Amherst College - Olio Yearbook (Amherst, MA)

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Foreword For a long time now, a yearbook, like a degree or a cap and gown or a key or a ring, has been one of the manifest symbols of graduation from college. It is generally felt that college years are memorable and important years, and ought to be recorded in bound and illustrated editions replete with pictures and comments, and this feeling has persisted through time so that yearbooks have become a tangible tradition of college. Almost as if people, realizing the corroding effects of time upon all things, have wanted to galvanize their memories with words and pictures-a yearbook has come to be an invaluable mnemonic, a sentimental bulwark against age and transition. Yet this simplicity of purpose belies the difficulties inherent in any attempt to give definition to that which has come to pass. A college year resists being cast into neat sentences. It is a tenuous, important thing-an emotional quantity in the life of every member of the community. A college year is eight months of doing and thinking and growing for each individual involved. That which the undergraduate and graduate shall remember ofa year in college, that which they shall consider meaningful, shall be deter- mined by uniquely personal criteria. The editors of this volume have realized these things and rather than attempting to measure this most recent year at Amherst in its true perspective from the dubious vantage of May, have merely tried to describe objectively the current facets of an Amherst education-in words and pictures to delineate the events of 1954-55 which undoubtedly shall have left their imprints upon the individual and his College. This evidence shall follow, and we can only be mindful of the fact that each shall give it meaning and interpretation as befits his peculiar context. '

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Senior Board James M. Woodburn... ....................... Chairman Ticknor B. Litchfield ...................... Managing Editor Roger S. Clark .................... Senior Associate Editor Donald E. Paulson ........................ Business Manager John J. Shillington, Jr ........... ............. T reasurer Junior Editorial Board Clark Rumrill ...................................... Layout Editor H. lrving Grousbeck, ll ...................... Literary Editor Charles B. Hochman and Jerome S. Sowalsky Literary Associates Peter J. Zucker ......... .............. P hotography Editor Junior Business Board David S. Schwartz .................. Circulation Manager Robert A. Leet ................ National Advertising Mgr. Peter J. Weiller ....... ....... L ocal Advertising Mgr. Acknowledgments Charles R. Rogers, ll .......................... Student Artist Thomas J. Hill, Jr. and David J. McClune Student Photographers Robert B. Maras... .................. Cover Design 1955 CLIC Amherst College Amherst, Massachusetts

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Dedication Professor Laurence B. Packard left his mark, that of intellectual curiosity intermingled with dynamic instruction and understanding kindliness, indelibly on the Amherst campus. During his 30 years as our foremost historian, Professor Packard taught more College students than any other man. He authored two books, THE COMMERCIALREVOLUTION and THE AGE OF LOUIS XIV and was the founder and co-editor of the Berkshire Studies in European History. Creator of the History 1-2 sequence, his contributions to Amherst education are far from temporal, for the legend of this course and its antecedents will rightfully be told and retold to Amherst men for years to come. To the mem- ory of Laurence B. Packard, we respectfully dedicate the 1955 OLIO. Professor Charles L. Sherman came to the Amherst College faculty in 1929 as Associate Professor of Latin. A versatile and dedicated scholar, he remained one of the College's outstanding Citizens for 25 years. Appointed full professor in the Departments of History and Political Science in 1940, Professor Sherman contrib- uted to a number of professional iournals and was the editor of John Locke's TREATISE ON CIVIL GOVERNMENT, as well as translator and editor of DIODOROUS' HISTORY. Those of us who came into contact with him, whether in the classroom, on the tennis court, or anywhere in Am- herstown, will never forget his infectious lightheartedness, sincere solicitousness, and unfailing interest in campus affairs. To the memory of Charles L. Sherman, teacher and friend, we respectfully dedicate this yearbook.