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Summer, 1972 • Volume 49 • Number 3 Special Reunion Report ■ ....■ .' i t , * pi i N£AA CHAMPIONS - > * ' * WeCRoUit® Gollege^Maga^/ie G G x=7Qie^ RollinsCV-' Qollege^agazineV^ "AND ALUMNIc,RECORD O TABLE OF CONTENTS Madame President Conversation with two female Student Association leaders, past and present Book-A-Year A brief look at the program and how it works Alumni Record Review of the 1972 Reunion Weekend and news of the classes News Notes A capsule summary of news and events of the College Letters From Abroad Informal reports from students studying in foreign countries lotfggfcot The Rollins College Magazine is published quarterly Fall, Winter, Spring and Summer by the Rollins College Office of Development and Public Relations, Winter Park, Florida 32789; and distributed to graduates, former students, seniors, parents and friends of Rollins College. Statements contained herein do not necessarily represent the official policy of Rollins College or the opinions of the editors of this publication. All communications and POD Forms 3579 should be sent to Rollins College, Box 13, Winter Park, Florida 32789. Second-class postage paid at Winter Park, Florida 32789. Madame President A conversation with two student association presidents, past and present. ^Bi&ta. %^L 4Vp m "Our ideas don't sound too far apa&twe were trying to organize and you're trying to reorganize." Ling/ Mr Madame President 'Much of the responsibility for making a new curriculum work will rest on the ability of students and faculty to relate to each other." Jennifer This spring, in an unusually heavy voting turnout, Rollins just fighting for a taste of power." students elected coed Jennifer Kaplan President of the Stu- dent Association for the upcoming academic year. By de- Jennifer "My platform was based mainly on revisions in the feating two male opponents for the executive position, Ms. Student Association constitution. I think we need to make Kaplan became the first female student government president some changes in our court system. For example, one idea since Linda Quails, now wife of Rollins baseball coach Boyd concerns the referral of rules violations from the student Coffie, won a hard-fought election in 1961. court to the Deans of Student Affairs. As it stands now all cases are brought to the deans first and then referred to the Jennifer is a 20 year old junior from Newton, Mass. Al- student court. We could take care of some cases ourselves, though she came to Rollins with plans of majoring in music, without having to go through the Office of Student Affairs. and still sings in the Chapel Choir, her major subject now is Other changes involve the reallocation of student funds, and Spanish. Bright, energetic and talented, she also dabbles in a new type of committee system. The committee idea I call art. She says she's not a Women's Libber — but with an air of ad hocracy (from Future Shock). If there's a job to be done soft competitiveness and self-confidence Jennifer is definitely I think a group of people who are really interested in the the "New Woman." project should be formed. Then when the work's finished Linda Quails Coffie was perhaps one of the first "New the group should be disbanded, freeing its members to go Women" at Rollins. Through all of her four years in college on to other things. There are very few students who want to she was a leader in campus activities. As president of the be involved with standing committees." Chapel Staff, co-chairman of the Orientation Committee, a counselor in the freshmen women's dorm, a member of Linda "Our ideas don't sound too far apart. We were trying to Libra Society, and an enthusiastic Kappa, she became some- organize and you're trying to reorganize. We had two years what of a legend in her own time. The fact was even ac- to prove to the faculty that Student Government could work. knowledged by the 1960-61 edition of Who's Who in Ameri- I always felt, however, that the faculty and administration can Colleges and Universities — Linda became the ffrst stu- wanted us to be able to govern ourselves. Perhaps I was a dent in Rollins' history to be listed in the publication during bit naive. I don't know now." her Junior year. Although she did not join the Peace Corps, Jennifer "The big difference now is that we must have a as a 1961 issue of the Sandspur reported she would, her justification for rules. I know that all regulations can't be services to the community of Winter Park are many and justified to everyone, but no one should have to obey a rule varied. The Coffies have two children, Ashley age 8, and just because it is a rule." Trey, 4. Not long after the 1972 election, Jennifer and Linda got Linda "My senior year ten women were selected to live in a together for coffee and conversation concerning the Rollins project called Honor House, where there were no rules. We student ten years ago and today. Have the issues and prob- had to earn the privilege of living there by maintaining high lems on the campus really changed? Are today's students scholastic averages and being active in campus affairs. In much more than a decade removed from those of 1960? An exchange we were given the right to completely govern our interviewer posed such questions to the duo and the ensuing lives. None of us abused the privilege, so the next year senior conversation literally spoke for itself. women with good grades were given keys to their sorority houses." QUESTION: What were the general issues considered in your presidential campaign? QUESTION: Was there/is there a feeling of campus unity at Rollins? Linda "The entire issue involved in my platform was the actual creation of three-branch student government. We had Linda "We always seemed to have a feeling of unity. But never really been involved in the making of any campus or there was also strong competition between sororities and academic policy. I advocated a judicial, legislative and execu- fraternities. However, they also encouraged their members tive form of government, but we weren't considering big to be active in campus organizations, so they helped to rein- rules changes such as challenging women's hours. We were force the unity of the school." "I don't remember anyone I knew saying they were unhappy. None of us had time to think about it. We were too busy to be discontented or bored." Linda Jennifer "Most of the school's campus unity seems to be gone now. But there's not a lot of sorority and fraternity competition either. Last year I tried to get something going to create some school spirit, but there's a lot of peer pressure to be individualistic and it makes it hard to organize large groups. I think the individualism is good though. You always know that if a student shows up for something, he's really interested. He's not there because his social group says he has to belong to several organizations. There's less involve- ment on the campus today, but it's more sincere." QUESTION: What are/were Rollins students interested in? Linda "As I mentioned before, we were very interested in being able to govern ourselves to some degree, and to have a court system. Intramural sports were big, and sorority and fraternity activities were vital." Jennifer "It looks like the students' biggest concern is their social life and visitation privileges; or maybe that's just what they talk about the most. Actually, I think a lot of students are sincerely interested in improving the curriculum. But everybody's waiting for everyone else to do something. I think the only generalization I can make is that no one seems happy with things the way they are. They alL say they're bored. Well, I say you can get bored with being bored and they will have to snap out of it someday. Right now it's the 'in' thing to be negative." Linda "I don't remember anyone I knew being unhappy. None of us had time to think about it. We were far too busy to be discontented or bored. Maybe that's what's wrong — nobody's active enough." QUESTION: Do/did Rollins students have concrete goals? Linda "We all had goals for after graduation. We all thought we were going to succeed at something. I don't remember anyone, teachers, friends or parents saying there was any- thing I couldn't do or be. We received constant reinforce- ment." Jennifer "Today there's little that most students feel they will succeed at. Most know a good deal about national and international problems, the dwindling job market, inflation. The war especially makes them pessimistic about the future. Many just don't bother to plan for it at all.