Amherst College - Olio Yearbook (Amherst, MA)

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more than balanced the scales of success. The Skaters, produced by Walter Orr and directed by Red Richardson, flopped in its eight-week run in spite of Dick Button's sen- sational send-off, but another producer, Eugene Wilson, predicts an improvement in seasons to come. Persistent perfectionist Paul Eckley molded a green pitching staff and a porous infield into a moderately successful team, with training rules to match, but not without the help of Ben McCabe, unpredictable weather, and some hustling sopho- mores. Lumley's men took bigger steps faster and Rostas' charges played several theenking games to compensate for Count Reid's court blues. From Johnson's ivory tower, legislation shook the rigor mortis out of tradition. Sixteen-day vacations were rele- gated to the realm of the make-believe, and law enforce- ment fell to Dean Esty as our records indicated Dean Bacon was on leave. With the burden of cut regulation as- signed to the Faculty, the Dean's List first lost and then partially regained its practical significance, through the efforts of an active Student Advisory Committee on Edu- cational Policy. Between doxologies and benedictions, President Cole continually counseled the necessity of resist- ing the prospective enrollment rush of bumper babies, and in keeping with the College's intellectual tradition it was anounced that knowledge as well as nostalgia would be pursued in the new Alumni House. f M '