Hobart College - Echo of the Seneca Yearbook (Geneva, NY)

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T rustees • • • MR. RAYMOND W. ALBRIGH T Chairman of the Board of Trustees THE RT. REV. DUDLEY SCOTT STARK, Honorary Chancellor of the Corporation MR. RAYMOND W. ALBRIGHT, Chairman of the Board MR. MERLE A. GULICK Vice-Chairman of the Board ALUMNI TRUSTEES Mr. William F. Hamilton Mr. Robert W. McNulty Lynn Rumbold, M.D. Mr. Paul E. Vogt Mr. Robert A. Whitney ALUMNAE TRUSTEES M iss Helen P. Mane M iss Helen M. Overs Mrs. G. Robert Winner MEMBERS of thf. BOARD of TRUSTEES Dr. Louis M. Hirshon President of Hobart College Dr. H. Newton Hubbs Mr. P. Schuyler Church Robert K. Doran, M.D. Mr. George D. Whedon Mr. Carrol R. Harding Mr. Paul M. Herzog Mrs. Amory Houghton Mr. Richard H. Mansfield Mr. Byron S. Miller Mr. Joseph J. Myler The Rt. Rev. Malcolm E. Peabody The Rt. Rev. Lauriston L. Scaife 12

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B.A. Harvard 1922, Doctor of Divinity 1946 Kenyon College At exactly four minutes alter 2 P.M. or Friday, October 12, 1956, the Reverend Dr. Louis Melbourne Hirshon was inau- gurated 19th president of Hobart College and 8th president of William Smith College, while an assemblage of more than 1500 people witnessed the return to the clerical tradition which had existed at the Colleges of the Seneca from 1822 until 1936. Delegates of more than 300 colleges, universities, and learned societies and priests of the Episcopal Church, an esti- mated 250 alumni and alumnae, six Episcopal Bishops including the Rt. Rev. Malcom F.ndicott Peabody of Syracuse, Bishop of Central New York, the Rr. Rev. Lauriston L. Scaife of Buffalo, Bishop of Western New York (both members of the Board of Trustees of the Colleges), and the Tt. Rev. Dudley Scott Stark, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Roch- ester, and Chancellor of the Colleges, the student body and faculty of Hobart and William Smith, family and friends of Dr. Hirshon, and other distinguished guests were all packed into the huge commencement tent on the green in front of Coxe Hall. This was the first time in the history of the Colleges that a president has been inaugurated outdoors, and the first time in this century that an inauguration has taken place on the campus, all previous inaugurations having taken place in the Geneva Theatre or in Trinity Church. Dr. Hirshon, formerly Dean of Christ Church Cathedral, Hartford, Connecticut, was elected to the Presidency of the Geneva Colleges last May and officially assumed his new duties last July. He succeeded Dr. H. Newton Hubbs, secretary and treasurer of the Colleges, as president. Dr. Hubbs received an honorary degree. The principal speaker at the exercises was Dr. Edward A. Weeks, Jr., editor of The Atlantic Monthly and a longtime friend and college classmate of Dr. Hirshon. In the induction address, Dr. Weeks said (in reference to Dr. Hirshon’s associ- ation with Christ Church Cathedral): “If a good Harvard man should do this (monumental work) in New Haven, he should do wonders at Geneva. He said that Dr. Hirshon had called himself a “repairman , and called him (Dr. Hirshon) “efficient and humanitarian. Dr. Weeks praised the small Liberal Arts Colleges and warned that they “must nor dilute their quality by increasing. “When you cater to the many, he said, “something has to give, and usually it’s quality.” Dr. Weeks also received an honorary degree. The induction was conducted by Raymond W. Albright, chairman of the Board of Trustees. The Rev. Dr. Hirshon took the oath saying, “1 do—God being my helper. In an address during Orientation Week, Dr. Hirshon remarked that he felt awkward at times as if he were a freshman. He has wasted no time in attaching himself to the hearts and minds of the entire College family. II

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Executive • • • WALTER HETHERINGTOX DURFEL Dean and Provost of Hobart College B.A. Hobart, 1908; M.C.E. Harvard, 1911; Ph.D. Cornell, 1930; Professor of Mathematics H. LWTON HUBBS Treasurer of the Colleges of the Seneca ILL. Union, 1915; M.A. Rochester, 1925; Ph.D. Cornell, 1931 MR. CHARLES A. MEVN and MRS. EDWARD TRYON Assistant to the Dean of Hobart College: Director of Placement BENJAMIN ATKINSON Assistant Dean of Hobart College Associate Professor of English B.A. Amherst, 1938; M.A. Syracuse, 1941 IS