The Record of the Class
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H I" /i4% I»- <3r>^''?^i 2^.^/-^. /^ ^^^ A .Nie^^^^ TK ecor 1949 Qw A ^o.'^ . RANSITION has been the fea- ture of our stay at Haverford. Some of us had our initial college da)s interrupted by service for our country. More recently, all of us have contributed to the post- war return to normalcy of college activities and athletics. In Roberts Hall, new officeiis of ad- ministration have joined Mac and they have shared with us the problems of readjustment. Apart from these changes, Haverford's spiritual environment has remained undisturbed and its academic opportunities have continued to prosper. It has been our purpose and privilege to benefit from them. Perhaps we haven't done so badly. Rufus Jones was heard to say last year that the quality of the student body was higher than ever. With all due credit to the "cream of the crop" Rhinie classes that have followed us, we trust that a share of the compliment may be ours. It is now time to move from behind Mac's "Academic Curtain." Before we go, we pause to leave our RECORD of '49 . DEDICATION Page 6 THE CAMPUS 8 ADMINISTRATION 12 SENIORS 15 ACTIVITIES 69 ATHLETICS 85 FEATURES 107 DEDICAT Doc Leake Ragland, a self-styled "damn good man," hiis been at Haverford since the spring of 1919. He baits Rhinies with glee, tapes bum ankles with amazing skill, chews out gold-bricks, and gives extra encouragement to the members of Haverford's athletic teams. The upkeep and responsibility of our revered gym have been in Doc's capable hands along with his myriad other duties. A jack-of-all-trades, he is equally at home shaping shoulder pads to muscular necks, giving a famous "charlie horse" massage, and paying polished compli- ments from behind a bowl of Leake-mixed punch. "His sense of humor, though at times most biting, has a good- natured twist and serves to prove that the master of repartee is not always found in an English course. Leake carries out his own Customs Committee policy; when he blasts, the Rhinies jump. However, a throaty chuckle carrying no malice follows each reprimand, and if a request for "white stuff" caused the flare-up, it is always delivered in spite of Doc's assertions to the contrary. Doc Leake is forever firing the imaginations of those who compete for the Scarlet and Black with his stories of other winning Haverford teams and the sparkplugs who led them to victory. His boundless supply of facts and figures is borne out by the collection of team pictures, programs, and tattered clippings in his training room. Leake has no difficulty in connecting names, classes, and activities of returning grads who are again haunted by the musty scent of locker room and wintergreen. His deep attachment to Haverford and a genuine human touch give Doc Leake the number one position in the eyes of the class of "49. rsLeahe I'^aaiandr XU MJi // INISTRATION GILBERT F. WHITE President ARCHIBALD MacINTOSH Vice-President LESTER C. HAWORTH Vice-President GILBERT T. HOAG Dean ALDO CASELLI Comptroller and Business Manager Posing on the steps of their headquarters are Messrs. Hoag, Haworth, White and Macintosh. (Absent: Mr. Caselli.) First Ron: Sargent, Mrs. Asensio, Kelly, Snyder, Watson, Post, Macintosh, White, Hoag, Lunt, Mcldriim, Dunn, Sutton, -Oakley, Teaf. Second How: Sollmann, Randall, Drake, Benham, Jones, Herndon, Pepinsky. Reid, Pfund, Comfort, Holmes, Cadbury, Wylie, Flight, Haddlcton, Benfey. Third Ron: Thomsen, Street, Hetzel, Gutwirth. Lester, Foss, Ashtnead, Bruns, Hunter, Steer, N. Wilson, Somers, Asensio. FACULTY Webster's dictionary makes the profound state- accounts of the experiences of several professors who leaves. ment that a professor is "A person who professes returned this year from sabbatical ." ... a person who publicly teaches. And while Wc found out that Ralph Sargent had completed this definition is very sound and scientific, it is rather his Shakespearian research and had replaced his "Do limited; and we here at Haverford have been made Not Disturb" sign with a ""Welcome" mat; that more aware during this last year that a professor is Arnold Post had returned from California to not merely a nervous, graying, brainy individual recuperate from his Thursday to Tuesday week ends; comes in two convenient forms with- who —with and that John Kelly had barely made the boat back to out spectacles. the States as a result of trying to evade cigarette- seeking Frauleins; that Douglas Steere, under the Indeed, one of the high spots of the year was the sponsorship of the American Friends' Service Com- new Campus Day, during which our faculty ex- mittee, had traveled throughout Europe and Fin- hibited a