JUNE, 1948
Tuesday, June 1st
Final exams are in full swing.
Tiger varsity nine thrashes Rams 5-4, Lions 9-4, for fifth straight.
Vacancies exist in the Air Force Aviation Cadet training class which begins July 1.
The Nassau Tavern liquor license has been suspended for five days for serving
three teen-agers. The suspension ends Thursday.
Honor violator expelled. By unanimous vote the Undergraduate Honor Committee found
Mr. X guilty of a violation of the honor system and voted that he be required to
leave the University.
The award of two-inch numerals was made to the following seven members of the
Freshman golf team: Robert Agee, David Donahower, Roby Harrington, Archibald
Hewitt, Frederick LeVeque, Benjamin Marshall, Lee Sapp.
The award of 3-inch numerals was made to the following six members of the champion-
ship Class of 1951 Freshman tennis team: Charles Highly, Edward Keyes, MacDonald
Mathey (captain), Donald Scott, Gerard Thomas and Joseph Werner. Two-inch numerals
were awarded to Robert Cohill.
Wednesday, June 2nd
Final exams continue.
President Dodds announced the award of 18 regional four-year scholarships, the
highest honor the University can confer on incoming Freshmen. The awards range
from $800 to $1200, depending on the recipient's travel distance. The award of
the two remaining scholarships is pending the outcome of a battery of tests.
Three-inch numberals have been awarded to the following members of the Freshman
baseball team: Headley Harper '50, and '51-ers Lawrence Becker, Alan Clark, Peter
Fleming, Louis Gelwicks, John Groome, George Hawks, Byron Hollinshead, Joey
McCandless, Willard Prior (captain), Frank Reichel, John Reydel, Louis Tilden
David Van Vleck and Charles Weeden. Two-inch numerals were awarded to Richard
Ahrendt, James Brassill, Robert Dickhaus, Charles Ganoe, James Gorter, Richard
Howe, William Huston, Chambless Johnston, Charles Kepler, Thomas McClure, George
O'Brien, Robert Post, George Selover, Henderson Supplee, Frank Traylor and
and Samuel Walstrum.
Willard Prior was elected captain of the Freshman baseball team after batting .352.
He also won numberals for his play on the undefeated Frosh football and basketball
teams and was elected class secretary in the recent elections.
Two-inch numerals have been awarded to the following members of the Freshman polo
team: Philip Fanning, Michael Mahoney and Randolph Tucker.
Before leaving for the summer, it is asked that all furniture be moved to new rooms
to be occupied for the fall, so that vacant space may be assigned as necessary to
incoming men for the summer and fall terms.
The award of 3-inch numerals was made to the following 16 members of the Freshman
crew: William Iler '48, Kenneth Dake '49, and '51-ers James Anderegg, Robert
Bodine, Charles Burkelman, Willis Carpenter, Hugh Corroon, Charles Dodge, George
Gaines, Sumner Gambee, Alexander Halsey, Ashton Harvey, Thomas Marshall, Arthur
Patchett, David Sykes and David Van Dusen. Two-inch numerals were awarded to the
following members of the second Freshman crew: William Davis, William Dwight, Carol
Lyttle, Richard Paynter, Walter Smith, Alexander Trowbridge, Robert Vivian, Richard
Warren and William Webb. Two-inch numerals were awarded to the following members
of the 150-lb crew: Lansing Holden '49, Donald Pelham '49 and '51-ers Alan
Campbell, David Chang, Boynton Emerson, Arthur Fawcett, David Fogle, Nathaniel
Knowles,William Lee, Robert MacKennan, Gifford Malone, Gerald Mayer, John
Matthews, Raymond Maxwell, George Nesbitt, John Schullinger, Anson Taylor, and
Frank Wright.
Friday, June 4th
Final exams continue.
Students leaving college for summer vacations must leave change of address at the
Princeton Post Office for forwarding of mail. Failure to file change of address
will result in mail being returned to sender marked "Removed--no address" during
vacation period!
Richard Frazier '51 received 3-inch numerals as varsity lacrosse assistant manager.
The award of 2-inch numerals was made to the following members of the Freshman
lacrosse team: Robert Shaw '49, and '51-ers Charles Albert, Galloway Carey, Donald
Castleman, Raymond Close, William Crane, Leonard Drorbaugh, Richard Evans,
Redmond Finney, Clinton Gilbert, Theodore Gould, Donald Hahn, Michael Mahoney,
Rob McCampbell, Neil McConnell, Donald McLean, Honore Owen, Ralph Peters,
Clayton Sheedy and Richard Tucker.
The award of 3-inch numerals was made to the following varsity track assistant
managers-elect: Richard Loveland, Gene McGraw and Duane Wilder.
