The Record of the Class

mmTHE i i Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2009 with funding from Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation http://www.archive.org/details/recordofclass1956have In ,i school so dedicated to the notion that education is as much a process of integrating one's knowledge as it is a process of gaining new knowledge, it is to be expected that the students would abhor an annual which attempts to present collegiate life by a process of dissection. From this thought springs the unortho- doxy of our book. The personalities of the men at Haverford can not properly be separated from the lives we lead there. So they are portrayed together, —"integrated." THE 1956 RECORD Published by THE SENIOR CLASS OF HAVERFORD COLLEGE Haverford, Pennsylvania Editor-in-Chief Business Manager David F. Dorsey, Jr. John H. Dick This book is dedicated with great admiration and affection to Presi' dent Gilbert White, whose departure elicits regret mitigated only by an awareness that true happiness is found only in answering one's vocation. Advent in Autumn While it was still so warm that to wear any thing over a tee shirt was to dress formally, for a few days once an hour the Paoli local deposited a dozen or so men at the ultra-suburban Haver- ford Station. Typical of the returning students who bustled efficiently with their bags was Pramote Changtrakul, one of the most cultured members of Haverford's international set. Rumors say that he keeps a harem somewhere near Bangkok, so perhaps he was returning from there. Or perhaps he was returning from Washington, where it is hinted he spends weekends negotiating defense contracts for the use of teak wood in rifle st neks and PT boat hulls. At any rate, with a calm based on three years' practice. Prom went about performing the myriad duties involved in "getting settled,"— last minute course changing, buying books, finding out where and when classes meet, checking the stored hi-fi equipment, bargaining for room furnishings, and mostly saying "Hi!" enthusiastically to people he never knew and even more enthusiastically to those whose names he had forgotten. Of course, such conventions come easy to Prom. In Freshman year he confounded his tutorial sec- tion by reading his papers in Thai: he and John Ashmead have been fast friends ever since. Simi- lar tactics failed with Herman Somers, so he majored in Phil. Such charm ensures his voca- tional success, even if he does choose one of the suggested extremes; a coup in Siam or YMCA lectures on the contemplation of Nirvana. Six ; Unfazed by their new life .it Haverford, the Rhinies went through their early days in an enthu- The Freshman Class siastic, if not distinguished, fashion. Even in the embryonic stage, the Class of '59 showed it- san at any rate, they survived the early season jousts guine disposition by holding its own in the water better than their predecessors. fights, pond dunkings, and other aspects of creative Since the freshmen were more rowdy than usual play promoted by the Customs Committee. Untamed Customs succeeded more than usually. Though by the sedate rigors of Customs, the Freshmen anti'social intellectuals suggested that less antiquated finally met their match in the sophisticated Bryn manifestations of adolescence might strike Haver- Mawrtyrs and the suave upperclassmen at the tradi' tord's imaginative mind, the Frankensteins capped tional Bryn Mawr mixer. in black vigorously applied themselves to creating However, before the belligerent Rhinies were Rivalry. shepherded into the true path, they did manage to Besides Customs, the freshmen were subjected to make their presence known to a few unwilling the usual long distance swimming test and the psych Sophomores. The pond received members of both tests to ascertain their neurotic potential. Later in classes with its customary muddy welcome, and the the year, there was the Baldwin dance, etc. tug-of-war resulted in a soggy defeat for the Sophs Through the year, we have come to know them. when the Rhinies dragged them all over the gooey Selected judiciously, seeded carefully, weeded occa- Homecoming football field. Seeking solace, the Soph' sionally, the new crop of Freshmen, — in spite of omores pilfered in cloak and dagger fashion the Barclay floodings and academic drought, — will un- Customs' trophy which was to be presented to the doubtedly grow tall in their chosen fields. It's all a Freshmen. Perhaps the Rhinies were over-oriented sort of tradition. The New Administration ARCHIBALD MacINTOSH Vice-President It befits her regal Anglican dignity that nothing parent reserve mixed so finely with patent friendli' should ever really ehange at Haverford. The face of ness that made the undergraduates aware that, al- the sea, always changing, ever constant, may be a though he could see through them, it was all right in- vainglorious or