University of Minnesota - Gopher Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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DEDICATION.............................. 1 INTRODUCTION.............................6 ADMINISTRATION..........................14 STUDENT LIFE............................46 Fall...............................-18 Winter.............................76 Spring.............................184 Summer . .......................116 ATHLETICS..............................124 ORGANIZATIONS..........................168 Activities........................170 Academics..........................250 Honnraries and Professionals .... 304 Residences.........................346 SENIORS........................................358 Senior Index..............................408 Organizations Index......................-Ill CONTENTS

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 yearbook is a book of memories. Memories of good times ami familiar places and friends who shared both at school. on arc not so likely to take away the memory of intangibles. «»f the ideals that give purpose to the institution. You’re more likely to recall the pillared bulk of Northrop than the concept expressed above its entrance. You’re more likely to recall individual teachers than the ideals which they served, especially if you knew some of those teachers as friends. . . . One such friend was I homax l Barnhart, who died in January, 1955, in his twetuv-third year as a teacher in the School of Journalism. Professor Barnhart, like most of his faculty colleagues, was a specialist, lie was an expert on typography and advertising, and his pre- eminence as an authority on editing and publishing of weekly newspapers was reflected in the title bv which he was known throughout the country: “.Mr. Weekly Newspaper. Students learned from him in the classroom and over many a cup of Union cafeteria coffee. They continued to seek his advice after they went out to work on the weekly press, where more than fifty of them came to own papers. Nor were former students the only ones to gain From his counsel: he gave unstinting!) of time and knovvl-edge in advising editors and publishers throughout the state and country. It is to this ideal of service —as teacher, adviser, and friend that this issue of the Gopher is dedicated in memory of I homas V. Barnhart.

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IBM, ONE of mony used by the Administrotion, does quick shuffle through stack of IBM cords, each of which represents one student ot the U. Large student body mokes the use of these machines ond similar ones a necessity. introduction University is men plus machines You lind the University of Minnesota in these pages. You find more than 20,000 of vour fellow student}; or at least as many of them as wandered into camera range and were transfixed in an instant as part of this record of vear 1955-1956. Y ou find representatives of the thousands of faculty inemhers w ho shaped vour ideas and your philosophies, the men and women who rcallv are the University. You glimpse some of the other thousands of University employees who see that the massive organization keeps running, people like the glasshlowcr who turns out the intricate glass w ebs which the chemists use in their research. And you wonder “Is this thing grown too big. Ain I too small, too insignificant to matter to the University? Is this size a good thing? The answer is - growth is rite inevitable result of success —you arc insignificant only if you choose to he so — onl an organization as big as the University can offer you the variety of ideas and things which w ill permit you to become an individual. Only an organization of the University’s scope will enable you to leave the ranks of Majority man and become unique. Arnold Toynbee. the philosopher-historian w ho spoke at the University in November, 1955, talks in terms of civilizations. I le says that SOME lay the University ii imper-lonal. Perhaps, but within U hospital, life revolves about the birth of o child, healing of individuals. 6