Dartmouth College - Aegis Yearbook (Hanover, NH)

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Baker Tower, Lord of the dniipus V ■ !■ r . • ( ' y idKi ' j dK ' 1 Air. Alpdiidler, ClIviuviiI Emcee Flowers in the interfraternity plav contest. Phi Psi phiced second with an original adapta- tion from Winnie The Pooh. Sam Harned ' 52 and Jeff O ' Connell ' 51 won the Best Actor Awards, and Don Gold ' 51 the prize for writ- ing the best original plav. The House Armed Forces Committee sanc- tioned the eighteen-year-old draft hill and passed a recommendation to increase the period of military service from 23 to 26 months. The Supreme Court denied the appeal of Alger Hiss, and the duo-pianists, Luboschutz and Nemenoff enthralled their Hanover audience. John Grocott ' 52 and Cliff Harrison ' 51 were named to the New England all-star hockey sextet. Bill Biggs ' 52 was the leading basketball scorer with 310 points. Rick Austin ' 51 and Steve Foster ' 53 clinched the squash duo-crown and brought Dartmouth the National Doubles championship. Bitter Rice was one of the best attended movies of the year: not only because of superb acting but also as a substitute for that old Dartmouth urge. President Griswold called off Derby Day at Yale because of rowdyism, and some enterprising Dartmouth man extended an invitation to the Derby Day Committee to hold the celebration on the banks of the Connecticut. No doubt the Committee believed a Dartmouth Derby Day would be more daring than no Derby Day at all because no response was ever received. President Dickey was reappointed by the State Department as a special consultant to the Dartmouth, the gleaming, dreaming walls of Dartmouth,

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basketball game caught Ballard, Bovages, Brown, and Calhoun all in bed with the flu. The United Nations gained further in Korea, and the United States won the Pan-American track and swimming titles in Buenos Aires. Dick Barnes ' 51, Pete Henderson ' 51, and Al Moses ' 51 were selected for the State Depart- ment foreign service training program. Despite injuries. Brown was beaten 4 to 3 in the last hockey game of the season. Under the well-organized direction of Dave Hilton ' 51, the Community Chest Drive at- tained gi ; of its $10,000 goal. The Alpha Delts emerged again as intramural basketball champs, and Collozo was sentenced to death for his attempt to assassinate President Tru- man. Labor leaders walked out of Charles E. Wilson s mobilization board demanding more power. The Senate passed the eighteen-year-old draft bill and it moved to the House. Captain Cliff Harrison ' 51 was this season ' s leading hockey scorer, and the alumni beat the varsity 8 to 5 in the annual end-of-season game. Among the returning stars were the Riley brothers and Arnie (Mr. Hat-trick) Oss. The 69 to 48 Cornell victory closed the basketball season dismallv with Dartmouth ' s 23rd loss. The Theta Delts won the Mary Gile Cup for their melodramatic production of the Faded A yell for the team ' ' These are days when men ar I ' e judged and tried for si: e Dartmouth undying, like a vision starts.

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■•Dartmouth GoH United States ' delegation in the United Na- tions. In intramural athletic standing, the Alpha Dclts led the fraternities, and Tuck the dormitories. The short-lived, no-picketing, no-negotiation, no-union, no-demands Han- over Hardware strike, surprisingly enough, ended with no pav raise. Little Green Week- end, originallv initiated lor freshmen, expanded this vear into a Big Green Week-end. The featured attraction was the College Octet Jamboree including the popular Harvard Bus- iness Tycoons. The draft picture was changed again when General Hershey proposed a college deferment plan based on scholastic averages. The inter- fraternitv debate began arguing a timelv issue: Resolved: that Communist China should be admitted to the United Nations now, and Phi Sig hnallv emerged victorious. Captain John Mclntyre ' 51 and Frank Bruch ' 51 both placed high in the Eastern intercollegiate swimming meet. Brookie Dodge ' 51 was named to the 1952 Olympic ski team, with teammates Colin Stewart ' 51 and Bill Beck ' 53 chosen as alternates, and the Kappa Sigs won the interfraternitv swimming meet. Seoul was retaken by the United Nations ' Forces without the tiring of a shot. This was the fourth time that capital city had changed hands within eight months. The Red Chinese counter- attacked intermittently with fresh troops, but slowly retreated to the 38th parallel. The college T wf out for jam at the Bowl Miraculously huilded in our hearts!