Phi Gamma Delta, Omega Mu, University of Maine, Orono, Maine Vol. LXI, No. 3 April, 1968 HATS OFF TO BOB PARKS to become New England Industrial manager for Howard Johnson's. Editor's Note: This is the third in a series of articles about successful FIJIS who have been affiliated with Omega Mu Chapter. An outstanding Phi Gamma Delta in college often becomes an outstanding Phi Gamma In 1945 he formed his own company. Parks Restaurants, Inc., which operates two Howard Johnson's Restaurants, Delta in the business world. Bob Parks is one such outstanding FIJI. He is presently serv ing a one year term as President of the Na one in Concord and the other in Leo- tional Restaurant Association. volved with the National Restaurant Association and served as President of minster, Mass. Mr, Parks became in Bob Parks was born in Duxbury, the Massachusetts NRA for two years. Massachusetts, and was educated at He is the past president of his local Boston Latin School. In the fall of 1925 Chamber of Commerce and local Ro he came to the University of Maine and soon joined the ranks of the FIJIS. Bob's freshman delegation were tary Club, and was past vice president of the Emerson Hospital Corporation. Last June Bob became the 48th the first Zobes to be initiated into the President of the National Restaurant impressive new brick chapter house at Association. During his present one the South end of College Avenue. (See Parks in 1925 jncture of brotherhood on page 2.) year term, he has been visiting practi cally every state in the Union covering over 150,000 miles. The NRA has 13,000 members and relates to all state associations representing 110,000 res Bob's four years at Phi Gamma Delta were active ones, and his hard work taurants. In addition to these executive earned him many friends. He was a let ter man in track, duties, he serves as a consultant to Howard Johnson's. showing special prowess in the 45 yard high hurdles. No less capable on the stage. Bob was active in Maine Masque productions. Many remember his leading roles in "What Every Woman Knows" and "In the Next Room." During the fall of 1928 Bob Parks played a major role in the Memorial Drive through which the student body raised $25,000.00 for the finishing of the Armory Gymnasium. Among Bob's other activities at 'Maine', the most notable were Alpha Zeta and Psi Sigma Psi, scholastic honoraries, secrctarv of the IFC, member of Scabbard and Blade, Sophomore Gwl, and, of course, Senior Skull. Bob was termed one of the most outstand ing members of the senior class and one of the mainstays of the student body. Bob Parks resides on Revolutionary Road in Concord, Mass. He and his wife, Catherine, have three daughters and five grandchildren. tem, Inc., in 1930 and became division Ability and hard work have made the success story of Bob Parks. His col lege years and Fraternity experience were a training ground for his leader ship post in the business world today. Bob Parks" story is another page in the manager in Rochester in 1939. In 1942 Brother Parks left the Waldorf System The undergraduate brothers salute him. -After graduation, he served as Alum ni President of the class of 1929, a po sition he held until 1938. He began his business career with the Waldorf Sys glorious history of Phi Gamma Delta. MAKE PLANS NOW - PIG DINNER, MAY 4 \r\nPage 2 THE PINE TREE FIJI FORMER FIJI FOOTBALL HERO - CECIL CUTTS RETIRES Cecil J. Cutts, associate director of student aid and advisor to foreign stu dents at the University of Maine, re tired from the University of Maine staff this past February. He and Mrs. Cutts were honored at the Peabody Lounge in the Memorial Union. Mr. Robert Worrick, director of stu dent aid, arranged the party for Broth er Cutts. At the ceremony Mr. Cutts was presented an inscribed football as a memento of his football days at \Iaine when he was a star quarterback in the early 20's. Over 75 people at tended the social event. The guests in cluded colleagues of Cutts at the Uni versity of Maine and former associates in the secondary school field through out the state. Cecil graduated in the class of 1925 and was fortunate enough to enjoy his Senior year in the new house. After graduation he became a teacher-coach .