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Address inquiries to: Kalamazoo College Archives 1200 Academy Street Kalamazoo, MI 49006 e-mail: [email protected] .Ko\aVV\ti.XOO Co\\ege. ~a\C\mazoo \ V'f\~c."'~g~V\ Bubbling over, Steaming hot­ Our Indian name t-Jolds likely as not: Kalamazoo Is a Boiling Pot, Where simmering waters Slowly rise, Then nearly burst The cauldron's sides ; And where, after all, The aim and dream Bubbling, all in a turmoil, unquestionably alive, Is sending the lukewarm the Kalamazoo Coll ege program in the academic Up in steam. year 1963-64 has resembled nothing so much as M. K. a great cauldron of simmering water coming to a rolling boil. Much of the credit for this new energy and activity belongs to President Weimer K. Hicks, to whom, in this tenth year of his asso­ ciation with the College, this edition of the Boiling Pot is dedicated. MCod~m \ cs ACt '\Vi ti ~s Dff Cam?V0 Sports 0e\\\OrS \Jr\der c\o~~J\\e,r\ Summer Summer employment for caption writers. The first summer quarter lived up to Dean Hightower's opening chapel statement Oh, Dr. Hicks, I didn't know that suit had to be dry-cleaned. Audrey Saxton waters the President. that it would be one of academic chal­ lenge, just like the others. There were a few differences-classes beginning at 7 :00 instead of 8 :00 and water fights instead of traying on chapel hill. Construction, warm weather, and wishful thinking about lakeside . vacations of days past occupied conversational time slots usually reserved for chapel points and dress regulations. Concerts, foreign study orientation, mixers, talk, and stud y filled evenings. It was just another quarter-almost. Trespa ..e" will be water-ballooned! Koren Foxworthy guards the quod. New Student Days Freshman Days dawned and 304 new Frosh descended on the campus for a whirl of un­ packing, counselling, meeting people--:-and faculty members-, discussing, and recreating. The return of the upperclassmen brought regis­ tration, classes, and hazing, the bane of the freshman's existence. But Homecoming ended the introduction, and as the pots blazed in the bonfire, the Frosh were finally accepted whole­ heartedly as " real people." RWOODS • VIE HEM TO · A E S The Sherwood, keep the boiling pot. Queen Karen and the 1963 Homecoming Court 10 II " Maybe we'd belter look at these plans again." Sigs put the finishing touches on their displey. "Are you sure you want to go through with this?" " I've heard of small college bands, but th is is rid iculous!" Homecoming W eekend-bonfire, displays, foot­ ball, dance, the return of the alums-reigned over by Queen Karen Dietz and her court. The weather, Help! My finger's stuck! Delmeges hurry to finish up in time for judging. in contrast to the preceding year, satisfied all hopes. A Buddha, Chinese junk, and jinrikisha Tradit ional bonfire brought out the Far Eastern theme, and Genghis Khan menaced the alums who strolled by Bowen Hall. Highlight of the weekend: football victory over Olivet. "Does he. or doesn't he 1" Gretchen Cessel, Mery Ven Alte, Queen Keren, Merilyn Coffing, Susen Le Due. Roya l seren ity? You should see the t raffic jam we just ca used. Euros bring up the toad. "Th is thing'lI never fall down." The Frosh spoke too soon. A Time "Got a Pen?" to Listen. 22 points a term, for what seems like an endless number of terms. C hapels run the gamut, from sleep inducers to the best imagi­ nable-the kind of thing that provokes those long discussions in W elles parlor. The ideas were good and we discovered after the long affair was over that required chapel wasn't so bad after all. Freshmen learned who the Seniors were, and Seniors learned that one couldn't sleep in the front row; 10 and behold, the speakers did have something to say after all. What can we say? The usual mob at the usua l bu il ding . The speech : Cor! Mcintire, Jr. moke s nis points. The defens.: Topping the Quad - Chapel The students close in. A Time to Speak. 