For the last fifteen years, Sidney Foster, Radcliffe junior class president, has spent afternoons on skates, and evenings collecting medals.

Somehow, however, the Annex's leading figure skater manages to lead a well rounded, almost normal undergraduate life. Like many other girls, she went up to the Dartmouth winter carnival this month.

But, unlike most, she spent most of her time at Hanover skating to rhythm instead of founding a cocktail.

Sidney skates the silver dance and pair skating, with emphasis on timing, smoothness, and synchronization with her partner.

The skater, who comes from Fargo, North Dakota, has had plenty of practice with one of her partners. Charles U. Foster '56, who also comes from Fargo, South Dakota, has been skating for almost as long, and, oddly enough, the two have practiced together.

The whole Foster family skates, with Sidney taking lessons since she was ten year old. She spent summers at Sault Ste. Marie and Schumacher, Ontario, with skating mentors Freddy Moscot and Sheldon Galbraith--tutors of Barbara Ann Scott.

Sidney who also plays a cello in the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, commutes daily to the Boston Skating club, five days a week, two hours a day.

"Figure skating," she says, "is composed of practice and more practice."

She has, skating with either Franklin Nelson '55 or brother Charles, taken several awards: second place in the silver dance in New England 1952, third in the senior ladies title last year, and the Championship of the Boston Skating Club.

Although she plans to enter the Ice Chips Show this April, and will continue to flash around the Skating Club, she has no intention of turning pro.

Instead, she would rather judge the contest.

"Judging is, of course, very important. Too often, judges hurt their reputations and the standard of skating by choosing unfairly because of politics and favoritism," she says.

"In fact, half the present day judges can't skate themselves,"