THE STUDENTS COME FIRST

To launch the actual use of the Hopkins Center the students brought a new "twist" that the planning committees never dreamed of. It all came about during the first three days of the Inaugural Program which coincided, by design, with Fall Houseparties Weekend.

Undeterred by a premature lighting of the bonfire, the Columbia game rally began on the Hopkins Center plaza with the driving sounds of The Drivers, an undergraduate combo with ferocious intensity for popular contemporary music. Inspired by the gyrations of the cheerleading corps on the Center balcony, the students and their attractive guests below participated enthusiastically.

The rally tradition of "Wah Hoo Wahs," pep talk by Coach Blackman, and introduction of senior football players was also observed before a large part of the crowd moved into the Center, some to attend Danton's Death or the inaugural concert of the Glee Club. However, for most it was a good opportunity to examine gallery exhibits, relax in the Top of the Hop, or just wander through the corridors on inspection tours. At 10 it was dancing again as the WDCR-sponsored "record hop" got under way in the spacious Alumni Hall.

A rainy Saturday morning saw students and dates crowding all the Center's facilities, especially the Top of the Hop. The Snack Bar too had a standing-room crowd much of the time.

That afternoon the Center was quiet, with the focus on the Memorial Field gridiron, but a post-game informal folk-singing "hoot" in the Top of the Hop changed that quickly. The evening hours again saw crowds of play and concert-goers. And at 10 the "twist" returned to Alumni Hall with the start of the Houseparties Dance.

The significance of motion pictures as an art form and an educational device was shown by two film premieres during the Hopkins Center Inaugural Program. The premieres also demonstrated the multiple-use features of two of the Center's larger facilities.

The world premiere of Arctic Circle, Part I: Vilhjalmur Stefansson's Early Journeys, and Part IV: Memories and Predictions, was the first film feature of the program. This film and Quetzalcoatl, an Orozco mural documentary by Robert C. Canton '59, were shown in the Studio Theater.

The big event was the world premiere preview of Freud in Spaulding Auditorium. Producer-director Huston, actress Susan Kohner, and officials of Universal Films were on campus for the showing and the Alumni Hall reception that followed.

Huston also participated in an "open press conference" with New York Times critic Bosley Crowther and Arthur Mayer. Vice President Orton H. Hicks '21 was the moderator.

The Glee Club presenting its first Hopkins Center concert.

The Top of the Hop is good for relaxing, talking with dates,looking at dates, or watching the bonfire burn itself out.

Producer-director John Huston and actress Susan Kohnerawait the Hopkins Center premiere of Huston's film "Freud."

The Jaffe-Friede Gallery, largest of the galleries, was inaugurated with an exhibition of "Impressionism: 1865-1885."

The Beaumont-May Gallery, where thepaintings of Hans Hofmann, a Convocationparticipant, were on display.

The Sculpture Court had an inauguralshowing of contemporary works.

Student painters in the Allan Macdonald Studio.

The Woodworking Shop in the Jewett Studio Building.

The Snack Bar, on the Center's main floor, is adjacent to design and painting studios, seen at the right.

Students at work in the Sculpture Studio, locatedbetween the metal and graphic arts shops.