James Madison University - Bluestone Schoolmaam Yearbook (Harrisonburg, VA)

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after walking to school in the hardest down- pour of the year? How we tried to recall the advice given in Dr. Hounchell ' s and Miss An- thony ' s education classes, that first time our supervisors left us alone? No, we ' ll never for- get. What pre-nursing student can forget the thrill we got when our monkeys arrived? Then we got down to the serious business of peeling off muscle layers and tracing veins throughout Oscar ' s anatomy. Sometimes our friends sus- pected us of neurotic tendencies as we wan- dered around mumbling, fibula, humerus, tibia, vena, . . . but that was because they had never taken one of Dr. Phillips ' s skeleton tests. In another part of the science department, Dr. Pittman not only showed us how to get Kay Kyser on our radios, but also amused us with tales of faculty doings. Our thanks we wish to offer to Sanders, Lyon, and Slaughter, say the commercial stu- dents; for we future secretaries firmly believe our teachers are tops. We not only learn to type our A, B, C ' s, but also how to be efficient on all angles of our job.

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MADISON AT WORK Two years ago the State Legislature changed our name from Harrisonburg State Teachers College to Madison College. This change was deemed advisable, since the curricula offered lead to other professions besides teaching. From the three hundred and seventy-five of us taking home economics, there will come in- stitution managers, home demonstration work- ers, commercial demonstrators, nutritionists, and dietitians. It ' s a long struggle from Foods 140, where we burnt the meat, to Home Manage- ment House, where we lived for twelve weeks and did everything from scrubbing the floors to cooking turkey for guest night. Those of us who aspire to educate future generations will never forget our weeks of stu- dent teaching. Remember how drippy we were the first day when we went in to meet our pupils Student Teaching at the Main Street School Right: Photographing Mercury Spec- trum in Advanced Physics Belovi : Man and Monkey: Pre-Nurs- ing Students Above: The Home Economics Girls at Work

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Monday: I ' ll never forget the sinking feeling I had when I first saw Madison College over the entrance and looked up at the buildings. I looked; they glared. My family got me straightened out and said that they absolutely couldn ' t stay a minute longer than 5:30. I said that it seemed to me, if I had to stay nine months, they could stay until 9 o ' clock. . . . They left at 5:30. Tuesday: Today we registered! that is, we stood in a line reaching the length of Wilson Hall, for several hours, wait- ing to sign for classes. If my parents had stuck around, Mr. Chappelear would have The freshmen arrived, bringing new life, ambition, . . . and trunks let me go in ahead of the line. My Petersburg roommate keeps talk- ing about wanting to make the hock ey team. We went to see Brigham Young tonight, thinking that, if we cried, people would think we were crying over the movie. I feel as if I ' m starving. I must not be very homesick, for I can eat three meals a day and all the time between meals. Wednesday : Why didn ' t I listen to my Big Sister when she said bring a raincoat, umbrella, and rubber boots? I ' m soaked (in more ways than one). By the looks of things, I ' ll be broke before Satur- day. Well, since everybody in the junior and senior classes says I ' ll like it here in