Mary Washington College - Battlefield Yearbook (Fredericksburg, VA)

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CLASSES The pencil that had begun the day so sharply pointed was now very blunt, and its sole importance was to scrawl strange designs on the margins of an unused page in a notebook. Outside the window, trees wove their interlacing branches into a web to trap the glance that strayed from the drab classroom. The young mind easily eluded the fetters of a lecture and shifted to the baffling glory outside. Life, an amazing thing at the simplest, unfolded before eyes that looked without and saw within. Wonderful things raced through the mind that discarded the newly-learned lesson of selecting facts from an assortment of knowledge and spun the web of fantasy. The secret dream of future and security arose and hid fears of inadequacy and failure. The childish desire to be protected blended with a blissful satis- faction of independence; both feelings swirled about in a life that had no war, no misunderstanding, nothing but peace and contentment and a long succession of happy years. The pencil fell from relaxed fingers and rolled under a desk. Startled from her dream, she bent and picked it up, brought back to sharp reality by the ringing of a bell and the confusion of noises that meant thirty young women were through with learning for the moment. She got up and walked outside slowly, in pursuit of her dream.

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e ni o r s This was the tomorrow they had been waiting for, the last and most exciting year, the year of final achieve- ment and completion. This realization was driven home time and time again by check sheets, diploma fees and fittings for the all-important caps and gowns. The time was too short to crowd mto it all the things that should be said and done, yet they still found time to gather around the balconies and sing, to watch their fourth and final bene- fit transmit magically the true feeling of the class for their school. Spring came swiftly and thoughts of the goodbyes, of the new things that would start upon receiving a de- gree flooded their minds. They had found friendship and security in a world they had grown to love. They looked at each other and appreciated the strong bond of afi ection that had kept them together until the moment of achieve- ment arrived and their tomorrow was suddenly their today. SENIOR CLASS OFFICERS. Dr. Castle, Sponsor; Bennett, President; Hamilton, Hhtoriaii; Reynolds. Secretary: Watson. P., Treasurer; Wat- son, J., Vice-President; Powell. Student Goiernment Rcpresentatiic. From Hilda ' Ladies to Paradise Tossed. '