Middlebury College - Kaleidoscope Yearbook (Middlebury, VT)

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Mortar Board nionkey-shines . . . houses be taxedPl, . . . llhow about making Chapel walk One Way and using the defunct FADC field for a parking lot?! . . . ElWho shall we have for conference? Oh, how about Mr, Bi? lgBut he,s been dead since 1936lll As the year progressed many of these dilemmas were solved. The Student Union Road became a One Way street . . . IFC for the first time entered a state political issue over the power to tax fraternities. Midd,s arguments against the proposed House Bill 36 were supported by the State Representatives . . . and the bill was de- feated on February 11. Jack Gould, of radio and television, and editor of the New York Times, and journalist Ralph Ingersoll were among the speakers secured for the 55 ConfereneeellManls Changing Image of Himself? But wetre skipping ahead of ourselves. We mustnTt Carnival . . . sun-burnecl faces on the mountain . . . Jazz at Sig Ep . . . Midd faculty men waltzing through the Ice Show in skating skirts . . . the goat in ler. Robertsll . . . the Huke goal that won the Hockey game for Dartmouth . the Bowdoin Meddiebempsters . . . Les and Kirb reigning over a bMoonlight in Vermont? forget That week following Carnival is best forgotten by a majority of the students . . . Remember the plague? . . . First floor Gifford; Pearsons Ree, and Voter House were converted into abodes for the in- hrm . . . Talk ran wild about Closing school . . . but with the threat of shortening spring vacation, health was recovered quickly and we carried on. Moving day for the sophomore women came around the end of February . . . The new Battell Dorm at last Hung open its doors to the women of Porter House, Hillerest, Weybridge, and Voter House. The men looked more favorably upon this move than the women . . . centralizing the dating material solves many a problem for those without wheels! Phi Sigma . . . a new fraternity to Midd, was officially established on campus early in the spring . . . And so the year has rolled around . . . welll miss those ten deloek dates at the Stu U . . . the nightly rush for the sofa . . . the mad flights to Green Mountain . . . WRMC on your dial . . . senior seminar . . . and the chapel bells at sun- down. We hope that the 1955 KALEIDOSCOPE will help to bring back a few of these memories that we all have shared here at Middlebury.

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01 dorft think ittll make a bit of difference. Itis still going to look like McCullough Gymlh 0Sweet nothing. sweet nothing, sweet nothing? December it seemed that certain students felt there should be more of us around here . . . at least a Campus headline read: :ghlortar Board to Establish Student Duplicator Servieef, . . , And then there was the time when the cigarette machine in the Stu U collapsed on the Hoor with such a thunderous roar that it brought Chaplain Scott flying down- stairs to see . . . none other than an upperclassman who just didrft know his own strength! Just before Christmas the fourth pomalift in the country was installed at the Snow Bowl. An actual 0Hue and Cryh was raised over the rates . . . for- gotten, however, over the rush of the holidays And then it was really 1955, and the seniors swung with a grateful sigh into thisathe eighth and final semester of academic endeavor. No more shivering hikes through ice, snow, storm, and blizzard t0 the field house for mid-terms. Now it had a new appeal there was something more inspiring to a hike through ice, snow, storm, and blizzard . . . with a pair of ice skates slung over onets shoulder! The new year saw many changes on the women,s campus . . . nightly eleven dclocks forseniors and more late-pers for the underclassmen . . . The . . Conducted tours through Forest East and new drinking code was approved by the Board of West ended with refreshments in the living Trustees . . . indicating the actuality of student- rOOmS. and the satisfaCtion. of ttother side of the streetM Curioslty. administration co-operation. Early in February Viee-President Stephen Freeman returned after a 57,000 mile vacation tour that took he and Mrs. Freeman around the globe. Bull sessions as well as organized discussions on controversial subjects . . . 08110111d fraternity

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llAs students in college your KALEIDOSCOPE is a pictorial and verbal record of college life as you have experienced it. As graduates you will on occasion dust off this volume and with mixed emotions look back at the Middlebury of 1955. Over the years to come, like your predecessors, you will return to Homecomings in October and to Class Reunions in June. By 1965 the KALEIDOSCOPE will have become for you an historical recordia basis for Comparison of the good old days with a new Middlebury and with the llpresent generationl, of Middlebury stu- dents. My wish for your and for our college is that you will keep closely in touch with Middlebury; that you will work for the preservation of our good name and that you will take an important part in fashion- ing the Middlebury of tomorrow. The history of Middlebury College is the history of men and wo- menwof the faculties and of the administrations, of the trustees and the alumni, of generous corpora- tions, foundations and friends. The future of Mid- dlebury likewise will be determined by the loyalty and the devoted interest and generosity of you as individuals. If Middlebury is to serve your succes- sors as well, it will be because of your dedicated in- terest and loyalty?