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also made Bill Wilcox business manager of the Yale Literary Magazine, Jack Silliman business manager of WYBC, and Jim Burke managing editor of the Record. Wilcox achieved distinction on an international level when Botteghe Oscure, a multi-lingual maga- zine with world-wide circulation, published an example of Bill ' s deathless prose. Bill also spends some time in the little colonial house known as the Elizabethan Club. Here he is joined by fellow D ' porters Fred Pitt- man, Garry Haupt, Park Teter, and Dave Isbell. Park Teter and Larry Hewes also held the reins of the Political Union for one term each during the year. Under the tutelage of Rich Haskel, a griz- zled veteran of two years of intercollege foot- ball, the ' 54 version of Hybrid footballers presented themselves to the college at a rally the night before the season ' s opener with Branford. The game was tight all the way and the Hybrids did well to hold the vaunted Towermen, pre-season league favorites, to a scoreless tie. The second game saw the Hy- brids overpower the JE Spiders by a score of 12-0, which might have been higher had not penalties stopped the D ' porters several times in JE territory. A pass from QB Ted Bark- will to Dave Lapham scored the first touch- down, and a 53 yard run by Rog Fleming in the third quarter completed the day ' s scoring. A muddy field hindered the Hybrids as they dropped their third game to Silliman by a score of 13-6. Davenport ' s lone score came on a pass from Barkwill to Fleming. A 6-6 tie with Saybrook followed. In the season finale, which the Hybrids lost 12-6 in the last five sec- onds, the stalwart play of the defensive line was spectacular as it had been throughout the season. Balloting by the coaches and captains brought all-south league honors to Jack Logan and Rog Fleming and second team honors to Rich Haskel and Tiff Bingham. The touch team started off with a bang and knocked over Branford, Trumbull, and Cal- houn in quick order while losing only to TD. Their glory was shortlived, however, as the 3-1 record changed to a 3-5 after games with Berkeley, Pierson, JE, and Silliman. Larry Reno, Phil Franz and sophomore track man Chick Goode all showed well over the season. The soccer team wound up with a 2-3-4 season record, with Nik Cheremeteff contrib- uting heavily to the scoring while Jim Downey tended the goal. Coach Ed Johns- ton ' s aggregation recorded wins over Calhoun and JE, losses accredited to Silliman, Say- brook, and Branford while games with TD. Trumbull, Pierson, and Berkeley ended in ties. Spontaneous is the word for the way the fall social season started indeed just as D ' porters were sitting down to their books. Mountain Day rolled around and books were discarded for the biggest Vale-Smith gather- 62

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from Davenport; they were Steve DeForest, Jim Griffin, Garry Haupt, and Eldred Mundth. Davenport engineers are well repre- sented in Tau Beta Pi. They are Bill Schrader, Jerry Fehr, Stan Johanson, Elliot Lawson, Jim Freedman, and Val Weber. At the annual College dinner held shortly after school started, Mr. Merriman presented scholars from all classes in Davenport with the annual College scholarship awards. The Charles McLean Andrews prize went to Park Teter, the John V. Farwell Scholarships went to Jesse Cook and Stan Johanson, the Helen Davenport Fessenden Memorial Scholarships went to Jim Herlan, Dick Gustafson (for the second time), and Garry Haupt (for the third time — a record), and Bill Schrader was the recipient of the Emerson Tuttle Memorial Award. As usual, D ' porters held numerous posi- tions of an extracurricular nature around the campus. On the athletic side, we boasted no less than five captains of varsity teams: Mac Aldrich, swimimng; Jerry Fehr, golf; Dave Hobson, basketball; Steve Reynolds, crew; and Eric Seiff, cross-country. Proficiency in rowing must run in the Reynolds family, for Steve is following immediately in the foot- steps of his brother, Ken (Davenport ' 54), who captained the rowing team last year. Others prominent in varsity sports were Al u Englander, tennis; Pete Bartlett, soccer — Pete is captain-elect of next year ' s booters: Larry Reno, Charlie and Bob Schaller, track: Ken MacKenzie, Dave Ingalls, Jamie Good- ale, Bruce Monick and Marty Fenton, hockey. Bill Flanders and Jim Downey, president and stage manager of the Yale Glee Club, are back in Davenport after serenading Europe with their dulcet tones last summer. Also along were Fred Dittman and Fred Robert- shaw. Testimony to good times abroad is provided by an AP wirephoto in the Daven- port scrapbook. Entitled Yale Singer Makes Friends in Wales it shows Downs, all grin, with a North Wales girl named Janet Jones. Bill Goodman and Joe Bachelder attained moguldom on the News — Bill as Production Editor and Joe as a Senior Editor. Joe ' s well- turned phrases were read with interest as his subjects usually dealt with the changing so- cial order at Yale and, on occasion, Daven- port in particular. Down in Hendrie Hall, Phil Zeidman was managing the Banner, and it was his fertile mind which brought about the Dartmouth week-end Bladder-Ball contest and the subsequent write-up in Sports Illus- trated. Elsewhere in Hendrie Hall Bill Mar- tin handled the circulation for the Record. Elections of new boards brought the same post to Bill Poorvu on the News. Elections 61

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ing that Davenport has seen. Though it seemed spontaneous to most students, much careful planning was done by Dean Alexander, Jack Logan, Angus Wurtele, Ted Barkwill, and John Wallace in order to make the party the success it was. Midway through the fall term the News informed us that the Smith faculty was considering putting an end to Mountain Day because the girls just weren ' t climbing mountains. A group of wealthy Davenport alums gathered immediately and decided that the best plan would be to just buy Smith outright if such a thing were put into effect. The Entertainment Committee, under the guidance of Phil Spanish Moss Zeidman, got things rolling Dartmouth Weekend with a dinner dance which, despite a slight famine of ice in the early hours, was a great success. Six new members were elected to the committee. They were Jim Downey, Jim Kingsbury, Art Mori, all from ' 56, and John Crosby, Hi Bingham, and Phil Pillsbury from ' 57. Princeton Weekend hit town and might as well have been called Hurricane Tiger. Parties boiled up all over Davenport — from the York Street entry, where the people were lively and the martinis deadly, down all along the terrace to the Pink Pig Room I S. R. 0. 1 , climax- ing three years of porcine predominance, into the lower court where Little St. Paul served up a punch that re- sembled the juice poured off of a keg of nails, and upstairs to where the Emmets gath- ered and it was less than S. R. 0. All year long the college aide staff carried out its du- ties quietly and efficiently. Jamie Goodale was the Chief Aide and Fred Pittman took care of the library. Sophomores appointed to the staff included Frank Conlan, Jack Erickson, Connie Fisher, Chic Goode, and Dave Riddiford. Once again, Mr. Merriman proved himself to be not only the capable master that he is, but also the warm friend of every student in the college. His interest in every problem brought to him is genuine and friendly. As in years past, both he and his charming wife have ac- quainted themselves with the entire sophomore class and received their unanimous friendship and respect. With mid-year exams over, some looked forward to an active season in the spring sports and that island of pleasure in a sea of study known as Junior Prom. Others thought of Spring Recess spent in a sunnier clime, but all looked forward to the ceasing of the infernal rains and the warm, balmy afternoons which we hoped would be our lot when once more College Weekend returned to Davenport. — J. J. Burke