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Editor: Theodore V. Partlow '60
Editorial Assistant: M a r c i a C. Cupschalk
Executive Committee of the Alumni Council:
Wilson E. Hughes '38, president; Robert E.
Pfenning '32, president-elect; Louis R. Bravm a n '54, past president; William S. Andrews
'71; Robert H. Alexander '55 [Publications];
H e n r y C. Banks '27 [National Schools];
John A. Falcone '60, treasurer; Cyrus S.
Fleck, Sr. '20
[Trustee
Representative];
Daniel L. Golden '34 [Awards]; William E.
Greenip '44, secretary; Ralph W. H a c k e t t '45
[Continuing E d u c a t i o n ] ; George M. Hoerner,
Jr. '51 [Faculty Representative]; George H .
H o e r r n e r '60 [Reunion] ; Frederick Hooven
'42; William H. Hunscher '60; Robert E.
Kusch '48 [ H o m e c o m i n g ] ; L. M a r k Michel
'59 [Young Alumni C o u n c i l ] ; Robert L.
W a r r e n '40; J. Tylee Wilson '53.
Publications Committee: Robert H. Alexander
'55, c h a i r m a n ; Michael Alber '60; Nicholas
J. Azzolina '67; Frederic T . Closs '51; Cyrus
S. Fleck, Sr. '20; Eric N. Rhodin '38.
Alumni Trustees: Mitchel Flaum '40; Harold
S. Hutchison '30; E d w a r d A. Jesser '39;
William E. Simon '52.
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Larayette
Alumnus
NOVEMBER, VOLUME 44, NUMBER 2
2
About the Issue
3
Letters
4
On Campus
7
The Athletics Program: Serving Students' Needs
12
P.E. 1-2: A Paucity of Participants
14
Intramurals: Where the Students Are
16
New Facilities to Benefit Women's Program, Too
17
Lafayette's Coaches: Profiles in Success
19
'He's Devoted. That Says It All'
22
'Learning to Sing in My Own Good Time'
27
Behind the Admissions Statistics
— A Regard for the Individual
29
A Friend Remembers 'Lafayette's Greatest Athlete'
32
What Else Is a Fence For?
about
the issue
When Lafayette's Board of Trustees inaugurated the current $25 million
"On Lafayette" campaign, it recognized the pressing need for a new athletics and
physical education building. Now only a few months away from completion,
Kirby Field House, which includes Ruef Natatorium, along with the renovation
of Alumni Memorial Gymnasium, will fulfill a dream long deferred and move
the College into a new era of strength.
This is not to say that Lafayette is going into "big time" athletic competition
or "emphasizing" athletics. Rather it means that the entire program of
intercollegiate and intramural athletics, free play and physical education,
which involve nearly three-quarters of the student body, will be better able to
meet the needs of all Lafayette undergraduates.
Like the coeducation decision, some felt that further postponement of
construction would have seriously hampered the College's ability to continue to
attract and hold good students. Furthermore, the new complex is being financed
entirely by gifts to the College specifically designated for the new building.
Other academic and residential needs had already been met with the
construction of new student residences, the biology building, the library and
the reconstruction of Colton Chapel and Pardee Hall. A new student health
center, additional student residences and a student union are capital projects
in varying stages of planning. And the "On Lafayette" campaign, which stands
at nearly $19 million to date, is also adding to the endowment and providing
annual operating expenses.
This is certainly encouraging, but it is no time to sit back, congratulate
ourselves and feel that the College is everything it should and can be. There is
still much to be clone in the areas of financial aid, the arts, science and
engineering to insure the future of those who will come after us.
But this issue attempts to describe Lafayette's program of athletics and
physical education, the philosophy behind it and some of the people who help
implement it. We think it makes interesting and informative reading, and we
thank Frank Claps '67, Paul Reinhard, T o m Bates and those who spent
considerable time answering their and our questions.
Elsewhere in these pages, there is a tribute to Charlie Berry '25, one of
Lafayette's greatest athletes; a profile of a young but hardly new faculty member,
Jim Crawford; and a small sampling of the poetry of one of the College's more
recent graduates, Jay Parini '70.
—Theodore
V. Partlow '60
letters
not at all necessary.
It was a horrible, degrading,
disgusting, and insulting letter.
Albert E. Holderith, M.D. '35
A Penetrating Analysis
Undeserved Stigma
As an alumnus, I have enjoyed
the Lafayette Alumnus magazine
for years. I appreciate the new
format dealing with one subject
and commend the staff on a job
well done.
However, I must comment on
the "About the Issue" segment of
the summer, 1972 issue. As president of the Alumni Building Association of Delta Beta Chapter
of Kappa Sigma, I feel it is my
duty to point out to the editor
the hardship being created to the
present undergraduate leaders of
our fraternity by the publicity
being given to an incident that
took place two years ago. My
concern is that the men at the
house now have to live with a
situation and reputation that they
are not responsible for in any way.
This magazine is circulated to
parents, prospective students, as
well as faculty, alumni and undergraduates. How long are these
men to live with this stigma? Why
not be fair? Why must our
fraternity's name be used repeatedly in drug-related articles?
We feel that the present leadership of our house is outstanding
and we, the alumni, are trying to
support their efforts in operating
an excellent fraternity house.
Help us help them by forgetting
the past and planning for the
future.
Raymond B. Jacoby '57
'Disgusting Letter'
As an alumnus of Lafayette, I
was shocked, horrified, and extremely incensed by your publishing of "An Unmourned Passing"
in your recent publication of the
Lafayette
Alumnus.
T h e publication of this letter
was absolutely uncalled for and
I have read and enjoyed the
speech Dr. Bergethon gave at the
annual alumni reunion luncheon
last June 3. I found it a thoughtful
and penetrating analysis of the
individual and his rights versus
the organization and its rights.
T h e problems of this nature that
confront Dr. Bergethon are not
unique to an intellectual institution although the details of the
issues may be. In the course of
my own daily work, I spend much
time in similar areas and his
thoughts found a sympathetic
reader.
In the course of exercising my
responsibility to identify and
separate those who are not going to
make significant contributions in
the long run to the welfare of my
company, I have found that
usually such a separation can be
done in a human manner. I have
never found that an individual
who was not going to "make it"
with us did not have much that
could be used elswhere by others
with different needs and different
objectives. Once we get to the
positive aspects of a man's future
in other fields or with other
employers, the negative aspects of
perhaps having failed with us
seemed to diminish rapidly. No
doubt the human trait of
rationalization has a lot to do
this.
In short, then, asking people to
look elsewhere for work is not
inhuman unless it is done in an
inhuman manner. Quite often, we
in managerial capacities have
done many a service though they
may not see it that way at the
time. I have had enough come
back to tell me this to believe
that there is something to it,
W. F. Plume '38
A Balanced Discussion
I've just read Dr. Bergethon's
piece on tenure in the summer
Alumnus and want to say that I
think it's a beautifully goodhumored, balanced and comprehensive discussion of that issue.
By the way, I hope your
fem-lib types don't crusade for
calling the journal the Alumnus
and/or
Alumna.
Robert B. Heilman '27
Kudos for Fried
Since my graduation from
Lafayette one year ago I have had
time to reflect on some of my
undergraduate experiences at the
College and their impact on my
present training for a career in
combined medical research and
clinical medical practice. Here I
would like to commend a particular aspect of my undergraduate
education which even in this first
postgraduate year has shown itself
to have been of exceptional
value.
I refer particularly to my
association with Dr. Bernard Fried
for two years as an undergraduate
in the Biology Department's
student research program. T h e
opportunity to work closely with
a research scholar-educator of the
caliber of Professor Fried has
proven itself again and again over
the past one year plus to have
been the most significant educational experience of my Lafayette
tenure. My current studies in the
M.D.-Ph.D. curriculum at Duke
University Medical School has
placed me in contact over the
past year with 11 other student
colleagues from a cross-section of
the nation's most prestigious
colleges and universities. Without
exception these are young scientists selected on the basis of their
ability to produce original professional caliber work according to
the recommendation of accomplished research scholar-educators
who were widely respected as
active scholars in their own fields
and with whom these students had
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Stock in 'La Fayette'
When Dr. Daniel V. McLean
became president of Lafayette
College in late 1850, the institution
perched precariously on the brink
of financial collapse. Over the
next four years, he raised enough
money to keep Lafayette going
by offering shares in the College
at $100 each. These entitled the
shareholder to a full, four-year
scholarship for all his immediate
heirs.
T h e campaign, which is meticulously chronicled in David B.
Skillman's Biography of a College,
set a goal of $100,000, which was to
be used as endowment for the
then-poverty-stricken College.
After herculean efforts by Dr.
McLean, 1,000 of these certificates,
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(pictured below) were finally
subscribed by January 1, 1854.
(However, less than $70,000 of the
total amount subscribed was ever
paid to the College.)
T h e College recently received
for its archives one of those original
shares (number 55 in the series of
1,000) issued on June 9, 1854, to G.
W. Uhler, who evidently never presented it as payment for tuition
of his heirs or assigns. Along with
the certificate, Mr. Hardigg
Sexton, of Oxford, Ohio, sent a
letter, dated October 30, 1929,
which indicated that G. W. Uhler's
daughter was then contemplating
designating a recipient for the
scholarship. However, no one was
ever named, and the scholarship,
like a great many of these, was
never cashed. If more of them had
been redeemed, the College would
probably not have survived.
Although there may be some
question about the legality of
attempting to use any of these
outstanding $100 shares in "La
Fayette College" as full payment
for four years' tuition at today's
rates ($2,500 per year), the
certificates clo recall an interesting
period in the College's history.
Auxiliary Outlines Plans
Mrs. John Bown, campaign
chairman of the Women's
Auxiliary of Lafayette College,
outlined at the September meeting
fund-raising plans for the next
two years. T h e Auxiliary has
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Health Center, which will be
located at High and McCartney
Streets.
One highlight of their campaign
will be the sale of a 14-inchdiameter black formica serving
tray designed for the Auxiliary
by the Couroc Company of
Monterey, Calif. T h e Lafayette
leopard, formed of inlaid wood,
brass and green jewels on the collar
and the eye, make the tray an
attractive gift item. Sale of the
tray will begin in November, at
$20 each. (An order blank appears
on page 36.)
