Tufts University - Jumbo Yearbook (Medford, MA)

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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’’ . . .

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succeeded in . . . helping a DP student come to Tufts . . . adopting a foster child in Greece to be supported by Jackson . . . the beginning of real interest in the Hockey team . . . voting in Jack Lindsay to rule the Campus life as a man from Mars . . . nationalizing Alexander Bain as Psi Chi . . . and so we graduate from the college where . . . the chapel bell, first hour classes six days a week, and term papers are as familiar as the 12:15 on a weekend . . . everyone helped make the Phi Delta installation into Sigma Nu a memorable one at the Reception and Dance . . . two ambitious young men started a humor magazine called The Jumble . . . topping the years events are . . . the dedication of the memorial wing of the library . . . the Mid-Winter Dance at the Hotel Bradford . . . Althea Holland as Miss Jackson for 1951 . . . the promise of a real traffic light down by Curtis . . . the Modern Dance group coached by Doli Kinsman who really came into their own in the spring concert. we’ve missed . . . our friend, Ole, the mailman, who’s been sick for this year . . . Professor Ransom who retired from the Math department last year . . . the late Professor Shaw who was a favorite in the Education department . . . this year we . . . worked for Dr. Stearns for Sheriff . . . heard Mrs. George Patton, Robert Frost and Republican Candidate Coolidge . . . hoped President Carmichael could make the selective service committee which he served on see fit to let us all graduate before being drafted . . . after four years leave a combination of laughter, work and wonderful people . . . leave proms, exams, term papers, campaigns, carnivals, and the rest for the undergraduates to find and enjoy . . . { 25