Middlebury College - Kaleidoscope Yearbook (Middlebury, VT)

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, , l Chi Psi's rize-winning snow scul ture o P long, loud music of the Dartmouth Green Collegians. Those who were too tired to dance joined in singing Mountain Club songs and Alouette.', Others sat on the floor lis- tening to the Alpha Sigma Psi Octet and the monologues of Don Clast Mohicanj Peach. Sunday morning the jump, postponed from the previous day because of severe cross winds, was held, winding up the ski events. Wfhen the results were in, the Mid- The foot of Middlebury's fifty meter jump during the 1951 Winter Carnival King Tom Jacobs, Queen Margy Packard, and the royal court: Don Lelong, Joan Macklaier, Don Axinn, Carol Heinze, Chet Nightingale, Mary Hench, Jim Ross, Marilyn Murphy, Ralph Loveys, and Meg Curry dlebury women's ski team was found to be in first place and the men's team in 2nd place, 19.3 points behind Dartmouth. Ski- meister awards went to Frieda Opdahl of the University of New Hampshire and Verne Goodwin of Middlebury. In spite of setbacks in the weather, Midd's 20th Carnival turned out to be one of the best, thanks- to the effort and enthusiasm of all concerned and that indefinable something called Carnival spirit. C A scene from the 1951 Ice Show -29..

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I I 1 4 I v n -v-L,-Y-.W-ffA-'- - - - The Ravens entertain at the Carnival Ball The Ice Show Qpostponed from Thursday nightj and the Klondike Rush finished up the parties with a bang. Undoubtedly the most beautiful single event of Carnival, the Ice Show combined brilliant costumes, skill- fully used colored lights, and the graceful movements of trained skaters. Featured solo- ists were Nancy Berquist, Wally Miner, and Mr. Wfilliam Sommers. Bill Smith, a former Carnival Players E. G. Cox, Rod Griflis, and Sarah Pettibone in See How They Runv student, and Naval Airman Dick La Fon- taine, performing with a broken skate, Were outstanding guest stars. The Klondike Rush really lived up torits name this year, from the huge prospector in the middle of the floor to the corral entrance and refreshment chuck Wagon. Couples in ski pants and stocking feet danced to the CARNIVAL COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRMEN Burk row: Rupp, Greene, Kroeck, Brautigam, Stewart, Berquist, Hemphill, Trask Svmfzff row: Axinn, NViley, Lelong, Norton, Becker, Sacher Ifronl row: Wfadsworth, Holcomb, Kimbell, Hosford, Hopkins, Peach Y ..i.... -28..

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Middlebury Conference 'ag-31 Mr. Sargent in Forest Rec. Saturday night Freedom in an Age of Science was the topic of the 1950 Conference-Midd's eighth. As President Stratton claimed in the intro- ductory address on Saturday, April 22, the fear that in an age of science we are losing the freedom and dignity of the individual was implicit in the conference topic, and the concern was further elaborated upon by the nine participants in the Conference. I950 CONFERENCE SPEAKERS Paul Appleby George Santillana Zechariah Chaffee Noel Sargent G Alfred Coulthard Ruth Seabury Bartlett Hayes David Thomson Charles Rogers Dr. David Thomson, dean of graduate students and research at McGill University, started the cultural panel by attempting to define Freedom and Science. Dr. Thomson expressed the chief objective of science as human welfare-in terms of freedom: free- dom from disease, starvation, and ignorance. Freedom for Miss Ruth Seabury, mission- ary teacher and religious adviser, was an ability to keep the spirit free, rather than a physical or a social freedom. Bartlett Hayes, director of the Addison Gallery of American Art, saw in the recent urging for govern- mental control of art, for instance, a danger that not only the procedure but the sub- stance of creative art be controlled. The economic panel on Saturday after- noon opened with Alfred Coulthard, labor relations expert, who pleaded for free un- derstanding and Christian ethics on the part of members of business and labor groups. Noel Sargent, NAM secretary, stated that close cooperation of science and free enterprise offers us a great hope for the future. George Santillana of MIT stated that 1950 Moderator Zechariah Chaffee 30 2