Swarthmore College - Halcyon Yearbook (Swarthmore, PA)

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Maybe it would have been different had the death of Courtney Smith not been what ended it. Some of the irri- tants remain. Some of the causes linger; most of the protagonists are gone. Clint Eth- eridge of SASS, Ellen Schall of Stu- dent Council have graduated. Court- ney Smith has been replaced by Robert Cmss. Dean of Women Barbara Lange has resigned ( a generation gap ) and moved to the vocational of- fice; a younger Barbara Townsend moves in. Dean of Admissions Fred- erick A. Hargadon, the center of the crisis, has resigned and will go to be Dean of Admissions at Stanford, where he will have a newer atmo- sphere, more room to maneuver, but hardly fewer problems. Dean of the College Susan P. Cobbs has retired. The president and three of four deans are gone; in their place, a new crew. Dr. Cross, Charles Gilbert as provost, new deans, a black assistant dean of admissions, a black counsellor. A re- flection of changes in the community; a new administration to preside over the changes to come. The days of giants are gone. Not be- cause there are no more giants, but because the giants are different. Crum parties and Swarthmore songs die slowly; new traditions move in. Swarthmore still has beards and blue jeans, but the people wearing them are a little different. Swarthmore will continue to have an Honors Program, but probably now the people it pro- duces will be a little different, Swarth- more will continue to have its tradi- tions, and they too will be a little different. And probably every spring people will play stretch in front of the library. halcyon 1969