Yale University - Banner / Pot Pourri Yearbook (New Haven, CT)

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w BRANFORD COLLEGE Norman S. Buck, Master

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Dan Adams and Mark Dollard held ex- ecutive positions at the Dramat, Paul Minus was president of Dwight Hall, and Pete Saw- ers was leader of the band. Neil McLaughlan and Bill Searle were members of the Banner, while almost the entire staff of Comment was composed of Berkeleyites. Among the athletes were By Campbell, who was responsible for all the Yale points in the Harvard game, and swimmers Bucky Moses, holder of the breaststroke record, Roy MacDiarmid, Ken Schmelling, and Searle. Berkeley ' s intellectual prestige was upheld by Ken Usui, who was (ugh) Phi Bete, and debaters Barney Young and John Doeringer. Also adding to it was the presence of three visitors, Riley and Dave Adams on Clare fellowships from England, and Harry Walter from the University of Heidelburg. The college staff was headed this year by chief aide Tom Hathcote working in con- junction with Weldon Smith, who handled the vital coordination of the college athletic program. Hank Putsch was college librarian. All three members of Mrs. Whitfield ' s bur- sary triumvirate are planning on entering the ministry following tlieir Yale activities, blatant testimony of Berkeley ' s inner strength and virtue. Ben Duggar, who is in charge of Berkeley ' s unique Press room, rounded out the senior staff. One can see that this has not been a very unusual year for the college. True, the fa- milial warfare added a touch of color and so will the Reactionary Ball but the despot- ism — benevolent, it must be admitted — of Mendenhall was left unabated. It is for fu- ture generations of Berkeleyites to challenge him and his sceptr ' d sway. But, until that day comes, the Mitres will undoubtedly go on winning the Tyng Cup and Mitreland will remain pretty much as it is today. — Charles S. Guggenheimer, II 48

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OF necessity, much of our time in Bran- ford College has been spent thumbing through all sorts of books; lately we ' ve been fascinated by books giving the secrets of bet- ter and more successful lives through a power of positive thinking. And although we do not offer ten simple workable rules, seven simple steps, eight practicable formulas nor can we give constant energy to the unbelieving, we can cite several actual true stories of positive thinking at work in our midst. For Branford, swept up in the cur- rent of the literary fad of today, has become an example of what preachers of this doc- trine would advocate. Undoubtedly the most positive force in all of Branfordom is Mr. Buck, College Master extraordinaire, aided and abetted by the amazing Mrs. Buck who to this day hasn ' t forgotten the name of any member of the College. Master and Mrs. Buck got the col- lege year off on the right foot before leaving in mid-October on a business trip to the West Coast. Dean A. I). Richardson, Branford executive fellow, and Mrs. Wright, secretary, successfully mastered the college during the Bucks ' absence. Constant energy characterized this year ' s outing: Sam Levy, ace bowler, aided by teammates Micky Friedman (looking much like a bronzed Apollo I and Monroe Haas. sporting his summer Oxford accent, returned to the softball diamond. A few hearty indi- viduals braved the chilly waters of Lake Clear View, while the less robust square- danced the afternoon away. The Branford Council, led by Dick Lom- bardi, did a little positive thinking of its own, the upshot being a pair of successful fall dances on the Dartmouth and Princeton weekends. The lighting and decorations were created by Ed Delfs, Branford ' s representa- tive to the League of Dinosaur Collectors of America. Seniors Kidwell, Scharf, and Lamar squiring fair bits of feminine pulchritude provided the appropriate romantic note for the evenings. Over these football weekends the usual bevy of Berumda-shorted beauties migrated to Branford for the usual reason. Scott O ' Gor- man, John Steggall, and Pepe Condon, of see no evil, speak no evil, hear no evil fame, provided a seemingly endless stream of talent. Dick Stout, Howie Jones, and Jim Clark, Branford ' s best-dressed men, never missed a trick. But the real positive thinkers among us were not these weekend revellers. There were those practicing imagineering and thought- conditioning. Dick Chadwick was actively engaged in discovering the floor as an end of falling hair; Matt Beemsterboer resolutely 50