Tufts University - Jumbo Yearbook (Medford, MA)

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vity the seniors attended the Baccalaureate Service in Goddard Chapel on Sunday, June 6th — the Sun¬ day before graduation. On Wednesday they en¬ joyed the traditional Moonlight Cruise and Dance on The Boston Belle, sailing out into Boston Harbor, on to Nantasket Beach for an hour’s stop-over and then back to the Boston pier. Tufts Night at the Pops was the agenda for Thursday evening and once again the seniors were thrilled to the fine music of Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops Orchestra. Dr. Thompson Stone led the Tufts Chorus in a medley of Tufts song favorites. Friday was Class Day. After the Class Day Spread the Seniors adjourned to the lawn in front of the Bookstore and were presented the Class Day Exercises. Seniors and their dates enjoyed not only the fine catered meal but also the humorous speeches constituting the Class Will and Tree Orations. Louis XIV Ballroom was the scene for The Se¬ nior Prom, where the seniors danced to the pleasant strains of Freddie Sateriale’s Orchestra. The Prom was by no means the end to the day’s activities as many beach parties were well attended. At 3:00 P.M. on Sunday, June 13, 1954 trustees, faculty, students and guests trod the traditional route for the Commencement Exercises.

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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-

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THE UNIVERSITY GATE Patronius, A learned old man of grace in the Letters, Looked out of the window, past students on side-walks, Past the tree-shadowed place where his mentors Had strolled with him along with students on side-walks, And looked on to the great university gate. “I am reminded,” he went on, The sun striking his shaggy white head And his voice unusually warm, “I am reminded, somehow, of the Brandenburg Gate, Of the blonde, young princes marching out to their fate, With a bravado of arms, and brazen alarms, And a sense of achieving the great. “Or Mycenae’s Lion Gate of the Trojan days, With Agememnon and “The Wrath” going their ways Out, out, to vanquish their Aegean foes, With a strength of purpose from which high valor rose. “For so it was in my student days, We saw the Graduation Gate as a challenge to raise A thousand dreams from the worst of us, And we strode through the gate with a cheerfulness. “But that ivy arch,” spoke the trembling sage, “Might be the portals of doom, to hear my students rage. They bluster of wars and the controlled security, The latest draft and honored ambiguity Until I see black fear astride that arch!” Patronius, A quieter, tired old scholar, Sat with the fading sun and to me Spoke one final dream of The Scholar. “Were we, in that happier, unchanged old day, So naive, so mistaken, (as I have heard them say,) When we reasoned the prime purpose of a beckoning gate, Was for the passing through, where no man can wait?” Neil B. Olson pronounced, Pa-tron-ius, significant only as a classical name.