University of New Hampshire - Granite Yearbook (Durham, NH)

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Charles Long HE weT roads of New Hampshire on The firsT Tuesday of Ocfober in The year I946 lead To Durham and The UniversiTy of New Hamp- shire, and To whaT, we, of The class of l95O, looked forward To as four awe-inspiring years of college life. The heavy rainfall failed To dampen Ths spiriT of The girls on ThaT day: however, The same cannoT be said for The men. Anxious To Take over The new dorms Thaf They had read so much abouT, They were disTurbed To find a naive sign saying ThaT The dorms were noT ready for occupancy. The mud of The area behind Com- mons To College Road and a miniafure Panama Canal broughT baclc foreign scenes To The many veTs, a word which was To become almosT synonymous wiTh sTudenTs here aT New Hamp- shire and ThroughouT The U. S. However, Prexy Harold STolces did a good iob of pulling our spiriTs ouT of The mud and giving us encourage- menT aT our TirsT assembly. We became more class of 1950 aware oT our idenTiTy by Brad MclnTyre's window greeTing To The Class of l95O and by The size of our class, which could barely squeeze inTo New Hampshire Hall. As eager freshmen we Took parT in snake dances, fooTball rallies. and various campus acTiviTies. We can easily recall The crowded classrooms and The Time spenT sTanding in line aT Commons Through Those cold winTer monThs. For many of The veTerans The previous summer session had inTroduced or refreshed college life and sfudying. Emerging from The green look aTTribuTed To froshes, we elecfed our TirsT class officers aT UNH. Our Prexy was Gus Gilman, already a fooTball sTar. Assisfing him were Joe DuTfy as vice-presidenT, Lillian BeH'y Taylor as secrefary, and STu Shaines, Treasurer. ln our sophomore year. we bid Prexy Sfolces good-bye and welcomed ArThur S. Adams as our universiTy presidenf. The NoTch made iTs debuT and became one of The gaThering spoTs Tor class- maTes. N. H. Hall and The Field House were no longer men's dorms. ingress and egress To The new dorms was possible in Durham's dry season. Our vicTorious TooTball season ended finding us undefeafed and sending our heroes off To Ohio To compeTe wiTh Toledo in The Glass Bowl. As fooTball players we conTribuTed PriT- Chard. Gage, Begin, MaTher, Pasalis, Tupper, Swelcla, NesTor, Levandowslci, Noel, BenoiT, Mi-

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IN M-EMORIAM Jarlene A. Elmgren lvlanclwesier, New Hampshire Helen F. Tucker Franklin, New Hampshire fff f' ' ' M X A x. ll I clo noi Jrlwinlc Life provides for all and for Time and Space, buf I believe Heavenly Deailn provides 'For all. WALT WHITMAN 24

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kazenas, Nixon, Kachavos, DeTalis. Amid BiTT GlassTord's successes on Lewis Field and Through- ouT New England, we elecTed Joe DuTTy as our presidenT: Jim NesTor, vice-presiclenT: Shirley Hoyle, secreTaryg Bill Charron, Treasurer: and DoroThy DuTTy and Torn Powers, class represen- TaTives. HuTch Long, KaTsiTicas, Millman, Mc- Cormick, and Levandowski were members oT The varsiTy baskeTball squad. Dave McCullough helped To represenT The class in baseball, while SweeT, HarTneTT, Webb, Barndollar, Gambel, MaTher, Barns, Tupper, and Kiepper were acTive in Track. We saw The achievemenTs oT' Si Dunk- New England, ThaT The Hammer and Sickle was Tlying Trom The Tlag pole aT T-Hall, we managed To become oT age! We learned To Take our roles in campus acTiviTies, and we elecTed as Junior Class oTTicers, HuTch Long, presidenTg DOT DuTTy BarreTT, vice-president Shirley Hoyle, sec- reTaryg and Earl Barnes, Treasurer. Jim Wedge and Joy AhrendT were elecTed class represenTa- Tives, and STU Shaines and BeTTy Ahern were puT in charge oT The class rings commiTTee. The specTacular success oT our Junior Prom under The leadership oT BeTTy Lou Perley and ArT HarTneTT impressed The enTire UniversiTy wiTh The poTen- ,a2z3.:..,.T,..:.T-- . Y --.V Y. .. ...,,- , iP'b'Tr1- -, r 'Q' l li if X Xx if N X Bruce MaTher, Vice-Presidenh Shirley Hoyle, SecreTary7 Earl Barnes, Treasurer lee, Ralph Townsend, and Boo Morcom, The lasT Two members oT The U. S. Olympic Teams Tor I948. Our Hobo Hop under The direcTion oT BeTTy Ahern and Jim Wedge was held in The N. H. Hall. As Freshmen we had Tound ThaT The in- TormaliTy of The Hobo Theme was well received, and so we repeaTed iT our Sophomore year. Since Then, The Hobo Hop has almosT become a TradiTion as The annual dance given by The Sophomore Class. ln our Junior year, despiTe rumors Throughouf TialiTies oT The members of iTs largesT class. Rep- resenTing our Temale classmaTes in The Junior Prom CourT, our secreTary reigned as queen aTTended by Lorna Hadley and JaneTTe Furman. By now, The original T300 sTudenTs of our class had been wiTled down To approximaTely IOOO: neverTheless, The impacT oT The class was TelT in The Twice-winning Yankee ConTerence TooTball Team and oTher aThleTic Teams, as well as in publicaTions and organizaTions circles. This year, Too, saw The developmenT oT poliTical hisTory in