debasing metaphor, but comes — in fact, it was fortunate. evitably to mind. Even Haverford's greatest changes The role of the administration as such in the lives were surface ones. The loss of the former president, of the students is harder to determine. It is true that the speculation about the new one, were subjects it didn't meddle in those two most delicate areas that for conversation; but such conversations seldom inv are covered by the Honor System, but then, this was plied or mentioned change. This was indubitably mainly due to the Council's careful (and oftimes attributable to our consciousness of perfection. difficult) telepathctic knowledge of what would hap- Consequently, when in the first Collection after pen if . And of course the students were blandly the Winter holidays, "Mac," by announcing nothing ignorant of the deliberation and execution of those to the contrary, announced his own assumption of policies which most essentially shape a Haverford- the multitudinous and diverse duties in the empty ian's existence. An occasional delegation stormed office, the students reacted with a calm suspiciously Roberts Hall, delivered a harangue against Meeting, akin to indifference. Mac was just as available as regulations, and retreated. For the most ever for dispensing academic largesse, for giving or parking the crucial nod of acceptance to the hand-picked part, however, they didn't meddle in administrative members of the Class of '60, and for sharing the affairs; more because of satisfaction than through a loads on various semi-neurotic chests. It was an ap- sense of proportion. William Cadbury, the Dean, in spite of nicknames indicating the contrary, w.i< .1 genuinely appreciated .ind re- spected m.in. But unfortunately, most of the personal contact .1 Dean has with his students ,ire under auspices mi ire- suggestive of Andrew than Dale Carnegie. This was especially true in a school where, having been so well taught that they are individuals, students tend to think that they .ire. or should be, exceptions (especially tn administrative regulations). However, the Dean made less liberal and more valid judg- WILLIAM E. CADBURY, JR. Dean ALDO CASELLI Comptroller Aldo Caselh had the official title of Comptroller. But this was hardly suffi- cient to cover all the means by which he kept the college's ledgers in black, a feat which no other man in the world could duplicate. Some students were tempted to credit his skill to cruelty rather than ingenuity, but parking fines and damage fines at 200% cost were matched by the intermittent appearance of new furniture and conveniences. l^ine The Statesman The Students' Council George Keeley presides. On his left W. Newmeyer, T. Martenis, G. Brew- ster, L. Matlack, and at the end of left sit R. Greer, E. Mezger, C. Berlin, P. Allen, and Rick Hill. The long tradition of government by clique was George is moving from the Executive Suite to win firmly broken by the election of George Keeley to other laurels in Harvard Business School. the Presidency of the Students" Council. Though But whatever his titles in the privacy of 6th entry George maintained his fine scholastic record to the circles, the real importance of the Keel's (alias The bitter end, because he also co-captained on the Rock) year heading the students' self-government gridiron, the student body felt, for the first time in was that he definitely answered the delicate issue of anybody's ken, that grass roots democracy got its how aloof a leader must be. That is, he proved to chance. Despite his perfect calm in the perpetual the dismay of a few vested interests on campus that cycle of petty crises, George was known to quote the "regular fellas," who had been repressed by the (in the privacy of 6th entry Lloyd circles), "Don. preceding pious regimes, could handle the exagger- you really shock me . , "Regan, you'll never ated intricacies of Student Government. Besides, " make it twice . "Cocktails and bridge at four, since this year's non-commissioned officers were no men!" or even, "I just love dogs!" With the same less representative than any other's, he exposed the equanimity he endured. "Our Father Who art in 63, fallacious distinction between athletes and intellec- hallowed be Thy Council," "Sober up, George, here tuals at Haverford. " comes Gilbert . , "Caught a pass once . , As for the business of the year, the High Court, "Josie the new flame?" or simply, "Dictator!" With under Chief Justice Ralph Barlow, held surprisingly titles like Most Naturally Humorous in Upper Sixth, few inquisitions, thus distressing those who avidly Donor of the "Water Mug" to Gil and Anne, The peruse the Council's minutes in search of Purge Threat to Eddie Fisher, and Pop's High Hurdler, Notices. A Curriculum Committee under Gerald WitlKTspintn discussed and recommended some things.

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