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

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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.

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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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Several prominent speakers visited the campus during the winter. Kenneth Boulding (below), the director of research on General and Economic Dynamics at the Institute of Behavioral Science, drew a large audience to hear about modern economic problems. Fred Harris (left), candidate for the Democratic party presidential nomination, spent a week guffawing, slapping his side, shaking hands, and giving coffee table previews of his populism while his wife Ladonna brought campus attention to the rights of the American Indian. Then the campus became quiet. Bare trees, dead grass, blustering winds, grey skies, all added to the winter doldroms and thoughts of transfers. Even in the gym, only the occasional tap of a roundball in the finals of an intramural basketball game could be heard. Exams came; and quickly as possible, they went. Students scattered, many to the South to see if the sun still did shine, others to extern programs with the hopes of getting a taste of some life-work possibilities and others just to a quiet place to lick the wounds inflicted by Winter Term. When they returned, it was spring. And things always happen at Davidson in the spring. Speakers included Otts lecturer Robert McAfee Brown (above) on Theology as Narrative, Piedmont Lecturer Francis L.K. Hsy on Under- standing China and the U.S., and John Marks on The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence. Especially notable was Leon Jaworski (below), special Watergate prosecutor who delivered the major address at Spring Convocation and received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree.