Haverford College - Record Yearbook (Haverford, PA)

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IN MEMORIAM ALFRED W. (POP) HADDLETON When Haverford lost Pop, it lost a great deal more than a track and cross- country coach. Pop looked on every student at Haverford as one of his hoys, re- gardless of track team membership. It was a common sight to see him standing in front of the dining room chatting with students on their way in to eat, and his constant good humor and voluminous fund of stories concerning Haverford athletics put the listener into a better frame of mind to face the lunch-time offerings. At the same time, Pop turned out consistently good track teams. More im- portant than their won and lost records was the special spirit that he injected, a spirit that called for giving all that one had to the best of his ability. F:i

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DEDICATION LEVI ARNOLD POST When Arnold Post Tl attended Haverford, he was, among other things, a four-year corporation scholar, student president, associate editor of the Haverfordian, and football letterman. This year, on the eve of his retirement, he has amazed students and faculty alike with an enormous fund of knowledge on practically very subject imaginable, a living, transmissible sympathy with ancient Greece, and the physical vigour to play tennis. He is a living symbol of past generations of universal scholars and men, and a living sermon on the capabilities of men who can throw their energies and their hearts into life. He is an inspiration to those of us who believe that the soul of man is not dead, and a lesson to those of us who tend to believe that it is. Fov

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TO THE CLASS OF 1958 HAIL AND FAREWELL While the difference between college life and what- ever is before you will vary with each of you, everyone will have an opportunity to apply his own personal philosophy to what is ahead. Except for your months in the armed services, you will all have a new freedom of choice in further study in a professional or graduate school, or in your choice of work. Some of you have maintained that this last year has been too full of too many courses and assignments and that you have not had adequate opportunity to study your major. Henceforth, you may be specializing or concentrating on a single activity and can slow down to whatever pace you wish. On the other hand, some of you who claim that Havcrford has not demanded enough of you will soon discover in graduate school that you can work as long and as hard as your mind and body can stand it and that your fellow students will take their work as seriously as you do. Others of you cherish your right to dissent and to doubt. In a time when our fundamental values and beliefs face the demands posed by the horrendous struggle of the Cold War, it is up to you to make us discard t he irrelevant and secure the Truth. To those of you who are idealists who refuse to conform and insist that life is noble and worth whatever sacrifice IS required, the challenge cannot be too great. It is my hope, it is my belief, that Haverford has instilled in you a flexibility of mind, a method of approaching difficult problems, and a comprehension of the values of life which has prepared you to make those decisions which the times demand of you. May you soon prove to others, as well as to yourselves, that the future could not be in better hands! a. HUGH BORTON President Six