted by April 1 and " no fooling ."
All articles should be typew ritten (double or triple
space) on regular size copy paper. W e promise to
restrain ourselves in changing the meaning of your
articles and will do the least poss ib le editi ng , except
where space requirements demand cuts.
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Dr. Ralph E. Deal: "Do the work of the day in a day."
by Lloyd Berg '53
Take a look at Dr. Ralph Elbert Deal as he sits at
his microscope casually discussing whatever may be
of interest.
His unruffled appearance and actions suggest effi ciency. Still, there is none of the rushed and " busy"
atmosphere which is sometimes a part of a man who has
played a large role in building up a college.
According to Dr. Deal , who has headed the college
biology department since 1933, the simple rule of
doing business before pleasure has been instrumental
in his achieving success without hustle and bustle.
And he has certainly known how to do this. He
became chairman, complete re -organizer, and entire
teaching staff of a one-room department in a nonaccredited college of 90 students . Today-17 years
later-it is one of the most noted departments in a
universally accredited and recognized institution.
Wagner now offers as many undergraduate biology
courses as either Columbia or N. Y. U. About 75 per
cent of its pre-med students gain admission to medical
schools-a very high percentage.
A Nebraska Wesleyan University grad with an M.A.
and Ph .D. from the University of Iowa, the professor
has been active in aiding the college ever since his
arrival in 1933 . Starting with six microscopes and no
dissection equipment, he was even then able to have
a complete program of courses offered to his students.
This was accomplished through a carefully planned system of rotating the courses from year to year.
Necessary expansion, however , required the department head to help build up the school in more ways than
one. Some alumni will recall that his avid interest in
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woodworking was profitable to the college when he and
two students built all of the many cabinets in the department. These three also met the need for a floor in
one of the rooms with the same quick action .
With the addition of M .A. degrees the school will
have reached the peak beyond wh ich further expansion would be unwise, according to Dr. Deal. "We've
got one of the best little schools in the nation ," he
said . "I am a strong believer in the personal contact
which is only made possible in small colleges ."
Being one of the faculty members who practically
grew up with the college and shared its fortunes and
misfortunes, the professor is justifiably proud of the
school 's current success .
He finds the students fundamentally the same and
sti II offers them the same advice that guided him when
starting his career-"Do the work of a day in a day."
He further suggests spending at least as much time on
studies as on recreation .
This rule will insure a more satisfying personal life
as well as better studies , Dr. Deal feels. He cites it
as one of the reasons that he can attend to his academic work and still keep up with his hobby of woodworking and in addition be a participant and frequent
trophy-winner in the Richmond Borough Gun Club.
That's hitting the target with double-barrelled efficiency I
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GALATZ vs. GAeZI
The Cauldron Boils Over
The editors of the Link decided to have this small
article published in the hope that by combining printer 's ink and glamourous words we would find the
chemical formula for appeasement.
Shortly after the Christmas issue of the Link appeared we received a torrid , but humorous, letter from
Mrs. Jo Manne Galatz '50. The young matron probably received her most notable notoriety at Wagner
when she appeared with the Varsity Players as the
tempestuous Kate in " The Taming of the Shrew." Apparently Jo still remembers some of the Bard's lines.
We discovered, upon reading the letter, that we
overlooked a serious error in the December Link. We
said that Mrs. Galatz was employed as a chemist for
Ansbacher -Siegle , a Staten Island firm .
It seems that Jo actually is employed by the Brooklyn
office of the New York Telephone Company as a business representative.
Thus we did her a grave injustice . We hasten to
add that the mistake was inadvertant. Why:> A line
of type was "dropped " by our compositor eliminating
the name of John Gaczi ' 50, who is employed by the
chemical company (doing him an injustice also.)
We apologize to both and especially to Mrs. Galatz,
whose husband has had legal training.
Then there's another mistake we made. We said
that a son, Henry Morse II , was born to Pat Krumpe
Speight '49 and Henry Morse Speight. Henry, at Pat's
behest, he tells us, says that the name of their son is
Henry Morse Speight III. Well, we never could count.
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by Richard Forster '49
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This article was written with the intent of informing alumni, who have not been able to follow the
Wagner basketball team , of the 1950-' 51 record.
The wins were impressive. We recorded victories
over L1U, St. John 's, Equitable Life , Queens, NYU ,
Adelphi , CCNY, Hofstra and Drexel . Losses were to
Hunter, St. Joseph 's, Brooklyn , Rider , Panzer and
Beaver.
The game against NYU was particularly outstanding .
Pat Townsend chalked \JP 42 points against the Violets.
So we say congratulations to the Seahawkette six which
was under the direction of Coach Toebke.
And now let's get to the fellows-the Greater New
York Conference champions for the second straight
year.
The Suttermen opened the season with a bang by
toppling Roanoke. The next game was different. The
Fordham Rams rapped Wagner hard on Rose Hill .
The Sea hawks rebounded , however, to check Western Maryland, Kings Point, Clarkson and St. Lawrence.
Then the Manhattan Jaspers trampled over Wagner.
Before the highflying Seahawks were brought back
to earth , they downed Cooper Union, Pratt, Moravian ,
Dickinson, Stevens and Adelphi. Two losses followed
at the hands of Albright and St. Peter's.
Johns Hopkins and PMC were our next victims , but
then Wagner went on its longest losing streak since
February, 1947. The Sea hawks were defeated in away
contests by F. and M ., Gettysburg and Hofstra . Queens
and Brooklyn were trimmed easily by the Islanders.
Almost simultaneously, Wagner 's big moment arrived
-but fleetingly.
As a result of the BB scandal , we were invited to
play Brooklyn Poly in the Garden (Madison Square ,
that is. )
But ticket selling and other preparations were for
nought. The game was called off when the germ of the
scandal grew into an epidemic. City and Manhattan
cancelled their half of the program . Meanwhile , at
Orange, N . J ., the Sea hawks squeaked through a close
one (70-69) to beat Upsala , a traditional rival.
Kings Point was the next GNYC team to fall before
Wagner. The same night , Cooper Union insured our
conference victory by winning over Queens in a five period overtime game . The score: 110-105.
Before the Poly game, the last of the season, Wagner
had three streaks going : 12 straight over two years
in the GYNC , four straight since falling before Hofstra
and 15 consecutive wins in Curtis in two season .
To make the Poly game more interesting: Seahawk
fans waited to see whether Don Gromisch could be the
first Wagnerite to garner 400 points or more. He only
needed 14. The game also was to be the finale for
Captain Ray Doody, who scored 905 points for Wagner,
and for substitutes Chubby Hannigan and Burgis
Coates.
When the frantic and joyous yells of the crowd at
the Poly game were diminished in violence, the totals
were added . Wagner won , 77-67 , to keep its conferTHE LINK
Tall George Blomquist needs no assistance in dunking a doubledecker for the Sea hawks against Kings Point.
ence slate clean (13 straight wins) ; the season record
became 18 victories and seven losses.
The winning streak at Curtis was continued to 16
consecutive games and Don Gromisch reached the 403
mark. The highl ight of the game for an av id Wagner
fan, however, was the thunderous ovation that scrappy
Ray Doody received when he left a Wagner game for
the last time . Ray , who played almost the entire game,
added 16 points to his four season total of 905, giving
him , a grand 921 , an all -t ime high for a Wagnerite.
And so the season ended in a blaze of glory. We
hope the Sea hawks can make Hofstra their first victim
in the new gym in the ope n ing game set for Dec. 1.
BASEBALL SCHEDULE
APRIL
2-St. Peter's
MAY ':' l - Kings Point
4 -Arnold
3- Drew
':' 7-at Fordham
':'5-NY U
':' 9 -CCN Y
8-at Upsala
1 l -St. John's
1 l - Cortland State
l3 - RPI
l2- Moravian
l4- at Le hi gh
1 5-at Bucknell
':' l8- at Hofstra
l7- Pratt
':' 2 l - Brook lyn
19- 5tevens
':' 23- at St. John's
':' 22- at Manhattan
28- Al bright
('-') Metropolitan Conference Games.
VETERANS, got any eligibility left under the GI
bill? If so, you must be in school before July 25 , 1951.
One way to keep yo ur eligibility alive is to enroll for
Summer Session day or evening classes at Wagner.
Classes begin on July 2 . Write or call Miss Marguerite
Hess, Director of Admissions, for further details.
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The Class of 1926
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MemkM. to. eeldvude
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WAGNER has no 50 year alumni to honor this year because there are no living members of the class of 1901 .
The editors of the Link have chosen . therefore . to single out for special attention the class which will return
on Alumni Day to celebrate their 25th anniversary-the C lass of 1926. Sin ce all of them went to school with me.
I know they won 't mind my free use of quotations from th e 1926 Ka llista .
"Joseph B. Flotten, Brooklyn , N. Y. Varsity Baseball
(1 , 2 , 3 . 4), Captain . baseball (4); Varsity basketball
(1, 2, 3. 4), Captain , basketball (2, 3 , 4) ; Varsity
track (2) ; Student Council (1,2 3 4) ; Humor Editor,
1924 Kallista, Athletic Editor. 1925 Kallista .
" Not afraid of work, but not in sympathy with it.
" The captain is perhaps the best athlete that Wag ner has ever put on the field of contest .. . Joe's favorite activity used to be sleeping in bed; this has been
changed now , however . and he does his sleeping in
class . He maintains that pie a - la -mode and spaghetti
are the very elixir of life. Instead of selling his birthright for a pot of porridge . he has been known to sell a
textbook for a dish of the Italian temptation .. . "
(From the 1926 Kallista)
Joseph B. Flotten . Princeton Seminary. 1926- '27 ;
Lutheran Seminary, Philadelphia . 1927- '29; M .A. ,
Columbia , 1934. Ordained . 1929. Associate pastor,
Good Shepherd. Brooklyn . 1929- '31 ; Pastor. Resurrection , St. Albans, L. I., 1931 - ;Chairman. N. Y. Synod
committee on Lutheran W orld Act ion for five years;
President, Wagner Alumni Associatio,! . 1940; Presi dent . Board of Lutheran Charities , Queens County.
1943 -'45 ; President . L. I. Conference , New York
Synod , 1944- '46 ; President. Queens Lutheran Bowling
League . 1936- ; President , Queens Federation of
Churches . 1951-.
Member of the Wagner Board of Trustees . 1944-.
Married Ruth Simonson of Staten Island . September
21, 1929. Children-Lynn , Joanne , Beverly, Gail.
Flotten
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McKnight
Henry T. McKnight, Brooklyn. N. Y. Varsity baseball
(2. 3, 4) ; Secretary. Student Associati on (3), Vicepresident, S.A. (4) ; Art Editor , 1924, 1925 Kallistas ;
Managing Editor, Col legian (3) .
" His tongue cuts deeper than the knife.
