Haverford College - Record Yearbook (Haverford, PA)

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STUDENTS COUNCIL The work of the Students Council has been de- scribed as drudgery, and for the most part this is true. The time-consuming job of hammering out student organizations budgets (this year s keynote — austerity), the numerous little items of business which come up constantly (e.g., Who w-ants to handle the room search this week? ), and the listening to complaints about the injustices ' of the Comptroller ' s office are routine but necessary to the functioning of student government at Haverford. Through conscientious ac- ceptance of this work and willingness to remain acutely aware of all shades of student body opinion, this year s Council achieved a significant position in student life. The Council became a closely knit body during the tense, feverish, three-day session required by the honor system trials at the beginning of the year. Faced with the responsibility of making decisions on those difficult cases, the Council members learned to work together. Later it was kept busy, if not swept otf its feet at times, by conflicting opinions over the fraternity ques- tum. Too, it had been jarred by the student attitudes toward the inauguration of the president. Due to past difficulties in student-administration re- lations, the Council and the administration agreed that the general area of discipline should he re-e.xamined by both parties. A joint student-faculty-administration committee undertook this inv ' olvcd task. President John Crawford got through the trials with- out mishap, devoted himself to the responsibilities, and generally did an admirable job, despite a cavalier dis- regard for Roberts Rules in Students Association meet- ings. The minutes of Secretary Hans Englehardt were a surprise addition to the literary ' output of the cam- pus. Treasurer Curdon Brewster notified the students of fantastic appropriations for damages. T ine

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ALDO CASELLI EDYTHA M. CARR !► that he is the collector of fines and the watchdog of college property. His most famous victory involved the collection of money for hidden-a damages-a resulting from a Barclay waterfight. He exhibits definite Italian preferences in hiring maintenance workers, and is also known for making unannounced inspection tours of the dorms, aided and abetted by a detective. The few students who have had close contact with him through his non-academic Italian opera course assure us that Aldo is really no gremlin, hut is actu.dly a pretty nice fellow. Mrs. Edytha Carr, our registrar, is constantly plagued with questions about curriculum schedules, requests for course changes, requisitions for various permissive cards, and orders for transcript copies. She performs her duties with patience and humor, adopting a maternal attitude to most students, even the ones who crowd her office at the four o ' clock deadline hour on the last day of registration. Like a submarine, William Ambler 4 is usually silent and unseen by the student body. Ambler becomes a key figure principally to prospective students, and his difficult task in selecting for admission approxi ' mately one applicant out of every ten proceeds effi ' ciently and without fanfare during most of the school year. Ben Cooper ' s influence is felt to an appreciable ex- tent even by undergraduates (through job oiferings, room priority numbers, the weekly Alumni section in The J lews, etc.), but it is principally after one gradu ' atesthat Bennett S. Cooper ' 18, alumni secretary, serves as the alumnus principal link with his alma mater. WILLIAM W. AMBLER BENNETT S. COOPER rr Eight

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FACULTY RALPH M. SARGENT JOHN A. LESTER, JR. JOHN ASHMEAD, JR. KENNETH S. WOODROOFE ENGLISH It is quite fittmt; that the chief port of call for English majors, and the English interdepartmental communication — or at least communiques — should he located in Haverford ' s Pentagon, one-sided Whitall. Just above the marble halls lined with traffic viola- tions is a more homey den, lined with books. The cus- todian frequently chagrined by the treasures unearthed from his shelves, such as Poetry, Scientifically Analyzed, is a genial, crop-headed figure, scarcely awesome enough to be a department head. Yet Ralph Sargent, benign as he appears, partakes of the building ' s spirit of authority. Specializing in the Elizabethan era, he is himself somewhat of a Renaissance figure, frankly de- lighting in Shakespeare ' s franker passages, pointing out at some length the less spiritual implications of Donne ' s use of die and rise. In a more general sense, though, the Renaissance man ' s diversity of interests and the eclectic character of his bookshelves are embodied in Mr. Sargent ' s innumerable pursuits and project courses — creative writing, current literature, and the Philadelphia try-out season. In an equally fitting fashion, the majority of the department ' s underlings are housed in the upper reaches of the Library, their offices appearing, quite literally, as extensions of the stacks. The personalities of these men are as various as the Library ' s architectural styles, diverging from the cheery pedantry of the department ' s amateur cartographer and conventionaire, poet Gerhard Friedrich, to the sten- torian Spencerian, Alfred Satterthwaite, whose fright- ening resonance and unpronounceable name are made less terrifying in the trembling freshman conferee by the jauntmess of the prof ' s glistening brush cut. Satterthwaite is a Harvard grad, and prone to remi- nisce of the wondrous stable of Harry Levin et al; but while no crimson banner hangs from his door either, the John Harvard zealot extraordinaire is Mr. S ' waite ' s (standard abbreviation) neighbor, John Ashmead. This eternal booster returned to the campus after an extended sabbatical spent in Greece and his spiritual home, the Far East. For. as all his paper writers know, Ashmead is a mystic of sizable proportions, a necessary compensation for the slightness of his grades and sta- ture (physical, of course) . His absence, on good re- port, was craftily arranged, for in the intervening span he acquired an envied legend, that of the cultivated ogre, the demon of the tutorial, the remolisher of over- sized reputations among senior majors. Some found, to our dismay, that the legend was not a total piece of fabrication, and students of his 18th century course will long remember his definitive lecture on the subtle- ties and atrocities of hokum and balderdash. Ten