May 19,1951
Frederic R. Crownfield Is Man
With Love of God and Nature
Rx—one intfjligent boy, one Mas
sachusetts pond, one good micro
scope. Mix together throughout
warm summer afternoons, being
sure to provide evening leisure to
promote absorption and study by
the boy of the information so gath
ered.
Frederic R. Crownfield was the
boy of that prescription, and the
Great Druggist got the expected
result—a man with the lifelong love
of science and of nature; a man
with a deep, abiding love of God.
The boy did exactly as millions
of other boys have done and will
do forever. He watched and fished
and scooped up the citizens of the
shallow edges, learning their habits
and their enemies, whom they ate
and who ate them.
But mere observation was not
enough. He began to search for
the key to the system, to wonder
how they fitted into the greater
order of living things. His micro
scope and his books helped he 5
could classify and identify and see
the outlines of the system, but he
never learned all he would have
liked to.
Gradually his interest broadened
into the fields of chemistry and
physics, and the stirrings of his
childhood began to urge him into
the field of religion.
When the young man from Bal
timore got to C.C.N.Y., he majored
in math and physics, but he took
his Ph.D. in the History and Phi
losophy of Religion at Harvard. He
had become interested in photog
raphy and astronomy as hobbies,
and when he began teaching he
took up another—the leadership
of boys: Sea Scouting.
In 1926 he married lowa-born
Margaret Robbins, the lovely,
charming lady who now serves so
ably as secretary to President Mil
ner. They have three sons: Fred
eric Junior is a Phy.D. in physics
from Lehigh University, David is
now in Yale Divinity School after
graduating from Harvard, and Bil
ly, a photo bug like his old man,
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is a Junior in Guilford High School.
Anyone over 21 and without a cou
ple of degrees in evidently a back
ward child in the Crownfield family.
In 1946 Dr. Crownfield came to
Guilford from New Church Theo-
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DR. FREDERIC R. CROWNFIELD
logical School in Cambridge, where
he had been teaching since his grad
uation. Primarily interested in re
ligion, he had taught it for his
entire career, and has continued
here. As one of Guilford's work
horses, he is teaching three religion
courses and Natural Science (in
which field he is writing an excel
lent textbook) plus serving as Li
brarian. "I can't figure out which
I do in my spare time," he says.
When asked what he prefers to
teach, he was unable to decide,
since "I enjoy them about equally.
Sometimes one is my favorite, and
sometimes another. If I had to
choose now, it would probably be
the library" because it gives him
THE GUILFORDIAN
Defense Department
Does Not Ask Speed-Up
In College Program
Ann Arbor, Mich.— (I.P.) —The
U. S. Department of Defense has
not requested educational institu
tions to accelerate their academic
programs, Robert L. Williams, as
sistant to the provost of the Uni
versity of Michigan, declared here.
Williams is serving as the coordi
nator to keep the University in
touch with developments at Wash
ington relating to the national
emergency.
He quoted an assistant secretary
of the Army as saying, "The De
partment of the Army has no occa
sion to request the colleges and
universities to accelerate their aca
demic programs at this time."
Williams said similar views had
been indicated to the University
by representatives of the Navy, Ma
rines and Air Force. He pointed
out that the armed forces are seri
ous in this point of view since nei
ther the military academy at West
Point nor the naval academy at
Annapolis had been asked to speed
up their educational programs.
Williams also pointed out that
extensive special training programs
such as colleges and universities
taught for the armed forces during
the last war are not contemplated
at this time by the armed forces.
a chance for his beloved research.
He has only recently presented a
paper on Paul's opponents to the
Society for Biblical Literature and
Exegesis. (Exegesis: a critical ex
planation of a portion of scripture.)
Jack of all trades and master of
none, they say, but here is a man
who evidently becomes master of
any trade he chooses. Frederic R.
Crownfield, Man of God, Man of
Science, Man of Letters, successful
husband and father, master hobby
ist—a gentleman and a scholar.
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HIRAM HILTY AND EDWARD STANNARD
Edward Stannard,
His People Are
Basically the Puerto Ricans are
peace-loving and definitely do not
advocate aggression similar to the
recent attempt to assassinate Pres
ident Truman in Washington, a so
ciology major here from the island
of Puerto Rico revealed.
"In general the people want to
use democratic and peaceful pro
cedures —whether it be for state
hood, dominion, or any other status
other than colonization. They are
practical people who know the re
sults of violence in solving their
basic problems," opined Edward
Stannard, student from Puerto Nu
evo, Puerto Rico.
"They are deeply religious," Stan
nard continued. "For over 400 years
they have been Spanish Catholics
who emphasize a very strong fam
ily unit . . . this grows out of the
Spanish culture and spiritual her
itage."
The thirty-one-year-old sociology
major, who has spent considerable
time on the island, explained that
all the people are against being
a colony df the United States, but
they disagree on what status they
want —statehood or otherwise.
Born in Woodsville, New Hamp
shirt, Stannard, who supports some
200 pounds and speaks Spanish with
proficiency, came to Guilford in
order "to finish in a small friendly
Quaker college." At the moment
his home is in Puerto Nuevo, a
residential section of Rio Piedras,
second largest city of the island.
His wife, whom he met in the
United States, is a native Puerto
Rican and is now employed there.
As a student of sociology prior
to entering Guilford last fall, he
studied at the University of New
Hampshire and also had a year's
study at Bangor Theological Sem
inary in Maine. Stannard, a Quak
er, has worked for the American
Friends Service Committee and tak
en courses at the University of
Puerto Rico.
Speaking with a Spanish dialect,
the Guilford student said that we
Americans should try to understand
our Puerto Rican neighbors. "Just
like other nations, the average cit
izen there has many serious prob
lems constantly confronting him."
The pressure of population is ter
rific. On the island, which is 100
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Puerto Rican, Says
Peace-Loving
miles long and mountainous, there
is a population of over two million,
or 600 persons per square mile,
he said. Besides the population dif
ficulties, agriculture is suffering be
cause of no conservation program,
Stannard said.
However, since 1940 the govern
ment has been trying to raise the
standard of living. Because of the
recent hurricanes and loss of Euro
pean markets, the output of to
bacco and coffee has been reduced.
But today they are trying to build
up the pineapple industry. Recent
American investments have made
the picture look a little brighter,"
Stannard said.
Due to these conditions, unem
ployment and health facilities are
below what they should be. On
this latter problem Stannard has
made a study, since he is writing
a thesis on "The Problem of Health
and Hospital Care in Puerto Rico."
Cold statistics do not give an
excellent picture, Stannard feels.
He quickly cited that over 95,000
persons live in rural slum areas,
and about eighty per cent can't pay
for any medical care whatsoever.
"Due to a diet of rice, beans and
codfish, malnutrition is a very grave
problem, also. However, there are
many improvements being made,"
Stannard said.
"Up until 1928 the municipal hos
pitals were politically dominated.
There were just two hospitals and
a leper colony operated by the
insular government. Since 1938
there has been rapid expansion to
care for the indigent tuberculosis
cases. At the present time new
health clinics are being made pos
sible through the aid of the Fed
eral government under the Federal
Hospital Survey and Construction
Act. Because of this the death rate
has been lowered considerably.
"The great need at the moment
is for the expansion of the hos
pitals for mental cases," he added.
Stannard has lived with the Puer
to Ricans. He feels we should
learn to understand them; we
should not generalize because "even
though there is dire poverty, they
are essentially a happy people; they
are able to sing—something like
the American Negro, they have
that feeling of the joy of living."