" Mac is our star satirist. He considers a sentence
wasted if it doesn't contain . some ambiguous remark
... he is not at all bad at drawing caricatures , though
no one has seen him studying courses in cartoon drawing . .. Perhaps that is what he learns at teachers'
meetings and choir rehearsals . . . He doesn 't pay attenti on to the instruction on boxes of baseballs. ' Use
no hooks' is wasted on him . . . . as the batters who face
him will readily testify. He picks the mandolin to
pieces 'Alwa ys '. Anyone who has roomed next to h im
knows that ... " (from the 1926 Kallista )
Henry T. McKnight , Lutheran Seminary, Philadel phia, 1929. B.D.. 1934 ; Yale Divin ity School Graduate
class. 1933- '34; S.T.M .. Hartfo rd Seminary, 1940.
Ordained, 1929. Pastor. Emmanuel. New Haven , 1929'47 ; First Lutheran , Lyons. N. Y. . 1947- . Pres ide nt ,
New England Conference . 1937- '4 1, 1942- '45 ; UCLA
convention delegate. 1938 . 1940. 1942, 1944. Hart wick Seminary Board 1943-'46; Synodical Examining
committee. 1945.
Documentary History (synod) committee , 1950- ;
committee to study reorganization of Synodical admin istrative organization. 1950-.
Married Dorothy Beckett of Brook lyn , October 25,
1930. Children- Do rothy, Wagner '54; W inifred ,
Lyons H. S. '54.
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"Theodore G. Tappert, Phi ladelph ia , Pa . Student
Counc i I (2); Vice Pres ident (3), Presi dent (4) , Stu dent Associat ion; Managing Editor, 1924, Editor - inCh ief, 1925, Kallista ; President , Press Club (2) ; Man aging Editor (2), Desk Editor (3) , Collegian.
"Devise, wit; write , pen; for I am whole volumes
in folio.
"It is no longer necessary or expedient to conceal
the fact that Plautus is better known as the Archbishop.
The sobriquet Plautus , translated into English , means
flatfoot, but this has nothing to do with Ted , as is
shown by h is widely -acclaimed accomplishments on
the track . .. He wishes to be quoted as saying , 'I
attribute my endurance and finished form to my entire
abstinence from tobacco , coffee, and even cake!' ...
His life at Wagner has been a cursus honorum which is
seldom duplicated . His sane judgment, quick wit , con tagious enthusiasm, and spirit of self -sacr ifice will
make a lasting mark elsewhere as it has at Wagner."
(from the 1926 Kallista )
Theodore G. Tappert. Lutheran Seminary, Philadelphia , 1926- '29 ; AM. , Columbia , 1931 ; Graduate
school , Philadelphia Sem inary , 1930-' 32 ; Graduate
school , University of Pennsylvania, 1931- '36. Ordained 1929. Assistant pastor, Trinity, S. I., 1929 -' 30 ;
fellow, Lutheran Seminary, Philadelphia, 1931 -' 36 ; Instructor, 1931 -' 36; Assistant professor, 1936- ' 38; Professor of Church History, 1938-Managing editor,
Lutheran Church Quarterly, 1938- '49; Editor, Lutheran
World Review, 1948- '50 ; Book editor, Lutheran Quarterly , 1949; Translator , Sasse's Here We Stand
( 1938) ; co -translator (with J . W . Doberstein) , Boehmer's Road to Reformation ( 1946) , The Journals of
H. M. Muhlenberg ( 1942, 1945 ); author, Church
Through the Ages ( 1941 ); Church in a Changing
World ( 1949 ); department editor (Modern Church )
of supplements to Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge.
Member, Amer ic an Theological Committee of the
World ':onfe re nce on Fa ith and Order since 1940,
Board of Publicati on, UCLA , since 1944. Archivist ,
Ministerium of Pennsylvania , since 1939. Married
Helen Carson , May 29 , 1937 . Children-3 boys , 1 girl.
Tappert
Schott
" J oh n Schott , Newark, N . J . Varsity baseball (3 ,
4 ) ; Varsity track ( 1,2, 3 , 4 ) ; Captain , track (2,3,4) ;
Student Counc i I (2, 3) .
" He ha s the wild stag 's foot; the lion's heart.
" Schotty is the fastest man in the school. H is time
in the 'hundred' and 'two- twenty' justify that statement. He expects t o give up track work and go into
tract work after he leaves Wagner. His temper is in
accordance with the usual conception of redheads .. .
A most enjoyable evening may be spent with him in
arguing about Dr. Cadman. By that , we mean that Dr.
Cadman may be taken as a starting point in the argu ment. We will not promise that he will be the center
of debate for more than two minutes , nor will we be
so daring as to conjecture on what topic the discussion
will end. He ... thinks that the object of education
is a broad knowledge of generalities " (from the 1926
Kall ista) .
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John Schott, B.D., Union Sem ina ry , 1929, S.T.M.,
1939 : American School of Oriental Research, Jerusalem , 1930. Ordained , 19 29. Assistant minister, South
Park Presbyterian Church , Newark , N. J ., 1929-' 33;
pastor, First Presbyterian , Nunda, N. Y. , 1933 -' 35 :
First Presbyterian , Webster, N. Y., 193 5 - '40 : Assoc iate pastor, Fairmount Presbyterian church , Cleveland
Heights, Ohio; Secretary, Board of Directors , Western
N. Y. Summer School for Christian Education , 1933' 37; Faculty, Pres ident Summer Conference , Wells
College, 1937 - 1938 : Chai rman , Committee on Christian Educati on, Rochester Presbytery, 1937- '39 ; Mod derator, Rochester Presbytery, 1940, Chairman, Committee on Christian Education , Cleveland Presbytery,
1941- '45 .
Author of articles in Good Housekeeping, Monday
Morning, Presbyterian Tribune, Pastor's Journal,
Church Business , Church Management, he is readying
a book for publ ication by Doubleday.
Married Ellen Waite of Schenectady, 1932. Children
- John R. (1 5 ) and Carolyn E. (12) .
( Continued on Page 8 )
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A daughter, Lynn Ellen, to Mr . and Mrs. Harry Horgen '42
Nov. 23.
A daughter, Mariruth, to Mr . and Mrs. Samuel John so n '47,
Nov . 21 .
A daug hter, Carol Joyce, to Mr . and M rs. Robert O'Connor '41 ,
Dec. 1.
A daughter, Debo rah Ann to Conrad ( Bam ) '47 and Kathleen
Clements Reisch , Dec . 1.
A daug hter, Chri st ine Loui se, to Barney '48 and Adeline Ripken
Pfeil '46, Nov . 30.
A daughter, Kathleen Al ice, to Mr . and Mrs. J ames O' Lea ry
( Eileen Jackman ' 49N ) , Nov. 16.
A son, Michael Paul, to Mr. and Mrs. Paul Kennedy ( Rita McGivney, N46 ) , Nov . 20.
A so n, Robert Osca r, to Mr. a nd M rs. Oscar Bakke ' 41 , Dec. 8.
A da ug hte r, Karin , to Mr . and Mrs. Alfred Schlegel , Dec. 8.
A son , Steven Adam , to Mr . and M rs. Joseph Blum '42, Dec . 19.
A son, to Dr . and Mrs. Frank Tellefsen ' 37, Jan . 4.
A daughter, J e nn ifer An n, to Archie De luca and Victoria Socci
Deluca '46, Jan . 9 .
A so n, Victor Johann , to Victor Wightman '49 and Ursula Mooz
Wightman , Jan. 10.
A son , Richard Leroy to leroy ' 48 and Elizabeth Hinterm e ister
Dietrich '48N , Augu st 8 .
A so n, Rodney Euge ne , to Earl and Helen Sup Patterson 'SO'N,
in Janu ary .
A son, David John, to the Rev . and M rs. Paul Reisch ' 44 ,
Aug . 15 .
A son, Douglas Wa yne, to Mr . and M rs . Harold Matthius ' 50,
A son, Douglas Bradford, to Dr . and Mrs. Bradford Smith '44,
Jan . 19.
A daughter, June Ross lyn, to the Rev. and M rs . llewellyn Williams ' 39, Dec . 30.
A son, Paul Les lie, to Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Ganni s ( Faith
Vigurs '43), J a n. 19.
A son, John Dalton , to Mr . and Mrs. Dalton Lunde '47 , Jan . 26 .
A daughter, Janet Elizabeth, to Mr. and Mrs. J ohn Pee l (Virginia
Clark '42), Jan . 30.
A daughter, Kri stine An n, to Mr . and Mrs. Frede Mortensen '49 ,
Feb. 2 .
A son, Davi d, to Donald '46 a nd Mildred Stutzman Ahrend '47 ,
Feb. 12.
A daughter, Christie Ann , to the Rev. and Mrs. David Smith '41,
Feb . 13.
A son , Da vid Richard, 10 the Rev. and Mrs. Richard Weiskotten
'43, Feb . 8.
A daughter, Roberta Camille, to Mr . and Mrs. Benjamin S. Locko
( Eda Reboli ) , Feb . 27.
THANKS FOR THE MEMORY
Thanks to Alumni Herman Meyer ' 11 , Don Race
' 30, and AI Stauderman ' 31 for sending in Wagneriana
to the alumni office. Herman sent two pictures , one
of the Wagner football team of 1908 (f) and the other
of a Tau Sigma fraternity group of 1910. AI and Don
contributed ,back issues of the Kallista , the Colleg ian ,
and the Hen De , along with Commencement, Varsity
Players, and similar programs. All the items have been
sent upstairs to the library's file of Wagneriana.
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" Theodo re O. Posse lt , Albany , N. Y. Varsity baseball
(2, 3, 4): Assistant business manager , 1924, Ass istant
Circu lation manager , 1924 Kallista .
" A lion -tamer , especially when the lion 's a lady.
" Ted is an energetic busi ness man . H is work as
Business Manag er of Dramatic Club prese ntat ions has
been thorough and executed o n time . .. He is a student of whom an y school ma y be proud . Quick to grasp
the mean ings of obsc ure obst ructions , he has the great est fun doping out Latin and Greek translations ... It
was no uncommon sight o n College Day to see h im
literall y sur rou nded by a bevy of bright and beaming
damsels ... " (from the 1926 Kallista)
Theodore O. Posse It , Jr. Lutheran Sem inary, Phi ladelphia , 1929: B. D., 1932 : graduate study, Rutgers ,
1931 -' 32. Ordained , 1929. Associate pastor, St. John 's,
Albany, 1929-'3 1 : pastor, St. Paul's, linden, N . J .,
1931- '32: St. John 's , Mamaro neck , N . Y , 1932-'48 .
