Tufts University - Jumbo Yearbook (Medford, MA)

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started Ihe Marlin Club. When we left in June, we could see a little farther into the next three years and we decided that there was a lot for us to do. September, 1951. Pam Hancock and Pete Cook had been elected class Presidents and we were ready for action. We even hit the Boston papers in our wild panty-raid. (But some of us didn’t even know it was going on.) Then we had the Cherry Dance in February and later, the Patriot’s Day Dance. Andrea Perlstein was elected Queen of the I.F.C. Ball and a beautiful queen she was. Lots of little activities were always going on. For instance, the Faculty played the Jackson girls in basketball and they won, too. Mai Mooney was our lively Mayor, until the new campaign when Steve Toad- vine, Bill Pratt and Paul Wiggin sang, danced, joked, and broke their respective necks in the battle for the next mayor. Steve won, and began to get ready for his year. Then a little more on the serious side, the Jackson Student Counselling program was established, and a few Tufts men began to devise one for the men. One of these years we were supposed to have a Centennial Celebration and this was it. A selected few of us stated for the Pageant, the alumni returned, the excitement was on and then it was off, and our Junior year was the beginning of a Second Century. The year started with the Centennial Ball, and we were off. The Prexies, Parker Small and Faith Ellis, got the class officers together and the wheels ground out a Junior Dinner-Dance, an off-limits Jazz Concert, and a Coronation Junior Prom. And we had more queens — Mary Ilg of the Junior Prom, Mike Glover of the Winter Carnival, and Mary Ellen FitzGerald of the I.F.C. Ball. This year we were getting serious . . . some off to dent school, others studying for medical school, law school, busi¬ ness school ad infinitum. Our Junior Phi Betes were Parker Small, Laures Terry, Harold Gorvine. And other things happened. Tufts lost a good man when Leonard Carmichael left for the Smith¬ sonian Institution. At the same time Dean Bush went into retirement and Dr. Katharine Jeffers came to take her place. “Woody” Grimshaw was the new basketball coach. A few other noteworthy things happened. The Weekly printed its infamous April Fool’s issue and Harvard and Tufts merged. One day the gym was packed and that was the day that Vaughn Monroe broadcast from Tufts. We showed him a little spirit and we carried it to the Mayoralty

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Senior Class History We came from high schools, prep schools, pri¬ vate schools, but we all started our four years Tuft- ensiae in some varying shade of green. We felt really persecuted when it came to Freshman hazing. The girls had to wear green ribbons and carry books, and the men were beaten by the Sword and Shield. All the girls’ modesty was properly outraged at the Baby’s Party but there were laughs. We had to learn our songs and we added “the Hill” and “Jumbo” to our everyday vocabulary. President Carmichael, Dean Wessell, Prof. Ullman, Dave Burns and others hammered what they could into our heads on Friday afternoons, and Lunar Lindsey led us noisily to the football games. There the beanies and the ribbons got together and we saw that hazing at Tufts was lots of fun after all. Sud¬ denly we were caught in the Big Rush. We started to wear our best clothes, carried our nicest smiles, and above all, we remembered names and facts. Some of us learned the Greek letters in hopes that we might wear them someday, and some of us did. Sigma Nu became Tufts’ ninth National Fraternity while we were freshmen. We were young, but we had political wisdom and we elected Laures Terry and Parker Small class Presidents. Then our social life began. The “Dogpatch Dance” was “purty good and Carol Clark was Daisy Mae. Alice Fitz¬ patrick was our I.F.C. Queen and Bett Jennings and Art Powers were King and Queen of the Winter Carnival. We were just beginning Freshman sports as new Tufts and Jackson Athletes when Tom Bane established the new world’s record. Someone else got enthusiastic over Jackson bathing beauties and

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campaign. The storming of the Bastille was a classic and Lucky Pierre Murdock was elected. Nils Wessell was our new president. Other ad¬ ministrators had left and there were new ones. Tufts was expanding and working for better things. We were now feeling a bit old and we let nostalgia creep into our bones. We had a Senior spaghetti supper and record hop, and we talked about Senior Week . . . the Cruise, the Prom, the Spread. Glen Peterson and Patty Guenthner were the Senior leaders and spent most of their working hours worry¬ ing about the activities, about their officiating duties, and about Tufts in general. Glen was also the presi¬ dent of the Tufts Student Council and Carolyn Walton was president of the Jackson Council. We had a smooth Senior Mid-Winter Dance and we still sing the class song that Jeanne O ' Brien wrote. The Winter Carnival, the class picnic, and even the class meetings in the Spring have brought us a little closer to Tufts and a little closer as a class. We marched together to get the sheepskins and yet we feel apart because our four years are gone. Tufts will always be with us in memory, and just to make sure we decided to write a few things down. As tradition would have it, we have chosen as our filing cabinet — the Jumbo Book. SENIOR CLASS OFFICERS President. . . . Vice President Treasurer. . . . Secretary. . . . Marshal. Glen W. Peterson . . Lee Weatherbee . . . Peter F. Cook . . Joseph Griecci .James Hart JACKSON President.... Vice President Secretary. . .. Treasurer.... Marshal. Patricia Guenthner . . .Joanne Freeman .Claire Cahill .Anne Frazer . . Catherine Likely TOWER CROSS Robert Bennett Frank Del Vecchio John Egan Fred Gerulskis Frederic McCurdy Robert Meehan Thomas Alyers Glen Peterson Ben Sands Lee Weatherbee TOWER CROSS The undergraduate group of greatest prestige on hill is Tower Cross. Founded in 1897 and active in every year, its members, ten of them, are nomi¬ nated by the outgoing Tower Cross and elected by ballot in the annual all-college elections. In its early years, Tower Cross was the only group of under¬ graduate control and supervision, but its ever ex¬ panding duties were eventually shifted to the Student Council. Membership in the group is con¬ sidered the highest honor that can be accorded an undergraduate. In ’53-54, besides running the Christmas Sing, Tower Cross conducted the compe¬ tition for organized cheer-leading, ran Tufts Night and the football rallies, conducted the Spring Sing and assumed the duties of the Athletic Association Nomination Committee. Its subsidiary duties in¬ cluded the conduction of organized financial drives and assistance to the Class Day Committees. Its members were: Frank Del Vecchio, president; Thomas Myers, vice-president; John Egan, secre¬ tary-treasurer; Robert Bennett, Fred Gerulskis; Fred McCurdy; Robert Meehan; Glen Peterson; Ren Sands; and Lee Weatherbee. SENIOR ACTIVITIES COMMITTEE Since early in September the Senior Activities Committee had prepared the finest of Senior Week programs. In a week’s time, they tried to touch on all the phases of their stay on the Tufts Campus. To inaugurate the final period of student acti-