T h e Easton-Phillipsburg Chapter
is conducting a mail order sale
of selected items from the
Lafayette Book Store. A brochure
was mailed to parents of all
freshmen. A theater party is also
planned for the spring.
A theater trip to the new show
"1776" one day after it opens
on November 10 is one of the
Greater New York Chapter's
activities. A lecture and discussion
on "The New Morality" and a day
at the Frick Museum are planned
for the spring. T h e Mercer County
(N.J.) Chapter is planning a
spring event, and the Northern
New Jersey Chapter will hold a
Christmas luncheon on December
7 and a luncheon and fashion
show on April 26. T h e Philadelphia Chapter has planned a card
party and fashion show on April
11, as well as a banquet and
dinner dance on April 26.
Phi Tau House Dedicated
Official dedication of Phi Kappa
Tau's newly renovated house was
held on September 16 following
the Lafayette-King's Point football
Bob Rossman '58 and George Kaplan 7 3 at Phi Tau
game. Numerous alumni and
friends of the fraternity attended,
as did Dr. Herman C. Kissiah,
dean of students; Dr. Earl A. Pope,
associate professor of religion;
and Dr. Warren J. Guy, associate
professor and head of the electrical engineering department.
Dr. Guy is serving as faculty
advisor to Phi Tau.
T h e fraternity's house, located at
718 Hamilton Street, has been
extensively redecorated and
modernized. Safety laws required
the construction of both a fire-
dedication.
proof brick staircase and an outdoor fire escape. Recreation
facilities include billiard and pingpong tables and several television
sets. T h e fraternity is also engaged
in the purchase and installation
of its own laundry facilities.
Further modifications include a
parking lot for fraternity members
and a new kitchen. T h e total cost
of these improvements and modifications is estimated to be $70,000.
For the past eight years, Phi
T a u had been located in a house
on Reeder Street. This house was
vacated by the fraternity at the
close of the 1972 spring semester
and is currently being used as a
College housing facility. Phi T a u
had meanwhile purchased the
Hamilton Street structure, deeming the house's proximity to the
College's new athletic complex
as one of its prime advantages.
T h e Sphinx Society, Phi Kappa
Tau's predecessor at the College,
was founded in the 1920's, and
its alumni include Dr. H. Keffer
Hartline '23, winner of a 1967
Nobel Prize for discoveries pertaining to the eye's chemical and
physiological processes. T h e Phi
T a u chapter deliberately dissolved
ties with the national fraternity
from 1957 to 1959 because by-laws
of the national fraternity at that
time prohibited pledging members
of minority groups. This action
proved to be instrumental in influencing the national fraternity to
eliminate the discriminatory
clauses, and the Alpha Omicron
chapter resumed relations with the
national when the restrictions
were removed.
During the past 15 years, the
Phi Kappa T a u Chapter at
Lafayette has been among the
top five fraternities academically,
and during the last eight years,
it has consistently ranked first or
second in academic performance.
Phi Kappa Tau's present membership includes brothers who are in
the College band, Student Council,
Dean's List, the staff of The
Lafayette and various honor
societies.
Nixon Names Smith ' 5 2
Superior Court Judge
Following a distinguished
career in the United States
Attorney General's office, Donald
S. Smith '52 recently became Judge
of the Superior Court of the
District of Columbia. He was
Judge Donald Smith '52
nominated by President Nixon in
April, confirmed by the U.S.
Senate in June and-sworn in on
August 7.
Born in New York City, Judge
Smith was graduated from
Westfield (N.J.) High School in
1946. After serving in the United
States Army, he entered Lafayette,
where he was president of the
Kirby Government and Law
Society, was a member of Delta
T a u Delta fraternity and earned a
bachelor of arts degree. A 1955
Fordham Law School graduate, he
then served in the Department of
Justice for three years as a trial
attorney in the Internal Security
Division.
In 1958 Smith was appointed
Assistant United States Attorney
for the District of Columbia by
Attorney General William P.
Rogers and was assigned to the
Municipal Court, Appellate and
Criminal Divisions. While serving
as trial attorney in the Criminal
Division, he appeared as counsel
in some of the most important
cases in the District of Clumbia.
Among them was the Hanrahan
mail fraud case, which was the
longest criminal trial in the District since the end of World War
II. He also prosecuted a number
of notorious murder cases.
Attorney General John N.
Mitchell appointed him in 1969
Chief of the Criminal Division, a
position he held until his investiture as a Judge of the Superior
Court.
Judge Smith is a member of the
Bars of the U.S. Supreme Court
and the District of Columbia.
As a member of the Bar Association
of the District of Columbia, he
served on the Committee on
Criminal Law and was recommended by the Bar Association for
appointment as Judge of the
Superior Court. He has served on
the Mayor's Committee on Crime
and Delinquency and was a
member of the Judicial Conference of the District of Columbia
Circuit.
During his service as Assistant
United States Attorney, Judge
Smith received commendations
from Attorney General Robert F.
Kennedy and from Attorney
General Ramsey Clark. In 1971,
he received the Department of
Justice Superior Performance
Award from Attorney General
Mitchell in recognition of his
service as Chief of the Criminal
Division of the U.S. Attorney's
Office.
Judge Smith and his wife, the
former Lois J. Bland, have three
children and reside in Bethesda,
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The Athletics Program: Serving Students' Needs
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Thomas F. Bates
With the completion of the new Allan P. Kirby
Field House only months away and the
renovation of Alumni Memorial Gymnasium now
finished, Lafayette College's athletics and physical
education facilities are the best they have ever been.
Moreover according to Donald U. Noblett, Vice
President for Physical Planning and Operations, who
has visited and seen plans of nearly a hundred other
institutions' facilities, "When in full operation,
Lafayette's athletics complex will be among the best
in the East for a College of this size."
How will the new field house affect the intercollegiate, intramural and physical education programs of the College? Olav B. Kollevoll, Athletics
Director, said, "With the completion of these facilities,
Lafayette will be able to serve the needs and desires
of the entire student body." T h e College will also be
"absolutely and positively" more attractive to prospective students and student athletes, said Richard W.
Haines '60, Director of Admissions. In the past, many
students have come to Lafayette from high schools
which had far superior athletics and physical education facilities, and each year the College has lost some
desirable candidates for admission to schools with
better and more modern athletics facilities.
These disadvantages will disappear by February
or March of 1973, when the Kirby Field House, named
for Allan P. Kirby '15, an emeritus trustee, and
including the Ruef Natatorium, named in honor of
John W. Ruef '01 and Harry H. Ruef '05, is expected
to be ready for use. T h e new complex will benefit
Lafayette's intercollegiate athletics program of 13
sports and release the gymnasium for free play and the
extensive intramural program which the College
carries out. Construction of the field house and
renovation of the gym will cost $5.1 million
T o meet the outdoor needs of the physical education and intercollegiate athletics programs, the
College five years ago developed a 60-acre tract three
miles north of the main campus. This complex,
named for Dr. Marshall R. Metzgar '18, also an
emeritus trustee, included 11 playing fields for use by
Leopard athletic teams plus a quarter-mile Tartan
track.
For schools like Lafayette, the effort to conduct an
inter-collegiate athletics program is not easy. T w o of
the biggest problems are finances and scheduling, and
they are often related. Even Francis A. March, Jr. '81
devoted several pages in his book Athletics at
Lafayette College, published in 1926, to the costs of
running an athletics program.
Broadly speaking, the program at Lafayette is a
sound one. This is entirely in keeping with the history
and traditions of the College, which participated in
its first athletic contest, a baseball game with the
Easton Professionals played on the Jersey Flats in
Phillipsburg, on November 8, 1865. Some alumni
vividly recall the 1921 and 1926 football seasons,
when the Leopards went undefeated and were touted
by many respected authorities as the best team in the
nation.
Since then, however, football has become extremely expensive for colleges, and only the larger
universities can afford the investment necessary for
national prominence in that sport. While some
alumni feel that the College should concentrate more
on one sport or another, the vast majority of
Lafayette's 15,000-plus graduates favor retaining the
present philosophy of a well-rounded program of
intercollegiate athletic competition.
T h e maintenance of such a program, exclusive of
salaries, along with an intramural system which involves over half the student body (approximately 51
per cent in 1971-72) and the physical education
courses, last year cost about one per cent of the
total College budget, according to John A. Falcone
'60, Vice President for Finance and Treasurer. T h e
Athletics and Physical Education Department budget,
including salaries, was $363,000 (net after deducting
$77,000 income from athletics) compared to the total
annual operating budget of the College for 1971-72
of $8,864,000.
But a college's athletics program cannot be
measured only in terms of dollars and cents. President
K. Roald Bergethon recognized this in his address to
alumni in June of 1971, when he said, "Physical
exercise is an emotional need, an antidote to the car
and the boob tube and to the temptation to drugs; it
teaches fair play, coordination and willingness to
work with teams; it is premised on the freedom of
equality and prepares us for good use of leisure time.
Exclusive of coaches' salaries, football pays
its own way at Lafayette, Kollevoll says
"The sports program is also good for the College
in a congregational sense: it brings the students
together, as well as the faculty, and encourages alumni
to return to campus, where they may see the students
as they are in their daily life."
It's evident, however, that Lafayette's football
team, for example, is not going to attract crowds the
way a Tennessee, Penn State cr Michigan team does.
And yet, at most big schools football pays for the
entire athletics program.
Lafayette football does pay its own way, exclusive
of coaches' salaries, according to Kollevoll. And the
College realizes some revenue from basketball, despite
the limited seating available for that sport in the
'We don't look only at the big guarantee
in scheduling teams
past. Additional revenue may come from the
scheduling of big name teams in basketball. For
instance, the Leopards will play nationally ranked
South Carolina in basketball on January 3, naturally
on the Gamecocks' floor. But the guarantee for this
game to Lafayette will not only cover the team's
travel expenses to South Carolina but will bring in as
much as $3,000 more than expenses, Kollevoll
indicated. A similar situation exists with the game
at West Virginia.
"We don't look only at the big guarantee when
we schedule such teams," Kollevoll pointed out. "We
check with our players to see if this is a team they
would like to compete against. There is also the
recognition we receive from playing such teams."
