Middlebury College - Kaleidoscope Yearbook (Middlebury, VT)

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SENIOR RECOLLECTIONS OUR PATH TO THE TOP Adjustment! That was the cry of our first week at Midd and to help us adjust, the class of 1954 was ushered through a series of talks, teas, introductory lectures and tests. We were given a crowded dance in the South Lounge and we played Rabbit at the Mountain Club outing held behind Forest Hall. The Bat- tells, built in honor of Middlebury's Sesqui- centennial year, were completed just in time to greet the freshmen women. Homecoming Weekend was combined with the Sesquicen- tennial celebration and we marched from Old Chapel to the Field House and listened to Mr. Philip Jessup, Ambassador-at-large, deliver the Sesquicentennial address, The men' were rushed, the women were Hell-Weeked. By the UVM game, we had bc- come thorough-going collegians and Midd's very first baton-twirler was doing honor to our class. Then the big storm-cow and tree re- movals took the place of classes. With the first snow, the Chapel Hill ski school gave eager learners a chance to test their herring-boning. Christmas vacation, exams, completion of Carr Hall, and finally Winter Carnival. There was little snow on campus, but the Snow Bowl was in Fine condition. Then, our first class project, the famous under-the-sea dance, complete with an octo- pus with lighted eyes. Suddenly it was spring in Vermont and WMCRS was allowed back on campus . . . the lucky Battell girls with short wave sets heard our college station. Then Junior Weekend with the Oh-Lympie Games, Dunmore picnics, the Variety Show, and our first, rusty attempts at step-singing- The Storm Song , I-Ii! Middlebury , The Pirate Song . Finally exams and the end of our first year, Some went abroad during the summer of '51, some got their first job, and some were drafted. Slump year dawned, but our class bravely ignored the label. A new Chapel program and Chaplain, not to mention co-ed seating, started sophomore year. The Men's Assembly got a new constitution and a new drinking code. The Park Diner was torn down and built up and Mortar Board started their now famous coffee hours. The Sophomore Hop was given Thanks- giving Eve- Stairway to the Stars, with Ju- lie Camden as Miss Stardust. In February, President Stratton put on his sheet, loaded his briefcase, and flew to Saudi Arabia for Point Four. Carnival with Porter House winning the women's Snow Sculpture Contest, then Con- ference, marked the end of our second Ver- mont Winter. In March, the fraternities insti- tuted Help Week. In April, the second tragedy of our Midd career-the Gifford fire. That Spring, the Yacht Club got a new boat house and Robert Frost gave a reading of some of his poems. Our class held a glorious picnic and baseball game at Dunmore, the first of its kind, to celebrate our Rites of Spring. The relay race was quite an obstacle course. Before we left for our second summer away from Midd, the NVilks estate arrived. We returned junior year to find several addi- tions. ROTC and a psychiatrist were the most startling, but College had also added the little Sunderland Chapel. WRMC had a teletype ma- chine and the campus had a cop. That fall, discrimination in the fraternities was discussed and so was the presidential campaign-with a wealth of survey and polls on opinion. The winter months were marked by the Pencil Sharpener scandal and Strattonas return in time to crown the Carnival royalty. Dr. T. Z. Koo made the Conference of '53 memorable. Two departments-music and drama-com- bined that spring to present Mendelssohn's Elijah Our special weekend for juniors, a true Roman Holiday, was complete with tug- of-war, barbecue, extravaganza Variety Show, and Lester Lanin. The year ended with cere- monies and traditions which let us know we were headed for our Big Year, At last we had arrived-we were the upper of the upper classmen, trying to forget oncom- ing comprehensives. The snack bar was re- vamped and at long last we were to have Thanksgiving dinner at home. Middlebury's Hrst Religious Conference was given in Decem- ber ancl 850,000 was donated to the Hockey Rink fund for artificial ice. We returned from Christmas vacation to find that the college Play House had burned to the ground. The Monday of Carnival dawned midst tor- rents of rain and Tuesday did likewise, but on Wednesday our prayers were answered and snow once more blanketed the campus. Char- lie Spivak played for the Carnival Ball. But what was the most outstanding change in the four years? Perhaps it was the Chapel program. And what had we learned? We'd learned how to give blood without flinching, we'd learned how to see three movies a week as well as do our work, and we'd learned that Mid- dlebury was only the beginning of our educa- tion.

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