Left par ish min istry in 1948 because of illness. Makeup editor and yachting columnist, Mamaroneck Daily
Times , 1949- : Make-up editor, Larchmont Weekly
Times , 1949- : Secretary, New York Conference,
N. Y Synod , two terms : President, Mamaroneck lions
Club, 1939- '40 : Deputy distr ict Governor , District 20L, lions International , 1940- '41 : Member of I. O. O. F.
Married Elizabeth Rosenfeldt of Albany, November
19, 1929. No ch ildren .
Posselt
Frank H .Nickel , the s ixth member of the class of
1926, d ied in 1946 after a long illness . Frank was also
a graduate of the Philadelphia Lutheran Seminary. He
served as pastor of Christ church , Great Kills , S. I.
from 1929 t ill the outbreak of World War 11 when he
joined the army as a chaplain . After his discharge ,
he was pastor of St. Stephens, Hicksville , L. I. , until
forced to retire because of illness a short time before
his death .
Frank will always be remembered for his " corny"
jokes and for his prowess as a distance runner. He won
three letters for track as a miler.
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In the Spring of 1936 a young ma n 's fa ncy, a nd a w oman 's a lso, turn ed to th oughts besi des love. Members
of the De utsch er Ve rei n and Krei s banded t og ethe r (one of two an n ual events whe n t he me n a nd wome n met on
the same level ) to t rip gentl y ove r Grymes H ill roads on a " M aibumm e l. " The sta lwart leader , of course , was Dr.
F. Cha rl es DeW al sh , now reti red and professo r e me ritus of mod ern lang uages. Note that Dr. DeWal sh is f lanked
by a bevy of lovel y lad ies. A h ! Spring 15 years ago.
WE WIN 100 WON
W agn eri tes sure get around . A nd ap pare ntl y th e
Alumn i Loyalty Fund campa ign is just as fa r reac h ing .
Shortly after the fi rst call fo r cont ribut ions to the ALF
was se nt out ,the A lumni Off ice rec e ived th e followi ng
lette r with a sum of money e ncl osed in th e e nve lope :
" I reg ret , but th is is a ll the money I ha ve on ha nd at
p rese nt . Neve r let it be sai d t hat a perso n neve r
donated his last cent to Wagn e r . . . fo r now I am
abso lu te ly broke ."
Th e letter was s igned by O. J oh n Reed ' 50. T he
money enclosed was a 100 won not e in Ko rean money.
It seems t hat J ohn is a Navy med ical co rpsman wit h
t he Marines in Ko rea ... a nd Uncl e Sam 's greenbacks
a re as scarce as 30 da y leaves in the States.
ENTER T AI NMENT
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upon request to t he Pub li c Relatio ns Offi ce, W ag ner
Colleg e , Sta t en Is land 1, N . Y.
A lso available are si lent fil ms of W ag ner foot ball
ga mes in 194 9 and 19 50 (take n fo r t he coac h ing staff )
and a sile nt and colo r movie of th e 19 50 Homecom ing .
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ALUMNI : If you know of any prospective colleg e stude nts , send
them to Wagn e r-your college -on May 12 wh ich is Pre Freshman Day.
THE LI NK
Ha rold Ku ehne '49 and Britta Woodbury ' 50 , Nov. 23.
Peter Sa nicola a nd Rose Coseg lia, Dec . 17.
Lou Gi a nvito ' 50 and Suz anne Nev ill e, Dec. 30 .
Tom Bothwell and An ne Sle zak , J a n . 13.
John lacovello '49 a nd Josep h ine Nasta, J an . 6 .
Ted Ha ll ' 51 and Agne s W aaga nes, Feb. 10.
Clifford Wood '49 and Solveig Lore nt zen, Ja n. 20 .
Lester Scheie r and Ruth Munz e r ' 51 N, Jan. 28.
Addison Trism e n ' 51 a nd Roberta Cass idy, Feb. 3 .
J ames Grewe a nd Ell e n Klitgaard '46 , Sept . 30.
Andrew Anderson and Dorothy Borgstede ' 50 , Jan . 28 .
Joseph Fe rnand es '47 and J eanne Sellers (instr ucto r in Engl ish),
Jan. 28
Raymond Rowan ' 51 and Joyce T idd, Jan. 27.
Carl Johnson ' 50 and He le n La rsen, Ja n. 20 .
Frank X. Murphy ' 50 and Elaine Mo iz man , Jun e 24.
A rchiba ld Edgar and Charlotte Pede rse n ' 50 , Feb . 10.
Samue l Gibson ' 50 and Dor is Obe rtz , Nov. 18.
Eugene' He rman ' 51 and Betty Hirsc h, Dec. 30.
Joh n Donova n and Joann Reg an , J an. 13.
Eugene Dicke r ' 51 and Cla ire Steinberg , Feb. 18.
Robert Blomquist ' 50 and Patr icia W ei dkn echt ' 51 , Feb . 24.
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�ALUMNI NEWS BRIEFS
1911
The Rev. He rman Meyer, Alumni Association trea surer, completed 36 years as pastor of Immanuel Lutheran Church S. I.,
March 1.
1927
Last December, the Rev. Karl Schild complet ed seven years a s
the editor of the Kirchliches Monatsblatt Fue r Evangeli sch - Lutherische Gemeinden in Amerika . This Ge rman langua ge monthl y is
published under the spo nsorship of the committee on German interests of the Un ited Lutheran Church in America .
192,8
The Rev . Edw in Grubb , pasto r o f Redeemer Luth e ran Church ,
Jersey City, has been appoint ed chaplain of the Je rsey City Fire
department. He succeeds the Rev. Arnold Bave nd am '97 , who died
Feb . 14. Trinity Church, Rea d ing, Pa ., ce lebrated its 2 0 0th anniversary this year. Pasto r is the Rev. Gunn ar Knudsen . The church
publi shed a booklet of reading s in Chri stian philosophy written by
Knud sen, who specializes in " box" editorial s for the weekly church
bulletin. Paul Clemen 's work as teacher-in - charge of the evening
elementary school at Curt is High School , S. I., wa s the subject of a
feature story in the Staten Is land Advance recently . Author of the
article was former W agnerian , Ed Endress.
1929
The Rev . Howard Kuhnl e, pas to r of Red ee me r Lutheran Church.
Binghamton, N . Y., ha s been appointed necrologi st of the United
Lutheran Synod of New York. The Re v. Carl J . Sutter is back on
the job after recovering fr om injuries suffe red in an automobile
accident at Myrtle Beach , S. C. He is again Dean of the annual
Labor-Management School of the Staten Island Divi sion of the Protestant Counc il of New York.
1930
T he Rev . Werner Eberbach ha s been pastor of Chri stus Lutheran
Church, Camden , N. J., since Dec. 1. He had previously been
pasto r in New Kensington , Pa .
1931
The Rev . Franklin P. Smith is now pastor of First Church (Unitarian) in Somerville, Ma ss. The Rev . Willi am Niebanck wa s installed as pastor of St . John 's Lutheran Church, Ruthe rford , N. J .
on Feb. 25 . Bill had been pastor of Calvary, Cranford, N. J., for
eight years . The Rev . Albe rt Staud e rman ha s res igned as pastor of
St. Pauls Lutheran Church, T eanec k , N. J ., to become associate
editor of The Lutheran magazine on April 1. The Rev . Erling Nils~ en has been installed as pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church, Valley
Stream, L. I. His previous pastorate was in Portland, Me .
1932
T he Rev . Arthur Posse It has been pa stor of St. Matthews Lutheran
Church, Jersey City, since Jan. 1. H is previous pastorate was in
M iddletown, Conn. Christ Church, Ozone Park, L. I., the Rev .
Ernest Meyer, pastor, is planning to build a parish hall and Sunday
school building.
1934
St . Matthews Church, Konnarock. Va ., recently dedicated a new
ch u rch bu ildi ng. Pastor is the Rev . Rudolph Ludwig.
1935
T he Rev. Sylvester Bader, pa stor of Convenant Luthera n Church,
Brooklyn, is president of the Ridgewood. L. I. Kiwani s Club fo r
1951 . The Rev . W ill iam Villaum e has been elected secretary of the
central department of Research and Survey of the Nati onal Council
of Churches and its executive committee . The Rev . Erwin Gieh: ,
fo rmerly of St. Pauls, King ston, N . Y., has been pastor of St. J ames
Lu thera n Ch u rch, Gerritsen Avenue, Brooklyn, since Feb . 1 1.
1936
Dr. Daniel Pino is in Korea serving with the Fleet Marines. The
Rev . Herbert Loddigs is serving two Lutheran congregations in
Brandt, S. D.
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1937
Luth e r Pall meyer ha s formed a law partn e rship with Leroy Isreman
in Huntingto n Stat io n , L. I. St . Paul s Luth e ran Church, linden,
N . J .. the Rev . Godfre y Alberti , pastor ded icated a new pipe organ
on Jan . 28 . The Rev. Harold Giet% wa s insta ll ed as pastor of Advent
Luth e ran Church. Tre nton, N . J . on Feb. 18. He had previously
been pasto r of Advent , Cliffsi de Par k, N . J .
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1938
He nry Endre ss ha s bee n re- e lec ted executi ve director of the
Luth e ra n La yme n 's Move me nt fo r Stewa rdship of th e United Lutheran Church in Ame rica . Th e Rev. W alte r Bock , past pres id ent of the
Alumn i Association, ha s bee n pastor of Z ion Luthe ran Church,
Cob lesk ill , N. Y. , si nce Jan . 15 . Hi s forme r church was Grace- St .
Paul s. New Yo rk. Nav y Ch a pl a in Oscar W e be r ha s been tran sferred
from th e Newpo rt , R. I. Naval Training station to Camp Lejeune,
N. C. He is se rving with the 2nd Signal Battalion , 2nd Marine
Di vision .
1939
The Rev . Llew e llyn Williams is an Episcopalian rector in Los
Angeles, Cal.
1940
Zi or, Lutheran Church , Rahway, N . J . has ded icated a new sevenroom parsonage . The pastor is the Rev . Edw ard A . Sh e ldon . W illard
Grim es ha s a new job as an engineer with Fada Ra d io and Electric
Corporati on , Belleville, N. J . He and hi s family ( Mrs. Grimes is
Frances Murray '44 ) have bought a new home in Prea kness, N . J .
1941
The Rev . Dr . Jack Cooper. pasto r of First Presbyterian Church,
Wate rvli e t . N . Y., ha s been named teacher of re li g ion at Emma
Willard School, Troy, N. Y. Jack is no longer an " eligible bachelor ."
Hi s engagement to Mi ss Jean Ritchie of Saratoga Springs, N . Y.,
ha s bee n anno unced.
1942
Dr . Ken Kerw in is res ident in obstetrics at Brooklyn, N . Y.
