Goucher College - Donnybrook Fair Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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CONTENTS academics academic ....... 10 departmental clubs . . 24 classes ......... 40 activities dorms ......... 80 organizations ..... 94 agenda ........ 120

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to dr. richard wuidelich A prophet of the new criticism . . . a man with enough wisdom to enter Coucher with our class . . . a unoble, gallant, dashing knight77-0nly better . . . a favorite father who also provided us with a mother, brother, sister and savory coffee on Sunday morning . . . a boyish grin under a Byronic beard . . . All these are Mr. Waidelich . . . and all these deserve our thanks.

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GOUCHER and the community In the past ten years, the American liberal arts college, as exemplified by Coucher, has played an increasingly important role in the national and international scene. College life is no longer a cloistered ivy tower existence. Educators have for some time realized this fact, but it has not been until recently that American business men have become aware of the signiiicance 0f the liberal arts college in the communal problems of the 20th cen- tury world. The business man,s realization of this has been illustrated by the generous grants recently afiorded Goucher and other liberal arts colleges by the F 0rd Foundation. Keeping in mind this realization 0n the part of educators and business men, the editors of the 1957 Donnybrook F air have attempted to portray Coucherk awareness of its relation to its commun- ity. This community is, in a sense, both local and world-wide. The students of Coucher have noted7 particularly in the past year, the tense state of world aHairs. We have also seen the development of the role of the student in these international problems. The situation in Hungary, and the students7 part in this situation, has aroused Gouchefs interest to such an extent that both f acuity and students have com- bined their efforts to bring a Hungarian student into the Coucher community. The already large group