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2 The Gold Bug, May 20, 1952 Senior Answers 'slent Generation l ~~~'~~tio~~~n~~'~u!~~,~"~~~~u~~~?I That's the general reaction to the as a senior- camp counsellor. Good DR. HARWELL P. STURDIVANT Charge By Critics thought of the .school year drawing summer jobs are mighty rare. So We High on the Hill is Dr. Harwell P. eastern Biologists, and the Maryland to a clo.se. So~e lucky students re~ch eke out the summer by odd jobs, or go • Sturdivant, head of the Biology De- Association of Biology Majors. In These last few weeks have for their- tennis rackets and bathing- back to the good old A & P as stock partment, This quiet gentleman needs addition to his position as head of the been filled with parties, cere- suits and head for\the beach or the clerk, and wonder how on earth we'll no introduction to most of us, who Biology Department, he is chairman monies, and receptions that pay mountains. Others pack bags to go ever get through college with no have "gone out from Sturdivant's tribute to the graduating class on extended tr-ips-s-even to Europe! money. Biology." of the College Committee of Admis- sions and Standards. This committee ~~~rs s~fVfuntoan~ul~~d~~i/~~~ ~u;mt:l~s:e;~:~tCr::St~~n:~~~!~ ~~~ All ba~ht:i~~7:o~e ~:::ee:d event- Dr. Stu~diva~t may consid~r him- handles the pleasant job of accepting students and the unpleasant job of deaver. Many of us regret Ieav- ~~at!~:. ~~:r;'s ;~\t: te.la;~:n~r~~: ually, anti summer draws to a close. ~:l!ea ts:n;I~:I~lsf:u:ar~e:~ s~;~~ ~~ excusing them. It is no wonder that }~;rw;::r~,aje~~i~gOf~i~~~e :~dthe camp coun:ellor type-~vho w~rk ~; ~~:~e~~, t~::, ::~:~le~o:::,oi:~~ ~~~s:el~e::: ~~eh~:m~::e :nrl~:e !h: Mrs. Sturdivant says, "He can't even without spend a social evening dis- appearing to discuss business." fif~.b~~~~i~'t~fl~~;i~: e~~e~lil~~~ ~:;~s ~:~d.a~~:~;;;;::~:~l !:~l;~! !~~!:~~r:ta:~~~~i:~~:p:h~: t: fihe~~ ~:m:~n~~wT~~:es~~~ !::t~~~~e~l~:~V~ Dr. Studivant took his undergrad- ~~ci6:1~infet~~det~ejfe;i~~i~~a~~ ~:ket~! h~~:;p~na::~m~oo~e~:~~mtl~i! ~!Pi~~:~!y f~.et1ti~:::or:ra:d~~:::t~~ uate work. at Emory University in in Atlanta, Georgia, and his Ph.D. another. All of us must sooner husky outdoors class also greets the their firms. The only thing that Zoology at Columbia. After his junior or later learn that life is not coming of summer with joyful shouts. dims our' pleasure and that punc- year at college, he was asked to take static. Rather, it is a dynamic The Job Hunting Experience tures once and for all our sadly de, the pr-incipalship of a high school process of change that entangles And then there's my clase-c-the pov- fluted egos is meeting the few of our where Mrs. Sturdivant was a senior us, whether we realize it or not, ert~l-stricken type, who has to go out group who, in the first week of vaca-, and a student in his biology class. In in the ebb and flow of its often anti scrounge for a summer job. We tion, succeeded by unbelievable luck her words, "We had our first date 011 slow but ever certain tide. sadly count the decreaaing number or an "in", in getting a fabulous temp- my graduation night-at least every- We have been called by popu- of days till school ends, and mourn- orary job which paid $60 a week 'and body thought it was the first one!" lar publications "a generation of fully list the employment agencies we which consisted of doing something note takers" and "the silent gen- will visit. Being of unathletic tend- unusually interesting or exciting, in Twelve Years at Union eration". To this we can answer encies and having a-decided aversion contrast to our hum-drum summer The Stui-divants spent twelve years justifiably "So what 1" Silence to the poison ivy which probably wasted behind the notions counter in at Union College in Kentucky, and does not mean stupidity nor does abounds in the Maine woods, besides a five-and-ten cent store. Is it any before coming to Western Maryland, note taking indicate acquies- having to clutch a gaping pocketbook wonder we of the lower class college Dr. Studivant taught at Millsaps Col- cence. Silence can be and is indi- whose maw has to be stuffed with students dread-the end of school even