Method ist Hospital. Dr. Robe rt Pe ttit is practicing dentistry in
Rochester, N . Y. The Re v. Walte r Morten , formerly at Long Valley,
N. J ., is now pastor of St . Marks Luthe ran Church , Hackensack ,
N . J. Mrs. Morte n is Dorothy De al '43 . Martin Schroe de r ha s been
recalled to active duty in the Na vy . He and hi s wife , Ruth Kriby ,
are living in Riverdal e , Md. The Rev. David Jense n wa s instructor
(Jan . 13 - 2 0) for the Lutheran Commi ss ion on Evangeli sm in Philadelphia . Dave's pastorate is in Norwich, N . Y.
1943
Mrs. Jean Va n Winkle Danielson is teaching Business Engli sh and
Spelling at McBride' s Secretarial School in Dallas. Texas. She is
studying shorthand and typing at the same school.
1944
The Rev . Paul Qualb e n , a graduate of Luther Seminary, is now in
hi s third year at N.Y .U. Medical school. Mrs . Jeanne Stoughton
Dagh e r and her hu sband are doing graduate work in English at
Kent State Uni ve rsity, Ohio . St. Mark s Lutheran Church, Canajoharie, N. Y. is fa ced with such an increa se in Sunday schoo l enro lme nt that th ey a re planning to build s ix classrooms and a choir
room in a previ ous ly unu sed church basement. The Rev . Paul Reisch
is pastor. Says Paul , " The pastor is doing his best to increase Sunday
school enrolme nt ". (See Blessed Events).
Dr. Walter Hausheer went on act~ve duty with the Navy Feb . 1
after 2 V2 years of res idency in internal medicine and pathology.
Good She pherd Church, Glen Rock, N . J . dedicated a personage on
Jan . 21. Pa sto r is the Rev. Robert Arnold . Mrs Arnold is Gera ld ine Ki rsch . Many Wagner alumni are members of th is growing
congregatio n. Navy Chaplain Te d He rrmann is now stationed at
the U. S. Naval Training station, Bainbridge. Md .
1945
Adah Scheehl Vosburgh is in Foxton Hospital. Utica, N. Y., re-
covering from an attack of pol io wh ich struck her late in October.
The Rev . Arthur Baron is now pasto r of the Lutheran Church in
Ea st Schodack, N . Y. The Rev. Be rnardino Dell'Osso assumed the
pastorate of First Lutheran Church , Lock Haven Pa . on Jan. 15.
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1946
Dino Efstation received hi s LL.B. degree from Brooklyn Law
School last month .
1947
Conrad ( Bam ) Reisch is do ing legal work with the Army on
Guam . He ha s been admitted to the bar, after complet ing work at
the Un iversity of San Franc isco.
1948
Laroy Dietrich wri tes that he is "sti ll working for a Ph .D. in biochemistry at the Un ive rsity of Wisconsin ." Marilyn Romanelli received an LL.B. from Brookl yn Law School last month .
1949
Bill Rowen is at Gettysbu rg Seminary, Trygve Skarsten at Luther
Seminary, St. Paul , M inn . John lacovello is doing graduate work
at V.P. I, Blacksburg, Va . Patricia Dittmar Forster is a librarian at
the West Brighton (S. I.) branch of the New York Public library .
Hamilton Stewart is personnel manager for the Kaynas Mfg. Co.,
Los Angeles, manufacturers of Lady Ell en Pin Curl Clips.
Philip Becker is studying at Albany (N. Y. ) Medical College
Kollf Breyman is working for Thomas Cook and Son , sel lin g inter national travel. The Rev. Romain Swedenburg has resig ned as pastor
of the Hoyt Avenue (S. I.) Congregational Church to move to
Cal ifornia . Carl Ritz has been appointed activities secretary of Five
Towns YMCA , La wrence, L. I. He ha s completed a year of graduate
study at the University of Tulsa . Phil Laub has been called back
into the Air Corps as a First Lieutenant . He will be stationed at
Stewart field, West Point. Edith Bauer Buttner is working in the
Personnel department of American International Underwriters,
Manhattan. Her husband, Bob Buttner, is in the army en route to
Japan .
1950
Studying
Don Muller, Bishop's College, Le nnoxville, Quebec; Roy Dybing
and Walter Dohrman, Columbia ; Don Drown , Charles Allbee, and
Chris Kartalis, N .Y. U.; Everett Hanson, Brooklyn Poly; Francis X.
Murphy, Wharton schoo l, Un iv . of Pennsy lvania; Charles Pavlik
and Freddie Thomas, Albany Medical College ; Max Moretti , St.
J ohns, Brooklyn ; Herbert Frankenberg , Syracuse; Eugene D' Allessandro, Italy (medicine).
Armed Services
Bob Henkler, Army. Unt il his call on Jan . 19, Bob had been a
chemical operator with Bri stol Laboratories, Syracuse. Bob Smith
has been in the Army si nce Oct. 30. Cal Johnson is with the 1st
Gu ided Missiles Provisional Battalion , Las Cruces, N. M . Ralph
Hosler, Army. Gilbert Blau, Army ( Fort Dix, N . J. ) ; Walter Mikson, Army (Cam p Pickett, Va . )
O. John Reed, HM3, is a medical corpsman with the Marine
Corps in Korea . Lt. (jg) Warren Tompkins is on the USS Windham
transporting men and material between the W est coast and Far
Ea ste rn ports.
Working
Charles Smith , Home Insurance Co., Manhattan; Harold Matthius , the H. F. Matthius Agency (S . I. ) , real estate and insurance;
Robert Schwarting , Albert Frank-Guenthe r Law advertising agency,
Manhattan ; James Anderson , General Chemical , (tec hnical trainee ) ;
Edward Bellow, chem ist, Calco, manufacturers of dyes and drug s;
John Boeniger, civilian instructor of teletype maintenance with the
Army Signal Corps, Fort Monmo uth . Robert Stanfield , Hearst
Promotion Enterprises, Manhattan ; John Mcisaac, Jones and McLaughlin Steel, Pittsburgh (trainee for indust rial salesma n ) .
Thaddeus Winslow, sales dept ., N . Y. and Richmond Gas Co.,
S. I., Mary Lou Landis, clerical post with Givaudan-Delawanna
Chemical, Ma nhattan; Donald Betzler, administrative assistan t ,
Esso Standard Oil , Elizabeth , N . J .; Albert Timm, asst. pl ant supt.,
Rossville (S . I.) Dyestuff Corp.; Gordon Tellefsen, J . P. Morgan
Co., Manhattan; Bill Lexander, Minnesota Mining and Mfg . Co .,
Pl ainfield, N . J . (sales trainee ) ; Charles O' Donnell , Federal Advertising Agency, Manhattan ; Horace G. Chirumbolo, reporter, Rockland County Journal-News, Nyack, N . Y.
Melchior DiCarlo-Cottone, mathematician, National Bureau of
Standards, Washington; Bob McGovern , salesman for Interboro
TV and Appl iance Corp ., Brooklyn; Sam Miller, Farr Furn iture Co .,
THE LINK
S. I.; Gasper Dolcimascolo, chemist , Fritz sche Bros ., Manhattan;
Allen Schmidt, market research analyst, Colorado Fuel and Iron
Corp ., New York; Don Muller is doing a column , "Your Home and
Mine" , for the Sherbrooke (Quebec) Record .
Murray Bialow, med ical technician, Hebrew Home for the Aged,
the Bronx; George ( Dave) Brundage , teaching in Uni on Free School
25, Merrick , L. I.; Dic k Schoenlank , in vestigator, Family Finance
Co., Hackensack, N. J . ; Lester Rolle, clerk, purchasi ng dept ., Nati onal Biscuit Co. ; Fred Hurst , economic analyst, Planning Division,
Port of New York Authority.
Jacqueline Holt ha s been appOinted field represe ntative for the
Junior Red Cross in Richmond, Kings, a nd Bronx counties . She got
her post th rough the Wagner Placement Bureau (advt . ) Frank
Kaiser, secu rit ies division, Fi d ucia ry Trust Co., Manhattan; Raymond Hartman , Irving Trust Co ., Manhattan, foreign letter of
credit-documents cle rk; Alistair Forman , accounting clerk, Bethlehem Steel , S. I.
1951
(August and February Grads)
George Henkel is asst . dispatcher with Cooper-Jarrett, crosscountry shippers, Hoboken, N . J. John DeVivo is an inventory controller for Kurt Versen, lighting fixtures, Englewood, N . J . ; George
Obe/le , flight purse r, Ea ste rn Air Lin es. Ted Weiskotten is at
Luthe ra n Seminary, Philadelphia . John Kennedy is an investigator
for liberty Mu tual In surance, Brooklyn . George Beharry is taking
additional courses at Wagner . He has been accepted by Albany
Medical College for September.
Alfred Stuart, who would have completed credits for graduation
in February, was ca'led back into active Navy se rvice last summer.
He is now in Korea. Bill Errington is with the Air Force in Texas .
Eugene Herman left late in February for Berne, Swit z er land . He
will study medicine at the University of Berne . Len Brady has a
research fellowship at North Carolina State. Anita Dinnerstein is
teaching at the Prospect Ave. school, East Meadow, L. I. Phil Qualben is studying at Luther Seminary, St . Paul, M inn . Charley Keller
returned late in January after a trip to Arge ntina on a tanker.
Nursing Alumnae
Marijean Worley Luger ' 51 N is nursi ng at the Osteopathic Hospital, Philadelphia , Ruth Tellefsen ' 50N at the Ulleval Hospital,
0 ; 10, Norwa y. Bertha Walbert ' 49N is an ensign in the U. S. Navy
Nurse Corps, at the Naval Hospita l, Portsmouth, Va .
Mary O' Leary ' 49N is the Wagner college nurse, while Mrs.
George Giesemann , regular nurse, is on leave . Dorothy Githens
Trost N48 is living in Pensacola, Fla. Her hu sba nd is stationed at
the Naval Air Base there.
Betty Bondeson Gardner ' 49N is nursing at Radford (Va . ) Community Hospital. He r husband is teaching ph ysics at V.P. I., and
they are living in Blacksburg, Va . Mary Carney ' 46N is now living
in San Diego, Cal. Con: tance Garside Price ' 49N , clinical instructo r
at Hahnemann Medical College and Hos p ital , Philadelphia , is the
author of an article, " M it ral Stenosis," in the American J ourna l of
NurSi ng , February, 1951, issue .
Former Students
Lt. Carl Fuglestad is with an Army engineering unit on Okinawa.
Andrew Anderson is a photo engravers assistant with Alco Gravure,
Hoboken, N. J. Phil Shaw ha s bee n commissioned as a Coast Guard
ensign. William Laing has opened an office as a chiropractor in
Tottenville . He is a graduate of the National College of Chiropractic .