range of talents considerably beyond Web- land checking up on the activities of Howard Teaf; ster's definition. Who will scxm forget, for instance, and that Cletus ""Lone Star" Oakley had spent the display of painting technique oflFered up by much of his vacation time in Mexico, a place which, a dungaree-clad president of Haverford College, as he mentioned, is located in lower Texas. whose name we shall not mention? The spread of faculty extracurricular activity was wide, from the So, considering the evidence, we may have to upnxiting of poison ivy to the felling of trees in write the dictionary publishers a letter and enclose the Haverford Black Forest. the following, "Professor: a sub-species of homo- sapiens which professionally professes to make a Our ideas aKiut the versatility of professors living, but which, in its spare time, exhibits strangely received a further hcxist when we listened to human characteristics." Thirteen A TRIBUTE Ruf... W. Jones (1863-1948) We the students, those with whom his thoughts constantly lay, are acutely aware of the absence of Rufus Jones, our teacher, spu'itual guide and friend. We have known an example of greatness in our time, and can but inadequately express praise for a life which speaks so well for itself. He has left with us a legacy, an impression which will always remain. The emphasis placed by Rufus upon the positive, upon youth and upon progress, can be found in some of his last written words. The friendly voice that so enthusi' astically told of the Maine sunsets and the 23rd psalm is still familiar to us as it says: One trouble with now is that we move for the most part in the grooves of hiihit. We go on doing what has been done before. We lac\ freshness^ and creative alive, power . I see nothing for it but that we must once more become inwardly freshly creative, quic\ wnh expectation, beating out new paths, new trails for the souls of men weary of the old world and its deadlv forms, and tts habit of stagger- ing from one war to another one. These words might well have been directed to a class about to leave Haverford. Our constant awareness of them v^/ill be a most fitting tribute to him. Fourteen WILLIAM W. AMBLER, JR. Philadelphia, Pa. Mathematics Students' Council 1, 2, Secretary Football 1, 2, 3, 4; Baseball 1, 2: Varsity Club 1. 2, 4; Triangle Society. Bill . master mathematician . life slightly on the '42 serious side . veteran of the famous season ... a pint size tackle to a tank size tackier . "Fm getting too old to play football"" . model railroad fan . Roy"s joy . the gridiron and his nose don't . mix . "Listen to my knees squeak"" . tending toward teaching. BRUCE L. BAER Chapel Hill, N. C. Chemistry Wrestling 2, 3; 'Varsity Club 3, 4. Bruce ... the personality kid . 12-hour-day student hillbilly a short . from North Carolina but no ... term photographic memory . "Fm built more in proportion than you, 'Whit"" . those quick trips to . in Darwin New York . "Gosh Joan!"' "A" wrestling . takes time out for some good traveling down Duke way for med school. M. OMAR BAILEY West Hartford, Conn. Political Science 3; y^ews 1; 'Varsity Club J. V. Soccer h Tennis Manager 2, 4: Glee Club 1; Dance Committee 3, 4: Class Night 2, 3, 4. Omar ... a quaint Quaker . that twinkle in his eye ... a suave and knowing critic ... 5th Entry's pillar of virtue . efficient tennis manager . tongue like a Blue Blade . "I'm winning 40 love, Hoppy"" . Moses is in the bullrushes with Mutt . will . symphony music to barroom ballads always make his 4'/2 per cent. Sixteen ROBERT K. BAKER Palmerton, Pa. Political Science Football 1; Ba.-kctb.ill 1, 3; Track 1, 2; Varsity Club 1, 2, 3, 4, . a Bake . fabulous M.P. stories . "That was in night beauty last night" . four Ginsbergs one . martinis . three college sports and darts . mixes in a coffee pot . "Up in Palmerton" . "What's an easy English course" . plays Mutt to Bill's Jeff . "Two no trump is not a forcing bid" . trained once and didn't like it . grad school and chasing ambuhmces. WILLIAM P. BAKER, JR. Palmerton, Pa. Chemistry Football 1, 2; Basketball 1, 2, 3; Track 2; Varsity Club 1, 2, J, 4; Chemistry Club 3, 4. Bill . member of the Meldrum faculty . cracker- jack chemist . got two roommates through . wooden injun of Mother's and veteran dart expert . "Think I should call her tonight?" . great believer in classical music . "What color is that light?" . worst monotone on campus . "Which gives the worst headache, martinis, women, or song?" . trained once and didn't like it . headed for grad school and a Ph.D. VIRGIL B. BALDI, JR. Philadelphia, Pa. Sociology Football 1, 2, 3; Cap and Bells 1, 2, 3, 4; Varsity Club 1, 2, 3, 4; Glee Club 1, 2, 3, 4; I.F.O.