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PAGE TWO The Gold Bug, Western Maryland College, Wesnninster, Md., January 11, 1945 qiUUj I/)M AJano.· Campus Personality Isanogle C~tcu,qM~ By Sara Jane Rice Fred A. Kullmar On the cover of this month's Theatre Arts Magazine is 'Just as we were closing the school for the BY SHIRLEY SNYDER a picture of Frederic March. He is shown raising a flag Christmas holidays' we were shocked and of the United States-c-one of his many activities in the distressed by the news that Fred A. Kull- current Broadway play, A Bell lor Adamo. mar, Jr., had been killed in action. For some J saw the play when it appeared in Baltimore prior to of us this news was a pall over the holidays its New York run. I say this, because I should never want and underlined in glaring note the horrible, anyone to think that 1 had traveled all the way to New waste of war. York to see it. To us who had taught and learned to ed- Until now, I have refrained from any comment other mire Malcolm Kullmar, word that we were than a few casual reactions given here and there. I have to have another Kullmar in class was a done this, for fear my rem1l'!:ks might come to the wrong promise. Fred lived up to that promise. The ears, and I should inadvertently be the cause of Paul initiative, capacity, and power to make Osborn's rewriting certain parts of his play. A Bell tor friends that in high school elected him to the Adano is now safely on Broadway, so I need have no presidency of the student body, in college fear of inconveniencing anyone at all. I am by nature won for him a place in the hearts of students generous. and faculty alike. Of this no proof is re- I should rather see a play than do almost anything else quired. in the world. Next to reading a book, that is. The the- We remember Fred as a man in the uni- atre is not only my chosen art, it is to me the culmination form of his club engaged in inter-club basket of all the arts, however often the effect is not a particu- nail. We admired him then as a clean-cut, larly lively one. The movements of the dance and the hard working youngster. music of speech are carved from thought and the shadows We remember Fred as a student. In class tossed against a palette of make-believe, surrounded by he was good. Good to the point, for this the emotional architecture of the human heart. writer at least, of driving his instructor to J object first of all to Osborn's play because it is di- special preparation and care in the presenta- dactic. And I say that didacticism in the theatre is ges- tion of the lesson. More than one slip by us turing with the downstage arm. was corrected or arrested by this student on This didacticism concerns itself with a plea for the the front row, yet there was about him so American way oi life. Be it far from me to attempt dis- much honesty of purpose that never once Dean Alvey i\1. Isanogle counting the goodness and beauty of the American way. could we feel unkindly towards him, but It is good and beautiful to everyone, and extremely im- rather a greater needs for accuracy and Who was born in Frederick County'? smilingly remembered, "for we portant-even to those who have never actually lived in study. It \ViaS our pleasure to award him the Barbara Fritchie! charged only $120 board and tuition America. History Excellence prize, upon the comple- Yes, but who else? Someone who a year." -< We are living in a politically focused era. This is the tion of his junior year. Probably had he con- has rendered valuable services to Prom 1911 to 1920, he ran his fath- reason I see for asserting that lasting art (a substitu- tinued in his senior year he would have won western Mar-yland College? er's farm, while teaching in the Thur- tion, if you will, for "good art") seldom comes from a it again and thus become the first student to That's right-Dean Alvey M. Isa- mont High School. time of war. It isn't that great quantities aren't being pro- win the prize in successive years. If we were nogle. With this background, Dr. Isano- duced, but that the outlook of the artist is greatly warped, directed to pick on the basis of scholarship Don't let these few questions bore gle began his work at western Mary- and his sensibility strangely kindled. The American way the five best students from all we have you. I have no intentions of blessing land College. He has never lost his of life is extremely important to all of us-now. But the taught, we should have no difficulty in as- the Gold Bug with a DI·. I. Q. Col" zeal for the teaching profession. chances are jt shan't be in three hundred