lege in Jacksonville, Missi saippi, All cative of thoughtfulness and cash by summer's end, we reject the more than the exams which precede of these are Methodists Colleges. His stability. Certainly our reaction strenuous, slave-wage camping job. it? partiality toward Methodist tnstnu, to the national and world situa- We cast yearning eyes at the care- tiona is perhaps explained by the tion that have been forced upon free traveller who can go off on a Ber- fact that he is descended from a long us is more stable than that of our muda jaunt with never a thought as to Wedding Calendar and the eyes that twinkle when he line of Methodists-many of them , P,bf:\~t~h~fro, s~~ci~~!lld~~i~~ul~~ where all the money is coming from, smiles. minjstej-s. In fact Harwell, the an- cestor for whom he is. named, came to the annual for we have to go through of the local Ki- The following weddings are planned He is President twenties. As for note taking, is degrading experience known as sum_ for this summer: wanis Club, the Association of South- America with John Wesley. it not one of the best methods mel' job-hunting. The activities from which Dr. of learning? And from this Our qualification? Well, we can June 4 Sturdivant derives most enjoyment knowledge can we not see the type "Now is the time, etc," at Betty.Brandenberg, '52, and Ward CQurse Strictly IFor are those connected with his labs, his mistakes of the past and learn twenty-five words per milUIte with Glasby, '52. classes, and with students. Biology how to avoid them if we will 1 five mistakes, and we can play a June 7 majors tell of the informal, enjoy_ l This is not a defense of our gen- mean game of bridge. We have had Jan Ports, '52, and ~lsie Ott. The Birds Offered able, but exacting afternoons they eration. We are not infallible and various smallrtime jobs in the un- June 14 ~ spend in his lab. One of the anecdotes will make mistakes as previous skilled labor classifications, but want Betty CalJendar, '52, and Ernie At long last, many colleges have which his students enjoy is about how generations have. The point is something a little more in keeping Plattioot. accepted the much discussed "Pigeon Dr. Sturdivant was forced to study that we are not blindly egotistic. with a college education. Going to an Janice Zaiser, '52, and Dave PooIe, Kicking" course, as perfected by Doc- for a certain course he took at Colum_ We know our limitations and the employment agency, we are offered '50. tor Warren ZaggL The Gord Bug, bia. The professor's name \VaS Sturdi_ pitfalls of life. If we make mis- a choice of two: waitress in "The Ed Early, '52, and Betty Duvall, '51. in an attempt to familiarize the WMC vant too, and since it was the only takes, as we will, it will be be- Dirty Dishpan" hamburger shop, and June 15 student 'with this subject, now lists name he could remember, the student cause we are, after all, human, clerk in Weisenheim's Five and Dime. Betsy Jones, ex-'54, and Carl below some of the fallacies and ad- Sturdivant had to know all the an- and not atomic age robots as If we had wanted to be waitresses, we Young, '52. vantages of snch a course. swers! some seem to want us to be. could have. gone to Ocean City and June 18 This course is open to all Post- . He also enjoys gardening-both Basically most of us are real- ha<;l a good time as well, and ten- floral and vegetable--because "plants istic in Ollr approach to the Dadie Davis, '52, ami Dave Sartorio, Graduate Sophomores whose mother's and flowers respond and don't argue." "wide wide world". It is impos- '50. maiden name was McMnck. Pansies are his favorites and Mrs. Each girl enrolling must have been sible to rectify the world's prob- June 21 her father's danghter at one time or Sturdivant remembers that at the lems in one sweeping gesture. Virginia Hale, '52, and Jack Spick- allvther. college in the warm South he wore a That has been tried and we have nail, '49. pansy in his buttonhole every day. seen it fall. It is equally impos- by Marvina Munch June 28 _ History of Pigeon Kicking. Betsy Tipton, '52, and John Isaac, Periclius in 477 B.C. is generally Active Family ~~b~:st~f e~~:~or~eb;l~~~r~~n:h: • The SGA assembly on May 12 '52. accredited with being the first person The Doctor isn't the only Sturdi- crusader's flag. We know that. marked the end of official student gov- Betty Simpson, '52, and Herb Curl. to kick pigeons as a means of recrea- vant who has made his mark. Charm_ Rather, what we can and wiII do ernment activity for the year 1951- July 26 tion. ing !'