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

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The sports scene was ablaze during the spring. The Wildcat baseball team won an unprecedented 21 games, posting its first winning season since the early sixties. Leading the team was George Weicker, who ended the season with the NCAA ' s second highest batting average. The greatest moment of the season came when the Cats defeated second-ranked South Carolina 4-3 at Columbia. And in basketball, an impressive list of six top recruits kindled hope for a revival of Davidson ' s lost round ball prestige. INMEMORIAM HATTIES 19??- 1975 Other things were kindled as well. Hattie ' s Bar and Grill, a Thursday night institution for the county-line-crossing beer guzzlers for many Davidson generations, was gutted by two blazes on the Sunday of Spring Frolics weekend. Smoke mingled with tears for even though all the Iredell County fire departments were called in to help prevent total disaster, help came too late; and a legend literally went up in smoke. For- tunately, the Peregrine House responded to the campus-wide needs of the student body with Terry and Cindy instituting their own Thursday night happy hour — and a new Davidson tradition joined F.A.C. in providing an early evening diversion to books and studies.

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Simultaneous with spring leaves came several campus issues. Students fared very well this time. Slight modifications were made in PE department requirements so that it was much easier and more enjoyable to get one ' s body in good enough shape to face the world. The psychological counseling service expanded from four to five days a week to handle the cares of the rising cases of battle fatigue. ARA Slater agreed to adopt a new meal ticket plan to take into account appetite size. Finally, the College ' s proposal to play post office was rejected, much to the pleasure of the student body and the Davidson postmaster. Spring Frolics was highlighted with a mellow concert by Don McLean and a spacy performance from Richie Havens, not to mention the annual beer bash on Saturday afternoon at the baseball field. A few weeks later at Alumni Weekend, the alumni roasted the Moses (having gotten the children into the promised building) of the E.H. Little Temple of Learning, Chalmers Gaston Davidson, esquire. Musical highlight of the weekend was provided at the post-roast alumni-student dance, featuring the big-band sound of Deez Boys Band, an all- student group under the baton of junior Dea Booth. The Goals Committee met and determined a theme for the college in setting and meeting goals for Davidson ' s develop- ment during the next twelve years. The committee emphasized the need for more endowment for faculty salaries and student scholarships, the need for funds for special academic facilities, and the need to improve eating and housing facilities for stu- dents. A recommendation to set up a permanent committee o f this sort was left in limbo.

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Spring rushed by too fast. Summer was in sight, and one might see a freshman looking very proud of herself because she had just gotten a promotion to sophomore. One might also see a senior looking sort of sad as he realized he was leaving the friends he had lived with for four years.