Tufts University - Jumbo Yearbook (Medford, MA)

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and the Mistory September , 1947 . . . The incoming 3,584 students of 1951 were still predominantly veterans . . . with them came . . . the usual wide-eyed freshmen . . . Captain Connor, after he had served actively in the Navy for many years, to take command of the NROTC Unit . . . the first ski team in the history of the college . . . the squash team and an independent hockey squad who watched . . . the track team glory in an undefeated season . . . Ted Vogel win the Marathon and a place on the American Olympic team . . . Bouve school send a lady skier to the Olympics, too . . . heard . . . Arthur Fiedler of Boston Symphony fame judge the DU’s and Stratton Hall as winners of the Christmas Sing . . . the noted Arthur Schlesinger speak . . . poets Archibald MacLeish and John Ciardi widely acclaimed for their poetry discussions here . . . students tell of experiences in Europe the previous summer . . . decide they needed . . . a new bookstore, an addition to the library, a new Jackson gym separate from the Tufts Theater . . . another mayorality campaign as good as the one acclaimed by Life and found this time the lady, Pat Deeley, running her opponents a mad race for office, with Foo Higgenbotham finally taking the honors . . . 21

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a year later . . . came the beautiful new bookstore, a new infirmary for men at Hooper House ... a new Jackson Gym . . . the use of the old one given exclusively for Pen, Paint and Pretzels . . . The Tufts Yacht Club and its dedication service for the new boathouse . . . another fraternity reactivated on Hill, Phi Delta by name . . . we saw attempts to . . . sponsor a displaced person through the new N.S.A.. . . hold a winter carnival through the woes of no snow . . . start the new wing on the library . . . win money from those new pyramid clubs . . . understand what Dr. Kennedy found in the brain that he called Kappa waves . . . saw elected . . . Pat Letts, Harry Conover’s idea of a real campus beauty . . . Sing Sing Sostek, the students’ idea of the typical college mayor . . . Stratton Hall and the Hoof and Mouth Club as tops in the spring sing . . . in our junior year, we hailed . . . the beginning of a nursery school at Stearns Village . . . Fay Inman, the Junior Class Queen . . . Joyce Perkins for her skating ability as winner of the Canadian Amateur Pairs and Dance Championship . . . Dean Bush for her twenty-five years of service to Jackson . . . realized . . . the Kursaal was keeping step to the times with Television and a new jukebox ... we could have a wonderful time at a Winter Carnival where there was snow and ice . . . the Phi Delts, now officially Sigma Nu, had the most talent in Snow Sculpturing . . . Tufts had a fine organization in the Odikon Singers, and were given due praise for their part in the radio program Songs of New England Colleges’’ . . .