Haverford College - Record Yearbook (Haverford, PA)

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Opening night at the scientific drama : Dr. Santer raises the curtain on Act I of the Citric Acid Cycle. BIOLOGY The biology laboratory is the main habitat of Professors Loewy, Santer, and Finger. Each thrives in his peculiar microbial world observing with gusto the antics of gamma-globulin, sulfur bacteria, and Paramecium, respectively. Between labs all ladle out courses to the student, who finds a unic|uc challenge with each man. Dr. Loewy is on Sabbatical this year in California. Rumor has it that he is being cast for the star role in the forthcoming mo ie thriller, I Made Goli i Bodiea For Fun mid Profit. Of all three men, he is most likely to combine philosophy and biology: in his evolution course he comments upon the relation- ship between a Padre and a lungfish as well as on the ethical implications consequent to the Big Bang. In very- dramatic fashion. Dr. Santer will ha e you on the edge of your seat as he describes vi idly a scientific drama in which penicillin is the pro- tagonist, foiling by its very presence the leftist organization of a cell wall in bacteria. A stockpile of information, he ' s probably the only man alive who can recite at any given moment the functitm of e ' eiy electron indigenous to the citric acid cvcle. Those who pass the required penmanship speed test may be enrolled in courses taught by the swift- ly-speaking Dr. Finger, of Class Night mention. Cenetically oriented, he pro ides a host of possi- ble explanations for red-headed students who are sons of blond parents. Believing strongly in that catchy adage, People in Science are Human , Dr. Finger drives a Triumph sports car and can be recognized anytime in a group by his English- cut tweed sportcoat. Replacing Dr. Lowey this year is Mrs. Santer who taught Biology 13. Mrs. Green has her own projects and comes in contact with students as an ever-present help for those in the formidible embryology course, a new device of natural selec- tion brought up from the Carnegie Institute by Drs. DeHaar and Ebert. Acting quartermaster and strongman in the biology department is smiling Ed Butler. And those two girls running around the labs, cooking hot dogs and coffee are Carol and Lida, lab assistants who provide pleasant conversation to all senior majors, a factor which makes biology at Haverford a most sought-after subject. Page 15

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HISTORY OF ART On a campus dedicated to the inner light, one man remains in the dark and prefers it so. Whene er he appears in a classroom, bearing brief- cases and exotic wooden containers, shades are drawn and lights immediately extinguished: It ' s time, friends, for another illustrated lecture by Dr. James Fowle and his trusty slide machine. The topic for exposition, on or off the subject of cur- rent consideration, may include a look at the art of any time, any place from Cano ' a to cartoons, pylons to Picasso. For Mr. Fowle, things seen are things to be explored. His range of interest is as wide as his field of ision. A modernist by in- clination, he collects colonial antiques, such as his own home. Steeped in the traditions of Euro- pean Art History, a carload of color slides from the Carnegie Foundation converted him to a study of American architecture and painting. Remaining objective in an aesthetic field in which subjectivism is an occupational disease, he has dc eloped a unique ocabulary which be- speaks, diplomatically, explication rather than judgment. When he does e ' aluate the image be- I rom Canova to cartoons, pylons to Picasso . fore you, Mr. Fowle reveals himself as something of a New Critic who judges not the artist ' s personality or his tradition but the individual ohjet d ' art itself as it works on the eye. His sympathetic and open, although disconnected, approach to the art world leads one not to a sense of continuous art history, but to the realization that art is where vou find it. The Biblical Literature department! Few stu- dents make the leap of faith into this depart- ment but those who do look to the authority of two professors: Mr. Flight, who reveals to the remnant his understanding of the prophets and apostles; and Mr. Horn, whose wisdom reveals the myriad problems of religion to pious students (which revelation causes them to squirm in their Mid shrieking drills, and sounds of Horn. BIBLICAL LITERATURE seats and to doubt, spout and bout.) Mr. Flight produces his wisdom from within the bounds of our campus; Mr. Horn weekly spans the infinite distance between New York and Haverford, brief- case bulging with metaphysical paradoxes, ac- coustical illusions, and absolute ideas. These are carefully laid out before his bright-eyed stu- dents to be resolved or accepted as such; seldom are they resolved and seldom are they accepted as such. Mr. Flight meets his students in a cata- comb deep in the heart of engineering territory; three times a week his ' oice can be heard above whining band-saws and shrieking drills. Mr. Horn meets his disciples in a library catacomb, where once weekly his doubting, spouting and bouting students (the only source of heat) can be heard. Occasionally one confident voice is heard. It is that of Mr. Florn calmly and clearly revealing to his bewildered students where they got lost in their own arguments. The knowledge gained bv a Biblical Literature major ? A knowledge of manv nrorilcms bk

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Our clan of tidy urganic chemists . The Chcmtune 5 minus 1 with guest artist Hudak on the two litre pot. CHEMISTRY With agents from the Signal Corps hot on his trail demanding free radicals or double their money back (an admittedly confusing demand), Robert Walter took flight for Columbia this fall, allegedly to do some theoretical organic chemis- try and to plan a new freshman course (the fourth in four years) but he actually went to confuse the federal men long enough for him to finish his research. Substituting for him was Norman Hudak, who came from Oberlin to teach Qual. Organic, to continue his research into the structure of longi- folene, and to become embroiled in Haverford ' s faculty committee system. He was a perfect addi- tion to Haverford ' s clan of tidy organic chemists. To a visitor, the basement lab always appears un- used, ts benches clear, the single rows of alpha- betically ordered solvents on the shelves, the hoods empty. The only disturbance this year was a two litre pot (Hudak ' s), refluxing gently, a murmur- ing testimony to the mysteries of the longifolcne. The second floor lab was quite a different story. There students did their best to maximize entropy while Dr. Dunathan, despairing of keep- ing track of his minute quantities of cyclobutadiene derivatives, threatened to sweep everything left on the benches into the sink. Dean Cadbury spent much time in the more general field of education, while Russell Williams continued his study of the reactions of carbon rad- icals. The Williams family was well represented this year, as Mr. Williams was no less common a sight than his son Stevie, who was present nearly every afternoon, usually with Colin MacKay, whom he knew was a soft touch for chemicals. This year the two joined forces to stage the after noon parties which had formcrlv been sponsored by Mr. MacKay alone. And this year Stevie ' s birthday was added to the usual Christmas and St. Patrick ' s Day celebrations. Dr. McKay is owed a vote of thanks for the long time stolen from the study of carbon radicals and teaching of quantum mechanics and devoted to efficient production of coffee. Page 16