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Infirmary Wing of Hamilton Hospital opens (p. 322)

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WILLIAM (BILL) A. REID, ’18
WILLIAM (BILL) A. REID, ’18
CARLTON O. MILLER, ’14
CARLTON O. MILLER, ’14
JAMES A. STORING
JAMES A. STORING

University for the three-year period of the drive. Under the leadership of Clarence J. Myers, ’20, and “Vellington Powell, ’21, co-chairmen, and Howard L. Jones, ’39, Director of Development since 1952, the sum was raised but due to rising building costs the effort was extended from three years to five and the total of more than $4,300,000 contributed made it possible to undertake the construction as planned. A notable donation was the Ford Foundation Grant of $765,000, Colgate’s portion of the half-billion-dollar fund given in 1955 by the Foundation to 126 independent liberal arts colleges and counted toward the Development Campaign objective. Herman Wendt, Jr., ’27, gave Colgate a million dollars in 1961, the largest single gift in the Case period. By 1962 Colgate’s endowment had a book value of over$11,500,000; its buildings, grounds and equipment were worth more than $9,200,000; annual income and expenditures exceeded $4,300,000.

The second of Mr. Case’s two decades as president saw the construction of six major buildings. The first, the Infirmary Wing of the new Hamilton Community Memorial Hospital, was opened with the hospital in 1952; they were the realization of dreams of town and gown since 1926. A residence hall, designed by McKim, Mead, and “White, was erected on the site of Eaton Hall which had been razed to make way for it. Opened in 1957, the building comprised three houses, named for Presidents Kendrick, Eaton, and Dodge. (The dormitories,

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p. 321 – The Case Administration, 1942-1962

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Dean of Students, Kallgren, Dean of the College in 1943 to enable him to assume some of the President’s functions since Mr. Case often had to be away from the campus. The office of Assistant to the President was also established in 1943 and F. Reed Alvord, ’31, appointed to it; in 1945 he became Secretary of the University as well. To collect and preserve the University’s records and to supply information from them, Howard D. Williams, ’30, a member of the History Department, was appointed Archivist in 1947. The office of Dean of Faculty, abolished in 1934, was revived in 1945 with the appointment of Sidney J. French, Professor of Chemistry. The mounting burden of arranging for financial assistance and scholarships led to the creation of the position of Director of Student Aid to which William F. Griffith, ’33, was named in 1945; by 1957 he had become Dean of Admissions and Student Aid and was made Dean of Students a year later. The position of Vice-President for Development was established in 1958 and filled by Howard L. Jones, ’39, who had been Director of Development. Facilitating the work of these and other officers were the regular Administrative Staff meetings for discussion of problems and procedures which President Case instituted in 1942. Miss Gertrude E. Edgarton became the President’s Secretary also in 1942.

Anticipating the University’s post-war requirements, Mr. Case in 1943 appointed a faculty Committee on Needs and Resources and encouraged the Trustees and the Alumni Corporation to select similar groups; all three would cooperate in establishing a priority schedule of needs and canvass possible sources for meeting them. From this nucleus evolved the Development Council and the organization of a Development Office for which F. Gordon Boyce, ’39, became executive officer in 1946. Meanwhile, the annual Alumni Fund, thanks to the efforts of Carlton O. Miller, ’14, Alumni Secretary, and alumni workers throughout the country, had greatly increased goals which were met, making this resource most important in financing the University. Rapidly spiraling costs of all kinds gave special urgency to fund raising. With the blessing of the Committee on Needs and Resources, a successful drive was launched in 1947 to raise $250,000 for a Colgate infirmary and the Hamilton hospital. The most important single accomplishment was the Development Campaign begun in 1956 with an objective of $3,300,000 for raising faculty salaries, building a new library and an athletic center, and meeting operating costs of the

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p. 320 – The Case Administration, 1942-1962

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January, 1943, was appointed Assistant Dean for the civilian group, and later succeeded by Dr. Paul S. Jacobsen, ’27, of the Political Science Department. Civilian and military students together published the Maroon and Banter. The latter temporarily lost its character as a humor magazine to take on some of the features of a yearbook in lieu of the Salmagundi which did not appear. Members of both groups under Dr. Daniels’ direction staged some noteworthy dramatic productions.

