College of the Holy Cross - Purple Patcher Yearbook (Worcester, MA)

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n the twelfth day of Sep- tember, l962, the last stu- dent passed through the gates lining College Hill. The most cheerful smiles and the hardiest hand- shakes of the Purple Key men were now wilting like toast in a Worcester mist. The Lehy-expectant fresh- men were starting to re- cover from the trauma of Beaven and Wheeler. Bags were unpacked, the parking lot filled, the new l.D.'s checked out at l..uigi's, and the first offerings of Mother Kimball were gulped by mom-fattened arrivals. The gates were locked and the academic year was in first gear. All were now here to go about their business. The busi- ness of the first two weeks of the Holy Cross year is many things: but mostly it is union. These weeks are a formal union of all into the bureaucracy with its IBM mind. IBM did not, however, eliminate the Carlin lines of the pencil- slow registrants. These weeks are the reunion of classmates. They mark the absence of some. These weeks are the first- union of the initiates of the Class of l966. The course to this unity is not always smooth. Somehow, out of these unities, evolved a community. lts story follows.-James Vanecko The battering of a Sledge hammer, the slap of a volleyball game, and the munching of potato chips replace the clash of shoulder pads as the Big Brother Picnic replaces football practice on top of the hill. Il Am

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Unsoilecl corridors and autumn brightness await the arrival of the tenants. I Offlegistration, Orientation i ,lg 1 -1 1 . 1 ,. ti . '.'f'V,,,.' I K Y 52. 35 J . - -,, 4 l ifgfl- N Q - 1, i X E 5-. ' Q i ry ' - Wait until they try to put all of this in a four man room in Wlieeler. You want me to sign this so you can transfer out of philosophy and theology? f REGIS CARDS GNLY X Q x A

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If a . A typical senior's meal. I only have a buck left. Can't understand Where the money goes. av-T' 4 N. 1 - ,p'f 'i1. l My 'o A ,J 2, new 4,