LeTort Spring

The Dickinson Relay team takes second at the Middle Atlantic Class B College Championship. Nominations are made for Student Senate. Sophomores win the annual tug-of-war, pulling the freshman into LeTort Spring. A celebration of Founder's Day and May Day is planed for May 13th. The festivities will close with a contest between Belles Lettres and the Union Philosophical Society consisting of an original oration, a debate, an impromptu, and a humorous selection. Plans for freshman entertainment in the fall are accepted by the Interfraternity Council. Offices are announced for the Y.W.C.A.

The Drug Grant Group completes and submits their proposal for federal funding from the Office of Education for a drug education program and will receive an answer in two weeks. Renovations of Morgan Hall near completion. Dean of Men Steven Markwook and Dean of Women Mary Watson attend a very beneficial leadership conference. PEER is assured a $300 grant from the United Fund to continue their program next summer. Findings of the NSF funded pollution project are compiled and presented.

19 freshmen will participate in the summer transition program. Students continue to investigate area sources of water pollution to LeTort. A new suite of offices is completed on the lower level of the HUB.

Dean Warner attends a conference on College Financial Aid problems. The Drug Grant Group discusses a variety of activities for the summer program. Renovations of Morgan Hall continue on schedule. Geologists on the LeTort Creek project begin a detailed survey of the entire swamp.

Trustees appoint nine new faculty. The college chooses two graduate students for the new internship in student personnel. Two Freshmen Colloquiums investigate environmental problems. Eighteen Carlisle High School students will join the National Science Foundation funded LeTort Creek pollution project. Prof. H. Wade Seaford receives a Doctorate of Philosophy from Harvard University for his work on the effects of environment upon facial expression. Prof. William A. Harms receives a Doctorate of comparative literature from Indiana University.

The Student Senate hears two housing reports; one from Dean Markwood and one by the Ad Hoc Committee on Fraternity Housing. They also examined registration procedures. Multiple faculty members will be leaving or going on sabbatical. A team of twelve students with a faculty adviser will carry out an investigation of the Carlisle area's effects upon LeTort Spring and the Conodoguinet Creek from June 1 to August 19. Law and Social Work are the highest attended programs at Career Week. The Fine Arts Department will sponsor an exhibit by American artist Paul Feeley.