Wabash College - Wabash Yearbook (Crawfordsville, IN)

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Dr. Sp!ll'lC.S' HIIIIQCS' his farewell zlclclrms- Une casualty of the war seems to have been the dance bands, and with them the varsity show. But to ottset this in music has come the phenomenal rise of the glee club under Robert Mitchum. a nieinber of the faculty since 1949 who began working with the club in 19-17 while he was still in music school. Furthermore, the pictoral arts have come far up under Harold McDonald. Tuttle llall is VVabash's tirst art gallery. Here a show of some kind is always expertly arranged, and the current annual ex- hibits ot works by VVabash had no counterpart in the thirties. Very special encouragement ot the fine arts has come from President Trippet. and the present laudable eltorts are only be- ginnings. The long tradition of pre-eminence in ora- tory and debate has been maintained admirably by the speech department. The taste for debat- ing has been enhanced greatly by the annual contest with the British Debaters, a brilliant display ot wit, erudition, and Anglo-American ainity. heard each winter in the chapel. Dr. l3rigancc's Speakers' Bureau began in the fall of 1957 its thirty-first year and boasts over 2-lllll well-received performances. At this writ- ing the Scarlet Masque can look back on a series of successful seasons including both cur- rent Broadway hits and such classics as aj' 1 1 o ,fl U 9 , . Dccutlilon lL7lllllC'l' Rafcr johnson clears 12 feet Marlowe ls Dr. Faustus and Macbeth of Shake- spearc. VVthin the narrow limits of synthesis and generalization, perhaps this can be said at the end of VVabash's fifth quarter-century. In the administration of President Hopkins the lib- eral arts ideal was reatlirmed and academic ma- chinery was set up to achieve this ideal. President Sparks, thoroughly devoted to the ideal, made certain that we would have the plant, the faculty. and the student body to make the ideal live in a world the complexity of which the leaders of the twenties and thir- ties could not anticipate. And now we have President Trippet, son of VVabash and of the Wabash Plan, executive trained in the hard school of the post-war period with Dr. Sparks as his mentor. A brilliant scholar and teacher in his own right, an engaging and forceful speaker. a Little Giant who by his own admis- sion has been running a high lVabash fever ever since he entered as a freslnnan, a college administrator and educator known throughout America, Byron Trippet is without a doubt one ot the best college presidents in the country. In the presence of this leadership, the current historian feels not the slightest qualm in pre- dicting that the next twenty-five years will be a golden age. Page Twenty

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Dr. Sparks-, Frank Alnranis, Dr. Trippct, Alfmfi Sloan, and Irving Olds pause for ll picture before the Cercnzorties Tl'l A i El' BTV UElBlJ1'3lZl01'1 Behold, it came to pass that VVabash cele- brated its 125th birthday. And the sons of VVa- bash rejoiced, and celebrated with great cele- brations. Vice-Presitlent Ecl Gullion began the eereinonies by sacriticing' the tattecel calt' tre- porteflly weigrliing' in at a cool 700 lbs.l while llflzitrzcy C7Clfl,',5', Erich Fronnn, and Norbert lfViencr ' UH nu , ww :ill 1 , Wm' WH lil if f iIll Ins the city ot Athens clancecl tto the philharnionic strains of the Kentucky Junior Briarhoppersl. But the central rites were performed in early October, only about two nionths before the actual birthday. On October 10, the sons of Waliasli heard a special symposium on lib- eral edueation in the Chapel. Drs. Norbert Wiener, professor of niatheinatics at Bl.l.'l'. and co-founder of the science of cyberneticsg Whitney QI. Oates, chairinan of Yale 's rlepart- inent of classics antl author of works on St. Augustine and Greek celrainag Erich Fronnn, fellow ot New Yorkls VVhite Institute of Psy- chiatry antl author ol' The Art of Loving, tlicl speaking. Fritlay afternoon, Uctober ll, Ellllltl tull- flress ritual, the college awarflerl honorary cloctor of laws tlegrees to three top-rank inilus- trialists prominent in 1il1'0l110llllgl' corporate aitl to private colleges: Frank NV. Abrams. l'01'1l19l' board chairnian ot Stanclarfl tlil tN..l.l 5 Irving' S. Olrls, foriner boarfl chairman ot l'. S. Steel: ainl Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., honorary boarfl chair- man of General Motors.