Valdez’ successor as physical
director for the schools of Peru.
Both of these Alumni gave me
every attention and added
greatly to the value of my stay
in Lima.

THANK YOU, ALUMNI

HE thanks of the College trustees, faculty
and students for your continued and
prea increasing support, financial and _per-

ZEA sonal. Your help is indispensable in our

forward march toward higher standards and
greater usefulness. Here are five ways in which
you further the progress of the College.

  

SNNN

I was interested to meet
Charles D. Hurrey, working
for many years in the Y. M.
C. A. in South America. Mr.
Valdez told me that there are
over 10,000 basketball players
in Peru.

 

I. Interpret our Program

This program includes the following: Higher
standards for admission and graduation, physi-
cal, academic and personal; Better organiza-
tion and extension of student aid, scholarships

At Lima Dr. Doggett with Dr. Carlos Caseres Alvarez, summer school
Alumnus ’16, Charles D. Hurrey of the International Committee of the
Y. M. C. A., and Antonio Longaray Valdez ’22.

I felt very much at home
when I saw our College em-

THE LIMA CONFERENCE

HE Pan American Conference at Lima,
© Peru will have a far-reaching influence
RS because it revealed the underlying unity
ESSER of the two Americas — North and South
and the devotion of the people of both Conti-
nents to democracy. The significance of this
solidarity is heightened by the confusion, inter-
national anarchy and violence which prevail in
Europe and Asia at the present time.

“The Declaration of Lima” which came as the
climax of the third plenary session of the Con-
ference proclaimed that the Americas would un-
doubtedly carry on their own affairs in their own
countries without interference and would stand
together against any attempt to introduce any
alien system of totalitarian nationalism into this
hemisphere and against foreign propaganda. A
resolution was also adopted condemning political
propaganda by foreign minorities resulting in any
sovereign state.

It was evident that the “good neighbor”
policy has won the confidence of Latin America.

I was particularly interested in the commission
on intellectual cooperation. Our State Depart-
ment at Washington has placed on its staff for
this service Dr. Ben Cherrington at one time
Secretary of the Student Department of the
International Committee of the Y. M. C. A.
This commission brought in thirty-two projects
for cultural and intellectual cooperation between
the Americas. The most significant was the
inter-change of students and professors. Spring-
field College has long followed this practice.
There are now some fifteen or more Latin Ameri-
can Alumni serving in Latin America. Upon
leaving the boat at Lima, I was cordially greeted
with a Spanish embrace by A. L. Valdez, a very
popular member of the class of 1922. I remem-
bered him well for at Springfield he had once
suggested that when we sing “America the
Beautiful” we might well think of both North
and South America especially in the chorus,
“America, America, God shed his grace on thee
and crown thy good with brotherhood from sea
to shining sea.”

Valdez was for fifteen years director of physical
education for the public schools of Peru. During
this period he established a modern system of
physical education adapted to the tropics and
based scientifically on hygiene, corrective gym-
nastics and recreative group games. He has
established physical training as an integral part
of education and placed the physical directorship
on a professional basis by establishing a school of
physical education which now has a three-year
course and 100 students. He is now on the physi-
cal staff of San Marco University. I also met Dr.
Carlos Caseres Alvarez, who was a Springfield
Summer School student in 1916 and who is

     

blem, the red triangle, on a

prominent street over the door

of the Lima Y. M. C. A., which carries on a

full program for young men in “Body, Mind,
and Spirit.”

Laurence L. Doccerr

VARSITY SPORTS

The basketball team has opened its season with
a promising start, having won the first three
games on its regular schedule. It defeated Mass.
State, New Hampshire, and Worcester Polytech.
The game at Worcester, won in the extra period,
was very exciting. Worcester was leading —
the score was 52-51. The gun announced the end
of the game just after the ball had left the hands
of Dick Redding. The ball looped through the
air and settled in the basket, winning for Spring-
field with a one point margin.

The swimming team started its season by de-
feating Conn. State 49-26. It lost to Harvard
16-59 and was nosed out by Bowdoin in the relay
race in a match the score of which was 37-38.

The National. Baseball Centennial will be
celebrated at Cooperstown, N. Y. this summer,
the town in which the great American game was
originated.

The inventor of the game was Abner Double-
day, later Major-General Abner Doubleday of
the Civil War fame.

A game between Springfield College and
Hartwick College has been announced on the
program of the Centennial for June 3, 1939 on
Doubleday Field.

Lester G. Bursey 725, is chairman of the pro-
gram committee for the Centennial.

EXHIBITION TEAM SCHEDULE

January: 277 — Y. M. C. A., Southbridge,
Mass.; 28 — Y.M.C.A., Fitchburg, Mass. Fed-
ruary: 3, High School, Melrose, Mass.; 4—
Huntington Avenue Y. M. C. A., Boston; 17 —
Y. M.C.A., Burlington, Vt.; 18 — High School,
Plattsburg, N. Y.; 22—Home Exhibition,
Springfield; 24—Afternoon—High School, Troy,
N. Y.; 25 — Afternoon—High School, Troy,
N. Y.; 25—  Evening—Rensselaer Polytech.
Institute. March: 3— High School, Amenia,
N. Y.;4— Y. M. C. A., Providence, R. I.; 7 —
Connecticut State College; 16 — Y. M. C. A.,
Pittsfield, Mass.; 17 — Y. M. C. A., Rome, N.
Y.; 18 — Rochester University (tentative) ; 20 —
Y. M. C. A., Jamestown, N. Y.; 21 — Morning
Exhibition, Buffalo State Teachers College;
Evenine, ¥. M.-C. A.; Batavia, N. Y.; 22—
Y.M.C.A., Lockport, N. Y.; 23 —University of
Pittsburgh; 24—Y.M.C.A., Youngstown, Ohio.

 

Have you seen the Springfield College
Article in Life Magazine for January 23?

 

 

 

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and employment; Better service arrangements
for students living, rooms, cafeteria, social
rooms and store; Increased attention to indi-
vidual guidance and counselling and a larger
use of tests and measurements; Increasing
emphasis on intramural sports and recreations,
physical, social and cultural.

A broader base of general and cultural
courses for all students; more flexibility in pro-
fessional courses, through specialization in
curriculum majors and minors in physical
education, health and safety education,
recreation and camping, group work, counsel-
ling and guidance, religious education, and
some academic subjects; a coordinated pro-
gram of professional education, for secondary
schools; theory and practice; specific prepara-
tion for program and administration in agen-
cies of informal education.

A publicity program on a national basis; the
improvement of campus appearance; the
maximum use of existing buildings and equip-
ment; a faculty with both general and special-
ized training adequate for the standards now
required by employing agencies.

Il. Discover Promising Students

Select the very superior boys whom you
would like to see at Springfield with leader-
ship, character, scholarship, athletic and social
abilities. Interview them and send us their
names and your estimate of them.

Ill. Place Springfield Graduates

Advise us promptly of any new or prospec-
tive openings for which we could recommend
members of our graduating class or alumni.

IV. “Share your Wealth”
Support the College through the Alumni

Fund by a regular annual contribution to
scholarships for worthy students. A good col-
lege must have good financial support. We
could balance our budget if we could increase
our income only 5%.

V. “Share your Ideas”

Begin to help us plan for the new buildings
and campus we need to complete the College:
an auditorium and general arts building; a
new sports and recreation building; another
dormitory; a new administration building; a
social service and boys work building; a gen-
eral science building; endowment adequate to
maintain them all.

We will welcome information which will help
our Diamond Jubilee Campaign for three and a
half million dollars.

Yours for both old and new Springfield.

Ernest M. Best