One of the biggest problems facing Kollevoll in
scheduling, particularly in football, is finding enough
opponents whose philosophy of intercollegiate
athletics is similar to Lafayette's. All aid given to
student athletes at Lafayette is based on need. Each
applicant for aid must file a Parent's Confidential
Statement. Not enough schools follow such a policy,
and when such factors as traditional opponents and
periodic games in a variety of geographic locations
are added, it makes the scheduling job even more
difficult.
Lehigh, Bucknell and Colgate operate their
athletics and financial aid programs much the way
Lafayette does, so they will continue regularly on the
football schedule. They are also traditional
opponents, as is Gettysburg. However, Lafayette
played Delaware for the last time this fall, and
Rutgers will go off the schedule within a few years.
Penn will remain on the slate, and Columbia comes
back on shortly. Kollevoll is continually looking for
new opponents to balance the schedule. One source is
the Yankee Conference teams. "We like to play in
New England, because we have a strong alumni group
there," lie said.
After considering the schools in the Middle
Atlantic and New England areas, Lafayette must turn
to the South or to the Midwest. These involve greater
travel distances and the ensuing greater costs.
Kollevoll noted that Lafayette, Lehigh, Bucknell
and Colgate are comparable in financial aid, recruiting and other areas of athletic costs, although each
school makes its own interpretation of a student's
financial need. Lafayette keeps a careful check on the
fin ancial aid it awards. Each year the College reviews
the student's family income and adjusts the amount of
aid granted him (usually downward) accordingly.
Richard K. Watson, Director of Student Financial
Aid, estimates that approximately one fourth of
Lafayette's current aid budget of $740,000 in grants
goes to student athletes. Last year, 28 per cent of the
student body participated in varsity, junior varsity
and freshman sports, Kollevoll reported.
Recruiting is one area of intercollegiate athletics
that has come under close scrutiny in recent years. At
some large universities it has been blamed as a major
cause in the rising cost of such programs, but at
Lafayette relatively little (about $7,500, Kollevoll
saicl) is spent on recruiting. In an effort to halt the
cost squeeze, athletics administrators have discussed
limitations on recruiting and the awarding of scholarships. For the past two years the NCAA has proposed
that all its members award financial aid to student
athletes based on need, as Lafayette does. Lafayette
will again support this position at the NCAA
conference in January, 1973.
Some coaches say they can't live with such a
method, that it would hamper their recruiting efforts.
For the most part, Lafayette has made the system
work, although the College is at an admitted disadvantage when it competes against schools awarding
full athletics scholarships.
T h e record of Lafayette's athletic achievements
over the past five years speaks for itself. Seven of the
varsity sports have a winning percentage over this
period, and two others, basketball and soccer, are
just one game shy of the .500 mark.
Eight of the sports—football, cross country, basketball, wrestling, baseball, tennis, track and field and
Penn (ouch) will remain on the football
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schedule.
golf—have had their best seasons in 15 years during
this five-year stretch.
Recent Leopard football teams have virtually
rewritten the school record book, and the excitement
of last year's N I T basketball team still lingers. T h e
baseball team has won the Middle Atlantic Conference's West Section for the past two years. Just about
every school record in both swimming and track and
field have been set in recent seasons.
T h e quality of student athletes at Lafayette is
also reflected in the fact that four of the last seven
Pepper Prize winners have been outstanding student
athletes. In each of the past two academic years, a
Lafayette student athlete received an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship of $1,000: Bill Sprecher '71, a
football tackle, and Jay Mottola '72, basketball
co-captain. Last spring, 56 varsity athletes, including
12 captains or captains-elect, were named to the
Dean's List for the second semester.
As have all departments and offices at Lafayette,
the Athletics Department has had to tighten its
budgetary belt in recent years, but not to the extent
that it has significantly affected the intercollegiate
program. T h e baseball team, for example, financed
its trip to Florida last spring partly through special
contributions from alumni for that purpose and by
operating the refreshment stands during all home
basketball games. Team members also contributed
The EC AC now says women may
with men in all varsity sports
compete
personally a share of their own expenses.
By offering 13 varsity sports, Lafayette hopes to
fulfill the needs and desires of nearly every student,
both male and female, who wishes to participate in
intercollegiate athletics. For the most part, participants are rarely cut from varsity teams. T h e junior
varsity and freshman team program encompasses 10
of the 13 sports. Last year 444 different men students
participated in Lafayette's intercollegiate athletics
program. Kollevoll called the 28 per cent (based on
male enrollment of 1,600) a "very high level" and
pointed out that it compares favorably with previous
years, when more men were enrolled. In 1970-71, 471
competed; in 1969-70, 502; in 1968-69, 516; in 1967-68,
487; and in 1966-67, 455.
Kollevoll explained that the relatively recent
change in the makeup of sub-varsity intercollegiate
teams came about in the 1970-71 seasons as a result of
a recommendation by the Faculty Committee on
Athletics, the Trustee Committee on Athletics and
Students Affairs and the members of the athletics staff.
When the College decided to permit freshmen to
participate on varsity teams, except for football and
basketball, these groups recommended replacing
freshmen teams in eight intercollegiate sports with
junior varsity teams. This change now makes it
possible for a student who is an upperclassman and
who can not make the varsity squad to participate on
an inter-collegiate level for four years. Last winter,
the NCAA, ECAC and MAC, one after the other,
approved the use of freshmen on all varsity teams,
including football and basketball. (In deference to
Women's Lib, the ECAC has since allowed women to
participate with men in all varsity sports.) Lafayette
has still not decided whether it will allow freshmen
on the varsity football and basketball teams.
Intercollegiate athletic contests have been by far
the biggest entertainment attraction on the Lafayette
campus, especially when there have been winning
teams. Kollevoll pointed out that over half the student
body regularly attended the varsity home basketball
games last year. Students began lining up at 8 a.m. for
the noon door opening on the day of the Delaware
game last February.
Kollevoll has also tried to take into account the
fact that home athletic contests, particularly in football and basketball, are focal points for social weekends on campus. After experimenting with Saturday
afternoon basketball games over the past few seasons,
he has shifted all Saturday home games to the afternoon. Increasing attendance at the afternoon games
was also a factor in the switch. With a seating capacity
of 3,400 for basketball in the new Kirby Field House,
the 1973-74 season might well find the Leopards playing before more fans than they have ever had before.
Against ]acksonville
in last year's
NIT.
P.E. 1-2: A Paucity of Participants
By Frank Claps '67
In the two and a half years since Lafayette College
students have not been required to take physical
education, the program has felt both the best and the
worst effects of the non-structured college curriculum.
On the one hand, William L. Lawson, physical
education instructor and swimming and lacrosse
coach, reports, "Because they don't have to be there,
the kids we get are really interested in learning."
Conversely, however, Lawson admits, "I guess our
weakness is lack of participants."
Nevertheless, Lafayette's physical education program has taken significant strides since the days when
it served as the dumping ground for those who, for
one reason or another, managed to escape the clutches
of compulsory ROTC. Until 1965 R O T C was a
command performance during a student's first two
years. Phys ed was offered as an alternative requirement for freshmen and sophomores excused from
military science because of "advanced standing,
physical disqualification, non-citizenship or religious
beliefs," according to the College Catalog of 1964.
Not many students had legitimate excuses to avoid
R O T C , and thus, except for a smattering of transfer
and foreign students, the average gym class consisted
of students who were something less than
athletically endowed.
Probably as a result, the instructors were something less than enthusiastic. Written tests, which
amounted to a contest of who could fill in the blanks
fastest, were administered following units in archery,
gymnastics, wrestling and Softball.
From 1965 through 1968, R O T C was required
only during the freshman year, but physical education
was required of all frosh and sophomores not enrolled
in R O T C . T h e n came 1969, heralded by students as a
momentous year in Lafayette's history: R O T C was
no longer compulsory. Students who did not desire
"spit 'n' polish," however, were required to take an
equivalent number of physical education credits in
its place.
first semester, and the number grew to 464 the next
semester," Kollevoll said. "We went to 630 the next
year, and there was still nothing we could clo. Most of
the students were just standing around watching the
others, and nobody got anything accomplished."
Classes met twice a week and students received
one credit toward graduation each semester, the same
number they woidd have received for successfully
completing ROTC.
Students began feeling that the physical education
requirement for graduation, like R O T C , was a
collegiate "Catch-22." T h e program became voluntary
in 1970, and enrollment immediately slipped to a
more comfortable and workable 100 to 125. Between
50 and 60 were enrolled at the start of this year, but
another 40 to 45 will sign up for skiing when that
season begins, Kollevoll said.
Since he took over as athletics director in 1965,
Kollevoll and his staff have attempted to change the
emphasis of the physical education curriculum.
Suddenly physical education became extremely
popular: more than 400 freshmen and sophomores
signed up. "There was no way we could accommodate
all those kids," recalls Athletics Director Olav B.
Kollevoll. "One instructor can't teach 40 students how
to swing a golf club. We could handle about 250 the
Frank Claps '67 is a reporter for the Bethlehem
and a frequent contributor to the A lumnus.
Globe-Times
The ski bus is usually
full.
Students felt the physical
education requirement
was a collegiate 'Catch 22'
Courses in soccer, basketball, softball and the like
have been replaced with instruction in golf, modern
dance, tennis, swimming, handball, squash, badminton, volleyball, skiing and other carry-over sports.
"We emphasize skills the students will use when
they get older," Kollevoll said. "They can play things
like football, basketball and softball on their own."
T h e physical education department divides the
year into four quarters, and students may choose from
a variety of courses in each quarter. T o enroll all the
student has to do is to show up at the allotted time.
T h e first quarter runs from the opening of school
until October 27, with tennis, swimming and modern
dance offered then. Both tennis and modern dance
are fairly popular with women students, Lawson
reported, and some men are enrolled in the modern
dance course. Tennis classes meet twice a week,
modern dance once. Since there are only ten swimmers, they set up their own schedules with Lawson.
T h e second quarter runs until December 8 and
contains more swimming, modern dance, handball,
squash, skiing and personal defense. T h e latter
consists of judo and karate and is also popular
with women.
"We no longer give tests," Lawson said. "Since the
classes are now voluntary and students receive no
credits toward graduation for them, the kids wouldn't
show up for tests anyway." Swimming, personal
defense, handball and squash will carry over into the
third quarter, Lawson said, "and we might add
volleyball and badminton." Activity will again move
outdoors for the fourth quarter, with tennis, archery
and golf. Swimming programs will continue.
