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

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Time begins to drag toward the end of a term. Halloween came and went, and the trees on campus were rolled (very pretty for a day or so). Flickerball champions we re determ- ined as the cross country team ran up a winning season record. The campus looked like an artist ' s pallet when fall wash- ed the maples, oaks and elms with brilliant reds, fiery oranges, and mellow yellows. All too soon, however, the colors faded and the leaves fell. Fall term ended as sud- denly as it began. Students went home for Thanksgiving and returned to find winter. The future looked rosy. Gary Pomeroy and Joe Duncan had set national and school records in football, trees with- out leaves didn ' t look all that bad, Christmas was only three weeks away, it looked like it might snow, and best of all . . . basketball.

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Meanwhile, at the library the exterior book drop was being dedicated in memory of Bill Edwards who, as it turned out, was a fictitious alumnus created by an imaginative class sec- retary who figured his classmates weren ' t reading their class notes very closely. Eulogies over the departed were waxed eloquently as champagne flowed and Cripple Creek, an alumni blue grass band, picked Amazing Grace. As the NEW YORK TIMES reported the event, College officials were somewhat upset when they first learned of the hoax; but when it was pointed out that the Class ' 20th reunion memorial gift had been in excess of $20,000, it was decided to let the situa- tion rest in peace. Actually, College officials had helped plan the dedication, but who bothers to correct the TIMES. At half-time of the football game, Ann Bode, a Davidson junior representing Fannie and Mable ' s, and Anne Adkerson, a University of Georgia junior representing Phi Delta Theta, shared honors as Co-Homecoming Queens. Football season came and sort of passed by. The team didn ' t exactly set the woods on fire. Though they choked twice and played fine ball in five losing efforts, they did pull off two victories. The Homecoming win over Hampden-Sydney lifted the spirits for the fall quarter Big Weekend. The new acoustics in Johnston Gym were tested with concerts by Kansas and Larry Coryell. The hard-rock playing of Kansas seemed a few thousand decibels too loud in the gym, but those who had mistakenly gone to Love Auditorium for the concert found the volume about right over there. Coryell ' s jazz rock group, featuring on drums and percussion the loose- necked, taut-fingered Alphonse, gave a fine performance; but again the acoustics were a little disconcerting. A few weeks later, the student drama production of Servant of Two Masters in Hodson Hall was a little gentler on the ears as well as quite delightful to the eyes. I WILLIAM DAVIDSON EDWARDS METUCHEN. N. J. 19311973 CLASS OF 1953

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Roundball-and-hoop time was here, and the spirit was back. An enthusiastic crowd went wild as the ' Cats won their first two games. Even Johnston Gym was sporting a new tartan surface. A promising new coach and a returning experi- enced club had us on the edge of our seats. When the dust settled on a 7-19 record, there was a rather let down feeling. But time does heal all wounds, and within a few weeks one could hear, Can ' t win ' em all, I guess, and There ' s always next year. In mid-January, or was it Febru- ary, it finally snowed. Wasn ' t much, but it made going to the P.O. a pleasure, even knowing there was nothing there. Some people went seven or eight times that day!