Haverford College - Record Yearbook (Haverford, PA)

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Curly-haiicd development otticer Charles Perry ))lots the latest results of the Annual Givint-- campaign against his planned de- velopment of a second Barclay Lounge. Smiling- but haggard after the semi-annual onslaught of hook-hungry students, Pat Docherty and Jean Vogelsburg survey the ruins. They are searching- behind Catcher i)t the Rye for a freshman lost in the fracas. Illlllllllllllll llllllllllllll Alumni secretary Ben Cuupcr phones the Caribe- Hilton in Havana for a penthouse suite for an Alumni Giving rally. Luckily the trip coincided with the posting of next year ' s i-ooming- list. The cleaning ladies, both mother liguies and the romantic ideal of the Ilaverford student, strike a clannish pose and lend an exotic Corsican flavor to staid, old Founders Hall. Assistant admissions oflicer Bill Ambler looks up hopefully at the prospective freshman entering- his office. Undoubtedly this applicant thrives on aca- demic pressure. l)]-. William Lander (rt.), t ' ullege physician, pauses to discuss psychosomatic aspects of a case of fodil jioisoning with Dr. Peter Bennett, the n ' ■ : i psychiatrist.

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A practical guide at registration time, a comfort to those who pass as well as those who fail, Edytha Carr, Registrar, readies another tran- script, chang ' es another course. For a man with a basement office, Walter Baker evinces a happy countenance. Facing problems of expansion, this Vice-Pi-esident in Charge of Develop- ment is a vital administration figure. ' 5 ■ !S TS ' «»« S»P?« «« fiiilllll The Blue-Men, decked out in sartorial elegance in tidy uniforms and stylish chapeaux, take one of their infrequent work-breaks in front of their plush Foundei s office. Proudly positioned in front of a map of Rome, Comptroller Aldo Caselli appears to be pondering either his Vei-di course or hidden damages in the Barclay Lounge. Forrest Comfort administers a reading- speed test to the cameraman. In his tiny office in Roberts, Mr. Comfort gives both sage advice and remedial reading lessons to all who ask. Billy Carter and Tom Cavanaugh chuckle fiendishly as they distribute first semester transcripts. Opening their mail den by 8:30 each morning, these men are vital links in innumerable romantic chains.

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NATURAL SCIENCES ASTRONOMY The long-striding figure pacing the Roberts Hall platform, talking about the International Geophysical Year, and now and then giving his trousers a tug is but one aspect of Louis Green. There is also the well-organized lecturer in beginning astronomy and the scholar who translated Galileo from Latin in front of his History and Philosophy of Science class. There is the mathematician extraordinary who initiated fugitives from Sharpiess into the mys- tic realms of h igher physics. And even the least scientific student will remember Dr. Green ' s explaining why one can see satellites only at sunrise and sunset. Louis Green excitedly reports a sighting of the Rocket Society ' s first manned satellite. BIOLOGY Ariel Loewy is the classic example of the absent-minded professor: devotion to biology overrides all other considerations. Despite this singularity (or perhaps because of it), Mr. Loewy ' s contributions to Haverford are size- able. He dynamically heads the bio department ; he puts content (if not organization) into his lectures; and he conducts research on cell archi- tecture. In his non-academic time he contrib- utes color to the campus scene by spirited races with passing automobiles — on a bicycle ! Melvin Santer. hired as a microbiologist, is actually a biochemist. He is most memorable Thoughtful biologists Finger, Loewy, Santer, Green stir the remains of a senior pre-med. and as a white-coated figure hurrying through Sharpiess from his second floor office to his third floor lab, at the same time explaining to a student some subtlety of the Krebs cycle. In addition to reluctant instruction of pre-meds in biochemistry, Mr. Santer conducts research on his own private strain of Thiobacilli. Irving Finger is well known for the interest he shows in his students, whether senior foot- ball-technicians or freshman zoologists. ( ' At least he shows up at the beginning and end of every lab. ) The Biologist of the Youthful Countenance is always consulted on interpreta- tions of data in order to obtain the most pessi- mistic view. Fleeing the boiling cabbage of his lab, he fills his tiny apartment with the latest stereo and hi-fi. The better half (traditional) of the Green science team is Elizabeth Green. Although di- rect student contact is limited by her non- teaching position, Mrs. Green ' s cj-tology re- search makes her a valuable member of the department. She has the additional distinction of being good company for post-lab tea. This year ' s botany instructor, Maimon Xasatir, journeyed from Penn ' s asphalt jungle to Haverford ' s brown tundra on Mondays and Fridays. A typical lecture began, Today we will cover plant evolution from the algae to the orchid. Fill in the details from your text. A sincere, sophisticated biologist, Mr. Nasatir was handicapped by student apathy and lack of time.