Mary Washington College - Battlefield Yearbook (Fredericksburg, VA)

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AFTER THE FIRST BIG SNOW IVIADE AN OBSTACLE COURSE OF CAMPUS WALKS, THE TREACHEROUS DINING HALL PATH

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The Prof Plays — Black Tie, Coffee Cups and Exercise A professor is not made of pure intellect. Some students are slow to realize it, but the man has a home and more than likely a wife, children and a hobby. The local literati even enjoy considerable partying, although their campus socializing is rather confined, being bound by the Hall of Mirrors, the C Shoppe and the volleyball court. On reception nights, it ' s a surprise to many that a tux can do as much for a professor as for the average man — that the mind that can comprehend Kant can also grasp the rudiments of th e rhumba. The C Shoppe scene reveals that the prof also has need of coffee for survival — and the volleyball court that a brain does not preclude brawn. New students donned tormals to meet faculty at Freshman Reception. Penguin-like profs greeted fellows and students with a glad hand, and did duty on the dance floor where Dr. Combs proved himself beau of the ball. Profs joined the rest of the C Shoppe cowboys in after-dinner coffee, and did an impromptu celebration dance after volleyball victor -.

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ALL FOUR YEARS FROM WHITE MOUSE CAPS TO BLACK MORTAR BOARDS We came . . . from almost every state in the union, the territories, and many foreign coun- tries . . . midst visions of college week-ends, football games . . . hoping for the fulfillment of intellectual curiosity, for new and lasting friendships. We felt excited and elated with the thought of new experiences ... a new year. We wore mouse caps and had visions of mortar boards and facing the world with a college degree. We admired the campus and soon loved and became a part of its delicate and Southern charm. We hung up college pen- nants, put up pictures of boy friends, and added the books later. We began to know Fredericksburg and to feel familiarity and pride as we came up the hill. We came for a variety of both deep and shallow reasons and we found much more than we expected. We saw . . . college theater productions, benefits, pep rallies, and get-togethers. We went to informal dances, holiday balls, and receptions. We saw . . . cat naps in class . . . campus changes from the mellow golds of autumn to the fresh pinks and whites of spring. . . . We saw the glorious leaves in the fall, the campus covered with a quiet, glisten- ing white, and watched for the dogwood. We saw school spirit increasing, Student Govern- ment in action, the strengthening of the honor system. We saw Mary Washington grow. We conquered . . . Beowulf, retroactive in- hibitions, bridge, the law of diminishing re- turns, term papers . . . We adjusted to the feel- ing of apathy and depression that is so pre- valent in an insecure world . . . the sensational and terrifying rumors that surrounded an In- ternational crisis . . . the Korean situation . . . We listened to radios . . . read newspapers . . . and talked . . . We studied Berkeley . . . Marx . . . Plato . . . We conquered . . . the Mondays when we had three tests and a term paper and didn ' t get a letter from him or a check from home . . . We conquered with the slow realization that college life is nothing like the Hollywood version, but that it contains some- thing much more worthwhile and enduring. WAS CHRISTENED DEVASTATION ROW.