\t a retirement party in February, Cecil Cutts receives gifts from Charles Crossland, Dean Emeritus (right). Mrs. Cutts stands at the left. lieutenant. Following his armed services assignment, he served as superintendent of schools for three years at Oakland, Mr. Cutts' retirement plans haven't been made known. He and his wife, the former Helen Drisko of Harring ton, plan an extended trip to the South at Brewer tligh School. In 1927 he went to Morse High School in Bath, Maine, and became headmaster at Hartland Academy in 1932. and for 11 years, until his retirement from public school work, he served as and Southwest, Mr. and Mrs. Cutts Mr. Cutts entered the U. S. Air Force in 1943 where he served as a first superintendent of schools at Saco. He joined the University of Maine faculty have one daughter and three grand children. (See picture of Cutts in 1925 in September of 1959. below). Brothers Of Phi Gamma Delta - Fall 1925 Sitting (Row 1): Hopkins, Wagg, Phillips, Whittier, Bunder, Parks, Conners, Clapp, Cooper and Turner. Row 2: Damon, Hale, Swickett, Waldron, Wheeler, Newhall, NUson, Baker, Baker, Williams. Row 3: Plummer, MacSooley, Buker, Dyer, Morrison, Hart, Gryant, De Costa, Frost. Row 4: Cutts, Everett, Eaton, Cheney, Keene, Harvey, Kehoe, Martin, Switzer, Preble and Porter. \r\nTHE PINE TREE FIJI Gene Clapp Will Be Pig Dinner Speaker May 4th Dinner is a tremendous experience—a chance to renew bonds of friendship and to talk over old times. We are working our hearts out— meet us half way, brothers. Think about it. Sizzling steaks, good wine, old friends, beautiful girls. . . well, we can't promise everything—but do come. That's Norris Pig Dinner at the Pilots Chill Restaurant in Bangor, Maine. It will be a swinging soiree on the fourth day of May. Page Three When the fraternity system first emerged on the horizon of academia, there were those who called it radical. And surely it did contain some lively revolutionary ideals. Men were insti tutionalized into a fraternity, incorpor ated its prestige values, and learned to live in a contemporary world re moved from the dry classroom classics. The comfortable Establishment# was shaken and preferred to ignore it. But it was not to be ignored. And as time progressed. Fraternities became subject to new criticism by new critics —the independents or self defined in tellectuals. They charged, and not with out some provocation, that fraternities were '"mindless havens" of social de EDITORIALS light and of no consequence in the af fluent society of today. Sparked by cri ticism from within as well as without, fraternities began a reevaluation proc Eugene Clapp II, Lafayette '36 Plans for Norris Pig Dinner are shap ing up fast and the festive occasion is only a month away. The feature speaker of the evening will be Eugene Cla])p II, a Lafayette Fiji and a mem ber of the Board of Trustees of the General Fraternity of Phi Gamma Delta. Mr. Cla])]3 graduated from Lafayette in '36 and then s])ent a year at Har vard Business school. For the next four years he was in the accounting and research de]5artment of the Penobscot Chemical Fibre C.o. of Boston (now the Penobscot C:ompany'). The U. S. Air Force enlisted his services from 1942 to 1946. Discharged in 1946, he returned to Penobscot as director and treasurer; and four years later, he became Presi dent. lie is currently the company's chairman of the board and general manager, as well as serving as a direc tor for the New Jersey Rubber Co., Mutual Insurance Co., U. S. Pulp Pro ducers Association, and the Ainerican Cancer Society, just to name a few. 1 he Pig Dinner will be held on Sat urday, May 4th. at the Pilots Grill Res- tamant m Bangor. We arc getting many favorable responses to our bulle tin, and we hojie you will join us for the great occasion. 1hose lijis who were initiated 25 years ago will receive their Silver Ow l Certificates, and all Fijis who were ini tiated 50 years ago and over will be presented (iolden Owl Certificates. We are making a special jilea to c\-cry Fiji who li\('s in the Stale of Maine to come to the .Norris Pig Dinner. Phi Gamma Delta is not lor college da\s alone: Pig From the Editors: There is no state law which forbids the consumption of alcoholic beverages on University of Maine property by those of legal age (over 21). The policy is one established by the Board of Trustees. The existing regulations have been coming under fire as of late, and Fijis are in the thick of the struggle to change them. We welcome your comments on this editorial. '"Fill the Steins to Dear Old ess. And this reevaluation is the mood today. Greeks are realizing that they must offer a dynamic balance between academic and social existence. They must not only live together, but learn together. The trend toward tomorrow has begun. Fraternities may no longer -Maine. . .'" the most paradoxical college be considered the being of the Estab song in the nation. Maine students sing lishment or a '"mindless haven" as the of drinking, but their Trustees tell them they are not permitted to