Judith Foss , who was graduated from Oswego State Teachers College, ha s been appointed as an elementary school teacher in Peekskill , N . Y. Peter Barquin , who completed 2 V2 years of pre - law
studies at W agner in January, is now a student at Brook lyn Law
School. Herb Scheinberg , Staten Island attorney , has returned to
active Army duty .
. Dr. Alfred Berger is practicing ophthal mo logy and otolaryngology
In Helena , Ark . Carl Langner, who operates a sport in g goods store
in Port Wa shington , L. I., finds time enough to coach basketball at
St . Peters sc hool in hi s home town. Lynnard Herrington has been
appointed a sst. superintendent of South Nassau Commun ities Hospital , Rock vi lle Centre, L. I.
Lt. Donald Bazzuro was wounded in Korea. Bill Clause is back
on active duty in the Mar ine Corps. James Kinsella has received
h is LL .B. degree from Brooklyn Law School. He is employed by a
Manhattan law firm . Ronald Reynier , originator of the nickname
" Seahawks " , finished st udies for an LL.B . at Brooklyn Law School
last month .
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U. S. POSTAGE
Staten Isla nd. N . Y.
PERMIT No. 22
LITTLE LOST SEAHAWKS
listed bel ow are the names of Wagner alumni whom
the Alumn i Office has been unable to contact because we do not have their addresses . We 'd like to
bring these Little Lost Sea hawks back into the flock
so that we can send them the link and notify them of
the latest happenings at their Alma Mater.
Please contact AI Krahmer if you know where we
can reach any of these former Wagnerites .
Dr. W ill iam little '38
Clarence McGovney '47
Heinz Mac ke nsen '43
Virginia Marble Magill '44
Mrs. Isabe lle Ma io rano Lo redo N48
Francis Malo ne '49
Robert R. Messi na '46
A lex ande r M ikhalev esky '43
M iss He lene Nickle N46
Henry V. Pa pe '36
John Ra nda ll '48
George Rapport' 39
Mrs. El ea nor Ei chle Rea N46
Charles Graham- Rogers '33
Mrs. Shirley Rub in Ste inman '49
Mrs. El ea no re Schmidt Schweppe '41
Capt. Al be rt K. Schoe nbuch er ' 38
Mrs. M iriam Serrick McAlli ster '40
Mrs. Nancy-lee Shantz McCl ea ry N48
Miss Jea n Steve ns N47
Mrs. Glorya Mull e r Stevenson '4 0
Will iam J . Swarthout '49
Sheldon Tayl e r '48
Vincent Terran ova '47
l ou is Tomforde ' 31
Frank W . Tomlinson , Jr. '49
Dr. Calv in Trib ia no '43
Mrs. Ivy Vurture lutes 'N47
Rev . Llewe ll yn W ill iams '39
Mrs. M ild red Z im merman Furlong N47
M rs. Ingrid Aanonse n Russe ll N47
Mi ss Hele n Ackerson '48
Donald Rae All en '48
Dr. David Annunziato '43
Ha roid M. Aronoff '50
Franci s Baldwin '4 1
Mrs. Mur iel Byrne Ha sse l 49 N
Dr. Bruce Ca rn ey' 3 7
Dona ld S. Carte r ' 38
Mi ss Ethel Car te r '45
Niel s Ch risti ensen '23
Arsene Ciri gna no '43
John l. Codomo, Jr. '49
M rs. Ela ine Comeforo laci ofo li '38
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Richard Kaminsk i '30
Fred Katz '49
Arthur Klein '36
Mrs. Do rot hy Kuu sel a Tarrant '45
Jose ph l a Gam bi na ' 32
Dr . Rocca latron ica '4 1
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OF
AGNER COLLEGE
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�THE LINK The Wagner ColIege Alumni News
MAY, 1951
VOL III
No.4
Published in October, December, March and May by the Wagner College Alumni
Association, Staten Island 1, N. Y.
Alfred J . Krahmer '27, Alumni Secretary, Editor
Richard Forster '49, Assistant Editor
THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
CHRISTIAN HOLMSTRUP '39 .................................... President
FRANK KAISER '50 ................................................ Vice-President
ELIZABETH WHITNEY '46 .......................................... Secretary
HERMAN MEYER ' 11 ...................................................... Treasurer
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Members of the Executive Committee
DONALD H . RACE ' 30, ALFRED KRAHMER '27 , WALTER BOCK ' 38,
CORNELIA BORGEMEISTER '44
Alumni Trustees of the College
ALFRED L. BECK '38
DONALD H. RACE '30
Alumni Memben, Board of Athletic Control
FREDERIC SUTTER '94
ALBERT ACCETTOLA '41
Alumni Members, College Council
HENRY EILER '50
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J . TRYGVE JENSEN '43
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Alumni Memben, Board of Traditions
GULBORG
NILSON SHEIE
ROY CUTTER ' 41
The Wagner Alumni Association is a member of the American Alumni Council
ALUMNI
CHAPTERS
Rochester
Northern New England
FRED GRUNST ' 19 ........ ____._ .. _......_.. __ ... ___ .. __ . ___ ._ .. _... __ President
NIEVES RIBES DOLE '48 .......................................... Secretary
WILLIAM VILLAUME ' 35 ........................................ President
ELS IE SCHATZ ' 50 ...................._.._.....__ .................. Secretary
Long Island
Brooklyn
WALTER KORTREY '45 ............., ........................... _ President
ELAINE HOEBEL PUHLBRUCK '45 ......................... _ Secretary
PH I LIP ANSTEDT ' 39.............................................. President
WILLIAM LEXANDER ' 50.......................... _.._........._ Secretary
Philadelphia
Westchester (NY)
ROBERT REISCH ' 50 .............................................. ·· President
ELSIE CHANCELLOR ' SON ........................................ Secretary
LLOYD RICE '40 ..................................................... _ President
MRS. CHARLES NEBAUER ............................... __ ....._ Secretary
Staten Island
Western New York
WILBUR STERNER '42 ............................................ President
LILA THOMPSON BARBES '41 ............................... _ Secretary
ERNEST KIEFER '50................................................ Treasurer
FRANK KALMBACH ................................................ President
RITA McGIVNEY KENNEDY N46 ............................ Secretary
Col-mar-va (Washington, D.C')
Northern New Jersey
DAVID SMITH '41 ........... _...................................... President
WILLIAM NIEBANCK ' 31 ........................................ Secretary,
CHARLES HELLRIEGEL ' 38 ...................................... President
WILLARD GRIMES '40 ........................................... _ Secretary
Connecticut
Hudson Valley (NY)
ROBERT HEYDENREICH '32 .................................... President
ELEANOR OOSSIN '40 .............................................. Secretary
FRANK GOLLNICK ' 30 ............................................ President
ALVIN MESSERSMITH '44 .......... _ .......................... Secretary
Nuning Alumnae
GLADYS WICHMAN FISHER ' SON .......................... President
DOROTHY MILLER BUTLER N46 ........................... _ Secretary
THE COVER PICTURE
Three co-eds leisurely anticipate the fall semester when the structure shown will be their new campus home. The Crow Con.str~c
tion Corporation expects to have the new girls' dorm completed in time for the new school year .•• so that the Wagner gals will live
in luxury on Grymes Hill. Picture by John Padula. Cartoons by Janice Miller.
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WAGNER COLLEGE
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HOMECOMING
PROGRAM
UNE 1 and 2 are the dates for this year's Alumni
Jevents
Commencement Homecoming , and a full schedule of
has been planned by the committee , headed by
Wilson Gearhart '49.
As usual the big event will be the annual dinner in
Cunard on Friday evening , June I , at 7 o 'clock. Pres ident Walter C. Langsam will bring greetings , and retiring Comptroller Charles Cook will be honored by the
Alumni Association .
Following the dinner will be the annual business
meeting of the Association. On the agenda are reports
from the President, the Treasurer, the Loyalty Fund
chairman, the Alumni Secretary, the Budget committee,
the Nominating committee, and from the special committee appointed to study election procedures. Details
of these reports are found elsewhere in this issue.
From 9 :30 t ill 1 o'clock the alumni will dance in the
auditorium at an affair sponsored jointly by the Association and the Inter-haternity Council. For non-dancers there will be movies and comfortable lounges
available in the Ad building .
Saturday morning there will be a repeat on the highly
successful "Professor at the Breakfast Table" at 9 :30.
This year's speaker will be Dr. F. C. DeWalsh , professor
emeritus, and all members of the faculty will be our
guests
OVERNIGHT accommodations are available in limited
number in the dormitories. Reservations for rooms
and for all other events on the program must be made
in advance. A card for the purpose will reach you before June 1. Please return it promptly.
Charges for the events of the week-end have been
kept at a minimum. The dinner will be $1 .75 , the
breakfast $ .75 , the luncheon $ .75, and tickets for the
dance $1 .00 (including tax) . Overnight lodgings also
will cost $1 .00. All prices are per person.
Make your plans to attend now . .Since your good
time will be multiplied by the number of your classmates you meet why not promote a mass movement
back to Alma Mater. The alumni office will supply any
addresses you may need.
The campus always looks its best in the spring time .
And those new buildings have reached a point where
they are really something to see. Come back to Grymes
Hill . .. meet your old friends and reca.11 " The Good
Old Days."
Help Wanted?
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Suggested topics-How shall we conduct the annual
Loyalty Fund drive? What about the content of the
link? What we do to put some life into the chapter
program? What about the annual Homecoming program:> The Alumni Day program? Or any other question introduced.
Luncheon will be served in Cunard at noon, and the
alumni are invited to attend the annual Commencement
exercises at 3 P. M .
This year's program has been set up by a committee
which includes,besides Chairman Wilson R. Gearhart,
Mrs. Gladys Wichman Fischer, Theodore Loos, Richard
Schoenlank, and George Mayer.
AT
11 o'clock the members of the Nursing School
Alumnae chapter will meet for their annual meet ing
in the card room of Cunard , a session which will be follo-.yed by a luncheon in the same room.
The rest of the alumni will attend a session called
"The Sounding Board" in Cunard lounge. This meeting
will be moderated by General Alumni Secretary AI Krahmer and is des igned to give the alumni a real opportunity to make suggestions about the alumni .program.
THE LINK
The Wagner College Placement Bureau is operated
for the benefit of alumni and students, and is anxious
to help you if you are thinking of a new job. At the
moment these are some of the positions for which the
Bureau is seeking applicants :1. A manufacturing company on Staten Island wants
a man to act as Purchasing agent. Appl icant should
understand cost accounting and inventory work. Experience is desirable, but there will be a training period.
2 . An insurance company has a position for a man
to do inspection and investigating work in Brooklyn.
3. A Lutheran church in Greater New York is looking for a secretary.
Alumni can assist their fellows if they remember the
Wagner Placement Bureau when they know of positions
to be filled .
Earlier this month all the alumni received ballots for
this year's elections. We remind you once again that
the ballot for trustee must be return by mail so as to
reach the alumni office before noon of June 1. 1951.