With the release of men from the service at the war’s end the University faced the problem of accommodating a greatly expanded student body in excess of 1,300, a large proportion of them veterans. Dr. George H. Estabrooks of the Psychology Department became Director of Veterans’ Affairs and Dr. James A. Storing of Political Science, Director of Studies for Veterans. George Werntz, Jr., returned from the Navy to resume his duties as Director of Admissions. Many of the faculty members who had been on leave in the armed services or in government positions were back in the classroom and additional staff had to be recruited. An office to assist veterans in obtaining employment was opened in New York City under the supervision of Dr. Clifford E. (Woody) Gates, ’15, Professor of German.

Administrative innovations of the Case period included making

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p. 319 – The Case Administration, 1942-1962

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The last Navy program assigned to Colgate was established in July, 1944. It was V-7, an academic refresher course set up to prepare men coming directly from the fleet, in from 6 to 18 weeks, for officers’ training at midshipman’s school. Colgate was one of the three colleges participating in the program. It replaced the War Service Training program which was terminating in August. All men in it had completed at least two years of college before entering the Navy, some were graduates and a few even had master’s degrees. Their schedule included concentrated courses in mathematics, physics, engineering drawing, and English. Lt. Arthur C. Mooney was officer in charge under Lt. Commander Held. Dr. French was co-ordinator for the college until appointed Acting Dean of the Faculty when Dr. Everts succeeded him. The total enrollment for V-7 when it was decommissioned in October, 1945, was 848.

To provide entertainment for members of the units on the campus, local organizations, townspeople and faculty made available and supported a U.S.O. house, a large 1850’s mansion in the center of the village. This was the only U.S.O. center at any college participating in any services-training program. Here were found game rooms, a writing room, a piano, radio, newspapers, and magazines and in the kitchen was an old coal stove which radiated cheer as well as heat. Local ladies were hostesses and on Saturday night and Sundays served coffee, sandwiches, cookies and cake. For a time, weekly dances were held at the Student Union, with girls being brought by bus from schools and neighboring communities, and churches occasionally held “open house” affairs.

Although bluejackets and Marines decidedly outnumbered the civilian students every effort was made to keep the latter from feeling like forgotten men. There was little friction between the civilians and military as they shared classrooms, the gymnasium and other facilities and joined in sports and other activities together. Fraternity life was greatly restricted, of course, since there were so few civilian students and eleven houses were preempted for Navy quarters and the Sigma Chi house for an auxiliary infirmary. The University rented the D.U. and Theta Chi houses for dormitories for the civilians and served meals in the latter. Dr. Earl Daniels of the English Department and Mr. Edwin J. Downie, ’33, of the Mathematics Department were their  advisors. Dr. Howard B. Jefferson of the Philosophy Department in

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p. 318 – The Case Administration, 1942-1962

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Military Review, World War II, 1943, A1057-Pictures, Folder 2, p318

program on the campus, a V-12 unit, comprising navy and marine enlisted men who were officer candidates. The first contingent arrived in July, 1943. Since the V-12 unit placed its men in regular college courses there was considerable satisfaction among faculty and administration even though requiring all trainees to take physics and mathematics made it necessary to expand these departments. Eleven fraternity houses were made available for V-12 quarters and offices were set up in the Student Union. The first officer in charge was Lt. Commander Donald R. Green. He was soon succeeded by Lt. Commander Omar C. Held, former dean of students at the University of Pittsburg, who contributed greatly to the success of the V-12 unit at Colgate; Capt. Leonard M. Foley, U.S.M., had special responsibility for the Marine trainees. Dean Carl A. Kallgren, ’17, was the coordinator representing the college. Trainees were informed in March, 1944, that those who came to Colgate directly from secondary schools would be granted full credit for work taken at Colgate and be automatically admitted as regular students if they returned after war service, while those from other colleges could apply for admission by transfer. The program ended in June, 1946. Its total enrollment had been 1,137 of whom 736 were bluejackets and 401 Marines.

