Beloit College Magazine
Beloit College Magazine
Fall 2000 Contents
Departments
Features
- Underwater Archaeology
- Hearing the Meanings of Words
- Kerouac for Grown-ups
- A Race to the Starting Line
- "Don't rain! Don't rain!"
- Taking Theatre to the Streets
- Beloit in Africa
- A Paintbrush at the Front
- Saving the Turtles
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Homecoming/Reunion 2000 combined chilly temperatures and warm hearts. Alumni representing classes from 1930 to 1990 returned to celebrate old friendships and to share the Beloit experience. Numerous arrangements and rearrangements for class photos on the steps of Middle College kept everyone warm. Alumni met—most for the first time—new College President John Burris, who attended various events and was at Eaton Chapel to greet marchers gathering for the alumni assembly.
The Alumni Association’s highest award went to three distinguished alumni, the 1946 Time
Capsule was opened, and the Class of 1950 was showered with congratulations for its
remarkable gift to the College—$1,000,000. Other classes and contributors were recognized
and honored as well. Former Dean of Students and Professor of Education John Gwin was made an honorary alumnus. Finally, as Homecoming/Reunion 2000 drew to a close, students emerged from residence halls and library to mingle with the visitors, and—with all the concentrated joy—the sun came out.
Opening the Time Capsule
A highlight of the weekend's festivities was the opening of the time capsule after 54 years. Arne Larson'50 and Margaret Maurer Gibson'35, opened the capsule during the ceremonies in Eaton Chapel. Mrs. Gibson is the daughter of Beloit's fourth president, Irving Maurer and Minnie Vogt Maurer (who had sealed the time capsule into the Maurer Hall cornerstone in 1946).
The contents, crisp and dry, included the following: copies of the Beloit Daily News, noting the death of Beloit College President Irving Maurer, who served as president from 1924 to 1942; the faculty's memorial to him; and the groundbreaking ceremony and dedication of Maurer Hall during the October 25 Homecoming weekend four years later. Also included was a copy of the October 26, 1946 official Homecoming program, a coed in bright colors beaming from a page.
Also in the capsule was copy of the Round Table and several copies of the Beloit College Bulletin, which combined College magazine, catalog, and admissions brochures as required, and the 1942 Spring and 1946 Summer issues of the Beloit Alumnus, the alumni magazine.
A current directory of students was included (there were 1,002), as were the names of the Maurer Hall residents as of October 21, 1946, and a photo of the building. Finally, there was a transcript of remarks by President Carey Croneis on the occasion of the time capsule sealing.
Weekend Highlights
1. Ann Dane Harsevoort’49 conducts the Clinton High School band
during intermission at the Beloit-Monmouth football game at Strong Stadium. She continues
to teach music there.
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2. "Books for Beloit," a public service project sponsored by the
Alumni Association and the Beloit School District, gathered hundreds of books for needy
children throughout the city. Alumni Association President Terri North’91 presents Laura
Johnson (right) of the Beloit School System with the book, Hello, My Name is Scrambled
Eggs, by Jamie Gilson.
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3. A surprise special award for her six years of service to the
College as director of Alumni Affairs was made to Sarah Bettinger Kruse’84 by Terri
North’91.
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4. Bob Antoine’50 juggles three major trophies: one to the Class
of 1950 for its $1,000,000 gift to the College to celebrate its Golden Hoods anniversary;
the others for the highest number of class members registered and the highest percentage
of classmates returning. The $1,000,000 total, contributed by 146 members of the class,
was given to the Annual Fund; to an endowed scholarship fund in memory of deceased
classmate Don Bolles, an investigative journalist murdered in a 1976 Phoenix car bombing;
and for a variety of other projects and funds at the College. The class joins the class of
1937 as the only classes to make reunion gifts of $1,000,000 or more.
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5. Arriving too late for their formal class photos but very much
in attendance were Gaile Dimmick Borchart’56, Diane Wolf Westman’56, Mary Lou Miller
Watts’56, Carole Stewardson Jehling’56, Robert Virgil’56, Audrey Stier Schlegel’55, Howard
Katzenberg’56, Shirley Gudmestad Ekstand’55, and Ann Johonnott Katzenberg’55. |
Distinguished Service Awards
Jacqueline Dougan Jackson’50, Fredarick L. Gobel’56, and Harry L. Hamilton, Jr.’60 were
recipients of this year’s Distinguished Service Awards; these are the Alumni Association’s
highest mark of recognition for service to community, profession, and the College.
• Jacqueline Dougan Jackson, of Springfield, Ill., is the author of Stories of the Round Barn and has been a teacher for nearly 40 years. She began teaching at Kent State University and spent the past 30 years on the faculty of the University of Illinois at Springfield. She has been honored in numerous publications for her contributions to American literature. Her Public Radio series, "The Author is You," garnered an audience of devoted listeners.
• Fredarick L. Gobel, of Minneapolis, Minn., is a cardiac specialist and founding member of the Minneapolis Heart Institute and the Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation. His Beloit education, which was inspired by faculty members John L. Biester, Neville L. Bennington, and R. Ronald Palmer, led him to participate in breakthrough heart surgeries and transplants. A fellow of the American College of Cardiology, he has served on the Board of Directors of the Healthcare Education and Research Foundation and the Children’s Heart Fund among others.
• Harry L. Hamilton, Jr., of Newport Beach, Calif., is a Beloit College trustee, former provost of Chapman University (where he now teaches), and has accomplished much for education. When at the State University of New York-Albany, he founded the Educational Opportunities Program, an admissions vehicle for high-risk students; planned a facility housing the local National Weather Service office, private meteorology firms, and a research unit for the university. During his tenure as Chapman provost, Chapman added a film and television school and a law school.
His community contributions include service on the boards of YMCAs, the NAACP, and the First Presbyterian Church plus affiliations with the Discovery Science Center and the art council of Orange County.
* Photos taken by Bob Rashid.
Email the Alumni Office: Jane Armitage, director of alumni affairs