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

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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

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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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Durham as Mayor Frank Robie l l'lis'oner The Mayor, Threadbare McNair l became The leader oT The power machine ThaT was To rule Durham Two successful years. Assuming The role oT reverenT seniors. we re- elecTed l-luTch Long as our prexy and The MOST BeauTiTul Co-ed in New England, Shirley Hoyle, To her Third Term as our secreTary. Earl Barnes was also re-elecTed Treasurer, while Bruce MaTher was elecTed vice-presidenT. We looked on The revival oT Frosh l-lazing wiTh reserved en- Thusiasm. Our classmaTes assumed posiTions oT leadership in sTudenT governmenTs, publicaTions, AnoTher Topic OT much imporT.ance discussed concerned a group plan Tor purchasing The ALUMNUS, under which plan The magazine could be purchased aT a- lower raTe individually provided The class as a whole subscribed. AT a class meeTing on February 22, These Two Topics were discussed wiTh class members. AT The same meeTing, Anne Marie Flanagan and John Sakow- ski were elecTed co-chairmen oT The Commence- menT program. Big weekends like Mil ArT, Car- nival, Junior Prom, and Pan-Hel meanT more To us as we reached The lasT cycle oT college liTe. YeT nexT year loomed large beTore us. We ExecuTive CornmiTT'ee: James Wedge, Joy AhrendT, Class RepresenTaTiveg Charles Long, Shirley Hoyle, Bruce MaTher, Thomas Charron, acTing Treasurer, NoT picTured: Professor Philip Wl-ieaTon, Class Adviser. clubs, aThleTics, and oThers wenT as Tar as as- suming domesTic responsibiliTies. During The year The execuTive commiTTee meT several Times To discuss various projecTs. One oT These was The life insurance program oTTered by NaTional Life of VermonT which was endorsed by aclminisTra- Tive oTTicers and The class execuTive commiTTee. Under This plan, aT The end of TwenTy-Tive years, one hundred dollars OT' The dividends due on policies Taken ouT by our class members will be reTurned To The UniversiTy as an alumni giTT. realized ThaT our lives aT Durham were coming To an end. We would soon Take up our respec- Tive roles in The world ouTside. As we donned our caps and gowns, we .could reminisce over The years since The TirsT Tall in '46 and could look Torward To being The largesT class ever To be graduaTed Trom The UniversiTy oT New Hampshire. We would look back wiTh pride and joy on The pasT Tour years aT Durham: we could look Torward wiTh hope and courage To The Tu- Ture years in The world ouTside.