15 Fall Play "An Enemy of the People" Another line, another year of age. Alternately comic and serious, Ibsen's Stockman attemph a defense before a group of the " prejudiced, frightened majority." "Enemy" focuses on Dr. Thomas Stock­ man's attempt to close his town's polluted medicinal springs and thereby safeguard health. Stockman's lonely battle for truth champions free expression and reveals how a prejudiced, frightened majority op­ poses progress and becomes its own enemy. Stockman rages at his brother, the mayor, played by returning alum Todd Bed. You want p.e. credit for trekking around Europe? Ring around the Sherwood sign. Right off hand, I don't know what you can do for dandruff. The entering student at K finds two campuses waiting for him-the buildings: silent, The Living inanimate, and unchanging; and the faculty: living, active, varying, but always Campus dependable, an integral part of each student's life . Faculty members are known for their willingness to discuss with students, to listen with respect to their opinions, and to aid and advise without arrogance. They are the real pace setters in the student's quest for knowledge and for meaning in life. Frosh Mordhorst participates in the sing. No wonder the freshmen don't understand it. Neither do I! Tish said th is wou ld help my neck muscles . • Christmas Carol Service Spirit of Christmas Barb Wilcox and the Christmas pages. Penny Britton, Senior Reader, and the traditional scroll. Under the direction of Ann Doty, the sixty-voice Christmas Chorus presented "Carillon," the year's Christmas Carol Service. A quarter of practices, a rush of decorating, last minute rehearsing, and details, and the candlelight procession followed pages Cindy Acker and Becky Deal down the aisles of Stetson Chapel. Senior Reader Penny Britton read the nativity story while Barbara Wilcox reigned as Spirit of Christmas The traditional Chocolate Hour followed at Welles Ha ll. "But we're supposed to wear white heels," Ann Doty concentrating on the chorus. "And a little mistletoe .. :' Mike Fishb.ch decor.tes. Mrs. Averill and Tiger Ferguson­ 20 chocol.te .nd more chocol.te. 10th Anniversary FROM THE BANQUET SPEECHES: Dr. Richard U. light, on behalf of the Board of Trustees: "It is ten years, almost to the day, since the 12th President took office ... As we look back over the ten years of his administration we look upon a succession of events which transformed the College from the traditional American institution which quietly closed its doors early in June and reopened them late in September into an efficient space­ saving, time-saving, wide-awake enterprise which, like a successful "Ten years from now we are going to present him with the moon!" business, keeps its expensive facilities in use on a year-round basis ... comments Dr. Reymond l. Hightower. Dean of the Faculty. But to speak of Weimer Hicks is to give only one-half of the story. The tribute tonight is dedicated in equal part to his wonderful wife , Jean ... No college has ever had a more charming, more dependable or more popular woman in the presidential office than Jean Hicks." Dr. Walter Waring, on behalf of the Faculty: "The individuality of our esteem for our president illustrates the singular role he ha s played at Kalamazoo College during his tenure ... His concern for the economic and educational vitality of the college lies in his line of duty, but the relationship that he has main­ tained with his faculty goes far beyond his call of duty and touches each of us personally ... President Hicks is fully aware of the fact that to be great, a college must have a fine library, suitable class­ rooms, halls and dormitories, a student body that can be taught, and a faculty that can teach: but he also knows that these things alone do not make a college excell. My every contact with President Hicks has impressed me with his restless desire to provide Kalamazoo College with the one element that cannot be reducd to statistical accounting. That element has been called spirit, uniqueness, community of scholarship, desire for excellence, self-evaluation, and a great many other things." Mr. Gene Tidrick, on behalf of the Student Body : "I think that President Hicks will long be remembered by most of the students of this college as the president who knows nearly every student by his first name, as a president whose office door is open at all times to every student. Certainly, we are grateful for all that President Hicks has done to make education at Kalamazoo one of the best that can be obtained in the country and to make a degree from Kalamazoo College one of the most respected in the country. But we also esteem Dr. Hicks, I think more than for any other reason, for the keen interest he takes in the problems of each individual student.