While the new Kirby Field House and nowrenovated Alumni Memorial Gymnasium may attract
more students into the physical education program,
the fact that the course offers no credit apparently
keeps many away. All freshmen are notified about the
offerings by mail during the summer, and notices are
sent to all living groups prior to each quarter during
the academic year.
Has the Greek ideal (usually expressed in Latin:
mens sana in corpore sano) of a sound mind in a
sound body gone completely by the boards? "They'll
come out so long as it doesn't interfere with other
things they want to do," Lawson said of Lafayette
undergraduates.
In the meantime, Kollevoll indicated he may
petition for credit status once the program is fully
organized. "I don't think we would ever offer a
physical education major," Kollevoll said, "but what
I'd like to get, as the program grows, is something for
the student who thinks he might like to go into high
school or college coaching. Some states require a
special certificate to coach, and I'd like to see
Lafayette someday able to offer such a program."
Intramurals: Where the Students Are
Of the entire physical education and athletics
program at Lafayette College, one aspect which
affects more students than any other, but about which
alumni hear very little, is the intramural program.
In the past ten years, the program has expanded under
the very able direction of the senior member of the
Athletics Department staff to the point where it now
includes 13 sports and involves over half the student
body. •
When George L. McGaughey, Assistant Director
of Athletics in Charge of Intramural Sports, took over
the-intramural program in 1962, a group of students
came to him and asked if volleyball, paddleball and
billiards could be added to the ten other sports
then being contested.
With an openmindedness that is characteristic of
the man, McGaughey consented immediately. One of
the most popular men on campus because of his
concern for students, his quiet, soft-spoken mien, his
ready smile and his willingness to help, McGaughey
first came to Lafayette as assistant football coach in
1937. Head coach E. E. "Hooks" Mylin and he guided
the 1937 and 1940 teams to undefeated seasons.
During that time, McGaughey also headed the
intramural program.
A Bucknell graduate, McGaughey left Lafayette
in March of 1942 to enlist in the U.S. Navy. After his
discharge, he taught for a year at Wabash College
and for two years at New York University, before
returning to Lafayette in 1950. He has been here ever
since. His last year as a football line coach was in 1963.
Sports in which anywhere from three to 31 teams
compete annually in intramurals include: cross
country, flag football, tennis (singles and doubles),
basketball, bowling, swimming, volleyball, wrestling,
pacldleball (singles and doubles), Softball and track.
Foul shooting and billiards are also popular forms of
intramural competition. There were a total of 673
different contests in the various sports last year, with
813 of the 1,600 men enrolled participating, most of
them in at least two different activities.
Athletics Director Olav B. Kollevoll has had
consistently high praise for McGaughey and the IM
program, which has regularly involved between 50
and 60 per cent of the student body.
Much of the lively program is conducted at
Metzgar Fields, but during the fall numerous
fraternity and dormitory floor teams can be seen
practicing daily on just about every grassy area of the
campus. In the spring, softball games fill the quadrangle and other open fields. Last year 229 men
formed 31 basketball teams and competed in 96
contests. But, for sheer numbers, flag football is the
most popular sport, with 452 competing last year.
Flag football replaced touch football about nine
years ago, McGaughey said. Its main distinction from
touch is that players wear a special belt with three
strips of colored cloth tucked into it, one at each side
and one in the back. T o stop the ball carrier, the
opposing team must simply snatch one of the flags
from his belt. "This keeps injuries to a minimum."
McGaughey said. "In touch football players were
occasionally hurt when they were pushed a little too
hard by an over-enthusiastic defender."
Each team fields a seven-man squad, and most of
them have an offensive and defensive unit. Each
fraternity, social dorm and dormitory floor as well as
those who live off campus and are independents, are
eligible to field a team. T h e contests are hard-fought,
and teams are divided into two leagues, with the
Coach McGaughey
gives his student referees some
winner of each league meeting in the finals.
Basketball and volleyball are the most popular
winter sports, and last spring 23 softball teams,
involving 340 players, had 63 contests. In all sports
Students are paid to officiate. T h e only restriction
placed on participation is that a student who lettered
in a sport cannot play on a team in that sport.
Last year Student Government discontinued giving
out the traditional all-campus trophy to the living
group which amassed the best total record, so
McGaughey and his IM Council, consisting of students
from each group which enters a team in any of the
13 sports, has decided to award an "All-Year Trophy"
to the team with the best overall record for the year.
One concommitant result of the strong IM program is the number of students who can be seen
daily in the gymnasium during "free play" hours. All
three cross-court basketball playing areas are normally
filled, with pick-up teams waiting their turn to play.
Between 3:00 and 3:30 p.m., students start to arrive,
with games usually going strong until 5:00 p.m. or
later. Other students use the indoor track, wrestling
and weightlifting rooms, pool and other areas. In the
past, and this year until the Kirby Field House is
opened, during the basketball season some students
have complained that the gym is not available to them
enough of the time.
advice.
When the field house is completed, in late
February or early March, the gym will be released for
more free play.
How have the much-discussed "new student lifestyles" affected participation in unstructured and
intramural competition? "At times I think student
attitudes are changing," McGaughey said, "but then a
new season will roll around and the students'
enthusiasm will dispel any doubts I may have had.
They don't view intramurals much differently now
from the way they have in the past; competition is
still strong." As an example, he cited the spring of
1970 "student strike." "While there was some forfeiting of games in some sports, that was a small minority.
Most of the students then, and now, for that matter,
value the chance to participate whether they have a
chance of winning or not. I didn't cancel the program,
and I was under no pressure by students or others to
do so," McGaughey stated.
Typical of the respect in which students hold
McGaughey was a recent incident at one of the flag
football playoff games at Metzgar Fields. Some
students were cheering excitedly on the sidelines. One
of them lapsed into shouting some pretty salty
epithets at the opposing team, and another student
said, louder than he had to, "Watch your language!
McGaughey's over there!" George admitted he has
the reputation of a strict disciplinarian and said he
had recently called a meeting of his IM Council to
have them pass the word that obscene language would
not be tolerated at the games. T h e word apparently
got around.
The women's basketball team gets some quick energy from orange slices at
half-time. Coach Sharon Mitchell is at right foreground, with the glasses.
New Facilities to Benefit Women's Program, Too
After the first season of women's sports in 1970-71,
the then-coach and women's physical education
instructor, Mrs. Elizabeth Walker, said lack of space
was the greatest handicap to the volleyball, basketball
and field hockey intercollegiate teams. March Field
has since been turned over to the field hockey team,
tennis and golf have been added and the completion
of the Kirby Field House will free Alumni Memorial
Gymnasium for more use by women's volleyball and
basketball teams, as well as the intramural program.
In addition to those sports, the women's IM
program offers indoor track, tumbling, badminton
and free exercise. About 70 of the first group of 150
women participated in intercollegiate and
intramural athletics.
Last year, under the direction of Mrs. Sharon
Mitchell, physical education instructor, the intercollegiate program involved over 80 women in the five
sports, with another 50 or so participating in the IM
program. A "PowderpufT Football" game between
Lafayette and Lehigh women sparked a great deal of
interest on both campuses.
Calling the intramural program for women "only
moderately successful," Mrs. Mitchell pointed to
three problems: lack of space, limited equipment and
limited interest among women. "Women at Lafayette
tend to prefer non-competitive intramurals," she
said. This is in sharp contrast to the men students' IM
program. As a result, she instituted the "open gym"
concept, allowing women to utilize the facilities as
they desired during regularly scheduled hours. When
the men's winter intercollegiate sports season started,
however, the gymnasium was seldom available.
Completion of the field house and natatorium will
obviate some of these drawbacks, and as the number
of women on campus increases to the 450 to 500
projected by 1973-74, the percentage as well as the
number of women participating in both organized
and unstructured athletic activity should increase.
Lafayette's Coaches: Profiles in Success
By Paul Reinhard
It is generally accepted that today's college
athlete is more educated, more sophisticated—and
often more talented—than his predecessors were.
Sacrifice for the sake of sacrifice is a thing of the past;
no longer will an athlete run through the proverbial
brick wall simply because the coach tells him to.
Because he is a product of a society which is
becoming increasingly aware of everything going on
around it, the collegian today must know for himself
that athletics can provide for him more than just a
Big Man on Campus tag. He questions the role of an
athletic program in relation to his world; and he
sometimes finds he cannot fully commit himself to a
regimented system which will demand that he
compromise some of his beliefs about himself and
where he is headed.
When the athlete reaches the point where he
questions his athletic participation, his final
decision sometimes is dependent not only on his own
conscience but also on the aid of his coach, the man
who recruited him as a student athlete with the hope
that the youngster might succeed not only in the
classroom but that he might also add something
to the success of the athletic program.
T h e role of the coach has changed drastically in
the last decade. When the dream of virtually every
youngster was to be the next Jim T h o r p e or
Babe Ruth, the coach had little trouble getting
his way. After all, the best way to attain such a goal
was to accept the teachings of men who had devoted
their lives to a particular sport.
However, the coach of the 1970's must be wary
of his approach toward his athletes. He knows that
the rigid disciplinarian can find himself in constant
conflict not only with his athletes but with himself
as well. While the coach must try to maintain his
philosophy of any sport, he has found that he must
sometimes compromise himself with relation to his
players.
T h e athletic programs at some colleges and
universities have suffered for one of two reasons:
the coaches are unwilling to give in at all on their
principles of discipline; or given that unwillingness,
the coaches can not recruit enough athletes who
still believe regimentation is a prime requisite for
success in sports.
Mr. Reinhard, a graduate of Moravian College, has been
a sportswriter for the Call-Chronicle newspapers in
AUentown for 12 years. He's covered Lafayette athletics for the
past four years.
Basketball coach Tom Davis being interviewed
last year's NIT victory over Virginia.
after
Lafayette has been extremely fortunate in
acquiring the type of coach who gains the respect
of his athletes while at the same time teaching his
sport in a manner which brings with it success and
satisfaction for the athlete, coach and College.
One of the best illustrations might be the coaching
career of Norm Gigon, a former major leaguer
who took over the Lafayette baseball team after the
death of Charlie Gelbert, a man who had made
quite a name for himself at the College because of
his success. Without Gelbert, some people said, the
program would certainly begin to slide. After all,
they asked, who is Norm Gigon?
