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

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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!

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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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Special entertainment needs during the Winter Term were met by Midwinters, the Artist Series, and the drama depart- ment. Lori Jacobs opened Midwinters with her acoustic gui- tar and folk-rock-vocals in a Friday night concert. Saturday evening, the late-arriving Two Generations of Brubeck (below) met an enthusiastic audience of West coast jazz fans. The old man took the stage alone to open the act with two piano solos while the stage crew and the Younger Generation moved the rest of the band ' s equipment on stage. From the first few chords of Dave Brubeck ' s solo, the audience was his. Take Five and Blue Rondo a la Turk drew standing ovations along with an appreciative round of applause for a clarinet from a frizzy-haired member of the Younger Generation. Other winter quarter music included the jazz flute of Tim Weisberg and the electronic music of Morton Subotnik ' s moog synthesizer. William Windom (above left) presented a charac- terization of James Thurber and stayed at Davidson to enjoy whipping freshmen on the tennis courts or at their chess boards. The Davidson Drama Department presented ROSEN- CRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD, a rolick- ing comedy based on two minor characters from Shakespeare ' s HAMLET, with the election lights cast on Graham Smith (above right) who played Guildenstern after two nights ' notice. Hal McCoy, scheduled to play the part, dropped out on the day before the opening to nurse a case of hepatitus.