The other ballot may be mailed in if you are unable
to attend the annual meeting . If you attend the meeting, bring your ballots with you.
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�MR. COOK RETIRES
To Be Honored by Association
(tommtnctmtnt ExtrciStS
COMMENCEMENT exercises for the class of 1951
begin on Sunday moring, May 27, when the Baccalaureate service will be held in Trinity Lutheran Church,
Stapleton at 11 o'clock. The Rev. Paul Dieckman , pastor of Grace Lutheran church, Lakeland, Florida, and
former vice-president of the college, will preach the
sermon.
Graduation will take place at 3 o'clock on Saturday
afternoon , June 2 . Once again it will be held under
"the big top" as Sutter Oval will be covered by a huge
tent.
About 255 seniors will receive bachelor's degrees,
including students who completed their work last summer and in January.
TWO alumni and one former student are among those
A familiar figure leaves the Wagner College campus
this June as Charles R. Cook retires after 15 years as
Comptroller of the college. As a token of the appreciation of the alumni for Mr. Cook's faithful years of
service, he has been elected an honorary member of
the Alumni Association and will be presented with a
scroll signifying that fact at the annual Alumni dinner
June 1. President Chris Holmstrup will make the presentation .
Mr. Cook came to Wagner in 1936 and only those
in the know realize the full extent of his efforts in reestablishing the college endowment fund in such a way
that it could be utilized more profitably for the school.
A graduate of New York University, Mr. Cook was
a civil engineer for various construction firms until
1912, when he became associated with the Bush Terminal Company. When he left this company in 1935,
he was assistant treasurer. After a year with the Southwest Terminal Company , he came to Wagner in 1936.
Since that time he has given long and faithful service to our Alma Mater, and we see him leave the campus upon which he had become such a fixture with
great reluctance. The alumni join in wishing him well .
Mr. and Mrs . Cook live at 2 Allendale Road, Staten
Island 5 , N . Y.
Chapter Activities
who will be granted honorary degrees . The Rev.
Gunnar Knudsen '28 of Reading, Pa ., the Rev. Frank
Gollnick ' 30 of Kingston, N . Y. , and the Rev. Eugene
Kreider, Superintendent of Home Missions for the New
York Synod , who attended Wagner for several years
in the 20's, will receive Doctor of Divinity degrees .
The Rev. Edwin Knudten , president of the New Jersey Synod , and Christopher Steinkamp, prominent New
York attorney, will receive Doctor Laws degrees . Honored with the degree of Doctor of Letters will be J . Noel
Macy, Westchester publisher, and Joseph C. Rovensky,
industrialist, will receive the Doctor of Humane Letters
degree.
State Senator John M. Braisted , Jr. and Professor
Arleigh Williamson of New York University will receive
the Distinguished Citizenship Awards , granted annually
to outstanding Staten Islanders.
Alumni aHending the conventions of the United
Lutheran Synod of New York or the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of New Jersey are invited to attend Wagner
alumni luncheons.
The New York synod luncheon will be on Tuesday
noon, May 22, in Brooklyn , while the New Jersey synod
alumni will meet the next day in Atlantic City. Watch
for details on the place of these luncheons meetings.
a Card party for May 21 , and the Staten Island chapter
has scheduled its annual meeting for Friday evening,
July 6, Cunard Hall .
During the past two months, the Brooklyn and the
Philadelphia chapters of the Alumni Association have
held meetings , bringing the total of "active" chapters
to six. Brooklyn met March 13 and instituted an aggressive campaign to stir up more activity in that borough . Herb Hewitt '50 is heading up a special committee for the purpose.
In addition to the four chapters Iisted above, Northern New England and Western New York have met earlier this year. We're still hoping for some signs of life
in the other seven chapters. Some of the more recent
alumni are asking the Alumni office, "When does my
chapter meet? "
Philadelphia met April 11 at the Mount Pleasant Inn,
Mt. Airy. There were eighteen present. Bob Reisch '50
was elected president, and Miss Elsie Chancellor 'SON
was chosen secretary. Both " Beautiful Upon A Hill"
and the new Homecoming movie were shown .
The Nursing School Alumnae chapter is planning
Wagner's Alpha Sigma Phi fraternity celebrated the
twenty-fifth anniversary of its formation · as a national
fraternity at a Spring Formal dance at the Molly Pitcher
Hotel , Red Bank, N . J . on May 2. The anniversary
celebration wi II continue in the fall .
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WAGNER COLLEGE
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GRADUATE STUDIES AT WAGNER
ULY 2,1951, will be red-
Jletter day in the annals of
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Wagner College. Courses
leading to the degree of
Master of Arts wi II be offered for the first time in
our history.
The new program has
been set up in response to
a demand which has grown
for several years. Many of
our own graduates, planning to take up high school
teach i ng , would like to
complete the necessary fifth year of study at Wagner.
Teachers in the elementary schools of Staten Island,
encouraged by recent changes in the New York State
school laws, are interested in continuing their professional education, and would find it a great convenience
to be able to do so without leaving the Island . Ministers
in the community have expressed interest in getting an
opportunity to work for advanced academic degree.
In 1948 a committee was set up under the chairmanship of Professor David B. Tyler to study the problem .
It reported that the College was equipped to offer a
limited program of graduate studies . In February,
1950, the New York State Board of Regents amended
our charter to permit the granting of the degree of
Master of Arts. Since then , plans have gone forward
rapidly, and the new curriculum is now ready.
For the present, the program will be a modest one.
Two courses will be offered this summer and 10 or 12
next autumn. The curriculum will be broad and flexible, .to meet the needs of the severa I classes of
students, and will not aim to any high degree of spec ialization. No immediate additions to the faculty are
contemplated, since every department already includes
members who are qualified to give graduate courses.
Most of the major departments will participate in the
program.
GRADUATES of recognized four-year institutions
will be admitted as candidates for the Master's degree if they can satisfy the College of their ability to
pursue graduate work. Most of the courses will also be
open to qualified students who are not degree candidates.
In order to earn the degree of Master of Arts, the student will be required to complete 30 semester hours ,
with an average grade of B. Of the total , not more than
eight semester hours ' may be acredited for work done
in other graduate schools.
In keeping with the traditions of the College, the
curriculum will be essentially a liberal arts program ,
although courses wi II also be offered in the professional
field of Education . In harmony with a widespread current tendency, the program wi II be broad, rather than
specialized . It is, however, planned in such a way as
to meet the needs of students preparing for teaching
positions, as well as for those seeking to round out their
general education without specific professional aims.
THE LIHK
It will be possible for a student who has majored as
an undergraduate in English or biology or history to
complete his preparation for a high school teaching
position in his major subject. Elementary school teacher will be able to qualify for the salary increment
prescribed by State law for teachers completing 30
hours of courses beyond the undergraduate level.
HE courses to be offered in the first half of this year's
summer team, July through Aug . 10, are Contemporary Viewpoints in Psychology and Curriculum Construction and Materials-both new courses intended
primarily for teachers who wish to advance their professional education. The courses to be offered in
September will probably include : Advanced Mammalian , Physiology. Advanced Organic Chemistry. The Development of Economic ,Thought. The Historical Foundations of Education. the Preparation and use of Audio
-Visual Aids. Secondary Teaching Methods. Modern
Continental Drama. United 'State History Since 1920.
The History of Political Thought. Foreign Relations of
the United States. and one course in philosophy.
Courses will be given in the late afternoon and evening and on Saturday mornings for the convenience of
the students-most of whom will be fully employed
and will be taking their graduate courses on a part-time
basis.
The new curriculum is organized under the title of
The Division of Graduate Studies. John R. Bacher,
Dean of the College , has been appointed chairman.
He will be assisted by a committee of faculty members.
Information on the new pro'gram and application
forms may be obtained by writing to John R. Bacher,
Chairman of the Division of Graduate Studies, Wagner
College, Staten Island 1, New York.
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A Loyalty Fund Report
As the fourth month of this year's Loyalty Fund
came to a close, the picture was the same as in most
years-those who have given generously, but far too
few have been heard from .
As it stands now , 291 alumni have contributed
$2124, or at the rate of $7 .29 per gift. This means that
about 20 % of the alumni have contributed 66 % of the
sum needed to reach our goal. More than 1200 alumni
have contributed nothing to date.
It doesn 't take much of a mathematician to figure
out that we would far exceed our goal if we got just one
dollar from each of those still not heard from!
We wish we knew the answer as to why 1237 alumni
haven 't yet sent their contributions, or pledges, in.
Surely the objectives of the Fund are worthy-scholarships for three students, the lobby of the new gym and
the Link. Aren't these worth at least one buck per year?
Personally, we think there worth much more , but certainly at least that amount.
If you've put if off or forgotten about it, how about
doing something about it right now. Mail your dollar
(or more if you can) to the alumni office.
Our goal is $3200 ; it can be reached if all do their
share.
A.J. K.
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14 Years of
Progress
by Richard Debus '49
Acting Bursar and Bookstore Manager
LOOK at the before and after pictures of the Wagner
College Bookstore! While the pictures show the
contrast of modern accomodations and more space . the
photos of the old and the new do not tell the whole
story.
The old Bookstore carried for sale books . cigarettes ,
candy, soda and stationery and was a congenial place
for students to gather. However, (remember?) there
were long lines , limited supplies and few store hours in
which to make purchases ... a definite drawback.
In 1945 , the Gu il-den was installed as the college
coffee shop relieving the bookstore of the necessity to
carry food and beverage items. Th is was an advantage,
but the Bookstore had to sacrifice space. The new
quarters were an "8 x 10" cubbyhole near the center
of the basement hall , where it stayed , selling only books
and stationery unti I 1947.
Another move was made then to a larger room and
newspapers. magazines , trade books and athletic suppi ies were added to the stock. The enlarged room , p lus
the increased inventory, proved to be so successful that
jewelry was added to stock and still another move
( 1949 ) was made to its present spacious location .
UP UNTIL now no effort was made to bring the store
to the attention of the alumni because the mailorder technique had not been perfected . But now we
are ready,
All of the items sold in the store are offered at the
lowest possible prices . This offer holds true for both
students and alumni .
Have you heard the radio program " I Fly Anything " ?
Well, " we sell anything ," that is almost anything. We
can 't sell you a car, but we could sell you car parts.
Starting in September we shall send out a quarterly
bulletin of our best buys. But in the meantime we extend a cordial invitation for you to vis it us and take a
look around.
F YOU can 't make a trip to the campus and have a
specific purchase in mind , write us explaining what
you want and we ' ll he happy to either furnish you with
information or get whatever article you desire-at a
discount.
This arrangement can be satisfactory in many ways.
You will sav~ money ; your purchases will enable us to
increase our service , and if the item you buy mentions
Wagner on it. you will help publicize the college whereever you take it.
