Tufts University - Jumbo Yearbook (Medford, MA)

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Dedicated Dr. Marston S. Balch is the head of the De¬ partment of Drama and Speech and is co¬ director of the Tufts Arena Theater. To those who lack the opportunity to know him better he appears solely as a man of culture —precise, detached, impersonal; a scholar and an academician. He is of course all these, but more; for those who do know him have learned that there is a store of warmth and understanding in him as well. Dr. Balch has contributed to many fields outside of Tufts. During the last war he was chief of French press and air analysis, chief of the cable desk of Allied Psychological Warfare, was decorated with the Medaille de la Reconnaissance, and was made Cheva¬ lier of the Legion d’Honneur. He is the au¬ thor or co-editor of several books, a member to Doe... of myriad speech, theater and language associations and a contributor to American, British and French periodicals. He is cur¬ rently on the play-choosing committee of the Boston Arts Festival and was a panel member in the “Waiting for Godot” discus¬ sions this year. As a teacher and director, Doc (he is always called Doc) is a perfectionist. He requires a student to do his best—and better. His “de¬ tachment” is actually the tendency to re¬ serve commendation until it is deserved. He applies this constant demand for improve¬ ment to himself as well, a fact which per¬ haps above all wins him the respect and admiration of everyone associated with him. It is an honor to dedicate the 1957 Jumbo Book to such a man. §eliolar, a man oC the t li e a t e r 7

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In that unique four year period of time which is called college, a group of people— in our case almost 500 people—are bound together by common work, common activ¬ ity, common experience. We, the class of 1957, are no different as a group from any other college class, but because we are also individuals, we have gone through these four years in an individual way. Perhaps from an outside point of view we have been acting, thinking, and doing the same things in the way of all other college generations; but we know differently, and we have al¬ ways known it. It’s just that until now we have not stopped to think about it. Now is the time, with Graduation coming up fast, to think about it; to stop and look back, not only at one year but at all the years that we have spent together — in Tufts, on the Hill—and remember together the things we said we would remember. And maybe, too, those that “we never knew we knew” ... —the Editor