Gigon took over as head coach in 1968, and
because he had a good bit of returning talent, he
directed the Leopards to a 15-7 season which included
a runnerup spot in the Middle Atlantic Conference.
It was a successful start, to be sure.
T h e untimely death of Gelbert cost Lafayette
an entire recruiting year, so Gigon's second and
third years were spent rebuilding, with the baseball
team going 8-14 and 11-9. But the fruit began to
ripen again in 1971, when Lafayette went 19-5 and
won the championship in the MAC's Western Section.
And this past spring, Lafayette compiled a 17-9
record and repeated as West Section champion.
Proof of Gigon's success is the fact that a number
of his players have caught the eyes of major league
scouts, have been drafted and have signed professional
contracts.
Gigon's formula has proven successful over a
period of years, but other Lafayette coaches have
come into the program and made their marks in a
single season. Take the case of T o m Davis, the
energetic young basketball coach.
When Davis was selected to succeed the departing
Hal Wissel, the Lafayette program was on the move.
Davis had a strong nucleus of experienced players,
and it was his responsibility to make them jell as
Lafayette followers expected they would. It was a
challenge Davis will never forget, and one he met
head-on and conquered to the satisfaction of all
concerned.
T h e Leopard cagers compiled a 21-6 record in
Davis' first year, making him one of the most
successful first-year coaches in the country. T h e mark
was good enough to get the attention of the National
Invitation Tournament committee and get Lafayette
a spot in that prestigious postseason tournament.
Lafayette and Davis showed their mettle in the
opening round by eliminating Virginia, and the
Leopards then played well against a Jacksonville
squad which far outmanned—and finally did defeat—
them. Two players, record-setting Tracy Tripucka
'72 and playmaker Jay Mottola '72, were drafted
by the professionals; and that has to speak well for
the program.
Neil Putnam, who came to Lafayette from the
Neil
Putnam
Norm
Gigon
Ivy League, had perhaps the toughest task of all,
having to install a new football system and get
to know more personnel than Gigon and Davis put
together. But the go-getter coach spared none of his
energy in preparing for his first season and then
pulled a couple of shockers to boot.
T h e 1971 Leopards had their ups and d o w n s the ups were very good, some of the downs were
very bad. They finished a challenging campaign with
a 5-5 record which included 'super" wins over the likes
of Rutgers, Columbia and Pennsylvania—the latter
coached by former Lafayette coach Harry Gamble.
Injuries took their toll during the season, and
the loss of valuable recruiting time in the first year
may put Putnam in the same boat as Gigon in his
early years. But like Gigon, Putnam has a quality
about him which makes you believe that his day
will come; it's only a matter of time.
T h e coaches of the "big three" sports should be
proof enough that Lafayette has succeeded in
giving its athletes the best possible tutelage, but the
story doesn't stop there. Success has come, too, to the
likes of Bill Donahue, Bill Lawson, Art Statum,
Gary Williams, George Davidson '51 and Steve
Schnall.
Donahue's cross-country and track teams have
virtually re-written the Lafayette records and have
been championship threats in the Middle Atlantic
Conference; Lawson's swimming team has reset nearly
all the school records; Statum's wrestlers had a
10-3 record—the best in 15 years—in his first year
as coach; Williams' soccer team had a winning
season in his first year, and he was also instrumental
in the success of the basketball team; Davidson,
the long-time basketball coach, has turned his
attention to golf and has continued his success; and
Schnall has worked hard at instilling a winning spirit
into the Leopard tennis team.
T h e merits of a college like Lafayette will not
rise or fall on the basis of the won-lost records of its
sports teams, but it is good to know the school is
blessed with the type of coach who can make the
college experience a lot more than a 1,000-word
term paper or a final examination. Because that's
really where it's at . . . a well-rounded, well-grounded
four-year experience.
'He's Devoted. That Says It All'
In the tradition of Francis March '81, James Tupper, Danny Hatch '01, Beverly Kunkel, Sam
Pascal '27 and other teaching greats at Lafayette, a number of current faculty members are
influencing today's students as profoundly and positively as their forerunners ever did. In an
attempt to recognize and pay tribute to some of these teachers and scholars, the Lafayette
Alumnus will feature a faculty member in each issue. The series begins with a student-written
profile of Dr. James P. Crawford, associate professor of mathematics, who, in his 15 years at
Lafayette, has come into some sort of contact with most of the nearly 6,500 alumni and undergraduates who have entered and left the College in that time.
By Judith E. Thomson '73
On Dr. James P. Crawford's staff biographical form
the following statement appears: "Lafayette College
has been my only full-time employer." T h e statement
is far more than literally true. Indeed, it is a blatant
understatement when considered in light of the
activities of this associate math professor.
Jim Crawford is in a unique position on the
faculty. He has taught at the College for 15 years, yet
his age is only 37. ("But in faculty and pick-up
basketball I find out how old I am!") He has been
tenured since 1968, yet his age places him in a position
to identify with younger, untenured faculty members.
"I can well appreciate the pain of not receiving
tenure," he states. "Yet it is necessary protection for
less cutthroat competition. One needn't be constantly
looking over one's shoulder. One can be a critic.
Petty considerations can be eliminated."
There are three main areas which occupy his time,
and he is no mere spectator in any of them.
Crawford is the faculty resident at McKelvy House
—the home on High Street of the McKelvy Scholars
Program. He just happened upon the house while out
walking one day and was captivated by its "Rhinelike" beauty. At that time the McKelvys still lived
there but in 1960 the program was established. He
started attending its meetings and when, in 1967, a
third faculty resident was being sought, Crawford was
chosen. "I think it wasn't so much that I was
In a sense, Dr. Crawford has matured at Lafayette,
and he is quick to say as much. Only 22 when he
began teaching here as an instructor after graduating
from Grove City College, he says, "I have seen a lot of
changes in the College since then, but my own
personal changes have been greater." He feels
coeducation has been a tremendous boon to the
College—"And I'd say that even if you weren't interviewing me!" Students are more independent today,
he feels—brighter, and more of them are conscientious.
They are more willing to articulate than they were 15
years ago doubts as to why they are here. "What
previously appeared as graffitti is spoken about today."
This he sees as the next most marked change at
Lafayette.
Diversity best describes Jim Crawford's interests.
Judy Thomson is a senior English major from New
Shrewsbury, N.J. A Dean's List student and a non-resident
member of the McKelvey Scholars Program, she transferred to
Lafayette from Monmouth College. Editor-in-Chief of the
1972 Melange, she has been active in the Maroon Key Club,
Easton Tutoring Program, the Riding Club, the Lafayette, the
Sub-Freshman Day Planning Committee, a representative of
the Young Alumni Council and a member of the Alumni
Association's Long Range Planning Committee's
sub-committee
on undergraduate
relations.
Professor James P. Crawford
exceptionally qualified," he says, "but that I am
single." He concedes to having had some difficulty at
first adjusting to life with some of the liberal McKelvy
members—"I tend to be straight morally and
religiously"—but acknowledges that Lafayette has
mellowed him. His fear for the program is that the
house as "a nice place to live" is a primary consideration in peoples' interest.
His role with the Easton Tutoring Program dates
to 1964. At that time, a group from the Trinity
Episcopal Church—concerned about the burgeoning
racial problem—instituted a study-hall type of group
tutoring for kids who couldn't study at home. Expecting a small group of 10-15 kids, they were happily
amazed when 105 showed up. This grou-> tutoring
approach lasted about four years, when one-to-one
tutoring took over and the leadership moved to the
College. A group of college students had expressed an
interest in tutoring, so together with Dr. Louis T .
Stableford (biology) and Mrs. Marcia Lusardi (wife
of associate professor of English James P. Lusardi
'55), Crawford began directing the program. He feels
the value of the program lies in acquainting and
associating students with the town (especially South
Side) and in the tutor-tutee relationships which form
beyond actual tutoring. "Lafayette has need of the
program. It's the tutors who gain more," he believes.
Crawford has been active in theatrical productions
since his undergraduate years. He claims it helped
him build confidence, especially for teaching. "If I
could pull off being another person in front of 1,000
people I could surely be myself in front of 25." He
has been involved in some capacity with the biennial
Faculty Show for the last ten years (he played
Machiavelli in the most recent show), has acted in the
College's Little Theatre (J.B., Macbeth), and has
performed with the Pennsylvania Players in Bethlehem (Murder in the Cathedral, / Never Sang for
my Father).
All of this does not mean mathematics is subordinated. Three Lafayette math professors have
cited Crawford in the footnotes of their doctoral
dissertations, a fact Crawford is proud of but chalks
up to the fact that "I talk a lot." No one in the
department is a specialist in probability and statistics,
so Crawford recently attended a summer seminar to
become better acquainted with that field. His Ph.D.
thesis was concerned with functional analysis and
summability. This, as are most thesis topics, is very
specialized, and he regrets that original research of
this sort so often is unrelatable to the classroom—
especially in view of its time-consuming nature. As he
puts it, a senior math major with whom he worked
for a year might understand the thesis. "I try to keep
current and alive in my general field," he says.
In last year's facility play, Crawford (center) played
Machiavelli.
If, then, whatever he does he does enthusiastically
and with dedication, teaching is no exception.
Students comment: "Both he and the material are so
alive." "He's obviously interested in the material."
"He makes sure he knows all there is to know about
what he's teaching." "He isn't even aware the period
is over he loves his material so much!" "He recognizes
effort and his exams test understanding—not specifics
covered." "He's better than anyone else in the department at teaching an understanding of the subject."
"He has an uncommon ability to make difficult concepts understandable." "I appreciate his availability.
As my advisor this is important." "He's virtually
always there for help." "He's devoted. T h a t says it all."
Crawford has served on several Alumni Committees—most recently on the Long Range Planning
Committee's sub-committee on Alumni-Undergraduate
relations. He feels there is definitely a need for, and
a value in, alumni-undergraduate interaction. He
expresses his respect for the alumni with whom he has
worked and feels they return to Lafayette not for
selfish reasons but only for satisfaction. He doesn't
feel an involved alumnus "just hasn't grown up" but
he can empathize with the alumnus who simply has
found new interests which supercede those connected
with his Alma Mater. In fact, this is his own situation.