Broadway sea- signing Fred Kullmar an early place on this umn. The questions are there to lend sons from now. list. If to scholarship were added good breed- atmosphere to an article about a rnun • Hobbies Too Secondly, I object to the presentation of a book on the ing, character, and a wholesomeness of out- who has devoted his life to the fur- I doubted whether a man so wrap- stage. Even a book by John Hersey. Hersey is a newspa- look, we should judge him distinguished therance of education. ped up in his subject could have hob- per correspondent. His book is a newspaper man's account even in this company of five. e Amlable, Little bies; but I falteringly inquired about of one phase of the war presented to the people back We remember Fred as a soldier. The army "Dean I," the amiable little mall them. home. The small love story makes the newspaper man's took him from us in 1943. After months who heads our department of educ- He smiled benignly and replied, "I account more palatable, and worth the time spent for the away he returned in company of other cation, has been on the Hill since would never think of retiring if 1 reader who must mix a small love story with everything R.O.T.C. men for a few weeks. He was re- 1920. He was the first teacher to be didn't have two such captivating hob- he sees, reads, or hears. Very well. But the stage is not a jected for Officers Candidates School becau~e appointed by Dr. Ward, former presi- bies as gardening and shop. I don't wirephoto room. he was color blind. Rejected because of hIS dent of the college. know which J like better. I used to In fact, I object to the adaptation of any book for the eyes he returned to the ranks, and proving "Dean I," after attending high grow gladioli; now I grow vegetables stage. Such a play has two major handicaps to overcome; himself a good shot was issued a sniper's school for one year in walkersville, to give to people. the previous visualization in the reader's mind of how rifle with telescopic sights. Never by word of studied at Millersville State Teach- the play should look and sound; and the transition from tongue 'or pen did we know him to complain ers' College in Pennsylvania, and then • Would Be Architect one medium of expression to an entirely different one. Ob- or show bitterness because of his rejection. at St. John's College, Annapolis, "Dean 1" has a shop in the base- viously, these handicaps are not present when the audi- In September he went overseas. November where he received his degree in 1898. merit of his ultra-modern home which ence contains readers with no mental integrity, or those 17th found him in Germany, but not yet III he designed. His pipe dream ambi- who find no discomfiture in translating an arrangement combat. On the 20th he was killed. The sac- .At Frederick High tion was to become an architect. of life from a painting to a choregraphic plan of it. rifice was quickly made. For a few years, the Frederick Western Maryland College is proud When Ph.D.'s are given for scholars who convert plays The death of Fred Kullmar distresses us, High School claimed Dean Isanog)e to have on its faculty a man who into books than I shall absolutely despair, and follow but his passing is not unique in these days of 8S vice-principal. Then he traveled early in life plowed his furrows in Maud into the garden. The novel and the play are two dis- sorrow, except as the death of a soldier to Charles County, Maryland. There, the field of education and therein unct forms and make entirely diverse demands upon ail brings special grief to those who loved him in La Plata, in 1903, he built Me- planted the seeds of his talents and concerned. Too many priceless chips fall to the floor under best. His sacrifice is but one among so many. Donough Institute. "A· privately en- per~onality, the 1;irvest of which has the workshop bench. Together they rebuke us for our grumbling, dowed charity school, "Dean I" enriched the lives of many. Frederic March is said to give the best performance of convict us of unmitigated selfishness that his career in A Bell for Ada:no. As he walked away from while they die, we scarcely bother to give his last curtain call, I decided that an arrogant actor, blood to snatch some back to life from the ewp'4e~ real or imagined, is distasteful. And I was glad that jaws of death. . . Frederick March showed no signs of such-while on that Fred Kullmar's work is done. Nothmg we may do, nothing we may say can ad~ to the By Don Capobianco stage, at least. But there is one advantage to being an is always in a figure encased arrogance arrogant