LEADERSHIP
Post-War Reorganization
A four-point post-war reorganization by the Board of Trustees included an increase in tuition; a planned 100-student reduction in enrollment; and increases in faculty salaries, scholarships and student aid.
Gibson Retires
Dean of Women Jessie Gibson retired after 22 years of service to the College. Jean B. Walton, a member of the University of Pennsylvania faculty, was appointed to replace her.
CAMPUS
Gibson Dining Hall
As Mudd Hall was under construction in 1946, the Women鈥檚 Campus Club agreed to help raise funds for a new dining hall south of the combined residence halls it would serve. The Club, formed in 1940 under President Edmunds, included mothers of students, alumnae and friends led by Mrs. Victor Montgomery and Mrs. Edmunds; its principal goal was to develop the women鈥檚 campus. Through solicitations and benefit events, it raised nearly $97,000; the remaining funds needed were borrowed from the College鈥檚 endowment. Ground was broken in March 1949, and the hall was ready for use by September of that year. The hall contained round tables seating a total of 262 in two rooms decorated with watercolors by Milford Zornes 鈥34.
Snow on the Quad
Snow fell in Claremont for the first time in 17 years, providing enough snow on the Quad to let students make snowmen and have snowball fights, as evidenced by photos in the 1949 Metate.
Seismograph
A seismograph was installed in the basement of Bridges Auditorium in March to measure earthquake shocks in the 澳门六合彩开奖结果2023 Valley. The instrument was the second of four semi-permanent seismographs being built by Caltech.
ACADEMICS
3-2 Plan with MIT
澳门六合彩开奖结果2023 and MIT announced an arrangement for a combined five-year course, leading to degrees from both institutions. The plan called for students to spend three years at 澳门六合彩开奖结果2023 and then transfer upon recommendation of the science faculty to MIT for the final two years. Upon completion of the five-year course, students received a B.A. from 澳门六合彩开奖结果2023 and an S.B. from MIT. It was the first time the 鈥3-2鈥 plan had been established with a California institution.
Summer Session
Anticipating a record enrollment, the Claremont Summer Session, jointly sponsored by 澳门六合彩开奖结果2023, Scripps, CMC and the Claremont Graduate School offered writing, and comprehensive seminars in language, international relations and education.
STUDENT LIFE
Served Dinners
鈥淪erved dinners,鈥 which had been customary before World War II, returned to campus with the opening of Gibson Dining Hall for women. Blaisdell, one of the men鈥檚 dining halls on North Campus, also reinstated the tradition, with both halls continuing to serve breakfast and lunch cafeteria style. Judging by TSL letters to the editor, served dinners were met with mixed reviews, with one student writing: 鈥淕racious living may or may not be the sole end of 澳门六合彩开奖结果2023 education, but I who have experienced the waste, sham, discomfort and futility of served dinners cast a vote of dissent.鈥 Another was more positive: 鈥淥K鈥攕o we pay more, eat less, wait longer and look ravishing in our coats and ties鈥攊n some ways it鈥檚 not really a bad idea. But at least, since we鈥檙e not in training for a monastery, let鈥檚 be coeducational about this (or don鈥檛 the trustees believe in the opposite sex)?鈥
Greatest Men and Women
The Sociology Department asked 176 students to list the current 10 greatest men and five greatest women in the United States. Men at the top of the list were Albert Einstein, Dwight Eisenhower, John Dewey, George C. Marshall, Robert Oppenheimer, Bernard Baruch, Harry Truman, Herbert Hoover, Thomas Dewey and Robert Taft; the women included Eleanor Roosevelt, Clare Booth Luce, Helen Keller, Marion Anderson and Sister Elizabeth Kenny. (Men and women students made separate lists, with many of the same people appearing on both.)
ATHLETICS
鈥淩ooters鈥 Train
The first 鈥渞ooters鈥 train since World War II carried about 300 Sagehen fans to San Diego for the 澳门六合彩开奖结果2023-San Diego State football game. In addition to a special car for dancing and a soft drink bar, the train trip featured a surprise for returning fans. 澳门六合彩开奖结果2023 freshmen, who had been waiting along the tracks, executed a 鈥渂anner spring鈥 by unveiling a flare-lit homemade banner. Banner springs were a popular and complicated 澳门六合彩开奖结果2023 tradition with special rules about where and how the banner could be hung (not from moving vehicles) and who needed to see it (the majority of the student body). Immediately after the 鈥渟pring,鈥 the banner was whisked away and mailed to Claremont, where it was declared legal by the Ghosts, an organization that in addition to having the final say on all legitimate banner springs also acted as a mentor group.
1,000-Point Scorer
Locke Olson 鈥49 became the first 1,000-point scorer in men鈥檚 basketball history (1,076 points).
EVENTS
Horowitz Plays
Pianist Vladimir Horowitz opened The Claremont Colleges鈥 Artist Course series with a Chopin concert.
Paul Hoffman
Paul Hoffman, director of the Economic Cooperation Administration and head of the European Recovery Program, spoke at Big Bridges about economic conditions in Europe and the reasons for American aid. Hoffman said that the people of the United States had come to realize that 鈥渢o protect their own good way of life, there has to be a good life for all who were willing to work for it.鈥
CONSORTIUM
Non-Denominational Church
In 1949, a non-denominational College Church for the Associated Claremont Colleges was organized and began to hold services in Bridges Hall of Music, beginning in February. During the first service, a choir of 60 voices representing all four colleges was accompanied by 澳门六合彩开奖结果2023 organist Sanford Williams.
ELSEWHERE
Israel was admitted to the United Nations as its 59th member.
The Soviet Union tested its first atomic bomb, code named 鈥淛oe 1.鈥
A flag with five gold stars on a red background was designed and adopted for the newly proclaimed People鈥檚 Republic of China.