Middlebury College - Kaleidoscope Yearbook (Middlebury, VT)

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memories of those Monday morning eight dclocks, the Stu U crowd at ten, Klondike Rush, New England boiled dinners, Dunmore, and the filtering soot hovering IDDLEBURY COLLEGE . . . oler the south end of campus. These and many more have made up our daily lives this past year at Midd. Let,st travel backward for a moment and try to cap- ture 1954-55 in retrospect. March is always the longest month of the yearJ regardless of the days. Take for instance March 1954 . . . just what did we do with ourselves be- sides hopefully pray for spring? Well, the Class of 55 really began to feel like seniors when Jane Robinson and Wally Beevers respectively took over the presideneies of the Womenls and Menls Under- graduate Associations. Sue Heyer and Hal Higgins also were elected as Chief Justices by the student body. And then llDon Juan in Hellh was read in Mead Chapel . . . one of the strongest arguments yet for a new playhouse! About this time too, Sonny Dennis was elected one of the top five on the Col- liersl Magazine All New England Team, and the ,54 Midd pucksters had just finished up the hockey season with an outstanding 11-1 win over Hamilton College. And then it was Conference time, with that all inclusive topic: llNational Security and Individual Freedom; An American Conflict? Remember the tense court-room scene between Flanders and Jones? . . . History was made in Middlebury when a town meeting resulted in an aHirmative vote for a State Liquor Store. Since then the group gathers once again at the Rutland Railway depotebut not for the milk train! Middls ski team took the Eastern Intercollegiate Ski Championship for the second straight year. Captain Les Streeter annexed his forth Skimeister title of the season in the nordic events by UNH at Lyndonville. Then the T.C.,s got a ring-side seat at the year,s biggest blaze . . . Middlebury High School was gutted by Harries one memorable March night. The immediate result: 300 school-less students up on the hill marching Munroe-ward with the rest . . . The March winds tool; leave with much of the

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campus meeting at the Snowbowl for the annual itsugaring-ofTi, . . . Middlebury style. Spring crept in on muddy sneaks and slickers. Skis were towed away for another season and the 01d Dunmore blanket salvaged from the moth balls . . . We left New Englandk April Showers for our first vacation since the Christmas holidaysitiRides wantedt, frantically plastered helter skelter over the Stu U bulletin board. And then that short glorious week . . . over much too soon. The Fort Lauder- dale group arrived back well tanned and freshly stocked with stories of intrigue and adventure. We hardly had time to catch our collective breaths before 1954is Junior Weekend was tjust Around the Cornerh . . . the Variety Show tunes were hummed by many a prof, as well as students, for weeks after the successful show . . . The month of May was a fairly eventful one, particularly with both the Men,s and Womenjs Assemblies investigat- ing the student wage scale at Midd, with the result that campus job-holders were given a boost in salary. We were sorry to see Miss Mary Rosevear, asso- ciate professor of physical education bid farewell to Midd after thirty years of service . . . then Frontiers swept the campus by storm . . . with the exception of one piece of satire, better kept in the portfolio, the issue had many favorable innovations. f Aberna thy Absorption Senator Flanders takes stand on Party and McCarthy