Allegheny College - Kaldron Yearbook (Meadville, PA)

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umlh. , HMHY HHIJW -m'Ht'S HI HIP ,ou ,HV'J. IHHJ Because John Hulhurt has built the Allegheny Playshop from a small experiment to one of the best student workshops in America. heeause he has been unafraid to break through the bonds of red tape and tradition to bring really new innmations to dramatic work on campus. because he has raised Allegheny pmduetimts to professional level, and because. besides spending a near txx'enty-fmn' hour day in the Playshup he has found time to know almost every Allegheny student. me wish to honor him and the work for which he stands. 80 we have built our book on a dramatic theme. hoping that by it our classes may remember him and his achievements at Allegheny.

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NMW 5x N Axum; ems Nxxwxw MWmRWQXmew w xw- : , ll iiHEN PROFESSOR JOHN W. HULBURT opens this book he will probably smile sardonically. Here he will find an imitation of a drama a drama which purports to he similar to many which he has produced during his sixteen years in the Allegheny Playshopl He will notice immediately that this play is not technically perfect: the acts contain too many sceneS, the curtains are unauthentic, the scenery is all awry. Immediately. he will call for the east, the prop crew, the designers, to cgtear it all down and start overlii But it will be too late; the producers Will be long gone from the Allegheny stage. and his rigid adherence to perfection of detail will, for the first time in his career. be frustrated. It is then that we hope he will sit hack in the swivel chair behind his huge caIVed desk, take a deep breath, and look at our book this way:

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THE PINGRAM This drama takes place on the campus of Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsyl- vania. It is the school year 1946-47, a year of return to old traditions, and formation of new, a year of work and serious thought toward the future. ACT I shows the People on this campus - the largest number that have ever inhabited it at one time. 617 men and 395 women are registered here. A record faculty of 64 members presides over the crowded class- rooms. Some students live like sardines in overflowing fraternity houses; others are packed into bulging Brooks. The govern- ment buys pencils for 477 ex-G.I.,s in a soon-to-be-expanded book store, and stu- dents buy cokes in an already enlarged grill. ACT II presents the Politics on Alleghenyis campus. Here the 7initiali9 organizations4 AUC, AWS, MUC4 direct student govern- ment. Here the things the governmental machinery turns out4 a name-band dance, an all college carnival, formal banquets in Brooks- are re-dramatized. INTERMISSION brings relaxation with the Charm of Allegheny. For every month of the year a pretty girl steps before the cur- tain to prove the beauty of Allegheny wo- men. ACT III enacts all the Pastimes that take up the leisure moments of an Alleghenian. Here are seen the Talent on parade, the Pen in action, and the Thought at work on Allegheny activities. Lastly, the vigorous drama of Athletics brings the play to its climax.