Harvard University - Red Book Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

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Band set new records in marching and drilling that fall, and after the Yale game Mal Holmes, the Band's severest critic, told them As far as I'm concerned, you've had an unbeaten season. A Symphony Hall concert with the Radcliffe Choral Society climaxed a rich and ambitious musical year for the Band. justly proud of past successes, departing '46 Bands- men look for their successors to reach new musical landmarks, as they, too, partake of the rigorous training and devoted es- prit de corps that has made the Harvard Band the nation's best. Ten Thousand Men of Har- vard. Intricate formations are a Band specialty. The 1946 Band defied Musician Union boss Petrillo to record the very popular Ivy League Album of college medleys A second album appeared in April, 1949. 12791

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On to Soldiers Field. The best in the business, acclaimed the New Yorker in 1946, as the Harvard Band enjoyed its first post-war season after a few lean and naval years. '46 men had seen the Band through its entire wartime history-thirty of them had marched with the 1942-1943 Band, many remained in the ranks of the smaller Navy V-12 Band, and eleven returned to help Musical Director Malcolm H. Holmes '28 and Drillmaster Guy V. Slade '31 organize the 1946-1947 Band. Only a few rehearsal hours under this leadership sufficed to put a hundred-man band on the field at the Connecticut game, with such success that funds materialized for several football trips away from Cambridge. The Band Never Loses a Game Perhaps typical of the Band's energy was the Princeton game, where it earned the New Yarkerlr accolade. Guy Slade and his men marched through the special train to Old Nassau bolstering fighting spirit with Harmrdirzmz and Ten Tlaomwm! Men of Harvard, and at seven o'clock the next morning the Princeton campus was awakened by a tuneful reveille and more Cantabrigian echoes, but the Band still had enough wind left that afternoon to give the cheering thousands in the stands one of its best performances. An Unbeaten Season Football season over, the Band plunged into its even more exacting concert work, including recording. Before the war '46 Bandsmen had made recordings, whose musical merit was unimpaired by the odd fact that they played from the center outwards, but whose circulation had been small. The 1946 Ivy League Album of popular college medleys, however, won immediate praise and popularity and sold several thousand sets privately, defying a union ban on public sale. Other Band performances included veterans' hospitals, the Harvard Club of Boston, and the spring Sanders Theater concert. The Band also played for the major basketball and hockey games, marched in Patriots' Day parades in Boston and Lexington, and supplied the music for Class Day and Commencement. Members of '46 were back again for the 1947-1948 season, and less than three weeks after registration they en- trained with the Band and presented a concert in Richmond, Virginia, before appearing at the football game with Virginia in Charlottesville. A memorable event of this southern trip was a brief concert on the Capitol steps in Washington. The The 1942 Band was the only bright spot in an otherwise dismal football season. 12781-

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A Small but Devoted Group Keeps the Debate Council Going Though lack of interest and other difficulties, financial and military, reduced Harvard debating to a bare subsistence level during the war, '46 members took a leading part in the ne of the seven '46 men already debates that could be held. O on the Debate Council in 1942-1943, Francis D. Woidich, won one of the annual Coolidge prizes awarded to the best speakers in the trials for the Harvard-Yale-Princeton triangular debates, ' ' ' f U 't l and s oke against Princeton on the question o a ni ec P Nations Federal Union. He was subsequently appointed resident of the Council, an office he was to hold until 1945, P with Philip Troen '45 as secretary-treasurer. Leopold H. Haimson '46 and Ellis Kaplan '46, added on their debate against Haver- ford on the topic of a post-war military alliance with Russia. Another member of the Class, William Cahill, entered the ' ' d c- Boston Renard- Amerzmn J oratory contest and compete su Woidich, Troen, to the Council the next year, w cessfully in several of their tournaments. Haimson and Kaplan bore the load of Ivy League debating in the spring of 1944, which included a special election year idential fourth term, but Ronald illiam Gorvine '46 also spoke in the Columbia and Holy Cross debates, andjohn Rowe '46 teamed up with Woidich to take on Tufts the following fall. . . . . . .b.l. the As intercollegiate debating declined in feasi iity, Harvard Council instituted intra-Council debates, with student judges and informal critiques, to improve platform technique and debate procedure and to stimulate interest, andjohn Rowe '46 and Edwin jacob '47 drew up a report to the Committee on Liberal Education outlining plans for increased scope of debating activity in peacetime. ' Cambridge University Wins The plans began to bear fruit in 1946, as membership and alumni financial support materialized, and the Debate debate with Yale on the pres Newburgh '46 and W b Marks '47 Ronald G Newburgh '46, CLEFTJ 1943-44. Back Row: Al ertj. , . . ' ' ' f ' f D, Donald S. Willner '47 Arthur D. Sporn 47. Serum! Row. G-orge H Fenne Philip Troen '45 CSecretary-Trearurerj, Francis DeS. Woidich '46 CPrer1dcnlj A C lill '46 Front Row' Henry H Nattens '47, William Gorvine '46 William . ai . . . CRIGHTJ 1947-48. Bark Row: William J. Gibbons '49, Sedgwick W. Green ' ' ' ' '4 L onard H. Schwall '47, Hugh H. Hill '48, 50, Richard D. Klerndienst 7, e Edwin -I. Jacobs 47, Monroe S. Singer 47 fMmm,r,er , ' ' ' e . ll '46,john G. Rowe 46, Ed Jacobs '47 and Bill Bailey '46 confer during their debate with Cambridge University. derick Council adopted a new constitution, added Professor Fre C. Packard, jr. '20 as faculty adviser, and debated a wide variety of subjects against teams ranging from California to McGill. The season's climax, witnessed by a record crowd of 350, saw William P. D. Bailey '46 and Edwin jacob '47 match wits and words creditably but unsuccessfully against a crack team from Cambridge University in England. The Council has since continued its expansion, or- ganizing inter-House debating and a Freshman Debating Council, and joining the newly-formed Ivy Debating League. The resulting renewed interest and stiff competition augur well for the future of debating at Harvard. G. R. Melvin L. Zurier '50, Eli Kaminsky '47,john A. Lucal '48, Edward F. Burke '50. Second Row: Robert S. Hirschfleld '50, Morton J. Franklin '49, Paul L. Wright '49, Peter H. Clayton '50, Claude G. Richie, jr. '49, Don S. Willner '47, Lynn W. Eley '50, Richard Firth '48, Howard L. Swartzman '47. Front Row: Ray A. Goldberg '48, William P. D. Bailey '46, Daniel M. Pierce '49, Monroe S. Singer '47, Robert M. Beren '47 fPreridenlj, Detlev F. Vagts '49f Vire Preridentj, Mortimer . S. Steinberg '47 fTreururerJ, J. Philip Bahn '49 Uecrelaryj, Lucian C. Parlato '50. mumwjsw 17