College of William and Mary - Colonial Echo Yearbook (Williamsburg, VA)

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► Everyone got covered in mud at Derby Day this year. Kim Colonna and lier big sister Glenna Phillips vi ere two of the many people who hit the mud. which seemed to attract more people than the games. ►► Dorms were, as usual, the site of an accumula- tion of trash, especially over the weekends. The frats were always a mess as this pile of trash outside Pi Lam indicates.

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Maryanne Kondracki Leslie Barry

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..:..- . — y, ' ,. Leslie Broadhead. Martha Drodge and Kelly Metcalf carry the banner before their MASH float at homecoming. the over two hundred applicants in mid-August. Faculty and students participated in the search to a certain extent. A questionnaire, distributed to students by the search committee during fall semester, received little response. Said junior Kathy Curtis of the questionnaire: I remember filling it out but I think most people didn ' t bother. By November 30, the search committee had narrowed the field to six candidates, in- cluding Hamden-Sydney ' s President Josiah Bunt- ing III, Virginia Beach Schools ' Superintendent Edward E. Brickell, and Tulane Law School ' s Dean Paul R. Verkuil. Verkull was chosen from the search committee ' s list of recommended appli- cants by the Board of Visitors. The BOV an- nounced its choice just before Christmas, after the fall session had recessed for winter break. Paul Verkuil, a 1961 graduate of William and Mary, declared his desire to enhance W M ' s image as a university early. At a February press confer ence, Verkuil stated that he wanted to see William and Mary really gain that national recognition that it deserves and realize its poten- tial as a university and that he planned to emphasize the graduate and professional pro- grams and faculty research. Acting president George Healy agreed with Verkuil ' s assessment, but he stated that he hoped that Verkuil would ryanne Kondracki