Goucher College - Donnybrook Fair Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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QUHIKZHM E E 2: mm DONNYBROOKLET Zilmmwugwx gemma HE First news that greeted us as Seniors, that Dr. Killicott was to leave Coucher in order to work with the Food Administration, was a verifica- tion of the rumors many of us had already heard. and had refused to believe because it couldn't be 50f and nhow could we ever get along without him P Then we were far from our present realization of the war and its demands upon us: and it was with difficulty that we resigned our- selves to this loss. In time, however, we were so proud to have him there in such important service that we reconciled ourselves to his absence, and made the most of the Sunday afternoons which he so generously shared with us. As soon as we had convinced ourselves that we were not nseeing things and that 1921 was not a transient young army, but had come to stay, we con- sidered it high time to enter the Seniors, and though but 96 strong, attempt to have everyone become acquainted with everyone else. We did so by making our Senior welcome to the Freshmen a literal tttea'i at which cookies and tea were served by the class officers at a number of little tables scattered about the rotunda. In this way we set the precedent for a policy we have held all year in our extra-curricular activitieseto maintain our college traditions with such readjustments as to place them in keeping with the spirit of the day. We have tried to do our share in sacrificing for the Student Friendship Fund, for Goueher Reconstruction W'ork, the Liberty Loans and Thrift Stamps, and we have a War Council of faculty and students, authorized at a meeting of the Student Organization, which carries on its work in a very practical way every day of the week and every hour of the day. As Dr. Killicott expressed it: HAniong other profitable things that we are gaining from the present war con- ditions is a better sense of fundamental values in our daily lives. Points of view, philosophies of life, estimates of what is worth while and of what counts most in the long run, standards of service and of individual usefulness, all are being revised and regrouped into new kaleidoscopic mental pictures? To add to the general abnormality of the year, while the weather was colder than it had been for 40 years, we were trying desperately at the same time to hoard our one ton of coal, and to make it heat the II college buildings. What with pipes burstng and water Hooding from Fifth Hoors down and from 4

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MHHMHEHMMEU eIHIHHJHHHHTi, DONNYBROOKLET basements up, classes being held in the dormitory social halls, occasional holi- days of necessity itthrown inf while the administration scoured the railroad yards for misplaced boilers and suggestions of coalewe had a time! As for athletics, hockey does become somewhat discouraging Hunder coveri' of four feet of snow, and when the hnal games came off in the spring, we did loseebut how we enjoyed the practice! Basket-ball went its rounds with fewer interruptions, the chief innovation being admission for the War Fund, but who wouldn't have paid to see that junior-Senior match? We, who had never won a single basket-ball game in our life, hardly dared hope even when at the end of the first half we were five points ahead, and our team was playing as we had never dreamed it could. When the second half was almost over and we were still ahead our excitement neared the breaking pointeand then, in literally the last minute of the half, our usual fate, which we had thought to escape in this last game, reasserted itself, and we lost by one point. Senior Dramaties proved to be an absolute joy from beginning to end, and it was truly the biggest kind of a privilege to be able to work with Dr. Gay in such an undertaking. No matter when we happened to turn up in Katherine Hooper, from the steady strides of preparation in the beginning to the last fever- ish leaps 0f the final weekewhether we had just dropped in to rehearse, Bing paint, tack with the aid of a high-hccled pump, paste shrubbcry, ht trousers, run a balky machine, or merely to sing and sew-he was always there before us, and always managed to stay until a little after we had gone. Of course, Dr. Gay made Beau Brummel the success itrwas, but more important still, his spirit and comradeship made each ones part in it the consummation of her college life and one of her most precious memories. It is indeed true that hionc smile of yours had overpaid me. Though we considered ourselves busy, we were delighted to take Htime off'i when invited to a charming tea by Dr. and Mrs. Guth. It was indeed a luxury and an alteration of circumstances, to say the least, to End ourselves perched on lounges and arms of chairs, with very attentive faculty members inquiring nWill you have tea or coffee P With the approach of spring we ttancient dames warmed up to bat and ball and 10! if we didnt beat all the youngsters, and win the baseball cham- pionship. ttSing Song'i followed close on this victory, and here we lived up to our former records by winning first place in one songeonly this time we showed our advance in years by producing the prize serious song, instead of our ex- pected hit-song.