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Naval Flight Prep. school established (p. 317)

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as to the date was uncertain. By student request, military drill and calisthenics were instituted in November, 1942, to promote physical fitness when the call should come. The program continued until civilian enrollment in early 1943 became too small to maintain it.

Because of the accelerated academic schedule, the Class of 1943 graduated December 13, 1942. Wartime travel difficulties failed to keep parents and relatives from coming in great numbers to see 184 seniors take their degrees. The consciousness that most of them would soon be in service and some would never be back made this “White Commencement” probably the most poignant in Colgate’s history. Later commencements were held at the end of each term, some with so few seniors present that the exercises took place in the library of the President’s House.

Meanwhile, the new president had been active in Washington trying to convince appropriate officials of the University’s qualifications for training naval cadets. In December he could report that Colgate had been asked to become one of 20 colleges to establish a Naval Flight Preparatory School on January 7, 1943. Six hundred cadets would be assigned to the campus to take a three-months course in the study of aircraft and an intensive program of physical training prior to going on to flying school. From this date forward a large proportion of the University’s instruction and facilities were to be devoted to the use of the Navy for this program and others to follow. Lt. Commander E. Trudeau Thomas, headmaster of a boys preparatory school in Pennsylvania, was officer in charge of the unit and Dr. Sidney J. French, coordinator for the college. The unit was always at or near the top position in scores on uniform tests administered to all Naval Flight Preparatory Schools. This record is noteworthy when it is remembered that most of the Colgate faculty, unlike instructors at the engineering colleges in the program, had only limited backgrounds for teaching such subjects as navigation, mathematics and physics. They successfully “re-tooled” and met a demanding assignment. The cadets lived in the dormitories and were fed in the Student Union which was also headquarters for the Unit. When the program was discontinued in September 1944 its enrollment had totaled 2808.

The excellent records established by the War Training Service and the Naval Flight Preparatory School programs, and the cordial relations between Colgate and Navy personnel favored establishing a third

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Civilian Pilot Training Program becomes War Training Service Program (p. 316)

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PRESIDENT EVERETT NEEDHAM CASE, 1942-1962
PRESIDENT EVERETT NEEDHAM CASE, 1942-1962

The Civilian Pilot Training program which had been in operation since October, 1940, had developed by July, 1942, into the War Training Service program for flight training for Army and Navy enlisted cadets, and, after September, for Navy Cadets exclusively. Despite the loss of the hangar and 21 planes by fire two months later, the instruction was not interrupted since the Navy replaced the planes and suitable housing for them was provided. Dr. William J. Everts, ’23, of the Romance Language Department was coordinator for the program until it terminated in August, 1944, having graduated over 500 cadets since its inception.

Campus morale in the fall of 1942 was understandably abnormal since most students expected to be in uniform but government policy

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Everett Needham Case becomes 9th president (p. 315)

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Chapter XV – THE CASE ADMINISTRATION 1942-1962

When Josiah Quincy brought his history of Harvard University, published in 1840, to 1780 he stated that he had reached “our times,” a period too close for proper perspective and that he, therefore, would restrict it to “an outline of events.” Though Colgate’s history is far shorter than Harvard’s, 1942 can be viewed as ushering in a modern era best treated by a brief recording of what seem to be high points, subject to revision as perspective lengthens.

Everett Needham Case, the ninth president, formally entered on his duties at his inauguration September 24, 1942. He had graduated from Princeton in 1922 and studied at Harvard from 1924 to 1927 following study for an honors degree in modern history at Cambridge University. After experience in industry he became assistant dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration in 1939. From 1927 to 1933 he had been assistant to Owen D. Young of the General Electric Company whose daughter he married and who was to make her own contribution to the Colgate community through gracious hospitality, membership on a variety of committees, her scholarly interests, publications, and stimulating and creative ideas.

The new president, in his first address to faculty and students, stressed Colgate’s obligation to see that its facilities were used with the greatest possible effectiveness in the war training program. In fulfilling this responsibility the University would not only contribute to military victory but also keep itself alive; its Navy contracts were to prove most helpful in meeting basic operating costs. The enrollment for the fall term was 873 which was only 15 percent below normal but there was every reason to expect it would be drastically reduced by calls to the  armed services; by July, 1944, the figure stood at 77 civilian students.

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