University of Maryland College Park - Terrapin / Reveille Yearbook (College Park, MD)

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st ' far-svcs-S Table of Contents Introduction 6 Administraton 44 Colleges 58 Student Government 98 Events and Impressions 110 Queens 161 Communications 172 Religion 190 Music and 1 )rama 202 Honoraries 226 Organizations 242 Sports 274 Residence Halls 336 Greeks 372 Seniors 416 hlditor ' s Page 471 Index 472

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1966 Staff COPY EDITOR Marge Fuzo FEATURE WRITERS Dave Kearse Lisa Taylor DISTRIBUTION MANAGER Mike Jennings ART Bill Browne Linda Lanham SECTION EDITORS Nancy Carouther, SCA Carole Coburn, Honoraries Ronnie Coda, Organizations Barbara Graham, Creeks Ina Hackernian, Residences Lynn Kassalow, Religion Sue Landrieu, Seniors Barbara Loveless, Administration Trisha McCIung, Music Claude Morse, Aerospace Studies Vicki Ordey, Colleges Marci Scherr, Croups Margaret Smith, Profiles Leslie Streen, Queens Joe Trocino, Sports PHOTOGRAPHERS Bill Bott Henning Christoph Al Danegger Jay Graham Jay Lange Bill Miles Claude Morse Dave Powell Mike Rossoff FACULTY ADVISOR Philip C.Geraci ©-1966 STUDENT GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION University of Maryland Coilejre Park, Md. All rights reserved. No part of this hook mutj be reproduced in any form, by mimeograph or any other means, without permission in writ- ing from the Student C.overnment Associa- tion at the University of Maryland or its authorized agent. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 55-39755

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Ever Towards Greatness . . . ALMOST fiom the time men heard of Amer- Vica they were planning its universities. Long before the first permanent settlers ar- rived in Maryland an idealistic English gentleman, Edward Palmer, purchased an island in the Chesapeake in order to estab- lish a university there unfettered by tradi- tion. The colonial legislature of Maryland talked endlessly about the need for a univer- sity, and in 1784 incorporated Washington and St. John ' s Colleges as The University of Maryland, guaranteeing its professors, freedom from taxation and its students free- dom from the draft. So active were Maryland- ers in their talk of higher education that for many years it seemed likely that a national university, endowed by George Washington, would be established close to what is now College Park. Of course, talk outdistanced reality. Rivalry between the Eastern and Western shores, religious revilry and a lack of qualified students caused the first Uni- versity of Maryland to fail; and someone absconded with the money Washington left. Meanwhile in Baltimore the present in- stitution was born in 1807 when an angry mob destroyed the laboratory of Dr. John B. Davidge who was using cadavers to teach his apprentices human anatomy. Physicians of the town persuaded the legislature to provide them protection by chartering a College of Medicine. It was entirely faculty- owned with no administration whatever. Stu- dents paid each professor directly for the right to attend class, and bad professors got no students. When students thought they were ready, after about two years, they took an examination for their M.D. degree. The College of Medicine was so success- ful that in 1812 the legislature changed its name to the University of Maryland and allowed it to offer other degrees in the same way. Without fixed salaries, administration and discipline, the undergraduate college was never very successfrd, but the unusual system of faculty ownership allowed Mary- land to assume a national leadership in the creation of professional schools. It gave birth to the first dental school in the world, one of the country ' s first effective schools of law, and the fourth school of pharmacy. Its medical professors suggested evolution and the germ theory long before Darwin and Pasteur; the once scarce cadavers for dissec- tion became so plentifrd that Frank, the fam- ous janitor, pickled the surplus ones in bar- rels of whiskey to supply the medical col- leges of New England. As professional schools emerged, the aristocratic planters of Maryland sought to secure their own position in society by estab- lishing the Maryland Agricultural College. Far out in the country, far from the corrupt- ing influences of a town, they built a hand- some five-story gothic structure, located on the hill where the main dining hall stands today. Led by the lordly Charles Benedict Calvert, it was an elite institution when it opened in 1859, designed as a college where rich men ' s sons could learn stern discipline, modern science, and the social and cultural values of a gentleman. Unfortunately for the college, the day of the gentleman planter was almost over. Like the state, the institutions in Balti- more and College Park were bitterly torn by the Civil War. From both institutions, about a third of the faculty, students and alumni went South to fight for the Confederacy. Both institutions remained enclaves of Confederate sympathy and perhaps espion- age. When Confederate troops passed through College Park late in the war, the administration entertained them with a grand ball. Both campuses had difficulties adjusting to the post-war industrial era. Although the trustees of the Agricultural College accepted Typical lecture room scene at the old A . school.