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Left to Right: Eldridge Moores - Secretary, Lewis Linson - Treasurer, Keith Brown - Vice President, Fred Newman - Athletic Manager, Ron Forbess - President. eniurs ,. J, Four years ago, when the class of-1959 entered Caltech, the cam- pus was in the midst of an anti-science cycle. What this means, for example, is that around the dinner table, at frosh camp, and in the student houses, any mention of classwork or of the latest advances in physics or biology was greeted with sounds of hissing from all corners of the room. One of the symptons of this attitude was the fact that in i955 three of the outstanding men in the graduating class, outstanding in both activities and scholarship, chose their careers in the fields of medicine, history, and law. Therer was a great deal of effort on the part of the faculty and deans to do away with this attitude at the i955 freshman camp. Even taking this into account, however, the faculty may have been surprised at the small but significant number of freshmen who took in all that the cynical upperclassmenu had to say and then responded with statements about the intellectual and aesthetic values of scientific work. The class of 59 continued to have this positive influence on the school throughout its entire four years, Its members were largely re- sponsible for the creation of the ASCIT educational policies committee and for that committee's many thoughtful recommendations to the faculty on matters of curriculum. It must also be credited with the in- creased relevancy of ASCIT to student affairs and with a resurgence of interest in the arts at Caltech. Extracurricular activities of this kind are among the most val-uable ones a group of students can engage in while they are in an institution devoted to learning.
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Perhaps The mosT imporTanT acTiviTy for sTudenTs, in facT, is To peneTraTe deeply inTo Their sfudies, boTh humaniTarian and scienTific, so ThaT They may ad- vance as Thinking, evaluaTing men and as creaTive scienTisTs. For The firsT Three years of iTs sTay aT Cal- Tech The class of 59 has had more men recognized for academic honor Than any oTher class, and This will probably conTinue To be True in Their senior year as well. There will be a higher percenTage of enTer- ing freshmen graduafing wiTh This year's class Than wiTh any class in The pasT and seemingly in The immediafe fuTure. This inTellecTual eminence mighT lead you To suspecT ThaT The class would suffer from a lack of wild flaming characfers. And ThaT probably would be a fair generalizafion. BUT who can forgeT Wild- eyed Lango, leader of The Open Forum, or Noisy Norm Velinfy wiTh his big, lovable friend, Dick Middleman? The class will never forgef The sTudenTs who have passed on To oTher insTiTuTions, among whom we musT menfion simple, gullible Eric Rix and Mike TalcoTT, The original Eager Beaver who lefT To wriTe The GreaT American Novel wiTh his broken pencil, And whaT oTher class we ask, could boasf The like of Dan Killoran, boy poTaTog Larry The Emu Elmore, modesT, unassuming Hal Yura, FaT'Ty Arbuckle, Madman Clarke Bell. Ah, There are names To leave To posTeriTy. A large parf of class spiriT in any college Tends- To be cenfered around achievemenTs of iTs ouTsTand- ing aThleTes. ln This respecT The class of i959 had only moderaTe success. There have been no really o-uTsTanding aThleTes in sporTs and only a few very good ones. Fred, Newman was probably The besT single aThleTe, he made all-conference Teams in The sporTs of fooTball, baskeTball, and baseball. Along wiTh Newman, Russ Pifzer and John Conover were sTand-. ouTs of The fooTball Team. ln soccer, BrenT BanTa, Larry Tenn, and Luis Baiz DuarTe were ouTsTanding. BrenT and Larry made The all-conference Team and Luis received honorable menTion. The class showed greaT sTrengTh in swimming, where Don Owings, Bob Blandford, and KeiTh Brown combined 'To seT several school and conference records and To lead The swimming Team To a con- ference championship This year. This year Don Owings seT a SouThern Pacific AAU record in The 220 breasTsTroke. Tony Leonard was ouTsTanding in Track and holds The school 880 record while Frank Cormia has been far and away The besT man on The Tennis squad for The pasT four years. A classmafe who cannoT go unmenTioned was M. James Wilkinson, Vice PresidenT, refired, who was a friend of us all. Jim quiT school To seek a purposeful life, only six monThs before his pending graduaTion, lesT he become iusT anoTher cog in our ever-rolling wheel of life. These years ThaT The class of i959 has spenT aT Calfech have been relaTively quief. There have been dances, and games, and peTTy squabloling, and reforms, and pranks and wild nighTs-buf no really passionafe crusades aT all. STill, There is ci, TradiTion of independence and change in This class- a sTirring of dissaTisfacTion. While The class has been aT Tech, The space age has begun, The world's populaTion has burgeoned, ICBM's have become a commonplace. Counfry afTer counTry has achieved independence, some have losT Their freedom as well. The world's problems are piling up. They may be solved by humaniTarian, dedicaTed, scienfifically Trained men such as The class of 1959 has a good chance To be.
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