Haverford College - Record Yearbook (Haverford, PA)

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WitlKTspintn discussed and recommended some things. The Honor System Committee and the Cus toms Committee led by Frit; Schwentker impressed upon the freshmen the necessity for honesty, chas- ntv. and self ' righteousness, on campus. There were other committees that discussed and recommended or did things. In short, the status quo was main ' tained with religious, but civil, ferocity. The Honor System Committee Descending the stairway: R. Barlow, Chairman; A. Hunter; R. Forster; M. Abramson; L. Halstead: and D. Mead. The Customs Committee Standing: P. Cable; J. Thomas; J. Crawford; J. Moore; F. Schwentker, Chairman. Sitting: B. Bloch; D. Mead; and V. Averna. The Curriculum Committee Around the table: J. Schott, Chair- man; J. Mikhail; H. Thomas; G. Witherspoon; J. Viney; Hal Fried- man; and J. E. Baker.

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The Statesman The Students ' Council George Keeley presides. On his left W. Newmeyer, T. Martenis, G. Brew- ster, L. Matlack, and at the end of left sit R. Greer, E. Mezger, C. Berlin, P. Allen, and Rick Hill. The long tradition of government by clique was firmly broken by the election of George Keeley to the Presidency of the Students Council. Though George maintained his fine scholastic record to the bitter end, because he also co-captained on the gridiron, the student body felt, for the first time in anybody ' s ken, that grass roots democracy got its chance. Despite his perfect calm in the perpetual cycle of petty crises, George was known to quote (in the privacy of 6th entry Lloyd circles), Don. you really shock me . . . , Regan, you ' ll never make it twice . . . . Cocktails and bridge at four, men! or even, I just love dogs! With the same equanimity he endured. Our Father Who art in 63, hallowed be Thy Council, Sober up, George, here comes Gilbert . . . , Caught a pass once . . . , Josie the new flame? or simply, Dictator! With titles like Most Naturally Humorous in Upper Sixth, Donor of the Water Mug to Gil and Anne, The Threat to Eddie Fisher, and Pop ' s High Hurdler, George is moving from the Executive Suite to win other laurels in Harvard Business School. But whatever his titles in the privacy of 6th entry circles, the real importance of the Keel ' s (alias The Rock) year heading the students ' self-government was that he definitely answered the delicate issue of how aloof a leader must be. That is, he proved to the dismay of a few vested interests on campus that the regular fellas, who had been repressed by the preceding pious regimes, could handle the exagger- ated intricacies of Student Government. Besides, since this year ' s non-commissioned officers were no less representative than any other ' s, he exposed the fallacious distinction between athletes and intellec- tuals at Haverford. As for the business of the year, the High Court, under Chief Justice Ralph Barlow, held surprisingly few inquisitions, thus distressing those who avidly peruse the Council ' s minutes in search of Purge Notices. A Curriculum Committee under Gerald

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The Abstract Sciences History and Philosophy Thomas Drake is the head of the History Depart- ment and the sole professor of the history of our fair land. By a happy combination of Quakerliness, friendliness, and provocative teaching, he serves Haverford indispensably. Simply and efficiently he supervises the priceless stock in the Treasure Room. In the classroom discussions, also handled simply and efficiently, he inspires in all but the most callous freeloader a love for books, any book, all books. The occasional but apparently constant assignment of book reports transforms desire in to necessity. His academic forte is the ideological trends in our fair land. His pedagogic forte is his own fine personality. In each class period, it takes Wallace MacCaffrey half an hour of fast talking to list the next reading assignment. After that come the impossible questions: What do you make of this week ' s reading? . . . A small voice asks where a picture of Hugh Capet can be found. Well, try page 207 of Cassier; which of course brings us to the larger question: What is feudalism? Mr. MacCaffrey ' s future wife may be able to keep him from wearing maroon shirts with tweed jackets, but his basic pedagogical method — wide reading and exacting discussion — should survive married life. Unquestionably, it teaches the student an alarming amount of history, and besides, that ' s the way we did it at Reed College. Guess what MacCaffrey said today? I know . . . Cod-pieces went out of fashion by the end of the 19th century. Even when J.B. gleefully bounds in to relate this, or a morbid tale of torture under Casmir II, he is, irrevocably, a gentleman-scholar. From his grand- father ' s shaving brush and his copy of Pennsylvania Finances: 1682 to his recent discovery of B.M.C., J. B. Rhoads suggests a reassuring blend of tradition and spontaneity. To his roommates he is associated with black powder experiments and bounding down the stairs armed with sundry containers of water. But these frequent descents from the ivory tower of scholastic medievalism arc only temporary, and he reascends convinced that history is a firm base for the aspiring physician. The aspiring history teacher must also survive MacCaffrey. Fritz Renken really isn ' t a hermit, he ' s married, having exchanged his ancestral domain