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from Davenport; they were Steve DeForest, Jim Griffin, Garry Haupt, and Eldred Mundth. Davenport engineers are well repre- sented in Tau Beta Pi. They are Bill Schrader, Jerry Fehr, Stan Johanson, Elliot Lawson, Jim Freedman, and Val Weber. At the annual College dinner held shortly after school started, Mr. Merriman presented scholars from all classes in Davenport with the annual College scholarship awards. The Charles McLean Andrews prize went to Park Teter, the John V. Farwell Scholarships went to Jesse Cook and Stan Johanson, the Helen Davenport Fessenden Memorial Scholarships went to Jim Herlan, Dick Gustafson (for the second time), and Garry Haupt (for the third time — a record), and Bill Schrader was the recipient of the Emerson Tuttle Memorial Award. As usual, D ' porters held numerous posi- tions of an extracurricular nature around the campus. On the athletic side, we boasted no less than five captains of varsity teams: Mac Aldrich, swimimng; Jerry Fehr, golf; Dave Hobson, basketball; Steve Reynolds, crew; and Eric Seiff, cross-country. Proficiency in rowing must run in the Reynolds family, for Steve is following immediately in the foot- steps of his brother, Ken (Davenport ' 54), who captained the rowing team last year. Others prominent in varsity sports were Al u Englander, tennis; Pete Bartlett, soccer — Pete is captain-elect of next year ' s booters: Larry Reno, Charlie and Bob Schaller, track: Ken MacKenzie, Dave Ingalls, Jamie Good- ale, Bruce Monick and Marty Fenton, hockey. Bill Flanders and Jim Downey, president and stage manager of the Yale Glee Club, are back in Davenport after serenading Europe with their dulcet tones last summer. Also along were Fred Dittman and Fred Robert- shaw. Testimony to good times abroad is provided by an AP wirephoto in the Daven- port scrapbook. Entitled Yale Singer Makes Friends in Wales it shows Downs, all grin, with a North Wales girl named Janet Jones. Bill Goodman and Joe Bachelder attained moguldom on the News — Bill as Production Editor and Joe as a Senior Editor. Joe ' s well- turned phrases were read with interest as his subjects usually dealt with the changing so- cial order at Yale and, on occasion, Daven- port in particular. Down in Hendrie Hall, Phil Zeidman was managing the Banner, and it was his fertile mind which brought about the Dartmouth week-end Bladder-Ball contest and the subsequent write-up in Sports Illus- trated. Elsewhere in Hendrie Hall Bill Mar- tin handled the circulation for the Record. Elections of new boards brought the same post to Bill Poorvu on the News. Elections 61

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IT is always a sad occasion to lose an old friend, and residents of Davenport were indeed saddened to learn of the retirement of Miss Eleanor Diefendorf upon their re- turn from summer vacation. For eighteen years the secretary to the Master, Miss D. as she came to be known many years ago, made countless friends among students from the Class of ' 36 to the Class of ' 56. Miss D ' s more than able successor is Mrs. Robert Barendsen. Mrs. B, as she was immediately tagged by members of the junior and senior classes, made an instant hit with all the stu- dents and has performed such Herculean tasks as preparing the Davenport Directory — with flawless accuracy. Davenport welcomes her and hopes she will be around for many years to come. The spring of ' 54 saw many events in Davenport worthy of comment. The sweet taste of victory blessed the Davenport hockey team from the beginning to the end of the season, from their initial conquest of Calhoun by a score of 3-0 to their rousing triumph over Dudley House of Harvard, 8-2. The bas- ketball team didn ' t fare quite so well, finish- ing the season with a 4-10 record. The B team did better with an 8-6 season total, which gained it fifth place in the intercollege standings. Swimming, squash, and softhall saw IVporters in seventh, crew and tennis teams took sixth, and the baseball team took fifth place with a 4-3 record. Events on the Entertainment Committee program included a dinner-dance on Junior Prom weekend and the ever-popular College Weekend. Despite the inclement weather on Sunday afternoon, which forced the cancella- tion of the picnic on Professor Sizer ' s farm, there were many who held that College Weekend was the most enjoyable weekend of the entire year. Even though some people thought the genuine, authentic, one-hundred per cent pure Spanish Moss which was strewn about the court was mattress stuffing, the En- tertainment Committee deserves a great deal of credit. If one had to sing the praises of Daven- port ' s Class of ' 55 in even more than tele- graphic brevity, one word would easily suf- fice: Scholarship. Members of this class have been winning honors since they came to Davenport as sophomores, and their record stands with the best in the entire history of the College. At the head of the list stands the name of Jim Griffin. Jim, a Scholar of the House his senior year, has the highest under- graduate average in Yale, is (logically) presi- dent of the local chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, and is the recipient of a Rhodes Scholarship. Of the ten students who were elected Phi Beta Kappa their junior year, four were 60

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also made Bill Wilcox business manager of the Yale Literary Magazine, Jack Silliman business manager of WYBC, and Jim Burke managing editor of the Record. Wilcox achieved distinction on an international level when Botteghe Oscure, a multi-lingual maga- zine with world-wide circulation, published an example of Bill ' s deathless prose. Bill also spends some time in the little colonial house known as the Elizabethan Club. Here he is joined by fellow D ' porters Fred Pitt- man, Garry Haupt, Park Teter, and Dave Isbell. Park Teter and Larry Hewes also held the reins of the Political Union for one term each during the year. Under the tutelage of Rich Haskel, a griz- zled veteran of two years of intercollege foot- ball, the ' 54 version of Hybrid footballers presented themselves to the college at a rally the night before the season ' s opener with Branford. The game was tight all the way and the Hybrids did well to hold the vaunted Towermen, pre-season league favorites, to a scoreless tie. The second game saw the Hy- brids overpower the JE Spiders by a score of 12-0, which might have been higher had not penalties stopped the D ' porters several times in JE territory. A pass from QB Ted Bark- will to Dave Lapham scored the first touch- down, and a 53 yard run by Rog Fleming in the third quarter completed the day ' s scoring. A muddy field hindered the Hybrids as they dropped their third game to Silliman by a score of 13-6. Davenport ' s lone score came on a pass from Barkwill to Fleming. A 6-6 tie with Saybrook followed. In the season finale, which the Hybrids lost 12-6 in the last five sec- onds, the stalwart play of the defensive line was spectacular as it had been throughout the season. Balloting by the coaches and captains brought all-south league honors to Jack Logan and Rog Fleming and second team honors to Rich Haskel and Tiff Bingham. The touch team started off with a bang and knocked over Branford, Trumbull, and Cal- houn in quick order while losing only to TD. Their glory was shortlived, however, as the 3-1 record changed to a 3-5 after games with Berkeley, Pierson, JE, and Silliman. Larry Reno, Phil Franz and sophomore track man Chick Goode all showed well over the season. The soccer team wound up with a 2-3-4 season record, with Nik Cheremeteff contrib- uting heavily to the scoring while Jim Downey tended the goal. Coach Ed Johns- ton ' s aggregation recorded wins over Calhoun and JE, losses accredited to Silliman, Say- brook, and Branford while games with TD. Trumbull, Pierson, and Berkeley ended in ties. Spontaneous is the word for the way the fall social season started indeed just as D ' porters were sitting down to their books. Mountain Day rolled around and books were discarded for the biggest Vale-Smith gather- 62