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IWllonolio an /niorstqBulletin
ALUMNI ISSUE AUGUST, 1958
John Yoder Presides
Over Wesleyan Alumni
JOHN YODER
Illinois Wesleyan University alumni
"tagged" John Walter Yoder '49 on
Alumni Day to direct their affairs for
the year 1958-59. Mr. Yoder is no new-comer
to responsibility of this kind;
he has been a member of the Alumni
Council for several terms and has
served the Association in numerous
official capacities as well as being very
active in many civic organizations.
Before entering Wesleyan, John
served in the navy. Following his grad-uation
from IWU, he attended the
Drake College of Law. He is now as-sociated
with the firm of Costigan,
Wollrab & Yoder. He is a member of
Phi Gamma Delta and Pi Kappa Delta.
He married Patricia Ann Hartman '53;
they have a son and a daughter and
make their home in Danvers.
ALUMNI REPRESENT IWU
AT INAUGURATIONS
DR. RALPH C. SMEDLEY '03 repre-sented
Illinois Wesleyan University at
a presidential inauguration on the
Chapman College campus, Orange,
California, on December 6, 1957.
WENDELL E. RALSTON '45 repre-sented
Illinois Wesleyan University at
a presidential inauguration at Okla-homa
City University on March 6,
1958.
DR. BERTHOLF TAKES UP REINS
AS WESLEYAN'S PRESIDENT
Ned Dolan Again Heads
Trustees At Wesleyan
At the annual meeting of the Board
of Trustees and Official Visitors of
Illinois Wesleyan University, Ned
Dolan was re-elected as president, a
position which he has held for a
number of years.
Other officers and members of the
executive committee include - Ben-jamin
Weir, vice president; Aaron
Brooks, treasurer; Paul Allison, as-sistant
treasurer; L. L. Williams, sec-retary;
P. W. Kasch, assistant secre-tary;
Mr. Dolan, Mr. Weir, Mr. Wil-liams,
Mr. Brooks, J. H. Bicket, Rich-ard
F. Dunn, O. P. Westervelt, Ken-neth
Bulkeley, C. Virgil Martin, and
President Lloyd M. Bertholf, executive
committee.
On the recommendation of Dr. Bert-holf,
Dr. Merrill J. Holmes will be in-vested
with the title of chancellor of
the University upon his retirement.
This appointment will involve no ad-ministrative
responsibility, but it will
provide for such occasional service as
President Bertholf and Dr. Holmes
may mutually agree upon.
ALUMNI OFFICE MANAGER
VACATIONED IN EUROPE
Heard on Alumni Day were such
comments as, "I haven't seen Marcia,
and I want to see her while I am
here", or "Where is Marcia? I always
see her on Alumni Day."
There was a reason. To be sure,
Marcia Minch '53 has been secretary
in the Alumni Office for several years
and is currently office manager, so
heretofore she has been a busy person
on Alumni Day-responsible for many
arrangements and the greeting of the
HO MEC 2ING
October 24"25
An appreciation dinner sponsored
by the Bloomington Chamber of Com-merce
on July 30th marked the
change-over in administration at Illi-nois
Wesleyan University.
Dr. and Mrs. Merrill J. Holmes were
the guests of honor. Dr. Holmes has
served in an administrative capacity
at IWU for seventeen years, a little
less than six years as vice president
and a little more than eleven years as
president.
Louis S. Stevens, president of the
Bloomington Chamber of Commerce,
presented Dr. Holmes with a plaque
expressing the community's apprecia-tion
for his efforts and accomplish-ments
during these years. Dr. Holmes,
in his reply, gave an illuminating and
sometimes humorous picture of the
tasks of a university president and
summed the present position and fu-ture
possibilities of Illinois Wesleyan
University. Dr. Holmes then passed
the "gavel" to Dr. Lloyd M. Bertholf.
Dr. Bertholf established confidence
with his audience with the dedicated
manner in which he accepted his re-sponsibilities
as president of this Uni-versity
and the outline which he gave
of what must be done if Illinois Wes-leyan
University is to continue to
match its lofty purposes and tradi-tions.
Dr. and Mrs. Holmes left the fol-lowing
day for an extended vacation
trip to Minnesota and Iowa.
host of alumni with which she is ac-quainted.
This year was different. Miss Minch
sailed for Europe the first week in
June for an extended vacation which
took her to England, the Low Coun-tries
and the Brussels World's Fair,
Germany, Switzerland, Italy, a n d
France. She was back at her desk here
the first Monday in August.
Commented Miss Minch on a card to
the Alumni Office, "I can't get over
the beauty and the quaintness of the
places here on the continent."