Central Connecticut State University - Dial Yearbook (New Britain, CT)

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M MllIllE added to the curriculum. T.C.C. then was all the new faces, the increasing pall of smoke in the lounge, the faster tempo. The old order changeth yielding place to the new. T.C.C. hit the thousand mark at the start of our Junior year. We were upper classmen. We came back to more than a tripled enrollment. We came back to Rockwell, to Rockland, to bunks in The lounge really hadn't been crowded our Sophomore year, we just hadn't realized its capacity until our Junior year. Faculty members increased almost geometrically. T.C.C. had a football team. Home Coming weekend made its appearance on the campus calendar for the first time. It was a weekend of pajama parades, dances, decorations, skits and football. Sport dances were common now at T.C.C. Rockland and Marcus White Hall. This was the year of the Blue Devil's mighty quintet. Remember the Holy Cross game? This was also the year we got our first taste of training. Can you ever forget those rambunctious butterflies in your stomach the first time you took over a class? The P.A. was beginning to show. College Theater put on that memorable presentation of The Nativity. We came back in january to Winter Weekend at Marcus White Hall with the Snow Ball formal. This, our junior year, was the first time we '-48ers had a chance to be elected to Kappa Delta Pi, Wh0'5 Who in American Colleger and Univerrizier and as an exchange student to the University of New Brunswick. This was a year too of dancing, the Social Ac dances, the Sophomore Hop, and most important of all, The junior Prom where we danced to soft music in a Southern background. We juniors went in increasing numbers to the Eastern States Conference. For the first time since 1938 the Seniors took over faculty positions and administra- tion duties for Senior Week. We laughed and enjoyed The Man Who Came To Dinner which was strictly sockeroo. College Theater had once again reached the top. Golf and skiing had been added as sports on the college program. Mr. Wilhoit directed the chorus in another superb concert. The College Red Cross unit entertained at Avon Old Farms. Everywhere the diver- gent interests of the students showed themselves in the new clubs, the new frat, the new sports, the new activities. The class of '47 graduated and we became the Seniors. Most of us had to stop and pinch ourselves, it couldnt be true, we couldnt be Seniors. We couldn't have been at T.C.C. three years. Time flew by. Our Senior year-more landmarks. The new gym, the new library, the new bookstore, the new work- shops, the new lounge. We were split up a bit at the start of the year with trainees from Hartford to New Haven. T.C.C. had grown to 1300 students. But the year flew by starting with sport dances, Fall Sports Day, the Sophomore Hop, Home Coming Weekend and the Halloween party. '47 ended with the Christmas formal. We came back in january-January of '48- '48 why this was the year we were to graduate. It couldnt be true, but it the concergdances, basket- ball, football and baseball games, the College Theater play, the Eastern States Conference, all flew by with maddening haste. Senior Week with President Stevens, Dean Harper, Dean of Men Meligonis, Dean of Women Winzig, Dean of Resident Women Picone, Training Supervisors Galvin and Doody, Registrar Marino, Assistant Registrar Callion, Vets Counsellor Petruzello. All sped by. Memories of our Senior Ball lingered on. There were other membories-memories of the HB, the College Spa, D.Pfs and the other bits that round out College life. The years are over, the day is done. This is not the senior's Dial but our Dial. Weire through. With tears and laughter we part way to follow our paths as leaders of youth. But no matter how or what may come, the Class of 548 will be always together if only in our memories.

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MARY A. ANTICO Buckingham Street Oakville Bminerr Education ' Mary . . . Transfer from Danbury Teachers . . . the 'differentl look . . . exotic hairdo's . . . earrings with pendants . . . red framed glasses . . . dark hair and eyes that match . . . smart black outfits . . . sophisticated appearance, but down-to-earth manners . . . talented in use of needle, thread, and scissors . . . clothes prove her dexterity. Chorus 3, Librarian 4, Dormitory Council 4. WALTER JAMES ANDERSON 217 Bristol Street Southington En gliib-S 0 cial Science Wally . . . Ex-G.I. resuming studies at T.C.C .... the companion to take along to the Do-Nut Shop . . . con- tributes choice wit to corner-booth discussions . . . epigrammaitc commentator . . . age often underesti- mated . . . liberal-minded . . . mature judgments and opinions. English Majors and Minors Club 5, 4g Dial 45 Forum l, 2, 5, 4, Kappa Delta Pi 4, Literary Club 5, 4, M.A.A. 5, 4. 19