Lehigh University - Epitome Yearbook (Bethlehem, PA)

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In Perspective — looking forward to a look back None of the profundities of college yearbook writers nor any of the frivolous or fresh remarks can supplant the personal impressions gleaned by the individual graduate. In four years at Lehigh, the variety of acts and expressions on the part of any Lehigh man will supersede in breadth and in depth the observations of the Epitome. The year- book is a compromise which, despite its four hundred pages, is severely limited in scope. The pictures of class buildings and of football crowds, of thoughtful professors and of Saturday celebra- tions, cannot retell, they can only suggest the aggregate sentiments which comprise your feel- ings toward Lehigh University. If, in some afternoon, you take up your Epitome, and look back, and remember a face, or a party, or a big game, then you may give credit to your college yearbook. It has recorded and reminded and is thus a success. To undergraduates, a yearbook is an annual surprise, surprise at that which was included and surprise at that omitted. Among the photos are faces never seen before, buildings never entered, and views of campus they have never known. And, the surprise is always pleasant for, amazingly, despite the editor ' s efforts to present the typical and the ordinary events of the preceding months, all readers feel they are seeing something new. So, like grass, we bend with the prevailing winds. This book attempts to combine the slick with the sentimental, offering the pleasure of the unex- pected and the familiar memories of life at Lehigh to the alumnus who opens the book for a retro- spective view of college. Covering the traditional highlights of the uni- versity year including houseparties and spring A warm day in early spring and the Lehigh man moves out of doors. After a winter of comparative confinement these Fine Arts majors are finally able to get a study of the library in its leafless setting. Soon buds will bring color to the drab campus.

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CONTENTS M ■I ■ •u- 1 ' Vl ■: . ' . University . . Administration Arts and Science Business Administration Engineering . In Memoriam Graduates Class of 1960 Athletics . . . Physical Education Autumn Sports Winter Sports Spring Sports Living Groups . Residence Halls . Fraternities Activities . . . . Student Government Publications . . . Music and Drama Religious Groups Organizations . . Memories . . . Advertising . . . Advertisers . . . Senior Directory Acknowledgements Organizational Index

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sports, the 1960 Epitome regards not nearly so strongly the readers of the critical present, as those of the sentimental future. Readers, who through reperusals and recollections are more interested in the general impression than the spe- cific experience. As a digest of college days, this year ' s Epitome does chronicle the bedlam of the Lehigh-Lafayette game with the ensuing con- fusion of policy, edict, and attitude on the parts of everyone; the great Norman Thomas con- troversy wherein an aging radical was able to rouse the thirst for academic freedom on the parts of a studentry generally ignorant of what he was going to say, anyway; and Bethlehem Steel ' s lux- urious Research Center which remains rather secretly in construction on a scar of a clearing atop the mountain and among the trees. More important, and apart from these momen- tary issues, are the reports of the various clubs and activities, the living groups and course socie- ties. It is these solid organizations that form the nucleus of student strength and cooperation. Often unknown by the majority of students, many of the smaller clubs conduct energetic programs: inviting guest speakers; shambling out to parts unknown; searching, listening, reading, and learn- ing in their members ' commendable effort to sup- . 1 - • ' ■•■ ■ ' ' KB % «r - ■ 5. £Sjf »§LjJgB| BES tlS • ■ s ; vAfcd v A student does research on current affairs by reading magazines from the library ' s microfilm file. The library maintains a complete stock of films dating back to 1920. The annual Bach Festival is one of Lehigh ' s most renowned events. Guests arrive from far and near to hear a program of works by the man acclaimed to be the lather of modern music. ' Z t£. tS fe mi » 3 m ( f« m