Monday, June 7th
Final exams continue.
Princeton's 150-lb Varsity crew not only copped the Eastern light-weight champ-
ionship but also won a chance to test their rowing prowess in the Henly Royal
Regatta this month. The crew will leave on the Marine Marlin on June 14 and will
arrive ten days later at Liverpool. Because of the post-war austerity program in
Great Britain the crew will have to take their soap, meat and other foodstuffs.
The final issue of the Daily Princetonian for this school year will be on
Wednesday.
This year's Senior Prom, scheduled to take place in Dillon Gymn next Monday, June
14th, will be the first since the war to approach the gala standards of pre-war
days. The Prom is open not only to member of the Class of 1948, but all
graduating seniors and any other Princetonians who care to attend. The sixteen
piece band of Buddy Williams will provide the music.
Three-inch numerals have been awarded to the following members of the undefeated
and championship Freshman track team: Robert Akeley, Robert Belknap, Theodore
Blumenfeld, Edgar Davis, Holland Donan, Ralph Drury, Loyall Edge, Dorion Fleming,
Hugh Ghormley, Ford Hubbard, Carleton Jacob, Douglas Jamieson, Clifford Kurrus,
Dail Longaker, Crawford MacCallum, Benjamin McAlpin, Gayle Price, Karl Rauschert,
Keith Schnebly, Howard Siedler, Robert Snable, Richard Snedeker, Sidney Stone,
William Swearer, Richard Thornton and Stanley Weiland. Two-inch awards went to
John Ball, Irwin Brody, Howard Cyr, John Griswold, Arthur Haury, John Huddleson,
Phillips Hungerford, William Jahos, Wallace Kain, Frederick Kenny, Richard Madden,
William McDowell, George Montgomery, Charles Rock and Donn Snyder.
Admiral William Halsey, naval hero and honorary member of the Class of 1938, will
lead the class P-rade at its tenth reunion this coming Saturday.
Not even the presence of Babe Ruth could inspire the Tiger varsity to winning ways
Saturday at New Haven, as they bowed to Yale by the lopsided count of 14-2. Ruth
presented the original manuscript of his book, "The Babe Ruth Story", to Eli
Captain George Bush before the game.
Tuesday, June 8th
Final exams continue.
Lieutenant John A. Larkin Memorial Scholarships have been awarded to Cabell
Woodward, Robert Bloom and Tracy Scudder. The scholarships are given annually
for the Sophomore year and are among the highest honors that the University can
confer on undergraduates. Lieutenant Larkin '44, was killed by German machine gun
fire on April 10, 1945.
Upwards of 150 students in the Army, Navy and Marine Corps programs at Princeton
will undergo practical training this summer. The Navy has three different groups
going on six-week cruises. The Marine Corps is sending 38 men enrolled in the
Platoon Leaders Program to Quantico for six weeks. The Army ROTC will send seven-
teen men to Fort Bragg for a six-week Field Artillery training period.
The academic schedule for 1948-1949 shows few changes, except Christmas vacation will
be 18 days instead of this year's 14.
The Fall registration schedule is as follows:
Monday, August 30. Orientation for Freshman engineers. Classes begin at 2:30 pm.
Monday, September 6. Labor Day. Classes suspended.
Monday, September 13. Meeting of all new engineering students, 2:30 pm Alexander
Hall.
Tuesday, September 14. Registration of all new entering students, beginning at
9:00 am in the Gym.
Friday, September 17. Registration of all former Princeton students re-entering,
9:00 am to 12 noon, Gym. Meeting of all former Princeton students re-entering, 2:30
pm in Alexander Hall.
Saturday, September 18. Registration of all other undergraduates, 9 am to
5 pm, Gym.
Monday, September 20. Fall Term begins. Class exercises begin at 7:40 am.
Wednesday, June 9th
The last stone in the new Firestone Library was laid yesterday by President Dodds,
who first received an honorary local membership card in the Bricklayers, Masons and
Plasterers International Union. Excavation work on the building, which will cost
over six million dollars when completed, was started in January, 1946. The library
staff will start moving the books from the old building of July 6.
Princeton will return to normal pre-war commencement traditions next weekend, with
a busy five-day program of Alumni reunions and graduation activities. Nearly 5,000
Alumni celebration will be the colorful P-rade at 1:30 Saturday from the main
campus to University Field, for the 204th Yale-Princeton baseball game. The
following day will be Baccalaureate Sunday, while Monday is Class Day. On Tuesday,
Commencement Day, President Dodds will confer bachelor degrees upon 580 Seniors,
the largest outgoing class in Princeton history.
The Class of 1898, as part of its 50th Reunion, will replant its Class Ivy on the
side of Nassau Hall facing Stanhope.
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