Middlebury College - Kaleidoscope Yearbook (Middlebury, VT)

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' The field house becomes a hangar-students work to save the basketball floor remained attached. As a result of the dam- age, and not altogether against the will of the students, compulsory chapel was called off until the end of the semester. In Pearsons dormitory water damage forced the removal of the occupants until the walls and ceilings could be repaired. The Student Union building, in danger' of col- lapse, had to be closed for a week. Fraternity houses were hit, the most ex- treme case being the .Alpha Sigma Psi house which lost its roof. While the college was digging itself out, the town and surrounding area of Middle- bury was in an even more difficult plight. Hardest hit were the farmers whose cows had, in many cases, been trapped under fallen barns. ' The first response of the college to the plight of' the town came during the height of the storm when a group of students vol- unteered their services at Porter Hospital to help in moving patients from danger spots. Students excavating cows at a local farm

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d F rms were also severely hurt Storm damage hits corner of College Street an 2 Zflb' Storm Qld Chapel Road On November 25th, 1950, Middlebury and the surrounding area from Rutland 'to Burlington suffered a repetition of the dis- astrous 1938 hurricane as driving winds bat- tered the countryside for ten hours in an unceasing attack. This most destructive storm in the history of Middlebury College did fully S100,000 The Wind hits Mead Chapel Lf in t I , V T X fsfg ' W, ' fr ,, , ,ZIV U g -ga 44 ai -22- damage to the school property. Every build- ing on campus was damaged with the Memo- rial Field House, Mead Chapel, Pearsons Hall and the Student Union building suffering the heaviest losses. In addition to the physical plant the life of the college was thrown out of gear for at least a week. The storm was on Saturday night. For Sunday and most of Monday the campus was without electricity. This meant makeshift meals in the dining halls and can- dles at night. Some buildings like Painter and Pearsons were without lights for a period of five days. The Memorial Field House, barely two years old, suffered damages estimated at 50,000 dollars. The winds, sweeping across the athletic fields, completely blew off the flat section of the roof which extends the length of the building, exposing the hockey rink, the locker rooms, the basketball floors and the exercise room to the heavy rains. The main worry was the basketball floor which was likely to warp from the soaking. However, by covering the floor with saw- dust and working at top speed to get the roof back on, the floor was saved and the SYH1 Opened a short while after the Christ- mas holidays. .The chapel suffered extensive damage to Wmdows, its spire, and the roof. Two large cement urns on the steeple were blown off and down through the roof, one landing in the balcony of the building. The top of the SteeP1e Was blown loose although it still

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