Evening star., 1937-10-17
Mrs. Cloyd Heck Marpin Lends
Energies to Further G.. W. u.
Wife of President WOn
College Laurels in
Coed Days.
BY JESSE FAINT EVANS,

D1 JESSE AM ENhNSs
Popular with the George Washing
ton University faculty and student
body and possessor of an ever widening
circle of friends beyond the campus is
Mrs. Cloyd Heck Marvin, wife of the
university president, and herself q
former teacher in English and math-
ematics.
Like that of two other prominent
Californians, former President and
Mrs. Herbert Hoover, the Marvins' was
a campus romance with five years
elapsing before marriage. 1t began
when the then Dolly" dorothy Flea
nor) Belts was starting her college
course and Cloyd Heck Marvin, a
transfer from Leland Stanford Uni
versity, was beginning his sophomore
year in the University Of Southern
California. Both were majoring in
education. Pretty little Dolly" Belts,
not to be too far outclassed by the bril-
liant sophomore. proceeded to accom-
plish five years work in four with
the simultaneous attainment of the
coveted A. B. and teachers certificate
required by the State of California for
those who wished to teach within its
borders. Meantime the Thayer Eel
lowship at Harvard had been awarded
Cloyd Heck Marvin as the outstanding
senior of his graduating year.
A successful teaching experience fol-
lowed by Miss Belts in the Bonita or
Union High School near Pomona Col
lege, Calf, and a subsequent half
year in the city schools of Los Angeles.
Meantime the Harvard fellow was
home again and Dorothy Eleanor Belts
and Cloyd Heck Marvin were married
in July, 1917.
Wins Lieutenant Colonelcy.
BY this time our entry into the
World War had become a grim reality,
with the bridegroom of but a few
weeks volunteering for service. and
being admitted to a nearby officers
training camp. His appointment as a
captain in the Aviation Service in
charge of production for the Spruce
Production Division of our forces fol-
lowed. Subsequent assignments in the
line OF duty carried Capt. Marvin into
the Wllds of much of our Northwest
and to the eventual command of the
vancouver Barracks of the State of
Washington as lieutenant colonel
with the little bride following gamely
along whenever and wherever she
could, and keeping house under all
sorts of pioneer conditions as oppor-
tunity afforded
Happily the war became simply an
historic interlude in their lives. I'M
medlately after its conclusion, the
then Col. Marvin returned to Harvard
University to take up the interrupted
work for his doctors degree in philoso-
ply which he had set aside to serve
his country. This time his wife was
at his side. The problem of staying
long hours at desk in their little
apartment or in the even more re-
strlcted area of research libraries was
no 1nconsiderable one in itself for
the husband who had spent the two
previous years of his life in SOLDERING
ana the drive of mass production on
gigantic scale for wartime neces-
Stiles IN the midst of primeval forests
Presses Through With Task.
But she said: My husband stuck
doggedly at his task even during those
warm Summer months in Cambridge
and Boston. Many times the only
relaxation and recreation he DER
mltted himself were our long walks
together late in the evenings after
a stopping point seemed to have been
reached in the daily agenda which
ne set up for himself. As a result