Word: weekending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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COLORADO Like many plainsmen, Fred Schwartzwalder was enormously impressed when he first saw the Rocky Mountains. That was 30 years ago, after Fred and his young wife Martha moved to Golden, Colo, from the prairies of Iowa. Schwartzwalder fell completely under the spell of the Rockies; every weekend and holiday he spent hiking and exploring the rugged hills around Golden. He often brought home samples of curious rocks to show his wife and to decorate their meager basement apartment. In his backyard a sizable cairn of rock samples gradually accumulated-a monument to Fred Schwartzwalder's ab sorption...
Since then, both Dunster and Eliot have indicated that they may accept the plan. The Eliot House Committee voted Tuesday to agree to "any feasible plan for a spring weekend offered by the Interhouse Dance Committee." Lewis said that he is "undecided one way or the other...
Carl A. Goldman '55, Winthrop House Dance Chairman and head of the Interhouse Dance Committee, said that his group would not vote officially on the weekend until the individual House Committees take a definite stand. "After all, the Dance Committee can't run a weekend unless the House Committees want it," he said...
Arnold C. Greenberg '55, chairman of the Kirkland House Committee, said that he was attempting to organize a meeting of the eight House Committee chairmen. "The possibilities of a spring weekend will certainly be discussed at this meeting, though this will not be its sole purpose," he said...
William D. Coakley '55, president of the Crimson Key Society, which lost $400 on the All-College Weekend last year and decided to drop its sponsorship of the affairs, said that he group will aid a spring weekend "in any way possible, except financially," but will not undertake to organize a weekend. Coakley plans to send a letter soon to each House Committee chairman and to Goldman to clarify the Key's position. "It appears that the type of weekend the College wants may evolve more successfully on a House level than on an all-College level," he added...