Hobart College - Echo of the Seneca Yearbook (Geneva, NY)

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SENIORS PROGRESSION As Frosh, we went wild in class elections with monkeys in the Union and air-borne propagan- da... Three Hobart Seniors took over the old cafeteria to form A.L.S.. . . As Sophs we began to shine as our class sponsored a Frosh-Soph Brawl, a Spring Field Day with its Hobart Jug, and a big- beer party at Hoboes Point, all for the price of a 50c tax. . . The Forward Program for a new Chem building got started, but very slowly.. . The Board tried hard to organize the dorms, but. . . Barracks D shone alone as they beat the fraternity softball champions. . . Willie Smith snatched one Charles Hughes during Homecoming Weekend... The Hobarteers sang most mellow Coney Island Baby”. . . And the 'SB's started their famous Va- riety Shows. . . As Juniors, we saw Chip O’Connor create his Statesmen... A new chaplain. . . And a Hobart Alumnus got a Stalin Peace Prize. . . When we got to the Senior homestretch, the pledge date finally got pushed back to midyear. . . Everybody began to cat in Hunk's Hash House”... And some of us got to live in the gold-encrusted New Dorms. . . And a few of us finally passed the Qua Is. . . INAUGURAL - “The Howard Man from Columbia’ 33 MANPOWER SHORTAGE - ???

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A college education at Hobart means many things. It means registration and exam periods, pledge pins and Phi Beta Kappa, Spring Weekend and a date at Terry’s. Here are those things we have seen done and have done. This has been our “Hobart Educa- tion”. INSTRUCTION The G. I. enrollment began to drop in our freshman class but there were still a lot of vets left. . . We were hardly settled when an ex- history prof from Columbia, Dr. Alan W. Brown, was inaugurated as Hobart’s 17th president. . . As tail-enders on Sophomore 15- hour Western Civ, we just about froze our ears off listening to Brooks Otis sneeze his way through the eschaton during John L. Lewis’ Coal Miners strike. . . Things began to look bad for the Class of ’52 as the Korean War rode full tilt into our Junior Year. . . “Draft”. “1-A”, and local boards” became as personal as a body blow. . . And we got just plain scared... Some of us, like Bill Preston, en- listed, others of us like Mickey McMahon and Don Beverly were recalled and got an expense- paid trip to Pusan. . . Most of us just hung on and tried to figure out Kant. . . Thinks looked better in our Senior Year and the Air Force put an R.O.T.C. unit in one of the old bar- racks. . . Some of us like Dave Mooney and Jack Ashworth had hopes fora commission. . . All of us seemed to have three chances; grad- uate school, O.C.S., or just plain camp. 32

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NEW DORMS - $120 and no closets’!!! DISTINCTION A couple of things happened our freshman year that put Hobart in the news. . . Eleanor Roosevelt and Fala met President Brown at the Elizabeth Blackwell Centennial. . . And the New York Cen- tral Railroad put Coxe Hall on their dining-car menus. . . As Sophs, things began to look a bit bet- ter. We could proudly boast that to date no Hobart alumnus had made the Calvert Whiskey Ads. . . Our Junior year, Hobart began to garner all kinds of fame. . . Bellamy Partridge wrote a best-seller, Salad I)a s, the story of Hobart in the '90 s. . . The KOREA SCARE-‘The Castle went G.E” COLL! Mil! A GAME-‘One Twist in the Lion's Tail” lacrosse team was rated eleventh in the country by the AP. . . And Dr. Paul Alexander won a coveted Guggenheim Fellowship. . .Last of all. Nat Weiss, a Hobart alumnus, showed Life readers college politics in the raw”. The scientific world benefited greatly from Ho- bart during our Senior year. . . Professor Shelton McLeod proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that a third tablet of sugar was useless in Union cof- fee . . . Dr. Edwards was poking among his friends, the spiders... and Professor George Calingaeri finally got the lead out of his gas. . . CREATION As frosh, a couple of a extra-curricular lights got doused. . . One almost went out when Little Theater put on “Virgin and the Fawn” and the critics panned it just like in Vienna”. .. Then eight typewriters decided to put out a Hobart Re- view. . . WEOS began to compete with the electric- razors and florescent lamps. . . And in our Sopho- more year, “Richard III” nearly lost his arm dur- ing Lhe Little Theatre production’s Act V... Brandy Chenault, '52, founded Phi Tau...the Film Club floundered during the “Ox-Bow In- cident”. . .and the Young Republicans and Demo- crats left campus until the next presidential elec- tion. . . Our Junior year, the Herald nearly went broke paying for new equipment, but began to put out a six and then an eight-page paper with photo- cuts that looked like a newspaper. . . The eight typewriter ribbons gave out and the Hobart Re- in ew died. . . And the entire campus laughed at Omar in Little Theatre’s Silver Whistle”. . . In the Senior year, The Herald changed to a tabloid, failed to talk William Smith into lifting the ban on female cheerleaders, and blew up about the empty New Student Union... We got mad at Chet Hawley's play, Haven”. . .and stayed away from the “Beggars’ Opera”. . .