The Bookstore is one of the many ways that your
Alma Mater has progressed siMc'e you've left " the hill"
When you drop in again notice our slogan :
"All the student needs ... at the lowest
possible prices!
Courtesy
Service
Reliability"
The same slogan applies to alumni , the former students of Wagner.
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The College Bookstore as it appeared in the spring of 1937. The
exact time was 3 :53 P.M. Manager of shop was Fred Willecke, the
sixth from the left.
pRESENTLY the shop carries almost every conceiveable item needed or wanted by students or alumni.
The list includes pennants, athletic clothing and
equipment, books (fiction and texts ), school suppl ies,
decals , jewelry, novelties and a catalog service from
which the selection literally runs from nuts (the mechanical kind) , to furniture and refrigerators. Within the
last six months records. radios and phonographs also
have been offered for sale.
The catalog service mainly was begun for the use of
the alumni and faculty.
The Bookstore staff now is working on the final plans
for a changeover from the conventional type of service
to a self-service store , effective this summer, in order
to facilitate' the speed of service and again enlarge the
variety of stock.
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This photo of the present day Bookstore was taken several weeks
ago . Actually only half of the modern store for student needs
shows in the picture.
WAGNER COLLEGE
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DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH
SEAHAWK NINE GETS POOR START
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The baseball season this spring has been nerve
for the spectators thus far . After opening in auspicious fashion with a 1-0 victory over St.
Peters, the Sea hawks have lost to Arnold , Fordham,
City College, St. Johns, Lehigh, Hofstra, ar;ld Brooklyn
and have beaten R. P. I. , St. John's , Adelphi , Albright,
Kings Point, N . Y. U., Drew and Upsala .
The 1951-52 basketball schedule has not yet been
released, but the Link editors have been given the
privilege of tipping off the alumni what to expect. It
looks good and if only Uncle Sam doesn't get too
demanding , we'll have a team that will match the
schedule.
Losing the games is hard to take , but the way most
. of them have been lost has been enough to give Coach
Herb Sutter a good case of ulcers . Four of the defeats
have been by one run, another by two. In every case,
it has been faulty fielding in the late stages of the
games that has caused the losses.
Pitcher Ziggy Wachsmuth, Don Finley, Joe Russell,
and Bob Pennamacoor have done nobly only to have
their mates fail them with poor support. But this is a
young team, made up mainly of freshmen and sophomores , and we have hopes that they will do better.
Main reason for this hope is the revamped line-up
which performed brilliantly in beating St. Johns 7-3 on
April 23 for our fi rst Metropol itan Conference victory
and which trimmed Albright 14-0 . In each contest
Wachsmuth gave up only three hits each.
However , the winning streak of seven straight may
be a new record .
The tennis team got off to a good start with 9-0
victories over Fort Schuyler and Drew in its first two
starts. The track team , which suffers greatly from
lack of a home track, has lost meets to Hofstra and
Montclair Teachers, but has produced some star individual performers . The girls softball team has split
two games, losing to Hofstra and beating Queens.
The opening game in the new gym will be against an
honored rival, Hofstra, on Dec . 1. New England alumni
who have been protesting that we don't play any teams
from their section should be pleased to note that Bates,
Springfield , Clark, and Brandeis will play on Grymes
Hill. Metropolitan colleges to be met at home, besides
Hofstra , include Stevens, Cooper Union, Pratt, Fordham, and St. Peter's. Other games include games
against Albright and Franklin and Marshall .
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The Seahawks will travel to Manhattan , Brooklyn,
Kings Point, Dickinson , Gettysburg, Adelphi, Brooklyn
Poly, Hofstra, Clarkson, St. Lawrence, and Queens.
The football Seahawks will play eight games next
fall :
Oct.
6
13
Arnold
home
Swarthmore
home
20
Susquehanna away
27
Ursinus
away
Nov . 3
Upsala
Homecoming
10
P.M .C.
home
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Kings Pt.
away
24
Hofstra
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FRIDAY, JUNE 1,1951
5 :00 P. M .
REGISTRATION DESK OPENS .
REGISTRATION DESK moves to
6:15 P. M.
ANNUAL REUNION DINNER
7 :00 P. M .
8 :15 P. M.
ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING
REUN ION DANCE
9 :30 P. M.
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Room 16, Ad Bldg .
Foyer, Cunard
Dining Room , Cunard
Cunard
Auditorium , Ad Bldg .
SATURDAY, JUNE 2,1951
9 :30 AM .
"THE PROFESSOR AT THE BREAKFAST TABLE"
Dr. F. C. De Walsh, speaker
Porch, Cunard
11 :00 A M .
"THE SOUNDING BOARD"
Cunard Lounge
Annual meeting, NURSING SCHOOL
11 :00 A M .
ALUMNAE CHAPTER .
West room , Cunard
12.00 noon
LUNCHEON
Dining room , Cunard
12.00 noon
LUNCHEON, NURSING CHAPTER
West room , Cunard
3 :00 P. M.
COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES
Sutter Oval
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The above map shows the distribution of Wagner alumni through the United States, the number on the state being the number
of alumni in that state. Note that there are Wagner grads in 40 states and the District of Columbia.
Besides these alumni, Wagner ,is also represented in Norway (2) ', Switzerland (2), Denmark ( I ), Italy (3), India (3), Hawaii
(3), Egypt (1), Haiti (1), Canada (3), Guatemala (1), Eire (3), and Germany (4) .
Changes In The Constitution
At the annual meeting of the Alumni Association
last spring it was voted that a special committee/be appointed to study the procedure of alumni elections.
The committee included Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Adams,
Les Trautmann, Dick Debus, and Charles Kalldin .
The committee made a real study of the alumni constitution and suggested several recommendations. They
suggested that brief sketches of each candidate for
office be included in the Link. The Executive committee adopted the idea but since the ballot will reach the
alumni some time before the May Link, the biographical material was listed on the ballot.
The committee also suggested that every Alumnus
receive a ballot which he could either return by mail or
bring to the annual rryeeting . They urged that no ballots be distributed at the annual meeting : While agreeing with the idea in principle, the Executive committee
feared that it would be impractical for 1951 elections.
Without more warning, they thought , most alumni
would forget their ballots and that too few votes would
be cast.
The committee's interpretation of the constitution
as not giving the vote to the members of the graduating class was approved , and will be in effect this June.
By this ruling graduates of last August and last January will be permitted to vote, but not those finishing in
June, 1951 .
The committee's final recommendation that a study
of the constitution be continued was adopted, and the
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present committee was requested to continue the job.
The Executive committee will recommend to the annual
meeting that a special meeting of the Association be
held during the next academic college year to consider
the report of the constitution study.
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STUDENT RECRUITMENT
Wagner is depending upon its alumni to act as recruiting agents for new students. We have no field
secretary, but like to think that we have many agents in
the person of our graduates. The Wa9,ner Publ ic Relations office is ready to supply you with materials of
many kinds.
There is the movie "Beautiful Upon A Hill" , for example. Maybe you can arrange for a strategic showing?
It may be that our picture brochure or our press and
radio sports pamphlet may be of use. Need Catalogues?
They can be supplied.
Or perhaps you know a place where a " Wagner
night" program will be valuable. The Public Relations
office sends out a team consisting of student speakers
and musicians on these "nights". If you want to book
such a program , let's hear from you .
Many of you are already busy on the recruiting project. Dick Schoen lank and Howie Braren , for example,
are working in the Northern New Jersey area . Five boys
from Taunton , Mass. are now in school because of the
work of Hector Quintana . We need many more such
unofficial agents. Won 't you help?
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Remember when 12 rugged gashouse gang Wagnerians, coached by Walter B. Peterson , standing right, performed for the Hilltop baseball team in 1922? The boys look rather pugnacious, don't they? But they weren't called
Sea hawks then! The first lad, seated at the left, is Gene Kreider , who will receive an honorary degree at commencement.
Welcome Oass of '51
The members of the 1951 graduating class were
officially welcomed into the Alumni Association at the
Student Association banquet on May 18. Professor
Nicholas A. Moss, class adviser, presented the class ,
and Alumni President Chris Holmstrup proclaimed the
official welcome.
The LINK re -echoes the word of welcome and hopes
that the class of 1951 will be a group as loyal and active
as previous grads _ The alumni office will soon send a
pamphlet on the alumni program to all the graduates.
We ' ll be looking for all you 51 'ers at Homecoming ,
Nov. 31
Ten "little lost Seahawks" were returned to the nest
as result of the list of missing alumni printed in our
March issue_ We're still hoping to hear from others
of you who may know the whereabouts of any of the
forty persons whose addresses we still don 't have_
For the names of the missing refer to the last issu<.
of the Link, back cover.
THE LINK
What the alumni office hopes for, viz. that the Alumni who
have not sent in their gifts light the match that puts us over
the top.
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�ALUMNI NEWS BRIEFS
1894
Dr. William Beb is the author of "Five Decades of Mathematical Reform" in the December, 1950 ssue of Mathematics Teacher,
and of "Mathematics for the Million, or for the Few?" in the January, 1951 issue of the same publication .
1904
A child (their fourth) to Dr. and Mrs . Einar Henriksen '41,
Sept. 12, 1950.
A daughter, Ruth, to Mr . and Mrs. Frank Stewart ' 50, Dec. 17 ,
1950.
A son, Richard Kurt, to the Rev . Reinhold '43 and Lois Reisch
Weber '43, March 1.
A son, George Lloyd, to Mr. and Mrs. George Guttier '49
March 3.
A son, John Anton , to Mr. and Mrs. Ray (Poni Antonopolous 'SO)
Smyth, March 9 .
A Son, William Wesley, Jr ., to Mr . and Mrs. William (Ruth
Hamilton '46) Halle, March 11.
A Son, William Frederick, to Mr. and Mrs. William Ferren 'SO
Dr. Emil Weber was honored by his congregation, Trinity Lutheran Church, Pottstown, Pa ., on the completion of 25 years as
the ir pastor.
1921
The Rev . Samuel Boerstler has been called as pastor of St. Johns
Lutheran Church , Dravosburg, Pa . His previous pastorate has been
in Greenburg , Pa .
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1924
The Rev . Carl Yaeger is associate secretary of the National Lutheran Council Bureau of Service to Military Personnel, in charge of
reactivated ministry to Lutheran service men and women .
1925
The Rev . Ernest Kallenbach has accepted a call to the Shartlesville
Pa., parish . He had been pastor of St. John s Lutheran church, Berwick, Pa.
A. daughter, Jeanne Marie, to Howard '53 and Dolores Miralles
Lenser N47, March 17.
1929
A daughter, Suzanne Lynne, to Mr . and Mrs . Edwin Mensing '49,
March 18.
