Middlebury College - Kaleidoscope Yearbook (Middlebury, VT)

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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?

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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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Uice-PreAident $teplwn a4. ?reeman 0A sabbatical leave is an excellent opportunity for a teacher to break loose from a routine and stand off for a look at himself and his work. The tumult of new impressions gained from 58,000 miles of travel around the globe has done this for me The common man around the world wants three thingshpeace with a chance to work, self-deter- mination for himself and his country, and an ed- ucation. The United States has an opportunity for real leadership among nations if it can come to understand the basic needs and desires of the com- mon people in every country, in a spirit of mutual helpfulness. To do this, young Americans must learn to comprehend and appreciate their own and other Civilizations and cultures; must acquire a receptive and sympathetic attitude toward other nations, their problems and their different ways of thinking and doing; must master their own lan- guage and the idiom of at least one other people; must be willing to suspend judgment and profit from the ideas of others. This is a definition of a liberal education, such as Middlebury College is endeavoring to give its students. Thoroughly acquired and accompanied by a spirit of human brotherhood, it can solve the ills of the world? r-BCE 14 146k 144mini4tmtion