Muhlenberg College - Ciarla Yearbook (Allentown, PA)

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HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1960 The spring of the year brings many things to the Muhlenberg College campus. It brings the bright pink tulips that grow outside the Administration Building. It brings spring fever to many students who retreat to the sunny warmth of Lake Muhlenberg to study — among other things. It brings blaring radios, dashing convertibles, and smiling faces. And, to the seniors, it brings reflection on other springs and other seasons, memories of times past. It surely does not seem like four years since some 250 apprehensive, bewildered, excited, and just a little too cock- sure, Freshmen invaded the Muhlenberg campus for a week of orientation, dinners, teas, picnics, and all sorts of meetings. And. much too soon it seemed then, these just a little too cocksure Freshmen became the humbled Frosh. reciting, singing, dancing, cheering, dreading the harshness and gibes of all the upperclassmen. “There is a time to pray and a time to fight! Now is the time to fight!” Who can forget it? But the class of ' 60 became a solid unit, dragging the Sophomores through grease and grime into the cold waters of Cedar Creek in the annual Soph-Frosh tug-of-war. We were victorious too, in a very wet football game, and we were rewarded by the waiving of “regs” at Halloween in- stead of Thanksgiving and by the pompous burial of the T ribunal. Those first six weeks brought things other than “regs.” They brought what seems to be a monstrous history book, freshman themes, and laboratory experiments. We had to adjust to a whole new way of life and study. We were ch eered on by a booming voice that kept saying. “You can do it, boys; you can make it. Work now and you ' ll be happy later. You can do it!” Most of us did. What had been rumor became established fact in our Sophomore year when the girls arrived. We were no longer an all-inale class. There were feelings of anticipation and apprehension in the minds of many male faces. But fad- ing smiles were soon replaced by mischievous winks. In addition to Miss Heimtraut Dietrich, the first dean of women, there were other rather amazing innovations as West Hall, the old Frosh dormitory, was converted into the women’s living quarters, as such things like two o’clock curfews, formal wear in the Commons, and a swarm of Life photographers and reporters appeared. Tradition be- gan to disappear. This was the new Muhlenberg. That was the year too of the Asiatic flu epidemic, the year Alpha Mu Iota became a national chapter of Tau Kappa Epsilon, the year of an infamous expedition after lingerie. Taimi Toffer, a Sophomore and transfer from Cedar Crest, became the first Homecoming Queen. The Fall semester of our Junior year brought still more girls to the college campus as the nurses were added to the swelling student body. Phi Kappa Tau proudly moved into their new fraternity house. Students swirled in the Spring semester at the annual Junior Prom with its color- ful theme of “Showboat.” Spring brought I.F.C. week- end, and the robbing of a Nike missile; May, the first Omicron Delta Kappa Carnival; and June, graduation of the first four co-eds to attend Muhlenberg College. Naturally, it is the Senior year that lives on most vivid- ly in our memories. There is a sad finality about that word Senior that makes one want to capture and vivify every moment of this last year. The Fall Semester saw a conflict over Freshman regu- lations, the installation of a working Student Supreme Court, and the beginning of a campaign for a new Stu- dent Union Center. One of the lighter notes of the semester was the Mask and Dagger play, “The Poor of New York,” a magnificent spoof of the melodrama. The Senior Ball was a tropically colorful success with its “South Pacific” theme and the magic rhythms of Ralph Flanagan. “Waiting For Godot,” an existential play produced by M.C.A., and “Down In The Valley,” the college’s first attempt at opera, were two of the entertaining highlights of the Spring Semester. Junior Prom, I.F.C. , and O.D.K. Carnival weekends swiftly came and too swiftly passed. Final examinations were over before we knew it, over for the last time. We had arrived at the end of our enjoyable days at Muhlenberg College. And so it is that in the spring of the year we fondly reminisce. As we do so, however, we realize that we are in the spring of life with a bountiful future before us. We know that, as we looked over the Muhlenberg campus for the last time as students, we did not only graduate; we commenced. Peter Skutches 24

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1960 CLASS OFFICERS President Thomas Carpenter Vice President Gorden Warner Secretary Albert Stott Treasurer Joseph Berghold CLASS OF 1960 1960 CLASS EXECUTIVE COUNCIL Joel Podell Arthur Jacquette Edward Davis Albert Beers Asher Krafchick Barrie Weisman Richard Weller