The Rev . Fred Ludwig , pastor of St. Paul 's Lutheran c hurch, Postville, Iowa , is Lt. Govern or of District 6 ( Illinois-Eastern Iowa ) ,
Kiwanis International.
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A daughter, Laurel Joan , to Mr. and Mrs. Morris (Zephyr Spiro
'48) Kaufmann, March 18.
A son, Christopher Joseph, to Joseph '49 and Agnes Suarez
Abissi '48, March 19.
A son, Steven Tudor, to Dr. and Mrs . William (Constance Garside '49N) Price, March 23 .
A daughter, Roberta Ela yne , to Dr. and Mrs. Abraham Kobren
'37, March 23.
A daughter, to Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Roberts, March 24 .
A daughter, Carla Ann , to Mr . and Mrs . Carlos Marrese ' 39,
March 25 .
A son, Robert Bruce, to Mr. and Mrs. Robert (Alice Shetlock
'SO) Reinbold, April 3.
1931
The Rev . Erling Nilssen is now pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church,
Alden Terrace, L. I. His previous church had bee n in Portland, Me .
The Rev . Albert Stauderman , associate editor of The Lutheran
since April I , will be the pre acher at the ordination service of the
New Jersey Synod at Atlantic City on May. 22 .
1934
Drs . Michael Rapp and Michael Mazzei were promoted to associate attending surgeons at Staten Is land hospital.
1935
Jack Berglund is co-author of an article, " An Accurate Method
for Determining Average Temperatures in Storage Tanks" , in the
January, 1951 issue of Petroleum Engineer. Jack is special techncial ass istant to the laboratory directQr of the Standard Inspection
Laboratory, Standard Oil Developme nt Co.
A son, Thomas Ernest, to the Rev . and Mrs. Ernest C. French '31,
April 9 .
1935
A daughter, Pamela Eleanor, to Mr. and Mrs . Martin Earl Arnold
' 49, April 9 .
Dr . William J. Villaume ha s been named executive director of
the department of the Urban Church of the National Council of
Churches as Director of Research and strategy. He received his
Ph .D from Hartford Seminary on May 16.
LET'S HEAR YOUR OPINION
It has been recently brought to our attention that
a few of the alumni object to the use of the year of
their graduation on all mail from the alumni office.
We ' re curious as to how general the objection is and
would welcome comment from any who may have ideas
on the subject.
Having the graduation year directly on the addressograph plate is a matter of great clerical convenience
to our office. As far as we know, it is the standard
practice of all alumni associations , but we certainly
wan!' to do nothing which offends and would be willing
to discontinue the custom if there is widespread
objection.
Let's hear some expression of opinion on this point.
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1937
Dr . Frank Tellefsen was promoted to associate attending surgeon
by Staten Is land Hospital. Dr . Clarence Wasmund is back at the
Tri-State Clinic at Red W ing , Minn., after a year in private practice
in Brooklyn . Dr . Abraham Kobren, bes ides hi s regular dental practice in White Pla ins, is teaching at the N. Y. U. Dental school for
the second year. The Rev . Herbert Hrdlicka was elected president
of the New England conference of the New York Synod .
1938
Major Edward Jones is with the Army in Japan .
1940
Fred Ingebritsen has been called back into active duty with the
U. S. Army Air . Force. Dr . Irwin A. Conroe (hon . ) , former assistant Commiss ioner of Education for the N . Y. State department of
Education, has been nam ed national director of the college department of the Nat iona l School and Library di v is ion of the Grolier Society. " Prof. " Stoughton (hon. ) , former Wagner president, has
been named Lutheran Layman of the Year by the Federation of
Lutheran Clubs.
WAGNER COLLEGE
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1951
The Rev . Louis C. Suessman, pastor in Cresskill, N . J. since 1944,
has resigned to accept a call to Resurrection Lutheran church, Daytona Beach, Flor ida.
(August and F ebruary Grads)
1942
The Rev . Leonard Klemann, pastor of Grace church, Forest Hills,
Long Island, has been elected direc.tor of the Pinecrest Dunes Leadership schoo l, which will be in session from Aug . 26 through Labor
Day. Klemann succeeds the Rev . Walter Bock '38.
1943
Harmony Grove (Pa.) Lutheran Church, the Rev . Reinhold
Weber, pastor, will begin the final phase in the building of a new
brick church in May. Dedication is planned for late summer . Mrs .
Weber is the former Lois Reisch.
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The Rev . Paul A. Qualben was ordained at Zion Lutheran church,
Port Richmond , on April 1. He has accepted a call to St. Olaf
church, Weehawken, N . J . Qualben is in his third yea r at N . Y. U.
College of Medicine . The Rev . Fred Reissig has been pastor of St.
Pauls Lutheran church, Middletown, Conn . since April 8 . Fred
had been pastor in Germantown , N . Y. Mrs . Reissig is the former
Caroline Muller '44.
1947
Vincent Terranova is working with Merck and Company, Rahway,
New Jersey.
1948
Casper Scheiper is teaching at P. S. 13, Staten Island . He expects to make a trip to Europe thi s summer . Joseph Eisenberg has
been appointed hea d counsellor at Camp Kadiwah, Bayonne, N . J.
Sheldon Taylor and William Leanza are working at Merck and Co.,
Rahway, N. J.
1949
Pvt. Harold George, Jr. was graduated from Military Police School
in February and is now stationed in ' Headquarters Detac hment
Camp. Gordon, Ga . James Battin is working as a production-devel ~
opment chemist on the cortisone process for Schering Corporation,
Union, N. J . Ruth Carney is working at Irving Trust Co ., Manhattan,
after resigning as a teacher in the El izabeth (N. J .) public schools.
Jerome Giovinazzo is a member of the confidential squad of
Police Commiss ioner Murphy in Manhattan and also attending New
York Law School. John Thomson is work ing with RCA, Victor Division in Camden, N. J . Marie G. Sheppard is assistant ·director of
nursing at James Ewing Hospital, one of New York's new cancer
hospitals. Huel McCalla is teaching at P. S. 39, Staten Island .
Alfred Ikefugi and Philip Becker are at Albany (N. Y. ) Medical
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College .
Abby Fischer is teaching first grade at School 6 , Yonkers, N. Y.
Allan T. Hall is in the Army, at Fort Devens, Mass. Joseph Giordano
is the winner of the graduate scholarship this year. He hopes to
study at Broo k lyn Poly . Ray Adams is an accountant and auditor
with J . K. Lasser and Co., Manhattan . Thomas Kirby, recalled by
the Navy, is serving on a supply ship in the Atlantic .
Emil Cenci is with E. B. Latham , Manhattan , as an accountant.
Harriet MacDonald, now working in Lincoln Savings Bank, will enter
the University of Maryland in the fall for graduate work in elementary education. Thomas McCafferty is working with Edward McCafferty, Inc ., contracting firm . Raymond Rowan is a probationary
patrolman with "New York's finest ".
Patrick RubiioHa is an engineering aid in the New York Naval
shipyard, but ex pects a call to military service soon . Ferdinand
Salvatore is with Best Foods, Manhattan. Irving Cohen is a salesman
with Irving Outfitting Co., Manhattan . Dominick Dalessio is at
St. Johns Law School. Eugene Dicker is working for Desert Fashions
Los Angeles.
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Raymond Hall is a laboratory technician with Gulf Oil Co., Staten
Is land . Joseph Auchter is a chemist with Colgate-Palmolive Peet.
Dorothy Bothwell is on the staff of the child care center of the Port
Richmond (S. I.) Day Nursery .
Arnold Clev~land is teaching in the Elizabeth (N . J .) elementary
schools . FranCIS Dolen has been called back to active duty by the
Navy. Vincent Speranza is doing graduate study at N . Y. U. School
of Education . Frank Steele is a chemist with General Cable Corp.,
Perth Amboy, N . J . Addison Trismen is an accountant with Kraft
Foods, Manhattan . Samuel Codomo is a supply cataloguer in U. S.
government Civ il Service, U. S. Army Sig nal Corps . Rolf Guthey is
attending N . Y. U., working for a Maste rs degree in Economics.
Nursing School Alumnae
Madeline Reim~rs ' 49N is at New York Hospital. Peg Pfeil '51 N
is assistant campus nurse at Wagner. Ruth Munzer Scheier ' 51 N is
working in the operating room of the House of the Good Samaritan
Hospital, Watertown , N . Y. Elsie Chancellor '49N is staff nurse
with the Visit ing Nurse Society of Philadelphia .
Former Students
Sam Colucci is in the Army , Bob Vetter is se rving on the U. S. S.
Wiscons in and Gus Huf is at Fort Bragg . Gus has just been made
corporal. He is a persona l clerk at the Headquarters Battery . Lt.
Donald Bazzuro, Korean war hero , is engaged to Miss Dolores
Magnani .
1950
Frank Ballweg, who had begun his graduate work at N . Y. U., has
transferred to Fordham, where he is working for an M .S. in Education, Harold Archinal and Fred Holsten have joined the ever- increasing number of alumni now back in military service. Both are in the
Army. Sam Weening has been recalled to service in the Navy. His
mail carries an FPO address.
Ave Futchs has accepted a position with the International Machine Corporation , Jersey City . Joe Romario is working at Sears-Roebuck, Staten Island . He was recently re-elected president of the
Westerlites, young adult group at Immanuel Union church .
Other alumni in the army Bob Smith, Nikolaus Serkes, and Tommy Russo. Smith is at Fort Belvoir, Va ., Russo at Camp Dix, N . J .,
and Serkes is assigned to the Personnel section of the finance department of an anti-aircraft training group at Fort Bliss, Tex.
Chester SelliHo, Seahaw k basketball and football star, is now
coaching baseball at McKee High School, Staten Island , where he is
a member of the faculty. Freddie Thomas, Gerald Altschuler, and
Charles Pavlik are at Albany ( N. Y.) Medical College .
Ken Oetjen , Chris Kartalis and Don Drown, all members of the
victorious 1949 football team , have been cited for outstanding
work by the N . Y. U. department of Physical Education .
THE LINK
Irving Cohen '51 and Marion Warmstein , Aug . 1950.
Thomas R. Kirby '51 and Joan E. Brown, June 4, 1950.
Carl Ritz '49 and Dorothy Gutekunst '47, Nov. 18, 1950.
Robert VeHer and Beatrice Thompson, March 11 .
Leonard Brady ' 51 and Margaret Kannofsky, March 17 .
Sidney Auriemma '47 dnd Ann Jamieson ' 48 , March 24 .
Everett Hanson '50 and Bernice Kiefer ' 50, March 31.
Walter H. Kane and Mary Jean Kelly, March 25 .
Joseph Bisso '50 and Angela DeCelie, April 8 .
Charles O' Donnell '50 and Coline Innes '48 , April 14.
John Gaczi '50 and Doroth y ProslJ ky; April 14.
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