Having always lived on campus is one reason
Crawford attributes to his close identification with the
College and its identification with him. He lived in
the Faculty Club for two years, Gates Hall for seven,
and McKelvy since then. Though quick to dismiss
the idea that he perhaps approaches being a "Mr.
Lafayette" ("Too many traditions have disappeared—
the students are just too diverse any more"), Dr.
Crawford is certainly a ubiquitous figure on campus.
In reflecting on his time-consuming interests,
Crawford says that in retrospect graduate work
occupied much of his time when he was first here.
"I've just been more available for projects since 1966"
(when he received a Ph.D. from Lehigh). At times it
seems as if three people could hardly be as involved
as Jim Crawford is.
Coeducation
has been a tremendous
boon to Lafayette;
and I'd say that even if you weren't interviewing
me."
'Learning to Sing in My Own Good Time'
By Theodore V. Partlow '60
It's a long way from Scranton, Pa., to St. Andrews,
Scotland. But, it's an even longer way from winner
of the MacKnight Black Poetry Prize to "poet." Jay
Lee Parini '70 has successfully made both the physical
and the metaphysical journeys.
Jay Parini had been trying to write poetry from a
very early age, but the first poem in which "things
started to come together" for him was written during
his senior year at Lafayette College. He recalls:
"I was walking with Professor George Heath one
afternoon out near his 100-year-old farmhouse north
of Easton on Delaware Drive when I noticed a
gravestone in the middle of a field overlooking the
river. Professor Heath told me the story of the young
boy, whose marker it was, who had drowned in 1958
or 1959, near that spot. I was so intrigued by the story
I began that day to write 'Boy of the Delaware.'
"Although I'd written lots of poems, some of them
quite bad, before that spring day in 1970, I had no
faith in my poetry until 'Boy.' "
Since then, Jay Parini has been "In my own good
time . . . learning to sing." His first book of poems,
Singing In Time, was published earlier this year in
Scotland, where he is a teaching fellow at the University of St. Andrews ("the Oxford of the North")
and where he expects to receive his Ph.D. in June
"if all goes well." His thesis is on American poet
Theodore Roethke, who taught at Lafayette from
1931 to 1935.
Whoever describes himself as poet must withstand
the scrutiny of other writers and of time. Richard
Wilbur, Robert Lowell, Stephen Spender, William
Stafford, David Wagoner, Alastair Reid, W. H.
Auden, Graham Greene, Donald Payne and others
have read Jay Parini's poems, delighted in them and
encouraged him to continue writing. After reading
Singing in Time, which is going into its second
printing, Richard Wilbur wrote to congratulate Jay
and even went so far as to single out two of tire 30
poems in the slim, 60-page volume as his favorites,
"Poet Among the Birds" and "A Dead Pigeon Fell
Out of the Sky."
As an undergraduate at Lafayette, Parini was a
McKelvy Scholar; served on the editorial board of
The Marquis, the literary magazine; was in the
Stephen Crane Society, the Band and Glee Club;
won a British Student Travel Fellowship to Russia
in 1969; and spent his junior year abroad (at St.
Andrews). He was also active in the campus undergraduate move to have student participation in
R O T C made voluntary, rather than compulsory, and
spoke out in favor of calling off classes during the
"student strike" of the spring of 1970. During the
"strike" he debated a classmate, Rob Natelson, who
favored holding classes, on a local television station
and at a student-faculty gathering on campus.
Of his activist days he said, "Times and tactics
change: where demonstrations may once have been
useful ways to effect needed changes, they have
become somewhat meaningless today; what we need
now is non-violent action. I would be greatly disappointed if students became apathetic about the
College and society."
But, it is his poetry that now motivates his life.
Singing in Time, which is dedicated to Jim Lusardi
'55, associate professor of English at Lafayette College,
is divided into three sections. T h e first, called "The
Ground Where Innocence Is," contains poems written
while at Lafayette; "A Music of the Mind" consists
of poems "about language, about love and about
music"; and the last section, "A Separate Country,"
contains what he considers his best poems.
Of the middle works, Parini said, "A poet experiments with words to surprise people: It's as though he
is inventing language. Language, to a poet, is an
essential thing."
T h e "Separate Country" poems are really about
no geographical place, though the imagery is Scottish
and British: the landscape, birds and growing things
are peculiar to Britain. " T h e medieval town of St.
Andrews, with its rocky coast facing the North Sea, its
ruined castle, the wind whipping the flowing black
gowns we wear in crossing cobblestone courtyards on
our way to meeting our students—it's all very romantic
and poetic in itself," he said. There is a correspondence of the outer and the inner landscape of the
poems in this section. But, "A poet lives in the
country he creates in his imagination," Parini said.
"Our sensibilities are affected by travel and coming in
contact with the life assumptions of different people."
In addition to his travels in Russia and other
communist countries, Jay has been to Italy, Spain,
France, skiing in Austria, and last summer spent a
month in Seattle, Wash., going over the 217 notebooks
and correspondence of Roethke.
In the past two years, Jay received the Francis A.
March Graduate Fellowship from Lafayette, in
addition to a small stipend from St. Andrews. He
hopes to travel for a year in Europe after completing
his Ph.D. and will then look for a teaching position
in the United States.
But, whatever else he does, this bright and
dedicated young man is a poet.
BOY OF THE DELAWARE
For Jim Ingham
Sixteen years the river was his,
as a child rollicking,
running the moss banks wild,
cliffs spread with bluebells and brown leaves.
In all seasons the river was his,
yet summers he possessed it fully.
Leaving his small farm home each day not long
after morning glittered gold over grass,
he would swagger off through the wet woods
and sit alone by the Delaware,
watching the river descend his valley,
charging rocks and shattering into foam,
swirling bits of broken branch along,
a river strong, robust and hurling.
He would watch through the pale green
shadow-dappled maples, struck beside
the water's sure and swelling motion.
He would dream of Vikings, vandals.
He, the Norseman warrior, the brave, the fierce—
a man above all men he dreamed, so
glad beside the Delaware.
He was glad for summer, for the squirrels
scurrying in small, grey blurrs up chalky barks,
squealing at sparrows, blackbirds, larks, all
raving for supremacy on top of overhanging branches
shadowing the Delaware.
While mother tended the steaming meals,
and father raked the fields with his plough,
the boy would ramble, swing from tree
to tree; he'cl yell like a raucous bird,
riding the air as light as a finch
in the summer of skinny knees.
And so his clays were spent like leaves
until one June morning he came home, running,
darting, fox-footed, through thick, dark woods,
and shouting, excitedly, "Mother! Mother!
There's a sailing boat, abandoned, rushing
down the river! It's upstream half a mile,
I think. It's nearly sunk! Could it be Mr. Hanson's?
It's empty. Could you come along and watch?
I want to go after it, pull it up along
the shore. Is that all right? Will you follow?
Quickly!"
Reluctantly, the mother sped behind her blond son
through the trees toward the river;
over the bank she stood and watched
part of her deepest self swim happily,
with confident strokes,
to the center of the murmuring river.
T h e sun bore its fierce yellow fire
into the mother's eyes; she could barely see at all;
Jay Parini '70
for days the rain had piled incessantly,
swelling the water to unusual bulk.
T h e mother strained and saw her boy,
now paddling the craft to shore and smiling,
splashing, shouting—his white shirt
like a radiant sail, flapping as wind gust
suddenly caught the valley and bristled waves.
T h e n the world spun madly out
of the waiting mother's mind.
"Help!" a boy's cry rankled the air. "Help!"
She stumbled and fell against a rock.
God, what was happening? She winced,
while her son, already far down the river,
struggled to tear his shirt off and swim
against the river's wall of water,
tremmelling the life out of his
young and nearly naked flesh.
Before the mother could believe the shouts
the river was again calm, unblemished by the boy,
her boy. There was no one in sight.
T h e Delaware took her son and kept him,
though issuing some few, cold, insignificant
remains, an empty cloak of lifeless flesh,
on the following morning, miles from where
the boy had been taken. But that is nothing.
T h e boy is with the river forever,
the boy is with the Delaware,
burgeoning out of the distance
daily, underneath rocks
where a mother's heart's blood once dreamed
and where his ashes were put to the soil.
Then come the rains, the month of June,
the mother thinks of her blond and bold
Olympian boy who ran beside the river once,
the father stops in his fields to sigh,
the Delaware files its course to sea.
A DEAD PIGEON FELL OUT OF THE SKY
A dead pigeon fell out of the sky
and was thoroughly ridiculous.
It looked stuffed, wood-winged,
with painted eyes,
and the eyes stared out unmercifully.
It could easily have fallen from a parlour wall
or toppled from a mantelpiece, landing
in a similarly graceless state.
My day had been otherwise easy,
the spring air loose and lively about me,
the morning enchanted,
when this bird just
dropping breathless
and landing, oddly,
a dead, ridiculously
tumbled from the sky,
as a stone,
in a clump of crocuses—
washed-down bird.
Its bird-frail, delicate breast of ribs
cracked, once. There was no last gasp.
I looked up. T h e embarrassed sky smiled broadly,
its pink lips frothing with clouds.
T h e sun's fat tongue licked over my face.
I was left, awkwardly squinting at the sky,
afraid that another ridiculous pigeon might follow
a lover, perhaps, insane with its bird-grief,
dashing itself, a featherball martyr in a crocus patch.
I was strangely unsettled, thinking of that pigeon.
Could it just have fallen from the sky unwished?
Is it possible that its wings were so wooden?
How do you close a pigeon's eyes?
POET AMONG THE BIRDS
For Alastair Reid
Living as you do, among the haunting images
of many birds, familiar and strange,
yours is a bird-world, there are birds on your branches.
T h e cycle of seasons has found you strong
since first as a boy you stretched your limbs
to the sun, and they filled with excited singers.
Poet among the birds, your soul is a tree
with roots enough to hold your swaying
beyond yourself for separate weathers.
A host of soarers hover in the skies
above you, waiting to flood your moments
in a rush of movement with wild, rich sounds.
T h e owl is yours, priesting the night
with ghosts of tone; and the manic rook
whose raucous language livens the tree.
Yours is the starling, faking the world
with postures, tricks, and a bag of voices.
Your tree is singing. You are full of birds.
May you always gather your words as you do,
culled from a silence, startled into song;
yours is a bird world, there are birds on your branches.