.frs. Sturdivant is president of is think thoroughly and move, 52. It has been a busy year, punctu- Don \Vassmann, '52, and Katherine While irkcd one day, he laid his the Westminster P-TA, and is part perhaps slowly but surely, to- ated with achievements and a few Bliss, '5L boot into a hapless pigeon, kicking time assistant librarian at the Davis ward what we hope will be a disappointments. Under the capable August 2 it the astounding total of 26' 6".1 To Public Library. The Sturdivant better life and a peaceful world. leadership of Mitch and Libby, the Mary Belle Shawn, '52, and Gordon his amazement, Periclius found he daughter, Betty, is president of her It is a waste of valuable time council was able to lay plans and Callaham. enjoyed it, and introduced the sport M(!thodist Youth Fellowship group. to say "Look what a worldwide start a fund 'for the student lounge. August 9 to his fricnds. This made him very .Betty graduates from Westminster mess others have left for us to This year the SGA has secured an Libby Schubert, '52, and Ed Wright, popular.~ High School this year, and after try- I .. "p t t· office, business stationery, and a bul- '51. And so Pigeon Kicking came down ing her wings at a faraway college h:~~l~i us °Jown;;~ T::~hI~gJ(f~~ Min board stam.p that add i~measnr- August 16 through the ages, undauntcd. Abra- for a year, she will probably be on the us to do is to take what we have, ab:y to t~e effiCient completIOn Of.of- M~'ron Brodie, '53, and Charlotte ham Lincoln was self-admittedly a Hill, too, to develop her musical Glovsky. terrible Pigeon Kicker. He just talents under Professor deLong. ~r!o~~~~ttr~ l~~s;u~!el~e~~o~~~ ~ ~~~e!~;~~s~nY~~:~ ~~: s~~:~~~:~ Winnie Spencer, '53, and Bill Du- couldn't seem to get the knack of it.·1 With the seniors, Dr. Sturdivant and above all, not to fail follow- all expectatIOns and an at~mp.t was lany, '50. Calvin Hogbelt, President of the Na- may look back over his four ycars at ing generations. 'With' this ac- ma~e to add ~o c.ampus SOCialhfe by Ed Crawford, '52, and Phyliss tional Society for Irreplaced Hogbelts, Wl\fC, and feel that he has accom- complished, as it must be, the urgmg ~rgalllza.b~~s to sponsor Sat- Smith, '51. stated that he only kicked one Pigeon plished much. He is a leader in the future generations wiII recall us urday. lllght actIVIties. August 30 in his life. He died in 1940.4 community and first in the hearts of as the generation that acted Much has been done, but. muc~1has Mickey Remsburg, '52, and Carl his majors. rather than preached. been left undone. Two effiCient, mter- Shea, '50. Possibilities of Pigeon Kicking. A Senior ested, and able leaders have been August_ Perhaps the potentialities of Pigeon selected to guide SGA next year. With Priscilla Johnson, '53, and Henry Kicking can be best expressed your continued cooperation, this year's Ernst, '53. by the author, Clayton Hyt. In his THE GOLD BUG he calls Pins 'n Points business will be completed and the Nancy Walker, '52, and Jack Moles- recent the novel, 'I' in which alligators council is confident that its unfinished abolition for all of worth, '52. Student Government will go on to Sel)lemJx>r 18 from New York elevators, Hyt says Since tIle last listing of diamonds, bigger and better achievements. on page 743, "?" guite a number of coeds have quietly Janet High, '52, and Henry Lewis. So if you want more information added their names to the list. The about kickillg pigeons look me up. iirst one which' comes to our mind_ I'll be on thc top ledge of McDaniel M~mb~r or perhaps we should say, eye~is Hall·!e Associated Collegllt. Press. that of our editor. No great surprise Member was evidenced when w~ were in- I Oc. in Greek fricnda, measurement. 26 roo... 6 inch,,". it Intercollegiate Press of course. hi. has RumQr 2 With formed that Keith Radcliffe, '51, was ~~~f~l.the Pigeon .hunn<>