heed the words of their song. The Trustees for bid drinking for all members of the University community. We all must recognize that it is the University's ob ligation to enforce the existing lavvs of the state and work vvithin that legal framework. But is it the University's responsibility to s]3onsor prohibition? We think not. That great social experiment failed miserably in the 1920's, and it is etiually as uinvorkable and un palatable at the University of Maine. The ])rospcct of a wet camptis is not independents have charged. They must be an experiment in creative living that will encourage both academic and so cial leadership. /\nd this reevaluation is the secret to the continued jjrosperity of the frater nity system. Let this mood continue to be the hallmark of the Fraternity of Phi Gamma Delta, for those fraternities which don't reevaluate will die. OMEGA MU one to be feared. The harmful efl'ects ol alcohol to a University community lie not in the drink, btit in the anti social actions that can, if used irre sponsibly, result afterwards. We have disciplinary jtrocedures to handle these situations. Do we have a right to ]nm- ish the resjjonsible drinker by denying him his legal ]n-ivileges? W(- feel that total education is only acciuired through the acce]jtance of in dividual resj)onsibility. In view of the fact that drinking is self-evidently a cpiestion of individual responsibility, it is our o]jinion that the administration cf)m])letely and realistically reexamine the cam|)us liquor regulations with the abov e jjoints in mind. Co-Edilors: Eel Smith '68 fini lurnci '68 Published through the school year by Omega Mu ol Phi Gamma Delta for its brothers and friends. Ed Keith President Bill Oliver T reasurer Danlortfi VVesi Rolierl Haskell |ohu Hallou Merrill Bradford \r\nAs The President Leaves To Accept Wisconsin Post A QUIET MAN IN UNQUIET TIMES In the summer of 1965 six thousand Maine students left the Orono campus and prepared for a long summer. Slow ly the news leaked out, and soon most of us knew that President Lloyd Elliott was leaving Maine to accept the com mand post at George Washington Uni versity. The news signaled the end of the Elliott era—a time during which the University of Maine experienced immense growing pains. Lloyd Elliott had shocked us from complacency, and his seven year Presidency witnessed the finest moments in the University's cen tury of existence. He joined the faculty of the Univer sity of Wisconsin in 1947 and eventu ally became a full professor and chair man of the department of economics. In 1961 he came back from a leave in Pakistan, where he was a member of the Pakistanian Harvard Advisory Commission, to become Dean of the College of Letters and Science at the University of Wisconsin. In October 1965, he assumed his duties as Presi dent of the University of Maine. When Ed Young came to Maine, there wasn't a great deal of pomp and pageantry. The new president just sort of quietly went about the tremendous will leave Orono, forever, and return to Wisconsin to assume the position as job of directing a University which seemed to be struggling through a diffi cult period of adolescence—a period when the campus was stretching out with tentacle-like arms eating up the University Forest and creeping down Vice-President College Avenue. The transition was But what of this new President, Ed win Young? Last month he announced his resignation; and in June Ed Young for .Academic Affairs. The President will be gone in three months and in time he will be forgot ten. Years from now people will look smooth. A few months passed; the emphasis was changing. The time to reassess the goals of the future had come. If Maine back at our University and wonder what those three evanescent years un der Young were like. Let me try to re capture a little of the man who was was to be an "emerging University", the quality had to keep pace with the quantity. It was Ed Young's job to Alaine's 10th President. begin. He did it well. President Young was born in New foundland, grew up in \Iaine, gradu Graduate work and research pro University of Maine and has a Ph. D. grams were pushed. These were not totally neglected areas in the Elliott years, but they were areas of lesser in Economics from the L'niversity of priority. Undergraduate academic pro ated from Bangor Lligh School, the Wisconsin. grams were now getting hard looks and change was starting to come; pass-fail courses in the College of Arts and Sci ences was one of the many new devel opments. The most noticeable change to us was the decision making process. Lloyd Elliott passed the decisions down; many of