Princeton University - Bric A Brac Yearbook (Princeton, NJ)

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THE CLASS Ur IwVV welcomed itself to Princeton by producing a kidnapped sophomore president at the first football game of the season — a clear demon- stration of class spirit in its most embryonic form. SENIOR CLASS COUNCIL B.uk Rou Zimskind, Frye, Bryant, Gibbon, Lind, Corry, Anderson. Second Row: Cassin, Hobson, Buchanan, Schdck, Carpi, Frost, Ellwood. Front Row: Nachtrieb, Madden, Ruddick, Gowen, Lyle The yearlings proceeded to set a modern athletic record with six undefeated intercollegiate teams. A preunion fall beer-party and a spring Freshman Prom with Claude Thornhill ' s music rounded out the year ' s activities . . . When bicker arrived in Sophomore year, the class set another record as the first class to receive 100% bids without coercion. In anticipation of a heavy draft call over the summer, the infamous Last Blast party was organized in the spring with specially designed T-shirts to give

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PkuH: mjk W. T. Thum, Jk Lhtniiitn j Ot n il Eiig neering, Professor W. C. Johnson, ChMuihvi of Eleiiind Eng iieeriiig for the profession of engineering; and it provides an excellent education for the undergraduate who likes engineering studies but hopes to carve out a career in industry or business that is not entirely technical . . . The seven regular undergraduate fields and the graduate program in Plastics combine to offer a wide range of study. In addition, the Engineer- ing-Science Options which enable a student to com- bine engineering and science provide a unique means for working out custom-tailored programs . . . Per- haps the most unorthodox characteristic of engineer- ing at Princeton is that time is available for extra- curricular activities and that engineering students are encouraged to engage in them. 1 1 1 THE MILITARY SCIENCES With the continuing critical nature of world af- fairs, the Department of Defense must look to the colleges and universities as sources of both career and reserve officers. The Army, Navy, and Air Force have ROTC units on the campus, which offer com- missions to those students who, in fulfilling the re- quire ments for a baccalaureate degree, successfully complete four years of training in their respective military or naval departments. The students attend instruction during the year which is augmented by summer training periods, the number and length of which vary with the Service concerned. In the service performed in the Army, Navy, and Air Force, ROTC graduates are fulfilling one of the most important obligations of citizenship and continuing the Prince- ton tradition of Service to the Nation. Colonel B. Thielen, U.S.A. Professor of Military Science Colonel A. J. Ball, Jr., U.S.A.F., Professor of Air Science Colonel W. F. Coleman, U.S.M.C, Prnfeu-nr of N.;r.; Scie ice

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Preside it William M. Ruddick l ice-President Francis J. Madden Secretary E. H. Geoffrey Gowen Treasurer Carl B. Lyle, Jr. the event a characteristic novelty . . . Returning in the fall with more members than expected, the class generously contributed over a thousand dollars to a Cancer Fund as a memorial to a fatally-stricken class- mate. The class displayed the full scope of its leader- ship by sending out Ahmini Weekly ' s to members in absentia , by publishing a Bric-a-Brac which otherwise faced extinction, and by putting on a Junior Prom that was successful financially as well as socially . . . Senior theses did not keep the class from breaking the all-time record of participation in the Memoiial Insurance Fund Drive, set previously by the Class of ' 51. When comps and finals were over the class relaxed to enjoy the Senior Barbecue and Class Day activities in a last informal get-to- gether before graduation. With gratitude tinged with regret at leaving Princeton, the class received its sheep-skins, hoping that as alumni it could keep the same spirit for Class and University that it had shown in its undergraduate days.