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New Trustees
FOURTEEN new trustees and three honorary
trustees were voted into membership at
the annual spring board meeting held on
campus April 18. Ejected for a three-year
these new trustees bring the Board membership
term,
to a total of 42.
From Baltimore are Charles L. Hayes. secretarytreasurer
of Monumental Corporation; Robert W.
Schaefer. executive vice president of the First National
Bank of Maryland; James Olfson. presiden!
O.
of General Elevator Company, lnc.: R. Peter
Urquhart, senior vice president and regional director
for Alexander and Alexander; William S. Keigler.
chairman of the board and president of the C. M.
Kemp Manufacturing Company; Clarence W
Blount, Senator from District 41, Baltimore City;
and Prank C. Robey lr., member of the House of
Delegates.
A graduate of {he University of North Carolina,
Mr. Hayes is a certified public accountant. He is a
member of the board of directors and currently
president of the Junior Achievement of Metropolitan
Baltimore, Inc. He also is a fellow of the Life
Office Management Institute and past chairperson
of the Parents Board at WMC.
Robert Schaefer, first employed by the First National
Bank in 195 I. interrupted his career to serve
as assistant fiscal officer for the Second Marine Air
Wing, North Carolina. He returned to First National
in 1959 and was made executive vice president in
1973.
He is a graduate of both the University of Baltimore
and Loyola College and serves on the boards
of the United Way of Centra! Maryland, the Maryland
General Hospital, the Industrial Development
Authority of Baltimore City, and the Baltimore
Aquarium
James Olfson, president of General Elevator Co.,
is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin where
he holds degrees in mechanical engineering and
law. He is a member of the state bar in both Wisconsin
and Maryland and is admitted to practice as
a patent attorney before the U. S. Patent Office. He
serves as a member of the board to Annapolis
Banking and Trust Company. and Danko Arlington.
Inc. Mr. Olfson is the chairman of the Overall Economic
Development Committee for Anne Arundel
County and a member of the Rotary Club of Bulti-
Peter Urquhart is a 1958 graduate of Western
Maryland College where he has served as an officer
of the Alumni Association. He is an active civic
leader and serves on the board of Junior Achievement,
and is an honorary life member of the
Greater Baltimore Committee. He also served as the
vice president and member of the Executive Committee,
Maryland State Golf Association.
William Keigler is a member of the President's
Association of the American Management Association,
the Baltimore Chapter of the North American
Society of Corporate Planners and the National Association
of Manufacturers. is a graduate of St
He
Paul's School for Boys and the University Baltimore,
of
and serves as president of the Lacrosse Foun-
dation Inc. Mr. Keigler is also an active member of
'1I4M.iii' !"i.a:n!
It just Occurs
By Ralph C. John, President
There is a stellar phenomenon in contempo_
rary American life called the volunteer
When the social history of the period is writ:
~~'c~~~~o~~.ons
will have to be given sig-
These volunteers have no similarity to the
raucus 30.000 who answered the call for
2,800 men at the beginning of the Mexican
War, therebychrislening their native Tcnnes,
see the "Volunteer State." These other persons
respond to the sound or a different
d:ummer an.d serve a different purpose. They
grve of their tim.e. energy and talents (and
~requenlly of theIr material resources) in the
mterest of eleemosynary causes in their communities
So important is this class of citizens. and
dependent are many organizatiOns llpon
so
them. that entrepreneurial academics in a
number of universities have established Mas_
ter of Business Administration programs for
professionals who administer non-profit agen-
I I C II B d of Trustees are (first row, I. to r.J: Dr. William A. Holmes. Mr
New members of the WeSlefll Mary (II1C a ege oar' d
L Ml Mary W Tereshinski, MI. Dolores J. Snyder. Mr.
M. Lee Rice. Mr. R. Peter Urquhart. Ms. Ann BUr/lSI e over ~~Idrow I' /0 r)" Mr William S. Keiglcr, Mr. Lloyd
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:rB'ounr. M;. John'son D. Bowie (alumni visitor), Mr.
Charles L. Hayes and The Honorable Frank C. Robey. Jr.
ctcs that depend largely upon nonprofessionaL
voluntary personnel.
Interestingly, volunteerism is largely an
American institution. and one that makes it
possible for many functions (as cancer reo
search. Meals on Wheels. educational telcvision.
and symphony orchestras) to remain at
least partially under private control. There is
not.m.uch voluntecnsm in highly socialized
~ocle.lles, because the state provides the serv-
Ices m whatever degree they are available
.~estern Maryland's great wealth. itsp;inclpalendowment,
IS In human capital. It isin
teachers who st.ay here, even though they
have the capability o:fea.rning more else-
~here. It. compounds In friends who believe
In. what IS happening on the Hi!! and who,
wtnicut any expectation of repayment for
even out-or-pocket cxpenscs , spend long
hours :vorkm~ ffthe place as trustees, in the
alummaSsoclatlon or as membcrs of one of
the fund boards.
Lat~ the other evening I Came through
Elderd~ee Hall on my way to the office. after
a meetmg of the Executive Committee of the
Boar,d of Trustees in Baltimore. It had been a
partIcularly good meeting (several comrnentedon
the fact), one in the debate and decisions
of which the strength of the trustees
once again had been demonstrated,
At the foot of the stairs in Eldcrdice wa~ a
sign with an arrow pointing upward, and With
one word under [he arrow: Phona[hon. A
group of alumni on the second fIor was
making calls in support of the alumni fund.
The trustees and alumni who were working
for the college in Baltimore and Westminster
that evening were volunteers. The thought
once again hit my mind: How could we do II
without them'
The things that motivate people to volunteerism
arc complex, or at least some tell us
this is the case. There are references to psychic
capital. the security of an identification
or the need to do something different. There
is another factor, however, on which I refuse
to give up. It is the factor of altruism. which
involves a deliberate. rational commitment to
sclflessservice.
Most who give so much of themselves for
good causes. inclUding Western Maryland.
dO.not.need to make the effon to find another
afflliahOn or to satisfy some obscure Freudian
need. T~e.y.do it out of a high sense of moral
responslblilly and as an e"pression of devo.
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tion to the place or cause in the interest of
which they giveofthmsclves. . ccle-
The purpose of this statem.ent. IS is [0 t~t
bratevolunteerism. Moresr