TO MY SLEEPING LADY
Morning becomes you, curled against these sheets.
You huddle in your dreams against the dawn.
A slow, familiar quiver takes your lips—
I fear your sleep may falter. Lady, sleep on.
Your innocence of day deceives me quite,
forgetting how the evening fell cold
and how we strained against each other's will.
You seemed, in such hard weather, broken, old.
Yet mornings, with your gathered smell of musk,
your presence overwhelms me, I confess.
Sleep soundly, lady, keep your inward gaze.
Your eyes may open only to distress.
Sleep softly, keep your tender attitude,
indifferent to everything I've said.
T h e light of day may gall your waking face,
and bitter legends may resume your head.
Parini, reading his poems at a meeting of the Stephen Crane Society on campus in
September.
(The following poem does not appear in
Singing in Time. Jay wrote it when
he learned through the pages of the Alumnus of the
death of his friend and former teacher at
Lafayette. It is only fitting that it first be published
here.)
IN MEMORY OF GEORGE K. STRODACH
Undisturbed by fears and unspoiled by pleasures,
we shall be afraid neither of death nor of the gods.
—Seneca
It could have surprised no one that he translated Epicurus.
A gentle man, he knew how joy was good.
A simple man, he kept his spirit spare.
I remember watching him, curiously from the back
corner of a classroom. He called but scant attention
to himself, unfolding the layers of a universe
like tapestry, then holding this up for all
to catch a glimpse before he would put it back
with the smiles only Puck could conjure up.
He played the polemical tempter when he could,
taking the snakeskin on to waltz with those young
Eves in jeans. He could crack a leathery whip
of wit that a few would hear. But when, alas,
he told his truth, it was the truth of love.
And so I think of him, the image of a frail
and generous man, riding the long day out
along the old river road, pedalling his bike
in time with a slow, impulsive rhythm, the seasons
changing about him, the river turning in his veins.
Beyond words or wishes, lie rides home to dark, towards
that swell, imperishable calm at the heart of night.
So I think of him, that final thing, a man
at ease with his joy. He could ride the long way home
without fear. He could bless the last sun even as it fell.
Behind the Admissions Statistics
- A Regard for the Individual
Of the 3,379 students who applied for admission
to Lafayette's current freshman class, 1,495 were
invited to enroll. Of these, 555 actually marticulated.
What motivated them to do so? Perhaps more
important, what motivated the other 940 students
to turn down Lafayette's offer?
In an effort to answer these questions, each
summer for the past five years the Office of
Admissions and Student Financial Aid has conducted
a survey of all students offered admission, both those
who decided to enroll (hereinafter referred to as
"matriculants") and those who declined the
Lafayette opportunity ("withdrawals"). This year's
survey elicited a 71.2% response (82.6% from
matriculants and 64.0% from withdrawals). T h e
results appear in 94 very revealing mimeographed
pages of charts and prose commentary distributed
to the faculty and administrative officers in September.
If there is a common thread running through the
report, it is confirmation of what Admissions
Director Richard W. Haines '60 refers to as the
"collegiate pecking order." According to Haines,
"With very few exceptions, given several offers of
admission by colleges he is financially able to attend,
a student will choose the one which he believes has
the greatest prestige. Often he will do so against his
better judgment, choosing an Ivy League university
over Lafayette, for example, even though he may
feel strongly that Lafayette would be better for
him. Further, for most eastern students and parents,
the stratification of colleges according to prestige
is quite clear. Disregarding cost, it reads, from the
top: Ivy League universities; established selective
New England colleges plus a few similar colleges elsewhere; solid upper-middle types such as Lafayette,
Bucknell, and Colgate; less selective and less
prosperous private liberal arts colleges in the East;
similar private colleges elsewhere in the country;
state universities; state colleges; private junior
colleges; public community colleges."
For example, the survey shows, of applicants
offered admission by Lafayette and Ivy League
schools, 32 chose Lafayette and 119 opted for the
Ivy League. Lafayette suffered its worst defeats at the
hands of Harvard, 9-0, and Princeton, 24-2. A
student who chose Cornell commented: "I almost
wish that I had not been accepted at Cornell, because
this would have made my decision much easier.
I was very, very impressed with Lafayette. I chose
Cornell merely because it has a somewhat better
Dennis Kain '73 tells freshmen what to expect at Lafayette.
2.1
"You need more girls"
engineering reputation and somewhat better
curriculum. If I find Cornell not to my liking,
I hope that I will be reconsidered for reacceptance
as a sophomore at Lafayette in 1973." A Dartmouth
matriculant was candid: "I wanted to go to an
Ivy League school and I only 'used' Lafayette as a
back-up. Once I was accepted by the Ivy schools it
was only a matter of choosing which one."
T h e roles are reversed when Lafayette is in
competition with good colleges regarded as less
prestigious than Lafayette. Overlap with Clarkson,
Drexel, F&M, Gettysburg, Hobart, Ithaca,
Muhlenberg, Susquehanna and Ursinus yielded a
return which favored Lafayette by a lopsided
116 to 22.
At what many may see as "Lafayette's level," the
competition with Bucknell ended in a 35-35 tie,
while the Leopards avenged recent football losses
by defeating Lehigh in the admissions game, 72-44.
Among the 23 specific questions included in the
survey were two which were designed to measure
reactions to coeducation at Lafayette. Following are
the questions and a tabulation of the responses:
Question: "In what way were you influenced by
the 75% men: 25% women coeducational ratio
projected for Lafayette College?"
Answers (figures given are percentages) :
Male
Matriculants
Female
Male
Female
Matriculants Withdrawals Withdrawal;
34.0
3.4
2.0
33.3
"Very Favorably"
"Somewhat
18.5
41.6
39.2
18.7
Favorably"
14.0
26.9
16.8
29.9
"No Effect"
"Somewhat
42.6
10.4
49.5
8.3
Unfavorably"
"Very
3.4
0.0
3.4
2.2
Unfavorably"
Question: "If your response to the above question
was either 'somewhat unfavorably' or
'very unfavorably' which of the following ratios
would you most prefer?
Answers
(figures given are percentages) :
Male
Matriculants
100M:0W
70M:30W
60M:40W
50M:50W
40M:60W
30M:70W
0M: 100W
0.0
2.8
32.7
57.5
5.6
1.4
0.0
Female
Matriculants
0.0
18.8
62.5
18.7
0.0
0.0
0.0
Female
Male
Withdrawals Withdrawal;
0.9
0.9
27.2
62.3
6.5
2.2
0.0
0.0
18.7
50.0
31.3
0.0
0.0
0.0
Of all those who responded to the first question,
34.2% reacted "favorably" or "very unfavorably"
to the currently projected ratio, while 26.4% recorded
a neutral or "no effect" response and 39.4% reacted
"unfavorably" or "very unfavorably." Not
surprisingly, favorable reactions from women
(74.1%) were far more common than favorable
reactions from men (21.6%).
Of the 493 respondents to the second question,
none favored an all-female enrollment plan, and
only two (both male withdrawals) favored an all-male
institution. An impressive 89.0%, given seven
options, expressed a preference for either 50M:50W
or 60M:40W. Many students, appended prose
comments about coeducation. Some were lengthy,
but most could be summed up by this comment
from a male matriculant: "You need more girls."
Haines does not feel these reactions were
surprising. "When Lafayette became coed in 1970,"
lie explains, "it was considered a big step forward
to have any girls at all. Furthermore, the novelty of
our coed status was for many an attractive feature,
but that was two years ago. Now, Lafayette is
compared not with other newly coed schools, but with
colleges where coeducation has been an established
feature for many years. In that context, our ratio
seems unreasonable, and students consider it a
drawback. Two years ago, students came here because
of coeducation. Now, many tell us that they are
coming in spite of inadequate coeducation, or going
elsewhere to find a more equal ratio."
Many other subjects, too numerous to cover here,
are examined in the admissions survey. For
example, among the factors which emerged as
influences in favor of Lafayette where the curriculum,
campus facilities, size, alumni, admissions office
contacts, Lafayette students and sub-freshman day.
Negative factors included fraternities, cost and
lack of sufficient financial aid. One important factor
which was not measured statistically but which showed
up repeatedly among the hundreds of comments
was Lafayette's regard for the individual. As one
student remarked: "One of the things I found at
Lafayette, and not at any other college, was the way
that everyone reached out to the individual.
Everything was personalized (letters, interviews, talks)
and put me in a comfortable position. This unique
situation influenced me very favorably." Perhaps,
behind and beyond all the statistics, what this student
has sensed is what Lafayette must maintain if
future generations of students are to be attracted
here.
A Friend Remembers 'Lafayette's Greatest Athlete'
By S. Parnell Lewis
"Charlie Berry was the greatest
athlete Lafayette ever produced,"
declared Vic Anckaitis '25 in
commenting on the death of his
classmate on September 6 in
Evanston (111.) Hospital.
" T h e proof of this is that
Charlie became a national figure
as a professional football and
baseball player and later as an
official in both sports in the major
leagues. When he retired as an
official, Charlie became an aide to
the president of the American
Baseball League and to the
commissioner of the National
Football League," Anckaitis added.
Berry suffered a stroke in late
June in his Phillipsburg, N.J.
home. Two days after he was
flown to Evanston for rehabilitation, he underwent a gall bladder
operation. He succumbed to a
heart attack five weeks later.
Funeral services in Easton's First
Presbyterian Church were attended
by many friends, including some
national sports figures.
Berry was life president of the
Class of 1925, but because of his
deep involvement in sports as a
player and then as an official, he
S. Parnell Lewis, an associate editor
of the Easton Express and an Easton
native, is a 1935 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania. The brother of
Robert C. Lewis '39, Parnell has
been an avid follower of Lafayette for
many years. "I first saw Lafayette football in Berry's freshman year," Parnell
said, "but my dad didn't take me to the
celebrated Pitt game that year
because he thought he wouldn't be able
to sneak me in for that packed-house
performance."
counted on Anckaitis to conduct
the business of the class. "Charlie
traveled all over the world and
probably to every state in the
union during his sports career,"
Anckaitis said.
After an outstanding high school
career at Phillipsburg High, during which lie was named an
All-State end, Berry "immediately
made the Lafayette football team
in his freshman year," Anckaitis
said. "From then on, he improved
and made the Walter Camp AllAmerica team in 1924. T h a t was
Charlie's last year at Lafayette
and the last team selected by
Camp. Camp's team was then
T H E team."