thern came up to Edwin Young. Stu dent demonstrations, course evalua tions, much increased student-faculty relations, and more faculty decisions have been a few of the new things with Young. The beginnings of meaningful tri-partite student-faculty-administra tion decision making are no longer over the rainbow; they are now on the horizon. Some may decry this new free Jim Turner chats with President Young in his office. dom; most have welcomed it as a fresh breath of vitality. He kept his cool.,., Sometimes the Young years were times of crisis or near crisis. The State Legislature cut back the budget figures; students sat in the hallway to his office protesting Do\v Chemical; the newly created University of the State of Maine left some serious questions. Each time Ed Young kept his cool; he was a quiet man in unquiet times. Many students met the President as he walked incognito about the campus assuming any role from janitor to pro fessor. Lie often found it amusing to talk with students, get their honest im]5ression of the University, and then tell them he was their President. Ed 5'oung enjoyed these kind of things, and we did too. This was Ed Young, .'kn educator, a man dedicated to the development of academic programs, and a very humble person. He has not overly enjoyed his role as President, as spokesman for the Lniversity. I he \'ice-prcsident's job at Wisconsin will give Ed 'V'oung the op portunity to develop his real talents. We don t think he was interested in more salary or the Chancellor s posi tion. 1hat s what the newsj)apers said; they didn't know Ed Young. President \ oung's three years here have gone quickly; the good he has done cannot be meastircd out in cupftils. But it has been a new emphasis in (juality of education, encouragement of research, and freedom of exjU'ession. For these things we thank Ed 5"oung; and as he departs, we wish him well. May fiis direction lead our new Presi dent. \r\nFIJIS PLAY MAJOR ROLE IN POLITICAL SPEAKERS PROGRAM Orono is a long way from Washing ton, D. C. For important national po litical figures it might as well be as far away as Hong Kong. Except for Pres. Kennedy's historic visit in October of 1963, no nationally known, out-of-state political figure had visited the campus for years. Jim Turner, President of the Gen eral Student Senate, and Playes Gahagan, chairman of the Senate's Political Lyceum Committee, tvent to Washing ton to make contacts for speakers, made phone calls, sent telegrams, and wrote hundreds of letters. Their efforts were rewarded with former Republican Presidential candidate, Barry Goldwater, stojjping in Orono for the first leg of a whirlwind tour of Eastern col leges and universities. In our hearts we couldn't help but feel he was wrong, but it pro\ed to be an interesting e\-ening. Students packed the gymnasium, and everyone roared to their feet with thunderous applause as Ray O'kccfc '69 introduced the GOP spokesman. Less than a week later a teleo'ram with over 500 signatures con\Tnced Re publican Senator Mark Hatfield to coine to Maine at the last minute. Left to Right: Senator Edmund Muskie; Jim Turner, President of the Stu Without much acKance notice, 600 dent Body; Dr. Lawrence Cutler, Chairman of the Board of Trustees; Dean Franklin Eggert; President Edwin Young, Austin Peck, Vice-President for Aca to hear Ilatfield's speech. The student demic Affairs; and Senator Mansfield at the podium. group was held In one of Washington, came to the .Another full students filled the Hauck -A.uditorium in rapt attention, charmed by the young, articulate Sena tor from CTregon. Hatfield was greeted with warm applause; when he finished, the students were standing and shout ing with enthusiasm. his few trips away from Senator Mike Mansfield University in February. house at the gymnasium greeted the majority leader as he gave a major policy talk on A'ietnam. .Also an alternative. in attendance was Maine's Senator Ed Muskie, a great personal friend of Senator Mansfield and probably his e\entual successor as majority leader. .After his speech Mansfield was given an honorary Doctor of Laws Degree. The First-in-The-Nation Primary re turns shocked New Hampshire and the country; and Senator Eugene McCar thy came breezing into Orono six days later on the crest of victory with a dozen re]5orters hot on his tail. The Senator landed at Old Town Airport, was greeted bv se\eral hundred cheer ing students, and was follot\'ed to cam]rus by a long car parade. That evening the gym looked more like a ]tolitical convention than a gath ering of college students as 3500 jammed in and rung the rafters for Gene McCarthy. Hayes