The Record of the Class

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X '!»'«•. >>^ ^ .^ ^ v^-f/'.'VS^ .1 i|t/:J^^.;^|^':^ I THE 1964 RECORD HAVERFORD COLLEGE HAVERFORD, PENNSYLVANIA Editors Joel Sunderman Eric Lob Faculty Alan Williamson Extracurricular Paul Hopper Athletics Lawrence Salmen Photography Eric Lob Business Rick Van Berg Frank Popper Richard Luke Advertising David Olton Drawings Christopher Glass Cover Eric Lob Christopher Glass The RECORD Staff wishes to thank Mr. Fred Olsen, publishers representative, for his help. / \ A' \ 'V> \ V ,/ ^£^ 'Jl Administration 7 Faculty 14 Class History 37 Seniors 40 Extracurricular 92 Athletics 123 : ADMINISTRATION Scholarship gives Haverford College its passion- ate, blood-stained veneer. The reality behind this necessary and fulfilled pretention is the Corpora- tion of Haverford College, an American enterprise whose measurable products are words, graduates, and information. This organization's function within national context is mostly intangible Haverford is one of America's great psychic broad- casting-stations of symbolic environment and thought. Essentially its residents exist in an intellectual orientation sequestered from the. typical corporate world. Although the College maintains a variant of corporate structure (Board of Man- agers, President, etc.), the implications of Haver- ford's corporate hierarchy are metamorphosed by its supei"vision of the phantom material, education. The College Administration must relate our fluid world of metabolizing minds to the more congealed sensibilities of non-Academe, that coeval kingdom between Railroad Avenue and the intellectual Eden-groves in Bryn Mawr. Only radicals will attack the Administration for Janus-facing two worlds. The College needs its buf- fer between the innocence of scholarship and the unchecked opportunism of the Main Line. The Administration serves as material underpinning for Haverford's educational venture : faculty and students operate within a structure that articu- lates them and symbolically guards their status. Within this situation, members of the Administra- tion receive indivdual evaluation from the College community. The Adminisration offers for judg- ment unbelievably diverse collective experience and achievement. Co-operatively they could con- verse in Japanese about the application of inor- ganic chemistry to ping-pong tables on patrol boats beached at Naples. As partial result of this broad capability, few people can reasonably con- decks, a diligent stewardess aids her Southern sider the formal management of the College labor-force toward fulfilling someone's vision of a monolithic. The atmosphere of this management, troop-canteen. The learned crew, on watch along however, is decidely friendly. The Administration the railings of the ship, bounce their opinions off customarily shows Quaker independence in its the superstructure's armor-plate and hope that some decisions. The usual official directive to the College ideas will pierce to the ship's internal guidance- community is signed by just one of several people. system, installed Icng ago by Rufus Jones in The one person is, perhaps with consultation, metaphysical collaboration with George Fox. responsible for the decision involved. This condi- But, under continual kamikaze-attacks by tion represents a rather unequivocal division of liberals, the Administration's bulkheads do not authority. fall. Neither does the Administration fire anti- Education in America has become the only na- aircraft responses at the student-pilots who harass tional institution that forges the parameters of its it. The Administration, like a battleship, is a own integrity. Other social structures (Army. standing target, while its opponents have flexibility Church, Government, etc.) experience external of approach and can drop bombs and leave. This philosophic and political pressures. Undergraduate military situation is analogous to gants' annoying education now responds, with respect to its meth- a swimming lion. The Administration's deferise, ods and principles, chiefly to the level of scholarly like the lion's, has been partially to deny the im- achievement in graduate schools. M.D., L.L.B., and portance of the criticism it receives. Somehow the Ph.D. candidates are Academe's front-line troops kamikaze-attacks seem necessary expressions of and they determine the training that hordes of students who want to smash their bodies on their collegiate reservists receive. Haverford's Adminis- intellectual aircraft against the world. The Admin- tration acknowledges this chain of educational isrative battleship or lion is influenced by these causality by preserving Haverford as a preparatory attacks, but rarely forced to negotiate significant school for graduate education. This status seems self-change. What piques the attackers (and this ideal for the College. Universities in general must is an undeniable shortcoming in the defenders' posi- subconsciously preen students for the graduate tion) is the defense inability to counter as facilities located on campus. In this situation, many decisively as it is attacked. Inevitably, student- institutions through grandiose myopia have under- pilots and student-gnats are more clever and graduate facilities inferior to their graduate ones. limber-minded than their targets. Any serious in- By contrast, Haverford's relationship to grad- tellectual-radical will force himself to assimilate uate education now is similar to the situation enough education and verbal technique to make of a first-rate prep-school facing colleges. The this so. This truth (which liberals may hotly natty slogan "a concern for quality" shows that dispute) does not in itself suggest which side the Haverford Administration likes the idea cf contends justly. If it is granted that either in- hand-crafted, forward-looking scholars. Recently- telligence or intellectual achievement is associated added collegiate bureaucracy suggests, however, with moral truth, then hardly anyone can assert Haverford's regrettable swerve toward the environ- the moral correctness of Haverford's Administra- ment of a thorough, apotheosized Military Acad- tion pitted against the mental weight of faculty emy. and student protest. An educational environment for scholarship, this is one The men who, in effect, sail the S.S. Haverford forces respect and into the future occupy Roberts Hall. With their reason campus liberals are listened to much at all. deathgrip insistence on Quaker officers and a These liberals are, almost by definition, intellect- it recognized that chart-room filled with inner light, this Adminis- ually capable, although must be liberal ^r scholastically superior tration guides its vessel through endless fund-rais- not all the most ing, continually avoiding the perils of foundation of them oppose the Administration. grants. The College's pre-emininent captain, milk- Conservative forces in power at Haverford do chocolate in name, is substantial in action. Com- not generate enough intellectual wattage to answer petent first mates choose for him the ship's yearly liberal objections knowledgeably. The liberals, too, hundred-odd apprentice seamen. One admiral from do not want intelligent opposition to their ideas Japan keeps planning-apparatus, naught-ical com- (though liberals seem perversely grateful to find passes, and foreign-sounding speeches in his cabin. refutation) as strongly as they seek the corrective He repeatedly announces his tactical conclusions action their ideas demand. The liberal position to the seamen, who generally never learn what toward the Administration is, to quote one liberal, cosmology he is using to chart their course. Below "If they (Administration) do not change or get out, position indefensible on intel- they occupy a Haverford as its own son, and in return it seems lectual grounds, and the ultimate result of this to demand the gratitude of alliance and control. condition will be a decrease in Haverford's stature Such protective, possessive exercise of self-assumed as a college." Further argument insists that Quaker social power is perhaps part of the Quaker tradi- piety (but not pietism) has largely disappeared tion. A history professor at William Penn Charter at the College, and that Friends wish to continue School once contended that Quakers held political in power here mainly for reasons of personal control of Philadelphia for one hundred twenty-five expediency and doctrinal pride. Haverford's aca- years after they ceased to be a voting majority; demic environment would, by this argument, not he argued that they accomplished this control by deteriorate as a result of withdrawal of Quakers means of their continued position of financial from the Administration. Liberals contend that, dominance over the city. This argument seemed if appointments to central authority at the College to indicate that it was a tradition for Quakers were made on the basis of individual competence, to cling to social institutions established according without reference to religion, the number of able to principles of the Society of Friends. The ques- candidates for the College's administrative posts tion whether Quakers reahze that their achieve-

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