Mary Washington College - Battlefield Yearbook (Fredericksburg, VA)

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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.

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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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MEMORIES CROWDED BACK AS Senior scrapbook recalled honor bids, football games and old flames. SENIOR OFFICERS. Weissblatt, Graves, Anderson, Miller, Thomson, Mr. Carter, Morey, President. Senior Benefit had two dumb bank robbers hiding in a doll shop, leering at customers, and swearing the Girl Scout Oath. They saw the doll ' s part mcludmg Bobbie singing As a Bad Girl I ' m Gonna be Good , two cake-walking Black Sambos, and an off-key version of Tennessee Valtz. i 18