Gahagan '70 did the introductions, and Bob Duetsch a Fiji ])ledge and President of the class of 1971. presented McCarthy with a Frosh beanie and bestowed on the Presidential ho|)eful an honorary class meinbership. On March 19, 1968, Eugene McCarthy delivered an inspirational speech to the student body. The stage party is left to right: Mr. Stan C'owan, Senator McCarthy, Hayes Gahagan "70, Chairman of the Political Lyceum Committee, and Bob Duetsch '71, President of the Freshman Class. The cam]jus won't soon forget this exciting vear. and they can thank Fijis for it. Political Lyceum is only one of the inanv facets of Maine student life iit which Phi Gamma Deltas play an outstanding and leading role. \r\nPage Six FRED THE PINE TREE FIJI MITCHELL - GRADUATE NEWS MAINE'S OLDEST LIVING Not For College Days Alone . FIJI? to graduate in 1920. Ernest worked for 1900 Fred Mitchell has just turned 93 years On March 5, 1968, Fred C. Mitchell celebrated his 93rd birthday in Wolfe- young! See the story in this month's in Wakefield, Rhode Island. He has 1903 two children. 1922 Guy B. Fitz was so kind to send along the older brother of Robie Mitchell, a several Phi Gamma Delta pins and pic tures of Fraternity life around the turn PINE TREE FIJI). Brother \Iitchell was born in West Newfield, Maine, and graduated from the University in 1900. In the summer after graduation he married Grace Da vis, a teacher in Newfield. Fred Mitch ell took his first post graduate job as Principal of Fort Fairfield High School and later took the top spot at Camden High School. Moving to Massachusetts, Mr. Mitchell became principal at Danvers H igh School and later \\ent to .Arling ton High School. In 1926 he became Headmaster of Lynn Classical High School, where he stayed for 28 years until his retirement in 1944. During his service, Lynn Classical was ranked among the to]; college preparatoiy schools in Massachusetts. It seems that the brothers Mitchell arc shar]j guys indeed! Fred taught public school and was superintendent of the Newfield schools w hile still a Se nior at '.Maine'! Fred, along with his brother Robie. was among the tweke select Alumni named to Phi Beta Ka]j|ra when the distinguished hon orary was started on the 'Maine" camjms in 1923. In addition to Fred Mitchell's IP'/^ years of service as a high sch(x>l piinci|)al. he has been a ])ast president of the Massachusetts Secondary School Princiljal's .Association and of the Lynn of the century. He especially recalls the house chef, Nick, who would wash his shirts in the same pail he used for Sat urday night beans. Mr. Fitz, who lives in .Auburn, Maine, tells us he is now children, a son Fred and a daughter, Diana. Fred spent four years at the house when he was in college. Fie joins the ranks of our many graduates ])lcascd with-Omega Mu's progress 'Vaughn Everett writes us from Augus 1904 Some of you may remember William E. ta, Maine, where he lies in retirement. Gill back in those early years. Bill spent Fie formerly worked on the Bridge Di two years at the University of Maine before transferring to Harvard. Fie and Commission. his wife Caroline live on Springvale Road at Croton-On-Hudson, New AYrk. 1912 Warren McDonald writes how much he enjoyed the December issue of the Pine Tree Fiji. Mr. McDonald will be re ceiving a Golden Owl Certificate at the Pig Dinner on May 4. We ho]3e he can be there for the preesntation. .Another mate of the class of 1912, Charles Cleaves has just retired in New Providence. New Jersey. "Doc"' Cleaves says for the present he is "just being lazv''. 1917 Elwood Clapp, who commuted from Brewer during the years just ]n'ior to the war (the first one!, writes us from .\ewton vision of the .Maine State Flighway 1926 .After graduating from Maine, Gerald Wheeler went to Work for the U S Forest Service. .A resident of the Grai'iitc State in Laconia, fierald now super vises the White .VIountain National Forest m both New Hampshire and Maine. L. Burbank Keen and his wife Gladys are enjoying the leisure of retirement L Brook Street in Sherborn, Ma.ss Their son Alan is completing his Senior year at the Univcrsitv of Miami 1929 Ken Downing informs us that he has several snapshots of some of the guys Highlands. .Mass. His son, Elwood. Jr.. graduated from the Uni versity in 1944. We were very sorry to learn that Brother Clapp's wife Hazel pas.sed away last fall. Hunting, fishing, gardening, and min eral collecting are .Sam Hitchings' fa vorite pastimes. Sam resides over in .Skowliegan and summers at Ins camp on Cilcarwater Lake. .Sam will be an other l iji receiving a Golden Owl Cer tificate at Pig Dinner. ernor of the N