actor: sacrifice or character, or stature of him who that has perfect posture. died that his country might live in undimin- I find it increasingly difficult to be- ways he fought, killed and destroyed ished freedom. lieve that we can never hope to have human life and property. For him a peaceful world because the desire there are built great monuments of for war is inherent in man. This to stupendous cost, parades are held, POET'S ANGLE me appears to be a defeatist attitude with all the fanfare that accompanies especially since I believe man's war- them. Here is the "shining example" like nature is acquired and not in- that is set before our youth. There is born. Else why do some abhor war if nothing wrong with that since we are THE GOLD BUG it is, supposedly, a part of man's na- doing it and we cannot err. Song Of Love ture? Official student newspaper of Western Maryland Col- .Setting For War .Heroes Of Youth 'Tis early; I walk abroad lege, published semi-monthly, on Thursday, during Oc- The young child is told from earl- Where grass is bright with dew. tober, November, January, February, , March, and April, It is no wonder that a person par- iest stages of understanding about I think of him. and monthly during September, Deeember.tand May. En- ticipates in war when he has been ed· the great fights of cowboys and In- tered as second class matter at Westminster Post office, ucated and conditioned to it. Our dians. He is allowed to go to the under the Act of March 3, 1879. greatest breach with Nazism and movies and see these stories acted out I pass beneath trees Fascism has heen the educating of in all their gory details. He is thrill- Where he sits with me Subscription Price $2.00 a Year youth to look upon war as a high and ed. He is given a new hero-a fight- Unbraiding love's sweet intricacy. noble ideal. We have b~en thoroughly ing cowboy. Add to this a hundred Editor-in-Chicf. . Lillian Jackson, '45 repulsed by tbe doctrine of hate and other similarly-styled heroes for the I lean on the chest Managing Edit"'"'............................... "Mary Va. Webb, '45 destruction of others for the advance- youth to admire and then one can see Of our apple tree; News Editors .... Virginia Voorhees, '46 ment of the state which have been that it is no wonder that we glory in The world is a toy for me. John Del Vecchio, '47 preached to and instilled in the minds Copy Editors . M;:~ra;eL~:]~~~', :!! of these youths. We denounced Naz- war. But we are not conditioned to it; A drop of dew declaims the day it says here. it is inborn in us-so ism and Fascism whenever possible, And my mind is Business Manager .. Dennis Blizard, '45 There is now a proposed bill under All silent then. Advertising- Manager Margaret Frederich, '45 yet we let weeds grow in our own way which will provide for peacetime Circulation Managers ........................ Fred Brown, '48 cultural yards. conscription of American youth so Stooping, I stretch out a Hilmure Lang'rall, '48 •• Education Too Pure that we will always have a large, Contributors: We will find, if we take the time, standing army and be prepared for Clumsy hand. And 10, John Barnes, Charles Brooks, Kaye Buckel, Don Capo- The beauty is gone. bianco, Daphne Clark, Onalee Cohen, Mary Davies, Betty that in many respects we have not the next war. It is right, we are told, Dixon, Joyce Edwards, Thelma Evans, Jan Lee Ganz, been too pure in the education of our. to have a large army to protect our- Mae Langrall, Louise Mesloh. Allen Poffenberger, Fern youth. Inspect the history text books selves; but we found it wrong for Only tears remain used in teaching young America; in other nations to do so. We find it per- Of that jeweled counterpane; ~r:.~no~e~~i1~~bJ~~s~ S~I~h, ~~;b~~~i~, ~~~g;n~iiZ:!t~Stt How like love was this ecstasy. Todd, Josephine Bove, Pat Donovan, Doris Hines, Donna them is contained more about the missible to instill militarism in our Duvall. Ruth Cal!ahan, Don Fedder, Fred Morgan, Min- wars and wonderful battles fought youth but it was wrong for Germany deUe Seltzer, Jeanne Berryman, Jan Riggs, Betty Keck- than the pursuits of cultural, social, to do so. We want a peaceful world 'Tis early; I walk abroad ler, Jean Tull, Dorothy Schubert. and scientific advancement of Ameri- in the future, but we teach our youth Where grass is green. Studcnt Advisory Council: ca. The military hero is idolized and the arts of war. 'We want to make an I think. Gloria Mathias, Vernelle Ports, Peg Thompson, Robert -S.J.R. Adams, John Dorsey, Warren Roberts. almost deified for the courageous (Cant. on pare 4, col. 2)