Anckaitis characterized Berry
as a "campus hero" during his
undergraduate days and said he
Berry in December,
1971.
will always remember Berry's
spirited play in the 14-13 loss to
Washington and Jefferson College
at the Polo Grounds in New
York City.
"We took a 13-0 lead at the half
and spent halftime talking about
how big we could roll up the
score," Anckaitis said. "W & J tied
it in the second half and lined up
for the extra point attempt. T h a t
was the first year the rules
allowed a forward pass or a rush
for the extra point. Few in the
crowd of 50,000 had ever seen anything but a kick after touchdown,
and the Lafayette team had never
experienced a pass or a rush up
to this point. Well, W & J got
off a successful pass despite a tremendous rush by Charlie.
"That unbelievable extra point
opened the way for W & J to go
to the Rose Bowl. We had both
gone into the Polo Grounds
undefeated for the season and with
long winning streaks. Up to that
time Lafayette was in line for
the Rose Bowl bid. T h a t day
Lafayette gained more yardage
and outplayed W 8c f in everything
but the final score."
Berry was also an outstanding
catcher on the Lafayette baseball
team. After graduation, he played
for Connie Mack's Philadelphia
Athletics, the start of a 13-year
career in the major leagues. Not
content with being a one-sport
athlete as a professional any more
than he had been as a collegian,
he also played with the Pottsville,
Pa., Maroons in 1925, when he
was the National Football League's
all-pro end. In that season he also
topped the loop's individual
scorers with 108 points.
His lifetime batting average in
the American League was .267.
In 1932 with the Boston Red Sox,
he hit .302, his best year. In the
late 1930's, he was pitching coach
for Connie Mack, who made him
manager of the Athletics' Wilmington, Del., farm team in 1940.
Berry, passed up a promising
career as a manager to become
an umpire.
One of the interesting aspects of
his career in baseball was when
he directed Connie Mack's A's in
opposing the Lafayette varsity in
a game at Fisher Field in the
late 1930's. Berry caught for the
visitors in what was his first appearance in an athletic uniform
on that field. All his collegiate
exploits had come on March Field.
Berry's umpiring career in the
American League lasted 21
seasons. He was also a head linesman in the NFL for 24 years.
Charlie retired in 1962, after
having officiated in five World
Series classics, six All-Star baseball
contests, 14 NFL championship
games and nine college-pro football all-star contests. Seemingly
indefatigable, he once umpired a
doubleheader baseball game at
Comiskey Park in Chicago,
showered and changed uniforms
and was the head linesman that
night at an All-Star football game
at Soldier's Field, also in Chicago.
Berry was one of two Lafayette
men selected by Walter Camp on
his first teams. T h e other was
Frank "Dutch" Schwab '23. T o
recognize this, Anckaitis said the
Class of 1925 is planning to place
a painting of Charlie in his
Maroon uniform in the new Kirby
Field House. Vic says he hopes
the Class of 1923 will join the
Class of 1925 so that pictures of
these two top Lafayette AilAmericans will grace the dandy
facility that is expected to be ready
for use in late February or
early March.
Young Berry as an All-America football player in 1924.
A Rule for All of Life
"Charlie was dedicated to
making the right call and acting
correctly," said Bill McGinley,
veteran Lehigh Valley baseball
umpire. Bill grew up in Phillipsburg with Charlie. They were
warm buddies to the end.
Now a retired Easton mail
carrier, McGinley was a local sports
official before Charlie decided to
become an umpire. Later, Bill says
Berry helped "a lot of us" to
become better umpires.
"I was at Yankee Stadium the
year Roger Maris broke Ruth's
home run record," Bill said.
"Charlie was behind the plate as
umpire-in-chief when Maris hit
long fly to right. T h e first base
umpire looked up at the drive.
Without running toward right
field to watch it land, he ruled it
a homer.
" T h e n the fireworks started.
A1 Lopez, Chicago's manager,
rushed onto the field claiming a
fan had prevented his right fielder
from making the catch. A lengthy
argument ensued around the
first base ump, until Charlie got
things quieted down and the game
resumed.
"After the game, I was in the
umpires' dressing room—illegally,
incidentally. Charlie called a
meeting and raised hell. He told
the first base umpire that he had
not been in position to make the
call Lopez had protested. T h e n he
told his colleagues, 'We have to
be honest with ourselves; so let's
be in position for any play in the
second game.' "
Berry had a rare sense of
humor, McGinley discovered on a
trip with him to officiate a Chicago
Bears-Redskins game in Washington, D.C. "We were on a train
platform in Philadelphia," Bill
said. "Charlie was reading a
newspaper, the other officials were
talking and we missed our train.
We had to wait an hour to get
another one to Washington.
"Early in the game the referee
called a 15-yard penalty against
the Bears, and the Chicago team
hit the ceiling. Charlie talked to
the referee, the ref returned the
ball to the original point of play
and stepped off 15 yards against
the Redskins. Well, those fans
were fanatical at the call. T h e
resultant boos were the most sustained I've ever heard. They
continued for the entire first half.
"In the officials' dressing room
at half-time, Charlie did the
talking. He said, 'We deserved
every damn boo that we got out
there—the fans were right; we
looked like bush leaguers. Imagine
the indecisiveness in marking off
a penalty. Let's go out there this
half and prove we are professionals.' Charlie was generous in
saying 'we' because it wasn't his
call that caused the booing. On
the train coming home he looked
at me, laughed and said, 'Maybe
we should have missed the later
train, too.' "
Berry once said, "One qualification for a good sports official
is that he does not call plays too
quickly. Instead of anticipating the
play, he lets it happen, follows it
intently to its completion and
T H E N makes the call quickly.
"I think that's a rule that can
be followed in all walks of life."
When Prince Was King
Next to Charlie, the most
popular figure on campus was his
dog, Prince. Prince followed
Charlie everywhere and became
the mascot of the Class of 1925.
Charlie and Prince lived in
the Phi Delta Theta fraternity
house.
"Prince even went to class
with Charlie," recalled Dr. George
"Bud" Moore, football trainer
under Jock Sutherland in Berry's
early undergraduate days. "All the
students were friendly with
Prince," Dr. Moore added. "I
remember one night when the
wrestling finals of Dr. Harold
Anson Bruce's athletic carnival
were being held in the old gym
(near where Kirby Hall of Civil
Rights is now). Dr. Bruce was
the referee.
"Meanwhile, the wrestlers went
right on with their struggle,
paying no attention to the
commotion."
" T h e gym was crowded and
Charlie and Prince were in the
front row of seats, close to
the mats. At one point Dr. Bruce
had to get down on all fours
to see if there was a fall by a
contestant. In doing so, he stepped
on Charlie's dog.
"Prince barked but didn't bite
Dr. Bruce. Being quite an
actor, however, Dr. Bruce rolled
over and hollered that the dog
had bitten him. Charlie ran
to the medicine cabinet, got a
bottle of iodine and poured it
on the good doctor's ankle while
the students roared with laughter.
Charlie and Prince.
What Else Is a Fence For?
Photo Essay by Theodore V. Partlow '60
The fence in question surrounds
Clinton Terrace and McCartney
the site of the proposed new Watson Courts, bordered by East Campus
Street.
You can
nail things
on it. . .
The east side of Pardee Hall is reflected in a piece of
aluminum from this student-designed collage.
Drive,
Use nature and
natural symbols...
To get
a point
across
arts
letters
(Continued, from page 3)
directly worked. This is a criterion
of selection that has been shown
over the past ten years at this
medical center to be highly predictive of future professional
achievement. It is because of my
association with Professor Fried at
Lafayette that I was fortunate to
have gained a place in this program of extraordinary
opportunity.
I cannot commend Lafayette
highly enough for maintaining an
excellent undergraduate program
with the opportunity for students
to work with accomplished
professionals of the caliber of
Professor Fried. I have enjoyed
my Lafayette Alumnus over the
past year and look forward to
hearing of future accomplishments
at the College.
R. Marshall Austin '71
. . . And M o r e for Fine
I am writing for the express
purpose of offering my most heartfelt appreciation to Lafayette
College.
It is most gratifying that my son
Philip David Pulaski '74 has
applied, and been accepted to the
School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins
University for the five-year medical program. I feel this great honor
of being accepted to a school of
medicine such as Johns Hopkins
after only two years of college,
would not have occurred or been
possible if not for the teaching
staff at Lafayette College.
permanent member of the
Lafayette faculty.
Sheldon Pulaski
I wish to single out one instructor who stands out not only as a
teacher, but as an inspiration to
Philip: Dr. Stephen Fine. I have
had the pleasure of meeting Dr.
Fine during my visits to Lafayette,
and I completely share Philip's
regard for Dr. Fine. Dr. Fine has
traits which are uncommon in this
day and age: he commands and
receives respect and he communicates with his students. Dr. Fine's
office has always been open to his
students who seek his help. Philip
has told me that Dr. Fine has at
times spent over an hour answering
his questions.
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18042, f r o m business offices located at
Lafayette College. T h e publisher is the
Alumni Association of Lafayette College
and the editor, Theodore V. Partlow,
both of Lafayette College. It is owned by
the Alumni Association of Lafayette
College at Easton, Pa., and there are no
known bondholders, mortgagees or other
security holders.
In accordance with the provisions of
statute 39 U.S.C. 3626, permission has
been requested to mail the
Lafayette
Alumnus
at the reduced postage rates
presently authorized by that statute.
There were 19,500 copies of the last
single issue published prior to the filing
date and an average of 19,500 copies of
each issue published during the preceeding 12 months.
I certify that the above statements are
correct and complete to the best of my
knowledge.
Theodore V. Partlow, Editor
In conclusion, I wish to state
that instructors of the calibre of
Dr. Fine are few and far between.
Dr. Fine should without question
receive tenure, hence becoming a
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CIRCULATION
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Women's Auxiliary of Lafayette College is offering to alumni, parents
and friends of Lafayette College this quality Couroc tray especially
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T h e proceeds will go toward the proposed new Student Health Center.
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T h e Lafayette tray is a one-of-a-kind
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Each element of the design is painstakingly hand inlaid, then permanently
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This is a detail of the "moon litter" painting shown on page 35.