Davidson College - Quips and Cranks Yearbook (Davidson, NC)

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Jhe oDai lddon tor v The first page of this book read, 1 [ere Is Your Davidson. The most important word in that phrase is your ! This book is aimed at pleasing you the student. We have tried to decide what you want in an annual and we have tried to give it to you. It ' s yours and I hope that you are going to like it. Our aim is to give you an annual which you will not only like this year, but one which you will enjoy just as much twenty years from now. We want to make Davidson live in this hook and that ' s no easy task! These have been short, kill years— years which have moulded our character more than we realize, hut they have also been playful years. If we can succeed in capturing the playful as well as the formative aspect ol our life here, this hook will he a success. If you feel that you arc reliving your college days when you read it, our every wish will have been fulfilled. We have attempted to connect the diverse pic- tures and memories of college days into one all inclusive story of life at Davidson as you live it. The Davidson Story is the result of our efforts. This is a book and it is written as a book in one continuous narrative, except tor picture captions, class sections, and a few reminiscences. To fully understand it you will have to start on the first page and read it as you would any other book. It is the Davidson Story and vou are a part of the cast. Shelley Beard, George McMurray, and I have written it from your point of view. It may be a little different from most annuals that vou have seen hut that is to be desired. Don Mahy has drawn numerous cartoons and sketches to sup- plement the actual photographs. We have changed the form of the type, we hope for the better. There are several other divergences from previous years which I will not mention here, since thev are readily observable. College is a part of life set apart. College davs come and go but memories linger. To revive these languid memories in later years, to make vou laugh at the supper table with vour old buddies, to re- mind vou of a ball game or dance, to make you long for those precious moments of good times, to engrave the life you lived at Davidson on these pages so that vou may always have it— these are our aims. We may be shooting for a star but we have at least got off the around. May the next pages give you fun and joy, today and tomorrow. KJur storu b , f oef eainA

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DR. JOHN R. CUNNINGHAM f- resident This is the story of a college and a class. It ' s a story about the four years that the class of ' 52 spent at Davidson, it ' s about the growth of the thoughts and aspirations which entwine themselves into the heritage of a college and are its tradition. We come to college, we stav four vears and leave. In that time we have become a part of the school and it has become a part of us. How much we become involved in traditions max never be known. We change and maybe the college changes, but change is inevitable and would be more noticeable by its absence than bv its presence. Despite the change certain ideas and principles remain and will neveT be removed no matter how much embroiderv is done on the outside. In this brief review of the Class of ' 52 we want to crvstallize in out memory the place that Davidson College has had in forming our lives. All in all. we weren ' t so different from the class that came in before us and the class that will take our place. And yet, we are different from any class that has ever been here.