Haverford College - Record Yearbook (Haverford, PA)

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This book is dedicated with great admiration and affection to Presi ' dent Gilbert White, whose departure elicits regret mitigated only by an awareness that true happiness is found only in answering one ' s vocation.

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Advent in Autumn While it was still so warm that to wear any thing over a tee shirt was to dress formally, for a few days once an hour the Paoli local deposited a dozen or so men at the ultra-suburban Haver- ford Station. Typical of the returning students who bustled efficiently with their bags was Pramote Changtrakul, one of the most cultured members of Haverford ' s international set. Rumors say that he keeps a harem somewhere near Bangkok, so perhaps he was returning from there. Or perhaps he was returning from Washington, where it is hinted he spends weekends negotiating defense contracts for the use of teak wood in rifle st neks and PT boat hulls. At any rate, with a calm based on three years ' practice. Prom went about performing the myriad duties involved in getting settled, — last minute course changing, buying books, finding out where and when classes meet, checking the stored hi-fi equipment, bargaining for room furnishings, and mostly saying Hi! enthusiastically to people he never knew and even more enthusiastically to those whose names he had forgotten. Of course, such conventions come easy to Prom. In Freshman year he confounded his tutorial sec- tion by reading his papers in Thai: he and John Ashmead have been fast friends ever since. Simi- lar tactics failed with Herman Somers, so he majored in Phil. Such charm ensures his voca- tional success, even if he does choose one of the suggested extremes; a coup in Siam or YMCA lectures on the contemplation of Nirvana. Six